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For the Forsyth County News
LOU SOBH KIA BREAKS GROUND
Ground was recently broken for a Lou Sobh Kia dealership off Buford Road
(Hwy. 20) in Forsyth County. Among those taking part in the ceremony were,
from left, Georgia Sobh, Laurie Sobh, Lou Sobh and Mike Sobh. The new
dealership will be next door to Lou Sobh Honda, which opened at the end of
2013. Company officials have said the Kia dealership could open in March or
April. During a recent event, Mike Sobh said he hopes the Kia dealership
experiences the same level of success as the Honda facility. “It's been a very
successful beginning,” he said. “We merged a great county and a great area
with a great manufacturer, and it's just a recipe for success.”
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media — print products combining with
video and mobile and social media,
reaching our community in as many
ways as possible.”
Featuring two stories from the com
munity, Studio Forsyth will run 6 to 8
minutes per episode, a much shorter
time span than a traditional broadcast
news program.
“We want to value people’s time,”
Johnson said. “Especially on the
Internet, attention spans are getting
shorter and shorter. We want to engage
with our community and provide resi
dents with the information they desire in
an as efficient way as possible. We
believe Studio Forsyth does that.”
Studio Forsyth is the latest in a grow
ing number of video shows on forsyth
news.com, a platform that has engaged
many local viewers.
“We've had a great response from the
community thus far,” said Josh Sutton,
director of video production. “Students
and parents have really gotten behind
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the things we’re doing with schools and
sports, and Studio Forsyth should really
just take it to another level.”
Kevin Atwill, editor of the Forsyth
County News, agreed.
“There are many stories to tell in
Forsyth County, and Studio Forsyth
gives us another way to reach readers.
We’re looking forward to seeing what it
can become,” Atwill said.
In partnership with the Forsyth
County News, Studio Forsyth is made
possible by Country Folks Superstore,
Georgia Highlands Medical Services
and the Cumming-Forsyth Chamber of
Commerce.
Today’s premier episode will feature a
history of the Cumming Country Fair &
Festival and an insider’s look at the
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office training
for a worst-case scenario of a gunman at
a school.
The host of each show is Jennifer
Pointer, a digital sales specialist for for
sythnews.com.
“We're excited to get this going,”
Pointer said. “It’s been fun creating this
show, and we’re ready to show it to our
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Alcohol checks rise in wake
of Forsyth student’s death
By Al Hackle
From the Statesboro Herald
STATESBORO — Police and city offi
cials acknowledge that officers have done
more compliance checks targeting alcohol
sales to people under age 21 since the
Aug. 28 death of a Georgia Southemn stu
dent from Forsyth County after a violent
encounter at a now closed bar.
The added compliance checks, said
Statesboro Public Safety Director Wendell
Tumer, are an effort to measure the extent
of the community’s problem with under
age drinking.
“Is there a legitimate underage drinking
problem? I mean, that’s our question,”
Turner said. “The community says,
‘Obviously, there is.””
Turner and Lt. Robert Bryan, com
mander of the Statesboro Police
Department’s Investigations Bureau, talk
ed about the compliance checks and relat
ed issues in a Sept. 19 interview at the
Statesboro Herald. Mayor Jan Moore, by
phone, joined in a portion of the conversa
tion.
This week, police supplied a summary,
backed by a list of incident reports, show
ing the number of underage alcohol cita
tions and incidents for 2011-14.
From Jan. 1, 2013, through Sept. 9,
2014, city police issued 383 citations for
possession of alcohol by people under age
21, as well as 40 citations for selling alco
hol to underage people. Most of the cita
tions for selling were issued in 2013.
This proves a point Turner and Bryan
made in the interview — that police have
been doing compliance checks all along.
But police do not deny that the death of
Micheal Gatto, 18, has focused new atten
tion on underage drinking.
Gatto, a recent South Forsyth High
graduate and Georgia Southem University
freshman, was two weeks into his college
experience when he died as a result of his
injuries.
Police charged James Grant Spencer,
20, of Johns Creek, identified as a bouncer
at Rude Rudy’s, with aggravated battery
and felony murder.
Wednesday, what was to have been an
alcohol license hearing before city council
ended with a settlement in which Rude
Rudy’s owner Jonathan Earl Starkey sur
rendered his license and agreed never to
apply for another in Statesboro.
Meanwhile, after hearing from Georgia
Southern students, some of whom knew
Gatto and were motivated to come for
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ward, Turner said, police are taking broad
er look at drinking age compliance.
“What we’ve done over the last two
weeks, three weeks, since Michael’s death
is, we’ve put a plan together to determine
whether there is a legitimate problem of
underage drinking, specifically,” Turner
said.
In the process, all 86 alcoholic beverage
licensees in the city limits are subject to
random checks by police, including in
some cases, undercover 20-year-old offi
cers, Tumer and Bryan said.
Those 86 businesses include places
such as supermarkets and convenience
stores, as well as restaurants with pouring
licenses. /
“Are we going to check every licensee,
all 86, all the different ones? Probably not
... We’re going to try to do a good, random
sample so that we can report back to
council on where’s the baseline,” Turner
said.
Another question to be answered, he
said, is where the problem is located,
whether it is more pronounced around the
university or extends to traditional restau
rants across town.
Tumer plans to deliver a comprehensive
report to the mayor and council, sizing up
the problem and proposing a response.
“That’s going to be a proposal as well,
how are we going to monitor this problem
with the resources that we have,” he said.
With all the attention after Gatto’s
death, crowds have reportedly been small
er at drinking establishments near cam
pus. Police have noticed it and say they
are concerned about underage alcohol
consumption shifting elsewhere, such as
fraternity and sorority houses and private
parties.
“We have been teaming up with the
University Police Department since the
28th [of August] ... and we’re looking at
all avenues of being able to check any
places,” Bryan said. “Where we keep see
ing that there’s a less number of folks at
licensed establishments, well, are they
going somewhere else? What is our
response going to be to those?”
However, Bryan and Turner acknowl
edged that police generally cannot drop in
and perform age checks at house parties.
But complaints about noise or disturbanc
es give them the opportunity.
“Anytime there has been a complaint of
noise, etc., officers always respond, and a
lot of the underage possession citations
that you see historically come from things
such as that,” Bryan said.
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