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Vol. 96, No. 098
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Officers may have disrupted
seize 25
By Stephen Gurr
Staff Writer
Forsyth County authorities say they may
have disrupted a pipeline of marijuana that
they suspect may have accounted for as much
as 1,400 pounds of pot brought into Forsyth
County in the past year from Mexico by way
of Texas.
Acting on a tip from prosecutors in
Houston, Texas, Forsyth narcotics officers
intercepted a cardboard box containing 25
pounds of marijuana that was destined for a
Falcon Cove Trail home off Bald Ridge
Marina Road. The package had been sent via
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Six-year-old Taylor Simonette from the Sunset House in Roswell learns how to fish from
Rainbow Ranch owner Robert Hice Jr. The business in southeast Forsyth sells fish by the pound
after they are caught in one of its ponds.
Grant will help Forsyth schools aid homeless students
By Crystal Ledford
Staff Writer
Forsyth County Schools was one
of seven school systems across the
state recently selected to receive a
special grant that will assist homeless
students.
The system received a $100,000
Title One Education for Homeless
Children and Youth Grant for the
2005-2006 school year to serve an
estimated 200 students in the county
school
Woman witnessed Holocaust horrors
Hid under bed for three years in native Poland to avoid capture by Nazis
By Adlen W. Robinson
For the Forsyth County News
In 1933, the Jewish population of
Europe numbered more than 9 million.
By 1945, 6 million Jews had been
murdered by Hitler’s Third Reich. Of
that incomprehensible number, 1 mil¬
lion were the most vulnerable of the
Jewish population — children.
Longtime Decatur resident and
part-time Lake Lanier resident Pola
Arbiser was bom into a well-off Polish
family in the town of Drohobycz,
Poland. Though small, the town was
considered to be reasonably affluent
because of its surrounding oil wells.
As the war in Europe inched its
way closer to her pleasant town,
Arbiser’s family had to face the
rumors they had heard. The Germans
were coming and they were beginning
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empty home, crawled in through a window,
then walked out onto the porch. The man
peered into the woods, looked around to
Debbie Rondem, director of
Student Support Services, said the
grant will be to employ a social
worker who will serve as a homeless
liaison between the school system,
homeless students and their families.
Rondem said the position already
has been filled by school social
worker Beda Roberts, who will begin
her new -post as the system’s home¬
less liaison on July 18.
Rondem said one of Roberts’
major responsibilities will include
homeless families in the
to boldly kill or capture all Jews and
those who tried to help them. Arbiser’s
father wasted no time in trying to
secure help for his family.
“At first my father went to the
mayor who was his good friend,”
remembered Arbiser, who was 8 years
old at the time.
Finding a secure hiding place was
difficult at best, but for seven days, the
mayor allowed the family to hide in
the town hall clock tower in the mid¬
dle of the city. During the week,
Arbiser and her family hid in the
tower, terrified that they would be dis¬
covered. They watched in horror
through cracks in the tower as the
gruesome scenes unfolded in the town
square.
“We saw people being hanged,
shot, and arrested and dragged away,”
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make sure no one was watching, then picked
up the box, Sesam said.
“He put it in the back of his pickup truck,
and that’s when the takedown order was
given,” Sesam said.
Seven sheriff’s officers descended on the
man, identified as 26-year-old Antonio
Bautista Delgado. He was arrested and
charged with trafficking in marijuana.
But authorities believe Delgado was prob¬
ably a mule in the operation, moving the
marijuana on to higher-up suppliers for distri¬
bution to street-level dealers. Authorities are
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United Parcel Service,
which cooperated with
authorities in the investiga¬
tion.
Late Friday afternoon,
UPS delivered the package
to 1735 Falcon Cove Trail
as a camouflaged sheriff’s
sniper watched in a nearby
woodline, Sgt. Gus Sesam
said. Authorities watched as
a man the
school registration process.
“If someone is homeless they
might not be able to gather all the
necessary documents needed to have
their child register for school,” she
said. “But through this position, the
liaison can assist the family however
necessary. For example, if a family
needs transportation to a doctor’s
office in order to get immunization
records, the liaison could set up
transportation.”
Rondem said the liaison also will
assist children who are
said Arbiser, emotionally.
Though she was only 8 years old
and her sister was only 6, Arbiser said
the brutal scenes still play in her head
like they happened yesterday.
What happened next shocked
Arbiser’s family even more than the
insanity of what was happening in
their otherwise peaceful town. Their
beloved nanny, Franciszka Sobkowa,
who they called Frania, approached
the family and asked if she could take
Arbiser and her sister and hide them in
her apartment hide them from the
Gestapo who would surely kill them
or send them to one of Hitler’s numer¬
ous death camps. After some discus¬
sion, it was decided that because of
Arbiser’s father’s illnesses, he would
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Woman killed in
369 wreck; death
toll surpasses 2004
By Stephen Gurr
Staff Writer
A Gainesville woman was
charged with vehicular homicide
Saturday after a Forsyth County
wreck that killed another motorist
and pushed the county’s traffic
fatality numbers above last year’s
total.
Forsyth Sheriff’s officials said
Tammy Faye Carder, 34, was driv¬
ing under the influence at about
2:30 p.m. Saturday when her 2005
Land Rover crossed the center line
on Hwy. 369 and struck an east
bound Pontiac Grand Prix head-on.
The driver of the Pontiac, Ofelia
Tinoco, 53, was killed instantly.
Two passengers in Tinoco’s car
were taken to Northeast Georgia
Medical Center. Rosa Maria Perez,
55, of Gainesville, was listed in
enrolled in schools and find them¬
selves displaced.
“Say, if a family loses their home
in a fire and they have to relocate to a
new school district (within Forsyth)
and it would be very dramatic for
that student to change schools,” said
Rondem. “The homeless liaison
might set up transportation so that
student can continue to go to their
first school.”
The funding for the grant was
funneled to the state from the federal
McKinney-Vento program, a home¬
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Pola and Sam Arbiser recall the atrocities of the Holocaust recently
in their Decatur home.
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A 26-year-old is charged with trafficking after
officials seized this 25-pound package of
marijuana.
serious but stable condition
Monday. Maria Mosqueda, 59, was
treated and released.
Forsyth Sheriff’s Cpl. Chris
Shelton said Carder’s Land Rover
was westbound near the highway’s
intersection with Landmar Drive
when it crossed over into oncoming
traffic. Carder was not injured in
the collision and there were no pas¬
sengers in her Land Rover, authori¬
ties said.
Carder was charged with homi¬
cide by vehicle, DUI, serious injury
by vehicle and failure to maintain
lane. She was released on $22,000
bond early Sunday and has a July
14 court date scheduled.
Saturday’s fatal crash was the
13th traffic death in Forsyth County
this year, and the third in eight
days. There were 12 traffic deaths
in the county in all of 2004.
less assistance program. Various
amounts of funding are provided to
each state each year for the imple¬
mentation of homeless liaison pro¬
grams.
Rondem said she anticipates the
new liaison will serve around 200
students next year.
“Many people may not believe
that we have that big of a need here,
but when you look at how ‘homeless’
is defined, we actually do have quite
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Partly Cloudy LAKE LANIER LEVELS
% Date Level
June 17 1072.10 ft
June 18 1071.90 ft
June 19 1071.86 ft
June 20 1071.77 ft
High in the high 80s. Fuji 1071.00ft
Low in the mid-60s.