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For the Forsyth County News
Feeding a need
UNG to provide
free summer
meals for kids
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Local schools and colleges are
banding together this summer to
provide free meals to children in
need throughout Forsyth County
and north Georgia.
When students from low
income families are not in class
for the summer, the free or
reduced price meals they receive
also stop.
“A lot of times, kids don’t have
access to a well-balanced meal
every day, so this provides them
this opportunity. It keeps them
going through the summer,” said
Valerie Bowers. food and nutrition
Coco’s Cuban Restaurant meal
named among best in state
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Listed on Georgia Tourismss
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100 Plates Locals Love
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Residents in Forsyth County may assume they
need to take a trip to Atlanta to grab the best
grub around, but one local restaurant caught
attention this week when a menu item was
named one of the best dishes in the state.
The Cuban sandwich at Coco’s Cuban
Restaurant, which is located at 1240 Buford
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director for Forsyth County
Schools. “It’s highly important
that they keep up their health and
well-being so that when school
comes around they can come back
well-nourished and ready to get
back to school”
The University of North
Georgia is participating in a sum
mer food program that distributes
meals at a number of locations in
six counties, serving thousands of
meals and helping to fill the gap
left by the absence of school
meals.
“1 think last year about 40,000
meals were distributed through the
whole program,” Bowers said.
The school system works with
UNG to make meals from a local
school Kitchen that program staff
pick up and deliver at listed sites.
“Lunches have to meet meal
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Highway in Cumming, was named on the 2016
*IOO Plates Locals Love,” a list created by the
Georgia Department of Economic
Development’s tourism division.
In a review cited on the list, the meal is a “tra
ditional, authentic Cuban sandwich on freshly
baked Cuban bread, served with the best rice
and beans.”
“It’s not surprising that that would be the
case.” said James McCoy, president and CEO of
the Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of
Commerce. “We are a great community, and
people are very proud of their local businesses
and their local companies.”
The “100 Plates Locals Love” is in its second
annual distribution and is featured in Georgia
Eats, the state’s culinary guide. It was created
“as a way to provide visitors with locally
sourced suggestions, the same way we would
recommend restaurants to our family and
friends.”
McCoy said the Chamber works “almost
exclusively on growing private business invest
ment in the community™ and that restaurants and
food tourism are a top priority to grow over resi
dential, along with commercial and other non
residential growth.
Almost 600 plates were nominated and evalu
ated by a panel of judges in November 2015.
Coco’s Cuban Restaurant was listed in the
Northeast Georgia Mountains division.
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The University of North
Georgia will deliver free
lunches to any child
aged 0-18 at the follow
ing locations and times:
* Cumming Elementary
School, 520 Dahlonega St.:
Lunch today from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m.
* Forsyth County school bus
at the Saxony Place
Apartments parking lot, 101-
103 14th St.: Lunch weekdays
from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.,
June 1-July 29
* Forsyth County school bus
at Bald Ridge, 105 Ridgeview
Circle: Lunch weekdays from
12:30-1:30 p.m., June 1-July
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Local businesses
increase export
State: most of U.S. exporting
firms are small companies
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Ken Bass of Radarsign Inc., a Forsyth County company that
produces speed detection and other safety signs, had a simple
question for local business owners thinking of expanding over
seas.
“Is there anybody here who is thinking about exporting right
now?” he asked the group.
He also had a simple answer.
“... If you are, you're in the state to do it.”
Bass was one of several business owners on hand Wednesday
morning for the Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of
Commerce’s International Engagement breakfast at Keller
Williams Reality off of Lake Center Parkway.
The focus of the meeting was o inform business owners of
the importance of exporting
and resources available from
the state.
“There is the perception
that the barriers to entering
the international market are
very high,” said Mary Waters,
of the Georgia Department of
Economic Development.
“But then you couple that
with the fact that 98 percent
of all exporting firms in the
United States are small busi
ness. What aie those compa
nies doing? What is the miss
ing link? And I would argue
that that missing link is
access to resources, particu
larly to small businesses.”
Waters said businesses new
to exporting work with the state department and their partners,
including government agencies and local chambers of com
merce, to give owners “‘the nuts and bolts, understanding what
they need to know, what they need to think about a global busi
ness plan for their company.”
Bass said his company, which recently won $5,000 from the
Atlanta Metro Export Challenge, had concerns over exporting
until his company started noticing wcbsite visits from other
countries, including Canada.
He began working with the University of Georgia’s Small
Business Development Center, which he said gave him access
to knowledge and resources he wouldn't otherwise have.
“If you're going to export. I would start here.” Bass said.
“You have all these experts coming up and telling you how to
do this stuff, telling you all the *gotchas™ and how to get around
them.”
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County taxes not
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expected to increase
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
The Forsyth County commission received positive news
this week when members heard an update on the 2017
budget. S . :
During Tuesday’s work session. com
missioners were informed next year’s
budget is projecting a surplus for general
fund items that provide the same services
to the community as this year. They voted
5-0 to set the advertised total county mill
age rate at 8.036 mills -the same as this
year.
The projected same-service budget.
which does not include any new items. for
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general fund expenditures is projected at $114.2 million,
and the total general fund revenue is expected to come in
around $115.8 million.
Both of those numbers are an increase from this year’s
general fund expenditures and revenues both $108.92 mil
lion.
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