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The Braselton News
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
HHAC to host
calligrapher instructor
The Hoschton Heritage
Arts Council and Heart
and Soul Open Studio will
host calligrapher instructor
Maria Turk's Flourishing
and Hearts Class on Satur
day, Jan. 11. The program
will be from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m.
The fee is $45 and in
cludes supplies. No experi
ence is necessary.
It will be held at the for
mer West Jackson Prima
ry School, 4825 Hwy. 53,
Hoschton.
To register, contact Sylvia
Schurr at 706-684-0280.
There is a 12-person limit
for this class.
Officers, budget
take on new year
for chamber
By Ron Bridgeman
ron@mainstreetnews. com
Joe Hicks, district manager for Jackson EMC, will be the new
chairman of the Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce
board of directors, Jan. 1.
The board approved officers and new board members at its
Dec. 20 meeting.
In addition to Hicks, Dylan Wilbanks is the incoming chair
man; Chad Bingham will be the treasurer; and Thom Price will
be the secretary. Andy Garrison will be the past chairman.
Price will be on the board “succession” ladder and no longer is
a regular board member. Garrison named Michelle Zimmerman,
Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Braselton, to replace him
on the board.
Linda Strickland. TD Automotive Compressor Georgia, will
serve a full term. She has been a member of the board, serving
the unexpired term of Trey Leslie,
Patricia Massey, who lives in Commerce and works at Pied
mont Athens Regional Medical Center, and Kathy Lindberg,
co-owner of Wilco Printing, will serve terms on the board.
The board will hold a one-day retreat Feb. 4 to develop a strate
gic plan. David Aaker, who teaches for the Institute of Organiza
tional Management, will help with the plan and also will speak at
the Feb. 5 chamber breakfast.
The board took no action but generally agreed that it would pay
about $50,000 on its mortgage - which is about $166,000 - with
accumulated cash. It is recommended that the chamber maintain
three months of expenses and it has about $231,000 in cash. Jim
Shaw, chamber president and CEO, told the board its monthly
expenses average about $51,000.
The board also approved the budget of $611,088 for 2020. The
budget is in the “black” by about $3,100. Expenses are projected
to be $607,956.
The 2020 budget projects about $35,000 less in revenue and
about $29,000 less in expenses. Most of the difference is expens
es and revenue for the chamber's membership drive held in Au
gust. That provided about 200 members for the chamber.
The budget provides for about $19,000 more money for eco
nomic development. Shaw said the extra expense is to take ad
vantage of adding John Scott in August 2019 as the economic
development director. It will mean more emphasis on retail and
commercial development. Shaw said.
He said the chamber has added two new economic develop
ment projects in the past month and Scott has returned from a
trip to Eastern Europe and Hungary, were SK Innovation has an
electric battery plant much like the one being built in Commerce.
The annual eggs and issues meeting will be Jan. 8, Wilbanks
said. It is the annual legislative roundup for the General Assem
bly. He said all four of the representatives and senators who rep
resent the county are expected to attend.
Shaw told the board the group’s annual audit remains incom
plete. He said a personnel change at the chamber and a change in
software delayed the audit.
Anthem continued from 1A
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Baby continued from 1A
Both Clark and Williams said she was “an amazing
birthday gift.”
“The best birthday I’ve ever had,” said Williams.
Lyric wasn't actually due until Jan. 24, but the couple
knew she would be born sooner than that.
“I knew she wasn’t going to make it that far. She was
growing pretty fast,” said Williams.
Clark and Williams first went to the hospital the week
end after Christmas when Clark started having contrac
tions.
“That Saturday, I started having contractions and we
came to the labor and delivery unit,” Clark said. “They
ended up stopping my contractions. I guess it was too
soon for me to have her.”
They wanted to wait until at least Friday, Jan. 3, for
the birth.
“But she couldn’t wait,” Clark said.
Lyric Dashari Williams was the first baby born
at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton
in 2020.
Clark started having contractions again on New Year's
Day around 2:30 a.m.
“But they weren’t coming back-to-back, so I figured
I’d just stay at home, wait a while and see when they
started coming back-to-back,” said Undria. “I didn’t want
them to send us back home.”
They got to the hospital around 6 a.m. and Lyric made
her entrance shortly after.
“Once I had the epidural, it took me 24 minutes to have
her,” she said. “It was quicker than my first birth.”
Lyric joins an excited big sister. Maleah, 8. who Clark
said really wanted a baby sister.
“She’s very excited,” said Clark. “She wanted a baby
sister so bad. No brother. She made that clear: She did
not want a brother.”
The family was set to be released and return to their
home on Jan. 3.
Undria Clark looks on at her daughter, Lyric, who
was born on New Year’s Day.
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