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November 7, 2012 

Volume 18, Issue 31 

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Poole eligible to run 

BY JESSICA WAGNER 

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After weeks of controversy surrounding 

Post 3 County Commission 

Republican Primary winner 

Brian Poole’s eligibility for candidacy 

— challenged because of 

delinquent taxes — the county’s 

Board of Elections ruled Monday 

that he is a qualified office-seeker. 

The five-person board decided 

unanimously in Poole’s favor regarding 

the challenge issued by 

Superintendent of Elections Janet 

Munda. The board issued a written 

final decision, with no comment by 

board members in the meeting. 

In the document, it 

states that the Georgia 

Constitution, according 

to previous 

court rulings, says 

the law regarding a 

candidate’s eligibil- 

ity must be given a 

liberal construction 

in order not to limit 

the right of a person to hold office. 

“Based upon the finding that there 

is not final adjudication, the superintendent 

does not need to address 

the respondent’s (Poole’s) arguments 

concerning the payment 

plan,” the decision states. 

The decision said Poole did 

not dispute the allegations made 

by Munda. It says, while the law 

would appear to support Poole’s 

ineligibility for office because he 

currently is not paying taxes under 

the approved plan, a recent 

legal move made by Poole questions 

the final adjudication of his 

bankruptcy case. 

Helton honored as ‘Fan of the Week’ 



Sparkling in a dress fit for a 

queen, fifth-grader Gracie Helton 

glowed as her father escorted her 

down the Cherokee High School 

football field Friday — an honor 

the elementary school student 

was given after being named the 

Cherokee Fan of 

the Week. 

Founded by Hasty 

Elementary School 

Coach Clint Shaw, 

Cherokee Fan of 

Gracie 

Helton 

the Week is a program 

that gives special 

needs/special 

education children 

throughout the school district a 

chance to be a part of something 

that they normally might not have 

the chance to partake in, such as 

football or cheerleading. 

“It gives students with special 

needs, in special education or just 

in need of something positive in 

their lives, the chance to be a part 

of the high school football atmosphere,” 

he said. 

Shaw started the program five 

years ago with six fans honored 

at high school football games 

throughout the fall. 

“The first year we had six fans, 

and the second year we had 12,” 

he said of the program’s growth. 

BY JANET PELLETIER 

janetp@ledgernews.com 

Traffic relief for many Cherokee 

County residents is coming a 

little sooner than expected, after 

officials announced the Interstate 

575 interchange at Ridgewalk has 

a tentative opening date of next 

Friday, Nov. 16. 

Project Manager Tony Bradley 

of contracting firm C.W. Matthews, 

said Friday swift progress 

by workers and the gift of good 

weather are allowing crews to 

complete the full diamond interchange 

ahead of schedule. 

A spokesman for the Georgia 

Department of Transportation 

Poole 

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Hasty Elementary School fifth-grader Gracie Helton joined Cherokee 

High School last Tuesday for its homecoming parade. Gracie, who is the 

Cherokee Fan of the Week, is pictured with Cherokee Alpha Gamma Club 

member Mason Mayes. 

“Since then, we started having 

anywhere between 11 and 14 fans.” 

This year, there are 16 fans of 

the week throughout the school 

district with Gracie, a Hasty Elementary 

School student, not 

only being a fan, but also being a 

representative on the high school’s 

homecoming court. 

“Our usual Fan of the Week will 

participate in other activities that 

night (such as tossing the coin or 

cheerleading),” Shaw said. “Typically, 

we just have one Fan of the 

Week, but with homecoming, we 

get to give another young girl the 

chance to be a princess.” 

SEE FAN, PAGE 12 

Interchange could open next Friday 

Officials planning ribbon-cutting to mark long-awaited project 

confirmed the tentative opening 

date. 

C.W. Matthews was contracted 

by GDOT to wrap up work on the 

$17 million project by a deadline 

of Dec. 31, but officials have said 

over the past few months they 

expected it to open early. 

“If everything goes well, we’re 

looking at opening the new ramps 

on Nov. 16,” Bradley said. “We’re 

putting a lot of horses on it right 

now, and I know a lot of people are 

anxious to get it done.” 

He added that recent weather, 

including some warmer temperatures 

over this past weekend, are 

speeding things up. 

SEE INTERCHANGE, PAGE 14 

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Tony Bradley of C.W. Matthews, who 

is the manager of the interchange 

project, said his crews are working 

on some final paving for the full 

diamond interchange. 

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Election results 

Due to the Ledger-News’ Monday 

press deadline, 

election results will be listed at 

www.ledgernews.com as they come 

in Tuesday night. 

On Oct. 19, Poole filed a notice of 

conversion from a Chapter 13 bankruptcy 

to a Chapter 7. A Nov. 7 hearing 

had been set, as the Chapter 13 

Trustee filed a motion to dismiss 

the case. 

According to the U.S. Bankruptcy 

Court in Alabama, that hearing no 

longer will be held. A meeting of 

creditors for the Chapter 7 case is 

set for Dec. 20. 

SEE ELIGIBLE, PAGE 13 

Chapman 

asks Geist 

for answers 

BY CAROLYN MATHEWS 

carolynmathews@ledgernews.com 

The battle over the charter school 

amendment has left members of 

the Cherokee County Board of Education 

at odds with each other — a 

situation that is unlikely to change 

even as the board’s make-up changes 

at the beginning of next year, 

since new members ran on pro- or 

anti-amendment platforms in the 

July Republican primary. 

Last Thursday, at his next-to-last 

meeting before stepping 

off the board, 

Chairman Mike 

Chapman lambasted 

board member Michael 

Geist, chastising 

him for “overstep- 

ping your bounds as 

a board member and 

inserting yourself 

in an inappropriate 

manner.” Chapman 

said Geist’s attendance 

at a Cherokee 

Citizens 4 The Kids 

(CC4TK) meeting in 

March could “jeopardize 

accreditation” 

because Geist had 

Chapman 

“the intention of swaying opinions 

and bullying the attendees regarding 

the charter school issue.” 

Chapman leveled several criticisms 

at Geist and posed several 

questions he said he would like 

Geist to answer at the next board 

meeting. 

Geist, when contacted Friday, 

said he only attended the CC4TK’s 

meeting to “bridge the gap” on the 

charter school issue and said he did 

ask some members if they worked 

for the school system. 

“He’s taken this out of context,” 

Geist said of Chapman. “In the 

context of our conversation, it was 

appropriate, and that makes all 

the difference.” 

In the lengthy statement Chapman 

made at the Nov. 1 meeting, 

he accused Geist of speaking for 

Cherokee Charter Academy (CCA) 

in preference to the children who 

attend district schools. 

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Nuckles indicted for murder 

Grand Jury returns true bill for multiple charges including felony and malice 

murder, cruelty to children and drug possession in death of D.J. Elrod 



A Canton man accused of maliciously 

shooting his 19-year-old 

girlfriend to death in July recently 

was indicted by a Cherokee 

County Grand Jury on felony 

murder charges. 

Trevor Nuckles, 21, was arrested 

July 15 for the death of Dejanirra 

“D.J.” Elrod. 

The Grand Jury sworn to serve 

the September term handed 

down an 11-page indictment last 

month, charging him with malice 

and felony murder. 

Deputies with the Cherokee 

County Sheriff’s Office responded 

to the 300 block of Pea Ridge 

Road in Canton just before 1 a.m., 

July 15, after Elrod was shot five 

times near the doorway of a 

home belonging to relatives. 

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s 

office said witnesses had not 

seen the shooter, but identified 

Nuckles as a suspect, as he reportedly 

had just been at the Pea 

Ridge Road home. 



Investigators suspect that alcohol 

and speed likely played 

a role in the death of a 57-yearold 

Woodstock woman whose 

vehicle crashed head-on into a 

tree last week. 

Lydia Bordacs was pronounced 

dead Oct. 31 at WellStar Kennestone 

Hospital, said Lt. Jay 

Baker, spokesman for the Cherokee 

County Sheriff’s Office. 

Baker said deputies were dis- 

Reports indicate that the homeowner 

attempted to call 911, but 

Nuckles threw the phone to the 

ground and fled on foot. The 

indictment states that Elrod’s 

toddler-age son, as well as three 

other children in the home, 

were present when the shooting 

occurred. 

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One of the cru- 

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linked to a battery charge under 

the Family Violence Act. 

The Grand Jury charged Nuckles 

with battery, as Elrod sustained 

injuries to her face and 

neck, which were not related to 

the shooting. 

A lookout was issued for Nuckles 

the night of the shooting, 

and he was located not long after 

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tree. Her 37-year-old son in the car. 

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had exited the car, but was unable 

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lived with Elrod. 

Nuckles was taken into custody 

and questioned by county 

investigators. 

Lt. Jay Baker with the sheriff’s 

office said a Cobb County Sheriff’s 

Office K-9 team called in to 

assist the investigators located a 

9mm semi-automatic handgun in 

the woods off Pine Grove Road. 

The indictment identified the 

handgun as the murder weapon. 

The Grand Jury also charged 

Nuckles with two counts of aggravated 

assault, possession of a 

firearm during the commission 

of a crime and possession of cocaine 

with intent to distribute. 

Nuckles reportedly was on 

probation at the time of the 

murder; therefore, he was also 

charged with two counts of possession 

of a firearm by first 

offender probationer. 

If convicted on only the malice 

murder charge, Nuckles 

could face life in prison or the 

death penalty. 

“The deputy performed CPR on 

Bordacs before paramedics arrived 

and transported her to Kennestone 

Hospital where she was 

pronounced dead,” he said. 

Bordacs’ son was the only passenger 

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Complaints filed against CCA nonprofit 



A pair of complaints filed by two Cherokee 

County women against the Georgia Charter Educational 

Foundation (GCEF) allege the nonprofit 

governing arm of Cherokee Charter Academy is 

violating the state open meetings act. 

Lyn Carden, who is the chair of the GCEF governing 

board, said Oct. 31 she received a request 

for a response to the two separate complaints from 

the Attorney General’s office. 

“We take these issues extremely seriously and 

are thoroughly researching the concern,” she 

said. “We will respond to the Attorney General’s 

office within the allotted time as designated on the 

response request.” 

In the most recent complaint made by Cherokee 

County School District teacher Jennifer Hall, she 

said the GCEF advertised incorrect meeting times 

and dates, preventing interested people from being 

able to attend. 

“They also do not list a schedule of regular 

meetings on their Web site as recently required in 

changes brought by HB 397,” an e-mail from Hall to 

Senior Assistant Georgia Attorney General Stefan 

Ritter, dated Oct. 24, read. 

Hall said as a nonprofit entity which receives its 

funding from the state Department of Education 

to operate two charter schools in Georgia — Cherokee 

Charter Academy and Coweta Charter Academy 

— GCEF must be accountable to taxpayers. 

Specifically, she said a meeting was advertised 

for Oct. 27 at 9 a.m., but Hall said she took a screenshot 

of Cherokee Charter Academy’s (CCA) Web 

site, which had the wrong date and time. She added 

that the agenda for the meeting shows a meeting 

date of Sept. 27. 

“As this entity receives public funds in excess of 

a third of its budget, it is bound by the Open Meetings 

Act and must advertise all meetings seven 

days in advance,” Hall wrote. 

Reached Nov. 1, Hall said she hopes the GCEF 

will recognize its mistakes and be more open and 

accessible with the public going forward. 

“And you can’t just say you are accountable and 

transparent, you have to show through your actions 

that you are,” she said. 

In the second, separate complaint filed by Christine 

Rea, she alleges GCEF “rarely, if ever” publishes 

the locations of meetings it holds. 

“The public is invited to attend via teleconference 

call, and some of its members call in this way 

to participate and vote, while others are clearly 

in a room together,” Rea said in an e-mail sent to 

Ritter Oct. 8. 

Rea said GCEF is not compliant in posting its 

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meeting notices on its Web site, with no physical 

location being given and a lack of adherence to the 

seven-day notice requirement. 

“Sometimes notice is given a day in advance, 

sometimes two or three days, but they usually 

got around to posting it,” Rea wrote in the complaint. 

“At the July 26 meeting, there was some 

debate among the members as to whether their 

next meeting would be Aug. 30 or Aug. 31. There 

was no finalized meeting date given by the close of 

the meeting.” 

Rea said she also tried to catch a September 

meeting via teleconference at the time posted on 

GCEF’s Web site, but when calling in, she briefly 

heard pre-meeting informal discussion before 

getting cut off. She said she later learned that 

the meeting was actually an hour later than the 

posted time. 

Reached Nov. 1, Rea said the complaint is aimed 

at keeping the GCEF honest. She added that she’s 

a proponent of school choice, and her kids once 

attended CCA, but were placed back into public 

school last December. 

She said even after her children left the school, 

she continued to keep tabs on the GCEF meetings, 

via conference call. 

“It’s about being honest with people and doing 

the right thing, and they’re not,” she said. “People 

need to know this. I just want to bring it to 

people’s attention.” 

Ritter confirmed Nov. 1 that he personally received 

the two complaints within a few days of 

each other last week and didn’t expect to move forward 

on them until after the election. 

“We always give them at least seven days from 

receipt to respond, and I think normally we 

give them more time if they want it,” he said. “I 

wouldn’t expect it too soon, and certainly we will 

not be doing anything before the election.” 

Ritter said the AG’s office tries to settle these 

types of issues through mediation, which he 

described as informal. 

“We created it a number of years ago to try to 

address concerns of citizens of local governments 

in non-compliance with open records and open 

meetings laws,” he said. “Our process is to try to 

come to a resolution generally with the local government 

so they comply with the law, if they’re 

in non-compliance.” 

Once that process goes through, he said his office 

will get a response, and they may seek additional 

information from either the government entity, 

the citizen, or both, to try and resolve it. 

“Sometimes, just us telling them what the law is 

is enough,” Ritter said. “And then we’ll get a mea 

culpa, ‘well, we didn’t read it that way, but we are 

now.’ Most of the time the parties just work it out.” 

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FDIC sues former local bank CEO 

BY ERIKA NELDNER 

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In a federal lawsuit filed late last 

month, a former Woodstock banker 

is accused of gross negligence 

and negligence that the Federal 

Insurance Deposit Corporation 

says led to the bank’s failure. 

Pierce Neese, director and chief 

executive officer of the former 

United Security Bank (Bank of 

Woodstock) is being sued in the 

United States District Court for 

the Northern District of Georgia. 

The lawsuit brought by the FDIC, 

as receiver for United Security 

Bank, was filed Oct. 23. 

Calls to a phone number listed 

for Neese went unanswered. 

The lawsuit comes almost three 

years from when the Georgia Department 

of Bank and Finance 

closed the bank on Nov. 6, 2009, and 

appointed the FDIC as receiver. 

United Security Bank opened 

in the 1970s in Sparta, later 

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Veterans Day is Sunday, and 

expanding into Woodstock in 2002. 

The lawsuit contends that 

United Security Bank operated 

as a “one-man bank” from 

2002 to early 2006 — in 2006 the 

bank established a three-person 

loan committee. 

“Even after establishment of 

a three-person (loan committee) 

at the direction of regulators, 

Neese continued to dominate 

the bank’s lending function due 

to a lack of sound internal controls, 

and he functioned, in effect, 

as the bank’s ‘one-man’ loan 

committee until the bank failed,” 

the lawsuit states. 

The lawsuit alleges that, while 

Neese was charged with operating 

and managing the bank, he 

“allowed irresponsible and unsustainable 

rapid asset growth 

concentrated in high-risk acquisition, 

development and construction 

(ADC) loans and purchased 

loan participations without adequate 

credit administration and 

local events are planned throughout 

the county. 

• The Thomas M. Brady Jr. 

American Legion Post 45 in Canton 

will host a Veteran’s Day parade 

Nov. 10, at 1 p.m., in the Historic 

Downtown Loop in Canton. 

The theme is “Celebrating veterans 

for defending our freedom.” 

Spectators and the veterans participating 

are asked to go to the 

historic marble courthouse after 

the parade for a special program 

and thank you to veterans; 

• Nov. 11, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., The 

Park at City Center: The city of 

Woodstock and the Maj. Gen. 

Warren R. Jobson Marine Corp 

League Detachment No. 1311 in 

Woodstock will host a special Veteran’s 

Day candlelight ceremony 

in the park, 101 Arnold Mill Road. 

This year’s ceremony will recognize 

the 50-year anniversary 

of the United States’ involvement 

in Vietnam. 

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loan underwriting policies …” 

According to the suit, the bank 

grew its total assets by 500 percent, 

from $3 million as of Dec. 31, 

2002, to $154 million as of Sept. 20, 

2009, with the ADC loans as “its 

primary source.” 

The lawsuit cites 16 loans, totaling 

$13.47 million, in which the 

bank failed to follow policies, including 

credit checks, loan underwriting 

and appraisals. 

The lawsuit contends that the 

bank pushed for high-risk acquisition, 

development and construction 

loans and “purchased loan 

participations without adequate 

credit administration and loan 

underwriting policies and practices 

to manage the risks …” 

Federal regulators also allege 

that the bank, under Neese’s management, 

violated the bank’s loan 

policy and banking recommendations. 

The FDIC has demanded a 

jury trial and is seeking compensatory 

and other damages. 

Veterans Day events planned in Cherokee 

torn and worn American flags by 

dropping them off at the dropbox 

in the park or in the parking lot of 

the fire department (225 Arnold 

Mill Road); 

• Union Hill United Methodist 

Church is hosting a complimentary 

“Breakfast with Veterans,” 

Nov. 11, at 9:30 a.m. in the Fellowship 

Hall. All veterans, friends, 

family and the community are 

invited. The church is located at 

2000 AJ Land Road, Canton; and 

• Veterans are invited to the 

Cherokee County Historical Society 

(CCHS) Museum’s “USO Canteen,” 

Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 

p.m. Veterans are invited to come 

in for free coffee and doughnuts 

and a tour of the special moonshine 

exhibit. 

The CCHS Story Catchers will 

be there to record wartime stories 

from those willing to share 

their memories. The museum 

is located in the historic, marble 

courthouse, 100 North St. in 

downtown Canton. 

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• In a special called meeting, 

the Cherokee County Board 

of Commissioners and Resource 

Recovery Development 

Authority discuss nine firms as 

potential hires for forensic audit 

of Ball Ground Recycling; 

• Huntington Learning Center 

in Woodstock celebrates 

American Education Week; 

• Board of Education hosts 

boundary public hearings; 

• American Legion seeks oratorical 

contest participants; 

• Holly Springs Police Officer 

honored by nonprofit; 

• County parks and recreation 

department launches adopt-asenior 

program; and 

• Veterans can get free respiratory 

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Woodstock’s bond rating lowered 



General obligation bonds downgraded three notches from AA- to A- 

Overspending of reserves has 

led Standard & Poor’s to reduce 

the city of Woodstock’s bond rating 

three notches, from AA- to A-, 

reporting the city has a “stable” 

financial outlook. 

The financial services company, 

which publishes research and 

analysis on stocks and bonds, 

said its new rating for Woodstock 

was based on the city’s 

“overspending (of) its available 

reserves in 2010 and 2011, resulting 

in negative general fund 

reserves, which could leave it 

vulnerable to future shocks,” 

according to S&P credit analyst 

Lindsay Wilhelm. 

Wilhelm said Woodstock was 

last reviewed in September 2010, 

which was for a new bond issue. 

“That is a pretty significant 

rating change,” she said of 

the new rating, which was announced 

recently. 

Woodstock City 

Manager Jeff 

Moon said given 

the last five years 

of the economy 

and a declining tax 

digest, he wasn’t 

surprised by the 

downgrade. 

“Many cities and 

Moon 

counties throughout the country 

have been downgraded during 

the past three to four years,” 

he said. 

The lowered rate will have no 

impact on taxpayers for the existing 

bonds, he said, but while 

the city still carries an investment 

grade rating, the downgrade 

could cause the city to pay 

a higher interest rate on future 

bond issues. 

“We don’t have any future 

bond issues planned,” he said. 

“We are committed to eliminating 

the negative fund balance 

no later than next fiscal year, if 

not earlier. At that time, we have 

every reason to believe that we 

would be upgraded, based upon 

the S&P report.” 

Karl Jacob, a senior director 

with S&P, said most municipalities 

they review fall in the 

A range. The S&P ratings range 

from AAA to D. Included in the 

A range are AAA, AA and A. 

