Coweta County News & Notes with some added Zen
By JOHN A. WINTERS, Publisher
News from here, there and the Internet
• The countdown has begun to the start of the 2025 Kiwanis Coweta County Fair on September 18. This year’s Kiwanis Coweta County Fair will take place at the Coweta County Fairgrounds and Conference Center. It’s 11-day run begins on Thursday, Sept. 18 and ends on Sunday, Sept. 28. The Mega Pass has once again returned for Fair attendees to save money and Mega Pass purchases can be made now online and later at in-person locations in Newnan. Check out our website at wintersmedia.net and follow the link at the top of the page.
• When you die, someone is going to have to cancel all of your subscriptions.
• Shortstop Dax Kilby of the 5A State Champion Newnan High baseball team was drafted in the 1st round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the New York Yankees on July 13. Kilby was the 39th pick overall and published reports say he officially signed with the Yankees for $2.8 million. Besides leading the Cougars to the state title and 32-5 record, Kilby was also named the ITG Next 2025 Georgia Male Athlete of the Year.
• The next cheating couple caught on a jumbotron is going to get away by playing it off as a joke.
• Big thank you to Papa Murphy’s on Lower Fayetteville Road which is donating 20 percent of your order value to Elevate Coweta Students. This amazing donation goes through the end of the year. You know what to do …
• Former East Coweta basketball standout Chris Youngblood signed a contract with NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder in late June. He helped lead the Thunder to a 4-1 record during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. He averaged 12.4 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. He is the first East Coweta High basketball player to play in the NBA. Youngblood played collegiately at Kennesaw State, South Florida and Alabama.
• People probably wouldn’t be nearly as annoyed by others using speakerphone in public if they used it at the volume of a normal conversation.
• Pitcher Dillon Stiltner and shortstop T.J. Ford, both of Trinity Christian School, were drafted in the recent Major League Baseball Draft to give Coweta County schools three players selected in the 2025 Draft, including Newnan’s Dax Kilby. Stiltner was selected in the 18th round by the New York Mets and Ford was taken in the 14th round by the Los Angeles Angels.
• Piedmont Newnan Hospital has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2025. It is the fourth consecutive year the hospital has earned this recognition. The other Piedmont hospitals earning this award are Piedmont Henry, Piedmont Fayette, and Piedmont Augusta.
• When you eat at home with your partner, it’s weird to eat different entrees, but when you eat at a restaurant with your partner, it’s weird to eat the same entree.
• Did you know the song “Seven Bridges Road” was written in 1969 by Newnan native Steve Young? The most popular cover of the song that most people will remember is the 1980 version – a five-part harmony arrangement – by the Eagles. It has been covered and/or recorded by over 25 artists, including Newnan’s own Alan Jackson on the Live at Texas Stadium album with George Strait and Jimmy Buffett.
• Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation (YMMC) has announced a strategic partnership with DHL Supply Chain to enhance its internal distribution operations. This transition, tentatively on October 5, 2025, will allow YMMC to expand capacity, improve logistics transparency, and accelerate delivery to customers — all without disrupting current service levels to customers.
• Even when a balloon is half inflated, it is completely full.
• Parent advocate Cathy Nenov of Newnan has secured an official proclamation from Governor Brian Kemp recognizing World Fragile X Day on July 22 in Georgia. Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism. Each year on July 22, iconic landmarks around the world “light up” to raise awareness. This year, more than 500 landmarks in 21 countries participated — including Niagara Falls, the PECO Crown Lights in Philadelphia, Matagarup Bridge in Australia, and the Hellenic Parliament Building in Greece.
