News
PTC
curtails mayor's spending power
Peachtree City Mayor
Bob Lenox contends that he had the permission of City Council members
to spend $7,500 from the council's contingency fund toward a compensation
package for former city clerk Nancy Faulkner.
Council
OKs limits on contingency fund spending
Peachtree City's
council contingency fund now has a few strings attached.
FCHS
over capacity; BOE mulls its options
County school officials
spent some time Monday trying to figure out how to relieve overcrowding
at Fayette County High School before a fifth county high school is opened.
5
candidates run for commission special election
Five candidates
will be asking for your vote June 19 in a special election to replace
Post 3 Fayette County Commissioner Harold Bost, who resigned recently.
March
for Jesus scheduled for this Saturday in F'ville
Fayette County residents
will join marchers throughout the nation this Saturday, May 12, when
the fourth annual "March for Jesus" parade and rally take
place in downtown Fayetteville.
Power
plant proposed on Fayette border
Fayette County officials
thus far haven't had any contact from a company proposing to build a
massive energy supply facility on the county's northern border.
Kiwanis
to sponsor county-wide July 4 bash
For the first time
in recent years, there will be a county-wide Fourth of July celebration
this year.
Judge:
skipping trial for 'chest pains' could mean jail for child molestation
defendant
A
local man accused of child molestation might be jailed until he stands
trial after he missed a second scheduled trial date under questionable
medical circumstances.
Nub's
not going anywhere yet
The
produce stand that Fayette Countians have grown to know and love on
Ga. Highway 54 may have to move, but not any time soon.
Cannon:
Count off-base on sewer dispute
Tyrone
Town Councilman Ronnie Cannon wishes the Fayette County Commission would
listen.
Fayetteville
settles lawsuit with Pavilion developer
A special called
meeting has been set for tonight for the Fayetteville City Council to
approve a settlement agreement of a lawsuit filed by developer Stan
Thomas.
Head-on
collision kills local woman
A
Fayetteville woman died after a head-on automobile wreck on Ga. Highway
85 south near Harp Road early Monday morning.
Party
faithful endure long contest
The
face of the Georgia Republican Party changed substantially Saturday
with the help of just over 50 Fayette County Republicans - and a couple
of thousand from across the state of Georgia.
Ghost
Out sends timely reminder about the dangers of reckless driving
Every
22 minutes a teenager dies in a car accident in the United States.
Dunn
to serve on water superagency
Fayette
County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn is ready and waiting for the new
metro Atlanta water superagency to get organized so he can begin his
service on it.
Tree
law changes delayed
It's
back to the drawing board for proposed changes to Fayette County's tree
ordinance.
Tyrone
Publix plan in negotiation
Tyrone
officials will meet with Publix developers tonight to try and hammer
out final details for Tyrone's first chain grocery store.
County
has begun levy of fire svc. impact fees
After
more than a year of study, discussion, negotiation and paperwork, impact
fees to help pay for fire services in Fayette County are now a reality.
Molestation
charges filed against 2 men
Two
men were arrested last week on child molestation charges from two separate
incidents.
Child
safety fair planned
The
Fayette County Safe Kids Coalition will sponsor a children's safety
fair Saturday in honor of National Safe Kids Week, May 5-12.
Rep.
Bob Holmes to address Fayette NAACP chapter
Georgia
state Rep. Bob Holmes will address the Fayette NAACP during its monthly
meeting Saturday, in keeping with the group's practice of inviting local
officials to speak.
Local
officer named special squadron leader
Air Force Lt. Col.
Norman D. Potter, son-in-law of Lorene Carroll of Fayetteville and the
late Robert C. Carroll, was recently named commander of the 42nd Airborne
Command and Control Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Ariz.
Fayette
selects students for district competition
Nine students from
kindergarten through the eighth grade will represent Fayette County
schools in the Griffin Regional Educational Service Agency Recitation
Festival scheduled for May 8-10.
