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VOLUME LXXXVI, NUMBER 98 Copyright © 1995 Forsyth County News
SHPA
postpones
meeting
with
hospital
By Laura Boggs
Staff Writer
A meeting scheduled for
last Wednesday to review
Baptist North Hospital’s plans
to expand was postponed until
this Thursday, Nov. 29 by the
State Health Planning Agency
(SHPA).
Under a Georgia statute
that seeks to avoid duplication
of expensive health care ser
vices, equipment and facili
ties, SHPA must approve the
healthcare facility’s plans to
expand. Baptist North filed a
Certificate of Need (CON)
application in August.
The routine 60-day review
meeting, scheduled by SHPA,
will happen late in the
agency’s 90-day review of the
hospital's CON. Baptist North
had expected to receive
approval or denial from SHPA
for their plans to grow by the
first week in December.
“Since the 60-day review
is meeting late in the process,
they could push the December
date back,” said John Herron,
administrator at Baptist North.
During the meeting,
See CON, Page 2A
WEATHER
Sun. and
Mon.will be
mostly sunny
with highs in the
60s. Showers
expected on
Tues.
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INDEX
Abby 118 Business 11A
Births 48 School 8A
Church Briefs 108 Horoscope 118
Classifieds 6C Weddings 4B
Editorial 12A Sports 1C
LAKE LANIER LEVELS
Date Level
Nov. 20 1070.20 ft
Nov. 21 1070.16 ft
Nov. 22 1070.11 ft
Nov. 23 1070.06 ft
Nov. 24 1070.06 ft
Commission to meet
The Forsyth County Commission
will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday.
Thirteen different rezomngs will be
discussed among other business on
the agenda. Complete details of the
meeting will be in Wednesdays edi
tion.
Forsyth's Georgia
Cheerleader
Courtney Kohn, a Forsyth.County
native, tells about her experience as
a University of Georgia cheerleader.
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Civil service board files suit against sheriff
By Jim Riley
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Civil Service
Board filed a Writ of Mandemus
Wednesday in Superior Court against
Forsyth County Sheriff Jerry Padgett to try
and get Padgett to reinstate Deputies
Richard Holcomb and Paul Whitfield to
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The City of Cumming has a new light display set up on the fairgrounds on Castleberry Road. Above, city administrator
Gerald Blackburn and his granddaughter, Emma Sweat, take a look as the lights were turned on on Wednesday.
Shopping center on McGinnis Ferry on zoning agenda
By Thomas W. Krause
Staff Writer
On Tuesday, the Forsyth
County Planning Commission
will meet for 10 public hearings
requesting rezonings. Included in
On the biggest shopping day of the year
Cumming shoppers hit the streets
By Laura Boggs
Staff Writer
Barbie dolls, exercise equip
ment and anything with angels on
it are hot items this holiday sea
son, but in Cumming Friday,
shoppers eagerly sought a parking
space.
Local store managers agreed
that this year’s day-after-
Thanksgiving shopping is busier
than ever.
“It’s much better this year,”
said Kathryn Willis, owner of
Parsons, which sells gifts and col
lectibles. The shop carries a large
selection of Christmas lighted
houses.
Stores like K-Mart and Wal-
Mart opened their doors early in
the morning Friday to a crowd.
“We opened up to the highest
traffic in the parking lot in a long
time,” said Vince Barnett, manag
er of K-Mart. “We had 500
fanny-packs with $35 of coupons
to give away, and they were gone
15 minutes after we opened.”
Betty Finnemore, a greeter at
Wal-Mart said, “We unlocked the
Raider wrestling
preview
SPORTS, 1C
If s the season for plenty of lights
the hearings is a proposed shop
ping center on McGinnis Ferry
Road near Old Atlanta Road.
W.L.M. Knox, Inc., owner of
the 44.7 acres of land, is request
ing the land be zoned commercial
business to build the center. It is
doors at ten minutes until 6, and
people just charged in. 1 stood
back to avoid the stampede.”
