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Grand reopening of depot is Saturday Reward still offered for information leading to arrest and conviction of arsonists responsible for March fire

By LEANNE AKIN

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HOSCHTON –The historic Hoschton Depot is getting the finishing touches on the restoration journey the structure had been taking since a March 6 arson fire basically gutted the building.

“We are excited to have her (the depot) up and running,” said Hoschton Mayor Theresa Kenerly. “She is beautiful. Just to drive by and see her still there is heart warming.”

The fire, apparently deliberately set, was reported just before 4:30 a.m. on the day before a Public Safety Day that was to be hosted at the depot. That event, coordinated by city events planner Jennifer Kidd, was moved to the lawn in front of Lawson Funeral Home.

Kidd is also coordinating Saturday’s grand reopening celebration which is incorporated into the June Bug Concert which was already on tap. The ribboncutting ceremony will be held at noon with Parker Young Construction joining with city officials for the celebration.

There will be a presentation of flags from Independence Bank at 12:30 p.m., and at 1 p.m., refreshments will be enjoyed including a cake to be cut and served up and free grilled hot dogs.The Rocking Birds will be performing on the newly-expanded deck beginning at 2 p.m.

When the fire occurred, Mayor Kenerly said it was a sad day but she was reassured that the community would come together once again and breath new life into the landmark which she called the historic heart of Hoschton since it was built in 1883 – and it has.

Emergency units from West Jackson, Jackson Trail, North Jackson and the Jackson County Correctional Institute Fire Departments responded to the early morning fire call, and tte first firefighter on the

scene reported smoke and fire coming from the back side of the structure.

West Jackson Fire Chief Ben Stephens had high accolades for the efforts of firefighters – both in firefighting and identifying some evidence for investigators. While the structure had heavy smoke damage throughout, the good stop made by firefighters kept the fire damage from being more extensive.

The initial investigation suggested the blaze was started on the back deck near a hallway door and an accelerant was used and the State Fire Marshal’s Office launched its probe into the arson in cooperation with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.

While cleanup was still under way, a poster was already out in front of the depot offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the blaze.

Jim Beck and Al Barnett, who serve on the Georgia Arson Council which sponsors the arson hotline and provides rewards, say arson is not a victimless crime.

Although insurance companies may provide money in the aftermath of a fire to help make the victim whole, property losses remain – totaling more than $20 million since 2004. And loss of life can be involved with some cases resulting in the tragic death of a firefighter responding to help protect lives and property.

Arson can be a gateway crime for a juvenile who may be emboldened by the crime with fire and move toward more criminal activity.

Beck and Barnett say the council’s work is paying off with almost 600 rewards representing $1.8 million in payouts to those who provide valuable information in arson cases since 1979. Some rewards have been made to those who wish to remain anonymous. Call the arson hotline at1-800-282-5804 if you have information related to this or other arson fires. See the website at www. georgiaarsoncontrol.com

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During the recent Bluegrass and BBQ event, the first happening at the depot since a March 6 arson fire heavily damaged the historic Hoschton Depot, blue lights from the cruiser of a Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy called attention to the poster reminding of the reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the fire. The emergency vehicle slowed traffic on Highway 53 for those crossing in the crosswalk to get to the Hoschton Heritage Arts Council event.

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By JOSHUA SILAVENT

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More details are trickling out about the search for land to relocate Lanier Technical College, with sites now narrowed to six choices within Hall County.

Officials with the school have said the current facilities are outdated and rebuilding at the Oakwood location is unrealistic.

While price is obviously a critical factor in the choice, proximity is just as important, according to those involved in the search, which includes Philip Wilheit, chairman of the Gainesville and Hall County Development Authority, and representatives from the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce and Lanier Tech.

Land with easy access to Interstate 985 and Ga. 365, as well as the fact that Lanier Tech wants to keep its distance from other technical colleges in neighboring counties, has culled the list from more than 20.

Availability of infrastructure, including access to water, sewer and gas, is also a key component of any decision.

The Times has confirmed the location of three of the six sites being considered.

One site being considered is land in the Chestnut Mountain area offered by Doug Magnus, president and founder of Conditioned Air Systems Inc. in Gainesville.

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Remembering Olivia

Emotions were on the sleeves of the family of 9-year-old Olivia Ouimet, who died last November from complications from a bone marrow transplant. The daughter of Chris and Leah Ouimet was diagnosed in February of 2013 with Aplastic Anemia, the disease which Kelly, wife of Jackson County Brevet founder Robert Wilhite, has been battling for 27 years. See more on Page 2B.

It’s farmers market season!

Downtown Jefferson was alive with sights and sounds Saturday morning for the opening day of the Jefferson Farmers Market.

On Friday afternoon, Braselton Town Councilman Tony Funari donned a bright red Braselton apron to cut a watermelon to celebrate the opening of the 2015 season of the Braselton Farmers Market. It is held from 4-7 p.m. off Harrison Street between Frances and Davis streets.

The square in Jefferson is hopping with vendors from 8-11 a.m. on Saturdays and last weekend, Sally Stites and the Sunroom Gang set up in front of Ferranti’s Cakery and entertained with toe-tapping sounds and you could enjoy freshly-made biscuits and strawLeAnne Akin The Paper

Lazy Goat Produce, operated by Jason and Tifant White, offered a selections of preserves, jams and jellies, relishes, salsa, butters and more at the Jefferson Farmers Market.

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berry lemonade, shop for vegetables and peaches, preserves and more including Buffalo Creek Soap Shop products.

Vendors on hand for the kickoff of the Jefferson Farmers Market on June 6 were Phillip and Ali Merk of Merk Farms, Tiffany White with Lazy Goat Produce, Sarah Copeland with Simply Sarah All Natural Products, Delia Buxton of The Back Forty, Kip Holt, Jenni Turley, Linda Newton and Lee Allen Wells.

Participating in upcoming farmers market session will be the Jackson County Arts Council, Jerry Johnson, Walter and Cheryl Pelligrini, Lori Posnansky, Susan Stephenson and Master Gardener Michael Hollenbeck Bowers.

“I have several other farmers interested in participating as their gardens come in so we will have lots of folks before the end of the season,” said Laughinghouse.

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Braselton development code amended

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Mayor Pro Tem Tony Funari and the York family of York Meadows Apiary of Braselton with the melon which was sliced and served to market-goers.

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A few new vendors are also needed.

“Did you know that you can rent a booth for just $5 for any single day you wiA few new vendors are also needed.

“Did you know that you can rent a booth for just $5 for any single day you wish to participate? Perfect for the at home gardener that has too much of one thing right now,” said Laughinhouse. “Or pay just $25 for the whole season and sell when you want. Either way, we’d love to have you.”

Jefferson City Arborist Susan Russell says, “Too many perennials that you really need to go ahead and divide? You got bored and made too many martin bird gourd birdhouses?

Planted more squash than you can store in the freezer? Come get a $5 table for the day and recoup some of your expense. Call Main Street and space will be made available.”

For more information about the Jefferson Farmers Market, call 706367-5714 or email blaughinghouse@ cityofjeffersonga.com At the Braselton Farmers Market in June, a community spotlight is being place on local tourism atrractions and Road Atlanta will bring its pace

car Corvette for the June 12. Road Atlanta will give away prizes to race fans.

Last week’s spotlight was on Mayfield Dairy Farms and Maggie the cow was on hand.

Funari enlisted the help of the York family of York Meadows Apiary of Braselton for a photo opportunity prior to the opening of lsat week’s market. Several vendors were unable to be at the opening day but are slated to return this week.

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The Braselton Town Council members and Mayor Bill Orr have officially accepted recommended amendments to the Braselton Development Code.

The first amendment approved allows a cemetery shall be located on property less than 10 acres.

Braselton Planning Director Kevin Keller said this will be consistent with the state requirements.

The current rule is that a cemetery shall be located on property not less than 20 acres. This is an amendment to section 9.2.5—cemeteries, noncommercial and commercial.

The next section that was approved is to section 8.1, use by district table. There will be a change regarding automobile service, express service and repair as a conditional use in Neighborhood Commercial and General Commercial versus a permitted use. Restaurant and custom service will now be a permitted use in M-D (Manufacturing Distribution) instead of a prohibited use, and boat dealers, miscellaneous motor vehicle dealer and motorcycle sales and service will change to conditional use in General Commercial instead of permitted use. Next, liquor stores will now be considered conditional use in M-D versus a prohibited use. Gift, novelty and souvenir shops will change from prohibited use to permitted use in M-D as opposed to prohibited use, as well as jewelry store, musical instrument store and luggage and leather store. Separate racing track operations from the General Commercial Sports Facility category, which is permitted in a G-C district, will be made a conditional use in G-C, M-D and I-I. “This will just make it a conditional use, to provide a little more oversight,” said Keller.

Amendment to the S.R. 211 overlay district and Highway 53 overlay district will permit internally illuminated signage. The current standard is for all permanent signs to be lit via external lights. Keller said there have been a lot of variance requests that have gone before the board of appeals, and these overlay districts have all been approved.

“These are signs with lightbulbs inside of them, so they can be seen at night,” said Keller. “Of course, the downtown overlay district has the requirement for externally lit signs.That will stay in place since it has a much different character than Highway 211 -- esthetic.”

The next article related to signage deals directly with temporary advertising devices. Currently, banners, streamers, pennants, balloons and similar temporary advertising devices shall be permitted on private property during the grand opening of a business, no more than five days prior to opening and no longer than 30 days after that.

After the grand opening, each business owner will be permitted to utilize such advertising devices on their property for a period not to exceed 30 days in any four month period, with that period being measured from calendar month and day to future calendar month and day. For grand openings and special sales, each lot shall be limited to more than two banners. A permit must be obtained first.

The proposed amendment, which has been approved, is that banners, streamers, pennants, balloons, etc. will be permitted on private property during the grand opening of a business, no more than 30 days prior to opening, and no longer than 30 days after that. Types of temporary signage that fall under section 17.7 are not permitted. For both grand openings and special sales, each business is limited to no more than one temporary advertising device at a time, and it is to be located on the business’s property. A permit must be obtained, but signs for charity, non-profit or government activities may request for exemption.

Exceptions to the rule include allowing aframe/sandwich board signs being used on a daily basis only during business hours. They must be located no further than 50 feet from the building, and should not be placed in public parking areas, drives or sidewalks.

Councilwoman Peggy Slappey made a motion to change the noted 30 feet to 50, and it was approved by all council members.

The other exception states that in the downtown overlay district, daily A-frame/sandwich board type signs may be placed on a public sidewalk only through permission from the town manager.

