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PAGE 2A FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Wednesday, April 21,2004 Deaths Robert L. Daniel Mr. Robert L. Daniel, 60, of Cumming died Saturday, April 17. 2004. Mr. Daniel, a native and lifelong resident of Forsyth County, was a former employee of Forsyth County Hospital. Survivors include wife, Ann Daniel of Cumming; chil dren, Patricia Daniel, Denise and Johnny Samples, Lee Daniel, all of Cumming; grandchildren. Chloe Daniel. Haley Samples; mothef-in-law, Estelle Coker of Cumming; a large number of other rela tives also survive. Graveside services were Monday, April 19. at Sawnee View Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Johnny Pugh officiat ing. Ingram Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Forsyth County News April 21. 2004 Wanda Day Ms. Wanda Day. 41, of Alpharetta died Friday, April 16. 2004. Survivors include son and daughter-in-law. Stephen and Heather Day of Cumming; mother and father. Lois and Emmett Wade of Alpharetta; sister and brother-in-law. Law Lorrie and Danny Sarker of Helen; grandchildren. Moriah and Nate Day of Cumming; niece. Samara Sarker of Helen; several cousins, aunts and uncles also survive. Funeral services were Tuesday. April 20, at the funeral home chapel. Louie E. Jones Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Forsyth County News April 21. 1004 Charles Matas Martin Mr Charles Matas "Buck’’ Martin. 72. of Cumming died Saturday. April 17. 2004. Mr. Martin retired from Lockheed after 30 years of service. He was a master bar ber and w orked with-his dad. Buell, at his barber shop for many years. He was a member of Coal Mountain Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by parents, Buell and Edith Cain Martin, sister, Laura Edna Martin; two broth ers. George Washington "Gid" Martin, and Earl W. Martin. Survivors include wife. Zeliah Samples Martin of Cumming; daughters and sons-in-law. Phyllis Jane and Terry Bissette. Cindy Martin. Stephanie Lynn and Todd McCord, all of Cumming; grandchildren. Chloe. Lindsey and Riley McCord, all of Cumming. Christopher Bissette; former wife and mother of his three daughters, Doris Smith; sisters and broth er-in-law, Mary Alice Thomas. Diane and Johnny Gravitt, all of Cumming; brothers and sis ters-in-law. Robert and Shirley Martin. Donald and Vivian Martin. Mary Ruth Martin, all of Cumming; father and moth er-in-law. Luther and Thelma Samples of Cumming; broth ers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Robert and Shirley Martin. Donald and Vivian Martin, Mary Ruth Martin, all of Cumming; father and mother in-law. Luther and Thelma Samples of Cumming; brother in-law and sister-in-law, Adrian and Roberta Samples of Alpharetta; a number of other relatives also survive. Funeral services were Tuesday, April 20. at Coal Mountain Baptist Church with the Revs. Danny Bennett, Gary Coffey. Pete Martin, and Phil Christopher officiating. In lieu of flowers, you may make donations to the Coal Mountain Baptist Church Building Fund, c/o David Smith, Treasurer, 5803 Burruss Road, Cumming, GA 3004 Ingram Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Forsyth County News April 21. 2004 A community service of Forsyth County News James Albert Ward Mr. Albert Ward, 70, of Madison died Saturday, April 17, 2004. Mr. Ward was born on Banks County and was the son of the late Glenn Ward and Lonnie Gowder Ward Mr. Ward has resided in Madison for the past 22 years and is retired form Complete Auto Transit in Doraville where he worked for 37 years. Survivors include his wife, Margie Ward of Madison; children, Linda Holcombe of McDonough, Nancy Butler of Dawsonville. Kathy Pruitt of Otto, N.C., Julie Phillips and Sonny Wood, both of Rutledge; brothers and sisters. Ernest Ward, Mildred Hilsman, Glenn Ward, all of Madison, Rufus Ward of Eatonton. Otis Ward of Mt. Airy and Elizabeth Turner of Lula; grandchildren, Greg Butler, Leanne Holcome, James Robert Pruitt, Steven Paul Pruitt, Sarah Wood, rebekah Wood and Kristy Wood; two great grandchil dren; and a number of nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services were Tuesday. April 20, at Brownwood Baptist Church. Interment was in Brownwood Baptist Church Cemetery. A. E. Carter Funeral Home was in charge of the arrange ments. Forsyth Counts News April 21. 