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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013
DECA prepares for
prom fashion show
By Jennifor Sami
jsami@forsythnews.com
The South Forsyth
High DECA chapter is
taking fashion to the big
top.
Featuring the theme
“Southside Circus,” the
DECA Prom Fashion
Show is set for 5:30 and
8 p.m. Thursday at the
school’s performing arts
center.
“I worked behind the
scenes last year, and I'm
excited to actually model
in the show this year,”
said Drew Cudjoe, a
fashion marketing stu
dent. “It will be one of
the highlights of my
senior year.”
Students in DECA, as
well as the school’s fash
ion marketing and sports
and entertainment mar
keting classes, have been
planning the production
since August.
The students created
the theme, choreography
and props for the show,
which is the club’s annu
al fundraiser. The pro
ceeds help DECA mem-
Contact
Tickets to “Southside Circus” are $7 and can be
purchased at the events, which are set for 5:40 and
8 p.m.Thursday in South Forsyth High School’s
performing arts center. For more information, or
advance tickets, call (770) 781-2264, Ext. 100213.
bers attend conferences
and competitions.
Nancy Ruff, marketing
instructor and DECA
adviser, said the event
challenges students to
produce a revenue-gener
ating professional fash
ion show.
They have to raise
money beyond ticket
sales, including a basket
giveaway and top model
contest during the event.
The contest will be
judged by Miss United
States 2010 Jessica
Black, who will choose
Miss Ringimaster, the
female model with the
best stage personality
and poise.
There will also be a $1
per vote audience-select
ed top male and female
model.
“Modeling in this show
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It was Bruce Stevenson’s first alliance
meeting, but he was impressed with the
speaker.
“She was brilliant. She was just trying
to convey the tea party’s strategy in orga
nizing it ... and it was inspiring to hear
the effort, commitment and passion,” he
said. “It’s a needed movement in the
country right now.”
Sabrina Mao found Martin “right on
target” on her effort to cut spending.
“It’s not a matter of limiting the debt or
raising the ceiling, it’s not. That’s not
how we’re going to solve the problem,”
Mao said. “We have to stop spending.
“[Martin] was wonderful. We need
people like that to get people to know the
message and to know what’s going on.
Because a lot of people are just not
happy about it, but they just don’t know
what to do. Jenny came over and let us
know what they are doing and what we
can do and I think that helps a lot.”
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school spirit and look
good at the same times,”
said senior Mark Illescas.
In addition to fundrais
ing, the fashion show
will also support Perfect
Prom, a Forsyth Junior
Service League charity
program designed to help
senior girls who need
financial help to attend
the big spring dance.
Money will also be
collected for the Aflac
Children’s Cancer Center
in honor of South
Forsyth junior and
DECA member Katielee
Kaner, who was diag
nosed with bone cancer
last spring.
Kaner, who’s been
receiving treatments at
the center for several
months, will be one of
the models Thursday.
avoid past distractions such as 99 percent
railies and birth-control issues. She said
even the gun control battle, which fol
lowed a mass shooting at a Connecticut
elementary school last month, should
take a back seat to fiscal issues.
According to Martin, even if President
Barack Obama decides to use his execu
tive power to alter gun control laws, the
fight is out of their hands. The alliance
movement, she said, should stop reacting
and be on the offensive.
“We got distracted and when we got
distracted, it allowed the opposition to
gain control of the messaging,” she said.
“And if we’re not careful right now — if
we don’t look at what we did right and
where we fell short and how we can do
better — we’re going to fall right back
into that trap.
“Let’s focus on the right battle at the
right time with the right message. And
then when we get through with the bat
tles that we need to fight, we can come
back and go to those other battles.
“It’s going to take a lot of work, but
I’'m not going away and I don’t think you
guys are either and together we can and
we will restore our constitution.”
Chase, crash lead
to many charges
By Alyssa Laßenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews.com
A Sunday evening chase on Matt
Highway in north Forsyth ended soon
after it began when the vehicle
flipped several times and landed in a
ditch.
According to the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office, the 22-year-old driv
er, David Michael Morgan, and pas
senger Amanda Shannon Cooper, 27,
both of Mockingbird Road, were
taken to North Fulton Hospital with
minor injuries.
Morgan faces 11 charges, all misde
meanors, including fleeing or attempt
ing to elude and reckless driving. He
also was cited for driving with a sus
pended license, expired registration,
failure t¢ maintain insurance and not
Blaze ruled accidental
By Alyssa Laßenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews.com
A fire that destroyed a homé automotive
workshop Thursday in east Forsyth has
been ruled an accident.
Forsyth County Fire Div. Chief Jason
Shivers said investigators are “absolutely
confident” that the blaze on Samples Road
was unintentional, though the specific
cause is unknown.
*“There’s nothing about it that was suspi
cious,” Shivers said. “The exact cause of
origin is yet to be determined and likely
will not be able to be found just because of
the extensive damage to the utilities of the
building”’ ,
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was not established to be a revenue
producing department.
“It’s a service department and that’s
where the emphasis is put by the elected
officials of the city of Cumming,” he said.
“One of the things that I have heard our
elected officials say is, “‘We’d rather see
you [as a police officer] helping somebody
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wearing a seat belt.
Cooper has been charged with per
mitting an unlicensed person to drive,
according to the sheriff’s office.
The incident began about 7:15 p.m.
Sunday when a sheriff’s patrol car,
traveling west on the highway, was
nearly struck by an eastbound 2000
Mercury Sable driven by Morgan as it
passed in oncoming traffic.
As the deputy turned around to stop
the car, he estimated the Sable reached
up to 100 mph as it passed other vehi
cles on the right shoulder, according
to sheriff’s report.
The deputy lost sight of the Sable
around the first turn, before finding it
in a ditch near Magnolia Creek Drive.
According to the report, one witness
“saw the vehicle flip three to four
times after it had passed him.”
Without knowing what sparked the
blaze, Shivers said interviews, 911 calls
and the circumstances surrounding the
incident led to the conclusion that the fire
The flames charred the two-story shop,
which was behind a home on Samples,
near Buford Dam Road and not far from
Lake Lanier. Also lost in the fire were
seven classic cars, all of which dated to the
1960 s or before.
No one was home or in the workshop at
the time of the blaze, which occurred
about 10:45 a.m. Thursday.
The incident triggered severai 911 calls,
with reports of explosions and a large col
umn of black smoke, Shivers said.
with a flat tire than writing a ticket.””
But both Tatum and Blackbum were
quick to point out that it’s still possible
to get a speeding ticket in Cumming.
“They don’t have to have radar to
write tickets and nobody is restricting
those officers and saying, ‘Don’t write
tickets,”” Blackburn said.
Added Tatum: “Now if [officers] see
somebody that’s obviously speeding and
weaving in and out of traffic, yes,
they’'re going to stop them. And that
constitutes reckless driving, so it all bal
ances out.”
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