THE DAILY CITIZEN

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THE DAILY CITIZEN

Murray loses
long game
against
Darlington
Police say
gang initiation
threat a hoax
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THE DAILY CITIZEN
Saturday, March 21, 2009 • Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents
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THINGS
TO
CHECK
OUT
ON THE
INSIDE
In America, the poor can
still move up the economic ladder.
See Stossel, page 4A
Deficit threatens to swamp agenda
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President
Barack Obama’s budget would
produce $9.3 trillion in deficits
over the next decade, more than
four times the deficits of
Republican George W. Bush’s
presidency, congressional auditors
said Friday.
The new Congressional Budget
Office figures offered a far more
dire outlook for Obama’s budget
than the new administration predicted just last month — a deficit
$2.3 trillion worse. It’s a prospect
even the president’s own budget
director called unsustainable.
In his White House run, Obama
assailed the economic policies of
his predecessor, but the eye-popping deficit numbers threaten to
swamp his ambitious agenda of
overhauling health care, exploring
new energy sources and enacting
scores of domestic programs.
The dismal deficit figures, if
they prove to be accurate,
inevitably raise the prospect that
Obama and his Democratic allies
controlling Congress would have
to consider raising taxes after the
recession ends or else pare back
his agenda.
By CBO’s calculation, Obama’s
budget would generate deficits
averaging almost $1 trillion a year
of red ink over 2010-2019.
Worst of all, CBO says the
deficit under Obama’s policies
would never go below 4 percent of
the size of the economy, figures
that economists agree are unsustainable. By the end of the decade,
the deficit would exceed 5 percent
of gross domestic product, a dangerously high level.
White House budget chief Peter
Orszag said that CBO’s long-range
economic projections are more
pessimistic than those of the White
House, private economists and the
➣ Please see BUDGET, 10A
Pedestrian
killed on
Walnut
Resolution on President
Obama leads to uproar in
Georgia House.
See page 3A
Psychics seeing wave of
patrons worried about
money.
See page 10A
BY MARK MILLICAN
[email protected]
FROM TODAY’S
FORUM
“I moved to Dalton in
1945 from out in the
country. Then, when you
crossed the only overhead bridge, the Gordon
Street Bridge, you faced
a big lighted sign that
said The Light of the
World. I think it was the
Church of God of the
Union Assembly. As a
child, that was something
grand and I would like to
see it again.”
See page 2A
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Today’s High: 63
Tonight’s Low: 36
Details, Page 12A
INSIDE
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Dear Abby...................7A
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Obituaries.............10A
Opinion................4A
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Talent on Display
MATT HAMILTON/The Daily Citizen
Beaverdale Elementary School sponsored a talent show Friday for kindergarten through
second-grade students. Shown at left going clockwise is Maddi Locke performing a onehanded cartwheel during her gymnastics routine which earned her first place. Amanda
Pratt sings “My Guy,” which earned her second place in the competition. Nathan
Tousignant sings as he performs “Rock This Town” on his guitar. His performance earned
him third place in the competition. For more pictures from the talent show, visit
http://thedailycitizen.zenfolio.com/.
Winfred “Peanut” Gladden was following his morning routine, friends
and relatives say, when he made a
tragic mistake — one that may have
been caused by the fact he could only
see out of one eye.
Gladden, 65, of 112-B Dycus
Road, was attempting to cross Walnut
Avenue on foot Friday around 6:45
a.m. when he was struck by a 2003
Chevrolet Cavalier driven by Matthew
Eric Peterson, 25, of 1926 Crow
Valley Road.
Peterson said he didn’t have time to
react.
“I didn’t see him,” he said several
hours later. “He was wearing dark
clothes and the area wasn’t lit up. I
couldn’t even swerve — he was right
there.”
Gladden was attempting to cross
the five-lane highway from south to
north and had stopped in the left-hand
lane of eastbound traffic, according to
a Georgia State Patrol report. An assistant manager at the Favorite Market
convenience store at 3000 Walnut
Avenue who did not want to be named
said “Peanut” visited the store “almost
every morning.”
The state patrol accident diagram
shows Gladden trying to cross the
street from a “store parking lot” and
confirms he was wearing dark clothing. A spokesman said Peterson would
not be charged.
Whitfield County coroner Bobbie
Dixon said Gladden was dead at the
scene.
George Madrigal, who lived across
➣ Please see PEANUT, 2A
Service agencies, churches
want to improve ‘safety net’
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BY CHARLES OLIVER
[email protected]
Check it out at
daltondailycitizen.com
Lori Rosen, director of the
Murray County chapter of the
American Red Cross, says she’s
seeing a “new face” on the area’s
needy.
“We have families coming into
our office and telling us ‘We’ve
never been poor.’ We’ve got families who have no idea how to get
assistance. We’ve got families who
have no idea how to get food
stamps,” she said. “So we are connecting them to services so they
are not spending countless hours
looking for the help they need.”
Rosen spoke Friday at Dalton
City Hall during a meeting of
more than 100 ministers, charity
providers, government officials
and social workers.
“I don’t think you’ll find a
community our size that has the
safety net that we do,” said Dalton
Mayor David Pennington, who
hosted the meeting.
Pennington said the goal was to
help representatives of charities
and churches and government officials become more aware of the
services provided locally and find
more ways to work together.
Amanda Burt, president of the
United Way of Northwest Georgia,
said many agencies already work
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2A Saturday, March 21, 2009
TODAY’S FORUM
Note: Please keep your
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Today’s Forum.
Editor: A reader lost
$244 at the Appalachian
Community
Bank
in
Chatsworth. Anyone who
knows something about this
can call here, 706-272-7735.
“To the person who
dumped the two dogs in the
Westside area this week, one
of the dogs has already been
killed and the other was
picked up by Animal Control.
It is illegal and immoral to
abandon pets.”
“If the school system is
trying to save money, why
are the lights at New Hope
Middle School on 24-7, 365.”
“To hear Brian Anderson
and commissioners talk you
would think that Volkswagen
was coming to Dalton instead
of Chattanooga and they didn’t have to do a thing to get
them here.”
“If you open the trade center to the homeless it won’t
be long before it looks like a
tent city.”
“I moved to Dalton in
1945 from out in the country.
Then, when you crossed the
only overhead bridge, the
Gordon Street Bridge, you
faced a big lighted sign that
said The Light of the World. I
think it was the Church of
God of the Union Assembly.
As a child, that was something grand and I would like
to see it again.”
“I don’t know what WalMart you shop at to say the
prices are as high as Kroger
or the other stores. I shop
there and compare prices and
Wal-Mart is still cheaper.”
“Please contact Tom
Dickson and Roger Williams
and tell them to vote No on
Senate Bill 200. This bill will
drastically reduce the help
Whitfield
County
will
receive from the Department
of Transportation.”
“Why are they dropping a
lot of classes at the Career
Academy? Some students
need to finish their career
pathways, but they are dropping the classes.”
“It has been one month
since Brett Thomason went
missing. If anyone knows
anything at all, please caller
the sheriff’s department or
911.”
“ACORN has a history of
voter fraud. Now we are supposed to trust them with our
most private information for
the 2010 Census? Just
because the workers took an
oath?”
“I know people are hurting, I’m hurting too. But
Walnut Avenue at lunch time,
at quitting time? Tell me
where 10,000 jobs have left
Dalton, Ga?”
“You column “Back in
Time” was great. But no one
told you about P.D. Clark’s
restaurant at the corner of
Pentz and Morris. They put
out the greatest open face hot
steak ever.”
“Please
remind
the
Mexicans that this is not
Utah, Texas, or New Mexico,
or Arizona, California or
Colorado. This is Georgia.”
“We have worked for over
50 years and paid in our
Social Security. So, if they
send us a dime, we will take
it. That money was not a gift
to government. If you have
any complaints, complain to
them.”
“In regard to the self-
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appointed spokesperson for
all white people, here is one
white person who is not
going to cancel his subscription because of their views on
amnesty.”
“I want to thank the EMTs
and the fire department for
helping my husband and I get
up after we fell. They sure are
nice people and we appreciate them.”
“To those who want to
give Southwestern United
States back to Mexico,
remember that England and
Spain own the rest of
America. Before that, the
Indians owned it.”
“If you are worried about
wasting money in the
schools, don’t look at the bus
drivers. They make about
$8,000 a year. If you want to
look at wasted money, look at
the superintendent and the
new school they are going to
build.”
“The word on the street is
that the mayor and the county commissioners are secretly
working on a plan to consolidate the recreation departments, fire departments and
public works. The next step
will be the consolidation of
the school systems.”
“In their cost cutting, why
couldn’t
the
Whitfield
County school superintendent employ the wisdom and
fairness with their school personnel that was used by the
Dalton school superintendent?”
“If people had the pay-itforward mentality, instead of
relying on churches or social
services to help the homeless,
this world might be a better
place.”
“In the article ‘Pay to Play
in Whitfield County,’ George
Page says the fees to play are
very competitive with surrounding areas, when will he
make the county ballfields
match up with the other parks
like Heritage Point and Al
Rollins. At this point, he
shouldn’t charge for something he doesn’t have.”
“According to the news
today, 240,000 babies will
die this year from starvation.”
“I like Bill Shipp and Dick
Yarbrough’s columns ... and
sometimes our esteemed editor’s.”
“To apply for a job at a
local store or a creeler supervisor, we shouldn’t have to
learn a foreign language. If
the Germans or Chinese
invade us, do we have to
learn German or Chinese?”
“Businesses that hire bilingual only are racist and
should be boycotted.”
“I get my hair cut at
Martin’s Barbershop in
Chatsworth and when I leave
I feel refreshed and ready to
tackle the day.”
“We have quite a few noncitizens serving in our armed
forces. On completion of
their tour of duty, they will be
allowed to become citizens.”
“Why should the taxpayers of Murray County have to
pay for Rhonda Sosebee’s
surgery after she murdered
Steven Young.”
Editor’s
note:
Ms.
Sosebee has not been convicted of murder.
“The problem with illegal
immigration is they want
American jobs. The one job
they will not do is defend
America.”
Editor: More than
40,000 non-citizens serve in
the U.S. military. The US
military does not allow
undocumented illegals to
join, by law.
LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS – FOR MARCH 20
Georgia: Midday Cash 3: 7-1-8, Cash 4: 1-4-8-2, Evening Cash 3: 5-9-7,
Mega Millions: 15-16-20-39-40, Mega Ball: 26
Tennessee: Midday Cash 3: 3-7-6, Lucky Sum: 16; Cash 4: 4-9-5-4, Lucky
Sum: 22; Evening Cash 3: 2-5-9, Lucky Sum 16; Cash 4: 5-0-1-7, Lucky
Sum: 13
Peter Cottontail arrives at
Walnut Square Mall today
Peter Cottontail will be
available for Easter portraits
beginning today at Walnut
Square Mall. Photo hours
are
Monday
through
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9
p.m. and noon to 6 p.m. on
Sundays through April 11.
A variety of photo packages are available, along
with seasonal frames and a
large assortment of photo
accessories.
“The Easter Bunny display was designed by
Dilbeck Lawn & Landscape
Design, who did an outstanding job,” said mall general
manager Brandy Christian.
She said Great American
Cookie is supplying a special
gift for each child who visits
the Easter Bunny along with
a coupon for parents. The
Easter set is at the JC Penney
court.
Shoppers are encouraged
to bring in their pets for a
photograph with the Easter
Bunny on Tuesday nights
between 6 and 9 p.m. Please
enter with pets through the
CVS Pharmacy entrance and
make sure all pets are on a
leash or in a carrier.
After visiting with the
Easter Bunny, children can
enjoy a train ride through the
mall on the Walnut Square
Express. Hours of operation
are
Thursday
through
Saturday from noon until 8
p.m. and on Sunday from
noon until 6 p.m.
Spring coupon sheets will
be available at all three mall
entrances and the Easter set
beginning today.
Dalton State College’s Business
Networking presents Chris Whisenant
Chris Whisenant, manager of Supply
Chain Systems and Forecasting for Shaw
Industries, will speak at Dalton State
College on Tuesday to members of the
Business Networking Group.
The talk begins at 4:45 p.m. in the
Goodroe Auditorium of Memorial Hall
and is free and open to the public.
Whisenant has more than 17 years of
experience in design and implementation
of demand planning, inventory planning,
replenishment planning, and sales and
operations planning processes.
He delivered a presentation at the
Institute for Business Forecasting
Journal’s Best Practices Conference in
2005, and has had work published in that
journal.
Whisenant received the Superior
Achievement Implementing Logility
Solutions (SAILS) Leadership Award for
2004 and 2008. He received the Start IT
Magazine’s 2006 Technology and
Business Award for Consumer Goods.
For more information call (706) 2722600.
Agencies: Working together
➣ Continued from page 1A
closely together.
“The United Way serves
as a connecting point for
people who need help,” said
Burt.
