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Recent high school graduates attend¬
ed a Forsyth-Cumming Optimist Club
meeting, where each received $1,000
scholarship recognizing their
achievements.
Club finds
reason for
optimism
Scholarship recipients
show character, poise
By Jennifer Sami
|sami®for sythnews.com
School may be out for summer, bfit that
didn't stop nine teenagers from waking
up early Thursday morning
The recent high school graduates
attended a Forsyth-Cumming Optimist
Club meeting, where each received
$1,000 scholarship recognizing their
achievements.
"That's a lot of money coming from a
little club," said Gary Beard, club presi¬
dent. “But we have big hearts and we're
Optimists."
All of the county’s five public high
schools were represented Kathy Wigley.
guidance counselor at North Forsyth,
introduced her school's two recipients,
Tosha M Brown and Ruth M. Landino
She described Brown, who plans to
study education at Kennesaw State
University, as having “strong convic¬
tions."
"But she goes about it just quietly,
politely doing what she believes is right."
Wigley said
Landino is set to attend Gainesville
State University, where she will be work¬
ing toward a degree in nursing
In her essay, Landino, a Mexican
American, wrote she will be the first per¬
son in her family to attend college Doing
so, will "prove and show gratitude to my
family in bringing me to this country."
"Whatever it is they could not be, 1 can
demonstrate that thetr eldest child can
and will achieve it," she wrote
Forsyth Central’s Conner M Gcraghty
was introduced to Optimists by Charles
McGahee, who has known Gcraghty
through performing together at the
Sounds of Sawnee concert band
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Filters hold up expansion of treatment plant
By Alyaaa LaBanzia
alaren;ie®forsythnew$ com
The planned expansion of
a Forsyth County wastewater
treatment plant has been
delayed as a decision on
what type of filter to use has
muddied the situation.
County commissioners
gave tentative approval in
April, but pulled back later
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GOP breakfast
Groups welcome attorney general
By Jennifer Semi
jsami®fofsythnews com
Cieorgia’s chief atlomey will be
guest speaker at a breakfast by
morning organized several
Republican groups.
Attorney General Sam Olens
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Jackie Gaskins gives a tour of the the Remnant Youth and Community Center, set to open tonight. The
center is a safe place for teenagers to hang out.
Couples turn
old store into
youth spot
By Crystal Ladford
cledtord®forsythnews com
Four couples are hoping to
breathe new life into a former store
site in northern Forsyth County.
Jackie Gaskins said she, husband
Tim and the three other couples —
who all attend Freedom Tabernacle,
a nondcnominational church on
that month. The issue was
again delayed after another
contentious discussion in
late May.
Officials hope to resolve
the issue during a work ses¬
sion Tuesday and move for¬
ward with the bchind-schcd
ulc expansion of the Fowler
Wastewater Treatment Plant
The filters, commonly
referred to in the industry as
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membranes, help separate
materials in the treatment
process.
The county's latgcst sew¬
age treatment facility,
Fowler opened in 2004 under
a "design, build, operate
contract" with Metcalf &
Eddy, now AECOM.
While Forsyth County
owns the plant. AECOM
handles the daily operations
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address a joint event of the Forsyth
County Republican Party, the
Republican Women of Forsyth County
the and the Forsyth County Young
Republicans,
The meeting begins at 8 a.m. in the
Cumming Playhouse. Food will be
served at Tam’s Backstage, downstairs
Freedom Parkway — started talking
a few months ago about creating a
place for youth to spend time
"We had this vision to have a safe
place for kids to hang out on Friday
and Saturday night, and to have a
place during the week, for at least
one night a week, where they can
come and hang out and study or
whatever," Gaskins said.
In January, the couples — who
include Brian and Becky Bryant,
Jeff and Robin Hughes, and Eric
and Ashley Bennett — were able to
secure the site of the old 'Jot Em
Down Store, where the road meets
Hwy. 306. near the Hall County
line
and receives monthly pay¬
ments based on the amount
of flow sent to the facility,
said Tim Perkins, county
director of water and sewer
The more than 20-year
contract, signed in 2002,
called for an expansion of
the plant when the county
needed it.
Though originally expect¬
ed to start about 2006. the
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Olympics.
from the theater.
The three groups recently decided to
collaborate on bringing speakers into
the county, said Ethan Underwood,
chairman of the local Republican Party.
“We wanted to try to have Saturday
meetings so that we could make it more
available for folks and that has been the
case," he said. “We've actually had
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Gaskins, the mother of four
daughters, said the center is an off¬
shoot of her work leading Virtuous
Girls for God. Inspired by a chil¬
dren's book she wrole. the ministry
helps girls learn to use their talents
to glorify God.
“1 have four girls, so my heart is
really for girls," she said. "But then
1 was like, 'What about the boys?
You can't leave them out either. "
That's where the new facility,
called the Remnant Youth and
Community Center, comes into
play.
The center will open to youth for
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slowed growth of the county
pushed back the expansion,
which was scheduled to
come online in August,
Perkins said
The contract laid out terms
for the responsibility of the
county and the operator in
paying for the 2.5 million
gallon per day increase in
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