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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, April 27,2022
OBITUARIES
Larry Taylor Milligan
Larry Taylor Milligan, 68, of
Dawsonville, passed away on
Monday, April 18, 2022, after a
long illness. He will be missed
tremendously by his family and
friends. Larry is survived by his
wife, Marji, who was the love
of his life. Larry and Marji
were married for nearly 48
wonderful years. He also is sur
vived by their beloved daugh
ter, Amanda Coccia (Regis), of
Cumming, and three cherished
grandsons, Nicholas,
Christopher and Daniel. He was
preceded in death by his par
ents, Jesse and Minnie
Milligan, of Columbia, S.C., a
brother, Jesse R. Milligan, and
a granddaughter, Meredith
Coccia. Larry was born and
raised in Columbia and attend
ed the University of South
Carolina. Despite spending
many years in Illinois and
Georgia, he considered South
Carolina home. He will always
be remembered as a devoted
husband, a tremendous father,
and caring grandfather. Larry
was a soft-spoken, true gentle
man, who loved his God and
his family. Larry had a gener
ous heart, and always endeav
ored to take the honorable path
and do the right thing through
out his life. He enjoyed cars,
camping, hunting and fishing
with his family. For 34 years,
Larry worked at Robert Bosch
Corporation, working his way
into upper management
through various sales positions.
When he retired in 2009, he
was Vice President of
Automotive Aftermarket Sales
for North America. During his
time with Bosch, he received
numerous awards for sales
excellence and helped many
employees build their careers
with the company. He was a
friend and mentor to many. A
visitation and service for Larry
was held at 10:00 a.m., Friday,
April 22, at McDonald & Son
Funeral Home in Cumming
followed by his funeral service
at 11:00 a.m. A graveside ser
vice will take place at 3:00
p.m., Monday, April 25, at
Greenlawn Memorial Park,
845 Leesburg Rd., in
Columbia. In lieu of flowers,
the family requests that a
memorial donation be made to
Bethel United Methodist
Church, 100 Lumpkin
Campground Road S,
Dawsonville, GA 30534, or the
Good Shepherd Clinic of
Dawson County, 452 Highway
53 E #1009, Dawsonville, GA
30534.
Dawson County News
April 27, 2022
Danny Hubert Mulkey
Danny Hubert Mulkey, 69, of
Dawsonville, died Saturday,
April 23, 2022. A funeral ser
vice was held at 1:00 p.m.,
Tuesday, April 26, at the
Bearden Funeral Home Chapel.
Bearden Funeral Home of
Dawsonville was in charge of
the arrangements.
Dawson County News
April27, 2022'
Scott Dwayne Richards
Scott Dwayne Richards, 50,
of Cumming, died April 20,
2022. A funeral service was
held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, April
24, at Bethelview United
Methodist Church. Ingram
Funeral Home of Cumming
was in charge of the arrange
ments.
Dawson County News
April 27, 2022
Darwin Eugene Snyder
Darwin Eugene Snyder, 78,
of Dawsonville, died Sunday,
April 17, 2022. Bearden
Funeral Home of Dawsonville
is in charge of the arrange
ments.
Dawson County News
April 27, 2022
Betty Jean Wheeler
Betty Jean Wheeler, 71, of
Dawsonville, died April 20,
2022. A funeral service was
held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday,
April 23, in the Chapel at
Ingram Funeral Home. Ingram
Funeral Home of Cumming
was in charge of the arrange
ments.
Dawson County News
April27, 2022'
Bowen Center for the Arts hosts Juni Fisher concert
By Erica Jones
ejones@dawsonnews.com
On Sunday April 24, the
Bowen Center for the Arts
hosted western and folk
singer and songwriter Juni
Fisher for a concert put on
by the Chattahoochee Trail
Horse Association and bene
fiting horse trails in North
Georgia.
Dozens of community
members gathered at the
Bowen from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
for the benefit concert as
Fisher sang her songs, many
of which are inspired by
events that she’s experienced
first hand and based on true
stories.
Heads bobbed and feet
tapped as she sang songs
including her well-known
“Let ‘er Go, Let ‘er Buck,
Let ‘er Fly”, and the audi
ence listened with great
interest as she introduced
each song and the tale
behind writing it in between
each piece, telling stories
about her childhood and her
family.