The United Way keeps a
computerized database of
some 300 local agencies.
The database allows members to keep track of what
services are available for
those in need at any given
time.
“If you aren’t a member,
we want you to be,” said
Michelle Smith, the United
Way’s manager of information services.
The United Way’s 211
help line also allows those in
need to find out what services are available. Smith said
that many times someone
will call the help line looking for assistance with rent
or food and the people manning the lines discover that
they have other needs that
CLARIFICATION
A story in Tuesday’s Daily
Citizen should have said antiwar speaker Jason Hurd heard
a story from an Iraqi woman
who said her son was taken
from her without explanation
by American-backed military
forces.
Peanut
➣ Continued from page 1A
the street from Gladden, called
him “a good man and a good
neighbor.”
“He liked my kids, too, and
he was always nice to them,”
he said.
Gladden lived with his elderly parents, Loma and Fred
Centers.
“He was on disability,” his
father said, “and he was a diabetic too. He just had one eye
from a nail injury. All I know
is you don’t never know when
the Lord is going to call you.
When he calls you, you’ll go.”
Fred Centers said his son
had started using the last name
Gladden some time back, but
did not say why.
Peterson said he was traveling at “45, maybe 50” miles
per hour (in a 45 mph speed
zone). He said he was trying to
deal with the accident that
occurred after he had taken his
mother to work.
“I’m trying to surround
myself with people and keep
my mind occupied,” he said.
“A woman at the store told my
sister (Gladden) would sometimes stop in the median (turning lane) and roll a cigarette. I
guess he thought he was in the
yellow (median) part.”
“He went to get cigarettes
and never made it back,” said
Loma Centers, weeping softly.
can also be addressed by
local groups.
Smith said the number of
calls the United Way
received jumped 58.6 percent last year. United Way
officials said that churches
or other agencies that wish
to join its network can call
211 to be listed in its database.
Gaile Jennings, executive
director of the DaltonWhitfield
Community
Development Corp., said
that group focuses on housing-related services, such as
education for home buyers
and helping fix dilapidated
homes. But she said currently about 72 percent of the
Development Corp.’s clients
are trying to prevent their
houses from being foreclosed.
One key component that
is missing from the local
safety net, said several people, is a homeless shelter for
women, especially women
with children.
Roy Johnson, director of
Providence Ministries, said
he has been considering creating some sort of shelter for
women. But he said his
group and many others help
women who are homeless
and in need, even paying for
motel rooms for them when
no other places are available.
Providence currently provides a number of services,
including a homeless shelter
for men. But Johnson said it
may be best known for its
efforts to feed low-income
and
homeless
people.
Johnson said the group
served around 4,000 meals
on Christmas day alone last
year.
Pennington said the
meeting showed how many
of the area’s providers are
already working closely
together, but he said he
would hold another meeting
if they thought it was necessary.
TODAY’S CITIZEN
NAME: Savannah
Helton
AGE: 14
HOME: Dalton
FAMILY: Allie, Colt,
Leon, Terry and Tim
SCHOOL: Dalton
Middle
PLAY: Cheer
HE SAID: “Stay in
school and drink your
milk.”
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AREA
ARRESTS
• Curtis Grady Buckner,
17, 3238 Lower Gordon
Springs Road, Dalton, was
charged Thursday by the
Whitfield County Sheriff’s
Office with possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana, possession of a drugrelated object and theft by
shoplifting.
• Jacob James Duckett,
18, 156 Dover Chapel Road,
Ellijay,
was
charged
Thursday by the Murray
County Sheriff’s Office with
possession of less than an
ounce of marijuana.
• Annabelle Gamboa, 27,
205 Daisy Lane, Chatsworth,
was charged Thursday by the
Murray County Sheriff’s
Office with dangerous drugs
obtained or attempted to be
attained by fraud and/or forgery (two counts).
• Luis Martin Gutierrez,
20, (no address given),
Dalton,
was
charged
Thursday by the Dalton
Police Department with first
degree forgery and identity
theft.
• Amber Nicole Turner,
23, 3958 Maple Grove
Church Road, Resaca, was
charged Thursday by the
Murray County Sheriff’s
Office with burglary and failure to appear.
• Joshua David Bowers,
20, 1214 Salem Road,
Rossville, was charged
Friday by the Tunnel Hill
Police Department with tag
light required, possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana, possession of a drugrelated object and DUI
(drugs).
• Anthony Brian Bowman,
39, 1678 Stinnett Drive,
Dalton, was charged Friday
by the Dalton Police
Department with possession
of methamphetamine, possession of less than an ounce
of marijuana, possession of
tools for the commission of a
crime and guard line violation.
• Mary Morgan Carter, 18,
1643
Trion
Highway,
Lafayette, was charged
Friday by the Tunnel Hill
Police Department with
drugs in wrong container.
• Erick Garcia-Canales,
17,
Bermuda
Street,
Apartment H-2, Dalton, was
charged Friday by the Dalton
Police Department with possession of cocaine with intent
to distribute.
•
Christopher
Lee
Schenck, 22, 112 Brickyard
Road, Dalton, was charged
Friday by the Dalton Police
Department with possession
of less than an ounce of marijuana.
• Robert Lewis Terry, 53,
151
Oakland
Circle,
Chatsworth, was charged
Friday by the Chatsworth
Police Department with possession of schedule II drug,
drugs kept in wrong container and pedestrian under the
influence.
• David Gonzales Torres,
26, (no address given), was
charged Friday by the Dalton
Police Department with possession of cocaine with intent
to distribute.
Clorox offers
$5K to wipe
out ‘toilet
torcher’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— The Clorox Company is
offering a $5,000 reward and
a year’s supply of toilet
cleaning products for tips
leading to the arrest of San
Francisco’s
notorious
portable potty pyromaniac.
The Oakland-based chemical company says it plans to
deploy a “potty patrol” team
in the city Tuesday to make
residents aware of its offer
marrying marketing and
community service.
Since November, more
than two dozen construction
site toilets have been set on
fire in the city, causing an
estimated $50,000 in property damage and leaving a trail
of foul-smelling evidence.
Company spokesman Dan
Gagen jokes that the patrol
service is “a crappy job, but
somebody’s got to do it.”
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3A
Police: Gang
initiation warnings
actually a hoax
Joins Police Force
SUBMITTED BY THE
DALTON POLICE
DEPARTMENT
Text messages warning
of possible violent gang initiations in Dalton have been
determined to be a hoax.
Similar text messages have
been sent and received
across the state, including
Thomasville and Valdosta.
One set of warnings said
that the initiations would
take place at Dalton-area
Wal-Marts on March 19,
with gang members shooting random people to earn
their initiation. The Dalton
Police Department received
several calls about these
warnings.
After investigating, these
warnings have been determined to be a hoax.
However, the Dalton Police
Department is remaining
vigilant and continues to
watch for any signs of gang
activity.
Ga. Senate leaders push
corporate tax breaks
BY GREG BLUESTEIN
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The Northwest Georgia Regional Police Academy in Dalton graduated a new
class of police officers on Friday, including one new officer for the Dalton
Police Department. From left are Dalton Police Lt. Mike Key and new officer
Adam Disinger.
Flood insurance now
available in Varnell
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OF VARNELL
CITY
Varnell residents are now
eligible to buy federal flood
insurance. The city joined
the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP) earlier this
year.
For
single-family
dwellings, the building coverage limit is $250,000 and
the contents coverage limit is
$100,000. Renters can also
protect their belongings by
purchasing contents coverage. For commercial properties, the building and contents coverage limits are both
$500,000.
There is a 30-day waiting
period before flood insurance coverage goes into
effect.
Lenders must require borrowers whose properties are
located in a designated flood
hazard area to purchase
flood insurance as a condition of receiving a federally
backed mortgage loan in
accordance with the Federal
Disaster Protection Act of
1973.
The NFIP is implemented
through
the
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency. There are more than
5.5 million flood insurance
policies in more than 20,500
participating communities
nationwide.
Resolution on Obama leads
to uproar in Georgia House
BY GREG BLUESTEIN
ATLANTA — Two dozen
black lawmakers angrily
stalked out of the Georgia
House on Friday amid claims
a decision by white
Republican leaders to delay
passage of a resolution honoring President Barack Obama
had racist overtones.
House Speaker Glenn
Richardson said the proposal
to make Obama an honorary
member of the Georgia
Legislative Black Caucus
required some changes to its
language and sent it to a committee. Supporters, including
black lawmakers, claimed the
move was a snub to the
nation’s first black president.
“It drips with racism,” said
state Rep. Al Williams, a
Democrat. “I call it just like it
is.”
State Rep. Austin Scott
said he and other Republicans
objected to wording that
would have put the full chamber on record backing the res-
olution and its declaration of
Obama as a man with an
“unimpeachable reputation
for integrity.”
He said he blocked the
proposal after Democrats
balked at revising the wording.
“All we’ve requested is
minor changes to the language,” he said.
Some noted it was a rare
move in the Georgia Capitol,
where lawmakers routinely
adopt all manner of resolutions without debate and
often through a show of
hands, from measures honoring a constituent’s wedding
anniversary to others offering
condolences upon a death.
The furor began Thursday
when the Republican-controlled House voted 70-68 to
reject the resolution. Black
lawmakers then walked out
Friday, seconds after leaders
sent the measure to a committee for reworking.
Black lawmakers pointed
out that they’ve gone along in
the past with other largely
Public Hearing Notice
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Investment Program award of up to $300,000. All of the funds
(100 percent) must be used to benefit low- and very-low-income
households.
The activities for which these funds may be used are in the
areas of housing rehabilitation/re-construction, down payment
assistance and/or new housing development. More specific
details regarding eligible activities, plans to assist displace
persons (if any), the estimated amount of funds proposed to be
used for the specific housing activities to benefit low-and verylow-income households, and the rating system will be provided
at a public hearing which will be held at the County
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located at 301 W. Crawford St. Dalton GA, 30720 from 3:00
P.M. to 6:00 P.M..
The purpose of the hearing will be to obtain citizen input into
the development of the application and to review progress on
previous CHIPs, if applicable. Persons with special needs
relating to handicapped accessibility or foreign language shall
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2009. This person can be located at 301 W. Crawford St.
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Monday through Friday, except holidays. Persons with hearing
disabilities may use the Georgia Relay Service, at (TDD) 1-800255-0056 or (Voice) 1-800-255-0135.
symbolic resolutions out of
respect for their colleagues,
including a 2005 measure
commending then-President
George W. Bush’s much-criticized response to Hurricane
Katrina.
At the time, critics complained many minority residents of New Orleans bore
the brunt of the 2005 storm
and its aftermath.
ATLANTA — Senate
leaders are trying to revive
an effort to phase out
Georgia’s corporate income
tax, which in better times has
helped fill the state’s coffers
with more than $700 million
each year.
House leaders initially
proposed phasing out the tax
over a 12-year period starting in 2012, but they abandoned the tax break this
month over concerns it
wouldn’t immediately help
spur job growth amid the
economic downturn.
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle,
though, is hoping to breathe
new life into the idea. He
said wiping out the tax
would help Georgia stay
competitive with neighboring states.
“We need to continue to
make Georgia competitive
and this is one of the tools in
the toolbox to do it,” said
Cagle, a Republican who
presides over the Senate.
“We’re talking about a reasonable, rational phase out.”
Georgia lawmakers are
debating an array of tax
breaks at the urging of
Republican leaders who consider them an alternative to
the federal government’s
$787 billion economic stimulus package. And the corporate tax breaks were to be at
the center of a package that
aimed to encourage businesses to start hiring again.
The House last week easily passed the other proposals, including a provision
that would give companies a
$500 credit toward the
unemployment insurance tax
and a $2,400 income tax
credit for each new employee they hire.
But House Majority
Leader Jerry Keen said the
corporate tax break was
pulled over concerns it
would have little immediate
impact on the state’s ailing
economy.
“The main reason we
pulled it was because it didn’t even begin until 2012 and
we wanted to focus on things
that could stimulate the
economy now,” he said.
Keen said he welcomed
the proposal, but he said it
warrants a deeper look
before the Legislature takes
action.
“This is a major policy
change,” he said.
Budget analysts worry
Georgia would be hardpressed to handle deeper cuts
to its tax base as state officials struggle to deal with a
budget deficit topping $2.6
billion.
Alan Essig of the Georgia
Budget and Policy Institute
said it would erode the
state’s tax base “at a time
when our revenue infrastructure isn’t solid enough to
deal with expenses as it is.”
But Cagle argued wiping
out the corporate income tax
will yield vast dividends in
the long run.
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the opinions of the authors.
CITIZEN OF THE WEEK
Miranda Morrison
Even in a
down economy
people still need
haircuts.
But
they can be
expensive, especially
for
women. What
was once a
necessity
has
now become a
luxury for some,
especially when
you’re doing all
you can to feed
your family.