Signs made of corrugated plaster are prohibited in the downtown overlay district. Temporary permitted signs for properties marketed for sale or lease shall be removed immediately upon sale or lease, and signs for construction projects should be removed when they are completed.

The last approved amendment was the article III—definitions. Definitions were added to the following terms—temporary sign, permanent sign and copy area.

The final item on the agenda, using Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) for road equipment, was approved. Town Manager Jennifer Dees said the town’s Gwinnett SPLOST account balance is a tad over $1 million dollars, and purchasing road equipment will make projects much easier and more efficient rather than calling in contractors. The list includes three different trailers, a dump truck, an asphalt hacking machine, an asphalt vibratory plate machine and various safety equipment.

“I believe that this is equipment that we will be able to use, especially as more repairs come up,” said Dees.

Unlocked vehicles being targeted Jefferson Police Chief Joe Wirthman told the Jefferson City Council during Monday’s work session that a video of a suspect in the rash of vehicle break-ins in subdivisions is posted on Facebook.

While the quality is not very good, Wirthman said it does provide an image for investigators to purse.

Three vehicles on Fountainhead Drive were entered on June 4. A barking dog alerted a homeowner who looked outside to see a dome light on inside one of his three vehicles, all of which were unlocked. A neighbor also reported two unlocked vehicles had also been en-

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tered. Several items from inside one of the cars had apparently been dropped in the front yard when the suspect or suspects fled from the scene.

A purse and phone charger were taken from an unlocked vehicle parked at a Skyline Drive residence on June 4.

An entering auto was reported June 3 on Melvin Drive were two unlocked vehicles were entered. Missing from the ransacked cars were phone chargers, a set of keys, owner’s manuals, and iPod cassette transmitter, a navigation system and

Drive resident. Three unlocked vehicles on Thornhill Circle were also entered on June 3.

A Skyline Drive resident reported a GPS and a diaper bag were missing from vehicles entered on their property on June 3. A neighbor reported a minivan with a taxi service sign in the window was seen around 11 p.m.

A June 6 entering auto was reported June 6 by a Vantage Drive resident.

In a case similar to several reported by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, claims that an officer from another law enforcement

a prescription. Found at the scene were two empty liquor bottles and empty pills bottles including a prescription belonging to another Melvin Drive resident whose car was also entered. Another Melvin Drive resident also reported that two vehicles were entered and a pair of Costa sunglasses and a bottle of Hanae Mori perfume were missing. Taken from another Melvin Street victim was a GPS and an emergency kit. Another Melvin Drive resident reported the theft of a Garmin GPS and a bag but the GPS was located in the yard of a Fountainhead

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Braselton man dies after rescue from Lake Lanier

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Emergency disaster drill focuses on coordination

Communication between hospitals, EMS, law enforcement and district health officials eyed Regional staff

Preparedness in the event of an emergency was the purpose behind the June 2 exercise conducted in south Hall and Gainesville and focused on communication between emergency medical services, local law enforcement, two hospital locations and others working the scenario of two tornadoes touching down in Flowery Branch and Gainesville.

The weather emergency was coming on the heels of a flu pandemic already under way.

The drill was the first full-scale drill for Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton, with the operation in the works since October.

Around 35 to 40 volunteer actors were at the South Hall hospital while in Gainesville, the emergency loading area at Northeast Georgia Medical Center was stuffed to the gills with nurses and doctors assisting fake triage patients in the disaster drill.

“Over the weekend, we already had a flu outbreak,” said Sean Couch, Northeast Georgia Medical Center public relations manager, as he walked through rows of stretchers for fake patients.

Because of the fake pandemic flu, the Gainesville hospital campus already had a high census of fake patients before the storms hit. The fake tornado trauma victims moved through surgery and eventual discharge.

“They went through the entire system. It’s not just hitting the emergency room and then they’re like, ‘OK. Get up. We’re done’,” said Jennifer Davis, emergency preparedness manager for

Northeast Georgia Health System.

“We did get to see today that Braselton really stood up and they took those critical patients and they were able to do surgeries and improvise, because they knew we couldn’t handle as much as we normally can,” Davis said.

In advance of the scenario which involved a drill of response to tornado touchdowns which damaged property and caused death and injuries at Flowery Branch High School and surrounding areas, volunteers were readied to play the part of victims who would be assessed by emergency responders and transported for treatment at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton or other facilities.

More than 50 volunteer actors participated at the Gainesville hospital campus while in moulage, the makeup to appear as if injured. School-age children and adults appeared to be impaled, while others nursed fake broken bones and lacerations.

For the Braselton campus drill, Martin Bett sustained a compound fracture to his lower leg after volunteer coordinators worked their magic to create realistic injuries on the volunteer patients.

Alexia Tatuta and her mother Melanie were also volunteers who victims who were given information about the type of injuries they had so they could communicate with the emergency personnel participating in the drill. Naomi Coroama was among the patients suffering from broken bones.

Once the patients were

made up, they were taken to Flowery Branch High by driver Randall Kersh who made three trips with 10, then seven and then four patients who would be join other players in the scenario. Outside the school building, patients with different levels of injuries were evaluated and then loaded for transport. Some patients came to the hospital by ambulance while others represented the walking wounded who made their way into the Emergency Department.

From the incident command center, orders and information was being disseminated to the emergency crews and the health care providers involved in the scenario preparation.

Arriving in the ED, patients were greeted by staffers who obtained vital information and notified the triage nurse. While the patients waited, they were comforted by chaplains, Father Bob Fessler and Father Tom Mustard, both who live in the Village at Deaton Creek and volunteered on the Gainesville hospital campus before the Braselton hospital opened on April 1.

The drill was the first emergency preparedness exercise held at the new hospital. Both Fessler and Mustard were involved in the Day in the Life scenario training which occurred before the hospital opened its doors to patients. James Dumas, who coordinates the chaplain corps, oversaw the connections made with patients and families.

Fessler and Mustard reassured Chelsea Newberry, who came in with an ankle injury sustained in the tornado, and Rae Chu, who also came into the ED for treat-

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Firefighters checked on victims of the tornado scenario outside Flowery Branch High. ment.

When it was announced that patients were en route to the ED, a nurse rallied other staffers together and said, “Get ready for some teamwork.”

Hall County EMS delivered Mandy Glade to the ED and Dr. Jordan assessed the patient who needed blood after an artery was nearly severed during the tornado’s impact. The operating room was notified to ready for Glade’s arrival.

“The reason we do drills

and exercises is we want to identify areas of improvement in training versus when the real situation occurs,” said Hall County Deputy Fire Chief Chad Black.

For those in the area, however, the drill may seem like a bad memory.

“Some of us who have been here remember back not too many years ago when that exact situation happened in different locations and we had multiple injuries and multiple fatalities in the West Hall area up to North Hall,” Black said.

The tornado incident was in 1998, where 12 people died and caused $15 million in damages.

The communication was key for medical units on the ground, Black said, to know where to route patients affected across Hall County.

“Even though the medical center is a large hospital and a trauma center, they can only treat so many,” he said.

“It’s no good to take a critical patient there that you don’t have doctors and nurses to take care of them.”

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CHURCH NEWS Sharon Baptist Church VBSis hosting Vacation Bible School for ages 3 to sixth grade from 6-8:30 p.m. on June 15-19. This year’s theme is Journey Off the Map. Parents are welcome to come for their own journey.

You can register online at www.sharoncross.com Sharon Baptist Church is located at 1059 Dee Kennedy Road in Auburn.

Call the church at 770867-1107. sss New Beginnings Pentecostal Outreach youth will hold teen camp week June 11-13 for which the May 30 fundraiser car wash was held at Beef O’Brady’s in Jefferson. sss First Baptist Church of Jefferson is beginning a new sermon series “Becoming Real” inspired by the Velveteen Rabbit story. This week is about overcoming our fears.

The FBCJ Preschool is taking applications now for August 2015.

The church food bank is open from 1-3 p.m.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The Connect Run Club will continue to meet on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. during the summer.

Contact the church for more on any of these events. Michael Helms is the Senior Pastor.

The church is located at 246 Washington St., in Jefferson. Visit www. fbcjefferson.org.

sss Hoschton United Methodist Church announces Vacation Bible School will be from 6:308:30 p.m. on July 13-17.

Sunday worship service is at 11 a.m. on June 14.

Sunday school is at 10 a.m. with the children meeting in church classrooms and adults in the fellowship hall.

Homecoming Service will be July 19 with Richard Chewning, District Superintendent, as featured speaker in the 11 a.m. service. Lunch in the fellowship hall will follow the service. sss What will you be doing through June 12 from 9:30 a.m. until noon? A lot of your friends will be at Hamilton Mill Presbyterian Church getting their VBS on.

This year, the theme for Vacation Bible School is “Hometown Nazareth: Where Jesus was a Kid.”During the week, visit with Jesus’ mother Mary every day and learn Jesus’ trade, carpentry. Children will work with beads, textiles and oils and write a little bit of Hebrew. The focus will be on helping kids in Haiti, playing outrageous games, singing joyful songs and enjoying yummy snacks.

The registration fee is $5 per child, maximum $15 per family. To register, go to www.hamiltonmillpc. com sss Northeast Church

in Braselton will host Vacation Bible School from 6-8 p.m. June 22-26 with Journey Off The Map as the theme with missions, snacks, music, recreation and crafts. Isaiah 30:21 is the inspiration: Unknown to Us, Known to Him. Vacation Bible School is free for ages 3 through fifth grade. Family Fun Night will be Friday night.

To register, visit www. mynortheastchurch.com The church is located at 2001 Cherry St., in Braselton. Call 706-6543205 or email admin@ mynortheastchurch.com sss Rather than just providing something for children, Arbor Pointe Church in Hoschton wants to provide something for the whole family this summer. You’re invited to Vacation Family School on June 28, July 12 and July 26. Each night, families will enjoy a meal together and children will grow and learn through games, crafts and Biblical stories. Meanwhile, parents will grow to understand more about building a Christ-centered family environment.

Online registration is available at arborpointe. org/signup.

The church holds weekly worship service is at 10:30 a.m. Adult Sunday School and a youth class are offered before the service; children’s Sunday School and nursery are offered.

New Lifeline service provides peace of mind for U.S. Navy veteran HOMER, Ga. – A Banks County native is just one of many people maintaining their independence thanks to the added safety, confidence and security of a new product offered by Lifeline of Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Lifeline’s new GoSafe service, which was installed in P.G. Caudell’s home earlier this year, is a new mobile emergency medical alert system.

“I am able to spend my time taking care of my 25 acres of land and planning an annual naval ship reunion without worrying,” says Caudell, “I am comforted to know I have the ability to call for help 24 hours a day, with the touch of a button.”

