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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Friday. March 2«, 2004
HOUSE from 1A
trict includes the southern por
tion of the county and extends
to the county line. Knox’s new
district is the only House seat
which would include only vot
ers from Forsyth.
A third house district, the
9th. includes
approximately
13,0 0 0
Forsyth resi
dents in the
northeast cor
ner of the
county. State
66
/ am pleased for
the voters of Forsyth
County.
99
Rep. Amos
Amerson, (R-Dahlonega).
presently represents the dis
trict. which also includes most
of Lumpkin County and a por
tion of Dawson.
The first maps were drawn
by a special master appointed
by the court, after the present
districts were declared invalid
by the court. The decision
found that the districts, as
redrawn by the then-Democrat
controlled legislature, favored
Democrats and placed many
Republican lawmakers in
Deaths
Katie Lou Collett
Mrs. Katie Lou Collett. 83,
of Alpharetta died Wednesday.
March 24. 2004. She was pre
ceded in death by her husband.
Bill Collett: sons, Charles
Junior Collett. Byron Collett.
Jimmy Collett
Survivors include her
daughter and son-in-law. Sara
and Donald Kirby of
Cumming: son and daughter
in-law, Larry and Linda
Collett of Alpharetta; nine
grandchildren; 12 great-grand
children; sisters-in-law. Evelyn
Rogers, Minnie Lee Rogers.
Era Collett, all of Alpharetta:
nieces and nephews also sur
vive.
Funeral services will be
Friday, March 26. at 2 p.m. at
the Hopewell Baptist Church
with the Revs. Alan Sutton and
Ronnie Powell officiating.
Burial will follow in the
church cemetery.
Louie E. Jones Funeral
Home in Alpharetta is in
charge of the arrangements.
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multi-member districts, such
as the present territory of
Murphy and Knox.
The first drawings, which
were released last week, did
not consider any of the incum
bents and placed 66 members
of the House
and 21 mem
bers of the
Senate into the
same district.
Both
Republicans
and
Democrats
reacted angrily, saying that
only minor changes would
reduce the number of incum
bents required to face off.
After saying that incum
bency would be only a minor
consideration. Judge Stanley
Marcus agreed to consider the
matter. A first revision which
was revealed earlier this week
reduced the pairings from 87
to 48. and the second revision
released Wednesday takes
that down even further, to
around 40.
George Grossenbacher
Mr. George Grossenbacher.
85. of Big Canoe died March
23, 2004. A
native of San
Antonio. Texas,
Mr. Grossen
bacher was a
VETERAX
World War II veteran of the
U.S. Army, serving in the
Philippines. A furrier by pro
fession. he was owner of Mr.
George Furs and an avid
square dancer.
Survivors include his wife.
Marilyn Grossenbacher of Big
Canoe; daughters. Charlotte
Elkins of Big Canoe, Jean
Brown of North Augusta. S.C.,
Robhye Miller of Canton; sis
ter. Sarah DeMasters of
Wimberley. Texas; nine
grandchildren; 13 great-grand
children.
Private memorial services
will be at a later date. In lieu
of flowers, contributions may
be made to Haven House
Hospice. 5411 Northland Dr.,
Atlanta. GA 30342.
McDonald and Son Funeral
Home and Crematory in
Cumming is in charge of the
arrangements.
Forsvth Counts News
March 26. 2004
TEACHER from 1A
on teaching children, “Tell
me. I forget. Show me, 1
remember. Involve me, 1
understand,” which explains
why the teacher does so much
for the students, said Page.
. “It just should say a lot
that parents, students and even
her peers believed in her
enough to chose her as
teacher of the year,” said
Page.
Page is not the only parent
upset about the teacher's con
tract. A group of parents have
developed a Web site where
they are encouraging others to
make comments about the
administration of the school.
The Web site address is
TRAFFIC from A
and said. ‘My kid almost got
hit by a car,”’ Taylor said.
Peak traffic times are 7-9
a.m. and 4-6 p.m.. Spring Slow
Down coordinator Kelly
Godfrey said. Afternoon traffic
is actually faster and drivers run
more signs, her husband John
Godfrey said. However, morn
ing traffic is more dangerous
because children are outside
waiting for school buses.
Aberdeen residents com
plain that drivers do not stop for
loading school buses. School
officials acknowledged that this
is a problem all over the county.
"It is critical that the public
help us to keep our students
safe by respecting the ‘Stop’
sign on a school bus and obey
ing all applicable laws while a
school bus driver is loading or
unloading students,” school
transportation director Garry
Puetz said.
