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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2023 THE JACKSON HERALD PAGE 5A Dillow to run for Jackson County Sheriff Dale Allen Dillow has an nounced that he is running for the office of Sheriff of Jackson County. Current Sheriff Janis Mangum re cently announced that she will not seek re-election. Dillow has served the citizens of Jackson County for 23 years as a law en forcement officer with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. He started as a jailer and attended the Northeast Georgia Police Academy in Athens. He was then pro moted to patrol and worked patrolling the county for three years. During that time, he served as a mem ber of the SCAT Team. This is the Sheriff’s Criminal Apprehension Team that worked high crime areas to help reduce drug use, pre vent property crimes, and make this county safer. In 2004, he was promoted to Lieutenant Investigator where he worked for the next 12 years on cases rang ing from property crimes to homicides. Dillow also spent several years working crimes against children and special victims and was also over the sex offender regis try for several years. During his time as an investigator, he has worked over 2,000 cases. In December 2016, Dil low was asked to take over as the Chief Investigator, and in January of 2017 he was officially promoted to Captain. He currently super vises 12 investigators and has supervised over 10,000 criminal cases ranging from homicides, suicides, drug cases, child molestations, property crimes and white collar crimes such as iden tity fraud. He has personally been the lead investigator or overseen the lead investiga tor on eight murder cases, more than 45 suicides, and more than 60 other death cases. Dillow has been married 22 years to his high school sweetheart Wendy Brook shire Dillow, daughter of David and Barbara Lance Brookshire of Pendergrass. Dale and Wendy have three children, Lawton (20), who is engaged to Makayla Gooch, Jaycee (17) a grad uating senior at East Jack- son Comprehensive High School and her significant other, Chandler Lampp, and Brooks (15), an upcoming junior. Dillow grew up on a small farm in the Brockton/Apple Valley area and still resides there with his family. He attended Benton Elemen tary in Nicholson, Jackson County Middle School, and DALE DILLOW graduated Class of 1997 from Jackson County High School. Dillow has since gone back to col lege in the evenings and completed his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at Reinhardt University. The Dillows attend The Grove in Maysville, where they have many friends who are like fami ly. Dillow’s life mentor is Pastor Jeff Appling. When asked about Dil low’s intentions for lead ing the sheriff’s office, he responded: ”1 am not trying to re invent the wheel, I only want to keep new tread on it and keep us moving forward in the right di rection as we grow. I have always tried to stay hum ble in my dealings with the citizens of this county. I put myself in their posi tion and treat them how I would want my loved ones treated.” SPSS# mm aids*; i ' ,.: Families got to participate in the festivities during Georgia Cities Week in Jef ferson. Jefferson celebrates Georgia Cities Week Jefferson recently took part in Georgia Cities Week. A number of festivities were held throughout the week, including: •Jefferson City School System students partici pated by highlighting what they love about Jefferson. Elementary school students drew pictures of their favor ite spots in Jefferson. These drawings were posted in lo cal businesses encouraging people to come downtown to see the artwork. A few of the Academy students had the opportunity to fin ish the statement “I believe Jefferson is the best place to live because....” These statements about communi ty and friends were posted on Facebook throughout the week. The middle school AV class created a video about the places and mentors in Jefferson who are lighting their way to a bright future. The video was shown at the city council voting session as well as shared on social media. High school students had the opportunity to shad ow in different city depart ments to learn a little more about what services the city provides its citizens. •On Tuesday afternoon, the Crawford W. Long Mu seum, hosted Andy Garri son, who entertained visi tors by portraying Dr. Long. • On Wednesday, even the Families got to participate in the festivities during Georgia Cities Week in Jefferson. The Crawford W. Long Museum, hosted Andy Garrison, who enter tained visitors by por traying Dr. Long. rain didn’t stop over 200 people from visiting Touch- A-Truck at the Jefferson Civic Center with over 20 participants providing kids the ability to have hands-on access to dozens of trucks, equipment, ambulances, firetrucks, police cars, re mote control airplanes and more. Families play games during the festivities in Jefferson. •Thursday, Jefferson Pub lic Utilities provided cus tomers with complimentary lunch as a token of appreci ation. •To wrap up the