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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Friday, March 9, 2018
CUMMING PLAYHOUSE
Group proposes taking over facility
Council hears presentation from
Forsyth Academy of Performing Arts
By Kelly Whitmire
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A large crowd was present
for a city of Cumming work
session on Tuesday.
During the work session,
members of the council and
Mayor Troy Brumbalow heard
a presentation by Leigh Ann
Cannady, owner and director of
Forsyth Academy of
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Hillary Smith, wife of Ryan Smith, right, demonstrates how her husband’s Life Vest works. The Life Vest,
below, is a piece of technology that can deliver a shock to the heart, in the case of a heart attack or other
cardiac events. Ryan Smith uses the device after an infection caused his heart to only function at 10 per
cent.
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By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
When they moved to Cumming in July of
2017, Hillary and Ryan Smith had high hopes
for the future. Hillary had taken a new job at
Haw Creek Elementary School, and Ryan took
over managing a battery store. With family and
work nearby, both Hillary and Ryan said that
things were looking good for their family.
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Commissioners rezone land for Eagle Point methane plant
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Amid concerns for neighbors, Forsyth
County Commissioners approved allowing a
northwest Forsyth landfill to build a new
methane conversion facility.
On Tuesday, commissioners approved
rezoning about 10 acres from Agricultural
District (A 1 to Restricted Industrial District
(M 1 for Clean Eagle LLC to build and oper
ate a methane conversion plant at Advance
Disposal’s Eagle Point Landfill and approved
changes to the county’s unified development
code to allow for such facilities.
District 4 Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills,
who represents the area, said the county had
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Performing Arts, about the
organization taking over opera
tion of the Cumming
Playhouse. No action was
taken during the meeting.
“My plan for the Playhouse
is if we are allowed to lease
that space, we would begin pro
ducing in-house work there. We
would begin producing ...
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hired two consultants to look at the facility.
She said the commission felt the first study
was not as thorough as it should be.
“So, we hired another consultant to get
more in-depth into it and to look at safety
issues, to look at placement of the plant, to
look at some of the questions that had been
raised to us,” she said. I think we did all that
so we could get to get to a comfort level that
we had done [enough.] It was new, some
thing no one had heard of doing in this coun
ty.”
The proposed refinery plant would convert
gases like methane and carbon dioxide to nat
ural gas to be sold to Atlanta Gas Light. The
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The city council and mayor heard a presen
tation Tuesday Leigh Ann Cannady, owner
and director of Forsyth Academy of
Performing Arts, about taking over opera
tion of the Cumming Playhouse.
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Commissioners approved rezoning about 10 acres from
Agricultural District to Restricted Industrial District for Clean
Eagle LLC to build and operate a methane conversion plant at
Advance Disposal’s Eagle Point Landfill.
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break-ins
By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
Forsyth County Authorities have appre
hended a 20-year-old man from Cumming in
connection with a string of thefts that targeted
unlocked vehicles in a subdivision off of John
Burruss Road late this February.
According to Cpl. Doug Rainwater, spokes
man for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office,
Nicholas Leon Hendrix was
arrested and charged with 14
felony counts of theft. He said
that they believe Hendrix is
responsible for allegedly
entering multiple vehicles in
the Carriage Walk
Subdivision off John Burruss
Road and may have stolen
guns and other valuables from
those vehicles.
Rainwater said that Hendrix was originally
taken into custody on March 2 on unrelated
charges of alleged public indecency and the
underage possession of alcohol.
An incident report from his initial arrest
said that Hendrix and another person were
allegedly observed by deputies, “parked half
way on the median and halfway in the oppo
site lane of travel ... mooning vehicles as they
passed” on Castleberry Road. _
Rainwater said that at the time of his arrest
for public indecency, Hendrix was already
being sought in connection with the vehicle
break-ins that occurred on Feb. 21.
“While he was in our jail, evidence came
back identifying [Hendrix] as the suspect
responsible for the unlawful entering of vehi
cles in the Carriage Walk Subdivision,”
Rainwater said.
According to Forsyth County Sheriff’s
Office incident reports filed on March 1,
Hendrix allegedly admitted to some of the
vehicle break-ins when he was confronted by
detectives prior to his arrest.
In the report, Deputy Green states that
Hendrix said: “OK, it was me. I did it before I
got my job back [because] I needed the
money.”
The report states that Hendrix also allegedly
handed over two iPads and a Gameboy to dep
uties that were stolen from vehicles in the
Carriage Walk Subdivision.
In the report, Green states that shoe prints
matching Hendrix’s were found at the scene
and Hendrix was allegedly caught on video at
the scene of the crimes.
Hendrix is facing 14 counts of felony theft,
one felony charge of parole violation and two
misdemeanors for public indecency and the
underage possession of alcohol.
Hendrix is currently in custody at the
Forsyth County Jail and has no bond due to
his charge of parole violation. c
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