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3 Left behind Remember
McCann
hits 2 home
runs in
Braves win
—1B
Who won
the Indy
500?
—1B
THE DAILY CITIZEN
Monday, May 25, 2009 • Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents
3
THINGS
TO
CHECK
OUT
ON THE
INSIDE
Dalton High School
graduate lands columnist
job at Atlanta JournalConstitution.
See page 3A
A single faint is not likely
to be a sign of a serious
problem.
See Donohue, page 8A
At 82, Richard Commins
may be the oldest personal trainer in the country.
See page 11A
FROM TODAY’S
FORUM
“My grandmother had
four sons in the military in
World War II. She displayed a four-star banner
in her window. We were
lucky they all came home
safely.”
“Fitzgerald, Ga., has
had wild chickens running
in the street since the
1800s. It is against the law
for anyone to hurt the
chickens.”
See page 2A
WEATHER
Forecast: Showers
Today’s High: 81
Tonight’s Low: 64
Details, Page 12A
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Crossword..............8A
Dear Abby...................9A
Horoscope...............8A
Lottery..................2A
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Obituaries.........10A
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Left behind
BY CHARLES OLIVER
charlesoliver@daltoncitizen.com
Remember
the cost of
freedom
FROM STAFF REPORTS
More than 50 years later, Dot
Vinsant can still remember when
her husband Cain’s Tennessee
National Guard unit was mobilized during the Korean War.
“The train came from Memphis
and went all the way to Bristol and
picked up the soldiers in each
town, and they were hanging out
the windows saying goodbye,” she
recalled. “There was weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth
when they left, and the parents and
the wives and the children were
still standing there as the train
left.”
Vinsant was one of several
wives of veterans who spoke to
The Daily Citizen recently. They
were left behind to tend to the
home, the finances and take care
of the children while their husbands faced the sobering prospect
of dying in battle. On patriotic
holidays such as Memorial Day,
Vinsant said her thoughts always
go to the wives and families of
those in the military.
“I surely know how their hearts
hurt,” she said. “Our freedom is
not free. It cost something over the
years, and I’m afraid some of the
people coming up today don’t
understand that.”
In 1950, the Vinsants had been
married two years. Vinsant, who
now lives in Dalton, remained
behind in Chattanooga, while her
husband was sent first to
Massachusetts and then New York.
Though he was never sent to
Korea, he remained on active duty
for the next two years.
“I wrote him letters every day,”
she said. “I always had $5 worth
of change, and when he’d call,
he’d call collect and I’d put it in. I
don’t remember how long we
were able to talk, but it didn’t
seem like long.”
She worked in a cafeteria in
Chattanooga, but traveled north to
visit her husband as often as she
could.
“I’d work until I had a little
money and then I’d catch a bus on
Thursday morning, 1 a.m., and I
didn’t get there until Saturday
MISTY WATSON/THE DAILY CITIZEN
Dot Vinsant, of Dalton, looks at a photo of her now deceased
husband, Lemuel Cain Vinsant, which was taken in the 1950s
when he was mobilized during the Korean War.
afternoon,” she said. “I’d stay up
there until my money was gone,
then I’d come back home.”
To stay as long as she could,
Vinsant says she’d eat just one
meal a day.
“I did that two or three times,
and the last time I went, I stayed
six months. I got a job at a clothing store, and I was able to stay
until just before he got out,” she
said. “I came home first and got us
an apartment.”
Cain Vinsant, who passed away
last year, was very active in the
American Legion, serving many
years as commander in Dalton.
“He would go to Chattanooga
and pick up veterans and drive
them
to
(the
Veterans
Administration hospital) in
Murfreesboro,” she said. “He did
that every day for several years
after he retired.”
Dot Painter met her husband,
Floyd, in Ellijay in 1941. Shortly
after they met, he volunteered for
the Navy.
“I wrote a letter to him every
day,” she said. “It was a sad time.”
Two days after, he returned from
the war, the two were married.
Eileen Pangle was a young
woman in England during World
War II, when she met her husband,
William, who was in the U.S.
Army Air Forces. Because of the
war, many items were in short
supply.
“We were given very meager
rations, two ounces of butter a
week, half a cup of sugar,” she
said. “But we made do.”
So what was there for two
young people dating to do?
➣ See Memorial, 3A
Several local events are planned
in honor of Memorial Day:
■ A Memorial Day ceremony
will be at the Whitfield County
Courthouse lawn today at 11 a.m.
Members of the American
Legion Post 112 have organized
several patriotic activities. JoAnne
Shirley, chairman of the board for
the National League of POW-MIA,
will be the featured speaker.
■ In Murray County, the
American Legion Post 167 of
Chatsworth will host a Memorial
Day ceremony today at 11 a.m. at
the Murray County Courthouse
lawn.
State appeals court judge Sarah
Doyle will be the featured speaker.
Free hamburgers and hot dogs for
veterans and their families will be
available after the ceremony at the
Legion’s facilities on Fifth Avenue.
■ Also, a Memorial Day service
is today at 11 a.m. at the Varnell
Cemetery in Varnell with the Rev.
James Gwin as guest speaker.
The event is sponsored by the
Varnell Homemakers Club.
Wreck victim
identified
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Officials with the Georgia State
Patrol have identified the man who
died in a Saturday afternoon wreck
on I-75 as William V. Fitzgerald,
70, of Griffin.
Fitzgerald was driving “very
slowly” southbound near mile
marker 328, close to the
Carbondale exit, around 1:40 p.m.
when he was struck from behind by
a tractor-trailer. Fitzgerald’s car left
the interstate and hit two trees, an
operator with the Georgia State
Patrol said Saturday.
No charges are expected to be
filed.
A complete report was not immediately available Sunday evening.
Park offers summer nature program
BY MISTY WATSON
mistywatson@daltoncitizen.com
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MISTY WATSON/THE DAILY CITIZEN
Challaghan Strickland, 6, of Marietta,
watches as a snake wraps around his
arm Sunday at the naturalist cabin at
Fort Mountain State Park.
Six-year-old Challaghan Strickland was sure
to let his family know he wasn’t afraid of reptiles as a snake wrapped around his arm Sunday
afternoon at Fort Mountain State Park in Murray
County.
“I’d never had a snake on my arm like that
before,” Challaghan said after the snake had
been placed back in its aquarium at the naturalist cabin. “When I grow up, I would like to build
habitats... for reptiles. I always liked animals
from the time I was a baby.”
Several children crowded in the cabin to get a
closer look at — and get their hands on —
many varieties of snakes, some native to north
Georgia and others aren’t.
The cabin is also home to several aquariums
containing fish and turtles. Butterfly collections,
snake skins, bee hives and several mounted animals are on display for visual aids as park ranger
Ruby Mitchell explains the many native species.
The cabin is open each Sunday afternoon
from 1 to 4 through Labor Day as part of the
summer naturalist program headed by Mitchell.
The summer program also includes a campfire
each Friday evening at 6 p.m. next to the lake,
and many activities each Saturday.
All activities connected to the program are
free, but park visitors must pay $5 to park.
Naturalist program
The summer naturalist program at Fort
Mountain State Park in Murray County
runs each weekend now through Labor
Day. Upcoming programs include flower
hikes, black bears, hiking safety, and
early American cooking with corn. There
is a campfire each Friday at 6 p.m. and a
concert each Saturday evening (times
vary). The naturalist cabin is open each
Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, contact the state park at (706)
422-1932 or visit the Web site, www.gastateparks.org/info/fortmt.
The program is geared toward the entire family, but is presented in a way children understand, Mitchell said.
Kim Strickland said her children, Challaghan
and 3-year-old Rory, have been excited all
weekend about the different activities.
Strickland and her husband, Michael, were
camping at the state park with their sons.
“I knew there was a concert, but I didn’t
know about all the other activities,” she said.
“The concert was amazing. We brought our lawn
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“Happy first anniversary
to Nick and Amanda Smith.
Although
he’d
been
deployed, he sent roses.”
Thomasson
on
the
Conasauga River? His family has been through
enough.
“Congratulations Mike
Law for being employee of
the year at Longhorn
Steakhouse. We are so
proud of you.”
Editor: It was a legitimate news story. Not all
news stories are pleasant.
“My grandmother had
four sons in the military in
World War II. She displayed
a four-star banner in her
window. We were lucky they
all came home safely.”
“A person who can’t see
the difference between what
Michael Vick did and killing
a deer needs to have a psychological evaluation.”
“It’s not the fault of the
vehicle when the turn signal
is not used. There’s a short
between the steering wheel
and the seat.”
“Why did your trashy
newspaper have to print
what happened to Brett
TODAY’S CITIZEN
NAME: Merideth
Kirby
AGE: 34
HOME: Dalton
FAMILY: Husband,
Loyd; daughter, Ali;
son, Andy
WORK: Lead high
school ministry at
McFarland Hill Baptist
Church with husband
PLAY: Volunteer at
Valley Point
Elementary, spend
time with family and
friends
SHE SAID: “Don’t
worry about tomorrow. God is already
there.”
“I am as compassionate
as the next person about animals. But an obituary in the
paper for pets who die?
That’s
taking
it
to
extremes.”
“Build a YMCA at
Edwards Park and put the
building the commissioners
need in it.”
“Congratulations
to
Chris Cantrell and Daniel
Sluder for graduating from
Southeast High School.”
“Thank
you
Dick
Yarbrough for your column
on Neal Boortz and thank
you Daily Citizen for printing it.”
“Preserve
me
from
ethanol. It’s not efficient in
my car and it stinks. I bet
there’s no alcohol in Al
Gore’s
big
airplane
engines.”
“Why do billions of people have to change their
lifestyle because of crude
oil greed?”
“Congratulations
to
Matthew Redwine for winning two Special Olympics
medals.”
“Everyone
concerned
about health care should
read John Stossel and Ron
Hart’s columns in the
Saturday paper.”
“A big thank you to the
good neighbor who mowed
the county’s grass at the corner of Broadacre Road and
Cleveland Highway.”
“Groundhog Cheney was
in his den the whole time he
was in office. Now he’s out
every day.”
“Thanks to the Lions
Club for the wonderful
lunch they provided for the
senior center in Chatsworth.
Also, thanks to the Murray
County Senior Center for
the cookout on Friday.”
“Fitzgerald, Ga., has had
wild chickens running in the
street since the 1800s. It is
against the law for anyone
to hurt the chickens.”
“Why did it take
Muscogee County to make
an arrest? Science had to
catch up to the crime. It’s
not like watching “CSI.”
“Congratulations
to
Joseph Messer for making
the star honor roll at Coker
Elementary.”
“If Volkswagen reads our
newspaper they wouldn’t
come here. Our local leaders
need to get it together.”
“Channel 3 and 9 should
have went ahead and
changed to digital in
February. All they have on is
a 30-minute infomercial.”
“The new Whitfield
County rec director needs to
go back to South Carolina
and take Dixie Youth with
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THE DAILY CITIZEN
Monday, May 25, 2009
3A
DHS grad is new columnist for AJC
BY CHARLES OLIVER
charlesoliver@daltoncitizen.com
Starting Thursday, there
will be a new face and a new
voice on the Atlanta JournalConstitution’s editorial page.
But the face will be a familiar one to many Dalton residents.
Kyle Wingfield, a 1997
graduate of Dalton High
School, was named the
newspaper’s new conservative columnist in April, following a worldwide search
to replace the retiring Jim
Wooten.
Wingfield says he’ll be an
advocate for smaller government.
“I’m in favor of limited
government and limited government intervention in the
marketplace, and I’m in
favor of individual liberty,”
he said. “Those two things
go hand in hand. Those are
the principles that guide me
no matter what issue I’m
looking at.”
Some of the work
Wingfield produced during
the search has already
appeared on the newspaper’s
Wingfield
Web site, www.ajc.com.
The search for the new
conservative columnist took
about two-and-half-months.
It started with an application
that asked for several mock
columns on various topics.
After going through about
200 applications, AJC executives called back 20 semifinalists, including Wingfield,
who was then working in
Europe.
“At that point I did a
videophone interview, and I
also did two additional
columns, which were published anonymously online.
I’m not sure if they were
published entirely or just
excerpted in the newspaper,”
he said.
AJC executives then
invited a handful of finalists
to Atlanta for interviews.
“I came to Atlanta and
wrote an additional column,
on deadline, which was not
published,” he said.
“It was a lot more thorough than any job application process I’ve been
through or even heard of,”
Wingfield added. “But it
generated a lot of interest. A
lot of people around town
knew that it was going on.”
Wingfield said he became
interested in journalism in
middle school.
“I wanted to be a sportscaster. But I started paying
attention and saw that many
of them were former athletes, and I quickly figured
out I was never going to be a
former athlete,” he recalled.
“I enjoyed writing, and I got
a lot of encouragement from
my teachers. So I decided to
look at the print side of journalism.
He
attended
the
University of Georgia and
after graduating worked for
The Associated Press in
Atlanta and Montgomery,
Ala.
He was then hired by the
Wall Street Journal as an editorial writer for its European
edition based in Brussels,
Belgium, where he was
working when he learned
about the AJC opening.
What was it like switching from reporting to opinion
writing?
“It was at least as steep a
learning curve and as much a
culture shock as going from
Alabama to Belgium,” he
said. “Some of the basic
skills are the same. You have
to do your reporting thoroughly, maybe even more
thoroughly since you are
presenting an argument on
an event or an issue. You
really have to understand
every single aspect of it or
you’ll get nailed by the
opposing argument pretty
quickly.”
“But it’s different style of
writing,” he added. “It was
the better part of a year
before I really felt comfortable, but now, it’s something
I really enjoy.”
He wrote about topics
ranging from international
trade and antitrust to British
politics. In addition, he was
responsible for a weekly column
called
“Business
Europe.”
He and his wife Emily
spent four and a half years in
Belgium before returning in
early May.
The AJC has cut circulation and gone through several rounds of layoffs over the
past few years. But he says
that doesn’t give him great
concern.
“If you look at newspaper
industry you’ve got to wonder about what’s going to
happen to it. That would be
true if I’d stayed at the Wall
Street Journal,” he said. “But
I believe there’s always
going to be a market for well
reported and well written
news, probably increasingly
so in the future, regardless of
the medium it’s in.”
He says the very public
and extensive search the AJC
did for a columnist shows
how management is dedicated to the post.
“It’s a position I feel they
value very highly,” he said.
Wooten, the newspaper’s
lone conservative voice, has
been with the AJC some 30
years, and Wingfield says
“it’s a little intimidating” to
be replacing him.
“He (Wooten) knows the
city and the state and the politics and the players as well
as anybody around. He has
been extremely helpful,”
Wingfield said. “It’s enormous shoes to fill. I’m not
going to pretend I can fill
them at once. It’s a job I’m
going to have to grow into.”
Wooten will keep his
Sunday column for at least
the next few weeks, but
Wingfield will eventually
pick that space up as well as
produce a column on a third
day that hasn’t been decided
yet. He’ll also be blogging
starting some time in June.
Wooten, who helped in
the search for his replacement, wrote that Wingfield is
“the real deal. This post is in
good hands.”
AJC editor Julia Wallace
wrote that Wingfield is
“provocative but not shrill.
He has a carefully informed
approach but also an ability
to offer fresh perspectives.”
Liberals ask how they lost Memorial: Nature: Program
gun, Guantanamo votes
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Frustrated liberals are asking
why a Democratic-controlled
Congress and White House
cannot manage to close the
Guantanamo prison or keep
new gun-rights laws from
passing.
After all, President Barack
Obama pledged to shut down
the military detention center
on Cuba for suspected terrorists. And Democratic control
of the government would suggest that any gun legislation
leads to tighter controls on
weapons, not expanded use.
Even as they grouse, however, liberal lawmakers
acknowledge that no one fac-
tor explains last week’s disappointing back-to-back votes
in Congress.
The Obama administration
is focused on other priorities,
they say. Party leaders don’t
want to endanger Democratic
lawmakers from conservative
districts by stressing divisive
issues such as gun control.
On Guantanamo, many
say, Obama and his allies
were caught napping as
Republicans stirred public
fears about relocating suspected terrorists.
Two votes in Congress last
Wednesday dismayed many
liberals and exposed the limits of their influence even
with Obama as president and
Democrats holding solid
majorities in both houses of
Congress.
The Senate voted 90-6 to
join the House in blocking the
transfer of any prisoners from
Guantanamo.
Also Wednesday, the
House voted overwhelmingly
to join the Senate in letting
people carry loaded guns in
national parks and wildlife
refuges. More than 100
House Democrats and 174
Republicans voted for the gun
measure, which was attached
to an Obama-backed bill
imposing new restrictions on
credit card companies.
Split threatens Republican ranks
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The conservative vs. moderate split threatening to rupture the Republican Party
played out across the airwaves Sunday, with moderates Colin Powell and Tom
Ridge denouncing shrill and
judgmental voices they say
are steering the party too far
right. Former Bush strategist
Karl Rove challenged Powell
to lay out his vision and
“back it up” by helping elect
Republicans.
At
stake
is
the
Republicans’ status as a
major party, Powell and
Ridge suggested.
“I believe we should build
on the base because the
nation needs two parties, two
parties debating each other.
But what we have to do is
debate and define who we are
and what we are and not just
listen to dictates that come
down from the right wing of
the party,” said Powell, the
nation’s top military officer
under President George H.W.
Bush and later secretary of
state for President George W.
Bush.
Former Vice President
Dick Cheney and conservative radio commentator Rush
Limbaugh have openly
mocked Powell as a
Republican in name only, citing his endorsement of
Democrat Barack Obama
over
Republican
John
McCain in last year’s presidential race.
Powell reaffirmed that he
is a solid Republican and said
the party must be more inclusive or risk giving Democrats
and independents the chance
to scoop up disaffected moderate Republicans.
Fellow Republican moderate Ridge, the former
Pennsylvania governor and
homeland security secretary
under George W. Bush, said
if the party wants “to restore
itself, not as a regional party,
but as a national party, we
have to be far less judgmental
about disagreements within
the party and far more judgmental about our disagreement with our friends on the
other side of the aisle.”
Former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich, a potential
presidential candidate in
2012, insisted he did not want
to pick a fight with Cheney.
But Gingrich offered this
advice: “I think Republicans
are going to be very foolish if
they run around deciding
they’re going to see how
much they can purge us down
to the smallest possible base.”
