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County OKs shared leave programBy LEANNE [email protected]

Jackson County employees wanting to donate sick leave or vacation time to fellow employees coping with serious health issues can now do so.

At the Monday meeting of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners, District 1 Commissioner Tom Crow said he would like to see the amendment to the Jackson County Employee Policy Manual which was under consideration “be active in the morning.”

The amendment would include a shared leave program, and the amendment spells out who could participate and how the pro-gram would be administered.

“I want them to be able to start participat-

ing in the morning,” said Crow. He asked if it could immediately be put into place.

County Manager Kevin Poe said, “We’ll make it work.” He indicated the initial imple-mentation would be handled manually.

After the meeting, Commissioner Crow said Jackson County has three or four employ-ees who would benefit from the program. A number of fellow employees have expressed a desire to donate time. Several employees are battling cancer and have used all their sick and vacation time.

“We have employees who are eager to do-nate,” said Crow.

In other business, Commissioner Chas Hardy asked for postponement of consider-ation of the resolution for the abatement of a nuisance at 778 Brumbalow Road in unincor-

porated Jackson County. Hardy asked to take the matter up at the

Nov. 19 meeting in an effort to give the prop-erty owner, Dennis Free, time to clean up the property of all buildings, debris and solid waste. He asked staff to provide a report on the progress to be given at that meeting.

Complaints have been logged and staff has attempted to work with the property owner in the past with little success, it was noted at the Oct. 8 meeting.

Several people who live on the road said the boarded up building and unsightly ap-pearance of the property did not bother them while the next-door neighbor said the property gives a poor impression of Jackson County and presents a possible health risk.

In other business, the commission opted

to amend its contract with Pittman Con-struction for the installation of turn lanes on Wayne Poultry Road to support the Toyota expansion.

While the project will cost $800 more than the original recommendation to go with E.R. Snell Construction in the amount of $180,130, Poe said he felt more comfortable going with Pittman. While E.R. Snell had requested a contract extension which could extend the completion timeline to the spring, Poe said Pittman committed to have the job done by year’s end. The contract with Pittman Con-struction is for $180,972.

The board also authorized renewal of the contract with Traylor Business Services to handle the personal property audit for Jack-son County and the Board of Tax Assessors.

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Early voting is under way From staff reports

Regular polling precincts for the Nov. 6 General Election will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but the opportunity to cast ballots early is attracting voters.

In-person voting is under way across Georgia. In Jackson County, the first day of advance voting found 500 voters mak-ing their way to the auditorium of the Jackson County Ad-ministration Building to cast ballots.

Even though the final presidential debate remains, many voters have already made up their minds and are ready to head to the ballot box to beat long lines anticipated on the actual day of the election. That is why Jackson County Elec-tions Supervisor Lori Wurtz is urging voters to vote early.

Two proposed constitutional amendments are also in-cluded. (See related story.)

See your ballot by going to the My Voter Page at mvp.sos.state.ga.us. By entering your first initial, last name, county of residence and date of birth, you can also check your registra-tion status and confirm your polling location.

Voters can also request an absentee ballot by completing an application to mail in or drop off or voters can call their elections office to request a ballot.

In Jackson County, voters can contact the Jackson County Elections and Registration Office at 706-367-6377.

In Barrow County, call the Office of Elections and Regis-tration at 770-307-3110.

Gwinnett County voters can get information by calling 678-226-7210.

In Hall County, voters can call 770-531-6945.

Charter school amendment gets close scrutinyBy KATIE [email protected]

“Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow state or local approval of public charter schools upon the request of local communities?”

That is a question citizens will be seeing on their Nov. 6 ballots.That question has stirred up controversy statewide, including a lawsuit filed against school systems openly op-posing the amendment.

Five plaintiffs brought the suit against the Fulton and Gwinnett County school systems. A preliminary injunc-tion was wanted in Fulton prevent the school system from publishing an online question and answer sheet about the amendment. However, Superior Court Judge Wendy Shoob, ruled against the injunction saying it was simply informa-tional. She declined to form any ruling about anything with Gwinnett County.

State Superintendent Dr. John Barge and Georgia Fed-eration of Teachers President Verdaillia Turner openly oppose the amendment, as did the state NAACP president Edward DuBose at a recent state convention. The Georgia chapter of the Parent Teacher Association, PTA, is even going against the National PTA to speak out against the amendment.

“I fully support the continued creation of high quality charter schools for Georgia’s students, but after careful consideration of what is best for all of Georgia’s students, I have decided to take a position in opposition to the consti-tutional amendment that will be on the Nov. 6 ballot,” said Superintendent Barge, in a letter he released in August.

“Until all of our public school students are in school for a full 180-day school year, until essential services like student transportation and student support can return to effective levels, and until teachers regain jobs with full pay for a full school year, we should not redirect one more dollar away

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LeAnne Akin The PaperSusan Ethridge Chaisson and Dr. Garry Shattuck unveil the historic marker as Thomas Miller Chapter presi-dent Tommie Elaine Shattuck and Jefferson Mayor Jim Joiner, left, and 10th Congressional District Director Jordan Chinouth from the office of Congressman Paul Broun, right, look on. Below, the Chaisson family.

By LEANNE [email protected]

The Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm in Jefferson now has a special marker that tells the story of the Piedmont homestead, originally settled by broth-ers James and Patrick Shields in 1798.

Two years in the planning and fundraising for the $3,000 needed for such a permanent tribute to the sacri-fices which forged a family farm, the Thomas Miller Chapter, The National Society Colonial Dames of the XVII Century celebrated with the Shields descendents, neighbors and friends during a Sunday afternoon historical marking.

The event came two years after soci-ety members met with Susan Ethridge Chaisson, president of Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm, and first identified that a historic marker was needed.

On Saturday morning, Don Norris and Mike Montrose of Northast Geor-gia Fence Company were at the farm to place the marker in advance of the ceremony.

The Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm homeplace, located at 2355 Ethridge Road, provided the backdrop for the ceremony to which guests were wel-comed by Thomas Miller Chapter president Tommie Elaine Shattuck

“We recognize that to remember the past is to inspire the future,” said Shattuck, as she welcomed the crowd of nearly 50 to the Sunday afternoon celebration and invited them to step back in time.

“We step back in time at the Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm, a Piedmont homestead,” said Shattuck.

Thomas Miller Chapter chaplain Julie Hawk, gave thanks “for this great land of freedom and for our forefa-thers who fought and died to save it. Help us to continue to preserve our heritage, so that our children and their

children may have peace and freedom and that this country will remain free and safe.”

Dr. Gary Shattuck presented the col-ors and the American flag would play a major part in the ceremony.

Jefferson Mayor Jim Joiner read a proclamation commemorating the special occasion, and Jordan Chinouth, 10th Congressional District Director in the office of Congressman Paul Broun, presented two American flags.

One flag was presented to the Shields-Ethridge family and was accepted by Susan Chaisson. The other was pre-sented to the Thomas Miller Chapter for the Peter Hodgson family.

“The flag is a beacon in front of the Shields-Ethridge homesite that says here has lived a family that is Ameri-can in spirit as well as in name,” said Shattuck. “The flag is a mirror by re-flecting each of these generations rep-resented here of their own ideals and

dreams that collectively make up this farm... The flag is a mark of pride for America as is the Shields-Ethridge Her-itage Farm a mark of pride for Jackson County, for the state of Georgia and for America.

“The flag is a memory as we look back on a life and of all it has been. The flag is a ribbon of honor for those who have served it well by not detouring from the long road that has brought this diverse collection of buildings and these people to this degree of prosperity and happi-ness,” said Shattuck. “May this flag fly over this place to honor those who set aside differences for responsibilities of principles symbolized by The Flag of the United States of America.”

Chaisson had to choke by tears as she acknowledged her amazement that the Shields brothers came from Virginia and found Jackson County

Unveiling a historic connectionSociety dedicates marker at Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm

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A cabinet, glass shelves, stools, a mas-ter control box, tables, mirrors, chairs, fans, electric amp boxes, a control panel, speakers, a vacuum, tanning beds and tanning bed pieces were reported stolen from a Braselton busi-ness on Oct. 10.

On Oct. 13, an arrest was made after an inci-dent regarding domestic violence was reported at an East Lake Drive residence.

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A calculator was stolen from a vehicle on Henry Street on Oct. 13.

A man was arrested at a Braselton conve-nience store on charges of disorderly conduct under the influence on Oct. 14.

On Oct. 15, a theft of services was reported at a Mossy Oak Landing residence.

A criminal trespass was reported at a Char-donnay Trace residence on Oct. 15.

A vehicle heading southbound on Inter-state 85 pulled over for speeding led to an arrest

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on Oct. 15. The driver was also charged with failure to maintain lane and the possession of marijuana.

On Oct. 15, an arrest resulted from a report of domestic violence at a Park Bend Avenue residence.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Office

A suspicious vehicle was reported as repeat-edly driving up and down Brothers Road in Jeffer-son on Oct. 4.

Damage was reported to a Wayne Poultry Road mailbox on Oct. 4 after it was struck by a lawn-

mower from the road department.

A Hoschton woman reported someone using her name and sending text mes-sages through an iPod application on Oct. 5.

A vase was re-ported taken from a grave site in Jackson

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Memorial Cemetery on Oct. 5.

On Oct. 6, an Apple Valley Road resident re-ported receiving harass-ing phone calls from his former landlord.

A woman traveling on Highway 11 just after midnight hit a deer on Oct. 6.

A dispute was report-ed at a Nathaniel Drive residence on Oct. 7.

On Oct. 7, a woman traveling along Segars Street had her passen-ger window shattered.

A dispute was re-ported between a couple at a Rachel View Court residence on Oct. 7.

A possible drug over-dose resulted in a wom-an being transported to Athens Regional Medical Center on Oct. 7.

An officer servicing a warrant out of Towns County discovered the wanted man hiding in the closet at a Highway 124 residence on Oct. 7.

A Caldwell Lane resi-dent reported vandalism

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at her residence on Oct. 7. The night before, sub-jects were outside her home shooting fireworks and yelling. When she walked outside they ran off. However, the next morning she discovered crime scene tape around a political sign in her yard.

A verbal dispute was reported at a Jackson Drive home between a man and a woman who previously stayed in his basement on Oct. 7.

A Mountain Creek Drive resident reported receiving harassing text messages on Oct. 8 after an earlier dispute.

A woman running along Serenity Court was bitten by a neighbor’s dog on Oct. 8.

On Oct. 8, a Jefferson woman reported receiv-ing threatening Facebook messages from an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

A Brooks Road resi-dent reported receiving harassing phone calls

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from a woman who has been causing problems with the man’s elderly mother on Oct. 9.

On Oct. 9, a Woods Way woman reported harassment by e-mail from her ex-boyfriend, who recently got out of prison.

A car doing 80 mph in a 55mph speed zone was pulled over and found to be driving with-out a license and with a small child unrestrained in the back seat on Oct. 9. The driver was ar-rested for driving without a license, speeding and not having the child prop-erly restrained.

A verbal dispute was reported at a Highway 124 residence in Jeffer-son when a man refused to give his wife a ciga-rette on Oct. 9.

On Oct. 9, a hit and run was reported in the parking lot of a Hoschton apartment complex.

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A Winder man is in the Jackson County Jail, facing charges in connection with the Sept.13 armed robbery at P&G Superette in Hoschton.

A traffic stop by Jackson County Sheriff’s Sgt. D.G. Thomas resulted in the arrest of Richard Cullen Yurk, 26, for that armed robbery as well as the Oct. 4 armed robbery at the Dollar Gen-eral in Talmo.

According to the Sheriff’s Of-fice, Thomas stopped Yurk’s vehicle for a traffic viola-tion.

An investigation showed the man and the vehicle matched the description in previous robberies in Hall County and in Winder, and an execution of a search war-rant netted items in the car which connected the man to

the Jackson County robber-ies.

Yurk is charged with two counts each of armed rob-bery, commission of a crime

by a convicted felon and posses-sion of tools for the commission of a crime as well as one count each of reckless con-duct, possession of a firearm by a convicted and a windshield re-quirement viola-tion.

Charges are also pending in connection with the robbery at Dollar Gen-eral in Winder and the two robberies in Hall County.

In the P&G robbery, the suspect, described as a white male wearing a hoodie and concealing his face with a bandanna, fired a single shot into the ceiling of the store.

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POLICE REPORT

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Education is under way on ballot questionwhere they established their farm on the banks of the Middle Oconee River. That river remains the back property line after 214 years. She said she couldn’t imagine the hard-ships that were endured as the broth-ers returned from war.

The marker is placed in front of the home which was built in 1866.

Chaisson acknowledged her fam-ily, those who serve on the family foundation and support it and the neighbors including Ruth Johnson, Dewey and Robyn Johnson, Meta Cronic and Sara Carruth Eskew who have been supportive of the preser-vation of the family farm.

Thomas Miller Chapter historian Beth Fears led the Pledge of Alle-giance, the American’s Creed was recited, Shattuck spoke on the flag and Hawk led in singing the National Anthem.

The marker was unveiled by Chaisson and Dr. Shattuck to the ap-plause of the crowd. Photographs were made with the Thomas Miller Chapter treasurer and parliamen-tarian Kay Beal and other members, with the Chaisson family and the en-tire crowd.

Chaplain Hawk read from 1 Thes-salonians 1:3.

In dedicating the marker, Hawk said, “The Shields-Ethridge Farm not only shows a living history of the Shields-Ethridge family, but pre-serves a part of the heritage of the County of Jefferson, the heritage of

the state of Georgia and the heritage of the United States of America.

“Therefore, it is with great plea-sure we, the members of the Thomas Miller Chapter Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, dedicate this His-torical Marker for the Shields-Eth-ridge Heritage Farm in honor and memory of our forefathers,” said Hawk.

Appreciation was extended to all who had a part in the event. Shattuck thanked Fears, Hawk and Nedra Johnson for their efforts to bring the event together.

“Together, you have created an unique historical marking, one that will be relevant to many people for a long time, one that will continue the heritage that recommits apprecia-tion to our forefathers by remember-ing the past and by inspiring the fu-ture,” said Shattuck, who announced a Monday presentation to take place in the State Capitol Rotunda.

TheAppling Sword presentation ceremony was to take place at 10 a.m. to return to the state a sword that was borrowed without permis-sion.

Shattuck said Heritage Societ-ies raised $100,000 to buy back the sword from the “owner” who was advertising the sword for sale online. Even after being contacted about the circumstances of the sword, the man offered to sell it, but not return it.

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from Georgia’s local school districts – much less an additional $430 million in state funds, which is what it would cost to add seven new state charter schools per year over the next five,” said Barge.

Complaints by Delk, the lawyer in the suit against Fulton and Gwinnett, directed his initial complaints at Barge. Thus, after consulting with state Attorney General Sam Olens, Barge has removed the letter from the State Department of Education’s website.

Olens later wrote to Barge stating that illegal cam-paigning related to the proposed amendment could cost local school systems state funding. However, Olens did not accuse Barge or any other school offi-cial of using public school funding to oppose passage of the amendment.

In the letter, Olens wrote that it is “highly unlikely that substantial state funds have been directly ex-pended for the purpose of electoral advocacy.”

The greatest issue with the amendment’s passage is the possibility of an additional loss of funding for public schools.

“I’m very concerned about what the impact is go-ing to be on the budgets of public school systems,” said Dr. John Jackson, the Superintendent for Jef-ferson City School System. “I’ve been in this busi-ness for 40 years. I’ve never seen it this bad from a financial point of view.”

“We’re getting to the point of telling our children to wear their coats in the winter because we can’t af-ford to turn the heat on,” said Jefferson City School Board Chairman Ronald Hopkins of state budget cuts that he says have withheld more than $10 mil-lion from the students of Jefferson since 2003.

