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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2t. IW2
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numbers were down during 1991, our
results compare most favorably with
other counties in Georgia and the
Southeast”
He also candidly expressed the
need for increased membership sup
port from the business community to
help combat the Chamber’s dis
tressed financial position.
President Ken Shugart presented
the Chamber gavel to Felker as a sym
bol of appreciation for his service in
office in behalf of the Chamber.
During the year ahead Shugart said
he will devote special emphasis to the
membership drive and the challenge
of bringing back former members. He
named Roger Crowe as chairman for
the 1992 Membership Drive and an
nounced the goal is to add 400 new
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Although liners will be used accord
ing to Environmental Protection Divi
sion regulations it is commonly ac
cepted that liners will leak, said
Freeman.
Local officials must be convinced
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the public hearing, commissioners
agreed unanimously to allow a two
month delay in hearing a rezoning re
quest by Bobby D. Trammell. Tram
mell wishes to rezone 7.5 acres on
Trammell Road from agricultural to
manufacturing.
The land is now used as a stump
stockpile and stumps are split and
chipped there under a grandfathered
use.
According to his attorney, Tram
mell would like to continue to use this
land in the same manner but be able
to improve the property. He asked for
a continuance to allow him to speak
with neighbors and answer some of
their concerns.
Neighbors present at the meeting
were concerned primarily with in
creased traffic on Old Atlanta Road,
which the said was already horrible,
noise, and the placement of manufac
turing zoning in a residential section.
Events
Forsyth County Humane Society
The Forsyth County Humane Society is of
fering group dog obedience classes on Sun
days at 5 p.m. These classes are ongoing so
please call 889-1244. The cost is SSO for the
general public and S3O for adopted dogs with
certificates.
The Humane Society also has all kinds of
pets that are ready and available for adop
tion. There are puppies available for $45;
kittens are S4O; cats are S4O and dogs are S4O.
All fees include most shots and spaying or
neutering when pet is old enough. For more
information about adopting or fostering a
pet, call Janet at 889-9203.
Monthly business meetings are held at the
Forsyth County Humane Society Administra
tion Building on Hwy. 306 about three miles
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members. This event takes place in
May.
May will also be the date for the
annual Chamber Golf Tourney.
Two After Hours events are also
planned at Polo Fields for the Cham
ber membership. These will be in
March and in September. This year
there will be two trade shows: one for
retail and one for industrial. Another
highlight will be the Chamber
breakfast
Shugart also pledged that the
Chamber “will come within our bud
get of $150,000” this year.
He announced his executive com
mittee would include the officers and
outgoing President Frank Felker as
well as past president Bill Hansford.
Hansfond will head the Economic De
velopment Committee. Henry Lins
landfilling is just something private
companies cannot be trusted to do,
said the speakers.
Officials must be told “No compro
mise; no dump,” said Brooks.
• Unanimously approved the appli
cation of T.R. Reece to rezone 40
acres at the end of Hughes Drive from
agricultural to residential I in order
to place a subdivision of 2+-acre lots
and upgrade homes.
• The Comprehensive Plan Adviso
ry Board reported back to commis
sioners that although three years
have passed since the comprehensive
plan and land-use map were ap
proved, the committee found no basis
to make significant changes yet in the
plan.
However, it suggested the forma
tion of a chart to help the county moni
tor its level of services to the growing
population and suggested the Plan
ning and Zoning Office use a grading
system when noting if a requested re
zoning conforms to the land-use plan.
The advisory committee consisted
of Kenneth E. Quintana, Jim French,
east of Hwy 400. the third Thursday of each
month at 7:30 p.m. The next monthly meeting
will be held Feb. 20. Guests are welcome to
attend. For more information about the busi
ness meetings, call 889-1365.
For anyone wishing to report lost, missing
or found pets, please call Joy Johnson at 889-
1529.
The Forsyth County Humane Society con
sists completely of volunteer members and is
not funded by state or local government
Rock-A-Thon
The South Forsyth High and Middle
School Band will be conducting their second
annual Rock-A-Thon at the school on Friday,
Feb. 21 through Saturday, Feb. 22. This is a
major fundraiser and provides money for
band expenses and improvements as well as
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will again chair the Special Events
committee.
