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Deaths
H©nry D. Major
of Alp ha r e 1 1 a ‘di e^Fr i*da y!
June 17, 2005. Mr. Major was
a member of
Longstreet
Baptist Church.
-YElli W He was a veter
. an of World
Wat II and a member of
Ducktown Masonic Lodge
and had been a Mason for
more than 50 years. He was
preceded in deith by y his par
ents and 12 siblings
Survivors include his wife
of 62 years, Wtllte C. Major
of Alpharetta; children
Harold and Lavone Major of
Marietta, Martha and Jimmy
Smith of Cumming, Janice
and . John . . Bishop of . _ Rebecca; ,
five grandchildren; four great¬
grandchildren.
Funeral services were
Sunday, June 19, at the
Ingram Funeral Home Chapel
with the Rev. John Lummus
officiating. Interment fol
lowed in the Longstreet
Baptist Church Cemetery.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
June 22, 2005
Emerson H. White
Mr. Emerson H. “Chick”
White, 77, of Cumming died
Sunday, June 19, 2005. He
was a veteran
of World War
II, , having
VETERAN served in the
U.S. Navy.
Survivors include his wife
of 53 years, Margie White of
Cumming; son and daughter
in-law, Steven Emerson and
Mary Elizabeth White of
Cumming; granddaughters,
Shelby Lynn White of
Cumming, April Smith of
Franklin; brother, Larry
White of Buckhead.
Graveside services were _
Tuesday, June 21, at the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens with the Rev. Danny
Bennett officiating.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
June 22, 2005
Betty Lou Wylie
Betty J Lou Wylie, 1 63, of
Cleveland, formerly of
Buford, died Saturday, June
18, 2005.
Survivors include her hus¬
band, Wayne Wylie of
Cleveland; children, Ron
Spradley of Cleveland •'
Kenneth Spradley of
Gainesville, Lamar Spradley
and Rosa Grizzle of
Dahlonega, Laurie Coffman
of Cleveland; sisters,
Leonette Tate of Hampton,
D rf ?yJ aSS on ’’ 0h !°’ EI,nor Bu ? !L^ ,asdd e
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of Bradford, Pa., mother-in
law, Louise Jones of Buford;
brothers-in-law, Gary Wylie,
Homer and Kenneth Wylie,
both of Buford; 12 grandchil
dren; two great-grandchil
dren; several nieces and
nephews also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, June 21, in the
Chapel of Tapp/Tim Stewart
Funeral Home of Buford with
the Rev. Chris Anderson offi
ciating. Burial followed in the
Broadlawn Memorial
Gardens.
Tapp/Tim Stewart Funeral
Home is in charge of the
arrangements.
Forsyth County News
June 22, 2005
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ByToddThielove
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Board
of Commissioners on June 16
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District 1 Commissioner
Charles Laughinghouse made
t j, e mo tj 0 n to accept the
agreement without the con¬
demnation rights which, he
said, would have committed
th e county to use its power of
eminent domain, to condemn
] an d to run the sewer lines if
negotiations with property
owners were unsuccessful.
State law allows govern
mental entities and private
utility companies the right of
eminent domain — but does
not extend that privilege to
other entities like private
developers.
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a large number of students,
she said -
Under the McKinney
Vento regulations, the term
homeless” not only refers to
children ... and , youth .... who live
on the streets. Under
McKinney-Vento regulations
students are considered home
less if they fall under any of
the following qualifications:
• Sharing the housing of
other people outside their
immediate family due to loss
of housing, economic hardship
or a similar reason.
• Living in motels, hotels,
trailer parks or camping
grounds due to lack of altema-
ARBISER from 1A
not hide with his wife and
daughters. “It was an unbeliev¬
able thing for her to do,” said
Arbiser passionately. “Frania
was 311 extraord * nar y person in
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her was amazing.
Arbiser explained that dur¬
ing the day, Frania worked as a
cook for a Gestapo officer.
While she was at work, the two
sisters and their mother would
huddle together under the bed.
“We were absolutely terri¬
fied to make a sound,” said
Arbiser. “Because of the oil
wells, our town was also a tar-
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still investigating the residents
of the home where the pack
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Delgado did not live at the
home.
There were, however, “a
substantial number of deliver
ies,” being made to the house
by UPS, as many as one per
week, Lt. 0)1. Gene Moss said.
