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, FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS —Thursday, November 21,2002
Deaths
Edmond Thomas Shelby
Mr. Edmond Thomas
Shelby, 80, died Tuesday, Nov.
19, 2002.
Mr. Shelby retired from
Avco/Lycoming after more
than 30 years of service. He
was General Supervisor of
Experimental Production and
involved in the early develop
ment of the Sikorsky
Helicopter. He was a World
War II veteran and loved to
play his clarinet.
Survivors include wife,
Lotta Shelby of Cumming;
three children, Linda Fredo of
Roswell, Gloria Shelby of
Southbury, Conn., Gail
McCorry of Alpharetta; broth
er, Robert Shelby of Del Ray
Beach, Fla; three grandchil
dren, Mark Fredo of Chicago,
Jill Kibler and Kaitlin
McCorry, both of Alpharetta.
Funeral services are Friday,
Nov. 22, at 11 a.m. at L.W.
McDonald & Son Funeral
Home with Father Willie
Hickey officiating. Interment
will be at Arlington Memorial
Park in Sandy Springs.
In lieu of flowers, the fami
ly requests contributions to the
American Cancer Society or
CuFnming Baptist Church.
L.W. McDonald & Son
Funeral Home is in charge of
the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
November 21, 2002
Harold E. Hamilton
Harold E. Hamilton, 76, of
Madison, Ind., died Nov. 18,
2002. Mr. Hamilton lived in
Gainesville before moving to
Madison in September. He was
a retired truck driver having
owned and operated B&H
Trucking Company in
Gainesville. Mr. Hamilton was
a member of the Switzerland
Lodge #122 F&A.M. and a
veteran in the U.S. Navy dur
ing WWII. Mr. Hamilton was
preceded in death by his father,
Less Hamilton; and brother,
Kenneth L. Hamilton.
Funeral services will be
Thursday, Nov. 21, at 1 p.m. at
the Vail-Holt Funeral Home
Madison Chapel with Rev.
John Russell officiating.
Interment will follow in the
Canaan Cemetery. Masonic
memorial service was
Wednesday, Nov. 20, and mili
tary graveside service will be
conducted by the Honor Guard
of the American Post No. 9.
Survivors include his
daughters, Eugenia (Jeannie)
Barron of Gainesville, Diana
Kay Turner of Madison, Ind.,
Sharon Maiden and husband
Ed of Scipio. Ind., Melissa
Burnette and husband Greg of
Dupont, Ind.; mother, Ruth
Etherton Hamilton Stone of
Cumming; half sisters, Patsy
Gross of Versailles, Ind.,
Brenda Pipes of Georgetown,
Ind.; grandchildren, Steven
Barron, Michael Barron, Allen
Fox, Stacey Withers, Patricia
Baker, Dustin Payne, Angela
Marie Hamilton, Jack
Slovenski; great-grandchil
dren, Devin Barron, Hunter
Barron, Morgan Haase, Billy
Baker; several nieces and
nephews also survive.
Vail-Holt Funeral Home is
in charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
November 21, 2002
Public session rescheduled
From staff reports
A three-hour session by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
to gather public input about
the draft Environmental
Impact Study for Lake Lanier
has been rescheduled.
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mayor, who recommended the action
during the council’s first meeting in
the new City Hall since it opened for
business.
“My recommendation to the coun
cil is we deny and not accept the 15
percent the county has proposed to us,”
Gravitt said in calling for the higher
figure.
He said the city’s leadership, in
investing in the necessary water and
sewer infrastructure not only for the
city but also for about a third of the
county, is “primarily responsible” for
the 400-percent growth in the county’s
tax digest in a decade.
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inspections of individual store
sites Dec. 3-4, but Treuhaft
said the large number of sites
means the stores will only be
open about one hour for that
purpose.
Prospective buyers also
may obtain color sales
brochures and other detailed
information about stores by
either calling NREC at 1 (877)
554-9584 or via the compa
ny’s Web site at
www.nrcßid.com/207.
NREC specializes in these
types of disbursements and
has handled the sale of more
than 8,000 properties in the
United States since the com
pany was founded in 1989,
Treuhaft said.
Swifty Serve stores operat
ed nationwide under the brand
names, Country Cupboard, EZ
instead, will have staff avail
able to provide information
and to take comments from 8
a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday,
Nov. 25, at the Gainesville
College Continuing Education
Center in Oakwood, located in
Hall County.
today is $5 billion, Gravitt said.