Rove, chief political
strategist for the younger
Bush, took the position that
“if
you
say
you’re
Republican,
you’re
Republican.” But he wanted
more than words from
Powell.
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“Ballroom dancing. That
was the big band era, and that
was what we did when he was
there. He was away a lot,” she
said.
After the war’s end, William
Pangle was called back to the
U.S., but it would be another
year before Eileen could join
him. He spent more than 20
years in the military.
“We lived in Germany,
Japan, all over America,” she
said.
Ruth
Hale’s
husband,
Charles, was also a career military man.
“He was very patriotic, very
dedicated,” she said. “To me, he
was very courageous.”
They met shortly after he
had returned from Vietnam and
had what she calls “a whirlwind
courtship” before marrying. He
had already committed to
another tour of duty in
Vietnam.
“I had my first child while he
was in Vietnam,” she said.
“Back then, they had what
they called R&R, rest and recreation, and we went to Hawaii. I
remember being in Denver,
Colo., and we were standing on
the tarmac, and as far as you
could see there were caskets,
flag-draped caskets,” she said.
“That was what brought the
heartbreak of the Vietnam War
to me.”
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The Strickland children rode around the
park in a bicycle parade
Saturday. And while
working on a craft,
Strickland said she was
glad
that
Mitchell
explained the meaning of
Memorial Day to the
children.
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lunch and (Challaghan
and Rory) kept asking,
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Mitchell)?” Strickland
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Kas, a search and rescue dog, and her trainer
Melinda Flood, a member of the Murray
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will help Mitchell with a
program today at 10 a.m.
on how to stay safe and
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“We let someone ‘get
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how Kas tracks them,”
Mitchell said. “I teach
kids survival skills and
give them items to help
them survive and be
found, like a whistle.”
There will be two programs next Saturday at
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black bears, and “how to
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Vick can still
do much good
No one on two legs wanted Michael Vick in prison more
than we did.
The only thing more despicable than the star quarterback’s
lengthy record of arrogance and irresponsibility was his treatment of dogs — and the cavalier and even brutish manner in
which he dispatched with them when they weren’t as savage
a fighter as he required for his blood sport.
He lied to his friend and employer Arthur Blank, owner of
the Atlanta Falcons. He lied through his teeth to National
Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell about the dogfighting ring when it was but an allegation. He let down his
teammates, who depended on him to carry the team to greatness.
And worst of all, he disheartened and disenchanted nearly
every fan, especially the young ones who wore his jersey and
looked up to him and dreamed of being like Mike when they
grow up.
But Michael Vick has nearly paid his debt to society. He’s
on house arrest for two months, after leaving Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary this week for his home in Virginia.
He says he’s a changed man, and his supporters say he
deserves another chance to play in the NFL.
We agree with the latter — if the former is true.
Vick’s chance to make things right with Commissioner
Goodell won’t come until after his sentence officially ends
July 20 — and that’s likely too late for Vick to play this season.
So it’s probable that Michael Vick will have nearly a year
to prove to the NFL that he’s a new man — and to convince
the public of his sincerity. It will apparently start with a $10an-hour construction job, after what must have been a thoroughly (and necessarily) humbling experience in prison.
Some will never accept him back into society. If he plays
again, opposing fans, especially the infamous “Dawg Pound”
in Cleveland, are sure to growl and howl and boo him every
chance they get. He’ll just have to live with it if he wants to
play again.
But off the field, he could become a powerful spokesman
for the Humane Society, and a sterling example of atonement,
and perhaps even rebirth.
If his remorse is real, we hope he gets another chance with
a team other than the Falcons (who have moved on) in 2010.
As sour as it’s been for Michael Vick, redemption for a
truly penitent man can be very sweet.
Abortion dilemma
During the commencement speech in which
President Obama urged
greater civility in the abortion debate, he was interrupted by cries of “baby killer,”
“abortion is murder,” “stop
killing our children” and
“you have blood on your
hands.” The passion displayed by the protesters at
the University of Notre
Dame on Sunday suggests
that calling for “open hearts,
open minds, [and] fair-minded words” will get you only
so far on this subject.
To his credit, Obama
acknowledged as much. “No
matter how much we may
want to fudge it,” he said,
“the fact is that at some level
the views of the two camps
are irreconcilable.” But he
did not acknowledge the
extent to which he and other
supporters of abortion rights
have contributed to the rancor by federalizing an issue
that should be left to the
states.
For the last 36 years, on
the strength of a hazily reasoned Supreme Court ruling,
federal judges have been
micromanaging state abortion regulations, deciding
which are justified and
which go too far.
Since
the
U.S.
Constitution
does
not
address abortion one way or
another, these determinations
seem arbitrary, driven by
individual policy preferences
instead of intellectually honest legal interpretation.
This usurpation explains
why we do not think it odd
for presidents (or presidential candidates) to make pronouncements about an issue
that is beyond the powers
granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
For his part, Obama surely
plans to
nominate a
replacement for
retiring
Supreme
C o u r t
Justice
D a v i d
Souter
who will
Jacob
provide a
reliable
Sullum
fifth vote
f
o
r
upholding Roe v. Wade. His
supporters would be outraged if he didn’t. Anti-abortion activists will be outraged
when he does.
There’s no getting around
the fact that if you truly
believe abortion is murder,
you will not be satisfied until
it is banned completely (perhaps with a self-defense
exception in cases where the
mother’s life is threatened by
the pregnancy). Nor will you
be much moved by calls for
less stridency and more civility, except perhaps for tactical reasons. At the same time,
it’s clear that a major reason
for the anger of abortion
opponents is the sense that a
vitally important area of public policy has been improperly transferred from their democratically elected state legislators to a cabal of federal
judges appointed for life.
Furthermore,
because
abortion policy is set at the
national level now, anti-abortion activists have responded
with blatantly unconstitutional measures of their own,
such as the Partial Birth
Abortion Ban Act. In 2007,
the Supreme Court upheld
this law, which prohibits a
particular late-term abortion
method, as consistent with
Roe v. Wade, when it should
have been overturned on the
grounds that it clearly
exceeds the authority to “regulate commerce among the
several States,” the constitutional power on which it was
ludicrously based.The federal ban on “partial birth”
abortion, together with similar state laws, suggests the
pro-life side may be winning, an impression reinforced by Gallup Poll results
released last week. For the
first time since the organization began asking the question in 1995, the percentage
of Americans who identified
themselves as “pro-life” outnumbered those who identified themselves as “prochoice.”
Yet only a fifth or so said
abortion should be banned in
all cases, essentially the
same as the share who said it
should always be allowed.
The real action remains in
the middle, with the 53 percent who said abortion
should be legal in some circumstances. Exactly what
circumstances those are is a
question that should be
worked out at the state level,
and no doubt the answer
would be different in Utah
than it would be in
Massachusetts.
The results of this process
would not fully satisfy anyone, but allowing it to happen would go a long way
toward reducing the acrimony associated with this issue.
When abortion laws throughout the country hinge on a
single judicial nominee, it’s
not a situation conducive to
“open hearts” or “fair-minded words.”
■ Jacob Sullum is senior
editor at Reason magazine,
and his work appears in the
new Reason anthology
“Choice” (BenBella Books)
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, May
25, the 145th day of 2009.
There are 220 days left in
the year. This is the
Memorial Day observance.
On this date:
In
1787,
the
Constitutional Convention
began
meeting
in
Philadelphia after enough
delegates had shown up for
a quorum.
In 1895, playwright
Oscar Wilde was convicted
of a morals charge in
London; he was sentenced
to two years in prison.
In 1916, the Chicago
Tribune published an interview with Henry Ford in
which the American industrialist was quoted as saying, “History is more or less
bunk.”
In 1961, President John
F. Kennedy, addressing
Congress, called on the
nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by
the end of the decade.
In 1968, the Gateway
Arch in St. Louis was dedicated by Vice President
Hubert Humphrey and
Interior Secretary Stewart
Udall.
In 1969, the motion picture “Midnight Cowboy,”
starring Dustin Hoffman
and Jon Voight, opened in
New York.
Ten years ago: A bipartisan congressional report
said China’s two-decade
effort to steal U.S. weapons
technology continued well
into the Clinton administration; President Bill Clinton
responded that his administration was already “moving aggressively to tighten
security.”
Five years ago: The
Boston Archdiocese said it
would close 65 of 357
parishes, an offshoot of the
clergy sex abuse scandal.
Peace
activist
David
Dellinger, one of the
“Chicago Seven” defendants, died in Montpelier,
Vt., at age 88.
One year ago: A tornado
tore
through
Parkersburg, Iowa, killing
eight people. NASA’s
Phoenix Mars Lander
arrived to begin searching
for water on the Red Planet.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Sir Ian McKellen is
70. Actress Dixie Carter is
70. Country singer Jessi
Colter is 66. Movie director
and Muppeteer Frank Oz is
65.
Actress
Patti
D’Arbanville is 58. Actress
Connie Sellecca is 54.
Rock singer-musician Paul
Weller is 51. Actor-comedian Mike Myers is 46.
Actress Anne Heche is 40.
Actor-comedian
Jamie
Kennedy is 39. Actor Justin
Henry is 38. Rapper Daz
Dillinger is 36. Actress
Molly Sims is 36. Singer
Lauryn Hill is 34. Actor
Cillian Murphy is 33. Actor
Ethan Suplee is 33. Rock
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Unfriendly fire in Washington
The campaign, as reported in both The
New York Times and The Washington
Post, to wound or discredit President
Obama’s National Security Advisor and
former Marine four-star Gen. James L.
Jones reminds me of a favorite line from
college commencement addresses, in
which the speaker tells the graduates: “Life
is not like college. That’s true — life is not
like college. No, the fact is that life is a lot
more like high school.”
The critics of Jones, hiding their identity, reportedly come from those inside and
outside the administration who want the
national security advisor’s job either for
themselves or for some crony. One repeated knock on Jones — that he’s only putting
in twelve-and-a-half-hour days at the White
House — indicts both the insularity and the
shallowness of inside Washington.
Understand this about Washington, a
beautiful city where I’ve voluntarily and
happily lived for the past 45 years: We do
not make movies or airplanes or grow
wheat in Washington. There is no crop or
product for which we can claim credit. So,
the inclination, when you cannot measure
output, is to measure input.
Question: What did you do yesterday,
Mark?
Answer: I got here at 7 a.m., and I didn’t leave until midnight.
Translated that means: I cannot tell you
exactly what I did yesterday, but I can brag
about how long I didn’t do it.
Let me tell you about
Jim Jones. He graduated from Georgetown in
1966, and was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Marine
Corps and sent to
Vietnam, where he survived combat as a platoon leader and company commander, and
earned both the Bronze
Mark
Star and the Silver Star.
Shields
During his 40 years
in uniform, Jones
served as Marine Corps commandant and
supreme allied commander of NATO.
Barack Obama, last December, chose
Jones to be the new president’s principal
advisor on national security, responsible for
coordinating the efforts of the Pentagon, the
State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies.
Let’s get back to the indictment that
Jones only works twelve-and-a-half-hour
days. What Jones brings to his current mission are his judgment, knowledge, perspective and often-painful experience. He is not
a think-tank commando.
No, Jim Jones learned about foreign
policy and national security — and earned
his medals — in the rice paddies of
Southeast Asia at a time when so many of
his current snipers were “gaming” the
nation’s draft law to secure graduate-school
deferments in order to duck military service. While they were writing their master’s
theses, Jones was writing letters of condolence to the widows and parents of fallen
Marines. Jones, himself, dismisses the
attacks of his anonymous hit men as mere
“sniping at my ankles that’s to be expected.” Then he quips, “The first government
job I had (as a Marine lieutenant), people
were actually trying to kill me.” A senior
White House official, speaking on background, stated that “the president has confidence in (Jones), and he’s important to
what we’re doing here.” Another senior
White House aide adds that “the president
stands behind Jim Jones 100 percent.” Not
exactly ringing endorsements by the usual
Washington standards of rhetorical excess.
What makes Jones so valuable — and
what you hope the brilliant, young president appreciates — is that he is a grown-up.
Jones does not have some compulsive need
to have his picture, or his name, in the
papers or to be interviewed on TV a minimum of three times a week. Jones knows
who he is and is not pining to become
Barack Obama’s New Best Friend. He just
seeks, like the good Marine he has always
been, to do his duty for his country — this
time as the president’s national security
advisor.
■ To find out more about Mark Shields
and read past columns, visit the Creators
Syndicate Web site at www.creators.com.
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■ Baltazar Junior Aguilar,
26, 1092 Dawnville Road,
Dalton,
was
charged
Saturday by the Whitfield
County Sheriff’s Office with
DUI, a windshield violation
and driving with an expired
tag.
■ Terry Brett Charles, 48,
80 Twinn Lakes Road,
Chatsworth, was charged
Saturday by the Whitfield
County Sheriff’s Office with
DUI.
■
Avery
Nicholas
Cronan, 30, 4301 Cronan
Drive, Cohutta, was charged
Saturday by the Whitfield
County Sheriff’s Office with
possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana, giving false information
and two counts of a probation violation.
■ John Dennard, 52, 407
Lesley Drive, Dalton, was
charged Saturday by the
Dalton Police Department
with aggravated assault.
■
Jon
Timothy
Davenport,
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436
Davenport Road, Dalton,
was charged Saturday by the
Murray County Sheriff’s
Office with three counts of
arson in the first degree.
■
Gregory
Boyd
Williams, 38, 848 Reed Pond
Road, Dalton, was charged
Saturday by the Whitfield
County Sheriff’s Office with
DUI and leaving the scene of
an accident.
■ Ahiezer Carrillo, 19,
231 Bellwood Drive, S.W.,
Dalton, was charged Sunday
by the Whitfield County
Sheriff’s Office with illegal
possession of a prescription
drug and drugs out of original container.
■ Avery Boyd Cronan,
49, 180 Stran Road, Cohutta,
was charged Sunday by the
Whitfield County Sheriff’s
Office with DUI, possession
of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession of
methamphetamine.
■ Corey Montez Dixon,
27, 2316 Old Federal Road,
Chatsworth, was charged
Sunday by the Murray
County Sheriff’s Office with
interference with a 911 call
and aggravated batter (family
violence).
■
Shirone
Marie
Edwards, 30, 3425 Hopewell
Church Road, Dalton, was
charged Sunday by the
Whitfield County Sheriff’s
Office with possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana.
■ Jose Matilde Marquez,
21, 1629 Bradley Drive,
Dalton, was charged Sunday
by the Whitfield County
Sheriff’s Office with disregarding an officer directing
traffic, driving without a
license, affixing a license
plate with the intent to conceal the identity of the vehicle and DUI.
■ Angel Luis Pabon, 28,
336 Albert St., Eton, was
charged Sunday by the Eton
Police Department with
obstruction of a law enforcement officer, possession of
cocaine and bringing contraband across guardlines.
■ Raymond Lamar Parks,
48, 9310 Highway 54, Paris,
was charged Sunday by the
Whitfield County Sheriff’s
Office with possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana, open container of
alcohol, a bench warrant and
theft by shoplifting.
■ Rickey Dean Patterson,
42, 350 Caylor Road,
Chatsworth, was charged
Sunday by the Murray
County Sheriff’s Office with
open container of alcohol
and DUI.
■ Francisco Amezcua
Ruiz, 32, 103 White Oak
Drive, East Flat Rock, N.C.,
was charged Sunday by the
Dalton Police Department
with DUI and failure to
maintain lane.
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Court pick could face
filibuster over ‘feelings’
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Senate’s No. 2
Republican on Sunday
refused to rule out a filibuster
if President Barack Obama
seeks a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based
on “emotions or feelings or
preconceived ideas.”
Sen. Jon Kyl made clear
he would use the procedural
delay if Obama follows
through on his pledge to
nominate someone who
takes into account human
suffering and employs empathy from the bench. The
Arizona
Republican
acknowledged that his party
likely does not have enough
votes to sustain a filibuster,
but he said nonetheless he
would try to delay or derail
the nomination if Obama
ventures outside what Kyl
called the mainstream.
“We will distinguish
between a liberal judge on
one side and one who doesn’t decide cases on the merits
but, rather, on the basis of his
or her preconceived ideas,”
Kyl said.
The White House is
preparing to announce
Obama’s pick to replace
Justice David Souter, who
plans to retire back to his
beloved New Hampshire
when the court’s term ends.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois,
the No. 2 Democrat in the
Senate, said Sunday that he
has been told a choice is likely to be announced this week.
Those involved with Obama’s
decision hint that it could
come as early as Tuesday.
Obama, who has interviewed at least two candidates for the position, has
offered hints into what he
wants in a justice.
“You have to have not
only the intellect to be able to
effectively apply the law to
cases before you,” Obama
said in an interview carried
Saturday on C-SPAN television. “But you have to be
able to stand in somebody
else’s shoes and see through
their eyes and get a sense of
how the law might work or
not work in practical day-today living.”
Lawmakers want to see
a plan for closing Gitmo
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Members of Congress from
both parties clamored
Sunday for President Barack
Obama to develop a plan for
dealing with the suspected
terrorists
held
at
Guantanamo Bay if he
intends to fulfill his promise
to close its prison by early
2010. The top U.S. military
officer also awaited a decision from the commander in
chief.
“We’re saying, ‘Mr.
President, give us the plan,’”
said Sen. Barbara Boxer, a
California Democrat.
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike
Mullen, pressed Obama for
details on how he intends to
fulfill his promise to close
the detention facility on the
U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Officials report that 240 suspected terrorists are housed
there.
“We’re working hard
now to figure out what the
options are and what the
best one would be. And that
really is a decision the president is going to have to
make, certainly in meeting
this deadline of what we
do,” Mullen said.
Obama’s promise to
close the detention facility
by early 2010 ran smack
into political reality in the
last week. Obama’s fellow
Democrats denied him
funding to move the suspected terrorists while
Republicans latched onto a
message about the potential
national security threat that
helped the minority party
generate sustained headlines for the first time in
months.
“Well, I don’t think you
can convince the American
people that you can bring
the people from Gitmo to
their states and they will be
safe,” said Alabama Sen.
Richard
Shelby,
a
Republican.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Supporting Spring Place
ATLANTA — Atlanta
Police
Chief
Richard
Pennington has suspended
Sgt. Scott Kreher, the police
union head who said he
wanted to beat Mayor
Shirley Franklin with a bat.