GoSafe is a leading mobile medical alert service that is designed to help provide peace of mind to seniors at home or on the go. Featuring the power of as many as six location technologies, GoSafe is the only mobile personal emergency response system to utilize this hybrid approach to locate seniors in need of assistance in areas where GPS may not be available. Additionally, GoSafe’s built-in AutoAlert fall detection technology can automatically call for help if it detects a fall, providing protection even if the senior is unable to call on their own. The system utilizes an in-home communicator to optimize in-home performance, and the pendant can be charged while worn to provide continuous protection for the wearer.

Caudell was born in 1925 and has lived almost his entire life in Banks County, with the exception of his time spent serving in the Navy. Shortly after being honorably discharged, he married Ruby Roberson in 1947. During the next 10 years, they had three daughters: Carolyn, Debbie and Kathy.

Caudell began working at Johnson & Johnson’s Lumite Division of Chicopee in Cornelia in 1952. He stayed there until the late 1970’s, when he was forced to retire earlier than planned due to back problems from injuries sustained during World War II. After many surgeries, he now has advanced neuropathy in his legs from nerve damage.

Ruby passed away in August 2008, after 62 years of marriage. Caudell lived alone

Navy veteran and Banks County resident P.G. Caudell has peace of mind knowing he can call for help 24 hours a day with Lifeline’s new GoSafe service, a wireless emergency medical alert system. for several years after her passing, but, due to his age and increasing weakness in his legs, his daughters began researching options for a medical alert device so he could get help in an emergency.

Mr. Caudell and his daughters met Dianne Appling, Lifeline coordinator at Northeast Georgia Health System, at a local health fair, where they learned about the Lifeline system.

“We are proud to offer a service that empowers seniors to age safely and independently while providing their families with peace of mind,” says Appling. “By offering GoSafe, we can give seniors the confidence to stay active and on-the-go while keeping them connected to help if they need it.”

For more information about Lifeline services, call 770-219-8899 or visit www. nghs.com/Lifeline.

OBITUARIES Marcio Jose Bono

Died June 5, 2015 Marcio Jose Bono, 26, of Lilburn, died Friday, June 5, 2015, following a courageous battle with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 10, 2015, in the chapel of Memorial Park South Funeral Home with interment following at Memorial Park South Cemetery. Pastor Luis Guillen officiated.

Born Aug. 30, 1988, he was a son of Marcio A. and Marta Bono in Manhattan, N.Y. He was of the Christian faith and a huge sports fan, loving University of Georgia football.

Survivors include his parents, Marcio and Marta Bono of Lilburn; brother, Christian Bono of Florida; and sisters, Alejandra Bono, Andrea Bono and Paola Bono, all of Lilburn.

Memorial Park South Funeral Home, Flowery Branch The Paper, June 11, 2015

Quinn Born

Died June 4, 2015 Quinan “Quinn” Henry Born, 81, died Thursday June 4, 2015.

A devoted husband, father grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, he was the son of the late Curt and Erma Gentry Born. He served 22 years in the United States Air Force and 18 years as the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) commander at Forest Park High School. He was a highly decorated Air Force officer who served his country with pride, confidence and honor.

He served during the Cuban missile crisis and two tours in Vietnam. He received many air medals from his combat tours including three Distinguished Flying Crosses, the highest honor in the Air Force. Quinn will be deeply missed and his legacy will live on forever in the hearts and memories of all who knew him and even those spoke with him for a brief moment in time.

Survivors include his wife, Doris Born; children, Curt (Lynn) Born, Leslie (Mark) Buzzotta and Lisa Born; grandchildren, Lyndsey Cavola (Cameron), Colin Dunlop (Morgan), Chris Born, Katie Born and Garrett Born; and great-grandchildren, Scarlett and Elle Cavola and Hayden Kallem-Born.

Memorial services were held Sunday June 7, 2015, in Smith Memory Chapel.

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Lue Edith Downey

Died June 6, 2015 Lue Edith Downey, 83, of Bethlehem, died Saturday, June 6, 2015.

Survivors include her son, Wayne Downey and wife Carole; granddaughters Kimberly Downey and Katelyn Downey; brother, Burell Higgins and wife Billie Sue; sister, Jewell Henderson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Downey; parents, Elbert and Annie Higgins; son, Jimmy L e e Downey; brothers, Elbert Higgins Downey Jr., Harry Higgins and Franklin Higgins; and sisters, Sarah Smith, Catherine Poole and Virginia Thaxton Funeral services were held Monday, June 8, 2015, in the Lawson Funeral Home Chapel with Apostle Fred Musser and Chaplain Jeff Clegg officiating.

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Bubba Dressler

Died June 7, 2015 Charles “Bubba” William Dressler, 58, of Auburn, died Sunday, June 7, 2015.

He was preceded in death by his father, Harold Dressler; and mother, Joyce Johnson.

Survivors include his sons, Adam Dressler, David Doolittle, Jesse Iler and Johnny Iler; daughters, April Corley and Analisa Dressler, Patricia Doolittle and Lisa Doolittle; sisters, Martha Cobb and husband Paul, Teresa Nash and husband Bobby, Maria Boothe and husband Roger and Mary Holliday; grandchildren, Dracul Charles Marx, Carrie, Kaitlyn, Brodie, Nicholas and Bobby; niece, Emily Sager; nephew, Kyle Holliday; special friends, Heather Doolittle, Eddie and Missy Iler; Erika Wolf, Stacey Calloway and April Gilmer; longtime buddy, Robert Stinson Sr.; and a host of other relatives.

A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 11, 2015, in the Lawson Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Fred Musser officiat-

ing. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the memorial service at the funeral home.

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Joseph Boyd Gentzel

Died June 6, 2015 Joseph Boyd Gentzel, 72 of Jefferson, died Saturday, June 6, 2015.

Born in Dade City, Fla., he was a son of the late George Andrew and Appie Ruth McClung Gentzel. He was a Doctor of Physical Therapy and was a member of the Physical Therapy Association of America.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Bosshardt Gentzel; children, Graeme Gentzel of Jefferson, Grayson and Kathy Gentzel of Dacula, Garrison and Heidi Gentzel of New Berry Park, Calif., Gerrard and Katherine Gentzel of Louisville, Ky., Gayelen and Tiffany Gentzel of Jefferson, Gilianne Gentzel of Athens and George Harrison Gentzel of Seminole, Fla.; and seven grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at a later date.

Evans Funeral Home, Jefferson.

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Cora Hall

Died June 5, 2015 Cora Hall, 80, of Maysville, died Friday, June 5, 2015, at her home.

Survivors include daughters, Virginia Lee Bruce and Cindy Brock, both of Maysville; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sunday, June 7, 2015, at Pleasant Acres Church with the Rev. Eddie Whitting officiating. Burial followed in Jackson Memorial Park.

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Val Griffin Hubbard

Died June 7, 2015 Val Griffin Hubbard, 88, of Hoschton, died Sunday, June 7, 2015.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Aubrey “Don” Hubbard, a U.S. Army veteran who served in World War II and the Korean Conflict; and parents, Jack and Bessie Hulsey.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Don and Beverly Hubbard of Hoschton; grandchildren, Trinkett and Larry Mims

of St. Johns, Fla., and Colin Hubbard and Cameron Hubbard, both of Hoschton,; seven great-grandchildren; and several cousins.

Born April 3, 1927, in Cleveland, she was a graduate of the White County School System in Cleveland.

A homemakers, she was a member of Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church in Dacula.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 12, 2015, in the chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with the Rev. Jason Mincey officiating. Interment will follow in Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday from 11 a.m. until the time of service.

Memorial donations may be made to Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church in Dacula.

Flanigan Funeral Home & Crematory, Buford The Paper, June 11, 2015

Eric Larry Johnson

Died June 8, 2015 Eric Larry Johnson,age 36, of Flowery Branch, died Monday, June 8, 2015.

Memorial services will be hedl at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, 2015 in the chapel of Memorial Park South Funeral Home. The family will receive friends following the service at the funeral home.

Memorial donations may be made to the Ronnie Green Heart Center, 743 Spring Street, Gainesville, GA 30501.

Born April 29, 1979, in Durham, N.C., he was a son of Larry Johnson and Sherian Johnson Hedden. He was of the Baptist faith and was a car salesman for Colonial Buick in Loganville.

Survivors include his mother, Sherian Hedden of Flowery Branch; father and stepmother, Larry and Karen Johnson of Kingman, Ariz.; sisters and brother-inlaw, Christy Hollis of Loganville and Karin and Troy Ihle of Auburn; nieces and nephews, Christopher Hollis, Brittany Hollis, Chad Hunter Hollis, Tanner Ihle, Spencer Ihle and Nathan Ihle; and several cousins.

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Brenda Kay Miller

Died June 7, 2015 Brenda Kay Miller, 59, of Gainesville, died Sunday,

June 7, 2015, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 10, 2015, in the chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Austin and the Rev. Daniel Thompson officiating. Interment followed in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Born April 8, 1956, in Longview, Texas, she was a daughter of the late Henry Thompson and Marjorie Shanks Thompson. She lived in Starkville, Miss., for 20 years before moving to Gainesville. She was a member of Blackshear Place Baptist Church and was also preceded in death by her parents and her son, Alan Miller.

Survivors include her husband, Matt Miller of Gainesville; daughter and son-inlaw, Stephanie and Shannon Gibbs of Braselton; son, Michael Miller of Mooresville, N.C.; brother, Lowell Thompson of Starkville, Miss.; sister, Barbara Welch of Rogers, Texas; grandchildren, Austin Loggins and Madison Gibbs, both of Braselton, and Zack Miller, Kylie Miller and Carson Miller, all of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and great-grandson, Wyatt Miller of Chapel Hill, N.C. Memorial donations are requested to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society at www.nationalmssociety. com.

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Annie Pearl Veal

Died June 2, 2015 Annie Pearl Veal, 76, of Commerce, died Tuesday, June 2, 2015, at Northridge Health and Rehab.

Born in Commerce, she was a daughter of Louise

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Kitchens Snipes of Commerce and the late Ralph Thurston Snipes. She was a member of Ridgeway Baptist Church and was retired from Blue Bell.

Survivors, in addition to her mother, include her daughter, Vickie David of Maysville; son, Todd Veal of Commerce; sisters, Dot Minish and Mary Hill, both of Commerce; brother, Bobby Snipes of Athens; five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Friday, June 5, 2015, at Ridgeway Baptist Church with the Rev. Bill Manus and the Rev. Chris Heath officiating. Interment followed in Jackson Memorial Gardens.

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Kenneth Myron Willis

Died June 2, 2015 Kenneth Myron Willis, 57, of Maysville, died Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Born in Winder, he was a son of Howard Willis of Jefferson and Louise Potts Brown of Maysville. He was a member of Victory Chapel Holiness Church and worked at Commerce Middle School.

