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INDEXCalendar . . . . . 3Classifieds . 13-14Comics . . . . . . . 7Community . . . . 3Crossword . . . . 7Local . . . . . . 2, 10National . . . 5, 8-9Opinion . . . . . . . 6Sports . . . . 11-12State . . . . . 2, 4-5TV Listings . . . . . 8

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At least 42 peoplehave died and condi-tions are worsening inmany places daysafter an ice storm leftabout a million cus-tomers still in the darkfrom the Plains to theEast Coast. And withno hope that the lightswill come back onsoon, small communi-ties are franticallystruggling to help theirresidents.Page 8

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OpinionColumnist and basket-ball coach SteveBowen, who onceswished hoops in theLaGrange High gym,shares the story of hislatest – and possiblybest – junior varsitysquad.Page 6

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Federal health officialsopened a criminalinvestigation Fridayinto the Georgiapeanut-processingplant at the center ofthe national salmonel-la outbreak.Page 5

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Corley Major was named homecoming queen at LaGrange Academy in cere-monies at Friday night’s basketball games. Angela Stout was first runner-up.

LaGrange Academy crowns queenCountyaskedto fundmentoringprogramfor youthBy Joel MartinSenior writer

The Troup County Com-mission on Friday wasurged to help finance theWilliam J. Griggs YouthMentoring Initiative thatwill be developed by theGriggs family and the non-profit Operation CorrectStart Inc.Griggs, who died in No-

vember, was a 30-yearschool principal in La-Grange and for 39 yearswas director of the OgletreeStreet Recreation Center,which was renamed in hishonor.“We’re here to help the

children, the ones who areabout to fall through thecracks or who have alreadyfallen through the cracks,”said his wife, Rubye Griggs,who taught school for 39years and serves as boardchairman of Operation Cor-rect Start. “…More childrenneed help to make La-Grange the community wewant it to be.”She said children are

being recruited into gangsand “we need to let themknow somebody cares.”“They’re just floating

around out there,” she said.“Most people don’t want tofool with them, but we’vegot a group here that wantsto work with them. …Mostof them can be turnedaround and that’s whatwe’re here for.”She asked the commis-

sioners to “get behind us,get us some funding and letus play ball. … We want totry to stop the killing, thecutting, the shooting andthe raping.”Her daughter-in-law,

Yolanda Griggs, a boardmember of Operation Cor-rect Start, said they’re tar-geting children “you’d beafraid to live in your com-munity.”“Workwith us and give us

the opportunity to continuedoing what we’re doing,”she said. “We need fundingto take it to the next level.”Her husband, Bruce Grig-

gs, director of the 13-year-old Operation Correct Start,said violence has becomean epidemic and guns arerampant in the community.“When it comes to vio-

lence, we all need to say,‘Enough is enough,’ ” hesaid.He said the organization

wants to mentor 150 chil-dren in the schools, JuvenileCourt and housing projectsof LaGrange, West Pointand Hogansville, and pro-vide training for mentors.“We’re violence preven-

tion and anger manage-ments specialists,” he said.“No other agency does whatwe do.”Griggs became angry

when CommissionerRichard English suggestedhe enter into a partnershipwith NFL football playerand LaGrange native WaltHarris, who opened theWalt Harris CommunityResource Center on UnionStreet in May to provideeducation and job trainingfor adults.Griggs said “Walt is a

football player” who does-

Joblessratesdouble inone yearFrom staff reports

LaGrange and Troup Countyhave double-digit unemploymentrates that are nearly twice those ofa year ago.The Georgia Department of

Labor said the December rates inboth jurisdictions were 10.4 per-cent, compared to 5.6 percent dur-ing the same month a year ago.They were 9.0 percent and 9.1 per-cent, respectively, in November.The rates were 10.7 percent in

Heard County, up from 4.5 percenta year ago and 7.8 percent inNovember, and 10.3 percent inMeriwether County, up from 4.9percent a ago and unchanged fromNovember.Meanwhile, the state’s 8.1 per-

cent jobless rate in December wasthe highest in almost 26 years. Itwas 4.5 percent a year ago and 7.4percent in November.The last time Georgia posted

such a rate was in March 1983,when it was also 8.1 percent. Geor-gia’s number remained above thenational rate of 7.2 percent for the11th straight month with 393,168Georgians looking for work. Ofthat number, 156,719, or 40 per-cent, are drawing unemploymentinsurance benefits.Over the last year, the number of

payroll jobs decreased by 121,800,or 2.9 percent. Jobs were lost inmanufacturing, construction, andtrade, along with professional andbusiness services, including tem-porary employment agencies. Jobswere added in health care, educa-tion, and the federal government.Georgia labor market data is

available at www.dol.state.ga.us.

By Jennifer ShraderStaff writer

Ratavious Mays learnedquickly Friday that there’sno “down time” at a lawoffice.Tagging along with attor-

ney Mitchell Key, Mays, aTroup High School senior,sat in on a client conference,filed a petition in court andmade two trips to the TroupCounty Government Center.It wasn’t even 11 a.m. yet.“I learned a lot,” Mays

said.His sister is in law school

and Mays said he’s alwaysfound the subject interest-ing. Friday morning’s expe-riences hadn’t deterred him.“That’s still the plan,” he

said.Mays was one of about

100 Troup County schoolstudents who participated in

an annual “job shadow” daywith local businesses. Stu-dents spent the day with a

variety of local employers

Lawmengear up forSuper BowlSundayByKenneth ThompsonStaff writer

With Super Bowl Sunday almosthere, local law enforcement agen-cies will be on the lookout forintoxicated drivers and domesticdisturbances stemming from pri-vate parties.Forty-eight percent of traffic

deaths around the country on lastyear’s Super Bowl Sundayoccurred in crashes where drivershad a blood-alcohol concentrationlevel of 0.08 or more, according tothe Georgia State Patrol.“We are going to have aggressive

patrolling at random check pointsthroughout the county looking forimpaired drivers,” patrol Sgt. Mau-rice Raines said. “More DUIs arealways a strong possibility onSuper Bowl Sunday and this yearis no different. We typically findmore impaired drivers on seclud-ed back roads where they figure itsmore safe to drive when intoxicat-ed. But we will be well-represent-ed all around the county.”Some signs of drunken drivers

that state troopers look for includefollowing too closely, failing to dimheadlights when meeting traffic,improper lane changes, runningred lights and ignoring stop signs,Raines said.“The amount of drunken drivers

is sporadic each year,” he said. “It’snot quite like New Year’s Evebecause most people are awayfrom their homes during the holi-days, as opposed to the Super BowlRatavious Mays from Troup High School goes over doc-

uments with attorney Mitchell Key during Friday’s annu-al job shadow day.

Jayme Ogles inspects a printing job at Stephens Printing with Jarrell Hutchinson andMark Chapman of LaGrange High School.

Student ’shadows’ getup-close look at work

SEE SHADOWS, PAGE 2

SEE SUNDAY, PAGE 2SEEMENTOR, PAGE 2

StatesWhat state has thelowest percentage ofsmokers?Answer on page 2

WeekendTrivia

n’t have his extensive back-ground and expertise in vio-lence prevention.

“Why wouldn’t RichardEnglish suggest Walt Harriswork with me?” Griggs saidafter the meeting.The county spent $1.4 mil-

lion on the Griggs Recre-

ation Center from a specialsales tax approved in 2001,but Griggs said he doesn’tknow where the moneywent.“It still has the same bath-

room fixtures it had in1969,” he said.Recreation director Tod

Tentler said the expenseshave been audited andthey’re “exactly correct.”Commission Chairman

Ricky Wolfe asked Griggsfor a report on OperationCorrect Start’s funding andaccomplishments during thepast three years.In 2009, thementoring ini-

tiative proposes to:� Provide direct, year

round mentoring for up to150 children ages 8 to 15.

� Recruit, train and men-tor 20 to 25 men who willprovide mentoring to one ortwo boys this year andbeyond.

� Provide after school/inschool mentoring for stu-dents at Hope Academy, ThePromise Institute and WestPoint Elementary Schooltwo days per week.

� Provide eight weeks offree summer swimming les-sons for county residents atthe Griggs Center.

� Provide an eight-week“boys tomen” summer campfor 15 to 25 boys ages 8 to15.

� Train up to 100 boysages 8 to 15 in a series ofmentoring events.

� Develop a partnershipwith West Georgia Techni-cal College and TV-33 fortraining in TV productionand broadcasting.

� Create a blue ribbonadvisory board to overseethe program’s design andscope; and

� Evaluate first-year serv-ices and develop programsfor 2010.The budget for 2009

would be up to $398,135from local, state and feder-al sources, including busi-nesses and foundations.“We’re looking for a

bailout from the govern-ment,” Griggs said. “We’retrying to get a bailout for thekids.”

Joel Martin can bereached at jmartin@lagrangenews. com or (706)884-7311, Ext. 235.

including schools – for theaspiring teacher – veterinar-ians and even cosmetologyand golf course manage-ment at Highland CountryClub.Mike Golden, service

director at LaGrange Toyota,hosted two Callaway HighSchool seniors, Rency Car-reker and Ramsay Jones.Both are in the school’s auto-motive technology program.“I like working on cars,”

Jones said. “I wanted to get afeel for what I’m going to begetting into.”Golden spent time with

the pair going through theprocess of what happens inthe repair shop, from thetime the vehicle – and its

owner – first arrives,through the repair processand back out the door.“I like working on

motors,” Carreker said. “Ilike taking them out and put-ting them back in.”Both students said it was

interesting seeing the repairtechnicians use the sameprocess they use at school torepair a vehicle.Golden says he’s happy to

support the shadow daybecause five of his techni-cians were hired out of highschool after taking classesin the automotive technolo-gy program.“Skilled laborers are going

to be harder and harder tofind,” he said.Out at Stephens Printing,

at the Whitesville Road

plant, Jarrell Hutchinson, aLaGrange High School sen-ior, was learning the ins andouts of the printing process.“I like art,” Hutchinson

said. “It’s not what I wasexpecting.” Hutchinson andgraphic designer JaymeOgles were helping producea LaGrange Collegebrochure, making sure thecolors turned out correct.“Sometimes it can be

tedious,” Ogles said.But Hutchinson was able

to see the whole process,from the job order comingin to when it gets mailed out.“I like art and I like print-

ing,” he said.

Jennifer Shrader can bereached at jshrader@lagrangenews.com or (706)

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whenmost people or at theirhomes or a friend’s house.”Also on the lookout for

intoxicated drivers is theTroup County Sheriff ’sDepartment.“We will definitely have

increased patrols at nightthis Sunday as we do everyyear,” sheriff ’s Sgt. FrankKirby said. “DUIs tend tomore frequent before andafter the Super Bowl. Itvaries every year. Our mainconcern each year aredomestic house calls be-cause of the large number ofhouse parties each year. Ofcourse there are a lot ofnoise violations but alsoalcohol-related incidents.”Despite the number of

Super Bowl parties, La-Grange Public Safety Direc-tor Louis Dekmar said thisweekend will be treated rou-tinely.“Historically, Super Bowl

Sunday hasn’t been anythingsignificant as far as what wedo,” he said. “It’s nothing likeNew Year’s Eve is for us, sowe will have the usualamount of patrols out as wealways do.”The National Highway

Traffic Safety Administra-tion reported that youngmales between the ages of21 to 34 aremost likely to beinvolved in traffic crashes, todrive impaired, and to beamong those least likely towear their safety belts.Research also showed thatage range of males compos-es the core audience formajor sporting events suchas the Super Bowl, accord-ing to the NHTSA.

Kenneth Thompson can bereached at kethompson@lagrangenews.com or (706)884-7311, Ext. 228.

Ramsay Jones and Rency Carreker of Callaway High School get tips from MikeGolden and Brett Karr at LaGrange Toyota.

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A fire reported at 3:43 p.m.Friday caused an estimated$20,000 damage to the resi-dence of Tammy Clark andRick Bailey at 934 Baugh’sCross Road.The fire started in a

clothes dryer, but no causehad been determined. Itdestroyed the dryer andwashingmachine, and therewas smoke, heat and waterdamage to the rest of thehouse.Firefighters returned to

the house Friday night todouse hot spots, but no fur-ther damage was reported.

Thefts� A heat pump, generator

and air compressor werestolen from outside a resi-dence in the first block ofPlum Tree Drive. The itemswere valued at $3,000.

� A vehicle was stolenfrom Cotton’s Transmissionat 2176 Bartley Road.

ArrestMichael Wayne Thomp-

son, 35, of Nantucket Drivewas arrested after a sheriff’sdeputy stopped his car Fri-day morning in the 900block of Costley Road. Hewas chargedwith possessionof methamphetamine, noinsurance and improper tail-lights.

� It is the policy of LaGrangeDaily News to print the namesof people charged with felonies.

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Weekend triviafrom page 1

StatesWhat state has the lowest per-centage of smokers?Utah, followed by California.

Mary and Curtis Hines pause for a photo with a life-size cutout of President Barack Obama during a tripto Washington, D.C., for the inauguration.

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Man charged in 2005 church arsonWINDER (AP) – A 24-year-old Dacula man has been

arrested and charged with arson in the Dec. 7, 2005, firethat damaged the New Life Deliverance Church inWinder.Sheriff’s investigator Matt Guthas said Maurice Arnold

was arrested on Wednesday. They did not know if Arnoldhad an attorney.Glenn Allen, spokesman for Georgia Insurance and Safe-

ty Fire Commissioner John Oxendine, said Arnold is a sonof the church’s pastor, Quincy Arnold Sr.The church was extensively damaged in the fire, gutting

the sanctuary but not heavily damaging the exterior.Guthas said evidence had been tested at the Bureau of

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forensic sciencelaboratory in Atlanta. He said analysis of the evidence deter-mined gasoline was used to start the fire.

Police: Man, 94, threw phoneATLANTA (AP) – An Atlanta woman faces battery charges

after police say she assaulted a fellow nursing home resi-dent with a telephone.Police arrested 94-year-old Theodora Garreau at West-

minster Commons after receiving reports that she hadthrown a telephone at another woman. It was unclear why.Attorney Robert Kaiden said his client, who weighs 80

pounds and has arthritis, did not hurt the other resident.

Teen dragged in robbery attemptDACULA (AP) – Two Dacula men are accused of drag-

ging a Mill Creek High School student during a robberyattempt.Gwinnett County police said 16-year-old Edward Yebra,

also of Dacula, was hospitalized in a coma after beingdragged by a truck.Police arrested 22-year-old David Andrew Donnelly and

21-year-oldMatthew ThomasMoore. Both were being heldwithout bond in the Gwinnett County Detention Center.Donnelly is charged with felony hit and run, robbery,

aggravated assault and battery andMoore is charged withrobbery, aggravated assault and battery.

Man charged in string of theftsCANTON (AP) – Police believe they have solved a rash

of vehicle break-ins with the arrest of a 19-year-old Wood-stock man.Authorities said they recovered two bags of iPods and

GPS units.Cherokee County police said officers arrested Austin Sto-

vall during a routine traffic stop Wednesday night. Stovallhas been linked to as many as 40 car break-ins since Oct.He was charged with 16 counts of entering autos. He was

placed in jail on a $177,600 bond.

Defender board stripped of powerATLANTA (AP) – The Senate Judiciary Committee has

approved a measure that would strip Georgia’s publicdefender council of its authority.The committee approved the measure by a 5-4 vote.Sen. Preston Smith’s proposal would turn over control

of the cash-strapped public defender system to its director,Mark Crawford.Smith, a Republican from Rome, was concerned that the

council board would spend all of the system’s money beforethe end of the fiscal year.The defender council was created in 2003. It replaced

county-run programs that often failed to adequately repre-sent poor people accused of crimes.

