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JULY 18 - JULY 24, 2018
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Award winning jellies heating up taste buds around Coweta County BY MELANIE RUBERTI
melanie@newnan.com Kim Littleton’s jams and jellies have become a hot commodity around Coweta County. Kim creates 20 different varieties of the spreadable preserves, including five kinds of her now famous “Hot Pepper Jelly.” For three years, Kim and her husband, Richard, won tops awards for the “Best Pepper Jelly” at the Kiwanis Coweta County fairgrounds. They also placed first in the division for “Best Overall Canned Goods,” said Kim. But the Hot Pepper Jellies seem to be the real show stoppers. “We sell blackberry, blueberry, peach, raspberry and a ‘regular’ pepper jelly,” Kim said. “We sell jellies using ‘normal heat,’ and some with habanero heat. We make sure to label the jellies with habaneros in them.” Kim said every jar of Hot Pepper Jelly has five types of peppers added into the jar of preserves: cayen ne, g reen pep per, hot banana, sweet PHOTO BY MELANIE RUBERTI
Kim Littleton helps a customer during Market Day in downtown Newnan. Kim and Richard Littleton sell their award winning jams and jellies, plus fruits and vegetables at several events around Coweta County.
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Mom of traveling family reflects on Subway 911 call
COURTESY OF FELICIA DOBSON
Members of the Dobson family who were at a local Subway when an employee called 911.
BY TAYLOR ROBINS
taylor@newnan.com In a string of recent a nd vira l situations where police have been ca l led on black fa m ilies, a loca l Subway and the Dobson family are now a part of that list. “It is just so u n fa i r that that kind of thing can happen to a regu-
la r fa mily going in to p a y f o r t h e i r f o o d ,” s a id Fel i c i a D o b s on . “We weren’t dressed in a l l black . We weren’t wearing hoodies. A nd even i f we were, t he subway employee works in a facility where she has to treat everyone fairly.” The Dobson fami l y, w h o w e r e t r a v -
eling from Columbus, decided to stop at t he New na n Crossing Bouleva rd Subway on July 2. The family was traveling back to their Nor t h Ca rol i na home from a fa m i ly member’s birthday celebration. The Subway stop ende d w it h a c a l l to New n a n pol ice , a f ter the family had paid for food a nd eaten at t he establishment. “I need somebody to r ide t h roug h here A SA P,” sa id t he Sub way employee on the 91 1 ca ll. “I’ve had a f a m i l y i n h e r e fo r about an hour and they’re kind of just not goi ng a ny where. A nd they keep going back to the bathroom and stuff, a nd I’ve got a back door back there.” A c c ord i n g to D o dson, the employee thought the family was going to rob her. Sandra, the employee, had been robbed before. “I told the kids that everyone has to go use t h e b a t h r o o m ,” s a i d Dobson. “The back and forth were my kids going to use the bathroom. When one comes out, the other goes
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BY SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com T he Great R ace h a s be en a pa r t of Ol iv i a a n d G e n n a G e n t r y ’s l ive s si nce t hey were babies. Last year, they were f inally able to participate a s compet itors , and the sisters – ages 17 and 15 – just completed their second Great
Race. “ T h i s i s s om e t h i n g our fa mily has been doi ng for so long, we were really eager to get a shot to compete ours e l v e s ,” s a i d O l i v i a , who is the driver of the tea m. Gen na works as the navigator. T he Great R ace is a nine-day classic ca r precision speed endur-
a nce ra l ly. Ca rs mu st be h ave been m a nufac t u re d b efore 19 7 2 . Te a m s g e t p r e c i s e , t u r n-by-t u r n , pr i nted directions that tell them every speed change. There are mult iple che ck poi nt s per day. T he goa l i sn’t to
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