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VOLUME LXXXII —NUMBER 82
American H»art Association
Turkey walker
rally planned
at West Bank
The second annual Turkeywalk
benefitting the American Heart Asso
ciation will be held on Saturday, Nov.
2 from 9 a.m.- noon, at West Bank Park
on Buford Dam Rd.
The event is sponsored by the For
syth County Division of the American
Heart Association and by North Ful
ton Regional Hospital as corporate
sponsor.
The event is expected to attract
walkers of all ages from throughout
the community. According to Stewart
Griggs, event chairperson, the funds
raised through Turkeywalk pledges
and donations will support the Ameri
can Heart Association’s research,
public and professional education,
and community service programs.
Board members of the Forsyth
County Division are recruiting inter
ested participants for the walk with
emphasis on five-member teams from
local businesses, governments, civic
clubs, churches, and other groups. In
dividual participants are also
welcome.
Each person who turns in $25 in
donations will receive a Turkeywalk
visor, and each person who turns in
SSO will receive a Turkeywalk t-shirt
and a visor. In addition, each person
who turns in SIOO in donations will
receive a free Thanksgiving turkey,
along with the t-shirt and visor.
Sponsor forms are available from
Stewart Griggs at Wachovia Bank, Ma
ple Street, from Larry Boling at Bol
ing, Rice and Bettis, Tribble Gap Rd.,
and from Rich Brown at Lanier Ath
letic Center.
Weather:
Grey skies
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forcoolertemperaturesanddoudy
skies. Some rain is possible
Wednesday. The low will be near 50
with the highs around 60 Wednes
day. Thursdayfairskiesretumwith
lows in the low 40s and highs in the
mid 60s. Friday might be a little
warmer, edging into the 70s.
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America 2000 Plan
Agenda may be a catalyst
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
A controversial new national agen
da for education could serve to bring
the community together for better
schools.
“It may be a way for our community
to get its mind off the discord we have
had and to try to focus on something
bigger than all of us and pull togeth-
County
rescues
Chamber
from
money bind
By Kara Sproles
Staff Writer
The county answered the cry for
help from the local Chamber of Com
merce Monday when Chamber offi
cials went before the group seeking
financial assistance. The move came
despite allegations that funds would
be witheld in the name of politics.
Already experiencing a leadership
crisis, the Chamber Monday asked the
Forsyth County Board of Commis
sioners for funds to help them survive
until the year’s end.
“We’re faced now with a financial
crisis,” Chamber President Frank
Felker stated. “If we don’t find addi
tional funding, the Chamber will have
to be shut down before the end of
1991.”
Please see CHAMBER, Page 2A
New drug free
coordinator
seeks solution
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
Red Ribbons worn Oct 19-27, will signify
those in Forsyth County who are concerned
about drug abuse in our schools and communi
ty-
New Drug Free School Coordinator Debbie
Rondem is on the job working every day to build
that awareness and find solutions.
Federal grants coming into the county have
provided funds for the drug-free schools coordi
nator and for some programs to serve both the
community and the schools.
Rondem and the drug free school committee,
which has been in place for about two years,
have been meeting to plan strategies and pro-
Please see SOLUTION, Page &
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er,” said Forsyth County Board of
Education member Catherine Amos.
Community members and elected
officials met last Tuesday to hear
about the America 2000 plan. The fed
eral government plan involves imple
menting six goals.
These goals, adopted by President
Bush and the nation’s governors, are:
• All children in America will start
school ready to learn.
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Chestatee’s Assistant Principal Paula Gault proved her many talants as she helped volunteers from Forsyth Central and
South high schools finish planting a fiery bed of chrysanthemums in front of the school. Rumors are that Principal Ann
Sefzik and Gault plus their husbands had been spotted working up to their elbows in good garden dirt on Saturday
when the plants first came in.
Red Ribbon Week is for showing the colors
By Kara Sproles
Its that time of year
The time when Mother Nature makes the transi
tion period into the cold winter months a little easier
on us Southerners by first offering clear, breezy, re
iresiling weatner, tne Kina mat s crisp ana coiu in
morning, but warm and sunny by noon.
Intended to lift our spirits a little before the dead
of winter hits, she also gives us something beautiful to
look at: leaves
Displaying the trademark colors of the Fall sea
son, the leaves can perhaps remind us that all stages of
life are indeed beautiful.
