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ling will be held at Bible Baptist
ch, 275 Hillcrest Rd., LaGrange.
!meeting will break at 5:30 for
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r room. Preachers for the night
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a burden ¢Weryone is invited to attend.
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Dolly buillhe annual meeting of the Troup
}t. nty Parks & Recreation Com-
program ;ion will be held Tuesday, Febru-
isreinforo 16 at the LaGrange Ramada Inn
Is. Clubbc.aFayette Parkway. Registration
handbod ns at 5:30 p.m., followed by a
ith the Go It auction featuring sports memo-
erve Chrii lia and collectors items.
:hallengi'here will also be drawings for
ir prizes, including a 19-inch color
Lvision, plus release of the
I believetr}rnission's Annual Report and
today h_a "Hall of Fame" inductions. Re-
• ,sus as tH.n.ments will be provided and the
;ervingh is invited to attend. Please
Bro. Patrib'P at 883-1670.
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children lax orms
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CALLAWAY VERSUS PATS SATURDAY night. No. 34- Ken Grissom
maneuvers for the rebound. More on page 4.
Callaway vs. LaGrange
Saturday, February 6 at Callaway
Pilot Club
Miss Hogansville Pageant
The 1999 Miss Hogansville-
cant is underway with practices si-
ing on Monday, February 22nd at
5:00 with the Miss girls (ages 16 and
up) with Donna Arnold. Following
them is me Precious Miss (ages 2-3)
with Elaine Ciur at 6:00; oPT-uesday,
February 23rd at 6:00 for Tiny Miss
(ages 4-5) with Janie Dollar and also
at 6:00, the Wee Miss (ages 6-8) with
Linda Ayers; then on Thursday. Feb-
ruary 25th at 6:00 the Little Miss
(ages 9-12) with Sybil Gaddy: on
Saturday, February 27th at 3:00. the
Junior Miss (ages 13-15) wllh Dec
Hendrix.
All practices will be at Hogansviilc
Elementary auditorium. Registration
will be $25.00. The pageant date is
March 27th at 6:00 p.m.
Piano Lessons
Hogansville Recreation De- Free Clothing At Hogansville Food Closet
anent will offerpiano lessons start- On February 8th, t"rom 9:00 a.m. your need for the clothes and not try
Februarv 9 Cost for four lessons until l:00p.m.,theHogansvilleFood toacquirethem forresale. These have
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Closet will be open to give away been donated by various citizens
For information call 706-637- clothes. The Food Closet is located in aroundtownwithnostringsattached.
!7. ' the old fbre station adjacent to the Be prepared, however, in that you
Police Department. will have to rummage through a lot to
Open House We have men's, women's, and find the sizes you need (they are not
children's clothing in most sizes• sorted by size).
H°gansville Senior Center will There are also plenty of shoes. Our Please, if you have a need for cloth-
d Open House Tuesday, February only request is that you be honest in ing, come and take what you want.
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eek for l 'ore 2 until 4 p.m_
yers. Hc Everyone is invtted to attend.
Navy Airman Recruit Stepp
Completes Basic Training
Navy Airman Recruit Marketta R. from their firstday in the Navy just as
Stepp, daughter of Vinnie B. Grady they do aboard ships and at shore
ofGrantville, recentlycompletedU.S, commands around the world. To re-
Navy basic training at Recruit Train- inforce the team concept, S tepp and
Investigators with the Troup
ty Sheriffs Office are askin" g
the Public's help in finding the
Pect or suspects in the theft of
ding materials.
resident of the Buck Smith Road
tr Hogansville says someone came
o his construction site and took
t One hundred two by four studs
, ten's between Satur-
15th and the following
ing Command, Great Lakes, I11. other recruits also were trained in
During the eight-week program,
has any information
please call the Troup
Sheriffs Office or Crime
at 812-1000. All calls to
Stoppers are strictly confiden-
will not need to leave your
nformation you provide about
crimes. If that information
arrest, you could be eli-
) to
Hogansville City Council
New Subdivision Likely
At the Monday, February 1 City
Council meeting the Council ap-
proved the initial process for a new
subdivision in Hogansville and the
preliminary site plans. The property
is located behind the Piggly Wiggly
Shopping Center and is approxi-
mately 200 acres in size and calls for
400 lots. Hunt Cliff Village will be
developed by Southern Value Homes
of Canton, Georgia.
