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Friday, March 27, 2009 • Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents 

More pay 

for some 

teachers? 

Award-winning actor Lane 

Davies meets with Dalton 

High drama students on a 

visit home. 

FROM TODAY’S 

FORUM 

“Ronald Reagan was in 

office 20 years ago but he 

seems to be the only president 

the Republicans have 

anything good to say about. 

But does anyone remember 

the Iran-Contra scandal or 

that his policies led to 

record deficits?” 

“People in this town 

need to start praying for our 

president and his wife.” 

W EATHER 

Forecast: Rain 

Today’s High: 68 

Tonight’s Low: 55 

Details, Page 10A 

I NSIDE 

See page 3A 

Alex Roberts struck out 

eight and Blake Raber 

drove in three runs in a 

11-1 Catamount win over 

Murray County. 

See page 1B 

Southeast boys tennis 

squad wins eighth match of 

the year. 

See page 1B 

See page 2A 

Classified..............2C 

Comics..................7B 

Crossword..............6B 

Dear Abby...................7B 

Horoscope.............6B 

Lottery..................2A 

Movies.................6B 

Obituaries............8A 

Opinion................4A 

Sports......................1-3B 

P HOTO BY B RUCE F RAZIER 

Two Dalton firefighters look on as smoke billows from the historic house built in the 1930s by 

L.A. Lee.The house was badly damaged by a fire on Thursday morning. 

Morning fire destroys 

former L.A. Lee home 

B Y J AMIE J ONES 

jamiejones@daltoncitizen.com 

Doug Jensen feared the worst. 

He was leading a regular Thursday morning Bible 

study at Hamilton Medical Center when a hospital 

worker interrupted to say Jensen had an emergency 

phone call from his wife. Jensen thought one of his 

children had been in a car accident. Fortunately, that 

wasn’t the case. 

A historic house at the corner of Walnut Avenue and 

Greenwood Drive that Jensen leases from neighboring 

Christ Community Church was engulfed in flames. 

The Dalton Fire Department said the building is a total 

loss. No one lives at the three-story house at 800 

Walnut Ave. One firefighter suffered a minor foot 

injury fighting the blaze, which began at about 7:30 

a.m. 

“That was not as bad as the news I was so glad I didn’t 

get,” said Jensen, president of Community Life 

Ministries. “Buildings can be replaced. I don’t know 

how we’ll replace it or what we’ll do, but that’s the 

good news.” 

Dalton Fire Department Lt. Trent Hicks said the fire 

started in the attic and caused extensive damage to the 

roof and attic, fire damage to the second floor and 

Lines greet 

consul 

officials 

water damage to the first floor and basement. An investigator 

had not determined the cause of the blaze. The 

investigator said it could have been started by an electrical 

problem or a lightning strike. 

“He’s not sure yet and probably won’t know for a 

couple of days,”Hicks said. 

Jensen speculates it was an electrical problem. 

Squirrels have been entering through the attic and 

chewing on wires. Just a few months ago, Jensen had 

repairs completed to the phone lines and heating/cooling 

system because of the squirrels’ mischief. 

The house was built in the 1930s by L.A. Lee, a former 

owner and publisher of the Dalton News and 

Dalton Citizen. It was used as a home for several years. 

Most recently,it has served as an office and Christian 

ministry. 

Jensen has leased the building for three years. He’s 

hosted Christmas parties for television station WDNN 

(which he also owns), Super Bowl parties for friends 

and employees, and a men’s group each Thursday. 

“It was beautiful on the inside and out,”Jensen said 

of the house. 

“I had arranged the house for a Christian ministry 

so it looked like a house and didn’t look like a church. 

Make it where people can be comfortable in the different 

rooms.” 

ATLANTA (AP) — Help 

Wanted: Math and science teachers. 

Pay: On the rise. 

In the midst of a recession where 

jobs are vanishing at an alarming 

rate, a shortage of educators certified 

to teach math and science has 

Georgia sweetening the pot. The 

state Senate voted unanimously on 

Thursday to boost pay for the educators 

beginning in the 2010 school 

year. 

The bill would allow new secondary 

school teachers with proper 

math or science certification to start 

at the salary of a fifth year teacher. 

That’s a boost of about $4,561, to 

$37,985 a year, under the state 

salary schedule. The teacher’s 

salary would then continue to rise a 

step every year for five years. After 

that, the increase would be tied to 

student performance. 

The House has already passed 

the legislation but must reconsider 

it because of a minor change made 

by the Senate on Thursday. Gov. 

Sonny Perdue is pushing the measure, 

so it’s unlikely to have a problem 

winning his signature. 

Perdue said in January that 

Georgia faces a “critical shortage” 

of teachers certified in math and 

science, even as demand for such 

specialties rises. 

In 2008, 14.3 percent of all 

Georgia math teachers were not 

fully certified, according to the 

Georgia Professional Standards 

Commission. Another 18.6 percent 

of physical science teachers and 

16.2 percent of life sciences teachers 

lacked full certification, the 

commission said. 

The shortfall in Georgia mirrors 

what education officials say is a 

national trend. 

The Georgia bill focuses on high 

schools but would also reward elementary 

school teachers who 

increase their competency in math 

and science by handing them a 

$1,000 annual bonus if they earn an 

endorsement from the Professional 

Standards Commission. 

The incentives would together 

cost about $9.9 million a year. 

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They started arriving around 7 

a.m. on Thursday, lining up for 

their appointments with officials 

from the Mexican consulate in 

Atlanta. Hundreds of people from 

across Georgia and Tennessee came 

to renew their passports and IDs. 

The mobile consulate has been 

in town since Tuesday at Dalton’s 

Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida (New 

Life Baptist Church). 

“On Tuesday,we had more than 

400 people. On Wednesday,we had 

another 300. Today,we have another 

300,” said pastor Ernesto 

Mendez. 

Today,consulate officials will be 

➣ Please see C O N S U L , 2 A 

M ATT H AMILTON / The Daily Citizen 

People wait in long lines at Nueva Vida Bautista Iglesia Church on Thursday as Mexican consulate 

workers assist them in getting passports. 

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Editor’s note: Please 

keep your comments as 

brief as possible. Get to the 

point! Longer comments 

should be submitted as letters 

to the editor. If you 

include a name, please spell 

it. Call (706) 272-7748 to 

reach Today’s Forum. 

“The president’s top man 

Rahm Emmanuel made 

$300,000 for 14 months 

“work” for Freddie Mac. And 

now Obama is lecturing 

America on business ethics? 

Disgraceful.” 

“How do you know our 

editor Jimmy Espy isn’t 

already bi-lingual? Maybe he 

already speaks Spanish. 

Editor: At one time I 

could buy a beer in five languages. 

That’s about it. 

“I fell for the insulin 

scam. I think it’s good for a 

man to get scammed once in 

awhile, it keeps him on his 

toes.” 

“I am not a Democrat or 

Republican. I am a conservative. 

Like Reagan did with 

Carter, it will be conservatives 

who rescue this country.” 

“Thanks to Nathan at 

Franks Pharmacy. If more 

drug stores were like them it 

would be a better world.” 

“To the lady having trouble 

spending her $16 stimulus: 

The merchants in town 

are all raising their prices so 

they’ll have no trouble 

spending that extra $16.” 

“Mr. Herrin, please get 

your story straight before you 

write a letter to the editor. 

You have got this story all 

messed up.” 

“I ask all believers to join 

me in prayer for the Brett 

Thomason family.” 

“The Cohutta Mudcats are 

number one.” 

“It was never called Bob’s 

Waffle Shop, it was called 

The Snack Shop, next to the 

Wink Theater.” 

“I don’t remember Bob’s 

Waffle Shop but I remember 

the little hamburgers at the 

Crescent Theater.” 

“Why is Brochu calling 

all the shots at Phoenix when 

it is a joint-facility funded 

partly by Dalton taxpayers 

dollars.” 

“Jimmy, using your argument 

about sending money to 

Mexico, we should send all 

our money to Mexico.” 

Editor: Only if in return 

they send us the goods and 

services worth the money. 

“Harvest Outreach is in 

dire need of canned goods.” 

“The wound center at 

Hamilton Medical Center is 

top of the line.” 

T ODAY ’S FORUM 

“Could someone tell me 

why a man thinks he owns 

the remote control?” 

“They didn’t close the 

border after 9-11 and they 

won’t close it now. Too many 

people are getting rich off 

drug money.” 

“Parents, be careful. You 

send your intelligent, decent 

kids to college and they come 

back liberals.” 

“Congratulations Kilah 

Darville on your new kidney!” 

“We need the sheriff to 

patrol on Boyles Mill Road. 

We have a thief in this area.” 

“Is the Oval Office for 

rent? Obama isn’t using it.” 

“Why don’t Providence 

Ministries and Salvation 

Army have a garden for the 

homeless men to raise food? 

The could work for their 

food.” 

“People in this town need 

to start praying for our president 

and his wife.” 

“I would like to thank 

Providence for all the services 

they provide and let the 

public know that many of the 

people in the tent city eat 

three meals a day there.” 

“People want to call out 

the military to control the 

border, but without shooting 

how are they going to stop 

the invaders?” 

“Northwest High School 

is so overcrowded they can’t 

build that new high school 

soon enough.” 

“Ronald Reagan was in 

office 20 years ago but he 

seems to be the only president 

the Republicans have 

anything good to say about. 

But does anyone remember 

the Iran-Contra scandal or 

that his policies led to record 

deficits?” 

“How do you know that 

Michele Obama didn’t have a 

garden in Chicago?” 

“The citizens of Whitfield 

County need to go to the 

trade center and protest 

Isakson. Get up off your 

duffs, let’s go.” 

“The only thing that 

counts for Bill Shipp is 

something that favors 

Democrats. I have never 

heard him say one good thing 

about the Republicans. You 

need to drop him from the 

paper.” 

“The Obamas paid for the 

swing set. Let’s give the man 

a chance.” 

“Schools are not the place 

to be stepping on a scale. 

That’s what they have yearly 

physicals for.” 

“Do our president’s kids 

not deserve something? His 

kids deserve a swing set just 

like any other kids.” 

“I watched Obama’s news 

conference. Were you as baffled 

by the junk coming out 

of his mouth as I was?” 

“The president’s speech 

was real meat and potatoes ... 

baloney and potato chips.” 

A recollection 

“Thanks for all the old 

memories of some of the 

great places to eat. The truck 

stop above Valley Point was 

called Shoate’s. Iused to 

work at Chow Time and 

thanks for the memory of 

Dunaway Drugs.” 

A different recollection 

“The old truck stop north 

of Valley Point. That was 

owned by Col. Thomas 

Parrott’s family and it was 

named the Parrott Motel and 

Truck stop.” 

Another option 

The name of the old truck 

stop above Valley Point was 

Wilson’s. 

Another recollection 

The old truck stop north of 

Valley Point back in the good 

old days was named Shoate’s 

Truck Stop.” 

One more recollection 

I worked at Shoat’s Truck 

Stop in 1951-52. I was the 

cook and we did have good 

food.” 

“Thank you to the many 

churches, organizations and 

individuals who are reaching 

out to help our Spanishspeaking 

neighbors learn 

English. We have room for 

plenty more volunteers.” 

“The government money 

to be recovered should go to 

help the people living in the 

tent city instead of being used 

to improve the Hamilton 

House. 

Editor: Most federal 

grants are approved for a 

specific purpose. 

“President Obama sees 

progress,but then Shaw closes 

two plants and lays off 600 

while the stock market drops. 

Ineed a new pair of eyes, 

because I can’t see progress.” 

“Does anyone remember 

the great hamburgers at the 

Hungry Man’s Paradise on 

Gordon Street, behind the 

Crescent Theater in the early 

1930s. It was run by Tom and 

Bertha Vaughn.” 

“Thanks for the coupons. 

They helped me make it until 

my Social Security check 

came in. On Tuesday I was 

out of money but went to the 

Sonic and got a meal. Thank 

you. Thank you. Thank you.” 

“The Democrats have had 

control of Congress since 

2005.” 

“All you who think the 

people at the food stamp 

office are rude just shouldn’t 

go there.” 

A REA 

A RRESTS 

• Jason Allan Christian, 

26, 320 Cruiser Drive, 

Tunnel Hill, was charged 

Wednesday by the Whitfield 

County Sheriff’s Office with 

entering an automobile or 

other motor vehicle with 

intent of felony and burglary 

(two counts). 

• Frank Evan Findley, 70, 

8165 225 South, Chatsworth, 

was charged Wednesday by 

the Georgia State Patrol with 

possession of less than an 

ounce of marijuana. 

• Joseph Franklin Jr., 45, 

309 Patricia Lane, Dalton, 

was charged Thursday by the 

Georgia State Patrol with 

DUI and too fast for conditions. 

• Gene Tunney Myers Jr., 

41, 460 Hooker Road, Lot C, 

Chatsworth, was charged 

Thursday by the Murray 

County Sheriff’s Office with 

obstruction of an officer, distribution 

of methamphetamine, 

possession of tools for 

the commission of a crime 

and child support violation. 

➣ Continued from page 1A 

at the church through noon. They expect to 

see another 100 people come through. 

“It is sometimes hard for Mexican (citizens) 

to come to Atlanta, so we are trying to 

get closer to them,”said Abigail Calleja, the 

consul in charge of the mobile consulate. 

“Every week, we move to another city.” 

Calleja says Mexican consulates developed 

the mobile consulate idea about 20 

years ago to reach citizens who may not live 

close to a consulate. 

“It’s an issue of convenience,” she said. 

Jaime Rangel, amember of the church 

who helped organize the visit, said the 

mobile consulate is especially useful for the 

elderly, people with children, those without 

driver’s licenses and others who may not be 

able to easily make the trip to the consulate in 

Atlanta. 

Calleja says Dalton is an important stop 

for the mobile consulate because of its large 

population of Mexican nationals. 

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“I believe we have been coming here since 

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Tags on the automobiles indicated that 

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“We are issuing Mexican passports and 

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There were 11 employees of the Mexican 

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Mendez said Mexican citizens need those 

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Lessons from a pro 

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Dalton High School 

freshman Megan Hull isn’t 

just a “Scrubs” fan — she’s a 

“Scrubs” fan who has had 

drama coaching by an actor 

who has appeared on the 

popular television series. 

Cohutta resident Lane 

Davies, who made several 

appearances on the NBC 

series, is helping teach the 

school’s 36 drama students 

through the end of this week. 

Davies attended Dalton 

High, moved to Los Angeles 

to pursue his acting career, 

and moved back to Whitfield 

County in 2004. 

Now semi-retired, Davies 

devotes much of his time to 

helping youth and adults 

alike 

understand 

Shakespeare. One reason 

Shakespeare seems so daunting 

to some students is that 

the playwright’s work is 

often presented in literature 

classes rather than in dramatic 

form as was originally 

intended, Davies said. 

“You’re actually much 

better off showing them,”he 

said during a break from one 

of his workshops in which 

students at the high school 

watched a film based on a 

Shakespeare play — “Henry 

V” — and practiced delivering 

monologues on 

Thursday. “It was watching 

it that got me excited.” 

Megan and freshman 

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Dalton High student Jason Day,17,asks a question 

about “Henry V” to Lane Davies Thursday in the 

school’s auditorium. 

Katelyn Esters said the 

notion of iambic pentameter 

never sank in until drama 

class. Iambic pentameter 

refers to a 10-syllable line in 

which every other syllable is 

stressed. When read aloud, it 

can help the speaker communicate 

emotion. 

Wes Phinney,the school’s 

first drama teacher in several 

years, said he has known the 

Davies family for a long 

time. 

“I have a background in 

Shakespeare, but I’m not as 

good as he is,”Phinney said. 

He said he has scheduled 

several events and guest 

speakers to give his students 

wide exposure to drama. 

Davies (lane-davies.com) 

has more than 40 guest starring 

credits. He appeared as 

Chancellor Duncan on “3rd 

Rock From the Sun,” Dr. 

Simon Reid on “Scrubs,”and 

in the second of what may be 

considered one of his two 

career defining roles, as 

Tempus on “Lois and Clark: 

The New Adventures of 

Superman.” 

His other defining role 

came in 1984 as an original 

cast member of NBC’s 

“Santa Barbara.” He played 

Mason Capwell,the eldest of 

the Capwell children, who 

became a lawyer. 

Among other activities, 

Davies now works with the 

Tennessee Shakespeare 

Festival and the Tennessee 

Repertory Theatre in 

Nashville. 

L OCAL BRIEFS 

‘Dance Off’ starts tonight at DHS 

Members of the Dalton Dance Company will perform in 

the Dalton Arts Project’s “Dance Off,”a local version of the 

hit reality television show “America’s Best Dance Crew.” 

This high-energy dance production opens tonight at 7:30 with 

additional performances at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. 

on Sunday. 

The location for all performances is the Dalton High 

Theatre. 

Performers will showcase their abilities in ballet, jazz, 

modern and tap dance. The dance numbers, featuring music 

ranging from classical to contemporary as well as special 

effects, are woven into a choreographed “contest” to determine 

Dalton’s “Best Dance Crew.” 

Dustin Phillips, adancer/choreographer from California, 

and an Atlanta dancer/choreographer, Vince Gulley, set four 

hip-hop pieces especially for this production. Members of the 

company also worked with choreographers Jo Beth 

Thompson, Ryann Payne, Lori Beth Edgeman, Marcus 

Alford, Jaime Robtison, Terrell Paulk and Berrien Long, 

director of the production. 

Tickets will be available at the door and are $5 for students 

and $10 for adults. As in past years, the proceeds from opening 

night ticket sales will be donated to a worthy cause. This 

year, the dancers chose the Make a Wish Foundation as the 

recipient. 

For more information, call (706) 529-ARTS (2787). 

‘Why Thrive’ set for Tuesday 

Members of the Whitfield County community are invited 

to participate in a 7-week weight loss and nutrition program 

called “Thrive!” A one-hour “Why Thrive?” orientation will 

be at the Whitfield County Health Department, 808 

Professional Blvd., on Tuesday at 6 p.m. 

The program is sponsored by the Whitfield County 

Emergency Services Department. For more information, call 

(706) 370-4911. 

Business leaders to be honored 

Junior Achievement is hosting the 4th annual Northwest 

Georgia Business Hall of Fame induction on May 5 at 6:30 

p.m. at the Northwest Georgia Trade Center. Three area leaders 

— Jim Jolly, Norris Little and Pleas Smith — will be 

inducted. 

Sponsorship for a table of 10 is $1,000. Individual seats 

are $125. To make your reservation call Junior Achievement 

at (706) 278-9180. 

‘Lyric Cafe’ to benefit HOPE fund 

HOPE (Helping Others Propel and Excel) will host “The 

Lyric Cafe,” a touch of jazz mixed with soul and poetry, on 

Saturday from 8-10:30 p.m. at the Dalton Community Center. 

Admission is free; donations are welcomed. All proceeds 

go to the HOPE fund that is used to help feed the hungry and 

for Kids Claus, the school supply drive and other community 

events. 

The center is on Fredrick Street in Dalton. For more information, 

call (706) 980-5818. 

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the opinions of the authors. 

The true message of Easter 

To the editor: 

Easter is not a holiday celebrated by all nations of the 

world. Easter bunnies and Easter eggs are material things 

added by man that have nothing at all to do with why we celebrate 

the resurrection of Christ. 

The greatest moment in the Bible occurred when Jesus 

Christ went to the cross and died for our sins. But the greatest 

miracle in the Bible is when he rose from the dead. The 

resurrection of Christ is the ultimate proof Jesus is who he 

said he is and that he can do all things he said he could do. 

Indeed he is the son of God, the savior of the world. 

Matthew 28: Early on Sunday morning, as the new day 

was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to 

the tomb. Suddenly there was a great earthquake for an angel 

of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled aside the 

stone and sat on it. His face shone like lightning and his clothing 

was a brilliant white. The guards shook with fear when 

they saw him and fell into a deep faint. The angel spoke to the 

women. “Don’t be afraid! I know you are looking for Jesus, 

who was crucified, but he is not here! For he has risen from 

the dead.” 

He has risen from the dead. That is what Easter is all 

about. 

Louie Muse 

Dalton 

God has been forgotten 

To the editor: 

God gave us a good land which was founded and established 

on God’s holy word, and it prospered until people forgot 

God. 

The land is full of rebellion and false gods. The people do 

not know or reverence the Creator. They thumb their noses at 

him while breaking the commandments and moral laws. It is 

full of greed for money and power. It is being destroyed from 

within. 

The love of money is the root of all evil. Just think of all 

the evil,destructive things we are living with. Are they not for 

the love of money? People both high and low need to wake 

up. The rich are getting richer while taking from the poor. 

God will not allow this to go on much longer. 

God has been sending his messengers to the world for 

2,000 years, warning them to repent of their sinful, wicked, 

greedy ways, but they don’t want to listen. 

If you have not been on another planet, you know this 

world is in deep, deep trouble. And it cannot be blamed on 

any one leader. The stage for the world’s condition has been 

set for years and through many leaders to bring God’s judgment 

upon the sinful, disobedient people. For the ones who 

don’t believe in God or the Bible, how did the prophets thousands 

of years ago know what would happen thousands of 

years in the future? Someone had to tell them,and that someone 

was God. 

What is written in the Bible is true and proven, and it will 

happen whether you believe it or not. Open your eyes and 

ears, it is happening right now. They said it couldn’t happen, 

not in America … but it is. Our only hope is not in the government 

or leaders. It is in God. 

The answer is not found in man, it is found in II 

Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, which are called by my 

name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek in face, 

and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven 

and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. The other 

choice we have is found in Psalms 9:17. 

It is time we stop playing church and competing with one 

another and get back where we need to be, on our knees crying 

out to God for guidance and mercy. 

Doris Davis Beaver 

Eton 

“Bible verse: “ The Spirit himself testifies with our 

spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, 

then we are heirs —- heirs of God and co-heirs 

with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in 

order that we may also share in his glory.” 

Romans 8:16-17 

Thought for today: “Often the test of courage is not 

to die but to live.” 

Vittorio Alfieri 

Italian dramatist (1749-1803) 

Give and serve 

Maybe it’s just me, but I 

find federal legislation titled 

“The GIVE Act” and “The 

SERVE Act” downright 

creepy. Even more troubling: 

the $6 billion price tag on 

these bipartisan bills to 

expand government-funded 

national service efforts. 

Volunteerism is a wonderful 

thing, which is why millions 

of Americans do it 

every day without a cent of 

taxpayer money. But the volunteerism 

packages on the 

Hill are less about promoting 

effective charity than about 

creating make-work, permanent 

bureaucracies and leftwing 

slush funds. 

The House passed the 

“Generations Invigorating 

Volunteerism and Education 

Act” — or the GIVE Act — 

last week. The Senate took 

up the companion SERVE 

Act Tuesday afternoon. 

According to a 

Congressional Budget Office 

analysis of the Senate bill 

(S.277), it would cost “$418 

million in 2010 and about 

$5.7 billion over the 2010- 

2014 period.” 

Like most federal programs, 

these would be sure 

to grow over time. The bills 

reauthorize the Clinton-era 

AmeriCorps boondoggle 

program and the Domestic 

Volunteer Service Act of 

1973. 

The programs have 

already been allocated $1.1 

billion for fiscal year 2009, 

including $200 million from 

the porkulus package signed 

into law last month. In addition 

to recruiting up to 

250,000 enrollees in 

AmeriCorps, the 

GIVE/SERVE bills would 

create new little armies of 

government volunteers, 

including a Clean Energy 

Corps, Education Corps, 

Healthy Futures Corps, 

Veterans Service Corps, and 

an expanded National 

Michelle 

Malkin 

I have a way to cut the state’s $2 billion 

deficit significantly while keeping 

members of the General Assembly, the 

state’s constitutional officers and assorted 

bureaucrats busy doing something 

meaningful for a change. Impossible, 

you say? Hear me out. 

I must confess I was inspired by the 

Legislature’s latest Teacher Appreciation 

gesture. Just when I thought teacher 

morale in Georgia couldn’t get any higher, 

Rep. Ed Lindsey, R-Atlanta, vice 

chairman of the House Appropriations 

Committee, has suggested that the state’s 

125,000 schoolteachers be furloughed 

for six days to save money. Given the 

humongous amounts of money that 

schoolteachers are paid and the few 

hours they work,this action would seem 

on the face of it to be a great idea. 

Besides, what do teachers do anyway 

besides trying to ram education into kids 

while politicians, bureaucrats, boards of 

education, superintendents, principals 

and the news media second-guess every 

move they make? 

I have a better idea. As Rep. Lindsey 

was trotting out his idea, State Revenue 

Commissioner Bart Graham released 

1,000 pages of businesses in Georgia 

that owe our state a reported $453 million. 

(You can find the list on DOR’s 

website.) My abacus is in the shop being 

recalibrated, but I’ll bet the money owed 

us by these companies is as much or 

more than would be saved by stiffing our 

schoolteachers. (And I’m not even 

counting Rep. Lindsey’s 22 colleagues 

in the General Assembly who haven’t 

paid their taxes.) 

So, here is my proposal: 

Civilian 

Community 

Corps for 

disaster 

relief and 

energy 

conservation. 

B u t 

that’s not 

a l l . 

Spending 

w o u l d 

include 

new funds 

for: 

— Foster Grandparent 

Program ($115 million); 

— Learn and Serve 

America ($97 million); 

— Retired and Senior 

Volunteer Program ($70 million); 

— Senior Companion 

Program ($55 million); 

— $12 million for each of 

fiscal years 2010 through 

2014 for “the Silver 

Scholarships and Encore 

Fellowships programs”; 

— $10 million a year 

from 2010 through 2014 for 

a new “Volunteers for 

Prosperity” program at 

USAID to “award grants to 

fund opportunities for volunteering 

internationally in 

coordination with eligible 

organizations”; and 

— Social Innovation 

Fund and Volunteer 

Generation Fund — $50 million 

in 2010; $60 million in 

2011; $70 million in 2012; 

$80 million in 2013; and 

$100 million in 2014. 

Social Innovation Fund? 

If that sounds familiar, it 

should. I reported last fall on 

the Democratic Party platform’s 

push to fund a “Social 

Investment Fund Network” 

that would reward “social 

entrepreneurs and leading 

nonprofit organizations” and 

“support results-oriented 

innovators.”It is essentially a 

special taxpayer-funded 

pipeline for radical liberal 

Dick 

Yarbrough 

groups backed by billionaire 

George Soros that masquerade 

as public-interest dogooders. 

Especially troublesome to 

parents’ groups concerned 

about compulsory volunteerism 

requirements is a 

provision in the House version 

directing Congress to 

explore “whether a workable, 

fair and reasonable 

mandatory service requirement 

for all able young people 

could be developed, and 

how such a requirement 

could be implemented in a 

manner that would strengthen 

the social fabric of the 

Nation and overcome civic 

challenges by bringing 

together people from diverse 

economic, ethnic and educational 

backgrounds.” 

Those who have watched 

AmeriCorps from its inception 

are all too familiar with 

how government volunteerism 

programs have been 

used for propaganda and 

political purposes. 

AmeriCorps “volunteers” 

have been put to work lobbying 

against the voterapproved 

three-strikes anticrime 

initiative in California 

and protesting Republican 

political events while working 

for the already heavily 

tax-subsidized liberal advocacy 

group ACORN. 

D.C. watchdog group 

Citizens Against 

Government Waste also documented 

national service 

volunteers lobbying for rent 

control, expanded federal 

housing subsidies and enrollment 

of more women in the 

Women, Infants and 

Children welfare program. 

AmeriCorps volunteers have 

also been paid to shuffle 

paper at the Department of 

■ Michelle Malkin is author of 

“Unhinged: Exposing Liberals 

Gone Wild.” Her e-mail address 

is malkinblog@gmail.com. 

Commissioner 

Graham should take 

the 1,000 pages of 

tax-delinquent businesses 

and divide the 

list among the 236 

members of the 

General Assembly. 

These august public 

servants would then 

take a furlough and 

collect the money 

from those scoundrels 

who haven’t paid their 

taxes. I’m going to go 

out on a limb here and 

say that I believe making the legislators 

take a furlough would sit a lot better with 

most Georgians than furloughing teachers. 

But I’m not through. Save some of 

those 1,000 pages for the governor and 

the members of his staff. Same for Lt. 

Gov. Casey Cagle and House Speaker 

Glenn Richardson. And don’t forget the 

attorney general,insurance commissioner, 

labor commissioner, secretary of 

state, Supreme Court justices, the game 

and fish guy, the head of the state patrol 

and even university presidents,who have 

to spend most of their time raising 

money anyway. I may have accidently 

omitted a functionary or two,but you get 

the idea. 

It wouldn’t be hard to come up with 

about 500 temporary tax collectors in 

state government. We would give them 

two sheets each, and after an inspirational 

sendoff by a highly paid public 

school teacher,everybody would fan out 

and start collecting the $453 million in 


T ODAY IN H ISTORY 

Today is Friday, 

March 27, the 86th day of 

2009. There are 279 days 

left in the year. 

Today’s Highlight in 

History: 

On March 27, 1977, 

583 people were killed 

when a KLM Boeing 747, 

attempting to take off, 

crashed into a Pan Am 747 

on the Canary Island of 

Tenerife. 

On this date: 

In 1625, Charles I 

acceded to the English 

throne upon the death of 

James I. 

In 1836, the first 

Mormon temple was dedicated, 

in Kirtland, Ohio. 

In 1945, during World 

War II, Gen. Dwight D. 

Eisenhower told reporters 

in Paris that German 

defenses on the Western 

Front had been broken. 

In 1958, Nikita 

Khrushchev became 

Soviet premier in addition 

to First Secretary of the 

Communist Party. 

In 1979, the Supreme 

Court ruled 8-1 in 

Delaware v. Prouse that 

police could not stop 

motorists at random to 

check licenses and registrations 

unless there was 

reason to believe a law 

had been broken. 

Ten years ago: NATO 

expanded its air assault on 

Yugoslavia in the fourth 

straight day of attacks. 

Five years ago: Nearly 

half a million people surrounded 

Taiwan’s presidential 

office and blocked 

major streets to protest 

their country’s disputed 

presidential election. 

One year ago: The 

Pentagon said Defense 

Secretary Robert Gates 

had ordered a full inventory 

of all nuclear weapons 

and related materials after 

the mistaken delivery of 

ballistic missile fuses to 

Taiwan. 

Today’s Birthdays: 

Former newspaper columnist 

Anthony Lewis is 82. 

Dance company director 

Arthur Mitchell is 75. 

Actor Julian Glover is 74. 

Actor Jerry Lacy is 73. 

Actor Austin Pendleton is 

69. Actor Michael York is 

67. Rock musician Tony 

Banks (Genesis) is 59. 

Actress Maria Schneider 

is 57. Rock musician 

Andrew Farriss (INXS) is 

50. Jazz musician Dave 

Koz is 46. Movie director 

Quentin Tarantino is 46. 

Rock musician Derrick 

McKenzie (Jamiroquai) is 

45. Rock musician Johnny 

April (Staind) is 44. 

Actress Talisa Soto is 42. 

Actress Pauley Perrette is 

40. Singer Mariah Carey 

is 39. Rock musician 

Brendan Hill (Blues 

Traveler) is 39. 

Ballot: Legislative tax evader solution 

back taxes. 

Think how effective it would be to 

see Gov. Sonny Perdue standing at your 

office door: “Hi, I’m Sonny Perdue, and 

I am here to collect the $15,463.24 you 

owe the state. I must leave here with a 

certified check, or else I will call out the 

National Guard and we will blow this 

building to smithereens. We also accept 

American Express.” 

At the risk of over-selling this idea, 

not only could we get the money rightfully 

owed us, we would have the politicians 

and bureaucrats out of our hair for 

a few weeks and during that time not 

have to worry about getting more government 

than we want or deserve. 

I have not discussed my plan with 

Revenue Commissioner Graham yet. He 

has been tied up trying to get 22 deadbeat 

legislators to pay their back taxes. 

But he’d have to like my proposal. What 

is wrong, pray tell, with requiring those 

people who are so anxious to spend our 

tax dollars to go out and collect from 

those who haven’t paid? 

Here is the best part. With Rep. 

Lindsey and his friends busy collecting 

taxes, schoolteachers can get back to 

teaching and not have to worry whether 

they can pay their bills next month 

because of the latest cockamamie 

scheme in the Legislature. 

Sometimes I am so brilliant, I scare 

myself. 

■ You can reach Dick Yarbrough at 

yarb2400@bellsouth.net, P.O. Box 

725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139, or 

Web site: www.dickyarbrough.com.


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during the final dress rehearsal Thursday at Dalton High School. The “Dance Off”opens tonight at Dalton 

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Emma Elrod, 15, left, and Vail Ponitz, 14, lift Ashton 

Wong, 14, at the end of their routine during a 

rehearsal at Dalton High School Thursday night. 

Speaker to discuss Indians, southern segregation 

S UBMITTED BY D ALTON S TATE C OLLEGE 

Theda Perdue from the University of 

North Carolina will deliver a lecture titled 

“Indians in the Segregated South, 1865- 

1965” on Tuesday,March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in 

the Goodroe Auditorium of Memorial Hall. 

The lecture, sponsored by the college’s 

Fine Arts and Lecture Series,is free and open 

to the public. 

Perdue, who earned her master’s and doctoral 

degrees from the University of Georgia, 

has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill for more than 

a decade and currently serves as the Atlanta 

Distinguished Term Professor of Southern 

Culture. 

“We are most fortunate to have a scholar 

of her stature to speak to our students on a 

topic that generates a great deal of local 

interest,”said John Hutcheson,vice president 

of academic affairs at Dalton State. “Her talk 

should be of interest to students, many of 

whom have been exploring the topic of multiculturalism 

this year, and to community 

members who are interested in the rich 

Native American heritage that surrounds us 

in northwest Georgia.” 

An expert on the Native American peoples 

who populated the southeastern United 

States, Perdue is the author of several books, 

including “Cherokee Women: Gender and 

Culture Change, 1700-1835,” published in 

1995, which won the Julia Cherry Spruill 

Award for the best book in Southern 

women’s history and the James Mooney 

Prize for the best book on the anthropology 

of the South. 

She also authored “The Columbia Guide 

to American Indians of the Southeast, The 

Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears,”and 

co-authored “Mixed Blood Indians: Racial 

Construction in the Early South” with 

Michael D. Green. She has edited or co-edited 

six books,including “Sifters:The Lives of 

Native American Women.” 

Perdue has held a number of fellowships 

including for the John Simon Guggenheim 

Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson 

International Center for Scholars, the 

Newberry Library and the Rockefeller 

Foundation. She has served as president for 

both the Southern Association for Women 

Historians (1985-1986) and for the American 

Society for Ethnohistory (2001). 

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Sources: 

Obama will 

add troops 

to Afghan 

operations 

WASHINGTON (AP) — 

Confronting an inherited and 

faltering war, President 

Barack Obama plans to dispatch 

thousands more military 

and civilian trainers to 

Afghanistan by the fall on 

top of the 17,000 combat 

troops he has already 

ordered, senior administration 

officials said Thursday. 

Obama’s war strategy, 

which he plans to announce 

Friday, includes no timeline 

for withdrawal of troops. The 

war began more than seven 

years ago. 

As he plans to put more 

U.S. lives and money into the 

war zone, Obama will set 

benchmarks for progress in 

Afghanistan and neighboring, 

troubled Pakistan. The 

goal is to show Congress and 

the American people that the 

strategy is working — and to 

set a clear framework for 

making corrections as needed. 

Obama also will call for 

increasing aid to Pakistan as 

long as its leaders confront 

militants in the border region. 

The U.S. will launch an 

intensive and expanded 

diplomatic effort to gain 

international cooperation, 

including reaching out to 

Russia, China, India, Saudi 

Arabia and even Iran. 

The overriding goal is to 

disrupt and eventually 

destroy the terrorist havens in 

Pakistan while trying to beef 

up Afghanistan’s military and 

basic society. As Obama put 

it last week, “It is not acceptable 

for us to simply sit back 

and let safe havens of terrorists 

plan and plot to kill 

Americans.” 

Yet his strategy includes 

no timeline for the war, 

according to administration 

sources, who outlined the 

strategy ahead of Obama’s 

announcement only on condition 

of anonymity. One 

official said the plan assumes 

the only way to bring 

Americans home was to build 

up Afghan forces to a degree 

that they can counter the 

threats. 

Obama called Afghanistan 

President Hamid Karzai and 

Pakistani President Asif Ali 

Zardari on Thursday to brief 

them on his plans. 

“He made it very clear 

there are no blank checks,” 

one administration official 

said. 

Obama plans to send 

4,000 more U.S. military 

troops whose mission will be 

to train and expand the 

Afghan army to take the lead 

on counterterrorism and 

counterinsurgency. The 

troops will come from 82nd 

Airborne Division at Fort 

Bragg in North Carolina. 

The president also plans 

to send in hundreds more 

U.S. civilians to help the people 

of Afghanistan rebuild 

their nation. 

Obama will support legislation 

that aims to pump billions 

of dollars aid into 

Pakistan,considered to be the 

primary haven for terrorists 

since U.S.-led forces toppled 

the Taliban government in 

Afghanistan in 2001. 

Reading to the kids 


Murray County Ninth Grade Academy student Stephane Goodson, 14, reads to 

Chatsworth Elementary students Pascual Escobar and Seth Gallman,both 7,at 

Chatsworth Elementary School on Thursday. Members of the Ninth Grade 

Academy’s reading club stopped by the school to read to students. 


Autumn Ridley,7,takes over reading duties as classmate Brittany Lopez,6,and Ninth 

Grade Academy student Kaitlyn Lowery, 15, listen on Thursday at Chatsworth 

Elementary School. 


Abney honored at conference 

S UBMITTED BY W HITFIELD 

C OUNTY S CHOOLS 

Whitfield County students 

have a state-recognized 

science teacher — 

again 

For the third year in a 

row, the Georgia Science 

Teacher Association has 

named a Whitfield County 

teacher as a Georgia Teacher 

of Promise. 

The association recognizes 

one elementary, one 

middle and one high school 

teacher in the state as a 

teacher of promise. The 

honoree must have had less 

than three years of teaching 

experience and show great 

teaching promise. 

This year, the honor of 

high school Teacher of 

Promise went to Billie 

Abney, an anatomy teacher 

at Southeast High School. 

Greg Bailey, a director of 

teaching and learning for 

Whitfield County Schools, 

nominated Abney for the 

honor. 

“The most impressive 

Billie Abney accepts recognition for speaking about Attention Deficit 

Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at an international conference in Riyadh, Saudi 

Arabia, in October 2008. The presenter is Royal Highness Prince Mohammed 

bin Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz,the ambassador for Saudi Arabia to England.Abney 

was recognized as Georgia’s high school Teacher of Promise recently. 

aspect of Dr. Abney’s teaching 

is the care and concern 

she has for her students and 

colleagues,” Bailey said in 

his nomination letter. “When 

she designs instruction, she 

has every child in mind and 

ensures that all students will 

be successful.” 

Bailey said Abney uses 

interesting teaching techniques 

to keep her students 

engaged in their studies. 

“I enjoy a visit to her 

VA quiet on 

contamination 

at facilities 

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. 

(AP) — Thousands of military 

veterans across the 

South are waiting to find out 

if they were exposed to 

infectious diseases by government 

clinics that performed 

colonoscopies and 

other procedures with equipment 

that wasn’t properly 

sterilized. 

Veterans Affairs officials 

won’t say if mistakes that 

may have exposed patients to 

infections at medical centers 

in Tennessee and Florida and 

a clinic in Georgia have been 

discovered elsewhere. 

The VA recently warned 

veterans who had colonoscopies 

as far back as five 

years ago at its hospitals in 

Murfreesboro, Tenn., and 

Miami that they may have 

been exposed to the body fluids 

of other patients and 

should undergo tests to make 

sure they haven’t contracted 

serious illnesses. 

“What if you had to worry 

about giving your wife 

AIDS?” said Wayne Craig, a 

52-year-old U.S. Navy veteran 

who lives in Elora and had 

a colonoscopy at the VA’s 

Alvin C. York Medical 

Center in Murfreesboro, near 

Nashville, about five years 

ago. “Why haven’t I been 

notified within five years?” 

The VA declined to 

answer four Associated Press 

requests over the past week 

about the results of what the 

department described as a 

nationwide procedure and 

training review that was to 

end March 14. VA spokeswoman 

Laurie Tranter said 

the department planned to 

issue a response later 

Thursday. 

The review of all VA medical 

centers and outpatient 

clinics followed reports in 

February that the department 

classroom because the students 

are always so excited, 

and it is a learning opportunity 

for me as well,” he 

wrote. “One day she was 

standing on top of the lab 

table with a vacuum inflating 

discovered “improperly 

reprocessed” endoscopic 

equipment used for colonoscopies 

in Murfreesboro and 

ear, nose and throat exams in 

Augusta, Ga. 

Just this week, the VA 

acknowledged problems at a 

facility in Miami, too. 

Veteran Gary Simpson, 

57, of Spring City had a 

colonoscopy at the 

Murfreesboro clinic in 2007. 

He said his blood has tested 

negative for HIV and hepatitis, 

but he’s still worried 

because a nurse told him 

some diseases don’t show up 

for seven years. 

“He talks about it every 

day,” said his wife, Janice. 

“It has really messed with 

him a lot. It is just too disturbing.” 

Nashville lawyer Mike 

Sheppard said his firm is 

preparing to file claims on 

behalf of up to 15 

colonoscopy patients,including 

several who have since 

tested positive for hepatitis 

B. He said an elderly man 

who had cancer when he had 

a colonoscopy died shortly 

afterward. 

“We are investigating the 

death,” Sheppard said. 

According to a VA e-mail, 

only about half of the 

Murfreesboro and Augusta 

patients notified by letter of a 

mistake that exposed them to 

“potentially infectious fluids” 

have requested appointments 

for follow-up blood 

tests offered by the department. 

In February,the VA said it 

sent letters offering the tests 

to about 6,400 patients who 

had colonoscopies between 

April 23, 2003, and Dec. 1, 

2008, at Murfreesboro and to 

about 1,800 patients treated 

over 11 months last year at 

Augusta. 

swine lungs, explaining all 

the intricacies of the pulmonary 

system.” 

Abney, a former chiropractor, 

has been at 

Southeast for two years. She 

works hard to design quality 

work students will enjoy and 

is willing to help other teachers 

in the district. 

“I am in the process of 

developing a book-less, 

choice learning, technologyenriched 

human anatomy 

and physiology curriculum,” 

Abney said in her application. 

“I hope to share this 

with other anatomy and 

physiology teachers in our 

school system.” 

Abney receives $500 with 

the honor. 

Last year, the association 

selected a teacher from 

Southeast High as the high 

school Teacher of Promise. 

In 2007, the association 

picked a teacher from North 

Whitfield Middle School as 

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PUBLIC NOTICE 

City of Dalton 

CDBG Public Hearing 

The Mayor and Council of the City of Dalton invite all residents and 

local organizations to aPublic Hearing regarding the City of Dalton’s 

F i v e Y e a r C o n s o l i d a t e d P l a nfor the Community Development Block 

Grant and the allocation ofthe 2 0 0 9 A n n u a l A c t i o n P l a n(the 1 st year 

of the 5 year plan) for the Community Development Block Grant 

submitted to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

Anticipated funding for the Five Year Consolidated Plan: $2,000,000.00 

Anticipated funding for 2009: $400,000.00 

Public Services: Can allocate up to 20% of funds 

Public Facilities &Housing: Can allocate up to 100% 

Administration and Planning: Can allocate up to 20% 

The First Hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 @2:00PM 

in the Chamber Council at the Dalton City Hall, 300 WWaugh Street, 

Dalton, GA 30720. 

The Second Hearing will be Monday, March 30, 2009 @2:00PM in the 

Chamber Council at the Dalton City Hall, 300 West Waugh Street, 


Please present any comments to: Renetta Cochran 706-278-6006, 300 W 

Waugh Street (City Hall) or email to rcochran@cityofdalton-ga.gov 

PUBLIC NOTICE 

City of Dalton 

CDBG Plan Admendment 

The Mayor and Council of the City of Dalton invite all residents to a 

30-day comment period on the following amendments to reallocate 

fundsfor the Community Development Block Grant. 

Reallocation offunds from: 

2006 Project Administration $21,000.00 

2007 Project Administration $30,000.00 

2007 City Staff $22,360.00 

2007 Project Adm-Bilingual Building Codes $3,199.00 

Total Funds toReallocate: $76,559.00 

The City ofDalton is also anticipating additional funds to be added to 

the 2008 allocation from the Federal Stimulus Package and will be 

amending the 2008 Annual ActionPlan for$105,901.00. 

The reallocated funds and additional funds will be applied to anew 

project-The Dalton Hamilton House. The funds will be used to 

stabilize the outer back wall and foundation and possible other 

structural repairs to enable this site to be reopened as a historic 

landmark. 

Total Funds beingallocate to The HamiltonHouse: $186,060.00 

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B USINESS 

Jobless numbers 

still on the rise 

WASHINGTON — 

Hopes that the economy may 

be poised for a recovery got a 

splash of reality Thursday: 

The unemployment rolls are 

still getting bigger as the 

recession maintains its grip. 

For the 10th week in a 

row, the number of people 

receiving jobless benefits 

grew. It now stands at nearly 

5.6 million, the government 

said — an indication that the 

labor market is still grim. 

New claims for unemployment 

benefits rose again 

as well, to a seasonally 

adjusted 652,000, up from 

644,000 the week before. 

The government also said the 

economy shrank at a 6.3 percent 

annual clip in the fourth 

quarter, slightly faster than 

its previous estimate. 

“There is no sign of 

recovery here,and claims are 

usually one of the very first 

numbers to turn,” Ian 

Shepherdson, chief U.S. 

economist at High Frequency 

Economics, wrote in a client 

note. 

The total number of people 

claiming benefits jumped 

to 5.56 million, worse than 

economists’ projections of 

5.48 million, and setting a 

record for the ninth week in a 

row. 

The stock market shook 

off the bleak unemployment 

news and continued its 

remarkable bounce off lows 

set earlier this month. The 

Dow Jones industrials gained 

almost 175 points to close 

just under 7,925. 

Stock market 

posts solid gains 

NEW YORK — Wall 

Street’s March rally gained 

momentum on Thursday — 

this time, thanks to surprisingly 

good earnings from 

some major consumer 

brands. 

Strong demand for government 

debt at the Treasury 

Department’s latest auction 

also lifted stocks. Investors 

had been nervous about the 

government’s ability to fund 

its economic stimulus and 

financial bailout programs. 

Best Buy Co., ConAgra 

Foods Inc., and Dr Pepper 

Snapple Group Inc. all 

turned in quarterly profits 

that beat analysts’ modest 

expectations. 

The Dow Jones industrial 

average rose 174 points 

Thursday to finish at its highest 

level in nearly six weeks. 

The index has surged 21 percent 

since hitting a nearly 12- 

year low on March 9. 

Crude oil prices 

continue to climb 

NEW YORK — Oil 

prices hit a new high for the 

year Thursday and retail 

gasoline rose above $2 per 

gallon for the first time since 

November as investors 

wagered that there would be 

a new run on crude stocks. 

Benchmark crude for May 

delivery rose $1.57 to settle 

at $54.34 a barrel on the New 

York Mercantile Exchange. 

Gas prices rose 2.3 cents a 

gallon overnight to a new 

national average of $2.009 

per gallon, according to auto 

club AAA, Wright Express 

and Oil Price Information 

Service. Pump prices are 

10.9 cents higher than a 

month ago, but $1.252 lower 

than the same period last 

year. 

Gas prices last hit $2 on 

Nov. 20. 

Google sheds 

200 employees 

SAN FRANCISCO — 

Google Inc. is jettisoning 

nearly 200 workers in its 

largest round of layoffs yet, 

demonstrating that even 

highly profitable companies 

are feeling the recession’s 

pinch. 

The job cuts announced 

Thursday affected less than 1 

percent of the 20,200 workers 

employed by the 

Internet’s search leader. 

That’s modest compared 

with the massive shake-ups 

in the newspaper, retailing, 

automobile and financial 

services industries during the 

past year. 

Google’s housecleaning 

nevertheless is a sobering 

sign of the hard times around 

the globe. 

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A pickup truck lies on its side after hitting a light pole in the northbound lanes 

of Interstate 25 at Monument Hill on Thursday as a winter storm takes hold of 

Colorado's El Paso County. 

Storms strike West 

DENVER (AP) — A 

major spring snowstorm 

dumped at least a foot of 

snow across the Colorado- 

Wyoming state line on 

Thursday, canceling hundreds 

of flights, shutting 

down schools and making 

roads treacherous. 

Wyoming authorities 

reported at least 33 people 

were injured in three pileups 

involving about 50 vehicles 

on Interstate 25 just south of 

the state line, leading 

Colorado officials to close 

the highway for more than 

40 miles south of Cheyenne. 

The interstate is the main 

north-south thoroughfare in 

Colorado. 

Aaron Fowler, chief of 

Laramie County Fire District 

1 in Wyoming, said many 

other vehicles also slid off 

the road while trying to 

avoid the wrecks. 

“Visibility when I arrived 

on the scene was, I would 

say, 100 yards — very high 

winds and blizzard conditions,”Fowler 

said. 

Winds were gusting to 

nearly 40 mph in Denver, 

about 100 miles south of 

Cheyenne. The Regional 

Transportation District, the 

Denver-area mass-transit 

service, pulled its buses off 

the roads in Longmont, 

Colo., 30 miles north of 

Denver because of whiteout 

conditions. 

“I saw three flipped cars,” 

said Zachary Whitaker, who 

spent four hours driving his 

grandmother to the Denver 

airport from Gering, Neb. 

“Five more run off the road. 

Cars in ditches all over.” 

Denver and large swaths 

of the state’s eastern half 

were under a blizzard warning 

Thursday while most of 

the state was under a winter 

storm warning. Gov. Bill 

Ritter declared a state of 

emergency and activated the 

National Guard, though its 

mission was not immediately 

disclosed. 

Forecasters predicted up 

to 2 feet of snow south and 

east of Denver by Friday and 

up to 15 inches in the city 

itself. More than a foot of 

snow was expected in the 

foothills west of Denver. 

At Denver International 

Airport, Frontier Airlines 

canceled 54 flights and its 

Lynx commuter affiliate canceled 

33, spokesman Steve 

Snyder said. Southwest 

Airlines canceled at leazt 82 

flights. 

Dozens of school districts 

called off classes Thursday, 

AP Photo 

John Wright covers his face as he makes his way 

down the off ramp to help stranded motorists get 

their cars up the hill of Highway 36 in Boulder, 

Colo., on Thursday. 

although many already were 

closed for spring break. The 

University of Colorado in 

Boulder and Colorado State 

University in Fort Collins 

shut down early. 

At the state Capitol in 

Denver, lawmakers in the 

House challenged their 

counterparts in the Senate to 

a snowball fight on the statehouse 

lawn after both chambers 

and many state and federal 

courts closed early. 

The storm was welcome 

news to some after a dry 

winter marked by repeated 

brush fires and fire warnings. 

“It may disrupt some guys 

who were in the field planting,” 

said Shawn Martini, a 

spokesman for the Colorado 

Farm Bureau. “But at this 

point, they can delay that 

because the water is more 

important.” 

Charges dropped against 

priest who taped police 

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut 

prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges 

against a Roman Catholic priest who was 

arrested while videotaping East Haven police 

officers in an attempt to document alleged 

harassment of Hispanics. 

Parishioners of the Rev. James Manship’s 

church also announced Thursday that they 

filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice 

Department’s Civil Rights Division seeking 

an investigation of East Haven police for 

alleged brutality and racial profiling of 

Hispanics. 

Hugh Keefe, a lawyer for the police 

department, declined to comment on 

Thursday’s events. He said he wanted to see 

the complaint first. 

Earlier this month, Keefe accused 

Manship of “creating a controversy where 

none needed to be,” and he said there never 

had been a formal complaint accusing town 

officers of harassing Hispanics. If a complaint 

was brought forward, he said, town 

officials would look into it and take it seriously. 

Manship, pastor at St. Rose of Lima 

Church in New Haven, was charged Feb. 19 

with disorderly conduct and interfering with 

police. 

He was videotaping two officers who 

were removing what they called illegal 

license plates from a wall of a food store 

owned by a Hispanic couple, who said the 

plates were for decoration 

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Alaska volcano 

erupts twice 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska 

(AP) — Alaska’s Mount 

Redoubt erupted twice 

Thursday, spewing a more 

than 12-mile-high cloud that 

could drop ash on Anchorage 

for the first time since the 

volcano began erupting 

Sunday night. 

The Alaska Volcano 

Observatory said the first 

eruption about 8:30 a.m. shot 

an ash cloud about 30,000 

feet in the air,and the second 

eruption about an hour later 

sent ash 65,000 feet high — 

the highest cloud since the 

eruptions began. The larger 

eruption caused a mud flow 

into the Drift River near the 

base of the volcano. 

Before Thursday’s eruptions 

the volcano had been 

relatively quiet for more than 

a day. 

According to the National 

Weather Service, prevailing 

winds are expected to carry 

ash from the larger eruption 

east across Cook Inlet 

toward some of Alaska’s 

larger communities. An ash 

fall advisory for the western 

Kenai Peninsula covers the 

towns of Kenai, Soldotna 

and Cooper Landing. 

Anchorage spokeswoman 

Jenny Evans said the state’s 

largest city, roughly 100 

miles northeast of the volcano, 

could see trace 

amounts of ash. 

The smaller cloud was 

expected to drop minor 

amounts of ash on Homer, a 

tourist and fishing town at 

the southern tip of the Kenai 

Peninsula. 

Ash poses a significant 

threat to aircraft engines,and 

a small carrier, Era Aviation, 

canceled four flights as of 

midday. Alaska Airlines, 

which unlike Era does not 

serve the Kenai Peninsula, 

canceled one flight; earlier in 

the week it had canceled 35. 

The National Weather 

Service also issued a flash 

flood warning for the Drift 

River, near the volcano. 

Eruptions can cause snow 

and ice to melt on the mountain, 

resulting in flooding 

along the river that drains 

from the mountain. 

Research geologists with 

the U.S. Geological Survey 

have said a lot of snow and 

ice remains on the mountain, 

increasing the danger from 

mud flows that already have 

downed hundreds of trees 

and carved a huge gouge out 

of a glacier. 

The mud flows also have 

littered the airport at the 

Drift River Terminal, a 

Chevron-operated facility 

that has been shut down but 

still has 6.2 million gallons 

of crude stored in two tanks. 

Karen Timmers, right, 

picks up her daughter 

Kaila Kais, who suffers 

from asthma, and son 

Johann from Talkeetna 

Elementary School, in 

Talkeetna, Alaska on 

Monday,March 23, 2009 

because of the ash from 

Mount Redoubt Volcano. 

Footprints in the ash are 

seen in the foreground. 

Until the airport runway is 

cleared, it is unusable. 

Eleven employees were 

evacuated from the terminal 

Monday. An attempt to reach 

the terminal by helicopter on 

Wednesday was unsuccessful, 

but previous flights indicated 

that the oil storage 

tanks were not damaged and 

surrounding berms and dikes 

to contain any spilled oil 

were also OK. 

Since the first series of 

eruption Sunday night and 

early Monday morning, the 

volcano has had several 

smaller bursts with most ash 

falling on sparsely populated 

areas northwest of 

Anchorage. Some people in 

more populated areas were 

nervous about getting a dusting 

from Thursday’s eruptions. 

“Right now there is nothing 

really we can do but shut 

the doors, keep ourselves 

closed up,” said Juxia 

Scarpitta, owner of Halcyon 

Heights Bed and Breakfast in 

Homer. 

Scarpitta said she’s 

expecting the arrival of visitors 

“from another disaster 

area” — along North 

Dakota’s Red River, where a 

historic crest is expected 

Saturday and thousands of 

sandbaggers are trying to 

prevent widespread flooding. 

Scarpitta said the family is 

coming so one of them can 

celebrate his birthday in 

Alaska. 

“He is still coming right 

now. I advised him to get trip 

insurance,” she said. 

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O BITUARIES 

• Robin Gail Gent 

Bishop 

• John Mark Carter 

• John Kilp 

• Teresa Wright Martin 

• Dorothy Lee Short 

• Margaret Marie Taylor 

• Brett Andrew 

Thomason 

Obituary notices are 

posted online at 


John Mark Carter 

John Mark Carter, 44, of 

Fairburn, died Tuesday, 

March 24, 2009, at St. 

Joseph Hospital in 

Lexington, Ky. 

John is survived by his 

parents, Dewey and Fern 

Carter of Chatsworth; sister 

and brother-in-law, Cindie 

and Brett Morris of 

Richmond, Ky.; brothers and 

sisters-in-law, Jeff and 

Rosimar Carter of Tunnel 

Hill, Gregory and Lona 

Carter of LaSelva Beach, 

Calif.; aunts, uncles, nieces, 

nephews and cousins also 

survive. 

Services are Saturday at 2 

p.m. in the chapel of Peeples 

Funeral Home with the Rev. 

Charles Smith officiating. 

Interment will be in the Fairy 

Valley Cemetery with Jeff 

Carter, Gregory Carter, 

Austin Carter, Justin Carter, 

Daimon Carter and Ben 

Carter serving as pallbearers. 

The family will receive 

friends at the funeral home 

Saturday from noon to 2 

p.m. 

Peeples Funeral Home of 

Chatsworth is in charge of 

the funeral arrangements. 

www.legacy.com 

John Kilp 

Mr. John Kilp, 79, of 

Dalton, passed away Friday, 

March 20, 2009. 

Born in New York City on 

June 13, 1929, he was the 

son of the late Mary and 

John Kilp and was preceded 

in death by his wife, 

Gelsomina (Jessie) Kilp. 

He had a long career in 

the carpet industry as a contract 

sales manager in New 

York, Chicago and Dalton; 

was a resident of Dalton for 

over 25 years, where he 

attended St. Joseph’s 

Catholic Church; and proudly 

served in the United States 

Army from 1951 thru 1953. 

John is survived by his 

sons and daughter-in-law, 

Stephen and Moonhee of 

Greensboro,N.C.,Stanley of 

Myrtle Beach, S.C.; daughter 

and son-in-law, Virginia 

and Kyle of Greenville, S.C.; 

grandchildren, Jessica, Jin 

and Nicholas. 

Graveside services will be 

held Saturday at 10 m. at 

West Hill Cemetery with 

Monsignor William 

Hoffman officiating. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials 

may be made to the 

Amercian Cancer Society, 

300 W. Emery St.,Suite 106, 

Dalton, GA 30720, or to 

one’s favorite charity. 

Words of comfort may be 

sent to the family at 

www.lovefuneralhomega.co 

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Love Funeral Home, 

1402 N. Thornton Ave., 

Dalton (across from 

Hamilton Medical Center), 

is in charge of arrangements. 


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Teresa Wright 

Martin 

Teresa Wright Martin, 53, 

of LaGrange passed away 

Wednesday,March 25, 2009, 

at West Georgia Medical 

Center. Mrs. Martin was 

born Dec. 19,1955, daughter 

of the late Donald and Joan 

Hollis Wright. She was a 

long-time accountant for 

Atlas Corp. and a former 

officer for Troup County 

Democratic Executive 

Committee. 

Survivors include her 

husband, Joel Martin, and 

daughter,Hollis Martin,both 

of LaGrange; a sister, Lisa 

Panther; grandmother, Lois 

Smith of LaGrange; three 

nephews, Joshua Panther, 

Nathan Panther and Nicholas 

Panther, all of Dalton; and 

several other relatives. 

Memorial services will be 

at 2 p.m. Saturday at the 

Hunter-Allen-Myhand 

Chapel with Pastor Jim Head 

officiating. The family will 

be at their home at 114 

Lincoln Lane, and receive 


today from 6 until 8 p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, contributions 

may be made in 

memory of Mrs. Martin to 

the American Cancer 

Society, 2200 Lake Blvd., 

Atlanta GA 30319, or the 

Atlanta Hope Lodge, 1552 

Shoup Court, Decatur GA 

30033. 

Condolences may be 

expressed and memories 

shared in the guest book at 

www.hunterallenmyhand.co 

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Hunter-Allen-Myhand 

Funeral Home of LaGrange 

is in charge of arrangements. 


Dorothy Lee Short 

Mrs. Dorothy Lee Short, 

75, of Dalton, departed this 

life Thursday, March 26, 

2009, at the local hospital. 

Dorothy was born May 1, 

1933,in Chattooga County,a 

daughter of the late Clifford 

and Lula Edna Norton. She 

was also preceded in death 

by her husband, Roy Edward 

Short; sons, Charles Short 

and Henry Burns; daughters, 

Mary Rolen and Gail 

Lambert; brother, Billy 

Norton; and sister, Louise 

Reynolds. 

She is survived by her 

sons and daughters-in-law, 

Paul and Carolyn Short of 

Ringgold, Billy and Frankie 

Short of Dalton, Dewayne 

Short and Danny and Jackie 

Short of Rocky Face; daughters 

and sons-in-law,Pauline 

and Jesse Chadwick and 

Virginia and Jerry Barnette 

of Rocky Face; sisters, 

Geraldine and Hugh 

Copeland of Alabama, 

Carline Crane of Florida; 23 

grandchildren, 34 greatgrandchildren; 

several nieces 

and nephews. 

Services to celebrate the 

life of Mrs. Dorothy Short 

are Saturday at 2 p.m. at 

House of Prayer Baptist 

Church with the Rev. Freddy 

Bell, the Rev. Hugh 

Copeland and Pastor Junior 

Williams officiating. 

She will be laid to rest at 

West Hill Cemetery with 

Levi Barnette, Paul Short, 

Timothy Pettyjohn, Dustin 

Byers, Edward Pettyjohn, 

Paul Short II and Mark Short 

serving as pallbearers. 



today from 5 to 9 p.m. 

Messages and condolences 

may be sent to the 

Short family at www.pondersfuneralhome.com. 

Arrangements by locally 

owned and operated Ponders 

Funeral Home, 138 Melrose 

Drive, Dalton; (706) 226- 

4002. Your selected independent 

funeral home. 


Margaret Marie 

Taylor 

Margaret Marie Taylor, 

82, of the Cedar Valley 

Community, passed away 

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 

at Quinton Memorial Health 

Care Center. 

She was preceded in 

death by her parents,Cas and 

Nora Dunn; twin brother, 

Marcus Dunn; brothers,Coy, 

Ray and Felix Dunn; and sister, 

Etta Mae Weeks. 

She was a member of 

Good Hope Baptist Church. 

Survivors include her 

husband, Glynn Taylor of the 

residence; daughter and sonin-law, 

Loutrelle and G. 

Lamar Lyle of Dalton; sisterin-law, 

Dereda Taylor of 

Atlanta; nieces and nephews. 

The funeral service will 

be held Saturday at 11 a.m. 

at the Pleasant Grove Chapel 

of Julian Peeples Funeral 

Home with Rev. Stacy 

Hensley officiating. 

Burial will be in Good 

Hope Cemetery. 



from 5 until 8 p.m. today. 


sent and the guest register 

signed at www.julianpeeples.com. 

Julian Peeples Funeral 

Home, Pleasant Grove 

Chapel, Dalton, is in charge 

of funeral arrangements. For 

more information, call (706) 

259-7455. 


Brett Andrew 

Thomason 

Brett Andrew Thomason, 

19, of Dalton, went home to 

be with the Lord, Feb. 19, 

2009, due to an accidental 

drowning. 

He was preceded in death 

by his great-grandparents, 

Hertis and 

Ann Mathis 

and Robert 

Baggett. 

He was a 

2008 graduate 

Thomason 

of Southeast 

High School. 

Brett enlisted 

in February to 

the U.S. Marine 

Corps and was 

to report to Parris Island, 

S.C., in April. He achieved a 

high score on the ASVAB 

test and qualified for Special 

Forces. He was truly excited 

to be able to serve his country. 

He is survived by his loving 

family, mother, Dana 

Massey; his best friend and 

sister, Natasha Thomason of 

Dalton; father and stepmother, 

Tim and Stephanie 

Thomason; half-brothers, 

Lewis, Isaiah Elijah 

Thomason; half-sister, 

Brianna Thomason, all of 

Dalton; grandparents, Doris 

Kedrow and Hershel and 

Margaret Thomason, all of 

Dalton, Odell Baggett of 

Chatsworth; stepgrandparents, 

James and Faye 

Franklin; very special aunts, 

Wanda Brown and Mary 

Ruth Rabun of Dalton; uncle 

and aunt, Ronnie and 

Michelle Thomason; aunt, 

Cindy Thomason, all of 

Dalton; his beloved dog, 

Annie; and many other 

aunts, uncles, cousins who 

loved him dearly, and many 

special friends. 

Services are Saturday at 2 

p.m. at Eleventh Avenue 

Baptist Church with the Rev. 

Ronald Guffey, youth pastor 

Reed Hicks, assistant pastor 

Robert Beavers and the Rev. 

Donald Shipman officiating. 

Burial will be in West Hill 

Cemetery. Pallbearers will 

be Ben Parrish, Collin 

Parrish, Caleb Pratt, Blake 

Powers, David Goforth, 

Liem Nguyen, David 

Izaguire and Preston Rogers. 



today after 4 p.m. 

Messages of comfort may 

be sent and the guestbook 

signed at www.julianpeeples.com. 

Julian Peeples Funeral 

Home, Pleasant Grove 

Chapel, 2801 Cleveland 

Road, Dalton, is in charge of 

arrangements. For more 

information, call (706) 259- 

7455. 


Robin Gail Gent 

Bishop 

Mrs. Robin Gail Gent 

Bishop, 53, of Knoxville, 

Tenn., and formerly of 

Dalton, died suddenly 

Wednesday,March 25, 2009, 

at St. Mary’s Hospital in 

Knoxville. 

She was preceded in 

death by her brother, Dennis 

Gent. 

Robin was employed with 

Hamilton Medical Center for 

20-plus years before moving 

to Knoxville. 

She is survived by her 

husband, Roy Bishop of 

Knoxville; sons, Scott 

Bishop and Tyler Bishop, 

both of Knoxville; father and 

mother, Jack and Pearl Gent 

of Tunnel Hill; grandsons, 

Andrew, Cayden and Colby 

Bishop, all of Knoxville; 

brothers, Michael Gent of 

Virginia and Gary Gent, 

Greg Gent and Russell Gent, 

all of Tunnel Hill; nieces and 

nephews. 

Memorial services are 

Sunday at 2 p.m. in the 

chapel of Love Funeral 

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Versatile singer Dan Seals dies of cancer 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. 

(AP) — Dan Seals, who was 

England Dan in the pop duo 

England Dan and John Ford 

Coley and later had a successful 

country career, has 

died of complications from 

cancer. He was 61. 

Longtime manager Tony 

Gottlieb said Seals, diagnosed 

with lymphoma two 

years ago, died Wednesday 

night at his daughter’s home 

in Nashville. 

With England Dan and 

John Ford Coley, Seals had 

hits including “I’d Really 

Love to See You Tonight” 

and “Nights Are Forever,” 

both in 1976. His country 

hits in the ’80s and ’90s 

included “Bop,” “You Still 

Move Me,” “Love on 

Arrival,” and a duet with 

Marie Osmond,“Meet Me in 

Montana.” 

“I’ve loved to play and 

sing from the moment I 

knew what it was,” he told 

The Associated Press in 

1992. 

Seals, who is survived by 

his wife, four children and 

seven grandchildren, was in 

hospice care when he died. 

“He was very positive,” 

said Gottlieb, Seals’ manager 

for about 30 years. “He participated 

in several clinical 

trials to assist with research 

on this type of lymphoma.” 

Gottlieb said a major misconception 

about Seals is 

that he was a pop singer who 

came to country music. In 

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Chattanooga through 3 p.m. yest. 

Temperature: 

High/low . . . . . . . . . . . 67°/53° 

Precipitation: 

24 hrs.to 3 p.m. yest. . . 1.19" 

RealFeel Temperature ® 

The patented AccuWeather.com 

RealFeel Temperature is an exclusive 

index of effective temperature based on 

eight weather factors.Shown is the highest 

values of the day. 

54 53 57 61 62 63 68 64 63 

Georgia Weather 

Dalton 

Gainesville 

65/52 

Atlanta 

65/57 

Athens 

63/55 

Forecasts and graphics provided 

by AccuWeather,Inc. ©2009 

Augusta 

70/59 

National Weather for March 27, 2009 

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 

Seattle 

54/40 

Billings 

46/29 

Minneapolis 

38/20 

New York 

68/47 

Chicago 

Detroit 

46/36 

52/36 

San Francisco 

69/50 

Denver 

Washington 

32/16 

Kansas City 

42/29 

65/47 

8 am 9 am 10 am 11 am Noon 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 

Sun and Moon 

Sunrise today ........... 7:33 a.m. 

Sunset tonight .......... 7:57 p.m. 

First Full Last New 

Apr 2 

Apr 9 

Apr 17 

Weather History 

Apr 24 

A great storm buried the Dakotas 

under knee-deep snow on March 

27, 1950.Dumont, S.D., received 38 

inches, the greatest 24-hour snowfall 

in South Dakota history. 

Weather Trivia TM 

Q: Bowling and U.S.tornadoes 

have what in common? 

A: An alley. 

Columbus 

68/63 

Albany 

72/64 

Macon 

68/59 

Cordele 

73/60 

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures 

are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 

Valdosta 

76/64 

Dublin 

73/59 

Savannah 

72/62 

Brunswick 

72/63 

Today Sat. Sun. Today Sat. Sun. 

City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 

Albany 72/64/t 79/53/t 67/44/s 

Atlanta 65/57/r 70/46/t 62/42/s 

Athens 63/55/r 69/49/t 62/39/pc 

Augusta 70/59/r 78/55/t 66/40/pc 

Brunswick 72/63/pc 77/60/pc 69/50/t 

College Park 65/57/r 70/46/t 62/42/s 

Columbus 68/63/t 74/50/t 65/42/s 

Gainesville 65/52/r 65/49/t 62/42/pc 

La Grange 64/57/r 71/46/t 61/34/s 

Macon 68/59/t 76/51/t 65/39/s 

Marietta 66/55/r 69/47/t 62/38/s 

Newton 76/63/t 79/52/t 67/44/s 

Rome 68/59/r 73/47/t 67/39/s 

Savannah 72/62/t 80/59/pc 68/48/t 

Sparta 66/57/r 74/50/t 64/39/pc 

Valdosta 76/64/t 84/59/c 69/47/pc 

Los Angeles 

78/50 

El Paso 

56/37 

Today Sat. Sun. 

City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 

Albany 60/38/pc 60/40/r 52/33/r 

Anchorage 38/26/c 35/21/s 36/26/c 

Baltimore 66/45/pc 54/45/r 64/38/r 

Billings 46/29/pc 53/30/c 42/25/sf 

Boise 54/35/pc 59/36/pc 53/31/sh 

Buffalo 54/39/pc 54/43/r 48/30/sh 

Charlotte 66/53/r 70/53/r 65/38/pc 

Cheyenne 32/21/pc 46/28/pc 44/26/c 

Chicago 46/36/c 44/29/r 44/30/c 

Cincinnati 62/44/r 65/40/r 48/32/c 

Cleveland 58/38/pc 55/44/r 48/30/sh 

Dallas 64/37/c 55/38/pc 68/54/s 

Houston 

79/49 



Denver 32/16/pc 50/29/pc 52/29/pc 

Detroit 52/36/pc 52/40/r 46/29/sh 

Indianapolis 56/44/r 56/36/r 46/33/c 

Kansas City 42/29/r 39/24/sn 47/35/s 

Las Vegas 70/47/s 78/53/s 74/51/s 

Los Angeles 78/50/s 82/54/s 72/53/s 

Memphis 72/49/t 55/41/pc 63/43/s 

Miami 84/72/s 86/72/s 86/66/c 

Milwaukee 42/32/c 35/27/sn 40/27/c 

Minneapolis 38/20/c 38/22/pc 48/27/s 

New Orleans 78/56/t 61/46/r 65/53/s 

New York 68/47/pc 53/43/r 55/41/r 

Atlanta 

65/57 

Miami 

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Noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 

Key:W -weather, s -sunny, pc -partly cloudy, c -cloudy, sh -showers, t -thunderstorms, r -rain, sf -snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. 



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Orlando 84/66/s 87/68/s 78/56/t 

Philadelphia 67/44/pc 53/46/r 63/40/r 

Phoenix 76/50/s 82/55/s 85/55/pc 

Pittsburgh 62/44/pc 59/46/r 52/34/sh 

Portland, OR 58/42/c 51/38/r 53/39/c 

St. Louis 50/39/r 45/32/r 54/41/s 

S.L.City 48/30/pc 56/38/pc 49/29/sh 

San Fran. 69/50/s 64/49/s 65/49/s 

San Diego 74/52/s 71/55/s 66/55/s 

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Friday, March 27, 2009 ● 


PREP BASEBALL 

Catamounts right as rain 

Dalton wins big 

in 7-4A opener 

B Y M ARTY K IRKLAND 

martykirkland@daltoncitizen.com 

After a rainy night and morning, Dalton High was ahead 

of most area baseball teams simply by playing on Thursday. 

But it was how the Catamounts played against visiting 

Murray County that really put them a step ahead of the rest 

of Region 7-4A. 

Blake Raber gave Dalton the early lead with a three-run 

double in the first inning, fellow sophomore Alex Roberts 

made the lead hold up with his strongest outing on the 

mound this season and the Cats won their fifth straight in 

the series against Murray County with an 11-1 victory 

shortened to five innings by the Georgia High School 

Association’s mercy rule. 

Roberts,whose fastball hit the mid-to-high 80s on the radar 

gun, picked up the complete-game victory after allowing one 

run on two hits while striking out eight and walking two. 

“I just kept my fastball down,”Roberts said, “and dominated 

with that and my curveball.” 

After having four games either shortened or postponed 

due to weather or field conditions, the Cats (5-4, 1-0 in 7- 

4A North) may have felt like Thursday’s game, the start of 

sub-region play for both teams, was a victory in more ways 

than one. 

“Getting rained out is really disappointing and you feel 

like you’ve just got to keep waiting to play and that’s kind 

of hard on your mind a little bit,”said senior third baseman 

Carter Crutchfield, who reached base all three times he 

went to the plate, scored three runs and had an RBI single 

in the third inning. 

“When they told us were going to play,we were excited 

to get the first region game out of the way and go into the 

weekend 1-0.” 

Crutchfield and Raber, afirst baseman, both said the 

infield was as dry as it would have been under normal conditions. 

➣ Please see CATS, 2B 

M ATT H AMILTON /The Daily Citizen 

Dalton High’s Alex Raber is caught in a rundown as Murray County shortstop Blake Hammontree takes the 

throw during the third inning of their Region 7-4A North game on Thursday in Dalton. Raber was out on the 

play,which ended the inning, but kept the infielders busy long enough to allow Carter Crutchfield to score. 

Panthers in 

Elite Eight; 

UConn, too 

T HE A SSOCIATED P RESS 

BOSTON — Levance Fields pointed Pittsburgh 

in the right direction just in time. 

Fields made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 50.9 seconds 

left, then scored off his steal as the top-seeded 

Panthers advanced to the regional finals for the first 

time in 35 years with a 60-55 win over Xavier on 

Thursday night. 

The last time Pitt was in a regional final was in 

1974 when it lost to eventual national champion 

North Carolina State and star David Thompson 100- 

72. 

Pitt (31-4) trailed 54-52 before its star point 

guard connected. He then poked the ball away from 

B.J. Raymond and went in for a layup with 23.9 seconds 

to go. 

Sam Young led Pitt with 19 points,Fields had 14, 

and DeJuan Blair had 10 points and 17 rebounds in 

the East semifinal victory. The Panthers overcame an 

eight-point halftime deficit. 

Pitt plays Saturday against the winner of 

Thursday night’s second semifinal between Duke 

and Villanova for a berth in the Final Four. 

Fourth-seeded Xavier (27-8) was led by 


KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Atlanta 

Braves signed Derek Lowe to be their ace, 

and he’s pitching like one. 

Lowe struck out seven in six sharp 

innings for the Braves,but the Toronto Blue 

Jays rallied for a 7-5 victory Thursday. 

The Braves gave Lowe a four-year $60 

million free-agent contract to lead the 

Braves’ revamped rotation. He gave up a 

run and five hits without walking a batter, 

lowering his spring ERA to 3.27. He has 

24 strikeouts in 22 innings. 

“He was good again,” Braves manager 

Bobby Cox said. “He’s had a terrific 

spring.” 

Cox hasn’t decided on his opening day 

start, but Lowe is in line for the honor. 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: NCAA TOURNAMENT 

➣ Please see NCAA, 2B 

AP P HOTO 

Xavier’s Jason Love, left, defends against Pittsburgh forward 

DeJuan Blair (45) during first-half action in their NCAA tournament 

game Thursday night in Boston. 

PRO BASEBALL: SPRING TRAINING 

Lowe dominates in six-inning start 

“It hasn’t been brought up,”Lowe said 

when asked about starting on opening 

night at Philadelphia on April 5. Cox said 

he might have a decision by today. 

Brian McCann, playing in his third 

straight game after returning from the 

World Baseball Classic, caught Lowe for 

the first time as he continued his crash 

course with Atlanta’s new starters. He 

caught Javier Vazquez for the first time on 

Tuesday and Kenshin Kawakami for the 

second time Wednesday. 

“It went really good,” Lowe said. “He 

knows how I pitch. He’s seen me plenty of 

times.” 

Braves rookie Jordan Shafer,competing 

for the job in center field, had a triple and 

single to raise his average to .383. He also 

threw out a runner at the plate in the fifth 

inning. 

But the Atlanta bullpen blew a 5-1 lead, 

giving up three runs in the eighth inning 

and three in the ninth. 

Rookie Brad Mills, in the running for a 

spot in Toronto’s rotation, allowed 10 hits 

and four runs in six innings, striking out 

three and walking one. 

Kelly Johnson had a double and two 

singles for the Braves, scoring twice. 

Chipper Jones drove in a pair of runs with 

a sacrifice fly and a single. 

Top Braves prospect Tommy Hanson 

was among eight players sent to the minors 

Thursday, leaving the team with 36 in 

camp. Hanson was 1-0 with a 2.45 ERA in 

four Grapefruit League games. 

W W W . D A L T O N D A I L Y C I T I Z E N . C O M 

Raiders score 

tennis victory 

over Ramblers 

F ROM S TAFF R EPORTS 

Mother Nature played havoc with Thursday’s 

area sports schedule, washing out just about 

every event on the slate, including Southeast’s 

Region 6-3A soccer match against Ridgeland at 

Raider Field. 

“I thought we were going to be able to play, 

but it was pretty wet,”Raiders coach Jamison 

Griffin. 

Griffin said the match has 

been rescheduled for Tuesday 

with the girls starting at 5 

p.m. and the boys following 

at about 7 p.m. 

Baseball games pitting 

P REP 

R OUNDUP 

Northwest Whitfield and Rome, Southeast and 

Boyd-Buchanan and Christian Heritage and 

Polk County (Tenn.) were also postponed. 

Scheduled prep tennis and middle school 

baseball and soccer events were also on the 

postponement list. 

Southeast’s boys and girls were able to play 

their Region 6-3A tennis match at LaFayette 

and came away with a split. 

The Raiders (8-2, 2-2) swept the host 

Ramblers 5-0. 

No. 1 singles player Tyler Mims won 6-2, 6- 

2 while No. 2 Matt Hall posted a 6-2, 6-4 win 

and Philip Joyce rolled 6-1, 6-2. 

In doubles, No. 1 Ralph Guzman and 

Coleman Jenkins won a tough match 8-6, 6-4 

and Tadeo Azuara and Ezekiel Nunez registered 

a 6-0, 7-5 victory. 

The Lady Raiders weren’t so lucky,losing to 

the Lady Ramblers 4-1. 

Casey Crump posted a 6-2, 6-0 win at No. 2 

singles. The Lady Raiders fell to 7-3 overall 

and 3-1 in the sub-region. 

Varsity golf 

Cartersville boys 179, Gordon Lee 192, 

Southeast 200: Jake Rackley shot a 5-over par 

41 for the Raiders while Josh Wilson had a 45, 

Austin Olson 56 and Ryan Collins 58. 

Cartersville’s Aden Faddis post a 1-over 37 

for medalist honors. 

Gordon Lee girls 88, Cartersville 109, 

Southeast 117: Katie Burke carded a 58 and 

Carli Ledford had a 59 for the Lady Raiders. 

Gordon Lee’s Rachel Mason finished with a 

44. 

Southeast will host the Lady Raider 

Invitational on Saturday at Indian Trace. 

“I’m really looking forward to the tournament,”Southeast 

coach Chad Murray said. 

“Last year’s boys tournament was rained out, so 

we’re hoping the weather holds up Saturday and 

we can play the girls tournament.”

2B Friday, March 27, 2009 

S PORTS B RIEFS 

JC place-kicker 

signs with Dawgs 

ATHENS — Georgia 

has signed junior college 

kicker Brandon Bogotay, 

giving coach Mark Richt 

20 signees in his 2009 

class. 

Bogotay,from San 

Diego, made 15 of 23 

field-goal attempts as a 

freshman in 2008 at 

Grossmont College in El 

Cajon, Calif. He was 

named a first-team all- 

Southern Conference 

selection. 

Bogotay’s longest field 

goal was from 52 yards. 

Richt said he’s looking 

forward to Bogotay “competing 

on our kickoff, 

field goal, and extra point 

teams.” Bogotay is 

expected to enroll at 

Georgia this summer and 

be eligible for the 2009 

season. 

Bogotay did not play 

football while attending 

Patrick Henry High 

School in San Diego. 

Astros’ Tejada gets 

one-year probation 

WASHINGTON — 

All-Star shortstop Miguel 

Tejada has been sentenced 

to one year of probation 

for misleading Congress 

about the use of performance-enhancing 

drugs. 

Federal Magistrate 

Judge Alan Kay issued the 

sentence of one year of 

unsupervised release, 100 

hours of community service 

and a $5,000 fine. 

