News
Citizen drops suit against
Fayetteville
The Citizen has ended its
lawsuit against the city of Fayetteville after being
satisfied that the city met its disclosure
responsibilities concerning the case of former City
Manager Mike Bryant.
Dunn, Bost meet with GRTA
head
Fayette County leaders will sit
down with Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
Chairman Joel Cowan “within the week” to
talk about the growing rift between the county and
the fledgling agency.
Carolyn Ford expansion plan
up in the air
Carolyn Ford's plans for
expansion have run headlong into Fayetteville's idea
of what the Main Street District should look like.
Gas Prices for the week of
June 21
Commission to finalize
budget today
After poring over budget figures
for fiscal year 2001 in a series of workshops,
Fayette County commissioners may still be looking at
a tax increase of about 1.5 mills this year.
Justice center moving to
next phase
Fayette County's governing body
Monday got its first look at detailed plans for the
county's new $55 million jail and courthouse complex.
School board eyes new
state-mandated policies
New policies imposed on schools
by the Georgia General Assembly this spring are now
being examined by the Fayette County School System.
County looking at parking
standards
Changes to Fayette County's
parking regulations will take considerable research
and coordination with developers, engineers and
stormwater runoff specialists, according to the
Fayette County Planning Commission.
Gas-fed blaze destroys home
in PTC Thursday
A Peachtree City family has lost
its home in a raging blaze that was fed for at least
two hours by a natural gas pipeline before it could
be shut off.
Sheriff, EMS budget
approved
Fayette County's public safety
force will be beefed up with six new employees at the
Sheriff's Department and five more in emergency
medical services for the coming budget year, which
begins July 1.
Side-stepping the
clear-cutting rules?
Is Fayette County's tree
ordinance prompting an adverse effect on residential
tree retention?
Surprise! Holyfield divorce
held Friday
Ben J. Miller, the chief judge
of the Griffin Judicial Circuit, doesn't like for
divorce cases to linger.
Hollingsworth House now
open
The Hollingsworth House, located
at 200 Stonewall Avenue West, is now complete and
available for rental.
Speech, drama requirements
may be waived
While earning a half-unit credit
in speech, drama, debate or broadcasting has long
been a graduation requirement for Fayette County's
high school students, there may soon be an
“out” for those swamped with advanced
placement courses and additional state requirements
for the “college preparatory plus seal” for
their diplomas.
Police Blotter
Bond hearing postponed in
home attack
Bond hearings were postponed
Friday for two suspects in a Fayetteville home
invasion case since neither had lawyers representing
them in court.
Absentee ballots available
Now that the deadline for
registration to be eligible to vote in the July 18
General Primary has passed, absentee ballots are
available at the Fayette County Registrar's office.
Online courses avialable
through CCSU GLOBE
Clayton College & State
University and four other University System of
Georgia colleges and universities will offer online
courses during the fall 2000 academic term through
Georgia GLOBE.
Dining
Guide
- A
cozy picnic under the stars
- Take a wicker basket or cooler,
fill with assorted finger foods and beverages and
head over to the Frederick J. Brown Amphitheater
in Peachtree City for a magical musical evening.
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- Delicious
delights to take along with you
Summer
Finds
By F.C. FOODIE
Food Critic
- Well, the weather's warmed
up and residents are
looking
for some good choices for summer dining.As nights
cool down, some ideal choices are:
Business
Peachtree National Bank
expands into Fayetteville
There's going to be a new bank
in Fayetteville.
EMC awards 10 scholarships
The 2000 Melissa Segars Memorial
Scholarships, funded by Operation Round-Up, were
recently presented to 10 local high school students
by the Coweta-Fayette Trust. Five scholarships in the
amount of $2,500 and five in the amount of $1,000 are
presented each year to students from high schools in
the cooperative's service area. James W. Beavers,
Robert K. Neff, Kenneth J. Rosser, Lisa Price, and
Mack Lipford represented the Coweta-Fayette Board of
Directors while presenting the scholarships at
ceremonies held at the students' respective schools.
