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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, November 17,2002
.Deaths
Buster Carter
Buster Carter, 81, of
Marietta died Wednesday, Nov.
L 43, 2002. Formerly of Forsyth
j County, Mr. Carter served in
-<tbe United States Army during
iWar War II and was a Pearl
Harbor survivor. He was a
member of Pleasant View
Baptist Church in Cumming.
Survivors include his sons
-and daughters-in-law, Phillip
and Frances Carter of Marietta,
(Gary and Cindy Carter,
Richard Carter, all of
<Cumming; stepsons, Douglas
Hulsey of Clarkesville, Ronald
Hulsey of Ball Ground; sister,
Beatrice Lowman of
Dawsonville; brother, John D.
Carter of Gainesville; grand
children, Barry Carter, Charles
Carter, Kristi Hulsey and Lori
Hale; and three great-grand
children.
Funeral services will be
Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. in
the chapel of Ward’s Funeral
Home in Gainesville.
Interment will follow at the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens in Cumming.
Ward’s Funeral Home in
Gainesville is in charge of the
arrangements.
Forsyth County News
November 17, 2002
Brenda Satterfield
Mrs. Brenda Satterfield, 44,
of Dawsonville died Thursday,
Nov. 14. 2002.
Survivors include her chil
dren, Ron and Jennifer
Hubbard, Heidi Hubbard, all of
Cumming; grandchildren,
Billy Jenkins, Abby Sikes,
Michael Allen, Mary Hubbard;
parents, Glenn and Joyce
Satterfield of Ellijay; sisters
and brother-in-law, Cynthia
Lee, Glenda Satterfield, both
of Cumming, Annette and
Johnny Watson, Wanda
Callahan, all of Canton; broth
ers and sister-in-law. Buck and
Janice Satterfield of
Dawsonville, Billy Joe
Satterfield of Ellijay; nieces,
nephews and other relatives
also survive.
Funeral services were
Saturday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m. at
the Ingram Funeral Home
Chapel with the Revs. John
Wesley Watson Sr. and John
Wesley Watson Jr. officiating.
Interment followed in the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
November 17, 2002
Correction
A boy in a photograph
taken at the Cumming
Steam, Tractor and Gas
Engine Exposition was
identified incorrectly in the
Nov. 13 edition of the .
newspaper. The child is
Brody Bullard. He is one
and-a-half years old. It is
the policy of the Forsyth
County News to correct
errors of fact in its news
pages.
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VOTE from 1A
require hand counts of only the paper
absentee ballots there were about
2,000 cast here.
The bulk of the votes are stored elec
tronically on memory cards used in the
voting machines.
The cards will be run through an
“election counter” as they were 12 days
ago, Smith said.
McDonald attributes his loss to party
line voting by Georgia voters, many of
whom have moved into the state in recent
years and are repainting the political
landscape.
“There was just a strong down-the
party-line Republican vote,” he said.
“Then there was some drop-off between
the lieutenant governor race, the secretary
of state race and my race.”
Almost 70,000 fewer people cast votes
in the District 4 PSC race than in the sec
retary of state race.
Another factor in McDonald’s loss
PERRY from 1A
ers Chairman John Kieffer,
who had been a strong advo
cate of the purchase of the
Fowler property.
It was revealed that Perry
hired Kieffer’s company,
Kieffer Design and
Construction, to build his
home on Trammell Road in
Cumming, and the two also
had discussed building a pri
vate residence for Perry near
the resort community of
Highlands, N.C., though they
did not pursue that project.
Kieffer has strongly
defended his support for the
Fowler property purchase,
saying it was essential that a
site be found in south Forsyth
County to provide sewerage
treatment in the wake of the
tremendous residential and
commercial growth in the
area.
The deal was arranged at a
time when Perry was part of a
lengthy legal battle with the
county over a zoning-related
issue.
Perry and several land
owners filed suit against the
county over the board’s July
1998 denial of an application
by The Atlanta Company to
rezone agriculturally zoned
property near the intersection
of Old Atlanta and Sharon
roads to a commercial busi
ness district.
The board and Perry even
tually agreed to settle the mat
ter, and those negotiations
resulted in the board’s
‘Green power’ plant meeting Wednesday night
Greenleaf Environmental
Solutions LLC, which plans to
build an environmentally
friendly electric power genera
tor in north Forsyth County,
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was the strong showing of the third-party
candidate. Though Harris only received
5.4 percent of the vote, those 104,937
votes were more than any other
Libertarian candidate on the ballot
received on Nov. 5.
It was more than twice the number of
votes received by the Libertarian candi
date in the gubernatorial race, Garrett
Michael Hayes.
In a brief interview, Hayes, who
received just 47,891 votes in his race, said
Libertarian candidates historically have
shown better in the commission’s elec
tions due to his party’s “free market” ver
sus “regulatory” philosophy.
“Libertarians believe that the free
market, with open competition, is the best
way to keep prices down and quality up,”
Hayes said.
He also noted that Harris had received
an endorsement from “Creative Loafing”
magazine. However, the publication’s
approval of a compromise
allowing the company either
to move forward with its ini
tial plan to build 96 town
homes and shops or to sell the
site to another developer for
construction of approximately
60 single-family homes and
neighborhood shops.