It’s the changing colors of the North Georgia
leaves that attracts so many visitors to the area and al
lows natives to appreciate their home during
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But what exactly is it that makes the leaves on the
trees change color? What’s the secret behind this
seemingly magical process?
Those in the know say mid to late October is usu
ally the best time to view colors in the North Georgia
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the time when leaf color is at its highpoint during the
fell season, according to the Chattahoochee-Oconee
National Forests Office.
Although the change may seem magical, the meta
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Debbie Rondem
• The high school graduation rate
will increase to at least 90 percent
•American students will leave four,
eight, and twelve having demonstrat
ed competency in challenging subject
matter including English, mathemat
ics, science, history, and geography:
and every school in America will en
sure that all students learn to use
Please see CATALYST, Page 2A
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Quarry suit filed
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
The suit has already been filed in
court by Hoover Inc. to prove the
county’s current zoning laws are void,
allowing its proposed mining opera
tion on Trammell Road to bypass the
zoning regulations.
The county commissioners denied
the company's request to rehear a
case which the appeals board denied
concerning the mining operation and
grading permits. In an earlier inter
view Hoover’s attorney stated the suit
would be activated if this hurdle
could not be passed.
Hoover has leased 343 acres be
tween Trammell Road and Old Atlan
ta Road on which it plans to place a
rock quarry. About 30 residents from
the southeastern part of the county
gathered at the meeting Monday eve
ning to voice their opposition. They
had a petition with about 500 signa
tures of other residents opposed to
the project
Headbands should be
equal opportunity attire
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
A headband is a headband is a
headband, right? Well, according to
Forsyth Central High School fresh
man Matt McGaughey it is.
Or at least he thought so until his
female friends with headbands were
allowed to keep theirs on at school
and he was asked to take his off.
“It went with my outfit,” he said.
McGaughey addressed the Forsyth
County Board of Education at its
workshop meeting Monday evening
asking that the high school dress
codes be enforced so as not to dis
criminate based on sex.
Mike Harden
Although not a public hearing,
spokesman Mike Wind was able to get
in a few words.
“It is a funny thing. The citizens of
southeast Forsyth County always end
up losing,” he said.
He requested the board hear the
appeal and recommend the issue go
through the regular zoning proce
dure, however, since the suit was al
ready filed three commissioners vot
ed to turn down the appeal.
Commissioner James Harrington
voted against denying the appeal for
Hoover in support of the residents, he
said.
“I think Forsyth County has enough
quarries,” he said.
Commissioner Michael McGaughey
was absent from the meeting.
The group of citizens are planning
to become a part of the suit to try to
keep Hoover out of their
neighborhood.
In other business:
Please see SUIT, Page 4A
After research McGaughey found
the dress code prohibits wearing
headbands - but does not say anything
about the rule applying only to males
or females.
“I don’t know how they are going to
tell the girls they cannot wear head
bands," he said in a later interview.
Many male and female students
now wear the same type of clothing,
he explained to the school board.
Forsyth Central Principal Kenny
Foxx commended McGaughey for
speaking to the school board and said
he was an excellent student and at no
time was disruptive about the issue
Please see HEADBANDS, Page 6B
Sony eyes
feasibility
of location
By Kara Sproles
Staff Writer
A corporation that “could be the
largest employer in the county” is eye
ing Forsyth.
Executives at the electronic com
munication company Sony have been
working with the local Chamber of
Commerce for almost two years, said
CEO and Executive Vice President of
the Chamber Bill Sawyer.
“At one time we thought we were in
the top five (prospective, locations),”
said Sawyer. “There’s a chance we
could still be.”
Sony has been looking all across the
U.S. for a new home, Sawyer stated.
Sawyer said if Sony moved here it
would not serve as a branch of its At
lanta locations, but a division of the
well-known corporation.
“Hundreds of employees” both
new and relocated would work at the
new division, Sawyer said.
It is unknown when Sony will make
a decision.
Substance
abuse battle
is a tough job
By Kara Sproles
Staff Writer
Mike Harden may have a tough job ahead of
him.
Recently hired as the county’s Substance
Abuse Coordinator, his philosophy is one that
could make his responsibility even more de
tailed and involved than expected.
He claims there is not a line drawn between
addictive behaviors - they all deserve corrective
attention.
This same man who opened The Lighthouse,
a half-way house strictly for men, will take on
the challenge of correcting those with addiction
problems within the county.
“We’ll focus on alcohol and other drugs,” he
Please see ABUSE, Page^A
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