News
BOE
consensus: no earlier start
Fayette County Board
of Education members are leaning toward not starting school a week earlier
in 2003-04, as has been discussed.
New
elementary to go in northern PTC
The final piece
of the school bond puzzle is now in place.
Closing
in on PTC's 650-acre Lake McIntosh
Under discussion
for more than two decades, Lake McIntosh is moving closer to becoming
a reality.
GRTA
to explain bus proposal to commission
A representative
of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority will explain GRTA's
plan to run an express bus service in Fayette during the County Commission's
meeting this afternoon.
School
board looking at lean budget year
Fayette educators
are crossing their fingers and hoping for the best as they approach
the task of writing the 2003 budget.
Fayette
needs more foster parents
Fayette
County is in need of foster parents.
County
taking 'wait and see' attitude toward cops grant
The
Fayette County Commission decided to play it cautiously last week before
taking any money from Uncle Sam.
Fayette
EMTs have new help for heart attack victims
Fayette
County has just become a better place to have a heart attack.
FSS
draws critics at annual hearing
The
Older Americans Act sets forth the types of programs for the country's
senior citizens.
PTC
peeping tom conviction upheld by court
The
Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld a man's conviction for attempting
to peer into a woman's apartment complex in Peachtree City.
PTC
Council to consider update of land use plan
The
Peachtree City Council has a relatively light agenda scheduled for its
regular meeting Thursday night.
Students
demonstrate scientific excellence at regional fair
Fayette
students excel at scientific research and it shows.
Fayette
County High student named Presidential Scholar candidate
A
Fayette student is a candidate for one of the highest honors that can
be given to a graduating senior.
United
Way seeks outstanding volunteers
United
Way in Fayette County is looking for a few good men and women and teens
to recognize at its 11th annual volunteer recognition banquet.
Olympic
spotlight illuminates Mormon faith
The
Olympics may have ended, but for members of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints, in many ways it is a beginning.
Kedron
science expo a big hit with students
Parents
at Kedron Elementary School showed students that science is fun during
the science expo sponsored by the school's PTO academic program committee.
Students
work with batik for Black History Month project
Every
picture tells a story.
Principals
from all over coming to Fayette
Approximately
50 middle and high school principals from across the United States were
expected to tour Rising Starr Middle and Starr's Mill High Schools during
the National Association of Secondary School Principals annual convention
and exposition, in Atlanta March 1-4.
Candidate
announces 401K plan
Republican
congressional candidate William Coit announced last week his 401K employee
pension reform plan.
Racial
profiling is NAACP topic
Maj. Whenda Phifer,
public relations officer for the Atlanta Police Department, will discuss
racial profiling and how to interact positively with law enforcement
personnel at the Fayette County NAACP branch's March meeting.
Guilty
Pleas
Police
Blotter
Prime Timers
- Abbott
takes Ms. Southland crown
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And
the winner is...
Southland
contestants fight battle of nerves
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Nine
women competed on Saturday for the title "Ms. Southland."
Each year ladies at Southland Nursing Home in Peachtree City vie for
the title and the crown.
Judging
Ms. Southland not easy
Being
a judge for the Southland Beauty Pageant is something that I look
forward to every year.
Parade
of hats at Heritage Club meeting
Hats
were on almost every head at the sold-out Regions Bank Heritage Club
luncheon in February. There were tacky hats, ugly hats, strange hats,
beautiful hats, old hats, sporty hats. Almost every hat imaginable
was represented at the event.
Seniors
want more info on supplements
Widespread
use by seniors of dietary supplementssuch as vitamins, minerals, and
herbal productshas contributed significantly to the rapid growth of
the supplement market over the past decade. Now, older Americans want
to see more information on product labels and greater government involvement
in ensuring the safety of these products.
AARP
holds 'kitchen table' meetings
Seventy-two-year-old
Irene Chandonet of Manchester, New Hampshire, addressed Rep. John
Sununu (R-NH) last week at one of the five AARP "kitchen table"
events where she emphasized the strain she feels when trying to manage
her finances against just how much she spends monthly on prescription
drugs.
- Home & Garden
Grow
beautiful roses
- Everything will
be coming up roses as the American Rose Society and Home Depot join
ranks to help America's gardeners grow and enjoy roses. This year has
been designated as the Year of the Rose. The rose is our national floral
emblem.
