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This Week: Calendar Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Members' Exhibition: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., today and Friday, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, 34 School Street, Watkinsville.

This year OCAF will be expanding the exhibition to include more than 150 works in all three galleries located in the historic 1902 OCAF Center building. Free.

(706) 769-4565, www. ocaf.com Crafternoon: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. today, Oconee County Library. Drop in for a fun, self-directed “Make it and Take it” craft. All ages. Free.

(706) 769-3950.

Intro to Knitting 5-Part Workshop with Dorothy Algie: 3 p.m. today, Oconee County Library.

Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Free. Call (706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee.

TOPS weight loss: 7 to 8 p.m. today, Government Annex Building, Highway 15, Watkinsville. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) is a nonprofit support group for weight loss. (800) 932-8677 or www.tops. org.

How to use Georgia Download Destination: 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oconee County Library.

Learn how to access free eBook and Audiobook downloads from the library through GA Download Destination.

Limited to 5 participants.

Registration required.

Free. Call (706) 7693950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/oconee.

Star Wars Saturday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oconee County Library.

Love Star Wars? Meet members of the GA 501st Legion, practice your trivia, and make amazing Star Wars crafts. All ages. Free.

(706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee.

Circle Ranch presents Rubber Ducky RoundUp: noon to 3 p.m.

Saturday, Harris Shoals Park, Harris Shoals Drive, Watkinsville.

Thousands of rubber duckies are released into Harris Shoals Park, and if the duck with your number on it finishes first you win the grand prize. $5.

Oconee Farmers Market: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oconee County Courthouse, 23 N Main Street, Watkinsville. The market is open rainor-shine on Saturdays through the last Saturday in November. Located in front of the courthouse in downtown Watkinsville.

Read to Rover with Star and Comet: 3 p.m.

Sunday, Oconee County Library. Free, (706) 7693950 Intro to Excel 2010: 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, Oconee County Library.

Learn the basics of using Excel. Limited to 5 participants. Registration is required. Free.

(706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee.

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Issue 23

From the Oconee to the Apalachee

Volume 11

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Honoring those who served

Photos by Blane Marable The Oconee Veterans Memorial Foundation hosted a Memorial Day Observance at the Oconee County Veterans Memorial, and hundreds attended to honor and celebrate the veterans of Oconee County. See page 3 for more photos, and go to The OconeeLeader.com for full picture galleries.

‘It really has been truly inspirational’ Grand opening for Extra Special People building in Watkinsville celebrated by community

By Rob Peecher

TheOconeeLeader.com

Laura Whitaker stopped to count the hours.

“Can you believe we’re going to be finished in 52 hours?” she asked. It was Thursday morning. Saturday afternoon Around her, everything was activity. Construction crews were working outside and inside the building. Volunteers were toting in cabinets.

People were asking her questions. And Laura, the director of Extra Special People, Inc., was giving an impromptu tour of the organization’s new facility.

“We always pull it together,” Laura said.

“Honestly, it leaves room for God to perform miracles here and there. He’s the true champion in all of this. He’s always made it happen so far.”

Based in Watkinsville, ESP provides yearround programming for children and young adults with developmental disabilities. The grand opening of the new 14,000-square foot facility coincided with the group’s 30th anniversary.

Whitaker said it was an amazing amount of giving from the community that brought together the new facility – from the individuals and families who supported ESP’s capital campaigns to the contractors and vendors who helped to construct the new facility.

“Everything you look at was either given at cost or donated 100 percent,” Whitaker said “It

ROB PEECHER/Oconee Leader Volunteers take cabinets into the new Extra Special People building on VFW Drive in advance of its opening.

really has been truly inspirational. When we needed something, we just asked, and everyone said yes.”

Visitors to the new building will first enter the Tree Room, a room with an enormous fabricated tree with coat racks made to look like branches lining the walls.

“This is our Tree Room. The funding for the tree came from an anonymous donor, and we wanted to do this because so much about our kids’ lives is about maintenance, and here our mission is to help them thrive. We want them to

walk through the door and know they’re not in a hospital or a therapy room or a doctor’s office.