Kreher spoke at a city
council meeting about the
difficulty some officers are
having getting workers' compensations from the city. He
later apologized for the angry
comment about the mayor.
In a statement Saturday
night, the chief said Kreher
would be relieved of duty
and placed on paid administrative leave pending a psychological evaluation.
Civilians trapped
in Swat Valley
ISLAMABAD
—
Pakistani troops have pushed
into Mingora, where it says
some 10,000 to 20,000 residents are stranded in the city
as soldiers fight street-tostreet against insurgents.
The monthlong operation
in Swat and surrounding districts has strong support from
Washington, which wants
Pakistan to root out insurgents who use its territory to
plan attacks on U.S. troops in
Afghanistan. But the fight in
Mingora could also prove a
stiff test for a military more
geared toward conventional
warfare on plains than
bloody urban battles.
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Spring Place Elementary expresses thanks to Spring Place Ruritan Club
members who volunteered their time to coordinate a Bingo game to help
support the school during its annual Tiger Day, coordinated by Spring Place
Elementary’s School Council. From left are Tim Howard (secretary), Vicki
Bramblett (vice president) and Ann Bailey (Ruritan Club member).
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Fix is hard for Medicare,
Social Security finances
WASHINGTON (AP)
— There is no easy fix for
Medicare
and
Social
Security, the main benefit
programs for America’s
growing elderly population.
Medicare and Social
Security will go broke sooner rather than later because
of the recession. With millions of baby boomers
beginning to leave the work
force, the cost of these popular benefit programs
threatens to swamp the government in debt in the coming years if nothing is done.
Congress and the White
House are under increasing
pressure to find a solution.
One proposal gaining
steam is a creating bipartisan commission to tackle
the approaching insolvency
of the government’s three
big “entitlement” programs:
Social Security, Medicare
and Medicaid.
Everything would be on
the table, including tax
increases and benefit cuts.
The commission would produce a “grand bargain”
package of recommenda-
tions that Congress could
accept or reject in total.
It’s the same process the
country has used since 1988
to handle military base closings, where the single takeit-or-leave-it vote provides a
measure of political cover
to lawmakers.
President Barack Obama
has said that action to overhaul Social Security and
other guaranteed-benefit
programs is critical. But top
aides are cool to the commission idea for now, wanting Congress to deal first
with the president’s ambitious health care and global
warming initiatives.
The commission idea is
being resisted by House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
some influential committee
leaders who see it as an end
run around the normal legislative process.
“The fact that the leadership has been opposed to it
has been a problem,” said
Republican Rep. Frank
Wolf of Virginia, one of two
original authors of the commission bill in the House.
Buses crash into wall
during ‘figure 8’ race
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
Two school buses have
crashed into a restraining
wall at a demolition derbystyle race in Ohio, injuring at
least 11 spectators.
Witnesses say the accident occurred as the buses
were racing in figure eights
around the Columbus Motor
Speedway track at around
10:30 p.m. Saturday. The
race was one of several taking place during the CrashA-Rama event.
Reward offered in
Gainesville buses fire
GAINESVILLE, Ga. —
Authorities haven’t ruled out
arson in a fire that damaged or
destroyed nine Gainesville city
school buses in a parking lot.
Investigators say they
have not been determined if
the fire early Friday was a
result of arson or caused by
an electrical problem.
Cobb probes fake
graduation tickets
MARIETTA, Ga. —
Faced with angry parents,
Cobb County school officials
say they will examine graduation tickets to determine
how many are fake.
At least 100 people, with
legitimate tickets, say they
were turned away from
South Cobb High School’s
graduation
ceremony
because there wasn’t enough
space for everyone.
The ceremony Saturday
was held at Roswell Street
Baptist Church in Marietta.
Man arrested after
harassing Giuliani
BRIDGEHAMPTON,
N.Y. — A harassment charge
has been filed against a Long
Island man who police say
approached former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
and threatened to hit him.
Authorities say John
McCluskey repeatedly went
up to the former Republican
presidential
candidate
Saturday afternoon while he
was walking in the tony
beach
town
of
Bridgehampton, a haven for
the rich and famous on Long
Island’s eastern end where
Madonna fell off a horse last
month.
Southampton Town police
say
the
69-year-old
Amagansett (am-uh-GAN’set) resident was arrested on
a second-degree harassment
charge and was released on
bail.
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CROSSWORD
BRIDGE
HOROSCOPE
Famous hand
Happy Birthday: You comes to professional plans.
have to be a contributor not a Keep your thoughts, ideas
bystander if you want to and intentions to yourself. A
make the most of the good sudden change in your status
things heading your way. can be set off by an emotionDon’t limit yourself because al reaction. 2 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
you don’t want to reveal your
emotions. The human touch 22): You have everyone eatwill bring you the highest ing out of your hand, so keep
returns. Be smart, prudent talking until you get your
way. A unique partand responsible.
nership can form
Your numbers are
but, if you are lazy
2, 5, 14, 16, 20, 23,
or try to get some43
one to do the brunt
ARIES (March
of the tough jobs,
21-April
19):
your position will
Project good feelchange rapidly. Do
ings and interesting
your share. 5 stars
ideas and you can
SCORPIO
get something off
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
the ground that was
Nothing is as it
impossible in the
Eugenia
appears so don’t
past.
Greater
jump to conclurespect for what
Last
sions. There is
you do and how
money to be made
you handle others
will be yours. You will but you must stay on top of
impress someone who can every move and deal with
influence your future. 4 stars people directly in order to
TAURUS (April 20-May remain in control. An emo20): It’s a changing playing tional matter will cause you
field so be ready to take on grief. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
whatever comes your way.
Your imaginative ideas will 22-Dec. 21): You have to
grab attention and get others stick to your own means and
to respond with help. Work methods in order to be sucwithin groups that you nor- cessful. A change of plans
mally would not do business regarding a partnership may
leave you feeling left out or
with. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June betrayed. Look to someone
20): Don’t talk — listen and with whom you have more in
you will receive useful infor- common for answers. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22mation that will give you the
edge. You will receive a host Jan. 19): Put your attention
of ideas from your competi- where it belongs and you will
tors on which you can build a make professional gains.
solid and superior service or Partner with someone who
has sound ideas but needs
product. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July help with development. An
22): Someone is talking informative discussion will
behind your back. Ask ques- help you make a decision
tions but reveal little about about your current living
your life. An older, experi- arrangements. 3 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20enced friend or relative will
have insight into your situa- Feb. 18): Make your home
tion and a solution that will conducive to studying or
work if you follow through. 3 working on a project. An
emotional issue can be put to
stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): rest. A friendship is escalatLove is escalating and time ing and can lead to an interspent with someone special esting personal and profeswill help you decide what sional partnership. 5 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
you are capable of accomplishing as a couple. Your 20): Erratic behavior on your
ability to tell a colorful story part or on the part of somewill help you sell whatever one you have to deal with
can be expected. Emotional
you have to offer. 4 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. matters will create tension so
22): You may not be in the get things out in the open.
company of people you can Face the truth if you want to
trust, especially when it move forward. 2 stars
Not much is written about “table feel”
— the ability to sense
where certain missing
key cards are located.
Nevertheless, it is a
fact of bridge life that
all players try to draw
inferences from the
actions of their opponents — and that
some players are
much better at it than
others.
Take this case from
the 1996 Spingold
Teams. South, Bart
Bramley, and his partner, Sidney Lazard,
reached seven clubs
as shown, and it was
up to Bramley to find
the way to make it.
Declarer’s only problem was how to avoid a spade loser.
With the king of spades offside, it might appear that
Bramley was destined to go down one, but he proved otherwise.
After taking the heart lead with the ace, he drew three
rounds of trumps, East discarding a spade, and then cashed
the heart king. This was followed by a diamond to the ace
and the queen of hearts, East and declarer each discarding
a spade. Bramley then ruffed the ten of hearts, East discarding a third spade, and led the queen of spades, on which
West followed low.
At this point, Bramley stopped to review all the accumulated information — including what his “table feel” told
him. From the standpoint of pure probabilities, East was far
more likely to hold the spade king, since he had started with
only two clubs and two hearts. This left him with nine cards
in spades and diamonds as opposed to only five cards in
those suits for West. Then, too, West might have covered
the queen of spades with the king if he had it.
But on top of this, East had shown increasing signs of
distress in choosing his three discards, and this made
Bramley even more certain that East had the spade king.
So Bramley put up the ace of spades and cashed
dummy’s last trump, discarding his remaining spade. East,
who at this point had the J-7-5 of diamonds and lone king
of spades guarding against dummy’s jack, elected to let go
of a diamond, and declarer’s K-Q-9 of diamonds took the
last three tricks.
Tomorrow: How to unseat a monarch.
CRYPTOQUIP
TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH
Single faint rarely a sign of serious illness
DEAR DR. DONOHUE:
I am a 30-year-old woman,
recently hired into a position
that was a big advancement
for me. After one week on the
job, I had to give a presentation. On the morning of the
presentation, I couldn’t eat
because of nerves. About two
minutes into my talk, I fainted. My boss was very concerned and insisted that I
report to the company doctor
before coming back to work.
The doctor gave me a very
thorough exam, including an
EKG. He said I had neurocardiogenic syncope. That’s
sounds awful to me. Is it? I’m
not taking any medicine.
Should I be? — C.K.
ANSWER:
Syncope
(SIN-coe-pea) is a faint.
“Neurocardiogenic” refers to
a reflex that takes place
between nerves and the heart
that brings on the faint. It’s
also called vasovagal reflex.
The “vaso” refers to dilation
of blood
vessels.
The dilation keeps
blood in
the legs
a n d
lessens
t h e
amount of
blood in
Paul G.
circulaDonohue t i o n .
“ Va g a l ”
refers to
the nerve that slows the heart
— just what you don’t want
to happen when there’s too
little blood in circulation.
Both of these mechanisms
cause a drop in blood flow to
the brain. The body responds
by making you temporarily
pass out so that you assume
the horizontal position on the
ground. In that position,
blood starts circulating again,
the brain gets it share of
blood and you wake up.
The whole thing is a reflex
over which you have no control. Stress, high emotions,
fear, standing in one place for
a prolonged time and an overheated room are some of the
circumstances that trigger
this reflex. Usually there are
some warning symptoms that
you’re on the verge of fainting. You might begin to sweat
and feel a bit nauseated. If
you’re ever in this situation
again and get those warning
signals, sit down immediately
or, better yet, lie down. Keep
tensing and relaxing your leg
and arms muscles to keep
blood in circulation.
For young, healthy people
like you, one neurocardiogenic faint is not a sign of any
serious health problem. You
don’t need to be on any medicines. You can file this in
your memory as an interesting story to tell your grandchildren.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE:
I am one of a set of triplets.
We’re not identical. I don’t
know if triplets ever are identical. Anyway, one of my two
sisters has just had an operation for thyroid cancer. No
one else in the family has had
this cancer. My nonoperated
other triplet and I were talking on the phone and wonder
if we might be susceptible
too. Should we have our thyroid glands examined? —
R.O.
ANSWER: Most thyroid
cancers are papillary thyroid
cancers. If a family member
has this kind of cancer, other
family members have a tenfold increased risk of having
it. You should, therefore, let
your doctor know about your
sister. It would be very helpful if she could give you the
name of her cancer.
I don’t see any information that says there is an
increased risk for triplets over
the risk for other family
members.
Red carpet arrival
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American actress Robin Wright Penn, center, and
Indian actress Sharmila Tagore III, left, arrive on the
red carpet for the awards ceremony, during the 62nd
International film festival in Cannes, southern France,
Sunday. Austrian director Michael Haneke’s somber
drama “The White Ribbon” claimed the top prize at the
festival, where Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier
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peripheral vascular disease, is
the process in which leg arteries become clogged with
plaque, the buildup of cholesterol and fat on their lining.
The buildup prevents blood
from reaching leg muscles.
The classic symptom of
peripheral artery disease is
leg pain on walking. The pain
stops with rest. Your pain
doesn’t come on with physical activity; it comes with a
change in body position. I’m
not sure of the cause of your
pain. It might be a neurological problem. I’m quite certain
that it isn’t peripheral artery
disease.
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DEAR ABBY
■ MUTTS
Male friend is out in cold
after woman gets married
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■ CATHY
DEAR ABBY: I am a gay man
DEAR ABBY: What do you
who has been with my partner for 31
answer when someone says, “You
years. I have a female friend, “Josie,”
look tired”? I seem to get this a lot
whom I have known for years. She
lately, and I know it’s because I’m
holds an executive position in the
looking older. People may be showlocal bank and must attend many
ing concern, but don’t you think it’s
fund-raisers. I have been her escort
a little bit of a downer? — OLDER,
to many of them. Josie knows and
NOT TIRED
likes my partner, and he has never
had a problem with my going to
DEAR NOT TIRED: Not only is
these social events with her.
it a downer, it’s also rude. When
Jeanne
Recently Josie became engaged,
someone makes that comment, simply
and she is now married. I was invited
Phillips reply, “But I’m not tired. I sleep very
to the wedding, but my partner was
well, thank you.” Then watch the pernot included on the invitation. I chose
son try to remove foot from mouth.
not to attend because of it. I have not heard
from her since. It has been almost four months.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van
Josie’s husband is a retired military man. I Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and
suspect she would rather not let him know was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
OBITUARIES
• Elizabeth Mae Adams,
Chatsworth
• Grace Elizabeth
Conner, Blue Ridge
• Hazel Inez Daley
• Harrison E. Dickson,
Calhoun
• Mary Kathryn Ellis,
Dalton
• Mary Hopper, Calhoun
• Benjamin McGaha,
Tunnel Hill
• Annie Smith, Dalton
Obituary notices are
posted online at
www.daltondailycitizen.com
Elizabeth Mae
Adams
Mrs. Elizabeth Mae
Adams, 87, of Chatsworth,
passed away Saturday, May
23, 2009, at Murray Medical
Center.
Elizabeth was a lifelong
member of Holly Creek
Baptist Church.
Elizabeth was preceded in
death by her husband,
Arnold Adams; parents,
Leonard and Pearl Brooks;
sister, Edna Earle Long;
brothers, L.D. Brooks,
Edwin Brooks, and Howell
“Buddy” Brooks.
She is survived by a
daughter and son-in-law,
Barbara
and
Delano
Boatwright of Chatsworth;
sons and daughters-in-law,
Wayne and Shirlene Adams
of Chatsworth, Dale and
Peggy
Adams
of
Chatsworth; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; sisters, Zora Brooks
Jackson of Chatsworth and
Beatrice Cady of Dalton;
nieces and nephew.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Tuesday in the chapel of
Peeples Funeral Home with
the Rev. Harold Poteet officiating.
Burial will be in Holly
Creek Cemetery with a white
dove release.
The family will receive
friends today at the funeral
home from 5-9 p.m.
Peeples Funeral Home is
in charge of the funeral
arrangements.
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Grace Elizabeth
Conner
Mrs. Grace Elizabeth
Conner of Blue Ridge
departed this life Saturday,
May 23, 2009.
Arrangements will be
announced later by Akins
Funeral Home of Blue
Ridge.
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Hazel Inez Daley
Hazel Inez Daley, 92,
west to her heavenly home
on Saturday, May 23, 2009.
Until her death, she was
an active member of Cohutta
First Baptist Church and the
Community Seniors’ group.
A longtime resident of
Jackson, Miss., Hazel moved
to the North Georgia area in
2002 and resided with her
son Jim and his wife Ruth
Anne.
She as preceded in death
by her parents, Johnnie and
Blanche Schwartz; husband,
Charles; sister, Vivian
Parker;
daughter-in-law,
Jerry Ann Daley; grandson,
Michael Daley and son,
Howard L. Daley.
She leaves as survivors,
Lucille (Jerry) Simmons of
Lawrence, Miss.; Charles
(Martha) Daley Jr. of
Brandon, Miss.; Jim (Ruth
Anne) Daley of West Palm
Beach, Fla., and Ringgold;
four grandchildren and
numerous great grandchildren.
The family wishes to
thank supportive friends and
family for visits, calls and
cards in recent months.
Special caregiver, Diane
Strong, was our earthly
angel, kind beyond measure.
The family will receive
friends at Julian Peeples
Funeral Home Tuesday from
3 p.m. until the funeral hour
at 4 p.m.
A memorial service is
Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the
Pleasant Grove Chapel of
Julian Peeples Funeral Home
with the Rev. Truett
Nimmons and the Rev.
Jackie Painter officiating.
A graveside service will
be at 2 p.m. Friday at
Lakewood
Memorial
Gardens in Jackson, Miss.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be
made to First Baptist Church
of Cohutta, 30710; Cohutta
Senior Group at First Baptist
Church of Cohutta or
Hamilton Medical Center,
1012 Burleyson Drive, P.O.
Box 1168, Dalton, 307221168.
Messages of comfort may
be 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 706-259-9277.
www.legacy.com
Harrison E.
Dickson
Mr. Harrison E. Dickson,
88, departed this life Sunday,
May 24, 2009, at home surrounded by his loving family
in Calhoun.
Arrangements will be
announced by locally owned
and
operated
Ponders
Funeral Homes, 138 Melrose
Drive, Dalton, 6706-2264002.
Your
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Independent Funeral Home.
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Mary Kathryn Ellis
Mrs. Mary Kathryn Ellis,
82, of Dalton, passed away
Sunday, May 24, 2009, at
Hamilton Medical Center.
She was a member of the
Dug Gap Baptist Church and
was preceded in death by her
husband, Dewrall “D” Ellis
in 1998.
Kathryn is survived by
her daughter and son-in-law,
Sharon and Dr. Jake
Harrison of Dalton; son and
daughter-in-law, Kevin and
Cindy Ellis of Dalton; sisters
and brothers-in-law, Marie
and Sammy King, Doty and
Buford
May
all
of
Cedartown,
Gere
and
Hershel Arrington of Rome;
sister-in-law,
Fannie
LeFevers of Cedartown;
brothers-in-law, Fred Giles
and Bobby Arrington, both
of Cedartown; grandchildren, Michael and Lorie
Moore, Matthew and Tracy
Moore, Margaret and Bruce
Wood, Mike Harrison, Heath
and Jennifer Ellis, and Kacie
Ellis; great-grandchildren,
Reese Moore, Evy Kathryn
Moore, Caroline Moore,
Mary Catherine Wood,
Nancy Claire Wood and
Dory Anne Wood; nieces and
nephews.