During the performance
break, event attendees had
the opportunity to enjoy
heavy hors d’oeuvres and to
meet Fisher personally.
The concert benefited the
North Georgia Public Horse
Trails, which includes the
Don Carter State Park in
Gainesville, Watson Mill
Bridge trails in Comer, A.H.
Stephens trails in
Crawfordville and the
Garland Mountain trails in
Waleska.
Western
and folk
singer and
songwrit
er Juni
Fisher per
forms at
the Bowen
Center for
the Arts
on
Sunday
April 24.
Erica Jones
Dawson
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sweet potatoes because I know that
that will yield probably about 200
to 300 pounds of sweet potatoes, so
that’11 give enough sweet potatoes
for probably two to three feedings.”
In addition to producing healthy
food for use in the kitchen and
teaching the students agricultural
skills, Richardson said that the
greenhouse project offers several
opportunities to teach important
STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics)
skills.
This includes teaching the older
students how to calculate perimeter,
area and volume of the garden beds,
and providing the younger students
with a “classification station” of dif
ferent shapes, sizes and types of
rocks to give them practice in senso
ry integration and describing what
they see using all of their senses.
“I call it ‘garden math’; it’s really
simple but these things are what
you’ll need to know if you’re ever
gonna do any sort of gardening,”
Richardson said. “This is a learning
lab; the intention of all things in
schools is for learning so this is a
learning lab as much as it is gonna
be for introducing the kids to agri
culture. It teaches the kids about
these things in a project-based fash
ion through all they’re doing, so it’s
all about learning.”
As the greenhouse project contin
ues to expand moving forward,
Richardson said that he hopes to
potentially incorporate more STEM
learning opportunities including a
sensory garden, a tilt table to teach
balance, a “playground xylophone”
out of PVC pipes to teach about
sound waves and a tic-tac-toe game
out of painted rocks.
Both the agricultural and STEM
skills that can be taught at the
greenhouse are incredibly valuable
to students at any grade level,
Richardson said.
“The good thing about green
house teaching is that it’s naturally
spiraled; you can teach plant struc
ture to little kids all the way up to
energy and plant growth and metab
olism to older kids,” Richardson
said. “It’s just something great; it’s
teaching proper nutrition, it’s teach
ing soft skills, analytical skills,
STEM skills — you can’t beat
greenhouse lessons.”
He added that giving students the
opportunity to learn agricultural and
STEM skills at such a young age
will benefit not only the students
Photos courtesy of Kristi Bearden
Students at Kilough Elementary School learn about gardening and
sustainability in the school's greenhouse.
moving forward, but also the
Career, Technical and Agricultural
Education (CTAE) programs at the
junior high and high school levels
as the students advance through the
school system.
“I love having this; it’s great for
students here to understand agricul
ture and to get interested in agricul
ture because these students will end
kids leam about this and this will be
a feeder program into the CTAE
program — it’s going great; it’s
way more already than I envisioned
so it’s marvelous.”
Conowal said that having
Richardson’s help in revamping the
greenhouse project at Kilough has
been invaluable to her and her staff
at the school.
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up growing into our CTAE pro
grams as they get into junior high
and high school,” Richardson said.
“We’re building a new ag center, so
it’s great to have students now
understanding this because they’ll
be the ones that will inherit the new
ag center.”
Eventually, Richardson said that
he hopes to use the greenhouse
project at Kilough as a pilot pro
gram to potentially expand the
farm-to-table effort in the rest of the
schools in the district. But for now,
he said he’s incredibly pleased with
how well the project has taken on at
Kilough.
“We’re looking at this sort of as a
pilot program to see if this is viable
and can we do this,” Richardson
said. “So right now my goal is to
get this up and running, let these
“He really has a vision when it
comes to stuff like this — I am
happy to learn from the best; we are
really excited,” Conowal said.
“What an opportunity for Dawson
County and I love that we’re the
pilots.”
At the end of the day, Richardson
said that he loves sharing his pas
sion with the students and teaching
them the skills that they can use
moving forward in their lives.
“It’s a great program; I’m very
glad that Kilough has allowed me to
come in here and put this back
together and get it running,”
Richardson said. “It’s a lot of fun;
it’s a great labor and Teresa has
been wonderful letting me come
over here and take over. I’m a
teacher first, so I enjoy teaching
students sustainability.”
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