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Lease purchase OK’d for county vehicles

By LEANNE AKIN

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The Jackson County Board of Commissioners Monday approved the lease purchase of vehicles and equipment authorized in the Fiscal Year 2013Capital Projects Fund budget.

In the budget, the board previously approved $628,200 to provide for the replacement of 10 Sheriff’s patrol cars, a passenger van and a mower for the Jackson County Correctional Institute, a crew cab truck for Fleet

Election office hopes to add third full-time staffer in preparation for municipal balloting Maintenance, two skid steers for the Solid WasteDepartment, an EMS rescue truck and a mowing tractor, a heavy equipment trailer and an asphalt distributor for the Road Department.

The vehicles and equipment are being replaced in accordance with the county’s fleet policy, according to a memo from County

Finance Director Logan Propes. The policy specifies certain replacement mileage thresholds for vehicles operated for public safety, as pursuit vehicles and as administrative vehicles.

Six quotes were received from the county’s request on financing the capital leases in an effort to ensure maximum savings to the

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Farm to School seeks to connect kids with locally-grown produce

By KATIE JUSTICE

Despite rivalries and competition, all three Jackson County school districts have found something they agree on.

Jackson County, Jefferson City and Commerce City School Systems are working together to bring fresh and healthy local produce into their school cafeterias.

The directors of school nutrition from each system, representatives from Georgia Organics and local farmers met Monday to discuss the Farm to School Program.

Farm to School is a movement to bring more locally grown produce into school cafeterias. It aims to encourage children to eat healthy and helps them understand more about their food and where it comes from, while also helping to stimulate the local economy.

“Our kids have grown up on McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s and Pizza Hut,” said Jackson County Nutrition Director Dr. Debra Morris. “They think pizza is a vegetable.”

Monday’s meeting was conducted as a forum, allowing school representatives and farmers to openly discuss their goals, questions and concerns.

One big concern from the school systems was being able to bring local produce into their schools while abiding by federally set guidelines.

“We’re very willing to work with the local community, but there are so many hoops we have to jump through,” said Morris. “We’ve got our work cut out for us, but it’s good work.”

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Braselton hosts its Beach Bash this Saturday

Mary Ann Parks looks on as her mentee, Maria Couch, a student at Kings Bridge Middle School, reads her comments about her mentor who was honored as the Jackson County Mentor of the Year. Mentored by Parks through Lindsay’s Legacy Mentoring for six years, Maria said she hopes to retain her special mentor until she graduates from high school. “I love you, homey,” joked Maria, who was among the students who highlighted their mentors at the recent mentoring luncheon. Smiling in the background is Ray Booher, a member of the Lindsay’s Legacy Mentoring Board of Directors who made the announcement and presented the engraved plaque. See more coverage of the event by LeAnne Akin at ClickThePaper.com

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county, Propes noted in his memo. Some of the equipment has already been acquired and to meet the time frame requirement for the lease purchase, approval was needed at the Monday session.

District 3 Commissioner Bruce Yates made the motion for approval with District 4 Commissioner Dwain Smith offering the second to authorize Chairman Tom Crow and County Manager Kevin Poe to execute the necessary documents for lease purchase

R2 Farm expressed interest in working with the school systems.

“It’s not just about profit; it’s about educating these kids,” said Cass Fraunfelder of Finch Creek Farms.

The goal of this initial meeting was to provide connections. Now the school systems are moving forward to determine how they can bring locally grown fruits and vegetables into their schools by as soon as next fall.

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Local farmers Todd McCain and Cass Fraunfelder discuss what they feel their roles will be in providing fresh fruits and vegetables to local schools.

The family-friendly Braselton Beach Bash comes to Braselton Park on Saturday with white beach sand setting the stage for a day of entertainment.

“We will bring in 18 tons of sand and put it in front of the stage,” says Danielle Austin, who has coordinated for the 30-plus booths to fill the park.

“We have sand buckets with shovels to giveaway as well as two different types of sunglasses for the children,” said Austin.

This year’s festival T- This year’s T-shirt design was shirt design features the en- submitted by 8-year-old Trentry from 8-year-old Trenton ton Bishop, below.

Bishop of Commerce. He was judged as the winner of the third annual contest for the Beach Bash T-shirt design.

Beach Bash will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. as vendors fill the park. A train, sand art, tutus, gourmet ice cream, seafood, boiled peanuts, Ecuadorian Art, Hawaiian ice, hand-

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LifePath will be celebrated June 1 Sponsors are being sought for a June 1 family-friendly celebration of the Braselton Community Improvement District’s LifePath which is nearing completion.

The grand opening event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June with a challenge for event-goers to get a card punched to represent visits to the businesses along the LifePath.

The Lifepath, a multi-use path along Highway 211 and Highway 347, will provide a multi-modal access connecting The Village at Deaton Creek, River Place, Chateau Élan, Mulberry Walk and the Town of Braselton Riverwalk.

The completion of the current phase is being hampered somewhat as CID administrator Guy Herring of McFarland Dyer & Associates works to secure the needed easement at the corner at Deaton Creek. That section may require later permitting through the Georgia Department of Transportation as a bank is involved after a property foreclosure, Herring advised the CID members at their Monday meeting.

Racing venues attracting aircraft to local airport

By KATIE JUSTICE

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The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Southern Nationals meant business for the Jackson County Airport.

According to Airport Manager Tom Strong, the tarmacs were filled with owner, fan and team aircraft. Strong said the airport staff welcomed and assisted the various crews, making sure that their experience here was enjoyable and that time spent at the airport productive.

“The Jackson County Airport is ideally situated among the three major race venues in the area with Road Atlanta to the south, Atlanta

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Dragway to the north and Gresham Motor Speedway located literally at the end of the runway,” said Strong in a recent press release.

The airport is also a top choice thanks to its open ramp spaces, which are ideal for parking medium to large corporate aircraft, highly competitive fuel prices and the ease at which pilots can fly in and out of the airport.

“Extensive planning by the airport authority is helping to ensure that our growth is economically efficient and regionally effective by seeking to attract a wide range of airport customers,” said Strong. “Hosting racing teams is only a small part of how the Jackson County Airport supports local businesses. “

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National Day of Prayer is held

By KATIE GRIFFIN

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Last fall’s recycling event including paint, electronics and more. KJCB hosts recycling events twice a year.

A prayer ceremony was held at noon May 2, in honor of National Day of Prayer. The event was originally scheduled at Spencer Park in Commerce but, due to the rain was moved to the business building beside the park.

Troy Herbert, president of the Ministerial Association which sponsored the event, gave welcoming remarks and the invocation was given by Jim Scott, Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year.

“There are many people in this country today who try to devalue the

power of prayer, but those of us here today and those all around the country who are also joined together to pray are proving that prayer is still a valuable part of this nation,” said Scott.

After reading II Chronicles 7:14, Scott emphasized that he wants everyone to leave with a sense of hope and a spirit of togetherness.

“We should continue to pray daily for our nation’s teachers and leaders and anyone who sets an example to our children for they are the future of this nation,” said Scott.

The event’s keynote speakers were four young men from Teen Challenge, a rehabilitation facility located in Stone Mountain. They took the stage

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Saturday is Spring into Recycling Day in Jackson County “Many times I am asked why Jackson County does not have a recycling center and the follow-up question is where can I recycle,” said Keep Jackson County Beautiful Director Susan Trepagnier.

“Many people think it is easy to build a recycling center and they don’t understand why Jackson County doesn’t just build one. It’s a matter of dollars and cents,” she said.

The Jackson County Board of Commissioners approved the construction of a recycling center at the same time they approved the new Jackson County Transfer Station.

That was four years ago, but the construction was put on hold. The old transfer station had so many needed repairs, they built it immediately, but the recycling center could wait until that facility was completed. Confusing, huh?

“Honestly, I’m thankful they made that decision.

Right after the construction of the transfer station began, the economy began to crumble. Not only did the economy fall, but so did the need for recycled materials,” she said. Counties that had recycling facilities scrambled to get processors to take their materials. If they weren’t under contract with those processors, their product sat in the facility or they gave it away just to get rid of it. No one wanted cardboard (nothing was selling, therefore nothing was shipping in cardboard boxes) and no one wanted plastic (carpet plants, usually the largest end-processor for plastic scrap, were not making carpet because construction was at a standstill).

Aluminum and metal were bringing very little, although it was the one commodity that brought in revenue (even the theft of metal was lower).

Now things have changed a bit, but not enough for Jackson County to take on more debt at this time “so we are back to Where can I recycle?,” said Trepagnier.

There are red and green SP Recycling bins scattered throughout the county. Keep Jackson County Beautiful and SP Recycling are in partnership with the Commerce, Jefferson and Jackson County school systems, supporting their newspaper, magazine, shredded paper and office paper recycling programs.

She said many people don’t realize they can recycle shredded paper.

Many homes have shredders for security purposes.

When the shredder basket is filled they empty it into a trash bag and throw it into

the garbage – “it is paper people. Recycle it,” she said.

Most schools in Jackson County have bins on their campus, just look for them usually around the school’s dumpster area. There are bins at the Jackson County Administrative Building, Transfer Station, both compactor sites and at the Commerce Lanier Tech campus in the Badcock Shopping Center. SP recently placed a cardboard bin at that location and if the need continues, they will place another.

Cardboard can be placed in any of the other bins, but we do ask that the boxes be broken down to conserve room in the bins.

Our most recent adventure is recycling plastic bottles with SP. Citizens can now recycle their Nos. 1 and 2 plastic bottles at the Jackson County Transfer Station. The only type plastic that is to be placed in those bins is plastic bottles – water, soft drink, detergent, softener, cleaner, etc. – any bottle with a No. 1 or 2 - located on the bottom of the bottle in the recycling triangle.

The Athens-Clarke County Recycling facility is most probably the closest full service recycling center to Jackson County. Athens Recycling Coordinator Suki Janssen says there are more Jackson County tags dropping stuff off at a couple of her satellite sites than there are Athens-Clarke County tags. “We’re very excited that so many are eager to recycle from Jackson County. They are more than welcomed to use the AthensClarke County drop off centers,” she said.

Other county facilities are Oakwood, close to the Braselton/Hoschton side or Gwinnett Recycling Centers.

These centers take many more items than we take in Jackson County. The best way to find out if they will take your product is to look at their websites.

She said she isn’t without hope that one day in the very near future Jackson County willbuild a recycling center, “but I feel for sure it will be a while. There will be questions and answers to provide before that will come about.”

She reminds citizens special recycling days continue the second Saturday of May and second Saturday of October each year.

“Our Spring into Recycling Event is Saturday, May 11, at 16 Hendrix Drive in Jefferson, near the Jackson County Transfer Station and across from Lamar Murphy Field on County Farm Road,” said Trepagnier.

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singing God Bless America, to which everyone in the room stood and either raised their hands or placed their hand on their heart. A group of children in the back of the room waved American flags as they sang each word to the song.

The four musicians sang several songs and each gave an inspiring testimony between songs. The closing prayer was said and all agreed that there was certainly a sense of togetherness and patriotism during the prayerful event.

Other Day of Prayer observances were held in other area locations including at the Jefferson Clubhouse.

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Braselton business breakfast to spotlight business marketing Breakfast in Braselton, a business breakfast and networking event hosted by the Downtown Development Authority of Braselton, will be held from 7:30-8:30 a.m. on Friday, May 17, in the Community Room of the Braselton Police & Municipal Court Building.

“Come and meet other business

owners and operators, network and share ideas,” says Downtown Director Amy Pinnell.

Jessica Reynolds from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) will be presenting a program on small business marketing.

For more information and to RSVP, contact Amy Pinnell, Downtown Di-

rector, at Town of Braselton, P.O. Box 306, 65 Frances St., in Braselton.

Call Pinnell at 706-684-0369 or email apinnell@braselton.net. Also visit www.downtownbraselton.com.

The Braselton Police & Municipal Court Building is located at 5040 Highway 53 (use entrance back of building).

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ing designed from 6-8 p.m. Macaws invade the park from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and check out the petting zoo from 3-6 p.m.

“We have many local acts that will take the stage during the day,” said Austin.

The stage will be filled with entertainment throughout the day, culminating in a concert by The Tams starting at 8.

A magic show is up first from 10:3011:15 a.m., followed by Studio One performing at noon with Brittany Wil-

liams taking the stage at 1. Claudia’s School of Dance performs at 1:30 p.m.

The Boys and Girls Club of Jackson County will perform at 2 p.m. with Amy Bullock on stage at 2:30 p.m.

Jefferson RADC Storm is up at 3 p.m., and Teggie Starrett entertains from 6-8 p.m.

The Braselton Beach Bash has grown into an attraction for youngsters who are treated to an assortment of special beach-related freebies.

Wingslingers will also be on hand with adult beverages.

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made wreaths, little girls accessories, BBQ, bling T-shirts, purses and women’s jewelry are among the types of vendor products which will be available.

There will also be entertainment for all ages including free bungee jumps, bounce houses, a petting zoo, clowns with face painting in the park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and balloon animals be-

Commerce man arrested on kidnapping, burglary charges

Jackson County deputies responded to April 28 to an Allen Road residence in Commerce to a 911 hangup.

A possible domestic situation was suspected and two victims of an apparent assault were located at the home. Both victims stated they were attacked by Jeffrey Demetric Dempson, 23, of Commerce, while they were asleep in their bed.

Reports indicate Dempson forced

his way into the home through a window and, after assaulting the victims, he tried to drag the female victim from the home.

Dempson was later arrested and is being charged with kidnapping, Burglary and two counts of battery. Dempson is currently in the Jackson County Jail without bond.

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“Also please remember that you can provide information without being involved or identified by contacting the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office’s anonymous tip line at 706-367-3784 to report any criminal or suspicious activity,” said Sheriff Janis Mangum.

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Anthony Williamson, VP of Greater Braselton Development, talks with Chris Jones of Community Coffee.

Jones provided coffee for a May 2 community meeting which updated the community on the new hospital’s status. The first of three meetings was held at the Braselton-Stover House and also included pizza provided by Mitchell Seabolt of Papa John’s at Chateau Elan. The session included a PowerPoint presentation about the patient experiences the first new hospital in Georgia in more than 20 years with Williamson fielding questions. The next meeting will be from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, at Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church in Dacula.

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Changes come and changes go I was helping my daughter get ready for school recently, and she proclaimed something that I was not expecting.

We were wrapping up the process, and we had made it down to getting her tennis shoes on and tied. We are working with her to learn to tie them herself, but we aren’t quite there yet. And so, because time was at a premium, I told her that I would just tie them this particular morning.

When this has happened in the past, she has gotten her socks on and plopped down in the floor, ready for my wife or me to swoop down and tie her shoes. But on this morning, she volunteered to get up on the bed instead of being in the floor.

And without skipping a beat,

she said, “It will be easier for you to tie them with me up here. I know you’re 40 now, so you’re an old man.”

Ahhh....from the mouths of babes!

This little encounter simply served as another reminder of an inevitability for all of us: we - and the lives around us - are always changing. There is no such thing as a static human life.

We may at times feel like our lives are stagnant, but even this feeling is often short sighted and largely untrue.

This is a time of year that vividly reminds us of how the world that we live in is constantly in transition as well. And this year, more so than in recent memory, has many of us longing for the sunshine and dry

weather that comes in the summer. As the trees reveal their buds, as the leaves grow and turn to green and as the birds emerge with their beautiful songs, we see transitions happening right before our eyes.

Perhaps you’ve heard the quote from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus before: “There is nothing permanent except change.”

And don’t we find that true as we live!

With this spring, our family witnessed another example of the change going on around us. This was a different sort of indicator, and one that has had a much more personal impact than watching the trees bring forth life. We have received announcements for high school graduations, along

with pictures of these young adults as they prepare to launch into the next phase of their lives. We have known many of these students for the better part of a decade, and it’s incredible to see and think of them “all grown up.”

For most of us, these times of transition - and all of the other myriad ways that change happens to us every day - are challenging.

They often reveal the true state of our hearts and souls.

Are we clinging to each day with a ferocity that removes any joy that may be found in it? Are we stuck in “the way things used to be” in a way that we can’t find any fulfillment in the present? Are we so excited about a change that has yet to arrive that we miss the blessings of today?

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ancee, Annette Holland of Canon; son, Michael Holland; brothers, Jeffery Cooper of Princeton, W.Va., and Rick Cooper of Windsor, Pa.; grandchildren, Korbin Holland, Kingston Holland and Kaylie Holland; aunts, Bobby Smith, Peggy Ford and Norma Frye; and several nieces and nephews.

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held Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Statham with burial following in the Statham Cemetery.

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B.J. (Sue) Wall of Winder; son, Joshua Fuchs of Winder; daughter, Yameka (Chris) Campbell of Winder; sister, Sheryl Leblanc of Jefferson; and grandchildren, Avery, Morgan, Chloe and Colton Campbell.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, 2013, at Smith Funeral Home with Pastor Sean Seay officiating.

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Barbara Beem

Died May 6, 2013 Barbara Beem, 87, of Jefferson, died Monday, May 6, 2013, after a major stroke.

