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Spaldig Couty ocials o Thursday received romTax Commissioer Sylvia Hollums the al umbersor the Fiscal Year 2014 tax digest, upo which the millagerate will be set.

Followig budget hearigs that were at times cote-tious, couty commissioers i late Jue set the FY 2014budget based upo a oe-mill icrease.

You dot actually set the millage rate util this time oyear whe the digest comes i. You set the budget with-out kowig what the tax digest is goig to be, SpaldigCouty Maager William Wilso said i early September.They (commissioers)

Two childre preparedor school o Tues-day, Sept. 3 by purpose-ully packig kives totake with them. Both were12-year-old Gri-Spald-ig studets ad were latercaught with the kives, butthe similarities o their situ-

atios ed there.Oe icidet occurred

at Atkiso ElemetarySchool, the other at Re-hoboth Road MiddleSchool. At Atkiso, a malestudet had brought alocked-blade pocket kieto school, while at Re-hoboth, a emale studettook a kitche parig kie

to school i her luch box.Also cetral to the story

were two dieret law e-orcemet agecies theGri Police Departmetad the Spaldig CoutySheris Oce with eachrespodig to a icidet.

Accordig to ocials othe Gri Police depart-met, which respoded

to Atkiso Elemetary,the th-grade boy withthe pocket kie ackowl-edged he had take it toschool because o a prioricidet with aother stu-det.

Cpl. Sta Phillips, the re-spodig ocer, said theboy reported he took thepocket kie to school be-

cause he had bee threat-eed by aother studetthe previous week, ad hewas araid.

Accordig to him [thestudet], the other littleboy was tellig him tosteal some moey romthe teacher ad whe hewouldt do it, the otherstudet said he was goig

to kill him, Phillips said.But kids say that kid othig ad dot really meait.

Phillips said his decisioto ot arrest the boy wasmade ater meetig withthe studet, his parets,his teacher ad Aveory Al-le, Atkiso Elemetaryspricipal.

Wisto Churchilloce said, We makea livig by what we get,we make a lie by what wegive. Faye Harmo ca cer-taily testiy to the truthi his statemet. Faye wasiitially ispired to give byher so, Kevi Harmo. Hewas kow or takig oodto eedy people ad ocegave the coat o his owback to a homeless he sawi the Krystal parkig lot.

Tragically, this compas-sioate youg ma was

murdered. Kevis murdercould have hardeed myheart toward others, butI wot let the me thatmurdered my so makeme bitter or steal my joy,says Harmo. Istead, sheouded Humbly Serv-ig Miistry i his hoor.

Humbly Servig Miistrysmissio is to give people ahad up, ot a had out. Aew years ago, Faye startedoticig eedy peopleiquirig or help i ob-taiig basic items suchas clothig, uriture adother items o Facebook.She bega doatig items

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"Are you smarter than a 10-year-old?" event raisesscholarship money for GSCS schools and students

The Heart o Georgia Board o Realtors hosted a localgameshow, "Are You Smarter Tha a 10-Year-Old?" eatur-ig Gri-Spaldig studets ad local busiess owers.

Held at First Baptist Church o Sept. 10, the evet's pur-pose was to raise moey or the schools who participatedas well as two scholarships; oe or a studet at each high

school.

Evet orgaizer Jo Colema stated that the evet wassuccessul ad raised $4,000. Colema hopes that the u-draiser will become a avorite aual commuity evetad be eve more successul i the uture.

Four teams competed agaist ve studets, with TheHeart o Georgia Board o Realtors team prevailig as thewiers, comprised o Rady Schultz, Christy Arold adButch Armistead (pictured above with the participatig

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The Ocial Code o Georgia Aotated (OCGA) listsevery law o Georgias books, with each statute out-liig the criteria required or a perso to be crimiallycharged with that oese. However, just because a persohas met the legal criteria, they may ot be charged with acrime, as law eorcemet ocers have the authority to ex-

ercise proessioal discretio i the ivestigative process.That discretio has bee exemplied by the recet schoolweapos icidets, with oly oe o ve childre whohave bee i possessio o such either a kie or gu ac-ig a crimial charge.

Accordig to Spaldig Couty Sheri Wedell Beam,there is o certai age at which a child will be charged witha crime, but there are actors routiely take ito cosid-eratio.

What we go by is the age ad metal capacity o thechild k owig right rom wrog, he said. Thats usually

aroud seve or eight. I most cases, childre i that agebracket kow right rom wrog, ad the school systemteaches them theyre ot to brig weapos to school.

He said it is ot a decisio lightly made, ad that it is attimes made ater persoel seeks outside cousel.

I theres ay questio, a lot o times, what well do, is calli a ivestigator rom the Crimial Ivestigatio Divisio.I theres still ay cosideratio or claricatio to be made,theyll actually call the District Attoreys Oce ad speak

with its sta to get their isight o it, Beam said. But theagai, whe the acts o the scee meet the criteria theelemets o that crime a lot o times, the deputy will goahead ad make the arrest.

He wet o to say that he is uaware o ay statutoryrequiremet that could be iterpreted as "zero tolerace"that would madate a law eorcemet ocer brig charg-es agaist a child, eve whe the criteria is met to do so.

Im ot amiliar with them i ay exists, but rom past ex-periece, atiowide, whe weapos have bee brought

The teacher, the pricipal, o oegave me the impressio he was aproblem studet a tickig timebomb othig but the typical mis-behavior, he said. For this child, ithis situatio, havig talked to theparets ad the little boy, I thoughtthe 10-day suspesio was adequate.Phillips said the law cocerigschool weapos icidets do ot ul-liy ocers discretio, which is whathe exercised i the Atkiso case.