Hopkins says the school board isn’t opposed to charter schools as an alternative public school choice, but they are opposed to the use of current school funding to support the formation of the new Charter School Commission and additional schools not approved by local school boards.

Supporters of the amendment say that charter schools won’t take away any funding from public schools, nor will they receive money from local taxes or SPLOST. Instead, the state will provide a small amount of funding from its general budget.

“That’s not the truth, there’s no other place to take the money from,” said Hopkins, who has additional concern about counties such as Jackson losing fund-ing to support charter schools when there aren’t any charter schools in the county.

“I think education and certainly in today’s world can’t be one size fits all, and charter schools allow parents to make the right decisions for their kids,” said Mark Peevy, the executive director for Families for Better Public Schools. Peevy was formerly the executive director for the Georgia Charter Schools Commission before it was ruled unconstitutional by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2011.

“I see this as one option for helping [fix public schools]. By introducing more choices, you incentiv-ize improvement across the board,” said Peevy.

Regardless, both sides encourage voters to take the time and try to understand the amendment be-fore voting.

“We’re really trying to educate folks. We’re really not trying to tell anyone how to vote,” said Jackson County Superintendent Dr. John Green.

“We do hope people do some research and really look through the wording and how it’s presented,” said Green.

“I want to encourage [voters] to do their home-work, make sure they understand the language,” said Jefferson City School Board Member Janice Wilbanks.

The amendment would authorize the appointing of a state commission to authorize charter schools. The majority of applications for charter schools will only reach the commission after the applications have been turned down by the local school system and the state Department of Education. The only ap-plications that will start out with the commission are for charter schools that would be open to students in multiple counties.

The previous Georgia Charter School Commis-sion was ended when the court ruled that “no other constitutional provision authorizes any other gov-ernmental entity to compete with or duplicate the efforts of local boards of education in establishing and maintaining general K-12 schools.”

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Marker honors our forefathers

“We dedicate this Historical Marker in honor and memory of our forefathers.”

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After issuing a ticket to a vehicle speeding on Interstate 85, patrol car was passed, in the near lane, by a speeding car. The officer caught up to the car and issued a driver a citation for fail-ure to move over for law enforcement on Oct. 9.

An Anglin Road resident reported her six puppies missing on Oct. 9. One of the puppies was found at a neighbor’s home and was returned.

Eight tire rims and a fork extended for a fork lift were reported stolen from a Ridgewood Drive residence on Oct. 9.

A Chicksaw Trail resi-dent reported his ex-wife leaving their children in the care of another man when she went to Russia to care for her mother. The man wanted the inci-dent documented so his ex-wife could be found in contempt of court.

A car stopped on a dirt road along Highway 332 and then weaving on Highway 332 after 1 a.m. was stopped by an officer on Oct. 10. Drug paraphernalia was found within the car along with a shotgun. However, no marijuana was actually discovered. The driver, who had a class D driv-ers license, was issued a citation for driving after midnight.

On Oct. 10, a pos-sible stolen four wheeler was reported as being dumped behind a Ho-schton church. However, the four-wheeler was not stolen and was removed from the church’s prop-erty.

A Reece Drive resi-dent reported suspicious activity outside her home on Oct. 10. Upon an officer investigating, it was discovered that the woman’s purse was sto-len from within her car.

A car traveling on Highway 335 in Jefferson was stopped for a bro-ken tail light and having

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no driver side or rearview mirrors on Oct. 10. The driver was placed under arrest upon admitting he was driving with a suspended license.

On Oct. 10, a New Liberty Church Road resi-dent reported a battery charger and two five- gallon plastic gas cans stolen from his property.

A report of a possible attempt to enter an auto led to the discovery of a woman being wanted in Winder on Oct. 11. The woman was arrested in a parking lot along Highway 53 and handed over to the Winder Police Department.

A Holly Springs Road resident reported some-one having entered her car and stealing about $18 in change and four packs of cigarettes on Oct. 11.

A Braselton resident reported damage to his vehicle on Oct. 11, be-lieved to be from a mail carrier hitting his truck.

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sible overdose was re-ported at a Reece Drive resident by a woman’s mother. The mother said her daughter had been acting very strange and out of character.

Two juveniles knock-ing at a door at a Wild-flower Road residence and then running away hiding were scared when they saw the resident pick up a gun and fire it as they ran away on Oct. 12. The resident admitted to discharging the gun at the ground to scare the boys.

A possible overdose was reported at a Jef-ferson residence on Oct. 12.

A car traveling on Highway 124 reported hitting a deer early on Oct. 13.

On Oct. 14, a woman caught driving in viola-tion to the terms of her limited driving permit was arrested on Old Gainesville Highway as she was heading to a wedding.

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By KATIE [email protected]

A chorus of “No’s” was the answer West Jackson firefighter Josh LeBlanc received when he asked the youngsters at the Georgia Kids Academy in Hoschton if they play with matches or lighters during an Oct. 10 visit.

Hands shot up, and students couldn’t wait to tell their stories to LeBlanc and his fellow firefighter Jimmy McElvery about each stu-dent’s own experience with fire.

Each year the West Jackson Fire Depart-ment visits the Georgia Kids Academy in Ho-schton during National Fire Prevention and Safety Week. To celebrate, the academy has been teaching fire safety all week.

Events include mapping out home fire es-cape routes and using graham crackers, cook-ies and candy to build edible fire trucks.

While the students loved seeing the fire truck, not every student was quite as excited when McElvery donned his full body protec-tive gear, including an oxygen mask.

“He’s still a silly fireman like me,” said LeBlanc, in effort to ease their fears, “and now he’s going to take his gear off and you’ll see it’s the same guy.”

One of the key efforts of the West Jackson firefighters, in regards to working with the kids, is to teach them not to be afraid of a fire-fighter in their complete turnout gear.

“We want them to see our guys wearing turnout gear as they put it on because with the gear on they can look like monsters,” said West Jackson Fire Chief Ben Stephens, “but they see that by the time we get to the mask, you can see that’s still just Ben, not a monster.”

In order to further convince students not to fear firefighters in their full gear, Stephaine

Sanders, a school official familiar to all the students, took a turn in the fire resistant pants and coat.

“It’s not scary. It’s really heavy and it’s hard to move in, but it’s not scary,” said LeB-lanc, as Sanders walked around talking to the students.

After learning about the firefighters’ gear, students got to walk through the fire truck and participate in a lesson on home fire safety and prevention in the department’s Safety House.

Lessons included keeping pot handles turned inward when cooking on the stove, keeping flammable items away from the fire place and checking and replacing smoke de-tector batteries.

Students were also taught to “get low and go” when they see or smell smoke, and the homework assigned by members of the fire department was for each student to talk to their parents are their fire safety plan.

“Repetition is key. Show the kids here’s what we’ll do in case of a fire, and here’s where we’ll meet up. Once you repeat it over and over again, it becomes second nature,” said Stephens, on how parents should ap-proach teaching their young kids fire safety.

“Repetition also helps the parents; it’s not just the kids that get scared,” said Stephens.

Stephens also stresses the importance of teaching even young kids about fire safety.

Jamie Stevens, owner of the Georgia Kids Academy, says that the academy is not like some schools that avoid introducing young students to the firefighters because they may seem scary.

“We start at 2 years old, and at 2 years old they aren’t too young to learn,” said Stevens. “We try to make it fun, but at the same time, we are teaching them what to do.”

Katie Justice The PaperFirefighter Josh LeBlanc explains how firefighters use their oxygen mask, which Jimmy McElvery is wearing. This was part of their effort to show kids that a fire-fighter in gear isn’t scary. (Below) Firefighter Josh LeBlanc and Firefighter Jimmy McElvery receiving a thank-you letter and book filled students drawings from the 3-year-olds.

Fire safety stressed at Georgia Kids Academy

The Georgia Department of Transporta-tion announces a traffic shift and the opening of two turning lanes is planned for Thursday 18 on the Highway 211 at Highway124 inter-section improvement project in Braselton – weather permitting.

Traffic using Highway 211 will be shifted to use the new asphalt allowing contractors to remove the original roadway and rebuild that part of the intersection.

Once the traffic shift is in place Thursday mid-afternoon, a new left turn lane from Highway 211 east onto Highway 124 north and a new left turn lane from Highway 211

east onto I-85 northbound will be open for use.

“Opening these new left turn lanes will greatly improve traffic in the area especially in the morning for commuters. We thank you for your patience as we work through the growing pains of roadway construction. One the project is finished traffic flow will be greatly improved,” said Harold Mull, DOT District Construction Engineer.

If the weather does not allow for the shift to occur Thursday, it will be rescheduled for next week.

Turn lanes to open at Highway 211-124

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Mildred Grace BennettDied Oct. 13, 2012

Mrs. Mildred Grace Ben-nett, 76, of Braselton, died Saturday, Oct.13, 2012.

Born in Gainesville, she was a daughter of the late Robert M. and Ida Mae Brown Sweatman. A home-maker, she was a member of Braselton Tabernacle of Praise. She was also pre-ceded in death by a daugh-ter, Angela Matthews.

Survivors include her husband, Jerry Bennett; daughter, Cindy Puckett of Braselton; sons, Tony Holt of Hoschton and Donald Holt of Jefferson; brother, Jack Sweatman of Statham; grandchildren, Shawn Young, Josh Matthews, Jer-emy Matthews, Shane Mat-thews, Tony Holt and Lydia Holt; and a number of other relatives.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday Oct. 18, 2012, in the Evans Fu-neral Home Chapel with the Rev. Scott Bagwell officiat-ing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from noon until the service on Thursday.

Evans Funeral Home, Jef-ferson

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Talmadge BrooksDied Oct. 15, 2012

Talmadge Brooks, 81, of Winder, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.

A native of Commerce, Georgia he was a son of the late Walter and Bonnie Dun-can Brooks. He was the re-tired owner of Brooks’ Fork-lift Service and was an Air Force veteran. Mr. Brooks was a member of Union Bap-tist Church.

A memorial service was held Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, at Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Tony Powers officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Union Baptist Church building fund, 527 Union Church Road, Winder, GA 30680.

Survivors include his wife, Geneva Thompson Brooks; children, Sharon Brooks Brown of Conyers, Jeffrey Stephen Brooks of Jasper and Tina Brooks Howe of Hoschton; 12 grandchildren; and six grandchildren.

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Christine G. Collins Died Oct. 14, 2012

Miss Christine G. Collins, 95, of Jefferson, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.

Born in Commerce, she was a daughter of the late John Alton Collins and the late Daisy Belle Gober Col-lins. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Jefferson where she was a member of the Kizer Bible Class and UMW. She was a choir member and donated the conference room furniture to the church. Miss Collins was also retired from the United States Navy, where she was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Nurses Corps. She was also retired from the University of Georgia.

The funeral service was held Wednesday, Oct. 17,

2012, in the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Chris Laskey officiating. The burial followed in the Jack-son Memorial Park.



Gerrell CroweDied Oct. 16, 2012

Gerrell Foster Crowe, 74, of Winder, died Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012.

He was the owner of the Winder-Barrow Speedway for 49 years. He was a mem-ber of Union Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, the late Wayman and Velma Grant Crowe, and two brothers, Manning Crowe and Bruce Crowe.

Survivors include his son, Tony (Marie) Crowe of Ball Ground; daughter Melissa (Lewis) Roberts of Winder; brothers, Dale Crowe and Le-voy Crowe, both of Winder; sisters, Shelby Stancil of Ho-schton and Kaye Simmons of Jefferson; five grandchil-dren; and two great-grand-children.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Ot. 18, 2012, in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Tony Powers offi-ciating. The interment will follow at Barrow Memorial Gardens in Winder.

Smith Funeral Home, Winder


Mark DuckDied Oct. 12, 2012

Marcus Charles “Mark” Duck, 49, of Braselton, died Friday, Oct. 12, 2012

Born in Gainesville, he was a son of the late Jasper “Jack” Charles and Annie Kathleen Roquemore Duck. He was a carpenter with Rob-ert Sims Construction, build-ing custom mountain homes before becoming disabled. He was a member of Zion Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Tamara Sayler Duck; daugh-ter, Estie Katheleen Duck of Braselton; stepchildren, Rainey Nathan Wood and Rahland Jonathan Wood, both of Dahlonega; step-mother, Pat Duck of Bra-selton; half-brother, Terrell Duck of Lawrenceville; and a number of other relatives.

Graveside services were held Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, at Zion Baptist Church Cem-etery with the Rev. Thomas Holmes officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mark Duck Me-morial Fund, c/o Hometown Community Bank, P.O. Box 218, Braselton, GA 30517.



Myrtle Ellen FortnerDied Oct. 11, 2012

Mrs. Myrtle Ellen Fortner, 93, of Braselton, died Thurs-day, Oct. 11, 2012.

Funeral services were held Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at Holly Funeral Home in Canyon, Texas, Pastor Don Fortner, Pastor Dale Tunnell and Pastor Dale Ray Tunnell offciating. Interment was in the Happy Cemetery in Can-yon, Texas.

Lawson Funeral Home,

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Jabo GreenmeyerDied Oct. 13, 2012

James “Jabo” Green-meyer, 62, died Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012.

Born in Winder, he was a son of the late Harry B. and Roxie Dean Greenmeyer. He was the owner of JG Painting and Decorating of Jefferson for a number of years. He was preceded in death by three brothers.

Survivors include his wife, Margie N. Greenmeyer; daughter, Felicia Michelle Smith Martin of Jefferson; and son, Brian Scott Smith of Jefferson; grandchildren, Bethany Smith, Brittany Smith, Blake Martin, Re-becca Martin, Bill Ray Hen-son and Emily Henson; sister, Christine Hanley of Toccoa; brothers, Joel McDaniel of Crawford and Royce McDan-iel of Winder; and a number of other relatives.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in the Evans Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Eric Shelton offi-ciating. The family will re-ceive friends from 1-2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to St Mary’s Hospice. P.O. Box 6588, Athens, GA 30604 and American Cancer Society, 1684 Barnett Shoals Road, Athens, GA 30605.



Junior HardyDied Oct. 12, 2012

Roy Hoyt “Junior” Hardy Jr., 82 of Winder, died Fri-day, Oct. 12, 2012.

A Barrow County native, he was a son of the late Hoyt Sr., and Thelma Sims Hardy. He was preceded by his first wife, Hazel Gaddis Hardy; sister, Louise White; and grandson, Keith Hardy. He was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and was a re-tired farmer.

Survivors are his wife, Louise Sweat Hardy; chil-dren, Larry Hardy, Eddie Hardy, Regina Holcombe, Mike Hardy, Steve Hardy, Susan Bagwell, Mark Hardy and Lisa Sturgeon; 20 grand-children; 35 great-grand-children; and siblings, Betty Wilbanks, Barbara Skinner, Jane Phillips, Myra Brock and Jerry Hardy.

A funeral service was held on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at

Mt. Moriah Baptist Church with the Rev. Sammy Ever-ett and the Rev. Matt Calvert officiating. Interment was in Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery.



Calvin Vinson OgletreeDied Oct. 16, 2012

Calvin Vinson Ogletree, 80, of Athens, died Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012.

Born in Jackson County, he was a son of the late Ven-son “Ben” and Ada Motes Ogletree. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He retired from Westinghouse/ABB as an inspector with many years of service. Mr. Ogletree was also preceded in death by his brother, Benny Ogletree, and step-brother, Ricky Ogletree.

Memorial services were held Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, at Evans Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Tom Miles officiating and the mil-itary providing honors.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Morgan Ogletree; daughters, Jill Coulter of Statesboro, Brenda Elrod of Dahlonega and Emma Wil-liams of Athens; son, Dwayne Ogletree of Gainesville; sis-ters, Emma Mae Webb of Gainesville and Helen Payne of Jefferson; brother, Joe Ogletree of Jefferson; step-sister, Debra Waters of Com-merce; stepbrother, Ronnie Ogletree of Danielsville; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.



