By E. LANE GRESHAM

During their monthly meeting, Habersham Archway Partnership Ex-ecutive Committee mem-bers shared updates on first steps with established work groups, one of which will hopefully result in a new healthcare option for low-income patients.

In what would be his final appearance on the committee, former presi-dent and CEO of Habersh-am Medical Center Rich-ard C. “Dick” Dwozan said the healthcare access com-mittee was working on an application to establish a federally-funded rural health care designation in Habersham County.

“We’ve had conversa-tions – our top priority is really dealing with hav-ing access to healthcare for people who struggle financially to pay for healthcare,” Dwozan said. “… When 26 percent of your population is unin-sured and 40 percent is be-low the national poverty level, then there is clearly an issue.”

He said the committee was in the preliminary stages of making an appli-cation with the assistance of MedLink of Georgia on behalf of Habersham County.

Clinics are already es-tablished in Rabun and Banks counties, he said. According to Dwozan, Habersham’s demograph-ics would make for a suc-cessful application. The designation will allow a clinic to receive federal monies to offer patients access to services on a sliding scale basis, he said.

Also present at the meeting was a represen-tative from the Georgia Association of Primary Care, Marcus Gardner, who will help to identify seed money from the state of Georgia to help with the clinic.

“The number he has mentioned to get the ven-ture started was $225,000,” Dwozan said. “We feel like we’ve got some right peo-ple at the table.”

He said the application would be made by April. “That’s moving pretty fast. Frankly, a person in development at MedLink is already pulling togeth-er the data that is of sig-nificance to write the ap-plication,” Dwozan said.

Archway Executive Committee Chairman Mike Mixon said other Archway communities had worked on similar projects.

UGA Archway Part-nership Coordinator of Operations Sue Chapman confirmed one location is highlighted in Archway’s recently released annual report.

“The lead off story is about Clayton County’s federally-qualified health-care center. It just opened in Lovejoy in September [2012] of this last year,” Chapman said.

Clayton County’s proj-ect took three years from start to finish but, accord-ing to Chapman, Habersh-am is further along with its data collection.

Archway Professional Rick Story said Feb. 11 he was excited about the pos-sibility of bringing a simi-lar clinic to Habersham.

“I’m hoping to do the

same thing here,” Story said of the Clayton Coun-ty project.

Dwozan, who resigned the day after the monthly meeting, has served on the healthcare access committee with Clarkes-ville Mayor Dr. Terry Greene and Mt. Airy May-or Gary Morris. Accord-ing to Story and Mixon, the Hospital Authority of Habersham County would appoint a new executive committee member to rep-resent HMC. Story spoke with Authority Chair-man David Kerby Feb. 11. “They have not yet made a decision as to who will represent Archway,” Sto-ry said.

Under economic de-velopment, Habersham County Commissioner Chad Henderson request-ed Archway’s help with the county’s website.

“I don’t know if you have been on it, to say the least, there is some out of date information,” Hen-derson said. “…[Get] some of the facts and figures up to date; there is informa-tion from 2007 that is on there that is supposed to be current. We don’t want to perpetuate the myth we are behind the times that far.”

Due to budgetary con-straints, Henderson said, the county hasn’t been able to hire someone to keep the website up to date. He requested an in-tern.

The group also dis-cussed a possible inter-connection of their orga-nizations’ websites.

“It is a great time to get it nailed down; the cham-ber just kicked off their new website [and] I know J.R. [Charles] is working on a new website for the [Habersham County In-dustrial Development Au-thority]; so they all ought to be linked together and all the information up-dated,” said Wade Rhodes, representing the Haber-sham Chamber of Com-merce. “You need to jump on that.”

Mixon suggested the planning and vision com-mittee could work on the overall collaboration.

Story said he had al-ready been in touch with Dr. Gail Thaxton at North Georgia Technical Col-lege and Dr. Dale Van Cantfort at Piedmont Col-lege about using students.

“They both put me in touch with folks at Pied-mont and North Georgia [Tech] that will help in-volve students from both of those places,” Story said. “It’s not just UGA

students who can be in-volved.”

“Do I get my intern or not?” Henderson asked.

“I would say probably,” Mixon said.

Also under new proj-ects, Tallulah Falls Coun-cil member Jimmy Frank-lin said he was working on a marketing and feasibili-ty study on existing parks and recreation opportuni-ties to better position Tal-lulah Falls as a gateway to Habersham County.

“We all know that all roads lead to Habersham County – and trails,” Franklin said. “We just got to get them connected; we are connecting the dots.”

