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; FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, March 2S, IMS
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Ntew animal control facility
; world championship wrestler Bill Goldberg, Sheriff Denny
and Dr. Lamar Orr at the grand opening of the animal
>43Dntrol facility on Old Atlanta Road in September. Forsyth
County has contracted with Orr to provide animal control ser
>)dces. Below, Goldberg drew a large number of autograph-hun
gry kids. In addition to animal control ordinances, another quali
ty of life issue - noise - was addressed in a new noise ordi
nance enacted by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
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Status Report
. Sheriff 11
Colonel 11
.Major 4 1 3
Captain 0 4-acting
JLieutenant 6 5 1 3-acting
Sergeant 14 14 9-acting
•Corporal 15 15
ipept. Sheriff II 70 68 2 2
►Qept. Sheriff I 23 22 1
‘tjispatcher II 3 3
: dispatcher I 20 17 3 1
Admin. Specialist 111 2 11
•Jfclmin. Specialist II 11 11
Admin. Specialist I 6 6
J Admin. Tech I 11
Information Tech 11
Subtotal: 178 167 11 ~
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60PS 21 20 1 21-DS II
gUI 3 2 1 Sgt. 1-Sgt. 2-DSII
domestic
Violence 4 4
Subtotal: ~ 28 ~26~ 2
Jbtal: 206 193 13
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I *er, sore throat, stomach ache
1 headache and may only last a
v days. Severe cases can lead to
tonic muscle pain, paralysis,
sathing problems and even
ith. Former President Franklin
osevelt was a victim of polio,
k combination of poliovirus
xines are used to prevent polio,
V and OPV are available at the
si th department for $lO.
Measles - Very contagious, rash
using disease that produces a
rer, cough,
unny nose and watery eyes,
pically lasts one to two weeks,
vere cases may lead to pneumo
1, an infection in the brain,
zures, hearing loss, or mental
ardation. Measles is spread by
Ughing, sneezing or even talk*
Mumps - A contagious virus
read much like measles, mumps
uses fever, *
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headaches and severely swollen
glands under the jaw. Can lead to
inflammation of the spinal cord
and brain (meningitis), and deaf
ness.
•Rubella or German measles -
Usually very mild, causing a
slight fever and
rash on the face and neck.
Young adults who get the virus
will become sicker than a young
child, experiencing swollen
glands and pain in the neck and
joints.
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
are prevented with one vaccine
called a MMR, which is available
at the health department for $lO.
“I like to think of immunization
* as a tool that gets children ready
for school and keeps them health
for a life time,* said Simon. To
keep your child healthily, call
your pediatrician, or the local
health department at (770) 781-
6900
HEALTH & SAFETY
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Scenes from the new Baptist Medical Center
The entrance sign at Baptist Medical Center was being put up recently in preparation for the new facility’s opening. Located on -
Baptist Medical Center Parkway, formerly Horseshoe Circle off Hwy. 20, the roadway into the center will be expanded in the near-*
future as part of the emergency roadwork in the Ga. 400-Hwy. 20 area in which the Georgia Department of Transportation is assist 1 J
ing. Patients are expected to be moved from Baptist North Hospital on Samaritan Drive on Wednesday, March 31. The medical cen
ter’s origin was a footprint in red Georgia clay after its groundbreaking, and steel began rising into the skyline along Ga. 400 as work -f.
progressed on the new structure. Administrator John Herron has describes the new facility as a dream come true for the citizens of .
the Forsyth County area.
. Photos/Tom Brooks and file phcftoe
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