S t y l i s t
M i r a n d a
Morrison
not
only
sympathizes,
she’s
doing something
about it.
About a year
ago, Morrison —
currently sole
proprietor
of
Glitz
and
Glamour Diva Salon in
Dalton
—
called
Georgia Sheriffs Youth
Homes and Compassion
House and offered her
services to foster children at no charge. She
has also been known to
give substantial discounts to customers if
she knows they are having a hard time.
Salon
employee
Sabrina Bowie frequently witnesses such
acts and is amazed by
what she sees.
“(Morrison) said she
wanted to give something back,” Bowie said.
“She knows what it’s
★★★
Citizen
of the week
★★★
To nominate someone
for this weekly feature,
write us (c/o Citizen of
the Week, P.O. Box 1167,
Dalton, Ga., 30722) or fax
us (275-6641) and tell us
why your nominee
deserves recognition.
like to have the everyday struggles of life.”
Bowie
says
Morrison’s generosity is
contagious. One lady
with
Compassion
House recently offered
to pay for everyone else
present who couldn’t.
Morrison refused.
“It makes you feel
good,” said Bowie.
“You may not have
money, but if you can
give a part of yourself I
think it means more.”
For sacrificing profits
to help others, The
Daily Citizen names
Miranda
Morrison
Citizen of the Week.
Cheney is wrong
Editor’s
note:
Bill
Shipp’s column should
return next week.)
Former Vice President
Dick Cheney used his first
TV interview since leaving
office to accuse the Obama
administration of making us
less safe from terrorists.
While Cheney came
across on CNN as embittered, trying to rewrite history despite his role as a copresident who believed the
world was ready to change
according to his specifications, the question is valid.
Are we less safe?
According to “Angler:
The
Cheney
Vice
Presidency,” by Barton
Gellman, whose reporting
won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize,
Cheney spent eight years
working behind the scenes to
increase the power of the
president. He is clearly angry
that President Obama is trying, he thinks, to expand the
power of the federal government instead.
Former President Bush
and Cheney throughout 2001
had warning that a terrorist
attack was imminent. They
didn’t pay attention because
they were focused on consolidating power, getting a trillion-dollar tax cut through
Congress,
opening
up
wilderness to oil and gas
development and undoing
liberal legacy of Bill Clinton.
After 9/11, instead of pursuing al Qaeda through
Afghanistan into Pakistan,
missing opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden, Bush
— with Cheney’s daily urging — plunged into Iraq and
mired us in war that has
taken a thousand more
American lives than 9/11 and
maimed thousands more.
Now we are sending more
troops to Afghanistan trying
to contain a disaster.
It was
Cheney
who urged
setting up
and keeping open
the detention facility
at
Guantanamo Bay,
Ann
Cuba, even
McFeatters after Bush
said he’d
like
it
closed. It
was Cheney who urged that
civil liberties be curtailed in
the interest of national security. It was Cheney who
paved the way for the federal
government to engage in
domestic spying without
warrants. It was Cheney who
pushed the doctrine of preemptive war.
It was the Bush administration that oversaw the creation of the biggest bureaucracy in history — the enormously addlepated, hugely
unworkable Department of
Homeland Security.
Such initiatives angered
the rest of the world and cost
us the sympathy that poured
forth after 9/11, including
that from Arab and Muslim
nations.
So, what changes has
Obama made that Cheney
thinks make us less safe?
Obama
listened
to
lawyers in the Pentagon,
unlike Bush and Cheney, and
suspended military trials for
suspected terrorists. Unlike
the Bush administration,
Obama paid attention to
decisions made by the
Supreme
Court
on
Guantanamo.
Obama has announced he
will close the Guantanamo
prison, where prisoners have
been held for years without
being charged with any
crimes. Obama also is shut-
ting down sites overseas
where the CIA holds some
detainees, allegedly torturing
them.
Speaking of torture,
Obama has instructed CIA
interrogators to adhere to
regulations in the U.S. Army
Field Manual on treatment of
detainees. Thus, if American
soldiers are captured their
captors can no longer argue
we
sanction
torture.
Waterboarding, the process
of nearly drowning prisoners
approved by the Bush administration, will no longer be
condoned.
None of these practices
would have prevented 9/11.
Not one of them can be
proven to have prevented an
attack. As far as we know, the
attacks that have been prevented were thwarted by suspicious behavior, good police
work, missteps by terrorists
and informers. But meanwhile, the lives of thousands
of innocent people, especially Muslim American citizens, have been disrupted by
overzealousness and disregard of civil rights.
Cheney and his boss
bequeathed the nation a trillion-dollar deficit, six years
of war over non-existent
weapons of mass destruction,
a cutback of financial regulations that helped lead to the
global economic meltdown
and a tremendous decrease in
U.S. prestige.
Somehow the issues of
forbidding government-sanctioned torture and mandating
fair trials for prisoners, even
really bad guys, seem to pale
in comparison. If we’re less
safe, it’s for other reasons.
(Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeatters has
covered the White House
and national politics since
1986. E-mail [email protected].)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Cats urge attendance at Strut Your Mutt
To the editor:
We the cats of Whitfield County would like to invite all dogs —
large or small — to attend the Humane Society of Northwest
Georgia’s annual fundraiser “Strut Your Mutt,” or as we cats call it,
“Give the Cats a Break Day.”
This event will give all cats a brief respite from having to put
up with neighborhood dogs. For a few hours hopefully, all dogs
will be the Strut March 28 at 10 a.m. at Edwards Park on Cleveland
Highway. I know there will be dog contests along with a dog walk.
You know how these dogs are. This will allow time for us cats
to be at peace and get to relax from the dogs’ extreme exuberance.
So please all dog owners, take your dogs to the Strut. Give us
cats a break. Registration forms can be picked up at your local vet’s
office or you can register at the Strut. Thank you.
The Cats of Whitfield County
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call (706) 272-7735
WORDS OF WISDOM
Bible verse: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is
no law.”
Galatians 5:22-23
Today’s quote: “A major source of objection to a free
economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to
want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
Milton Friedman
American economist 1912-2006
THE DAILY CITIZEN
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Saturday,
March 21, the 80th day of
2009. There are 285 days
left in the year.
On this date:
In 1804, the French
civil code, or the “Code
Napoleon” as it was later
called, was adopted.
In 1806, Mexican
statesman Benito Juarez
was born in Oaxaca.
In 1907, U.S. Marines
arrived in Honduras to
protect American lives
and interests in the wake
of political violence.
In 1957, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
and British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan began a
four-day conference in
Bermuda.
In 1960, some 70 people were killed in
Sharpeville, South Africa,
when police fired on
demonstrators.
In 1963, the Alcatraz
federal prison island in
San Francisco Bay was
emptied of its last inmates
at the order of Attorney
General
Robert
F.
Kennedy.
In 1965, more than
3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.
began their march from
Selma to Montgomery,
Ala.
Five years ago: The
White House disputed
assertions by President
George W. Bush’s former
counterterrorism coordinator, Richard A. Clarke,
that the administration
had failed to recognize the
risk of an attack by alQaida in the months leading up to 9/11.
One
year
ago:
Officials admitted that at
least
four
State
Department workers had
pried into the supposedly
secure passport files of
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Barack Obama and John
McCain,
prompting
Secretary
of
State
Condoleezza Rice to personally apologize to the
presidential contenders.
Today’s Birthdays:
Singer Solomon Burke is
69. Singer-musician Rose
Stone (Sly and the Family
Stone) is 64. Actor
Timothy Dalton is 63.
Singer Eddie Money is 60.
Rock musician Conrad
Lozano (Los Lobos) is 58.
Rhythm-and-blues singer
Russell Thompkins Jr.
(The Stylistics) is 58.
Comedy writer-performer
Brad Hall is 51. Actress
Sabrina LeBeauf is 51.
Actor Gary Oldman is 51.
Actor Matthew Broderick
is 47. Comedian-talk
show
host
Rosie
O’Donnell is 47. RapperTV personality Kevin
Federline is 31.
The poor don’t have to stay poor
I’m sick of hearing that America is no
longer a land of opportunity.
Even before the current recession,
politicians and pundits were constantly
wringing their hands about the “demise
of the middle class.”
“Middle class families are struggling,”
President Barack Obama kept saying on
the campaign trail. Lou Dobbs hammers
away at this night after night: “What’s left
of our middle class may be on the verge
of collapse.”
And author Barbara Ehrenreich won
fame by claiming that it’s almost impossible for an entry-level worker to make it
in America. She wrote “Nickel and
Dimed,” a book that describes her failure
to “make it” working in entry-level jobs.
Her book is now required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges. I
spoke to her for my ABC special
“Bailouts, Big Spending and Bull.”
“I worked as a waitress and an aide in
a nursing home and a cleaning lady and a
Wal-Mart associate. And that didn’t do
it.”
If you do a good job, can’t you move
up?
“That’s not easy. Wal-Mart capped the
maximum you can ever make.”
But if you do a good job, you could be
promoted to assistant manager, store
manager.
“Well, I suppose.”
I pointed out that the new CEO of
Wal-Mart, Mike Duke, started out as an
hourly worker.
“There are always exceptions,” she
said. “My father worked his way up and
became a corporate executive. But that
was a one-in-a-million situation.”
Oh, yeah?
“I read ‘Nickel and
Dimed,’”
Adam
Shepard told me. He
was assigned her
book in college and
decided
to
test
Ehrenreich’s claim.
He picked a city
out of a hat,
Charleston, S.C., and
John
showed up there with
$25. He didn’t tell
Stossel
anyone about his college degree. He soon
got an $8/hour job working for a moving
company. He kept at it. Within a year, he
told me, “I have got $5,500 and a car. I
have got a furnished apartment.”
Adam writes about his search for the
American
Dream
in
“Scratch
Beginnings.” It’s a very different book
from “Nickel and Dimed.”
“If you want to fail, go for it, “ he said.
Barbara Ehrenreich wanted to fail?
“Absolutely, I think she wanted to fail
— and write the book about it.
I asked him for evidence.
“She is spending $40 on pants. She is
staying in hotels. I made sacrifices so that
I could succeed. She didn’t make any sacrifices.”
I asked Ehrenreich: Why can he do it,
when you couldn’t?
“I know, it’s embarrassing.”
Were you trying to fail?
“I think that is so unfair. The $40
pants, that was a big mistake, and that
was one mistake I made early on. The
motels, that’s not a rich person option.”
You could have succeeded if you’d
gotten a roommate.
“In time, yes, I could have gotten
roommates.”
You’re saying you can’t make it in
America in these jobs. And you can.
“And I said, here’s what my experience was.”
Her account of her experience is a
very misleading portrait of opportunity in
America. American Enterprise Institute
president Arthur Brooks points out,
“From 1950 to 2007, middle-class family
income went up, in real dollars, adjusted
for inflation, from $29,000 a year to
$75,000.”
Of course now we’re in the midst of a
recession. Millions have lost jobs.
“We can’t make light of that. But we
have to keep this in perspective. We’ve
had worse recessions.”
Perspective is right.
“Middle-class people today live like
rich people lived in the 1950s.”
“We’ve always said, ‘But in the old
days things were better,’” Brooks notes.
“They said that in the 1920s. They said
that in the 1950s, and we say it again
today. It’s not that we have less money.
It’s that our expectations have risen.”
Lately, fear has risen, as the economy
has fallen. But economies do recover.
“We have a society that rewards hard
work and merit,” Brooks adds. “Half of
the poor actually are not poor 10 years
later. Nobody is stuck where they start
out.”
■ John Stossel is co-anchor of ABC News’
“20/20” and author of “Myth, Lies, and
Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel
— Why Everything You Know is Wrong.”
The Daily Citizen
BRIEFS
Senate taking
longer look at
taxing bonuses
WASHINGTON —
Senate Republicans are
drawing out a flap that has
made the Obama administration squirm, applying the
brakes to Democratic
attempts to quickly tax away
most of the bonuses at troubled insurance giant AIG
and other bailed-out companies.Sen. Jon Kyl, the
Republicans’ vote counter,
blocked Democratic efforts
Thursday evening to bring
up the Senate version of the
tax bill to recoup most of
the $165 million paid out by
AIG last weekend and other
bonuses in 2009. The House
had swiftly approved its version of the bill earlier in the
day. By rushing, Kyl said,
Democrats were letting populist outrage trump informed
decision making in the
Senate, which is supposed to
be insulated from the pressures of public passion.
Sub, ship collide in
Gulf oil passage
MANAMA, Bahrain —
Two U.S. Navy vessels — a
nuclear-powered submarine
and an amphibious ship —
collided before dawn Friday
in the mouth of the Persian
Gulf, one of the world’s
most important sea passages
for oil supplies. There was
no damage to the sub’s
nuclear propulsion system
and no disruption to shipping in the strategic Strait of
Hormuz, through which a
fifth of the world’s oil passes. Still, the unusual collision between members of
the same navy sparked a
sudden rise in oil prices —
which had been declining on
the day — even though the
strait remained open. With
pressure pulling prices down
in the financial crisis, the
rise was nowhere near what
would have been expected
months ago, when such a
collision would likely have
sent prices skyrocketing.