The Houston Astros 

player apologized to 

Congress and the court 

during a brief statement at 

the U.S. District courthouse 

in Washington and 

said he “learned a very 

important lesson.” 

Sabathia will start 

both N.Y. openers 

TAMPA, Fla. — CC 

Sabathia will start both 

the regular season and 

home opener for the New 

York Yankees. 

Manager Joe Girardi 

said Thursday the lefthander 

Sabathia will pitch 

the season opener at 

Baltimore on April 6, and 

will also throw the first 

regular-season pitch at the 

new Yankee Stadium 10 

days later against 

Cleveland. 

Sabathia said he was 

“excited” to get the 

assignments from Girardi. 

Clijsters to end 

2-year retirement 

BREE, Belgium — 

Kim Clijsters will return 

to professional tennis after 

two years in retirement, 

saying she has regained 

the competitive hunger 

that led to the No. 1 ranking. 

Clijsters, who retired in 

May 2007 to get married 

and start a family, 

announced her comeback 

at the tennis facility where 

she has been practicing. 

She plans to enter the 

U.S. Open, which begins 

Aug. 31 — her first competition 

at Flushing 

Meadows since winning 

her only Grand Slam singles 

championship there 

in 2005. 

She asked for a wild 

card into the U.S. Open, 

along with WTA hardcourt 

tournaments in 

Cincinnati and Toronto 

earlier in August. 

Buckeyes’ Mullens 

leaving for NBA 

COLUMBUS,Ohio — 

Ohio State’s B.J. Mullens,a 

7-foot freshman center 

said Thursday he would 

declare himself available 

for the NBA draft, the 

fifth Buckeyes player in 

the last three seasons to 

leave after playing one 

year. 

The Columbus-area 

native averaged 8.8 points 

and 4.7 rebounds, and 

shot 64 percent from the 

field to set a school freshman 

record. He started 

two of the 33 games this 

past season for the 

Buckeyes, who lost to 

Siena in the first round of 

the NCAA tournament. 

— Associated Press 

M ATT H AMILTON /The Daily Citizen 

Murray County’s Taylor Patterson is mobbed at home plate by teammates 

Thursday after hitting a solo home run in the second inning that cut Dalton’s 

lead to 3-1 in their Region 7-4A baseball game at Dalton High. 

Cats: Raber has clutch double 

Continued from page 1B 

Originally scheduled to 

be played in Chatsworth, the 

game was moved to take 

advantage of Dalton’s infield 

tarp, which Brotherton credited 

as the main reason the 

game happened. The outfield 

drainage system,three swimming 

pool pumps and a little 

bit of elbow grease from 

Dalton coaches and parents 

made up the difference. 

“We needed to play and 

we wanted to play,” 

Brotherton said. “They can’t 

say we weren’t trying to 

play.” 

Chandler Puryear started 

for Murray County (6-4, 0- 

1), but the senior left-hander 

never came close to finding 

his groove. 

Although he only allowed 

three hits and struck out six 

in four innings, Puryear 

walked five batters, hit two 

others and threw a couple 

costly pitches. One resulted 

in Raber’s bases-clearing 

double, the other a two-run 

home run by Garren Palmer 

in the fourth. 

“It was one of those 

days,”Puryear said. “I couldn’t 

throw a curveball for a 

strike.” 

The Indians are back in 

action at 5 p.m. today with 

another rivalry game that 

will figure in the sub-region 

standings as they travel to 

Northwest Whitfield, but 

Murray County coach Jason 

Lanham said that played no 

part in Puryear staying on the 

mound as long as he did 

despite his struggles. 

“Chandler’s one of our 

best, but there’s going to be 

days when he goes out there 

and he’s not going to have 

his ‘A’game,” said Lanham, 

who credited Puryear for 

“gutting out” the rough start. 

“He’s just like any pitcher, 

anywhere. Their kid was 

on top of it today. We’ve seen 

him pitch several times, 


COLUMBIA, S.C. — A new study says 

that the South Carolina track that’s “Too 

Tough To Tame” has an economic impact 

that’s hard to ignore. 

Darlington Raceway brings in $54 million 

to the state each year and is 

that’s the best I’ve ever seen 

him throw. He had his best 

stuff today, it just so happened 

our guy didn’t have 

his best.” 

Raber was set up by three 

straight two-out walks from 

Puryear, who put on Palmer 

— Will Kiker stepped in to 

courtesy run for the catcher 

— Beau Blackwood and 

Crutchfield before the count 

ran full against Dalton’s No. 

6 hitter,who drove the ball to 

right-center field. 

“He was throwing away, 

so you’ve got to take it the 

other way,” Raber said. 

“You’ve got to have a big hit 

in that situation. Two outs, 

you’ve got to do the job.” 

Murray County’s Taylor 

Patterson cut Dalton’s lead to 

3-1 in the second with a solo 

homer to center, but Dalton 

tacked on two runs in the 

third. Kiker, who had two 

stolen bases, scored on the 

hit by Crutchfield, who came 

home when Mitch Townsend 

struck out and the Indians 

took too long to pick up the 

third out on a rundown of 

Raber between first and second 

base. 

Will Estes scored in the 

fourth after walking, moving 

to second on Phillip 

Schenck’s sacrifice bunt and 

going to third on Stryker 

Brown’s groundout. Estes 

came home when Toombs 

Norman reached on an 

infield throwing error and 

Norman scored on Palmer’s 

home run. 

Dalton closed things out 

with a three-run fifth in 

which the Indians failed to 

record an out. Working in 

relief of Puryear, Ryan 

Osborn hit Crutchfield and 

walked Raber before being 

pulled for Josh Ensley, who 

surrendered a double to 

Mitch Townsend. 

Townsend headed for 

third when the ball was mishandled 

in the outfield and 

went on to score when the 

responsible for creating 

874 jobs in the region, 

according to the report 

commissioned by the track 

and released by The 

Washington Economics Group. 

The last time the raceway,now in its 60th 

season,took a comprehensive look at its economic 

footprint was in 2000, track president 

Chris said. That survey found that Darlington 

had about a $60 million impact on the state 

and region. However, that was with two 

Sprint Cup weekends, including a lucrative 

Labor Day race. 

Darlington has since been cut back to one 

race and given what was thought to be a horrible 

weekend for racing, the Saturday before 

Mother’s Day. Even so, Darlington has sold 

out the past four years and has seemingly 

shored up its once shaky future. 

Browning was pleased with the results. 

“If I told you I had a business that would 

bring $54 million into the area, there are a lot 

of people who’d be interested,”Browning said. 

The report,done at a cost of $12,000,took 

several months and quantified direct economic 

benefits and those that are indirectly 

linked to the spending that goes on during a 

race, the track said. 

throw to third base was wide, 

ending the game. 

“I don’t see anybody 

going through our region 

undefeated,”Lanham said. “I 

think it’s pretty tough top to 

bottom, so one loss isn’t 

going to make or break anybody’s 

season at this point.” 

Colton Roberts doubled 

for the Indians, who left four 

runners stranded in scoring 

position over the final three 

innings. 

With the home-and-home 

region matchups now 

flipped, Murray County will 

host Dalton on April 10. The 

teams met just once each of 

the past two seasons, when 

Murray County competed in 

Region 5-5A. 

The Indians last beat Dalton 

in 2005, when the teams split a 

pair of regular-season meetings, 

but the Indians won in 

Region 7-4A play. 

There will be a time to 

use that lack of success 

against Dalton as motivation, 

Puryear said, but it’s not 

now. 

“When it comes back up 

we’ll remember this,” 

Puryear said, “but we’ve got 

to get it off our mind for 

tomorrow. We’ve got 

Northwest.” 

Dalton is off today, but 

will try to make up one of its 

postponements at noon on 

Saturday. The Cats are tentatively 

scheduled to play 

Heritage-Catoosa at 

Chattanooga’s AT&T Park, 

but if that’s not possible, 

Brotherton said he’ll ask 

Heritage coach Eric Beagles 

to move the game to Dalton’s 

field. 

■ Murray County JV 6, 

Dalton 4 : Cory Satterfield 

went 3-for-3 with a double 

and two RBIs for the Indians 

(5-3). Zach Penland had two 

hits and one RBI. 

Josh Flood checked the 

Cats on two hits while striking 

out five and walking one 

in the five-inning game. 

Raceway brings in ‘dough’ 

A UTO 

R ACING 

Other findings include: 

■ NASCAR events and other activities at 

Darlington lead to $19 million in labor 

income to workers in South Carolina. 

■ Federal, state and local governments 

collect more than $7.9 million from 

Darlington events. 

■ Track activities contribute $30 million a 

year to South Carolina’s gross state product. 

“Darlington brings in huge, huge numbers 

of people into the state, and the expenditures 

show that,” said Charles Yaros, an associate 

consultant for The Washington Economics 

Group. 

The South Carolina House and Senate on 

Wednesday passed a resolution declaring 

race week in May as “Darlington Raceway 

Week” in the state. 

The Statehouse looked a bit more like a 

NASCAR track with race cars parked at its 

front and back. 

Lawmakers wandering around the 

grounds stopped to take in Darlington’s 2009 

show car or Johnny Mantz’s 1950 Plymouth, 

winner of the first Southern 500. 

Gov. Mark Sanford called Darlington 

“legendary”in the racing world. “It continues 

to play an important role in its contributions 

to the region and the state,”the governor said. 

The Washington Economics Group, from 

Coral Gables, Fla., has conducted similar 

studies for corporations like IBM and 

MasterCard International, according to its 

Web site. 

The Southern 500 will take place at 

Darlington on Saturday night, May 9. 


NCAA: Thabeet 

powers Huskies 

Continued from page 1B 

Raymond with 15 points 

and Derrick Brown with 14. 

Panthers coach Jamie 

Dixon made it to the round 

of eight for the first time in 

his six years on the bench 

after losing in his other two 

trips to the round of 16. 

Xavier fell short in its bid 

for a third berth in the 

regional finals in six years. 

Trailing 37-29 at halftime, 

Pitt scored the first 

nine points of the second 

half — and Xavier missed 

its first 10 shots — as the 

Panthers took a 38-37 lead 

with 14:33 left. 

But the Musketeers 

recovered and went ahead 

54-52 with 1:50 remaining 

when Dante Jackson cut to 

the basket for a layup. 

Fields then had the ball 

past midcourt before it went 

into the backcourt off a 

defender. Fields retrieved it, 

dribbled into his own end 

and fired up the go-ahead 

shot. 

He was in the right place 

again when Raymond lost 

control of his dribble. 

Fields got the ball,pushed it 

forward and dribbled ahead 

of the field to put the 

Panthers up by three. 

Xavier’s Terrell 

Holloway made a free 

throw with 16 seconds left, 

but Young hit two just three 

seconds later. After a 

missed 3-pointer by Brown, 

Brad Wannamaker made 

one more free throw for Pitt 

with 2.6 seconds left. 

The Musketeers went 

just 7-for-29 from the field 

in the second half when 

they were outscored 31-18. 

But they were solid late 

in the first half. With the 

score tied at 27, Xavier 

outscored Pitt 10-2 in the 

last three minutes of the half 

to take a 37-29 lead. Brown 

started the surge with a 3- 

pointer and sank another 

one that made it 35-29. 

Blair struggled offensively 

inside and finished 

with just two points and 

four rebounds in the first 

half. He had eight points 

and 13 rebounds after that. 

■ UConn 72, Purdue 

60 :At Glendale, Ariz., after 

cruising through the first 

two rounds of the NCAA 

tournament, Connecticut 

found itself in trouble for 

the first time. 

Thanks to Hasheem 

Thabeet, the top-seeded 

Huskies weren’t in trouble 

for long. 

Thabeet, the Big East 

co-player of the year, 

scored 15 points, had 15 

rebounds and blocked four 

shots, and Connecticut 

overcame a sluggish first 

half to defeat Purdue in the 

NCAA West Regional 

semifinals. 

One day after a Yahoo! 

Sports report alleged 

UConn committed NCAA 

recruiting violations, the 

Huskies (30-4) reached the 

regional finals for the fourth 

time since 2002. 

Coach Jim Calhoun and 

the Huskies had won their 

first two NCAA tourney 

games by an average of 41 

points, but they struggled to 

score against the defenseoriented 

Boilermakers. 

UConn jumped out to an 

early 11-point lead, then 

went cold and let the fifthseeded 

Boilermakers (27- 

10) claw back into the 

game. 

Leading 30-25 at halftime, 

the Huskies turned to 

the 7-foot-3 Thabeet in the 

second half. 

Thabeet scored 

Connecticut’s first eight 

points of the second half, 

then blocked a shot to set up 

a fastbreak layup by A.J. 

Price, who scored 10 of his 

15 points after halftime. 

That play was part of an 

8-0 run that gave the 

Huskies a 42-31 cushion 

with 13:37 to play. 

But the Boilermakers 

wouldn’t go away. They 

answered with a 7-0 burst, 

and soon they had pulled 

within four. 

Thabeet dunked to push 

the lead back to 57-45 with 

6:28 to play, and that was 

pretty much it for Purdue. 

Craig Austrie added 17 

points for the Huskies, who 

will play either Memphis or 

Missouri for a berth in the 

Final Four. 

Calhoun and his players 

had promised on 

Wednesday that they 

wouldn’t be distracted by 

the Yahoo! Sports report 

claiming the school broke 

NCAA rules during the 

recruitment of former player 

Nate Miles. 

Using its superior size 

and ability, UConn jumped 

out to an 8-0 lead in the first 

three minutes. 

Forward Stanley 

Robinson dunked on an 

alley-oop pass from Price, 

and then Austrie stripped 

Purdue point guard Lewis 

Jackson in the backcourt 

and swooped in for a layup. 

Purdue coach Matt 

Painter called timeout, and 

the Boilermakers soon 

began to rally. 

W in tourney 

C ONTRIBUTED P HOTO 

The Dalton Fire 14-under travel basketball team 

won the recent Georgia YBOA March Madness 

tournament in Atlanta. Team members are front 

row,left to right,Ashton Roach, Hunter Cleary and 

Robert Enck; second row, Cole Calfee, Jackson 

Dinges, Zach Vess, Austin Horn, D.J. Prather, 

Brady Swilling, D.J.Hunter and Jonathon Willman. 

Thrashers rally to win 

ATLANTA (AP) — 

Todd White scored in the 

shootout after Ilya 

Kovalchuk rallied the 

Atlanta Thrashers from a 

three-goal deficit to a 5-4 

victory over the New York 

Rangers on Thursday night. 

The Thrashers trailed 4- 

1 midway through the second 

period, but Kovalchuk 

had a hand in each of the 

next three goals. 

Kovalchuk scored late in 

the second period and assisted 

on third-period goals by 

Colby Armstrong and White 

as Atlanta tied it with 6:50 

remaining in regulation. 

The Rangers are one 

point behind sixth-place 

Pittsburgh in the Eastern 

Conference playoff race. 

Rangers backup Steve 

Valiquette stopped shootout 

shots by Bryan Little, Slava 

Kozlov, Kovalchuk, Eric 

Perrin and Rich Peverley 

before White flipped the 

puck past his glove. 

Atlanta C Jim Slater 

returned after missing five 

games due to head and 

shoulder injuries.


COMMENTARY 

McMahon puts 

a slam on TNA 

H 

ere 

are the news 

and notes from the 

world of pro 

wrestling: 

• Oh, it’s on. WWE 

chairman Vince McMahon 

ripped Total Non-Stop 

Action — his main competition 

— calling its programming 

“reprehensible” 

during 

an interview with 

“The Hollywood 

Reporter.” 

“I think some 

of the things they 

do on television 

are reprehensible, 

but it is a TV-14 

rating. That’s the 

only bone I have 

to pick with 

them,”McMahon 

told the 

Hollywood Reporter. 

“Their TV ratings are a 

fraction of ours.” 

So McMahon doesn’t 

even think of TNA as competition. 

Upcoming TNA 

broadcasts should be fun to 

watch. 

• Following the death of 

Andrew “Test” Martin, 

McMahon is again reaching 

out to current and former 

employees who have 

drug or alcohol addictions. 

In a letter posted on 

WWE’s corporate Web 

site, McMahon offers to 

pay for rehab for any performer 

with a booking 

contract. WWE extended 

the standing offer in 

September 2007. The latest 

letter reiterates the offer. 

“Help will be provided 

regardless of the circumstances 

of your departure 

from WWE or the amount 

of time you performed for 

WWE,”McMahon wrote. 

• Wrestling legend 

Verne Gange will not face 

charges after he allegedly 

attacked and killed a fellow 

resident at a 

Bloomington, Minn. nursing 

home, according to the 

Hennepin County (Minn.) 

Jamie 

Jones 

Attorney’s office. Gagne 

attacked a 97-year-old man 

at the facility then threw 

the man to the ground. The 

man later died. The medical 

examiner ruled the 

death a homicide. Both 

men were stricken with 

dementia and could not 

recall the incident. 

 

The Local 

Corner: Logan 

Chase III will do 

anything to rid 

TWA of Mad Jack 

and the 

Sheepherders. 

Last week, Chase 

brought in a 

masked wrestler 

known as The 

Mangler and is 

threatening to 

bring in more wrestlers to 

take care of the 

Sheepherders and their 

manager. 

TWA runs Fridays at 8 

p.m. in the TWA Arena off 

Reed Road in north 

Whitfield County,about 

three miles north of the 

bypass. 

The Action Zone runs 

Saturdays at 8 p.m. Tickets 

are $5 for adults and $3 for 

kids 6 to 12. Kids under 6 

are free. Any military 

member with proper identification 

will be admitted 

free. 

 

Trivia Teaser:Which 

WWE personality has 

appeared on camera on all 

25 Wrestlemanias? 

Check back next week 

for the answer. 

Last week’s question: 

Who did Magnum T.A. 

beat to win the NWA U.S. 

heavyweight title in 1985? 

Wahoo McDaniel. 

Jamie Jones will attend 

Wrestlemania before he 

dies. He can be reached at 


or at (706) 272- 

7723. 

Gore birdie run 

nets Palmer lead 


ORLANDO, Fla. — In 

their own way,Jason Gore 

and Tiger Woods changed 

their fortunes Thursday at 

Bay Hill. 

Gore was not seeing 

any results from an overhaul 

to 

P RO 

G OLF 

his 

swing 

until he 

ran off 

three 

birdies over the final four 

holes for a 5-under 65 that 

gave him a one-shot lead 

in the Arnold Palmer 

Invitational. 

Woods was in the water, 

in the trees and in a foul 

mood until he had eight 

consecutive one-putts — 

including four straight 

birdies — that put him in a 

good frame of mind with a 

68 on a course where he 

has won five times as a 

pro. 

“I was not hitting it 

well, and I had to scramble 

and grind it out and manage 

to score,”Woods said. 

He managed just fine, taking 

only 24 putts in the 

first round after ranking 

74th in putting out of 79 

players at Doral two weeks 

ago. 

Tim Herron,who won 

Bay Hill in a playoff 10 

years ago,and Jeff Overton 

had a 66,while the group at 

67 included the ever-present 

Nick Watney and Mark 

Wilson,who had reason to 

feel outclassed on the first 

tee but more than held his 

own. 

Wilson was in the same 

group as Woods and 

Padraig Harrington,who 

have won five of the last six 

majors. Wilson has his own 

history with Woods,having 

lost a late lead in 1992 

when Woods rallied to win 

his second U.S. Junior 

Amateur. 

But Wilson had the best 

day of the threesome. Harrington 

saved par from the 

water on the 18th for a 70. 

“Scored best of the 

tree,”Wilson said, a slight 

distinction. “I had a good 

time out there. I love playing 

with Tiger. The electricity 

and the energy on 

that first tee is something 

else with him.” 

Imagine the surge on 

the opening hole, when 

Woods had a difficult flop 

shot from about 30 yards 

that had to carry a bunker. 

Wilson wondered if Woods 

might begin his title 

defense at Bay Hill with a 

double bogey. Then he 

watched Woods’ shot pitch 

about 6 feet from the hole 

and roll like a putt into the 

cup for birdie. 

Woods hit a tee shot 

into the water at No. 6 for 

double bogey,was lucky to 

escape with pars at the turn 

and made four birdies on 

the back nine to get off to 

a good start. 

The only other player at 

Bay Hill with such charisma 

is Palmer, the tournament 

host. 

Gore is a PGA Tour 

winner, but the golf hasn’t 

gone so well lately. 

He lost his PGA Tour 

card last year, then decided 

after Q-school to work 

with Mike Abbott and redo 

his swing. Gore received 

an exemption to the Palmer 

tournament. 

LPGA 

PHOENIX — South 

Korea’s In-Kyung Kim 

shot a 4-under 68 on 

Thursday to take the firstround 

lead in the J Golf 

Phoenix LPGA 

International, while twotime 

defending champion 

Lorena Ochoa and 

Michelle Wie struggled in 

windy conditions. 

Kim had a one-stroke 

lead over Jiyai Shin, Imbee 

Park and Eun-Hee Ji and 

American Cristie Kerr. 

L OCAL 

Prep Schedule 

Today 

Varsity baseball 

Murray County at Northwest Whitfield, 5 

Southeast at Carrollton, 6 

Varsity golf 

Northwest Whitfield boys at Georgia-South 

Carolina Challenge, Aiken, S.C. 

Varsity soccer 

Murray County at Northwest Whitfield, 5 

Southeast at Dalton, 5:30 

Christian Heritage at The Heritage School, 4 

Varsity softball 

Christian Heritage at Lookout Valley, 6 

Varsity track and field 

Southeast at Gordon Lee Invitational, TBA 

JV baseball 

Murray County at Northwest Whitfield, 7:30 

Middle school softball 

Christian Heritage at Lookout Valley, 4:30 

——— 

Saturday 

Varsity baseball 

Dalton vs. Heritage-Catooga at AT&T Field, noon 

Christian Heritage at The Heritage School, 1 

Varsity golf 

Northwest Whitfield boys at Georgia-South 

Carolina Challenge, Aiken, S.C. 

Dalton, Northwest Whitfield girls at Lady 

Catamount Invitational, DGCC, 2 p.m. 

Dalton, Murray County boys at Canyon Ridge 

Invitational, Rising Fawn 

Murray County, Southeast girls at Lady Raider 

Invitational, Indian Trace, 11 a.m. 

Varsity track and field 

Northwest Whitfield boys, Dalton at Woodland 

Invitational, 9 a.m. 

Murray County at Gordon Central Invitational 

JV baseball 

Northwest Whitfield at Calhoun, Noon 

Fannin County at Dalton, 2 

JV golf 

Northwest Whitfield at Gordon Lee Invitational at 

Canyon Ridge, 9 a.m. 

Freshman baseball 

Northwest Whitfield at Calhoun, 2 

Middle school baseball 

New Hope at Northwest Diamond Day, TBA 

Middle school tennis 

Silverdale vs. Christian Heritage at Lakeshore 

Park, 4:15 

Middle school track 

Runnin’ Raider Invitational at Southeast, 9:30 a.m. 

T ELEVISION 

On Today 

AUTO RACING 

11 a.m. 

SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, practice for 

Kroger 250, at Martinsville, Va. 

Noon 

SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for 

Goody’s Fast Relief 500, at Martinsville, Va. 

1 :30 p.m. 

SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, practice for 

Kroger 250, at Martinsville, Va. 

3:30 p.m. 

SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying 

for Goody’s Fast Relief 500, at Martinsville, Va. 

2 a.m. 

SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Australian 

Grand Prix, at Melbourne, Australia 

BOXING 

10 p.m. 

ESPN2 — Heavyweights, Samuel Peter (30-2-0) 

vs. Eddie Chambers (33-1-0), at Los Angeles 

GOLF 

10:30 a.m. 

TGC — European PGA Tour, Open de Andalucia, 

second round, at Seville, Spain 

12:30 p.m. 

TGC — Champions Tour, The Cap Cana 

Championship, first round, at Cap Cana, 

Dominican Republic 

3 p.m. 

TGC — PGA Tour, Arnold Palmer Invitational, second 

round, at Orlando, Fla. 

6:30 p.m. 

TGC — LPGA, Phoenix International, second 

round 

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 

4 p.m. 

WGN — Preseason, Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago 

White Sox, at Mesa, Ariz. 

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 

7 p.m. 

CBS — Regional coverage, NCAA Division I tournament, 

regional semifinals, doubleheader, 

Louisville vs. Arizona and Kansas vs. Michigan 

State at Indianapolis and Oklahoma vs. Syracuse 

and North Carolina vs. Gonzaga at Memphis, Tenn. 

MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY 

5:30 p.m. 

ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, West 

Regional semifinal, Miami (Ohio) vs. Denver, at 

Minneapolis 

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 

8 p.m. 

ESPN2 — NCAA Division II tournament, championship 

game, Minnesota State Mankato vs. 

Franklin Pierce, at San Antonio 

H OCKEY 

NHL Glance 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division 

W L OT Pts GF GA 

x-New Jersey 47 23 3 97 225 181 

Philadelphia 40 23 10 90 235 210 

Pittsburgh 40 27 8 88 235 222 

N.Y.Rangers 39 27 9 87 193 204 

N.Y.Islanders 24 41 8 56 184 240 

Northeast Division 


y-Boston 46 17 10 102 243 171 

Montreal 38 27 9 85 223 225 

Buffalo 35 30 8 78 217 211 

Toronto 31 30 13 75 222 259 

Ottawa 32 31 10 74 194 209 

Southeast Division 


x-Washington 45 23 7 97 240 219 

Carolina 41 28 7 89 218 213 

Florida 36 28 11 83 207 213 

Atlanta 31 38 6 68 231 259 

Tampa Bay 24 33 17 65 193 244 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Central Division 


x-Detroit 49 16 9 107 276 219 

Chicago 39 22 11 89 239 196 

Columbus 39 28 7 85 207 202 

Nashville 36 30 8 80 188 203 

St. Louis 35 30 9 79 205 214 

Northwest Division 


Calgary 42 26 6 90 238 228 

Vancouver 39 25 9 87 221 202 

Edmonton 35 29 9 79 209 222 

Minnesota 35 31 8 78 190 182 

Colorado 31 41 2 64 191 239 

Pacific Division 


y-San Jose 48 15 11 107 240 185 

Anaheim 37 31 6 80 212 211 

Dallas 33 32 8 74 206 227 

Los Angeles 30 33 10 70 187 215 

Phoenix 30 36 7 67 181 225 

Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss or 

shootout loss. 

x-clinched division 

y-clinched playoff spot 

——— 

Thursday’s Games 

Columbus 5, Calgary 0 

Florida 4, Philadelphia 2 

Atlanta 5, N.Y.Rangers 4, SO 

Montreal 3, Tampa Bay 2, OT 

Nashville 3, San Jose 2 

St. Louis 4, Vancouver 2 

Los Angeles at Dallas, late 

Edmonton at Phoenix, late 

Today’s Games 

Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m. 

Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. 

N.Y.Islanders at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. 

New Jersey at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. 

Vancouver at Colorado, 9 p.m. 

Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m. 

B ASKETBALL 

NBA Glance 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division 

W L Pct GB 

y-Boston 54 19 .740 — 

Philadelphia 37 33 .529 15 1/2 

S COREBOARD 

New Jersey 30 41 .423 23 

New York 28 43 .394 25 

Toronto 26 45 .366 27 

Southeast Division 

W L Pct GB 

y-Orlando 53 18 .746 — 

Atlanta 42 30 .583 11 1/2 

Miami 38 34 .528 15 1/2 

Charlotte 31 40 .437 22 

Washington 17 56 .233 37 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

y-Cleveland 58 13 .817 — 

Chicago 35 38 .479 24 

Detroit 34 37 .479 24 

Milwaukee 31 41 .431 27 1/2 

Indiana 30 42 .417 28 1/2 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Southwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

San Antonio 47 24 .662 — 

Houston 47 26 .644 1 

New Orleans 44 26 .629 2 1/2 

Dallas 43 28 .606 4 

Memphis 17 53 .243 29 1/2 

Northwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

Denver 46 26 .639 — 

Portland 44 27 .620 1 1/2 

Utah 44 27 .620 1 1/2 

Oklahoma City 20 51 .282 25 1/2 

Minnesota 20 52 .278 26 

Pacific Division 

W L Pct GB 

y-L.A.Lakers 57 14 .803 — 

Phoenix 40 31 .563 17 

Golden State 25 47 .347 32 1/2 

L.A.Clippers 18 54 .250 39 1/2 

Sacramento 15 55 .214 41 1/2 

x-clinched division 

——— 


L.A.Lakers 92, Detroit 77. 

Chicago 106, Miami 87 

Phoenix at Portland, late 


Milwaukee at Orlando, 7 p.m. 

Charlotte at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. 

Oklahoma City at Toronto, 7 p.m. 

Boston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. 

L.A.Lakers at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. 

New Orleans at New York, 7:30 p.m. 

Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. 

Denver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. 

L.A.Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. 

Memphis at Sacramento, 10 p.m. 

NCAA Tournament 

EAST REGIONAL 

At TD Banknorth Garden 

Boston 

Regional Semifinals 

Thursday,March 26 

Pittsburgh 60 Xavier 55 

Duke (30-6) vs. Villanova (28-7), late 

Regional Championship 

Saturday,March 28 

Semifinal winners 

SOUTH REGIONAL 

At FedEx Forum 

Memphis,Tenn. 


Friday,March 27 

Oklahoma (29-5) vs. Syracuse (28-9), 7:27 p.m. 

North Carolina (30-4) vs. Gonzaga (28-5), after 

conclusion of first game 


Sunday,March 29 


MIDWEST REGIONAL 

At Lucas Oil Stadium 

Indianapolis 


Friday,March 27 

Louisville (30-5) vs. Arizona (21-13), 7:07 p.m. 

Michigan State (28-6) vs. Kansas (27-7), after conclusion 

of first game 


Sunday,March 29 


WEST REGIONAL 

At University of Phoenix Stadium 

Glendale, Ariz. 


Thursday,March 26 

Connecticut 72, Purdue 60 

Missouri (30-6) vs. Memphis (33-3), late 


Saturday,March 28 


FINAL FOUR 

At Ford Field 

Detroit 

National Semifinals 

Saturday,April 4 

East champion vs. South champion 

Midwest champion vs. West champion 

National Championship 

Monday,April 6 


B ASEBALL 

Spring Training 


Toronto 7, Atlanta 5 

N.Y.Mets 9, St. Louis 5 

Florida 11, Baltimore 6 

N.Y.Yankees 10, Philadelphia 2 

Milwaukee 11, Texas 10 

Seattle 10, Kansas City 9 

Arizona 3, Chicago White Sox 1 

L.A.Angels 8, Cleveland 5 

L.A.Dodgers 8, Colorado 6 

Detroit 6, Tampa Bay 3 

Cincinnati 6, Minnesota 4 

Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, 

Ariz., late 


Detroit vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m. 

Baltimore vs. Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m. 

Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 

p.m. 

St. Louis vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m. 

Philadelphia vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 

p.m. 

Colorado vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 4:05 p.m. 

L.A.Angels vs. Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 4:05 p.m. 

Kansas City vs. L.A.Dodgers at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m. 

Chicago White Sox vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, 

Ariz., 4:05 p.m. 

Cleveland vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 

4:05 p.m. 

Toronto vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 7:05 p.m. 

Washington vs. N.Y.Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 

7:10 p.m. 

Cincinnati vs. N.Y.Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 7:15 

p.m. 

Milwaukee vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 9:05 p.m. 

San Diego vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 10:05 p.m. 

G OLF 

Palmer Invitational 

Thursday 

At Bay Hill Club and Lodge 

Orlando, Fla. 

Purse: $6 million 

Yardage: 7,162; Par: 70 

First Round 

Jason Gore 32-33 — 65 -5 

Tim Herron 33-33 — 66 -4 

Jeff Overton 31-35 — 66 -4 

Sean O’Hair 34-33 — 67 -3 

Lee Janzen 35-32 — 67 -3 

Mark Wilson 34-33 — 67 -3 

Nick Watney 34-33 — 67 -3 

Stuart Appleby 34-33 — 67 -3 

Hunter Mahan 35-32 — 67 -3 

Skip Kendall 34-34 — 68 -2 

Chad Campbell 36-32 — 68 -2 

Daniel Chopra 34-34 — 68 -2 

Rocco Mediate 33-35 — 68 -2 

Tiger Woods 36-32 — 68 -2 

Brian Gay 35-33 — 68 -2 

J.J.Henry 34-34 — 68 -2 

Jerry Kelly 35-34 — 69 -1 

Kevin Na 37-32 — 69 -1 

Johnson Wagner 35-34 — 69 -1 

Steve Lowery 36-33 — 69 -1 

Heath Slocum 33-36 — 69 -1 

Ben Crane 35-35 — 70 E 

Mathew Goggin 34-36 — 70 E 

Tommy Armour III 36-34 — 70 E 

George McNeill 37-33 — 70 E 

Pat Perez 35-35 — 70 E 

Kenny Perry 35-35 — 70 E 

Stewart Cink 35-35 — 70 E 

Ryuji Imada 37-33 — 70 E 

Scott Verplank 35-35 — 70 E 

Richard S.Johnson 37-33 — 70 E 

Steve Flesch 35-35 — 70 E 

John Senden 34-36 — 70 E 

Webb Simpson 35-35 — 70 E 

Vaughn Taylor 36-34 — 70 E 

Harrison Frazar 33-37 — 70 E 

Padraig Harrington 34-36 — 70 E 

Brad Faxon 36-34 — 70 E 

Friday, March 27, 2009 3B 

BASEBALL 

Boone career over? 


HOUSTON — Astros 

third baseman Aaron Boone 

had open heart surgery in 

California on Thursday to 

replace a bicuspid aortic 

valve. 

The 36-year-old Boone 

was diagnosed with a congenital 

defect in his heart 

where the valve has two — 

not the normal three — 

cusps to manage blood 

flow. The surgery was performed 

at Stanford 

University Medical Center. 

“Aaron Boone is doing 

fine and awake following 

surgery. We were able to 

preserve the leaking aortic 

valve and replace the 

ascending aortic aneurysm 

(a swelling of the aorta),” 

Dr. D. Craig Miller, who 

performed the surgery,said 

in a statement. Miller has 

performed this type of operation, 

known as a valvesparing 

aortic root replacement, 

more than 200 times. 

Boone is a member of 

one of baseball’s most 

famous families. His father 

is former major league 

catcher and manager Bob 

Boone. 

“I spoke to Aaron’s 

father, Bob, and he indicated 

that things went well,” 

Houston general manager 

Ed Wade said. “Certainly 

our prayers are with Aaron 

and the entire Boone family 

in hopes of a full recovery.” 

The Astros signed 

Boone in the offseason. He 

announced his condition at 

spring training on March 18 

and said he’s uncertain if 

he’ll ever play baseball 

again. He said his recovery 

from the surgery itself 

would take “several 

months.”



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T HE D AILY C ITIZEN Friday, March 27, 2009 5B 

NEXT UP: 

SPRINT CUP 

Race: Goody’s Fast Relief 500 

Where: Martinsville (Va.) Speedway 

When: Sunday,1:30 p.m. (ET) 

TV: Fox 

2008 winner: Denny Hamlin (right) 

NATIONWIDE SERIES 

Race: O’Reilly 300 

Where: Texas Motor Speedway 

When: April 4, 2:30 p.m. (ET) 

TV: ESPN2 

2008 winner: Kyle Busch 

CAMPINGWORLDTRUCKS 

Race: Kroger 250 

Where: Martinsville Speedway 

When: Saturday,2p.m. (ET) 

TV: Fox 

2008 winner: Dennis Setzer 

ANASCAR 

Cinderella 

ByRICK MINTER /CoxNews Service 

story 

Shoestring operation 

building success on 

hardwork,determination 

T 

imothyPeters hasgotten the 

callsall young racers waitfor. 

First itwasBobbyHamilton,offering 

atruckseriesride.Then 

RichardChildress came along witha 

chancetoruninthe seriesnowknown 

asNationwide. 

But thosetwodealsdidn’ttake off. 

Peters ranwell but notgreat.Heeventuallywasbackwherehestarted 

in 

racing. 

But thatapparentbadfortune hasallowed 

Peters another 

chancetoletthe racing 

world see whathe isreallymade 

of.Rather 

thanretreatbacktothe 

LateModel ranksor 

abandon driving altogether,Peters 

and some 

of hisfriendsput togetheraCamping 

PETERS 

World TruckSeriesteamand arerunning 

iton ashoestring budget,racing 

out of acramped two-cargarage in 

Danville,Va. 

Asthe seriesheadstoMartinsville 

Speedway,Peters’home track,for 

Saturday’sKroger250,Peters and his 

pick-upcrewareninthinpoints,with 

finishesof sixthatDaytona, ninthat 

AutoClubSpeedwayand 15that 

AtlantaMotorSpeedway. 

Unlikemanyof hispeers,Peters 

doesn’thavePR typestohandle hisinterviews 

and generatepublicity.He 

doesmost of thathimself,answering 

cell-phone callswithout waiting forhis 

answering servicetoscreen them and 

fielding questionswhile running errandsforhisteam. 

“Basically,whatwehaveisatruck 

teamthatwe’rerunning out of atwobaygarage 

behind myfriend Steve 

Stallings’house,”Peters said one recentmorning 

ashe drovedownthe 

highway.“We’rereallyproudofwhat 

we’vebeen abl etodo. We’remaking a 

splashwithalotless resourcesthan 

most of the otherteamshave.” 

Hesaid the two-baystall,muchlike 

the one attached tomanysuburban 

residences,isthe main workarea. 

Thereareotherplacesnearbyused for 

storage.“The otherspaceislikean 

add-on tothe add-on,”hesaid. 

Tim Peters (left) 

works under the 

hood of his 

Toyota Tundra 

along with crew 

chief Chad 

Kendrick. The 

team sees an 

opportunity for 

strong results at 

this week’s race 

at Martinsville 

Speedway, 

Peters’home 

racetrack. 

SPRINT CUP 

STANDINGS 

1. Jeff Gordon 

794; leader 

2. Kurt Busch 

718; -76 

3. Clint Bowyer 

715; -79 

4. Kyle Busch 

709; -85 

5. Carl Edwards 

665; -129 

6. Kasey Kahne 

639; -155 

7. Tony Stewart 

633; -161 

8. Denny Hamlin 

631; -163 

9. Jimmie Johnson 

627; -167 

10. Matt Kenseth 

610; -184 

11.David Reutimann 

607; -187 

12. Kevin Harvick 

584; -210 

The teamhasthree trucks 

total,atinyfleetcompared to 

most teams,and fornow,ithas 

sponsorship torunthrough the 

truckraceatLowe’sMotor 

Speedway.Twobackers — 

Strutmasters.com and HayesIron and 

Metal—havebeen very loyal,he said, 

and he and the teamhavebeen able to 

make the investmentpayoff sofar. 

“AtHayesIron and Metal,arecycling 

place,the phone ringsoff the 

hook wheneverthe racesareonTV,” 

Peters said. 

Ithelps,too,thatthe teamgets enginesand 

technicalsupport from 

Toyota, asdo the rest of the teamsthat 

raceTundras. 

“Our fundsarelimited,but wedo 

havethe resourcesof Toyota,”hesaid. 

Still,it’sjust Peters and crewchief 

ChadKendrickworking on the truck 

most days.Anoutside fabricatoris 

contracted tohang the sheetmetal, 

and localvolunteers pitchinwhen 

theycan. 

Onracedays,Peters and the team 

take aband of buddiestothe trackto 

serveascrewmembers.If possible, 

they’repaid. Oftentimes,theyend up 

being volunteers. 

Conventionalwisdom says that 

teamsthatoperatethatwayaren’tsupposed 

tobeinthe top 10in points three 

racesintothe season. But thistruckseriesseason 

isdifferent.The economy 

haspinched some of the better-funded 

teams,opening the doorforfolkslike 

Peters and histeamtograb ashareof 

the headlines.Still,some aresurprised 

a twhatPeters hasbeen able toaccomplishwhile 

racing out of agarage 

moresuited foranentry-level shorttrackteam. 

Peters himself isn’ttotally 

takenaback. 

“I’m maybealittle surprised how 

well we’vedone,but we’redoing it 

withhardworkand striving tomake it 

asuccess,”hesaid. “It’skind of a 

Cinderellastory.” 

Whetherthe Cinderellastory continuesthrough 

the season ornot,Peters 

vows topress on,knowing thatasthe 

season goeson,the schedule gets 

busier,whichmeansthatatsome 

point,morefull-time crewmembers 

will beneeded. 

“Isometimesquestion the pathsI’ve 

taken,bu tI’veneverconsidered quitting,”hesaid. 

“IracebecauseIloveit. 

Thisisall Iknow,and Iknowin my 

heart thatIcanbesuccessful.” 

S 

ome folksin racing seem to 

assume thatif Dale 

EarnhardtJr.isn’trunning 

upfront,itmust bethe faultof his 

crewchief and cousin,TonyEury 

Jr. 

But thoseclosest tothe situation 

saythat’snotthe caseatall. 

Last week atBristol Motor 

Speedway,EarnhardtJr.,who is 

now19thinthe Cupstandings 

aftera14th-placefinishinthe 

Food City 500,came tohiscousin’s 

defense. 

“Wehaven’trunlikewewantto, 

likeIthink weshould,”Earnhardt 

Jr.said. “It’salrightforeveryone 

topointthatout.Ihavesaid ita 

hundred times,and itjust doesn’t 

seem tomake adent,but the guy 

thatIfeel badforisTonyJr.becausehegets 

criticized sobadly.” 

EarnhardtJr.pointed out that 

fewinside the garage everquestion 

Eury Jr.’sskillsorhiswork 

ethic. 

“Hejust wanted todothisfora 

living,just likeIdo,but I’lltake 

the fall,”EarnhardtJr.said. “I 

Contributed photo 

Noplayin’blame game! 

Don’tcriticizecrewchief,Juniorurges 

would ratherbecrucified than 

him,becauseevery time Ireadin 

the paperthatpeople areonhis 

case,Ifeel likeIamsending my 

brothertojail foracrime Icommitted. 

... Ifeel badforhim becausehejust 

wants toworkand 

havefun. Hejust wants torace.” 

Junior’sHendrickMotorsports 

teammateJeff Gordon said Eury 

Jr.hasbeen and remainsthe only 

logicalchoicetoleadEarnhardt 

Jr.’steam. “Ithink itwasall unanimous 

and still tothisdayitis 

unanimous thatTonyEury Jr.is 

the guy forJuniorand possiblythe 

onlyguy forJunior,”Gordon said. 

“Thereisatremendous amountof 

expectationsand pressureswith 

being Dale Jr.aswell asDale Jr.’s 

crewchief.Therearejust not 

manyguys in the garage areathat 

could withstand thatkind of crucifixion 

thatcomesalong when 

thingsaren’tgoing well. Tony 

Eury Jr.isone of them.” 

EarnhardtJr.’sgreatest success 

hascome withhisuncle,Tony 

Eury Sr.,ascrewchief.Together 

Photos by NASCAR 

The winning ways of Kyle Busch 

K 

yle Buschhasbeen tofiveracetracks 

thisyear,and he’sbeen toVictory Lane 

atevery one of them. OnSundayat 

Bristol MotorSpeedway,he dominated the 

Food City 500 toscorehissecond Cupwin of 

the season and forthe first time in hiscareer, 

he’snowwon twoCupracesatthe same 

track. 

HisBristol win washisfifthoverall this 

season,along withone in the Nationwide 

Seriesand twomoreinthe Camping World 

TruckSeries ,putting him on pacetoexceed 

his2008totalof21wins. 

Hesaid afterhislatest victory thatwhat 

motivateshim most isnotthe desiretoshow 

upthe “boo birds,”whoseranksseem tobe 

thinning considerablyof late,oraspirations 

of Dale Earnhardt-likegreatness.Instead,it’s 

the rearbumperof the carin frontof him on 

the track. 

“If there’sacarin fro ntof me,I’m going to 

chasehim,”hesaid. “Iwanttopass thatguy. 

Sterling Marlin ranaway 

from afield of legendary 

drivers towin the Saturday 

NightSpecialatBristol 

MotorSpeedway.Itwasfitting,even 

if Marlin isstill 

competing in Cup,because 

he isgenerallyconsidered 

the last of the good ol’ boys 

in NASCAR’seliteseries. 

But manyin the sport also 

thoughtitwasagood thing 

fortoday’sfanstogettosee 

drivers likeL.D.Ottinger 

and JackIngrambehind the 

wheel again. 

Ottinger,70,hadn’tdriven 

aracecarin 10years,but 

captured muchofthe spotlighton 

Saturdaywitha 

strong third-placerun. 

Jeff Burton said fans 

todaymissed out bynot 

knowing drivers like 

Ottingerand Ingram,the old 

Iron Manofthe seriesnow 

knownasNationwide. 

Burton often recounts his 

first encounterwithIngram, 

ameeting thatended with 

the veteranIngramshoving 

the then-young Burton into 

the side of atraileraftera 

raceatSouthBoston (Va.) 

Speedway. 

“Jackwasahard-core 

racer.And hisson Robbie 

helped him towhiscars and 

theytraveled all overin that 

pickuptruck,”Burton 

began. “Ihadthe arrogance 

one nighttogoconfront 

Jackabout something that 

hadhappened ataracetrack, 

and Ithink he wasgoing to 

kill me,whichIprobablydeserved 

it.Hisson intervened,thank 

God. 

“Thatwasarealvaluable 

lesson forme.Jackdeserved 

respect,even if Ididn’t 

agree withwhathadhappened 

atthe track,and Ididn’tgiveittohim. 

Ididn’tgo 

talk tohim in awaythatI 

should have,and he letme 

knowrightthen thatthat’s 

nothowitwasgoing to 

work. From thatmomenton, 

Iunderstood muchbetter 

about having toshowthose 

guys respect.” 

theywon twoNationwide Series 

titles,and 15 of EarnhardtJr.’s18 

Cupwins.Eury Sr.,who isnow 

running BradKeselowski’s 

Nationwide Seriesteam,always 

hadawayof getting hisdriver’s 

attention thatayoungerorunrelated 

person likelyneverwill. 

EarnhardtJr.readilyacknowledgesthatEury 

Sr.’sinfluence 

wasgood forhim and the team. 

“Therearedays whereIwish 

TonySr.wasstill around,”he 

said. “Itwasjust awesome having 

TonySr.around chewing our tails 

sometimes.” 

If I’m the leader,there’sanothercarin front 

of me,he’sgoing alapdown. The moreguys 

yougetalapdown,the moreyoudon’thaveto 

dealwithatthe end of the day. 

“There’salways some motivation togoforward. 

There’salways somebodyaheadofyou 

thatyoucanpass that’sgoing tomeansomething,even 

if youarethe leader.” 

Hedid acknowledgethatkeeping hiswin 

streakalivewill beachallengethisweek at 

Martinsville Speedway,wherehe’sneverwon 

in cars ortrucks. 

“I’vegottwochancesnext weekend,”he 

said. “Hopefully,wecangetone of ’em. If not, 

then wejust havetostart anotherstreak.” 

BY THE NUMBERS 

1,463 

21 

Car owner points separating 

19 

7 

Kyle Busch spins his 

tires after winning 

Sunday’s Food City 500. 

“Ifthere’sacarin frontof me, 

I’m going tochasehim.” 

KYLE BUSCH 

R-E-S-P-E-C-T 

Bristol eventbringsbackspecialmemoriesforJeff Burton 

NASCAR 

Tony Eury Jr. consults with 

his driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr. 

The number of laps 

completed while 

running 15th or better 

this season by 

Jeff Gordon (right), 

tops among Sprint 

Cup drivers. 

NASCAR 

Ayoung driver’sheroes 

Not long ago, the 

Nationwide Series had its 

own stars, unlike today 

where the circuit is 

dominated by moonlighting 

Cup drivers. And it was 

those full-time Nationwide 

campaigners who first 

caught the attention of 

young Jeff Burton (above). 

“When Iwas 12years old, 

Ididn’t want to be Richard 

Petty.Iwanted to be Tommy 

Ellis and Jack Ingram,” he 

said. “That’s who Ilooked 

up to and said, ‘Wow, if I 

could ever get far, I’d have it 

licked.’” 

Scott Speed’s team in36th 

place from David Gilliland’s 

outfit, which holds the 35th 

and final position that is 

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this week’s race at 

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Sprint Cup wins by Petty 

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C ROSSWORD 

B RIDGE 

Test your play 

1. On the surface, 

it might 

seem that it doesn’t 

matter whether 

you cover the 

queen of diamonds 

with the 

king or not. But to 

make sure of the 

contract, it is better 

to duck the 

queen. 

Assuming that 

South has the ace 

— certainly a reasonable 

supposition 

— the contract 

is cold if you 

let North’s queen 

hold. The trouble 

with the king play is that South can win with the ace and 

return a diamond, allowing North to win and shift to a 

heart. If South then turns up with both the king and jack of 

hearts, you will eventually lose two hearts and two diamonds 

and go down one. 

But if you duck the diamond, you are safe against any 

attack. If North continues the suit, you win any return by 

South, cash the A-K of clubs and ruff a club in dummy, 

draw trumps, then lead a heart to the ten. Even if South 

wins with the jack, you have the rest of the tricks against 

any return. 

If instead North shifts to a heart at trick two, you rise 

with the ace, draw trumps, play the A-K and ruff a club, 

then lead the king of diamonds. South wins with the ace, 

but whatever he returns you are home, losing only two diamonds 

and a heart. 

2. You start by assuming that North has the king of 

spades, since if South has it you will make the contract via 

a spade finesse. You also assume that North’s seven is his 

fourth-best heart, which means he might have led from K- 

Q-8-7-x, K-10-8-7-x or Q-10-8-7-x. (With K-Q-10-7-x, he 

presumably would have led the king.) 

The best way of dealing with these three possibilities — 

which constitute the only real threat to the contract — is to 

go up with the ace at trick one. This play fails in the first 

case, but succeeds in the other two cases even when North 

has the spade king. 

The reason for rising with the ace is that it blocks the 

defenders’ hearts if South started with the K-x or Q-x, 

while ducking the opening heart lead permits South to win 

and return a heart, unblocking the suit. 

Tomorrow: The two-way finesse. 

C RYPTOQUIP 

Happy Birthday: This 

can be an emotional year, 

full of change, desire and 

the courage to follow matters 

through to the end. 

Aggressive action will help 

you put things behind you 

that have clouded your 

vision. You can show how 

well you adapt to whatever 

change is thrown 

your way. Your 

truthfulness and 

drive will lead to 

your success. Your 

numbers are 7, 9, 

13, 25, 28, 32, 40 

ARIES (March 

21-April 19): You 

will be emotional 

about the things 

you feel strongly 

about — stand firm 

for your beliefs 

and the reforms 

you want to see 

happen. The way you go 

about things will set the 

stage. Refrain from being 

pushy. 3 stars 

TAURUS (April 20-May 

20): This is not the time to 

pussyfoot around. By showing 

everyone you mean business, 

you are likely to land 

something that will contribute 

to your future goals. 

Don’t be too shy or fearful 

to ask for what you want. 3 

stars 

GEMINI (May 21-June 

20): Use your wit and charm 

to manipulate situations in 

your favor. Don’t let someone 

else’s disgruntled attitude 

get you down or hold 

you back. Look for any 

opening that will allow you 

to put your talents to work. 4 

stars 

CANCER (June 21-July 

22): Keep your thoughts to 

yourself, especially if sharing 

will cause friction. A 

loved one may be difficult to 

understand or to deal with if 

you happen to divulge secret 

information. Don’t promise 

anything you can’t deliver. 2 

stars 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 

You’ll want to be where the 

action is. Take a trip or get 

involved in something you 

find interesting. Make 

demands that will give you 

strength and position for the 

future. You can begin a partnership 

but lay down ground 

rules. 5 stars 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 

H OROSCOPE 

Eugenia 

Last 


22): Back away from anyone 

who is pushing you for a 

decision or cash. Do not get 

involved in a joint effort that 

leaves you doing all the 

work. Work alone so you get 

exactly what you deserve 

from the effort you give. 3 

stars 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 

22): Things that 

were difficult to 

accomplish will 

now be easy. 

Refuse to let your 

lazy side take over. 

If you miss an 

opportunity now, 

you may not get 

another one for a 

long time. 3 stars 

SCORPIO 

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 

You may question 

someone you’ve 

been close to 

regarding a problem you 

have been facing. It may not 

be your fault that things are 

going the way they are. Say 

what’s on your mind and 

clear the air. 3 stars 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 

22-Dec. 21): Take some 

time to do things with someone 

you love. Take on a 

challenge and you will not 

only win, you will convince 

others that you have a lot to 

offer in other areas of life. 

Socialize and let new relationships 

develop. 5 stars 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- 

Jan. 19): Do not give in, 

back down or ignore issues 

that must be dealt with. It 

may not be the nicest situation 

to be in but, if you don’t 

take care of matters quickly, 

they will escalate. Saying no 

may be necessary in order to 

prove who’s boss. 2 stars 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20- 

Feb. 18): Self-improvement 

will impress the people you 

have known for a long time 

and attract someone with 

whom you will enjoy spending 

more time. Love is on 

the rise and a new way of 

seeing things is apparent. 4 

stars 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 

20): You’ll be anxious and 

wanting to get everything 

done quickly. Patience will 

be required. Keep busy but 

don’t expect others to feel 

the same need or urge to get 

things done that you do. 

Don’t be pushy. 3 stars 

Spelling 

champion 

C ONTRIBUTED PHOTO 

Hellen Cruz, a fifth-grader at Park Creek 

Elementary School, was the school-wide spelling 

bee winner recently.She is in Alan Martineaux’s 

class. 

DEAR DR. DONO- 

HUE: I am an athletic 24- 

year-old. For eight years I 

have been passing out. I have 

warning signs such as blurry 

vision and my hearing fades 

and my body is tingly. My 

friend saw me black out, and 

she says my eyes rolled back 

and I fell. She said I was 

shaking for 45 seconds. 

When I woke, I felt fine, as if 

nothing had happened. 

These spells used to happen 

twice a year; now they’re 

happening five or six times a 

year. When we were young, 

my friends played a passingout 

game where they would 

cut off my air supply until I 

passed out. Do you think that 

might be causing my symptoms? 

I had an EEG done, 

and the results were negative. 

— J.T. 

ANSWER: What you 

call passing out, let’s call 

fainting. The medical word is 

“syncope” (SING-uh-pea). 

It’s a fleeting loss of consciousness 

due to a temporary 

interruption of blood 

flow to the brain. Falling to 

the ground restores brain circulation, 

and the spell ends. 

It happens in a variety of 

situations — a too-warm 

room, high emotional state, 

hunger or standing immobile. 

Warning signs are lightheadedness, 

dizziness, a 

feeling of warmth, sweating, 

nausea and blurred vision. 

Blood vessels have dilated, 

and blood pools in the lower 

body. In these situations, the 

heart should speed up. It 

doesn’t. It slows. Circulation 

to the brain fails,and the person 

slumps to the ground. 

Sometimes brief shaking of 

the arms 

and legs 

t a k e s 

place. 

One or 

two faints 

are not 

worrisome. 

An 

increased 

number 

Paul G. of fainting 

spells 

Donohue 

is. A long 

list of 

possible causes must be 

considered. Seizures are 

one of them. Even with a 

normal EEG, you need 

other tests to be certain 

these spells are not seizures. 

With seizures, people often 

lose bladder control and 

usually wake up groggy. 

Neither happens to you, 

which is reassuring. 

Abnormal heartbeats are 

another cause of seizures, 

and you should be checked 

for heart trouble. Your dangerous 

childhood game has 

not caused your present 

problem. 

Your spells sound like 

innocent faints to me, but I 

don’t want you to brush them 

off until you have had a thorough 

going-over. 

When you get the warning 

signs of a faint, immediately 

lie flat on the ground. 

The horizontal position 

keeps blood flowing to the 

brain. 


HUE: My mother-in-law 

thaws frozen meat on the 

kitchen counter before she 

cooks it. She leaves cooked 

meat dishes out for up to 48 

hours. Before she serves it 

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T O Y OUR G OOD H EALTH 

Fainting can be innocent or serious 

again, she bakes or cooks it 

on the stove to “kill any bacteria.” 

I have explained to her 

that I have difficulty eating 

food thawed outside the 

refrigerator and left out after 

it’s been cooked. Please 

inform me of guidelines. — 

E.S. 

ANSWER: All food has 

some bacteria on it. We don’t 

get sick because their numbers 

are relatively few. 

However, if bacteria are 

allowed to multiply,the food 

can makes us quite sick. 

Frozen foods should be 

thawed in the refrigerator. If 

your mother-in-law has a 

microwave oven that has a 

setting to thaw foods, she 

can use that. 

Food should be eaten as 

quickly as possible after it 

has been prepared or cooked. 

No food should be left at 

room temperature for more 

than two hours, preferably 

for shorter times. 

Your mother-in-law’s protocol 

of recooking or rebaking 

food that’s been left out 

is a bit helpful, but not helpful 

enough to kill all bacteria 

whose population has greatly 

increased. 


HUE: I am a retiree who 

gets mail solicitations from 

charitable organizations that 

provide doctors to less-fortunate 

people around the 

world whose children are 

born with a cleft lip or 

palate, or both. I wonder if 

the condition is inherited. 

Will these kids whose clefts 

have been repaired have 

children with the same problem? 

— R.S. 

ASK THE DOCTOR 

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is 

unable to answer individual 

letters, but he will incorporate 

them in his column whenever 

possible. Readers may write 

him or request an order form 

of available health newsletters 

at P.O. Box 536475, 

Orlando, FL 32853-6475. 

ANSWER: Clefts in the 

lip or palate occur when 

structures that migrated from 

the sides of the face fail to 

meet and fuse in the center of 

it. Genetic factors are 

involved, but not in every 

case. Nor do parents who 

have had a cleft automatically 

have children with clefts. 

Their children are at an 

increased risk, but are not 

destined to have the same 

problem. 

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■ MUTTS 

■ WIZARD OF ID 

■ CATHY 

■ GARFIELD 

DEAR ABBY: I have known “Gloria”for 

two years. We met at work, hit it off 

immediately and became close 

friends. I love her dearly, and I’m 

devastated by what’s happening to 

her. Gloria is dying of AIDS and 

now has a rare brain infection that 

has caused her to lose most of her 

faculties. She goes in and out of 

dementia, and her prognosis is two 

months. 

I have been by Gloria’s side so 

frequently that her family has 

“adopted” me. I help with her care 

and am the only one of her friends 

and co-workers who has visited 

since she took this turn. 

My problem is, since I have been around 

Gloria’s family, I have learned that nearly 

everything she has ever told me is untrue. 

She has flat-out lied about many things — 

big and small — that weren’t even necessary 

to lie about. I feel like I don’t know my 

friend at all and never did. 

As sad as I am to see Gloria suffering and 

dying, I am hurt and angry that I was repeatedly 

deceived by someone I thought was my 

friend. I keep telling myself it shouldn’t 

matter now, but the more the truth comes 

out, the harder it is for me to go over there 

and help. 

How can I get past this, forgive Gloria 

Friday, March 27, 2009 7B 

D EAR A BBY 

Woman caring for dying friend 

begins to question her loyalty 

■ HOCUS FOCUS 

Jeanne 

Phillips 

and get back to the business of helping her 

in her final weeks? — WOUNDED 

IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 

DEAR WOUNDED: People lie 

for many reasons. Some of them do 

it because they are ashamed to tell 

the truth. Others lie out of fear or to 

gain an advantage, and some people 

do it because they can’t help themselves. 

But somewhere in the tapestry 

of lies that this poor woman 

wove is a part of her authentic self. 

It is the part that made you identify 

with her in the first place. 

What you are doing for Gloria 

now is both generous and emotionally 

wrenching. You do not deserve the 

“payoff” for your efforts to be spending the 

rest of your life resenting her for her shortcomings. 

You are giving her one of the most 

important gifts a person can give to another, 

but it is one that you are also giving to yourself. 

If you remember that, you will have no 

regrets. 

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van 

Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and 

was founded by her mother, Pauline 

Phillips. Write Dear Abby at 

www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,Los 

Angeles, CA 90069. 

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T HE D AILY C ITIZEN Friday, March 27, 2009 1C 

Q&A 

Follow vet advice 

on anesthesia 

Q: Years ago, our familydog was 

hit by acar.But it wasn’t the car that 

killed him —itwas the surgery to fix 

his leg. He went under and never 

woke up.That’swhy now, Idon’t feel 

comfortablewhen my veterinarian 

tells me thatmydog needs to have 

his teeth cleaned —while asleep. It 

just doesn’t seem worththe risk, 

even though my vetinsists anesthesia 

is safer now. Whatdoyou think? 

—G.R., via e-mail 

A: Youcould be shortening your 

pet’slife —and keeping him in 

misery —bynot addressing the 

problems caused by amouthful of 

rotting teeth and gums. 

And your veterinarian’s correct: 

Anesthesia is alot safer than it was a 

couple of decades ago. No anesthetic 

procedureiswithout risk, butinthe 

hands of agood veterinarian and 

his staff, anesthesia has become a 

routine and very safe procedure. 

Therisks can be greatlyminimized 

by aveterinary examination 

and afew basic tests beforehand, 

including alaboratory evaluation of 

blood and urine,and possibly achest 

X-ray. These tests enableyour vetto 

fullyunderstand and address the 

health status of your pet before 

anesthetizing him. During the 

procedure, placement of an IV 

catheter and administration of 

fluids further adds to the safety of 

the procedure. 

No discussion of anesthetic danger 

can be complete without afew words 

on your responsibilities whereanesthesia 

is concern ed: 

—Followyour veterinarian’s 

instructions on preparing your pet 

forsurgery.Ifno food is specified, 

makesurethatyou deliveryour pet 

with an empty stomach. Following 

this one piece of advice is one of t he 

easiest and most basic ways to reduce 

risk. During anesthesia, the 

contents of afull stomachcan be 

regurgitated with the unfortunate 

potential complication of being inhaled 

into the lungs.Ingeneral, you 

should completely withhold food the 

night before, butcontinue to allow 

free access to water until the morning 

of the procedure. 

—Beprepared to provide special 

home carefor you rpet after surgery. 

If your pet is released beforethe 

sedation wears off fully, he must be 

kept safe from hotorcold environments 

because his reflexes arereduced. 

If youdonot feel comfortable 

caring forasedated pet, arrangefor 

your veterinarian to extend the care. 

If your veterinarian does not runa 

24-hour hospital, be suretohavethe 

number of your local emergency 

clinic handyincase thereare any 

complications following your pet’s 

anesthesia. 

—Don’t hesitate to ask questions. 

Makesurethatyou understand what 

the procedures areand what to expect. 

Pets commonlyhaveacough 

after anesthesia, forexample,because 

the tube used to deliverthe gas 

maycause some irritation. If the 

cough does not clear in acouple of 

days,call your veterinarian. 

No matter what the age of the pet, 

the chances arevery high thatthe 

anesthetic presents no problem if 

both youand your veterinarian work 

to minimizethe risk. And the payoffs,especiallythose 

involving dental 

care, can be significant. Ask as many 

questions as youcan and makesure 

youare comfortablewith the answers.Workwith 

your veterinarian 

in the interests of the best health for 

your pet. —Dr. Marty Becker 

Do youhaveapet question? Send it 

to petconnection@gmail.com 

When the snow finally goes, some dogs —like this Labrador —just seem drawn to the 

mud left behind. 

Keeping spring mud from your floors isn’t easy 

By GINASPADAFORI 

Universal Press Syndicate 

M 

arch is when winter 

finallylets go,although 

usuallynot without a 

final blast or two. Thestartof 

spring means manythings — 

the first early blooms,longer, 

warmer days and atime to clean 

the house —but fordog lovers, 

there’sone thing spring brings 

most of all. 

Mud, mud and moremud. The 

soupyremains of winter on the 

paws of our pets is the constant 

nemesis of all doglovers,and 

it’snever so bad as in the spring. 

Thebest waytokeepfloors 

clean is to neverlet them get 

dirty.And thatmeans catching 

those muddypawsbeforethey 

come inside.Hereare some tips: 

— Use mats. Put washable 

mats both inside and outside the 

door.Asmall doormatcan be 

jumped over,sogo forsomething 

larger,atleast during the 

rainyseason. The wider the 

area of matting, themore 

chance youhaveofevery paw 

hitting the matatleast once. 

Outside the door to my backyard 

(currentlyknown as The 

Swamp), Ihavea3-foot-by-5-foot 

blackindustrial matIbought at 

awarehouse store. It catches 

lots of mud, and it hoses off 

easily. Themoreattractive and 

traditional decorative doormat 

sits right on top of it, with 

another decorative matonthe 

Wipe your 

PAWS 

inside of the thre shold. Outside 

the dogdoor,the entrance ramp 

is coveredwith indoor-outdoor 

carpeting. Just inside is another 

mat. 

— Teachdogstowait forwiping. 

It’snot difficult to teacha 

dogtowait on the matfor apaw 

The best 

way to 

keep floors 

clean is to 

never let 

them get 

dirty. 

cleaning. If you’re patient and 

positive, you’ll be abletoteach 

your pet to offer eachpaw in 

turnand stand patientlywhile 

youtowelitoff.One of my 

dogs used to be so good about 

this thathe’dlift eachpaw by 

name: “Front. Nowthe other. 

Back. Other.” 

— Save your old towels. When 

towels gettoo ratty forguests to 

see,savethem foruse with your 

pets.Old towels aregreat for 

wiping paws,drying fur and 

even swiping amuddypaw print 

off the floor.Myold towels have 

endured years of hot water and 

bleach. They’re ugly, butthey 

still do the job.You can also find 

superabsorbent 

towels and mitts 

made specifically forwiping 

paws,but I’ve alw aysfound old 

towels to be more than up to the 

task. If youdoneedtobuy paw 

wipes,checkpricesonshop 

towels.Another option: 

Shammies,whichsoak up lots of 

water,can be throwninthe 

washing machine and air-dried 

in ajiffy. 

— Neverlet amess settle in. If 

amuddypaw gets past you, 

don’t delayyour cleanup.While 

this isn’t suchahard-and-fast 

rule forsucheasy-clean surfaces 

as tile and hardwoods,it’san 

absolute commandment when it 

comes to carpets.Keepcleaning 

supplies well-stockedand at 

hand, and be suretojump on a 

muddypaw print —orany pet 

mess —beforeitcan set. 

With 16 canine paws in my 

household, keeping on top of 

mud is amust. Whatthe mats 

don’t catch, Ido, and the house 

stays cleaner formydiligence, 

even in the muddiest season of 

the year. 

Developing babies 

can takesome time 

Gestation periods vary widely 

—incats it’s about two 

months. 

•How long does it take to make 

an ass of yourself? If you’re a 

donkey, ittakes ayear, as365 days 

is the average gestation period. 

Sperm whales are pregnant for 

480-500 d ays, deer for 201 days, 

dogs and cats both go 58-65 days, 

kangaroos 42 days, rabbits 30-35 

and mice 19-21. 

•Camels don’t store water in the 

hump, but fat, which is used as an 

energy reserve. Water is stored 

throughout their bodies, particularly 

in their bloodstream, which makes 

them very good at avoiding 

dehydration. According to “The 

Book of General Ignorance,” 

camels can lose 4 0percent of 

their body weight before they are 

affected by it and can go up to 

seven days without drinking. When 

they do drink, they do so with 

gusto, consuming up to 50 gallons 

at atime. 

•Abill has been introduced in 

Washington state that would allow 

cat and dog remains to be buried 

with humans in cemeteries meant 

for people. State Sen. Ken 

Jacobsen, the bill’s sponsor, got 

the idea after his beloved cat, 

Sam, died and he learned that comingling 

animal and human 

remains wasn’t allowed. 

—Dr. Marty Becker and Mikkel 

Becker Shannon 

PET TIP 

White cats may need 

protection 

Although every imaginablefeline 

coatlength, type and color has afan 

somewhere, youdoneed to watchout 

forone thing that’srelated to coat 

color:White cats with blue eyes have 

ahigh probabilityfor deafness. 

Some of these cats have eyes of different 

colors and aredeaf onlyonthe 

side with the blu eeye.(Youcan 

checkfor deafnessbysnapping your 

fingers or clapping your hands behind 

acat’s or kitten’s head.) 

Though adeaf catcan still be a 

good pet —indoors only, forher own 

protection —you’ll still want to 

knowwhatyou’re getting into before 

youadopt. 

THE SCOOP 

Longer noses mean abetter sense of smell 

While most of us tend to think scent work is 

the near-exclusive province of ahandful of 

breeds —bloodhounds,German shepherds 

and maybe aLabrador retrieverhereand 

there—infact, awide rangeofbreeds and 

mixes is trained to detect various scents. 

Because of their fine noses and friendlydispositions,beagles 

areused to work airports by 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and any 

manner of mixed breeds —lucky dogs pulled 

from shelters —havebeen used forother 

kinds of detection work. 

Humans have about 5million scent receptors 

in their noses; dogs have about 200 million. 

Dogs can detect tinylevels of odors,even 

afew parts per billion. Their noses arealso 

uniquelydesigned to drawair samples 

through —for the most part. 

You’re not going to see adog with apushedin 

muzzle,likeapug, tracking someone on 

“America’sMost Wanted.” That’s because 

when breeding forashortnose —and aface 

morelikeours —we’ve reduced the real estate 

availablefor scent receptors in these breeds. 

On the other end of the scale,adog developed 

fortracking, suchasthe bloodhound, has 

asense of smell so keen, the results of his 

work areadmissible in acourtoflaw.Inaddition 

to along, deepmuzzle,the bloodhound 

has ears to sweepscent from the ground and 

skin folds to hold scents around the face. 

—Dr. Marty Beckerand Gina Spadafori 

The bloodhound’s ears and loose skin 

are said to help channel scent to the 

nose. 

BY THE NUMBERS 

The lure of the wild 

More than 60 

percent of 

people TOP 

with pet 

birds also feed 

wild birds. 

Here’s what 

they offer those 

wild birds 

(multiple 

responses 

allowed): 

“....where dog dreams do come true....” 

Food Votedsold Best Pet for wild birds 

Bread 


Groomer in 

NW Georgia 2008 

Reader’s Choice 

DAWG 

TOP DAWG PET SPA 

Watching the visitors is the 

charm of abird feeder. 

86 percent 

39 percent 

Food sold for pet birds 22 percent 

Other www.topdawggroomingsalon.com 

11 percent 

706-272-3294 (SALON) 706-313-7246 (MOBILE) 

120 West Cuyler St. • Downtown Dalton 

Source: American PetProducts Association 

About PetConnection 

PetConnection is produced 

by ateam of pet-careexperts 

headed by “Good Morning 

America” veterinarian Dr. 

Marty Beckerand awardwinning 

journalist Gina 

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authors of several best-selling 

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On PetConnection.com 

there’smoreinformation on 

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2C Friday, March 27, 2009 


ANNOUNCEMENTS 

104 Lost 

Lost 1 yr. old male long hair 

black lab in the Varnell area. 

Answers to “Bear”. Call if seen 

706-279-3725. 

105 

Special 

Notices 

Fish Day! Live fish for pond 

stocking. Wednesday, April 1st, 

9am-10am at Chatsworth Farm 

and Garden in Chatsworth. 706- 

695-4321. Tommy’s Fish Truck 

501-796-6349. 

I, Samuel R. Ball will not be 

responsible for any debts 

other than my own. 

251 

FINANCIAL 

Business 

Opportunities 

EMPLOYMENT 

310 General 

2 people to live on chicken farm. 

Prefer husband & Wife. Pick 

eggs 7 days a wk. 706- 629- 

2636 - 706-217-5690 before 

9pm 

Advanced Title Pawn in Dalton is 

now interviewing for Customer 

Service position. Will train. Must 

be very dependable, must be 

bilingual. Call Belinda to 

schedule an interview. 706-217- 

2600 

Growing real estate Title 

Company now hiring full-time 

title abstractor with a minimum of 

3-5 years experience for 

northwest 

Georgia. 

Please forward confidential 

resume and salary history to 

DJohnson@BridgeWaterInc.com 

for immediate consideration. 

Excellent and rare 

opportunity. 

Part time tree climber needed. 

Must have own tools. $15.00 an 

hour to start. Call Danny’s Tree 

Service 706-270-2697 

Part-Time / Full-time Legal 

Secretary. Law office with estate 

planning, estate administration, 

trust and guardianship practice. 

Microsoft Word and legal 

experience preferred. Please 

send 

resume, salary requirements, 

and a one-page, single-spaced, 

typed letter detailing how your 

experience prepares you to 

work in this environment to: 

Blind Box S-5 

c/o The Daily Citizen 

PO Box 1167 

Dalton, GA 30722 

Only qualified candidates will be 

considered. 

Receptionist/Legal Secretary 

Experience required 

Send resume´ to: 

Lovingood Law, PC 

PO Box 1067 

Dalton, GA. 30722-1067 

310 General 

Tufting Mechanic needed. Hours 

are 7am-3pm. Must work 

overtime as needed. 2+ years 

experience as a tufting 

mechanic. Job duties include: 

Ensure that all machines are 

working properly. Setting up 

machines, 

changing 

blades/hooks/needles. 

Troubleshooting and making 

repairs on machines, and other 

duties as requested by the 

supervisor. Must have graphics 

machine experience. Colortec 

experience a plus but not 

mandatory. Send resume to P.O. 

Box 1065, Dalton, GA. 30722 

311 Health Care 

Busy Medical practice in North 

Georgia looking for part-time or 

full-time Nurse Practitioner, and 

part-time Billing Clerk. Excellent 

fringe benefits. Please send 

resume and salary requirements 

to: HR Department, P.O. Box 

2377, Dalton GA 30722 

RN / CASE MANAGER PRN 

Experienced RN with GA license 

needed for busy family oriented 

hospice in the North Georgia 

area. Hospice or Home Health 

experience a plus. Competitive 

benefits and compensation. Fax 

your resume to 706-272-1036 or 

email: heartlitegeorgia@aol.com 

316 

Part-Time 

Employment 

Part time Front Desk position for 

medical office. Medical 

experience is required. Avg. 20 

hours per week Monday-Friday. 

Fax resumes to 706-272-0276. 

322 Sales 

Experienced Furniture Sales 

Person Apply in person to 

Scott’s Furniture Co. 

1650 S. Lee Hwy, 

Cleveland, TN. 

Experienced salesperson, 

Ocoee Monuments, liberal 

commissions. Please call for an 

appointment 423-790-5704 

401 

SERVICES 

General 

Services 

I will cook & clean houses. Also, 

have experience taking care of 

elderly with references. 706-529- 

2772 ask for Roxanne. 

Lawncare & Landscaping. 

10 yrs experience. Call Josh for 

free estimates 423-580-9454. 

YARD SALES 

Yard Sale Pick- Up Providence 

ministries needs your left over 

items to support the Providence 

rescue Mission and their Boys 

home. Drop Off or call before 

sale for pick up. Dalton 711 S. 

Hamilton St 275-0268, Calhoun 

289 Hwy. 53 East 629-1613 

Ft. Oglethorpe 291 Battlefield 

Pkwy. 858-7974 

Dalton 

ESTATE / YARD Indoor Sale Fri. 

27th 8-1 & Sat. 28th 8-1. 1305 

Belmont Dr. Brookwood area. 

Bdrm sets, dining rm table & 

chairs, lamps, decor items, etc 

RAIN OR SHINE! Moving Sale! 

HH items, tiller, highchair, wicker 

furn, fridge, 24’ ladder, mowers, 

Fri & Sun 8am. 106 Diane Dr. 

Behind Country Club. 

Tunnel Hill 

Moving Sale Fri. Sat. & Sun. 

S.Michael Dr. off Houston Valley 

Rd. Furniture, tools, clothes, and 

lots more!! Rain or Shine!! 

PETS/LIVESTOCK 

502 Free Pets 

FREE Cat to a good home. 

Friendly, Loving, INDOOR, Gray 

longhair, front declawed. Fully 

litter box trained. Female, 

approx. 10 yrs old.706-226-8211 

611 

ITEMS FOR SALE 

Misc. Items 

For Sale 

Full Kitchen: 60 ft. of Knotty Pine 

cabinets. Appliances: Rerfridg., 

stove, dishwasher. JenAire grill, 

microwave, toaster oven, 

porcelain sink Almond colors. All 

in use, Exc. cond. 706-260-9596 

- 706-278-8499 

ITEMS FOR RENT 

705 Homes For Sale 

$2,000Dn. Starting at $700/mo. 

OWNER FINANCING. Several 

3Bd/2 Ba. homes in Whitfield & 

Murray Remodeled, very nice. 

Owner/Broker706-529-0650 

3 bdrm 2 bath foreclosure only 

$19,900. For listings call 800- 

536-8517 ext 1383 

3bd, 2ba, 2 car gar. deck, 

laundry, micro., Built ‘07. 

$115,000. Rent to own 

$750/down. $850/mo. 706-581- 

8634 

Airport Rd 3BR 1 1/2 BA 

ingound pool. $1500. dn, $750. 

mo or as low as $82,000. 706- 

264-1932 

Calhoun, Dews Pond area. 4 

acres, 3BR, 2BA brick. Full 

basement. As low as $104,000. 

706-264-1932 

FSBO Adorable 3BR+1.5BA 

909 Stoneleigh Rd. Mod kitchen 

+BA, Hwd+Tile, fenced backyd 

$134,000. Call 706-508-3695 

GREAT HOME- GREAT PRICE 

GREAT LOCATION 

1110 Robin Way 

Freeman Springs S/D. 3BR/ 

2BA, finished bonus room, large 

deck, gas fireplace full 

unfinished basement, lots of 

extras. Priced below appraised 

value at $229,900. Will Consider 

Lease Purchase. Shown by appt. 

Call 706/ 463-1579 or 423/653- 

0552 

Houses moved to your lot. 7 nice 

3 bedroom, 2 bath, double 

carport. Ranch homes. All 

located on same lot in Calhoun. 

706-602-0788 

Hwy 2 area. 2 or 3 BR, 2 acres, 

$1000. dn., $700 mo or as low 

as $68,400. 706-264-1932 

LEASE PURCHASE/ FOR 

SALE NICE BRICK HOME IN 

SPRINGPLACE conveniently 

located in the Springdale 

Estates Subdivision, large 

fenced in lot, newly remodeled, 

Bonus room, 3 BR’s, 1.5 baths. 

Must See. $112,900. Call 706- 

673-2615 or c:706-280-9246. 

705 Homes For Sale 

No Credit Check. Owner 

Financing. Rent to Own or 

Lease Purchase. 

STOP RENTING TODAY MOVE 

IN TOMORROW!!!! 

Don Babb 706-463-2333 

hhf@vol.com or 

Mark Burnett 706-529-5901 

DALTON 

1211 Nelson St , Fixer upper. 

2BR 1BA, $49,900, $1,000 

as low as$425 mon 

126 Magaughey Chapel RD 

2BR 1BA, $79,900, $1,000 

down as low as $550 month 

722 Timberlake. $89,900 

3BR 1BA $1,000 down. Pmyt as 

low as $750.00 per mon. 

1827 Swanson N Dalton 2 br 

1ba, $69,900 $1000dn $495 mn 

4200 Mount Pleasant - 

Beaverdale. 5BR 2BA - not in 

subd. $159K $1100 dn, $1100 

month 

3038 Hurricane Rd. 2 bdrm 1 

bath. $69,900. $1,000 down, 

$615 month. 

706 Condos For Sale 

OPEN HOUSE March 28, 11-4 

& 29 1-4. 2265 Wilding Lane, 

Unit 7, Dalton. Condo for sale. 

One car garage, 2 Bed, 2 full 

bath. Near Hamilton Medical 

and Dalton State. Call 706-537- 

8595 for appt. 

726 

Commercial 

Buildings 

*19,000 sq.ft. - 2105 E. Walnut 

Ave. Retail space, Next to 

Hobby Lobby, across from Mall. 

*97,000 sq. ft., 454 Hwy 225 

(Bretlin) 

*Retail space - Dalton Place 

Shop. Ctr. 2518 Cleveland Hwy. 

1200, 1400, 44,000 SF avail. 

706-279-1380 Wkdys 9-5:30 

12,500 sf bldg. for sale or lease 

& 10,000 sf bldg for sale by 

owner. Dalton. Docks. Suitable 

for light manfg. or wrhg, offices 

w/ c/h/a. Perry 706-275-0862 

1st Month Free: For rent or lease 

- Across from Walnut Sq. Mall. 

Great location for new business. 

3500 sf 706-278-3200 

LOOKING TO REDUCE COST? 

For Lease: Prime warehouse & 

office space for rent, central 

Dalton location, over 100,000 SF 

warehouse whole or subdivided 

w/multiple docks & racks. Over 

7,000 SF first class offices, 

whole or part. Rental rate below 

prevailing in community. Call 

706-278-3666 

728 

Commercial 

Rental 

* 302 S. Thornton 5,500 SF, 

includes utilities, between 

Newspaper office & Bank of Am. 

* 1515 Abutment Rd. 10,000 sq. 

ft. includes utilities. Many sizes 

or suites. 1.3 mi. S. of Walnut 

* Camelot Bldg, Near I-75. 1514 

W. Walnut Ave. Between Long 

John Silvers & Burger King. 

5,500 S/F. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30. 

3 office suites with c/h/a. 407 S. 

Thornton. Approx. 900 sq. ft. 

each. $300/mo. Call: 706-278- 

9687 or 706-217-8255. 

Doctor’s Offices for Rent 

Medical Suites, 2500 SF avail. 

1008 Professional Blvd., 

Dalton. Distinctive Modern 

Bldg., 3rd floor w/elevator. 

706-279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30 

Look for the solution to today’s Sudoku Puzzle 

on page 16C of the classifieds. 

728 

Commercial 

Rental 

Lakeland Rd, Dalton - 51,000 

SF. West Industrial Dr., Dalton - 

300,000 SF. Gi Maddox Pkwy., 

Chatsworth - 31,500 SF. Duvall 

Rd., Chatsworth - 175,000 SF. 

Watson St., Rome - 8,100 SF. 

All property is privately owned. 

Visit www.tmarealty.com for 

additional information or call 

706-876-1108 . 

Office: 2700 S.F. Excellent 

condition. 1143 E. Walnut Ave. 