They’re in a place for them to thrive, and that was our intent behind all of our design.”

Anyone familiar with the cramped quarters at the original facility (now sandwiched between the new facility and city hall on VFW Drive) will understand what the additional space is going to mean to ESP and its campers.

“The front area here is going to be for our Please see ‘ESP’

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Oconee County will build new water tank, expand sewer

By Lee Shearer

TheOconeeLeader.com

Oconee County will spend about $4.6 million on a water tank, new sewer lines and other capital improvements next year, according to the county’s public utilities capital spending plan.

Oconee public utility director Wayne Haynie outlined the plan at this week’s agenda-setting meeting of the Oconee County Commission.

That plan includes about $2 million for an expansion of the McNutt Creek sewer trunk lines, including 5,400 feet of 18-inch pipe.

The plan also includes a water tank that will hold 1 million gal-

lons of water, at a cost of about $2.5 million. That will improve the county’s “drought resiliency” by storing enough water to supply the county for a day if needed, Haynie said.

Part of the tank project will accomplish something else, he said.

It will divide the county into two pressure zones, which will lower the pressure in the Watkinsville area, which is lower in elevation than other parts of the county. The lessened pressure in the Watkinsville pressure zone will reduce leakage and save money, Haynie said.

The county will also join with the city of Bogart on a sales-taxfunded expansion of sewer lines

in that area at a total cost of about $875,375.

The expansion will put a new Bogart public library on county sewer lines, as well as county recreational fields there. It will also allow the county to measure the volume and content of one of the county’s largest users of sewer capacity, Benson’s Bakery, Haynie said.

The water and sewer projects aren’t the only large construction expenses coming up for the county. Commissioners will be asked to approve up to $65,850 to Precision Planning to begin planning on a security upgrade at the county courthouse projected to cost $1.1 to $1.3 million.

Precision Planning is also slated to get $27,850 to complete designs for the McNutt Creek project and $97,850 for work on the water tank project.

Another engineering company — Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon Inc. — will get $93,006 to begin planning and design work for another sewer project at Veterans Park.

Haynie and the board didn’t talk about a controversial proposal that would send a sewer line down Calls Creek, through the yards of many homeowners. But commissioners are likely to see a preliminary study on that project and possible alternatives later this month, Haynie said.

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The mystery of the traveling pants The other morning I put on a pair of pants to go to a meeting. Before I walked out the door, the meeting was canceled. The pants were still clean, so I took them off and put them in the closest place that made any sense to me: the kitchen table.

I realize maybe not everyone puts clean clothes on the kitchen table, but it’s summer, and in our house – with all three of our sons home all day long – the rules are out the window. So I put my pants on the kitchen table because it was easier than walking up stairs to put my pants in the closet.

I assume that I had a pair of shorts on the kitchen table to put on when I took my pants off. I don’t remember. I suppose it’s possible I spent the day in my underwear.

The next day, when I was getting dressed, I knew my pants were downstairs on the kitchen table, so I put on a shirt and socks and went downstairs to put on my pants.

But my pants were not there.

I didn’t want to have to walk back upstairs to look for my pants, and Jean was already outside in her studio making stained glass, so I did the only thing that seemed reasonable to me.

I went to Facebook and posted on Jean’s Facebook wall, asking her what happened to the pants I’d left on the kitchen table.

Immediately, all of Jean’s female friends who are married began to commiserate with her on Facebook about what it’s like being married to a man who leaves his pants on the kitchen table. So maybe this is something everyone does.

But none of that helped me. I needed my pants.

Finally, Jean posted on Facebook that I should consult our 16-year-old son.

I responded: “That can’t be the correct answer.

Nathan has never known where anything was in his entire 16 years. I need a better answer than this.”

Receiving no help from Facebook, and running out of time to get to a meeting, I finally went upstairs in a vain search for my pants. I searched the dirty clothes. I searched the clean clothes. I looked in the washer and the dryer.

Not finding them, I remembered that I have more than one pair of pants, so I

got another pair out of the closet and put those on.

When I got home from my meeting Jean came inside from her studio.

