Chattooga Chat will be held at Chattooga High School Monday January 11 at 5:00pm. This is a very important meeting for seniors and juniors who are planning to attend college. A representative will be available to discuss how to plan for and manage college costs.Options your family has in developing a college funding strategy. This program is offered at no cost thanks to Making It Count and Bank of America. Please make plans to attend this very informative meeting.
Mrs. Robbie Greenwood Camp, age 89 of Park Ave., Trion, GA passed away Friday, January 08,2010 in Redmond Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Camp was born in Trion, GA on July 15, 1920. She was retired from Security Finance and was a member of Trion First Baptist Church.
Mrs. Camp was preceded in death by her husband, Furman"Fat" Camp, and her father and mother, Robert Emmett and Cordie Cannon Greenwood.
Survivors include her sons and daughter-in-law, Michael and Donna Camp of Chickamauga, GA and Rick L. Camp of Rydal, GA; one brother, J.W. Greenwood of Trion, GA; 4 Grandchildren and 4 Great- Children; serveral nieces and nephews also survived.
Funeral services will be conducted Monday, January 11, 2010 at 11:00am from the chapel of the Erwin-Petit Funeral Home with Rev. Mike Woods officiating, with an Eulogy given by Rick L. Camp.
Mrs. Camp will lie-in-state, Sunday, January 10, 2010 at the Erwin-Petit Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 1:00 to 4:00pm
The following gentlemen have been asked to be Pallbearers and they are asked to assemble at the funeral home by 10:30am on Monday: Ross Camp, Mickey Camp, Robin Greenwood, Steve Lanier, Butch Camp, and Randy Evans. Honorary Pallbearers will be Mrs. Camp’s Sunday School Class of the Trion First Baptist Church and Mr. Benny Perry.
The family request no food and flowers. In lieu of the flowers donations may be made to the Trion First Bapist Church or the Humane Society.
Erwin-Petit Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral arrangements for Mrs. Robbie Greenwood Camp who passed away on Friday.
Mr. Ware was born in Trion, Georgia on February 25, 1952, son of the late Charlie Martin Ware and Essie Mae Vernon Ware. He attended the Welcome Hill Baptist Church and was an avid music fan. In addition to his parents, Mr. Ware was preceded in death by a sister, Vickie Dianne Ware.
Mr. Ware is survived by his step-mother, Clara Ware of Trion; Step-father, Budgie Martin of Trion; Nephews, Adam (Lynn) Gorham of Summerville and Chad (Brandy) Campbell of Armuchee; 2 great nephews and 3 great nieces.
Funeral Services for Mr. Ware will be held Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 3:30 P.M. in the Mason Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Terry Shores officiating. Interment will follow in the West Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Jeff Ware, David Meadows, Larry Wells, Phil Meadows, Jeff Meadows and Michael Gilreath. Honorary Pallbearers will be Cousins and Amy Pittman and the Staff of Dade Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Mr. Ware will be in state at the Mason Funeral Home where the family will receive friends Monday from 6 until 8 P.M.
Mrs. Dorothy Nell Pettyjohn, age 67, of LaFayette, GA passed away Saturday, January 9, 2010 at the residence of a daughter in Chatsworth.
Mrs. Pettyjohn was born in Chattooga County, Georgia on June 7, 1942, daughter of the late Wade Allen Evans and Sara Evelyn Allmond Evans. She was a member of the Old Path Baptist Church of Summerville and prior to retirement, had worked at World Carpet, Alladin Mills and was a CNA at Quinton and Wood Dale Nursing Center. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Pettyjohn was preceded in death by her husband Marion Ray Pettyjohn: daughter, Patsy Yvonne Hanson; brothers, Claude Simpson Evans, Roy Lee Evans; and sisters, Hattie Lee Elsberry and Annie Ruth Ramey.
Mrs. Pettyjohn is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, John Wallace and Tracy Hanson, Ronald Vincent and Shauna Hanson of LaFayette and Edward Ray and Debra Pettyjohn of Rocky Face; daughters and sons-in-law, Clara Darlene and Shunell Towns of Chatsworth, Anna Marie and Wilburn Thomason of Tunnel Hill, and Rhonda Faye Pendergrass of Chatsworth; brother and sister-in-law, William David and Regina Evans of Summerville; sister and brother-in-law, Sara and Russell Woodall of Summerville; 20 grandchildren; 12 Great Grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Pettyjohn will be held Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 2:00 P.M. in the Mason Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wayne Hindman officiating. Interment will follow in the Subligna Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be John Hanson, Rhonda Pendergrass, Edward Pettyjohn, Wade Hanson, Clara Towns and Andrew Thomason. Honorary Pallbearers will be Tim Pettyjohn, Eric Pettyjohn, Johnathan Hanson, Trey Hunt, Shunell Towns, Jr., Joseph Bearden and William Hanson.
