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‘Newnan notes’ By Gina Snider August 30, 2010 City of Newnan Public Information Officer
Main Street Market Days is this Saturday from 10 – 2pm. With a wide variety of handmade or homegrown products, there is something for everyone. Come shop the courthouse square for homegrown plants and produce, handmade jewelry, soap, artwork, baked goods and more!
Newnan Citizen Academy is back, a free six week course provided to city residents, business owners, and property owner to educate and inform the citizens of Newnan about every aspect of city government in Newnan. Participants are given the opportunity to tour city facilities and hear directly from department managers, professional staff, and elected officials.
Hurry! There are a few spaces left. The applicants will be chosen first that live within the city limits. Beyond that applicants in the county will be on a first come first serve basis. Please contact Gina Snider at 770-254-2358 or by email at
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The city has launched “Safe Step,” Pedestrian Safety Awareness campaign, here is a helpful tip for motorists. Slow down and use caution in residential areas, around schools, playgrounds, parks, bus stops or other areas where children and other pedestrians are common.
There were four new occupational tax certificates issued by the city. The business names are Fleming A-1 Cleaning Services, LLC., LaGuera Unisex Salon, Southern Exposure Photography and WDS, Inc. For more information on tax occupational certificates or city taxes please contact the Finance Department at 770-253-2682.
Come visit the Carnegie in historic downtown. The Carnegie will have Preschool Story Time this Thursday at 10 a.m. The Carnegie will be closed September 4-6 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Reservations required for the program. Call 770-683-1347 to reserve your spot.
Labor Day falls on Monday, September 6; CLM will observe this holiday and take Monday off. During this week all collection services (garbage, recycle and yard debris) will move forward one day. CLM will move Monday's collection services to Tuesday, Tuesday to Wednesday, Wednesday to Thursday, Thursday to Friday, and Friday’s services will be collected on Saturday.
The city of Newnan Animal Control Officer, Cyndi Hoffman reminds pet owners to spay and neuter your pets. Talk about preventive medicine! Removing the ovaries and uterus of a female dog or cat—otherwise known as spaying—helps prevent breast cancer and pyometra, or infection of the uterus, and stops the animal from going into heat. (Female cats, by the way, can go into heat every 3 weeks!) And ASPCA experts believe that many aggressive behavior problems can be avoided by neutering a male, or removing the testicles, by the age of six months. The surgery also prevents testicular cancer, prostate disease and hernias. Most importantly spaying and neutering a pet helps control pet populations and helps animals from being unwanted.
Keep Newnan Beautiful has learned that the old folk wisdom that says place a brick in your toilet’s water tank is partially correct! It’s an effortless way to save water, but a brick isn’t the best choice of object. Use a plastic bottle filled with water instead. Most toilets will flush perfectly well with a little less water (an increasingly scarce resource) and the average model uses three to seven gallons per flush. A bottle in the tank will displace enough water to save half a gallon to a gallon each use, or up to about 10 gallons a day in a typical home. All you have to do is drop a little sand or some pebbles into a bottle, fill it with water, and put it in the tank, making sure not to disturb the toilet’s working parts! The City’s Engineering Department would like to remind you those household hazardous wastes in and around your home can affect your family and pets and can be toxic to fish and wildlife. If disposed of improperly, an average Georgia household generates an estimated 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year. That's a total of 62 million pounds- enough to fill 1,550 tractors every year! Georgia households waste approximately four gallons of paint each year. For more info go to www.cleanwatercampaign.com or contact the Engineering Department at 770-252-2682.
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