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Thursday, February 14, 2013

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Balancing students between east, westBY KATIE [email protected]

Two recent meetings to discuss proposals for plans for Jackson County schools became heated, as parents used the meeting as a fo-rum to discuss the problems of the system.

“Anytime you go into addressing needs and have a plan, if you’re trying to get your plan all done before you announce it, you’re accused of not having any input,” said Super-intendent Dr. John Green. “So if you try to be transparent and let folks know how you’re thinking and you think out loud, then people say that you don’t know what you’re doing.”

The Jackson County Board of Education held its 6 p.m. work session at Kings Bridge Middle School on Feb. 7 and followed it with a 7 p.m. community meeting. The board then had its February business meeting at East Jackson High School on Feb. 11 followed by a community meeting.

The two meetings served as an opportunity for the county to seek public input on poten-tial plans for the upcoming school year, after the previously proposed sixth grade center concept was squashed.

However, everything from security to pos-

sible magnet schools were discussed at the meetings, but the focus centered on what par-ents felt would be best for their children.

“If you came to tell me you don’t want a sixth grade center, you’re too late,” Green said at the Feb. 11 meeting.

According to Green, the school system’s chief goals will continue to be to ensure “an awesome learning experience is provided for all students,” to establish and maintain the “East and West School Communities” and to ensure “fiscal confidence and effective plan-ning for the future.”

At both meetings, capacity was a topic stressed by Green. As of next year, most West Jackson schools will be overcapacity, while the opposite is true for the east side of the county.

“Our students are where our capacity is not,” said Assistant Superintendent for Op-erational Support Jamie Hitzges.

Currently, there is $12 million available in capital outlay funds for the county once ev-ery school is at its full capacity. According to Hitzges, if current growth patterns continue, East Jackson schools will not reach their ca-pacity until 2025-2026.

By the Feb. 11 meeting, Green had a set of new proposals for community review that would help reach maximum capacity at all schools within the next few years.

South Jackson Elementary School would be relocated to the current Kings Bridge

Middle School. East Jackson Middle School would house sixth and seventh graders for East Jackson. East Jackson High School would house grades 8-12, and a wing would

Katie Justice The PaperAt the Feb. 7 meeting held at Kings Bridge Middle School, Patty Mellinck addressed the Jackson County Board of Education and system administrators seeking to � nd out what plans the Board has, now that the sixth grade center idea was dropped.

Parents concerned as Jackson County School System seeks ways to shi� student population

Braselton gets sewer easement for hospital

Property secured for second � re station

Pounding the pavement

From staff reports

The Braselton Town Council Monday evening accepted a donation of real property from Friendship Road Prop-erties LLC on Highway 211 at the new Highway 327.

The land provides an easement for sewer line for campus of Northeast Georgia Medical Center – Braselton. The foundation for the new 100-bed hospital, the first new hospital in the state in 20 years, is to be going in this month. Final design of the state-of-the-art facility is expected in April.

Opening is slated for spring of 2015 so the sewer easement is one of the steps necessary for the project. Also required is completion of the new high-way, expected to come by the winter of 2014, according to Anthony Williamson, Northeast Georgia Health System Vice President, Service Line and Greater Braselton Development, who spoke re-cently to the Rotary Club of Braselton. See more on that civic club appearance at ClickThePaper.com

In other business of the Braselton meeting, the council unanimously ap-proved an intergovernmental agree-ment which will provide for municipal elections to be conducted by the Jack-son County Board of Elections and Reg-istration.

Braselton joins other cities in Jack-son County making the move to address a duplication of service identified in Service Delivery Strategy negotiations. The town will pay $1 annually per reg-istered voter for the county to handle elections. Currently, the town has 4,968 registered voters and had been budget-ing $6,000 annually for elections. When 267 voted in a recent election, it cost the town $5,239.59 because of the expense of paper ballots. The county will utilize computerized voting machines.

Qualifying would be handled by the town but election day would find Braselton voters seeing county-hired pollworkers in the Braselton voting precinct, the community room of the Polcie & Municipal Court Building.

In other business, the Braselton Council voted unanimously to:

approve the conditional use for-NorSouth Development Company to integrate additional acreage into its plans for a 55 and older community. By purchasing additional acreage, some two-bedroom, two-bath single-story at-

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More than 200 participants laced up their running shoes for the West Jackson

Intermediate School’s (WJIS) Shadow Shuffle Groundhog’s Day 5K earlier this

month. Joe Fejes of Hoschton was the overall race winner, with WJIS teacher and

Jackson County Comprehensive High School track coach, Carly Ledbetter, as the

first female finisher. See more on the fundraiser race on Page 3A.

BY KATIE [email protected]

The West Jackson Fire Department (WJFD) is moving toward the future, with finalization of the purchase of a property on Ednaville Road.

The WJFD closed on the property that will serve as the site for the second station in West Jackson.

“We are currently in the process of developing a design that the site can ac-commodate as well as serve the needs of the taxpayers in that area,” said repre-sentatives of WJFD in a Tuesday press release. “Once that design is complete we will be compiling a budget for the overall project in conjunction with an implementation schedule.”

Chief Ben Stephens and Deputy Chief Bill McElvery provided the press release which indicates the implementation schedule would consist or two sections. The first part includes the construction of bays to house equipment. The current structure on the site would be used for living quarters.

Once the initial construction is com-plete, the current structure would be demolished and a new facility would be constructed to attach to the bays.

The time frame for the construction is still under review, but the department aims to stick with its five-year strategic plan. The station would be staffed with part-time employees to begin, but would eventually transition to a full-time staff.

“The acquisition of this property and consequently the staffing to fill this sta-

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Closure of Cork & Keg is civil matterFrom staff reports

A civil matter involving the bank finds Cork & Keg, located at 6750 Highway 53, Suite 101, in the Hometown Shopping Center, closed.

Yellow tape provides an indication that the store is closed, and neon lights, which usually advertise the brands of beverages available for sale, are not illuminated.

Braselton Police officers are being paid by State Bank and Trust Company in North

Carolina for security detail to protect the in-ventory, according to Braselton Police Chief Terry Esco.

The department has been fielding numer-ous calls from citizens who are curious about the happenings.

“This is an unfortunate situation,” says Tom Kitchin of Cork & Keg, who indicates that talks are under way with the bank in an effort to find some resolution to the matter. Negotiations were ongoing last week and the

Kitchins were allowed inside Cork & Keg to retrieve personal property.

Kitchin maintains Cork & Keg was current on its payments to State Bank and Trust.

“We are not in default on our loan,” said Kitchin, who indicates the loan matured and the bank officials determined they did not want to extend further credit.

Kitchin had indicated he wants to set the record straight after consultation with his at-torney.

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Jackson County Sheriff’s Office

On Feb.1, a resident of a Highway 53 mobile home park reported being harassed by her neighbor after and earlier altercation.

Livestock at large was reported on Brockton Loop Road in Jefferson on Feb. 7 when a Jefferson man wanted a neighbor’s cow removed from his property.

On Feb. 6, a woman reported a gun safe containing eight rifles was stolen from her property on Gum Springs Church Road. Her daughter and her boyfriend were previously living at the home and she believes they took the gun safe.

On Feb. 6, a Lebanon Church Road resident reported a man on a

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bike firing shots in the direction of his home and at his dog.

On Feb. 6 a vehicle accident was reported at a driveway along Jackson Trail Road.

On Feb. 6, a woman leaving the scene of a domestic dispute, was pulled over and found to be driving under the influence of alcohol. She was arrested on Highway 82 in Jefferson.

On Feb. 6, a truck stopped on Highway 129 and the driver went to the back of the vehicle to grab a gas can. An officer stopped to help the man, his wife and two children. The man was found to be driving without a license and had an open container of alcohol in the vehicle. He was then arrested.

Fraud was reported by a Jefferson woman

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on Feb. 6 when she attempted to start a new business from an internet ad. The company sent her a fake check, for her to cash.

An Ebenezer Church Road resident reported a padlock and chain stolen from a fence on her property on Feb. 6.

On Feb. 6, a Lauren Marie Drive resident reported her ex-husband stalking her at her home.

A possible identity theft was reported Feb. 5 by a Jefferson man. The man stated that when he attempted to claim his

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children on his taxes, he discovered a man who had previously lived with him had already claimed them. A woman involved was found to be wanted out of Athens and was placed under arrest.

On Feb. 5, a verbal dispute was reported at an Oliver Circle residence in Jefferson between a woman and her landlord. The woman and her husband were given an eviction notice with a seven day period to remove their items from the home. The woman said the landlord and

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several other men began removing items from the home before the end of the seven day period. One of the men helping the landlord was found to be wanted out of Madison County and was arrested.

On Feb. 5, a Washington Street resident contacted the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office after she felt the Jefferson Police failed to resolve her problem. The woman was obviously intoxicated and kept asking for help to retrieve documents from a residence she was locked

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out of. She was advised to sober up and then seek legal assistance.

On Feb. 5, a woman reported damage to her property after the mailbox at her Marshall Clark Road home was knocked over for the third time.

On Feb. 4, a man pulled over on Petti John Road in Pendergrass for failing to dim his headlights was arrested for a warrant out of Habersham County.

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POLICE REPORT

tion would satisfy our ISO response requirements to provide coverage to all of the residents within our fire district within a preset timeframe, thus allowing every taxpayer to enjoy the ISO rating the Depart-ment has achieved,” the release said.

“Moving forward with this purchase as well as other changes the West Jackson Fire Department has made to its overall op-erations, we fully intend on conducting a full review with ISO to reduce our rating from a Class 4 fire department to a Class 3 or quite possibly a Class 2 de-pending on ISO’s interpre-tation on specific issues.”

be added to West Jackson In-termediate School.

West Jackson Middle School, which currently has five mobile classrooms, will remain the same. Accord-ing to Green, at any given time there are 12 empty classrooms at WJMS, and the school will use transient teachers to make use of those rooms empty.

However, parents at the East Jackson meeting, spoke strongly against their eight graders being placed in a high school.

“I have a seventh grader, who will eventually become an eighth grader, and I know

as a parent she’s not ready to go to high school,” Nicole Martin said, to which the room responded with ap-plause. “There are things going on in high school now, that middle schoolers are not mentally ready for.”

At the East Jackson meet-ing, there were multiple comments saying that rezon-ing could solve many of the problems without changing the structure of the schools.

At the West Jackson meet-ing, one of the hottest topics was a lack of desire for stu-dents to leave West Jackson schools.

“I think it’s fair to say, we made a realization,” said Green, after hearing parents say they don’t want their chil-dren to leave West Jackson. “We knew this, but we didn’t

know quite to this level. As a general statement, folks would rather stay in their community and have their child with an awesome teach-er’s environment, regardless of that environment being a trailer or being brick walls.”

The presentation made by Green and Hitzges is avail-

able on the Jackson County School System website at www.jackson.k12.ga.us.

Currently, there are no concrete plans for next year, and Green said he will continue to welcome com-munity input as the school system moves forward with discussions.

By KaTIE [email protected]

Construction on Jackson County Comprehensive High School’s new fine arts facility was completed on schedule on Feb. 6.

According to Jackson County School System Di-rector of Facilities, Mainte-nance and Transportation Dennis Patrick, and equip-ment and furniture bids for the building were due Feb. 12, and the final fire marshal inspection is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 15.

Construction on the school’s new gymnasium is also continuing according to plan and is expected to be completed on July 6.

Patrick also said that work toward the purchase of High-way 332 is continuing without problem.

“The clear-level site has been OK’d on Highway 332 going north and south,” said

Patrick, at Feb. 7 Jackson County Board of Education work session. “The prelimi-nary reports on the environ-mental, the risk hazard and the below-ground studies were good. We will be hav-ing a seismic velocity profile analysis to help us in provid-ing information for the struc-ture of our facility with plans that will save us several, sev-eral thousand dollars at that time.”

Patrick said he had met with a representative from the Jackson County Develop-ment Department the previ-ous week to discuss options on construction of a road-way over a creek that runs through the site, and he has also spoken with the Jackson County Water and Sewage Authority about options for sewer connection for the property.

Currently, the closing date for the property is set for March 15.

Katie Justice The PaperAssistant Superintendent for Operational Support Jamie Hitzges explains enrollment projections which suggest schools on the western side of the county will reach capac-ity long before those on the east side. State construction funds hinge on reaching capacity at all schools.

tached units can be built in addition to the planned three-story, 50-unit apartment building.

At the work session held Feb. 7, Marga-ret Bullard said she was glad to see the op-tion of single-story living included. She said she was interested in downsizing and the senior community offered a more pleasing option.

finalized a resolution authorizing the filing of an application to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for an Appalachian Regional Commission grant application for a sewer expansion project along Highway 53. The project will extend service to a building into which Atlantic Engineering Group will expand. Currently located in a Lewis Braselton Parkway busi-ness park, Atlantic Engineering would be able to add another 50 jobs to the communi-ty’s employment base if it can expand.