Services will be Tuesday
at noon at Dug Gap Baptist
Church with the Rev. Bob
Bagley officiating.
Burial will be in West Hill
Cemetery.
The family will receive
friends at Love Funeral
Home Tuesday from 9:30 to
11:30 a.m.
Words of comfort may be
sent to the family at
www.lovefuneralhomega.com.
Love Funeral Home,
1402 N. Thornton Ave.,
Dalton
(across
from
Hamilton Medical Center) is
in charge or arrangements.
www.legacy.com
Love
Sam,” 70, of Tunnel Hill,
passed away Sunday, May
24, 2009, at Hamilton
Medical Center.
He is survived by his
mother, Pearl Derosier of
Chatsworth; brothers, Gene
Melton of Calhoun, Tenn.,
and Paul Watts of Ringgold;
sister, Bertha Flood of
Chatsworth; several nieces
and nephews.
Graveside services are
Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Smyrna
Cemetery in Evensville,
Tenn.
Words of comfort may be
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Personal trainer still pumped at 82
BY SAM MCMANIS
Sacramento Bee
Don’t
call
Richard
Commins “spry,” that condescending adjective frequently
attached to any older adult
who is ambulatory enough to
get out and do something.
But what do you call an
82-year-old who — when not
working in his lush yard or
repairing the roof of his home
— is pumping iron, puffing
away through push-ups and
pull-ups, revving up the elliptical machine, working those
core muscles and maintaining
balance on a trampoline?
Answer: Personal trainer.
No records are kept, but
Commins might be the oldest
personal
trainer
in
Sacramento, Calif., if not the
nation. He gained accreditation in 1985 after completing
classes at California State
University-Sacramento following retirement as a longtime middle-school industrial-arts teacher.
After working in health
clubs for years, schooling
gym members in the fundamentals of fitness, Commins
is starting to ease back a bit.
He has a handful of clients
who come to his humble
home gym, and he serves as
an onsite trainer when he and
his wife, Rona, go on cruises.
“I think I can be an inspiration to people,” says
Commins, smiling but sans
boastfulness. “A lot of people
look at me and say, ‘Boy, if
he can do that at 82, I ought to
get in shape.’ “
If Jack LaLanne had a kid
brother, it would be this guy.
At 5-foot-9, 150 pounds,
Commins is built as solidly as
when he played football in
the San Francisco Bay Area
back before joining the
Marines during World War II.
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Richard Commins, an 82-year-old personal trainer,
spots client Richard Stoeltzing as he lifts weights.
His buzz cut betrays no hint
of gray, though his pencilthin mustache is pure white.
Commins’ metacarpalcrunching handshake, alone,
attests to his enduring
strength. But there also are
mementos from his Masters
weightlifting days as a
regional gold medalist in the
Senior Olympics. (Ten years
on, he still holds the 70-74
age group record for the
snatch and clean-and-jerk in
the Pacific Weightlifting
Association.) His ramrodstraight posture is that of a
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
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Sept. 14, 1935 - May 25, 2008
Loving Husband, Father & Grandfather
There is a place at our table that is empty,
A place in our hearts no one can fill.
We asked God for more time with you but
It was not in His perfect will
Since the Lord called you home
We have missed you in our lives.
We wait for the day of no more heartache and no more goodbyes.
We ask that our love be sent to you on wings of angels that
have no end. Sadly missed, but you live in our hearts.
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man at least 20 years
younger.
He’s
also
climbed
California’s Mount Whitney
— the highest peak in the
lower 48 states — four times,
albeit as a younger man. And
two years ago he beat prostate
cancer, saying the radiation
therapy and recovery “felt
like just a bad cold” to him.
“That’s because I’ve
stayed in shape,” he says.
“Some mornings, I don’t feel
like working out. But if I
don’t, I tell myself I won’t be
in as good of shape to do
what I want to do as I get
older.”
He sent a videotape to the
producers of “Survivor,” trying for a spot. (He never
heard back, alas.) He insists
on doing all the work in his
sprawling yard at the end of a
cul-de-sac himself, though a
team of gardeners would get a
good workout keeping up.
And what he most wants is
to help other people enjoy the
hearty old age he embraces.
One recent morning, he
demonstrated pull-ups from
the seated position to one of
his clients, 70-year-old
Richard Stoeltzing, who marveled at the ease with which
Commins executed the exercise.
“Can you believe an 82year-old can do that?”
Stoeltzing asked. “I’ve
known Richard for 35 years,
and he’s been having me do
dips and push-ups and gets
me to strengthen my back and
legs, not just (his chest). I
travel a lot in my job (for
Wachovia Securities), so I
can do these exercises anywhere.”
Back when he was affiliated with health clubs,
Commins said, he trained
people of all ages. Now, it’s
mostly people his age —
well, those within a decade or
two.
“I think they like the idea
of someone older working
with them,” he says. “It
makes them feel more comfortable.”
His quick wit and sly
smile are engaging, but
Commins’ own sterling shape
— and his dedication to exercise — might intimidate the
uninitiated.
His wife doesn’t work out
with him. She prefers the
more social aspect she finds
at a local chain health club.
But Rona Commins says he
finds ways to inspire her,
mostly by example.
“He puts everybody to
shame,” Rona says. “I had a
book club at 10 o’clock this
morning, so I was thinking,
‘Heck, I don’t need to work
out. But I got up to be (at the
gym) at 7:30 because of
Richard.
“Always, he was exercising. When we first got married 50 years ago, he’d jump
rope, had a rowing machine,
tennis-ball machine. He was
always doing something.
Weightlifting was new, after
he retired.”
Commins likes to say he
was just a “weekend athlete”
until he retired. His wife disagrees, as does daughter
Merrin Hansen.
“It was just sort of a way
of life for my father,” says
Hansen, a dietitian. “When
he’d watch TV, he’d do step
training or use one of those
wheels with handles and
stretch out on the floor (for
abdominal exercises). I ran
track in high school, but I
never felt pushed by him. But
the (fitness ethic) was just
sort of ingrained.”
Commins says he really
didn’t get serious about exercising until his 60s and claims
that he reached his fitness
peak at age 70. He admits
he’s losing strength with age,
despite his best efforts. But he
hopes to keep age at bay as
long as he can.
“The key is consistency,”
he said. “You can lose
(strength) if you stop. Then,
even if you come back, you
can’t get it back. I can’t lift as
much as when I was competing. Sometimes, I’m forced to
stop (exercising). Like when I
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it wasn’t for me being in
shape, I don’t think I’d have
gotten through that fall with
just a concussion. I think I
had enough muscle to hold
things together.”
Though he shows few
signs of slowing, Commins
has made some accommodation to age. He has given up
hopes of being selected for
“Survivor,” for example. But
his wife says he still puts men
decades younger to shame.
“At church on Sunday, he
told me he had to go move a
table and turned and walked
away,” she says. “I’m watching him go and, from behind,
you’d think he was 30 years
younger. There’s that energy,
that spring in his step.”
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Braves win in blowout
Jones, McCann
fuel sweep of Jays
BY CHARLES ODUM
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA — Blurry vision
couldn’t stop Brian McCann, and
neither could Toronto’s defensive
shift.
McCann hit two homers, including a three-run shot in Atlanta’s
seven-run seventh inning, and the
Braves beat the Blue Jays 10-2 on
Sunday to cap a three-game sweep.
The Blue Jays were the first
team that tried to stop McCann by
placing three players on the right
side of the infield.
It may be a long time before
McCann faces another shift.
McCann had three hits and
drove in four runs, leaving him 6for-10 in the series. He is hitting
.396 (19 for 48) in 14 games with
his new glasses.
“We can’t be satisfied with the
sweep,” McCann said. “We’ve got
to keep going.”
McCann missed 13 games while
on the disabled list from April 23 to
May 8 with blurred vision, including a failed experiment with contact lenses.
The score was 2-all before
pinch-hitter Chipper Jones drove in
the go-ahead run with a basesloaded single in the seventh.
Jones missed the first two games
of the series after hurting his right
big toe on Thursday night. He didn’t start on Sunday but made good
on his first pinch-hit appearance of
the season.
“I’m glad that the opportunity
arose,” Jones said. “When you’re
sitting there you’re just hoping to
get an opportunity to have an influence on the game.”
The sweep was the Braves’ first
in eight series with Toronto.
The Blue Jays’ six-game losing
streak is their longest since drop-
ping seven straight last June. They
fell to second place in the AL East,
a half-game behind Boston.
“We’re OK,” said Toronto manager Cito Gaston. “We’re still ...
just a half-game out.”
Toronto, which began its ninegame road trip with three straight
losses at Boston, has been swept in
back-to-back road series for the
first time since May 2007 at
Cleveland and Texas.
“You’re going to go through
periods like this,” Vernon Wells
said. “Hopefully, we’ll right the
ship and get back at it tomorrow.”
Wells had two hits and scored
both Toronto runs but said “I take a
lot of responsibility” for the losing
streak.
“It’s frustrating for everyone,”
he said.
Kelly Johnson had three hits,
including a homer, and drove in
three runs for Atlanta, which completed a 6-3 homestand.
The Braves had 13 hits, including five in the seventh, when they
sent 10 batters to the plate.
“It looks like everybody’s finally in a groove,” McCann said.
“Everything fell into place.”
Jeff Bennett (2-1), Atlanta’s
third of five relievers, recorded one
out in the seventh.
Shawn Camp (0-2) gave up the
first three runs in the seventh. Lefthanded batters were 1-for-22
against Toronto right-hander Jason
Frasor this season before he gave
up three hits to lefties in the seventh, driving in six runs.
Jones greeted Frasor with an
RBI single off first baseman Lyle
Overbay’s glove for a 3-2 lead.
Johnson followed with a two-run
double, Garret Anderson had a sacrifice fly and McCann added a
three-run homer off Frasor into the
COMMENTARY
AP PHOTO
Atlanta’s Chipper Jones follows through with his RBI single against the Toronto Blue Jays during the seventh inning of Sunday’s game at Turner Field in Atlanta..
Braves bullpen to cap the seven-run
inning.
“Everybody did get in on it, but
the biggest hit of the day was
Chipper’s,” said Braves manager
Bobby Cox. “I asked him in the
fifth inning if he could go. He said,
’I can hit, I don’t know if I can run
or not.”’
Cox said he was going to use
pitcher Kris Medlen as a pinch-runner. Jones, thinking Cox was going to
weaken the bench by using a position
player, waved off the pinch-runner.
The seven runs were the most
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The Blue Jays loaded the bases
in the seventh off reliever Peter
Moylan. Reliever Eric O’Flaherty
struck out Lind, and Bennett retired
Bautista on a fly ball.
Notes: Braves SS Yunel Escobar
(right hip flexor) did not play.
Diory Hernandez, playing in place
of Escobar, singled in the seventh
for his first major league hit and
added another single in the eighth.
... Wells matched his career high
with the two steals. ... Johnson’s
homer was his second in two games
and his fifth career leadoff homer.
AUTO RACING
Lions look to
build on GFL
championship
ast season, Christian
Heritage’s football team
stormed through the
Georgia Football League with a
perfect record and ran away with
the league championship in
blowout fashion. Of the 29 players
on the 2008 opening-day roster,
nine were seniors, most in the program’s four-year history.
But as the Lions prepare for
their fifth season, they will look a
lot different. Gone is running back
Jarred Cronan,
the team’s leading rusher. Also
gone is starting
quarterback John
Pierce, who will
be replaced this
year by his
brother Daniel,
the Lions’ leading receiver last
season.
Adam
Only nine
players return
Krohn
from last year’s
team, and only
four were starters.
Needless to say, Lions coach
Mike Vaden and his players have a
lot of work to do as the team goes
through its rebuilding process.
But Vaden is not without hope.
“We are very pleased with the
young guys we have coming in
and learning the terminology,” said
Vaden, who has a 24-7 record in
three seasons with the Lions.
“They showed good effort and
enthusiasm this spring and I’m
looking forward to next season.”
The Lions wrapped up their 10-
allowed by Toronto in an inning
this season.
Johnson and McCann hit firstinning home runs off Scott
Richmond.
The Blue Jays pulled even with
runs in the fourth and sixth innings
off Jair Jurrjens, who gave up eight
hits and two runs in six innings.
Wells singled, stole second and
third, and scored on Jose
Bautista’s groundout. Wells led
off the fifth with a double and
scored on Overbay’s one-out single, making it 2-all.
AP PHOTO
Helio Castroneves speeds down the main straightaway on
his way to victory in the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis
Motor Speedway in Indianapolis on Sunday.
Castroneves takes Indy title
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The
tears flowed as soon as Helio
Castroneves turned his red-andwhite car into Victory Lane, and
he really got emotional when
Roger Penske leaned over to give
his driver a hug.
“Thanks for giving my life
back,” Castroneves said between
sobs.
He could’ve lost it all. He
could’ve gone to prison for six
years. Instead, he was celebrating
another win at the Indianapolis
500.
Castroneves capped a perfect
month of May by winning at the
Brickyard for the third time
Sunday, a triumph that was especially poignant given what he was
facing just 5 1/2 weeks ago.
From accused tax cheat to Indy
champion — this race was a lot
longer than 500 miles.
“Let’s celebrate now!” he
screamed to the quarter of a million fans.
Castroneves became the ninth
driver to win the historic race
three times, and his timing couldn’t have been better. On April 17,
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he was acquitted of most charges
at a federal tax evasion trial, and
the remaining count was finally
thrown out last Friday.
“This is the best month of May
ever,” Castroneves said, and it was
hard to argue otherwise.
He won the pole. Then he won
the pit-stop competition. And
now, the biggest win of all, No. 3
for the guy who drives car No. 3,
leaving him only one win away
from joining the most elite group
of all: four-time Indy winners A.J.
Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears.
For Penske, it was Indy win
No. 15 — more than any other car
owner and ensuring that the
Captain has never gone more than
three years between wins at this
place, except for the time he didn’t run because of a split in openwheel racing.
“He smiles only two times: on
his birthday and when he wins the
Indy 500,” Castroneves said of his
boss.
Castroneves pulled away over
the final laps to beat Dan
Wheldon and Danica Patrick, who
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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) —
NASCAR’s longest race of the
season spilled into a second day
Sunday night when the Coca-Cola
600 was postponed by rain for the
first time in 50 years.
Light rain had delayed the
scheduled 6:03 p.m. start at Lowe’s
Motor Speedway, but the track
appeared dry and NASCAR called
the cars out to pit road moments
before a heavy shower soaked the
surface again. The heavy rain lasted less than 15 minutes, but a persistent drizzle made it impossible
to dry the track.
The race will run on Monday
at noon. It’s the first time it will be
held on Memorial Day.
“We have a ton of family members and friends in town this
weekend, and of course the big
plan was for us all to be here
tonight and playing around by the
lake tomorrow,” said Kurt Busch,
who will start 17th.
“You just gotta feel for the
fans, though. I’m sure a lot of
them were counting on tomorrow
for a travel day. The weather has
put a kink in a lot of plans.”
The only other time the CocaCola 600 was postponed was the
1960 inaugural race, when it was
pushed from its Memorial Day
weekend date to June 19 because
three consecutive March snowstorms slowed construction on the
speedway.
The weather has been good to
NASCAR since the season-opening Daytona 500 was shortened
48 laps because of rain. Since
then, every Sprint Cup Series
event has been rain-free.
The Truck Series had two postponements this season — at
Martinsville and Kansas, where
the races were held on days other
than their scheduled start.
Elton Sawyer, competition
director for Red Bull Racing, said
the holdover isn’t a huge financial
burden to race teams because the
majority are based in the area and
don’t have lodging costs. But
teams will have to adjust to different track conditions: Monday’s
event will now be run during the
hottest part of the day.
AP PHOTO
Workers try to dry pit road as cars are parked before the
rain-delayed NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor
Speedway in Concord, N.C., on Sunday.
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THE DAILY CITIZEN
Monday, May 25, 2009
Win by Knockout
SCOREBOARD
LOCAL
Prep Schedule
Today
Varsity baseball
GISA Class 2A state semifinals
(Best-of-3)
Christian Heritage at Heritage in Newnan, DH, 1
and 4
———
Tuesday
Varsity baseball
GISA Class 2A state semifinals
(Best-of-3)
Christian Heritage at Heritage in Newnan, if necessary, TBD
TELEVISION
On Today
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
4 p.m.
FOX SPORTSOUTH — Atlanta at San Francisco
8 p.m.
WGN — Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs
NBA BASKETBALL
8:30 p.m.
TNT — Playoffs, Western Conference finals, game
4, L.A. Lakers at Denver
MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE
1 p.m.
ESPN — NCAA Division I tournament, championship match, teams TBA, at Foxborough, Mass.
PRO HOCKEY
San Diego 3, Chicago Cubs 1
L.A. Dodgers 5, L.A. Angels 4, 10 innings
San Francisco 5, Seattle 1
Sunday’s Scores
Colorado 3, Detroit 1
Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Yankees 3, 11 innings
Cincinnati 4, Cleveland 3, 11 innings
Florida 5, Tampa Bay 4, 11 innings
Washington 8, Baltimore 5
Boston 12, N.Y. Mets 5
Atlanta 10, Toronto 2
Pittsburgh 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Texas 5, Houston 0
Kansas City 3, St. Louis 2
Oakland 6, Arizona 2
San Diego 7, Chicago Cubs 2
Seattle 5, San Francisco 4
L.A. Angels 10, L.A. Dodgers 7
Milwaukee at Minnesota, late
Today’s Games
Houston (W.Rodriguez 5-2) at Cincinnati (Harang
4-4), 1:10 p.m.
St. Louis (C.Carpenter 2-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo
4-2), 2:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Stults 4-1) at Colorado (De La Rosa
0-4), 3:10 p.m.
San Diego (Gaudin 1-3) at Arizona (D.Davis 2-6),
3:40 p.m.
Atlanta (J.Vazquez 4-3) at San Francisco
(J.Sanchez 1-4), 4:05 p.m.
Florida (Volstad 3-3) at Philadelphia (Moyer 3-4),
7:05 p.m.