How to delegate effectively
Effective
delegation is an important tool that some managers
hesitate to use. This may result from inexperience
with delegation particularly for a novice manager, a
reluctance to release work one personally enjoys
doing, or even an adherence to the old adage,
“If you want something done right, do it
yourself.” Here are eight basic guidelines to
help you delegate more effectively:
- Sports
Sorenson leading the way in
legends racing
Peachtree City's Reed Sorenson
is 14 years old and is quickly moving up the ranks of
auto racing. Sorenson, also known by the nickname,
“Reed Racer”, has recently been featured in
Sports Illustrated for Kids as well as Winston Cup
Scene and Racing For Kids Magazine. He has his own
website, reedracer.com, and a growing fan base.
Fayette baseball teams
split during tight doubleheaders
Last week some old rivals met on
the baseball diamond. It called back memories of a
few months ago hen the squads were competing for
their schools. Now, it is just for a summer league,
but the competitive drive remains high.
Fishing with Chris Foster
(This week is part four of a
four part series about “plastic worm”
fishing methods. Plastic worms are by far the most
versatile lure there is today. The plastic worm comes
in many sizes, shapes, colors and styles and can be
used in almost any imaginable situation using many
worm methods.)
Williams wins first of the
season
Fayetteville's Ricky Williams
won his first Late Model feature event of the season
last Saturday at Rome Speedway. Williams started on
the inside front row and led for all 30 laps of the
race. He placed sixth the night before , finshing two
places behind Wade Knowles of Tyrone.
Sports Calendar
- Weekend
Campers present 'The Legend
of Pocahontas' this weekend
- Your mission, should you
choose to accept it, is this: You and your fellow
campers will put on a play in two weeks.
- Productions near
for Fayette Community Theatre
- Things are going swimmingly
for Fayette Community Theatre this summer.
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- Keeping the kids
busy and cool this summer
- “I'm bored.”
(Note: Read that in a whiny voice and stretch out
the word bored to last close to 30 seconds).
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- You can tour
Georgia's heritage this summer
- Dr. Robert Welborn, Clayton
College & State University professor of
history and an experienced tour conductor, will
conduct an exploration of three rich cultural and
historical sites in Georgia this summer for the
university's Office of Continuing Education.
- Numbers – at
least ages – should be precise
- By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
- Ironically,
it was the language that got my attention more
than the message on my answering machine last
week:
- Summer survivor
- Be the last survivor on a
rat-infested island and win $1 million. Piece of
cake.
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- New parenting
workshop offered in July
- A new parenting group
workshop, based on the best-selling book, How to
Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids
Will Talk will start at 10 am, July 17th, at
Growing Minds Learning Center, 105 Genevieve
Court in Fayetteville.
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- Children in
libraries' summer reading club get discounted
Frog Prince Tickets
- Children enrolled in the
public libraries' Summer Reading Club, with the
theme of "Open a book, jump in," will
be able to take a dollar off of the cost of a
ticket to The Tale of the Frog Prince, a
participatory musical from Offshoot Productions
slated for the LaFayette Educational Center in
Fayetteville from July 20 to July 30.
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- 'A Company of
Friends' to offer classes on imagination
- A Company of Friends and the
Fayette County Community Schools are teaming up
for a production called “Imagination
Station.”
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- State excels with
Fayette athletes help
- For the second time in three
years, the Georgia State Panthers swept the Trans
America Athletic Conference All-Sports Trophies.
They won a combined five sports titles of the 14
total sports, with three NCAA postseason berths.
The school could not have reached those marks
without the contributions of Fayette County
athletes.
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- Notables
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- Three theater
workshops offered in July
- Offshoot Productions has two
children's acting workshops and a session on
stage painting on tap this summer.
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- Movies
Religion
Vacations are good for the
soul
By CHUCK
GRIFFITH
Religion Columnist
The late columnist Arthur
Brisbane declined to accept William Randolph Hearst's
offer of a six months paid vacation in appreciation
for his good work.
Looking for the ideal
preacher? Here's how you get one...
If you are, or have ever been, a
Methodist, you know that summer is
fruitbasket-turnover time in the Methodist church,
New seminary graduates are assigned their first
charge, established ministers are shifted around,
student ministers (probably very nervously) approach
their first student pastorates, and everybody has
covered dish dinners, showers and all sorts of
gatherings to make sure all are settled in with a
minimum of discomfort and inconvenience.