The Town of Braselton would be respon-

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sible for local funding in the amount of $292,500 to match the ARC dollars.

The project will also provide capacity for additional property to tap onto sewer service.

approved resurfacing the Braselton Park tennis courts using $35,886 Jackson County Park & Recreation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) funds. The town has $152,291.15 in that SPLOST fund. Sunbelt Asphalt will be undertaking the project, and signage will be posted to inform tennis players of the project sched-ule.

appointed Cheri Winham Huff to serve on the Braselton Downtown Devel-opment Authority to fulfill the unexpired term of Kathy Cooper Robinson. Owner of Elements – A Day Spa, Huff would serve until June of 2017.

postponed to March an intergovern-mental agreement under development for the allocation and distribution of proceeds from the Title Ad Valorem Tax (TAVT) among Gwinnett County and its munici-palities. The draft of the document has not been finalized.

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BRASELTON Continued from 1A

FIRE STATION Continued from 1A

The City of Jefferson has received official notifica-tion from the Insurance Ser-vices Office (ISO) that the city’s fire department has obtained a Class 3 rating for its fire suppression delivery system.

Jefferson is one of only 57 fire departments in Geor-gia and one of only 1,998 in the nation to have earned a Class 3 rating.

The high marks received place Jefferson in the top 5 percent of departments in the nation and reflects the great support we receive from our elected officials, citizens and businesses.

The announcement was made at the Jefferson City Council’s Monday work ses-sion. Jefferson Fire Chief Mark Duke called the lower-ing of the ISO rating to Class 3 from Class 4 to be “a huge accomplishment.”

City Manager John Ward said the majority of depart-ments earning a Class 3 are full-time departments.

Jefferson was last audited by the ISO in 1985 and Chief Duke pointed out that the city’s population has tripled since the last evaluation and was served by only one fire station.

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Jefferson secures Class 3 ISO rating

School building update provided

Folks would rather stay in their community and have their child with an awesome teacher’s environment, regardless of that environment being a trailer or being brick walls.Superintendent John Green

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By KATIE [email protected]

The future great scientists of Jackson County middle schools came together at Jackson County Compre-hensive High School on Jan. 24 for middle school county science fair.

Individual school winners made their way to JCCHS to compete for the right to move on to the regional fair, with 10 West Jackson stu-dents placing.

Sixth grader Sam Darling,

seventh grader Ben Gil-breath and eighth grader Al-lie Holder each placed first and will continue on to the regional science fair.

Darling tested which ma-terial in a classroom absorbs sound best. Gilbreath tested the appeal of types of baits. Holder compared aluminum and composite bats to find which has the better sweet spot.

Also placing first from East Jackson Middle School (EJMS) were Rachael An-derson, Niki Carver and Lindsey Tolbert and Natalie Vargo from Kings Bridge Middle School (KBMS)

West Jackson middle

school students coming in second place included eighth grader Jenna Duck and her project “Warped Words and the Stroop Effect,” Trevor Murphy with his project “Can Water Float on Water,” and Logan Puhalla with his experiment titled “You Are What You Eat – Preserva-tives.”

In second place from EJMS was Lucas Mayberry, and from KBMS were Mack-enzie Ashe, Kaitlyn Evans, James Gibbons and Robby Weinmann.

Students earning third place from WJMS were Jo-nas Bowman with his proj-ect “Compost vs. Chemical Fertilizer,” Cody Ellis with “Taste Test,” Kayla Neider-meyer with “Race to the Meltdown” and Morgan Wiley with her project “Re-think Your Drink.”

Students from EJMS earn-ing third place were Allie Kate Canup, Mark Thomas and Olivia Walker and from KBMS was Mackenzie Green.


At Jefferson Academy, learning isn’t lim-ited to school hours. In fact, more than 500 people were expected to participate in an after-hours science extravaganza during the school’s Science Night on Jan. 29.

Jefferson Academy, with the help of the Northeast Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA), invited students and their friends and families to participate in about 15 experiments, exhibits and activi-ties for the sake of learning.

Friction, density, erosion and force were investigated, and students were given the op-portunity to interact with magnets and poly-mers for science-related fun.

According to Jefferson Academy principal DeMaris Gurley, more than 500 people came to last year’s science night, and even more

were expected this year.“We usually have a huge turnout,” Gur-

ley said. “The reason [students] like it so much is because it’s so engaging; anything a child can put their hands on and truly touch and interact with truly benefits them.”

Jefferson Academy has been hosting a Science Night for more than five years, so planners know which experiments and exhibits are the usual favorites. After an overwhelming number of students wait-ing to get into the star laboratory last year, teachers were ready this year, requiring students to get a ticket for a specific time frame.

Student Sean Davis admits he has more fun learning science at Science Night than in class, and when a teacher ask if he wished to do similar activities in class, his answer was a resounding “Yes.”

Science experiences expand classroom knowledge

For The PaperFirst-place winners of the Jackson County middle schools science faira pictured with their medals. Below: The “Down and Dirty” science fair experience is under way.

Middle school efforts shine

Katie Justice The PaperAlexis Charles uses the Airzooka to knock down a stack of cups at Science Night at Jef-ferson Academy. See more scenes at ClickThePaper.com

After-hours extravaganza hosted at Jefferson Academy

Katie Justice The Paper

Brothers Brett and Brock Brush take the “Chain Challenge” at Science Night hosted Feb. 29 at Jefferson Acad-emy.


Punxsutawney Phil may have declared spring to be on its way, but Gwinnett County’s own groundhog General Beauregard Lee’s prediction of more winter seemed to prove true during the West Jackson Intermedi-ate School’s (WJIS) Shadow Shuffle Groundhog’s Day 5K.

Despite dropping tem-peratures throughout the race, the runners and walk-ers made their way through Hoschton to raise money for WJIS.

The race began at 2 p.m. with racers beginning and ending their trek at West Jackson Park.

Joe Fejes of Hoschton was the overall race winner, fin-ishing the 3.1 miles in 20 min-utes and 35 seconds. The first female finisher was WJIS teacher and Jackson County Comprehensive High School track coach, Carly Ledbetter with 23 minutes.

Ledbetter was a chief pro-ponent of the race, accord-ing to WJIS Principal Diane Carr. Carr said Ledbetter told the students that any

WJIS student finishing be-fore her would be given $1. The students were so fired up that at the beginning of the race when the crowd was asked, “Who are you going to beat?” The resulting, “Mrs. Ledbetter,” could be heard across the park.

However, no students beat Ledbetter; she was the fourth overall finisher.

“We didn’t have to give any dollars out, so all the profit goes to the school,” said Led-better jokingly at the end of the race.

Race participants ranged from toddlers to racers in their 60s, and runners didn’t just include students and teachers. Principal Diane Carr and Assistant Principal Laurie Hitzges both ran the 5K course and placed in their

respective age groups.When talking about the

race, Carr said the race was just plain fun.

“We’ve got a lot of athletes and teachers that embrace being fit,” Carr said. “We’ve got great parents and kids. They so supportive all the time.”

WJIS fundraiser run heldKatie Justice The

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Runners head out at the race start. See more scenes on the website at Click-ThePaper. com

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William Napier Brown Died Feb. 4, 2013

William Napier Brown, 79, of Jefferson, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2013.

A veteran of the United States Army, he served in the Korean War. He was retired from working in security and was of the Catholic faith. Mr. Brown was preceded in death by his wife, Rosaleen McSheffrey Brown.

Survivors include his son, Rodney Brown of Cumming; daughters, Melissa Brown of Nevada and Adrienne Brown Meyer of Gillsville; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The funeral service was held Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, in the chapel of Evans Fu-neral Home with Deacon John Burke officiating. The burial followed in Evans Memory Gardens.

Evans Funeral Home, Jef-ferson

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Verner lee GarrettDied Feb. 11, 2013

Verner Lee Garrett, 85,of Commerce, husband of the late Lucille Gipson Garrett, died Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, surrounded by loved ones at his home.

Born in Apple Valley on Sept. 4, 1927, he was a son of the late Vester and Birdie Lee Garrett. Heowned the Thyatira Store for many years, drove a church bus and school bus, retired from the U.S. Postal Service as a rural carrier and worked in the cattle barn in Carnesville. Mr. Garrett was a member of Antioch Holiness Church in Lula. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Vivian Morgan, and a brother, Vic-tor “Pete” Garrett.

Survivors include his sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Norma Faye Garrett of Royston and Darrell and Di-ane Garrett of Commerce; sisters, Virginia Gailey of Commerce and Mildred Broussard of Toccoa; grand-children, Clinton Garrett, Tara and Malone Phillips, Ellen and Ben Register and Katie and Justin Howell; great-grandchildren, Jayton Howell, Ava Howell, Farah Weller, Garrett Register, Clinton Register and Camille Register; and a number of other relatives.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday Feb. 14, 2013, in the chapel of Evans Funeral Home. Inter-ment will follow in the Max-well Cemetery in Nicholson, with Ben Register, Rickey Garrett, Mark Gailey, Justin Howell, William L. “Butch” Moore and Jimmy Hattaway honored as pallbearers.



Tiney McDanielDied Feb. 8, 2013

Shirley “Tiney” Ann Mc-Daniel, 67, of Winder, died Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.

She loved her family and grand-c h i l d r e n , and had a passion for yard sales and enjoyed w a t c h i n g soap opras. Tiney was

the very best biscuit maker around. She is preceded in death by her sons, Buck Mc-Daniel and Royce McDaniel Jr., brothers, Billy Nix and Lawrence Nix; and sister, Mary Casper.

Survivors include her husband of 48 years, Royce McDaniel; sons, Terry and Missy McDaniel, Steve and Melissa McDaniel and Billly Ray Casper; daughters, Millie and R.D. Davis, Donna and Raymond Fowler, Tammy and Bo Whisnant and Susan McDaniel and Ricky Milam; sisters, Cora Mae Childs and Sue Duke; granchildren, Cory McDaniel, Roxie Da-vis, Mia McDaniel, Taylor McDaniel, Austin McDaniel, Ashleigh McDaniel, Randy Fowler, Ryan Fowler, Kyle Gibson, Casey McDaniel, Kelly King, Tiffany Whisnant and Ladonna Whisnant; and great-grandchildren, Luke McDaniel, Abby McDaniel, Caleb King, Zech King and Katie Beth Gibson.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, in the chapel of Lawson Fu-neral Home, now located at 4532 Highway 53 in Hoschton, with Pastor Lamar Kastner and Pastor Joel Shadburn officiating. Internment fol-lowed at Revival Baptist Church Cemetery with Jeff Nix, Austin McDaniel, Bobby Dalton, Randy Fowler, Terry Shelton and Justin Hollis hon-ored as pallbearers.

Lawson Funeral Home, Hoschton


Verden Rufus NalleyDied Feb. 6, 2013

Mr. Verden Rufus Nalley, 72, of Suwanee, died Wednes-day, Feb. 6, 2013, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center fol-lowing an extended illness.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in the chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home with in-terment following in Bellton Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Drewery Loggins and the Rev. Mark Smith of-ficiated.

Born April 17, 1940, he was a son of the late Andrew Nalley and Mattie Lewal-len Nalley. He was a heavy equipment operator em-ployed by Nalley Pipe Line for more than 30 years. He later worked with DSI Con-tracting. He was a member of Blackshear Place Baptist Church. He was also pre-ceded in death by his sister, Carolyn Thomas Nalley; and stepdaughter, Nancy Mabry.

Survivors include his wife, Carol Martin Nalley; sons and daughter-in-law, Andy Nalley of Lafayette and Arthur and Ronya Nal-ley of Greensboro; brother and sister-in-law, Edwin and Barbara Nalley of Clarkes-ville; sisters and brother-in-law, Betty and Buddy Callis of Cleveland and Lois Parr of Jefferson; five grandchil-dren; one great-grandchild; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville


Ronald NicholsonDied Feb. 10, 2013

Ronald Nicholson, 75, of Winder, died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

Born in Decatur, he was a son of the late John and Alice Parker Nicholson. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Criswell Nich-olson. He enjoyed vegetable gardening and working in the yard.

Survivors include his son, Ronald Oliver Nicholson Jr., of Winder; daughter, Dianne (Robert) Nicholson-Harrison of Oxford; grandson, Robert Scott Harrison and fiancée,

Misty Burnham of Oxford; and sisters, Lou Alice Mills of Monroe, Betty Nix of Statham, Virginia Dallas of Decatur, Barbara Myers of Norcross and Jeanette Con-ner of Conyers.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in Smith Memory Cha-pel with Pastor Greg Butler officiating. Interment fol-lowed in Barrow Memorial Gardens.