week, families were invited to at tend a movie on the lawn for free hot dog and other con cessions, as well as activi ties before the movie. Photos from Jefferson and Commerce Touch-a-Truck events can be found on page 11B. Touch-a-Truck was part of Georgia Cities Week celebrations. County holds admin building groundbreaking Members of the Jackson County government leadership team along with construction officials broke ground on May 1 for a new county adminis trative facility across from the courthouse in Jefferson. The building will replace the county’s current administrative in downtown Jefferson. Tom Crow, chairman of the Jackson Coun ty Board of Commis sioners, makes re marks to the crowd at the May 1 ground breaking for a new county administra tive building. Jackson County manager Kevin Poe addresses the crowd at the May 1 groundbreaking for a new coun ty administrative building. The concept plan for the building is shown in the background on a large mu ral behind Poe. The facility will be located across from the Jackson County Courthouse. The county is talking with the City of Jefferson about possibly buying the current county administrative building and its six acres in downtown Jefferson. Unemployment rate holds steady in March Almost all regional commissions across the state, including the North east Regional Commis sion, reported unchanged unemployment rates in March. According to Geor gia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson, Georgia Mountains Regional Com mission, Heart of Georgia Regional Commission, and River Valley Region al Commission reported slight rises in unemploy ment rates. All others re mained steady. The labor force rose in all regional commissions across the state. Employment was up in all regional commissions except for the Central Sa vannah River Regional Commission. In March, initial un employment claims de creased in all regional commissions except for the River Valley Regional Commissioner and South west Georgia Regional Commission, which expe rienced a rise. Details from the North east Regional Commis sion include: •The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.1% over-the-month the rate was 2.8% one year ago. • The labor force was up 1,995 over-the-month and up 4,704 over-the-year, to 328.603, an all-time high. •The number of em ployed was up 1,674 over- the-month and up 3,459 over-the-year, to 318.274, an all-time high. • Initial claims were down 65 (-7%) over-the- month and up 56 (7%) over-the-year, to 924. The Northeast Region al Commission includes Barrow. Clarke, Elbert, Greene. Jackson, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, New ton, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton counties. Piedmont releases FY22 Community Impact Report Piedmont Athens Med ical Center has released its Community Impact Re port. During Piedmont’s Fis cal Year 2022. Piedmont performed more than 345 community involvement activities, 110 health ed ucation and awareness activities, 55 community health services, 50 physi cian enterprise activities and 20 diversity equity and inclusion activities. In addition. Piedmont em ployees were represented on more than 265 board or committee memberships. Piedmont provided nearly $360 million in commu nity benefit in FY2022. including approximately $310 million in uncom pensated care. At Piedmont Athens Re gional, the focus extended to include activities that support workforce de velopment. such as par ticipation in the Clarke County School District (CCSD) Teacher Extern program and the creation of the Healthcare Occupa tions Student Association (HOSA) grants program. Additional focus was placed on addressing the health concerns of the lo cal African-American pop ulation. Piedmont Athens holds an annual sympo sium, the Howard Stroud Community Health Event, to educate and engage the community on health con cerns and resources facing African-Americans in and around Athens. “The impact Piedmont makes in our communities makes me so proud to be a part of this organization,” Piedmont Athens Regional CEO Michael Burnett said. “Our purpose to make a positive difference is lived out every day across our state and beyond. At Pied mont, Real Change Lives Here.” Piedmont team members supported hundreds of oth er community partners and their work in its communi ties. Among these activities are: Providing health and wellness services and edu cation. partnering with oth er non-profits to sponsor their events, volunteering alongside other non-profits in their work, and serving in a leadership capacity of community Boards or oth er professional and civic organizations. • Gn from Tr.mmji Survivor [0 ’Trauma Th river ■ Use emotional Intelligence and basic self- defense skills to iupplement recovery from trauma. + Saturday June noth from loam-wopm i n Commerce Georgia. ■ Offering is limited 1016-ijjOIi. Proceeds will go toward a charitable arm working with local domestic violence shelters and women's rehabilitation centers. Recommended donation of Sf o.m to attend. Contact [Lmaioi@myyahoo.com to register.