Call: 706-581-1037 

Restaurants for rent: *410 S. 

Hamilton (fmrly Bailey’s Diner) 

Incl. equipment $3,495 mo. 30 

day setup time - Free Rent . *801 

E. Walnut Ave. Barrett 

Marketplace $2995/Mo. $2000 

dp. (fmrly El Taco) fully furnished. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

Retail Shop for Lease. 3000 SF 

total. Chatsworth Area, Great 

Location. 706-483-9187 

Warehouse for lease in Dalton 

20,640 dq. ft. & 25,800 sq. ft. 

Call: 706-278-1566 

RENTAL HOUSING 

751 Apartments 

1 BR, 1BA. 306 W. Park St., 

$350/mo + $250/dep. Incl. basic 

TV cable. 706-226-0503 

2 BR 1 BA -*503B Colter, 2BR 

1.5BA $445 mth, $220 dp. 706- 

279-1380 wkd 9-5:30 

The Daily Photo 


$ 1st WEEK FREE! 

$120/wk. 1bd, new carpet & 

paint, close to hospital. 

Also 1 & 2 bd S. 41 Hwy. 

Power, water & cable 

furn’d. Deposit Required. 

Denise 706-463-1598 or 

En Español 706-463-0945. 

*1 BR Apt. No Deposit. $125 wk. 

1st floor, no pets. Washer & 

dryer hookups. 4808 South 41 

Hwy. Call: 706-217-5175 

*3BR 2 ba, duplex, Pleasant 

Grove area. 321 B Mill Trace 

$550 mon. $275 dep. *3BR 326A 

$575 month $287 dep. 706-694- 

3094, 706-264-2052 or 706- 

264-9521 

*Apartments for rent in Dalton. 

*2 houses for rent in Chatsworth 

*1 duplex for rent in Dalton 

Call Alan Lockman for details 

706-264-2301 

1/2 Deposit thur April!! 

1 STORY completely furn. effic. 

Cable TV, phone, microwave, 

kitc. supplies, linens, utilities 

furniture North Tibbs Road. 

$149/weekly, 278-7189. 

1 STORY, 1 bedroom, low utility 

bills. Water furnished, washer/ 

dryer connection, utility room, 

attic storage. N. Tibbs Rd. 

(706)278-7189 

1, 2, & 3 Bd Apt’s - Starting at 

$100/week. Power, water, 

cable, furnished. 

For details. 706-463-0672, 

706-463-0671 & Español 

706-463-0945 

1130/1132 Burleyson $485mon 

$240dep. 2BR 1BA. *707-2 

Lance 2BR 1.5BA Newly 

remodeled, 2 weeks free w/1 yr. 

lease. 706-279-1380 wkdy 9-5:30 

Submitted by: 

Joe & Kathy Wheat of Chatsworth , GA 

To submit your photo, email photo, name 

and city to: lauramartin@daltoncitizen.com



1st month, 1/2 off! 2 bd, 1 ba, 

w/d hookup, c/h/a. Power, water, 

& cable furnished. Close to 

downtown. $175/wk or $650/ mo. 

$200/dep. 706-581-4615 

1st WEEK FREE!! 2 bd, 2 ba. 

A/C, cable, parking, $155 wk. 

No Pets! Renovated. 706-263- 

0743 or 484-225-4212 

2 bd, 1 bath Dawnville area $500 

mon. $200 dep. Washer, dryer, 

stove, refrig, dishwasher, king size 

bd suite, cable & water furnished. 

No Pets! 706-277-1225 

2 bdrm apartment, off Old Grade 

Rd. Stove, refrig. Private lot big 

yard on dead end st. $100 wk. 

$200 dep. 706-226-5678 after 

10am or 278-1520 after 7pm 

2 bedroom, brick Duplex on 

Tyler Street. CHA. $500 per 

month. $200. deposit 

706-463-0672 

2 BR, 1 BA. 116 Fernwood 

Ave., $550/mo + $250/dep. All 

utilities included. W/D Conn., 

C/H/A. 706-226-0503 

2 Months Free Rent!!! 

Super Deluxe Townhome 

2 Bedroom, 1 1/2 bath 

huge closets, pool 

w/ cabana. 

BEST DEAL IN DALTON 

BEST LOCATION 

TRUE LUXURY 

706-279-1801 

271 Broadacre Rd. NW. 2 br, 2 

bath., Central H/A, W/D hook 

ups, water furnished. $470 

month. Call: 706-508-4158 

2BR 1.5 BA Townhouse. CHA, 

Washer/ dryer conn. utilities & 

cable furn. $160/wk or $660/mo 

No Pets. 706-463-3171 

3bd/1ba Duplex off Cleveland 

Hwy. All appls, dishwasher, w/d 

hkup, c/h/a, $550/mo. $250/dep. 

706-581-2062. No pets. 

5 room duplex apt. with 1 bath. 

on South Dr. Kitchen furnished. 

Couple or individual preferred. 

$450/mo. 706-226-2241. 

Apartment for Rent. 2BR/1 BA 

located in Chatsworth. $435.00 

mth $300.00 Deposit. NO PETS 

706-483-9187 

Don’t Down Size, Economize! 

1, 2, & 3 Bedroom units 

Some Amenities May Include: 

*Utilities Furnished 

*Washer & Dryer In Each Apt 

*Ceiling Fans 

*Playground & Soccer Field 

*Stove & Refrigerator 

*Dishwasher 

*Free Extended Cable TV 

*On Site Managers 

Call For Our Move-In Special 

706-278-3776 

DUPLEX: 890/892 W. Addis, 

Tunnel Hill. Apt. 2 BR 1 BA, $125 

wk, $250 dep. House - 3 BR 1 

BA $600 mon. $300 dep. 706- 

279-1380 wkdays. 

Efficiency apartments, all utilities 

paid. $100 week, $125 deposit. 

706-581-8192 or 706-463-0704 

Efficiency bachelor apt in city All 

utilities incl. TV & cable furn. No 

Pets 801 N. Selvidge St. $65 

dep, $65/wk 278-3729 8a- 8pm. 

For Rent: Downtown Dalton loft 

apts. 2 BR unfurnished $650/ 

month, utilities not included, or 1 

BR Fully Furnished, all utilities 

included $850/month. For more 

info. call 706-280-4842 

HUGE 4 bedroom apt. $150/wk 

with water or $190/wk with 

power & water. call 706-260- 

9183 

Income Loss, Credit Issues 

or Home Crisis - 

We are here for YOU! 

We have oversized 

luxury apartments available 

starting at $605 

Pool 

Fitness center 

Playground 

Basketball 

Laundry 

Bonus Room 

W/D h-up in every apt 

706- 

226- 

0404 

March Special Only! No Deposit. 

Clean 2 BD 1 bath apt. in 

Chatsworth All appliances, 

washer, dryer & water included. 

$450 month. $50 off 1st month 

rent. 706-517-2589 or 706-264- 

0066 

Motel Rooms For Rent: 2107 S. 

Dixie Hwy. 41. Standard - 

$95/wk. Lg.- $125/$135wk. 

Dep.= 2 wks. rent. Furnished + 

TV, basic cable, private phone. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

MOVE RIGHT IN, 1 & 2 BD 

efficiency apts, furnished, all 

util’s, w/d furnished, TV, In 

Chats., & Dalton, near hospital. 

706-313-1733 or 695-0625 

Reasonable Rates! Movein 

Special! 

1 & 2 BR apts. available in 

Chatsworth, Spring Place & 

Eton. Call now 706-695-4880. 


STAY LODGE 

Effic. Apt. with kitchen. Furn w/all 

utilities. Laundry fac., basic 

cable. Private phones furn. 

Starting at $129.99/wk plus tax 

Suite Deals 1BR $175.00 per 

week. Call 706-278-0700 

STAYLODGE - WILLOWDALE 

MOVE IN SPECIAL 

1st Week $100.00 

706-278-0700 

STRAWBERRY COMMONS: 

All utilities included w/washer 

& dryer hookup. 1 & 2 bd apts. 

$550-625 *$100 off off-1st 

months rent. (706) 271-0020 

UNDERWOOD LODGE 

Furnished Efficiency with 

kitchenette. All Utilities & 

Cable!! Laundry Facility 

Available. 

Move In Specials $70-$90 

for first week! 

706-226-4651 

Westside area-2BR, 1BA, C/H/A, 

W/D Conn., utilities included. 

Mo. Or Wk. rates. Also 2BR, 

2BA mobile home. 706-673-4808 

or 706-264-6786" 

752 Homes For Rent 

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**COHUTTA – 2 BR / 1 BA 

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***Westside Area: 1 & 2 

bedroom mobile homes start at 

$65 wk or $260 month. 

Furnished or 

unfurnished. 706-673-4000 

2 bedroom, 1 bath Duplex. 

212 W. Ezzard Ave. $395/mo. + 

Deposit. 706-463-2332 706-397- 

2087 

2 bedroom, 1 bath. $450/month 

or $105/week, $500/dep. Call: 

706-259-4334 or 706-264-4452 

3 BR 1 BA, $160 wk, $320 dep. 

1309 Coogler Rd. 706-279-1380 

wkdays. 

3br/3ba Beautiful Ft.Mtn home 

w/ Gorgeous views! Easy drive, 

not past the park. 2500sq/ft. All 

new kit and new lrg Mstr Suite! 2 

car gar. A deal @$1100/mo w/ 

$260/mo extras (706)537-6523 

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4 bedroom only $254 month. 

Buy 5% down, 30 yrs at 8% 

APR. For listings 800-536-8517 

ext R200 

5 bedroom 3 bath in Northridge 

Subd. Dalton. $1,000 per month 

plus deposit. 706-618-7783 

706-218-0038 or 706-459-7458 

5 room house for rent, fully 

furnished. $135. per week. 

Waterand garbage included. 

706-277-0933 

Brick Home in City! 2BR, 1.5BA 

Den, Living/Dining Rooms ,Nice 

Area $675 mo 706-483-0043 

Charming country home. In 

Redwine’s Cove, 4 miles from 

Carbondale exit. 3 br, 2ba, living 

room, eat-in kitchen w/ all appl., 

c/h/a, gas log fireplace, 

screened in porch w/ swing, 

double carport, lg level yard. No 

pets. $750/mo. $750/dep. Ref. 

req. 706-277-9096 

Cottage House for rent. 2 br / 1 

ba, c/h/a, large private lot. Deer 

Trail off Williams Rd. 

$600/month. 706-278-9687 or 

706-217-8255 

Home for sale or lease 

purchase. 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath, 

bonus room, 3 car garage. 

Located Dug Gap Rd. 706-217- 

5405 

752 Homes For Rent 

House for rent. 2 bedroom, 1 

bath. 11 Birch Street. 

$450/month. 706-278-9687 or 

706-217-8255 

House for rent. Chatsworth. 2br 

1 bath $450.00 mth $300.00 

deposit. NO PETS 706-483- 

9187 

Remodeled 2 & 3 bdrm homes. 

Murray & Whitfield Co. start $350 

month. Rent or sale ready. Now 

new ones each wk. 706-280- 

0300 or 706-259-8170. We 

owner finance 

Very nice brick 2 bedroom 1 

bath home. Central heat & air, 

Dawnville Rd. community. $700 

month. 706-965-5621 

Winter Special- 2 weeks. 

FREE - 1 yr. lease - 

Sweetwater Rd. 3 BR 2 BA, 

$145wk, $290dep. So. end of 

Murray Co off Hwy 225 S 1/2 + 

acre lots, beautiful country 

setting. Several to choose from. 

Sweetwater Rd., Chatsworth Hwy. 

225 Fm Chats Hwy. Take Hwy 225 

S 13 mi. Fm Calhoun, take Hwy 

225 N, 6 mi past Elks Golf 

Course, 1 mi N. of 4-way at 

Nickelsville. 706-279-1380 wkdys 

9-5:30 

753 Condos For Rent 

For Sale or lease. 2 bd, 2.5 bath. 

Gated community & swimming 

pool. Starting $900 mon (includes 

monthly 

fees) 

daltoncustomhomeconstruction.co 

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706-673-2121 or 706-581-2778 

Lease or Lease Purchase. New 

condo’s. N. Summit. 2 & 3 bedr, 

single level w/garage. Gas 

fireplace, hardwood floors, pool, 

clubhouse, fenced yard. $850 - 

$1050/mo. $800/dep. 706-463- 

1139 or 706-463-3392. 

756 Vacation Rentals 

DESTIN, FL GULF FRONT 

CONDO SPECIAL! 

APRIL/MAY 2009 . 2bdrm 2 bath. 

Platinum Unit. Fabulous Gulf 

Views. $850/wk plus tax Security 

deposit required. Call 706-459- 

4024 for details. 

778 

MOBILE HOMES 

Mobile Homes 

For Rent 

1 & 2 bdrm mobile homes & 

Apartments in Whitfield & Murray 

Co. $85 per week & up. Utilities 

furnished. 706-278-4048 

2 BR 1 BA 2012 -1 Abutment 

Rd. 2 BR 2 BA - 2111 B Dixie 

Hwy. $120 wk, $240 dep. 706- 

279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30. 

3 - 2 bd trailer $85/wk. Range & 

refrig., 2 ba. Hwy 225 N. 

Chatsworth 706-280-2618 or 

706-694-3388 

3 bedroom 1.5 bath doublewide 

on 1 acre of land. Lower Dug 

Gap Rd. $120 week, water 

included. 706-217-7807. 

Doublewide. 2003, Horton 

Marage. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 

27x56. $20,000. Call: 706-226- 

7018 or 706-277-3580 

GREAT DEALS! 2 & 3 BD 

homes, many w/ hdwd floors. 

Large lots & private pond. Pets 

welcome. Carbondale area. 

Cable/water/garbage 

service included $125/wk. 706- 

383-8123 

Move in Special! 1/2 Price. 

Quiet community. From $95 to 

$135 week. Utilities included. 

706-506-3561 or 678-910-5776 

SUPER SPECIAL! 

NO DEPOSIT Ringgold/Tunnel 

Hill area. Montgomery Trailer 

Park. Clean 1 & 2 BR 1 BA. Frig, 

stove, heat, air, water, w/d 

hookups, furniture, lawn & gar 

serv furnished. $50-$115 week. 

706-519-0632, 706-537-0307 or 

423-400-7901 

801 

TRANSPORTATION 

Antiques 

& Classics 

1968 Dodge Charger, Vibrant 

Red, Completely Restored, 454 

High Perf. Engine, Very Sharp 

$29,500. Call 706-618-7899 or 

706-695-8643. 

806 Domestic Autos 

2006 Cadillac STS, 6 cycl, nav. 

sunroof, heated & cooled seats, 

fully loaded, white diamond. 

29,000 miles. $19,900. 

706-277-3729 

Asking $1,900 for this 2001 Ford 

Taurus, automatic, V6, power 

windows & locks, power seats, 

CD player, and also has new 

tires. This car looks and runs 

great. Call 706-218-8021 

807 Import Autos 

1993 Toyota Tercel. Runs great. 

Gas saver! 4-speed. 4 new tires. 

$1100.00. Call 706-581-0010. 

2000 Mercedes Benz E320. 

Silver, auto, leather, clean 

condition, like new. Great on 

gas. 35K miles. $10,500. 561- 

512-7521. 

2000 Toyota Avalon XL. Very 

good condition. 103k miles. All 

power, leather. $6,400. OBO. 

Call 706-370-5174 

2001 - Jaguar, 4.0, S-Type. 

67,458 Miles. $ 12,200. 

Call: 706-217-8171 

2005 BMW M3 Cabriolet, 36k 

miles, 6 sp., still under factory 

warranty, carbon black on black, 

Harman/Kardon sound, 

navigation, heated seats, 

xenon headlights, garage kept, 

one owner, asking $43,000. 

Call: 706-260-1673 

2005 Super Charged Mini 

Cooper. 6 speed. Convertible. 

Premium Sport Package. One 

owner, 40,000 miles, 

Harmon/Kardon parking 

sensors, cruise control, auto air. 

Price $21,000. 

Call: 706-313-1119. 

2006 Suzuki Forenza Station 

wagon. Automatic. Power 

windows, cassette/CD, new tires 

& brakes. 116k. Excellent 

transportation $4,500. OBO 706- 

581-1837 anytime. 

Mercedes Benz 1999, Mint 

condition. Very clean. Model 

S320, black. $7,500. 561-676- 

3335 or 706-370-4649. 

Reduced. 2006 Honda Accord 

EXL. Like new. Gray. Full 

warranty. 36k miles. Loaded. 

Leather seats, XM radio, 

sunroof, 34mpg. Like new. Great 

Cond. Must sell! No tax! 

$17,999. obo. 

706-614-7719 

808 4-Wheel Drive 

1989 Ford Bronco XLT, auto. 

Red/white two tone. 4x4. Very 

clean. New BFG tires, new 

parts. $3,300 706-260-6547 

809 Trucks 

1999 Dodge Ram 3500 flat bed. 

Diesel. $7,500. Call: (706)673- 

4410 

2000 F-350 Crew Cab Dually. 

7.3 Power Stroke. 4x4. New 

tires. Choo Choo custom 

package. Only 74k miles. Very 

nice truck. $15,000. 706-280- 

8268 

2000 F-350 Crew Cab Dually. 

7.3 Power Stroke. 4x4. New 

tires. Choo Choo custom 

package. Only 74k miles. Very 

nice truck. $15,000. 706-280- 

8268 

809 Trucks 

2003 F-250, 4 door- crew cab. 

6.0 diesel, 94k miles. 4x4. 

Automatic, Excellent condition. 

Asking $18,500. 706-264-7883 

or 706-629-4000. 

2006 GMC 16 ft box truck Yellow. 

6.0 V8 Unleaded engine w/ 

300 hp. Auto. Transmission, 

A/C, ABS brakes, Power 

Steering, 2 Bucket Seats, 

AM/FM radio, 10 ft loading ramp 

w’ 1000lb capacity. Mileage 

ranging from 40,000 – 75,000 

miles. Sale price is $12,000 - 

$14000. Only method of 

payment accepted is certified 

check or money order. Sorry no 

financing Contact Josh Hall @ 

Penske, Day- 706-277-9477, 

Night- 423-304-6669 

2006 Ford F150 GTR show 

truck West Coast Customs 

conversion. American Racing 

chrome wheels. Each with 5 

wheel locks for theft prevention. 

Bed tauno cover. Only 1000 of 

these trucks were made in 

2006. "GTR" custom interior. 

XM radio, 6 disc CD changer. 

5.6L V8 engine. Dual exhaust. 

Sunroof. Rear sliding window. 

Keyless entry. Female driven. 

No wrecks. 

35,000 miles. 

Only used Full Synthetic Oil. 

For more info leave a message 

and we will return your call. 

706-695-9095 

E Mail for more info and photos 

gtrforsale@yahoo.com 

811 Utility Trailers 

2009 40 ft. goose neck flat bed 

trailer. Only used one time. 

$7,500. Call: 706-280-8268 

6x10 ft. Heavy Duty Trailer. 2’ 

high sides. Tie down ready. 

$700. Call:706-980-2674 after 

5pm. 

Mobile Concession stand (log 

cabin), great for carnival or fair, 

completely self contained, AC, 

Espresso cart, $15,000. 

Call: 706-581-4122 for details. 

812 Sport Utility Vehicle 

2005 GMC Envoy SLT. Loaded 

with every option available. 47K 

miles, 1-owner, garage kept, non 

smoker, $12,000. Call 706-280- 

8268 

2006 FORD Expedition - Eddie 

Bauer 2WD, leather, 3rd row 

power fold down, 6 disc CD 

changer, 22K miles, like new. 

Excellent condition. $24,900. 

706-422-8617 - 706-260-1029 

Asking $2,350 for this 96 Jeep 

Grand Cherokee with 6 cyl., 

4x4, CD player, power windows 

and locks, and also has new 

tires. This jeep looks and drives 

great. Call 706-218-8021 

Like new. 2004 Explorer. V8 

engine with 3rd row seat. Well 

maintained. Many extras. Only 

$9,500. Call: 706-280-1431 

Friday, March 27, 2009 3C 

RECREATION 

851 Boats 

1999 Tahoe Tracker Q5 boat. 

Inboard/Outboard Mercruiser 

5.0. Wood grain, stereo. Seats 

7. Sundeck, fish finder. Boat 

cover, bikini top, 2 man seat raft 

knee board. Garage kept. Price 

$8500 call 706-483-0704 

2001 21’ Bullet Bass Boat. 

225 Optimax. $15,500. 

Call: 706-226-2161 

2004 17' Generation John Boat 

Heavy duty trailer, 60 HP 

Johnson (97), tilt & trim, 55 

thrust Minn Kota. $4500 OBO. 

706-934-4757 or 

tathazar@yahoo.com .Will 

consider motorcycle cruiser 

trades. 

856 

The World’s Greatest Job!!! 

Wholesale distribution company seeking Ebay power 

sellers to sell wholesale products. Must be registered with 

ebay for at least 2 years and must have 60 positive feed 

backs or more with no more than 4 negative feedbacks. 

Also must be paypal verified. Great pays/hrs if you qualify. 

Apply Now!!! 

1-800-673-6213 Ext 401 

www.delcodistributionltd.com 

application@delcodistibutionltd.com 

Motorcycles 

& Bikes 

2004 Kawasaki Vulcan 2000. 

Fully loaded, Maroon, 1 owner, 

garage kept, 10K miles. 5 

helmets, extra back seat & road 

pegs. New tires. Price 

Reduced $500. to $7,500 obo. 

706-218-9183 

2006 CBR 600 F4I, blue. 5,300 

miles, jardine slip on pipe. 2 

years warranty remaining. Never 

been laid down. Excellent 

condition. $5,.400 or best offer. 

Call: 706-508-3955 

2006 Honda CRF230, electric 

start, excellent condition, like 

new, rode very little, Aftermarket 

pipe and stock pipe. $2,100. Call 

day 706-673-3500 or 

evening 706-259-9584. 

JUST LIKE NEW!! 

2006 FLHXI Harley Davidson 

Street Glide, vivid black, full 

Rinehart exhaust, passenger 

detachable back rest, AM/FM 

radio & CD player, security 

system, garage kept, only 4,300 

miles. Please call 706-581-3516. 

LEGAL NOTICES 

901 Public Notices 

NOTICE 

GEORGIA, WHITFIELD COUNTY 

PROBATE COURT 

TO: WHOM IT MAY CONCERN 

EZELL ADAMS has petitioned to be 

appointed Administrator(s) of the estate 

of RICKEY L ADAMS , deceased, of 

said County. (The petitioner has also 

applied for waiver of bond and/ or grant 

of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. 

§53-12-232.) All interested parties are 

hereby notified to show cause why said 

petition should not be granted. All 

objections to the petition must be in 

writing, setting forth the grounds of any 

objections, and must be filed with the 

court on or before APRIL 20, 2009. All 

pleadings/ objections must be signed 

before a notary public or before a 

probate court clerk, and filing fees must 

be tendered with your pleadings/ 

objections, unless you qualify to file as 

an indigent party. Contact probate court 

personal at the following address/ 

telephone number for the required 

amount of filing fees. If any objections 

are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at 

a later date. If no objections are filed, 

the petition may be granted without a 

hearing. 

SHERI H BLEVINS 

PROBATE JUDGE 

BY:SAMANTHA SPLAWN 

PROBATE DEPUTY CLERK 

205 N. SELVIDGE ST SUITE G 

DALTON, GA 30720 

706-275-7400 

03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 

NOTICE 

PROBATE COURT OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY 

Re: PETITION OF RON PAO FOR 

DISCHARGE AS EXECUTOR OF THE 

ESTATE OFKELLI C PAO, DECEASED. 

TO: the beneficiaries under the will, and 

to whom it may concern: 

This is to notify you to file objection, if 

there is any, to the above referenced 

petition, in this Court on or before APRIL 

6, 2009. 

BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections 

to the petition must be in writing, setting 

forth the grounds of any such 

objections. All pleadings/objections must 

be signed before a notary public or 

before a probate court clerk, and filing 

fees must be tendered with your 

pleadings/objections, unless you qualify 

to file as an indigent party. Contact 

probate court personnel at the following 

address/telephone number for the 

required amount of filing fees. If any 

objections are filed, a hearing will be 

scheduled at a later date. If no 

objections are filed, the petition may be 

granted without a hearing. 

WITNESS, the Hon. SHERI H. 

BLEVINS 

By:Samantha Splawn 

Deputy Clerk 

205 N. Selvidge St. 


706-275-7400 

03/27




IN THE SUPERIOR COURT 

MURRAY COUNTY 

STATE OF GEORGIA 

LARRY C. CLARK 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

FELIPE T. RAMIREZ, 

Defendant 

Civil Action File No. 08-CI-1636-A 

TO: FELIPE T. RAMIREZ 

769 Falcon Court 

Chatsworth, GA 30705 

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION 

By Order for service by publication 

dated the 28th day of January, 2009, 

you are hereby notified that on the 15th 

day of December, 2008, Plaintiff LARRY 

C. CLARK filed suit against you for the 

negligent operation of a motor vehicle 

that resulted in personal injuries to 

Plaintiff. 

You are required to file with the Clerk of 

the Superior Court, and to serve upon 

Plaintiff’s Attorney, RUSSELL G. 

KEENER of THE KEENER LAW FIRM, 

640 Village Trace, Building 16, Suite A, 

Marietta, GGA 30067, an Answer in 

writing within sixty (60) days of the date 

of the order for publication. 

WITNESS, the Honorable Robert B. 

Adams, Judge of the Superior Court. 

This 6th day of February, 2009. 

Connie Reed 

DEPUTY CLERK, SUPERIOR COURT 

FOR MURRAY COUNTY, GA 

SO ORDERED this day of January, 

2009. 

Judge of Superior Court, Murray County 

03/13 03/20 03/7 04/03 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED 

WHITFIELD COUNTY REZONING 

Notice is hereby given that the Dalton- 

Whitfield County Planning Commission 

and the Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners will conduct a joint 

public hearing to hear the request of 

William Conner to amend the Official 

Zoning Map of Whitfield County. 

The request is for a rezoning from 

Single Family Residential (R-2) to Rural 

Residential (R-3) of part of parcel 12- 

029-01-014 consisting of approximately 

+/- .60 of a 20.46 total acres for 

residential purposes . The subject tract 

is generally located at 1400 Wiggs Road 

Dalton, GA and otherwise known as a 

certain tract or parcel of land lying and 

being is Land Lot 49 of the 12th District 

and 3rd section of Whitfield County, 

Georgia, being Tracts 22, 23, and that 

portion of Tract 24 not encompassed by 

Wooded Hills Subdivision, as per plat of 

same recorded in Plat Book 9, Page 9, 

Clerk’s Office, Whitfield County, 

Georgia, of the property formerly owned 

by the U. S. Department, Agriculture, 

Forest Service, as per plat of same 

recorded in Plat Book 6, page 78 

(Cabinet A, Slide 220), Clerk’s Office, 

Whitfield County, Georgia, reference to 

which is herein made for a more full and 

complete description. 

ALSO: A certain tract or parcel of land 

lying and being in Land Lot 49 of the 

12th District and 3rd Section of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, being lots 4 through 8, 

inclusive, of Wooded Hills Subdivision, 

as per plat of same recorded in Plat 

Book 9, Page 9, Clerk’s Office, Whitfield 

County, Georgia, reference to which is 

herein made for a more full and 

complete description. 

The rezoning request will be heard at a 

public hearing conducted by the Dalton- 

Whitfield County Planning 

Commission and the Whitfield County 

Board of Commissioners on Monday, 

April 20th, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the 

Whitfield County Judicial Building, 

Annex 2, 214 W. King Street, 

Courtroom A. The Planning 

Commission will thereafter provide a 

written recommendation for 

consideration by the Whitfield County 

Board of Commissioners. Any person 

having an interest in this matter is 

hereby given notice to attend and 

present said interest. Any opponent to 

this proposed rezoning action, 

having contributed financially or 

materially, $250 or more to the 

political campaign of one or more of 

the Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners in the last two years, 

shall file a written disclosure 

statement with the Whitfield County 

Board of Commissioners, a minimum 

of five (5) days prior to the public 

hearing. 

Kim Woods, Chairman 

Dalton-Whitfield County Planning 

Commission 

Mike Babb, Chairman 

Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners 

03/27 

NOTICE 

PROBATE COURT OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY 

RE: PETITION OF GAIL SELF TO 

PROBATE IN SOLEMN FORM THE 

WILL OF MYRTIS M DECK, 

DECEASED, UPON WHICH AN 

ORDER FOR SERVICE WAS 

GRANTED BY THIS COURT ON , 2009. 

TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF 

MYRTIS M DECK, all interested parties 

and all and singular the heirs of said 

decedent, and to whom it may concern: 

This is to notify you to file objections if 

there are any, to the above referenced 

petition in this court on or before APRIL 

13, 2009. 

BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections 

to the petition must be in writing, setting 

forth the ground of any such objections. 

All pleadings/objections must be signed 



be tendered with Your 

pleadings/objections, unless you qualify 

to file as an indigent party. Contact 

probate court personnel at the following 

address/telephone number for THE 

REQUIRED AMOUNT OF FILING 

FEES. IF ANY OBJECTIONS ARE 

FILED A HEARING WILL BE scheduled 

at a later date. If no objections are filed, 


hearing. 

Sheri Blevins 

PROBATE JUDGE 

By: Samantha Splawn 

DEPUTY CLERK OF THE PROBATE 

COURT 

205 N SELVIDGE ST 

SUITE G 


706-275-7400 

03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE 

Under the provisions of the Georgia selfservice 

Storage Facility Act and 

pursuant to a storage agreement 

between North Whitfield Mini 

Warehouses, Owner, and the below 

named Occupants, the personal 

property of said Occupants will be sold 

at public sale at 1:30 p.m. on April 6, 

2009 at Owner’s premises, 2611 

Cleveland Hwy. Dalton, GA, to the 

highest bidder for cash: 

CHARLES PAGE DR15 FURNITURE, 

FISHING POLES 

KIMBERLY GARLAND DR04 

DRESSER, BIKE, HEATER 

03/20 03/27 

Notice 

The following abandoned vehicle will be 

sold at Whaley’s Towing Service, Inc., 

1909 M.L.King, Jr. Blvd., Dalton, Ga 

30721 on April 23, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. 

unless vehicles are redeemed within 10 

days. 

The vehicle as follows: 

2005 Harley Davidson Motor Cycle 

VIN # 1HD1FLW105Y688061 

03/27 04/03 


NOTICE 


PROBATE COURT 


BILLY DILLINGHAM has petitioned to 

be appointed Administrator(s) of the 

estate of EDWARD EUGENE 

WILLIAMS, SR., deceased, of said 

County. (The petitioner has also applied 

for waiver of bond and/ or grant of 

certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. 




















hearing. 


PROBATE JUDGE 





706-275-7400 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

El Meson, Inc d/b/a Cancun Mexican 

Restaurant has filed notice with the 

Secretary of State of Georgia to 

voluntarily dissolve the 

corporation effective immediately. 

03/27 04/03 

Mini warehouse sale. 2811 Airport 

Rd. Items will be sold on 4/1, 11:00 am. 

#18 Amelia Flores - exercise machine, 

toys. 

#34 Diane Kernea -Bed, chair, clothes. 

#35 David Chitwood - bed, dressor, 

clothes. 

#B35 Melissa Stines - Bed, chest of 

drawers, clothes. 

#B36 Terry King - Tools 

03/27 03/30 

NOTICE 


PROBATE COURT 


MELODY MCDERMOTT has petitioned 

to be appointed Administrator(s) of the 

estate of JOHN DOUGLAS 

MCDERMOTT, deceased, of said 

County. (The petitioner has also applied 

for waiver of bond and/ or grant of 

certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. 




















hearing. 


PROBATE JUDGE 





706-275-7400 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

NOTICE 


PROBATE COURT 


LARRY WENDELL OXFORD has 

petitioned to be appointed 

Administrator(s) of the estate of JANET 

DARLENE OXFORD , deceased, of 

said County. (The petitioner has also 

applied for waiver of bond and/ or grant 

of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. 




















hearing. 


PROBATE JUDGE 





706-275-7400 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE 

Under the provisions of the Georgia selfservice 

Storage Facility Act and 

pursuant to a storage agreement 

between Mini Warehouse of Pleasant 

Grove and Varnell, Owner, and the 

below named Occupants, the personal 

property of said Occupants will be sold 

at public sale April 13, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. 

at Owner’s premises, 108 Frontier Trail, 

Dalton, GA to the highest bidder for 

cash: 

PGE-4 Steven Seay fan, microwave, 

weedeater 

03/27 04/03 


SHERIFF’S SALE ADVERTISEMENT 

Pursuant to judgment and fi. fa. issued 

by the Magistrate Court of Whitfield 

County, 

Georgia in Civil Action No. CD190279, in 

favor of P & E Properties, Plaintiff, 

against EJB Enterprises, Inc., 

Defendant, the below described 

property will be sold at a public auction 

to the highest and best bidder for cash, 

between the legal hours of sale, said 

sale to occur at location of said property, 

to wit: 301 South Thornton Avenue, 

Dalton, Georgia 30720, on April 7, 2009, 

the first Tuesday in April: 

Modular building and all furniture and 

fixtures thereon and therein including 

but not limited to: eight (8) lighted menu 

boards (outside); two (2) flat toasters; 

one (1) Vulcan grill; one (1) Taylor ice 

cream machine soft serve (milk shake); 

one (1) refrigerated island; one (1) ice 

maker; three (3) fryers; one (1) double 

hood; one (1) single hood; one (1) 

condiment dispenser (refrigerated); one 

(1) warming tray; one (1) triple sink 

(stainless); one (1) hand sink; one (1) 

refrigerated prep table; one (1) 

refrigerated stand for grill; one (1) 

carbonated drink dispenser; one (1) 

walk-in cooler; one (1) walk-in freezer; 

three (3) storage shelves; one (1) 

8'ladder; one (1) fire suppression 

system; one (1) onion slicer; two (2) 

cash registers; two (2) paper towel 

dispensers; and eight (8) wall storage 

shelves. 


Said property having been found to be 

in the possession of the Defendant, and 

levied upon as the property of the 

Defendant in fi. fa. 

Notice of the levy and sale has been 

given the Defendant. 


Sheriff, Whitfield County 

02/27 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED 

WHITFIELD COUNTY REZONING 

Notice is hereby given that the Dalton- 

Whitfield County Planning Commission 

and the Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners will conduct a joint 

public hearing to hear the request of 

Whitfield Trailer Leasing INC. to 

amend the Official Zoning Map of 

Whitfield County. 

The request is for a rezoning from 

Mobile Home Park (MHP) to General 

Commercial (C-2) of parcel 13-101-01- 

005 consisting of approximately +/- 

14.73 total acres for storage of trailers. 

The subject tract is generally located at 

3900 S. Dixie Road Dalton, GA and 

otherwise known as Lots Nos. 38, 39, 

40, same being a part of Land Lot No. 

101 in the 13th District and 3rd Section 

of Whitfield County, Georgia, as appears 

of record in the Office of the Clerk of the 

Superior Court of Whitfield County, 

Georgia, and more particularly 

described as follows. 

Beginning at a point on the west side of 

U.S. Highway No. 41, same being 300 

feet north from the center of Swamp 

Creek; thence in a northwest direction 

and along said highway 630 feet; thence 

in a southwest direction and along the 

line of Lots No.37, and 38 a distance of 

630 feet; thence southeast a distance of 

300 feet to the northwest corner of Lot 

No. 41; thence northeast 630 feet to the 

point of beginning. And containing 9 

acres, more or less. 

TRACT II: A certain tract or parcel of 

land lying and being in Land Lot No. 

101, in the 13th District and 3rd Section 

of Whitfield County, Georgia, beginning 

at a point 300 feet north from the center 

of Swamp Creek on the west side of 

U.S. Highway No. 41; thence west 630 

feet along the property line of Cohutta 

Amusement Co. to an iron stake; thence 

south to the center of Swamp Creek; 

thence east along said creek to the west 

side of Highway No. 41; thence north 

along the west side of said highway to 

the point of beginning. 

The rezoning request will be heard at a 

public hearing conducted by the Dalton- 

Whitfield County Planning 

Commission and the Whitfield County 

Board of Commissioners on Monday, 

April 20th, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the 

Whitfield County Judicial Building, 

Annex 2, 214 W. King Street, 

Courtroom A. The Planning 

Commission will thereafter provide a 

written recommendation for 

consideration by the Whitfield County 

Board of Commissioners. Any person 

having an interest in this matter is 

hereby given notice to attend and 

present said interest. Any opponent to 

this proposed rezoning action, 

having contributed financially or 

materially, $250 or more to the 

political campaign of one or more of 

the Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners in the last two years, 

shall file a written disclosure 

statement with the Whitfield County 

Board of Commissioners, a minimum 

of five (5) days prior to the public 

hearing. 

Kim Woods, Chairman 

Dalton-Whitfield County Planning 

Commission 

Mike Babb, Chairman 

Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners 

03/27 

902 Mergers & Inc. 

NOTICE OF INTENT TO 

VOLUNTARILY DISSOLVE 

Notice is given that intent to dissolve 

ANDY WALKER TRUCKING, INC., a 

Georgia corporation with its registered 

office at 402 West Cuyler Street, Dalton, 

Georgia 30720 will be delivered to the 

Secretary of State for filing in 

accordance with the Georgia Business 

Corporation Code. Any person with a 

claim against the Corporation should 

deliver such claim by mail to Post Office 

Box 705, Dalton, Georgia 30722. The 

claim must be in writing, describe the 

nature of the claim and contain the 

name and address of the claimant. 

Except for claims that are contingent at 

the time of filing the Notice of Intent to 

Dissolve or that arise after the filing 

thereof, a claim against the Corporation 

not otherwise barred will be barred 

unless a proceeding to enforce the claim 

is commenced within two (2) years after 

the date of publication of this notice. 

AVRETT, PONDER & WITHROCK 

BY: /S/ WILLIAM A. PONDER 

Attorney for Andy Walker 

Trucking, Inc. 

03/20 03/27 

A Notice of Intent to Dissolve BAKER 

LOGISTICS, INC. a Georgia 

corporation, with its registered office at 

19 MARESCA DR. NE. Dalton, Georgia 

30721 will be delivered to the Secretary 

of State for filing in accordance with the 

Georgia Business Corporation Code. 

Persons with claims against said 

Corporation may present them by 

sending written notice setting forth the 

name of the claimant and the amount of 

the claim to 119 Maresca Dr. NE., 

Dalton, GA 30721. Except for claims that 

are contingent at the time of filing of the 

Notice of Intent to Dissolve or arise after 

the filing of the Notice of Intent to 

Dissolve, a claim against the corporation 

not otherwise barred will be barred 

unless a proceeding to enforce the claim 

is commenced within two (2) years after 

publication of this notice. 

03/20 03/27 

NOTICE OF INTENT TO 

INCORPORATE 

Notice is given that Articles of 

Incorporation which will incorporate 

GOLDEN DHOW, INC., will be 

delivered to the Secretary of State for 

filing in accordance with the Georgia 

Business Corporation Code. The initial 

registered office of the corporation will 

be located at 402 West Cuyler Street, 

Dalton, GA 30720, and its initial 

Registered Agent at such address is 

William A. Ponder. 

03/27 04/03 

Notice of Incorporation 

Notice is given that articles of 

incorporation which will incorporate 

Summit Packaging Inc., have been 

delivered to the Secretary of State for 

filing in accordance with the Georgia 

Business Corporation Code. The initial 

registered office of the Corporation is 

located at 225 West King Street, Dalton, 

GA 30720, and the initial registered 

agent at such address is Susan W. 

Bisson. 

SPONCLER & THARPE, LLC 

P.O. Box 398 

Dalton, Georgia 30722-0398 

By: Susan W. Bisson, Incorporator 

03/20 03/27 

902 Mergers & Inc. 

NOTICE OF INTENT TO VOLUNTARILY 

DISSOLVE A COMPANY 

Notice is given that a Statement of 

Commencement of Winding Up for 

CAUSBY 

MAFFETONE 

DEVELOPMENT, LLC, a Georgia 

company with its registered office at 110 

S. Pentz Street, Dalton, GA 30721, has 

been delivered to the Secretary of State 

for filing in accordance with the Article 

13 of the Operating Agreement and 

O.C.G.A. §14-11-602(b). 

Persons with claims against said 

company may present them by sending 

written notice setting forth the name of 

the creditor, the amount owed, the date 

the claim arose and the basis for the 

claim to: P.O. Box 1678, Dalton, Georgia 

30722-1678. Except for claims that are 

contingent at the time of the filing of the 

Certificate of Termination or that arise 

after the filing of the Statement of 

Commencement of Winding Up, a claim 

against the company not otherwise 

barred will be barred unless a 

proceeding to enforce the claim is 

commenced within two years after the 

publication of this notice. 

Causby Maffetone Development, LLC 

2011 A W. Crawford street 


03/27 04/03 

903 Divorce 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE 

COUNTY OF WHITFIELD 


AMY ELIZABETH CLARK 

Plaintiff 

v. 

JODY SHAWN CLARK 

Defendant 

CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 09CI859-A 

NOTICE OF SUMMONS 

TO: JODI SHAWN CLARK 

Defendant Named Above: 

You are hereby notified that the abovestyled 

action seeking a divorce was filed 

against you in said court on March 17, 

2009 and that by reason of an Order for 

Service of Summons by Publication 

entered by the court on March 17th, 

2009, you are hereby commanded and 

required to filed with the Clerk of said 

Court, and serve upon Karen Luffman 

Webb, plaintiff’s attorney, show address 

is P.O. Box 1726, Dalton, GA 30722- 

1726, an answer to the Complaint for 

Divorce within sixty (60) day of the date 

of the Order for Service of Summons by 

Publication. 

Witness the Honorable Robert Adams 

Judge of Whitfield County Superior 

Court. 

This 17th day of March, 2009 

Melica Kendrick 

Clerk, Superior Court of 

Whitfield County 

03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 

DIVORCE 

DEICIN MORENO 

v. 

HUGO SAUL FERNANDEZ 

TO: HUCO SAUL FERNANDEZ 


dated the 11th day of _March _, 2009, 

you are further notified that on the 19th 

day of March, 2009, Deicin Moreno filed 

a suit against you for divorce. You are 

required to file with the Clerk of Superior 

Court of Whitfield County, Georgia, and 

to serve upon Plaintiff’s attorney, L. 

Vincent Anderson, 1119 Trammell 

Street, Dalton, Georgia 30720, an 

answer in writing within sixty (60) days 

of the order for publication. 

Witness the Honorable 

Clerk of Superior Court. 

This the 19th day of March, 2009. 

Affordable Housing- 2001 Homestead 

singlewide on .56 ac. lot in 

Chatsworth. 3-2 needs several 

windows replaced, but otherwise 

acceptable. Good place to get started 

or good for investment. $23,500 

(92233) Call Marylee Williams 706- 

271-6660 

Brick Home with lots of potential in 

nice neighborhood in Rossville, GA. 

Home has two bedrooms and two 

baths on main level and full partially 

finished basement. Sold “AS IS” 

$54,900 . Call Larry Cochran 706- 

260-6005 (91260) 

Buy This three bedroom, two bath 

home for as little as 3% down, no 

appraisal, no mortgage insurance, 

when using Home Path financing by 

Fannie Mae. Call Larry for details 

706-260-6005 $84,900 (92180) 

Time To Open Up the pool for summer 

fun! Your kids will bring their friends 

to your house, so you’ll never have to 

worry about where your kids are. 4 / 

2.5 split level goes with the pool. 

Kitchen has been remodeled. Fpl in 

den and great area downstairs for teens 

or in-laws. Fenced yard in a great 

neighborhood. $145,900 (92241) Call 

Marylee Williams 706-271-6660 

Exciting Windstone golf community is 

home to this traditional built on 3 

levels for a total of 3500 s.f. 

approximately. 5/3.5 built in 2001. 

Brick/vinyl construction. Basement has 

rec room, 2 bedrooms, bath, and 

storage. Great for teens. Community 

swimming pool, walking paths, 

security gate in addition to 

championship golf course. Pack your 

clubs and bring me an offer! $219,900 


271-6660 

903 Divorce 

Prepared by: 

L. Vincent Anderson 

Attorney For Plaintiff 

1119 Trammell Street 

Dalton, Georgia 30720 

(706) 217-2450 

www.lawdalton.com 

03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR 

THE COUNTY OF WHITFIELD 


ESMERELDA RUBI GUERRERO 

PLAINTIFF 

VS. 

VICTOR HUGO GUERRERO 

DEFENDANT 

CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 09CI863-J 

NOTICE 

TO: VICTOR HUGO GUERRERO 

By order of the Court for service of 

publication dated March 17, 2009, you 

are hereby notified that on March 17, 

2009, ESMERELDA RUBI GUERRERO 

filed suit against you for divorce. You are 

required to file with the Clerk of the 

Superior Court, and to serve upon 

Plaintiff’s Attorney, MATTHEW D. 

THAMES, an answer in writing within 

sixty (60) days of March 17, 2009. 

WITNESS, the Honorable Jack Partain, 


Court. 

This the 17 day of March, 2009. 


Clerk, Superior Court of Whitfield 

County. 

03/27 03/31 0/03 04/10 

DIVORCE 

JOSE NATIVIDAD MARTINEZ 

v. 

MARIELENE KAY HILL 

TO: MARIELENE KAY HILL 


dated the 11th day of _March _, 2009, 

you are further notified that on the 19th 

day of March, 2009, Jose N. Martizez 

filed a suit against you for divorce. You 

are required to file with the Clerk of 


Georgia, and to serve upon Plaintiff’s 

attorney, L. Vincent Anderson, 1119 

Trammell Street, Dalton, Georgia 30720, 

an answer in writing within sixty (60) 

days of the order for publication. 

Witness the Honorable 

Clerk of Superior Court. 

This the 19th day of March, 2009. 

Prepared by: 

L. Vincent Anderson 

Attorney For Plaintiff 

1119 Trammell Street 


(706) 217-2450 

www.lawdalton.com 

HILL 

Great Buy- Great Potential. Three 

bedroom, 1.5 baths, brick ranch in nice 

are. Needs some TLC and repairs-Only 

$52,250. Call Larry for details 706- 

260-6005 (92042) 

Move-in Ready Home with three 

bedrooms, two baths. Special financing 

available through Home Path with no 

appraisal and no mortgage insurance. 

Call Larry Cochran for details 706- 

260-6005, Only $69,600 (92123) 

Large House, Small Price! Split 

foyer with beautiful ceramic tile 

flooring. Three bedrooms, two baths 

on upper level. Two rooms and bath 

on lower level. Available for special 

financing through Home Path. Call 

Larry for details 706-260-6005 

$96,900 (92122) 

Country Home with 3 acres. all brick 

ranch/bsmt. Bonus-this property has a 

tennis court! 3/2 with huge den with 

Fpl, eat-in kitchen, and single CP. 750 

s.f. unfinished bsmt storage with single 

garage door. Lots of room for a 

workshop. $149,900 (91947) Call 


Mini Farm in the heart of Ringgold. 

1.62 acres comes with this all brick 

traditional. Situated between 

Battlefield Pkwy and Cloud Springs 

Rd. 1994 construction with large 

rooms, master on ML, 2 more 

bedrooms upstairs. Lots of hardwood 

floors and pocket doors. Rock 

fireplace, hot tub on deck, sunroom. 

Well maintained and will serve you 

well for years to come. $247,000 

(91037) Marylee Williams 706-271- 

6660 

903 Divorce 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF 

WHITFIELD COUNTY 


CAROLINE CLAUDELLE CURTIS 

LARA 

V 

MIGUEL ANGEL LARA 

TO: MIGUEL ANGEL LARA 


By Order for service by Publication 

dated the 13th day of March, 2009, 

Caroline Claudelle Curtis Lara filed suit 

against you for Divorce. 

You are required to file with the Clerk of 

the Superior Court, and to serve upon 

Plaintiffs Attorney, Dianne Cook. P.O. 

Box 2473, 101 N. Thornton Ave. Suite 

222, Dalton, GA. 30722-2473 an Answer 

in writing within six (60) days of the date 

of the Order for Publication. 

WITNESS, the Honorable Robert 

Adams, Judge of this Superior Court. 

This 13th day of March, 2009. 


Clerk of the Superior Court 

03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF 



FAVIOLA JACQUELYN REYES-FAVELA 

Plaintiff 

Vs. 

NOEL REYES-FAVELA 

Defendant 

Civil Action File No. 09-CI733-M 


To Noel Reyes-Favela, Defendant 

Civil Action No. 09-CI-733-M 

By order of the court for service by 

publication dated the 9th day of March, 

2009 you are hereby notified that on the 

5th day of March, 2009, Faviola 

Jacquelyn Reyes-Favela filed suit 

against you for divorce in the Superior 

Court of WHITFIELD County, Georgia. 

You are hereby required to file with the 

Clerk of the Superior Court of Whitfield 

County, Georgia and to serve upon 

Plaintiffs attorney, James E. Toland, Jr., 

Attorney at Law. P.O. Box 488, Dalton, 

Georgia 30722-0488, an answer in 

writing within sixty (60) days of the 

Order for Publication. 

Witness, Chief Judge of the Superior 

Court of Whitfield County, Georgia. 

This 13 day of March, 2009. 


Clerk of Superior Court 

Whitfield County, Georgia 

03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 




TERI ELAINE SCHRADER 

Plaintiff 

v. 

FREDERICK ROY SCHRADER 

Defendant 

CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 09CI711-B 


TO: FREDERICK ROY SCHRADER 




against you in said court on March 4, 

2009 and that by reason of an Order for 


entered by the court on March 4th, 

2009, you are hereby commanded and 


Court, and serve upon Karen Luffman 

Webb, plaintiff’s attorney, show address 

is P.O. Box 1726, Dalton, GA 30722- 

1726, an answer to the Complaint for 

Divorce within sixty (60) day of the date 

of the Order for Service of Summons by 

Your Economic Stimulus Awaits at 

this address. If you act now, you’ll 

have a nice tax deduction when you 

file your 2009 tax return. Built in 1990 

near the mills. 3-1.5 in cul-de-sac. Stop 

enriching your landlord. $54,500 


271-6660 

What a Buy! Convenient to Calhoun 

and Dalton. Three bedrooms, 2.5 bath 

condo in great condition. Tennis and 

swim association. Special financing 

with no mortgage insurance. No 

appraiser. $79,900 (92055) Call Larry 

Cochran 706-260-6005 

Close to I-75 in Tunnel Hill. Pleasant 

neighborhood close to New Hope 

schools. 3/2 on large .75 ac fenced lot. 

2 more rooms and powder room 

roughed in bsmt. Double oversized 

garage. Finishing bsmt would give 

1820 total sq. ft. Lots of house for a 

tiny price $99,900. (92033) Call 


Private Setting for this brick/vinyl 

ranch in Mill Creek Estates. Huge 

bonus room is great for teens or 

entertaining. 3/2 with vaulted ceiling in 

great rm, trey ceiling in master 

bedroom. Harwood in DR, Great Rm, 

hall and 2 bedrooms. Eat-in kitchen 

with covered porch on back. This is the 

only home available in this lovely 

subdivision. $184,900 (90336) 


Beautiful Like-new Home $269,900 

Three bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, family 

room with fireplace, sun room, bonus 

room, formal living room and dining 

room. Special financing by Home Path 

with as little as 3% down - no 

mortgage insurance. Call Larry for 

details. (92195) Call Larry Cochran 

706-260-6005 

Belk Realtors 

610 S. Glenwood Ave, Ste 102 • Dalton, GA 30721 

Phone: 706-278-6800 • Fax: 706-226-6994



903 Divorce 

Publication. 

Witness the Honorable William T. Boyett 


Court. 



Clerk, Superior Court of 


03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

904 Name Change 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT 


In re the Name Change of: 

Petitioner: Lance Edward Smith 

Civil Action File No: 09CI682-B 

NOTICE OF PETITIOIN TO CHANGE 

NAME 

Notice is hereby given that Lance 

Edward Smith, the undersigned, filed 

his/her petition to the Superior Court of 

County, Georgia, on the 2nd day of 

March, 2009, praying for change in the 

name of petitioner from Lance Edward 

Smith to Lance Edward Moran. 

Notice is hereby given pursuant to law to 

any interested or affected party to 

appear in said Court and to file 

objections to such name change. 

Objections ust be filed with said Court 

within 30 days of the filing of said 

petition. 

This 2 day of March, 2009. 

Lance Edward Smith 

1023 Peach Orchard Dr. 

Cohutta GA 30710 

03/06 03/13 03/20 03/27 

905 Guardianship 




IN RE: ADOPTION OF MADISON AMIL 

BALTIMORE, Minor Child, by SUSAN 

LYNN SMITH AND VERNON LEE 

SMITH 

DOCKET NO. 1449-B 


TO: Jennifer Elaine Patrick, Mother 

Civl Action No. 1449-B 

By order of the court for service by 

publication dated the 25th day of 

February, 2009, you are hereby notified 

that on the 22nd day of December, 

2008, Susan Lynn Smith and Vernon 

Lee Smith filed a Petition to adopt a 

minor child in the Superior Court of 

Whitfield County, Georgia. You are 

hereby required to file with the Clerk of 

the Superior Court of Whitfield County, 

Georgia and to serve upon Petitioner’s 

attorney, James E. Toland, Jr., Attorney 

at Law, P.O. Box 488, Dalton, Georgia 

30722-0488, an answer in writing within 

sixty (60) days of the Order for 

Publication. 

Witness, Chief Judge of the Superior 




Clerk of Superior Court 

Whitfield County, Georgia 

03/06 03/13 03/20 03/27 

906 

Debts & 

Creditors 



NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND 

CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of EMORY M AARON 

All debtors ad creditors of the Estate 

EMORY M AARON of Dalton, Whitfield 

County, Georgia, are hereby notified to 

render their demands and payments to 

the Personal Representative(s) of the 

estate, according to law, and all persons 

indebted to saidestate are required to 

make immediate payment to the 

Personal Representative(s). 

This 27 day of Feb, 2009. 

Personal Representative: 

JIM WILBANKS 

PO BOX 475 

COHUTTA, GA 30710 

03/06 03/13 03/20 03/27 




CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of PAMELA ANN BARRETT 

All debtors and creditors of the Estate of 

PAMELA ANN BARRETT deceased, 

late of Dalton, Whitfield County, 

Georgia, are hereby notified to render 

their demands and payments to the 

Personal Representative of the Estate, 

according to law, amd all persons 

indebted to said Estate are required to 


personal representative. This the 24th 

day of March, 2009. 


C.Lee Daniel, III 

Whitifeld County Administrator 

P.O. Box 1105 


03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 

STATE OF GEORGIA WHITFIELD 

COUNTY 


CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of SARA HURTADO CRUZ 

All debtors and creditors of the Estate 

SARA HURTADO CRUZ, deceased, late 

of Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia are 

hereby notified to render their demands 

and payments to the Personal 

Representative(s) of the estate 

according to law, and all persons 

indebted to said estate are required to 



This 26 DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2009 


JAIME HURTADO 

3117 CIRCLE VIEW DR SE 


03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 




CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of JANICE ACREE DUKES 

All 

debtors & creditors of the estate of 

JANICE ACREE DUKES deceased, late 

of Whitfield County, Georgia, are hereby 

notified to render in their demands and 

payments to the Personal 

Representative(s) of the estate, 







ERNEST M. ACREE 

PO BOX 39 


03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 


CREDITORS 


All creditors of the Estate of JAMES 

EDWARD DYE, Deceased, late of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, are hereby 

notified to render their demands to the 

Personal Representatives according to 

law, and all persons indebted to said 

estate are required to make immediate 

payment to the Personal 

Representatives. 


Karla J. Dye 

Personal Representative 

1752 N. Boyd Drive 

Rocky Face, GA 30740 

03/06 03/13 03/20 03/27 

906 

Debts & 

Creditors 




CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of MAE DILLARD HAWKINS 

All 


MAE DILLARD HAWKINS deceased, 

late of Whitfield County, Georgia, are 

hereby notified to render in their 

demands and payments to the Personal 






This 20th day of FEB., 2009 


ALANA NICOLE SELF 

211 NORTH GRIMES ST 


03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of LLOYD 

BRUCE HILLIARD late of Whitfield 


render in their demands to the 

undersigned according to law, and all 

persons indebted to said estate are 

required to make immediate payment. 

Date: February 26, 2009 

JOANNE SHELTON HILLIARD 


Address: 

278 Carbondale Road 


03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 




CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of HOMER BUD HOLLAND 

All 


HOMER BUD HOLLAND deceased, late 

of Whitfield County, Georgia, are hereby 

notified to render in their demands and 

payments to the Personal 








CHRIS B HOLLAND 

401 KINNETT RD 


03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of VIRGIA 

MAE SWIFT DYER HUGGINS of 

Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, are 

hereby notified to render in their 

demands and payments to the Personal 






This MARCH 20, 2009 

GWYNETH MILLER 

PATSY L. NOLES 

Personal Representative(s) 

3105 LANGLEY DR 

TUNNEL HILL, GA 30755 

03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 


CREDITORS 


All creditors of the Estate of JOHN H. 

HUDSON, Deceased, late of Whitfield 


render their demands to the Personal 

Representatives according to law, and 

all persons indebted to said estate are 

required to make immediate payment to 

the Personal Representatives. 


JOHN W. HUDSON 


4079 E. Jimmy Drive 

Rocky Face, GA 30740 

03/06 03/13 03/20 03/27 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of WILMA 

FAYE KENNEDY of Dalton, Whitfield 


render in their demands and payments 

to the Personal Representative(s) of the 






ELIZABETH PAYNTER 


2612 E. HILLVIEW DR. 





CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of EARL TAYLOR MCGHEE 

All debtors and creditors of the Estate 

EARL TAYLOR MCGHEE of 

Dalton,Whitfield County, Georgia, are 

hereby notified to render their demands 

and payments to the Personal 

Representatives(s) of the estate are 


the Personal Representative(s). 

This 23rd day of March, 2009. 


KATHRYN HOLMES MCGHEE AND 

STEVEN FEHLEMBERG 

806 ATKINSON DR 

DALTON,GA 30720 




CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of THOMAS TRAVILLION 

MCTEE 

All 


THOMAS TRAVILLION MCTEE 

deceased, late of Whitfield County, 

Georgia, are hereby notified to render in 


Personal Representative(s) of the 





This 18th day of MARCH 2009 


JEFF SHEPHERD 

300 N CASTLE RD 


03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 




CREDITORS 

All creditors of the ESTATE OF 

DOROTHY GOSS NEAL, late of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, 

are hereby 

notified to render in your demands to the 



required to make immediate payment 

DATE: MARCH 9, 2009 

LINDA FAY ROADERICK 


3927 HURRICANE RD 

ROCKY FACE GA 30740 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of HILDA L. 

WALDEN of Dalton, Whitfield County, 









FRED J. WALDEN 


1306 COKER DR. 


906 

Debts & 

Creditors 




CREDITORS 

RE: Estate of CORA EVELYN A. 

PRATHER 

All 


CORA EVELYN A. PRATHER, 

deceased, late of Whitfield County, 








This 3rd day of 2009 


GEORGE TERRY DEDMON 

2122 Holly Terrace, Apt. 1 


02/27 03/06 03/13 03/20 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of RICHARD 

DOWELL RIDLEY late of WHITFIELD 


render in their demands to the 



required to make immediate payment. 

Date: March 17, 2009 

FRANK CARILE 


4998 DOGWOOD VALLEY RD 

TUNNEL HILL, GA 30755 

03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of BETTY 

RUTH SHEA, deceased, late of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, are hereby 

notified to render in their demands to the 




the undersigned. 

Kathy Shea Spence and Lori Hartsfield 

Co-Executrixes 

203 Old Lake Road 

Tunnel Hill, Georgia 30755 

Richard W. Andrews 

Sponcler & Tharpe, LLC 

P. O. Box 398 


03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of JANET P. 

SMITHEY of Dalton, Whitfield County, 









HELEN M. FOWLER 


106 DRIFTWOOD LN 


03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 


CREDITORS 

All creditors of the estate of DANNY 

LEE WITT late of Whitfield County, 


their demands to the undersigned 



make immediate payment. 

Date March 2, 2009 

LISA L. WITT 

Personal Representative(s) 

Address: 

2716 OSPREY DRIVE 

DALTON GA 30721 

907 

DUI 

Convictions 

DUI CONVICTION 2ND OR 

SUBSEQUENT 

CASE NO 09-CR-1378-B 

NAME: ELISEO MONTELONGO 

CASAS 

DATE OF ARREST: 09/13/08 

TIME 7:44 PM 

PLACE OF ARREST: SHERIDAN 

AVENUE/ROOSEVELT DRIVE 

DISPOSITION OF CASE: 

DEFENDANT SHALL PERFORM 240 

HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE. 

OBTAIN A CLINICAL EVALUATION AS 

DEFINED BY OCGA SECTION 40-5-1 

COMPLETE DUI ALCOHOL OR DRUG 

USE RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM. 

SUBMIT TO RANDOM DRUG TESTING 

AT 

OWN EXPENSES AS DIRECTED 

BY THE PROBATION OFFICER. 

03/27 


SUBSEQUENT 


NAME: ROBERTS, JONATHAN 

MICHAEL 

DATE OF ARREST:012/26/08 

TIME 7:44 PM 

PLACE OF ARREST: 

HWY286/DAWNVILLE 

BEAVERDALE 

ROAD 








SUBMIT TO RANDOM DRUG TESTING 

AT 

OWN EXPENSES AS DIRECTED 

BY THE PROBATION OFFICER. 

03/27 


SUBSEQUENT 


NAME: RUSSELL KEITH LANIER 

DATE OF ARREST:09/18/2008 

TIME 

PLACE OF ARREST: 

GLENWOOD 

AVE. 







907 

DUI 

Convictions 


COMPLY WITH O.C.G.A SECTION 42- 

8-12, PERTAINING TO IGNITION 

INTERLOCK DEVICES AND RELATED 

PROVISIONS. 

ALSO ATTEND AND COMPLY WITH 

DRUG AND/OR ALCOHOL 

COUNSELING. 

03/27 

908 Bids 

INVITATION TO BID 

The City of Dalton shall receive bids at 

the Finance Department at City Hall, 

300 W. Waugh Street, Dalton, GA from 

qualified General Contractors until 3:00 

PM local time on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 

for all material, labor, tools and 

equipment necessary to complete the 

project in accordance with the Contract 

Documents entitled Dalton Freight 

Depot – Phase II, Interior Build-out 

dated March 19, 2009. Project location 

is 305 South Depot Street, Dalton, GA. 

All bids shall be submitted on the 

prescribed Bid Form included in the 

Contract Documents. 

The Bid Form 

must be originally signed in ink and 

submitted along with the Bid Bond in 

triplicate. 

Bids will be publicly opened 

and read at 3:00 PM local time on 

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the Finance 

Department at City Hall, 300 W. Waugh 

Street, Dalton, GA. Bidding documents 

may be obtained at the office of 

Carlson-Jones Architects, 107 N. Pentz 

Street, Dalton, GA 30720, (706) 275- 

8139. Qualified General Contractors 

shall receive one set of Contract 

Documents (one set of drawings and 

one project manual) for bidding 

purposes at the office of the Architect for 

a non-refundable deposit, by cash or 

certified check, in the amount of 

$100.00. Sets of Contract Documents 

shall be shipped upon request for an 

additional charge of $40.00. Contract, if 

awarded, will be on a lump sum basis. 

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of 

thirty (30) days after time and date of 

opening. Each bid must be 

accompanied with a BID BOND (Bond 

only, certified checks or other forms are 

not acceptable) in an amount equal to 

5% of the base bid, payable to the 

OWNER and issued by a Surety 

authorized to do business in the State of 

Georgia, in order to guarantee that the 

bidder will enter into a contract to 

construct the project strictly within the 

terms and conditions stated in this bid 

and the Contract Documents, should the 

construction contract be awarded to him. 

The successful bidder shall be required 

to furnish a bond for the faithful 

performance on the contract and a bond 

to secure payment of all claims for 

material furnished and/or labor 

performed in performance of the project, 

both in an amount equal to 100% of the 

Contract Price. 

Both bonds shall be 

issued by a Corporate Surety authorized 

to do business in the State of Georgia. 

All bids submitted shall remain open for 

a period of (30) days after the date of 

bid opening. 

The owner reserves the 

right to reject any or all bids and to 

waive technicalities and informalities. 

03/20 03/27 

The Whitfield County Board of 

Commissioners will receive sealed bids 

until11:00 AM EDT on April 2, 2009 for 

the following: 

ITB#009-09-200 – CAB TRACTORS 

WITH BOOM & SIDE MOWERS 

The bid will be opened and read publicly 

in the Board of Commissioners Office. 

Anyone interested is invited to attend. 

Whitfield County reserves the right to 

accept or reject any or all bids for any 

reason, to waive technicalities, and to 

make an award deemed in its best 

interest. The Invitation to Bid document 

is available at HYPERLINK 

"http://www.whitfieldcountyga.com" 

www.whitfieldcountyga.com or at the 

Board of Commissioners Office, 301 

West Crawford Street, Dalton Georgia. 

03/21 03/27 

909 Trade Names 

Notice is hereby given that the 

business to be operated at 102 Rhythm 

Drive, Dalton, Georgia 30721 in the 

trade name of GT Tax Services is owned 

ad carried on by G&T Services of 

Dalton, Inc., whose address is 102 

Rhythm Drive, Dalton, Georgia 30721, 

and that the statement relating thereto 

required by Georgia Code Section 10-1- 

490 has been filed with the Clerk of 


Georgia. 

AVRETT, PONDER & WITHROCK 

BY:/s/WILLIAM A PONDER 

03/27 04/03 

910 Foreclosures 

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER 


Because of default in the payment of the 

indebtedness, secured by a Security 

Deed executed by Rudy Flores to 

Mortgage Electronic Registration 

Systems, Inc. dated July 14, 2005 in the 

amount of $132,000.00, and recorded in 

Deed Book 4554, Page 106-125, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Records; as 

last transferred to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. by 

assignment; the undersigned, Mortgage 

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. 

pursuant to said deed and the note 

thereby secured, has declared the entire 

amount of said indebtedness due and 

payable and pursuant to the power of 

sale contained in said deed, will on the 

first Tuesday in April, 2009 , during the 

legal hours of sale, at the Courthouse 

door in Whitfield County, sell at public 

outcry to the highest bidder for cash, the 

property described in said deed to-wit: 

All that tract or parcel of land lying and 

being in Land Lot 278 of the 11th District 

and 3rd Section of Whitfield County, 

Georgia; and being Lot 18B of Lexington 

Place Subdivision, Phase II, as per plat 

recorded in Plat Cabinet C, Slide 1955, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Records, 

which plat by reference is incorporated 

herein and made a part hereof. 

which has the property address of 3029 

Alpharetta Drive NW, Dalton, Georgia., 

together with all fixtures and other 

personal property conveyed by said 

deed. 

The sale will be held subject to any 

unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-ofway, 

easements, protective covenants or 

restrictions, liens, and other superior 

matters of record which may affect said 

property. 

The sale will be conducted subject (1) to 

confirmation that the sale is not 

prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy 

Code and (2) to final confirmation and 

audit of the status of the loan with the 

holder of the security deed. 

Notice has been given of intention to 

collect attorneys' fees in accordance 

with the terms of the note secured by 

said deed. 

Said property will be sold as the 

property of Rudy Flores and the 

proceeds of said sale will be applied to 

the payment of said indebtedness, the 

expense of said sale, all as provided in 

said deed, and the undersigned will 

execute a deed to the purchaser as 

provided in the aforementioned Security 

Deed. 


Systems, Inc. 

Attorney in Fact for 

Rudy Flores 


Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/thayle 

McCurdy & Candler, L.L.C. 

(404) 373-1612 

www.mccurdycandler.com 

File No. 09-03527 /CONV 

THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A 

DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS 

ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. 

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL 

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 

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By virtue of a Power of Sale contained in 

that certain Security Deed from Christy 

B. Allen to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely 

as nominee for Market Street Mortgage 

Corporation, dated January 24, 2007, 

recorded January 30, 2007, in Deed 

Book 4935, Page 073, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Records, said Security Deed 

having been given to secure a Note of 

even date in the original principal 

amount of One Hundred Forty-Nine 

Thousand Nine Hundred and 00/100 

dollars ($149,900.00), with interest 

thereon as provided for therein, said 

Security Deed having been last sold, 

assigned and transferred to 

Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP, 

there will be sold at public outcry to the 

highest bidder for cash before the 

courthouse door of 

Whitfield County, 

Georgia, within the legal hours of sale 

on the first Tuesday in April, 2009, all 

property described in said Security 

Deed including but not limited to the 

following described property: 

ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF 

LAND LYING AND BEING IN LAND 

LOT 2 OF THE 12TH DISTRICT AND 

3RD SECTION OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING LOT 

37 OF THE PINE VALLEY 

SUBDIVISION OF TUNNEL HILL NO. 5 

AS PER PLAT OF SAID SUBDIVISION 

RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 8, PAGE 

14, PLAT RECORDS OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING 

MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED 

AS FOLLOWS: 

COMMENCING AT A POINT ON THE 

EAST SIDE OF CRAWFORD 

TERRACE, SAID POINT OF 

BEGINNING BEING 172 FEET NORTH 

OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF 

THE INTERSECTION OF THE RIGHT- 

OF-WAY OF CRAWFORD TERRACE 

AND CRAWFORD DRIVE, AS 

MEASURED ALONG THE EAST SIDE 

OF SAID CRAWFORD TERRACE; 

THENCE NORTH 7 DEGREES 49 

MINUTES EAST, 120 FEET TO AN 

IRON PIN CORNER; THENCE SOUTH 

82 DEGREES 11 MINUTES EAST, 150 

FEET TO AN IRON PIN CORNER; 

THENCE SOUTH 7 DEGREES, 49 

MINUTES WEST, 120 FEET TO AN 

IRON PIN CORNER; THENCE NORTH 

82 DEGREES 11 MINUTES WEST 150 

FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. 

Said property is commonly known as 

404 Crawford Terrace, Tunnel Hill, GA 

30755. 

The indebtedness secured by said 

Security Deed has been and is hereby 

declared due because of default under 

the terms of said Security Deed and 

Note, including but not limited to the 

nonpayment of the indebtedness as and 

when due. The indebtedness remaining 

in default, this sale will be made for the 

purpose of paying the same, all 

expenses of the sale, including 

attorneys` fees and all other payments 

provided for under the terms of the 

Security Deed and Note. 

Said property will be sold subject to the 

following items which may affect the title 

to said property: all zoning ordinances; 

matters which would be disclosed by an 

accurate survey or by an inspection of 

the property; any outstanding taxes, 

including but not limited to ad valorem 

taxes, which constitute liens upon said 

property; special assessments; all 

outstanding bills for public utilities which 

constitute liens upon said property; all 

restrictive covenants, easements, rightsof-way 

and any other matters of record 

superior to said Security Deed. 

To the 

best of the knowledge and belief of the 

undersigned, the party in possession of 

the property is Christy B. Allen or 

tenants(s). 






holder of the Security Deed. THE 

ABOVE LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A 

DEBT COLLECTOR. ANY 

INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE 

USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 

COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS 

SERVICING, LP 

as Attorney in Fact for 

CHRISTY B. ALLEN 

Lender Contact: COUNTRYWIDE, Loss 

Mitigation Dept., 7105 Corporate Drive, 

PTX-A-274, Plano, TX 75024 

TELEPHONE NUMBER: 800-669-6087 

Attorney Contact: Adorno & Yoss LLC, 

3740 Davinci Court, Suite 100, 

Norcross, GA 30092 

TELEPHONE NUMBER: (888) 890- 

5309 ADORNO FILE NO. 215400.6451 

WWW.ADORNO.COM/ATLDOCS/SALE 

S.HTML 

AD RUN DATES 03/13/2009, 

03/20/2009, 03/27/2009, 04/03/2009 

IN THE JUVENILE COURT FOR THE 



IN THE INTEREST OF: 

A.R. 

CASE NO. 08-0-2332 

SEX: 

MALE 

AGE: 

1 YEAR 

DOB: 01/23/2008 

A CHILD UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE 


PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE 

GEORGIA STATE LAW 

TO: JOSE GUADALUPE, OR 

ANY UNKNOWN, UNNAMED FATHER 

You are hereby notified that a 

Deprivation Petition was filed by the 

Whitfield County Department of Family 

and Children’s Services in the Juvenile 


An 

oral Motion for Non-Reunification was 

also made at this proceeding on behalf 

of the Whitfield County Department of 

Family and Children Services. A 

provisional hearing was held on March 

2, 2009 and a Provisional order was 

entered on March 2, 2009. Pursuant to 

O.C.G.A. 15-11-39.2, you are ordered to 

appear at the final hearing in the matter 

which is set for April 29, 2009 at 9:30 

a.m. at the Whitfield County Juvenile 

Court in Dalton, Georgia, located at 205 

North Selvidge Street, Dalton, Georgia 

30720. You may obtain a copy of the 

petition from the Clerk of Juvenile Court. 

If you do not appear at the final hearing, 

the provisional order of said child will 

become final and a Final Order will be 

filed in this Court in regard to the abovenamed 

child in the above-styled case. 

THE RESPONDENT IS HEREBY 

CONSIDERED NOTIFIED AND 

SERVED BY PUBLICATION 

PURSUANT TO GEORGIA STATE LAW 

AND IS REQUIRED TO NOTIFY THE 

CLERK OF WHITFIELD COUNTY 

UPON RECEIVING SAID NOTICE. 

WITNESS the Honorable Connie 

Blaylock, Judge of said Court. 


Hon. Sean Kean, Clerk 

Whitfield County Juvenile Court 

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DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO 

COLLECT A DEBT. ANY 



Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale 

contained in a Security Deed given by 

Hugo H. Alvarez to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee 

for Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, 

dated September 15, 2004, recorded in 

Deed Book 4333, Page 129, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Records, as last 

transferred to Wachovia Mortgage 

Corporation by assignment to be 

recorded in the Office of the Clerk of 

Superior Court of 


Georgia Records, conveying the afterdescribed 

property to secure a Note in 

the original principal amount of ONE 

HUNDRED FOUR THOUSAND AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($104,000.00), with 

interest thereon as set forth therein, 






on the first Tuesday in April, 2009, the 


SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO 

AND MADE A PART HEREOF 

The debt secured by said Security Deed 

has been and is hereby declared due 

because of, among other possible 

events of default, failure to pay the 

indebtedness as and when due and in 

the manner provided in the Note and 

Security Deed. 

The debt remaining in 

default, this sale will be made for the 

purpose of paying the same and all 

expenses of this sale, as provided in 

Security Deed and by law, including 

attorneys fees (notice of intent to collect 

attorneys fees having been given). 

Said property will be sold subject to any 

outstanding ad valorem taxes (including 

taxes which are a lien, but not yet due 

and payable), any matters which might 

be disclosed by an accurate survey and 

inspection of the property, any 

assessments, liens, encumbrances, 

zoning ordinances, restrictions, 

covenants, and matters of record 

superior to the Security Deed first set 

out above. 

The entity that has full authority to 

negotiate, amend, and modify all terms 

of the mortgage with the debtor is: 

Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, 1100 

Corporate Center Drive, Raleigh, NC 

27607, 8666428608. Please 

understand that the secured creditor is 

not required by law to negotiate, amend, 

or modify the terms of the mortgage 

instrument. 

To the best knowledge and belief of the 


the property is Hugo H. Alvarez or a 

tenant or tenants and said property is 

more commonly known as 110 Avis 

Drive, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 







Wachovia Mortgage Corporation 


Hugo H. Alvarez 

McCalla Raymer, LLC 

1544 Old Alabama Road 

Roswell, Georgia 30076 

www.foreclosurehotline.net 

MR/sm01 4/7/09 

Our file no. 52496708-FT1 

EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot No. 127 of the 12th 

District and 3rd Section of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, being Lot Nos. 86 and 

87 of McCulley Subdivision, Plat 4, as 

per plat of same recorded in Plat Book 4 

Page 5, Whitfield County, Georgia land 

records, being more particularly 

described as follows: 

Beginning at the northwest corner of the 

intersection of the right of way line of 

Brenda Drive with the right of way line of 

Avis Drive; thence west along the north 

side of the right of way line of said 

Brenda Drive, 200.00 feet to an iron pin; 

thence north 200.00 feet to a fence 

corner; thence east 200.00 feet to an 

iron pin located on the west side of the 

right of way line of Avis Drive; thence 

south along said drive, 200.00 feet to 

the beginning point. 

For prior title, see Deed Book 4194 

Page 105, Whitfield County, Georgia 

land records. 

MR/sm01 4/7/09 

Our file no. 52496708 - FT1 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 




ENRIQUE GUTIERREZ 

Plaintiff 

v 

JOSEPHINE TREJO GUTIERREZ 

Defendant 

CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 09CI767-B 


TO: JOSEPHINE TREJO GUTIERREZ 




against you in said Court on March 10, 

2009, and that by reason of an Order for 


entered by the Court March 10, 2009, 

you are hereby commanded and 


Court, and serve upon Maurice M. 

Sponcler, Jr., plaintiffs attorney, whose 

address is P.O. Box 398, Dalton, 

Georgia 3722-0398, an answer to the 

Complaint for Divorce within sixty (60) 

days of the date of the order for service 

of summons by publication. 

Witness the Honorable William Boyett, 


Court. 



Clerk, Superior Court of Whitfield 

County 

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Because of a default in the payment of 

the indebtedness secured by that 

certain Security Deed, dated March 24, 

2006, executed by RAFAEL ALVARRAN 

and SILVIA ALVARRAN to MORTGAGE 

ELECTRONIC 

REGISTRATION 

SYSTEMS, INC., recorded in Deed 


Georgia Deed Records, and securing a 

Note in the original principal amount of 

$139,000.00, Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc., the current 

holder thereof, has declared the entire 

amount of said indebtedness evidenced 

by the Note immediately due and 

payable and, pursuant to the power of 

sale contained in said Security Deed, 

will, on the first Tuesday in April, 2009, 

to-wit: April 7, 2009, during the legal 

hours of sale, before the Whitfield 

County Courthouse door, sell at public 


following described real property: 


being in Land Lot No. 78 in the 12th 


County, Georgia, and being designated 

as Lot No. 28 of Cambridge Heights 

Subdivision, Phase 2, as shown on plat 

of said subdivision of record in Plat 

Cabinet C, Slide 639, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Land records, reference to 

which is made for a more full and 

complete description of said property. 

The aforedescribed real property is also 

known as 514 Cambridge Drive, Rocky




Face, Georgia, according to the present 

system of numbering houses in Whitfield 

County, Georgia. 

This sale will be conducted subject (1) 

to confirmation that the sale is not 



audit as to the amount and status of the 

loan with the holder of the Security 

Deed, including but not limited to, a 

determination that the borrower has not 

reinstated the loan prior to the 

foreclosure sale. 

Said real property will be sold subject to 

any outstanding ad valorem taxes 

(including taxes which are a lien, but not 

yet due and payable), the right of 

redemption of any taxing authority, any 

matters which might be disclosed by an 

accurate survey and inspection of the 

real property, any assessments, liens, 

encumbrances, zoning ordinances, 

restrictions, covenants, and matters of 

record superior to the Security Deed 

first set out above. 

Upon information and belief, said real 

property is presently in the possession 

or control of RAFAEL ALVARRAN and 

SILVIA ALVARRAN and the proceeds of 

said sale will be applied to the payment 

of said indebtedness and all the 

expenses of said sale, including 

attorney's fees, all as provided in said 

Security Deed and the excess proceeds, 

if any, will be distributed as provided by 

law. 

MORTGAGE 

ELECTRONIC 

REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. 

as Attorney-in-Fact for 

RAFAEL ALVARRAN and SILVIA 

ALVARRAN 

David W. Adams, Esquire 

Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Adams LLP 

2 East Bryan Street, Suite 1001 

Savannah, Georgia 31401 

(912) 233-9700 

THIS LAW FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO 

COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF 

THE ABOVE-REFERENCED LENDER 

AND ANY INFORMATION WILL BE 


03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










Irene Manzano De Balderas to 


Systems, Inc., dated August 28, 2007, 

recorded in Deed Book 5078, Page 346, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Records, as 

last transferred to Countrywide Home 

Loans Servicing LP by assignment to be 







HUNDRED SIX THOUSAND SIXTY- 

SEVEN AND 0/100 DOLLARS 

($106,067.00), with interest thereon as 

set forth therein, there will be sold at 

public outcry to the highest bidder for 

cash before the courthouse door of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, within the 

legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday 

in April, 2009, the following described 

property: 



























out above.The entity that has full 

authority to negotiate, amend, and 

modify all terms of the mortgage with 

the debtor is: Countrywide Home Loans, 

5401 North Beach Street, MS FWTX-35, 

Fort Worth, TX 76137, 1-888-219-7773. 

Please understand that the secured 

creditor is not required by law to 

negotiate, amend, or modify the terms of 

the mortgage instrument. 



the property is Irene Manzano De 

Balderas or a tenant or tenants and said 

property is more commonly known as 

1125 Roan Street, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. The sale will be conducted 

subject (1) to confirmation that the sale 

is not prohibited under the U.S. 

Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final 

confirmation and audit of the status of 

the loan with the holder of the security 

deed. 

Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP 


Irene Manzano De Balderas 





MR/wa2 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, and being Lots nos. 236 

through 239, inclusive, of the Burchfield 

Subdivision, as shown by Plat of record 

in Plat Book 3, Page 24 (Plat Cabinet A, 

Slide 95) Whitfield County, Georgia, and 

being described as follows: 

Beginning at an Iron pin on the north 

side of Roan Street 100 feet west along 

the north side of Roan Street from the 

northwest corner of the intersection of 

Roan Street and Burchfield Avenue; 

thence west along the north side of 

Roan Street 100 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence north 1 degree 14 Minutes east 

150 feet to an Iron pin; thence east 100 

feet to an Iron pin; thence south 1 

degree 14 Minutes west 150 feet to the 

point of beginning. 