U.S. to alter
Afghan strategy
WASHINGTON — The
United States will change
the way its forces are
arrayed in Afghanistan as
part of an overhaul of U.S.
strategy in the flagging war,
a senior defense official said
Friday. President Barack
Obama is expected to unveil
a revamped plan for fighting
insurgents in Afghanistan
and Pakistan next week. It
would call for new garrisons
in far-flung Afghan communities. That would help the
U.S. hold ground against a
resurgent Taliban-led insurgency. Under today’s huband-spoke system, U.S.
forces leave protected bases
to conduct anti-insurgent
operations. When they leave,
insurgents come back.
Pope condemns
sexual violence
LUANDA, Angola —
Pope Benedict XVI, welcomed to this sweltering
capital Friday by the biggest
crowds of his African pilgrimage, condemned sexual
violence against women in
Africa and chided those
countries on the continent
that have approved abortion.
Benedict arrived in Luanda
on the second leg of his
African tour, with tens of
thousands pouring into the
streets along his motorcade
route, honking car horns and
slowing traffic to a crawl.
Woman gets 4
years in prison
CHARDON, Ohio — A
transgender woman was sentenced Friday to four years
in prison for killing her frail
husband by forcing him to
exercise. Chris Mason, 41,
was sentenced in Geauga
County Common Pleas
Court for reckless homicide
in the death of 73-year-old
James Mason. She pleaded
guilty earlier and could have
gotten five years in prison.
Mason’s voice quivered as
she tearfully apologized for
the June death of her husband, who had heart problems. A surveillance camera
caught Mason forcing her
husband around in the pool.
– The Associated Press
Melting snow threatens
spring flooding in north
BY RANDOLPH E.
SCHMID
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON
—
Spring flooding threatens the
upper Midwest, parts of the
Great Lakes region and the
Northeast, government forecasters warned.
The Red River of the
North along the MinnesotaNorth Dakota border faces
the nation’s greatest threat of
spring flooding, the federal
Climate Prediction Center
said in its spring weather
outlook.
Warnings have already
been posted along Red River,
the only area in the 48 contiguous states listed as a high
flood threat in the new
national outlook.
“We are looking at a situ-
ation with all the ingredients
for near-record flooding in
the upper Midwest,” said
Jack Hayes, director of the
National Weather Service.
“Sudden snowpack melts
due to warm temperatures or
a heavy rain could further
complicate the flooding on
the northern plains.”
Facing above average
flood threats are:
■ Much of northern
Minnesota, central North
Dakota and northern South
Dakota.
■ A region extending
across northern Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio and the
southern two-thirds of
Michigan.
■ New York’s Mohawk
River Valley and along the
northern
border
of
Massachusetts.
The melt from heavy winter snowfalls is expected to
provide the excess moisture
in the flood areas.
The flood risk is reported
to be below average in central Wisconsin, Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula, the MidAtlantic states, Florida,
Louisiana, Texas and along
the Mexican border and West
Coast.
The only parts of the
country expected to receive
unusually heavy rainfall or
snow this spring are Hawaii
and Alaska, the National
Weather Service reported.
Below-normal rainfall is
likely in southern Florida
and a region of the West
including Idaho, Wyoming,
Oregon, Utah, most of
Washington, Montana and
Colorado as well as northern
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warmer than average in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Temperature forecast, April-June 2009, as of March 19
More than 40%
chance of being cooler
More than 40%
chance of being warmer
More than 33%
More than 33%
chance of being cooler chance of being warmer
More than 50%
chance of being warmer
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or cooler temperatures
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California and Nevada.
The rest of the country
has about even chances of
wet, dry or normal weather.
The temperature outlook
is for cooler than normal in
Hawaii, the southern twothirds
of
Alaska,
Washington, Montana and
the northern parts of Oregon
and Idaho.
The outlook is for
warmer-than-normal spring
temperatures in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and southern Utah and Colorado.
Owners worry about puppies
that came from Petland
BY LISA CORNWELL
CINCINNATI — Dawn
Lewis and her family still
miss Cash, the dog she had
put to sleep in 2007 after it
attacked her son and left him
with scars on his face and
ear.
She
wonders
now
whether the Akita’s behavior
was a result of puppy mill
breeding by Petland Inc.,
which sold her the dog in
2006.
Pet owners nationwide
are suing the chain in federal
court, questioning their pets’
medical and behavioral problems and accusing the Ohiobased company of selling
dogs bred in filthy conditions.
The lawsuit filed this
week against Petland, the
Hunte Corp. and other
unnamed suppliers claims
the companies misled thousands of customers into
believing sick puppies came
from the finest breeders
when they really came from
puppy mills and brokers.
Petland and Hunte have
denied the claims.
Puppy mills are high-volume breeding kennels that
animal protection groups say
harm the animals and lead to
sick puppies being sold to
consumers.
“This scheme to conceal
the origin of these puppymill puppies from consumers
has left thousands of families
in its wake suffering from
emotional turmoil and significant monetary losses,”
says the suit filed by six
Petland customers — including members of The Humane
Society of the United States.
“The claims that we conspired to sell sick puppies to
consumers are baseless,”
Hunte president Steven Rook
said Friday. “We only deal
with licensed breeders, regulated and inspected by the
USDA, and we require that
they follow a strict regime.
Everything is designed and
managed for the health of the
puppy.”
Lawyers have asked a
judge to certify the case as a
class action, meaning others
could join it and share any
monetary award.
Stephanie Booth, of
Flagstaff, Ariz., got her
bloodhound Tucker from a
Petland store in 2007. She
said she thought a lump on
his head came from roughhousing with another puppy,
but Tucker was diagnosed a
few months later with a brain
tumor and had to be put to
sleep.
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Stephanie Booth, 18, poses with her dog, Leroy, in
Flagstaff, Ariz. Booth had the bloodhound shipped
to her from a breeder just months after another
bloodhound she bought from Petland had to be put
down because it had cancer.
Booth, 18, said documents she got from Petland
included the dog’s family
tree and the breeder’s name
and said he was fine. She
said her mother researched
the breeder and found information suggesting it might
be a puppy mill that had
faced legal problems.
“I just want people to
become aware of the situation with puppy mills and
what the dogs go through,”
said Booth, who is a plaintiff
in the federal suit against
Petland.
Petland, which has 131
U.S. stores, has said it is outraged and disappointed by
what it calls false accusations and insists it does
everything possible to provide customers with healthy,
happy and well-socialized
pets. The company has not
been charged with any
crimes.
Petland says it has many
satisfied customers like Aric
Shock, of Kettering, Ohio,
who said his French Bulldog
puppy Dozer has been a
great pet, and Sandy Voelker,
of Fairfield in suburban
Cincinnati.
“We’ve had no issues
with her other than just being
a puppy,” Voelker, 32, said of
her English Bulldog, Rosie.
Lewis, who lives in San
Diego, said Petland guaranteed her puppy Cash’s
health. Even so, she said she
found he had ringworm
when she bought him. And
when she complained about
the biting, a store employee
told her that Akita’s are
sometimes prone to aggressiveness.
“I will never buy another
dog from a pet store,” said
Lewis, 37, who is not a
plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Petland warranties cover
congenital and hereditary
disorders for up to a year
after purchase, and at least
two licensed veterinarians
examine each puppy before
it’s sold, said Petland
spokeswoman
Elizabeth
Kunzelman.
“If a pet develops an issue
at some point in their lives,
this does not in any way indicate that the puppy came
from a substandard breeder,”
Kunzelman said.
The Humane Society and
other animal welfare groups
want to outlaw puppy mills.
They say legislation is pending in 27 different states to
restrict puppy mills and protect consumers who buy puppies that are later diagnosed
with health or genetic
defects.
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CROSSWORD
BRIDGE
HOROSCOPE
A self-imposed guess
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
Happy
Birthday:
Balance your time so you can 22): Invest in your looks,
take care of all your needs your skills or anything else
without feeling pressure. It’s that will help get you ahead
stress you must eliminate. personally, financially and
Worrying is a waste of time professionally. Don’t let a
and will compromise your change at home get you
ability to make good choices. down. Chances are good that
The more in sync you are it was long overdue and will
with what’s going on around make your life easier. 3 stars
LIBRA (Sept.
you, the more peo23-Oct. 22): Focus
ple will want to
on having fun.
pitch in and help
Social events will
you out. Your numlead to a better relabers are 4, 15, 17,
tionship with your
23, 31, 38, 44
friends or lover and
ARIES (March
will help you meet
21-April
19):
someone special if
Doors will open if
you happen to be
you push a little
single. 5 stars
harder. You will be
SCORPIO
remembered
by
Eugenia
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
someone
with
Don’t give in to
whom you have
Last
anyone who is
dealt in the past.
being too demandYou can recoup
some of your past losses by ing, trying to talk you out of
revamping and incorporating your cash or force a deal on
you. It’s important to protect
old ideas. 4 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May your interests as well as your
20): Don’t be too sure of heart. You call the shots and
things. You may be disap- make the moves. 2 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
pointed by someone’s lastminute decision. Protect your 22-Dec. 21): Focus on work
assets and your position by not personal matters that
staying in the loop, con- cannot be rectified. Make a
tributing all you can and motion to move on if you
being diligent about comple- find that someone is using
you to get to someone else.
tion. 2 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June Stick close to the people you
20): The more considerate know you can trust. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22you are of others, the better,
but don’t let anyone take Jan. 19): Sometimes you
advantage of your generosity have to look back in order to
and fair play. Balance work move forward. Realizing
and pleasure but don’t mix what you have accomplished
them. Make travel plans to will make what you have
hook up with someone from ahead of you that much easier. The changes you make
your past. 5 stars
CANCER (June 21-July now may surprise some of
22): You have to put more your colleagues and friends.
time and effort into your 3 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20future. Your plans should be
looked at and revised if they Feb. 18): Refrain from being
aren’t working for you. A overindulgent or getting
change in your vocation may involved with friends who
be in order but don’t leap are. You must keep a clear
before you have somewhere head. If there is something
you don’t want to do and
to go. 3 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): someone is being pushy,
Romance should be on your back out gracefully. 3 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
agenda. A trip with someone
you care about or even 20): Your concern and sinspending time alone and dis- cerity will help you gain
cussing your plans for the respect and support. By
future will build a better rela- helping others, you will
tionship. If you are single, bring about your own sucget involved in entertaining cess. Someone who has
events that allow you to min- helped you in the past will
gle and meet new people. 3 be willing to do so again. 3
stars
stars
Many wrong
guesses that are
attributed to bad
luck turn out,
upon
closer
inspection, to be
the result of
incorrect play.
Consider this
deal
where
South’s expectations of an easy
time at three
notrump
were
quickly dampened by the sight
of North’s meager contribution
to the partnership
assets. All was
not lost, however,
since if the missing clubs divided
n o r m a l l y,
dummy’s ten of clubs would provide an entry with which to
try a finesse in hearts or spades.
Declarer began by ducking the first two diamonds, taking the ace on the third round. He then cashed the A-K-Q
of clubs and led a club to the ten.
In dummy for the one and only time, South now had to
decide which finesse to attempt. Unfortunately, he chose a
spade, losing the queen to the king. West cashed his good
diamond, on which declarer discarded a spade, then exited
with a spade to the ace. But when the A-K of hearts failed
to drop the queen, South had to lose the last trick for down
one.
After he discovered that East held the heart queen, South
lamented his misfortune in misguessing which finesse to
take, but the outcome was really his own fault. Had he
played differently, no guess would have been necessary.
Declarer knew from West’s four-of-diamonds lead at
trick one — presumably fourth-best — that West had no
more than four diamonds. Therefore he should have won
the second diamond, preserving the ten for a later purpose.
Three top clubs are then cashed, after which South exits
with the ten of diamonds. West wins and takes his fourth
diamond, declarer discarding a spade. South’s remaining
cards at this point are the A-Q of spades, A-K-J of hearts
and a club.
Whichever suit West now returns hands South his ninth
trick, and the game is home without having to resort to any
guesswork at all.
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■ Tunnel Hill United
Methodist Church has
announced the following
upcoming events:
Supper and Gospel
Singing — The United
Methodist Men will host its
eighth annual supper and
gospel singing March 28
from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cost is
$10 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under and
includes pork loin, baked
potatoes, green beans, slaw,
bread and desserts. Carryout
will be available. For more
information, call Macoy
Griffin at (706) 673-2721.
Workshop — A “Sharing
Your
Witness
District
Workshop” led by Jeff
Jernigan will be held Sunday
at 2 p.m. at Calhoun First
United Methodist Church.
The church is at 121 N.
Varnell Road in Tunnel Hill.
