GreenePublishing.com • Friday, June 12, 2020 • No. 41 • 75¢ + tax The Madison Enterprise-Est. 1865 • 155 Years of ServingR Madisonecorder County Ecstasy pills, MPD battery weed bust investigation Ramsey Sullivan hospital at the beginning of June for [email protected] injuries sustained in a domestic violence situation. On Thursday, June 4, at In a press release issued by approximately 2 p.m., 36-year-old Chadwick Powell Ronnie Lee Edwards Detective Mark Joost of the Madison Chadwick Powell, of Madison, Police Department (MPD), 60-year- was taken into custody after a violation and he quickly admitted John Willoughby old Ronnie Lee Edwards was [email protected] routine traffic stop quickly turned that he did not have a valid arrested on the night of Sunday, June into a drug bust. Florida Driver's License. Ofc. 7, for domestic battery by According to a report by the Wewer smelled the odor of A Madison man was recently strangulation and felony battery. Madison Police Department marijuana emitting from the arrested after a victim of battery and Det. Joost reports that at 10:16 (MPD), Officer Rowena Wewer vehicle. When asked about this strangulation was placed in the p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, Ofc. stopped Powell for a traffic odor, See "Ecstasy” on page 3 intensive care unit (ICU) of a nearby Scott Newman See "Battery” on page 3 TOWN CLERK KIMBERLY REAMS Greenville's two-step termination John Willoughby subsection and shall be immediately placed on the [email protected] agenda of the next regularly scheduled meeting upon receipt of the town clerk." The Town of Greenville has hit the restart The resolution was adopted, 4-1, with button on an original declaration of intent to Councilman Burnett casting the dissenting vote. terminate town clerk Kimberly Reams. Within 10 days, the Town of Greenville received a After a motion was made to reconsider, table response from Reams, which Town Attorney John the original May declaration, table the finalization Reid described to Greene Publishing, Inc. as an of that resolution and adopt a new resolution, objection rather than a request for a hearing. The Reams now has less than ten more days to respond response was published in full in the Wednesday, or request an appeal hearing, or accept the removal May 27, edition of the Madison County Carrier. of office. Due to the adoption of another Days prior to the recent Monday, June 8, declaration of intent to terminate, Reams continues regular session, the Town of Greenville noticed to be suspended with pay and full benefits until their meeting on their webpage, where three further action dictates otherwise. related resolutions followed by a brief detail of the On Monday, May 11, discussion around items of discussion were listed toward the end of agenda item No. 17 – "discuss and possibly take Town Clerk Kimberly Reams the agenda. This included Resolution 2020-08 (a action on discipline," began as Councilman Calvin reconsideration item of the original preliminary fi Malone presented a preliminary resolution to the that Mrs. Kimberly be removed from of ce." resolution adopted during the May meeting), council to remove Reams from her position as However, questions were raised as far as Resolution 2020-09 (a document to finalize the fi town clerk of Greenville. The resolution notes the whether the preliminary resolution was suf ciently original preliminary resolution if adopted) and reasoning for the petition of removal: "I would provided to the town clerk prior to the meeting. As Resolution 2020-10, an essential repeat document like Mrs. Reams removed from office as clerk. The the charter adds in Section 4(5) – Removal of of Resolution 2020-08. fi town is moving in a positive direction as there is a Charter Of cer, "any written motion for removal "We discussed at the last meeting there could fi uncooperative environment when questioned or of a charter of cer or similar paper prepared by be some legal issues that were in fact raised by given directives. For the greater good of the town any Town Council member shall constitute a Mrs. Reams' attorney," Greenville Town Attorney preliminary resolution for purposes of this council and citizens of Greenville, I recommend John Reid informed the See "Greenville's” on page 3 Health advisory issued for Withlacoochee Lee Town Manager announces retirement John Willoughby [email protected] After nearly six years guiding the municipality under the town council, Lee Town Manager John Anderson is set to hang it up. Anderson, who began his current tenure around Thanksgiving in Rick Patrick Escherichia coli (E.coli) bacteria were detected [email protected] 2014, will remain on the Withlacoochee River at two separate in his position testing sites. At Ga. Hwy. 31 (at the state line), through August. On Tuesday, June 9, the Madison County the level