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PAGE 12A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 2010
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Council
rejects
application
store, Kelly Nettleton, said all
employees would be required to
take alcohol-training classes, and
any employee failing to card
someone purchasing alcohol
would be terminated on a first of
fense.
Speaking on behalf of the
church, Alvin Young disagreed
with the assertion that the
church’s preschool is not a
school.
“We have 35 students cur
rently enrolled, and we follow
the same schedule as the local
school system,” Young said.
“Students are taught language
arts, mathematics, creative
movement, and other develop-
mentally-appropriate classes.
This school has been going on
for 50 years. It is a school, and
we would ask the council to rec
ognize that.”
Young said he was sure the
local store didn’t make the deci
sion to pursue the beer and wine
license, that the decision was
likely made at a corporate office
somewhere “where people know
nothing of the tradition here.”
“But they should know that
it’s probably going to hurt them
in this community if they pursue
this. There are 800 members of
the First Baptist Church and I
don’t know how many members
with the local ministerial associ
ation. If Walgreen’s disrespects
the church in enforcing this law,
I think it’s going to be an eco
nomic detriment to the store,”
Young said.
First Baptist Pastor Dr. Jimmy
Lewis also spoke, saying the
church had been at its current lo-
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NASCAR
hopeful
D4D’s operating organization.
The 909 Group, says competition
at D4D in 2010 is fiercer than
ever.
“We expanded the evaluation
process for our drivers last year
and have seen tremendous
growth in the caliber of talent
and competition in the D4D pro
gram as a result,” Siegel said.
“We expect to have the bar raised
even higher at this year's Com
bine."
Now all Wallace has to do is
balance the extensive practice
hours on the track with school
and her other responsibilities and
interests, like horses and model
ing.
Wallace attended Pickens
High School her freshman and
sophomore years, but for junior
year, she and her family decided
night school would allow her to
train more dining the day.
“But education is number
one,” Wallace’s father said. “No
matter how much she loves rac
ing, she knows that education is
number one. My thinking is that
if you don’t give kids out there
something that they want to do,
they’re going to find something
that’s not good.”
Wallace says beyond making
it big in NASCAR, her career
goals are to become either a psy
chologist or esthetician. “I like
English in school,” she said. “I
guess math is my worst subject.
But I also want to go to the tech
school and learn about motors. I
just want to know all I can.”
Outside of school walls, Wal
lace says she spends about four
or five hours a day training at
Gresham Motorsports or Lanier
National Speedway or Mont
gomery National Speedway as
much as money permits.
“It’s really expensive,” Wal
lace said. “Tires are like $1,000
a week, and then it’s $200 an
hour to rent out the track, plus
gas, and that’s $10 a gallon.”
Wallace said her parents are
her biggest sponsors, but NAPA
in Gainesville, Ga. provides all
parts, and Circle Wheels keeps
wheels on the super truck and pro
late model car she races.
It’s all in the family. Wallace’s
bug for racing comes naturally.
Both her mother and her father’s
side of the family are dripping
with drivers, pit crewmen and
racing techs.
Her aunt owns Thunder Hill,
a racing track in Texas, where her
grandmother drove in powder
puff events and her father was
track champ. Her brother, 24, is
on NASCAR’s Elliott Sadler’s
pit crew, and her grandfather is
“tech guy” at Thunder Hill.
“They didn’t have a chance.
It’s in their blood,” said Wal
lace’s father Jake. “I started rac
ing in the 60s...then my
youngest son decided he wanted
to start racing, so I decided to
stop, because it’s too hard to race
when your kids want to race too.
[Kristen] started racing about
three years ago, and then I just
focused everything on them and
stepped out of the seat.”
Beyond monetary backing,
Jake and Lori Wallace offer other
kinds of support, traveling with
their daughter to every practice
and every race. But even at an
age when most teenagers rebel,
Kristen welcomes the company.
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Breast
Cancer
screening
An image is taken of the patient’s
breasts with a special thermal
camera. A health professional ex
amines the images and looks for
areas where abnormal heat is
generated by new vessel growth
from cancerous tumors or other
non-cancerous abnormalities
such as cysts.
While this technology has
been FDA-approved since 1982,
it is just beginning to get some
attention, and Myrick, a self-pro-
claimed champion for breast
health, is working to disseminate
the information to as many
women as she can.
