Entries by Walter Geiger

By Mike Ruffin

I recently read a 1955 novel by Leigh Brackett entitled The Long Tomorrow. It’s set a couple of generations after a nuclear war has devastated Earth’s cities. The new Constitution of postwar America forbids the building of cities. People live only in small towns and rural areas.

A major crisis in the book revolves around the desire of a man to build one more warehouse than he’s allowed by law. The limit he wants to violate is in place to keep a city from developing. Things don’t go well for him.
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The annual Milner Pecan Festival, set for this Saturday May 18, features new kinds of fun for everybody, according to organizer Tracey Alford.

Alford, a member of the city council who started the festival several years ago to raise money for improvements to City Park, said the festival will be open until 4 p.m., with the “Run Like a Nut” at 8 a.m. at Milner Baptist Church and the car show from 9-1 in the Lighthouse Restaurant parking lot.

The “Goodtime Sounds” group with DJ Jeff McDuffey, Community Ambulance director, will perform without charge in the morning hours. The Party Time Band, which also is donating the time, will offer music from 1-4 p.m., Alford said.

New this year is the Pecan Pie and Cake contest, “with cash prizes,” Alford noted. Vendors of food, crafts, clothing and other items now number 34. A balloon man and “slime-maker” highlight the Kid Zone, she added. The Lamar County High football team will supervise a “football throw” activity also.

“There are so many people and businesses who have given time and donations. They will all be thanked publicly after the festival,” Alford added.

University System vice chancellor Stuart Rayfield, a former interim president at Gordon State College, will deliver the keynote address at commencement exercises on the GSC campus Friday.
The ceremony begins with the traditional processional led by piper Michael Grest.

GSC will present 135 bachelor’s degrees and 158 associate degrees. Of the grads, 38% are 22-24 years old. Two are international students while 84% come from the college’s 14-county service area. In the class are 14 dual enrollees who will graduate from GSC and high school this month. One will be awarded a Gordon degree while still a junior in high school.

Between Monday, April 29 and Monday, May 6 the Barnesville Police Department made the following arrests: [Full Story »] 

Painters were busy inside the new, $1.5 million health department building here last week and it should open to the public within the next 60 days. The much-needed new facility is located at the corner of Redbud and Academy drives in Barnesville adjacent to the current facility on the old Barnesville Academy campus. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

The operators of an alleged local puppy mill have filed motions seeking to have all animals seized from their property at 900 Johnstonville Road March 13-14 returned here for examinations by their veterinarian. A hearing on the motion is set for Lamar superior court Thursday, May 9.
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