Since that time, the Atlanta
Company has moved forward
with its original plan,
although negotiations on the
final site plan are continuing
between Perry and the leader
ship of the South Forsyth
Homeowners Coalition.
At the meeting where the
board voted to approve the set
tlement plan and allow the
rezoning, Taylor was the com
missioner who made the
motion to approve it.
Perry said in an interview
Friday that he doesn’t believe
the past controversies will
have any effect on his ability
to do his duty as a member of
the planning commission.
“I think I’ve discharged my
duties on the zoning board of
appeals in an effective way,
and I hope to be an effective
member of the planning com
mission,” he said.
Regarding the lengthy legal
battle, Perry said he became
involved because he believed
the rights of the individual
property owners had been
“improperly denied” by the
board in terms of the rezoning
application.
Kieffer said in an interview
will host a public meeting
about the project on
Wednesday, Nov. 20. at 6 p.m.
at the Sawnee Cultural Arts
Center, 1090 Tribble Gap Rd.
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The family of Betty S. Hamby would like to thank each and everyone who did
anything during the time of sorrow, grief, and disbelief of the sudden and
unexpected death of a loving wife and mother. Though it may seem like a
while since this happened, it seems like yesterday to our hearts. We have
thought and spoken about the friends, families, churches, and Ingram’s
Funeral Home that prayed, sent flowers, food, or paid their last respects. We
will always remember your kindness and thank you for your love and support.
The Family of Betty S. Hamby
Tommy Hamby
Sherry Hamby Day
Teresa Hamby Mitchell
that Perry has done a “good
job” as his appointee on the
board of appeals.
Regarding Taylor’s deci
sion to appoint Perry, Kieffer
added: “It was not my
appointment to make, and I
deferred to the wishes of the
commissioner for District 5.”
Kieffer said if the county
had not reached a settlement
with Perry and the property
owners over the rezoning law
suit, it could have “cost the
county quite a bit of money.”
But District 2 Commissioner
David “A.J.” Pritchett, who
was unable to attend the board
meeting where the appoint
ment was made, said in an
interview that he has concerns
about the appointment of
Perry to a county board that
has such an immense respon
sibility in terms of land use
and related rezonings.
“I would think given the
history of this man and his
prior dealings with the county
that this shows a lack of
judgment that he has been
appointed to the planning
commission,” Pritchett said
Friday.
“I think the voters showed
clearly in the last election that
they don’t want the develop
ment community running the
regulatory processes that
affect how our county will
grow in the future.”
Two phone messages left
for Taylor were not returned as
of press time on Friday night.
in Cumming. The company
plans to have representatives
available to answer questions
and to respond to concerns
raised by the public.
endorsements appeared to do little, or
nothing, for most of the other candidates
it recommended.
Indeed, in the only other PSC race last
week, the Democratic incumbent in
District 1, Earleen Sizemore of Sylvester
was roundly defeated.
Sizemore, the first female member of
the PSC, had been appointed to the seat
in June by the governor.
In the election. Republican challenger
H. Doug Everett of Albany received
94,881 more votes than she did.
Everett is a current member of the
Georgia House of Representatives.
Sizemore, a former school superintend
ent, had been a long-term member of the
House.
The new commissioners will take their
seats on the PSC in January.
When that happens, the five-member
panel will have a political makeup of four
Republicans and one Democrat.
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distributor
By Steven H. Pollak
Staff Writer
A six-week investigation by
narcotics agents at the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Office result
ed in a seizure of suspected
marijuana, prescription pills
and Psilocybin, a hallucino
genic drug also known as
“magic mushrooms.”
Investigators arrested
Nicholas Lilley, 21, of
Alpharetta, and charged him
with possession with intent to
distribute marijuana,
Psilocybin, Risperol and
Amtripryline.
Investigators searched
Lilley's home on Tidwell Road
and took him into custody
without incident.
According to Capt. Ron
Freeman, head of the criminal
investigations division of the
sheriff’s office, narcotics
agents found a little over one
pound of marijuana, about an
ounce of mushrooms, more
than 100 prescription pills and
$3,894 in cash.
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For the people
These are public meet*
Ings of local Interest
scheduled this week:
Monday, Nov. 18
• Library Board: 5:30
p.m. at the Cumming
Public Library, 585
Dahlonega Hwy.
Tuesday, Nov. 19
• U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, open meeting
about draft Environmental
Impact Statement for
Lake Lanier, from 3-9 p.m.
at the Continuing
Education Center at
Gainesville College in
Oakwood.
• Cumming Planning
Commission, regular
monthly meeting, 5:30
p.m. in the council cham
bers of the new City Hall,
100 Main St.
• Cumming City
Council, regular monthly
meeting, 7:30 p.m. in
council chambers of new
City Hall, 100 Main St.
• Forsyth County
Planning Commission,
6:30 p.m. work session
to discuss land-use
applications that will be
the subject of Nov. 26
public hearings, in the
planning and pevelop
ment department confer
ence room on the first
floor of the County
Administration Building,
110 East Main St. in
Cumming.
Thursday, Nov. 21
• Forsyth County
Board of Education, 6
p.m. regular meeting,
auditorium of the central
administration building
on Dahlonega Hwy. north
of Cumming.
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about future public meet
ings to be noted in the
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