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Ground broken for new hospital in Lumpkin County. INSIDE, 5A DawsonCountyNews WEDNESDAY I JUNE 29, 2022 DaWSOflNeWS ^COITI DAWSONVILLE, GEORGIA $1.00 Elliott tames Nashville for second win of '22 By Rio White riowhite@dawsonnews.com For the second time this season, Chase Elliott’s patience paid off after light ning and rain-induced delays, winning the second annual Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday, June 26, and securing his 15th career Cup Series win. A clutch late-race perfor mance combining quick track position recovery and a well- timed late pit stop sealed a vital win as the playoff sea son approaches. While Elliott’s first win of the season at Dover resulted in a Monday finish, the Nashville race managed to be completed Sunday night after two separate stoppages. “It was a long, fun day,” Elliott said. “Just so proud of our team [after] a rough month, so it’s just nice to get back in the right direction. Getting a win is always huge and to do it in a really cool city like Nashville is even better.” After beginning the race in fourth position, Elliott main tained a stable track position by keeping himself in the back half of the top 10 early on. With a lightning delay at lap 41, the race was put on hold for just over an hour. After the restart, Elliott stayed steady and would eventually finish Stage One in eighth position. It was after the second and longest delay at lap 140 that the Dawsonville native put on a winning display, showing no signs of fatigue after an additional two hours off the track. With the race starting back up exactly halfway through its 300 laps, Elliott began in the middle of the pack but quickly rocketed up the field. Within the first five laps after the restart he advanced seven positions and was in the top five by lap 180. After maneuvering past Ross Chastain and Kurt See Elliott 13A Photo courtesy of Andrew Nelles/Tennessean Chase Elliott celebrates winning the Ally 400 at the Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon,Tenn., on Sunday, June 26. Hands on with science Photos by Erica Jones Dawson County News A student learns about physics and energy through his "Marble Arcade" project during Camp Invention at Dawson County Junior High School. A student learns about space and experiments with his "Astro Arm" device during Camp Invention at Dawson County Junior High School. This week, dozens of chil dren flocked to Dawson County Junior High School to participate in Camp Invention, a week-long sum mer camp designed to teach students important STEM skills in a fun and exciting way. Camp Invention is a nationally recognized non profit summer program by the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) in partner ship with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Each year, schools across the country host Camp Invention for local students, and Dawson County has hosted the camp each year since 2016. This year’s camp took place at Dawson County Junior High School from June 20 through 24. According to Dawson County’s Camp Director Renee Rogers, this year 200 students ranging in age from rising kindergartners to fifth grade attended camp. “Overall we have 200 ele mentary school students, we have 12 middle school vol unteers, we have three parent volunteers and 30 high school volunteers,” Rogers said. “So it’s amazing partic ipation.” Each day at camp, the stu dents were separated out by age groups and placed in dif ferent classrooms at the junior high school. Ten Dawson County teachers, representing each of the ele mentary schools in the dis trict, the middle school and the junior high school, then rotated through each class room to work with the stu dents on different modules every day. “The teachers are able to differentiate based on the level of the student, so even though we may have the same activity going on it’s differentiated based on the age level,” Rogers said. Each teacher was able to choose which module he or she wanted to teach, allow ing them to teach something they were passionate about. “The beauty of it is, the teachers get to choose which module they want to teach, so it’s something that they are passionate about and everything that they have left over they get to take back to their own classroom,” See Camp 14A Camp Invention teaches students STEM skills in fun way By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com Plans for radio system upgrade are taking shape By Julia Fechter jfechter@dawsonnews.com Formative plans were laid out for one of Dawson County’s highest-priority SPLOST projects during the last Board of Commissioners work session. During the June 16 meeting, commission ers took a look at potential avenues for the radio system upgrade project. Voters approved Dawson County’s SPLOST VII on March 16, 2021, which included a planned $5.5 million for the EOC/E911 center and $3 millon for the radio system upgrade, for a combined $8.5 million budget. These discussions followed See Radio 14A Julia Fechter Dawson County News Brian Barber of Federal Engineering describes the two radio upgrade options to the commissioners during the June 16 work session. Dawsonville Council OKs ’22-23 budget By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com During the June 20 meeting of the Dawsonville City Council, council members voted to approve the 2022-23 city budget totaling just over $21.5 million. The $21,570,934 budget includes $3,314,251 in general funding, which covers mayor and council member salaries, salaries and benefits for city administration, plan ning and zoning and road department per sonnel, and city hall and city park mainte nance. The council and the public first heard the proposed budget at the council’s May 16 meeting, where Finance Administrator Robin Gazaway presented the total budget and breakdown of what the funding will go See Budget 13A 9 0 9 9 4 Inside Volume 4, Number 22 © 2022, Dawson County News Dawsonville, Georgia Events 2B Classifieds 9B Dear Abby 5B Deaths 2A Legals 9B Opinion 9A Sports 1B New distillers to lease space in city hall complex 7A Rotary holds dedication, butterfly release for new garden