Barbara had been a resident of Jefferson for 22 years after moving from Chamblee. She was an active member of Jefferson Presbyterian Church and also a volunteer for the Jefferson Public Library. Born in Battle Creek, Mich., she was a daughter of the late Ray and Ann Salisbury. She attended Northwestern University before moving to Georgia in 1959. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Richard L. Beem Sr.; and daughter, Barbara L. Still of Lampasas, Texas.

Survivors include her children, Richard (Sandra) L. Beem of Commerce, Jane (Robert) S. Macey of Lakeland Fla., Martha (Rich) B. Barva of Cumming and Charles (Jeanne) W. Beem of Peabody, Mass.; grandchildren, Amy (Chad) Hammock, Brad (April) Beem, Adam Beem, Aaron (Penny) Still, Daniel (Mariana) Macey, Caroline (Behn) Fannin, David (Jessica) Macey, William Hough, Jennifer Hough and Matthew Hough; son-in-law, Michael Still; and 14 great-grandchildren.

A private family graveside service will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, 201, in the Georgia National Cemetery in Marietta. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Jefferson Public Library, 379 Old Pendergrass Road, Jefferson, GA 30549 or St. Mary’s Hospice House, P.O. Box 6588, Athens, GA 30604.

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Bryan Ward Carrick

Died May 4, 2013 Bryan Ward Carrick, 53, of Braselton, died Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

Memorial services were held Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in the chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home with the Rev. Drewery Loggins officiating.

Born Jan. 31, 1960, in Grand Rapids, Mich., he was a son of Carol Ball Carrick and the late William James Carrick.

Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his son, William Taylor Carrick of Gainesville; daughter, Jessica Carrick of Baltimore, Md.; brother, Steve Carrick of Michigan; and sisters, Linda Carrick of Michigan; and Beth Markey of Rhode Island.

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Tom Cooper

Died April 30, 2013 Thomas “Tom” Henry Cooper, 64 of Canon, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness.

Funeral services were held Friday, May 3, 2013, in the chapel of Memorial Park South Funeral Home with entombment following at Memorial Park South Cemetery.

Born Dec. 9, 1948, in Princeton, W.Va, he was a son of the late Henry T. and Virginia Kimble Cooper.

He was an attorney in private practice and a former member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Michael Keith Cooper.

Survivors include his fi-

Julia Mae Crow-Puckett

Died May 7, 2013 Mrs. Julia Mae CrowPuckett, 98, of Atlanta, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, following an extended illness.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 10, 2013, in the chapel of Memorial Park South Funeral Home with interment following at Flowery Branch City Cemetery. Mr. Robert Allen will officiate.

Born Aug. 25, 1914, she was a daughter of the late A. Burrough and Cecelia O’della Reed Crow of Chestnut Mountain in Hall County.

He was also preceded in death by her husband, Harry Kendall Puckett; brothers, Grady A. Crow, Cecil Crow and Lewis Crow; and sister, Eula Faye Shoemake.

Educated in Hall County and a graduate of Flowery Branch High School, she was of the Methodist faith and a member of Druid Hills First United Methodist Church in Atlanta. She worked for Rich’s Department Store from the early 1940’s to mid-1960’s and National Acceptance Co., a Division of GE Financial Services, from the mid 1960’s to 1980’s as a bookkeeper. She founded the first Cub Scout Troop in Flowery Branch and served as the first Den Mother. She was a Life and Charter Member of Unity Chapter No. 549, Order of the Eastern Star, in College Park, for more than 35 years. She was an Appointive Grand Officer in the Symphony of Praise Grand Family, 1996-1997, serving as Grand Chapter “Mama.”

Survivors include her loving son, Larry Puckett of Atlanta; sisters-in-law, Larue Crow of Flowery Branch and Irene Puckett of Tucker; and several nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to Eagle Ranch, P.O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA 30502 or A.G. Rhodes Nursing Home c/o Wesley Woods, 1819 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329.

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Gayle Mobley Ferguson

Died May 1, 2013 Gayle Mobley Ferguson, 76, of Winder, died Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

During her life, she worked as a paraprofessional for the Barrow County School System. She was an avid University of Georgia sports fan and creative florist and enjoyed traveling and cooking. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jesse William and Frances Pauline Davis Mobley.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Fred Ferguson; daughter, Lisa (Mike) Drake of Winder; sons, Freddie (Beverly) Ferguson and Kevin (Brenda) Ferguson, all of Winder, Andy (Debbie) Ferguson of Statham and Mitch (Kendra) Ferguson of Monroe; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

The funeral service was

Richard Allen Fleming

Died April 30, 2013 Richard Allen Fleming, 69, of Bethlehem, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

A United States Navy veteran, he served in the Vietnam War and was an engineer by trade. He was married to the late Elaine C. Fleming for 40 years. Richard was a great husband and father who will be greatly missed by all.

Survivors include his sons Timothy Allen Fleming of Orlando, Fla., and Ricky Fleming of Pensacola, Fla.; daughter, Courtney Crystal Fleming and Ramon of Bethlehem; brother, Craig Fleming and Marge of West Chester, Pa.; sister, Ruth Ellen Fleming and Tommy of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and grandchild, Antonio Taveras.

Funeral services were held Friday, May 3, 2013, at Lawson Funeral Home Chapel. Interment followed at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton.

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Juanita Robins Freeman

Died May 7, 2013 Mrs. Juanita Robins Freeman, 80, of Jefferson, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

A daughter of the late Jesse H. and Allie Cline Robins, she retired as a seamstress where she worked for Landress and Smith Corporation and Wilkins Manufacturing just to name a few. Mrs. Freeman was a member of Arcade Community Church for more than 15 years. She was also preceded in death by her sons, Donald Lee Freeman and Richie Freeman; and her former husband, Bill Freeman.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday May 9, 2013, in the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. David Maddox officiating. Interment will follow in Evans Memory Gardens.

Survivors include her daughters, Deborah Patton, Sandra McGinnis and and Janet Johnson, all of Jefferson, and Glenda Neher of Ft. Wayne, Indi.; sisters, Mary Lynn Wampler of Michigan and Evelyn Koch of Illinois; 10 grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren; two greatgreat-grandchildren; and a number of other relatives.

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Debrah Yumi Fuchs

Died April 2, 2013 Debrah Yumi Fuchs, 54, of Winder, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

During her life, she was a patient representative for Gwinnett Medical Center and a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). She was preceded in death by her mother, Bobbie Wall.

Survivors include her husband, John Fuchs; father,

E.T. Hulsey

Died May 5, 2013 E.T. Hulsey, 91, of Chicopee died Sunday, May 5, 2013, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

A lifelong resident of Hall County, Mr. Hulsey was the son of the late W.N. and Lucy Bagwell Hulsey. He was retired from Chicopee Manufacturing and served in the U.S. Army during World War II, serving in all of the major campaigns in Europe.

He was a member, deacon and Sunday school teacher at Chicopee Baptist Church.

He was also preceded in death by his wife, Mildred Davis Hulsey; siblings, Theora Reed, Della Ree and James Barker, Elbert and Christine Hulsey and Elro Hulsey.

Survivors include his daughters, Betty Kunruether of Raleigh, N.C., and Mary and Rick Kiser of Braselton; sons and daughtersin-law, Bill and Lynn Hulsey of Dawsonville and Bob and Aletha Hulsey of Gainesville; grandchildren, Julie and Patrick Dougherty of Wake Forest, N.C., Todd Hulsey of Dawsonville, Carrie and Kevin Shockley of Gainesville and Meredith and Aaron King of Griffin; four great-grandchildren; sisters and brothers-in-law, Willene and Elmer Chastain and Nellene Wallis, all of Flowery Branch; brother and sistersin-law, Aaron and Polly Hulsey of Oakwood, Johnnie Ann Hulsey of Flowery Branch and Elizabeth Davis of Clermont; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Chicopee Baptist Church with the Rev. Phil Carpenter, the Rev. Darin Vogt and the Rev. Randall Hulsey officiating. Interment followed in the Poplar Springs Baptist Church Cemetery with full military honors.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Chicopee Baptist Church Building Fund, No. 13 First St., Chicopee, Gainesville, GA 30504, or Eagle Ranch, P.O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA 30502.

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Wade Hampton Jackson

Died May 2, 2013 Wade Hampton Jackson, 67, of Winder, died Thursday, May 2, 2013.

During his life, he served in the United States National Guard. He was a son of the late J.H. “Buck” and Hallie Staggs Jackson. Also preceding him in death were his son, Wade H. Jackson Jr.; and

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In several places, the Bible reminds us that change WILL happen. “The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of The Lord endures forever.”

These words are originally found in the Old Testament, but they’re quoted in the New Testament - hundreds of years after they were originally uttered. Changes happen, and when they do, we need something stronger than ourselves to center us.

For me and my family, we strive for that “centering” to come from God: his love, his grace, his forgiveness and his hope. As you’re faced with changes in your life, I encourage you to reach out for a strength and security that is deeper and stronger than you’re capable of finding in yourself alone!

Heraclitus said something else about change: “Everything flows; nothing stands still.”

brother, Harold Jackson.

Survivors include his wife, Charlsa Jackson; son, Ben (Amber) Jackson of Jefferson; daughter-in-law, Kristi Jackson of Roswell; brothers, John Jackson and Perry Jackson, both of Winder; and grandchildren, Claire Altman, Savanna Jackson and Robert Jackson.

The funeral service was held Sunday, May 5, 2013, in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Donnie Pennington officiating.

Memorial donations may be made to Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607 or Eagle Ranch, P.O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA 30502.

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Billy Jack Kinney

Died May 5, 2013 Billy Jack Kinney, 83, of Talmo, died Sunday, May 5, 2013.

Born in Hall County, he was a son of the late J.H. Kinney Sr., and the late Essie Bridges Kinney. Along with his father and siblings, he owned and operated J.H. Kinney and Sons Feed and Seeds in Jefferson and Talmo for 44 years. He was a member of the Talmo Baptist Church and a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Betty Jean Williams Kinney; stepmother, Frances Hill Kinney; sister, Annie Lou Kinney; and brothers, John H. Kinney Jr., Harry Kinney and Harold “Mutt” Kinney.

Survivors include his daughters and son-in-law, Amy and Rex Palmer and Karen Rice, all of Cleveland; brother, Joe Kinney of Talmo; grandchildren, Leann Wade and Jon-Jay Wade; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at Talmo Baptist Church with the Rev. Mark Spence officiating. The burial followed in the Talmo Baptist Church Cemetery with Rex Palmer, Jon-Jay Wade, Melvin Porter, Bud Kinney, Steve Kinney and Scott Kinney honored as pallbearers. Memorials may be made to the Talmo Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 96, Talmo, GA 30575.

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Peggy Lou Miles

Died May 6, 2013 Peggy Lou Miles, 71, of Winder, died Monday, May 6, 2013.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph William Miles; parents, Guy and Lurene Goodman Wilson; and brother, Paul W. Dabney.

Survivors include her sons, Joseph W. (Faye) Miles Jr., of Acworth and Clayton (Amy) Miles of Winder; daughters, Deborah (Mi-

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Will we have the grace to “flow” in our lives instead of railing and raging against the inevitable changes that come our way?

I’m trying to learn to do this better every day. After all, I’m 40 now, and I’m an old man!

Brad Greene is the Lead Pastor at Arbor Pointe Church.

You are invited to worship with Arbor Pointe on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at West Jackson Middle School. Contact Pastor Greene at brad@ arborpointe.org or 706-2726778.

chael) Collins and Alice Pate, all of Owensboro, Ky., and Cathy(DuWayne) Kitchen of Statham; brothers, James Wilson and Eddie Wilson, both of Owensboro, Ky.; sister, Juanita Mosley of Steger, Ill.; 17 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will held at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 10, 2013, in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with Pastor Leon Pruitt officiating. Interment will follow at Barrow Memorial Gardens.

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Steve Parkinson

Died April 29, 2013 Steven Douglas “Steve” Parkinson, 39, of Acworth, died Monday, April 29, 2013.

Born in Levittown, Penn., he was a son of Mrs. Sandra Joens Parkinson of Jefferson and the late Daniel Parkinson. Mr. Parkinson worked in sales and manufacturing.

Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his children, Lexi and Loran Parkinson of Acworth; sister and brother-in-law, Michelle and Boardman Meade of Alpharetta; brother, Dan Parkinson of Jefferson; niece and nephew, Renee Runyan and Matthew Runyan, both of Belvidere, Ill. A memorial service was held Thursday, May 2, 2013, at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gainesville.

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Curley Pressley

Died May 4, 2013 Johnny James “Curley” Pressley, 64, of Pendergrass, died Saturday, May 4, 2013.

Born in Talmo, he was a son of Mrs. Lonie D. Cruce Pressley of Jefferson and the late Charlie Roy Lee Pressley Sr. He was retired from Vulcan Materials with 36 years of service.

Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his wife, Rachel Loggins Pressley; daughters, Tina (Chris) Smith of Jefferson and Angela (Chris) Taflinger of Pendergrass; sons, Frankie Pressley of Jefferson and Alvin Pressley of Pendergrass; sisters, Linda Ann Ray of Braselton and Patricia Snead of Maysville; brothers, Allen Pressley and Ronnie Pressley, both of Commerce, Tommy Pressley of Gillsville, Tony Pressley and Dale Pressley, both of Maysville and Roy Lee Pressley of Jefferson; and nine grandchildren.

A memorial service was held Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with Pastor Douglas Gaines officiating.

Memorials may be made to the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes, 3000 Highway 42 N., Stockbridge, GA 30281.

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Hail O’ alma maters, how true are thee

The graduation season is upon us and with it comes songs we only hear at commencement exercises.

One is the alma mater, which varies from school to school. The other is Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” which has evolved into the most used graduation march.

I didn’t know much about alma mater songs until I attended the fifth grade at Social Circle. The school uses the traditional alma mater, and whoever penned the lyrics realized that Social Circle High School would be tough to squeeze in.

They reduced it to Social High School. According to their recent handbook, they still sing it that way. The truth is, every high school is a social high school.

At Monroe, where I spent my high school career, our alma mater was to the tune and many of the lyrics to “O, Canada.”

“O, Monroe High, the best school in our land,” we would sing. “True patriot love in all thy sons command.”

The University of Georgia uses the traditional alma mater. They did a nice job with lyrics: “From the hills of Georgia’s northland, Beams thy noble brow, And the sons of Georgia rising, pledge with sacred vow,” ... is the beginning of Georgia’s alma mater. I’m sure there is still a dispute among English majors as to whether “northland” is a word.

Harvard’s song is set to the Irish classic, “Endearing Young Charms.” They’ve had a few notable grads of Irish heritage and they’re located in Boston, so that works.

I read that the University of North Georgia has the lyrics for a new alma mater and the tune is forthcoming.

A few years ago, I attended a graduation at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, where a woman with a very high soprano voice sang a

Harris Blackwood new alma mater. Someone obviously told someone to get every word of the college’s name in the song. I noticed they had ditched it when I attended a graduation last year. For this, we will ever be loyal in giving thanks.

There are terms in alma maters no one really believes. There are many phrases like, “We’ll be true to thee” and “Thee we’ll honor.” A number of recurring themes revolve around courage, truth, valor and wisdom.

I’m proud of the education I received in high school, but I don’t know that it was ever the best school in our land. We just sung that because it fit in the space where the Canadians sang “our home and native land.”

In many cases, I think that loyalty to major universities is contingent upon the record of the football team and the outcome of recruiting. If a kid leaves for the NFL after three years, do you think he is breaking that sacred vow?

And what will happen as more and more people earn their entire education online? I close with my idea for an online university alma mater.

Hail to thee, my loyal keyboard Hail to thee, my screen.

For hours I have spend before thee, Hail to my machine.

For the numbers 1 and 0, Digits they may be.

I listened from a tiny speaker, To earn my new degree.

Harris Blackwood is a Gainesville resident whose columns appear weekly.

I think that loyalty to major universities is contingent upon the record of the football team and the outcome of recruiting.

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When Mama made up her mind Mama was stubborn. “Set in her ways,” is what country folks call it and boy, was she. When she made up her mind, nothing stopped her. Especially when she set her jaw and punctuated her declaration with a firm nod of her head. If she also threw that crooked forefinger in your direction, you knew that it was set in stone. Destined to be.

So it was that Mama decided I would go to college and she would pay for it. Now, Mama was a hard worker. There’s no two ways about that. Except for a brief three-year spell when times turned bad in our household and Mama took a job in a sewing plant to help see us through, she had never worked outside the home. Besides her remarkable talent at fixing things with masking tape and duct tape, she was most skilled at sewing.

With the wily ingenuity of her people, the ScotchIrish, Mama “figured it out,” a term she used quite often. In the spare bedroom of our little house, she set up her old tan and brown Singer sewing machine that Daddy had bought her 25 years earlier and went to work. In retrospect, she

Ronda Rich was amazing, though I couldn’t fully appreciate it then. She took in sewing and alterations, charging $25 a dress.

