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Donalsonville News Thursday, January 2, 2020 Page 11 www.donalsonvillenews.com
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous New Year by believing! “
~ Sarah Ban Breathmach - ?
During the period of December 20-26, 2019, the Donalsonville Police Depart-ment investigated the follow-ing incidents: two accidents, seven escorts, three alarms, 19 unlock vehicle, eight sus-picious person / vehicle / activity, ten warnings, � ve speak with o� cers, one assist GSP, one assist S.O., three the� s, two miscellaneous, one report of � reworks, four domestic calls, one damage to property, six dog / snake calls, one disturbance, two BOLOs, two ran red light, three 911 hang-ups, one welfare check, one no seat belt, one hands free act (cell phone), two ran stop sign, two DUIs, one open contain-er, one wrong class of license, one threat, and one civil mat-ter.
Arrests:Dec. 20 - Justin Edmunds,
DUI; Ricky Coachman, DUI, open container, ran stop sign
Dec. 23 - Zachery Tyler Pritchett: aggravated assault X 2, obstruction of an o� cer X 2, crossing the guard line with drugs
Woodrow W. Blue, Jr.,Chief of Police
* * *During the week of De-
cember 22nd to December 28th, the Seminole County Sheri� ’s O� ce responded to the following calls for ser-vice: 2 o� -road vehicle com-plaints, 2 wildlife complaints, 3 loud music complaints, 1 report of threats, 1 prowl-er, 1 concern for welfare, 7 the� s, 6 domestics or other disputes, 2 suspicious per-sons, 4 medical calls, 3 ac-cidents, 1 lookout, 5 reports of livestock in the roadway, 1 alarm, and 4 miscellaneous calls.
O� cers assisted 6 strand-ed motorists and provided 2 escorts. � ey conducted 36 tra� c stops.
One subject was trans-ported to � omasville and one was transported to Al-bany per orders of mental health.
� e school resource of-� cer escorted the basketball
teams to Panama City. On December 23rd,
Zackary T. Pritchett, age 19, was arrested by Donalson-ville Police Dept and charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault on an o� cer, 2 counts of obstruction of an o� cer, possession of controlled sub-stance, and crossing guard line.
On December 23rd, Mark Warren Jr., age 53, was arrested and charged with suspended license and failure to maintain lane.
On December 23rd, Quandarius R. Jones, age 23, turned himself in on a war-rant for simple battery.
On December 23rd, Chevauwn Pollock, age 18, turned himself in on a war-rant for simple battery.
On December 26th, John T. Edison, age 43, was arrest-ed by Department of Com-munity Probation on an out-standing warrant for Florida.
On December 28th, Ricky D. Coachman, age 50, was arrested and charged with DUI and failure to maintain lane.
On December 27th, De-ven K. Johnson, age 27, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for probation viola-tion. He has charges pending for obstruction of an o� cer.
One inmate was picked up from � omas County. An average of 32 inmates was housed in jail each day.
In addition, the Sheri� ’s O� ce / E911 Dispatch han-dled 34 calls for Grady EMS, and 1 for the � rst respond-ers, and made 1 call for EMS mutual aid. � ey handled 70 calls for Donalsonville Police Dept, 2 for Donalsonville Fire Dept, 1 for Iron City Fire Dept, 1 for Spring Creek Fire Dept, 3 codes enforcement, 1 for Dept of Natural Resourc-es, 1 for Georgia State Patrol, and 16 for other law enforce-ment or emergency service agencies. � e o� ce received a total of 104 calls to 9-1-1 including 28 non-emergency calls.
Heath Elliott, Sheri� / E911 Director
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✤ Mr. and Mrs. Grady Richardson were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cherry in Bainbridge Friday evening.✤ � e Seminole County schools reopened Monday morning with practically the same crop of teach-ers as those of the Fall term. In-dications are that the full-time school will be possible in view of the recent move made by Gov. E. D. Rivers, who arranged for the necessary funds to � nance the schools for seven months. It is thought that with state aid thus arranged, the local board will be able to � nance the additional two months to give the county a full nine months school.✤ Mr. and Mrs. George Morrow and children of High Springs, Flor-ida, and Mrs. J. H. Armor, of Elba, Alabama were guests of Mrs. L. E. Hay during the holidays.
✤ � is week at the Olive � eatre, � e Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis and Er-rol Flynn. ✤ � e Board of Commission-ers of Seminole County met in regular session Tuesday, January 1 with Chairman L. R. Robin-son presiding. Commissioners in attendance were D. H. Miller, R. L. Johnson, E. J. Greene, and J. I. Parker, President. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Current bills were inspected and paid when found in regular order.✤ Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ward and son, Mr. Pete Ward, returned to their home in New Orleans, Loui-siana last Friday a� er spending the holidays here as guests of Mrs. J. S. Ward and family.✤ Sunday state papers carried dispatches stating that an appro-
priation of $58,000 had been made for street improvements in Donal-sonville which will be done with WPA labor, supplemented by local funds. � e work order will prob-ably be sent here in the next few days and city o� cials believe work will begin immediately therea� er.✤ Miss Louisa Noyes, instructor in the local schools, returned Sun-day a� er spending the holidays at her home in Atlanta. She was ac-companied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Noyes, who spent Sun-day night here.✤ Joel McCrea and Brenda Mar-shall star in Espionage Agent showing this Wednesday at the Ol-ive � eatre. ✤ Miss Elizabeth Williams re-turned Sunday from Forsyth where she was spending the holidays to resume her work as instructor in the school year here.