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Georgia SouthwesternState University

April J. Patterson andMichael S. Phillips ofLaGrange have been namedto the academic achievementlist for the 2008 fall semes-ter at Georgia SouthwesternState University. The be eli-gible for the list, a studentmust previously have earnedat least 15 hours of credit atthe school, be enrolled in

three to 14 hours of coursesand earned a 3.5 or highergrade-point average.Also, Patterson graduated

following the fall semester.

Georgia College& State UniversityThe following area stu-

dents were named to thedean’s list and president’s listfor the 2008 fall semester atGeorgia College&State Uni-versity.President’s list – Paul

Bashan and Jordan Isbell,both of LaGrange.

Dean’s list - KatherineAllen, Amanda Jones andAnna Stephens, all ofLaGrange.

LaGrange Daily News Community Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 -3

First Baptist Church in Hogansville celebrated Baptist Men’s Day on Jan. 25,with the men leading the church service. Worship was led by Charles Spradlin,welcome and announcements by Chris Campbell, prayer time by Stacy Cau-then and testimonies were given by Leon Merrill, Chris Campbell, Stacy Cauthen,Ian Anderson and David Arrington. Special music was provided by a full choir con-sisting of 15 men, above, who performed ‘Just a Little Talk With Jesus,’ as wella piano solo of ‘In The Garden,’ by Joe Travis, below left, ‘Thank You, Lord, ForYour Blessings On Me’ sung by Leon Merrill, and an original song by Ian Ander-son, ‘Riches Beyond Dreams,’ performed by him and his 8-year-old son, Timo-thy, bottom right. The worship service concluded with the presentation of aplaque to Lynn Campbell, in memory of her husband, Jim Campbell.

Hogansville Baptist celebrates Men’s Day Score big with safe foodfor Super Bowl partiesBy Celeste Garrett

It’s almost Super Bowltime. And your guests willbe glued to the set…exceptwhen they dash to the “side-line” to load their plates withgoodies. The USDA FoodSafety and Inspection Serv-ice says that just as footballplayers protect themselvesfrom injury with layers ofgear and lots of training, youcan protect yourself andyour guests from foodborneillness by knowing and fol-lowing four basic rules of thefood safety game.Rule 1: Avoid “illegal use

of the hands.” Clean. If youor your guests prepare andtouch food without washingyour hands, it can result ina penalty. Always wash yourhands for at least 20 secondswith soap and warm, run-ning water paying specialattention to fingernails andrubbing your hands togeth-er. Wash kitchen surfaceswith soap and hot wateroften.Rule 2: Avoid “encroach-

ment.” Separate. Make sure

you keep raw meats awayfrom foods that are cookedor ready to eat. Use a cleancutting board for veggiesand a separate one for rawmeats. Juices from rawmeats can contain harmfulbacteria that can make yousick if they come in contactwith food that is ready to eat.Rule 3: Head for the “Red

Zone.” Cook. Make sureyour food reaches highenough temperatures todestroy harmful bacteria anddon’t get caught in the tem-perature danger zone. Use afood thermometer insertedinto the thickest part of thefood away from bones to tellwhen a food is safely heat-ed. Once your foods aresafely cooked, keep themhot (above 140 degrees F forserving) or cool them quick-ly to 40 degrees F or colderand then reheat them to atleast 165 degrees F beforeserving later. Go Defense!Do not leave foods sitting inthe temperature dangerzone between 40 and 140degrees F for more than 2

hours. Use warming trays,crock pots and insulatedcontainers to keep hot foodshot.Rule 4: Block that kick!

Chill - Keep cold foods coldto prevent bacteria from run-ning up the score on youand your “teammates.” Coldfoods should stay at 40degrees F or colder. Setbowls of cold food in ice orreplace bowls frequentlywith fresh bowls of cold foodstraight from the refrigera-tor. If foods have stayed outat room temperature formore than two hours, tossthem out of the game.Following these four sim-

ple rules is the best protec-tion from foodborne illness.So get out there and show‘em how its done! Get in thesafe food game!

� For further informationon food safety or the recentpeanut butter recalls pleasecontact Celeste Garrett,UGA Family and ConsumerScience Agent, at 706-883-1675

�� In our community

Stepmon tries too hard to be ‘one of girls’Dear Abby: My dad

recently married someonemuch younger, so my sisterand I have a new stepmom.“Tori” has no children of herown. She’s nice, but she’strying too hard.She constantly tries to

make “girl talk” about per-sonal things that girls ourage talk about with sistersand friends, but not theirparents. She also insists ondoing things together duringour visitations. She takes usclothes shopping and triesto tell us what we shouldwear.Tori never knocks before

coming into the room wherewe stay at Dad’s, even whenshe knows we’re gettingdressed. She says, “We’re allgirls.” She actually spendsmore time with us that ourdad does, but there is sucha thing as too much atten-tion.Tori is now planning an

“all girls weekend” for thethree of us. Because we’ll besharing one hotel room,there won’t be a minute’speace from her. We don’twant to hurt her feelingssince she’s trying so hard -unlike friends of ours whohave the opposite problemwith their stepmoms.How can we discuss

boundaries without hurtingher feelings? - Too Close forComfort, Sacramento, Calif.

Dear Too Close: You’reright, your stepmother is try-

ing too hard. Chalk it up tothe fact that she’s muchyounger than your father, isnew to the role she’s playingand is trying to relate to youas an equal.What concerns me about

your letter is the fact thatyou are spending more timewith your father’s wife thanyou are with him. That’s notwhat visitation is for. Myadvice is to talk to yourmother and father aboutthis, privately. And please doit soon, so an interventionwith Tori can be managedbefore she alienates thoseshe’s trying so hard tobefriend.

Dear Abby: I am a 44-year-old single woman whoconsiders herself fairly pro-gressive. I have a rewardingcareer, great family, terrificfriends and I date occasion-ally. One old-fashioned stick-ing point that is annoyingme more and more: I’m sickto death of men I meet whosay, “Call me on Saturday” -or whenever they want to becontacted. What I tell them

is, “Call me if you want tosee me.” Then they don’tbother to call.Female friends my age

and older say it should be upto the man to call thewoman. Younger ones say ifI’m interested, I should callthe guy. I figure if he does-n’t call, he’s not really inter-ested.I currently work at home

and can appreciate a hecticschedule. When I’m travel-ing, things can be wild - sologically, I expect a man tocall me if he’s interestedbecause the last thing I’dwant to do is to interrupthim during his workday.Who is right? - Stickler inPalatine, Ill.

Dear Stickler: Comingfrom a generation that wasraised to believe that theman should always call thewoman, it is not easy to takethe initiative and make acall. However, the rules ofdating have changed sinceyou were taught thoserestrictions.It’s time you learned a few

new tricks - and the peoplewho can teach you are youryounger friends. Let themgive you a lesson or two andtry some role-playing. I’msure you’ll have the tech-nique down in no time.

Write Dear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com or P.O.Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA90069.

Dear Abbyis written byJeannePhillips, alsoknown as Abigail VanBuren

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EventsTodayThe West Georgia Children’s Theater will

hold auditions for “Cinderella Meets HerFella” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at theRoyal Arts Center at 402/404 E. Main St. inHogansville. There are parts for ages 7through adult, and those auditioning will readfrom the script.The “Ms. Tiger Baseball” contest will be at

7 p.m. in Troup High School Fine Arts Audi-torium. Baseball players will sing, dance anddress like their favorite female performers.Advance tickets at $5 will be sold at theschool from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Friday.Reserved tickets at $10 are available by call-ing (706) 298-4027 or (706) 523-0218. Tick-ets at the door will be $7.Country duo Tommy and Rita will be per-

forming at 6:30 p.m. at Roger’s Barbecue andTrading Post in Hogansville.

TuesdayThe LaGrange Symphony Orchestra pres-

ents “Classic Gems” in concert at 7:30 p.m.at Callaway Auditorium, featuring clarinetsoloist Staci Culbreth. Tickets at $25 for mez-zanine seating, $15 for orchestra and galleryseating and $5 for students sixth grade andolder are available by calling the symphonyoffice at (706) 882-0662 or at the auditoriumbox office the day of the concert. Childrenfifth grade and younger are admitted freewith an adult.

ChurchesTodayThe Sunday school department at Faith

Temple Church of Deliverance at 221 Edge-wood Ave. hosts a fundraiser and fellowshipprogram, “The Twelve Tribes of Israel,” at 6p.m.New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church

hosts its second annual prayer breakfast inhonor of Walter Dowell and Phillip West at 8a.m. Tickets are $5 and are available fromany church member.Faith Believers Ministries at 210 Handley

St. hosts a men’s prayer breakfast at 9 a.m.Friendship Baptist Church on Gabbettville

Road holds a cemetery clean-up at 8 a.m.Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Pine

Mountain holds a gospel concert at 6 p.m.Mission Baptist Church on Roanoke Road

holds at gospel singing at 6:30 p.m., featur-ing the Carter family.Trinity Prayer and Bible Study Center at

409 Ware St. holds Bible study at 3:30 p.m.Free breads, cakes, pies, danishes and otherbaked goods distributed after the class.Mountain Spring Baptist Church on Ga. 18

in West Point holds Bible study at 10:30 a.m.The Rev. Alfonzia Simpson Jr. is pastor.

SundaySpringfield Baptist Church in Hogansville

holds its fellowship day at 3 p.m. Guests willbe the Rev. Bradley Gibson and the MountZion Baptist Church congregation of NewSight, Ala.Mountain Springs Baptist Church in West

Point celebrates family and friends day at 11a.m. The Rev. Alfonzia Simpson Jr. is pastor.Dinner will be served.Mount Gilead Baptist Church at 119 Cedar

St. celebrates its church anniversary at 2 p.m.Guest speaker will be the Rev. Crawford

Strozier of Solomon Grove. Dinner will beserved.Sunshine Baptist Church will celebrate the

12th pastoral anniversary of the Rev. Johnand Mrs. Sally Parkmond at 2:30 p.m. TheRev. Timothy Maddox and the Mountain HillBaptist Church will be guests.Ebenezer Baptist Church in Franklin cel-

ebrates men and women’s day at 2:30 p.m.The speakers will be Bishop Baskerville andpastor Johnnie Baskerville.

MondayTrinity on the Hill United Methodist

Church’s Angel Choir for children ages 3through third grade rehearses at 5:30 p.m.For more information, call (706) 884-4976.A Bible study is at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary at

DASH for LaGrange Inc. at 1200 4th Ave.Angela White-Fannin leads the study. Formore information, contact her at angelafan-nin@yahoo.comSt. Paul C.M.E. Church at 250 Lower Glass

Bridge Road has a Bible study at 7 p.m.

TuesdayEastside Baptist Church at 1016 Mason St.

holds a theological extension center class at7 p.m.Faith Temple Church of Deliverance at 221

Edgewood Ave. holds morning Bible studyat 10 a.m. For transportation, call Bobby Coxat (706) 845-8662. The Rev. C.M. Chivers ispastor.

MeetingsMondayThe Salvation Army Home League meets at

6 p.m. at the Salvation Army Worship andCommunity Center at 806 Murphy Ave.LaGrange Amateur Radio Club will have

a net on frequency 146.700 at 9 p.m.Cub Scout Pack 324 meets at 6:30 p.m. at

First Baptist Church on the Square, fourthfloor above the gym.Hogansville City Council meets at 7 p.m.

at City Hall.The LaGrange Troup County Council of

Church Women executive committee meetsat 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church.

TuesdayThe Troup County High School Band

Boosters meets at 6 p.m. in the band room.Xi Epsilon Gamma meets at 7 p.m. at a

member’s house.The Five Star Social Club meets from 8 to

9 p.m. at a member’s house.The Troup County Commission meets at

9 a.m. in the first-floor commission meetingroom in the Government Center at 100 Rid-ley Ave.The Union Lodge 28 F&AM meets at 7 p.m.

at Lodge Hall on Hogansville Road.The Downtown Merchants, Business &

Professional Association meets at 6:05 p.m. atOu La La.Hogansville’s Community Watch commit-

tee meets at 6 p.m. at the city police depart-ment, 117 Lincoln St.

Listings for ‘In our community’ are printedfor events happening in the next three-daytime period, space permitting. To submit anitem, email it to ddur-rence@lagrangenews.com, fax them to (706)884-8712 or drop them by our office at 105Ashton St. For more information, call DebbyDurrence at (706) 884-7311, Ext. 229.

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other acts of kindness shownat his death. You will neverknow what a comfort and

help you were during our ini-tial time of grief and sadness,as well as how much yourcontinued love and supportmeans to us. To Rev. ClintonHughes and Rev. HaroldWillis, thank you for your

words of encouragement dur-ing his funeral service and forbeing the kind of pastors andfriends everyone needs; toBrian Wood for the beautifulvideo presentation at Jim’sservice; to Reba Towler andSondra Lee for the extraordi-narily beautiful music and tothe staff of Strickland Funeral

Home in Hartwell andMcKibben & Sons FuneralHome in Hogansville, oursincere appreciation for theexceptional and professionalservice you provided before,during, and after the funeral.We will be forever grateful.Lynn Campbell, Chris,

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ATHENS (AP) – GeorgiaMuseum of Art directors sayat least 10 of the two dozenpaintings damaged when asteam valve leaked in a stor-age room earlier this monthwill require some restorationwork.The museum’s associate

director, Annelies Mondi,said officials don’t think therestorations will cost morethan $25,000.Mondi said conservator

Elizabeth Hatmaker won’tbe sure whether some of thepaintings will need work

until they are completelydry.Thomas Satterly, an assis-

tant vice president at theUniversity of Georgia phys-ical plant, said the leak hap-pened Jan. 4 when an actu-ator that opens and shuts asteam valve in the storageroom broke, locking thevalve open.The steam valve is part of

a climate-control systemdesigned to keep humidityin the storage room andother museum areas at aconstant level.

Man charged inshooting deathCARROLLTON (AP) – A

Carrollton man has beenarrested for the early morn-ing shooting death of oneman and the wounding ofanother during a party at anapartment complex near theUniversity of West Georgia.Police say neither the sus-

pect nor the two men shotwere believed to be students.Carrollton Police Capt.

Jami Sailors said the shoot-ing occurred about 2 a.m.Friday during a fight at aparty at the College Quadapartments about a milefrom the university.Ramondo Johnson, 25, of

Carrollton was pronounceddead at TannerMedical Cen-ter and a second victim,Rahmere Cowling, 21, ofHampton, was airlifted toAtlanta Medical Center incritical condition.Traveris Wilson, 24, was

arrested shortly after theshooting and later chargedwith murder.

Drug agents raidwrong duplexBUFORD (AP) – Georgia

Bureau of Investigationagents raided the wrongduplex while looking for adrug suspect in Buford.

GBI spokesman JohnBankhead said the stateagents along with Gwinnettand Hall county deputieshad been watching a drugsuspect’s home and thoughtthey saw him enter a duplex.Armed with a no-knock

warrant, they forced entryinto the duplex and no onewas in the unit. Officersbanged on the other unit inthe same duplex, startlingthe occupants.After figuring out they

were at the wrong building,agents went next door andarrested their suspect, JesusBello-Quinones. He wascharged with drug traffick-ing and misdemeanor pos-session of marijuana.

Donation aidsheating programATLANTA (AP) – An At-

lanta-based nonprofit thatprovides energy assistancestatewide to low-incomeGeorgians has given morethan $1million toward help-ing families pay their heat-ing bills.TheHeating Energy Assis-

tance Team Inc. made thecontribution of $1,020,649 tothe Georgia Department ofHuman Resources.DHR is distributing the

state’s $80.4 million share offederal heating and energy

aid to low-income families.HEAT distributes emer-

gency heating funds fromprivate sources across thestate. The organizationrecentlymarked a 17 percentdownturn in corporate gifts.The recent donation came

from gifts by private citizensand natural gas companies,including Georgia NaturalGas and SCANA Energy.Additional money camefrom the Georgia PublicService Commission.