I thik there is ocer discretio. Ithik it should be weighed case-by-case, depedig o each child, hesaid. Im ot goig to go with a zerotolerace policy ad say all studetsmust be charged. I it had bee a gu,it would have bee dieret. I kow a

kie is a weapo, but little boys playwith kives.However, he did say i he had received

dieret iput rom the schools sta,a dieret decisio would have beemade.I the pricipal had demaded it ad

said, We wat him charged, I wouldthave elt that I had ay choice but tole charges, because the school wasthe victim, he said. But to lock themup ad throw away the key? Come o.

The discretio o a deputy sheri re-sulted i a opposite outcome or theemale Rehoboth Middle School stu-det, who was arrested ad chargedwith possessio o a weapo at a pub-lic school a eloy.

Spaldig Couty Sheri WedellBeam, whose oce ivestigated that

icidet, said the 12-year-old sixth-grader, described as a hoors stu-det with o prior discipliary history,gave o idicatio she possessed thekie or ay reaso other tha to useit durig luch.

It appears she had brought the kie

to school to peel a peach. The ives-tigatio did ot reveal that ayoe

was threateed or that there was ayitet to threate or harm ayoe.

Theres o idicatio whatsoever thatthe little girl was havig ay problemwith ay other studet at school,Beam said. Its uortuate that thechild brought the kie to school orthat purpose, but evertheless, shebrought a weapo to school, adthereore, the charge was made.

I earlier school weapos icidets,ocials were alerted to the iractioby other cocered studets. How-ever, i this icidet, the realizatioresulted rom what could have beecosidered a dagerous situatio.

Aother studet saw the kie,grabbed it rom her ad bega wav-ig it aroud, Beam said. I dot be-lieve he threateed ayoe with it; he

was just playig aroud.He said school sta the iterveedad the ivestigative process bega.Beam said he was ucertai i thegirls paret was preset as the girlwas questioed.

Her paret was otied ad I be-lieve they did make cotact with theschool resource ocer, he said. Theydiscussed it with the juveile ad thethe they discussed it with the juve-iles mother at the school.

Georgia law does ot require that aparet be preset whe a juveile isquestioed as part o a crimial ives-tigatio.

Followig the girls iterview, shewas trasported to the Sheri s Ocei a deputys patrol car.

She was trasported because beigthe oese it is, there are certai pro-cedures that have to be doe at theSheris Oce, Beam said.

He wet o to explai that a stu-dets age ad their uderstadigo right ad wrog are actors used idetermiig whether charges will be

brought agaist a studet.I cases like this, that was take ito

cosideratio, he said.He wet o to say that his oce does

ot have a set stadard or policy thatoutlies how persoel are to addressthese types o icidets, but are ratherviewed o a case-by-case basis, withstate law beig the stadard.

We just basically go by the law. Imot sayig we have a ocial policy,

but as a stadard rule, I would alwaysexpect the law to be eorced as itswritte, Beam said.

Beam reported that the male Re-hoboth Road studet who hadgrabbed the kie ad waved itaroud was ot arrested ad chargedwith possessio o a weapo at a pub-lic school.

The other (male) studet who gotthe kie, Im told hes goig to acediscipliary actio i the school orthat, Beam said.

He did ot have urther iorma-tio o why ivestigators i his o-ce elected ot to charge the malestudet with the same crime as theemale studet.

Whe asked about the disparity,Assistat Superitedet Jim Smithreiterated that law eorcemet i-

vestigatios are separate rom schooldiscipliary actio.

That may be what law eorcemetdetermied. Law eorcemet is co-tacted ad they make their determi-atio o what they eed to do, Smithsaid. The (girls) 10-day suspesio is

just the schools part. Im ot sure howthey (the Sheris Oce) came to that.We report to the proper agecy, so Imot sure how they came to that deci-sio.

O the our weapos icidets i-volvig ve studets this year, schoolocials have released discipliary i-ormatio o two childre. They areow decliig to release the sameiormatio o the remaiig threestudets, icludig iormatio per-taiig to the disparity betwee the

Rehoboth Road Middle School kieicidet, as well as how it relates tothe Atkiso Elemetary School ici-det ivolvig a studet o the sameage.

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Ocer discretion can play pivotal role in determining criminal charges

I light o the recet rasho weapos brought toschool by studets, may

i the Gri-Spaldig com-muity are woderig whatthe phrase "zero tolerace"actually meas i terms opolicy ad procedure withithe school system.

Studet hadbooks deezero toleracei the studetcode o co-duct sectioo studeth a db ook s .

The deitiostates: "Zero

T o l e r a c e :There will becosequecesor seriousdrug, weap-o, ad youthg a g / h a t egroup oes-es o schoolproperty or ata school activ-ity, uctioor evet. Theschool systemwill be pro-active. Eachi d i v i d u a lcase will bereviewed."

Local schoolocials saythey view theterm zero tol-erace ot asa carved-i-stoe policy,

but rather a cocept.I thik it comes rom yearsago, but its ot a ormalpolicy, said Gri-Spald-ig Couty School SystemSuperitedet Dr. CurtisJoes. We have a policyor weapos; we have a pol-icy or drugs, but we dothave a policy etitled zerotolerace. Its a cocept.

He said the cocept isbased o the systems com-mitmet to ormally re-spod to each ad everyicidet i which a studetis i possessio o a weapoo school grouds.

Zero tolerace is correctas ar as its goig to be ad-dressed; its ot withi thepricipals discretio to de-cide ot to do aythig, hesaid. We have zero toler-ace were goig to ollowthrough with what our dis-ciplie hadbook says.

However, he said there iso policy outliig specicdiscipliary measures thatmust be meted out or suchiractios.

We have a discipliarymatrix with progressivedisciplie, Joes said, de-scribig it as a icremetalapproach. For us, zero tol-erace meas were goig

to look to our discipliarymatrix ad determie i apolicy has bee violated,ad move orward.