“That’s enabled a lot of commerce,
a lot of business, a lot of residential
development to come into the county,”
he said.
The county government alone
enjoys the benefit of the rising proper
ty tax revenues generated by the
digest, the mayor said.
The city government does not levy
a property tax. Its operational budget
and capital budget are funded only
through commercial taxes.
Revenues from the Local Option
Sales Tax go into the general fund for
operations and maintenance of both
local governments. The Special
Purpose Local Option Sales Tax rev-
Serve, Swifty Mart, Crown,
Pepco, Dixie, Town Star and
Camp.
On Oct. 3, the corporation
filed for Chapter 11 bankrupt
cy protection in the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of North
Carolina.
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Mr Leonard H. Workman
March 28, 2002
Mr. Leonard H. Workman, Age 73 died
Thursday, March 28, 2002 at his residence in Dacula.
Mr. Workman was a member of Galilean Baptist Church
Survivors Include:
Children: Harold and Pat Workman, Cumming; Winona
and Louis Chabarria, Buford; Joni and Jim Marino,
Alpharetta; Dotti Blanton, Cumming
Grandchildren: John Workman, Cumming; Angie,
Melissa and Mike Lee, Jackie Kloss, Louis and Kaleb
Chabarria, All of Buford; Lauren Lee, Alpharetta;
James and Stephen Marino, Alpharetta; Ashley,
Robert and Christopher Blanton, Jordan Workman,
All of Cumming; Michael Workman, Breckinridge;
Jennifer Workman Clegg and Scott Clegg, Athens
Great Grandchildren: Caitlyn, Chloe, and Cieara Clegg,
Athens
Niece: Juanita Jo Dennis, Smyrna;
Great Niece: Donna Jean Seifter, Vinings
And other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 2PM
Ingram Funeral Home Chapel
Rev. Tolbert Moore
Interment Sawnee View Gardens
Ingram Funeral Home, Cumming
enues are targeted to specific capital
projects.
The city government has used its
SPLOST funds to widen and improve
roads within the city and to build parks
and recreation facilities used predomi
nantly by county residents, Gravitt
said.
The city also has its own police
force, street department, and parks
department, enabling the city to pro
vide for its own needs and those of its
residents and businesses without hav
ing to use county funds, he said.
“All these services sewer, water,
sanitary service pickup the city pro
vides all these services at no cost to
anyone.”
Swifty Serve, based in
Durham, has now ceased to
exist.
Several stores in Forsyth
County and Dawsonville
closed prior to the bankruptcy
filing, and the remainder were
closed Oct. 4. About 80 local
workers lost their jobs.
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Former Chief Financial
Officer Mark King in an inter
view shortly after the bank
ruptcy filing said the company
could no longer profitably
operate the stores and did not
have the money to make
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Crash
Charges are pending against a
young Cleveland driver who
allegedly ran a red light in
downtown Cumming on Nov. 14!
and caused a three-vehicle
wreck. According to the
Georgia State Patrol, a 1998
Ford Ranger driven by Lisa ;
Appleby, 21, of Cleveland failed ;
to stop at the traffic light at
Hwy. 9 and Maple Street. A
1998 Jeep Cherokee that was j
traveling on Hwy. 9 hit the
Ranger, which turned over onto ;
its top. The Jeep then struck a ;
2001 Chevy Silverado. The only :
visible injury was to Appleby,
who was transported to an area
hospital. Photo/Audra Perry ;
Future SPLOST projects include
improvements to Hwy. 9, which has
been two lanes since it was built more
than 70 years ago, Pilgrim Mill Road,
Mary Alice Park Road and Buford
Dam Road, Gravitt said.
He said the city deserves more of
the sales tax revenues that it helps gen
erate and the status quo suggested by
county officials “is not acceptable.”
With the council’s vote, the issue is
back in the county board’s court.
If an agreement by the two jurisdic ?
tions is not reached by the end of next
month, neither will be able to collect
local sales taxes.
At stake is about S4O million in
combined revenues per year.
Licensed to
practice
Superior Court
Judge Stan Gault
swears in Yeline
Goin, a new attor
ney at the law firm
of Morris, Manning ;
& Martin. Goin, a
1991 Florida State I
University graduate,
practiced law in
Florida for 10 years.
She passed the
Georgia Bar in July. ;
improvements necessary to
ensure future profitability.
King said low margins on
profits from gasoline sales in
north Georgia was another
contributing factor in this par
ticular market.