Joshua Franklin PirkleDied Oct. 12, 2012

Joshua Franklin Pirkle, 86, of Hoschton, died Friday, Oct. 12, 2012.

He was a member of Ho-schton United Methodist Church. He was a United States Army veteran, loved Georgia Tech football and the farm life.

Survivors include his wife Nellie Stone Pirkle; sons, Joshua Franklin Pirkle Jr., and wife Ruth of Hoschton and Steve Pirkle and wife Brenda of Arenzville, Ill.; and grandchildren, Jesseca Pirkle and Morgan Pirkle.

The funeral service was held Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at Hoschton United Methodist Church with Pastor Luis Ortiz officiating. Interment was in the Pirkle Family Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Hoschton United Methodist Church in memory of Mr. Joshua F. Pirkle Sr. If you would like to share a word

or two to the family regard-ing Mr. Joshua, please mail to Lawson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 722, Hoschton, GA 30548.

Lawson Funeral Home, Hoschton


Joe Simmons Died Oct. 10, 2012

Joe Simmons, 65, of Jeffer-son, died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012.

Mr. Simmons had resided in Jackson County most of his life and was a son of the late Clyde and Lola Mae Austin Simmons. He was also pre-ceded by a brother, Randyl N. Simmons. He was a mem-ber of Union Baptist Church and attended Ebenezer United Methodist Church. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army Reserves, former vol-unteer of the Jackson Trail Fire Department and was a farmer.

Survivors include his wife, Catherine Patrick Simmons; brothers, William A. (Don-nis) Simmons, Mike L. (Jen-nifer) Simmons and Mark S. (Lori) Simmons, all of Jeffer-son; and sister-in-law, Kathy Simmons of Jefferson.

A funeral service was held Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, in the chapel of Carter Funeral Home with the Rev. Tillie Wellborn and the Rev. Bill Hayes officiating. Interment was in the House Family Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Mary’s Hos-pice House, P.O. Box 6588, Athens, GA 30604.



Lillian SykesDied Oct. 15 2012

Lillian Sykes, 70, of Au-burn, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.

A Barrow County native, she was the daughter of the late “Boozer” and Jewell Holloway House. Mrs. Sykes retired from the Alcohol, To-bacco and Firearms division of the United States Govern-ment. She was a member of Nazareth United Methodist Church.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in the chapel of Carter Funeral Home with the Rev. Hugh Shirley offi-ciating. Interment will be in Nazareth United Methodist Church Cemetery. The fam-ily will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the fu-neral home.

Survivors her her husband, Douglas Sykes; daughter, Jessica Jillian Ogburn of Au-burn; grandsons, Cameron Ogburn and Ryker Ogburn; and cousin, Glenda Bannis-ter of Monroe.



Viola Smith WrightDied Oct. 14, 2012

Mrs. Viola Smith Wright, 90, of Talmo, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.

Born in Hall County, she was a daughter of the late Sherman and Izzy Perry Smith. A homemaker, she was of the Baptist faith. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Martha Gad-dis; sisters, Ida Lou Smith, Flora Underwood and Leona Conner; and brother, Homer Smith.

Survivors include her daughters, Betty Potts of Oakwood, Barbara Lee of Jefferson, Alice Alexander of Jefferson and Debra (Mel) Patton of Talmo; sons, Bobby (Deborah) Carter of Com-merce and Donald (Carolyn) Jones and Larry Jones, all of Jefferson; 22 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; and seven-great-great-grandchil-dren.

The funeral service was held Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in the chapel of Evans Fu-neral Home with the Rev. Joe Hardy and the Rev. Mark Spence officiating. The burial followed in the Jackson Memorial Park with Caine Tate, Shay Patton, Josh Patton, Hopper Alexander, Chris Jones and Mark Jones honored as pallbearers.



OBITUARIES

CHURCH NEWSPrince of Peace and the

Catholics Returning Home Ministry are sponsoring an evening of questions and answers for those seeking to receive an annulment, or for those that simply want infor-mation about Catholic annul-ments. Please join us Monday, Oct. 22, from 7:30-9 p.m. at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, 6439 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. Call Jan Nichols at 770-965-7362.

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CrossView Church is hold-ing a Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 28, from 5-7 pm. Please join in by bringing friends, family and neighbors to enjoy all of the food, hayrides, in-flatables, games and fun at no cost. Come meet some new

friends at CrossView Church, located at 1219 Highway 124 in Hoschton. Call 678-425-9831.

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Covenant Baptist Church is a group of called-out believers who are committed to follow-ing 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 Sundays at 10:30 a.m. 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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Walnut Fork Baptist Church will be hosting a fall festival for everyone in the community on Sunday, Oct. 28, from 4-6:30 p.m.

After the festival, a movie, the title to be announced, will start at 6:30 p.m. and be over around 8-8:30 p.m.

The festival will include games, trunk or treat, hay ride, kids bounce house, cake walk and much more. Also, every-one will receive a voucher for a free hot dog, chips and drink.

This will be an evening of fun, fellowship and family time. Please come prepared for if there’s cool weather dur-ing the movie.

Come and enjoy this evening with others in the community.

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Share a traditional worship service with Jefferson Pres-byterian Church beginning at 11 a.m. on Sundays. Sunday school for children more than 4 years of age and youth begins at 9:45 a.m. A nurs-ery is available for infants to age 4 during worship. Pastor Doug Hilliard leads a study for adults, “What It Means to be Presbyterian,” at 9:45 a.m.

Jefferson Presbyterian Church is located at 243 Washington St., in downtown Jefferson. Office hours are by appointment; call 706-367-5577, visit t http://jefferson-pc.org or email [email protected].

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CrossView Church would like to invite anyone who wish-es to pray for our country to join us in our Worship Center

on Monday, Nov. 5. Doors will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for this specific Day of Prayer for our nation. CrossView Church is located at 1219 Highway 124 in Hoschton. Call 678-425-9831.

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Come shop “The Springs Church Fall Bazaar” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20. Get an early start on Christmas shopping with many different vendors. Jewelry, afghans, homemade soaps, wreaths, hand bags, children’s accessories and many other items will be available. The

Men’s Ministry will have available world -class pork BBQ plates for $5. Plates will include a pork BBQ sandwich, slaw and potato salad.

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“Fall” for The Springs Church at the annual fall festival from 3-6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28. It’s free. Join in for the 3-4:30 p.m. for Trunk or Treat, games, cake walk, costume contest and more. The famous chili cook-off begins at 4:30 p.m. Contact Jeannette Peterman at 770-335-9073 or email [email protected]. The Springs Church is located at 6553 Spout Springs Road. Visit www.thespringsch-urch.org or call 770-965-9506.

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Primetimers Seniors Group at Hoschton United Methodist Church will meet for lunch and Bingo at 11 a.m. on Oct. 26. Hoschton United Methodist Church is located at 12 Mulberry St., three blocks behind Hoschton City Hall. Visit www.hoschtonumc.org; email [email protected] or call 706-654-1422.

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“Trunk or Treat” will be from 4-6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, at Hoschton United Method-ist Church. Candy, games and prizes for best trunk and best kids’ costume. A chili cook-off will be held during Trunk or Treat – at no charge. Following Trunk or Treat at 6:45 p.m., there will be a Spirit Walk and Ghost Tour start-ing at the church for $5 per person. Part of proceeds will go to the West Jackson Fire De-partment. Hoschton United Methodist Church is located at 12 Mulberry St.

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The Church of Hoschton invites the com-munity for a special night of Trunk or Treat at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the church property, 3849 Highway 53, West Jackson Min-e Shops. This will be a fun and treat time for the children.

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Church, located at 171 W. Jefferson St., in Hoschton, will host its annual Fall Festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Enjoy lots of fun, face painting, a cake walk, food for sale and a raffle for electronics. All proceeds will go toward the building fund. Con-tact Pastor Julia Demory at 770-297-3561.

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ing the annual fall Ffundraiser and BBQ from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 3. Plates are $8.50 and include BBQ, bread, slaw, baked beans and dessert. Drinks will be available for purchase. If you eat at the church, you can get water or iced tea.

All proceeds go to the church building fund. Everyone welcome. The church is at 4403 Winder Highway in Flowery Branch. Call 770-597-7742.

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Teenage years can be filled with fun and excite-ment. It’s also a very awkward time. Teenag-ers’ bodies are constantly changing as hormones produce growth spurts that make them feel like they suddenly inhabited some-one else’s body.

Along with the physi-cal changes, these young people have to learn to deal with the fast changes in their social worlds. Not all teenagers mature at the same rate physically, socially or emotionally. Some teenagers can look like adults, but still use the emotions of children.

The boundaries of a teenager’s world used to be very simple to negotiate, at least compared to today’s world. Social media and the Internet have created new boundaries that teens and pre-teens have to learn long before they have to learn to drive a car or be home by curfew. If they don’t learn these boundaries quickly, they can find them-selves in compromising situations with another adult or older teenagers who are looking to take advantage of their lack of knowledge.

One thing teenagers have in common with adults is that they want to be ac-cepted and loved by family and friends. Whether we are going to a 10th year high school reunion or going to our 10th grade social studies class, we want to be accepted and included. At the same time, most of us want to find some indi-viduality.

While we all are unique as individu-als, created with different gifts, have different dreams, likes and dislikes, some people will simply conform to a group fearing that any display of indi-viduality will result in exclusion from the group. The pressure to conform to be accepted is a powerful temptation.

The risk of not conforming is to be ridiculed by others. That is one of the greatest fears for teenagers. Of course, some teens do not conform as a state-ment. Their nonconformity becomes their identity. But deep down, even these kids want friends. Quite often, nonconforming teens will group with other non-conformers. Everyone wants to be accepted by someone.

Bullies use ridicule the way a pride of lionesses takes down an antelope. Bullies will look for someone with a weakness to exploit and with each cut-ting, biting, and stinging comment or action, they look to see if their subject has weakened. Then they move in for the takedown.

We usually think of a bully as one per-son, but usually a bully has a following, a group who is secretly happy that the

bully has chosen someone else to single out. Even though many in the group may feel that what is being done to the other person is wrong, no one has the courage to stand up to the bully, afraid that the same barrage of attacks will come his/her way. To protest would jeopardize his/her status

as one of the “accepted” members of the group. So the bullying often ends up having a mob effect.

It takes courage for someone to break free of the mob and take a stand against the flow of ridicule. Courage can be as rare as a four-leaf clover. But unless someone stands up to bullying, it doesn’t stop. So where does such courage come from?

The Latin root for courage is “cor,” meaning heart. Courage takes heart. Therefore, you have to believe in some-thing to be courageous. Something im-portant must move you to take a stand.

Earlier this month, a Michigan teen-ager was elected to her high school’s homecoming court by her classmates as a joke. The homely girl with orange hair had been picked on and bullied by her classmates. This terrible “joke” caused her to contemplate suicide. She said her classmates made her “feel like trash.”

But her sister gave her the courage she needed by encouraging her not to drop out of the court. She convinced her to face those who ridiculed her by standing up them. Instead of cowering under the pressure, this 16-year-old found some inner strength because one person, her sister, gave her encourage-ment.

When she rose up to face those who ridiculed her, to her great surprise, she found support from unlikely places. A salon gave her a makeover. Her Face-book page had more than 100,000 posts from supporters, many who shared stories like hers.

Whitney told The Detroit News that she thought no one cared about her. She thought that not even her brother and sister cared about her. “But they are proving they do care. The world is prov-ing, well, not that they really care about me, but that they care about the situa-tion,” she said.

Once, Jesus had a woman brought to him and thrown at his feet. The men were known as Pharisees, religious guys, known to pray and fast and follow the Law very strictly. The woman, they said, was caught in the act of adultery, and they told Jesus she should be stoned to death, according to the Law. How-ever, they wanted to know what Jesus

had to say.These men were religious bullies.

They remind us that bullies are not con-fined to the playgrounds of elementary schools, to the classrooms of middle schools or the hallways of high school. Bullies are around long after high school graduation and some of them can even be found in churches among the most religious of people. If you don’t conform to their way of doing church, they will bully you out of church -- all in the name of Jesus. It takes cour-age to stand up to people like this.

Jesus was squatting down, writing something in the dirt as the Pharisees continued to ask him what to do with the woman they had brought to him. He stood up to them, literally, and said, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’…At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there” John 8:7,9.

When everyone else is standing around ready to cast a stone, it takes courage to point out that we all have our issues. It takes courage to say, “I will not participate. This is wrong.” It takes courage to stand with the accused and defend the defenseless. It takes courage to challenge others to drop their stones.

Whether we are 63, 33 or 13, we should all ponder the courage it takes to say, “I will not participate in this stoning of words, with this assassination of char-acter or with this group of ridiculers.”

When we stand where Jesus stood, we are truly being individuals. When we seek to empathize with the position of another, we demonstrate that we know the meaning of the Golden Rule.

When we do that, will others ridicule us? Won’t the bully turn on us? Might the crowd toss us in with those being bullied? Possibly. In some situations, I even say it’s likely. But it’s also pos-sible that because one person has the courage to stand up to the bully or to the crowd, one by one others will begin to drop their stones until the bully no lon-ger has a following. Without a following, a bully is just another lonely person who needs a friend.

Perhaps today, you will have the courage to take such a stand or perhaps you will be the one to give this kind of courage to someone else who otherwise would not find the moral or emotional strength to believe in something greater than themselves.

(October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month)

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

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It’s a funny thing about us Southerners. If a Yankee criticizes us, we haughtily disregard it, muttering over their ignorance.

But on the occasion that a Yankee compliments us, we happily embrace it and declare that we have found an enlightened Yankee.

Such was the case with me when a reporter from a Yankee newspaper called to interview me on the fine art of flirtation.

“Why did you call me?” I asked.

“Because everyone knows that Southern women are the best flirts,” she replied simply.

I loved enlightened Yan-kees. They are a joy to my soul.

That conversation led to an article that led me to writing a book about flirtation as practiced and patented by Southerners, especially our women. It is simply this: You can be a good storyteller without be-ing a good flirt. But you can-not be a great flirt without being a terrific storyteller.

Storytelling is important to Southern people.

It is deep in the marrow of our bones, passed down from generations of Scotch, Irish and Scotch-Irish. At the start of the Civil War,

around 75 percent of the South was Celtic. This is critical to understanding how a passionate penchant for storytelling was passed down through generations over the years.

When the poor Celts arrived in this country — many of the Scotch-Irish were indentured slaves brought across the Atlantic and dumped unceremoni-ously around the Appala-chian Trail in Pennsylvania — they brought nothing. Nothing, that is, except three skills from their na-tive land: Whiskey-making, fiddle-playing and story-telling. My people, pure Scotch-Irish that they were, participated in all three.

Georgia-born writer Flannery O’Connor was once asked why Southern-ers wrote so much about freaks in their stories. “Be-cause,” she replied in her typical no-nonsense way, “We are still able to recog-nize them.”

It’s the same with story-telling. To tell a good story, you must first be able to recognize a good story. The best storytellers find enter-taining drama in ordinary events and common occur-rences such as misplaced keys, misbehaving kids and misunderstood mothers-in-law.

To say the least, South-ern women are dramatic. Our hair isn’t the only thing we like big. We like our stories to be grand, infusing them with overwrought drama that includes lots of expressions and embellish-ments.

My friend, Miss Virgie, a former Mississippi belle, was telling the story of be-ing evacuated from her hillside home in Carson City, Nev., during a raging wildfire that took out many homes in her neighbor-hood.

“The smoke was so thick that I couldn’t see to drive out of my driveway. I was just feeling my way along. It was terrible,” she moaned. “Then, when I got out of the driveway, I was so close to the flames that they licked my cheek and burned the tiny facial hairs away! I was charred!”