The GSCSS disciplie ma-trix rages rom Level I,which covers mior acts omiscoduct to Level IV the

m o s ts e r i o u sacts omisco-d u c t .P os s e s -sio oa weap-o os c h o o lgroudsis co-s i de r e d

a LevelIV o-ese.As thep o l i c y o ws t a d s ,the poli-cy giveso co-s i d e r -atio orwhy astudethas ao b j e c tthat isc l a s s i -ed asa weap-

o oschool grouds, ad thestudets iteded use is i-cosequetial.

It really doest matterwhat kid o kie it is. Thelaw says you caot briga kie to school. Wellprovide what you eed atschool, so I dot really getito what kid o kie itis, he said beore urtherelaboratig o the systemspolicy. Whether its a BoyScout kie, a pocket kie,a butter kie, a water guor a broke water gu, itdoest matter. All o thoseare illegal ad are ot to bebrought to school. It brigsdiscredit to that studet

ad their amily.Accordig to the Discipli-

ary Hadbook, a weapo isspecically cosidered tobe a kie, machete, razor,ice pick, explosive, loadedcae, sword cae, or re-arms, icludig pistol, rife,shotgu, pellet gu, BB guor other objects that reaso-

Disparate discipline: One student bringsknife to school as lunch tool and getscharged with a felony, while another bringsa knife in preparation of self-defense andreceives 10-day suspension

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Zero tolerance does not equalstandard disciplinary measures

"Zero Tolerance:There will beconsequencesfor serious drug,weapon, and

youth gang/hate group

offenses onschool propertyor at a schoolactivity, functionor event. Theschool systemwill be proactive.Each individualcase will bereviewed."

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AGeorgia photographyexhibit with atioalties will eature imagesrom photographers withi

the Middle Georgia regio,icludig at least two romGri ad Spaldig Cou-ty.

SlowExposures is i its13th year o showcasigphotographs that iterpretthe America rural South,ad each year has ea-tured photographers romaroud the atio. The pri-mary show will be hostedby the R.F. Stricklad Build-ig i Cocord, but also ea-ture satellite photographyexhibits as well, icludigoe at A novel Experiecei dowtow Zebulo.

Whe the calls or etrywet out, a Gri photog-rapher, who has bee asso-

ciated with SlowExposuresor more tha six years,submitted her etry itothe competitio.

Im ot oly a photogra-pher, but I am also a volu-teer. I help to examie port-olio works, MalgorzataFlorkowska said. This yearI am ot i the mai showi Cocord, but I do have a

photograph o display atthe satellite show that wewill have at The WhiskeyBodig Bar i Molea.

Florkowska, who lives adworks i Gri, keeps post-ers o past shows i heroce at the Uiversity oGeorgia Experimet Sta-tio where she works. Sheeels strogly about the arto photography strogeough to photographthe eye o a chicke orthis years SlowExposuresevet.

It is sort o a close-up oa chickes eye, Florkowskaexplaied. The exhibit iscalled Fis, Fur ad Feath-ers, ad I had the iterest-ig close-up. I had visitedmy rieds house ad shehad a very beautiul, specialbreed o chicke. It caughtmy attetio.Florkowska oted that get-

tig up close ad persoalwith a chicke was a small

price to pay or a photo-graph that potetially hu-dreds o people will soobe viewig o display.

For some it ca be ascary image, but I like it,Florkowska joked.

Florkowska jois Griresidet Gloria Treadway ibeig eatured i this yearsshow. Treadways work has

bee eatured i past Slow-Exposures exhibits, iclud-ig a prize-wiig etry i2009.

I etered ve dieretpieces. The chose oe wasoe o 60-somethig cho-se out o 800 etries. I amfattered, Treadway said.Treadway stated her etry,

which will be o display iCocord, was submitted ipart because o the emo-tioal coectio it madewith her as a photograph.

My etry, FityShades o Gray, is a very

special piece to me. I havethousads o photos thatI have take. This oe isprobably oe o the mostsimplistic pieces I have everetered. Treadway said.

It was a beautiul su-set with o color. I kowthat may seem to make osese, but this is a colorshot take with color lm.

The suset was all gray adwhite. Simple i color atrst but the more you lookat the photo you see moredetail. The horizo, cloudsad movemet o the wa-

ter ted to have more detailsice it has less color. It isot a black ad white prit.It is a color photo o all gray.I thik it is very uique orthat reaso.

Miler residet JoaeForde visited A novel Ex-periece recetly ater herso natha happeed tobe chose to have oeo his images o displaywithi the studet portioo the SlowExposures com-petitio.His image will be visible i

Cocord. Im very proud ohim, Forde said.

Accordig to the ociallist o selected participatsor the mai display i Co-cord, photographers romas ar away as Calioriaad Marylad will havetheir works appear i the2013 SlowExposures pho-tography exhibit.

Its brought a lot opeople here rom all over.

The largest percetageo people who help makethis happe are rom theGri-Spaldig Coutyarea. They are pheomeal.

They are all voluteers, adgive their time, talets adeorts every year, BredaFayard, oe o the origialphotographers o SlowEx-posures, said.

Its always iterestig tosee the works that comei ad represet the ruralsouth. Each photographerhas their ow idea or atheme, Adrea noel, whoassisted with hagig theartwork or this years show,said.

SlowExposures photogra-phy exhibit will take placerom Friday, September 20through Suday, Septem-ber 29.

For a caledar o SlowEx-posures evets ad loca-tios, visit www.slowexpo-sures.org.

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A historical Gri ladmark is curretlyudergoig a trasormatio ito a haut-ed house or the 2013 Hallowee seaso.

Workers have bee iside the old GriHotel, 132 W. Solomo St., or more thathree moths, turig ormer hotel roomsad hallways ito a hauted house experi-ece.

