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County park facilities
‘belong’ to everyone
This week’s column is devoted to
some of the basic problems the
Forsyth County Recreation
Department seems to be faced
with during our current growing
pains. I am comfortable with the
fact that these problems can be
worked out and that we can
function to the best of our abilities
for the betterment of the residents
of Forsyth County.
First, I find myself between a
rock and a hard place over our two
existing park facilities. On many
occasions, I have been asked by
peopjf when we were going to get
the drag out of our work and
complete their park at Midway.
And just this week, it was brought
to my attention that I was
spending too much time and
money at Midway and not taking
care of the needs of their park at
Bennett Memorial.
The first thing I would like to
make clear, without trying to hurt
any feelings or may anyone mad,
is that both parks belong to all the
people of Forsyth County and not
just the people in the community
in which they are located.
Everybody’s tax money is spent
in the care and maintenance of
these facilities and I try to treat
each facility as the same, with the
development of each being the
best the county commission will
allow through its funding.
I am impressed and think it
commendable for communities to
have pride in their areas, but I feel
it is much more important to
concentrate efforts on the same
feeling for the entire county’s
needs and wants.
These parks are good facilities
and as long as I can get the
funding, I plan to make them the
best they can be.
We are having another problem
too. I feel we can work it out, but
some misunderstanding and
conflicts are making it very hard
for the recreation department to
offer the kinds of programs we
know you want and need.
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The lack of an indoor facility
and the inability for us to secure
use of existing school facilities has
brought our programs for winter
activities to a halt. We have been
successful in acquiring use of the
Big Creek Elementary School gym
for gymnastics classes on Monday
and Tuesday nights, thanks
primarily to Mrs. Ina Fossett, the
school’s principal.
However, we have contacted
many of the other schools in the
county for night use for just one
day a week for adult volleyball
and have had no such luck.
If I thought the county
commission was not already
burdened enough with my present
budget request to upgrade our
recreation program, I would ask
for funding to build our own indoor
facility. But this is in the future,
and now we must rely on the
Forsyth County school system for
help.
I realize that with basketball
season nearing, gym conflicts are
much greater possibilities at the
junior highs.
What makes it difficult for us is
that there are six elementary
school gyms in this county and
many of these facilities are
already spoken for by private and
community activities, leaving us
with nothing to offer the people of
the county as far as indoor
recreation.
There has been a working
agreement in the past for sharing
each other’s facilities and I feel a
change in directorship should not
change the agreements mutually
reached between city and county
recreation boards and the school
system.
Cumming Road Race set this Saturday
Local runners should be warming up for the
fourth annual Cumming Road Race, slated for
Saturday, Oct. 20 at Forsyth County Stadium
The 1984 race, sponsored by Bank South, will
feature both a one-mile and a four-mile run, with
the former beginning at 8:15 a.m. and the latter
following at 8:30 a.m.
T-shirts will be presented to all finishers, and
trophies will be awarded to the male and female
winners of each race. In addition, awards will go
to the top three finishers in each of five age
groups.
Pre-registration for the race ends Monday, but
late registration will be held on the day of the race
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Yarbrough leads Cats’ win
By Greg Little
Th« Sunday Nawt
Two lengthy touchdown runs by quarterback Freddy
Yarbrough and a North Forsyth defense that stifled
Union County to but 76 total yards keyed the ninth grade
Wildcats to a 14-0 victory last Thursday.
Yarbrough, who accounted for 172 of the Wildcats’ 213-
yard offensive output with 139 yards rushing and a pass
reception good for a 33-yard gain, scored touchdowns in
the first and third quarters and added the two-point
conversion on the latter to account for all of North
Forsyth’s scoring.
Yarbrough’s first score came on North Forsyth’s
second possession, after a Steve Sommer fumble recov
ery gave the Wildcats the ball on the Union 44. The legs of
halfbacks Sommer, Tommy Francis and Scott Leenhouts
carried the Wildcats to the 27, from where Yarbrough
bootlegged around the left side, shed a would-be tackier
in the backfield and outraced the rest of the Union
defenders to the end zone.