“We don’t know if (the resi
dents) are going to be involved
m this or not,” Moss said,
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Tim Perkins, the director
of the county’s water and
sewer department, clarified the
developer would be asking the
county government to use its
authority of eminent domain
and not undertaking such
power privately.
“This would be our coun¬
sel doing the work,” said
Perkins.
Laughinghouse was not
convinced and had the lan¬
guage removed from the
addendum of the sewer agree¬
ment which read, “Forsyth
County will use (sic) its emi¬
nent domain powers to con¬
demn any easements deemed
necessary to connect to county
sewer.”
In a telephone interview
Monday, the commissioner
clarified his position.
“The way it was written
was it basically gave them
condemnation power,” he said.
“By taking out that phrase,
there will still be developer
assisted condemnation power,
but they will have to come
back and get the county to
approve it.
“It’s the board’s duty to
make sure they have done
everything properly,” he said.
County Attorney Ken
Jarrard agreed.
tive adequate accommodations
• Living in emergency or
transitional shelters.
• Children who were aban¬
doned in hospitals or those
awaiting foster care placement.
• Their primary nighttime
residence that is public or pri¬
vate place not designed for or
ordinarily used as, a regular
sleeping accommodations for
human beings.
• Children and youth who
are living in cars, parks, pub¬
lic spaces, abandoned build¬
ings, substandard housing,
bus or train stations or simi¬
lar, settings.
“We definitely have many
get of tremendous bombings —
so we had the fear of the Nazis
plus the fear of the loud bomb¬
ings.”
While at work, Frania would
take whatever bits of food she
could hide in her apron, then
bring the scraps home for the
stowaways in her apartment.
“We would wait for the food
like little dogs,” said Arbiser.
For three years Frania hid
the two young girls and their
mother under her bed and in her
apartment — risking her own
life while saving theirs. Arbiser
remembers the days in the bed
“We’re still investigating.”
Regardless, authorities
called Friday’s arrest and
seizure a “big bust.”
“We’ve interrupted a pretty
significant supply of marijuana
coming into Forsyth County,
and we’re still working on
where it may have been going,”
Moss said.
Delgado, who gave authori¬
ties an address of 3239
Castleberry Road, Apt. 10,
remained in the Forsyth County
' “That deletion made it
not
a binding obligation on the
part of the county [to con¬
demn],” said Jarrard.
Other provisions in the
agreement included the reser¬
vation of 31,590 gallons of
sewer capacity and 117 sewer
taps at $5,130 each. However,
by building the sewer lines,
the developer will save
$234,000 to reserve the capac¬
ity for the lots. The contract
expires in five years.
In other business at the
board’s regular meeting, com¬
missioners:
• Approved a $1.47 million
bid from L.C. Whitford
Company of Alpharetta to
construct Majors Road II
between Ronald Reagan
Parkway and Hwy. 141.
• Approved a $1.24 million
bid from Heavy Constructor
Inc. of Marietta to construct a
sewer pump station at Middle
Settingdown Creek.
• Postponed a request from
Apple Properties for a helipad
north of the intersection of
Wallace and Hammond
Industrial drives.
• Approved in a 3-1 vote
Richard Hamby’s permit
request for an equestrian cen¬
ter on 20.8 acres on the west
side of Old Preserve Trail
children here in Forsyth who
fall under one of those cate¬
gories,” added Rondem.
“Especially when you look at
children in shelters such as
Jesse’s House or those in fos¬
ter care.”
Rondem added that the
system felt it was important
to attempt and obtain the
grant funding due to the
problems “homeless” stu¬
dents can suffer in school.
According to research
from the National Coalition
for the Homeless, transience,
uncertainty and emotional
turmoil strongly undermine
success of homeless students.
as long and terrifying.
“We were always afraid that
we would be discovered and
killed,’ said Arbiser.
Miraculously, the war ended
and Arbiser, her mother, sister
and Frania walked out of the
apartment with their lives.
“We knew it was not safe to
stay in the town, because we
were witnesses to all that had
happened,” explained Arbiser.
They learned that Arbiser’s
father had been arrested and
sent to a concentration camp,
but they had no way of knowing
if he was alive. Amazingly,
jail Monday without bond.
