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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, April 13,2022 OBITUARIES William A. "Bill" Almond William A. “Bill” Almond, 92, of Cumming, died April 5, 2022. A funeral service was held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 8, at Bearden Funeral Home Chapel. Bearden Funeral Home of Dawsonville was in charge of the arrangements. Dawson County News April 13, 2022 Betty Jean Gardner Betty Jean Gardner, 92, of Dawsonville, died Saturday, April 9, 2022. A graveside service was held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 13, at the Eidson Memorial Cemetery. Bearden Funeral Home of Dawsonville was in charge of the arrangements. Dawson County News April 13, 2022 Sherman Hugh McBrayer Sherman Hugh McBrayer, 71, died April 6, 2022. A memorial service will be held by the family at a later date. Ingram Funeral Home of Cumming is in charge of the arrange ments. Dawson County News April 13, 2022 Bobby Joe Reed Bobby Joe Reed, 88, of Cumming, died Sunday, April 3, 2022. A funeral service was held at 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 6, at the Ingram Funeral Home Chapel. Ingram Funeral Home of Cumming was in charge of the arrangements. Dawson County News April 13, 2022 FROM 1A Kemp didn’t stay on the ground longer than it did” and encouraged event attendees to keep people in Pembroke and other impacted areas in their thoughts and prayers. Policy points Kemp reaffirmed state decisions as far as advocat ing for children’s return to classrooms during the pan demic, the heartbeat bill and elections integrity, in spite of cultural and politi cal pushback. He’s also signed legisla tion to “unmask Georgia students,” protect girls’ sports, limit students being shown obscene materials and address the teaching of divisive ideologies in class rooms. The governor described the latter bill as a product of the state’s work with superintendents, who he said “want involved par ents and a transparent pro cess.” “This has nothing to do with what our history is and what it was in our state,” Kemp said. “It needs to be a truthful history, not somebody’s idea of what that was or pushing an indi- vidual’s unnecessary, biased values on our chil dren in our state.” He discussed rural broadband expansion efforts, the tax rebates included in this year’s state budget and the suspension of the gas tax as ways to provide financial relief for Georgians. “Make no mistake, as brutal as the war is in Ukraine and how bad Vladimir Putin is, these policies and gas prices were high long before that started,” he said. Kemp likewise men tioned a statewide veterans’ tax exemption for retire ment income and the last $2,000 pay raise for teach ers during his term, to com plete the total $5,000 raise he promised during his ini tial campaign. He later mentioned a right-to-farm bill that he said would make it easier for farmers not to waste products and for people to get food. Kemp said initiatives like that will be “more impor tant than ever with the global supply shortage.” Later on in the speech, he mentioned efforts of the General Assembly, his wife, Georgia’s First Lady Marty Kemp and the GRACE Commission to help end human trafficking and help victims reenter society “in a promising and optimistic way.” He added that more money is being sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Street Gang Task Force and prosecution units and physicians in the state medical examiner’s office. Governor’s emer gency funds have been allocated to crime suppres sion efforts on the parts of multiple state and local agencies. Kemp elaborated by characterizing voters’ sup port as vital to he and his colleagues. “Make no mistake, we are not taking this primary for granted,” Kemp said. “We will be working every single day, just like we have been to make sure we keep the leadership and team we have,” he said. Kemp reminded the Dawson and north Georgia- area audience that Will Wade and State Sen. Steve Gooch (R) are on the ballot and said that they will help the state continue going “in the right direction.” “If you don’t want to go the way of Washington D.C.,” said Kemp, “then help with your vote and support...[and] then we’ll turn around and do it again against [Stacey] Abrams in November.” FROM 1A Bricks his time to help her rebuild the wall, taking down the old mosaics and the old bricks and replacing them with the new ones. According to Croft, she would haul the five-pound bricks inside in a box set on her walker, carry them upstairs two at a time in a bag so she could paint them, and bring them back down for Jackson to place on the wall. “Every day I’d look out and he’d bring bricks down so they’d be sitting there, so I’d bring them in, get them upstairs, paint them and bring them back down,” Croft said. “I paint ed them faster than he could put them up, but it’s probably taken about 8 months or so... it’s been a lot of work.” But after all the work, Croft said that the end product, a large wall built out of 700 of her painted bricks and standing right outside of her house, has been incredibly rewarding to see every time she walks past her window. Croft said that her art work has been an outlet for her during her battle with Lyme disease, which has made it hard for her to walk or to stand for long periods of time. “I can’t do anything — I’ve gotten way better than I was, but I paint all day,” Croft said. “I have to do something; I can’t just sit, but I can’t stand for long periods so I’m doing a lot of sitting so I paint con stantly.” She has always been crafty, but she said that she really took up painting after she retired from her career as a nurse. “When I retired I started painting,” Croft said. “I’ve always done crafts but never painting so I have paintings everywhere, I don’t have any more room.” She added that her inspi ration for rocks, bricks and canvases alike can come from anywhere, from sea sonal designs to animals to ideas she sees online. “I just look and look for inspiration; Pinterest, really anywhere,” Croft said. “The ones for the kids are littie rocks, so I have to do small lithe things, but it’s easy on rocks because they’re smooth.” Moving forward, Croft said that she is now paint ing on pieces of boards taken from pallets, which her son-in-law cuts for her to paint. “My daughter’s husband has been getting pallets, and then he cuts me the boards and I put three of them together; that’s my favorite cause they’re kind of rough and make your painting look kind of old and I just love them,” Croft said. FROM 1A Turner searched the car’s engine bay and found a white- and-yellow plastic cylin der containing an alleged 65 grams of marijuana, divided into two 28-gram bags and one nine-gram bag. “The plastic tube was located by the intake of the engine, below the dust cover of the engine out of plain view,” stated one of the warrants. Also discovered was a hard plastic storage con tainer with multiple sec tion dividers supposedly holding various drags. Instead of containing office supplies or other permissible items, this organizer allegedly “was full of numerous pre packaged drags for sale,” according to multiple warrants. Separate plastic bags in the container supposedly held eight blue, oval pills suspected to be Xanax, two grams of suspected meth, 1.5 grams of sus pected powder cocaine and four grams of sus pected crack cocaine. DCN will update this story when more informa tion becomes available. Gary Voyles Gary Voyles, 57, of Dawsonville, died Tuesday, April 5, 2022. A memo rial service was held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday April 12, at CrossBridge Community Church. Bearden Funeral Home of Dawsonville was in charge of the arrangements. Dawson County News April 13, 2022 Jenifer Lynn "Jenni" Walls Jenifer Lynn “Jenni” Walls, 56, of Dawsonville, died Sunday, April 3, 2022. A memorial service was held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, April 9, at Bearden Funeral Home Chapel. B ear den Funeral Home of Dawsonville was in charge of the arrangements. 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