Smith Funeral Home, Winder


Jesse a. SewellDied Feb. 6, 2013

Mr. Jesse A. Sewell, 82, of Oakwood, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center fol-lowing an extended illness.

Funeral services was held Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at Redwine United Methodist Church with interment fol-lowing in the church cem-etery. Dr. Mark Outlaw of-ficiated.

Born July 28, 1930 in At-lanta, he was a son of the late Avon Garland Sewell and Mae Evans Sewell. He was retired from AT&T where he gave many years of service. After retiring, he went to work for the Georgia Depart-ment of Natural Resources and also gave many years of service. He was a member of Redwine United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Sewell of Oakwood; daughter and son-in-law, Jeslyn and Greg Dockery of Cleveland; son and daugh-ter-in-law, John and Renee Sewell of Braselton; grand-children, Jed and Megan Dockery; and granddaugh-ter and husband, Kalen and Dusty Porter.

Memorial contributions may be made to Redwine United Methodist Church Cemetery Fund, 3285 Poplar Springs Road, Gainesville, GA 30507.

Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville


Frances louise Moore Simpson

Died Feb. 7, 2013Frances Louise Moore

Simpson, 86, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, following stroke complications.

Born Oct. 9, 1926, in Beth-lehem, she was a native of Barrow County but had lived in Oklahoma, specifically Tuttle, since 1981. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dewey Gartrelle and Abie Louise Griffeth Moore; and grandson, An-thony Bennett. She enjoyed church, reading, music, needlework and any activity involving her grandchildren and their children. She was a former member of the Eastern Star, sang in Sweet Adeline’s, served as Sunday school teacher and officer of Women’s Society of Chris-tian Service (UMW). Though she experienced a number of unique employments, her most loved job was nurtur-ing and being involved in the lives of her children and

their families.Survivors are her daugh-

ters and sons-in-law, Delores Simpson of Auburn, Mela-nie and Jamie Schneider of Gainesville, Gay and Loyte Bennett of Dawsonville and Donna and Larry Windsor of Tuttle, Okla.; son, Durward Simpson of Athens; grand-children, Stephen, David, Jason, April, Carrie, Katy, James Ross, Jessica and Ra-chel; great-grandchildren, Payton, Hope, Chase, Taylor, Colton, Mayson, Grady, Clara Jean, Josie Frances, Luke and Kaitlyn; sisters, Doro-thy Peppers and Geraldine Doster; aunt and uncle, Mary Anthony and Edd Griffith; brothers and sisters-in-law, Joy and Ben Black and Pat and Bobby Whitmire; and numerous cousins.

A funeral service was held Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Ed Dermirgian of Gainesville officiating. Interment was in the Carl Baptist Church Cemetery.

Smith Funeral Home, Winder


Toney Rogers WhitlockDied Feb. 10, 2013

Mr. Toney Rogers Whit-lock, 67, of Jefferson, died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

Born in Jefferson, he was a son of the late Guy Leon-ard Whitlock Sr., and the late Lois Hilda Huntsinger Whit-lock. He was a retired park ranger at Hurricane Shoals Park in Jackson County and was of the Baptist faith. Mr. Whitlock was also a veteran of the United States Navy, serving in the Vietnam War.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Alma Audrey Whitlock; children, Tony Scott Whitlock and Tracey Shell Whitlock, both of Jef-ferson; grandchildren, Tony Dalton Whitlock, Dillon Scott Whitlock and Dayton Marie Whitlock; five brothers; three sisters; and a multitude of nieces and nephews.

A private family memo-rial service will be held at a later date.



Bessie Turk WilliamsDied Feb. 8, 2013

Mrs. Bessie Turk Williams, 86, of Buford, died gracefully with family at her side on Fri-day, Feb. 8, 2013.

Survivors include her hus-band of 68 years, the Rev. Barney E. Williams; sons, Barney Lamar Williams and his wife, Donna Hood Wil-liams of Flowery Branch and Terry Williams and his wife Pam Kucera Williams of Suwanee; daughter, San-dra Williams Goodrum and husband Lee Goodrum of Bogart; grandchildren, Jen-nifer Compton and husband Brett Compton, B.J. Wil-liams and wife Meredith Caudill Williams and John Michael Williams and wife Anna Kate Smith Williams, all of Flowery Branch, Weston Goodrum and wife Nina Crawford Goodrum of

Winder, Whitney Goodrum of Jackson Hole, Wyo., Wyatt Goodrum of Woodstock and Adair and Analise Kucera of Suwanee; and great-grand-children, Maddie Compton, Clayton and Nolan Goodrum, Button, Jasper and Lila Jane Williams and Holt and Ridge Williams. She is also survived by brothers and wives, Gene and Carol Turk of Winder, Thurmon and Nell Turk of Dacula, Rayburn and Janet Turk of Maysville, and sister and husband, Gladys and M.T. Lyle of Oakwood; and many nieces and nephews.

She was a homemaker, pastor’s wife and loving mother, grandmother and

great-grandmother. She traveled the world, includ-ing multiple trips to the Holy Land and missionary trips to Haiti. She loved Christmas, always shopping for pres-ents throughout the year and decorating her house from top to bottom.

A funeral service celebrat-ing her life was held Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at Flanigan’s Funeral Home in Buford, with Pastor Ted Williams of-ficiating. Interment followed in the Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery.

Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford


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CHurCH NeWsThe Springs church hosts Wednesday Night

Downpour with a potluck dinner 6-6:30 p.m., followed by an adult church service focusing on prayer from 6:30-8 p.m., and Bible lessons and activities for youth and children, too. The Springs Church is located at 6553 Spout Springs Road, in front of Flowery Branch High School. Email [email protected] , call 770-965-9506 or visit www.thespringschurch.org

s s s covenant Baptist church is a group of called-

out believers who are committed to following Jesus Christ as Lord. We do this by sharing the good news of the gospel to those who are separated from God; and by teaching Believers how to be fully devoted followers of Christ. Please join us on Sunday mornings at 9:30 for Sunday school and 10:30 for morning worship at the Depot in downtown Hoschton. Nursery and children’s church is provided. Pastor Todd Coble can be reached at 678-316-0273. God bless you and “See you at the Depot!”

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AWANA is now under way at Bethabra Baptist church from 5:30-7 p.m. each Sunday. New and exciting events are planned including music, scripture memorization, awards, games, snacks and much more for ages 2 years through 5th grade. Visit the website at www.bethabra.org or call the church office at 770-867-3755 Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The church is at 1054 Old Thompson Mill Road (Hwy 211). Contact Pastor Landon Frymire at 770-867-3755.

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corner-Stone church Preschool, located at 6933 Georgia Highway 11 in Jefferson, announces fall registration for church members from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, March 4. For currently enrolled students, registration will be from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, March 5. Registration will be open to the community from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7. Contact director Kimberly Rewis at 678-524-6986 or visit www.corner-stone.org/preschool

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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 [email protected]. HUMC is located at 12 Mulberry St., in Hoschton.

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“Beans & Greens” fundraiser supper will be held at clemons chapel UMc on Highway 52 west of Lula from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, March 2. Eat in or carryout for $5 per plate. Call 770-983-3080.

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The Braselton Brothers building has a history as rich as the town itself. The brick building is impossible to miss while driving on Highway 53 through Braselton.

Tucked away in the back corner of the building is the office of Braselton Family Dentistry, a site which dentist Melinda Rada-Johnson calls home.

Johnson, a self-labeled Army brat who’s fluent in Spanish, says she’s always con-sidered Georgia her home and that she couldn’t be more thrilled to be working in her home state.

“I’m really loving living here. I love the small town and love the relationships I form with my patients,” said Johnson.

It’s those relationships that set her apart from other dentists.

“As a dentist I try to go out of my way to work for my patients. Patients have a choice where they can go, and if they choose us we try to make sure they don’t have any regrets.”

She knows people don’t always love going to the dentist.

“Lots of people have a fear, and I feel like I can work with them to get through it.

“We know that not everybody loves the dentist, and we’re okay with that, and we try to make it as pleasant an experience as possible,” she said. “Everyone here enjoys what we do and we take pride in that and enjoy seeing our patients every day.”

Johnson prides herself on her honesty with patients, saying that patients value a dentist they can trust.

Patient health is another priority of Bra-selton Family Dentistry, and Johnson says she’d rather prevent a problem from hap-pening than treat it.

“One of my focuses on patients when they come here is when I see anything wrong I always try to find the source of the problems.”

That’s one of the reasons behind her push to get fluoride added to the town’s drinking water.

“It really has a huge impact on so many things,” she said. “Fluoride isn’t just for kids; everyone needs it.”

According to Johnson, since Braselton’s water and most well water don’t contain fluoride, children should be on a fluoride supplement and people at a high risk of cav-ities should be put on a prescription fluoride toothpaste.

In the future, Johnson hopes to expand the office’s services to include performing implantations and possibly even offering Botox. She also hopes to continue with of-fice renovations and improve the office’s

technology.Johnson also aims to become more in-

volved in the community. “I was very in-volved back when I was in school,” she said, and now that she’s settled into her practice in Braselton, she’s looking forward to be-coming more community oriented.

For more information on Braselton Fam-ily Dentistry, call the office at 706-654-2492 or visit the website at braseltonfamilyden-tistry.com.

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Sobriety begins with just a single, committed step

We had an interesting visitor to our church office not long ago. A man fresh out of jail because of a DUI arrest stopped to ask for help. His truck was impounded and he needed a ride to his home, which was in a nearby city.

Later that afternoon, I drove him to his home about 30 miles away. On the way, we stopped by and picked up some belong-ings from his truck, including a cell phone, which had no more battery life or minutes. Since he did not know the number, he was unable to call his employer and tell him why he had not come to work for two days.

The ride gave us time to talk about alco-holism and the high price one pays for the grip it has on the mind and the body. It also gave us time to talk about issues of faith.

Joe, not his real name, professed to be a believer in Christ, but he felt that his addic-tion to alcohol had defeated him. “My one redeeming quality,” he said, “is that I am a hard worker. I do good work when I’m not around alcohol.”

We talked about his journey and I dis-covered that he maintained three years of sobriety when he was working a twelve-step program through Alcoholics Anonymous. He said, “After a while I didn’t think I needed to go any more so I quit. It’s a strange thing,” he said. “It’s when you start doing really well that you’re most at risk be-cause that’s when you let your guard down and you fool yourself into thinking you have things under control.”

Then he brought God into the conversa-tion. He said, “I have prayed to God over and over to take this desire away from me so that I will not drink anymore but it’s still there. Why do you think God hasn’t an-swered my prayer?”

That was a good question. I thought a second and I responded, “Well, maybe you are praying the wrong prayer. That would be like me going to a brothel and praying, ‘Lord, please take away my desire to look.’ I mean, what’s God supposed to do to keep you away from the alcohol?” He said, “I guess he’d have to chop off my legs.”

That brought a chuckle from both of us.Well, his legs didn’t get chopped off but he

did lose his wheels and that was enough to get his attention.

I asked him if he had a sponsor if he would start attending AA again and he said he would. So I encouraged him to pray for God to help him find his way back to people who would help keep him accountable for his actions, people who understood the temptations he faced, people who could help restore his sense of self-worth.

I don’t doubt that some people have lost their desire to drink and that some even at-tribute that to God answering their prayer.

However, I imagine that the greater number of alcoholics have relapsed more than once, and like Joe, have struggled to look at themselves in the mirror because they lack any self-respect or don’t feel that they are worthy of God’s grace or forgiveness. Like Joe, they feel a great sense of shame and disappointment in themselves and struggle to find redeeming

qualities in themselves.There are no quick fixes for alcoholism.

The penalty for this sin is high and the num-ber of people it wounds is many.

While God is waiting and willing to for-give those who are in the clutches of this disease, God’s grace is not a cheap grace. Jesus’ death on the cross reminds us of that. Healing, restoration, and redemption often involve many steps. For the alcoholic, there are twelve.

However, these 12 steps are like Catholic Rosary beads. They are designed to be used over and over and over. They are not de-signed to have a starting point and an ending point to the extent that once you’ve worked through step 12 you graduate, never to re-turn to the program.

Rather, the alcoholic should understand that drinking in moderation is no longer an option and that one is really always “recov-ering.” While chopping off one’s legs is too drastic, chopping off friends who drink or going to places where alcohol is freely flow-ing and easily accessible might be necessary steps. Perhaps this is what Jesus was allud-ing to when he said, “And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell, (Matthew 18:9, NIV).

Since Joe was very interested in having a sponsor again for AA, I discovered that the local First Baptist Church in the community where he lived had an AA chapter that met in their church. Someone there gave Joe a call to invite him to join his group.

God might not have taken Joe’s desire to drink away from Him, but God is still work-ing to deliver him from his addiction. The same legs that can take him to the beer store can also take him to AA and to church.

