Zen Monkey’s News and Musings …

Gov. Brian Kemp signed six bills recently at the Coweta County campus of West Georgia Technical College. The bills - House bills 163, 155, and 607, and Senate bills 246, 3, and 86 - will increase workforce opportunities in high-demand career fields and support higher education. [ [ [

At age thirty you have spent a month having birthdays. [ [ [ According to Fox TV, Chick-Fil-A’s first ever official location has shut its doors after 50 years. In 1967, Truett Cathy opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall on Greenbriar Parkway. Owners did not give a reason for the closure. [ [ [

Michelle Grasso of GSC World Travel is among the newest graduates of the Virtuoso® Certified Travel Advisor (VCTA) program, an elite category within the travel industry. Designed to fast-track the development of those who are new to the travel advising profession or the Virtuoso network, the intensive VCTA program boasts a strong record of catapulting newcomers into million-dollar producers, as graduates sell an average of 74 percent more than their peers.

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23 years later, we still don’t know who let the dogs out. [ [ [

Newnan High School senior Lacey Daniell has been named the recipient of the 2023 Community Service Team Scholarship from the Coweta Community Foundation. The award was presented on April 17 at the group’s end-of-the-year celebration at the Newnan-Coweta Chamber offices. Lacey served on the CST for all four of her years in high school and served as an officer last year. She plans to study journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder. [ [ [

All 13 members of West Georgia Technical College’s 2023 dental hygiene class earned a 100 percent pass rate on their regional clinical exams. Twelve students took the Central Regional Dental Testing Services exam (CRDTS) and one student took the American Board of Dental Examiners (ADEX). [ [ [

Our parents let us stay over at a strangers house just because we were friends with their kid. [ [ [

Race For The Orphans raised $80,000 during this year’s road race. The money will go to help eight families adopt 10 children.

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Lindsey’s Inc. Realtors is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month. Come by and join the celebration on June 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. Their office is located at 14 Jackson Street in downtown Newnan. For more information, call 770-253-6990 or visit lindseysrealtors.com.

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This year’s Valedictorians and Salutatorians are: Newnan High School … Valedictorian – Thomas Dean • Salutatorian – Jaret Webb East Coweta … Valedictorian – Andrew Brown • Salutatorian – Dean Khot Northgate High School … Valedictorian – Bronwyn Armitage • Salutatorian – Hudson Huynh

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Dr. Gamal Kemp, currently the principal of Lee Middle School, was approved by the Coweta County Board of Education as the new principal of Newnan High School. The board also approved Dr. Jacqueline Stephens as the new principal of Brooks Elementary School. The appointments take effect July 1.

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Coweta-Fayette EMC’s Operation Round Up Foundation hosted its inaugural Swing Fore Operation Round Up Golf Tournament recently at Newnan Country Club. The tournament raised over $20,000 to help provide grants to non-profits and enhance educational opportunities to local students through CFEMC’s Operation Round Up Trust.

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You never see commercials for new cereals. There are no new cereals. For some reason, cereal innovation ceased in the 90s.

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Drug Free Coweta DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day had roughly 39 drive-by participants that brought in unused, expired, and unwanted medications across the county. Across DEA’s Coweta County Division, which comprises Newnan and Sharpsburg, over 127 pounds of expired, unused, or unneeded medication were turned in at two collection sites.

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The unluckiest person in the world will be the person who dies last of old age before the cure for aging gets invented.