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MP opens
two-a-days
with...pizza?!?
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Schools
Forsythian is
state 4-H chief
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WAR ROOM: City and county officials meet on Sunday at the city fire station to discuss the water situ
ation. Those on hand include city council members Rosemary Walker, Melvin Lawrence and Lamar
Russell, city clerk Janice Hall, Sheriff John Cary Bittick and sheriff’s department information officer
Allison Selman-Willis. (Special to the Reporter)
City hopes to drop all
boil orders Tuesday
Go to www.mymcr.net for up-to-the-minute updates
Forsyth on Monday
evening lifted a two-day
ban on drinking city water
for many but not all of its
water customers. That
after most tests came back
OK after a main break
over the weekend.
Six of seven water sam
ples taken in different
parts of the city came back
with negative results
Monday and so were safe
to drink, said Mayor Tye
Howard. But one sample,
taken from Holiday Cove
Apartments, tested positive
for an unwanted bacteria.
That means homes and
businesses on the east side
of the city still must boil
water. That includes homes
and businesses on Patrol
Road between Tift College
Drive and Hwy, 18, Aaron
Drive, Tift College Drive
from the railroad tracks to
1-75, Forest Avenue, Hollis
Street, Dungan Street,
East Main Street between
the railroad tracks and
Patrol Road, Abernathy
Street, Berner Avenue,
Railroad Avenue between
Tift College Drive and
Berner Avenue and Harold
G. Clarke Parkway
between Hwy. 41 and
Patrol Road.
People in those areas
should continue to boil
water at least one minute
before consuming.
Residents NOT in those
areas have the all clear to
resume normal water use.
But residents on those
streets who ingest the
water without boiling it
first may induce stomach-
virus like symptoms, said
city officials. All city water
is fine for bathing, laundry
and dishes.
City officials took more
samples Monday afternoon
and those test results
should be back on Tuesday,
See WATER page 6A
Deaths
William Anderson
Barlow
Ralph Gerald Lee
Vivian McCord Ray
Edna Ruth Pettigrew
Chris
Sandy
talks
about how
his drunk
driving
led to the
death of
a couple
and to
years in
prison.
‘I prayed to
God it was
some horrible
nightmare.’
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One-day camp teaches kids
the perils of drunk driving
BY LAURA THACKSTON
Ninety-one teenagers from Monroe
County may be more
likely to avoid serious
vehicle accidents after
attending a safe driving
camp at the Georgia
Public Safety Training
Center on Saturday, Aug.
2. The camp was for
teens 14-18 and lasted
all day, from 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Throughout the day,
teens participated in
activities that allowed
them to feel what it was
like to drive while
impaired. Perhaps one of
the most memorable
moments came later in
the afternoon, when the
teens gathered in the auditorium to hear
prisoner Chris Sandy tell his story of how
he ended up in jail for driving while
drunk.
Sandy is currently serving a 13-year
sentence at A1 Burris State Prison for
driving under the influence and two
counts of vehicle homicide. On April 11,
2000, Sandy said he
and his friend, Jesse,
were at a party
where he had been
drinking. A little
while later, he got a
phone call from
another friend asking
them to come over.
Sandy and Jesse got
into his car and
headed toward the
friend’s house outside
of Atlanta. Sandy
said he was in a
hurry to get to the
house and was
speeding. He got
stuck behind a car
and attempted to pass it, then tried to get
back over in his lane when he saw an
oncoming car. He was going 77 mph in a
35 mph zone when he hit the elderly cou-
See DRIVING page 7A
READY TO DRIVE? Driya Bell andChaqira
Green learned the basics at teen driving camp
Aug. 2. (Photo/Laura Thackston)
Evans’
arrest
put off -
for now
Warrants still pending
as Judge Wilson seeks
to mediate dispute
among commissioners
BY WILL DAVIS
Two warrants have been issued for the arrest of
commissioner Larry Evans for threatening fellow
commissioner Jim Peters in a dispute over trees
being removed on the courthouse square. But Evans
hasn’t been arrested yet and there are apparently
efforts to resolve the conflict without criminal pro
ceedings.
The incident occurred on July 24 after Peters
ordered county workers to stop cutting down trees
on the courthouse square. Crews had cut down sev
eral older trees on the square, including a magnolia
more than 70 years old, at Evans’ direction. Evans
has apparently told others he was clearing room for
a sidewalk around the courthouse. He said those
plans had already been approved by the courthouse
See ARREST page 5A
HOLDING COURT: Commissioner Larry Evans, left, has war
rants for his arrest after being accused of threatening com
missioner Jim Peters. (Photo/Gina Herring)
I am really grateful and humbled.
My heart goes out to those who
gave. God bless you.
- Felton
McCant Jr.
FOR YOUR TROUBLE: Felton McCant Jr., left, accepts a $660
from the readers of the Reporter Monday, represented by edi
tor Will Davis. (Photo/Laura Thackston)
Readers refund
speeding ticket
Outpouring of local support
raises $660 in three days for
dad ticketed on emergency trip
A Moultrie man ticketed for speeding while rush
ing his son to Piedmont Hospital for an emergency
kidney transplant was presented a $660 check on
Monday from the people of Monroe County.
“I am really grateful and humbled,” said Felton
See TICKET page 7A