The Presidents Committee on Edu
cation will be co-chaired by Mary Hel
en McGruder and Ann Crow.
He announced an Outreach Pro
gram to bring young professionals
into the Chamber. The committee will
be co-chaired by Lisa King and Carter
Barrett The Ambassador’s Club for
this group will be led by Donna Wade,
Cathy Carr, Terry Samples and Keith
Carlisle.
Charles Hobgood was named Mem
ber of the Year for his help in making
the trade show a success.
“This individual took the bull by the
horns and his company provided the
installation of the trade show booths
that we feel was second to none,”
Felker said.
However, the draft of the county's
10-year solid waste plan, put together
by a group of citizens, leans toward
privatization whenever possible as a
means of reducing the cost of waste
disposal on the tax payer.
Llurah Hardin, Geri Robertson, and
Hank Zweigel.
• Commission Chairman Michael
Bennett announced a group is form
ing among many Georgia counties to
lobby state government to change lo
cal taxation.
The move is to support schools with
sales tax instead of property taxes,
said Bennett
He asked that any citizen who wish
es to be a part of the Forsyth County
network contact him.
• The board awarded bids for sever
al county projects.
Emergency One was awarded a bid
for a new $126,000 pumper truck for
Fire Station 5.
Paramount Grading was awarded a
contract to clear silt out of an old silt
ation pond at the county landfill for
$19,500.
The contract for asphalt in 1992 was
awarded to C.W. Matthews who will
a full night offun and recreation for students
and parents. In preparation forthiseventthe
students will be seeking pledges to rock (in a
rocking chair) for a fixed amount of money
per hour. Your support will keep South For
syth Band rockin’!
For more information call Jackie Jones at
442-3420 or LaVon Bennett at 889-9272.
Help for battered women
A support group for battered and abused
women is sponosored twice a month by Fam
ily Haven, Forsyth County's only shelter for
battered women and their children. If you
are having problems and need support,
please plan to attend the meetings every sec
ond and fourth Tuesday. Location of the
meetings is confidential. If interested please
call 889-6384
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John Dorris, district manager for
Corporate Affairs of Southern Bell,
was also given a special plaque for
work in the Adopt-A-School program
at Cumming Elementary. Dorris’ was
recognized for his contributions be
cause his district has been realigned
and he will no longer be working in
Forsyth County.
Also among those being recognized
were retiring “Gus” Plagianis and
Judge Stan Gault for their service on
the Chamber’s Board of Directors.
Before closing, a well-deserved
word of thanks and round of applause
went to Mary Helen McGruder as
planner of the dinner and Henry Lins
for chairing the silent auction and
raffle.
Commissioners have yet to adopt
this plan.
The FSL permit request should be
on the agenda of the Feb. 24 meeting
of the Board of Commissioners.
provide different types of mixes to the
county for between $17.50 and sl9 per
ton. The Public Works director esti
mated these costs would save the
county $13,000 over last year’s
contract
Awarded the contract for a pump
station to boost water pressure on Jot
’Em Down Road to SQ Incorporated
for $84,000.
• Commissioner Harrington looked
into following up former commission
er Barry Hillgartner’s request to sup
ply water to Indian Knoll Road and
Turner’s Cove. Although the funds
were found to be present int he Dis
trict 5 water line budget, the other
commissioners opted to put off that
decision until a new District 5 com
missioner is elected.
“Let them use it (funds) for cam
paign promises between now and
then,” said Bennett.
Rook Tournament
The Cumming Recreation and Parks De
partment will host its annual Rook Tourna
ment on March 2, 3. and 5 at the Cumming
City Park on Pilgrim Mill Rd.
Tournament play will begin at 7 p.m. Ken
tucky discard rules will be observed.
The tournament will be limited to a 32
team bracket and will cost sl2 per team. Reg
istration will be accepted at the Cumming
Recreation Department. Monday-Friday, 9
a.m.-5 p.m. and is open to anyone 15 years
and older. You may also mail in your entry to
the Cumming Recreation and Parks Depart
ment, P.O. Box 34, Cumming, GA 30130.
Please include both names, addresses, and
telephone numbers (home, work).
For more information call Billie Redd or
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illegal alcohol sales.
