Coweta County News & Notes with some added Zen
By JOHN A. WINTERS, Publisher
Notes from here, there and the Internet.
• The Newnan Fire Department recently received a grant from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation. The grant was used by the Newnan Fire Department to add a Utility Task Vehicle (UTV) to the fleet, which will be used for natural disasters, events, and emergency calls on the LINC.
• It actually makes more sense for lower economy passengers to board the plane first as they are located further down the plane.
• The Newnan Fire Department recently held their annual awards breakfast to celebrate their firefighters and their hard work. The four recipients of this year’s Life Save Award were Firefighter Hector Tirado, Lt. Daniell Albertson, Firefighter Trent Harper, and Lt. Buddy Hamby.
• Belated birthday greetings just extend your birthday happiness.
• The Kiwanis Club of Newnan recently distributed more than $200,000 to 50 area non-profits. The proceeds are from revenue raised from the annual Kiwanis Coweta County Fair.
• Over the past decade, Yamaha employees have brought joy to more than 1,000 children through Coweta County’s local Angel Tree program. This year, Yamaha adopted 120 foster children across Coweta County, providing each child with multiple gifts through the Department of Family and Children Services.
• Your dog thinks “Fetch” is a game that you two made up, and he loves you for that.
• Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Annual Newnan Christmas Parade, as chosen by the Newnan Youth Council: Most Creative: Foundation Church; Best Use of Theme: SonRise Baptist Church; The Elfin Award: Joyful Praise Homeschool Choir. Receiving 77% of the total votes, Foundation Church also won the Popular Choice Award.
• The Coweta Community Foundation (CCF) announced recipients of their 2024 Coweta Together Fund grants during a live stream on Facebook recently in a $73,350 distribution of funds. The full list of recipients can be found here: https://www.wintersmedia.net/ccf-announces-2024-coweta-together-fund-grants/
• The last 10 percent of a tube of toothpaste lasts about as long as the first 90 percent.
Harold Joyner
• From the Red Cross: Thank you Newnan and Coweta County for helping us exceed our Red Kettle goal. You gave $78,591.80. Special thanks to our #1 bell ringer Don Simmons of the White Oak Golden K Kiwanis club who rang for 101 hours and raised $8,975.18. Not surprising, our 2nd and 3rd top earners are also Golden K members. Matt Thompson raised $5,409.35 and Terry Schroeder raised $3,875.68. Other top ringers raising over $2,000 each are Bill Querry, Harold Joyner, and Donald Sprayberry. Because of your gifts of time and treasure, we will be able to serve our neighbors in need all year.
• Light bulbs were such a good idea that they actually became the symbol of a good idea.
• Piedmont Newnan Hospital welcomed the first baby born at the hospital in 2025 at 1:11 a.m. on Jan. 1. Parents CJ and Angela Fletcher, from Sharpsburg, welcomed their baby boy Drayden, who weighed 7 lbs., 5.8 ounces and measured 19 inches long. This is their second child.
• And speaking of babies, go check out our top stories for 2024 on page 27, where the first baby of the year was the most read.
• If you are alone and you crack open a peanut shell to eat the peanut inside, you are the only person in the world to have ever seen that peanut.
