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CLINTON YOUNG, KELLIE’S FATHER, CHECKS OUT THE ROLL BAR IN NO. 41
Young Serves As Kellie’'s Chief Mechanic And Is Her Biggest Fan
Chattooga Senior Likes
By JULIE GRIFFIS
Feature Writer
She was a varsity football
cheerleader at Chattoodgla High
School, and a racecar driver on
the weekends.
Kellie Young, 17, has been
racing for about six months.
She said the sport has chang
ed her lifestyle a bit.
“It’s something I feel good
about doinfi,” she said. "It’s
changed what I do with my
time. Now I have to decide if I
want to cruise around town'or
come home and work on my
car.”
Kellie is the daughter of
Clint and Deane gYoung,
Tidings community. Her father
is her chief mechanic and
possibly her biggest fan.
FAMILY AFFAIR
“Racing has given the three
of us a common goal,” he ex
f)lained. “It’s somethi:g we
‘look forward to every weekend.
It’s a family affair that we're
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FRONT ROW, WILLIAM, RUSSELL, MRS. PEACE
Marvin Sr., Marvin Jr., Terry Together At Home
Literacy Volunteers Seeking
By JULIE GRIFFIS
Staff Writer
A local liter oup is
looking for tutora:y e
The newly formed Literacy
Volunteers of Chattooitll Coun-
V, an affiliate of Literacy
olunteers of America Inc.,
will hold a tram;l(f' ing workshop
for those interested in tutoring
next Tuesday and Wednesday,
from 9 a.m. until 5 %lm. at the
Chattooga County Library.
The group’s aim is to pro-
absolutely hung up on.”
The racing season is from
late February to November.
Drivers use the time from
November to February to
rebuild enfiines, reletter and
fine tune their cars.
But come February, Kellie
and her family will be spendin,
their weekends at Dixie Spee(E
way, Woodstock; the new
Rome Speedway, Rome; Green
Valley Racewag, Gadsden,
Ala.; and hattanooga
Raceway Park, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Kellie has come in fourth
g}:ce once in Chattanoo%oand
{ifth place three times at Rome,
Dixie and Green Valley.
EXPENSIVE
“It’s an e?ensive sport,”’
her father said. “‘Some people
spend SIO,OOO in one season;
we're not that bi&i' We only
spend several hundred dollars
per season.”
There are very few women
racecar drivers, and regardless
of how you look at it, Kellie
spends most of her racing time
in ‘““he-man’’ territory,
vide one-on-one tutoring to
adults with only basic readinfi
skills in the zero to eight
grade level.
According to local coor
dinator Angie Baker, Literacy
Volunteers of America (LVA) is
an organization of volunteers
that provides a variety of ser
vices that allow non-readers to
achieve personal goals through
litera‘:}'.
“We grovide tutoring and
other educational services
directly to those wanting in
creased literacy skills, in
cluding Engll)ish as a second
lan%lage." she said. “We also
work to encourage and assist
Thursday, January 9, 1992 . .
sometimes vying against 15-
and 20-year veterans.
“I've met one other girl
racer,” she commented. ‘“‘Her
name was Kellie too.””
“Everyone’s been real sup
?ortive," explained Kellie's
ather. “‘She doesn’t get any
special treatment. They don’t
run over her. Everyone has
been very respectful.”
Kellie’s first try at car rac
ing occurred when she fOt the
opportunity to “hot lap” a
friend’s racecar.
“HOT LAPPING”
“Hot lapping” or “ironing
the track’’ is when the track is
watered down before each race
to allow the dust to settle. The
cars drive over the dirt track to
g::;her pack down and dry the
After Kellie raced her first
all-girl g_owder puff race, in the
same friend’s car, she was
hooked on the sFort.
“When she first said she
wanted a racecar, we just kind
of laughed it off,” her dad said.
“But after the powder puff,
which she did real well in, we
took her seriously.”
By JULIE GRIFFIS
Feature Writer
A SUMMERVILLE family
wrapped up 1991 with a very
special Christmas fgift. They
were all together — for the first
time in five years.
Last year, Desert Storm
kept three of the four sons of
Linda and Marvin Peace, Boll
ing Road, Summerville, from
being home for the hofidays.
This past Christmas Marvin
Jr., 24, Terry, 23, and Russell,
19, all managed to get a leave
of absence from their various
Naval units to join their
garents and brother William,
0. William resides in Atlanta,
where he attends school, but
was able to join the family for
the holidays.