Washington (Lannan 2-3) at N.Y. Mets (Maine 3-3),
7:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Maholm 3-1) at Chicago Cubs
(Dempster 3-3), 8:05 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Florida at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.
Houston at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 8:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.
San Diego at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Atlanta at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.
NHL Playoffs
Conference Finals
(Best-of-7)
Carolina vs. Pittsburgh
Monday, May 18: Pittsburgh 3, Carolina 2
Thursday, May 21: Pittsburgh 7, Carolina 4
Saturday, May 23: Pittsburgh 6, Carolina 2,
Pittsburgh leads series 3-0
Tuesday, May 26: Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 29: Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m., if
necessary
Sunday, May 31: Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.,
if necessary
Tuesday, June 2: Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.,
if necessary
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Chicago vs. Detroit
Sunday, May 17: Detroit 5, Chicago 2
Tuesday, May 19: Detroit 3, Chicago 2, OT
Friday, May 22: Chicago 4, Detroit 3, OT
Sunday, May 24: Detroit 6, Chicago 1, Detroit leads
series 3-1
Wednesday, May 27: Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 30: Detroit at Chicago, 8 p.m., if necessary
Monday, June 1: Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m., if
necessary
———
Stanley Cup Finals
To be determined
PRO BASKETBALL
NBA Playoffs
Conference Finals
(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland vs. Orlando
Wednesday, May 20: Orlando 107, Cleveland 106
Friday, May 22: Cleveland 96, Orlando 95, series
tied 1-1
Sunday, May 24: Cleveland at Orlando, late
Tuesday, May 26: Cleveland at Orlando, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 28: Orlando at Cleveland, 8:30
p.m., if necessary
Saturday, May 30: Cleveland at Orlando, 8:30 p.m.,
if necessary
Monday, June 1: Orlando at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m., if
necessary
WESTERN CONFERENCE
L.A. Lakers vs. Denver
Tuesday, May 19: L.A. Lakers 105, Denver 103
Thursday, May 21: Denver 106, L.A. Lakers 103
Saturday, May 23: L.A. Lakers 103, Denver 97, L.A.
Lakers lead series 2-1
Today, May 25: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, May 27: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.
Friday, May 29: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m., if
necessary
Sunday, May 31: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.,
if necessary
———
NBA FINALS
(Best-of-7)
TBD
PRO BASEBALL
NL Glance
East Division
W
L Pct
24 18 .571
23 20 .535
23 20 .535
20 25 .444
13 30 .302
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Milwaukee
26 17 .605
St. Louis
26 18 .591
Cincinnati
23 20 .535
Chicago
21 21 .500
Pittsburgh
20 24 .455
Houston
18 24 .429
West Division
W
L
Pct
Los Angeles
30 15 .667
San Diego
22 22 .500
San Francisco
20 23 .465
Arizona
19 25 .432
Colorado
18 25 .419
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Saturday’s Scores
St. Louis 5, Kansas City 0
N.Y. Yankees 5, Philadelphia 4
Texas 6, Houston 3
Baltimore 2, Washington 1
Colorado 4, Detroit 3
Chicago White Sox 4, Pittsburgh 0
Cleveland 7, Cincinnati 6
Minnesota 6, Milwaukee 2
N.Y. Mets 3, Boston 2
Tampa Bay 10, Florida 3
Atlanta 4, Toronto 3
Arizona 8, Oakland 7, 11 innings
Philadelphia
Atlanta
New York
Florida
Washington
GB
—
1 1/2
1 1/2
5 1/2
11 1/2
GB
—
1/2
3
4 1/2
6 1/2
7 1/2
GB
—
7 1/2
9
10 1/2
11
AL Glance
East Division
W
L Pct
GB
26 18 .591
—
27 20 .574
1/2
25 19 .568
1
23 23 .500
4
18 26 .409
8
Central Division
W
L Pct
GB
Detroit
24 18 .571
—
Kansas City
22 22 .500
3
Minnesota
21 23 .477
4
Chicago
19 24 .442
5 1/2
Cleveland
17 28 .378
8 1/2
West Division
W
L Pct
GB
Texas
26 17 .605
—
Los Angeles
23 20 .535
3
Seattle
21 24 .467
6
Oakland
16 25 .390
9
———
Today’s Games
Toronto at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 2:05 p.m.
Boston at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.
Detroit at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.
Seattle at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m
Tuesday’s Games
Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.
Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Boston at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.
Detroit at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.
Seattle at Oakland, 10:05 p.m..
Boston
Toronto
New York
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
GOLF
Corning Classic
Sunday
At Corning Country Club
Corning, N.Y.
Purse: $1.5 million
Yardage: 6,223; Par 72 (36-36)
Final
Yani Tseng
68-70-62-67 267 -21
Paula Creamer
66-72-65-65 268 -20
Soo-Yun Kang
65-69-65-69 268 -20
Mika Miyazato
70-67-62-70 269 -19
Song-Hee Kim
67-68-69-67 271 -17
Ai Miyazato
69-70-64-68 271 -17
Vicky Hurst
70-69-63-69 271 -17
Sandra Gal
65-69-68-69 271 -17
Angela Stanford
69-69-67-67 272 -16
Jimin Jeong
66-69-69-68 272 -16
Karine Icher
64-66-74-68 272 -16
Mikaela Parmlid
67-67-68-70 272 -16
Seon Hwa Lee
67-67-68-70 272 -16
Hee Young Park
64-73-69-67 273 -15
Natalie Gulbis
68-70-66-69 273 -15
Meredith Duncan 69-67-68-69 273 -15
Mi Hyun Kim
69-67-68-69 273 -15
Helen Alfredsson 67-69-68-69 273 -15
Lindsey Wright
67-69-67-70 273 -15
Suzann Pettersen 67-68-68-70 273 -15
Katherine Hull
68-69-65-71 273 -15
Jiyai Shin, $15,339 68-71-67-68 274 -14
Cristie Kerr
68-71-65-70 274 -14
In-Kyung Kim
69-69-65-71 274 -14
Hee-Won Han
65-67-71-71 274 -14
Michelle Wie
73-67-68-67 275 -13
Momoko Ueda
72-67-69-67 275 -13
Brittany Lang
70-68-68-69 275 -13
Meena Lee
67-72-66-70 275 -13
Na Yeon Choi
66-68-68-73 275 -13
Minea Blomqvist
65-70-66-74 275 -13
Stacy Lewis
71-69-69-67 276 -12
Wendy Doolan
70-67-70-69 276 -12
Wendy Ward
72-69-65-70 276 -12
Ji Young Oh
70-67-69-70 276 -12
Sun Young Yoo
72-68-72-65 277 -11
Anna Grzebien
70-71-66-70 277 -11
Morgan Pressel
66-72-69-70 277 -11
Amy Hung
68-71-72-67 278 -10
Marcy Hart
69-69-73-67 278 -10
Nicole Castrale
66-71-71-70 278 -10
Beth Bader
70-66-72-70 278 -10
Sarah Kemp
66-68-71-73 278 -10
Alena Sharp
69-71-73-66 279 -9
Michele Redman
72-66-71-70 279 -9
Se Ri Pak
73-66-69-71 279 -9
Karen Stupples
73-68-65-73 279 -9
Becky Morgan
69-69-67-74 279 -9
Anna Nordqvist
69-72-72-67 280 -8
Jee Young Lee
72-67-72-69 280 -8
Haeji Kang
68-73-69-70 280 -8
Reilley Rankin
67-68-75-70 280 -8
Amy Yang
68-72-69-71 280 -8
S. Prammanasudh 69-70-70-71 280 -8
Lorie Kane
70-66-73-71 280 -8
A. Hanna-Williams 70-71-70-70 281 -7
Jimin Kang
69-71-70-71 281 -7
Sarah Lee
65-73-72-71 281 -7
Teresa Lu
71-70-68-72 281 -7
Jamie Hullett
69-70-70-72 281 -7
Janice Moodie
69-70-68-74 281 -7
Brittany Lincicome, 70-71-70-71 282 -6
Shanshan Feng
Il Mi Chung
Rachel Hetherington
Pat Hurst
Eunjung Yi
Sung Ah Yim
Russy Gulyanamitta
Kris Tamulis
Eva Dahllof
Na On Min
69-72-71-71
67-71-73-72
69-71-73-71
69-69-72-74
71-69-69-75
70-71-71-73
70-70-71-74
69-70-72-74
72-69-72-74
67-73-72-76
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Nelson Championship
Sunday
At TPC Four Seasons Resort
Irving, Texas
Purse: $6.5 million
Yardage: 7,166; Par 70 (35-35)
Final
Rory Sabbatini
68-64-65-64 — 261
Brian Davis
68-65-66-64 — 263
D.A. Points
68-66-65-65 — 264
Scott McCarron
66-69-68-62 — 265
Dustin Johnson
68-65-66-66 — 265
John Mallinger
67-65-65-70 — 267
John Senden
71-68-65-64 — 268
Fred Couples
69-66-67-67 — 269
Jeff Maggert
71-66-65-67 — 269
Marc Leishman
68-70-63-68 — 269
Briny Baird
69-64-67-69 — 269
James Nitties
65-68-68-69 — 270
Danny Lee
69-67-69-66 — 271
Glen Day
69-66-65-71 — 271
Kevin Streelman
67-69-64-71 — 271
Greg Chalmers
68-69-69-66 — 272
Vijay Singh
70-67-69-66 — 272
Robert Garrigus
70-66-69-67 — 272
Justin Leonard
75-63-66-68 — 272
Steve Marino
69-69-66-68 — 272
Mike Weir
66-71-66-69 — 272
George McNeill
69-67-66-70 — 272
Jimmy Walker
71-68-69-65 — 273
Rod Pampling
72-67-69-65 — 273
Chris Riley
71-68-68-66 — 273
Tim Wilkinson
69-67-70-67 — 273
Ken Duke
65-69-71-68 — 273
Tommy Armour III 67-71-68-67 — 273
Ted Purdy
74-65-66-68 — 273
Alex Cejka
69-69-67-68 — 273
Charlie Wi
73-66-64-70 — 273
Michael Letzig
68-68-67-70 — 273
Bryce Molder
68-68-66-71 — 273
Charley Hoffman
71-66-65-71 — 273
Steve Flesch
70-69-69-66 — 274
Joe Ogilvie
69-70-68-67 — 274
Greg Owen
68-71-68-67 — 274
James Driscoll
67-66-69-72 — 274
Martin Laird
72-67-68-68 — 275
Matt Kuchar
70-69-68-68 — 275
David Mathis
72-67-67-69 — 275
John Rollins
72-66-68-69 — 275
Kris Blanks
68-71-66-70 — 275
Brad Adamonis
66-70-69-70 — 275
Ben Crane
71-68-71-66 — 276
Harrison Frazar
73-66-71-66 — 276
Chris DiMarco
67-69-72-68 — 276
Jeff Klauk
72-66-69-69 — 276
Hunter Mahan
71-68-67-70 — 276
Nathan Green
70-69-66-71 — 276
Charles Howell III 66-69-68-73 — 276
Mark Calcavecchia 68-70-75-64 — 277
Jay Williamson
68-71-71-67 — 277
Troy Matteson
68-69-71-69 — 277
Matt Weibring
67-69-71-70 — 277
Colt Knost
67-72-67-71 — 277
Davis Love III
73-64-69-71 — 277
Brian Bateman
69-70-66-72 — 277
Nicholas Thompson 73-66-64-74 — 277
Cliff Kresge
70-69-74-65 — 278
Todd Hamilton
71-67-71-69 — 278
Ricky Barnes
69-70-69-70 — 278
Y.E. Yang
69-67-69-73 — 278
J.J. Henry
71-68-66-73 — 278
Bob Heintz
68-70-73-68 — 279
Notah Begay III
73-65-70-71 — 279
Jesper Parnevik
67-68-69-75 — 279
Robert Allenby
67-67-70-75 — 279
Kent Jones
67-70-74-69 — 280
David Berganio, Jr. 72-65-72-71 — 280
Jonathan Byrd
68-70-66-76 — 280
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E
Senior Championship
Sunday
At Canterbury Golf Club
Beachwood, Ohio
Purse: $2 million
Yardage: 6,895; Par 70 (34-36)
Final
Michael Allen
74-66-67-67 — 274 -6
Larry Mize
69-69-71-67 — 276 -4
Bruce Fleisher
71-70-69-67 — 277 -3
Tom Watson
72-72-70-66 — 280 E
AP SPORTLIGHT
Sabbatini honors Mickelsons, wins
Associated Press Writer
IRVING, Texas — Rory
Sabbatini knelt down on the
18th green as his two young
children charged to congratulate him with hugs and kisses.
“The beauty about it is
just seeing the innocent joy
in their eyes,” Sabbatini said
after his victory Sunday in
the
Byron
Nelson
Championship.
Wearing a pink shirt in a
show of support for Amy
Mickelson, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and
heavy hearted because of the
rapidly deteriorating health
of a buddy with Hodgkin’s
lymphoma, Sabbatini shot a
6-under 64 for a two-stroke
victory over late-charging
Brian Davis in Lord Byron’s
tournament.
“Obviously this tournament is very special,”
Sabbatini said. “It’s one that
I wish I had have been able
to win it and look up and see
Byron sitting there at the
18th green. ... What a wonderful name to be associated
with now.”
After an 8-foot putt at No.
17 for his third straight
birdie, Sabbatini got to enjoy
the champion’s walk up No.
18. And it didn’t matter that
his 7-foot par putt slid past
and he had to tap in for
bogey.
Once the final putt
dropped, Sabbatini’s 5-year-
Krohn: 4 returning starters
➣ Continued from page 1B
day spring practice session Saturday in Cumming
with a three-way scrimmage between two GFL
schools, the North
Georgia Falcons and the
Georgia Force.
It wasn’t a typical game
— each team played each
other for three quarters and
no score was kept — but it
provided the Lions good
game-type experience,
Vaden said.
Because some of the
football players are still
with the Lions’ baseball
team in the GISA state
playoffs, and because some
of the home school players
didn’t report, Vaden only
had 18 players to work
with this spring. That
meant the Lions couldn’t
play a traditional intrasquad
spring game like they did
last year, so this year’s
scrimmage format worked
out well.
“It was a good scrimmage,” Vaden said. “Both
the Falcons and the Force
old son and 3-year old
daughter — with “Team
Sabo” inscribed on their
clothing — ran out to greet
him. He then embraced wife
Amy and Peggy Nelson, the
widow of Byron Nelson.
Sabbatini, the 33-year-old
South African who lives in
nearby Fort Worth, finished
at 19-under 261 at TPC Four
Seasons Resort Las Colinas
to break the tournament
mark of 18 under set by
Loren Roberts and playoff
loser Steve Pate in 1999 —
when the Cottonwood Valley
course also was used the first
two days.
Sabbatini earned $1.17
million for his fifth PGA
Tour victory.
game tempo. Vaden said
he’s got four running backs
that will be in the mix,
including Parmalee Ward,
who saw significant playing
time last season.
The offensive line will
have two starters returning
in Travor Maffetone and
Andrew Weaver. The two
also played on the defensive line and will do so
again this season.
Daniel Groce returns as
a linebacker and tight end,
and Daniel Pierce will
play in an otherwise
young secondary, in addition to his quarterback
duties.
So although this season
may be a rebuilding year
for the Lions, opposing
teams shouldn’t count them
out as a playoff contender.
“I feel like we can be
competitive,” Vaden said.
were much more mature
than we were, but we held
our own and I was pleased
with that.”
Because the Falcons and
Force have more returning
players from last year’s
teams, Vaden said he considers both as favorites to
contend for this year’s
championship.
“We’ve got a lot of work
to do to prepare for a return
to the championship game,”
he said.
When summer practice
resumes in July, Vaden
hopes the number of participants will increase to
around the number of last
year’s roster of 29. At that
time, he said he’ll start
determining who will be
starters this coming season.
Without knowing his full
starting lineup, Vaden has
already decided there will
be a scheme change in the
running game because of
Cronan’s graduation. They
will switch from the veer to
a wing-T, using more of a
misdirection rushing attack
designed to control the
Adam Krohn is a sports
writer for The Daily
Citizen. You can write him
at adamkrohn@daltoncitizen.com or follow him on
Twitter @adamkrohn.
Indy: Danica finishes third
➣ Continued from page 1B
May 25
1948 — Ben Hogan wins the PGA championship,
beating Mike Turnesa in the final round, 7 and 6.
1965 — Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston a
minute into the first round in the controversial
rematch for Ali's heavyweight title. Listed as the
fastest knockout in a heavyweight title bout, Liston
goes down on a short right-hand punch.
1975 — The Golden State Warriors become the
third team to sweep the NBA finals, beating the
Washington Bullets 96-95 on Butch Beard's foul
shot with 9 seconds remaining.
1978 — The Montreal Canadiens defeat the
Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 6 for their third straight
Stanley Cup.
1980 — Johnny Rutherford wins his third
Indianapolis 500 in seven years and becomes the
first driver to win twice from the pole.
1987 — Herve Filion becomes the first harness
racing driver to win 10,000 races. Filion reaches
the milestone driving Commander Bond to victory
in the third race at Yonkers Raceway.
1991 — The Pittsburgh Penguins, led by Mario
Lemieux, win the Stanley Cup for the first time with
an 8-0 rout of the Minnesota North Stars.
1998 — Princeton punctuates its claim as one of
college lacrosse's great programs by beating
Maryland 15-5 for its third straight NCAA Division I
title and fifth in seven years.
2002 — Boston sets an NBA record, overcoming a
21-point fourth-quarter deficit in a 94-90 win over
New Jersey. The Celtics outscore the Nets 41-16 in
the quarter.
2003 — Juli Inkster shoots a 10-under 62 — tying
the lowest final-round score by a winner in LPGA
Tour history — to beat Lorie Kane by four strokes
in the LPGA Corning Classic.
2007 — Bjarne Riis is the first Tour de France winner to admit using performance-enhancing drugs
to win the sport's premier race, further eroding
cycling's credibility after a series of doping confessions. His admission means the top three finishers
in the 1996 Tour are linked to doping — with two
admitting to cheating.
2008 — Seven crashes and spinouts mar the first
Indianapolis 500 since the two warring open-wheel
series (CART and IRL) came together under the
IndyCar banner. Scott Dixon stays ahead of the
trouble to win the race.
