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Deaths
Frank Homer
Cromwell III
Mr. Frank Homer
Cromwell III, 73, of
Cumming died Monday, Nov.
14,2005.
Survivors include his wife,
Betty Stewart Cromwell of
Cumming; daughters, .Lynda
Burnette of Cumming,
Connie Blanchett of Bolton,
Mo.; son, Steve Raulston of
Kansas City, Mo.; grandchil¬
dren, Nicole Moss of
Luverne, Minn., Rachel Parks
of Athens, Brittany Rogers of
Cumming, Jamie Sparks of
Kansas City, Mo., Angela
Casale of Cape Coral, Fla.;
great-grandchildren, Hailey,
Slade, Shelby, Joshua, Sasha,
Dylan Conner and Vincent
Jr.; and other relatives also
survive.
Memorial services were
Thursday, Nov. 17, at the
Cromwell residence with the
Revs. Mike Gillespie and
Tony Varesi officiating.
Ingram Funeral Home is
in charge of the arrange
ments.
Forsyth County News
November 20, 2005
James Ingram
Mr. James “Big Jim”
Ingram, 77, of Cumming died
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005. Mr.
Ingram was retired from
Forsyth County Board of
Education after 15 years of
service. He was a licensed
minister and a member of
Coal Mountain Baptist
Church. Mr. Ingram was pre
ceded in death by his wives,
Mary Ingram and Gwynell
Burruss Ingram.
Survivors include his chil
dren, Kenneth and Deborah
Ingram, Jerry Ingram and
Charlene Martin, all of
Cumming, Judy and Ralph
Clay of Concord, Karen and
Daryl Ellis of Winston
Salem, N.C.; stepdaughters,
Cathy and the Rev. Randy
Smith, Deborah Cook, all of
Cumming, Edith and Geoff
Johnson of Winston-Salem,
N.C.; 11 grandchildren; five
great-grandchildren; 12 step
grandchildren; eight step
great-great-grandchildren;
sisters, Mrs. Willamena
Hembree of Canton, Mrs.
Lilly Kelly of South Daytona,
Fla.; and several other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services will be
Sunday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. at
the Ingram Funeral Home
Chapel with the Revs. Danny
Bennett, Terry Cowart and
Lee Gaddis officiating..
Interment will follow in the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home is
in charge of the arrange
ments.
Forsyth County News
November 20, 2005
Phil Krueger
Phil Krueger, age 64 of
Buford died Wednesday, Nov.
16, 2005. Phil served in the
United States Navy and was a
long haul truck driver. He
was preceded in death by his
parents, two__
brothers and
one grand
daughter.
Survivors VETERAN
include his
wife of 42 years, Phyllis
Krueger; daughters and sons
in-law, Cheryl and Keith
George, Cindy and Dave
Kirven, all of Monroe; son,
Jeff Krueger of Jefferson;
grandchildren, Ty Bagge,
Katie Bagge, Zak Clay,
Austin Clay and Philip Clay;
three brothers, three sisters,
numerous nieces and
nephews and other friends
and relatives also survive.
A memorial service was
Saturday, Nov. 19, in the
Chapel of Tapp/Tim Stewart
Funeral Home with the Rev.
Bob Mitchell will be officiat
ing.
In lieu of flowers, contri¬
butions can be made in
Phyllis Krueger’s name at
Brand Bank Company, 141
Hurricane Shoals Road,
Lawrenceville, GA 30045.
Tapp/Tim Stewait Funeral
Home and Crematory in
Buford is in charge of the
arrangements.
Forsyth County 2005 News
November 20,
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS — Sunday, November 20,2005
NAME from 1A
section of Heardsville Road,
Hurt Bridge Road and
Heardsville Circle in west
Forsyth.
The top choices for
Elementary 8, scheduled to
open in 2007, are Gravel
Springs (for the former commu¬
nity), Hickory Log (for the for¬
mer Cherokee nation in which
Forsyth County is now located)
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office/retail development in
south Forsyth).
Elementary 8 is located in
the extreme southeast comer of
the county approximately one
half of a mile north of the
Fulton County line along
McGinnis Ferry Road.
The name choices for the
South Relief High School are
DeSana (in honor of local phi- J
lanthropists Jean and im
DeSana) Lambert (in honor of
the late Clarence Lambert, the
first principal of Forsyth County
High School and Forsyth
County school superintendent
from 1969 to 1972) and Johns
Creek.