Survivors, in addition to his parents, include his wife, Carolyn Ann Smith Willis; daughter, Ashley Baker of Maysville; brother, Don Willis of Maysville; and grandchildren, Lexie Baker, Martin Baker and Jeffrey Baker.

Funeral services were held Friday, June 5, 2015, at Victory Chapel Holiness Church with the Rev. Carolyn Pritchett and the Rev. Matthew Gilbert officiating.

Interment followed in Jackson Memorial Gardens.

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hen my wife and I married 12 years ago, I never gave much thought to weddings in the future.

Our children were teenagers and the notion of one of them getting married seemed far off in the future.

A year ago, the young man who is now my son-inlaw came to see us. He was going to ask our daughter, Beth, to marry him and he wanted our blessing.

That won me over. They had been dating for a while and he treated her kindly.

A few days later, she called us excited that she was going to be a future bride.

Weddings are a big deal, especially if you’re the parents of a young lady. You have to find a date on the calendar that works for everybody. You also have to find a venue.

If your daughter wants to get married next year, you need to be looking for a place to have it. They fill up fast.

When it was time to decide who was going to be in the wedding party, I pretty much assumed I would be sitting on the pew next to her mother. I was, after all, the stepfather. Her father was out of the picture early on and her grandfather filled in. Then, about 19 years ago, her mother and I began dating and later married.

She told me that she wanted me and her grandfather to take her down the aisle. I was flattered.

A couple of movies have been made about fathers of the bride. The story involves the father getting left in the dust by all the hullabaloo surrounding the wedding.

I don’t know if people actually say hullabaloo anymore, but it was just fun to write it.

I was involved in hauling a lot of stuff, like ferns.

We bought some really big ferns to decorate the church. I don’t know who decided ferns were the official decorative greenery for weddings, but I hope it goes out of style before the next wedding in our house-

Harris Blackwood hold.

Regardless of my newfound disdain for ferns, the church and reception were beautiful.

Somewhere along the way, we decided the aisle of the church would not accommodate the bride sandwiched between her grandfather and me. Instead, he brought her down to the pew where her mother and I were standing. He dropped back and I took her the rest of the way.

That was a fitting scenario.

Loving someone else’s children is not an instant thing. I cared about them and wanted the best for them. But at some point you lose the “step” part.

They are your children and you’re the daddy.

They are not kids anymore, but I love them all. I may not have been there from birth, but when they hurt, I hurt too.

That also means you get to celebrate the good times. I got to escort her on her final steps of single life.

After telling the preacher her grandparents, her mother and I were offering her to be married, I placed her hand in the hand of her now-husband.

Marriage is not a place of perfection and I know there will be bumps in the road. The wedding day, however, is the day of magic. It is when a girl gets to live the life of a princess.

I don’t know if that makes me a king, but I sure felt like one as we negotiated the steps leading to the altar of marriage.

While our household is now a bit smaller, our family has grown by one. I welcome my new son-in law to our clan.

Harris Blackwood is a Gainesville resident whose columns appear weekly.

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Dying before all is read and done There is only one thing that scares me about dying. It is so momentous that it rocks my heart with grief whenever I think of it. It is a tumultuous rocking that resembles the Mississippi River in New Orleans when the ocean is signaling that a vicious hurricane is headed that way.

It is not how I’ll die that shakes me. Whether it is long and suffering or quick and merciful, it will be what it is ordained to be. It makes no sense to me to dread it, ponder it or even give it a second’s thought.

I do not quiver with anxiety over where I will be when I die even if it is on a foreign soil like New York City, which will mean I will have to be sent back home to my beloved Southland by train or plane.

Though, for the record, I prefer to come home by train in a simple pine box.

Trains are much more romantic than planes.

In every song that Dolly Parton has ever written about leaving her lover, she goes on a train. There

is romance in the steam, in the gentle chugging as the wheels slowly begin to turn and ease the caboose down the track. If I must die elsewhere and return to the soil of my raising, I want to return slowly, passing with deliberate care over the dirt of other Southern states.

I do not worry about my length of years, for this I know: Some people live too long while some die too young. That, I have decided, is all determined by how much money you have left when the undertaker comes. If you have money left over, you died too young. If you ran out of money years before, you lived too long.

I knew a man once who died with $186 in his pockets and nary a cent more except for a small insur-

ance policy to pay his funeral. He was healthy up to the moment that a mighty heart attack dropped him to the ground. He will always have my full admiration. He came out as close to even as anyone I’ve ever known.

I do not worry what will happen when I bid this vale of triumphs and tribulations good-bye. I believe with full conviction that I am a child of the Lord Jesus Christ and that I am assured a place in heaven. As Daddy oft said, “My name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” So, where I am going when my eyes close in death is a pleasant thought, the pot of gold at the end of this life’s rainbow. I’m confident of that.

If I’m not worried over how I’ll die, when I die, where I die or what happens when I die, then what is my heart-rocking concern? It is almost too sad for me to write but we have always been friends, you and I, and I have shared my secrets with you so here is the deepest one: I have no doubt that I am going to die, leaving

stacks of books behind me that are unread.

This breaks my heart.

I’ve been best friends with books since before my birth when Mama was put to bed for four months to rest and she took up reading a brand new set of encyclopedias that Daddy had recently bought my college-enrolled sister. I emerged from the womb reaching not for a rattle or pacifier but for a book. By four, I was winning reading awards at the library and the rack of Little Golden Books at the A&P attracted me like a magnet. Mama always let me buy one.

This house runneth over with books but many are unread. They lay in stacks, waiting to feel my hands and my love. The thought that I should die before all my reading is done, sorrows me greatly.

Maybe, though, I’ll come out even.

direct access from these thoroughfares.

“It would make it a very inviting campus,” Oliver said of the site. “I’d like to see it developed ... in a very progressive and quality way.”

Magnus said he believes the state should accept his offer and spend its money on securing an additional entrance off Ponderosa.

“It’s not quite that simple,” Wilheit said, adding that cutting a road to the site would require extensive engineering that could raise costs. “I can’t put a value on the land because of that.”

Another location being considered is a 76-acre tract near the Mundy Mill subdivision, with a proposed entrance off Millside Parkway.

This land is close to the current Lanier Tech campus, and is being offered for $7.3 million.

According to information obtained by The Times, a $1.3 million letter of credit is being offered by a separate party to reduce the purchase price to $6 million.

Easy access to utilities, retail centers, health care clinics and I-985 make it an

ideal location, and would make the transition for students smooth, according to proponents of the site.

Lanier Tech President Ray Perren has said he’d like to have a new campus open to students by the beginning of the fall 2018 academic year.

Perren said he would like to acquire between 65 and 75 acres for a new campus, with specific land needs including connection to sewer and telecommunications infrastructure.

The 2016 fiscal year state budget approved in April includes $10 million in bonds and $865,000 in general funds to purchase property and design a new campus for the school in Hall County.

Gov. Nathan Deal is chairman of the State Properties Commission, which will have to sign off on any land purchase for the college’s relocation.

But consideration of these properties may be moot when all is said and done.

Wilheit confirmed that a 145-acre property near the RaceTrac gas station and convenience store close to exit 24 on I-985 in North Hall is one of the sites also being considered, and speculation has been rampant in recent weeks that this is where Lanier Tech will ultimately

end up.

Each piece of land being considered reveals an ongoing competition for business between the south and north end of the counties as new growth emerges.

“We just hate to see things continue to move out of the south end of the county,” said Magnus, adding that he laments the relocation of the poultry lab, for example, from Oakwood to the Gateway Industrial Centre off Ga. 365.

Though there is no specific timeline, Wilheit said a decision and deal on purchasing land is moving quickly. An evaluation and grading process is underway, and those involved are compiling scores for each property at this time.

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of I-985. The property fronts Ponderosa Farm Road.

Magnus owns several properties in that area, and is currently developing the Retreat at Chestnut Mountain, a gated subdivision with 62 lots.

“I’m not looking to get anything,” he said. “I’m going to gift it.”

Magnus said he purchased the land he is offering for $2.5 million about 10 years ago.

“My intention all along was to develop it,” he added.

And that’s just what he’ll do if his offer is turned down.

Magnus has given those involved in the search 90 days to accept his proposal.

The tract is somewhat isolated, however, and consideration is being given to how the school would be accessed if located at this site.

Former Hall County Commission Chairman Tom Oliver said he has assisted Magnus in engaging adjacent property owners about accessing the land from Winder Highway or Ga. 211.

Oliver said a few of these property owners are amenable to working with the Department of Transportation and Lanier Tech to get

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We just hate to see things continue to move out of the south end of the county.

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History camp hosted at Crawford Long Museum Time travelers at the Crawford W. Long Museum zoomed through wormholes this past week during Explorer’s History Camp. Explorer’s Camp for ages 5-8 was held June 4-7. Discoverer’s Camp for rising 4th to 7th graders is currently under way through June 14.

Campers visited the Tang Dynasty in Ancient China where they made paper lanterns, learned to eat

with chopsticks, wrote their names in Mandarin symbols and practiced some Tai Chi moves. On day two the destination was the 19th Century Georgia frontier where they met Dr. Crawford Long himself and participated in some pioneer games, made prints with carved potatoes, churned their own butter and enjoyed some turn of the century popular music.

A trip to Ancient Egypt took

campers to 3150 BC to explore the finest things Giza had to offer. From carving pyramids, playing hieroglyphic bingo, making mummies in a mummy wrap race and creating cartouche necklaces campers were sure to keep the sand out of their lunchboxes. Thursday found campers in York England in the year 1120 to learn what it was like to live as medieval royalty. Travel-

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The group enjoyed painting a coat of arms during the first week of history camp. ers created a coat of arms shield, crafted jeweled goblets, learned about chivalry and competed in a medieval tournament where they all emerged victorious and wore golden crowns back from the 12th century. On the final day of time voyage, campers visited 1970s New York,

America and learned jive handshakes and some of the hot dance moves of the day, made pet rocks, lava lamps and enjoyed a pizza and frozen yogurt party, sponsored in part by Swirlees.

History camp registration fees include all supplies and a T-shirt for each camper

and is held the first two weeks of June for different age groups. For information regarding 2016 camp, visit www.crawfordlong.org. For further information, contact the museum at 706-367-5307.

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A Jefferson resident reported she was contacted by man claiming to be Lt. Dan Morris with the Gwinnett Police Department and she needed to pay a $500 fine with a pre-paid credit card since she missed her grand jury date. There are no warrants for her arrest and that department does not have a Lt. Morris employed. The department said the scam is being widely perpetrated.

