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Race Recap - Toyota/Save Mart 350
Stage 2 officially started on
lap 30 with Elliott continuing
to lead until deciding to pit
with a few laps left in the
stage. Most of the field came
in to pit as well, and one of
the ones that stayed out was
Logano and he ended up
winning stage 2 due to the
different strategy. Logano
and everyone else that didn’t
pit yet came in to pit and the
lead was now handed to
Buescher.
Stage 3 officially started
on lap 61 and Suarez took the
lead from Buescher after
Buescher locked up the
brakes in turn 4. The race re
mained green for a while
with Suarez continuing to
lead. During the final set of
pit stops, Larson lost a right
front tire after he came back
onto the track after making
his pit stop due to the tire not
tightened and that brought
out the caution. The rest of
the field on the lead lap that
hadn’t pitted yet came in to
make their final pit stop of
the day and Suarez ended up
back in the lead. The final
restart happened on lap 88
and Suarez and Buescher
battled it out for the lead for
a while with Suarez leading
and Buescher right behind
him, prepared to pass him if
Suarez made a mistake. He
put up a good fight for a little
bit, but Suarez began to pull
away from Buescher in the
final laps and held onto to
win the Toyota/Save Mart
350. After being in the Cup
series for about 5 and a half
years, going through differ
ent teams like Joe Gibbs or
Gaunt Brothers, and never
making the playoffs, Suarez
finally got his first ever Cup
series win and will now be
locked into the playoffs for
the first time in his Cup ca
reer.
Having another first-time
winner in their career and
this season is awesome, but
how was the race itself? It
was another good race. There
was a good number of battles
for position on track during
each green flag run though
not a whole lot of passes.
Different leaders, but no
green flag passes for the lead.
Some battles for the lead
with people we’re not used to
seeing up front be up front a
lot, and an exciting new first
time winner. It was definitely
not the best race of the sea
son, but it was still a pretty
enjoyable race.
Next week, we head to....
Actually, no race next week.
The Cup series will have a
rare off-week before heading
to the music city - Nashville,
Tennessee. So next week, we
will be looking back at how
this season has been with the
NextGen car and how good
of a car it has been, so look
forward to that next week.
Next week - 2022
NASCAR Cup season and
NextGen review.
Technical Advisor - Scott
Korowotny
On the lookout for good sports & in
teresting hobbies
As the high school sports season
winds down, the Progress would love
to feature adult athletes, weekend
warriors and enthusiasts of all types
who want to share their interests.
Shoot us an e-mail to articles@pick-
ensprogress.com and well arrange an
interview.
Pickens County Board of Education
Called Board Meeting
June 16, 2022 at 5 p.m.
100 D.B. Carroll Street
Jasper, Ga. 30143
The Pickens County Board of Education will meet
on Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 5:00 PM at Pickens
County Board of Education, 100 D.B. Carroll Street,
Jasper, GA 30143 for a called board meeting and
public budget hearing. The Board will hold executive
session, then the first of two FY23 public budget
hearings. The purpose of the budget hearing will be
to hear public input and comments concerning the
proposed FY23 budget for the Pickens County School
System.
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Agenda
III. Executive Session
IV. Approval of Executive Session Minutes
V. FY23 Budget Presentation
VI. FY23 Budget Public Comment
VII. Adjourn
Pickens County Board of Education
Regular Board Meeting
June 16, 2022 at 6 p.m.
Pickens County Board of Education Central Office
100 D.B. Carroll Street
Jasper, GA 30143
The Pickens County Board of Education will meet on Thursday, June 16 at 6:00 PM
for the regular monthly board meeting.
I. Call to Order
II. Invocation
III. Pledge of Allegiance
IV. Approval of Agenda
V. Recognitions
A. Pickens County 4-H Places in District Competition
VI. Superintendent Reports
A. Financial Update-AmySmith, Chief Financial Officer
B. Operations and Construction - Stacy Gilleland, Chief Operations Officer
VII. Action Items
A. Approval of Personnel
B. Approval of Financial Reports
C. FY22 Budget Amendment
D. Approval of FY23 Tentative Budget
E. Approval of FY23 Salary Schedules
F. Approval of Substitutes & Paraprofessionals Bid for FY23
G. Request for Approval of Bid with Sysco Atlanta, LLC for School Nutrition
H. Approval of Sex Education Curriculum
I. Approval of FY22 Lease Agreement with Mountain Education Charter High
School
J. Approval of Field Experience and Internship Agreement with Georgia
Southern University
K. Approval of Minutes
L. Approval of Surplus
M. Approval to Surplus School Bus
VIII. Public Participation
IX. Board Comments
X. Adjourn
THURSDAY. JUNE 16. 2022 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 3B
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Young Life Camps
Each camp had a camp speaker who crafted
and shared a message about God’s great love
in terms kids could tndy understand. After
every message, kids and their leaders met in
their cabins to discuss what they heard their
speaker say and how it applies to their lives
today.
