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News
By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@thecitizennews.com
A proposal to lift Peachtree City’s annexation and multi-family housing moratoriums will be considered again by the city council Thursday night.
By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@thecitizennews.com
A new study confirms what many Fayette County residents already know: They’re living in a great place.
By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@thecitizennews.com
As you get your weekly groceries, or take another shopping trip to the Fayette Pavilion or the Avenue in Peachtree City, look around at some of your fellow shoppers. They’re probably spending some of the $330 million that Delta Air Lines pumps into the local economy.
By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@thecitizennews.com
Fayette County’s top commissioner and attorney are both denying the county committed any Open Meetings violations during their recent spats with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department.
By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@thecitizennews.com
The Segway Human Transporter, a two-wheeled transportation marvel, has been graded with a “D” by the Peachtree City Police Department. Officers wanted to determine if the vehicle is suited to operate on the city’s golf cart paths.
By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com
No one was injured when a school bus window was shattered by what police think was a shot from a BB gun in the Windsor Estates subdivision last Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com
Several homes on Birch Court were evacuated Friday morning after a suspicious package was found when officials served an eviction notice at a home there.
By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com
A Fayette County builder has pled guilty to failing to pay for materials and subcontractors on nine local homes, causing liens to be filed on the properties, officials said.
At a press conference last week, Dylan Glenn announced the formation of a Veterans Advisory Committee. Glenn, a Republican candidate for Georgia's 8th Congressional District, brought together the group of retired military officers at Fayetteville's historic courthouse square before a group of campaign supporters who turned out for the announcement.
Southern Conservation Trust is hosting a guided trail walk and work party at Line Creek Nature Area June 5 to celebrate the 12th annual National Trails Day, a signature trail awareness program of the American Hiking Society.
The Rotary Club of Peachtree City is hosting a Meet and Greet the Candudates night.
With the political season upon us, campaign signs are sprouting up all over Fayette County.
The Peachtree City Independence Day Parade and Fireworks will be held July 3 this year to avoid conflict with Sunday morning services and traditions. The parade will begin at 9 a.m. July 3, rain or shine. The rain date for the fireworks only will be Sunday, July 4.
Fayette County Tax Commissioner George Wingo has been named Tax Commissioner of the Year by the Georgia Association of Taxing Officials.
Rep. Mac Collins, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate,received the endorsement of the Government Is Not God PAC (GING-PAC).
Business
Have you ever gone to a spa where the robot-like esthetician reminded you of a rough looking Swedish female prison guard you saw once in a movie? And unfortunately, she was the one waxing your legs. Welcome to the world of skincare.
His 1999 Volvo had been diagnosed by a Volvo dealer and another shop as having a major oil leak requiring a $3,000, three week repair. So the Peachtree City resident took his Volvo to Allspeed for a last opinion.
Georgia’s 42 Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs), including Coweta-Fayette EMC, Georgia Transmission Corporation and Oglethorpe Power Corporation recently donated $3,000 to the United Service Organization (USO) of Georgia, a charter affiliate of the USO World Organization.
Home & Garden
Local consultant helps find what makes a room shine
The right piece of art can transform a room, and no one knows this better than Deidre Milliron of Accent Art, an art consulting and design service.
The Granite Transformations showroom in Fayetteville has several displays exhibiting the versatility of “Rock Solid Granit.”
Tips to ensure your pool makes the grade this summer
There is more to cleaning a pool than keeping a proper pH balance. Not only is there skimming for “floaties,” but also vacuuming; scrubbing the tiles, sides, and floor; and cleaning, maintaining, emptying, and backwashing the filter and pump. ServiceMagic, Inc. provides the following tips for keeping your pool clean so you can enjoy the rewards of diving into the cool water this summer.
They’re back! Or at least, they soon will be.
Just in time for the warmer weather and days spent outdoors, Bayer Environmental Science launched nofireants.com, a consumer web destination for those fighting fire ants across the South.
Septic systems are usually installed in areas where sanitary sewer is not available and where wastewater must be disposed of on the property. Every drop of water that goes down sink drains or toilets carries with it contaminants, chemicals and bacteria or viruses that the homeowner wants to remove.The water from washing machines, baths, toilets and other uses must go either to a septic tank or sanitary sewer system.
Quality, function important when designing a new bathroom
If building a new home is in your future, chances are you’re inundated with paint chips, fabric swatches, tile samples and carpet remnants. You probably also have a collection of home magazines tagged with your favorite design ideas. But while aesthetics are important, especially in a powder room or a master bath, it is equally important to ensure the building materials and decorative fixtures you choose for your new bathroom have lasting quality.
