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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1981
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JODY DURAND WITH FIRST PLACE BRIDGE
...five ounce bridge model supported one-half ton
Summer Scholar
Buffington Will
Attend Emory
Beth Buffington, 16, of
Gillsville was recently ac
cepted by Emory University
in Atlanta for early admis
sions and to study under the
Summer Scholars Program.
For acceptance into
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New Bald Ridge Owners
Want To Make Marina Safe
By LANE GARDNER
CAMP
Staff Writer
A group of Atlanta busi
nessmen have bought Cum
ming’s Bald Ridge Marina
and are now making plans to
upgrade and improve its fa
cilities.
Ed Johnson, of Cumming,
owner of the marina on Lake
Lanier since 1972, made the
sale around May 23.
New majority stockhold
ers are brothers Jon, Gra
ham and Robert Stovall,
owners of Stovall Marine,
which has been in business in
the Atlanta area since 1954,
and Henry Rowland, who
has a real estate and mort
gage background and is
owner of Lanier Harbor Ma
rina in Buford.
All four men are graduates
of the University of Georgia
in Athens.
Rowland said last week
that immediate plans for the
local marina are to “up
grade it, clean it up and
make it safe.”
Some of this work has al
ready begun, Jon Stovall
said on Saturday, with $13,-
000 worth of improvements
having already been made to
the marina’s docks.
Improving the overall ma
rina, though, is not some
Emory after completing
only three years of high
school, an applicant must
have maintained a high aca
demic average through their
junior year, and must have
scored above average on the
Scholastic Aptititude Test.
She will join 59 other par
ticipants chosen from across
the nation to participate in
an intense study program for
outstanding juniors. She will
reside at Emory for six
weeks beginning June 21.
Miss Buffington is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Emory Buffington of
Gillsville. She is the grand
aughter of Mrs. E. E. Sam
pies, and great
granddaughter of Mrs.
Grady McGinnis, both of
Cumming.
thing that will be done
“overnight,” he added.
It will probably be a year
before the public will really
notice significant physical
improvements to the ma
rina, he said. “We hope
they’ll be amazed at what
we’ll do.”
Stovall remarked that the
new owners are not seeking
to make Bald Ridge the
“largest” marina— just
“the best.”
The new owners want to
make the marina serve the
public, Stovall continued.
“We want to make the ma
rina something the commu
nity can be proud of.”
Eventually, Rowland said,
“We want to complete the
master plan the government
wanted when the marina
was first conceived in 1952.”
Stovall noted that additio
nal docks are now being con
sidered for the 500-wet-slip
marina, but this is contin
gent on approval by the
Army Corp of Engineers.
The new owners are also
interested in Bald Ridge
building a reputation for its
boat service. Stovall says
personnel has already been
doubled at the boat repair
shop.
The marina currently of
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Jody Durand Wins
Top Bridge Award
Jody Durand, a senior at
Georgia Tech in Atlanta,
won the top prize money
recently at the annual Chi
Epsilon Destructo Contest
held at Georgia Tech.
Durand is a 1977 graduate
of Forsyth County High
School, who is now studying
Civil Engineering at Tech.
The Destructo Contest is
sponsored each year by the
Chi Epsilon Honors Frater
nity and is open to anyone,
including faculty, staff and
Scouts Help Farmers
TIFTON Crop scouts
are saving Georgia's farm
ers money.
Last year 255, 257 acres of
Georgia cropland were
scouted an increase of 4,-
560 acres. Since 1979, savings
to farmers on a state-wide
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Winners of the Forsyth-Cumming Optimist Club’s recent Tri-star basketball competition
were Heidi Lamb, Dee Ann Watson, Risa Green, Heather Lamb, Kayci Williams, Kevin
Mundy, Chris Cox, Keith Mundy, Bill Petty, Gary Wiesner and David Stancil.
fers gas sales, boat sales and
service and repair, which
includes fiberglass work.
There is also a ship’s store
and a pump-out station,
Rowland said.
Where gas sales are con
cerned, Stovall says he
wants to find the most pro
ductive hours for serving the
public.
Boats Have Long
Been Important
Few discoveries rival the
importance of that unre
corded moment when primi
tive man learned that he
could support himself in the
water by sitting atop a log or
a pile of branches, and that
he could move about simply
by pushing at the water with
his hands.
Boats facilitated com
merce between ancient peo
ples, expanded social and
cultural intercourse and pro
vided the means for feeding
oneself.
Reverence for boats is re
flected in the cultures of
many nations. For example,
in China the boat symbolizes
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graduate students.
The Destructo Contest is
one in which entrants design
and build a small bridge
conforming to set specifica
tions. This year’s specifica
tions limited the materials to
be used to only balsa wood
and glue. The bridge was to
span 20 inches, weigh no
more than 200 grams, and
support at least 200 pounds,
applied as a predetermined
two-point loading on a uni
versal testing machine.
level have been approxi
mately $6.3 million. This
year Extension Service spe
cialists expect even more
farmers to take advantage of
the scouting program to cor
rectly time insecticide appli
cations, choose the correct
Optimist Team Honored
Commenting on the sale of
the marina, Stovall re
marked that previous owner
Johnson “has been very co
operative during the tran
sition.”
Both Stovall and Rowland
wished to thank the Bank of
Cumming and the Forsyth
County Bank for their assis
tance in the sale.
heredity; in Japan it’s a to
ken of the transitory nature
of life. In various cultures
boats have stood for adven
ture, difficulty or misfor
tune. To other primitive
societies they represented
haven or home.
Archeologists have discov
ered depictions of boats on
Minoan pottery and in the
tombs of the pharaohs. An
cient civilizations sent their
dead adrift in boats, thus
investing watercraft with re
ligious significance.
Civilizations rise and fall,
but some of man’s discove
ries such as fire, the wheel
and the boat— survive.
Winners were selected
according to the highest effi
ciency ratio of strength to
weight. Durand’s first-place
bridge weighed 157.82 grams
(slightly over five ounces)
and supported over a half ton
(1,025 pounds), for an effi
ciency ratio of 6.49.
Durand is also a co-op stu
dent, who works alternating
school quarters with the De
partment of Transporta
tion’s Bridge Design Office
in Atlanta.
insecticide, and determine
the effectiveness of that in
secticide.
With an annual increase in
the demand for scouting
services, farmers need more
crop scouts.
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