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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2008
Social News
MR. PAYNE, MISS BROWN
Brown, Payne to marry March 15
Gerald and Kathy Brown,
Cohutta, announce the engagement
and forthcoming marriage of their
daughter, Lindsay Leigh Brown,
Gainesville, to John Garrison
Payne, Commerce, son of Jerry
and Donna Payne, Homer.
The bride-elect is the grand
daughter of Harold and Carley
Kinnamon and the late Kathleen
Kinnamon, and Edith Brown and
the late Wallace Brown, all of
Cohutta.
Miss Brown is a 2000 graduate
of Dalton High School and a 2004
graduate of Brenau University
with a bachelor of fine arts degree
in graphic design and advertising.
The future groom is the grand-
son of Betty Garrison Strickland
and the late Herbert Garrison
and Kathryn Payne and the late
William Payne, all of Homer.
Mr. Payne is a 1997 graduate
of Banks County High School
and a 2001 graduate of Southern
Polytechnic State University with
a bachelor of science degree in
civil engineering technology. He is
employed by Keck & Wood, Inc.,
Duluth, as a project engineer.
The wedding is planned for
2:30 p.m. March 15, 2008, at St.
Simons United Methodist Church,
St. Simons Island.
The couple got engaged on the
evening of December 1, 2007, in
Charleston, S.C.
Seeks support for Relay for Life
Has cancer ever affected
anyone you know or love?
As a part of the Banks
County Relay for Life
team, we would like for
you to join us! The relay
will be held May 30-31
but it’s time to fund-raise.
We need school groups,
churches, youth groups, businesses, community group or neighborhoods
to join us in the fight. If you are a caregiver or cancer survivor, we would
like you to contact us for a special invitation to join the fight. You will
receive a special T-shirt and will meet in the survivor’s tent for food, and
other festivities. This is a fight we need everyone to help beat! We need
your help as a group. For more information, contact Debbie Morgan at
706-499-6419 or at 282 Yonah Street, Cornelia, Georgia, 30531; Ken
Mize, 706-870-4650’ or Willene Boyle at 706-677-4200. We need your
help.
I’m pleased to report that Mildred Garrison is doing better. She wants
to thank everyone for their prayers during her illness.
Kenneth and Betty Parson, along with Mike and Beverly Wood, Lee
and Tonya Parson, Becky and Larry Cantrell, Diane Whitmire, Brenda
and Billy Whitfield, Libby and Gary Tanner and Hagan all enjoyed din
ner out on Saturday night.
Those in our community who are overseas fighting or state-side being
trained to defend our country include: Jeb Herrin, Jason Ledford, David
Willoughby, Sgt. T.J. Brookshire, Kyle Delaigle, David McWhorter, John
Groves III, Clint Medlock, Timothy Reems, Richard Davenport, Kyle
Pilgrim, Russell Cantrell, Shawn McClure, Sgt. Amanda Justus, Matthew
Sutton, Justin Johnston, David Puttnum, Alex Head, Tiffany Sorrows,
James Sullivan and Mark Sullivan. Call me if you know of others who
are serving in the Armed Forces, and please remember them and their
families when you pray. If you have any addresses, please call and give
them to me. I have people calling and wanting to write our troops. Let
me know if there is someone you love you want added to our prayer list
or if one of these have came home.
Those who are sick in our community include many who have cancer
and need our prayers. Those on the sick list are: Mattea Grace Emerson,
Elizabeth Cook, Juno and Bobbi Samples, Royce Jones, Steve Fattig (who
is in the VA in Atlanta),Claudette Griffin, Joyce Ayers, Brooksy White,
Talmadge Savage, Bruce Simmons, Van Chase, Jerry Smith, Gloria
Kimsey, Allene Montgomery, Wayne Holcomb, Joshua Thomas, Susan
Campbell, Dennie Maxwell, Karen Adkins, Liam Howell (an infant with
a tumor), George McGee, Angie Roach, Henry Galloway, Mrs. Bobby
Blackwell, Mary Sims, Darian Gray, Jerri Gray, Frank Cronic, Dan
Tomlin, Jerry Poole, Greg Baker, David Smith, Cidney Wilson, Jeremy
Gaddis, Johnny Westbrook, Tommy Gray of Cornelia, Jerry Carlan,
Luther Campbell, Echo Evans, Carol Dean Beck, Johnnie Dalton, Allan
Poe of Commerce, Chad Standridge, Scott McClure, Winford Baker, the
Rev. Jerry Smith, Coy Marlow, Betty Griffin, Bennie Jackson, Clifford
Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, William Wilson, Christine Chitwood, Johnny
Smallwood, Eddie Borders, Pauline Arfin, J.D. Pritchett. Crystal
Medlock, Joann Broome, Michelle McClure, Mary Bell Echols and J.R.
Boswell, Remember our family when you pray. If you know others who
are sick, please call me so I can add their name to our prayer list.
Happy birthday to: Tim Harper, Sarah Carlan, Gatlin Boswell, Terry
Daily, Beth Gooch and Alexis Gee.
News From
Poplar
Springs
By Willene Parson
Boyle
DOT promotes Banks County native birth annoucement
Todd McDuffie, a native of Banks County, has been named the district
maintenance engineer for the 21 counties in Northeast Georgia that make
up District One for the Georgia Department of Transportation.
McDuffie has worked with the DOT since 1984. He began his career
as an enforcement officer and in 1987 transferred into the traffic opera
tions department. He advanced through traffic operations to district signal
engineer, where he was responsible for the maintenance and installation
of more than 500 traffic signals in 21 counties.
As district signal engineer, McDuffie was honored with the commis
sioner’s award of merit for outstanding service.
As area maintenance engineer, McDuffie supervised 39 employees.
He was responsible for the overall maintenance of state routes in his
counties.
As area engineer, McDuffie was responsible for all construction and
maintenance activities on all state routes in Banks, Habersham, Rabun
and Stephens Counties.
As assistant district traffic engineer, McDuffie was responsible for the
installation and maintenance on all traffic signals and other traffic control
devices throughout the district. Most recently, he served as assistant dis
trict maintenance engineer.
In his new position as district maintenance engineer, McDuffie will
supervise more than 370 employees and manage an annual budget of over
$20 million. Maintenance is the largest department in District One and in
the entire DOT.
McDuffie graduated from Gainesville College with an associate in sci
ence degree and continued his education at Piedmont College, graduating
with a bachelor’s of science degree.
He and his wife, Mary, are the parents of one daughter, McKenzie. Mary
is a school teacher in the Habersham County School System.
McDuffie succeeds the retiring Larry Gregory as District One mainte
nance engineer.
Keleigh Faith Loftin
Kimberly Loftin,
Maysville, announc
es the birth of a
daughter, Keleigh
Faith Loftin, on Dec.
17, 2007, at Athens
Regional Medical
Center.
She weighed 4
pounds, 11 ounces,
and was 18 inches
long. The grand
parents are Kristy
and Phillip Loftin,
Jefferson.
The great-grand
parents are Helen
and Jim Walden,
Maysville.
KELEIGH FAITH LOFTIN
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