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PAGE 10A 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 The Banks County News — your weekly source for social news •NO BEER OR WINE SOLD •CLOSED ON SUNDAYS •NO LIMITS •NO GIMMICKS •NO SALES TO DEALERS COMMERCE VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER COMMERCE, GA. 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