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VOL. 151, NO. 15
WEDNESDAY, April 12, 2023
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Fayetteville Bicentennial Celebration is June 3
Sydney Spencer
News Reporter
sspencer@fayette-news.net
The City of Fayetteville
turned 200 years old on
March 28 and city staff
plan to honor the mile
stone with a “huge
summer celebration.”
The Fayetteville Bicen
tennial celebration will be
held on June 3, so the
community can come out
and enjoy what the city
has to offer.
The celebration will
take place at City Center
Park with amenities such
as food trucks, live bands,
a market, walking tours,
and more family-friendly
activities.
The Old Fayette
County Courthouse and
Fayetteville City Cemetery
will be locations for res
idents to celebrate via sat
ellite.
To cap the celebration,
there will be fireworks il
luminating the sky for all
attendees to watch.
The City of Fayetteville
encourages residents from
throughout Fayette
County to mark their cal
endars for this celebration
and to attend and support
the growing community.
See additional information at www.fayette-news.net
F AYETTEVILLE
Happy 200th Birthday
Fayetteville!
Founded March 28.1823
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BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION JUNE 3, 2023
Market • Live Bands • Food Trucks • Walking Tours • Fireworks
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Those honored by the mayor and city council include Battalion Chief Trent Jenkins, Battalion Chief Brian Glennie, Lt. Jared Joiner,
Lt. Frank Thompson, Lt. Dwayne Gowen, Lt. Blake Chisolm, Landon Steenbergen, and Bryan Mckenzie. Courtesy of PTC
PTC Fire & Rescue wins
GEMSA Award for Cardiac Care
PEACHTREE CITY -
Peachtree City Fire and Res
cue Department's special
events crew has been named
recipient of the J. Jeffrey
Marshall Excellence in
Emergency Cardiac Care
award by the Georgia Emer
gency Medical Services As
sociation.
The prestigious award
recognizes the crew's excep
tional dedication to provid
ing outstanding emergency
cardiac care during special
events in Peachtree City, ac
cording to city officials.
The award is presented
annually to an individual or
organization in the State of
Georgia that has demon
strated excellence in emer
gency cardiac care. It is
named in honor of Dr. J.
Jeffrey Marshall for his con
tributions to prehospital
and cardiac care.
The fire and rescue de
partment's special events
crew were selected as the
winner of this year's award
based on exceptional per
formance in providing
emergency cardiac care dur
ing the 2022 Tri-PTC triath
lon.
Wayne Mote, a triathlon
participant, suffered from a
heart attack while compet
ing in the race. The special
events crew quickly arrived
on scene and started to
work with Mote, using the
LUCAS CPR compression
device.
According to Wayne’s
wife, Lori, he was without a
heartbeat for 22 minutes.
Still, Mote survived, thanks
to the fast action and best
See GEMSA Award, A6
PTC Adopts
Compensation
Plan to Boost
Employee Pay
PEACHTREE CITY -
Peachtree City adopted a
new employee compensa
tion plan to be more com
petitive in the market. The
plan, which results from the
2021 Management Advisory
Group study, adopted by
city council in 2022, imple
ments a goal of putting city
employee pay in the 85th
percentile.
The unanimous vote
took place at the April 6 PTC
City Council meeting.
One highlight of the plan
is a salary adjustment for
public safety workers. For
example, the minimum sal
ary for a police officer or
firefighter is increasing by
12 percent, or $6,000 an
nually. The adjustment is
aimed at attracting and re
taining skilled and experi
enced first responders to
serve, protect, and benefit
the community, according
to PTC officials.
"We are committed to
providing our employees
with a fair and competitive
compensation package,"
said Mayor Kim Learnard.
"This new plan reflects our
dedication to investing in
our workforce and ensuring
that our public safety
workers receive the rec
ognition and compensation
they deserve."
The new employee com
pensation plan also includes
other provisions to improve
pay and benefits for city em
ployees across various de
partments. The plan will be
implemented starting April
24 and will be reviewed and
adjusted annually to ensure
that the city remains com
petitive in the job market.
"We recognize the hard
work and dedication of our
See Employee Pay, A6
Tattooing in Fayetteville Simplified
Grand Opening Held for New
ArieForce One Roller Coaster
ArieForce One roller coaster
Sydney Spencer
News Reporter
sspencer@fayette-news.net
Fayetteville City Council
voted unanimously April 6
to amend the municipal
body art ordinance, allow
ing tattooing within the city
limits.
Planning and Zoning
Manager Julie Brown gave a
presentation on the amend
ment to Chapter 58, Article
IV, which relates to health
and sanitation, to ask for a
change in the ordinance.
“I’m here tonight to ask
for your consideration of
amendments to Chapter 58,
which is health and sanita
tion, specifically for tattoo
ing, to update ordinance
language which makes re
cent changes to the state law
establishing criminating re
quirements related to body
art procedures in a facility
in which those procedures
are provided,” explained
Brown.
Brown went on to ex
plain when the changes took
effect and why the city
should adopt the same rules
and regulations.
“On March 7 of this year,
the Georgia Department of
Public Health announced
after about three years of
See Tattooing, A6
Sydney Spencer
News Reporter
sspencer@fayette-news.net
A new roller coaster has
opened in Fayetteville, and it
is taking its riders on an in
verted cruise during travel.
ArieForce One had its
grand opening at Fun Spot
America Atlanta, located on
Highway 85 in Fayetteville,
on March 31.
The ride is the first to
offer a zero-gravity stall,
which is a roller-coaster in
version where the track ro
tates 180 degrees while
traveling uphill, fully invert
ing the riders. Once the track
levels, the track will again ro
tate 180 degrees, but in the
opposite direction.
The project was initially
announced in May 2021 and
was formally unveiled in No
vember 2021 after careful
consideration and necessary
precautions were taken to en
sure the safety of riders.
Fayetteville City Council
members Darryl Langford,
Joe Clark, and Scott Stacy
were some of the first to test
the roller coaster.
“Now I have to go home
and change some underwear.
Great ride. They did a great
job with this one,” said Lang
ford.
“It was incredible. Eveiy-
body should come out and do
it. It is amazing,” said Clark.
The ArieForce One roller
coaster is open to the public
and officials say they look for
ward to giving all riders “a
great thrill.”
CORRECTION
In the story, “BOE Hears Bus Driver Seeking
Change,” in the April 5 edition of Fayette County News,
Fayette school bus driver Carla Cann was mistakenly
referenced as Carla Cannon.
FCN regrets the error and apologizes to Cann, and
to our readers, for any inconvenience resulting from
the mistake.
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