“Why would you tell me to ask Nate where my pants are?” I asked Jean.

“Because I picked them up off the kitchen table and handed them to Nate and asked him to take them upstairs and put them in the dirty clothes,” Jean responded.

“But they weren’t dirty,” I said.

“Then maybe they shouldn’t have been on the kitchen table,” she said.

“I put them on the kitchen table because they weren’t dirty,” I said.

Jean was starting to get angry, but fortunately Nathan was coming downstairs.

“Nate, where are my pants?” I asked.

“I put them in the dirty clothes,” Nathan answered.

“They’re not there,” I told him.

“Maybe I put them on the washer,” he said.

Jean, fed up with the circular conversation, stormed upstairs.

A while later, she came down with my pants.

“Where were they?” I asked, full of excitement that my pants were found.

“They were in Robert’s room,” Jean said.

“Why did you put them in Robert’s room?” I asked Nathan.

“I don’t know,” Nate said, as confused as any of us why my pants were in his brother’s room.

“I think the lesson we’ve learned today is that never give a 16-year-old your pants if you want to find them later,” I said, proud that I’d found the moral of the story.

But Jean had her own moral to the story: “I think the lesson we’ve learned is to not leave your pants on the kitchen table,” she said.

Rob Peecher is author of the book Four Things My Wife Hates About Mornings, available at Amazon.com.

Students honored

Seven Athens Academy students graduated from local leadership programs recently. Sophomore Abby Cuneo and juniors Sinclair Hequembourg and Mackenzie Ferguson graduated from the Youth Leadership Oconee program, run by the Oconee Chamber of Commerce. Juniors Hannah Dillard, Parker Jones, Rolf Reynolds and Noah Yates graduated from the Youth Leadership Athens program run

by Athens Clarke-County. At top, Athens Academy Head of School John Thorsen stands with Sinclair Hequembourg, Abby Cuneo and Mackenzie Ferguson. At left are Athens program graduates Parker Jones, Rolf Reynolds and Hannah Dillard (Noah Yates not pictured).

Oconee expected to OK $48 million budget

By Mike Sprayberry TheOconeeLeader.com

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners was expected to approve the county’s $48 million budget for Fiscal Year 2017 at a June 7 meeting.

The total budget of $48,253,544 would be a 21.6 percent increase over the FY 2016 budget. The expected increase was attributed to increases to the general fund, special revenue funds, Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax expenditures and enterprise funds. The general fund budget was expected to be $25,069,716, a 5.6 percent increase over last year.

“The biggest difference is what we have planned to spend from SPLOST revenue,” said Melvin Davis, Chairman of the Oconee County Board of Commissioners. “SPLOST revenue is about the same each year. We’re just planning the expenditure of it this year.

“We had SPLOST revenue from a couple of referendums back in 2004 and 2009 and we’re finalizing the expenditure of it this year. One of the SPLOST expenditures this year is the security improvements to the courthouse. The increase is due to many reasons, but it’s mainly the SPLOST

projects being funded this year.”

The county’s millage rate was expected to remain at 6.686 for the tenth straight year and $647,000 would be transferred from the fund balance to balance the budget. The general fund’s 5.6 percent increase roughly keeps pace with an approximate 5 percent increase in the tax digest.

Davis elaborated on several of the general fund’s biggest expenditures.

“We’re still looking at about 42 percent of our budget being spent on law enforcement, the jail, public safety (E911, animal control and the fire department) and the judicial branch,” said Davis. “The largest department we have as far as funding goes is law enforcement with $3.6 million and $2.5 million for the jail. The next largest are public works with $2.8 million and parks and recreation with $2.6 million.”

While most of the county’s departments and operations are funded by the $25 million general fund portion of the budget, the rest of the budget is a combination of special funds, SPLOST revenue and enterprise funds like the self-funding utility department.

“We have special funds that we receive, money in and money out, like state and federal funds for the Senior

‘ESP’ parents,” Whitaker said, pointing to a space just inside the door. “They’ll be able to interact with one another and we have a special place for our new families. We have space here where we can meet with new families. As each new family comes in they’ve

Center, the fee that comes to us from your telephone bill for E911 service and motel and hotel taxes,” Davis said. “All of those are spent back out to pay for those particular facilities.

