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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1900
Schools Plan
An Exit Exam
By LANE GARDNER
CAMP
Staff Writer
The State Board of Educa
tion last week approved the
use of a 10th grade exit
exam as a requirement for
graduation from public high
schools in Georgia.
Present eighth graders,
who will ,be sophomores dur
ing the 1982-63 school year,
will be the first ones re
quired to pass the test in or
der to graduate with a
diploma from high school.
Those sophomores who
fail to pass the test will be
given remedial help and al
lowed to take the test over as
many times as necessary to
pass.
According to Betty Ben
son, curriculum coordinator
for the Forsyth County
School System, any students
who fail to pass the test be
fore the end of their senior
year will be awarded “cer
tificates of performance” in
stead of diplomas at
graduation.
Though the exit exam is
drawing resistance from
some school systems, Mrs.
Benson feels confident that
Forsyth County students will
Want To
Help Plan
Celebration?
Would you like to help plan
Cumming and Forsvth Coun
ty’s 150th birthday cele
bration?
If you are interested in
helping put together the
plans for this special cele
bration in 1982, you are en
couraged to notify the
Forsyth County-Cumming
Chamber of Commerce.
Harry Dell, executive di
rector of the chamber office,
said he didn’t feel 20 months
was too soon to begin plan
ning the celebration.
“We need to get started on
this soon,” he told the direc
tors in a meeting at the
chamber office last week.
“We also need to appoint a
steering committee of work
ers to get plans started.”
Dell said those in the com
munity who are interested in
helping should notify the
chamber office as soon as
possible.
Board members said a
steering committee of about
10 people would be named to
work on the plans.
Car Strikes
Woman Here
A 30-year-old Cumming
woman was struck by a car
Monday morning, and the
driver of the car left the
scene, according to police
reports.
Kathy Gunter, 30, Route 8,
Woodvalley Road, sustained
a minor hip injury when a
car hit her at the crossing of
Old Buford Road and Main
Street, the police Depart
ment said.
The incident occurred
about 9:40 a.m. Monday, the
local authorities said.
Pizza Hut
Is Robbed
The Pizza Hut in Cum
ming was robbed Wednes
day afternoon about 4 p.m.,
and a small amount of cash
was reportedly taken,
according to the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Depart
ment.
Authorities said a male
wearing blue jeans and a
blue jean jacket entered the
Pizza Hut, Highway 19, and
forced the waitresses on
duty to empty the cash regis
ter.
The investigation is
continuing by sheriff’s dep
uties, authorities said.
Auction Set
By Hospital
The Forsyth County Hospi
tal will hold an auction on
Saturday, Nov. 22 at 10 a.m.
at the county maintenance
facility on Highway 20 North
for the sale of equipment re
moved from the hospital
during the recent construc
tion and renovation project.
Items for sale may be seen
at the maintenance facility
Monday through Friday.
Among items for sale will
be two copper tube boilers
and a diesel engine genera
tor, which may be seen at
the hospital.
have no trouble passing.
“They (Forsyth County stu
dents) have always done
well on tests before,” she
pointed out.
The test will be given on a
trial basis to current For
syth County tenth graders
this January and February,
noted Mrs. Benson. The re
sults, though, will not be
binding on the students.
The test will be going
through a trial run for two
years. Department of Edu
cation officials will deter
mine a passing score that
will be used statewide begin
ning with sophomores dur
ing the 1982-83 school year.
The exam, which includes
nearly 300 items, is designed
to measure skills in reading,
writing, math, problem-solv
ing, speaking and listening.
It will replace the 10th grade
criterion-referenced test
, a standardized exam
now used in all Georgia
schools. The two tests are
similar, said Mrs. Benson.
This new graduation re
quirement is part of
Georgia’s move to compen
tency-based education
which is based on
the teaching toward and at
tainment of certain-clearly
defined competencies or
skills.
CBE intends to clarify the
meaning and value of a high
school diploma and to assure
every student and parent
that the Georgia diploma
does certify a graduate is
competent to function in ev
eryday adult life.
Chamber Members To
Elect Board Directors
By EDDIE STOWE
Editor of The News
The Forsyth County-Cum
ming Chamber of Com
merce has mailed out ballots
to its members for the elec
tion of four members to the
board of directors.
Four new directors will be
elected to fill vacancies that
will be coming up from ex
pired terms.
During last week’s board
of directors meeting, seven
names were presented by
the nominating committee.
The seven names were
placed on a post card ballot
for election.
The seven names sub
mitted were Mike Montgom
ery, Charles Ingram, Eddie
Stowe, Larry Boiling, Sally
Milton, Billy Waters and
Josh Duncan. Another name
added later was John Par
ker.
Members of the chamber
should mark their ballots
and return them to the
chamber no later than Dec.
5.
Also discussed during the
meeting was the upcoming
selection of the vice presi
dent of the chamber.
