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Solid Waste
Meeting Held
Several methods that might
reduce the amount of garbage
and debris going into a new
Chattooga County landfill were
discussed during the orienta
tion meeting ofg the county’s
solid waste management
committee.
Michael Warrix, director of
glanning for Mayes, Sudderth
Etheredge Inc., Atlanta,
presented a list of state goals
and objectives to the Sanel
Thursday evening in the Chat
tooga County Courthouse. The
Atlanta firm has been hired to
help the county develop its
solid waste management plan
prior to Jl;}y 1
The goals include reducing
the amount of waste that goes
into the county’s landfill by 25
Fercent by 1996, efficient col
ection of waste, planning for a
10-year disposal of waste, iden
tifying lans(:;hat cannot be us
ed for waste disposal, and im
p}ementing and financing the
plan.
STATUS
County Commissioner Jim
Parker outlined the status of
the current Penn Bridge Road
landfill, and the Froposed Chat
toogaville landfill, as well as
current county recycling
efforts.
He noted that the county
recycling proir:cm is currently
losing money because of a poor
market and low prices for
recycled paper and glass
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The commissioner also
discussed the possibility of
rei)llacing the some 23 waste
collection boxes in the county
with five or six manned com
flactor operations. Some areas
ave gone to the manned col
g:cticl)n pe?iites, he said, and
evelo programs to en
courage household recycling.
The possibility of com
posting yard waste and chl;fp
ing wood and stumps also
came under discussion briefly.
Scott Jackson, Lyerly, a
member of the committee, sug
gested usinfiinomate labor from
the soon-to-be-open boot camps
at Hays Correctional Institu
tion, to separate recyclable
materials from landfill waste.
The Lyerly fire chief is
employed at Hays. :
Commissioner Parker also
discussed operating an inert
landfill for stumps, used con
crete blocks and similar
materials.
The second meeting of the
?anel will be rescheduled in the
uture after Warrix has
developed a first draft of a
county management plan, bas
ed on the one and one-half
hour’s worth of discussions.
Besides Jackson, commit
tee members attending were
Trion Mayor Allan Plunkett,
Ifiyerly Mayor Dam:iy Wyatt,
ike Hutchins and Maxine
Searels.
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Health Screening
The North Georgia Home Health Agency Inc., will
sponsor a blood pressure and cholesterol screening pro
gram for the public next Tuesday. It will be held at In
ter Federal Savings Bank, Summerville, from 9 a.m. un
til 4 p.m. Phyllis Cooper of the health agency and Jerry
Johnston, branch manager of Inter Fed, go over plans
for the event. (Staff Photo).
CPS Cases Increase
Twenty-eight cases of child
abuse were reported to the
Chattoo§a County D(ifrartment
of Fami Fy and Children Ser
vices (DFCS) during January,
Director Sharon Pinion told
its functions transferred to the
LaFayette office.
David Huckaby,
Cartersville, district director of
the FmHA, confirmed Tuesday
that the change will take place.
“We've got a lot of things to
get or%imized before it hap
pens,” he said.
Floyd County, which is now
served by the Summerville of
fice, wil{ be served by the
Cedartown office when the
chanfie is made, Huckaby said.
The chanfies in Chattoo§a
are part of a nationwide
reorganization by the FmHA,
he continued.
The LaFayette office will
meet all the needs of Chattooga
Countians, Huckaby said, and
services will be improved, ex
ceYt for the extra distance. “It
will work out fine.”
There won’t be any adverse
impact on staffing, he said, ‘‘at
least that’s the intention.”
the DFCS board Monday that
the number increased from 21
in December. Seven referrals
had been confirmed last month
and eight were unconfirmed.
Seventeen of the reports
were for neglect, and six were
_for physical abuse. Five sexual
abuse cases were reported.
A total of 36 ongoing child
protective services (CPS) cases
was reported by the DFCS in
January.