In other Jefferson Police reports: ■■ A Laurel Oaks Lane resident captured video of a man peeking into his bedroom window on May 28.

Based on that video, police were able to make an arrest of a 50-year-old man on peeping tom charges.

Other neighbors had also complained of similar activities. The man told police conflicting information about his whereabouts. The video shows the suspect wearing a watch which belonged to the suspect.

■■ A disturbance was reported May 30 from a Washington Street location where loud music which included profanity was heard. Several complaint calls were made to 911 and police found the location where a man refused to cooperate with police whom he told had no right to ask him for identification.

When the man continued to be confrontational, he was placed in handcuffs for the officer’s safety. He was released after he provided his name and date of birth. The man had been involved in a previous police call about a reported fight on Ivy Street.

■■ A suspicious vehicle was reported near a Lee Street location and the suspect, who identified himself as a private investigator, was given a criminal trespass warning when the property owner said he did not give permission for surveillance to be under way. The complainant said he suspects the individual who has made death threat against him may be responsible.

A fake $20 was given to McDonald’s June 2 but a customer who then paid for his meal with a real $5.

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Jefferson quarterback Lane Sorrow during last week’s 7-on7 tournament at Jefferson Memorial Stadium.

BY CHARLES PHELPS

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JEFFERSON – The Jefferson Dragons’ football squad is going to be a young bunch.

With losses at many of the skill positions on both offense and defense, head coach Ben Hall is looking for players to fill the gaps.

Last Friday during Jefferson’s 7-on-7 tournament, Hall got his first glimpse at who is stepping up, and with a last-minute scratch, Jefferson fielded two teams (blue and white), which allowed the younger players to get a lot of reps as the teams alternated, playing a game every 30 minutes.

The Dragons made it out of pool play and into the elimination round, but was bounced by Mill Creek in the second round.

With the departure of Evan Shirreffs, who graduated and is headed to the University of Miami, Jefferson got its first look at the two quarterbacks vying to take over the offense, Lane Sorrow and Bryce Moore. The two are “totally different,” Hall explained.

“Lane Sorrow, he’s a play-action, roll-out, option quarterback who has really good feet and has good agility speed,” said Hall. “So, he brings a little athleticism to the table (that) we necessarily haven’t had in a while.

“Bryce Moore, he’s still learning our offense, but he competed when was in there.

We just have a ways to go at every position, but the two guys are totally different, so it’s almost like we have two different packages for them, which makes a day like this tough when we are going from one team to the other, coaching two offenses in the passing game, but they are growing.”

Along with the quarterback competition, Hall said the team needs work at the wide receiver and linebacker positions.

“That’s the best part about being able to compete early in the summer is we identify where we need to work,” said Hall. “So, that’s going to be our focus for the next three weeks of June is to improve the areas where we feel like we are deficient.

“We are able to film our games and break the film down and show it to the positions that need attention.”

Hall said Caleb Cooley and Chaz Evans had a good showing at the wide receiver position.

“We just have to improve on just the fundamentals, the route running, understanding our concepts and being able to adjust to different secondaries,” said Hall, “and that’s where the lack of expe

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Maddie Peek watches her teammates during her last home game as a Mill Creek Lady Hawk.

Maddie Peek reflects on her time with Mill Creek lacrosse; Looks ahead to playing at Young Harris College

BY CHARLES PHELPS

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When Maddie Peek was in the sixth grade, she was introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

She had cousins from both sides of her family that played it. She had seen the sport on TV and in movies and wanted to give it a try.

The problem, there was not a team or league for girls to play lacrosse at the time until the Gwinnett Lacrosse League (GLL) was formed.

Then, Peek’s dream to learn and play lacrosse became a reality.

Fast-forward seven years, Peek graduated from Mill Creek High School in May, was the lone senior on the 2015 Lady Hawks’ lacrosse team, which made it to the second round of the Class AAAAAA state playoffs, and she is preparing for her freshman lacrosse season at Young Harris College. Not bad for someone who had to wait longer than most to pick up the stick.

“I was reminding my mom every day to sign me up,” she said. “My oldest brother, Will, had gone to lacrosse camp a few summers before that with our cousin who played and that drove me nuts that it was just for boys.”

Lacrosse was a bond that Peek and her brothers, Will (sophomore in college), Worth (10th grade) and Wyatt (ninth grade), shared as they got older, she said. Herself, Will and Worth bought sticks and goals and took them to a field behind their house to practice. Wyatt sat out because he was to young, she explained.

“We spent so much time throwing, shooting, dodging one another; We’d play a little two-on-two, even though the teams were never fair,” said Peek. “We trained and took lessons together; It really pulled my family close.

“My parents are very involved in our club team, the Georgia Blackhawks, (a team) they (had) a huge part in starting. Will and I played and now (we) are coaching Blackhawks’ teams. It allows all of us to spend a lot of time together.”

After gaining knowledge about the sport, Peek’s first introduction to high-school lacrosse came when she was a seventh-grader at Hebron Christian Academy.

Mill Creek’s team was a club team at that time, Peek explained. They practiced at Rabbit Hill Park in Dacula and Peek joined them a “time or two,” she said. Her

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Maddie Peek attacks the defense during a game this past season.

first “real-game” experience came for Crease in the summer. The entire Mill Creek varsity team played for the team, as well as some of the junior varsity team.

“I was never really intimidated, because even in sixth

grade, I was playing with those girls,” she explained.

“The (recreation) program had no 13-and-under team, so that first year I was playing with eighth-graders, like,

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Scenes from summer youth camps

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LEFT: The Jackson County Comprehensive High School cheerleading team hosted its youth cheer camp last week. The youth learned cheers, steps during the routines and played games during the week.

RIGHT: The East Jackson Comprehensive High School girls’ basketball team hosted its youth basketball camp last week. Campers learned the basics from dribbling and passing to shooting.

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Chateau Elan hosts Father’s Day tourneys

Reunion CC offering junior golf camp

Youth camps at Jackson County Comprehensive High School this summer: Boys’ Basketball Camp: July 7-9 from 9 a.m. to noon; Girls’ Basketball Camp: June 2325 from 8:30am to noon; Baseball Camp: June 22-24 from 9 a.m. to noon; Football Camp: July 13-15 from 6-8 p.m.; Softball Camp: June 15-17 from 9 to noon.

For information, contact the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department at 706-367-6350 and www.jacksonrec.com.

Chateau Elan hosts a Father’s Day best ball tournament on Sunday, June 21. The cost is $129 plus tax. The tournament will be played on the Woodlands Course with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. Chateau Elan will also host the sixth annual Dad & Junior Scramble Golf Tournament on the Par-3 course, Sunday, June 21. The cost is $59 plus tax per team. The tournament starts at 9 a.m. Junior golfers must be 14 years old or younger to compete.

For more information about the tournaments, visit www. chateauelan.com and click the golf tab, or call 678-425-6050.

Reunion Country Club offers two junior golf summer camps for boys and girls, ages 6-15. Registration is $175 for members/ residents of Reunion; $200 non-residents/non-members. The camp dates are July 13-16 and July 27-30 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. Instruction includes full swing, short game, putting and chipping. After camp care will also be provided from 1-3 p.m. for an additional $100 per camper. For more information, visit www.reuniongolfclub.com, or call 770-967-8300.

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Jackson County Brevet honors memory of 9-year-old Olivia Ouimet

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Cyclists take part in the sixth annual Jackson County Brevet last Saturday. The ride was in honor of 9-year-old Olivia Ouimet and raised money for the Kelly Wilhite Aplastic Anemia Research Fund at Emory University.

BY LEANNE AKIN

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At Saturday morning’s start of the sixth annual Jackson County Brevet, emotions were on the sleeves of the family of 9-yearold Olivia Ouimet, who died last November from complications from a bone marrow transplant.

The daughter of Chris and Leah Ouimet was diagnosed in February of 2013 with Aplastic Anemia, the disease which Kelly, wife of Brevet founder Robert Wilhite has been battling for 27 years.

A banner was unveiled featuring photos of a smiling, brave Olivia with her favorite saying: Peace, Love and Ice Cream.

Also on the left sleeve of this year’s Jackson County Brevet ride shirt is a memorial tribute to Olivia.

As Robert Wilhite made that announcement as the banner was unveiled, the Oui-

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Continued from 1B Tori Windom, who was a great friend and encourager to me, and so excited once I finally got to high school and we could play together again, and Tyler Rediger, who was also on the high-school team, once I got there.

“So, there were always familiar faces. As a rising freshman that summer, (I) played with all the girls that made up the high-school team and they all helped me mature as a player, Alexis Ordini, Noelle Allen, Tori (Windom), Emily Hallberg. I miss that first-year team a lot.”

Being the only senior on this year’s team, it was Peek’s turn to disperse direction, encouragement and knowledge to the younger players, the same that she had absorbed during her lacrosse maturation.

“Coach called me into his room before the season and said, ‘Peek, I need you to be loud. They (younger players) look up to you and respect you and they need direction,’” said Peek. “I wasn’t quite intimidated doing that, it was just uncomfortable.

“But, once I got the hang of my new role, figuring out what (needed to be said) and what (didn’t), it got comfortable.”

mets’ emotions spilled forth.

“She’ll never be forgotten,” said Wilhite, who also prayed that her memory will live on and not be forgotten. “Yes, we worked our butts off but we give God the glory.” Wilhite prayed, “If the good God can use someone like me to create an event like this, I can use each of you. He is taking ordinary people and doing extraordinary things.”

The ride is very personal for the Ouimets and for Wilhite and he thanked the more than 500 riders who climbed aboard their bicycles for the ride and joined him in trying to make a difference. He thanked Chris Ouimet, who is onboard as ride director.

The ride is also personal for Melissa Sanders and her husband Craig who came from Myrtle Beach, S.C., to support and participant in the event. She has been fighting Aplastic Anemia for seven or eight years, said Wilhite, who noted the couple joined the ride in year two and have been riding every year.

There were two highlights that stuck out for Peek during her senior season, she said. The first was playing the entire season (she played just 11 games in 2014). She called the experience “painful.” The second highlight, beating Roswell High School.

“I always like to beat Roswell,” said Peek.

Now, Peek is ready to begin the next chapter of her lacrosse journey at Young Harris College. She says she’s “excited” to play at the next level and “specifically” at Young Harris. Peek says the coaches are “knowledgeable” and have “played” the sport, which can be a rarity, she explains.

Her brother, Will, was being recruited by Young Harris when Peek was a freshman and sophomore in high school. Then, when Young Harris was allowed, it contacted Peek about playing for the girls’ squad, but she was looking at Division I schools at the time. She was preparing for a visit to Mercer University and had gone on an official visit to High Point, she said.

