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XVI—NUMBER 13
County resolution objects to tree planting
By CHUCK THOMPSON
News Editor
Residents opposing the Army
Corps’ of Engineers’ reforestation
program on Lake Lanier received
another token of support Monday
from the Forsyth County Board of
Commissioners.
The program, which involves the
planting of 10,000 pine seedlings on
the public shoreline, has been op
City, county
get bad news
on sewer woes
By CHUCK THOMPSON
News Editor
After several joint meetings on
what looked like a solution to local
sewer needs, county and city officials
had their hopes dampened last week
in a meeting with Fulton County.
Attending the meeting was Com
missioner James Harrington, Cum
ming Mayor Ford Gravitt and
Aubrey Greenway, chairman of the
county water and sewerage author
ity.
The topic of discussion was a pro
posed new sewer line from Cumming
to south Forsyth County, which would
have merged with an existing county
sewer line along Big Creek.
Snow closes
area schools
Snow and ice-covered roads closed
Forsyth County schools Tuesday af
ter a winter storm swept across the
area following a thunderstorm that
caused some power outages in sec
tions of the county.
Strong winds and heavy snow fall
came on the heels of a thunderstorm
Monday evening and by midnight,
roads were covered and the tempera
ture dropped some 20 degrees in less
than two hours.
By early Tuesday, at least one-and
a-inches of snow had covered the
ground and sheets of ice had formed
on many side roads.
Snow flurries continued throughout
the morning Tuesday and gusty
winds brought the wind-chill factor to
minus 3 degrees, with the tempera
ture falling to a low of 24 by 8 a.m.
The weather bureau in Atlanta is
sued a traveler’s advisory for the top
third of Georgia, reporting slippery
roads and hazardous driving condi
tions. The Georgia Department of
Transportation sent crews along the
major thoroughfares, scraping roads
and bridges and scattering gravel
along some of the icy spots.
INSIDE
Edits Page 4A Sports Pages 18,28
Letters Page4A Food Pages 38,48
Farm Page 6A Legals Page 7A
Church PageßA Classified Pages 68-9 B
PEAR ABBY
A mom can’t see
paying high prices
for a special baby doll
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Weather
The snow is apparently
over, but cold, winter weather
will continue throughout the
week.
Wednesday will be partly
WBBICIOM TOURNEY
Results from this
week’s basketball
action will be featured
SUNDAY SPORTS
posed by lake residents because they
feel it will diminish their property
values and, when the trees are
grown; block their view of the water.
By a unanimous vote Monday, the
commission passed a resolution in
which it voiced “strenuous objection
to the blanket application of small
pine seedlings as the exclusive
method of meeting the Corps’ refores
tation responsibilities.”
The existing line runs from the
intersection of Georgia 400 and Mc-
Farland Road to McGinnis Ferry
Road, where it connects with Fulton
County’s sewerage system.
Sewage in the Cumming-to-Fulton
County line would have flowed south
west to a Fulton County treatment
plant on Willeo Creek, west of Ros
well.
City and county officials were told
last week, however, that the capacity
of Fulton County’s sewage treatment
system is limited, and that no prom
ises of treatment could be made, even
if the proposed line were constructed.
Commenting on results of the meet
ing, Greenway said, “It appears
there’s no point in spending money on
a sewer line, if, once we get there, no
one will take the sewage.”
Fulton County is planning to en
large its sewage treatment system
from 8 million to 22 million gallons
per day, but that addition may not be
completed for to 4 years, which is
longer than Cumming officials can
afford to wait.
At present, the city sewerage sys
tem is so close to capacity that state
officials will allow it no more than
five residential sewer hookups per
month.
The proposed Cumming-to-Fulton
County line also was important to
Forsyth County because it would
have extended along the Georgia 400
Corridor, where tremendous growth
is anticipated.
For some, the most logical alterna
tive to sewage treatment by Fulton
County is a sewage treatment plant in
Forsyth County.
The plant would be constructed on
the existing county sewer line along
Big Creek, which extends 11,130 feet
into Forsyth County from the Fulton
County boundary.
Treated sewage from the plant
would be released into Big Creek,
which flows by Roswell and merges
with the Chattahoochee River south
of that city.
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cloudy, windy and cold. The
high will reach about 40 de
grees with winds from the
northwest at 15-25 mph.
The extended forecast calls
for partly cloudy skies Thurs
day with sunny skies Friday
and Saturday.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1985—CUMMING, GA. 30130
The resolution also recommends
that the Corps’ Resource Manager,
Erwin Topper, call on affected land
owners for their “advice and support
in developing acceptable alternatives
to the blanket application of a single
option.”
In addition to passage of the resolu
tion, the commission has met with
Topper to try and work out a solution
to problems created by the program.
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Let’s share the balloon A good idea for this Valentine’s Day (Thursday).
That seems to be the sentiment between Jeff Dockery and Lauren Foster at
Kountry Komer Day Care Center. And believe it or not, for two-year-olds,
they do a pretty good job of sharing. Jeff is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
How could you forget first kiss?
By Dawn Holcomb
Staff Writer
“What was your first kiss like?”
You know, that one that either sent
chilling tingles down your spine or
made you want to throw up surely
you can remember that first kiss.
Well, believe it or not, either some
Forsyth Countians didn’t want to
remember it or they were just too shy
to give the full details. To some, it
was an embarrasing question this
close to Valentine’s Day (Thursday)
to others they relived the moment
in a brief recollection of what exactly
happened.
