Coweta News & Notes with a Touch of Zen
By JOHN A. WINTERS, Publisher
Notes from here, there and the Internet.
• Ashley Linch, of Moreland Elementary School, was named as the 2025 Coweta County Teacher of the Year at the annual Coweta Teacher of the Year (TOTY) ceremony held by the Coweta County Board of Education. Linch – a 1st Grade teacher and a 14-year educator – was chosen from among 33 nominees from all Coweta County schools, and three finalists, including Lindsey Sprayberry, a 3rd Grade teacher at Willis Road Elementary School, and Jean Nicoleau, a 7th Grade Science teacher at Smokey Road Middle School.
• “You can tell if a business was founded prior to the internet because they use the tricks to get their name to the front of the alphabet in the phone book (ex: A1 Storage, AAA Cleaning, etc.).”
• More than 600 people attended Piedmont Rocks!, a new fundraising endeavor for Piedmont Newnan. All told, officials said more than $150,000 was raised for oncology services at the hospital. The money will be spent on direct patient care programs, capital needs associated with the hospital’s programs, and support for the Thomas F. Chapman Family Cancer Wellness Center.
• “No one ever skips breakfast because breakfast literally means breaking the fast. Therefore, those who say they skip breakfast actually eat it later in the day and call it by another name.”
• On Saturday, March 22, 2025, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper hosted the 15th Annual Sweep the Hooch cleanup at 64 sites throughout the Chattahoochee River watershed. A record-breaking 1,500 volunteers participated and removed 41 TONS of trash and recyclables from the river basin!
• “We should all have AI safe words we tell the people who are close to us in order to prevent malicious deepfakes of ourselves.”
• Three Coweta students – from Smokey Road Middle, East Coweta Middle and Blake Bass Middle Schools – were the winners of the first Coweta County National Civics Bee competition. Student Jackson Coleman, of Smokey Road Middle School, was the 1st Place winner of the Bee, followed by Avery Moralle (East Coweta Middle School) and Annabel Jewkes (Blake Bass Middle). The Bee was sponsored by the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce.
• “If you put on a pair of underwear on top of another pair, then it’s not technically underwear anymore.”
• The Arbor Day Foundation recently named the City of Newnan a 2024 Tree City USA in honor of Newnan’s commitment to plant, grow, and maintain trees to benefit the community. The Foundation is a global nonprofit with a mission to inspire people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. Its network of more than a million supporters and partners has helped the organization plant more than 50 million trees in forests and communities across more than 60 countries since 1972.
• Every minute of your day, you have to trust other people not to kill you.
• True Natural Gas has announced that Leslie Marler, the company’s current Chief Operating Officer, will assume the role of President effective April 1, 2025. Marler steps into the role following the retirement of longtime CEO Dan Hart. Chris Stephens, President and CEO of Coweta-Fayette EMC and incoming CEO of True Natural Gas expressed his enthusiasm for Marler’s leadership.
• Kids will never understand the poignant self-satisfaction of slamming a phone down on the cradle to hang up on someone and end an angry conversation.
• The Coweta Community Foundation recently awarded $10,000 in grants to classroom teachers for creative projects sure to inspire Coweta’s young learners. “The Foundation considers it a privilege to give back to our schools through these classroom grants,” said CCF Executive Director Scott McInnis. “Anyone who looks at the list of recipients will be impressed by the array of projects that local teachers use to assist their students in learning.”
• Biscuits and gravy are weird because it’s like, ‘Here’s some really wet flour poured over some really dry flour.’
