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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 3A
Grady Young
Foundation
names 2020
honorees
The Grady Young Foundation, a nonprofit
that provides spiritual and financial support
to communities in Hall County, has announced
its 2020 scholarship recipients and its “Living
Legacy” honorees.
Although its annual scholarship weekend
fundraising project was canceled this year, the
organization still was able to award 19 schol
arship recipients and recognize 19 seniors 90
years and older for their longevity, leadership
and service to the area.
Memorial and named
scholarship winners:
■ Abigale Derusha, Johnson High School,
Grady Young Scholarship
■ Jayla Montgomery, Peachtree Ridge High
School, Gaynell B. Y. Williams Scholarship
■ Lauren Hester, Coretta Scott King Young
Women’s Leadership Academy, Estelle M. Y.
Jackson Scholarship
■ Adonis Merritt, Alvoy High School, Marie
Young Johnson Scholarship
■ Nicholas Butts, Cherokee Bluff High
School, Marion “Paulette” Lott Scholarship
■ Mariah George, Savannah Early College
High School, Irene Young Johnson Scholarship
■ Evian Kilgore, Eloise Mosley Young
Scholarship
■ Aniyah Norman, Gerald Franklin Kesler
Scholarship
■ Ayana Holmes, Sarah Dillard Legacy
Builder Scholarship
Book and incentives
scholarship winners:
■ Taylor Sturdivant, Gainesville High
School, GY Foundation Book Scholarship
■ Luca Bandini, Gainesville High School,
GY Foundation Book Scholarship
■ Larkyn Tremble, Woodville Tomp
kins High School, GY Foundation Incentive
Scholarship
■ Kayla Jackson, Gainesville High School,
GY Foundation Book Scholarship
■ Kayla Gales, Woodland High School, GY
Foundation Incentive Scholarship
■ Zoe Bailey, Alfred E. Beach High School,
GY Foundation Incentive Scholarship
■ Alyssa Ramos, Johnson High School, GY
Foundation Book Scholarship
■ Maranda Bhojwani, Groves High School,
GY Foundation Incentive Scholarship
■ Molly Holcomb, Johnson High School, GY
Foundation Book Scholarship
■ Isley Millender, Pebblebrook High
School, GY Foundation Incentive Scholarship
Living Legacy honorees:
■ Mary Elizabeth Westbrooks, Gainesville
■ Bernice Helen Austin, Gainesville
■ Louise Barnett, Barrow County
■ Mildred Young-Brown, Gainesville
■ Louise Harriett Randolph Butler, Jackson
County
■ Ellen Watkins Cheeks, Gainesville
■ Wessie Nell Clark, Gainesville
■ Beatrice Wheeler Hailey, Gainesville
■ Robert L. “Bob” Hamrick, Gainesville
■ Laverne Law, Gainesville
■ Genoulia Lee, Lithonia
■ Arthur “June” Lipscomb, Hall County
■ Martha F. McCullough, Savannah
■ Richard Charles Morrow, Hall County
■ Margaret Winters Whelchel Osborne,
Gainesville
■ Ora Faye Ramsey, Gainesville
■ Sammie Sue Rucker, Jackson County
■ Eloise Riley Stringer, Hall County
■ Nancy Cleo Williams, Hall County
Photos by SCOTT ROGERS I The Times
Visitors to Laurel Park may notice a new set of hammocks set up along the walking path. Hall County Parks & Leisure teamed up with
Vision 2030 to install the piece, which is called Hammock Hollow, and made out of old sail cloths. People can also attach their own
hammocks to the structure.
Hammock Hollow invites people to embrace beauty at lake
BY KELSEY P0D0
kpodo@gainesvilletimes.com
Hammock Hollow, a new art installa
tion at Laurel Park in Gainesville, offers
visitors a creative approach to enjoying
Lake Lanier’s views.
The blue metal zigzag structure over
looks the body of water, giving people the
option to lounge in one of the three ham
mocks crafted from recycled sail cloth or
attach their own.