MR/wa2 4/7/09 

Our file no. 5531409 - FT4 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 


CONTAINED IN SECURITY DEED 

STATE 

OF 

GEORGIA, 

COUNTY OF Whitfield 

Pursuant to a power of sale contained 

in a certain security deed executed by 

Timothy Bartlett, Sr. and Lisa Bartlett, 

hereinafter referred to as Grantor, to 

Unity Mortgage Corp. recorded in Deed 

Book 3265, beginning at page 272 and 

modified at Deed Book 4504, Page 267, 

and modified at Deed Book 4889, Page 

157 and modified at Deed Book 5171, 

Page 327, of the deed records of the 

Clerk of the Superior Court of the 

aforesaid state and county, and by virtue 

of a default in the payment of the debt 

secured by said security deed, the 

undersigned attorney-in-fact for the 

aforesaid Grantor (which attorney-in-fact 

is the present holder of said security 

deed and note secured thereby) will sell 

before the door of the courthouse in said 

county within the legal hours of sale, for 


cash, to the highest bidder on the first 

Tuesday in April, 2009, the property 

which, as of the time of the execution of 

said security deed, was described as set 

forth in the attached Exhibit "A". Said 

sale will be made subject to the 


to said property: All restrictive 

covenants, easements and rights-of-way 

appearing of record, if any; all zoning 

ordinances; matters which would be 

disclosed by an accurate survey or by 

an inspection of the property; all 

outstanding and/or unpaid taxes which 

may be liens upon the property; all 

outstanding or unpaid bills and 

assessments for street improvements, 

curbing, garbage, water, sewage and 

public utilities which may be liens upon 

said property. Midland Mortgage Co. as 

loan servicer is the entity with authority 

to negotiate, amend and modify the 

terms of the Note and Security Deed. 

Midland Mortgage Co’s address is: 999 

Northwest Grand Boulevard, Oklahoma 

City, Oklahoma 73118. Midland 

Mortgage Co. may be contacted by 

telephone at 1-800-552-3000, extension 

8301. To the best of the undersigned's 

knowledge and belief, the party in 

possession of the property is believed to 

be Timothy Bartlett, Sr. and Lisa Bartlett. 

MidFirst Bank, 

As Transferee and Assignee, 

As attorney-in-fact for the 

aforesaid Grantor 

Raymond S. Martin 

Attorney at Law 

990 Hammond Drive 

Suite 800 

One Lakeside Commons 

Atlanta, Georgia 30328 

(770) 392-0041 


COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY 


USED FOR THAT 

PURPOSE. 

Re: 

Timothy Bartlett, Sr. and Lisa 

Bartlett- Midland Mortgage Co. M04- 

10595F7 / 47064641 

EXHIBIT "A" 




County, Georgia, and being designated 

as Lot 71 of Beaver Creek Subdivision, 

Phase 5, according to a plat and 

subdivision prepared by N.B. DeLoach, 

Georgia Registered Land Surveyor 

No.1347, dated October 11, 1999 and 

being recorded in Plat Cabinet C Slide 

1930, Whitfield County, Georgia Land 

Records, reference to which is hereby 

made and incorporated herein for a 

more particular description of the land. 

Together with that certain housing unit 

which was formerly personalty but is 

now permanently annexed and affixed to 

the above described land as a 

permanent improvement and which is 

the subject of Georgia Motor Vehicle 

Serial No. H814969, and all rights 

thereunto appertaining. 

Grantor and Grantee hereby 

acknowledge their intention that the 

housing unit referred to in the above 

description of the Property is and shall 

forever remain permanently affixed as 

part of the real property herein 

conveyed and securing all sums 

secured by this Deed. 

In recognition 

that said housing unit has now and 

forever ceased to be personal property, 

Grantor hereby waives any and all rights 

Grantor may have in the event Grantor 

breached any covenant or agreement in 

this Deed to require Grantee to resort to 

any remedy other than those as set forth 

herein. 

Grantor specifically waives the 

right to require any type of judicial 

foreclosure of Grantee's security interest 

in said housing unit under any provision 

of Georgia Law. If grantor commits any 

breach and Grantee invokes the power 

of sale set forth herein, then Grantor 

hereby appoints Grantee as Grantor's 

agent and attorney-in-fact to convey title 

to said housing unit if and to the extent 

required under the Georgia Motor 

Vehicle Certificate of Title Act, or any 

other applicable law. 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03BARTLETT 

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER 

POWERPRIVATE 


By virtue of Power of Sale contained in 

Deed to Secure Debt from RANDELL 

VERNON HARRIS, a/k/a RANDALL 

VERNON HARRIS, hereinafter 

GRANTOR, in favor of AMERICAN 

GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, 

INC., dated the 24th day of May, 2007, 

and recorded the 31st day of May, 2007, 

in Deed Book 5013, Page 122, Whitfield 

County, Georgia records; said Deed to 

Secure Debt being given to secure a 

Promissory Note of even date in the 

original principal amount of Thirty Five 

Thousand One Hundred Fifty and 

00/100ths Dollars ($35,150.00), with 

interest from date as stated therein, 

there will be sold by the undersigned at 


cash before the Courthouse door at 



in APRIL, 2009, the following described 

property: 

A tract or parcel of land in Land Lot 56, 

27th District, 3rd Section, Whitfield 

County, Georgia, more fully described 

as beginning at the northeast corner of 

Lot 92 and running 175 feet along the 

north side of Lot 92 and along the north 

side of Harris property to an iron stake; 

thence northeastward along the south 

side of an unnamed road 120 feet, more 

or less; thence eastward along said road 

100 feet to the northwest corner of Lot 

90; thence southward along the west 

side of Lot 90, 100 feet to the northeast 

corner of Lot 92, the point of beginning. 

This is the same property conveyed by 

Quitclaim Deed from Teresa Irene Boyd 

to Randall Vernon Harris, dated 

9/3/1998, recorded 9/3/1998, in Deed 


Georgia Records. 

The debt secured by said Deed to 

Secure Debt has been and is hereby 

declared due because of, among other 

possible events of default, non-payment 

of the monthly installments on said loan. 

The debt remaining in default, this sale 

will be made for the purpose of paying 

the same and all expenses of this sale, 

including attorney's fees. Said property 

will be sold subject to any outstanding 

ad valorem taxes, special assessments, 

unpaid utility bills constituting liens 

against the property, and all Deeds to 

Secure Debt, liens and encumbrances 

existing when the above-described 

Deed to Secure Debt was filed for 

record. To the best of the undersigned's 

knowledge, information and belief, 

equitable title to this property is held by 

RANDALL VERNON HARRIS. This 

property is located at 928 Raygan 

Drive, Tunnel Hill, GA 30755. 

AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL 

SERVICES, INC. 

as Attorney in Fact for the abovenamed 

GRANTOR 

AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL 

SERVICES, INC. 

by Robert W. Broome, Attorney 

1800 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 445 


404-350-8349 

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GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY 








Billy James and Betty James d/b/a 

B.B.B. Enterprises to Cohutta Banking 

Company, dated February 9, 2001 and 

recorded February 14, 2001 in Deed 



property to secure a Note 

made by Brent’s Flowers and Gifts Inc. 

in the original principal amount of Thirty 

One Thousand Ninety One and Twenty 

Cents ($31,091.20), with interest 

thereon as set forth therein, there will be 

sold at public outcry 

to the highest 

bidder for cash before the courthouse 

door of Whitfield County, Georgia, within 

the legal hours of sale on the first 

Tuesday in April, 2009 by Cohutta 

Banking Company, as Attorney-in-Fact 

for Billy James and Betty James d/b/a 

B.B.B. Enterprises, the following 

described property to wit: 

SEE EXHIBIT “A” ATTACHED HERETO 




because of among other possible events 

of default, failure to pay the 









attorney’s fees (notice of intent to collect 

attorney’s fees having been given). Said 

property will be sold subject to any 










out above 



the property is 


B.B.B. Enterprises, or a tenant or 

tenants and said property is more 

commonly known as a 404 McGhee 

Drive, Dalton, Ga 30721. 

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 44-14- 

162.2, the name, address, and 

telephone number of the individual or 

entity who shall have full authority to 

negotiate, amend or modify all terms of 

the above described mortgage is as 

follows: Cohutta Banking Company, 

1416 Dug Gap Road, Dalton, Ga 30720, 

Attn: Christopher R. Blevins, Telephone 

number 706-712-5504. 

The foregoing notwithstanding, nothing 

in O.C.G.A. Section 44-14-162.2, shall 

be construed to require Cohutta Banking 

Company to negotiate, amend or modify 

the terms of the Deed to Secure Debt 

described herein. 






holder of the Security Deed. 

Cohutta Banking Company 



B.B.B. Enterprises 

Terry L. Miller 

Mitchell & Mitchell, P.C. 

101 N. Thornton Avenue 

Dalton, Ga 30720 

(706) 278-2040 

EXHIBIT “A” 

THE SOUTH ENDS OF LOTS 6, 7, 8 

AND 9 OF THE MCGHEE 

SUBDIVISION, AS PER PLAT MADE 

BY R.E. SMITH, SURVEYOR, DATED 

JUNE 20, 1941, AS APPEARS OF 

RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 1, PAGE 191, 

IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF 

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF 

WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA. 

SAID TRACT BEING 100 FEET DEEP 

BY 89 FEET 8 INCHES ON THE WEST 

SIDE AND 87 FEET ON THE EAST 

SIDE AND HAVING LOCATED 

THEREON ONE FRAME DWELLING. 

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4/3 





J.L. 

CASE NO. 09-00-273 

SEX: 

FEMALE 

AGE: 

2 YEARS 

DOB: 11/30/2006 





TO: ANY UNKNOWN, 

UNNAMED FATHER 


Deprivation Petition has been filed by 

the 

Whitfield County Department of 

Family and Children’s Services in the 

Juvenile Court of Whitfield County, 

Georgia. A provisional hearing was held 

on March 2, 2009 and a Provisional 

order was entered on March 2, 2009. 

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 15-11-39.2, you 

are ordered to appear at the final 

hearing in the matter which is set for 

May 13, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. at the 

Whitfield County Juvenile Court in 

Dalton, Georgia, located at 205 North 

Selvidge Street, Dalton, Georgia 30720. 

You may obtain a copy of the petition 

from the Clerk of Juvenile Court. If you 

do not appear at the final hearing, the 

provisional order of said child will 
















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Deed executed by Kenneth J. Brummitt 

to Mortgage Electronic Registration 

Systems, Inc. dated May 12, 2006 in the 



County, Georgia Records; as last 

transferred to Mortgage Electronic 














Being Lot One of minor plat of Brummitt 

Subdivision of which is recorded in the 

Clerks Office of the Superior Court of 


Whitfield County, Georgia in Plat 

Cabinet D, Slide 522. And being more 

particularly described as follows, to-wit: 

Commencing at a Point of Beginning. 

Said Point being an iron pipe located at 

the Southeast corner of Land Lot 315, 

located in the 11th District, 3rd Section 

of Whitfield County, Georgia. Thence 

with the South line of Land Lot 315, 

South 89 degrees 47 minutes 10 

seconds West, a distance of 309.44 feet 

to an iron pin; thence leaving said Land 

Lot lines, North 03 degrees 56 minutes 

06 seconds West a distance of 274.80 

feet to an iron pin; thence North 89 

degrees 38 minutes 58 seconds East, a 

distance of 325.33 feet to an iron pin in 

the East line of Land Lot 315, South 00 

degrees 37 minutes 09 seconds East, a 

distance of 275.00 feet to the Point of 

Beginning. 

Being the same property conveyed to 

Kenneth J. Brummitt by Deed from 

Michael Brown and wife, Emily Brown, 

dated 04/26/06 and recorded in Book 

4746, Page 318 in the Office of the 



Subject to and together with the 50 foot 

easement running along the East 50 

Feet of Deed Book 2712, Page 194, and 

the East 50 feet of Deed Book 3448, 

Page 352, said Right-of-Way runs from 

the South line of Emmett Drive to the 

North line of property deeded to Michael 

Brown and wife, Emily Brown, and 

recorded in Right-of-Way Deed in Book 

4689, Page I-1, in the Deed Office of 

Whitfield County, Georgia. 

Commonly known as: 571 Emmett 

Road, Dalton, GA 30721 


Emmett Road, Dalton, Georgia., 



deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Kenneth J. Brummitt and the 







Deed. 


Systems, Inc. 


Kenneth J. Brummitt 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/kjenrette 


(404) 373-1612 








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Cindi Ingle Fritts to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc., dated June 

14, 2005, recorded in Deed Book 4527, 


Records, conveying the after-described 

property to secure a Note in the original 

principal amount of SEVENTY-THREE 

THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED 

TWENTY AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 



The debt secured by said Security 

Deed has been and is hereby declared 

due because of, among other possible 






















out above. 



of the mortgage with the debtor is: Wells 

Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., PO Box 

10335, Des Moines, IA 50306, 1-800- 

416-1472. Please understand that the 

secured creditor is not required by law to 





the property is Cindi Ingle Fritts or a 


more commonly known as 431 Sam 

Love Road, Rocky Face, Georgia 

30740. 








Cindi Ingle Fritts 





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EXHIBIT A 

Lots Nos. 101, 102, 103 and 104 of the 

Rocky Face Subdivision as shown on 

the plat of said subdivision filed in Plat 

Book 2, Page 96, in Clerk of Superior 

Court's Office, Whitfield County, 

Georgia. There is located on these lots a 

five room house. Said subdivision is 

located in Land Lot No 150, 12th 

District, 3rd Section of Whitfield County, 

Georgia. 

This is a part of the lots sold on 

February 7, 1953, and recorded in Deed 

Book 70, Page 126, Whitfield County 

records. And this being the same 

property as conveyed by warranty deed 

dated July 31, 1961, and recorded in 

Book 144, Page 401, of the Whitfield 

County deed records. 

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Notice of Sale Under Power. 

State of Georgia, 

County of WHITFIELD. 


contained in a Deed to Secure Debt 

given by KEVIN CALVO to MORTGAGE 

ELECTRONIC 

REGISTRATION 

SYSTEMS, INC. ("MERS") AS 

NOMINEE FOR WACHOVIA 

MORTGAGE CORPORATION , dated 

11/14/2005, and Recorded on 

11/15/2005 as Book No. 4640 and Page 

No. 263-273, WHITFIELD County, 

Georgia records, as last assigned to 

CHASE HOME FINANCE, LLC, by 

assignment, conveying the afterdescribed 

property to secure a Note of 

even date in the original principal 

amount of $127,991.00, with interest at 

the rate specified therein, there will be 

sold by the undersigned at public outcry 

to the highest bidder for cash at the 

WHITFIELD County Courthouse within 


Tuesday in April, 2009, the following 

described property: ALL THAT TRACT 

OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND 

BEING IN LAND LOT NO. 104 IN THE 

12TH DISTRICT AND 3RD SECTION 

OF WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA, 

TOGETHER WITH IMPROVEMENTS 

THEREON, BEING LOT NO. 93 OF 

MEADOW PARK SUBDIVISION, PLAT 

3, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY 

DESCRIBED ACCORDING TO A PLAT 

OF SURVEY PREPARED FOR 

WILLIAM L. MOORE AND FAIRFIELD 

FINANCIAL ASSOCIATES OF DALTON 

BY JOSEPH R. EVANS, GEORGIA 

REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR NO. 

2168, DATED NOVEMBER 30, 1982, 

REVISED MAY 21, 1991, AND BEING 

MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED 

ACCORDING TO SAID SURVEY AS 

FOLLOWS: 

BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN 

LOCATED IN THE SOUTH RIGHT OF 

WAY LINE OF RIDERWOOD DRIVE 

(50' R/W), SAID POINT BEING 

LOCATED IN AN EASTERLY 

DIRECTION, AS MEASURED ALONG 

SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A 

DISTANCE OF 98.3 FEET FROM THE 

SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE 

INTERSECTION OF SAID RIGHT OF 

WAY LINE AND THE EAST RIGHT OF 

WAY LINE OF TIMBERLAND DRIVE; 

THENCE RUNNING NORTH 78 

DEGREES 00 MINUTES EAST, ALONG 

THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF 

RIDERWOOD DRIVE, A DISTANCE OF 

100.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE 

RUNNING SOUTH 12 DEGREES 00 

MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 


RUNNING SOUTH 78 DEGREES 00 

MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE OF 


RUNNING NORTH 12 DEGREES 00 

MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE OF 

175.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIN, WHICH 

IS THE POINT OF BEGINNING. 

FOR PRIOR TITLE, SEE DEED BOOK 

3107 PAGE 55, WHITFIELD COUNTY, 

GEORGIA LAND RECORDS. The debt 

secured by said Deed to Secure Debt 






Deed to Secure Debt. Because the debt 

remains in default, this sale will be made 

for the purpose of paying the same and 

all expenses of this sale, as provided in 

the Deed to Secure Debt and by law, 

including attorney’s fees (notice of intent 

to collect attorney’s fees having been 

given). The entity that has full authority 

to negotiate, amend, and modify all 

terms of the mortgage with the debtor is: 

CHASE HOME FINANCE, LLC, 3415 

VISION DRIVE, Foreclosure, 

COLUMBUS, OH 43224, 800-446-8939. 


creditor is not required to negotiate, 

amend, or modify the terms of the 

mortgage instrument. To the best 

knowledge and belief of the 

undersigned, the party/parties in 

possession of the subject property 

known as 221 RIDERWOOD DRIVE, 

DALTON, GEORGIA 30721 is/are: 

KEVIN CALVO or tenant/tenants. Said 

property will be sold subject to (a) any 



and payable), (b) any matters which 

might be disclosed by an accurate 

survey and inspection of the property, 

and (c) all matters of record superior to 

the Deed to Secure Debt first set out 

above, including, but not limited to, 


zoning ordinances, easements, 

restrictions, covenants, etc. 

The sale will be conducted subject to (1) 



Code; and (2) 

final confirmation and 


holder of the security deed. Pursuant to 

O.C.G.A. Section 9-13-172.1, which 

allows for certain procedures regarding 

the rescission of judicial and nonjudicial 

sales in the State of Georgia, the Deed 

Under Power and other foreclosure 

documents may not be provided until 

final confirmation and audit of the status 

of the loan as provided in the preceding 

paragraph. CHASE HOME FINANCE, 

LLC as Attorney in Fact for KEVIN 

CALVO. THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS 

A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING 

TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY 



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Gildardo Martinez Cardenas to 


Systems, Inc., dated March 31, 2005, 



last transferred to SunTrust Mortgage, 

Inc. by assignment to be recorded in the 

Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of 


conveying the after-described property 

to secure a Note in the original principal 

amount of ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN 

THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($115,300.00), with 




































out above. 




Suntrust Mortgage, Inc., 1001 Semmes 

Avenue, Richmond, VA 23224, 866-384- 

0903. Please understand that the 






the property is Gildardo Martinez 

Cardenas or a tenant or tenants and 

said property is more commonly known 

as 209 Periwinkle Way, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 







SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. 


Gildardo Martinez Cardenas 





MR/cs9 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia, being designated as 

Lot No. 131 of Amberfield Subdivision, 

Phase 3, as shown on a Plat of Survey 

prepared by Donald O. Babb, Georgia 

Registered Land Surveyor No. 2029, 

dated September 9, 2004, and recorded 

in Plat Cabinet D, Slide 53, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Land Records, 

reference to which Plat is hereby made 

and incorporated herein for a more 

particular description of said property. 

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Jason R. Chastine to Wells Fargo Bank, 

N.A., dated July 24, 2006, recorded in 



transferred to Deutsche Bank National 

Trust Company, as Trustee for 

Soundview 

Home Loan Trust 2006-WF1 by 

assignment to be recorded in the Office 

of the Clerk of Superior Court of 




amount of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY- 

ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($171,900.00), 

with interest thereon as set forth therein, 


































out above. 





10335, Des Moines, IA 50306, 1-800- 







the property is Jason R. Chastine or a 


more commonly known as 2013 Virgil 

Drive Southeast, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 







Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, 

as Trustee for Soundview 

Home Loan Trust 2006-WF1 


Jason R. Chastine 





MR/ks5 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 

Tract 1 




Georgia being Lot 37 of Eastern Hills 

Subdivision as per plat of said 

subdivision recorded in Plat Book 7, 

Page 31, in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia; reference to which is herein 

made for a more full and complete 

description which is hereby incorporated 

herein by reference. 

Tract 2 




Georgia being Lot 35 and the east half 

of Lot 36 of Eastern Hills Subdivision as 

per plat of said subdivision recorded in 

Plat Book 7, Page 31, in the Office of 

the Clerk of the Superior Court of 

Whitfield County, Georgia; reference to 

which is herein made for a more full and 

complete description which is hereby 

incorporated herein by reference. 

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Deed executed by William B Cole III and 

Selina D Cole to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. dated 

February 11, 2003 in the amount of 

$212,000.00, and recorded in Deed 


Georgia Records; as last transferred to 


Systems, Inc. by assignment; the 

undersigned, Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. pursuant to 

said deed and the note thereby secured, 

has declared the entire amount of said 

indebtedness due and payable and 

pursuant to the power of sale contained 

in said deed, will on the first Tuesday in 

April, 2009 , during the legal hours of 

sale, at the Courthouse door in Whitfield 

County, sell at public outcry to the 

highest bidder for cash, the property 

described in said deed to-wit: 

The following described real estate, towit: 

All that tract or parcel of land lying 

and being in Land Lot 150 of the 12th 



Lot 4 of Oak Ridge Subdivision on a plat 

of said subdivision recorded in Plat 

Cabinet C, Slide 115, in the Office of the 


County, Georgia, and being more 

particularly described on a plat prepared 

by Joseph R. Evans, Georgia 


dated November 11, 1999, as follows: 

Beginning at an iron pin located on the 

North Right of Way line of Oak Ridge 

Drive (50 foot r/w), said iron pin being, 

located 386.46 feet West along the 

North Right of way line of Oak Ridge 

Drive from its intersection with the 

terminus at the West Right of Way line of 

Sam Love Road; thence West, along the 

North Right of Way of Oak Ridge Drive 

an arc distance of 115.00 feet, with a 

radius of 2052.08 feet to an iron pin; 

thence North 02 Degrees 56 Minutes 45 

Seconds East, 201.03 feet to an iron 

pin; thence North 89 Degrees 28 

Minutes 20 Seconds East, 110.00 feet to 

an iron pin, thence South 01 Degrees 30 

Minutes 30 Seconds West, a distance of 

203.42 feet to an iron pin and the Point 

of Beginning. Being the same property 

conveyed to William B. Cole, III and wife 

Selina D. Cole by Quitclaim Deed from 

William B. Cole, III, Book 3870, Page 75, 

date February 11, 2003, recorded 

February 19, 2003 in the Office of the 




Oak Ridge Drive, Rocky Face, Georgia., 



deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of William B Cole III and Selina 

D Cole 

and the proceeds of said sale 

will be applied to the payment of said 

indebtedness, the expense of said sale, 

all as provided in said deed, and the 

undersigned will execute a deed to the 

purchaser as provided in the 

aforementioned Security Deed. 


Systems, Inc. 


William B Cole III and Selina D Cole 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/canderson 


(404) 373-1612 








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STATE OF GEORGIA, 

COUNTY OF WHITFIELD. 

BY VIRTUE of the power of sale 

contained in Deed to Secure Debt from 

William Craig Kinsey and Bobbie Marie 

Kinsey to First National Bank of 

Chatsworth, dated the 20th day of 

February, 2008, recorded the 27th day 

of February, 2008, at Deed Book 5162, 

Page 300 et seq., Whitfield County 

Deed Records; said Security Deed 

being given to secure a Note dated the 

20th day of February, 2008, in the 

principal amount of $30, 961.00, as well 

as other debt as is more particularly 

described in said Security Deed; there 

will be sold by the undersigned at public 

outcry to the highest bidder for cash 

before the courthouse door at Dalton, 




property: 


being in the Land Lot. 201 in the 27th 


County, Georgia, being more particularly 


BEGINNING at a point on the west side 

of Greeson Road, said point being south 

01 degree 40 minutes east a distance of 

247 feet from the intersection of the 

west side of Greeson Road and the 

north line of said Land Lot No. 201; 

thence running south 01 degree 40 

minutes east, along the west side of 

said Greeson Road, 153 feet to an iron 

pin at the northeast corner of the 

property now or formerly belonging to 

Robbie L. Daniel and Eugenia Daniel; 

running thence west, along the 

north 

side of the said Daniel property, 508.04 

feet to an iron pin; thence north 00 

degrees 31 minutes west 153 feet; 

thence in an easterly direction 508.04 

feet, more or less, to a point on the west 

side of Greeson Road and the point of 

beginning. 




events of default, non-payment of debt 

according to terms as agreed to by the 

parties. 

The debt remaining in default, 

this sale will be made for the purpose of 

paying the same and all expenses of 

this sale, including attorney's fees. 


property of William Craig Kinsey and 

Bobbie Marie Kinsey and subject to that 

outstanding deed to secure debt in favor 

of Mers/First Magnus Financial 

Corporation recorded at Deed Book 

4915 Page 245, Whitfield County Deed 

Records, outstanding ad valorem taxes, 

restrictions and/or other outstanding 

assessments, if any. 

First National Bank of Chatsworth 

As Attorney-in-Fact for 

William Craig Kinsey and Bobbie Marie 

Kinsey 

McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle & Fordham, 

LLP 

C. LEE DANIEL, III, Attorney for 

First National Bank of Chatsworth 

P.O. Box 1105 


706-278-4499 

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the indebtedness secured by a Security 

Deed executed by Brant E. Cook to 

Regions Mortgage, Inc. now Regions 

Bank DBA Regions Mortgage 

dated 

March 29, 2002, and recorded in Deed 

Book 3666, Page 9, 


Records, securing a Note in the original 

principal amount of $147,000.00, the 

holder thereof pursuant to said Deed 

and Note thereby secured has declared 

the entire amount of said indebtedness 

due and payable and, pursuant to the 

power of sale contained in said Deed, 

will on the first Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 

during the legal hours of sale, before the 

Courthouse door in said County, sell at 


cash, the property described in said 

Deed, to-wit: 




County, Georgia, being part of Tract 7 of 

the Pratt and Carmical Subdivision, as 

per plat of survey prepared by Donald 

O. Babb, Registered Land Surveyor, 

dated June 28, 1991, as follows: 

Beginning at an iron pin marking the 

Southeast intersection of Cedar ridge 

road and Dempsey Drive; thence North 

85 degrees 47 minutes 13 seconds East 

along the Southerly right-of-way line of 

Dempsey Drive 127.96 feet to a point; 

thence continuing along said right-ofway 

line North 82 degrees 03 minutes 

East 60.88 feet to an iron pin; thence 

South 5 degrees 28 minutes 49 seconds 

East 220 feet to an iron pin; thence 

South 85 degrees 29 minutes 12 

seconds West 156.04 feet to an iron pin 

located on the Easterly right-of-way line 

of Cedar Ridge Road; thence North 13 

degrees 58 minutes 00 seconds West 

along the Easterly right-of-way line of 

Cedar Ridge Road 220.00 feet to an 

iron pin and the point of beginning. 

Said property is known as 243 Cedar 

Ridge Road SE, Apt. C, Dalton, GA 

30721, together with all fixtures and 

personal property attached to and 

constituting a part of said property, if 

any. 



taxes which are a lien, whether or not 

now due and payable), the right of 




property, any assessments, liens, 












collect attorney's fees in accordance 

with the terms of the Note secured by 

said Deed. 


property of Brant E. Cook, the property, 

to the best information, knowledge and 

belief of the undersigned, being 

presently in the possession of Brant E. 

Cook, and the proceeds of said sale will 

be applied to the payment of said 

indebtedness and all the expenses of 

said sale, including attorney's fees, all 

as provided in said Deed, and the 

balance, if any, will be distributed as 

provided by law. 

Regions Bank DBA Regions Mortgage 

successor by merger with Regions 

Mortgage, Inc. as Attorney-in-Fact for 

Brant E. Cook 

File no. 09-009463 

L. J. SWERTFEGER, JR. 

SHAPIRO & SWERTFEGER, LLP* 

Attorneys and Counselors at Law 

2872 Woodcock Boulevard, Suite 100 

Atlanta, GA 30341 

(770) 220-2730/ASR 

www.swertfeger.net 

*THE LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A 




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03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

NOTICE OF SALE 

GEORGIA, WHITFIELD COUNTY. 

By virtue of the power of sale contained 

in a Deed to Secure Debt from AVERY 

B. CRONAN to DALTON WHITFIELD 

BANK – VARNELL, AN FSGBANK, 

N.A., 

dated January 30, 2008, in the 

principal amount of $52,278.76 and 


and re-recorded in Deed Book 5224, 

page 335, Whitfield County Deed 

Records, there will be sold by the 

undersigned at public outcry to the 


Courthouse door at Whitfield County, 







County, Georgia, and described more 

particularly as a tract of 3.85 acres, 

more or less, per plat of survey prepared 

by Donald O. Babb, Georgia Registered 

Land Surveyor No. 2029, dated 

December 30, 1997 as follows: 

BEGINNING at an iron pin located on 

the southwesterly right-of-way of Strain 

Road (a 60-foot right-of-way), said point 

being south 69 degrees 37 minutes 45 

seconds east 2195.69 feet from the 

intersection of the center line of Georgia 

Highway No. 71 with the center line of 

Strain Road. From said point of 

beginning, thence south 45 degrees 16 

minutes 54 seconds east along said 

southwesterly right-of-way of Strain 

Road a distance of 132.07 feet to an 

iron pin; thence south 51 degrees 17 

minutes 49 seconds west a distance of 

620.86 feet to a fence corner; thence 

north 39 degrees 42 minutes 32 

seconds west a distance of 263.10 feet 

to an iron pin; thence north 43 degrees 

41 minutes 03 seconds east a distance 

of 469.96 feet to an iron pin; thence 

south 48 degrees 53 minutes 14 

seconds east a distance of 32.51 feet to 

an iron pin; thence south 70 degrees 07 

minutes 08 seconds east a distance of 

43.79 feet to an iron pin; thence south 

78 degrees 31 minutes 35 seconds east 

a distance of 108.34 feet to an iron pin; 

thence south 86 degrees 29 minutes 56 

seconds east a distance of 62.90 feet to 

an iron pin and the point of beginning. 

SUBJECT to a power line easement 

which is indicated on said property per 

said plat. 

This conveyance is made subject to all 


restrictions of record, insofar as the 

same may lawfully affect the abovedescribed 

property. 

Together with a 1998 Palm Harbor 7532 

Mobile Home with Vin Number 

PH149926AB. 

The debt secured by said Deed to 

Secure Debt has been and is hereby 

declared due because of, among other 

possible events of default, nonpayment 

of installments of said loan. 

The debt 

remaining in default, the sale will be 

made for the purposes of paying the 

same and all expenses of this sale 


including attorney=s fees. 


property of AVERY B. CRONAN and is 

subject to outstanding ad valorem taxes 

and/or assessments, if any. The party in 

possession of the property is 

AVERY 

B. CRONAN. The address of the 

property is 180 Strain Road, Cohutta, 

Georgia 30710. This is an attempt to 

collect a debt and any information 

obtained will be used for that purpose by 

the undersigned law firm. 


DALTON WHITFIELD BANK – 

VARNELL, AN FSGBANK, N.A., AS 

ATTORNEY IN FACT FOR AVERY B. 

CRONAN 

BY: SPONCLER & THARPE, LLC 

J. TRACY WARD, ATTORNEY FOR 

DALTON WHITFIELD BANK – 

VARNELL, AN FSGBANK, N.A. 

P.O. BOX 398 

DALTON, GEORGIA 30722 

(706) 278-5211 

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SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1NOTICE OF 

SALE UNDER POWER 

STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF 

WHITFIELD 

WHEREAS, on the 1st day of 

December, 2006, Curtis Roberts, a 

Georgia resident, executed and 

delivered a certain Security Deed to 

Capital Bank for the purpose of securing 

indebtedness therein described, which 

Security Deed appears of record in the 

Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court 

of Whitfield County, Georgia, in Book 

4901, beginning at Page 324; reference 

to which deed is hereby made for its full 

terms, provisions and conditions; and 

WHEREAS, the debt secured by the 

said Security Deed has become in 

default as to the principal and interest, 

and that the holder thereof has declared 

the entire indebtedness owing thereby at 

once immediately due and payable; and 

WHEREAS, Dewey Curtis Roberts on 

January 16, 2009 filed a Chapter 7 

bankruptcy, No. 09-10278, United States 

Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of 

Tennessee, Southern Division; and 

WHEREAS, by order of the abovereferenced 

bankruptcy court entered 

February 17, 2009, 

the automatic stay 

was modified, lifted and terminated with 

respect to the real property and 

improvements secured by the abovereferenced 

Deed to Secure Debt 

permitting Capital Bank to foreclose 

upon the real property and 

improvements and pursue its available 

state law remedies with regard to said 

real property and improvements located 

on said real property; and 

WHEREAS, notice to Curtis Roberts of 

the initiation of proceedings by Capital 

Bank to exercise the power of sale 

contained in the above-referenced 

Security Deed was not required 

according to O.C.G.A. § 44-14-162.3, 

because the real property that was 

subject to the Security Deed was not 

used as a dwelling place by the debtor 

at the time the Security Deed was 

entered into; however, notice was 

nevertheless provided; and 

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the 

terms, provisions and conditions of the 

aforementioned Security Deed and the 

laws in such cases made and provided, 

the undersigned will offer for sale and 

will sell for cash on the first Tuesday in 

April, 2009, to wit: April 7, 2009, 

between the legal hours of sale at public 

outcry before the courthouse door in 

Whitfield County, Georgia, the following 

described real estate, to wit: 

A tract or parcel of land lying and being 

in Land Lot 129 in the 27th District and 

3rd Section of Whitfield County, 

Georgia, and being more particularly 

described as Tract 1, containing 6.00 

acres, on plat of record in Plat Cabinet 

C, Slide 2396, in the Office of the Clerk 

of the Superior Court of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, which plat is 

incorporated herein for a more complete 

description of said property. 

For prior title see deed in Deed Book 

3787, Page 221, in the Office of the 


County, Georgia 

THIS CONVEYANCE IS MADE 

SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING: 

1. Any governmental zoning 

and subdivision ordinances or 

regulations in effect thereon. 

2. Building Setback lines as 

shown on recorded plat. Said 

property 

will be sold subject to any unpaid taxes, 

including taxes which are a lien, but not 

yet due and payable, any matters which 



any assessments, liens, encumbrances, 



superior to the Security Deed as first set 

out above, and including, but not limited 

to, the following assessments, liens, and 

encumbrances that may be superior to 

the Security Deed of Capital Bank: 

State tax lien filed by the Georgia 

Department of Revenue and recorded 

on December 14, 2005 in Lien Book 86, 

Page 126, in the Office of the Clerk of 


Georgia, in the amount of $1,240.94, 

plus any penalties or interest that may 

have accrued thereafter. 

The individual or entity that has full 



the debtor is Capital Bank, with an 

address of 625 Battlefield Parkway, Fort 

Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742, and a 

telephone number of (706) 866-1146. 




mortgage instrument. 

Said property will be sold at public 

outcry to the highest and best bidder for 

cash in bar of all equity of redemption; 

and will be sold as the property of Curtis 

Roberts, a Georgia resident, the maker 

of the aforesaid Security Deed to Capital 

Bank, and the said sale proceeds shall 

be used first to the payment of said 

note, principal and interest, and 

expenses of sale, including attorney’s 

fees (notice of intention to collect 

attorney’s fees having been given as 

provided by law), and the balance, if 

any, delivered to the said Curtis 

Roberts, his successors or assigns. 

Said sale shall divest all of the right, title 

and interest of said Curtis Roberts, his 

heirs, successors and assigns, in and to 

said property and shall invest the same 

in the purchaser at sale. 

To the best 

knowledge and belief of Capital Bank, 

the current owner and party in 

possession of the property is the said 

Curtis Roberts. 

CAPITAL BANK, as 

Attorney-in-Fact for 

Curtis Roberts 

ROBERT L. LOCKABY, JR. 

GEARHISER, PETERS LOCKABY, 

CAVETT & ELLIOTT, PLLC 

320 McCallie Avenue 

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402 

(423) 756-5171 

Published: 

March 13, 2009 

March 20, 2009 

March 27, 2009 

April 3, 2009 











Christopher A. Dukes to FSG Bank, 

N.A., dated October 12, 2004, recorded 



transferred to First Horizon Home 

Loans, a Division of First Tennessee 

Bank, National Association by 






amount of TWO HUNDRED 

FOURTEEN THOUSAND NINE 

HUNDRED AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 



























out above. 




MetLife Home Loans, 4000 Horizon Way 

Mail Stop 6205, Irving, TX 75063, 800- 







the property is Christopher A. Dukes or 

a tenant or tenants and said property is 

more commonly known as 1107 W 

Lakeshore Drive, Dalton, Georgia 

30720. 







First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of 

First Tennessee Bank, National 

Association 


Christopher A. Dukes 





MR/chl 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia, and being described 

according to a plat dated March 12, 

2001, prepared for JCJ, I Family Limited 

Partnership, by Norman B. DeLoach, 

Georgia Registered Land Surveyor as 

follows: 

Beginning at a point in the east right of 

way line of West Lakeshore Drive, white 

point is located 170 feet south of the 

point of intersection of said right of way 

with the south right of way line of 

Lakemont Drive; thence north 81 

degrees 15 minutes 55 seconds east 

283.36 feet to a point; thence north 81 


23.74 feet to a point in the centerline of 

a creek; thence south 13 degrees 40 

minutes 00 seconds east along the 

centerline of said creek 174.86 feet to a 

point; thence south 80 degrees 13 

minutes 11 seconds west 20 feet to a 

point; thence south 80 degrees 13 

minutes 11 seconds west 306.40 feet to 

a iron pin located in the east right of way 

line of West Lakeshore Drive; thence 


seconds west 180.22 feet to the point of 

beginning. 

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that certain Security Deed from Glenn 

M. Elrod and Melissa Elrod to Argent 

Mortgage Company, LLC, dated April 

12, 2007, recorded April 25, 2007, in 

Deed Book 4991, Page 1-18, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Records, said Security 

Deed having been given to secure a 

Note of even date in the original 

principal amount of One Hundred Eighty 

Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100 

dollars ($180,500.00), with interest 

thereon as provided for therein, said 

Security Deed having been last sold, 

assigned and transferred to Citigroup 

Global Markets Realty Corp., there will 

be sold at public outcry to the highest 


door of Whitfield County, Georgia, 

within the legal hours of sale on the first 

Tuesday in April, 2009, all property 

described in said Security Deed 

including but not limited to the following 

described property: 



LOT NOS. 86 AND 87 IN THE 12TH 

DISTRICT AND 3RD SECTION OF 

WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND 

BEING DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 33 

OF FORREST PARK SUBDIVISION, AS 

SHOWN ON PLAT OF SAID 

SUBDIVISION RECORDED IN PLAT 

BOOK 5, PAGE 178, WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA LAND RECORDS, 

REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY 

MADE AND INCORPORATED HEREIN 

BY REFERENCE FOR A MORE 

COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. 

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY 

CONVEYED TO GLENN M. ELROD BY 

DEED FROM LLOYD LOWE AND 

JANICE LOWE RECORDED 

11/04/2005 IN DEED BOOK 4632 PAGE 

289, IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK 

OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF 

WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA. 


600 Royal Oak Drive, Dalton, GA 30721. 





























To the 



the property is Glenn M. Elrod and 

Melissa Elrod or tenants(s). 











CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS 

REALTY CORP. 


GLENN M. ELROD AND MELISSA 

ELROD 

Lender Contact: CitiMortgage, Inc., Loss 

Mitigation Dept., 20 Commerce drive, 

O`Fallon, MO 63366 






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Carlton D. Finley and Cynthia Finley to 

Aames Funding Corporation DBA 

Aames Home Loan , dated September 



Records, as last transferred to Deutsche 

Bank National Trust Company, as 

Indenture Trustee of the Aames 

Mortgage Investment Trust 2004-1 by 






amount of SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND 

SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY AND 0/100 

DOLLARS ($63,750.00), with interest 


sold at public outcry to the highest 





described property: SEE EXHIBIT A 

ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A 

PART HEREOF 







Security Deed. The debt remaining in 

















out above. The entity that has full 



the debtor is: Litton Loan Servicing, LP., 

4828 Loop Central Drive, Houston, TX 

77081, 1-800-807-3590. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Carlton D. Finley and 

Cynthia Finley or a tenant or tenants 

and said property is more commonly 

known as 169 Bellwood Dr SW, Dalton, 

Georgia 30720. The sale will be 

conducted subject (1) to confirmation 

that the sale is not prohibited under the 

U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final 



deed. Deutsche Bank National Trust 

Company, as Indenture Trustee of the 

Aames Mortgage Investment Trust 

2004-1 


Carlton D. Finley and Cynthia Finley 

McCalla Raymer, LLC 1544 Old 

Alabama Road Roswell, Georgia 30076 


MR/klh 4/7/09 Our file no. 5344309- 

FT12 

EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lots Nos. 43 and 44 in the 

13th District and 3rd Section of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, and described as 

follows: beginning at an iron pin on the 

southerly side of Bellwood Drive 

1350.22 feet westwardly along the 

southerly side of Bellwood Drive and 

U.S. Highway 41; thence south 18 

Degrees 14 Minutes west 135.26 feet to 

an iron pin; thence south 46 Degrees 24 

Minutes west 63.56 feet to an iron pin; 

thence north 69 Degrees 21 Minutes 

west 115.55 feet to an iron pin; thence 

north 19 Degrees 15 Minutes east 185 

feet to an iron pin on the southerly side 

of Bellwood Drive; thence south 72 

Degrees 21 Minutes east along the 

southerly side of Bellwood Drive 142.17 

feet to the point of beginning. 

MR/klh 4/7/09 Our file no. 5344309 - 

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Alejandra Fraire to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc., dated 

December 13, 2006, recorded in Deed 


Georgia Records, as last transferred to 

Wachovia Mortgage Corporation by 






amount of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY- 

THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($133,900.00), 




































out above. 






27607, 8666428608. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Alejandra Fraire or a 


more commonly known as 4767 River 

Side Dr, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Alejandra Fraire 





MR/gxw 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia, being more particularly 

that certain 3.47 acres according to that 

certain plat of survey for property of 

Buddy Sewell, dated April 2, 2005, and 

recorded in Plat Cabinet D, Slide 340, 

Whitfield County, Georgia deed records. 

Said plat is hereby incorporated herein 

by reference thereto for a complete 

description of said land. 

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MARIA GALLEGOS to UNION 

PLANTERS BANK, NA D/B/A 

REGIONS MORTGAGE dated 

December 30, 2004, recorded in Deed 

Book 4409 Page 64, Whitfield County, 



the original principal amount of One 

Hundred Three Thousand and No/100's 

($103,000.00) with interest thereon as 






in April, 2009 , the following described 

property: 




County, Georgia, and being Parcel B 

according to a plat of survey prepared 

for Bryan Spence by Joseph R. Evans, 

GRLS No. 2168, dated October 4, 2004, 

and recorded in Plat Cabinet D, Slide 

96, in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia, which plat and the description 

set out therein are by reference 

incorporated herein for a more particular 












said Security Deed and by law, including 













out above. 



the property is MARIA GALLEGOS or a 


more commonly known as 412 

WHITENER DR., DALTON, GA 30721. 

Pursuant to O. C. G. A. §44-14-162.2, 

the name, address and telephone 

number of the individual or entity who 

shall have the full authority to negotiate, 

amend, or modify all terms of the above 

described mortgage is as follows: 

REGIONS BANK, 215 FORREST 

STREET, HATTIESBURG, MS 39401- 

3476. Telephone: 1-800-986-2462. . The 

foregoing notwithstanding, nothing in O. 

C. G. A.§44-14-162.2 shall be construed 

to require REGIONS BANK to negotiate, 

amend or modify the terms of the Deed 

to Secure Debt described herein. 



prohibited under the U S. Bankruptcy 





REGIONS BANK SUCCESSOR BY 

MERGER TO UNION PLANTERS 

BANK, N.A., AS ATTORNEY IN FACT 

FOR MARIA GALLEGOS 

DAVID M. WOLFSON, P. C. 


1010 Williams Street 

Valdosta, GA 31601 

(229) 257-0080 

State Bar No. 773395 

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Adine M Gann and Robert Gann to 


Systems, Inc., as nominee for Market 

Street Mortgage Corporation, dated 

February 25, 2005, recorded in Deed 



Chase Home Finance LLC by 






amount of EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND 

NINE HUNDRED TWENTY AND 0/100 










being in Land Lot 86, in the 12th District 


Georgia and being more particularly 


Beginning at the northeast intersection 

of Oak Hill Road and Lee Joan Drive; 

thence north 30 degrees west a 

distance of 150 feet along the east side 

of Oak Hill Road to an iron pin; thence 

north 87 degrees 15 minutes east a 

distance of 150 feet to an iron pin; 

thence south 30 degrees east a 

distance of 150 feet to a point on the 

north side of Lee Joan Drive; thence 

south 87 degrees 15 minutes west on 

the north side of Lee Joan Drive a 

distance of 150 feet to the point of 

beginning. 















Chase Home Finance LLC can be 

contacted at 800-446-8939 or by writing 

to 3415 Vision Drive, Columbus, OH 

43219, to discuss possible alternatives 

to foreclosure. 











out above. 



the property is Adine M Gann and 

Robert Gann or a tenant or tenants and 


as 1624 Oak Hill Road NW, Dalton, 

Georgia 30721. 







Chase Home Finance LLC 


Adine M Gann and Robert Gann 

Johnson & Freedman, LLC 

1587 Northeast Expressway 


(770) 234-9181 

www.msplaw.com/foreclosure_sales.asp 

MSP/mt1 4/7/09 


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NOTICE OF SALE 

UNDER POWER CONTAINED IN 

SECURITY DEED 



Pursuant to a power of sale contained in 

a certain Security Deed executed by 

DARRELL LEDFORD and KAYE 

LEDFORD, hereinafter referred to as 

Grantors, with the singular including the 

plural, to FIRST STATE FINANCE, INC., 

dated September 24, 2007 and 

recorded October 3, 2007 Book 5092, 

Pages 106 - 120 of the Clerk of Superior 

Court, Whitfield County, Georgia, and by 

virtue of a default in the payment of the 

debt secured by said Security Deed, the 


aforesaid Grantor which Grantor is, in 

fact, the present holder of said security 

and note secured thereby, will sell 


county within the legal hours of sale for 

cash to the highest bidder on the first 

Tuesday in April, 2009 (April 7, 2009), 

the property which, as of the time of the 

execution of said Security Deed Debt, 

was described as set forth herein. Said 





appearing of record, if any, all zoning 

ordinances, matters which would be 





outstanding and/or unpaid bills and 




said property. To the best of the 

undersigned's knowledge and belief, the 

party in possession of the property is 

believed to be DARRELL LEDFORD 

and KAYE LEDFORD. 

WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA: 


being in Land Lot 209 in the 13th District 


Georgia, and being Lot No. 15 of Big 

Oak Subdivision, Phase II, as shown by 

plat of record in Plat Cabinet C, Slides 

1068 and 1069 in the Office of the Clerk 



Together with a single wide 1990 mobile 

home VIN#SG22147. 

Tax Parcel Identification Number: 13- 

209-10-021. 

Property Also Known As: 505 Moriah 

Noel Drive SW, Resaca, GA 30735. 

Attorney-in-fact reserves the right to 

postpone the sale by announcing at the 

time and place of the original scheduled 

date of sale, without further publication 

or notice. 

David E. Nelson, Jr., as attorney-in-fact 

for the Grantor, First State Finance, Inc. 

/ s/David E. Nelson, Jr. 

David E. Nelson, Jr. 

701 Market St., Ste. 1418 

Chattanooga, TN 37402 

(423) 266-8816 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 











Teresa Gil to JPMorgan Chase Bank, 

N.A., dated October 3, 2006, recorded 



transferred to Chase Home Finance LLC 

by assignment recorded in Deed Book 

5279, Page 12, Whitfield County, 




HUNDRED 

TWENTY-EIGHT 

THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($128,900.00), with 

























Said property will be sold subject 

to any outstanding ad valorem taxes 


yet due and payable), any matters which 







out above. 




Chase Home Finance LLC, 3415 Vision 

Drive, Columbus, OH 43219, 800-446- 







the property is Teresa Gil and Juana 

Moran Gil or a tenant or tenants and 


as 159 Bear Den Ct, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 









Teresa Gil 





MR/ms8 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, being Lot 32 of Bear Creek 

Estates, as per Plat recorded in Plat 

Cabinet D, Slide 173-175, Whitfield 

County, Georgia records, which Plat by 

reference is incorporated herein and 

made a part hereof. 

MR/ms8 4/7/09 

Our file no. 52521308 - FT7 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










Adrian A. Gomez to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee 

for SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. 

, dated August 3, 2005, recorded in 



transferred to SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. 

by assignment to be recorded in the 






NINE THOUSAND AND 0/100 












Georgia, and being the south 100 feet, 

more or less, of Lot No. 153, the north 

10 feet, more or less, of Lot No. 154, 

and the north 10 feet, more or less, of 

Lot No. 154a of Westerly Heights 

Subdivision as shown on revised Plat 

No. 6 thereof, of record in Plat Book 5 




described as per Plat of Survey dated 

March 8, 1995 prepared by Joseph 

Russell Evans, GRLS No. 2168 and 

being described according to said Plat 

of survey as follows: 


east right of way of Harvard Avenue 

149.3 feet north as measured along the 

east right of way of Harvard Avenue 

from the northeast corner of the 

intersection of said Harvard Avenue and 

Crawford Street; thence running north 

01 Degrees 10 Minutes east along the 

east right of way of said Harvard Avenue 

104.49 feet to an iron pin; thence 

running south 88 Degrees 47 Minutes 

east 261.08 feet to an iron pin; thence 





running north 89 Degrees 23 Minutes 

west 104.33 feet to an Iron pin; thence 

running north 88 Degrees 38 Minutes 

west 140.0 feet to an Iron pin and the 
















Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. can be 


to 1001 Semmes Avenue, Richmond, VA 














out above. 



the property is Adrian A. Gomez or a 


more commonly known as 102 Harvard 










Adrian A. Gomez 




(770) 234-9181 


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Aida Gonzalez to Mortgage Electronic 



dated June 22, 2006, recorded in Deed 









amount of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY- 

EIGHT THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED 

THIRTY-ONE AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 



























out above. 






27607, 8666428608. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Aida Gonzalez or a 



Orchard Way, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Aida Gonzalez 





MR/sm01 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia, being Lot 7, Orchard 

Park, as shown on a plat of survey 

prepared by Norman B. DeLoach, 

Georgia registered land surveyor no. 

1347, dated September 27, 2005 and 


Whitfield County, Georgia land records, 

reference to which plat is hereby made 

and incorporated herein by reference for 

a more particular description of said 

property. 

MR/sm01 4/7/09 

Our file no. 51158708 - FT1 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










Gary L. Gordon and Elizabeth Ann 

Gordon to Countrywide Home Loans, 

INC., dated March 17, 2003, recorded in 



transferred to Countrywide Home Loans 

Servicing LP by assignment to be 







HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($110,000.00), with 




































out above. 




Countrywide Home Loans, 2270 

Lakeside Blvd, Richardson, TX 75082, 

1-888-219-7773. Please understand 

that the secured creditor is not required 

by law to negotiate, amend, or modify 

the terms of the mortgage instrument. 



the property is Gary L. Gordon and 

Elizabeth Ann Gordon or a tenant or 


commonly known as 2509 Cleveland 

Hwy, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Gary L. Gordon and Elizabeth Ann 

Gordon 





MR/ps1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia, being .67 acres, more 

or less, according to a plat of survey 

prepared for Gary Gordon, by Donald O. 

Babb, Georgia registered land surveyor 

no. 2029, dated June 10, 1993, and 

being more particularly described 

according to said survey as follows: 

beginning at an iron pin located in the 

westerly right of way line of Georgia 

Highway No. 71 (100 feet right of way), 

said point being located in a northerly 

direction as measured along said right 

of way line a distance of 300 feet from 

the intersection of said right of way line 

with the northerly right of way line of 

Pleasant Hill Drive; thence running 

south 89 degrees 32 minutes 21 

seconds west a distance of 190.31 feet 

to an iron pin; thence running north 05 

degrees 19 minutes 31 seconds east a 

distance of 150 feet to an iron pin; 

thence running south 89 degrees 51 

minutes 09 seconds east a distance of 

204.74 feet to an iron pin located in the 

westerly right of way line of Georgia 

Highway No. 71; thence running south 

10 degrees 53 minutes 52 seconds west 

a distance of 150 feet as measured 

along said right of way line to an iron 

pin, which marks the point of beginning. 

MR/ps1 4/7/09 

Our file no. 51164908 - FT4 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 




that certain Security Deed from Pedro P. 

Lopez to Mortgage Electronic 


as nominee for America`s Wholesale 

Lender, dated November 23, 2005, 

recorded December 7, 2005, in Deed 

Book 4653, Page 307-319, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Records, said Security 

Deed having been given to secure a 

Note of even date in the original 

principal amount of Two Hundred Eight 

Thousand and 00/100 dollars 


provided for therein, said Security Deed 

having been last sold, assigned and 

transferred to Bank Of New York As 

Tructee For The Certificateholders 

CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust 

2005-85CB Mortgage Pass-Through 

Certificates, Series 2005-85CB, there 

will be sold at public outcry to the 





on the first Tuesday in April, 2009, all 

property described in said Security 

Deed including but not limited to the 




LOT 155 OF THE 12TH DISTRICT AND 

3RD SECTION OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING LOT 

93 OF GREEN VALLEY SUBDIVISION, 

PLAT 7, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN 

PLAT BOOK 7, PAGE 126, WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA RECORDS, 

WHICH PLAT BY REFERENCE IS 

INCORPORATED HEREIN AND MADE 

A PART HEREOF. SUBJECT TO THE 

RESTRICTIVE 

COVENANTS 

RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 933, 

PAGE 258, WHITFIELD COUNTY, 

GEORGIA RECORDS. 


440 Battleline Drive, Rocky Face, GA 

30740. 




























To the 



the property is Pedro P. Lopez or 

tenants(s). 











BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUCTEE 

FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS 

CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN 

TRUST 2005-85CB MORTGAGE PASS- 

THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 

2005-85CB 


PEDRO P. LOPEZ 

Lender Contact: COUNTRYWIDE, Loss 

Mitigation Dept., 7105 Corporate Drive, 

PTX-A-274, Plano, TX 75024 






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Greeson & Dean, LLC to Cohutta 

Banking Company, dated April 28, 2006 

and recorded in Deed Book 4759, Page 

18, Whitfield County, Georgia Records, 

said Security Deed being further 

secured by an Assignment of Rents and 

Leases recorded May 16, 2006 in Deed 

Book 4759, page 29, aforesaid records, 



amount of Four Hundred Twenty Six 

Thousand Nine Hundred Fifteen Dollars 

and Twenty Cents ($426,915.20), with 




courthouse door of Whitfield County, 


on the first Tuesday in April, 2009 by 

Cohutta Banking Company, as Attorneyin-Fact 

for Greeson & Dean, LLC, the 

following described property to wit: 



























out above. 

Said property will be sold 

subject to the following Security Deed: 

Security Deed given by Greeson & 

Dean, LLC to Cohutta Banking 

Company, dated August 12, 2005, 


Whitfield County, Georgia Records. 

Said Security Deed being further 

secured by an Assignment of Rents and 

Leases recorded August 22, 2005 in 

Deed Book 4574, page 242, aforesaid 

records conveying the after-described 


principal amount of Nine Hundred Thirty 

Six Thousand Eight Hundred Forty Eight 

and 50/100 DOLLARS ($936,848.50), 

with interest thereon as set forth therein 




Greeson & Dean, LLC or a tenant or 

tenants and/or Carolyn Greeson who 

pursuant to a junior Security Deed in 

favor of Jack Robert Greeson and 

Carolyn Greeson dated September 1, 

2007 and recorded in Deed Book 5095, 

page 46, Whitfield County, Georgia 

records, as last transferred to Carolyn 

Greeson by assignment recorded in 

Deed Book 5133, Page 180, aforesaid 

records, has exercised her rights of 

foreclosure as filed of record in Deed 

Book 5168, Page 156, aforesaid 

records, subject to the aforesaid security 

interest of Cohutta Banking Company, 


known as a 1507-2 Calloway Drive, 

Dalton, Ga 30721. 








1501 N. Thornton Avenue, Dalton, Ga 

30720, Attn: Pat Townsend, Telephone 

number 706-275-9431. 















Greeson & Dean, LLC 





(706) 278-2040 


That certain condominium unit in Land 

Lot 141 in the 12th District and 3rd 

Section of Whitfield County and being 

identified and depicted as Condominium 

Unit No. 2 of Building No. 1507, Plat No. 

17, of the Villas at Hammond Creek, a 

Condominium on a plat dated August 

14, 2006, recorded in Plat Cabinet D, 

Slide 730, in the office of the Clerk of 


Georgia Land Records, together with its 

appurtenant percentage of undivided 

interest in the common elements of The 

Villas at Hammond Creek, a 

Condominium, as provided in that 

certain Declaration of Condominium for 

The Villas at Hammond Creek, a 

Condominium, dated December 19, 

2005 and recorded in Deed Book 4551, 

page 97, as amended in Deed Book 

4584, Page 196, Deed Book 4584, Page 

201, Deed Book 4631, Page 305, Deed 

Book 4641, Page 74, Deed Book 4664, 

Page 146, Deed Book 4675, Page 225, 

Deed Book 4685, Page 98, Deed Book 

4720, Page 9, Deed Book 4727, Page 

197, Deed Book 4759, Page 119, Deed 

Book 4773, Page 328, Deed Book 4773, 

page 338, Deed Book 4827, page 236, 

Deed Book 4940, Page 21 and Deed 

Book 4954, page 253, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Land Records; or as hereafter 

amended as therein provided 

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Arturo Guzman to Mortgage Electronic 


October 20, 2006, recorded in Deed 



Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. by assignment 

to be recorded in the Office of the Clerk 

of Superior Court of 




the original principal amount of EIGHTY- 

FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED 

FIFTY AND 0/100 DOLLARS 









property: 



























out above. 












the property is Arturo Guzman or a 



Kenwood Drive, Dalton, Georgia 30720. 







Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. 


Arturo Guzman 





MR/en 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, and being Lot no. 167 through 

10, inclusive, in Kenwood Subdivision as 

shown by plat of said subdivision 

recorded in plat book 1 page 185, in the 


of Whitfield County, Georgia, reference 

to which is herein made for a more full 

and complete description which is 

hereby incorporated by reference. 

MR/en 4/7/09 


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IN DEED TO SECURE DEBT 

Under and by virtue of the power of sale 

contained in that certain Deed to Secure 

Debt from Sammy Joe Mitchell and 

Victoria Ann Mitchell to Fidelity Federal 

Savings Bank in the original principal 

amount of $51,200.00 dated 

03/13/1987, and recorded in Deed Book 

996, page 338, Whitfield County 

records, said Security Deed being last 

transferred and assigned to Trans 

Financial Bank, fsb. in Deed Book 2578, 

Page 57, the undersigned will sell at 


cash before the Courthouse door in said 

County, during the legal hours of sale, 

on the first Tuesday of April, 2009 by 

U.S. Bank, N.A. f/k/a Firstar Bank, N.A. 

f/k/a Star Bank, N.A., successor by 

merger with Trans Financial Bank, N.A., 

successor by merger with Trans 

Financial Bank, fsb., as Attorney-in-Fact 

for Sammy Joe Mitchell and Victoria Ann 

Mitchell the following described 

property: 




County, Georgia, and being Lot No. 175 

of Meadow Park Subdivision, as shown 

by Plat No. 6 thereof, of record in Plat 

Book 10, Page 39, (Plat Cabinet A, Slide 

298), in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia, and described as follows: 

Beginning at a point of the northerly side 

of South Westwood Circle 999.28 feet 

westward along the northerly side of 

South Westwood Circle from the 

Northwest corner of the intersection of 

South Westwood Circle and North 

Westwood Circle; thence North 84 

degrees west along the northerly side of 

South Westwood Circle 112.57 feet; 

thence North 5 degrees 19 minutes east 

183.24 feet; thence South 89 degrees 

east 115 feet; thence South 5 degrees 

53 minutes 30 seconds West 195.08 


All is 

more particularly described per plat of 

survey prepared for Sammy Joe Mitchell 

and Victoria Ann Mitchell by Joseph R. 

Evans, Registered Land Surveyor dated 

March 3, 1987. 

Property known as: 

224 Westwood 

Circle, Dalton, GA 30721 

The indebtedness secured by said Deed 

to Secure Debt having been declared 

due and payable because of default in 

the payment of the indebtedness 

secured thereby, this sale will be made 

for the purposes of paying the same and 

all expenses of sale, including attorney's 

fees, (notice having been given as 

provided by law). 

The property will be sold as the property 

of The Aforesaid Grantors subject to the 

following: 

(1) all prior restrictive covenants, 

easements, rights-of-way or 

encumbrances; (2) all valid zoning 

ordinances; (3) matters which would be 

disclosed by an accurate survey of the 

property; (4) the outstanding ad valorem 

taxes and assessments, if any; (5) 

unpaid water and sewage bills, that 

constitute liens against the property, 

whether due and payable or not yet due 

and payable; and (6) matters of record 

superior to the security deed first set out 

above. 


162.2 the name of the person or entity 

who has the full authority to negotiate, 


aforementioned indebtedness is: 

U.S. Bank, N.A. 

4801 Frederica Street 

Owensboro, KY 42301 

PHONE: 800-365-7772 

Nothing contained in this Notice of Sale 

shall obligate Lender to negotiate, 

amend or modify said indebtedness. 

To the best of the undersigned's 


possession is Sammy Joe Mitchell and 

Victoria Ann Mitchell. 

U.S. Bank, N.A. f/k/a Firstar Bank, N.A. 

f/k/a Star Bank, N.A., successor by 

merger with Trans Financial Bank, N.A., 

successor by merger with Trans 

Financial Bank, fsb., as Attorney-in-fact 

for Sammy Joe Mitchell and Victoria Ann 

Mitchell. 

This law firm is acting as a debt collector 

attempting to collect a debt, any 

information obtained will be used for that 

purpose. 

Pendergast & Jones, P.C. 

South Terraces, Suite 1000 

115 Perimeter Center Place 


Phone – (770) 392-0398 

Toll Free – (866) 999-7088 

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a certain Security Deed executed by 

DANIEL A. HARPER and EDITH 

HARPER, hereinafter referred to as 

Grantors, with the singular including the 

plural, to COMMUNITY CHOICE 

FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., dated 

October 29, 2001 and recorded October 

31, 2001 in Book 3556, Pages 31 - 46 of 

the Clerk of Superior Court, Whitfield 

County, Georgia, now known as First 

State Finance by Articles of Amendment 

to the Charter amended and recorded in 

the Tennessee Secretary of State=s 

Office on 12/28/2006, and by virtue of a 

default in the payment of the debt 

secured by said Security Deed, the 


aforesaid Grantor which Grantor is, in 

fact, the present holder of said security 

and note secured thereby, will sell 


county within the legal hours of sale for 

cash to the highest bidder on the first 

Tuesday in May, 2009 (May 5, 2009), the 

property which, as of the time of the 

execution of said Security Deed Debt, 

was described as set forth herein. Said 





appearing of record, if any, all zoning 

ordinances, matters which would be 





outstanding and/or unpaid bills and 




said property. To the best of the 

undersigned's knowledge and belief, the 

party in possession of the property is 

believed to be DANIEL A. HARPER and 

EDITH HARPER. 

WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA: 

Land lot 281 of the 12th District and 3rd 

Section of Whitfield County, Georgia, 

and being Tract 2 as shown on a plat 

prepared by Joseph R. Evans, Georgia 


dated February 4, 1993, and being more 

particularly described as follows: 

Beginning at an iron pin on Duckett 

Road, also known as Winnwood Road 

(50 foot R/W), which point is located 

637.33 feet South along the West rightof-way 

of Duckett Road from its 

intersection with the East line of Land 

Lot 281; thence South 89 degrees 51 

minutes West 225.31 feet to an iron pin 

and the True Point of Beginning, thence 

South 02 degrees 04 minutes East 

212.61 feet to a point; thence south 86 

degrees 18 minutes West 51.22 feet to a 

point; thence South 78 degrees 42 

minutes West 69.20 feet to a point; 

thence North 34 degrees 37 minutes 

West 29.13 feet to an iron pin; thence 

South 64 degrees 16 minutes West 

45.21 feet to a point; thence North 03 

degrees 24 minutes East 65.24 feet to a 

point; thence North 03 degrees 07 

minutes East 50.78 feet to a point; 


East 53.92 feet to a point; thence North 

01 degree 13 minutes East 48.65 feet to 

a point; thence North 00 degrees 10 

minutes East 89.83 feet to an iron pin; 

thence South 88 degrees 12 minutes 

East 88.56 feet to an iron pin; thence 

south 00 degrees 40 minutes East 80.59 

feet to an iron pin; thence North 89 

degrees 51 minutes East 69.27 feet to 

the True Point of Beginning. 

Together with a perpetual easement for 

ingress and egress 25 feet in width 

running across the North portion of Tract 

1 as shown on the plat prepared by 

Joseph R. Evans and referred to above. 

Subject to any governmental zoning and 

subdivision ordinances or regulations in 

effect thereon. 

Easement as set out in Book 879, Page 



Georgia. 

All easements and rights of way of 

record, in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia. 

Property Also Known As: 2034 

Winnwood Drive, Dalton, GA 30721. 

Attorney-in-fact reserves the right to 

postpone the sale by announcing at the 

time and place of the original scheduled 

date of sale, without further publication 

or notice. 

David E. Nelson, Jr., as attorney-in-fact 

for the Grantor, First State Finance, Inc. 

/ s/David E. Nelson, Jr. 

David E. Nelson, Jr. 

701 Market St., Ste. 1418 

Chattanooga, TN 37402 

(423) 266-8816 

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Sandy Travis Harris to Mortgage 

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., 

dated October 5, 2004, recorded in 



transferred to SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. 






amount of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY- 

SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED 









property: 



























out above. 












the property is Sandy Travis Harris or a 




Riverbend Road, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 









Sandy Travis Harris 





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EXHIBIT A 




Georgia and being designated as Lot 4 

of River Oaks, and being more 

particularly described according to a 

Plat of survey of said Subdivision 

prepared by Nb Deloach, GRLS#1347, 

dated October 5, 2004 and recorded in 

Plat Cabinet D, Slice 90, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Land Records, 

reference to which Plat is hereby made 

and incorporated herein by reference for 

a more complete description. 

For prior title see deed book 4159, page 

248, Whitfield County, Georgia Records. 

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Rosa E. Hernandez a.k.a Rosa E. 

Hernandez-Zapata to Mortgage 


dated April 17, 2007, recorded in Deed 









amount of ONE HUNDRED TEN 

THOUSAND AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 



























out above. 






27607, 8666428608. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Rosa E. Hernandez a.k.a 

Rosa E. Hernandez-Zapata or a tenant 

or tenants and said property is more 

commonly known as 1005 Trammell St, 

Dalton, Georgia 30720. 









Rosa E. Hernandez a.k.a Rosa E. 

Hernandez-Zapata 





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EXHIBIT A 

Tract 1: A certain tract or parcel of land 

lying and being in Land Lots Nos. 182 

and 199 of the 12th District and 3rd 

Section of Whitfield County, Georgia and 

being Lot No. 518, Group 7, of the lands 

of Crown Cotton Mills, as shown by plat 

of record in Plat Book 3 Page 152 (Plat 

Cabinet A, Slide 108) in the Office of the 



Tract 2: A certain tract or parcel of land 

lying and being in Land Lot No. 199 of 

the 12th District and 3rd Section of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, being the 

east half of Parcel No. 6 of the property 

of Crown America, Inc., formerly Crown 

Cotton Mills, as shown by plat of record 

in Plat Book 11 Page 82 (Plat Cabinet A, 

Slide 334), in the Office of the Clerk of 


Georgia, being more particularly 


Beginning at the northwest corner of the 

intersection of the right of way of 

Trammell Street with the right of way of 

Richardson Road; thence south 64 

degrees 16 minutes 30 seconds west 

following the north right of way of said 

Richardson Road 153.88 feet; thence 

northwesterly to an iron stake located on 

the south line of Group 7 of the Crown 

Cotton Mills property; thence north 60 

degrees 19 minutes east 146.495 feet to 

the west right of way of Trammell Street; 

thence south 35 degrees 0 minutes east 

following said right of way 79.74 feet to 


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Deed executed by Margaret Jackson to 


Systems, Inc. dated April 11, 2006 in the 




transferred to U.S. Bank National 

Association, as Trustee for the Specialty 

Underwriting and Residential Finance 

Trust Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed 

Certificates Series 2006-BC4 by 

assignment; the undersigned, U.S. Bank 

National Association, as Trustee for the 

Specialty Underwriting and Residential 

Finance Trust Mortgage Loan Asset- 

Backed Certificates Series 2006-BC4 















County, Georgia, in the City of Dalton, 

and described as follows: 

Beginning at the Southeast cornere of 

the intersection of Foster Street and 

Fields Avenue, former Tarver Street 

thence North 89 Degrees 19 Minutes 

East along the South side of Foster 

Street 60.5 feet; thence South 1 Degree 

59 Minutes 38 Seconds East 139.91 

feet; thence South 89 Degrees 37 

Minutes West 75 feet to the East side of 

Fields Avenue; thence North 3 Degrees 

37 Minutes East along the East aide of 

Fields Avenue 139.91 feet to the Point of 

Beginning. 


Jerry R. Austin and Dora Austin by 

Warranty Deed of record in Book 778, 

Page 222, Clerk`s Office Whitfield 


Property Address: m112 Fields Avenue, 



Fields Avenue, Dalton, Georgia., 



deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Margaret Jackson 

and the 







Deed. 

U.S. Bank National Association, as 

Trustee for the Specialty Underwriting 

and Residential Finance Trust Mortgage 

Loan Asset-Backed Certificates Series 

2006-BC4 


Margaret Jackson 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/jplanicka 


(404) 373-1612 








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contained in that certain Security Deed 

and Agreement from Miguel A. Medina 

(the “Grantor”) to Appalachian 

Community Bank (the “Grantee”), dated 

July 18, 2007, filed and recorded August 

9, 2007, in Deed Book 5059, Page 198, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Records (the 

“Security Deed”), conveying the afterdescribed 

property to secure that 

certain Universal Note dated July 18, 

2007, from Grantor payable to Gilmer 

County Bank, a division of Appalachian 

Community Bank in the original principal 

amount of One Hundred Nine Thousand 

Nine Hundred and No/100 Dollars 


set forth therein (the Note”), there will be 





Tuesday in April, 2009, fillin "" \d ""the 





Georgia being designated as Parcel A of 

the re-division of Lots 1-15 and 3 and 

part of Lots 32-36, Block A of Fernwood 

Park Subdivision, according to a plat of 

survey prepared for Spence 

International by Joseph R. Evans GRLS 

#2168, dated April 4, 2007, revised April 

10, 2007 and recorded in Plat Cabinet 

D, Slide 961, in the Office of the Clerk of 


Georgia which plat and the description 

set out therein are by reference 

incorporated herein for a more particular 



Security Deed fillin "" \d ""has been and 

is hereby declared due and payable 




the manner provided in the Note. fillin "" 

\d ""The debt remaining in default, this 

sale will be made for the purpose of 

paying the same and all expenses of 

this sale, as provided in the Security 

Deed and by law, including attorney's 

fees (notice of intent to collect attorney's 

fees having been given as provided by 

law). 

The property will be sold for cash or 

certified funds and subject to any and all 

matters of record superior to said 

Security Deedfillin "" \d "", outstanding 

ad valorem taxes, any matters which 




covenants, and easements against the 

property, if any. The sale will be 

conducted as set forth herein subject to 

(1) confirmation prior to the sale that the 

sale is not prohibited under the U.S. 

Bankruptcy Code and (2) final 

confirmation and audit prior to the sale 

of the status of the loan with the holder 

of the Security Deed. The debt 

remaining in default, this sale will be 

made for the purpose of paying the 

same and all expenses of this sale, as 

provided in the Security Deed and by 

law, including attorney's fees (notice of 

intent to collect attorney's fees having 

been given as provided by law). 

Grantee reserves the right to sell the 

property in one parcel or as an entity, or 

in such parcels as Grantee may elect, 

as permitted in the Security Deed. 

To the best of undersigned’s knowledge 

and belief, the property is designated as 

Lots 14 and 15, Fernwood Park 

Subdivision, Whitfield County, Georgia, 

and the party in possession of the 

property is Miguel A. Medina, or his 

tenant or tenants. 

Appalachian Community Bank as 


Miguel A. Medina 

Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp & Nasuti, 

P.C. 

40 Technology Parkway South, Suite 

300 

Norcross, Georgia 30092 

(770) 925-0111 






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GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY 








Billy James and Betty James to Cohutta 

Banking Company, dated June 4, 1999 

and recorded June 4, 1999 in Deed 


Georgia Records, said Security Deed 

being further secured by an Assignment 

of Rents and Leases dated June 4, 

1999 and recorded June 4, 1999 in 

Deed Book 3144, Page 330, aforesaid 

records, conveying the after-described 


principal amount of Forty Eight 

Thousand and zero Cents ($48,000.00), 






on the first Tuesday in April, 2009 by 

Cohutta Banking Company, as Attorneyin-Fact 

for Billy James and Betty James, 

the following described property to wit: 



























out above 




Billy James and Betty James, or a 


more commonly known as a 406 

McGhee Drive, Dalton, Ga 30721. 








1416 Dug Gap Road, Dalton, Ga 30720, 

Attn: Christopher R. Blevins, Telephone 

number 706-712-5504. 















Billy James and Betty James 





(706) 278-2040 



being in Land Lots Nos. 241 and 242 in 


Whitfield County, Georgia, and being 

Lots Nos. 26, 27, 28 and 29 of the W. F. 

McGhee Subdivision as shown by plat of 

record in Plat Book 1, page 191, in the 


of Whitfield County, Georgia. Being a 

part of Tract 24 as conveyed by The 

Church of God of the Union Assembly, 

Inc., to Alfred W Jones, J.E. Kirk, and R. 

A. Burnett by deed of record in Deed 

Book 158, page 256, Whitfield County 

Deed records. 

This conveyance is made subject to all 


restrictions and rights of way of record, 

insofar as the same may lawfully affect 

the above described property. 

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THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A 

DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED 

WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 



Russell Johnson to Wells Fargo Bank, 

N.A., dated November 30, 2005, 





amount of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND 

EIGHT HUNDRED TEN AND 0/100 





door of Whitfield County, Georgia 


Tuesday in May, 2009, the following 

















attorney’s fees having been given). 











out above. 





10335, Des Moines, IA 50306, 1-800- 







the property is Russell Johnson or a 



Discovery Lane, Dalton, GA 30721. 








Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 


Russell Johnson 





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being in Original Land Lot No. 263, in 


Whitfield County, Georgia, being known 

and designated as Lot No. 90, Beaver 

Creek, Phase 6, as shown by plat 

recorded in plat cabinet C, slide 2132, in 

the Office of the Clerk of the Superior 


Being the same property conveyed by 

warranty deed recorded in deed book 

4653, page 233, in the said Clerk's 

Office. 

This conveyance is made subject to the 

following: 

Declaration of Covenants, Conditions 

and Restrictions for Beaver Creek, 

Phase 6, recorded in deed book 3357, 

page 68, in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia but omitting any covenant or 

restriction based on race, color, religion, 

sex handicap, familial status or national 

origin unless an only to the extent that 

said covenant (a) is exempt under 

Chapter 42, Section 3607, of the United 

States Code or (b) relates to handicap 

but does not discriminate against 

handicapped person. 

Building setback lines and easements 

as shown on the recorded plat. 

Ten (10) foot utility easement along the 

side and rear of all lots as specified on 

the recorded plat. 

Conditions, Restrictions, Reservations, 

Limitations easements, etc., as set out 

on the recorded plat. 

Any governmental zoning and 



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Our file no. 52802206 - FT5 

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in the Deed to Secure Debt from 

Karock, LLC, to First Bank of Dalton, 

dated January 24, 2005, and recorded 

in Deed Book 4422, Pages 313-316, 

and by virtue of the power of sale 

contained in the Deed to Secure Debt 

from Karock, LLC, to First Bank of 

Dalton, dated June 15, 2005 and 

recorded in Deed Book 4527, Pages 

258-261, modified in Deed Book 4797, 

Page 237, and modified in Deed Book 

5034, Pages 120-121, and modified in 

Deed Book 5227, Pages 197-198, Deed 

Records of Whitfield County, Georgia, 

(hereinafter “Deeds”) said Deeds being 

given to secure certain indebtednesses 

referred in said Deeds, including, but not 

limited to, a Note in the original principal 

sum of $1,342,772.70, any renewals 

thereof, plus all accrued interest, there 



before the Courthouse door in Whitfield 

County, Georgia within the legal hours of 

sale on the first Tuesday in April, 2009 

(April 7, 2009), the property described in 

said Deeds as follows: 




County, Georgia, containing 72.37 

acres, and being more particularly 

described as per plat of survey prepared 

by Donald O. Babb, Registered Land 

Surveyor, dated February 22, 2000, said 

plat being recorded in Plat Cabinet C, 

Slide 2004, in the Office of the Clerk of 


Georgia, to which reference is herein 


description. 

LESS AND EXCEPT Lot Nos. 6, 9, 10, 

26, 34, 35, 55, 58 and 59 of 

Rockingham Subdivision as shown on 

plat of said subdivision prepared by 

Donald O. Babb, Georgia Registered 

Land Surveyor No. 2029, dated January 

18, 2006 and recorded in Plat Cabinet D 

Slides 551-553, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Land Records, reference to 

which plat is hereby made and 

incorporated herein by reference for a 

more complete description. 

The property is located on Georgia 

Highway 2 and is known as Rockingham 

Subdivision, Varnell, Whitfield County, 

Georgia. 

The indebtednesses secured by said 

Deeds have been and are hereby 

accelerated and declared due because 

of, among other possible events of 

default, failure to pay in accordance with 

the terms of said Deeds and/or Note. 

Said indebtednesses remaining in 

default said sale will be held as provided 

by law and under the terms of said 

Deeds. The proceeds of said sale shall 


indebtednesses, the expenses of this 

proceeding, including but not limited to, 

attorney's fees, and all other payments 

as provided for under the Deeds, Note, 

and by law. 

Notice has been given of the intention to 

enforce provisions for collection of 

attorney's fees and foreclosure in 

accordance with legal requirements and 

the terms of said Deeds and Note. 

Said property will be sold subject to all 



now due and payable), assessments, 

liens, encumbrances, zoning 

ordinances, restrictions, covenants, lien 

for unpaid utility bills, and other matters 

of record superior, if any, to the Deeds 

and the sale will be conducted subject to 

confirmation that it is not stayed under 

the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and to final 

audit and confirmation of the loan with 

the holder of the Deeds. 

To the best knowledge, information and 

belief of the undersigned, said property, 

commonly known as Rockingham 

Subdivision, Varnell, Whitfield County, 

Georgia, is in the possession of Karock, 

LLC, and will be sold as the property of 

Karock, LLC. 

First Bank of Dalton 

As Attorney in Fact for 

Karock, LLC 

By: WILLIAM W. BELL, JR. 

MINOR, BELL & NEAL, As Attorneys for 


P. O. Box 2586 

Dalton, GA 30722-2586 

(706) 259-2586 

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Elizabeth C. Lambert to Wells Fargo 

Bank, NA, dated September 15, 2005, 



last transferred to HSBC Bank USA, 

National Association, as Trustee for 

Wells Fargo Home Equity Asset Backed 

Certificates, Series 2005-4 by 






amount of ONE HUNDRED FIVE 

THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($105,400.00), with 



































out above. 





10335, Des Moines, IA 50306, 1-800- 







the property is Elizabeth C. Lambert or a 



Lafayette Road, Rocky Face, Georgia 

30740. 







HSBC Bank USA, National Association, 

as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity 

Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005- 

4 


Elizabeth C. Lambert 





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EXHIBIT A 

The land referred to in this policy is 

situated in the State of Georgia County 

of Whitfield, and described as follows: 




County, Georgia, being Lot No. 4 of 

Cridor-Hall Estates, as per plat of said 

subdivision recorded in Plat Cabinet C, 

Slide 733, in the Office of the Clerk of 



described as per plat of survey prepared 

by N.B. DeLoach, registered land 

surveyor, dated September 3, 1991, as 

follows: 

Beginning at a fence corner located on 

the southeasterly right-of-way line of 

Georgia Highway No. 201, said point 

being located 468.56 feet 

southwestwardly as measured along the 

southeasterly right-of-way line of 

Georgia Highway No. 201 from its 

intersection with the north line of Land 

Lot No. 240; thence south 06 degrees 17 


an iron pin; thence north 25 degrees 52 


an iron pin located on the southeasterly 

right-of-way line of Georgia Highway No. 

201; thence north 64 degrees 48 

minutes 15 seconds east along the 

southeasterly right-of-way line of 

Georgia Highway No. 201 240.33 feet to 



the grantee(s) by deed from Donald E. 

Lambert, dated 3/5/93 and recorded 

3/30/93 in Deed Book 2381, Page 141. 

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Ausencio Lopez, Sr. to Mortgage 


dated November 18, 2004, recorded in 



transferred to US Bank, NA successorin-interest 

to Wachovia Bank, NA as 

Indenture Trustee for JP MORGAN 

2005-A3 by assignment to be recorded 

in the Office of the Clerk of Superior 

Court of Whitfield County, Georgia 

Records, conveying the after-described 


principal amount of ONE HUNDRED 

FORTY-SIX THOUSAND THREE 









property: 


























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out above. 



of the mortgage with the debtor is: PHH 

Mortgage Corporation, Mailstop SV01, 

4001 Leadenhall Rd, Mount Laurel, NJ 

08054, 800-750-2518. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Sonia I. Morales and 

Benjamin Morales or a tenant or tenants 


known as 3839 Brock Road, Dalton, 








US Bank, NA successor-in-interest to 

Wachovia Bank, NA as Indenture 

Trustee for JP MORGAN 2005-A3 


Ausencio Lopez, Sr. 





