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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.comMidweek Edition - September 9-10, 2020 7B
Dawsonville, festival at odds over mask mandate
ALLIE DEAN I Dawson County News
A car heads up the parade in Dawsonville during a previous annual Mountain Moonshine Festival.
Dawson County News
The Dawsonville City Council
has chosen to postpone a decision
on the upcoming 53rd annual
Mountain Moonshine Festival
until this week, after a special
called meeting failed to resolve
outstanding questions about the
festival’s safety procedures and
locations.
The meeting Sept. 2 resulted
from an ongoing discussion
between local leaders and rep
resentatives from K.A.R.E. for
Kids, on how the festival could
continue during the COVID-19
pandemic.
At a previous meeting, Daw
sonville City Council members
presented a list of guidelines
that would need to be followed
at the festival in order for an
event permit to be granted.
Those guidelines included
enforcement of mask use by all
vendors and attendees, place
ment of hand sanitizer pumps
at each booth and a limit on the
number of streets closed for the
festival.
According to K.A.R.E. for Kids
President Rhonda Goodwin,
they are willing to comply with
all of the city’s requirements for
the festival, except for the face
masks requirement.
“I think it’s important at this
point to say that the require
ment for all vendors and attend
ees to wear masks and for us to
enforce that is just something
that we cannot do,” Goodwin
said to the council. “We feel like
we can meet all the rest of the
recommendations. ”
In response, Dawsonville
Mayor Mike Eason said that the
city’s request for a mask man
date at the festival is of utmost
importance during the COVID-19
pandemic, especially since the
majority of attendees are from
outside Dawsonville.
“Keeping in mind that Daw-
sonville’s numbers are down
right now, the people that come
to the Mountain Moonshine Fes
tival are primarily from out of
town,” Eason said. “We want to
try to protect everybody as much
as possible and to be a good stew
ard for the citizens here as well
as the people who come, so we
would like for y’all to try to work
with us on that and come up with
apian.”
Addressing the festival mask
requirement, Council Mem
ber Mark French, said that the
Moonshine Festival is beneficial
to the entire Dawsonville com
munity and urged the other coun
cil members to help K.A.R.E.
for Kids find a solution to the
problem.
“Due to the reach and scope
of the project that they carry
out and the benefit that it pres
ents our entire community, I
think that it would be very ill-
advised not to allow them the
opportunity to do their very
best to do what we are request
ing them to do and what they
are proposing,” French said.
“I’m sure we can reach some
agreement.”
The festival has 92 vendors
signed up for the event. Accord
ing to Goodwin, they believe that
all the vendors can be fit on Allen
Street, Memory Lane and Main
Street Park in Dawsonville, fol
lowing the city’s request on limit
ing local streets closed down for
the festival.
But according to Eason, prior
to the meeting, K.A.R.E. for Kids
had not submitted an official
plan to the council for approval.
Because of this, the council was
unable to make a decision on
whether to grant a permit for the
festival.
“I apologize that we did not
submit everything,” Goodwin
said. “We were 100% under the
impression after the last meeting
that we were coming back for a
work session, not for a special
called meeting.”
Council members voted to
postpone the decision until Sept.
10.
“What we need for you to do
is to get your plan together and
to submit it three business days
before our meeting so our coun
cil members have time to read
it and digest it and make recom
mendations,” Eason said. “We
want this thing to happen, I think
all of us here would like for the
Moonshine Festival to go on, but
we’ve got an obligation to try to
protect our community.”
COMMUNIS NEWS
Gainesville native honored with 2020
UNG Teaching Excellence Award
Charlene Hudson, a Gainesville native, was recently hon
ored with the 2020 University of North Georgia Teaching
Excellence Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty.
Hudson, who works as a political science professor at
UNG’s Gainesville campus, was recog
nized during the virtual fall convocation on
Aug. 10.
The award is presented annually to non
tenure track faculty who have “consis
tently demonstrated outstanding teaching,
which includes all activities in which fac
ulty members engage to facilitate learning
by undergraduate, professional or gradu
ate students.”
Hudson
LIVING WITH CHILDREN
Don’t ask kids, tell
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ing Mommy pick
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OK?”
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It’s why, when I counsel
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“If you want Billy to pick
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Respect is not an entitle
ment. It isn’t deserved; it’s
earned. People in positions of
authority earn respect by act
ing like they know what they
want. That begins with mak
ing oneself perfectly clear,
as in, “I’d like a hamburger.”
And then, of course,
“Thank you.”
Family psychologist John
Rosemond answers parents’
questions online at www.
rosemond.com or via email
questions@rosemond.com.
JOHN ROSEMOND
www.rosemond.com
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