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Vol. 90, No 120
Lanier claims another victim
Second death in three days involves Forsyth County resident
By Colby Jones
Staff Writer
A Forsyth County man celebrating his
40th birthday died Monday night in the
aftermath of an accident on Lake Lanier.
Judson A. Green and his 12-year-old
daughter were riding jet skis in Young Deer
Information meetings
on discharge plan
held in Gwinnett
Lake group working in opposition;
public comment session is tonight
By Phillip Hermann
News Editor
Gwinnett County government is
doing a banner job trying to sell to
the general public a plan to pump
up to 40 million gallons per day of
treated wastewater into Lake Lanier.
But the Lake Lanier Association
just isn’t buying
these days.
Gwinnett will
host a second pub
lic information ses
sion tonight begin
ning at 6:30 p.m. in
the Justice and
Administration
Center in down
town Lawrence
ville. There also
will be a public
comment period
from 8:30-9 p.m. A
similar session,
without the chance
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Stickers being distributed
Lake Lanier Association.
for public comment, was Tuesday
night.
LLA President Jackie Joseph
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Goldmine Road residents have erected a makeshift sign.
Roaming pigs having
a swine time on road
By Colby Jones
Start Writer
There are signs warning
motorists about all kinds of
crossings; pedestrian, deer and
in Florida, snakes and alligators.
Along a stretch of blacktop in
west Forsyth County, there now
is a pig crossing. Residents living
near the intersection of Hwy. 20
West and Franklin Goldmine
Road have reported that errant
swine apparently roaming unhin
dered in the neighborhood, have
lost their way and are wandering
across the road with nowhere to
go. It is far more than simply
barnyard antics. The creatures
have created a serious road haz
ard. One homeowner went so far
as to post a "pigs crossing” sign
to warn speeding commuters and
Creek in east Forsyth County, said deputies
on the scene. The daughter lives in
California and was in town visiting her
father to help him celebrate his birthday.
Preliminary evidence suggests that
Green was struck either by his own jet ski
or the one operated by his daughter about 8
says the organization is prepared to
speak its collective mind at the com
ment session to voice strong opposi
tion to the proposal. LLA main
tained an information booth inside
the Justice and Administration
Center on Monday night, with
activists providing handouts and
answering questions from passersby
about their con
cerns with the
project.
“We have
told Gwinnett
County and the
EPD that there
doesn’t need to
be more intru
sion into the
lake. We have 20
million gallons
of treated water
pumped into
by there already,”
Joseph said
Tuesday night.
“We want to make the lake better
than it is right now. We are already
seeing algae growth. We don’t need
truck drivers about the slow-mov
ing farm animals.
The local law became
involved when a deputy almost
hit one of the pigs the night of
Aug. 10. He provided animal
control officers with a copy of his
report on the incident for further
investigation.
None of the residents inter
viewed by the deputy knew who
owned the runaway pigs. Those
who will hazard a guess estimate
up to six pigs were recently aban
doned on the side of the road,
and left to their own devices
when it comes to dodging speed
ing vehicles. The residents and
law enforcement personnel know,
as should all, that a slow-moving
pig versus hundreds of pounds of
steel and plastic, is going to lose
every time.
THURSDAY AUGUST 19, 1999
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to put anything more into the lake,
and we don’t need another facility
that will increase the risk of spills.”
The Georgia Environmental
Protection Division has mandated
that Gwinnett government conduct
the information meetings and com
ment session. The county has made
a preliminary application to the
EPD for permission to move for
ward with plans to build a water
pipeline (see chart) from its North
Advanced Water Reclamation
Facility under construction near I
-85 and 1-985. According to docu
ments available at the information
session, an alternative plan that
would have pumped the reclaimed
water into the Chattahoochee River
received a negative response from
the EPD. “The EPD strongly rec-
See PLAN, Page 2A
School uniforms: Not this year
Individual schools may poll parents on student uniform fashion
By Laura Lavezzo Carrico
Lifestyle Editor
On any given weekend this fall, hundreds of kids
will dot football stadiums, literally, in the colors of
their respective schools. Football jerseys, band cos
tumes, cheerleader jumpers and even the plain clothes
worn by fans, all signify that a student belongs with a
particular group, at a particular school. These students
ate proud to display their colors because it gives them
the sense that they belong that they are part of the
whole team effort. Why then, is the discussion of day
to-day uniform dress in the classroom such a heated
one?
