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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
LOCATSTATE
Homeless women veterans on the rise
$470 Million in
BY BO EMERSON
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA — Women who
have served in the military
have the same challenges in
transitioning as their male
counterparts, but with a few
added stresses.
Their family lives are fre
quently more complicated,
especially if they are single
mothers or the main custodial
parent. They experience, in
large numbers, a form of post-
traumatic stress that now has its
own acronym — MST, or mili
tary sexual trauma.
And, as a small, but fast-grow
ing minority, they are some
times overlooked.
“Women are invisible as vet
erans,” said Amy Stevens, 65,
founder of the support group
Georgia Military Women and
former director of psycho
logical health for the Georgia
National Guard.
This, despite fact women vet
erans are, according to Stevens,
more likely to be underem
ployed than their civilian coun
terparts, more likely to commit
suicide, and more likely to be
homeless.
Angela Robinson, 47, knows
all about sleeping in shopping
center parking lots. “We’re
driving around in the middle of
the night trying to find a some
what safe place to stay,” she
said, recalling the time in 2015
when she and her daughter
Dennobbi lived in their car.
“A couple of times we had
security tap on our window. I’d
make up something. I’d say ‘We
fell asleep,’ I would never tell
them I was homeless.
Robinson, of Marietta,
served with the Army in Desert
Storm and Desert Shield, then
later with the South Carolina
National Guard and the Geor
gia National Guard. Sexual
harassment in the military
made her suspicious and less
trusting back home, she says,
which had an impact on her
ability to get a job.
She’s also dealing with hear
ing loss and a back injury, but
said she wound up homeless
because of bad advice, assis
tance that fell through and her
failure to take care of business.
Now, she works part time in
administration at Fort McPher
son and volunteers, teaching
young people economic com
mon sense so they don’t make
the same mistakes. And she
hopes her daughter Dennobbi,
now 19, can get over the stress
of that chaotic upbringing.
Even highly educated for
mer military can find them
selves in a bind.
Today, the military has a
greater awareness that there is
a problem for female soldiers
and has taken steps to provide
remedies. Veterans Affairs has
begun installing advocates for
women veterans in each facil
ity and offering to counsel free
of charge for military sexual
trauma. The state of Georgia
recently created the Women
Veterans Office to do the same
thing at the state level.
Harassment still happens,
“but now, when it does, it can be
addressed, whereas in the past
you had to suffer in silence,”
said Maj. Carmin N. Nowlin,
executive officer and chief of
staff with the 787th Combat
Sustain and Support Battalion
stationed north of Baghdad.
Capt. Donna Rowe, 75, of
Marietta, said her experience
comes from a different era.
Women didn’t fight alongside
men during the Vietnam War,
though women died. “I served
in combat. I had gunfire com
ing into my triage area, but my
job was not a front-line soldier. ”
What was the same, was the
necessity of maintaining strict
boundaries with the soldiers.
Rowe was head nurse in the
triage unit of the Third Field
Hospital in Saigon. “There was
no stepping across the line with
an army nurse,” she said.
She became well-known for
helping save an infant who sur
vived the massacre of a village
by the Viet Cong, a story told in
the documentary “Under the
Shadow of the Blade.”
Rowe served as an advisor
during the planning of the Viet
nam Veterans Memorial but
was let down when the addition
of the “Three Soldiers” statuary
did not include a female figure.
“We decided we were going
to get our own monument,”
said Rowe. Joining fellow for
mer Army nurse Diane Carlson
Evans in the Vietnam Wom
en’s Memorial Project, Rowe
helped raise money and aware
ness and worked to get accep
tance from the Parks Service.
In 1993, 7,000 women and
38,000 men marched past the
White House to dedication
ceremonies for the memorial
of statues representing three
uniformed women helping a
wounded soldier. “It was the
first time a lot of the women had
seen the wall,” which includes
names of eight females killed
during the conflict, said Rowe.