If he will admit that he’s powerless over his addiction and that a Power greater than he is can restore him to sanity, I believe he will be well on his way to making those steps work for him as he starts to build sobriety again. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time before he’ll be looking for another ride.

Dr. Michael Helms is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Jefferson. Reach him at [email protected]

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Melinda Rada-Johnson, DDS

Johnson is settled in at Braselton dental practice


Massage therapy is a fast-growing in-dustry, with massage therapists setting up shop everywhere from spas and hospitals to shopping malls. However, Braselton’s Joy Ann Carey is a licensed massage therapist (LMT) bringing something special to the table.

Carey has been practicing massage ther-apy for more than 22 years, and has been licensed since 1992. She also has taken courses for continuing education for all forms of medical massage.

According to Carey, she is set apart from other LMTs by the services she offers. Her services include massage therapy for medi-cal rehabilitation, pain relief and dealing

with chronic conditions. She is also skilled at dealing with many different types of mas-sage techniques.

Carey says she “contours treatment to each client’s needs” and “can and will listen to clients to achieve their goals.”

Carey describes sessions as “relaxing, non-invasive, non-stressful massages.” She also provides clients with education as to how to care for themselves to prevent and or maintain their bodies’ problems.

Joy Ann Carey, LMT, is located at 54 Henry St., in Braselton and is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. How-ever, she also consults with clients at night and on the weekend by appointment.

For more information or to set up an ap-pointment, call Carey at 706-362-3426.

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Mama’s favorite phrase when I was growing up — particularly during the defiant teenage years, es-pecially when I sassed her — was “you’re gonna pay for your raising one day, little lady. Let me assure you of that. You just wait until you have children and see how they behave.”

She repeated it so often that it became ingrained in my subconscious and I be-gan to worry over that. Life is full of enough problems without volunteering to bring more upon yourself. So I decided to outsmart Mama and the powers of fate by not having children. After all, if you don’t have children, how can you possibly pay for your previ-ously childish ways?

Lately, though, I’ve been thinking that perhaps I’ve outsmarted myself. Per-haps I’ve missed a good opportunity to leave behind wisdom and lessons of ex-perience that my children could have passed on to their children and they to their children. Perhaps something that I’ve learned down this journey of life would have helped some-one two generations from now.

All this started playing in my mind when I wrote

my latest book, “There’s A Better Day A-Comin’.” Those words were the man-tra of my parents passed down to them from their folks, those hardworking, barely-getting-by people of the Appalachian foothills. For generations, the only way my people could make it when the skies refused to rain and crops lay dying was to assure one another, “There’s a better day a-co-min’. Just wait and see.”

Mama and Daddy lived by that promise and I learned — finally — that better days do come again. They always do. No matter how hard or sad times are, better days always return. And sometimes a better day arrives when you least expect it.

As I wrote this book, with its stories of promise and people who refused to give up when adversity rolled with the weight of a dump truck over them, I found that repeatedly I quoted

Mama and Daddy. I shared their wisdom, so pure, so true and sometimes so simple.

“Be careful what you tell your best friend,” Mama opined. “She may not al-ways be your best friend. And when she’s not, she’ll tell your secrets.”

“A man who lies to you will steal from you,” Daddy said adamantly, tossing a forefinger meant to put a period on the end of that and stop any further de-bate.

“The best a man will ever treat you is before he marries you,” Mama often counseled to any young woman seeking her coun-sel. “If you don’t like it now, you’re sure not gonna like it later.”

“When you pray about something, put it in the Lord’s hands and walk away from it,” Daddy lec-tured. “Don’t keep pester-ing Him with it. Pray about it, release it then stand on your faith.”

This barely scratches the surface of their wis-dom. They were thinkers who watched life, studied on the human behavior of others and assimilated observations from it all. Repeatedly, I quoted them because often there was the

moral to a story that could be summed up in a quote from them.

Equally, though, I quoted myself taking away from experiences — both personally and those of others — bits and pieces of wisdom. From Mama and Daddy, I learned that every situation has a “takeaway,” some things to be remem-bered and learned from in-cluding some actions never to be repeated.

“It only takes one ‘yes’ to wipe out a thousand ‘nos,’” is a self-penned mantra that I developed when first try-ing to capture the attention of New York publishing.

“Courage comes by choice and not by chance,” was learned while observ-ing heroes up close and personal. It inspired a chapter about the ones who taught me. As I proofed the book, I realized that I had outsmarted myself.

Sure, I don’t have to pay for my raising, but I’ve also missed the opportunity to pay it forward.

Ronda Rich is the best-selling 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.

There is a commercial on TV for some diet plan. In the spot, the heavy version of a woman is having a conver-sation with her thin version.

I think you can rest as-sured that this was not filmed in a day. I assume that they filmed the heavy version first. Otherwise, she put away some serious calo-ries in short order.

I’ve often dreamed about the fat me having a conver-sation with thin me. Unfor-tunately, I usually wake up, realize it was a dream, and go fix myself a sandwich.

“Before and after” is a tactic that has been around a long time.

Jesus first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. No one ever said anything about how good the water was. They compli-mented him on some mighty fine wine.

It’s the after that we’re after.

I love watching commer-cials for stuff they sell by calling a toll-free number. They sell a lot of stuff de-signed for a better “after.”

There are several spots for potions that will make your car look better. They have a car that looks like it has been driven through a war zone. Then, some guy rubs a substance on it with a rag and, boom, it looks like it is rolling off the assembly line.

You’ll see commercials for knives that will glide through a tomato like a bow glides across the strings of a violin. That happens after the actor has used it to cut a tin can in half.

The mother of before-and-after gadgets is the Veg-A-Matic. I think I saw that commercial about 5,000 times in the early days of WTBS. “It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries,” the announcer intones.

Then, there is the great-est catch phrase of all those great sales pitches: “But that’s not all.”

If you dial the toll-free

number, they’re going to send you something else that you just can’t do with-out.

The “afters” that amuse me the most is ones for various elective medical procedures. They’ll show a picture, usually of a woman, who is as ugly as homemade sin. Then, she get’s a face-lift, uses some potion or gets a needle full of something stuck in her face and, voila, she is the belle of the ball.

They repeat this in other medical fields. Somewhere, they find someone with a gap in their teeth that you could drive a truck through. Then, a little dental work and they have a movie star smile.

The TV gurus know that there are many older Amer-icans watching TV. They make a pitch for a walking cane that is supposed to be the absolute greatest. Among the features of the walking cane is a “certifi-cate of authenticity.”

What is that? Does it say, “This is to certify that this is not a mop handle”?

Dale Stone, my good friend and the answer to the greatest trivia question ever, went out in the woods and got him a tree limb. He looks like Moses when he walks around. I never saw Moses, but Dale is pretty authentic.

By the way, the trivia question is what profes-sional played for the Hawks, Braves and Flames? Dale Stone; he played the organ.

You don’t need a cer-tificate of authenticity to answer that one.

Harris Blackwood is a Gainesville resident whose columns appear weekly.

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Not yet paying for my raising

Not going gently into that good night

In search for the desired ‘after’ effect

Ronda Rich

No more diapers.No more day care.No more sippy cups.No more taking extra

pants wherever we go (ex-cept for me – occasionally).

My, how things have changed in just a few years of parenting.

But as my children have gotten older – the youngest now being in second grade – some things, well, they haven’t changed at all.

“Time for bed, guys,” I say at the same time every night.

“Huh?” “What?” Or just a blank stare, as if

I have suggested something they have never heard of, much less the previous night at the very same time. And, for that matter, every night at roughly the same time for every evening of their young lives.

Bed? What’s this bed you speak of? I’ve never heard of it.

Those aren’t their words vocalized, but rather the implied message of their body language.

Just like when they were 2 and 5 years old, the 8- and 11-year-old brothers take

shifts in dragging out the inevitable.

“All right, time to brush your teeth and get in bed.”

“Brush my teeth? Why do I have to brush my teeth?” one asks, while the other starts a project of some sort.

“For the same reasons I explained last night,” I re-spond, and the night before, and the night before.

“And after he’s done, you’re next,” I say to the other one.

“As soon as I finish this,” which is what he just started moments ago, on cue. Meanwhile, the one I dragged (literally) to the bathroom to brush his teeth has somehow escaped and is downstairs eating ice cream.

When I get him back up-stairs and in the bathroom, supervising him brush-ing his teeth like a prison

warden, his brother has creeped outside to “find something” in my car. Af-ter I tuck his brother in bed, I apprehend his cohort, coming back upstairs, only to find his brother wrestling with the dog in the hallway.

If one of them is in a bed, the other is up, coming up with some creative excuse of why he can’t be in slum-ber.

“I’ve got to go to the bath-room.

“I’m hungry.”“My back hurts.”“I’m too scared to go to

sleep.”“I can’t go to bed. I’m do-

ing my pushups.”“I forgot to do my home-

work.”“I have a science project

where I have to watch the moon until it goes away.”

“My teacher said I have to watch the ending of ‘Dodgeball: A True Under-dog Story.’”

“I’m drawing a picture of a shark fighting Jason Bourne.”

This exercise goes on until the younger one just collapses from exhaustion and goes to sleep wherever he is – usually lying on his

bedroom floor, wearing a football helmet.

Despite the fact that they’ve gone to bed every night of their lives, my boys seem to be under the delusion that tonight will be different. Their mother or I won’t prompt them to brush their teeth and get in bed. We won’t turn off the lights and TVs. Tonight, they honestly think we will allow them to stay up all night. Or this is just a grand scheme to drive us to insanity. Prob-ably the latter.

Occasionally, like when of them has the flu, there won’t be a struggle to get them in bed each night. But, unfortunately, they are too healthy for that to hap-pen often.

Morning brings the same deja vu all over again.

“Time to get up,” I bellow cheerfully (some-times).

Get up. What’s this get-ting up you speak of? I’ve never heard of it.

Len Robbins is editor and publisher of The Clinch County News in Homer-ville. His column appears weekly.

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Medical center volunteers hand out Valentine’s carnations

Northeast Georgia Medical Center volun-teers to hand out red carnations on Valen-tine’s Day beginning at 9 a.m. until the flower supply is exhausted.

The shuttle drivers at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville will be giving out red carnations to all visitors who ride the shuttle on Valentine’s Day.

Volunteers will also be giving out carna-tions inside Medical Plaza 1 in Braselton.

Stroke awareness event is Feb. 22A free stroke awareness event is being

hosted from 1-3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, in the Mulberry Park Clubhouse.

Stroke survivor Wanda Grogan of Athens will be the featured speaker. Her story is not only encouraging, but motivating to both per-sons that have had a stroke, and the friends and family members that come in contact with them on a daily basis, says event coor-dinator Catherine Cosenza, whose mother experienced a stroke two years ago. Also a fellow Mulberry Park Garden Club member is continuing her recovery from a stroke just more than a year ago.

Light refreshments will be served follow-ing the event which is being coordinated by

Register by contacting Catherine at [email protected]

The information Cosenza has been learn-ing has inspired her to want to share health messages with the community. This has “made me realize how much all of us need to learn as much as we can about early detec-tion of stroke warnings that could save a life, maybe even our own,” she said.

Prostate health seminar offeredFLOWERY BRANCH – The Cancer Cen-

ter at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) is presenting a free prostate health seminar, “Know Your Stats About Prostate Cancer,” in which a panel of physicians will discuss screening, prevention and treatment options for prostate cancer.

The panel includes physicians from the fol-lowing specialties: urology, radiation oncol-ogy and medical oncology.

The seminar will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. with two opportunities to attend: Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Walters Auditorium at NGMC in Gainesville and Wednesday, March 6, in the Hall County Library Spout Springs Branch in Flowery Branch.

Registration and a free sandwich supper start at 5:30 p.m., with the presentation begin-ning at 6 p.m. The seminar is free, but regis-tration is required.

For more information or to register, call 770-219-3840, or register online at www.nghs.com/prostate-health-seminars.

Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center seeks volunteers

Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) needs caring individuals and groups to volunteer their time and com-passion to help serve patients coping with terminal illnesses. Many volunteer roles are available including visiting patients, re-lieving caregivers, sewing, clerical work or special projects.

Volunteer opportunities will accommo-date anyone’s schedule and interest whether you want to provide support for patients and families on a regular basis, provide clerical assistance in the office or help with a project once a year.

Hospice of NGMC cares for patients in their own homes in thirteen counties of northeast Georgia and seeks volunteers who reside in this area.

Free training and ongoing support are provided. Training classes are two days and are offered monthly. Pre-registration is re-quired.

If you would like to learn more about vol-unteering to provide care and assistance to patients and family members in your com-munity, contact Carol Jewell, Hospice of NGMC Volunteer Coordinator, at 770-219-8888 or 888-572-3900. You may also email her at [email protected]. For more information about Hospice of NGMC, go to www.nghs.com/hospice

‘Best in the state’ hospital listing Four area hospitals made the list of the

“best in the state,” according to Georgia Trend magazine.

Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gaines-ville, St. Mary’s Hospital and Athens Regional Medical Center, both in Athens, were all on the list of the best hospitals in the state.

The lists included 72 different facilities that were broken down into five categories. Eight state hospitals made the list for best teach-ing hospital; eight were chosen for best large hospital, which means it holds more than 400 beds; 20 medium hospitals were listed, which have between 151 and 399 beds; 20 small hos-pitals were listed, which have fewer than 150 beds; and 16 critical access hospitals from rural communities made the list.

In the best large hospital category, Gwin-nett Medical Center earned the ranking of No. 2, and Northeast Georgia Medical Center was ranked No. 4 in the state.

For top medium hospitals, both St. Mary’s and Athens Regional Medical Center made the list ranking No. 17 and No. 18, respec-tively.

The rankings are based on quality of care, patient satisfaction, mortality rates, readmis-sion statistics and data on hospital-acquired infections and conditions.

The entire list of the top Georgia hospitals for 2012 is available at www.georgiatrend.com.

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Todd Dixon, CEO of Barrow Regional Medical Center, announces the addition of several key people to the leadership team of the Winder hospital.

Amy Philo has joined Barrow Medical Center as Physician Out-reach Director. She previously worked at Physicians Choice Lab-oratory Services. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for the past 16 years, and has extensive knowledge of the medical commu-nity and has worked in sales, liai-son and managerial capacities.

Philo received a Bachelor of Sci-ence in Biology from Judson Col-lege in 1994 and an Associate of Science in Radiology from Athens Technical Institute in 1996. She grew up in Jackson County, attended Athens Christian School and cur-rently resides in Barrow County. She enjoys spending time with her husband, Rob, and her four children. She enjoys running and exercising, volunteering at her children’s school, and teaching a second grade boys’ small group at Prince Avenue Baptist Church.

“We are pleased to have Amy join our team,” said Dixon. “She is very experienced and brings a high level of profession-alism to her role. She exemplifies the direction in which our organization is moving.”

Also welcomed to Barrow Re-gional Medical Center is Meridyth Padgett. to serve as Human Re-sources Director.

Padgett, who comes to HMA from Baldor Electric Company. She worked with Baldor for six years, two of those as an engineer and the last four as Human Resources Supervisor. Prior to working for Baldor, she worked for the De-partment of Defense as a nuclear test engi-neer on naval aircraft carriers.

Padgett graduated from The Georgia In-stitute of Technology in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineer-ing. She received her Professional Human Resource Certification in 2010. She grew up in Milledgeville and currently resides in Jackson County. She enjoys spending time her husband and two children. She keeps herself busy as a team mom for her son’s football team as well as her daughter’s cheerleading squad. In her spare time, she loves baking cookies, cakes and other desserts for her friends, family and coworkers.

“We are very excited to have Meridyth join our team. She brings a high level of en-

ergy and knowledge with her to our orga-nization,” said Dixon. “We look forward to working with her as we continue to create

a rewarding environment for our associates.”

Wayne Rowell is now serving as Barrow Regional Medical Center’s Chief Financial Officer. He has been with HMA since 2004.

Previously, Rowell was assistant CFO at Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center in Haines City, Fla. He graduated from Pensacola Christian College and received his MBA from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He currently re-

sides in Walton County with his wife and two children. They are expecting their third child in the spring of 2013. In his spare time, he enjoys watching his children play sports and cheering on the Alabama Crimson Tide.

“We are privileged to have Wayne as a part of the Barrow Regional family. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experi-ence to our organization. We look forward to working with him and are excited to welcome him and his family to the commu-nity,” said Dixon.

Barrow Regional Medical Cen-ter has been serving Northeast Georgia since 1951. Its integrated medical campus includes a medical office building housing physicians, the Hospital, a Women’s Pavilion, as well as specialty services. The medical staff includes more than 100 physicians representing mul-tiple medical specialties. Barrow Regional’s service lines include Or-

thopedic & Spine Surgery, General & Vascu-lar Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, Critical Care & Pulmonology, Interventional Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging, Women’s Pavilion, Sleep Center, Wound Care Center, Occupa-tional & Physical Therapy, Emergency De-partment, ICU, Labor & Delivery, Labora-

tory Services, Medical & Surgery Unit, and Speech Therapy.

Barrow Regional is fully ac-credited by The Joint Commission and has been recognized as one of the nation’s top performers in critical quality and accountability measures. The facility is also rec-ognized by The American College of Radiology and The College of American Pathologists. Barrow

Regional also tops the Georgia Hospital Association’s Quality Honor Roll in the Chairman’s Category.

Philo, Padgett, Rowell join Barrow Regional Medical Center’s team

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2 Mill Creek wrestlers are state-boundBY LATRICE [email protected]

Kennesaw Mountain High School was the site of the sectionals meet where two Hawks extended their

season into this weekend. Bobby Klemm and Marcos

Rosenkjer will represent Mill Creek High School in the state champion-ship meet at the Macon Coliseum. Klemm will represent the heavy

weight division while Rosenkjer will compete in the 138 weight class.

Rosenkjer had nothing but state on his mind and had the sweet taste of victory twice on the first day of the tournament. Rosenkjer de-feated Kyle Munn of McEachern High School and Zac Daly of Las-siter High School. With the pressure of making it to state out of the way, Rosenkjer focused on earning a bet-ter seed for state on day two.

Klemm started the tourney with a loss to Wes Pella of Woodstock High School but he did not look at it as a setback; he looked at it as a way to step up. Klemm rebounded with two consecutive wins, send-ing Josh Coffman of Newnan High School home early before running into a familiar foe William Alford.

Latrice Williams The PaperBobby Klemm entered the meet as an underdog with a 7-12 record but put away two wrestlers after a 0-1 start for a chance to compete at state tomorrow. Left: Marcos Rosenkjer takes down a wrestler from Brook-wood High School at the area meet. Rosenkjer entered sectionals with less than 10 losses on the season.

LOCAL SPORTSTrack and field season arriving

Most coaches don’t make bold proclamations before the start of the season, but Je� erson High School head baseball coach Tommy Knight of the team is expecting his team to compete in the region title game. The Dragons are returning a strong group of players with a lot of experience and enough talent to back up his statement, he says. “In the last two years, we have played a very young group of players. We expect to compete for a region championship this year. We only lost three seniors (two starters) from last year’s team. The majority of our starters have gotten experience as freshmen and sophomores. We are still young but have experience coming back,” Knight said. The Dragons � nished third in their region last year and fell to Coosa High School in the � rst round of the state playo� s.

BY BRANDON RICHARDSONFor The Paper

The Mill Creek High School basket-ball team ended its three-game losing streak in a 58-48 regular season finale against Mountain View High School.

The Hawks went on a 6 -0 run to start the game despite playing without their regular starters. The Bears ended the quarter on a 9-2 run to take a one-point lead. Davion Clark, who was flawless on the night, led the team with four points in the first quarter.

MCHS star Trevon Shaw entered the game in the second quarter and his impact was immediately felt. On their first possession, Shaw hit a three to give MCHS the lead, but the Bears responded with a three of their own. Clark responded with a two and then Shaw made a steal on the Bears’ next possession and finished by scoring the Hawks’ next eight points, including three 3-pointers. The Hawks went into halftime up 28- 17.

Hawks spoil senior night for Bears

Lady Panthers defeat Eagles in 43-32 win

BLATRICE [email protected]

The opportunity to play on college foot-ball’s biggest stage has arrived for Mill Creek High School’s most decorated player to date. Standout defensive tackle Kelsey Griffin signed his national letter of intent to play for the Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina this fall.

“It feels great. It’s the next part of my life. I’m happy where I’m at and I can’t wait to get there and start this new journey at South Carolina,” said Griffin.

The Southeastern Conference is known for being the most televised and competitive conference; it’s a factor that Griffin did not look past.

“Everybody knows the SEC is the biggest and best conference out there. I can’t wait to go out there and showcase the abilities I have,” said Griffin.

Griffin is expected to join Jadeveon Clowney, who has been a force on the defen-sive line in the SEC and the nation. Griffin noted he is excited to be among such great company but must focus on his own game before he envisions sharing a sack with Clowney.

“He’s a great player and I can’t wait to play alongside him but I have to envision what I’m going to do first. I am not guaranteed a spot,”

SIGNED & DELIVEREDTwo area athletes ink with Division 1A schools

For The PaperDragons Quarterback Bryant Shirre� s, joined by his parents and the majority of the var-sity Je� erson High players, will report to Raleigh, N.C., at the end of June to compete in the Atlantic Coastal Conference.

See HAWKS, 2B

BASKETBALL

See PANTHERS, 2B

See WRESTLING, 2B

Latrice Williams The PaperKelsey Gri� n’s high motor is one of the factors that has made him such a highly sought after defensive tackle.

BY LATRICE [email protected]

The Mill Creek High School lacrosse team is only in its third season and is already send-ing players to compete at the next level.

Alex Schneider and Will Peek have signed to play lacrosse at Young Harris College.

“It was pretty cool; it was a great experi-ence,” said Peek, of his recruitment. “It was stressful at times.”

“Young Harris was my first Division II of-fer so that is what I wanted to go with,” said Schneider is pleased to be extending his play-ing days after high school.

Peek and Schneider agreed that signing early allows them more time to focus on help-ing the Hawks working toward their first state

championship.“I’m really happy to have my decision

made,” said Peek. “Now I can focus on this season.”

Schneider said, “Having to figure out what college you want to play at is something I didn’t want to have worry about the second

semester of my senior year. I just want to know where I’m going.”

Both athletes had different recruiting trails. While Peek enlisted help from a family member, Schneider turned to other experts

Young Harris signs 2 Hawks to play lacrosse

Peek Schneider

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BY CHARLES PHELPSRegional staff

The Lady Panthers wanted to send their senior class out it with a bang, and to their delight, they did just that with a 43-32 win over East Jackson High School.

Jackson County Comprehensive High School was led by senior Victoria Fon-tana who scored a game-high 15 points. Victoria Woods added nine and Shelton Kendrick followed with seven points; Kendrick was 5-of-8 from the free-throw line.

The lead changed hands four times in the first quarter with the Lady Panthers coming out ahead by four. The Lady Eagles battled back during the second quarter and tied the game at 15-15 late, but the Lady Panthers closed the half on a 5-0 run and took a 20-15 lead into halftime.

The Lady Panthers opened their lead to eight by the end of the third quarter behind Fontana’s five points during the quarter.

Jackson County saved their best play for last by scoring 13 points in the third quarter. This included key buckets from senior Savannah Roncadori, who

Track and � eld season is getting under way with Mill Creek High School’s � rst meet held Tuesday. The Hawks will be back in action on Thursday, Feb. 21.

Both the Jackson County Comprehensive High School Panthers and the Je� erson High School Dragons will put their track and � eld competitors into action on Feb. 28. See ClickThePaper.com

With the departure of more than 10 seniors, the Jackson County Comprehen-sive High School baseball team will have their work cut out for them this season. Head Coach Tommy Fountain realizes their strengths and is not running away from their weaknesses; despite losing a ton of experience the Panthers should not be taken lightly.

“We’ll be very good defensively and will once again have quality pitching. I feel very good about the first 5-6 spots in our lineup, but we will need the bot-tom portion of the lineup to step up and get the job done offensively. Chase Dunlap is one of two returning full-time starters. He’ll be the best defensive short-stop in the region,” said Fountain. Nick Corso is the best defensive center-fielder I’ve coached and is also coming straight out from basketball. Ben Brissey is a big athletic kid that has really figured things out at the plate and has a ton of power. He could end up being one of the biggest surprises around.”

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Dragons Baseball action starts Feb. 18 JCCHS Diamond Panthers get ready for season

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BY LAtrICE [email protected]

With the rise of popularity in youth sports, everyone is trying to stay ahead of the game. Jackson County Comprehensive High School baseball Coach Tommy Fountain is in the process of building a strong youth baseball program that will not only give young ath-letes a chance to excel early in the sport but was also allow those same athletes to stay within the Panther program.

“The ultimate goal is for the Jackson County Junior Baseball (JCJB) to reach a superior level of play so that the top level young base-ball players in Jack-son County no longer have to travel to other places to play,” said Fountain. “To be the best baseball player you can be, you need to play the highest level of baseball at which you can compete.”

The desire to have youth baseball pro-gram was prompted by parents who ap-proached Fountain and the booster club about the idea last summer. Many parents already have youngsters competing in vari-ous baseball leagues but wanted to form a group of athletes that will have ties to the Panther name.

“After a few meetings and putting to-gether a board of directors, the Jackson County Junior Baseball program was born,” said Fountain, who explains JCJB is a USSSA travel program that currently includes a 10U and 11U team. The teams were chosen after a series of tryouts.