Franklin said he wants to make Tallulah Falls a starting and ending point for the Bartram and Ap-palachain trails. He said hikers are a high profile target group, with Tallu-lah Gorge a focal point for the area.

“Tallulah Gorge is phe-nomenal,” he said, adding as dean of students for Tallulah Falls Schools, he meets lots of international families who also want to see the gorge when they visit the school.

“These are families who could send their kids to any school,” he said. “When they come to visit the school, the first thing we do is take them on a hike around the gorge; we take the students. They are overwhelmed by the beauty and that resonates a homey feeling for these people from all over the world.”

He said also discus-sions are continuing with the great-grandson of Karl Wallenda to re-create the tightrope walk across the gorge to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the July 15, 1970, event.

“From the universi-ty’s standpoint I’m sure

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County, was named STAR student for Habersham Central High School. Ga-gnon named Habersham Ninth Grade Academy sci-ence teacher Ben Bolton as his STAR teacher.

Yi and Bogan also were named STAR student and teacher for the system, and they will go on to compete for the Georgia STAR stu-dent award.

Bolton, who taught Ga-gnon ninth grade honors science, said about Gagnon, “He’s very diligent and co-operative. He’s a serious student, but he also showed a good sense of humor. In an honors class, the students are usually cooperative, but John rose to the best of the best. He was extremely top-notch.”

Bolton said Gagnon ex-cels in cross country and track, running a mile in four minutes, 38 seconds.

“No one can do that with-out extreme hard work and dedication,” he said.

Bolton named “just a few” of Gagnon’s accom-plishments, which include a ninth grade honors world history academic award, 10th grade AP biology aca-demic award, U.S. history academic award, and HCHS cross country most valu-able player for two years.

Gagnon has been ac-cepted to the University of Georgia, but he is still open to other colleges he applied to, including Yale Univer-sity in Connecticut. He is considering a history major with a career in education.

About Gagnon, HCHS Principal Jim Van Hooser said, “John is an outstand-ing person. Not only is he very bright, but he’s very personable, very likeable. He’s a hardworking kid who comes from a great family. I can’t say enough about what a good person he is.”

Gagnon said Bolton’s sci-ence class had “great struc-ture” and he gives his stu-dents “independence.”

“Mr. Bolton is a great person to lead a class,” Ga-

gnon said. “He has great humor and involves all the students. He makes sure each student is really en-gaged. He wasn’t afraid to even put his body on the line. There was one experi-ment where he took con-crete blocks and boards and let students try to break the blocks over his chest to demonstrate physics … he wasn’t afraid to challenge us, but the spirit he brought to it made us want to chal-lenge ourselves.”

At TFS, Bogan has taught Yi public speech and pop culture. He is also taking two college Eng-lish classes and life skills taught by Bogan.

Yi has applied to Brown University in Rhode Island, Columbia University in New York, and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, among others, and he said he will major in social sci-ence.

Bogan said Yi has been in the U.S. since 2008.

“He’s exceptional in class,” Bogan said. “We’ve had some marvelous dis-cussions, what I call civil discourse, and he’s not shy about expressing his opin-ion. He’s inquisitive and insightful. One of the good things about him is he can see various perspectives. He’s certainly disciplined himself and takes owner-ship of his learning.”

Bogan said Yi has taken college English and calcu-lus courses, AP statistics, honors chemistry and phys-ics and various advanced math classes. He has been captain of the soccer team and has played on the tennis team. He is an officer with National Honor Society and Key Club, and he founded and is president of an Inter-national Club at TFS, which was “a beautiful attempt to help the transition of our international students, to sort of bridge that cultural gap.” He is a member of Tri-M music honor society; he is a student life assistant at the dorm, peer tutor and TFS ambassador.

To show he’s “not only academically a stellar young man,” Bogan read from Yi’s “bucket list” that he wrote in her class. Sev-eral of his bucket items were: “To hold his parents’ hands and tell them how fortunate a child he is;” “To tattoo the names of his chil-dren on his back, so he can always assure them he is there to support them;” and “To invent something that will be useful to the world.”

About Bogan, Yi said, “Considering my back-ground as a foreign student from South Korea, English is the subject I feared the most … [Bogan’s] classes are never passive. There’s always communication with the students … some-times we even discussed to the stage of arguing about the authorship of a work. The great Bard, Shake-speare, who we are taught to never criticize, we dis-cussed if he is worth study-ing. In her class there are no straight answers, no right answers. She encour-ages critical reading and creativity.”

