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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Braselton News
Page 9A
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School holiday schedules set
The following is a list of school
schedules for the 2007-2008
school year for the Barrow, Hall,
Gwinnett and Jackson county
school systems.
BARROW COUNTY
•Friday December 21, through
Tuesday, January 1: Christmas
Holidays
•Monday, January 21: MLK
Holiday
•Tuesday, January 22: teacher
planning day/in-service day
•Friday, February 15: teacher
planning day/in-service day
•Monday, February 18:
President’s Day Holiday
•Monday, March 31: Spring
Holiday
•Tuesday, April 1, through
Friday, April 4: Spring Holiday
•Monday, May 26: Memorial
Day Holiday
•Friday, June 6: last day of
school
HALL COUNTY
•Friday, December 21: teacher
planning/student holiday
•Monday, December 24,
through Friday, January 4: Winter
Holidays
•Monday, January 7: teacher
planning/student holiday
•Friday, January 18: early release
day
•Monday, January 21: holiday
(students and staff)
•Monday, February 4: teacher
planning/student holiday
•Friday, February 15: early
release day
•Monday, February 18: holiday
(students and staff)
•Monday, March 24: holiday
(students and staff)
•Friday, April 4: early release
day
•Monday, April 7, through
Friday, April 11: holiday (students
and staff)
•Monday, May 26: holiday (stu
dents and staff)
•Tuesday, May 27 and
Wednesday, May 28: teacher plan
ning/student holiday
GWINNETT COUNTY
•Friday, December 21, through
Tuesday, January 1: Winter Break
•Wednesday, January 2: teacher
planning or snow make up day
(student holiday)
•Monday, January 21: MFK Jr.
Day (system wide holiday)
•Monday, February 18: student
and teacher holiday or snow make
up day
•Monday March 10: snow make
up day (student holiday)
•Friday, March 21: student and
teacher holiday
•Monday, April 7, through
Friday, April 11: Spring Break
•Thursday, May 22: post-plan
ning/professional learning day/
snow make-up day
•Friday, May 23: post-planning/
professional learning day
JACKSON COUNTY
•Thursday, December 20, through
Wednesday, January 2: Christmas
and New Years Holidays
•Thursday, January 3 and Friday,
January 4: teacher workdays
•Monday, January 21: student
and teacher holiday
•Wednesday, February 20,
through Friday, February 22: stu
dent and teacher holiday
•Monday, March 14: teacher
workday
•Monday, April 7, through
Friday, April 11: student and
teacher holidays
•Monday, May 26: student and
teacher holiday
•Tuesday, May 27, through
Thursday, May 29: teacher work
days
Mill Creek High students compete in dressage regional
BY KRISTI REED
Mill Creek High School stu
dents Danielle Bryant and
Brooke Fankford recently
competed in the United States
Dressage Foundation Regional
Championships in Ocala,
Florida.
Dressage, which means train
ing, is an equestrian event
designed to test the horse’s abil
ity to respond to minimal input
by the rider. It can take years to
develop the horse’s ability to per
form certain maneuvers.
A dressage competition
involves a series of movements
at designated intervals within a
competition arena.
“It’s kind of hard to explain,”
Bryant said. “You have an arena
with letters. You do certain move
ments at certain letters. As you
go up the levels, the movements
get more difficult.”
Each movement is assigned a
score from zero to 10, with 10
being the highest. There are six
standard levels of competition
beginning with the introductory
level and progressing through
level four.
Bryant, a senior at Mill Creek,
placed ninth out of 27 riders in
level one dressage at the regional
competition. Fankford, a junior,
placed ninth out of 15 riders in
level three dressage.
Bryant has been participat
ing in dressage for the past five
years. Bryant said she enjoys the
precision of the sport.
“I’m a perfectionist,” she said.
Bryant said having to accom
plish precise maneuvers at spe
cific locations in the arena is
challenging and appeals to her
perfectionist tendencies.
Fankford has been riding for
nine years and began riding dres
sage six years ago.
“I started off doing western
pleasure and it just got extreme
ly boring,” Fankford said. “I
needed something to hold my
interest.”
Fankford and Bryant train four
times a week. Fankford trains with
her horse Miroko, a Dutch warm-
blood. Bryant rides Ishkandar, a
Zweibrucker Rheinlander.
Though dressage is very chal
lenging and time consuming,
both girls enjoy the sport.
“I love being around horses and
learning new things,” Fankford
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DRESSAGE COMPETITORS
Junior Brooke Lankford and senior Danielle Bryant traveled to
Ocala, Florida in October to compete in the dressage regional
championships.
said. “I like teaching the horse
more stuff each time I ride. I like
perfecting everything.”
Fankford and Bryant said they
hope to continue in the sport and
would like to compete in the
Olympics some day.
“I definitely want to,” Bryant
said. “It takes work. A lot of
people think you just go and kind
of muscle the horse around, but
you can’t do that at all.”
Fankford said mental attitude
is the key to success in the sport.
“You can’t get frustrated,” she
said. “You have to like the horse
and have a positive attitude.”
Fankford and Bryant are pre
paring for their next major com
petition in March.
Brittany Singer, Ben Evans nominated for Wendy’s Heisman Award
BY KRISTI REED
Mill Creek High School
recently announced the nomina
tions of seniors, Brittany Singer
and Ben Evans, for the Wendy’s
High School Heisman Award.
The award recognizes out
standing student achievement in
academics, community service,
school involvement and athletics.
Singer and Evans were selected
from among hundreds of student
athletes at Mill Creek.
Evans said he was surprised to
learn of the nomination.
“We got called into [Athletic
Director] Coach Fong’s office
and were told we were the two
selected from our school,” Evans
said.
Singer and Evans said they
were pleased to be nominated.
Both athletes had an exceptional
year in their respective sporting
endeavors.
Singer, a left fielder with the
girls’ varsity softball team, led
her team to the state playoffs.
The Fady Hawks finished third
in the state and first in the
region.
Singer said she was pleased
that her team did so well during
her last season as a Fady Hawk.
“It was very exciting. It was
kind of a letdown that we didn’t
win. But, it was good that we
expected to win; that we had
those hopes,” she said.
Evans also had a very good
year as a receiver on the football
team. He also plays baseball, but
said football is special.
“The thing that just keeps
bringing you back is all your
friends,” he said. “You really
develop a strong bond with the
people you play with. It really is
a brotherhood.”
Evans was very pleased with
the football team’s performance
this year as the Hawks traveled
to the state playoffs for the first
time in the school’s history.
“It was awesome,” Evans said.
“It was everything we wanted to
do. We had come in from the
eighth grade program where we
won one game in two years. It
was a big turnaround.”
The Wendy’s High School
Heisman nomination qualified
Evans and Singer for a chance at
state and national awards.
Evans said he was glad to be
nominated, but admits being a
little disappointed that he and
Singer did not advance to the
WENDY’S HEISMAN NOMINEES
Seniors Ben Evans and Brittany Singer were Mill Creek High
School’s nominees for the annual athletic award. The Wendy’s
Heisman recognizes outstanding student athletes.
next level of competition.
“I got my hopes up a little bit,”
Evans said. “Coach Fong said
there was a possibility of getting
a year’s supply of hamburgers or
something.”
“We still appreciate them
doing it,” he said.
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Bottom Row: Jennifer Stancil, Sai Herr-Lee, Missy Ward
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