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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, August 31,2022 Obituaries Joey Lowman August 23, 2022 Joey Lowman, 65, of Dawsonville passed away Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at his residence following a period of declining health. Joey started into his career at a young age of sixteen. He knew what he loved and set to achieve it. Trucking was his passion. Driving over the road for many years, locally for Leon Jones and later fol lowed his dream of owning in 2000 when he opened his operation J&S Hauling. If you needed a real friend, someone to count on, teach you about a Cummins or white light ning...or just a kick in the right direction, Joey was your man. He truly was looking for a way to make things happen, working days on end for the ones he loved. Impossible wasn’t in his vocabulary. “AINT NOTHIN’ BUTATHING.” So to all those truckers out there on channel #19 , this is the last call for Humpback, catch my loads from here and keep that right lane clear. Over & Out. He is proceeded in death by his father, Austin Lowman; mother, Beatrice Carter; brother, Jimmy Lowman; sister, Patricia Lowman, and dear friend Junior Hardin. Surviving are his loving wife, Sandy Lowman; daughter & son in law, Nikki & Rob Gubernath; daughter, Brittany Brooksher; grandchildren, Abbie and Danielle Gubernath, Crawford and Mathis Brooksher; broth ers, Roy & Ronnie Lowman; close friends, Lamar Burt, Tony Southern, Johnny Jones, Jesse Jacobs, and TL Singleton. Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 27, 2022 at Bearden Funeral Home Chapel at 1 p.m. with Rev. Andy Wallace, Rev. Ruel Martin and Rev. Ronnie Sosebee officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday, August 26 from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 12 noon until the hour of service. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Goshen Baptist Church in memory of Mr. Lowman, PO Box 1055, Dawsonville, GA 30534. Condolences may be expressed at www. beardenfuneralhome.com. Bearden Funeral Home, Dawsonville, GA. ath Notices Dorsey Gene Graves August 21,2022 A celebration of life service will be held Saturday, August 27, at 1:00 p.m. at the Ingram Funeral Home Chapel Zelma Mae Lewis August 21,2022 Zelma Mae Lewis, 73, of Cumming died Sunday, August 21,2022. Memorial visitation, Sunday, August 28, 2022, 2 p.m. until 4 p.m at Bearden Funeral Home. Bearden Funeral Home, Dawsonville, GA. Kemp allocates funds for school health care and COVID learning loss recovery By Rebecca Grapevine Capitol Beat News Service Gov. Brian Kemp this week announced increased funding to address COVID learning loss and build school-based health centers in Georgia. On Monday, Kemp said $37.4 million will go to organizations helping Georgia students recover from COVID learning loss. On Tuesday, the Republican governor said he is allocating an addition al $125 million to pay for school health centers. All told, the total is $162.4 million. The fund ing comes from federal COVID relief funds allo cated to the state in 2020 and 2021. The funding for Georgia school-based health centers (SBHCs) will be adminis tered by the Department of Education through a grant program, Kemp said. School-based health cen ters can provide a variety of services depending on a community’s need. These include providing primary and behavioral care, treat ing illnesses, and providing vision and dental services. “SBHCs have also been proven to help communi ties by reducing avoidable or unnecessary emergency room visits, increasing access to quality health care options, [and] improv ing school attendance records...,” a statement from the governor’s office said. The $37.4 million in education funding will pay for tutoring to help students recover from COVID learning loss and help stu dents with special needs. Recipients include the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning, the Georgia Department of Education, the Georgia Alliance of YMCAs, the Georgia Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, and the Georgia Public Library Service A spokesman for Democrat Stacey Abrams - who is challenging Kemp for the governorship in November - criticized Kemp’s announcements. “Brian Kemp already cut nearly $1 billion from pub lic education — and now wants credit for federal investment he repeatedly opposed,” said Alex Floyd, a spokesman for the cam paign. Georgia has a historic budget surplus, in part due to federal COVID relief funds that flowed to the state government and partly due to record economic growth. Kemp plans to send $350 in cash assistance to low- income Georgians enrolled in state benefit programs like food assistance and Medicaid, he said last week. That will account for more than $1 billion of the state surplus. Kemp also announced he would spend $2 billion of the surplus on tax refunds and homeowner tax rebates if he is reelected in November. Kemp rolls out new law enforcement grant program By Dave Williams Capitol Beat News Service Gov. Brian Kemp is using $100 million in fed eral COVID-19 relief to help boost public safety. Kemp announced a new grant program Thursday that will provide up to $1.5 million to help law enforcement agencies cope with violent crime that has been on the upswing since the pandemic began more than two years ago and off set staffing losses that have hit police and sheriff’s departments. “Public safety has always been my top priori ty, because every Georgian should feel safe in their own communities,” the governor said. “Over the past several years, we’ve seen an unacceptable increase in violent crime all across the state, fueled by the pandemic and mis guided efforts like the ‘Defund the Police’ move ment, which demoralized our hardworking law enforcement officers.” Law enforcement agen cies awarded grants through the new program will be able to use the money to augment law staffing, support violent crime reduction or com munity violence interven tion programming, and invest in technology and equipment needed to com bat the rise in gun violence. Applicants must have an organization or subrecipi ent to serve as the fiduciary agent and assume overall responsibility for the grant. Eligible applicants include law enforcement agencies, a unit of local government, and state agencies with a public safety mission. Each applicant also must provide supporting data documenting an increase in violent gun crimes and other community violence that began during the pan demic or was worsened by it. Applications to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget are due by Sept. 1. This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation. 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The threat was posted to a social media site that’s been promoted as a way to communicate with others anonymously, the agency previously stated. Updated information about the threat has been shared with DCJHS and DCHS parents and guard- ians, according to a Dawson County Schools Facebook post on Thursday. “The school district takes all threats seriously and works with the sher iff’s department to ensure that they are thoroughly investigated and that accurate information is shared,” the school sys tem’s post stated. “It is important to note that this exact threat (excluding the specific names) has been used to target at least one other school in metro Atlanta as well as a high school in Brooklyn, NY on June 5, 2022,” DCSO’s Thursday post stated. “Thus far, this investigation has not revealed any validity as to our high school; however, the investigation contin ues.” Students named in the post, their parents and other online sources are being notified and inter viewed as part of the agency’s investigation. The sheriff’s office worked with local school officials to identify listed students, including the reported suspect. “In addition, the school district will continue pri oritizing safety on all campuses. Due to the ongoing investigation, the district will ensure enhanced safety protocols and increased security presence,” the school dis trict’s post added. “Our students’ and employees’ safety and security remain top priorities in Dawson County Schools.” In its update, DCSO also encouraged parents to monitor their chil dren’s online activities and protect them from sharing personal informa tion. “It is critical that we take the steps to protect our children, both person ally and online,” DCSO’s post stated. 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