MR/js2 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 

A certain tract or parcel of land lying and 



Georgia, being Lot No. 3 of the Wayne 

Burgess and Octavio Perez Property as 

shown by plat of record in Plat Cabinet 

C, Slide 2504, in the Office of the Clerk 



particularly described in a plat entitled 

"Survey for Gilbert Watts, Jr. and 

Octavio Perez" by Joseph R. Evans, 

Georgia Registered Land Surveyor No. 

2168, dated November 3, 2003, as 

follows: 

Beginning at a 1/2-inch iron pin found on 

the northerly right of way of Brock Road 

(50 feet right of way) said point of 

beginning being located north 50 

degrees 45 minutes 14 seconds east a 

distance of 2243.34 feet from the 

intersections of the center lines of 

Airport Road and Brock Road; thence 

north 00 degree 10 minutes 38 seconds 

east 274.19 feet to a 1/2-inch iron pin 

found; thence south 89 degrees 49 

minutes 22 seconds east along a fence 

line 117.43 feet to a 1/2-inch iron pin 

found; thence south 06 degrees 17 

minutes 7 seconds west 163.79 feet to a 

1/2-inch iron pin placed; thence south 00 

degree 10 minutes 38 seconds west 

130.41 feet to a 1/2-inch iron pin found 

on the northerly right of way of Brock 

Road; thence along the northerly right of 

way of said road north 82 degrees 48 

minutes 0 second west 51.68 feet and 


seconds west 50.36 feet to the point of 

beginning. 

Subject to restrictions contained in 

instrument of record in Deed Book 2056, 


Clerk's records. 

Subject to building setback lines as 

shown on said plat of record in Plat 


Georgia Clerk's records. 

Being that identical property conveyed 

to Octavio Perez and Gilbert H. Watts, 

Jr., by deeds of record in Deed Book 

3871, Page 146; Deed Book 3871, Page 

144; and Deed Book 3786, Page 282, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Clerk's 

records. 

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in the Deed to Secure Debt from Penvoy 

Construction, Inc., to First Georgia 

Banking Company, dated November 20, 

2006, and recorded in Deed Book 4892 

Pages 176-181 and re-recorded in Deed 

Book 4924 Pages 237-242, Deed 


(hereinafter “Deed”) said Deed being 


referred in said Deed, including, but not 


sum of $210,000.00, any renewals 








said Deed as follows: 


being in Land Lot Nos. 268 and 303 in 


Whitfield County, Georgia, and being Lot 

No. 58 of The Highlands Subdivision, as 

shown on a plat of survey of said 

subdivision, dated July 15, 2004, and 

recorded in Plat Cabinet C, Slides 2834- 


Records, said plat being incorporated 

herein and made 

a part hereof by 

reference. 

For prior title see Deed Book 4603 Page 


Records. 

TOGETHER WITH all fixtures and 

personal property, if any, attached to 

and constituting a part of said real 

property. 


Deed has been and is hereby 




the terms of said Deed and/or Note. 




Deed. 

The proceeds of said sale shall 





as provided for under the Deed, Note, 

and by law. 





the terms of said Deed and Note. 








of record superior, if any, to the Deed 





the holder of the Deed. 



commonly known 

as 3020 Highland 

Circle, Lot #58, Rocky Face, 

Whitfield 

County, Georgia, is in the possession of 

and will be sold as the property of 

Penvoy Construction, Inc. 

First Georgia Banking Company 






P. O. Box 2586 

Dalton, GA 30722-2586 

(706) 259-2586 

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Deed executed by Heriberto Magana to 


Systems, Inc. dated July 24, 2008 in the 




transferred to CitiMortgage, Inc. by 

assignment; the undersigned, 

CitiMortgage, Inc. pursuant to said deed 

and the note thereby secured, has 

declared the entire amount of said 










being in Land Lot 25, 11th District and 

3rd Section of Whitfield County, Georgia 

being 1.78 Acres as shown on Plat of 

Survey for Roy Maples by E. Martin 

Smith GRLS# 923, dated February 6, 

1976, and more particularly described 

as follows: 

Begin at an iron pin on the Easterly R/W 

of Red Clay Road (80-foot R/W) at a 

point which is a distance of 755 Feet 

from the intersection of Red Clay Road 

and the R/W of Cleveland Railroad as 

measured in a Northerly direction along 

the Easterly side of Red Clay Road; 

thence continuing along the Easterly 

side of Red Clay Road the following 

courses and distances, to-whit; North 01 

Degrees 26 Minutes East a distance of 

142.04 Feet; North 02 Degrees 40 

Minutes West a distance of 187.18 Feet; 

North 01 Degrees 56 Minutes East a 

distance of 65.96 Feet; North 09 

Degrees 13 Minutes East a distance of 

76.72 Feet; thence leaving the R/W of 

said Red Clay Road and running South 

86 Degrees 45 Minutes East a distance 

of 245.00 Feet to the R/W of Cleveland 

Railroad (60 foot R/W); thence along the 

West R/W of said Cleveland Railroad 

South 21 Degrees 21 Minutes West a 

distnace of 493.34 Feet to an iron pin; 

thence North 88 Degrees 00 Minutes 

West a distance of 76.36 Feet to an iron 

pin on the Easterly R/W of said Red 

Clay Road and the Point of Beginning. 


Red Clay Road, Cohutta, Georgia., 



deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Heriberto Magana 

and the 







Deed. 

CitiMortgage, Inc. 


Heriberto Magana 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/llawson 


(404) 373-1612 


File No. 09-05633 /FHA 






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IN DEED TO SECURE DEBT 

Under and by virtue of the power of sale 

contained in that certain Deed to Secure 

Debt from Tommie Carolyn McClure to 

CitiCorp Trust Bank, fsb in the original 

principal amount of $69,943.61 dated 

03/11/2004, and recorded in Deed Book 

4192, page 331, Whitfield County 

records, the undersigned will sell at 


cash before the Courthouse door in said 

County, during the legal hours of sale, 

on the first Tuesday of April, 2009 by 

CitiCorp Trust Bank, fsb., as Attorney-in- 

Fact for Tommie Carolyn McClure the 





County, Georgia, and described as 

follows: Beginning at an iron pin on the 

westerly side of Lower Springs Road 

(Dick`s Creek Road ) 1,762.50 

southwardly along the westerly side of 

Lower Gordon Springs Road from its 

intersection with the north line of said 

Land Lot No. 297; thence south 27 

degrees 58 minutes west along the 

westerly side of Lower Gordon Springs 

Road 292.50 feet to an iron pin; thence 

north 69 degrees 25 minutes west along 

a fence 300 feet to an iron pin; thence 

north 27 degrees 58 minutes east 

292.50 feet to an iron pin; thence south 

69 degrees 25 minutes east 300 feet to 

the point of beginning, being the same 

property conveyed to Tommie Carolyn 

McClure by Deed of record in Deed 


Deed records. 

Property known as: 3190 Lower Gordon 

Springs Road, Rocky Face, GA 30740 

The indebtedness secured by said Deed 

to Secure Debt having been declared 

due and payable because of default in 

the payment of the indebtedness 

secured thereby, this sale will be made 

for the purposes of paying the same and 

all expenses of sale, including attorney's 

fees, (notice having been given as 

provided by law). 

The property will be sold as the property 

of The Aforesaid Grantors subject to the 

following: 

(1) all prior restrictive covenants, 

easements, rights-of-way or 

encumbrances; (2) all valid zoning 

ordinances; (3) matters which would be 

disclosed by an accurate survey of the 

property; (4) the outstanding ad valorem 

taxes and assessments, if any; (5) 

unpaid water and sewage bills, that 

constitute liens against the property, 

whether due and payable or not yet due 

and payable; and (6) matters of record 

superior to the security deed first set out 

above. 


162.2 the name of the person or entity 

who has the full authority to negotiate, 


aforementioned indebtedness is: 

Citicorp Trust Bank 

4050 Regents Blvd. 

Irving, TX 75063 

PHONE: 888-800-5165 

Nothing contained in this Notice of Sale 

shall obligate Lender to negotiate, 

amend or modify said indebtedness. 

To the best of the undersigned's 


possession is Tommie Carolyn McClure. 

CitiCorp Trust Bank, fsb., as Attorney-infact 

for Tommie Carolyn McClure. 

This law firm is acting as a debt collector 


attempting to collect a debt, any 

information obtained will be used for that 

purpose. 

Pendergast & Jones, P.C. 

South Terraces, Suite 1000 

115 Perimeter Center Place 


Phone – (770) 392-0398 

Toll Free – (866) 999-7088 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










William G. McCullough and Brandy 

Gentry to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated 

September 28, 2006, recorded in Deed 




the original principal amount of FIFTY 









property: 




Georgia and being Lot 206 of Westerly 

Heights Subdivision as shown by Plat 

no. 7 thereof of record in Plat Book 5, 

Page 122 in the office of the clerk of the 


Georgia, reference to which is hereby 

made and incorporated herein by 

reference a more particular description 

of said property. 

12-198-06-020 















A.S.C. for Norwest Home Improvement 

can be contacted at 1-800-662-3806 or 

by writing to PO Box 10328, Des 

Moines, IA 50306-0328, to discuss 

possible alternatives to foreclosure. 











out above. 



the property is William G. McCullough , 

Brandy Maria McCullough 

FKA Brandi 

Gentry or a tenant or tenants and said 


201 Davidson Drive, Dalton, Georgia 

30720. 








William G. McCullough and Brandy 

Maria McCullough 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/ks5 4/7/09 


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Richard A. McCullough to River 

Mortgage Company, dated March 19, 

2002, recorded in Deed Book 3655, 


Records, as last transferred to Flagstar 

Bank, FSB. by assignment recorded in 


County, Georgia Records, conveying the 

after-described property to secure a 


ONE HUNDRED FOUR THOUSAND 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($104,000.00), 



































out above. 












the property is Richard A. McCullough 

or a tenant or tenants and said property 

is more commonly known as 1403 

Freeland Road, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Richard A. McCullough 





MR/ps1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, as per Plat prepared by William 


J. Bouldin, Georgia registered land 

surveyor no. 2566, dated July 20, 2000, 

and being more particularly described 

as follows: 

To arrive at the true point of beginning, 

begin at the intersection of the north 

right-of-way of Freeland Road (60 foot 

right-of-way) with the east line of Land 

Lot 2; thence along the north right-ofway 

of Freeland Road, north 87 

Degrees 44 Minutes 0 Seconds west 

172.32 feet to and Iron pin and the true 

point of beginning; thence continuing 

along the north right-of-way of Freeland 

Road, north 87 Degrees 44 Minutes 0 

Seconds west 247.68 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence north 1 degree 30 Minutes 0 

Seconds west 190.0 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence south 87 Degrees 44 Minutes 0 

Seconds east 247.68 feet to a point; 

thence south 1 degree 30 Minutes 0 

Seconds east 190.0 feet to the true 



Richard Allen McCullough from William 

E. Floyd Sr., and Sarah Frances Floyd; 

dated 10/17/97; recorded in book 2900, 

page 251, in the Office of the Clerk of 

the Superior Court for Whitfield County, 

Georgia. 

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03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

State of Georgia 

County of Whitfield 




George D. McKinney, and Tonya 

McKinney, to Wells Fargo Financial 

Georgia, Inc., dated January 26, 2005, 


222, Whitfield County Georgia Records, 



amount of NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND 

FIVE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT AND 

24/100 DOLLARS ($95,548.24), with 

interest thereon as set forth, there will 

be sold at public outcry to the highest 




Tuesday in March 2009, the property 

described in said Deed, to wit: 



LOT NO.35 IN THE 13Th DISTRICT 

AND 3RD SECTION OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING 

TRACT NO. 4 AS SHOWN ON A PLAT 

PREPARED FOR STEPHEN COLEY 

AND S.L. COLEY, BY DONALD O. 

BABB, SURVEYOR, DATED MARCH 8, 

1990, AND RECORDED IN PLAT 

CABINET C, SLIDE 775, IN THE 

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE 

SUPERIOR COURT OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA. 

TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT 

FOR PURPOSES OF INGRESS AND 

EGRESS TO AND FROM THE ABOVE- 

DESCRIBED PROPERTY 40 FEET IN 

WIDTH, EXTENDING THROUGH THE 

PROPERTY OF JAMES A. GRIGGS, 

AS SHOWN ON PLAT OF THE DOVIE 

FRANKLIN ESTATE, OF RECORD IN 

PLAT BOOK 14, PAGE 9 (PLAT 

CABINET A, SLIDE 391) IN THE 



COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND THENCE 50 

FEET IN WIDTH IN THE SOUTHEAST 

CORNER OF THE PROPERTY OF 

MARY JANE STAFFORD, AND 

THENCE 50 FEET IN WIDTH 

BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST 

CORNER OF THE AFORESAID 

PROPERTY OF MARY JANE 

STAFFORD AND RUNNING SOUTH 0 

DEGREES 24 MINUTES WEST 50 

FEET; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 

54 MINUTES 24 SECONDS WEST 455 

FEET; THENCE NORTH 0 DEGREES 

24 MINUTES EAST, 50 FEET; THENCE 

SOUTH 59 DEGREES 54 MINUTES 24 

SECONDS EAST, 455 FEET TO THE 

POINT OF BEGINNING. AND, ALSO 

TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT 

FOR PURPOSES OF INGRESS AND 

EGRESS TO AND FROM THE ABOVE 

DESCRIBED PROPERTY ALONG THE 

EASEMENT SHOWN ON THE 

AFORESAID PLAT OF RECORD IN 

PLAT CABINET C, SLIDE 775, IN THE 



COUNTY, GEORGIA.IMPROVEMENTS 

THEREON BEAR THE MUNICIPAL 

ADDRESS; 1194 FRANKLIN HILL 

ROAD, ROCKY FACE, GEORGIA 

30740 




events of default, failure to pay 







expenses of this sale, as provided in the 


attorney’s fees. 


senior liens, any outstanding ad valorem 

taxes (including taxes which are a lien, 

but are not yet due and payable), any 










prohibited under U.S. Bankruptcy Code 

and (2) to final confirmation and audit of 

the status of the loan with the holder of 

the security deed. 



the property is George D. McKinney, and 

Tonya McKinney, or a tenant or tenants 


known as 1194 Franklin Hill road, Rocky 

Face, Georgia. 

Wells Fargo Financial Georgia, Inc. 

As Attorney-in-Fact for 

George D. McKinney, and Tonya 

McKinney, 

For questions regarding loan 

modification and other matters regarding 

your loan please contact the Home 

Preservation Team at Wells Fargo 

Financial at the toll free number 1-800- 

275-9254. Please mail correspondence 

to: Wells Fargo Financial, Home 

Preservation Team, 4119 121st Street, 

Urbandale, IA 50323. 

James G. Whiddon III 

Wells Fargo Financial Georgia, Inc. 

3655 Marketplace Blvd., Suite 250 

East Point, GA 30344 

404-346-1684 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










David R. Mocine to Mortgage Electronic 




Records, as last transferred to SunTrust 

Mortgage, Inc. by assignment to be 







HUNDRED FORTY-SIX THOUSAND 


SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($146,667.00), with 



































out above. 












the property is David R. Mocine or a 



Summer Road, Tunnel Hill, Georgia 

30755. 









David R. Mocine 





MR/cs9 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, and being Lot No. 9 of 

Greenfield Estates Subdivision, Section 

1, as shown by plat of record in Plat 

Book 10, Page 43 (Plat Cabinet A, Slide 



Georgia, said plat being incorporated 

herein for a full and complete 

description of said lot. 

Being that identical property conveyed 

to David P. Parrish and Susie L. Parrish 

by warranty deed at Deed Book 2392, 

Page 144, and that identical property 

conveyed to James R. Gilbreath and 

Wanda Gilbreath (later known as Wanda 

Gilbreath Collins) by warranty deed at 


County, Georgia Clerk's records. 

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Marcelino Molina to Mortgage Electronic 


as a nominee for SunTrust 

Mortgage, Inc, dated July 31, 2006, 









amount of ONE HUNDRED SEVEN 

THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($107,200.00), with 










being in Land Lot 316, 12th District and 



as Lot 34 of Bear Creek Estates 

according to a Plat of said Subdivision 

prepared by Joseph R. Evans GRLS# 

2168 Dated February 11, 2005, 

recorded in Plat Cabinet D, Slides 173- 

175 of the Whitfield County Clerk's 

Records. 






























out above. 



the property is Marcelino Molina or a 


more commonly known as 135 Bear 

Den Court, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Marcelino Molina 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/kam 4/7/09 


03/13 03/20 03/27 0403 











Chris D Newberry to Mortgage 


dated December 30, 2005, recorded in 




Servicing LP by assignment recorded in 





EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND NINE 

HUNDRED TWENTY AND 0/100 



































out above. 




Countrywide Home Loans, 5401 North 

Beach Street, MS FWTX-35, Fort Worth, 

TX 76137, 1-888-219-7773. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Chris D Newberry or a 


more commonly known as 530 W Nance 

Springs Rd Sw, Resaca, Georgia 

30735. 









Chris D Newberry 





MR/wlg 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 



District 3rd Section of Whitfield County, 

Georgia and being known as Lot No. 31 

of Big Oak Subdivision, Phase 7 A as 

shown on plat thereof prepared by 

Joseph R. Evans, GRLS No. 2168, 

dated March 17, 1995 and recorded in 

Plat Cabinet C, Slides 1220-1221, in the 


of Whitfield County Georgia. 

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SERGIO GUIJON ORTIZ to REGIONS 

BANK D/B/A REGIONS MORTGAGE 

dated May 31, 2006, recorded in Deed 

Book 4770 Page 83, Whitfield County, 




Hundred Forty Eight Thousand Four 

Hundred Ten Dollars and No/100 

($148,410.00) with interest thereon as 






in April, 2009 , the following described 

property: 




Georgia and being Lot No. 41 of North 

Whitfield Heights Subdivision as shown 

by plat of said subdivision of record in 

Plat Book 5, Page 56 (Plat Cabinet A, 

Slide 172), in the Office of the Clerk of 



described on a plat by Joseph R. Evans, 


2168, dated March 16, 1995, as follows: 

BEGINNING at an iron pin found on the 

east right of way of Pioneer Drive (50' 

R/W) a distance of 337.0 feet south, as 

measured along the east right of way of 

Pioneer Drive, from the intersection of 

the east right of way of Pioneer Drive 

with the south original right of way of 

Maple Grove Road; thence east 217.0 

feet to an iron pin placed; thence south 

100.00 feet to an iron pin found; thence 

west 217.0 feet to an iron pin found on 

the east right of way of Pioneer Drive; 

thence north 100.0 feet along the east 

right of way of Pioneer Drive to an iron 

pin found and the point of beginning. 

ALSO CONVEYED HEREIN IS AN 

EASEMENT for water lines to be run 

across Lots Nos. 43 and 42 of North 

Whitfield Heights Subdivision) as said 

easement was originally conveyed by C. 

J. Poag and Deecie Poag by deed of 

record in Deed Book 285 Page 214, 

Whitfield County Clerk’s Records); the 

easement herein conveyed is a nonexclusive 

easement. 

SUBJECT TO EASEMENT reserved in 

Warranty Deed form Robert Joe 

McNeese to Bradley K. Chandler 

recorded in Deed Book 2602 Page 346, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Land 

Records. 











said Security Deed and by law, including 








inspection of the property, any








out above. 



the property is SERGIO GUIJON ORTIZ 



PIONEER DRIVE NW, DALTON, 

GEORGIA 30721. 

Pursuant to O. C. G. A. §44-14-162.2, 

the name, address and telephone 

number of the individual or entity who 

shall have the full authority to negotiate, 

amend, or modify all terms of the above 

described mortgage is as follows: 

REGIONS BANK, 215 FORREST 

STREET, HATTIESBURG, MS 39401- 

3476. Telephone:1-800-986-2462. The 

foregoing notwithstanding, nothing in O. 

C. G. A.§44-14-162.2 shall be construed 

to require REGIONS BANK to negotiate, 

amend or modify the terms of the Deed 

to Secure Debt described herein. 



prohibited under the 

U S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final 



deed. 


REGIONS BANK AS ATTORNEY IN 

FACT FOR SERGIO GUIJON ORTIZ 

DAVID M. WOLFSON, P. C. 


1010 Williams Street 

Valdosta, GA 31601 

(229) 257-0080 

State Bar No. 773395 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










Angel Sanchez and Claudia Sanchez to 

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., dated 

September 25, 2006, recorded in Deed 



Chase Home Finance LLC by 







ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED 









property: 



























out above. 












the property is Angel Sanchez and 

Claudia Sanchez or a tenant or tenants 


known as 1101 Lakemont Dr, Dalton, 










Angel Sanchez and Claudia Sanchez 





MR/rat 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 

The land referred to in this policy is 

situated in the State of GA, County of 

Whitfield, City of Dalton and described 

as follows: 

Tract I: 




County, Georgia, and being all of Lot 

No. 262 and the east half of Lot No. 261 

of Brookwood Subdivision, as recorded 

in Plat Book 4, Page 7, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Land Records, and more 


Beginning at an iron stake on the south 

side of Lakemont Drive, said stake being 

the northwest corner of Lot No. 263, 

thence south along the west line of Lot 

No. 263 a distance of 92 feet to a stake 

tence westerly along the north line of 

Lot No. 262A and 261A a distance of 

144.9 feet, more or less, to a stake; 

thence northerly a distance of 116 feet, 

more or less, to an iron stake on the 

south side of Lakemont Drive; thence 

east along the south side of Lakemont 

Drive a distance of 130 feet to the point 

of beginning. 

Tract II: 




County, Georgia, and being a part of Lot 

No. 263 of Brookwood Subdivision as 

recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 7, 


Records, and more particularly 


Beginning at the northeast corner of Lot 

No. 262 in Brookwood Subdivision, 

thence east along the south side of 

Lakemont Drive a distance of 26 feet to 

an iron stake; thence southerly a 

distance of 92 feet, more or less, to the 

southeast corner of Lot No. 262; thence 

north along the east line of Lot No. 262 

a distance of 92 feet to the point of 

beginning, being in the form of a 

triangle. 

APN 12-259-01-003 

With the appurtenances thereto. 

APN 12-259-01-033 

MR/rat 4/7/09 

Our file no. 53302208 - FT3 

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Christopher Owens and Sandy Owens 


Systems, Inc., dated July 25, 2005, 



last transferred to Chase Home Finance 

LLC by assignment to be recorded in 

the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court 

of 




amount of ONE HUNDRED NINETY- 

TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED 









property: 



























out above. 












the property is Christopher Owens and 

Sandy Owens or a tenant or tenants and 


as 4306 Country Way, Cohutta, Georgia 

30710. 









Christopher Owens and Sandy Owens 





MR/mt1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 

A Tract of land located in land lots 191 

and 170, 11th District, 3rd Section of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, being Lot no. 

Seventy-six (76) of Highland Forest 

Country Estates, Phase III, as per Plat 

of said Subdivision of file in Plat Book 

11, Page 16 in the office of the clerk of 


Georgia, to which reference is hereby 

made and included in this description, 

and more particularly described as 

follows: Beginning at an Iron pin on the 

west edge of the rights of way of country 

way which point if 1,194.6 feet north of 

the northwest corner of the intersection 

of said Country Way and Charolais Trail; 

thence north 85 Degrees, 01 Minutes 

west 216.94 feet to an Iron pin; thence 

north 06 Degrees, 27 Minutes 40 

Seconds east 174.95 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence south 84 Degrees, 48 Minutes 

east 229.14 feet to an Iron pin on the 

west edge of said Country Way; thence 

in an arc in a southwestward direction 

along the west edge of said Country 

Way 174.92 feet to the point of 

beginning; and being improved property 

with a house located thereon, as 

described in a Plat of survey of said Lot 

dated December 16, 1976 by Peter L. 

Bakkem, GA, reg. Surveyor no. 1096, 

which Plat is also included as described 

in a warranty deed from Nob North, Inc. 

To Lee and Wimpy Construction Co., 

Inc., dated June 30, 1976, as filed and 

recorded July 6, 1976 at 4:30 P.M. in 

book 437, Page 151 of the Deed 

Records of Whitfield County, Georgia. 

Subject to: 

**Protective Covenants applicable to 

Highland Forest Country Estates, Phase 

III, as same appear of record in deed 

book 430, pages 140-142, inclusive of 

file in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia, 

**Declaration of covenants, conditions 

and restrictions, made, declared and 

published by Macro Properties Corp. 

dated April 30, 1974, and recorded May 

1, 1974 in deed book 355, pages 191- 

203, inclusive, said clerk's office, said 

declarations pertains to the organization 

of Highland Forest Land Owners 

Association, Inc. and provides certain 

mandatory membership obligations on 

the part of all owners of lands lying and 

being in Highland Forest Country 

Estates Subdivision, as per plat of said 

subdivision recorded in plat book 11, 

page 5-6 said clerk;s office and further 

providing 

certain assessment-leaving 

authority 

on the part of said Highland 

Forest Landowners Associates, Inc. 

grantees herein acknowledge receipt of 

said declaration, and do hereby for 

themselves, and their heirs, personal 

representatives, successors and assigns 

covenants and agree to be bound by all 

terms and provisions thereof. 

**Drainage easement 10 feet in width 

across the south side of said lot as 

shown by plat of survey of said lot dated 

December 16, 1976 by Peter L. Bakkum, 

GA Reg. Surveyor No. 1096. 

**Building set back line of 50 feet from 

the front line of said lot as shown on the 

plat of said subdivision in which subject 

lot is located which is of file in plat book 

11, page 16. 

**Declaration of renewal of Protective 

covenants of Highland Forest Country 

Estates, Phase III of record in book 

2751, page 313 said clerk's office. 

The legal description contained herein is 

the same as in the deed of prior title. 

Grantor's source of interest is a warranty 

deed of record in book 469, page 105 

Whitfield County, Georgia Clerk's Office. 

This property is commonly known as 

4306 Country Way, Cohutta, GA 

Map & Parcel #11-190-02-030 

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Our file no. 53299508 - FT3 

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Banking Company, dated March 6, 

2006, and recorded in Deed Book 4710, 

Pages 295-300, Deed Records of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, (hereinafter 

“Deed”) said Deed being given to secure 

certain indebtednesses referred in said 

Deed, including, but not limited to, a 

Note in the original principal sum of 

$179,781.11, any renewals thereof, plus 

all accrued interest, there will be sold by 

the undersigned at public outcry to the 


Courthouse door in Whitfield County, 

Georgia within the legal hours of sale on 

the first Tuesday in April, 2009 (April 7, 

2009), the property described in said 

Deed as follows: 













reference. 




property. 










Deed. 







and by law. 
























Whitfield 










P. O. Box 2586 

Dalton, GA 30722-2586 

(706) 259-2586 

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Banking Company, dated November 20, 

2006, and recorded in Deed Book 4892 

Pages 176-181 and re-recorded in Deed 

Book 4924 Pages 237-242, Deed 


(hereinafter “Deed”) said Deed being 


referred in said Deed, including, but not 


sum of $210,000.00, any renewals 








said Deed as follows: 













reference. 

For prior title see Deed Book 4603 Page 


Records. 




property. 










Deed. 







and by law. 
























Whitfield 










P. O. Box 2586 

Dalton, GA 30722-2586 

(706) 259-2586 

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Derek T. Perry and Dejah R. Perry to 


Systems, Inc., dated January 26, 2006, 



last transferred to Deutsche Bank 

National Trust Company, as Trustee for 

First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 

2006-FF5, Mortgage Pass-Through 

Certificates, Series 2006-FF5 by 

assignment recorded in Deed Book 





HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND FIVE 









property: 



























out above. 




Home Loan Services, Inc., 150 

Allegheny Center-ICD 23-521, 

Pittsburgh, PA 15212, 800-622-5035. 


creditor is not required by law to 





the property is Derek T. Perry and Dejah 

R. Perry or a tenant or tenants and said 


910 Mill Creek Road, Rocky Face, 









as Trustee for First Franklin Mortgage 

Loan Trust 2006-FF5, Mortgage Pass- 

Through Certificates, Series 2006-FF5 


Derek T. Perry and Dejah R. Perry 





MR/vn1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot 227 of the 12th 

District, 3rd Section of Whitfield County, 

Georgia, and being more specifically 

described as follows: to find the point of 

beginning, go south 117 feet from the 

intersection of the west right of way of 

Mill Creek Road and north line of Land 

Lot 227, being the north line of the F. 

Paul Belk property, to a point, and the 

point of beginning; thence south 170 

feet along the west right of way of Mill 

Creek Road to the south line of the F. 

Paul Belk property and to a point; 

thence west 200 feet to the southwest 

corner of the F. Paul Belk property and a 

point; thence north 170 feet along the 

west line of the F. Paul Belk property to 

a point; thence east 200 feet to the west 

right of way of Mill Creek Road and the 

point of beginning. Said tract contains a 

brick veneer dwelling house located at 

910 Mill Creek Road according to the 

present system of numbering in 


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Andy L. Phillips and Terye E. Phillips to 


Systems Inc., as nominee for Decision 

One Mortgage Company, LLC 

,dated March 15, 2006, recorded in 



transferred to HSBC MORTGAGE 

SERVICES INC by assignment to be 







HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($126,000.00), 



































out above. 




HSBC Mortgage Services, 636 Grand 

Regency Blvd., Brandon, FL 33569, 

800-365-6730. Please understand that 

the secured creditor is not required by 

law to negotiate, amend, or modify the 

terms of the mortgage instrument. 




the property is Andy L. Phillips and 

Terye E. Phillips or a tenant or tenants 


known as 119 Santa Fe Tr, Dalton, 








HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES INC 


Andy L. Phillips and Terye E. Phillips 





MR/mcs 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia and being Lot No. 10, 

Block F, of Whitfield Acres Subdivision, 

as shown by Plat No. 2 thereof, of record 

in Plat Book 9, Page 2, Whitfield County, 

Georgia land records and being more 


Beginning at a point on the easterly side 

of Santa Fe Trail 287.61 feet northwardly 

along the easterly side of Santa Fe Trail 

from the northeast corner of the 

intersection of Santa Fe Trail and Santa 

Fe Loop; thence north 22 degrees 18 

minutes 57 seconds east, along the 

easterly side of Santa Fe Trail 90 feet; 

thence south 67 degrees 41 minutes 03 

seconds east, 101.72 feet; thence south 

00 degree 35 minutes east 97.7 feet; 

thence north 67 degrees 41 minutes 03 

seconds west, 139.73 feet to the point of 

beginning. 

Being all of the same property conveyed 

to Andy L. Phillips and Terye E. Phillips 

by warranty deed from Tony Reed 

Spurling and Wanda D. Spurling, dated 

October 2, 2003 and filed of record in 

Book 4075, Page 340, Clerk's Office for 


Property commonly known as 119 Santa 

Fe Trail, Dalton GA 30721. 

MR/mcs 4/7/09 

Our file no. 53257408 - FT1 

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in the Deed to Secure Debt from TD 

Harris Properties, LLC, to First Bank of 

Dalton, dated November 24, 2008, and 


174-178, Deed Records of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, (hereinafter “Deed”) 

said Deed being given to secure certain 

indebtednesses referred in said Deed, 

including, but not limited to, a Note in 

the original principal sum of 













County, Georgia, and being a part of 

Tract No. 1 of the Bank of Dalton 

Subdivision, as per plat of said 

subdivision recorded in Plat Book 1 

Page 228 (Plat Cabinet A Slide 56), 


Records, and being more particularly 


BEGINNING at an iron pin on the north 

right of way line of Farrar Road, said iron 

pin being located 767.5 feet west of the 


the right of way of said Farrar Road with 

the west right of way line of Georgia 

Highway No. 71 (Dalton-Cleveland 

Highway), as measured along and with 

the north right of way line of Farrar 

Road; thence north 89 degrees 29 

minutes west along the north right of 

way line of Farrar Road 230 feet to an 

iron pin; thence north 08 degrees 19 

minutes east 150 feet to a fence post 

located at a fence corner; thence south 

89 degrees 04 minutes west along a 

fence line 98.75 feet to a post; thence 

north 08 degrees 51 minutes east along 

a fence line 518.13 feet to an iron pin 

located at a fence corner (and located in 

the north line of Tract 1 of the Bank of 

Dalton Subdivision); thence south 88 

degrees 30 minutes east along a fence 

line and the north line of Tract 1 of the 

Bank of Dalton Subdivision 327.60 feet 

to a point located in a fence corner; 

thence south 08 degrees 44 minutes 

west, partially along a fence line, a 

distance of 659.99 feet to an iron pin 

located in the north right of way line of 

Farrar Road and the point of beginning. 



Land Records. 




property. 










Deed. 







and by law. 





















commonly known as Lot Nos. 140, 144 

and 

Lot 150, Farrar Road, Cohutta, 


Georgia, is in the 

possession of and will be sold as the 

property of TD Harris Properties, LLC. 



TD Harris Properties, LLC 




P. O. Box 2586 

Dalton, GA 30722-2586 

(706) 259-2586 

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Johnny Pickard and Brenda Pickard to 

American National Home Mortgage, 

dated March 2, 2000, recorded in Deed 



Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National 

Association, solely in its capacity as 

Trustee, under the Pooling and 

Servicing Agreement dated June 1, 

2000, Home Equity Loan Asset Backed 

Certificates, Series 2000-2 by 






amount of FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND NINE 

HUNDRED SIXTY AND 0/100 



































out above. 



of the mortgage with the debtor is: Litton 

Loan Servicing, LP., 4828 Loop Central 

Drive, Houston, TX 77081, 1-800-807- 







the property is Johnny Pickard and 

Brenda Pickard or a tenant or tenants 


known as 3223 Harlan Drive, Rocky 

Face, Georgia 30740. 







Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National 

Association, solely in its capacity as 

Trustee, under the Pooling and 

Servicing Agreement dated June 1, 

2000, Home Equity Loan Asset Backed 

Certificates, Series 2000-2 


Johnny Pickard and Brenda Pickard 





MR/vn1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, being designated as Lot No. 

101 of Westside Subdivision as shown 

on plat of said subdivision of record in 

Plat Book 1, Page 227, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Land Records, and being more 

particularly described in a survey for 

Johnny Pickard and Brenda Pickard by 

Joseph R. Evans, Registered Land 

Surveyor No. 2168, dated January 10, 

1996, recorded in Plat Cabinet C, Slide 


Records, reference to which plat is 

hereby made and incorporated herein 

by reference for a more particular 


For prior title see Warranty Deed from 

Edward Babb aka Samuel Edward 

Babb, individually and Samuel Edward 

Babb, as Executor of the Last Will and 

Testament of Lucille Willis Babb, aka 

Lucille Babb, deceased to Johnny 

Pickard and Brenda Pickard dated 1-12- 

96, filed 1-15-96 in Book 2688 on Page 

166 in the Office of the Clerk of the 


Georgia. 

Subject to all zoning ordinances, 

easements and restrictions of record in 

so far as the same may lawfully affect 

the above described property. 

Subject to all matters of record in Plat 

Book 1 on Page 227 in said Clerk's 

Office. 

Subject to any governmental zoning and 



Subject to restrictions, covenants and 

easements of record in said Clerk's 

Office. 

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Our file no. 5333309 - FT12 

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Amy Laminda Quarles to Mortgage 


dated August 31, 2006, recorded in 




Servicing LP by assignment to be 






the original principal amount of 

SEVENTY-NINE THOUSAND AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($79,000.00), with 




























and payable), any matters which might










out above. 












the property is Amy Laminda Quarles or 



Sagamore Dr, Tunnel Hill, Georgia 

30755. 









Amy Laminda Quarles 





MR/ps1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia and being a part of Lot 

56 of Freeway Subdivision as shown on 

Plat of survey of said Subdivision 



Records, and being designated as Lot 

No. 56-A of Freeway Subdivision as 

shown on a Plat of survey for Willie 

Webb, dated August 4, 1997 by J. 

Dewayne Hunt, Georgia Registered 

Land Surveyor No. 2638, recorded in 

Plat Cabinet C, Slide 1595, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Land Records, and 

being more 

particularly described according to said 

survey as follows: 


westerly right of way line of Sagamore 

Drive (50' r/w) a distance of 650.0 feet 

easterly and southerly as measured 

along the southerly and westerly right of 

way line of Sagamore Drive from its 

intersection with the east right of way 

line of taco Lane; thence along the 

westerly right of way line of Sagamore 

Drive south 03 Degrees 05 Minutes 06 

Seconds west a distance of 122.23 feet 

to an iron pin; thence north 87 Degrees 

49 Minutes 16 Seconds west a distance 

of 249.62 feet to an Iron pin; thence 

north 02 Degrees 10 Minutes 44 

Seconds east a distance of 121.80 feet 

to an iron pin; thence south 87 Degrees 

54 Minutes 58 Seconds east a distance 

of 251.56 feet to an iron pin located in 

the westerly right of way line of 

Sagamore Drive which marks the point 

of beginning. 

MR/ps1 4/7/09 


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STATE OF GEORGIA, 

COUNTY OF Whitfield 


a certain security deed executed by 

Claudio S. Sanchez, hereinafter referred 

to as Grantor, to Mortgage Electronic 


for RBMG, Inc., a Delaware Corporation 

recorded in Deed Book 3415, beginning 

at page 167, of the deed records of the 

Clerk of the Superior Court of the 

aforesaid state and county, and by virtue 

of a default in the payment of the debt 

secured by said security deed, the 


aforesaid Grantor (which attorney-in-fact 

is the present holder of said security 

deed and note secured thereby) will sell 


county within the legal hours of sale, for 

cash, to the highest bidder on the first 

Tuesday in April, 2009, the property 

which, as of the time of the execution of 

said security deed, was described as set 

forth in the attached Exhibit "A". Said 





appearing of record, if any; all zoning 

ordinances; matters which would be 





outstanding or unpaid bills and 




said property. Midland Mortgage Co. as 

loan servicer is the entity with authority 

to negotiate, amend and modify the 

terms of the Note and Security Deed. 

Midland Mortgage Co’s address is: 999 

Northwest Grand Boulevard, Oklahoma 

City, Oklahoma 73118. Midland 

Mortgage Co. may be contacted by 

telephone at 1-800-552-3000, extension 

8301. To the best of the undersigned's 


possession of the property is believed to 

be Claudio S. Sanchez. 

MidFirst Bank, 

As Transferee and Assignee, 

As attorney-in-fact for the aforesaid 

Grantor 

Raymond S. Martin 


990 Hammond Drive 

Suite 800 

One Lakeside Commons 


(770) 392-0041 


COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY 



Re: Claudio S. Sanchez- Midland 

Mortgage Co. 

M09-15220 / 53243621 

EXHIBIT "A" 


being in Land Lot 241, 12th District, 3rd 

Section, Whitfield County, Georgia, 

being Lots 171, 172, 173, 174 and 175 

inclusive of Bartenfield Subdivision, as 

per plat of record in Plat Book 1, Page 

190, and more particularly described as 

follows: 

Beginning at an iron pin on the west 

side of Mosedale Drive 450 feet south of 

the southwest corner of the intersection 

of Mosedale Drive and Bartenfield Drive; 

thence south along the west side of 

Mosedale Drive 125 feet to a point 

which is 2.9 feet west of an iron pin; 

thence west 150 feet to an iron pin; 

thence north 125 feet to an iron pin; 

thence east 150 feet to the point of 

beginning. 

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Deed executed by Rosario Ramirez to 


dated August 27, 2003, and recorded in 


County Records, securing a Note in the 

original principal amount of $67,900.00, 

the holder thereof pursuant to said Deed 

and Note thereby secured has declared 

the entire amount of said indebtedness 

due and payable and, pursuant to the 

power of sale contained in said Deed, 

will on the first Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 

during the legal hours of sale, before the 

Courthouse door in said County, sell at 


cash, the property described in said 

Deed, to-wit: 


being in the Land Lot No. 218 in the 12th 


County, Georgia, and being described 

as fronting on the West side of Fredrick 

Street and being two 25 foot lots lying 

contiguous and beginning at the 

southeast corner of the Ramsey 

property on the West side of said street 

and running West 150 feet, more or less, 

to the property of Townsend; thence 

South 50 feet to the property of Chaney; 

thence East 150 feet, more or less, to 

Frederick Street; thence North 50 feet to 


Said property is known as 213 N 

Fredrick Street, Dalton, GA 30721, 

together with all fixtures and personal 

property attached to and constituting a 

part of said property, if any. 






















said Deed. 


property of Rosario Ramirez, the 

property, to the best information, 


undersigned, being presently in the 

possession of Rosario Ramirez, and the 


the payment of said indebtedness and 

all the expenses of said sale, including 


Deed, and the balance, if any, will be 

distributed as provided by law. 


as Attorney-in-Fact for Rosario Ramirez 

File no. 09-009342 






(770) 220-2730/CC 






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Deed executed by Rodrigo Velazquez- 

Tavera to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. dated June 

30, 2004 in the amount of $104,854.00, 


60, Whitfield County, Georgia Records; 

as last transferred to CitiMortgage, Inc. 

by assignment; the undersigned, 













being in Land Lot 241 the 12th District 


Georgia, being Lots Nos. 57 and 58 of 

Avalon Heights Subdivision, as per plat 

of said subdivision recorded in Plat 

Book 1, Page 118, (Plat Cabinet A, Slide 



Georgia, to which reference is herein 


description. 


Barbara Avenue, Dalton, Georgia., 



deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Rodrigo Velazquez-Tavera 

and the proceeds of said sale will be 

applied to the payment of said 






CitiMortgage, Inc. 


Rodrigo Velazquez-Tavera 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/llawson 


(404) 373-1612 


File No. 09-05338 /FHA 






03/13 03/20 0/327 04/03 

CALL 

THE 

CLASSIFIEDS 

217-NEWS 











Magdalena Quintero to Mortgage 

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as 

nominee for Suntrust Mortgage, Inc., 

dated December 23, 2005, recorded in 



transferred to Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. by 






HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND 

EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY AND 0/100 










being in Land Lot 312 in The 12th 


County, Georgia Being Lot 35 of 

Crestview Heights Subdivision, as 

shown by Plat of record in Plat Book 4, 

Page 172 (Plat Cabinet A, Slide 153) in 

The Office of The Clerk of The Superior 

Court of Whitfield, Georgia; reference to 

which is hereby made and incorporated 

herein for a more particular description 

of the land 





























out above. 



the property is Magdalena Quintero or a 


more commonly known as 1910 Bobbie 











Magdalena Quintero 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/els 4/7/09 


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Dianne Fauscette Randolph to 


Systems, Inc., dated March 16, 2007, 




Loans Servicing LP by assignment to be 





the original principal amount of SIXTY 









property: 


























out above. 












the property is Dianne Fauscette 

Randolph or a tenant or tenants and 


as 509 Charles Street, Dalton, Georgia 

30720. 

The sale will be conducted subject (1) 








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EXHIBIT A 

The land referred to in this exhibit is 

located in the County of Whitfield and 

the State of Georgia in deed book 756 

at Page 168 and described as follows: 

The following tract of land lying in the 

City of Dalton, Whitfield County, GA. 

Portions of City Lot 11 and South half of 

City Lot 13 Located on the West side of 

Charles Street according to the sapp 

map of the City of Dalton, said property 

fronting 75 feet on the West side of 

Charles Street and running back a like 

and uniform width 150 feet, more or 

less, bound on the North by Ben and 

Mae Fauscette and on the South by J.L. 

Hayes, presently known as 509 Charles 

Street, according to the present 

numbering system of the City of Dalton. 

This being property conveyed to Dr. 

Frank Houston Sams, Sr,. April, 1952, 

as recorded at Deed Book 67, Page 

166, Whitfield clerk's records. 

MR/wa2 4/7/09 


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Deed executed by Luis G. Renteria and 

Maria L. Renteria to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. dated July 

16, 2004, and recorded in Deed Book 

4293, Page 134, Whitfield County 

Records, said Security Deed having 

been last sold, assigned, transferred 

and conveyed to Wells Fargo Bank, 

N.A., by Assignment securing a Note in 

the original principal amount of 

$116,441.00, the holder thereof 

pursuant to said Deed and Note thereby 

secured has declared the entire amount 

of said indebtedness due and payable 

and, pursuant to the power of sale 

contained in said Deed, will on the first 

Tuesday, April 7, 2009, during the legal 

hours of sale, before the Courthouse 

door in said County, sell at public outcry 

to the highest bidder for cash, the 

property described in said Deed, to-wit: 


LAND Lying and being in Land Lot 218 

of the 12th District and 3rd Section of 

Whitfield County, Georgia; and being a 

part of the S. A. Croy homeplace, and 

being more particularly described as 

follows: 

Beginning at a point on the North rightof-way 

of Martin Luther King Blvd. 

(formerly Waugh Street); thence West 

along the North right of way of said 

street 100 feet to property formerly 

belonging to Pinson, and now or 

formerly being property of Theophllis 

Baker; thence North along said Baker 

(formerly Pinson) property 100 feet; 

thence East along property formerly 

belonging to Croy and now or formerly 

being property of Willie and Edna 

Massengill and property now or formerly 

of W. R. Bush 100 feet to within 50 feet 

of the original right-of-way of Fields 

Avenue; thence South 100 feet along 

property now or formerly of James and 

Frances Ramsey (formerly George and 

Ethel Ramsey property) to the point of 

beginning. 

Less and Except from the above 

described property that portion of same 

conveyed to Whitfield County, Georgia, 

by Judgment of the Superior Court of 

Whitfield County, Georgia recorded in 

Minute Book 58, Page 326, Whitfield 

County Clerk Records dated March 23, 

1972 conveying a strip of land 

measuring .034 acres for the expansion 

of the Northerly right of way of Waugh 


Street (now Martin Luther King Blvd). 

Less and Except from the above 

described property any portion of same 

conveyed to Whitfield County, Georgia, 

by Judgment to Whitfield County 

recorded in Minute Book 58, Page 324, 

Whitfield County Clerks Records as 

result of condemnation judgment in Civil 

Action File No. 7704 Whitfield County 

Superior Court conveying additional 

right of way for Waugh Street (now 

Martin Luther King Blvd). 

The above described property is also 

conveyed Subject to those easements 

for necessary slopes and construction of 

driveways as recorded in the to above 

referenced judgments. Reference to said 

judgment in Civil action File No. 7706 

Whitfield County Superior (recorded at 

Minute Book 58, Page 326) and 

judgment in Civil Action File No. 7704 

Whitfield County Superior Court 

(recorded in Minute Book 58, Page 324) 

being made for a full and complete 

description of the properties excepted 

and the easements obtained therein. 

The above described property is that 

property formerly owned by Edward J. 

Beavers and Annie M. Beavers (shown 

by deed at Deed Book 114, Page 25, 

Whitfield County Clerks Records) and is 

property conveyed to Jesse Beavers by 

deed of record in Deed Book 2148, 

Page 207 Whitfield County Clerks 

Records by Edward J. Beavers and 

Deborah Elder under deed dated May 

30, 1990. 

Said property is known as 913 Martin 

Luther King Jr. Boulvard, Dalton, GA 

30721, together with all fixtures and 

personal property attached to and 

constituting a part of said property, if 

any. 






















said Deed. 


property of Luis G. Renteria and Maria 

L. Renteria, the property, to the best 

information, knowledge and belief of the 

undersigned, being presently in the 

possession of Luis G. Renteria and 

Maria L. Renteria, and the proceeds of 


of said indebtedness and all the 

expenses of said sale, including 


Deed, and the balance, if any, will be 

distributed as provided by law. 

Wells Fargo Bank, NA as Attorney-in- 

Fact for Luis G. Renteria and Maria L. 

Renteria 

File no. 09-010644 






(770) 220-2730/AB 







[FC-NOS] 

SHAPIRO & SWERTFEGER, LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

2872 Woodcock Boulevard, Duke 

Building, Suite 100 • Atlanta, Georgia 

30341 voice: (770) 220-2535 • fax: (770) 

220-2921 

Gerald M. Shapiro* 

L. Jack Swertfeger, Jr. 

David S. Kreisman** 

Philip A. Hasty 

James J. LaRotonda, Jr. 

Sean R. Quirk 

William C. Cobb 

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Deed executed by Crystal Reyes and 

Juan G. Reyes to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. dated August 




as last transferred to Mortgage 

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. by 













All that tract or parcel of land, being a 

part of Land Lots Nos. 100, 101, and 

129 in the 12th District and 3rd Section 

of Whitfield County, Georgia, as more 

particularly shown and depicted as that 

portion of Tract 2, located East of the 

centerline of a branch on plat of survey 

prepared for Star Garner by Peter L. 

Bakkum, Georgia Registered Land 

Surveyor No. 1096, dated March 5, 

1968, revised August 17, 1973, record in 

Plat Cabinet B, Slide 269, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Land Records, together 

with improvements thereon, and being 

more particularly described according to 

said survey as follows: 

Beginning at an iron stake located on 

the Southwesterly side of a County 

Road (n/k/a Oakdale Drive) at the 

Southeast corner of Tract 2 as shown on 

said survey, said beginning point being 

located North 47 degrees 59 minutes 

West, as measured along the Southwest 

line of said County Road, a distance of 

337.5 feet (previously incorrectly stated 

through scrivernor`s error as 402.5 feet) 

from the intersection of the Southwest 

line of said County Road and the West 

Right of Way line of Oakview Drive (60 

feet R/W), thence running North 47 

degrees 59 minutes West along the 

Southwest line of said County Road a 

distance of 65.5 feet to a point; thence 

running North 32 degrees 35 minutes 

West along the Southwest line of said 

road a distance of 307.0 feet to a point; 

thence running North 20 degrees 00 

minutes West along the Southwest line 

of said road a distance of 132.4 feet to a 

point located in the intersection of the 

Southwest line of said County Road and 

the Southline of Dawnville Road; thence 

running North 85 degrees 22 minutes 

West along the South line of Dawnville 

Road a distance of 50.5 feet to a point 

located in the centerline of a branch, 

which runs generally in a Northwesterly 

and Southwesterly direction; thence 

running in a Southerly direction along 

the along the meanderings of the 

centerline of said branch a distance of 

210 feet, more or less, to its intersection 

with the centerline of another branch, 

which runs generally in Northwesterly 

and Southeasterly direction; thence 


running in a Southeasterly direction 

along the meanderings of the centerline 

of said branch a distance of 380 feet, 

more or less, to a point located in the 

intersection of the centerline of said 

branch, if extended, and the South line 

of Tract 2 as shown on said survey; 

thence running North 51 degrees 30 

minutes East a distance of 150 feet, 

more or less, to an iron stake located in 

the Southwest line of a County Road 

(n/k/a Oakdale Drive), which is the Point 

of Beginning. 


Haley Drive, Dalton, Georgia., together 

with all fixtures and other personal 

property conveyed by said deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Crystal Reyes and Juan G. 

Reyes and the proceeds of said sale 








Systems, Inc. 


Crystal Reyes and Juan G. Reyes 



(404) 373-1612 


File No. 09-05558 /FHA 






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Armando Rios to Fidelity Federal 

Savings Bank, dated September 22, 



Records, as last transferred to Cimarron 

Mortgage Company by assignment to 

be recorded in the Office of the Clerk of 




the original principal amount of FORTY- 

FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED 

SEVENTY-FIVE AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 



























out above. 




Cimarron Mortgage Company, 6310 I-55 

North, Suite W400, Jackson, MS 39211, 







the property is Armando Rios or a 


more commonly known as 1813 Lawson 

Avenue, Dalton, Georgia 30720. 







Cimarron Mortgage Company 


Armando Rios 





MR/els 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




County, Georgia, being Lots Nos. 89, 90, 

91 and the south half of Lot No. 92 of 

Burch & Field Estates, as shown by plat 

of record in Plat Book 1, Page 101, (Plat 

Cabinet A, Slide 25), in the Office of the 



particularly described as per plat of 

survey prepared by Joseph R. Evans, 

Registered land Surveyor, dated 

September 8, 1995, as follows: 

Beginning at a point on the easterly side 

of Lawson Avenue 400.16 feet 

northwardly along the easterly side of 

Lawson Avenue from the northeast 

corner of the intersection of Lawson 

Avenue and florence Avenue; thence 

north 3 degrees 10 minutes 43 seconds 

east along the easterly side of Lawson 

Avenue 174.84 feet to an iron pin; 


east 329.6 feet to an iron pin on the 

westerly side of a road; thence south 6 


along the westerly side of said road 175 

feet to an iron pin; thence north 85 

degrees 58 minutes west 318 feet to the 


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SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1NOTICE OF 

SALE UNDER POWER 

STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF 

WHITFIELD 

WHEREAS, on the 20th day of May, 

2004, Curtis Roberts, a Georgia 

resident, executed and delivered a 

certain Deed to Secure Debt to Capital 

Bank for the purpose of securing 

indebtedness therein described, which 

Deed to Secure Debt appears of record 

in the Office of the Clerk of the Superior 

Court of Whitfield County, Georgia, in 

Book 4255, beginning at Page 278; 

reference to which deed is hereby made 

for its full terms, provisions and 

conditions; and 

WHEREAS, the debt secured by the 

said Deed to Secure Debt has become 

in default as to the principal and interest, 

and that the holder thereof has declared 

the entire indebtedness owing thereby at 

once immediately due and payable; and 

WHEREAS, Dewey Curtis Roberts on 

January 16, 2009 filed a Chapter 7 

bankruptcy, No. 09-10278, United States 

Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of 

Tennessee, Southern Division; and 

WHEREAS, by order of the abovereferenced 

bankruptcy court entered 

February 17, 2009, the automatic stay 

was modified, lifted and terminated with 

respect to the real property and 

improvements secured by the abovereferenced 

Deed to Secure Debt 

permitting Capital Bank to foreclose 

upon the real property and 

improvements and pursue its available 

state law remedies with regard to said 

real property and improvements located 

on said real property; and 

WHEREAS, notice to Curtis Roberts of 

the initiation of proceedings by Capital 

Bank to exercise the power of sale 

contained in the above-referenced Deed 

to Secure Debt was provided in 

accordance with O.C.G.A. § 44-14- 

162.2, because the real property that 

was subject to the Deed to Secure Debt 

was to be used as a dwelling place by 

the debtor at the time the Deed to 

Secure Debt was entered into; 

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the 

terms, provisions and conditions of the 

aforementioned Deed to Secure Debt 

and the laws in such cases made and 

provided, the undersigned will offer for 

sale and will sell for cash on the first 

Tuesday in April, 2009, to wit: April 7, 

2009, between the legal hours of sale at 

public outcry before the courthouse door 

in Whitfield County, Georgia, the 

following described real estate, to wit: 

That certain condominium unit in Land 

Lot No. 120 in the 12th District and 3rd 

Section of Whitfield County, Georgia, 

being identified and depicted as 

Condominium Unit No. 14 of Oxford 

Court, a Condominium on a plat dated 

April 27, 2004, recorded in Plat Cabinet 

C, Slide 3081, Whitfield County, Georgia 

Land Records, together with its 

appurtenant percentage of undivided 

interest in the common elements of 

Oxford Court Condominium, a 

Condominium, as provided in that 

certain Declaration of Condominium for 

Oxford Court, a Condominium, dated 

April 27, 2004, and recorded in Deed 


Georgia Land Records; or as hereafter 

amended as therein provided. 

For prior title see deed in Deed Book 

4255, Page 274, in the Office of the 



THIS CONVEYANCE IS MADE 

SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING: 

1. Any governmental zoning 



2. Declaration of 

Condominium recorded in Book 4239, 

Page 21 and Amended in Book 4255,




Page 267, for Oxford Court 

Condominiums. 

3. All matters as shown or 

stipulated on recorded plat. 

4. Building Setback lines as 

shown on recorded plat. 


unpaid taxes, including taxes which are 

a lien, but not yet due and payable, any 






record superior to the deed to secure 

debt as first set out above. 

The individual or entity that has full 



the debtor is Capital Bank, with an 

address of 625 Battlefield Parkway, Fort 

Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742, and a 

telephone number of (706) 866-1146. 




mortgage instrument. 

Said property will be sold at public 

outcry to the highest and best bidder for 

cash in bar of all equity of redemption; 

and will be sold as the property of Curtis 

Roberts, a Georgia resident, the maker 

of the aforesaid Deed to Secure Debt to 

Capital Bank, and the said sale 

proceeds shall be used first to the 

payment of said note, principal and 

interest, and expenses of sale, including 

attorney’s fees (notice of intention to 

collect attorney’s fees having been given 

as provided by law), and the balance, if 

any, delivered to the said Curtis 

Roberts, his successors or assigns. 

Said sale shall divest all of the right, title 

and interest of said Curtis Roberts, his 

heirs, successors and assigns, in and to 

said property and shall invest the same 

in the purchaser at sale. 

To the best 

knowledge and belief of Capital Bank, 

the current owner and party in 

possession of the property is the said 

Curtis Roberts. 

CAPITAL BANK, as 


Curtis Roberts 

ROBERT L. LOCKABY, JR. 

GEARHISER, PETERS LOCKABY, 

CAVETT & ELLIOTT, PLLC 

320 McCallie Avenue 

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402 

(423) 756-5171 

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Jesus Rodriguez and Linda Rodriguez 


Systems, Inc. as nominee for SunTrust 

Mortgage, Inc., dated October 12, 2007, 









amount of FORTY-SEVEN THOUSAND 

EIGHT HUNDRED AND 0/100 












County, Georgia, and being Lot No. 35, 

Block B, of Lakeland Park Subdivision, 

as shown by Plat of record in Plat 

Cabinet B, Slides 79 and 80, in the 

office of the Clerk of Superior Court of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, and 


Beginning at a point on the 

southwesterly side of Dawn Drive 175 

feet north 60 degrees 38 minutes west 

along the southwesterly side of Dawn 

Drive from the westernmost point of 

intersection of the southwesterly side of 

Dawn Drive with the northwesterly side 

of Lesley Drive; thence south 40 

degrees 49 minutes west 81.22 feet; 

thence north 64 degrees 41 minutes 

west 118.17 feet; thence north 56 


the southwesterly side of Dawn Drive; 

thence in a southeasterly direction along 

the curvature of the southwesterly side 

of Dawn Drive 44.23 feet; thence 

continuing along the southwesterly side 

of Dawn Drive, south 60 degrees 38 

minutes east 42.21 feet to the point of 

beginning. 

Less and except all oil, gas, mineral and 

other subsurface rights in and to the 

above described property. 






























out above. 



the property is Jesus Rodriguez and 

Linda Rodriguez or a tenant or tenants 


known as 400 Dawn Drive, Dalton, 


The sale will be conducted subject (1) 








Jesus Rodriguez and Linda Rodriguez 




(770) 234-9181 


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Pedro Roman and Anna Roman to 


Systems, Inc., dated June 22, 2007, 




Loans Servicing LP by assignment 





amount of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY- 

THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED 

EIGHTY-FIVE AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 



























out above. 












the property is Pedro Roman and Anna 

Roman or a tenant or tenants and said 


125 Andesol Way, Dalton, Georgia 

30720. 









Pedro Roman and Anna Roman 





MR/ps1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot 276 in The 12th 


County, Georgia and Being Lot 33 of 

Red Hill Subdivision, Phase Two, as 

shown by Plat of record in Plat Cabinet 

D, Slide 349, in The Office of The Clerk 

of The Superior Court of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, to which reference is 

herein made for a more full complete 

description. 

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Our file no. 51912708 - FT4 

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Jose Rene Salmeron to Mortgage 





Wells Fargo Bank, NA by assignment to 







HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND 

NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE AND 

0/100 DOLLARS ($154,975.00), with 



































out above. 





10335, Des Moines, IA 50306, 1-800- 




the mortgage instrument. To the best 



the property is Jose Rene Salmeron or 


more commonly known as 1915 Valley 

Brook Dr, Dalton, Georgia 30720. 







Wells Fargo Bank, NA 


Jose Rene Salmeron 





MR/ks5 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 





County, Georgia, and being Lot 11 and 

part of Lot 12 of Valley Brook 

Subdivision, as per plat of same 


(Cabinet A, Slide 175), Whitfield County 

Clerk's records, and being more 

particularly described in a survey 

prepared by N. B. DeLoach, RLS, dated 

December 20, 1995, and being more 



east right of way of Parkway Drive, a/k/a 

Valleybrook Drive, a distance of 439.4 

feet along the east right of way of 

Parkway Drive from the south right of 

way of Courtland Drive; thence south 70 


an iron pin; thence south 03 degrees 00 

minutes west 90 feet to an iron pin; 


west 125 feet to an iron pin; thence 

north 61 degrees 49 minutes west 195 

feet to an iron pin located on the east 

right of way of Parkway Drive; thence 

northerly along the east right of way of 

Parkway Drive, north 07 degrees 30 

minutes east 185.86 feet to an iron pin 

and the point of beginning. 

MR/ks5 4/7/09 


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Vilma De Jesus Salmeron to Mortgage 

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as 

nominee for SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., 

dated April 28, 2006, recorded in Deed 



SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. by assignment 







HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND 

FOUR HUNDRED AND 0/100 









All that Real estates situated and being 

in Whitfield County, Georgia and being 

Lot 6 of the Pine Crest Subdivision as 

per Plat recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 2 

clerk's office, Whitfield County, Georgia 

and more particularly described as 

follows: 

Beginning at a point 100 feet north of 

West Avenue on the east side of 

Cambron Drive; thence running north on 

the west side of Cambron Drive 100 

feet; thence running east 190 feet; 

thence south 100 feet; thence west 190 

feet to the east side of Cambron to the 































out above. 



the property is Vilma De Jesus 

Salmeron or a tenant or tenants and 


as 102 Cambron Drive, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 









Vilma De Jesus Salmeron 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/els 4/7/09 


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Deed executed by James T Sanders, III 

and Misti B Sanders to Mortgage 


dated June 1, 2006 in the amount of 

$106,000.00, and recorded in Deed 


Georgia Records; as last transferred to 

CitiMortgage, Inc. by assignment; the 

undersigned, CitiMortgage, Inc. 











Legal Description: 

Land referred to in this commitment is 

described as all that certain property 

situated in City of Tunnel Hill in the 

County of Whitfield, and State of GA and 

being described in a deed dated 

08/28/2003 in Book 4050 Page 

80among the land records of the county 

and state set forth above, and 

referenced as follows: 






Beginning at a Point on the North Right 

of Way of Regal Drive, said point being 

located 196 feet East of the Northeast 

intersection of Regal Drive and Broad 

Street (said Broad Street running North 

on Regal Drive and being the first Street 

East of Cleveland Road in Tunnel Hill); 


West, 140 feet to the North Right of Way 

of Regal Drive; thence West along the 

North Right of Way of Regal Drive, 106 

feet to the Point of Beginning. 

Parcel No 12-037-31-003 


Regal Drive, Tunnel Hill, Georgia., 



deed. 







property. 










said deed. 


property of James T Sanders, III and 

Misti B Sanders 

and the proceeds of 


of said indebtedness, the expense of 

said sale, all as provided in said deed, 

and the undersigned will execute a deed 

to the purchaser as provided in the 


CitiMortgage, 

Inc. 


James T Sanders, III and Misti B 

Sanders 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/kcarr 


(404) 373-1612 


File No. 09-02795 /FNMA 






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Rosa I. Silva to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc as nominee 

for Suntrust Mortgage, Inc., dated 

November 21, 2006, recorded in Deed 



Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. by assignment 







HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND ONE 

HUNDRED TWENTY AND 0/100 










being in Land Lot No. 316, 12th District, 



as Lot No. 14 of Bear Creek Estates, 

according to a Plat of said Subdivision 

prepared by Joseph R. Evans, 

GRLS No. 2168, dated February 11, 

2005, recorded in Plat Cabinet D Slides 

173-175, in the office of the clerk of the 


Georgia, which Plat is incorporated by 

reference herein. 






























out above. 



the property is Rosa I. Silva or a tenant 


commonly known as 152 Bear Den 

Court, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Rosa I. Silva 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/jas 4/7/09 


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USED FOR THAT PURPOSE 



Sonya Smith to Mortgage Electronic 



dated March 5, 2007, recorded in Deed 









amount of ONE HUNDRED FORTY- 

FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($144,500.00), 


































out above. 







27607, 8666428608. Please 




instrument. 



the property is Sonya Smith or a tenant 


commonly known as 255 Forest Hill 

Road, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Sonya Smith 





MR/sm01 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot 8, in the 13th District 


Georgia and being the west half of Lot 5 

of Forest Hills Subdivision, as shown by 

plat of record in Plat Book 4, Page 80 

(Plat Cabinet S, Slide 137), in the Office 

of the Clerk of the Superior Court of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, and 


Beginning at a point on the southerly 

side of Forest Hill Road 350 feet 

eastwardly along the southerly side of 

Forest Hill Road from the southwest 

corner of the intersection of Forest Hill 

Road and East Summit Circle; thence 

south 58 degrees 28 minutes east along 

the southerly side of Forest Hill Road 

106.38 feet; thence south 352.1 feet; 

thence west 89.5 feet; thence north 407 


MR/sm01 4/7/09 


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Isidro Solis to JPMorgan Chase Bank 

N.A., dated September 28, 2007, 



last transferred to Chase Home Finance 

LLC by assignment to be recorded in 

the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court 

of 




amount of ONE HUNDRED FORTY- 

FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($144,500.00), 



































out above. 












the property is Isidro Solis or a tenant or 


commonly known as 116 Andasol Way, 










Isidro Solis 





MR/ps1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, and being Lot 45 of Red Hill 

Subdivision, Phase 2, as per Plat 


Whitfield County, Georgia records, 

which Plat by reference is incorporated 

herein and made a part hereof. 

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THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A 

DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED 

WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 



Terry L. Stanfield and Virginia L. 

Stanfield to Mortgage Electronic 


10/27/2004, recorded in Deed Book 


Georgia, as last transferred to U.S. Bank 

N.A.,in its capacity as Trustee for the 

registered holders of MASTR Asset 

Backed Securities Trust 2005-WMC1, 

Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates by 

assignment to be recorded at Whitfield 

County, Georgia records conveying the 



ONE HUNDRED NINETY- EIGHT 

THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY 

AND 00/100 DOLLARS ($198,550.00); 






on the first Tuesday in April 2009 the 


















attorney’s fees having been given). 











out above. 




Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, 12650 

Ingenuity Drive, Orlando, FL 32826, 







the property is Terry L. Stanfield and 

Virginia L. Stanfield or a tenant or 


commonly known as 613 W Boundary 

Street, Dalton, GA 30720 







U.S. Bank N.A.,in its capacity as Trustee 

for the registered holders of MASTR 

Asset Backed Securities Trust 2005- 

WMC1, Mortgage Pass-Through 

Certificates 

as Attorney in Fact for Terry L. Stanfield 

and Virginia L. Stanfield 


Attn: Ocwen Team 

Six Concourse Parkway, 

Suite 3200 


Our File#GA01FJA091000336 




LOT NO. 198 IN THE 12TH DISTRICT 

AND 3RD SECTION OF WHITFIELD 

COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING IN 

LOT NO. 8, BLOCK 4 OF CASCADE 

HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN 

BY PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 

11, PAGES 86-90 (PLAT CABINET A, 

SLIDES 335 AND 336), IN THE OFFICE 

OF THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR 

COURT OF WHITFIELD COUNTY, 

GEORGIA, AND DESCRIBED AS 

FOLLOWS: 

BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE 

WESTERLY SIDE OF WEST 

BOUNDARY STREET AT THE 

SOUTHERNMOST TERMINUS OF THE 

ARC FORMING THE SOUTHWEST 

INTERSECTION OF WEST 

BOUNDARY STREET AND TYLER 

STREET; THENCE SOUTH 1 DEGREE 

22 MINUTES 46 SECONDS WEST 

ALONG THE WESTERLY SIDE OF 

WEST BOUNDARY STREET 75 FEET 

TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE NORTH 88 

DEGREES 37 MINUTES 7 SECONDS 

WEST 126.04 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; 

THENCE NORTH 1 DEGREE 54 

MINUTES 29 SECONDS EAST 100 

FEET TO AN IRON PIN ON THE 

SOUTHERLY SIDE OF TYLER 

STREET; THENCE SOUTH 88 

DEGREES 37 MINUTES 14 SECONDS 

EAST ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDE 

OF TYLER STREET 10.12 FEET TO 

THE WESTERNMOST TERMINUS OF 

THE ARC FORMING THE 

SOUTHWEST INTERSECTION OF 

TYLER STREET AND WEST 

BOUNDARY STREET; THENCE 

FOLLOWING THE ARC OF THE 

CURVATURE OF THE ROUNDING OF 

SAID INTERSECTION ON A 25 FOOT 

RADIUS, 39.27 FEET TO THE POINT 

OF BEGINNING. 

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in that Security Deed from Harry K. Sun 

and wife, Anna C. Sun to Community 

Trust & Banking Co., dated November 

17, 2006, and recorded December 4, 

2006, in Deed Book 4895, Page 0063, 

Whitfield County, Georgia Deed 

Records, to secure a Promissory Note in 


Hundred Fifty-three Thousand Six 

Hundred Dollars ($153,600.00), with 


there will be sold at public outcry for 

cash to the highest bidder before the 

Courthouse door of Whitfield County, 

Georgia, between the legal hours of sale 

on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, the following 





Georgia, being Lot 15 of Oak Ridge 

Subdivision according to plat of said 

subdivision of record in Plat Cabinet C, 

Slide 115, Whitfield County Clerk’s 

Records and being more particularly 

described in a plat by Joseph R. Evans, 


2168, dated November 22, 1988 and 

revised April 14,1989 as follows: 

BEGINNING at an iron placed on the 

southwesterly right-of-way of a cul-desac 

at the western end of Oak Ridge 

Drive a distance of 1,686.4 feet westerly 

from the westernmost terminus of the 

arc forming the southwest intersection of 

Oak Ridge Drive with Sam Love Road 

as measured along the southerly and 

southwesterly right-of-way of said Oak 

Ridge Drive; thence south 58 degrees 

01 minutes 50 second west 302.27 feet 

to an iron pin found; thence 01 degrees 

25 minutes 40 seconds east 240.8 feet 

to an iron pin found; thence north 90 


an iron pin found; thence south 00 

degrees 00 minutes west 4.39 feet to an 

iron pin found on the northerly right-ofway 

of the cul-de-sac at the western end 

of Oak Ridge Drive; thence westerly and 

southerly along the arc of said cul-desac 

a distance of 106.44 feet to an iron 

pin and the point of beginning. 

Reference for prior title is made to deed 

of record in Book 2036, Page 1, and 

Book 2065, Page 19, rerecorded in 

Book 2062, Page 240 in said Deed 

Records. 

SUBJECT to all matters specified by 

recorded plat. 

SUBJECT to restrictions of record in 

Book 932, Page 237, and any 

amendments thereto, in said Deed 

Records but, deleting any covenant, 

conditions or restriction indicating a 

preference, limitation or discrimination 

based on race, color, religion, sex, 

handicap, familial status, or national 

origin to the extent such covenants, 

conditions or restrictions would violate 

42 USC 3604(c). 

SUBJECT to any governmental zoning 



SUBJECT to Security Deed from Harry 

K. Sun, and wife, Anna C. Sun, dated 

August 12, 2002, and recorded on 

August 26, 2002, in Book 3749, Page 

21, in said Clerk’s Office, securing 

AmSouth Bank for $105,439.42. 

The Security Deed has been and is 

hereby declared due and payable 

because of default. 

This sale will be 

made for the purpose of paying the 

same and all expenses of the sale as



provided by the Security Deed and by 

law. Said property will be sold subject to 

any outstanding ad valorem taxes 


yet due and payable), any matters which 







out above. The sale will be conducted 

by Mattea Rolin, Esq., Attorney at Law, 

9744 Dayton Pike, Soddy Daisy, 

Tennessee 37379, (423) 266-1237, as 

attorney at law, representing Community 

Trust & Banking Co. 

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Tabetha Angelee Tabor and Darrien 

Tabor to Mortgage Electronic 


August 11, 2006, recorded in Deed 



SunTrust Bank by assignment recorded 





ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND 

NINETY-FIVE AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 


























out above. 










To the best knowledge and belief 

of the undersigned, the party in 

possession of the property is Tabetha 

Angelee Tabor, Darrien Tabor and Karen 

Carter or a tenant or tenants and said 


1103 Main Street, Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 







SunTrust Bank 


Tabetha Angelee Tabor and Darrien 

Tabor 





MR/cs9 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia being in the City of Dalton, and 

being Lot 2B of plat entitled "plat for M. 

P. Properties" prepared by N. B. 

DeLoach, Georgia registered land 

surveyor no. 1347, dated August 8, 

2006, of record in Plat Cabinet D, Slide 



Georgia, said plat being incorporated 

herein by reference for a full and 

complete description of said lot. 

Said Lot 2B is shown on the above 

referenced plat to have a current street 

address of 1103 Main Street in Dalton, 

Georgia. The above-described property 

is a portion of that property conveyed to 

M P Properties, LLC in Tract I of 

warranty deed of record in Deed Book 


Georgia Clerk's records. 

The obligation to pay the debt described 

in the aforementioned security deed and 

secured by the above described 

property has been assumed by 

Return To: 

Prommis Solutions, LLC 


Roswell, GA 30076 

STATE OF 

COUNTY OF 

CROSS INDEX TO DEED 

BOOK 4821, PAGE 314, 

WHITFIELD COUNTY, 

GEORGIA RECORDS 

DEED UNDER POWER 

THIS INDENTURE, made this 2nd day 

of December, 2008, by Tabetha Angelee 

Tabor and Darrien Tabor (hereinafter 

collectively referred to as "Borrower"), 

acting through this duly appoin. 

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in the Deed to Secure Debt from TD 

Harris Properties, LLC, to First Bank of 

Dalton, dated November 24, 2008, and 


174-178, Deed Records of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, (hereinafter “Deed”) 

said Deed being given to secure certain 

indebtednesses referred in said Deed, 

including, but not limited to, a Note in 

the original principal sum of 













County, Georgia, and being a part of 

Tract No. 1 of the Bank of Dalton 

Subdivision, as per plat of said 

subdivision recorded in Plat Book 1 

Page 228 (Plat Cabinet A Slide 56), 


Records, and being more particularly 


BEGINNING at an iron pin on the north 


right of way line of Farrar Road, said iron 

pin being located 767.5 feet west of the 


the right of way of said Farrar Road with 

the west right of way line of Georgia 

Highway No. 71 (Dalton-Cleveland 

Highway), as measured along and with 

the north right of way line of Farrar 

Road; thence north 89 degrees 29 

minutes west along the north right of 

way line of Farrar Road 230 feet to an 

iron pin; thence north 08 degrees 19 

minutes east 150 feet to a fence post 

located at a fence corner; thence south 

89 degrees 04 minutes west along a 

fence line 98.75 feet to a post; thence 

north 08 degrees 51 minutes east along 

a fence line 518.13 feet to an iron pin 

located at a fence corner (and located in 

the north line of Tract 1 of the Bank of 

Dalton Subdivision); thence south 88 

degrees 30 minutes east along a fence 

line and the north line of Tract 1 of the 

Bank of Dalton Subdivision 327.60 feet 

to a point located in a fence corner; 


west, partially along a fence line, a 


located in the north right of way line of 

Farrar Road and the point of beginning. 



Land Records. 




property. 










Deed. The proceeds of said sale shall 






and by law. 





















commonly known as Lot Nos. 140, 144 

and Lot 150, Farrar Road, Cohutta, 

Whitfield County, Georgia, is in the 

possession of and will be sold as the 

property of TD Harris Properties, LLC. 



TD Harris Properties, LLC 




P. O. Box 2586 

Dalton, GA 30722-2586 

(706) 259-2586 

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Deed executed by Steven W. Wilbanks 


Systems, Inc. dated December 21, 2005 

in the amount of $360,000.00, and 



last transferred to Mortgage Electronic 














The following described real property 

situate in the City of Dalton, County of 

Whitfield, and State of Georgia, to wit: 




County, Georgia, being Lot No. 118 of 

Windemere Subdivision Phase III, being 


a plat of survey of said Subdivision 



dated May 20, 1993, recorded in Plat 


Georgia land records, reference to 

which plat is hereby made and 


more particular description of said Land. 

Tax ID #: 12-121-01-122 

By fee simple deed from Ronald 

Eickhoff and Angela Eickhoff as set forth 

in Deed Book 4520, Page 0238 and 

recorded on 6/7/2005, Whitfield County 

records. 

The source deed as stated above is the 

last record of vesting filed for this 

property. There have been no vesting 

changes since the date of the above 

referenced source. 


Wycliffe Drive, Dalton, Georgia., 



deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Steven W. Wilbanks and the 







Deed. 


Systems, Inc. 


Steven W. Wilbanks 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/kcarr 


(404) 373-1612 








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Gabriel Contreras Zamora to Mortgage 





Litton Loan Servicing, L.P. by 






HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE THOUSAND 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($139,000.00), 

































out above. 



of the mortgage with the debtor is: Litton 

Loan Servicing, LP., 4828 Loop Central 

Drive, Houston, TX 77081, 1-800-807- 







the property is Gabriel Contreras 

Zamora and Jose Amaro-Vigil or a 


more commonly known as 320 Sally 








Litton Loan Servicing, L.P. 


Gabriel Contreras Zamora 





MR/vn1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot No 66 in the 12th 


County, Georgia, together with 

improvements thereon being a portion of 

Lot 10 and Lot 11 of Drew Valley 

Estates, and being more particularly 

described according to a Plat of survey 


registered land surveyor, dated 3/28/86, 


according to said survey as follows: 

Beginning at an Iron pin located in the 

north right of way line of Sally Drive (50' 

r/w) said point being located in a 

westerly direction, as measured along 

said right of way line, a distance of 

354.37 feet from the point of intersection 

of said right of way line and the 

northwest right of way line of Haig Mill 

Road; thence running west, along the 

north right of way line of Sally Drive, a 

distance of 125 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence running north a distance of 150 

feet to an Iron pin; thence running east a 

distance of 125 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence running south a distance of 150 

feet to an Iron pin located in the north 

right of way line of Sally Drive, which is 


MR/vn1 4/7/09 

Our file no. 52498808 - FT12 

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Astrid Carolina Zavaleta to Homebanc 

Mortgage Corporation, dated March 17, 



Records, as last transferred to Chase 

Home Finance LLC by assignment to be 





the original principal amount of NINETY- 

TWO THOUSAND AND 0/100 












Georgia, designated as Lot 42 of 

Classic Estates, Phase II, as shown on 

a Plat of said Subdivision recorded in 

Plat Cabinet C, Slide 816, Whitfield 

County, Georgia Land Records, and 

being more particularly described on a 

Plat of survey thereof prepared by 

Joseph R. Evans, Georgia registered 

land surveyor No. 2168, as follows: 

Beginning at an Iron pin located on the 

east right-of-way line of Classic Chase 

Drive (50' r/w), said Iron pin being 

located 720.67 feet northerly as 

measured along said right-of-way line 

from the intersection of said right of way 

line with the north right-of-way line of 

Dawnville Road; thence along said east 

right-of-way line of Classic Chase Drive 


Seconds east 50.0 feet to an Iron pin; 

thence south 75 Degrees 47 Minutes 

east 100.03 feet to an Iron pin; thence 

south 14 Degrees 13 Minutes west 50.0 

feet to an Iron pin; thence north 75 

Degrees 47 Minutes west 100.03 feet to 

an Iron pin and the point of beginning. 

Subject to that certain Sewer Line 

Easement from Labrina Penson- 

Whitside to Dalton Flats Apartment, L .P. 

filed in deed book 3266, Page 283; 


Records. 














Chase Home Finance LLC can be 


to 3415 Vision Drive, Columbus, OH 













out above. 



the property is Astrid Carolina Zavaleta 



Classic Chase Dr., Dalton, Georgia 

30721. 









Astrid Carolina Zavaleta 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/rat 4/7/09 


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Chris Waller to Mortgage Electronic 




Records, as last transferred to 


by assignment recorded in Deed Book 




the original principal amount of EIGHTY 









property: 


























out above. 












the property is Chris Waller or a tenant 


commonly known as 902 Cascade Drive 

Apt 60, Dalton, Georgia 30720. 









Chris Waller 





MR/wlg 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot no. 198 in the 12th 


County, Georgia, and Being Unit 60 of 

Covington Court Condominium, as 

shown by Plat of record in condominium 

Plat Book 1, Page 17, in the office of the 

clerk of the Superior Court of Whitfield 

County, Georgia, the declaration of said 

condominium being recorded in Deed 


Deed Records, the first amendment to 

said declaration being recorded in Deed 


Deed Records, and the second 

amendment to said declaration being 


Whitfield County Deed Records. 

MR/wlg 4/7/09 


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Ruben Velez to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc., dated May 



Records, as last transferred to SunTrust 

Mortgage, Inc. by assignment to be 






HUNDRED FORTY-NINE THOUSAND 

THREE HUNDRED AND 0/100 


































out above. 












the property is Ruben Velez or a tenant 


commonly known as 209 Grassdale 

Road, Dalton, Georgia 30721. 









Ruben Velez 





MR/cs9 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia and being Lot 12 of Brandon 

Farms, Phase I, as per Plat dated 

December 14, 1999, recorded in Plat 

Cabinet C, Slides 1969-1971 and as 

shown by revised Plat dated December 

18, 2002, recorded in Plat Cabinet C, 

Slide 2654, Whitfield County, Georgia 

Land Records, said plats being 

incorporated herein and made a part 

hereof by reference for a more particular 


MR/cs9 4/7/09 


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Charles R. Tinsley to Mortgage 









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amount of ONE HUNDRED TWELVE 

THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND 0/100 



































out above. 












the property is Charles R. Tinsley or a 



Saddlebrook Drive, Rocky Face, 










Charles R. Tinsley 





MR/ps1 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 


being in Land Lot 241, 27th District, 3rd 

Section, Whitfield County, georgia, being 

Lot 31, Saddlebrook Subdivision, Phase 

3, as per Plat recorded in Plat Cabinet 

C, Slide 572, in the office of the clerk of 


which Plat is incorporated herein and 

made a part hereof by reference. 