K-Mart’s Portrait Studio is
snapping photos non-stop.
“Pictures make great
Christmas gifts,” said Amy
Holden, studio manager.
Gun cabinets, exercise
machines and 14-karat gold are
selling well, not to mention the
hard-to-find Holiday Barbie,
Barnett said.
“It’s like the Cabbage Patch
hysteria of the 80s,” Barnett said.
Other popular toys are hard to
keep on shelves in toy depart
ments. Baby Tumbler, a doll that
turns a somersault, Bat Man toys
and Cool Tools, realistic metal
tools for play, are big this year,
said Trina Jones, toy department
manager at Wal-Mart.
Shoppers searched for clothes,
jewelry and perfume at Belk
Friday.
“It has been a great day-after-
Thanksgiving. It’s good to see
people shopping at home,” said
Bob White, manager of Belk.
Linda Pritchett, who came
Cumming, GA / November 26,1995
SUNDAY EDITION
their former positions.
The parties will appear before the court
on December 12 at 9 a.m.
Holcomb and Whitfield were terminated
by Padgett on October 19, 1995 after his
internal board had recommended they be
fired for their actions in allegedly withold
ing information following the fatal chase of
D.U.I. suspect William Wade Wallace on
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July 27.
Padgett’s termination of the employees
came after Forsyth County Personnel
Director Jim Masaschi had said that
Padgett’s recommendation was too harsh
and that Holcomb and Whitfield should be
suspended for five and three days, respec
tively.
Padgett responded by declaring an
currently zoned for agricultural
use.
The shopping center would
include a 141,000 square foot
building and would have 705
parking spaces. The zoning does
not conform to the county’s mas
from Gainesville with her daugh
ter to shop at Parsons, said she
doesn’t mind the crowds.
“We always get out the day
after Thanksgiving at least to
look at everything,” Pritchett
said.
As she rolled a cart through K-
Mart, Sandy Sweat said that she
ventures out at 6 a.m. every year.
“The crowds don’t bother
me,” Sweat said. While she usu
ally searches for presents alone,
her husband and two sons joined
her at lunchtime Friday.
K-Mart will be open from 8
a.m. to 11 p.m. until Dec. 14.
Starting Dec. 15, it will be open
from 8 a.m. to midnight.
Wal-Mart extended its hours
over the weekend but will keep its
regular schedule during the sea
son. It’s open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday through Saturday and 8
a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Belk extended its weekend
hours but will keep its regular
schedule of 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
See SHOP, Page 2A
New office complex
to be constructed
PAGE 11A
ter plan.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting,
Clyde Leach is requesting the
zoning of 30.3 acres of land to
See ZONE, Page 2A
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Hannah Bryson, daughter of Tom and Nell Bryson,
shopped at Belk in Lakeland Plaza on Friday.
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“emergency situation” under the Civil
Service Rules and firing the deputies on
October 19.
The Civil Service Board of Forsyth
County disagreed with Padgett’s interpreta
tion of an emergency situation and ordered
See CIVIL, Page 2A
ACLU
looking at
Forsyth
library
issue
By Laura Boggs
Staff Writer
The American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) of Georgia is look
ing into the controversy about sex
ually explicit library materials in
Forsyth County. This week, a
meeting will be held in Atlanta to
“explore” the issue, said Teresa
Nelson, executive director of the
ACLU of Georgia.
“To be honest, we have been
monitoring the situation all
along,” Nelson said.
For two years, the Gwinnett-
Forsyth Regional Library Board
has heard complaints from citizens
and politicians from both counties
who want to restrict children’s
access to sexually explicit library
materials or revamp the library’s
materials selection policies.
About three weeks ago, the
Forsyth commissioners asked
local library board members to
resign because four out of five of
them refused the commission’s
request to put Woman’s Body by
Dr. Miriam Stoppard, a health
book with pictures of human sex
acts, behind the check-out counter
or in an adults only section.
Commission Chairman Ron
See LIBRARY, Page 2A
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