GOLF
BY STEPHEN HAWKINS
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The North Georgia Knockouts ’95 were runners-up in the recent NSA Day at
the Park tournament. Team members are front row, left to right, Rebecca
Leonard, Colbie Thomas, Megan Pittman, Shawnda Martin and Ashley Cox;
second row, coach Nick Conner, Kinsey Sholl, Maria Walshe, Kara Deal,
Ashley Farrell, Carley Fetzer and coach Mike Leonard.
eclipsed her historic fourthplace finish as a rookie in
2005 by crossing the strip of
bricks in third.
Patrick, however, was
never really a factor on this
day. It belonged to
Castroneves, who pumped
his fist all the way down the
final straightaway.
“I want to climb the
fence,” said the driver
known as “Spiderman,”
referring to his signature
celebration.
Then he did just that,
climbing out of his car after
the victory lap and scaling
the fence along the main
grandstand with his pit
crew. Someone tossed him a
green-and-yellow Brazilian
flag.
It was clearly a popular
victory. The fans who
turned out on a sweltering
late spring day were on their
feet, cheering and waving
their caps as Castroneves
sped around the 2.5-mile
oval for the final time.
“You guys kept me
strong,” Castroneves told
the crowd. “You guys are
the best. I’m honored to
have fans like you.
Crashes took out some of
the biggest names in the
field,
including
Tony
Kanaan, Marco Andretti and
Graham Rahal. The most
frightening wreck occurred
on lap 173, when Brazilians
Vitor Meira and Raphael
Matos got together going
into the first turn.
Meira’s car veered headon into the padded outside
wall. He was removed from
the car, put on a stretcher
and taken to a nearby hospital complaining of severe
lower-back pain. Later,
IndyCar officials said he
sustained two broken vertebrae in his back, but the
injury should be treatable
without surgery.
The lengthy caution period after the Meira-Matos
crash ensured that everyone
had enough fuel to get to the
finish. When the race
restarted with 17 laps to go,
Castroneves got a great
jump on Wheldon and
Patrick and pulled away to
win by nearly 2 seconds,
more than two football
fields.
“At the end, I just didn’t
have enough for Helio,” said
Wheldon, who won the race
in 2005.
The winning speed was
150.318 mph in a race that
had only four leaders:
Castroneves and Penske
teammate Ryan Briscoe,
along with the last two winners, Chip Ganassi Racing’s
Scott Dixon and Dario
Franchitti.
Dixon, the defending
champion, led more laps
than anyone (73), and 2007
winner Franchitti, returning
to Indy after a disappointing
foray into stock cars, was
out
front
for
50.
Castroneves led 66 and
Briscoe the other 11.
Castroneves started from
the pole and led the first
seven laps, then laid back
for a good part of the overcast, sweltering afternoon.
Finally, on a restart after the
sixth of eight yellow flags,
Castroneves surged past
Dixon to reclaim the lead
with 59 laps to go.
It was his the rest of the
way.
“I’m very happy for
him,” Patrick said. “I’m
glad to have him back, and
obviously he’s great for the
sport.”
Indeed, Castroneves is
perhaps the most recognizable open-wheel driver in the
U.S. outside of Patrick, his
appeal growing even more
after he was crowned
“Dancing with the Stars”
champion in 2007.
Then he made headlines
of a different kind, dragged
into court in shackles after a
federal jury accused him of
hiding millions in an offshore company.
Penske never lost faith in
his driver, and promised that
his car would be waiting if
his legal woes were
resolved. After missing the
season-opening
race,
Castroneves was acquitted
by a jury and immediately
hopped on a plane for an
event at Long Beach, Calif.
No. 3 was waiting, just
as Penske had promised.
“I had so much faith that
Helio hadn’t done anything
wrong,” the team owner
said. “We were never, ever
going to leave his side.”
Rahal, the 20-year-old
son of 1986 Indy winner
Bobby Rahal, crashed on
the 56th lap in virtually the
same spot where he hit the
wall a year earlier. He started fourth and was running
fifth when his car went high
coming out of the fourth
turn and slammed the barrier. He was not injured.
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SE fundraiser
• Southeast High baseball’s Dugout
Club will host a fried chicken dinner
from 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on June 14
at The Oakwood Cafe. Tickets are
$7.50 and all proceeds will go to the
club. For information, call Mike Fowler
at (706) 271-8903.
Tennis clinic
• Registration is open for the “Learn
to Play” summer tennis program at
Dalton Golf and Country Club. Clinics
are offered for all school-age girls and
boys every week throughout the summer beginning on June 2. Also offered
are “Intensive Training” and “Just Drills”
sessions for young tournament competitors and “For Adults” classes as
well. Club membership is not a requirement. Information is available by calling
the racquet shop at (706) 259-9524,
going
online
to
www.ERacquetShop.com or stopping by the
club’s tennis facility on Cleveland
Highway. The program is in its 31st
year and directed by Gary Valleriano,
the club’s USPTA tennis professional.
He is assisted by Jacob Eastwood,
Jennifer Enck, Julie Kinsey and Jade
Ringhoffer.
Youth fishing day
• The Conasauga Bass Club’s annual youth fishing event is scheduled for
July 25 in Whitfield County. Children
should bring their fishing pole and tackle. Club members will help the children
with fishing tips, bait, tackle and pole
preparation, taking off catches and taking pictures of catches. Food and drinks
will be provided and all children will
receive a goodie bag and a gift certificate. Poles, bait and tackle will be provided to those that need them. The
event is free, but registration is required.
Call (706) 847-6973 or write cbcfishingevent@windstream.net.
Directions to the event: From I-75 North,
take Exit 341. Go right, then turn left
onto Lake Kathy Rd. Take the first left
onto Oscar Nance Rd., then turn left at
the next drive and look for the balloons.
Registration, tryouts
• The Carpet Capital Soccer Club is
joining with First Baptist Church to form
Carpet Capital/First Kids Soccer.
Registration for boys and girls will take
place at First Baptist’s Family Life Center
through June 12 for a fall league. Practice
starts Aug. 24, games start Sept. 12.
Costs are $55 for ages 6 and younger
and $75 for ages up to U-19. All ages
must bring a birth certificate and ages 12
and older must bring a photograph.
• The Dalton Dolphins are holding
registration for summer swimming
competition through June 15. Also,
SwimAmerica swimming lessons run
every two weeks through the summer.
Times for lessons are 4 p.m., 5 p.m.
and 7 p.m.; classes are limited to five
swimmers per instructor. Contact
Charles Todd at (706) 275-0077 or visit
ccacswimming.org.
• Dalton Parks and Recreation
Department is holding registration
through for youth soccer (boys and
girls ages 4-13) through May 28. The
DPRD will attempt to have separate
boys and girls leagues, with age
groups First Kick (ages 4-5),
Instructional (6-7), 8-9, 10-11 and 1213. Teams will be small in size, with
children in the three youngest leagues
playing six-on-six, 10-11 playing eight-
on-eight and 12-13 playing 11-on-11.
The Department also needs at least 40
coaches for soccer — a coaches clinic
is scheduled for 6 p.m. on June 4 and
no league will begin until enough
coaches are in place. All league registration is free and available online at
dprdsports.com. In-person registration
is set for May 26-28 from 4-7 p.m. each
day at the main recreation center.
• A new Georgia Force 10-under
fastpitch softball team based in Dalton
and Chatsworth is looking for four girls
with 1998-99 birthdays to complete its
roster. All positions are available. To
schedule a tryout, please call a coach:
Chad Poteet (706) 260-7332, A.J.
Johnston (706) 271-7910 or Rodney
Pittman (706) 483-0982.
Clinics, camps
• The Dalton Lady Cats basketball
camp will be held June 1-4 from 8:30
a.m. to noon each day at the Dalton
High gym. Camp is for girls K-8th grade
and the fee is $65. Contact Jeff
McKinney at (706) 278-8757 or
jeff.mckinney@dalton.k12.ga.us.
Online registration is available at
www.daltonpublicschools.com — click
on community, news/events and summer camps.
• The ninth Lady Lion Basketball
Camp is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon
each day on June 1-4 at Christian
Heritage School. Camp is for girls who
are entering grades 1-6 and will include
individual instruction and team games.
Instructors will be Lady Lions varsity
players and devotions will be part of the
camp. Cost is $50. Each camper will
receive a T-shirt and water bottle.
Sports drinks will be sold for $1 during
camp. Contact Heather Lowery at
(706) 277-1198, extension 131.
• Murray County’s varsity cheerleaders will host a camp for grades K-6
from 8 a.m. to noon on June 1-4. Cost
is $65 and includes lunch and a T-shirt.
Campers may be dropped off at 7:30
a.m. Early registration will be held from
5-6 p.m. on May 28 in the Murray High
lobby; first-day registration will begin at
7:30 a.m. For information, contact Tara
Jones at (706) 2270-4350.
• A softball camp for girls ages 5-11
is scheduled at Murray County High
School’s field in Chatsworth from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 1-4. Fee is $60
for ages 5-11. Murray County High
coaches will serve as instructors.
Registration starts at 8:30 the first day.
Contact Sandra Johnston at (706) 2718335, Bob Spear at (706) 483-9627 or
Joel Brown at (423) 421-3087.
• The Bagley Braves basketball
camps for boys in grades 3-10 are
scheduled for June 1-5 at the Bagley
gym. A morning session will be held
from 9 a.m. to noon and an afternoon
session from 1-4 p.m.; cost is $50 for
one camp of $80 for both. Coaches
Bob Campbell, Eric Bishop, Eric
Hooker and former Braves will provide
instruction. Registration begins the first
day of camp a half-hour before the start
of the session.
• Challenger Sports British Soccer
Camp will host a preseason soccer
camp on June 1-5, with morning and
full-day sessions available. For information, visit challengersports.com.
• First Kids Basketball Camp for
ages 9-11 is scheduled for June 1-4
and a camp for ages 7-8 is scheduled
for June 15-18 from 9 a.m. to noon
each day. Cost is $25 for each camp
and registration is open at First
PRO HOCKEY
Wings clip
Blackhawks
CHICAGO (AP) —
Marian Hossa and Henrik
Zetterberg scored two goals
each Sunday, and the Detroit
Red Wings overcame the
absences
of
Nicklas
Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk
to rout the Chicago
Blackhawks 6-1 and take a
3-1 lead in the Western
Conference finals.
The defending Stanley
Cup champions can clinch a
return trip to the finals with
a victory Wednesday at
home.
The Red Wings played
without six-time Norris
Trophy winner Lidstrom,
who was scratched due to a
lower body injury. MVP
finalist Datsyuk missed his
second straight game with a
sore foot.
Johan
Franzen
and
Valtteri Filppula also scored
for Detroit, and Chris
Osgood made 18 saves in
two periods. The Red Wings
had three power-play goals
and one short-handed tally.
Chicago goalie Cristobal
Huet, making his first start of
these playoffs in place of
injured Nikolai Khabibulin,
gave up four goals and was
pulled in the second. Rookie
Corey Crawford took over
Baptist’s Family Life Center. First Kids
Golf Camp for ages 9-12 is scheduled
for July 6-9. Cost is $35.
• Nob North Golf Course will host its
annual Junior Clinic for boys and girls
ages 7-17 from 9 a.m. to noon each
day on June 8-10. Cost is $60. Call
(706) 694-8505 to sign up.
• The Northwest Bruins Baseball
Summer Clinic is scheduled for June 810 at the school in Tunnel Hill; a session for upcoming second through fifth
graders will be held from 9 a.m. to noon
each day, while a session for upcoming
sixth through ninth graders will be held
from 1-4 p.m. Players should bring
glove and baseball shoes; bat and helmet are optional. Cost is $60 and
includes a T-shirt. For information, call
Todd Middleton at (706) 673-9886 or
(706) 673-6533 or write to nwdiamondcoach@yahoo.com.
• Dalton High will hold a cheerleader clinic June 8-11 from 8:30-11:30
a.m. each day at Dalton Middle School.
The fee is $65, with registration ending
June 8. Fee is $60 for an additional
child. Registration forms are available
at Dalton High School. Check-in begins
at 8:15 a.m. on June 8.
• Northwest Whitfield’s Lady Bruins
basketball camp for girls entering
grades 1-9 is set for June 8-11 at the
high school in Tunnel Hill. Grades 1-5
will have a morning session from 9 a.m.
to noon on 8 1/2 foot goals; grades 6-9
will have an afternoon session from 14 p.m. Camp will include individual fundamentals, practical application of
skills learned in 1-on-1, 3-on-3 and free
throw competition as well as team play.
Instructors will be Northwest’s coaching staff and returning players. Other
competitions will also be held and door
prizes will be given. Cost is $40 if registered by June 2 or $45 after and
includes a T-shirt. Contact Margaret
Stockburger at (706) 673-6533 or (706)
526-2200.
• Dalton High will host a cross country mini-camp from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on
June 8-11 at the school’s track. Any
student who completed grades 4-8 is
eligible to participate; camp fee is $55
by June 4 or $60 after and covers a Tshirt and snacks. Contact Karen
Galyon at (706) 278-8757 or
karen.galyoun@dalton.k12.ga.us.
• The Big Red Basketball Camp for
boys is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to noon
on June 8-11 at Dalton High’s gym.
Camp is for boys in grades K-8 and
costs $65. Contact Mike Duffie at (706)
278-8757
or
mike.duffie@dalton.k12.ga.us.
• The 2009 Dalton Youth Baseball
camp for ages 5-12 is scheduled for
June 8-10 from 9 a.m. to noon each
day at Heritage Point Park. Coaching
provided by Dalton Middle’s Scott
Houghton and Brandon Sane.
Campers will receive instruction and
participate in drills to improve throwing,
fielding, hitting and pitching skills.
Contact Houghton at (423) 413-7969 or
Sane at (706) 280-9051.
• North Murray High will hold a
baseball camp for kindergarten through
eighth graders on June 9-12 at Bagley
Middle School. Cost is $60. Contact
Steve Granger at (706) 463-8677 or
Brad Bartley (706) 271-5987.
• Northwest Whitfield’s softball
camp is scheduled for June 15 at the
school’s softball field. For grades 1-5
the camp will run from 8-10 a.m. and
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for grades 6-9.
Northwest coaches will serve as
BY DANNY ROBBINS
for the last 15:55 of the period, but Huet returned in the
third
and
gave
up
Zetterberg’s second powerplay goal that made it 6-1.
Jonathan Toews had
Chicago’s lone goal on a second-period power play.
Notes: Niklas Kronwall,
whose hard hit on Chicago
RW Martin Havlat forced
him out in the first period of
Friday night’s game was
booed every time he touched
the puck. D Chris Chelios,
the Chicago native who
spent nine seasons with the
Blackhawks before being
traded to Detroit 10 years
ago, made his first appearance of the series.
any Southeast feeder school, as well
as the Southeast front office. Camp will
focus on offensive and defensive fundamentals, as well as speed development. Call David Crane at (706) 2758603.
• Southeast’s Lady Raider Youth
Softball Camp for first through eighth
graders is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon
each day on July 14-16. Athletes will
learn individual and team defensive
and offensive skills. Each camper will
receive a T-shirt and concessions will
be available. Cost is $45 and registration forms can be picked up at any
Southeast feeder school or the high
school’s main office. Registration will
also be available the first day of camp.
For information, call Elizabeth Crane at
(706) 876-7134.
• Dalton Middle School’s Cougar
Football Camp for boys entering
grades 6-8 is scheduled for 5:30-7:30
p.m. on July 27-30 at the school’s practice field. Cost is $50 and includes a Tshirt. Contact John Patrick at (706)
226-1942.
Tournaments
• The Antioch Ruritan Club’s third
annual T-Ball Madness Tournament for
recreation league teams is set for June
11-13 at Eastbrook Park. Cost is $40
per team, with registration due by June
5. Contact Debbie Sosebee at (706)
934-9728.
• The National College of Martial
Arts International’s 20th Anniversary
Tournament is scheduled for June 2627 at the Northwest Georgia Trade and
Convention Center. Although the tournament is an invitation-only event, individuals wishing to be considered for
competition can call (706) 260-8591.
Admission for spectators is $5 at the
door, with ages 12 and younger admitted free. Two seminars are also scheduled on June 26, one with Jeff
Speakman and another with Eric
Higaonna; cost is $50 for both seminars or $30 for one. All tournament
schedules, forms and fees are posted
at ncma20th.tenchigoju.com.
• One-pitch men’s softball tournaments will be held every Friday night in
May, June and July at Petty Park in
Murray County. Good prizes. A onepitch co-ed tourney is also scheduled
for May 22 at the park. Entry fee is
$150, prizes depend on number of
teams. Call Rhett at (706) 847-0373.
• Nob North Golf Course in Cohutta
is accepting registration from area golf
threesomes to compete in a PGA of
America Local Qualifying Event on
Aug. 22, which is the first leg in trying to
earn a spot in the 2009 McGladrey
Team Championship. A field of 18
three-member amateur teams will compete for up to two berths in the Georgia
Section Championship on Sept. 28 at
The Legends at Chateau Elan. Entry
deadline is Aug. 8. The National
Championship is scheduled for Oct.
26-28 at the Pinehurst Resort in North
Carolina. Registration is available at
pga.com/teamchampionship or by calling (706) 694-8505.
Add your news
• If you have a tournament, registration, camp, meeting or other local
sports event you’d like to have listed,
we’re happy to include it in our sports
calendar, free of charge. E-mail the
details
to
larryfleming@daltoncitizen.com or
send a fax to (706) 275-6641.
Mavs owner Cuban’s battle with SEC heating up
Associated Press Writer
AP PHOTO
Detroit’s Marian Hossa,
right,
and
Niklas
Kronwall celebrate a goal
Saturday in Chicago.
instructors. The fee is $20 and pre-registration by June 2 is requested, but
day-of-camp registration will be available. Contact Shane Ramsey at (706)
516-2200 or at shane_ramsey@whitfield.k12.ga.us.
• The Northwest Bruins basketball
camp is scheduled for June 15-18.
Grades 1-5 will meet each day from 9
a.m. to noon, while grades 6-9 will do
so from 1-4 p.m. Only fifth graders that
want to shoot on an 8 1/2-foot goal
should attend the morning session.
