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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016
THE COMMERCE NEWS • THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
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Medical mobile device
The Northeast Health District has gone mobile.
The district’s new mobile clinic made its debut
Monday at the Commerce Clinic of the Jackson
County Health Department. It can provide all of the
services that the district’s health clinics offer and
will take them to health fairs, into neighborhoods
and to community events. Pictured are nurse
practitioner Gloria Caldwell and health educator
Roshuanda Merritt.
A contract on the Gov. Hardman House
Signage erected last week on the Gov. Hardman mer home of Georgia Gov. Lamartin G. Hardman is
House on South Elm Street suggests that the for- under contract.
Gov. Hardman House could soon be sold
The Gov. Hardman House
is apparently under contract.
“Under Contract” and
“Sale Pending” signs went up
last week on the downtown
property at 11 Oak Street.
The two-story brick Med
iterranean style mansion
located on five acres was
built by two-term Georgia
governor Lamartine Griffin
Hardman in 1921. It went on
the National Register of His
toric Places in 1988.
More importantly, Com
merce officials had discussed
the possibility of buying the
property both to preserve
one of the only remaining
governor’s mansions in the
state and to use it as an event
venue. The city went so far as
to retain an engineering firm
to assess the status of the
building and to estimate the
cost to restore it for public
use. The plan was to use rev
enue from SPLOST (special
purpose local option sale
tax) approved last March to
acquire, stabilize and restore
the mansion, carriage house
and grounds.
The property is owned by
the daughters of the late J.A.
Minish.
GDOT announces deal with Waze
to bring more real-time data for drivers
The Georgia Department
of Transportation announced
a data-sharing partnership
with Waze, the free, real-time
crowdsourced navigation
app powered by the world’s
largest community of drivers.
Designed as a free, two-way
data share of publicly avail
able traffic information, the
Connected Citizens Program
will promote greater efficien
cy deeper insights and safer
roads for citizens of Georgia,
as it does for nearly 80 part
ners around the world.
The partnership pro
vides real-time, anonymous,
Wazegenerated incident and
slow-down information to
Georgia DOT directly from the
source: drivers themselves. In
exchange, Georgia DOT pro
vides real-time construction,
crash and road closure data
to Waze. This will result in a
thorough overview of current
road conditions
“We are excited about this
great data-sharing partnership
with Waze that will provide
a valuable supplement to the
NaviGAtor 511 system,” said
Georgia DOT commissioner
Russell McMurry. “Georgia
motorists will now have real
time traffic information not
only on our interstates and
state routes, but also on arte
rial routes — information that
is coming directly from the
traveling public.”
NaviGAtor 511, Georgia’s
traveler information system, is
a State Farm sponsored free
public service of the Georgia
Department of Transpor
tation. It can be accessed at
www.511ga.org or by calling
511 anywhere in Georgia. Nav
iGAtor 511 enhances mobility
safety and efficiency by pro
viding travelers with real-time,
route-specific travel informa
tion and 24/7 access to live
operators.
Paige Fitzgerald is the Waze
Connected Citizens Program
manager. “Waze welcomes
Georgia DOT, our fourth Geor
gia partner, to the Waze Con
nected Citizens Program. No
one knows more about what
is happening on the roads
than Wazers,” she said. “Geor
gia DOT can use these anon
ymous insights to further pro
mote safer roads. More than
that, Georgia DOT is providing
critical construction and road
closure data to Waze, help
ing Wazers better circumvent
major traffic events and real
time traffic blocks statewide.
This exchange empowers our
users, Georgia DOT and the
broader community to work
together to improve urban
mobility within the state.”
Download The free Waze
app through App Store on
iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
or at www.itunes.com/app-
store; the Google: Play Market;
or by visiting http://rn.waze.
com. To learn more about
Waze, watch Waze Connected
Citizen Program.
Motorists can access real
511 online or by phone. Call
ers can transfer to operators
to report incidents or request
assistance. The system can be
also be used to access transit
providers, major airports, ride-
share organizations, tourism
information and 511 systems in
surrounding states. Call 511 or
visit511ga.org. For information
on Georgia DOT, visit www.
dot.ga.gov.
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Jackson school
board approves
personnel changes
The Jackson Coun
ty Board of Education
approved several personnel
moves at its July 21 meeting.
They were:
HIRES
Justin Bates, math teach
er, East Jackson Compre
hensive High School; Marie
Bettis, school nutrition assis
tant, EJCHS; Carol Camp,
bus driver, South Jackson
Elementary School; Mat
thew Doyal, bus driver, West
Jackson Elementary School;
Sandi Flint, 49% special edu
cation teacher, East Jackson
Elementary School; Stacy
Guiterrez, school nutrition
assistant, North Jackson
Elementary School; Aman
da Hart, special education
paraprofessional, Benton
Elementary School; Rebec
ca Lee, bus driver, Gum
Springs Elementary School;
Imogene Roncadori, 49%
teacher, NJES; Taylor Ken
nedy, maintenance; Joine
Kwaitowski, custodian, Jack-
son County Comprehen
sive High School; Cynthia
McFarlin, school nutrition
assistant, BES; Alicia Russell,
special education parapro
fessional, SJES; Shannon
Skelton, counselor, East
Jackson Middle School; and
Katherine Warwick, fifth
grade teacher, Maysville Ele
mentary School.
