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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 19*2
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Teachers of the month
Coal Mt. PTO announced their Teachers of the Month for January. The teachers being honored were, pictured front
row, left to right: Dolores Shadburn, Julie Nix, Carolyn Jones, and Lavon McGriff. Back row left to right: Melonye Lowe,
Gail Fredericks. Debbie Gravitt, and Joyce Brickett. Not pictured: John Keating. The teacher of the Month Program is
sponsored by Thomas Lumber Company and People's Bank.
Hospital volunteers offer
scholarships for 7th year
The Volunteer Services organization of the North Fulton Regional
Hospital in Roswell is offering scholarships in the field of human
health care to area high school students entering college in the fall of
1992. and to local students presently in college. Since inception of this
scholarship program in 1986, Volunteers have awarded thirty scholar
ships for a total of $37,300. Selection is based on interest in the field of
human health care, need for assistance including extenuating circum
stances, academic achievements, and participation in outside
activities.
In addition to area scholarships, the Volunteers contribute to a
memorial scholarship fund for nursing students, named in honor of the
late Elizabeth Wilmot Bull, third president of the Georgia Council of
Auxilaries, the state hospital volunteer association.
Students interested in obtaining scholarship information and appli
cations should contact Mrs. Renee Bingham. Director-Volunteer Ser
vices, 751-2602. Applications must be completed and received by Fri
day. April 24,1992.
School Briefs
Area student makes Dean’s List
An area student was named to the
1991 Fall Quarter Dean’s List at
Southern College of Technology in
Marietta. William Farmer, son of
Ronny and Lucille Farmer of Cum
ming, was named to the Dean’s List.
Farmer's major is Mechanical Engi
neering Technology.
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I certainly shall miss that challenge in
the future, every public official must
decide for himself when the right
time comes to move on to other en
deavors. and for me, that time is now'.”
During his years in the House, Jen
kins was one of the key supporters of
restrictions on textile imports and
nearly managed to push through a
capital gains tax cut in 1989.
That same year, he challenged Rep.
Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., in a race ,
for Majority Leader, but lost in the
Democratic Caucus 181-76. The loss. ;
observers say. made it unlikely he
would move up in the party hierarchy
despite his reputation as a behind
the-scenes leader.
Jenkins joins two other Georgia
Democrats in leaving the House next
term. Rep. Doug Barnard, D-Augusta,
announced Oct. 5 that he was retiring,
and Rep. Lindsay Thomas, D-States
boro, announced Jan. 9 that he was
leaving the House after his term ex
pires to take a position with the Atlan
ta Olympic Committee.
Barnard and Jenkins retirements
from Congress make Minority Whip
Newt Gingrich of Jonesboro - Geor
gia’s sole Republican representative
- the delegation’s most senior
member
The vacancies, combined with the
addition of an 11th District through
reapportionment, mean four fresh
man members will join the state’s del
egation next term, prompting concern
among some present members that
the delegation will lose some
influence.
Jenkins will also vacate a Georgia
seat on the prestigious Ways and
Means Committee, as will Thomas on
the Appropriations Committee and
Barnard on the Banking Committee.
“When you lose senior members of
Ways and Means, Appropriations and
Banking, as we will lose in the delega
tion with the retirements of Congress
men Jenkins, Thomas and Barnard,
there’s no question that it’s a body
blow in terms of limited resources
and seniority,” said Sen. Wyche
Fowler, D-Ga., who called Jenkins
“closp.to irreplaceable.”
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Book art exhibit
Stewart Library of North Georgia
College in Dahlonega is hosting an ex
hibit of fine book art through Jan. 31.
The works are from Aldus-Presse
Reichneck of Germany. The exhibit is
sponsored by the Geothe Institute of
Atlanta and by Georgia Southern
Reps. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, and
Ben Jones, D-Covington, said the re
tirements mean the state’s delegation
has lost some of its clout
“I am concerned about the future
makeup of our delegation,” said Lew
is, a House deputy whip. “I’m con
cerned that we will not have the histo
ry, the continuity. We will have to start
all over again with new individuals.”
“It's a big loss for the state,” Jones
said. “We’ve got plenty of very capable
people in Georgia (to fill the vacant
seats) but we’re losing some
influence.”
Newly-anointed delegation dean
Gingrich said through a spokeswom
an that the four open seats provide an
opportunity for Republicans to gain
ground in the 1992 elections, especial
ly in Jenkins' Ninth District, which
President Bush won in 1988 by a vote
of 71 percent
That vote and the fact that 1992 also
marks a presidential election could
send another Georgia Republican to
the U.S. House next year, he said.
“Republicans have at least an even
■ money chance at winning in the
Ninth,” Gingrich said. He mentioned
as possible Republican candidates
, Joe Hoffman, who lost to Jenkins in
, 1988 and 1990: Hall County Sheriff
. Dick Mecum; Toccoa Mayor Randy
Murray and state Rep. Steve Stancil,
R-Cherokee.
