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Columbine evoked in Victims’ Rights Week
5/3/2013
When Craig Scott heard what he thought were firecrackers at school he guessed it was just seniors playing pranks and didn’t know they were actually gun shots that had just taken the life of his older sister, Rachel Scott — and that in just minutes his two best friends sitting beside him in the library would also be dead.
The date was April 20, 1999, and it was the first warm day of the spring season at Littleton, Col., home of Columbine High School.
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Genealogical Society to help scan historic photos
4/25/2013
While recalling the tornado that ripped through Ringgold in April 2011, Karen Titus found herself pondering what it would feel like to lose pieces of one’s family photos and memorabilia in a natural disaster.
“How would you like to lose 150 years of your family’s history?” she queried during an interview with the Times-Courier.
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Trail kickoff informative event for hikers
2/26/2013
Amicalola Falls State Park’s annual backpacking clinic may have undergone a name change but park officials are confident the event will still provide attendees with a wealth of trail-related information.
Now billed as the 2013 Appalachian Trail Kick Off, it will take place Friday, March 8, through Sunday, March 10, and is designed to celebrate the park’s connection with one of the world’s longest continuously marked footpaths. Click headline to read more.
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Importance of self-exams, early detection emphasized by breast cancer survivor
1/17/2013
Even after a battery of tests declared she had a clean bill of health, Ellijay resident Cheryl Chastain still knew something was wrong in her body. Looking back, she admits tiredness was a reasonable diagnosis for a single mother of three teenage daughters in her early 40s, working full time and with no family history that would point to serious illness as the culprit. “But I had this feeling that something was not right,” she explained.
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Author uses novel writing to ‘stay active’ at 84
12/28/2012
After retiring from a career in aerospace, part-time Ellijay resident Frank J. Kopet decided to add authoring novels to his list of accomplishments. Now at the age of 84, he has self-published five books.
“I’ve always been interested in writing,” he stated, noting how in his younger years he often kept manuscripts in his desk at work and wrote during his breaks.
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‘I lost my wife’
12/13/2012
When Eddie Mowles’ wife Priscilla was handcuffed and arrested for shoplifting four years ago, the reality of her struggle with Alzheimer’s disease “really hit home.”
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Trying to lighten up a weighty matter
11/15/2012
212.
Even after I kicked off my penny loafers and sucked in my gut, the scales still registered 212.
And that was just the second indignity. As soon as I walked into the clinic room to get a sore throat checked out, a familiar nurse from years past asked me how old I was now.
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WWII vet’s uniform donated to Citadel
11/8/2012
When Cantey Gordon was serving in a medical logistics unit in World War II under the command of legendary General George S. Patton, he made a request of the general’s chief of staff for some trucks to move equipment.
“He was trying to negotiate something, (saying) ‘Hey, I need more trucks’ or food or something like that — and Gen. Patton came out and asked him how we could move this unit,” said family friend and retired Army Lt. Colonel David Are. “Mr. Gordon — who was Lt. Gordon then — offered a solution to Gen. Patton and Gen. Patton said, ‘I think that’s what we’ll do. We’ll implement that.’ (Gordon) was rather proud of that story when he told it.”
Gordon passed away last year, and recently his wife, Helen, contacted the Are family and asked for help in donating her late husband’s uniform from The Citadel — one of the South’s premiere military colleges — back to the school.
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‘Rescued’ offers fresh start to detainees, dogs
11/8/2012
“Rescued,” Carlton H. Colwell Probation Detention Center’s new rehabilitation program, has certainly been living up to its motto, “Saving detainees and dogs, one life at a time.” Designed to impart job skills to detainees and rescue dogs from animal shelters, the Blairsville-based initiative is the Georgia Department of Corrections’ first dog rescue program.
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