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8A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, May 23,2018
FROM 1A
Rocks
For the past two and a
half years, Croft has paint
ed hundreds upon hundreds
of rocks and hidden them
out in the community as lit
he surprises for those who
find them.
Painted rocks have
become a fun and popular
way to bring communities
together over the past few
years, and many encourage
rock finders to pass the
rocks along while some
choose to take their newly
found treasures home.
“It’s really fun when you
see them on Facebook,”
said Croft. “I love it when
they post them but not very
many people do.”
On the bottom of all her
rocks, Croft writes
“Dawson County Rocks,”
so that those who find them
can post photos online in
the “Dawson County
Rocks” Facebook group.
“They have travelled all
over. One lady posted
(online) and she found one
in North Carolina,” said
Croft. “One lady found
some and she was taking
them back home to
Indiana. It’s just kind of
cool.”
When Croft has good
days and can leave the
house, she likes to go out
with her family to hide
rocks and watch as children
excitedly discover the
beautifully painted pieces.
“One day I took a bunch
up to the outlet mall - my
sister and 1.1 had a day that
I felt decent and we went to
the outlet mall and we took
a bunch and we hid them
all in that little playground
area and we sat over on the
bench and watched and that
was fun,” said Croft.
Croft told a story about
one little boy who was
about three years old, who
was excited to find several
big rocks Croft painted and
left at Rock Creek Park one
day. He happily carried the
heavy stones and proudly
lined them up then put
them in a box to take
home. Due to the size of
the rocks, his parents
wouldn’t let him take them
all home so he chose the
ones he wanted to keep and
hid the rest back in the
playground for other kids
to find, according to Croft.
Due to her pain, Croft is
often unable to leave her
house and painting rocks
has given her something to
do and look forward to
every day.
“I can just sit there and
paint and watch TV and
when you’re painting you
don’t realize you don’t feel
good because you don’t
think about it,” Croft said.
Croft will paint four to
five rocks at a time. After
cleaning them, she brings
them to her coffee table
and visualizes what she
wants to paint.
“Some of the rocks, you
know, just look like some
thing so they have to be
painted that,” Vickie Croft
said as she picked up a
rock painted as a car.
After deciding on her
designs, she sketches them
in pencil before whipping
out her acrylic paints. Once
the rocks are completely
finished, Croft treats them
with polyurethane so they
hold up in the elements.
Always finding inspira
tion, Croft never runs out
of ideas. From lovable
characters like the
Despicable Me minions,
Disney cartoons, the
Muppets, Spongebob and
the Peanuts characters to
puns, inspirational phrases
and movie scenes, Croft
paints just about anything.
She’s painted large rocks to
look like stone cottages and
gnomes to be placed in gar
dens, and she’s painted tiny
Easter and Valentine’s Day
rocks for her daughter’s
students at Robinson
Elementary. But what she
really loves to paint are
Christmas rocks that she
gives away to friends and
family.
“I need to do a lot of
Georgia ones because that’s
what people have been ask
ing me for,” said Croft.
Though she doesn’t
charge anything for her
rocks, Croft said she will
take donations so that she
can get another truckload
of rocks and can continue
spreading her artwork in
the community.
FROM 1A
Crash
County Solicitor’s Office
will make the decision on
whether to pursue that
charge.
Hall County Solicitor
General Stephanie
Woodard said Thursday
she had not yet seen the
case file.
“We do evaluate all of
the factors, including con
dition of equipment,
whether children are buck
led in ... when making
both the charging decision
and the plea decision,” she
said.
The Andersons had
recently moved to Hall
County and were finishing
out the year at their old
schools, Summer’s uncle
Mike Smith said.
Summer’s brother
Zachary Anderson, 12, a
Kilough Elementary
School fifth-grader in the
same car, was seriously
injured and was transport
ed to Children’s Healthcare
of Atlanta.
Smith described his
niece as a “beautiful, spiri
tual, loving, wonderful
girl.”
“She was very outgoing.
She loved to dance. She
loved to hang out with her
friends and do things that
most normal teenage girls
do,” Smith said.
Smith said Lonnie
Anderson had been
upgraded from critical to
stable condition, having
suffered two broken
femurs, a broken collar
bone and injuries to his
neck and brain.
Zachary had facial
reconstructive surgery but
had no broken bones,
Smith said. He visited the
12-year-old at the hospital
and remarked at how hand
some he looked.
“You could see he could
barely move his face, but
he had a half smile on his
face of knowing that his
family is there and they
care about him and they
love him very much,”
Smith said.
The wreck involved a
Hall County school bus
carrying 19 Mount Vernon
Exploratory School stu
dents and bus driver
Barbara Flowers, 65, of
Gainesville, who were
transported by another
school bus to Northeast
Georgia Medical Center in
Gainesville for precaution
ary examinations, Hall
County Schools spokes
man Gordon Higgins said.
Higgins said there were
no reports of serious inju
ries to Hall students.
Three of the students had
“very minor injuries,”
according to a state patrol
news release.
The family wanted to
express that they were
grateful no one on the bus
was seriously injured,
Smith said.
“We believe that the
grace of God had a hand in
certain situations. And
while we did lose a beauti
ful angel, we are just
blessed that no one else
had to experience the loss
of a child, a family friend
or a brother or sister. It is
something that is heart
breaking and is surreal,”
Smith said.
The wreck happened at
about 7:10 a.m.
Wednesday in the 6000
block of Thompson Bridge
Road, according to Hall
County Fire Services.
Higgins said Bus No.
2105 and the other vehicle,
a 1995 Ford Mustang, col
lided head-on.
Anderson was driving
north on Thompson Bridge
Road and the bus was trav
eling south, according to
state patrol.
Anderson’s car “struck
standing water on the road
way and hydroplaned,” the
release says.
His vehicle then traveled
into the southbound lane
and hit the bus.
No alcohol or drugs
were suspected in this
crash, according to the
state patrol.
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday,
more than 5,000 people
had signed an online peti
tion demanding no charges
for Lonnie Anderson.
A GoFundMe page for the
family had raised $5,795.
Gainesville Times news
reporter Jeff Gill and
reporter Jessica Brown
contributed to this report.
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