We are ot goig or mosters or theormal clich hauted house. What I havedoe is tried to do a lot o metal thigsthat people are araid o; theres a lot ostu that people are ormally araid o,ad so istead o doig a buch o goread murder ad all that stu, we are reallygoig more toward what people are araido o a daily basis, Liz Smallwood, Siister-Suites director, stated i a recet email to

The Grip.Accordig to Smallwood, the idea or a

hauted house iside the ormer hotel

property started whe property ower Tra-cy Wallace approached her with the pos-sibility o both reovatig the hotel adputtig the site to use i a evirometwhere the public could both ejoy ad ap-preciate the history ad architecture o thebuildig.Tracy had already doe some o the co-

structio work whe I came i. I desigedthe etire thig, Smallwood explaied.Ive bee workig with hauted housesor about seve years."

Smallwoods credits as a hauted houseethusiast have icluded voluteer workat Chambers o Horror i Atlata ad mul-

tiple amily-riedly hauted houses acrossGeorgia.

The Gri Hotel hauted house, owkow as SiisterSuites, will have a am-ily-riedly eviromet, Smallwood said.

Ive bee watig to do somethig likethat or kids because it is a amily riedlyhaut. My target audiece was origiallyabout the 16 -23 age rage, but ay ageca come i, although its highly recom-med that people uder 16 have a paretwith them.With ve stories to work with, Smallwood

oted that desigig somethig uiqueor each foor ad stairwell has bee a chal-

lege.A lot o it is based o some o my avor-

ite horror lms, but basically I just kid oembraced the origial architecture o thehotel ad it spawed rom there. Some othe rooms are desiged how they are posi-tioed ad were origially desiged whe

the hotel was costructed.Costructed i 1910, the Gri Hotel has

had a history uique to dowtow Griad surroudig properties.

Whe the rst electric streetlights wereplaced i dowtow Gri, it was the Gri- Hotel site that was chose or their loca-tios.What I am tryig to do is brig i the his-

tory o Gri i ad get people more i-volved i uderstadig their tow, Small-wood said. So ar, everybody that has goethrough has give me positive eedback otheir experieces.

The SiisterSuites hauted house willope to the public Thursday Sudaysrom October 3 november 2. Cost or ad-missio will be $20.Smallwood is still searchig or voluteers

to work with the hauted house i all po-sitios, icludig areas such as usherig,ticket takig ad eve perormig.People ca still be ivolved o the last day

i they wat. They just eed to cotact meby email at [email protected]. Im

hirig actors o all ages, but obviously peo-ple uder the age o 18 are goig to eedparetal coset. Aybody that is ito hor-ror ad scarig people ad just havig uca come ad voluteer.

For more iormatio visit www.siister-suites.com.

SlowExposures 2013 exhibits chicken eye, grey sunset from Griffin photographers

Gloria Treadway's entry o a sunset, titled "Fity Shades o Grey,"was shot on color flm. The lack o color in the sunset is what caughtTreadway's eye and inspired the picture.

Fins, Fur and Feathers, byMalgorzata Florkowska, whowas inspired by her riend'sspecial breed o chicken.

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Let us be still so wemay hear the whis-pers o God.

These words are writteacross a woode plaquerestig i my suroom, ad Isee them daily. Yet, still I ca

orget to heed them. I kewthis very article was alreadypast due, but I cotiued tostare at a blak scree.

Its a discouragig eelig-- to be uispired. Adthis is exactly what happesto me whe I ail to be still.Whe I ail to slow dow. Tootice. To watch, careully,lie happeig aroud me.Istead, I ca d myselwakig up with the sole i-tet o just makig the dayhappe... istead o otic-ig the day.

I become a participator ilie more tha a observer.Participatig is ecessary.But we dot participatewell whe we dot take the

time to observe well.Whe Im a observer, I am

livig i the ow momets.I am careul how I respodto those aroud me. I amcareul with my toe.

I am careul to otice my8-year-olds hads as shescoops the horse eed itothe buckets ad the care-ul to watch her walk acrossthe eld to be a source olove or those large aimals.

I am careul to otice myhusbads ace ad see thathe eeds my ecourage-met.

I am careul to otice thesigle mother i the storewho cat pay or all o her

ood she struggled to placeo the couter while hold-ig her squirmy 2-year-old.

Im careul to otice howbig the sky is ad to try to

wrap my head aroud theact that the Creator o it allactually thiks about me.

I am careul to observe lie.To otice it. To be thakulor it. Ad, to participatewell i it. Because, Im still.I still my thoughts. I still mybody. Ad, I hear His whis-pers i the midst o all thatis goig o aroud me. I seeHim i the big thigs adi the small thigs. Ad, so,

Im ispired. Ispired to lovethe way He loves. Ispiredto capture ad rememberthe small momets. I-spired to pe words to theemotios foodig my soul.

Whe is the last time youoticed lie? Whe is thelast time you observedmore tha you partici-pated? You dot have tolook or God i the obscureplaces. Hes everywhere adi everythig. I the youghads o that 8-year-old. Ithe ace o your spouse. Ithe strugglig arms o thatsigle mother. Above you.Below you. Withi you. Adwhe you stop to observe...

Whe you become still,you will hear His whispers.Ad you will see His ace.

Be still and know that I amGod. Psalm 46:10

Observing Life

Without a doubt, juic-ig has become morepopular. More people are

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juice wheever they like.

May people probablydidt kow that juicighas bee aroud log be-ore they might have beebor. The norwalk Juicer,the world's rst juicer, wasiveted i the 1930s by Dr.norma Walker. For moretha 70 years, Dr. Walker studied livig oods, maily ruitsad veggies, to develop a philosophy whereby the bestway to utritioal health was with a diet o predomiatelyraw ood ad juices, which he labeled The Livig Food.The norwalk is still sold today, alog with may other ad-aptatios or improvemets o the rst product to makepeople wat to buy it.