Her husband, Bill, who had been in the car in front

of her, started chuckling. “Oh, it was not. You were not that close to the fire.”

With a strong sense of urgency, she sat up straight, her blue eyes wide as plat-ters. “Bill! I was, too! I am quite certain that I had at least second-degree burns!”

Of course, Miss Virgie was doing what she does best when she tells a story — she was embellishing. But it sure made for a dog-gone good story, much bet-ter than if she had not been “charred” and suffered “at least second-degree burns.”

That’s the way a South-ern woman flirts best. She tells stories and holds her audience captive in the palm of her sweet little hand.

Who cares if we embel-lish to make the story big-ger? No one seems to care if we tease our hair to make it bigger.

And, as far as we South-ern women are concerned, embellishing is just as im-portant as teasing.

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

When I was 15, I decided I was a reporter. This was based on a couple of bylines in the local paper.

I wrote a two-page spread on the inauguration of Gov. George Busbee, complete with lots of pictures.

That summer, Busbee called the General Assem-bly into a special session to reduce the state’s budget. Armed with a paper press card from the Georgia Press Association, I walked into the Capitol and presented my credentials. I must have been convincing because they issued me special passes that allowed me on the floor of the House and Senate.

It was during this time that I met Dick Pettys, who was the capitol correspon-dent for the Associated Press.

In those days, news or-ganizations relied on two news services, the AP and United Press International. Bill Cotterell was the UPI correspondent and it was a very competitive environ-ment between the two wire services.

Pettys had longish, stringy hair and smoked a pipe. This was in the days when smoking inside the Capitol was OK and there were plenty who did.

Over a period of years, UPI faded away as a state news organization and sud-denly every major news out-let joined the membership of the AP.

For many years to follow, Pettys was, as one person described, the eyes and ears of state government to mil-lions of Georgians.

Pettys suffered a heart attack and died last week in Habersham County, where he had retired and built a cabin home in the moun-tains. Sadly, he didn’t get to enjoy it for long.

I worked side-by-side with Pettys for a few sessions of the General Assembly, first for WALB-TV in Albany and later for The Times.

As an early spokesman for the Nathan Deal cam-paign, I had to respond to Pettys’ questions. He was a very fair and even-handed journalist.

The night that I will

always remember was Dec. 12, 1984, the night the state executed Alpha Otis Stephens for a murder in Twiggs County. Both Pettys and I were media witnesses of the electrocution.

He offered some advice I have never forgotten.

“Whatever happens, remember that you had nothing to do with it and you are here to report what you see,” he told me early that evening.

He didn’t know how pro-found his words would be.

Something went wrong and it took two administra-tions of electricity to kill the convicted murderer.

The Stephens execution was one of the key cases used 20 years later in the decision to convert Georgia to lethal injections.

I was 24 at the time and had been in the news busi-ness for all of nine years. I valued the advice and coun-sel of my older colleague. I asked him once, but he didn’t want to talk about that cold night at the State Prison at Jackson.

Pettys began his Georgia capitol assignment in the fi-nal days of Lester Maddox’s term as governor. He cov-ered Gov. Jimmy Carter and the seven governors who followed. He wrote about the General Assembly and the cast of characters who graced the hallowed halls over the next 40 years.

In the old days of wire ser-vices, the end of a story sent by telegram was signaled by the placement of “-30-” after the last words.

Dick Pettys gave us many stories, good and bad, but fair. Now, his story has ended.

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I had just kicked my feet up on the desk, signifying the completed task of an-other weekly newspaper on the streets, when the phone rang.

As is my custom, I an-swered it.

On the other line was one of my favorite convenience store clerks.

“We’ve run out of pa-pers,” she said.

“Huh?” was my quick-witted response.

“We’ve run out of pa-pers,” she repeated. “Can you bring some more down here?”

“I just put them there less than 12 hours ago,” I muttered to myself, but aloud.

“Well, they’ve sold out,” she said. “If you have any more papers, I think we can keep on selling them.”

As I told her I would be down there in a little bit with more papers, I grabbed the edition I had delivered to the conve-nience stores just hours earlier. Why would I sell out in a day when it usually takes seven days to sell out – on a good week?

I perused the front page: A story about the county commission discussing what to do about trash bill collection. An ongoing

issue, but nothing sensa-tional. A story about Relay for Life, and a photo of the grand opening of a new business were also on the front page. Nope and nope.

At top, above the fold, was a story and photo about a field of marijuana plants being found south of town. The pic was of the sheriff standing among the pot plants, which were as tall as him.

“Bingo. That’s got to be it,” I said to myself.

We nearly sold every paper we printed that week. Two years later, after I begged the sheriff to take me the next time they went looking for marijuana plants, they did. I wrote a story, complete with my own photographs, of an-other marijuana crop grow-ing east of town. My thesis proved correct: We almost sold out of every copy on the newstand.

It’s a formula that since has proven successful in

boosting single-copy sales, with one caveat: You can’t just write a story about law enforcement finding marijuana plants. There has to be an accompanying photograph.

Why? I have no idea. I can’t understand why peo-ple want to buy newspapers with pictures of an illegal drug in its botanical form. What are they looking at? Are they trying to figure out if it’s theirs? Are they look-ing for some clue as how to grow it? What’s the allure?

I’ve printed pics of cute kids, fires, old ladies falling down, a referee calling a touchdown that clearly wasn’t – these great snapshots didn’t possess folks to buy newspapers in droves. But throw a blurry photo of the wacky weed on the cover, and people will throw down 75 cents with reckless abandon – of which I’m thankful. More paper sales means more people see our ads, which means happy customers.

So last week, when the editor of our newspaper in Lanier County said she had a story about 4 pounds of marijuana being con-fiscated, being the sage newspaperman that I am, I asked the money question: “Do you have a photo?”

Yes, she answered, but the pot is packaged, not of the leaf. That will have to do.

“Put it above the fold,” I told her. “And let’s see what happens.”

The call came about 30 hours after the papers hit the streets.

“Hey, one of the conve-nience stores called and said they are already out of papers.”

Bingo.Not a week later, I an-

swered the phone again.“Hey, Len, we found

some marijuana plants last week. I have the info if you’d like it,” said the sher-iff’s department investiga-tor this Monday afternoon.

“Do you have a photo-graph?,” I asked in breath-less anticipation.

“Yes, I do,” he replied.If I didn’t know better, I

would think that I am living right.

“Hey, call the press and tell them to print 200 more papers this week,” I im-mediately told my office manager. “I’ve got a feeling we may need them.”

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

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lOCal fOOTBallSee who is in action this week

Hoops fans, your favorite area teams are a month away from the start of their season. Starting Nov. 2,w look to see which team is highlighted in the basketball preview of the sports edition. This season, game results and stories will be posted online, as well as in the sports section of the paper. The Jackson County Comprehensive High School girls’ basketball team will open their season on Nov. 13 while the boys will begin Nov. 16. Jefferson High School basketball will begin on Nov. 19 and the Mill Creek High School girls and boys will open the season on Nov. 17. Games will be posted shortly after on ClickThePaper.com

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The Petite Le Mans has arrivedBraselton is hosting one of its biggest events of the year.

The Petite Le Mans will begin today at Road Atlanta. Come watch as drivers put their skills on the test in one of the hottest shows on pavement. Watch Ashley Freiberg, and up-and-com-ing female driver look to make a statements as she challenges against some of the toughest competition. Dario and Marino Franchitti look to be a pair of unstoppable siblings that should make a lot of noise on the track this weekend. Please visit roadatlanta.com for more information, including a detailed schedule of the event.

Hawks fall in strong second half

Jackson County Comprehensive High School will chal-lenge Hart County High School at HCHS at 7:30 p.m. tomor-row night. The JV team will take on Hart County today at home at 5:30 p.m. Jefferson High School will return home to take on Oglethorpe County High School at home tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. The JV team will also be at home with a contest against West Hall High School today at 5:30 p.m. Mill Creek High School will face off against Duluth High School at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. The JV squad will have a home match today against North Gwinnett High School at 6 p.m.

By LATRICE [email protected]

Twice a year, the Mill Creek High School football team squares off against two of the top teams in the region. One is among the best programs in the state.

The Hawks tested their luck against Norcross earlier this year – and their hopes of breaking their six-game losing streak didn’t work out too well. Mill Creek had an-other record to shatter last Friday night against North Gwinnett High School, which also had a six-game win streak over the Hawks prior to the matchup.

The Hawks opened the night on the offensive side of the ball, but their longest completion came on a third down attempt. Mill Creek was

not able to convert from there. The Hawks were backed up to their own 32-yard line on a penalty – some-thing the Bulldogs took complete advantage of.

NGHS notched a field goal to take a 3-0 lead, but the Hawks responded with a 71-yard touchdown run by Jacorey Lewis. North Gwinnett an-swered with a score of their own, but the Hawks flew back on top 14-10 with a 52-yard scamper into the end zone by Devozea Felton.

Things turned sour for the Hawks as the back-and-forth scoring battle came to a screeching halt when North Gwinnett scored two touch-downs consecutively and took a 30-14 lead into the half.

Mill Creek opened the second half with a defense that sent the Bulldogs offense back to the side-

lines in no time flat. MCHS moved the ball slowly down field and Lewis broke loose for another long touchdown run for the Hawks, and they didn’t stop there. Quarterback Daniel David completed a two-point conversion to Devozea Felton.

With a 30-22 deficit, the Hawks defense needed a big stop and Mill Creek put a halt to the Bulldogs drive. On the ensuing punt, the Hawks broke through, blocked the extra point and recovered it. On fourth down, the Hawks put their drive on the line and did not disap-point. Kyle Nichols received a nice toss from David and the Hawks punched one in again by the foot of David, who ran it in from 15 yards out.

Mill Creek attempted another two-point conversion, but were not

successful.Down by two points in the fourth

quarter, Mill Creek avoided a situ-ation in which they would have to score twice and came up with a big-time stop on third and goal.

North Gwinnett had to settle for a field goal. Although they took a 33-28 lead, there was still plenty of room for the Hawks to make a comeback.

On third and long, the Hawks needed a huge play to get them down field, but the North Gwinnett defense made an interception and took it into the end zone.

A late touchdown run by the Bull-dogs made things even harder for the Hawks who shot themselves in the foot with penalties. Mill Creek put up a good fight but the Bulldogs’ bite was too tough as the Hawks fell

47-28.The Hawks may have failed in

shattering records against oppos-ing teams, but individual players have been breaking titles within the program.

In last week’s win against Mead-owcreek High School, Jacorey Lewis became the all-time leading rusher. Lewis has racked up 1,876- yards – putting him in first place at Mill Creek in rushing yards.

Kelsey Griffin became the lead-ing tackler, with 255 yards on the year. Griffin has also surpassed former Hawk Ryan Robinson, who is now playing at Oklahoma State University, in tackles for loss with 26.

The Hawks will take on Duluth High School tomorrow at 7 p.m. at DHS.

D-D-D-DEFENSEDragons go on a scoringrampage against rabun County in 55-7 win


Vigor, will and class – all of us have it and choose to exude it in certain ways. On the playing field, Kody McDonald and Wesley Simonton put the terms in better perspec-tive as they lead the Jefferson High School defense every Friday night.

The two linebackers lead the team in tackles on the season and together they are a potent pair of defenders that put everyone on the other side of the ball in panic mode.

What makes this pair unique is that their physical abilities outweigh the normal height and weight require-ments football analysts have set that would determine whether or not a player is any good. But they’ve dem-onstrated that they don’t have to con-form to society’s standard.

The moment to stun a large audi-ence when the pressures on doesn’t present itself too often. However, in the third game of the year, the Dragons traveled to Gaines-ville where the game took a dramatic turn.

Down nine points in the fourth quarter, the offense punched two in to take the lead, but reality set in knowing the Trojans had enough time to pull a few tricks from under their sleeves.

The tag team duo knew it wasn’t the time to press the panic button. The defense made plays where they had to and, despite having a few butterflies in the heat of the moment, both agreed that it has been the most fun they’ve had all season.

“It would have to be the North Hall game. That was the turning point of the season. That just turned heads. A lot of people don’t get to play in games like that - coming down to the last second. It was great,” said Simon-ton.

“In the fourth quarter, we started to come back. In the last drive, I was nervous as all

get-out but I knew that our team could do it if we went 100 percent and we did. I just know that I have to believe on my teammates,” said Simonton.

“When the defense made that final stop, that really got our spirits back up and got us rolling. The last time we scored, I realized they had plenty of time to score on us, but

I figured if we gave it our all and went 100 percent on ev-ery down, we could stop them with the time we had,” said McDonald.

If that game wasn’t enough of a scare, Jefferson has to turn around two weeks later and pull off the unimagi-nable.

Leading up to their biggest game of the year, the Dragons knew what was at stake, and it was going to take a superb showing on both sides of the ball if they didn’t want to get embarrassed.Game day week was just like any other – except with all eyes on the contest to see whether or not JHS could pull off the upset over Washington-Wilkes High School.

“Everybody was pumped up. Everyone was ready to go in practice [and] everyone went 100 percent in practice. We knew that come Friday night we were going to be ready to go,” said Simonton.

“The coaches really installed a good game plan for us. We just performed to the best of our ability,” said McDonald.

While McDonald and Simonton led the boards that night in tackles, it took a total group effort and a lot of time in the film room to get prepared for a team that was ranked sixth in 8AA ball at the time.

See DEFENSE, page 2b


After scoring just 13 points in the first half, the Jefferson High School football team went on a scoring rampage and put up 42 points in the third and fourth quarters of their 55-7 win over Rabun County High School. With the victory, the Dragons continue their unde-feated streak in region play and move to 5-1 overall.

With 152 rushing yards and three trips to the end zone, quarterback Bryant Shirreffs didn’t look to have many struggles, although things were really tight in the first half.

“I was worried sick because we’d played so

sloppy in the first half. We dropped four balls – one went off the players’ hand and turned into an interception,” said Head Coach T. McFerrin.

The defense played exceptionally well and kept the Wildcats out of the end zone on more than one occasion.

“We held them a couple of times in the red zone. We were lucky to be ahead 13-7,” said McFerrin.

Jefferson was able to pull things together in the second half where they drilled six touch-downs and ran wild all over Rabun County.

The Dragons return this weekend to take on Oglethorpe County High School at home. Showtime is set for 7:30 p.m.

Doug Chellew The PaperKody McDonald (left) gets pumped up as the defense takes down Washington-Wilkes High School at home. McDonald is on fire this season with more than 100

Latrice Williams The Paperoffensive lineman coach Joshua Lovelady draws up the x’s and o’s to get a plot in motion for the Hawks against the bulldogs of North Gwinnett High School.

Shelby Rowe The PaperMill creek quarterback Daniel David (bottom) keeps a tight grip on the ball in an offensive showdown against Norcross High School on Sept. 28.

Two of Jefferson High School’s finest are taking charge of the Dragons’ defense and silencing their toughest critics in the process

See Ashley Freiberg, an up-and-coming female driver is break through the racing industry 2B

Online: Visit clickThePaper.com for up-to-date scores of area high school football, and softball games.

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Doug Chellew The Paper

Sean Lee (left) makes a great tackle during when East Jack-son High School came to visit the Panthers on Sept. 21. The Panthers won 47-7.

By LATRICE WILLIAMS [email protected]

With just three regular season games left on the gridiron this year, some teams are in good shape, while others have put their season on the line and are looking to stay close to the playoff hunt.

Jackson CountyThe Panthers should be well

rested after having a bye week and will travel to Hartwell to take on Hart County High School this week.

Quarterback Kyle Daniels has been the underdog of this offense, but emerged in his performance against Franklin County.

Hart County is hungry for a win but, at this point of the season, ev-eryone is – so all the records can be thrown out the door, at least in this region.