“It was the most powerful
memorial event I’ve ever been
involved with.”
storm aid passes
state legislature
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Lawmakers ended their spe
cial legislative session Saturday with the state
Senate giving final approval
to $470M in aid and tax incen
tives to victims of Hurricane
Michael while also passing a
$40M tax break for airlines.
The Senate voted unani
mously to approve the two
hurricane relief bills, which
had previously cleared the
House. They include $69 mil
lion to help state and local
agencies cover emergency response costs, $55
million to assist farmers suffering crop losses
and $20 million for cleanup efforts on commer
cial timberland.
Meanwhile, commercial timber growers in
28 Georgia counties declared disaster areas
by the governor will able to claim $200 million
in tax credits aimed at encouraging them to
replant acreage scarred by trees snapped and
uprooted by the October storm. The credits will
also be available to farmers whose crops were
damaged.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Hill,
a Republican said the money would “begin the
process of rebuilding this part of our state.”
The measures were sent to Gov. Nathan
Deal, who quickly signed them into law.
Deal
KITCHEN
INSPECTIONS
The following are among the
food service establishments
inspected from Nov.13-16 by
the Hall County Environmental
Health Department. Food service
establishments are given a
letter grade that coincides with
a percentile: “A” (90-100), “B”
(80-89), “C” (70-79), “U” 69 and
below. Inspections (frequency
of) a food service establishment
are conducted based on risk
categorization. The risk type is
determined by the menu items
served, the food preparation
processed performed, and the
previous food safety history in the
food service establishment.
A new food service establishment
that has never served food must
score 100 (A) to receive a food
service permit to operate. When
a restaurant changes ownership,
a new food service permit must
be issued. To be issued a permit
for a change of ownership, the
establishment must score a 95 (A)
or above with all foodborne illness
risk factors and public health
interventions in compliance.
Permits must be posted in public
view at all times. Establishments
with drive-thru windows will
also be required to have the top
one-third of a copy of the most
current inspection report visible
through each window allowing
customers to easily read the
score, date of inspection and
establishment information, in
addition to the copy posted inside
the establishment. Copies of
the rules are available at the Hall
County Environmental health
Office. The rules and regulations
are also available online at dph.
georgia.gov/environmental-
health-inspections.
To register a complaint against
a food service establishment,
contact the Hall County
Environmental Health Department
at 770-531 -3973.
NOV. 13
Big Creek Tavern
3050 Big Creek Rd Buford, Ga 30518
Score: 97, Grade: A
Inspector: Lydia Hoffhines
Domino’s No. 3572
4841 Hog Mountain Rd Flowery
Branch, Ga 30542
Score: 91, Grade: A
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
Holiday Inn Express and
Suites
4951 Bristol Industrial Way Buford,
Ga 30518
Score: 83, Grade: B
Employee washing hands at
handwashing sink with gel
sanitizer and using napkins
to dry hands, CFSM/PIC was
unaware of supplies necessary
for correctly washing hands
Inspector: Lydia Hoffhines
Reunion Country Club
5609 Grand Reunion Dr Hoschton,
Ga 30548
Score: 100, Grade: A
Inspector: Alex Reid
Reunion Country Club- Turn Grill
7000 Grand Reunion Dr Hoschton,
Ga 30548
Score: 100, Grade: A
Inspector: Alex Reid
Starbucks No. 437
3630 Thompson Bridge Rd
Gainesville, Ga 30506
Score: 99, Grade: A
Inspector: Chelsea Lewis
Subway No. 23385
3630 Thompson Bridge Rd
Gainesville, Ga 30501
Score: 96, Grade: A
Inspector: Alex Reid
Subway No. 14228
1220 Thompson Bridge Rd NE
Gainesville, Ga 30501
Score: 96, Grade: A
Inspector: Alex Reid
Subway No. 39661
3875 Mundy Mill Rd Oakwood, Ga
30566
Score: 83, Grade: B
PIC states establishment has no
clean up kit or sanitizer to clean
up a vomit or fecal incident, quat
sanitizer buckets with excessive
debris and with a concentration
of Oppm.
