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Lumpkin Library Gets
OK From State Board
The Georgia Board of Edu
cation at its June meeting
approved construction
grants for seven regional
libraries, okayed remedia
tion plans for six nonstan
dard schools and adopted
criteria schools must use in
releasing students for par
ent-teacher conferences.
Chatham-Effingham-Lib
erty Regional Library re
ceived |294,300 to build a new
Cloverdale-Carter Village
branch library in Savannah
and $294,300 to construct a
new branch library in
Pooler. Oconee Regional Li
brary will use $177,600 to
construct a new library in
Soperton. Augusta Regional
Library received $400,000 to
build a new Columbia
County Library in Evans.
Chestatee Regional Library
will use $372,960 to construct
a new Lumpkin County Li
brary in Dahlonega. West
Georgia Regional Library
received $512,898 to build a
new library in Douglasville
and $412,500 was made avail
able to the Flint River Re
gional Library to build a new
library in Fayetteville, con
tingent upon a satisfactory
local funding arrangement.
The board approved reme
diation plans for six school
systems whicH failed to meet
one or more of the public
school standards this year.
Grady, Berrien, Harris,
Paulding, Newton counties
and Hogansville city sys
tems developed the plans
following on-site visits by
Georgia Department of-Edu
cation staff. Only two sys
tems now have nonstandard
schools. Chickamauga City
System has indicated it will
submit a plan by the July
state board meeting. A state
board committee including
James Smith, Larry Foster
and Richard Owens will visit
Carroll County to investigate
the nonstandard status of
Mt. Zion High School and
will report to the board in
July.
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The board has agreed to
allow elementary schools up
to 10 hours each year to
release children early from
school so that parent
/teacher conferences may
be held, provided the system
follow specific criteria
adopted by the board.
• The system must develop
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Graduates
Pictured is Gene Sams, a
graduate of Forsyth County
High School, who recently
graduated from the North
east Georgia Police Ac
ademy. Patrolman Sams
participated in the six-week,
240-hour basic law enforce
ment training course as re
quired by the Georgia Peace
Officer Standards and Train
ing Council. The course pro
vides instruction in the areas
of criminal justice, criminal
law, constitutional law, com
munity relations, modem
police procedures, firearms,
and first aid training. The
completion of this course
represents the 45th session
graduated by the academy.
Patrolman Sams is em
ployed with the Cumming
Police Department.
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a plan for the use of the 10
hours, and the plan must be
approved by the local board.
• The early dismissal
dates must be a part of the
school system calendar.
• The early dismissal plan
must be submitted to the
Georgia Department of Edu
cation’s Division of Curric
ulum Services for approval
by Aug. 1 of each year.
• By June 1 of each year
the system must submit to
the Division of Curriculum
Services the percentage of
parents of elementary stu
dents who responded to the
opportunity for a parent
/teacher conference during
the school year.
Two school systems in the
state Cobb and Clarke
have pilot tested the use of
early release time for paren
t/teacher conferences, and
both systems have recom
mended the procedures be
made available to other sys
tems in the state.
State Board Chairman
Thomas Vann reported that
an agreement to establish
the Georgia Public Telecom
munications Commission
had been signed. He named
State Board Vice Chairman
Saralyn Oberdorfer of At
lanta to serve as the state
board’s representative on
the commission. Vann will
also appoint two members of
the general public to the
eight-member commission.
The state school superinten
dent and chancellor of the
university system will serve
as ex officio members and
the remaining members will
be appointed by the State
Board of Regents.
The new commission will
coordinate and operate all
telecommunications activ
ities now operated by the
Georgia Board of Education
and the Georgia Board of
Regents.
In other action the board
appointed 21 people to serve
on the Georgia Textbook Ad
visory Committee.
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...at Lanierland Saturday
Marty Robbins
Sings Saturday
Country music and Grand
Old Opry Star Marty Rob
bins will be in concert at
Lanierland Music Park near
Cumming on Saturday, June
27 for two shows.
Robbins will appear at 8
p.m. and 10 p.m. at the park,
located off Highway 306 in
Forsyth County.
Not only is Robbins a
singer, he is a composer,
musician, actor, race car
driver and businessman.
Robbins style of singing
ranges from Polynesian,
Mexican, Western, country
and pop. He has written
more than 500 songs, includ
ing, “White Sport Coat,”
“Devil Woman,” “Don’t
Worry,” “Big Iron,” and the
classic “El Paso.”
Robbins has a number of
gold records, four platinum
albums, plus numerous gold
guitar awards. He was the
first country artist to win the
coveted Grammy award for
composing, and now has two,
one for the record “El
Paso,” and the other for
“My Woman, My Woman,
My Wife.”
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Trustee’s Medal” for “out
standing contributions to our
Western Heritage through
music from the Cowboy
Hall of Fame.”
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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, IHI
Corporations Division
To Transfer Its Office
The Georgia state agency
that deals with Georgia’s
more than 200,000 registered
corporations will soon be
moving.
Secretary of State David
Poythress has announced
the Corporations Division of
his office will transfer its
offices from 225 Peachtree
St. in downtown Atlanta to
the new “Twin Towers”
state office building across
the street from the State
Capitol.
The Corporations Division
handles the registration of
all domestic and foreign cor
porations doing business in
Georgia. The agency proc
esses hundreds of inquiries
daily.
According to Corporations
Division Director Bob
Hooks, the move is expected
to take place by October.
Although there have been
requests to maintain a token
AARP Sets
June Meeting
The Forsyth County Chap
ter of the American Associa
tion of Retired Persons
(AARP) will meet Friday,
June 26, at 11:30 a.m. at the
Western Steer Restaurant in
Cumming.
J.C. Adams of the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Department
will be the guest speaker.
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office at the current location
for the convenience of the
Atlanta business community
and attorneys, Hooks said
the budget will require that
the entire office staff be
moved into the new capitol
office building.
At the same time, Poyth
ress announced the Corpora
tions Division will extend its
hours for serving the public
and will revise its telephone
answering service in an ef
fort to ease logjams.
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At times, the available
lines to the agency are
jammed with callers and
many people become frus
trated when they repeatedly
get busy signals, Hooks said.
He explained the new system
will be designed to handle
more calls at peak periods.
When the Corporations Di
vision relocates in the “Twin
Towers,” the new business
hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. In the past, the office
has closed at 4:30 p.m.
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