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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Sunday, October 30,2022 FORSYTHNEWS.COM
'We've got to fix this'
Photos by Kelly Whitmire Forsyth County News
Herschel Walker speaks to a crowd of supporters during his Unite Georgia Bus Tour stop at 4320
Settendown Village Road onThursday, Oct. 27.
Walker, Sen. Graham talk Senate race at bus tour stop
South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to a Forsyth County
crowd during his Herschel Walker's Unite Georgia Bus Tour stop at
4320 Settendown Village Road onThursday, Oct. 27.
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Vehicles lined both sides of
Settingdown Road on Tuesday morn
ing, as local voters made their way to
hear from U.S. Senate candidate
Herschel Walker and other guest
speakers during a campaign stop.
On Thursday, Walker’s Unite
Georgia Bus Tour stopped at 4320
Settendown Village Road off Ga. 400
in north Forsyth, where Walker was
joined by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
candidate for Georgia’s 6th
Congressional District Rich
McCormick and District 26 state Rep.
Lauren McDonald.
With less than two weeks to go, and
advance voting already underway,
before the Nov. 8 showdown against
Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael
Wamock, Walker referenced the recent
Senate debate in Savannah several
times in his remarks and said his cam
paign was a vote against the agendas
of Wamock and President Joe Biden.
“This is our problem here, we con
tinue to vote the same people in, but
we have to get them out,” Walker said.
“Because if we don’t stop it today, we
won’t have a chance to stop it tomor
row.”
With Georgia gaining national atten
tion for a Senate seat highly sought by
both parties, Walker touched on sever
al items he would want to take on if
elected.
“Y’all ask me while I’m running,
we’ve got to fix this,” Walker said.
“We’ve got to get national security
under control. We’ve got to get domes
tic security with our men and women
in blue under control. We’ve got to get
our kids to have an education, they’re
falling behind. We’ve got to defend
our women. We’ve got to defend
women and not allow men in women’s
sports. We have to defend our border.
We’re a country of immigrants, but
we’re also a country of laws.”
Walker was introduced by Graham,
who has served as a U.S. Senator for
South Carolina since 2003 and has
made several stops for Walker along
the campaign trail.
“I’ve got a simple message: help is
on the way for Georgia. We’re going
to turn around this crap in
Washington,” he said. “I’m your
neighbor, right, you know why I’m
standing behind Herschel? I don’t
want to stand in front of Herschel.”
Walker was expected to be joined by
another well-known Republican, Sen.
Ted Cruz, who was not able to make it
to the stop due to a flight delay.
“I wish Ted Cruz was here because
he is a Constitutional warrior,”
McCormick said during his remarks.
“A lot of people think they’re the
smartest people when they walk into a
room, he just might be. I tell you he
understands the Constitution of the
United States, and I’m glad that we
have another great Constitutional war
rior here today. I’m glad we have
Lindsey Graham.”
McCormick, who is facing
Democrat Bob Christian in the 6th
District race, said this year’s election
was a chance to take back Congress
and could set up Republicans to take
back the White House in 2024.
McDonald, who will face
Democratic challenger Matthew
Helms in his race, recalled working at
Georgia football games as a Boy Scout
when Walker was on the team.
He said today, he still sees the same
kind of excitement for Walker from
voters, local officials and other sup
porters.
“I’ve been going to many places
with Herschel,” McDonald said. “A lot
of my friends in the crowd, some
elected officials, and it’s energetic out
there. Herschel is getting it done, and
that man can go and go and go and
go”
Women mark
100 th birthdays
with celebration
By Sabrina Kerns
skerns@forsythnews.com
Nellie Allison and Dorothy Powers’
family and friends came out to Forsyth
County at the end of October to celebrate
a rare milestone — their 100th birthdays.
The Cumming Health and Rehab resi
dents donned birthday tiaras while they
enjoyed cake and ice cream and spent
time with their closest loved ones. And
their families couldn’t help but reflect on
the last century of Nellie and Dorothy’s
lives.
“It’s really exciting,” said Sandy Tracy,
Dorothy’s daughter.
Dorothy grew up in Iowa where she
spent most of her 100 years with brief
stops in Texas and California as her hus
band served at different posts in the mili
tary.
She ultimately decided not to take on a
career to stay home and take care of their
kids, but she ended up working at a fac
tory for a couple of years during World
War n while her husband was overseas.
And no matter where Dorothy and her
husband moved or what was going on in
their lives, Sandy said she always found
time for church.
“Every place she moved to, she would
look for a church community,” said
Kevin Tracy, Sandy’s husband. “She
made that a priority every time she went
anywhere else.”
Even now that she can’t see well to
read, Dorothy uses a recorder to listen to
scriptures from the Bible. That devotion
coupled with her easygoing nature
makes it easy for her to always find a
church group to connect with.
Dorothy first decided to move down to
Georgia to be near Sandy and Kevin
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60 kids will have
Christmas bikes
thanks to veterans
From staff reports
Members of Cumming Chapter 1030
of the Vietnam Veterans of America
got into the Christmas spirit early with
the purchase of 60 bikes for the
Holiday House Program of The Place
of Forsyth.
Members met at the Walmart
Supercenter on Route 9 where they
bought and delivered to The Place the
five dozen bicycles for needy boys and
girls who might not otherwise get a
bike from Santa.
The chapter budgets for the program
every year and was able to purchase 10
more bicycles this year than the 50 it
donated last year.
“Our members are parents and
grandparents and want to help ensure
that as many children as possible have
a joyous Christmas regardless of their
family’s financial situation,” Chapter
President Gary Goyette said.
Goyette said the chapter will also
purchase gift cards that will go to older
children during the holiday.
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More treats than tricks at Heart of Forsyth schools’ Treat Street
By Sabrina Kerns
skerns@forsythnews.com
Ghosts, goblins and
ghouls flooded the Otwell
Middle and Cumming
Elementary campus
Thursday, Oct. 27, towing
bright, pumpkin-shaped
buckets to collect both tricks
and treats at the Heart of
Forsyth schools Treat Street
event.
Staff and students from
the Heart of Forsyth schools
— Forsyth Central High,
Otwell Middle and
Cumming Elementary — set
up booths in the parking lot
where kids could come by to
play games, earn a prize
and, of course, fill their
buckets with candy.
Adults and kids alike took
part in the community fun
through the evening all
while dressed in their
Halloween costumes, some
spookier than others.
Kiddos ran around as
bumble bees, pirates, video
game characters, firefighters
and more while their parents
took them around to booths
where staff and high school
students gave them enough
sugar to last them until next
Halloween.
But some booths had
obstacle courses or tricks
kids had to get through
before they could collect
their treat. One course had
students balancing across
small, plastic cones toward a
prized bucket of candy while
another had the scariest
obstacle of all — they had to
answer a science question.
Before leaving, families
could also buy dinner from
food trucks and to eat while
See Halloween 12A
A student,
dressed as
Sub-Zero,
answers a
science
question
to earn a
valueable
prize — a
mini
Snickers
bar.
Sabrina Kerns,
Forsyth County
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