Activities will include dribbling, passing,
shooting, agility drills, mental coaching,
league games, competitions and more
and instruction will be provided by the
Northwest coaching staff and current
and former players. A camp bank will
be available, as will concessions, and
all campers will receive a T-shirt. Cost
is $45 and $40 for each additional sibling within a family. Pre-registration is
requested by June 8, but registration
will be available the first day of camp.
• Southeast High will host a baseball camp for children in grades 2-8
from 8:30 a.m. to noon on June 15-17.
Fundamental skills and drills will be the
focus of the camp, with high school
coaches instructing and high school
and college players present as well.
Cost is $60. For information, contact
Jason Keller at (210) 313-3862, Todd
Murray at (706) 264-9178 or the school
at (706) 876-7000.
• Dalton High will hold the
Catamount Football Camp for ages 7
through rising eighth graders from 9
a.m. to noon on June 22-24. Camp will
focus on fundamentals and basic skills
and techniques of football, and
campers will receive individual attention with encouragement to improve
their overall game, sportsmanship and
football knowledge. Motivational
speakers, competitions and awards will
also be part of the camp. Cost is $50;
campers will receive a T-shirt and
camp picture. Registration will be available the day of camp. Contact Chad
Jordan at (706) 217-5577 or chad.jordan@dalton.k12.ga.us.
• Northwest Whitfield’s Fighting
Bruins Football Camp for boys entering
grades 1-6 is scheduled for June 22-24
from 8-11:30 a.m. each day at the high
school. Cost is $50 per camper and
pre-registration is requested. Check-in
will begin at 7:45 at the fieldhouse.
Contact Mike Falleur at (706) 5162217.
• The Future Champions Football
Camp for rising third through eighth
graders is scheduled for June 22-25
from 9 a.m. to noon each day at the
Murray County Recreation Center’s
baseball fields. Cost is $60 by June 21
or $70 the first day of camp; water and
lunch will be provided, each camper
will receive a T-shirt and awards will be
given to contest winners. Campers
should wear rubber-soled cleats,
shorts and T-shirt and may bring their
own football. Each day will include
guest speakers as well as instructional
sessions and speed and quickness
drills. Call Keith Swilling at (706) 6951905, Roger Rainey at (706) 695-8563
or Hugh Swilling at (706) 695-9809.
• The Southeast Raider Youth
Football Camp is scheduled for June
23-25 from 9 a.m. to noon each day.
The camp is open to rising first through
eighth graders; campers will be
grouped by age. Cost is $35 and
includes a T-shirt and helmet decal.
Registration forms can be picked up at
DALLAS — The Dallas
Mavericks are out of the
National
Basketball
Association playoffs, and
the spotlight is now following the
team's
PRO
controBASKETBALL v e r s i a l
owner,
Mark Cuban, to a different
venue — federal court.
The insider trading suit
filed against Cuban by the
U.S.
Securities
and
Exchange Commission last
year is scheduled to receive
its first hearing Tuesday
when attorneys present oral
arguments on a motion by
the billionaire owner to have
the case dismissed.
The hearing will provide
yet another window to a case
that has captured the attention
of the country's legal minds,
some of whom believe it represents an unprecedented step
by the SEC.
"The basis on which
they're going after Cuban
hasn't been tried before," said
Peter Henning, a law professor in Detroit who formerly
worked as an attorney in the
SEC's enforcement division.
"Whether the SEC is going to
be able to stretch (its authority) that far certainly remains
to be seen."
The SEC alleges that
Cuban engaged in insider
trading when he sold his
shares in a Canadian Internet
search engine company,
Mamma.com Inc., after
receiving confidential information that the company
planned to sell additional
shares through a private offering in 2004. Cuban was able
to avoid more than $750,000
in losses by selling his shares,
according to the SEC.
The government's case is
based on the contention
that, by violating an oral
agreement to keep the sensitive information confidential, Cuban committed
insider trading.
Cuban and his legal team,
while not admitting that the
facts detailed in the suit are
true, say the government's
premise is wrong. They say
Cuban, whose shares represented a 6.3 percent stake in
Mamma.com, was never an
"insider" because he didn't
have a fiduciary or similar
duty in his relationship with
the company.
Cuban's motion to have
the case dismissed has
sparked a series of pleadings and briefs in which he
has attacked the government's position and the government has pushed back
with equally sharp elbows.
The SEC argues that a
confidential agreement is
sufficient to establish a
fiduciary relationship and
derides Cuban's stance.
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8 6 8 COUNTY
C O U N T Y LINE
R O A D , RESACA
RESACA
706-624-3255
706-624-3255
Family
Owned &
Operated
www.bowmansrestaurantandcatering.com
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Travel Hwy 41 to Resaca, GA. Turn onto 136 East across railroad tracks and travel 2 miles
turning left onto Mt. Zion Church Rd. Travel 1.5 miles and turn right onto County Line Rd.
Bowman’s is 1/2 mile on the right.
Where “U” always come first!
GAL#AU003610
www.ultimateauctioncompany.com
190 TREADWELL RD.
CHATSWORTH, GA 30705
RAIN OR SHINE!!
CALL BILL RAPER 706-280-0890
Place your business ad on this page every
Monday, Thursday & Saturday for one low price!
Call 706-217-6397 for more information.
Monday, May 25, 2009
THE DAILY CITIZEN
ANNOUNCEMENTS
104
Lost
Lost in Cavendar Rd area,
elderly light colored male
Pekingese. Has arthritis in lower
back, wearing red collar, has
overbite, needs meds. Very
smart dog (706)934-9599
Lost “Sugar” a small, multi
colored, Sheltie. 12 years old.
Wearing pink collar with phone
#. Westerly Heights near Dalton
High. Reward. (706)278-3994
105
Special
Notices
FINANCIAL
252
Business
For Sale
FAST FOOD
FOR SALE OR LEASE
Former Central Park Location
Fully Equipped for Fast Food
LOCALLY OWNED
706-226-1809 or 706-581-6366
254
Money to Lend
Low Rates, Affordable Payments.
CASH LOANS COMPANY
706-278-7600
Subject to our liberal credit policies
EMPLOYMENT
310
General
Dalton Truck Mechanic
An excellent opportunity is now
available for F/T 1st shift
mechanic for an over the road
fleet of Volvo’s and Freightliners.
Min requirements - 2 yrs exp
preferred in repair and
maintenance of diesel trucks
with electrical and electronic
engines; diagnostics and repair;
and other mechanic duties as
assigned. Must have own tools.
Good Benefits. Apply in person
at 3653 Dug Gap Road, Dalton.
EOE. Drug Free Work
Environment.
Small & growing co. located in
the Chatsworth, Ga. area
seeking a candidate to join our
customer
service
team. Successful candidate will
work in fast paced enviroment,
need to have the ability to multi
task & exhibit the ability to work
in multiple capacities. Great
opportunity to join the Pregra
team at ground level. 5yrs
customer service exp. in the turf
or related field desired but not
mandatory. Only candidates
with proven customer service
exp. need apply. Qualified
candidates forward resume to:
hrdepartment6842@ gmail.com
Inventory
Control
/
Purchasing. Ideal candidate
should have experience with
materials
management,
inventories,
shipping/receiving
procedures and documents and
be computer literate. Fax resume
to 706-226-6773
310
General
Employee Benefits firm seeking
intelligent, personable individual
to assist in administration of
benefit programs such as
medical
coverage,
dental
insurance, group life insurance,
401(k) plans, tuition assistance,
short term disability, long term
disability, and leave of absence.
Responsibilities include but are
not limited to: advise employees
on coverages and eligibility
requirements, assist employees
in claims resolution, work with
outside
vendors
regarding
benefit administration. Bilingual
English/Spanish
is
an
advantage.
Applicant
requirements are two or more
years of experience in Employee
Benefits
Administration,
excellent customer service skills
and computer proficiency in
spreadsheet
and
word
processing programs. Hours are
Monday - Friday 8AM - 5PM.
Work locations in both Dalton
and Calhoun. Good benefits and
stable employment for the right
individual. $15/hour.
Please
email
resume.
ATLBSC@gmail.com
HELP WANTED – FIRST SHIFT
ONLY. EXPERIENCED
Mechanically
Frothed
Polyurethane
Foam
Bar
Operator.
Applicants MUST
have a minimum of 5 years
experience. Wages based on
experience & ability.
Paid
Vacation, Holidays. Health Plan
available. Send resume to
Blind Box T-10
c/o The Daily Citizen
PO Box 1167
Dalton GA 30720
Lending Officer Position.
Senior lending position for strong
local
bank.
Excellent
Advancement
Opportunities.
Must
have
10+
years
experience.
Please
submit
resume’ to:
Blind Box U-2
c/o The Daily Citizen
PO Box
Dalton GA 30722
311
Health Care
RN - Unit Manager - FULL TIME
RN’s with GA license needed for
rapidly growing hospice care
agency in the North Georgia
area.
Hospice
experience
required. Competitive benefits
and compensation. Why work for
a big remote corporation when
you can work where we treat our
patients and our staff like family.
Fax 256-532-2398 or email
your
hhccorporate@aol.com
resume
today
320
&
salary
311
Health Care
Want to Buy
704
Land & Lots
requirements
SERVICES
Tax
Service
Beautiful Land For Sale.
Beaverdale Community.
One 5+ acre tract left. Owner
financing
available.
For
information call Kevin 706-2178335
Land for sale, 5-10 acre tracts in
Westside area. Call 706-2178335.
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
Look for the solution to today’s Sudoku Puzzle
on page 6B of the classifieds.
726
Commercial
Buildings
PETS/LIVESTOCK
502
Free Pets
Four Border Collie mix puppies
for adoption. To good homes
only. Call 706-264-4608
Lost Hickory Hills Neighborhood
off Dug Gap Rd. Medium sized
mix breed, mostly white, long
hair. Missing eye.706-428-9653
ITEMS FOR SALE
611
Misc. Items
For Sale
614
Sporting
Equipment
60” Steel Weatherguard side
mount truck tool box. Great
shape. $200. 706-278-5320
No Credit Check. Owner
Financing. Rent to Own or
Lease Purchase.
STOP RENTING TODAY MOVE
IN TOMORROW!!!!
Don Babb 706-463-2333 or
706-397-2087 hhf@vol.com or
Mark Burnett 706-529-5901
DALTON.
722 Timberlake. $89,900
3BR 1BA $1,000 down. Pmyt as
low as $750 per mon.
1827 Swanson N Dalton 2 BR 1
BA, $69,900 $1000 dn $495 mn
4200 Mount Pleasant - 5 BR 2
BA Beaverdale- not in subd.
$159K $1100 dn, $1100 month
WESTSIDE
3038 Hurricane Rd. 2 BR 1 BA.
$69,900, $1,000 dn, $615 mon
3286 Hurricane Rd. 5 BR 3 BA
$135,000. $1,000 dn $1,000 mn
TUNNEL HILL
123 Lake Rd. 2 BR 1 BA w/
fenced yard. $75,000. $650 mon
$1,000 dn
2314 Old Ringgold Rd. 2 BR 1
BA 1 acre, $79,900 $1,000
down, $700 per month
2898 Dogwood 2 BR 1 BA,
$69,900, $1000 dn. $595 mon.
CHATSWORTH
85 Rogers, 4 BR 2 BA $94,900,
$1,000 dn pmyts as low as
$850. mon
4BR 3BA, new home for sale by
owner. $5,000 closing cost paid.
Hardwood, tile throughout, 9 ft
ceilings. below appraisal. Corner
lot in Subd. (706)695-6404 Nora
*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
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Commercial
Rental
Doctor’s Offices for Rent
$8,000 TAX REFUND!!
Local tube company seeking
experienced candidates for the
follwing positions:
Spiral Winder Operator, and
Convolute Winder Operator.
Send resume to:
Blind Box T-9
c/o The Daily Citizen
PO Box 1167
Dalton GA 30720
Pleasant Valley Assisted Living
is taking applications for a parttime Life Enhancement
Coordinator. Applicant must
have experience in an activities
program. Apply in person @
510 Reed Rd. M-F 9am to 6pm.
No phone calls.
A Drugs Don't Work Employer.
WANT TO BUY
651
Trucking
Opportunities
Small owner operator fleet
seeking a couple of good,
experienced OTR drivers. Home
weekly. Call Richard Austin,
706-847-2528
402
Commercial
Rental
Medical Suites, 2500 SF avail.
1008 Professional Blvd.,
Dalton. Distinctive Modern
Bldg., 3rd floor w/elevator.
706-279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30
Office
space
for
lease.
Available Now! 1400 sq. ft. suite
and 2,500 sf. suite. 800 College
Dr. 706-226-6245 8:30a-5:00p
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. *801
E.
Walnut
Ave.
Barrett
Marketplace $2995/Mo. $2000
dp. (fmrly El Taco) fully furnished.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30
Warehouse for lease in Dalton
20,640 dq. ft. & 25,800 sq. ft.
Call: 706-278-1566
RENTAL HOUSING
*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.
31,000 sq ft. Masonry building, 4
loading docks & offices. 1 block
off 4 lane Abutment Rd. on
Callahan Rd. 706-226-6245
751
Apartments
$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 STORY completely furn. effic.
Cable TV, phone, microwave,
kitc. supplies, linens, utilities
furniture North Tibbs Road.
$149/weekly, 278-7189.
STAYLODGE - WILLOWDALE
4 room office with kitchen for
rent. 524 McGhee Dr. behind
Krystal. 706-226-4658 or 706217-8972.
GUN SHOW
May 30 - 31
Sat. 9a-5pm & Sun 9a-4pm
EAST RIDGE, TN
Camp Jordan Arena
(Exit 1 off I-75 N)
BUY-SELL-TRADE
Info: 563-927-8176
MOVE IN SPECIAL
1st Week $100.00
706-278-0700
The Daily Photo
FSBO. 206 Riderwood Drive.
Dalton. (706)217-8335
PART TIME RECEPTIONIST /
PHLEBOTOMIST
OPPORTUNITY to work in a well
established Internal Medicine
Practice
in
Dalton,
GA.
Experience required Bilingual a
plus. Morning and afternoon
hours. Fax Resume to 706-2596558 or call 706-259-6227.
5B
Must sell for pay off! Murray Co
2-story, 5 BR 2.5 BA. .95 acres,
in-ground pool. Wded lot. 706
847-9360 - 270-1983. $106,000
706
Condos For Sale
Hammond Creek Condo for
sale. 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath.
$141,900. 706-217-8335
Submitted by:
Esther Blanco of Dalton, GA
To submit you photo, email photo, name
and city to: lauramartin@daltoncitizen.com
6B
Monday, May 25, 2009
751
Apartments
1, 2, & 3 Bd Apt’s - Starting at
$125/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
1st WEEK FREE!! 2 bd, 2 ba.
A/C, cable, parking, $155 wk.
No Pets! Renovated. 706-2630743 or 484-225-4212
2 bedroom 1 bath. Patio, ceiling
fan, c/h/a, W/D hook-up, water
furnished. $400 month, $150
deposit No pets. 706-695-3288.
2 BR 1.5 BA -*503B Colter, 2BR
1.5BA $445 mth, $220 dp. 706279-1380 wkd 9-5:30
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
2, 3 & 4 bedroom apts. Utilities
included.
Starting
at
$140/week. 706-260-9183.
A SWEET DEAL FOR YOU!!
Well maintained.
Convenient location!
Call PARK CANYON APTS
706-226-6054
Email: parkcanyon@optilink.us
BRENTWOOD APTS:
near Dalton High School and
Hospital. 2 bd 1 ba, w/d hookup
utilities included 706-264-8867
City west near Creative Arts
Guild. 2bd 2ba, CHA, WD conn.
Lease, references req’d $550
mon $300 dep. 706-463-3171
Duplex Apt. off Old Grade Rd.
Lg. private, quiet lot, dead end
st. Great area for sm. kids or
garden. 2br. W/D conn. Very
clean. $100/ wk., $200/ dep.
706-278-1520 or 706-226-5678
Duplex Apts. 1 BR 1 BA washer
/dryer included, pwr, utilites, &
cable furn. $150 dep. 1 is 1 mile
from Dalton High $100 wk. 1 is
2 miles from mall $120 wk. 706581-9112 or 706-581-2652
DUPLEX: 890 W. Addis, Tunnel
Hill. Apt. 2 BR 1 BA, $125 wk,
$250 dep 706-279-1380 wkdays
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
7062260404
751
Apartments
Unfurnished
NEAR MALL 2 BR 1.5 BA
townhouse, newly remodeled.
$485/ mo. $400/ dp. No pets. 6
mos. lease, ref. req’d. 706-2262548
752
Nice 2 BR 1 BA, heat & air, fully
equipped kitchen, washer dryer
hookup. Convent. located at 121
A. Frontier Trl. 1 block off
Cleveland Hwy. No smoking.
$495 mon. no dep (706)2597718
2719 Sir. John Drive. 3br, 2.5ba,
finished
bonus
room.
$1000/month. (423)255-2458
3 BR 2 BA 2528 Dover St. $696
Mo or $165 wk. 3BR 1 BA
2111A S. Dixie Hwy. $125 wk,
$250 dp. 706-2791380 wkdys 95:30
Mobile Homes
Nice 3 Bed 2 Bath $525
1/2 Bed $260/$400 w/utilities
West Side 706-280-1035
Move-In Special 1st week
FREE w/ 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
NGEMC area, *3 bdrm. $575
month. $350 dep. Cable & water
furnished. *1 bd $140 wk. utilities
furnished. 706-694-8010
2 bedroom 1.5 bath upscale
townhome,
1/2
mile
from
hospital 1317 Moice Dr. Newly
renovated, hrdwd floors, $650
mon. Call (706)271-6633.
MOBILE HOMES
776
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
UNDERWOOD LODGE
Furnished Efficiency with
kitchenette. All Utilities &
Cable!! Laundry Facility
Available.
Move In Specials $70-$90
for first week!
706-226-4651
Mobile Homes
For Sale
Import Autos
809
THE DAILY CITIZEN
Trucks
Domestic Autos
1996 CHEVY IMPALA SS 4 dr.
sed; 134,500 miles; one owner;
garaged; Dk. Cherry Metallic;
Gray Leather interior; 5.7L V-8;
RWD; Loaded; Superior Cond.;
Carfax avail.; $9,000. Call: 706272-4758
2006 Cadillac STS, 6 cycl, nav.
sunroof, heated & cooled seats,
fully loaded, white diamond.