Mama had an eighthgrade education because that’s as far as her one room schoolhouse in Nimblewill Valley went. But, eager to learn and knowing early that education was important, she started school at 4 and stayed until she was 17. The sweet teacher did her best to find ways to keep teaching her because Mama was the only student she ever had who went to school seven years longer than required.

She knew the basics of economics: She could add, subtract and spend less than she earned. In time, she expanded her little home business by buying fabric cheap, selling for a profit and sewing up “spec” dresses that yielded a tidy profit.

Mama was diligent in her business and her bookkeeping, always recording what was earned, what was spent, and what was owed because Mama had “house” accounts for her best customers. She kept spiral-bound notebooks that she called her “sewing books” and listed every customer’s detailed measurements and the orders they placed.

It paid off. For both Mama and me. She managed to pay for two bachelor degrees, journalism and broadcasting, at an expensive college. When time came to pay the quarterly tuition, Daddy would always say, “Do you need any money?” Not that he had a lot but he always had a bit tucked away.

Inevitably, Mama would say, “No, I’ve got it. The good Lord has provided and sent enough business to pay for another quarter.” It meant everything to her to do it on her own.

Now, I could have gone to a less expensive college and that would have been fine with me. But Mama had a dream for me to go to a place called Brenau. As a young wife whose husband was away for two years

fighting in the South Pacific in World War II, she had rented an apartment in an old, antebellum home near the Brenau campus. She would sit on the steps and watched the pretty girls on campus and think to herself, “One day, I’m gonna have a little girl who goes to that school.” It was a grand and lofty dream for a woman who had grown up in a four-room, tin-roofed house with no indoor plumbing.

The other day, that college inducted me into its Hall of Fame. I felt a bit embarrassed and fraudulent accepting an honor that isn’t mine. It belongs completely to Mama. Since she’s with Jesus now, I went to the ceremony and accepted in her honor.

I’m so proud of her.

Join Ronda in Brenau’s Pearce Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. May 14 for an evening of storytelling. Admission is free.

Ronda Rich is the bestselling author of several books, including “There’s A Better Day A-Comin’.” Sign up for her newsletter at www.rondarich.com. Her column appears weekly.

Directions are different in a small town I had to go to Atlanta the other day.

It wasn’t a condition of my probation, for the record.

Here were the directions I received to my destination: Take Interstate 75 North to I-75/I-85. Then take I-85 North. Get off on exit 56 at Peachtree Dunwoody Road. Ten miles later, take a right at Peachtree Road. After 43 stop lights, take a right on Peachtree Lane. Fourteen stop lights later, take a left on Peachtree Terrace.

After the mall, take a right on Peachtree Trace. Cross Peachtree Road again.

Nine stop lights and three caution lights later, take a left on Peachtree Corners Lane.

Of course, being that no road in Atlanta is straight, I lost my usually-acute sense of direction and ended up paying some guy $14 to find

Len Robbins my way. He told me to get back on Peachtree.

Here are the directions newcomers need to find me in my small town: Stop at the convenience store. Ask the cashier where I am.

That’s pretty much it.

True story: When I was a freshman in college, some guys who lived in my dorm were coming back from spring break in Florida when their car broke down in Homerville. They only knew me and my roommate, who was also from Homerville, by our first names. It was on Sunday.

They were from Atlanta.

They were scared to death.

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After an hour or so of twiddling their thumbs, one of the stranded remembered that those two guys who lived in Room 268 were from a small town named Homerville.

On what they thought was a whim, they walked into a convenience store and asked the cashier, “Do you know a guy from here named Len?” The cashier replied, “Yeah, but he’s already gone back to school today.

But Stan ain’t left yet.”

The cashier then called my roommate Stan, who was about to leave for Athens. Stan woke a mechanic up from his Sunday nap, got him to fix their car and they were on their way.

But like the befuddled country bumpkin losing his way among the Peachtrees, it’s also possible for the citified to be directionally stumped when town comes

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to country.

When my wife first moved to Homerville, a co-worker directed her somewhere by saying: “Go through the red light, turn left where the old drive-in used to be then turn right at the old Steedley homeplace.”

Where the old drive-in used to be? How was she supposed to find that? How can she find the old Steedley homeplace? She didn’t even know where the new Steedley homeplace was.

One other advantage of getting directions in a small town: The cashier at the convenience store probably won’t charge you for it.

But you probably should buy something — just to be polite.

Len Robbins is editor and publisher of the Clinch County News in Homerville. His column appears weekly.

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Continued from 1A chase with US Bancorp which was recommended by staff. Other quotes were obtained from SunTrust, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Capital One Public Funding and Community Bank & Trust in Jefferson.

Terms of the lease purchase through US Bancorp is a three-year with quarterly payments for financing of $296,673 at an interest rate of .923 percent and a five-year lease purchase with an interest rate of 1.131 percent with $280,900 being financed.

Vehicles being replaced will be turned over to the Fleet Maintenance Department for redistribution to other departments or declared as surplus property and disposed of through GovDeals.com, a public auction website. Any funds that are received from disposal of surplus property will be reinvested into the vehicle replacement fund. That fund is currently being audited but had a balance of $79,674 as of Dec. 31, 2011.

Planning matter The board also granted approval to Keith and Linda Cusac to build a 1,152-squarefoot accessory building on their 4.27-acre parcel of property at 73 River Ridge Drive in the River Ridge Subdivision. The property is currently zoned AR. Linda Cusac attended the meeting.

Community Development Director Gina Mitsdarffer said Board of Adjustments had approved the back property line variance needed to place the workshop and garage on the property to meet the lay of the land.

Because commission approval is required under the Jackson County Unified Development Code for “any accessory building or structure in a residential district development that exceeds 1,000 square feet of gross interior space” as to the location, architectural design and size prior to commencing construction,” the request was being made.

Staff recommended approval and the board unanimously agreed to the motion offered by District 2 Commissioner Chas Hardy.

Elections office seeks to add third full-time post The commission also held a work session that included a written request submitted from Elections Supervisor Lori Wurtz to change a part-time clerk position to a full-time Deputy Registrar in anticipation of the added workload coming from the Jackson County Board of Elections and Registration assuming responsibility for municipal elections. Tina Coe currently works in the department as a part-time scanning/imaging clerk.

“Out of sheer necessity we ask that this position be changed from Scan Clerk to DRE Coordinator and be made full time effective immediately,” said Wurtz, who support for the needed changes.

“First, as you are already aware, our department has grown significantly in demands and responsibilities, but has not grown in staff size. This is a concern that is beginning to have an impact on our productivity; we are always struggling to meet a deadline,” said Wurtz. “This will be an interesting year, with new municipal obligations, and other changes that our office will be experiencing.

“In 2012, the additional demands were met by hiring teams of ‘poll workers’ to come into the office and complete various elections related projects. This was largely due to my lack of experience and knowledge of the entire elections process.

Moving forward, it is my desire to utilize less people to do the same amount of work. By having a DRE Coordinator assuming the responsibility of streamlining this process, the cost would be much more manageable,” said Wurtz.

With the added job responsibilities to this department and, specifically the increased duties of the parttime position, it has become necessary to change the parttime position into a full-time position. It is impossible to function properly without this third full-time person,” said Wurtz.

The entire office staff attended classes at Athens Tech at the end of March to learn a brand new state elections system which is more advanced and web-based,

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New technology available should help save the office money, said Wurtz.

“Our office is investigating some new products that are available to us in an effort to save time and money. Easy Vote is relatively new and will reduce the number of poll workers needed at many of our polls, while at the same time providing more innovative procedures for performing our election duties,” said her memo. “With the push of a button, we will have numerous reports available to us in the office as well as streamlining the voting-in-person process. All of our surrounding counties are already using Easy Vote with great success.”

Wurtz is also hopeful that Ballot on Demand will allow the office to print its own ballots with virtually no waste.

“We ‘destroyed’ $5,208 of ballots for the July 2012 and $6,318 ballots for November 2012 General,” said Wurtz.

“We have requested a demonstration of each of these products and are excited to share these cost-cutting opportunities with you.

“I am asking you to appreciate the increase of our responsibilities, our willingness to serve the citizens effectively, and the sacrifices we are willing to make to see this happen,” said Wurtz.

“Our need for this third fulltime person has never been greater.

“Tina is already working in the capacity of DRE Coordinator and I am asking that you make her full time and adjust her job title and compensation accordingly,” said Wurtz, who estimated that with the new technology which would be financed in the expendable equipment budget, as much as $21,000 would be saved with only one election being held. Municipalities will be paying $1 per registered voter for the county to handle elections.

Work session The work session agenda also included items the board is expected to vote on at the May 20 meeting. Commissioners: ■■ Heard from Eric Mosley, Wildfire Mitigation Program Manager for the Georgia Forestry Commission.

To comply with Georgia and Federal Emergency Management Agency requirement, Mosley worked with county officials including EMA Director Steve Nichols and fire chiefs in the communities to develop a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) which provides a community with a road map to reduce its risk from wildfire. A CWPP is designed through collaboration between state and local fire agencies, homeowners and landowner, and other interested parties such as city councils, utilities, homeowners associations, environmental organizations and other local stakeholders.

The plan identifies strategic sites and methods for risk reduction and structural pro-

tection projects across jurisdictional boundaries.

The collaborative core team convened in Fall of 2012 to assess risks and develop the Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

The group is comprised of representatives from local Jackson County government, fire department district reps, Department of Emergency Services and the Georgia Forestry Commission.

County fire chiefs, Emergency Management, county commissioners and the Forestry Commission were involved with county government representatives.

Assessments were conducted on risk, fuels reduction, structural ignitability, emergency management and education and outreach.

Over the past five years, Jackson County has averaged 10.4 reported wildfires per year. February and March showed a slight peak with a decrease in the fall months. Annually wildfires in Jackson County have burned an average of 22.78 acres. Prescribed burning may be responsible for the fact that fires have not increased noticeably and that acreage loss has decreased.

“The local Georgia Forestry Commission office needs to be commended for their valiant work increasing their very impressive prescribed burning regiment,” the plan says. “The leading causes of these fires over the past years in Jackson County were agricultural fires and children which came to almost 90 percent of all fires reported. Though these causes are a bit disturbing, local efforts of outreach and education can easily curb this problem.”

The plan has hazard ratings for communities, ranging from low risk to extreme risk.

■■ Were asked to consider the final submission approval for the Jackson County Airport Layout Plan (ALP). The ALP is an important planning document for smart, efficient and economical growth of the airport while also serving as a useful tool for zoning and land use planning. It is typically updated every 10 years through the cooperative efforts of Jackson County, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT).

The ALP provides the county with basic inventory information for the airport and helps identify potential challenges expected when planning improvement projects. Much of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) data is drawn from the ALP. This ALP is a planning document only and in no way obligates the county to execute any specific project.

■■ Will take under advisement a request for a transit fare increase for the Jackson County Transit Department.

There has not been a rate hike since May of 2009.

While the program is primarily funded with federal

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and local funds, there is a per trip charge for each customer that helps offset the non-reimbursed operating costs to the county.

The proposal calls for raising the in-county, oneway ride to $4 from $3 and the roundtrip ride to $8 from $6. The out-of-county one-way ride is currently $8 with the proposal to boost the cost to $9. An out-ofcounty roundtrip would go to $18 from $16. Additional stops along the route would remain at $1.

Fare box revenues have generally declined or been flat relative to costs over the past five years.

It is renewal time for the transit application with the Georgia Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation. If approved by the commission, the new contract would be for July through June 30, 2014.

The primary purpose of this program is to provide transportation to the disabled, elderly and the nondriving public. However, recently participants in the Boys and Girls club program and other non-profit programs have become patrons of this program as well, said Poe. The basic federal grant is $173,610, with the county’s share of $86,805.

The county’s program is underwritten with maintenance and operation (M&O) tax dollars. Propes provided a look at the subsidies. In 2012, Jackson County subsidized the program in the amount of $40,020 or approximately $3,335 per month. A historical perspective on subsidies for the program is as follows: 2005 subsidies were $25,101, 2006 subsidies were $29,505, 2007 subsidies were $46,476, 2008 subsidies were $69,653, and 2009 subsidies were $57,168, 2010 subsidies were $61,706, and 2011 subsidies were $40,795.

“It is projected that the program subsidy in Fiscal year 2013 will be approximately $38,860,” said Propes in a memo to commissioners.

The transit program’s fleet includes two mini buses with lifts. A new passenger bus was included in the capital portion of 2009’s application and Rural Transit received the bus in early 2010.

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Continued from 2A “People get most excited about document shredding and they really take advantage of that service by American Security Shredding. We do place a limit of six boxes to assure plenty of space for everyone. The last couple times we’ve sent the truck back to Gainesville with almost a full load of 8,000 pounds of shredded paper,” she said.

The paper is recycled after it is emptied.

“I’m amazed at the number of people, our highest number so far has been 226 vehicles coming through the line, who come out for this day. I’d love to see us top 250 vehicles this Saturday,” she said.

They pull in with trunks, trucks and trailers loaded, taking advantage of recycling and the transfer station.

Normal costs for the transfer remain on May 11.

Recycling of oil and latex paint and florescent light bulbs (six free, $1 per gallon or bulb after that), Atlanta Recycling Solutions comes from Atlanta to take the Ewaste (Televisions are $10 each). Trepagnier said KJCB has used this company for six years and has never been disappointed in their work. “We count on them to take computers from companies and individuals who might not remove their hard drive. They certify that the hard drives have been destroyed each time. ARS is the premier E-waste handler, used by more Keep Georgia Beautiful affiliates than any other company.”

Also on the collection list is auto oil and batteries, household batteries, eyeglasses, good used clothing, in date non-perishable food and aluminum cans.

“We’ve added some new items them year,” she said. “I think we are taking more than any other recycling day so we are about at capacity.”

Remember to bring hard and soft back books, videos, DVDs and CDs and kitchen oil and grease this year.

The books are sold on E-bay and Amazon by Maylen’s Place out of Commerce. If there is no market, they will either be shipped to a third world country or recycled. The kitchen oil and grease will be recycled into Bio Diesel by a Madison County company.

Also on the list is plastic bottles and paper that can be placed in bins at the transfer station.

“We really try to make this a one-stop for people on Recycling Day,” Trepagnier said. “We ask them not to get out of their vehicles. Volunteers will unload their material and they can move on to the next station. The only place they will need to get out of their car is at document shredding.”

She said many people will do their spring cleaning and take advantage of their trip, going on over to the transfer station to drop off their unwanted materials that need to be thrown away.

“Remember, landfill disposal fees will apply,” said Trepagnier, who also gets a number of requests for discarding tires.

“People can take their tires to be recycled at the landfill daily. There is a cost, $2 per auto tire and $5 per truck tire,” she said. “Jackson County must pay the company that takes the tires, plus there is transportation cost and the state does not subsidize this program at all. There was a time, but no longer.”

Trepagnier said the state legislature has passed a bill that will put the money collectedwhen new tires are purchased back in a disposal fund.

“For the last few years, that money has been placed in the state’s general budget, but we are hopeful we will see some relief at the county level for tires that are abandoned on the side of the road. Atthis time, the county pays for the disposal when people abandon their tires on the side of the road. It is illegal and if they are caught, the fine is pretty hefty,” she said.

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In-car camera ID’s driver

By KATIE JUSTICE

person reported walking kjustice@clickthepaper.com down Brockton Road around 11 p.m. was In-car video cameras arrested for being a helped Braselton Police arrest a local man on April 30 pedestrian under the after he tried to flee in a sub- influence and loitering and prowling. division.

An officer on patrol in ■■ On May 4, a traffic the area of Liberty Church stop on Jefferson River Road and Thompson Mill Road for a broken tag Road attempted to stop a light resulted in the man around 11:40 p.m. for arrest of the driver and a failing to maintain lane. The passenger for a warrants driver did not respond to the out of Madison County. officer’s lights and sirens and instead led the officer ■■ On May 3, a Martin into Broadmoore subdivi- Luther King Avenue sion ignoring stop signs and resident reported another speeding through the neigh- resident stealing from a woman for whom the borhood.

After the driver pulled in complainant has power of a driveway, he jumped out attorney. the car and fled behind the ■■ On May 3, the report residence. The officer was of a possible kidnapping unable to locate the man, of a Dawsonville woman but when another Braselton officer and several Jackson turned out to be a prank County deputies arrived, the the woman’s friends subject was recognized as played on her boyfriend Christopher Wade Rowe of when she got very drunk Braselton, thanks to a prior after a night clubbing. incident. He was found to ■■ On May 3, a woman live about three houses down reported damage to her from the incident. property after hitting the When contact with the car in front of her. The Rowe was made, the man other driver left the scene claimed he could not possibly have driven the vehicle saying he “doesn’t have because he didn’t have a li- time for this.” cense. Instead he said it was ■■ On May 2, a Burch a woman that had recently Court resident was brought him home from a arrested on a warrant out bar. of Bartow County after he The man had changed called 911 to inquire if he shirts and wasn’t wearing had an active warrant. pants. However, the officers ■■ On May 2, damage were able to confirm Rowe’s was reported to a identity from the in-car camera, and Rowe was arrested vehicle headed north on and charged with reckless Interstate 85 after a piece driving, failure to yield to an of wood flew out of a emergency vehicle, failure trailer he was behind. to maintain lane, fleeing or ■■ On May 2, a driver attempting to elude police, stopped for reckless driving with a suspended driving was arrested for license, failure to stop at a possession of marijuana stop sign, littering, disor- less than one ounce and derly conduct and operating having pills not in their an unregistered vehicle after he attempted to run from of- original container. ficers when they tried to stop ■■ On May 1, a driver on him for failure to maintain Highway 129 was arrested for driving without a lane. license when the vehicle was stopped for lack of a Smilingvalid Socket ads_9.042x11_Layout 1 registration.