School uniforms, argue some, are a saving grace
when it comes to school safety and acquiring individ
ual responsibility, not to mention preserving family
budgets. On the other end of the spectrum are those
Coast Guard took Wynens
to Pacific in World War II
By Alton Bridges
Start Writer
When James C. (Jim) Wynens
went into the Coast Guard on
Sept. 10, 1943, he thought he
would be stationed close to home.
Home for him was either
Hillsboro, where he was bom, or
Monticello, where he attended
high school.
“My father, a veteran of the
Philippine Insurrection of 1899,
was determined to keep me from
going to the Pacific islands,"
Wynens said. “My brother had
been recently killed piloting an A
-20 bomber, my oldest brother was
in the Army Medical corps sta
tioned in Trinidad and another
brother was a military flight
instructor, so his concern was
understandable."
He had to go to Charleston, S.
C., to join but even that did not
work out like he had planned. He
was two pounds too light, and had
p.m., according to the Department of
Natural Resources.
An autopsy performed Tuesday at the
state crime lab revealed he died of internal
injuries.
After being hit by the device, Green told
his daughter to go get help. A Duluth cou-
Gwinnett County has complet
ed the environmental and engi
neering studies required under the
EPD’s permitting process for such
projects as the proposed expansion
of the North Advanced Water
Reclamation Facility. The county
is in the process now of gathering
public comments on the proposal,
as mandated by the EPD.
While the process in ongoing,
the county is aware the EPD has
said it will not issue any new per
mits for such facilities until water
quality standards are established
for Lake Lanier. The EPD has said
such guidelines should be com
pleted by December of this year.
The process that Gwinnett
to spend some time in a store
across the street from the induc
tion center eating bananas and
drinking milk to build his weight
to the minimum required for
induction.
Wynens had attended the
University of Georgia and took
ROTC courses before going into
the military. In fact, the first mili
tary training he had was in high
school at Monticello. “Everyone
knew the war in the Pacific and
Europe was serious," said
Wynens. “We had an agriculture
teacher in high school, a Mr.
Norris, who designed an ROTC
course and taught us the manual of
arms. The only problem was we
did not have weapons. We used
brooms, but he was good and we
took the course seriously. When 1
took the ROTC course at Georgia.
1 was ahead of most of the stu
dents because of the great teacher
I had in high school.
After Boot Camp in St.
50. Cents
ple boating in the area came to his aid.
“When the couple got to him in the boat,
they found him face down in the water,”
said Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Karleen
Chalker.
See ACCIDENT, Page 2A
Permitting process
government must follow after
Thursday night’s public informa
tion meeting and comment session
will be:
1) The submission of its
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System permit to the
EPD;
2) The EPD responses either to
approve or deny (which won’t
happen until water quality stan
dards have been established for the
lake).
3) If approved, Gwinnett and
the EPD will have to conduct
another public hearing on the draft
permit;
4) The EPD issues a final per
mit.
who insist that uniformity robs a child of his right to
individuality and the ability to express his creativity.
Nevertheless, in light of recent school safety issues
locally and nationally, the Forsyth County Board of
Education has carefully begun to outline guidelines for
the possible implementation of a uniform dress code.
Such a move would help eliminate potential gang activ
ity and possession of weapons would become much
less difficult to pull off, they say.
While the school board has not yet adopted a policy
regarding uniform dress in schools, board members
agree that parent input will be a deciding factor on the
issue. Part of the local plan is to allow individual
administrations to establish uniform dress procedures
according to parent approval at each school. For a
school to establish uniformity, 75 percent of all parents
See UNIFORMS, Page 2A
Photo/Tom Brooks
A fast meal of milk and bananas
gave Jim Wynens the 2 pounds he
needed to make the minimum
weight for enlisting.
Augustine, Fla., Wynens was sent
to the Mississippi Delta where he
was assigned to the PICAYUNE,
CGR-1502, a 55-foot former
See WYNENS, Page 2A