Operation Southern Shield to start today Norman resigns from city clerk job
The crackdown on speeders aims to save lives.
MONDAY
Armuchee-Glenwood-Everett Springs School Reunion Committee for 2018 will meet at the Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, on Monday at 11:30 a.m. to discuss plans for next year’s gathering. For more information call 706-291-8539 or 770-547-0613.
Georgia Northwestern Technical College Youth Success Academy is offering free TIG- and MIGwelding classes for eligible 18-24-year-olds starting Monday at 8 a.m. Welding equipment, boots and a transportation stipend will be provided. Participants will receive both a TIG- and MIG-welding certificate upon completion of the course, and they will be eligible for on-the-job training. Contact Alisa KinnebrewOwens at 706-295-6514 or akinnebrew-owens@gntc.edu to find out how to apply.
American Legion Post 52 Adams-CokerCovington-Waters, 1205 Calhoun Ave., will meet Monday at 7 p.m. This meeting will include swearing-in of officers for 2017-2018. All veterans welcome. For more information call 706-3460119 or 706-728-8683.
Registration Main Elementary and North Heights Elementary students will be held at North Heights Elementary School, 26 Atteiram Drive, from Monday through July 26 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. daily. For questions or more information call 706-295-4442.
American Legion Post 506 will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at 21 Peachtree St. For more information call 706291-2327.
The CWA Retirees will meet Monday at 11:30 a.m. at Moe’s Original Barbeque, 101 W. First St. For more information call 706-802-7576.
Rome High School will host a PTO meeting for parents of ninth- through 12thgrade students Monday at 6 p.m. in the school’s media center, 1000 Veterans Memorial Highway.
TUESDAY
Sand Springs Church, Sand Springs Road, Texas Valley, will hold its annual cemetery and church cleaning Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Bring lawn equipment, household cleaning supplies, and insect spray or a covered dish and drinks. Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs will be provided.
The Rome Kiwanis Club is having its annual peach sale, with proceeds to benefit scholarships for local students. Orders are due by
with pickup at State Mutual Stadium on July 28 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Email orders to JLPillsbury0114@ aol.com or order by mail at John Pillsbury, 106 East Valley Road, Rome, GA 30161. Make checks out to Rome Kiwanis Club. All orders must be prepaid — $40 for a 25-pound box, $25 for a 12½-pound box and $15 for a 6¼-pound box. For more information call 706-5064185 or 706-295-2201.
The
will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at New Armuchee Baptist Church, 5385 Martha Berry Highway. For information on the program, visit the club’s website at www.armucheeruritan.org.
Maggie Eslinger (left), 17, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Hannah Clayton, 17, of Ocilla, pack up after their match Saturday at the Rome Tennis Center during the Georgia State Junior Open.
Freddie Lawrence V (left), 14, and his father, Freddie Lawrence IV, both of Peachtree City, along with Ted Shepherd, 15, of Atlanta, look over brackets. The tournament will continue through Tuesday.
Photos by Spencer Lahr,
Floyd Landlord Association will meet Tuesday, at 6 p.m. at Fuddruckers, 595 Riverside Parkway. Guest speakers from Green Home Solutions of Georgia will explain a Georgia Power program that allows landlords to have rental property insulated for little or no cost. For more information call Charlie Ford at 706-766-3853.
The hold its monthly Lunch Bunch meeting Tuesday at Fuddruckers, 595 Riverside Parkway, from noon-1 p.m. Rome attorney Joel Thornton will speak about religious freedom in the United States. Arrive early to order from the menu. For more information contact Mike Morton at 706346-3400.
Keep Rome Floyd Beautiful Community Appearance Index Tour
will conduct its
on Thursday. The index is designed to visually assess and determine the state of the community appearance in regard to litter and other appearance indicators. For more information call 706-236-4456.
Parent to Parent of Georgia Georgia Division of Family and Children Services Rome News-Tribune
Thursday from 2-4 p.m. at the Rome-Floyd County Library, 205 Riverside Parkway. The session will cover a series of math manipulatives and a system of learning invented by Jim Franklin for all students including those with visual impairments. For more information call 706-506-8411 or email slide-a-round@ comcast.net.
will hold a board meeting Thursday at 10 a.m. at 3 Riverside Industrial Parkway. The public is invited.
Tallatoona Head
The
early childhood development program has enrollment opportunities for eligible families at no cost in Floyd County for children
ages 3 or 4 for the 20172018 school year. For more information call Ayana Williams, Micdalia Rosorio or Melinda Ledbetter at 706295-0445 or visit www. tallatoonacap.org. be at the Rome-Floyd County Library on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to assist with benefits and filing claims with the Veterans Administration. For any questions or to set up an appointment for another time, call 609-410-1076.
To list an event email RomeNewsTribune@RN-T. com or call 706-290-5252. To have an event listed in Roman Record as well, please send it at least 10 days in advance.
CALHOUN — Georgia will join South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee for a regional week long speed enforcement initiative beginning today and running through Sunday. It’s called “Operation Southern Shield.”
The Calhoun Police Department, along with state and local law enforcement agencies, will be stepping up patrols to enforce posted speed limits on all highways, roads and streets. The crack down on speeders during the next week is to assure everyone “Arrives Alive.”
“We’re not trying to write tickets, we’re trying to get you to slow down. But guess what? If you don’t slow down, we will write you a ticket,” Director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Harris Blackwood said.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, speeding is the cause of 30 percent of the traffic deaths in the United States each year.
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ARAGON — The City of Aragon will be bringing on a new City Clerk to take over after the former clerk called it quits this week.
Sandy Norman, who had held the position since 2015, left her job after working out a twoweek notice for the city, according to Mayor Garry Baldwin.
He said that she did not provide a reason for leaving the city when she gave her resignation.
Baldwin said current court clerk Christie Langston is expected to take over the job if she is approved by the council for the promotion during their session on Thursday. Amy Liggoms is expected to become the new court clerk under those circumstances.
Norman has been the city clerk since 2015, when she took over the role after previously being named the assistant city clerk. She also previously held jobs with the Polk School District as well.
She had no comment on her departure from the city.
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