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U.S. Rep. John Linder talks to students the Cumming Kiwanis Club honored for academic achievement during its
annual STAR student ceremony at Windermere Golf and Country Club Monday night.
Cumming Kiwanis Club honors four
By Nicole Green
Staff Writer
Four high school seniors from Forsyth
County's three high schools were honored
Monday night by the Cumming Kiwanis
Club for outstanding academic achieve
ment.
The Student Teacher Achievement
Recognition Program (STAR) commends
the student in each senior class who
scores the highest on the Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT).
Chris Bruce of South Forsyth High
School was the overall winner with a
score of 1570 on the SAT.
Paul Dixon was the STAR student
from Forsyth Central High School. Two
young ladies from North Forsyth High
School, Katie Lynch and Mary Alldred,
tied for the STAR student award.
Dixon plans to attend the Georgia
Institute of Technology in the fall and
Pilot plans purchase,
renovation of airport
Subdivision set for same site withdrawn
By Todd Truelove
Staff Writer
Pilot Joe Voyles plans to purchase
L.G. Mathis Airport in south Forsyth
and upgrade the facility to allow
twice the amount of planes that are
housed there.
“We're really excited about put
ting a little flight park in there,”
Voyles said Monday.
Until recently, a development
group had targeted the 15 acres of
land for a residential subdivision
along with adjoining parcels.
However, the developers decided
against building the project and last
week withdrew a rezoning request
they had submitted to the county
government.
Voyles said he had received an
official notice from Focus
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major in physics. The
other three students
plan to attend college
after graduation but
have not decided on a
school.
These students are
not just good test tak
ers. Each one excels
academically and
stands out as the best of
the senior class, a coun
ty school official said.
“The SAT is a trail
ing indicator. It is at the
end of your high school
career, but it is an indi
cator of what you've
done the last four
years,” Associate
Superintendent Ellen
Cohan said Monday
Development Co. Saturday stating
they had withdrawn from the project.
“We received their termination
letter, and they are officially out of
it,” Voyles said. "Our contract is offi
cially in first place now."
"We're going to make it into a
private country club air park.” he
said.
Voyles, a home builder from
Berkeley Lake, has been Hying as a
hobby for a year and a half. He
learned the skill at the local airport.
“If you can land there, you can
land anywhere." he said of the run
way. “Currently, it is a real chal
lenge. It just hasn’t been paved in
forever.”
The renovation work will include
repaving the runway and building
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Results of the election
will not be available until
our next edition, which will
be available beginning
Wednesday afternoon. We
apologize for any inconven
ience.
night at a recognition
dinner at the
Windermere Golf and
Country Club.
U.S. Rep. John
Linder. R-Duluth,
made an appearance to
salute the students and
teachers for their out
standing achievements.
He offered a few words
of advice for the stu
dents before he trav
eled back to
Washington. D.C.
“I hope that whatev
er you choose to do.
you choose because
you like it. And what
ever you choose, you
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Photo/Audra Perry
A single-engine plane takes off from Mathis Airport in south Forsyth Monday. A Berkeley Lake home
builder plans to purchase and renovate the private airport after a developer withdrew a proposal for a
subdivision on the 15-acre site last weekend
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Flag choice
could be
moot point
Vote doesn’t bind lawmakers
By Todd Truelove
Staff Writer
Despite voters' state flag preference, the
Legislature may not readdress the issue, some
lawmakers imply.
Though the results of Tuesday’s election were
not available by press lime, the voters' flag choice
does not legally bind the legislators to change the
flag back to former Gov. Roy
Barnes’ blue one even if
more than half of the voters
choose it over the red and
white one now flying above
governmental facilities
throughout Georgia.
State Rep. Jack Murphy,
R-Cumming. said he sup
ports the red and white flag
the General Assembly
approved in 2003.
"h’s time we put the flag issue to be," Murphy
said Monday.
“My gut feeling is I don't think [the
Legislature] would change it. 1 just don't think
we'd go<back to the blue flag."
"I want to stay with the current flag that we
have," he said, adding he was raised under the old
"stars-and-bars” flag that Barnes convinced law
makers to cast aside.
While that flag needs to be honored. Murphy
said it's time to move forward.
"The only flag that we need to be concerned
with is the flag that ... all Americans were born
under and will die under, and that's the American
flag." Murphy said.
While senators Dan Moody. R-Alpharetta. and
Renee Unterman, R-Loganville, did not deny leg
islators may readdress the flag issue, neither did
they affirm it would be readdressed if voters pre
fer the blue flag.
Unterman said she was “unsure" if the issue
would come back before the General Assembly
She and Moody also said Monday they hoped
for a big turnout during the election.
“We're encouraging people to go vote."
Unterman said.
Moody said the turnout will probably be a
focal point for senators to determine if the state
flag choice needs to be examined again.
"A lot will depend on what the actual turnout
is and the results of the election." Moody said.
"The debate that took place on the flag was
extensive, and the flag that’s flying over the
Capitol today is one that I think represents a lot of
the heritage of the state." he said.
"[lt] is a far better flag than the other [blue]
flag in terms of its appearance."
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