According to definition, an A is 

described as having a “strong capacity 

to meet financial commitments, 

but somewhat susceptible 

to adverse economic conditions 

and changes in circumstances,” 

while an AA is described as having 

a “very strong capacity to 

meet financial commitments.” 

“With these general obliga- 

tion bonds, the average rating is 

about an A+ across the country, 

so (Woodstock’s) would be two 

notches below that,” Jacob said, 

adding that 60 percent of entities 

they rate are in the A category. 

In comparison, the city of Canton 

has an A rating, while Holly 

Springs and Ball Ground don’t 

have bond ratings. 

Asked what effect a threenotch 

decrease can have on a 

municipality, Jacob said it can 

affect how the bonds trade in the 

secondary market. 

“If you have a lower credit 

rating, it’s assumed you have a 

higher risk,” he said. “The purpose 

of the credit report is really 

two-fold — the first is to go to the 

investors and say where we are 

with the credit, but it’s also to let 

the issuer know exactly where 

we see the strengths and weaknesses. 

Some of these reports, 

they go back and make attempts 

to take corrective actions and 

some don’t. It depends on the 

issuer and how they plan to use 

the report.” 

According to the full report on 

Woodstock’s Urban Redevelopment 

Agency bond on the water 

and sewer system, the city’s 

negative reserve position is attributed 

in large part to a recordkeeping 

error that overstated 

unaudited general fund reserves 

in fiscal year 2010, causing the 

city to overbudget capital and 

operating expenses the following 

fiscal year. 

“The city budgeted for the expenditure 

of reserve funds in 

the fiscal year 2011 budget (July 

1, 2010 – June 30, 2011),” Moon explained. 

“When the general fund 

was reimbursed for prior sewer 

expenditures (Rubes Creek Water 

Reclamation Facility) as part 

of the 2010 bond issue, the reimbursement 

was erroneously 

reflected as revenue in the 

budget process.” 

The error wasn’t discovered 

until the annual audit after the 

end of the fiscal year, he said, 

with the end result being an 

operational deficit that year and 

a negative general fund balance 

of $827,000. 

Former Woodstock Chief Financial 

Officer Henry Bucci resigned 

under pressure in January 

after the failure in reporting, 

among other errors identified in 

two separate outside audits. 

Since Bucci’s exit, Moon has 

said the city has put in place 

several measures as corrective 

action to improve cash flow position. 

The city employed an outside 

auditor early this year, who 

shared at a City Council meeting 

in February that city staff has 

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begun using a new checklist of 

procedures to follow. 

According to S&P’s report, 

Woodstock, after discovering 

the error in accounting, delayed 

budgeted capital spending to fiscal 

year 2012, to be paid from a 

new Special Purpose Local Option 

Sales Tax (SPLOST) cycle, 

cut department budgets by 10 

percent, postponed filling open 

positions and refinanced certain 

debt through the Georgia Municipal 

Association for interest 

cost savings. 

The S&P report said the 

city’s unaudited results for the 

current fiscal year show that 

there is some stabilization in 

financial position. 

“Seeing that it’s stable, we 

aren’t expecting any real change 

in the next two to three years,” 

Wilhelm said. “In this case, 

they had a one-time kick to 

their reserves, and based on our 

conversations, it sounds like it’s 

going to take a couple of years to 

build back up the reserves that 

were depleted.” 

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OPINION 

6 THE CHEROKEE LEDGER-NEWS MANAGING EDITOR: ERIKA NELDNER NOVEMBER 7, 2012 

CHEROKEE VOICE 

■ 

ISSUE: Veterans Day is this Sunday. 

QUESTION: How do you honor those who have served our country? S 

ervice to our country is not 

something to be overlooked. 

Oftentimes, this is taken for 

granted, more so in peacetime 

than wartime, but overlooked 

nonetheless. 

An image circulating the Internet 

last week in the wake of 

Frankenstorm brought tears to 

my eyes, and it’s one of those images 

that truly depicts dedication 

— the soldiers guarding the Tomb 

of the Unknowns in Arlington 

National Cemetery. 

The photograph shows three 

servicemen standing their 

posts, despite pouring rain and 

high winds. The photo, news 

reports say, really was taken in 

September, but that didn’t mat- 

“I’m putting out flags in front of the 

business I work for. We have some vets 

that work for us, and we make sure to 

tell them thanks.” 

“We visit my grandfather and father’s 

graves. My dad served in the Navy, and 

my grandfather was in the Army.” 

ter, because even as Sandy blew 

through Arlington, Va., the 

guards remained at attention. 

The Tomb Sentinels stay there all 

Dave Conklin 

Brian Bush day, every day, despite inclement 

Woodstock 

Woodstock (or downright dangerous in some 

cases) weather. 

The dedication of the guards 

(part of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry 

Regiment – The Old Guard) 

to protect the monument that is 

symbolic of all the soldiers lost 

“known only to God,” to me, is a 

symbol in itself of how important 

those who serve our country are. 

It doesn’t matter if they join 

the Marines, the Coast Guard, the 

Army or the Navy — the men and 

women who are willing to sacrifice 

themselves are worthy of our 

utmost respect. 

Among others, they do the 

things many of us won’t. 

“I go to the Veterans Day parade here 

(and) to the Georgia National Cemetery. 

My dad was a World War II POW 

and Korean War vet, and I also honor 

my brother ... and my nephew.” 

Pat Gold 

Canton 

“I support them all the time, not 

just on one day. I’m retired from the 

Merchant Marines. I also put a flag in 

my yard.” 

Cliff Walker 

Cherokee County 

Just last month, we welcomed 

home our family soldier, who 

spent nine months in Afghanistan. 

It was his fifth tour of duty, 

and he’s only 38 years old. 

It was the fifth time his wife 

took the role of mother and father 

to their son; it was the fifth time 

she took all the household duties; 

and it was the fifth time he sacrificed 

humane living conditions to 

answer the calls of our country. 

It was the fifth time he wasn’t 

just a phone call away at any time 

from his parents or siblings. 

It was the fifth time he ate dehydrated 

meals and walked almost 

a mile just to go to the bathroom. 

And, it was the fifth time he 

would sacrifice sleep to do the job 

he was called to do. 

But, it was also the fifth time 

“I ride my motorcycle. I usually do a 

charity ride that day.” 

Jeff Turner 

Lebanon 

THE CHEROKEE 

“I wear red every Friday. That actually 

started in Canada. ... I send (e-mails) 

each week to remind people. I will 

wear red every Friday until the troops 

come home.” 

Richard Kemp 


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Thank a veteran 

that he was welcomed home with 

open arms by a loving family who 

missed him. 

We are lucky. There are many 

family members who see their soldiers 

off for deployment and don’t 

get to welcome them home with a 

joyful hug. 

There are 

families who, 

instead of 

throwing a 

welcome home 

party, must 

plan a funeral. 

And, despite 

all of 

this, there are 

young men 

and women at 

only 18 years 

old, who step 

up and sign up 

to serve their 

country. 

There are 

many who 

have had it in 

their hearts 

since they 

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Erika 

Neldner 

were children that they wanted to 

grow up to be soldiers. They had 

the dream and the calling at an 

early age to fight for the freedom 

of which so many take advantage. 

Then there are the soldiers who, 

so long ago, fought in the trenches 

to protect our country from 

political evil — they, too, often 

are forgotten. 

Some of those soldiers still living 

today have grown old alone 

and some are even without homes. 

Some veterans must sit by the 

roadside, foregoing their pride, to 

ask for help. 

Many came home from war a 

completely different person than 

when they left — the horrors they 

saw still are with them. Some can 

no longer lead the normal life to 

which you and I are accustomed. 

There are many ways we can 

honor those who fight for us and 

our nation. One of my favorites 

usually is impromptu when I see 

a veteran out in public. Of course, 

they must be in uniform or be 

identified in some way as a veteran 

by what they’re wearing. I 

never intend to embarrass them, 

but I usually get a warm reception 

when I politely get their attention 

and thank them for their service. 

Most are quite humble and 

■ 

don’t boast. A “thank you” usually 

is followed by a bashful-type 

“you’re welcome.” 

A great way to show your appreciation 

is to attend one of the 

many public ceremonies held for 

Veterans Day. There normally are 

veterans in attendance, in their 

uniforms, so you can personally 

shake their hands and give a 

special thanks. 

Some of the upcoming events 

are: 

• Nov. 11, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., The 

Park at City Center, 101 Arnold 

Mill Road: The city of Woodstock 

and the Maj. Gen. Warren R. Jobson 

Marine Corps League Detachment 

No. 1311 in Woodstock 

will host a special Veterans Day 

candlelight ceremony in the park. 

This year’s ceremony will recognize 

the 50-year anniversary of 

the United States’ involvement 

in Vietnam. There also will be an 

opportunity to respectfully retire 

dirty, torn and worn American 

flags by dropping them off at the 

dropbox in the park or in the parking 

lot of the fire department (225 

Arnold Mill Road); and 

• The Thomas M. Brady Jr. 

American Legion Post 45 in Canton 

will host a Veterans Day parade 

Nov. 10, at 1 p.m., in the Historic 

Downtown Loop in Canton. 

No matter what your plans 

this weekend, take some time 

and thank someone who fought 

for your freedom, as they sacrificed 

some of the most important 

things in their lives. 

Veterans Day history 

• Armistice Day first observed in 

November 1919; 

• Became a legal holiday in May 

1938 by an act of Congress; 

• After World War II and the 

Korean War, the holiday was 

renamed to Veterans Day; 

• Law passed on June 1, 1954, and 

signed by President Dwight D. 

Eisenhower on Oct. 8, 1954; 

• What it means: to “honor America’s 

veterans for their patriotism 

love of country and willingness 

to serve and sacrifice for the common 

good.”

NOVEMBER 7, 2012 OPINION THE CHEROKEE LEDGER-NEWS 7 

LETTERS 

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Remember those who sacrificed 

Dear Editor, 

We are our fathers and mothers’ 

sons and daughters, the glint 

in their eye that came to be their 

hopes and dreams with the promise 

that better days and tomorrows 

lay ahead if only they made 

it through “the war” or sacrifice 

of service. They served, and we 

honor their sacrifices of service to 

a nation and the countless people 

they defended or were prepared 

to defend at any given moment 

throughout the world. Veterans 

Day is a special day in America 

to say, “Thank you dad, mom, 

brother, sister, aunt or uncle for 

serving.” A thank you to someone 

who serves at a business you 

frequent or a recently returned 

veteran from Iraq, Afghanistan, 

or perhaps a World War II, Korea, 

Vietnam, Panama, Desert Storm, 

or a Balkans veteran you know of 

is all that it takes to be part of this 

special day. 

A kind word placed at the appropriate 

moment could make 

the difference in sparking enthusiasm, 

needed encouragement or 


Smoking hits close to home for 

most Georgians. About one in 

five adults, one in four teens and 

one in nine tweens in the state 

are smokers. 

Smoking also hits close to home 

for cancer clinicians and researchers. 

We see the results every 

day: lung cancer (90 percent 

of which is caused by smoking) 

as well as cancers of the head, 

neck, esophagus, stomach, kidneys, 

bladder, cervix and blood— 

all of which share smoking as a 

risk factor. 

More people die from lung cancer 

every year (around 160,000) 

than any other, including cancers 

of the breast, prostate, 

blood, skin, colon and rectum 

combined. 

The best solution? Quit tobacco 

use and quit smoking. 

You may be surprised to know 

that quitting has immediate benefits. 

Within hours, the level of 

carbon monoxide in your blood 

begins to decrease. Heart rate 

and blood pressure, which go up 

while smoking, return to normal. 

And within the next weeks or 

months, you cough and wheeze 

less, while enjoying an improved 

sense of smell, which means food 


achievement in the pursuit of a 

life’s goal or perhaps result in a rewarding 

conversation. A simple 

“thank you for your service” is all 

it takes to be part of what makes 

America such a great nation because 

we recognize sacrifice and 

dedication equal purpose. Perhaps 

your parent or relative is no 

longer with you and on this day 

you just happen to recall some 

of the moments and memories 

of their stories and snapshots of 

their life they shared with you. 

What they reflected on was to 

them a pivotal moment in their 

lives, which perhaps you intuitively 

understood made a difference 

in others, lives somewhere 

in the world. 

Well, on this Veterans Day you 

get that opportunity all over again 

because when we honor a veteran 

or their memory, we are seeing 

their hopes relived in us and 

their selfless sacrifice to make 

the world a better place reborn. 

You see, celebrating Veterans Day 

symbolizes who we are as Americans, 

galvanized by a common 

belief that we are there for one 

Tell Cherokee what you think. 

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another. As we gather to recall 

our veterans, we are also thanking 

the nearly 800,000 of Georgia’s 

veterans amongst us and who are 

part of America’s 23 million celebrated 

in America this very day. 

Remembering those who sacrificed 

and served is a window into 

our own lives because you, too, 

will be remembered for your part. 

When you provide comfort, say 

a kind word, visit veterans in assisted 

living residences, process 

veteran’s claims, serve a veteran 

in a business, or hire a veteran; 

you come away feeling you did 

something that is greater than 

yourself. Their service and sacrifice 

cannot be extinguished because 

they are part of the unbroken 

ranks of America’s veterans 

we reflect upon and honor this 

very day. Let me close with the 

words from my father who was a 

WWII combat veteran, American 

POW compound leader and my 

American hero, “Do something 

for someone each day.” 

Col. Larry Mrozinski (Ret.) 


Some facts about lung cancer 

will taste better. 

In the long term, quitting helps 

reduce your risk of premature 

death — a 90 percent risk reduction 

if you quit by age 30, and a 50 

percent risk reduction for those 

who quit by age 50, according to 

the National Cancer Institute. 

To help quit tobacco use, my 

colleagues and I at the Georgia 

Health Sciences University Cancer 

Center recommend two strategies, 

which can double your 

chance of success: 

1) Behavioral skills training. 

Resources including the GHSU 

Cancer Center Smoking-Cessation 

Clinic, hotlines (Georgia’s is 

877-270-7867) and support groups 

can provide advice and support 

on tobacco cessation. 

2) Medications. Nicotine replacement 

— available as patches 

or gums — can help overcome 

tobacco addiction over time. Another 

option is medication that 

targets nicotine receptors in the 

brain. (Talk to your doctor for 

more information.) 

But, because lung cancer still 

affects 40 percent of ex-smokers 

and 10 percent of those who have 

never smoked, research must remain 

an important focus. Lung 

cancer continues to lag behind 

in research funding. At least 

double the amount of research 

dollars (including $631 million in 

National Cancer Institute funding 

in 2010 alone) target breast 

cancer. Better funding means 

better treatment. 

If we are to improve the health 

of Georgians, smoking and tobacco 

cessation must be at the top 

of our to-do list. On the state and 

national level, we need more research 

funding. These additional 

dollars can yield new therapies 

that will reduce the number of 

deaths from lung cancer, and 

develop more community prevention 

strategies. 

On a personal level, education 

is nothing without action. Parents 

and caregivers, we encourage 

you to serve as healthy role 

models so your children never 

start smoking. If you do smoke, 

we invite you to take the first 

step in quitting: Call your doctor, 

call Georgia’s free quit line, or, 

if you’re ready, throw away that 

pack, please take this step today, 

for better health and better quality 

of life for you and your family. 

Dr. Samir N. Khleif 

Director, Georgia Health Sciences 

University Cancer Center 

Don’t base opinions on e-mails 

Upon reading the heartfelt letter 

to the editor from Mr. Stephen 

Hunton (Oct. 31 issue) regarding 

a picture he saw on the Internet 

about President Obama’s refusal 

to salute the flag, I was compelled 

to respond. While I understand 

Mr. Hunton’s letter was written 

after an emotionally charged day, 

I wish he would have taken the 

time to do a bit more research. 

There are so many untruths on 

the Web, and, unfortunately, this 

is one. With a quick search on 

Google, I came across a posting 

on Snopes.com that addresses 

this very subject. 

That picture and the commentary 

associated with it was a fake. 

I’m including a link so everyone 

can see for themselves: www. 

snopes.com/politics/obama/ 

stance.asp. 

It’s the perpetuation of misinformation 

like this that skews 

people’s views. Please don’t base 

your opinion of people solely on 

want you’ve received in your inbox. 

If I were to believe everything 

I’ve received via e-mail, I wouldn’t 

be able to get gas at the pump or 

buy clothes from Walmart, and I 

would be sure that if I gave my 

banking information to my longlost 

relative, I would get a portion 

of their $95 million inheritance. 

This election has proven to be an 

emotional one, but we cannot allow 

our emotions to dictate our 

decision to decide who would best 

get this country back on its feet. 

My sincerest sympathies for Mr. 

Hunton’s loss. God bless. 

Yolanda Deese 


• Let’s take everything out of 

context and refer to yet another 

Bible version. The Soapbox clearly 

stated “meddling mothers-inlaw.” 

Remind you of anyone? 

• Having moved here from the 

Midwest, it has been difficult 

adjusting to how the Republican 

Party has a total stranglehold on 

all the positions of power. If you 

run as a Democrat, you simply 

have no chance. A number of 

races go unopposed. We would be 

much better served with strong 

two-party competition. Cherokee 

County is a middle class area. 

Does the Republican Party truly 

reflect our middle class values exclusively 

or is it blind loyalty? A 

closer inspection might prove the 

latter is true. 

• I’m a Cherokee County teacher 

who voted “no” for charter 

schools. I have 27 first-graders 

in my class and eight furlough 

days, and I’m still working hard, 

if not harder, to educate the children 

on less pay, less days and 

more children. 

• I propose that the Soapbox 

assigns a consecutive number 

to each posting where someone 

thanks the people ahead for buying 

their lunch so us readers 

have a running count of these 

redundant platitudes. 

• I wanted to thank the gentleman 

at the Riverstone Publix for 

letting me ahead of him in line 

since I had fewer groceries than 

he did. It was very kind and did 

not go unnoticed. 

• I’m so glad we’re getting a 

Walmart in Holly Springs. I can 

save my gas by not having to drive 

into Canton or Woodstock. 

• Smells like Chicago politics in 

Cherokee County with the way 

they are going after Brian Poole. 

Same kind of stuff they play 

up there. 

• If you vote, you have the right 

to complain about who wins or 

loses. If you don’t vote, you give 

up that right. Have a nice day. 

• Romney signs taken, huh? 

Prosecute? Good luck with that. 

The marshal’s office told me that 

anyone can take a political sign. 

In 2010, the deputy who met me on 

my stolen sign complaint told me 

that homeless people steal them to 

build their shacks. No lie. 

• Why doesn’t someone in the 

news print the truth about HOT 

lanes. HOV lanes are for anyone 

willing to carpool and reduce traffic. 

HOT lanes are for rich people 

who can afford to pay the toll. 

Poor people keep right. 

• I’ve only been in Cherokee 

County for a short time and will 

be moving out of state soon. I just 

hope my new community has a 

news source that is free like the 

Cherokee Ledger-News. Going to 

miss the Soapbox, however. 

• To the person who swiped my 

daughter’s cell phone at the Subway 

on Eagle Drive on Oct. 22: 

I just want to let you know that 

my daughter actually used that 

phone for emergencies related to 

her medical condition, and it’s not 

even a new phone. She saved her 

own money to buy a refurbished 

phone she could text on because 

we could not afford a nicer phone 

for her. I hope you enjoy your 

newly found loot. 

• Kudos to the folks managing 

the early voting in Canton. You 

did a great job keeping the line 

moving quickly, greeting everyone 

with a smile and keeping 

everything light. Other counties 

could take a lesson from you. 

• Hey, Soapbox: Someone complained 

earlier about the price 

that they are paying for water. 

When we left Lake Arrowhead, 

we were paying $60 a month. This 

was the basic fee, before one even 

started using the water. 

• I don’t understand why some 

parents must blast their music in 

the carpool line. Not every parent 

cares to hear your “music.” Be 

SOAPBOX 

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courteous of others. 

• I would love to know who the 

state or city genius was who determined 

it would be a good idea 

to temporarily block traffic on 

Ga. 140 in front of Cherokee High 

School on Oct. 30 for the homecoming 

parade during rush hour. 

Surely, the decision maker didn’t 

take into consideration that folks 

have already been sitting in traffic 

for 60 to 90 minutes after working 

an eight-plus-hour day. Maybe 

next time, the decision maker 

could suggest the school hold this 

type of event during their school 

day instead of allowing them to 

disrupt rush hour traffic. As if 

road rage isn’t easy enough to 

come by. 

