Chula News

Rodney Bruce Bennett, 54, 1204 Zion Hope Road, Chula, was charged Thursday with theft by taking and criminal damage to property.

Vinyetta Caprice Beckhom, 22, 1220 Sussex Drive F46, was charged Monday with battery and criminal damage to property.

The Exchange Club of Tifton recently presented its 56th annual Book of Golden Deeds award to Amy Henderson, a teacher at Tiftarea Academy.

Pablo Picasso once called art a blind man's profession. "He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen," the great Spanish artist said.

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Monday, April 20, 2009, include Maggie Walker Johnson, 58, of Moultrie; Roy Funk, 66, of Chula, Ga.; Fred Purvis, age 64, of Yulee, Fla.; Mason David Pierce, infant; Eldred Goldman "Buddy" Carden, 84, of Thomasville, Ga.; Lucille Tucker McCranie Fricks, 85, of Miami, Fla.

Willie James Banks Jr., 33, 2778 Highway 319 South, Norman Park, was charged Wednesday with a probation violation.

Quarnisha Shanta Alexander, 17, 4127 Midland Ave., was charged Wednesday with disorderly conduct.

Arthur James Barron, 38, 711 W. 21st St., was charged Wednesday with a probation violation.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a mobile home in Ty Ty Tuesday morning is still undetermined but not deemed as "suspicious" by an arson investigator.

Sometimes I pose questions, hoping that my readers will respond to things I've been wondering about.

David Tyrone Barnes, 28, 611 E. Golden Road, was charged Tuesday with carrying a pistol without a license and public drunkenness.