Braselton Police

■■ On April 29, a man driving a motorcycle on Highway 124 was arrested after failing to pull over when an officer attempted to stop him for driving at a speed of 114 mph in a 55 speed zone.

The driver was charged with speeding, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, and reckless driving.

■■ On April 30, a man threatened employees at a warehouse on Braselton Parkway when he asked for a job and they told him that he had to be hired through their corporate job listings.

■■ On May 2 around 1:30 a.m., a vehicle with its headlights on and driver’s side door open was reported in a Highway 124 parking lot. An apparently drunk woman was found inside the vehicle, and after refusing to comply with officers, she was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.

■■ On May 2, a man had his wallet stolen while at a Spout Springs Road store.

■■ On May 5, a man reported the individual renting his Pleasant Oak Drive home forged another person’s signature on the rental agreement.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Office ■■ On May 5, gun shots that were reported on Highway 60 in Pendergrass turned out to be the result of a neighbor shooting at a bird in a tree outside his house.

■■ On May 5, a woman reported receiving harassing phone calls from her husband whom she kicked out their home because of his use of drugs and causing scenes.

■■ On May 4, a woman at a Rockforge Road home reported her soon-to-be ex-husband throwing the couch and a bag of clothes at her after she confronted him about from fraudulent charges in her bank account.

■■ On May 4, a suspicious

CHURCH NEWS

■■ On April 30, while assisting Braselton Police with the arrest of a man who previously fled the scene, a woman continually approached the officers saying they could not arrest the man. She then shouted obscenities at the officers and was arrest and charged with disorderly conduct and obstruction.

■■ On April 30, a work truck for the Town of Braselton was struck by another vehicle as it was parked in a subdivision on Ednaville Road.

■■ On April 30, a verbal dispute was reported at a West Jefferson Street home when a mother discovered her daughter’s boyfriend was spending the night against her wishes.

■■ On April 29, Jefferson man was stopped after he left the scene of an argument because his wife feared he may be drunk. The man was then arrested for driving with a suspended license.

Drug arrest by multiagency narcotics squad agents ■■ On May 2, MANS agents arrested Jonathon Kane Jackson 22, of Braselton, during the course of an undercover drug investigation.

He was arrested after traveling to a predetermined location on Mundy Mill Road in Hall County to sell a quantity of marijuana.

He was arrested without incident for posssession of marijuana and possesssion with intent to distribute.

He was booked in at the Hall County Jail.Page 1 5/2/13 3:19 PM

Crossview Church is hosting a yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, since last weekend’s planned event was rained out.

Crossview Church is located at 1219 Highway 124 in Hoschton. The church phone number is 678-425-9831.

Furniture, lighting fixtures, baby clothes, plants, household items, baby items, plus lots more will be available and all proceeds will benefit the Inner City Girls Youth Retreat/Mission. sss Covenant Baptist Church is a covenant community of believers who trust in the power of the gospel of Christ to save and transform lives, and are seeking to follow Jesus as Lord.

Join us this Sunday in the Hoschton Depot at 9:30 a.m. for Sunday school as we explore the good news of salvation using the Gospel Project series from LifeWay; and at 10:30 a.m. as we worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in spirit and truth.Visit covbc. org. sss On Sunday, May 12, White Plains Baptist Church will honor Mothers.

Children’s Church will sing and Moms will receive a gift. Join us for the special day with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and the worship service at 11.

Remember the tell your Mom “Thank you” and “I love you” for all she has done for you. White Plains Baptist Church is located at 3650 Highway 124 W., in Jefferson. Call 706-367-5650. sss Register now for Kingdom Rock VBS set for June 17-21 at The Springs Church. Join The Springs from 6-8:30 p.m. each evening for this fun and exciting week of music, games, Bible stories, crafts, food and new Christian friends. Kids ages 3 years through rising 5th grade are invited. A light dinner is served from 6-6:30 p.m.

Register before June 16 on www. thespringschurch.org Questions?

Email childrens@thespringschurch. org or call 770-335-9073. The Springs Church is located at 6553 Spout Springs Road. sss Arbor Pointe Church is having Vacation Bible School on June 16-20 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Braselton

Prep facility in Braselton.

“We will kick it off with a familyfriendly DJ on Sunday night,” said lead pastor Brad Greene who can be reached at brad@arborpointe.org or 770-272-6778. sss A friendly and inviting Bible Study meets every Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Braselton Library. The current topic is the Book of Acts. Contact Rev. Brad Greene of Arbor Point Church at 770-272-6778 or brad@arborpointe. org. sss Yoga is available at 7 p.m. on Mondays at Hoschton United Methodist Church. The class is free but please bring a food donation for “Back-pack” ministry. Email jah1996@ aol.com. HUMC is located at 12 Mulberry St., in Hoschton. sss Northeast Church’s “The Caring Place” ministry provides assistance to those in need and helps meet physical and spiritual needs in the community.

The ministry offers food, clothing and free haircuts monthly, thanks to a host of volunteers. It is held the first Wednesday of every month from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Northeast Church.

The entrance into The Caring Place is located on the Highway 124 side of the building, at 100 Broadway St., in Braselton. Contact Northeast Church at 706-654-3205 or admin@ mynortheastchurch.com. sss Bible study will be held from 8:309:30 a.m. on Saturdays in the Union Baptist Church fellowship hall in Barrow County beginning on June 8.

Opening The Windows Of Blessing: Haggai/Zechariah/Malachi will go for 13 weeks. Only 15 minutes of homework a day during this study.

Contact Karen Hawkins at khawk717@lycos.com or call 678-6894148 or email Diana Ramsey at diana@ winderubc.org or call 770-867-7273. sss Feeding Jackson County Mobile Food Pantry will be at the Pendergrass Flea Market on Tuesday, May 21. Gates open at 7 a.m. and volunteers begin handing out food at 8 a.m. First come, first serve. You must be a Jackson County resident with ID.

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LeAnne Akin The Paper

A winning solar car speeds to the finish line; Winder-Barrow Middle School won first in design and second in performance/speed; Don Lohmeier was one of the design judges.

Teams compete in Jackson EMC’s Junior Solar Sprint at Road Atlanta

By LEANNE AKIN

LeAnne Akin The Paper

lakin@clickthepaper.com

Competitors in the Jackson EMC Junior Solar Sprint competition held Friday at Road Atlanta had to resort to battery power as weather conditions prompted the move of the race track for solar-powered model cars under the Hospitality Chalet pavilion.

Chestatee Middle School was the winner of the speed/ performance portion of the May 3 competition, and Winder-Barrow Middle School took second place by edging out West Hall Middle School. W-BMS took the first-place trophy in the design competition with North Gwinnett Middle placing second and Creekland Middle in third.

Jackson EMC hosted the competition with Sol America as presenting sponsor.

Other sponsors included Green Power EMC, Road Atlanta, Skip Barber Racing School, Right Choice, First Century Energy and PPT

Batteries are installed for the race when solar power wasn’t available due to rain. See more scenes at ClickThePaper.com Promotions.

Fifteen area middle schools competed in speed/ performance and design of solar-powered model cars.

Junior Solar Sprint teaches principles of energy and science in an atmosphere that is fun and exciting for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. Participants build small, solar-powered model cars using identical solar panels and motors.

The competition is the culmination of the learning experience.

“The JSS is designed to teach principles of energy and science in a fun and exciting atmosphere that’s teaching our young folks

about alternative energy sources,” says Randall Pugh, president and CEO. Geoff Lee, president and general manager of Road Atlanta, welcomed the competitors to the venue and Casey Carden, regional chief instructor of Skip Barber Racing, gave an overview of the school.

Kay Parks, who works in public relations and community relations for Jackson EMC, welcomed Sol America and 1st Century Energy president Stan Allen to the event.

The purpose of the Junior Solar Sprint is to teach principles of energy and science in an atmosphere that is fun

and exciting.

The Winder-Barrow Middle School team of Adam Parker, Chris Wilko, Katherine Black, Trace Freeman, Vince Sparacello, Tyler Laseter and Bailey Brock is advised by Curtis Mathis. The team won second in design in the 2012 contest.

Teddie Lohmeier and her husband Don were among the judges for the competition. A retired educator, Teddie Lohmeier and Kay Parks met in a leadership program and Parks said Teddie’s “brain is as big as her heart.”

She has been involved with the Solar Sprint since its inception four years ago.

The first competition took placed on the East Jackson Comprehensive High School tennis courts and was held at Lanier Raceway before finding a home at Road Atlanta two years ago.

In Junior Solar Sprint activities, students are encouraged to use math and science principles, together with their creativity, as a means

of stimulating interest in technology and incorporating these principles in their education, daily practices and career plans.

Lohmeier said when EV program innovation grant funds dried up, there weren’t funding sources available for training of instructors.

In high schools, the Georgia Technology Student Association is where students can continue to pursue their interests in designing and driving their own vehicles. Lohmeier recalls an EV program participant who wanted to be a fantasy novelist and said, after her involvement, found she could pursue a career as a technical writer.

Certified Electric Vehicle Technicians will be needed in the future, said Lohmeier, and perhaps involvement in the Solar Sprint will spark student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Parks noted that Gov. Nathan Deal signed STEM legislation. “It played right into this event,”

said Parks.

The grill was cranked up with Todd Baxter, Terry Fulcher and Ivan Cox of Jackson EMC cooking up hamburgers and hot dogs for the luncheon.

The Kings Bridge Middle School team, advised by Justin Schuska, included Mitchell Walker, Jacob Brock, Blair Langley and Wesley Baxter.

Other schools competing in the solar sprint included Banks County Middle, Creekland Middle, Dacula Middle, East Jackson Middle, Frank Osborne Middle, Madison County Middle, North Gwinnett Middle, North Hall Middle, Richard Hull Middle, Sweetwater Middle and West Hall Middle.

The student who won a racer autographed checkered flag was Laura Fowler of East Hall Middle and the adult winner of a Skip Barber racing experience was Susan Mulkey, whose son, Anthony, is a Richard Hull Middle School student.

Join us for an update on the progress of Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton, scheduled to open in Spring 2015. Come see our new architectural renderings and learn more about our construction to date.

Tuesday, May 21 Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church, Dacula The meeting will be held from 6 - 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided.

To register, visit nghs.com/events or call 770-219-3840.

NGMC Braselton, a 100-bed acute care hospital, is scheduled to open in Spring 2015. Already located on the future hospital campus is Medical Plaza 1, a medical office building that is home to an urgent care center, imaging center, outpatient physical & occupational therapy, lab and physician practices representing more than 20 medical specialties. Medical Plaza 1 is located at 5875 Thompson Mill Road, Hoschton.

Learn more at nghs.com/braselton

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3 area athletes win track title

BY LATRICE WILLIAMS

knowing that I represented them well. I did everything I could to contribute to a state championship,” said Hamrick.

lwilliams@clickthepaper.com

Pole vault champion Jefferson High School was the site of the boys state track and field championship and Dragon Mason Hamrick was in the perfect position to win in front of his home crowd.

He cleared 15 feet to win the state title and admitted after watching his toughest competitor perform well, he had to settle down and refocus on the task at hand.

“It was a great feeling to win at state. I have been waiting an entire year to get to this point,” Hamrick said. “Skylar Toney of Riverside Military Academy cleared 14 feet before I did – when he did that my heart kind of stopped. It kind of brought me back down to reality. I knew what I had to do, I knew how to do it and I went out and did it,” Hamrick said.

After walking into the region tournament over confident, Hamrick said he wasn’t going to carry that same attitude.

“I had to walk tall and compose myself.

At the same time I had to know Skylar could beat me. I had to realize that before I got too cocky,” stated Hamrick.

While Jefferson finished sixth overall as a team, Hamrick was the only state champ from JHS and he was extremely proud to tote the hardware.

“It’s awesome. I love Jefferson and I love

400 meter champion If there was anybody that could have been a three time state champion, it was Michael Cheeks. He was the favorite in the high jump and the 200 and 400 meter dash.

In the 400 meter dash, everyone had their eyes on Cheeks and Grant Swinton from Shiloh High School as those two had been neck and neck into the latter portion of the season.

Yet, it was Swinton who came out as the victor. Cheeks was not able to get around the first curve with a lot of speed which set him back a few meters.

However, Cheeks was not going to leave the city of Jefferson without a trophy in his hand; no sort of inclement weather would deter him in the 200 meter dash.

He saved his best performance for last in the ever so popular 200. The acclaimed race always has recruiters with their eyes on everyone in that heat. Cheeks is committed to the University of West Georgia to play football and they’ll be happy to know he not only won the 200 but posted the best time among all classifications at 22:01 seconds.

See track, 2B

Doug Chellew The Paper

Mason Hamrick took his vaulting career to new heights with a phenomenal 15 foot clearance to garner the 2A state championship last Thursday at Memorial Stadium. Hamrick previously cleared 14 feet and 6 inches at the county championship meet.

YHC signs Panther

BY LATRICE WILLIAMS

lwilliams@clickthepaper.com

and I went up there for a tour and the atmosphere felt like a family. They knew my name; they sought after me. It’s a beautiful campus. I love the program up there and their school is about the size of Jackson County so it felt more comfortable up there,” Swaim stated.

Jenni Swaim knew she wanted to cheer in college; she just had to find a home. After taking some time off from cheerleading to enjoy the last semester of her senior year, she got a very unexpected surprise.

See SWAIM, 2B “I got an email from one of the coaches at Young Harris College saying they wanted to offer me a scholarship to compete on the coed team,” said Swaim.

Many athletes wait by the phone, check the mail or email and anxiously await a letter from any college wanting their services. The Jackson County Comprehensive High School cheerleader didn’t want to have any doubts about coaches contacting her but there was some uncertainty. Now, she can rest assure knowing she will be rooting for the Mountain Lions very soon.

“It’s really exciting. I didn’t have any plans to cheer in college. I thought I would be done cheering in high school. Then I began to rethink things and wondered if someone would want me on their team and I felt like I was good enough to cheer in college.”

When asked how the For the Paper Mountain Lions got her Jenni Swaim shows her school spirit at a JCCHS to finalize her decision, Swaim said, “My family football game with the team mascot.

Q&A with McGarity lwilliams@clickthepaper.com

by latrice williams

to extend your playing days into college?

The tennis season is over for the Lady Dragons but, Tristan McGarity won’t have to retire her racquet just yet. McGarity of Jefferson High School signed to play collegiate tennis at Piedmont College. Believe it or not, McGarity was once a four sport athlete but found her niche in tennis and is ready to make her mark in the USA South Athletic Conference.

A: I am really excited that I get to keep playing tennis. I look forward to taking my game to a new level.

Tennis keeps me active and it helps that I really love the game.

Q: How much did you know about Piedmont prior to signing, what attracted you to the program and what other offers did you have?

Q: How good does it feel to be able

See MCGARITY, 2B

IT’S NOT OVER

The Lady Panthers laid the groundwork for success

BY LATRICE WILLIAMS

lwilliams@clickthepaper.com

Their season may be over but the Lady Panthers are just getting started. The triumph they have seen in the last few years is unprecedented.

The Jackson County Comprehensive High School girls’ golf team suffered less than three losses on the year. Players were persistent day in and day out and wanted to make a point to strive for victory when they step foot onto the course, whether it be at practice or in a match.

Head Coach Jeff Algard commended his squad for their season’s performance.

“They played with a lot of desire to succeed and that showed for the season record that we had,” Algard said.

Their early exit certainly rang loud as they were predicted to be a frontrunner in the state title run but they kept a winning record. It was a record they sought not just for themselves but for future athletes to follow.

“I would like to say this season was a great success with an overall record of 18-2 in the regular season and the girls played wonderful,” said Algard.

The Panthers played a nearly flawless season and finished third in the region. The competition was ex-

tremely stiff as North Oconee High School claimed the region title and was the only team out of the 8-AAA region to make it to sectionals.

Your score, not your standing, determines whether you make it to sectionals and beyond. The Lady Panthers needed a score of 320 or lower to make it to sectionals, and they finished with a score of 331.

“There really were no problems with the team throughout the season. Each match brought new and better things to each one with the goal to be ready for region,” stated Algard.

Their mishaps didn’t occur until the region tournament where they finished better than they started.