• I want to thank Betty for 

turning in $40 cash that I lost in 

Walmart. It renews my faith in 

people. Thank you, Betty, for being 

honest. 

• How do I go about getting patents 

on homemade items? 

• As a runner on the sidewalks of 

Sixes Road, I can’t believe how inconsiderate 

dogs are in Cherokee 

County. Seems like dogs would be 

smart enough to move to the grass 

or pick up after themselves when 

they poop. 

• I really wish folks would get 

their facts straight before calling 

the Soapbox. Ohio’s early voting 

for non-military has not changed. 

The only change was a request to 

give the members of the military 

a few more days to mail in their 

absentee ballots due to logistics, 

that is those people that are in 

war zones. The Obama administration 

sued to block that request 

because they know the military 

votes do not support them. I’m 

from Ohio and I’m a 24-year military 

veteran. I think I know what 

I’m talking about. 

• Can somebody explain to me 

why our country, with such a 

huge deficit, borrows trillions of 

dollars from China and then we 

give it away to foreign countries 

we don’t like? Explain that to me. 

• Kudos to the poll workers manning 

early voting at the Woodstock 

Library. I’ve been voting at 

the library for many years, and 

this year, by far, was my most expeditious, 

pleasant and friendly 

experience voting there. You ladies 

and gentlemen run a welloiled 

machine. Thanks for your 

hard work and efficiency. 

• I live out here on Ga. 20 where 

they are widening the highway 

near Macedonia. About five or six 

weeks ago, I had to replace my toilet 

because it had so much rust in 

it and the bolts were rusted. In the 

five or six weeks since then, I’ve 

got a good bit of the dirt in my toilet 

bowl again and it’s brand new. 

Who’s going to be responsible if 

I have to replace it again? How 

many other people are having the 

same problems? 

• If you have dogs, please have 

the courtesy to not let your dogs 

to bark continuously. Since when 

are dogs more important than 

your neighbor’s peace and quiet? 

Come on people, let’s start caring 

about one another. 

The Soapbox is intended to 

engage light-hearted 

conversation and engender the 

humorous side of life. 

Lengthy opinions should be addressed 

in a letter to the editor. 

The Ledger-News reserves the 

right not to publish Soapbox 

items based on libel or other 

considerations the editor and 

publisher deem valid. Comments 

may be edited for brevity. Keep 

comments as brief as possible. 

To submit a Soapbox, call 

(770) 928-1055 or e-mail 

editor@ledgernews.com.


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Woodstock mulls trolley service 



Woodstock is looking into using 

a trolley to cart residents and 

visitors around downtown, with 

plans to try it out over the next 

couple of months. 

Economic Development Director 

Billy Peppers, who also heads 

up the Woodstock Main Street 

program, told the City Council at 

its meeting Oct. 22 that the Downtown 

Development Authority has 

been exploring the option with 

Cherokee County, which is the 

owner of the Old Canton Trolley. 

“(The county) inherited Canton’s 

transit system, so we’ve 

been working with the county 

talking of possible use of the 

trolley for special events,” Peppers 

said, adding that the city 

could even consider using it longterm 

by purchasing it for use to 

transport shoppers at the future 

Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta to and 

from downtown. 

“We haven’t gotten 

into fees,” Peppers 

said, when 

asked whether it 

would be free or if 

there would be a 

charge. 

He said they will 

test it out for a couple 

months this fall 

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to get an idea of what the ridership 

would be. Nearby, the city 

of Roswell employs a trolley for 

special events to transport people 

from City Hall to downtown for 

its Alive After Five series that 

runs from May through October. 

Peppers said the DDA met last 

month with the Georgia Department 

of Community Affairs 

regarding its participation in 

the BoomTown program, which 

stands for Building Opportunities 

On Main Street. A contingent 

from the DCA was in town for a 

few days and planned to conduct 

a feasibility analysis, looking at 

square footage and types of rents. 

In other business, the council 

approved, 5-0, an agreement for 

maintenance with the Georgia 

Department of Transportation 

for trails. Ward 3 Councilman 

Bob Mueller was absent. 

Two trails, as part of the citywide 

trail system, will be passing 

under Interstate 575 within 

GDOT’s right of way — the Towne 

Lake Pass trail, which crosses 

under the interstate at the Towne 

Lake interchange, connecting 

Towne Lake to downtown and the 

mountain bike trails on the north 

side of Little River (the Taylor 

Randahl Memorial Trails). Permits 

for the encroachments have 

been approved by GDOT, and the 

state department is requesting 

maintenance agreements for the 

areas where trail encroachment 

occurs. 

The council also: 

• approved, 5-0, a request to rezone 

a roughly 6-acre section of 

right of way on Woodstock Parkway 

and Rope Mill Road to light 

industrial with technology park 

overlay to be consistent with 

other surrounding properties, 

and with conditions prior to the 

relocation. The land will be abandoned 

to the abutting property 

owners in a property swap, which 

will accommodate the relocation 

of Woodstock Parkway around 

the under-construction Outlet 

Shoppes at Atlanta, according to 

a city staff report; 

• approved, 5-0, fee schedule 

amendments for police records/ 

court services, court fines, administration 

(detail pay) and 

parks and recreation (special 

event fees). As part of the 

amendments, for-profit events 

on the Greenprints trail system 

shall pay the city a $5 per entry 

fee to be earmarked for trail 

improvements; 

• approved, 5-0, the first reading 

of a planning commission ordinance 

revision that pertains to 

flexibility in either appointing a 

temporary replacement member 

or authorizing the council of that 

ward to appoint or not appoint at 

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• No Appraisal is Required* 

• Unlimited Loan to Value 

• No “Out of Pocket” expenses* 

(*) With the “Property Inspection Waiver” 

all in the event of an approved 

leave of absence; 

• approved, 5-0, a budget amendment 

to streetlights related to the 

Walton/Windsong development; 

• approved, 5-0, a contract with 

CMA for broker services for minicell 

towers. The broker would 

connect the city with interested 

wireless providers together to establish 

wireless coverage based 

on mini-cell towers that support 

and enhance wireless coverage 

on streetlights, poles and/ 

or building based towers rather 

than the large towers currently 

in use; 

• approved, 5-0, a contract with 

Public Stuff, a request tracking 

system for the city’s Web site. According 

to the staff report, Public 

Stuff offers a variety of access 

options including being able to 

download applications from any 

kind of mobile device, as well as 

Web-based interfaces; 

• approved, 5-0, an emergency 

order to purchase new replacement 

master meters. City Manager 

Jeff Moon said the city 

is losing 1.6 million gallons of 

water a month, resulting in approximately 

$25,800 loss of water/sewer 

revenue a month, due 

to the current meters. Cost is 

$39,872. The council also voted, 

5-0, to transfer the funds from the 

contract services account to the 

Touchread Meters account; 

• approved, 5-0, a downtown 

parking agreement amendment 

with Right Side of the Tracks and 

Community Southern Bank; 

• approved, 5-0, the surplus and 

disposal of a tractor; 

• approved, 5-0, a revision to 

the special events ordinance pertaining 

to road closing issues, parades, 

road races, accountability, 

fireworks, permitting processes 

and approvals, as well as public 

safety/parks and recreation services. 

The second reading will be 

held Nov. 12 

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• A woman accused of entering 

multiple unlocked 

vehicles and stealing debit/ 

credit cards is wanted 

by the Woodstock Police 

Department. Investigators 

are seeking the assistance from 

the public in identifying the 

woman, whose image was captured 

on surveillance footage 

after using one of the stolen 

credit cards. A spokesperson for 

the police department said the 

woman entered six vehicles in 

the Deer Run subdivision during 

the overnight hours of Oct. 

14 and stole electronics, debit 

cards, credit cards and cash. 

Investigators obtained video 

surveillance from the nearby 

CVS Pharmacy, which shows a 

female using one of the stolen 

credit cards at approximately 

3:50 a.m. on Oct. 15. Anyone 

with information on these 

incidents or the female in 

the picture is urged to call 

Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 

(404) 577-TIPS. 

• Many residents in Cherokee 

County are receiving 

“delivery notices” in the 

mail that appear as though 

they come from the U.S. 

Postal Service. It’s a scam, 

said a spokesperson with the 

sheriff’s office. The card, which 

reportedly comes from DMC 

Services in Deltona, Fla., apparently 

states that the carrier has 

an important package to deliver 

and asks the recipient to dial a 

toll-free number to redeem the 

package. Anyone who receives 

such a notice is advised not to 

call the number, as it is a scam. 

“As always, I don’t recommend 

anyone give out their personal 

identifying information over 

the telephone unless they know 

the person/entity and the purpose 

with a prior relationship,” 

said Capt. H.C. Love with the 

sheriff’s office. 

• Cherokee County Sheriff’s 

Office deputies arrested 

two Woodstock residents 

last week after responding 

to a burglary in progress 

call. Joseph Baldwin, 33, was 

charged with burglary and Lisa 

Luedee, 43, was charged with 

theft by receiving stolen property 

for their alleged involvement 

in stealing a washing machine 

from a home off Cedar Drive. 

Police were dispatched to the 

Cedar Drive home just before 

7 a.m., Oct. 30, in response to 

the burglary call, but Baldwin 

and Luedee already had fled 

the scene, the report said. 

According to the police, a witness 

provided police with the 

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suspect’s address, and the washing 

machine was located in the 

bed of Baldwin’s truck. The report 

said police observed forced 

entry at the Cedar Drive home 

and water leaking from where 

the washing machine was missing. 

The report said Baldwin 

admitted to taking the washing 

machine, as well as the dryer a 

few days earlier. He reportedly 

sold the dryer for scrap metal. 

• Canton police are investigating 

two separate 

burglaries that occurred 

two days apart. Police were 

dispatched to the Exxon gas 

station on Hickory Flat Highway 

Oct. 26 after the burglary occurred, 

the report said. According 

to police, forced entry was 

made through the back door, 

causing $400 in damage. Two 

days later, police responded to 

the Chevron off Marietta Road 

after an unknown person(s) 

made forced entry through the 

front glass door and stole $200. 

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Ms. Lorraine M. Smith, 72, a 

resident of Woodstock, entered 

into God’s care peacefully on 

Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012. 

Lorraine, a native of Johannesburg, 

South Africa, was born 

on July 5, 1940, to the late Josephine 

Smith. She was employed 

by Peter’s Papers as a controller, 

which is where she retired. To be 

with her family, she immigrated 

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at 69 years old. 

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was able to express that in her 

ANSWERS: Chapman claims Geist overstepped 

his bounds, Geist says clarification is needed 

FROM PAGE 1 

Chapman said Geist was “surrendering 

to special interests” 

and cited a document written 

by Geist entitled “The Charter 

School Debate.” 

Chapman said, regarding 

Geist’s document: “You violate 

board policy by seeking to undermine 

the authority of the superintendent 

and school administration 

through false claims that the 

Cherokee Academies initiative 

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Lorraine Smith 

paintings. She also loved music, 

as it lifted her spirit. She 

was well known for her sense of 

humor, which brought laughter 

to those around her. We were 

blessed to know and love her. 

Lorraine, a beloved mother of 

two, is survived by son, Robert 

A. Smith and his wife, Raquel, of 

Woodstock; a daughter, Natalie 

Riley and her husband, Garrett, 

of Scottsdale, Ariz; her seven 

grandchildren, Gareth, Gavin 

and Caroline Smith, and Heather, 

Abbey, Elizabeth and Conner 

Riley; her brother, Jeff Smith 

and his wife, Nicky, of Johannesburg, 

South Africa; and her 

should be credited to ‘competition’ 

and CCA; and the serious 

allegations that the superintendent 

and school administration 

are ‘fabricating information’” for 

political reasons. 

Geist said Chapman’s issues 

need to be addressed more fully 

by the board than through a 

“harshly worded resolution.” 

“We need a better understanding 

of what school board members 

can do as far as expressing 

their viewpoint on political questions,” 

Geist said. “The reason 

I’m on the board is to improve 

education for kids. This state 

and country don’t have a great 

track record, and charter schools 

are one of the very few ideas out 

there for improving them.” 

Chapman aimed several questions 

at Geist regarding Cherokee 

Charter Academy, including 

the accusation that the school 

district had received “multiple 

documented requests from parents 

last year who, in transferring 

their child to the charter 

school, were told by CCA staff 

to ask that certain special education 

services be removed from 

their child’s IEP (Individualized 

Educational Plan) prior to 

enrollment, to lower the costs 

to the charter school in serving 

their student.” 

Chapman asked how CCA 

could be a “choice” to students 

whose parents could not perform 

required volunteer hours, 

who required transportation 

services, who spoke English as 

a second language or who were 

medically fragile. 

Geist said Friday he would 

present his viewpoint regarding 

the issues raised by Chapman at 

the next board meeting on Dec. 6 . 

sister, Colleen Smith and husband, 

Brian, of Johannesburg, 

South Africa. 

Memorial services were held 

on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, at the Roswell 

Funeral Home, with Pastor 

Jason Barber officiating. 

In lieu of flowers, donations can 

be made in honor of Lorraine to 

Compassionate Care Hospice, 5 

Park Drive, Dunwoody, Ga. 30338. 

Roswell Funeral Home, 950 

Mansell Road, Roswell, Ga., 30076 

(770) 993-4811, was in charge 

of arrangements. 

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at www.roswellfuneralhome. 

com to sign the guest register. 

Chapman’s post was eliminated 

during redistricting earlier 

this year, so he was not able to 

run for re-election. 

Incoming Chair Janet Read 

also was redistricted out of her 

post, but successfully ran for the 

new countywide chair position 

created by redistricting. 

Chapman and Read say the redistricting 

was a result of their 

stance on turning down Cherokee 

Charter Academy’s petition 

when it came before the local 

school board. Geist is not up for 

re-election until 2014. 

In other business, the board 

unanimously approved the marketing 

of $36.3 million in general 

obligation bonds for the 

construction of the new/replacement 

Teasley Middle School at an 

interest rate of 3.06 percent. The 

Ed-SPLOST collection will serve 

as collateral. 

The existing Teasley will be 

used for ACE Academy, and possibly, 

in the future, as a site for 

a technical high school, if facility 

waivers can be obtained from 

the state. 

The board also discussed its 

proposed legislative plan for the 

2013 General Assembly. The plan 

tentatively calls for legislative 

action to restore funding to local 

school districts and control 

employee health care costs at the 

state level. 

“We’re really concerned about 

next school year and the effects 

of budget cuts on student performance,” 

Superintendent Dr. 

Frank Petruzielo said, noting 

major factors were class sizes, 

teacher furlough days and teacher 

pressure due to merit evaluations 

and increased employee 

contributions to health care.




The Cherokee County Professional 

Firefighters take pride 

in standing behind their own, 

which is why the labor organization, 

chartered as Local No. 4047 

of the International Association 

of Firefighters, organized a motorcycle 

ride to benefit a county 

firefighter’s family. 

Spearheaded by Todd Mullins 

and Sgt. Clay Cloud, the “Plott 

Trot,” which is named after Cherokee 

County Fire 

and Emergency Services 

Lt. Keith Plott, 

will take place this 

Saturday at 11 a.m., 

ending at 4 p.m. 

The benefit will 

raise money to offset 

the cost of medical 

bills the Plott 

‘Plott Trot’ aims to help 

family faced after their newborn 

son suffered complications at 

birth. Plott said his son’s aorta 

and pulmonary arteries were reversed 

(transposition of the great 

vessels), and he underwent two 

heart surgeries within his first 14 

days of life. 

“He is at home now,” Plott said, 

adding that doctors have said 

everything looks good at this 

point. “Most of the complications 

should have been fixed with the 

second surgery that they did.” 

Mullins and Cloud said when 

they got word of the Plott family’s 

situation, they rallied to help. 

“Within the union, we try to 

take care of each other, as well as 

better our department in any way 

that we can,” Mullins said. “We 

saw the e-mail come across, and 

we saw that there was a brother in 

need. This is not to benefit myself 

or the union; it’s about helping a 

person in need.” 

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Cloud said, as a parent himself, 

he knew right away that he wanted 

to help. 

“Todd and I were stationed 

together at the time, and I approached 

him with the idea of 

an event. The thought process 

behind it was simply that a few 

people working together can do so 

much more than just one or two,” 

Cloud said. 

Mullins and Cloud began brainstorming 

and came up with the 

Plott Trot, which will be held at 

the Publix parking lot, located on 

Riverstone Parkway in Canton. 

“Keith does ride motorcycles, so 

initially we were just going to do 

a motorcycle ride, but then Clay 

had mentioned other events, so 

we just kept rolling with it and 

adding more stuff to try and involve 

everyone,” Mullins said. 

Cloud said the ride is only a 

small portion of the event. 

A car show featuring some classic 

beauties will start at 11 a.m., 

with the motorcycle ride commencing 

30 minutes later. Registration 

fee for both the car show 

and motorcycle ride is $20. 

Mullins said he expects at least 

100 riders to cruise up toward 

Sutallee and take Ga. 108 through 

Tate. The ride will continue to 

Ga. 53, turning onto Yellow Creek 

Road, and riders will make their 

way back to Canton. 

In addition to the car show and 

motorcycle ride, the event will 

feature numerous activities for 

the children, including bounce 

houses and face-painting. Food 

will include funnel cakes, cotton 

candy, snow cones, kettle corn and 

barbecue plates sold by the Cherokee 

County Fire Explorers, said 

Fire-ES Director of Public Affairs 

Tim Cavender. 

Cavender said fire trucks, police 

vehicles and public safety 

Ride raises money for Shop with a Hero 

The Woodstock Police 

Foundation, in partnership 

with the Woodstock Police 

Department, declared the 

Shop with a Hero Charity 

Motorcycle Ride a success, 

after raising $3,100 last 

month. The Shop with a Hero 

program is designed to 

aid families of Woodstock 

by providing gifts to underprivileged 

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the day, as well as a silent auction, 

raffles and live music. 

“I encourage all to attend; there 

will be something for everyone,” 

Cloud said. 

Plott said he truly appreciates 

all the effort the Cherokee County 

Professional Firefighters put into 

assisting his family. 

To register for the car show or 

motorcycle ride or for more information, 

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FAN: Gracie makes homecoming court 

Gracie is the third girl to be a 

homecoming representative, with 

the first occurring in 2010. 

“In 2010, we had a family in the 

football program that had a neighbor 

they wanted to be Fan of the 

Week, but I already had someone 

picked for that week, so we had 

the idea of putting her on homecoming 

court,” he explained. “It 

happened by accident, and we 

got lucky that it stuck because we 

were not getting a lot of female 

students as fans of the week.” 

Gracie, who lost her vision at 

a young age due to an inoperable 

brain tumor, said she was thrilled 

to be on homecoming court. 

“I am looking forward to my 

family and friends coming and 

seeing me be Fan of the Week,” 

she said before the event. “I’ve 

never been on homecoming court, 

and I just thought, how cool.” 

Gracie’s father, along with 

Cherokee High School Alpha 

Gamma Club member Mason 

Mayes, escorted her down the 

field Friday. She wore a gold and 

white sequined dress. 

“I want to look fancy,” she said 

before homecoming. “I have a diamond 

bracelet that I am going to 

wear, but I don’t know if that will 

be fancy enough. I’d really like to 

wear a diamond cross.” 

In addition to marching down 

the field Friday, Gracie rode in 

the high school’s homecoming 

parade on Oct. 30, despite the 

strong winds and nearly freezing 

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Briana Rokovitz, a ninth-grader at Cherokee, and the rest of the 

Cherokee High School cheerleading squad collected money for Holly 

Springs resident and Milton High School football coach, Mike Scott, 

who has Stage IV pancreatic cancer. During the game against Milton 

Friday night, football fans donated $8,753 to the Scott family. 

weather. She said her excitement 

would keep her warm. 

“I am looking forward to the 

parade,” she said the morning of. 

“I’m going to be riding in a convertible 

Corvette. My (grandpa) 

had a Corvette, but it wasn’t convertible. 

It means a lot to my dad 

and mom because I have never 

been in a parade before.” 

Gracie wore a red dress with 

pink dots during the parade. She 

even got new matching heels to 

complete her look. 