■ Each Thursday at noon
and 6 p.m. during Lent,
Dalton
First
United
Methodist Church will present a 30-minute service in the
chapel. The noon service is
followed by a soup and sandwich luncheon for $6.
A series of guest speakers
will preach on the theme
“Restoring the teachings of
Jesus to our lives to give us
purpose and joy.” On
Thursday, the guest speaker
will be the Rev. Bill
Curlington, who will speak
on “Obey and be Free.”
The church is at 500 S.
Thornton Ave. in Dalton.
■ Christ the King
Lutheran Church will hold
a small soup supper at 6 p.m.
and worship at 7 each
Wednesday during Lent.
The church is at 623 S.
Thornton Ave. in Dalton. For
more information, call (706)
278-3979.
■ Mallory Ledford will be
in concert today at 7 p.m. at
Dalton Second Baptist
Church.
The church is on Tyler
Street in Dalton.
■ Tabernacle of Praise
Deliverance Center will
conclude its 16th anniversary
celebratory revival today at 7
p.m.
Annette Whitley will bring
the message. Hot dogs and
refreshments will be served
following the service.
The church is at 1435
Leonard Bridge Road in
Chatsworth. Pastor Susan
Tankersley welcomes everyone.
■ Voices Won will be in
concert Sunday at 6 p.m. at
Mount Rachel Baptist
Church.
Haig Mill Road in Dalton.
For more information, call
the church office at (706)
278-5192.
■ A multi-family yard sale
will be held today from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at Dollar General
Store on Cleveland Highway
in the old Winn-Dixie parking
lot. Proceeds go toward renovation projects for the
Church of God of the Union
Assembly.
There will be hot dogs,
hamburgers and homemade
cakes, as well as the Easter
Bunny.
The public is welcome.
■ Dawnville United
Methodist Men will sponsor
its annual Harold Hair
Pancake Breakfast today
from 6 to 11 a.m. at
Dawnville United Methodist
Church.
Tickets are $5 and include
pancakes, sausage and bacon.
Dine-in or carryout.
The church is on
Dawnville Road across from
Dawnville
Elementary.
Everyone is welcome.
■ Spring Place Baptist
Church will host its first
Wild Game Banquet March
24 at 6:30 p.m. The meal will
consist of various wild game
meats from which to choose,
and several door prizes will
be given away.
To purchase a ticket, call
the church office at (706)
695-5532 or email [email protected]. The
church is at 441 Highway 225
South in Chatsworth.
■ Holly Creek Baptist
Church will host a meeting
today at 4:30 p.m. to discuss
the upcoming tour of Israel
and Jordan.
The 10-day trip leaves
Oct. 20 and returns Oct. 29.
Cost is $3,255 and includes
round-trip direct airfare, first
class hotels, deluxe motorcoaches, guided sightseeing,
entrance fees to sites visited
and breakfast and dinner
daily. Pastor Danny Cochran
will preach at selected sites.
Bible studies will also be conducted as well as communion
at the Garden Tomb.
The church is located on
Holly Creek/Cool Springs
Road in Chatsworth. For
695-8522.
■ A vegetarian cooking
school will be April 6-9 from
6 to 8 p.m. at Chatsworth
Seventh-day
Adventist
Church. Instructors will also
cover healthy eating and
lifestyle habits.
Space is limited and registration is required. Cost is
$15 which covers all materials and food used.
To register, call Lila at
(706) 695-8382 or Beth (706)
217-6673. The church is at
the foot of Fort Mountain on
Ga.
Highway
52
in
Chatsworth.
■ Mountain Ridge
Baptist Church and Pastor
Dr. Jerry D. Jones will celebrate his fifth pastoral
anniversary and Appreciation
Day Sunday.
Minister David Thomas,
associate
minister
of
Community
Fellowship
Church in Dalton, will be the
11 a.m. speaker. The Rev.
Wayne Johnson, pastor of
New Hope Baptist Church in
Chattanooga will lead the
3:30 p.m. service.
M.L. King Jr. Blvd. in
Dalton. The public is invited.
■ Valley Brook Church
of God will be in revival
April 5-7 with national evangelist and songwriter Gerald
Crabb as special guest.
Sunday services begin at 11
a.m. and 6 p.m. with remaining services beginning at 7
p.m.
Mineral Springs Road in
Dalton. Pastor Junior Clayton
welcomes everyone.
■
Smyrna
Baptist
Church will be in revival
March 22-25 with a different
speaker for each service.
Sunday services begin at 11
a.m. and 6:30 p.m. The
speaker schedule is:
March 22 — The Rev.
Jimmy Bryant
Wesley Hunt
Jeff Hawkins
Eric Guthrie
Special music will be provided by the church choir,
Janice Ridley, the Smyrna
Quartet, Richard Tucker and
others.
The church is on Smyrna
Church Road in Chatsworth.
(706) 695-5815.
■ Channing Eleton will be
in concert Sunday at 6 p.m. at
Carolyn Baptist Church.
Cleveland
Highway
in
Dalton. Dr. David Kitchens,
pastor, invites the public.
■ Women of Destiny will
having a fellowship service
March 28 at 10 a.m. at the
Fellowship Hall of True
Gospel Pentecostal Church.
Chiquita Tibbs, Lexis
Washington, Kendra Carter
and other singers will lead the
praise and worship.
Lunch will follow.
For more information call
evangelist Diane Bonds at
706-259-4399.
Outstanding students
were recognized during
the 28th annual Media
Day at the University of
West Georgia recently.
Lauren Mariney of
Dalton was awarded an
academic scholarship
and the Gordon Watson
Award in mass communications. The
Department of Mass
Communications and
Theatre hosted the
event, which featured a
panel discussion with
media professionals,
workshops and an honors luncheon.
Former jail guard accused
of beating inmates
ATLANTA (AP) — A former Fulton County Jail guard
was arrested Friday on charges
he beat two inmates, including
a mentally ill man who later
died.
Curtis Jerome Brown, 41,
of Lithonia was released on
$20,000 bond after appearing in U.S. District Court,
where he waived a preliminary hearing. No other hearing dates were set. The case
likely will go to a federal
grand jury next.
Brown was charged with
civil rights violations, making
false statements, filing a false
report and obstructing a federal investigation.
In a criminal complaint, an
FBI agent claimed Brown and
two other staff members beat a
mentally ill inmate in his cell
on March 18, 2008. The
inmate, Richard Glasco, was
later pronounced dead at
Grady Memorial Hospital.
The county medical examiner
listed the death as sudden and
unexpected but did not determine a specific cause.
The FBI affidavit said
Brown handcuffed another
inmate, took him into a hallway, put on gloves and beat
him in August 2007, then falsified reports after the prisoner was found by another
deputy, crying and bleeding
and in need of medical care.
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DEAR ABBY
■ MUTTS
Teen daughter’s pregnancy is
cause for joy in mother’s eyes
■ WIZARD OF ID
■ CATHY
DEAR ABBY: My daughter, “Heidi,” is question your joy.
Frankly, I am troubled by the fact
17 and pregnant. She is going to an
that nowhere in your letter have you
alternative high school and doing
mentioned how your daughter plans
well. My daughter is proactive about
to raise her son, how she will provide
her pregnancy and excited about the
for him, whether she plans to comnew baby. This will be my first
plete her education, what the
grandchild, and I am excited too.
involvement of the baby’s father will
My problem is, when I express
be emotionally and financially, or
my joy, others act like I am crazy for
whether she will need aid from the
being happy. At a baptism in church,
state. Nor have you mentioned what
I told my husband how happy I will
the impact of the new arrival will
be when our grandson is baptized
have on your marriage.
and that I can’t wait until he’s born.
Jeanne
That’s why, although your heart is
He responded that he is not excited
at all because of the expense and
Phillips filled with joy, you need to look
ahead with your eyes wide open —
upheaval this new addition will
and that’s what I am advising.
cause.
I know there will be hardships with a new
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van
baby. We don’t have much room in our house,
and a new member will bring some burden. I Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and
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heartbeat, I am filled with joy.
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THE DAILY CITIZEN
CHURCH
■ A meeting to discuss an
upcoming trip to Israel and
Jordan will be Sunday at
4:30 p.m. at Holly Creek
Baptist Church.
If you are registered to
participate in the trip, or if
you are interested in learning
more about this opportunity,
organizers ask you to make
plans to attend the meeting.
The tour leaves Oct. 20 and
returns Oct. 29. Trip cost is
$3,255, which includes
round-trip direct airfare, first
class hotels, deluxe motor
coaches, guided sightseeing,
entrance fees to sites visited,
and breakfast and dinner
daily.
Pastor Danny Cochran
will be preaching at selected
sites, Bible studies will be
conducted, and Communion
will be observed at the
Garden Tomb.
Holly Creek Baptist Church
at (706) 695-8522.
■
Harvest
Baptist
Church in Varnell will host a
community-wide Easter egg
hunt and children’s fun day
April 4 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Activities include an egg
decorating contest, free photos with live bunnies and
inflatables.
Homemade
desserts and drinks will be
available for purchase. Prizes
will be awarded for Best Egg
and the winner of the egg
hunt.
Cleveland Highway in
Varnell.
■ Swamp Creek Baptist
Church will be in revival
Sunday through Wednesday
with Evangelist Mark Yoho
as guest speaker. Sunday
services begin at 11 a.m. and
7 p.m. with remaining services beginning at 7 p.m.
Tuesday is Youth Night
with pizza at 6 p.m. There
will also be special music
during each service.
The church will have Kite
Day today from 1 to 3 p.m. at
the home of Bill Bradford at
640 Redwine Cove Road in
Dalton. For more information, call (706) 277-1835 or
(706) 264-3498.
Carbondale Road in Dalton.
■ Pastor Paula Douglas
will be the special guest
March 27-29 at A Place to
Worship in Chatsworth.
Services begin at 7 p.m.
Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and
10 a.m. Sunday.
The church is at 259 Old
Landfill Road. For more
information, call (706) 5811837.
■ Maple Grove Baptist
Church will have a pancake
breakfast fundraiser March
28 from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at
Applebee’s
on Walnut
Avenue in Dalton. All proceeds benefit the youth program.
Tickets are $5 and may be
purchased at the door or in
advance by calling (706)
537-1645.
The church is on Maple
Grove Church Road in
Dalton.
■ The Hillcrest Baptist
Church youth group will
have a benefit yard sale and
bake sale March 28 at 7 a.m.
at the Dawnville Ruritan
Club. Proceeds go to the
youth fund. There will also
be gospel singing.
The club is off Dawnville
Road. Everyone is welcome.
■ The Worship Arts
Ministry of Fellowship
Bible Church will have an
interactive Good Friday service April 10 from 11 a.m. to 7
p.m.
Participants may come at
any time for prayer and meditation. Plan on taking
approximately 20 minutes.
The church is at 2044 Dug
Gap Road in Dalton. For
278-6269.
■ A benefit service will
be April 3 at 7:30 p.m. at
Mount Vernon Baptist
Church in Tunnel Hill with
Dr. Roy Gentry of Dogwood
Valley Baptist Church as special speaker. There will also
be special music.
A love offering will be
received for a new heating
and air conditioning system
for the church.
Mount Vernon Road. Pastor
Hugh Burdette invites everyone.
WORSHIP WITH US
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
BAPTIST
FIRST
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
GROVE LEVEL
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor, Ted Miller
508 Sheridan Ave.
Dalton, GA
706-226-7743
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Worship,
10:45
a.m.:
Evening Service 6:30 p.m.;
Wednesday Night, 7:00 p.m.
CALVARY
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
515 Reed Rd.
(1 ml. N of Dalton By-Pass)
Sunday Morning Worship
Service, 10:45 a.m.; Sunday
Evening Worship Service,
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Night
Service, 7:00 p.m.
Youth and Children’s Services
Available in any service
CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLY
Pastor Dan Hocker
Corner of Church &
Cemetary Street
Tunnel Hill
706-673-6414
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. & 6:30
p.m.; Wednesday, Royal
Rangers & Missionettes at
7:30 p.m.
BAPTIST
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
BAPTIST CHURCH
McFalls Street
Dalton, GA
Pastor: Bro. Roy Groce
706-375-2216
Sunday Radio Broadcast, 9:00
a.m. WTTI; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Sunday Morning Worship,
Service 10:45 a.m.; Sunday
Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Prayer Services
7:00 p.m.
Everyone Welcome
2802 Cleveland Hwy.
706-259-8519
www.grovelevel.org
Dr. Charlie Bridges,
Senior Pastor
Rev. David Hendrix,
Associate Pastor &
Minister of Music
Rev. Jim Bledsoe,
Assoc. Pastor for
Evangelism,
Missions & Administration
Rev. Dan Rice, Assoc.
