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January 21, 2008
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(l-r) Officers Kimberly Barnett and Robert Devane
received Co-Officer of the Year. Barnett has
worked at the department for a year while Devane
has been there two years.
Paula Wilder got Support Service of the Year.
She has worked as an administrative assistant
at the department for seven years.
Sgt. Darryl Bittick was named
Supervisor of the Year. Bittick
has worked at the department
for five years.
Forsyth police honor top personnel
The Forsyth Police Department
held its annual awards dinner on
Dec. 19 at the Comfort Suites.
Dinner and door prizes were provid
ed by businesses and people in the
community, according to police chief
Art Phillips. Officers were nominated
by their peers for awards such as
Supervisor of the Year, Co-Officer of
the Year and Support Service of the
Year. See winners in the pictures
above.
Soul Mate
continued from the front page
MEN WON’T TALK?: Mary Persons senior Malt Czarnowsky, left,
demonstrates how a man can clam up his communication when he
feels disrespected. Ashley Mize, playing the female in the role
play, tries to coax him into a conversation.
a hypothetical situation in
which a man and woman
are living together without
being married. The woman,
"Shannon," wonders if he'll
ever commit and if she
should leave.
The students seem unani
mous. "Get out of there!"
one blurts out.
That feeling is supported
when Reid informs stu
dents that 85 percent of
couples who co-habitate
before marriage wind up
divorced.
"He doesn't love you!"
Reid said of men who use
women for sex without
making a marital commit
ment. "He lusts you!"
Then his wife, co-instruc
tor Evelyn Reed, takes the
podium.
"Ladies, you don't want to
be committed to someone
without a ring on your fin
ger," Mrs. Reid adds.
Mary Persons principal
Jim Finch said Choosing
the Best delivers a mes
sage kids need.
"I think it's really good,"
said Finch, saying he'd like
to expand to younger
grades to perhaps help
them before they make
mistakes.
Students, too, say the
class is very beneficial.
"I'd like more of it," says
Mary Persons senior
Charmayne Lyons. "On TV
you see condom ads and all
that...but this class tells
you things they (condoms)
don't catch."
The curriculum covers
the various diseases teens
can get from being sexually
active. Lyons says people
her age go through a lot of
love problems and any help
they can get is appreciated.
Donald Reid, who also
teaches at men's confer
ences through his church,
Alethia Baptist in Macon,
says it's an important mes
sage for youngsters.
"The culture is diametri
cally opposed to what they
need to hear," said Reid.
"That they can lose their
life early, that sexually
transmitted diseases can
kill you."
But the class also covers
the positives, helping stu
dents identify their person
ality strengths and weak
nesses, and speaks to the
importance of the charac
ter of a future mate.
MP senior Matt
Czarnowsky said he
enjoyed learning good ways
to find a spouse, and how
to avoid the pitfalls that
can hurt you.
One student said he's
about to get married and
will be able to put to use
what he learned. Another
student said she's already
married and will use the
instruction on how to work
out conflict.
Movene Futch, the volun
teer who helped start
Choosing the Best, said the
goal is to help students
build a better home life.
"Probably the greatest
cause for poor classroom
performance in our schools
is conflict in the home,"
said Futch. "Our goal in
Choosing The Best is to
give students some solid
basic understanding of
what is involved in a
healthy marriage relation
ship."
Weeks
continued from the front page
of aggravated sexual bat
tery. The warrant for sexu
al battery said those
events occurred between
January 2007 and June
2008. One warrant for
molestation said incidents
related to charge one
occurred between January
2007 and June 2008. The
other warrant for molesta
tion said its relevant acts
occurred between January
2001 and June 2008.
All warrants say the inci
dents took place at Weeks'
home at 11 Walton Way in
Bolingbroke.
Weeks turned himself
into the Monroe County
Sheriffs Office on Jan. 13.
He was released on a
$50,000 bond from Monroe
County Superior Court on
Friday.
Weeks has been a fire
man with the Morrow Fire
Department and a volun
teer with the Bolingbroke
Fire Department, station 4.
Monroe County Fire
Department spokesman
Shane Cook said the
charges are sad news to
firefighters in general
because it tarnishes the
high esteem and trust they
enjoy from the public.
Members of the
Bolingbroke Fire
Department refused to
comment.
Reached by phone, Weeks
said his lawyers told him
not to say anything about
the case.
Weeks has served as the
the lead organizer of the
Kids Yule Love program
that gives toys to needy
children at Christmas.
Halt
continued from the front page
Handel and Gov. Sonny Perdue have
asked surveyor Terry Scarborough of
Warner Robins to cease putting out
the markers, which have created a
firestorm of controversy. Perdue
appointed Scarborough to settle the
long-disputed Bibb-Monroe line. It
became a more significant issue after
Bass Pro Shop and other develop
ment were built in the fast-growing
area. State law calls for the governor
to appoint a surveyor to settle county
line disputes and submit their find
ings to the secretary of state.
In a letter dated Jan. 8, Vincent R.
Russo, the attorney for the secretary
of state, told Scarborough that he
needs to submit a plat and survey of
the line first. Then, only after the
counties have had a chance to appeal
and the dispute is settled, should
Scarborough mark the county line.
Scarborough responded that he
would not erect any more markers.
But in his letter dated Jan. 13, he
said he was only beginning to mark
the corners of the Holt Alteration in
the county line. That was the change
the legislature made in the Bibb-
Monroe county line in 1877 to satisfy
a Dr. Holt's request that his large
swath of land be moved into Bibb.
The property is located near the cur
rent intersection of Riverside Drive
and Wesleyan Drive.
It appears Scarborough has already
marked almost the entire county line
as described in the 1822 law that
created Bibb County. He has even
erected a marker at the Ocmulgee
River, long the main point of dispute
between the two counties. The 1822
law identifies the line's eastern point
as the Turrentine or Waller ferry on
the river. That ferry has been gone
for decades.
But Scarborough has erected a
marker at the river which puts it to
the southeast of the currently recog
nized point on the Ocmulgee.
Bibb officials said they are waiting
to see what evidence Scarborough
has to back up the new county line
endpoint. They have argued the
county line should remain where
both counties have recognized it for a
long time.
If the county commissions from
Bibb and Monroe can agree on seg
ments of the county line, those can
be approved by the secretary of state
as well. Monroe County commission
chairman James Vaughn says he and
Bibb County chairman Sam Hart,
both new to office, have discussed
working together on the county line
issue. Homes in two neighborhoods,
Providence subdivision off Bass Road
and Kentucky Downs off Rivoli Road,
would be moved into Monroe under
the markers erected by Scarborough.
From which county those homes
would receive fire, utility and school
services must still be hashed out.
The law calls for the surveyor to
submit his findings to the secretary
of state's office after which both
counties have 30 days to appeal. The
law calls for an appeal hearing that
may include the introduction of evi
dence from all parties, after which
the secretary of state makes a final
decision.
In his letter, Scarborough said his
work, which he planned to finish in
May, was "far ahead of schedule."
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