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2A Weekend Edition-April 14-15, 2023 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com WEATHER EVENTS Gainesville 5-Day Forecast ®AccuWeather I Go to AccuWeather.c TODAY TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY T-storms Sunny and breezy Breezy in the a.m. HIGH: 66° LOW: 54 RFT: 69° I RFT: 53° 77757 73745° 65745 s usHSEmtmmz Precip chance: 100% Precip chance: 10% Precip chance: 10% Precip chance: 90% Precip chance: 10% 72748 s Precip chance: 5% RFT: The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Almanac Regional Weather Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport through 5 p.m. Thursday Temperature High/low 71 48 Normal high/low 71746° Record high 86° in 1977 Record low 25° in 1940 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. Thu. 0.19 Month to date 2.86 Normal month to date 1.78 Year to date 20.87 Normal year to date 17.52 Record for date 3.36 in 1979 Air Quality Today ▼ . . . . m 50 100 150 200 300 Main Offender: Ozone Source: Environmental Protection Agency Pollen Yesterday Trees 0 «“ o°° °"0 n“°YL Grass absent Weeds absent Low Mod. High Verjj Main Offender: Oak, Birch, Sweetgum Source: National Allergy Bureau Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Turners 66/52 Murrayville . . 66/53* ,, 0^1, , o 129j 65/54 Gainesville Homer 66/54 W’ 0 '" ho Commerce 67/54 Danielsville 69/54 Roswell 69/53 O Athens 70/54 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2023 City Today Hi Lo W Tomorrow Hi Lo W City Today Hi Lo W Tomorrow Hi Lo W Albany 81 57 sh 83 63 pc Columbus 76 56 sh 83 61 pc Atlanta 70 56 t 80 61 pc Dalton 68 52 r 79 60 pc Augusta Brunswick 77 54 t 80 64 t 82 60 pc 82 66 s Greenville Macon 67 54 t 75 53 t 79 59 pc 84 62 pc Chattanooga 68 52 r 80 61 pc Savannah 80 61 t 84 63 pc UV Index 1 Lake Levels 1 Sun and Moon 9 a.m. Noon 3 p.m. 6 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Lake Full Pool Present Level 24 hr Change Lake Lanier 1071.0 1071.97 -0.05 Allatoona Lake 840.0 841.45 -0.14 Burton Lake 1865.0 1863.70 +0.02 Clark’s Hill Lake 330.0 331.02 -0.36 Hartwell Lake 660.0 660.46 -0.10 Russell Lake 480.0 475.38 -0.11 West Point Lake 635.0 633.82 +0.14 Sunrise today 7:06 a.m. Sunset tonight 8:06 p.m. Moonrise today 3:59 a.m. Moonset today 2:08 p.m. New First Full Last Apr 20 Apr 27 May 5 May 12 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice THANK YOU FOR READING FULL ACCESS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Our local news team, the largest in Northeast Georgia, works each day to bring you honestly local news delivered in several different platforms. Subscribers can tailor their preferences for reading the day’s news, whether that’s the traditional print edition or a combination of online formats. 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Historic Dahlonega Square, 1 Public Square. info@bearon- thesquare.org. Free. Gainesville Theater Alliance presents “1984.” Noon to 5 p.m. April 15-16, 18- 22. Ed Cabell Theatre, 3820 Mundy Mill Road, Oakwood. 678-717-3606, leslie. beaman@ung.edu. ZF Gainesville Car Show. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 16. 1925 New Harvest Road, Gainesville. Free. University of North Georgia Annual Pops Concert. 3-8:30 p.m. April 16. Memorial Hall, 130 Georgia Circle, Dahlonega. 706- 864-1423, cherri.helms@ung.edu. Newcomers Duplicate Bridge Game. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 18, 25. Lanierland Du plicate Bridge Club, 3042 McEver Road, Gainesville, Idecarlo50@gmail.com. 2023 Art Walk. 4-8 p.m. April 20. Down town Gainesville, 301 Main St., Gaines ville, lshubert@gainesvillega.gov. ONGOING Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group. 5:30-6:30 p.m. first Tuesdays of the month. Grace Episcopal Church, 422 Bre- nau Ave. NE, Gainesville. 727-409-6608, charlenebestdewitt@gmail.com. Free. Gold Rush Quilting Guild. 10 a.m. to noon first Wednesdays of the month. Friend ship 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. Linwood 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 Saturdays of the month. Hall County Library System, Gainesville branch, 127 Publish your event Don’t see your event here? Organizers can go to gainesvilletimes. com/calendar and submit their events for publication online and in print. Click the “+Add event” button at the top right and follow the prompts to add information and a photo. Events publish at the editors’ discretion. See more Go to gainesvilletimes.com/calendar for the full interactive calendar of events throughout the region. Main St. NW, Gainesville. 770-532-3311 ext. 4011, gkoecher@hallcountylibrary. org. Ekphrasis for the Masses. Noon to 1 p.m. second Tuesdays of the month. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville. 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@hall- countylibrary.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@hall- countylibrary.org. Free. TODAY IN HISTORY STR I Associated Press Workers inspect damages in the construction machinery factory “14 October” in the central Serbian town of Krusevac, Thursday, April 15,1999. The factory was damaged in NATO airstrikes the day before. On this date: In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Lan guage” was published. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. In 1902, James Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo ming. In 1910, President William Howard Taft be came the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadel phia Athletics 3-0. In 1935, the “Black Sunday” dust storm de scended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny afternoon into total darkness. In 1949, the “Wilhelmstrasse Trial” in Nurem berg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years. In 1960, Tamla Records and Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., were incorporated as Motown Record Corp. In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first op erational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans. In 1999, NATO mistakenly bombed a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees; Yugoslav officials said 75 people were killed. In 2007, riot police beat and detained protest ers as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally in Moscow against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s govern ment. In 2021, A white former suburban Minneapo lis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest. 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McCallister referred requests for further details to the Orange County Sheriffs Office in Orlando, which didn’t respond to an emailed message. Celebrity birthdays Actor Julie Christie is 83. Retired MLB All- Star Pete Rose is 82. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 78. Actor John Shea is 75. Ac tor Peter Capaldi is 65. Actor-turned-race car driver Brian Forster is 63. Actor Brad Gar rett is 63. Actor Robert Carlyle is 62. Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 61. Actor Robert Clendenin is 59. Actor Catherine Dent is 58. Actor Lloyd Owen is 57. Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux is 57. Rock musician Barrett Martin is 56. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 55. Hours earlier, the police depart ment put out a statement declaring Bell “missing and endangered” and asked the public for help in locating him. Before being found mid-day Thurs day, Bell was last seen Wednesday night near a Daytona Beach high school. Representatives for the 36-year- old actor did not immediately reply to The Associated Press’ requests for comment. Associated Press