“Steven Hardegree will coach the 11U team and Steve Beverly will coach the 10U team. Former Panther and current Ogletho-rpe University pitcher Kolin Zimmer also helps with the 10U team during his off sea-son,” Fountain said.

Keeping athletes within a program is a goal. Student-athletes coming from middle school or some already in high school have coaches wanting their services, leaving those athletes with the option to play for a team. Unfortunately if a potential star ath-lete is recruited away, it leaves a program

without the strength it hoped to have after in-vesting in the student.

“Right now, I can name two or three very good young baseball players who are going to Gwin-nett County and a couple even to East Cobb to play at a higher level. When the group of parents ap-proached me with this idea, my mind immedi-ately raced to those kids,” Foundation said. “When a kid plays in Jackson County, he should be able to stay in Jackson County. When a kid goes to Gwin-nett County or East Cobb to play when they are

young, we’re less likely to get them back.” Fountain said he is confident that this pro-

gram will have plenty for offer, especially those looking to play at the collegiate level.

“We’re putting a quality product on the field now, sending more kids to college than anybody else in this area over the past two or three years. We want our young guys who will play one day for us to go ahead and start doing things the Panther Way,” said Foun-tain. “While JCJB is a separate entity and has the ability to operate independently, the board of directors feels the same way we do.”

In a couple of weeks, Jackson County Ju-nior Baseball will begin its inaugural season with both teams playing in nearly a dozen tournaments.

The Panther high school and C-team baseball program are actively involved in the development of these young men by run-ning camps and coaching clinics, as well as offering one-on-one instruction from cur-rent Panther players, said Fountain.

Panthers establishing youth baseball program

WRESTLING Continued from 1B

He and Klemm are well acquainted as they met twice at the area meet nearly two weeks ago. Klemm led the series 2-0 and added to the win streak by defeating Alford yet again in a win-or-go-home situation.

Austin Burel (126 weight class), Ardy Velez (195 weight class) and Cody Wheeler (152 weight class) were also vying for a spot at state but were up against stiff competition. Each wrestler had the chance be an alternate

if they did not achieve two wins which served as an automatic qualifier.

Velez opened his scoring sheet with a win over Jamaal Angrish of Westlake High School but was defeated by Maverick Rechsteiner of Etowah High School in the second round. With the pressure mounting, Velez was in desperate need of just one more win but fell just short to Hillgrove High School’s Zach Wil-liams.

Burel and Wheeler faced identical situa-tions. Each went 1-1 on day one and suffered a heart-breaking loss on day two which elimi-nated them from a chance at state.

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Cody Wheeler en-tered the sectionals tournament with a 19-14 record but had his finest day of the season in the Down the Creek tournament where he finished with a first-place finish af-ter going 8-0.

said Griffin. “I’m going to work on what I need to do and when I do get a chance to play with him it will be such a great honor.”

Jefferson High School quarterback Bry-ant Shirreffs didn’t waste anytime getting his paperwork done. Shirreffs held a recent signing ceremony in the JHS school library where he was joined by teammates and members of the student body.

Shirreffs will join the Wolfpack Nation at the North Carolina State University. Quar-terback Mike Glennon just wrapped up his last season with NCSU which could give way for Shirreffs to start as a true freshman. However, Shirreffs noted the departure of Glennon did not play a factor in him choos-

ing to play there.“I probably would have gone there even

if [Mike] was still there,” said Shirreffs.After Shirreffs helped lead the Dragons to

the 2AA state title, his name began to spread like wildfire and he received interest from Purdue University and the University of Oregon, among others. However, when the Wolves howled, Shirreffs did not hesitate to take them up on their offer.

“It just felt right, especially when I went up there. Everything from the coaches to the facilities was great,” he said.

Shirreffs has without question brought a lot of pride to the Jefferson fan base. While he will miss his days at Memorial Stadium, he admitted that he is ready for a new be-ginning.

“I report on June 26 and I am ready to get out of here,” Shirreffs said.

for advice. “I sought advice from my aunt. She

works at a private high school and works with some of the athletes that are trying to get to college to play,” Peek said.

“My parents are from England so they have never dealt with going to college,” said Schneider. “The recruiting process was very new to them so I got advice from [a few] coaches. I also talked to some other kids that play lacrosse in Gwinnett County and got some advice from them.”

Peek and Schneider say they can already envision what their first moment on the field will feel like.

Schneider says he is especially aware of the fact that he will have to work hard for such a coveted position which will make his first save very memorable. “There will be a sense of pride, especially since I play goalie; it’s a spot I have to earn because I will be the only one out there,” he said. “The opportu-nity to play at the next level is exciting.”

“It’s something I have dreamed about all my life so I know it will be an incredible mo-ment,” Peek said.

Schneider and Peek are both assistant coaches the 15U Mill Creek lacrosse recre-ation league.

LACROSSE Continued from 1B

BY ChArLEs phELpsRegional staff

After jumping out to 13-3 lead early in the second quarter, the Panthers’ offense was clicking on all cylinders but the second half became a different story.

East Jackson High School defeated Jack-son County Comprehensive High School Fri-day night at JCCHS in a 49-28 contest.

The Eagles’ attack was led by Jarron Davis who dropped four 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 19 points. Devonte Tuggle added nine and was 5-of-6 from the free-throw line.

The Eagles’ defense made stops late in the second quarter to give the offense a shot after a poor start in the first quarter. The Eagles outscored the Panthers 11-3 to finish the first half. Then, the Eagles outscored the Panthers 35-12 in the second half.

The Panthers fast start wasn’t a surprise to the Eagles, according to head coach Brian Turner.

“I was actually expecting the start we had tonight,” Turner said. “Our defense kept us in it. We’ve got some kids that can score and we finally started scoring in the second half. Once we started scoring, we (were) good then.”

The Panthers finished with four players at six points apiece: Xavier Harper, Chase Dun-lap, Layson Giles and Andrew Fogarty. Giles scored all of his six points in the first half. Panthers head coach Britt Beaver summed [up the game] as missed opportunities by his team, but capitalization by the Eagles.

“We weren’t shooting it real well. [We] didn’t hit free throws. We’ve shot free throws well this year, [but they] didn’t fall tonight,” Beaver said. “We didn’t rebound the ball as well as we could have. The kids played hard, but we just got away from what we needed to do to win the game at the end.”

The Panthers as a team were 6-of-21 from the free-throw line. The Eagles were 11 of 19 from the line. Of East Jackson’s free throw shooting, Beaver said, “They shoot it really well. They’ve shot it really well this year.”

Davis scored seven of his 19 points in the first half, including two of his four 3-pointers. His third 3-pointer gave the Eagles their first lead of the game early in the third quarter, and it was a lead they never gave back.

PANTHERS Continued from 1B

BY LAtrICE [email protected]

Conner Andreasen, Zak Evans, Daivon Ledford and JT Wood will represent Jack-son County Comprehensive High School at the wrestling state championship meet this weekend at the Macon Coliseum.

The order is tall but head coach Jason Powers has spoken highly of his team all season and is ready to coach his team to victory.

“JT and Daivon had great tournaments again which allowed them to finish as sec-tional champions. Daivon had a great finals match and won 1-0,” said Powers.

“JT also had an exciting finals match with the outcome being 2-0. Conner had a really good tournament, but lost to the same wres-tler that he lost to in the area finals,” said Powers.

“Zak is still wrestling very well and con-tinues to improve each week,”he said. “This is his first year on varsity and for him to make it all the way to the state tournament is a huge accomplishment.”

The Panthers are slated to compete at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, and return to action at 9 a.m. on Friday and at 9:30 a.m. on Sat-urday.

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Panthers sending four wrestlers to state tourney

East Jackson takes down cross rival JCCHS 49-28

made three consecutive free throws. Ka-tie Phillips had five points in the fourth quarter as well to help widen the lead.

The Lady Eagles’ offense was led by Kelsey Palette’s 14-point. Ten of her 14 came from free throws. Madison Wuert-ley added nine and went 4-of-6 from the free-throw line. The Lady Eagles were 18-of-27 as a team from the free-throw line.

Andreasen, Evans, Ledford and Wood will compete this weekend at Macon Coliseum

Other notable sports signees:Mill Creek High SchoolFootball:

Matt Kopp Shorter CollegeConner Cooper McKendree UniversityMichael Cheeks University of West GeorgiaJacorey Lewis Hutchinson Community College

Soccer:Lauren Tanner University of GeorgiaAlex Giles Georgia College and State UniversityLora Bruce Shorter UniversityVictoria Schillinger Truett- McConnell College Kristin McDonald Georgia Southwestern State University

Jackson County Comprehensive High SchoolFootball:

Reno MesslerUniversity of West Georgia

SIGNED Continued from 1B

BY BrANDoN rIChArDsoNFor the Paper

Despite overcoming a 1-for-17 start from the field and taking a 12-point lead, the Lady Hawks of Mill Creek High School couldn’t fi-nalize a win and took a 45-40 overtime loss at the hands of Mountain View High School.

MCHS began the quarter by missing their first four shots while the Bears jumped out to an early 4-0 lead. Madison Phillips drew a foul and converted the two subsequent free throws for the team’s first points of the night.

Sophomore Meredith Schulte followed with a 3-pointer; that would be team’s first and only shot made from the field in the quar-ter. Two early fouls forced leading scorer Nadiya Miller to sit out the remainder of the first quarter. The team finished the quarter by going 1-for-13 from the field.

The Hawks entered the second quarter down 11-5 but began to see a change when Schulte converted a three-point play for the team’s first points of the quarter. Kathleen Haxton made two straight shots from beyond the arc to give MCHS a 15-14 lead.

The Hawks’ defense continued to play strong as their shooting picked up. They held the Bears scoreless for the rest of the quarter. With less than a minute to play, Miller scored her first points of the night with a three. Miller ended the half with a rebound and a put back to send the Hawks into the half up by six.

The second half continued to go in the Hawks’ favor as they doubled their lead. With less than four in the quarter to play, two free throws by the Bears gave them their first points since early in the second quarter. The Bears reinstated their press defense they uti-lized in the first quarter to go on a 10-2 run to end the quarter.

The Bears were able to overcome their

four-point deficit with a three and a layup af-ter forcing a jump ball. The Hawks and Bears eventually found themselves at 35-all which resulted in overtime.

The Hawks struggled with shooting from the field while the Bears continued to roll. Head coach Ashley Phillips commented prior to game day on the team’s offensive style.

“We depend heavily on making jump shots and any time that is your strategy there are going to be some off nights,” said Phillips.

The loss by the Hawks moves them to 13-12 overall and 9-7 in the region. They are the fourth seed heading into the region tourna-ment in a Feb. 12 rematch with the Bears.

HAWKS Continued from 1B

It was clear the Hawks were in a league of their own. They elevated their advan-tage by 17, making it their largest of the night. Up 15 to begin the fourth quarter, the Hawks stumbled a bit while Mountain View responded with three and a turnover allowed them to pull within five.

Yet, the Bears grew cold as the Hawks began to close the game out. Mountain

View failed to capitalize on numerous scoring opportu-nities. They missed several open shots and failed to get any points off of the Hawks turnovers; Mountain View also struggled with second chance opportunities.

Shaw nailed another 3-pointer to achieve his 17th point of the night. That shot was the final blow to the Bears. Two free throws and another basket increased the Hawks’ insurmountable lead to 12.

The win gave the Hawks some momentum going

into the region tournament where they will face Collins Hill High School as the fifth seed. The Eagles and Hawks are even at 1-1 in the season series. The neutral site is sure to provide for a great game as both teams will be playing to avoid an early exit to their season.

The Hawks finish the sea-son 16-9 overall and 9-7 in region with only two of their conference wins coming against higher seeded oppo-nents. They will look to re-verse that fate in the region tournament on Wednesday.

Lady Hawks get clawed by Mountain View Bears

We want our young guys who will play one day for us to go ahead and start doing things the Panther Way.

tommy FountainJackson County Comprehensive High School head baseball coach

Foster peters For the PaperSenior India Dillard drives to the basket in a floater in a home loss against Duluth High School. The two evened the series at 1-1.

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BY LEANNE [email protected]

The Boys & Girls Club is among the best in the world when it comes to saving lives by providing youngsters with a starting point on their road to a better life, according to Michael Williams, who has served as executive directo-rof the Jackson County orga-nization since 2008.

He speaks passionately about what involved caring adults supporting a “get-the-job-done” program can do for the youth of a commu-nity. He has watched lives transformed locally and he anticipates an even greater reach in the future.

Williams joins with other Boys & Girls Club support-ers in talking about the club whenever and wherever there is a listening ear. Even better, he enjoys get-ting young club members to share about their expe-riences because they are heartfelt.

