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SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2016
Local music composer featured in movie
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
It’s rare to hear music from
Forsyth County on the big
screen. Some might even call it
an anomaly.
Local music composer Mark
Kueffner recently recorded the
score or music for the upcom
ing film, “Anomaly,” using tal
ent from the Sounds of Sawnee
Concert Band.
“It’s a mix of me on the key
boards and some live musi
cians,” Kueffner said. “It was
really nice to use some local
musicians.”
The film is currently in the
process of trying to get picked
up for worldwide release and
was directed by Webster
Batista.
Though featuring local
music, moviegoers should
make sure they know the film’s
subject matter.
“It’s a horror movie. It’s
about spirits and a house that is
occupied by spirits,” Kueffner
said. “It kind of falls along the
lines of [horror movies]
Swope the only candidate to qualify District 2
rare, though not unheard
of, for a non-incumbent
candidate to run unop
posed.
A write-in candidate
could possibly get in the
race, but that seems
unlikely.
“At this time we do not
see anybody going
against Rick Swope,”
Luth said. “There is a
write-in capability, but we
haven’t even had anybody
go against him as a write
in. There was one inter
ested in going, but from
an email I got, he has
abandoned his campaign
for that district.”
She said the district
has more than 28,000 reg
istered voters.
The seat has long been
held by Commissioner
Brian Tam, who decided
to not seek re-election.
He was first elected in
2004.
Swope has lived in
Forsyth County for 17
years and is co-founder of
Pro Market Advisors —
an education, training and
consulting firm.
Recently, he has been
working to get ahead at
his new position by meet
ing with county officials
to learn some of the ins
and outs.
“Last week, I had the
opportunity to spend the
day literally going around
from department to
department meeting
everybody from Fire
Chief [Danny] Bowman
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
With three conty com
mission seats on this
year’s ballot, it has been a
busy elections year in
Forsyth County. But one
race has looked different
than the rest.
Plids trict 4
Commissioner Cindy
Jones Mills successfully
faced a challenge, and
three candidates regis
tered for the District 5
race, but Rick Swope was
the only candidate to
qualify for south
Forsyth’s District 2 seat.
He is presumably the dis
trict’s next commissioner.
As for being the only
candidate to qualify,
Swope said his faith
keeps him from being too
surprised.
“My gut reaction would
be to say, ‘Yes, it shocked
me,” but here’s one thing
you're going to learn
about me: I'm a man of
faith, and I don’t shy
away from that,” he said.
“We were praying for
affirmation in that way. |
believe like many of our
forefathers ... that God
directs the affairs of gov
ernment as well as man.
“If you believe that,
then if there is a door that
needs to be opened, He'll
open it, if not, He’ll close
it.”
Barbara Luth, supervi
sor of voter registrations
and elections, said it is
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During the meeting,
there were several “open”
items still on the budget,
which had neither been
recommended by the
committee nor removed.
For new budget items
in the general fund, salary
increases for state court
judges and the county
solicitor were removed
for a savings of about
$16,872.
New items and positions
that will be discussed later
were for an assistant solic
itor, deputy county man
ager, and a specialist for
the process of the county
potentially joining the fed
eral department of
Housing and Urban
Development.
In capital replacement
items, maintenance to the
Barker house was cut in
half and a request for a
new van for criminal
transport was removed,
though some funding will
be given for repairs.
Those reductions saved
about $44,500.
New cars and insurance
for the sheriff’s office was
approved, as was a fund
ing for the Dial-a-ride pro
gram. The committee will
discuss replacing comput
ers for the sheriff’s office,
sheriff’s radio upgrades
and a potential change for
salaries at a later date.
Some committee mem
bers favored not using
those saved funds for any
other new projects.
Another change will
stabilize funding for the
elections department, rath
er than fluctuating
between election and non
election years.
Dave Gruen, chief
financial officer for the
county, said the county is
expected to bring in about
$116.4 million in general
fund revenues.
Taxes are not expected
to increase this year, and
the county’s millage rate
will likely stay at 8.036
mills —the same as this
year.
The budget committee
comprises Gruen, Doug
Derres and
Commissioners Pete
Amos, Brian Tam, Todd
Levent and Cindy Jones
Mills.
The budget will come
back before commission
ers during their June 28
meeting.
‘lnsidious’ or ‘“The Conjuring.’”
Kueffner said this will be his
third horror movie, but has pro
vided music for projects includ
ing animated movies, docu
mentaries, action films and TV
shows.
He said after years of playing
and recording all types of
music he wanted to do some
thing new.
“About three years ago, I
really got the bug to do the
movie thing,” he said. “I really
started studying real hard about
three or four years ago, and it
just seemed the next logical
thing.”
Sounds of Sawnee member
Tom Davis played bassoon for
the film, which he said exceed
ed his expectations.
“When I first heard about this
session, the thought that actual
ly went through my mind was
that this was some kind of
backyard, self-filmed thing, but
it’s not,” Davis said. “It has
really good production values,
so this was kind of cool.”
He was one of several wood
wind musicians from the group
through the county man
ager to department direc
tors and heads,” Swope
said: Part of that
involved meeting with
folks, talking with them
and just getting the first
level of understanding
for how everything fits
together and what people
do.”
Once in office, Swope
said he wants to take a
hard look at economic
development and said he
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to record for the movie and said
the process was a bit different
for the group.
“The interesting thing about
thinks the county could
be an economic hotbed.
“I think we have some
tremendous opportunities
for making Forsyth
County a destination for
business of all varieties,”
he said. ““I think we could
have international head
quarters here. I think we
could have light industri
al. I think we could have
entrepreneurial business.”
Until then, Swope said
he will continue talking
ForsythNews.com | FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS |:
Local music composer
Mark Kueffner recently
recorded the score for
the upcoming film,
“Anomaly,” using tal
ent from the Sounds
of Sawnee Concert
Band.
For the FCN
this kind of recording is it has
to be absolutely, just unbeliev
ably, precise,” Davis said.
“Usually we're worried about
to residents and officials
to prepare to represent the
district. He said he has
noticed one thing while
talking to members of the
community.
“1 think the thing that is
becoming most clear to
me in the process is that
we can't over-communi
cate,” he said. “Much of
what I see of as conflict
has so much of its roots
in lack of communica
tion.”
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‘“The interesting
thing about this
kind of recording
is it has to be
absolutely, just
unbelievably,
precise.”
Mark Kueffner
Music composer
getting all the notes in, and this
time we were worried about
being exactly together and pre
cises
Davis said the band is always
looking for new projects and, in
one way, he is looking forward
to the end of the movie.
“It’s certainly an opportuni
ty,” he said. “My understanding
is that we’re going to get screen
credit for this, so all the people
that stay and watch all the cred
its at the end, I'm certain there
will be a blurb.”
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Rick Swope