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Home Depot Surprise Teams shows up to spruce up Vets Memorial in Rockmart

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Surprise! Seaborn Jones Park’s Veterans Memorial at the Silver Comet Trailhead building got spruced up with a unexpected visit from Home Depot.

The City of Rockmart offered their thanks in a post this morning on social media for the Home Depot Surprise Team stopping at the Veterans Memorial to provide a cleanup of the monument and area around it with pressure washers and blowers, and added some fresh mulch, new pebbles and more thanks to the volunteer efforts provided by the employees.

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Along with the help, Home Depot also donated a new pressure washer, pump sprayers and hoses to help with future cleanup efforts by the city.

“This kind of generosity means more than words can cover. Our Veterans Memorial Park is sacred to this community, and their hard work was a reminder of what respect and service really look like,” the post from the City of Rockmart noted. “Thank you to every member of the team who showed up, worked hard, and gave our city such a meaningful boost. Rockmart appreciates you!”


A bit smoky outside: Controlled burns happening in Alabama bring haze to Polk County


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Wondering why it smells like a campfire outside and seems so hazy?

That’s thanks to forestry officials over in Alabama, who are conducting controlled burns inside of the Talladega National Forest, and closer to home in Floyd County.

Additional smoke conditions are expected to “inundate” Polk County for the time being, per the message that Polk County Emergency Management sent out earlier.

Officials are asking local residents to refrain from calling 911 for information about potential fires in the area with messaging sent out this afternoon across Polk County to phones, social media and more.

Officials from the Polk County Emergency Management Agency were unsure if additional burns would be conducted in the coming days, but expected to provide updates when information becomes available.

Showers are forecasted overnight and into tomorrow morning hours for Alabama and Northwest Georgia, which should extinguish the fires and delay additional controlled burns for at least a day while material dries out. Don’t expect the controlled burning to return immediately, with additional wet weather in the forecast to cap off the week and into the weekend.

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