TRANSFERS
Karen Allen, school nutri
tion assistant from NJES
to GSES; Amy Bell, from
50% counselor and fami
ly engagement specialist
to 75% counselor and 25%
family engagement special
ist, NJES; Michelle Dinner-
man, from school nutrition
assistant manager, EJCHS,
to manager, EJMS; Deb
orah Hayes, PE teacher,
from JCCHS to WJES Laurie
McCune, paraprofessional,
from EJMS to West Jack-
son Middle School; Brandi
Moon, school nutrition to
cashier, GSES; Dan Morris,
school nutrition manager,
from BES to EJES; Elaine Rid-
dlehoover, school nutrition
assistant, WJES to WJMS;
Montine Ruis, school nutri
tion assistant, from EJCHS
to EJMS; and Jennifer White,
school nutrition manager,
from EJMS to BES.
RESIGNATIONS/
TERMINATIONS
Ray Anderson, transpor
tation; Nicole Burkhalter,
special education parapro
fessional, EJES; Cassandra
Hammock, special education
teacher, WJMS; Frances Law-
rie, kindergarten paraprofes
sional, WJES; Heather Lough-
er, seventh grade teacher,
EJMS; Paula Smith, school
nutrition assistant, JCCHS;
and Elizabeth Wheilon, 63%
Title I reading aide, EJES.
RETIREMENTS
Alice Carithers, food ser
vice assistant, SJES; and
Barbara Milford, special
education paraprofessional,
EJES.
MEDICAL LEAVE
Marsha Babb, GSES cus
todian.
SUBSTITUTE
TEACHERS
Suzy Abernathy, Helen
Adams, Kathie Alford,
April Angeles, Samantha
Backer, Tra Battle, Chelsey
Bell, Rose Bibby, Richard
Bloodworth, Connie Boy-
han, Lisa Brown, Deborah
Carlton-Vasquez, Keri Car
penter, Vickie Chames and
Vivian Chester.
Martha Collins, Car
rie Cook, Sherry Cordell,
Erin Cummings, Barbara
Dashiell, Cheryl Dixon, Ann
Dorsey, Melodie Downey,
Monica Eaton, April
Edwards, Bette Ehmcke,
Sara Elrod, Virginia Fly and
Teresa Garcia Gomez.
Heather Geipel, Linda
Goodman, Ellen Griswold,
Annel Hagerman, Patrisha
Hainstock, Charlotte Hall,
Chris Hamby, Janice Han
ley, Mary Ann Haralson,
Sandra Harris, Aredila Jack-
son, Bonnie Johnson and
Tia Jones.
Cheryl Kelly, Ellen Lind
say, Nickie Martin, Rhonda
Martin, Donna McDaniel,
Nancy McEver, Christine
Neal, James Newton, Shir
ley Newton, Tyronda Nor
wood, Innocent Ogbe and
Amy Patton.
Paul Pesaresi, Amanda
Porter, Pauline Reed, Ron
ald Reed, Ginger Reeves,
James Rogers, Hilda Roller,
Bobbie Rucker, Rocheeka
Rucker, Meghan Sabin,
Lori Saul, Belinda Savadge,
Brandon Segars, Kelli Sei-
ple, Jamie Shackford,
Ernest Shaw, Larry Smosny,
Karen Steeb, Susanna Surio,
Rebecca Weatherly Jennifer
Wray and Bruce Yates.
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JOANN COMPTON
HONORED BY
1 st FRANKLIN CORPORATION
FOR 30 YEARS OF SERVICE
"JoAnn Compton receiving her service award
from Ben F. Cheek IV, Chairman"
(L-R) Sharon Langford, Regional Operations Director; Derrick
Blalock, Branch Manager Commerce; JoAnn Compton; Ronnie
Morrow, VP North GA Division; Ben F. cheek, IV, Chairman
Commerce, GA - JoAnn Compton, Senior
Customer Service Representative for 1 st
Franklin Financial's Commerce office,
was recognized for 30 years of service
with the company on July 7, 2016. Ms.
Compton joined the company on July 7,
1986. She resides in Commerce, GA.
1 st Franklin Financial Corporation has
been in the consumer finance business
since 1941. The business is headquar
tered in Toccoa, Georgia and operates
through 282 branch loan offices located
in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
The Commerce office is located at 40101
Hwy. 441 South; phone 706-335-3191.
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