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Ted Paxton Golf
Tournament
The Sixth Annual Ted Paxton
Golf Tournament-, benefitting the
GA Sheriffs’Youth Homes, will be
held Monday, Sept. 8 at Olde
Atlanta Golf Club. The tournament
will feature a scramble format,
door prizes, a 50/50 drawing, mul¬
ligan sales, longest drive hole,
closest to the pin holes and the
opportunity to win a new car on a
hole in one.
Every player will receive a
free honorary membership in the
Georgia Sheriffs’ Association.
Lunch will be provided by Chik
Fil-A and dinner by Lowcountry
Barbecue.
Sponsorships include platinum
sponsor ($1,000, includes four
playing spots, hole sponsorship,
golf shirt, lunch and barbecue
dinner), partnership sponsor
($500, includes four playing
spots, lunch and barbecue dinner)
and single playing spot ($150).
For more information, call Capt.
Frank Huggins at (770) 781-3045
or e-mail
fahuggins @ forsythco.com.
12U Bullets tryouts
The 12U East Cobb Bullets
(Johnson)”A” is a second-year
travel team based out of
Gwinnett County and practice
out of Peachtree Ridge High
School in Suwanee. 90 percent
of our practices will be on the
weekend.
Tryouts are Saturday, Aug
23rd, from 2:30-5:30 p.m. at EE
Robinson Park (850 Level Creek
Road, Buford, GA 30518).
For more information contact
Derek Johnson at derekjohn
sonl@charter.net
NFHS Youth Night
Youth Night at North Forsyth
High will be held on Aug. 29
against West Forsyth. Any play¬
ers or cheerleaders that wear
their jersey/cheerleading uni¬
form will be admitted free and
will be announced on the field
prior to the game.
NF softball reunion
North Forsyth High School is
looking for members of the 1998
Class AA State Champion softball
team for a reunion later this
month. The reunion will take place
prior to the Lady Raiders’ game
against Woodstock on Aug. 20 at
5:55 p.m.
Participants should arrive at
the field about 30 minutes prior
to game time. For more informa¬
tion, contact Keith Shoemake at
(678) 386-1768 or Pam McBride
at (404) 625-9983.
Original Mustangs
holding tryouts
The Original Mustangs 7,8,9,
and 10-year-old Forsyth County
travel baseball team will be play¬
ing in the fall/winter 2008
National Semi-pro Baseball
Association (NSBA) World Series
and is looking for some new kids
interested in taking their game to
a new level.
We are a heavily sponsored
team, so your commitment fees
are minimal. We will be holding
tryouts for three teams on
Sundays until Sept. 7. Call coach
Dave at (770) 866-5148 for reser¬
vations and directions to the park.
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Team One, a Dobbs Creek-based AAU basketball squad featuring Forsyth County standouts Kris Drees (West Forsyth), Derek
Zittrauer (South Forsyth) and Jeremy Long (Forsyth Central), recently earned 5th place out of 64 teams at the AAU Division 2
National Basketball Tournament at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla. The team also won the Georgia
State AAU Division 2 Championship earlier this summer. Team One advanced to the “Elite Eight” in the national competition
before being defeated. The squad then defeated its opponents in the consolation bracket to round out the tournament. Pictured
above, from left, Drees, Zittrauer and Long pose with the 5th place trophy. All three players were starters on the team.
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US triathlete Sheila Taormina, right, runs in the
triathlon on Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at the
Olympic Games in Athens. Taormina finished 23rd.
By Mike Downey
(MCT)
BEIJING — Terrorized by a stalker,
depressed, seeing a psychologist, dread¬
ing medication, selling her house to
avoid bankruptcy, seeing the guy placed
under house arrest, having him turn up
anyhow, fearing murder or rape, hearing
he was arrested again, testifying at his
trial, watching him go to prison for five
years...
Knowing he is back out.
So, she runs. She runs, but she doesn’t
hide. She runs, swims, shoots a gun, rides
a horse and wields a sword.
Sheila Taormina is 39, a slight, lean
woman from the Detroit suburb of
Livonia. She expected to work in the auto¬
motive industry. She did for a while.
A guy she knew made it to the
Olympics and that sounded like fun, so at
^7 s ^ e p ave a tr y- A swimmer, Eric
Namesnik, sent her a card: “Get ready to
have the time of your life!
She went to Atlanta, swam and came
home to Michigan with a gold medal.
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS —Thursday, August 21,2008 —
Olympian
demons
Then she went to Sydney to try a
triathlon. 6th place. Tried it again in
Athens. 23rd place.
She was distracted. Throughout 2002,
James Conyers, Jr. was hounding her.
Calls. Notes. FedEx packages with roses
inside. Messages about what he wanted to
do with her. Have children. And to her.
Obscene ones.
Call soon or my heart will break.
Love, James. "
She got a restraining order. He showed
up. She moved to Florida. He showed up.
Nightmares woke her.
It took lot of doing to lock him up. He
violated probation. He crossed a state line.
Police needed persuasion to go after him.
The trial was mortifying.
Taormina disliked talking about it for
quite a while. But she was willing to
Tuesday, a few days before she will corn
pete in modern pentathlon swimming,
running, shooting, riding, fencing — and
become the first American woman to
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