Firefighter Robin Lasky with the Peachtree City

Fire Department has completed a Basic Firefighter Module

1 course taught by the Georgia Fire Academy Division of the

Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.

This is a 60-hour course required for all firefighters

in Georgia and provides the foundation for all future training.

The training provides new firefighters with the basic knowledge

and skills that are needed to successfully extinguish a fire,

minimizing the risk of death and reducing property damage.

Classroom instruction is followed by practical

exercises where the students apply the knowledge and skills in a

controlled environment. The majority of the training time is used

in practicing actual firefighting techniques.

Tyrone resident Audrea Vann has been selected to

receive one of Chick-fil-A's $1,000 Leadership Scholarships. She

was nominated by her employer, Doug Mickey, manager of

the Fayetteville Chick-fil-A Dwarf House restaurant, where

more than $80,000 in scholarship money has been awarded

to employees. Vann is a 1997 graduate of Sandy Creek

High School and is pursuing a communications degree at Dallas

Baptist University in Texas.

Among the University of Georgia graduates who

completed requirements for their degrees at the end of

summer quarter, 1998, (and therefore were eligible to participate in

the university's annual commencement exercises June 13,

1998) were the following Fayette County and Coweta

County residents: Ashley Beal l, B.A.; Deborah

Buckle , M.Ed.; Jason Byars , M.Ed.; Kelli

Colwell , B.A.; Karen Davis , M.Ed.; Cathy

Duncan , M.Ed.;

Samuel Dunca n, M.Ed.; Cherie

Gantert , B.A.; Buffy Gray , M.Ed.; Faith

Johnson , B.S.Ed.; Mary Jones , M.Ed.;

Ambrose Kidd III , B.S.; Kristina

Kilgore , B.B.A.; Daniel Kling , B.A.;

Kathleen Lanma n, M.Ed.; Carrie Lewis , B.B.A.;

Harry Marquez , B.A. (Journalism); Jason

Mirabella , B.A. (Journalism); Jeffrey

Patterson , M.Ed.; Scott Perdue , B.B.A.;

Kristena Reid , B.S.; Sandi Sekman ; B.A.;

Amanda Skipper , B.A.; Beverly

Smithson , M.Ed.; Sherry Stout , M.Ed.;

and Amy Talbert , B.A. (Journalism).

Peachtree City resident David Myles has been selected

to receive one of Chick-fil-A's $1,000 Leadership

Scholarships. He was nominated by his employer, Joe Jeffcoat, manager

of the Riverdale Chick-fil-A Dwarf House restaurant, where

more than $59,000 in scholarship money has been awarded

to employees. A 1998 graduate of Riverdale High School,

Myles plans to pursue a biology degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

The following students received their Master of Arts

in Teaching degrees Aug. 9 from Piedmont

College in Demorest, Ga.: Elizabeth

Armstrong , Fayetteville; Bonnie

Gilmore , Fayetteville; and Susan

Hopkins , Brooks.

Berry College student Nika Aull , daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Jerome W. Aull of Peachtree City, was one of three

scholarship recipients honored during the recent Georgia Woman of

the Year Celebration. Aull, a senior majoring in religion and

philosophy and minoring in women's studies and Spanish, was

awarded $300 for her outstanding scholarship and service.

The Georgia Commission on Women asked colleges

and universities who have women's studies programs to nominate

one woman for the scholarship. The criteria included at least a

2.5 grade point average and a major or minor in women's

studies. Also, the nominees must have completed at least one year

of college.

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