News
Fayette Rules:
Fayette County's soccer
dominance got the recognition it deserved on Saturday
as McIntosh and Starr's Mill high schools' boys and
girls soccer teams won state soccer championships in
their classifications.
'Intimidation' charge heats
up judge's race
Judge Johnnie Caldwell's
political opponent is accusing the judge of using
intimidation tactics in the 2000 election.
Beverly: The Citizen
didn't initiate Mrosek e-mail, doesn't endorse views
Fayette Citizen editor and
publisher Cal Beverly has denied any undue influence
occurred in the wake of a December 1999 e-mail
message authored by John Mrosek, candidate for
superior court judge.
PTC taps Lindsey for city
attorney
The City Council of Peachtree
City reached what it called a compromise of sorts in
its appointment of a city attorney.
Controversial PTC 'West
Village' rezoning request gets county planners' nod
The City Council of Peachtree
City reached what it called a compromise of sorts in
its appointment of a city attorney.
Abondoned dogs' owner fined
for animal creulty
A Fayetteville
man was convicted of two counts of animal cruelty
Monday in Fayette County State Court.
Fayette GOP looking to make
noise in state races
Georgia Republicans are rattling
their sabers this election year, promising an all-out
battle to take control of at least one house of the
General Assembly.
NAACP to discuss complaints
of unfair treatment in schools
Recent incidents in which black
students have complained of unfair treatment will be
among topics discussed as Dr. John DeCotis,
superintendent of Fayette County schools, addresses
the regular monthly meeting of the Fayette NAACP
Saturday, May 13 at 4 p.m.
GOP women set fund-raiser
for local candidates, Bob Barr
Fayette's representative in the
U.S. Congress, Mac Collins, will speak along with
Rep. Bob Barr of Cobb County at the Theodore
Roosevelt Day barbecue sponsored by the Greater
Fayette Republican Women.
Criminal jury trails next
week in Superior Court
A week of criminal jury trials
is scheduled to begin Monday morning in Fayette
County Superior Court.
Student injured in car
wreck
A Sandy Creek High School
remains in intensive care after being seriously
injured in a Thursday afternoon auto accident.
Arrest made for grocery
store fraud
An unexpected charge on a credit
card led to an arrest in police believe could be a
conspiracy among employees at a local grocery store.
May is National Child
Safety Month
Babies and
children are our best hope for the future and our
most precious resource. Keeping them safe is top
priority and on that note, May is National Child
Safety Month.
Exercise helps HazMat team
prepare for real thing
An employee lies unconscious in
a side doorway leading to a room where numerous
chemicals are handled on a daily basis. Another
employee, after becoming ill, has already been driven
by a colleague to the hospital.
FCT auditions set
Fayette Community Theatre, Inc.
will hold auditions for its first Broadway musical,
“Guys and Dolls” on Saturday, May 20
between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the former Fayette
County High School band room, now LaFayette Education
Complex.
Local store helping out
local groups
Four years ago, The Clothes Less
Traveled community thrift shop in Peachtree City
opened its doors to local bargain hunters and began
awarding grants to nonprofit groups from the proceeds
of its sales.
Notable
Michael W.
Perry of Fayetteville, a member of Boy Scout Troop
631 of Woodward Academy, has received his Eagle Scout
Award. His Court of Honor ceremony was conducted
recently at the school chapel.
Two from Starr's Mill named
Merit Scholars
Two Starr's Mill High School
students have been selected as Merit Scholarship
winne
County looks at parking
requirements, employee pay scales
Fayette County commissioners
Thursday will discuss changing the county's parking
requirements to better protect the environment.
Don't leave your pet in
your car
With summer coming on, Fayette
animal control director Bill Newman wants to remind
local residents that leaving your pet in the car
while you shop or run errands is a bad idea.
Collins honored by
developmental organization
U.S. Rep. Mac Collins, whose 3rd
District includes Fayette County, was presented with
a Congressional Partnership Award from the National
Association of Development Organizations recently for
his leadership in promoting regional economic
development programs.