“We played well but allowed a couple of holes on the front nine to get in our head. Then they settled down and played as well as [they] should. We fell short and that gives us hope that we will have an even better season next year,” said Algard.

Jackson County finished the season as county champions and will not lose any players. The Lady Panthers will be fully loaded next year and will be hungry to make it to sectionals and beyond.

“We will return the entire team and that is a positive fact that they are going to do as well or better next season. I look forward to next season and throughout the time to have the girls work to improve their game,” said Algard.

Panthers playoff run ends

BY LATRICE WILLIAMS

lwilliams@clickthepaper.com

The Panthers couldn’t help the cards they were dealt but they would face powerhouse Ringgold High School in the round of the state playoffs.

RHS laid claim to one state championship appearance in the past three years, and Jackson County knew the odds were against them but didn’t want to succumb to a team just because they were the underdog.

“We obviously did not want the weekend to turn out the way it did but you can’t take anything away from what these guys accomplished this year. I am so proud of this group,” said head coach Tommy Fountain. “Even as we were winning, coaches and opponents were questioning how we were winning without a single dominant pitcher. We literally got the job done without a single pitcher that hit over 81 on the radar gun the entire season.”

However, the hitting for the Tigers batting staff was just too much for JCCHS. “The positive is that we didn’t play bad. We made two errors on the day. Ringgold simply hammered the baseball and played perfect defense with zero errors all day long,” Fountain said.

The Tigers got the show started with a grand slam in the first inning by Chase Burke. That forced Jackson County to dig themselves out of a hole that was way too deep.

The weather was not kind to anyone participating

in sporting events that day, especially to the pitchers. The wind played a huge factor for both pitchers who would have gladly changed the pace and direction of it. If you were a hitter, it was your lucky day and was a great way to take advantage of the breeze that aided balls all day. RHS utilized the airstream to drive their hits.

That battle lasted just five innings, and Jackson County knocked off the rust to play a much better game in round two. However, it was Ringgold that prevailed again in the end.

“We took a calculated risk by holding onto Coleman Barbee for game two to matchup our No. 1 against their No. 2. We knew with their Division I guy on the mound in game one, things would really have to go our way,” Fountain said. “Unfortunately, we had to pull Coleman midway through game two due to a pulled muscle in his side.”

At one point, the Panthers and Tigers were locked up at two apiece. JCCHS stumped pitcher Logan Baldwin in the first two innings but in the fifth, Austin Parrish scored and didn’t stop there.

In the sixth, he kept the momentum going with a sacrifice fly. From there, the Panther batters could not get into a rhythm while Ringgold regrouped to finish the job.

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Changes to Ryder Cup

Jefferson Parks and Recreation football

Basketball camp for youngsters

The Reunion Golf Club Association would like to announce that due to inclement weather, the Ryder Cup has been moved to June 8. The cost is $30; those who are not members will be charged an additional $45 fee. 7 a.m. will mark the start of registration. Tee times are set for 9 a.m. There will be prizes for the winning team.

Those who were already signed up to play will need to resubmit their application.

Those wishing to sign their youngsters up to play football for the Jefferson Parks and Recreation league will able to register starting May 15. Registration will close on July 5 and August 13 is the age control date. There is a $50 deposit fee for the equipment but it is refundable. There is a $90 fee for ages 7-12. The first practice is set for July 29 and the first game is August 24. Jefferson Parks and Recreation is located at 2495 Old Pendergrass Road. Contact Colton Green for more information at 706-367-5116 or cgreen@ jeffersonrec.com

From May 28-31, East Jackson High School will host a basketball camp. The camps will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $75 per child and $50 for additional kids.

Children in kindergarten through eighth grade are eligible to participate. The campers will be responsible for their own snack and lunch but there will be a concession stand open. For more information, contact Coach Turner at 706336-8907 or bturner@jackson.k12.ga.us or Coach Gibbs Gibbs at 706-336-8900 or megibbs@jackson.k12.ga.us

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Female athletes ready for state

BY LATRICE WILLIAMS

lwilliams@clickthepaper.com

The Sprinter Watching Malayshia George compete this year hasn’t been too exciting but it’s not her fault. The mad dasher has been superb in every event this season and left competitors behind. When she steps on the track, it’s a given that she will be about 40 meters to 50 meters ahead of the competition when she crosses the finish line.

However, the pretenders have been weeded out from the contenders and the lanes will be stacked with athletes who have clocked in at times just milliseconds away from times George has achieved this year.

“The competition level in the 200 at the state meet this year is tremendous. There are two girls who have run sub-24 (Malayshia is one) and about eight girls who have run 24.60 or better. A competitor could run a good race and still come in last. It will take a great race to win it,” said head coach Jed Hodges.

“I think Malayshia has the rare opportunity to win three individual state titles (high jump, 200, 400) and we may surprise some folks in the 4x400,” Hodges said.

Her season best in the 200 meter was at the McEachern Invitational where she turned in a time of 23.88.

At state, Akua Obeng-Akrofi of Ar-

cher, Simone Glenn of Brookwood and Stormm Phillips of Valdosta High School all have a legitimate shot at defeating George.

“Malayshia has always performed best when the competition level is high,” stated Hodges.

Yet, in the 400 meter, George should win the event hands down.

Unlike the 200, George doesn’t have anyone within milliseconds of beating her. She typically sits anywhere between two and four seconds above the rest.

The Runners Much can be said about what Lauren Hovis has done this year. Hovis had all the potential to be a serious threat all year but saved her performances for the latter part of the season.

She began to make her presence felt in the region meet on April 18 where she finished two seconds behind Katherine Yost of Norcross High School in the 1600-meter run.

Now, Hovis has set the track on fire and has no intention on putting out the flame.

“I get emotional when Lauren runs. She trained so diligently since the end of last season. She is a competitor in the truest since of the word.

She will be ready,” Hodges said.

Yost, who is committed to the University of Mississippi, was the one to beat all year in the 1600- and

3200-meter runs. Now Hovis has emerged as the front runner in the 3200 and could take the 1600 but will need to shave off a few more seconds.

“Coach Tom Kutter has her on a regular routine that has worked so I don’t think there will be much change in the physical training,” said Hodges.

At Jefferson, cross country star Reese Bowles will be looking for a state title but will have to trot quickly.

At sectionals, Bowles finished fourth in the 3200 meter at 12 minutes and 20 seconds and sixth in the 1600 at 5 minutes and 41 seconds. The Wildcats of Westminster High School are leading in both events. Bowles can definitely pull the upset over all of the competition but will need to skin nearly 30-40 seconds off of her time in each event.

“I think she has a good chance in the 1600 and 3200 meter,” said head coach Tim Corbett.

The nasty weather last Saturday definitely played a role in the performance level of athletes but Corbett is confident the girls will be ready, especially when you consider that rain is not in the forecast.

“They certainly will not have to pull from within like the boys did.

Some of the boys results came down to kids overcoming the odds,” said Corbett. “The warm temps will not only affect their attitudes but their body.”

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Malayshia George has could be a three time state champion and give the Hawks a good chance to bring home another trophy.

George will has cleared 5 feet and 8 inches in the high jump and still leads the state in the 400 meter dash.

BASEBALL

SWAIM

JCCHS finished the season 16-12 and made the Panthers made their first appearance in the state playoffs in more than 25 years.

Looking ahead, the Panthers return Coleman Barbee and Nick Corso, who have been two of the top performers this year. Senior Chase Dunlap saw five wins on the year leaving him undefeated in every start he made this season.

Jackson County produced two three-game winning streaks throughout the season.

“Regardless, this experience will only be a positive for the guys. We’ve got 16 returning varsity players heading into next season,” said Fountain. “You couldn’t help but see after the game that the guys got a taste of what it’s like to be there,” said Fountain.

“Once you get that taste in your month, you can’t help but put the work in to get back to the same place and win the next time around,” Fountain said.

Swaim’s senior year could not have been a better one. She cheered in her first playoff game during football season, got to wear the school’s new uniform and experienced cheering on her team in front of an excited fan base. It’s those experiences, along with others, that will help her adjust to her new role on the co-ed team at Young Harris.

“The experience I had cheerleading here on the co-ed team will definitely be helpful. All the hard work I did here will help prepare me for college,”

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Continued from 1B Swaim said.

Coach Derelle McMenomy saw an opportunity for Swaim to follow her dream. Swaim said she knew she couldn’t turn down the chance and she followed her coach’s advice.

“As soon as I got the email, I told Mrs. McMenomy and asked her if I should cheer there. She said yes because that is a door that may not open again,” said Swaim.

“It’s been a big blessing and I’m excited to meet new people.”

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Continued from 1B “I was really pissed about the 400 meter so I had to redeem myself in the 200. Plus I knew the 10 points would really help us get the team title,” said Cheeks.

Cheeks was also awarded the High Point Award; the accolade is given to the athlete that has the best performance in each classification. Cheeks finished first in the 200, third in the 400, fifth in the high jump and helped his team achieve a first place finish in the 4x400 meter relay.

1600 meter champion

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From top to bottom: Tyler Woodrome fights for a first place finish in the 1600 meter run with other competitors very close behind.

Michael Cheeks said the weather played a factor in how well he competed in the high jump but he still managed to clear 6 feet and 6 inches.

“That was crazy. I didn’t even know I had it in me in the beginning of the season.”

That was the response of Tyler Woodrome when asked what it felt like to beat Josh Brickell from Peachtree Ridge High School in the 1600 meter run. It’s safe to say that most would have picked Brickell to win the event at the beginning of the season but Woodrome had something to say about that and allowed his legs to do the talking.

“No one was really expecting [that from me]. I thought at the most I would finish at 4 minutes and 20 seconds. I knew if I stayed close to his times, I definitely had a chance,” said Woodrome.

At the region meet, Woodrome finally got the recognition he deserved by being crowned the region champ in the 1600 and setting a new personal record at 4 minutes and 13 seconds. His momentum never died and he clocked in at 4 minutes and 15 seconds at state.

Woodrome, who is a junior, had the attention of the University of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee but they will have one more year to fight over him. Woodrome will return next year with the hopes of staying healthy for another big finale.

Class 6A state champions The field event specialists must be applauded with the superb performances at state.

“It was a great feeling. Everyone came together and really pushed for the win,” said Woodrome.

Kaleb Kim and Jake Lund threw extremely well in the discus. Kim finished behind powerful John Patterson of Parkview High School who was a strong favorite to win the event. Lund finished in fifth place; both of their scores gave the Creek the points they needed to stay in the title hunt.

“I was surprised by that but knew we could all perform really well. Then Charlton placed fourth in the vault and that really helped as well,” Woodrome stated.

“It was big for Kaleb because he placed higher than expected and so did Jake Lund. Charlton Bassett also came up big for us in the pole vault so the guys that were in the field events got the points started off right for us,” Cheeks said.

The icing on the cake was Mill Creek’s 4x400 meter relay team who placed first at state. The team was comprised of Michael Cheeks, Allen Eckles, Brandon Holley and Tyler Woodrome.

MCGARITY

Continued from 1B A: Initially I didn’t know anything about Piedmont. I started visiting schools and nothing seemed to click.

I was talking to Coach Jim Bryan, my freshman varsity coach and he asked had I checked out Piedmont so I did.

What attracted me to the program was the fact that the school was small and everyone seemed to know each other.

Emmanuel made me a nice offer and it was difficult to make that final decision but I felt that Piedmont was the best choice for me.

Q: Talk about the experience you had playing at Jefferson and do you think playing at Jefferson helped prep you for collegiate tennis?

A: This season I was undefeated until the Sweet 16. It was a great year for my team and me. There were only seven girls on the team and since we were so small we grew very close. I was the team captain and the girls

looked up to me. It was a new experience with added pressure that I think I handed pretty well. I put this pressure on myself as I wanted to set an example to the others. The one thing on my mind was not losing.

In the midst of that I was playing middle school then high school tennis, I also played in individual tournaments around the state of Georgia. All of that helped to prepare me to play tennis at Piedmont.

Q: You built a tennis resume this season for others to marvel at and spent all year undefeated until the Sweet 16. What did it mean to you to finish the season with just one loss?

A: I am very proud of how my season turned out. It was awesome that For The Paper my senior year was the best year for myself and a great year for my team McGarity’s winning ways will make her a making it to the state Sweet 16. It’s great addition to the Piedmont College great to graduate and leave on a high Lions. note.”

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Humane Society has 2 events on slated for Saturday Animals are near and dear to many people’s hearts. In fact, they are more than just pets — they are considered family members.

If you are one of the lucky ones who cannot imagine life without Fluffy or Farah Bohannon Rover, then keep Columnist reading to find out how you can help the animals who are not fortunate enough to have a loving family or the resources to live a healthy life.

There are two events happening at the Humane Society of Jackson County’s (HSJC) Pet Fest this year.

On Saturday, May 11, the ninth annual Pet Fest will be held at Crow’s Lake in Jefferson at the corner of Damon Gause Parkway and Highway 11. There will be vendors present, and there are still spots available. This event will take place from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. There will be food, pet demonstrations, pet services and a kids’ area with inflatables. Admission is free.

The second annual motorcycle ride — Ride Like The Animals — is also happening on Saturday, with the ride beginning in Bogart at Cycle World, which is a huge sponsor. The ride will end at the Mountain Valley Bank across from Crow’s Lake. The law enforcementescorted ride is a poker fun run.

As with all of the Humane Society of Jackson County’s events, funds raised go to the cost of maintaining the foster, subsidized spay/ neuter and food bank assistance programs. These events are also a great way to educate the community about the importance of these matters. The subsidized spay/neuter program aids pet owners who have limited financial resources but know that the right thing to do is spay/neuter.

“Spaying and neutering personal pets is the answer to the unwanted animals that are abandoned every day,” says Margaret Lang of the HSJC. “Every day, unwanted and abandoned animals are taken to be euthanized by residents and animal control because there is no room in the foster program. Hopefully, residents will attend Pet Fest and learn how they can prevent this from continuing,” says Lang.

There are many ways that people can help the HSJC — become a member, volunteer, become a foster parent or donate.

“Fostering is extremely rewarding because you realize that you have saved a life,” says Lang.

These events will not only be informative, but they’ll be fun and educational for everyone.

Registration for Ride Like The Animals is $25, but passengers ride free. Riders will receive a T-shirt, water bottle cooler and one card in the poker run. Register online or at Cycle World on May 11. Ride registration starts at 10 a.m. and its kickstands up at 11. Stops along the way include Kings Bridge Middle School, Ingles in Commerce and Gresham Motorsports Park where riders will receive another card in the poker hand. The lucky rider with the best hand will win a $200 gift card to Cycle World.

Registration forms are available at http://www.hsjc.com/events_ ride.html For more information, please call http://www.hsjc.com/ events_ride.html or send an e-mail to hsjc1111@gmail.com.

The HSJC is a 501©(3) not-forprofit organization. In addition to their daily function, they are in the midst of a capital campaign to raise funds to build the first animal shelter in Jackson County as well. The highly successful Plunge for Paws in February and Fur Ball in March funds were dedicated to the shelter campaign. So many more animals will benefit from this shelter.

Please come out and Ride Like The Animals!

Farah Bohannon is a freelance writer living in Winder. She loves to utilize her skills to write inspiring stories. Reach her at farah.bohannon@gmail.com

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Lenore Wagoner and Sherlyn Taylor each work on individual knitting projects during their weekly knitting group that welcomes experienced crafters or those who want to learn about knitting or crocheting.

Community service includes more than 3,000 pieces from fellowship of friends

By KATIE JUSTICE

kjustice@clickthepaper.com

Every Tuesday around lunch time the parking lot at New Liberty United Methodist Church begins to fill as women of all ages, races and religions begin to trickle into a building off shooting the sanctuary.

Each week, the Braselton Library Knitting Group, which averages more than 20 women, meets to work on handcrafted projects ranging from hats for chemotherapy patients and helmet liners for soldiers to blankets for hospitalized veterans and women living in shelters.

While approaching the meeting, chatter and laughter can be heard from the street, but don’t be fooled. Everyone is steady at work.

“It’s like an old-fashioned quilting bee except we work on individual projects,” says founding member Gail White.

The Braselton Library Knitting Group celebrated its fourth anniversary on the last day in April.

The group got its start in 2009, when a group of about five ladies met for the first time at the Braselton library.

“After I retired, I thought, what am I going to do now?” said Betty Billard, one of the women behind the group, who joked she didn’t want to spend every moment at home with her also retired husband.

According to White, membership increased quickly, and the group out grew the library in less

We have a lot of good fellowship here, and we have threads that bind us.

Betty Billard A founding member

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Founding members Betty Billard and Gail White show items the group has made for charity including blankets and dolls with five outfits each to be given to young girls at Peace Place. than a year and a half. The left the library conference room, which only seated 14—17, if the group brought in extra chairs, and moved to New Liberty, which has enough room to easily fit the more than 20 ladies.

Members of the group are free to work on whatever project they like, whether it is an item for charity or personal use. However, the amount of items donated more than the past four years is between 2,000-3,000.

“We don’t charge for anything.