Said 

Plat was prepared by Joseph R. Evans, 

Georgia Registered Land Surveyor no. 

2168, dated February 14, 1996, and 


Beginning at a point in the center line of 

a Branch which is located south 89 

Degrees 49 Minutes 28 Seconds east 

208.20 feet from the point on the west 

line of said Land Lot 241, which is south 

0 Degrees 8 Minutes 12 Seconds east 

along the west line of said Land Lot 

1783.78 feet from the northwest corner 

of said Land Lot; thence along and with 

the center line of said Branch the 

following courses and distances; north 

51 Degrees 53 Minutes 35 Seconds 

east 35.29 feet; north 29 Degrees 54 

Minutes 57 Seconds east 55.59 feet; 


Seconds west 14.56 feet; north 30 


45.78 feet; south 79 Degrees 8 Minutes 

9 Seconds east 11.71 feet; north 33 


18.04 feet; north 45 Degrees 55 Minutes 

15 Seconds west 16.46 feet; north 12 

Degrees 56 Minutes 27 Seconds west 

30.91 feet; north 51 Degrees 50 Minutes 

21 Seconds east 35.01 feet; north 17 


17.55 feet; north 47 Degrees 1 minute 

30 seconds east 39.28 feet; north 6 


20.01 feet; north 15 degrees 3 minutes 

54 seconds east 34.62 feet; south 77 



4 seconds east 23.34 feet; north 37 



18 seconds east 20.72 feet; south 75 


16.62 feet; and north 27 degrees 15 

minutes 20 seconds east 34.56 feet to 

the southerly side of Saddlebrook Drive 

(50' r/w); thence south 80 degrees 0 

minutes east along the southerly side of 

Saddlebrook Drive 66.13 feet; thence 

continuing in an easterly direction along 

the arc of the curvature of the southerly 

side of Saddlebrook Drive 25 feet to an 

iron pin; thence 6 degrees 33 minutes 

58 seconds west 358.30 feet to an iron 

pin on the south line of said land lot; 

thence north 89 degrees 49 minutes 28 

seconds west along the south line of 

said Lot 252.19 feet to the point of 

beginning. 

Source of title: book 3329, page 109 

(recorded 9/18/00) 

APN: 27-241-10-031 

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Arturo Tirado to Long Beach Mortgage 

Company, dated December 23, 2005, 





amount of SEVENTY-SEVEN 

THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($77,520.00), 











District and 3 Section of Whitfield 


Lot 4 of Lots 72 thru 05 of Union Point 

Subdivision, as shown on a Plat of 

survey prepared by N.B. Deloach, 


1347, dated April 28, 2005, revised 

October 25, 2005, and recorded in Plat 

Cabinet D, Slide 484, Whitfield County, 

Georgia Land Records, reference to 

which Plat is hereby made and 


more particular description of said 

property. 
















JPMorgan Chase Bank, National 

Association can be contacted at 866- 

926-8937 or by writing to 7255 

Baymeadows Way, Jacksonville, FL 













out above. 



the property is Arturo Tirado or a tenant 


commonly known as 208 Wooten Dr, 









as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage 

Trust 2006-2 


Arturo Tirado 




(770) 234-9181 


MSP/gxw 4/7/09 


03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










Andrea K. Whittenburg fka Andrea King 

to Suntrust Mortgage, Inc., dated 

November 13, 2002, recorded in Deed 





HUNDRED 

FORTY-THREE 

THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIFTY 

AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($143,350.00), 



































out above.. 












the property is Andrea C. King or a 



Ambercliff Drive, Rocky Face, Georgia 

30740. The sale will be conducted 

subject (1) to confirmation that the sale 

is not prohibited under the U.S. 

Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final 



deed. 



Andrea K. Whittenburg fka Andrea King 





MR/cj 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 





No. 59 of Greenvalley Subdivision, as 

shown by Plat No. 7 thereof, of record in 

Plat Cabinet C. Slide 125-128, in the 

office of the Clerk of the Superior Court 

of Whitfield County, Georgia. 

MR/cj 4/7/09 

Our file no. 51824606 - FT2 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 










Lloyd D. Wynn to Mortgage Electronic 


for GMAC Mortgage Corporation, dated 

July 19, 2002, recorded in Deed Book 



GMAC Mortgage, LLC by assignment to 






the original principal amount of SIXTY- 

NINE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED 

FIFTY-ONE AND 0/100 DOLLARS 








property: 




























out above. 




GMAC Mortgage, LLC f/k/a GMAC 

Mortgage Corporation, 1100 Virginia 

Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034, 800- 

850-4622x2365442. Please understand 






the property is Lloyd D. Wynn or a 


more commonly known as 4038 Village 

Drive, Cohutta, Georgia 30710. 







GMAC Mortgage, LLC 


Lloyd D. Wynn 





MR/mcs 4/7/09 


EXHIBIT A 




Georgia, being Lot 69 of the London 

Village Subdivision, Phase One, said 

property being more particularly 

described on a plat of survey dated April 

16, 1987, prepared for Decatur Federal 

Savings and Loan Association; said 

survey having been prepared by Donald 

O. Babb, Georgia Registered Land 

Survey 2029; and said property being 

more particularly described as follows: 

Beginning at an iron pin found on the 

easterly right of way of Village Drive (60 

feet R/W) a distance of 493.82 feet 

northerly from a point where the easterly 

side of Village Drive (60 feet R/W) 

intersects the northerly side of South 

Parliament Drive as measured along the 

easterly right of way of Village Drive (60 

feet R/W); running thence north 06 


along the easterly right of way of Village 

Drive (60 feet R/W) a distance of 100 

feet to an iron pin found at the 

southwest corner of Lot 70, said 

subdivision; running thence north 84 


along the southerly line of Lot 70 a 


found; running thence south 02 degrees 

22 minutes west a distance of 100 feet 

to an iron pin found on the northerly line 

of Lot 68; running thence south 85 


along the northerly line of said Lot 68 a 


found on the easterly right of way Village 

Drive (60 feet R/W) and the point of 

beginning. 

MR/mcs 4/7/09 

Our file no. 52625908 - FT1 

03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 





Deed executed by Evangelina Zaragoza 

and Reynaldo Zaragoza to Westminster 

Mortgage Corporation, dated October 4, 

2002 in the amount of $86,813.00, and 



last transferred to CitiMortgage, Inc. by 

assignment; the undersigned, 















County, Georgia, and being part of 

Tracts Nos. 345 and 346 of the M.S. 

Charles Subdivision, as shown by Plat 

No. 3 thereof, of record in Plat Book 1, 

Page 15, (Plat Cabinet A, Slide), in the 


of Whitfield County, Georgia, and 


Beginning at the Northeast corner of the 

property conveyed by Everett Barker to 

Lillie Hall, by deed of record in Deed 


Deed Records; thence East along the 

South line of the property conveyed by 

J.D. Field to Ed Grant, by Deed Book 36, 

Page 459, Whitfield County Deed 

Records, 150 feet; thence South along 

the West line of the property conveyed 

by J.D. Field to W.L. Foster, by deed of 

record in Deed Book 35, Page 543, 

Whitfield County Deed Records, 100 

feet; thence West 150 feet; thence North 

along said Hall property 100 feet to the 

Point of Beginning. 


Hall Drive, Dalton, Georgia., together 

with all fixtures and other personal 

property conveyed by said deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Evangelina Zaragoza and 

Reynaldo Zaragoza 

and the proceeds 

of said sale will be applied to the 

payment of said indebtedness, the 





Deed. 

CitiMortgage, 

Inc. 


Evangelina Zaragoza and Reynaldo 

Zaragoza 



(404) 373-1612 


File No. 09-02901 /FHA 






03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 






Deed executed by Brian K. Young and 

Pamela B. Young to Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, Inc. dated June 




as last transferred to Mortgage 

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. by 














being in original Land Lot Number 126 

in the 11th District and 3rd Section of 

Whitfield County, Georgia, and being 


a plat of survey prepared for Brian K. 

Young and Pamela G. Young, by N.B. 

DeLoach, Georgia Registered Land 

Surveyor No. 1347, dated September 

19, 1997, and being more particularly 

described according to said survey as 

follows: 

To find the true Point of Beginning of the 

tract of land herein described, 

commence at the Southeast corner of 

said Land Lot No, 126; running thence 

North 01 degree 15 minutes 27 seconds 

West, along the East line of said Land 

Lot No. 126, a distance of 850.47 feet to 

an iron pin; thence running South 89 

degrees 42 minutes 36 seconds West a 

distance of 304.29 feet to the true Point 

of Beginning of the tract of land herein 

described; from the true Point of 

Beginning thus established, running 

thence North 89 degrees 20 minutes 54 

seconds West a distance of 207.43 feet 

to the center of an old road; thence 

running North 03 degrees 41 minutes 20 

seconds East, along the centerline of 

said old road, a distance of 261.47 feet 

to an iron pin; thence running North 89 

degrees 42 minutes 36 seconds East a 

distance of 189.26 feet to an iron pin; 

thence running South 00 degrees 17 

minutes 24 seconds East a distance of 

264.25 feet to the true Point of 

Beginning. 

Together with and subject to an 

easement for the purposes of ingress, 

egress and the installation and 

maintenance of utilities to and from the 

above described property along the old 

road, the center line of which forms the 

Westerly boundary line of the above 

described property, Northwardly to the 

Cohutta-Beaverdale Road, said 

easement being more particularly 

described in that certain Easement 

Agreement dated July, 1989 and 



Records, reference to which Easement 

Agreement is hereby made and 

incorporated herein by reference. 

The source of Grantors interest is found 

in Deed recorded in Deed Book 2888, 

Page 162, as re-filed in Deed Book 

4271, Page 44, in the Office of the Clerk 



Subject to restrictions as set out in 

instrument recorded in Deed Book 586, 



Georgia. 


Cohutta Beaverdale Road, Cohutta, 

Georgia., together with all fixtures and 

other personal property conveyed by 

said deed. 






property. 










said deed. 


property of Brian K. Young and Pamela 

B. Young and the proceeds of said sale 








Systems, Inc. 


Brian K. Young and Pamela B. Young 

Anthony DeMarlo, Attorney/cyeats 


(404) 373-1612 








03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

911 Condemnation 

NOTICE OF SEIZURE OF PERSONAL 

PROPERTY 

VALUED AT LESS THAN $25,000 

Pursuant to O.C.G.A 16-13-49(n), any 

party claiming interest in the following 

property is hereby notified that on 

December 18, 2007, said property was 

seized by the undersigned agency in 

Whitfield County, Georgia: 

The seized property is described as 

follows: 

Two Thousand Seventy Nine 

($2,079.00) In United States Currency 

Circumstances of the seizure were as 

follows: 

On December 18, 2007, detectives with 

the Dalton Police Department were 

conducting an investigation into the 

illegadistribution of methamphetamine, a 

Schedule II Controlled Substance. 

Officers, using an informant, had 

previouslypurchasednarcotics 

froma 

residencelocatedat 748 Callahand 

Road, Dalton, and obtained a search 

warant for it. When officers executed the 

searh, they found Shauna Deona 

Hawkins in a back bedroom, with 

approximatly a quarter pound 

ofmethamphetaine ona bed and the 

above referenced currency. Ms. Hawkins 

was attempting to hide the money under 

the mattress. When asked why, she said 

she hides moneywhenpoliceshow 

up.Otherarrested at the scene stated mr. 

Hawkins had just drivenup to sell 

someone an ounce of meth. On August 

29, 2008, Ms. Hawkins pleadedguiltyto 

possession ofmethamphetamine with 

intent to distribute and was sentenced to 

5 years in prison followed by 15 years 

on probation. 

Forfeiture of the currency described 

herein is sought by the State of Georgia 

under the provisions of O.C.G.A. 16- 

613.3 on the grounds that it was found 

near a quantity of cocaine and 

marijuana. 

You are further notified that you may file 

a claim within thirty (30) days of the 

receipt of this notice of seizure by 

sending a claim meeting the 

requirements of O.C.G.A. 16-13-49(n) to 

the seizing law enforcement agency and 

to the District Attorney by certified mail, 


return receipt requested. 

Dalton Police Department 

301 Jones Street 


(706)278-9085 

Lee Miles 

Assistant District Attorney 

Post Office Box 1086 


(706)272-212103/13 

03/13 03/20 03/27 


PROPERTY 





February 12, 2009, said property was 




follows: 

Eight Hundred Thirty-three Dollars 

($833.00) In United States Currency 


follows: 

On February 12, 2009 detectives with 


conducting an investigation into the 

illegal distribution of cocaine, a 

Schedule II Controlled Substance, and 

marijuana, aControlled Substance. 

Officers, using an informant, had 

previously purchased narcotics from Mr. 

JasonHarrisand had an arrest warrant 

for him and a search warrant for his 

residence at 118 Westbrook Road, 

Dalton. When officers went to the 

residence and arrested Mr. Harris and 

search it, they found Mr. Bret Lamar 

Bonds. Officers noted throughout the 

apartment there was odor of smoked 

marijuana. Mr. Bonds and Harris were 

sitting on a couch withmarijuana and a 

sed exractor in front of them. Mr. Bonds 

had a small bag of marijuana on him. 

Mr. Harris had the above-referenced 

currency in his pocket. Cocaine residue 

was found on a plate and set of digital 

scales inthe kitchen. After being advised 

of his Miranda Rights, Mr. Harris claimed 

the marijuana in Bond’s pocket. 

Mr.Harrisalso said the residue on the 

plate and scales was flour from baking 

and headache powder. He also said a 

alprazolam pill, a Schedule IV 

Controlled Substance, found by officers, 

was reallyfor a dog in the apartment. 

Both Harris and Bonds was arrested 

and charged of violations of the Georgia 

Controlled Substances Act for 

possession of cocaine, marijuana, and 

drug related objects. 






marijuana. 












(706)278-9085 

Lee Miles 




(706)272-212103/13 

03/13 03/20 03/27 


PROPERTY 





February 12, 2009, said property was 




follows: 

Three Thousand Five Hundred Seventy 

Six Dollars ($3,57.00) 

In United States 

Currency 


follows: 

On February 12, 2009 

an officer with 

the Dalton Police Department observe a 

black trans am in the Gues Inn parking 

lotinvolved in what appeared to be a 

drug sale.The officer followed the car 

from the parking lot and observed the 

driver was turning without using his 

signals. The officer stopped the car and 

gave the driver, Ms. Gail Michelle 

Bramblett a warning for the trafic 

violations The officer also explained to 

her that he observed her involved in 

what looked like an illegal drug sale 

.Ms.Bramblett gave the officer consent 

to search ehr car. In thecar, officers 

found an openbeer can and a 

small 

amount of methamphetamine, a 

Schedule II Controlled Substance, near 

the stick shift. Neiter Ms. Bramblet nor 

her passenger, Mr. Thomas Charles 

Byers claimed the meth. Both were 

arrested and charged with a violatioin of 

the GeorgiaControlled Substances Act. 

Mr. Byars had $2,116.00 of the abovereferenced 

currency on his person. He 

was transported to the jail 

separatelyfrom Ms.Bramblet. The officer 

checked the backseat before transport, 

and afterwards and found a small bag of 

meth where Byers had been sitting. 

Mr.Bramblett had $1,460.00 inher purse. 

When asked about the money, she said 

it was her tax returna and proofwas in 

thepurse. However, the officer found 

notax return paperwork in the purse. 

After Ms.Byers was transported to jail 

she offered to show the officers where 

Mr. Byers buys his meth. This 

contradicted a statement by Mr. Byers 

that Ms.Bramblett did not even know 

that Mr.Byers used meth. 






marijuana. 












(706)278-9085 

Lee Miles 




(706)272-212103/13 

03/13 03/20 03/27 


PROPERTY 


Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 16-13-49(n), any a 


property is hereby notified that on the 

9th day of March, 2009, said property 

was seized by the undersigned agency 

in Whitfield County, Georgia: 


follows: 

Two Thousand Five Hundred Twenty- 

Seven Dollars ($2,527.00) in United 

States Currency 


follows: 

On February 2, 2009, a deputy with the 

Whitfield County Sheriffs Office pulled 

over a vehicle, containing 3 people and 

2 dogs, or speeding on Highway 71 at 

the intersection of Orchard Way, in 

Whitfield County When he made contact 


with the driver, Roy Drennen, the deputy 

found he had a suspended driver’s 

license from the state of Tennessee. A 

front seat passenger lied to the officer 

and said his name was Curtis Howard, 

when it was really David Howard. Mr. 

Howard said they were going drop the 

dogs off at the Drennens relatives home 

in Florida. Mr. Drennen spend the night 

there, but they got lost a after they got 

off interstate 75 and ended up here. 

Incident to arrest for the suspended 

license, officers searched the car and 

found an dog food can with a fake 

bottom, that contained 24 hydrocodone 

pills, a Schedule III Controlled 

Substance, a and 24 alprazolam pills 

(a.k.a. Xanex), a Schedule IV Controlled 

Substance. Officers found a fake oil can 

that concealed $2500.00 of the abovereferenced 

currency. The deputy called 

narcotics detectives. Detectives charged 

Mr. Drennen, Mr. Howard, and another 

passenger, Lenville Hall, with violations 

of the Georgia Controlled Substances 

Act for possession of hydrocodone and 

pills. Mr. Drennen had $27.00 of the 

above-referenced currency in his wallet. 

Forfeiture of the currency vehicle herein 

is sought by the State of Georgia under 

the provisions of O.C.G.A.16-13-49(d)(2) 

on the grounds that it was used and 

intended for use to facilitate a violation 

of the Georgia Controlled Substances 

Act and/or that it was proceeds derived 

from a violation of the Georgia 

Controlled Substances Act, and/or 

O.C.G.A. 16-13-49(d)(6) on the ground 

that it was in close proximity to 

hydrocodone and alprazolam intended 

for sale. 





requirements of O.C.G.A. 16-13-49(n)(4) 

to the seizing law 

enforcement agency 

and to the District Attorney by certified 

mail, return receipt requested. 

Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department 

85 Professional Boulevard 


Lee Miles 




(706)272-2121 

03/27 04/03 04/10 04/1 


PROPERTY 





November 18, 2008, said property was 




follows: 

Two Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-six 

Dollars ($2,886.00) In United States 

Currency 


follows: 

On November 18, 2008, detective with 


conducting investigation into the illegal 

distribution of methamphetamine, a 

Schedule II Controlled Substance. 

Officers using an informant, had 

previously purchased narcotics from a 

drug dealer’s residence on located on 

Carbondale Rd. When officers executed 

a search warrant for the dealers 

residence, someone inside went outside 

and informed Michael Terry Willix that 

the police were searching there for 

drugs. Mr. Willix left the residence but 

was pulled over a few streets later. Mr. 

Willix was already on probation for a 

2001 conviction for trafficking in 

narcotics and had a sentence of 10 

years to serve and 20 years probation, 

with a waiver of his 4th amendment 

search rights. When officer search his 

vehicle, they found Mr. Willix had a set of 

digital scales with meth residue, other 

drug use paraphernalia, and the above 

referenced currency. It appeared Mr. 

Willix was at the residence to purchase 

drugs with the money seized. On August 

29, 2008, Ms. Hawkins pleaded guilty to 

possession of methamphetamine and 

was sentenced to 3 years in prison 

concurrent with his other cases. 






marijuana. 












(706)278-9085 

Lee Miles 




(706)272-2121 

03/13 03/20 03/27 

912 Summons 





W.S. 

CASE NO. 08-0-2254 

SEX: 

MALE 

AGE: 17 YEARS DOB: 

06/12/1991 





TO: SHARON SMITHEY, 

MOTHER, MICHAEL SMITHEY, OR 

ANY UNKNOWN, UNNAMED FATHER 

You are hereby notified that a Motion to 

Extend Custody Petition was filed by the 




A 

provisional hearing was held on 

February 25, 2009, and a provisional 

order was entered on February 25, 

2009. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 15-11-39.2, 

you are ordered to appear at the final 


April 15, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. at the 














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912 Summons 









03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03SMITHE 





N.E.R 

CASE NO. 09-00-045 

SEX: MALE 


05/03/1995 

A.N.R. 

CASE NO. 09-00-046 

SEX: FEMALE 


11/06/1996 

B.H.H. 

CASE NO. 09-00-047 

SEX: MALE 

AGE: 10 YEARS 

DOB: 12/10/1998 

CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE 




TO: TABITHA DIANNE 

GAYLON, MOTHER, NATHANIEL 

ROBERTS, BENJAMIN HOGAN 

HIGGINS, OR ANY UNKNOWN, 



Deprivation Petition was filed by the 



Court of Whitfield County, Georgia. A 


February 25, 2009 and a provisional 












provisional order of said children will 



children in the above-styled 

case. 














03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF 



In the Interest of: 

J.T-H.M. 

Sex: Male 

Age: 8 years 

DOB: 11/21/1999 

No.: 08-0-2202 

T.N.M. 

Sex: Female 

Age: 9 years 

DO: 09/05/1998 

No.: 08-0-2203 

A Children Under 18 Years of Age 

SUMMONS AND PROCESS FOR 

PUBLICATION 


912 Summons 


TO: JAMES CHRISTOPHER 

MCCOLLUM OR ANY UNKNOWN, 



Extend Custody was filed by the Michael 

David Moreland, Carolyn Patricia 

Moreland, and Deborah Clark in the 


Georgia. A provisional hearing was held 

on February 25th, 2009 and a 

provisional order was entered on 

February 25th, 2009. Pursuant to 

O.C.G.A. 15-11-39.2, you are ordered to 

appear at the final hearing in the matter 

which is set for the 22nd day of April, 

2009 at 9:30 a.m. at the Whitfield 

County Juvenile Court in Dalton, 

Georgia located at 205 North Selvidge 

Street, Dalton, Georgia 30720. You may 

obtain a copy of the petition from the 

Clerk of Juvenile Court. If you do not 

appear at the final hearing, the 

provisional order of said children will 



child(ren) in the above-styled. 








Witness the Honorable Connie Blaylock, 

Judge of this Court. This the 27th day of 

February, 2009. 

Honorable Sean V. Kean, Clerk 


03/06 03/13 03/20 03/27 




In the interest of: 

J.P. 

Sex: Female 

Age: 15 Years 

DOB: 8/20/93 

Case No.: 0802306 

A Child Under 18 Years of Age 


PUBLICATION 



TO: TARA CELESTINE TIBBS, 

MOTHER, OR ANY UNKNOWN 



Extend Custody petition has been filed 

by the Whitfield County Department of 

Family and Children’s Services in the 


Georgia. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 15-11- 

9.2, a provisional hearing was held on 

March , 2009 and a provisional order 

was entered on March 9th, 2009. You 

are ordered to appear at the final 

hearing in the matter which is set for the 

13th day of May 2009 at 9:30 a.m. at the 


Dalton, Georgia located at 205 N. 

Selvidge St., Dalton,Georgia, 30720 You 

may obtain a copy of the petition from 

the Clerk of Juvenile Court. If you do not 

appear at the final hearing the 

provisional order of J.P. will become final 

ad a Final Order will be filed in this 

Court in regard to the above-named 


THE RESPONDENTS HEREBY 







Witness the Honorable Connie Blaylock, 

Judge of this Court. The This the 10th, 

day of March 2009. 

Honorable Sean V. Kean, Clerk 


03/20 03/27 04/03 04/10 

912 Summons 




In the Interest of: S. A. L. 

Sex: Male 

Age: 4 years 

DOB: 11/16/2004 

Case No: 09-00-349 

A Child(ren) Under 18 Years of Age 


PUBLICATION 



TO: ELIZABETH REE ROBERTS, 

MOTHER, STEPHEN ADAM LUMPKIN 

OR ANY UNKNOWN UNNAMED 

FATHER 


Termination of Parental Rights petition 

has been filed by the paternal 

grandparents of said child, Sandra & 

Stephen Lumpkin in the Juvenile Court 

of Whitfield County and a final hearing 

involving same has been scheduled for 

the 28th Day of May 2009 at 3pm and 

said Termination of Parental Rights 

petition has been filed in the Juvenile 

Court of Whitfield County. Said petitioner 

is seeking to terminate your parental 

rights to the above named child and said 

petition was filed in the Juvenile Court of 

Whitfield County on March 3rd, 2009. 

The grounds for termination is that the 

child(ren) is/are deprived under 

O.C.G.A. 15-11-2 and O.C.G.A. 15-11- 

94(b)(4). A copy of the Petition(s) may 

be obtained from the Office of the Clerk 

of the Whitfield County Juvenile Court 

located at 205 North Selvidge Street, 

Dalton, Georgia. You are hereby notified 

that you are required to appear before 

the Juvenile Court of Whitfield County, 

Georgia on the 28th day of May, 2009 at 

3:00 p.m. should you desire to contest 

the petition(s). The effect of the 

termination requested shall terminate 

our parental rights with respect to the 

minor child(ren), including rights of 

inheritance. 

NOTICE TO PUTATIVE FATHER 

Pursuant to the Official Code of Georgia 

Annotated, Section 15-11-96 (e)(g), 

notice is hereby given STEPHEN ADAM 

LUMPKIN OR ANY UNKNOWN, 

UNNAMED FATHER that you will lose 

all rights to the above-captioned 

child(ren) and will not be able to object 

to termination of your rights unless 

within thirty (30) days of receipt of this 

notice you file with the court (1) a 

petition to legitimate the child(ren) 

pursuant to Code Section 19-7-22; and 

(2) notice of filing of the petition to 

legitimate with the court in which the 

action under this Code Section is 

pending. (3) if the biological father who 

is not the legal father does not file a 

legitimization petition and give notice as 

required in subsection (g) of this Code 

section within thirty (30) days from his 

receipt of the notice provided for in 

subsection (3) of this Code section or 

division of (f)(2)(B)(ii) of this Code 

section or, if after filing the petition he 

fails to prosecute it to final judgment, he 

loses all rights to the children) and the 

court shall enter an order terminating all 

such father’s rights to the children and 

such father may not thereafter object to 

the termination of his rights to the 

child(ren). 



This 6th, day of March, 2009. 

Honorable Sean V. Kean, clerk 


03/27 04/03 04/10 04/17 

912 Summons 





A.R. 

CASE NO. 08-0-2251 

SEX: MALE 


06/18/1991 

J.S. 

CASE NO. 08-0-2250 

SEX: FEMALE 

AGE: 14 YEARS 

DOB: 07/28/2004 

CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE 




TO: FLORENCIO RODRIBUEZ, 

OR ANY UNKNOWN, UNNAMED 

FATHER 


Extend Custody was filed by the 


and Children Services in the Juvenile 

Court of Whitfield County, Georgia. A 


February 25, 2009 and a provisional 



















912 Summons 










03/13 03/20 03/27 04/03 

914 

Registered Sex 

Offenders 

WHITFIELD COUNTY SEX 

OFFENDERS 

Name: UNDERWOOD, JAMES 

ROBERT 

Address: 3590 EDWARDS CIRCLE 


Crime: RAPE 

Place Arrested: MURRAY COUNTY 

SHERIFF’S OFFICE 

Date Arrested: 03-15-1999 

Convicted: 08-25-1999 

Released: 03-14-2009 

Date: 03-16-2009 

SEX OFFENDERS WEBSITES 

Georgia Bureau of Investigations 

Website 

Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office Website 

www.ganet.org/gbi 

www.wcso.com 

www.whitfieldcountyga.com 

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Progress 2009 ■ The Daily Citizen 

What does the future hold? 

Whitfield County looks at possible changes in taxes, sewer, more 

(Editor’s note: The Daily 

Citizen recently sat down 

with Mike Babb, chairman of 

the Whitfield County Board 

of Commissioners, to talk 

about possible property tax 

hikes, merging the city and 

county recreation departments, 

expanding sewer and 

what else the future holds for 

the county.) 

The Daily Citizen: The 

economy is struggling, both 

nationally and on a local 

level. What role do you think 

the county should play in 

improving the economic situation 

of the county? 

Babb: Of course what we 

try to be, and what the county 

is, is 

businessfriendly. 

I 

t h i n k 

Mayor 

(David) 

Pennington 

is addressing 

some 

tax issues in 

the city of 

Babb 

Dalton to make the city of 

Dalton more business-friendly. 

The county,if you look at 

the numbers, the M&O — 

the maintenance and operations 

— rate is we’re one of 

the lowest in the state, especially 

if you go back and 

really adjust the figures for 

fees that other counties 

charge. Depending on how 

you want to call it,we’re anywhere 

from between third 

and tenth of the lowest millage 

rate in the state. But that 

is business-friendly. 

Now where we may not 

be business friendly is in the 

ease of establishing a new 

business in Whitfield County. 

Right now,we have no shovel-ready 

industrial site that 

we can bring in and show 

new companies. We need to 

address that at some point. 

The citizens were good 

enough to vote in approval of 

the inventory/freeport 

exemption, which gets us on 

some more lists down at the 

state level when companies 

are coming into Georgia to 

look for locations. There 

have been several things 

done, but there’s more to do 

to make the county more 

business-friendly. 

We need to have a set policy 

on what kind of incentives 

to give to a new business 

coming in. One thing we 

have done is the previous 

board worked to develop the 

Joint Development Authority 

(JDA) with Dalton and the 

chamber and that pretty well 

has a central group of people 

to go to if you’re a new business 

coming in, and now 

what we’ve got to do is give 

some guidance so the Joint 

Development Authority will 

know the incentives you can 

receive from the city of 

Dalton or the county for 

establishing a business in our 

community. Here’s the shovel-ready 

sites that we have 

that we can show you. 

We’ve had a meeting with 

people at the state level in the 

development area, and that’s 

one thing we’re hurting on 

right now is having places 

that are flat,have utilities run 

to them, maybe a first environmental 

study done on the 

property. Most startup companies 

or companies changing 

locations want to be up 

and running within a short 

time period. If you have to go 

out and find the land, buy the 

land and develop the land, 

get all of the environmental 

approvals, that slows the 

whole process down. 

TDC: Who would be 

behind getting that shovelready 

property in line? 

Would it be the city, the 

county,the JDA, acombination? 

Babb: I think it’s going to 

be a combination because, of 

course, you don’t have shovel-ready 

sites without the 

utilities run to it. You have 

three power companies supplying 

Whitfield County — 

Georgia Power, North 

Georgia Electric, Dalton 

Utilities — and Dalton 

Utilities is the only one that 

has the gas and the water. So 

probably more than anything 

it would be the cooperation 

of the chamber and the JDA, 

the city government, the 

county government and the 

utilities in getting new businesses 

to locate here. 

TDC: Is that something 

the taxpayers should pick up? 

It seems kind of inadequate 

to provide something for a 

new business and not provide 

something for an existing 

business. 

Babb: That’s an argument 

to be made, but right now we 

don’t have that business here. 

The new business that’s coming 

in, all right, we’re not 

collecting any taxes on it or 

anything like that, but if you 

get that new business here 

and give it some kind of 

exemption for the first few 

years, then after the first few 

years it would also be carrying 

its load just like the rest 

of the businesses in the community. 

Is it fair? I don’t 

know if it’s fair or not if you 

want to look at it that way to 

the taxpayers, but I can tell 

you that all of our competition 

is doing it. 

You have to adjust to what 

your competition is or we’ll 

just be left off any consideration 

for future businesses. 

Call Gordon County, 

Catoosa, Bartow. All of these 

counties are just like us. 

They’re out for new industry. 

The taxpayers are telling us 

to diversify our industrial 

base and if we’re going to 

diversify, then we’ve got to 

get some incentives in order 

to get them to diversify within 

Whitfield County as 

opposed to some other area. 

TDC: You mentioned 

property taxes. Previous 

commissions have held the 

line on property taxes with 

no recent increases. What are 

the odds of an increase this 

year? 

Babb: How do you define 

increase? If we hold the millage 

rate level, there is probably 

going to be a decrease in 

the amount of money that 

comes in depending on how 

the appraisals go. Of course, 

we also are dealing with what 

the state Legislature is doing 

to the local governments. 

They put the moratorium on 

for two years. We’re going to 

have to reappraise the property,but 

if the property goes 

up we can’t change the 

appraisal, but if it goes down 

we’re required to change it. 

Well, this is corrupting the 

whole system the way I look 

at it. 

I was here in 2003 when 

we did the county-wide evaluation, 

the first one that had 

been done in 11 years. What 

I found then was people didn’t 

like to have big evaluation 

jumps regardless how much 

money they have saved over 

the 11 years, they didn’t like 

to see that big jump. We 

determined at that time we 

were going to try to do it at 

least every three years and in 

a perfect world you’d 

appraise every year. 

Then they’re also raising 

the homestead exemption. 

They want to add $2,000 to 

the homestead exemption. 

OK, well some counties only 

give a $2,000 homestead 

exemption, and Whitfield 

County on the M&O taxes 

give a $20,000 (homestead 

exemption). So the state 

Legislature needs to be working 

on their own financial 

problems at the state level, 

but they’re making it more 

difficult at the local level for 

us to meet our budget. 

TDC: The county is facing 

a $4 million revenue 

shortfall this year. How real 

of a possibility do you think 

the one-day-a-month furloughs 

will be? 

Babb: We’re looking at 

that on a quarterly basis and 

nearly on a month-to-month 

basis. Last month, our decision 

was we’d start the furloughs 

in April, April 1. 

Because of the sales tax collections 

through the month of 

November, which came in at 

the month of January, were 

like $900,000 and we’re used 

to seeing around $1.4, $1.5 

million on the sales tax. So 

that was a tremendous — like 

a 17 percent drop from the 

year before — we said, ‘OK, 

we’re going to have to do it.’ 

Well, then the sales tax came 

in February for the month of 

December was $1.6 million. 

Now you explain that. I know 

we did not collect $1.6 million 

in sales tax in December. 

And that’s a concern that is 

held by multiple cities and 

multiple counties is whether 

or not the state is really in 

total control of where the 

sales taxes are collected and 

do they get back to the community 

that collected the 

sales tax. They can tell you 

where the winning lottery 

ticket was sold in 30 minutes 

of selling it but they can’t tell 

you where the sales tax was 

collected. Right now, we’re 

not going to start the furloughs 

in April. The $1.6 

(million) added to the 

$900,000, that puts us pretty 

much back on budget. 

TDC: Again along budget 

lines, the county has delayed 

18 capital projects totaling 

around $7.5 million and the 

previous board had pretty big 

plans for recreation, but a lot 

of that had to be scaled back. 

What areas do you see that 

could handle more of a cut 

this year or in the coming 

years? 

Babb: They’ve pretty well 

looked at everything they can 

cut back on. Where else could 

we scale back? If you look at 

what makes up the cost of 

county government, we are 

basically a service industry 

and our biggest cost overall is 

in personnel and benefits. So 

we can stop all the capital 

projects we want to but at 

some point if more than half 

of your budget is in personnel 

and benefits, then sooner or 

later you have to look at 

those. And that was the idea 

of the furloughs. The furlough 

would be our biggest 

area of immediate savings in 

addition to these capital projects 

that have already been 

cut out and stopped. We get 

some criticism over the furloughs, 

but furloughing 

somebody one day a month is 

better than terminating them 

from employment from the 

standpoint that they do get the 

insurance and the benefits, 

they just lose a day’s pay out 

of the month. If we started in 

April,I think it would be over 

$700,000 in savings by the 

end of the year if we furloughed 

people one day a 

month. 

TDC: The city and county 

are looking to cooperate 

more on providing services. I 

know you all are moving forward 

with combining the city 

and county building and zoning 

departments. What 

departments do you think are 

the most logical to combine 

next? 

Babb: The first two we’re 

looking at is the building and 

zoning. And of course, building 

is off, so that’s a department 

we can mess with right 

now. Even if we mess up, it’s 

not that big a deal because 

there’s not that much going 

on right now. So that’s the 

first one we’re starting with. 

Next comes recreation, 

because if you look at the difference 

between the recreation 

programs, the city of 

Dalton used to have the millage 

directly allocated to their 

recreation program. They 

have probably a benchmark 

of a recreation program, and 

on the county side, ours is 

maybe a benchmark on how 

to do it least expensively. 

Lots and lots of volunteers, 

lots and lots of donated time 

from volunteers in the community, 

lots of cooperation 

with the school system to use 

their facilities. Now how do 

we join those two together 

and make something that 

everybody is still happy with 

that we can still afford in the 

long run? Because the big 

deal about combining services 

here, and I’ve had this discussion 

with the mayor — of 

course the mayor is trying to 

get his referred to, Dalton, as 

one of the highest taxed cities 

in the state of Georgia, and 

his goal is to reduce that tax 

load on the city residents. If 

you can combine different 

operations, that’s a way of 

hopefully reducing the cost 

or increasing the effectiveness 

of that particular service. 

Now in a perfect world, 

it’s going to reduce the cost 

but we’re going to have to 

wait and see if that’s true in 

every instance. Well, the 

county is the only governmental 

entity that goes border 

to border in the county 

through Dalton, through 

Varnell, we associate with 

everybody. So as you combine 

services,more than likely 

they’re going to be combined 

under the county jurisdiction. 

Well, that brings that 

cost over to the county. We’re 

already one of the lowest 

millage rates in the state so 

when you look at the big picture, 

it might be better when 

it averages out to make these 

moves. But in the small picture, 

it’s probably going to 

affect the county’s budget 

negatively while helping the 

other budget positively. Now 

it still might be the best thing 

to do in the big picture to 

make us more competitive 

for drawing industry to the 

area and all of those things, 

but it’s still a fact that the 

commissioners are sitting 

there looking at an additional 

cost we’re going to have. 

But,is it the best thing for the 

community at large? You’ve 

got to remember a third of 

the county’s citizens live 

inside the municipality of 

Dalton so if something is fair 

for a third of the residents, 

then we would have to consider 

doing it. 

TDC: Something the citizens 

did support was the 

transportation SPLOST (special 

purpose local option 

sales tax) about two years 

ago. But it seems there’s not 

as much work going on as 

people would like to see. I 

know a lot of projects are in 

the design phase, but are you 

pleased with the progress of 

the SPLOST so far? 

Babb: What people look 

for is what really affects 

them: asphalt on the ground 

and safe intersections. 

Unfortunately before you get 

to that point,because of safety 

regulations, DOT regulations, 

Environmental 

Protection regulations, there 

is a long process that you 

have to go through in the 

design work. A lot of these 

places that we’re dealing 

with have to have right of 

way acquisition so that slows 

down the process. 

As we get into it, they’ll 

start seeing it speeding up as 

we get past the design phase 

and into the actual putting 

asphalt down and changing 

intersection phase, they’ll 

start visually seeing what’s 

going on. And of course if 

they have a computer, they 

can go to the county Web site 

(www.whitfieldcountyga.co 

m), tap on the SPLOST project 

and they can see what 

projects are in the works. 

The biggest disappointment 

out of all of this has 

been that in good faith the 

commissioners said, ‘We 

need this SPLOST so it can 

help us get money from the 

state DOT. They will help 

fund projects where the local 

community is also contributing 

funds.’ We had people 

from the Georgia DOT up 

F ILE PHOTO 

A rebounding carpet industry would be a huge boost to the region, but Whitfield County officials would 

also like to see a more diversified local economy. 


Whitfield County is showing a greater emphasis on 

recreation, in hopes of improving the quality of life 

for county residents. 

here and they stood in community 

meetings and said, 

‘Here is what we intend to 

do, if the community has 

money we will be more apt to 

flow money to that community.’ 

Well, the citizens of 

Whitfield County upheld 

their end of the bargain by 

voting in the SPLOST dollars 

which we’re collecting, but 

it’s been disappointing from 

the state side that there have 

been as many issues at the 

DOT and we’re not getting 

the funds that we felt like we 

were told we would get. Of 

course, that scrambles the 

projects again because those 

projects that were waiting to 

get funding to go along with 

local funding are pushed 

back on the back burner and 

we’re moving forward with 

the projects that will be 100 

percent locally funded. 

TDC: And some of those 

projects that were supposed 

to be state funded are some 

of the more high profile projects 

as well, right? 

Babb: Yes. It would be 

like the interstate interchange 

at Carbondale, we’ve got the 

Rocky Face interchange, the 

Cleveland Road/north bypass 

interchange. Those are going 

to be slower projects. 

TDC: Looking forward 

nine months ahead, what do 

you see as the biggest hurdle 

or issue facing the county as 

we go into 2010? 

Babb: 2009 is going to 

be the year of the economy, 

the budget. Coming in this 

morning, the headline on the 

radio was ‘Governor slashes 

budget again.’ So we’re 

going to have to keep a 

close eye on the budget. 

Now, going into this time 

period Whitfield County is 

probably in as good a position 

as it could be with economic 

times being what 

they are. No county debt, 

we’re got a good fund balance. 

The revenues are 

down. If I remember the 

numbers correctly, they are 

projected to be down $4 

million. They’ve cut expenses 

by $2 million. You’ve got 

$4 million in revenues missing, 

but you’ve only cut $2 

million in expenses so 

you’ve got to make up the 

other $2 million by pulling 

from the fund balance. The 

fund balance will help carry 

us for a couple of years and 

something will have to be 

done. It won’t carry us a 

couple of years if we move 

ahead with some of the projects 

that need to be done in 

order to have us be positioned 

for when the economy 

turns around. Everybody 

says we need sewer out in 

the county, well sewer costs 

money. If we take some of 

the fund balance to move 

sewer forward, that would 

be good for us when the 

economy turns around. In 

the meantime, it will be a 

cost to the budget.

The Daily Citizen ■ Progress 2009 Friday,March 27, 2009 3 


Downtown Dalton is pictured. Mayor David Pennington says the things that 

make communities unique are their downtowns. 

M ISTY W ATSON/T HE D AILY C ITIZEN 

Miguel Charez, from left, Wayne Hart and Rick Spivey, workers with Cope 

Brothers Construction work on renovations to the old depot in Dalton. 

Pennington: Dalton is fiscally strong 

(Editor’s note: The Daily 

Citizen sat down recently with 

Dalton Mayor David 

Pennington to discuss the state 

of the city,plans to revitalize 

the local economy and cooperation 

with the state as well 

as other local governments.) 

The Daily Citizen: How 

would you assess the overall 

state of the city? 

Pennington: From the 

city’s financial standpoint, we 

are in extremely strong shape 

because of what we began last 

year. In 2008, we used part of 

our surplus to help us cut the 

budget in 2009. We spent 

$650,000 for early retirements 

for people whose positions 

have been eliminated and 

$850,000 for a software system 

that we were going to buy 

in 2009 but we got a discount 

for buying it in 2008, so we 

moved it back. 

This year we are going to 

have a general fund surplus of 

$2.4 million, so over a twoyear 

period, we are actually 

adding about $900,000 to the 

fund balance. 

We also cut taxes 20 percent 

while doing all that and 

reduced fees across the city, 

some by 50 percent, such as 

liquor license fees. That really 

helped our restaurants. That’s 

a big bill for them. 

TDC: What can the city 

do, on its own, to help revive 

the economy? 

Pennington: We’ve gone 

through a period of failed 

leadership in Washington and 

failed leadership in Atlanta. It 

makes you feel a little frustrated, 

but you’ve got to look 

at it this way. What we want 

to be is on a relative basis better 

than everyone else around 

us because they are in the 

same position as us as far as 

the state and government. We 

want to be better than our 

competition, whether it is 

Chattanooga, Ringgold, 

Calhoun or wherever. 

I feel confident there’s one 

area we can make some pretty 

big movements this year in 

tourism and visitors business. 

We’ve never really done a lot 

there, so we have a small base 

to grow on. Over the next 90 

days, we should get the 

(freight) depot finished, the 

Hamilton House finished. 

TDC: Where are you in 

repairing the Hamilton 

House? 

Pennington: We have 

about $186,000 in (federal) 

money. The thing about that 

money is we’ve got to spend it 

in 120 days. So they’ve got to 

get it done, and they will get it 

done. 

I’m a very fiscal conservative. 

I’m not wild about what 

Washington is doing, but if 

they are going to send money 

out I’m not going to turn it 

down. If we don’t take it, 

somebody else will. 

We’ve got another grant, 

and we’d like to get hold of the 

old Crown Mill store across 

from the Hamilton House. It’s 

just used as a storage building 

now. But we’d like to get that, 

redo it and use it as the centerpiece 

of that historic district 

over there. There’s another 

house, an old mill house, over 

there that is in foreclosure, and 

we want to get that. We will 

get that and use (federal) 

money to do it. 

That whole area is on the 

historic register,but it has never 

been treated that way. We’d 

like to turn that whole area into 

a historic area with signs. 

TDC: I’ve heard this question, 

you probably have as 

well, “We can’t get people 

from Dalton to stay here on 

the weekend. They go to 

Atlanta and Chattanooga. 

How are you going to get people 

from Chattanooga and 

Atlanta to come here?” 

Pennington: We’ve got to 

have something for them to 

come to and do. 

Unfortunately,we haven’t had 

that. We’ve never had the 

mindset, but one of the benefits 

is that people like to live in 

communities that people like 

to visit. 

We’ve got the infrastructure 

here to do that. We’ve just 

never done it,and we’ve never 

marketed it. People are going 

to small Georgia towns, particularly 

baby boomers, every 

weekend. They aren’t coming 

here because we don’t have an 

organized product or organized 

marketing plan to get 

them here. But if you look at 

some of the places they are 

going, they don’t have the 

hotels we have. They don’t 

have the restaurants we have. 

Planet of the Grapes? We’ve 

already got people from 

Atlanta and Chattanooga coming 

here for that. The Depot. 

Iron Gate Pizza. 

We’ve got the infrastructure. 

Now,we’ve got to tie it 

all together. Tie the Indian, 

Civil War and industry history 

together,and market it. 

We aren’t going to become 

Disney World. We aren’t 

going to become Chattanooga. 

But think what it would mean 

to this community if we had 

just 100 new visitors a week 

come here. 

We’ve got the Convention 

and Visitors Bureau, the 

Downtown Dalton 

Development Authority and 

the Chamber of Commerce 

together. We are going to start 

having stuff on weekends. The 

cruise-ins that we’ve been 

having in the summer? We are 

going to tie other things into 

that and get the CVB’s marketing 

behind that and become 

more of a regional hub for visitors 

and tourism. 

TDC: What role will the 

Norfolk Southern freight 

depot play in this? 

Pennington: That’s going 

to be the centerpiece. The 

CVB office will be there. 

There will be a large meeting 

place. It will be the train viewing 

station. 

TDC: How is the renovation 

of the depot funded? 

Pennington: It’s probably 

going to cost us somewhere in 

the neighborhood of 

$450,000, and $275,000 of 

that is a (state Department of 

Transportation) grant. The 

other $175,000 we have to 

come up with. We’ve already 

got $100,000 in the budget. 

We have to come up with 

another $75,000. 

TDC: Why is so much 

attention and money being 

aimed at downtown instead of, 

say, Walnut Avenue? That’s 

where the hotels are, many of 

the restaurants are. 

Pennington: The things 

that make communities 

unique are their downtowns. 

Every community has a 

Walnut Avenue, maybe not 

that big, but every community 

has a place with all the chain 

restaurants and chain stores. 

But if you look at the communities 

that are successful at 

attracting visitors and that also 

are a fun place to live, they 

have a unique downtown. 

That’s the reason downtowns 

are so important. That’s what 

sets you apart. 

TDC: What is the city 

doing to diversify the economy 

apart from growing 

tourism? 

Pennington: Longer-term, 

we’ve got to attract young, 

educated people. That’s who 

starts new businesses. That’s 

who takes risks. Seventy percent 

of jobs in this country are 

created by small businesses. 

We’ve got to once again have 

that engine here that allows for 

the creation of small businesses. 

If you lose that population, 

you lose new business. 

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and we want to give them 

what they need to do the job. 

But we have chased so much 

manufacturing overseas, we 

don’t have a very good supply. 

Everybody is desperate for it, 

and in a lot of cases, people 

are giving away so many tax 

breaks and things like that that 

it sometimes makes it unaffordable. 

You’ve got to be 

careful. 

I’d rather look at what our 

advantages are, and our 

advantage is the chemical 

industry. It’s already a pretty 

big industry here. We are trying 

to get people to focus on 

attracting more of that industry. 

The pay is better than it is 

in a lot of other industries. The 

college has a new major, a 

chemistry degree. That is a 

real opportunity. 

TDC: The Joint 

Development Authority has 

created, and the city and county 

approved, a tax incentive 

policy. Do we need to go 

beyond that? Or could we be 

giving away too much? 

Pennington: They are 

looking at that right now. They 

are asking the schools because 

the original plan did not 

include any abatement in 

school taxes. But as I said earlier,you’ve 

got to be careful,if 

all you do is attract some industry 

here with some decent-paying 

jobs. But the management 

doesn’t live here, and it’s not 

owned here, the rest of us have 

to pay the taxes for that,and we 

won’t have the tax revenues to 

support the services. 

People keep calling the 

carpet industry a mature 

industry,which it is. But most 

communities would kill to 

have that mature industry. 

We’ve got to make sure we 

keep the carpet industry here. 

Yes, times are tough. 

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have laid people off. Go 

to Forsyth County or Paulding 

County,where they were built 

around the home-building 

industry. They are struggling a 

whole lot more than we are. 

The carpet industry is still 

selling carpet. Not as much as 

they would like to. Not as 

much as we would like them 

to. But you saw in your paper 

Shaw Industries’ results. They 

still made $280 million last 

year. They still pay a whole lot 

of tax to the city of Dalton and 

Whitfield County and both 

school systems,and they pay a 

whole lot of money to Dalton 

Utilities. 

TDC: The city and county 

consolidated road paving last 

year and appear set to combine 

building departments. 

What’s next in terms of consolidation 

of services? 

Pennington: When I grew 

up here, the city truly looked 

different from the county. 

When you got to the city limit 

sign, you were in a rural area. 

But it’s hard to tell the difference 

now between a lot of 

places in the county and the 

city. 

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Building the foundation 


Board of Education 

chairman sees bright future 

for Dalton Public Schools 

B Y S TEVE W ILLIAMS 

Chairman of the Dalton 

Board of Education 

Williams 

At a recent meeting of the 

Dalton Board of Education, 

the members unanimously 

approved a resolution that 

voiced our 

support for 

propertytax 

incentives 

to 

attract new 

business 

and industry 

to the 

Greater 

Dalton 

community. While this and 

the recent Freeport taxexemption 

(approved by voters 

this past November) may 

result in less revenue for the 

school district in the shortterm,it 

is a worthwhile investment 

to create a thriving community 

for our families in the 

future. 

Building today for tomorrow’s 

future is not a new concept 

for those associated with 

Dalton Public Schools (DPS). 

It is an ever-present theme in 

myriad conversations from 

facilities planning to curriculum 

development. It is a scenario 

that plays out daily in 

DPS classrooms as our teachers 

and students engage in 

quality work so that all students 

learn what they need to 

know for a successful future. 

Our staff puts in long hours 

beyond the school day, 

“investing”in our students for 

their sake and for the sake of 

our community. 

Above and beyond what 

they do on a daily basis, I 

wish to call attention to the 

manner in which DPS 

employees have conducted 

themselves during this economic 

downturn. Recent articles 

in this newspaper have 

shared details about the 

school district’s projected loss 

of $6 million in state and local 

funding and the fact that 81 

percent of the district’s expenditures 

are for salaries and 

benefits.You may not,however, 

be aware of our employees’ 

willingness to cut their 

own pay to assist in this budget-reduction 

effort. This was 

one of the most frequently 

offered suggestions from 

employees and all 906 

employees will be receiving 

less pay next school year so 

that we may maintain the 

quality of education that people 

have come to expect from 

our schools. Collectively,this 

is a payroll reduction of $1.3 

million and an important contribution 

to the total $6 million 

budget reduction. On 

behalf of the Dalton Board of 

Education, I must say how 

proud we are of the staff for 

this contribution. Their 

actions help improve the district’s 

current financial situation 

and position the district to 

maintain financial stability 

well into the future. 

This recent act by our 

employees is just one of the 

many examples of DPS 

employees leading from 

where they are in the organization. 

It is important to note 

that DPS superintendent Jim 

Hawkins has provided excellent 

leadership in these tough 

times as well. Of all of the 

options he could have chosen 

to deal with the district’s 

decline in funding, he chose 

to value others in the discussion 

and adhere to these principles 

for budget-reduction 

decisions — minimize classroom 

impact, preserve 

employment and maintain the 

funds necessary to operate the 

district. For me, this is evidence 

of his commitment to 

the district’s mission and values,including 

our stated value 

of “respecting the dignity and 

worth of each person.” 

When we recruited Jim to 

the community,we predicted 

that his strong leadership 

abilities and moral compass 

would be valuable assets in 

continuing the district’s current 

mission and direction. 

What we could not forecast, 

however, was how quickly he 

would be put to the test. 

Long-term, I believe the 

school district will successfully 

weather this economic 

crisis because of the employees' 

commitment, the board’s 

financial stewardship, Dr. 

Hawkins’ leadership and the 

firm financial foundation 

built by Dr. Orval Porter. In 

their passionate quest for 

excellence in the classroom, 

both of these gentlemen continue 

the legacy of strong 

leadership at Dalton Public 

Schools. 

The DPS staff models 

leadership for students each 

day. In addition, they work 

hard to ensure that our students 

learn and develop the 

essential academic skills, the 

social capacity to work with 

others, the civic-mindedness 

to partner for the common 

good and the integrity to do 

the right thing even when no 

one is looking. This is our 

mission and this is the reason 

Dalton Public Schools exists. 

It is a challenging, yet, vital 

endeavor as today’s classrooms 

serve tomorrow’s community 

leaders and volunteers. 

Dalton Public Schools is 

built on a tradition of excellence, 

partnership and community 

responsiveness. In my 

opinion, it is one of the assets 

that make our community 

truly unique. 

This long-standing tradition 

inspires us to partner with 

others to invest in community 

endeavors. It drives us to be 

clear about our vision for student 

learning – a vision that 

includes Pre-K and elementary 

literacy programs, fine 

arts at all grade levels,careertechnical 

programs, and the 

International Baccalaureate 

Program. It encompasses 

leadership development for 

students including service 

learning opportunities in all 

grades and JROTC. It pushes 

us to maintain our facilities 

and pay attention to the cleanliness 

of our classrooms. It 

focuses us on the individual 

child so that we may make 

learning connections with his 


Construction workers have been working on an 

expansion that will attach to Dalton High 

School. 

interests and abilities and 

assess her learning in real 

time. 

At Dalton Public Schools, 

our vision does not include a 

“one-size-fits-all” approach to 

learning; thus,we will continue 

to invest in our teachers 

and classroom staff to further 

develop the structures to meet 

students at their point of need 

and to allow them to progress 

at their own pace. Yet, we 

strive for a common goal for 

all – a high school diploma 

that prepares and inspires 

every student to pursue additional 

learning in either the 

college and/or career of their 

choice. 

At Dalton Public Schools, 

we know many have gone 

before us to pave the way for 

today’s opportunities in our 

classrooms, our workplaces 

and our community. We must 

commit to do the same for 

this, and future, generations. 

The sacrifices and commitments 

we make to support our 

children now are our investment 

to build the community 

we desire in the future. 

Growth spurt 

Dalton State enrollment on the rise 

B Y D R .J OHN S CHWENN 

President of Dalton State 

College 

Schwenn 

Dalton State is growing. 

Since 2000, our fall semester 

enrollment has grown by 

more than 1,800 students, 

resulting in 

a record 

enrollment 

last fall of 

4,957 students, 

a 

number 

t h a t 

reflects 

about a 60 

percent 

increase in the student body 

since the decade began. And 

this spring, more than 4,800 

students are enrolled, a 13 

percent increase over last 

spring. 

With continued growth 

come changes that make 

Dalton State more like a traditional 

four-year institution 

than a commuter school. 

Nearly 55 percent or our student 

body is now comprised 

of full-time students, compared 

with only 39 percent in 

2000. 

Other changes that have 

taken place over the last 

decade include an increase in 

our minority student population, 

which includes the highest 

percentage of Latino students 

in the University 

System of Georgia at around 

11 percent. And we have a 

growing international population, 

comprised of students 

representing more than 40 

countries. This student diversity 

helps make us a more 

well-rounded institution as we 

educate these learners to compete 

in a global society. 

Each year, the indices that 

predict the quality of the student 

body continue to 

improve. Student success 

indicators such as SAT scores, 

ACT scores, and high school 

grade point averages (GPAs) 

continue to rise. 

Last fall, Dalton State 

added two new bachelor’s 

degrees: math and biology. 

Since January, the Board of 

Regents approved four additional 

bachelor’s degrees to 

begin with fall semester 2009 

— English, history,chemistry, 

and criminal justice. Five of 

these new programs — math, 

biology,English, history,and 

chemistry — have two tracts. 

Students can major in the 

degree program itself, or they 

pursue the secondary education 

option by taking courses 

leading toward teacher certification. 

This gives us 14 bachelor’s 

degrees and truly takes us to 

the level of being a four-year 

institution. This advancement 

is critical for our future as we 

play a continually growing 

role in the economic development 

of Northwest Georgia. 

For example, preparing 

chemists for the workplace is 

important, especially in a city 

like Dalton which has a number 

of local chemical companies. 

It is essential to be able 

to offer these high demand 

programs in order to enhance 

the economic development of 

the area. 

Additional four-year 

degrees will also be developed. 

A group of experts from 

a variety of fields has met and 

made suggestions for what is 

needed in our area. Potential 

degrees being discussed 

include programs related to 

green or sustainable technology. 

Surveys indicate a shortage 

of special education 

teachers in the area, and we 

hope to develop a program to 

meet that need. Additionally, 

nurses are always in demand. 

The majority of our nursing 

graduates go on to complete 

their four-year degrees, so it 

only makes sense for us to 

develop the Bachelor of 

Science in Nursing (BSN) 

degree. 

We anticipate that in the 

future, we will need fine arts 

programs to take Dalton State 

to the next level. Our students 

need choral and instrumental 

music, theatre, and the visual 

arts. To develop these, we are 

working with other entities 

such as the city, the county, 

Dalton Public Schools, 

Whitfield County Schools, 

the theaters in our area, and 

the Creative Arts Guild. 

These programs are expensive 

and need much planning and 

resources. 

Much of what we’re excited 

about at Dalton State has to 

do with the advent of resident 

life. Beginning with Fall 

semester 2009, Dalton State 

will begin offering student 

housing with the conversion 

of the Wood Valley apartments 

into residence halls. 

This will help create a more 

collegiate experience. Student 

life programming will help 

ensure student success and 

will offer a supportive environment 

for students in their 

first experience living away 

from home. There are still 

spaces available, so I encourage 

those interested to contact 

Student Affairs and complete 

a registration form, or visit 

www.daltonstate.edu/housing. 

After residence halls are 

established, Dalton State will 

begin the process of building 

more traditional ones. The 

ideal location is across 

George Rice Drive close to 

the Bandy Gymnasium and 

other recreational facilities. 

While enhanced student 

life and new bachelor’s degree 

programs will attract additional 

students to Dalton, 

budget cuts facing the system 

as a whole and Dalton State in 

particular are creating challenges 

for the college administration. 

For Fiscal Year 2009, 

Dalton State, as have all other 

institutions in the University 

System of Georgia, has lost 

10.5 percent of the state-allocated 

portion of our budget. 

For Fiscal Year 2010 which 

begins on July 1st, our funds 

from the state will be at least 

11.5 percent below what we 

were allocated during the past 

fiscal year. 

Because of the budget 

cuts, Dalton State has had to 

cut back. While we have over 

1,800 more students than in 

2000, our professional staff 

has remained static. To deal 

with the decrease in funding, 

we have not filled some existing 

faculty and staff vacancies. 

And the loss of state revenue 

makes it increasingly 

difficult to add the additional 

faculty needed for the new 

degree programs. 

At the same time, our average 

class size has increased 

from 18 to 24. Our buildings 

are being utilized to the fullest 

extent, and during the peak 

hours students desire, all 

classrooms are being used. 

Because we now begin classes 

at 8 a.m. and end at 10 

p.m., classroom utilization is 

high throughout the day. 

Besides increasing class 

size, the college has had to 

make other adjustments to 

deal with the decreasing 

budget. Library acquisitions 

have been cut and the purchasing 

of much needed technology 

has been postponed. 

We have also delayed purchasing 

a generator that 

would have helped during our 

recent power outage. 

Professional and travel opportunities 

for faculty and staff 

have been significantly 

reduced. And beginning this 

January, faculty and staff 

began paying an even higher 

percentage of their health 

insurance premiums than 

other state employees. 


Dalton State College officials say the 75-foot bell tower on its campus was 

designed to be the physical icon for the school. 

There is no doubt that 

Dalton State will weather the 

economic downturn. We have 

a dedicated faculty and staff 

who give their all. As we continue 

our progress as a fouryear 

institution, many new 

developments will take place. 

While we have challenges to 

face, we have every confidence 

that Dalton State will 

continue to expand its reach 

as an economic force in 

Northwest Georgia.

TM 


Whitfield schools on the same track 

S UBMITTED BY W HITFIELD 

C OUNTY SUPERINTENDENT 

K ATIE B ROCHU 

About three years ago we 

adopted the Vision, Mission, 

and Beliefs that began a new 

adventure 

f o r 

Whitfield 

County 

Schools. 

S i n c e 

embarking 

on that 

journey,all 

Brochu of the 

schools in 

our district have aligned and 

are moving in a common 

direction. 

Our supportive school 

board members have made it 

possible to continuously 

improve the important work 

going on in our classrooms. 

Thanks to their courageous 

and visionary support, our 

students’ performance has 

vastly improved. 

All of our support staff 

members are stakeholders in 

our students’ education and 

contribute to their education. 

They create a comfortable climate 

for students to work in 

while providing the technological 

resources they use 

every day. They provide the 

meals that nourish our students 

and make sure our students 

safely get to school and 

back home again. Staff members 

at every level are valued 

contributors to our students’ 

education. 

Direction of the schools 

The most important 

change in Whitfield County 

Schools in recent years, and 

one of the most difficult 

improvements to explain, is 

our change in directional 

focus. All of the schools in the 

district are sharing a common 

language while collaborating 

to move our students forward. 

Now,teachers work together 

within their grade levels and 

subjects as well as with teachers 

in other subjects and at 

other schools. 

Last year,every single one 

of our elementary school 

teachers came together at the 

Northwest Georgia Trade and 

Convention Center to discuss 

what is working and what 

isn’t when it comes to teaching 

our students. At another 

event, we invited representatives 

from our schools to 

come share lessons that 

worked in their classrooms so 

everyone in our district could 

learn from each other. 

We are lot more alike now. 

To be efficient, we don’t 

need multiple departments 

doing things. To really get our 

community moving forward, 

we need a combined leadership 

when it comes to government. 

There is only one logical 

centralizing force for that 

leadership. It’s the county 

government. 

TDC: But the county has 

traditionally had a different 

level of services and a different 

level of taxes than the city. 

Can more services be combined 

without some leveling 

of those services and taxes? 

Would the city see a lower 

level of recreation or fire or 

police protection? 

Pennington: When you 

combine services,and let’s use 

the fire department, you can 

have different fire districts. 

You can have protection class 

two or three and protection 

class five or nine. Rome and 

Floyd County do that right 

now. 

But in some cases you can 

improve the services without 

diluting services. I’ll give you 

another example from the fire 

department. We’ve got three 

fire halls that are built on the 

city limit line, which means 

half their radius is useless. If 

it’s a combined department, 

the county residents on the 

other side of those fire halls 

suddenly have their services 

improved. 

TDC: Speaking of taxes, 

we are not quite half way 

through the current special 

purpose local option sales tax. 

How do you assess the transportation 

work that is supposed 

to fund? 

Pennington: I’m not 

happy with the progress, but 

it’s not the county’s fault. We 

were promised something 

from our state government and 

Department of Transportation 

that they have not followed 

through with. 

We’ve probably sent more 

than our share of gas taxes to 

Atlanta. We’ve never gotten 

our share back. Once again, 

we pass on our back a one 

penny tax, and they reneged 

on their promise. 

I’m not disappointed in the 

county. I’m very disappointed 

in the state. 

TDC: One of the biggest 

projects the state has given this 

area in the last 20 years or so 

was probably the trade center. 

What role will the trade center 

play in the area’s future? 

Pennington: Going back 

to when we got the trade center,once 

again,the state shafted 

us on that. Originally,we 

were promised $14.5 million 

for that trade center. We ended 

up getting, I think, $8.5 million. 

To be perfectly frank, 

once they shorted us,we probably 

shouldn’t have taken anything. 

But we did, and now 

we’ve got it. The bonds will be 

paid off, I think, in 2011, 

which will free up about a million 

dollars a year between us 

and the county. 

We’ve got the high school 

coaches hall of fame up there, 

and we are going to capitalize 

on that a lot more. We would 

like to become a center for 

high school sports. We’ve got 

the 4A golf tournament up 

here. The girls at the country 

club. The boys at Nob North. 

We are going to get more 

aggressive about bringing 

tournaments up here because 

they bring a lot of parents with 

them and spend lot of money. 

The trade center has the high 

school coaches hall of fame, 

which plays a part, but also 

they’ve got a big arena up 

there. 

We expect this new management 

firm knows what they 

are doing. One of the problems 

was that our marketing was not 

that good. We’ve had a difficult 

There is a reason the 

phrase “It takes a village to 

raise a child” is repeated so 

often. Because it’s true! As a 

system, we encourage collaboration 

at all levels and are 

working to remove barriers 

because that is what is best for 

students. We have become a 

school system instead of a 

system of schools. 

We in Whitfield County 

Schools realize we are on a 

long journey. We have developed 

a framework to guide 

our staff as they design work 

to engage all students. It is our 

belief that if students are 

engaged and want to learn, 

they will become the critical 

thinkers and problem solvers 

that will succeed not only on 

mandated standardized tests, 

but more importantly when 

they graduate and become 

adult citizens of this nation. 

Economy and ESPLOST 

Everyone in the nation is 

struggling with the state of the 

economy and school districts 

are no exception. Changes in 

the federal administration and 

U.S. Department of 

Education, as well as struggles 

with the state budget in 

the Georgia General 

Assembly, leave some fiscal 

uncertainty at the local level. 

We are constantly working to 

improve efficiency and have 

been hard at work in 

Whitfield County Schools to 

maintain a healthy budget. 

While the national and 

state news paint a gloomy picture 

of finance in America, we 

are holding steady here in 

Whitfield County. In fact, last 

month we received our largest 

ESPLOST payment from the 

county since voters approved 

the first of three ESPLOST 

referendums in March 1997 

and average monthly payments 

continue to increase. 

We are thankful for the overwhelming 

support of the 

ESPLOST,which passed by a 

3-to-1 margin in September 

2006. 

The voters allowed many 

improvements in the system 

from new classrooms and renovations 

to technology 

upgrades throughout the district. 

Security improvements 

have made our schools safer 

and many cafeterias have 

been upgraded. More 

improvements are on the way. 

Many of those ESPLOST 

dollars are contributed from 

people passing through 

Whitfield County,the majority 

of those tax receipts are 

spent locally with the purchase 

of building supplies and 

providing jobs in the county. 

With the community’s support, 

we have been meeting 

long-term needs while providing 

short-term benefits for 

workers in the area.You could 

say we are helping to provide 

local jobs thanks to the voters’ 

approval of the ESPLOST. 

We are continuing to move 

forward with improvements 

with our capital projects. Our 

new elementary school,Cedar 

Ridge Elementary, was 

designed with community 

input and will open this fall. 

We did not simply buy a set of 

plans and begin building. The 

facility was designed by an 

expansive group of students, 

community members, teachers 

and administrators. The 

layout is focused on the 

design of work being created 

by our teachers and students. 

This new school will feature 

large classrooms and even 

large shared workspaces so 

students can spill out of their 

classrooms to work together. 

Those shared spaces surrounded 

by classrooms will 

also provide an area to showcase 

student work for visitors 

to the school. 

Our school board members 

and community have said 

they want smaller,safer,community-based 

schools and we 

are working to deliver on 

those requests. When Cedar 

Ridge Elementary opens it 

will relieve the stress of overcrowded 

schools. The new 

high school, which will open 

in 2011, underwent the same 

type of design process as 

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time telling our story,whether 

it was with the state government 

or with visitors. 

The trade center can be an 

asset. It will never make 

money. But what you want to 

do is have it bring in more 

money to restaurants and 

hotels than we have to supplement 

it with. 

It can be done, and this new 

group deserves a chance to get 

it done. Once again, that sets 

us apart from everyone else in 

North Georgia. They don’t 

have a facility like that. We’ve 

got to use it wisely. 

TDC: Over the next year, 

what are going to be your top 

three priorities? 

Pennington: Number one 

is to get the tourism infrastructure 

ready — the depot, the 

Hamilton House, the Crown 

Mill area, the plan for high 

school athletics, getting more 

tournaments up here. 

Second, is combining more 

services with the county. We’d 

like to get at least two more 

combined this year. 

TDC: Any particular ones? 

Pennington: The only one 

right now that is problematic 

for me is the police. They are 

at a totally different level of 

police services than we are. 

That will be problematic until 

the county decides they need a 

heavier policing 

But even if we don’t combine, 

I’d like to see more 

cooperation. 

Third, we are always looking 

to cut taxes. We are playing 

it by ear now. But I’d like 

to be able to cut the city millage 

rate this year by 20 percent 

just like we did last year. 

Obviously,the economy has a 

lot to do with that. Also, putting 

services together has a lot 

to do with that. If we can do 

that this year, and the county 

stays at the millage rate they 

are at now,we are going to get 

really competitive with most 

of our other competitors. 

Cedar Ridge Elementary and 

will likewise reduce the 

crowding in our existing high 

schools and improve the quality 

of education for all of our 

high school students. 

Exciting initiatives 

Some teachers have discovered 

a way to teach part of 

their classes on the Internet. 

They call their method of 

delivering instruction the 

“blended classroom” due to 

the mix of traditional instruction 

in front of the class and 

online learning that can take 

place anywhere and at any 

time. 

Teachers at all grade levels 

are designing work using this 

new way of teaching and students 

love it! During a recent 

snow day when schools were 

closed, a time when school is 

the last thing on many students’ 

minds, asecond-grader 

chose to log on and create an 

interactive video about shapes 

for her math class. 

Reading Recovery is 

another opportunity that is 

gathering momentum in our 

elementary schools. The initiative 

provides intense oneon-one 

instruction with 

young struggling readers and 

is designed to help them 

catch up and read on their 

grade level within 12 to 20 

weeks. Providing a firm 

grounding in reading will 

help those students in all content 

areas as they proceed 

through school. 

By helping young students 

grow strong roots and providing 

flexibility for our older 

students, we have seen a continuous 

and dramatic increase 

in the graduation rate. 

Many of the positive 

changes in the district began 

in design teams. These teams 

consist not only of our staff 

members, but include students, 

community members 

and others as well. Students 

often meet with principals to 

talk about their needs and 

desires in the schools. Their 

valuable input is evident in 

the schools. 

One great example of this 

is when students said they 

wanted more time on computers. 

After hearing students’ 

input and helping them focus 

their ideas, aprincipal moved 

some staff members out of the 

former administrative office 

and allowed students to 

design an Internet café for that 

space. Students picked the 

furnishings, installed the carpet,and 

decorated their room. 

This proved to them that 

someone is listening to them 

and values their input while 

giving them true ownership of 

their school. 

This is not a unique example. 

Similar stories can be 

found all over the district. 

Continuing technology 

upgrades 

One of the most talked 

about technology upgrades 

has got to be our interactive 

whiteboards. These whiteboards 

allow students to interact 

with their lessons in ways 

that were not possible before. 

Students can use the interactive 

whiteboards to work with 

video and the Web, and lessons 

on the boards react to 

students’ responses. 

Interactive whiteboards are 

just one very cool use of technology 

in the district. 

Students have used video chat 

to work with students in 

neighboring schools and with 

students in Saudi Arabia. 

They are producing podcasts 

and listening to their teachers 

online. One teacher who was 

going to be absent recently 

created video podcasts for the 

substitute to use in the classroom 

so students could get a 

helping hand on their work 

from a familiar face. 

Virtual learning opportunities 

allow students to take 

advantage of distance learning 

classes that we cannot 

offer in the district at this 

time, including learning to 

speak Japanese, advanced 

placement music theory, and 

AP European history among 

many,many other courses. 

These technological 

improvements enhance the 

learning experience for all of 

our students. 

Conclusion 

Whitfield County Schools 

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to other successful schools for 

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members have collaborated 

with other schools, students 

and teachers across the country. 

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within our schools and 

across America, we strive to 

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starting to 

come into play 



A traffic light on Shugart 

Road near The Home Depot. 

Resurfaced roads. Several 

improved intersections. 

Almost 18 months since 

Whitfield County voters 

passed a three-year special 

purpose local option sales 

tax (SPLOST) expected to 

raise $48 million for transportation, 

outside of a few 

projects there is little visual 

evidence of completed work. 

That could soon change. 

Since the county began 

collecting the 1 percent sales 

tax in January 2008, it has 

taken in more money than it 

has spent. The reason? Many 

of the 58 projects — ranked 

by priority — are in the preconstruction 

phase, which 

includes designs, surveys 

and environmental studies. 

Of the total money collected, 

7 percent will be spent on 

pre-construction, 19 percent 

on right of way acquisition 

and 74 percent on actual 

construction, county engineer 

Kent Benson said. 

In fall 2007, Whitfield 

County voters approved the 

SPLOST by 61 percent 

(2,769 votes) to 39 percent 

(1,770 votes). Only 12.98 

percent of the county’s 

35,185 registered voters participated. 

The design firm 

Moreland-Altobelli compiled 

the SPLOST project 

list with help from county 

officials and other organizations. 

The county then had to 

select approved engineering 

and design firms. Under the 

guidelines of the SPLOST, 

the county will collect the 1 

percent sales tax for three 

years or until the amount 

reaches $48 million. 

The three years might 

come first. Because of 

slumping local sales tax collections 

due to a down economy,the 

county may not collect 

the entire $48 million. 

“The jury is still out,” 

Benson said. 

There’s another problem. 

Officials with the state 

Department 

of 

Transportation promised 

funding for several projects, 

saying local SPLOST support 

would make them more 

likely to provide money. But 

because of a severe state 

budget shortfall, state funding 

is in jeopardy. Those 

projects — including the 

interstate interchanges at 

Carbondale Road and Rocky 

Face, and the interchange at 

Cleveland Highway and the 

north bypass — could be 

delayed until the state money 

comes in. County and city 

officials had hoped having 

local attorney Steve Farrow 

on the DOT board would 

help bring more state money 

to the area. 

The estimated cost of the 

Rocky Face interchange 

project, which includes a 

redesign and safety improvements,is 

$14.33 million. The 

amount coming from 

SPLOST dollars is $66,015 

with the rest coming from 

the state. The county will 

first complete the projects 

requiring no state funding. 

Even local projects that 

appeared simple have taken 

longer than expected. The 

traffic light on Shugart Road, 

for example, was delayed 

several months because of a 

backorder on the special 

mast poles used for the project 

caused by communities 

in Florida that had their mast 

poles demolished by hurricanes. 

For a complete SPLOST 

project list, visit www.whitfieldcountyga.com 

and click 

on “SPLOST Information.” 


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If it seems the members 

of the Georgia General 

Assembly hasn’t passed a lot 

of new laws this year, that’s 

probably because they 

haven’t. 

“We’ve had a lot fewer 

bills than in the past, and I 

look for the same thing in the 

next session,”said Sen. Don 

Thomas, R-Dalton. 

That’s largely because 

lawmakers have been so 

focused on the budget. 

They’ve been working on 

cutting a $2.6 billion budget 

deficit in the current fiscal 

year, while also crafting a 

budget for the 2010 fiscal 

year, which begins July 1. 

“The one thing we have to 

do every year, the only thing 

we have to do, is balance the 

budget,”Thomas said. 

But balancing that budget 

has been hard this year, and 

will be next year,too,say the 

men who represent Whitfield 

and Murray counties in the 

Legislature. 

“The indication we are 

getting from 

the governor’s 

office is that 

tax revenues 

will be lower 

in 2010 than 

they will in 

2009. Are we 

at the bottom? 

I don’t know,” 



said Rep. 

Tom Weldon, 

R-Ringgold. 

The sagging 

economy 

has pummeled state revenues. 

“All the different facets of 

revenue — sales tax, income 

tax, corporate income tax — 

are down,” said Rep. Roger 

Williams, R-Dalton. “We 

hope things will get better. 

But it’s still gloomy.” 

Williams said state economic 

forecasters don’t see a 

recovery starting until the 

third quarter of 2010. 

“We hope it will come 

before that,”he said. 

But Thomas says he doesn’t 

know how much stock to 

put in economic forecasts. 

“There are all these predictions 

about when the 

economy is going to get better,but 

I don’t think anybody 

knows,”he said. 

And even if the state 

bounces back, there’s no 

guarantee Northwest 

Georgia, which has been hit 

harder than some other parts 

of the state, will come back 

at the same time. 

“ I 

haven’t seen 

“The one thing 

we have to do 

every year,the 

only thing we 

have to do, is 

balance the 

budget.” 

any solid 

forecasts for 

our area, but 

I think our 

area is 

going to 

depend substantially 

on 

what happens 

to the 

housing 

market and 

to a lesser 

extent on what happens in 

the automobile market,”said 

Rep. Tom Dickson, R- 

Cohutta. 

But Dickson, who represents 

parts of Whitfield, 

Murray and Catoosa counties, 

says he is optimistic. 

“We are certainly in a 

recession, and I don’t want 

to minimize what we are 

going through right now. But 

there are many things that 

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Thomas Weldon Williams Dickson Meadows 

give me hope for the future 

in all three of the counties I 

represent,”he said. “Catoosa 

County,in particular, is well 

positioned to benefit from 

the expansion of industries 

because of the Volkswagen 

plant (to be built in 

Chattanooga). Whitfield is 

also in a good position to 

house some of the supply 

businesses that will grow as 

a result of the Volkswagen 

plant.” 

“Beyond that, the job 

market is such and the things 

that are available in our area 

— the transportation infrastructure 

and the utilities – 

that we are well poised to 

attract new and varied industries 

into all three counties,” 

Dickson said. “I’m beginning 

to see a much more 

concerted effort, a much 

more unified effort in all 

three counties to seek that 

kind of diversity. The longterm 

look is certainly much 

brighter than it might seem 

in this time of economic 

uncertainty.” 

Other lawmakers are also 

cautiously optimistic. 

“We will come back. I 

don't think anybody knows 

when, but we will come 

back,” said Rep. John 

Meadows, R-Calhoun. 

Until that happens, however, 

lawmakers say they 

will continue to struggle 

with the budget. 

“There’s not much on the 

table. We can cut spending or 

we can raise taxes, and the 

mood down there is not to 

raise taxes,”Williams said. 

Lawmakers say that there 

may be one benefit to the 

attention they are giving the 

budget. 

“It gives the state the 

same opportunities that it 

gives large industry. I’ve 

heard some carpet industry 

officials say that in this time 

when the mills aren’t so busy 

it gives them the opportunity 

to do some retooling they 

can’t do when the mills are 

running full blast,” said 

Dickson. “This recession 

gives the General Assembly, 

the state, the opportunity to 

look at our regulatory structure. 

Are there things we do 

that inhibit the growth of 

business and industry? Does 

our tax structure inhibit new 

industry? Do we have environmental 

controls that are 

unnecessary that inhibit 

growth?” 

“The budget situation is 

causing us to tighten our 

belts and become more lean. 

Over the long haul, what we 

need to do is what we are 

doing right now,” Weldon 

said. 

Williams agrees. 

“Frankly speaking, I think 

we’ve got too big a government. 

We’ve gotten too 

bloated, and it’s time to cut 

back,”he said. 

That’s not to say the 

process won’t be without 

pain, he adds. 

“They are talking about 

cutting state parks and golf 

courses. It may come to that. 

That would be the least 

painful thing. We need to 

take care of our human 

needs,”Williams said. 

But if they are so busy 

cutting the budget, can lawmakers 

find time to do anything 

else? Local lawmakers 

say they can. 

“We are not going to be 

able to do things that cost a 

lot of money,”Dickson said. 

In fact, Dickson says one 

of his focuses is going to be 

on helping schools that have 

been hit by state cuts in 

funding, by exempting them 

from some state requirements, 

such as maximum 

class sizes. 

“We can’t say to school 

systems, ‘We are going to 

cut $2 million out of the revenue 

you get from the state, 

but we expect you to do 

everything you’ve always 

done,’” he said. “We just 

passed out of the Education 

Committee a flexibility bill 

that will give school systems 

the ability to react to the loss 

of funds over the next couple 

of years. That particular bill 

has a sunset provision built 

into it,so it’s only giving this 

increased flexibility for two 

years.” 

Dickson said lawmakers 

hope the budget situation 

will be turned around by 

then. 

Lawmakers say they will 

also focus on ways to help 

the economy rebound. 

“You can’t tax your way 

out a recession. You have to 

create jobs and employ people. 

The state of Georgia 

doesn’t need to be dependent 

on the federal government for 

subsidies. We need to be independent,” 

Weldon said. “We 

need to be doing the things 

that really put people to work 

and that create investment.” 

Local lawmakers also say 

they will be trying to boost 

transportation planning and 

spending. 

“We’ve got to make sure 

we have the roads and infrastructure 

that can handle the 

economic development we 

hope to have,”Weldon said. 

Williams said it would 

help this area if carpet companies 

had a way to move 

their products to the East 

Coast without hauling them 

through Atlanta. 

“We need to keep working 

on our transportation 

needs. We are still looking 

for an East-West corridor. 

We are looking at 

Cartersville, down at 

Georgia 20 going east and 

tying into I-85. That would 

help us up here, the trucking 

industry especially,”he said. 