After North Forsyth’s defense refused to yield yardage
on Union’s subsequent possession, the offense took up
right where it had left off, slicing a path through the
Union defenders to reach a first-and-10 on the Panthers’
25.
But Union linebacker Steven Gooch, a defensive terror
all afternoon, stopped Francis inches short of a first
down on a fourth-down play at the 15 as the Panthers
maintained their 6-0 deficit.
The aggressive Wildcat defense returned the favor late
in the half, however, halting a short Union drive by
stopping halfback David Bryant short of the sticks on a
fourth-down run at midfield.
After nursing the 6-0 lead through the opening half,
North Forsyth added a little softness to the cushion on its
first possession after intermission when Yarbrough’s
speed and quickness turned an apparently harmless
option keeper into a 57-yard touchdown run.
The same play gave the Wildcats a successful conver
sion and pushed their advantage to 14-0.
Union’s only sustained drive of the game found the
Panthers knocking on the door of the Wildcat end zone
late in the third quarter with a first-and-10 on the 15.
But the North Forsyth defense proved impenetrable
from that point and quarterback Brad Wildes’ errant
from 7 to 8 a.m. Registration fee for the race is $5,
with late registration costing $6.
For more information, call 889-0023.
Optimist Field Day slated
The fourth annual Cumming Track and Field
Day, jointly sponsored by the Forsyth-Cumming
Optimist Club and the Cumming Recreation and
Parks Department, has been scheduled for Satur
day, Oct. 20.
The event will be held at Forsyth County Sta
dium, 1-4 p.m. and is open to all students in grades
one through six.
Students will be eligible to enter a maximum of
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pitchout drove Union all the way back to the 34.
A fourth-down incomplete pass brought that Union
threat to an end, but the Panthers’ offense was back in
business again just one play later as Gooch recovered a .
Wildcat fumble on the 32.
North Forsyth denied the Panthers again, however, as
Yarbrough recovered a fumble on the 20 and the shutout
was preserved as, again, Yarbrough intercepted a des
peration pass in the waning seconds.
Now 2-2 on the season, the Wildcats will close the 1984
campaign with a game against Dawson County on .
Tuesday, Oct. 25 in Dawsonville.
S. Hall 52 Otwell 28
GAINESVILLE Otwell’s seventh and eighth grade >
Bullpups suffered their first loss of the season to a
powerful South Hall squad that scored touchdowns on
three kickoff returns and added a pair of interception
returns for scores in route to a 52-28 triumph last
Thursday. 3
Outmanned by almost a 3-1 margin, Otwell found itself
trailing by four touchdowns at halftime in an offensive
spectacular that saw the host team’s offense grind out <
yardage while the Bullpups’ drives repeatedly self-de
structed as they neared the South Hall goal line.
South Hall took advantage of a pair of fumbles, an
interception and a fourth-down conversion failure to
thwart four Bullpup scoring threats in that first half, but
in the second half the Otwell offense succeeded in putting
the ball in the end zone as Steve Slaton scored three
times.
Twice, the Bullpups struck paydirt with the flea
flicker, as quarterback Chris Bennett fired a quick pass
to Billy Miller, who pitched the ball back to Slaton to
confound South Hall’s tackling efforts. The two touch
down plays covered 40 and 50 yards, respectively, but
after each, South Hall returned the ensuing kickoff for
scores to maintain a safe lead.
Slaton’s third score came on a powerful 12-yard dive
run and Otwell added one final touchdown in the fourth
quarter as Chuck Jenkins scooped up a South Hall fumble
and streaked 40 yards to the end zone.
Bennett ran for one conversion and passed to Miller for ’
another to round out the Bullpups’ scoring.
The Bullpups’ record fell to 2-1 with the loss.
three events from a variety of track and field
competitions, including dash, relay, distance run,
high jump, long jump, tennis ball throw (grades,
one through three only and softball throw (grades
four through six only).
North holds flea market
The North Forsyth Junior High School Athletic
Booster Club will hold a flea market/bake sale on,
Saturday, Oct. 20, from 9 a’m’ to 4 p.m. in the.
parking lot of Tri-County Plaza. •
A drawing for a complete Capri waterbed set,
donated by L and B Enterprizes, will be held, with
tickets costing $1 each.
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