Chris Foster has been “lights out” on defense and has pulled the plug on opposing teams offensively. This team has a lot of talent and is com-peting well in the region.

At this point, the Panthers just need to continue to play their game and win out but, if they make it to the playoffs, the Panthers will have to buckle down and limit any mistakes – especially considering this is a team that is not familiar with play-ing in the postseason.

JeffersonThe Dragons have not lost a region

game as of yet, and look to continue

that winning streak when they host Oglethorpe County this week.

Jefferson bounced back after their loss to Commerce at the begin-ning of the season and they have not looked back since. Jefferson (other than against Rabun and Greene County) has not put up major num-bers against their opponents, how-ever, this is a team that can get the job done whether they score 20, 30 or 40 points.

On the defensive side of the ball, the top two playmakers – Wesley Simonton and Kody McDonald – are prime factors, but players including

Austin Mixon and Tyler Bowen came onto the scene in the Rabun County matchup. If Mixon and Bowen can continue to contribute well, the Dragons will have little bit of extra added depth that will make the Jefferson defense that much more difficult to handle.

Mill CreekAfter allowing North Gwinnett

High School to score off of four turn-overs, it’s clear the Hawks must hold on to the ball if they don’t want to give another win away. If the Bull-dogs would not have scored off of all the turnovers, the Hawks could have won 28-19, barring the Mill Creek de-fense not allowing any more points.

Now the Hawks have played in two matchups where their perfor-mance in the first half put them in a tough bind going into the second half. This is a team that must learn how to play a complete ball game and focus on keeping the lead over teams that have more of an edge over them.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Shining under theFriday Night Lights

Quarterback Bryant Shirreffs

Jefferson High SchoolShirreffs threw three touchdown passes and rushed for 152

yards in the Dragons’ 55-7 win over Rabun County High School. Shirreffs has rushed 488 yards, thrown for 942 and scored 10 touchdowns this season.

defenSe from page 1B“I think everyone just focused on

what they had to do and that’s why it-was a team effort. Nobody just stood out and that’s why we won,”Simonton said.

“We studied a lot of film all week and memorized what we had to do and when we had to do it. We all went over our responsibili-ties,” stated McDonald.

It wasn’t a secret that Washington-Wilkes was holding opponents to just 2.4 points per game and averaging 40 points a game offensively. Whether it was passing or running, McDonald and Simonton knew that they would be going up against a team that is skilled in every depart-ment.

“I knew they were a very good team and they could run and pass it real well. They scored a lot of points this year. I knew if we went in there and played how I know we can play, I knew we had a really good chance. Not let-ting them score was very, very good,” said Simonton.

“We heard they have a really good passing game. We just really shut down their running [game] early and made them pass and we shut down the passing, too - limiting their offense,” McDonald said.

Ed Reed and Ray Lewis are a

package deal when it comes to the most talented linebackers in the Na-tional Football League. When one isn’t there, the other shows up on the scene, and the chemistry on th field between McDonald and Simonton is very similar.

“We’re like football brothers. We just know that we have each other’s

backs and we are both going to do everything exactly right. If some-one lets down on the de-fense, we are going to be there to cheer them up,” said Simonton.

“We are the quarter-backs of the defense and whenever I know I am not there I know Wesley is going to be there,” Mc-Donald stated.

Opening the season with a loss to Com-merce High School may have generated some negative talk about the Dragons football team, but whatever was said has been used as fuel to ignite a passion and de-sire to play the game like never before.

“We’ve been criti-cized ever since we lost to Commerce. Nobody thinks we’re good and we’re turning heads ev-ery week and getting this town excited about this team,” said Simonton.

“We’re used to it after [the game against] North Hall. Everybody picked us to lose and yet we proved them wrong. I think people picking us to lose [is what] psyches us up,” said McDonald.

Looking ahead to local matchups with playoff implications

Jackson Co. seeks strong finish in postseason huntBy LATRICE [email protected]

After Panthers quarterback Kyle Brissey led the Panthers to a show-stopping comeback against Franklin County High School on Oct. 5, it is safe to begin putting Jackson County Comprehensive High School in playoff conversa-tions.

This is a team that has a strong set of guys that can really make plays offensively.

Defensive lineman Chris Fos-ter has been the biggest name on defense and, while the kicking game is still a little inconsistent, the Panthers have relied on the veterans to get the job done. JCCHS doesn’t want to see their season end Nov. 9 without a play-off bid, and yes, there is pres-sure.

“We always put pressure on ourselves to win games. We feel like the better we pre-

pare, the less pressure we feel,” said Head Coach Benji Harrison.

“Our goal is to win every game we play, but all we can do now is put all of our focus toward im-proving ourselves and preparing for Hart County.

“We definitely have talked playoffs. We set that as our goal. As a coach, I have to constantly challenge our daily performance at practice and see if the effort and preparation we are giving is consistent with the goals that we have set,” said Harrison.

Brissey has a talented group of playmakers, but the quarter-back has been silent on the year until he came up with the winning drive against Franklin County. If you didn’t know him before then, you know him now.

What makes Brissey more impressive is the character he’s displayed insticking with a pro-gram that has had its’ share of struggles.

“I’m proud of how Kyle has worked. [He’s worked] really hard to have the success that he is having,” said Harrison. “Kyle is very coachable and tries to do everything like we ask him to. I think the lack of success in the past simply fueled him to be the QB on the team that helps turn this program around.”

With just two games left on the year, every team will be trying to come together to a nice finishing touch on the regular season, and this is a team that doesn’t want to have to scramble to make a good finish.

“Our goal is to get into the play-offs. Obviously, we want to go in as high of a seed as we can,” said Harrison. “In order to do that, we need to win games in the region.

“We have put ourselves in a good position, but now we have to go and finish the regular season strong,” said Harrison.


The Petite Le Mans is under way at Road Atlanta in Braselton and, while the race will feature some recognizable faces, there is one in particular that will not be easily forgotten.

Twenty-year-old Ashley Freiberg is on the verge of breaking the mold and be-coming one of the women who are trying to get their foot in the door of the racing realm. The Illinois native doesn’t have a long line of racing in her family tree; it simply started from watching her siblings and took flight from there.

“My brothers started racing go-karts when I was 11 years old and, when I turned 13, I decided to jump into one myself. I remember the first time I sat in a go-kart, I felt like I was at home and like that was where I belong. It has been hard to separate me from the sport since,” Freiberg said.

Some drivers have the luxury of being born into the business and are already set with sponsors willing to pave the way for them.

But Freiberg had to start from scratch and find those willing to contribute to her goal and, because she isn’t at a level that is more recognizable, finding a strong group of supporters hasn’t always been easy.

“You really have to find someone or a company who is willing to take a chance on you for the long run; [someone] who has a belief in your ability to make it to the top which will hopefully be the IZOD IndyCar Series for me,” Freiberg.

We’ve seen women such as Danica Patrick sprint onto the scene in a business primarily dominated by men. It’s always been a fallacy that women have the up-per hand in certain industries but, in this business, getting what you want is no walk in the park.

“It is interesting, because the common misconception is that a woman has an

easier time finding a sponsor than a man be-cause of the marketability side, but the real-ity is because there are so few of us out there, it is an added variable to a sponsor to have to really take that chance and believe we can perform and win races,” said Freiberg.

In this sport, there is no such thing as man-ners. It’s every man for himself, and some have proven that phrase when they come out with the intent to throw a fellow driver off course.

“I still run into those who will blatantly run into me to take me out of a race or block me or do what-ever they can to make sure I don’t beat them, but I don’t let those things phase me. I actually take it as a compliment because that tells me they are intimi-dated by me,” said Freiberg.

Freiberg looks to make headlines at Petite Le Mans

South Carolina gets GriffinBy LATRICE [email protected]

Four-star defensive tackle Kelsey Griffin has committed to play football at the University of South Carolina.

The Mill Creek High School de-fensive tackle will join an all-star cast of defenders that South Caro-lina Head Coach Steve Spurrier has groomed into arguably the most respected defense in the country, and is one of the con-tributing factors that landed the Gamecocks as Griffin’s second choice.

Why did he pick South Caro-lina: “Their coaching and how hard they play. They are on of the top defenses in the nation. I like the way they play and the way their schemes are,” said Griffin.

Griffin also had offers from the University of Florida, Au-burn University and Florida State University among others, but Griffin wanted to stay to true to his word.

“I went directly to South Caro-lina. They were second on my list and I had to honor that because I picked them second for a rea-son. There weren’t really any big thoughts about where I was going

to go next,” said Griffin.The Hawks football program

is in its sixth year of existence and has produced talent such as Griffin’s future teammate Davis Moore, the long snapper at South Carolina; Ryan Robinson, defen-sive end at Oklahoma State; and Tyler Cierski, running back at the University of Maryland.

It wasn’t long ago that contro-versy ensued around Griffin’s commitment to the University of Georgia, and no one is quite sure what Georgia has to say about the situation, however, there is always room for speculation.

One reason could be the fact that the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is known for being a little too generous when it comes to scholarship offers. Just a couple of years ago, Outside the Lines, which airs on ESPN, unveiled how Louisiana State University (LSU) allegedly dropped a poten-tial starting quarterback named Chris Garrett from its roster in an effort to free up space because they’d given out too many schol-arships.

At the end of the day, it’s not certain whether we will ever re-ally know what happened, but what we do know is that whatever the case may be, it’s obvious the Bulldogs missed out on this gifted player - and

the Gamecocks will have an-other beast on the defensive line that will give opposing offenses, including UGA’s, a huge scare.

Griffin will make a great addi-tion to South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney and should be unstop-pable next year.

“It should be pretty insane. He was the No. 1 recruit in his class, and I’m not far from there. It should be good to play against somebody and not have to take up double teams all the time,” stated Griffin.

Doug Chellew The PaperKody McDonald add-ed 7 tackles in their win over the Wild-

Doug Chellew The PaperWesley Simonton had14 tackles againstRabun County.

Latrice Williams The PaperKelsey Griffin is ranked 134 out of 150 on ESPN’s Re-cruiting Nation.

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By KATIE [email protected]

Every Thursday, a group of students sits around a table eagerly awaiting the day’s lesson, a lesson that discusses ev-erything from American Indian tribes to geography and American territories. However, despite the pencils, papers and note taking, this isn’t the scene from a classroom at a local K-12 school.

These are the pupils of Pat Carpenter’s weekly citizenship class at the Braselton Library. Each Thursday from 5:30-7 p.m., a group comes together to better prepare for the test that determines whether or not they can become American citizens.

“You people are going to end up know-ing much more than the average citizen,” Carpenter says as she goes over facts about the United States.

Oct. 11 was Benjamin Nazanjo’s first night in the class. Nazanjo completely rearranged his work schedule to come.

“I want to be a citizen. This is my only day off, and I changed it to come to this class,” said Nazanjo.

The citizenship test is divided into four parts including speaking, reading, and writing in English and a series of ques-tions about the U.S. government and his-tory.

The class is free and open to anyone in the U.S. legally who is planning on taking the citizenship test in the future. In fact, Carpenter encourages anyone interested to come join the class. The only possible cost to the students is the option of pur-chasing a $25 workbook that goes over every possible question students may be asked.

Carpenter teaches the class on a purely volunteer basis, receiving no monetary compensation.

“I love our country, and I love its his-

tory. I like working with people, espe-cially working with internationals,” said Carpenter, whose goal is to help students pass the almost $680 test on their first try.

Throughout the hour and half long class, students begin with the pledge of allegiance and then move on to the thought for the night. On Thursday, Oct. 11, the thought for the night was a poem entitled, “No, Freedom Isn’t Free.” When the poem mentions unmarked graves at Arlington, Carpenter stops to explain the military cemetery and its

role in America.After discussing the meaning of the

poem, all the students bow their heads as Carpenter says a brief prayer. Carpen-ter gives thanks for being free, prays for those serving our country in harms way and prays for the students’ success with the test.

Then, Carpenter provides a lesson sheet which has vocabulary words and sentences to practice for homework.

Help families this holiday

Katie Justice The PaperAurora Lazo, center, and Mariela Del Rio, right, discussing which states border Mexico while going over flashcards as Pat carpenter observes during a recent citizenship class session at the braselton Library.

On the path to citizenship

Katie Justice The Paperblanca Guevara and Vilma De Jesús Pineda discussing the benefits of citizenship.

See CITIZENSHIP, page 4b

The Hoschton Heritage Arts center, located at 74 White St., in Hoschton, hosted its Fiber Art exhibit over the weekend highlighting the importance of fi-ber in our lives and the transformation fiber must go through to become clothing and other useful items. From feed sacks to hats, from handwoven blankets to quilts, from hip clothing from the 1960s to delicate embroidered home decor, the exhibit had local con-nections to business, industry and families. Walking from room to room, guests could see Karen beckstine (R) of Mockingbird Hilltop Farm and Sawmill demon-strating how to knit. She also talked about Alpaca and Mohair yarn and how it is readied after being sheared, washed and prepared for knitting. ogeal Webster (lower, R) had a demonstration setup of weaving. The weekend netted two new memberships and forged a working relationship with a local brownie Troop. one young exhibit-goer signed up for a knitting class and the gift shop made $300. “I think it was a marvelous weekend,” said HHAc board president Robbie bettis (below). Those contributing items to be displayed for the exhibit were Dianne blankenship, Lynn Page, Astra Graham, Jo Nan Watwick, Dawn Warwick, Len Sturkie, braselton Antique Mall and Auction Ventures.

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Unfortunately, there is a large population of families in this country who are in desperate need of financial help. There is an urgent need for food, water, shelter and other basic life ne-cessities, but there isn’t a steady income to provide these things. Significant needs like these seem to become more of a burden during the winter months due to plummeting temperatures and even the holiday season — some families may not have the finan-cial means to make this time of

year special for their loved ones. Luckily, there are ways to reach families in need in

our community. Jackson County Family Connection and Barrow County Family Connection both strive to develop, implement and evaluate plans that address the serious challenges facing the community’s chil-dren and families. There is a strict planning process that identifies needs and resources, sets goals and pri-orities, evaluates programs and practices and mea-sures and reports results for their county. The main purpose is to improve the quality of life throughout the community.

When the holiday season approaches, Jackson County Family Connection and Barrow County Fam-ily Connection both implement the Holiday Connec-tion, a volunteer-based cooperative effort. The pur-pose of the Holiday Connection is to serve children and families so that duplication of families receiving assistance is minimized. This group is even in close contact with other similar organizations in the com-munity to ensure no duplication. Families will be able to obtain new toys and presents – thanks to generous donations.

Now that the holiday season is quickly approach-ing, it is time to figure out how you would like to help a less fortunate family this year. The Holiday Connec-tion groups accept monetary donations as well as new toy and new clothes donations for children ages 0-18 for the Holiday Toy Store. The Holiday Toy Store is a compilation of donated toys that are set up like a store — that way, parents can easily shop for age-appropri-ate toys for their children. In a nutshell, this allows families to find holiday presents for children.

There are a few ways to help this year with the Hol-iday Connection. The first way is to “adopt” a family, or multiple families. Volunteers can adopt any type of family — families with young children, middle aged children, teenagers, disabled, shut-ins or senior adults. Volunteers can also donate new toys to the Holiday Store or a gift card for approximately $20-$25 for teenagers. A stocking stuffed with age appropri-ate goodies will accompany the gift card. Lastly, if it is difficult to make a decision about where to help, volunteers can make a monetary donation that will go toward toys and gift cards.

Please consider being a part of the Holiday Connec-tion this year — it is always rewarding to help some-one who truly needs it. Learn more about Barrow County Holiday Connection from coordinator Meg Loggins at 770-868-2910 and about Jackson County Holiday Connection from coordinator Niki Adams at 706-367-3021.