Director Jody Moses sug
gested that names be sub
mitted for review before the
next meeting. Any member
of the chamber can be
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Education Week
Cumming Mayor Ford Gravitt signs a proclamation desig
nating Nov. 16-22 as American Education Week while Dennis
Whittle, president of the Forsyth County Association of Edu
cators, looks on. American Education Week is designed to
improve relations between teachers and citizens to amble
them to cooperate to produce better schools.
elected an officer.
In other business, Robert
S. Nash, regional manager
of Taylor Publishing Com
pany, appeared before the
board to propose a history of
the county.
Nash offered two propo
sals in the way of compiling
a history. One he said could
be done in a pictorial history
book, the other would be a
family history book of the
county.
Nash said he was looking
for a sponsor for the project
and said he had made seve
ral trips to the county to get
the project started.
He said he was interested
in entering into an
agreement to pre-sell the
book. He said his project
would not be in competition
with any other project cur
rently under way in the
county to compile a history.
He said the book would be
a very good quality publica
tion and said the arrange
ment would be for the
sponsor to pay the pub
lishing company and then
resale the book.
His idea was to have the
book ready to sell by the
time the county observes its
150th birthday in 1982. He
said it would take 16 to 18
months to complete the pro
ject.
He said the project called
for a book of about 200 pages
and said the company would
follow week by week its pro
gress in the community.
His idea was to sell to the
chamber the number of
books the chamber j»ot or-,
ders for. w J te» $
, Thecnambermadeno.de
cision on the book and will
take the proposal under con
sideration.
In other business, the
chamber board voted to is
sue a monthly newsletter
which would provide infor
mation about how the cham
ber functions and the
involvement of members in
the chamber’s quarterly
meeting.
The board also voted to es
tablish a fund to be used in
the plans for the 150th birth
day celebration of Forsyth
County. A steering commit
tee will be appointed to
make plans for the cele
bration. (See separate
story.)
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Water Board Talks
Minimum Standards
By JAYJORDAN
News Editor
The Cumming-Forsyth
County Water Authority
spent much of its Nov. 11
meeting discussing mini
mum standards for its sub
scribers.
Authority treasurer Bob
Boling brought up the need
for minimum water line con
struction standards and was
appointed to draft a set for
consideration at the next
meeting.
Discussion was prompted
by the requests of several
subdivision developers to
hook in their developments
to the authority’s new water
line as it is constructed past
them.
Boling said the authority
needed to give contractors
specific guidance when they
hooked a customer into the
authority’s water lines. This
would ensure the authority
didn’t hook any substandard
subdivisions into its lines, he
said.
During the discussion, the
authority decided to install
water meters in metal yokes
in boxes underground. In the
past, explained Cumming
water system superinten
dent Carol Buice, contrac
tors had installed meters
however they wished. The
new system would cost more
initially, but would pay for
itself in the long run, the au
thority decided.
The authority also decided
Board members learned
that the local legislative del
egation wanted to have a lis
tening tour of the county to
hear local input on the up
coming legislative session.
Members talked about the
a “ town .
hall” meeting about three
befoije tfife legislature
coftYenes. Details of the
meeting for the legislators,
which will be open to the
public, will be announced
later.
Other discussions in
cluded:
The sale of the cham
ber’s copy machine.
The interest of new in
dustry locating in the
county.
Next month’s meeting
of the board would be held in
the new office of attorney
John Shinall.
The printing of bro
chures to be sent to potential
industry and welcome cen
ters.
to standardize fire hydrants.
The standards are to state
only that fire hydrants be ac
ceptible to the authority.
They could not specify a spe
cific brand and be eligible
for government grants, the
authority learned, but could
to private contractors.
The authority uses three
types of hydrants now and
decided it prefers the
Meuler brand. This hydrant
has two connections for fire
hoses and a larger one for a
fire truck’s pump.
The authority discussed
establishing a list of ap
proved contractors autho
rized to tap into its lines. It
also discussed making each
contractor responsible for
his work for a year to ensure
any leaks are fixed or sub
standard work is found and
corrected.
The authority discussed
making the standards part
of the county planning and
zoning regulations.
After constulting with its
engineer and accountant,
the authority voted to repay
a loan of $125,000 from For
syth County on Dec. 2, 1980.
If necessary, the authority
may borrow the money back
or. Feb. 2,1981.
As authority vice chair
man Horace Trammel ex
plained it, Forsyth County
won’t collect any taxes until
the end of December and
would be short of money to
meet its expenses during the
month.
The county has asked the
authority to repay the loan
before.
Another item of discussion
was water rates for com
mercial chicken houses. The
authority was undecided
whether to charge chicken
producers a residential rate
or a higher commercial rate
for the water they use. Espe
cially in hot weather,
chicken producers can use
hundreds of thousands of
gallons of water. “We need
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to do a right smart amount
of thinking on that,” said au
thority member Gerald
Blackburn.
The authority learned
work is progressing steadily
on its water and sewer lines
in the south end of the
county.
The water line contractor
is making good progress and
has laid 2.5 miles of line in
the past month, covering his
work and planting grass as
he goes.
The sewer contractor is
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