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Breakfast with Santa to be held Dec. 3 INSIDE, 5A Longtime DCHS football photographer stepping away SPORTS, 1B DawsonCountyNews WEDNESDAY I NOVEMBER 30, 2022 DaWSOflNeWS ^COITI DAWSONVILLE, GEORGIA $1.00 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. See Attack 13A 0 90994 04002 Inside Volume 8, Number 43 © 2022, Dawson County News Dawsonville, Georgia Classifieds Events Dear Abby Deaths Legals Opinion Sports 6B 2B 5B 2A 6B 7A 1B 3A Yoga in the Park members collect dona tions for food pantry 6A Riverview Elementary names Hosch teacher of the year element We Are a Digital Impression Practice. Proud Owners of an iTero' Element Scanner. "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." fir'tt fr f ‘ 7^ Q)amonville B. MANZUR, D.M.D. 754 HWY. 53 WEST, DAWSONVILLE, GA 706-265-2505
