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on leave after UGA arrest
Cumming also charged man with burglary during Georgia-Auburn football game
By Matt Stewart
FCN Regional Staff
A Hall County Fire
Services firefighter has been
placed on administrative leave
after his arrest with a
Cumming man last weekend at
the Georgia-Auburn football
game, university and county
officials say.
Firefighter Jonathan Phillip
of skateboarding
evident at Dawson shop
By Michele Hester
For the Forsyth County News
DAWSONVILLE —
According to more than a few
kids that have made them¬
selves at home at Dawson
County’s newest attraction,
Gettin’ Board Skate Shop,
pink is the new black.
Although pink is the latest
craze in skate clothes and
boards, the color may be more
symbolic than the skaters
think, because the pink might
actually symbolize that the
owners of the skate shop are
women.
Christa Turner and Kay
Tidwell opened Gettin’ Board
Skate Shop near the intersec¬
tion of Ga. 400 and
Dawsonville Highway on Nov.
1 and have been even busier
than they expected.
(t It’s been great,” said
Turner, the mother of 11 -year
old Chase who might very
well turn out to be the next
Tony Hawk.
After meeting a few
friends in school who also ride
skateboards, Chase discovered
his love for the sport. .
“He rides every day,
Turner said.
Before long, Turner found
astronaut Brenau students to dream
By Jeff Gill
FCN Regional Staff
GAINESVILLE
Historic U.S. astronaut Sally
K. Ride wowed a Brenau
University audience, consist
ing largely of middle-school
girls, with tales and photo
graphs of space exploration.
She also encouraged the
group to “reach for the stars ■
in their own pursuits.
When I was a little girl, I
always dreamed of flying in
space,” Ride said. “To this
day, I still can’t believe that
dream came true.
Ride, who became the first
American woman in space
when she flew aboard the
Space Shuttle Challenger in
1983, spoke Thursday after
noon in Pearce A lditorium to
Brenau Women’s Academy
students, as well as area mid
dle-schoolers who arrived at
Brenau’s invitation.
She made a day of it in
Gainesville, speaking earlier
to Brenau science students
and then staying after the
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Hubbard, 32, of Cleveland was
arrested for burglary Saturday
around 10 p.m. at Sanford
Stadium, according to an inci¬
dent report filed by the
University of Georgia Police
Department.
Jason Harold Dooley, 31, of
Cumming was arrested along
with Hubbard on the same bur¬
glary charge at the stadium.
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herself driving almost an hour
each way so that Chase could
ride at parks specifically
designed for skateboards. She
also found herself traveling to
these same shops at the Mall
of Georgia and Discovery
Mills Mall, to purchase skate
clothes for her budding skater.
I was getting tired of driv¬
ing so far to buy cool clothes
he wanted,” she said.
One afternoon in July,
Turner and Tidwell were
shopping for Chase’s school
clothes at Discovery Mills
Mall, when almost in a joking
manner Tidwell said they
should open a clothes store
where kids could find clothes
they liked, in styles designed
with them in mind, to reflect
their personalities. Turner
loved the idea. Within weeks
the women were looking at
storefronts and checking into
rent prices. They signed their
lease on Sept. 1 and were
ready to begin the journey.
Both women were at points
in their lives when returning to
the work force was on the
horizon. But “instead of get¬
ting real jobs, we did this, »*
said Tidwell, who is overjoyed
with her decision to go into
business, but first questioned
Pearce talk for a reception in
her honor.
Ride, 54, left NASA more
than 15 years ago to become
a physics professor at the
University of California in
San Diego,
She’s on leave from that
post, however, while she
builds np her latest endeavor,
Sally Ride Science, an organ
ization she formed to moti
vate girls and young women
to pursue careers in science,
math and technology,
Ride spoke a fair bit on
that topic to her audience,
<( Women are still signifi
cantly underrepresented in
science and technology,” she
said. “The numbers are
climbing, but we still have a
long way to go. 99
Ride said an even number
of girls and boys are interest
ed in science in elementary
school. The numbers begin to
slip for both sexes in middle
school, but in larger numbers
for girls. Girls may believe
that it’s not “cool to be the
smartest person in their sci-
ed that Hubbard and Dooley
were taken into custody after
they were seen in an office
inside Sanford Stadium.
The officer found Hubbard
and Dooley “in the vicinity of
the field with items missing
from the office,” the report
said.
The report did not say what
items were taken and UGA
Police Chief Jimmy
the need for such a shop in the
area.
I had no idea so many
kids would be into this.
Christa knew, but I didn’t.
Turner realized many years
before that the area, which has
grown tremendously since the
outlet mall opened, still lacked
stores for the new generation
of children. “This kind of
store is really needed here,
she said.