Pastor for Discipleship
Matt Baxter
Minister of
Middle School Youth
Teresa Thomas
Children’s Director
Carol Cook
Kingdom Kids Director
Sunday School, 8:00 a.m. &
9:30 a.m.; Sunday Morning
Worship, 9:30 & 11:00 a.m.;
Sunday Discipleship Training,
5:30 p.m.; Sunday Evening
Worship, 7:00 p.m; Wednesday
Prayer Service & Youth
Missions, 7:00 p.m.; Sunday
Bible Study for the Deaf, 9:30
a.m.; Interpretation for Deaf
Sunday 11:00 a.m.; Deaf
Church Service monthly 2nd
4th Sunday 6:00 p.m.
HARMONY
BAPTIST CHURCH
187 Lower Dawnville Rd., N.E.
Dalton, GA 30721
706-226-5521
Rev. Jame Boyd
Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m.;
Sunday Night Worship, 6:00
p.m; AWANAS (children 3 years
of age through 12th grade),
Wednesday,
6:15
p.m.;
Wednesday Night Service, 7:00
p.m.
COHUTTA FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH
HOLLY CREEK
BAPTIST CHURCH
Everyone Welcome
422 Holly Creek Cool Springs Rd.
Chatsworth, GA 30705
(706) 695-8522
Pastor Danny Cochran
Sunday Worship, 8:30 a.m. &
10:55 a.m.; Sunday Evening
Worship, 6:30 p.m; AWANA
Grades 6-8, 7:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Evening Youth
Group, 7:00 p.m.
Nursery Provided for all
Services
P.O. Box 300
103 King Street
Cohutta, GA 30710
Pastor: Truett Nimmons
(706) 694-8321
Evening Worship, 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Bible Study, 6:30
p.m.
DALTON SECOND
BAPTIST CHURCH
502 W. Tyler St., Dalton
(Beside Westwood School)
Dr. Larry Wood, Pastor
Bruce Acree, Choir Director
706-278-7422 or 706-259-4794
Sunday Services - Sunday
School, 9:45 a.m.; Worship
Night: Choir Practice, 5:15 p.m.;
AWANA 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Worship
6:00 p.m. Wednesday Night
Worship - Bible Study, 7:00
p.m.; DSBC Youth Ministry,
7:00-8:30 p.m.; Clases de
ingles 6:30-8:30 p.m.
LAKESIDE
BAPTIST CHURCH
LaFayette Hwy. (201)
Pastor, Rev. Clyde Painter
Worship Service, 10:45 a.m.;
Sunday Night Service, 6:30
p.m; Wednesday Night Service,
7:30 p.m.
“EVERYONE WELCOME”
“IT’S A NEW & GREAT DAY”
LIBERTY
BAPTIST CHURCH
4443 Tibbs Bridge Road
Dalton, Georgia 30721
(706) 226-4936
Joel Southerland, Pastor
150 Dewberry Church Rd. Sunday Morning Worship, 9:00
a.m. & 11:00 a.m.; Sunday
Crandall, GA
School, 10:00 a.m.; Sunday
Pastor, Gary Lewis
Evening Worship, 6:00 p.m;
(706) 517-7495
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; Wednesday Night Service, 7:00
Sunday Morning Worship, 11:00 p.m.
a.m.; Sunday Evening Worship,
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Evening
Worship, 7:00 p.m.
www.dewberrybaptistchurch.com
DEWBERRY
BAPTIST CHURCH
MAPLE GROVE
BAPTIST CHURCH
347 Maple Grove Rd.
Dalton, GA 30721
(705) 259-3927
Pastor, Tony Robertson
DOGWOOD VALLEY
Sunday
School, 10:00 a.m.;
BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday Morning Worship, 11:00
Tunnel Hill
a.m.; Children’s Church, 11:00
Rev. Roy Gentry, Pastor
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6:00
p.m;
Wednesday Evening, 7:00
Morning Worship & Radio Time
(WTTI), 11:00 a.m.; Evening p.m.
Worship, 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday
Prayer Service; 7:00 p.m., Youth
Programs
Home of Dogwood Christian
McFARLAND HILL
Academy & Dogwood Bible Camp
BAPTIST CHURCH
307 Brickyard Road
706-277-5521
Pastor David Eaton
Regina Johnston, AWANA
EASTSIDE
Where Jesus is the Light
BAPTIST CHURCH
and People are Loved
913 E. Morris St.
Dalton, GA 30721
Jame A. Brownlee, Pastor
Children’s Church, 11:00 a.m.;
Danny Crawford,
Music Director
Wednesday Prayer Meeting and
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Youth Activities, 7:00 p.m.
p.m.
MOUNTAIN RIDGE
BAPTIST CHURCH
FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH
311 N. Thornton Ave.
William (Bill) Wilson, Jr.
Pastor
Phillip Cannon,
Pastoral Educator
Larry Flanagan, Minister of
Music/Senior Adults
Derrell Grantham, Minister of
Activities/Single Adults
Debra Haney, Church
Business Administrator
Janice Kiehm, Minister of
Children and Their Families
Christian Byrd,
Minister to Youth/Students
Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Early
Worship; 9:45 a.m., Sunday
School; 10:55 a.m., Morning
Worship.
Please call 706-278-2911 for
information on other services or
visit our website at:
www.firstbaptistdalton.com
GOOD HOPE
BAPTIST CHURCH
2519 Lake Francis Road
Dalton, GA
Rev. Stacy Hensley, Pastor
Bro. Bruce Phillips,
Minister of Music
Sunday School Extension Class;
Adult Choir Practice, Sunday
5:30 p.m; Prayer Rooms 6:10
p.m.; Sunday Evening Service,
6:30 p.m; Alternate Tuesdays
“Care Nights” 7:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Night Prayer Service
7:00 p.m.; Children & Youth
Meeting, 7:00 p.m.; GA’s, Lad,
Mission Friends 7:30 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME!
1879-2007
1401 M.L. King Blvd.
Dalton, GA 30721
(706) 278--0335
Dr. J.D. Jones, Pastor
Bible Study, Tuesday 7:00
p.m.; Bible Study, Wednesday
9:00 a.m.; Youth Night and
Dinner, 6:00 p.m.
[email protected]
www.mountainridgebaptist.com
NEW HOPE
BAPTIST CHURCH
900 Roan St., Dalton
706-226-1093
Church Office
706-226-1151
Pastor’s Study
706-259-6255 Fax
www.newhopebaptistdalton.com
Experience a New Birth
Enter into a New Covenant
Explore New Life and
Enjoy New Hope
Sunday Worship Service, 10:00
a.m.; Mid-Week Manna, 6:00
p.m.
Rev. Kenneth F. Scaise, Pastor
OLIVIA
BAPTIST CHURCH
“Making a Difference”
1811 Guy Street
Dalton, GA 30720
(706) 278-3507
www.oliviabaptistchurch.com
Bruce Beach, Pastor
Wednesday Worship, 7:00 p.m.
BAPTIST
POPLAR SPRINGS
BAPTIST CHURCH
897 Poplar Springs Road
Dalton, GA 30720
706-259-8727
Bill Gardner, Pastor
Sunday Services - Bible
Classes, 10:00 a.m.; Morning
Worship, 11:00 a.m.; Evening
Worship, 6:00 p.m.; Sunday
Night Youth Service, 6:00 p.m;
Wednesday Services - Bible
Study, 7:00 p.m.; AWANA, 7:00
p.m.; Youth Service, 7:00 p.m.;
Other Activities - Fifth Sunday
Services; Youth Sunday, 11:00
a.m.; Praise Service, 6:00 p.m.
ROCKY FACE
BAPTIST CHURCH
“The Church that Cares”
Old Chattanooga Road
Rocky Face, GA 30740
706-226-5751
Jim Brinkley, Pastor
a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6:00
p.m.; Wednesday Evening, 7:00
p.m.; Adult Bible Study & Prayer
Time, Youth Ministry for All
Ages.
SALEM
BAPTIST CHURCH
THE CHURCH THAT LOVES
1448 Pleasant Grove Dr.
Dalton, GA 30721
Pastor, Darey Kittle
Associate Pastor,
Walter E. Hare
Youth Pastor, Mark Chandler
p.m.; Wednesday Evening, 6:30
p.m.; Youth Services, 6:30,
AWANA, 6:30 p.m.
706-259-7045
www.sbcdalton.org
SOUTH DALTON
BAPTIST CHURCH
498 Lakemont Drive
Dalton, GA 30720
(706) 278-4946
Pastor, Trammel Campbell
Minister of Music,
Tim Brown
Master Club,
Ruth & Bill Harris
Youth, Ginger & Ricky Harrison
Children’s Directors,
Mary Greene, Tonya Graham
Children’s Church, 10:50 a.m.;
Master Club, 5:30-7:00 p.m.;
p.m.; Wednesday Prayer & Bible
Study, 7:00 p.m.
“Expect Great Things”
SPRING PLACE
BAPTIST CHURCH
441 Hwy. 225 South
(706) 695-5532
Pastor Tim Batchelor
Sunday School for All Ages,
10:00 a.m.; Morning Worship
Service, 11:00 a.m.; Evening
Worship Service, 6:30 p.m.;
Wednesday Evening Bible Study,
6:30 p.m.
www.springplacebaptistchurch.org
Iglesia Biblica Bautista
Clases Biblicas, 10:00 a.m.
Servicio de Predicacion, 11:00 a.m.
Pastor Jose Joga
We’re Making A Place ForYou!
SWAMP CREEK
BAPTIST CHURCH
242 Carbondale Rd.
Dalton, GA 30721
(706) 277-1835
Pastor Mark Seay
Sunday Morning Worship
Wednesday Evening Prayer &
Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.; AWANA,
7:00 p.m.
VALLEY
BAPTIST CHURCH
2907 Old Rome Rd.
Dalton
Charles Hamm, Pastor
Sunday Worship, 11:00 a.m.;
Sunday Evening, 6:00 p.m.;
Bible Study, Monday 7:00 p.m.,
Wednesday 7:00 p.m.; WTTI
Radio Saturday, 10:30-11:00
a.m.
VARNELL
BAPTIST CHURCH
313 Varnell Main Street
706-694-3955
Ed Pippin, Pastor
Wednesday Prayer Meeting,
7:00 p.m., Wednesday Youth
Church Ages through Teens
Everyone Welcome
Warm and Friendly Fellowship
WELCOME HILL
BAPTIST CHURCH
2740 Chatsworth RoadDalton
Michael Deems, Pastor
Sunday Morning Sunday School,
10:00 a.m.; Morning Worship,
11:00 a.m.; Sunday Night
Service, 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday
Night Service, 7:00 p.m.,
AWANA Wednesday Night, 7:00
p.m.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
You’re Invited to Visit
WHITFIELD
BAPTIST CHURCH
“A Caring Church For A
Hurting World”
2134 Dug Gap Rd.
Dalton, GA 30720
(706) 278-6776
Wayne Cofield, Pastor
Jason Cofield, Youth Pastor
Sunday School for ALL Ages
at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study &
Masters Club for Kids, 7:00 p.m.
Friendly Atmosphere, Practical
Bible Preaching & Teaching, Soul
Winning
Ministries,
Bus
Transportation
for
Sunday
Morning, Nursery Available for All
Services
Listen to “The Gospel Truth”
Web Page www.whitfieldbaptist.com
There’s a place for YOU at
Whitfield Baptist
THE CHURCH OF GOD
OF THE UNION ASSEMBLY
2211 S. Dixie Hwy. 41 S
Office Phone: 706-275-0510
General Overseer,
Charlie T. Pratt
Pastor, Trey Starnes
Ass’t Pastor,
Lonnie B. Starnes
Minister of Music,
Dale Brewer
TV Ministry: 9:45 Sundays
on Charter Channel 22
www.lookupnlive.com
Weekly Worship
Sunday School
9:45 a.m.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.
Children’s Class 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Evening
6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Service 7:00 p.m.
Everyone Welcome
“Come be a part of what
Jesus has for you.”
CROSSPOINTE
CHRISTIAN CENTRE
2681 Underwood Street
Lead Pastor,
Stan Lester
BIBLE CHURCH
Associate Pastor
Gary Tomberlin
FELLOWSHIP
Student Ministries Pastor,
BIBLE CHURCH
Jeremy Mew
Experiencing Life Changing
Children’s Pastor
Truth from God’s Word
Bobby Payne
2044 Dug Gap Road
706-278-2649
Dalton, GA 30720
(Next to Dug Gap School) Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m.;
(706) 278-6269
Sunday Night, 6:00 p.m.;
www.FellowshipBibleChurch.info Wednesday Family Enrichment,
Senior Pastor, Jim Suddath 6:30 p.m.
www.mycrosspointe.net
Sunday Worship, 10:30 a.m.; “Where the cross is the point”
Sunday Evening Small Groups,
VALLEY BROOK
6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Evening
CHURCH OF GOD
AWANA and Youth 6:30 p.m.;
722 Mineral Springs Rd.
Wednesday Evening Prayer
Pastor Junior Clayton
Meeting, 7:00 p.m
CATHOLIC
Sunday Night, 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Night, 7:00 p.m.;
ST. JOSEPH’S
Men’s Prayer Meeting, Monday
CATHOLIC CHURCH
at 7:00 p.m.; Ladies Prayer
1775 Haig Mill Road
Meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Dalton, GA 30720
A New Beginning
706-278-3107
at Valleybrook
FAX 706-278-6902
Emergencies: 706-217-4255 COMMUNITY CHURCH
e-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.sjccdalton.com
ROCK BRIDGE
JESUS DAVID TRUJILLO-LUNA, Pastor COMMUNITY CHURCH
706-279-3175
OFFICE HOURS
Matt Evans, Pastor
Saturday & Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
www.rockbridge.cc
Monday- Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday Morning Worship, 9:30
a.m. & 11:00 a.m. in the Wink
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
Theatre; Sunday Evenings:
Daily
Youth, 6:30 - 8:30.