DURING DESERT Storm,
Russell spent his time on the
front lines in the Red Sea, ac
cording to brother, Terry. Both
Terry and Marvin spent time in
Okinawa at Kadena Air Force
Base, doing supply work dur
ing Desert Storm.
other organizations and in
dividuals who are committed
to a literate society.”
STAFF
LVA volunteers are su
ported by a professional stag:
serve as tutors, tutor trainers,
secretaries, administrators,
planners, communicators, and
in other capacities necessary to
achievement of the organiza
tion’s mission.
“We believe that the abili
ty to read is critical to personal
freedom and the maintenance
of a democratic society,” Ms.
Baker explained.
“Our society is dependent
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Kellie said she learns
something new with every
race.
“When she’s running good,
it makes you real proud of
Kellie and the car,” her father
added. “It’s just very rewar
ding, like any other sport a
fellow gets into.” Youlx:fi add
ed that he’s never actually rac
ed, 6ust hot lapfiled.
ne of the high points in
the blonde’s racing career was
meeting Bill Elliott and Dale
Earnhart at Dixie Speedway.
“Thef; filot their start at
Dixie,” Kellie said.
“And we plan to follow in
their footsteps,” chimed in dad.
COLLEGE
Kellie plans to attend Floyd
College and Shorter Colleie,
both in Rome, when she
graduates from high school
this summer, so she plans to be
around home and her car for a
while.
Her crew chief is Pat
Millins, Tunnel Hill, who
makes sure the car is ready to
go when it hits the track.
Her spbonsors are Skinny
Brings Joy
Before the holidays, with
only Marvin and Terry home so
far, Mrs. Peace expressed her
joy at the family being
together.
“It’s good to know they’re
still alive and ha;{)py." she said.
“There’s really been no com
munication, except for the
mail, for a while.””
TERRY SAID he was look
ing forward to talking to
Russell about being on the
front line during Desert Storm,
“He should have some fi)od
stories to tell,” he said. “Mar
vin and I saw each other in
Japan.”
Mrs. Peace added, “It’s go
ing to be different with
everyone home for Christmas.”
The%oys are the grandsons of
Georgia l:eace’,' ’l‘rio*n.
WHILE ALL together and
home, Mrs. Peace said
everyone just stayed around
the house, talked and had a big
meal Christms Day.
Terry currently stationed at
the Naval Air Station, Mariet
ta, works as an air-space
medical technician amP in
vestigates air mishaps. Mar
vin, who is at Katf:ana Air
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on an informed citizenry, and
the ability to read is necessary
to be informed. As our culture
becomes more comfilex and
dependent on technology,
literacy becomes ever more
basic to the survival and
achievement of one’s poten
tial,” she added.
Those beliefs have led LVA
to make several commitments.
The organization is commit
ted to the personal growth of
students, in which participants
are helped to acquire %asic
literacy skills, By doinfiJ 80,
students are able to achieve
broader personal goals. It also
means that personal needs
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Life In The Fast Lane
Reed Mobile Homes, Rome;
Modern Cleaners, Summer
ville; Stanley’'s Amoco, Ar
muchee; S & S Gas, Summer
ville; Tillman Insurance Agen
¢y, Summerville and Rome;
and C. E. Young Interprises
Inc., Tidings.
This season she will replace
the Teen-age Mutant Ninja
Turtle design on her car’s hood
with a Say No To Drug's
message.
VISIT SCHOOLS
“We plan to visit schools
and school children and explain
that there are ways to have fun
without drugs,” explained
Young.
He added that businesses
can have their names added to
the hood for $25, and in
dividuals for $lO.
Kellie is a member of the
CHS tennis team, Future
Business Leaders of America,
the school’s Pep Club and the
Y-Club. She’s been nominated
to ‘“Who’s Who Amon%
American High Schoo
Students” for the past three
years.
Force Base, Japan, is a data
processing technician second
class and aviation warfare
.{s})ecialist. Russell based on the
.S.S. Yellowstone, is a
machinist’s mate.
Not only did the Peace sons
visit with their grandmother,
they also got to visit an aunt
an! uncle, Max and Mary
Brown, Berryton.
“It was real special,” Mrs.
Peace said. “None of us had
seen each other for a while. We
had a big turkey dinner.”