The days at Carolina Point and South-
wind provided kids with the time and space
to live in a distraction-free environment,
which allowed them to build friendships, ex
perience life fidly, and hear the gospel pre
sented in an engaging way, all while
surrounded by God’s marvelous creation. As
rising PHS sophomore Brianna Eggley said
about her time at Carolina Point, “I had the
best time this past week! I got to spend time
with great friends and met new people.
Can’t wait to go again.”
Young Life is a non-profit Christian or
ganization whose purpose is to introduce
adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them
grow in their faith. Young Life staff and vol
unteer leaders believe that teenagers are im
portant and valuable. The staff and leaders
are committed to building relationships with
kids and modeling the attractive, uncondi
tional love of Jesus Christ during an impres
sionable time in teenagers’ lives.
Young Life Pickens County welcomes all
high school and junior high school students.
For more information about what’s ahead in
the coming school year and upcoming
school season weekend camp dates, please
contact Kate Meek at 706.536.6949 or
kate.hargrove@pickens.younglife.org.
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One of the world’s best decathletes
comes from Ball Ground
Who says women can’tpole vault? Ball Ground’s Jordan Gray is on a quest
to not only show she is a top competitor at the decathlon and she wants to see it
as an Olympic sport for women.
But this is not the same, she explained. “The
heptathlon was really founded on the idea
that women can’t handle ten events, that
women can’t pole vault.”
The heptathlon was founded in 1984.
Women weren’t allowed to pole vault In the
Olympics until the year 2000.
“It was 16 years before women were even
allowed to pole vault, so now it’s 2022 and
they just never caught the heptathlon up with
the rest of the world. Women can do these
events,” Gray said.
Gray’s passion is the decathlon, but she
has to run the heptathlon for any chance of
making Team USA the way things stand
now.
The decathlon, put together first in its
modem form in 1912, was meant to be
geared to a very well-rounded athlete. Ath
letes have to be able to do a lot of things with
their upper bodies, like pole vault and throw,
in addition to runs and jumps.
The heptathlon is geared more towards
sprinters and jumpers, making it more differ
ent of an event than many realize.
“ I definitely enjoy the decathlon a lot
more because, heptathletes tend to look like
sprinter-jumpers, they tend to be that build,
versus really good decathletes for guys,
sometimes you get guys that look like freak
ing football players and they are just doing
awesome and other times they look like guys
that you think might be cross country kids
and they’re just killing it in the pole vault and
the distance runs. So there’s much more va
riety in what you can be good at and still be
a very successful decathlete, which is part of
the reason I like it.”
Gray grew up on a little farm in Ball
Ground and didn’t start track and field until
the summer before her senior year. “I always
tell people that it’s really easy to ran on a
track when you’ve had to chase goats
through the woods before. Nothing’s jump
ing and turning, you don’t have to tackle
anything at the end, you’ve just got to ran,”
she laughed.
When asked about the future of women’s
decathlon Gray was optimistic about the next
generation. “The generation just below me
(she’s 26), the high schoolers and early col
lege athletes, are much more willing to say
no. I think that as girls we get pretty used to
being told ‘you can’t play football, that’s
only for boys, but you can hold the pom
poms,’ or ‘you can’t play baseball, but here’s
a softball.’ So by the time you get to college,
when most women start doing the hep
tathlon, women get told you only get to do
seven, and they’re like ‘okay’. I think the
generation below me is much more willing
to say that’s not right.”
There are discussions about adding
women’s decathlon to the 2024 Olympics,
but much depends on how strict the IOC will
be on the four year notice rale. Gray plans to
try for the heptathlon if the decathlon is not
available, but will continue to push herself
and decision-makers either way.
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it ' s YOu rajw.
MUU CAMP 2022
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Pre-register for $65
on the Pickens
Cheerleading Facebook
Page starting 6/20.
July 18-21st 9-12am PHS Gym
Ages4-6th grade
Program-wide showcase Thursday 7/21 at 11am!
Camp Day Themes;
Tuesday; TIE DYE
Wednesday: RAINBOW
Thursday: Green
Learn cheer basics,
boogie with your
buddies, and haue the
BEST TIME EVER!
Includes tshirt & GROOVY swag!