Fundraiser aidsAllman museumMACON (AP) – Organiz-

ers say a weekend fundrais-er for a Macon museumdedicated to the AllmanBrothers Band will helpkeep the attraction on trackto open by the end of 2009.Kirsten West, managing

director of the museum’sfuture home, called the BigHouse, said she’s confidentits exhibits will be open forfans to tour by December.This years marks the 40th

anniversary of the band’sfounding by singer Gregg

Allman and his guitaristbrother, Duane Allman.The Big House will hold

its annual fundraiser todaywith live music and foodprovided by local restau-rants. Last year, the eventraised $60,000.West says much of the

labor and materials thathave gone into renovatingthe Big House has beendonated by Allman Brothersfans.

Chick-fil-A chiefrecuperatingATLANTA (AP) – Chick-

fil-A founder and chairmanTruett Cathy has returnedhome after having gallblad-der surgery.His son, Dan Cathy, said

his 87-year-old father isdoing well after the surgeryearlier this month.The illness kept the elder

Cathy from accepting in per-son the King Center’s Saluteto Greatness corporateaward. Dan Cathy, presidentand CEO of Chick-fil-A,accepted the accolade for hisfather.

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgiahomeowners got some goodand bad news in a propertytax bill that passed the stateHouse of Representatives onFriday.The bill would fund a

property tax break worth anaverage of $200 to $300 perhousehold this year. Butafter that, the break couldvery well be history, mean-ing local governments willhave to look at either raisingtaxes or slash spending tomake up for the lost statecash.TheHouse voted 117-55 to

find $428 million to pay forthe Homeowner Tax ReliefGrant. Gov. Sonny Perdueslashed the money from hisfiscal year 2009 budget pro-posal to help close the state’s$2.2 billion shortfall.State lawmakers will have

to find more budget cuts topay for the tax break andthey haven’t identified yetwhere the money will comefrom.But the state-funded relief

would only continue if Geor-gia revenue grows by 3 per-cent plus the rate of infla-tion. In the near term that’s

unlikely in the recession-rav-aged state.State Rep.Winfred Dukes,

an Albany Democrat, said ifthe state eliminates the taxbreak it will result in “thelargest property tax bill(increase) to the homeown-ers in the state of Georgia inthe history of this state.”Democrats had champi-

oned a constitutionalamendment to lock in thetax break. But the bill’ssponsor, state Rep. LarryO’Neal, R-Bonaire, argued itwas never meant to be anentitlement, stressing thatfunding the break this yearkeeps a promise the state

made to pay.Local governments have

already sent out tax bills thisyear. If the state doesn’tdeliver the money, home-owners would be slappedwith a supplemental bill torecoup the grant money.“If you do not act, you will

be imposing a $200 to $300tax on homeowners,” O’Nealtold legislators.The Senate has yet to pass

the measure. Senate leadershave expressed support, butit’s unclear whether Perduewill sign the measure.In August he called the

grants ineffective in keepingproperty taxes down and

said they should bescrapped. More recently hisspokesman said the gover-nor will “rejoice with law-makers” if they can come upwith a plan to avoid the cuts.The tax relief grants are

provided to local govern-ments and passed along tohomeowners as a tax cred-it.The House was scheduled

to also take up a separate billFriday that would cap therate growth by which prop-erty taxes can rise but thechamber delayed the vote.

On the Net:H.B. 143: http://www.legis.

ga.gov

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Tax billmixedbag forhomeowners

ATLANTA (AP) – A com-munity activist group is hon-oring a pastor whoseremarks sparked controver-sy during President BarackObama’s election campaign.The Rev. JeremiahWright

spoke for about 20 minuteson Friday at Clark AtlantaUniversity to a group ofabout 100. His appearancewas part of a conferencesponsored by Healing Our-selves Through Excellenceand Preparation, a commu-nity activist group made upof ministers, educators,

mental health professionalsand parents.Wright – who was pastor

at Trinity United Church ofChrist in Chicago for nearly40 years – also received thegroup’s Asa Grant HilliardAward for his work in theblack community.Wright came under fire

last year for remarks criti-cized as racist and unpatri-otic, and his views werelinked to Obama, a formermember of Trinity who dis-tanced himself fromWrightafter the controversy.

GAINESVILLE (AP) – Itstarted as a family joke: Fac-ing snowballing medicalexpenses for their twoyoung disabled children,Gregg and Brittiny Petersquipped they might need tosell everything they ownedto stay solvent. As the billstipped $10,000, however, theidea was no longer funny.So on Thursday, the cou-

ple accepted a winning$20,000 eBay bid for all theirbelongings minus theirhouse.It came with one catch.

The winning bidders, Don-nia and Keith Blair of Texas,want the family to have themoney, but keep their stuff.Seems like the perfect

happy ending, except thePeters don’t want themoney.They say the whole idea wasto start over, not take a hand-out.The decision is out of their

hands, the Blairs say.“They’ve worked really

hard to get those things andwe’re in a position to helpthem,” Donnia Blair said Fri-day. “She can just act likethey’re my storage facility.”The Peters’ lives and

finances changed dramati-cally last April, when their2-year-old son Noah wasdiagnosed with autism andwith sensory and gastroin-testinal disorders. Then inthe summer, doctors diag-nosed their 7-year-olddaughter Ayla with juvenilearthritis. They also have a 1-year-old son, Eli.Special treatment for the

two older children costsabout $2,000 a month andthe Peters are carrying a$1,400 mortgage on theirhouse in a suburban areaabout an hour north ofAtlanta, said Brittiny Peters,a stay-at-home mom whose

husband runs a tennis acad-emy for middle and highschool students.They soon began keeping

a list of what they could giveaway – a jogging strollerhere, a dining table there.“Then it kind of hit us

both, let’s just sell it all,” shesaid, explaining the couplefigured “we will buy thesethings again some day.”They listed approximate-

ly $40,000 worth of items onthe popular online auction,from DVDs and leathercoats, to the king-sized bedwhere the family had Satur-day morning pillow fights,according to a Web site setup by well-wishers trying tohelp the couple.The Peters spent Friday

morning trying to persuadethe Fort Worth family toaccept their belongings,which include a 2000Chevrolet Tahoe. They eventried to retract the couple’sbid.“They are apparently not

willing to take our stuff,”Brittiny Peters said. “They’repurchasing them to givethem back to us.”Now they aren’t sure what

their next step is.They are also trying to fig-

ure out what to do withmoney raised on the Website, www.everythingweown.org. They didn’t ask for themoney and their efforts toreturn donations have upsetsome people, Brittiny Peterssaid.The Peters are perfectly

willing to stick by the bar-gain. But the Blairs – whowouldn’t give details on howthey can afford to give away$20,000 – won’t budge.“We’ve really been blessed

the last few years and wesaw an opportunity to help,”Donnia Blair said.

eBay top bidder:Take our money,keep your stuff

AP photo

ClarkAtlanta University student Rayvon Shelton has hispicture take with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, right, after hisspeech Friday at the school’s Henderson Student Cen-ter.

Controversial pastorhonored in Atlanta

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Damaged paintingsrequire restoration

AUGUSTA (AP) – AugustaRegional Airport’s hairiestemployee is back at work.Mayday, the border collie

who chases potentially haz-ardous flocks of egrets andstarlings from the fieldsaround the airport’s run-ways, had a benign tumorremoved from her leg threeweeks ago. Her handler, Tina Rhodes,

said the 11-year-old dog hasbeen resting and workingpart time as she recoversfrom the surgery.Mayday helps keep birds

from getting in the way of

arriving and departing air-planes at the airport. Birdscan cause power failure ifthey fly into the engine ofthe plane.A US Airways flight crash

landed in the Hudson Riveron Jan. 15 after hitting aflock of birds 90 secondsafter it took off fromLaGuardia Airport in NewYork City’.

Airport dog back at work

ATLANTA (AP) – Schoolsand agencies in at least threestates were shipped possiblytainted peanut productslinked to a nationwide sal-monella outbreak as part ofthe federal school meal pro-gram, U.S Department ofAgriculture officialsannounced Friday.Schools, day-care centers

and group homes in Califor-nia, Idaho and Minnesotareceived roasted peanutsand peanut butter, which arenow part of a rapidlyexpanding recall list fromthe Blakely-based PeanutCorp. of America, said JackCurrie, spokesman for theU.S. Department of Agricul-ture’s Food and NutritionService. The USDA said pre-viously that school meal pro-

grams were not affected bythe large-scale recall, butPeanut Corp. has expandedits recall to all peanut prod-ucts made at the plant sinceJan. 1, 2007.“The USDA is working

with the small number ofaffected parties to identifyrecalled product and removeit from distribution,” readsa statement posted on theUSDA’s Web site on Friday.“All USDA nutrition assis-tance program operators arebeing asked to check for anyproduct that might havebeen purchased commer-cially.”Stores have already pulled

more than 430 kinds ofcakes, cookies and otherfood from shelves in whatthe Food and Drug Admin-

istration is calling one of thelargest product recalls inmemory. The outbreak hassickenedmore than 500 peo-ple in the United States, withas many as eight deathslinked to the outbreak.On Friday, the govern-

ment opened a criminalinvestigation into the Geor-gia peanut-processing plantfor shipping allegedly taint-ed products to dozens ofother food companies.The USDA believes most

of the recalled food has beenconsumed at the schools,daycare centers and otherfacilities. It referred inquiriesabout which schools wereinvolved to the states.At least 175 southern Cal-

ifornia school systems andagencies received recalled

peanut products from theUSDA’s school lunch com-modity food distribution pro-gram, according to the stateDepartment of Education.The Minnesota Depart-

ment of Education said onetruckload of roasted peanutsin 10-pound cans from thecompany was distributed toabout 190 schools in Janu-ary 2007.Idaho officials were

unsure late Friday howmany schools were affected,state education departmentspokesman MelissaMcGrath said.None of the states report-

ed illnesses as a result of stu-dents eating the recalledpeanut products.School officials across the

country are checking cafe-

terias, vending machinesand stores to be sure allrecalled products are thrownaway, said Erik Petersonwith the School NutritionAssociation. That includeswarning parents that cook-ie dough sold by schoolgroups as fundraisers couldbe tainted, he said.“Everyone is checking,” he

said. “Some out of an abun-dance of caution are notserving peanut-related prod-ucts at all.”

WASHINGTON (AP) –Federal health officialsopened a criminal investi-gation Friday into the Geor-gia peanut-processing plantat the center of the nationalsalmonella outbreak. Presi-dent Barack Obama pledgedstricter oversight of foodsafety to prevent break-downs in inspections.The investigation into

Peanut Corp. of America fol-lows reports of shoddy san-itation practices and inspec-tions that found the compa-ny sold contaminatedpeanut products to foodmakers.At least 529 people have

been sickened as a result ofthe outbreak, and at leasteight may have died becauseof it. More than 430 productshave been recalled.Until recently, federal food

safety inspectors had notbeen to the Georgia plantsince 2001. The AssociatedPress found that FDA inter-est in the facility wasrenewed, at least temporar-ily, after a shipment ofpeanuts from the plant wasseized at the Canadian bor-der.The shipment, taken April

11, originated at the PeanutCorp. plant and was turnedback at the border. The FDAseized the product after itwas found to contain metalfragments.The seizure was the FDA’s

first hint that peanut prod-ucts were being processedat the Georgia plant. At theFDA’s request, Georgia stateinspectors visited the planton June 10 searching for thesource of metal fragments.State inspectors visitedagain in late October,records show. Neitherinspection looked for sal-monella.A few weeks later, federal

health officials saw the firstsigns of a salmonella out-break. But it took more

investigation to identifypeanut products as thecause, and the public wasn’talerted until early thismonth.The June inspection

focused only on the metal-fragment issue discoveredin the shipment to Canada,said Domenic Veneziano,director of import operationsand policy for the FDA’sOffice of Regulatory Affairs.“Working with the state of

Georgia, at no time did welook at other issues” duringthat inspection, Venezianosaid. According to stateinspection records, relative-ly minor violations werefound.Inspectors took no sam-

ples of the peanut productfor testing during the Juneinspection or during an Oct.23 state inspection.The FDA reported this

week that federal inspectorswho visited the plant sincethe salmonella outbreakfound roaches, mold, signsof a leaking roof and numer-ous other sanitation prob-lems.Federal officials now say

the plant had a salmonellaproblem dating back at leastto June 2007. Peanut Corp.was under no obligation totell the FDA it was makingpeanut butter at the Georgiaplant, the FDA said Friday.Stephen Sundlof, head of

the FDA’s food safety center,said the Justice Departmentwill investigate possiblecriminal violations by thePeanut Corp. plant.The company shipped

products that initially testedpositive for salmonella afterretesting and getting a neg-ative result. The FDA’s inves-tigations branch will assistin the probe.In another development

Friday, officials urged con-sumers to be cautious about“boutique” brands of peanutbutter, which had not previ-

ously figured in the recall.Although national brands

of peanut butter are unaf-fected, FDA officials warnthat some smaller compa-nies may have receivedpeanut products from thePeanut Corp. processingplant in Georgia.“I think the revelations

have no doubt been alarm-ing,” said Robert Gibbs,White House press secre-tary.That a company which

found salmonella in its owntesting would continue to

ship products “is beyond dis-turbing for millions of par-ents,” he added.Obama plans to name a

new FDA commissioner andother oversight officials inthe coming days, and put inplace a “stricter regulatorystructure” to prevent break-downs in food safety, Gibbssaid Friday.The peanut shipment con-

fiscated in April wasdestroyed in November afterback-and-forth effortsbetween the FDA andPeanut Corp. broke downand after the FDA rejectedas “unacceptable” findingsby a private lab hired byPeanut Corp. to analyze thecompany’s peanuts.“The shipment was

refused by FDA for filth” anddestroyed, FDA spokes-woman Stephanie Kwisnekwrote AP in an e-mail. “TheFDA did everything appro-priately in handling theactivities associated with thisshipment,” Kwisnek said.The FDA’s explanation

Friday raises new questionsabout the adequacy of food-safety tests arranged byPeanut Corp. of its ownproducts.The FDA said it refused to

accept the private lab analy-

sis because of problemswiththe size of the sample test-ed, lack of information aboutwhether experienced andtrained workers conductedthe test, and questions aboutwhether the test could havedetected certain types ofmetals.“The new developments

are disturbing and suggestthat this company hadextensive problems,” saidRep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., whose House Energyand Commerce Committeeplans hearings into the com-pany’s actions and the gov-ernment’s response. SenateAgriculture Chairman TomHarkin, D-Iowa, also plansoversight hearings.The FDA, citing internal

company documents, saidPeanut Corp. had hired a labthat conducted at least 12positive tests for salmonellabetween 2007 and 2008 at itsGeorgia processing plant.The FDA said the companythen used a different lab toretest the products, andthose tests came back neg-ative and the product wasshipped to customers.

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A peanut monument adorns the square in front of the Early County Courthouse inBlakely. The Peanut Corporation of America plant is about a mile away. PCA is vol-untarily recalling all peanuts and peanut products processed in the facility since Jan.2, 2007.

Ice creamrecalled dueto peanut riskJOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) –

Two Pennsylvania dairiesare voluntarily recallingsome ice cream and frozenyogurt flavors because of apossible link to salmonella-tainted peanuts.The recalls announced Fri-

day by Galliker Dairy inJohnstown and Turkey Hillin Lancaster County arebecause the Peanut Corpo-ration of America expandedits recall.Turkey Hill is recalling six

flavors: Tin Roof SundaePremium, Chocolate NuttyMoose Tracks Stuffed,Chocolate Nutty MooseTracks Light Recipe, NuttyCaramel Caribou FrozenYogurt, Peanut Brittle NoSugar Added Recipe andPeanut Butter Mania LightRecipe.Galliker is recalling Rocky

Road Ice Cream and SundaeNut Cones.Only certain date codes

are affected.