Habersham Chamber President Judy Taylor pre-sented certificates to the students and their teach-ers. She said the Georgia Chamber of Commerce ini-tiated the STAR program 56 years ago and it is now administered by Profes-sional Association of Geor-gia Educators (PAGE). Yi, Bogan, Gagnon and Bolton each received checks from Habersham Rotary Club and Habersham Chamber of Commerce.

According to PAGE, to obtain the STAR nomina-tion, high school seniors must have the highest score on one test date on the three-part SAT taken through the November test date of their senior year and be in the top 10 percent or top 10 students of their class based on grade point average. The system stu-dent with the highest SAT score is chosen to compete at the state level.

gations won’t confirm the original location of the body but did say it was ap-parently moved from one location to its final discov-ery site underneath the mobile home.

“It [body] wasn’t moved a long way,” said GBI Spe-cial Agent Brian Whidby.

Although the location of where the shooting oc-curred is unconfirmed, Terrell did say the victim’s truck could be considered a second crime scene.

“We found the victim’s truck … over on the edge of White County on [state Route] 255,” Terrell said of Hunnicutt’s black 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pickup truck. The discov-ery was made midday Sun-day, Feb. 10.

“[There were] copious amounts of blood on the

tailgate; large amounts of blood,” Terrell said Feb. 12. “More than when you cut your finger,” he added.

“They didn’t find any fingerprints anywhere,” he said, although bloody handprints were found at the trailer.

“The handprints that they found at the trailer were consistent with somebody wearing [fab-ric] gloves,” Terrell said. “There were several dif-ferent sets there; you could clearly see hand-prints there.”

A weapon hasn’t been found yet, although Ter-rell said GBI agents were searching for a gun Tues-day morning. Justice son’s .22 rifle is missing and, according to Terrell, Jus-tice told investigators he disposed of it on property

located on the back side of Habersham Mills Lake near his residence, located at the end of Roberts Road.

A possible motive for the killing is unknown, Terrell said, but he did confirm Hunnicutt and the property owner’s daughter, Missy Wood Pet-rocelli, 45, were known to each other. Petrocelli is still considered a person of interest in the case, Ter-rell said.

“She’s denied any knowledge of the shooting or the body being under the trailer,” he said.

“[He knew her] inti-mately; so did Mr. Jus-tice,” he said.

“It [the case] revolves around a woman and drugs,” Terrell said “That’s a common factor in all of this.”

ALAN NESMITH/StaffCarl Lewis Justice, 49, was arrested Friday, Feb. 8, and charged with both murder and pro-bation violation for his possible involvement in the homicide of Michael Anthony Hunnicutt, 43, of Toccoa. Hunnicutt’s black 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pickup truck was found Sunday, Feb. 10. Shown is the truck covered in fingerprint dust.

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By KIMBERLY BROWN

Habersham County school buses soon will be safer for students. This is because the Habersham County Board of Educa-tion accepted a bid for the installation of cameras on 130 buses.

A bid of $175,760 for the camera system was ac-cepted from the Alpharetta company 24/7. A represen-tative from the company, Kelly Lee, was present at the meeting, which was held at Habersham Central High School on Monday.

In discussing the bids during the board’s work session, School Superin-tendent Matthew Cooper presented six bids. In ad-dition to 24/7’s bid, other bids were: AngelTrax (Alabama), $151,103.60; Gatekeepers (Canada), $183,690; Mediasolve (Virginia), $580,826; For-tress (North Carolina), $176,507.50; and Pro-Vision (Michigan), $196,560.

Though 24/7’s bid was not the lowest bid, Cooper said, “This is the lowest bid that met all the speci-fications. We had another company that [was lower] but their GPS system was going to remove one of the camera ports. That was a major concern for [Trans-portation Director Tim Dockery]. Mr. Dockery felt it was critical that we had all the camera ports opera-tional.”

The 24/7 system in-cludes a five-year war-ranty and an alert button, which Dockery explained is something the drivers can press to mark a place on the recording for quick review later.

“If there is an incident that occurs on the bus, [the driver] can press that alert button, and you can quickly go back to that spot when you’re reviewing the video,” Dockery said.

The system includes a passive GPS for mapping purposes, though it is not a live GPS system. Dock-ery said the passive GPS system is useful because “if there’s ever a question as to where a bus was at any given time, we can go to that mapping system in

the program and follow the bus through wherever it went.”

Lee said a live GPS would include a service fee of as much as $30 per month, per bus.

“I tell people with a live GPS, you get a live bill,” he said. “With the passive GPS, you get all the data you’d get with a live sys-tem, but you have to cue it at the end of every day or when you need the data.”

