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Former pharmacy to become a healthcare practice. INSIDE, 5A Pelfrey excelling college pursuing two degrees. SPORTS, 1B C A AI DAWSONCOUNTYNEWS WEDNESDAY | JUNE 26, 2024 DawsonNews com DAWSONVILLE, GEORGIA $2.00 Captain D’s roof catches fire, temporarily closes By Julia Hansen juliahansen@dawsonnews.com A seafood-centric fast- food restaurant along Ga. 400 will temporarily be closed to customers follow ing an afternoon fire Thursday. Part of the Captain D’s roof caught fire around lunchtime on June 20. Work had been ongoing on the back part of the roof, according to Dawson County Fire Operations and Training Chief Johnny Irvin. Emergency crews responded to the incident between 12:30-12:45 p.m. and were out there for about two hours. In total, 13 emergency vehicles and 20 personnel, with four volunteers, responded to the fire. Captain D’s will be closed “until further notice,” sig nage posted on the restau rant’s doors stated. The fire wasn’t extensive but caused some damage. Nobody was injured from the fire, Irvin said. The establishment will have to be re-inspected by the health department before reopening, Irvin added. Dawson County emergency crews respond ed to a roof fire at the Captain D’s off Ga. 400 Thursday. Julia Hansen Dawson County News ‘It’s just unreal’ a ) = Photos by Erica Jones Dawson County News Joy Flock stands in front of the film set recreating her father Tim’s 1955 NASCAR race win. ‘The Fabulous Flocks’ TV show officially begins filming City Council passes $26.3M ’24-25 budget By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com During the Monday June 17 meeting of the Dawsonville City Council, council members voted to approve the proposed $26.3 million bud get for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The approved budget totals $26,365,275, which is an increase from last year’s $19.7 million approved budget. The total is made up of $17,000,000 in capital outlay funding, $3,212,300 in general funding, $3,026,240 in SPLOST and Georgia Racing Hall of Fame project funding and $2,269,600 in enter prise funding, as well as $301,200 in garbage department funding, $86,875 in Downtown 3 By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com On Saturday June 22, cheering and the sound of stock car engines revving filled the air at the Banks County Speedway. Dirt flew up from the track as four classic cars circled it, and audience members sitting on hay bales stood and yelled excitedly to cheer on their favorite drivers. While this may sound like a scene from a dirt track race from years ago, it was in reality a recreation of a race from the 1950s, back near the beginning of NASCAR racing. The specific race being recreated was the 1955 race in which NASCAR leg end Tim Flock won the Grand National Series Champion title, and the recreation was part of the inau gural day of filming the upcoming TV series “The Fabulous Flocks”. “The Fabulous Flocks” is set to be a TV series following the story of the Flock family, a family of dare devils who were known for every- Classic stock cars line up to start racing during the first day of filming upcoming TV series “The Fabulous Flocks” on June 22. wee I See Budget ISA DCN file photo •Dawsonite Clylal •GA Racing alofFame s2 thing from stock car racing to wing walking to tight rope walking. When the family’s patriarch Lee died in 1925, the oldest son Carl went to work for his uncle Leonard “Peachtree” Williams transporting moonshine from the North Georgia Mountains to Atlanta. When moonshine runners began racing their stock cars for fun, the sport that would become NASCAR began. With the official formation of NASCAR in 1948, several members of the Flock family were key play ers in the sport and became very well-known within the NASCAR world. See FlockI2A Invasive snails pose issues in Lake Lanier By Daniel Dotson DCN Regional Staff The Department of Natural Resources has asked for help slowing the spread of an invasive snail species that could clog water intake pipes and damage the ecosystem in Lake Lanier. The Chinese mystery snail, an aquatic snail species native to Southeast Asia and eastern Russia, was discovered in Lake Lanier during routine sampling by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division See Snails I 6A Inside Volume 10, Number 25 © 2024, Dawson County News Dawsonville, Georgia Events 4B Classifieds 7B Dear Abby 6B Deaths 2A Legals 7B Opinion 7A Sports 1B 0 90994 04002 2024 Best of Dawson General and Cosmetic B. Manzur, D.M.D 754 Hwy 53 West Dawsonville, GA 706-265-2505 ’=
