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HOGAI',ISVILLE Hor~m NEWS - THURSDAY, SEVr. 23, 2004
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The Historic
Chattahoochee Commission
announced on Sept. 7 that the
Friends of the Historic
Chattahoochee Commission,
under the auspices of the
Community Foundation of
the Chattahooc hee Valley, has
been awarded a special Rural
Business Opportunity Grant
in the amount of $149,500
from the United States
Department of Agriculture.
The purpose of the grant
is to establish and operate a
program called the
Chattahoochee AgriTourism
Project (CAP).
The project will begin
immediately.
Douglas C. Purcell, the
Commission's executive
director, announced that
USDA funding for this proj-
ect will allow the Commission
to assist farmers and other
rural landowners in the
Lower Chattahoochee River
Valley of Alabama and
Georgia to create viable and
effective economic develop-
ment alternati('es to conven-
tional farming and tradition-
al agriculture.
This will be accom-
plished, said Purcell, through
the development of alterna-
tive agricultural land uses
based principally in tourism.
The Historic
Chattahoochee Commission,
a bi-state agency of Alabama
and Georgia, serves the
Lower Chattahoochee River
Valley region of Alabama and
Georgia by providing a var-
ied menu of services within
the region. A major compo-
nent of the Commission's
work is the development of
programs and publications
that focus on the distinctive
history of the region, natural
areas and recreational asset s,
traditional culture, and
tourism. The HCC, in foster-
ing an appreciation of region-
al culture and history, pro-
vides an effective link among
the communities of the
region that is unparalleled by
any other agency.
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By Clint Cla~
CONVOY - Nine Detroit Edison employees, after 2
aays heiptng out with hurricane recovery in Florida,
stopped off for lunch in Hogansville on Monday. They
weren't looking,forward to the long drive back to Michigan
since their big trucks ran at about 55 mph, tops, in the
hilly country approaching Atlanta, one driver said.
Callaway Hoping Final Weeks Will Be Better
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Callaway held their heads
high and played a better game
in the second half.
"We knew they weregoing
tobe a good football team",
said Giddens. '~Ve played bet-
ter in the second half, We
have to learn to put a con>
plete game together, not just
a quarter here and a quarter
there. Every snap is crucial."
Callaway looked deter-
mined in the third quarter.
Zeke Cofield bolted for 27
yards to begin a drive and
,lustin Bray went 22 yards for
an apparent touchdown. But
as the case has been all year,
a penalty nullified the score.
The Cars had one other
opporttmity to score but Bray
was sacked on fourth down
to end the threat.
Callaway is now 1-3 (0-3
in Region 5AA) on the year
while Pike County improved
to 3-1.
The Cavs are at home this
Friday to take on Rutland at
7:30 p.m.
Council's Lack of Quorum Delays Vote Again
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denying the rezoning request.
Mayor Wilson St. Clair
said Monday night he was
"absolutely a shocked" that
both Martin and Crocker
were no-shows.
Because they were absent
meant that St. Clair had no
option but to announce to the
eager crowd that the council
couldn't do any business, so
the agenda for Monday
night's meeting would be car-
ried over to the next regular-
ly scheduled meeting on
October 4 - or, possibly, until
a called meeting before that
date.
The council had three
options: Approve Arnold and
Mainstreet Communities'
request, deny it or table the
rezoning request for further
study,
A crowd of some 30 peo-
ple - highly unusual for a
Hogansville City Council
meeting - was in place well
in advance of the 7 p.m. meet-
ing time Monday night.
St. Clair and others said
that Crocker called 10 min-
utes or so before the meeting
started to say "something has
come up and I won't be able
to make the meeting."
Martin didn't call in at all,
officials said. But
Councilman Thomas Pike
said he'd heard on Saturday
that Martin would be a no-
show.
Monday night was the
first time in recent memory
that a council meeting had to
be canceled due to lack of a
quorum.
There was speculation -
and only that - about Crocker
and Martin's absences: By not
showing up they at least
forced a showdown vote on
the Arnold request at a meet-
ing where Leidner is expect-
ed to be present.
Had the vote been taken
Monday night, it likely would
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A BIG ONE - Six billboards
like this 12-foot high by 48-
feet wide example on
Interstate 85 in Hogansville
have some opponents of
rezoning up in arms in
Hogansvilte.
have resulted in a 2-2 split,
with Leidner absent. In that
case. it would have been up
to St. Clair to cast the decid-
ing vote on the rezoning ques-
tion.
Although St. Clair hasn't
said how we would have
voted, he's known to be pro
gro~th, as are Pike and
Councilman Bobby Joe
Frazier,
l..eidner, though he is pro-
grox~ t h, said at the September
7 council meeting that he
couldn't vote for the Arnold
proposal :.is originally sub-
mitted because "it is in the
wrong format" and didn't
include enough up-front
details.
Arnold and his Columbus
attorney, Rob McKenna felt
like they'd met at least the
minimum ttogansx ille PUD
requirements with a concep-
tual drawing and footnotes
about the development that
were presented to City
Manager Randy Jordan on
Monday afternoon.
In fact, Jordan said in late
afternoon that the developer
had, with the drawing and
Church
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said to have been the first
church organized in
Hogansville and was incur-
porated in 1870. The house of
worship was moved to its cur-
rent locat ion at East Main and
Johnson Street after the city
swapped the current site for
the original one so that the
cemetery could be built
there.
The current church build-
ing evolved after the sanctu-
ary was remodeled in 11951
and the educational building
was erected in 1945. The
steeple was added in 1987and
the modern-day Fellowship
Hall was expanded and
updated in 2001, according to
earlier plans "met the mini-
mum requirements of
Hogansville," except perhaps
for a couple of questions
about two tracts near
Interstate 85.
"I need to know where the
greenspace, commercial and
residential (areas) are in
there."
But, he noted, "There's
still others to be met," includ-
ing those mandated by the
state Env
Protection Divisiort dealing
with various issues such as
impact on the city's drinking
water and other details.
Even if the council had
approved the rezoning
Monday night it would still
probably take an entire year
before EPD and other
requirements could be satis- -
fled and construction could
begin, Jordan told The Home
News.
Prior to the September 7
council meeting at a public
hearing, several Hogansville
residents questioned the
effects of the development
on the city's water reservoir.
traffic on Blue Creek Road,
and the advisability of allow-
ing huge billboards on one of
the three tracts in question.
They even questioned
whether the land in questio~
is inside the city limits, but
the council resolved that
issue by voting 4-1 at the
September 7 meeting that the
property had been annexed
at least three years ago.
Arnold has said that hous-
es in the proposed Waterford
Place development will range
from $225,000-$400,000 in
order to be attractive to work-
ing couples who want to live
farther away from Atlanta,
as well as retirees.
Those homes will contin-
ue the upscale trend he estab-
lished in Mallard's Lake
Subdivision, Arnold said.
church records.
"As we live into the
future, we at Ebenezer
Presbyterian seek to realize
our unity in Jesus Christ as
we worship study, pray and
work together in His name,"
Gillespie wrote in an article
about the homecoming.
"Empowered and led by
the Holy Spirit, our mission
is to go into the world shar-
ing with others in word and
in service the love of God fia
Jesus Christ our Lord.
"The members of
Ebenezer Presbyterian
Church give thanks for the
gift of God's grace that calls
us into community and to dis-
cipleship in our Lord Jesus
Christ."
