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Tickets go on sale today (Wednesday) for the musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, which will be presented to the community next week by the Burke County High School Thespian Society. The production, based on Charles M. More ... Any changes in plans for expansion at Plant Vogtle, including costs, were being reviewed for the first time by the Georgia Public Service Commission (yesterday) Tuesday. In a hearing that lasted beyond press time, the PSC conducted its first hearing to look at proposed revisions and verify expenditures for building nuclear reactor units three and four at Plant Vogtle. More ... The True Citizen is collecting Thanksgiving recipes from our youngest readers to publish in our Nov. 25 edition. Children, first grade or younger, are asked to submit step-by-step directions for preparing everything from turkey and the fixings to dessert. More ... The waiting room at the Burke County Health Department has been filled with local residents wanting the H1N1 vaccine, which arrived in Burke County in the injectable form last week. The first shipment of 200 injectable doses arrived last Tuesday and were given out by the end of the day, according to nurse manager Gina Richardson. Another 500 doses were received last Wednesday and around 200 doses are still available. Several mothers brought their children in after being encouraged by local physicians to have their little ones vaccinated. Others opted to receive the vaccine, which is administered at no cost, on their own as a precaution. Richardson said the rush to get the vaccine resulted simply from word of mouth. The health department had not yet had a chance to advertise H1N1 clinics before being inundated with customers. The vaccine is still only available to priority groups, including pregnant women, caregivers of children under 6 months of age, healthcare workers, persons ages 6 months to 24 years and patients ages 25-64 with chronic health conditions. Richardson said additional shipments of the vaccine are expected but she is not sure when they might arrive. More ... Residents on River Road should soon know whether or not a concrete plant will be built there. The Burke County Planning Commission is set to decide Tuesday whether or not to grant a variance for Evans Concrete, which wants to operate the plant near Rouse Road to support expansion at Plant Vogtle. More ... Farmers have less than a month to sign up for two popular conservation programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More ... |
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