Coweta News & Notes with some added Zen
By JOHN A. WINTERS, Publisher
Notes from here, there and the Internet.
• Music event Summer NewnaNights hit the stage at First Avenue Park on Thursday, June 12. The SAE Jam Band, which also played at Newnan PorchFest, opened the summer series. Retrograde is scheduled for July 10. Also, Summer Wined-Up, the annual downtown Newnan wine-tasting event, is set for July 20 from 5-9 p.m. Individual tastings occur at more than 25 different downtown businesses.
• Grape soda is always purple, which completely ignores the fact that there are green grapes, too.
• The Board of Clothes Less Traveled has announced the promotion of Hope Brown to Executive Director. Hope has been an essential member of our Leadership Team since joining the organization in 2021. This promotion is a testament to her exceptional management, people skills and strong values. Hope emulates our values of community, leadership and teamwork.
• Humans get more instructions on how to microwave packaged meals than they do on raising a child from birth.
• Coweta County Fire Rescue recently held a special groundbreaking ceremony at the future home of Station 10. The new site for Station 10 is located at 49 Crook Road in Senoia. With the growing population in Coweta County, this new facility will allow us to better serve citizens and lessen call times on the east side. It will replace the existing Fire Station located on Highway 85.
• When you eat a hot dog, you are making another one inside of you by mashing up meat and putting it in an intestine.
• The city of Nenwan recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for additional parking at Lynch Park. The new, expanded parking will not only connect two separate parking lots, but also include significant additional parking. The park is located at 23 Richard Allen Drive in Newnan.
• “Most people are disgusted by insects touching their food but happily enjoy eating honey, which is made by insects regurgitating nectar into each other’s mouths.”
• West Georgia Technical College (WGTC) has announced the appointment of Chris Page as Dean of its newly established School of Public Safety and Professional Services. Page brings more than 19 years of public safety experience as a firefighter, paramedic, and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Public Administration from Valdosta State University.
• “Hip Hop will soon be considered “dad music”.”
• Sixteen Coweta County students received a total of $42,000 in scholarships from Coweta-Fayette EMC. Thirteen students received Melissa Segars Memorial Scholarships, worth $3,000 each; and three received Coweta-Fayette Trust Technical Scholarships, worth $1,000 each. The Coweta-Fayette EMC Trust awards thousands of dollars in scholarships to local students each spring.
• “Your future self is watching you right now through memories.”
• Piedmont has expanded access to primary care options in Newnan with the opening of Piedmont Primary Care at of Arbor Springs. The new clinic is located at 9 Arbor Springs Terrace in Newnan, in the front of the new Publix shopping center.
• We should have AI safe words that we can use to tell people close to us in order to prevent malicious deepfakes of ourselves.
• Newnan High School officials said, “Congratulations are in order for Jamie Glover, who has been named the Coweta County School System Assistant Principal of the Year! As he successfully takes on his new role as principal, leading our staff with vision, we express our sincere gratitude for the tireless efforts that led to this accomplishment.”
• Cell phone cameras have probably done more to stop crime than most other technilogical advances.
• Join Chattahoochee Riverkeeper on Saturday, June 21 for a guided paddle on the Chattahoochee River as it flows from Moore’s Bridge Park to McIntosh Reserve Park! This outing will cover approximately seven river miles and include mostly flat water with occasional class 1 and 2 shoals. Once severely polluted, this stretch of river downstream of Atlanta is dramatically cleaner than it was when CRK first stood up to protect it three decades ago.
• Burning the hay stack would be an easy way of finding the needle.