Optimists
honor officers
The
Optimist Club of Fayetteville honored officers in both the city of Fayetteville
and Fayette County at its annual Respect For Law dinner.
Police
Blotter
Real Estate
- Mortgage
business on the rise
As
home construction continues to be strong on this side of Atlanta,
a couple of facts should be fairly obvious:
Choose
smart growth instead of no growth
Tight
restrictions on growth often disguised as ways to protect the environment
or relieve traffic congestion are pushing the cost of housing beyond
the reach of millions of families.
Walden
Park community now open in south Fulton
Walden
Park, a new planned community in south Fulton County, recently held
its grand opening.
Front
porches, sidewalks making a comeback at Highland Park
Residents of Highland
Park Estates, the first residential development of its size with new
zoning rules requiring minimum 1.6-acre lots, are enjoying the neighborhood
from their front porches.
Assist
2 Sell opens Peachtree City office
Saving money on
real estate commissions is a growing trend in real estate today.
SummerGrove
exceed 500 home sales
As SummerGrove exceeds
100 homes sales since January 2001, and over 500 homes sold since the
community's inception in 1998, Pathway Communities, the developer of
SummerGrove, is pleased to announce the addition of Home Innovations
to the community's builder team.
Career
Night set for May 21
Coldwell Banker
Bullard Realty's Newnan/Coweta County office will host a "Career
Night" session Monday, May 21.
Feltman
gets millionth MLS listing
Corki Feltman, who
recently opened Home Power Realty's office in the Eagle's Landing area,
was recently recognized for having the one millionth listing for the
Multiple Listing Service (MLS).
Bullard
named to elite group
Coldwell Banker
Bullard Realty has been named to the prestigious Coldwell Banker Chairman's
Circle, being one of only 98 real estate affiliate firms selected out
of the more than 1,500 Coldwell Banker companies throughout North America.
Avery
Park to host Ultimate Kitchen Tour
Avery
Park, a master-planned community in historic Newnan, will host the Ultimate
Kitchen Tour May 19 & 20 and 26 & 27 from 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
on Saturdays and 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. on Sundays.
Walker-Jones
joins Bullard
Rebecca
Walker-Jones has joined the staff of Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty's
Fayette County office as a sales associate.
ERA
Preferred hosts career seminar
ERA
Preferred Realty will host a Career in Real Estate seminar for those
interested in finding out about the world of professional real estate.
Renaissance
Group starts renovations in Fayette, Coweta
The
Renaissance Group, Distinctive Homes and Renovations, has just announced
the launch of its upscale renovation services for homeowners in Fayette
and Coweta counties.
Builders
raise money for Habitat for Humanity
Southside
homebuilders gathered at the end of March at the Shamrock Community
Center in Clayton County for the Wild Game Dinner, a fundraising event
for Habitat for Humanity.
Scranage
earns GRI designation
Cheri
Scranage of ERA Preferred Realty has earned the Graduate, Realtor Institute
(GRI) Designation from the Georgia Association of Realtors. It was awarded
at Callaway Gardens after she completed three week-long courses and
passed a written exam at the end of each session.
Autumn
Ridge open in Griffin
Forrest
Homes has announced the opening of Autumn Ridge, a new single-family
residential community in Spalding County.
Canterbury
Springs opens third phase
Phase
III, which has a total of 19 homesites, is now open in Canterbury Springs,
a Jerry Ballard Homes community in the Coweta County city of Grantville.
McKillop,
Story reach GRI
Carolyn
McKillop and Marie Story, both with Century 21 Southern Crescent in
Fayetteville, have completed the curriculum required to achieve the
Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) designation.
Rogers
receives Phoenix award
Judy
Rogers, a top-producing Realtor with more than 20 years of experience,
was recently presented with the Phoenix Award during a Fayette County
Board of Realtors banquet.
Bartolomei
joins Re/Max
Barbara
Pearson, broker/owner of Re/Max Around Atlanta All-Stars in Fayetteville,
has announced the addition of Fernando Bartolomei.
