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Above, hosts and volunteers get ready for the 7th Annual Chair-ity Event in early December. The event was held at The Dolce in Peachtree City. For the seventh year in a row, community leaders, local artists and volunteers hosted the popular Chair-ity event benefitting the abandoned and abused children who live in the cottages at The Children’s Village at Christian City. Nearly $80,000 was raised through 57 corporate financial sponsorships, a silent auction of in-kind gifts donated by 68 local businesses, and unique chairs painted by 24 talented artists from all over the metro Atlanta area.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/chair-ity-event-brings-community-together-help-abused-children

On Dec. 20, the Fayetteville Police Department held their annual Christmas with the Police program.

The department was able to provide presents to seven children from five families. The presents were bought by officers and detectives who volunteered their time. The officers also wrapped and tagged the items.

The department also gave each family a gift card to Publix to buy Christmas dinner and the Real Life Store donated a gift certificate to each family.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/f%E2%80%99ville-officers-help-out-santa

In terms of commercial vacancies, Fayetteville will end the year in the best shape it has been in for the past five years.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/f%E2%80%99ville%E2%80%99s-commercial-properties-rebound

They say military training is about preparing, drilling, preparing and drilling some more.

Whitewater High School graduate Robert Fetters can testify to that. A senior cadet at West Point, Fetters was assigned temporarily to the Pentagon earlier this summer when he instinctively used his training to save a woman’s life.

Fetters and some friends were at the Metro station in Washington, D.C., having celebrated the last day of their internship with a night on the town, when he heard a scream. A woman had fallen onto the train tracks and her legs had been severed by the train.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/whs-grad-west-point-cadet-saves-life-credits-training

Fayetteville City Councilman Larry Dell has ended a quarter-century in elected office.

Dell in 2012 declined to qualify for his Post 4 seat on the council. Known as a man with a penchant for speaking his mind, Dell recently had his say on a number of the significant issues facing the city during his time in office.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/f%E2%80%99ville%E2%80%99s-dell-reflects-his-quarter-century-governing

The new year in Fayetteville could go off with a bang at the Thursday night meeting of the City Council. The highly-energized topic of restrictions placed on animal shelters and kennels in industrial areas is back on the agenda — but with a new focus the eliminates the previously proposed restrictions.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/f%E2%80%99ville-addresses-barking-dogs-jan-2

Steve Brown’s position in play as critics challenge his leadership

If Commissioner David Barlow can get another vote next week, Commissioner Charles Oddo (in photo at right) will take the chairmanship from Commissioner Steve Brown.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/next-fayette-commission-chairman

The south Atlanta metro’s first new baby of 2014 was born at 1:04 a.m. Jan 1 to Mrs. Irani Ramos at Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville, according to hospital spokesperson Debbie Britt.

Baby boy Ramos weighed in at 8 pounds 4 ounces and measures 19.5 inches in length, Britt said.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2014/congratulations-fayette%E2%80%99s-1st-baby-born-2014

When I was a young adult, I considered myself a fiscal moderate. I believed the conventional wisdom that big businesses were fundamentally corrupt and were given unfair advantages in the marketplace.

Perhaps this was because growing up in the eighties and nineties, the notion of the evils of capitalism were pumped in the culture through movies like “Wall Street” and “The Insider.”

As I have gotten older, and having worked with some of these companies, however, my views of businesses — particularly big businesses — have evolved.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/bonnie-willis/12-31-2013/virtues-american-business

As an almost 25-year resident of Fayette County, I could not be happier about the current Fayette Visioning Initiative taking place right now.

When my husband took a job in Troup County and we needed to move from Decatur, we searched hard for the best environment to raise our young family. We relocated to Peachtree City because of the excellent schools and as a great place to bring up our children. Many people locate to Fayette County for the same reasons.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/dawn-c-oparah/12-31-2013/time-right-new-fayette-vision