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Free Thanksgiving set for next week
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
All are invited to a free com
munity Thanksgiving dinner
next week sponsored by the
Rotary Club of Dawson
County.
The event will be held from 5
to 7 p.m. Nov. 19, in the
Veterans Memorial Park gym.
The meal will include a tradi
tional Thanksgiving menu with
all of the fixings.
Nicole Stewart, Dawson
County Tax Commissioner, and
Christie Moore, Dawson
County Chamber of Commerce
president, both Rotary Club
members, are helping organize
the event.
Stewart said she and Moore
went shopping at Costco this
past weekend and purchased
more than 100 pounds of turkey
and ham, among other food
items.
“This is mine and Christie’s
second year planning this and
we are super excited, it’s one of
my favorite things we do
throughout the year,” Stewart
said. “Rotarians shop for the
food, we cook the food and
we’ll be there serving the
food.”
The club is planning for 250
attendees and Stewart said she
wanted to stress that the meal is
open to any and everyone.
“It’s a good way to give back
to the community, to sit down
and eat together and have that
See Thanksgiving 13A
Motorcycle
ride to collect
toys for kids
this weekend
By Kelly Whitmire
DCN Regional Staff
This weekend, bikers will
make their way from downtown
Cumming to Dahlonega for a
good cause.
The 27th annual Buck Jones
Memorial Toy Run will start at
1 p.m. Sunday at the Cumming
Fairgrounds and first stop at
Dawsonville City Hall before
ending at a final stop in
Dahlonega.
Registration for the ride will
begin at 11 a.m. Sunday at the
fairgrounds.
“We ask that everybody
brings at least one toy for every
stop, and also, if they could
bring Walmart gift cards in $10
increments because some of the
charities also help out organiza
tions for [things like] foster
care for kids, where the kids
may be beyond needing a toy
for Christmas. They may need
things to just make things better
for themselves,” said organizer
Don Parkinson.
The was event started in 1991
by Buck Jones, a former
Cumming police chief who also
worked for Dawson County
Sheriff’s Office. After Jones
passed away in 2010, the toy
run was named in his memory.
“He started delivering toys to
the three counties,” Parkinson
said. “I got to know Buck in the
mid-90s and started helping
him.”
After starting at the fair
grounds, the ride will stop by
the Dawsonville City Hall in
Dawsonville before concluding
at Lumpkin County High
School in Dahlonega.
Charities in each county have
been chosen as recipients:
Meals by Grace in Forsyth,
K.A.R.E. for Kids in Dawson
and Lumpkin County Division
of Family and Children
Services and Community
Helping Place in Dahlonega.
Along with donating toys, a
50/50 raffle will be held, with
half of the money raised going
to the organizations and half to
going to the winner.
“Many times in the past, peo
ple have been very charitable and
part, if not all, of their winnings
back to the charities,” Parkinson
said. “It gives everyone
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Commemorating Veterans Day
Photos by Jessica Taylor Dawson County News
JROTC cadets at Dawson County High School present the Missing Man Table, which symbolizes prisoners of war
and those missing in action during the 14th annual Veterans Day celebration at Dawson County Junior High School
on Nov. 12.
This year marks 100th anniversary of the end of WWI
Sgt. Albert Andrew Day received the 2018
Veteran of the Year award during the annual
Veterans Day ceremony at Dawson County
Junior High School Nov. 12.
By Jessica Taylor
jtaylor@dawsonnews.com
To commemorate the 100th anni
versary of the end of World War I on
Nov. 11, 2018, Veterans Affairs of
Dawson County hosted the 14th annu
al Veterans Day celebration luncheon
and ceremony with a special tribute to
those of Dawson County who fought
in World War I.
Former president of Veterans Affairs
Don Brown paid tribute to the 44 men
entombed in Dawson County who
enlisted in the First World War over a
century ago.
The names of the 44 soldiers are
immortalized at the memorial site at
Veterans Memorial Park on Hwy. 9
North.
“I am proud to stand here and honor
those men from Dawson County who
served the nation in World War I,
being called upon to do their duty,”
said Brown, before explaining a para
ble fitting for “every Veteran in this
place.”
“There was a sparrow who was told
the sky was falling. He laid down on
his back. The horseman of the king
came riding by and looked at the spar
row and said, ‘Why are you lying on
your back?’ He said, ‘The sky is fall
ing and I am going to hold it up.’ The
horseman laughed and said ‘Do you
think you can hold it up?’ The spar
row replied ‘We do what we can do,”’
said Brown. “And I think the veterans
of this place, we do what we can do.”
Current Veterans Affairs of Dawson
County President Tim Costley took a
moment to explain the significance of
the red poppy, the flower that became
the symbol of WWI remembrance due
to the 1915 poem “In Flanders Fields”
by John McCrae.
“Long before the Great War the red
poppy had become a symbol of death,
renewal in life. The seeds of the flow
er can remain dormant in the earth for
years, but will blossom spectacularly
when the soil is churned,” said
Costley. “Beginning in late 1914 the
fields of northern France in Flanders
became a scene of stupendous distur
bances. Red poppies soon appeared.”
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Construction coming on Lumpkin Campground, Hwy. 53 turn lanes
Blacks Mill bridge replacement also on horizon
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
Dawson County Public
Works Director David
McKee held the floor for
much of the Nov. 8 board
of commissioners meet
ing to talk about several
county road projects that
will be completed next
year.
McKee said that the
county will soon be work
ing in conjunction with
the Georgia Department
of Transportation to install
turn lanes at the intersec-
tion of Lumpkin
Campground and Hwy. 53.
Two turn lanes will be
added, one for drivers
turning east onto Hwy. 53
and one for drivers turn
ing west onto Hwy. 53.
McKee said the county
will be responsible for
demolition and asphalt
work and will contract
out the concrete work, as
well as re-stripe the road
once the work is done.
GDOT will pay for the
asphalt, provide traffic
flaggers and will retime
the traffic lights.
McKee said that the
county will be installing
temporary construction
signs at the intersection
very soon and that they
will work on one turning
lane before moving to the
other.
“I anticipate within a
couple weeks you’ll see
some demolition work
going on out there,”
McKee said.
Because the turn lanes
were not a part of
GDOT’s plans for inter
section improvements
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