When Williams recently spoke to fellow Rotarians, he shared the floor plan de-sign of the new Boys & Girls Club center in Jefferson which will be constructed on the same property as the current club site. Two double-wide trailers are

currently connected across from the Gordon Street Cen-ter to each day give an esti-mated 80 youth, ages 6-18, a safe place to go after school, work on homework and take part in learning and sporting activities.

Williams said the Bra-selton Rotary Club was the first group to see the design which the architect deliv-ered Jan. 29.

Williams introduced club members, Catera Jack-son, Olivia Hill and Teriny Moon, who shared some of what involvement in the Boys & Girls Club has meant to them. The 16-year-old girls, who have been a part of the club since they were 8, joined Williams and Com-merce Unit Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Jack-son County Stacey Ramsey and Jackson’s mother, Anita Brown Jackson, as guests of the club.

Help with homework and an opportunity to be surrounded by positive in-fluences is helping Moon push ahead. She said, “the staff sees something in me – drive, a hunger, a dream. I have someone who cares for me.”

Expanding the club’s reach is also on the horizon, Williams said. Another club

location is envisioned for the Braselton-Hoschton area. “This area is suffering,” said Williams, who noted the next expansion would go toward Banks and Madison counties. “We want to take our time and do it right.”

The new Jefferson club design features a teen center for older youth and a central game center utilized by all the club members. An arts and crafts and learning cen-ter allows for the younger

children to be separated from the older teens and su-pervision is a constant, Wil-liams said.

Williams called the new club facility “one of the most needed projects in Jackson County.”

A $1.3 million capital campaign will be under way in March and April as the community will be asked to put additional money with the $500,000 Community Development Block Grant

received through the Geor-gia Department of Commu-nity Affairs. The goal is to raise the additional building funds and one to two years of operational expenses. Because long-term funding will be needed, donors can make their gift over a three- to-five-year period.

See ClickThePaper.com for this complete story about the Boys & Girls Club effort and the rendering of the floorplan.

3BThursday, February 14, 2013

Love of libraries in the air

February is a short but special month but we cel-ebrate Valentine’s Day, Black History Month and Library Lovers Month.

Why love your local library? The library is a spe-cial place — a place where one can escape the hustle-bustle of every day life and get lost in a book. It is a quiet place to study, a relaxing haven for children to learn and grow and it serves as a gigantic information hub.

Even though the World Wide Web has become the main portal for information, “libraries can have vast dig-ital stores of qualitative and quantitative information escaping from opinion led snippets and snapshots from online. There may be some crossover of information but in most cases libraries are a much more economically viable solution when look-ing for information than the internet” (www.daysofthe-year.com). February (and any other month) is a great time to check out our local libraries and take advan-tage of the fun events and gatherings they offer.

The Jefferson Library offers programs for both adults and children. Adults can join the Jefferson Book Club which meets every second Wednesday at noon. It is a great way to meet other adults in the area and enjoy several books that the library offers. Children can participate in Storytime and Reading with “Doggie Tales” which is open to chil-dren of reading age. Visit http://www.cityofjeffer-songa.com/id96.html

The Braselton Library is bursting with programs and ways to enrich lives. The mission of the Brasel-ton Library is to assists the public in their educational, informational and recre-ational pursuits through easy, friendly access to ma-terials and services after all. Did you know that you can read the latest newspapers & magazines, surf the web, check out books on CD or tape, attend storytime with the kids, make crafts while snacking, go on a school field trip, learn new crafts and work skills, watch new-release movies as a family on Friday Movie Nights, vol-unteer, notarize documents, pick up tax forms, and visit the Friend of the Library’s store name AFTER-WORDS? Visit http://www.braselton.net/library.html to see more in depth infor-mation about the programs listed above. Head librarian Bev Adkins would love to have you.

The Hall County Library System offers storytime for young children and op-portunities for adults, but they also have opportunities for teenagers. The HCL be-lieves that teenagers should have a say as well as adults, so they are able to run for li-brary office — a great expe-rience for young people. Get involved — join a book club, take the kids to storytime, take a computer class and more.Visit http://www.hall-countylibrary.org/index.php/adults/technology.

Other libraries can be found in Winder, Statham, Commerce, Maysville, Banks County, Auburn and Talmo. Each library offers specific programs but all want to attain the same goal — to enrich lives. Please support your local library!

Farah Bohannon is a freelance writer living in Winder. She loves to utilize her skills to write inspiring stories. Reach her at [email protected]

Farah BohannonColumnist

Boys & Girls Club of Jackson County set for capital fundraising blitz for building

LeAnne Akin The Paper

Pitching PURPLE for Relay For LifeIndependence Bank has signed on with a team e� ort for Relay For Life of Braselton-Hoschton with purple bows and Relay cookbooks among the fundraising items now available. American Cancer Society Com-munity Manager Kellie Scott, joined recently with Paul Jones, Barbara McMillian and Linda Murray of Independence Bank, Relay For Life co-chairs Jessica Worley and Jennifer Kidd and Amy Souto of Inde-pendence Bank to bring attention to the “Paint the Town Purple” e� ort. To order purple bows for $10 each to display at your home or business, stop by In-dependence Bank or contact [email protected]. Checks should be made payable to Jessica Worley. You can also contact Worley at [email protected] or Kidd at [email protected] Find out more about the activities leading up to the April 26 Relay For Life of Braselton-Hoschton at www.cancer.org. Learn more about the inspiration for these Relayers’ involvement at online at ClickThePaper.com

LeAnne Akin The PaperVisitors of Rotarian and Boys & Girls Club of Jackson County executive director Michael R. Williams to a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Braselton was, from left to right, Teriny Moon, Olivia Hill, Catera Jackson, Anita Brown Jackson and Stacey Ramsey. The � oor plan, below, will better serve the youth ages 6-18 of the Jackson County service area.

BY KATIE [email protected]

Jackson County Comprehensive High School (JCCHS) students con-tinue a tradition of community ser-vice with their annual “Pennies for Patients” fundraiser.

“Pennies for Patients” is hosted by the JCCHS student council to col-lect money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.

The fundraiser, which pits first block classes against one another, rewards the class with the greatest collections with a Chick-fil-A break-fast.

“Pennies for Patients” raised $1,165.03 last year, and $1,565.93 was collected the previous year. This year, the student council has set its goal at $2,000.

“It’s been kind of a long-time tra-dition in Jackson County,” said ju-nior student council member York Delloyd, who says an increase in the school’s student body size led them to raise their goal.

“It’s been pretty successful as well, since an incentive is offered,” said senior student council member Kaitlyn Parker.

JCCHS will be collecting pennies, along with dollars and other coins, for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society until Friday, Feb. 22.

“I would say this is one of the more successful fundraisers this school holds,” said Student Council adviser Ron Prescott.

Anyone interested in contribut-ing to the annual fundraiser, can drop off donations at the JCCHS office.

Katie Justice The PaperMembers of the Jackson County Comprehensive High School Student Council are participating again in “Pennies for Patients” which is continuing through Feb. 22. They hope to reach their of $2,000.

Got spare change for ‘Pennies for Patients’?Student Council sets goal of $2,000

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A fundraiser to help with transplant-related expenses for Jefferson toddler Braden Knebal will be held Sunday, Feb. 17, at Beef O’Brady’s in Jefferson. The event will last all day at the restaurant located in the Kroger Shopping Center off Old Pendergrass Road.

If unable to attend, donations can be sent by mail to the Children’s Organ Transplant Association, 2501 West COTA Drive, Bloomington, IN 47403. Checks or money orders should be made payable to COTA with “In Honor of Braden K” in the memo line. Credit Card donations are also accepted online at www.COTAforBradenK.com.

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The semi-annual Lollipop Kids consignment sale will be held Thursday, Feb. 14, and Friday, Feb. 15, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Most items will be sold for half price on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 8 to 11 a.m. The sale will be held at the Jefferson Civic Center, 65 Kissam St., in Jefferson. The sale features new and gently used clothes, toys and furniture from 400 local

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friends of the Jefferson Library will host its annual book sale on Feb. 22-23 at the Jefferson Civic Center.

Friday hours will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with Saturday hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friends of the Library will enjoy a preview night from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21,

Adults and children’s paperbacks and hardbacks will be sold as a fundraiser for the Friends. Contact the library at 706-367-8012 for information.

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the Little Lambs Consignment sale will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 21, and 22, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23 , with selected items half price on Saturday at The Springs Church, 6553 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. Visit www.thespringschurch.org and click on The Little Lambs Consignment Sale or contact [email protected] or 678-468-9536.

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The Leadership Jackson Class of 2013 is hosting “Plunge for Paws” on Feb. 23 to benefit the Humane Society of Jackson County’s Raise the Woof campaign to build the county’s first animal shelter. Twelve community leaders and animal lovers will be going for a frigid swim in Crow’s Lake to help “Raise the Woof.”

Plungers will hit the water at 3:30 p.m., but the event will begin at 2:30 p.m. The public is invited. Visit www.facebook.com/plungeforpaws or contact [email protected].

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North Georgia Pediatric Dentistry will be at the Braselton Library at 11:30 a.m. on March 1 to provide a special storytime on dental awareness.

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Decorated Vietnam War hero and motivational speaker Col. Lee ellis will appear at Celebration Church in Hoschton on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. His appearance has been arranged by the Village at Deaton Creek’s Military Support Club.

COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

The Braselton Downtown Business Breakfast and networking meeting for business professionals will be held from 7:30-8:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, in the Community Room of the Braselton Police & Municipal Court Building. Invitations have been send to downtown businesses and Downtown Director Amy Pinnell says she is excited about the opportunity to assist with networking and business development opportunities. Visit the new website at www.downtownbraselton.com or contact her at 706-684-0369 or [email protected]

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The Hoschton Business alliance will be holding their regular monthly meeting on Feb. 19 at the Country Inn & Suites in Braselton from 8-9 a.m. This month’s program will include “Customer Service and Its Impact On Your Marketing.” Guests are welcome to visit this group and will have a chance to introduce themselves and their business. For more information about the Hoschton Business Alliance, visit the website at http://www.officialhba.com/ and the facebook page, HBA Hoschton Business Alliance.

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The Jackson County

Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Workplace Drug Policy seminar from 8:30-9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, with Jacqui Derrick, substance abuse program administration and president of Workright LLC. Derrick developed the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce’s Drugs Don’t Work Program in 1994. Workright helps small business address Drug Free Workplace issues through a comprehensive program.

Register by contacting Linda Foster at the Chamber at [email protected] or 706-387-0300.

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The Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce will have a Business and social Hour starting at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, at Anytime Fitness in Hoschton.

Fitness has moved and wants to show off the new fa-cility in Suite 114 in the Publix Shopping Center at 6055 Hwy 124 W., in Hoschton. Mingle with fellow Chamber members while enjoying music, food and a chance to win a door prize. This event is free, but please

RSVP to the Chamber at 706-387-0300.

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The Barrow County Cham-ber of Commerce and AT&T presents the “state of the Cities address” at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the Bar-row County Parks & Rec De-partment on Second Street in Winder.

The cost is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers. Table sponsorships are $175 and exhibit tables are $25. Call Missy at the Chamber at 770-867-9444 or email [email protected]

Of NOTE TO BUSINESS

A Celebration of Lights will be held Feb. 16 as a fundraiser for Peace Place which serves victims of domestic violence in Barrow, Jack-son and Banks counties.

The Ball includes a dinner buffet catered by Cornbread and Caviar, live musical en-tertainment by “Shaken Not Stirred,” dancing and a silent auction. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Winder Com-munity Center in Winder.

Tickets for the event are $60 each or $500 for a table of eight. Procuring a table earns the person or business the honor of being announced as an event sponsor and all event sponsors will re-ceive a special gift.

All proceeds from the Ball and silent auc-tion will support the victims and survivors of domestic violence who utilize the services

and programs provided by Peace Place. This includes those in shelter, in transitional housing and being served through outreach programs. The majority of clients are from

the Piedmont Judicial Circuit of Barrow, Banks and Jackson counties.

Peace Place is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that provides shelter for victims of domestic violence. Since opening in June of 2000, more than 1,900 women, children and men have been shel-tered by Peace Place. The shel-

ter not only offers a safe, confidential place to live, but provides counseling, employment assistance, legal advocacy and support.

To purchase tickets or a table for the event, make a financial contribution or donate and item to the silent auction, call the Peace Place administrative line at 770-307-3633.

Celebration of Lights for Peace Place is Saturday

The National Weather Service, Jackson County Emergency Management Agency, Banks County Emergency Management Agency, and Jackson County SkyWarn pres-ent a free SkyWarn Storm Spotter training class from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

SKYWARN is a volunteer program with more than 230,000 trained severe weather spotters. These volunteers help keep their local communities safe by providing timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service.

Anyone with an interest in the weather is invited to attend.