It is a community service, and it

is a gift of love,” said Billard.

The Braselton Library Knitting Group meets every Tuesday at New Liberty United Methodist Church from noon-2:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend, and no knitting or crochet skills are required.

“We absolutely love to teach,” said Billard, and White admits that group members sometimes fight over who gets to teach newbies how to knit or crochet.

“We have a lot of good fellowship here, and we have threads that bind us,” said Billard.

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Lee Barrett, Jan Coursey and Marjorie Cooper have their hands busy while they’re steady in conversation during a Tuesday session.

May 9 is RED DAY

Blood drive and Food for Kids collection is this Thursday: Give where you live

Keller Williams – Braselton is hosting a RED DAY (Renew Energize Donate: Give where you live!) blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at the Keller Williams office located at 3730 Village Way in Braselton. Call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org to make an appointment for the American Red Cross blood drive. Walk-ins are also welcome. Donors should eat well and drink of caffeine-free liquids before and after donating blood.

A Food for Kids drive is also being conducted as a part of Red Day. Keller Williams Lanier Partners is partnering with Barrow County Cooperative Benevolence Ministries and the Northeast Georgia Food Bank to stock the pantries for the families of children served by the Food for Kids program. In Barrow, 145 children are provided with food on Friday afternoons to help get them through the weekend with kid-friendly, nonperishable food which requires little or no preparation. In Jackson, 35 children are served and 400 Hall County children are helped.

Publix is providing bags for donations in

addition to the reusable RED DAY shopping bags which donors are receiving as a gift for their donation. Drop-off locations are the Keller Williams locations in the S&S Ace Hardware shopping center in Braselton and at Keller Williams Realty Lanier Partners at 631 Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville.

Among the food items include canned tuna fish, canned chicken, Vienna sausage, chili, beef stew, Spam and beans and franks, peanut butter, cereal, Pop-Tarts and breakfast bars, canned fruits, beans and vegetables, soups, canned pasta dinners, dried beans, tomato sauce and paste, spaghetti sauce and canned juices. Kitchen essentials including sugar, flour, cooking oil, cornbread mix, salt and pepper are also welcome. Other requested items include toiletries, laundry detergent and can openers.

Checks made payable to Keller Williams Lanier Partners, with the county you would like you donation earmarked for noted on the Memo line, can also be dropped off on or before May 9. Call 678425-1988 for more information.

Red Cross looks to grow its presence The American Red Cross, founded in 1881 by Clara Barton, is a nationally known and well respected not-forprofit organization whose mission is “prevent and alleviDaniel Holden ate human suffering in the face of emer- American Red Cross gencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.”

The local East Georgia Chapter has been serving the Jackson County community since the mid 1980’s and provides a number of key services.

Each year we serve the community by providing Service to the Armed Forces, Health and Safety Training, Blood Services, and Disaster Services.

In 2012, a total of 254 clients were helped in Jackson County alone.

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The Paper | Thursday, May 9, 2013

May Day observed at Long Museum

Ronda Rich is appearing May 14 on Brenau campus Ronda Rich, best-selling au“I welcome this opportunity thor and Southern humorist, will to come back to Brenau and to entertain on Tuesday, May 14, at perform on the stage of beautiBrenau’s legendary Pearce Audiful, history-rich Pearce Auditotorium. rium. When we decided to film The popular speaker whose this DVD of my stories, it felt weekly storytelling column apright to come home to Gainespears in 53 newspapers across the ville and Brenau to share this Southeast will share her stories of event with the people who humor and inspiration which are have loved and supported me told as seen through the eyes of from the beginning of my caRonda Rich and Dixie reer,” said Rich.

Southerners.

The event, which has compli- Dew at a booksigning.

“It is my gift back to the commentary admission, begins at 6:30 munity and school of my raisp.m. and is being recorded for a DVD. Rich, ing,” Rich said. the author of five non-fiction books including She has appeared on numerous television a trilogy of the wildly-successful What South- shows including The View, CNN, Fox Sports, ern Women Know series, is a Brenau journal- The Other Half as well as in the pages of ism/broadcasting graduate. A movie based Southern Living, USA Today, Redbook, Coson her only novel, The Town That Came A- mopolitan, New York Times, Washington Courtin’, will begin filming this summer.

Post and others.

Friends receives grant from state Friends group Friends of the BraseltonWest Jackson Library has received a $500 grant from Friends of Georgia Libraries (FOGL) to support a community program by well-known Georgia author Ronda Rich.

This annual grant is awarded to the Friends group organizing the most far-reaching event with an author residing or born in Georgia.

“Author events are a powerful way to engage a diverse audience in what’s going on in the local library and introduce people to the crucial services libraries provide in a community,” says Kathy Ash, President of Friends of Georgia Libraries. “Ronda Rich is a wonderful Georgia author, and FOGL is proud to help Friends of the Braselton-West Jackson Library make her appearance possible by contributing towards the expense of this appear-

ance.”

Ronda Rich is a best-selling author and syndicated columnist. Her latest title, There’s a Better Day A-Comin, follows What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should) and the national best-seller What Southern Women Know About Faith.

Dan Aldridge, president of Friends of the BraseltonWest Jackson Library was at the FOGL Spring Workshop on April 19 at the East Cobb Library in Marietta, to receive the grant.

Ronda Rich will speak at the Spring membership drive which will take place from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, at the Kenerly Farm.

Admission to this event is free and it is open to the community.

You can become a 2013 member of the Friends of

the Braselton-West Jackson Library for only $10.

The Kenerly Farm is located at 1688 Highway 53 in Hoschton. The event will be held rain or shine.

For more information, contact Dan Aldridge at 678714-9796.

Friends book sale on the porch is June 5-8 The annual book sale on the porch of the Braselton Library will be held starting at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5. Wednesday hours will be from 1-5 p.m.

The sale will continue from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 7; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 8.

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The ladies who created May Day baskets at the May 1 Museum event posed, below, for Laura Collier, Guest Services Coordinator of the Crawford W. Long Museum.

The Maypole was decorated outside the Crawford W. Long Museum in Jefferson to welcome May Day on May 1. Above, Maypole dancers were, left to right, Laurianna, Lucas and Landon Johnson with their mother April Johnson. The family was enjoying pizza at Jefferson Pizza Kitchen across the street and walked over to see the maypole that was erected by Posey Henson for the Museum’s annual May Day festivities. The Museum is hosting an “Ask Granny” program in May (see page 7B) and a History Camp for children this summer.

RED CROSS Continued from 3B

As part of our efforts to serve our military, we provide communication between service members and their families during an emergency. We help relay messages for both joyful and sad occasions. We also help connect military families with local community resources and provide resiliency, coping and preparedness training for military families during times of deployment.

Finally, we support our wounded warriors, veterans, active members and military hospitals through reintegration programs and holiday mail for heroes.

Working with numerous volunteers, businesses and government agencies, we provide preparedness, health and safety training and education. This training includes courses and certifications in first aid, CPR, AED, water safety and babysitting. We also provide disaster preparedness and resiliency training including emergency planning and preparation. Local citizens can be Red Cross ready by getting an emergency kit prepared, making a plan and staying informed.

Our blood services supplies more than 40 percent of the blood collected in the United States. We are the nation’s largest blood collection organization. Each month, working with local host businesses, we conduct blood drives to give opportunities to the community to donate their life-saving blood. For each pint of blood donated, up to three lives can be saved.

Each year, the American Red Cross responds to more than 70,000 disasters in the United States ranging from home fires affecting single families to major disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and wild fires that affect

hundreds or even thousands of people at a time. In these events, the American Red Cross provides comfort and a helping hand in the form of temporary shelter, food, personal comfort items and health services including mental health services. The East Georgia Chapter maintains a disaster team on-call at all times. Last year alone, the American Red Cross provided direct disaster assistance to 41 adults and children who suffered losses to local disasters in Jackson County, spending nearly $21,000 in direct relief assistance.

During 2013, the East Georgia Chapter including blood services will continue to serve the needs of the community and are looking to grow our presence locally. In addition to conducting more local blood drives and health and safety training opportunities, we also look to grow our fundraising efforts through a variety of means.

Local businesses and individuals may wish to donate funds to help support local disaster relief by becoming a HERO for the Red Cross or by participating in special upcoming events.

For more information on your local East Georgia Chapter American Red Cross or if you would like to volunteer or donate to support the mission of the American Red Cross, call the chapter office at 706-3531645 or visit the following websites: http://www.redcross.org/ga/athens https://www.facebook.com/redcrossega http://www.redcross.org/charitabledonations http://www.redcrossblood.org/

Daniel Holden is the development director for Northeast Georgia Chapter and the East Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross. He can be contacted 404-693-2304 or daniel.holden@redcross.org.

Bob Richardson of the Tri-County Amateur Radio Club was joined at the April Friends of the Library lunch and learn by club president Al Meiger.

Friends of the Library pass leadership gavel

Hamilton State Bank continues support of AFTERWORDS, the gift shop and cafe

By KATIE JUSTICE

kjustice@clickthepaper.com

The Friends of the Braselton-West Jackson Library hosted its second lunch and learn of 2013 under new leadership in April.

In addition to a visit from the Tri-County Amateur Radio Club, which serves Barrow, Jackson and Hall counties, the Friends of the Library announced their newly-appointed leaders.

Dan Aldridge, former vice president, replaced Judee McMurdo as president. Tom Walden assumed the role of vice president and Elaine Still took over as treasurer.

The new members at-large are Cindy Green, Gail Zeeb and Mary Ann Kenerly.

Before the new officers took over, outgoing treasurer Roy Fulkerson gave a summary of the Friends of the Library’s finances, which included more than $17,000 spent on purchasing e-book $5,000 spent for regular books for the Piedmont Regional Library system.

The Friends of the Library also received their annual donation from Hamilton State Bank for $1,000 that covers the cost of supplies and good for AFTERWORDS, the Library’s gift shop and café, so that all money from purchases is profit.

After business was han-

dled the president and vice president of the Tri-County Amateur Radio Club took the floor to discuss what they call the “original social media.”

“It’s an exciting window to the world,” said club president Al Meiger of amateur radio.

Amateur Radio, also called ham radio, is used for non-commercial transmissions, including emergency communications.

“It’s a learning experience when you do this type of thing because you’re talking to people all around the world,” said vice president Bob Richardson.

In addition to being able to meet and speak with people from around the world, ham radio is frequently used for emergency communications when other lines of communication go down.

The Tri-County Amateur Radio Club also hosts Skywarn Training Sessions, which are another service provided by amateur radio operators. The National Weather Service relies on spotters to report what’s happening on the ground.

Skywarn Training is open to everyone, whether or not they participate in amateur radio.

The Tri-County Amateur Radio Club hosts monthly meetings, and anyone interested in amateur radio is wel-

come to attend. The meetings are from 7-8:30 p.m. in the community room of the Braselton Police and Municipal Court facility. Visit Skywarn.TriCountyARC.com

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Jefferson ranks 29th and Mill Creek is 31st among state’s top high schools, says Newsweek

By KATIE JUSTICE

kjustice@clickthepaper.com

Two local schools made Newsweek’s list of America’s Best High Schools 2013, which was released on the Newsweek website May 6.

The list, which comprises the nation’s top 2,000 schools, scores schools based on graduation rates, college acceptance rates, testing scores and enrollment in advanced courses.

Both Mill Creek and Jefferson High Schools earned a spot on the list, finishing within the top 1500 in the nations and the top 50 for the state.

The scores for the school are comprised of graduation rate (25 percent), college acceptance rate (25 percent), the number of AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student (25 percent), students’ average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), students’ average AP/

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Madison Crawley as Chorus Ismene speaks as the conscious of Ismene, who is played by Savannah Medina.

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IB/AICE test scores (10 percent), and the percent of student enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course (5 percent).

Jefferson High School (JHS) ranked 29th in the state of Georgia and 1370th in the nation. According to Newsweek, JHS has a graduation rate of 92 percent and a college acceptance rate of 87 percent. The average SAT score for JHS was 1564, and the average ACT score was 21.6. The average score on an AP test was 3.2. This combined for a Newsweek score of 2.84 on a scale that reached 5.

Mill Creek High School (MCHS) ranked 31st in the state and 1411 in the nation.

MCHS’s graduation rate is 77 percent, but it’s college acceptance rate is 96 percent for all of its graduates. The average SAT score at MCHS is 1550, and the average ACT score is 23.2. The average AP score at MCHS is 3.3. Overall, MCHS earned a score of 2.82 for its Newsweek score.

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The Jackson County Comprehensive High School Theater Department is breaking in their new black box theater with their newly adapted version of the Ancient Greek classic “Antigone.”

The adaptation was written by drama teacher and show director Bonnie Roberts in response to several of her language arts students complaining about reading the “old stuff.”

“I had them close their books and I told them the story of Antigone as if it were happening right then,” said Roberts. “They were surprised that a story written so long ago could ‘happen’ today. I love the different translations and the beautiful prose and poetry in the “old” versions but I also wanted to help my students make the connection to a classic and universal story.”

Part of Roberts’ goal is to depict the characters as relatable to everyone, even her high school students.

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Soldier Hoplon, played by John Aquino, informing the Creon, the king played by Matthew Lewis, of Antigone’s efforts to bury her brother against the king’s orders. the right thing but often forgetting that there are other people who will be affected by their decisions,” she said.

“They see themselves sometimes as Creon, believing they are right about something but forgetting to listen to others, or they are Ismene trying to keep a loved one from making a bad decision or Haemon trying to make others see both sides.”

For Roberts, studying the classics is a study of human

nature.

“I believe it helps us understand our world now to see that despite our differences, so many things are inherently human and timeless.”

Tickets for the production are on sale now, and seating is very limited. Remaining show dates are May 10 and 11 with curtain at 7 p.m. To purchase tickets, e-mail Roberts at broberts@jackson. k12.ga.us

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Value of agriculture in Jackson County cannot be denied as 40 percent of land is in production

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Jackson County’s first 4-H Rimfire Team On April 27, the Jackson County 4-H 22-Rifle Team competed at the 4-H State Rimfire Match at Rock Eagle in Eatonton, GA. Pictured, left to right, are team members Nicole Sherman, Mallory Peek, Benjamin Rigsby and Charlie Britt.

They are the first team to compete from Jackson County through the 4-H S.A.F.E. Program.

Rigsby competed last year as an individual, where he earned a

bronze merit pin from the Civilian Marksmanship Program. This year, he earned a silver merit pin. The team is coached by Certified Rifle Instructors Tom Rigsby, Rusty Britt and Chris Peek.

Godfrey Family Memorial Archery Tournament is hosted by Jackson Co. 4-H

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Sam Ingram is the Agricultural and Natural Resources Agent for Jackson County Cooperative Extension, located at 102 Cloverleaf Circle, Jefferson, GA 30549. Contact the extension office at 706-367-6345.

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Jackson County Archery Team of 4-H’ers and coaches at the recent tournament.

Jackson County 4-H hosted their annual Godfrey Family Memorial Archery tournament on Saturday April 20, at Maysville Baptist Church.

Seventy-five shooters, five different county 4-H programs and additional coaches and spectators joined them for a beautiful day.

First-place winners in the competition received medallions, and second- and thirdplace winners received certificates during the awards ceremony at the end. Pictured is the Jackson County Archery Team of 4-H’ers and coaches.

Twenty-eight of the first, second and third place winners were from Jackson County.

They were from the following categories and levels:

As I was preparing a presentation about the importance of agriculture in Jackson County for a select group of teachers who are interested in adding agricultural education into their curriculum, I thought I should not limit this presentation to just these few folks, but let all those in the county or at least those who read the paper, the opportunity to know how important agriculture is in Jackson County.

Citing statistics from the 2011 Georgia Farm Gate Value Ingram Report which is compiled and published by UGA Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, Jackson County ranks the No. 8 county in total FarmGate value out of 159 counties in the state of Georgia. No, this is not as good as being ranked 1, but when you think of big production agriculture your thoughts tend to go toward South Georgia with row crops and vegetable production. The fact is that North Georgia; Northeast Georgia in particular has six of the 10 “Top 10” producing counties in the state.

The question then arises of what commodities Jackson County produces to place so high in production value. It is no secret that poultry production is king in Northeast Georgia and poultry in Jackson County is our anchor commodity. Although poultry accounts for more than half of our production value, Jackson County is still a large producer of several commodities such as cattle, horses, forages and goats.

So, although we still have people moving into Jackson County from the metro-Atlanta area remember that 40 percent of our land is still is agricultural production and also remember that agriculture is still very much vested in Jackson County.

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Keller Williams – Braselton is hosting a RED DAY (Renew Energize Donate: Give where you live!) blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at the Keller Williams office located at 3730 Village Way in Braselton. Call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org to make an appointment for the American Red Cross blood drive. Walkins are also welcome.