Among some that explained what
happened was Quinton Gilbert of Gil
bert’s Barber Shop. Now,soth wed
ding anniversary last March.
“I guess I was 12 years old,” said
Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley Wal
Three of Barnett’s bills pass House
By CHUCK THOMPSON
News Editor
Legislation passed by the Georgia
House last week would throw a major
roadblock in the way of thieves using
I.D. plates from junk cars to disguise
stolen cars.
H.B. 45, introduced by State Rep.
Bill Barnett, of Cumming, requires
the cancellation of titles for vehicles
that are totally junked.
Barnett says vehicles are divided
into “major component parts” like
the quarter panels, top, etc.
And, when all these major compo
nent parts are damaged, H.B. 45 will
require sending the title of the vehicle
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Following passage of the resolution
Monday, lake residents attending the
commission meeting congregated in
the lobby of the courthouse to discuss
the reforestation program.
Cumming Attorney John Shinall,
spokesman for the residents, said
citizens opposing the program are
still being encouraged to write and
seek help from Ninth District U.S.
Rep. Ed Jenkins and from U.S. Sens.
Sharing a part of Valentine’s Day
raven. “I was playing ‘Spin the Bot
tle’ at a birthday party.”
Seems that a lot of people might
have waited a lot longer before their
first kiss had it not been for ‘Spin the
Bottle’ and “Post Office’ two popu
lar games played at socials and at
birthday parties.
Like for instance, one person, who
did not want their name disclosed,
described her first kiss as “painful.”
“It was my first girl/boy birthday
party,” she said. “And everyone
there knew that I was in love with this
certain boy there. Well, we started
playing Post Office and of course,
everyone made sure that he knew my
number. When he called it, I got dive
bombers, butterflies and anything
else you could get inside a stomach.
We went into the dark room and both
of ud knew that to play the game
to the state revenue department for
cancellation.
This will not constitute a taking of
the vehicle, which may still be sold
for a profit by the owner to a junk
yard.
What the bill will do is prevent an
auto thief from buying that vehicle
once it’s junked, and using the I.D.
plate to disguise a vehicle that’s
stolen.
Two other bills introduced by Bar
nett this year have passed the House.
One would make local state court
terms the same as those for superior
court, while the other would allow
Forsyth Countians to continue elect
I.AKI LANIER ISLANDS
Season of activities
opens March Bth
with some expansions
COMM© SUNDAY
Sam Nunn and Mack Mattingly.
Shinall said citizens also are being
encouraged to join the Lake Lanier
Property Owners Association, which
has agreed to provide the organiza
tion and financial backing needed to
fight the program.
In addition, he said the associa
tion’s board of directors has ap
proved placing an application for
membership in local newspapers,
Dockery of Cumming and Lauren is the daughter of Mr. d Mrs. Danny
Foster, also of Cumming. Looks as if you’re never too young to say Happy
Valentine’s, huh? (Staff photo by Dawn Holcomb).
correctly, we had to kiss each other. I
couldn’t find him; he couldn’t find
me. And then when he did find me, he
had braces and he missed in a way
that the metal did a pretty good
number on my lips.”
It was a while before she kissed
again, she said. And she made sure
the guy didn’t have braces.
Sandra Kirkland of Advertising Al
ternatives said that she was in the
third grade when she first kissed a
boy. “I’d moved to a new school,” she
said. “And Bobby, well, I had this
terrific crush on him.
“ Well, one day, our row was being
called to the front to get our coats for
dismissal. I walked right by Bobby
and gave him a big hug and a kiss. I
don’t know who was embarrassed the
most, me or him.”
That’s similiar to another story
ing members of the local board of
education, rather than have them
appointed by the grand jury.
House members also approved
H.B. 90, which raises from 19 to 21 the
age under which a “distinctive driv
er’s license” is issued.
The specially-marked licenses are
designed to provide a more foolproof
indicator of age to merchants when
someone offers them the license as
identification for the purchase of al
coholic beverages.
Along that same line, House mem
bers passed legislation that raises the
penalty for a second conviction of
selling alcohol to a minor.
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which could be clipped out and
mailed in.
In other action involving lake resi
dents, the commission designated
roads in Shady Shores subdivision, off
Pilgrim Mill Road, as “public
roads.”
This means the roads will be main
tained enough to allow the passage of
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provided by another anonymous per
son (shyness must run rampant
around here.)
“I was in the first grade when I first
kissed a girl,” he said. .
“And I remember. She had long
fingernails. So when I kissed her she
told me that if I ever kissed her again,
that she’d claw my eyes out.
“I told her that that was 0.K.,
because I’d decided to grow a mus
tache and I knew that she didn’t like
mustaches.”
Brenda Moore of the Chamber of
Commerce said that,”Yes, I do re
member my first kiss.” And that yes,
it was her first love and that she was
first kissed in a park.
Pat Kilmark of the Forsyth County
Extension Service said that she was
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At present, the penalty for that
crime is one year’s imprisonment
and up to a SI,OOO fine. Legislation
passed by the House would allow the
penalty to reach as high as $5,000.
Other bills passed by the House last
week include:
• H.B. 281 Allows local govern
ments to hold referendums on
whether or not to increase sales taxes
for road and bridge construction or
improvement, or for the purchase of
rights-of-way. The one-percent in
crease could be instituted for periods
of only one, two, three or four years.
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