The land involved has more than
one owner. The property is on both
sides of Yellow Jacket Creek and is
bordered by US Hwy. 29, Ga, Hwy.
100, Brooks and Brazell Streets. Iin-
pact studies have been performed
along with wetland and topographic
tests. In addition to single family
houses, the initial plans call for apart-
ments and a retirement community.
There would appear to be emphasis
on recreation with walking areas, rec-
reation areas, and a swimming pool.
Council approved without dissent
lots smaller than 3/4 of an acre. The
property must be on City water/sew-
age and have a minimum 75 foot
frontage. Also approved were one
bedroom apartments as small as 600
square feet.
City electric rates were increased
6%. City Manager David Aldrich
pointed out that there has not been an
increa.e since 1992. The increase is
for both residential and commercial
customers. Aldrich said, "This is a
matter that comes up periodically.
They need to pass on wholesale rate
increases to stay in the black. We
really have no choice." There will
also be a small increase in the monthly
charge for security lights. All five
Council members voted in favor of
the rate increase.
City Attorney Dan Lee, now State
Senator, reported that the Exit 6 light-
ing project is scheduled for April
1999.
The massive hole at the entrance
to Bass Cross Roads was discussed.
Manager Aldrich is working with the
state on repairs. Mayor St. Clair ex-
claimed, "It is big enough to hide a
small Volkswagen."
Council approved the lease pur-
chase for two police car type ve-
hicles; one for the Hogansville Police
Department, the other for City Man-
ager David Aldrich The cost will be
$20,670. The vote was 5-0 in favor.
The second reading of the modifi-
cation to the Zoning Ordinance passed
without discussion.
Sybil Maxwell appeared before
the Council asking for their support
and blessing for the Spring Hum-
mingbird Festival. It is scheduled for
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday April
16, 17, and 18. The Grand Hotel will
again host the Kickoff Dinner which
this year will feature the famous old-
fashioned Johnny Brown's Patio Bar-
B-Que. The Saturday and Sunday
events will be from 10:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m.
Festival proceeds are scheduled
to go toward City Hall roof repairs.
To make Kickoff Dinner reserva-
tions, call Glenda Gordon at 706-
637-8828.
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HOGANSVILLE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS (left to right) Meridith Sinns, Courtney Dire, Wesley Fowler,
Ja'Kila Brimidge, and Kiura Rhodes. The first grade classes at Hogansville Elementary presented a program
k9I It Snow. There were songs, stories, and the students acted out a poem about the Five Little Snowmen.
The students are waiting for the real snow to fall this winter. Below (left to right) Randy Bailey, Courtney
Maxwell, Zachry Maxwell, Shakeeela Cousin, and Shakeria Glanton.
Stcpp completed a variety of training
which included classroom study and
practical instruction on naval cus-
toms, fast aid, fire fighting, water
safety and survival, and shipboard
and aircraft safety. An emphasis is
also placed on physical fitness.
Stepp and other recruits also re-
ceived instruction on the Navy's core
values -- honor, courage and commit-
ment -- and how to apply them to their
military performance and personal
conduct. Stepp joins 55,000 men and
women who will enter the Navy this
year from all over the country.
Men and women train together
preventing sexual harassment and
ensunng equal opportunity.
Even as the naval service gets
smaller over the next few years, highly
motivated young people like Stepp
are still finding an opportunity to
improve their knowledge and educa-
tion as they become part of the most
highly technical naval force in his-
tory. This year alone the Navy will
have more than 57,000 job openings
and opportunities which include guar-
anteed training.
