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VOLUME LXXII NUMBER 4
County Discusses
Dogs And Raises
BY JIM COSE Y
Editor
Dogs, salary raises and employees
were the main topics of discussion when
the Forsyth County Commissioners met
in regular session last Monday after
noon.
Concerning the dogs, the board was
told by County Attorney Lynwood Jor
dan that the county, according to state
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Heart Princess
Forsyth County’s own Kayce Williams is shown with Georgia Governor George
Busbee after being named the Heart Association’s state Heart Princess for 1980.
Kayce is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Williams and a sixth grader at Cumm
ing Elementary School.
Local Girl Is
Heart Princess
Kayce Williams of Camming, who is
living a normal active life because of
successful open heart surgery eight
years ago, has a unique way of helping
the Heart Association fight heart
disease.
Each fall, Kayce picks up
muscadines and sells them for $2 a
gallon to her neighbors on Lake Lanier
in Forsyth County. Then she gives the
money to the Georgia affiliate of the
American Heart Association to help
support research, community pro
grams and education.
Because of her involvement with
heart disease, both as a very young pa
tient and as a Heart volunteer, Kayce
has been named the 1980 State Heart
Fund Princess. In appearances for the
Heart Association this year, she will be
representing the many Georgians who
owe their lives to successful open heart
surgery.
When Kayce visited Governor George
Busbee at the state capitol in Atlanta
last week to receive a proclamation for
Heart Month in February, she took him
a jar of muscadine jam, and the gover
nor was delighted.
Kayce is the blonde-haired daughter
of Ken and Camille Williams of Cumm
ing. A sixth grader at Cumming
Elementary School, she can’t imagine
not being able to do all the things she
likes to do-ballet dancing, roller
skating, playing basketball and swim
ming.
; -But soon after she was bom on April
21, 1968, the doctor told her parents she
had a heart murmur, a condition that
Was watched carefully over the next
few years. The problem was diagnosed
as congenital pulmonary stenosis, an
obstruction of a valve in the heart,
which was causing her heart to enlarge.
In February, 1972, when she was not
quite four years old, Kayce had open
heart surgery at Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta. The surgery was
successful, her progress has been very
good, and she doesn’t have to take
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law, is responsible for housing dogs for
rabies check if the owner is unknown.
The commissioners were considering
a proposal to contract with a local
veterinarian to house dogs after they’ve
bitten someone. Commissioner James
Harrington said he was opposed to
making such a contract. “I don’t think
it would cost that much to build a little
pen somewhere,” he said.
medicine or restrict her activities in
any way.
“If she hadn’t had the surgery, she
might not have expected to live past her
teen years,” her father says.
While most four year olds don’t even
know about open heart surgery, Kayce
at that age was able to pronounce “car
diac catheterization” and discuss
surgery with her grandfather, who had
a triple by-pass operation five months
later.
Now Kayce is planning to go into
medicine, either as a heart surgeon or a
cardiologist.
Ken VanderHoff, a local attorney,
has been named chairman of the 1980
Heart Fund Drive in Forsyth County.
His job will be to coordinate the ac
tivities of volunteers in the county dur
ing the Heart Month in February.
Heart Month is an annual observance
when some 60,000 Heart volunteers
throughout the state share information
on the prevention and treatment of
heart disease and receive contributions
for research, education and community
programs in the fight against heart
disease.
VanderHoff will be assisted in the
campaign by Gary York, vice chair
man, as well as heads of various divi
sions such as general business, residen
tial, professions, education, govern
ment and special events.
Under special events, Police Chief
Gabe Dukas is formulating plans for a
basketball game which the law enforce
ment personnel of Forsyth County will
challenge the teachers of the county.
The game will be played on Feb. 28 at 7
p.m. at the high school gym and the
purpose will be to raise money for the
Heart Fund.
