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Tigers’ football season comes to an end with loss in state playoffs. SPORTS, IB Appalachian Armory receives $25,000 grant to renovate, expand INSIDE, 7A DawsonCountyNews WEDNESDAY I NOVEMBER 16, 2022 DaWSOflNeWS ’COITI DAWSONVILLE, GEORGIA $1.00 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, See Races 13A ‘It means the world to us’ 'A. „ ' 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. See Veterans 14A 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 See Hotline 13A 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. See Stewart 14A Stewart 0 9 0 9 9 4 Inside Volume 8, Number 41 © 2022, Dawson County News Dawsonville, Georgia Church Events 2B Classifieds 8B Dear Abby 6B Deaths 2A Legals 8B Opinion 9A Sports 1B 2A Riverview Elementary named Title I Distinguished School 8A Dawsonville to L hold annual Christmas Parade on Nov. 19 We Are a Digital Impression Practice. Proud Owners of an iTero Element " Scanner. element •>[£• invisalign "We all try and go above and beyond and give that five start treatment, so it's rewarding to know that what we do matters." Q)amonville (^Distinctive ^Dentistry B. MANZUR, D.M.D. 754 HWY. 53 WEST, DAWSONVILLE, GA 706-265-2505