- Business
Stein
Mart opens
Fayetteville
shoppers will get a new choice in upscale, discount shopping tomorrow
when Stein Mart opens its doors for business.
Art
Students Receive Awards
Twenty-four
students from McIntosh High School recently participated in the sixth
annual Creative Self-expression Show sponsored by the Kedron Great Frame
Up Shop and Gallery.
Baby
Boomer Versus Generation X Managing the New Workforce
Many
good employees are quitting traditional organizations because the older
workforce does not know how to manage them properly.
- Sports
Local
soccer teams keep winning in state soccer tournament
The
boys and girls teams from Region 4-AAAAA keep on winning in the AAAAA
soccer tournament and each win brings them closer to state titles and
possible rematches with their region rivals.
All
area girls team announced
The
all Area team for 4-AAAAA was annoounced late last week and the three
fayetteCounty teams in 4-AAAAA are well-represented.
PTC
Flash track team captures state titles
The
Peachtree City Flash Track Team, representing Fayette County, competed
this past Friday night and Saturday in the Georgia State Track &
Field Championships held in Augusta, Georgia. Thirty four athletes competed,
22 placed in the top 6. Out of 53 events they placed 30 in the top 6
and is the first time the team has had three State Champions. Rebecca
Stokes in her first year at Track & Field went undefeated in the
1600 meter race. Khiry Battle is a repeat State Champion in the Standing
Long Jump and Vince Brown won the High Jump. Vince Brown and Sean Plunkett
placed in three separate events.
Parrish
set to tee it up for Mercer
Ashley
Parrish's father and grandfather are golf-a-holics.
Sports
Calendar
- Weekend
- Offshoot
presents final coffee house
-
After eight years,
Offshoot Productions is ending the run of its popular Stars on the
Southern Crescent coffeehouse.
- 19th
annual Brooks Day festival this weekend
There
is a special feeling of unity when a town comes together and presents
a festival.
- A
varied assortment of summer camps offered this summer
-
-
-
Summer
vacation is almost here and the same question you ask yourself every
summer rears its ugly head: What are we going to do with the kids?
Violence
at the end of the war
By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
-
At
last, victory in Europe. The Atlanta Journal, May 7, 1945: GERMANS
SURRENDER SIGNED AT ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
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- Movies
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- I
went to Music Midtown and all I got was this lousy blister and this
great tan
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I
had a busy weekend. Very busy. Busy like beavers trying to dam up
the Colorado River
- Religion
Maybe
we should follow the Pope's example ...
By REV. JOHN HATCHER
Religion Columnist
If I were
a Catholic, I would be exceedingly blessed by the example of Pope John
Paul II, as he became the first pope ever to enter a Muslim mosque as
he pilgrims the journey of the Apostle Paul. Since I am not a Catholic,
I am blessed anyway!
Historic
Holly Grove to have open house May 19
As
a part of National Trust Preservation Week, May 13-19, Holly Grove A.M.E.
Church in Peachtree City will have an open house Saturday, May 19, from
10 a.m.-2 p.m., featuring church history displays.
Fayetteville
First Baptist to host conversational English workshop
The Fayetteville
First Baptist church will host a Conversational English workshop on
two consecutive weekends in May. Jeanine Wooten of Jonesboro First Baptist
Church will lead the workshop.
Reddicks
to speak at CDM in Tyrone May 11-13
Lynn and Linda Reddick
will speak at the CDM Teaching and Training Center in Tyrone Friday-Sunday,
May 11-13.
First
Presbyterian plans mother-daughter dinner
Mothers, daughters
and friends are invited to join the ladies of the First Presbyterian
Church in Peachtree City for the annual Mother-Daughter Dinner on Saturday,
May 12 at 6 p.m.
Cary
will be featured speaker at PTC Presbyterian
Carolyn Cary, co-founder
of the Fayette County Historical Society, will be the featured speaker
at the Men's Fellowship Meeting at the First Presbyterian Church in
Peachtree City Sunday, May 20. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in
the choir room of the church.