The project was born from a partner
ship between Vision 2030 Public Art and
Hall County Parks & Leisure. Mike Har-
boldt, owner of Saint Udio Metal Shop in
Athens, designed the piece.
Becky Ruffner, marketing and public
relationship specialist for Hall County
Parks & Leisure, said she teamed up
with Allyson Everett, Vision 2030 board
member, around a year ago to begin plan
ning the installation, which was funded
through the 2018 Vision 2030 block
pARTy event.
Everett brought design options before
the parks and leisure department, who
helped determine the artwork’s place
ment in Hall County.
Wanting to install Hammock Hollow in
a space that embodies Lake Lanier, Ruff
ner said she chose Laurel Park, which is
mostly surrounded by water. The struc
ture sits on the lake’s shoreline in a place
where many people already hang their
hammocks.
“One of the whole ideas was to create
Hammock Hollow
What: Public art installation with
usable hammocks
Where: Laurel Park, 3100 Old
Cleveland Highway, Gainesville
something not only beautiful, fun and
functionable, but something that also
represents Lake Lanier and its history of
boating and sailing,” Ruffner said.
She said the geometric wavy look of the
art is meant to mimic the waves of Lake
Lanier, while the sail cloth hammocks
pay homage to its legacy of watersports.
Hammock Hollow is Laurel Park’s
only piece of public art. Ruffner said sev
eral other installations have been made
throughout Hall County’s parks including
gold bird statues scattered around the
greenspaces and bird bike racks.
“We think public art beautifies the
parks and brings something unique,”
Ruffner said. “We think it’s important for
the community in general to have beauti
ful pieces of art in the park. ”
Elizabeth Higgins, executive director
of Vision 2030, said she is in awe of her
board members who have helped erect
multiple public artworks over the past
couple of months including Hammock
Hollow, the striking metal Midland sign
and vibrant mural in Gainesville’s Mid
town Greenway.
“During the pandemic, they’re just
finding ways for people to be safe and
enjoy something wonderful,” Higgins
said. “It’s amazing.”
Volunteers clean up 2 miles of streets
BY KELSEY P0D0
kpodo@gainesvilletimes.com
On July 11, around 50 people gathered in
Gainesville to take out the trash.
For several hours under the hot sun,
people of all ages and backgrounds picked
up approximately 850 pounds of litter
along 2 miles of Queen City Parkway,
Dorsey Street and Pearl Nix Parkway.
The event marked the second year Lati
nos Conservative Organization and Keep
Hall Beautiful have teamed up to host the
city cleanup.
Art Gallegos Jr., Latinos Conservative
Organization president, said many vol
unteers stepped up to the plate includ
ing several Gainesville Police officers,
Gainesville City Councilman George
Wangemann, Hall County Commissioner
Jeff Stowe and Shanda Sexton, executive
director of Keep Hall Beautiful.
“I hope that people can see even in this
environment, in a pandemic, we can still
do something positive for our community
and really make an impact,” Gallegos said.
“It was something good that united us.”
While picking up trash in Gainesville,
Sexton said people have found a range of
discarded objects like jewelry, mattresses
and bowling balls. She said the No. 1 type
of litter gathered during citywide clean
ups, including the one on Saturday, are
water bottles.
Instead of throwing away the nearly
1,000 pounds of trash, Sexton said people
took the time to sort out any recyclable
cans and plastic. All non-recyclable items
were taken to the Hall County Landfill.
Sexton said the purpose of the event was
not only to clean up the area but to educate
people into becoming better citizens.
“It brings out the good in people,” she
said. “It makes you want to keep it that
way, and it does bring a sense of owner
ship. It’s all about being good stewards to
your community.”
The next cleanup is set for October.
City planning board to vote on new middle school site
Gainesville City Schools’ new
middle school could take a step
forward Tuesday, July 14, when
the Gainesville Planning and
Appeals Board votes on annexa
tion and rezoning for the property.
The Gainesville City Council
will have the final vote at a later
meeting.