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

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This flag is a mystery to be solved. It has 43 stars with one gold star. Its owner suggests it may have been a covering for a casket. If you can help solve the mystery, contact the Ho-schton Heritage Arts Council at 706-654-2693.

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4B The Paper | Thursday, October 18, 2012 Events

The Hoschton Wom-en’s Civic Club will meet on Oct. 25, the final meeting before a break for the holidays.

Anyone interest in the civic club can come on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Hoschton Depot.

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“Report for duty” and be a part of the fourth annual Ride for the Troops motorcycle ride and car show in Conyers on Oct. 20. Hosted by Operation Sandbox, the family-friendly event will feature a special patri-otic program plus food, vendors, live music and raffles.Visit www.opera-tionsandboxga.com.

s s s On Oct. 20, Tanger

Outlets in Commerce will host its annual 5K to benefit the American Cancer Society. The race will begin and end

at the Tanger Outlet Center in Commerce. The first 350 registered participants will receive a race pack contain-ing a commemorative race T-shirt, a race medal, Tanger shopping discounts and other goodies. To register, visit www.tangeroutlet.com or www.active.com, or contact Tanger Shopper Services at 706-335-3354.

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The Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm is host-ing a Black Pot Cookin’ event, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Admis-sion is $15 for adults and $10 for children and includes a plate and drink. Call 706-367-2949 or email [email protected] for tickets.

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YearOne in Braselton will hold a car show ben-

efiting Lindsay’s Legacy Mentoring on Oct. 20, 4-8 p.m. For details and registration, visit www.yearone.com.

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The Barrow Preserva-tion Society will host Spirits of Jug Tavern while touring Rose Hill Cemetery and Concord Church Cemetery on Fri-day or Saturday in tours beginning at 6:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available in advance at Hill’s Ace Hardware in Winder or onsite on the nights of the tours at Concord Church Cem-etery, located at 104 W. Athens St., in Winder or Rose Hill Cemetery, lo-cated at 205 W. Candler St., in Winder.

Tickets are $5 per person. Visitors are encouraged to bring a flashlight and wear com-fortable walking shoes. The tour is appropriate for family members of

all ages — the presenta-tions are informative and entertaining; this is not a “haunted” tour.

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The Crawford Long Museum Association presents the first Haints and Saints cemetery tours on Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27.

The walking tours will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will depart the Museum every 30 minutes with the last tour departing at 10:30 p.m. Cost is only $12 and reserva-tions must be made in advance. Visit www.crawfordlong.org or call the Museum at 706-367-5307 to make reserva-tions. One child under 12 admitted free with paying adult. Participants must be able to walk 5 city blocks. This event is suitable for children aged 6 and older.

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Braselton Prep Early Education Center will be hosting a free Hallow-een event and everyone is invited. Treats and Trunks/Halloween Fun will be from 5-8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the center, located at 401 Lewis Braselton Blvd., in Braselton. The center is located off Highway 53. Contact executive direc-tor Kathy Wiley at 706-824-0050 or email [email protected]

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The Antique & Holiday Festival at Braselton Park is scheduled for Oct. 27-28. Contact [email protected] or call 706-824-7204.

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son Halloween Walk will be held on Halloween this year, from 4-6 p.m. Visit www.mainstreetjef-ferson.com or call 706-

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Celebrate the birth of anesthesia and Craw-ford W. Long’s birthday on Nov. 1 with cup-cakes and a tour at the museum in downtown Jefferson. Visit www.crawfordlong.org or call 706-367-5307 for infor-mation.

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Parents of children ages 19 and under can have their children at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel Atlanta Airport on Nov. 17. No experience is required. Online reg-istration at www.child-modelmagazine.com. Questions? Email [email protected]

COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

The Braselton “Celebrate the Holidays” parade and festival will be here in two shakes of a dog’s tail.

The theme for this year’s events is “The Holidays are Going to the Dogs,” featuring parade grand marshal Double G Dogg of Winder, younger cousin to Hairy Dog, and special guests, the Humane Society of Jack-son County.

The parade will also feature marching bands from Flowery Branch High School and Winder-Barrow High School. All dogs, dog lovers and otherwise are invited to get out of the doghouse and join in the fun.

The parade will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17. The route will begin on Highway 53 at the Braselton Tech Center and continue past the Braselton Park on Harrison Street. Those interested in participating in the parade can visit www.braseltonfestivals.com where guidelines, an application form and other general information can be found. You can also contact Amy Pinnell at [email protected]. All applications must be received by Friday, Nov. 9. There is no regis-tration fee but all participants must submit a completed application form.

Cash prizes will be awarded to entries in the following float categories: Theme Award, Spirit Award and Blue Ribbon Award. The theme award best represents this year’s theme “Going to the Dogs” including origi-nality and creativity. The Spirit Award best represents the spirit of the holidays including enthusiasm, spirit and community appeal. The Blue Ribbon Award is based on overall

attractiveness and excellence in craftsman-ship. Judges consider all elements of each float: color, materials used, costumes, sig-nage and props. All four-legged participants must be properly leashed, vaccinated and cleaned up after.

Before and after the parade, plan to visit the festival located in the Braselton Park where you can find out how you can help sup-port the Humane Society of Jackson County Raise the Woof and other ways as well. Many food and craft venders will be on hand to as-sist with your pre-holiday shopping list.

Sit and stay while enjoying live entertain-ment on the holiday stage. The festival will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will feature live entertainment from The Gobers and The Tams.

There will also be a drug dog demonstra-tion by the City of Winder Police Department, face painting, pony rides and Mrs. Claus. Lim-ited booth space is still available.

At 2 p.m., Cookies with Santa will be held at the Community Room in the back of the Po-lice & Municipal Court building. This is a tick-eted event at $15 per child and tickets must be purchased in advance at the Braselton Town Hall. Space is limited to 30 children. Activi-ties for children include face painting, crafts and refreshments along with a special meet-ing time and photo session with the season’s big dog, Santa Claus. A take away CD of the photos with Santa taken by Never the Rock is included in the ticket price.

Come start your holiday season in Brasel-ton.

A tail-wagging holiday is planned in Braselton

Members of the Rotary Club of Braselton are currently selling $100 tickets for the sev-enth annual reverse raffle set for Friday, Nov. 9.

The raffle raises money to purchase Christmas gifts for local children who would otherwise have little holiday cheer and go without.

First prize is up to $10,000 cash. “Second prize is the warm feeling you get

by helping truly needy children get some much needed attention and a few decent items for Christmas,” said Braselton Rotar-ian Dennis Still, who is among the club mem-bers with tickets to sell.

The project will net around $18,000 which will go directly to purchase the gifts for ap-proximately 100 children.

“Please consider this offering of a 1-in-300 chance at winning up to $10,000 and a 100-

percent chance of doing a very nice thing as we enter the 2012 holiday season,” said Still, who reports the $100 is deductible as a chari-table donation.

“This is truly Rotary in action,” said Still. “It is a complete project where we work for others and get to see how we benefit others at this special time of year.”

The Rotary Reverse Raffle has become an evening of fun and fundraising which began as an idea which charter member Martha Martin brought to the club, and Rotarians report they have regulars who expect to be contacted about buying their raffle tickets. Some organizations partner with Rotary to make the Christmas party for children part of their annual charitable efforts around the holidays.

Contact a Braselton Rotarian about tickets or visit BraseltonRotary.org.

Rotary reverse raffle nears

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Next, the class moves on to their workbooks, which pro-vide examples for every pos-sible question they could be asked during their interview. Out of 100 possible questions, 10 will be asked, and the stu-dents will have to get at least six correct to pass.

When the students prac-tice answering questions about the day’s lesson, some are hesitant with their an-swers, but Carpenter assures them.

“If you don’t get the answer right it’s OK, I don’t want you to feel bad,” said Carpenter, telling the students she will correct them because they need to know the right an-swer.

After working in their workbooks, the students use flashcards to learn about the U.S. government, and then practice speaking.

All through class, the five students present are laugh-ing and eager to accept any

advice Carpenter gives. “Why do I do this? Why do

I teach? Because I love you, and I want to help,” is Car-penter’s response to a student asking why she teaches.

Then, as Nazanjo thanks Carpenter for her help, he asks what he can do to thank her.

“You know what you can do to show that you are happy, tell someone else about the class and bring them with you next week,” was Carpenter’s request.

In fact, Carpenter encour-ages anyone interested in the class to either call the library to register or simply show up for the next class period. Classes will be available now through May, except during December.

Also, anyone interested in possibly teaching a citizen-ship or English as a second language class is asked to contact Carpenter at [email protected]

CITIZENSHIP from page 3B

Pat Carpenter strives to help eager students

Katie Justice The PaperMariela Del Rio asking Benjamin Nazanjo practice questions from flashcards over the day’s lessons.

LeAnne Akin The PaperRe’gie Kennedy puts the finishing touches on the family crest which will be unveiled at the Oct. 25 grand opening of her studio. The community is invited to drop in between 5-7 p.m.

By LEANNE [email protected]

Hoschton artist Re’gie Kennedy Re’gie, owner of Beaux Art and Design Academy in Hoschton, will be unveiling the most recent family crest she has created during a special open house cel-ebration next Thursday.

No one is more excited than Lynn Page, winner of the crest which resulted from the research of the Page family tree.

Kennedy is a board member of the Hoschton Heritage Arts Council and recently completed the artistic part of a prize of-fered as a fundraiser for the HHAC.

Kennedy painted the family crest of the Page family for the winner of the drawing in the HHAC raffle. Lynn Page won the custom piece and research of her family history by Kenne-dy’s historican husband, William G. Kennedy.

“Bill is very good at re-searching family histories

and he knows so much about piecing together a family’s connection to its past,” said Kennedy.

Bill Kennedy re-searched the win-ner’s family crest which the artist used to create into the beautiful work of art which is being un-veiled next week dur-ing a 5-7 p.m. open house and unveiling event on Oct. 25.

Value of the piece is estimated at $5,000

to $7,000. Each creation is an original and uniquely designed for the family.

Bill Kennedy also re-searched Lynn Page’s side of the family, developing family trees and pedigree charts from a variety of sources. What was devel-oped was a family connec-tion with more than 700 names and links to eight to 10 generations back. Some connections date back to the 1500s.

Bill Kennedy’s father was a genealogy expert and traced family histories when research required vis-its to courthouses and cem-eteries. Much of his work is used today in the Internet searches which can be done

to build family trees.Kennedy’s background

is in interior design with Ethan Allen in Tennessee but she returned to her love of fine art and remains in-volved with the Ballet Arts of Jackson for which she de-signs sets. She was actively involved with the Jackson Art Association and won several national art shows.

Kennedy taught three classes through the Ho-schton Heritage Arts Center this summer and didn’t take a dime. She said she gave of her time to help grow the center.

She is currently teaching seven classes a week.

“My studio has really blossomed,” said Kennedy.

Word about her classes and promotion through the Hoschton Heritage Arts Cen-ter have filled her classes. She doesn’t yet even have a sign up in front of the two-story building where her studio occupied the upper floor. The studio is filled with light and pieces of her artwork which is utilized in her classes.

The open house will be at her studio, located at 4188 Highway 53, Suite 102, in Hoschton. The community is invited.

Open house at Beaux Art and Design Academy setFamily research and family crest designed for HHAC drawing winner to be unveiled

Kennedy

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“Local art classes are offered almost weekly in downtown Hoschton. Registration is quick and easy. The instructors are very knowledgeable,” ac-cording to Robbie Bettis.

Fall classes at the Hoschton Heritage Arts Center begin next week. Anyone can register by phoning 770-540-1099 or emailing [email protected]

Classes will include:s C101 Knitting for Be-

ginners - Oct. 23 – Nov. 13 (6:30-8:30 p.m.)

s F 108 Introduction to Backyard Beekeeping - Nov. 2 (4-6 p.m.) and Nov. 3 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.)

s A 106 Art with Re’gie - Painting a Large Snow Scene- Nov. 3 – Dec. 6 - no class Nov. 24) (2-5 p.m.)

s O 112 Photogra-phy: Painting with Light - Nov. 6, 13, 20 and 27 (7-9 p.m.)

s O 101 What do I do with All This Stuff? - Nov. 15 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.)

s F 107 Wisteria Vine & Reed Basket Weaving – Nov. 17 (10 a.m.-1 p.m.)

s J 103 Sampler Brace-lets - Nov. 7 and 14 (6:30-8:30 p.m)

s J 105 Jewelry Mak-ing with Precious Metal Clay - Nov. 6, 13, 20 (7-9 p.m.)

Fall classes for kids are

s K 101 Pumpkin Carving - Oct. 27 (9 a.m.-1p.m.)

s K 102 Fall Leaf Art – Nov. 17 (Noon-4 p.m.)

s K103 Christmas Gifts & Ornaments – Dec. 15 (9 a.m.-1 p.m.)

More information can be found at www.ho-schtonheritageartscoun-cil.com.

HBA prepares for BASH

Art offerings from the HHAC

By ROXANE [email protected]

The goal for the upcom-ing Oct. 25 Jackson County Chamber Business And So-cial Hours, sponsored by the Hoschton Business Alliance, is to have the biggest turnout ever for a Chamber BASH, said HBA vice president James Lawson. The event will be held 5-7 p.m. at the Hoschton Depot.

“We have a wonderful lo-cation, we will have music, food is being provided by Wing Slingers, refreshments are being provided by Cork & Keg and we will have a laser show that projects members’ business names on the wall,” Lawson said during the Oct. 16 monthly meeting of the HBA. He also encouraged all HBA members to provide a door prize.

There is no charge to at-tend the event; even non-Chamber members do not have to pay at this BASH, a move approved by the Cham-ber to support HBA’s mem-bership drive plans for the BASH. However, attendees must RSVP to the Chamber.

“It will be a great network-ing opportunity, and we have a few surprises planned, too,” Lawson said.

Twenty-five people, which included three guests, were in attendance at the HBA meeting. Treasurer Dee Lavender reported $2,400 in the treasury. Jim Harp, a pharmacist with West Jack-son Medicine Center, had his name drawn for the Mem-ber Spotlight, an opportunity given to one business at each meeting.

Members of the Hoschton

Business Alliance heard from Cheryl Smith, regional tourism project manager for the Northeast Georgia region, who was HBA’s guest speaker.

“Georgia has been doing really well with the art and film industries,” Smith said. “Arnold Schwarzenegger is filming over in Hall County now.”

Smith’s job is to bring busi-nesses and people into the state of Georgia to spend their money to generate rev-enue and taxes. They target their audience through me-dia outreach, business out-reach and visitor informa-tion centers.

Bringing in travel writers; utilizing Facebook, Twit-ter and Pinterest; and pub-lishing the annual Georgia Travel Guide and other pub-lications comprise the media outreach, she said.

“We also have a lot on our web site and are always up-dating it – we try for the web site to be a repository of all the wonderful things Geor-gia has to offer.”

They also work with the in-ternational market as well as trade and consumer shows.

“Most of the international visitors Georgia sees come from the UK, Germany and

Canada,” Smith noted.The visitor information

centers are stocked with Ex-plore Georgia publications, plus businesses are allowed to put their brochures out, as well. Staff at the centers can help visitors with reserva-tions.

“If you’re interested in promoting tourism, I am the person to talk to,” Smith said.

To RSVP for the Oct. 25 BASH, call the Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce at 706-387-0300.

Smith

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Dear Margo: I’ve just started my second year of teaching (fourth grade), and I share a large, beautiful apart-ment with a colleague I’ll call Jill. A major problem has me upset, angry and depressed just as I’m trying to get going into the new school year.

Jill is a wonderful person. We teach together, go club-bing several nights a week and have mutual interests, but Jill is very carefree and careless.

