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While Waynesboro utilities consumers may be using less, they'll soon be paying more. Last Tuesday night, city council gave a unanimous nod to hikes for water, sewer and solid waste. The increases, which go into effect Feb. 1, will include solid waste pick-up, water and sewer rates. More ... Waynesboro native Tedric "Tetris" Kelly is at it again. The singer and songwriter released his second album, "That Girl," on Tuesday morning. "As the album fell together it seemed as if every song revolved around a girl," the fulltime Georgia Southern University student explained. More ... As many as 50 Waynesboro properties could get new owners. Next Tuesday, Feb. 5, properties flagged for delinquent taxes will be auctioned off at the Burke County Court House beginning at 10 a.m. At press time, approximately 50 houses and lots were scheduled for auction, according to city tax clerk Glenda Wimberly. More ... Would students rather have a longer summer or more days off around Christmas? The Burke County Board of Education wants to know. The BOE is looking for input from students, parents and teachers as they choose the calendar for the next school term. Four variations of a calendar for the 2008-2009 school term have been developed, and the BOE is putting them up for a vote. More ... The east side of Waynesboro will soon see some commercial revitalization. At last Tuesday's city council meeting, two established business leaders presented their plans to open shop on East Sixth Street. Tanis Mobley, who owns Superior Cleaners on Myrick Street, wants to move her business to the old Maryland Fried Chicken building. More ... By this time next week, Super-Duper Tuesday will be over. Twenty-four states and American Samoa will have staged presidential primaries or caucuses on the same day. We will be able to measure statistically just how dumb Democratic voters are in Georgia, across the country and in the South Pacific. More ... Stevie, my long-time chum, has no better friend than me. This honor I bestowed on myself after I took off, chasing Pulitzer-prize winning author Harper Lee. All for Stevie's sake. I was zipping south down I-65, headed toward Mobile when I saw the exit for Monroeville. More ... The recent rains around the South brought much needed relief from the months long drought. The dry spell prompted public prayers led by the governor on the steps of the Georgia Capitol. Churches all over the other affected areas held special prayer sessions asking for moisture. More ... The CSRA Economic Opportunity Authority Inc. will hold a mass food distribution in Burke County during the month of February. Distributions will be held in Waynesboro, Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the Burke County Senior Center, 717 West Sixth St.; in Girard, Thursday, Feb. 7, at the Girard Senior Center on Brigham Landing Road; and in Midville, Thursday, Feb. More ... A group of Sardis residents is serious about restoring a historic school, and they want to make sure city council is still behind them. Members of the Old S.G.A. Restoration Committee attended the Sardis City Council meeting last Tuesday, Jan. 15, to voice their concerns about the condition of the old S.G.A. High School. More ... The Burke County Chamber of Commerce will host its 2007-2008 Annual Meeting 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb 7, at the Augusta Technical College Campus. President Rocky Sams will pass the gavel to Waynesboro businessman William Mizell who will serve as the chamber's 2008 president. More ... While the box designs or recipes may change from time to time, the one thing that hasn't changed in the Girl Scouts' 90th season of selling cookies is the girls' determination - and the popularity of the cookie! According to the Girl Scouts' website, cookie sales generate approximately $700 million annually. More ... The Georgia Field Trial Association(GFTA) wrapped up its 2008 event with the Georgia Open Shooting Dog Championship last week. The stake attracted 108 entries and was dominated by trainer and handler Luke Eisenhart of Glennville, Pa., who handled both the champion and runner-up dogs. Browntown Rollin Roxy, a 5-year-old pointer female owned by Audie Brown of Florence, S.C., was named champion of the stake. Browntown Investigator, a 4-year-old setter male also owned by Brown, claimed the runner-up spot. Pictured are left to right, front: Eisenhart, his wife Tammy posing Browntown Rollin Roxy, and Doug Ray with Browntown Investigator; and back row: GFTA secretary/treasurer Nell Mobley, Connie Burgamy, judge Mike Wrenn of Greenville, S.C., Shirley Wrenn, stake manager John Ray Kimbrell of Fort Mill, S.C., and judge John Neely of Albany. More ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that eligible farmers and ranchers who suffered livestock, livestock feed and crop losses that occurred before Dec. 31, 2007, can now apply to receive disaster payments, said Susan D. Holmes, State Executive Director for the Farm Service Agency (FSA). More ... You can't kill bugs and diseases with a hand sprayer when the crop grows 80 feet tall. For backyard pecan trees, prevention is the best approach for keeping nutrobbing pests at bay. Prevention begins with selecting the right varieties and continues throughout the life of the trees with removing fallen leaves, limbs and shucks. More ... Nothing's more pleasing to my family's taste buds than a pot of homemade chili on a cold winter's night. Chili can be prepared many different ways and served with variations to suit every family's budget, taste, and preference. So "chill out" and have yourself a pot of good, homemade chili. More ... Burke County Middle School students recently participated in a Learn and Serve project preparing school kits for students in the Dominican Republic who lost their school in the fall hurricane season. BCMS sixth-graders learned about the culture and wrote letters to the students. Guest speaker, Cynthia