On Friday, Gracie arrived at the 

school for the pre-game dinner 

and then was treated like a princess, 

as a beautician styled her 

hair. She then walked out onto the 

field and listened as an announcer 

listed her interests and hobbies, 

including playing the piano and 

skiing, to the crowd. 

“I learned to play the piano 

when I lived in Colorado. I just 

thought it would be a cool talent 

because it helps me learn,” she 

said. “I wanted to learn it and 

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The report also points out that 

the future financial outlook for 

Woodstock looks promising, referencing 

a significant pick-up 

in commercial and residential 

building activity and the underconstruction 

Outlet Shoppes at 

Atlanta, which is projected to 

open next summer and produce 

significant tax revenue. 

Deanna LaRue, a certified 

financial planner and president 

of Timewise Financial in 

decided I’m going to do it; if you 

want to be a piano player, then just 

practice. I learned it by note, and 

I am actually playing songs now.” 

Her favorite song to play is 

Beethoven’s “Für Elise.” 

In addition to Gracie being the 

Cherokee Fan of the Week for the 

Cherokee High School and Milton 

High School showdown Friday, 

Shaw said another student, whose 

name cannot be printed, was chosen 

as the football Cherokee Fan 

of the Week representative. 

Milton’s Head Coach Mike 

Scott, who is battling stage IV pancreatic 

cancer, which has spread 

to his lungs and liver, also was going 

to be recognized, but due to his 

failing health, he was not able to 

attend. Scott’s daughter, Abby, a 

student at Liberty Elementary, also 

was going to be acknowledged 

as Cherokee Fan of the Week, but 

could not make it. Shaw said Abby 

would be recognized as Cherokee 

Fan of the Week at the end-of-theseason 

football banquet. 

Woodstock, said in her assessment, 

while the bond received a 

downgrade, the report still says 

the city is viewed as having a stabilizing 

financial position. 

“And that could again lead 

to a change in the rating,” 

LaRue said. 

She cited the city’s efforts to 

develop a new vision for the city, 

such as the expansion of the 

downtown and the outlet mall 

coming online. 

“This type of influence is what 

is needed to raise our reserves 

again to meet the higher credit 

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Depending on the outcome of 

the upcoming meeting of creditors 

in Poole’s case, Board of Elections 

Attorney Angie Davis said, 

“It would be inappropriate for me 

to speculate” on what would happen 

next. 

Regarding the ruling, Poole’s 

attorney, Charles Robertson, told 

the Ledger-News, “We are pleased 

but not surprised. We thought the 

law was pretty clear.” 

Jeff Rusbridge, attorney for a 

group of citizens who filed the 

original complaint challenging 

Poole’s candidacy, noted the decision 

states that Georgia law appears 

to support Poole’s ineligibility. 

“We are disappointed that, 

given (that) statement, they nevertheless 

found that Mr. Poole is 

not ineligible, thereby making the 

constitutional provision at issue 

meaningless,” Rusbridge said. “I 

will be discussing the decision 

with my clients, and they will decide 

whether to pursue further action 

regarding this matter.” 

The Board of Elections met 

Oct. 31 for a hearing regarding 

the challenge to Poole’s candidacy; 

however, the board tabled 

the decision until the morning of 

Nov. 5, just one day before Election 

Day. Poole was unopposed for 

the commission seat after defeating 

challenger Chris Hampton in 

the primary. The seat currently is 

held by Karen Bosch, who decided 

not to seek re-election. 

Poole’s eligibility for candidacy 

came into question Oct. 19 after 

Rusbridge filed a complaint with 

Munda on behalf of a group that 

included Hampton, Scott Ault, 

Teisha Ault, Jamey Cagle, Connie 

Miller, Bryan Roach, Eric Love 

and Linda Flory. 

After a two-hour, closed-door 

session Oct. 24, the Board of Elections 

voted, 4-0, with member 

Donald Sams absent, to authorize 

Munda to challenge Poole’s 

qualification. Other members of 

the board are Chairman Randy 

Gravley (appointed by the Board 

of Elections), Cindy Castello (appointed 

by the Republican Party), 

Mary Ann Rentz (appointed 

by the Republican Party) and 

Frankie Shepherd (appointed by 

the Democratic Party). 

The complaint filed by Rusbridge 

alleged that Poole was 

not eligible to hold any office, 

claiming he is the holder of public 

funds illegally — an assertion 

Robertson attempted to shoot 

down last week at the Board of 

Elections hearing. 

“The first and most important 

thing is that Poole is not the first 

person to sit in an elected position 

that has filed for bankruptcy 

or gone out of business,” he said 

at the Oct. 31 hearing. “This happens 

all the time.” 

The Ledger-News examined 

public records and found that 

Poole has had numerous personal 

and business-related financial 

problems, two past bankruptcies 

and is failing to adhere to a 2010 

bankruptcy payment plan. 

“I don’t think he took sales taxes 

and personally kept them,” Robertson 

said. “Mr. Poole’s company 

held public funds, and he is liable 

under Alabama law. My personal 

view is that the sales taxes were 

collected by his business.” 

Robertson acknowledged 

Poole’s failed Alabama-based 

business. 

“There is no challenge that he 

lost his business in 2009 or had 

some tax issues,” he said. “He 

admitted that he didn’t have 

enough money to pay his taxes; 

he wouldn’t be in bankruptcy if 

he did. Mr. Poole has a bankruptcy, 

but we don’t get to assert our 

judgment into that.” 

Poole was also accused of owing 

$9,578 to the Internal Revenue 

Service for unpaid federal taxes, 

related to withholding. 

Rusbridge, who was at the hearing 

last week, said in the letter to 

Munda that “Mr. Poole himself, in 

sworn statements submitted with 

his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition 

in the Middle District of Alabama, 

Case No. 10-11227, admitted 

owing $29,855 in unpaid state and 

local sales and withholding taxes 

to the State of Alabama.” 

Alabama Department of Revenue 

records show Poole and his 

wife owe $38,599 in back state 

sales taxes from 2009-2011, for 

which nine liens have been filed. 

“We have tax officials who have 

filed a lien. It is certainly possible 

that when I go home this afternoon, 

there is going to be a tax 

lien in my mailbox because somewhere, 

sometime, someone said 

I owed it,” Robertson said. “That 

doesn’t mean I owe it; that means I 

get an opportunity to argue about 

it, and it also means that I get an 

opportunity to file bankruptcy 

about it and let attorneys argue 

about it.” 

Robertson contended that Poole 

was eligible for candidacy per the 

Georgia Constitution, as his client 

has not been adjudicated by a 

court of law and is on a payment 

plan. 

“There is no question that he is 

making payments. In a letter sent 

from (Munda), it says that he has 

made $20,000 worth of payments 

... there is a (payment) plan,” he 

said. 

The question that was raised, 

however, was if the payments 

were sufficient, as Davis pointed 

out at the Oct. 31 hearing that 

Poole has defaulted on the payments. 

Robertson said last week 

that the payment plan in place 

had not been dismissed. 

“If you enter a note to the bank 

today and in the event that you 

miss a payment, they can send 

you a letter that you’re in default,” 

he said. “He did miss a payment, 

but entered into a new plan. The 

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JESSICA WAGNER | LEDGER-NEWS 

Attorney Charles Robertson is 

pictured speaking to the Board of 

Elections at the Oct. 31 hearing, as 

his client, Brian Poole, looks on. 

bankruptcy trustee took a position 

and Mr. Poole’s attorney took 

another; it’s not an admission of 

judgment.” 

Robertson said Poole’s payment 

plan was Alabama’s fight, not the 

county Board of Elections. 

“As long as there is a payment 

plan in place, I don’t think it is our 

vote. If he abandoned that plan, 

does that mean we crush down 

on him because he was one or two 

days late? It’s not our vote; it’s a 

decision between two parties,” he 

said. 

Robertson said the paperwork 

filed makes no mention of Alabama’s 

objection to Poole’s payments, 

adding that 4,600 people 

agreed (in the) July 31 (primary) 

that he was a “good guy.” 

“If the Alabama tax authority 

isn’t worried about it, why are 

we?” Robertson asked. 

News editor Carolyn Mathews contributed 

to this article. 

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alleviate Towne Lake Parkway traffic 

FROM PAGE 1 

“We’re doing some final paving 

right now, and a lot of that is 

dependent on the temperatures 

and the weather, so while we’ve 

got some warmer weather, we 

wanted to get that knocked out 

so we don’t get trapped into getting 

delayed waiting for a warm 

day in December,” Bradley said. 

Woodstock Mayor 

Donnie Henriques 

said the city 

hasn’t received 

official word on 

a date that the interchange 

would 

open, but is happy 

with the progress, 

as the interchange 

Henriques 

is expected to alleviate traffic 

woes on Towne Lake Parkway. 

“The interchange itself is 35 

years in the making. It’s a monster. 

It’s huge for our area, not 

just with what the outlet mall’s 

going to bring — because that’s 

going to be our economic engine 

— but it’s going to get 30 percent 

of the traffic off of Towne Lake 

Parkway, at least 30 percent,” 

Henriques said. 

Construction got under way in 

November 2010. 

The full diamond interchange 

has been constructed where 

Ridgewalk Parkway currently 

passes over the interstate. 

Work included the replacement 

of the existing bridge over 575, realigning 

of Old Rope Mill Road to 

intersect with Ridgewalk and accommodate 

the ramps of the new 

interchange and construction of 

auxiliary lanes between the new 

interchange and the Towne Lake 

Parkway interchange. When 

open, it will break up a sizeable 

PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE LEDGER-NEWS 

Work to the Ridgewalk interchange along Interstate 575 in Woodstock 

is just about complete, as the contractor said last week that the 

project would be open tentatively on Nov. 16. Project Manager Tony 

Bradley said crews currently are working on some final paving, taking 

advantage of the warm temperatures. Pictured in the background, construction 

continues on the future Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta, which is 

expected to be finished August 2013. 

gap between the Towne Lake and 

Sixes Road exits. 

Of the $17 million price tag, 

Woodstock’s share is roughly 

$3 million. 

The interchange will also 

soon become synonymous with 

the outlet mall planned for 

Ridgwalk set to open in summer 

2013. Horizon Group Properties 

is making substantial 

progress on its 90-store outdoor 

shopping center. 

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Tal Harber, capital projects 

manager for the city of Woodstock, 

said plans are being 

worked out with coordination 

and approval from GDOT for 

a ribbon cutting for the interchange, 

but no date has been 

set yet.

sports 

November 7, 2012 SportS editor: braNdoN michea | 770-928-0706 x203 fax: 770-928-3152 the cherokee ledger-NewS 15 

By TODD CALLAHAN 

For the Ledger-News 

With Sequoyah locked as the 

runner-up in the sub-region and its 

opponent already determined for 

its upcoming Region 7AAAAA playoff 

game, there was little suspense 

for Chief fans against one-win 

Cambridge last Friday night, in 

Hickory Flat. 

PreP FOOTball 

n 

Photo By d. Bruce PoweLL 

Nine games into his senior campaign, Sequoyah’s Blake Ingleton has not only shattered the Chiefs’ rushing records, but 

has surpassed the county’s single-season rushing mark, as well. Heading into Sequoyah’s Region 7AAAAA playoff bout 

this Friday at Sprayberry, Ingleton has run for 1,919 yards and 26 touchdowns and has 212 yards and four scores on seven 

receptions. The previous county record was held by Cherokee’s Astin Foster, who rush for 1,800 yards and 32 TDs in 2003. 

For the record 

Chiefs’ Ingleton setting new rushing standards for Sequoyah, county 

By BrANDON MiCHeA 

sports@ledgernews.com 

In 23 years under the lights in 

Hickory Flat, Sequoyah football 

has seen its share of standouts. But 

none quite like this. 

Much like the hopes of the defenses 

that have tried to stop him, Chiefs’ senior 

running back Blake Ingleton is 

shattering Sequoyah’s record books 

this fall, setting new single-game 

standards in carries (35), rushing 

yards (386) and touchdowns (six) and 

single-season bests in rushing yards 

(1,919), rushing touchdowns (26), 

total yards (2,121) and total touchdowns 

(30) — in just nine games. 

Along with his new Sequoyah 

marks, Ingleton also became the 

county’s single-season rushing leader 

with a 232-yard performance last 

Friday night against Cambridge, 

surpassing Cherokee High’s Astin 

Foster, who earned all-state honors 

as senior when he rushed for 1,800 

yards and 32 touchdowns while 

leading the Warriors into the Class 

AAAA state quarterfinals in 2003. 

“I wasn’t expecting any of this 

at all,” said Ingleton, who was the 

Cherokee County Gridiron Club’s 

Co-Offensive Player of the Year in 

2011 after rushing for 1,235 yards 

and 11 scores. “My personal goals 

coming into the season were 

1,500 yards rushing and around 

15 touchdowns, and I’ve been able 

to overshoot those, big time. 

“But my offensive line has been a 

key to all of that. They’ve improved 

a lot since last season and have done 

a great job opening holes for me.” 

“Based on what he’s done in the 

past, I can’t say we’re completely 

surprised with how successful he’s 

been,” Sequoyah Head Coach James 

Teter said of his 6-foot-1, 210-pound 

fullback with 4.5-second, 40-yard 

dash speed. “But to have 1,900 yards 

already, that has definitely exceeded 

our expectations. 

“He has great vision out there and 

great feet. When he see things, he has 

the ability to make the cut to the open 

field. His size is another thing that 

helps him, and he has learned how to 

be a more physical runner.” 

Prior to Ingleton, most of the 

team records had stood for a decade, 

with former Chiefs’ quarterback 

Patrick Hall holding the marks for 

rushes (30) and touchdowns (five) 

in a game and touchdowns (23) in a 

season in 2000. Meanwhile, Hall’s 

top running-mate that year, fullback 

As expected, Sequoyah (6-3 overall, 

4-1 7AAAAA North) won its fourth 

straight with a 42-0 blanking of the 

Bears, setting the stage for its region 

playoff game against Sprayberry, the 

No. 3 seed from the South sub-region, 

this Friday on the road. 

“We started off really slow in the 

first half, and we kind of got it going 

in the second half,” said Sequoyah 

Head Coach James Teter, whose 

Record Setter 

Through nine games, 

Sequoyah RB Blake Ingleton 

has rushed for 1,919 yards 

and 26 touchdowns on 

200 carries, setting both 

program and county records 

along the way. Here’s a look 

at Ingleton’s 2012 accomplishments thus far: 

Sequoyah Single game ReCoRDS* 

Carries: 35 (vs. Northview, oct. 26) 

Rushing yards: 386 (vs. Northview, oct. 26)† 

Rushing TDs: 6 (vs. Sprayberry, Sept. 28) 

Sequoyah Single SeaSon ReCoRDS* 

Rushing yards: 1,919† 

Rushing Touchdowns: 26 

Total Touchdowns: 30 

* All stats through Nov. 2, 2012 

† Cherokee County records 

Justin Wheeler, established the single-season 

rushing record of 1,136 

yards, and a half-decade later, Adam 

Mincey set the Chiefs’ single-game 

rushing record with 257 yards. Ingleton, 

who eclipsed Wheeler’s record 

as a junior, topped Mincey’s mark 

SEE RECoRd, PagE 16 

Sequoyah thumps Bears, 42-0 

squad recorded its first shutout in 

three years. “We are getting there. 

We just got to find a way to win [this 

week].” 

While the outcome of Friday’s bout 

with the Bears was never in doubt, 

the true drama was whether or not 

Chiefs running back Blake Ingleton 

would etch his name in the Cherokee 

County history book. 

See ThumpS, page 17 

PreP CrOSS COUNTrY 

n 

Eagles soar into 

state championships 

EHS boys and girls, Woodstock’s Cornett 

and Bailey, River Ridge squads advance 

By BrANDON MiCHeA 


Rolling into the Region 5AAAAAA Cross Country 

Championships with high expectations for its boys’ 

squad, Etowah came away with a little bit more than 

it had planned. 

While the Eagle boys narrowly missed claiming a 

region title and settled for a runner-up finish to qualify 

for the state meet, the Lady Eagles were able to 

take advantage of a little misfortune for rival Woodstock 

to place fourth for a state berth of their own on 

Saturday afternoon at Boling Park, in Canton. 

“When I saw the results of the girls’ race, I couldn’t 

believe it,” said Etowah Head Coach Jesse Howard, 

whose Lady Eagles scored 115 points to edge Lassiter 

(116) and Woodstock (119) for the region’s final state 

spot. “Shelby (Rensel), Kyla (Resnick) and Kingsley 

(Green) ran tough for us and were each close to their 

PRs, but then we had a more than a minute gap before 

our fourth and fifth runners crossed. In a race 

like this, it comes down to every single finish, and a 

matter of a few seconds made the difference for us.” 

Meanwhile, with hopes of winning the team title, 

the Etowah boys found themselves in a race to the 

finish. But when Walton junior Connor Kilch kicked 

it into high gear down the stretch to split a pack 

of Eagles at the line, it was just the difference the 

Raiders needed to take the win, edging Etowah 63-68. 

Sophomore Michael Perona (16:44.83) and senior 

Justin Brown (16:51.54) crossed the line in 11th 

and 12th, respectively, for Etowah, while Kilch 

(16:51.95) took the 13th spot, just ahead of Eagles’ 

freshmen Blake Beavers (16:52.26, 14th) and 

Sam Donley (16:52.75, 15th) and sophomore Brian 

Matthews (16:55.41, 16th). 

“When you get that close (to winning the title), it 

kind of eats at you, but then you have to put it all 

in perspective,” said Howard. “Our boys could have 

won Saturday, and our girls could have been out. 

So, I’ll definitely take both teams making it to state.” 

Joining Etowah in earning a trip to Carrollton, 

Woodstock senior J.C. Cornett and sophomore Owen 

Bailey each placed in the top six to claim individual 

state berths. Cornett ran a 16:00.61 for fourth, while 

Bailey (16:08.27) finished two spots behind in sixth. 

Behind the top-20 showings from freshmen Rensel 

(19:52.54, 12th) and Resnick (19:59.94) and sophomore 

Green (20:03.74), as well as freshman Julia 

Turbyfield (21:11.63, 33rd) and junior Schyler Folsom 

(21:23.81, 37th), the Lady Eagles took advantage of 

See STaTe, page 18 

Etowah’s Kyla 

Resnick was one 

of three Lady 

Eagles to 

finish in the top 

16 on Saturday, 

helping Etowah 

claim fourth 

place in 

the Region 

5AAAAAA 

Cross Country 

Championships 

to earn a berth 

to the GHSA 

state meet this 

weekend, in 

Carrollton. 

Joining the 

Lady Eagles at 

state will be 

the Creekview, 

Etowah, River 

Ridge and 

Sequoyah boys, 

the Creekview 

and River Ridge 

girls and the 

Woodstock boys’ 

J.C. Cornett and 

Owen Bailey. 

Brandon Michea 

Ledger-news

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PreP FOOTball rOUNDUP 

n 

Knights rally past Pickens to secure AAAA state berth 

By Brandon Michea 


Rallying from a 16-point, 

fourth-quarter deficit, the River 

Ridge Knights knocked off Pickens, 

28-26, Friday night, in Jasper. 

Trailing 26-10 heading into the 

fourth, the Knights, who claimed 

the Region 7AAAA sub-region A 

title and clinched state berth in 

the program’s first year of eligibility 

with the win, used touchdown 

runs by E.J. Ellis and 

Vince Njoku and a 53-yard scoring 

strike from Steven Spears 

to Austin Terrell in the final 

frame to surge past the Dragons. 

Best known for its ground attack, 

River Ridge (5-4, 4-0 subregion) 

went to the air for nearly 

half of its offensive damage 

on Friday, as Spears completed 

8-of-16 attempts for 154 yards, 

including a pair of touchdown 

passes to Terrell, who hauled in 

four receptions for 94 yards. 

On the ground, Njoku rolled up 

84 yards and a touchdown on 11 

carries, Ellis made 15 carries for 

60 yards and a score, and Terrell 

added 22 yards rushing. 

Defensively, Will Redding 

made 13 tackles, Ray Stephenson 

had 10, and Ellis finished 

with seven. 

Rounding out the scoring, Wes 

Bearden converted a 43-yard 

field goal attempt. 

Next up for the Knights is a 

trip to Rossville this Friday (7:30 

p.m.) for a rematch against subregion 

B champion Ridgeland, 

with the 7AAAA title on the line. 