The other morning, she left to go shopping while I was working out on the tread-mill. For the hundredth time, she left the door unlocked, and when I heard a noise, I went to investigate — but too late. Someone had broken in, and I was no match for him. Fortunately, he only wanted money, bankcards, etc., but he left me so tightly bound and gagged that it was impos-sible to break free.

I spent several hours hog-tied on our sofa struggling furiously until Jill came back and found me tied up, sweat-ing, sobbing and furious.

Jill has profusely apolo-gized for not locking the door, but needless to say, we are not amiable at the moment. I’ve considered moving, but 1) I like it here, 2) I like Jill, and 3) This is a terrible time to move with the school year just having started. What would you do? — Tied Up in August

Dear Tied: Jill sounds like one of your fourth graders in-stead of a fellow teacher. To be so “carefree and careless” about repeatedly leaving a front door unlocked is unac-ceptable for a woman with a roommate. (If she lived alone, the only one to suffer would be Jill.) I would think finding a good friend bound and gagged would make quite a strong impression.

Apologies are nice, but I think you now have the right to decree that the next time she leaves the front door un-locked means she will have to be the one to move out. (I am hoping this was not her apartment first.)

Now that Jill has pretty well proved that her careless-ness could put your life at stake, it is really not too much to ask that she get in the habit of locking the front door. It is not all that hard to make it a routine part of leaving the apartment. If you think she is really addled, you might tape a note on the front door saying “IS THE DOOR LOCKED?” An accompa-nying drawing is optional. — Margo, seriously

Dear Margo: I was happy to read the letter from the older woman writing about Facebook. I, too, am a di-nosaur. My grandchildren talked me into joining FB. I got so much junk I couldn’t stand it.

There were letters with pictures from people I don’t

know and too much informa-tion about people I don’t care about. I finally got brave and discontinued FB. What a re-lief! I figure if people, grand-children included, want to contact me, they can send a letter or an email — and send pictures the old-fashioned, private way. — Mrs. H.

Dear Mrs.: I’m with you, but with a slight difference. One of my kids is active on Facebook, so I learn a lot from following her page. I do this, however, with a made-up name so that I don’t get roped into my own Facebook life. (Twitter is bad enough.) The FB servers, however, clearly know my identity be-cause they keep offering me friends ... from my address book. Privacy’s gone, but I like to pretend we still have some. — Margo, pragmati

Dear Margo: We recently wrote our will and named our best friends as guard-ians for our children. And we told our parents, just as an FYI. They already know and are familiar with our

friends, including regularly seeing them on holidays, etc. They have no problem with this choice. However, my mother-in-law has flipped out about one point: She wants us to amend our will to spe-cifically state that the grand-parents will have visitation rights, and that it must be at least x times per year. It’s not enough for us and our friends to state that of course they will still be heavily involved in their grandkids’ lives; she wants it spelled out and le-gally binding.

We are not going to make any such amendment, and we cannot get her to stop harping at us about it. It’s get-ting to the point where I don’t want to answer her calls, much less be around her, because it inevitably comes up, and the haranguing starts again. What to do? — Frus-trated

Dear Frus: Why are you not going to make any such amendment? Why would you not want all of your wishes spelled out? People who as-sume that verbal agreements

suffice are making a grave mistake, especially when it comes to what goes on after one’s death. It sounds as if the only problem with your m-i-l is the issue of the will, so why are you determined to say no? Perhaps your husband’s mother feels either you or the children are closer to your parents, and she wants to ensure her place in her grandchildren’s lives.

There is the statistical probability that these ar-rangements will never be put into play, but I would encourage you to acquiesce to her request. Such a codicil will put all agreements into black and white, and your m-i-l will calm down. I actually agree with her, and the bonus you will get will be peace and quiet, along with her ap-preciation. She is not asking for anything unreasonable. — Margo, rationally

Dear Margo is written by Margo Howard, Ann Landers’ daughter. All letters must be sent via the online form at www.creators.com/dear margo.

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Pets. Ref $495; $200 dep. 770-967-3071

REMODELED Lake front 2BR/1BA $400/

mo. 770-532-0811

N. HALL 3/2 DW very clean, no pets, 2 acs $170/wk; $350 dep.

770-536-3217

N. Hall 2/1, acre lot, $120/wk; $200 dep.

770-654-6859

N HALL, 2BR/2BA, 2 storage bldgs, no smoking/pets. $650 Lease & Ref req’d

770-532-7226

E. HALL 2BR. $115/wk + $100 Dep.

770-287-8736

Dbl Wide- 3BR/2BA$550mo. $300 dep. 6201 River Run Cir.

770-654-4743

3/2 RABBITTOWN$620 +dep. No pets.

770-714-1992

460-Mobile Homesfor Rent

NW Lanier- 3/2.5 1700sf upper, hrdwd flrs, 1000sf fin bsmt. 700sf storage,Great

view, 3acs, priv dr w/ lrg barn, Dep & Ref

$1100 770-534-4333

Lanier- Cabin, guest hse. 2/2, dock 6mo

$1000. 724-316-3925

445-Lake Homesfor Rent

Private, Very Nice!3BR/2BA. N. Hall,

Sardis Rd. $795/mo.See website:

renttoccoa.com for more info.

435-Houses forRent Unfurnished

Oakwood- Profes-sional share home

$600 770-654-3048

Oakwood 3BR/2BA, renovated. $950/mo

678-897-9344

NICE, clean, ready 3BR/2BA, $850. No

Pets. Briarwood Dr @ Exit 16. 404-210-7481

NICE 2/1, all brick Gainesville. $650mo

678-618-8232

Newly Remodeled 4BR/2.5BA. Cabin in the woods. Chestnut Mountain. $1200/ mo. 770-718-8363

N. HALL- 2BR/1.5BA, Nice n’borhood.

$700m. 770-654-7885

N. HALL 3BR/2BA. $750mo; $750 dep.

678-622-0349

N. Hall 5684 Cot-tage Ln. $900mo + dep 770-354-9505

Maysville- 3BR 2acres, wooded

$800. 678-516-4833

Lease/Lease Purch 4/3.5. fin bsmt. Royal Lakes Golf Course. Collins Property

Group 678-617-8633Keller Williams Realty

770-503-7070

Charming 3-5BR Homes. $850-1380

Great Locations! 770-539-4400

Free Rent Starting at $85/wk N. & S. Hall & Gainesville. 770-534-7596

City- 2 Living Areas1447 Enota Ave. Quiet

4br/2ba Lease/Pur $900m + $2500dep

770-503-6964

CABIN - 2BR/2BA fenced yrd, storage bldg, hot tub, 5mi,

Cleveland, GA. $795 mo. 770-654-0111

APPROX. 2400 SF98 P.HARBOR FOR

RENT OR SALE. 4BR, 2BA,LR & FAM RM. $875 DEP/$875 MO.

NEAR GRANNY'S STORE HWY 53.

PAM 678-283-8042

4BR/3BAw/mother-in law Apt on 3 acs. Call 678-897-3974

3BR/2BA- Sardis. $850mo. + dep. No pets. 770-714-1992

3BR/2BA large living area w/sunrm. Very

Very Clean! $925mo; $875 dep. Oakwood area. Avail 10/21/12. 678-316-3685

3BR/1BA 2073 Crow Rd, exc. cond.,

$550/mo + $550 dep. 770-536-3533

3/2- $695-1100 Butch Hodges

Properties, Inc. 770-540-0417

3/2 CITY, all brick, total elect. $900. 2

car gar/770-983-7040

3 bed/ 2 ba ranch,$950

770-869-1890 Lula area.

2BR/2.5BA Twnhse. Oakwood, $800/mo.

706-969-0522

2BR/1BA, appls., No dp. $560/mo. No pets. 770-536-2906

$0 Application Fee3BR/2BA HOMES

All Appliances included.

Starting at $699/mo

SUN HOMES888-246-2803

countrysidelakelanier.com

EHO WAC

435-Houses forRent Unfurnished

Oakwood- Pine Forest. 2BR/1BA $660 www.callapartments.c

om. 770-287-1456

Myrtle St. Nice. $150 wk $400/dp. No pets

770-533-3029

425-DuplexesFor Rent

1BR/1BA Brenau area. $650 + dep & ref. 770-714-1992

420-Condos For Rent

644 Banks St3 Offices w/Conf. rm.

Great Central Loc. off Jesse Jewell

Pkwy next to Advance Auto Parts. Multiple mixed uses

Handicap accessible. Immed. occupancy

$950mo David Pierce770-530-2771

2 Bay Warehouse500 SF, $175/mo770-540-5339

415-BusinessProperty for Rent

Oakwood- 2/1.5,yrd, safe, C/H/A $605-

$645. 678-357-5044

G’Ville- 1&2BR $550- 610. water/trash incld no pet 678-677-1898

APT. BLOW OUTSPECIALS!!

1-3bdrms $4951st 10 apps get bonus!

770-536-0508

2BR/1.5BA Buford Apts. Fall Special!$550/mo no App Fee

+ Bonus for 1st 5 apps. 678-765-0262

1-2BR Oakwood, $535 & up.

www.callapartments.com 770-287-1456

1 to 3BR‘s starting at $495. Move-in Spe-cials! 770-536-0508

410-ApartmentsUnfurnished

1 & 2BR Apts Move in Special. Pets OK! Quiet community W. of Gainesville $480- 580. 770-883-8839

$$ 3 DAY SPECIALBrandon Place2BR/2BA $625

Efficiency Apt. $450Spring Valley1BR/1BA $5752BR/2BA $650

Comfortable LivingAffordable Prices

POOLS - GATEDCall Jacky Now678-779-2687

410-ApartmentsUnfurnished

1BR Furn or unfurn So. Hall Lake, no

smkg. 770-313-1333

405-ApartmentsFurnished

400

Homes &Rentals

Fri & Sat, Oct, 19 & 20th, 9-5pm at 488

Reisling Dr. ,Vineyard sbdv. in Braselton.

Total Gym XL, Xmas items, gen. hsehold, Etc. 706-654-4640

“Fall” Into our Multi Family Garage Sale

Fri & Sat, Oct 19 & 20th. 8am-4pm. at 1175 Vintage Way,

Hoschton, GA 30548. Come shop thru years of “Stuff” including Furniture.

Rain or Shine!

397-Yard Sale

3 RIFLES- Howa 1500 in 223 Rem. SS w/laminate thumb-hole, bench style

stock $775; Norinco Sporter in 5.56x45 $700; IMBEL FAL in

7.62,51; Surplus Ammo.

8mm Turkish; 7.62x54 czek silver

tip, Wolf FMJ, 5.45x39 cal. Call Mark,

770-680-9303

385-SportingEquipment

YORKIE'S CKC 8 months old.

1 female $650 and 1 male $550.

Call 706-809-9096

SHIH-TZU Pups. CKC. 6wks. $250

YORKIE - 6wks old1st shots & wormed.

$400 & up. 706-491-2436706-599-6068

OUTDOOR CATS need home. White female & 4 kittens. Call 770-535-9064

JACK RUSSELL - Pups, 1 Fem, 2

males. wormed/1st shots. 706-892-6853

FREE KITTENS, 6wks old, to good

home. 770-983-0696

BOYKIN SPANIELS6 weeks old 10/11/12

Pedigrees TAILS,DEW CLAWS, SHOTS.

MALES, 1 LEFT850. FEMALE 1000. QUALIFIED BUYERS

770-540-2738 JOHN

380-Pets &Supplies

Kirby Vacuum Cleaner

includes all attachments.

Used Very Little. Paid: $1500;

Asking: $900/obo. Dining Room Set

w/4 Chairs.Round table which can convert to ob-long. Almost New.

$250. Call after 6pm 770-983-0764

FLOOR LOOM-Kessenich. Solid

cherry. 4 harness, 6 treadles, 42in weave. $500. 770-532-6753

FILL DIRT AVAIL. Mundy Mill Rd area. 770-540-3800

Electric Range- Amana self-cleaning,

smooth surface, $400; (2) Propane Tanks 50lbs & 30lbs $150/both; Treated Lumber- Finished 1x6x8’. $2.10/boardFirewood- hard-

wood/kindling wood- Will deliver small

loads. 706-693-4520

Custom Bldg- 8x12 room, 8x4 porch,

professionally wired/ plumbed/insulated, metal roof, wood

siding. $1500/cash. 678-462-3123

Comforters (4) $15 ea. Space Heater$20; Living RoomTable $25; Double

Rocker $25; (2) Shower Chairs $15 ea; Food Dehydra-

tor $25; Record Player $50; Air

Purification System$50. 770-535-9064

365-Misc.For Sale

SOFA 1950's Retro Curved 9 ft. sofa. Olive and brown.

Excellent condition. $400 firm.

(706) 974-5694

345-Furniture

OAK BUFFET circa 1940’s with carvings, bow front & painted SIDE BOARD (gray/ green). $400/both.

770-536-7191

KITCHEN TABLE,natural color wood table top and seat tops, black legs,

60”x36”, about 10 yrs old, good cond., $75.

South Hall area770-561-5308

Grandfather ClockHoward Miller. Chim-ing. 610F983 (Made

in USA). New!Reg: $2982 Sell: $1200.

Will delv & set-up at N/C. 706-344-7283

Grandfather ClockHoward Miller. Triple

Chiming. 611F009 (Made in USA). New!

Reg: $3964.80 Sell: $2000.

Will delv & set-up at N/C. 706-344-7283

FORMAL DINING TABLE- Thomasville.

Beautiful. 44”x88” with protective glass top & 9 Matching

Chairs. $1250;(2) CLUB CHAIRS w/Ottoman-Rust

color; (1) wine color Club Chair. All 3 in Exc Cond. $300 ea. 770-534-0500.

BREAKFAST SET,beautiful, hardrock maple, drop leaf, 4 chairs, $600;

ANTIQUE BREAK-FAST SET, 2 leaves

& 6 chairs, $600; Antique Tiger Wood

SEWING MACHINE. 770-744-8721

BABY BED, $125; DRESSER/CHANG-ING TABLE, $125; ROCKING CHAIR,$75; & MORE BABY

ITEMS! Excellent cond. 770-536-3047

345-Furniture

MEMORIAL PARK,Hillside #1, Lot 240A, Space 3, Selling for

$4000. 678-450-9264

GREAT BUY,Memorial Park Burial

Plots, valued at $3,000 each. Make

Offer. 678-936-6853

3 PLOTS, near 401B & 402B in Rose Garden area of Memorial Park. At $1600/each.

Linda 864-980-1773 or Lisa 770-287-8227

at Memorial Park.

326-CemeteryLots For Sale

ABSOLUTE AUCTION

“HOMER B.NICHOLAS ESTATE”

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2:37 PM6Bdrms- 4Bths.

6333 Marina Club Dr., Marina Bay On Lake Lanier

Inspections 1:00pm to 5:00pm on: Satur-

day, Oct 6, Sunday, Oct. 7, Saturday, Oct. 13, Sunday, Oct. 14, Saturday, Oct. 20 &

Sunday Oct. 21 Please call Tommy Smith, For entry into the Gated Commu-nity at 502-349-5143

Or for a private showing on Oct. 22 & 23. For complete

details Call Billy Frank Harned, Auctioneer

www.billyfrankharned .com

Harned Auctioneers, LLC 502-348-5025 License#AU003790

#RE344278

315-Auctions

WASHER & DRYER, Kenmore, Exc cond$250. 770-983-1507

WASHER & DRYERKenmore, Wht, $100ea. FRIG $125. Can Deliver 678-546-9184

or 678-617-5560

ELECTRIC RANGE- Amana self-cleaning

smooth surface, Like New! $400. 706-693-4520

310-Appliances

300Stuff

OTR DRIVERClean MVR with at

least 2yrs exp. req’d. For info call: Mitchell

Reddick Trucking 404-668-4554

Exp’d CLASS A CDL DRIVER

678-997-3386

DRIVERS- Class A CDL to haul

grain/live chickens in Gainesville. 2yrs exp

& good MVR req.Local positions,

home daily & com-pany benefits. Send MVR & resume to

[email protected] or call 804-784-6166

DriverCDL Drivers

NeededTuition Paid by

Federal Grants or VA Benefits.