Topics covered will be the basics of thun-

derstorm development, fundamentals of storm structure, identifying potential severe weather features, what information to report, how to report information and basic severe weather safety.

The class will be held at the Fire Training Center located at 64 Fowler Drive, Jefferson, GA 30549. Register by emailing [email protected] or calling 706-654-0923.

For more information about SkyWarn, visit http://www.nws.noaa.gov/skywarn/ Like us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/JacksonCoSkyWarn. For more information about the class, contact [email protected] or call 706-654-0923.

SkyWarn class is Feb. 26

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Design A T-Shirt......Win Cash!

Home Address:

City: ____________________________________ State: ________ Zip: __________

Home phone:

Email address to contact:

Parent or guardian’s name:

If you have any questions, please contact706-654-5720, 9am to 5pm, [email protected]

Artwork can be mailed to PO Box 306, Braselton, GA 30517or emailed to [email protected]

5 p.m., March 13, 2013is the deadline to enter the 2013

Braselton Beach Bash T-Shirt Contest.

The winning design will appear on the T-Shirts sold at the festival and worn by the

volunteers and may appear on other promotional materials.

One winning entry will be chosen. A $50

prize will be awarded to the winning entry.

Submissions must be from an individual 18 years or younger as of March 13, 2013.

Electronic submissions are encouraged, although not required. Electronic

submissions must be in PDF or JPG format.

Both electronic and mail submissions must be

accompanied by the submission form and the

form MUST be signed by the child’s parent or

guardian. Children may submit as many designs

as they want, but each must have a separate submission form attached.

Braselton Beach Bash

T-shirt Design Contest

T-Shirt guidelines:We want an image that represents the theme “Braselton Beach Bash” and is colorful and graphically appealing.

You must use a visible image and slogan (artwork must be original or clip art that can be copyrighted, please). The image may be simplified for tees and other promotional materials.

Include colors. A maximum of four colors may be used in the design INCLUDING BLACK AND WHITE! You can use one color as a background. Solid colors only; no water color, gradients or airbrush, please. Those techniques look wonderful, but they are too costly to reproduce on shirts. Sorry.

Lettering must be identifiable and easy to read. All entries, images and artwork become exclusive property of the Braselton Visitors Bureau Authority.

I, the undersigned, certify that the attached artwork is entirely the work of the child identified above and that the above information, including birth date, is accurate as of the date of this submission.

________________________________________Signature of Parent or Guardian

Hey Kids!

Date of Submission:

Name of Child:

Birth Date: Age:

Braselton Beach Bash T-ShirtContest Submission Form

The Braselton Visitors Bureau Authority reserves the right to reject any and all entries and to request reasonable, minor design modifications from the proposed winner or to utilize another firm to make design modifications to the winning entry.

It’s time to turn thoughts and efforts to gardening, and a beginner’s gardening class for adults has been scheduled for Nannie’s Children’s Garden in downtown Braselton, beginning in March.

The class content will include topics such as soil preparation, seed germination and plant propagation, garden maintenance, container gardening, herb cultivation, and perennial and annual flower growing. The classes will be a combination of classes and hands-on gardening.

Classes will be held at Nannie’s Chil-dren’s Garden on Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. until noon each week beginning March 7, and concluding April 25.

There is a $15 participant fee for the class, and registration can be completed at the Braselton Library or by e-mailing Dave Rusk at [email protected]. Class size is lim-ited to 10 students. A second class will also be offered during May and June.

Nannie’s Children’s Garden is a com-munity demonstration garden adjacent to the Braselton Library on Brassie Lane. Programs offered at the garden are spon-sored by the Hall County Master Garden-

ers with the support of the Braselton West Jackson Library and Keep Jackson County Beautiful, Inc. The garden is maintained by adult volunteers as well as the students of the Braselton Junior Master Gardener program, and funded by grants and dona-tions.

Arbor Day offeringsArbor Day 2013 in Jefferson will be held

at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, at the “McKin-ney Hill” site located on Longview Drive near Old Swimming Pool Road, across from the Jefferson City Clubhouse. In ap-preciation of Col. McKinney’s vision to maintain the property as green space, the city plans to later dedicate the hill by plac-ing a marker. For Arbor Day, a Georgia Oak will be planted.

Arbor Day at Fort Yargo State Park in Winder will be held on Saturday, Feb. 23, with volunteers arriving at the Old Fort at 9 a.m. to assist in planting 40 trees and plants from the 18th Century era. Volunteers are asked to bring shovels and gloves and come ready to help enhance the Fort Yargo Liv-ing History Society area.

We are approaching the period in which we can start to control summer weeds and it is closer than you think. Starting around Valentine’s Day, maybe a little sooner depending on the soil temperature, we can start to apply pre-emergent herbicides to our lawns. These herbicides stop the weed from ever germinating, so that crab-grass will never appear in your lawn in the summer-time. The window is some-what small for pre-emer-gent herbicides though because by mid-March it is too late to apply.

Many people wait until the weeds appear before applying a post-emergent herbicide. Both pre and post-emergent herbicides

control many of the weeds you encounter but let’s look at the benefits of ap-plying a pre-emergent:

You prevent the weed from germinating so you never see it in your yard.

The weeds do not steal nutrients from your lawn since they do not germi-nate.

Many pre-emergent her-bicides are in a granular form, which is applicator friendly.

Most ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers are tolerant to pre-emergent herbicides.

Pre-emergent herbi-cides do provide a good control on many summer weeds but it still has its limitations:

Don’t apply to a lawn

that will be seeded, sprigged or sodded that summer.

Certain pre-emergent herbicides don’t control all summer weeds.

Don’t apply to a lawn that has seeded, sprigged or sodded within the past year.

To make certain you se-lect the correct herbicide for your particular situ-ation, contact your local County Extension office.

sam Ingram is the agricul-tural and Natural resources agent for Jackson County Cooperative extension Of-fice located at 102 Clover-leaf Circle in Jefferson. Con-tact him at 706-367-6345.

By KatIe [email protected]

Flower arrangements, they’re not just for vases anymore — just ask Jefferson florist Posy Henson. A basket, slice of a tree, silver plated tray and ceramic bowl may not seem to have much in common, but for Henson all four are connected by their potential to host a beautiful arrangement of flowers.

Henson hosted more than 30 women at the Feb. 6 Fun with Flowers presentation, which was the most recent installment of the Craw-ford W. Long Museum’s quarterly Lunch and Learn sessions.

In the span of an hour, Henson taught guests how to make more than 10 different flower arrangements using everyday items they may have at their house or could easily find at a thrift store. An old silver rabbit piggy bank and small wire Easter tree became fun add-ins to the flowers.

“I’m just going to do something of the things I do at home and sometimes do for fun,” said Henson, as she began her presentation.

For the floral aspect of the arrangement, Henson highlighted using plants and flowers the average gardener grows. In fact, much of her supplies came from her own yard.

One item she never used in short supply was moss.

“It’s not stressful,” she said of the common shade-loving plant. “If it does try out, it dries pretty.”

Henson also incorporated herbs and green-ery such as sage, thyme, lavender and ivy.

“I love the way she uses all her greens in her arrangements for texture,” said Jefferson resident Sue Carlson, who has been to other of Henson’s presentations, and says she takes the lessons to heart often going home using ideas she gets for her own arrangements.

“I really enjoy it. She’s just a good speaker and does a lot with a little,” said Carlson, of the inexpensive nature of the projects.

“She’s just got so much to offer,” said Vicki Starnes, manager of the Crawford W. Long Museum.

Starnes said Henson was back by popular demand, which was evident by her follow-ing.

“Last year, [participants] made tussie mus-sies, but we had so many people that we knew she had to do just a demonstration this year,” said Starnes of the crowd, which filled the room with standing room only.

“I have had so much fun doing this and get-ting this together,” Henson said.

Henson’s floral career spans more than four decades, although she says it all began with her mother.

“I grew up with my mother doing it,” said Henson, who says she even has a photo of her as a toddler with a tray full of flowers for ar-ranging.

Henson will continue her presentations through the museum with its May Day Cele-bration on May 1. Participants will make May baskets with the help of Henson while learn-ing about the history and folklore of May Day. Pre-registration is required and the price is $10 for museum members and $12 for non-members. Call 706-367-5307 or visit www.crawfordlong.org.

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FlowersPosy Henson arranges for floral fun at library

Katie Justice The Papertop: Posy Henson shows guests how a ce-ramic bowl and moss can be a great start-ing point for a floral arrangement. above: Pansies are added to the arrangement to add a splash of color to the greenery.

Henson will continue her presentations through the museum with its May Day Celebration on May 1.

Get control of summer weeds… now? Sam Ingram

County Extension Agent

Arbor Day, gardening classes on the horizon

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Dear Margo: I’m not writ-ing for advice; I am writing for validation. I think I know in my heart what is moral and ethical, but I need a neu-tral, mature person to tell me whether I’m right or wrong. This is something I have not yet discussed with friends.

The situation is this: My husband has had Alzheim-er’s for, we think, 12 years. He was being cared for at home with an aide until a year ago, when it became too much for me and he went into a care residence. He had by then stopped speaking, and his response to anything was a blank stare. He no longer knew who I was. For several months, I saw a counselor to come to terms with the loss of my husband as I had known him and my marriage.

Here is what I would like your opinion about: Do you think it proper for me to be in a romantic relationship with a widower? We have become very attached to each other, and I in no way feel like I am cheating. My husband is not (and cannot be) aware of

what, I guess, is technically an infidelity. Where do you weigh in on this question? — Living My Life

Dear Liv: Sadly, yours is becoming an increasingly frequent question. I’ve dealt with this before and, in fact, have come to think of the is-sue as “Alzheimer’s Dating.” My position is yours. You are hurting no one. Your hus-band is in no way functioning as a spouse, and while his body is here, his mind is gone, and that, to me, is the essence of a human being. I have never believed in peo-ple sacrificing themselves on the altar of hopeless causes, as it were. You are well, you are living a life, and I hope you find companionship and joy with your close friend. — Margo, forwardly

Dear Margo: I have, as they say, “married up.” My in-laws are in the Social Register, which is all quite foreign to me. They’re lovely to me and aren’t snooty at all — but neither are they unaware of their standing in the communities where they summer and winter. When-ever I am to meet someone new from their circle of ac-quaintances, my m-i-l always tells me their background. Since I don’t want to ask her, I will ask you: if I ever have to refer to it, is someone’s background considered a provenance or a pedigree? — Muffy (Not Really)

Dear Muff: Well, I think a provenance has to do with origin and most often refers to prior ownership — mostly used when speaking of art. The word “pedigree,” I guess, can be and has been used regarding people, but to me a pedigree has to do with bloodlines of dogs. That said, I have long thought the So-cial Register to be the Ameri-can Kennel Club for humans, so maybe “pedigree” is the

right word. If one must use a word for

this, I would probably say “lineage.” And “summer” and “winter” as verbs, by the way, definitely came to us from the Social Register crowd, since most of us simply “live” in one place ... summer and winter. Your question does remind me of a friend’s mother who was interested in where every-one fit in, and her wonderful question to anyone new was, “And who were you, dear?” — Margo, categorically

Dear Margo: I wanted to add something to the answer you gave to the woman whose cousin came out to her and she felt she fumbled the answer. As a gay man, I still remember vividly the very different reactions my parents had when I came out to them. I was 22 at the time, and my parents had gone through a very messy divorce a few years prior. I’d been “forced” to side with my mother and behaved in a hurtful way toward my father.

To say I was shocked at their different reactions is an understatement. I always thought I was close to my mother. But when she found out, she basically said the following: “You never gave women enough of a chance. Here’s a book on how to change. How could you do this to the family?” Her final comment was: “If this is the life you choose, I can’t have you around your younger brothers.” (They were 8 and 10 at the time.)

My father, on the other hand, was told over the phone, as we were just begin-ning a relationship again. His comment? “I hope you are safe, because I don’t want anything to happen to you, and I hope you find someone special to spend your life with, because I know it’s not easy to find that.” It’s a testament to how much of an impact their differ-ing responses had, as I still remember all this 25 years later. Your advice was spot on, but I thought I’d share my experience. — Eric in San Diego

Dear Er: Interesting how you bet on the wrong horse. That whole sorry history is your mother’s loss. And so it goes. For the life of me, I cannot understand homo-phobic thinking. It is like wishing a right-handed child were left-handed. — Margo, normally

Dear Margo: Just a com-ment on the letter about what to say to someone who’s come out. When my brother told me he was gay (about 35 years ago), I said, “Great! Terrific!” -- and then I added in genuine bewilderment, “So what?” His shoulders went down as he relaxed, and he said, “That’s it! Ex-actly! It should be ‘so what?’” My feeling was, well, he’s my brother and I love him. So what if he’s gay? I just said what I thought, and it was nice to know I got it right! — Vic

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.

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