Mon., Tues., Thurs., & Fri., 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday 12:05 p.m.
Tuesday 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)
EPISCOPAL
First Friday 9:00 am. (English)
ST. MARK’S
12:05 p.m. (Bilingual), 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Saturday Vigil
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
5:30 p.m. (English) & 7:30 p.m (Spanish)
901 W. Emery St.
Sunday
706-278-8857
7:30 a.m. (Spanish) & 9:30 a.m (English)
The Rev. C. Dean Taylor,
11:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Rector
6:00 p.m. (Bilingual)
The Rev. Elizabeth Roles
Confessions
Asst. Rector
Saturday Afternoon 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. Sunday Schedule:
Saturday Evening 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. 8:00 a.m., Rite I
9:30 a.m., Sunday School
For Religious Education, Baptisms, 10:30 a.m., Rite II
Weddings and other sacraments Wednesdays: Communion with
Contact the Parish Office
Healing, 12:15 p.m.
OPEN WIDE THE DOORS TO CHRIST
www.stmarksdalton.org
Christ - Yesterday, Today and Forever
CHRISTIAN
FIRST
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
ISLAM
Abundant Life Baptist Church
811 J&J Drive, Dalton, GA 30721
Office: 706-278-5289
www.abundantlifebc.com
A Place of Encouragement
A Fellowship of Excitement
Sunday School 10:00 am.
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Night Praise 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Night Dinner 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Night Service 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday Night Kids Program - Ages 3-12 7:00 p.m.
Impact Teen Ministry 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday Night Walk Through the Bible Class 6:00 p.m.
If you are tired of just attending church and you want to
be part of a cutting edge ministry, then we have a seat
with your name on it. It’s time for you to become the
shining star God created you to be. Abundant Life Baptist
Church is a place for every face!
Senior Pastor: Wiley Brewster II
First Lady : Stephanie Brewster
Children: Katelynn & Karli Brewster
METHODIST
PENTECOSTAL
PLEASANT GROVE UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
SHADOW RIDGE
WORSHIP CENTER
2701 Cleveland Rd.
Dalton, Georgia
706-279-3141
Rev. Raymond H. Camp,
Pastor
Sunday Schedule: 9:00 a.m.
Chancel Choir Rehearsal; 9:15
a.m. Prayer Group; 9:45 a.m.
Sunday School; 10:55 a.m.
Morning Worship; 6:30 a.m.
Evening Worship; 2nd & 4th
Sunday Youth Fellowship.
Wednesday Schedule: 6:00
p.m. Supper; 6:45 p.m. Adult
Bible Study; 6:45 p.m. Youth
and Children’s Programs/
Activities; 7:30 p.m. Bell Choir
Rehearsal
Dial a Devotion
706-259 LOVE (5683)
DALTON
ISLAMIC CENTER
TRINITY UNITED
2054 Dug Gap Rd.
Dalton Georgia 30720
METHODIST CHURCH
Minister, Tim McIntosh
706-226-9841
901 Veterans Drive
1506 Dug Gap Road
Friday Service
Rev. Rhoda Howell, Pastor
Dalton, GA (706) 278-7244
starts
at
1:00pm
Jackie Weaver,
Sunday: 9:55 a.m., Bible
Quran class every Sunday
Music Director
School; 11:00 a.m., Morning
11:00am
to
2:00pm
Youth Director, Corrie Pyles
Worship. Wednesday: 7:00
Radio
program
every
Sunday
Sunday
School, 9:30 a.m.
p.m., Bible Study.
at 10:00am on 104.5 FM
Morning Worship; 10:45 a.m.
Staffed Nursery Provided
Sunday Evening, 6:30 p.m.
for All Services
Please call 706-278-4042 for
LUTHERAN
additional information for
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sunday Evening & Wednesday
CHRIST THE KING
Activities for Children, Youth &
LUTHERAN CHURCH
CENTRAL
Dr. John P. Rossing, Pastor Adults
CHURCH OF CHRIST
515 N. Tibbs Rd.
Phone: 706-278-3979
Dalton, GA 30720
706-278-8051
Minister, Ronnie Missildine For Schedule of Men’s,
VARNELL UNITED
Involvement Minister,
Women’s & Youth Groups call
METHODIST CHURCH
Ross Jordan
the Church.
250 Georgia Hwy. 2
Education Minister,
“COME SHARE THE SPIRIT”
(706) 694-8023
Steve Griggs
www.varnellumc.org
Youth Minister,
Rev.
James
Guin, Sr., Pastor
METHODIST
Jonathan Tucker
Rev, Eric Lee,
Spanish Minister,
DAWNVILLE UNITED
Associate Pastor
Orlando Reyes
METHODIST CHURCH Sunday Worship; 8:40 a.m. &
[email protected] 1409 Dawnville Road N.E. 10:45 a.m.; Sunday School,
www.ccocdalton.org
9:45 a.m.; Sunday &
Phone: 706-259-5342
Wednesday Evening Bible Study
Rev. John Merk, Pastor
a.m.; Sunday School, 10:10
- Choirs - Activities for Adults,
Brian Boatwright,
a.m.; 2nd Worship Service,
Youth & Children. Wednesday
Music Director & Pianist
11:10 a.m.; Hispanic Service,
Night Supper, 6:00 p.m.
Cynthia Goforth, Pianist
12 Noon; Sunday School, 1:00 Bruce Painter, Choir Director
Praise ‘N Play Preschool
p.m.; Communion Service ONLY, Sunday School Assembly, 9:45
(706) 694-9800
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Night a.m.; Sunday School, 10:00
Service, 6:30 p.m.; Newsline, a.m.; Morning Worship Service,
226-NEWS.
11:00 a.m.; Choir Practice, 5:30
p.m.; Evening Worship Service,
NAZARENE
HIGHLAND
6:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
901 Chester St.
Barry Gilreath, Jr., Minister
Sunday Bible Class, 9:30 a.m.;
Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.
WELCOME
HILLCREST
CHURCH OF CHRIST
307 Oak St., Tunnel Hill
Phone: 706-673-2234
Mike Lusk, Minister
Sunday Bible Study, 10:00
“Where Christ Makes the Difference” a.m.; Worship, 11:00 a.m.;
2550 South Dalton Bypass/ Evening Worship, 6:00 p.m.;
P.O. Box 921
Dalton, GA 30722
p.m.
(706) 278-7020
WELCOME
Pastor Emeritus,
Lloyd Guffey
SOUTH BYPASS
Senior Pastor, Ronald Guffey
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Associate Pastor,
1550 South Bypass
Robert Beavers
Dalton, GA
Youth Pastor, Eric Jenkins
Accapella singing, prayer,
Minister of Music,
communion,
and study from the
Vernon Guffey
Word of God.
Service Schedule
Sunday Morning Broadcast, Sundays 9:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.
Wednesdays 7:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m. (104.5 WYU); Sunday
Minister Roger MacKenzie
School, 10:00 a.m.; Morning
for more information
call 706-226-0819
Evening, 7:30 p.m., Saturday
Prayer Meeting, 6:00 p.m; Kids
for Christ (3 yrs-8th grade)
CHURCH OF GOD
during Morning Worship Service;
Nursery provided for Sunday
CEDAR VALLEY
Worship Services Masterlife
CHURCH OF GOD
Discipleship Training
(A
Church that Cares)
wwweleventhavenuebaptistchurch.com
2244 Cleveland Hwy.
*Sign language for hearing impaired
706-258-8115
available during Sunday service!
Dalton
TILTON
Rev. Clayton Brown, Pastor
BAPTIST CHURCH
Dalton, GA 30721
808 Tilton Church Rd., SE
Dalton
Pastor Ricky Kisor
Sunday Evening, 6:00 p.m.;
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Family
Preaching, 11:00 a.m.; Sunday Training Hour, Radio Time,
Night, 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday 10:15 a.m., Monday-Friday,
Night, 7:30 p.m.
WTTI 1530; TV, Cable 10 or
Reg. Channel 43, Sunday 8:00
WESTSIDE
a.m.-9:00 a.m.
BAPTIST CHURCH
469 Lafayette Rd.
THE CHURCH OF GOD OF
Rocky Face, GA 30740
THE NEW TESTAMENT
Phone: 706-673-6393
135 Richardson Drive
Pastor, Bro. Rick Edwards
Herman
& Mary Ledbetter,
Pastors
Sunday Worship, 11:00 a.m. &
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday: Awana Sunday Worship, 10:00 a.m.;
Evening
Service,
6:00 p.m.;
@ 7:00 p.m., Prayer Service &
Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Youth @ 7:30 p.m.
www.westsidebaptistrockyface.com
11TH AVENUE
BAPTIST CHURCH
CHURCH OF GOD
FIRST UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
OF CHATSWORTH
Rev. Roger Vest, Pastor
Adam Tankersley
Children & Youth Minister
Ian Tankersley,
Minister of Music
P.O. Box 152
706-695-3211
FAX 706-695-7992
& E-mail Address:
[email protected]
Located at the corner of
Fourth and Cherokee Street
Regular Sunday Schedule
Choir Practice, 5:30 p.m.;
Youth Fellowship, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday Activities
2nd-5th Grade Bible Study
3:00 pm.
Wednesday Activities
Hand Bell Choir 4:00 p.m.
Good News Choir
(K-5th Grade) 5:30 p.m.
Cherub Choir (3-5 yrs)
5:30 p.m.
Youth Fellowship
(5th-12th Grade) 6:45 p.m
Chancel Choir
(Adults) 7:00 p.m.
DALTON FIRST UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
706-278-8494
706-226-4000 Ext. 2129
706-279-2629 FAX
Dr. Joe Peabody,
Senior Pastor
Rev. Billy Beard,
Associate Minister
Peter Infanger,
Choir Master/Organist
Jan Byrum, Director of
Children’s Ministries
Susie Brown, Director of
Recreational &
Leisure Ministries
Lindsay Laney, Director of
Youth Ministries
Weekly Worship
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. & 11:00
a.m. Sanctuary; 11:00 a.m.
remiX (Famber Hall); TV: WDNN
(Cable Channel 10), Sunday
10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Study and Fellowship
UMYF Supper & Fellowship,
6:00 p.m.;
www.daltonfumc.com
FIRST CHURCH OF
THE NAZARENE
2325 Chattanooga Road
Morning
Worship,
9:00
(traditional hymnal music) &
11:00 a.m. (praise & worship
music); Sunday School; 10:00
p.m.;
Wednesday
Prayer
Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
Everyone Welcome
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
CHRIST
COMMUNITY CHURCH
806 W. Walnut Ave.
(706) 226-5756
We’re easy to find! Look for the
English looking chapel in the
curve located between Dug Gap
Rd. and Thornton Ave. We invite
youth to worship with us on
Sunday morning. Chuck Harris
preaching at 11:00 a.m,.
Sunday School is at 10:00 a.m.
and Bible Study on Wednesday
at 6:30 p.m.
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
110 Wheat Drive
Pastor, Bill Cantrell
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.,
p.m.; Wednesday Night Worship
& Young Adults, Beginner & Jr.
Classes, 6:00 p.m.
Everyone Welcome
Prayer Line 706-695-4400
TRUE GOSPEL
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
109 Henderson Street
(706) 278-5696
Suff. Bishop
Reuben Graham Sr., Pastor
(706) 259-9744
Fax: (706) 278-3881
Monday Prayer Meeting, 11:00
a.m.; Wednesday Bible Class,
7:30 p.m. Friday, Christian
Under Construction, 7:30 p.m.;
Radio Broadcast, Sundays 8:30
a.m. WYYU 104.5FM.
PRESBYTERIAN
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
510 South Tibbs Road
Office Phone:
706- 278-8161
Rev. R. Michael (Mickey)
Shealy, Senior Pastor
Rev. Tyler Downing,
Associate Minister
Genesis Service (Casual), 8:30
a.m.
www.firstpresdalton.org
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF COHUTTA
326 Wolfe Street
Cohutta, GA
Office Phone 706-695-8315
Rev. Susan Reggin
Adult Sunday School,
10:00 am.; Worship Service,
11:00 a.m.;
Fellowship Supper, Wednesday
6:00 p.m.
www.Cohuttapres.org
GRACE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH P.C.A.