We have slightly over $3 million that comes in and is expended from special funds.

“We’ve also got a lot of money this year that we have planned to spend from SPLOST revenue, almost $12 million. We also have three departments that are what we consider enterprise funds. They are supposed to pay for themselves: they sell the blue bags for throwing away waste at the recycling centers, the Civic Center is supposed to stand on its own as well as the utility department. The utility department is the largest revenue we have in the enterprise fund at slightly over $9 million.”

Though last minute changes to the budget were possible until official approval, Davis expressed satisfaction with the budget process and expected the budget to be approved at Tuesday’s meeting.

“I think we’ve gone through a pretty good budget process and hopefully everything has been vetted as it should be and we can move forward with it.”

Continued from page 1 had a difficult journey and need to be able to share that story with us, and we want them to feel comfortable.”

Whitaker said there is a storage area where used equipment can be left when kids grow out of it for families who might need it.

With the “swap” area is

also the “swag” area where ESP gear – T-shirts and other items with the ESP logo – is sold.

ESP starts its days with a flag ceremony, and the big space in the center of the building was designed for flag gatherings – where all of the campers can comfortably start their day together, even if it is raining or 100 degrees outside, Whitaker explained.

The flag room opens up to a large dining area. The new facility also features a commercial kitchen. In the past some campers have made muffins and accepted donations for the muffins. But the commercial kitchen will allow campers to make and sell baked goods, Whitaker said.

Off of the dining area there are several rooms that serve as activity spaces.

One room will house yoga, dance and karate. Another room is for art and music.

Each activity room features bathrooms and sinks.

It’s details like this – rooms with sinks and bathrooms – that mean so much to the staff and volunteers at ESP, Whitaker said, heading into the main bathroom and locker room

where there is an adult changing station.

“This is probably the thing our staff is most excited about,” Whitaker said. “Some of our campers are 250 to 300 pounds, and it’s very hard to lift them up onto tables.”

The new facility also features a number of therapy rooms. While ESP will not be providing any kind of speech, occupational or physical therapy services, Whitaker said the hope is that therapists will use the rooms at ESP to keep campers’ parents from having to drive them around quite so much.

Behind the building contractors were still working on the new amphitheater.

“We showed this space to one of our campers, and she immediately got it,” Whitaker said. “She took one look out here and said, ‘This is where I’m going to become famous.’ She totally got it. This is a stage for her. This is where we can hold recitals and theater performances.”

ESP will continue to use its old building next door.

Whitaker said that building will be used as a gymnasium.

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Memorial Day

Area residents gathered at Oconee Veterans Park (above and below) and Oconee County’s Crystal Hills subdivision (at right) to commemorate Memorial Day. At Oconee Veterans Park, the program presented by the Oconee Veterans Memorial Foundation featured a concert of patriotic music by the Classic City Band and included comments from Vietnam War veteran Ed Gerstner, the traditional laying of wreaths and the presentation of 312 names completing the memorial’s south Wall of Honor. At Crystal Hills, a crowd gathered for a day that celebrated the American auto age at the same time it honored American men and women who died in war. The ceremony included the presentation of colors and speaker Ed Benson, the former owner of Benson’s Bakery.

Oconee County remembers those who served for their country Photos by Blane Marable and James Gibson

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This Week: Titans

WARRIORS l TITANS l SPARTANS l WOLVERINES l LIONS

June 9, 2016

Batter up!

Football

Canty signs Page 5

Upcoming

Photos by MATTHEW CALDWELL/Oconee Leader

Summer camps continued last week with baseball camp at Oconee County High School. The camp was run by OCHS head coach Tom Gooch with the help of several Warriors players. For more photos of the camp, see theoconeeleader.com.

Several athletes have signed to play college sports.

Their stories will be featured in upcoming editions of The Oconee Leader.