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
NOV. 14
Deli Max
150 Pearl Nix Pkwy STE B-10
Gainesville, Ga 30501
Score: 87, Grade: B
Sliced tomatoes, American
cheese, and egg rolls stored in
commercial refrigerator removed
from their original packaging
without date/time labels
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
Fairfield Inn and Suites
1755 Browns Bridge Rd SW
Gainesville, Ga 30501
Score: 91, Grade: A
Inspector: Lydia Hoffhines
NOV 15
Firehouse Subs #409
333 Shallowford Rd Ste D
Gainesville, Ga 30504
Score: 85, Grade: B
Observed ice machine with pink
and black slime mold.
Inspector: Chelsea Lewis
La Hacienda
1714 Atlanta Hwy Unit A & B
Gainesville, Ga 30504
Score: 91, Grade: A
Inspector: Alex Reid
Laurelwood/NE Georgia
Medical Center
200 Wisteria Dr Gainesville, Ga
30501
Score: 100, Grade: A
Inspector: Chelsea Lewis
Starbucks Coffee Co.
No. 27463
3707 Mundy Mill Rd Oakwood, Ga
30566
Score: 90, Grade: A
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
Subway No. 59634
4025 Winder Hwy Ste 500 Flowery
Branch, Ga 30542
Score: 95, Grade: A
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
NOV 16
Fish Tales Lakeside Grille &
Catering
6330 Mitchell St Flowery Branch,
Ga 30542
Score: 97, Grade: A
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
Iron House Catering &
Events
5540 Atlanta Hwy Flowery Branch,
Ga 30542
Score: 100, Grade: A
Inspector: Alex Reid
Papa John’s No. 2973
4605 Elk Ridge Ct Flowery Branch,
Ga 30542
Score: 96, Grade: A
Inspector: Kyle Hriczo
Papa John’s Pizza No. 2998
2224 Thompson Bridge Rd B
Gainesville, Ga 30501
Score: 98, Grade: A
Shark Shack-Bake Shop
7650 Lanier Islands Pkwy Buford,
Ga 30518
Score: 100, Grade: A
Inspector: Lydia Hoffhines
Kenneth Hucks
OBITUARIES
James Edward Davis
June 27, 1927
-Nov. 16,2018
James Edward Davis, 94,
of Gillsville passed away
Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 at
Northeast Georgia Medical
Center.
A graveside service will
be held at 2 p.m. on Monday,
Nov. 19, 2018 in Memorial
Park Cemetery.
Born on June 27, 1927 in
White County, he was the
son of the late Newman and
Lillian Gooch Ashmore.
He was retired from Hall
County. Mr. Davis was a
member of Harmony Hall
Baptist Church.
Mr. Davis is survived by
his wife of 62 years, Hilda
Davis of Gillsville; daugh
ters, Donna Horton of
Greenville, S.C., Paula Davis
of Gillsville; son, James
Edward Davis of Green
ville, SC; sister, Pat Smith
of Hoganville; sister in law,
Pauline Planty of Lula; 5
grandchildren, Pamela Bur
nett, Jessica Horton, Andrew
Kelley, Brandon Horton,
Will Crane; 9 great-grand
children and a number of
other relatives.
Memorial Park Funeral
Home, Gainesville
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Nov. 18, 2018
Joseph John lannarone
Oct. 17, 1925
-Nov. 12, 2018
Joseph John lannarone,
93 years old of Gainesville
GA, died Nov. 12, 2018.
He was born Oct. 17, 1925
in Philadelphia PA to the
late Joseph and Michelina
(Dotoli) lannarone. He was
a graduate of Temple Uni
versity in Philadelphia. He
married the love of his life,
Mary, on June 10,1950.
Joe joined DuPont Com
pany in July 1950 as a trainee
in the Technical Laboratory.
