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April 2, 2008
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Reporter
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Woof! Scottish Terriers descend upon Forsyth Sat.
An invasion of Scottish
Terriers is expected in Forsyth
this weekend, and that means
local cash registers will be ring
ing.
The Scottish Terrier Club of
Greater Atlanta will descend on
the city for its annual dog show
this weekend at the Central
Georgia Convention Center at
the Holiday Inn. Organizer
Zerelda Butler said more than
100 Scottish Terriers are regis
tered and the Holiday Inn is
booked solid. Butler said the
club chose Forsyth for the sec
ond time because it has the
facilities and is dog-friendly,
something she said she couldn’t
find in Atlanta.
The 31st annual Specialty
Show will begin Saturday.
Exhibitors are coming from as
far away as Montana. The day
will begin with Sweepstakes for
puppies age 6-18 months at 9
a.m. Saturday. The judge for this
event is noted Scottish Terrier
breeder Barbara DeBeer from
Las Vegas. The next event will
be a Veteran’s Sweepstakes for
Scottish Terriers over age 7.
After that event there will be a
parade of AKC Champion
Scotties. The last event of the
day is the AKC sanctioned spe
cialty show, with Susan Baker,
noted breeder and judge from
the United Kingdom, as judge.
The public is welcome and
admission is free. But AKC rules
forbid any pets not registered
beforehand. For more informa
tion call Irma G. Moore at 478-
922-1110.
Carlisle
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third district commissioner.
He is a retired brigadier
general from the Georgia
National Guard and owned
and operated automotive
parts and repair business
es.
“This is not just a twice-
monthly meeting for a cou
ple of hours and then go
home and forget it,” said
Carlisle. “If you are going
to do the job right, it will
take from 20 to 30 hours
every week and 20 to 30
phone calls a week.” He
says he has the time and
actually enjoys the time he
spends doing the county’s
business.
A Republican, Carlisle
won the 2004 election
against Democrat J. Ben
Spear. He has had several
surgeries in the past two
years but says his doctors
have given him a clean bill
of health. “I’m set to go -
I’ll live to be 100,” joked
Carlisle, noting that his
mother is 102.
Carlisle and his wife
Betty have lived in Monroe
County for 31 years. Their
daughter, Julie Busbee,
also lives in the county.
Carlisle is a Certified
Commissioner by virtue of
completing all of the
required courses offered by
the Carl Vinson Institute
at University Of Georgia.
He also completed the
Academy for ACCG
Leadership and the
Advanced Certified
Commissioners Program.
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Cash
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back and doing something.
Approaching the vehicle
Beck noted a strong odor of
marijuana and that the
driver and passenger’s eyes
were very red and glassy.
Asked if they’d been smok
ing pot the two men said
“no.”
Asked for his ID, the
driver said he had left his
at home. The passenger
said he had just been
released from the Cobb
County Jail and wore an
inmate wrist band identify
ing him as Theodore
Roundtree, 21, of Marietta.
While searching the pas
senger, deputies found a
large bulge in his pockets
which was identified as a
large sum of cash. The pas
senger said it was about
$900. Deputies also found
a large amount of cash in
the driver’s pockets.
Deputies also found two
large amounts of cash
under the center console
and a Nike Air Jordan shoe
box filled with cash in the
back seat.
The driver was identified
as Alton Sinclair Thornton,
18 of Villa Rica. Deputies
also found what appeared
to be marijuana leafs and
seeds on the floor.
Roundtree admitted he
didn’t have a job and
claimed the money was
from his brother’s house in
Hinesville. The suspects
said they were going to buy
a car in Villa Rica with it.
The driver was cited for
driving without a license
and the passenger was
held because he was want
ed in Cochran. Deputies
totaled up the confiscated
cash and counted $48,108.
The money was held in the
evidence locker at the sher
iff’s office, said police.
Supercross
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quit using a retention pond
as a mud-bogging pit for
trucks.
Eaves told Sgt. Randy
Grindstaff of the Monroe
County Sheriff’s Office
that the men were rude,
threatened to sue her and
told her she just needed to
move. Eaves ordered them
to leave. Eaves’ daughter
said she heard one of the
men say as they left that
they should not worry, that
she’d be gone before too
long anyway.
But Supercross co-owner
Harper denied ever saying
any such thing, and the
five men with him denied
it too. Harper said they
went there to confront
Eaves about what they
called “misleading state
ments” about the track in
the Reporter. Harper also
said they wanted her to
know they will sue her and
the county. But he added
they were also willing to
meet opponents more than
half-way, offering that they
would close during the
week if they could have
longer hours on the week
end. Eaves said, however,
that they are off-base.
“They have no grounds to
sue me,” said Eaves. “They
made a big mistake coming
here like that. I believe
they may have hurt their
case by doing that.”
Harper countered that it
was Eaves who got ugly,
calling him a “little loud
mouthed pipsqueak.” “She
showed her fanny,” said
Harper.
After the men left,
Harper said Eaves’ son,
Chris Jackson, called him
and threatened to kill him
if he goes to his mom’s
house again.
Since the men left the
scene when Eaves told
them to, they will not be
charged with anything,
said Grindstaff. But he
said they’ve been notified
they will be charged with
trespassing if they return.
But when it comes to the
Supercross, Harper said
he’s not backing down. A
Henry County contractor,
Harper said the county
had no authority to shut
them down, that only the
state can do that if there’s
a violation. Moreover, he
said the county never noti
fied them that their
request for extended hours
would come before the
commissioners March 18.
Therefore they could not
defend themselves at the
meeting, said Harper.
He said the Supercross
will bend to the county’s
request to plant grass and
restore the buffer. But he
said there’s nothing illegal
about using the pond as a
mud-bogging pit. “We can
and we will,” said Harper.
County zoning officer John
Kutscher said while he’ll
continue his promised
inspections, the issue now
rests with the state water
and soil inspector.
Harper said the
Supercross has been there
28 years and can operate
seven days a week if it
wants to. He said the track
was there before Eaves.
But Eaves and Sgt.
Grindstaff, a High Falls
native, both said she was
there about three years
before the track was start
ed. Eaves said she moved
to the property on May 11,
1982, several years before
the track was built next
door in the mid-80s. Eaves
said 50 people showed up
at a county commission
meeting to protest the
track back then, but since
there were no zoning laws
at the time, the track was
allowed to open. She says
the track has been a nui
sance ever since and con
sistently violates environ
mental laws.
But Harper said the
Supercross is a boon to
High Falls, drawing 150-
200 people on weekend
nights. It charges a $10
gate fee, plus registration
fees for bike racers and
mud-bogging trucks. He
said April is the start of
the racing season and that
the shutdown has already
costs them $15,000 Harper. “You can’t expect
because they had to cancel people to move beside a
their first event. farmer and then say it
“We’re not going to be smells like s—.”
bullied anymore,” said
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