Donors should eat well and drink of caffeine-free liquids before and after donating blood. A Food for Kids drive is also being conducted as a part of RED Day. See more on Page 3B. sss The Jefferson Police Department will host its annual Police Memorial for officers who died in the line of duty beginning at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May14, at the Living Word Church in Jefferson. sss The Jackson County Historical Society will meet at the Rockwell Masonic Lodge on May 19 at 2:30 p.m. Rockwell Lodge secretary, Doug Easter, will provide the welcome and tell about the Mason’s history and contributions. All Masons in Jackson County are welcome to attend.

The Lodge is at 111 Hall Street (Broad and Hall) in Hoschton, 1.5 miles east of I-85 on SR 53; turn right on Broad Street at Larry’s Garage in the middle of town at City Hall Square and we are at the second stop sign on the left.

For more information, call Tina 706-207-6889. sss Feeding Jackson County Mobile Food Pantry will be at the Pendergrass Flea Market on Tuesday, May 21.

Gates open at 7 a.m. and volunteers begin handing out food at 8 a.m. First come, first serve.

You must be a Jackson County resident with ID and your household income must meet TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program) criteria. sss Learn to square dance with the Fun Time Squares with free classes which started last week from 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Join a square and make a circle of friends while getting in great cardio and lowimpact aerobics to music because square dancing is friendship set to music.

Fun Time Squares dance at Hoschton United Methodist Church located at 12 Mulberry St., in Hoschton. For information, contact FunTimeSquares@att.net or call Bob Hoover at 678906-9899. sss The Hoschton Women’s Civic Club meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Hoschton Depot. All local women

are encouraged and welcome to join. sss The Ride Like the Animals Ride, benefiting the Humane Society of Jackson County, begins Saturday, May 11, at Cycle World, located at 4225 Atlanta Highway in Bogart and ends at Crow’s Lake in Jefferson. It is a policeescorted poker fun run.

Registration starts at 10 a.m. at Cycle World with kick stands up at 11 a.m.

Entry is $25 per bike (no charge for passenger).

Registration fee includes Ride T-shirt and water bottle cooler and one poker hand. Additional poker hands are $5 and additional T-shirts are available for $20.

See more on the event following at Crow’s Lake in Farah Bohannon’s column on Page 3B. sss The Medical Center Auxiliary presents the 2013 Getting Older and Better Workshop on Thursday, May 9, in the community room at Spout Springs Library on Spout Springs Road in Flowery Branch.

Doors open at 9 a.m. with the program beginning at 9:30 a.m.

The event will feature presentations about eye and skin health. Some of the speakers include Lori Lebow, MD, of Gainesville Eye Associates; and Misty Caudell, MD, of Dermatology Associates of Northeast Georgia.

Registration is free, but participants must reserve a spot by calling 770-219-8099 or emailing linda.hollifield@nghs. com. Lunch and a complimentary gift is provided. Door prizes will also be given away. sss Jefferson Community Theatre will present Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, A musical of pure imagination, July 12-14 and July 19-21. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. on July 12-13 and July 19-20 and at 2 p.m. on July 14 and July 21. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for seniors, students and pre-sales. Call 706367-5714 or visit the website. sss Leftover Pets offers low cost spay/neuter surgeries at the clinic located at 610 Barrow Park Drive in Winder. May clinic days are 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, $50 for a female cat and $35 for a male cat. All surgery prices include a free rabies vaccination. We do not add fees for in heat or pregnant animals. Visit http://www.leftoverpets. org. Appointments are required and must be made by calling 800-9785226. sss

Hemophilia of Georgia will be held May 10-12 at the community’s tennis complex. An adult charity event, the three-day tournament will include tournament play, a player dinner and silent auction.

The tournament has currently raised more than $10,000 for the organization that supports Georgians with blood disorders.

Each year, through sponsorships, the tennis tournament has given local kids the opportunity to attend Camp Wannaklot, a week-long residential summer.

This is the only camp in Georgia that provides children who have hemophilia or other inherited bleeding disorders the opportunity to enjoy a traditional camp experience.

Contact Scott Squillace sterlingtennis@gmail.com sss The Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation hosts the Dr. Miles H. Mason Jr., Memorial Golf Tournament annually to benefit the Miles and Lib Mason Children’s Clinic, which provides comprehensive care for the uninsured and underinsured pediatric population in the area.

The 15th annual Dr. Miles H. Mason Jr., Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on May 21 at Chateau Elan Golf Club. Registration and breakfast begins at 9 a.m. with a 10 a.m. shotgun start.

Sponsorship opportunities are available ranging from a $500 driving range sponsorship to the $10,000 presenting sponsorship. Teams are $1,500 with individual players paying $300.

Checks can be made payable to the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, 1755 North Brown Road, Suite 100, Lawrenceville, GA 30043. sss The Braselton area’s biannual Rivers Alive event with Barrow and Jackson counties will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 25.

Participants will convene at 9 a.m. in the Braselton Community Room, located at 5040 Highway 53 in Braselton.

Contact Wise at 706654-3915 ext. 1012 or email ywise@braselton. net sss The Tree House, the children’s advocacy center serving families of Jackson, Barrow and Banks counties, is replacing its regular August fundraiser, Turbo Turtle Trek, with a new fundraiser on Aug. 24 at Crow’s Lake. A Primal Rush Obstacle Course Race, which is currently extremely popular, is planned. Save the date and see www. primalrushocr.com.

sss A concert to benefit the Hall County Animal Shelter’s adoption programs will be held at Laurel Park on Friday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. “Pirates of the Opry,” a Jimmy Buffet tribute band, is scheduled to perform as part of a weekend event known as “Hawgin’ on Lanier.” In addition to the concert, a mud run, car show, KCBS barbecue competition and more is set for Saturday. Those events benefit the Gainesville Jaycees, who will also be selling BBQ dinners at Friday’s concert.

Concert tickets are $15 each or $300 for a table of eight (includes dinner for eight). Get tickets by calling Katie Crumley at 770-297-5504 or emailing kcrumley@hallcounty.org.

Individual tickets will also be available at the door.

Attendees are welcome to come by boat or by car.

Amphitheater seating is available or guests may choose to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating on the lawn. sss Winder-Barrow Football is presenting the 32nd annual Greeson Golf Tournament on May 23 at The Chimneys Golf Course. Team registration is $400 with $150 hole sponsorships and other sponsorships available.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three overall teams with raffle and silence auction items. Visit www.doggsfootball.com sss The annual book sale on the porch of the Braselton Library will be held starting at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5.

Wednesday hours will be from 1-5 p.m.

The sale will continue from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 7; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 8.

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Arts group is planning special June fundraiser The Hoschton Heritage Arts Council will host “Redo,” a fundraising event on June 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Hoschton Heritage Arts Center.

The event will include food, drinks, a photo booth, entertainment and a live and silent auction.

According to Astra Graham, one of the organizers, “Probably the most fun will be what people are wearing. You need to find something old or redone.

You can shop the thrift stores and put together an ensemble and have fun doing so. An award will be given for the best costume.”

“The food, décor and entertainment will be a mixture of items from potluck pork and beans, stylish Junk Gypsies and a rowdy Texas hootenanny,” says Robbie Bettis, an organizer. “Since we are encouraging people to repurpose items, we will have a variety of items for auction that are just that – redone or repurposed. You’ll just have to come and see.”

Two competitive events are part of the big event including a Painted Furniture and a Repurpose Event. Cash awards will be given for first, second and third place in each event and the items entered in the competition become the property of the HHAC and will be auctioned at Redo. For more information on the competitions, visit www.hoschtonheritageartscouncil.com.

Arts Council members are seeking items for the live and silent auctions.

“We hope the local businesses and artists/artisans will donate items,” said Bettis. “We will gladly pick up the items or they may be delivered to the Braselton Antique Mall or Auction Ventures.”

The organizers are selling tickets for Redo for $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers and a discount is offered for purchasing six tickets at $175.

The ticket deadline is June 1. Call 770-540-1099 or email hhac55@yahoo. com for tickets.

‘Ask Granny’ is on May 22 The Crawford W. Long Museum is offering a Lunch and Learn opportunity to the community on Wednesday, May 22. The event will be held upstairs at the Museum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 pm with the program beginning at noon. Due to the workshop nature of this program, reservations are required as space is limited to 20 attendees.

Do your children know the maiden names of each of your grandmothers? Do your children know where each of your grandfathers was born? If the answer is “No,” plan to attend to learn how to give your family an incredible gift as you are instructed on how to record on the ancestor charts provided. This will be a simple, easy and fun way to get the information about your family down on paper.

This “Ask Granny”© Seminar is an educational outreach program featuring Judy Russell and Ann Reynolds of the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society. Both have lots of experience getting people interested in recording their own family history. Everything needed to create personal family trees will be provided.

This is a free program for the community. Those who attend may bring lunch or pre-order a bag lunch for $5. Call the Museum at 706-367-5307 to order lunch or confirm attendance no later than May 21. Lunch can be pre-paid with a credit card over the phone or stop by the Museum at 28 College St., to pay with cash or check.

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Suspicions build as boyfriend erases cellphone call history Dear Margo: I’m 60, and my boyfriend is a few years younger. He recently moved in with me.

His job requires him to meet with people after their workday.

I know he really is doing this on some nights, because I have seen people enter his workplace.

But I worry that he uses this as an excuse to meet with a woman with whom he works closely.

She has a good girlfriend in the office who undoubtedly has her back.

Anyway, my guy nearly passed out when he learned they would be at the same gathering as me.

For a while, he guarded his phone like a hawk.

He says he’d like a relationship where the woman didn’t feel she needed to check his phone — but once when I did, he had erased a call he had gone outside to take.

I confronted him, but he had no answer.

I don’t think he’s actually doing anything terrible, but what looks like him cover-

Dear Margo ing up things leads me to speculate and feel suspicious.

He is very loving, and we get along in many ways, but there are an awful lot of excuses.

What if I don’t “catch” him but still feel anxious?

I just asked him to see a couples counselor, and he agreed. — Looking for Balance Dear Look: There is no joy in being Miss Marple in a romantic relationship, and yet some of the things you mention do require explanations.

The good news is that the two of you can hash all of this out in counseling, and it’s a positive development that he’s willing to go. I hope the outcome is successful. — Margo, opti-

mistically Dear Margo: After 37 years of marriage to my father, my stepmother passed away. I’ve tried to be supportive to my dad, but it’s not easy.

If one isn’t a born-again, anti-gay, anti-everything conservative, then that person is obviously “hellbound.”

And that describes me, his only child and probable captain of the Hell-Bound Express.

After doing my best to be patient, tolerant and aware of his loss, he calls one morning (at work!) to tell me what a miserable, stuck-up, elitist shrew I am.

He railed about issues from years ago, blamed me for my ex’s cheating and ended the conversation with, “I wouldn’t tell you all of this if I didn’t love you so much.”

Here’s my dilemma: the scattering of my stepmother’s ashes.

My kids and I are expected to be there.

I would like to go to pay my respects, but I honestly

do not want to deal with this vitriolic man. — FedUp Only Kid Dear Fed: I see no reason for subjecting yourself to further abuse.

Your dad sounds unbalanced — and mean.

To finesse your exit from this psychodrama, I suggest going to the service, because he’s unlikely to attack you there.

(But you never know.)

After that, I would make a break for it.

Tell him you’re severing the relationship because you love him so much that you can’t bear to add any more rotten memories to the ones you already have.

— Margo, self-protectively

Dear Margo is written by Margo Howard, Ann Landers’ daughter. All letters must be sent via the online form at www.creators.com/dearmargo. Due to a high volume of e-mail, not all letters will be answered.

WORKING IT OUT

Dear Margo column draws to a close This will be my last column as Dear Margo. I have been giving advice for 15 years — first as Dear Prudence and then under my own name. I have been writing for newspapers for 45 years. The time feels right to retire from deadline journalism. I plan to write long-form pieces as the spirit moves me.

I am not leaving to spend more time with my family, but rather to spend more time with my inner child ... the one who has lunch with girlfriends, shops, sleeps late and plows through decades of files (kind of a jumped-up version of straightening up your sock drawer).

I have greatly enjoyed trying to help a very engaged group of readers. Thank you for your trust, your opinions and for what you have taught me. Be well.

Tell us what you think E-mail editor@clickthepaper.com, call 706-658-2683 or write to The Paper, P.O. Box 430, Hoschton, GA 30548.

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Jobs Adult Care-Help Wanted Bi-Lingual Aide wanted to assist the Elderly. Apply on-line at Rescare.com or call 770-297-9016

Construction

Gas Line Installer Needed. Apply at 160 Peachtree Ind Blvd., Sugar Hill. 9am and 3pm, Mon - Sat

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND WELDERS NEEDED Wood working experience building decks, patios, etc.

Be able to measure correctly, use power equipment such as saws and screw guns.

of Braselton, Chateau Élan, Hoschton and Jackson County

*Home Improvement *Instruction *Landscaping *Misc Services *Painting & Papering *Plumbing *Pressure Washing *Remodeling & Repairs *Roofing *Welding

*Accounting *Adult Care *Carpentry *Catering *Childcare *Cleaning *Computer Services *Construction *Electricians *Firewood *Grading & Hauling *Handyman

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Jobs Accounting Adult Care, Help Wanted

Child Care, Help Wanted Construction Dental Domestic Education Financial General Sales Agents Maintenance Management Medical Misc. Help Wanted Office/Clerical Part Time Help Wanted Poultry Production Professional Restaurant Help Security Technical Trades Truck Drivers Warehouse

Stuff *Antiques/Collectibles *Appliances *Auctions *Bicycles *Building Supplies *Cemetery Lots For Sale *Christmas Trees *Coins & Jewelry *Computers *Furniture *Guns *Heavy Equipment *Household Items *Lawn Equipment *Livestock *Misc. For Sale *Musical Instruments *Office Equipment *Pets & Supplies

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*Sporting Equipment *Tickets *Wanted To Buy *Yard Sale *Yard Sale - Out Of Area

Homes & Real Estate

Homes - Rental Apartments - Furnished Apartments - Unfurnished Business Property For Rent Condominiums for Rent Duplexes For Rent Houses for Rent - Furnished Houses for Rent - Unfurnished Lake Home for Rent Mobile Homes for Rent *Roommates Wanted Rooms for Rent Vacation Property for Rent *Wanted to Rent

Acreage for Sale Business for Sale Business Property for Sale Condominiums for Sale Farms & Farm Land House for Sale - Hall House For Sale - Surrounding Investment Property Lake Home for Sale Lake Property for Sale Lots for Sale Mobile Homes for Sale Mountain Property Real Estate Wanted Surrounding Counties Vacation Property

Wheels

*All Terrain Vehicles *Antique Cars/Trucks *Auto Parts *Auto & Trucks Wanted *Autos for Sale *Four Wheel Drives *Import Cars *Motorcycles *Sport-Utility Vehicles *Tractor Trailers *Trucks *Vans

Recreation *Boats & Marine *RV’s/Travel Trailers

Apr 2013

Mon. - Fri. 8:30am - 5:00pm

Welder be able to weld Aluminum and Steel.

Only apply if you have a valid Driver’s License with Transportation, Clean MVR, Clean Background, and we also do Drug Testing.

Apply in person at Martin Docks 2070 Old Dawsonville Hwy. Gainesville, GA. Between the hours of 9:00AM and 3:30PM

Education Kid’s World Christian Childcare Now Hiring: Exp. Teacher. $7.25/hr Call 770-297-1500

General Sales Agents MARKETING REP Marketing degree or equiv. experience in Web develop., Social/ Digital Media, etc. Must be Outgoing, Energetic & Creative. Competitive Pay & Benefits. E-mail resume to LFCU@ LANIERFCU.ORG No Phone Calls Please. EOE

Maintenance Truck Mechanic - ILG in Oakwood, GA seeking a Truck Mechanic to perform service repairs and Maintenance work on trucks, etc. Must have a minimum of 2 yrs experience and CDL. Must provide own tools. Send resumes to resumes@millerlogistics. com

Management Gold City Personal Care Home, is seeking an experienced PCH MANAGER Must have knowldege of Personal Care Home rules and regulations.

Two years or more work experience in a Personal Care home required.

A registered nurse is a plus. Salary is commensurate with experience.

The Manager will direct the day to day operations of the PCH and report to the Administrator Please apply in person at 222 Moores Dr., Dahlonega, GA 30533 or email resume to Angela.

Martin@grey stokehealthsystems.com

Medical Immed. Position for F/T Collector/ Ins. Follow-up for med. office. Reqs: min of 3yrs exp. Mail resume to: Attn: PR. Mgr., P.O. Box 1782 Gainesville, GA 30503 MEDICAL OFFICE seeks F/T LPN. Must be able to multi-task and work at a fast pace. Must have excellent computer skills and must like working with an elderly patient population. Fax resume: 770-534-1470 Attention: Kim The Longstreet Clinic, P.C. is seeking qualified candidates for the following positions: Physician Assistant (previous othopedics & athletic training exp preferred) Georgia Sports Medicine Duluth and Dacula Front Office (8:30am-5:30pm. MonFri. Previous medical office exp preferred) Neurosurgery Gainesville Medical Assistant (FT. Span/English skills.