South Relief High School is
located at the intersection of
Nichols Road and Old Atlanta
Road adjacent to Sharon
Elementary School and is set to
open in 2009.
In other business Thursday,
the BOE heard a presentation
on district accreditation from
Bft/lDf) from , 1A 1A
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determined that a public hear
ing was necessary at least six
months and not more than nine
months before a final action
taken the request. *
was on
“The first time, it slipped
through the process without the
special [public] hearing that’s
required by the state of
Georgia,” said Brown in a tele
phone interview Friday,
“Ideally, it would have been
clear [the first time].”
Commissioners conducted a
new public hearing on the pro
posal on Thursday.
Attorney Ethan Underwood
spoke before the board on
behalf of applicant Andrew
Barkan, saying the facility
would be the only one of its
kind in the area. He likened it to
the Betty Ford Center — an
upscale chemical dependency
treatment center that had its
beginnings in Rancho Mirage,
Calif., and has counted numer
ous celebrities among its
patients.
“Forsyth County could be
leading the way ... in the
Southeast,” said Underwood.
If approved, the Caron
Recovery Center would be built
near the cemetery of Friendship
Baptist Church. Mike Eason
said during opposing public
comments the center poses con
cerns for senior church mem¬
bers who visit the graveyard.
Eason, who also is a mem¬
ber of Friendship Baptist
Church, said that while he does
not oppose the center, church
members would like more
details of the project.
A representative of the cen
ter said that intentions are to
have 15 beds for adolescent
treatment in an existing building
on the property and add 25 beds
in a building to be constructed.
According to documents
supplied by the developer, future
expansions could include a new
20-bed unit, a gymnasium, ath¬
letic fields and a separate school
facility.
In other business at the
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Lissa Pijanowski, director of
school improvement.
The board voted in January
to pursue district accreditation
from the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools
(SACS). While all individual
schools in the county are
already accredited, district
accreditation would mean the
system as a whole would
receive reaccreditation every
five years.
Only Fulton, Cobb and
Monroe county schools are dis
• trict accredited in Georgia.
Pijanowski said Forsyth
County Schools are scheduled
to be visited by SACS represen¬
tatives in February of 2007.
She said the site inspection
would involve interviews with
the superintendent , and , board , ,
members, visits to eight Forsyth
County schools which would be
selected by the SACS represen
tatives and various other
reviews of departments within
the central office.
Pijanowski said currently
eight other systems are sched
uled to be visited by SACS and
about one-third of Georgia’s
school systems have expressed
an interest in pursuing district
accreditation.
In other business Thursday,
the board:
• Heard a redistricting
update from Caracciolo, who
reported more than 25 voice
mail messages and 300 e-mails
Tuggle Residential Properties to
rezone 47 acres for a 126-unit
residential project located on the
west side of Hopewell Road east
of the intersection with AC
Smith Road. Commissioners
included a condition that the
project have no more than 110
units.
• Approved a request from
Moxie Construction Co. to
rezone 1 acre for a 3,690
square-foot office building
located at the northeast intersec
tion of Hwy. 9 and State Bam
Road. The project was approved
in a 3-2 vote with District 4
Commissioner £)avid Richard
and District 5 Commissioner
Linda Ledbetter voting against
it.
• Heard from political
• activists George Anderson and
David Milum who asked com
missioners to investigate alleged
ethical lapses within the govern
ment.
• Approved a permit request
from Deborah Dane-Coyne for
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were received in reference to
the first draft of new district
lines from Nov. 9-16.
She said around half of the
suggestions received were
incorporated into a second draft
of the district lines which was
placed online Thursday and in
schools on Friday.
The public now has until
Jan. 11 to make suggestions for
improvement to this draft.
The “final draft” of new
school lines will be placed on
the Web site on Jan. 12.
Three public forums for
public comment on the draft
will be held between Jan. 23
and Feb. 3.
The BOE will vote to
approve the final district lines
on Feb. 16.
• Heard a report from
Pijanowski on the 2005 State
Report Card. Sixteen Forsyth
County Schools were recog¬
nized with awards from the
report — totaling 68 percent pf
local schools. This percentage
was the highest in the state.