Backyard
Association meets March 12
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Celebrate
gardening with the masters.
Express
Blower system makes landscaping work faster, easier
A
local company is using advanced techniques in landscaping that promise
to save customers valuable time, labor and equipment costs while providing
outstanding, professional results.
Give
your home a makeover in an afternoon
It
doesn't take a lot of time or money to transform the look and feel
of your home. In fact, sometimes the smallest changes can make the
biggest impressions.
Create
a spectacular floral display with hayracks
Your
first question may be, "What is a hayrack?"
Nonprofit
conservation organization recognizes Georgia tree as historic
The
Lovers Live Oak at the corner of Prince and Albany in Brunswick, Georgia,
has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Trees. A plaque
at the site shows that the tree was previously recognized during the
Bicentennial of the United States Constitution as having lived here
at the time of the signing of our Constitution. The plaque was placed
by the National Arborists Association and the International Society
of Arborculture.
Grooming
your lawn to golf course perfection
How
many times have you driven past a thick, lush open plot of the greenest
grass you've ever seen only to realize that it's part of a golf course?
Considering how much effort goes into home lawn care, it's amazing
that golf course superintendents are able to groom every inch of a
course to perfection.
Two-cycle
mowers path of least resistance
When my
lawn needs mowing, I have only one thought: Get it done. Sure, I want
it to look nice when I'm finished, but spending a lot of time on my
lawn is not my activity of choice for a sunny afternoon. That's why
I use a two-cycle engine lawn mower.
Bird
facts and fancies
Bird-watching,
physicians say, can be therapeutic for people. It's both calming and
educational. By keeping a journal of birds you see every day, you
can determine which species come back year after year.
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- Business
Partner's
specialty pizza is nation's second-best
A
Peachtree City pizza parlor nearly struck it rich in Las Vegas earlier
this year.
Development
authority embarks on strategy session for future growth
In
an effort to better position Fayette County for future stable and diversified
economic development, the Fayette County Development Authority is undertaking
a six-month strategic planning process titled Fayette 2020.
Sports
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Spivey
Hall will showcase some world class talent this weekend.
'Nunsense'
brings hilarity to Fayette County
A
terrible tragedy has occurred to The Order of the Little Sisters of
Hoboken, or the "Little Hobos" as they are affectionately
known.
Warehouse
Playhouse 74
Last
week, The Citizen told you about plans for the building of a county
arts center in Peachtree City.
The
good old days in Fayette's fire service
By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
Continuing with
C.J. Mowell, Jr.'s memories of the Fayette County's mid-20th
century fire service:
Movies
Local
resident in book celebrating turning 50
Sidmel Estes-Sumpter,
a new Fayeteville resident and veteran television news exective, is
featured in a new book published by More Magazine.
Weekend
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Religion
Does
your preacher tell you what you want to hear?
By REV. JOHN HATCHER
Religion Columnist
Since I stand in
the pulpit week after week, I think I can say a few things about the
pulpiteer. For your sake of identification, that's the man (or woman)
who stands in front on Sunday morning and either bores you to sleep
or barrels down on you unto an awakening.
Liberty
Baptist youth to hold car wash Saturday to benefit injured Fayette Co.
student
The
youth group at Liberty Baptist Church will have a car wash Saturday,
March 9, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at GTO's drive-in south of Fayetteville.
Grace
Evangelical to celebrate Missions Fest 2002
Grace Evangelical
Church will celebrate Missions Fest 2002 beginning Sunday, March 10
and concluding Sunday, March 17. Special guests will be Dr. Bill Lawrence
from Dallas Theological Seminary, Christian songwriter and performer
Scott Wesley Brown, and Bill Drake, international musician with Tyrone's
Operation Mobilization.
Religion
Briefs
Christ's
Church at Whitewater to present Easter pageant March 15-17
The
Fine Arts Ministry at Christ's Church at Whitewater will present the
7th annual performance of its Easter pageant, "We Beheld His Glory,"
Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March
17 at 9 and 11 a.m. The Saturday and Sunday performances are interpreted
for the hearing impaired.