While there, he worked on a
variety of dye evaluation
and application research
projects. In 1965, Joe was
transferred to Greensboro,
N.C., as a dye salesman; and
in 1971 he
was moved
to Char
lotte, NC
as a Sales
Manager
for tex
tile dyes.
Later, he
was trans
ferred to Wilmington, DE
as a Product Manager for
Teflon Carpet protectors. In
1981, he accepted an offer
in the International Depart
ment as Marketing Manager
in DuPont Far East-Tai-
wan. In 1985, he returned
to Wilmington and retired
from DuPont in 1986.
Joe is survived by his
wife, Mary, of 68 years; his
three sons, Michael and his
wife, Ann of Greensboro,
NC, Steven, and his wife
Wendy of Charlotte, NC and
James, and his wife, Carol of
Frederick, MD; six grand
children and four great
grandchildren; his brother
Lou and his wife, Stasia, of
Newark, DE.
Joe was predeceased by
his parents and sister.
A memorial service
is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 19, 2018 at
Grace Episcopal Church.
Reverend Dr. Stuart Hig
ginbotham will officiate.
Interment will follow in the
church Columbarium.
Joe and Mary are active
members of Grace Episco
pal Church and residents
of Lanier Village. In lieu
of flowers donations in his
memory may be made to
Grace Episcopal Church
or the National Psoriasis
Foundation.
Those wishing to send
online condolences to the
family may do so at littledav-
enport.com
Little & Davenport
Funeral Home and Crema
tory, Gainesville
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Nov. 18,2018
DEATH
NOTICES
Joe Lee Banks Sr.
Died Nov. 17,2018
Joe Lee Banks Sr., 74, of
Mount Airy died Saturday.
McGahee-Griffin & Stewart
Funeral Home, Cornelia.
Frances Marie Black
Died Nov. 17,2018
Frances Marie Black,
65, of Cleveland died Satur
day. Barrett Funeral Home,
Cleveland.
Hassie Rose
Ellender Carson
Aug. 14, 1922
-Nov. 17, 2018
Hassie Rose Ellender
Carson, 96, died Saturday.
Celebration of life service,
3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20,
funeral home chapel. Hill
side Memorial Chapel &
Gardens, Clarkesville.
Joseph Patrick Conway
Aug. 13. 1952
-Nov. 16, 2018
Joseph Patrick Conway,
66, of Dacula died Friday.
Flanigan Funeral Home and
Crematory, Buford.
Helen Elizabeth
Robertson Dunn
Oct. 28, 1932
-Nov. 16,2018
Helen Elizabeth Robert
son Dunn, 83, of Clarkesville
died Saturday. Whitfield
Funeral Home & Crematory,
Demorest.
Ruth Catherine Hummel
Died Nov. 16,2018
Ruth Catherine Hummel,
92, of Dawsonville died Fri
day. Ingram Funeral Home
& Crematory, Cumming.
Cole Edward Kraft
June 27, 1998
-Nov. 17,2018
Cole Edward Kraft, 20,
of Mount Airy died Friday.
Funeral service, 3 p.m. Mon
day, Nov. 19, Level Grove
Baptist Church. McGahee-
Griffin & Stewart Funeral
Home, Cornelia.
Peter Laba
Died Nov. 17,2018
Peter Laba, 73, of Cum
ming died Saturday.
Graveside service, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 21, Saw-
nee View Gardens. Ingram
Funeral Home & Crema
tory, Cumming.
Judy Elaine Lance
Died Nov. 16, 2018
Judy Elaine Lance, 61, of
Lula died Friday. Funeral
service, 1 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 20, funeral home cha
pel. Memorial Park Funeral
Home, Gainesville.
Douglas Cabot Price
Died Nov. 16, 2018
Douglas Cabot Price, 73,
of Rutledge died Friday.
Funeral service, 2 p.m. Tues
day, Nov. 20, funeral home
chapel. Flanigan Funeral
Home, Buford.
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