Continuing more on Black History Month we will focus next on Ms. Carrie Mae Hambrick a woman of essence and a legend in her community. She was an inspiration to many a generation and Stockbridge is the better for her being here. The following resolution by the State of Georgia tells the story pretty well.
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House Resolution 1850
By: Representatives Douglas of the 78th, Scott of the 76th, Stephenson of the 90th, and
Strickland of the 111th
A RESOLUTION
1 Commending Carrie Mae Hambrick and recognizing May 17, 2014, as Carrie Mae Hambrick
2 Community Service Day at the state capitol; and for other purposes.
3 WHEREAS, Carrie Mae Hambrick was born on March 8, 1919, in Jonesboro, Georgia, to
4 the late Emma Dixon-Slaughter and Jacob "Jim" Slaughter; and
5 WHEREAS, she received her formal education at the Dixon Grove School in Clayton County
6 and worked as a manager of the lunch room program at the former Red Oak School; and
7 WHEREAS, Mrs. Hambrick was united in love and marriage to Hime Hambrick, Sr., and
8 was blessed with five wonderful children, Otha, Brenda, Irene, Hime, Jr., and Alvin, five
9 remarkable grandchildren, Jerald, Jason, Shundra, Shalum, and Ryan, and four cherished
10 great-grandchildren, Jacob, Maya, Cameron, and Jahria; and
11 WHEREAS, in September of 1949, Mrs. Hambrick became the proud proprietor of the
12 Greenfront Café located in Stockbridge, Georgia; when it was built in 1947 by her cousin,
13 Augustus Slaughter, it was one of the first restaurants in the City of Stockbridge; and
14 WHEREAS, not only was the Greenfront Café known throughout Henry County for the best
15 hot dogs, hamburgers, and country cooking, but Mrs. Hambrick was also known for her
16 generosity toward others and her willingness to put the needs of her neighbors first; and
17 WHEREAS, she collected clothes, shoes, and household items to give to needy families in
18 the community and often provided food to families and took homemade soup to the sick and
19 shut-in; and
20 WHEREAS, one of Mrs. Hambrick's greatest enjoyments was watching neighborhood youth
21 play baseball, so she organized and sponsored the Stockbridge Pirates baseball team and laid
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Here is the Obituary for Ms. Carrie Mae Hambrick
Family-Placed Death Notice
HAMBRICK, Carrie Mae Carrie Mae Hambrick Mrs. Carrie Mae Hambrick, age 90, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, January 17, 2010. The service celebrating the memory of her life will be held Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 1:00 p.m., Red Oak United Methodist Church, 3894 Walt Stephens Rd., Stockbridge. Rev. Fert Richardson, pastor. Interment Stock- bridge Cemetery. Her remains will lie in state at the church from 11:00 a.m. until the hour of service. The family will receive friends tonight from 7:00 to 8:00 at Trinity United Methodist Church, 112 Wilson Ave., Stockbridge. She is survived by three daughters, Otha Bryant (John), Brenda Shaw (Rufus) and Marilyn Irene Hambrick; two sons, Hime Hambrick, Jr. (Elaine) and Alvin Hambrick; six grandchildren, four great grandchildren, a sister, three brothers, and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, the Stockbridge Community, and many friends. W.D. Lemon & Sons Funeral Home, 300 Griffin St., McDonough,
(770) 957-4337.
Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from Jan. 18 to Jan. 22, 2010
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The City of Stockbridge Made a special day for Ms. Hambrick
The Stockbridge City Council created the 2nd Saturday of May of each year is Carrie Mae Hambrick Day as created by the Council in January 2009. She will be long remembered by future generations as a woman of substance who raised a family and worked hard in a family restaurant known as the “Green Front Café.” Stockbridge is indeed indebted to her legacy as a woman who brought about changes in her community with her loving ways and by being just herself.
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References:
1. Georgia State Legislature.
2. The Atlanta Journal Constitution
3. City of Stockbridge
Mr. Britt, I have been following the crime statistics for Henry County for some time now. Many people have been wanting this influx of people that we have today. They have also brought their crime with them from Clayton, DeKalb, and Fulton Counties. Since 2003, Henry County has seen an increase of 94% in crime including 93% in violent crimes. The Crime index for Henry County cities shows McDonough with 20 (100) being safest); Stockbridge 16 (100 being safest); and Hampton 47 (100 being safest); Ellenwood 21 (100 being safest). Henry County in 2013 alone had 12,802 listed crimes. The bulk of the crime being theft.
The counties districts are interesting to view. District 1 makes up approximately 15% of the crime; District 2 makes up approximately 10% of the crime; District 3 makes up approximately 18% of the crime; District 4 makes up approximately 21% of the crime; and District 5 makes up 36% of the crime in the county. Burglary and Larceny make up a huge part of the pie in the amount of crimes committed. As we can see a higher number for the 4th and 5th districts due to the influx of people from DeKalb, Clayton and Fulton Counties. Gang activity, theft and violent crime with drugs involved are a big problem in that area of the county. Henry county wants to hide the numbers, but the FBI publishes the facts for the people to decipher.
The key here is there needs to be an elimination of the gangs, drug houses, and other street crime in that area. When the people came they really brought some bad seeds with them and now the area is paying the price for all the greed of the past years. And the 5th district commissioner recently said in a talk to the Neighbor Newspaper that he doesn’t understand why the people in Henry County didn’t want to be like Atlanta. The problems brought here by people from Atlanta should answer that question. The people who live in Henry County wanted to live in a quiet atmosphere not a region like Metropolitan Pkwy (Old Stewart Ave) that is settling into Stockbridge along N. Henry Blvd. A prostitute can be found on Fridays and Saturdays at the Wal mart.
