COMMISSIONERS: Wilburn Aker, Chairman * Clinton Marshall, 1st Vice-Chair*

Linda Waldon* Rhonda Massengill * Billie Erwin EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Patricia Gail Brown

August 2010

Volume 7, Issue 8

The Busy Bee Newsletter

Calhoun Housing Authority

TDD Line for the hearing impaired: 1-800-545-1833 x 821

Special points of interest:

• Important Announcements

• Senior Events

• Resident Association Dates

• Exterminator Dates

Office: 706-629-9183

After Hours: 706-260-7265

Announcements 2

Employee Biography 3

Imagination Station News 4

Calhoun City School Calendar 5

Banned List 6

Kids Corner 7

Calendar of Events 8

Inside this Issue:

Wilburn Aker,

Chairman

Linda

Waldon

Rhonda

Massengill

Clinton Marshall Vice-Chair

Billie Erwin, not pictured

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LEJO is here to help residents get job ready and find work. They are located at the 629 Harkins Street Imagination Station. They can help with computer training and preparing a RESUME. Please call this office and tell us what your needs might be. You may need help with something that we have not provided. Let us know what you would like to see provided here in the Authority. We are here to help and serve you and your family. Please call and take advantage of this great opportunity for job training- (706) 629-9183.

Georgia Legal Services is a non profit group of lawyers that provide access to justice and opportunities out of poverty for Georgians with low incomes. The last Friday of every month from 10:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Georgia Legal Services sends a lawyer to the LEJO offices in the old Imagination Station Building at 629 Harkins Street to make them available to the public in general, but more importantly to you the residents of the Calhoun Housing Authority. If you need any additional information, please contact the LEJO office at 706-625-0658.

• Parking over sidewalks- Please do not park over the sidewalks. Residents in wheel-chairs are not able to travel if the sidewalk is blocked

• YELLOW CURBS - no parking where curbs are painted yellow. These are for emer-gency vehicles use.

• SLOW DOWN!- Please make every effort to slow down in and around the sites. We have children playing and senior citizens walking around.

• Senior Residents - Hillhouse Junction is the place to be on Monday and Thursday. We open at 7:00am and close at 9:00 am. This is on Fair and Hillhouse Street, across from the car wash. We have a great breakfast each morning and a great time. This is the place to catch up on the latest news. We give away a nice door prize on the last Thurs-day of the month. When you come for breakfast you register for the door prize. Lourdes and Janice will be looking for you.

• Heat Wave-Please try and stay cool, use your air conditioner and drink plenty of fluids. • Pets– No pets are allowed without registering with the office first. Payments will be accepted

on Pet Deposits.

L.E.J.O working for the residents

Free Legal Services Available

Important Announcements

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I am Janice Croft Tipps. I am the Senior Resident Coordinator for the Housing Authority. I am not a native of Calhoun but I have lived here thirty-five plus years. I started working for the Au-thority in 1990 and I have been employed in the housing industry almost all of the past years since 1990. I am married to Ross Tipps and we have 6 children between us and we have thirteen grandchil-dren, their wives and my grand-children. I spend as much time with them as possible. We pres-ently have four grandchildren in college and one who just graduated from college as a nurse. My husband and I like to go camping and just travel in general. I have a precious little dog named Whiskers and I'm not sure sometimes if I am his master or he is my master. He is a rescue dog and is about seven years old. My parents are both deceased and my oldest sister. I have two sisters and one brother and try to keep in touch with them because a person's family is really important. I love my work and consider myself a people's person. I love the challenge of my job. I enjoy doing volunteer work and just helping people out. I have many hobbies, but I think I love to work in my yard with my flowers the most.