The Panthers (8-1) defeated River 

Ridge, 42-8, on Sept. 14, though 

the Knights went on to win five 

of their last six since the loss. 

The winner of Friday’s bout 

will not only claim the region 

crown but earn 7AAAA’s No. 1 

seed for the state playoffs, while 

the loser settles for the region’s 

No. 2 state seed. Both teams will 

host in the opening round of state 

on Nov. 16. 

• • • 

Creekview blows by Spartans 

Working on a little fine-tuning 

before their upcoming Region 

7AAAAA playoff battle at Riverwood, 

the Creekview Grizzlies 

won their sixth-straight game 

with a 44-0 trouncing of North 

Springs last Friday night, in 

Atlanta. 

Behind seven different ball 

carries, the Grizzlies (9-1, 5-0 subregion) 

racked up 272 yards and 

four scores on the ground, while 

senior quarterback Hayden 

Hall completed 8-of-10 passes for 

93 yards and two touchdowns. 

Leading the rushing attack, 

junior Isaiah Rodgers and senior 

Will Kirby tallied 80 and 78 

yards, respectively, and a touchdown 

apiece, and senior Austin 

King made three carries for 

49 yards and a score. Also reaching 

the end zone, sophomore 

Chandler Wold rushed for 41 

yards, bringing his team-leading 

season totals to 692 yards and 

11 touchdowns on 94 attempts. 

Continuing his run as Hall’s 

top target, senior Hunter Udall 

made three grabs for 59 yards 

and a pair of touchdowns and 

has 696 yards receiving this fall. 

Defensively, Creekview, which 

recorded its program-best third 

shutout of the season, had 12 

sacks, led by senior Austin 

Weaver’s four and junior 

Austin Murphy’s two. Weaver 

also topped the team with eight 

total tackles; while junior Logan 

Ridings (sack) tallied seven 

total tackles; junior Joseph 

Sorrentino (sack) made six total 

tackles; Udall had an interception 

and a fumble recovery; 

senior Joey Noll had an inception; 

and sophomore Chris 

Reddick recovered a fumble. 

In hopes of securing their 

first state berth since 2009, the 

Grizzlies travel to Sandy Springs 

this Friday at 7:30 p.m. to take 

on sub-region B No. 4 seed 

Riverwood (6-3). The Raiders, 

who were on a bye last Friday, 

have lost three of their last four 

since starting out the season 5-0. 

• • • 

CHS, EHS, WHS fall 

In Region 5AAAAAA action 

last, Cherokee, Etowah and 

Woodstock all suffered setbacks. 

Cherokee lost a 49-7 decision at 

Milton , while Etowah’s upset bid 

against Walton came up short in 

a 21-16 loss, and Woodstock lost 

31-9 at Wheeler. 

RECORD: Ingleton’s 1,919 currently second in state 

FROM PAGE 15 

with a 296-yard performance in 

the Chiefs’ season-opening victory 

over Ridge Ridge, before 

hanging 386 yards on 25 carries 

against Northview on Oct. 26. 

Making Ingleton’s accomplishments 

even more impressive is 

that Hall and Wheeler racked up 

their totals over a 12-game span, 

with the Chiefs reaching the second 

round of the Class AAAA 

state playoffs in 2000, while 

Foster tallied his 1,800 yards in 

13 games. 

In addition to his line, Ingleton 

also attributes his success to 

time spent with a trainer 

last spring, as well as joining 

Sequoyah’s track team in 2011, 

running both the 100- and 200- 

meter events and relays. 

“I’ve definitely gotten faster,” 

he explained. “Last season, I 

couldn’t really split two defenders 

to get into the open field. 

This year, I’m splitting and outrunning 

them. I’m getting those 

game-breaking runs.” 

While he cannot deny enjoying 

the personal success, Ingleton 

added that his team’s success this 

fall is what has meant the most, 

as the Chiefs are on the brink 

of reaching the state playoffs 

for the first time since 2008 — 

needing only a win over Sprayberry 

in the Region 7AAAAA 

playoffs this Friday to advance. 

“Ever since we lost to Riverwood 

(on Sept. 21), we’ve really 

pulled together tighter as 

a team,” said Ingleton, whose 

Chiefs have gone 5-1 and averaged 

39.2 points per game since 

the defeat. “And we’ve gotten 

after it.” 

According to Teter, Ingleton 

has been a big reason why. 

“Blake has been crucial to what 

we’re doing,” he said. “He’s forcing 

teams to key on him in the 

middle and that’s opening things 

up around the outside for (Dustin) 

Dawson and (Stuart) Glassic, as 

well as our passing game. 

“The thing is, he’s a lot more 

comfortable with what he’s 

doing, and we talk all the time 

about how much he’s matured. 

Last year was the first time he 

played fullback, and now that 

he understands everything, you 

can see how much it’s helped his 

confidence level.” 

Heading into the final week of 

the regular season, in which Sequoyah 

(6-3) travels to Sprayberry 

for a Region 7AAAAA playoff 

game in hopes of securing its first 

state berth since 2008, Ingleton’s 

1,919 yards were second-best only 

to Cedartown junior Nick Chubb. 

Leading the state, Chubb entered 

last Friday’s game — a 

35-0 loss to Gilmer — with 2,360 

yards and 35 touchdowns on 

263 carries. Chris Jordan, of 

Class AAA No. 2 Thomson, is 

third behind Ingleton with 1,882 

yards, while Evan Kasian, of the 

Walker School (Class A - Private 

School) is fourth with 1,709 yards 

and 21 scored on 184 carries, and 

Walton senior and University 

of Alabama committee Tyren 

Jones is fifth with 1,672 yards and 

16 touchdowns on 288 touches. 

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THUMPS: Chiefs’ defense limits Bears to 75 yards 

FROM PAGE 15 

Needing just 117 yards to break 

the single-season rushing record 

in Cherokee County, the 6-foot-1, 

210-pound senior broke the 

all-time mark of 1,800 yards, 

held by Cherokee High grad 

Astin Foster in 2003, on a 

24-yard run with 9:24 remaining 

in the third quarter. 

Ingleton finished with 232 

yards and three touchdowns on 

21 carries, marking his sixth 

200-yard game of the year. He 

also caught a screen pass that 

went 60 yards for another trip 

to the end zone. He has tallied 

1,919 yards and 26 touchdowns in 

just nine games. Foster’s record 

occurred in 13 games. 

“This is a big accomplishment 

for me, and I give it all to my line,” 

said Ingleton, who has to reset 

his goals for the rest of the year. 

“Coming into this year I wanted 

to make it to 15 touchdowns and 

at the most get 1,500 yards. I’m 

just trying to bring my team to 

the playoffs, really. I would like 

to reach 2,000 yards, but besides 

that I could really care less. I just 

want to make it to the playoffs.” 

Despite a slow start, Sequoyah 

led 7-0 thanks to a 38-yard touchdown 

run from Stuart Glassic 

with 5:22 left in the opening 

frame. The Chiefs and Ingleton 

broke the game open in the 

second quarter. 

Ingleton, held to 3 yards rushing 

in the first quarter, started 

to find running room in the 

second quarter, breaking off 

jaunts of 15, 9 and 13 yards on 

three consecutive plays to open 

the Chiefs’ scoring drive. 

A 16-yard pass completion from 

Trenton Dorner to tight end Nick 

Falco on third down continued 

the drive, and Ingleton capped 

the 12-play, 93-yard scoring drive 

with a 2-yard plunge into the end 

zone with 6:09 left in the half. 

Arguably the most spectacular 

play by the senior was on the 

Chiefs’ next possession. 

Facing third-and-17 at the 

Sequoyah 40-yard line, Dorner 

managed to avoid the Cambridge 

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Sequoyah’s Dakota Pickelsimer (76) pressures the quarterback during 

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Flat. Pickelsimer and the SHS defense held the Bears to just 75 yards. 

rush and threw a screen pass 

to Ingleton, whose legs did the 

rest of the work. Breaking tackles 

and using his elusive moves, 

Ingleton managed to go 60 yards 

for his second touchdown of the 

game, propelling the Chiefs to 

a commanding 21-0 lead with 

2:22 left in the first half. 

“The pass we threw to him 

kind of got him going a little bit 

better,” Teter said. “He has played 

really physical the last four or 

five weeks. Hopefully he can 

continue that, given a chance.” 

The Chiefs added the finishing 

touches in the second half, with 

Ingleton sandwiching scoring 

runs of 1 and 48 yards around 

a 1-yard touchdown run by senior 

Dustin Dawson to complete 

the rout. 

Complementing Ingleton on 

Senior Night, Dawson finished 

the night with 91 yards on six 

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carries, and Glassic, who had 

racked up 657 yards rushing 

while averaging 12.2 yards per 

carry this season, added 55 yards 

on five touches. 

Helping to limit the Bears to 

just 75 total yards on 43 plays, 

Chris Riddle had a team-high 

11 total tackles, while Peter 

Rohan had eight total tackles, 

Jake Garner finished with seven 

total tackles, and Falco and Colin 

Dozier (sack) recorded six and 

five total tackles, respectively. 

In Sprayberry this Friday, 

Sequoyah faces a familiar foe as 

it looks to repeat the outcome of 

its 41-34 victory over the Yellow 

Jackets from Sept. 28 — a game 

Ingleton went off for 288 yards 

and six touchdowns. A win over 

Sprayberry, which defeated Sequoyah 

in the region playoffs in 

2009, would secure the Chiefs’ 

their first state berth since 2008. 

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18 THE CHERoKEE LEDGER-NEWS sports NoVEMBER 7, 2012 

FROM PAGE 15 

Region 7AAAA Cross Country 

Championship Results 

Friday, November 1, 2012 

Roper Park, Jasper 

Boys’ TeAm sCoRes 

1. Dalton .................................................. 59 

2. Pickens ................................................. 61 

3. NW Whitfield ........................................ 74 

4. River Ridge .....................................81 

Boys’ INdIvIduAl ResulTs 

(top 6 and county runner finishes) 

1. Joe Mayes, River Ridge .......16:41.37 

2. Drew Bellows, Pickens ................ 17:01.72 

3. Turner Moranos, Pickens ............. 17:04.55 

4. Brody Cook, NW Whitfield .......... 17:18.50 

5. Parker Cook, NW Whitfield ......... 17:19.58 

6. Judd Bates, Heritage ................... 17:24.75 

14. Nathan Trottier, River Ridge ........ 17:59.03 

17. Macaulay Vanhoose, River Ridge 18:03.24 

21. Timothy Hooper, River Ridge ...... 18:17.60 

28. Tyler Butcher, River Ridge ........... 18:31.16 

31. Chris Roeder, River Ridge ........... 18:38.60 

37. Sam Ivey, River Ridge ................. 19:03.24 

GIRls’ TeAm sCoRes 

1. Heritage-Coosa .................................... 31 

2. Pickens ................................................. 55 

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STATE: Mayes captures 7AAAA boys’ title; River Ridge squads advance to state 

the Woodstock girls running 

without their top-runner Alexandra 

Melehan, who was sidelined 

with a hamstring injury. 

Turning the Woodstock’s girls’ 

best showings, junior Morgan 

O’Toole (19:46.08) placed 10th, followed 

by senior Keaton Wallace 

(20:04.60), and sophomores Caitlyn 

Farrell (20:13.17, 21st) and 

Sam Harp (17:21.64, 27th) paced 

Cherokee. 

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Repeating their state berths 

from a season ago, the River 

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and fourth, respectively, in the 

Region 7AAAA Championships 

at Roper Park Friday, in Jasper. 

Highlighting the Knights’ performance, 

Joe Mayes brought 

home the boys’ individual title 

with a time of 16:41.37, finishing 

a full 20 seconds faster than runner-up 

Drew Bellows, of Pickens. 

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Meanwhile, Hannah Saylor 

(20:13.65, sixth) and Kali Kimball 

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of the Lady Knights, who scored 

91 points to place only behind 

champion Heritage-Coosa (31) 

and runner-up Pickens (55). 

Complementing Saylor and 

Kimball, Darian Kent (21:41.76) 

finished 18th, Avery Blackmon 

(22:26.34) was 24th and Liza 

Jamison (23:32.13) placed 33rd 

3. River Ridge .....................................91 

4. NW Whitfield ...................................... 103 

GIRls’ INdIvIduAl ResulTs 


1. Sarah Buckler, Heritage .............. 19:34.97 

2. Alyssa Weaver, Pickens ............... 19:44.58 

3. Caitlin Craft, Heritage................. 19:46.81 

4. Savannah Rice, Pickens............... 19:56.06 

5. Bekah Houston, Dalton .............. 19:58.22 

6. Hannah Saylor, River Ridge 20:13.65 

10. Kali Kimball, River Ridge ............ 20:25.63 

18. Darian Kent, River Ridge............. 21:41.76 

24. Avery Blackmon, River Ridge ...... 22:26.34 

33. Liza Jamison, River Ridge ........... 23:32.13 

42. Natalie Gomez, River Ridge ........ 24:22.15 

43. Cindy Chen, River Ridge ............. 24:22.68 

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saturday, November 2, 2012 

Boling Park, Canton 

Boys’ TeAm sCoRes 

1. Walton.................................................. 63 

2. Etowah ...........................................68 

3. Milton .................................................. 70 

4. Wheeler ................................................ 77 

5. Woodstock ...................................134 

8. Cherokee ......................................185 

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Boys’ INdIvIduAl ResulTs 


1. Kenan Farmer, Jr., Walton ............ 15:45.09 

2. Nathan Riech, Sr., Milton ............ 15:54.51 

3. Ryan Peck, So., Wheeler .............. 15:57.12 

4. J.C. Cornett, Sr., Wood .........16:00.61 

5. Alex Guillaume, Sr., Lassiter........ 16:04.76 

6. Owen Bailey, So., Wood .......16:08.27 

11. Michael Perona, So., Etowah ...... 16:44.83 

12. Justin Brown, Sr., Etowah ........... 16:51.54 

14. Blake Beavers, Fr., Etowah .......... 16:52.26 

15. Sam Donley, Fr., Etowah ............. 16:52.75 

16. Brian Matthews, So., Etowah ..... 16:55.41 

23. Ross Gudger, Jr., Etowah............. 17:10.21 

27. Sam Harp, So., Cherokee ............ 17:21.64 

30. Steven Driscoll, Jr., Cherokee ...... 17:31.65 

34. Joe Bennett, Jr., Etowah.............. 17:48.78 

35. Ryan Norrell, Sr., Woodstock ....... 17:49.46 

40. Caleb Bowlick, Sr., Cherokee ...... 18:01.95 

42. Hunter Jones, Sr., Cherokee ........ 18:09.68 

44. Marley Kreps, Sr., Woodstock ...... 18:14.07 

45. Corey Champion, Fr., Woodstock 18:14.82 

46. Dallin Stevens, Sr., Cherokee ....... 18:15.20 

49. Hayden Venable, Jr., Woodstock . 18:20.72 

51. Zack Driscoll, So., Cherokee ........ 18:35.92 

53. Corey Parker, So., Cherokee ........ 18:37.39 

55. Ethan Woodyard, Sr., Woodstock 19:02.01 

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GIRls’ TeAm sCoRes 

1. Walton.................................................. 32 

2. Milton .................................................. 68 

3. Roswell................................................. 83 

4. Etowah .........................................115 

6. Woodstock ...................................119 

7. Cherokee ......................................221 

GIRls’ INdIvIduAl ResulTs 


1. Annie Kelly, Sr., Milton ................ 18:20.74 

2. Alexa Womack, Sr., Walton ......... 18:30.26 

3. Peyton Thomas, Sr., Roswell ........ 18:38.16 

4. Marcie Merriman, Sr., Lassiter .... 18:42.24 

5. Morgan Ainslie, Sr., Lassiter ........ 18:56.41 

6. Avery Bussjager, So., Walton ....... 18:57.23 

10. Morgan O’Toole, Jr., Wood ... 19:46.08 

12. Shelby Rensel, Fr., Etowah .......... 19:52.54 

16. Kyla Resnick, Fr., Etowah ............ 19:59.94 

17. Kingsley Green, So., Etowah ....... 20:03.74 

19. Keaton Wallace, Sr., Woodstock .. 20:04.60 

21. Caitlyn Farrell, So., Cherokee ...... 20:13.17 

29. Rachel Steppe, Jr., Woodstock .... 20:52.28 

30. Taylor Poole, Fr., Woodstock........ 21:03.08 

31. Makensie Block, Sr., Woodstock . 21:05.47 

33. Julia Turbyfield, Fr., Etowah......... 21:11.63 

36. Savannah Wood, Jr., Woodstock . 21:20.39 

37. Schyler Folsom, Jr., Etowah ......... 21:23.81 

38. Finley Billings, So., Etowah ......... 21:26.90 

41. Eva Blais, Sr., Woodstock ............ 21:50.44 

42. Kaitlyn Dorsey, Fr., Etowah ......... 21:54.83 

47. Ellie Sanders, Jr., Cherokee ......... 22:14.71 

50. Shayla Korn, Jr., Cherokee ........... 23:29.51 

51. Kelsey Costa, Sr., Cherokee ......... 23:53.32 

52. Zoe Callaro, So., Cherokee .......... 23:53.46 

53. Erin Missroon, Sr., Cherokee ....... 24:29.76 

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in the 63-runner field. 

Joining Mayes in scoring for 

the River Ridge boys (81), who 

trailed Dalton (59), Pickens (61) 

and Northwest Whitfield (74), 

were Nathan Trottier (17:59.03, 

14th), Macaulay Vanhoose 

(18:03.24, 17th), Timothy Hooper 

(18:17.60, 21st) and Tyler Butcher 

(18:31.16, 28th). 

The GHSA State Cross Country 

Championships begin at 8:30 a.m. 

on Saturday, starting with the 

Class AAAA boys and followed by 

the AAAA girls at 9:15 a.m. After 

the AA meets (10 a.m./10:45 a.m.), 

Etowah and Woodstock runners 

will take the field for the Class 

AAAAAA events (boys - 11:30 

a.m., girls - 12:15 p.m.), and the 

Sequoyah boys and Creekview 

girls and boys will compete in the 

Class AAAAA championships at 

1 p.m. (boys) and 1:45 p.m. (girls). 

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cherokee Business 

November 7, 2012 the cherokee ledger-News 19 

Market focuses on locally grown, made products 

By Jessica Wagner 


Walking through the door of 

Cherokee Market, the aroma of 

strawberries, tomatoes, onions 

and fresh greens lingers in 

the air, creating a tantalizing 

mixture. 

The decor takes customers 

back to a time when locally 

grown produce, grain-fed beef 

and mason-jarred jams were 

in every household, and this 

Saturday the public is welcome 

to try a plethora of produce at 

no charge during the Taste of 

Cherokee Market. 

“Anything you want to try, 

just come in and try,” Cherokee 

Market owner Lisa Meyer said. 

Meyer opened Cherokee Market, 

located at 4864 Cumming 

Hwy. in Canton, three years ago 

after the death of her father 

brought her back to the area. 

“I was living in the Florida 

Keys and had a produce market. 

My husband died, and my father 

in Atlanta got sick and died. 

While I was here with my father, 

this building became available. 

It was a sign,” she said. “Cherokee 

Market started from a sad 

story, but it has a happy ending.” 

Meyer said her passion for 

produce stems from childhood. 

Special event to highlight delicious georgia products, produce 

“I grew up with 14 restaurants 

of country food all over 

the state,” she said. “I’ve always 

loved the produce, and I want to 

go back to eating healthy.” 

Meyer said when she opened 

the doors to the fresh produce 

market, there were only two 

tables outside, and a portion of 

the roof was caving in — a true 

disaster zone. 

Hard work and dedication, 

however, paid off for Meyer, as 

she transformed a once dilapidated 

building into a booming 

farmers market, fully stocked 

with fruits, vegetables, jarred 

jams and sauces, and butter 

churned by the Amish. 

“I 100 percent guarantee everything 

I sell,” she said. “If I can’t 

sell it, I feed it to the cow, Elsie, 

in the back,” she said. “I just 

started feeding her one day, and 

we bonded. When we close in the 

winter, people tell me that she 

comes around and looks for me.” 

While Elsie sometimes indulges 

in extremely bruised or 

rotten produce, Meyer said her 

farm fresh fruits and vegetables 

last longer than grocery store 

produce. 

Christina Fain, a customer, 

agreed. 

