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NEWS & PHOTOS
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Capt. Tim Rogers received an award from the Heard County Board of Commissioners for his 20 years of service to Heard County. |
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Heard County Commssion Chair June Jackson presents Tim with a plaque for his service. |
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Tim with the entire board. |
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After 10 weeks of training and completing a final exercise Heard County now has a new resource for disasters. |
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Eleven of your neighbors answered the call for volunteers and have now completed the CERT program. |
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The Heard County CERT Team graduated its first members on June 28th 2008. |
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Those members are: Noel Forrester, Eileen Harcrow, Joanna Huddleston, Glinda Jackson, Lawrence Lipford, Connie Mashburn, Alvin Moore, Dinah Rowe, |
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Donald Walters, Charles Weber and Sherry Williams. Depending on community recruitment response, we hope to add more classes later. |
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On Friday June 27th Heard county held a Bass tournament and a softball tournament to raise money for Hayden Pike. |
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Haden is the son of Heard County Firefighter Brian Pike. Hayden is 14 months old and suffering from cancer. |
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All proceeds from the fund raiser went to the family an amounted in over $7,200. |
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On May 27th the City of Franklin held the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new fire station. The station is located in the Franklin Industrial Park. |
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Mayor Brad Yates gives a few words and credits the station as a great example of cities and counties working along side each other. |
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Also present was our state representative Randy Nix. |
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The annual Give burns the Boot Campaign has been completed and ourFirefighters along with our generous citizens raised $4,239.00 this year. |
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Each year during Memorial Day weekend our firefighters take to the street with boot in hand to help this worthy cause. |
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Money raised is used to provide treatment to burn patients in the State of Georgia. |
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On May 20th Storms went through Heard County causing wind damage. The Heard County Road Department and Emergency Services Headquarters both sustained |
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damage. There were many trees down throughout the county and several residents were without power until later the next day. |
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