“We must see that this vital work
continues,” VanderHoff said. “Our goal
in Forsyth County is $4,923 and I will be
calling on many resideilces of the coun
ty to help with the Heart Fund Drive
and I hope the response will be in pro
portion to the seriousness of the heart
disease problem.”
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Commissioner Harrison Tallant in
terjected, “We only have about 20 such
cases a year and it would be pretty ex
pensive to build a place just for that few
dogs. I think we ought to check with the
Humane Society to see about some sort
of arrangements.”
Finally Harrington made a motion
not to contract with a local veterinarian
for such services and the vote was
unanimous.
The next topic was that of some
salaries for elected county officials.
Commissioner Harrington explained,
“I think there has been a lot of discus
sion by some people that when a person
runs for a political office they know
what the salary is. But, this is not
always the case. For many offices, the
state comes in and raises the salaries
for some, such as the sheriff. Our tax
commissioner handles between $5 and
$6 million per year. He’s done an
outstanding job. I recommend we in
crease the tax commissioner’s salary.
If a person does a good job, he should be
paid. But, I don’t want to be labeled a
‘budget-buster’ either.”
It was pointed out that the tax com
missioner currently is paid $15,000 an
nually.
Then Harrington made a motion to
consider giving the tax commissioner a
10 per cent salary increase.
All was silent and Chairman Bill
Barnett declared the motion dead for
lack of a second.
Barnett added, “I agree, but we'
ought to look at all elected officials’
salaries who haven’t received a raise in
the past two years, not just one office. ’ ’
At last month’s meeting Probate
Judge Joyce Hawkins appeared before
the board to request that the county
take over the payroll of one of her
employees who had been getting paid
through a federal program, which has
been done away with.
Commissioner Harrington reported
Monday that he feels this should be
done because before the federal pro
gram became available some years
back, the county was paying the salary
for the employee in the probate judge’s
office. “We’ll just be putting things
back like they were to begin with’” he
added.
Harrington stated that the probate
judge’s work has increased and that
two fulltime employees are needed in
the office.
Commissioner Tallant added, “But,
this money is not in the budget and we
all voted on the budget! ”
Harrington then made a motion to
allow the probate judge to have full
time employees.
Again there was no second so the mo
tion died.
Then Tallant said that the original
employee was on a part-time basis so
he made a motion to make the position
part-time, two days a week. Garland
Barron seconded the motion and he and
Tallant voted yes while Harrington
voted no. The motion passed.
Then Tallant made another motion
stating that the part-time salary would
be at minimum wage. All voted yes but
Harrington, who abstained.
The commissioners presented a pro
posal to spend revenue sharing money
strictly on road improvements for the
county. The county will receive
$251,111.94. A final public hearing will
be held at the courthouse on Feb. 11 to
hear input from citizens.
In other business the board accepted
two proposals for Cable TV in the coun
ty. One proposal had previously been
submitted by Cable TV of Georgia, bas
ed in Dahlonega. The new proposal was
from Lanier Cablevision, based in Cum
ming. The board will study the pro
posals and report back.
The city of Cumming has already
granted a franchise to the Dahlonega
based firm.
Young Girl Is Forsyth’s
First Fatality Of Year
Forsyth County recorded its first
traffic fatality of the year on Tuesday,
Jan. 22 when Lewann Brock, 5, was kill
ed in a traffic accident on Hwy. 20 East.
According to records at the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Department the acci
dent occurred around 8 a.m. The young
girl, daughter of Lewis and Annette
Brock, Rt. 8, Driftwood Circle, was pro
nounced dead on arrival at The Forsyth
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Packing
Donna Glover is showing packing her favorite stuffed animal
to take with her to the Georgia Junior Miss Pageant hi Atlan
ta this weekend. She will be competing for the state title.
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Donna Glover is all packed and ready to head for Atlanta to
compete for the title of Georgia Junior Miss. Donna said
she’s looking forward to making new friends at the pageant.