See Market, Page 21 

Jessica Wagner | Ledger-neWs 

Cherokee Market owner Lisa Meyer is getting ready to host a Taste of Cherokee Market event this Saturday, 

Nov. 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

A second chance: stores help people save and make money 

Local women make discarded home items 

someone else’s treasure 

By Janet Pelletier 


In more than two years time, women-owned consignment store The White Picket 

Fence has built a following of dedicated customers. 

Nancy Weber, who started the business more than two-and-a-half years ago after 

moving to Georgia 

from Florida as an 

interior designer by 

trade, decided consignment 

was a good route 

to go considering the 

current economy. 

“With the economy, 

I just thought it would 

be better to move away 

from interior design, 

and I’m an avid thrifter 

and consigner,” she 

said. “I love consignment 

because you’re 

recycling people’s 

things, and you can get 

such neat things that 

they don’t make anymore. 

I also thought 

it was helpful for the 

economy because 

rather than helping 

a big corporation, 

you’re helping people 

that really need it.” 

And if it seems like 

consignment stores 

are on the increase, 

Weber said that’s because 

people are looking 

for quality, but 

may not have the big 

pocketbook to pay for it. 

Janet PeLLetier | Ledger-neWs 

Nancy Weber, front, and her business partner Amy Frazer, 

are seen in one of the rooms of their business, The White 

Picket Fence in Canton, which sells consignment home items, 

including several pieces that are handpainted by Frazer. The 

store is located on Ga. 20 in Canton, which Weber said was 

a very welcoming community when she opened the store. 

“To me, my motto is why throw away good money?” she said. “I’ve always been a 

shopper like that, it makes my home more unique.” 

See White Picket Fence, Page 20 

By Janet Pelletier 


New shop aims to ‘show off’ gently used 

baby items 

Woodstock resident Samantha Krumwiede just had her fourth child a few weeks ago. 

It’s fair to say she’s been through her share of baby-related items. 

This past summer, she and her husband, Tom, decided to open a business that would cater 

to parents like themselves 

who were looking to buy and 

sell everything from strollers 

to car seats to playpens, 

infant bedding and clothing. 

Consignment store Show 

Me Off Again opened in 

late July in a historic home 

in downtown Woodstock at 

8926 Main St. 

On any given day (they’re 

open Monday through Saturday), 

you can see rows of 

strollers, high chairs and the 

like splayed out in the parking 

lot that fronts her store, 

a visual advertisement to 

passersby the array of baby 

equipment she has for sale. 

“We just had our fourth 

baby, so we kind of wanted 

to open up our own business 

so we could stop working for 

somebody else and spend 

Janet PeLLetier | Ledger-neWs 

Samantha Krumwiede and her husband, Tom, stand out front 

of their new consignment store Show Me Off Again, located 

in downtown Woodstock. Krumwiede said she decided to 

open the business because many parents are looking for 

used items, considering the high prices of baby gear, which 

is the store’s bread and butter. 

more time with the kids,” she 

said. 

“It’s just something I’ve 

always wanted to do — open 

up a consignment store — 

because with my kids, I’ve 

never bought them new stuff. 

I buy them used stuff, so it 

kind of gave me the idea 

of something we could do. Everybody needs it, and the prices are so high now for new 

baby stuff.” 

Krumwiede said the response over the last few months she’s been open has been good. 

See ShoW Me oFF again, Page 20

20 the cherokee ledger-news Business november 7, 2012 

SHOW ME 

OFF AGAIN: 

FROM PAGE 19 

“We’re doing really well for 

only being open for four 

months,” she said. 

While baby gear is the most 

prominent merchandise 

she sells, Krumwiede said 

Show Me Off Again also sells 

children’s clothing, women’s 

clothing, and even accepts 

men’s clothing. 

“Sometimes we don’t even 

get an item posted online before 

it sells,” she said of the 

popularity of baby items. 

Since the store is consignment, 

the seller receives 

50 percent of what the item 

sells for, while the store 

receives the other 50 percent. 

Krumwiede said they currently 

have about 100 consigners, 

who she said in-turn often 

become customers themselves 

buying merchandise. 

No appointments are required 

to be a consigner. 

For more information, call 

the store at (770) 313-3313. 

From StaFF reportS 

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State, county jobless rates drop 

Both the state and county unemployment 

rates have dropped again, according to 

statistics recently released by the Georgia 

Department of Labor. 

The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment 

rate dropped to 9 percent in September, 

down two-tenths of a percentage point from 

9.2 percent August. 

“The unemployment rate dropped in 

September because Georgia had the fewest 

new claims for unemployment insurance 

benefits in five years, since before the start 

of the Great Recession,” said State Labor 

Commissioner Mark Butler. 

The state unemployment rate was 9.8 percent 

in September 2011. 

Cherokee County’s unemployment rate now 

stands at 6.8 percent, down two percentage 

points from the August unemployment rate 

of 7 percent. The county’s jobless rate was 

8.1 percent last September. 

On the state level, the number of initial 

claims in September declined to 39,564, down 

by 6,161 from 45,725 in August — the fewest 

since 32,139 were filed in September 2007. 

Most of the decline came in administrative 

and support services, retail trade, health care 

and social assistance, educational services, 

Map provided By the GdoL 

Cherokee County’s unemployment rate 

dropped in September, to 6.8 percent. The 

counties in yellow denotes a jobless rate of less 

than 8.6 percent; the green indicates at rate of 

8.6 percent to 10.9 percent. 

and accommodations and food services. 

While the state lost 400 jobs from August to 

September, it actually gained 61,800 jobs since 

the 3.87 million in September of 2011, climbing 

to 3.94 million. The growth sectors were 

professional and business services, up 23,500; 

trade, transportation and warehousing, up 

FROM PAGE 19 

“When you shop consignment, 

you get a lot of nice wood pieces, 

where if you go to other stores, all 

that’s MDF (engineered wood), 

and they’re charging more than 

what we’re charging,” Weber said. 

She said the popularity of TV 

shows like “Storage Wars” also 

pique people’s interest in finding 

a hidden treasure type of item. 

The White Picket Fence is located 

at 3592 Cumming Hwy. (Ga. 

20) in Canton, and Weber said 

business was “gangbusters” in 

the beginning. 

“They’ve really 

embraced 

me in the community 

here, 

and this stretch 

of area here on 

(Ga.) 20 that I’m 

in, there’s really 

no consignment, 

WHITE PICKET FENCE: 

so people were ecstatic about it.” 

Through her time in operation, 

Weber said she’s changed a 

few things. She used to consign 

clothes in year one, but when that 

didn’t prove to sell well, she decided 

to stick to what has become the 

base of the business, items for the 

home. The economy has resulted 

in unpredictable sales at times, 

she said. 

“Lately, with the economy as 

tough as it is, it has gone up and 

down, but I’ve talked with other 

consignment stores, and it’s the 

same thing as far as every month 

23,100; education and health care, up 13,000; 

leisure and hospitality, up 9,100; manufacturing, 

up 8,700; and technology, up 1,100. 

“We’re continuing to see gains in manufacturing, 

and a lot of the credit for that goes 

to the great job the state’s Department of 

Economic Development and Gov. Nathan 

Deal have been doing, not only in attracting 

new manufacturers, but helping to hold on 

to the ones that we have,” Butler said. “Last 

month’s gain in manufacturing jobs was 

the largest over-the-month gain that we’ve 

seen for this time period since 1994.” The 

number of manufacturing jobs from August 

to September grew 1,900. The August to 

September growth in 1994 was 2,000. 

Another positive sign, the GDOL says, is 

the growth in Georgia’s labor force, which 

climbed to 4.78 million in September, up by 

18,126, or four-tenths of a percentage point, 

from 4.76 million in August. The state’s workforce 

totaled 4.73 million in September 2011. 

The number of long-term unemployed workers 

declined for the fifth consecutive month, 

dropping 8,400 from August to 208,800 in September, 

the fewest since 204,700 were recorded 

in March 2010. The long-term unemployed, 

those out of work for more than 26 weeks, 

make up 48.6 percent of those unemployed in 

Georgia, the lowest percent in two years. 

‘They’ve really embraced 

me in the community here.’ 

Nancy Weber 

Co-owner, White Picket Fence 

varies,” she said. “I recently took 

on a partner two months ago. 

Her name is Amy Frazer.” 

Frazer paints some of the furniture, 

specializing in shabby chic 

items, which have become popular 

with customers. 

With 400 consigners, Weber said 

she’s thankful for their loyalty; 

when she first opened, she had 

just five. Those wishing to sell 

their wares receive 50 percent of 

the sale amount, while the business 

receives the other 50 percent. 

Operating out 

of an 85-year-old 

house, Weber 

said she always 

knew that’s the 

type of place she 

was meant to 

be, not in a strip 

mall. 

“During the 

winter, we bake cookies and have 

coffee, so it smells delicious,” she 

said. “We have two floors, we use 

the basement now, too. People love 

when they come in and get that 

warm, fuzzy feeling.” 

Items for sale include furniture, 

lamps, rugs, pictures and other 

home-related knick-knacks. 

“We take gently used items; 

we look everything over,” Weber 

said. “We don’t take anything 

with spots or stains, tears — 

nothing that smells like smoke.” 


(770) 720-1334.

November 7, 2012 Business the cherokee ledger-News 21 

FROM PAGE 19 

“When I buy my strawberries from (a 

grocery store chain), they have fuzz on 

them in two days,” Fain said. “When I buy 

them from Cherokee Market, they last a 

week without fuzz.” 

Meyer said this is because she only buys 

quality. 

“I can buy grocery store produce all day 

long, but my customers 

won’t come 

back,” she said. “If 

it’s not 100 percent, 

it goes to Elsie. 

When I go into the 

grocery store, I just 

laugh that people 

pay money for that.” 

Meyer said she is 

able to guarantee 

her products, as she 

handpicks the selection 

every day at the 

Atlanta Farmers 

Market. In coming 

weeks, Meyer said 

vine ripe tomatoes 

would arrive from 

Florida, which, she 

added, will knock 

the socks off her 

customers. 

“I am very picky 

when I go down to 

the Atlanta Farmers Market, and they 

know me there. If there is something that 

I can’t 100 percent guarantee, they tell 

me not to bother,” she said. “And if I see 

something going into the truck that isn’t 

right, I tell them to take it off.” 

In addition to fresh fruits and vegetables, 

Cherokee Market offers bottled hot sauces, 

pickled products, boiled peanuts and 

old-fashioned bottled soda. If Meyer doesn’t 

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sell it, she said could obtain it. She also has 

free sweet tea and candy for customer’s 

children seven days a week, with varied 

hours of operation. 

Whether stopping in the produce store 

for the first time or earning the title of a 

regular, there is something for everyone, 

and on Nov. 10, market-goers are invited to 

taste the products 

before purchasing 

during the Taste of 

Cherokee Market 

event. 

“Since we aren’t 

busy around 

Thanksgiving, I 

was trying to let 

people come in 

and taste the produce,” 

she said. “I 

just want to get our 

name out there. I 

couldn’t even af- 


Linda Weaver, an employee at Cherokee Market, 

restocks the tomatoes. Cherokee Market 

owner, Lisa Meyer, said she travels down to 

the Atlanta Farmers Market daily to get fresh 

produce, which she said she guarantees 100 

percent. 

ford a sign three 

years ago.” 

Jarred jams, 

sauces and pickled 

products also will 

be available for 

tasting. 

Taste of Cherokee 

Market will 

begin at 11 a.m. 

this Saturday and ends at 4 p.m.; there is no 

admission or cost to taste. 

Cherokee Market typically is closed in 

the wintertime; however, Meyer said the 

Ga. 20 produce stand would sell Christmas 

trees in coming weeks. 

“All my trees are in fresh water. I don’t let 

them dry out,” she said. 

The market accepts credit cards and EBT 

(Electronic Benefit Transfer). 

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MARKET: Meyer plans to sell Christmas trees in coming weeks 


Lisa Meyer opened Cherokee Market, located at 4864 Cumming Hwy., three years ago in 

order to provide fresh, organic and healthy food options to local residents. This Saturday, 

she will host a Taste of Cherokee Market event to allow patrons the opportunity to taste 

her produce.

22 the cherokee ledger-news Business november 7, 2012 

New pediatrics office 

opens in Holly Springs 

Northside Cherokee Pediatrics 

and Dr. Jamie Rollins has a 

new location in Holly Springs. 

The medical practice provides 

high quality, compassionate and 

comprehensive medical care for 

patients from birth 

to 18 years of age, 

according to a press 

release issued by 

Northside. 

“As a mother of 

two, I feel that I un- 

derstand the concerns 

that many Rollins 

of the parents of 

my patients have,” said Rollins. 

“And as a physician, I want to 

offer the quality one-on-one 

care they demand to keep their 

children happy and healthy.” 

Board-certified in pediatrics, 

Rollins provides attentive, complete 

care to children in every 

stage of development — from in- 

fancy to adolescence, with special 

interests and training in prenatal 

and neonatal care, breastfeeding, 

developmental issues and behavioral 

disorders such as Attention 

Deficit Disorder. She, along with 

her staff, offers patients short 

wait times, same-day appointments 

and personalized care at a 

location convenient for parents’ 

busy lifestyles. The practice is 

committed to providing timely 

feedback and reports to patients. 

Exams are completed in the office 

and tests results are usually 

available the next day. 

Northside Cherokee Pediatrics 

is located at 684 Sixes Road, 

Suite 220, in Holly Springs. Free 

parking is available. For more 

information, call (678) 388-5485. 

Morrissey joins Cherokee 

Bank 

Dale Morrissey has chosen to 

join Cherokee Bank. 

Morrissey said, “Being a 

community banker has always 

been dear to my heart.” 

She was formerly with First 

Cherokee State Bank, which is 

now a part of the branch network 

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of Community and Southern 

Bank. 

Dennis Burnette, president 

and CEO of Cherokee Bank, said, 

“This is a huge opportunity for 

us. With Ms. Morrissey, we welcome 

those personal, family and 

small business customers who 

wish to continue to bank locally. 

It’s a big deal that Dale Morrissey 

will be here to provide the hightouch, 

personalized customer 

service to which her customers 

have been accustomed.” 

Cherokee Bank is the only 

bank headquartered in Cherokee 

County. 

The bank has two offices 

in Canton and an office in 

Woodstock. Cherokee Banking 

Company (CHKJ) trades on the 

OTC market. Investors can find 

Real-Time quotes and market 

information for the company 

on www.otcmarkets.com. 

Lanier earns national 

designation 

Local Realtor Sonya Lanier 

was awarded the Graduate Real- 

tor Institute designation by the 

Georgia and National Association 

of Realtors. Lanier, of ERA 

Sunrise Realty, joins other top 

producers in the residential real 

estate industry who hold the GRI 

designation across the country. 

Lanier completed the ninetyhour 

curriculum required 

to achieve the designation 

by attending an 

intensive series of 

instruction covering 

a variety of subjects 

including contract 

law, professional 

standards, sales and 

marketing, finance 

and risk reduction. 

The GRI designation 

sets the individuals 

who have attained it apart 

from other practitioners because 

it indicates to the public that the 

individuals have obtained a professional 

education foundation 

on which to base the services 

they provide, and that they are 

members of the National Association 

of Realtors and abide by 

its code of ethics. 

Parkes named VP for 

mortgage company 

Woodstock resident Gary 

Parkes recently was hired as vice 

president of Mortgage Lending 

for Guaranteed Rate mortgage 

company. Guaranteed Rate has 

provided more $35 billion in 

home loans since they began in 

2000 and is licensed 

in 47 states. 

Parkes will continue 

to help people with 

their home financing 

needs in this new 

position. He was a 

past Top 25 Producer 

Lanier as determined by Parkes 

the Georgia Association 

of Mortgage 

Brokers and has been an on-air 

guest on CNN. Parkes has lived 

in Woodstock for the past 15 

years with his wife, Stacie, and 

his two daughters. He is an active 

volunteer at Carmel Elementary 

School and Woodstock Middle 

School. Parkes can be reached 

at gary.parkes@guaranteedrate. 

com or at (404) 936-5601.

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BLOOD DRIVES 

• Hillside UMC, 4474 Towne Lake 

Pkwy., Woodstock, will host a 

Red Cross Blood Drive in the 

Fellowship Hall on Tuesday, 

Nov. 20, from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30. 

About 300 blood drives across 

the country had to be canceled 

because of the superstorm, leaving 

a shortfall of almost 9,000 

units, according to the Red Cross. 

SPECIAL EVENTS 

• A free series of book discussions 

on the Civil War will be held at 

Reinhardt University this fall. 

Discussions about “Making Sense 

of the American Civil War,” a 

five-part reading and discussion 

series being held across the 

U.S. to commemorate the 150th 

anniversary of the Civil War, will 

be held by Reinhardt History 

Professor Kenneth Wheeler 

and Kennesaw State University 

professor Dr. David Parker. The 

next session is Nov. 13, at 7 p.m., 

in the Reinhardt Room of the G. 

Cecil Pruett Family YMCA, 151 

Waleska St., Canton. For more 

information, call (770) 720-5526 

or go to www.reinhardt.edu. 

• Cherokee Charter Academy 

is hosting its second annual 

Holiday Mart on Nov. 10, 

from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is 

accepting applications for 

vendors. Send an e-mail to 

holidaymart@live.com to 

request an application. 

• The Ball Ground Business 

Association is hosting a Historic 

Tour of Holiday Homes through 

the city’s downtown on Saturday, 

Dec. 1, at 11 a.m., at The 

Wheeler House, 510 Gilmer Ferry 

Road. A horse-drawn wagon 

will transport ticket holders 

along the route, although 

visitors are welcome to drive 

to the homes and park in 

public parking. Tickets are 

$15 in advance or $20 at the 

Wheeler House on the day of 

the tour. Tickets may also be 

purchased online at www.ballgroundbusinessassociation.com. 

HOLIDAY EVENTS 

• Wreaths Across America currently 

is fundraising for its annual 

wreath-laying ceremonies 

at the Georgia National Cemetery. 

The ceremony will be held 

Dec. 15 at 10:30 p.m. For more 

information, go to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org 

or contact 

Evanthe Papastathis at (404) 

210-1442. Donations can be 

mailed to Evanthe Papastathis / 

Wreaths Across America, Georgia 

National Cemetery Location 

Leader, 2000 Airport Road Suite 

125, Atlanta, Ga. 30341. Checks 

should be made payable to 

“Wreaths Across America.” 

• House and Garden Boutique, 

103 Bowles Drive (off Main 

Street in Woodstock) will host a 

Holiday Open House, Nov. 9-10, 

from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For 

more information, call (678) 

494-5800 or e-mail info@houseandgardenboutique.com. 

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• The Cherokee Chamber of 

Commerce will host its Jingle 

Bell Shop Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 

8 p.m., at the Cherokee County 

conference center, 1130 Bluffs 

Pkwy., Canton. For more information, 

go to www.cherokeechamber.com/jinglebellshop.htm. 

• The Canton Optimist Club is 

seeking participants for its 25th 

Annual Christmas Parade on Dec. 

1 at 6 p.m. All types of groups 

are needed and welcome. The 

Optimists also are looking for 

vendors to sell wares at the 

six-hour event (hot chocolate, 

popcorn, cotton candy, arts and 

crafts, sandwiches, etc.). There 

are 12 slots available for familyfriendly 

musical acts. To request 

entry to the music festival, send 

an e-mail to canton_optimist@ 

hotmail.com. To register as a 

parade participant, go to https:// 

sites.google.com/site/cantonoptimistclub/home. 

• Cherokee Recreation & Parks 

Agency is hosting its second annual 

Canes & Cocoa at The Valley 

at JJ Biello Park, Dec. 1, at 10 

a.m. The cost is $5 per child; no 

charge for parents. Children will 

have the opportunity to hunt 

candy canes and other sweet 

treats; make snacks to put out 

for the reindeer Christmas Eve; 

ride the “sleigh” ride; and enjoy 

snacks and hot cocoa. (Hint: A 

very special guest may show up). 

Register by Nov. 28. For more 

information, call (770) 924-7768. 

• Cherokee Thanksgiving, hosted 

by Canton First United Methodist 

Church, now in its 20th year, 

and as the charitable campaign 

ramps up for the season, donations 

from the community are 

being sought for the church to 

purchase turkeys and trimmings. 