May people ask me i juicig is a good idea, ad whatshould they use i they decide to try it. The aswer I usuallygive is, there are always pros ad cos to juicig, ad aterlookig at both you should determie i juicig is right oryou.

Oe o the pros o juicig is that it ca be a healthy adbeecial way or some people to get their ruits ad veg-gies i they caot get them ay other way, especiallypicky eaters like kids or older adults with demetia.

I you have close-to-expirig produce, juicig ca pro-vides a quick alterative to throwig out ad wastigmoey you spet o groceries.

Aother beet to juicig is the sugar o the ruit cahide other great, ot-so-tasty igrediets to make a morecomplete ad llig meal.

Supporters o juicig also state some possible pros suchas boostig the immue system, better absorptio outriets, detoxicatio, reducig the risk o cacer, adweight loss, but these claims have ever bee scieti-cally prove. Aother pro or juicig is you are makig thedrik yoursel, thereore you kow the juice is made rom100 percet ruit juice i you are usig just the ruit ad o

added sugar or sweeteers.However, whe ruits ad veggies are juiced, the process

results i ewer vitamis ad mierals because the utri-et-rich ski is let behid by removig the pulp, whichcotais ber. Uless youre bledig whole ruits advegetables i a bleder, or addig aother ber source likefaxseed back ito the juice, youre losig much o the pulpad ber whe you press juice. This roughage is oe o thebiggest beets o ruits ad vegetables, ad its beig let

out i the juicig process.Just because you are juicig, does ot mea you will loseweight, You actually may eat more overall calories, whichwill lead to weight gai ad icreased blood glucose. Justlike ay other meal, its importat to cosider servig sizesad sugar cotet.

A small to medium-small piece o ruit has about 60 calo-ries (o bigger tha a baseball). Oe cup o o-starchyvegetables (like spiach) has about 25 calories. Ay 60-cal-orie servig rom 100 percet ruit juice equals about ourouces (about cup). A typical juicig is usually 12 to 16ouces. I you are juicig our or ve ruits to reach thatmark, the calories will start addig up.

Juicig also produces a cocetrated source o aturalsugars rom the ruit. I you cosume it without ay otherood, juice passes relatively quickly through your stomachto your small itestie, where the both the utriets adthe sugar are rapidly absorbed ad ca cause the bloodsugar to rise very quick. That ca be ot healthy or peo-ple who are diabetic ad tryig to maitai or watch highblood sugar.The biggest co to juicig ca be the time ad cost. A

juicer aloe ca cost rom $50 to $500, depedig o whatyou are lookig or. You also have to buy lots o ruits adveggies to make juice.I reality juicig is ot ecessary i you just eat oe or two

pieces o ruits ad three to ve o-starchy veggies i theday to save time ad moey.

I the ed i you decide to juice, remember to add thigsto it to make it a more balaced, complete meal or sack.For example, add the appropriate servig size or a healthylea protei ad ber such as groud faxseed, peautbutter, pasteurized egg whites i the carto or plai lowat yogurt.

Be sure to talk to your doctor ad dietitia beore start-ig juicig i order to prevet potetial drug ad utrietiteractios.

Does juicing do your body justice?

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Fall is almost ociallyhere ad i yourelike most people, youreprobably woderig howsummer wet by so ast.

Those trips to the lake orthe beach are adig imemory ow, givig wayto helpig kids with home-work, rakig leaves adthe other rites o autum.Ad just as your day-to-day tasks chage with theseasos, so, too, will yourmoey maagemet adivestmet activities at di-eret phases o your lie.Heres how these scearios

might look:Phase oe: Plaig or

possibilities Whe youreyoug ad youre startigout i the workig world,your most immediate -acial cocers may be topay o studet loas adthe, possibly, save or adow paymet o a house.

To address both thesegoals, youll eed to bud-get careully. Ad yet, eveat this stage o your lie, youshould start thikig aboutsavig or retiremet be-cause time is your biggest

ally. Cosequetly, i youwork or a employer whooers a retiremet pla,such as a 401(k), cotributewhat you ca aord. At thevery least, put i eoughto ear your compaysmatchig cotributio, ioe is oered. You may alsowat to ope a IdividualRetiremet Accout (IRA).

Phase two: Gearig up orother goals As you movethrough lie, ad possiblybegi a amily, youll likelydevelop other acialgoals, such as helpig yourchildre pay or college.You may wat to cosiderivestig i a tax-adva-

taged college savigs ve-hicle, such as a 529 pla.Also, its importat to haveeough lie isurace toprotect your youg amily.

Phase three: Rampig upor retiremet Whe youreach the mid-to-later stag-es o your workig lie, youmay d you have more -acial resources available,as your earigs may haveicreased sigicatly, yourchildre have grow adyour mortgage may evebe paid o. I you are otalready doig so, max out,i possible, o your 401(k)ad IRA. Ad i you stillhave moey available to i-vest, you may wat to lookor other tax-advatagedretiremet vehicles.

Phase our: Reapig therewards now its timeto ejoy the results o yourlietime o hard work adyour may years o sav-ig ad ivestig. You mayhave to tap ito your retire-met accouts, so youlleed to choose a sustai-able aual withdrawalrate. The amout you with-draw each year rom your

IRA ad 401(k) depedso a variety o actors: howmuch youve saved, the lie-style youve chose, yourestimated logevity, howmuch you have availablerom other sources, ad soo.

Phase ve: Examiigyour estate plas Dur-ig your retiremet years,i ot sooer, youll wat toreview your estate plas sothat you ca leave the leg-acy you desire. I you havea eed to create or updateyour legal documets, suchas a livig trust ad dura-ble power o attorey, youshould cosider cosultiga qualied estate-plaigattorey.

