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VOL. 58, NO. 52 HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA - THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 2001 10 PAGES • 1 SECTION • 50€
The Year That Was Culllm00s
The Top 10 Stories of 2001 in Hogar00sville Resigns as
By Bryan Geter
The year 2001 saw
in Hogansville.
The police department
a busy year as well as
the city leaders. Callaway
High School excelled in aca-
demics as well as sports. A
new council will take over
in JanuarT, but Mayor
Wilson St. Clair will still be
the head honcho after
defeating two opponents in
November.
The Hummingbird
Festival and the Christmas
Parade were bigger and bet-
ter than ever.
Hogansville's "Top Ten
Stories of 2001" are listed
• The top story was back
in January when Mayor
Wilson St. Clair used his
power to veto the proposed
stream piping plan for the
iF lying J truck plaza.
t" The piton would have
[allowed Flying J to "pipe"
I the stream that runs through
the site of the proposed
i ruck plaza.
to be piped, but St. Clair, who
has openly expressed his
disapproval of the truck
stop, used his power to veto
the council's decision.
*The second top story of
2001 was in August when
City Councilmen Ezra
Whitmore resigned his Post
after serving the city for
Five years and seven
months.
He cited family health
problems as the main rea-
son to make the decision
i "My wife, Odella, has
looked after me for 59
,ears," he said. "It is time I
ooked after her."
*The third top story for
ogansville in 2001 was in
ovember on a close elec-
ion day when the new elec-
'onic voting machines
}roved to work out well.
St. Clair, who has served
s mayor for the past four
Years, was re-elected as he
two former may-
Mike Johnson and
Cook, who polled
votes and 151 votes,
St. Clair
258 votes.
In Post 1, Charlie Frank
defeated incumbent
Dorrough,299 to 193.
In Post 2, Bobby Joe
received 229
incumbent Peggy
received four less,
and former coun-
Jack Dollar
votes.
Post 4 saw businessman
Leidner defeat former
:ilman and Troup
commissioner
Pike by only nine
328 to 319.
• The fourth top story of
in Hogansville was in
when ex-
Heros owner Jeff
was sentenced to 11
in prison and co-
Jennifer Bissett
three years and
month.
Spader admired in court
making methamphet-
in the kitchen of his
restaurant in
last year.
• The fifth top story of
sad note. In
June, Callaway High
beloved Athletic
Head Ct00ch
? !:
old Royal Theatre, which is now home to
Hogensville City HoJl il soon get a facelt, with renovations to begin in January.
CMi War Reenactment was
a very popular event during the 2001 Hummingbird
Festival. Pictured above are Southern belles (L-R)
Stephanie Eastman, Debbie Hartsetl and Vktkie Brown.
GRID MEMORIES- Jacque
Tigner of the Callaway
Cavaliers gets ready to rum-
ble in the gridiron action.
School by his peers.
Callaway High School
hired Gary Sharpe in early
August as the school's new
AD.
°The sixth top story of
2001 in Hogansville the
death of long-time Troup
County Probate Judge Gwen
FUN - Hogansville
Elementary School
Assistant Principal Jody
Hale jumps wh joy in the
"Million Dollar" game the
school.
Director Charles (Chuck)
Hunsinker died of a sudden
heart attack while doing
work in his yard. He was
named "Athletic Director of
the Year" in his sophomore
year at Callaway High
SPECTACULAR -The annual Christmas parade was the
biggest and best ever as more than 40 entries paraded
down Main Street.
Prescott, who had been ill
for quiet some time.
• He servefl as p
County's Probate Judge for
15 years, before resigning
July 1, 1999, due to blind-
• ness and other chronic
health problems associated
with diabetes.
Donald Boyd was elect-
ed to serve as probate judge
in November, 2000.
*The seventh top story
of 2001 was in June when
fake money turned up at the
Hogansville's Piggy Wiggly
Store on Hwy 29 N.
Employee Alex Harris
told Hogansville police that
a blonde male asked a
cashier to change a coun-
terfeit $20 dollar bill into two
tens.
On Thursday, Jackie
Hounkins of McDonald's
told police that three peo-
plee came through the drive-
through and paid for three
meals with a counterfeit
twenty dollar bill.
Nancy Leyva of Family
Dollar in Hogansville
reported two men paid for
several items with a coun-
terfeit $,50 bill.
Nancy Smith of First
Flag Bank said that Bobby
Joe Willoughy tried to cash
a counterfeit $50 bill at the
bank. Willoughy said he
found the money in an old
van type truck that he had
worked on.