However, after visiting camps and going on the recruiting trips during her junior year, Peek thought, “maybe I didn’t want to play in college.”

“Every visit I went on at the Division I (level), the girls were tired and sore and so, so busy all the time, and most of them didn’t even get to play in games, (because) they kept such big teams,”

Annalia Polenitis from Decatur shared a hug with Wilhite. “I am so glad you made it,” he told the woman whose life is also impacted by the disease.

Vehicles in the parking lot of Northeast Church, one of the major sponsors of the ride with Whole Foods, Chili’s and Tencate, displayed tags from Fulton, Hart, Gilmer, DeKalb, Douglas, Cobb, Walton, Barrow, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Coweta, Clarke and beyond as well as North Carolina. Lots of “Share the Road” tags were also displayed including by first-time participant David Hogan of Cumming who said he was invited to the Brevet by a friend and fellow cyclist.

For Bill Newell of Jefferson, the ride is local – on roads he and friends ride each week.

“We have done (the Jackson County Brevet) every year. It’s local and it’s for a great cause.”

Wilhite also prayed for a “hedge of protection to surround every participant” in the fun-

said Peek. “I was convinced I didn’t want to play.

“Then, two concussions, out half a season and all summer, I missed it so much I decided there’s no way I’ll be able to not play.”

She turned her attention away from the Division I schools and started looking at smaller schools closer to home.

Emmanuel College “caught” her eye, but she was sold on Young Harris. Her dream to go and play at Young Harris came to fruition when she got a call from the Young Harris coach.

“I was standing on the sidelines of the boys’ North Gwinnett game at (North Gwinnett) and coach called, made the offer and I was so excited,” said Peek.

“I speed-walked to my dad while still on the phone and told him the second I hung up.”

She verbally committed last fall and officially signed her letter this past spring.

“That was such a relief and a rush of excitement,” she said. “I know it’s going to be hard work and I’m willing to work, but also, I know these girls and they like to have fun.

“The team isn’t massive, so my odds of getting decent playing time are much better and I’m willing to work for that, too. I’m just so excited to be playing with them and for those coaches in such a beautiful place.”

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Continued from 1B rience at the skill positions is really showing.

“We are going to work on getting off man coverage. We are probably going to get a lot of man coverage this year. We had some teams out here today that were able to line up in our face and jam us at the line and we’ve got to be able to be more physical coming off at receiver.”

Hall added the outside linebackers need work on pass defense, but they only focused on stopping the run game during the spring.

“But, it’s good we were able to identify that from the sideline,” said Hall. “We will look at the film, show the kids the film and then, hopefully, on the 19th, we will have a better showing.

“Overall, as coaches, we are very pleased (with) the effort and the willingness to compete that these kids showed today.

I have a good time with this every year; Lot of work, but we have a good time with it.”

Hall said the play of Zack Boobas and Alex Mason stood out from the secondary. Boobas and Mason will be the Dragons’ anchor in the secondary at the safety position.

“They did a pretty good job considering what they were up against,” said Hall.

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draising event which cyclists from across the region traveled to ride in and which others support monetarily.

One of Olivia’s teachers, Beth Richey, was inspired to fundraise in the last several days with more than $1,000 being raised for the charity, said Wilhite.

He thanked pro cyclists George Hincapie and Christian Vande Velde for participating in the VIP ride as well as in Saturday’s Brevet. Wilhite also acknowledged Dr. Michael J. McLemore of Emory University, one of three at Emory doing clinical research on Aplastic Anemia.

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For more information about the Jackson County Brevet and how to join the cause, or how to donate, visit www.jacksonbrevet.com; e-mail info@jacksonbrevet.com; and find them on Facebook, search Jackson County Brevet.

Hawks finish second at JHS 7-on-7 tournament

BY CHARLES PHELPS

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JEFFERSON – The 2015 high-school football season is still two months away, but the competition is already heating up just like the summertime temperatures.

Last Friday, the Mill Creek Hawks walked into Jefferson Memorial Stadium for a 7-on-7 competition. According to assistant head coach Josh Lovelady, the 7-on-7 tournaments are “really big” for confidence in the individual players to execute what they have been coached to do up to that point, but it is also important for them to have confidence to execute plays with their teammates.

For a team that has a brand new cast of characters on both sides of the ball, the Hawks look like they are starting the summer off on a great note and gaining confidence as they outlasted the likes of Gainesville, Houston County, Jefferson and more to finish second in the summertime competition.

The Hawks defeated Jefferson and Houston County to reach the finals, where they lost to Archer, 33-20.

“It was good,” said Lovelady. “It was real good as far as we came out here and competed.

“This first tournament is when you start getting different looks, offensively and defensively, and that’s the biggest thing is being able to adjust on the run and being able to sit there and let the scheme take care of itself and be disciplined on both sides of the ball when you have different opponents and different looks.”

Mill Creek got its first look at its offense, which was helmed

by Cameron Turley for the first time in competition.

“Offensively, we did a lot of good things,” said Lovelady.

“We had some young guys stepping up.

“Obviously, this is the first test of the new class of kids coming in, and we’re saying, ‘Who’s going to be the playmakers?’”

Lovelady was pleased with the defensive effort, too, stating the group “flew around” to the football.

“We’ve been coming to this tournament for several years, I would be willing to put my money on that we, probably, had more picks (interceptions), defensively, than any year we have been here as a group,” said Lovelady.

The Hawks next 7-on-7 tournament is the Corky Kell 7-on-7 Invitational on Friday, June 19, at the Roswell Area Parks Football Complex.

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The Jefferson Public Library hosted a successful Super Reader Kickoff with Superheroes on hand (below) to welcome children; above, photographer Farah Bohannon captured Sue Compton at House of Clay working with summer campers Ava Linz and Noah Linz, who attend Gum Springs Elementary, and Abby Meadows, a West Jackson Elementary School student.

SUPER SUMMERTIME FUNTIME IDEAS

By FARAH BOHANNON

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Summer is upon us and the kids are out of school, so it is time to participate in the fun activities that the region – and beyond -- has to offer. There are several options from camps to outings and much more that can be enjoyable for people of all ages.

Instead of traveling to various summer hot spots with the fuel prices rising again, stay in the Jackson, Hall, Barrow and Gwinnett area where there is a lot of fun to be had.

First and foremost, there are a handful of summer camps in the area that will be sure to give children a full season of fun.

House of Clay in Braselton offers weekly camps throughout the summer, and owner Sue Compton is again teaming up with the Braselton Library for a July 15 art experience.

Compton offers both Monday through Friday morning camps as well as mini camps that are just one morning. The camps are divided up based on the children’s ages, and Compton says they will create primarily clay projects, but she is flexible based on the interests of the campers.

The first week of camp has already been completed, and great fun was had by all.

Abby Meadows, 9, is a student at West Jackson Intermediate School, said she was happy to spend one of the first weeks of summer participating in House of Clay’s summer camp.

She and her fellow campers made clay pens, coffee mugs and light switch covers, to name a few.

House of Clay is also a great place to gather with friends to create something beautiful during open hours.

Area libraries have shelves filled with books, DVDs and ebooks and their schedules are packed with fun summer happenings.

At the Braselton Library, there are a variety of story times geared for different age groups of children, as well as other events such as an 11:30 a.m. visit on June 12 from Braselton Assistant Police Chief Lou Solis who will be reading to children and giving

an upclose look at a patrol car. On June 22 at 10:30 a.m., kids ages 7-12 can learn to draw super heroes in keeping with this summer’s Superheros tehem.

There will also be visits from Pete the Cat on July 24 and the West Jackson firefighters who will conduct a fun storytime on July 17 at 11:30 a.m. before hosting the popular water day at 11:30 a.m. on July 22 in Braselton Park.

Due to the popularity of the entertainers on tap, other events that will take place outside of the Braselton Library as well. Magician and ventriloquist Keith Karnok entertained June 10 at The Children’s Place at New Liberty Church and interactive magician Tim Sonefelt will perform at that venue on June 26 at 11:30 a.m. Interactive storyteller Richard Gnann will entertain at 10:30 a.m. on July 8.

Other off-site offerings will include My Reptile Guys at Hoschton Park on June 17 at 10:30 a.m., environmental hero Yvette Wise at Braselton Park at 10:30 a.m. on June 24 and Miss Sue at the Police and Municipal Court Building on July 15.

For more specific information about the events hosted by the Braselton Library, visit www.prlib.org or call 706-654-1992.

The Jefferson Public Library is hosting summer programs as well, including story time for children 5 and under, Lego building free play days, chess, “Unplugged” time where kids can build with Legos and play board games, and “Doggie Tales,” which is an opportunity for kids to practice reading skills with therapy dogs. Special visitors will make their way to the library for story times, and there are also a variety of other special themed events happening throughout the summer. For more information, visit www. jplchildren.prlib.org Also check out other nearby libraries for special happenings.

The Mayfield Dairy, located off of Highway 124 in Braselton, is another great summer hot spot. Schedule a tour to see how the popular Mayfield Dairy products are made, and enjoy a cold ice cream treat during the hottest months of the year. An experience

at Mayfield Dairy is an educational one for people of all ages, not to mention affordable and fun.

Many churches in Jackson County will be hosting Vacation Bible Schools. All have a fun theme attached to them to help the children get excited about the special week.

Maranatha Baptist Church, Maysville Baptist Church, Madison Street Baptist Church, First Baptist Church Flowery Branch, Hoschton United Methodist Church, The Church of Hoschton, Northeast Church and First Baptist Church of Jefferson are just a few of the churches who are participating or have already participated in a week of Vacation Bible School. This is a great way to get involved with a church while allowing children to make new friends and grow closer to God. It is a great way to keep kids busy during the summer.

Braselton Town Manager Jennifer Dees said that involvement in swim teams is a great way to keep kids busy and active during the summer. Her son, Wilder, enjoys being a part of a local swim team which has helped him to make friends and stay busy. Even if registration has been missed, a day at the pool is a great way to enjoy the summer.

On stage, the first week of Winder-Barrow Community Theatre summer drama camp is under way at the Winder Cultural Arts Center. The next session is June 22-26, and children ages 5-9 will attend the morning session with children 10-14 in the afternoon session. Each child can attend one session of camp, and the cost is $35 for the

Avoid sun’s skin-damaging rays to protect against cancer

By HEIDI SIMMONS, MPH

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The short, sweet, and correct answer is “No.”There is no such thing as a healthy tan. Anytime the skin changes from its natural color, it means the skin is damaged. Damage to the skin by the sun can lead to many acute and chronic health problems. The most concerning sun-related skin condition is skin cancer. Skin cancer is also the most common form of cancer in the United States. The CDC reports roughly 5 million people are treated for skin cancer every year. Over 9,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Fortunately, skin cancer is generally preventable with proper sun protection practices such as using sunscreen, seeking shade and wearing protective clothing.