2004 MAKEUP from 1A In other school board business from its monthly meeting last week: • A new policy limiting overnight school field trips is being considered by board members. The policy would make school principals responsible for approving their own school's field trips. The trips would also be sub ject to final approval by the school superintendent. Elementary schools would be prohibited from participat ing in overnight field trips according to the new policy. However, exceptions could be made on a case by case basis, said Ellen Cohan, asso ciate superintendent of teach ing and learning. Middle school students will not be allowed to exceed one overnight field trip per school or grade level with the exception of participation in competitions, performances and leadership opportunities. High school students will be limited to overnight field trips to participate in compe titions, performances and leadership opportunities. • Board members ap proved a three-step plan to improve student behavior on the school bus. Transportation Director Garry Puetz presented a writ ten policy which will assist bus drivers in achieving appropriate behavior on the school bus. The three-step process involves prevention, intervention and conse quences. The prevention step will include bus drivers learning the names of each student and stop locations on routes, in addition to reading the bus rules to students the first day of school and repeated reading of the rules on a monthly basis. The intervention step will be used by the bus drivers if a student has committed a minor offense that is inappro priate or unsafe student behavior. The driver will doc ument the incident in a daily t Cumming A First 1 1 United Methodist I ■ Church I ■ Welcomes You! MS SUNDAY MORNINGS: jjRSc Services R4O 4 10:50 AM in Our Sanctuary 9 AM Lake Service al Bald Rtdgc Chapel ■■ I Coffee and 915 AM Church School 9:45 AM CkM Can rr..i4«l r.wepl Ukt Sarvk. r aWb “ v j,,mn >- GiWIFJi? llvl/ull >nformst7o O n r . C csll ENDRES from 1A pounds. The man was wearing a dark gray jersey-style jack et, loose-fitting pants and a camouflage baseball cap that covered his long brown hair, according to a sheriff’s office report. The shaken, but hopeful, community gathered Monday night on the steps of Coal Mountain Baptist Church in north Forsyth for a prayer vigil. At least 150 people wearing yellow ribbons and holding candles prayed for the safe return of Endres and sang "Amazing Grace." The crowd was comprised primarily of family members, friends of Endres and her son, Pistol Black. While investigators hunt the man who may hold the answer to the question of Endres’ dis appearance, public safety per sonnel and civilian volunteers spread over Cherokee, Dawson and Forsyth counties in a ground search for Endres. Officials targeted Dawson $5,000 reward offered The Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward for informa tion leading to the whereabouts of Patrice Tamber Endres. The foundation was established in 1999 to assist in the location of missing persons. A fund also has been established for Endres' son. Donations cart be made at Regions Bank in care of Bonnie Welchel. Please call the sheriff’s office at (770) 781-2222 with any information about Endres' disappearance. logbook, remind the student the bus rule is not being fol lowed, reassign the student’s assigned seat, talk individual ly with the student and their parent or guardian and notify the parent or guardian in writ ing of the offense. The consequences phase of the policy will be imple mented when a student’s behavior escalates beyond a driver's control or has not improved after using the intervention steps. The first step of the consequence phase w ill be the driver submitting a bus discipline form to the school office. Then the school administer will assign appro priate consequences based on the severity of the behavior and frequency of the student's bus referrals. Elementary offenses could result in bus suspension from one to 10 days or the remainder of the year. Middle and high school offenses also can result in bus suspension up to 15 days or for the remainder of the year. Gault said she knew that several of the bus drivers felt Forsyth CountvNews •/ Your "Hometown Paper" Since 190 ft J I SPS 205 540 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Cumming. Georgia 30040 Phone: 770-887-3126 Fax: 770-889-6017 Internet Address: www.forsythnews.com e Publisher DENNIS STOCKTON General Manager NORMAN BAGGS Editor TOM SPIGOLON Advertising Director MARTI BARNES Circulation Director PHIE JONES MEMBER Published Sunday. Wednesday. Thursday and Friday by the Forsyth County News Company. Veterans Memorial Blvd., Cumming, Ga. Second Gass Postage paid at Cumming. Ga. and additional offices. Subscription rate for Forsyth County. $52 per year; $35 for six months; other Georgia and out of state, subscriptions are SBS per year. Any unused portion of a subscription balance will be gladly refunded. However, all refunds due the subscriber are subject to a processing fee. which will be automatically deducted from the subscription balance refund. 