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FLAGPOLE Magazine
4/10/96 Vol. 10, No. 14
CITY PAGES
Not the daily news
Qroup Says
Oconee Tract
Should Be Used
As Qreenway Park
“The headwaters of the Altamaha River
rise in the hills of the Georgia Piedmont, in
the precincts of Athens and Atlanta, and roll
down the long valleys of the Oconee and
Ocmulgee to a confluence near Lumber City;
from there the main stem flows southeasterly
to the ocean at Darien. The Altamaha drains
a quarter of the state. Each second it pushes
more than a hundred thousand gallons of wa
ter into the Atlantic Ocean. There are no dams
on the main stem. Shad and sturgeon and her
ring spawn in the Altamaha, and its vast wa
terways nurture their young. There are shrimp
offshore sufficient to support a commercial
fishery valued at 20 million dollars a year.”
(National Geographic, “Our Disappearing Wet
lands,” October, 1992).
Every toilet in the Altamaha basin con
tributes to that hundred thousand gallons a
second and every industrial effulgent, and the
city-county of Athcns-Clarke wants to expand
a sewerage-treatment facility from three mil
lion to 10 million gallons a day flushed toward
the shrimp beds.
“When they say it’s an area of global sig
nificance — God, why destroy it?” says Ronnie
Lukasiewicz.
Lukasiewicz is one of a large group of people
who have been resisting the city-county’s plans
to expand a sewage-treatment plant onto land
the government purchased along the Oconee
River behind neighborhoods such as Red Fox
Run off Barnett Shoals Road.
“It’s gone far beyond the treatment plant,”
Lukasiewicz says. “It was a very fortunate acci
dent that the purchase of the land proved to be
one of the most beautiful spots in Clarke
County."
Lukasiewicz and the others want the .ocal
government to drop plans for using the tract
— crisscrossed by streams and containing mas
sive granite outcrops, wetlands, bluffs, water
falls and some endangered species such as the
Altamaha shiner — as the site for an expanded
water treatment plant and instead set it aside
as a nature park and an extension of the
Oconee River Greenway.
“There are 11 schools within a five-minute
ride,” Lukasiewicz says. “It’s on the opposite end
of the county from Sandy Creek, and it’s closer
to half the population of the county. It’s hypo
critical to destroy these floodplains and streams
and build a reservoir on the other end of the
county,” Lukasiewicz says, referring to the con
struction of the Bear Creek reservoir underway
on the northern end of the city-county. (PMc)
Don’t Be Scared:
There Are Plenty
Of Offices Left:
You Can Run
There's a political primary coming up this
1 summer. Formerly scheduled for July 15, the
primary has been moved to July 9 because of
the Olympics. A whole slate of local and state
offices is up for grabs, and the primaries will
determine who is the party candidate for each
office in the Nov. 5 General Election.
Qualifying of candidates for both the
Democratic and the Republican Primaries
opens Monday, April 22, at 9 a.m. and closes
Friday, April 26, at noon in Room 260, which
is the office of the Board of Election in the
Clarke County Courthouse.
The local offices, the salaries they pay (in
parentheses) and the qualifying fees for each are
as follows: Judge of Probate Court (49,612.80)
1,488.38; Clerk of Court (41,913.10) 1,257.40;
Sheriff (60,710.40) 1,821.31; Tax Commissioner
(52,166.90) 1,564.99; Coroner (3,609.60)
108.28; Chief Magistrate (62,542) 1,877.76;
Commissioners (10,003.20) 300.09; Board of
Education (3,600) 108.
The state offices, the salaries they pay (in
parentheses) and the qualifying fee for each
are as follows: Presidential Elector (50) 1.50;
United States Senator (133,600) 4,008; United
States Representative (133,600) 4008; Secre
tary of State (78,843) 2,365.29; Public Service
Commissioner (79,680) 2,390.40; State Sena
tor (11,125) 400; State Representative (11,125)
400; Justice, Supreme Court (114,932) 3,447.96;
Judge, Court of Appeals (114,203) 3,426.09;
Judge, Superior Court (82,488) 2,474-64; Dis
trict Attorney (73,470) 2,204.10. (PMc)
Rapist At Large;
Self-Defense For
Women Offered
Athens-Clarke County police are looking
at reports of four rapes and one attempted rape
in the Five Points area in the last 12 months
as possibly the crimes of one man.
At a Five Points community meeting held
Wednesday, April 3, at Barrow Elementary
School, Lt. Alan Brown disclosed that the Geor
gia Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia State
; Patrol, the University of Georgia Police and the
| Georgia State Crime Lab have all joined with
j the A-CC Police Department in the search for
CITY BAR
WEDNESDAY APRIL 10th
BLACK THORN
220 College Ave. Downtown 546-7612
Suspect described as white male, probably in 30s.
between 6 tt. and 6 ft. 3. baggy blue eyes, brownish-
blond hair, weathered face, muscular build.
Southern accent (drawing shows cloth, possibly
towel on/over his head). A-CC Police Crime Tip-
Line: 706-613-3342.
a suspect.
While not dismissing the idea that there may
1 be different perpetrators of these specified rapes,
police are investigating the probability of a “se
rial” rapist. Similarities in both the physical de
scriptions of the attacker and the modes of en
try into the victims’ homes, as well as the geo
graphic proximity of the crimes to one another,
lead authorities to the strong suspicion of a sin-
gular w (and at presstime, unknown) culprit.
The particular five incidences are as follows:
March 17, 1996, Milledge Court — a break-in
and rape; March 17, 1996, Talmadge Street —
| a break-in and attempted rape; Sept. 8, 1995,
! Northview Drive — a break-in and rape; April
j 23, 1995, Northview Drive — a break-in and
rape; March 18, 1995 — Springdale Street — a
\ break-in and a sexual assault
Lt. Brown told a group of concerned and
frightened Five Points residents last Wednes-
: day that “most of the situations have involved
a relatively easy way in” to the homes.
The Rape Crisis Center of Northeast Geor-
1 gia (24-hour hotline: 706-353-1912) is once
again offering a free self-defense course for
women. Nanci Newton, Co-Coordinato» of
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