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North Oconee’s Toney graduates from Centre with school records

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North Oconee alum Isaac Toney recently graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky with school records for outdoor and indoor pole vault. He was one of eight athletes from Centre to be named to the Southern Athletic Association Sigma Alpha Alpha Society, which recognizes student-athletes for their achievements in the classroom and athletics. To be considered, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 GPA. Toney was named second-team All-SAA at the conference championship meet. He had the highest GPA among Centre male athletes and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He majored in History and Religion and graduated magna cum laude. He will attend the divinity school at Emory in the fall and has plans to go into ministry in the Presbyterian church.

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Lady Royals win Senior League softball championship

Contributed photo

The Lady Royals, sponsored by Peterman Painting, won the Oconee County Little League Senior League softball championship. Team members include Ashley Allen, Ansley Bertram, Brittany Brock, Felicity Eaton, Abby Hutchinson, Ellie Nicholson, Samantha Peterson, Katherine Schutz, Sallie Schutz, Ashlyn Thompson, Kaitlyn Totten, Macee Welch and Jasmine Wilson. The team is coached by Doug Peterson and Greg Schutz.

Pride win Rookie League softball title

Da’Marco Canty with family

Canty signs for football with Thomas More College

By Matthew Caldwell TheOconeeLeader.com

Contributed photo

The Oconee Pride, sponsored by Oconee State Bank, won the Oconee County Little League Rookie League softball championship. Pictured are (back row) Travis Saxon, Kelly Saxon, Shelby Thomas, Michael Youngblood, Jason Hagwood, (middle row) Briley Deitz, Adrienne Pruett, Samantha Woods, Tracy Toney, Flynn Taylor, (front row) Elizabeth Hobbs, Taylor Saxon, Lexi Rainey, Kinlee Hagwood and Kennedy Wiedower.

Strikers win Minor League softball title

Contributed photo

The Oconee Strikers, sponsored by Purcell Group, won the Oconee County Little League Minor League softball championship. Pictured are (back row) Skyy Canty, Mackenzie Geddings, Kit Wilson, Kylee Jones, Abbi Patterson, (front row) Delaney Lewis, Brittan McGinn, Ella Bray, Jordan Chamberlain and Hannah Hall. The team’s coaches are Wes Geddings, Tonya Chamberlain, Tim Hall and Jason Jones.

Crushers win Major League softball title

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The Oconee Crushers, sponsored by Curbside Services, Inc., won the Oconee County Little League Major League softball championship. Pictured are (back row) Lauren Chapeau, Emmaleigh Bond, Megan Buffington, Audrey Dove, Skylar Branch, (front row) Assistant Coach Rodney Dove, Katey Stone, Kaleigh Bond, Emalee Dyer, Peyton Royster, Ella Osborne, Coach Jesse Bond. Not pictured are Brynlee Jenkins and Summer Martin.

Just weeks before graduating from North Oconee, Da’Marco Canty signed to play football for Thomas More College, which is located in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

Canty was originally committed to Guilford College but after his position coach left Guilford, he changed his commitment to Thomas More.

“Thomas More was my next option and they had faith in me,” Canty said. “Thomas More was the first college that was my first offer.

“I’m happy that I am done with the recruiting process. It was long. A lot of thinking. I am glad I am going to be able to play football for the next four years.”

Some injuries in his first three seasons of high school football delayed his recruiting process until his senior year. He looked at around seven schools before ultimately deciding on Thomas More.

“I was behind the eight ball. Going on all

of the visits and the games was very fun, but when I had to come down to a final decision is when it started to get stressful,” Canty said.

Canty was recruited to play wide receiver, a position he has played since his freshman year of high school.

“I was going to try and play defense but I saw I could catch the ball, so I thought I needed to go to receiver to help my team win some games,” he said.

Canty said he has always wanted to play college football since he started playing the sport as a 5 year old.

“Since day one. I originally wanted to go DI but it is what it is,” he said. “I am going to go there for about one or two years and try and transfer to a bigger college.”

Thomas More plays in the Presidents Athletic Conference and is coming off an 11-1 season. The Saints went undefeated in the regular season and won the conference championship. They lost 33-27 in overtime to Wabash in the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs.

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