News
Fayette's
road projects remain on back burner
Don't expect progress
anytime soon on federally funded road projects in Fayette County.
Rapson:
Trim PTC's budget
Cutting Peachtree
City's proposed 2002 budget won't be easy, but it is necessary, argues
Councilman Steve Rapson.
Planners:
Let's annex 80 acres into PTC
A request from John
Wieland Homes to annex 80 acres into Peachtree City off the western
side of MacDuff Parkway is one step closer to becoming reality.
Planners
eye how to squeeze out more green space by squeezing in more homes
You say you want
more green space?
Commission
to decide fate of historic Fayette home
The controversial
request to turn one of Fayette's oldest homes into a shopping center
will be the first order of business to face the county's newest commissioner
tomorrow night.
Neighborhood
associations band together in N. Fayette
More than 20 neighborhood
associations in north Fayette County have joined forces in hopes of
developing a more effective voice in dealing with issues in the area.
State
rep. to Williams: Send experts to meeting
South
Fulton state Rep. Sharon Beasley-Teague is asking Williams Corp. to
bring plenty of experts to a meeting she will host Aug. 7.
New
Hope Road rezoning to get scrutiny
Developer
Mukut Gupta will try to convince county commissioners Thursday night
that his 40.5 acres on Old Senoia Road at Harp Road should have more
homes than the current zoning allows.
Local
14-year-old faces adult charges for statutory rape, aggravated child molestation
A local 14-year-old
boy will be tried as an adult on charges of statutory rape and aggravated
child molestation.
Local
probation officers keep tabs on criminals with home visits, drug tests
Fayette
County's state probation officers may not wear snazzy uniforms with
shiny badges, but they play integral roles in the local criminal justice
system.
Fayette
DA joins Republicans, abandoning Democratic party
Fayette
County District Attorney Bill McBroom has officially switched to the
Republican party.
Rezoning
for PTC restaurant denied
A
rezoning request to allow a custom frame shop to be converted into a
restaurant has been denied by the Peachtree City Council.
Substitute
teacher policy revised
The
Fayette County School System is continuing to update its policy concerning
substitute teachers, after an incident last year that resulted in the
arrest of a substitute.
Fayetteville
historic district on back burner
Residents
of downtown Fayetteville were assured by the City Council Thursday night
that a proposed historic preservation district would not be enacted
anytime soon.
Homeowners
on private streets in PTC will get city's expertise
Peachtree
City homeowners living on privately owned streets will be getting some
help from the city in maintaining those streets.
Kedron
Creek name OK'd by PTC Council
A
proposal to name a tributary in Peachtree City as Kedron Creek has been
endorsed by the City Council.
PTC
will fund off-duty personnel for local air show
To
help with this year's Wings Over Dixie Air Show and Festival at Falcon
Field, the Peachtree City Council has set aside more than $21,000 to
pay off-duty police officers, firefighters and EMTs.
Warr
honored by Atlanta group
Enlight Atlanta,
an organization devoted to ending bias and harassment based on actual
or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity in Atlanta area
schools, presented an award to Fayette County High School principal
Dr. Charles Warr July 13 for what it called "the courage and commitment
to his students to stop harassment based on sexual orientation."
Fair
vendor sign-ups set
Exhibitor
applications for the 2001 Fayette County Kiwanis Fair are now available
by mailing a request to P.O. Box 814, Fayetteville, GA 30214, or phone
Larry Adams at 770-461-8579, Ron McCurry at 770-461-5519, or the fair
office at 770-719-3530.
Administration
Medicare improvement plan a positive development, says Collins
The
Bush Administration's Medicare proposals offer a chance to improve and
strengthen the program, Rep. Mac Collins said last week.
MHS
graphic arts students compete nationally
Graduating senior
Melvin Bruce has earned McIntosh High School's first national award
in career and technical student organization competition in the 37th
National Leadership and Skills Conference and Skills USA Championships
in Kansas City, Mo.
PSC
restricts BellSouth marketing
The
Public Service Commission has approved an interim order prohibiting
BellSouth from engaging in so-called "win back" activities
for seven days once a customer switches to another local telephone service
provider.
Red
Cross needs blood
Facing
summer blood shortages, the American Red Cross has teamed up with the
Atlanta Falcons to recruit blood donors in the annual drive Thursday,
Aug. 9 through Saturday, Aug. 11, noon to 5 p.m.