• The eighth top story: a
Grantville man was pro-
nounced dead by the Troup
County Coroner after being
ran over by a train Nov. 30
on tracks near the intersec-
tion of Johnson Street and
U.S. Highway 29.
• The ninth story of 2001
is the success of the
Hummingbird Festival
2001. This festival was the
biggest and best ever,
according to festival organ-
izers.
°The tenth top story of
the year happened in July
when the HPD was called to
the Celebrities private club
on Hwy 54 near 1-85.
The police found a near-
riot with more than 700 peo-
ple "In a rage" at 3: a.m.
HPD was summoned to
the parking lot after receiv-
ing calls that gunshots had
been fired. It took the offi-
cers more than an hour to
clear the parking lot.
n e
By Bryan Geter began his
coaching
When the Callaway career at
Cavaliers open the gridiron Jonesboro
season next fall, it will be H i g h
without one who has always s c h o o 1
been there, after play-
Head Coach Sonny ingcollege
Cummings, who has coached football in
the CAVS since the school Kentucky.
opened in 1996, resigned last Cummings A f t e r
Thursday, stating it is time to one season
move on. at Jonesboro, Cummings
Cummings has been an went to Gordon Military
educator for 33 years, the last College, where he coached
six at Callaway. foe two years.
"It was a hard decision to He went to Columbus and
make," he said, "But retiring coached at Carver High
has been on my mind for the School as an assistant for two
last two or three years. I said years before coming to Troup
if we had a good year, this High for four years.
would be the year. It would He went back to
be nice to go out on top." Columbus to coach at the
The Cavaliers went 8-3 on newly established school,
the season, sharing a region Shaw for one year before tak-
championship for the first ing over at Hogansville.
time. Cummings got his first
• The Cavaliers lost to head coaching job in 1987 at
Cartersville 21-18 in ther Hogansville after Don
open round of the Class AA Hendrix retired.
playoffs last month. Cummings turned down
Cummings led the a professional free-agent
Cavaliers to three state play- contract to play for Vince
offs in the six years at CHS. Lombardi and the Green Bay
He was 70-70-1 in 14 sea- Packers but decided to come
son at Hogansville and home to Georgia to coach.
Callaway and 32-30-1 at Cummings said he will
Callaway. He will stepped now keep his promise to his
down at the end of the school daddy and restore his father's
year. 1961 Chevrolet Impala.
Gunmen Hold Up
Hwy. 29 Gas Stop
Elrod received three
By Bryan Geter years in prison and seven
years on probation.
An armed robbery Barentine received two
occurred at the Gas Stop on years in prison and eight
Hwy 29 N on Tuesday, years onprobation.
December, 18 according to Both have to pay fines of
the Hogansville Police $675 and restitution of $I 11.
Department. *In other police and court
Guy Spradlin of the HPD news, Joseph Ross, 40, of
said two men wearing masks Albany was sentenced to
entered the store around i0 three years in prison and
p.m. and forced an employee three years probation for
who was in the front of the stealing $1,500 from the
counter to lie down on the couinter of Elder's Grocery
floor, on E. Main Street in
Spradlin said one robber Hogansville. He also has to
stood over him while the pay back the money.
other went behind the count- °The .OuP CounW
er and made the other Sheriff's Department
employee open the cash charged a Hogansville
drawer and took the money, woman with robbery last
Then the robbers got into Wednesday after she report-
an old model Chevrolet truck ed a robbery that turned out
that was parked on Brazell to be a hoax.
Street beside the store and Corrie Noles, 22, of 1041
fled. E. Main Streettold police she
A customer who was out- help plan and execute the
side left the premises and "hoax robbery" of the Shell
called the police, report Mart #3 on the Roanoke Road
states, in LaGrange along with co-
Reports state that both conspirators, Chrystopher
men were wearing all black Edwin Leroy Kiser, 17 and
clothing. One was described Jason Ryan Cook, 23, both of
as 5'7"and thin in built. The 149 Edgewood Ave. in
other.about 5'2" and medium LaGrange.
build. They also face robbery
The HPD is still investi- charges.
gating the incident. Noles faces additional
*Inotherpolice news, two charges of reporting a false
Hogansville men were sen- crime. Kiser and Cook were
tenced Tuesday to prison for charged with marijuana pos-
robbing the Citgo store on session and are being held in
Lafayette Parkway on the Troup County jail with-
September 3. out bond.
Chad Chris Barentine, 19, Captain James Woodruff
and Waymon Elrod,17, had of the TCSD said Noles was
been indicted on armed rob- a suspect from the beginning
hery charges, but pled quilty due to inconsistencies with
to the lesser charge of rob- her story and evidence on the
bery by force, surveillance tape.