The new middle school, which
is intended to alleviate crowding
at Gainesville Middle School, will
be near Mundy Mill and Gaines
ville Exploration academies, at
the intersection of McEver Road
and Gould Drive.
The proposed middle school
includes a two-story, 183,400
square foot building and a multi
purpose field with field house
and bleachers. Primary access
for cars and buses is proposed
off McEver Road. The school
will start off with 750 to 900 stu
dents but have the capacity for
1,200.
About six acres of the 22.6-
acre property for the school will
need to be annexed in to the city.
About 16.6 acres will need to be
rezoned from residential to office
and institutional. The Gainesville
City Schools Board of Education,
the applicant for the rezoning and
annexation, is also requesting a
special use approval so an existing
rental home can remain on one of
the parcels for the property.
According to a traffic study
done in May, the school is esti
mated to generate about 2,600
trips a day, both incoming and
outgoing. The school will operate
with 14 buses.
The planning board will vote
on the school board’s requests at
a 5:30 p.m. meeting Tuesday at
the Public Safety Complex, 701
Queen City Parkway.
Megan Reed
ABORTION
■ Continued from 1A
are uncertain, though, con
sidering the U.S. Supreme
Court last month struck
down other abortion restric
tions from Louisiana.
Women in Georgia can
currently seek an abortion
during the first 20 weeks of
a pregnancy.
Both the state and those
challenging the law asked
Jones to rule without a trial,
saying there were no dis
puted facts. Jones granted
the challengers’ motions
for summary judgment and
denied the state’s motions,
finding the law violated the
14th Amendment.
“The court rejects the
state defendants’ argument
that the statutory purpose
solely concerns “promot
ing fetal well-being,”’ Jones
wrote. “Instead, HB 481’s
specific references to Roe v.
Wade and ‘established abor
tion related precedents’ ...
lends support to plaintiffs’
argument that the purpose
of H.B. 481 was to ban or de
facto ban abortion.”
Jones refused to leave any
parts of the law in effect,
which would have also
granted personhood to a
fetus, giving it the same legal
rights as people have after
they’re born. For example, a
mother could have claimed
a fetus as a dependent to
reduce taxes.
U.S. Supreme Court prec
edent has for nearly five
decades held that states can
not ban abortion prior to the
viability of a fetus, and since
Georgia’s law does just that
it is unconstitutional, the
law’s opponents argued. The
state argued that the law
promoted fetal well-being.
It was widely considered as
one of a number of attempts
to create fresh legal chal
lenges to abortion after
two new conservative jus
tices were confirmed to the
Supreme Court. The high
court, by a 5-4 ruling on June
29, struck down another of
those challenges involving
regulations from Louisiana.
The legal director of the
American Civil Liberties
Union of Georgia, one of the
groups that brought the law
suit, said any appeal would
be fruitless.
“The district court
blocked Georgia’s abortion
ban, because it violates over
50 years of Supreme Court
precedent and fails to trust
women to make their own
personal decisions,” Sean
Young said in a statement.
“This case has always been
about one thing: letting her
decide. It is now up to the
state to decide whether to
appeal this decision and pro
long this lawsuit.”
Georgia Attorney General
Chris Carr, a Republican,
said he would appeal the
ruling but declined further
comment.
At least eight states passed
so-called heartbeat bills or
other sweeping bans in 2019,
including Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana Kentucky, Missis
sippi, Missouri, Ohio and
Tennessee. South Carolina
is still considering one. All of
the new bans joined the fate
of earlier heartbeat abortion
bans from Arkansas, North
Dakota and Iowa in being at
least temporarily blocked
by judges. Louisiana’s ban
wouldn’t take effect unless
a court upholds Mississippi’s
law.
In a separate ruling Mon
day, a U.S. district judge in
Tennessee blocked a Tennes
see law that Republican Gov.
Bill had signed hours earlier
banning an abortion as early
as six weeks into pregnancy
and prohibiting abortions
based on race, sex or diagno
sis of Down syndrome.
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