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flo'emncilsssof ambulance deal revised
Forsyth shaves
off thousands
By Alyssa Laßenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews.com
Forsyth County scaled back the
raise for its ambulance service pro
vider during a work session Tuesday.
The county commission voted 5-0
to grant Advanced Ambulance a one
time additional 5 percent increase
this year on top of its standard annual
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Southern tour
By John McWilliams
jmewilliams@forsythnews.com
Nothing was going to stop Matt and
Ethan Chisenhall from meeting the
Atlanta Braves.
The Forsyth County father and son
pitched a tent outside of Academy
Sports + Outdoors on Peachtree
Parkway about 9 p.m. Monday.
Some 18 hours later, they were the
first of 488 fans to meet Braves play
ers Tim Hudson, Paul Janish,
Andrelton Simmons and Jonny
Venters, as well as radio personality
Don Sutton.
“We slept most of the time,” said
Matt Chisenhall, 30. “We went across
the street to Waffle House and got us
a bite to eat around 2 [a.m.].
“I’ve been a Braves fan ever since I
was his age, so I'm trying to instill the
same culture with him.”
Ethan, 10, passed the time with his
Play Station Portable as he hoped to
meet his favorite Braves player,
Simmons. The wait paid off as the
Chisenhalls got baseballs, baseball
cards and a rare 2008 Braves lottery
ticket signed.
The visit Tuesday marked the sec
ond consecutive year the Braves cara
van has stopped in Forsyth County.
This year, however, it served to launch.
the 15-stop tour of the Southeast.
Cindy Moon wasn’t going to make
the same mistake twice. Moon, 58,
came late in 2012 and was turned
away. This year, the Dalton native was
so excited she awoke at 4 a.m., well
before her alarm clock, and started to
get ready.
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3 percent hike.
After that, the company will
receive only the agreed upon annual
increase for the duration of the five
year contract, said County Attorney
Ken Jarrard.
The agreement trims the amount
the county will pay Advanced
Ambulance for 2013 by $19,000,
from nearly $67,000 to $48,000.
Over the course of the five-year
deal, the county will spend about
$307,000 less than what was origi
nally agreed to in November.
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Photos by Jared Putnam Forsyth County News
Atlanta Braves shortstop Andrelton Simmons signs a baseball bat
for Cindy Moon of Dalton on Tuesday at Academy Sports +
Qutdoors. Below, Aidan Kanazawa, 4, smiles after talking to Hall of
Famer and current radio sportscaster Don Sutton.
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She arrived at 8:30 a.m. wearing a
Braves jacket and a necklace with the
words “I love baseball!” to find fans
wrapped around the building.
“I was still a little bit nervous,”
Moon said of the line. “But I thought
I'd be OK”
She was. Moon got Simmons and
Janish to sign a bat, while the rest of
the team signed balls.
Originally not a baseball fan, Moon
became a Braves follower at age 21
when her aunt made her watch the
team on TV.
“She watched them religiously, so
she got me hooked on them,” Moon
said. “We got season tickets and got a
[skybox]. We ended up going to a lot
of games.
*1 was a Braves fan when they were
pathetic. Now, this was before the
World Series and the playoffs. I've
been with them through thick and
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Braves relief pitcher Jonny Venters
lives in Forsyth County, so the drive
to Academy Sports was easy.
“It’s awesome,” Venters said. “Our
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Board OKs sidewalks
By Alyssa Laßenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews.com
A south Forsyth sidewalk
project became concrete
Tuesday.
The Forsyth County
commission voted 4-1,
with Jim Boss opposed, to
begin construction of the
planned pedestrian paths.
house is 10 minutes from here, so it’s
cool to get up here and see some of
the guys at Academy [Sports] when I
come in to get some hunting stuff. It’s
cool to be right in my backyard.”
Although Venters made the All-Star
team in 2011 and has a 2.23 career
earned run average, he’s practically
anonymous.
“I don’t really get recognized too
much,” Venters said. “I come in here
to Academy quite a bit, so some of the
people who work here kind of recog
nize me. But [I don’t get recognized]
too often just by random fans.”
Aidan Kanazawa may have been
the happiest to see the Braves. The
4-year-old perfectly pronounced the
name of his favorite player, Simmons,
and let everyone know he played
Little League baseball.
“He’s the best shortstop,”
Kanazawa said of Simmons. “I play
all the positions, [but my favorite is]
shortstop.
“I've been to the Braves games a lot
of times. I'm going to play for the
Braves.”
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Ga. 400 will
provide traffic
information.
School and Caney Creek
Preserve greenspace park.
The pedestrian projects
received voter approval in
two rounds of the special
purpose local option sales
tax, or SPLOST.
Brookwood Road side
walks were included in the
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The vote was “time sen
sitive,” which allows the
work session action to be
final, rather than shifting to
the next regular meeting
for a second vote.
About 1.5 miles of side
walks on Brookwood and
Caney roads will connect
the residential area with the
Brookwood Elementary
Residents
riled over
Planning officials .
OK measure 3-2
By Alyssa Laßenzie
alarenzie@forsythnews.com :
Forsyth County’s planning board has rec
ommended approval of a contested condi
tional use permit for a kennel associated with
a dog training business in west Forsyth.
Planning commissioners on Tuesday voted
3-2, with Joe Moses and Craig Nolen
opposed, to support the permit for a
900-square-foot kennel on 1.5 acres of agri
culturally zoned property.
The recommendation will go to the county
commission for a final vote, scheduled for
Feb. 22.
Lisa Matthews, an established dog trainer
who owns the Dogwood Lane home, wants
the permit so she can conduct classes there,
which sometimes requires keeping dogs
overnight as part of the training, attorney
Ethan Underwood said.
Matthews runs Pawsitive Practice
Training, which operates throughout the
north Atlanta metro area.
The application originally sought to allow
up to 10 dogs at a time, Underwood said, but
that was lowered to six dogs from four cus
tomers after nearly 30 neighbors opposed the
plan at a public participation meeting.
Underwood said Matthews wants to be a
good neighbor, and so proposed conditions
to address concerns.
“This use is appropriate for this zoning
category, but given the surrounding area, the
specific circumstances, we want to come
back in the public forum to consider certain
conditions to ameliorate the impact on
neighbors,” he said, describing the condition
al use permit process.
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Other business
Also onTuesday, the planning
commission recommended approv
al of the following:
*Two rezoning applications for
Walton Bluegrass. The first would
move a commercial business dis
trict closer to the Big Creek
Greenway to allow for construction
of a trailhead on McFarland Parkway
at Shiloh Road. The second would
move the proposed 23 apartments
to join the remaining Residential-6
zoning for a total of 300 units.
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