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Memorial Day ceremony in Jasper Monday
— See page 11A for details
Thursday, May 27, 2021 Volume 134 Number 6 Jasper, Georgia 26 pages in two sections Published Weekly
An unlikely"Million Dollar Wound"
Donnis Fields is pictured
here with an M-3 Halftrack.
Although not as "glam
orous " as a tank, the half
track was an integral part of
any armored division and
was often fitted with .30 or
.50 caliber machine guns for
assault support. The one
seen here has been con
verted to a "self-propelled
gun." Halftracks also fer
ried infantry troops to com
bat zones and evacuated the
wounded from the battle
field.
A Memorial Day
tribute to
all veterans
By Larry Cavender
Progress Contributor
Being wounded in battle is by no
means ever to be considered a blessing.
However, in the long history of conflict,
many a soldier has considered one par
ticular type of wound as a true blessing,
a wound best described as non-fatal and
non-debilitating, but serious enough to
result in removal from harm's way and
sent home, permanently. This type of in
jury is known in the parlance of a soldier
as "a million dollar wound." This is the
story of one man receiving such a
wound.
In the spring of 1945, the German
Wehrmacht was on its heels. In a few
short weeks, Adolf Hitler would commit
suicide in his Berlin bunker and the
Thousand Year Reich would cease to be
after little more than a decade.
Although World War II in Europe was
See Tribute on 11A
Seen here is Donnis
Fields in a photograph
taken earlier this month.
The World War II veteran
is looking forward to his
lOOtIt birthday on Octo
ber 22nd, and also to cel
ebrating his 75th
anniversary with his wife,
Martha, in November. He
and Martha have three
daughters, four grand
children, and 10 great
grandchildren. (Photo by
Larry Cavender.)
Former
teacher pleads
not guilty to
soliciting
nude photos
from students
By Angela Reinhardt
Staff Writer
areinhardt@pickensprogress.com
Last week, a
former Pickens
Junior High
teacher Gilbert
Suarez, IV pled
non-guilty to
charges that
stem from him
allegedly seek
ing inappropri
ate photographs
from female students.
Suarez, of Cartersville, was
See Suarez on 10A
Book-in photo
Gilbert Suarez, IV
Hats off to the 2021 PHS grads
Robin Dunn / Photo
Excitement was in the air as Pickens High School seniors tossed their caps at the end of graduation cere
monies last Friday, May 21. This was the first evening graduation at the school in many years.
Folk school expects late summer re-opening
By Dan Pool
Editor
dpool@pickensprogress.com
The Southern Appalachian Folk School in
Jasper intends to resume classes and other ac
tivities in late summer.
Heather Poole, president of the board of di
rectors at the folk school on D.B. Carroll
Street, said she wants people to know, “we’re
not dead, we’re still clipping along.”
Poole said the SAFS went dormant with the
pandemic and it takes time to re-connect with
instructors, arrange classes and promote the of
ferings but they fully intend to get the school,
which both offers classes and hosts occasional
shows and events, back into action.
“We definitely want to get it going,” she
said. The board president said they had been
further hampered when her own pottery studio
was flooded in a spring storm, leaving it sig
nificantly damaged. She said getting her studio
going again is requiring a good bit of time and,
like all non-profits, volunteers are few and far
between at the folk school.
“We had been planning a community ice
cream social, where people could walk through
our garden and watch different instructors
[demonstrate their crafts] and ask them ques
tions about the classes [when COVID shut
everything down],” she said. “We’ll probably
start back with something like that to give peo
ple a dose of folk art.”
See Folk school on 10A
Jasper Middle
students take a
tour through
historic Jasper
Page 6A
Obituaries - 9A
• Alvin Roland
McAdoo Jr.
• Henry Bond III
• Ken Lacey
• Mary Lucile Pagel
Elkins
• Michael Towns
• Nathan Pilgrim
• Norma Morrison
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