was 24,196 MPN (most probable The Health Department issued a health advisory for number)/100mL. At County Road 150, the level announcement was John Anderson residents along the Withlacoochee River. This is was 4,611 MPN/100 mL. The standard level made at the end of the first advisory issued in several months, which is considered safe is 400 MPN/100mL. offering his monthly manager's report to the although it is certainly not the first time a health "Until further information is known council during their regularly scheduled advisory has been issued. regarding possible bacterial contamination of the meeting on Tuesday, On Monday, June 8, elevated levels of river, people in the area See "Advisory” on page 3 See "Lee” on page 3 INDEX: Viewpoints: 2 • Community: 4-7 • Flag Day: 8 • History: 9 • School: 10-11 • Health & Wellness: 12-13 Entertainment: 14 • Classifieds & Legals: 15 2 ~ Friday, June 12, 2020 VIEWPOINTS & OPINIONS The Madison Enterprise-Recorder Wait A Minute: Passing Parade: Needing 911 Fathers can Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist identify her. After a brief time out for supper with the become dads There are a lot of CD titles out there, for the family, the bike squad members hopped back on younger set, based on bikes and having the their bicycles and scoured the neighborhood once with some bikers act like a Nancy Drew or the Hardy boys. again. They investigated parking lots and Many of these titles are worth checking out. We playgrounds, checked behind bushes and even effort just have to keep the faith that there is still returning to the grounds of their elementary goodness out there. Try this on as an uplifting school. story meant to be appreciated by all. Then, at 6:30 p.m., just before dusk, Hope Coming from a broken home, I can relate personally to the extended family Hope Claiborne (from phenomenon. My story is a war story. My left), Makenna parents met after WWII Rogers, Logan in Germany. My mom Hultman and was a native German Kashton Claiborne and my father an Army helped police Master Sergeant in the find a woman in Occupational Forces. Roseville, They married then had California, who had wandered me. Needless to say, it away from her was not a smooth residential care family environment. center. PAT The problems started in BARDEN [Nelson Germany and followed A. Pryor/Courtesy] Bob Bezick here back to the States. Guest Columnist My Mom had to Imagine my surprise at this story headline, saw her: a petite elderly woman with pale gray relocate from her from the Oct. 14, 2019 Atlanta Constitution: hair, slowly approaching a street corner. family in Germany and move to a foreign "Missing California Woman Found by 'Junior "Look! There she is!" Hope recalled telling country in order to keep her son through Detectives' on Bicycles." What an adventure to the others. her imminently approaching divorce. My start out life with. "I said, 'Yes! Guys, that has to be her,'" parents divorced when I was still in It all started in Roseville, Calif., a small Logan recalled. kindergarten. My mom gained custody, but community twenty miles from Sacramento. Two "I was so excited to find her. We all went she was a legal immigrant that spoke young ladies: Hope Claiborne and Makenna over to her and asked, 'What are you doing?'" broken English and now had the task of Rogers, both 11, hearing a police helicopter Hope said. "She didn't really understand us and raising a son with no familial support. I hovering above their neighborhood, sprang into told us to go away." give you the background just to show that action. Doing what's right it was not an easily fixed problem. My They heard from the helicopter loudspeaker While the other kids distracted Belford and mom found a few part time jobs to make that police were seeking volunteers to help locate kept talking to her, Hope dialed 911 and told the ends meet and eventually met, Stan, while Glenetta Belford, a 97-year-old with dementia dispatcher that they had found the lost woman. nd I was in 2 grade. I would have a stepdad, who had wandered away Sept. 30 from her "The dispatcher was a little surprised to hear whom I would call Dad for the rest of his residential care center. Nightfall was coming, it a young voice on the line," said Rob Baquera, life. was 4 p.m., and Glenetta Belford needed to be public information officer for the Roseville Although my father lived just thirty found fast. Police Department. minutes away, we had very little to no Just hanging out after school Within a minute the dispatcher had sent a interaction. A yearly birthday card and a Hope and Makenna, just in a park near their police cruiser to the scene where the children and Christmas card and one or two face-to- home, decided to grab their bikes as well as get Belford were, and returning Belford quickly to face visits over the next ten years.