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Vol. 99, No. 87
Board delays redistricting
Factors include parental outcry
By Lara Moore
Staff Writer
A final decision in the con¬
tentious, months-long redistrict¬
ing process for the 2009-10
school year has been postponed
until Sept. 18.
The Forsyth County Board of
Education decided on the delay
Thursday after further parents
School for all
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Meredith Martin, 14, examines one of the vacation Bible school items to accompany the theme “Power Lab” at
Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church. Vacation Bible school starts today at many area churches.
Rite of summer,
VBS is blend of
games, Gospel
By Frank Reddy
Staff Writer
When it comes to organizing vacation
Bible school, area youth ministers and chil¬
dren’s pastors agree. It takes lots of planning.
June marks the start of vacation Bible
school, or VBS, season for many local parents,
children and churches.
For ministers, it’s a way to teach kids about
God in a fun environment.
For children, it means, cookies, crafts,
skits, Bible stories and a structured break from
the summertime monotony.
“Kids at our church have been talking
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SUNDAY June 1, 2008
outcry.
In 2009, the district plans to
open one middle, one high and
three elementary schools, landing
thousands of children in new
learning environments.
Some residents spoke at
Thursday’s session on behalf of
communities that have had their
district lines redrawn five times
since 1998.
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Forsyth Life IB
Horoscope. 6B
Opinion....... 10A
Sports........... 1C
“The board has broken its
published guidelines and broken
commitments to over nine com¬
munities by redistricting them five
times in eight years,” said Jack
Aspenson, who lives in the
Castlebrook community.
Parents there want their chil¬
dren to remain at Vickery Creek
Middle and West Forsyth High
schools. New lines have them
attending Otwell Middle and
Forsyth Central High.
“If you do not vote to restart
Local
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this process, your shareholders
will call for your dismissal on
July 15,” Aspenson said.
Board members Tom
Cleveland and Nancy Roche are
running for re-election this sum¬
mer. Both face opposition in the
July Republican primary.
Cleveland suggested postpon¬
ing a decision on redistricting
until after school starts to allow
the board to work with solid
See DELAYS, Page 2A
Above, Mitchell
Martin, 10, holds
some of the vaca¬
tion Bible school
supplies. Left, Jane
Martin shows
some of the sup¬
plies that she and
her family made to
go along with their
Bible school
theme.
ij it:
Forsyth County News
presents All-County
lacrosse teams.
Page 1C
New team in town
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Well, not yet. But Lambert High has decided
on a mascot. The school, which is sched¬
uled to open in fall 2009, will be known as
the Longhorns. See page 1C.
Firefighter
renews battle
against cancer
Experimental treatment is up
next in third bout with disease
By Julie Arrington
Staff Writer
There’s more to Robby Cowart than his disease.
He’s a firefighter. He’s a family man. He’s a
beloved friend.
He also refuses to let his battle with cancer keep
him down.
Cowart, 35, was first diagnosed in 2001 with
osteosarcoma, a cancer that fonns in bone. The cancer
was on the left side of his head and was treated with
surgery and chemotherapy.
It reappeared in 2005 in the same place.
“After 30 surgeries and two rounds of radiation they
said it was gone,” Cowart said. ‘Three years later, it has
reappeared in my lungs.”
Because of his condition, Cowart has been reas
signed from Forsyth County Fire Station 3 to adminis¬
trative duties at the fire department’s headquarters.
“I want my lungs back and I want to get back on the
fire truck and get back to my crew,” Cowart said.
In about a week, he is going to a clinic in San
Antonio, where he will participate in clinical trials of a
drug called Reolysin. Cowart said he is optimistic the
treatment will extinguish the cancer once and for all.
The drug, Cowart explained, uses a vims. When it
comes in contact with tumors, it reproduces until “it
blows them apart.”
“It educates the immune system to fight that partic¬
ular cancer,” he said. “That’s how it’s been working, so
that’s what I’m going out there for.”
Though he would rather be fighting fires, he said he
is grateful to be working.
“I’ve been very fortunate to be where I’m at," he
said
“The administration at the fire department and the
(human resources) department have been more than
gracious to allow me to work in an office mode until I
go out there.”
See BATTLE, Page 2A
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From left, Jay Davis, Robby Cowart, Christian
FI. Mild and Michele Crews stand in front of a
fi retruck Friday at Station 3.
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