Real
Estate
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- Loft-y
sights: Newnan cotton mill converted into
apartments
- Ten years ago, you would
have received a somewhat puzzled look if you told
somebody you were moving into a warehouse.
- The
American home gets smart
- I can save you energy, time
and worry.
- Real
Estate Scene...
- Cindy
Lester is Realtor of the Year
- The Fayette County Board of
Realtors has recognized Cindy Lester as 1999
Realtor of the Year.
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- Southern
Crescent celebrates 10 years in the mortgage
business
- Fayetteville-based Southern
Crescent Mortgage reached its 10th Anniversary
earlier this year.
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- Newnan's
SummerGrove hits 200 home sale milestone
- SummerGrove at Newnan, one
of Atlanta's top selling master-planned
communities and the area's only community with
nine merchandised model homes and a comprehensive
technology package, is celebrating another
milestone. Home sales at SummerGrove have reached
200.
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- Window
shopping can be a daunting task
- Shopping for replacement
windows is a daunting task with a big price tag
to match.
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- Look
for low interest loans
- Booming real estate prices
are placing a premium on the American Dream of
home ownership. But that's no reason to get left
behind.
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- Knight
group honors 1999 producers
- The Knight Group revealed
the winners of its 1999 “Knights of the
Round Table” Realtors promotion at a festive
reception, dinner and winner announcement program
recently at Eagle's Landing Country Club.
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- Builders
hear from inspectors
- Four local building
officials from the five-county area served by the
Home Builders Association of Midwest Georgia were
the program speakers at the association's March
meeting recently at WhiteWater Country Club.
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- Home
buyers want a garage for more space and work area
- It's got a cement floor and
metal shelves — not exactly the height of
luxury, and probably not the first room on your
home tour.
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- Fulton
Court is leasing quickly
- The newly completed
office/warehouse building on Fulton Court in
Peachtree City already has half of its eight
units leased.
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- Coweta's
Canterbury Springs offers attractive financing
for home buyers
- Phase two, consisting of 26
home sites, is now open in Canterbury Springs, a
Jerry Ballard Homes community in the Coweta
County city of Grantville.
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- Avery
Park celebrates first home buyer
- Avery Park, Pathway
Communities' newest development in Newnan, has
announced its first home buyers, Robert and
Rebecca Bulla along with their children Jonathan
and Cameron.
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- New
advertising campaign is now talk of the town
- Look who's talking.
Business
Residents bemoan bad air
A new study indicates that metro
Atlantans, including Fayette residents, are more
concerned about traffic congestion and air quality
than citizens in other parts of the country.
Business-sponsored block
party is Sat. in Peachtree City
This Saturday promises to be a
big day for families as Kids R Kids sponsors a
community information day and block party in
Peachtree City.
The ABCs of internet
technology
Whether you're
looking to streamline your business, better manage
your family's finances, or learn about a specific
medical condition, the Internet can be the easiest,
most accessible and cost-effective source of
information. If all the computer jargon you hear has
made you feel that surfing the World Wide Web is like
conquering a never-ending tidal wave of information,
it's time to get hip to the lingo of the Web. The
Georgia Society of CPAs says that understanding basic
terminology is an important first step in effectively
using the Internet.
- Sports
County proves soccer
dominance
Four soccer teams in the state
finals, four state champions. It feels really good to
say that.
FCHS puts six athletes in
state track meet
Having competed and placed
either first or second in their events at the region
track meet earlier this month, six Fayette County
High School athletes qualified for the state meet.
Flames give good show at
state track and field meet
Fayette County represented
at Boston Marathon
Seven local runners from Fayette
County recently made the trip to Boston to compete in
the 104th annual running of the Boston marathon, the
oldest and most prestigious marathon in the world. It
ranks only behind the Super Bowl as the second
largest single day sporting event in the world. All
seven runners are members of the Peachtree City
Running Club or the Atlanta Track Club. They were
Bill Fuller, Scott Ludwig, Valerie Reed, Trish
Vlastnik, Jan Bankieris, Al Barker, and Kelly
Murzynsky. All but two had run in Boston at least
once before, but none said it made the challenge any
easier. Months of training and preparation paid off
on race day, however.