Youll eed to make theappropriate acial adivestmet decisios atmay dieret times overthe years. This may souddautig, but with dili-gece ad disciplie, youca discover the paths totake as you move throughthe seasos o your lie. This article was written by Edward Jones for use

by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

We have all bee there: tossigad turig through the ight,solvig all o the worlds problemsexcept your ow, ad watchig somedigital clock tell you how close you areto havig to get up ad start the dayphysically wrecked.

May o us lead ast-paced lives.

We have resposibilities at work, ithe amily, with rieds, at church, iproessioal associatios, at school,etc. Hours are log, but we push our-selves because we are goal-orietedad deeply araid o ailure or miss-ig a deadlie. Stress maagemet issomethig other people do who havemore time o their hads tha we do.Does this soud amiliar?Forty millio Americas have chroic

sleep disorders, ad about hal thatumber have occasioal sleep prob-lems. This results i approximately100,000 vehicle accidets, 1500deaths, ad 71,000 ijuries each year.I act, the Departmet o Trasporta-tio is about to impose sleep studieso truck drivers i a attempt to curbthe accidet rate.

Our bodies are desiged aroud cir-cadia rhythms. Scheduled processesi our bodies have to do with edo-crie uctios (hormoe secretio)that keep our bodies i workig order.Sleep is a part o this process.

Oe o the cosequeces o beigsleep deprived is that your brai justdoes ot work well. You may haveproblems thikig durig the daybecause you are just plai tired. Thiswill iterere with your work ad com-poud your stress.

It is also true that iadequateamouts o sleep will help you gaiweight. Over time, the combiatioo stress, iterruptio o those circa-dia rhythms, ad sleep deprivatiomay well lead you dow the road toobesity ad all o the problems associ-

ated with it, icludig cardiovasculardisease, diabetes, or cacer.

Studies have show that log peri-ods i rot o the televisio, com-

puter, or Iteret produce sleep de-privatio ad childre. They go to bedlater, sleep ewer hours, ad eel tiredthe ext day.

What ca you do? First, o week-eds, try to go to bed at the sametime you do o weekights. This helpsyou to stay o some semblace o aschedule. I you exercise i the eve-ig, give yoursel at least three hourscool-dow time beore goig to bed.Avoid brai stimulatio, icludigwork, balacig a checkbook, com-puter games, etc. or three hours be-ore retirig.

Some people have a sleep ritual de-siged to ehace relaxatio, such asa bubble bath. Music is a tool you maywat to employ, as research tells us ithelps childre, older adults, ad criti-cally ill patiets to rest.

Take a resh look at your mattress. Isit comortable? Does it sag? Do youawake eelig like you have justplayed ootball? I so, come over tothe cliic ad check out our memory

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awake with pai i the eck, back,or extremities. noctural pai may besigicat beyod the musculoskel-etal system, so we should check thatout with a good exam.

I you sleep with or ear someoe,d out i you sore. I you soreloudly ad d yoursel allig asleepi the daytime, you may have sleepapea. It is a commo problem, ad apotetially serious oe. We ca do asleep study or you i you have thoseissues.

We have used a mild muscle relaxerwith our patiets that may be helpul.It cotais valeria, which will helpyou to relax ad sleep more aturallywithout a hagover the ext day. Wehave also supplemeted with mela-toi to help restore atural circadiarhythms. I typically discuss sleepigposture with our patiets as well. Istrogly recommed sleepig oyour side with a pillow that is rmad tall eough to keep your headlevel with the rest o your body. Ad-ditioally, I recommed that you geta body pillow ad throw your up-per kee ad arm over it so that theweight o your extremities is take oyour spie. Whe you roll over, takethe body pillow with you so that youare supported through the ight. Youmay d that you are much betterrested the ext day.

I you are havig issues gettigeough rest, you may ot actually re-alize it. You may oly kow that you

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Oe hudred thirty-ve years ago, i 1878, Mt. GileadBaptist Church was ouded i Pike Couty by GabrielPitts. The church started out as a simple brush arbor thatwas built across the street rom Mr. Pitts home. Serviceswere held there or moths, util two acres o lad weredoated to the church. Pitts doated the majority o thebuildig materials ad the church was built by the Pitts

amily ad the rst charter members. Over the years, thechurch has udergoe tremedous growth. May reova-tios have occurred ad ew buildigs ad sactuarieshave bee built.O September 29th, the church will celebrate this joyousoccasio with a 135th Aiversary Homecomig. The pas-tor, Fred Thompso, will preach, as well as ormer pastorsthat have bee asked to atted the special occasio. Thechurch has also ivited past choir members ad musiciasto participate i a old-ashioed sigig ater dier othe grouds. The members are excited to celebrate i sucha old ashioed way. We havet had a true homecomigsice 1992, so it will be woderul to see old rieds adamily that come, states Pam Mills, part o the celebratiocommittee. We aret sedig ormal ivitatios, but wehope that ayoe with ties to Mt. Gilead will atted ad e-

joy this special evet, adds Mills. Mt. Gilead Baptist Churchis located at 14550 Highway 19 i Gri. For urther ior-matio, cotact the church at 770-228-8075.

Thursday, Sept 12-22; MaiStreet Players presetsPump Boys & Diettes;

Thursdays, Fridays adSaturdays at 7:30 p.m. adSudays at 3 p.m.; or moreiormatio call 770-229-9916 or visit ww w.mai-streetplayers.org.

Friday, September 13; KiwaisClub o Gri - FairgroudsFarmers Market; Ope eachFriday 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.; Po-tetial vedors o ruit advegetables should cotactWade Hutcheso at [email protected].

Saturday, September 14; GriTaste & Music Festival; Parkat Sixth ad Solomo Streeti dowtow Gri will belled with music ad goodood; 4 - 10 p.m.

