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! FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - Friday, January 15,1M>
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'* *• '“You can just see where the
move-in is,” said Taylor, adding
* elementary schools in the south
encl of the county are growing
more overcrowded than ever.
Midway Elementary, with a state
recommended maximum capacity
of 487, is well over that capacity
with a student body of 569. And
the available 10.25 acres the sys
tem has at that site is already
biiilt-out.
‘ L The original time line for the
‘liew James Burgess school
allowed 12 months for construc
tion, considering that Vickery
Creek Elementary, the most recent
elementary school to open, took
11 months to complete. The pro
posed date of substantial comple
tion is Aug. 2; however, the con
struction schedule is currently
behind. The first day of school for
the 1999-2000 year is Aug. 23.
Individuals and organizations
tit Forsyth County may submit
ndmes for new facilities to be con
sidered by the Board of
Education. Suggested names for
the new elementary school at
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formance. The department denies
retaliating against Anderson for
reporting discrimination.
< In the original discrimination
'/Charge, Anderson said she was
to resign from her position
& deputy. She left the department
on Nov. 21, 1997, and is now
employed as a paramedic for
Advanced Ambulance Inc.
Anderson gave a different rea
son for leaving the department
while testifying in a DUI case in
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The studies allege that 500
acres of green space are lost to
development each week. Also,
that poor air quality, severe traffic
congestion, escalating home
prices, increased taxes and envi
ronmental degradation can be
linked to sprawl.
.:. Other issues dealt with include
middle class flight and loss of
business opportunities in inner
city Atlanta and the social
inequities of uneven growth.
It is hoped, a Turner
Foundation spokesman said, that
the studies will provide a frame-
Death
Lane D. Clark
Lane D. Clark, 88, of
Cumming died Wednesday, Jan.
13,1999.
Clark was a member of
Pleasant View Baptist Church and
had served as a deacon for many
years. He had retired from Airco
in 1966 after 25 years and was a
cattle farmer.
Survivors include his wife,
Naomi Brannon Clark of *
Cumming; children, Gary and Jan
dark, Paula and Roy Heard,
David and Shelia Clark, all of
Cumming, Gay and Wendall
Blount of Buford; nine grandchil
dren; six great-grandchildren;
. brother and sister-in-law, Rex and
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James Burgess Road should be
mailed to Sherry Sagemiiler, 110
Dahlonega Street, Cumming, Ga.
30040.
The Forsyth County Board of
Education was to hold a Thursday
regular work session.
On the horizon for related
school coverage:
• How will North Forsyth
Middle School deal with the
growth to come now that the
Board of Commissioners has
approved several housing subdivi
sions in that district? The school
just redistricted many students to
Otwell Middle School in 1998,
yet again it is affected by growth.
• What will the redistricting
committee do about the over
crowding at Midway Elementary?
There are empty classrooms at
Vickery Creek Elementary, and
the heaviest growth of young fam
ilies is in the Big Creek district.
• What are the school board’s
plans with regard to the last mid
dle school to be constructed with
current Local Education Sales Tax
funding?
September. Called to the stand in
her capacity as a volunteer fire
fighter, she was asked why she no
longer worked for the depart
ment.
“I was in school to get my
intermediate EMT. It was a con
flict in scheduling,” she replied.
Attorney Roy Manoil, who
represents the Sheriff’s Office in
the case, said he sent a copy of
Anderson’s court testimony to the
EEOC.
work for improving land use and
transportation methods in the
Atlanta area.
The authors of the studies
include: Robert Bullard with
Clark Atlanta University; Larry
Frank with the City Planning
Program at Georgia Tech; Myron
Orfield with the Metropolitan
Area Research Corporation,
Minneapolis; and Ed Thompson,
American Farmland Trust.
The Turner Foundation, creat
ed by Ted Turner, works to focus
attention on issues of environmen
tal concern.
Estelle Clark of Cumming; sister,
Lucille Brannon of Cumming; and
a number of nieces, nephews and
other relatives.
Services will be held Friday,
Jan. 15, at 2 p.m. at Pleasant View
Baptist Church. The Revs. Bud
Sutton and Harold Thompson will
officiate.
Interment will be held in the
church cemetery.
Ingram Funeral Home of
Cumming had charge of the
arrangements.
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Jan. 15,1999
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Grand jury indictments
By Cofoy Jones
Staff Writer
The November term of the Forsyth County
grand jury handed down 20 indictments
Monday. Indictments are true bills, meaning
grand jurors found sufficient cause for the
cases to continue in Superior Court.
A Ballground man was indicted on charges
he assaulted a Georgia State Patrol trooper last
April while claiming to be infected with AIDS
and Hepatitis.
Allen Edward Jones, 24, faces a 10-count
indictment for the April 29,1998 incident.
According to court documents, Trooper
R.F. Barry stopped Jones on Ga. 400 near the
Bald Ridge exit for driving under the influence.
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High Cotton relocated to
Cumming last November for vari
ous reasons, one of which was
location. The Foxworthys’ father
lives in Forsyth County, and is the
owner of Jim Foxworthy Real
Estate since retiring from IBM.
The two brothers live in
Alpharetta. Since many of High
Cotton’s 10 employees live in
Canton, the move worked for
them, too.