✤ Two men have arrived here to begin work on the Dry Creek Wa-tershed that begins in the lower portion of Early and Miller coun-ties and ends north of Iron City. Kermit Larson and Lawrence Hargen, soil scientists from North Dakota, will be block mapping the area immediately a� ected by the project, and adjacent land. � e two men are assigned to the Soil Con-servation Service in North Dakota but were transferred here to work until the land there thaws in the Spring. ✤ Specials this week at Jernigan’s IGA in downtown Donalsonville include a buy one get one free o� er on every aisle in the store. ✤ � e stores of Donalsonville will
be open for business as usual on New Year’s Day, but the post of-� ce, banks, and government o� ces will observe the holiday. � e coun-ty schools will open on January 4th. Donalsonville and Seminole County had a very quiet, peaceful period during the Christmas holi-days last week.✤ Retired Rear Admiral J. Taylor � omas, Supreme Commodore of the Seminole Boating Club, re-minds all members of that � eet of the annual New Year’s Eve Pileau and Stomp to be held at the club-house on � ursday evening. ✤ End of year specials are hopping o� the shelves at Jernigan’s IGA. Come in for a great deal on greens and black eyed peas.
✤ Seminole County High School PTA will meet Monday at 8 p.m., in the high school auditorium. � e topic, “How Parents Can Help � eir Children Study” will be de-veloped by a panel. All parents are urged to attend. ✤ � e Seminole County High School boys and girls basket-ball teams have begun their a� er Christmas activity with a pair of wins over Calhoun County here Tuesday night. � e Squaws eas-ily downed their opposition 62-26. � e score indicates the great work done by the Seminole County guards, and in point making, In the boys game, the Indians avenged an earlier loss to the Warhawks by winning 65-55.
✤ John Hanna recently congratu-lated David Fain and Alton Har-rison a� er he stepped down as president of the Commercial State Bank. Fain is the new president of the bank, and Harrison has ad-vanced to vice president and chief lending o� cer. ✤ County commissioner Dan Pon-der was recently sworn in for a sec-ond term for district two. Probate Judge J.E. Earnest administered the oath and that means Ponder will have the o� ce another four years. Other members of the commission are Rob Blackburn of district one; Donald Moore of district three and Joe Burke of district � ve. ✤ Eddie Alday recently received the oath of o� ce from Probate Judge J.E. Earnest, and is now a member of the county board of education to serve for the next four years as a representative of district � ve.
✤ Bainbridge Post No. 4904 of Vet-erans of Foreign Wars gave a beau-tiful American � ag to the Spring Creek Volunteer Fire Department.✤ � e adult men Sunday School class of Spring� eld Baptist Church held their Christmas party recently at Old Mill Restaurant and then on to Christmas City at Ariton. � ose attending were Bill and Rossie Ad-ams, Chuck and Mary John Gib-son, Carlos and Nell Aguilar, Bob-by and Chloe Holloway, Bill and Cindy McKellar and Vinson and Janice Evans. ✤ Sheri� Jerry Godby turned into an auctioneer Tuesday and sold several items he and his o� cers had con� scated in drug cases dur-ing the past year, including three trucks and a canoe with a weed eater engine on it. ✤ � e Workers Guild Sub Group of the United Methodist Church Women met Monday, January 2.
� ey gathered in the lovely home of Colleen Miller with Annie Jo barber as co hostess. Chairperson Agnes Moseley gave each mem-ber present a copy of a “wise say-ing.” As Jo Adams, secretary, called the roll, each answered with her saying. � is was unique but very inspirational. O’Meara Wurst, treasurer, reported that they had paid their pledges in Fall for 1994. Joanne Drake, co-chairman, hand-ed out the new date books and they � lled them out for program lead-ers and hostesses for 1995. She also gave a very inspiring program from their new book, “Cycles of Hope.” � ose present were Jo Adams, Annie Jo Barber, Mary Bivings, Addie Brigham, Mildred Drake, Joanne Drake, Colleen Miller, Ag-nes Moseley, Jean Moseley, Nell Rogers, Marguerite White, Euva Williams, Doris Wright, O’Meara Wurst and Christine King.
The two-story Beaux Arts-style Seminole County Courthouse, designed by William J.J. Chase was built in 1922 to serve the then two year old county.
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