With the permission of the
county engineering department,
residents posted custom yellow
signs on light poles on
Westminster that represent the
voices of neighborhood chil
dren: "Dear Driver. Please
watch for me. I don’t always
see you. Thanks. Susie."
Other signs ward away driv
ers at the entrance to the subdi
vision off Old Atlanta, such as
"Speeders beware," “No thru
trucks" and "Speed Limit 25
mph.”
“There are still mixed
results as to whether numerous
signage will really have an
effect on driver behavior." Allen
said.
"If they do get one person’s
attention...then they’re worth
www.nationalbookswap.com/
schools/.
The Web site contains a
survey for parents to complete
and asks questions about
teacher morale, comparisons
to other schools and changes
that parents would like to see
made at the school.
Information completed on
the Web site will be shared
with school officials but con
fidentiality would be kept on
the survey’s contributors,
according to the Web site
organizers
When asked about the Web
site and the publicity about
her contract, Reynolds said
she could not make any com-
it,” he added.
The neighborhood also has
speed humps to deter speeding.
Resident Robert Cairns said the
community chose not to put
crosswalks at each stop sign.
Studies show that crosswalks
create a false sense of safety, he
said.
"If we put crosswalks here it
actually increases the likelihood
that someone will be hit,”
Cairns said. "People feel safe
on a crosswalk."
The only proven way to
reduce safety risk on
Westminster Lane is to reduce
traffic, and the county is work
ing on that.
“The best solution as far as
reducing the traffic flow in that
area is going to be the comple
tion and extension of
Windermere Parkway lining up
with Three Chimneys Parkway
from Hwy. 20 to Hwy. 141,"
Allen said.
He estimates that traffic vol
ume w ill be cut in half once the
parkway is completed in late
2005 or early 2006.
Construction is slated to begin
this summer.
Windermere Parkway will
provide an alternate, and mostly
four-lane, connector for Hwy.
20 and Hwy. 141.
How ever, residents of Three
Chimneys subdivision have
conducted highly visible
protests recently asking the
county not to widen
Windermere Parkway.
Some also are asking the
county not to complete the road
because they expect increased
traffic if a four-lane road is
built.
ment officially because of
school policy.
School officials said they
were not going to be reactive
to the survey by a portion of
the parents, but have a policy
in place to randomly survey
parents and teachers at vari
ous schools.
"At the July 17, 2003
meeting of the Board of
Education, they approved a
new communications program
called 360 Feedback. This
organized program of feed
back will provide Forsyth
County Schools with impor
tant information to determine
future growth and develop
ment by working with all
BUS from 1A
The buses will transport pas
sengers to the North Springs
MARTA station near
Interstate 285 in Sandy
Springs.
“We’re just going to run
the a.m. and p.m. rush hours,”
Mecke said. "Obviously, we
will tweak operations as we
get feedback and experience."
“There will be more serv
ice throughout the day starting
in the third phase a couple of
years from now," Mecke said.
Incident reports
Editor's note: The following
items were taken from reports
on file with the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office.
• Mailbox theft: Two
checks were stolen from a mail
box in Bridle Ridge subdivision
in Suwanee on Feb. 1, an inci
dent report stated. The thief
made copies of the checks and
attempted to cash them at sever
al locations. Several thousands
of dollars were taken between
Feb. 1 and March 22.
HAPPY 50 th BIRTHDAY TO
BARBARA E. NOON
Happy Birthday to you.
You’re 50? 800 hoo!
Half century, dear Barbara,
Say goodbye to your youth!
Love,
The Noon Family
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stakeholders, students, par
ents, staff and tax payers,
through formal (face-to-face
meetings) and informal
(online and hardcopy surveys)
methods of communication.
An important component of
the program is a series of sur
veys," said Caracciolo.
The school system
launched the survey program
in the spring of 2003. Sharon
Elementary is one of the
schools that has been random
ly selected to complete the
survey. Caracciolo said.
Sharon Elementary School
PTA president Sue Flaim also
declined to comment on the
situation.
He estimated fares will be
around $3. However, MARTA
executives and GRTA staff
have not yet finalized an
agreement that will help deter
mine the prices to use the
transit system.
"We’re finalizing that,”
Mecke said. “A single fare
will be around $3.”
"There will be various dis
count passes." he said, adding
the costs should be known by
the end of April.
• Car burglarized: A set of
speakers was stolen from a
Honda Civic in the parking lot
of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints on Brannon
Road on Monday afternoon.
The driver's side window was
smashed.
A student leaving the park
ing lot reported seeing a male in
his mid 20s leave with the
speakers in his pickup truck
The speakers were valued at
S6OO.