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TODAY
TONIGHT
SATURDAY
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MONDAY
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Almanac
Regional Weather
Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
through 5 p.m. Thursday
Temperature
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High/low
80°52°
Normal high/low
65741°
Record high
84° in 1935
Record low
Precipitation (in inches)
20° in 1915
24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. Thu.
Month to date
Trace
2.57
Normal month to date
4.15
Year to date
Normal year to date
16.00
14.58
Record for date
1.40 in 1948
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86 66 s
83 66 t
Columbus
83 65 pc
Atlanta
82 65 pc
81 60 t
Dalton
81 62 c
Augusta
87 60 s
82 63 t
Greenville
81 61 pc
Brunswick
80 64 s
81 68 c
Macon
85 62 pc
Chattanooga
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Savannah
85 62 s
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Lake Levels
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Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday
Lake
Lake Lanier
Allatoona Lake
Burton Lake
Clark’s Hill Lake
Hartwell Lake
Russell Lake
West Point Lake
Sunrise today 7:34 a.m.
Sunset tonight 7:50 p.m.
Moonrise today 9:18 a.m.
Moonset today 11:22 p.m.
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Venardos Circus at North Georgia Premium
Outlets. March 22-26. 800 GA-400, Daw
sonville. 949-393-0567, tickets@venardo-
scircus.com.
Spring Storybook Ballet: “Peter Pan.” 7:30-
9:30 p.m. March 24; 1-3 p.m. and 6:30-7:30
p.m. March 25; 2-4 p.m. March 26. Pearce
Auditorium at Brenau University, 202 Boule
vard NE, Gainesville. 770-866-5353, info@
gbcdance.com. $15-$25.
Fox Gradin Arts in the Outdoors Program. 10
a.m. to noon March 25. Elachee Nature Sci
ence Center, 2125 Elachee Drive, Gaines
ville. 770-535-1976, sam@elachee.org.
Mutts on Main. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March
25. Historic Gainesville square, 112 Main
St.SW, Gainesville, lshubert@gainesvillega.
gov.
16th Year Church Anniversary. 10:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. March 26. Cornerstone of Faith Minis
tries, 3 First St., Gainesville, cornerstoneof-
faith@gmail.com.
ONGOING
Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group. 5:30-
6:30 p.m. first Tuesdays of the month.
Grace Episcopal Church, 422 Brenau Ave.
NE, Gainesville. 727-409-6608, charlenebe-
stdewitt@gmail.com. Free.
Gold Rush Quilting Guild. 10 a.m. to noon
first Wednesdays of the month. Friendship
Baptist Church, 3513 Westmoreland Road,
Cleveland, alenekempton@gmail.com.
Turning Leaves Book Club. 11:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. first Wednesdays of the month. Lin-
wood Nature Preserve Ecology Center, 118
Springview Drive, Gainesville. 770-535-
8293, karin.hicks@uga.edu.
Northeast Georgia Writers. 1 -3 p.m. first
Wednesdays of the month. Gainesville
Downtown Library, 127 Main St. NW,
Gainesville. Talltaleswriter@gmail.com.
Free.
Card workshop. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. first Sat
urdays of the month. Hall County Library
System, Gainesville branch, 127 Main St.
NW, Gainesville. 770-532-3311 ext. 4011,
gkoecher@hallcountylibrary.org.
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Ekphrasis for the Masses. Noon to 1 p.m.
second Tuesdays of the month. Quinlan Vi
sual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gaines
ville. 770-536-2575, info@qvac.org. Free.
War Stories Book Club. 4-5 p.m. second
Thursdays of the month. Murrayville Branch
Library, 4796 Thompson Bridge Road,
Gainesville. 770-532-3311 ext. 171. Free.
Discovery Saturdays. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
second Saturdays of the month. Elachee
Nature Science Center, 2125 Elachee Drive,
Gainesville. 770-535-1976. $3 - $5.
Georgia Cross Stitchers. 10 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. second Saturdays of the month. Hall
County Library System, Gainesville Branch,
127 Main St. NW, Gainesville. 770-532-
3311 ext. 4011; gkoecher@hallcountyli-
brary.org. Free.
Homeschool Day. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. third
Thursdays of the month. Elachee Nature
Science Center, 2125 Elachee Drive,
Gainesville. 770-535-1976. $15.
Gainesville Lacers. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. third
Saturdays of the month. Hall County Library
System, Gainesville branch, 127 Main St.
NW, Gainesville. 770-532-3311, gkoecher@
hallcountylibrary.org.
Tea with Jane Austen: A Reading Group.
