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Rutherford
to quit, unquit
Peachtree City Post
1 Councilman-elect Judi-ann Rutherford will quit her job as office manager
of the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater effective Jan. 2, 2004, a necessity
if she is to be sworn into office the following Monday.
PTC
(temporarily) takes over venues
With a midnight
deadline looming, the Peachtree City Council found something on which
to agree Sunday night, voting unanimously to dip into the council contingency
fund to salvage the jobs of more than a dozen full-time employees of
the tennis center and amphitheater.
6
main points of PTC pact to take over 2 venues
There were six main
recommendations in the agreement as approved by the City Council Sunday:
F’ville
builder faces $75,000 fine for trench safety rule violation
Is Big Government
coming down unfairly on a Fayetteville business?
Samaritans
need Top 10 donations
The Fayette Samaritans
is a local non-profit organization devoted to helping Fayette residents
with immediate needs. To fulfill that mission, the organization needs
the following donated items:
High-speed
shoplifter chase ends at College Park school
A man suspected
of shoplifting three DVDs from the Walgreens in north Fayetteville led
Fayette County sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase Monday
afternoon that ended in a parking lot next to a middle school in College
Park.
Helping
nonprofits during the holidays
If you do not have
a specific organization to give a hand to during the holidays, consider
one of these:
Highway
widening could connect three counties
Imagine traveling
on a four-lane road from Clayton County through the cities of Fayetteville
and Peachtree City all the way to Newnan.
Suspect
who mouthed off to girl on cart path indicted
A Peachtree City
man who was caught moments after making lurid comments to a 13-year-old
girl on the cart path system off McIntosh Trail in August has been indicted
by a Fayette County Grand Jury.
Adoption
attorney from Jonesboro discusses four decades of experience
Attorney Lynn Swank
has been a practicing attorney since 1974. She joined the family business
after graduating with her law degree and passing the bar, and her specialty
has always been adoption law.
Places
to start your research when considering adoption
Though National
Adoption Month ended Sunday, there are still thousands upon thousands
of children who need to be adopted. While the following web sites only
represent the tip of the iceberg when it comes to adoption information,
they are excellent places to start.
Man
sells meth, tries to get away by running over officer
A Griffin man trying
to get away from undercover drug agents attempted to run one of them
over with his truck when they tried to arrest him at a south Fayette
convenience store last week, police said.
Former
employee uses key to steal cash from PTC Subway
A former employee
of the Subway at the Peachtree Crossings shopping center in Peachtree
City used a key to enter the establishment after hours and escape with
cash from the store’s safe last week, police said.
Haverty’s
truck storage plan back to Fayetteville council
A request from Haverty’s
Furniture to create outdoor storage areas for its delivery trucks will
be considered a second time by the Fayetteville City Council at its
meeting Thursday night.
Local
students shine at Academic Contest
Complex examinations,
scholarly presentations, rapid-fire quiz bowls, and intense workshops
— they may not sound like events that high school students would
enjoy, but during Gordon College’s 2003 Academic Contest, teenagers
from Sandy Creek and Starr’s Mill high schools had fun doing those
exact things.
Local
professor publishes textbook
Peachtree City resident
Dr. Lisa Eichelberger, professor of Nursing in Clayton State’s
School of Health Sciences, recently published a textbook entitled “Understanding
the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning.” A revolutionary
teaching tool, this textbook promises to make nursing theory courses
more interactive by incorporating various forms of art such as pointillism,
origami and mandalas.
Buckner
to address CCSU grads
State Rep. Gail
Buckner, a Clayton State alumnus, will give the commencement address
at the University’s December graduation ceremonies, scheduled for
Thursday, Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the University’s Athletics &
Fitness Center.
Book
fair to support projects at FCH
The Fayette Community
Hospital Auxiliary will be hosting a holiday book fair in the Hospital
lobby today from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stop by and take advantage of great
discounts of up to 70 percent off retail prices. Proceeds benefit Fayette
Community Hospital projects. For information, call 770-719-7000.
GWF
wreaths on sale now
The Georgia Wildlife
Federation’s annual Christmas wreath program is in full swing.
Wreaths are on sale now. Proceeds from the sale of the wreaths go to
support the GWF’s education programs including Schoolyard Wildlife
Habitat.
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