Friday, September 20 - Sun-day, September 22; AualBaresville Buggy Days.Kick o the party with theAual Cocert ad StreetDace held at the Ritz ParkAmphitheater at 7 p.m.Friday ight. Parade willbe held o Saturday at 2p.m. For more iormatiovisit http://baresville.org/buggy-days/

Saturday, September 21; SuperSaturday at Gri-SpaldigCouty Library; Talk likea Pirate; ages 4-12; crats,games ad stories; 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 26; GriArea Cocert Associatiopresets Georgia WoodwidQuitet; Gri Auditorium;7:30 p.m.

Wednesday & Thursday, Septem-ber 28 & 29; Georgia GourdSociety; Kiwais buildig o

Kiwais Fairgrouds; gourdart or sale, make ad takeclasses ad demostratios,ad more; ree admissio.

Friday, September 27; SecodAual Project Share Char-ity Gol Touramet; GriCity Park Gol Course.; ormore iormatio cotactChris Walker at 678-588-4244.

Saturday, September 28;Spaldig Regioal Hospi-tal Scrub Ru 5k; 9 a.m.;or more iormatio visitwww.scrubru5k.evet-brite.com/

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The Seior Issues Commit-tee o the Spaldig Col-laborative is sposorig itsaual o-cost Coereceor Seiors. It will be heldo Tuesday, September24, 2013, at the SpaldigSeior Ceter rom 9:30to 2:00 P.M. Speakers willbrig iormatio o iter-est to caregivers ad allcocered. Breakast adluch will be provided.

There will be a time o uad ellowship. Exhibitorswill be o had to presetad explai their oerigsi the various areas. Doorprizes will be give at theed o the coerece.

Sice space is lim-ited, those wishig to at-ted should call 678-972-1651 to reserve a space.I urther iormatio iseeded, please call JamesJohsto at 404-983-1192.

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The Gri Area Cocert Associatio (GACA) opes its 2013-14 seaso with the Georgia Woodwid Quitet o Thurs-day, September 26, 2013 at the Gri Auditorium o East

Taylor Street. The doors ope at 7:00 PM ad the cocertbegis at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $20 or the cocert. However,seaso tickets or the ull ve cocert series are just $60 admay be purchased at the door o the ight o this cocert.

The GACA is pleased to aouce it will cotiue its logstadig policy o admittig all childre uder the age o18 ree whe accompayig a paid adult. We wat ouryouth to be exposed to the variety o music ad perormerswe preset i our cocerts. By admittig them ree wheaccompaied by a paid adult, we hope to ecourage par-ets, gradparets or amily rieds to brig the childreout to ejoy the cocerts, remarked Judy Brewer, Member-ship Chairma o GACA.

The Georgia Woodwid Quitet is a residet aculty e-semble i the Uiversity o Georgia School O Music. Siceits oudig i 1967, the Quitet has maitaied a activeschedule perormig woodwid chamber music rom theearly quitets o Dazi ad Reicha to twetieth-ceturycompositios. The Quitet champios ew compositiosor woodwids ad will thrill the audiece with its classicalad eergetic style o play.

Art Hammod, GACA Presidet, stated, This rst cocerto our seaso will be dedicated to two very special idi-viduals who worked with our orgaizatio or may years;Caroly Harr ad Rose Johs, both o whom have recetlypassed away. Caroly served as Presidet o GACA or mayyears ad Rose served as our hospitality chairma isurigthe eeds o each perormer were met ad take care o.Both have bee missed ad we wat to recogize theircotributios to GACA by dedicatig this cocert to theirmemory.Tickets may be purchased at the door begiig at 7 p.m.

or at Su City Peachtree Ameities Ceter, Gri-SpaldigCouty Chamber o Commerce, FnB mai oce ad Zebu-lo brach, A novel Experiece Bookstore i Zebulo, orby check to GACA, 1131 Skylie Dr., Gri, GA 30224.

For more iormatio call 770-228-3229 or visit the GACAwebsite at www.gricocerts.org

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For the secod year, Gri- has bee chose as thelocatio or the GeorgiaGourd Societys 2013 au-al estival ad competitio.

The Georgia society is thePi Chapter o the America

Gourd Society, a orgai-zatio promotig iteresti all activities relatig togourds, icludig cultiva-tio, historical uses, gourdshow competitio, cratwork ad artistic decora-tio. This years show willbe held September 28 ad29, 2013 i the Kiwaisbuildig at the Kiwais Fair-grouds.

The show will eature thework o gourd artists adcrat people rom aroudthe state competig orawards i skill levels romovice to grad master.Other activities will icludeeducatioal demostra-tios ad literature, make

ad take classes ad tuto-rials ad historical displays.Vedors will also be ohad oerig artist, carv-ig ad cratig supplies,gourd art, as well as grow-ers with a geerous supplyo raw gourds. It looks tobe a iterestig ad asci-atig way or the amily tosped the day, ad the bestpart is admissio is ree.

The Georgia Gourd So-ciety is made up o eightlocal clubs, called patch-es, which are scatteredthroughout the state. Lo-

cal society members areow lookig at ormig apatch i the Gri area.

The group would meet or acouple hours oce a mothto exchage ideas, learrom experieced artists,

improve skills ad ejoy thecompay o like-midedpeople. Me ad womelookig or a ew hobby arewelcome as well as visitorsad the curious.

Visit the Georgia adAmerica Gourd Societyswebsites or details admembership iormatio,historical backgroud adphotographs o gourd artrom past shows. There arealso ree tutorials o a um-ber o topics relatig togourd art ad cratig.

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ably ca be cosidered a weapo icludigbut ot limited to objects that appear to beweapos ad may be possessed, hadled,distributed, or trasmitted i a maer i-dicatig that they are i act weapos.

Although the weapos policy applies tostudets o all grade levels, ot all disci-pliary measures are used throughout thesystem, as elemetary studets, regard-less o age, ace lesser degrees o potetialpuishmet that do studets o secodaryschools, as expulsio is at this time, ot aoptio.

