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-Experts say tackling the emotions of
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder early is critical
This multi-part series examines
how post-traumatic stress disorder,
or PTSD, affects local first respond
ers, to tell their stories and see how
they cope with a problem that’s just
now being truly uncovered.
This week examines how former
Forsyth County Firefighter Matthew
Jones left the fire department and
his struggle to get help for his
PTSD.
Next week, the FCN concludes
Jones' story and examines what
experts in Georgia say about getting
help for post-traumatic stress.
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On the day that former Forsyth
County Firefighter Matthew
Jones was thrown out of his house
by his wife, his parents were sure
that he was going to kill himself.
Jones had been heading down a
dark path for a long time, but
according to his mother, Sharon, this
seemed final, different, scary.
“That night he went to the woods
and of course we were scared to
death that he was going to kill him
self,” Sharon Jones said. “The only
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thing that kept Matthew alive was a
dog that he had with him.
Eventually he came to our house
and it was months of him lying in
bed, crying and drinking.”
Once a seasoned firefighter, with
hundreds, if not thousands of hours
of training and years of experience
responding to the worst situations
imaginable, Matthew Jones had
been broken after living through one
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Publix
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsthnews.com
A new grocery store and large-scale
development are coming to north Forsyth.
At a meeting on Thursday, Forsyth
County Commissioners voted unanimous
ly to approve a county-initiated request to
rezone 119 acres northeast of the intersec
tion of Matt Highway (Hwy. 369) and
Bannister Road from commercial busi
ness district, CBD, and master planned
district, or MPD, to fully MPD for a
development including a Publix grocery
store as the main tenant.
“Publix is the lead tenant here,” said
Charlie Heard, vice president of develop
ment for Retail Planning Corporation.
“We've got interconnectivity we've added
in the last couple of days. We’ve got one
connection via a 10-foot sidewalk, and
today we agreed to add another 10-foot
sidewalk that connects another of the por
tion of the residential subdivision to the
commercial portion.
“I’ve been in this business 35 years; if
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of Diwali
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By Brian Paglia
Bpaglia@forsythnews.com
It was almost 6:30 p.m., and Sri
Karthick Dixit, the founder of Shiva
Durga Temple, greeted the first devotees
for an evening service on Friday, four
men who had called Dixit asking for
directions to the temple just minutes ear
lier.
“Namaste,” Dixit said.
The Shiva Durga Temple is hard to
find. Activities started last month in one
unit of a small warehouse off Bethelview
Road in west Forsyth County, but it won’t
be hard to find for long. Across the street
is a sign designating the temple’s future
home, the plans for which hang on the
wall inside the current location.
That will be the fourth Hindu temple in
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