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Coweta to add second early voting location for 2016 By SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com
Coweta County voters will have a choice of early voting locations starting in 2016. The county is moving forward with the new Central Community Center, to be located next to the Central Library at the county’s complex off Lower Fayetteville Road and Ga. Hwy. 154. In addition to having a large central room and a kitchen that can be rented, the center will serve as a satellite early voting location. It will also serve as a “warming station,” where Cowetans can go to get warm during long winter power outages. The center is funded by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Coweta will be pursuing grants to retrofit the county’s existing community centers with generators. During last year’s snow and ice event, some Cowetans were without power for several days. The new early voting location isn’t the only change Coweta is making to make things easier for early voters. A ha ndicapped ra mp will be installed at the Coweta Administration Building to provide direct
Early voters for the 2008 presidential election spent hours waiting to cast ballots. The county will be adding a second early voting location for 2016.
access to the Coweta Voter Registration office. The entrance to the registration office is up a flight of exterior stairs. Voters who cannot navigate the stairs enter through
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the building’s main entrance. They then have to navigate the maze-like building and head up to the second floor. There have been some access
issues during early voting, said County Administrator Michael Fouts. The satellite early voting location and the ramp are intended to help with those issues. The new
ramp will “also provide for a single point of access to present disruption of other business being conducted at the administration building,” Fouts said. “For some time, and especially during presidential elections, we have had overcrowding, wait time issues, and lack of parking for early voting,” said Patricia Palmer, community and human resources director. “The Central complex is very conveniently located for a large portion of Coweta residents, and has been widely supported as a location for early voting." The commissioners approved a contractor for the new community center. Tomco Construction was the low bidder for the construction of the center itself, and for providing the generator. The total bid was $533,626 for the 4,300 square foot building. The bid is higher than the architect’s estimate, so county staff will work with the architect on “value engineering” – that is, finding ways to lower the project’s cost. Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2015, weather permitting. “It’s definitely the plan to have it open for the 2016 presidential primary” on March 1, Palmer said.
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LOCAL TAMMY HYATT CREATES ‘TASTY’ DESSERT CANDLES By MAGGIE BOWERS maggie@newnan.com
Tammy Hyatt grew up in Newnan surrounded by a creative family. From quilting to woodworking, there was never a shortage of creative outlets. “I began decorating cakes as a young girl,” Hyatt said of her own artistic endeavors. “I completed my first wedding cake for a friend at age 15.” Hyatt continued to bake and decorate cakes, taking a position at the local Piggly Wiggly in town as a young adult. This also is where she met her husband, Rex, who was at the time an assistant manager. “My dad owned a welding service until retirement,” Hyatt said. “He still enjoys building and painting. My mother is a wonderful decorator, and my brother makes custom leather holders.” Though she took on hobbies like crocheting and quilting, and continued cake-decorat-
ing into adulthood, Hyatt made her career in a dental lab, as a waxer. The job, considered by many to be an art of its own, included using wax molds and impressions of teeth to construct custom-made restorative dental work. It wasn’t until Hyatt and her husband were celebrating their 20th anniversary out of town that her hobby and profession came together in a way she’d never imagined. “My husband and I went to Myrtle Beach and were able to attend a craft show there,” Hyatt said. “I saw these wax candles made to look like foods, and I thought, ‘I can do that.’” Inspired, Hyatt found a few websites dedicated to candlemaking. She ordered supplies and began to experiment with candle-making, a craft she had never before attempted but one that appeared similar to her work as a dental wax technician. Hyatt began making candles of all sorts – with molds and in jars, and with various types of
wax – and it turned into a hobby her husband enjoyed participating in as well. Hyatt created candles fashioned to resemble desserts, and the scented wax she used smelled like the apple pie slice and the strawberry cake she’d designed. It wasn’t long before friends and family began requesting dessert candles. “Even customers at the dental office would ask, ‘Can you make this or that?’” Hyatt said. “And I would usually say, ‘Give me a couple of days to think about it.’” Hyatt would then gather images from magazines and other sources. She studied the images and pieced together in her mind the colors she might need, the wax molds she had available, and the scents that might be associated with the end result. Accord i ng to Hyatt, t he st ra ngest request she h a s received in her two years is one for pizza. “A patient of mine from the dental office owned a pizza restaurant,” Hyatt said. “He asked if I could make a decorative
pizza candle.” Hyatt was able to create a small pizza pie candle for the patient using molds borrowed from other pie creations and adapting fruit slice molds in order to make the pepperoni, the peppers and the cheese sprinkled on top. The pizza candle did not smell like the food favorite it resembled, however. “It didn’t smell like pizza,” Hyatt joked. “I gave it a natural, pleasing sandalwood scent instead.” The restaurant owner nevertheless proudly displayed the pizza candle at his store. Hyatt’s candles can be used as decoration or they can be burned like any other candle. According to Hyatt, the average dessert candle – a slice of pie or cake – burns for up to 20 hours, while the jar candles she and her husband make have a 30-hour burn average. According to Hyatt, dessert candles can take up to three days to create. Each part of the cake, pie or pudding – yes,
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