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Newspaper Page TextTeam effort helps Lady Tigers move forward in Region Tournament. SPOKIS,1B Woman’s wedding bands returned thanks to locals’ goodwill. INSIDE, 6A DawsonCountyNews WEDNESDAY I FEBRUARY 16, 2022 DaWSOflNeWS ^COITI DAWSONVILLE, GEORGIA $1.00 $1K reward for info in gold mine robbery Suspect took S100K gold, phones, cash, jewelry, minerals By Julia Fechter jfechter@dawsonnews.com A reward of $1,000 is now being offered for information leading to the arrest of the suspect involved in the Feb. 3 armed rob bery of the Crisson Gold Mine store in Dahlonega, according to a Facebook post by the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 8. The business is located on Morrison Moore Parkway in Dahlonega. The suspect is a white male between 5’7” and 5’10” who was last seen wearing a puffy, Cincinnati Bengals black-and- orange jacket and carrying a black duffel bag, according to a press release from LCSO. This person is accused of steal ing $100,000 worth of gold as well as cell phones, cash, jewelry and other raw minerals from the mine around 4:30 p.m. Employee Tommy Dawkins was at the store with co-worker Brianna Weaver when the suspect entered the building. “He came in the front door.. .he already had his gun out, and he was screaming commands like ‘this is a robbery,’ [and] ‘get on the ground,”’ Dawkins said. Like Weaver, Dawkins told a similar account about how he had to come around a counter and sit on the ground as the suspect ordered Weaver to fill a bag with valuables. Right before the suspect fled out the back door, he grabbed the employees’ phones and wallets and threatened to harm them or have ‘his buddy’ do so if law enforcement was called. After fleeing the scene, the sus pect was and is believed to be armed and dangerous. “We get a lot of tourist people, but we never expected something See Robbery 12A Lumpkin County authorities are seek ing a sus pect in a $100,000 gold rob bery at Crisson Gold Mine and store on Morrison Moore Parkway in Dahlonega Feb. 3. Photo submit ted to DCN ‘It’s about spreading joy 5 Erica Jones Dawson County News On Wednesday Feb. 9, the new Dawson County location of Chicken Salad Chick officially opened for business with a ribbon cutting and grand opening festivities. Dawson Chicken Salad Chick officially open for business By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com On Wednesday Feb. 9, the newest location of the fast casual restaurant chain Chicken Salad Chick officially opened in Dawson County, complete with a ribbon cutting with the Dawson County Chamber of Commerce, grand opening festivities and a fundraiser donation to Georgia Mountain Food Bank. The restaurant offers more than a dozen different flavors of made-from- scratch chicken salad, along with fresh salads, sides and soups. The new Dawson location also includes a drive through and a revamped pickup area for customers or delivery drivers to pick up orders. Scott Deviney, CEO of Chicken Salad Chick, said that opening a loca tion in Dawson has been a long time in the making. “We’ve been looking in this market for years trying to find the right spot that would allow us be located so that people can get to us, and we were able to work with the landlord, found a spot and the fact that we have a drive through, pick up station and all of this in this one area is really exciting,” Deviney said. In a brief presentation preceding the ribbon cutting ceremony, Director of Company Operations Kim Bolinger said that, as a Dawson County resident herself, she couldn’t be more excited to have brought Chicken Salad Chick closer to home. “Personally I’m so excited for this opening of the Chick cause I live here,” Bolinger said. “I think what I’m most proud of is not only the team but we hired 52 team members at this location, and living here and seeing the impact it can have on this commu nity is outstanding.” Chicken Salad Chick is a restaurant chain that consists of 208 restaurants, all of which are either franchise owned or company owned like the Dawson location, across 17 states. An important goal for the brand, accord ing to COO Jim Thompson, is to be not just a business in a community but to be an integral part of the communi ty. “We don’t look at ourselves as a business in the community, we wanna be partners in the community so we’re See Chicken 14A Ohio man charged with child sexual exploitation By Julia Fechter jfechter@dawsonnews.com A Byesville, Ohio man turned himself in to Dawson County author ities after he allegedly possessed explicit images of a minor while he was in the area several months ago. Trevor James Dybendal, 20, was arrested by the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 1, 2022 around 5 p.m. A DCSO warrant charged him with committing one count of felony sexual exploitation of children while he was in Dawson County last July. See Dybendal |3A Development Authority, EllijayTelephone Co. team up for broadband grant By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com The Development Authority of Dawson County is partnering with Ellijay Telephone Company to use a portion of the Broadband Grant money recently awarded by Governor Kemp, according to a joint press release by the two agencies. On Feb. 1, Governor Kemp announced almost $408 million in preliminary Broadband Infrastructure awards aimed at providing communities, households and businesses in 70 Georgia counties with access to faster and more reliable broad band. 49 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant projects were awarded, and the Development Authority of Dawson County was one of the recipients announced to receive over $1.3 million in funding. 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