And there was another
guest. o 4
“RUSSELL BROUGHT
home a friend, Ricki,” she
said. Russell and Ricky only
had a 48-hour pass, which was
long enough to come to Sum
merville, but not enough time
to go to Ricky's home in Ohio.
"And there’s still one sur
prise togo.
“MARVIN SAID they got
together and special ordered a
Christmas gift from England
that is being made,” Mrs.
Peace explained. “I don’t know
what it is. But they said it was
Wing tobe a fami{y tradition.
e’re waiting for It.”
havc:frecedence over organiza
tional needs. All tutoring is
confidential, individualized and
student-centered, at locations
convenient to the student, Ms.
Baker said.
LAYV is committed to the ef
fectivehuse of vc:llunteers.
Through training and support
the orgganizatiog helpspggild
skills and abilities that allow
volunteers to grow and suc
ceed, she said, and through
pursuit of the mission,
volunteers find satisfaction
and fulfillment.
LAV su&lzorts other
organizations that make a com
mitment to provide access to
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SENIOR KELLIE YOUNG SMILES AT THOUGHT OF NEW RACING SEASON
In Back@round Is Her Car, No. 41, Which She Affectionately Calls ‘‘Fancy”
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KELLIE YOUNG’S NO. 41 GETS A FACE LIFT IN CLINT YOUNG'S TIDINGS GARAGE
Car To Be Relettered, Repainted, And Have A Rebuilt Engine For New Season
Menlo, Trion Libraries
Get Collection Grants
The Trion and Menlo public
libraries have been awarded a
60-volume set of The Library of
America.
The Trion library was
awarded the collection after
submitting an axplication to
the Library of America and
receiving a $350 filedge from
Farmers and Merchants Bank.
Also submitting an applica
tion, and with the assistance of
Best Manufacturing Co., the
Menlo Library received the
same grant.
The two libraries are more
effective literacy services.
IMPROVEMENTS
Ms. Baker said LAV con
tinually searches for efficient
and creative ways to deliver its
programs, to grow and expand
in order to stay with the rising
tide of illiteracy, to discover
new ways of harnessing socie
ty's existin% resources for the
achievement of literaci. and to
remain responsive to the needs
of students,
For more information on
the local pr:firam or to become
a tutor, call Anne Scott at
857-2563 or Ms. Baker at
857-2557.
than 2,400 across the country
that already have acguired the
collection that ‘‘American
Heritage’’ maiazine called
‘“the most ambitious effort
ever undertaken to put the best
of American literature into the
hands of the general reader.”
The Summerville branch
already has the set.
FOUNDATION
The book sets were ac
3ruired with funds from the An
ew W. Mellon Foundation
and matching funds from the
two businesses. In Georgia,
each $350 raised locally is mat
ched by $350 from the Georgia
Humanities Council and %y
SSOO from the Mellon
Foundation.
The two branches will soon
receive at least 30 volumes
already published in The
Library of America, consistin§
of more than 40,000 pages o
literature. The remaining
volumes will be sent in regular
shig)ments as new books are
published and earlier volumes
are reprinted, until all 60
volumes have been received.
Each library will receive a
certificate that acknowledges
the fundinifi sources, with
bookplates also being sent for
use in each volume.
The Library of Americais a
non-profit program that began
an effort in 1982 to restore
America’s literary heritage by
publishing the collected works
of America’s major authors in
a uniform, hardcover series.
Seed money for the pro
gram was provided by the Na
tional Endowment for the
Humanities and the Ford
Foundation. Volumes already
fiublished include the works of
enry Adams, Willa Cather,
James Fenimore Coo(fer,
Stephen Crane, Theodore
Dreiser, W.E.B. Du Bois,
Rallfih Waldo Emerson,
William Faulkner, Benjamin
Franklin, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, William Dean
Howell, Washington Irving,
Henry James Thomas Jeffer
son, Jack London, Herman
Melville, Frank Norris, Francis
Parkman, Edgar Allan Poe,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry
David Thoreau, Mark Twain,
Edith Wharton and Walt
Whitman.
EACH VOLUME
Each volume in the series
includes several works by a
single author and consists of
800 to 1,600 pages. In many
cases, an author’'s complete
writings are published in as few
as three or four compact
volumes. The books are printed
on acid-free paper, have sewn
bindings covered in cloth, and
are extremely durable. Texts
are accurate and unabridged.