Henry County must reverse the crime element in this area before anything good will come of it. Crime is something that cannot be swept under the rug or discussed over and over again in town hall meetings. Action must be taken and taken soon before there is no way to prevent it. And why hasn’t the area been better protected and the elements of crime removed? Maybe ask that at the next town hall meeting.
John Weebly
Henry County, GA Resident
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Just when you think it is safe to cross the street in Stockbridge then this happens out of the blue: “Former Stockbridge City Clerk Rhonda Blackmon filed a complaint against the city last month, alleging retaliation and racial discrimination in her non-reappointment last year.
Blackmon, who is white, started as interim clerk Aug. 31, 2012, and became the city clerk Oct. 22 that year. The complaint alleges that she was informed “Jan. 3, 2014, that she had been terminated by the newly elected, majority African-American City Council.”
Named as defendants in the suit, filed Dec. 15 at the Atlanta Division of the United States District Court, are Mayor Tim Thompson, who is white, and African-American council members Lakeisha Gantt and Anthony Ford, whom she said were not lawfully sworn into office, according to the city’s charter.
The three were sworn in Dec. 20, 2013, according to the suit, but they should have been sworn in Jan. 13, 2014, at a regular scheduled meeting that is called to order by the city clerk, and at a meeting in January following their election.”
After all the lawsuits of the past few years in Stockbridge and the mud and gore that has gone on it is never safe to say its over. There have been lawsuit on top of suit since the Eminent Domain Issue of a few years ago. It seems to never end. Stockbridge’s reputation as a quaint and quiet little Georgia town has gone south with the winter geese.
Concerned Citizen of Henry County
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Hello at the Henry County Community News Blog,
I am writing today about something that is in the Henry Herald Newspaper about the commissioners and their plans to hurt Henry County. Moving here five years ago was thought to be a good idea, but we are having second thoughts. These people are not using common sense and letting their egos rule their thoughts. They want to give the county manager who is not an elected official too much power, they also want to give the powers to themselves as well and it will cause problems just as it did in Wilmington, N.C.
Here are their ideas for his duties: Included in the proposed resolution to the legislative delegation is for the commissioners to have the authority to appoint, hire and fire the county manager, county clerk and county attorney, as well as delegate their duties and responsibilities. The county manager would have to power to supervise all county departments and personnel (with the exception of the county attorney, county clerk and executive assistant), administer personnel policies and ordinances adopted by the board, and have the power to hire, fire, suspend and discipline county employees (with the exception of the county attorney, county clerk and executive assistant), according to the proposal.
They would be taking key responsibilities from the chairman of the BOC and giving it to themselves in a coup. In N.C., the people were to vote on this type of legislation before it became law and they didn’t get the chance and took it to court and won. Thus costing the not only the taxpayers money, but those involved their jobs. My husband and I see the same thing happening here and the people should say something before it is too late.
Ida McClure
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I have lived in several cities and states over the years, but this county and it’s cities are something like I or my friends have never witnessed before. This county has an excellent D.U.I. Court and I watched the presentation of January 20th by Judge Ernest Blount about how it is operated and the video was very impressive. They are to be commended fully with taking and working with a disease called alcoholism.
The issue that came to mind while watching this video is this; can a court take the sitting commissioners and work with them. The only person on that board with any previous and long term government experience is the Chairman Mr. Smith. The rest are like a B-Movie script that went wrong. They are about as unprofessional as they can possibly be and they hire people to be yes men to them. That has all the ear-marks of children on the playground who have to have a bully take care of them. These people need to be molded back into shape before they can properly lead a large county. And what really looks bad is for them to have a cheerleader for the playground bully. In the Christmas Story, they called him a toadie.
When they do devise a program to rehabilitate them hopefully they will have plenty of little wagons and buckets with shovels to play in the sand of the 9th fairway sand trap. This would save money. They could also eat some of the food the schools give our children to eat. That would help to shed a few pounds and maybe grow some hair on the new know it all who said he worked on a county plan that involves millions before he was sworn into office. And his newly found friend who gives Clairol a lot of trade admitted it. My brother called me afterwards and asked me what is wrong with these people. And I told him that from the way it looks this has been the normal for sometime here in this county that could be something. My brother asked me if there was in breeding in this area and I said possibly and he said that explains a lot.
Joseph Phillips
Oakwood Community
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Dear friends,
Commissioner Preston told me about 30 seconds before I called the December 16, 2014 meeting to order that he would be amending the agenda to present an issue and resolution. He gave me a package that I had not seen before the meeting. The resolution called for a new act to be created that would strip the Chairman of all the duties that was approved by the voters in the November 1990 election and give all of the power to run Henry County to a County Manager. The vote was 5 yes votes to approve and 1 no vote. I voted no. I signed the resolution as Chairman, even though I voted no simply because it is the duty of the Chairman to sign all Board resolutions as well as the County Clerk has a duty to attest. I am adamantly against taking the power from an elected official and giving it to a hired "At Will" employee. The current County Manager was hired by 4 Commissioners. The current Chairman was hired by almost 46,000 citizens. In the event you agree with me it is imperative that to contact your state representatives and state senators and share your thoughts with them. If they are successful any future election of a county wide Chairman will be merely a voting exercise. Please feel free to share with your family and friends.
Thank you,
Tommy N. Smith
Henry County Act 1990