And by the amount of traf
fic skating in and out of the
new shop, which carries not
only the latest fashions in
skate apparel, but also skate¬
boards, accessories and safety
equipment, she was correct.
“Skaters come by every
day after school,” Tidwell
said. “I heard one of the guys
yesterday on the phone with
his mom saying he was up at
the (skate) shop. They feel
comfortable here. *>
Turner added, “Now they
have a place to go.
At first, the skaters were
not sure if they could trust a
woman to build their skate
boards. “When they would
buy a board, they would ask if
anyone was here who could
build it,” said Tidwell, who
hasn’t yet mastered the art of
ence class, »»
Long interested in science,
she was inspired by some
high school teachers who
helped her build confidence.
I wasn’t really sure I was
smart enough to go on and do
what I wanted to do,” Ride
said,
She said that Sally Ride
Science is trying to create
materials and put on events
that show “that science is
cool.” The challenge is not so
much getting girls interested
in science but stoking an
interest that may have started
at a much earlier age.
From middle school on,
students can “build a founda
tion (in science) that will
allow you to take advantage
of opportunities that will
come your way. 99.
She cited herself as an
example of being at the right
place at the right time.
Ride recalled sitting in a
cafeteria at Stanford
University in California on
the eve of completing her
doctorate in physics in 1978.
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Both Hubbard and Dooley
referred comment to their
attorneys. Both posted $2,500
bond Sunday and were
released, according to an
Athens-Clarke County jail
spokesperson,
Kimbrell said Hubbard told
him earlier this week that
someone had given both he and
Dooley field passes to the
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Turner, on the other hand,
can build a board in about 15
minutes to the amazement of
stunned skaters,
They watch me real close
ly,” she said. Turner has not
had any complaints from her
customers.
She was thumbing through a
college newspaper when she
spotted a want ad from
NASA seeking astronauts.
She applied, along with
8,000 others. Ultimately, the
space agency chose 35 candi
dates, including Ride and five
other women, who would
become the new generation of
space shuttle astronauts.
Ride spent the next five
years in training, then would
go on to serve as a mission
specialist on the Space
Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
She served on another shuttle
mission in 1984.
She showed the audience
pictures, or “my vacation
slides,” of her space travels
and described how they took
place.
Flying 200 miles above
the earth, shuttle astronauts
had a better view of the blue
orb than America’s previous
generation of moon travelers,
she said.
Ride also fielded ques
tions from the audience,
including “How gross is the
game and the two used the
passes to get onto the field.
u Obviously law enforce¬
ment has a different story,
Kimbrell said.
Hall County Fire Chief
David Kimbrell Kimbrell, who
was informed of the firefight¬
er’s arrest by UGA Police, said
Hubbard would be paid during
the administrative leave while
the department conducts an
Instead of complaining, the
skaters want to know if the
shop is hiring, and if Gettin’
Board plans to sponsor any
local skaters.
Tidwell said the skate shop
is not ready for that aspect of
the business,
“Give us ’til the first of the
food?” and what kind o£ tech
nology was used for basic
daily functions.
Drawing laughter from the
audience, she noted that “air
suction” was used in going to
the toilet. “It was a lot like
sitting on a vacuum cleaner,”
she said.
Ride also served on presi
dential commissions probing
the mid-air explosion of
Space Shuttle Challenger in
1986 and disintegration of
Space Shuttle Columbia in
2003. The commission rec
ommended that NASA either
modernize the shuttle or
retire it and find a replace
ment.
NASA accepted the latter
suggestion and now is devel
oping a new spacecraft, one
that could look “very differ
ent” from the shuttle, for a
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internal investigation.
Kimbrell said he would
wait until criminal charges offi
cially are brought against
Hubbard before taking any fur¬
ther disciplinary action. He
said Hubbard could be fired if
he is indicted on the charges.
Hubbard has been with the
fire department as a firefighter
and paramedic for more than a
decade, Kimbrell said.
year. We’ve got to make sure
we can pay ourselves, before
we make any plans to pay
anyone else. »1
Gettin’ Board Skate Shop
opens at 10 a.m. Tuesday
through Saturday and 2 p.m.
on Sunday. The shop is closed
on Monday.
possible rollout in 2010 and
ready for its first mission in
2011, Ride said.
In a brief interview after
her presentation, Ride said
the new ship, along with
President Bush’s call for
returning to the moon by
2018 with Mars as a possible
next destination, “are provid
ing a good framework for the
future of the space program, 99
At least two seventh
graders, both from Davis
Middle in South Hall, said
they enjoyed Ride’s presenta
tion.
Megan Murphy said she
enjoyed seeing the pictures,
And Megan Mahaffey said
it particularly struck a chord
with her. “I’ve always liked
science and the whole NASA
thing, so I thought it was real
ly cool,