Stepp is a 1993 graduate of
Newnan High School and is a 1997
graduate of Valdosta State Univer-
sity with a BA degree.
Hogansville Herald Sold To Grimes Group
The Hogansville Herald and four
other newspapers in the Trib Publica-
tions group have been sold to Grimes
Publications, effective with the Feb-
ruary editions.
Robert E. Tribble, president of
Trib, said that selling the newspapers
was a difficult decision, but he felt he
needed more time to devote to the
other newspapers in his organiza-
tion. Tribble's corporate headquar-
ters will continue to be in Manches,
ter, where he resides.
The other newspapers in last
week's transaction are The Manches-
ter Star-Mercury, the Meriwether
Vindicator, the Talbotton New Era
and The Harris County Journal.
The Herald was started in 1944 by
Thorne Lane and was acquired by
Tribble from Jim Wood in 1974. It
was owned and edited for a number
of years by the late Cecil Hamby.
Millard B. Grimes, president of
the acquiring group, is a familiar name
in West Georgia and Troup County.
He was most recently publisher and
editor of Georgia Trend, a statewide
business and political magazine.
Grimes was born in Newnan and
grew up in LaGrange and Columbus.
He worked for the Columbus news-
papers for 20 years, including seven
years (1962-1969) as editor-in-chief
of The Columbus Enquirer. He
formed a publish ing company in 1969
to buy the Opelika (Ala.) Daily News,
and during the past 30 years, Grimes
Publications has owned and operated
more than 25 newspapers and two
magazines in Georgia and Alabama.
Grimes sold the company's last
newspaper in early 1994 to concen-
trate on Georgia Trend, which is the
largest circulated magazine based in
Georgia.
"I'm happy to be back in the news-
paper business," Grimes said this
week, "and especially pleased at the
opportunity lobe involved with news-
papers that serve the area where I
grew up and lived most of my life.
Bob Tribble and I have been friends
for many years, and I appreciate the
fact that he chose our company to
manage his hometown newspaper and
the newspapers on which his com-
pany was founded. Bob is one of the
truly remarkable entrepreneurs in the
newspaper field today, and he will
still own more Georgia weeklies (plus
a daily in Fayette County) than any
other single publisher."
Grimes said a management team
will be announced next week to suc-
ceed Tribble, who had served as pub-
lisher of The Herald and the other
four newspapers.
Grimes Publications is a family-
oriented company. Grimes' wife,
Charlotte, and their children, James
S. Grimes, Kathy Grimes Garrett and
Laura Grimes Cofer are the other
officers and directors.
Mrs. Grimes (Charlotte) is a native
of Hams County and a graduate of old
Hamilton High. She is the daughter of
the late Maidee Beers Sheridan, and
the granddaughter of the late Charles
and Ella Beers of Cataula.
Jim, Kathy and Laura were all
born in Columbus and are graduates
of Auburn University. Jim is also a
graduate of the University of Georgia
Law School. He worked for 15 years
on the company's newspapers and
was managing editor of Georgia
Trend before starling a law practice
in Athens. Laura was editorial coor-
dinator and creative director of Geor-
gia Trend for four years, and also
worked on Georgia Journal, the
company's other magazine.
Millard and Charlotte live in Ath-
ens, but have a second home at Calla-
way Gardens in Pine Mountain, where
they now plan to spend even more
time. Grimes is on the Board of Visi-
tors for Callaway Gardensanda long-
time supporter, as well as a property
owner.
"Having the chance to operate
these newspapers is a homecoming
for our family," Grimes said. "I know
the history of this area very well and
am also familiar with current condi-
tions. I truly believe West Georgia's
greatest years are jusl ahead, and we
are proud to have the chance to play
a role in its progress."
Like Tribble, Grimes is a former
president of the Georgia Press Asso-
ciation (1985-86) and is also a former
president of the Magazine Associa-
tion of Georgia.