Authorities have confirmed he
is an illegal immigrant and
immigration officials have been
notified, Moss said.
It was the second time in as
many weeks that sheriff’s offi¬
cials have intercepted a delivery
of marijuana. On June 10 two
Forsyth County teens were
arrested after they took receipt
of nearly 3 pounds of pot deliv¬
ered by the U.S. Postal Service
from a New York address.
north of the intersection with
Old Riverside Lane.
Laughinghouse cast the
dissenting vote.
• Approved a $991,040 bid
from John D. Stephens Inc. of
Lawrenceville to build a sewer
pipe at Old Federal Road.
• Approved a $5.46 million
bid from John D. Stephens
Inc. of Lawrenceville to build
a sewer line located at Middle
and Lower Settingdown
Creek.
• Approved a request from
Eastbrooke Properties LLC to
rezone 67.53 acres from agri¬
cultural to single family resi¬
dential limiting it to 142 units
located on the west side of
Hwy. 371 north of the inter¬
section with Briar Meadows
View.
• Approved in a 3-1 vote a
request from Centex Homes to
rezone 309 acres from agricul¬
tural to single family residen¬
tial for a 289-lot subdivision
with a density of 0.93 units
per acre and a permit for boat
slips and storage. The project
is located on the east side of
Hwy. 53 across from the
intersection with Anderson
Lake Road, and the east and
west sides of Nix Road
northeast of the intersection
with Hwy. 53
These students often develop
physical, behavioral and
emotional problems includ¬
ing post-traumatic stress dis¬
orders, depression and anxi
ety.
Research on homeless
children and teens have dis¬
covered that profound emo¬
tional troubles accompany
homelessness. Some children
feel guilty, as if they were the
cause of their families’
poverty. They may also
resent their parents for not
being better providers, and
they may actively resent
other students, teachers and
administrators for not under¬
Arbiser’s father survived six
concentration camps and the
family was eventually reunited.
Now 69 and married to hus¬
band Sam for 50 years, Arbiser
has written a book telling the
story of the courageous
Christian nanny Frania who
saved her family from their cer¬
tain fate in a concentration
camp and probable death.
Arbiser wrote “Give Me the
Children: How a Christian
Woman Saved a Jewish Family
During the Holocaust,” for two
reasons.
“First, I wanted my children
and grandchildren to know the
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Laughinghouse cast the
dissenting vote.
• Approved a request from.
Ackerman & Company to
rezone 411 acres from agricul-'
tural to single family residen¬
tial for a 616-unit subdivision
with a density of 1.5 units per
acre.
• Approve a request from
Riverbooke Capital Partners
LLC to rezone 68.27 acres
from agricultural to single
family residential limiting it
to 154 units. The project is
located north of Tallant Road
near the intersection with
Hwy. 9.
• Approved a request from
Hatfield Development Inc. to
rezone 13.84 acres from agri¬
cultural to single family resi¬
dential limiting it to 29 units.
The project is located on the
south side of Kelly Mill Road
west of the intersection with
Bethelview Road.
• Approved a request from
Columbia Properties LLC to.
rezone 3.67 acres from agri¬
cultural to commercial for a
23,070-square-foot retail cen¬
ter located at the southwest
intersection of Bethelview and
Castleberry roads.
District 2 Commissioner
Brian Tam was unable to
attend the meeting.
standing homelessness.
Suicidal tendencies also
increase with homelessness,
as do incidents of unplanned
pregnancies and sexually
transmitted diseases.
The ultimate goal of
Forsyth’s new homeless liai¬
son will be to coordinate!
efforts between the local,
school system and families to.
reduce these traumatic effects
and to help homeless stu¬
dents succeed despite diffi-’
cult circumstances, said.
Rondem.
“We’re excited about the
possibilities this grant opens
for these students,” she said.
entire history of what happened
to me, and second I want all
people to know what happened
— how this amazing woman
risked her life to save us,” said
Arbiser. Besides writing the
book, Arbiser frequently speaks
at churches and at Atlanta’s
William Breman Jewish
Heritage Museum telling her
story to people of all ages.
“I still believe in people,”
stressed Arbiser. “I believe with
all my heart that we have to be
nice to each other, no matter
what our faith is — we should
do the right thing according to
what is in our heart.”