Sports Calendar
Panthers to host spring
fling on Friday
Starr's Mill High School senior
girls will take on the junior girls at their first
annual Powder Puff football game at Spring Fling
Friday, May 12 at 5:30 p.m. at Panther Stadium.
Lightning reveals new
program for younger players
The Lightning Soccer Club is
unveiling a new program for Under 9 and 10 boys and
girls for the 2000-2001 season. The Elite Development
Program is designed to be neither all competitive nor
all recreational and is open to all U-9 and U-10
players.
- Weekend
Wings Over Dixie this
weekend
- More than 30,000 spectators
are expeceted to flock to Falcon Field in
Peachtree City this Saturday and Sunday to get a
glimpse of some of the top aviators in the world
at the AirTran Airways Wings Over Dixie 2000 Air
Show & Festival.
- Brooks Day returns
this weekend
- There may not be a visible
change in the seasons in Georgia, meaning that at
times May can feel like August, October can feel
like June and January can feel like May, but
there is one change that can be intuited. It is
the time of the year when outdoor festivals are
deemed acceptable again and it is typically
signalled by the return of the Brooks Day
Festival.
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- House Red Theater
Company wants you to say 'I do'
- Billy Butz and Angel Farmer
are getting married and y'all are invited.
- The Rhine
- By SALLIE
SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
- Of all the images I can
summon of my month in Germany — cathedrals
and churches, operas, fresh-planted gardens,
outdoor markets — what do you think is the
one that pops most often into my mind when I
first wake up in the morning or begin
wool-gathering during a boring meeting?
- Everybody needs
some mother advice
- Mothers were
put on this earth to give advice. Some words of
wisdom have been passed down from generation to
generation like “do your best””
and sleep eight hours a night.” Other sage
snippets like “always wear flip flops in a
public shower” and “never wear
synthetics” are more personalized
- Offshoot
Productions to hold auditions this weekend for
children's plays
- Offshoot Productions will
hold auditions for its summer 2000 "Festival
of Theatre for Children" on Saturday, May
13, and Monday, May 15. Although the plays, The
Further Adventures of Maide Marian and The Tale
of the Frog Prince, are participatory musicals
for children, not all roles involve singing.
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- Gathering Grounds
Coffeehouse opens in Newnan
- The Gathering Grounds
Coffeehouse is a new place in town for young
singles to hang out on a Friday night. The
coffeehouse, featuring live Christian
entertainment, gourmet coffee and dessert, is
located at Crossroads Church on Hwy 154 in
Newnan. The Gathering Grounds will be open on the
first Friday night of every month from 8-11 pm,
beginning on June 2nd. On opening night, the band
Waterproof Feat will be in concert. There is a $5
cover charge. For more information, please call
770/254-0291 or visit our website at www.crossroadsnewnan.org
and click on the link for singles.
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- Victorian Daycamp
for Girls starts registration Saturday
- A Girl's Life in the 1800s,
a Victorian Day Camp for girls ages 8-12, is
holding registration Saturdays, May 13, 20 and 21
from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Hollingsworth House,
located next to the Board of Education Building
in Fayetteville.
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- Blues Band playing
Coffeehouse Friday
- Vida Blue, with Thor Hanes,
Stacie Hatcher and Tom Watts, plays live blues
and classic rock this Friday, May 12, from
8:30-11:30 at Cruse Coffee Company, in the Harris
Teeter Shopping Center in Peachtree City. Call
Cruse Coffee at 770-487-3632 for more
information.
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- Movies
Religion
God has a way of showing up
when things break down
By Rev. Dr. John Hatcher
Religion Columnist
We seem to become more
theological in our thinking in times of crises. We're
good at asking “why?” Why didn't God stop
that plane from crashing? As one who has been called
to think about God, I try to defend him in tragedy.
I'm wrong. God doesn't need me to defend him. He's
God!
