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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Missing Johns Creek woman found dead
Located in parking garage at hospital
By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
The body of a Johns Creek
woman missing since last week has
been recovered by local authorities.
According to Deputy Chief
Aletha Barrett of the Cumming
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Volunteers Sherri and Trey Chadwick pose with
prepared bags of food that will go home with
Chestatee Elementary School students so they
can eat over the weekend.
One couple’s
late-night run
students
By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
When local resident Jeremy Skinner walked into a
Rotary Club of Forsyth County meeting earlier this
month and remembered that he was supposed to
bring in food to help the students of Chestatee
Elementary School but had forgotten, he knew he
had to do something.
“Of course, I roll into Rotary 15-20 minutes late,
look at the table, see all the canned goods and think
yeah, “You're a [jerk],” Skinner said.
Skinner said that the club had gotten word that a
program at the elementary school that sends more
than 70 students in need home with food every
weekend was seriously low on supplies for its stu
dents. Skinner said that he felt awful about forget
ting to bring food for a school that his child goes to,
that he went to, and that most of his extended family
went to when they were young.
Knowing the food was being taken that night or
early the next morning, he said he knew whatever he
was going to do needed to happen that night.
“So 1 called my wife, told her what had happened,
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need to pay for the food
for the school,” and [the
cashier] kind of glanced
up, looked over at the shift
manager and said not to
worry about it ... go feed
those kids.”
Jeremy Skinner
Member,
Rotary Club of Forsyth County
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Police Department, the body of
64-year-old Carol Smith was found
on Sunday afternoon inside her
2015 Honda Odyssey, which was
parked in the parking deck of
Northside Hospital Forsyth.
Smith was reported missing on
Nov. 5, 2018, after she left her resi-
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Local businessman Carter Patterson spent the day at Alliance Academy for Innovation on Monday
as part of the Principal for a Day program. He is shown with Principal Brandi Cannizzaro.
Leaders in the
community learn
what it takes to
run a school
By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
Over the last seven years,
schools in the Forsyth County
Schools district have taken a day
out of the year to give outsiders an
inside look at what it truly takes to
run a successful school.
Through the Principal for a Day
program, business and community
leaders have had the opportunity to
take a walk in the shoes of the
county’s top educators, learning,
helping and exchanging ideas in a
collaboration that potentially helps
the entire district.
At one of the county’s newest
schools, Alliance Academy for
Innovation, Principal Brandi
Cannizzaro was shadowed by local
business owner and chamber of
commerce board member Carter
Patterson.
During his day at the school on
Monday, Patterson followed
Cannizzaro on her daily routine,
through meetings, on tours through
the building, and into classrooms
for observations with other school
administration.
“It was quite an honor,”
Patterson said. “It’s our newest
school. It’s so different from every
other school we have in Forsyth
County.”
According to Hannah Samples,
communications facilitator with
Forsyth County Schools, each year
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dence early in the afternoon to run
errands. Smith left her cell phone in
her home office and did not return,
according to a release from the
Johns Creek Police Department.
Barrett confirmed that Smith was
found in the vehicle by her family
but would not comment on the cir
cumstances of how the woman was
found, beyond that the death is
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actively being investigated. :
“We are conducting an investiga
tion in conjunction with the Forsyth
County Coroner’s Office and Johns
Creek Police' Department,” Barrett
said. “An autopsy is being conduct
ed by the Georgia Bureau of
Investigations; pending those
results, we will have more
answers.”
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Carter Patterson, who is also a board member for the Cumming-
Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce, watches as Alliance
Academy teacher Jack Rogers works.
“Forsyth County
hires the best
principals in the
state, who then
hire the very best
teachers...."
Carter Patterson
Boardmember, Chamber
of Commerce
they hold the program as a partner
ship with the Forsyth County
Chamber of Commerce, kicking it
off with a celebratory breakfast in
the early fall and ending with lun
cheon a month later.
This year, over the month of
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October and November, 40 partici
pants visited each of the county’s
traditional schools, including
Forsyth County Commissioners
Cindy Jones Mills, Dennis Brown
and Laura Semanson, state senator
elect Greg Dolezal, and Family
Promise of Forsyth County
Executive Director Tina Huck.
Patterson has participated before.
He’s followed- principals at
Brookwood Elementary, Shiloh
Point Elementary and South
Forsyth Middle schools, but what
really struck him about being at
Alliance was the energy and pas
sion of the students. :
“It’s great to see a school where
every kid is vested in learning and
every kid wants to be here,”
Patterson said. “They start about 9
a.m., but there are kids here as
early as 7:30 [a.m.] and they are all
collaborating, they are all working
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