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March 13, 2013
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Rome Ducks Unlimited Nationally Recognized

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The Rome Chapter of Ducks Unlimited has been nationally recognized by making the Top 100 list as one of the organization's best fundraising chapters over the last year.

The President’s Top 100 is one of the most highly sought-after titles of recognition Ducks Unlimited offers to chapters throughout the nation. Each year, the list is comprised of the top 100 fundraising chapters in the United States. Through the efforts of these volunteer committees, DU is able to pursue its mission of conserving, enhancing and restoring North America’s wetlands.           

The Rome chapter earned a spot in the Top 100 out of the more than 2,700 DU chapters nationwide. DU’s event fundraising system has become a model for other conservation organizations around the world and has funded a significant portion of the more than 13 million acres of wetlands and associated habitat DU has conserved since 1937.

        

Ducks Unlimited is the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, DU has conserved more than 13 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever.


March 13, 2013
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Lyerly Severe Weather Awareness Day April 13

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Lyerly will have its Severe Weather Awareness Day on April 13. The council discussed the day's festivities in its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday.

Times for the even are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fire department will be selling barbecue sandwiches during that time. Prior to the event, the fire department is taking orders for Boston butt roasts. Roasts are $30 and must be pre-ordered by April 6 and picked up by 2 p.m. on Severe Weather Awareness Day.

In other business, the council discussed a new sidewalk to the park. The town received a cost estimate from engineers at $56,000  and received $5,808 from a state Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG).

The sidewalk will be six-feet wide with a four-foot median between the sidewalk and Highway 114. Bartow Paving, the company that won the bid to repair already existing sidewalk in the town, will look at the are where the proposed sidewalk is to be placed, and provide a cost estimate of doing the job.

The proposed sidewalk will be about 1,065 feet long and go from Hammond Street to the park entrance. 

March 13, 2013
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Items Shoplifted From Walmart, Some Recovered

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Approximately $398 worth of items were shoplifted from Walmart last week.
 
According to the Sheriff's Department report, a Walmart employee said she saw a man she knew walk out of the store without paying for 62 different food and clothing items. A woman who reportedly lived near the suspect said she also saw him and spoke to him in the store.
 
The employee told deputies she would have video and more information available.
 
Officers searched the area and found all of the items still in the shopping card, across the railroad tracks, behind Walmart. The shoplifting was no where to be found. The food items had to be destroyed leaving the recovered items valued at $298. The incident was turned over to investigators.   
March 13, 2013
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Scam Reported

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A local woman told Chattooga County Sheriff's deputies that she keeps getting phone calls from a woman who says she's with Publisher's Clearing House, asking for her bank account information and credit card numbers.
 
According to the report, the woman said she had received about five phone calls in one day last week from the woman. She said she did not give out any of the information. She was told to block the cell phone number and if she received any more phone calls to contact law enforcement. 
March 12, 2013
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March 12 Arrest Report

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Listed on the March 12 Arrest Report at the Chattooga County Jail are:

Christopher Chase Deberry, Summerville — Probation Violation

Timothy Lee Elrod, Summerville — Disorderly Conduct; Willful obstruction of law enforcement officers by threats of violence; Simple battery

Amanda Ruth Gauze, Summerville — Theft by Shoplifting

Jeremy Cordaro Nixon, Lyerly — DUI/ Alcohol; No insurance/no proof of insurance; Driving without a valid/expired license

Michael Andrew Weaver, Summerville — DUI/Drugs; Failure to stop at a stop sign

Kristopher Nicholas Young, Summerville– Theft by shoplifting

Kasper Rose Beck, Summerville — Sentenced 

March 12, 2013
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YDG Convention April 12-14, Atlanta

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March 12, 2013
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Local Woman Victim of Internet Scam

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A local women reportedly was the victim of an internet scam that she reported to the Chattooga County Sheriff's Office on Friday.
 
According to the woman she had been using a web site on the internet to get babysitting jobs . She told deputies she received a check in the amount of #2,950 from  Congregation Rodeph Sholom. She said she also received a message to send $1500 of that money to a man named Stanley in Ohio through Western Union. The women reportedly sent the $1500 and the $126 transfer fee to the man. 
March 12, 2013
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Beer Stolen On Sunday

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Since you can't buy beer at Walmart on Sunday, a local man apparently decided to steal it.
 
The man allegedly shoplifted two, 30-packs of Bud Light beer from Walmart on Sunday and was sitting in the back of a vehicle with the beer when police arrived. 
 
Christopher Warren told police that he hadn't stolen the veer and it had been there since the day before. Store surveillance video proved otherwise. It showed Warren with the beer in a shopping cart. clothing Warren had on in the video was also found in the vehicle by police. Warren reportedly had the gray clothing on over his other clothing, which he took off when he exited the store. According to the report, one reason store employees noticed Warren leaving the store with the beer is because it was Sunday and beer cannot be sold in Chattooga County on Sunday. 
March 12, 2013
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Explosives Rock Houses In Price Bridge Road Area

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The Chattooga County Sheriff's office received complaints on Saturday that someone was shooting off explosives in the area of Price Bridge Road and the blasts shook houses in the area.
 
According to the report, when officers arrived they heard gun shots and one or two loud bangs. Two men reportedly were located in a field off Price Bridge road. One of the men said he and friends had been using legal explosives called Tannerite. He said they usually camp out on his family's property most weekends and shoot guns, and this was the first time they had used explosives. Officers told him they had received complaints from neighbors. The report does not indicate if deputies verified the legality of the explosives.
March 12, 2013
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Bill Would Allow Guns At Churches, Bars, Schools

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A contentious bill that would allow Georgians to take their firearms inside churches, bars and other traditionally gun-free zones may be up for vote soon in the state Senate.  
 
Speaking to Floyd County Republicans on Saturday, Representative Eddie Lumsden outlined House Bill 512, which would permit licensed carriers to keep their weapons on them in places like college campuses, unsecured government buildings, and even churches. As a member of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee, and as a retired Georgia State Trooper, Lumsden had a hand in the formation of the bill, which he says guarantees the second amendment to all Georgians.
 
“It’s a basic right—a right to self protection,” Lumsden says. “The constitution grants that right through the second amendment and we need to balance the fourth amendment against the second amendment with private property rights and those types of things. And that’s what this bill seeks to do– is just to use a common sense approach permitting the second amendment to truly be established and in-place in Georgia.” 
 
 
Lumsden says he received over 2,000 emails on this one bill, which was backed by the Georgia Carry Advocacy Group. Since its overwhelming passage in the house on Thursday, the amendment has moved to the Senate floor, where its fate is unknown.   
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