Notable

Senoia resident Will Vestal has been selected to receive one of Chick-fil-A's $1,000 Leadership Scholarships. Vestal was nominated by his employer, Doug Mickey, operator of the Fayetteville Chick-fil-A Dwarf House restaurant, where more than $80,000 in scholarship money has been awarded to employees. Vestal is studying electronics and computer programming at Griffin Technical Institute.

Greg Hlozek of Peachtree City has been awarded a Georgia Board of Regents Scholarship at The State University of West Georgia. The scholarship is earned through academic achievement. Hlozek completed his freshman year in the top 25 percent of his class with a 3.7 grade point average.

Kristin Michelle Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Hall of Fayetteville, has completed an orientation at Berry College in Rome designed to familiarize students with the campus, curriculum and student activities. During each SOAR (Student Orientation, Advising and Registration) session, participants met with student body leaders, faculty, administrators and academic advisors. Hall is a graduate of Sandy Creek High School.

Firefighter/emergency medical technician Joseph Fannin with the Fayette County Fire Department and volunteer firefighter Ronald G. Todd with the Fayetteville Fire Department have completed a training program in Pressurized Container Fire Control taught by the Georgia Fire Academy Division of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.

In the classroom and in practical exercises, emphasis is placed on the unique properties of flammable and nonflammable gases and liquids stored under pressure that would be transported or found in homes, businesses and industries.

During practical exercises, liquid petroleum (the most common pressurized gas) is used to demonstrate firefighting methods for safe containment of pressurized gases and liquids.

Deborah Lowre Toksoz of The Memory Cottage in Peachtree City has been accepted as a member of Professional Photographers of America. As a PPA member, Toksoz has agreed to abide by the association's code of ethics and is participating in the association's certification, degree and continuing education programs.

Toksoz specializes in children's and family portraits designed to capture the personality of an individual in unique studio portraits or in locations throughout Fayette County. She offers color, black and white and handtinted portraits.

Patrol officer Heather Horne with Peachtree City Police Department has completed a D.U.I. Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing course taught by the Georgia Academy Division of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.

This training program includes the observation techniques involved in recognizing when a driver may be operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicants. Patterns of driver behavior and the more common driving errors committed by drivers under the influence of intoxicants are identified. Students are taught the safe methods of stopping and approaching a suspect driver and the observations to make in order to confirm the earlier suspicions.

Emphasis is placed on the proper manner in which to administer field sobriety tests in order to determine whether an arrest is appropriate. The field sobriety tests taught meet the standards of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Practical exercises are conducted during the day and night and are used to emphasize the importance of a proper response to this problem.

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