A meeting will be held this evening at the Summerville Middle School for volunteers that will be participating in the Chattooga County School Nutrition Summer Feeding Program.  They are looking for volunteers to manage and / or provide a site for feeding free meals to Chattooga County’s children during the months of June and July.

Each site can be managed by one or two people for as little as an hour a day.  Site volunteers are required to attend this evening’s training session.  The meeting gets underway at 5:30 PM today.  If you have questions you can call the School Nutrition Department at 706-859-3052.

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Bagworms construct and live inside a 1- to 2-inch long tough, tear-shaped portable silken case. These bags are the insect’s most easily seen and identifiable feature. Outside, the silken texture of the bag is somewhat concealed with layers of leaf, twig and bark fragments. The bag has an opening at the larger end that allows the worm to partially crawl out to make repairs to its bag and eat.

Bagworms attack many types of broadleaf and coniferous trees and shrubs. Bagworms are commonly found on junipers, Leyland cypress, Cryptomeria and Thuja (conifers in the cypress family)

Control practices:

(1) Follow proper watering, fertilizing and pruning practices.

(2) Remove other stress factors from trees when possible.

(3) Infested plant material that cannot be treated should be removed and disposed of.

(4) Protect trees from infestation or re-infestation by using sprays containing Acelepryn, Conserve (spinosad) or a pyrethroid (bifenthrin, permethrin, etc.) Watch for and time sprays for bagworm emergence since small worms are much easier to control. This would be approximately late April to early May. Eggs hatch over a 4 – 5 week period so a second spray may be required. Of these insecticides, Acelepryn may have the longest residual action.

(5) Please call the Extension Office if you have questions about spraying, or if you have honeybees near your property for precautions and additional options on spraying for control.

(6) Research indicates that the systemic insecticide Safari (dinotefuran) will control bagworms on trees that are too tall to spray. Apply Safari as a soil drench or through soil injection a month before bagworm emergence to give the insecticide time to be taken up by the plant and to move to the foliage before bagworms begin to feed. Note that use of some systemic insecticides like Safari can cause spider mite populations to increase after treatment.

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The Center Post Community Center will have a free gospel singing this Saturday night. Groups include Gift of Life Gospel, Traveling By  Faith and the York Family. The music starts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The Center Post Community Center is on Highway 337, the former Center Post School.

Two men were convicted of federal fraud charges Tuesday in connection with a housing development called The Preserve in Dade County.

A jury found Marion County Tennessee residents Joshua Dobson and Paul Gott III guilty on seven of the 12 counts against them in federal court. Both now face prison time on convictions including wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering in the vacation home scam.

The two men were using "gift letter" and "buyback option" schemes to defraud investors and banks, in violation of federal law.

Erlanger at Hutcheson reported a loss for the month of March, but that was expected, according to CEO Roger Forgey.

He said, "Given that we budgeted a loss for March, we are pleased that Hutcheson performed better than expected. The loss amounted to 103 thousand dollars, while a loss of 148 thousand had been budgeted.

Earnings for March reflect a 1.6 million dollar improvement over the same month a year ago. It's the fourth consecutive month that the hospital has performed "better than budget."

Forgey said, "our year-to-date earning are positive by 335-thousand dollars, and the hospital is on a positive trajectory for the year."
 

Listed on the April 24 Arrest Report are:

Erin Obrian Burke — No Charges Listed

David Lee Criswell — Failure to appear

David Lee Daniel — Battery/FVA; Cruelty to children

Aaron Travis Holmes — Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

Melissa Bernice Key — Failure to appear

Timothy Seth Lloid — Child safety restraint violation (X2); Driving with a suspended/revoked license; DUI/multiple substances; DUI/child endangerment (X2); failure to maintain a single lane; use of license plate to misrepresent/conceal vehicle identity.

Alisha Pauline Marks — no charges listed

Krista Brooks Matthews — no charges listed

Michael Lee Pickle — failure to appear

Robert Franklin Sizemore — no charges listed

Latasha Rose Waddle — no charges listed

Daniel William Jackson — Hold for transport to Collwell Probation Center

Tammie Denise Willbanks — disorderly conduct

Paul Bryan Wilson — Good Behavior