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County closes on land donated for future part
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
Looking at a crowd full of
children already enjoying Parks
and Recreation programs,
District 1 Commissioner Sharon
Fausett beamed with joy on
Nov. 17 as she discussed
Dawson County’s closing on
120 acres of donated land for a
future park.
This land, which has been
donated by longtime resident
Anne Styles and her family, is
located off of Ga. 183 and
Elliott Family Parkway in the
central part of Dawson County.
“How appropriate that all
these children are here, and we
closed on this today,” Fausett
said during the Board of
Commissioners’ Nov. 17 meet
ing.
During the meeting, Parks and
Rec Director Matt Payne also
recognized children from Parks
and Rec’s elementary girls’ flag
football, second grade football
and cheer teams for their Super
Bowl wins this past season.
“She’ll leave such a legacy for
all of these kids ... I’m so thank
ful and we want you [all] to
enjoy it,” Fausett said to the
crowd.
The BOC previously
approved the acceptance of the
land donation during their Aug.
4 voting session and undertook
a three-month due diligence
period.
County attorney Angela Davis
See Park 14A
Handing out hot food, holiday cheer
Photos by Erica Jones Dawson County News
Rotary Club of Dawson County President Nicole Stewart hands meals to community members during the
club's annual free communityThanksgiving event on Nov. 21.
Rotary Club gives away more than 600 Thanksgiving meals
Rotary Club of Dawson County members prepare meals for community
members during the club's annual free communityThanksgiving event
on Nov. 21.
By Erica Jones
ejones@dawsonnews.com
The Rotary Club of Dawson County
distributed over 600 meals to mem
bers of the Dawson County communi
ty during its annual free community
Thanksgiving event.
The event took place on Monday
Nov. 21 at the senior center at
Veterans Memorial Park starting at 5
p.m. It operated as a “drive thru din
ner”, and according to Rotary Club
President Nicole Stewart community
members began lining up in their cars
up to an hour before it began.
“We got there around 3:30 and
asked all of our volunteers to get there
by 4 or 4:15 to get ready, and we
already had people lining up at 4,”
Stewart said. “We started making our
meals a little before 5, and by a little
after 5 we had already given out most
of our meals.”
During the event, large speakers
outside the senior center played cheer
ful Christmas music and Rotarians
greeted cars with smiles, waves, color
ful signs and exclamations of “Happy
Thanksgiving!”
“We were dancing and having fun
and singing to people; we really had a
good time,” Stewart said. “It’s my
favorite event that we do; we really
have a good time.”
The club had planned to give away
600 meals and ended up problem solv
ing near the end of the event to replen
ish the food and exceed that number.
According to Stewart, Ingles was able
to sell the club more sides from their
cafe in their store, and people in line
were all patient and understanding
during the short delay.
“Every single one of them was so
nice about it; they were awesome,”
Stewart said. “No one was ugly about
it or anything; they were all very
nice.”
One thing that members of the club
love, Stewart said, is getting to see
See Rotary 14A
Residential
moratorium
extended again
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
Dawson County’s moratorium on resi
dential rezoning applications was extended
for another three months following a unan
imous 4-0 vote by the Board of
Commissioners on Nov. 17.
The moratorium bars the acceptance of
residential town, RS-2, RS-3, RPC,
C-PCD, RMF, residential manufactured
home park and mixed-use village applica
tions until Feb. 17, 2023.
As with before, District 3 Commissioner
Tim Satterfield asked if individual manu
factured home applications would still be
impacted by the moratorium.
BOC Chairman Billy Thurmond con
firmed that individuals would be eligible to
request rezones, explaining that the manu
factured classification is intended for a
park and not a single home.
At the board’s Nov. 3 voting session,
multiple board members said they’d
received calls from single-residence appli
cants whose rezoning requests had gotten
caught up in the moratorium.
“I don’t think that was the intention of
the board when we did this. Those are not
See Moratorium 13A
Deputies catch
suspect in attack
outside Walmart
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
One local man was recently arrested
after being accused in a road rage incident
that devolved into a confrontation in the
Dawsonville Walmart parking lot in
September.
Dawsonville resident Mark Gregory
Gallichotte, 69, faces multiple assault-
related charges after allegedly hitting
another man and his car with a tire iron,
stated warrants from the Dawson County
Sheriff’s Office.
DCSO apprehended Gallichotte on Nov.
18 just after 1:30 p.m., according to the
agency’s most recent weekly news report.
Deputies responded to the Walmart on
Power Center Drive at about 2 p.m. Sept.
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