I thik you kow that Georgia law cur-retly requires we have a alterativeschool settig or studets i grades 6through 12, Joes said. The law has o re-quiremet or a alterative school settig

or elemetary studets.He explaied that at oe time, the GSCSS

did have a program called C&C, which wassomethig like a alterative school or theearliest grade levels. However, that has otbee uctioig or a umber o years.With o program o that ature i place,studets may ot be expelled rom theschool system.

Asked i they believe it may be ecessaryto recosider the discipliary matrix as it

applies to the elemetary grades due to aicreasig umber o childre who are per-petratig iractios at youger ages thai years past, Joes reereced the ormerC&C program whe he said, The boardmay decide thats somethig we eed tolook at ad I may decide thats somethigwe eed to cosider, but I try to rememberrom the lessos weve leared.

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eed, ad soo bega ask-ig rieds ad amily todo the same. A ew mothslater, she was ispired to setup a Agel Tree at PapaWillies i Williamso. TnTChristmas Tree Farm do-ated a tree ad she lledit with agel orametscotaiig Christmas wishlists o area childre. Therespose was overwhelm-ig. The miistry was ableto provide Christmas pres-ets or over sevety ami-lies o Christmas morig.Realizig the eed or basicecessities i the commu-ity, Faye bega HumblyServig Miistries out o

her ow home.At rst, Faye collectedyard sale letovers, cloth-ig, old uriture herselad distributed them toeedy amilies that cameto her. She soo bega torealize that her home could

ot hold the amout odoatios she was receiv-ig rom the commuity.

Thereore, the decisio wasmade to move the miistryto a retal home i Zebu-lo. There, she ad her vol-uteers receive, sort, adorgaize doatios addistribute them to amiliesi the area.

May days we may serveve or six amilies, whileother days we serve olyoe. But, servig that oeperso i eed is worthit, Faye states. The mi-istry was eve able tohouse a lady ad her threechildre who were beigabused. They were able toeed ad provide cloth-ig or them. Because othe growth o the orgai-zatio, o September 1st,they are movig to a big-

ger buildig i Zebulo.The Miistry survives o

doatios ad ecouragesthe commuity to joi to-gether to provide or theless ortuate. HumblyServig is truly a commu-ity eort o compassio

ad true love or huma be-igs. Its simply heartbreak-ig how much we take orgrated. We are about serv-ig God ad lovig peoplead helpig others. I I dotlike somethig, the I musttry to chage it. It hurts myheart to see people su-erig ad i eed, so I amworkig toward helpigthem ad hope the com-muity will joi me, addsFaye.

Moetary doatios cabe cotributed to HumblyServig Miistries at ayarea Wells Fargo Bak, orby mail. Ay clothig, ur-iture or houseware doa-tios ca be made to theorgaizatio at 516 Gri- Street i Zebulo. AterSeptember 1st, doatiosca be delivered to the ewlocatio at 7791 Highway

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to school, the public iter-est ad the act that weretryig to esure theres asae eviromet, we takeay report o a weapo atschool seriously, Beam said.I most cases, I would haveto say, whe its a violatio

o the law that could beprosecuted, were probablygoig to make the charge.

Whe asked how his ocewould view questioable i-cidets ivolvig o-lethalitems such as water gus,Beam said, Well, I wouldlook at cases like that wewould look at the itet owhy the child brought it toschool. That would gureito whether charges wouldbe brought. That would bea icidet where we wouldcosult with the District At-toreys or State Solicitorsoce whoever would beprosecutig the case.

Chie Frak Stricklad,o the Gri Police De-partmet, said his ocers

should use their discretioto determie itet i eachcrimial ivestigatio, re-gardless o the potetialcharge.

Youve got to have itet,ad i the itet was ot tocommit a crime, you dotarrest. Thats i every stat-ute, he said.

With specic regard toschool weapos icidets,he believes his ocersshould also cosider thewishes o school admiistra-tors.

The other part is theschool would have to agreewith what we did. I thikwe have to cosider whatthe school wats us to do,Stricklad said.

Superitedet Dr. CurtisJoes said the school sys-tem ejoys a good workigrelatioship with both theGPD ad the SCSO.

You have two dieretsystems that are operatig.You have the school systemad you have law eorce-met. We respect the laweorcemet agecies adtheir role. We respect theirright to determie how tocoduct ivestigatios adwe appreciate that theyrespect our role. We dottry to tell them i someoeshould be arrested or ot,Joes said. We will take aicidet, look ad see i arule has bee violated adi were required to report it

to law eorcemet, we do.I we have to report it to theState Departmet, we do.

The SROs (school resourceocers) ad admiistratorsdo get together ad talk,but separate decisios haveto be made.

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havet voted o a tax i-crease; they voted o abudget that will probablyrequire a tax icrease.

Havig ow received thetax digest rom Hollums,Wilso said it was much ascouty ocials expected.It came i at just aboutwhere we aticipated itwould, he said. It looks likewere goig to adopt themill rate. Its goig to be aoe-mill icrease 16.01.Wilso explaied that themillage rate caot be set

util the tax digest comesi, ad the tax digest ca-ot be alized util thedeadlie or property taxappeals has passed. Assess-mets were mailed to allSpaldig Couty residets

July 8, ad the deadlie orlig a appeal expired ilate August.

We developed a budgetthat aticipated propertytaxes or the geeral udat $22,342,003, he said,addig that the couty setsthe millage rate based othe curret years budget.Wilso said he is ow ithe process o determiigthe dates or the madated

public hearigs ad a spe-cial-called meetig durigor the purpose o alizigthe budget.

He said he has ot yetset the dates or the threemadatory public hearigs

that will be held prior to theal adoptio o the mill-age rate, but the date orthat special-called Boardo Commissioers meetighas bee set or 6:30 p.m.Sept. 30.


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