“Really the challenge is find
ing a doctor who will be aggres
sive with the treatments and who
will take it seriously,” Myrick
said. “If you go to a traditional
oncologist or OBGYN, they’re
not going to know what to do
with thermography. They just
haven’t spent the time to study it,
but the doctors I know, who have
spent the time, implement it into
their practice.
“You are going to have to find
someone who will take an out-
of-the-box approach, someone
who is more interested in com
plementary or alternative ap
proaches. Those are the doctors
who will be most helpful.”
But interestingly, Myrick says
many patients interested in ther
mography are also typically in
terested in alternative treatment
methods as well.
Myrick offered up a personal
experience; by altering her diet,
a patient who had a T5 thermog
raphy reading, the most suspi
cious reading, was able to reduce
that reading to a T3 in just six
months.
“She got serious about her
diet and detoxifying herself,”
Myrick said. “It was just incred
ible how much she improved.”
Beyond diet, Myrick also be
lieves the number of women di
agnosed with breast cancer could
be reduced by 50 to 75 percent if
VitaminD3 levels are kept at
healthy levels.
“Knowledge is power,”
Myrick said, “and this is the best
truth I have about breast health
today.”
Myrick will be presenting a
lecture on thermography at
Emerging Healthcare this Satur
day. See the adjacent flyer for de
tails about the event.
In addition to the lecture,
Myrick is going to hold thermog
raphy screenings at Emerging
Healthcare on Thursday, October
28. Discounts will be offered for
those who attend the October 16
lecture and for those who sched
ule a screening (and keep their
appointment) during the month
of October.
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cation for 150 years and was
present on the spot long before
Walgreen’s came.
“Walgreen’s knew where they
were building their facility. It’s a
matter of respect for community
values,” Dr. Lewis said.
City Council Member Jim
Looney said his adult children at
tended the church’s preschool in
the mid-1980s, and he could at
test to the fact that they were
taught a “regularly taught cur
riculum” as required in defining
a school.
Jasper Mayor John Weaver
told Sard, who indicated Wal
green’s would likely appeal the
ruling in court, that “We look for
ward to the challenge. We enjoy
having Walgreen’s there, but we
can’t let the tail wag the dog.”
In other news:
• Updating the council on the
suspected rape reported in the
city last month, Police Chief
Harold Cantrell said the police
department had “not been able to
substantiate that a rape did
occur.” Cantrell said the investi
gation was turned over primarily
to the Georgia Bureau of Inves
tigation mainly due to the Bu
reau’s investigation capabilities.
“The investigation is on hold.
The lady is not cooperating at
this time. I can report that we do
not have a serial rapist on the
loose in Jasper,” Cantrell said.
• The council approved the
purchase of a Caterpillar D5
Dozer for $65,000. Mayor
Weaver said the equipment
would be used for a variety of
projects including the opening of
right of way easements and in
construction of water lines.
“We need to pick up as much
of this equipment as we can dur
ing this downturn,” Weaver said.
Council members also ap
proved the following:
• Annexation of 23 acres at
152 Mineral Springs Road into
the city as C2. The property is lo
cated along Hwy. 515 near the
county jail.
• Contract with TBS to print
and mail the city’s utility bills.
• Contract with Go Green De
struction Services to perform on
site shredding of the city’s
sensitive documents.
• Contract with Midway Ma
chinery & Auction to auction off
the city’s surplus items.
• Council members gave the
go-ahead for city employees to
apply for grant funds from the
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, which is accepting
applications for its recreational
trails program. A grant could be
worth anywhere from $25,000 -
$100,000.
• Council members also ap
proved an amendment to the
city’s ordinance regarding where
tattoo parlors are allowed by city
zoning. Tattoo parlors are now
permitted in commercial and
manufacturing districts but not in
the central business district.
“They’re always talking about
how proud of me they are and my
brother for following our goals,”
Wallace said. ”1 would rather
them be there supporting me the
whole time. I’m originally from
Texas, and I’ve got family there
who always calls and asks how
we’re doing. They always sup
port me, too.”
Wallace says people always
ask her if she wants to be like
Danica Patrick, NASCAR’s only
female racer. Wallace says, “I
want to be like Kristen Wallace,
not Danica. I just want to make it
up in NASCAR and go as far as
I can. “
You can learn more about
D4D at drivefordiverstiy.com.
Learn more about Kristen at
www.kristenwallaceracing.com
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