Democrats, however, dismissed
Gingrich’s assertions.
Jones said with the exception of the
new northern Atlanta seat which he
called a “gift to the GOP,” Democrats
would win all the vacated districts.
“Newt might not have noticed, but
the Republican policies have failed,”
he said. “There’s a sea change in opin
ion and I think every Republican is
going to have to fight for his seat.”
(From reports by Staff Writer Kara
Sproles and Sharyn Wizda of the
States News Service, NYT Washing
ton News Bureau.)
)
Submitted photo
Parks and Recreation
Board meeting dates
The following dates have been set for the Parks and Recreation Board
Meetings. All meetings will take place at 7:30 pm. in the Forsyth County
Courthouse. 2nd floor, off of Courtroom Number 2.
DAY DATE
Wednesday February 5
Wednesday March 4
Wednesday April 1
Wednesday May 6
Wednesday June 3
Wednesday July 8
Wednesday August 5
Wednesday September 2
Wednesday October 7
Wednesday November 4
Wednesday December 2
University.
The 15 works on display range from
some early German translations of
Hamlet's soliloquy, to Solomon’s
"Songs of Songs," to Sleeping Beauty.
The hours for Stewart Library are
7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through
Friday, 1-5 p.m. Saturday, and 2-10
p.m. Sunday.
OPPOSlTlONcontinued from Page 1A
crescent first
“I’m sure a lot of people in Forsyth
would like that,” said Hager.
Concerns about the 211-mile road’s
potential impact on the environment,
government budgets and communi
ties could also attract broad opposi
tion, he said.
With felt markers in hand and ea
sels at their sides, the meeting’s orga
nizers broke into groups laying out
strategy for upcoming battles: write
legislators, set the foundations for
possible lawsuits.
“We need to be digging the dirt on
who makes money on the road,”
Hager said. “Let’s make it look dirty to
support this thing.”
Kay Beynart has been through a
fight like this before and lost The
Georgia 400 extension passes 1,000
feet from her Buckhead home.
“You have to be absolutely commit
ted to what looks like an enormous
fight” she said.
But compared to the campaign
against Georgia 400, state officials
seem more willing to listen to opposi
tion, she said.
Georgia Department of Transporta
Outpatient hysterectomies an option
Just a few years ago, “hysterecto
my” meant big surgery for most wom
en - a major abdominal incision with
the associated lengthy hospital stay
and recovery time at home. Today in
Gwinnett County, women have an op
tion that is easier on both their sched
ules and their finances. For the first
time in the county, Michael McCoy,
M.D., is performing vaginal hysterec
tomies on an outpatient basis at Gwin
nett Medical Center.
In medically appropriate patients,
Dr. McCoy can avoid an abdominal
incision by removing the uterus and
cervix through an incision in the vagi
na. And after 23 hours of recovery and
observation time, the patient can
leave the hospital for a more comfort
able - and vasty less expensive - re
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Teachers of the month
Coal Mt. PTO announced their Teachers of the Month for January. The teachers being honored were, pictured front
row, left to right: Dolores Shadburn, Julie Nix, Carolyn Jones, and Lavon McGriff. Back row left to right: Melonye Lowe,
Gail Fredericks, Debbie Gravitt, and Joyce Brickett. Not pictured: John Keating. The teacher of the Month Program is
sponsored by Thomas Lumber Company and People’s Bank.
For more information, call 404/864-
1517.
Money management session
The Office of Continuing Education
at Gainesville College will offer Suc
cessful Money Management on Tues
days. Feb. 4.11. and 18. from 6-9 p.m.
In three exciting sessions, the Suc-
tion chief Wayne Shackelford, who
took office last fall, said Tuesday that
he won’t let the Outer Perimeter be
come a controversy on the scale of the
Georgia 400 extension or Presidential
Parkway.
“You will see me welcome a dia
logue and build relationships as the
road and all of its alternatives are
evaluated. I think our board is genu
inely sensitive to the need for total
citizen involvement, especially envi
ronmental groups," Shackelford said.
Shackelford has expressed strong
support for the Outer Perimeter,
though no funds have been allocated
for its construction.
But opposition to it continues to
surface.
Ed Gumbert had planed to retire on
a 115-acre Cherokee County farm that
the highway is proposed to cross.
“It will create more sprawl cities,
more ugliness,” Gumbert said after
Wednesday’s meeting.
(Forsyth County News Staff Writer
Kara Sproles also contributed to this
article. Matt Kempner is staff writer
for the Daily News.)
cuperative period at home.
“Outpatient surgery is the wave of
the future,” says Dr. McCoy, as he
points to the trend of shorter and
shorter hospital stays for everything
from major surgery to childbirth.