Lee said passive GPS data would include event markings such as when a stop-arm comes out, when a door opens or warning lights come on. It would also include the idle-times of a bus.

“If a parent calls in and says the bus didn’t stop at our area, you can validate that,” Lee said.

Lee said 24/7’s GPS is a “beefy, really useful” web-based system.

The cameras will in-clude a front windshield camera that will show events like accidents or near-misses and possibly the license plates of cars

that illegally pass the bus.“It’s a bird’s-eye view,”

Lee said. “It allows you to see what the driver sees.”

However, Cooper said the primary reason for the cameras is student safety by deterring fighting and bullying on buses.

“It’ll be very important to communicate to our students that we intend to see fewer behavior issues on buses, fewer incidents of bullying, fewer fights … that’s why we’re doing it. It’s a safety issue.”

Lee said 24/7 uses a company called Alpha Communications for its installation, and “they are very efficient.” He said if they receive a purchase order quickly, the cameras could be installed in about a month.

The camera system will be purchased with Spe-cial Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) III funds.

“There’s no way we could afford to purchase this out of our general bud-get,” Cooper said.

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there’s some marketing survey kind of stuff,” Mix-on said.

He said also he wanted to increase awareness for tourism through the local colleges. “I think at least surveying people and hav-ing an idea of what their impressions are when they first get there would prob-ably give you some ability to address that as we move forward,” Mixon said.

North Georgia Techni-cal College President Gail Thaxton brought a request for a master plan for the Clarkesville campus.

“What’s evolving out of this is a quad-type green space … we would really like to have that developed so it becomes a wonderful pedestrian area …,” Thax-ton said. “Strategically, we have the need for addition-al parking.”

She said the school wanted to balance the need to develop more greenspace with its needs for parking. “… To develop a more current plan – take us out a decade or more.”

Mixon said Story could coordinate with UGA’s School of Environment and Design to move the project forward.

In the report for the wa-ter issues subgroup, Story directed the group to a

report prepared by UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute for Rabun County’s water sys-tem.

“This is a example of what they can do,” Story said. “Yes, they can do a similar study for Habersh-am County.” He said they were backed up until after July.

J.R. Charles said he was working with a UGA stu-dent team on the master plan for the Habersham County Airport Industrial Park.

“The original scope was for the entrance way. It has since evolved into a master plan more or less, that’s not an engineering plan by any sense of the word,” Charles said.

Under the education and workforce develop-ment committee report, Rhodes said the commit-tee decided to split into two groups – one for adult workforce development and one for youth/chil-dren. Rhodes is leading the effort to better support the adults and Gilbert Bar-rett will coordinate the children/youth.

Rhodes said his group’s plan was to survey local human resource profes-sionals, who had a meeting set for the following week.

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to them a little bit about Archway; we are going conduct a survey,” he said. The survey will help identify problems human resource managers are having with developing a workforce.

Rhodes said also he wanted to help connect adults with job opportuni-ties. One idea is to reach out to adults who are re-ceiving food assistance.

“Start asking those people ‘do you need a job’ and ‘do you know how to get a job?’” Rhodes said.

Barrett said his com-mittee is first working to identify at-risk students, and had started conver-sations with department heads in the school sys-tem. He is looking to ex-pand the group, identify counselors, parents, com-munity members to help.

“We wanted to make sure before we move for-ward that the executive committee, that’s in our parameters to move for-ward with that and then we’ll start assembling that group to look at how we, as a community, can embrace the at-risk stu-dents...,” Barrett said.

The next meeting of the Archway Executive Com-mittee is set for 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 6.

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POWER BREAKFASTOn Friday, Feb. 8, Lauren “Bubba” McDonald, District 4 Public Service commissioner, hosted a breakfast with Atlanta Gas Light President Bryan Batson at Hollywood Diner in Hollywood. McDonald said he had been friends with Batson for “a long time,” and they try to visit whenever they can. Also in attendance were Doug Everett, District 1 Public Service commissioner, Cornelia Mayor J.C. Irby, Clarkesville Mayor Terry Greene, Mt. Airy Mayor Pro Tem Mike McCoy, Jim Harris, Don Griffin, Superior Court Judge Chan Caudell, Habersham Electric Membership Corp. Presi-dent Todd Pealock and Georgia Solar Utilities founder Shane Owl-Greason. Among other topics, the group talked about natural gas vehicles, the Universal Service Fund, natural gas rates, a $6 million natural gas line extension in the corner of Banks and Stephens counties, and economic development. “What group in the state is doing the most for economic development? From a natural gas perspective, I’d have to say the PSC,” Batson said. “They’re making sure we run lines in the areas that otherwise wouldn’t be served.”

