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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 FROM 1A 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 FROM 1A 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. Come in and see why we have been Dawsonville’s choice for WWW.DAWSONVILLEHARDWARE. 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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