Fayette
Presbyterian members welcome Arnold-Hoffman
The
Rev. Garrett Arnold- Hoffman has assumed duties as pastor at Fayette
Presbyterian Church and will be welcomed by the membership at the 10:30
a.m. worship service Sunday, March 10. Arnold-Hoffman was formerly pastor
at Loyd Presbyterian Church in LaGrange.
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Opinion
Politics:
Let's have some open exchange
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
The jockeying for
position that politician/statesmen do as an election approaches is always
interesting, and now maybe a little more so in the wake of Sept. 11.
Authority
fight: I'm at that age
By
BILLY MURPHEY
Laugh Lines
I am at the age
where I constantly look back at how my parents were during my youth,
and if I am the same way now. Am I a complete replica of the way they
were then?
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Open
meetings: Lust for power drives secrecy
You were forthright
in your editorial, last week, asking why local officials so often choose
secrecy instead of openness, so I'll be forthright in supplying the
answer to you.
Solicitor
won't prosecute open meetings violations
Re your front page
editorial Feb. 27: Congratulations on your victory in obtaining a temporary
injunction in stopping local governments from meeting in secret.
If
paper prints attack on Dunn, then at least let him respond
I find it disturbing
that you would print a personal attack by one of our Tyrone City Council
members without at least having the courtesy to talk with the person
being attacked ["Cannon: Dunn's a liar," Page 14A, Feb. 27].
What has happened to the fair and objective reporting I expect and usually
get from your newspaper?
Dunn:
What you see is what you get
Will you please
allow Greg Dunn to state his position on community involvement in the
Fayette County jail system.
Dunn
is not a liar
Those who know Greg
Dunn personally know how invalid [Tyrone Councilman Ronnie] Cannon's
statements are. To those who don't know Greg, let me say I worked for
and with Greg when he was a special assistant to the four star general
at FORCES Command. Greg is NOT a liar, or even prone to hyperbole for
sake of self. He says what he means and means what he says.
Is
it time for Tyrone Council to clean up its act?
Has the time come
for us to clean up our act in Tyrone?
Not
easy to stand up for positions against opposition
I don't agree with
everything Steve Brown or Cal Beverly may say or do, but I have to give
these men credit for standing up for what they believe in. They've always
fought for what they think is right and just, and that is not easy.
PTC
officials supporting a teen center? What a joke!
Subject: Peachtree
City's rampant rise in youth crime, spreading throughout Fayette County.
Snell
brings meaning, class to library programs
I noted with dismay
an article in a local newspaper last week on my friend, Chris Snell.
She is the director of the Fayette Public Library.
Radio
station bombards children with obscenities
I live in Gaelic
Glen and I feel the same as Wes Wilkins, "Free speech should end
if I can't turn it off!"
Dear
AT&T: I'd like my lost channels returned
Mr. Jim Lowe was
right on the mark with his letter in The Citizen, but he did not go
far enough.
Cable
customers getting more 'outages' than 'in-ages'
On Saturday two
trucks belonging to AT&T Broadband came into my yard, [technicians]
climbed the telephone pole and cut off my cable TV. Not only me but
many other customers on Hip Pocket Road in Peachtree City as well. They
left and didn't come back. This left all without TV service Saturday
night and most of Sunday.
Many
people don't know about Black History Month
This letter is in
response to a racial commercials letter, "Ad portrays white people
as stupid" [The Citizen, Feb. 27].
Black
inventors are numerous
Ms. Saul, I agree
with you; I feel that the commercials are tacky. I don't think that
they are trying to portray Caucasians as being "dumb." I feel
that they have made a commercial that was not well put together. I think
that they could have put the message out a little better and definitely
in a different way.
Movie
accurately depicts what happened in Somalia
I could not disagree
more with a "Critic's Corner" review of the movie, "Black
Hawk Down."
Let's
remember Vietnam vets
I recently saw the
movie, "Black Hawk Down." What a great movie. The deaths of
those 18 brave Americans on that horrific October day in Mogadishu and
the realistic action sequences are testimony to the courage and dedication
representative of today's U.S. armed forces.
'Latter
Day Saints' believe faith plus works
This letter is a
response to the religion column printed in your newspaper Feb. 27. Perhaps
I can shed some additional light on the beliefs of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, because I have been a member since my conversion
in 1954. While I believe my comments will be correct, and I believe
that the doctrines I shall mention are true, I speak only as an individual
member of my Church.
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