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Bob Bowling (1), representing the local Kiwanis Club, is con
gratulating Forsyth County’s STAR Student, Dan Burzynski.
Looking on are STAR Teacher, Gloria Poss and high school
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These students at Forsyth County High School are nominees
for the yearly Governor’s Honors Program. The finalists for
the program will be announced soon. The students and sub
jects in which they were nominated (!-r) are: first row-
Donna Martin, math; Leigha Sipes, English; Rhonda Satter
Voice Of People
Pay Deputies More
AN OPEN LETTER TO
COUNTY COMMIS
SIONERS:
One of the continuing pro
blems in this county,
perhaps the most severe pro
blem, is the increasing loss
of experienced deputies at
tached to Sheriff Walraven’s
office.
By the time you have
finished reading this article
today, Walraven will have
lost another of his deputies,
bringing the county to ap
proximately four less than
what a minimum safe level
would be. This latest loss is
one of the department’s most
experienced men.
There is a simple reason
for this loss of experienced
personnel: money!
Our Sheriff and his
deputies are the lowest paid,
hardest worked and least ap
preciated law officials in the
Southeastern United States.
One of the deputies who
recently left the job went to
some smaller-than-
Cumming-town in Georgia
and hired on as Police Chief
at SIB,OOO per year. Last time
I looked, our Sheriff of 25,000
people made $13,000.
It is small wonder that our
deputies don’t stick around.
They can get the experience
working for Walraven and
then go ANYWHERE else
and get more pay. They can
even go to the Cumming City
Police and start off at more
pay than this county pays.
The single and only reason
that ALL the Sheriff’s
Department doesn’t defect
t 6 elsewhere is that we have
dedicated people.
But, my question for the
elected county commis
sioners, who pull the purse
t
STARs Named
Nominees
strings in this county, is:
What are you going to do
when your last few ex
perienced deputies say the
heck with Forsyth County
and take their experience to
a more appreciative
employer?
If you think Wesley
Walraven can go out and im
pose upon his law enforce
ment friends about the state,
a job in this county that pays
just above the minimum
wage, and has poor to lousy
fringe benefits, you have to
not be thinking straight.
It is incumbent upon the
county commission to im
mediately, and I mean im
mediately, seek to retain
qualified and experienced
people to do the work re
quired in this county. If this
is not done, watch crime in
the county climb at a rate in
the near future that will be
astronomical. There are
elections coming up and
several of you commis
sioners face the citizens this
year.
If, in fact, the crime rate
starts to jump this spring
and summer, the citizens of
this county will be well in
formed that the sheriff is do
ing his best with what he has,
but that the commission,
which had the chance,
elected to gamble a bit
longer with the lives and pro
perty of the citizens of this
county, rather than attempt
to straighten out a serious
situation in this county.
The solution is simple, pay
the Sheriff’s people what
they can make elsewhere
before they leave.
S.S. MCDONALD
Cumming
principal Johnny Otts. This is the sixth time that Mrs. Poss
has been selected as STAR Teacher for the county.
field, English; and Patty Egan, art. second row-Wallace
Blackstock, music; David Moseman, math; Darrell Bennett,
social studies; Margaret Rood, science; and Tara Woodard,
commercial-industrial.
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Ice Sculpture
Jimmy Avery, 17, Tribble Gap Road, Cumming, poses beside
his “ice sculpture” of Christ which he worked on all night and
day during last week’s big snow. Avery said he enjoyed the
project and passers-by often stopped to look at the sculpture.
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Dan Burzynski Is Named
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Forsyth’s STAR Student
Dan Burzynski has been
named the 1980 STAR Stu
dent for the Forsyth County
School System, it was an
nounced this week by the
Cumming Kiwanis Club,
sponsor for the local Student
Teacher Achievement
Recognition (STAR) Pro
County Struck
By Inflation
Forsyth County Commis
sion Chairman Bill Barnett
spoke to the Cumming
Kiwanis Club recently in a
“State of the County,” ad
dress. Barnett said the big
gest problems facing local
government is inflation.