Hospital Authority
Brookwood Spending
Questioned By Board
BY CATHY PUCKETT
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Hospital Authori
ty members were pleased to hear
revenue at the hospital has increased
by some 33 per cent, but a financial
report brought several questions up
that ended in a lengthy discussion.
Several board members said they felt
costly items on the financial report sub
mitted by a representative of
Brookwood Health Care Services need
ed further explanation and should be
broken down with itemized explana
tions. Board member M.L. Hambry
County Hospital following a rear end
collision on Ga. 20 at the intersection of
Nuckolls Road. Records show that the
late model compact car driven by Mrs.
Brock struck another vehicle in the
rear.
Mrs. Brock and a passenger in the
other vehicle were injured.
Other survivors of the child are two
Last Check
Lanierland Junior Miss Donna Glover gives her evening
gown a last minute check before leaving for the Georgia
Junior Miss Pageant to be held at the World Congress Center
Friday and Saturday nights.
Junior Miss
Leaves For
State Pageant
questioned the report and said it was
his understanding the $60,000, contract
agreement fee with Brookwood to
operate the hospital included the salary
of the hospital administrator. Hamby
said he felt it was necessary to have ex
planations of costs incurred including
salaries for the controller, financial ad
visor and other personnel listed on the
report. He also questioned travel ex
penses listed.
Hospital Authority Chairman Phil
Smith requested a financial breakdown
of the expenses incurred during the
past 10 months since Brookwood began
sisters: Pam and Kim; maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wiley
of Mableton; and paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brock of
Smyrna.
Services were held last Wednesday at
the Shores of Lanier Baptist Church
with interment in Riverview Memorial
Gardens in Smyrna.
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Donna Glover, Lanierland’s Junior Miss for 1980, is
in Atlanta this week preparing for this weekend’s state
pageant.
Donna left Monday for a week long stay with a host
family in Atlanta. During the week she’ll be busy
rehearsing for Friday and Saturday night per
formances in which she’ll be competing with 38 young
girls for the state title.
Donna recently won the right to participate in the
state pageant by being crowned Lanierland Junior
Miss in the pageant held in Cumming, sponsored by the
Forsyth County High School Band Boosters.
At the state pageant Donna will present her talent by
singing “Let Me Be There”. She will compete in poise
and appearance and physical fitness on Friday night
and in the talent portion of the contest on Saturday
night.
The state pageant is being held at the World Con
gress Center in Atlanta.
Prior to leaving Donna said, “I’m excited about the
state pageant. I’m looking forward to making a lot of
new friends and it 3hould be a big learning experience
forme.”
The theme for the Georgia Junior Miss Pageant is
“Politics” and Donna said that during the physical
fitness routine they’ll be wearing T-shirts declaring
“Vote For Me”.
Donna is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Glover
of Forsyth County and is a senior at Forsyth County
High School.
management-operation of the facility.
The report is to be given to the board
members at the February meeting.
Hospital Administrator Joe Brandon
told the board Graffin and Tucker had
been selected over Wayne Bowen and
Associates, to conduct an audit at the
hospital which is currently underway.
In other business, the board
members,
-voted to release funds to pay con
struction costs on the new addition of
the hospital. Currently the building pro
ject is two weeks ahead of schedule.
-denied a request for a donation to
the kidney foundation, since funds
aren’t available to support all charity
groups.
-heard a report patient booklets are
being given to all patients at the
hospital, and all comments from pa
tients are being kept on file.
-agreed to get cost figures on
whether it would be feasible to pay
employees for sick days not taken.
-agreed to request hospital auxiliary
committee to check into carpet, fur
niture and wall covering patterns for
the new part of the hospital being built.
-told that a copy of the letter send to
Senator Ed Jenkins thanking him for
his support in helping the hospital ob
tain the Certificate of Need is on file.
-received thanks from the Big Creek
Girl Scouts for a gift of a first aid kit.
20 cents
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