As the weather gets warmer, thoughts of entertaining and enjoying one’s own backyard and garden become paramount. This year there are a number of new tools available that can help you decrease your work time in the backyard and increase your pleasure time.
When you walk into a model home these days, you can’t help but notice the latest trend in kitchens. Designers are going out of their way to cut down on the clutter.
The makings for nature’s best, most complete fertilizer may be wilting in your refrigerator’s vegetable bin. Kitchen waste, along with grass clippings, leaves and other garden waste can all be used to create compost.
Who doesn’t yearn for that relaxed feeling that comes with the warmer climate, the casual lifestyles and the bright, open interiors of the islands? A growing trend in home design, from Maine to Michigan, is rooms inspired by these sunny spots in the hopes that it will make our homes breezy, colorful and restful and more vacation-like.
There are many urban legends floating around about gardening, and sometimes it’s hard to figure out what is truth and what is myth. The Summer 2004 Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardener’s Companion separates fact from fiction on commonly held misconceptions; here are just a few.
You might equate lush textures, rich colors, personality and panache with the latest home decorating trends, and you’d be right. But what’s in is really out! Outside that is garden rooms. The latest trend in garden rooms is foliage! They’re the must-have plants for 2004.
Prime Timers
The rising cost of care for the elderly in the United States has been the focus of alarming headlines for families facing decisions about the long-term care of senior loved ones. But as families explore the economics of care options, most realize affordable care is available, especially for those wishing to stay in their own homes.
English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll wrote, “The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ... “
Summertime and the living is easy; at least that’s how the song goes. But for those with joint pain, summertime can be especially difficult because of the negative effects that heat, humidity and increased activity can have on joints already stressed or diseased from conditions like osteoarthritis.
Thousands of American adults are at risk of losing their vision as a result of complications from diabetes.
In an era where many issues seem fueled to burn hotter with partisan rancor, it may be refreshing to see how well one group of committees works for a cause of national interest.
Sports
By MICHAEL BOYLAN
mboylan@TheCitizenNews.com
Trey Maughan has had a busy spring. Not only was he the leading scorer of the Starr’s Mill varsity soccer team, which made it to the AAAAA state finals against Brookwood, but he was also a senior preparing to graduate and a driver getting ready for the Thursday Thunder series at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Maughan will attend the University of Tennessee this fall and plans to play soccer on a club team up there, but for now, it is summer and Maughan is focusing on having fun and winning races.
The Southern Crescent Lightning hosted Raleigh and Bristol over the weekend, while also hosting Faith Nights for local youth groups. Those in attendance got to see a good show as the Lightning averaged 101 points and secured their lead atop the WBA standings.
Players from Fayette County, McIntosh and Starr’s Mill High Schools’ soccer teams are well-represented on the all region soccer team. McIntosh and Starr’s Mill had seven players named to the first or second teams, while Fayette County had three.
Spending time with family and friends is one of the most important reasons people participate in boating and fishing, according to research by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation(RBFF). The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) encourages people of all ages to re-connect with their family during National Fishing and Boating Week (NFBW), June 5-13.
Weekend
By LINDSAY BIANCHI
lbianchi@ThecitizenNews.com
Crossover artists were rare in the music business back before compact discs replaced the platter. Today’s musical landscape sees many singers and musicians melding genres into something new. Everything is up for grabs nowadays. Pop blends with rock. Rock blends with country. Country, in turn, blends with pop again. A hundred subcategories of sound rest in-between. Within this complex hierarchy of musical expression, America, the radio-friendly trio whose warm, familiar tunes include “Ventura Highway,” “Sister Golden Hair” and “Tin Man” will always have a special place to call their own.
By LINDSAY BIANCHI
lbianchi@ThecitizenNews.com
Save up your pennies. “Rent” is due at The Fabulous Fox Theatre. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical inspired by Puccini’s “La Boheme” is back in Atlanta this week running through June 6. Since its opening night, February 13, 1996, the updated tale of bohemian life has been a smash hit. With nearly 30 songs, this non-stop music explosion rocks the house to the rafters.
By LINDSAY BIANCHI
lbianchi@ThecitizenNews.com
Strike one blow for the forgotten Americans, you know, the ones who ring you up at the grocery store or refold the sweaters you dig through at The Gap. The “Man” can only hold down the working class so long.