770-614-6022 or1-877-GET-A-CDLCall and see if you

Qualify in 5 minutes!dtruckschool.com

285-TruckDrivers

AIM Your Career in the Right Direction

Flatbed Drivers

•$1500 SIGN-ON BONUS!

•Weekends Off!•Hauling Aluminum to midwest& northeast

•Avg 2500 Miles/Wk•Full Benefits & Top of the Line Equipt.

CDL-A & Flatbed Experience Required

AIM INTEGRATEDCall Now!

855-818-2956www.AIMNTLS.com

285-TruckDrivers

MECHANICneeded to maintain fleet of Tractor/Trail-ers. Must be experi-enced, dependable, drug free and willing

to work. Apply in per-son Mon - Fri, 8-4pm 875 West Ridge Rd, Gainesville,GA 30501

770-535-8347

MACHINE OPERATOR - ATEX, INC.

Automated, non-woven mfg. plant in

Gainesville is seeking self-motivated,

dependable, ener-getic individuals w/mfg exp. to fill

MACHINE OPERATOR POSITIONS on its automated melt-blown production

line. Continuous mfg. operations 5 days/

wk. Must be capable of working 8hr shift,

1st, 2nd, or 3rd. Competitive wages; excellent benefits, atmosphere, and growth potential.

Apply in person: M-F, 8:30-3:00, 2600 West Park Dr. Gainesville, GA

770-536-7272. EOE

280-Trades

INTERNET PRO-GRAMMER Need

Programmer. Drupal preferred to develop database website. Call 706-969-8516

279-Technical

DELIVERY DRIVERS JIMMY JOHN’s

Gourmet Sandwich Shop, Gainesville, GA seeking freaky fast & freaky sharp Drivers

[email protected]

275-Restaurant

PROGRAM SPECIALISTNinth District

Opportunity Head Start - Baccalaureate

Degree in Social Work or health/nutri-

tion field required. Must have experi-ence working with

pre-school children, administrative expe-

rience, proficient computer and writ-ten communication skills, ability to plan, organize and evalu-ate program activi-

ties; work independ-ently and be self-mo-

tivated. Duties include: moni-

toring Head Start centers to insure

programs are oper-ated in compliance with funding source requirements; pro-

viding training/techni-cal assistance to staff, maintaining detailed records. Extensive travel in twenty county area

and overnight required. Must have a vehicle to be used on

the job. Salary: $47,000-$49,000. In-terested applicants submit resume to:

Head Start Director, P.O. Drawer L, Gainesville, GA

30503. Deadline for submission:

October 31, 2012. EOE

BROILER BREEDER HEN

FLOCK SUPERVISOR

Send resume to: CWT Farms

International, Inc., 1180 Airport Pkwy,

Gainesville,GA 30501. Attn:

Lessie Burdette lburdette@aviagen.

com

270-Professional

AXIOM STAFFINGNow Hiring

•Welders•Assembly•Machine Oper. •Forklift Operators

Please call or apply in person

Axiom Staffing Group5857 Spout Springs

Rd., Suite 302Flowery Branch, GA

30542678-866-8800 ph

Apply online ataxiomstaffing.com

265-Production

AXIOM STAFFING

•Welders•Assemblers•Warehouse•Forklift

Positions start at $10.25/hr

We are now on-site at:

Kubota Manufacturing

of AmericaBuilding 2.

Apply on-site at: 2715 Ramsey Rd.,

Gainesville, GA 30501

btw 9am and 3pm.770-532-0038

ext. 2066

265-Production

P/T POSITIONavailable. Packaging, shipping/rec skills a plus. Regular hours to start: 10am-2pm, Mon thru Fri. Flexibil-ity of being available

for random additional hours also a plus. Contact Danny at

Swap & Trade Pawn, 770-503-0728

Send resume to:[email protected]

255-Part TimeHelp Wanted

WE NEED YOU NOW!!

FT/PT, daily work, get paid in 72 hrs. Deliver

the AT&T Yellow Pages in Gainesville. Must be 18yrs+, have DL, Vehicle & insur. Call 800-422-1955 ext 1, 8:00A-4:30P,

Mon-Fri. www.Deliv-erPhoneBooks.com

The Metro Extended Stay

Motel at 1115 Jesse Jewell Pkwy has

positions available. Please inquire at

address, online, or call 770-533-9433

LOCAL INDEPENDENT

PHARMACYneeds honest,

dependable, friendly person to work F/T.

Resume to: Box 372 C/O The Times,

P.O. Box 838 Gainesville, 30503

HIRING

Osborne Wood Products, Inc.

See “Osborne- A Great Place to Work” Video

Atwww.osbornewood.

com/jobapp.cfm

Job openings with descriptions are

included

Under “Employment Opportunity”

Exp’d TRUCK TIRE CHANGER needed

Driver’s license a must. 770-536-4493

245-Misc.Help Wanted

Hi-Tech Healthcarein Gainesville, GA is

seeking a PRNRESPIRATORY

THERAPISTMust be CRT or RRT & have current state

license. 770-536-7670

Fax: 770-536-7640 502 South Enota Dr. NE, Gainesville, GA

30501chandler.alan1@

gmail.com

FRONT OFFICE POSITION

for a busy internal medicine practice in the Sugar Hill/Buford area. Medical coding and spanish a plus.

Full-time, some eve-nings & some Satur-days required. Fax 678-745-4139

injecting Botox, Dysport, facial filler and other cosmetic

procedures req. P/T- 1 day per wk)

Laser & AestheticsOakwood

Frnt Off Check Out(Mon-Fri, 8:30am- 5:30pm Must speak

Eng/Span)NeurosurgeyGainesville

All positions are full time unless noted.

Full-time employees may be eligible for

paid days off, health insurance and a gen-

erous retirement plan. Salary com-

mensurate with ex-perience. Previous

medical office expe-rience preferred.

Spanish/English skills desirable. Interested candidates may sub-mit resumes via fax to 770-535-7445 Attn: Employment

E-mail to:HR@longstreet

clinic.com or complete an appli-

cation at 725 Jesse Jewell Pkwy., Suite 270, Gainesville, GA 30501. For additional

info about the Longstreet Clinic.,

P.C., please visit our website: www.long

streetclinic.com

240-Medical

The Longstreet Clinic, P.C. is seeking

qualified candidates for the following

positions:

Licensed Practical Nurse (2)

(P/T; Pre-and Post op exp. Recovery exp.

IV exp)Vascular Dept

Gainesville

Reg. Nurse (2)P/T; conscious

sedation, working in procedure room)Vscular Surgery

Gainesville

Radiology Tech(P/T or PRN; C arm

and interventional procedures exp)

Vascular Surgery Gainesville

Phlebotomy(PRN Monday-Satur-day to include satel-

lite locations)Central Laboratory

Check in/Registration

(Minimum 1yr exp. Span/English a plus)Vascular Surgery

Gainesville

LPN(Minimum 1 yr exp

Span/English a plus)BariatricsGainesville

Frnt Off Supervisor(Financial counseling

exp pref’d)Neurosurgery

Gainesville

MA or LPN(Rotating wkends &

holidays)PediatricsGainesville

Medical Receptionist

(8am-5p. Must speak Eng and Span. Rotat-

ing wkends & holi-days)

Gainesville Pediatrics

LPN or Med. AsstFamily Medicine

Oakwood

Registered Mammographer(Position is PRN)Imaging Dept

Gainesville

Physician Asst/ Nurse Practitioner

(1yr exp req.)General Surgery

Gainesville

Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Asst(Exp with lasers,

240-Medical

INSIDE SALES/ TRADE SHOWBuford, GA

Must have at least 5yrs experience with

Telephone Sales, excellent customer service skills and be comfortable speak-ing to customers in person. Position will require some travel for working trade

shows and conven-tions. Must be self motivated and able to meet and exceed goals. Competitive

salary plus commis-sion, excellent

benefits. E-mail resume to:

[email protected] fax to

770-965-1314

230-GeneralSales Agents

PITTMAN DENTAL LABORATORY

has an immediate opening for an Entry Level

Day Shift Positionin CAD CAM Dept.

Must have computer knowledge & be detail oriented.

Please send resume to:pittmandentalhr@g

mail.comNo phone calls please

E&R DENTAL LABneeds Experienced

CROWN & BRIDGE

TECHNICIANS

ESPECIALLY Technicians with knowledge and

experience in ALL AREAS of Crown

and Bridge. EOE. Full-Time with Benefits (Mon-Fri). E-mail work experi-ence and contact information to:

[email protected]

or apply in person at: 1960 Delta Dr,Gainesville, GA

30501.

220-Dental

HOUSEKEEPER/NANNY- Live-in

for 11yr old girl. Room/ board & salary. Ref & background check.

770-205-5370

215-Child Care:Help Wanted

200Jobs

FURNITURE & CLOTHING

DONATIONS NEEDED

Free Pick-up. Gainesville Baptist

Rescue Mission. Help Us Help Others

678-200-9285

170-Notices

SOUTHERNCOMPANIONS

Providing in-home care for the elderly, disabled & post op. Offering peace of

mind. 678-971-4147

www.southerncom-panions.net

LOCAL EMPLOYERS

EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION!

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customers and partners with

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770-540-2796

Order Deadline is 11/11/12 so Call or

E-mail Today!

ATTENTION CLASSIFIEDCUSTOMERS

The Times Classified Department asks

that you verify and proof your classified ad(s) the first day that it is scheduled

to print.If any corrections need to be made, please contact our

department, Monday through Friday, before 3pm.

The Times will not be held responsible for any issues that may arise after the first day of publication.

[email protected]

770-535-1199

170-Notices

LOST: DOG. Lab mix, fem, spayed w/blue/red collar,

rabies tag. Browns Bridge near Ann

Harbor Dr. Since Mon. 352-318-2016

160-Lost &Found

THE TIMES SINGLE COPY

DEPT. is seeking an independent contrac-

tor for delivery inHALL &

SURROUNDING COUNTIES

Must be 18 or older w/ valid driver's license & insured vehicle.

Must be able to work early morning hours. Must have reliable vehicle and backup

substitute. For more information, please call our carrier

hotline: 770-535-6357.

or e-mail: [email protected]

115-BusinessOpportunities

100

Announcements

POP’S FIREWOOD Proprietor: Dylan

Robertson. Pick-up or Delivery. Best Prices

In Town!!! 678-997-8737

043-Firewood

Providence Schoolis now enrolling

Infants 6 weeks and up! Come tour our new Infant Suite!Spaces Limited -

Call Today 770-869-3422

Located just off Hwy 365 across from

Jaemor Farms

Oakwood Daycare McEver Rd.

Now enrolling Babies- 120; One & Up - 110.

770-536-4671

028-Child Care

000

Services

Start your jobsearch here!new career

opportunitiesare listed

every day in the Classifieds!

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8B The Paper | Thursday, October 18, 2012

By Jason Alderman

For senior citizens, the most important decision you will make this fall comes in the form of choos-ing the most appro-priate Medicare cov-erage options for next year.

Medicare’s 2013 open enrollment period runs from Oct.

15 to Dec. 7, 2012. For most current enroll-ees, that’s the only time to make cover-age changes for the coming calendar year (exceptions are made if you later move out-side your plan’s ser-vice area, qualify for financial assistance or a few other situa-tions).

Several changes to

Medicare take effect in 2013, including:

D participants who reach the so-called doughnut hole cov-erage gap will begin receiving a 52.5 per-cent discount on brand-name prescrip-tion drugs and a 21 percent discount on generics, compared to 2012’s 50/14 per-cent rates.

begin covering addi-tional preventive and screening services, including assess-ments and counsel-ing for depression, alcohol misuse, car-diovascular disease and obesity.

Medicare Summary Notice, which explains what your doctor/ pro-vider billed for, the Medicare-approved amount, what Medicare paid, and what you must pay.

Medicare also recently overhauled its website (www.medicare.gov), add-ing many new fea-tures and simplifying the language and site navigation. For exam-ple:

now provides direct links for common tasks like applying for Medicare, chang-ing plans, calculating costs, researching what different plans cover and more.

-er a specific test, item or service is cov-ered under Original

B).

to replace a lost Medicare card, find a

-

D).

other health pro-fessionals, nursing homes, hospitals, home health servic-es and health/drug plans, and make side-by-side comparisons of costs and care pro-vided.

on mobile devices like tablets and smart-phones, so you can seek information any-where, anytime.

Briefly, Medicare provides health care benefits to people age 65 and older and those under 65 with certain disabilities or end-stage renal dis-ease. For most peo-

ple, the initial enroll-ment period is the seven-month period that begins three months before the month they turn 65.

-dow, you may enroll for the first time between January 1 and March 31 each year, although your coverage won’t begin

for Medicare online, visit www.ssa.gov/medicareonly.

Medicare plans and coverage options include:

inpatient hospital, skilled nursing facil-ity, hospice and home health care services.

cover doctor’s ser-vices, outpatient care and some preventive

and has a monthly premium.

plans run by Medicare-approved private insurers as alternatives to Original Medicare. Most cover prescrip-tion drugs and some include extra ben-efits at additional cost. You’re usually

required to use the plan’s provider net-work.

cover the cost of pre-

optional and carries a monthly premium.

plans vary widely in terms of cost, copay-ments and deduct-ibles and medications covered.

Some people also purchase additional Medigap (Medicare Supplemental) insur-ance offered by pri-

-lows strict govern-ment coverage guide-lines and helps pay for many items not covered by Medicare, including deduct-ibles, copayments and coinsurance.

Understanding and choosing the right Medicare options can be complicated and time-consuming. For assistance, call 1-800-633-4227 or read "Medicare & You," a highly detailed guide that explains Medicare in easy-to-understand language – it’s found at www.medi-care.gov.

Get Ready for Medicare Open Enrollment

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855-420-0693fax: 678-482-1196

email: [email protected] www.SummerPark-Apartments.com

Find your 1, 2 or 3 bedroom ideal Apartment within a casual community setting. At Summer Park you will feel miles away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life BUT you are actually just minutes

away from the Mall of Georgia, Cool Ray Stadium, Chateau Elan and Lake Lanier.

You have ease of access to I-85

Relaxation awaits you in one of ouR 5 cReative layouts. find out why we aRe

BufoRd’s Best Kept secRet!

Island CuIsIne, no Boat RequIRed

Severing Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week.All You Can Eat Crab Legs, every Wednesday Night!

Live Music Thur, Fri, and Sat nights.

1 mile west of I85 on Hwy 536750 Hwy 53, Braselton, 30517

$5 oFFany purchase of

Not valid with other offers.

Free Caribbean Shrimp App

with the purchase of two entrees.

Not valid with other offers.

We pay top dollar for any condition gold and silver jewelry, diamonds, coins,

sterling flatware, Rolex and estate jewelry.

Receive additional$25when you sell $100 or more of scrap jewelry.

(excluding coins and bullion)

1929 highway 211 Suite 101, Hoschton GA 30548.Next to subway. Visit our other location:

2950 Buford Highway Suite 210, Cumming GA 30041

404-661-2811

Gold & diamond BuyersIn precious metal business since 1970.

The Hoschton Business Alliance is sponsoring the

Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce BASH

(Business and Social Hour)

We welcome you to join us on October 25 from 5-7pm for a business social event at the Hoschton Train Depot.

Members will be raffling off door prizes!

Come meet the business owners in our community!Appetizers will be provided by WingSlingers.

For more information or to register for this FREE event, please contact the

Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce at 706-387-0300.

HBA information:

$5 OFF $25 with the purchase

of two entrees. expires 11/30/12

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