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Dawson County Senior Center Director Dawn Pruett poses with her clients after receiving news that
the county has received a $750,000 grant to build a new senior center next to the existing one.
Family faces
charges over
filthy home
4 members arrested over
drugs, neglect of small kids
ByAllie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
Four members of a Dawsonville family have been
arrested and criminally charged after they were found
living in harsh conditions and disregarding the safety of
two small children.
One also faces numerous drug charges after marijua
na plants and non-prescription pills were found at the
home located on Shamrock Lane off Hwy. 136, just
north of Dawsonville.
Vincent Wayne Breyaert, 45; his wife Stephanie
Aylease Breyaert, 47; and their daughter Destiny
Aylease Breyaert, 19, were arrested Thursday, Aug. 23
on one count of reckless conduct each for endangering
the bodily safety of Destiny’s 4-month-old and two-
$750K grant for senior center
Groundbreaking planned for 2019
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
Dawson County seniors received
great news last week when they
learned that the county was award
ed federal assistance to build a new
senior center.
Senior Services Director Dawn
Pruett applied for the Community
Development Block Grant in the
spring, and heard on Aug. 24 that
the county will receive $750,000 to
make the dream of erecting a new
senior center next to the existing
Margie Weaver Senior Center a
reality.
The county was given donations
amounting to around $944,000 by
Betty Ann Burnett on behalf of the
Pauline Ivey Trust in 2017, which
Pruett said sparked the vision of the
new center.
“I would like to thank our clients,
staff, elected officials and the com
munity for the letters of support
when applying for the grant,” she
said. “This, along with the donation
from the Ivey family, played a
major role I’m sure in receiving
this award.”
The county will be accepting the
grant in October and plans to break
ground for the new facility in 2019.
The current concept plan shows a
new 4,800 square foot expansion to
the right of the existing center. The
single-level building will be con
nected to the existing center with a
covered breezeway.
“We have outgrown our current
facility due to increases in all pro
grams and activities,” Pruett said.
“Our plan is to utilize both build
ings to serve the needs of our cli
ents.”
Planned for the new facility are a
multipurpose room for lunch and
special events, a game room with
computers, a movie room, a com
mercial kitchen, lots of storage
space, a conference room and an
Alzheimer’s respite care room.
“Family members can bring their
mother or father or someone that
they’re looking after to spend a
couple of hours daily to give the
caregivers a break, help with mem
ory and get the Alzheimer’s
patients out of the house,” Pruett
said in April. “We get a lot of ques
tions from citizens coming in won
dering if we have Alzheimer’s
respite care and we do not, so that
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City considers
own impact fees
ByAllie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
The Monday after the Dawson County Board of
Commissioners voted to reinstate impact fees, the
city of Dawsonville discussed the possibility of
levying some of their own.
Mayor Mike Eason said Aug. 20 that he and
council members Jason Power and Stephen Tolson
had met with BOC Chairman Billy Thurmond and
Commissioner Chris Gaines several months ago
about impact fees.
“They requested that we as a city consider impact
fees,” Eason said. “No decisions have been made at
this time, we are simply throwing this on the table.”
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Arrests likely after cache of drugs, guns discovered
A World War
l-era machine
gun was discov
ered during a
warrant search
of a property on
Old Cornelia
Highway on
Thursday, Aug.
23, 2018. Fifty
pounds of mari
juana and
numerous pills
were also
seized.
Austin Steele Gainesville Times
By Nick Bowman
DCN Regional Staff
No arrests have been made, but
arrests are likely, in the Aug. 23 sei
zure of a cache of firearms and drugs at
an Old Cornelia Highway home.
Law enforcement with the Drug
Enforcement Administration found
alprazolam powder and pills, steroids
and growth hormone and a large collec
tion of marijuana at the property in East
Hall County, according to DEA spokes
man Chuvalo Truesdale.
“At this point, there are no arrests,
but I would anticipate arrests at some
point, as the case remains active,”
Truesdale told The Times on Friday,
Aug. 24. “The warrants are sealed for
now.”
Truesdale noted that “most of these
cases are part of a wider distribution
network.”
Hall County records list the owner of
the property as Kosta Zachos, who pur
chased it in 2015.
The bust in Hall County — which,
along with the drugs, yielded some 71
firearms, including a World War 1-era
machine gun from a bunker northeast
of Gainesville — began with an investi
gation into illicit pills found in Roswell.
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