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nOTVVTh O1 X JF ■ Lb X/ 111 W. k X >1 II II ****************** 3-DIGIT 30G O' y WJL JL 1 I Georgia newspaper project J Your "Hometown Paper" Since 1908 S^P' T T»° R . GEORGia " aiN LIBR Vol. 95, No. 64 Search widens for missing beautician Police want to question a man fitting this description. R R ML / — — TMr l Photo/David McGregor North Forsyth High School junior John Martin comforts sophomore Carla Smith during a candlelight vigil at Coal Mountain Baptist Church Monday night for missing hairstylist Patrice Endres. Second annual Taste of Forsyth proves popular By Adlen W. Robinson For the Forsyth County News The success of the second annual Taste of Forsyth Sunday at the Cumming Fairgrounds could only be described as astounding. The event featured dozens of restaurants from around the county, each offering “tastes'' in exchange for a designated number of tickets. All proceeds benefited Family Haven. Forsyth County’s only shelter for women who are victims of domestic violence. After last year's tremendous suc cess raising close to SIO,OOO did Family Haven expect the thou sands who continuously filed onto the fairgrounds and eagerly sampled what the restaurants had to offer? Lee Ann Baumann, executive direc tor of Family Haven, said, "Not in my wildest dreams did I Missed paper policy: For a replacement paper, call 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. -1 p.m. on Sunday - (770) M 7-3126. ’ ■I WEDNESDAY April 21,2004 Officials have released two photos of Patrice Endres think we would have this kind of turnout.” Those who attended the event not only enjoyed fabulous food from some of the county’s most popular restaurants, they also enjoyed live music from a variety of local school and civic organizations. Organizers also remembered the event’s smallest attendees. Two large moonwalks provided children with an energy outlet; a wide array of tasty treats like cotton candy, snow cones, popcorn and candy kept little faces smiling and sticky. Baumann emphasized how thrilled she was to have the commu nity’s support for Family Haven and its mission. “Most people do not real ize how domestic violence affects all of society.” said Baumann. In fact, in the United States, a See TASTE, Page 3A INDEX Abby 3B Classifieds. 118 Deaths 2A Events 8A Horoscope 3B Opinion 10A Sports .1B Local Forsyth County Schools appoints new associate superintendent Page4A By Nicole Green Staff Writer Friends of a missing north Forsyth beautician prayed for her safe return Monday night as law enforcement officials discovered new evidence which they believe may lead them to her abductor. Officials have spent the last three days investigating numerous reports of suspicious vehicles on the roads while using four-wheelers to look through forests and pastures in a multi-county search. Patrice Tamber Endres, 38, dis appeared from Tamber’s Trim-N- Tan on Matt Highway (Hwy. 369) in north Forsyth the morning of Thursday. April 15. She was last seen at 11:35 a.m. by a customer. When a woman scheduled for a noon haircut arrived, the salon and cash register were empty. Endres left behind her purse. Her vehicle remained in the parking lot. In the newest development in the investigation, officers recovered fin gerprints from the door of Endres’ sport utiility vehicle. Hopefully, the prints will 4um out to be one of the few physical clues left by Endres' abductor. “The prints y.ere not of sufficient quality that we could process them here," said Forsyth County Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Frank Huggins. The prints were turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be identified, Huggins said Tuesday. At present, investigators have only one other lead in the search for a suspect. A witness told sheriff’s investigators she saw a white cargo van blocking the entrance to Tamber’s Trim-N-Tan just before noon on Thursday. The 1999 to 2004 model Chevrolet/GMC cargo van was parked with the passenger side facing the building. The dri ver’s side of the van reportedly had no windows, investigators reported. "At that point she observed a white male walking around the van as if to enter the driver’s side," Sheriff Ted Paxton said in a press release. "She said she and the male subject observed glances." The witness described a white male in his late 30s to early 40s, about 6 feet tall and weighing 180 See ENDRES, Page 2A Photo/Harris Blackwood Wylie McDonald gets his first Taste of Forsyth during the annual food event. He is the 20- month-old son of Lauren and Claire McDonald of Cumming. Former 'ldol' finalist sings . 1 I / 1 R -Tl BBHBHBR- I Photo/Harris Blackwood Former “American Idol” finalist R.J. Helton was the featured vocalist during the Sunday morning worship services at North Lanier Baptist Church. A crew from ABC’s “Primetime Thursday” taped the performance for a segment that is scheduled to air in May on the “Idol" program’s formei* winners. CRCT makeup set for July in Forsyth Summer school suggested for those who fail By Nancy Smallwood Associate Editor Third-graders failing the reading part of the Criterion Reference Competency Test (CRCT) will have a second chance to take the exam in Forsyth County on July 1. Melinda Ness of Forsyth County Schools said third-graders not pass ing the test as required by a new state law would be encouraged to attend summer school in Forsyth and then be given a second opportunity to take the test. Summer school is free for children in elementary and mid dle schools but is not required, Ness said. "We strongly encourage students to attend but we cannot force them." said Ness. Parents often have transportation issues during the summer that pre vent their child from attending sum mer school. Forsyth provides trans portation from selected school sites to the summer school location but does not offer individual pickup of students. Opinion Columnist Bill Shipp shares his perspective of Geoigia politics. Page IDA 50 Cents County extends ban against planned unity conditional requests By ToddTrueldve Staff Writer The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners Monday unanimously extended a ban against new requests for Planned Unit Developments (PUD) and Conditional Use Permits (CUP) until May 18. The ban was set to expire May I. County planning staff are deleting each of the zoning categories from the county code in anticipation of a new mixed use zoning category that is being written and should be added to (he Unified Development Code (UDC) later this year. PUDs and CUPs generally allow property to be used for a mixture of commercial and residential purposes. The board had planned to discuss and possibly approve revisions to the UDC Monday that included deleting the PUD and CUP requests. However, those discussions were unanimously postponed until the board’s May 17 public hearings. County staff have said that developers interested See COMMISSION, Page 2A Partly Cloudy High in the low 80s. Low in the mid-50s. I SPORTS, 1B North’s Basler takes the plunge Educators are expecting a two week turnaround time for CRCT test results to be returned to the county. "The results should arrive in plen ty of time for those third-graders to be identified." said Ness. The action stems from a recently approved state law. which went into effect April 12, requiring all third graders in Georgia to pass a stan dardized test before they can be pro moted to the fourth grade. However, educators throughout the state still have plenty of unan swered questions in regards to the law. Funding of transition classes and extended learning has yet to be dis closed. according to Forsyth County Superintendent Paula Gault. Forsyth already has in place an electronic tracking system to allow educators access to a performance review of every student something the new law is just now requiring, according to Ness. See MAKEUP, Page 2A LAKE LANIER LOHS Date Level April 16 1070.26 ft April 17 1070.28 ft April 18 1070.29 ft April 19 1070.30 ft Full 1071.00 ft