Police
Blotter
Health Wise
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- Religious
involvement in childhood
By
GREGORY K. MOFFATT, PH. D
Child's Play
I have always avoided
formal discussions of religious issues in this column and leave those
issues for the columnists in the religion section. I have my own religious
beliefs, but the purpose of my column is family and children's issues.
- Getting
your child ready for school
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- We here at the
Health Department hope that our fellow Fayette Countians are enjoying
a wonderful, safe, and exciting summer vacation. Unfortunately, all
summers must make way for fall at some point, and all too soon the school
year approaches.
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- State
agency addresses mental health issues
The Division of
Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse serves people
of all ages and those with the most severe mental illnesses, mental
retardation and substance abuse problems.
'Light
the Night' walk set for Sept. 22
The Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society's First Annual "Light the Night" Walk will
take place September 22 and organizers are looking for participants
to begin team and individual recruitment efforts now.
- 'Take
two trees and call me in the morning'
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You
won't hear your doctor dispense this prescription, but the Georgia
Forestry Commission wants to advise you that trees and products made
from trees are an important component in many of the pharmaceuticals
and health-related products you use every day.
SRMC
providing free immunizations for children
Southern
Regional Medical Center is partnering with the Clayton County Board
of Health to provide free immunizations and hearing, vision and dental
screenings to area children Thursday, Aug. 2, 6-9 p.m. in the Education
Auditorium at the hospital.
It's
important to understand what's going on
Do you enjoy being
around people as much as you used to?
West
Nile virus found in south Georgia bird
A
crow infected with West Nile virus was found in Lowndes County, Georgia.
The bird was found by a citizen July 6 and died July 7.
- Business
Former
carpet showroom on auction block tomorrow
Fayette
investors wanting to get a potential deal on a new office site should
head toward Ga. Highway 314 tomorrow.
- Sports
Fayetteville
sprinter wins race in Florida as precursor to Georgia Games
Al
Gibbs, assistant sprinter coach for the Peachtree City Flash and also
an assistant for the Fayette Flames youth track teams, has been gearing
up all summer for the Georgia Games, which were played over the weekend.
Tennis
games, demonstrations set for festival Sat. at PTC Tennis Center
The
Georgia Tennis Association's 2001 Georgia Tennis Festival will be at
the Peachtree City Tennis Center Saturday beginning at 5 p.m.
Flames
turn hot at Georgia Games
The Fayette Flames
summer youth track team brought back seven medals this past weekend
after competing in the Georgia Games championship meet at Life University
in Marietta.
McIntosh
golfer signs with Andrew College
Brandon
Ring, 2001 McIntosh High School graduate, has accepted a golf scholarship
and signed a letter of intent to play at Andrew College.
Sports
Calendar
- Weekend
- Pioneer
of rock, Chuck Berry, graces the stage in PTC
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Merriam
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines rock 'n' roll as popular music
usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized
by a persistent heavily accented beat, much repetition of simple phrases,
and often country, folk and blues elements.
Sports
stars on hand to open Just For Feet
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Fayette
Family YMCA will benefit from a private party Saturday to celebrate
the opening of Just for Feet's 91st store, at Fayette Pavilion.
Musical
theater classes offered
Musical
theater classes will be offered at The Studio in Fayetteville beginning
Monday, Aug. 13.
The
Catholics are coming! The Catholics are coming!
By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
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Everything's relative,
of course.
- Library's
annual concert features prominent baritone
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Accomplished
bass/baritone J. Robert Adams and pianist Sandra Lutters will fill
the bill for Fayette County Public Library's annual summer concert
Thursday.
- Art,
craft show set
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Local
artists and crafters are invited to enter Griffin Main Street's Arts,
Crafts & Antiques Festival, set for Oct. 27 in downtown Griffin.
You'll
scream for free ice cream
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Sundaes
in the Shade, an old-fashioned ice cream social, will be hosted by
the First Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City Sunday, Aug. 5 from
4 - 6 p.m. at 206 Willowbend Road.
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- Jazz
on the menu at Spivey Hall
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Calling
all jazz afficionados!
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- Guide
opens Georgia's walking trails
Residents in Fayette
County have plenty of paths made for walking at their disposal, but
sometimes a change of scenery would be nice.
Georgia
Shakespeare Festival announces 2001 season
Genius,
jealousy and good times take center stage as Georgia Shakespeare Festival
presents its 16th season of the world's best stories performed by
one of the country's strongest acting ensembles.