This trend is so pleasing to insur
ance companies that they are reward
ing those who practice it with in
creased benefits. Dr. McCoy explains
that while the average insurance com
pany reimburses 80 percent of inpa
tient hospital costs, it will often pay a
full 100 percent to patients who opt
for an outpatient procedure instead.
And, obviously, no overnight hospital
stay greatly reduces the total bill.
Dr. McCoy says that this outpatient
option is possible primarily bwause
of new options in pain relief that are
Scholarship
available
High school students who are U.S. citizens and who are
interested in applying for SI,OOO college scholarships
should request applications by March 15,1992 from Educa
tional Communications Scholarship Foundation, 721 N.
McKinley Road, P.O. Box 5002. Lake Forest, 111. 60045-5002.
To receive an application, students should send a note
stating their name, address, city, state, zip code, approxi
mate grade point average and year of graduation.
All requests for applications will be fulfilled on or about
April 15,1992. One hundred winners will be selected on the
basis of academic performance, involvement in extra cur
ricular activities and need for financial aid.
cessful Money Management seminar
introduces you to the key concepts
and practices of wise money manage
ment You will learn to minimize your
taxes, maximize your investment re
turns. and plan for the future. You
will receive a comprehensive finan
cial planning workbook that makes
comples subjects simple. Also includ-
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Chief Lindsey explained there is an
agreement between the city and the
county law enforcement in which the
two teams "back each other up” but
only when necessary.
The officers were the only two pa
trolling the city at the time.
“It was just foolish to leave the city
unguarded,” said the city police chief.
But Ms. Hardy, the roommate of
gunshot victim Sonda Wilson, thinks
the punishment is unfair.
“(Farr) was protecting me,” she
said. “All Frank was doing was his
job.”
According to Hardy. Officer Farr
was suspended for five days and Sgt.
Story “lost his stripes.”
Ms. Hardy said she asked Officer
Farr, a close friend of hers, to take her
to her home after she and her boy
friend had received a call from Tony
Mcßrayer. the gunman who later com
mitted suicide.
“He (Farr) was the only one I could
trust,” the roommate said.
Ms. Hardy said when Mcßrayer
called he confessed the crime and
asked them to go and get his one-year
old son, who had been left behind af
ter he fled.
When they arrived at the mobile
home, Ms. Hardy said, the two police
men and she waited for the sheriff’s
deputies to arrive before they entered
now available. Many physicians rec
ommend epidural anesthesia for hys
terectomy patients, in which a numb
ing medication is injected into the
lower back to provide local anesthe
sia in the area of the surgery. The an
esthesiologist can administer the
medication continuously if necessary
for pain control throughout the day
following the hysterectomy, and the
patient does not experience the un
comfortable side effects and the pro
longed recovery associated with gen
eral anesthesia, or “being put to
sleep.” (Incidentally, epidural anes
thesia is frequently used by women in
childbirth for the same reasons.)
With the advent of home health
agencies and their nurses that visit
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ed is a detailed financial worksheet
which pulls together the various ar
eas of your financial life. You will es
tablish an accurate picture of your
current cash flow, net worth and tax
situation, set financial targets, and
develop a plan to achieve them.
For more information or registra
tion, call Freida Hill at 535-6205.
the trailer.
Upon entering the mobile home
they found the body of Ms. Wilson ly
ing in the living room with her son
“laying on top of her,” Ms. Hardy said.
The body of Robert Glenn Daniel, a
male friend of Ms. Wilson’s, was found
in the kitchen.
“They were just friends,” Ms. Hardy
said of the two victims who each died
from a single gunshot to the head fired
from a seven millimeter lever action
hunting rifle.
After Mcßrayer fled the murder
scene, he traveled in his pickup truck
to Cherokee County.
Cherokee County deputies were
dispatched to investigate a reported
suspicious vehicle parked on Oak
Hurst Drive in the Holbrook Camp
ground community when they found
Mcßrayer’s body inside the truck.
He had fired the same high
powered rife inside his mouth, au
thorities said.
The one-year-old son of Ms. Wilson
and Mcßrayer is currently under the
custody of the Forsyth County Depart
ment of Family and Children
Services.
‘We are in the process of exploring
relatives that might be appropriate
for placement," said Director Carol
Campbell. “Federal law requires us
to look at relatives first”
patients’ homes, another form of pain
management has become possible
that allows the post-surgical patient
to leave the hospital within 24 hours.
Patient-controlled analgesia involves
an IV that will deliver a dose of pain
medication whenever the patient
presses a button. The home health
nurse can assist with this IV so that
the patient may take it home with her.
Dr. McCoy points out, however, that
most patients can actually go home
with nothing more than ordinary oral
pain relievers. As far as complica
tions go, the most common of which is
excessive bleeding, these problems
will usually show up within that first
24 hours while the patient is still un
der hospital supervision.
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