Thomas said he is also 

interested in looking at ways 

to boost tourism, especially 

in Northwest Georgia, and in 

getting the state ready for the 

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■ Don’t get hurt — know your limitations in sports, 5 

■ Cosmetic surgery, dermatology on the rise? 13 

Getting 

Progress 


2009 

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The Whitfield Healthcare Foundation is nearing the end of year three in a four-year campaign to raise $5 million for the Hamilton Medical Center Department 

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‘A heart for the hospital’ 

B Y V ICTOR M ILLER 

victormiller@daltoncitizen.com 

If you’ve lived in the 

Dalton area long, most likely 

you’ve heard of Hamilton 

Medical Center and some of 

the other components of 

Hamilton Health Care 

System, such as the Bradley 

Wellness Center. 

But do you know about 

the Whitfield Healthcare 

Foundation, the philanthropic 

arm behind the Hamilton 

system? Or the 75 trustees 

— men and women from the 

community — who give time 

to raise money for Hamilton 

so that the hospital can provide 

better service to its 

patients? 

“I’m a citizen of the community, 

my family’s lived 

here for a long, long time,” 

said Bryan McAllister, a 

Brown Industries vice president 

who is chairman of the 

foundation. “It feels good to 

be a part of that, supporting 

what is really a good thing 

for our community.” 

Local banker Scott 

Sellers is chairman of the 

foundation’s Signature Gifts 

Committee. He said the 

foundation plays a vital role 

in helping to provide excellent 

health care for the area, 

an important aspect of quality 

of life that has larger ramifications. 

“I think having an excellent 

health care provider 

helps industry and helps the 

citizens of our community 

and the surrounding area, 

and I think having a vibrant 

and healthy medical center is 

very important for any successful 

community,” Sellers 

said. 

Hamilton Memorial 

Hospital,the precursor to the 

current medical center, 

opened on May 12, 1921 — 

National Hospital Day. But it 

wasn’t until 1975 that the 

Whitfield Healthcare 

Foundation was established. 

According to Barry 

Parker’s “Let this Place be a 

Symbol: A History of 


System,” Jack Turner, “a 

Dalton businessman (who) 

had earned a statewide reputation 

as a gifted financier 

voluntarily working on 

behalf of a community hospital,” 

was “a catalyst” in 

creating the foundation. 

“The program would 

coordinate and further stimulate 

contributions that a generous 

community had traditionally 

bestowed on the 

hospital,”Parker wrote. 

“He’s been with the foundation 

since it was organized 

in 1975,” Sellers said of 

Turner. “He’s been involved 

in the hospital even before 

that. He has just been a real 

dedicated supporter and 

worker on behalf of the hospital 

in many ways. He has 

been very essential to the 

foundation’s and the hospital’s 

success.” 

“The foundation would 

restructure its donors programs 

and triple its membership 

in the 1980s as it played 

a role of increasing significance 

in the growth and 

progress of the hospital,” 

Parker wrote. “But this was 

possible because of seeds 

planted in the mid-70s. 

“From its inception, the 

foundation could demonstrate 

its importance by 

enlisting the active support 

of the community’s most 

respected and influential 

leaders.” 

That work continues 

today. 

The foundation is nearing 

the end of year three in a 

four-year campaign to raise 

$5 million for two major 

hospital expansion projects, 

the Turner Maternal and 

Infant Care Center (Jack and 

Alloe Turner provided a 

“major gift” for the center) 

and the Department of 

Emergency Care Services. 

McAllister said a little more 

than $3.5 million has been 

raised so far, impressive 

given the current economic 

climate. All gifts received in 

2009 will go toward that 

campaign. 

“It’s almost surprising 

we’ve been able to do that 

given the economy, the way 

that it’s been, but people are 

pretty faithful about making 

their pledges, making their 

contributions,” McAllister 

said. 

“The hospital always does 

an excellent job in recognizing 

those who have given, 

and they’ve had numerous 

people through the years 

who’ve had a heart for the 

hospital and what it does for 

our community,” Sellers 

said, “They’ve been very 

supportive of it financially.” 

To date, the foundation has 

raised more than $12 million 

for capital projects, according 

to Hamilton’s Web site 

(www.hamiltonhealth.com). 

“I couldn’t tell you all the 

projects that have been done 

over the years,” said 

McAllister, who has been a 

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trustee since 1996. 

“Occasionally it will be a 

piece of equipment that we 

might do.” 

The foundation seeks 

gifts from both individuals 

and businesses. The trustees 

serve on at least one of six 

committees: Annual 

Support, Business Relations, 

Planned Giving, Special 

Prospects, Signature Gifts or 

Trust. 

With 75 people involved, 

it might seem a little congested 

or confusing, recalling the 

old line that a camel is a 

horse drawn by a committee. 

But McAllister said the system 

in place works well. 

“I will meet with those 

committees on occasion 

when my presence is called 

for,”he said. “I keep in touch 

with what each group is 

doing. We have trustee meetings 

on occasion, maybe 

about four a year, and everybody 

comes together. 

Committees will report on 

their program work.” 

And there is a guiding 

hand. 

“It would be very difficult 

to do this if we didn’t have 

somebody employed by the 

foundation,”McAllister said. 

“Executive director Sharon 

Love does that, she coordinates 

all of these activities, a 

tremendous amount of work 

to do when you’ve got that 

many things going on.” 

“It’s a good setup,” he 

said. “In fact, I don’t think I 

could do this if we didn’t 

have people over there that 

have gotten that infrastructure 

in place to make this 

happen. It would be very difficult.” 

Still, calling on people 

and businesses, and much of 

the work behind the foundation’s 

fundraising events, is 

done by the trustees, the 

“volunteers” as McAllister 

rightfully calls them. 

“There’s no question 

there are a lot of man hours 

that are put in free,” he said. 

Money raised can also be 

held back as an endowment 

for future health care needs. 

“For every philanthropic 

dollar donated to the foundation, 

approximately $4 is 

saved in reduced long-term 

debt and related debt financing 

costs,” according to a 

foundation fact sheet. 

The foundation funds a 

number of community outreach 

programs such as 

Camp Sweet Control, atwoday 

summer camp for adolescent 

children with Type I 

diabetes so that they can 

learn about and control the 

disease, and Wellspring for 

Women, a series of health 

and wellness luncheon programs. 

In 2008, such education 

efforts reached 2,200 

contacts, officials said. 

Even though you may not 

know of the foundation or be 

able to recognize one of its 

trustees on the street, you 

may just know someone who 

has purchased or been honored 

by a “Love Light” 

adorning a tree on top of 

Hamilton Medical Center in 

December. 

For a minimum gift of 

$10,alight is added to a tree; 

a minimum gift of $100 illuminates 

a light in a star at the 

top of a tree. Contributions 

are listed each Sunday in The 

Daily Citizen. The newspaper 

and the foundation have 

teamed up for 25 years in the 

Love Light Trees campaign 

The foundation’s Annual 

Support Committee met its 

$20,000 goal for the 2008 

Love Light campaign, raising 

$20,710 that was used 

for the purchase of two fetal 

heart monitors for the 

Maternal and Infant Care 

Center. Over the years, Love 

Light has raised more than 

$490,000. 

“Gifts to the Whitfield 

Healthcare Foundation are 

considered gifts of love and 

support from the community, 

gifts that acknowledge the 

importance of preserving 

and enhancing the health status 

of our community,” the 

foundation fact sheet states. 

“The foundation is dedicated 

to the twin ideas of vision 

and tradition and to the many 

who have so freely contributed 

to both at Hamilton 

Medical Center. Making a 

difference in the health of 

our region is what the 


Foundation is all about.” 

Sellers and McAllister 

clearly agree. 

“For every dollar given, it 

really saves tremendously the 

hospital from having to borrow 

money,” Sellers said. “I 

think it had been 15 or 20 

Above is the Turner 

Maternal and Infant Care 

Center. At right is the 


Foundation’s 2009 executive 

committee. In the 

front, from left, are John 

Bowling, vice chairman; 

Bryan McAllister, chairman; 

and Gary Howard, 

executive vice president. 

In the back are Kevin 

Sanders, Business 

Relations Committee 

chair; Charles Hendry, 

Trust Committee chair; 

Suzanne Harbin, Annual 

Support Committee 

chair; Ralph Boe, Special 

Prospects Committee 

chair; and Scott Sellers, 

Signature Gifts 

Committee chair. Not 

pictured is Lynn 

Laughter,Planned Giving 

Committee chair. 

years since the emergency 

care area had been renovated. 

That was very important, so 

our efforts at the foundation 

help the hospital be able to 

make those updates and 

changes with the least possible 

borrowing costs.” 

Sellers said the foundation 

will continue to be “very 

important to the hospital’s 

continued growth, and will 

continue to be a very important 

part of carrying out similar 

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very important to the future 

growth and success of the 

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Being from Dalton, 

McAllister said he was a 

supporter of the foundation 

even before he entered the 

work force following college. 

“But when I went to work 

in the Dalton community, I 

was encouraged by others 

who were members of the 

foundation to be a supporter 

of the foundation and so I 

did from the very beginning,” 

he said. 

Asked what changes he’s 

seen since he became a 

trustee in 1996,he said, “The 

mission has not changed. It’s 

a very vital thing to do. I 

don’t think you can overstate 

how important the charitable 

part of supporting our local 

hospital is. Health care is an 

expensive part of our society 

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link to schizophrenia 


Clinical researcher Enda 

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Highland Rivers Center 

to get results for sufferers 



Edna Stirewalt, a 

researcher at the Medical 

College of Georgia, says 

schizophrenia remains one of 

the least understood of mental 

illnesses. 

Typically,it first occurs in 

adolescence or early adulthood. 

The symptoms include 

auditory hallucinations,disorganized 

thinking and depression. 

“Some (patients) are 

impacted right away. Some of 

them are affected moderately. 

Some of them are affected 

slowly and progressively,”she 

said. 

In its most extreme forms, 

schizophrenia can lead to 

paranoia and delusions. 

“Some (patients) become 

isolated. They hear voices and 

think people are talking about 

them,that people are trying to 

get them. It makes it hard to 

trust people,” she said. “They 

can lose their sense of self, 

their well-being and quality of 

life. They can lose their financial 

well-being because they 

lose their jobs. It’s very,very 

devastating not only for the 

patients but for their family 

members.” 

But Stirewalt hopes that 

research she is conducting in 

Dalton and other locations 

across the state may one day 

help doctors better ease or 

perhaps even prevent or cure 

schizophrenia. 

Stirewalt and her associates 

have been working with 

Highland Rivers Center, 

which offers mental health, 

substance abuse and developmental 

disabilities services in 

11 Georgia counties, including 

Whitfield and Murray. 

The agency’s executive 

offices are in Dalton. 

“The collaboration and 

cooperation here has helped 

our project run so smoothly. 

Our goal is to come here at 

least once a month,”she said. 

Stirewalt began coming to 

Dalton in January as part of a 

nationwide five-year study to 

see if there is a genetic link to 

schizophrenia. The goal is to 

find 10,000 patients who 

have been diagnosed with 

either schizophrenia or the 

related schizoaffective 

depression, and 10,000 people 

who have not been diagnosed 

with either disorder, 

and compare their genes. 

Previous studies have already 

identified some genetic links 

to schizophrenia, but this 

study is much larger than 

those done earlier. 

Stirewalt says she hopes to 

get 1,000 patients and 1,000 

controls for Georgia’s part of 

the study. In addition to 

Highland Rivers, she is also 

working with patients at the 

Medical College of Georgia 

in Augusta and some of the 

surrounding area as well as 

Northwest Regional Hospital 

in Rome. 

“The first thing we do is 

contact the doctors. They will 

talk to their patients and see if 

they are interested,” said 

Highland Rivers program 

manager Libby Young. “(The 

patients) will come to me, and 

if they fit the criterion,we will 

set up an appointment.” 

What sort of questions do 

the patients ask? 

“They just want to know 

what they are going to do. I let 

them know if they don’t want 

to participate, it stops right 

there. If they get into the room 

and they decide they don’t 

want to do it, it stops right 

there. It’s all very confidential. 

We don’t even use the 

patients’ names.” 

Stirewalt says each patient 

will be identified only by a 

number. 

The study involves one 

visit that takes about 20-45 

minutes for patients and 15 

minutes tops for controls. 

Stirewalt says researchers 

ask patients a little bit about 

their family background and 

try to find out if any of their 

immediate relatives have been 

diagnosed with schizophrenia 

or schizoaffective depression. 

They will then draw a blood 

sample 

Each patient will be 

mailed a $20 check for their 

participation. 

“One of the patients I saw 

here, a gentleman, held my 

hand and told me ‘I know you 

may not find an answer in 

time to help me. But if you 

can help someone else out in 

the future, I want to help,’” 

she said. 

The study itself will take 

five years,and it may be years 

after that before it leads to any 

results. 

“We are doing something 

that may help people 10 years 

from now,” said Highland 

Rivers CEO Frank Aaron. 

“And some of the most prestigious 

institutions in the 

United States are taking part 

in this study.” 

Other study sites are 

Cedars-Sinai Medical 

Center in Los Angeles, the 

University of North 

Carolina at Chapel Hill and 

the State University of New 

York at Stony Brook. 

“We just wanted to be 


Clinical research manager Edna Stirewalt talks to a subject at Highland Rivers Center recently.Stirewalt 

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Stirewalt has already seen 

several dozen patients at 

Highland Rivers as well as 

several dozen controls. 

“We informed the staff 

about what the research was 

about, and we were all pretty 

much willing to be involved,” 

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B Y A DAM K ROHN 

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Dalton orthopedist 

Conrad Easley has seen it all 

when it comes to sports 

injuries. 

Aside from practicing out 

of his office on Broadrick 

Drive, Easley is also the 

team doctor for the Dalton 

Catamounts football team 

and has taken care of athletes 

from more than 20 schools in 

Northwest Georgia during 

football season. In 36 years 

on the job, he’s diagnosed 

torn hamstrings, concussions 

and worse. 

Easley knows as much as 

anyone that whether you’re 

young or old, male or 

female, amateur or professional, 

if you participate in 

sports, the possibility of 

injury is always there. 

So before you swing your 

driver at the golf course or 

try to be the hero at the company 

picnic’s flag football 

game, you should be aware 

of some of the injuries to 

which you may be susceptible. 

Some injuries may seem 

subtle, but untreated can 

lead to permanent damage; 

others that may seem serious 

aren’t. 

Here are seven of the 

most common injuries from 

amateur athletes Easley has 

seen: 

1) Back injuries from golf 

swings: Easley said 75 percent 

of amateur golfers will 

experience lower back problems 

as a result of their 

swing. In most cases, surgery 

is not needed, but the 

pain can significantly impact 

a person’s quality of life. 

Proper training on how to 

swing and exercise can 

reduce the chances of back 

problems, and Easley often 

passes on the advice of pro 

golfer Jan Stephenson when 

giving his clients advice. 

“She said swimming 

helped her more than anything,” 

he said. 

2) Sprained ankle: From 

sliding into second base in 

softball to coming down on 

someone’s foot in basketball, 

the sprained ankle is one of 

the most common injuries 

Easley treats. He classifies a 

sprain as either regular or 

high. A high sprain is more 

serious, taking up to eight 

weeks to heal. He warns 

there is a thin line between 

an ankle sprain and fracture 

and recommends having any 

ankle injury X-rayed. 

3) Jammed/dislocated 

finger: Easley said this 

injury falls into the category 

of “More serious than you 

think.” Often when a finger 

is dislocated, it is popped 

back into place by someone 

not trained on how to do so 

properly. The finger can heal 

out of place and, if not treated 

quickly, can become permanently 

stiff and immobile. 

4) “Tennis elbow”:This is 

an inflammation of the tendon 

on the outside of the 

elbow that comes from serving 

and is very common for 

amateur tennis players. Like 

the lower back injury with 

golf, tennis elbow can come 

from improper mechanics. 

But it can also come from 

overuse of the elbow. In most 

cases, ice and heat and rest 

can rehabilitate the injury, 

with surgery a last resort. 

5) Torn Achilles tendon: 

This is also common for tennis 

players. It is a lower,posterior 

leg injury that Easley 

said is most common in 30 to 

35-year-olds. In most cases, 

surgery is needed. 

6) Concussion: If hit hard 

enough in the head, a concussion 

— a bruising of the 

brain — can occur. This is 

considered a serious injury 

and will require an MRI to 

correctly diagnose. 

7) “Baseball finger”: 

When the tendon connecting 

the middle of the finger to the 

finger tip is partially torn or 

ruptured, mallet finger or 

baseball finger occurs. It’s 

when the tip of the finger 

hangs straight down, away 

from the rest of the finger. 

The injury usually occurs 

when a person is trying to 

catch a football, basketball or 

baseball with a bare hand. 

Baseball finger can heal without 

surgery if a splint is worn 

for 6 to 8 weeks. If untreated, 

it can be permanent. 

There are preventative 

measures you can take to 

avoid injury. Stretching 

before engaging in activity is 

one of the more well-known 

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Jan Hensley,left, instructs a cycling class at Bradley Center for Wellness. Each month, members from ages 12 to 90-plus account for about 19,000 visits. 

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Off the top of his head, 

Ricky Harrison can rattle off 

any number of figures about 

the Bradley Center for 

Wellness. 

Like the fact that the center 

covers more than 65,000 

square feet, with about 

11,000 added in a 1998 

expansion project. 

That the water in its 25- 

meter pool, where two lanes 

are always open for lap exercises 

and 60 lengths make up 

a mile, stays about 88 degrees 

Fahrenheit all year round. 

Or that there are about 60 

classes per week in the center’s 

3,000-square foot group 

fitness studio, including 

everything from the danceinspired, 

Latin-flavored 

Zumba workout to a musclepumping 

barbell session. 

He can also tell you that 

the center provides 10,000 

pounds of free weights 

among its exercise equipment 

— he jokes that no 

one’s quite maxed out that 

number by himself — not to 

mention 25 treadmills, three 

racquetball courts, a fullcourt 

basketball gymnasium 

and a 1/12 mile track. 

And what he can’t recite 

from memory,he can probably 

look up without much 

trouble. 

But Harrison — the director 

at the Bradley Center for 

Wellness for more than a 

decade and an employee 

since 1988, two years after it 

opened — and his staff are 

probably just as proud of 

another figure. 

Each month, members 

from ages 12 to 90-plus 

account for about 19,000 visits, 

each a slice of time in 

which someone is doing 

something to make himself 

healthier in some way. 

As part 

o f 

Hamilton 

Health 

C a r e 

System, 

that’s a 

bottomline 

mission. 

“Every 

quarter we 

put out a 

newsletter 

where we 

do success 

stories of members,” 

Harrison said. “And we’re 

always able to find three or 

four people who were able to 

do remarkable things, 

whether it was lose the 

weight or get in shape or run 

a marathon — things they 

didn’t necessarily think they 

would be able to do. 

“For us, the joy comes 

from knowing we help people 

improve their quality of 

“For us, the joy 

comes from 

knowing we help 

people improve 

their quality of life 

every day.” 

life every 

day.” 

It’s the 

people 

Step 

through 

the sliding 

electronic 

g l a s s 

doors at 

t h e 

entrance 

of the 

center and 

you’ll 

probably find the activity 

starts at the front desk,where 

members check in on their 

way to a workout or class, 

ask staff questions about 

Bradley or just chat. 

And that’s OK with 

Harrison. In fact, what he 

would have a problem with 

is seeing a staff member 

tucked in a corner away 

from members who might 

need help — or just a 

— Ricky Harrison 

director, Bradley 

Center for Wellness 

reminder that the center’s 

staff is available to help 

them, whether it’s with a 

machine they’ve never used 

before or a piece of advice 

on how to up the intensity of 

their workout. 

Upstairs, near a patch of 

treadmills, exercise bikes, 

stair steppers and other electronic 

aerobic equipment 

inside the center’s track, a 

small marker board had this 

question written on it recently: 

“Is it more beneficial to 

stretch before or after I work 

out? Answer at fitness desk.” 

Because it doesn’t always 

happen naturally,staff members 

are happy to stimulate 

conversation for the more 

reticent,even if it’s as simple 

as a piece of trivia on a 

marker board. Whatever gets 

people talking to each other. 

“I’m in the facility here 

every day,” Harrison said. 

“And what the members say, 

we try to pay attention to. We 

try to accommodate as many 

people as we can. We have a 

comment box here and we 

see those cards all the time, 

but most members are comfortable 

enough to just tell 

me or my staff. 

“That’s probably a 

strength of the facility. We 

have some employees who 

have been here 10, 15, 20 

years. They know the membership, 

the membership 

knows them, so they feel 

comfortable talking to them. 

They can tell us what they 

think and they know we’ll 

give it a fair assessment.” 

Listening and paying 

attention is central to what 

Bradley’s Keri Brooks does 

every day, too. As a fitness 

consultant and personal 

trainer, she uses visual 

observation and other measurements 

in assessing new 

members. 


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But for Brooks and other 

employees — about 20 fulltime 

positions are slotted at 

Bradley, though the number 

who actually work there 

ranges closer to 85 when 

accounting for contracted 

instructors, plus the staff of 

Hamilton Sports Medicine 

and Hamilton’s cardiac rehabilitation 

program, also 

housed in the center — plenty 

of work is done simply by 

keeping their ears open. 

It’s one of the best ways 

they have to keep up with the 

center’s more than 4,400 

members. 

“We always have at least 

one fitness consultant or personal 

trainer out on the exercise 

floor,” Brooks said. 

“And basically, we’re just 

out there to help people if 

they have any questions, if 

they need a spotter, if a 

machine is dirty,if they need 

some training on how to use 

equipment. Whatever you 

need, we’re out there for it.” 

Not all of Brooks’ time is 

spent on the floor, though. 

Ab crunching must be balanced 

by number crunching 

of the fitness sort, as Brooks 

and other consultants and 

trainers do less visible office 

work designing fitness plans 

for members — working out 

the sets and reps and exercises 

that can push them to 

higher levels of health. 

But that all starts with 

interaction,and that’s always 

an opportunity Brooks relishes. 

Playing a part in helping 

members go from the 

status of a timid — and, perhaps, 

out of shape — beginner 

to a confident, fit veteran 

is a major reason why she 

enjoys that experience, 

whether it’s doing an assessment 

on a new member or 

overseeing a Forever Fit 

class for seniors. 

“I like being around people,” 

she said. “I’m really in 

close contact with tons of 

people all day long. Even in 

our slow times, you can look 

out on our exercise floor and 

there’ll be at least a dozen 

people out there using equipment. 

And I enjoy working 

with a variety of people. I’ll 

have the 75-year-old Forever 

Fitter and then I’ll train 10- 

year-old athletes.” 

It’s obviously making an 

impact on members. Look 

around the center on this 

afternoon and you’ll see one 

Bradley employee spotting a 

20-something man lifting 

weights. Another is setting 

up for a more traditional 

class in the area used by the 

center for between-the-ears 

teaching, a room that 

includes a kitchen on one 

end for nutrition classes. 

Harrison walks along 

with a smile and joke for 

almost every member he 

crosses paths with, it seems, 

cracking at a pair of guys 

walking laps as part of the 

Forever Fit class that they 

should steer clear of the photographer 

roaming the facility 

in the interest of protecting 

the camera. Earlier in the 

afternoon, 

the longtime 

director 

took a 

moment to 

say hello to 

an older 

member 

who had 

returned to 

action in 

the pool for 

the first 

time in a 

while due 

to health 

trouble. 

It’s pers 

o n a l 

moments 

like those 

that are part 

of the reason 

Pamela 

Burgess 

drives from 

Ringgold — and past other 

fitness facilities — to visit 

the center five to six times a 

week, with her husband 

Larry approaching that number 

some weeks. 

“They know what they’re 

talking about,”she said, slowing 

down on her treadmill to 

compliment the staff. “And I 

wanted somebody that had 

the training to show us. My 

husband’s got back problems, 

“I like being 

around people. I’m 

really in close 

contact with tons 

of people all day 

long ... I enjoy 

working with a 

variety of people. 

I’ll have the 75- 

year-old Forever 

Fitter and then I’ll 

train 10-year-old 

athletes.” 

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There are about 60 classes per week in the center’s 3,000-square foot group fitness 

studio. 

they’ve helped him with that. 

Now my back’s out, but 

they’re helping me.” 

Wanting to work through 

those injuries without worrying 

about 

aggravating 

them, 

Burgess 

felt confident 

at 

Bradley 

that would 

be possible. 

“It’s the 

knowledge,” 

she 

said. “And 

they’ve got 

up-to-date 

technology 

here. And 

it’s the 

people, the 

people that 

work here. 

It made a 

difference 

to me if 

they knew 

what exercise I could do and 

couldn’t do with my back. I 

don’t want somebody saying, 

‘Oh yeah, go do that, it 

won’t hurt you.’ They go the 

extra mile. We’re happy 

here.” 

— Keri Brooks 

fitness consultant 

You’ve got options 

A few steps away from 

the front desk, a television 

displays a video promoting 

Zumba, a new class being 

offered as part of the variety 

of group fitness offerings on 

the center’s schedule. 

To your left, there are 

three racquetball courts, 

empty at this time and not 

nearly as popular as they 

once were in the late 1980s 

and early ‘90s, when the 

demand was such that 

Harrison would have had no 

trouble putting together the 

field for a tournament. 

That’s one of the gambles 

of the fitness business, 

Harrison said, in that you 

must listen to members’ 

requests but be aware that fitness 

trends can fade just as 

easily as they surge onto the 

scene. It’s a tough balance, 

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Go down one short hall 

flanked by lockers, then take 

a sharp left to the end of 

another, and one of the success 

stories awaits in the center’s 

group cycling class studio. 

With 22 LeMond 

Revmasters at a cost of about 

$1,200 each, it’s an investment 

they needed to be right 

about — and the interest in 

the instructor-led, programmed 

stationary bike 

program has kept pace since 

beginning a couple years 

ago. 

On some things, no 

guessing is needed. Long 

since James Naismith put 

up a couple of peach baskets 

in a YMCA in 

Springfield, Mass., basketball 

has remained a staple 

of indoor workouts and 

Bradley’s court is no exception. 

Adult pickup games 

occupy the court early in 

the morning and in the 

evening, with open shooting 

available the rest of the day 

and many of the area’s high 

school gym rats making the 

center their haven during 

the summer. 

On one end of the court, 

back from the goal and separated 

by a translucent curtain, 

additional fitness 

machines are available outside 

of the models upstairs, 

where the majority are 

housed. All told, Bradley 

offers about 175 pieces of 

equipment, Harrison said, 

including both aerobic and 

weight machines. 

On the way to the cycling 

studio, you’ll pass the center’s 

Kid Zone, part of the 

child care it offers members 

with children ages 6-11. 

There’s another area for children 

from 6 months to 5 

years old, and children 12 

and older are eligible to 

become full-fledged members 

of Bradley. Over the 

years, Harrison has even 

dedicated one part of the 

center to scaled-down equipment 

that can be more easily 

used by children. 

But regardless of what’s 

offered, Harrison tries to 

make sure it’s something that 

will be used, and often. That 

means staying current and 

that, once again, means listening 

to the members, who 

may work out at Bradley but 

have little trouble knowing 

what’s available at other fitness 

facilities. 

“If you fall too far 

behind,” Harrison said, “the 

members will let you know.” 

So does the fitness equipment 

industry, which has 

evolved over time to build 

machines that are more interactive 

and informative about 

one’s performance, measuring 

heart rate, calories 

burned and more — certainly 

much more than the basic 

treadmills that were just that, 

a platform for walking in 

place. 

When Harrison started 

working at Bradley, there 

were no treadmills and one 

circuit of weight machines. 

But the 1998 expansion 

included equipment, too, 

doubling the number of 

strength machines; aerobic 

equipment has grown steadily 

over time. 

The evolution isn’t only 

in the equipment, though, 

but in the options for those 

wishing to join in rather than 

go it alone as they work out. 

Group fitness has maintained 

its popularity over 

time — Harrison recalled 

that a group fitness class put 

on by Hamilton staff elsewhere 

was a precursor to 


Bryson Clark,of Dalton,practices free throws in Bradley Wellness Center’s full-court gym. Adult pickup games occupy the court early 

in the morning and in the evening, with open shooting available the rest of the day. 

Bradley’s construction — 

with those classes among the 

most popular offerings at 

Bradley. What’s popular in 

those classes does change, 

however, so it comes back to 

the staff’s radar on finding 

out what will stick. 

But it’s evident many 

people like the chance to 

have company as they grow 

fitter, and Bradley offers 

everything from classes 

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with the flat side 

down, designed to challenge 

fitness levels through stability 

training — to medicine 

balls, steps and the martialarts 

training of kickboxing. 

“That’s one of the biggest 

changes, is the technology 

with the equipment for group 

fitness classes,” Harrison 

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downstairs once had to double 

as space for group aerobics 

instruction. The studio 

upstairs, with shiny wood 

floors, three walls of mirror 

and stacks of equipment 

around it, is evidence the 

center tries to keep up with 

what its members want. 

But not everything is at 

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aerobics class struggles to 

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In the pool downstairs, an 

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rehab facility. With its own 

separate area, a program 

designed to help those recovering 

from heart surgery, 

heart attacks or other cardiac-related 

problems offers 

a physician-referral only system 

for recovering health 

after such an incident. 

When referred, staff members 

do an assessment interview 

program where they go 

over a patient’s medical history 

and goals, then explain the 

program to a participant, said 

Tina Black,aclinical services 

manager who oversees the 

program and stays “on the 

Bradley was 

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wellness 

centers when it 

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which is what makes it a lot 

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after exercise, and we document 

everything — weight, 

everything that they do — 

and their 

doctors get 

a monthly 

report with 

all that they 

do so they 

can see the 

progress.” 

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B l a c k 

explained, 

is known as 

a phase two 

program. 

Phase one 

involves inhospital 

education 

following 

an incident 

or surgery, 

w h i l e 

phase three 

is exercise 

that’s supervised, though not 

as strictly monitored. 

While it’s far less visible 

than most of the activity 

going on at Bradley and not 

something that directly 

involves most members — 

unless their health has 

brought them that way — 

Black believes her corner of 

the center has a lot of good 

things happening in it, too, 

and enjoys the work there. 

“It’s extremely satisfying 

to me,” she said. “I actually 

had a conversation with a 

patient about that. To realize 

that in this type of position, 

you’re seeing those people 

— Ricky Harrison 

director, Bradley 

Center for Wellness 



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where they’re weak, they’re 

tired, but you know the only 

other place to go is up in 

their position. To know 

you’re a part of helping them 

get stronger, feel better and 

change their quality of life to 

where they can continue on 

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“That’s what keeps me 

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very satisfactory.” 

Taking part 

Some activities at 

Bradley, like its hiking club 

and hiking seminar, are free 

of charge and provided to 

those who aren’t members as 

well. In the summer, several 

camps are offered for children, 

from sports-specific 

training to more traditional 

day camp, at a cost both to 

members and non-members. 

But to get the total package, 

becoming a member at 

Bradley is fairly simple, 

Harrison said. Come in and 

you can sign up right away. 

You’ll get a tour of the facility, 

fill out the paperwork 

and verify that you don’t 

have any health problems 

that would keep you from 

starting a fitness program. 

Membership fees currently 

range from a $50 initiation 

and $48 monthly fee for a 

single member to $110/$120 

for a family of four, with 

other options for students, 

including a short-term package, 

and discounts for senior 

citizens and those with corporate 

memberships. 

All new members are 

offered the chance to meet 

with both a personal trainer 

and a dietitian to set up programs 

designed to reach 

their fitness goals. Longterm 

options are available at 

an additional cost as well. 

And because of its ties to 


Systems, Harrison has confidence 

that his staff gives out 

sound, medically-backed 

advice to members. 

“We employ people that 

have degrees in fitness fields 

with certifications,” he said. 

“We also take our employees 

through a training program. 

If they work on the exercise 

floor,you’re not going to find 

somebody that just got out of 

high school and drifted over.” 

Bradley was among the 

first wave of hospital-based 

wellness centers when it 

opened in 1986 as, at the 

time, one of only about 10 in 

the country,anumber now in 

the hundreds, Harrison said. 

And the center is still cutting 

edge, said Shawn 

Molsberger, avice president 



Lane Clelland, a personal trainer at Bradley Wellness Center,helps Russell Bagley,of Dalton, with his workout routine. According to 

Keri Brooks, fitness consultant, there is always at least one fitness consultant or personal trainer out on the exercise floor. 

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of operations for Hamilton 

who oversees Bradley. 

“It’s a destination of services,” 

he said. “For every 

person, regardless of their 

fitness level, we offer comprehensive 

services for kids 

from the teenage years to the 

middle years to seniors. We 

have a number of classes 

from cooking classes to several 

aquatics classes to cardio 

classes to step classes to 

cycle classes, you name it. 

You can’t get bored.” 

The emphasis on “wellness 

and prevention” also 

sets the center apart from 

some commercial fitness 

centers, he added. 

“We’re going to have staff 

that take that into consideration,”Molsberger 

said. 

Moving forward 

Since the 1998 expansion, 

there have been other 

changes, too, from equipment 

updates to more noticeable 

facility renovations like 

carpet and paint. 

And in addition to the 

everyday chats with members, 

the center tries to stay 

in touch with more formal 

members surveys. Recently, 

an outside consulting firm 

was contracted to survey the 

members. 

While that information is 

still being processed, some 

changes are already in place 

— like longer weekend 

hours — and visions for even 

more options down the road 

are being talked about. 

“We’re always putting 

capital into new equipment,” 

Molsberger said. “We need 

different equipment out there 

to keep people interested. 

We’ll continue to pour 

resources into staff development. 

We’ve done renovations 

on the facility itself and 

we’ll look at doing even more 

in the future. We’d like to add 

amenities like a wellness cafe 

and a wellness library and 

build on that reputation of 

being an all-encompassing 

center for people.” 

While the survey and consulting 

w e r e 

designed to 

see where 

Bradley 

m i g h t 

improve, it 

a l s o 

reminded 

that it’s 

already 

doing many 

things 

r i g h t , 

Molsberger 

said, with 

one of the 

consultants 

pointing 

out that it’s 

extremely 

rare for a 

city of Dalton’s size — and 

the center also draws from 

“That’s what 

keeps me coming 

here every day,is 

to see that (people 

improving their 

quality of life). To 

make sure they’re 

still doing well is 

very satisfactory.” 

bordering counties, Harrison 

said — to have a facility like 

Bradley. 

“We’ve 

been part 

of the community 

more than 

22 years,” 

Molsberger 

s a i d . 

“We’ve got 

a commitment 

to 

give back 

to the community 

and 

promote 

nutrition 

and exercise 

and 

provide 

resources 

t h a t 

encourage 

people in the community to 

live a healthier lifestyle.” 


A rack of free weights at Bradley Wellness 

Center. The center provides 10,000 pounds of 

free weights among its exercise equipment. 

— Tina Black, clinical 

services manager who 

oversees the cardiac 

rehab facility 

With members who have 

been there since the beginning, 

Molsberger believes 

that’s happened already. 

And it’s something 

Harrison sees in action each 

day. 

“I think our big success 

story is just seeing people 

that are healthier and happier 

with themselves because 

they’re able to come and use 

the facility and do things that 

keep them more energetic,” 

he said. 

“It’s those types of things. 

When you see an 85- or 90- 

year-old who’s been a member 

for 20 years, you have to 

know you’ve made an impact 

or helped prolong their life 

or improved their quality of 

life, because they’ve stayed 

active.” 

And from the beginner to 

the ultra fit, Bradley is doing 

its best to keep up. 

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Need something to lift 

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Skin Cancer and Cosmetic 

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The economy is slumping. 

Some Americans are 

cutting back on expenses. 

That trickle down effect has 

been felt by scores of businesses. 

But one Dalton cosmetic 

surgery and dermatology 

center has seen an increase 

in business, although the 

types of procedures may 

not be as major or as expensive, 

such as Botox, which 

helps reduce frown lines 

between the brows. For 

example, people needing a 

major procedure such as a 

tummy tuck may opt for a 

more minor treatment, said 

Emily Jorge, medical aesthetics 

director at the Skin 

Cancer and Cosmetic 

Dermatology Center at 

1107 Memorial Drive. 

“I think in pressing times 

or challenging times we 

tend to want to feel better 

and look better, especially 

for women,” Jorge said. “I 

don’t think that ever 

changes.” 

Cosmetic surgery has 

become a booming business, 

according to the 

American Society for 

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 

Last year, 10.2 million cosmetic 

surgical and nonsurgical 

procedures were performed 

in the U.S., and 

Americans spent an estimated 

$12 billion on cosmetic 

enhancements. The most 

frequently-performed nonsurgical 

procedure was 

Botox injections and the 

most popular surgical procedure 

was breast augmentation. 

Another change in the 

cosmetic surgery industry 

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number of male patients, 

Jorge said. Men are seeking 

help to look younger and 

feel better by addressing 

skin problems such as 

Rosacea and regrowing 

their hair. 

“People just think of this 

as a 

womandominated 

world,” 

Jorge said. 

“And we 

really do 

see a range 

of clients 

and ages 

and genders.” 

There 

are plenty 

of options 

available 

for cosmetic 

procedures. 

Before 

picking a 

cosmetic 

surgery center, Jorge said 

it’s important to run down a 

checklist to make sure 

you’re considering a reputable 

business. Check on 

the background of the doctors 

and nurses, find out 

how long the practice has 

been in business and if it is 

accredited, compare costs 

“I think in 

pressing times 

or challenging 

times we tend to 

want to feel better 

and look better, 

especially for 

women. I don’t 

think that ever 

changes.” 

— Emily Jorge 

medical aesthetics director 

with other centers and 

inspect the facility. Web 

sites such as the American 

Society for Plastic Surgeons 

(www.plasticsurgery.org) 

and the American Society 

for Aesthetic Plastic 

Surgery (www.surgery.org) 

offer information on cosmetic 

surgery. 

Make sure the business is 

based on 

medical 

research, 

Jorge said. 

There is a 

difference 

between 

medicalb 

a s e d 

practices 

and those 

based on 

aesthetics. 

“In a 

cosmetic 

dermatology 

practice, 

it’s an 

aesthetic 

way of 

applying a 

medical 

procedure,” Jorge said. “We 

use empirical knowledge 

and aesthetic knowledge.” 

Jorge said patients also 

have a myriad of questions 

about every day skin care. 

“To navigate skin care 

out there is very difficult,” 

Jorge said. “There are all 

kinds of questions.” 


Dr. John Chung examines a patient’s skin at his office in Dalton. The cosmetic surgery industry is seeing 

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sleepless night is an isolated 

occurrence or if it is related 

to a chronic sleep problem or 

disorder? You should start by 

identifying the symptoms. If 

you are experiencing any of 

the following symptoms on a 

regular basis, your sleeplessness 

may be contributed to a 

sleep disorder. 

Do you ... 

• feel irritable or sleepy 

during the day? 

• have difficulty staying 

awake when sitting still, 

watching television or reading? 

• fall asleep or feel very 

tired while driving? 

• have difficulty concentrating? 

• often get told by others 

that you look tired? 

• react slowly? 

• have emotional outbursts? 

• feel like taking a nap 

almost every day? 

• require caffeinated beverages 

to keep yourself going? 

Insomnia — a short term 

or chronic inability to get 

high quality sleep — is a 

common sleep problem and 

can be caused by a variety of 

things including stress, a 

change in time zones, an 

altered sleep schedule or 

poor bedtime habits. 

The great news is that 

insomnia doesn’t have to be 

a permanent problem. In 

many cases, self-help techniques 

can alleviate insomnia 

and promote better health 

as well as better sleep. In 

recent years new medications 

have also been developed 

to help patients with 

insomnia. 

Sleep apnea is a common 

sleep disorder that can be 

potentially very serious, and 

even life-threatening. In 

sleep apnea, your breathing 

stops or gets very shallow 

while you are sleeping. Each 

pause in breathing typically 

lasts 10 to 20 seconds, and 

the pauses can 

occur 20 to 30 

times or more per 

hour. During the 

episodes of apnea, 

the sleeper wakes 

up to breathe 

again, disrupting 

sleep, and also 

suffers from a 

brief lack of oxygen. 

Symptoms of 

sleep apnea 

include: 

• Frequent gaps 

in breathing during sleep 

(apnea) 

• Gasping or choking for 

air to restart breathing, often 

causing sleeper or partner to 

wake 

• Loud snoring 

• Feeling un-refreshed 

after a night’s sleep, excessive 

daytime tiredness, and 

morning headaches 

CPAP, a mechanical 

device worn while sleeping 

which provides continuous 

air pressure to keep the airway 

open,is the most recommended 

treatment for moderate 

to severe sleep apnea. 

CPAP can take some getting 

used to, but provides effective 

relief when used correctly. 

Snoring is a common 

symptom of sleep apnea and 

can be a significant obstacle 

to quality sleep both for 

yourself and your partner. 

Snoring is a sound that 

results from air movement 

being partially blocked from 

entering or exiting your airway. 

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a disorder causing an almost 

irresistible urge to move the 

legs (or arms). The urge to 

move occurs when resting or 

lying down and is usually 

due to uncomfortable, tingly 

or creeping sensations in the 

legs or affected limbs. 

Movement temporarily eases 

the feelings. 

Narcolepsy is a neurological 

disorder that causes 

extreme sleepiness and may 

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Specific causes of 

narcolepsy are not 

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The “sleep 

attacks” experienced 

by people 

with narcolepsy 

occur even after 

getting enough 

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make it difficult 

for people to live 

normal lives. 

Falling asleep 

during activities like walking, 

driving or working can 

have dangerous results. 

Symptoms of narcolepsy 

include: 

• Intermittent, uncontrollable 

episodes of falling 

asleep during the daytime 

• Excessive daytime 

sleepiness 

• Sudden, short-lived loss 

of muscle control during 

emotional situations 

Self-diagnosis 

Keeping a record of your 

sleep patterns will help you 

and your doctor find the 

cause of your sleep problems. 

A sleep diary 

(www.helpguide.org/life/pdf 

s/sleep_diary.pdf) can highlight 

lifestyle factors related 

to sleep disorders. Record all 

sleep-related information, 

including: 

• Time you went to bed 

and woke up (total sleep 

hours) 

• Quality of your sleep — 

times that you were awake 

and activity (i.e., stayed in 

bed with eyes closed, or got 

up, had a glass of milk, and 

meditated) 

• Types and amount of 

food, liquids, caffeine or 

alcohol you consumed 

before bed, and times of consumption 

• Feelings and moods 

before bed — happiness, 

sadness, stress, anxiety 

• Drugs or medications 

taken, amounts taken, and 

times of consumption 

Seeing a doctor 

What can you expect 

when you go to see a doctor 

about your sleep problem? 

Doctors will consider many 

things before making a diagnosis 

including: 

• Description of symptoms 

• Age and gender 

• Psychological and medical 

history 

• Sleep diary and sleep 

questionnaire 

• Possible medical conditions 

• Medical tests 

Sleep centers 

If your physician refers 

you to a sleep center, asleep 

specialist will observe your 

sleep patterns, brain waves, 

heart rate, eye movements 

and more using monitoring 

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bunch of wires attached to 

you might seem difficult, 

most patients find they fall 

asleep very easily. 

The results will be 

reviewed by a physician with 

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The Sleep Disorder 

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Asimple thank you makes us 

all feel better. 

(even your doctor) 

If you have your health, you have everything. Or so the saying 

goes. Then why is it we so often take our health for granted? And 

our doctors who support us to be healthy? This year,onNational 

Doctors’ Day,weinvite you to join Hamilton Health Care System in 

saying “Thanks!” to all the dedicated physicians who care for our 

patients and help us make this area ahealthy place to live, raise 

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Harping with a mission 

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As you walk down the 

hallways of a hospital you 

expect to see nurses busily 

tending to patients, hear the 

sounds of physicians communicating 

treatment plans, 

and observe friends and family 

members anxiously waiting 

for good news about a 

loved one. You may see 

despair, some see fear, some 

see hope, but there is one 

person, Celeste Stewart, a 

healing interventionalist at 

Hamilton Medical Center, 

who sees a mission field. 

When asked about her 

role at Hamilton Medical 

Center as the healing interventionalist, 

Stewart 

responds, “I am just a 

harpist.” But this harpist’s 

mission transcends disciplines 

that go to the very 

heart and soul of those fortunate 

enough to hear her play. 

Stewart has been 

described by her patients and 

their family members as “an 

angel from God” who delivers 

special blessings in the 

midst of tragedy. 

Stewart, harpist and composer, 

resides in the mountains 

of Northwest Georgia 

with her husband, Bob, yellow 

lab Moses, and cats 

Chelsea and Shadow. She 

plays a 36-string Celtic harp 

crafted by Robert 

Cunningham. She first began 

studying the harp at age 45. 

Since then her career has 

been spent in Dalton, where 

she became and still is the 

harpist at Hamilton Medical 

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her sitting among the 

patients, guests, staff and 

physicians sharing her love 

and passion for healing 

through the ministry of 

music. 

“Although Celeste speaks 

of everything she does in 

terms of collaboration and 

teamwork, her individual 

contributions to this organization 

exemplifies the true 

meaning of the term 

‘Ministry of Health Care,’” 

says Karen Wisdom, chief 

operating officer and vice 

president of Hamilton 

Medical Center. “Celeste is 

an asset to Hamilton and this 

community. Without her the 

Music Therapy program 

would not be possible.” 

Since the Music Therapy 

program began at Hamilton 

Medical Center in 2001, 

great strides have been made 

in the acceptance and utilization 

of the program by staff 

and physicians. Although 

music therapy is not considered 

to be a part of so-called 

mainstream medicine, a 

growing number of health 

care professionals are discovering 

its therapeutic 

value. 

“I think one of the most 

meaningful things to me now 

is that seeing the harp on the 

patient floors and throughout 

the hospital is just as common 

as seeing any other of 

our clinical instruments used 

for healing,” Stewart said. 

Music therapy is an intervention 

that is outside the 

realm of medicine and really 

speaks to the spirituality of 

the patient. It treats the entire 

individual. Music can be an 

unobtrusive method of providing 

a calming and healing 

atmosphere. 

“Celeste is at her best at 

times when most of us are at 

our worst,” said Kay 

Henderson who works in 

Clinical Informatics at 

Hamilton. “The sweet melodious 

sounds of her harp 

have evoked images of 

angels and heaven for many. 

Her music eases fear and 

suffering for both the patient 

P HOTO BY H AMILTON M EDICAL C ENTER 

Healing Interventionalist Celeste Stewart shares her love and passion for healing through the ministry of music at Hamilton Medical 

Center. 

and family. Her job is to ease 

pain and soothe the soul. 

And that is a job Celeste 

does so very well. Her talent 

is a gift and her mission is to 

share it with those in need.” 

Music therapy has 

evolved into a discipline 

with evidence-based methods 

and an approach tailored 

to elicit specific outcomes in 


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W illia m H . L u mpkin, M. D . ,F. A . C . S . 

G ener a l S urgeon 

B o a r d C e rtified in S urgery 

F ellow of t he A mer ican C ollege of S urgeons 

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Healing Interventionalist Celeste Stewart, right, talks with a nurse at Hamilton 

Medical Center. 

medical practice. Targeted 

outcomes include general 

wellness,decreased pain perception, 

decreased stress, 

anxiety reduction and 

increased coordination. 

Music therapists use music 

to give some measure of control 

back to the patient. The 

power of music can bring out 

difficult emotions and help 

patients explore their feelings 

about their illnesses, 

family and future. Music can 

touch areas of the patient that 

words cannot. 

Michele Pirkle, director 

of Guest Services and 

Organizational 

Development, said, “Celeste 

has a way of making everyone 

feel special and important 

— a rare gift. Her music 

and her personal ministry 

have helped to calm and 

renew our patients and their 

families who often find 

themselves in stressful or 

frightening circumstances. 

Our organization is very 

blessed to have her on our 

healing team.” 

Stewart describes her 

time at Hamilton as “divine.” 

“The nurses had called 

me into a room of a young 

man who had been in a 

motorcycle accident,” 

recalled Stewart when asked 

why she chose this profession. 

“The patient was diagnosed 

in a semi-vegetative 

state. His mother, who was 

sitting with him, was 

exhausted, physically and 

emotionally. She had the 

saddest 

expression I 

had ever seen 

on a person. 

I asked her to 

relax as 

much as she 

could, and as 

I played, the 

patient 

moved his 

legs just a bit 

for a while 

and then 

went to 

sleep. I 

watched as 

his mother 

looked at 

him and 

wiped her 

tears. Then 

she also 

began to fall 

asleep.”With 

a brief pause, 

Stewart 

added, “This 

is not a profession. 

No, 

this is a ministry. 

And I did not choose it. 

I am blessed and humbled to 

be chosen for it.” 

“I think one 

of the most 

meaningful 

things to me 

now is that 

seeing the harp 

on the patient 

floors and 

throughout the 

hospital is just 

as common as 

seeing any other 

of our clinical 

instruments 

used for 

healing.” 

— Celeste Stewart 

healing interventionalist 

“Healing music is an 

important part of my life,” 

said Stewart, “and playing 

for people who are in need, 

as God directs, is truly a joy. 

It seems as if I have been 

doing this 

forever and it 

never gets 

old.” 

Whether 

playing her 

h a r p , 

singing, 

praying or 

just talking 

w i t h 

patients, 

Stewart’s 

presence is 

an enchanting 

experience, 

one 

that is most 

appreciated 

by those she 

ministers to. 

“The harp 

is definitely a 

healing tool 

and playing 

music is definitely 

a calling 

not to be 

taken lightly,” 

Stewart 

said. “I am 

so privileged to be a part of 

Hamilton Medical Center 

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Business 

■ Anderson: Dalton’s best days are ahead, 2 

■ The Daily Citizen embraces the Internet, 5 

■ Carpet industry leaders see a bright future, 7 

■ Want a great deal? buy a home, 11 

Progress 


2009 


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12 digital screens.

2 Friday, March 27, 2009 P ROGRESS 2009 N T HE D AILY C ITIZEN 


Above is the Dalton-Whitfield Chamber of Commerce office building. Brian Anderson, the chamber’s president and CEO, believes the Greater Dalton community 

has its best days ahead. 

Dalton’s future is now! 

B Y B RIAN A NDERSON 

President and CEO, Dalton- 

Whitfield Chamber of 

Commerce 

As one who moved to 

Dalton just over eight years 

ago, I did not have the privilege 

of living here during a 

time that 

most native 

Daltonians 

call the 

“good old 

days.” 

A couple 

of years 

ago, I had 

Anderson the privilege 

of 

being on a panel with Mr. 

Jack Turner. He made reference 

to that sentiment by 

saying he did live here then, 

and he did not remember 

those days being that good. 

In other words, it is a matter 

of perception as to whether 

days of our past were better 

than today. My family has 

lived here long enough now 

to proudly say we love this 

community and have never 

regretted making the choice 

to make Dalton our home. I 

truly believe the Greater 

Dalton community has its 

best days ahead of it! In fact, 

our future is now! 

Let’s consider the basics 

of Greater Dalton’s history 

in setting the stage for discussing 

our future. How did 

we get here? How did we 

become the Carpet Capital 

of the World? How did we 

build a small utility company 

into a real competitive 

advantage for our community? 

How did we manage to 

imagine, plan for, buy land 

for, get permits for and build 

large water reservoirs that 

sustain us during prolonged 

droughts? How did we build 

a small two-year community 

college into a wonderful 

four-year college (and future 

university), how did we 

build a hospital into an 

award-winning medical system? 

My answer is we got to 

where we are today by 

thinking big. We became the 

Carpet Capital of the World 

by starting with an idea, 

refining and improving that 

idea, and building on that 

idea until it gained critical 

mass. As our fledgling 

industrial idea grew, we 

needed utility infrastructure. 

Dalton Utilities grew alongside 

our industry and the two 

mutually benefited each 

other and the community at 

large. As our industry needed 

more and more water, 

visionary leadership saw the 

need for and took the necessary 

steps to build reservoirs 

for water storage. And we 

knew the potential for 

Dalton Junior College and 

provided the support and 

encouragement to enable its 

growth to its current status. 

And we will continue to support 

its growth into what it 

truly can be. 

For awhile now, it seems 

that many of our community 

only reminisce of days gone 

by, as if our best days are 

behind us. Some have a hard 

time saying anything positive 

about our community at 

all. Many speak of the carpet 

industry as if it is dead. 

Many have forgotten that the 

flooring industry has provided 

decades of economic 

growth to this community, 

this region, and to Georgia 

as a whole. Through its success, 

it has provided millions 

of tax dollars that have 

funded critical government 

services. It has funded most 

of the work accomplished by 

our charitable institutions. 

And it has provided thousands 

of jobs to those living 

here and regionally. 

Some cynics even compare 

us to Detroit. They will 

say we are a one horse community 

much like Detroit. 

We are home to the carpet 

industry while Detroit is 

home to the big three 

automakers. And while 

some similarities do exist, 

let me highlight a couple of 

differences between Detroit 

and Dalton. Detroit — or at 

least the automobile manufacturing 

industry — has 

had a flawed business plan 

for years. They drug their 

feet in becoming more fuel 

efficient. The U.S. big three 

allowed their competitors 

(Asian and European) to 

capture market share 

through innovation. They 

allowed the labor unions to 

become so strong, their production 

costs made domestic 

models uncompetitive in a 

global economy. In the end, 

they demonstrated their 

inability to compete in 

today’s economy without a 

government infusion of capital. 

The carpet industry has 

employed innovation 

throughout its history in 

areas ranging from new 

product lines to more energy 

efficient manufacturing 

methods. The carpet industry 

that we are blessed to 

have headquartered in the 

Greater Dalton community 

has just as bright a future as 

its heralded past. Yes, today 

we are struggling. 

Thousands have been laid 

off during this economic 

retraction. And unfortunately, 

our carpet industry is 

inextricably tied to the housing 

industry. Our carpet 

manufacturers are struggling 

due to a failed housing 

industry and the country’s 

financial collapse. Our 

industries did nothing to 

warrant the current situation. 

During these tough times 

are we sitting around licking 

our wounds and moaning 

and groaning? Some are. 

But most industry and community 

leaders that I talk to 

are bullish on the future. 

Many in the carpet industry 

are using this time to 

become more efficient. They 

are cost-cutting and investing 

in new technology that 

will enable them to compete 

even stronger when the 

economy improves. The carpet 

industry will produce 

even more yards of carpet 

going forward as it has in 

our past. It might not do so 

with as many plants nor with 

as many people, but it will 

be a strong component of 

our economic future just as 

it has been throughout our 

history. 

We are at an historic time 

in our community. Now that 

we know we have reached 

that turning point where our 

current industry will not 

need as many employees 

going forward, we have to 

be innovative and creative in 

recruiting opportunities for 

our citizens. We can confidently 

build economic 

development capacity that 

Above are 

chamber 

members and 

guests at the 

annual banquet. 

At left, 

State superintedent 

Kathy 

Cox, center, 

speaks with 

Bill Jourdain, 

left, and Larry 

Winters.The 

chamber is 

working to 

build a first 

class economic 

development 

team to 

promote 

strategic 

success for 

the future. 

will enable us to recruit targeted 

industries who will 

continue to expand into the 

Southeast. We can proactively 

plan for and deliver the 

kind of change we all desire. 

We have had decades of economic 

growth almost exclusively 

on the back of the carpet 

industry. Our future is 

now if we use this historic 

point in time to recruit 

aggressively and intelligently, 

and to diversify the economic 

engine of the Greater 

Dalton community. 

Our past successes were 

built on ingenuity, imagination 

and hard work. This 

community even overcame 

its lack of most natural 

resources in building a 

world-class carpet industry. 

As we work to recruit new 

opportunities and new economic 

partners, we possess 

many assets that will ensure 

our success. Our assets 

include location (weather 

and topography), transportation 

infrastructure (I-75 and 

rail), utility infrastructure, a 

manufacturing culture, a 

strong downtown, ethnic 

diversity, arts infrastructure, 

a growing four-year college, 

a quality medical system and 

a “can do” community spirit. 

I am sure I have left off 

many,but these are the most 

known and most sought 

after. 

Although Volkswagen is 

building in Chattanooga, we 

will be affected by their 

presence. Volkswagen will 

change much of our region 

over the next few years. We 

cannot, however, patiently 

wait for the effects of 

Volkswagen to benefit us. 

We must create our own success. 

We must build economic 

development capacity 

that rivals any of our competitors. 

We must position 

ourselves as the place to 

live, work and play in 

Northwest Georgia. We 

must enable our assets to 

work for us by ensuring a 

company can quickly build a 

plant and begin operating as 

quickly as possible and as 

effortlessly as possible once 

they choose us. We must be 

aggressive in getting our 

message out. We must market 

aggressively to those targeted 

industries. Yes, we 

have areas of opportunity 

just like any community,but 

our strengths outnumber our 

weaknesses. 

Many of us are working 

hard to build a first class 

economic development 

team. There are conversations 

occurring that will lead 

to the creation of public-private 

capital, and future community 

visioning. We need 

to build on the strategic successes 

of the Target 

Tomorrow vision and create 

our next five-, 10- and 15- 

year plans. As Dr. Stephen 

Covey teaches in his bestselling 

work “The Seven 

Habits of Highly Effective 

People,” mental creation 

must precede the physical 

creation. We must imagine 

our future before we can 

build it. 

What can you contribute 

to this process? Think positive 

about our community 

and our future. I know it 

sounds almost childish and 

absurdly simple, but today 

we live in a sound byte society. 

It seems everything we 

say winds up in a headline or 

on the Internet. We live here 

and we know our community 

better than anyone. 

Therefore each of us must 

pay more attention to what 

we say about our community. 

Mother said it best: “If 

you cannot say something 

nice, do not say anything at 

all.” 

I know these times are 

hard. We are all feeling it. 

But if we support each other 

and talk up our positives 

(while continuing to work 

on our weaknesses), we will 

soon benefit from the successful 

recruitment of new 

industry. These new industries 

will bring new jobs and 

diversity to an already 

strong manufacturing community. 

We can turn the tide 

of losing manufacturing jobs 

to other countries by proving 

good companies can invest 

and succeed in the Greater 

Dalton community. 

Join in,our future is now!

T HE D AILY C ITIZEN ■ Progress 2009 Friday, March 27, 2009 3 

Join 

Shift 10 

When spending your hard-earned cash, the Dalton-Whitfield 

Joint Development Authority and the Dalton-Whitfield Chamber 

of Commerce encourage you to buy at home. 

Choosing to buy in Dalton and Whitfield County helps circulate 

critical resources within your own community. Join us in supporting 

Greater Dalton’s businesses and entrepreneurs by shifting at least 

10% of what you might spend elsewhere, back into the community. 

We’re not asking you to spend more –just smarter! Here’s th eplan: 

1. Shift at Least 10% ofyour Product Purchases 

to Local Businesses 

Businesses: If you buy office supplies orother goods for your 

business, shift atleast 10% of what you spend outside of the community 

back into Greater Dalton. 

Individuals: If you plan to buy clothes, cosmetics, furniture or kid’s 

supplies, shift at least 10% of what you might spend elsewhere back 

into Greater Dalton. 

2. Shift at Least 10% ofyour Service Purchases 

to Greater Dalton 

Businesses: Shift at least 10% of the budget you allocate to legal, 

accounting, advertising or web design to local vendors. 

Individuals: Use alocal company for tax services, banking, 

etc. Eat at alo cal restaurant. Fill up the tank in Whitfield County. 

3. Shift the Obvious 

Products like cle aning supplies, p rinted materials orpromotional 

items for clubs and organizations can be delivered without adding 

shipping costs, when you buy at home. 

4. Shift the Subtle 

If you haven’t already,shift your company credit card orgas card 

to alocal bank or institution. 

5. Shift the Unique 

Start aconversation at your office orwith your family. What unique 

item or service could be purchased locally? Now that’s agood idea! 

Greater Dalton: We’re 

This Together. 

Dalton • Whitfield 

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In February,more than 222,000 unique visitors visited The Daily Citizen’s Web site (according to Google Analytics) and there were more than 1,335,079 page 

views. People are checking out the site and most are staying to take a look around. 

Committed to the Internet 

The Daily Citizen has embraced the Internet as readership trends change 

S TAFF REPORTS 

The Internet has made 

an enormous impact on the 

newspaper industry. 

Because of changing readership 

trends, it’s not 

enough for newspaper 

management teams to think 

only in terms of the traditional 

daily newspaper 

model. 

While this new way of 

doing business has presented 

plenty of challenges, the 

opportunities that come 

with it offer vast potential. 

“Historically two of the 

most frustrating limitations 

we have faced are time and 

space,” said Jimmy Espy, 

executive editor of The 

Daily Citizen. “Since we 

only publish one time a 

day, in the morning, other 

media had the advantage of 

being more up-to-the 

minute. Also, we have been 

limited in how much news 

we could publish because 

of the size of the newspaper. 

A Sunday or 

Wednesday newspaper 

might provide plenty of 

space for stories, but on 

other days when we have 

few ads, the page count 

dwindles and we don’t get 

as much news to our readers.” 

“The Internet has 

changed that,” Espy added. 

“Now we can publish 

breaking 

n e w s 

almost as 

quickly as 

we can 

report it 

and we 

h a v e 

unlimited 

space.” 

T h e 

D a i l y 

Citizen has 

had a Web 

s i t e , 

www.daltondailycitizen.com, 

for several 

years. The 

site packs a 

wide range of material. 

“The most popular items 

are the local news stories,” 

The online 

forum has been 

a big success in 

Dalton. It has 

developed a 

“community” 

of regular 

participants but 

it also draws 

comments from 

readers from all 

over the country. 

said Espy. “Many readers 

check that out first to see 

what’s happening. 

Most of the 

local stories 

in that 

d a y ’ s 

newspaper 

are posted 

on the 

site.” 

Updates 

to those 

stories are 

often posted 

during 

the day, 

particularly 

if the 

story feat 

u r e s 

breaking 

news. 

“We want readers to turn 

to our Web site knowing 

there is a good chance that 

what they see will be fresh 

news,” said William 

Bronson, publisher of The 

Daily Citizen. “Our company 

is absolutely committed 

to growing our Internet 

site, both as a news outlet 

and as a vibrant market for 

our advertisers.” 

The site is not limited to 

news stories, said Espy. 

“It has several features 

which our readers have 

really responded to,” he 

said. “For instance, the 

forum is an interactive 

message board where readers 

can link to and discuss 

stories from the newspaper, 

local issues or really whatever 

they want.” 

The online forum has 

been a big success in 

Dalton. It has developed a 

“community”of regular participants 

but it also draws 

comments from readers 

from all over the country. 

“The online forum creates 

a lot of interest,” said 

Espy. “It’s fun and it gives 

people a chance to have 

their say. 

The Daily Citizen Web 

site also publishes nonnews 

articles. The site’s 

“front page” has categories 

for features, education, 

Murray County, sports, 

business, state, health and 

opinion. Many of these categories 

has sub-categories 

as well. 

“Most of these sections 

are updated every day,” 

said Espy. “Local sports 

and features are heavily 

read, but some of the other 

categories allow us to reach 

smaller, more specialized 

audiences. A lot of readers 

might want to read our latest 

football feature, but 

there are also readers interested 

in things like outdoors 

news, which we are 

now able to publish more 

frequently.” 

The site includes a lot of 

information supplied by 

outside sources that might 

have been edited down 

considerably or even not 

run in the print edition of 

the newspaper. 

“We hope readers will 

check out our site for a 

wealth of information,” 

said Espy. “There is some 

good stuff on there and it’s 

updated every day.” 

The site has been a success 

with readers, based on 

its measurables. 

In February more than 

222,000 unique visitors 

came aboard (according to 

M ISTY 

W ATSON 

T HE D AILY 

C ITIZEN 

Jamie 

Jones 

updates 

information 

on 

The Daily 

Citizen’s 

Web site. 

The site 

includes a 

lot of 

information 

supplied 

by 

outside 

sources 

that might 

have been 

edited 

down considerably 

or even 

not run in 

the print 

edition of 

the newspaper. 

Google Analytics) and 

there were more than 

1,335,079 page views. 

People are checking out the 

site and most are staying to 

take a look around. 

“Our company is very 

much committed to the 

Internet and for the long 

term,” said Bronson. “We 

want to provide our 

Internet readers with an 

informative and lively 

product.” 

So how does this affect 

the daily print newspaper? 

“What we do on the Web 

site is extra,” said Espy. 

“We have not weakened the 

print product to make the 

online product more successful. 

A lot of what we 

do goes hand in hand, but 

the Internet does give us 

the chance to do more in 

many ways.”



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Junior Achievement names 

new Hall of Fame members 


jamiejones@daltoncitizen.co 

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Becoming 

part of the 

Hall of Fame 

Three community leaders 

will enter the Junior 

Achievement 

Northwest Georgia 

Business Hall of Fame 

at a banquet on May 5 

in Dalton. Jim Jolly, former 

CEO of J&J 

Industries; Norris Little, 

a former Shaw 

Industries executive; 

and Pleas Smith, a 

founder of Smith & 

Green Construction, 

will join the 12 current 

members of the hall of 

fame. 

The 2008 class consisted 

of brothers Ken 

and the late Jim 

Boring, who were part 

owners of Hardwick 

Holding Co. and got 

their start in the rock 

quarry business, and 

the late Tom Jones, cofounder 

of J&J 

Industries and a member 

of the Dalton Board 

of Education for 26 

years. 

Dalton is known as the 

Carpet Capital of the World 

for good reason. It was in 

Dalton the industry was 

born, flourished, struggled 

and adapted, and here that it 

provides a living for scores 

of residents. 

The Junior Achievement 

Northwest Georgia 

Business Hall of Fame honors 

the people behind the 

city’s success, not only in 

the business realm but also 

in shaping the community 

and the area. Later this 

spring, three more 

Daltonians will join the 12 

current members. The 

newest members are Jim 

Jolly, former CEO of J&J 

Industries; Norris Little, a 

former executive at Shaw 

Industries; and Pleas Smith, 

co-founder of Smith & 

Green Construction. 

The fourth annual hall of 

fame banquet will be 

Tuesday, May 5, at 6:30 

p.m. at the Northwest 

Georgia Trade and 

Convention Center. It is a 

black tie optional event. 

Tables of 10 are $1,000 

while individual seats are 

$125. The title sponsor is 

J+J/Invision and business 

hall of fame member Jack 

Bandy is the reception 

sponsor. The event is one of 

the biggest fundraisers of 

the year for the organization, 

said Judy Norris, 

director of the local Junior 

Achievement chapter. 

Junior Achievement volunteers 

teach students from 

elementary school to high 

school how economics and 

finance apply to the real 

world. About 250 volunteers 

teach some 8,000 students 

in the eight-county 

Northwest Georgia district, 

w h i c h 

includes 39 

schools in 

Murray and 

Whitfield 

counties. 

The nonp 

r o f i t 

organization 

has 

been in 

Dalton 

since 1964. 

Jolly 

retired 

from a 40- 

plus year 

career in 

the carpet 

industry 

and has 

kept busy 

as a member 

of the 

Board of 

Regents of the University 

System of Georgia. 

Little said being chosen 

for the honor was unexpected, 

and he’s flattered to join 

such lofty company. 

“The people that have 

been selected in the past are 

certainly worthy of the 

recognition and I’m really 

in good company as far as 

that’s concerned,” Little 

said. 

Smith, at 85, still goes to 

work most days and presides 

over the Monday 

morning staff meeting each 

week. 

Here are profiles of the 

2009 class: 

Jim Jolly 

As a native Daltonian 

and a 1959 graduate of 

Dalton High School, Jolly 

has kept his hometown on 

his mind. 

After receiving a bachelor 

of science degree in textiles 

from Georgia Tech in 

1964, Jolly began his career 

as a technical service representative 

with Monsanto. 

He worked there until 1965 

when he began a two-year 

stint with the U.S. Army. In 

1967, Jolly joined carpet 

manufacturer J&J 

Industries. He became 

chairman and CEO 22 years 

later. He retired from the 

company in 2006. 

Jolly has devoted his 

time in Dalton to advancing 

the carpet industry and promoting 

education. He 

served as chairman of the 

“The people that 

have been 

selected (for the 

Hall of Fame) in 

the past are 

certainly worthy 

of the recognition 

and I’m really in 

good company as 

far as that’s 

concerned.” 

Carpet and Rug Institute’s 

board of directors from 

1993 to 1995. CRI president 

Werner Braun lauded 

Jolly for his involvement in 

the organization and his 

contributions to the industry. 

“When this industry is 

faced with tough decisions, 

where he was always going 

to be coming from was 

what’s the 

— Norris Little 

former executive at 

Shaw Industries 

best thing 

to do on 

behalf of 

the industry,” 

Braun 

said in a 

previous 

D a i l y 

Citizen 

article. 

Jolly has 

a hand in 

statewide 

education 

policy as a 

member of 

the Board 

of Regents. 

He is a 

member of 

t h e 

Covenant 

College 

Board of 

Trustees, chairman of the 

Covenant College 

Foundation and a member 

of the executive committee 

of the Dalton State College 

Foundation. He is a charter 

member of the Dalton 

Whitfield Boys and Girls 

Club board of directors and 

graduated with the first 

Dalton-Whitfield Chamber 

of Commerce Leadership 

Dalton class. 

Jolly is a member of 

Grace Presbyterian Church. 

He and his wife, Judy, have 

two children and four 

grandchildren. 

Norris Little 

Although Little wasn’t 

born and raised in Dalton, 

he’s more than made up for 

lost time. A former executive 

with Shaw Industries, 

he has had a profound effect 

on the community through 

his work with various community 

groups. 

Little is a native of 

Charlotte, N.C., and attended 

the University of North 

Carolina. He graduated 

from Georgia State 

University in 1955. Six 

years later he moved to 

Dalton after being recruited 

to work for Coronet 

Industries, which was cofounded 

by Jack Bandy. 

Little began his career at 

Shaw in 1975 and served in 

numerous roles at the company, 

including as corporate 

officer and director, 

vice chairman, president 

and chief operating officer, 

Jim Jolly Norris Little Pleas Smith 

senior vice president of 

operations and vice president 

of manufacturing, and 

now vice chairman emeritus. 

Since retiring from Shaw 

several years ago, he has 

remained involved in the 

community. He serves on 

the Dalton State College 

Foundation and the advisory 

board for Wachovia 

Bank, as chairman of the 

board of the Community 

Foundation of Northwest 

Georgia, is a trustee of the 

Covenant College 

Foundation and is on the 

council of the local chapter 

of the Boy Scouts of 

America. 

“Norris Little is everywhere 

in Dalton,” Dixie 

Kinard wrote in her nomination 

letter. “Since his 

retirement he has devoted 

himself to providing leadership 

wherever it is needed. 

His devoted interest in this 

community can be seen all 

over our community as he 

attends meetings, leads 

meetings and financially 

supports the agencies that 

lift our citizens up and 

improve the quality of life 

in Dalton and Whitfield 

County.” 

Little is member of 

Grace Presbyterian Church. 

He and his wife, Billie, 

have three children and 

seven grandchildren. 

Pleas Smith 

The motto of Smith & 

Green Construction — 

“Building Northwest 

Georgia Since 1948” — can 

be applied to more than just 

physical structures. 

After graduating from 

Georgia Tech with a civil 

engineering degree, Smith 

knew he would return to his 

hometown of Dalton to start 

a construction company. 

Those plans were put on 

hold because of World War 

II and his time in the U.S. 

Army. 

Smith first worked for 

his uncle’s construction 

company. In the spring of 

1948, he and Raymond 

Whittle won a bid to build a 

fire hall for the city of 

Dalton on Murray Avenue. 

That project signaled the 

beginning of the business 

that would become Smith & 

Green Construction, now 

Dalton’s oldest general construction 

company. 

While there are scores of 

buildings throughout 

Whitfield County — and 

beyond — built by the company 

co-founded by Smith, 

he still made time to contribute 

to the community. 

He has been president of 

the Dalton Rotary Club, a 

commissioner on the 

Dalton Utilities board, a 

member of the Dalton- 

Whitfield Planning 

Commission and was on the 

charter board of Big 

Brothers Big Sisters. 

He has also donated 

property for the construction 

of the Friendship 

House child care center on 

South Hamilton Street, land 

for Civitan Park and a nearby 

walking trail, and mountain 

property along Crow 

Valley Road to Whitfield 

County for greenspace. 

“Pleas is a very quiet,but 

effective business and community 

leader who has left 

his mark on Northwest 

Georgia in many ways,” 

Norman Burkett, another 

business hall of fame member, 

wrote in his nomination 

letter. “At 85 years of age, 

he is still a builder; a 

builder of buildings, a 

builder of community and a 

builder of people.” 

Smith attends First 

United Methodist Church. 

He and his wife, Jane, have 

five children. 

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In the 2007 class were 

the late James Brown, 

founder of Brown 

Printing; Norman 

Burkett, former administrator 

of Hamilton 

Health Care System; 

the late Harry Saul, 

who founded Queen 

Carpet (which was sold 

to Shaw Industries); 

and businessman Jack 

Turner. 

The inaugural class 

included Jack Bandy, 

co-founder of Coronet 

Industries; the late 

Alan and Shirley 

Lorberbaum, cofounders 

of Aladdin 

Mills (which became 

Mohawk Industries); 

V.D. Parrott Jr., former 

general manager/president 

of Dalton Utilities; 

and the late Catherine 

Evans Whitener, one of 

the pioneers of the 

bedspread industry, 

which evolved into the 

carpet industry. 

Photos of the members 

can be seen at a display 

at the trade center. 

For information about 

the event, contact 

Junior Achievement at 

(706) 278-9180. 

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Dalton still the 

Carpet Capital 

B Y W ERNER B RAUN 

President of the Carpet 

and Rug Institute 

It’s no secret that the 

downturn in the housing market 

has had a profound effect 

on the carpet industry and all 

of us connected with it here in 

North Georgia. While current 

conditions are far from ideal, 

to keep things in perspective, 

we must remember that market 

conditions in the carpet 

industry have always been 

cyclical. The current slowdown 

came after a period of 

robust sales that had emerged 

after another slow period that 

hit the commercial market 

following the Sept. 11 terrorist 

attacks. 

We’ve all seen and heard 

the news stories about the rise 

in unemployment in Dalton, 

although I understand Dalton 

is no longer number one in 

Georgia joblessness. The figures 

I have seen indicate that 

carpet manufacturing is down 

approximately 30 percent 

since 2005, with tighter credit 

markets and stagnant home 

building and sales hitting the 

residential carpet market first, 

with the commercial market 

feeling the effect of the slow 

economy in the third quarter 

of 2008. 

It is everyone’s hope that 

we are either at or very near 

the bottom. Our expectation 

here at the Carpet and Rug 

Institute is that by the end of 

this year,or early in 2010,we 

will start to see some recovery 

in the carpet industry. 

The economy does hold 

some good news for carpet,in 

that it seems the current situation 

is helping carpet gain 

back some of the market share 

it lost in recent years. Carpet 

has always been a great value, 

and homeowners today are 

recognizing carpet’s affordability,durability 

and fashion. 

In a recent interview with 

“Floor Focus” magazine, 

Beaulieu 

president 

Ralph Boe 

said retailers 

are 

reporting to 

him that 

their customers 

are 

Braun 

once again 

choosing carpet for their 

homes. Cautious homeowners,remodeling 

one room at a 

time, are once again choosing 

the benefits of carpet. 

Taking a broader view, 

although times are hard at 

present, without doubt, this 

recession will eventually end. 

When it does, pent-up 

demand will send home 

improvement customers back 

into flooring stores. When 

that day comes, I think consumers 

will be very pleased 

with the quality and variety 

they find available to them in 

carpet. 

Since 2005, technological 

advances have dramatically 

changed the way carpet looks 

and feels. Technology has 

also improved the products 

available to clean and maintain 

the carpet in consumers’ 

homes and businesses. 

Advances in testing and 

measurement tools ensure 

that carpet continues to be an 

excellent choice for indoor air 

quality. Finally, in recent 

years, increased environmental 

awareness has led to 

breathtaking innovation in the 

sustainability of carpet products 

and carpet manufacturing 

processes. 

The future looks beautiful 

The last five years have 

seen a virtual revolution in 

carpet design. Talented carpet 

designers and advances in 

manufacturing technology 

have produced exciting innovations 

in color, texture and 

pattern. Fiber advances have 

opened up a whole new world 

of options. Customers may 

choose one of the new soft 

fibers, or fibers made with 

post-consumer recycled or 

bio-based materials. 

Increased use of continuous 

filament yarns offers exceptional 

versatility and styling. 

One of the roles of CRI is 

to support the carpet industry 

with science-based information 

on carpet care and maintenance. 

To that end, five 

years ago, CRI introduced its 

Seal of Approval (SOA) testing 

program for cleaning 

solutions,equipment and vacuum 

cleaners. Based on independent 

testing sponsored by 

CRI, disturbing inconsistencies 

were found in the cleaning 

ability of various carpet 

cleaning products. Of the initial 

25 products tested, only 

four were found to clean better 

than plain water! 

CRI’s Seal of Approval 

testing certifies that spot 

removers, in-tank solutions 

and pre-sprays work effectively, 

without changing or 

damaging the appearance of 

carpet. Extractors must 

remove dirt and any water 

used to clean the carpet, so 

that the carpet dries in a limited 

amount of time — again, 

without causing damage or 

appearance change. A special 

category called SOA Green 

lists SOA-approved products 

that have also undergone 

environmental testing and 

certification. Vacuums that 

pass CRI’s Seal of 

Approval/Green Label vacuum 

testing remove and contain 

dirt effectively, without 

damaging fibers or causing 

premature wear to the carpet. 

Consumers looking to have 

their carpets professionally 

cleaned can find a list of 

Certified Seal of Approval 

Service Providers on CRI’s 

Web site, carpet-rug.org. 

Carpet and indoor 

air quality 

Because people spend 

about 90 percent of their time 

indoors, CRI and the carpet 

industry recognize the importance 

of doing everything possible 

to maintain the quality of 

indoor air, especially for new 

construction and renovation. 

Carpet manufacturers were 

the first in the flooring industry 

to study their products for 

indoor air quality effects in 

schools and commercial settings. 

CRI worked with the 

Environmental Protection 

Agency, the Consumer 

Product Safety Commission, 

academic institutions and 

independent laboratories to 

evaluate carpet’s role in the 

indoor environment. The 

result is the Green Label program 

and the even more rigorous 

Green Label Plus program, 

which was introduced 

in 2004. 

These programs test carpet 

and identify products with 

very low emissions of volatile 

organic compounds (VOCs). 

Using scientifically established 

standards for low-emitting 

building products, the 

Green Label Plus program 

meets the exacting requirements 

of California’s 

Collaborative for High 

Performance Schools 

(CHPS) testing protocol and 

the U.S. Green Building 

Council’s Leadership 

Environmental Design 

(LEED) guidelines. 

Carpets meeting the 

acceptance criteria carry a 

label indicating compliance. 

Over the past four years,more 

than 90 percent of the carpet 

industry’s production has 

been accepted into the program. 

Few other flooring 

materials meet the carpet criteria. 

In addition, the scope of 

the testing and labeling program 

has been broadened to 

cover floor covering adhesives, 

some of which have 

been suspected of being 

involved in a few indoor air 

quality problems, and carpet 

cushions. This extension of 

the program imposes acceptance 

limits for adhesives and 

cushions similar to those set 

for carpets. 

Carpet and the 

environment 


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The carpet and rug industry has seen a slowdown with the downturn in the 

housing market, but industry leaders see a bright future. 

undergone significant 

advances over the last five 

years in its response to the 

environment. In all, carpet 

manufacturers have invested 

more than $400 million to 

improve sustainability since 

2003. 

According to CRI’s 2008 

Sustainability Report, which 

gathered information from 83 

carpet production facilities,in 

the last five years carpet manufacturers 

have achieved significant 

reductions in greenhouse 

gas emissions and other 

air pollutants, reduced water 

consumption by 30 percent, 

reduced energy consumption 

and reliance on so-called 

“dirty fuels,” and greatly 

increased their use of renewable 

energy sources. Carpet 

production has also seen a 

large increase in use of postconsumer 

waste materials in 

carpet production. 


also developed and implemented 

the ANSI/NSF 140- 

2007 Standard for Carpet 

Sustainability — the only 

standard of its kind among 

flooring industries. Designed 

to be used in commercial or 

institutional building projects, 

the standard gives carpet purchasers 

a way to objectively 

judge the sustainable attributes 

of different carpet products. 

A recent article in the 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

appeared with the headline 

“Carpet Capital Gone, 

Joblessness Moves into 

Dalton.” There’s no denying 

that things are difficult right 

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that Dalton is still,and, for the 

foreseeable future, will 

remain,the Carpet Capital. To 

paraphrase Mark Twain, 

responding to erroneous published 

accounts of his demise, 

“The account of our death is 

greatly exaggerated.” 

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CHATSWORTH — 

Adam Plemons grew up 

working hard in a farming 

family,and also likes a little 

bit of wine now and then. He 

hopes the melding of the two 

will become a business that 

employs approximately 25 

people and draws an increasing 

number of visitors to 

Murray County. 

Cohutta Springs Winery 

and Vineyard — a venture on 

family property Plemons is 

building with his wife Paige 

— is set to open any day 

now. It includes plans for 

artists and crafts people to 

sell their creations, and for 

other farmers to market seasonal 

produce. 

“I’m so excited about it,” 

said Dinah Rowe, president 

of the Chatsworth-Murray 

County Chamber of 

Commerce. “I think (the 

winery) will help bring our 

economy back up.” 

Rowe mentioned there is 

now a “wine trail” in 

Georgia, and Murray’s entry 

with the Cohutta Springs 

vineyard will join 

Ringgold’s as a point of destination 

for tourists interested 

in sampling and purchasing 

the fruit of the region’s 

vines. 

Rowe is working closely 

with other leaders in the 

community in the wake of 

Murray sole commissioner 

David Ridley’s “economic 

summit” in February. 

Committees coming out of 

the meeting include transportation, 

tourism, retail, 

legislative affairs, industrial 

and public education. 

Rowe called the meeting 

“wonderful” with a variety 

of attendees. 

“It was great to see both 

mayors (Chatsworth and 

Eton), our commissioner, 

school superintendent, 

industry leaders, builders 

and others there at the same 

time,” she said. “It was a full 

house. All the areas that 

needed to be represented 

were there, and it led me to 

believe that people are truly 

ready to work together. 

