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Wednesday, September 21,2022
dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 3A
Coffee shop owner, SROs recognized at BOE meeting
By Erica Jones
ejones@dawsonnews.com
During Tuesday’s meet
ing of the Dawson County
Board of Education, board
members took time to rec
ognize and thank Because
Coffee owner Doug Cole
and the system’s school
resource officers for each
of the county’s schools.
The board recognized
Cole as a Partner in
Education for his work
with the school’s
Community Based
Instruction (CBI) program,
which helps students in the
school’s exceptional chil
dren program learn work
skills out in the field.
Through his partnership
with the school system,
Cole is able to give jobs to
several of these CBI stu
dents, and he partners with
the school in many other
ways too.
“New teacher orientation
he provides all the coffee,
so the first impression a
new teacher gets in
Dawson is his coffee that
morning,” Assistant
Because Coffee
owner Doug
Cole, right,
stands with
financial advisor
Alexandria
Williams, left,
duringTuesday's
BOE meeting.
Erica Jones
Dawson County News
Superintendent of
Operations Hershel
Bennett said during the
meeting. “He’s a business
partner with our special ed
program, so our CBI kids
have jobs through his busi
ness. We have Tiger Blend
coffee that we receive part
of the proceeds from, so
just a tremendous amount
as well as many donations
to our special ed program.”
In addition to the board
and school administrators
recognizing Cole for his
hard work, local financial
advisor Alexandria
Williams of Modern
Woodmen of America was
also in attendance at the
meeting and presented
Cole with a Hometown
Hero award through
Modem Woodmen.
“A Hometown Hero with
Modem Woodmen’s defini
tions is someone who typi
cally doesn’t get recog
nized but does a whole lot
in the community,”
Williams said.
“[Superintendent Nicole
LeCave] reached out to me
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JROTC
Erica Jones Dawson County News
Cadets in the DCHS JROTC program stand in
front of the Elite Heating & Air truck at the high
school. This week, Elite donated $2,000 to benefit
the JROTC program.
JROTC,” Brooksher said.
“I’m glad it worked out; I
really do enjoy the pro
gram and I felt like trying
to make it better and bene
fit.”
The family loved the
idea and reached out to
Sfc. (R) Steve Pamplin and
Maj. (R) Robert Wiley, the
army instructor and senior
army instructor for the pro
gram. On Thursday Sept.
15, a representative from
Elite Heating and Air
dropped off a check for
$2000 for the program to
use in any way it needs.
Pamplin said that the
donation is one of the larg
est one-time checks that
the program has received
since he helped start it
back in 2010, and that
being given that amount of
money will make a huge
difference for the JROTC
students.
“We have several differ
ent special teams: we’ve
got a Raider team, we’ve
got an air rifle marksman
ship team, we have a cyber
patriot team that deals with
cyber security, we have a
drill team,” Pamplin said.
“All these events and com
petitions that we go to with
these teams, there’s entry
fees involved, so the
money will go towards the
entry fees. And we try to
get team t-shirts for the
kids and we don’t want
them to have to pay for
those so the money will go
towards that too.”
For a program like the
JROTC that holds fund
raisers throughout the year
to make money for its
activities, Pamplin said that
such a large gift will be a
game changer.
“We do get an annual
budget from the army to
help take care of uniforms,
but there’s a lot of things
we want to do with the
kids that we’re not able to
use that money for, so we
have to raise money and
count on donations to do
those things,” Pamplin
said. “It’s great; we can use
every penny of it to sup
port the cadets.”
In addition to helping
with competition entry
fees, t-shirts and transpor
tation, Pamplin added that
part of the money will also
go toward the program’s
military ball, which the
JROTC students throw
each year, and potentially a
trip to the infantry museum
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Chase
Sheriff Jeff Johnson said Miller hit a
man in the head with a machete then stole
a motorcycle. Johnson said the person is
OK.
As deputies were responding, they
spotted a motorcycle leaving the area of
the Waffle House.
Deputies tried to stop the motorcycle as
the chase entered Hall County on Price
Road, but the motorcycle did not stop.
“During the pursuit, the suspect lost
control and crashed in the area of the
Lighthouse Community Church located
on Price (Road),” Johnson wrote in an
email.
While securing the scene, deputies
found drugs on and around Miller.
Johnson said the drugs included crushed
pills believed to be alprazolam and three
separate baggies of suspected metham-
phetamine “also containing suspected
fentanyl.”
Johnson said Georgia State Patrol is
investigating the crash, and The Times
has reached out to state patrol for infor
mation.
Miller sustained injuries in the crash
and was transported to Northeast Georgia
Medical Center before going to the
Dawson County Detention Center.
Miller is being held with no bond.
He was charged with armed robbery,
aggravated assault, possession of a con
trolled substance with the intent to to dis
tribute, possession of tools for the com
mission of a crime, fleeing and eluding a
police officer and DUI of drugs.
This article was originally published in
the Gainesville Times, a sister publication
of the Dawson County News.
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and asked if I’d be willing
to recognize Doug as a
Hometown Hero through
Modern Woodmen and I
said I could not think of
someone better to give this
award to.”
As the recipient of the
Hometown Hero award,
Cole will get to pick a local
nonprofit or organization to
receive $100 on his behalf
through Modern
Woodmen. He also
received balloons and an
award recognizing his
accomplishment.
“I’m honored to be here
tonight to give you this
award and to honor you
because you do so much
for so many different
areas,” Williams said to
Cole as she presented him
with the award. “The
school system, other local
nonprofits — and we’re
just so thankful to have you
and the coffee shop and
have you as a partner in so
many ways.”
In addition to recogniz
ing Cole, the board also
took a moment to recog
nize the seven student
at Fort Benning, something
which the students might
not ordinarily be able to
do.
Brooksher, who has
been a member of the
JROTC program for two
years now, said that he’s
happy that his family’s
business can play a part in
helping support the pro
gram.
“I’m on the Raiders
team and then later on in
the year we have drill; the
money really does help
with those teams which are
one of my favorite things
about the ROTC,”
Brooksher said. “I just
really enjoy it and I’ll do
anything I can do to help
benefit it.”
For more information
about how to support the
Dawson County High
School JROTC program,
email Pamplin directly at
spamplin@dawson.kl2.
ga.us.
resource officers (SROs)
that work each day in the
schools throughout the dis
trict.
“We are very fortunate
here in Dawson County to
be able to provide an SRO
in each of our buildings;
we appreciate the amount
of collaboration that they
fulfill in teaching with us
and helping us to learn to
serve our students and pro-
tect our students,”
Superintendent Nicole
LeCave said.
Through collaboration
with the Dawson County
Sheriff’s Department, each
school in the district has its
own SRO, and according to
Bennett these officers go
above and beyond when it
comes to their positions in
the school system.
“We would like to thank
you all for your dedication
and your support of our stu
dents; you go way beyond
making our kids feel safe,
you build relationships with
them and we’re very appre
ciative of that,” Bennett said
to the SROs during the
meeting. “We see it every
time we walk into school
and any time there’s an
issue or a non-issue.”
SRO Lt. Mitch Taylor
introduced each of the
SROs at the meeting,
thanking them for their
hard work and thanking the
school system for making
the collaboration with the
county so easy.
“We’d like to thank you
on behalf of the Sheriff’s
Office for the partnership
that we have in the county
and the partnership with
the Board of Education and
letting our people be in
your building keeping your
kids safe and keeping your
employees, teachers, facul
ty, staff and everybody
safe,” Taylor said.
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