The food will be cooked and 

served to needy families, as well 

as delivered. Donations can be 

mailed to Canton First United 

Methodist Church, 930 Lower 

Scott Mill Road, Canton, Ga. 

30144. Volunteers are also being 

sought to help with the event, 

to deliver meals on Thanksgiving 

Day, as well as come from noon 

to 4 p.m. that day to 

help wrap up the event and 

clean up. To volunteer, e-mail 

ctvolunteer2012@gmail.com. 

To deliver meals, e-mail ctdriver2012@gmail.com. 

For more 

information on volunteering, 

call (678) 788-4871. 

• Each year the Cherokee 

Sheriff’s Reserve Unit’s Christmas 

Joy Program helps families, 

children and the elderly receive 

food, toys and basic necessities. 

These items are gathered and 

distributed by the Reserve Unit 

through donation of money 

and food from individuals, 

companies, service organizations 

and schools. In 2011, the unit 

served more than 100 families, 

193 children and 113 elderly. 

Those needing assistance and 

have children in the Cherokee 

County School District, contact 

the school counselors. The forms 

now are available. Those wishing 

to make a donation may make a 

check payable to the Cherokee 

Sheriff’s Reserve Unit and mail 

to Cherokee Sheriff’s Office, 

c/o Reserve Unit, 498 Chattin 

Drive, Canton, Ga. 30115. 

Anyone with questions can 

contact Sgt. John Forkin at 

(678) 333-6345. 

TRAIL OF TEARS 

• The next meeting of the Georgia 

Chapter of the Trail of Tears 

Association is set for Nov. 10, at 

10:30 a.m., at the office of the 

Chattooga County Historical 

Society in the Old Summerville 

Train Depot in Summerville. 

The speaker will be GA TOTA 

member Bill Barker, who will 

talk about his efforts to get 

sites and roads in Chattooga 

County added to the Trail of 

Tears National Historic Trail. The 

meetings are free and open to 

the public. For more information 

about the November meeting, 

contact Leslie Thomas at aeriehollow@ellijay.com 

or by phone 

at (770) 757-0931. 

FUNDRAISERS 

• The Baby & More Thrift Store, 

a division of The HOPE Center, 

a pregnancy crisis center in 

Woodstock, is accepting donations 

of “gently used,” quality 

women’s clothing, shoes and 

accessories, along with baby 

and children’s clothing up to 

size 16, toys, equipment, diapers, 

wipes and formula. Proceeds 

from thrift store sales benefit 

The HOPE Center. Donations 

are accepted Monday through 

Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 

295 Molly Lane, Woodstock. 

Volunteers also are sought. 

Call (770) 517-4450. 

• The Arts Alliance of Georgia 

is hosting a fundraising yard 

sale, Nov. 9-10, from 10 a.m. to 

1 p.m., each day. The sale will 

be held at Studio 101, located 

at 101 Emma Lane, Woodstock 

(behind SuperTarget on Ga. 92). 

There will be furniture, yard 

equipment, tools, art, art 

supplies and more. 

• Cherokee County Fire and 

Emergency Services is hosting “A 

Day for Brotherhood,” an event 

to benefit a local firefighter. The 

motorcycle ride and car show 

will begin at the Riverstone 

Publix parking lot Nov. 10. The 

event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Registration is at 10:30 a.m.; 

kickstands up at 11:30 a.m. The 

ride and car show each costs $20. 

The “Plott Trot” activities include 

a motorcycle ride, car show, 

bounce houses, food, entertainment 

and more. For more information, 

contact Todd Mullins 

at (770) 345-0234 or vtmullins@ 

cherokeega.com or Clay Cloud 

at (678) 448-2533 or chcloud@ 

cherokeega.com. 

• Woodstock Lions Club is sponsoring 

its annual spaghetti dinner 

Nov. 10 at New Victoria Baptist 

Church on Bells Ferry Road in 

Woodstock. The dinner will be 

from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and costs 

$7 for adults and $4 for children. 

There will be a raffle every 30 

minutes. For more information, 

e-mail woodstocklionsclub@ 

gmail.com. Call (770) 906-2958 

to make a reservation. 

• The first Cruzin’ for Christmas, 

sponsored by the Woodstock 

Jaycees, will be held Nov. 10. The 

motorcycle ride will raise money 

for the Jaycees’ Christmas program. 

Sponsorships and/or items 

to be raffled and other prizes 

are desperately needed and appreciated. 

For more information, 

call (678) 995-1140 or e-mail 

budpoker@att.net. 

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Lily 39839 

pet of the week 

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Lily is a 9-month-old Hound mix. She is up-to-date on her shots, has 

been spayed and will be microchipped before adoption. Lily has been 

staying at the Cherokee County Animal Shelter since Sept. 15. Visit her 

in run 613. Adoptions cost $75 for cats and dogs, and include the first 

round of shots, spay/neuter and microchip. The shelter is located on 

Univeter Road, and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through 

Saturday. Call (770) 345-7270.

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SINGING 

• New Hope Baptist Church will 

host a concert Nov. 10, at 6 p.m., 

featuring Don and Annette Williams 

and Open Door. There also 

will be a social with finger foods 

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and desserts. A love offering will 

be taken up for the singers. The 

church is located at 1836 Hickory 

Flat Hwy., Canton. 

MINISTRIES 

• Orange United Methodist 

Church has a new ministry 

designed just for young adults 

in the post high school years. 

Pathfinders meets every Sunday 

at 10 a.m. for a coffee and conversation 

time of fellowship and 

study. Other activities include 

service projects, worship, Bible 

study and recreational activities. 

For more information, contact 

Steve Matta at (404) 788-4464 or 

stevematta@comcast.net. 

• The fifth annual Broken and 

Beautiful conference will be held 

Nov. 10 at the Cherokee County 

Conference Center, 1130 Bluffs 

Pkwy., Canton. The keynote 

speaker will be Shelley Hendrix, 

founder and teacher of Church 

4 Chicks. Registration and flyers 

are available at www.awakenwithjoy.com. 


• The Messiah Java Jam is held the 

second Friday of every month 

at Church of the Messiah, 415 

Charles Cox Drive, Canton. Each 

event will feature two musical 

performers and a musical jam 

afterward where all musician 

attendees are invited to share 

their God-given talents on stage 

with the performers. The event 

will begin at 7 p.m. Coffee and 

tea will be served. Attendees are 

asked to donate $5 with all proceeds 

going toward a different 

charity each month. 

• Hickory Flat Fellowship, located 

at 5301 Hickory Flat Hwy., 

Canton, holds a youth group 

meeting on Wednesdays at 6:30 

p.m. in the blue building. The 

first Saturday of the month, the 

church hosts a men’s breakfast 

at 8 a.m. For more information, 

e-mail Pastor Scott Smith at 

hffellowship@windstream.net. 

• Orange United Methodist 

Church, 220 Orange Circle, 

Canton (Lathemtown), will 

host a fall bazaar Nov. 10, from 

9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The event 

will feature pottery, art work, 

knitting yarns, handmade crafts 

and jewelry, homemade foods, 

barbecue lunch and a bargain 

table. All proceeds support local, 

state and international missions. 


(770) 886-9662. 

• Waleska First Baptist Church, 

10657 Fincher Road, Waleska, is 

hosting a holiday bazaar in the 

Fellowship Hall, Nov. 10, from 

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will gift 

baskets, ornaments, original 

paintings, knitted and crocheted 

items, plus baked goods, candies, 

door prizes and a silent auction. 

Breakfast biscuits and a barbecue 

lunch will be served. For more 


or go to waleskafirstbaptist.org. 

OUTREACH 

• Operation Christmas Child is 

under way. It is a nonprofit outreach 

that sends shoe box gifts, 

filled with school supplies, toys, 

necessity items and a note of encouragement, 

to children overseas 

suffering due to disaster, 

disease, war, terrorism, famine 

or poverty. This year, Operation 

Christmas Child expects to reach 

a milestone with more than 100 

million children receiving shoe 

box gifts since the project began 

in 1993. National Collection 

Week for Operation Christmas 

Child is Nov. 12-19. There are 

several collection sites around 

the Cherokee County area. To 

find the nearest location, visit 

www.samaritanspurse.org/occ. 

• Heritage Presbyterian Church in 

Acworth on Bells Ferry Road, recently 

opened a Clothing Closet 

for people needing clothing in 

the Cobb and Cherokee areas. 

This clothing is given out free 

of charge, and it relies solely on 

donations from parishioners and 

people in the area. Right now, 

the church is in dire need of 

children’s clothing ranging from 

kindergarten age to sixth- or 

seventh-grade. They are asking 

for gently used, clean clothing. 

For the donation address, 

contact the church office at 

(770) 926-3558. The church can 

provide donors with a tax 

donation form. 

• The Pointe Church, Canton, in 

partnership with Faithful Friends 

Church of Vine City, assists with 

a community outreach event 

on the third Saturday of each 

month in the Atlanta neighborhood. 

Clothing, food and 

personal care items are distributed 

— along with love and encouragement 

— to the residents 

of Vine City. To participate or 

donate items or funds to this 

outreach, contact Pastor Russ of 

The Pointe at russ@pointechurch. 

org, or Pastor Carnell of Faithful 

Friends at crt4jesus@yahoo.com. 

The Pointe Church is located 

at 300 Adam Jenkins Memorial 

Pkwy., Suite 112, in Canton. 

For more information, go to 

www.myfriendschurch.com. 

• Love Community Church and 

There’s Hope for the Hungry 

will distribute free boxes of 

food for those in need on the 

first Thursday of each month 

between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in 

the Food Depot parking lot at 

Bells Ferry and Ga. 92. 

• A free community dinner is 

held every third Thursday of 

the month, from 5:30 p.m. to 

7 p.m., at Mt. Zion Church on 

East Cherokee Drive. There also 

is a free food distribution every 

fourth Saturday of the month, 

from 9 a.m. to noon. 

FUNDRAISERS 

• First Woodstock United Methodist 

Church holds a thrift shop 

every Saturday and the second 

and third week of the month 

(Thursday through Saturday), 

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the 

lower level of Latimer Hall, 109 

Towne Lake Pkwy., Woodstock. 


(770) 928-3855. 

• Heritage Baptist Fellowship, 

3615 Reinhardt College Pkwy., 

Waleska, is hosting its 15th 

annual holiday bazaar Nov. 17, 

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will 

be a holiday store, country store, 

auction and concessions. For 

more information, call 

(770) 479-9415. 

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AUDITIONS 

• Together in Harmony is a community 

chorus in south Cherokee 

County seeking new members. 

The goal of Together in 

Harmony is to provide extraordinary 

performances benefitting 

both the singer and community 

with a wide ranging repertoire. 

Open auditions currently are being 

held. For more information 

or to schedule an audition time, 

contact Scott Estep at (404) 483- 

5597 or e-mail artisticdirector@ 

togetherinharmony.net. 

• Elm Street Cultural Arts Village 

will host auditions for “Once 

Upon a Mattress,” Nov. 13-14, 

from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Parts 

are for ages 16 to adult. Be 

prepared to sing one minute of 

a folk song or Broadway show 

tune that shows off your voice. 

Cold readings from the script. 

Schedule an audition online 

at www.elmstreetarts.org. For 

more information, go to the 

Web site or call (678) 494-4251. 

• Cherokee Theatre Company 

will hold auditions for “Crimes 

of the Heart,” at 7 p.m., Nov. 12 

and Nov. 13, at the Canton 

Theatre, 171 Main St., Canton. 


www.cantontheatre.org. 

ON STAGE 

• The Academy Street Theatre 

Group will present “The Best 

Christmas Pageant Ever,” Nov. 

8-9, at 7:30 p.m., in the theater 

at Sequoyah High School. Tickets 

cost $5 at the door. For more information, 

e-mail janice.lewis@ 

cherokee.k12.ga.us. 

• Elm Street Cultural Arts Village 

presents “Alice in Wonderland,” 

Nov. 9 and Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m., 

Nov. 10-11 and Nov. 17-18 at 

2 p.m., at City Center, 8534 Main 

St., Woodstock. Tickets cost $10 

in advance and $12 at the door. 


www.elmstreetarts.org or call 

(678) 494-4251. 

• Cherokee Theatre Company 

presents “The Kid’s Ransom,” 

at the Canton Theatre, Nov. 

9-11. Show times are 8 p.m. 

Friday and Saturday, and 

2:30 p.m. on Sunday. 

• Hickory Flat Dance Academy 

will be performing “The Nutcracker” 

at Elm Street Cultural 

Arts Village in downtown Woodstock, 

following the parade 

festivities Saturday, Dec. 1. The 

show is at 7 p.m. Tickets cost 

$7. For more information, go to 

www.hickoryflatdance.com or 

call (770) 704-7091. 

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LIVE MUSIC 

• An acoustic trio concert, 

featuring Courtney Dickinson, 

Jordan Grassi and Jonathan 

Peyton will be held Nov. 10 at 

7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 online 

or $15 at the door. The concert 

will be held at City Center 

Auditorium, 8534 Main St., 

Woodstock. For more information, 

go to www.elmstreetarts. 

org or call (678) 494-4251. 

• The Woodstock Bluegrass 

Jamboree is held the first 

Saturday of each month at 

Woodstock Community 

Church, 237 Rope Mill Road in 

Woodstock. Concerts will begin 

at 7 p.m. and will feature the 

Jot-’em Down Boys and another 

bluegrass band each month. 

Tickets cost $7 at the door. 

Children 12 and younger are 

free. For more information, 

go to www.wcchurch.org. 


• Cherokee Christian Creative 

Arts Patrons are hosting a fundraising 

event, “An Evening in 

London,” Nov. 10, from 6 p.m. 

to 10 p.m., at Cherokee Christian 

School, 3075 Trickum Road, 

Woodstock. All proceeds from 

the event go to support fine 

arts programs and provide 

scholarships to deserving middle 

and high school students of the 

arts. There will be live music, 

silent auction, photo sittings 

inside a famous London red 

phone booth or with a soldier 

in an authentic Queen’s 

Household Guard uniform, 

and shopping in a recreated 

London street market offering 

art and gift items from local 

artists and vendors. At the 

door, admission is $8 for 

students/seniors and $10 for 

adults. Meals cost $12 the night 

of the event. 

• Arts Alliance of Georgia and 

Studio 101 will offer a free art 

history lecture series, conducted 

by Gabrielle Perry, on the third 

Thursday of every month, from 

7 p.m. to 9 p.m., beginning Nov. 

15. The lectures will be held at 

Studio 101, located at 101 Emma 

Lane, Suite 110, Woodstock. 

For more information, go 

to artsalliancega.org or call 

(404) 509-9702. 

DANCE 

• Cherokee Squares offers 

square dance on Tuesdays, from 

7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Woodstock 

Community Church, 237 Rope 

Mill Road, Woodstock. For more 


or (770) 917-8251. 

• Cherokee Rhythm & Smooth, 

149 Reinhardt College Pkwy., 

hosts a Friday Night Dance 

Party, from 7:30 p.m. to 

10:30 p.m. The cost is $10. A 

beginner level lesson starts at 

7:30 p.m. For more information, 

go to www.crsdance.com or call 

(678) 918-2314. 

Mid-City Pharmacy 

• Prescription Service 

• Diabetic Shoes 

• Major Insurance Cards Accepted 

• Greeting Cards 

• Canton Souvenirs 

We Measure for Support Hose 

Billy Cagle - Registered Pharmacist 

770-479-5533 

196 East Main Street 

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• Zumba classes are held at the 

Union Hill Community Center, 

1780 AJ Land Road, Canton, 

on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. 

The cost is $5 per class. Contact 

Jennifer at (407) 334-5010 for 

more information. 

GALLERY 

• The Cherokee Arts Center 

presents the “Stellaris Art 

Show,” through Nov. 9. Hours 

are Tuesday through Friday, 

11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 

noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free. 

• Studio 121, 121 Brown St., 

Canton, features the work of 

local artists. The gallery’s regular 

hours are Saturdays, from 11 

a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment. 

For more information or 

to schedule class appointments, 

call (770) 479-1790. 

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Board Certified by American Naturopathic Medical Association 

678.493.2597


$9.95* 

Alignment 

Check 

*With Oil Change ($24.95 for Toyota, Lexus & Scion models only & at 

Cherokee County Toyota only – Some models higher). $9.95 only covers 

alignment check and does not include adjustments, if needed. Expires 11/28/12 

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Inspections are provided by 

the Cherokee County Health 

Department. Violations are divided 

into two categories: Risk 

Factors/Public Health Interventions 

(RF/PHI) categories and 

Good Retail Practices (GRP) 

Categories. Grades of C or U will 

require a follow up inspection. 

To contact the health department, 

call (770) 479-0444. 

Arby’s 

12180 Ga. 92, Woodstock 

Inspection date: Oct. 1 

Current score: 100-A 

Previous score: 100-A 

Violations: Three-compartment 

sink 300 ppm QUAT. 

Firehouse subs 

9745 Ga. 92, Suite D, Woodstock 


Current score: 87-B 

Previous score: 88-B 

Violations: Observed chemical 

spray bottle improperly stored 

next to the vegetable prep sink. 

Observed chemical spray bottle 

not labeled. The manager must 

ensure that all chemicals are 

properly labeled and stored 

(repeat). Observed employee 

with no hair restraint. Bell peppers 

improperly washed in the 

dish sink and must wash all 

produce in the vegetable prep 

sink. Observed mop handles 

improperly stored in the mop 

sink. The manager must ensure 

to properly store all equipment 

(repeat). Observed garbage on 

the ground and/or pad around 

Dumpster (repeat). Cloth sanitizer 

200 ppm QUAT; dish sink 

200 ppm QUAT. 

hAppy ChinA 

9550 Main St., Suite 200, 




Previous score: 81-B 

Violations: Observed potentially 

hazardous food (shrimp, corn, 

mushrooms, chicken, and garlic 

and oil mixture) cold held at 

restaurant reports 

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greater than 41 degrees. The 

manager must ensure to hold 

all cold potentially hazardous 

foods at or below 41 degrees. 

The manager corrected and 

relocated food and discarded 

garlic and oil mixture. Observed 

chemical spray bottle 

not labeled. The manager must 

ensure to identify all chemicals 

(repeat). Ice machine dirty and 

needs cleaning. Dish sink dirty 

and must be kept clean. Observed 

attached equipment and 

walk in cooler racks soiled with 

accumulated food debris and 

must be cleaned. Cove base and 

ceiling tile loose along walls and 

need repair (repeat). Grill hood 

needs cleaning. Lights above 

ice machine need shielded or 

covered. Cloth sanitizer 100 

ppm chlorine; cloth sanitizer 

100 ppm chlorine. 

LittLe CAesAr’s pizzA 

12035 Ga. 92, Suite 700, 





Violations: Do not use sanitizer 

at greater than strength recommended 

by manufacturer as this 

can leave toxic residues on surfaces. 

Do not wet stack storage 

bins. Invert/cover pizza boxes 

and inserts to protect food 

contact surface (repeat). Make 

sure bathroom door is fully selfclosing. 

Repair leak in ceiling. 

Replace ceiling tiles that are not 

approved. Walls need repair in 

several places (repeat). Threecompartment 

sink and wipe 

cloth water 400-plus ppm QUAT. 

MountAin roAd 

eLeMentAry sChooL 

615 Mountain Road, Woodstock 




Violations: Do not store dirty 

utensils in with clean ones. 

Dish machine at 166.6 degrees. 

stArbuCks CoFFee 





Violations: Properly display inspection 

report at entrance. 

Post choking poster in patron 

area. Compartment sink and 

wipe cloth water 300 ppm 

QUAT. Dish machine 172.9 

degrees. 

Wendy’s 





Violations: Observed potentially 

hazardous food cold held at 

greater than 41 degrees. All 

foods out of temperature were 

Cost $415 

discarded. Make sure all posted 

inspection reports are the most 

current one. Must post Certified 

Food Safety Manager certification. 

Do not wet stack storage 

bins. Make sure all single service 

articles are covered/inverted. 

Three-compartment sink and 

wipe cloth water 200 ppm 

QUAT. 

pApA John’s #412 

2035 Towne Lake Pkwy., 

Suite 140, Woodstock 




Violations: Use scoops that have 

handles and keep handle out 

of contact with food (repeat). 

Do not wet stack storage bins 

(repeat). Test strips for sanitizer 

must be in good, working condition 

and you must retain scale 

for measuring concentration. 