Criminal probelaunched inpeanut recall

ATLANTA (AP) – Foodmanufacturers would haveto perform “regular testing”to ensure food safety andrequires companies to reportany tests that show contam-ination within one businessday under a proposal by aRepublican lawmaker.State Sen. John Bulloch,

who chairs Georgia’s SenateAgriculture Committee, saidhis measure also would givestate inspectors access to testresult records.Few states, if any, require

food manufacturers to alertstate and federal inspectorsto the results of their inter-nal tests.That issue came to light

this month after the PeanutCorp. of America processorwas linked to a salmonellaoutbreak that sickened hun-dreds and may have con-tributed to eight deaths.Federal officials say the

company’s records showthat peanut butter had test-ed positive for salmonella atleast 12 times in 2007 and2008 but was distributedafter it was retested andcleared.

Georgialawmakerseeks morefood testing

Recalled products sent to schools in three states

Some common foods thatcontain peanuts and peanutproducts:

� Baked goods, such ascakes, cookies and pie andpastry crusts

� Breakfast cereals,including granolas

� Candy, especiallychocolates and nougat

� Chili and pasta sauces� Crackers� Ethnic cuisines, espe-

cially African, Chinese, Thaiand Mexican

� Ice creams and frozenyogurts

� Trail mix

Hidden peanuts

Schools toscreen actsin advanceJONESBORO (AP) – Clay-

ton County school adminis-trators are cracking down onstudent performances aftera high school dance team’sprovocative performancedrew calls from angry par-ents.Clayton County Superin-

tendent John Thompson saidall dance, cheerleading andband groupsmust have theirroutines approved in advanceby an administrator.The Jonesboro High

School dance team was dis-banded for the rest of theschool year and their coachremoved after a perform-ance at a Jan. 13 basketballgame where the eight girlswore tiny, tight shorts anddanced on chairs. A video ofthe girls made it onYouTube.The dance was screened

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� State voices � Letter to editor

This recent editorial on the economicstimulus plan is from the Athens Banner-HeraldHis logic is unassailable, and given the

utter confusion, if not outright failure, ofthe current approaches to kick-startingAmerica’s ailing economy, CongressmanPaul Broun’s proposed amendment to theAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Actof 2009 ought to get some serious consider-ation in Washington.In a news release issued Tuesday, Broun

announced his introduction of an amend-ment to the $825 billion economic stimuluslegislation, an amendment that would takea radically new, but imminently sensible,approach to economic recovery.Briefly, Broun’s amendment would take

the $825 billion that would be allocated tovarious initiatives and divide it equallyamong the legal residents of this countrywho filed a tax return in 2008. According tothe news release, that would mean payoutsof $8,895.75 to those 92,740,927 filers.That’s almost $9,000 that more than 90 mil-lion Americans - whose families and otherrelationships almost certainly wouldencompass nearly everyone in this nationof 306 million people - could use for anynumber of things that would, without argu-ment, stimulate the economy.Think about it. Putting $9,000 into the

pockets of, say, families whose breadwin-ners are dealing with job losses or cutbacksin workhours could give those families thebreathing room they need to buy newschool clothes for their children, take theircar in for long-needed repairs, or treatthemselves to an occasional restaurantmeal. All of those things would, by defini-tion, stimulate the economy, providingincome to retail clerks, clothing manufac-turers, auto parts makers, mechanics, foodprocessors and waiters - to anyone, in fact,providing a good or service that wouldattract those dollars.Beyond that, individuals and families

with less immediate needs for the moneymight be prompted to take a vacation, buya new or used car or a widescreen televi-sion, eat out more frequently, or do anynumber of things that would provideemployment and income to any number oftheir fellow Americans.Finally, those people who had no immedi-

ate use for the $9,000 checks might depositthem in a bank account or invest them inany number of ways, providing capital thatmight be accessed by any number of enter-prises.Now, let’s compare that picture to current

plans for a significant chunk of the eco-nomic stimulus plan, as reported in the SanFrancisco Chronicle earlier this week. Ascurrently written, the proposal includes$200 million to rehabilitate Washington’sNational Mall (including $21 million forsod); $400 million to NASA for climatechange research; $400 million to replacethe Social Security Administration’s agingcomputer center; $276 million for a tech-nology update at the State Department;$500 million for the Transportation Securi-ty Administration to install bomb detectorsat airports; $600 million to the GeneralServices Administration to replace oldervehicles with alternative-fuel vehicles; anda host of similar pork-barrel projects thatclearly have little or nothing to do withmeeting the immediate need to jump-startthe nation’s economy.In his news release, Congressman Broun

targeted those kinds of pork-barrel expen-ditures specifically, writing, “I urge Presi-dent Obama and Speaker Pelosi to skip thepork wish list and work with my colleagueson a true economic recovery program thatprovides tax relief to small businesses andfamilies and offers incentive-based relieffor job creators.”Since his election to the House of Repre-

sentatives in 2007, and his re-election lastyear, Broun has been the subject of signifi-cant criticism on this newspaper’s editorialpage. Not this time, though. While his newsrelease, in essence, simply is a call forbipartisan work on economic recovery, itappears, quite frankly, that Broun alreadyhas developed a “true economic recoveryplan.” Good work, Congressman Broun.

Two impressions emergefrom President BarackObama’s first week in office:Partisanship has reached atipping point when the newpresident is circling the firehydrant with a conservativetalk-radio personality.And, the new president is

sounding an awful lot likethe old one.Let’s roll the tape.“I won. I will trump you

on that.”That’s Barack Obama a

few days ago, according toThe Associated Press,speaking to Senate Minori-ty Whip Jon Kyl of Arizonaduring a meeting with con-gressional leaders about theproposed stimulus package.Kyl had the audacity toquestion giving tax creditsto people who do not owefederal income taxes.Rewinding to 2004: “I

earned capital in this cam-paign, political capital, andnow I intend to spend it. Itis my style.”That’s George W. Bush

after his re-election, explain-ing his assumption that theAmerican people approvedof his many plans, includ-ing Social Security reformand the war on terror.Obama and Bush each

mistakenly assumed that hiselection was a nationalmandate for his policies,rather than a rejection ofalternatives.Bush was re-elected pri-

marily because his oppo-nent was weak and becauseAmericans typically don’tlike to switch presidentsmid-war.Obama benefited similar-

ly when his opponent tem-porarily forgot who he wasand, most important, theeconomy collapsed. Still, 46percent of Americans votedfor John McCain and 48percent voted in 2004 forJohn Kerry.

If Obama had amandate atall, it was to heal the divisionsthat have plagued politics forso long. No more partisanbickering, he promised,though there’s only about asmirk’s difference betweenObama and Bush, stylistical-ly. While one is bring-‘em-onconfrontational and the othera passive-aggressiveMr. Cool,both reveal a staggeringsense of personal empower-ment.Obama was cool even

when, at that same GOP

meeting, he urged Republi-cans to stop listening toRush Limbaugh. No anger,just angst. “You can’t just lis-ten to Rush Limbaugh andget things done.”

Excuse me, Mr. President,but you’ve been baited bynone other than the MasterFisherman. Limbaugh tossedyou a lure and you chomped.Rules: Never start a land

war with Asia. Never arguewith amanwho buys ink bythe barrel (or who owns thepatent on the microchip).Never let rabble-rousers getunder your skin – especiallythose whose popularity insome circles comparesfavorably with your ownand whose earnings makebailed-out bank presidentsenvious.While we’re at it, tread

very carefully around theimplication that conserva-tives cling to their talk-showhosts out of anger and frus-tration.That may be true, but the

backfire Obama felt inWestVirginia was a gentle zephyrcompared to the blowbackthat can be bellowed by ElRushbo.Obama’s pique at recent

Limbaugh commentaries isunderstandable, but hisreaction suggests a lack ofplayground wisdom. Tobacktrack, Limbaugh saidhe hopes Obama will failbecause success wouldmean a socialist America. Inlanguage that would notendear him to his professedmentor, the late William F.Buckley, Limbaugh said:“We are being told that we

have to hope he succeeds,that we have to bend over,grab the ankles … becausehis father was black,because this is the firstblack president, we’ve gotto accept this.”Now there’s an image we

could have lived without.It’s fair to say that we’ve

sufficiently celebrated themilestone of electing ourfirst biracial president, butit’s simply incorrect toassert that hope forObama’s success is guilt-induced. Fear-induced ismore like it. Most wantObama to succeed becausethey’d like to avoid breadlines in the near future.

Conservatives of both par-ties justly fear that too muchof the stimulus package isaimed at non-stimulus pro-grams. There’s plenty to crit-icize, but shouting socialismin a crowded panic room islaughable under the circum-stances. Bush gave Nanny atenured position inWashing-ton with his Medicare bill,farm subsidies and publiceducation spending. It wasunder the GOP’s watch thatthe nationalization of Amer-ica’s banking and insuranceprograms began.There we go again.Trying to assign blame –

or amp up rhetoric to satis-fy the market’s gargantuanappetite for ratings – iscounterproductive in thepresent. If Obama wants torumble, he’s got an eagerfoe in Limbaugh. But if hereally wants to win, hemight take a page from hispredecessor’s playbook:Never dignify your enemieswith recognition.

Kathleen Parker’s e-mailaddress is kparker@k-parker.com.

Dear Editor:I would like to make a few comments on

the “Move Schools Back to Basics” letter fromMr. Bill England that was published on Jan.29. As an educator - yes, teaching is a job likesome other jobs and it requires a lot of hardwork and determination for success.

Teachers do not have more fringe benefitsthan other jobs. Teachers are paid to work 200days a year (10 months). Teachers and schoolsystems elect to stretch out that pay over aperiod of 12months. Some states and systemsdo not allow this and teachers have twooptions: save money for the summer monthsor get a summer job.While it is true that teach-ers have off weeks for Christmas, spring, andother holidays, these days are not consideredpart of the 200 days of work contracted - justas; teachers are not required to work only 40hours a week or eight hours a day. Further-more, there are countless teachers that per-form their duties during the time off breaksand takework home on theweeknights, week-ends, and throughout the summer. They don’tget paid for this extra work.Next, I would like to address the coach

comment. The coaches are teachers, too.They teach during the day and coach afterschool. Their coaching skills are very impor-tant to many students that need the extra-curricular activities that keep them focusedon educational goals and off the streets. Ifmore students participated in sports, per-haps our country wouldn’t have all the hugeproblems we currently face.While I agree that we do need to return

to basics in some aspects, in others we donot. We need to advance forward as a tech-nology driven nation. In order to do so, wemust provide students with the tools thatthey will use after completing school. Thiswill make themmoremarketable in the realworld. All academic areas have advancedwhen compared to fifty or so years ago. Thisrequires change in teachingmethodologies.As far as getting politics out of the school

system - this will probably never happen.Looking back in history, one will realize thatas education evolved the government begantaking control for many reasons rangingfrom taxation to Constitutional rights. I canforesee a federal education system in thefuture. Let’s get ready for that.Now, to the current issue - Governor Per-

due’s recent proposals. As for the Flexibil-ity for School Systems and the School BoardGovernance proposals - I can see whereboth of these programs would be beneficialto all concerned. As for the Merit Pay pro-posal - this proposal is inadequate. If Nation-al Board Certified Teachers program(according to the governor’s office) hasshowed no significant differences in theachievements of students how can theMas-ter Teacher’s Program? It requires aboutthe same amount of documentation tobecome aMaster Teacher as it does to be aNational Board Certified Teacher.

The criterion for Master Teacher does adda category for student success on the CRCT(or other test). However, even a teacher thathas proven success with CRCT test scoresmaybe deniedMaster Teacher. Inmy opinion,Mas-ter Teacher is nothing but a paperwork worktrail. Next, the proposed DistinguishedTeacher Leaders program - well what is that?I know several teachers that I would recom-mend to many people as a distinguishedteacher with leadership abilities. Now, as forthe Principal Incentive Pay proposal for highschool principals only - well what about allprincipals? And, why just principals? This isthe bottom on any proposal from the Gover-nor’s office: today’s economy is uncertain. Iwould not consider approving any programsuntil the economy was more stable.A few points: I seriously doubt that teach-

ers will ever see a 10 - 15 percent salaryincrease, the current pay scale does needto include more steps, the classroom sizesdo not need to change, and the school nurs-es need to stay.

As for the question “Is Georgia at the bot-tom of the totem pole?” I think not. Georgiais making significant achievement gains inpublic schools. I like to think positive.We havegood teachers that care and love our children.As for the proposals - just say no and voiceyour concerns to your elected officials.

Deborah SantiagoLaGrange

KathleenParker is acolumnistwith Wash-ingtonPost Writ-ers Group.

Ice still dangles from the trees,even as the sun gleams cheerfullythrough the windows. It’s a strangemixture of winter and summer.Schools are let out for the day, so itfeels like summer; but the iciclesdripping little raindrops tell us oth-erwise. It’s just a brief winterrespite.On the other side of this break

is the biggest game of my youngjunior varsity basketball team’syear. But make nomistake: This isno regular junior varsity. It’s a var-sity team in waiting, their dazzlingaccomplishments well under way ayear or two early. Here is theirstory.Three trophies sit in our office

at Red Oak High School, earnedat the hands of these 17 youngmen. They won championships atthree tournaments in December:Waxahachie, Mansfield Tim-

berview, and West Mequite.Through November and Decem-ber they remained unbeaten.Before you get to thinking I’m

bragging a little toomuch, I shouldsay that I’ve probably had lessimpact on this team than any teamI’ve ever coached, covering a quar-ter of a century. At times I just haveto get out of the way.One of the remarkable traits of

this team is that the ones whoseplaying time is scarce do a tremen-dous job of cheering from thebench and working hard in prac-

tice. They offer no complaints andcontribute in many valuable ways.They have the privilege of bring-ing in the cows at the end of almostevery cattle drive.But there’s more: All 17 come

in every day ready to work, andthey buckle their chinstraps withdetermination at the beginningof every game. I’ve had goodteams before, but I’ve never hadteams who needed less exhorta-tion than this one. I give themmore than they need, but theyhumor me nonetheless. That’sjust the way they are.We’ve faced two setbacks along

the way: One, we recently lost sev-eral kids to grades. We saw it com-ing and tried to cut off the bandit atthe pass, but he slipped through.Then, in our first game of dis-

trict, we let a win against arch-rivaland very athletic Lancaster slip

away. That was this team’s firstand only loss of the year. That wassix games ago, and now theseyoung men’s record stands at 20 -1. A rematch with the Tigers waitsjust over the wintry horizon.In fact, the rematch would have

been played this past Tuesdaynight, but the weather postponedthat game until Thursday.So I’m writing this column on

Wednesday afternoon, thinking ofthe game and surveying the icicleson the trees outside as I write. Mycolumn is due Thursday morning,so I must send it in before I knowthe score. But in a first-time-everjab-stepmove, I’ll send the columnin to the Daily News without thefinal line. On Friday morning I’llsend Ms. Lovejoy the score you’llfind at the end - the score, nothingmore. But that score will portraythe crowningmoment of one of the

best group of young men I’vecoached. I say crowning momentbecause they will leave everythingthey have on the floor, win or lose.That’s all you can ask.Good friends, the icicles have

melted, the final horn has sound-ed, and the final score is …Red Oak: 74 Lancaster: 53.

Readers may contact StevenBowen by email at Steven.bowen@redoakisd.org

“I’ve had good teamsbefore, but I’ve neverhad teams whoneeded less exhorta-tion than this one.

”

More to schoolthan ‘basics’

Broun planmakes sense

Yikes, Obama sounds like Bush

It’s big game time for my ‘varsity team in waiting’Steven Bowen,a LaGrangenative, nowlives andwrites nearDallas, Texas

“Obama and Busheach mistakenlyassumed that hiselection was anational man-date for his poli-cies, rather thana rejection ofalternatives.

