PAGE 2-A HOGANSVIIJ HOME NEWS - THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 2003
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By CLINT CLAYBRCK)K
Fred Crews told the Hogansville
City Council that he's fed up living so
close to an abandoned, dilapidated house
where - he contends - drug deals get
done and late-night comings and goings
interfere with his sleep.
Crews, who lives at 310 Taliaferro,
sad he doesn't mind "the old house (but)
it's become a dump yard out there."
He presented the council with a peti-
tion calling on the city to get rid of the
offending structure.
Crews said he'd called on the city
for help in the past, but never gotten
any relief.
"It's been three years" of on-going
efforts to get rid of the house, Crews
said: "I'd like to see this taken care of in
my lifetime."
City Manager David Aldrich said
he'll try again.
But it's not that the city
the problem, Aldrich said:
house couldn't be condemned l
it was structurally sound,
the building inspector.
Later, he said, the city
against the out-of-state
nuisance statute but couldn't:
ently because the city has
under that statute over
beyond Georgia's borders.
Crocker's Proposal Fails
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shall be subject to reprimand,
up to and including termina-
tion," had her resolution been
adopted.
After twice calling for a
"second" to Crocker's motion,
Mayor Wilson St. Clair
declared it "dead for lack of
a second."
The effort by Crocker,
even though it failed, didn't
sit well with Councilman
Bobby Joe Frazier, who owns
a downtown business that has
city utilities service even
though Frazier has never
paid the $300 deposit that is
supposedly required.
The word "supposedly" is
intentional because Frazier
says the requirement is a
myth: From utility records
going back to 2001, Frazier
said, he's learned that "some
people have paid as little as
$2.50 for a deposit while some
people have paid up to $600."
He says the difference
may be "how you are dressed"
or who you are, an implica-
tion that the deposits aren't
fairly imposed or that some
people receive preferential
treatment.
He has never refused to
pay a deposit, Frazier said.
When he signed up for utili-
ty service, he reiterated,
somebody at City Hall "just
America's Home Place
asked me if Iwanted to pay a
deposit and I said 'no.'"
Wee don't have a policy in
place that we enforce. When
you get the policies straight
so that everybody has to do,
the same, I'll pay mine," he
said during the council meet-
ing.
After the meeting, he said
the Crocker motion was part
of an on-going attempt by "a
group of people trying to go
up against anther group of
people," the implication being
that the on-going fuss over
expense money and his
unpaid utility deposit is a
black-white issue.
"But this has nothing to
do with race," he said.
"it keeps coming up
because I'm pushing to get
rid of the city manager. It
needs to come up again."
A vote several weeks
back that would have dis-
missed City Manager David
Aldrich was vetoed by Mayor
Wilson St. Clair.
He wants Aldrich ousted
because policies and proce-
dures that "should have been
in place in a short time to
make this city more efficient"
are still missing, Jackson
said.
"It (the matter of Aldrich's
termination) needs to come
up again."
He won't stay quiet,
Jackson warned:
"If they want me to shut
up, there are other avenues
they've going to have to take."
Continuing to bring up
"that little (utility) deposit" is
just another way of attack-
hag hh Jackson Isaid.., .: v, ':*
Crockerfl not explain
her motion except to say that
council members ought to
"avoid any appearance of
impropriety" in their dealings
LOOKING FOR FISH - Dakota McCormick, 4,
County Line Community 9 f Troup County,
watching the fish at Rodgei Barbecue in
last Tuesday.
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"ENJOYI'I'( GOOD MUSIC AND l0i ;
and Ann Young of Manchester sang severa
songs and then enjoyed delicious catfish at
Barbecue in Hogansville last Tuesday evening.
Bloodworth of the County Line Community,
with the city.
Gospel Singing Crusade Resumes on
The Gospel Singing Crusade Volunteers. Wehave churches to come,
Crusade will be having the donated items to raffle, excit- Please keep in mind I
next singing on Saturday, ing cakewalks, and live is a warehouse and l
August 9. The singing will be
held at 1100 West Main Street
in Manchester.
The doors will open at 5:30
and the program will start at
6:00. We are going to have
delicious food catered by the
gospel music.
The singers for the night
will be New Horizon and One
Way Street, both from
Thomaston, Kevin Weigenkia
from Manchester and others.
We want to encourage all
dle of summer, so it
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