Correctly using sunscreen is a very important sun safety practice. When going outdoors, it is advised to cover all bare skin with at least SPF 15+ sunscreen.

SPF 15 sunscreen protects against 93 percent of the sun’s radiation. If the SPF is increased the amount of protection from the sun’s radiation is also increased.

Sunscreen should be labeled broad spectrum. Broad spectrum means the sunscreen blocks both types of UV radiation that affect the skin, UVB and UVA rays. Even on cloudy and overcast days, sunscreen should be applied because UV rays can still reach the Earth’s surface and damage the skin. Before putting on sunscreen, remember to check the expiration date on the bottle; expired sunscreen is less likely work and could lead to sunburn. Apply sunscreen at least 20 minutes before exposure to the sun to allow the sunscreen to soak into the skin.

Do not forget to rub sunscreen on the lips, ears, exposed scalp, feet, hands, and back of the neck.

Every two hours sunscreen should be reapplied to uncovered areas. Swimming, sweating, and drying off with a towel can remove the layer of sunscreen and sunscreen should be used more often than two hours if these activities occur. Individuals with fair or lighter skin are at more risk for skin damage; however anyone, regardless of race or ethnicity, can have skin damage due to the sun’s rays. No matter the complexion of the skin, sunscreen should be

properly applied. Wearing sunscreen does not mean one can spend more time in the sun; the sunscreen is protecting the skin from burning, but rays can still damage the skin with prolonged exposure.

What about Vitamin D from the sun? Isn’t that healthy? Vitamin D is crucial for healthy, strong bones and it is important to have the right amount in the body. However, Americans get most of their Vitamin D from the foods they eat. Few foods naturally have Vitamin D in them, so many foods are fortified with Vitamin D. Foods such as milk, orange juice, yogurt, and breakfast cereals have Vitamin D added to them. Since the average person consumes enough Vitamin D through their diet, getting Vitamin D from the sun is not necessary. Plus, it is a safer option to eat Vitamin D then risk getting sunburn.

Along with sunscreen, the CDC suggests seeking shade during the hottest parts of the day and wearing protective clothing. Practicing correct sun safety now can lead to healthy skin and less risk of skin cancer in the future. For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin or call your local health department.

Heidi N. Simmons, MPH, is a Health Educator with Jackson County Health Departments/Teen Matters.

She can be reached at 706-367-5204 or Heidi.Simmons@dph.ga.gov

New health department hours The Jackson County Health Department is now operating new hours with the Jefferson clinic at 341 Stan Evans Drive open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday; from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday; and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday.

The Commerce clinic has its long day on Monday with hours of 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Tuesday through Thursday, the clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Opening at 8 a.m. on Friday, the clinic closes at 2.

Teen Matters, located at 260 Lee St., in Jefferson, is open 1:30-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday with Saturday hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first and third Saturday of the month.

week. Five-year-olds must have completed kindergarten to attend.

Sign up for drama camp must be done in person at Pam Veader’s State Farm Insurance Office at 41 S. Center St., in Winder.

There are only 30 slots per session, and the slots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The application and medical form must be attached with payment of $35 (cash or check) in order for the application to be accepted.

Children can learn more about the many facets of the world of drama with games, music, costumes, acting, fun and much more.

Each camper will be given a camp T-shirt and will be provided with a snack each day.

Call Pam Veader at 770-867-1679 or email pamveader@windstream.net for an application and medical forms. Printed copies of the forms can be picked up at her office.

Freedom Fest is on the calendar for some family fun in downtown Jefferson starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 27. With music from Sons of Soldiers and Tommy Porter, there will be inflatables and games for the kids, food, fun and fireworks until the event wraps up at 10 p.m.

Let us not forget about July 4th festivities in Braselton --- always something to look forward to as a middle of the summer event.

COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS Hoschton Depot grand reopening. A celebration of the reopening of the historic Hoschton Depot will be held June 13 in conjunction with the June Bug Concert. The event will be from noon to 4 p.m.

More on Page 1A. Indoor yard sale benefitting Braselton Rotary Club charities. Saturday, June 13, starting at 7 a.m. at 1215 Tuscany Drive off Highway 211 in Braselton. Rotary and Chateau Elan estate sale with furniture, kitchen items, home décor, clothes, shoes, toys, electronic, books and more.

Sunset on the Square. The Men in Blues will be performing Saturday in downtown Jefferson for Sunset on the Square from 6-10 p.m. With food and drinks available for purchase onsite, no coolers are permitted. For more information, contact Main Street Jefferson at 706-367-5714.

Mutt Strut for the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia. The annual Mutt Strut, to be held June 13 with the 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk beginning at Lakeview Academy, located at 796 Lakeview Drive in Gainesville. Check-in starts at 7 a.m. Runners are encouraged to bring their dogs; well-behaved, vaccinated dogs on leash are welcome to participate in both events. Please ensure your dog is in proper physical condition for the course. One dog per participant; pet owners are responsible for pet waste. Registration is $30.

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Medicare information session. An informational meeting will be held from 10-11 a.m. on Monday, June 15, for those with Medicare or those who will be turning 65 this year. RSVP for the session by calling 678-725-1949 or emailing Sharon.fletcher@medicarecompareusa.com. The gathering, being held at Medical Plaza 1, is limited to the first 15 who reply.

Other informational meetings are held in Gainesville every Tuesday and Thursday through September. Seminars are free to attend and designed to help patients understand their Medicare benefits and available Medicare insurance options such as Medicare Advantage, Medicare supplements and Medicare Prescription Drug plans.

Board of Education meetings and West Jackson Elementary School ribboncutting. The Jackson County Board of Education will meet for its June work session and board meeting at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 18, at West Jackson Elementary School. The session will follow the board retreat which begins at 8 a.m. and wraps up with a called meeting at 3:30 p.m. A ribboncutting ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. for West Jackson Elementary’s new addition.

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EVENTS Continued from 3B market at the heritage farm located at at 2355 Ethridge Road in Jefferson ,will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. Vendor’s booth fees are $25 per month from May through October. Vendors can go to www. shieldsethridgefarminc.com for an application or contact Denise Temple at dftemple@gfb.org or call 706-3678877. Guest musical artists Denise Moore and Lee Bailey of “Phil and the Blanks” will be performing on June 20.

Admission is free and vendors are returning selling produce, honey, cornmeal, pound cakes, jellies and so much more.

Low-cost spay/neuter. Leftover Pets offers low cost spay/ neuter surgeries at the clinic located at 610 Barrow Park Drive in Winder. Clinic days are usually Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Prices are $85 for a female dog over 25 pounds, $65 for a female dog up to 25 pounds, $55 for a male dog or a female cat and $35 for a male cat. A $5 discount is offered for any surgery patient no older than 5 months (as determined by Leftover Pets veterinarian). All surgery prices include a free rabies vaccination. No fees are added for in heat or pregnant animals. Financial help is available for low-income Barrow County residents. Visit www.leftoverpets.org. Appointments are required and must be made by calling 800-978-5226.

Jackson EMC annual Relay For Life benefit motorcycle ride. The annual Jackson EMC Relay For Life benefit motorcycle ride will be held Saturday, June 20. The route included a few laps around Gresham Motorsports Park. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at Jackson EMC with departure at 10 a.m. Solos are $25 and $35 for two-ups. Sign sponsorship is $100 (gets 2 bikes in the ride). The law enforcementescorted ride will return to Jackson EMC for lunch, door prizes and a 50-50 drawing. Preregister by emailing jwood@jacksonemc.com or call 706-367-6170 or call Tim Sweat at 706-367-6142.

2019 is not that far away – especially when you are preparing a bid to host the annual National Square Dance Convention in Atlanta in June of 2019. “We hope to bring the Square Dancing World to Georgia in four years,” said Louis and Angie McClure, 2019 Bid Committee General Chairs. Angie and Louis are members of the Northeast Georgia Square Dance Federation and dance with the Gainesville Club, “Lakeshore Squares.” In March, 16 dancers from the Georgia delegation traveled to Iowa to prepare for just that...to learn from those who will be hosting the conventions between now and 2019. Each year a square dance pre-convention is held approximately 15 months prior to the next year’s convention to inspire and educate the upcoming hosts. Every June, the National Square Dance Convention is held in the United States, dancers from around the world will attend. Springfield, Mass., will host the 2015 Convention followed by 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa, 2017 in Cincinnati, Ohio, then 2018 Kansas City, Mo., and hopefully 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia!! The 16 people attending the pre-convention in Des Moines belong to square dance clubs from all over Georgia and South Carolina. The delegation traveled to Des Moines to meet with their counterparts to gather information about hosting this event. The sessions included everything from finance, facility requirements, registration and housing, transportation, technology, sound, publicity, security, ways and means, tourism, hospitality and more. The next step for these dancers is to attend the national convention in June, where it will be announced who will be granted the 2019 convention. Square dancing is taught in English all over the world, making it a universal past time. So be prepared to see and hear more from the Square Dance World in Georgia. For more about local dance classes or clubs available, visit www.NEGF.net. Square dancing is good for your mind and body, it’s Friendship set to music. Pictured Front: Virginia Walker, Sherry Turner, Carol Hart, Elizabeth Sanders, Brenda Strickland, Connie Keener, Lynn Siddell, Julie Jarrett; Back: Bob Walker, Angie McClure, Louis McClure, Steve Hart, Eddie Sanders, Brian Keener, Brian Siddell, Bill Jarrett.

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Small business series convenes with HABA’s June 16 meeting The June Small Business Series event hosted by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will be a joint meeting with the Hoschton Area Business Alliance. This event will be from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 16, at Country Inn & Suites in Braselton.

A breakfast bar will be available for $5 per person.

Scott Williamson, sales and relationship manager at MarathonHR, will be presenting “Networking Fundamentals.” Williamson comes to MarathonHR after a career in the United States Navy. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Piedmont College

and an Associate Degree in Accounting from City College of Chicago. He is a certified recruiter for the Navy, a certified command career counselor and a licensed P&C insurance agent in Georgia. Willimamson is a member and past President of Business Network International (BNI).

This event is sure to help the average business owner step up their networking skills. Door prizes will be offered as well. To register or for more information, please call Briana Burgess at 706387-0300, email bburgess@ jacksoncountyga.com or register online at www.jacksoncountyga.com by June 15.

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No answer is an answer from distant boyfriend

Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I have been dating for nine months, long-distance. We met in college seven years ago, were acquaintances and just recently reconnected last year.