PTC
Presbyterian selects elders and deacons for 2001
Members of the First
Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City recently ordained elders and deacons
to serve the church during the year.
Fayette
County Gathers For Prayer
Residents from throughout
Fayette County gathered in Fayetteville Thursday, May 3, to pray for
their county, state and national leadership as a part of the 50th anniversary
of the National Day of Prayer.
Religion
Briefs
Opinion
Opinion
Will
zig zag Zell take a turn to the right?
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
What to say about
Zell Miller ...?
Better
than NASCAR: 3 models of mom
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
There isn't much
in life that can be said to be true for everybody, but everybody is
the child of somebody. We're not talking biology here, either.
Some
advice to date by
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
I have a lot of
single friends and they are always asking if I know anyone of the opposite
sex that I could "fix them up with," etc.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
School
board wrong to seek F'ville annexation
Spot zoning! Spot
zoning was my first thought when I read that the Fayette County Board
of Education was petitioning the city of Fayetteville to annex and rezone
the 94.2 acres on Lester Road to build a new school.
Middle
school dress code is ridiculous; let's get sensible
Today, my daughter,
a seventh grade Fayette Middle School student, was sent to the office
because the shirt she was wearing was supposedly not acceptable under
the school dress policy. A counselor gave her a jacket to wear for the
rest of the day.
Fayette
NAACP president defends PTC's Brown
I write this letter
in response to Mr. Frank Hyde's letter to the editor in The Citizen
and the Online Citizen News on April 4, 2001. In his letter Mr. Hyde
appears to be disparaging Mr. Steve Brown, who is a candidate for the
Peachtree City mayoral election. If this is the intended target, I feel
compelled to respond to this outrageous characterization of Mr. Brown
and the ludicrous idea of comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
So,
Murphy, why don't you get a real job?
Billy Murphy insinuates
that "pilots and athletes and entertainment-industry types"
are the "highest paid segment of our society" and sit around
with a "stroke and strike mentality" while "the rest
of us really work." He insinuates that the only reason we command
the pay we do is due to our "egos" and that we really do not
do a day of "work." So, let's examine this insightful "fact."
Lenox
abused trust by using PTC contingency fund without public vote
[Editor's
note: Peachtree City Councilman Dan Tennant read the statement below
to the council at the May 3 meeting. He provided a copy to The Citizen
and asked that it be printed as a letter to the editor. The Tennant-sponsored
motion to reserve spending power to the full council after a public
vote passed 40. Council member Annie McMenamin was absent.]
The
truth is out there: Rebels fought for rights
I am, once again,
responding to Marc Michael's letter written about the Southern Confederacy.
I realize that some individuals have a twisted view of past history,
especially dealing with the War Between the States; however, I am completely
dumbfounded as to how someone could be so misinformed as Mr. Michael.
With so many reading materials available to the public in this day and
time I cannot understand how someone could totally ignore the hard evidence
which speaks out against Mr. Michael's thinking.
Hooters
in Fayetteville: Should be just another dining choice
I am 34 years old
and have lived in Fayette County all of my life. I remember the good
days when the traffic coming through downtown was slow compared to what
it is today and the only place to go eat was the Dairy Queen on Friday
nights after a ballgame.
About
good teachers and teaching jobs . . .
For Mrs. Mendenhall
. . .
Switching
careers . . .
Thank you for sharing
Amy Riley's comments on "Teach for Georgia" in her May 2 column,
"Let's give 'Teach for Ga.' a fair chance."
Teaching
to read . . .
Can you imagine
not being able to read? When I spoke with Lou McLean at the LaFayette
Educational Center, she told me there are people who live in our area
who cannot read. I was comparing not being able to access the Internet
or send an e-mail message to being similar to not being able to read.
Some
perspective on authority
I am a 24-year-old
wife and mother of three. I say this to give some perspective on where
I am coming from. I consider myself to be young enough to have some
credibility in discussing issues involving "young people,"
yet as a parent, my eyes have been opened as to why my parents did the
things they did.
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