Film
series continues
The
Atlanta History Center is offering the Summer Sizzles Film Series
starting this Friday with the film "Body Heat."
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Religion
How
about a piece of humble pie?
By REV. JOHN HATCHER
Religion Columnist
It seems
today that the church serves as a platform to distinguish the haves from
the have-nots, contrary to its intentional moorings. Read on.
Local
minister participates in service of 'Liturgy for the Pre-born' outside
Atlanta abortion clinic
Father
David Epps, rector of Christ the King Charismatic Episcopal Church in
Peachtree City, recently joined with clergy from around the state to
conduct a Liturgy for the Pre-born in downtown Atlanta across the street
from an abortion clinic.
Inman
Methodist Church will offer evangelism revival weekend Aug. 3
Inman United Methodist
Church will host a series of evangelistic meetings Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, Aug. 3, 4, and 5, featuring sermons by the Rev. Doug Burrell,
Inman's pastor, on how to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Religion
Briefs
PTC
Church of Christ VBS set for July 28
The Peachtree City
Church of Christ will have Vacation Bible School Saturday, July 28 from
9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Opinion
Opinion
Bush's
latest idea violates Hay's law
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
My first publisher,
a wise man named Tom Hay, once told me that it's OK to make people mad,
as long as you don't make everybody mad at once.
Empowerment
zone ought to help those who persevered
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
With former President
Bill Clinton scheduled to move into his newly renovated 14th story,
8,300-square-foot office space in Harlem this week, most media sources
will focus on the obvious, that the new economic Harlem renaissance
is a modern day Cinderella story.
Spamming
the globe . . .
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
The spam, these
days, is sizzling like a car full of trailer park kids, waiting for
their mom in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Even though Britney Spears really
wasn't in a car wreck and the Queen of England didn't turn out to be
into "Big Bad Mommas" magazine, there are still plenty of
items to spoof.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Power
plant 'facts' a little smoky themselves
Subject: "Power
plant story gets facts, figures wrong" [from Fulton Energy Co.
spokesman Dan Skizim, Letters to the Editor, The Citizen, July 18].
Rapson
right to oppose tax hike in PTC budget
I witnessed some
authentic fiscal leadership from Councilman Steve Rapson at the July
19 Peachtree City Council budget workshop meeting. Rapson is a natural-born
number cruncher, and he made some excellent points at the workshop.
Unfortunately the other three council members present (Dan Tennant was
out of town) took a dim view of Rapson's positions.
Abortion
decision is not so simple and not so safe
This letter is in
response to Suzanne Sports' letter to the editor July 11. I am convinced
that men such as Father David Epps (in The Citizen Review, July 6) does
very much understand what an agonizing decision it is to seek an abortion
and the horrific circumstances that accompany it. Also, along with that
he fully recognizes that abortion is the taking of a human life.
Where's
the compassion in abortion debate?
It's been about
10 years now since I wrote a letter in response to an accusation in
a local paper that pro-choice individuals were baby-killers. At that
time I received quite a few extremely frightening phone calls from pro-life
individuals; hence my request to have my name withheld from my letter.
Call me a coward and I'll wear the tag because those people scared me.
Fayette
principal gets award for stopping student harassment of gay teen
On Friday evening,
July 13, Enlight Atlanta presented an award to Dr. Charles Warr, the
Fayette County principal who had the courage and commitment to his students
to stop harassment based on sexual orientation. A recent survey by Enlight
Atlanta exposed the prevalence of sexual orientation and gender identity
harassment in Atlanta area schools.
Lack
of child health care is an American shame
Three readers' response
to my July 4 call for a strong Patients' Bill of Rights had been posted
in The Citizen (I am sure you know in the end the Senate passed a relatively
strong bill).
Dentists
keep us waiting, but don't dare keep them waiting
We all have to face
little ups and downs; that's just life. Sometimes some of our doctors
and dentists refuse to accept these ups and downs and charge us for
being late or missing an appointment and never mention how many times
we have been kept waiting for them.
AT&T's
auto-pay fee is wrong
AT&T's auto-pay
fee is wrong
Sallie's
column brings back memories
I enjoyed [The Citizen
columnist Sallie Satterthwaite's] reminiscence of Jim Hudson. He was
a wonderful man, although one time I wanted to wring his neck.
Answer
to poverty is not more government spending, but less
The real problem
with poverty is that it defies definition or so it would seem as we
continue to lower the bar just at the time we seem to be catching up
with it.
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