Section 3 announcements

There are currently no job openings with the Calhoun Housing Authority. As we start new projects, our contractors will post an announcement board to list any job openings that they may have available. Please check with each development for possible employment opportunities. We currently have contractors on Neal Street. As the Calhoun Housing Authority may have job opportunities, we hire through 2Work Staffing. If you would like to be notified by email regarding any announcements or job postings relating to Section 3, please email me at agasaway@calhounhousingauthority.org

Let me tell you a little about myself……….

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We have been really busy here at the Imagination Station! School is just around the corner but that's not slowing us down! Just this month we have participated in field trips and crafts and we have even started some academic work. We still have a few more things planned before school

starts back but we'd like to tell you a few of the activities we are doing. At the beginning of the month we went to a blueberry farm here in Gordon County and picked 5 lbs of blueberries!! They tasted so good! Our teachers wanted us to use the blueberries so we were able to make homemade blueberry muffins! They were delicious! A few days later our

group went to Kidz-Play for two hours! We played in four different inflatables and had snacks while we were there! All-in-all, the summer has been laid back like it's supposed to be. We have enjoyed movies and play time but to keep us active and our minds engaged, our teachers have planned many crafts and academic activities for us. We also have daily

discussion, daily reading, recess and computer time. We have a lady that comes every Thursday to read the book, “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O'Dell to us. It is a true story about Pacific Indian Natives. The activity that we did to go along with the book was to paint gourds. Gourds grow in the ground and are in the same family as squash. Another academic activity that we are working on this month is a puppet show. One of our teachers read the book, “The Three Billy Goat's Gruff” to our class and prepared a script for us to perform. We made our own puppets and back ground for the puppet show and we will get to perform it later this

month! We are currently making piñatas! The Mandarins would use a stick to hit the piñata and bananas would fall out! They would burn the remains of the piñata and gather the ashes for good luck for the next year. Did you know that the word

piñata means “punching bag?” We finished the program with a bang by going to the Tellus Museum, CiCi's pizza, and Chuck E Cheese! That was a great

way to end our summer and we have so much to tell our friends about when school begins!

Please remember: All children attending the Imagination Station must be in good standing with the program. All the chil-dren will be expected to follow the rules and be on their best behavior at all times. If you have had a problem with this in

the past, check in with Miss Ashley to find out if you may attend. The Imagination Station Youth Program’s new hours will be 3:00 p.m. TO 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday starting August 6, 2010. There will be no pick up service. Students can ride the school bus to the

station. Thanks, Gail Brown & Ashley Smith

Imagination Station News

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As of July 31, 2010NOTE: Unless noted, the ban does not expire.

Name Date Banned Ban Expiration (if applicable)

Name Date Banned Ban Expiration (if applicable)

William T. Abbott 09/19/95 Jeremy Johnson 11/20/03Jonathan Dewayne Bass 03/18/03 Matthew Z. Johnson 11/20/03James Bennett 11/15/06 Jarvis M. Jones 09/24/09Joe Richard Bennett 11/05/02 Walter Lee Jones 02/05/01Mary Bennett 11/15/06 Rodney Kidd 12/21/01Rickey Bennett 02/26/99 Jahod Lawrence 12/21/01Timothy Blasengame 11/15/06 Jai Lawrence 08/10/05Timothy Jacob Bradshaw 02/07/08 Michael Leatherwood Jr. 08/22/05Christopher M. Brown (Boo Man)

06/19/02 Tommy Leatherwood 08/22/05

Tony Burk 05/20/02 Joseph Douglas Mabe 03/18/03Jennifer Burnett 07/29/08 Trey McBride 10/21/05Robert Lee Capers 07/03/02 Robert McClendon 06/08/06Carter Lynn Chamlee 04/08/10 04/05/15 Allen McDaniel 02/07/08Scott Chamlee 04/10/10 04/10/15 Darren Mann 09/11/07Trey Crocker 02/09/04 Rico Mann 04/16/10 04/16/10Michael Curtis 06/08/06 Tracy Mayfield 06/20/02Tamarillo Curtis 07/29/08 Victor Monford Jr. 05/18/04Barry Duran Davis 02/04/05 Monica Montgomery 11/06/07Tausawala Dixon 10/05/06 Valdez Montgomery 04/13/03Wesley Scott Dodd 01/07/03 Alton Moss 06/27/08Aroldo Alberto Deleon A.K.A. William 08/11/09