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For Thursday's paper retail and classified display ads are due by noon Monday For Friday's paper retail and classified display ads arc due by ntxm Tuesday. Classified Line Advertising Deadlines (Help wanted, garage sales, rentals, etc ) For Sunday's paper classified line ads are due by noon Fnday. For Wednesday's paper classified line ads arc due by noon Monday. For Thursday's paper classified line ads are due by noon Tuesday. For Friday’s paper classified line ads are due by noon Wednesday. I .egal advertising is due by Friday noon and runs only in Wednesday's paper. _ - Forest Wildlife Management Area south of Dawsonville, a place where murder victims have been found in the past. Forsyth and Dawson County sheriff’s deputies, firefighters from both counties, the Dawson County Emergency Manage-ment Agency and rangers from the Department of Natural Resources swept the 10,400 acres of woodlands on Sunday. Forsyth County Sheriffs Lt. Mark Flowers led a search Monday based at Shiloh United Methodist Church in Cherokee County. Deputies rode the surrounding woods on four-wheelers looking for signs of Endres. "Everybody thinks what we’re doing out here is nega tive. But we still hope to find her alive,” he said. Sheriff's officers plan to scout abandoned barns, iso lated roads, thickets and creek beds all the way to Canton, Flowers said. more confident having a writ ten policy to follow regarding discipline procedures. • Also at the meeting, the board approved language arts textbooks for grades nine through 12. The school sys tem assigned the task to a special committee that uti lized a rating scale of the books presented by publish ers. Feedback on the textbooks also was solicited from other teachers and parents. “McDougal Littell World Literature.” Houghton’s “The College Writer.” "Timeless Voice Timeless Themes British Traditions" of Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall's "American Experience," Holt's “Readings for Writers." and Bedford Saint Martin's “Patterns for College Writers" are some of the books chosen by the com mittee. In addition, high school staff will be choosing at least three novels for students to read from an approved list provided by the committee. COMMISSION from 1A in constructing a mixed use project can still do so by filing split zoning requests for their property. While the modifications the board has scheduled to consider next month do not include the mixed use category which is still in development they do include several items in addi tion to eliminating PUDs and CUPs. The revisions include: • Giving the board the authority to grant lot size vari ances while the mixed use cate gory is being written to allow for extensions to PUDs and CUPs that have already been approved. Jackson will not be a candidate for new district By Harris Blackwood Community Editor State Sen. Carol Jackson, (D-Cleveland), announced Monday she will not be a can didate in the newly drawn 51st state Senate district that includes north eastern Forsyth County. “Since I was a young girl, born and raised in the mountains of northeast Georgia. I have had a desire and goal to serve in public office,” said Jackson in / now come to a time in my poiliti cal life that I must make a serious assessment con cerning future plans. - Sen. Carol Jackson a statement released by her office. "I now come to the time in my political life that I must make a serious assessment con cerning future plans.” A three judge federal panel redrew the legislative districts in March and placed Jackson in the new District 51, which included portions of three counties in her current district. Jackson said that with the upcoming special session, she felt that she would not have enough time to meet her new constituents and con duct an effective campaign. Forsyth County business- KSPa/iAc/nb Tfeconatctty 'fat, | Saturday, April 24th i 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. R Do you love to decorate, but sometimes get stuck J and need some new ideas? Come to Parsons. | Decorating Tips Seminar at 10:30 a.m. Great ideas about decorating your } Mantle • Book Cases • Coffee |< Tables • Kitchen Islands • Buffets and More! j Truckload of Art - Saturday Only! Bring in your fabrics and questions for t personalized tips from decorators. I * Lamps and Selected I, Home Decor Items ’ at 25% OFF! ■ « Cumming 770-887-9991 E Lakeland Plaza m-F 10-7 i GA4(X) Exit 14 (iKjZfILZSgEnS) Sat 10-6 • Limiting the number of residential applications county staff will review on a monthly basis to seven. • Defining the term “bed room” to ensure the correct size of septic tank is installed for a home. • Allowing a conditional use for commercial horse sta bles on agriculturally zoned property. The board also postponed until May 17 discussions that involve changes to the coun ty ’« land use map which is consulted to determine if zon ing requests conforms to a property’s recommended use. man Chip Pearson, a Dawsonville resident, ann ounced earlier that he would be a candidate for the new seat. Pearson, a major player in state Republican politics, is making his first foray into the political arena as a can didate. No other candi dates have announced for the seat. Jackson, one of the few remaining Democratic senators from north Georgia, was facing an uphill battle after her new district no longer included a predominately African- American precinct in Hall County. Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia had described Jackson's redrawn district as “the most difficult sit uation of anyone in the Senate." Jackson had served three terms in the Senate and had held public office in White County for 14 years. While Jackson said that she would not run for re-election, she said in her statement that she was not through with public service.