Mrs. Pettyjohn will be in state at the Mason Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 until 8 P.M.
Mason Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.
Florencia Odilia Ramir Vasquez, age 38 of Trion, Charged with Driving Without a Valid License, Failure to Maintain a Single Lane
Sardius Smith, age 41 of Atlanta, Held on Pending Charges
Roland Lee Bicer, Jr., age 42 of Summerville, Charged with Probation Violation and Child Support
Brenda Lee Early, age 44 of Cartersville, Charged with Hold for Early County, Georgia
Jason DeWayne Kerr, age 29 of Summerville, Charged with Probation Violation
Jennifer Renay Miller, age 22 of Atlanta, Held on Pending Charges
The Georgia Department of Transportation is advising motorists in Bartow County of night lane closures on U.S. 41 at the bridges over State Route 293 and the CSX Railroad tracks, scheduled for Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The right lane of U.S. 41 north and southbound at these locations will be closed every night from 7 p.m. until 6 a.m., to allow for work on repairing the bridge beams. The bridge beam repair is expected to take 6-8 days to complete. This bridge work and the lane closures it necessitates are weather permitting and subject to change.
“Georgia DOT wants to constrict traffic flow in this area as little as possible, but delays at times are almost unavoidable,” said Kent Sager, district engineer at the DOT office in Cartersville. “We have made every effort to minimize the impact this bridge repair may have on the heavy traffic on U.S. 41 in Bartow County. Working at night; informing the public in advance of this operation; scheduling the lane closures after the evening rush hour, and reopening these lanes before the morning rush hour are only a few examples of these efforts,” he added.
Georgia DOT urges travelers to call 511 for updated information about this or any other construction project on interstates and state routes. Georgia 511 is a free phone service that provides real-time traffic and travel information statewide, such as traffic conditions, incidents, lane closures, and delays due to inclement weather. Callers also can transfer to operators to request assistance or report incidents 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More information is available at www.511ga.org.
An alert was issued on Wednesday that recalled 3,310 individual chocolate candies by Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin. The products, 4.62-ounce Harry London Chocolate Pecan Caramel Stars, are being recalled because they have not been labeled to include Wheat, FD&C colors Yellow 5, Red 40 and Blue 1 as an ingredient.
All Harry London Chocolate Pecan Caramel Stars sold after Dec. 28, 2009, have the correct labeling.
The recalled product is the Harry London Chocolate Pecan Caramel Stars Lot code number 9238-1.
Consumers with questions may contact Harry London at (330) 494-0833 ext. 193, Monday through Friday, 8:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. EST.
A former Department of Homeland Security officer working in Rome has been indicted in federal court on seven charges, but both his attorney and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office said they don’t know any specifics about the case.
Each of the seven counts states that Stephen G. House was working as a law enforcement and security officer for the Federal Protective Service, a division of Homeland Security, when he pulled over individuals while he was driving in an SUV with law enforcement markings between the dates of July 28, 2006, and April 15, 2009.
In each of the seven instances, the indictment reads, House “did detain (initials), and did thereby willfully deprive (initials) of the right secured and protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States to be free from an unreasonable seizure by a law enforcement officer…”
The alleged victims were identified only by their initials.
House entered a not guilty plea to all charges earlier this week and was released from custody on a $2,500 bond. A pretrial conference is scheduled for Jan. 22 at 10:30 a.m. before a federal magistrate.
Calhoun Times
A fire over the weekend left a house destroyed while the owners were reportedly away on vacation. According to reports the house was located in the 300 block of Hair Lake Road in Summerville near Campbell’s Body Shop.
Chattooga County 911 dispatchers reported that the house was 80% involved with flames when Summerville firefighters arrived. Chattooga County Public works was called to the scene to deal with the large amount of water that was in the roadway from the firefighting efforts.
No one was in the house at the time of the blaze according to reports.