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Money is the fuel for the economic development en-gine and without it, the en-gine sputters.

The Habersham County Industrial Development Au-thority is seeking ways to clean the growth carbure-tor and get the fuel flowing.

The IDA met Feb. 7 in a day-long retreat at the Black Bear Lodge in White County to examine where it currently stands in its ability to lure new business to the county, what indus-tries or businesses should be targeted for relocation into the county and what infrastructure needs must be addressed by the county, and its municipalities, to expand business and indus-trial growth.

The authority also dis-cussed Habersham County and Northeast Georgia region demographics, eco-nomic and educational met-rics, with an eye toward locking down its economic development focus.

With development of Habersham Airport Indus-trial Park as a job focus for the authority, it is seeking to determine what kind of businesses to woo for re-location or expansion into the park.

The authority, driven by current economic reali-ties and the need to first ad-dress the existing park and other county-owned real estate in hand, decided not to pursue other real estate acquisition for a second in-dustrial or business park.

“We’ve got nothing to show right now,” said au-thority member John Mis-ner of the Airport Industri-al Park, located off Duncan Bridge Road, adjacent to the Habersham County Airport. While infrastruc-ture such as adequate ca-pacity sewer lines, natural gas lines and waterlines are close to the park, little is available within the park itself.

“It can become a tech-nical park,” offered J.R. Charles, Habersham Coun-ty executive director of economic development, be-cause heavy industry is not likely in the park’s future.

In discussing business

development, “this gets to what we want to be,” Charles said. Discussion in-cluded whether the service industry, such as tourism, is a focus.

“Is that what we want?” Misner rhetorically asked, with discussion noting the negative aspects of typi-cally lower-paying wages of service jobs and a possible fallout being Habersham County becoming more and more a bedroom com-munity, with people going to neighboring counties to work.

Even Habersham turn-ing to service sector jobs has roadblocks with the county’s not having a con-vention center and the in-adequate number of hotel/motel options, especially in the central and northern portions of the county.

Hard-boiled discussion came down to a firm reso-lution. “We’re real good at meeting,” said Todd Pealock, IDA chairman, but the perception and re-ality is not much has been accomplished recently by the IDA.

The IDA plans on mak-ing a strong case to the Habersham County Com-mission during county/mu-nicipal discussions center-ing around renewal of the Special Purpose Local Op-tion Sales Tax [SPLOST], that a significant portion of revenue must go to eco-nomic development.

The investment would meant partnership with municipalities to include funding for infrastruc-ture, such as water, sewer, electrical and gas within the existing business park. Some grading could also be done to make building sites “pad-ready” for construc-tion.

Some funding would be banked, ready to be put to work if a building needed construction for a relocat-ing business.

The authority also will seek to have the approxi-mately 30-acre Hills Cross-ing site titled to the IDA. When the site was rejected as a location for the coun-ty’s judicial center, the $1.2 million cost was pulled from SPLOST V economic development funding, but

the land was not turned over to the IDA.

The IDA also plans to discuss with commission-ers a more consistent an-nual budget for economic development coming from the county’s general fund.

In other business, the authority approved a $13.9 million bond resolution which will provide fund-ing for Piedmont College’s construction of a new 58,000-square-foot student center and renovation, including adding a third floor, of 50-year-old student dormitory Purcell Hall.

The IDA also discussed the proposal and gave ap-proval at its Jan. 3 regular monthly meeting.

Both projects have a to-tal estimated cost of $18 million, with the balance paid directly by Piedmont College.

The estimated $14 mil-lion student center fea-tures a two-and-one-half story central atrium with a rock climbing wall. The atrium provides entry to a bookstore, dining facili-ties, a basketball/volley-ball court, a racquet ball court, a fitness center, group study rooms, private and semi-private lounges, a banquet/conference area, a student services office and a student government board room. The student center will be located at the intersection of Georgia Street and Laurel Avenue.

The student center will have banquet facilities available for rent by the public.

The athletic facilities are in addition to offerings at the Johnny Mize Athletic Center and will be primar-ily for intramural sports activities.

The anticipated stu-dent center construction schedule is 18 months, with work starting within two months.

The Purcell Hall work will add 40 more rooms to the existing 80 rooms. The existing rooms, each with two beds, will be freshened and receive individual heat pumps, which function as cooling units as well. The building will also have a new elevator and a new en-trance.

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