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PACE 9A
THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
Heating assistance program I Gillsville Baptist Pioneer Club recognized
is now taking applications
The Georgia Department
of Human Resources is help
ing some households pay for
heating costs.
Households in which every
member is 65 and older or in
which every member is com
pletely unable to leave the
home due to health reasons,
may apply for assistance
with their home heating bills,
starting Nov. 3.
One-time payments will be
made by checks issued to the
home energy suppliers on be
half of eligible households.
Eligibility for the program
is
based on the income of
everyone living in the home.
All eligible households must
be responsible for their home
heating bill.
When applying for as
sistance, persons will be
required to present verifica
tion of age for everyone in
the home, verification of all
household income received
within the past 30 days
(check stubs, public assis
tance checks, unemployment
checks, etc.), verification of
Social Security numbers for
everyone in the home, and
the most recent home heat
ing bill.
Depending on the avail
ability of funds, the regular
program will open to the
general public on Dec. 1.
All interested applicants
are asked to contact Christy
Hill at Ninth District Oppor
tunity, Inc., after 8:30 a.m.
by calling 706-677-3921 on
the date of the program they
qualify for.
No walk-ins, please. Ad
ditional information will
be made available online at
www.ndo.org.
Library boards to meet Tuesday
The Piedmont Regional
Board of Library Trustees will
meet on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at
3:30 p.m., at the Pendergrass
Public Library.
The regional board serves
Jackson, Barrow and Banks
counties.
Also, the Jackson County
Board of Library Trustees will
meet on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at
2 p.m., at the Pendergrass Li
brary.
The Pendergrass Library is
located at 41 Blackberry Lane.
Rabies clinic set Flu shots to be offered Fri.
A rabies clinic will be
held in Maysville from 10
a.m. to noon at the city park
in Maysville on Saturday,
Oct. 18.
Discounted rabies vac
cines will be offered for $8
each.
The Banks County Health Department has flu shots available
to adults for $25.
They will accept cash, check, Medicaid and Medicare. Flu shots
will be given at the health department Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
A flu clinic will be held on Friday, October 10 at Banks County
Middle School from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. They will be able to serve
special needs people at the clinic through a drive-up service.
Congratulations to the
Gillsville Baptist Church
Pioneer Club on win
ning second place in the
Maysville Autumn Leaf
Festival Parade on Sat
urday. The children were
so excited. The Pioneer
Club meets on Wednesday
nights at 6 p.m. at the church.
Remember them all in your
prayers.
Congratulations to the
Banks County football teams
this week with the varsity
win over East Jackson High
School and the junior varsity
win on Thursday. The varsity
team will be open on Friday
night but the junior varsity
team will play Towns County
on Thursday at home.
Kenny and Joyce Crumley,
along with Mary Parson, en
joyed a few days in the moun
tains of Tennessee. They had
an enjoyable time.
Ruth Parson, along with
Kenneth and Betty Parson,
enjoyed the weekend in the
North Carolina and Tennes
see mountains. They had a
great time.
The community was sad
dened to hear of the death of
Brenda Irvin Smith. Brenda
was raised in our commu
nity and has many brothers
and sisters still living here.
She will be greatly missed
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News From
Poplar
Springs
By Willene Parson
Boyle
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by her children, grandchil
dren, brothers, sisters, other
family members and a host
of friends. Remember them
when you pray.
The community was sad
dened to hear of the death of
Joann Broom who has local
ties to Banks County. Our
prayers are with her family
and host of friends. She will
be greatly missed.
Those in our community
who are overseas fighting or
state-side being trained to de
fend our country include: Mrs.
Jay Tumlin, Dustin Holcombe
at Paris Island, Matthew Led
ford at Fort Benning, Jason
Ledford at Augusta, Pvt.
Nathon Bagwell, Gary Hog-
man in Iraq, Jason Ledford,
Sgt. T.J. Brookshire in Ger
many, Kyle Delaigle, David
McWhorter, John Groves III
who is near Iraq, Clint Med-
lock who is stationed in Vir
ginia, Timothy Reems who is
near Iraq, Richard Davenport
who is serving in Iraq, Kyle
Pilgrim, Russell Cantrell who
is back state side, Shawn Mc
Clure who is back state side,
Sgt. Amanda Justus who is
with the 178th Aviation unit
at Dobbins Air Force Base,
Matthew Sutton, Justin John
ston, David Puttnum, Alex
Head, Tiffany Sorrows who is
serving in Iraq, James Sulli
van who is in the Army serv
ing in Iraq and Mark Sullivan
Jr.
Those who are sick in our
community include many
who have cancer and need
our prayers. Those on the
sick list are: Mary Ferguson,
John Owensby, Lurleen
Hosch, Mike Davis, Des
tiny Baker, Rickey Cain,
Edward Smith, Mrs. Jay
Tumlin, Amanda Ivey,
Colton Standridge, Ollie
Savage, Scott Campbell,
Brian Campbell, Beth
Wilson, Jessie Jamerson of
Lula, Forrest Blevins, Pvt.
Nathon Bagwell, Barbara
Sue Holcomb, Ray Bellamy,
Robert Wood, Mrs. Avery
Bonds, Brenda Nicholson,
Perry Smith, Horace Whit
field, Penny McClure, Da
vid Dunson, David Camp
bell, Mae Chitwood Smith,
Ruth Evans, Juno and Bobbi
Samples, Cranford Smith,
David Smith, Ruby Nix, Roy
Broome, Royce Jones, Steve
Fattig, the Rev. Leroy Burns,
Blanch Burns, Odell Wade,
Zine Bell Wade, Claudette
Griffin, Loy Palmer, Al-
lene Montgomery, Wayne
Holcomb, Dennie Maxwell,
Henry Galloway, Mary Sims,
Frank Cronic, Dan Tomlin,
Jerry Poole, Greg Baker, Ci-
dney Wilson, Jeremy Gaddis,
Tommy Gray of Cornelia,
Luther Campbell, Carol Dean
Beck, Johnnie Dalton, Al
lan Poe of Commerce, Chad
Standridge, Scott McClure,
Winford Baker, the Rev. Jerry
Smith, Coy Marlow, Betty
Griffin, Bennie Jackson, Clif
ford Wilson, William Wilson,
Christine Chitwood, Johnny
Smallwood, Eddie Borders,
Pauline Arfin, Crystal Med-
lock, Michelle McClure, Mary
Bell Echols and J.R. Boswell,
Remember our family when
you pray. If you know others
who are sick, please call me
so I can add their name to our
prayer list.
Happy birthday to Robin
Parson, Jean Harris, Nicho
las Harris, Alice Ledford and
Justin Wood.
Maysville library plans fund-raiser
The Maysville Public Li
brary will have a Tupperware
fund-raiser kick-off from 10:30
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday,
Oct. 18, at the library.
“Please come support the li
brary,” organizers state. “Tup
perware products make gret
gifts for weddings, Christma
or for yourself.”