Trash can in restroom must have 

lid. Three-compartment sink 

200 ppm QUAT. 

teA LeAves & thyMe 

8990 Main St., Woodstock 




Violations: Observed employee 

improperly washing his hands 

in the three-compartment sink. 

The manager corrected and 

hands properly washed in the 

handwashing sink. Observed old 

date mark stickers still on clean 

and stored food containers. 

The manager must remove date 

stickers before cleaning food 

containers. Fans dirty and must 

be kept clean. Dish machine 

168 degrees F. Pl. Cloth sanitizer 

200 ppm QUAT. 

tusCAny 

250 Cinema Way, Woodstock 




Violations: Observed employee 

drinking from an open beverage 

container in a food preparation 

or other restricted area. 

The manager must ensure to 

store all employee items properly. 

No soap or paper towels 

located at bar handwashing 

sink. The manager corrected 

and supplied with soap and paper 

towels. Lasagna and other 

potentially hazardous foods 

improperly stacked too high in 

the flip top cooler. The manager 

corrected and properly stored 

them below the cooling line for 

adequate cold holding. Ice bin 

drain not working properly and 

must be draining at all times to 

avoid possible contamination. 

Observed employee with no 

hair restraint. Cloth sanitizer 

100 ppm chlorine; dish machine 

100 ppm chlorine; dish machine 

at 160 degrees. 

Nov 19-21 & 23 | Dec 26-29 

30 Hours Classroom Including a State Defensive Driving Course 

6 Hours BeHind tHe WHeel with State Licensed Instructors 

Qualifies for: Joshua’s Law Requirements, Insurance Discount, GA. Tax Credit

NOVEMBER 7, 2012 COMMUNITY THE CHEROKEE LEDGER-NEWS 27 


• The Blankets Creek Trail Half 

Marathon and 10K will be held 

Nov. 10, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, 

at Blankets Creek, off Sixes Road 

in Canton. The cost is $45. 


www.mountaingoatadventures. 

com/blanketshalf. The event is 

sponsored by SORBA Woodstock 

and Mountain Goat Adventures 

and will raise funds for SORBA 

to continue the maintenance of 

trails at Blankets Creek. 

CLASSES 

• A free AARP driver safety 

class will be held Nov. 10, from 

9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Cherokee 

County Senior Services, 

1001 Univeter Road, Canton. 

Registration required; call Skip 

Lyman at (770) 720-7411. 

• Hearing Loss Association of 

American NW Metro Atlanta 

Chapter is holding free meeting 

on a new program for hearing 

aids Nov. 11, from 2 p.m. to 

4 p.m., at 223 Arnold Mill Road 

(senior center next to the fire 

station). For more information, 

e-mail 17becky@gmail.com or 

phone/text (404) 557-3172. 

• A free AARP driving class 

will be offered to all veterans 

and their spouses during the 

month of November. For more 

information, call Paul Galanek 

at (770) 591-9347 or e-mail him 

at galanekp@yahoo.com. 

• Northside Hospital offers a 

diabetes prevention class 

every second Tuesday of the 

month, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at 

Northside Hospital-Cherokee’s 

Education Department, Oakside 

Office Park, 130-B Oakside 

Court, Canton. The cost is $35 

and pre-registration is required. 

For more information or to 

register, call (404) 845-5555 

(press 0). To learn more about 

diabetes and watch videos from 

local experts, visit www.northside.com/healthcast. 

• A free couponing class is held at 

BLD’s, 295 Molly Lane, Suite 100, 

Woodstock, the third Thursday 

of every month, from 10 a.m. 

to noon. Bring coupons, filing 

method, scissors and any other 

supplies you use. For more information, 

contact Trina Bids at 

(678) 520-7322. 

• Baby Boomers’ Guide for 

Nutritional Healing classes are 

being held at Resurrection 

Anglican Church, 231 Arnold 

Mill Road, Woodstock, on the 

second Monday of the month 

from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The 

class is free. The Nov. 12 topic 

is migraine headaches. For 

more information, call 

BRAKE SERVICE SPECIAL 

$25 OFF 

PER 

AXLE 

Reg. $ 169 99 Per Axle 

ANY BRAKE SERVICE OVER $100 

Incl: Replace friction material, resurface rotors/ 

drums, inspect brake light sys., check emerg. 

brake, top off all fluids under hood, check tread 

depth on all tires, adjust air pressure to mfr’s specs, 

road test. Must present coupon. Exp 12/31/12. 

CHEROKEE SPOTLIGHT 

■ 

Lynn Morrison at (678) 232-9353. 

GARDENING 

• The Cherokee Master Gardeners 

is holding the following classes 

(Saturday classes are at 10 a.m.; 

Tuesday classes are at 

7 p.m.): Nov. 10, “Fungus 

among us,” at the Hickory Flat 

Library, 2740 E. Cherokee Drive, 

Canton; and Dec. 8, “Crafting 

a natural Christmas wreath,” at 

the senior center, 1001 Univeter 

Road, Canton. To register for a 

seminar, call (770) 479-0418, 

e-mail uge1057@uga.edu or 

fax to (770) 479-0565, or go to 

www.caes.uga.edu/extension/ 

cherokee. Classes with less than 

10 participants the week before 

the event will be cancelled. 

VOLUNTEERS 

• AARP Tax-Aide is seeking 

volunteers in Cherokee County 

to help taxpayers who are 

seeking assistance preparing 

and filing their 2012 tax returns. 

Volunteers do not need to be 

an AARP member or a retiree 

to participate. AARP Tax-Aide 

volunteers should have some 

computer experience, such as 

e-mail and Internet browsing. 

Also needed are volunteers 

who have management experience. 

AARP Tax-Aide volunteers 

receive free IRS-certified tax 

training and are reimbursed 

on a limited basis for qualified 

program-related expenses. They 

help taxpayers at sites all around 

the U.S., while learning new 

skills and giving back to their 

local communities. For more information, 

go to www.aarp.org/ 

tavolunteer8 (English only) 

or call the toll-free number, 

1 (888) 687-2277. Deadline for 

application is Dec. 15. 

• The HOPE Center, a pregnancy 

medical clinic in Woodstock, 

seeks data entry volunteers for 

Tuesday and/or Thursday mornings. 

Fill-in volunteer receptionists 

are also needed. For more 

information, call Deborah 

at (770) 924-0864 or go to 

www.supporthopecenter.com 

• Cherokee Family Violence 

Center offers emergency shelter, 

support groups and life skills 

classes for women and children 

who are victims of domestic 

violence. They need volunteers 

to operate its 24-hour hotline, 

sort donations, assist with 

children activities, serve as a 

receptionist and provide 

transportation for women. 

Call (770) 479-4641 or e-mail 

maggie@cfvc.org 

• Cherokee Youth Works is 

seeking academic volunteers to 

tutor out-of-school youth aged 

16-21, as they work to earn their 

Find 

us on 

COMPUTERIZED 

ALIGNMENT 

$15 OFF 

Reg. $ 64 99 

Incl: Front caster, camber and toe, set to 

manufacturer’s specs, where applicable. 

Reference and compensation, or adjustment 

of thrust line, depending on alignment type. 

Must present coupon. Exp 12/31/12. 

COOLING SYSTEM 

MAINTENANCE 

$20 OFF 

Reg. $ 89 00 

COOLING SYSTEM FLUSH & FILL 

Incl: Flush & fill radiator, pressure test cooling 

system & radiator cap, inspect water pump, 

hoses & belts, tighten clamped connections. 

Must present coupon. Exp 12/31/12. 

$17 

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GEDs. Cherokee Youth Works, 

an initiative of Cherokee FOCUS, 

strives to create productive, 

self-sufficient citizens who 

contribute positively to their 

community. For more information, 

contact Kathy Garrett 

at (770) 345-5483 or kathy@ 

cherokeefocus.org. 

• The Cherokee County Animal 

Shelter, located on Univeter 

Road in Canton, is accepting 

volunteers ages 17 or older 

for a weekday volunteering 

program. Shelter Friends is a 

group of experienced volunteers 

who care greatly for the animals 

of the community. They give 

their time to provide enrichment 

experiences to the animals. The 

shelter provides all necessary 

training and equipment for the 

program. Register in person, or 

e-mail shelterfriends@gmail.com 

for a registration form. 

• The Cherokee County Volunteer 

Aging Council is seeking 

volunteers to assist in efforts to 

benefit the seniors. For more 

information or to volunteer, 

call (678) 269-6677 or visit 

www.vac-cherokeega.org. 

• Volunteers are needed as Court 

Appointed Special Advocates, 

highly-trained volunteers to 

advocate for an abused child in 

foster care. For more information, 

call (770) 345-3274 or visit 

www.casacherokee.org. 

• Woodstock Angels needs 

volunteers to knit, crochet and 

sew for preemie and newborn 

babies for charity. Yarn donations 

accepted. For information, 

call Nancy Roe at (678) 324-6211. 

• Bethany’s Equine and Aquatic 

Therapy Services in Canton 

needs volunteers for a program 

that uses horses to treat children 

with disabilities. Weekly shifts 

of two to three hours are 

needed Monday-Thursday. Call 

(678) 494-6616 or send an e-mail 

to blnugent@bellsouth.net. 

• Georgia Hospice is looking 

for hospice volunteers who 

are interested in visiting 

hospice patients to provide 

encouragement and support 

at the end of life. Volunteers 

will receive training and will 

be able to visit patients in their 

local area. For information, 

contact the Rev. Scott Uzzel, 

chaplain, Georgia Hospice, at 

(404) 861-9025 (cell) or suzzel@ 

voyagerhospicecare.com. 

For the full Spotlight calendar, 

including other volunteer opportunities, 

support groups and civic 

organization meetings, go to 


.95 OIL 

CHANGE 

+ Tax & Environmental Fees. 

Up to 5 Quarts Oil (Most Vehicles) 

We use Castrol GTX 

Motor Oil 

Must present coupon. Diesels & Synthetics 

not included. Exp 12/31/12. 

WALTON PRESS INC. 

Partners in Printing Since 1900 

Proud Printer of 

The Cherokee Ledger-News 

800.354.0235 

www.waltonpress.com 

Non-heatset Web Printing 

Electronic Prepress 

Consulting 

Finishing & Distribution


-WE HAVE MOVED- 

DoNNA C. HALEY, MD, FAAFP 

Family Medicine for the Whole Family 

770.479-8040 

687 Marietta Hwy., Canton (across from Canton Ele. School) 

BEFORE & AFTER MEDICAL SPA 

Laser Hair Removal • Laser Photo Facials • Juvederm ® 

Spider Vein Treatments • Botox ® • Obagi ® 

Prescription Skin Care Products 

770-720-0036 

Karen Lance, REALTOR 

Excellent Customer Service 

Through Knowledge & Hard Work. 

Office: 404-843-2500 Cell: 770-401-4256 

e-mail: karen.lance@metrobrokers.com 

website:www.KarenLance.com 

Harmony on the Lakes Beauty!!! Beautiful 

townhome in sought after lake community 

with lots of amenities!! Oversized Master BR 

& Secondary BR in Like new Condition. Oversized 

Dining Rm; Hardwood Floors; Granite 

Counters; Courtyard in back of home leads 

to Double Garage. Must See!!! $139,900 

Approved Short SAle! Fantastic 

5 Bedroom/ 3 Full Bath Ranch house with 

updated kitchen and finished basement 

with boat door on 2+ Acres in Cherokee 

County. Private Backyard; Two Large 

decks; Newer roof and exterior paint. 

Cul-de-sac lot. $181,000 

Custom built 5 Bedroom/ 3 Bath home on 

2+ acres with extras! Double front porches; 

bedroom suite on main; separate living room; 

granite counters thru out; wood burning fireplace; 

custom cabinets; large secondary bedrooms; 

large deck overlooks private, wooded & 

fenced backyard. Excellent shools. $299,997 

Cherokee County! Beautiful Ranch Home 

Has Rocking Chair Porch on Full Basement; 

Also has 4th Bedroom and Full Bath Upstairs; 

On Quiet, Naturally Wooded Lot; Open 

Floorplan; Seperate Dining Room with View 

to Family Room; Rock Fireplace with Raised 

Stone Hearth; Master Suite. $199,900 

BORN FROM 

1945 TO 1965? 

Americans Born During These Years Have 

THE HIGHEST RATE OF HEPATITIS C 

Talk to your doctor about getting tested. 

Early detection can save lives. 

www.cdc.gov/knowmorehepatitis 

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CAREGIVING 

• The Stephen Ministry, a Christian 

support group for people 

in a crisis, provides one-on-one, 

confidential, same gender 

emotional and spiritual care. Call 

(770) 924-4777, ext. 123 for more 

information. 

SUPPORT GROUPS 

• A community Blind Outreach 

Ministry of Timothy Lutheran 

Church, 556 Arnold Mill Road, 

Woodstock, meets the fourth 

Saturday of each month, from 

noon until 2 p.m., at the church. 

The ministry provides a social 

gathering for blind and visually 

impaired individuals and offers 

an opportunity to meeting others 

who face similar challenges 

and to make new friends. For 

more information or to RSVP, 

contact Lindsay Bridges at 

(404) 576-8817 or timothyblindoutreach@gmail.com. 

• Our Lady of LaSalette Church, 

2941 Sam Nelson Road, offers 

Life after Loss, a grief support 

group, the second and fourth 

Friday of every month at 11 a.m. 

in the church hall. For more information, 

call (770) 479-8923. 

RECOVERY 

• Sixes United Methodist Church, 

8385 Bells Ferry Road, Canton, 

offers “Celebrate Recovery,” a 

Christ-centered recovery program 

for any hurts, habits and 

hangups, which is based on the 

Beatitudes. The group meets 

each Monday beginning at 6:30 

p.m. for fellowship, followed by 

worship at 7 p.m., share groups 

at 8 p.m. and fellowship at 9 

p.m. For more information, call 

(770) 345-7644, e-mail celebraterecovery@sixesumc.org 

or go to 

Medical 

Associates 

770-479-5535 

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www.sixesumc.org/celebraterecovery. 

• Celebrate Recovery, a support 

group ministry at Action Church, 

271 Marietta Road, Canton, 

meets weekly on Friday, starting 

at 6 p.m. with a free dinner; 

the large group meets at 7 p.m.; 

small groups meet at 8 p.m. Coffee 

is served at 9 p.m. Celebrate 

Recovery is a 12-step program 

designed for people dealing 

with chemical, psychological or 

spiritual issues. For more information, 

contact Director Pete 

Thomas at (678) 764-8660 or 

visit actionchurch.tv and click 

on the CR link. 

• FaithPointe Recovery, 5101 Old 

Ga. 5, Canton, hosts Celebrate 

Recovery, a Christ-centered 

recovery program for all hurts, 

hangups and habits. It meets 

every Tuesday night: snacks at 

6:30 p.m.; worship and large 

group 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., small 

group studies 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.; 

and fellowship cafe 9 p.m. to 

9:30 p.m. Contact CR Director 

Ronnie Haynes for more information 

at (770) 833-7143 or visit 

http://cr.faithpointechurch.org or 

faithpointchurch.org. 

FELLOWSHIP GROUPS 

• Moms in Touch is an interdenominational 

ministry made up 

of mothers who gather and pray 

for schools, the children and the 

teachers. For more information, 

visit www.momsintouch.org. 

• MOPS, International (Mothers 

of Preschoolers) meets on the 

second and fourth Mondays of 

the month at Waleska United 

Methodist Church, located on 

the Reinhardt University 

campus. For more information, 

go to www.waleskaumc.com or 

call (404) 493-1683. 

• MOPS at City On A Hill meets 

at City On Hill, 7745 Main St., 

Woodstock. The meeting is the 

second Wednesday of the month 

from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. For 

more information, call Amy 

Powers at (678) 978-1377. 

• Sixes United Methodist Church, 

8385 Bells Ferry Road, Canton, 

now is offering a Mother’s Morning 

Out ministry on Tuesdays, 

from 9 a.m. to noon. MMO is 

for children ages 2 through 4, 

however, ages and days offered 

may be expanded if needed. The 

cost is $25 a day per child or $20 

a day if paid by the month. For 

more information and to register, 

go to www.sixesumc.org or 

call (770) 345-7644. 

• Cherokee Moms of Tots meets 

the second Wednesday of the 

month at the Lake Arrowhead 

Chapel. There are weekly 

activities that can be viewed 

at www.meetup.com/cherokeemots. 

For more information, 

call (770) 272-5388. 

COUNSELING 

• Growing Seasons provides a safe 

place for children ages 5-13 to 

learn appropriate ways to express 

their emotions as they deal 

with the death of a loved one. 

Classes are Wednesday evenings, 

at 6:30 p.m. in rooms A-100 & 

A–101 at First Baptist Church 

Woodstock, 11905 Ga. 92, Woodstock. 

For information, call Kate 

Thompson at (678) 494-2907. 

For the full Religion calendar, go to 

www.ledgernews.com.

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MUSIC 

LESSONS 

Atlanta Vintage Guitars is 

one of Atlanta’s oldest & 

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MUSIC LESSONS for people of all ages. 

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We teach basic theory, intermediate 

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9820 Hwy. 92, Woodstock 

(located between I-575 and Canton Hwy. 5) 

770.433.1891 

Missing Brown & White 

Jack Russell named Hooch. 

Missing since Tuesday, 10/30. 

Has a brown leather collar and 

scars on both sides of his neck. 

Missing from the Lathemtown area. 

Owner is ill and heartbroken. 

Reward being offered! 

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living rm/dining rm, screened porch, 

double carport. $175,000. Call James 

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you have questionable credit or great 

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30102 (Acworth) 

545 Olympic Way 

Buyer: Latruma Sinegal 

File Date: 09/04/12 

Sale Price: $226,900 

235 Bennett Farms Trl 

Buyer: Sherrie Morgan 



30183 (Waleska) 

211 Paul Cagle Dr 

Buyer: eodore Stevens 



 

146 Cedar Woods Trl 

Buyer: Keegan Hennessy 



305 Walnut Hills Xing 

Buyer: David Mathena 



509 Misty Crk 

Buyer: Carol Peterman 



117 Arcadia Park Dr 

Buyer: Benjamin Stephens 



319 Springs Xing 

Buyer: Charles Stevenson 



408 Gray Fox Dr 

Buyer: Gregory Stine 



2007 Gold Leaf Pkwy 

Buyer: Robert Tlumak 



 

201 Kingston Ct 

Buyer: Richard 

Kleinhample 



768 Crescent Cir 

Buyer: Timothy Leljedal 



402 Long Branch Way 

Buyer: Michael Puckett 



 

3396 Trickum Rd 

Buyer: Charles Mongelli 



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4704 Wills Pl 

Buyer: William 

Mongesku 



705 Parkside Dr 

Buyer: Rosalyn Ohman 



415 Waverly Pl 

Buyer: Bridget Ray 



405 Red Coat Ln 

Buyer: Gregory Reece 



 

203 Eagle View Trce 

Buyer: Jerey Seran 



303 Horseshoe Bnd 

Buyer: Lucine Valrie 



108 Bascomb Dr 

Buyer: David Lundeen 



*Information on home sales is based on deeds led with the Cherokee County courthouse. Data is provided by HomeOwner 

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Won’t you adopt me!!

32 the cherokee ledger-news november 7, 2012 

Liquor 

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1Ltr. 

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Canada House 

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Popov 

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Liquor 

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Bacardi 1.75L 

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Pinot Grigio 

Santa Margherita 

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Estancia 

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Rum 

Capt Morgan’s 

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Kris 

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Skyy 

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Gascon Malbec 

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Rodney Strong 

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Luksusowa 

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Ronrico Silver 

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Gibley’s 

Old Crow 

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Patron Silver 750ml 

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Red Varietals 

Kendall-Jackson 

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Pinnacle 

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Canadian Mist 

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Mcmanis 

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Roederer Estates 

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Bourbon & Whiskey 1.75L Scotch 1.75L 

J Lohr 

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Estancia 

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Cooks 

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Coppola Claret 

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La Crema 

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Coppola Cab. 

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Estancia 

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Josh 

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Rex Goliath 

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Lindeman’s 1.5L - All varietals....... 

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Ruskova 

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Scoresby 

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$897 $897 Gin 1.75L 

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Coors Light 30pk ................ 

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Pabst 30pk....................... 

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