“It takes a long time to 

build what you want — 

strategic, long-term growth. I 

want to see us keep our natural 

assets and beauty while 

still building new economic 

development and growth.” 

Rowe is serving on the 

board of directors of the 

Georgia Association of 

Chamber of Commerce 

Executives. She’s excited 

that the local chamber’s bid 

to host the annual board 

retreat was accepted. It will 

convene June 11-12 at the 

Cohutta Springs Conference 

Center. One of the board 

members is George Israel, 

president and CEO of the 

Georgia Chamber of 

Commerce. 

“This will be a great 

opportunity to showcase 

Murray County,”Rowe said. 

“I want to promote us as the 

‘Gateway to the 

Appalachians’ and let people 

know they can cut 40 miles 

off (the) I-75 (route) going 

north by getting on 411 

(through Chatsworth). It’s a 

lot more scenic, too.” 

She is also not giving up 

on the idea of a retailer like 

Walmart or Target moving to 

town. 

“I think eventually we’ll 

have a ‘big box’ store,” she 

said. “The first one to come 

in will make a killing, and I 

think they’ll be amazed at 

what would happen here 

with the traffic we have from 

(highways) 411, 52 and 

282.” 

Rowe said she is “always 

looking” for retail developments, 

but realizes in the 

current economic climate a 

lot of retailers are “not 

scheduling to build.” 

Ridley said members of 

the committees from the economic 

summit have been 

meeting and making plans. 

The legislative affairs committee 

is committed to making 

the long-awaited Spring 

Place bypass a reality. The 

retail and industrial development 

committees are discussing 

extension of water 

and sewer lines to sites 

potential businesses might 

find favorable, along with 

tax incentives and an industrial 

park. Ridley said the 

county will probably wait 

until 2010 to put a referendum 

on a freeport exemption 

— a reduction of taxes on 

inventory items — on the 

ballot for voters. 

“Our strategy coming out 

of the summit is to try and 

attract retail and industrial 

development,” he said. 

“We’ll be meeting again as a 

group in July.” 

Lamar Dunn is chairman 

of the Murray County 

Industrial Development 

Authority. Working with 

county government, authority 

officials were diligent in 

giving incentives and obtaining 

economic promises in 

the deal to bring Duke 

Energy to the county in 

2001. In the first three quarters 

of 2008, KGen of 

Houston, Texas — which 

now owns the massive 

power producing facility in 

southwestern Murray — 

paid the county $2.9 million 

in natural gas taxes. Fourth 

quarter figures were not yet 

available, said county 

finance director Tommy 

Parker, but he did know the 

company paid $847,666 in 

property taxes for all of 

2008. 

“I think (the) freeport (tax 

exemption on inventory) will 

be a positive if we pass it,” 

Dunn said. “Other cities 

already have that, and it’s 

hard to compete if you don’t 

have it. It’s a bet — that you 

can make back what you 

give up. But we’re all agreed 

(those who attended the economic 

summit) that we’ve 

got to put something together, 

a pre-established incentive 

package. 

“It’s like selling produce 

— first you have to have produce 

to sell.” 

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Setting direction for Dalton Utilities 


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With $1 billion in assets 

and some $170 million in 

annual revenues, Dalton 

Utilities stands as one the 

area’s largest businesses. 

And members of the Board 

of Water, Light and Sinking 

Fund Commissioners say 

their job is to make sure it is a 

well-run business. 

“The utility is and should 

be run like a business,and the 

board of commissioners has 

the typical board responsibilities 

for strategic direction and 

policy setting and making 

sure we have a good CEO on 

board carrying out the strategy,”said 

Cathy Holmes, who 

joined the board in January. 

The board has five members 

appointed by the Dalton 

City Council. Each serves a 

five-year term. The terms are 

staggered so that one commissioner’s 

term ends each year. 

The City Council typically 

makes each year’s appointment 

in January. There’s no 

limit to the number of terms 

an individual can serve. 

The commissioners select 

their own officers each 

February. The five current 

members are Norman Burkett 

(chairman), Smith Foster 

(vice chairman), George 

Mitchell (secretary), Frank 

Robertson and Holmes. 

The board was created by 

an act of the General 

Assembly in 1913. It was 

expanded by the City Council 

to five from three members in 

1996. 

So how does the City 

Council decide who sits on 

the utility board? 

All of the current board 

members, and most of the 

past board members, have 

also had long and successful 

careers in business. Most also 

are or have been involved in 

other community groups or 

government boards. But several 

current members say they 

were surprised when they 

were approached by council 

members to join the board. 

“I got a call from (then- 

Mayor) Ray Elrod. He said, 

‘Your name has come up as a 

possible appointment to the 

Water, Light and Sinking 

Fund. Would you agree to 

that?’ and I said I would,”said 

Foster. “I’ve been on the other 

side, and I’ve used a lot of 

utilities in business.” 

“I asked, ‘Are you wanting 

me to do something particular?’ 

And he said, ‘No, I just 

want you to do the best job 

you can,’” said Foster, who 

has served on the board since 

2006. 

Holmes tells a similar 

story. 

“I was asked by (Mayor) 

David Pennington if I might 

serve on the commission. 

Then I met with David and 

(City Council member) 

Denise Wood for lunch one 

day, and they formally 

extended the offer and 

answered some of my questions,”said 

Holmes. “He said, 

‘I want you and every other 

member of the commission to 

operate independently, use 

your best judgment and do the 

best job you can do.’” 

George Mitchell says his 

first job, in high school, was 

with Dalton Utilities. And 

growing up in Dalton, he was 

familiar with the utility. Still, 

he says he’d never even 

thought about serving on the 

board until asked by the City 

Council almost 13 years ago. 

Like other board members, 

Mitchell says there was no 

formal interview with the 

council members before they 

offered him the post. 

“I can’t recall who it was, 

but someone from the City 

Council called me one night 

and asked if I’d be interested,” 

he said. 

Robertson had previously 

served on the board from 

2001 to 2005. 

“The first time I was nominated, 

I spoke to the mayor 

and to (then-city administrator) 

Butch Sanders, and they 

asked if I was interested,” he 

said. 

Board members meet each 

month, typically on the third 

Monday. But they say Dalton 

Utilities president and CEO 

Don Cope keeps them updated 

between meetings, e-mailing 

a report to them each 

week. 

“He is always available. 

He can always be contacted 

by telephone or e-mail. As 

chairman of the board, I talk 

to him every day,” said 

Burkett. “That’s a great comfort 

to me. The staff is also 

always available. We don’t 

have to try very hard at all to 

get answers to any of our 

questions.” 

Holmes agrees. 


Above are Dalton Utilities board member Cathy Holmes and board chairman 

Norman Burkett. They say their job is to make sure the organizaion is a wellrun 

business. 

“In my short time on the 

board, the level of communication 

has been very impressive. 

Don has made it clear I 

should call him any time, for 

any reason. Norman has made 

it very clear I should call him 

at any time for any reason. 

They’ve told me if I have any 

questions don’t hesitate to 

ask,”she said. “Don uses e- 

mail very effectively to keep 

the board informed. He was 

down in Atlanta recently 

meeting with (Environmental 

Protection Division) officials 

regarding new regulations on 

coal-fired plants that are 

going to impose higher costs. 

We had an e-mail that evening 

about that discussion. So far,I 

haven’t had to do much reaching 

out. Someone is always 

reaching out to me with information.” 

Board members say the 

unpaid job typically occupies 

several hours a week of their 

time. 

The learning curve for new 

members can be steep. But 

they say that Cope has helped 

bring them up to speed by taking 

them on tours of Dalton 

Utilities facilities and meeting 

with them one-on-one to provide 

information on various 

projects and introduce them to 

staff members. 

“Don and I have spent two 

entire afternoons together. We 

have another afternoon scheduled, 

and I think there will be 

at least one more after that. 

He has been extremely generous 

with his time,” said 

Holmes. “It’s a combination 

of a power-point presentation 

and a discussion,then we hop 

in his truck and go see some 

of the things we have been 

talking about.” 

The first board meeting of 

the year also features a recap 

of the past year for the benefit 

of new members and old ones 

as well. 

Though it had been four 

years since he last served 

when Robertson was reappointed, 

he said he didn’t 

have a steep learning curve. 

“I had been chairman when 

I served before, and Don 

keeps former chairmen 

informed to a certain degree as 

to what is happening,”he said. 

“Basically, I sat down with 

Don to catch up. I knew what 

we had committed to before I 

left, and I asked about the 

progress on those long-range 

plans, as well as what new 

projects there were. I hadn’t 

seen any financial information 

since I went off the board, and 

since I am an accountant I 

wanted to read that, probably 

more than anything.” 

Board of Water,Light and Sinking Fund Commissioners 

Norman Burkett, chairman. Term 

expires 2012. Previously served from 

1996-2000 and 2003-2007. Burkett 

served as administrator/CEO of 

Hamilton Medical Center for some 40 

years and is currently president emeritus 

of Hamilton Health Care System. 

He also serves as an elder with the 

First Presbyterian Church and a director 

of the Northwest Georgia 

Community Foundation and Family 

Support Council. He has served as 

president of the Georgia Hospital 

Association and the Southeastern 

Hospital Association and as chairman 

of the American College of Healthcare 

Executives and the Shorter College 

board of directors. 

Smith Foster, vice chairman. Term 

expires 2010. Foster is a native 

Daltonian who was an entrepreneur 

and executive in the carpet industry for 

more than 50 years.He helped form the 

original C&S Bank and the First Bank 

of Augusta. He served on the Georgia 

Ports Authority for 12 years and for several 

years on the Industrial 

Development Board. 

George Mitchell, secretary. Term 

expires this year. He has served consecutive 

terms since 1996. Mitchell is a 

native Daltonian who owned and operated 

Dalton Paving for 41 years. 

Cathy Holmes. Term expires in 2013. 

Holmes is a retired chemical engineer 

who served in various management 

positions with Dow Chemical in 

Georgia and Louisiana. She currently 

serves on the board of the Northwest 

Georgia Healthcare Partnership and 

has served on the boards of the United 

Way of Northwest Georgia, the Dalton 

College Foundation and Hamilton 

Healthcare Foundation, as well as various 

chamber of commerce committees. 

Frank Robertson. Term expires 2011, 

previously served 2001-2005. He is an 

accountant with Robertson & Co. CPAs. 

He is chairman of the Dalton Building 

Authority and a member of the board of 

the Dalton-Whitfield County Joint 

Development Authority. 

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A competitive edge 

Dalton 

Utilities 

designs for the future 

in Dalton-Whitfield 

B Y K IMBERLY A. B ROWN 

Special to The Daily Citizen 

The quality of life as we 

know it depends on water. 

Whether viewed as 

resource or commodity, 

water is the basis of our 

municipal, industrial agricultural, 

environmental and 

aesthetic well- being and 

has been alternately taken 

for granted, abused, 

exploited, celebrated and 

prayed for. 

No one understands this 

better than the people at 

Dalton Utilities. The utility 

was founded in the late 

1800s as Dalton Water 

Works, pumping up to a 

million gallons of water a 

day from Hamilton Spring 

near the site of the old 

Crown Cotton Mill to supply 

the town. 

As Dalton transformed 

from a small town with 

rural roots into the worldrenowned 

Carpet Capital of 

the World, Dalton Utilities’ 

evolution was intertwined 

with that of the community 

— providing water first, 

then later electricity, wastewater 

treatment and natural 

gas to fuel growth. 

Today, Dalton is a progressive 

city with a strong 

industrial base, tree-lined 

neighborhoods and thriving 

commercial districts, all in 

a peaceful, small-town setting. 

Residents and businesses 

enjoy reliable utilities 

offered at a cost that 

ranks among the lowest in 

the country. 

For more than 100 years, 

Dalton Utilities, the local 

power, water, wastewater 

and telecommunications 

utility, has expanded to 

meet the needs of a growing 

community. Today, 

Dalton Utilities operates in 

five business sectors: electricity, 

natural gas, water, 

wastewater and telecommunications, 

which includes 

television, telephone and 

Internet/broadband. The 

utility’s evolution continues 

with its commitment to 

providing essential services 

for the community. 

So how does Dalton 

Utilities plan for the 

future? 

“In these tough economic 

times, our goal has simply 

been to roll up our 

sleeves and put things in 

place as we anticipate a 

recovery,” said Don Cope, 

utility CEO since 1997. 

“The utilization of the 

existing utility and 

telecommunications infrastructure 

allows us to 

proactively serve the community 

as a launching pad 

for economic development, 

environmental sensitivity 

and additional investment.” 

Watershed Management: 

A Holistic Approach 

One of the most important 

roles played by Dalton 

Utilities is that of effective 

manager and regulator of 

water resources, as they 

apply to watershed management. 

Why are watersheds 

important? 

Because the surface 

water features and 

stormwater runoff within a 

watershed ultimately drain 

to other bodies of water, it 

is essential to consider the 

downstream impact when 

developing and implementing 

water quality protection 

and restoration actions. 

Watershed lands vary 

greatly in terms of water 

quantity, 

topography 

and other 

natural elements, 

and 

the development/ 

populations 

they 

Cope 

support. 

The relationship between 

proper management and 

long-term results, including 

erosion, flooding, water 

quality and production, and 

wildlife habitat is crucial. 

The importance of watershed 

management that conserves 

fundamental 

resources while providing 

for the needs of people and 

ecosystems cannot be 

overemphasized. 

According to Cope, 

Dalton Utilities’ watershed 

management goal embraces 

a holistic, ecosystem-based 

approach. 

Water supply, wastewater 

treatment and 

stormwater are interrelated 

and connected by natural 

processes. Dalton’s primary 

source for water is the 

Conasauga River, which is 

one of the most biologically 

diverse rivers in the country. 

There are many unique 

species in the Conasauga, 

and Dalton Utilities is 

charged with helping to 

maintain the habitat. Fish 

and mussel surveys determine 

the health of this small 

river. 

In the future, current 

water sources alone may be 

unable to meet Dalton’s 

needs. In fact, Dalton 

Utilities currently takes up 

to 3 million gallons of water 

per day from the Tennessee 

River through Eastside 

Utilities. 

Did the border of 

Georgia move? 

Not exactly, but equitably 

allocating regional 

resources among those that 

share the Tennessee River 

Basin can ensure that water 

is accessible to those who 

need it. 

This business unit of the 

utility has expanded waterrelated 

businesses to 

become a regional entity, 

providing service to more 

than 120,000 people in five 

counties, as well as a range 

of industrial and commercial 

customers. 

It has expanded potable 

water service throughout 

Whitfield County and parts 

of Murray County, doubling 

the total number of customers 

served; expanded 

sewer service into previously 

unserved areas; and has 

begun managing stormwater 

and erosion control. In 

addition to the 3 million 

gallons a day of water from 

the Tennessee River, Dalton 

Utilities has expanded its 

water resources by utilizing 

13 million gallons per day 

of treated wastewater for 

the operation of a merchant 

electrical generating plant 

located at one of its facilities. 

The continuing need to 

secure additional long-term 

sources of water supply — 

whether in the form of 

wholesale water, additional 

surface water, reservoirs, 

aquifer storage and recovery 

facilities, wastewater 

reuse or other forms — 

remains critical for the 

future. 

Targeted sewer expansion 

will be critical to longterm 

sustainable economic 

development. Dalton 

Utilities has already created 

Dalton Utilities is involved in watershed management, electric and gas service for Dalton and some surrounding 

areas, fiber optics and economic development. 

a sewer expansion plan 

which identifies specific 

infrastructure to serve certain 

areas of the community 

— some that would support 

light commercial and residential 

growth, and other 

areas to support heavier 

commercial and industrial 

growth. 

“Dalton Utilities is glad 

to see the community supporting 

the extension of 

sewer to the I-75 exit in the 

Tunnel Hill area recently,” 

said Don Cope. “Having 

sewer available at an exit 

along the most traveled 

highway in the United 

States will certainly serve 

as an economic stimulus for 

the community.” 

“Green” initiatives — 

including responding to the 

real or perceived threat of 

global climate change, 

implementing LEED 

(Leadership in Energy & 

Environmental Design) 

standards, using renewable 

energy sources and recycling 

waste products from 

business — are other drivers 

of watershed management 

operations. 

Energy Production: 

Reduce Carbon 

Footprint, Implement 

Smart Grid 

Dalton Utilities’ energy 

business encompasses electric 

and gas services. 

Dalton Utilities supplies 

the city of Dalton with electricity 

and gas services. 

Portions of Whitfield, 

Gordon and Floyd counties 

are also served with natural 

gas. Dalton Utilities’ balanced 

and diverse energy 

portfolio includes nuclear, 

fossil fuel and hydro, and 

“renewable” or “green” 

energy. Participation in the 

new Vogtle nuclear units, 

scheduled to come on line 

in 2016, will allow provision 

of low-cost base load 

electric generation for 

industrial customers, while 

producing no new carbon 

emissions. 

Dalton Utilities’ energy 

future focuses on incorporating 

“renewable” or 

“green energy” into the 

portfolio of services, 

expanding services into new 

areas, employing leadingedge 

technology to improve 

value-added services to 

existing and new electric 

and gas customers, maximizing 

transmission and 

generation assets, and seeking 

alliances to utilize energy 

assets in new and different 

business directions. 

• The transition to smart 

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Developing, implementing 

and utilizing “smart 

grid” technology is a focus 

for the future. A smart grid 

allows generators and loads 

to interact in real time, 

using advanced information 

and communications technology. 

For a utility, smart 

grids are desirable as they 

can potentially reduce energy 

costs, improve the 

longevity of equipment, 

optimize operations and 

allow users to extract more 

value from their energy 

investment, based on their 

particular needs. 

Economic Development 

A keen interest in economic 

development is 

expressed by Cope who, 

prior to taking over the 

helm at Dalton Utilities, 

served as president of the 

Dalton-Whitfield Chamber 

of Commerce. 

“It’s time to step up to 

the plate and put our 

resources and talents to 

work to build for the next 

generation in Dalton and 

Whitfield County,” said 

Cope. “Our vision is to 

encourage investment in the 

community through strategic 

growth and economic 

development. Attracting 

higher-wage jobs and 

encouraging investment is 

good for this community 

and good for our business.” 

What will set Dalton- 

Whitfield apart as new businesses 

look for places to 

invest? 

According to Cope, 

many of the needed 

resources to support sustainable 

regional economic 

development — in the form 

of utility infrastructure — 

are already in place. 

Fiber Optic Network is 

the Cornerstone 

Dalton Utilities’ 

telecommunications business 

is built around a 100 

percent fiber optic network, 

the first in Georgia. The 

Optilink suite of services 

offers businesses and residents 

broadband and highspeed 

Internet, telephone 

and television. 

How effective is the network? 

Highly, says Cope. 

“We deployed our fiber 

network to meet our own 

need to remotely operate 

and monitor the widespread 

operations of the utility 

from a central control location,” 

said Cope. “We know 

it is effective because we 

use it every day to serve our 

customers.” 

As the utility developed 

the network, officials also 

considered how it could 

serve the whole community. 

Thus, OptiLink was created. 

Businesses can take 

advantage of point-to-point 

connectivity and broadband 

services. Residential customers 

enjoy one bill for 

reliable, cost-effective, 

high-quality service. Public 

safety personnel utilize the 

network, sharing information 

and making the community 

safer. Downtown 

Dalton visitors enjoy wireless 

access to the Internet. 

OptiLink is also an 

effective tool when recruiting 

new types of business 

investment to the area. 

A Competitive Edge 

“In 2017, Dalton 

Utilities will own outright 

interest in two new nuclear 

plants and will have assets 

totaling over $1 billion,” 

said Cope. “Our annual revenue 

production will be 

over $300 million and, most 

significantly, we will have 

zero debt.” 

Dalton Utilities helped 

Dalton earn the “Carpet 

Capital of the World” designation, 

and it will serve an 

essential role in positioning 

the community for the 

future — a future that 

includes improvement in 

the quality of life for residents, 

respect for the environment 

and a competitive 

edge. 

Dalton Utilities facts and figures 

1997 2008 2017 

Total (Utility Plant) Assets $417,000,000 $1,014,000,000 $1,440,000,000 

Total Balance Sheet $702,000,000 $860,000,000 $1,000,000,000 

Total Number of Customers 58,141 89,963 107,514 

Revenue Produced $77,850,000 $170,253,000 $329,000,000 

Revenue per employee $334,120 $542,207 $996,000 

Amount of Debt $85,000,000 $54,000,000 $0 

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B Y D OUG H AWLEY 

Special to The Daily 

Citizen 

History is being made 

this year in the leadership 

of the North Georgia 

Tennis Association 

(NGTA). Janet and Rick 

Lovelady have become the 

organization’s first married 

couple to serve as co-presidents. 

“Having two people 

sharing the duties worked 

well in the previous 

regime,” Janet explained of 

the Dalton-based organization. 

“We liked that idea.” 

Randy Ellison and Lisa 

Douglas were the group’s 

first co-presidents, serving 

the previous two years. The 

club debuted during the 

mid-1980s. 

“The availability of us 

being together is good,” 

Rick said. “That helps us. 

We want to continue promoting 

tennis and get people 

involved in the various 

leagues.” 

Deb Wells, who has 

been vital to the association 

for the past 10 years as 

local league coordinator, 

likes the club’s future with 

the Loveladys. 

“They are both so dedicated,” 

Wells said. “They’ll 

handle it well.” 

Rick’s competitive tennis 

days go back to 

Northwest Whitfield High 

where he graduated in 

1979. 

“Although we did not 

meet on the court, we 

found that we had the common 

interest of tennis,” 

Janet said. “It certainly 

played a part in us getting 

married.” 

They have learned to 

complement each other on 

the courts. 

“Rick is the encourager, 

particularly when I am 

struggling,” Janet said with 

a smile. “I will yell at 

myself in a match.” 

Membership customarily 

builds during the year as 

warmer weather approaches. 

“We have about 225 

now,” Janet said. “We realistically 

could reach maybe 

425.” 

There are various local 

league tournaments at different 

skill levels during 

the year to keep netters 

motivated. Nearly all activity 

is focused at Lakeshore 

Park which is under the 

Dalton Parks and 

Recreation Department 

(DPRD). 

“The facilities are nice 

at Lakeshore,” Janet said. 

“There are 10 courts.” 

The association will 

again host the heralded 

state Combo Tournament 

Nov. 6-8. 

“Last year, we had the 

biggest 

Combo 

Tournament ever in 

Georgia,” Janet said. “We 

had 550 people.” 

Due to such recordbreaking 

participation, 

some participants played at 

Edwards Park, Dalton High 

School and Dalton Golf 

and Country Club. Debby 

Long was a key component 

for lodging through the 

Dalton Convention and 

Visitors Bureau. 

“There is really competitive 

bidding on this tournament,” 

Janet said. “We’re 

already working on the 

next two years.” 

Another prominent 

event has been the Terry 

Wood Memorial 

Tournament, which is the 

first weekend of May. 

Ellison is the director. 

“Several of us decided 

to do this 

tournament 

in his 

name,” 

s a i d 

Ellison, a 

c l o s e 

friend of 

Wood. “He 

was such a 

gregarious, 

fun-loving 

“You can play 

(tennis) at any 

age.There are all 

ages involved.” 

guy. He 

captained 

one of the 

league 

teams. You 

always had fun playing 

with him. It’s a non-sanctioned 

event run by our 

own people.” 

About 80 people participated 

last year. Some 

$2,000 to $2,500 has been 

raised each year for the 

past three years to benefit 

the American Heart 

Association. 

“When renovation was 

completed at Lakeshore,” 

Ellison said, “a tree was 

planted in his honor.” 

Wood’s widow, Denise, 

continues to play tennis. 

She is a member of the 

Dalton City Council. 

“You can play at any 

age,” Rick emphasized. 

“There are all ages 

involved.” 

Hugh Kemp, a75-yearold 

Dalton attorney, has 

played 

competitive 

tennis 

on a consistent 

basis since 

his days at 

LaGrange 

High and 

l a t e r 

Emory 

University 

at Oxford. 

“There 

are a few 

people 

about my 

age who play in the tournaments,” 

Kemp said. 

“However, I’m the only 

one who plays singles.” 

He has seen extensive 

change in Dalton’s tennis 

facilities. 

“When I first came here, 

there were two old tennis 

courts,” Kemp said. “Jerry 

Arnold and I were about 

the only ones playing.” 

He is part of a weekly 

fun gathering, the Merlot 

Tennis Group. Losers or 

those arriving late have 

been known to “pick up the 

checks” at dinner following 

the matches. 

At the other end of the 

spectrum, children recently 

have been highlighted 

through the Quick Start 

program. This includes 10- 

and-under and 8-and-under 

age groups. 

Michel Bates, a highly 

regarded teaching pro 

employed by the DPRD, 


Above, at Lakeshore Park’s tennis courts, are Janet and Rick Lovelady,the North Georgia Tennis Association’s first married couple 

to serve as co-presidents. 


Children recently have been highlighted through the Association’s Quick Start program. This includes 10- 

and-under and 8-and-under age groups. 

— Rick Lovelady 

co-president of the 

North Georgia 

Tennis Association 


Janet and Rick Lovelady with a thank you note from children who participated 

in one of the North Georgia Tennis Association’s classes. 

directs this activity. The 

Dalton High graduate was 

an All-Southeastern 

Conference player at 

Auburn University (1985 

league doubles champion). 

“I’m certainly excited 

about our youth program,” 

Bates said. “It can be an 

all-year round program.” 

Laura Rogers was hired 

recently as junior league 

coordinator. 

“I’ve been in this business 

a long time,” Bates 

said. “It’s one of the best 

structured tennis associations 

that I’ve seen. Deb 

Wells does a phenomenal 

job with the seniors. 

Through DPRD, we work 

extremely well together 

with NGTA. The past board 

was great. The same is true 

for the new board.” 

According to Janet 

Lovelady, George Page, 

director of the Whitfield 

County Recreation 

Department, “wants to 

have Quick Start at 

Edwards Park.” 

“Tennis certainly 

increases your fitness,” 

Rick Lovelady said. “It’s 

fun. It helps you form strategy 

and competition.” 

“We stress tennis etiquette,” 

Janet said. “You 

try to show sportsmanship 

and respect for your opponent. 

We try to maintain 

rules and standards ... no 

matter whether 8 or 80. 

Sometimes we even go out 

and eat with our opponents.” 

Other officers include 

Kenny Dillard, vice president; 

Mary Ann Oxford, 

secretary; and Rebecca 

Cope, treasurer. Stacy 

Junkins coordinates grant 

writing. 

Annual dues are $10 for 

an individual and $15 for a 

family. 

Prospective 

members can 

contact Deb Wells 

at (706) 218-4633 

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T HE D AILY C ITIZEN ■ Progress 2009 Friday, March 27, 2009 5



Not just horsing around 

Murray County 

Saddle Club 

members say 

they are a family 

B Y M ISTY W ATSON 

mistywatson@daltoncitizen.c 

om 

A girl was competing with 

her pony one night at the 

Murray County Saddle Club 

when she and the pony collided 

with the fence surrounding 

the arena. 

The announcer “stopped 

everything and said a prayer 

for the little girl over the 

speakers,”said club member 

Leigh Ann Weaver. “We help 

each other out. We’re a big, 

close-knit family.” 

The saddle club currently 

has 62 members. It is best 

known for its annual 

Appalachian Wagon Train. 

This year’s Wagon Train, 

from June 26 to July 5, will be 

the club’s 50th. Each evening 

of the 10 days is filled with a 

variety of 

h o r s e 

shows. 

Wagon 

Train had 

gotten a bad 

reputation 

several 

years ago 

because of 

underage 

drinking 

and arrests 

for fighting. 

Members 

say it has 

become 

more family-oriented 

Want to join? 

in recent 

years. 

“It’s not 

like it was 

in the past,” said the club’s 

secretary,Dana Burch. “Over 

the last eight or nine years 

we’ve become more family 

oriented. We’re trying to 

build the club back” with 

families. 

Members of the Murray 

County Saddle Club meet 

the first Monday of each 

month at 7 p.m. at the 

club, off Highway 52 at the 

foot of Fort Mountain. 

Anyone interested is welcome 

to attend a meeting 

before making a decision 

on whether to join. Annual 

membership dues are $20 

a person or $30 for a family. 

For more information 

on the club or the club’s 

events, visit www.murraycountysaddleclub.com. 

Weaver said when she first 

started competing during 

Wagon Train several years 

ago, she didn’t feel safe 

enough to go to certain parts 

of the property,off Highway 

52 at the foot of Fort 

Mountain,alone. 

“When I first started, you 

couldn’t go to the back side,” 

where many people camp, 

Weaver said. “Now you can 

ride everywhere.” 

Parents now believe it’s 

safe enough that children can 

ride freely,she added. 

“We have a lot younger 

crowds now,” Burch said. 

“We don’t have the wild 

crowds now.” 

The Murray County 

Sheriff’s Office provides 

patrol, and the club has its 

own private security on the 

site 24 hours a day to make 

sure the wild crowds don’t 

return. 

Each evening of Wagon 

Train, the dance hall is open. 

At one time, that attracted 

many non-club members. 

In recent years, the horse 

shows have attracted large 

crowds, 

Burch said. 

There 

are open 

horse and 

m u l e 

shows, live 

auctions, 

“ f u n ” 

shows, 

Calcutta 

barrel races, 

a parade 

through 

Chatsworth 

and a family 

day. 

Many participants 

camp at the 

club. There 

are 105 

campsites 

with electric and water 

hookups, and there are 214 

stalls for animals. 

“With this being the 50th 

year, we’re trying to do more 

special things,” Burch said. 

“The Sunday of Wagon Train, 

we’re planning a cowboy 

church. We have two preachers 

planning to do it.” 

People can come to church 

in their boots with their horses 

ready to ride. After service, 

everyone will go on a ride to 

fellowship together, Burch 

said. 

Club member Martha West 

is trying to find old pictures of 

Wagon Train to put on a CD 

showcasing the event’s 50 

years. But she isn’t having 

much luck. The oldest photos 

she has been able to find are 

from 1981. 

“Most of the old-timers are 

gone now,” West said. She 

said she’s beginning to think 

the earlier members didn’t 

take photos. 

Club members hope to 

have other special events during 

Wagon Train, but haven’t 

completed the details. 

“But we do a lot more than 

just Wagon Train,” Weaver 

said. 

Club members have added 

more shows and events for the 

community, and non-club 

members are welcome to 

watch and participate. There 

are only four weekends from 

April through October open 

on the saddle club’s calendar. 

“We try to be versatile,” 

Burch said. 

The calendar is full of fun 

shows — where riders can 

participate in more than 20 

unconventional competitions, 

such as the tunnel race, tater 

race and the buddy pick-up 

race — open shows, ranch 

horse shows, racking horse 

shows, a rodeo, bull riding 

events, an iron horse rodeo, 

fundraisers for St. Jude’s 

Children’s Research Hospital 

and the annual Murray 

County Relay For Life 

fundraiser for the American 

Cancer Society. Club members 

also hope to begin organizing 

trail rides soon and hope 

to have a chuck wagon cookoff. 

Fun shows and open shows 


Murray County Saddle Club member Leigh Ann Weaver pets her horse Kahne, 3.Weaver says club members 

are a family. 


Left,Murray County Saddle Club member Bobby Mashburn rides his horse around the Saddle Club.Right,Millie Whitner,8,rides Julie 

around the club. 

are held once a month. 

There is no admission for a 

fun show. The fun shows 

begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, 

April 10,May 1,June 5, Aug. 

7, Sept. 4 and Oct. 2. Gates 

open at 5:30. There is a $3 

entry fee for participants in all 

events except a stick horse 

race for the children,which is 

free, and a jackpot barrel race 

and a jackpot arena race. The 

jackpot races are $5 to enter 

and the winner takes all. 

“Fridays we usually have a 

good turnout,” Weaver said. 

“It used to be that we didn’t 

get done until 2 in the morning, 

but now we finish closer 

to midnight. We want to have 

kids come out and see the 

shows.” 

Admission is $3 per person 

for the open shows,where 

riders can participate in more 

than 40 conventional competitions,such 

as Western pleasure, 

lead line, tots to ride, 

style racking, Texas barrels 

and arena race. Open shows 

begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, 

April 11,May 2,June 6,Aug. 

1, Sept. 5 and Oct. 3. Gates 

open at 3 p.m. There is a $5 

entry fee for participants in all 

events except the open 4-D 

barrel race, which is $15. 

On April 25, club members 

are organizing a yard sale 

to raise money for Relay for 

Life, which they sponsor each 

year by offering use of their 

facility. This year’s relay is on 

Aug. 21. 

Club member Bobby 

Mashburn said he tries to 

make it to all the club’s 

events, whether he’s showing 

or working. 

“I know we’ll have fun, 

and we get along,” Mashburn 

said. “I know everyone that 

comes in.” 

Saddle Club sees growth 

B Y M ISTY W ATSON 

mistywatson@daltoncitizen.com 

When Murray County 

Saddle Club officials first 

began organizing horse 

shows,the club had only one 

barn and a small area, and 

used Murray County High 

School’s football field for 

horse and mule shows. 

Now, 51 years later, the 

club has plenty of room at 

the foot of Fort Mountain off 

Highway 52, with 214 stalls 

for animals, 105 campsites, 

a dance hall, akitchen and a 

covered arena. 

“It’s so much better than 

it once was,” said longtime 

member Martha West, who 

runs the club’s kitchen and 

concessions. She became 

involved with the saddle 

club through her father, 

Dewey Sitton, about three 

years after the club was 

formed in 1958. 

Sitton became active in 

the club during the second 

Wagon Train in 1960, which 

was then a three-day event 

the third week in July. Until 

the early 1970s, Wagon 

Train consisted of one horse 

show and a 29-mile journey 

across Fort Mountain to 

Ellijay. 

“We would have a show 

and the ride, and there wasn’t 

time for anymore,” West 

said. 

A group of men — 

including early club president 

C.W. Bradley — decided 

to form the Wagon Train 

because they had heard of 

another group doing it in 

another part of the state, 

West said. 

“Most of the old-timers 

are actually gone now,” she 

said. “The main point was 

the ride, but it grew and 

grew. Ellijay didn’t have the 

room to accommodate us 

anymore. We moved it to the 

week of the Fourth (of July) 

and quit going to Ellijay. We 

made it longer and added 

more events.” 

The club moved to its current 

location in 1973, giving 

it room to expand Wagon 

Train. The original location 

was behind what is now the 

Ninth Grade Academy. 

Wagon Train has since 

grown to a 10-day event, 

focusing mostly on horse 

and mule shows. The event 

also includes a parade and a 

family day, where children 

can participate in a variety 

of activities without a horse. 

West said she never competed 

in horse shows, but 

she rides and camps during 

Wagon Train. Her mother, 

Greathel Sitton, still camps 

and watches many of the 

shows. 

“As time went on and we 

had horses,this is something 

my kids enjoyed,”West said. 

“Dad was deeply involved. 

My kids grew up here, and 

now my grandkids are growing 

up here.” 

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T HE D AILY 

C ITIZEN 

Left, 

Murray 

County 

Saddle 

Club 

member 

Leigh 

Ann 

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with her 

horse 

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Moodle adds oodles of opportunities 

Books are not the 

only way to learn 


rachelbrown@daltoncitizen.com 

Several Whitfield County 

students are ditching their 

books. 

Well, sort of. 

The school system isn’t 

ready to completely close the 

book on traditional education, 

but many teachers are 

turning to Moodle, an 

Internet-based learning 

delivery system that allows 

them to teach large portions 

of their classes online. 

Spokesman Eric Beavers 

said some of the system’s 22 

schools began using Moodle 

in some form two years ago. 

All are working toward integrating 

it into their studies. 

Moodle is an open source 

technology — anyone can 

use it or edit it to fit their 

needs — but Whitfield 

schools pay $2,495 annually 

to cover some optional maintenance 

services. The Career 

Academy heads up the initiative. 

“The goal is to offer students 

more flexibility in 

accessing learning,” said 

Career Academy principal 

Phillip Brown. “We hope to 

offer courses/seminars to all 

Whitfield County residents 

in the future.” 

Next year several more 

schools will come online in a 

blended digital classroom 

model, Brown said. The 

model features a “teacher as 

designer” who leads students’ 

in instruction that 

blends traditional and digital 

learning. Students have 

access to the course work 

around the clock. 

“All the schools are coming 

online in various capacities,”Brown 

said. “As teachers 

receive training, many 

are going back to their 

school and implementing a 

version of the digital model. 

There is a digital classroom 

model at almost every level, 

grades K-12 in the system.” 

Moodle consultant Alan 

Hutto said the technology 

has several perks. For example, 

users can submit complaints 

about bugs in the system 

and receive a response 

either from other users or 

from the company itself. 

Upgrading to new versions is 

optional and can be done at 

any time. 

Dusty Brown, assistant 

superintendent of teaching 

and learning for the school 

system, said officials began 

dabbling with online learning 

about three years ago. 

Now several teachers say 

that although learning the 

best way to use the technology 

was initially challenging, 

Moodle has introduced several 

opportunities that didn’t 

exist before. 

Students who wouldn’t 

normally speak at all in class 

light up the online discussion 

forums. They can comment 

on each other’s work and 

comments, and can receive 

instant feedback from the 

teacher. Lost homework — 

barring any technology problems 

— is a thing of the past 

since the work is all saved 

online. 

Valley Point Middle 

School social studies teacher 

Lesley Chance said she chose 

to try Moodle to avoid classroom 

boredom — her own. 

“I get bored easily like 

(my students) do,” she said, 

“and I just wanted to do 

something different. It’s 

been fun for me.” 

Moodle allows teachers to 

post their own content, link 

to other sites for information 

and have online discussions 

and grading. For most classes, 

Moodle is a supplement 

to traditional instruction, but 

it can be used to deliver an 

entire course online. 

Lezley Harris, asecondgrade 

teacher at Pleasant 

Grove Elementary, said 

Moodle works well even 

with young students. She 

uses the technology to 

embed YouTube videos for 

her students to watch. Her 

learning curve wasn’t too 

difficult either. 

“You think it’s going to be 

some 50 steps that you’ve 

got to learn how to do, but 

it’s not,” she said. “It’s like 

five or seven steps … I’ve 

found it pretty easy.” 

Career Academy math 

teacher Donna Williams said 

her students used Moodle to 

analyze election results last 

fall. She created her own 

content for the project, and 

students submitted all of 

their work online. 

“I love not having to shuffle 

through papers,”she said. 

Logan Fowler, an eighthgrader 

at Valley Point 

Middle School, said he’s 

been amazed at the difference 

Moodle has made for 

some of his classmates. 

“There’s a kid in our class 

who won’t talk very much, 

but once he’s on Moodle, he 

won’t stop,”Logan said. 

Pleasant Grove 


Valley Point Middle teacher Lesley Chance looks over the shoulder of Andrew Mays, 12, as he uses 

Moodle, an Internet-based learning system. 

Elementary second-grader 

Brynn Wagner said math is 

her favorite subject, and she 

enjoys the math games she’s 

able to play through Moodle. 

“We all enjoy games,” 

Brown said. “Why not let 

them enjoy that while they’re 

learning?” 


Valley Point Middle School student Pablo 

Rodriquez, 12, watches a movie as part of an 

assignment in class using Moodle. Below, Maria 

Hernandez,12,glances over at the screen of Aldara 

Ramirez, 11, as they use laptop computers to 

access Moodle. 


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the chase 

Industrial golf league 

continues at Nob North 

M ATT H AMILTON / T HE D AILY C ITIZEN 

Tim Campbell practices his putting at Nob North Golf Course. The course is hosting an industrial golf 

league again this year. 

B Y A DAM K ROHN 

adamkrohn@daltoncitizen.com 

Each year for the past 

29 years, Nob North Golf 

Course in Cohutta has 

hosted an industrial golf 

league in which as many as 

30 local businesses participate. 

It exists mainly for 

amateur golfers to get 

away from their busy lives 

for a few hours each week 

and to network with people 

they normally wouldn’t 

see. 

The league has averaged 

at least 

30 teams, but 

given the current 

economic 

climate, Nob 

North golf pro 

Al Foster said 

the league is 

down to 20 

teams this 

year. 

“We’re tickled 

to death to 

have 20 teams 

the way things 

are going right 

now,” Foster 

said. “In most 

cases, the company 

pays for 

the team and 

that kind of 

discretionary 

money just 

isn’t available for businesses 

right now.” 

Foster said the league 

entry fee for a team is 

$825. The league settings 

are flexible enough even 

for those with heavy work 

schedules. Each team 

sends four golfers to its 

weekly match, but there 

The league 

features a 

10-week 

regular 

season and 

at least two 

weeks of 

playoffs. The 

winners get 

a trophy 

and 

bragging 

rights. 

can be as many as nine 

golfers on a team. That 

allows a team to rotate 

players each week and also 

makes the league cheaper 

per person if team members 

are paying their own 

way. Also, ateam’s weekly 

match is always on the 

same week day, making the 

season easier to plan 

around. 

Many members like the 

league’s scoring system, 

referred to as a stable system. 

Instead of going by a 

golfer’s score for a given 

round, the score is applied 

to the golfer’s 

pre-determined 

quota. 

How the 

golfer’s score 

compares with 

his quota 

determines his 

overall score. 

Points are 

accumulated 

as follows: 0 

points for a 

double bogey, 

1 point for a 

bogey, 2 points 

for par, 4 

points for a 

birdie, 8 points 

for an eagle 

and 16 points 

for a double 

eagle. 

The system 

is designed to keep the 

league competitive despite 

skill-level differences 

between golfers. It’s possible 

for one team to shoot a 

lower score than its opponent 

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Jennings and Darrell Jennings. 

ter against its quota. 

Foster has a simpler 

way of explaining it. 

“If you play your best 

golf, usually, you’ll win,” 

he said. 

Two players from each 

team play the front nine, 

with the other players 

using the back nine. 

The league features a 

10-week regular season 

and at least two weeks of 

playoffs. The teams are 

broken into divisions and 

the top two teams from 

each division make the 

playoffs. 

What’s at stake? A winner’s 

trophy and, of course, 

bragging rights. 

Tim Campbell, owner of 

Campbell Printing in 

Dalton, knows a thing or 

two about bragging rights. 

His team has been a member 

of the league since 

1995 and has won it twice. 

Campbell loves the league 

because it serves as a getaway. 

“As a small business 

owner, what’s neat about 

our league is it’s something 

to look forward to 

every week,” he said. 

“Fun’s a big part of it, and 

small business owners are 

typically workaholics. But 

the league tells you, ‘OK, I 

have to play nine holes of 

golf.’ 

“And the league is good 

to have for employees 

because it builds morale 

and teamwork.” 

Campbell has many 

fond memories of the 

league. It’s served as an 

opportunity for him to 

spend more time with his 

father and uncle, both of 

whom play on the team. 

And a few years back, he 

drilled a hole-in-one on 

hole 5. 

“I could have beat Tiger 

Woods that day,” Campbell 

said, thinking of the stable 

system. 

Dwayne Ray, who 

works for Shaw Industries 

and has been in the league 

eight years now, said 

although the league is considered 

casual and more 

geared towards fun, he still 

takes it seriously and 

wants to win. 

“It’s what everyone 

looks forward to every 

week,” Ray said. “I’m 

always checking the 

weather, calling my teammates 

and making sure 

everyone will be there. If it 

rains, everyone’s calling 

wanting to know if we’re 

going to play. From day 

one, we’re competing to 

win.” 

For some, the league is 

the only time each year 

they play golf. Others have 

picked up golf year-round 

because of the league. 

“Everyone looks forward 

to the league,” Ray 

said. “And when the season 

is over, we’re out there 

golfing whenever we can 

get a chance.” 

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Dalton’s school system is 

spending millions of dollars 

to deal with growth in the 

student population. Several 

educators say without access 

to sales tax funding, the picture 

would be much different. 

During the past couple of 

years, Dalton Public Schools 

has added enough classrooms 

and space to three of 

its elementary campuses to 

equal the size of another 

school, officials said. 

“With this, our goal has 

been to minimize use of 16 

portable classrooms, which 

we effectively refer to as 

‘cottages,’” said Palmer 

Griffin, the system’s assistant 

superintendent for operations. 

Griffin said the construction 

has been necessary to 

accommodate roughly 5 percent 

growth in student 

enrollment over several 

years. In the 1990-1991 

school year,there were 3,810 

students in the city system. 

By 2008-2009, there were 

6,729, he said. 

There is also a major 

addition to Dalton High 

School, which was built in 

1976. Since then, the school 

has changed or added several 

programs including JROTC, 

computers and special education. 

Program changes 

often translate to a need for 

more space, Griffin said, 

even if the number of students 

remains constant. 

“This is the first addition 

to that facility even though 

it’s grown by,we understand, 

600 students,” Griffin said. 

“It speaks volumes to me that 

it comes to almost 40 years 

later that we’re adding on.” 

He said there were fewer 

than 1,000 students at the 

school when it opened, and 

educators thought it felt 

crowded then. It was constructed 

with demountable 

walls so the size of the rooms 

could be changed to meet the 

needs of various classes. 

Construction at the high 

school began in September 

and is scheduled to be complete 

in spring 2010. It is a 

$13.5 million project and 

will add 84,000 square feet. 

The new wing will 

include a culinary arts lab 

equipped with professional 

cookware and appliances, 

classrooms and a greenhouse 

for horticulture classes, a 

lecture hall large enough to 

seat between 200 and 225, 

and renovations to the existing 

building so the JROTC 

will have its own suite rather 

than having space scattered 

throughout the building. 

The serving line for lunch 

and breakfast will be 

revamped and will expand 

from four lines to six, and 

more lunch areas will be 

added. There will be six new 

computer labs, six science 

classrooms, at least a dozen 

regular classrooms, and an 

administrative suite. Several 

teachers who are sharing 

classrooms now will be able 

to spread out a little more, 

Griffin said. 

“They’ll be unstacking a 

little bit and hopefully providing 

a little more comfort,” 

he said. “We’re providing 

quality educational spaces, 

and we’re doing it with the 

assistance of the public to a 

great extent with E-SPLOST 

(the educational special purpose 

local option sales tax).” 

Additions to Brookwood 

Elementary, Blue Ridge 

Elementary and Park Creek 

Elementary were a costeffective 

substitute to building 

a new school, officials 

said. 

“In those three elementary 

additions, we basically 

built a school,” Griffin said. 

“But we didn’t have to buy 

any land, we didn’t have to 

hire any administration, didn’t 

have to build a kitchen, 

didn’t have to build a gym, 

didn’t have to build a library 

media center.” 

Several of the schools’ 

front entrances were remodeled 

to comply with heightened 

safety standards following 

the Sept. 11, 2001, 

terrorist attacks, the shootings 

at Columbine High 

School in 1999 and other 

security incidents, Griffin 

said. The remodels focused 

on making it easier for front 

office staff to monitor who 

enters the building. 

Other schools, like 

Brookwood, feature modern 

amenities including waterless 

urinals since the remodels. 

“They save basically a 

gallon (of water) per flush,” 

Griffin said. “We intend to 

(install) more in the future ... 

We will change them by 

school as funding becomes 

available.” 

At Park Creek, there is a 

new training center for 

Literacy Collaborative and 

Reading Recovery teachers. 

The collaborative focuses on 

finding the best methods to 

teach reading, writing and 

speaking. Reading Recovery 

is a focused training program 

for first-graders struggling 

with reading. 

The middle school added 

about 10 new classrooms as 

Construction projects 

well as two new science 

rooms. 

Griffin said the construction 

projects are part of a 

five-year local facilities plan 

that ends in June 2010. 

The school system shares 

the E-SPLOST with 

Whitfield County Schools 

based on student enrollment, 

said assistant superintendent 

of business services Carol 

Shanahan. The city system 

was allocated up to $36.98 

million for the tax that began 

in January 2007. 

This is the third round of 

five-year sales taxes. 


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Margie Bruner,right, and a friend run during the Carpet Capital Running Club’s 10-mile race in Varnell in December of 2008.The Carpet Capital Running Club 

supports charities, while members work to get fit and retain that fitness.. 

Raise the money and run 

Carpet Capital 

Running Club 

has tradition 

of giving back 

to community 

B Y D OUG H AWLEY 

Being an integral part of 

the community long has 

been a trademark of the 

Carpet Capital Running 

Club (CCRC). 

“There’s no telling how 

much money the club has 

raised over the years for 

charities,” long-time member 

Woody Cornwell said. 

“Virtually all the money for 

the races goes to charity.” 

That has happened since 

the organization was chartered 

in 1985. It replaced 

the Dalton Track Club, 

which had been formed in 

1982. 

“It’s been such a big part 

of our lives,” said Cornwell 

on behalf of his wife, 

Elaine. “We’ve always tried 

to give back to the community.” 

Both have served individually 

as presidents (he 

for one three-year stretch) 

and as co-presidents. 

“One of the most rewarding 

things is meeting so 

many special people at 

these runs and the charities 

that they 

represent,” 

said current 

president 

D a v i d 

Sanders, 

now in his 

second 

year. “It’s 

neat to see 

what the 

people are 

able to do 

with the 

money. I 

feel privileged 

to be 

playing a 

small role 

for our 

club.” 

While 

helping 

these charities, 

participants 

are 

also motivated 

to get 

fit and 

retain that 

fitness 

“One of the most 

rewarding things 

is meeting so 

many special 

people at these 

runs and the 

charities that 

they represent. 

It’s neat to see 

what the people 

are able to do 

with the money.I 

feel privileged to 

be playing a 

small role for our 

club.” 

Elaine Cornwell, center, and other runners look over race results at the Healthcare Classic, one of the 

races the club participates in. 

through a year-round racing 

program. Leading point 

producers for the various 

age groups 

— David Sanders 

current president 

are honored 

at an annual 

banquet. 

Patrick 

Douglas 

has superv 

i s e d 

Runner of 

the Year 

proceedings 

for the 

past several 

years. The 

competition 

occurs 

within a 

one-hour 

radius of 

Dalton. 

In an 

ambitious 

2 0 0 9 

schedule, 

runners 16 

and over 

can compete 

in 16 

races, while 

At last year’s Run for John, Greg and Margie Bruner gave out awards to several 

eager young runners. 

15 and 

under juniors 

can compete in nine. To 

receive accolades, all participants 

must volunteer for 

a minimum of one race. 

Douglas’ lighthearted 

message before the first 

event, the low-key St. 

Patrick’s Day two-mile run 

in mid-March in Dalton, 

was “Tighten up those shoe 

laces, go to the Port-A-Pot 

one last time, straighten up 

that race number and get to 

that starting line.” 

That race was followed 

two days later by the 

Coulter Hampton Memorial 

5-K race in Fairmount (3.1 

miles). 

Other races, most occurring 

on Saturday mornings, 

include: April 18, 

Chickamauga Chase, 15K 

and 5K (Chickamauga 

National Park); April 25, 

Run for John 5K (Dalton, in 

memory of John Bruner); 

May 2, Bill Gregory 

Healthcare Classic 5K 

(Dalton); June 13, 

Riverbend Run 10K and 5K 

(Chattanooga); July 18, 

Walnut Square Scorcher 

one-mile (Dalton); Aug. 8, 

Missionary Ridge 4.7-miler 

(Chattanooga); Sept. 12, 

Symphony Classic 5K 

(Chattanooga); Sept. 26, 

Eton Country Fair 4-miler; 

Oct. 3, Marble Festival 5K 

(Jasper); Oct. 10, Joe 

Johnson 

10K 

(Chattanooga); Oct. 24, 

Chatsworth Fall Festival 

5K; Dec. 12, CCRC 10- 

miler and 5K (only for volunteer 

points). 

There also will be two 

CCRC-sponsored youth 

track meets in the summer, 

including short runs for preschool 

participants. 

Area high school cross 

country teams are treated 

annually to a preseason supper 

in the fall. 

“We are not a large club 

(about 150 members), but a 

lot of people volunteer,” 

said former president Ricky 

Harrison, director of the 

Bradley Center for 

Wellness. “Our club will 

have 20 or 30 people to volunteer 

for a race. Some are 

very active who do not run. 

My brother, Jimmy, doesn’t 

run, but he helps a lot. Judy 

Adams headed our Adopt- 

A-Mile for several years.” 

A criminal “on the run” 

may not be able to elude 

Jason Parker, Dalton’s chief 

of police. He has completed 

two half-marathon races in 

the past several months. 

“I’ve been running since 

about 1995,” Parker said. 

“To me, the running club 

symbolizes the spirit of 

Dalton. The folks make me 

feel very welcome. It’s such 

a nice community feel.” 

Rick Little, a CCRC 

member for 22 years and 

the principal at City Park 

School, has been a vital 

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member of the club’s race 

organizational team. He is 

the club’s treasurer and 

coordinator for the 

Roadrunners Club of 

America. 

“Over the years, I’ve had 

the opportunity to meet runners 

who share the same 

interest as I do,” Little said. 

“Working with the community 

has been great. There’s 

a lot of behind the scenes 

stuff. We are able to provide 

services and have helped 

charities over the years such 

as the Heart Association, 

Easter Seals and United 

Way.” 

Brad Delay shoots photos 

at road races and track 

meets. He is the club’s prolific 

Web master (www.carpetcapitalrunningclub.com). 

“I’ve been doing this for 

the club for the last 10 

years,” Delay said. “There 

have been thousands of 

shots. It goes back to high 

school (Ringgold High) 

when I was in governors’ 

honors and spent six weeks 

at North Georgia College.” 

Membership chairman 

David Leatherman, a distance 

runner at Olivet 

Nazarene College (4:24 

miler), has been director of 

the CCRC 10-miler for 

seven years. 

“The biggest thing with 

the club is the friendships.” 

Leatherman said. “This is 

how the Haig Mill run 

evolved (weekly Saturday 

morning runs on non-racing 

days).” 

Margie Bruner, aformer 

Auburn University distance 

runner, has guided beginning 

runners known as the 

Roadrunners in low-key 

classes during the past year. 

“We encourage them to 

join the club,” Bruner said. 

“Last year, we had about 80 

or 90 in our program.” 

Betty Anderson, who 

served as president in 2005, 

appreciates the teamwork of 

club members. 

“My daughter (Kate) was 

getting married at the same 

time,” she said. “I couldn’t 

have done it without a lot of 

good help. There is such 

great camaraderie.” 

Vicki Postelle, director 

of publicity, has been with 

the club for two years. 

“It’s given me a way to 

Patrick Douglas (number 116) leads the Carpet Capital Running Club’s Runner of the Year competition. The Runner of the Year Series 

for 2009 is 16 races,nine for junior runners,most of which are local or very close to the Dalton area.Racing got under way March 12 

and continues until Dec. 12. 

get out of my shyness,” she 

said. “Getting to help has 

made a big difference.” 

State Sen. Don Thomas, 

75, shows that age is no barrier 

to running. Even with 

his hectic schedule, he still 

finds occasional time to don 

the running shoes. 

Thomas, who at one time 

annually hosted fall cookout 

running gatherings at 

his home, is a lifetime 

member of CCRC. 

Peggy Quarles, the first 

club president, said, “It was 

a great group effort from 

the start. We got it incorporated 

in that first year. That 

was important for legal 

issues.” 

Other club leaders 

include Daniel Parson, vice 

president; Mary Scalf, secretary; 

Kathleen Stanley,social 

chairman; board members 

Greg Bruner, Tommy Scalf, 

Joe Gleaton and Bernardo 

Lopez; Kathleen Stanley, 

social chairman; Randall 

Godwin, equipment manager; 

and Terry Strawser, 

Adopt-A-Mile. 

Annual dues are $10 for 

an individual and $15 for a 

family. 

To see a 2009 race calendar 

or for more information, visit 

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North Murray High 

School’s building won’t be 

open this fall, but the 

school’s freshmen and 

sophomores will become 

the first 550 Mountaineers. 

They will take over what 

is now the Ninth Grade 

Academy for Murray High 

while their building is 

under construction on 100 

acres of land off of Mount 

Carmel Church Road, set to 

open in 2010. 

The school this fall will 

have about 40 teachers, an 

athletics director and 1.5 

positions for guidance 

counselors. There will also 

be three secretaries and 

four custodians. 

The school’s future principal, 

Maria Bradley, 37, 

can’t wait to get started. 

“I’m young. I’m energetic. 

I’m up for the challenge,” 

she said. “I’m really 

excited about the new 

school.” 

Her 8-year-old son Will, 

a third-grader at 

Chatsworth Elementary 

School, is excited, too. He’s 

going to be the school’s 

first water boy. 

“He even rented the 

movie ‘Water Boy,’” 

Bradley said. 

Booster club members 

are trying to raise $200,000 

for athletic equipment and 

uniforms to be paid over 

several months. There will 

be 15 sports at the school: 

football, wrestling, boys 

basketball, track, girls basketball, 

volleyball, boys 

soccer, girls soccer, baseball, 

softball, cheerleading, 

cross country, golf, boys 

tennis and girls tennis. 

Funding can’t come 

from sales taxes or property 

taxes, Bradley said, so it’s 

up to members of the community 

to outfit the students. 

The new high school 

has been well-received, but 

raising large amounts of 

money in a slumping economy 

is tough, she said. 

“If we had the dollars to 

go with the excitement, we 

would have enough 

money,” she said. “It’s very 

stressful to me to think 

about raising that kind of 

money.” 

Melissa Smith is a 

booster club member who 

has a son, Jeremy, who will 

attend the school this fall. 

The club already has about 

20 members, she said, and 

is working on gaining 

more. For information, contact 

athletics director Josh 

Lowe at (706) 537-0133. 

“Even though the school 

doors will not be open next 

year, the school will be running,” 

Smith said. 

If not for the fact that 

her daughter is graduating 

this year, she would have “a 

house divided” between the 

two high schools, Smith 

said. Many families will 

have students attending the 

two high schools since only 

freshmen and sophomores 

Above, 

North 

Murray High 

School’s 

athletics 

director, 

Josh Lowe, 

and principal 

Maria 

Bradley 

look over 

the school’s 

floor plans 

and athletic 

sites. At 

right, Bradley 

stands in 

front of 

where the 

school will 

be built. 

will arrive at North Murray 

next year. 

Regina Duckett Jones 

has a son who will be a 

sophomore at North 

Murray. The fact the 

Mountaineers will be using 

the Indians’ fields this fall 

is already creating some 

rivalry among students, she 

said. 

Jones said the disappointment 

of not being able 

to move into the school this 

year is the only negative 

she’s heard in the community. 

“I think everybody’s 

excited about it,” she said. 

“Anybody can find negativity. 

You can find positive and 

negative in any situation.” 

Bradley said it’s important 

to build community 

support for the school — a 

process that is already well 

under way. 

“The community is very 

involved in our sports programs,” 

she said. “We want 

our community to become 

involved in our school. We 

want that support.” 

She said the excitement 

of having rival schools in 

the same system will create 

healthy competition. 

“I think it’ll help 

improve and make both 

schools better,” she said, 

adding, “You’re going to 

lower the number of students 

in Murray County 

High School. Any time you 

have a smaller school, I 

think you can give more 

individualized instruction.” 

Superintendent Vickie 

Reed said North Murray, 

which will be aligned with 

Region 6-3A, has been 

needed for a long time. 

“For years we have dealt 

with significant overcrowding 

issues at Murray 

County High School,” she 

said. “Because of the student 

population at Murray 

County High School, our 

competitive teams and their 

supporters have had to travel 

impractical distances, 

and traditional rivalries 

have been hard to maintain. 

The opening of a new high 

school will solve our overcrowding 

problem and will 

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Going back 

to the future 

Dalton Second Baptist 

Church is embracing 

the past and returning 

to its original name 

B Y L ARA H AYES 

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Members of Dalton 

Second Baptist Church are 

looking to grow the church 

by bringing back a part of its 

past. 

The church began in 1903 

as a mission offshoot of First 

Baptist Church called West 

Side Mission. The congregation 

met in a house called 

“the old ice house” on Tyler 

Street. Six years later, West 

Side Mission became Crown 

View Baptist Church. 

The church survived six 

years without a full-time pastor 

before the Rev. Joe 

Maples began serving in 

1915. Under his leadership,a 

tract of land at the corner of 

Jones Street and Tyler Street 

was given to Crown View by 

First Baptist Church to build 

a new building. However,the 

project was not fully completed 

until 1949. More construction 

followed in 1969 

with the addition of a fellowship 

hall. 

In 1973 Crown View 

unveiled a two-story wing 

that housed 11 Sunday 

school rooms and office 

space. To reflect all the 

changes, the church was 

renamed Dalton Second 

Baptist on May 16, 1973, by 

the congregation and thenpastor 

the Rev. Lamar 

Whitener. 

Current pastor Larry 

Wood came to Dalton 

Second Baptist in 2004 initially 

as an interim pastor. 

The stint lasted two months 

before he was asked to 

become full time, a position 

he quickly accepted. 

“The church was doing 

pretty well then but attendance 

was down somewhat,” 

said Wood. 

Since then Wood has witnessed 

a slow and steady 

growth in attendance. The 

church averages 100 for 

Sunday morning worship 

and 50 in Sunday school. 

The youth enjoy a 

Wednesday night program of 

Bible study and music led by 

Larry Nelms and AWANA 

(Approved Workmen Are 

Not Ashamed) Sunday 

evening. Bruce Acree oversees 

the choir with an 

emphasis on Southern gospel 

music. 

Wood says services are 

typical, featuring music and 

preaching. 

“Our focus is on evangelism, 

building attendance and 



Above is the Dalton Second Baptist Church. The 

church is changing its name back to its original, 

Crown View Baptist. Below, the Rev. Larry Wood 

delivers a sermon during a Sunday morning worship 

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Above are members of the original 

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Above, choir 

director Bruce 

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the special 

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Sunday morning 

worship 

service. Right, 

Larry Nelms 

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fulfilling the Great 

Commission — ‘Therefore 

go and make disciples of all 

nations, baptizing them in 

the name of the Father and of 

the Son and of the Holy 

Spirit’ (Matthew 16:19-20),” 

he said. 

The church boasts a congregation 

of whites, blacks 

and Hispanics. Members 

come from all over 

Northwest Georgia, including 

Calhoun and Ringgold. 

“Most 

churches 

aren’t community- 

based anymore,” 

Wood said. 

“Members 

come from 

everywhere. 

There’s a lot of love in this 

church. The spirit of God is 

here. We have an air of 

excitement about serving the 

Lord.” 

The excitement has been 

growing the last couple of 

years as the church prepares 

to celebrate its centennial in 

May. Several events are 

planned, including a new 

directory featuring current 

and former members and a 

homecoming service on May 

17. Wood is especially looking 

forward to participation 

from people who may not 

attend the church anymore. 

Pictures for the directory will 

be taken on April 29. 

“If you’ve been a member 

here, then you’ve contributed 

something and made the 

church what it is today,” he 

said. “We will also have former 

choir directors come in 

and lead music, as well as 

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Homecoming highlights 

include music by The 

Hullender Family,atime for 

sharing memories by past 

leaders and lunch after the 

service. All members and 

past members are asked to 

bring photos of their church 

days. Wood says letters will 

be sent to former members 

notifying them of the celebration. 

P a s t 

members 

will see 

something 

at homecoming 

reminding 

them of 

days gone 

by — the 

official re-naming of Dalton 

Second Baptist back to 

Crown View Baptist. 

“The church has a good 

legacy and reputation in 

Whitfield County,” said 

Wood. “We’re already informally 

using the old name 

again but we want to have 

everything changed over by 

homecoming. The deeds 

were never changed to 

Dalton Second Baptist so we 

don’t have to do that.” 

Members are anticipating 

continued growth of the 

church. They are currently 

looking at yet another expansion 

project that will add a 

family life center. Several 

renovations have been made 

to better serve the community. 

“Our church is open to 

anyone and we encourage 

visitors to attend,” said 

Wood. 

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“Some banks ignored proper loan underwriting standards in 

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Plemons farm gears up for new product 

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CRANDALL — A 500- 

acre family farm that has 

turned out bountiful produce 

through the years as well as 

generations of livestock is 

turning to a new pursuit — 

wine making. 

Adam and Paige Plemons 

have landscaped a hilltop on 

property overlooking their 

farm off Highway 411 North 

and built a facility that will 

host up to 240 people for 

weddings, receptions and 

other social events. Located 

in the northern half of 

Murray County, it’s set to 

open any day now and will 

be known as Cohutta Springs 

Winery and Vineyard. 

“We’re learning about the 

wine making,” Adam 

Plemons said. “The farming 

comes natural.” 

The Plemonses attended 

wine production classes in 

North Carolina four years 

ago. They are now bottling 

their versions of muscadine, 

Cabernet Sauvignon, a 

Pleasant Valley brand and 

Cohutta Springs White 

wines. The farm property 

goes back six generations 

(including their daughters) 

and was bought during the 

Indian land grant lottery in 

1805. With its history — 

there are ancient trails and 

American Indian markings 

of fish and birds on some 

trees — and spectacular 

views of Grassy and Fort 

mountains, the surroundings 

are a natural for marketing 

the wine and the mountain 

ambiance. 

“We foresee having arts 

and crafts festivals here to 

help local people sell their 

goods, and allowing other 

farmers like us to sell their 


A glass of Cabernet Sauvignon that Adam and 

Paige Plemons make at Cohutta Springs Winery. 

produce also,” Paige 

Plemons said. “We’ll be trying 

to get people off 411 to 

take a break and stretch their 

legs, since it’s not so far off 

the highway that it’s out of 

the way.” 

“This will be a good way 

for farmers to market their 

products and get full potential 

for it instead of just onefourth,”Adam 

Plemons said. 

They will also be producing 

their own version of 

mead, or honey wine, which 

is a first of its kind in 

Georgia, Paige Plemons 

said. 

Dinah Rowe, president 

of the Chatsworth-Murray 

County Chamber of 

Commerce, said the new 

product is in line with Gov. 

Sonny Perdue’s Georgia 

Centers of Innovation program, 

which recognizes 

entrepreneurs in several 

fields, including agriculture. 

She said the winery 

will be on the “Georgia 

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First things first 

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Savanna Hartshorn participates in a dribbling drill during practice at First 

Baptist Church. 

You’ve probably seen the 

logo. If you’ve been in Dalton 

for any length of time, riding 

around town or idling in the 

parking lot at the grocery 

store, one of the magnetic 

basketballs with a cross, a 

stick figure and the words 

“First Kids Basketball” in 

kindergarten font — likely 

stuck to the back of a minivan 

or an SUV — has no doubt 

caught your eye. And maybe 

you wondered just what it 

was all about. But if you’ve 

seen the logo, you already 

know more than you might 

expect about First Kids 

Basketball. 

In a nice stroke of amateur 

branding, when First Kids 

Basketball director Derrell 

Grantham worked with Dan 

Smith (then the youth minister 

at Dalton’s First Baptist 

Church) to design the logo 

several years ago, he packed 

in quite a bit of information. 

“It gets noticed a lot,”said 

Grantham,who oversees First 

Kids Basketball as part of his 

duties as the minister of activities 

and single adults at First 

Baptist. “I had one on my car 

that someone apparently really 

liked, because I noticed it 

was gone about two weeks 

ago.” 

The basketball anchors the 

design because a major mission 

for First Kids is teaching 

that game. 

But the ball also has a 

cross centered in it because of 

its ties to First Baptist, First 

United Methodist and First 

Presbyterian,the three Dalton 

churches that cooperate by 

providing practice and playing 

space, as well as some 

personnel, to the league. The 

childlike font and stick figure 

Meghan Schneller and her sister Kelsey look at their 

uniforms during a practice. 

drawing are a nod to the 

importance the league places 

on its participants, seeking to 

avoid the troubles that sometimes 

come when adults dominate 

youth sports. The name 

acknowledges both that attitude 

— First Kids seeks to 

place kids first — and the 

“First” churches who help 

operate the organization, 

which this season has more 

than 400 first through sixth 

graders participating in its 

five leagues. 

But while the logo tells 

you a lot about the league, it 

doesn’t quite sum up what it 

takes to reach that goal of 

“kids first” — the rules, 

expectations, man hours and 

people that put the organization’s 

philosophy into 

action. 

With contracts of behavior 

signed by coaches, an ethics 

letter to parents, aclear strategy 

for leveling the playing 

field within each league and a 

setup that makes wins and 

losses not only secondary but 

almost forgotten, the organization 

backs up its goal of 

teaching a sport while making 

sure it’s still fun for the 

players with method. 

Even — gasp! — referees 

are expected to be treated 

with a little bit more respect 

than they might normally be 

granted in what has become 

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atmosphere surrounding 

many American youth sports. 

And those officials are also 

asked to exercise their teaching 

muscles a little bit more, 

too. 

“We try to stress to the 

kids that the referees are not 

the enemy,” said Grantham, 

who along with Mike Parker 

— a dozen-years veteran of 

the organization — helps officiate 

most of the First Kids 

Basketball games for its first 

and second-grade boys and 

first and second-grade girls 

leagues. “We encourage the 

refs to either lead the teams in 

prayer or talk to the kids 

before the games. 

“And we don’t put up with 

a lot of hollering at the referees 

from parents or coaches. 

We want to change the mindset 

of parents and keep them 

from getting into the habit of 

yelling at referees just 

because it’s something to 

do.” 

Tipping off 

The seed for First Kids 

Basketball was planted in the 

early 1980s when First 

Baptist built its Family Life 

Center, joining what 

Grantham said was at the 

time a growing trend for 

Baptist churches across the 

nation as gymnasiums were 

constructed to offer another 

ministry/outreach option via 

recreation. 

Grantham didn’t arrive in 

Dalton until 1988. By that 

time, First Baptist and its 

minister of recreation, Loyd 

Tripp, had been running a 

children’s basketball league 

for a few years, though its 

scope was much smaller than 

First Kids in its present form. 

Then for third through sixth 

grades and coed, First 

Baptist’s league bore some 

similarities to First Kids in 

that teamwork was emphasized 

and the number of 

members for each squad was 

small to allow more participation 

for each player. 

Expansion and the true 

birth of First Kids came in the 

early 1990s, Grantham said, 

when First United Methodist 

opened its gym, doubling the 

organization’s practice and 

playing space. Younger ages 

were allowed to participate 

and females — feeding off a 

girls basketball boom that 

grew from the greater attention 

being given to the college 

women’s game — were separated 

into their own league at 

some age levels. 

“Just because of our limited 

space, we had been maxed 

out,” Grantham said. “And 

even when (First United 

Methodist) came on board, 

every year we would turn 

kids away. But that’s when it 

became a true community 

program.” 

This year, the second in 

which First Presbyterian has 

been part of the mix, First 

Kids houses 49 teams. Those 

squads, split among five 

leagues (first and second 

grade boys,first- and secondgrade 

girls, third- and fourthgrade 

boys, third- and fourthgrade 

girls and fifth and sixth 

coed) practice once a week 

starting in December and 

play seven-to-eight game 

schedules, with all games 

played on Saturday, starting 

in January. 

The leagues are tiered to 

add more complexity and 

competition to the game as 

children get older, but all 

have rules that make fairness 

and teaching the game a priority. 

First and second 

graders, naturally, are given 

the most slack when it comes 

to hard-and-fast basketball 

rules. Officials give greater 

freedom to violations like 

traveling, although calls are 

made more strictly as the season 

progresses, and work to 

teach players about rules and 

why they’re in place. 

The youngest league’s 

games are highly managed. 

Two contests are played at a 

time, crosscourt, as the normal 

basketball floor is bisected 

to allow one clock to run. 

A timeout is called in the 

middle of each of the four 

eight-minute quarters to 

allow substitutions, which 

helps coaches follow the rule 

that each child — provided he 

or she attends practice regularly 

— must play the equivalent 

of one half each game. 

Zone defense, and only zone 

defense, is allowed as shooters 

aim a junior-sized ball at a 

goal lowered to 8 feet. At the 

end of each half, one team is 

allowed to take four bonus 

free throws,and coaches send 

Owls players Jackson Adams, front, Jackson Wright, middle, and Colby Wills practice their dribbling skills before a practice at First 

Baptist. 

those players who have yet to 

score to the line first. 

Neither fouls nor the game 

score are recorded, although 

those layers are added for 

higher leagues. Standings 

aren’t kept at any level and 

none of the leagues offer 

postseason play or achievement-related 

awards. 

“We want to stress learning,” 

Grantham said. “ To 

shoot and to pass, the fundamentals. 

And we want to let 

them see if they enjoy the 

game or not. This introduces 

them to basketball and helps 

them enjoy it. We don’t want 

them to worry about the 

score.” 

Even when score is kept in 

First Kids Basketball, it’s 

rarely something to worry 

about. 

Although First Kids is different 

than many typical 

recreation leagues in its 

approach, it’s not necessarily 

unique. 

Other faith-based leagues 

and organizations exist — 

including the nationwide 

Christian sports leagues 

under the brand name 

“Upward” — and the notion 

of allowing the youngest 

leagues to focus on development 

over competition is used 

by more than a handful of 

youth sports bodies. The idea 

of not keeping score is widespread 

enough and has been 

around long enough to work 

its way into the backlash 

against political correctness, 

becoming material for sports 

columnists and standup 

comedians who think otherwise 

about the practice. 

First Kids strategy for 

reaching its goals of fairness 

and enjoyment for all is what 

makes it interesting. Whereas 

some youth sports leagues 

allow coaches to put together 

their own teams, First Kids’ 

are drawn up by its organizers 

— with Grantham handling 

much of the final analysis — 

after players go through an 

evaluation process. 

A team of 20 or so volunteers 

(some of them are 

coaches, but they aren’t 

allowed to handpick their 

own players anyway) 

observes players going 

through basketball drills that 

measure talent in several basketball 

skills. Video and 

audio tapes are used to record 

observations of the players, 

known only by assigned 

numbers during the process, 

then applied in putting 

together teams designed to be 

equal. 

In addition to basketball 

skills, age, experience and 

height are factored in. 

And organizers aim to 

even out all skills so that each 

team has good shooters, ball 

handlers, passers and defenders. 

(One other variable is 

mixed in, too. Although 

coaches don’t pick the teams, 

the team’s head coach and 

assistant coach are allowed to 

have one of their own children 

on the team if they 

desire.) It’s a process that 

Upward employs via computer, 

Grantham said, but without 

that luxury, First Kids 

goes the analog route. 

“Because we don’t let the 

coaches pick the teams,” 

Grantham said, “we have to 

recruit all the coaches, then 

evaluate the players, then 

divide them up and pick the 

teams. We do it all in house, 

so it’s a lot more time-consuming, 

but we feel it’s better 

for the children.” 

It’s been effective. When 

Grantham reviews scores at 

the end of each year,he rarely 

finds a blowout on the books 

— in fact, rules are in place 

that make teams adjust their 

defense accordingly in the 

midst of a game when they 

take a big lead — and is satisfied 

that First Kids’ predominantly 

tight matchups have 

given more players an opportunity 

to learn the game and 

how to compete. 

“We have a lot of twopoint 

games that come down 

to the last two minutes,” 

Grantham said. “We feel 

that’s better for kids developmentally 

and for their psyche. 

It’s just better to teach basketball 

skills if you can even up 

the teams — and it’s a whole 

lot more exciting for the parents.” 

Learning is fun 

On this rainy afternoon, 

the parents are excited 

enough as they watch their 

young basketball players go 

through a workout in First 

Presbyterian’s gym. It’s a few 

days before Christmas and 

only a few practices into the 

season. Because this team, 

the “Cougars” of husbandwife 

coaching duo Bob and 

Donna Marquardt, are a firstand 

second-grade girls squad, 

that also means for several 

team members it’s only a few 

practices into their hoops 

careers. 

As the players count off 

their stretches during 

warmups, Donna weaves her 

way through the group of little 

girls — some smaller, 

some taller,but all put together 

to discover the game and 

First Kids Basketball together. 

Not convinced they’re 

counting loud enough, Donna 

jokes with her players, loud 

but clearly playful: “Y’all 

sound like a bunch of girls!” 

The line falls dead with 

the girls,who are not only not 

intimidated by the words — 

clearly not the coach’s intent, 

anyway — but altogether 

nonplused. She tries again, 

this time calling on the patron 

saint of getting kids to do 

things,St. Nick:“Seven more 

days ‘til Santa Claus!”As the 

team shifts to shooting 

layups, Donna follows 

through with the routine, 

speaking with a voice where 

the magnitude is matched by 

the enthusiasm and warmth: 

“Anna, Anna, Anna! Put it up 

there, Anna!” 

Defensive posture drills 

are followed by what’s basically 

a glorified game of 

keepaway,as Bob and Donna 

pass the ball around the court 

to teach the girls how to 

defend their sector of the 

floor in a zone defense. It’s 

during this stretch of practice 

the Marquardts’ strengths are 

most apparent. While both 

give instructions, the technique-heavy 

details are left to 

Bob, but Donna has plenty to 

keep her busy as well. 


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“I’m a mother,” said 

Donna, who has been coaching 

First Kids with Bob since 

2002. “And especially working 

with girls this little, they 

like that motherly touch. So I 

try to get in there and be on 

the same level with them, cut 

up with them, go on with 

them, let the know what kind 

of job they’re doing. 

But everything’s just positive. 

I’m the spirit director. 

That’s what I do.” 

While First Kids’ mission 

to be fair and maintain a positive 

attitude with its players 

— among the commandments 

in the coach’s covenant 

are a pledge to “encourage 

each child and show them 

that I care about them” — is 

clearly at work, so is a commitment 

to teach the basics of 

basketball. The kids are 

allowed to be kids, as shown 

when some of the hardest 

running comes when players 

are given a break and they 

stampede toward a water 

fountain,but evidence they’re 

learning the game in all its 

phases is apparent when Evy 

Mulkey, 7, traipses back in 

and, catching her mom, 

Shawn, on the sideline, looks 

up to say with a smile: “My 

favorite part is the defense.” 

“It blew my mind, ”said 

Shawn, a former Northwest 

Whitfield basketball player. 

“But I’m glad, because a lot 

of kids think that’s a chore. 

She’s very excited about it. 

For the first year, I just want 

her to stay encouraged.” 

The Marquardts know 

First Kids well not only as 

coaches, but parents. Oldest 

daughter Bayley,11,has gone 

through the levels already and 

6-year-old Ashley is in her 

first season. Bob has seen rec 

sports take a different hue 

when Bayley has competed in 

other basketball and softball 

leagues. 

“I was looking for ward to 

coming back here,”Bob said. 

“I’m not coaching (Bayley) 

this year because it gets so 

competitive as they get older 

(and leave First Kids). It ’s all 

good if you win, but if you 

lose, you should have done 

this, you should have done 

that ... it ’s all fun over here.” 

Bayley admits she and her 

teammates of 10 knew what 

the score was in First Kids 

games even when it wasn’t 

kept, but still enjoyed the 

approach. 

“They start out coaching 

you really easy,” she said, 

“but as you get older,they get 

stricter.” 

On the other side of a canvas-and-mesh 

screen dividing 

the court at First 

Presbyterian, the third- and 

fourth-grade “Hurricanes” 

are scrimmaging a Whitfield 

County Recreation Depar 

tment team under the guidance 

of coaches including 

assistant Mark Guess, aparent 

who’s also the head coach 

for the first- and secondgrade 

“Roadrunners.” 

The scrimmage is treated 

much like a real First Kids 

game. Players are encouraged 

to pass,coaches keep a check 

on who hasn’t scored, 

instruction is provided as the 

game goes and those who are 

a bit more standoffish are 

granted a bit more attention. 

A shy player whose shoulders 

slump when a rebound doesn’t 

come her way gets an 

extra pat on the back to 

encourage her to be more 

aggressive. When she comes 

up with a block on the other 

end a few moments later, 

Guess sprints over to highfive 

her. 

“You’ve got to constantly 

be encouraging them,”Guess 

said. “And when they do bad, 

you can’t say, ‘That’s bad.’ 

You’ve got to say, ‘Hey, we 

can do better than that. That’s 

not the way we do it. Let me 

show you how we do it.’” 

Making it work 

The cross at the center of 

the basketball isn’t overlooked, 

either. Prayers are 

said before games, devotions 

are of 10 presented at half 

time to parents and spectators 

— it’s generally Grantham 

who does the talking at first 

and second grade games — 

and registration forms include 

a category to check if adults 

are interested in learning 

more about church. 

But while most parents 

interviewed for this story said 

the faith component was part 

of what they enjoyed about 

the league, none believed it 

was an overbearing element 

and that even those who 

aren’t churchgoers would 

find plenty to keep them 

happy — and far from 

offended. 

“They don’t push the religion,”Guess 

said. “No, they 

don’t do that at all.” 

While the organization is 

clearly within the ministry of 

the churches involved, bringing 

the players and parents 

involved inside their doors, if 

only once a week and only for 

basketball, the bottom line, 

Grantham said, is basketball 

in a certain environment. 

“We play in churches with 

prayer and devotions to give 

it that Christian aspect,” he 

said. “But the play itself is 

designed for what’s best for 

children. We’re stressing a 

positive experience for the 

children. That’s really one of 

the themes.” 

Still, that can’t happen 

without the cooperation of the 

volunteers and parents, and 

only when they follow the 

guidelines designed to help 

foster the positive and 

encouraging environment. So 

Grantham is also essentially 

the organization’s sheriff. It ’s 

rare a coach or parent gets out 

of hand — questioning an 

official, for example — 

Grantham said, but when it 

does he’s usually alerted by 

the next day and talks with 

the offender by Monday. That 

is generally enough to defuse 

the situation and set the tone 

for a better future, he added. 

It’s one of the many little 

things that go into helping 

the league live up to its name, 

as it has for more than a 

decade now,long enough that 

Grantham can attend almost 

any area prep basketball 

game and see former First 

Kids participants. It ’s a nice 

reward for him and the 

league that lets the director 

know the organization’s 

method of teaching the sport 

is effective. 

“We do have kids that go 

on and play all through 

school ball,”he said. “But the 

kids who don’t still have a 

good basketball experience. 

We’re still popular,we’re still 

growing, so I just think it 

works. I get letters from parents 

and grandparents every 

year who like the way we run 

the program. They appreciate 

that we’re trying to put kids 

first.” 

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