LDS church to present
musical program in Jonesboro Sunday
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day-Saints (LDS) will present a musical salute
to America in Jonesboro this Sunday, June 25,
featuring singers from Fayette, Clayton, Spalding,
Henry, Lamar, Butts, Upson and Pike counties. The
progtram starts at 7 p.m. at the Jonesboro Chapel of
the LDS Church on Jodeco Rd.
New A.M.E. church holding
services at Fayette Elementary
Rivers of Life Community Church,
a new A.M.E. ministry, is now holding services at
Fayette Elementary School each Sunday at 10 a.m. Rev.
Andrew J. Young, II, is the teacher, pastor and
founder. The name, “Rivers of Life,” is
taken from John 7:37-39.
St. Peter A.M.E. to
dedicate new 17,000 sq. ft. sanctuary
Members of historic Greater St.
Peter A.M.E. Church at River's Edge will hold a
dedication celebration of their newly erected
building in Jonesboro this Sunday, June 25 at 3 p.m.
A reception will follow the dedication.
Kids invited to Summer Fun
Days at F'ville First Methodist
Fayetteville First United
Methodist Church is offering summer activities and
field trips each Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until 1
p.m. for children ages four through fifth grade.
Reservations are due Sunday prior to the scheduled
event.
Religion Briefs
North Fayette UMC carnival
is Saturday
Members of North Fayette United
Methodist Church will have their annual Summer Fun
Carnival this Friday, June 23, from 6-9 p.m.
PTC UMC presents Tennessee
choir Friday
Members of a youth choir from
Hendersonville, Tenn. will perform this Friday, June
23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bryan Fellowship Hall of the
Peachtree City United Methodist Church.
Rev. Brenton Osgood will
speak at Trinity Fellowship July 2
Rev. Brenton L. Osgood, Director
of Development for the Assemblies of God Theological
Seminary (AGTS) in Springfield, Mo., will be the
guest speaker at Trinity Fellowship Assembly of God
Sunday, July 2 at 10:30 a.m.
Vacation Bible School
Schedule
New discovery made
concerning Judas in Old Testment Bible code cluster
Judas, the man whose name is
synonymous with betrayal, is the central figure in a
newly discovered cluster of Bible codes found in a
controversial section of the Old Testament.
Opinion
Too much growth makes air
bad, so...
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Sorry if I seem a little too
laid back this week, but I took a vacation trip to
Jekyll Island this past week and it'll probably take
a few days before I get properly tensed up again.
Have program: Need problem
By AMY RILEY
One Citizen's Perspective
For the past week, I have been
consumed by the news coverage regarding the Georgia
Regional Transportation Authority and their grab for
dominion over local governments and their land use
plans.
Surviving the 'Survivor'
hype
BILLY MURPHY
Laugh Lines
How many times are we going to
hear about how the people on this TV show are gonna
eat rats?
Letters to
the Editor
Principals get fat salary
hikes while teachers' pay stays low
As a public school teacher, I am
outraged!
Fayette County does offer a
choice of baseball programs
After reading an article in this
week's Citizen regarding youth baseball, I feel an
obligation to point out to the citizens of Fayette
County that there are choices in youth baseball
programs locally.
Gun freedown column was
right on target
I'm writing to commend you (Amy
Riley, June 7) for publicly taking a stand for our
constitutionally protected right to own and bear
arms.
First air then land use...
will water be next?
Both GRTA and the ARC have
created a fascinating riddle.
Commission's right to fight
feds' edicts
Congratulations to the Fayette
County Commission for standing up for home rule in
the face-off against GRTA/ARC (“Fayette to GRTA:
Nuts,” The Citizen, Wednesday, June 14).
Elect Ruppenthal
As some citizens may be aware,
several changes have been made to enlarge the
jurisdictional limits of the Magistrate Court.
No crying in baseball
Mr. Gunnin's letter [June 14]
seems to invite a response.
Text of Commission letters
to ARC & GRTA
Water solutions need work
Odd and even days change each
week. Why don't they say Monday and Thursday even
house numbers - Tuesday and Saturday odd house
numbers or vice versa as most sprinkler clocks will
have to be worked manually?
Thanks to a good Samaritan
We would like to thank the young
man who helped ours sons at the Peachtree Skate Park
on Memorial Day.
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