• Awarded a construction bid
to Ra-Linn and Associates in
the amount of $17,682,895 for
construction of Piney Grove
Middle School, scheduled to
open fall of 2006.
• Approved a bid of $85,000
from Qore Property Sciences
fpr materials testing and inspec¬
tion at the construction site of
Piney Grove. A new state' law
requires third party testing and
a cat boarding business on 2.6
acres located on the southeast
side of Castleberry Road south
west of the intersection with
Fenwick Drive.
• Approved a request from
A1 Bathaei to rezone 0.92 of a
acre to commercial for a 6,200
square-foot retail building at the
northwest intersection of Hwy. 9
and Glover Drive.
• Approved a request from
Kent S. Leverson to rezone 6.8
acres for a retail development
located on the west side of Hwy.
9 south of the intersection with
Hwy. 369.
• Approved a request from
Ransom Development Corp. to
rezone 40.9 acres for a 245-unit
townhome community \tfith a
density of 5.98 units per acre
located on the west side of
Shiloh Road south of the inter¬
section with Union Hill Road.
The project includes walking
trail attachments to the Big
Creek Greenway.
• Approved a $224,050 con-
monitoring of installation of
grout and steel masonry walls.
• Approved a bid of
$253,768 from Absolute
Contractors Inc. for ventilation
work at North Forsyth Middle
School.
• Approved a bid of
$660,900 from United
Maintenance to install air con¬
ditioning to the gymnasium and
concessions areas at North,
Central and South Forsyth high
schools.
• Made several recognitions
including: Andrea Glover, a
third-grader at Vickery Creek
Elementary, who gave a jar of
money she had collected to pur¬
chase a puppy to a teacher who
is a Hurricane Katrina victim;
Kelli Schuyler, FCHS teacher,
who was one of only two teach¬
ers in Georgia to receive a
Milken Family Foundation
Award in the amount of
$25,000; Sharon Pinion and
Kojleen Metarko, math teachers
at Sawnee Elementary and
South Forsyth Middle schools,
who were named state winners
in the Georgia Council of
Teachers of Mathematics’ Math
Teacher of the Year competi¬
tion; Kimberly Burroughs,
Liberty Middle School teacher,
awarded the chance to attend
the PAGE Teacher Academy;
Michael Satterfield, SFHS
Mock Trial Team coach, who
was named outstanding Mock
Trial coach; and Bailey
tract with the engineering firm
Jordan, Jones and Goulding to
design phase two of recreation
facilities for Sawnee Mountain
Park which will include an.envi
ronmental learning center off
Spot Road and extend hiking
trails. County documents state
the money is to be reimbursed
by the Sawnee Mountain
Foundation.
• Approved a contract with
the Board of Education leasing
16.8 acres of land adjacent to
Daves Creek Elementary School
for 20 years with the option of
renewing the lease for an addi
tional 20 years. In exchange for
the land, the county government
agreed to waive sewer tap fees
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A second draft of new
school district lines was
posted on the Forsyth
County School System’s
Web site
www.forsyth.k12.ga.us
under Redistricting
Information on
Thursday. Large maps of
the second draft were
placed in Forsyth County
schools on Friday. The
public has until Jan. 11,
2006 to make sugges¬
tions for improvement to
thi§ second draft by com¬
pleting an online form or
by calling (770) 887-
2461, ext. 2163.
Mitchell, system director of
technology, who received the
National School Board
Association’s Technology and
Learning Network “Making It
Happen Award.”
• Accepted the Title 1
Distinguished System Award
which is presented by the state
Board of Education to only four
districts in the state for their
efforts in working with eco¬
nomically disadvantaged stu¬
dents. Forsyth Schools received
a $50,000 award.
• Accepted the Excellence in
the Education of Students with
Disabilities Award from the
State Department of Education.
valued at $198,000 for schools. -
The county is to construct
ball fields on the land with costs
estimated at $2.5 million.
• Approved an agreement
with the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources (DNR) for
the update of flood maps per
taining to five areas in the coun
ty.
District 1 Commissioner
Charles Laughinghouse ques
tioned why areas where new
subdivisions are planned such as
around the Etowah River are not
included in the update.
Legal counsel Ken Jarrard
said the DNR had limited ftind
ing and recommended the board
accept the agreement.