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HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA-THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 2003 10 PAGES , 1 SECTION ° 50€
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Sabrina Bozeman is a Speech- ESSENTIAL ROLE- Substitute Music Specialist Cynthia
list (SLP) who comes to Hogansville K. Brown will be with Hogansville Elementary until
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With 'Class'
Educators Welcomed on Board at HogansviUe Elementary
Two new full time teachers and one
teacher have been added to
Hogansville Elementary.
• Sabrina Bozeman is a Speech-
who comes
Randolph County, Alabama,
teaching for the past five years
three schools.
She is married to Jamie Bozeman
is a Social Studies teacher and
soccer coach at LaGra43ge
She has a 7 week old newborn
and is a mem-
of the First Baptist Church in
She received her Bachelor's
from Auburn University and
Master's Degree from the State
niversity Of West Georgia. Mrs.
excited to be a part of the
Elementary.
*Kimberly (Kim) Koopman is orig-
from Charleston, S.C.
She specializes in education fkor the
hard of hearing children. She
in South Carolina for South
for the Deaf and the
Cowpens Elementary School,
Todd Elementary, and
Hearing Impaired this
2002-2003 school year.
She received her Bachelor of Arts
for the Deaf
Hard of Hearing and Bachelor of
Elementary Education
in May of 2003.
;will be held today
Ilrs. Charlotte Delores
70, of Hogansville,
died Monday, August
Wife of the late George
Tumlin, Sr., she
mother and
and raised four chil-
also working as
admin-
Other Deaths, 6A
She also interned at the Summer
Children's Ministry •with the First
Baptist Church. While there she
planned and ran children's camps for
300 children, grades 1-12.
"I am thrilled to be in Hogansville,"
she says. "What a great place to be!"
• Substitute Music Specialist
Cynthia K. Brown will be with
Hogansville Elementary until
December. She is a LaGrange native,
arried with one son, Colby, who is 15
and a sophomore at LaGrange
Academy.
She holds a Bachelor of Music in
Music Education & Piano and a Master
of Music in Music Education & Piano
from State University of West Georgia.
She has taught at Berta Wethersbee &
Dawson Street Elementary in
LaGrange, LaGrange Academy for ten
years, and is currently based out of
Ethel Knight Magnet School for the
last three years.
She will be returning to Ethel
Knight in January. She is also the for-
mer accompanist for the Young Singers
of LaGrange Professional Children's
Choir, and is currently accompanist
for the LaGrange College Choir and
the pianist at Western Heights Baptist
Church in LaGrange.
Hogansville Elementary is very
excited to have these new talented
teachers with us and we are looking
forward to a brightly eventful school
year.
SKILLED AND TALENTED-
Kimberly (Kim) Koopman i special-
izes in education for the deaf and
hard of hearing children.
Nightmarish Detour Gets Trucker
Literally Stuck in West Georgia
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
CB Radio crowd, got stuck and •
had to be towed loos e by a big
wrecker.
A Meriwether County sher-
iffs deputy said the driver of the
big rig had been trying to "avoid
the rush-hour traffic in Atlanta"
and somehow had gotten lost and
ended up in Meriwether County
about 8 p.m.
"He's probably 60 miles from
his right route," the deputy said.
"He ought to be on (Interstate) 75
South."
The driver, in addition to being
See TRUCKER, Page 2A
Talk about red-facedI
Well, maybe he wasn't that.
But the driver of a tractor-
trailer rig loaded with automo-
biles that got "hung up" on the
crown in the highway at the inter-
section of Georgia Alt. 27 and
Highway 18 in Harris City a week
ago Tuesday night at least had a
few people embarrassed fdr him.
,Traffic had to be routed
around that busy intersection for
at least a little while after the
"portable parking lot," as car-
hauler trailers are known to the
Murderer
Will Get
No Parole
Stay in Jail, Board Tells
Convicted Killer Weaver
By JOHN KUYKENDALL
For the second time, the
State Board of Pardons and
Paroles has denied parole to
Robert Merle Weaver, 30,
who is serving a life sentence
for the murder of a
Hogansville man.
Weaver was charged with
the murder of Teddy E.
Brown, 47, who died after
being attacked in his home
between Hogansville and
Lone Oak in Pine Lane Trailer
Park on Highway 54 on
December 19, 1987.
According to court reports,
Wea,/,er and two friends
broke into the Brown home
in an attempt to take money
and marijuana.
Georgia Medical Center in
lmGrange for treatment, but
eventually died 11 days later.
"This man killed another
human being out of greed for
money and drugs," said
Parole Board Vice Chairman
Dr. Betty Cook. "The, Board
sees no reason to release him
at this time."
The Parole Board denied
the request for parole due to
the "brutal nature and cir-
cumstances of the offense.
The Parole Board is more
conservative toward violent
criminals today that ever
before. Of the 47,000 prison-
ers in Georgia prisons today,
more than 6,000 are serving
life sentences. Although the
Parole Board is required by
law to review these cases for
.-- Brown was beaten and parole eventually, less than
the attack, Weaver was later
identified as the attacker. The
three men, thinking that
Brown was dead, set the
home on fire.
Brown managed to pull
himself from the burning
home and somehow called for
help, even though the mobile
home was completely
destroyed by the fire.
Brown was taken to West
were released in 2002.
"As this case demon-
strates, eligibility for review
in no way implies that parole
will be granted," Cook said.
The Board does not plan
to consider Weaver for parole
again until December 2010.
Weaver is currently serv-
ing his life sentence at
Central State Prison in
Macon.
Council Okays Early Plan
For 200-Home Subdivision
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
Preliminary plans for
another 200 new homes in
Hummingbird Estates, the
subdivision that was former-
ly known as Greenwave ViLla,
were approved by the
Hogansville City Council at
a Monday night meeting.
The preliminary plat was
okayed by the council after
residents of Greenwave Villa
said they had reached an,
agreement with the new
developers under which the
developers have agreed to do
considerable landscaping
and beautification around the
new homes, which will be
priced in the $115,000 range.
The plan calls for adding
about 200 homes to the sub-
division which already has
24, the council was told.
Developers have re-plat-
ted the subdivision, with 60
road frontages on Margaret
Way Road, which is off the
Mountville-Hogansville
Road and set up new
covenants for the subdivision
residents and approved
changing the name from
Greenwave Villa to
Hummingbird Estates.
Members of the home-
owners association have been
working with the new devel-
opers to get a fund for beau-
tification because the origi-
nal developers didn't lay sod
and did no landscaping, said
Tim Lane, whose wife,
Monica, is secretary of the
homeowners association.
Donald Morris is the
homeowners association's
president.
See PLANS, Page 2A
By Clint Claybrook
WHEEL EMBARRASSING- The driver of this auto-carrying tractor trailer was
only about 60 or so miles off course, sheriff's deputies estimated.