29,000 miles. $19,900.
706-277-3729
Asking $1,750 for this 1999
Chevy
Malibu
with
V6,
Automatic, Power windows and
locks, CD player and has new
tires. This Malibu has 139K miles
and looks and runs great. Call
706-218-8021
Asking $1,850 for this 2000
Dodge Neon w/automatic, 4cyl.,
sunroof, 107k miles. Also has
new tires. Call 706-218-8021
807
807
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
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
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.
811
2006 Nissan 350Z, convertible,
loaded, white with frost leather.
New
tires.
30,000
miles.
$24,500. OBO. 706-463-0672
812Sport Utility Vehicle
Reduced. 2006 Honda Accord
EXL. Like new. Gray. Full
warranty. 39
k miles.
Loaded. Leather seats, XM
radio, sunroof, 34mpg. Like new.
Great Cond. Must sell! No tax!
$16,999. obo.
706-614-7719
809
Trucks
Import Autos
Utility Trailers
Mobile Concession stand (log
cabin), great for carnival or fair,
completely self contained, AC,
Espresso cart, $15,000.
Call: 706-581-4122 for details.
2005 Buick Rendezvous
Good condition. 80K miles.
26mpg. Great running car. Price
reduced $10,600. Call: 706-6948065
2005 GMC Envoy SLT. Loaded
with every option available. 47K
miles, 1-owner, garage kept, non
smoker, $12,000. Call 706-2808268
Like new. 2004 Explorer. V8
engine with 3rd row seat. Well
maintained. Many extras. Only
$9,500. Call: 706-280-1431
RECREATION
851
1998 MB 500 SL Convertible.
Sport Package. Both tops. White
w/ gray leather/ Books &
records. Low miles. Good
condition. Reduced to $15,950.
Will accept trades. Phone 706264-1932
2001 - Jaguar, 4.0, S-Type.
67,458 Miles. $ 12,200.
Call: 706-217-8171
1999 Chevy Silverado Z71, 4.8,
V-8. 4x4, Manual Trans., 5 spd.
4 Wheel Disc Brakes. A/C,
Power windows, Power Door
Locks. AM/FM, CD, 181,000
Miles. One Owner, Excellent
Cond. $7500. 706-270-4338
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.
Boats
851
Boats
2005 Yamaha Waverunner(s)
160 HP High Output Motors
Adult Ridden/Fresh water
Very Low Hours $6500 each
with extras 706-313-4295.
856
Motorcycles
& Bikes
2003 Suzuki Savage 650. Low
miles, like new, always garage
kept. Teal green. $3,500 OBO.
706-275-7035.
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.
2001 21’ Bullet Bass Boat.
225 Optimax. $15,500.
Call: 706-226-2161
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for Savings?
Check out our
CLASSIFIEDS!
2009 Piaggio- Vespa Scooter
250. 70 mpg, 85 mph. 3 yr
warranty,
touring
case.
$4,600.00. Call 706-980-2674
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.
Got Stuff?
If you’ve outgrown your hard drive, given up your
golf game, ditched your diamond, stored your
stereo or garaged your guitar...
Don’t Stash it - Cash it!
Sell it in the classifieds
778
Small apartment close to mall.
Stove, refrig, w/d connection.
CHA, no pets. Nice, $350 mon.
$150 dep. 706-259-8847
806
Homes For Rent
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Services LLC
706-508-4370
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Over 40 Homes With Pictures to
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Website At:
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Rebated
**COHUTTA – 4036 Parliament
Dr. 5 BR / 3 BA $2500 Down,
$1200 a Mth $160,000.
**COHUTTA – 3/2 Doublewide.
285 Wheeler Dam Road. $654 a
Mth & $1000 down
**DALTON – 3/2 Doublewide.
3265 Rauchenberg. $718 a Mth
& $1000 Down.
**DALTON – 3/2 Doublewide.
3435 Rauchenberg. $840 a mth
$ $1000 down.
**DALTON – 3/2 Doublewide.
610 Crystal View Court. $818 a
mth & $1000 down.
**DALTON – 3/2
Doublewide.630 Crystal View
Court. $796 a mth & $1000
down.
FOR RENT
**DALTON – Crabapple.
2BR/1Ba house.
$160 deposit, $160 week.
Power & water included
**CHATSWORTH –
30 Sun Mtn Spur. 2BR / 1BA
vacation remtal / lake home.
$1200 deposit, $1200 month.
**DALTON – 1010 Foster Rd. 3
BR/ 1 BA $595/month $595
deposit (split over 2 months)
**DALTON – 513 Veron Ave.
4BR / 1BA. $300/deposit,
$695/month.
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753 Condos For Rent
Motel Rooms For Rent: S. Dixie
Hwy. 41. Standard - $95/wk. Lg.$125/$135wk. Dep.= 2 wks.
rent. Furnished + TV, basic
cable, private phone. 706-2791380 wkdys 9-5:30
TRANSPORTATION
Mobile Homes
For Rent
1 & 2 bdrm mobile homes &
Apartments in Whitfield & Murray
Co. $85 per week & up. Utilities
furnished. 706-278-4048
Call Us!
706-272-7703 or
706-272-7707
2 BR 2 BA - 2111 B S. Dixie
Hwy. $120 wk, $240 dep. 706279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30
FIRST WEEK FREE ! Very nice
3br 2bt MH on private lot in
Northwest High School Tunnel
Hill area. No pets. $135 wk /
$250 dep. 706-260-9988
Rent / Rent to Own. $450 and
up. 2 & 3 bedroom. Ashley
Brooke. S. Hwy 41. Clean and
safe! Call 706-279-1553
SUPER DEALS! 2 & 3 BD
homes, many w/ hdwd floors.
Large lots & private pond. Pets
welcome. Carbondale area.
Cable/water/garbage
service included $125/wk. 706383-8123
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New Roofs & Repairs.
DOC’S HOME REPAIR
& REMODELING
Langford Brothers
Construction
MITCHELL
LANDSCAPING
ALL PRO PAINTING
REMODELING &
ROOFING.
Danny’s Tree
Removal
FREE ESTIMATES
25 Years Experience.
706-517-6941
706-483-7293
Automotive
*Ceramic Tile
*Decks
*Textured Ceilings
*Additions *Flooring
*Custom Building
*Roof Repairs
Free Estimates
“NO JOB TOO SMALL”
20 Years Experience
References Provided
Are you tired of looking at
those junk cars ( buses,
dumptrucks) in your yard?
We can solve your
problem!
You call, we haul..
also scrap metal!
Jim and Sondra Lockhart
home: 706-694-8675
cell: 423-400-1302
J & S Salvage
and Towing
Carpentry
CARPENTRY
A-1 Handyman
Remodeling & Repairs
All types of home repairs
25 years experience.
)Bathroom )Carpentry
)Floors
)Painting
)Electric & Plumbing
)Kitchen )Doors
)Windows
Small or Large
We do it all
Terry Hammontree
706-463-0816
Cleaning Services
CLEANING SERVICE MD
!Houses
!Apartments
!Offices
!Clinics
All Your Cleaning Needs!
Daily, Weekly Monthly
FREE Estimates
Also, Baby or Elderly Sitting
References Available
Years of Experience
706-581-7544
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Construction
J&M Power Digging
Top Soil
Dozer
Track Hoe
Back Hoe
Dump Truck
Lots cleared
Footings
Drive Ways
Rock (hauled)
Septic Tanks
Field Lines
Fill Dirt
706-217-9531
706-275-0578
Excavating
#Lawn Care
#Landscaping
#Dirt,Mulch,Rock
#Construction
#Storage Buildings
#Small backhoe-$35HR
#3 Ton Dump Truck
Call
EATON DIRT
1-706-537-1219
Tim Dockery
Cell: (706) 264-6918
HOMESTYLES
Residential & Commercial
&All Types Masonry Work
&Remodeling
&Decks
%Painting
&Plumbing & Wiring
&All Types of Home &
Commercial Care
Over 40 Years Experience
Locally owned & operated
Free Estimates
Fully Insured
No job to small or big!!
706-280-0961
The Professionals for all your
home remodeling and
repairs.
Landscaping
)Room Additions )Decks
)All types of siding
)Windows )Home repairs
)Drywall )Painting
)Ceramic tile floors
& counters
)Hardwood Floors &
laminates )Garages
*Ask for Senior Citizen Discount
For Free Estimates
706-673-7675
Terry L. Scrivner
Cell Phone 706-260-1284
Kitchen Cabinets
CUSTOM COMPUTER
DESIGN CABINETS
Spring Special
All Wood Finished Cabinets
1 week delivery & installation.
11’ Gallery Oak $530, Cherry
$654, Maple $743
15’ L- Shape Oak $786, Cherry
$953, Maple $1372
22’ U-Shape Oak $988, Cherry
$1250, Maple $1993.
Financing available.
90 days same as cash.
Free Estimate
Will beat any price!
706-673-9592 office
706-581-7112 cell
Affordable Cabinets
$300 discount with this ad!
Senior Citizen discount!
Home Repair
***Are you tired of
sloppy work, no shows,
overcharging, no return
phone calls?
We specialize in quality work,
dependability, reasonable rates
AAA DALTON REPAIRS &
IMPROVEMENTS for your
home & commercial repairs &
improvements. Plumbing,
Electrical, Carpentry, Painting,
Roofing, Floor Replacement,
Handyman Work, Remodels &
much more!
AAA DALTON REPAIRS &
IMPROVEMENTS
receives compliments from past
customers. No one needs to be
overcharged in this
economy. Free, detailed
estimates sent out or delivered
quickly. We can also be found in
the Yellow Pages under
Home Improvements.
Call Mike 706-280-2357
Allstate Home
Improvement
If you have a house that needs
help Call the professionals. BBB
Approved.
Check our prices 1st.
$Windows & doors
$Siding
$Soffit
$Interior & Exterior painting
$Bath & Kitchen
$Remodels $Flooring
(carpet, hardwood & tile)
$Electrical & Plumbing
$A/C repairs on all models
$Decks & Additions
$Sunroom
$All roofing & repairs.
All work done in writing.
Free estimates. 36 yrs exp.
Call Now 706-263-2466
*Insured
C & M LANDSCAPING
COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL
Professional Quality Service,
At the best price in town!
#MOWING #TRIMMING
#MULCHING #PLANTING
#WEED REMOVAL
#LEAF GATHERING
#GUTTER CLEANING
#PRESSURE WASHING
AND MUCH MORE
** Free Estimates
**Insured
Call Cameron Cox
706-581-1471
,Removal of unwanted
leaves and shrubs
,Mulching
,Mowing & Edging
,Spring Flower Bed Prep
,All Spring & Summer
Planting
,Free Estimates
,Save $$$
,No
Contracts
,Handy
Man Odds &
Ins
Brent Mitchell
706-537-7532
Ryan Mitchell
706-537-7717
Mowing & Trimming
Weekly, Bi-Weekly, or 1 Time
No Contract Required
Mowing, rimming, Blowing
Edging, Fertilizing, Pressure
Washing,
Plant / Flower
installs, Shrub Trimming,
Mulch, Trash and Debris
Removal w/ Dump Truck,
Tree Planting, Trimming, and
Pruning, Lot Clearing, Decks
Storage Buildings & Bobcat
Work.
Big or samll.
No job turned down.
We trim trees too
close to your house!
)Cement Driveways
)Mowing )Trimming
)Blowing )Edging )Fertilizing
)Plant & Flower installs
)Shrub Trimming )Mulch
)Pea Gravel & Rock installs
)Cut trees )Tree planting &
Trimming, )Lot Clearing,
)Decks )Storage Building
)All Bobcat Work
706-618-6708
706-483-9641
Lawn Care
MW5
Your Affordable
Lawn
Care Solution!
Call: Steve Blevins
706-694-0056
706-271-8639
Call 706.280.9557
Masonry
ESCAPE YARDWORK!
C.W. MASONRY
)Mowing )Mulching
)Trimming )Seeding
)Gutter Cleaning
)Pressure Washing
)Painting )Handyman
Work, and more
Call Michael For Your
Free Estimate
GUESS LANDSCAPING
Cell: 706-280-4250
VELASQUEZ
LANDSCAPE
Serving with Quality Work
"Mowing "Edging
"Weed Eating
"Trimming "Mulching
Any type of yard work!
+Ask For a Free Estimate
+Any size job
Will do your work for you, just
call Mario!!
706-508-2164 or 762-2011058
Licensed - Insurance
T&M
Painting and
Remodeling
FREE ESTIMATES
All Your Landscaping Needs
Residential & Commercial
Licensed & Insured
If You’d
Rather Be
Relaxing, Leave
the Yard Work to
Us!
706-971-3079
MUNGUIA
LANDSCAPING
Fully Insured, Free Estimates
AAA Lawn Care
& Landscaping
27 years experience.
Reasonable rates.
Free Estimates
No job to big or small!
+Painting +Roofing, +Sheet
rock +Additions
+Decks & Porches
+Plumbing +Electrical
cmlandscapedalton.webs.com
AAA Lawn Care
& Landscaping
Mobile Home Repairs.
All Phases:
Brick, Block, Stone,
Cement, & Stucco.
No job too small!
I’ll beat any local job.
FREE ESTIMATES
Call 226-6963 or
706-280-1341
Painting
#1 M&M
Painting & Decorating
Interior & Exterior
(Deck Building and Sealing
(Pressure Washing
(Popcorn & Texture
Ceilings
(Texture Walls
(Roofing & Roof Leak
Repairs Metal Roofs
45 Years of experience
No Job Too Big or Too
Small.
Call Marty 706-8470106
Simon Trujillo
706-264-4495
Free Estimates
Free estimates.
40 years expereince.
Will beat any price.
706-271-7160
or 706-229-0555
Pressure Washing
ELROD’S
PRESSURE
WASHING
Residential & Commercial
%Houses/ Mobile Homes
% Concrete Cleaning
%Vinyl/ Brick/ Masonite
% Prep for Painting
% Mold Removal
%References Available
% Exterior /Gutters Cleaning
%ROOF CLEANING (Black
streak removal, algae removal)
FREE ESTIMATES
Call Scott 706-264-9482
Tree Service
A & A TREE
SERVICE,
LLC
& STUMP
GRINDING
Insured - $1 Million Liability
'Trees Pruned
'Bucket Truck and
Chipper
'Removal & Clean-up
'Experienced
Hazardous Tree
Removal
'Lot Clearing
FREE ESTIMATES
706-260-9573
SERVICE DIRECTORY
)Planted
)Storm Damage
)Mulch
)Shrubbery
)Trim
Fully Insured
Senior Citizen Discount
Call: 706-270-2697
Lanning’s
Outdoor
Services
)Tree Service
)Stump Grinding
)Storm Cleanup
)Bucket Truck Service
)Bobcat Service
)Lot Clearing
Free Estimates.
Cell:706-260-6169
(leave message)
Darren Lanning
Insured/Owner
Firewood For Sale 706-217-9966
Larry’s
Trees To Dirt
Full Line of Equip. Available.
Complete Tree
Removal Service.
including
Hazardous & Dangerous
Storm Clean-Up
Lot & Land Clearing
Stump Grinding,
Any Size, Any Where
Firewood For Sale
FULLY INSURED
FREE ESTIMATES
706-581-3870
Years of Expereince
Whitfield
EvergreenArborist
1037 Keith Mill
Rd. Dalton, Ga
30720
“CUTTING DOWN
YOUR WORRIES”
“All Types of Tree Work”
Free Estimates
Fully Insured
20 years experience with
climbing & bucket truck
stump removal
Firewood For
Sale
Phone
706-275-7017
Cell 706-463-6108
Windows
COLLINS TREE
SERVICE
Crane Service.
No Job Too Small,
No Tree Too Tall!
Stump Grinding
Specializing In Dangerous
Tree Removal.
Full Equipment:
Fully Insured - Free Estimates
WINDOW
WORKS!
New Vinyl
Replacement
Windows
Decks
Carpentry
ALL MAJOR CREDIT
CARDS ACCEPTED.
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%
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706-483-6496
Our Windows Qualify for
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8B
THE DAILY CITIZEN
Monday, May 25, 2009
In Memory of
Brett Andrew
Thomason
December 12, 1989
- February 19, 2009
Lee Henry Gamble
In Honor of
Lemuel Cain
U.S. Navy
Otis Lamar Holmes
SFC Ret.
Vinsant
Thank you for your
Marines
Leonard M. Quinn
Army 1950-1952
service
to our country
A very much loved
You loved your country and your protection of
U.S. Army
husband, son,
Served in Korea,
Germany & Vietnam - father and grandfather.
You touched so many
2 tours.
hearts and lives in
Husband of Betty Quinn,
your years.
father of Marty, Nick,
We love and miss
Roxe, Chris, & Teresa.
you dearly.
so much and served so
proudly. You will
always be the wind
beneath our wings,
love you today and
forever and ever.
Mama Dot and Children
all families then, and
especially your gentle
caring and protection
of our family, Now.
Dale & Sandra Dietrich
Son, if you were alive you would be at basic
training, but your dream could not be
fulfilled here on earth, you would have been
a good Marine but on February 19, 2009
God called you home to be in his Army.
We miss you dearly.
Joshua 1:9
Love, Mom, Tasha & Family
Marshall Lane
Edgerton
Army 82nd Airborne
Love Funeral Home
74 Years of Caring
1402 N Thornton Avenu
(Across from Hamilton Medical Center)
706- 278-3313
We knew little that
morning that God was
going to call your name.
In life we loved you
dearly, in death we do
the same. It broke our
hearts to lose you, you
did not go alone, for
part of us went with you
that day GOD
called you home.
Sgt. Daniel
Carroll “Boone”
National Guard
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Wonderful soldier, son,
brother, uncle.
Gone but will never
be forgotten.
Loved by many,
missed more everyday!
Love Always,
Jordan, Hunter, Alysa,
Mom, Sis
Greatly Loved & Missed,
Mom, Dad,
Kelly, Ginger, Hunter & Alyssa
Willis Funeral
Home, Inc.
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903 W. Bridge Rd., Dalton
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2790 Hwy. 76
706-695-6701
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1117 Murray Ave.
Dalton, GA 30721
(706) 226-3595
4725 Hwy. 92
Acworth, GA 30101
(770) 974-0629