Quick, provided the sixth-graders with a personal look at the students and their lives, as she has witnesses the poverty first hand in several trips to Baharona, DR. School kit supplies were donated and put together by middle school student volunteers. Math students compiled data as supplies were donated to determine the number of complete kits that were possible, and BCMS sent 55 individual kits, plus extra donations of paper, pencils and erasers for their teachers. More ... Beau Webster, a seventhgrade student at Burke County Middle School, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on Jan. 11. The school-level bee was the first round in the 20th annual National Geographic Bee. Webster has since taken a written test which will be submitted for entrance into the state bee held in April. The bee is sponsored by the National Geographic Society. More ... Third grade classes at Blakeney Elementary School are pictured with Eren Chapell and Digger Dog from the Utility Protection Service in Atlanta. The two visited the students with a neighborhood model which produced electricity to enhance a unit on Electrical Safety. The students learned about the dangers of electricity as well as many safety tips. More ... Blakeney Elementary School Character Students for the month of December were, from left, front row: Kanon Daniels, fifth grade; Maggie Rachels, third grade; and Tareon Brown, fourth grade. These students were chosen based on teacher observation of the studied traits of graciousness, compassion and generosity. Grade-level Character Students are chosen from the classrooms' nominees, who were Leslee Powell, Hannah Raley, Abby Johnson, Asia Harden, Kendall Parker, Sh'Terria Payne, Ally Lyons, Jacob Davis, Maggie Rachels, Cashayla Haynes, Shaniqua Jones, Samantha Singfield, Jazzymyne Spencer, A'Mesha Jones, Ranique McBride, Amber Baldwin and Austin Wingate, third grade; Keanu Oliver, Amarajah Hankerson, Cynthia Bowers, Blake Barbin, Vanessa Jones, Odevia Flournoy, Kaylan Burns, Stephanie Story, Jasmine Way, Niaria Bray, Ty'Tasger Warthen, Tareon Brown, Tehya Nunnally, Caitlynn Mayton and Jordan Gant, fourth grade; and Keldriauna Bonner, Kearia Bradford, Kanon Daniel, Jamesia Boatwright, Raven Jones, Allison Johnson, Vivian Cohn, Kimberly Dimas, Saraybin McNeal, Steve Dykes, Jasmine Jackson, Jeremy Washington, Jeffrey Boone, Seth Torek, Tia Wimberly, Gabriel Veldboom, Mattisha Dixon, Amber Johnson and Thomas Griffin, fifth grade. Each student received a T-shirt provided by Planters Electric. More ... Katie E. Bennifield, left, youth chair of Burke County Retired Educators Association (BCREA), is pictured handing over a report to Emanuel Larkin Jr., president concerning providing supplies for schools in Ethiopia. BCREA donated 32 boxes of crayons and 40 boxes of chalk to help the school children of Ethiopia. Also, 833 pencils were provided by local businesses and organizations including Capital City Bank, First National Bank, Queensborough National Bank and Trust, Regions Bank, Southern Bank, Communities in Schools, First Franklin Financial and More ... The Georgia Power Foundation presented Friends of the Court with a $2,500 check Friday, Jan. 25, to help fund Burke County's DUI/Drug Court. In a letter to the organization, Susan Carter, executive director of the Georgia Power Foundation, said they were glad to give support to a court that offers alcohol and drug recovery programs to its participants. Pictured are, from left, Georgia Power employee Louia Sapp; Betty White, public relations chairperson of Friends of the Court; Laura Riska, CSRA probation officer; State Court Judge Jerry Daniel; and John Hamilton, newly appointed DUI/ Drug Court coordinator. More ... Tyler Roberson, at left, took first place in the S.G.A. Elementary School Spelling Bee, and Craig Conyers, right finished second. Both students will compete in the county-wide bee at Burke County Middle School on Feb. 1. Roberson, a fourthgrader, is the son of Pamela Griffin, and Conyers, also a fourth-grader at S.G.A., is the son of Erica Warthen. More ... Kassy Clark got to throw a pie in her mother's face last week for making good grades. Kathy Clark, a teacher at Faith Christian Academy, said she'd give her fourth-graders a treat for making the school's honor roll list. The students took turns shoving whipped cream pies in Clark's face as the rest of the school sat back to watch. Joining Kassy in the pie throwing were other fourth grade honor roll students Dylan Snipes and Maddie Woods. More ... BURKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL Principal's List Twelfth grade: Tiffney Dishmond, Comesia Dukes, Ashley Gandy, Stephanie Goetzman, Tyler Hammett, Jessica Hayes, Trenton Hillis, Jolinda Powell, Christina Rogers, Kiara Sherman, Whitney Sims, Xavier Solomon, More ... Field trial judges, dog owners and handlers got to break bread, and oysters, with locals at the Burke County Chamber of Commerce's oyster roast. The annual event, which is held at Mobley Barn, is aimed at showing field trial participants local support for their annual trek to Burke County, as well as providing an opportunity for networking with Burke County residents and business leaders. According to chamber director Ashley Roberts, the field trials have an approximate $75,000 impact on the community each year. The event was sponsored by Mr. Golf Carts and Georgia Power Company. More ... The Waynesboro Fire Department served as host for this month's Coffee Before Hours held Friday, Jan. 25. Local business owners and community leaders gathered for breakfast treats and coffee before touring the department. Pictured above, from left, are Kristi Griffin, Jayne Brinson and Robin Baxley, and below, William Edwards, right, thanks assistant fire chief Robert Parrish for the WFD's hospitality. Anyone wishing to host Coffee Before Hours should contact Downtown Development Director Andrea Stein at 706-554-8018. More ... |
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