Local medical missionary
heads for Africa
Unlike most mothers and
grandmothers, Cindy Epps, an assistant professor of
nursing at the State University of West Georgia, will
not be celebrating Mother's Day with her family this
Sunday. Following church services at Christ the King
Church in Peachtree City, Mrs. Epps will embrace her
husband, sons and grandchildren and rush to the
airport to board an aircraft bound for the east
African nation of Uganda.
F'ville First Baptist
breaks ground for new Ministry Center
Putting their “hands to the
plow,” members of the Fayetteville First Baptist
Church joined together to break ground on the
church's new Ministry Center in a celebration service
held April 30.
Creation vs. evolution will
be topic of discussion for 'Dino-Mania' program
In view of the recent movie,
“Dinosaur,” River's Edge Community Church
will host Dr. Grady McMurty, a Biblical Scientific
Creationist, as he speaks on “Dino-Mania”
Friday, May 12, at 7 p.m. The public is invited to
the free program.
Kathie Walters to speak at
Women's Aglow
Evangelist Kathie Walters will
be the speaker at this month's meeting of Women's
Aglow Fellowship International, Peachtree City
Chapter, Monday, May 15, and Tuesday, May 16. Both
meetings will be held at the Calvary Temple Assembly
of God, 202 Robinson Rd. in Peachtree City.
Easters, McCameys,
Inspirations to perform at Gospel Barn in LaGrange
The Gospel Barn in LaGrange will
host two days of the best in Southern Gospel music
when it welcomes The McCameys, The Inspirations, Jeff
and Sheri Easter and The Crabb Family for
performances on Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20.
Religion Briefs
Opinion
The PTC Council runs a
3–1 shell game – we're the suckers
By
CAL BEVERLY
Publisher
Public disclosure, again: I live
on Peachtree City's west side. My residential lot
abuts the unfinished — and uniquely unbuffered
— parkway that will serve the as-yet unannexed
West Village. And remember that Webb and firm are
suing me and the paper for running letters to the
editor about some of the stuff that follows. Keep
that in mind.
You've been working for
Uncle Sam so far
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Phone your friends in New Jersey
and tell them to celebrate. Today is the day they
stop working for government and start working for
themselves.
School system has
annexation qualms
By AMY RILEY
One Citizen's Perspective
Talk of annexing property west
of Ga. Highway 74 to create a fifth Peachtree City
village has spanned beyond our little town, and
become a safety matter and one heck of a dilemma for
the Fayette County school system. This is one of
those times when I would imagine a school system
would like to nestle down for a long nap and not come
out until the coast was clear, but the cat is already
out of the bag.
Breakfast of Champions, II
BILLY MURPHY
Laugh Lines
In the continuing saga of my
workout experiences at World Gym in Peachtree City,
its proprietor and I added one more person to our
little breakfast times at Shadow's restaurant. And
then there were three. Drew Goss, a senior from
McIntosh High School and also a member of World Gym,
joined Dar Thompson and me for a discussion of all
things macho.
Letters to
the Editor
PTC annexation would cost
millions for schools
Fayette County School Board
Chair Debbie Condon was reported as saying that
annexation would be best for the school system since
the “city” would donate land for a school.
Local 'Republicrats' seem
bent on regulating everything
Your editorial about being
worried about those who cannot allow
“unregulated behavior” was right on.
Bravo for dedicates,
involved citizens like Steve Brown
In reference to Frank Hyde's
letter concerning Steve Brown:
At a southeast Atlanta
library, kids go to government-funded hate classes
During Black History Month 1997,
I was working on an air conditioning unit at the
Thomasville Heights Public Library in southeast
Atlanta when in walked about 15 well-dressed,
well-behaved, friendly, black kids who looked to be
ages 5 to 7.
If something offends thee,
just boycott and have it removed
The NAACP and other radical
groups and individuals continue to use their alleged
“offense” to the Confederate flag as a
reason to fan the fires of racism.
Thanks from health
department
The month of
April was indeed an eventful one for the Fayette
County Health Department and its clients, thanks to
the efforts of dedicated and talented staff members
and the wonderful generosity of many of the
businesses in our county.
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