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DEAR DR. GOTT: I readyour column everyday andenjoy it very much. Awhileago, you had a letter from awoman who was concernedabout the fact that her hus-band could hear a blood-flow noise in his right earbut not the left.Several years ago, I had a

bad cold and blew my nosequite hard and often. Follow-ing this, I developed a blood-flow noise in my left ear.Concerned it was some-

thing serious, I made anappointment with my ear-nose-and-throat specialist.After a thorough examina-tion, he told me that myEustachian tube had beenforced open, likely due tomyfrequent and hard noseblowing. I was told that itmay never close back up but

I could try deep-sea diving,which would put pressureon the tube and might closeit, or I could just learn to livewith it. (I used to be a deep-sea diver, so this suggestionwasn’t completely out-landish.)It has been 15 years since

the diagnosis and I still havethe problem. I have learnedto ignore it but know it isnothing serious. If I have acold, the sound gets a littlelouder.I know this is not always

the problem if someonedevelops blood flowing noisein one or both of their ears,but given the alternatives,this is a much better diag-nosis. I still urge everyone to

see their physicians becauseit is the only way to be sureof what is causing the noise.I hope this helps the

woman and her husbandand anyone else who mayhave the problem.DEARREADER: This was

not an option I had consid-ered. Thank you for writingto inform both my readersand I of this possibility. Keepup the good work.To give you related infor-

mation, I am sending you acopy of my Health Report“Ear Infections and Disor-ders.” Other readers whowould like a copy shouldsend a self-addressed,stamped No. 10 envelopeand $2 to Newsletter, POBox 167, Wickliffe, OH44092. Be sure to mentionthe title.

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Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.

19) — You’re an under-standing and generous indi-vidual, but you will need tobe careful that someonewithselfish motives doesn’t takeadvantage of these mar-velous attributes.PISCES (Feb. 20-March

20) — When it comes todealing with financial mat-ters, this might be one ofthose times when youshould trust your judgmentover those who try to coun-sel you.ARIES (March 21-April

19) — Those individualswho are singing off the samesong sheet as you will findyou a warm and considerateperson. Conversely, thosewho disagree with you willsee a totally different side.TAURUS (April 20-May

20)—Although you are like-ly to be lucky again in a fewareas, don’t take this as asign to do anything youwant. Your luck only goes sofar, and it will let you down ifyou go beyond its limits.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)— Important involvementswill work out as you hope,but only if you first showyou are willing to be coop-erative. Even the smallestamount of self-servingbehavior could change thepicture.CANCER (June 21-July

22) — Treat everyone withequal respect, regardless ofwho they are or how muchthey mean to you. If you’renice only to those who havesomething to offer, yourbehavior will betray you.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —

If you’re smart, you’ll keepall wagers out of the picturewhen participating in a sportor competitive involvementwith friends. Betting cannegatively alter the com-plexion of your relationship.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

— Financial conditions favoryou when it comes to jointendeavors, but only if youdisplay a level of unselfish-ness. If either party getsgreedy, the margin of profitwill be cut in half.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)— Should you have to dealwith someone you havenever forgiven for a pastinjustice, do yourself a favorand consider only the busi-ness at hand. If you don’t, agood thing could be lost.SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.

22) — Although Lady Luckmight back you up withregard to a particular mate-rial interest, don’t bank onher for all of your gambles,especially those that havenothing to do with money.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-

Dec. 21) — When out withfriends, forget about talkingshop with a pal you thinkcan help further your ambi-tions. Save it for anothertime, because you risk mak-ing the entire group feeluncomfortable.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-

Jan. 19)—Although the endresults might not work outperfectly, if you give vexingproblems room to breathe,certain things will turn outbetter than expected. Behopeful, not anxious.

(Answers Monday)GUIDE CRIME ELICIT BARIUMYesterday’s Jumbles:

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon.

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MARION, Ky. (AP) – Insomeparts of rural Kentucky,they’re gettingwater the old-fashioned way – with pailsfrom a creek. There’s notroom for one more sleepingbag on the shelter floor. Thecreative are flushing their toi-lets with melted snow.At least 42 people have

died, including 11 in Ken-tucky, and conditions areworsening in many placesdays after an ice storm leftabout a million customersstill in the dark from thePlains to the East Coast. Andwith no hope that the lightswill come back on soon,small communities are fran-tically struggling to helptheir residents.On Friday, one county put

it bluntly: It can’t.“We’re asking people to

pack a suitcase and headsouth and find a motel ifthey have the means,because we can’t serviceeverybody in our shelter,”said Crittenden CountyJudge-Executive FredBrown, who oversees about9,000 people, many of whomare sleeping in the town’selementary school.Local officials were grow-

ing angry with what theysaid was a lack of help fromthe state and the FederalEmergency ManagementAgency. In Grayson County,about 80 miles southwest ofLouisville, EmergencyMan-agement Director RandellSmith said the 25 NationalGuardsmen who haveresponded have no chainsaws to clear fallen trees.“We’ve got people out in

some areas we haven’t evenvisited yet,” Smith said. “Wedon’t even know that they’realive.”Smith said FEMA has

been a no-show so far.“I’m not saying we can’t

handle it; we’ll handle it,”Smith said. “But it wouldhave made life a lot easier”if FEMA had reached thecounty sooner, he said.FEMA spokeswoman

Mary Hudak said someFEMApersonnel already arein Kentucky working in thestate’s emergency operationscenter and that more will bearriving in coming days.Hudak said FEMA also hasshipped to 50 to 100 genera-tors to the state to supplyelectricity to facilities likehospitals, nursing homes andwater-treatment plants.She said travel is still dan-

gerous in some areas andcommunications are limited.“We have plenty of folks

ready togo,but therearesomelimitations with roads closedand icy conditions,” she said.From Missouri to Ohio,

thousands were bunkeddown in shelters, waiting forthe power to return. Othersare trying to tough out the

power outage at home, usingany means they can to getbasics like drinking water,heat and food.Lori Clarke was stuck at

homein thewesternKentuckytown of Marion with treesblocking the road out. Shetrudgedmore thanhalf amilethroughsnowand icecarrying5-gallonbuckets tobringdrink-ing water for her horses anddogs and to flushher toilet.“When you live out in the

country, you just shift intosurvival mode,” she said.Even for those who want-

ed to leave, it wasn’t possible.The one gas station in Mari-on that was up and runningwas able to supply gasolineto emergency vehicles onlyuntil another delivery ofgasoline arrived Friday. Onlyhalf of that gas was madeavailable to the public, andthere was a $10 limit.Linda Young, who is stay-

ing the town’s shelter, saidher car only had enough gasin it to get around Marion.Even if she had gas, therewas nowhere to go – all ofher relatives in other partsof Kentucky also were hit bythe ice storm.“For right now, this is the

best we can do, so this iswhere we’re at,” said Young,as she sat on amattress withher 9-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter.By midafternoon water

service had been restored tothe city of Marion thanks toa generator, while effortscontinued to restore serviceto the outlying county, PoliceChief Ray O’Neal said. Res-idents were being told to boilthe water before drinking it.Meanwhile, the death toll

was rising: Since the stormbegan Monday, the weatheris suspected in at least 11deaths in Kentucky, ninemore in Arkansas, six eachin Texas andMissouri, threein Virginia, two each inOkla-homa, Indiana andWest Vir-ginia and one in Ohio, withmost of them blamed onhypothermia, traffic acci-dents and carbon monoxidepoisoning from generators.Among the latest deaths

reported were those of aman in his 60s, a woman inher 50s and a woman in her40s who were found in asouthwestern Louisvillehome Friday. The youngerwoman was found in bed;the other two were found inthe garage, alongwith a gen-erator, police said.The fight to return power

to Kentucky and other areasaffected by the ice storm isdifficult because of the sheernumber of outages, but alsobecause of the ice itself.Crews have joined the effortfrom around the country, butmore than a half-millionhomes and businesses werestill out Friday in Kentucky,alongwith roughly 78,000 inMissouri and 284,000 inArkansas. Thousands morewere still in the dark inOhio,Tennessee andWest Virginia.

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University ofArkansas students LibbyWeiber, left, and Maddie Trueg toss a fallen treebranch Friday while volunteering to help Fayetteville, Ark., residents with cleanupafter classes on theArkansas campus were canceled due to an ice storm that dam-aged trees and knocked out services citywide.

Life after ice storm dire,getting worse in spots

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS,N.J. (AP) – A woman de-ceived and abandoned byher angry friends in thewoods of northern New Jer-sey on a frigid night bearsscars both physical and emo-tional from her ordeal, herlawyer said Friday.Three women who police

say were upset with the vic-tim over a car insuranceclaim are accused of tellingher they were taking her to aparty, only to dump her bythe side of the road in anunfamiliar area. The womanwas left wearing only adress, a thin jacket and oneshoe; the temperature out-side was 8 degrees.The 19-year-old woman

was outside for more thanan hour on the snow-linedroad before a passingmotorist took her to a hos-pital. She suffered frostbiteto her feet.She is too distraught to

publicly discuss the Jan. 16kidnapping and would be a“basket case” if she tried tobe interviewed about it bythe news media, said AlbertWunsch, an attorney basedin Englewood Cliffs, N.J.Police have not revealed hername, nor would her lawyer.“It’s just a very tragic thing

that’s eroded her sense oftrust; these were friends ofhers,” Wunsch said. “As ofnow, she still doesn’t haveany feeling in her toes, andthey’re still trying to do allkinds of therapies and injec-tions to improve that.”The alleged kidnapping

didn’t come to the attentionof police until the victimreported it Jan. 20.“It was definitely a con-

certed attempt to make sureshe was incommunicado,”Wunsch said. “Even if shehad had her cell phone, shecould not have told anyonewhere she was.”Maria Contreras-Luciano,

22, and Amber Crespo, 20,and Dyanne Velasquez, 21,face kidnapping, assault andconspiracy charges and arefree on $200,000 bail.Authorities have said the

suspects wanted revengeafter the victim sued Cre-spo’s auto insurance carrierfor undisclosed reasons.Crespo’s attorney has saidthat his client had no ideathat an attack was plannedand that she was not part ofany dispute.Lt. Frank Cannella said

the trio dragged the womanfrom their car by her hair ina wooded, sparsely traveledarea between the HudsonRiver town of Alpine andNew York’s Tallman Moun-tain State Park.Cannella said Friday that

two of the three suspects arecooperating with investiga-tors and have acknowledgedthey had no intention ofattending a party, but hewould not say who theywere. Attorneys for two ofthe three suspects did notreturn phone and e-mailmessages Friday, and attor-ney information for the thirdwas not available.Marvin Walden, attorney

for Crespo, said his clienthad no idea what she wasgetting into andwas not partof any conspiracy. He saidthe dispute was between oneof the other women and the19-year-old and was about aman, not an insurance claim.

Attorney: Teenleft in woodslosing trust

Man freed23 yearsafterwrongfulconvictionMILWAUKEE (AP) – A

man sentenced to life inprison for killing a womanin 1984 had his convictionoverturned andwas releasedFriday on a personal recog-nizance bond after spending23 years behind bars.Robert Lee Stinson, 44, of

Milwaukeewalked out of theNew Lisbon CorrectionalInstitution in street clothesand hugged his sister andmembers of the WisconsinInnocence Project. A judgevacated the sentence afterthe Project argued that bite-mark analysis and DNA evi-dence that didn’t match evi-dence from the crime scene,defense attorney Byron Lich-stein said.Stinson was convicted in

1985 of first-degree murderin the death of a 63-year-oldMilwaukee woman. Evi-dence suggested she hadbeen raped, and her bodyalso had eight different bitemarks, Lichstein said.Stinson still faces a charge

of first-degree homiciderelated to the woman’sdeath, Lichstein said. A sta-tus hearing is set for July 27,according to online courtrecords.At trial, two forensic odon-

tologists testified that Stin-son’s teeth were a match,even though Stinson wasapparently missing a toothin a place where the bitemarks indicated a tooth,Lichstein said.Milwaukee County District

Attorney John Chisholm saidina statementFriday thatStin-son’s conviction was notwrongful, and thathewascon-victed based on “state-of-the-art scientific evidence avail-able at the time of his trial.”“The question today is

whether there is newly dis-covered evidence in this caseto warrant a new trial, andwe agree that such evidenceexists,” Chisholm said. Thestatement did not specify theevidence.Milwaukee County Assis-

tant District Attorney Nor-man Gahn said he has sixmonths to decide whether toretry Stinson.Lichstein, who last spoke

to Stinson on Thursday, saidhis client was happy but inshock.“I don’t think it had com-

pletely sunk in,” Lichsteinsaid. “Personally, I feel a realsense of relief. It’s been along time coming for Mr.Stinson.”Stinson’s conviction was

based almost exclusively onevidence suggesting that bitemarks matched Stinson’steeth, Lichstein said. Thelawyer said he did not knowwhy special technology wasnecessary if the missingtooth could have indicatedthere was no match.“I wish I could tell you. I

wasn’t around back then,”he said.Steven Kohn, Stinson’s

trial attorney, said he didn’tremember the details of theprosecution but recalled thatthe two state experts haddiscussed the case at a con-ference for forensic odon-tologists, leaving themunable to serve as defensewitnesses. Kohn said he wasforced to rely on an expertwhose expertise was in den-tal records, not forensicodontology.DNA taken from saliva on

the victim’s sweater also didnot match Stinson.For a decade, attorneys

and even some forensicexperts have ridiculed thebite-mark identification assham science and glorifiedguesswork.

WASHINGTON (AP) –The nation’s cash registersstopped ringing and theeconomy reeled from thesilence.Battered by layoffs, debts

and dread of worse to come,shoppers clutched evertighter to their wallets in thefinal three months of 2008and thrust the economy intoits worst downhill slide in aquarter-century. Americanscut spending on everythingfrom cars to computers, andit’s only getting worse so farin the new year.All told, the economy stag-

gered backward at a 3.8 per-cent pace at the end of lastyear, the government saidFriday. And the tailspincould well accelerate in thecurrent quarter to a rate of5 percent or more as therecession churns into a sec-ond year and consumersand businesses buckle undera relentless crush of nega-tive forces.Spending cutbacks hit

everywhere last quarter.Shoppers chopped spendingon cars, furniture, appliances,clothes, food, transportationand more. Businessesdropped the ax on equipmentand computer software,homebuilding and commer-cial construction. And over-seas sales of U.S.-producedgoods and services tanked asforeign buyers grappledwiththeir own economic woes.It’s “a continuing disaster”

for the nation’s families,declared President Obama,making what has become anincreasingly urgent dailypitch for his $819 billionstimulus package to revivethe economy.No one thought he was

overstating.“It’s an economic hurri-

cane,” said RichardYamarone, economist atArgus Research.OnWall Street, stocks tum-

bled for a second straight

day. The Dow Jones indus-trial average slid 148 points.With fallout from the

housing, credit and financialcrises – the worst since the1930s – ricocheting throughthe economy, analysts pre-dict up to 3 million jobs willvanish this year – even ifCongress quickly approvesthe stimulus measure.Just this week, tens of

thousands of new layoffswere announced by compa-nies including Ford MotorCo., Eastman Kodak Co.,Black & Decker Corp., Boe-ing Co., Pfizer Inc., Cater-pillar Inc., Home Depot Inc.and Target Corp.“Everybody is trying to fig-

ure out how to survive,” saidBrian Bethune, economist atIHS Global Insight.The fourth quarter was by

far the weakest in 2008. Andthe 3.8 percent figure is like-ly to be revised even loweras the government gathersmore complete data. Theeconomy is expected toremain feeble this year andinto next year even if therecession ends in the fall, abest-case scenario.Friday’s report tallied

gross domestic product, thevalue of all goods and serv-ices produced within the

United States. It is consid-ered the broadest barome-ter of the country’s eco-nomic health.The initial fourth-quarter

result, released by the Com-merce Department, showedthe economy sinking at amuch faster clip in the Octo-ber-December period thanthe 0.5 percent declinelogged in the prior quarter.It marked the first back-to-back quarterly contractionssince 1991.A buildup in business

inventories, adding to eco-nomic activity in calculatingthe GDP, masked even deep-er weakness. If inventorieswere stripped out, the econ-omy would have contractedat a 5.1 percent pace in thefourth quarter. Businessescouldn’t cut production fastenough as customersstopped buying and gotstuck with excess invento-ries, economists explained.Consumers are cutting

back on spending as jobsdisappear andmajor invest-ments – homes, stocks,retirement accounts – dropin value. Businesses areretrenching, too, as profitsshrivel and demand wanesfrom customers in the Unit-ed States and overseas.