Previous Orthopaedic experience preferred) Orthopedics Gainesville Medical Assistant (Previous orthopaedic experience along with ICD & CPT) Orthopaedics Gainesville Payroll Clerk (Exp w/ADP payroll products to include ADP HR/Benefits Solution & Enterprise eTIME is required along w/exp in Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Word) Business Office Gainesville Cytotechnologist CT (ASCP) (P/T; 24 hours/wk) InterLab Gainesville Front Office (Medical office exp pref’d. Centricity experience a plus) Internal Medicine Gainesville LPN or CMA (Previous OB or GYN experience) OB/GYN Gainesville Patient Service Rep

(Mon-Fri 8am-5pm.

Excellent customer serv skills, prev physician office & charge posting exp req’d.)

Vascular and Vein Gainesville Pharmacy Technician (Must speak Spanish & English. P/T, no more than 20hrs/wk) Pharmacy Gainesville All positions are full time unless noted.

Full-time employees may be eligible for paid days off, health insurance and a generous retirement plan.

Salary commensurate with experience.

Previous medical office experience preferred.

Spanish/English skills desirable. Interested candidates may submit resumes via fax to 770535-7445 Attn: Employment E-mail to: HR@longstreet clinic.com or complete an application at 725 Jesse Jewel Pkwy., Suite 270, Gainesville, GA 30501. for additional info about the Longstreet Clinic, P.C., please visit our website: www. longstreetclinic. com

Misc. Help Wanted CARRIAGE KIA & NISSAN in Gainesville, GA. needs SERVICE CONSULTANTS. Great pay. Apply in person at Carriage Nissan, 2400 Browns Bridge Rd or email resume to: rtapp@ carriage automotivegroup .com No phone calls please DOYA! DOYA! DOYA! Wanna Dance No Experience Needed Call Sunny or Kaylee 770-536-3759 Top of Gainesville Drivers Needed Have valid D/L with good MVR. Be at least 21. Must be able to lift at least 25lbs. Make up to $14.50/hr on average.

Call for interview 678-456-9189 New Car Cleanup & Lot Person Apply in person Mon-Sat, 9 to 5.

Jim Hardman Buick GMC, Inc. 1592 Browns Bridge Rd, Gainesville

Office/Clerical RECEP/ADMIN Energetix, a nutritIonal supplement co. in the Dahlonega/ Gainesville, GA area, is interviewing for Reception/Admin Assoc. F/T position 8:30-5:30 M-F. Must be organized, have great attitude & be proficient with MS Office We Offer: *Full training *Dynamic prof env *Career advance opps *Competitive comp (Start at $9 to 11/hr) Forward resume to: hrmanager@ goenergetix.com EOERECEP

Production Want to work for a great company in buford!

We are now accepting applications for placement on assignment located at MAKITA CORP. OF AMERICA Positions available include: Assembly/Loading & General Warehouse Must be able to work M-F, 7am-4pm. Must have 6 months experience working in a fast-paced production/assembly environment. Must be able to submit and pass a criminal background and drug screen test and provide two past employment references.

Apply online at www.selectstaffing. com Call 770-536-1122 EOE

Professional Manufacturing Operations Research Analyst (Gainesville, GA).

Develops, formulates & applies manf. production modeling data to assist mgt. with financial business decisions making.

Collects, assembles & analyzes production & manf. data regarding financial policies & related procedures for auto parts manf.

Req: MBA Degree in Finance or foreign equivalent degree & 12 months experience

*Requires payment in advance.

in the position or as a Quality Engineer.

Employer will accept any suitable combination or education, training or experience. 8:00am - 5:00pm, 40 hrs per week. Send resume to HR, IMS Gear Inc., 1234 Palmour Drive, Ste. B, Gainesville, GA 30501

RIDING MOWER Snapper. Runs good $300 I BUY Snapper & Craftsman Riding Mowers, not running, self-propelled mowers, not running and I also do lawn mower repairs. Will make house calls.

Flowery Branch, GA 678-943-7436

Trades

Sears 20 HP 42” Riding Mower plus 12 cu ft 2 wheel dump wagon.

Automatic transmission.

Very low hours. Both like new. $1,200.00. 706-3488590 or 706-969-2281

Jim Hardman Buick GMC has opening for Parts Counter Person and Duramax Diesel Technician.

Contact Paul Fuller @ 770-718-3140

Truck Drivers

Misc. For Sale

Need a Class A-CDL Driver for day trips mostly. 770-560-2720 OTR DRIVERS - ILG is hiring OTR Drivers, must have CDL and 2 years experience for more details call BOB @ 678730-6740

Air Rowing Machine Antique Dolls, Cards & Collectibles.

CHEAP! 678-630-5080

OTR TRUCK DRIVER Dahlonega, GA. pulling refrigerated freight in S.E. Home on weekends.

706-429-6116

Stuff Appliances

WASHER/DRYER SET Brand Name Washer/Dryer Set Great Condtion w/ Mulit cycle .White.)

Dishwasher & Maytag Ceramic flattop Range/Oven & Under Cabinet Microwave w/mount.All are excellent condition with all parts & no damage. Also have a Solid Wood Table w/ 5 Chairs. $1500.00 for ALL. Will Split up. Call Jon 678-267-8281

WASHER & DRYER Kenmore. Exc Cond. $250. 770-983-1507 WASHER & DRYER, Sears Energy Saver, Kenmore, $400/set.

678-897-8570 Washers $100; Dryers $75; Refrig $125.

678-546-9184 678-617-5560

Cemetery Lots for Sale 2 LOTS in the Memorial One section of Memorial Park. $2500/ ea. 678-897-9371 FOR Memorial Park Cemetery Spaces, Vaults and Memorials on Terms, call Warren Banks 706-264-9294

Furniture RECLINER LIFT CHAIRPride. Beige. Good cond. $200 770-535-0326; 770-5404984

Lawn Equipment John Deere 345 Garden Tractor with 54’ mower deck, 42’ hydraulic tiller and bagger.

Good condition. $3,500 obo. Call 678-936-8279 MOWER- Craftsman Self- propelled.

Good Cond. $150; HondaSelf- propelled.

Good Cond. $150; Push Mower.

Like New! $75 Flowery Branch, GA 678-943-7436

1 & 2BR Oakwood Cedar Springs. $550/ $660. 770-287-1456 www.callapartments. com

G’Ville - 1BR $550/mo water/trash incld. No pets. 678-677-1898 GOLF CART 2009 High Rise, EZ-Go with chrome mags, new large tires, new set of Duracell batteries, flood lights on top, upholstered seats, am/fm/cd radio, Great for hunting or off-road. $4000/obo.

REFRIG- Whirlpool, 26cu ft, side by side with water & ice, crushed ice in door, 2yrs old, black. $400.

Will deliver on both items.

706-344-7283

Experienced Roll Off/Dump Truck Drivers needed.

Class A or B CDL required. Clean MVR. Send resumes to hrasg1@gmail.com

$599. MOVES U IN! 3 UNITS AVAILABLE Spring Valley Apt. 1BR/1BA $625. Up 2BR/2BA $675. Up Brandon Place 2BR/2BA $675 Flat or Townhome Immediate Occupancy Pools Open Soon Jacky Mathis 678-779-2687

2BR & 1BR on” The Square”. Loft. All utils & cable furnished. Call Lanier, 404-202-7290

Tuition paid by Federal Grants or VA Benefits 770-614-6022 or 1-877-GET-A-CDL

CLASS A-CDL DRIVER NEEDED Local drop & hook, 3rd shift. Apply in person: 4515 Cantrell Rd, Flowery Branch, 30542

ApartmentsUnfurnished

1BR. Nice. In City $525/ mo.

404-252-3325

CDL DRIVERS Needed

Call and see if you Qualify in 5 minutes! dtruckschool.com

Homes-Rentals

BENEFIT YARD SALE for Maurice & Sharon Stancil. May 11th, 8a-?

Event will be held rain or shine. Center United Methodist Church at 7641 Jackson Trail Rd., Hoscthon, 30548. We will be selling hot dogs & raffle for Vera Bradley purse and bible cover.

Sharon has had to take unpaid leave of absence from work to take care of him. Bedding, clothes of all sizes, tools, furn., shoes, toys, too much to list.

Club Car 2001- 48volt, llghts, rear seat & enclosure. $1900. 678316-1051 Elliptical - Schwinn 431, MP3 Player, Fan & 19 Workout Programs. 4mos New. $365; Backup Camera System. color, for car, truck, van. New $45; Echo Weed Eater needs carb. $15; Chain Saw- 8”, battery operated. $35.

770-718-9884 Enclosed Car Carrier Hallmark 22’ . $2500; Lawn Tractor Craftsman. 27hp. with cart. Needs carb $300/ Firm.

706-362-1361 E-Z-GO 2008 Golf Cart, excellent condition! With six brand new Trojan batteries. $2,500, cell number if interested.

678-858-6678.

Mini Match Box Cars, Antique Table & Chairs & many other items. Call 770-714-8721

Musical Instruments For Sale: Kimball Piano--$2300 Salon Equipment—Nordic Flex Gold World Class Exercise Machine -$300. Antique Pump Organ $250.

Call 706-344-7128

Pets & Supplies AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS, miniature, 7 weeks old, first shots & wormed.

706-892-6853 FREE KITTENS to good home. 770-869-9480; 770-910-6769 GERMAN SHEP HERD Puppies CKC reg.

7wks old. males $400; Females. $375. 770-2870539 LAB BOXER MIX5females, 2 males. Ready to Go. Need New Home.

770-531-6732 SIBERIAN HUSKY -CKC. Red puppies.

Call after 4pm. 678640-6448

Sporting Equipment Lacross Goals, $135 ea Soccer Goal $250 ea BaseBall Bating Cage - 60’. $875. Call Cecil, 404-467-4313

Lighthouse Manor Apartments, located at 2415 Lighthouse Manor Dr., Gainesville, GA., is now accepting applications for their efficiency and 1 bedroom units.

Lighthouse Manor is designed especially for individuals 62 years of age or older. All units are handicap accessible. The rent amount is based on adjusted income. If you would like to make application and be placed on our waiting list, call 770-538-0366 TDD Service No: 1-800-982-2891

LUXURY 3BR/2.5BA 1900 sf. 820 Park St. $900/m. Refs reqd. Near Brenau & Hospital. 770534-3577 Oakwood - 2/1.5, yard very safe, H/A $620$660. 678-357-5044

Business Property For Rent 2 BAY WAREHOUSE 500 SF, $165/mo 770-540-5339 GREAT LOCATION 4 OFFICES 644 Banks Street Remodeled Old home next to Advance Auto & Americas Best Value Inn at Jesse Jewell/Banks St Ready To Move In Handicap Accessible $950mo./$500 dep 770-530-2771

Duplexes For Rent 2BR/2BA w/loft & FP. $595/mo + dep 770-540-7571 CROSS GATE- 2/2 $680/mo. 770-287-1456 www.callapartments. com PINE FORREST - 2/1. $675 mo. 770-287-1456 www.callapartments. com

Houses For RentUnfurnished $0 Application Fee. 3BR/2BA HOMES Now Available!!

1 MONTH FREE RENT Expires 4/30/13 SUN HOMES 888-246-2803 countrysidelake lanier .com EHO WAS 2 Y.O. Ranch 3BR/2.5BA Comm. Pool. $1080mo 770-967-3230 3BR/2BA Lakefront w/dock. Great Location. $1225/mo 770-539-4400 4031 OLIVER DR. 3/2 $800 + $8090 dep. N. Hall. 770-354-9505 Apts/Homes. General Property Mgmt.

770-287-1456 www. callapartments.com House for rent 3 bedroom/2 bath with washer/dryer. $1,000 a month plus deposit. Pets OK. East Hall area. 770-5324166 Sardis - Hall Cnty. 4/2. $1225 and 3/2. $875.

Both priv, completely renovated. Fantastic Cond. 678-316-6262 South Hall Home 4 Rent 3 bedrooms 1-1/2 bath New paint Very Clean Very Private yrd 5 min. from Oakwood Stores. $900 770-540-2598

Mobile Homes For Rent

Autos For Sale

2BR/1BA on priv lot. $110/wk + dep.

770-294-0058 2BR/1BA on private lot.

Rent $125/wk + dep 770-536-9019 REDUCED RATE Free Rent Starting at $85/wk. N & S Hall & Gainesville.

770-534-7596

Roommates Wanted PRIV FURNIshed room w/cable. No dep. /util fee. $100-135/wk.

678-617-4492

FORD 2012 Mustang GT, 5.0L, V8, 22K miles, $23,999.

MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

CADILLAC 1992 Allante Coup, 4.5L, V8, 33K, $14,577 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

Homes & Real Estate Condominiums For Sale FOR SALE BY OWNER 2BR/2.5BA , full bsmt, freplc, deck, completely renovated thru-out, new appls. Close in. Lake access. $62k. For appt 706-865-6565

House For Sale-Hall County For Sale By Owner 6.52 acres. 5416 White Hall Rd with 70’ Mobile Home. $72,000 706499-7309 706-499-8528

CADILLAC 1999 Deville, 4.6L, V8, 104K, $6,288 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

CHEVY 2011 Cruze LTZ, 1.4L, 4 cyl., 19K, $17,999 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

DON’T MISS OUT! Large house, 3/2 w/ added Apt. Great terms!

Owner financing. 2 acres w/2 rental cabins. White cnty.

706-878-2428

FORD 2003 Taurus 125k, sunrf, all pwr.

Very Good Cond. $3400 678-200-0812

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BUICK 1996 Regal. 4dr, leath int., Runs Great.

92K. $2700 678-4637006

Boats & Marine

BOAT DOCK Dawsonville 32’ x 24’ single slip 10’ x 28’ sun deck 28’ x 14’.

40’ ramp with wheels wired $7500.

Contact David 706-216-5452

BASS 2011- 165 Tracker.

40hp, completely equipped, 2yrs old.

Live well, battery tender, fish finder, Everything!

706-974-6691 Bayliner 1987 Avanti 34’ Cruiser. Twin Mercury engines. $15k 404-955-0102 CANOE Grumman. aluminum, 17.5’. Orig owner, out riggers, motor board, electric trolling mtr $650. 770-531-9394

RV’s/Travel Trailers VIKING 1995 Camper Pop-up w/stove.

Hardly used. $1500.

706-865-6565

CADILLAC 2011 DTS Platinum, fully loaded plus. Gray/dark gray interior. 27k. Excellent $42,850. Certified 770-531-1309 CHEVY 2007 Cobalt LT. 4dr, silver w/gray int. $5500 770-519-3123 CHEVY 2008 Cobalt 2DR. 4cyl, auto, air, $6000.

770-519-3123 LINCOLN 1995 Towncar Limo. 6 doors.

66k. $4000/obo.

4 WHEELER Honda Ranger. $3500/obo 678-997-1241

PONTIAC 2005 Grand Prix GTP (supercharged) 168k miles, one owner, runs great! $4500 obo.

706-499-8094

Import Cars

FORD 1966 Mustang Coupe, 6 cyl., auto, new int/bumpers/radiator.

Runs. Comes with xtra 302 eng. $4000.

678-480-5421

Motorcycles HONDA 2001 Valkerie.

Needs carbs rebuilt. $3000/firm. 706-3621361 KAWASAKI 1979 KZ1000. All orig parts, low miles.

Asking $3500. Robert 770-967-5159

YAMAHA Roadstar.

2008 model year, 1700 cc cruiser with fuel injection. 1600 miles. Like new condition. Silverado accessories, Custom seat, batwing faring, factory fiberglass bags. Have original windshield and seats. 6800.00.

770-519-6500.

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Sport Utility Vehicles

CADILLAC 2007 Escalade, 6.2L, V8, 80K, $27,699 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

HONDA 2006 Pilot, 3.5L, V6, 109k, $13,890 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

NISSAN 2008 Pathfinder, 4.0L, V6, 81K, $14,789.

MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200 DODGE 2007 Nitro Blk, V6, All pwr. 44k Immaculate Cond.

Garaged. $14,000 678-314-6381

Trucks ACURA 2005 TL, 3.2L, V6, 83K, $13,222 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

Wheels Antique Cars/Trucks

JAGUAR 2003 XJR Excellent Cond 145,000 mi Silver/Champaign Leather $8700 Firm 770- 714- 4309

Yamaha 2009 V-Star Classic.

Mint. 68 miles $5,500 770-531-3324 or 770-519-7773

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Recreation

TOYOTA 2003 Corolla, 1.8L, 4 cyl., 154K, $7,299 MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

MAZDA 2010 CX-9 Grand Touring, 3.7L, V6, 26K, $25,320.

MOSS ROBERTSON Call Today 770-535-2200

TOYOTA 2003 Tacoma. XTRA Cab. Limited, 2dr, V6 3.4L, TRD off road, 4x4, 5spd man. Exc cond. 30k mi. Also includes cross bed tool box, sprayed in bed liner. $16,500.

770-654-8036

Vans GMC 1993 Van. V8 auto, ladder racks.

Good work Van. $950. 678-617-5560

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