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6A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, October 26,2022 Chamber holds ribbon cutting for Specialty Orthopaedics By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com On Thursday Oct. 20, the Dawson County Chamber of Commerce held a rib bon cutting for Specialty Orthopaedics, located at 81 Prominence Court Suite 100. Specialty Orthopaedics offers compre hensive orthopaedic care, including hand surgery, knee replacement surgery, joint care, general orthopaedics, foot and ankle care, spine care, sports medicine and work er’s compensation. The practice has two other locations in Gainesville and Braselton, as well as a surgery center in Gainesville, and the Dawsonville office has been open since February. At the Dawsonville location, Dr. Chad Muxlow specializes in sports medicine, and Dr. Thomas Neustein specializes in hand and upper extremity procedures. According to Muxlow, he, Neustein and their staff are excited to be at the Dawsonville location and getting to know the community better. “We’re excited to be here full time and keep developing our relationship with the community,” Muxlow said. “If y’all ever need anything just let us know; we’re here and available, we’ve got a great team and a great staff who have been with us for a while so we have full services here and can take care of everything for you.” Muxlow added that, because the practice has three locations, he and Neustein can also refer patients to providers at their other locations if the patient is in need of another kind of specialist. “I specialize in sports medicine which is kind of a misnomer; I take care of athletes but it’s more arthroscopic surgery, so ten don repairs, ligament reconstructions and things like that,” Muxlow said. “Dr. Neustein is primarily elbow, hand, upper extremity and all the fine details with those. We also have a foot and ankle spe cialist in our Gainesville office, we have a spine specialist, and we can refer you to our other office so we pretty much have everything covered.” Before officially cutting the ribbon, Mandy Power, president and CEO of the Dawson County Chamber of Commerce, welcomed Muxlow, Neustein and their staff to the community, expressing her excitement at having orthopaedic special ists in the county. “We’re excited to get the word out and welcome you to the chamber and the com munity,” Power said. “We’re very excited to have you as part of the community; we obviously need specialties just like this.” Specialty Orthopaedics is located at 81 Prominence Court Suite 100 and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, go to https:// specialtyorthoga.com/locations/ dawsonville/ or call 770-532-7202. Kilough second graders raise food, money donations for The Place By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com This week, a second grade class from Kilough Elementary School raised 275 pounds of food and $100 for the food pantry at The Place of Dawson County. According to KES sec ond grade teacher Kathy Galati, the drive was part of Kilough’s school-wide Raise Craze Kindness Fundraiser. Her class had the idea to do a class proj ect and collect food for The Place, so they set a goal of 100 pounds of food and $100. Her class challenged Galati’s small group at Browns Bridge church to help meet their goal of 100 pounds, and in total the class exceeded their goal, collecting a total of 275 pounds of food and $100. On Monday Oct. 17, sev eral representatives from The Place visited Galati’s class to pick up the dona tions and to teach the stu dents about the needs in the community and how the food pantry strives to help meet those needs. The 23 students in the class then paraded down the school halls behind their carts of donations, standing on the sidewalk in front of the school and watching excit edly as they watched the food be loaded into the van. According to Galati, she is incredibly proud of her students for their hard work and dedication to their class food drive. “I’m very proud of the kids who worked very hard to help do something for their community during their Act of Kindness fund raiser with the school,” Galati said. “They did an Erica Jones Dawson County News Second graders from Kilough Elementary stand with their teacher, principal, vice principal and representatives fromThe Place of Dawson County in front of the 275 pounds of food and $100 they collected in a recent class food drive. u | UNITED I United Community Bank United Community Bank is proud to support National Women's Small Business Month. Discover the best of business banking at ucbi.com/why-united-business. Member FDIC. © 2022 United Community Bank amazing job.” Deborah Ross, the food and services manager for The Place, said that seeing second graders in the com munity set themselves a goal of collecting food for those in need is very encouraging, as is being able to visit the classroom and talk to the students about those needs in the community they live in. “I love that there’s an awareness of it; I love that food insecurity is part of the conversation with young people and it’s real ly impactful when they can contribute to their community — it’s amaz ing,” Ross said. “It’s just so great; I’m proud of them.” HOME AUTO LIFE BUSINESS Proudly serving Georgia families and WOMEN IN BUSINESSES for over 50 years! (706) 216-3296 WWW. DAWSO N-l N S U R A N CE.COM Democrats work for you, not just the few- VOTE BLUE!