The list of discouragingfigures is a long one:

� Beaten-down con-sumers slashed spending ata 3.5 percent pace followinga 3.8 percent cutback in thethird quarter, the first back-to-back declines of morethan 3 percent since recordsbegan in 1947.

� Spending for big-ticketdurable goods, includingcars, appliances and furni-ture, plunged at a rate of22.4 percent, the most sinceearly 1987.

�The annualized cutbackin spending on nondurables,such as food and clothing,was 7.1 percent last quarter.The last time it was deeperwas at the end of 1950.Caution was clear every-

where.Americans’ savings rate

rose to 2.9 percent in thefourth quarter. That was upfrom 1.2 percent in the thirdquarter and matched therate in early 2002, when thecountry was still strugglingto recover from the 2001recession.Big cutbacks by home-

builders, reeling from thecollapsed housing market,and other companies alsofigured into the fourth-quar-ter weakness. Homebuilders

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WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) –How in the world does awomanwith six children geta fertility doctor to help herhave more – eight more?An ethical debate erupted

Friday after it was learnedthat the Southern Californiawoman who gave birth tooctuplets this week had sixchildren already.Large multiple births “are

presented on TV shows as a‘Brady Bunch’ moment.They’re not,” fumed ArthurCaplan, bioethics chairmanat the University of Pennsyl-vania. He noted the seriousand sometimes lethal com-plications and crushingmed-ical costs that often comewith high-multiple births.But Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg,

who has fertility clinics inLos Angeles, Las Vegas andNew York, countered: “Whoam I to say that six is thelimit? There are people wholike to have big families.”Kaiser Permanente an-

nounced the mega-deliveryMonday in Bellflower, withdelighted doctors sayingthey had initially expectedseven babies and were sur-prised when the cesareansection yielded an eighth.Multiple births this big are

considered impossible with-out fertility treatment, butthe doctors who deliveredthe babies would not saywhether the 33-year-oldwoman had used fertilitydrugs or had embryosimplanted in her womb.However, the children’s

grandmother, Angela Sule-man, said her daughter hadembryos implanted last year,and never intended to givebirth to eight, but “they allhappened to take.” Sulemansaid her daughter rejectedan offer from doctors toabort some of the embryos.More common among

younger women is the use of

fertility drugs that stimulateegg production; doctors aresupposed to monitor bud-ding eggs and stop the drugsif too many develop.Somemedical expertswere

disturbed to hear that thewoman was offered fertilitytreatment, and troubledby thepossibility that she was im-plantedwithsomanyembryos.Dr. David Adamson, for-

mer president of the Amer-ican Society of ReproductiveMedicine, said he was brac-ing for some backlashagainst his specialty.In 30 years of practice, “I

have never provided fertilitytreatment to a woman withsix children,” or ever heard ofa similar case, saidAdamson,director of Fertility Physiciansof Northern California.Women seeking fertility

treatment are routinelyasked to give a detailed his-tory of prior pregnanciesand births, and “it’s a veryrealistic question to askabout someone who has sixchildren: How does this fitinto the concept of requiringfertility treatment?” he said.The woman’s fertility doc-

tor has not been identified.The hospital has not releasedthemother’s name, citing herdesire for privacy. Therewasno immediate information onwhether she is married orwho the father of the babiesis. Her six other childrenrange in age from 2 to 7.Records show that she

held a psychiatric techni-cian’s license from 1997 to2002. It was unclear whethershe is now employed.It was only the second time

in U.S. history that eightbabies survived more than afew hours after birth. The sixboys and two girls were saidto be in remarkably goodcondition but were expectedto remain in the hospital forseveral more weeks.

Mom’s use offertility drugssparks debate

Economy’splunge isworst in25 years

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Rusted job-search magazine racks sit emptied in downtown Los Angeles on Friday.The economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing ina quarter-century, as the deepening recession forced consumers and businesses tothrottle back spending.

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Hollis Hand Elementary School's academic team finished second at the first aca-demic team meet at Berta Weathersbee School. Team members who participatedwere Emily Flowers, Ellie Doerr, Brandon Moncus, Luke Elder, Sam Bowie, ChampWillis, Jacob Vinson and Whit Moreman. Other team members include AlexanderClark, Lorretta Chappell, Jon Thomas Fagundes and Brandon Dunson. The coach-es are Emily Pitts and Alison Vinson.

Kindergarten students at Hogansville Elementary School are learning 220 sightwords. Four students can fluently read all 220 words and were inducted into the 220Word Club. They are Meredith Baswell, Houston Gaddy, Chloe Kraft and C. J. Prophitt.Kindergarten parapro Ruth Collier embroidered hats for the top students to wear.

�� Hogansville Elementary School

The kindergarten classes at Hogansville Elementary recently participated in a spe-cial learning event known as ‘Fairy Tale Friday.’ Teachers Andrea Pollard, Kim Hol-stun, Debra Dokken and Diane Guy dressed as the characters from the fairy tale,‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ As a special treat, they performed the story for their stu-dents and slipped in some instruction on the characteristics of fairy tales. Studentswere given a sight word to write on their crowns, while some practiced reading sightwords. ‘Grandma,’ Andrea Pollard, is flanked by Princess Over, Brooke Haney, left,and Princess Five, Madison Childs.

�� Writer’s CornerHere are some writing submissions from fifth-grade students at Franklin Forest Ele-

mentary School.

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Robotics students from Long Cane and Gardner Newman middle schools recentlyattended the first Lego League Qualifier at Clayton State University. From left, are,front, Duncan Lord, Trae Laster and Darius Jackson; second row: Keller Porter, BricePrather, Savannah Sosa, Madison Wreyford, Austin Savage, Travis Hairston, MatthewSchoonover, David Curry, Tyler Davis, Thomas Trainer and Toby Brewster; third row,Joe Fuller, Anna Taylor, Denim Grezik, Josh Berry, Patrick Colley, James Hutton,Nathan Lightholder, Lane Knowles, Russ Brown, Graham Kittrell and Parker Dav-enport. Sponsors are Pamela Murphy and Larry Ninas of Long Cane and Julia Porter,of Gardner Newman. Gardner Newman students will proceed to the super qualifierin Dalton.

�� Gardner Newman Middle School

Students in Janice Ussery's ELA classes at Gardner Newman Middle School madeValentine cards to send to children in group homes in the Atlanta area. Displaying theircreations are, frfont, kneeling, Griffin Bartley, Nathan Patton, Qua Tucker and P.T.Alford; second row, Morgan Skinner, Jessie Cox, Caleb Fetner, Jonathan Pelhamand Ally Wood; back, Auyonna Kennedy, Kyndall Banks, Bailey Allen and ChrisMabe;

�� Whitesville Road Elementary SchoolThe Whitesville Road Ele-mentary academic teamplaced third at its first meetfor the school year atMoreland ElementarySchool on Jan. 15. Fromleft are, front, Cathy Estes,Dane Knopp, ChaseCombs and Davis Dodelin;second row: Clayton Gyen-ing, Zach Alder, KelseyLuke and Janis Graham;third row, Brianna Neese,T.J. Steele, JabariMcCamey and Alex Little.

Catherine GurleyFifth Grade

Teacher: Betty Scott

Snow DayI woke up today and

looked outside.I knew it was a day my

sled I would ride.Everything was covered in

a blanket of snow.I got my gloves and boots

and ran to the door.I almost forgot the sled I

would ride,So I ran back and got my

sled.Out the door I flew.I got on my sled and with

the powder in my face I glid-ed.

No school today. “Yeah!” Iyelled.

� � �

Tijuana BrooksFifth Grade

Teacher: Jorine Silcox

LoveThere is a special type of

feeling, and its love.It is a feeling that you can

never get rid of.Once you get love, your

heart starts to pump; Love will never leave your

heart with a bump.You can love a person or a

thing,It’s like a love song that

you want to sing.Love can be in you and

love may not.If you really want love,

you can obtain a lot.Love is a good thing that

you need to start, and trustme,

It will be there in yourheart.

� � �

Ortencia CastilloFifth Grade

Teacher: Peter Doig

The Fish that Flippity Flops

Zip zopFlippity flop.A fish in aZiplock.Flopping aroundMaking no-sound.But when I lookAround the fishDoes a big FlipptyFlop!

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CJ HarmanFifth Grade

Teacher: Jorine Silcox

My Daily RoutineEvery morning as I wakeMom and Dad are saying,

“Let’s get going for goodnesssake!”

Brush my teeth and get ashower;

I’m off to school in lessthan an hour.

Mrs. Silcox is waiting atthe door.

She is prepared to tell uswhat the day has in store:

Math, English, and Dis-

covery, too,Personally, I’m ready for

lunch to get some food.Before you know it the

school day is over.Now I’m on the bus trying

to get a friend to come over.I love to play, but there is

always homework to do. I must do my homework,

or my privileges will be few.Before you know it bed-

time is here;Lights out, Jesus loves me,

and I go to sleep knowingtomorrow is near.

And, the routine will keepreturning until summertimeis here.

� � �

Katie BryantFifth Grade

Teacher: Peter Doig

My DogMy dog is cute.My dog is funny.She bites at airAnd is sometimes scared.She hides during stormsAnd barks at leaves.But best of all,She’s mine.

� � �

Savannah EdmondsFifth Grade

Teacher: Betty Scott

ButterfliesButterflies in my stomach.Butterflies in the air.Butterflies everywhere.

� � �

From staff reports

It was a good effort, butthe LaGrange Academyboys' basketball team fell toan exceptional team.Arlington Christian,

ranked as the No. 2 GISAClass AA team in the state,defeated theWarriors 57-46,although LaGrange Acade-my never gave up.A four-point halftime

deficit only grew larger fortheWarriors (13-7, 6-5 GISARegion 4-AA), but headcoach Matt Dalrymple wasproud of the way his teamkept fighting.Arlington’s lead was cut to

seven twice in the fourthquarter, but that was theclosest LaGrange Academywould get.“I told (the team) we got

beat by a more talentedteam,” Dalrymple said. “Theeffort was there, which was

all I was looking for.”In the girls’ game,

LaGrange Academy fellshort 65-51, although thatwas a marked improvementfrom a 68-32 loss to Arling-

ton Jan. 13.In the boys’ game, Jordan

Ring led the Warriors with24 points, followed by

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� LaGrange Academy basketball

� High school basketball: Troup vs. Carver

Taking on the bestPowerfulArlingtontoo strong

Troup gets secondstraight victory

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LaGrange Academy’s Jordan Ring gets a shot over Arlington’s defenders during thesecond half of Friday’s game. Arlington won 57-46.

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Troup freshman Eric Bridges turns up the defensive pressure during the third quarter of Friday’s win over Carver.

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Tersheor Tigner scored 23points to help Callawaybeat Valley Friday night.

LaGrange Academy’s Khadija Neely catches aninbounds pass during the first half against Arlington.

Troup’s Shamiya Brooks fights for control of the ball during the first half of Saturday’sloss to Carver.

By Ross JohnsonSports Writer

Friday was opposite night for the basketball teams ofTroup High.The boys, who lost to Carver Jan. 10, pulled out a 52-46

win over its Region 2-AAA rivals. The Lady Tigers, whodefeated Carver in their last meeting, weren't able tocomplete a last-minute rally in a 76-74 loss.The boys (7-12, 3-6) gave away a seven-point leadmid-

way through the third quarter to head into the fourthdown by three. It looked as if the Tigers were headed inthe direction they have been going all season – a closegame, but short on the scoreboard.This go-around, however, seniorMarcusWilliamsmade

several key free throws as Troup was able to hold offCarver (7-10, 4-4) and pick up its second consecutiveregion victory.“I definitely think the free throws were the difference,”

said Troup head coach Thermond Billingslea. “It’s a longseason and if we keep going we can still win somegames.”Williams finished with 19 points and was 11-of-13 from

the foul line. Eric Bridges was next with 15 points, fol-lowed by Kelvin Lyles with eight.Billingslea said Tuesday's victory over Columbus was

From staff reports

Tersheor Tigner was get-ting it done on defense, andshe was finishing on theother end to help the Call-away Lady Cavaliers upendValley (Ala.) 58-31 on Friday.Tigner, a senior guard for

the Lady Cavs, scored agame-high 23 points.“She did it off of steals and

layups,” Callaway headcoach Albert Gilliam said.“She had a real super night.”Brenique Cameron added

12 points for the Lady Cavs,who improved to 11-7 head-ing into today’s Region 5-AAshowdown with MaconCounty.Macon County brings a

10-1 region record into thegame, while Callaway is 6-4in region play.In the boys’ game, Call-

away (12-6) outlasted Valley66-62.The Cavs were up 45-42

heading into the final peri-od, and they kept that leadthe rest of the way, althoughValley didn’t give up.Quantavius Leslie paced

the Cavs with 22 pointswhile David Rutledge andQuan Bray added 16 and 13points, respectively.The Cavs trailed 12-11

after the first quarter, butthey rallied to take a 31-25lead at the half.Valley outscored Callaway

17-14 in the third period toget within three.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – KenWhisenhunt believes inpaying attention to detail,whether it’s in his smoothgolf swing or in his metic-ulous transformation of anawful NFL franchise.Honing in on those “little

things” and staying consis-tent with everything andeverybody were majortools inWhisenhunt’s exor-cism of bad football in thedesert.Oh, and one more thing.“He’s a tough guy,” safe-

ty Adrian Wilson said.That combination fueled

his nine-year journeymancareer as a tight end withAtlanta, Washington andthe New York Jets. Itserved him well in his risethrough the coachingranks, first with Vanderbilt,then to Baltimore, Cleve-land, the Jets and finally asoffensive coordinator ofSuper Bowl champ Pitts-burgh three years ago.His degree in civil engi-

neering fromGeorgia Techtaught him problem solv-ing, and he’s applied thatknowledge to football.“Even though there’s not

a lot of mathematical equa-tions in football,” Whisen-hunt said Friday in his lastnews conference beforeSunday’s Super Bowl,“there are a lot of problemsthat you are going to haveto solve.”As a player and an assis-

tant coach he took copiousnotes, jotting down thephilosophies and ideas ofthe likes of Joe Gibbs, Dan

Henning, and probablymost of all, Bill Cowher.“I told coach Cowher that

I have notebooks with littletabs in there fromwhen hespoke before the champi-onship game, when hespoke before the SuperBowl, when he spoke atmini-camp meeting, all ofthose things,” Whisenhuntsaid. “I’d go back and lookat those things and getideas of where he was andwhat he was thinkingabout.”Now Whisenhunt has

performed the amazingfeat of leading the Cardi-nals to a Super Bowlmatchup Sunday againstthe Steelers, the team thatpassed him over asCowher’s replacement twoyears ago.Instead, Whisenhunt

moved his wife and two

teenage children to the Ari-zona sunshine, where hehad been assured that thiswas a new, modernizedCardinal organization,playing in a fancy new sta-dium with an already tal-ented roster.“I didn’t look at it as far

as history goes because Ididn’t think it really hadanything to do with whatwe were trying to getdone,” he said.He set about bringing a

bit of Pittsburgh to theSouthwest.Working for the Steelers,

he said, “gave me an ideaof what it took to be suc-cessful.”“I believe we brought a

lot of that with us from thestandpoint of how we pre-pare, how we practice,what we expect of our play-ers," Whisenhunt said.