Offshoot Productions is fully immersed in rehearsals for its first presentation at Fayetteville's Villages Amphitheater. William Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” will play at this attractive and spacious venue on June 11, 12, 13, 17, 20, 25, 26 and 27. All shows begin at 8 p.m.
Kathy Jefcoats, a reporter for the Henry County Daily Herald, was the guest speaker at the May 22, 2004, meeting of the Fayette County Writers Guild.
Booth Middle School leads the way, as nine of its 8th graders who take Spanish 1 participated in the 2004 Spanish Composition Contest.
Chess grandmaster Martha Fierro will play 30 people simultaneously in a special exhibition Saturday, June 5, at 7 p.m. at Books-a-Million at The Avenue in Peachtree City.
Members of the McIntosh High School Chiefettes Dance Team are preparing for their 12th annual summer dance camps.
Students become the teachers in a new statewide initiative that has recognized several Fayette schools for their development of educational web sites.
Are you looking for an enjoyable way to bring in some extra income?
Religion
By JOHN HATCHER
Religion Columnist
Buckle your seat belts or you may just get shot out of your spiritual seats.
An unusual sermon series will begin this Sunday, June 6, at Christ the King Charismatic Episcopal Church in Sharpsburg
Heritage Christian Church has added a new face to its ministerial staff which, according to Senior Minister Greg Marksberry, keeps Heritage on the “unconventional” side of staffing.
Don Pope, a Peachtree City resident, has accepted the position of youth minister for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.He was introduced at a recent Sunday service and coffee gathering held between the morning worship services.
Rolling Hills Baptist Church will have homecoming, celebrating 13 years of service to the community, and a reception for its new pastor, Frank Mercer, Sunday, June 13, beginning with the homecoming worship service at 10:50 a.m. Dinner will follow the service.
Several young women of the Peachtree City congregation, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, recently collected and delivered more than 300 children’s books to the Grady Hospital Burn Unit.
Opinion
By STEVE BROWN
Mayor, Peachtree City
When I read Editor Cal Beverly’s piece on the Westside annexation on May 19, I thought he was acting like someone shot his dog. Mr. Beverly is a nice guy and he will give you equal time and you have to respect that.
Dr. WARREN THROCKMORTON
Contributing Writer
Ex-gay. Does that term bother you? Are you skeptical that some people can change from gay to straight?
By RONDA RICH
Contributing Writer
Whatever happened to Sunday clothes? Whatever happened to dresses and suits reserved exclusively for church, funerals and weddings? Clothes that didn’t do double duty for a cookout or a bowling tournament?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I had a lesson and exercise in frustration last night along with a crowd of concerned Fayette County residents at the Fayetteville City Zoning and Planning meeting.
At its next meeting, the Fayette County Board of Education will vote on a new week long break during the month of October. As a Fayette County parent of two teens, I can hardly believe that in the process of establishing the 2005-2006 school year calendar the focus of our county curriculum director is “to make it easy during these long breaks for families to travel during the year” as quoted in the May 27 issue of Fayette Neighbor.
In a political year it’s important to be informed about the candidates who are running for each office. While trying to be informed, I have collected information about Steve Harris, Fayette County’s first solicitor general.
Dr. Moffat’s column offering advice to parents on their children’s sexuality was emblematic of our culture’s confused, misguided notions of sex in general.
America is finished. This country has long defended freedom, anywhere in the world, at any time, at any cost. There have been thousands who have perished fighting against oppression and liberating nations. The home front has been a place where the people, who were not fighting in the war, sacrificed to see that the soldiers had whatever they needed in order to be successful in their heroic endeavors. I fear those days have passed.
After relooking at a map of the Middle East, I noticed that Iran was nowhere near America. There are no Kurds (in large, substantial numbers of course) on our borders and I am just assuming that the sarin gas used by Saddam against the Kurds and Iranians could not possibly cross both a continent and an ocean.
Glen Allen’s shrill ad hominem attack on my perspective of a singular aspect of the Civil War is merely incendiary nonsense. His argument, like that of Mr. Scott Gilbert of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, is a contorted web spun not to enlighten but like other revisionists who feverishly extrapolate from a few historic events, attempts to promulgate a specious and mendaciously contrived history.
On May 9 of this year, I found it necessary to seek medical attention in your emergency room. I had been stung by a wasp and had experienced a severe allergic reaction. I tried all the normal procedures to counteract the reaction but to no avail.
Hello, everyone. Scott passed away [Saturday, May 29] at 12:04 p.m. Although I already miss him terribly, I still have a peace knowing that he has begun his eternal life. After struggling to breathe for several hours, I believe he actually died from respiratory failure.
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