Mrs. Pinion also told the
board that Chattooga has join
ed 12 other counties to form a
DFCS “cluster.” Regional of
fices were eliminated by the
restructuring of the Depart
ment of Human Resources, and
clusters have until Afiril 1 to
submit their plans to the state.
County directors will serve
as chairman of the cluster on a
rotating basis.
The cluster includes Chat
tooga, Bartow, Catoosa,
Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer,
Paulding, Polk, Murray,
Haralson, Pickens, Dade and
Gordon counties.
Mrs. Pinion reported that
Katie Morgan, a CPS worker,
has resifined, to acce% a post
at the Rome Youth Develop
ment Center. Ms. Morgan has
worked at the Chattooga
DFCS for seven years.
The department is advertis
ing for a reElacement to fill the
vacancy, the director said.
No Other Media Outlets
Denied Entry In Contest
No other media outlets in
Georgia are known to have
been denied entry in the annual
Georgia Association of
Educator’s (GAE) School Bell
Awards Competition.
Other than The Summer
ville News, according to a
report in Sunday’s edition of
the Rome News-Tribune.
The News-Tribune reported
on the controversy involving
the Chattooga Education
Association - (CEA). As
reported by The News last
Thursday, the CEA decided
last December to deny any of
the Chattooga newspaper's en
tries in the contest this year.
That was before CEA officials
saw any of the proposed
entries.
OTHER OUTLETS
In addition to the News-
Tribune, several other media
outlets have reported on the
issue, including this week's edi
tion of the Chattooga Press, a
shopper which is owned by the
News-Tribune, several Rome
radio stations, the Chat
tanooga (Tenn.) Times, the
Chattanooga News-Free Press
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and other media outlets
throughout the Southeast.
A report on the situation
was carried throughout the
region on the Associated Press
newswire.
The News-Tribune story
reported that the GAE had not
had any complaints from any
of its other 180 affiliates in the
state or media outlets about
the rule changes authored by
the GAE last year, apfiarently
at the instigation of the CEA.
Gail Beck, president of the
CEA, had said the or%anization
was upset that The News had
won so many School Bell
Awards in the past. She also
contended that EEA members
thought The News has been
“nefiative" toward education
in the county. )
The News also learned late
last week that the CEA had
submitted articles from the
Trion Facts in the School Bell
Awards contest. Mrs. Beck
had thought the CEA had not
submitteg any entries from the
county this year.
Janet Martin, Trion, whom
Mrs. Beck identified as being
the CEA’'s awards committee
The Summerville News, Thursday, February 13, 1992
chairman, refused last week to
identify the outlet. However,
Rolandy Nunn, who edits the
textile mill's house organ for
Mount Vernon Mills Inc., con
firmed someone with the CEA
had called him about submit
ting articles for the awards.
She later called back, he said,
and said it wouldn't be
necessary for him to get any ar
ticles together because it had
already been done by the CEA.
DECEMBER
Mrs. Beck had said the
CEA decided last December to
not enter any entries from The
News or from radio station
WGTA in this year's
competition.
In edPaSt years, the GAE
allowed media outlets to sub
mit entries directly into the
GAE competition. For this
year, the rule was changed to
require a media outlet to go
through the local education
association to enter the
contest.
The board of directors of
the Georgia Press Association
was meeting today in Athens.
The panel was expected to con-
sider adding an education
coverage catei?ry to its annual
GPA Better Newspaper Con
test so media outlets won't
have to go through a censoring
mechanism to enter a contest.
Former Menlo
Resident Opens
Ostrich Farm
A former Menlo area resi
dent has opened an ostrich
farm in neighboring Floyd
County.
She is Jeri Morris and her
husband, Edward. They open
ed the farm in Silver Creek
with four ostriches. Mrs. Mor
ris is a former Menlo resident.
She said ostrich meat costs
about $25 per pound, tastes
like steak and is lower in
cholesterol and fat than
chicken.
A full-grown male may be
as tall as nine feet and weigh
up to 500 pounds. Females
grow to about six feet and
weigh up to 350 pounds.
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