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Newspaper Page TextWednesday, September 19,2018 dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 7A Construction on career academy underway By Jessica Brown jbrown@dawsonnews.com Dirt is now moving at the College and Career Academy construction site at Dawson County High School after city, county and school officials gath ered to celebrate a milestone in local education with a groundbreaking Sept. 10. “We’re creating high quality sec ondary and post-secondary options in this building and it’s going to serve generations of students in Dawson County so we’re very proud of that fact,” Superintendent Damon Gibbs said. The board of education, Robertson Loia Roof architecture engineers, Carroll Daniel Construction represen tatives, the Dawson County Chamber of Commerce, representatives from Dawson County High School and Lanier Technical College gathered at the site of the future career academy on the corner of Hwy. 53 and Perimeter Road to commemorate the start of the construction phase. “I really want to say a special thank you to the community of Dawson County for supporting our Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Our ESPLOST referendum is the one cent sales tax that makes this proj ect possible,” Gibbs said. “What you are going to see over the next 12 months are ESPLOST dollars hard at work.” Dawson County citizens voted in favor of the ESPLOST referendum four years ago and collections have made the new $7 million facility a reality. The career academy will have labs for early childhood education, culi nary arts, construction and engineer ing and technology, business and com puter science labs, healthcare science lab and a broadcast and video produc tion studio. It will also house post-secondary courses for dual enrollment students to have easy access to college classes and eliminate the issue of transportation. The College and Career Academy will open in the fall of 2019. Jessica Brown Dawson County News The board of education, along with representatives from Robertson Loia Roof, Carroll Daniel Construction and Dawson County High School prepare to break ground on the new College and Career Academy Sept. 10. Allie Dean Dawson County News Dawson County Rotary Club members Ken Goines, Chris Gaines, Curtis Hill and his son Kasen work during Shore Sweep on Saturday. FROM 1A Sweep please,” Rooks said. Rooks explained that over the years that the event has been held, more than 1,000 tons of trash has been collected from 700 miles of shoreline. Gordon Brand was captain of the War Hill Park location, where volunteers including members of Keep Dawson County Beautiful, the Rotary Club of Dawson County, cub scouts, boy scouts and other organizations and indi viduals from Dawson County met to gather trash. Brand has been involved with Shore Sweep for the past 15 years, since he joined the Lake Lanier Association, and previous ly worked as the chair of Shore Sweep. He said that when he started working with Shore Sweep, the drop-off was held in one central location. Over the years, he spearheaded different initiatives to make the work easier on vol unteers. “We thought maybe it would be a littie more efficient instead of having one area, lets have dif ferent locations,” Brand said. “We used to go all the way down to the island to have lunch, but it was too long. We were the first to say, instead of going down there, we’ll have hot dogs here. Lrom that, we said instead of having one person over it, let’s have cap tains who would be over each area. It evolved to make it more efficient.” Another thing Brand said has been a success is scouting, where a few scouts go out two weeks or so in advance and mark on maps where large pieces of trash are located. “They identify where the trash is, the type of trash, and then I put it all together and we send it out. It’s very efficient,” Brand said. And advance drop-off loca tions, like one at Nix Island near Athens Boat Club, which help volunteers who can’t attend shore sweep to pitch in on their own schedule, were another idea that has taken root during Brand’s tenure with Shore Sweep. “When we get finished here, there will be enough trash in that advance drop-off to easily fill up one or two tracks,” Brand said. Brand said Tuesday that the total weight of the trash collected at the War Hill location was 28,220 pounds. “There wasn’t as much trash because it was harder to walk the shoreline, the water is so high,” Brand said. “It isn’t from lack of effort; there just wasn’t as much trash. We got about 70 pieces of Styrofoam, we typically get around 100-120 pieces.” Brand said there were a lot of pool noodles, tires, deflated rafts and partial boat docks and ramps collected. He also said the turnout of younger kids wasn’t as good as in previous years, which he said was probably because it was dif ficult to walk the shoreline and most volunteers had to go out on boats. Overall, Brand said the weath er was nearly perfect and he declared the day an overall suc cess. “The economic impact of Lake Lanier is huge in this area and we want to keep it clean and safe,” Brand said. “Lor a lot of people it’s a labor of love, they enjoy doing it.” Members of Keep Dawson County Beautiful cooked hot dogs and handed out beverages and snacks to volunteers, and each volunteer went home with a free T-shirt. Tony Passarello volunteered his boat and helped pick up trash along with the Dawson County Rotary Club. It was his first time helping with the Shore Sweep. “It’s such a great asset, the lake, and we use it so much it only seems right to give back,” he said. Gainesville Times reporter Kaylee Martin contributed to this report. 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