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Dick LeBeau is the architect of Pittsburgh’s always dominant defense.

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KenWhisenhunt has led theArizona Cardinals to anunlikely spot in the Super Bowl.

AMPA, Fla. (AP) – He is a master of dis-guise, so perhaps it’s not surprising thatSteelers defensive coordinator DickLeBeau once was actor Michael Caine’sdouble in a movie.LeBeau’s Steelers often go out of char-

acter, too – showing one look but doingsomething unconventional after the snap.One of the intriguinggames-within -a-game during theSuper Bowl on Sun-day will be LeBeau’smaneuvering againstCardinals coach KenWhisenhunt, the for-mer Steelers offen-sive coordinator andone of LeBeau’s bestfriends.Then again,

almost anybody LeBeau works withbecomes his friend, and a good one.LeBeau is the NFL’s oldest assistant coachat 71, yet his players rave about his father-ly presence, calm demeanor, steadyinghand and non-confrontational style.Is there another NFL assistant whose

players call him Dad? Or who developeda defensive scheme because Bobby Knight,his formerOhio State classmate, influencedhimwith his pressure tactics in basketball?“I think he is the best football coach I’ve

ever been around,” safety Ryan Clark said.“Just as a person and for the liveliness hebrings to work every morning. The firstthing he says is, `It’s great to be alive.’ Fora man to be 71 and that lively, doing push-ups on the field and talking about howgood he is at golf, it’s just awesome.”In a fortunate coincidence for them, the

Steelers reached the Super Bowl inLeBeau’s 50th NFL season—16 as a starcornerback, 34 as a head and assistantcoach. Being center stage in Tampa allowsthem to lobby for the Hall of Fame induc-tion of the former star cornerback and the

inventor of the zone blitz defense.His players already feel as though

they’ve won in Tampa: LeBeau told themhe plans to return next season, scuttlingrumors he was weighing retirement if theSteelers win a second Super Bowl in fourseasons.“I could barely walk before he came

here,” All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu said.“He has everything to do with the successof everybody on this team. He does a greatjob of putting the right guys in the rightsituations to be successful.”LeBeau gets along so well with his play-

ers that the decision to return next seasonwas easy. He was chosen by NFL coach-es, players and executives as The Sport-ing News coordinator of the year.“They keep me young, there’s no ques-

tion about it,” LeBeau said. “As long as myhealth holds up and people want me towork, I think I’d be pretty foolish to leavethese guys.”The Super Bowl winner may be deter-

mined by how effectively LeBeau’s league-leading defense controls Cardinals quar-terback Kurt Warner and playmakingreceivers Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldinand Steve Breaston. The offense is muchlike the one Whisenhunt, and top assis-tant Russ Grimm, once ran in Pittsburghduring practices against LeBeau’s defense.“I know we’re going to see some things

that coach Whisenhunt’s done before,we’re going to see some things he hasn’tdone,” LeBeau said. “I know he’ll havesome surprises. The thing that makes himso formidable are the people they havedoing them.”Conversely, Arizona must go against

what may be the best Steelers defensesince the Steel Curtain of the ’70s. Thedefensive linemen drop into pass cover-age, Polamalu seems to cover an acre onevery play, cornerback Ike Taylor is atough matchup for any receiver and out-side linebacker James Harrison is thedefensive player of the year.“He inspires everybody on that defense.

He’s such a football mastermind for com-ing up with schemes and plays to stop theopposing offense,” defensive end AaronSmith said.

Veteran coachgoing strong

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New coaches forUGA,Alabama

LeBeau

ATLANTA (AP) – JoeJohnson scored 29 points,leading the way as theAtlanta Hawks won the bat-tle of high-scoring back-courts and beat the New Jer-sey Nets 105-88 on Fridaynight.Johnson's backcourt-mate

Mike Bibby added 20 pointsas the Hawks won for thefirst time in four tries againstthe Nets this season.Johnson finished one

point shy of reaching 10,000for his career.New Jersey's Devin Harris

and Vince Carter form thetop-scoring backcourt in theleague with their combinedaverage of 43.1 points, aboutsix points better than the

third-place Hawks' combo.But Harris (20 points) andCarter (18) combined tomake only 11 of 31 shotsagainst Atlanta.They had averaged about

54 points per game in NewJersey's three wins overAtlanta. New Jersey has losteight of nine, including threestraight.Hawks backup guard Flip

Murray had 23 points andMarvin Williams added 16with 11 rebounds.The Hawks pulled away in

the second half after leadingonly 55-53 at halftime. Bibbydidn't score in the first quar-ter but was 4-for-4 from thefield for 11 points in the sec-ond period.

a huge factor in the team’sconfidence, especially downthe stretch.“The last game against

Columbus we kept hangingin there,” Billingslea said. “Itshowed them that if we canmake free throws and takecare of the ball, we can winsome games.”The girls made a game of

it, but Carver ultimatelyhanded the Lady Tigers theirthird straight region loss.The Lady Tigers (11-8, 4-5)

came all the way back froma fourth-quarter double-digitdeficit to tie the game at 68with 1:30 remaining.Carver’s Keihanna Dunn

andMiesha Turpin reeled offtwo straight 3-pointers afterthe tie to put the game out ofreach for Troup, however.Lady Tigers head coach

Caroline Sellers wasn’thappy with another loss, butwas encouraged with herteam’s ability to climb backinto the game.“I’m proud of their effort.

They played a lot harderthan the last couple ofgames,” Sellers said. “Eventhough we lost by twopoints, a lot was gained fromthis game.”Ashley Thornton led

Troup with 14 points, fol-lowed by Tanisha Jacksonwith 12, Pascale West with11 and Josi Saunders withnine.The play of Carver’s

Takethia Moore came as asurprise to Troup, whichhadn’t seen her in the lastmatch up. Moore finishedwith 11 points.“We haven’t seen her

before,” Sellers said. “Sheplayed really well.”The loss comes at a good

Heath with 10.It was Ring's best per-

formance of the season,according to Dalrymple.“When you’re six-foot-five

and hit four 3-pointers, that'sa pretty good job,” Dalrym-ple said.Arlington's AdamMcLeod

was the star of the game,however, with 31 total points.“We couldn’t shut

(McLeod) down,” Dalrymplesaid. “We were able to shutpretty much everyone elsedown, though.”In Friday’s girls’ game, the

LadyWarriors hung in therenicely with the state’s top-ranked team.Academy head coach

Rorie Bradley liked the wayhis team competed with anArlington team that has yetto lose.“We played with the No. 1

in the state,” Bradley said.“We found out we can playwith anybody. I’m superproud of them.”Marina Wilkerson led the

Lady Warriors with 19points, and Dagny Langfordscored 15.Bradley’s main complaint

with Friday’s gamewas withhis team’s inability to makefree throws.“The biggest thing that will

bother me is missed freethrows,” Bradley said. “Wemissed 13, andwe lost by 14.And we missed some easylayups.”“The free throws are

killers. Make half of those,and it’s a ballgame.”LaGrange Academy will

host The Heritage School onTuesday.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)– Oh, the distractions. Play-ing a Southeastern Confer-ence game two days aftertheir head coach was firedwill hardly be a picnic for theGeorgia Bulldogs.Alabama wouldn’t know

about that.The Crimson Tide has the

luxury of three extra daysand one sandwich game toadjust to life after Mark Got-tfried, who stepped downafter a decade-long reignearly in the week.The two beleaguered

teams fittingly cap a roughweek together Saturdaynight, trying to work outtheir frustrations on theone opponent that can bestempathize with theirplight.“I know everyone’s going

to think of this as the interimgame, and that’s too bad,”said Pete Herrmann, theBulldogs’ temporary coach.“These are two proudschools with great traditionsin athletics and in basket-ball.”Georgia fired coach Den-

nis Felton on Thursday, theday after a 26-point loss toFlorida pushed the Bulldogs(9-11) to 0-5 in the South-eastern Conference. Theyhave lost seven straightgames.Gottfried agreed to step

down onMonday, and long-time assistant Philip Pearsonled the Tide (12-8, 2-4)through an 89-80 loss atArkansas, the Tide's 15thconsecutive SEC roaddefeat. It was his first gameas a head coach.

“I was a little bit anxiousand high,” Pearson said ofhis debut. “Once it got going,the game was a lot of fun. Iwish the outcome had beena little different.”This time, Pearson and his

players will have the com-fort and support of a homecrowd.The Tide was predicted to

win the Western Division,but has so far merely cap-tured the race to get a headstart in the coaching search.The Bulldogs couldn't capi-talize on the momentumfrom winning last season'sSEC tournament.Now, the two teams meet

with hopes of salvaging theirseasons.“That’s kind of ironic,

they're going through thesame situation we are,”Georgia guard Zac Swanseysaid. “Both teams are goingthrough some tough timesright now. It’s just going tocome down to who wants itmore. Both teams have a lotgoing on with programs andare without the coaches theystarted the season with.We’re going to see who willcome out and fight andscratch and claw and try tocome out with a win.”Added Tide forward Alon-

zo Gee: “We’re both goingthrough the same thing andwe both want to win. Weunderstand each other’spain.”In Pearson's debut, fresh-

man center JaMychal Greenhad a career-high 24 points.Demetrius Jemison played15 minutes after failing toget into the Kentucky game.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)– Phil Mickelson tied for121st.NickWatney was all alone

at the top of the crowdedleaderboard.While local favorite Mick-

elson missed the projectedcut by seven strokes,Watneyshot an 8-under 63 to Fridayto take the second-roundlead in the FBR Open. Playwas called due to darknesswith three players, all abovethe cut line, still on thecourse.At 9 under through two

rounds, Watney had a one-stroke lead over CharleyHoffman (68), MattKuchar (67) and first-round co-leader James Nit-ties (69).

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2002 PALIMNOPOP UP CAMPERWith roof air

$3950706-643-4999

Campers / RVs &Trailers

WEST POINT LAKE2001 SUMMERSETHOUSE BOAT

16 feet X 70 feet widebody, immaculate con-dition, four bedrooms,two baths, twin mer-crusiers, 12 1/2 kwgenerator with drystack exhaust, 2500watt invertor, wa-terslide, $179,900.678-462-7468

2007 23 FootClearwater WalkAround CuddieTwin Yamaha115 Four Stroke

60 hours. Ray Marine,Electronic.

Great Offshoreor Bay Boat706-845-6578

1997 Nitro700 LX120 Horse Power$4500706-594-0905

Boats /Accessories

2003 Four WheelerElectric shift, like newless than 50 hours.

$2250.00706-845-1670

2007 HONDAFOREMAN 4WDVery low miles$4500.00

706-773-2555

1998 HondaFour Trax 90CCFour Wheeler

In excellent condition.$1300.00

706-594-4671706-594-4670

ATVs

1000 RecreationalVehicles

INSIDE MOVINGSALE

304 SPRINGDALEDRIVE

Friday and Saturday.7 a.m. until.Rain or Shine.

PSP2 Games, ElvisStuff, DVDs, Furniture,

Dishes, Tools

COME CHECK OUTTHE HABITAT FOR

HUMANITYRESTORE

333 Main StreetThursday and Friday9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Saturday9 a.m. until Noon

Three Radio IndustrialSaws - $250 each.One Industrial Table

Saw $250.Call 706-416-6332 formore information

MOVING SALESaturday 8am- until121 Bonaventure

DriveJVC 48" T.V $1200

Yard Sale

Yard Sale

LOOKING FORUSED DOCK

And or Dock Parts706-845-1808

Want to Buy

DUNCAN FIFETABLE -TWO LEAFSFive chairs, greatshape. $400. After7 p.m. 706-302-5144

EXECUTIVE STYLE"U" SHAPED DESK36”x72” Bow–frontdesk with side returnand two drawer lateralfile Credenza. $900.Must see to appreciate

Call Ron @706-302-1254

Furniture

Fire Wood$60 and UpAlso Kindling706-884-5552706-333-6058

Fuel/ Oil/ Coal/Wood/ Gas

2007 Cub Cadetlawn mower.

60" deck, 23 HPKohler motor, onlyeight hours, LIKE NEW!$3900. 706-302-6124.

Equipment /Supplies

900 Merchandise

HAY FOR SALEHAY MAN

"Horse Quality Hay"James White706-643-7270

Cell 706-302-2362Jerry White706-883-8558

Hay / Feed / Seed/ Grain

700 Agriculture

SHIH-TZU PUPPIESHouse Trained

Two Males $650 each334-338-0747

Full BloodedGolden Retriever

PuppiesBorn 12/07/08. Par-ents on site. $225.706-604-5113

ADULT BASSETHOUND ANDPUPPIES

706-881-0190

Pets

Pets

600 Animals

TREE TOPTREE SERVICELicensed, insured,locally owned andoperated.884-1819

DIVERSIFIEDTREES, INC.

ISA certified arboristlicensed/insured706-663-0300

EVERGREENTREE SERVICE706-882-9790

DO YOU NEEDResponsible person

to help withtransportation,

errands, appointments,any other assistance.Good references.P.O. Box 800383

Other Services

LAWNMAINTENANCEAND PRESSURE

WASHINGNO CONTRACTSLICENSED ANDINSURED FREEESTIMATES OVER

10 YEARSEXPERIENCE706-402-0565

Lawn Service

ADAMS HOMEREPAIR

painting, carpentryroofs, plumbing,gutters and

pressure washing706-302-7544

R and CConstruction

siding, roofs, windows706-333-5923

BORN AGAINHOUSEPAINTING

Professional PaintersTop Quality work

Also Free Estimates706-957-0828706-663-2672

HomeImprovements

300 Services

THINKING OF buyinga home? Check theclassifieds.

THINKING OF buyinga home? Check theclassifieds.

THINKING OF sellingyour home? Sell it witha classified ad. Call884-7314.

LOOKING FOR a job?Looking for employ-ees? Classifieds canbring you together. Call884-7314 to place yourad.

Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 - 13LaGrange Daily News

ARE OLD musical in-struments or sportsequipment clutteringthe closet? Sell them inthe classifieds. Call884-7314 to place yourad.

14 - Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 LaGrange Daily News

Video

PreserveYour

MemoriesYour old 8mm film35mm slides; oldVHS tapes; photos;weddings, travel,birthdays, specialoccasions all pre-served on DVD.Old records(L.P. 33, 45)

AudioCassettes - NowPreserved on CD

Call Tram at(706) 882-3783or (706) 882-1336videoman2004@gmail.com

Veterinary

ALANCOOK’S

APPLIANCE

Commercial,Residential

Appliance Repair

Alan Cook706-333-9944LaGrange, Ga.

Most majorcredit cardsaccepted

Appliance RepairFRANKLIN ROADANIMAL CLINICGale Shelnutt, DVM1462 New FranklinRoad, LaGrange

(1.5 miles north of Wal-Mart)706-882-0054

NEUTER / SPAYMale/Female

Cat $36/$46*DOG $$56 to $86

*Price based on weight

Walk-InsWelcome

Mon., Tues., Wed.,Fri. 2pm - 5pm

Call Ahead for Surgery

Boarding$12 Dog $10 Cat

Call The Experts Ad is published 30 consecutive days in The LaGrange Daily News, plus 4 weeks in The LaGrange Shopper and 30consecutive days on our website www.lagrangnews.com.

WILKIEHOME

IMPROVEMENTS• GeneralCarpentry• HomeRepairs• Roofing-New andRepairsFive-YearWarranty

706-883-7906706-333-4611

BareMetals56 Jarrell Road

(The Old Mead Plant)Greenville, GA 30222

706-672-9818• Now buying at their

new facility in Greenville.• Paying the same com-

petitive prices as theGriffin plant.

