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SOUTH HALL
New roundabout opening July 15
Traffic shift set on Lanier Islands Parkway/Ga. 347
BY JEFF GILL
jgill@gainesvilletimes.com
Hall County’s newest round
about could open July 15.
A traffic shift is planned on
Lanier Islands Parkway/Ga. 347
so that traffic can flow on the
roundabout at Big Creek Road.
The shift had been planned for
Tuesday, July 2, but contractors
requested a delay.
“We have to have striping down,
we have to have guardrail in, and
some of that hasn’t happened,”
said Katie Strickland, district
spokeswoman for the Georgia
Department of Transportation.
“It kind of worked out better
to not shift traffic (Tuesday),”
she added. “Going into a holiday
weekend, we don’t want to put
traffic in a situation where (they
face) a brand-new pattern.”
And July Fourth is one of Lake
Lanier’s busiest holidays.
The roundabout is part of a
newly widened Ga. 347 between
McEver Road and Lanier Islands
resort. A cemetery at that inter
section forced a realignment of
Ga. 347 in that area.
The $10.4 million project has a
completion date of Oct. 31.
■ Please see TRAFFIC, 8A
Traffic to Big
Creek Road
turns from Ga.
347 Tuesday,
July 2, on
to the newly
completed
portion of
the Ga. 347/
Lanier Islands
Parkway
project.
SCOTT ROGERS
The Times
Angel House spreads its wings
Womens outpatient program coming to sober living home
BY JOSHUA SILAVENT
jsilavent@gainesvilletimes.com
The past few years have let
Brooke Boyette turn her life
around.
In jail and struggling with an
addiction to opioids, the Statesboro
native found a second chance at
Angel House of Georgia when she
arrived at the women’s residential
sober living home in Gainesville in
September 2015.
By December 2016, she was
completing the program, one
of 230 women assisted by Angel
House since its founding in 2011.
“Coming here was the most
overwhelming feeling that I’ve
ever had,” Boyette said. “It was
scary. But after about three weeks
to a month, it was home.”
Through treatment, Boyette was
able to reestablish a relationship
with her young daughter.
Angela English, founder and
program director of Angel House,
said reconnecting with their fami
lies is “one of the main goals these
women have.”
Boyette now works as a case
manager for Angel House, bring
ing her personal experience to
bear on the lives of other women
looking to get sober and reorient
their lives.
“One thing I gained while here
was financial stability,” Boyette
said.
She is also currently training
to become a substance abuse
counselor.
That training will benefit Angel
House in bigger ways now that it
has received a certification from
the Georgia Department of Com
munity Health to open an intensive
outpatient program to comple
ment its residential program.
“It was a lot of paperwork,”
English said of getting approved, a
process that took three years from
inception to the day in mid-June
when she received the certificate
in the mail.
English said the outpatient
■ Please see ANGEL, 4A
scon ROGERS I The Times
Angel House Director Angela English, right, and case manager Brooke Boyette operate their
offices out of a small house in midtown. The alcohol and drug addiction recovery program is
now is adding an outpatient treatment portion to its addiction recovery program.
SOUTH HALL
Vote delayed
on proposed
strip mall,
subdivision
BY JEFF GILL
jgill@gainesvilletimes.com
A vote on a proposed shopping center and
adjacent 132-lot subdivision in South Hall was
put off Monday, July 1, by the Hall County Plan
ning Commission, to give the project’s appli
cants more time with the development’s design.
A specific date wasn’t given for when the
project could go back to the commission, even
though Bobby Bullard, a land planner with proj
ect, said he could bring back revised plans in
two weeks.
“In this situation, we’ve got a lot of time
because sewage (service) not being in place,”
Commissioner Stan Hunt said.
WE Flip LLC is looking rezone some 74 acres
off Ridge Road and Friendship Road/Ga. 347 in
■ Please see VOTE, 8A
Atlanta man’s
body recovered
in Lake Lanier
BY NICK WATSON
nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com
An Atlanta man’s body was found in 26 feet
of water Monday, July 1, near the spot he dis
appeared three days earlier on Lake Lanier,
according to authorities.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
game wardens found the body of Corey Lamar
Brown, 28, around 4:44 p.m. Monday near Vann’s
Tavern Park.
“Game wardens located him using sector scan
sonar and then recovered him with the remote-
operated vehicle,” DNR spokesman Mark McK
innon said Monday.
Brown was on a rented double-decker pontoon
■ Please see LAKE, 8A
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Terry Thrift, 57
James Evans, 78
Timothy Thompson, 55
Hilda Blalock, 70
Jeremy Byers, 29
Anna Wilson, 86
Diane Richards, 79
Henry Turk, 87
Carol Lynch, 48
Charles Gailey, 74
Claude Feagins, 65
David Bohanan, 56
Beatrice Garey, 95
Mary Baliles, 93
Marjory Essex, 69
Kathleen Boring
Jose Lopez, 64
Richard Isaac, 74
Dolores Hopson, 78
Catherine Gilbreth, 59
Wayne Tuggle, 64
Luke Guidry, Jr, 81
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