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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
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