We’ve started talking about the future, but can’t nail down what to do about where our future will be.

He has a successful career in his city, our college town, and I have a dream job in mine, where I’ve bought a house and established a home. His job is not available here, and I don’t want to be an “addition” to his world in a place I’ve moved on from. I’ve said I will compromise my dream job to move somewhere new, where jobs like his are, to build a home for us, but there seems to be a hang-up for him. He’s very vague in his responses, says he’s working on it, he likes thinking about our future, etc.

I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do. I’m tired of liv-

Carolyn Hax ing separate lives, but how do I get answers?

— Long-Distance or Bust?

Non-answers are answers, too. He doesn’t want to move, and he also doesn’t want to say that to you.

At least, that’s what you have to go on unless and until his words or actions say something else.

So please take that as your answer and decide: Are you willing to reconsider your I-won’t-be-an-“addition” stance? To reconsider a future with someone who won’t just come out and say what he really wants, presumably because he’s avoiding the consequences?

Do your thinking on this.

When you’ve come to a conclusion about what you need — yes, need, not want — then call him out on his non-answer answer.

“I suggested a third, neutral town, and you haven’t given me a yes or no. So I’m taking that as a no. Is that fair to say?”

Just one disinterested person’s opinion: I’d chafe at the somewhere new suggestion, and here’s why. To build a life with someone I loved, unless I plain hated it, I’d move to his town. If I couldn’t get a job there, however, but he could get work in mine, then the fair thing to my mind would be for him to move to me. Insisting I uproot on principle vs. necessity seems like a punitive waste of good roots, personal and professional.

In return for his sacrifice on my behalf, I would go out of my way to establish a life in my town that was ours, instead of just superimposing him onto the life I already

built.

Again, that’s just me, but worth an internal conversation or two ... after the one on how much you value straight answers.

Dear Carolyn: I’ve been dating a lovely man for a year. Prior to that he dated someone else for three years. They still have friends in common, so very occasionally we all bump into each other. We also have an activity in common he and she participated in previously that we all participate in now.

Whenever we bump into each other, she ignores me and will talk to him some.

I would think after a bad breakup, and the fact he and I have been dating for a year, she wouldn’t want to keep putting herself into a situation to repeatedly run into us.

While I don’t want to force my boyfriend not to do activities he likes to do, I don’t want to keep run-

ning into her. It seems like she’s still not over him if she wants to keep bumping into him. What should I do/say?

— Ex Won’t Go Away

Wait — what? Since when does her enjoying her preexisting friends and hobbies constitute “want(ing) to keep bumping into him?”

If I were acting all this out in my den with little toy people, sure, I’d have her acknowledge you politely at each encounter.

Otherwise, though, what she’s doing looks to me like getting on with her life after a breakup — or, adapting your words, continuing to do “activities she likes to do.”

And what your boyfriend is doing is the same — keeping his friends and hobbies — but adding you to the mix.

The one who is arguably not getting on with life after this breakup is you.

No, it’s not fun to keep running into your current’s unfriendly ex-girlfriend.

However, some annoying

awkwardness is not grounds to “force” anything, especially not something as big as remapping one’s leisure time.

Small irritant, small solution: “Hey, if we’re going to keep running into your ex, would you please help me deal with her ignoring me?”

He can either incorporate you into the conversation, or cut the exchanges short when she’s rude to you.

(If he refuses, then you of course can take matters into your hands with a pointed, “Hello, (Ex),” but if he refuses such a simple courtesy then you also might decide to be an ex yourself.)

For him to stop enabling her rudeness is simple courtesy, and therefore reasonable of you to ask.

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644 Banks St., Gainesville $89,900 Reduced - Nicely renovated small office building (900 s.f.) 3 offices with conference room, workroom-area and handicap bath just off Jesse Jewell Parkway.

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House For Sale-Hall County

Condominiums For Rent

Executive House5BR/4BA. Completely remodeled with all new appliances, heating & air & water purification system. Possible Owner finance with down payment $389,900.

MUST SEE! 770-519-5468

3BR/3BA- All appls incld W/D, Swim, Gym, G’Ville College area. $850/mo 770-639-1201

House For SaleSurrounding

Duplexes For Rent 1BR In City.

Very Nice. $450.

678-617-5073

Houses For RentUnfurnished Apts/Homes. General Property Mgmt.

770-287-1456 www. callapartments.com

Mobile Homes For Rent Gainesville, S/N Hall 1-3BR $85 & up, per wk No app fee. 1 week free 770-534-7596 MURRAYVILLE 3BR, $450/mo. 678-615-4247 678-450-5990

Roommates Wanted

Sporting Equipment text DRIVE to 51893 for info

Wanted To Buy

3 Individual Rooms w/ bath per person. Fully furnished w/cable) No dep/util fees. $115 $125/wk. 678-328-9980 MEN- Be$t, Pvt home, Furn BR, All Priv + Xtras, Oakwood. 770-530-1110 Price Rd. Furnished and attractive room in private fenced home.

Private entrance w/ Dish & internet serv. for Working single. $395mo 678-464-4611 .

Homes & Real Estate Acreage For Sale

FOR SALE Just Reduced 45 acres - $243,000 4336 East Hall Road, Hall County 45 acres with .71 miles of frontage along the North Oconee River in Hall County.

Privacy with close proximity to I-985.

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Business Property For Sale

29 acres on Hwy 365 $9,000 an acres Sewer/ water on site.

Tremendous visibility & traffic counts.

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PUBLIC AUCTION 1947 Ben Higgins Rd., Dahlonega.

June 13 at 11am. 3BR/2 Bath Home on 1.2 Acres. FP, Deck, Porch, 2 car Garage and more.

10%BP. $5,000 cash/c. check on sale day Classic Realty & Auction Company 706-201-4368

Investement Property 12 acres +-, 10 acres under pasture, fenced, city water, hwy frontage, 2 rental houses. Call 706889-3262 Dawson Cnty. 9+ acres.

3 Homes. $259,900. 706216-1793

Recreation Boats & Marine

2001 Crestliner Boat and trailer. 2005 60 HP Mercury .Boat and Motor are both in great condition.

New batteries, new trolling motor , new Bimini Top and more This boat was garaged from day one. Now it will not fit into my new home’s garage, it has been professionally cover out side for on year. $5,500 404-3843642 2012 Pro Guide Tracker Fishing Boat, PGV16SC;16’.Mercury Engine 60 ELPT, with trailer. Red with gray interior; excellent condition. Includes depth finder, troll motor, and live well. Bought new in 2012, one owner.

Less than 40 hours total use. $14,500. Contact Jim at 770-654-7454.

BAYLINER 2003 Rendezvous, 249SD, inboard/outboard, 5.0 Mercury engine, 1 owner, low hours, very good condition, $14,900. 678-478-6659 STEEL DOCK- 24x24.

Party deck, 10’ wide slip 30 amp electric, cleats, swim ladder, safety gates, encapsulated floats, newly stained. $4000. 404-693-4066

RV’s/Travel Trailers 41ft 5th wheel bunk house with four slides, king bed in master, 4 bunks in rear with 2nd bathroom.

Additional outside kitchen, Like New! Private seller, no sales tax.

770-983-0833 or 770-519-1768 TENT CAMPERColeman. Sleeps 4 adults, folds out to 21’, air/heat, frig, stove, Etc. Exc Cond. $2700. 770983-1968

BUICK 1989 This car has been a reliable and comfortable car. Roomy and in very clean condition. $1950.00 OBO call 678516-1917

BUICK 2002 Century Custom, A-1 cond., 1 OWNER, 145K miles, runs great: quiet, sound, & reliable. Very clean in/out, garage kept, everything works, $2,800. 678-200-0812 BUICK 2003 Regal LS. 128k, new tires/brakes, Great cond. $3500. 678316-7679

CHEVY 2012 Impala LTZ, $13,987.

Like new.

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DODGE 2010 Charger, $10,987.

Like new.

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There are more than 175 quality pre-owned vehicles listed with corresponding monthly payment amounts and financing options.

FORD 2005 Taurus SE. Burgundy, cold air, elect winds, CD, Clean. $140k miles. $2900. 678-6979437 HYUNDAI 2013 Elantra GT with ALL the bells and whistles, 40k miles, one owner, non-smoking, grey metallic with black interior, 6-speed automatic w/SHIFTRONIC, heated leather seats, panoramic sunroof, tech package, great gas mileage and fun to drive! Motivated seller. $16,700.

Call Susan 706-265-5873

KIA 2011 Soul, $11,987.

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MERCEDES 1993 500SEL, 183k miles, newly replaced trans., Michelin tires, light tan lthr interior, loaded w/ amazing features, exc. cond., $3,800.

770-317-6393

NISSAN 2012 Altima, $13,987.

Like new.

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706-949-4688

TOYOTA 2008 Camry LE, $10,987.

Like new.

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VOLKSWAGEN 2013 Beetle convertible, black, navigation system, keyless start, spoiler, all the bells and whistles,33,000 miles, Excellent Cond.. 1 owner, female driver Must sale, moving... asking $23,500. Ask for Shae. 770-534-5024

Import Cars

KIA 2009 Spectra, $7,987.

Like new.

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KIA 2010 Optima LX, $10,987.

Like new.

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SUZUKI 2007 Grand Vitara, $6,987.

Like new.

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Trucks

FORD 2005 F150, Reg Cab, $9,987.

Like new.

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FORD 2011 Ranger Reg. Cab, $13,987.

Like new.

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Motorcycles HONDA 1986 Interceptor VFR750, 25K original miles, never wrecked, 1 owner, meticulously maintained, many extras, helmets, factory service manual, tools, $3,000. 770-317-6393

FORD 2014 F-150 Crew Cab XLT, $28,987.

Like new.

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Sport Utility Vehicles

GMC 2010 Terrain, $16,987.

Like new.

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HONDA 2006 CRV, AWD, $10,987.

Like new.

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NISSAN 2010 Frontier, King Cab, 4x4, $15,987.

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NISSAN 2014 Frontier Ext. Cab, 6 cyl., 18K miles, $22,987.

Like new.

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4cyl, 5spd, 106k, blk, ext cab. $11,500/obo.

770-235-8623

Vans

LEXUS 2012 RX350, $26,987.

Like new.

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Like new.

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NISSAN 2015 Rogue, 500 miles, $22,987.

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NISSAN 2007 Pathfinder SE, $13,987.

Like new.

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FORD 2007 E350.

12 pass Vam. int/ext, mechanical in Mint Cond. Mileage 68,839. $18,500/obo. carmi@ innobots.com

HONDA 2004 Odyssey EXL, $7,987.

Like new.

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