3-4 p.m. fourth Fridays of the month. Hall
County Library System, Gainesville Branch,
127 Main St. NW, Gainesville. 770-532-
3311 ext. 4011, gkoecher@hallcountyli-
brary.org. Free.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Associated Press
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker in Anchorage, March 25,1989, the day after the vessel went
aground at Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The tanker
spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska waters.
On this date:
In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act,
requiring American colonists to provide
temporary housing to British soldiers.
In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked,
tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Jo
seph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch an
nounced in Berlin that he had discovered
the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed a bill granting future independence
to the Philippines.
In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel
Peron, was deposed by her country’s mili
tary.
In 1980, one of El Salvador’s most respected
Roman Catholic Church leaders, Arch
bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was shot to
death by a sniper as he celebrated Mass in
San Salvador.
In 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran
aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William
Sound and began leaking an estimated 11
million gallons of crude oil.
In 1995, after 20 years, British soldiers
stopped routine patrols in Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
In 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against
Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-
year existence that it had ever attacked a
sovereign country. Thirty-nine people were
killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc
tunnel in France and burned for two days.
In 2010, keeping a promise he’d made to
anti-abortion Democratic lawmakers to
assure passage of his historic health care
legislation, President Barack Obama signed
an executive order against using federal
funds to pay for elective abortions covered
by private insurance.
In 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525, an Air
bus A320, crashed into the French Alps,
killing all 150 people on board; investigators
said the jetliner was deliberately downed by
the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz.
In 2016, a U.N. war crimes court convicted
former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic of genocide and nine other
charges for orchestrating a campaign of ter
ror that left 100,000 people dead during the
1992-95 war in Bosnia; Karadzic was sen
tenced to 40 years in prison. (The sentence
was later increased to life in prison.)
In 2020, the International Olympic Commit
tee announced that the Summer Olympics
in Tokyo would be postponed until 2021
because of the coronavirus.
ENTERTAINMENT
Gwyneth Paltrow
ski collision trial set
for family testimony
PARK CITY, Utah — A neuropsycholo
gist who treated the man suing Gwyneth Pal
trow over a 2016 ski collision cast aspersions
on the testimony of medical experts hired
by the celebrity’s legal team — and argued
that, as his personal doctor, she was bet
ter suited to speak about 76-year-old Terry
Sanderson’s post-concussion symptoms.
“A lot of the experts are opining. I feel
like I’m the best judge of what happened to
him,” Dr. Alina Fong said.
Fong’s videotaped deposition was the first
to be shown on the third day of the trial in
Park City, the upscale Utah ski resort town
where Sanderson accuses Paltrow of ski
ing so recklessly that she crashed into him,
broke his ribs and left him with lasting brain
damage.
Fong said that when she saw Sanderson
less than a year after the accident, he had
lost his love for life, and said that he was
often dejected and crying. Under her care,
she said that Sanderson worked tirelessly to
rehabilitate the post-concussion symptoms
— including pain, headaches and mood
shifts. In cross-examination, she accused
Paltrow’s attorneys of planting “red her-
Celebrity birthdays
Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie
is 84. Rock musician Lee Oskar is 75. Singer
Nick Lowe is 74. Rock musician Dougie
Thomson (Supertramp) is 72. Fashion de
signer Tommy Hilfiger is 72. Actor Donna
Pescow is 69. Actor Robert Carradine is
69. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is
67. Actor Kelly LeBrock is 63. TV personal
ity Star Jones is 61. Country-rook musician
Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) is 59.
Actor Peter Jacobson is 58. Rock singer-
musician Sharon Corr (The Corrs) is 53. Actor
Lauren Bowles is 53. Actor Lara Flynn Boyle
is 53. Rapper Maceo (AKA P.A. Pasemaster
Mase) is 53. Actor Megyn Price is 52. Actor
Jim Parsons is 50. Christian rock musician
Chad Butler (Switchfoot) is 49. Actor Alyson
Hannigan is 49. Former NFL quarterback
Peyton Manning is 47. Actor Amanda Brugel
(TV: “The Handmaid’s Tale”) is 46. Actor Olivia
Burnette is 46. Actor Jessica Chastain is 46.
Actor Amir Arison is 45. Actor Lake Bell is 44.
Rook musician Benj Gershman (O.A.R.) is 43.
Neo-soul musician Jesse Phillips (St. Paul
&the Broken Bones) is 43. Actor Philip Win
chester (TV: “Strike Back”) is 42. Dancer Val
Chmerkovskiy is 37. Actor Keisha Castle-
Hughes is 33.
rings” to mislead jurors. Fong said conclu
sions from Paltrow’s experts — who have
yet to testify — were “easily refutable by
just going online and looking at the CDC
recommendations. ”
Associated Press