• Buying all types ofscrap metal, copper, brass

aluminum, tin & Steel.• Furnishing

containers or trailers forany industrial accounts.Please give us a call.

We Look forward to doingbusiness with all the

good people ofMeriwether and Troup

County.

LaGrange RareCoins &Jewelry

129 Bull Street(across from

Charlie Joseph’s)

See us beforeselling your

gold or silver

WE BUY:*gold & silver coins*scrap gold*any size coincollection

706-883-6779

D-TechDetection

Technologies, LLC

Serving you with:• Security Systems• Surveillance Systems• Phone System• Access Control• Network Cabling• Sound SystemsLicensed/Insured

Ala & Ga- Residential -- Commercial -- Industrial -Jeb Brantley706-884-6339

Painting

at its

Finest

GZCInc.

Home andOffice

Perhaps youthought youcouldn’t affordthe best –but now you

can –Call me

GERALD -706-402-8102

LaFayetteParkwayMini Storage

1385 LaFayette Parkway

706-884-0005Must Bring Ad for Discount

• All size units• Attendant on duty• Ask about 1/2

off Special

Landscaping

OPENM-F 9-5Sat. 9-2

Bring Adfor 10%Discount

TIME TO PLANT!TIME TO PLANT!

Grow 1/2 Dollar SizeMuscadines & Blackberries

Over 200 Varieties of Fruit & Nut Treesand Berry Plants

Pecans, Pomegranates & Persimmon Treesalso available.

ISON’S Nursery & Vineyard - Since 19346855 Newnan Hwy. (GA16) Brooks

770-599-6970www.isons.com

Put your service hereand reach 30,000homes with the

LaGrange Daily Newsand

The ShopperRegular

$846.60 adnow only$214.88monthly!

706-884-7311 •M-F 8-5

A Professional Business and A Service Marketplace.

To advertise, call Carla & Sheila at 706-884-7311.

EXPERTSCALL THE

Ropak Packaging is the largest producer of rigid, plastic shipping con-tainers in NorthAmerica. We service a variety of industries includingconsumer products, food processing, construction, dairy, petroleum,fishing and UN regulated products. We offer our customers innova-tive products with exceptional customer service. And we have a needfor the following positions.

Maintenance Technician

QualificationsMust have a minimum of 3 years in a manufacturing environment.Must have working knowledge of AC/DC drives.Must have experience in injection molding machine Maintenance.Must have electrical background.Must have a basic knowledge of Fluid power and electrical controls

Specific Responsibilities:Perform preventive maint. On assigned equipmentPerform periodic inspections of assigned equipmentRepair machine breakdownsMaintain aux. Equipment as assigned

This is a second shift position. No phone calls please.

Please apply by fax or Email at:Fax number 706-884-4302Email david_whaley@ropakcorp.comOr mail to

Ropak1603 Orchard Hill RoadLaGrange GA 30240

If you truly believethe customer

always comes firstand want to bewith the fastestgrowing furnitureretailer in Americaand think aboutmaking retail salesa career and makean excellent salarywe should talk.

Bring your resumeto Ashley FurnitureHome Store on

Lafayette Parkway,LaGrange

New ApartmentHomes

Now Leasing!!The

VerandasApartments at The Venue

• 1, 2 & 3 large bedrooms• Washer & dryer H/U• 24 hr. ER maintenance• Quiet, family friendly• Walk to Valley CommunityCenter & Sportsplex

• 10 minutes to Kia

Stop Looking... Start Living.

Welcome Home!Call Today

334-756-6000

A Choice Location!

Crest ClubApartments at The Venue

• 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms• Screened porches• Modern kitchens• Spacious closets• Fireplaces available• Playground• Next to Valley Comm.Center & Sportsplex

•7 minutes to Kia

Call Today334-756-8400

The Valleyʼs MostElegant Apartment

HomesThe

VistasApartments at The Venue

• 2 & 3 spacious bedrooms• Walk-in closets• Washer & dryer include• Garages & storage

units available• Granite countertops• Luxury appliance pkgs.• Next to Valley Community

Center & Sportsplex• 7 minutes to Kia

Call Today334-756-6000

For Merchandise $101 to $500Runs 7 days in the LaGrange Daily News and

4 times in LaGrange Shopper

$14.99 for 4 lines$1 each additional line

Price must be included

**Not allowed with this special:Cars, Trucks, SUV’s, Motorcycles or Commercial

Trucks

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Pathways seekingRNs and LPNsat new MeriwetherC&A Program inGreenville.

Fax applications orrésumés to706-845-4367or email to

hr@pathwayscsb.org.Must state:RN/LPN CSUon cover pageor letter.

Applications may bedownloaded at

www.pathwayscsb.org.Open until filled.

Pathways conductscriminal background

checks,drug screening,and licensure

verification. EOE

Heritage Healthcareof Greenville

is currently accepting ap-plications for an RN su-pervisor, 3-11 LPN's,newgraduates welcome and3-11 CNA's newly certi-fied also welcome. Weoffer many benefitsPlease apply in person.706-672-4241

Medical

CNAS, MED TECHS,LPNS, MA or

PHLEBOTOMISTNEEDED

to do insurance examsin the LaGrange -Newnan area. Musthave computer.

Fax to 770-754-1097Att: Patti. or email to

patti.lindsey@examoneatlanta.com

Medical

AUTOMOTIVETECHS NEEDED

Must be experienced.Must have tools,Valid driver licenseand transportation.Monday-Friday

References RequiredSerious inquires only

706-905-1050

Mechanics

EXPERIENCEDPRODUCT

DEVELOPMENTENGINEER

Textile ManufacturingCompany in UnionCity, Georgia seeksexperienced ProductDevelopment Engineerto develop new prod-ucts and provide

technical expertise formarketing efforts.

BS Degree Textile orChemical Engineering

and five yearsexperience. Expertisewith aramid fibers is

preferred.Interested applicants

should emailresumes to

Jean Harris, V.P ofHuman Resources atjean.harris@tencate.

com.No phone calls

please.

Help Wanted -General

DRIVERSNEEDED

Local U.S Mail RouteClass A CDL. Five

years plus experienceClean MVR

Call 904-874-8339

Drivers & Delivery

HELP WANTEDREAL ESTATE

OFFICE ASSISTANTExperience prefered.Part-time to possiblefull-time. Send resume

to: Blind Box 4,LaGrange Daily News,

P.O. Box 929,LaGrange GA 30241

Clerical

6000 Employment

AAAGOVERNMENT

FUNDSAVAILABLE

For First time homebuyers who own landor have family land.Zero down. No appli-cation refused.770-477-8950

(AAA) ONLY 14PAYMENTS LEFT

ON NOTEMake one payment.Move in 770-477-8950

Sales

A MUST SEENewly renovated mo-bile homes starting at$150 per week, all utili-ties provided including

cable , no pets.706-298-1460

FURNISHEDNICE, CLEANTwo bedroom.884-7747.

TWO BEDROOMTWO FULLBATH

absolutely no pets.706-812-0056

TWO BEDROOMTWO BATH

No pets. References.(706)882-3691

NiceTwo Bedroomin city park. $375

monthlyplus $150 deposit.One also in country.(706)882-8276

Rentals

WEST POINTNewer three bedroom,two bath. Next to KIAPlant. $895 a month.(706) 302-6858

THREE BEDROOMTWO BATH

With two bonus rooms.116 Hampton GreenDrive. $1000 month$1000 Deposit706-333-0631

THREE BEDROOMTWO BATH

On two plus acres, incountry in Franklin.$750 month $700deposit. Referencesrequired. No pets.

THREE BEDROOMTWO BATH

On two acres, Franklin$630 month $600deposit. References

required.706-675-1726 or678-378-4686

THREE BEDROOMTWO BATH

HUGE FENCEDIN YARDDunson Street $575706-884-5857

*2 BARRY AVENUEOne bedroom - $395*14 SIRRINE STREETTwo bedroom - $425*123 LAFAYETTE

COURTOne bedroom - $395

706-884-6900

Houses for Rent

Rent-To-Own226 Cosby

Three bedroom614 South Greenwood

three bedroom107 Foxdalefour bedroom1103 Juniperone bedroom

Section Eight accepted845-0706

RENT TO OWNGREAT LOCATIONBetween I-185, Exit42, LaGrange, andI-85, Exit 14 andconvenient to KIA!Three bedroom, plusBonus Room, Two FullBaths, Great Room,Fireplace. Squarefootage at over 1800S.F. Plus Basement atover 1800 S.F.Lots ofAmenities.Rent at$1400 a month.NEGOTIABLE.

Call 706-718-1523To See

REDUCED!1007, 1011 or 1013COLQUITT STREET

$225/week(includes lawn care).One year leaserequired.

Only 1st week'srent to move in!

CallGale Goldenberg,Bush Real Estate

Group,770-214-3026.

Nice in town locationNo Pets

Deposit and ReferencesRequired

$850 a month706-884-3462

50 GLENDA DRIVEThree Bedrooms,

One Bath.$450 a month.706-333-6401

HOUSES FORRENTat

www.spinksandyates.com706-883-1111

HOMES FORRENT

$200-$750MALLORY REALTY706-884-3336

Houses for Rent

HOUSE FOR RENT INLAGRANGE

Three bedrooms, withtwo full baths, familyroom with fireplace,kitchen, and laundryroom. If you’re inter-ested in renting please

emailsheila.maxey@ya-hoo.com or call

Mandy at404-243-5236.

THREE BEDROOMONE BATH

Farmhouse on northside. Central heat andair. $600 monthly.Callaway zone706-882-6069

THREE BEDROOMHOUSE

Call 706-302-4949

HOME IN COUNTRY15 min from

LaGrange near I-85.Clean comfortable,

two bedroom one bath,central heat and air.Appliances, privategated $775 monthincludes, water andyard maintenance706-977-9700

NEW CUSTOM HOMEThree bedroom, 2 1/2bath with bonus room,2500 square feet.Call Signature

Homes 706-884-8642

HogansvilleHomes

$600/$800616-648-8126

HOGANSVILLENewer three bedroom,two bath. Granite andStainless. $895 month

(706) 302-6858

FOR SALE OR RENTTO OWN

Four bedroom,Two bath,

In Lanett/Valley area.334-768-3182

86 TERRACEDRIVE

(Lees Crossing Area)Two BedroomOne Bath

$650.00 Rent$650.00 Deposit(706) 594-8682

FOR RENTHOGANSVILLE

Six rooms, one bath,central heat/air. $475month, $350 deposit.Will accept Section 8

Voucher.706-672-2245 leave

message

CREDITPROBLEMS?Check out thesehomes with

lease/purchase plansavailable with as littleas $225 to move in!111 Pine Grove Way

$225/week;60 Pine Grove Drive

$225/week;30 Pine Grove Ct.$240;/week;

161 Pine Grove Lane$230/week.

Gale Goldenberg,Bush Real Estate

Group770-214-3026.

CREATIVEFINANCING

SOLUTION FOR ALLCREDIT PROBLEMSThree to four bed-rooms, two bath.770-656-4788

www.cambridgehome-lending.com

804 CALLAWAYAVENUE

Two bedroom$295 month.706-884-3336

905 TAFT STREETTWO BEDROOMONE BATH

Completely remod-eled, $425 a month,

$400 deposit941-704-0937

707 PINEYWOODSDRIVE

LaGrange SchoolDistrict.

Three bedroom, 2.5bath, 2700 Square feet

706-302-2200

TWO BEDROOMFURNISHED CABINNear Pine Mountainlake, tennis and pool.Call 706-594-8215

Houses for Rent

Houses for Rent

10,000 Square FootBuilding

With offices andloading dock

Industrial Park Area$1700 per month706-845-6578

Commercial

ONE AND TWOBEDROOM

APARTMENTSAVAILABLE!

All apartments havecentral heat and air,appliances, washer/dryer connections andblinds. Convenientlylocated in town closeto shopping and

schools. Deposits willvary based on credit

history.Call now for detailsand be sure to ask

about our SPECIALS!Durand Properties,Inc. 706-883-3481

New DuplexTownhomesThree bedroom,

two bath, total electric,yard maintenanceincluded. $650

monthly. North Troup.(404)925-2993

AMBERWOODAPARTMENTS

Now accepting appli-cations for lovely onebedroom apartments.Rent based on in-come. Must be 62 orolder, handicapped ordisabled. Apply in per-son at 815 NorthGreenwood or call884-0174. Equal Hous-ing Opportunity. Handi-cap accessible.

The GardensApartments

Two bedroom, twobath.Corporate units alsoavailable(706) 883-8728

Valley's NewestApartment Homes"The Verandas"

One, two, and three bed-roomGreat rates!Business center, fitnesscenterand laundry On-siteLarge poolsPre-lease and receive afreeMembership to the Val-ley Sportsplex.Limited time offer.Call Today for more in-formation334-756-6000

201 North LewisOne, two, three, and

four bedroomSection EightAccepted845-0706

TWO BEDROOMTWO BATH

fireplace, with washerdryer hook ups. Endunit, $595 per month.Contact Angie Cot-ton ERA 1st Realty(706) 957-1699

Apartments /Townhouses

Apartments /Townhouses

3500Real Estate Rentals

UNBELIEVABLE& AFFORDABLE

CABINAt Famous Bear Paw.

Ready to sell.Go to lakehouse.com

and type inad # 52882.

Contact information ison web page.

Waterfront

TALLAPOOSARIVER1300 Foot on riverbeautiful bottom landgreat timber valuethree acre$55,000 107 acre$5,500 an acre1-334-501-7740

8.29 ACRES1432 FEET ROADFRONTAGE

Randolph County, Ala-bama. $4200 per acre.

706-234-8581

TWO AND THREEACRES TRACK

3.5 MILES FROM KIAAll pasture land withwell and septic tank.Two acre $28,800

Three acres $36,600.Call 706-884-8906

Land (Acreage)

NICETHREE BEDROOM

TWO BATHBuilt in 2000 plentyof room with splitbedroom floor planand two downstairsunfinished rooms.

Home has new paint,new kitchen and bath,vinyl, and one car

garage. Off MountvilleHogansville Road.Near Hogansville.Bargain at $92,900and 100% financingmay be available.706-333-8336

PRICE REDUCEDMOVE IN READY!

$85,000.00;Three bedroomTwo bathBank ownedproperty at

95 Margaret Way,Hogansville Georgia;

appraised at$110,000.00;

Bank will finance 30years with 6% interest;payments could be aslow as $530.73;

NO DOWN PAYMENTwith qualifying credit;Contact Drew, Kara,Kristi at Talbot StateBank 706-674-2215;Member FDIC; EqualHousing Lender

NEW HOMES FORSALE

at www.danric.com706-523-1658

Lease PurchaseLakemontSubdivision

Three bedroom twobath 1700 sq foot$145K Many morehouses 706-464-6125

Three BedroomTwo BathFive acres $85,000706-675-0950

PRICE REDUCEDANXIOUS TO

SELL!$90,000.00; Threebedroom, two bath.Bank owned propertyat 95 Margaret Way,Hogansville; appraisedat $110,000.00; Bankwill finance 30 yearswith 6% interest; pay-ments could be as lowas $539.73; NODOWN PAYMENTwith qualifying credit;Contact Kristi at TalbotState Bank706-674-2215; Mem-ber FDIC; Equal Hous-ing Lender

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

FOUR BEDROOMSTWO BATHGray Hill area.Easy terms.

No bank qualifying.706-402-2028

Handy ManSpecial

Cheep/ Cash706-464-6125

ForeclosureSpecialist

Buy 30% to 45%Plus Below Market770-483-9924

Paul Rice Realty

1307 WASHINGTONSTREET$87,500

two bedroom one bath(FURNISHED)See to appreciateOwner Agent706-957-1388

For Sale By Owner

HOME NEED somerepair? Check theservices listing in theclassifieds. You’ll beglad you did.