Evans E. Mullins 03/26/10 03/26/15

Margaret Dominquez 02/22/07 Christopher Nicholson 07/13/06Justin Downey 12/02/08 Tanessa Oliver 07/29/08Christopher Edwards 06/15/07 Kim Owens 09/30/99David Thomas Edwards 10/31/06 Kristopher Parker 07/29/08Joseph David Everett 07/26/04 Robert Parker 05/08/08Malcolm Finch 09/30/99 Andrew Randall 09/30/99Anthony Fleetwood 02/03/06 Gerald Randall 04/27/01Joshua Fleetwood 02/03/06 Bryce Reed Sr. 04/15/03Mandy Nichols Fleetwood 07/09/02 Rex Alan Roberts 06/20/05Markita Kendra Fleetwood 02/03/06 Terrance Lamar Smith 12/08/03Sherry Fowler 09/19/05 Lee Timms 06/19/02Dawn Franklin 05/19/09 05/19/12 David Timpson 07/20/09Larry Franklin 05/19/09 05/19/12 Richard Tutt 11/15/06Steven Garland 03/23/04 Robert S. Underwood 10/16/03Tonya Gentry 10/27/05 Michael Upshaw 01/22/09Kimberly Gibson 05/23/06 Michael David Vaught 05/10/01Calvin Peter Gunn 10/19/01 Connery Wade 11/15/06Grayson Gregory 12/16/08 Christopher Washington 11/27/02Kristen Hamburg 11/07/05 Walter A. Washington 10/27/05Everette Harper Sr. 05/29/03 Travis Watkins 02/26/99Darren Harris 09/29/08 Jeterus Wiley 03/28/02Brian Jermaine Higgenbottham 11/05/02 Eric Wilkey 09/02/04

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It's a Stretch Notebook Materials Thin, braided-elastic head-bands Three-ring binder Writing utensils Instructions Crisscross a dozen or so thin, braided-elastic headbands around the front cover of a three-ring binder, and your child can tuck writing utensils and reminder notes under them, as shown.

There are 15 differences between the pictures. Can you find them all?

The Solution is below.

Calendar of Events

Every 2nd, 3rd & 4th Friday: Office closed for lunch.

Every Saturday: 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Senior Soup Kitchen Deliveries

August 2nd—3rd : Exterminators

August 6th Late fees applies at 4:00 pm.

Resident Association Calendar

August Senior Luncheon for Hillhouse and Golden

Circle seniors

August 25th @ 12:00 p.m. 617 Hillhouse Community Bldg.

All seniors living in the housing authority are invited. Please mark your calendar we will no longer be calling to remind you.

Hillhouse Spice Girls & Porch Hound Dawgs Resident

Associations: August 18th at 1:00 p.m.

617 Hillhouse Bldg. Bring your dues. Electing Officers.

Sunshine Family Resident

Association August 18th at 5:30 p.m.

681 Pine St. Bring your dues. Electing Officers.

The Hillhouse Junction Monday and Thursday 7:00 a.m. –9:00 a.m.

A gathering place for the Seniors. ALL seniors are invited. Come

enjoy a great breakfast.

Birthstone: Onyx, Peridot Flower– Gladiolus, Poppy

Resident Reminder All income changes must be reported in writing within 10 days.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 Exterminating

3 Exterminating

4 5 6 Late Fees apply @ 4:00 p.m.

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8 9 10

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Calhoun Housing Authority Board Meeting Schedule

The Calhoun Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meeting is scheduled the 4th Wednesday of each month. Call to verify that a

meeting is scheduled and has not been cancelled prior to attending.