Go fish! (now even at night)

Anglers will be able to fish all night next month at two public fishing areas in Georgia.

The Department of Natural Resources’ public fishing areas are normally open from sunrise to sunset. But on the first four Fridays in August, designated fishing areas will be open at night.

The first all-night fishing opportunity is slated for the Char- lie Elliot Wildlife Center in Jasper and Newton counties on Aug. 3. The following Friday, the Dodge County public fishing area will open at night. On Aug. 17, the Charlie Elliot Center will again host Friday night fishing. One week later, Dodge County opens for the second time to night anglers.

The lakes at each site will be open to boats with navigation lights. Those fishing on the banks should bring lanterns. ment immediately.”

These types of cases that had been seen in more densely populated, urbanized and multicultural areas like DeKalb and Fulton Counties have progressed to places like Cobb in the metro Atlanta area and to Augusta in the far eastern part of the state, officials said.

“I think for a long time people felt it was a problem for Atlanta, which I think often accounted for people being tested and getting a diagnosis later, because they didn’t think they needed to,” said Richard Sowell, dean of Kennesaw State University’s Wellstar College of Health and Human Services. “We’ve learned that populations are fluid, and you’ve watched the city of Atlanta move into Cobb County.”

In Cobb, the most common method of HIV transmission is male-to-male sexual contact, accounting for more than 43 percent of the cases, according to the county’s latest health status report from 2010. This is particularly prevalent among black males between the ages of 18 and 24, Alvarez said.

In addition to Alvarez, Cobb’s clinic operates with a staff of less than 10 professionals, including nurses and case managers, she said. State officials admit that the clinic needs more help to do the work and more money to hire them and serve its clients.

Although similar to Augusta in cases, that area’s clinic receives about $800,000 more in funding each year than the Cobb clinic, said Patrick O’Neal, director of health protection for the state public health department.

Cobb’s clinic has had some leadership turnover that led to less experienced grant-writing to pursue the funding, O’Neal said, and Augusta’s grant writers may have been more persuasive in their funding applications. Funding formulas, set by the state and based on federal guidelines, also are outdated and no longer accurately reflect the changing demographics and county populations. Improving those areas may yield funds for a couple of other Cobb clinic positions, including a dedicated grant writer, O’Neal said. common for a computer to be stolen in Atlanta and turn up in Albuquerque,” Glave said, adding that his company maintains relationships with police across the country, and even overseas.

Tim McGaughey, a DeKalb parent, said thefts are discouraging for parents who raise money to buy computers. Around 2008, at least $15,000 worth of computers purchased by the Henderson Mill Elementary School PTA were stolen, he said. The value fell below the school system’s insurance deductible and DeKalb couldn’t afford to replace them.

“It was a total loss,” said McGaughey, a member of the school’s fund-raising foundation.

He said the tracking and recovery of computers is encouraging, but DeKalb should change its rules so that donor foundations can insure the computers through their own policies.