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Republicans dominate races in Dawson, state
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
With most of Georgia’s 2022
general elections coming to an
end, results show Republicans
winning some of the highest
state and federal-level seats dur
ing the midterms.
Incumbent Republican Gov.
Brian Kemp has been declared
the winner in his gubernatorial
reelection campaign against
Democrat Stacey Abrams, who
he also competed against in
2018.
Republican Rich McCormick
has defeated Democratic oppo
nent Bob Christian in a highly
watched race for Georgia’s
District 6 seat in the U.S. House
of Representatives. District 6
includes all of Dawson and
Forsyth and portions of
Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton and
Gwinnett counties.
Georgia Republican Herschel
Walker and incumbent
Democrat Raphael Wamock will
compete against each other
again during a Dec. 6 runoff
election for U.S. Senate, since
neither candidate won more than
50 percent of the vote.
In Dawson County, a project
ed 13, 974 or 64 percent of local
voters cast ballots in the general
election, according to an unoffi
cial elections summary report
from Dawson County Board of
Elections and Registration
(BOER) Director Glenda
Ferguson.
Four years ago, an overall 11,
606 or 63.5 percent of voters
cast early, absentee and day-of
ballots in the 2018 general elec
tion.
Before Tuesday, 9,057
Dawson County residents voted
early in the 2022 general elec
tion, the report stated.
The early voting turnout in
Dawson County broke records
leading up to Election Day
2022, with a record 41.48% of
local voters casting ballots in
advance, according to BOER’s
report.
Then, 594 or 2.72% of
Dawson County people voted
via absentee ballots, which com
bined with local early voters,
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‘It means the world to us’
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Photos by Erica Jones Dawson County News
Veteran Jody Payne, center, stands with his mother Wanda and father Tommy during the North Georgia
Roofing & Property Renovations Veterans Day event on Nov. 11.
Local business shows support with Veterans Day event
From left, North Georgia Roofing & Property
Renovations co-owner Corwin Green, operations
manager Ashley Young and co-owner Cody Freeman
stand by the raffle table during the business's
Veterans Day event on Nov. 11.
By Erica Jones
ejones@dawsonnews.com
Despite the rainy weather
on Friday, Nov. 11, North
Georgia Roofing & Property
Renovations held a successful
Veterans Day event to show
appreciation for local veter
ans and first responders and
to raise funds to support one
veteran in particular.
The event featured free
food truck lunches for all
local veterans, military per
sonnel and first responders, as
well as free goody bags with
items from local businesses
for each attendee. The event
also included a raffle and
merchandise like t-shirts for
sale, all of the proceeds of
which went to support local
veteran Jody Payne.
According to North
Georgia Roofing & Property
Renovations Operations
Manager Ashley Young,
Payne’s name was first given
to their business when they
reached out to Habitat for
Humanity to find a project
they could get involved with.
“We reached out to Habitat
for Humanity to find a project
and they ended up sending us
a veteran that needed his
house repaired so we’re doing
all the exterior repairs and the
roof repairs for him,” Young
said.
Payne has other expenses
including medical proce
dures, she added, so the busi
ness is aiming to help him
raise money to cover the bills
for those too.
Payne, who was in atten
dance at the event with his
family, served in the U.S.
Army from 2000 to the end
of 2004. 18 months of his
time was served in Iraq when
the Iraq War first started back
in 2003. He expressed his
thanks to the business owners
and to the community during
the event, saying that the sup
port and help means the
world to him.
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First responders,
students start
campaign for
suicide hotline
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
For the past decade, Dawson County has
had Georgia’s highest suicide rate at 32 per
100,000 residents, according to statistics
from CDC’s Wonder database. Now, the
Dawson County Sheriff’s Office and a
wide-ranging group of locals have teamed
up to help change that.
DCSO, Dawson County Schools and
other locals recently started the “We Care”
campaign to help support the wider com
munity by sharing mental health resources
like the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Previously known as the National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 988 is a three-
digit number people can call when they or
someone they are concerned about is expe
riencing suicidal thoughts, substance use or
any other type of mental/emotional dis
tress, according to the lifeline’s website.
The lifeline offers 24/7 calling and tex
ting access to trained crisis counselors who
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Stewart named to
Georgia Trend’s
40 Under 40 list
By Erica Jones
ejones@dawsonnews.com
Nicole Stewart, Dawson County’s tax com
missioner, has recently been named to
Georgia Trend’s 2022 “40 Under 40” list, a
collection of some of the
brightest leaders in the state
under the age of 40.
Stewart was the youngest
tax commissioner in the state
when she was first elected to
the role in 2017, and she is
now in her second term. In
addition to serving in her
elected role, Stewart also
serves as the president of the Rotary Club of
Dawson County and the secretary for the
Veterans Affairs of Dawson County.
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