“The county faces the same
price increases as everyone
else and the specific problem
of inflation is the cost of
energy,” Barnett said.
The commissioner said
another concern is the local
option sales tax. “It brought
in $889,000 last year and if
the state supreme court over
rules this, the money will
have to come from
somewhere else.” He said
we needed to develop jobs
for our local people and go
after better industry which
will pay more than
CBers Slate
Coffee Break
The Ducks-A-Cumming
CB Club is sponsoring a Cof
fee Break to assist a needy
person in the Forsyth County
area.
The club will hold a two
day fund raising event Satur
day and Sunday, Feb. 16 and
17, at Sawnee Elementary
School, to raise money to
help pay medical bills for
Stacy Johnson. Stacy is the
six month old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Johnson
of Cumming, who is a heart
patient.
An AM-FM eight track
stero and weed eater will be
given away as grand prizes,
along with door prizes given
every hour. The event will
begin on Saturday at 4 p.m.
and continue until 11 p.m.,
and again on Sunday from 1
p.m. to 5 p.m. Grocery
baskets will be auctioned off,
there will be plenty of
refreshments and a cake
sale.
4-Hers Show
Projects
BY KASEY CLARK
Chestatee 4-H Club
On Wednesday Jan. 2, two
4-H club members from
Chestatee gave demonstra
tions. Amy Warbington did a
demonstration on Salt Dough
Ornaments, and Jance
Fowler did a demonstration
on Home Economics.
This was the first club
meeting in January.
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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1980-
gram.
A senior at Forsyth County
High School, Dan is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Bur
zynski.
Mrs. Gloria Poss was
selected by Dan as his STAR
Teacher because of the great
contribution she has made to
minimum wage salaries.
Barnett touched on the up
coming property tax re
evaluation but noted
“everything’s not all bad,”
referring to the new cour
thouse and jail facility. “Not
many counties can boast of
the new facilities such as we
have here.”
“The county has made a
big advancement in road im
provements and revenue
sharing has made a big im
pact here. The county now
has a civil service program
for employees and is on the
verge of starting a two
million dollar water and
sewerage project in the
southern part of the county,
and more improvements are
to be made for recreation in
the county,” Barnett con
cluded.
Trophies will be awarded
to CB clubs from other areas
including: largest club in
state, largest club out-of
state, best dressed, club with
most children, fartherest
traveled, largest donation
and others.
Always on the agenda at
the Ducks-A-Cumming Cof
fee Breaks is live entertain
ment with lots of music,
singing and clogging. “Ron
nie and the Country Times,”
will be the featured enter
tainers at this weekend’s
event.
There is no admission
charge, the public is invited,
and police protection is pro
vided. For more information
call “Coca-Cola Man,” at
887-4146, “Car Lot” at 887-
6545, or “Ducktown Country
Boy,” at 887-5619.
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your adjusted gross income exceeds $25,000 or if you are single and your adjusted gross
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his scholastic development.
These announcements
were made as a part of the
Student Teacher Achieve
ment Recognition (STAR)
Program, sponsored by the
Georgia Chamber of Com
merce and locally sponsored
by the Cumming Kiwanis
Club in the Forsyth County
School System.
Selection of High School
and School System STAR
students is determined on
the basis of scores made on
the May 5, June 2, Nov. 3, or
Dec. 1, 1979, College Board
Scholastic Aptitude Test
(SAT), scholastic averages
after the first quarter
semester of the senior year,
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and satisfactory completion
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School System STAR
Students and STAR
Teachers from throughout
the state will be awarded a
trip to Atlanta by their spon
sors to be honored at the
Georgia Chamber’s annual
televised State STAR Ban
quet at the Peachtree Plaza
Hotel, Atlanta, Thursday
April 17, 1980. Immediately
following the STAR Banquet,
Congressional District STAR
Students and Teachers, first
runner-up District STARS in
each District and four top
ranking STAR Students from
the state-at-large will leave
for a week-long educational
STAR tour of Georgia.
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