Employees are required to attend a
two-day course entitled Techniques
of Alcohol Management and sign
statements of the company policy.
A secret “mystery shopper” also
routinely visits the local stores, said
Dave Wallace of Country Cupboard.
The person - who is actually from a
hired firm based in Gainesville - is
usually in their mid-20’s and makes an
alcohol purchase. They then fill out
reports which includes a question on
whether or not the clerk asked for
identification.
“If they did not, they are repri
manded and have to go back througn
FARMERScontinued from Page 1
Those who want to sign up for con
servation use must have at least five
acres, sign a 10-year covenant that the
land will not be sold or rezoned, and
bring in soil test results from the Soil
Conservation Service.
Those who violate the covenant will
be charged strict fines as well as the
back taxes on their land appraised at
full market value.
Conservation use works much like
the preferential assessment where
true agricultural land is taxed at 30
percent instead of 40 percent of its
fair market value. There are 256 par
cels under the preferential assess
ment now.
However, Payne warned that it may
not be to every farmer’s benefit to
switch from the preferential assess
ment to conservation use. Preferen
Career and business expo set
Job hunting? Job seekers at all lev
els, in most industries, will find plenty
of employment opportunities at the
Grow With Atlanta Career & Business
Expo on Thursday, Feb. 13, at the In
forum from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. There will
be special sections for experienced
DP professionals, engineers, sales
people, food service and retail man
agers, and health care professionals.
Eddie Canon at 781-2030.
Forsyth Library sets 1992
meetings
The Forsyth County Library Board of
Trustees has approved a meeting schedule
for Fiscal Year 1992. Meetings will be held in
the Forsyth County Government Building un
til the March meeting, at which time further
meetings will be conducted in the new For
syth County Public Library now under con
struction at the comer of Highway 9 and
Charles Place, is ready for occupancy, cur
rently scheduled for April 1992. All meetings
will be held at 5 p.m.; this is a change oftime
from previous meetings, which were held at
5:30 p.m.
Meetings will be held on the following
Forsyth County News
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Miss your paper? We hope
not, but if you subscribe and
live in Forsyth County we
will deliver a replacement
copy to you.
On Sunday, call us from 8
a.m. to noon. We will have
carriers available to deliver
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ce class,” Wallace said. “If it is prov
en a clerk sells to a minor, they lose
their job.”
Representatives for the store add
ed that special attention is paid to
events like July 4th, prom night and
graduation night - ones that usually
mean attempted alcohol buys from
under-agers.
"We’ve been in business in Cum
ming 13 or 14 years at least I’d like to
think we’ve been a responsible citi
zen..” said Wallace.
The license will be re-issued as
soon as paper work is complete, said
Cumming Police Chief Wayne
Lindsey.
tial assessment gives a break on im
provements - including chicken
houses - while conservation use only
takes land into account
Poultry farmers with 6 or 7 acres of
land would be better off to stay in the
preferential assessment said Payne.
Amendment 3 also provides for a
new residential transitional category
which performs the same function as
conservation use. It allows those peo
ple who have their homes near a com
mercial area to keep their assess
ments in a residential range rather
than a near commercial rate when
they plan to continue to live in their
home and not sell it for commercial
use.
Property owners may sign up for
these exemptions at the Tax Asses
sors' Office through April 1.
The expo will offer job counseling, re
sume critiquing, advice from industry
experts and a FREE seminar entitled
"Managing the Job Search. ” There is a
$2 registration fee for the event,
which is being co-sponsored by WSB
Radio. For more information, or to
pre-register and secure a seat at the
seminar (deadline is Feb. 3), call Beth
Vollaro at 401-732-9850.
Mondays: Feb. 17, March 16, April 20, May 18,
and June 15.
New club for miniaturists
If you are interested in joining a miniatur
ists club in the Cumming'Lake Lanier area,
call 887-0948.
Georgia Narcolepsy seeks group
The Georgia Narcolepsy Association is
seeking persons who have cataplexy to par
ticipate in a 4-month study conducted by
Stanford University. Severity is not impor
tant. For more information, contact Joyce
Lewis on (404) 851-2860 or (404) 288-5370,
ASAP; or write to:
Georgia Narcolespy Association
P.O. Box 350
Avondale Estates, GA 30002
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