Mama Flora and her family will have to gather somewhere

else after the Coweta County Commission decided Tuesday not

to allow the group to use the old courthouse in Haralson.

AJA Enterprises is filming the television movie "Mama

Flora's Family" around Haralson and wanted to use the courthouse as

a staging area to gather everyone in the morning before the

shooting began. The group also wanted to use the building as an area to

keep the extras until they were needed.

Assistant County Administrator Chuck Crawford said

the county's policy called for a daily rent of $1,000 per day and

the studio wanted the facility for 18 days.

County Commissioner Vernon "Mutt" Hunter said he didn't

have a problem with the movie being filmed in the county, but said

the county had never agreed to let any of their courthouses be

used for such a purpose.

"There's plenty of buildings down there, like the old post

office, that could serve the same purpose," he said.

Hunter said it could set a precedent if the county allowed

the studio to use the facility.

"Does the county want to get into the rental of property? If

they were going to use it as a backdrop and film the movie there,

that would be different," he said.

The commission voted unanimously to deny the use of

the facility to the movie folks.

In other news, the commission heard that a number of

potholes had been fixed at the South Oaks Mobile Home Park. After

viewing the conditions of the roads at the park, the commission told

the owners that county emergency vehicles would not be

allowed into the facility until the roads were fixed.

The commissioners said that county vehicles could suffer

severe damage trying to navigate the pothole-filled roads, and

he did not want the taxpayers paying for damaged vehicles caused

Crawford told the commissioners that several potholes had

been filled in and it was now safe for emergency vehicles to travel

the roads again.

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