Until a couple of years ago,
Foxworthy and his partner, Mike
Higginbotham, only handled over
seeing the printing of Jeff
Foxworthy’s T-shirts in conjunc
tion with Club Red, the marketing
company for the comedian. When
the screen printing company that
was handling their screen printing
went out of business, Foxworthy
and Higginbotham took the oppor
tunity to purchase the equipment
and launch their own screen print
ing endeavor.
Today, they print T-shirts and
the like not only for the popular
comedian but for companies such
as Sun Trust Bank and Hooters and
community entities including
schools and churches. In addition
to T-shirts, High Cotton prints
sweatshirts and golf towels, or just
about anything that will fit on the
press, and also offers embroidery
services. They will print as few as
four or five pieces or 20,000 or
more in an order of Jeff
Foxworthy T-shirts for a Wal-Mart
or Kmart order. For catalog orders
that need to be packaged individu
ally, High Cotton even has a
machine that will neatly fold a T
shirt and then slip it into a plastic
bag, ready to be shipped.
They are currently using about
10,000 feet of the 15,000-square
foot facility that is located at 5010
Spot Road in Cumming. If busi
ness stays as it has been, they will
probably be looking to hire more
people this spring, when the sea
son begins for the T-shirt business,
Foxworthy said.
“We don’t want to take away
business from the mom-and-pop
stores in the area,” Foxworthy
said, explaining that if a local
company gets an order that is too
large for their capacity, he hopes
they will take the job and call him
for assistance. “We want to be
here for everybody in the commu
nity.”
The Foxworthy brothers, who
grew up south of Atlanta near the
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Earlier in the night, Jones had wrecked his
pickup truck but failed to report the accident.
Cumming police officers assisted in appre
hending Jones, who allegedly kicked Barry in
the hands and leg while being placed under
arrest. Jones broke the skin on Barry’s right
hand during the altercation, then tried to kick
out the window of his patrol car.
While in the hospital, he spit blood at offi
cers, telling them he had contracted AIDS and
hepatitis after sharing needles with a family
member.
Jones was indicted on charges of simple
assault, simple battery, obstruction, driving
under the influence, interference with govern
ment property, driving too fast for conditions,
airport, know community and
roots. Jeff attended high school in
Hapeville, and Jay went to high
school in College Park. Jeff
Foxworthy, perhaps best known
for his “You may be a redneck
if...” jokes, moved back to the
Atlanta area from California about
a year and a half ago to spend
more time with his family.
The younger Foxworthy broth
er, who played college football at
Duke, moved to Alpharetta from
McDonough. He worked at a
graphic arts company in Atlanta
prior to starting High Cotton.
They’ve come full circle - as
soon as Jeff’s house is completed,
the two will live next door to each
other and their daughters - Jay has
three and Jeff has two- will grow
up more like sisters than cousins.
The younger Foxworthy
attempted to dispel the myth that
Jeff Foxworthy is the owner of a
massive house that is being built
in neighboring Cherokee.
“There’s a rumor that a huge
house in Woodstock is Jeff’s - but
it’s not,” Foxworthy said. “He’s
already living in Alpharetta, and
he’ll be there right next door to me
as soon as his house is finished.”
To the inevitable “What’s it
like to be Jeff Foxworthy’s broth
er?” question, Foxworthy replied
with a candid and touching
answer.
Jeff is a great
brother. You're
proud to be associ
ated with him,
because of how he
treats people and
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“Jeff is a great brother - I’ve
always looked up to him,”
Foxworthy said. “He was always
really funny growing up. When he
started dabbling in comedy after
working for IBM for about six
years, you could see it was made
for him.”
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Production manager Janice Ramalho and Jay Foxworthy show
off one of Jeff Foxworthy’s T-shirts, a High Cotton product.
“It didn’t surprise me that he
was successful, but I will say the
level of success that he achieved
amazed me,” Fbxworthy said, not
ing that the “big time” came short
ly after his big brother’s appear
ance on the Tonight Show in the
late ’Bos and about the time the
redneck line came about. “He’s
just a good person. You’re proud
to be associated with him, not
because he’s this famous comedi
an, but because of how he treats
people and who he is.”
By “who he is” Foxworthy is
speaking of who his brother is on
the inside.
Whether he is at a restaurant
and has a mouthful of food or is
(trying) to watch an Atlanta
Braves’ playoff game, he never
turns away a fan or a request for
an autograph, Foxworthy said.
“I guess it’s because most of
his life he led a normal life, and he
did the typical work day for some
time working at IBM, and I think
having no proof of insurance, driving without a
license and failure to report an accident.
Assistant District Attorney Jeff Frazier
would not comment about Jones’ statement
that he is infected with HIV because the case is
still under investigation.
Barry was out of town and unavailable for
comment.
• William Charles Bryant, 22, and Ronald
M. Zaladonis, 20, were indicted on theft by
taking charges. The pair, who reside on
Brenton Hunt Lane in Suwanee, allegedly took
more than SSOO worth of copper wire from
Cutini Electrical Contracting Inc., on Oct. 14.
Bryant also was indicted on burglary charges.
Mon indictments in Sunday's edition
he never forgets what that’s like,”
he said.
If High Cotton has just a mea
sure of the success that its best
customer has had, then the busi
ness will live up to its name. And
it is well on its way.
High Cotton has begun taking
orders in Canada for the Jeff
i Foxworthy line of T-shirts, which
are being well received by our
neighbors to the north.
And if old times are not forgot
ten, another path its best customer
seems to have taken, surely they
i i will keep on “livin’ in High
Cotton” in'Cumming.
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