2107 E. Dug Gap Mtn. Rd.
Office Phone:
706- 226-6344
Pastor, Rev. Scott Parsons
Asst. Pastor, Carlos Ireta
Youth Director,
Matt Carr
Minister of Music,
Ward Satterfield
Service,
10:55
a.m.;
Wednesday Bible Study, Pioneer
Clubs, 6:30 p.m., Supper, 5:30
p.m.
Services in English and
Spanish
SALVATIONIST
THE SALVATION ARMY
1101A North Thornton Ave.
Holiness Meeting, 11:00 a.m.
Majors Henry and Cheryl Hunter
(706) 278-3966
GOSPEL TABERNACLE
Lucille Dr.
Pastor George Witt
Church Service, 10:45 a.m.;
p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study,
7:00 p.m.
LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY
WORSHIP CENTER OF
DALTON
(A Full Gospel Fellowship)
P.O. Box 3721
Located on Hwy. 41N
across from
Hamilton Medical Center
Rev. Mike King, Pastor
Phone (706) 278-0059
Sunday Morning, 10:00 a.m.;
Tuesday Prayer Meeting, 6:00
p.m.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
SEVENTH DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH
“Where Visitors Become Friends”
300 S. Tibbs Rd.
Dalton, GA 30720
706-226-2166
Rex Frost, Pastor
Allen Bryant, Youth Director
www.daltonadventist.org
Sabbath Morning Sabbath
School, 9:30 a.m., Sabbath
Intercessory Prayer Monday 5:30
p.m.; Prayer Group, Tuesday
10:00 a.m.; Sign Language
Class, Tuesday 6:00 p.m.; Prayer
Meeting, Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
Learning Tree K-8 School
706-278-2736
www.learningtreeschool.org
Be Strong It The FAITH and Regular in ATTENDANCE at your FAVORITE CHURCH
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Attend Church Regularly
. . . and read your Bible Daily
All Sewn Up
LANGFORD MAYTAG
APPLIANCE, INC.
Larry Langford & Employees
Sales • Service • Parts
319 N. Glenwood Ave.
Dalton, GA 30721
706-278-6399
LEGACY OF DALTON
APARTMENT HOMES
2111 Club Dr.
706-226-3012
“A Refreshing Change of Place”
LOVE FUNERAL HOME
“A stitch in time saves nine.” This old saying is
timeless and wise advice.
Do you ever feel as if your life is coming unraveled?
Misfortunes can increase until it seems like nothing is
going your way.
There’s a way to patch things up! Allow God to
help you regain optimism. Experience the peace of
mind that comes from unconditional trust in His power.
Let Him repair your problems.
Trust God and make regular worship a part of your
life. With His help, your life can be “all sewn up”.
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Ezra
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Monday
Nehemiah
1.1-11
Tuesday
Nehemiah
8.1-18
Wednesday
Nehemiah
9.1-37
Thursday
Esther
4.1-17
Friday
Isaiah
37.1-20
Saturday
Isaiah
37.21-38
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AUTOCRAFT
Robert McKeehan
4459 Hwy. 411 N.
706-517-4162
706-581-5089 cell
[email protected]
B & J MACHINERY
CHELSEA’S ON THORNTON
and BISHOP GARDENS
Open Mon.-Fri. 10am-3pm
Lunch 11am-2pm
706-277-CUPA (2872)
CITY FLORIST
Jake Cobble &
Gordon Leonard
122 York Street
706-259-4841
Mickey Sanford
Florist & Gift Shop
429 North Third Ave.
Chatsworth, GA
706-695-4414
THE BAILEY COMPANY
COHUTTA WARPERS
2903 So. Dixie Hwy.
Dalton, GA 30722
1203 CL Moss Pky NW
Calhoun, GA 30701
706-277-2720
706-629-6633
BEN’S
ALUMINUM
Employees
of
RECYCLING
BASIC
READY MIX
We515
BuyBrock
Aluminum
Cans,
Dr., NW
Brass, Copper,
706-259-8533
Stainless Steel, Aluminum,
BEN’SRadiators
ALUMINUM
610
Hill Rd.
RECYCLING
706-226-6140
We Buy Aluminum Cans,
Brass, Copper,
BIG
B CLEANERS
Stainless
Steel,
1011
Abutment
Rd.
Aluminum, Radiators
706-226-2748
610 Hill Rd.
2079706-226-6140
Chattanooga Rd.
706-278-3016
BIG B CLEANERS
BROOKER
FORD
1011
Abutment
Rd.
925
Shugart
Rd.
706-226-2748
2079706-278-1151
Chattanooga Rd.
706-278-3016
BROOKER FORD
Machine and Fabrication
674 Duvall Road
Chatsworth, GA
706-694-4148
706-695-6925
COLDWELL BANKER
KINARD REALTY
Dalton, GA 30720
706-226-5182
COOPER CONSTRUCTION
CUB CADET
POWER EQUIPMENT
105 Murray Plaza
Harvey Redwine
Chatsworth, GA
& Employees
706-695-9088
Full Line of Lawn
& Garden Tractors,
Riding Mowers,
Push Mowers & Tillers FIRST NATIONAL BANK
415 S. Spencer St.
OF CHATSWORTH
706-226-3126
Main Office:
701 N. 3rd Ave.
DALTON DEPOT
Chatsworth Office:
RESTAURANT & TRACKSIDE CAFE
706-695-9646
Casual Dining
Dalton Office:
House Specialties
706-277-9646
110 Depot St.
Tunnel Hill Office:
706-226-3160
706-673-9646
DALTON METAL
FABRICATORS, INC.
GREENSPOT
SUPERMARKET
Sheet Metal &
Steel Fabricators
615 Fourth Ave.
706-226-7194
Fax: 706-278-2591
309 W. Emory St.
706-278-3327
DALTON SHEET METAL
1000 Market St.
706-226-4333
“God Bless America”
Robin & Terri Cooper
Septic Tank Installation
Backhoe Services
Land Clearing • Rock Hauling
706-259-6048
Management & Employees
1521 E. Walnut
706-278-1656
COURTESY CHRYSLER,
CHRYSLER,
COURTESY
PLYMOUTH, DODGE
DODGE
PLYMOUTH,
Ray Dempsey & Lynn Dempsey
302 W. Third Street, Rome, GA
1-800-DEMPSEY
2210E.
E.Walnut
WalnutAve.
Ave.
2210
706-275-8022
706-275-8022
DISCOVERY HOME
FURNISHINGS
DEMPSEY AUCTION
COMPANY
HAMPTON INN
Charles & Judy Love Joyce
and Employees
Family Owned & Operated
Since 1935
N. Thornton Ave.
Across from HMC
706-278-3313
MURRAY MIX CONCRETE
Concrete & Concrete Products
P.O. Box 740
Chatsworth, GA
706-695-2599
NORTH GEORGIA TOYOTA
1502 East Walnut Ave.
706-278-1322
www.northgeorgiatoyota.com
PRECISION CHEMICAL
& PAPER SUPPLY
Daymon Duckett
101 Bryan Ave.
Dalton, GA
706-226-8795
PROFESSIONAL
PHARMACY
1110 Burleyson Road
706-278-2490
REGENCY PARK
NURSING & REHABILITATION
1212 Broadrick Drive
706-270-8008
SOUTHEASTERN
COMMUNICATIONS
SERVICES, INC.
3849 Cleveland Hwy.
706-694-3900
WILSON SOUTHLAND
INS. AGENCY, INC.
Joe Wilson & Staff
913 E. Walnut Ave.
706-278-0549
THE JEWELRY
EXCHANGE
Robert E. Reeves & Staff
“We Specialize in
Diamonds”
1711 E. Walnut Ave.
This Feature Is Published With The Hope That More People Will Attend Church.
It Is Paid For By Firms 100% Interested In This Community.
925 Shugart Rd.
706-278-1151
■ First Baptist Church
of Chatsworth will be in
revival Sunday through
Wednesday with Dr. Stan
Frye of Taylorsville, N.C., as
guest speaker. Sunday services begin at 11 a.m. and 6
p.m. with remaining services
beginning at 7 p.m. Noon
services will be Monday
through Wednesday with a
light lunch.
Ronnie Cottingham of
Lucedale, Miss., will lead the
music.
The church is at 121 W.
Market St. Pastor Tommy
Snyder welcomes everyone.
■ The Free Hope Baptist
Church Choir will present
an Easter cantata, “One Holy
Lamb,” April 12 at 11 a.m.
The choir is under the direction of Curtis Cochran.
There will be no evening
service.
Highway 76 in Chatsworth.
Dr. Dennis Self, pastor,
invites the public.
■ A community-wide
Easter sunrise service will be
April 12 at 7 p.m. at West
Hill Cemetery. A bluegrass
band will play instrumental
music and a message will be
given by the Rev. Jim
Suddath of Fellowship Bible
Church.
The service is expected to
last 30 minutes.
The service will be held at
the cul-de-sac at the
Crawford Street entrance just
over the hill from the
National Guard Armory. For
more information, call
Richard Steele at (706) 2808070.
■ The Liberty Baptist
Church Missionary Society
and youth will feed the hungry March 28 at 11 a.m. at
the Dalton Community
Center on Fredrick Street in
Dalton.
The Fifth Sunday Union
Sunday school and morning
worship will be held March
29 at 10 a.m. at Piney Grove
Baptist
Church
in
Chatsworth.
Deacon Jerry Watters,
president of the Union, and
the Rev. W.B. White, pastor,
invite everyone.
■ Calvary Baptist
Church in Crandall will
present a Passion Play April
10-11 at 7:30 p.m. in the
church cemetery. Those
attending are asked to bring a
lawn chair and blanket.
The play depicts the life
of Christ beginning on Palm
Sunday
through
the
Ascension.
If one of the nights is
rained out, the play will be
conducted the night it is not
raining. If both are rained
out, the play will be rescheduled for April 17-18 at 7:30.
Highway 225 North. Pastor
Larry Chastain welcomes the
public.
■ Dr. Steve Seamands,
professor of Christian doctrine at Asbury Theological
Seminary, will present a
seminar entitled “Wounds
That Heal: Bringing Our
Hurts to the Cross” March 29
at Evangelical Methodist
Church. Services begin at
10:45 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Abutment Road in Dalton.
■ The youth of Casey
Springs United Methodist
Church will be in charge of
the service March 29 at 9:30
a.m. with a special program
of music and dance. A fellowship meal will follow.
Highway 225 in Chatsworth.
■ House of Prayer will
have a benefit dinner and
singing April 4 from noon to
3 p.m. Plates are $5 each
with a choice of barbecue
and slaw or hot dog and chili.
Special guests will be
Cheryl Turner, The Gospel
Soul Seekers and Right Path.
For delivery, call Ricky
Clark at (706) 397-8542, Sue
Bailey at (706) 397-2924 or
Heather Salisbury at (706)
313-1976.
The church is on Highway
136 in Villanow.
More church
news on
page 6A
THE DAILY CITIZEN
OBITUARIES
• Agnes Bessema
(Turner) Bishop,
Chatsworth
• Barbara (Barbi)
Ledford, Dalton
Obituary notices are
posted online at
Agnes Bessema
(Turner) Bishop
Mrs. Agnes Bessema
(Turner) Bishop, 80, of
Chatsworth died Friday,
March 20, 2009, at Hamilton
Medical Center.
She was preceded in
death by her parents,
Elizabeth and Harlan Turner;
brothers and sisters, Paul
Turner, Farris Turner, Clyde
Turner, Robert Turner,
Martha McCamy and Elsie
Bartley; daughter, Sue Anne
Bishop and grandson, Terry
G. Bishop.
Survivors include her
children and spouses, Larry
Bishop, David and Emma
Bishop, Roy “Sherman” and
Pam Bishop; grandchildren,
Michael Bishop, Sherri and
Scott Robison, Kikki and
Obie Hooper, Kelli Ridley,
Kevin and Donna Bishop,
Kensli and John Reed and
Chas Bishop; great-grand-
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Stock information as of market closing is furnished by
Hilliard Lyons, 511 Benjamin
Way, Suite 112, Dalton, (706)
279-1810 or 800-437-6450.
Hilliard Lyons is a member of
the
New
York
Stock
Exchange.
Sources: Toxic asset
plan near finished
BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON
—
Treasury
Secretary
Timothy Geithner could
announce as soon as
Monday his much-anticipated plan to get toxic
assets off the books of the
country’s struggling banks,
administration and industry
officials said.
The plan will use the
Federal Reserve and the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.
to
make
the
resources of the government’s $700 billion financial rescue fund go further,
the officials said Friday.
Geithner is being forced
to tap the Fed and the FDIC
for support because the
prospects for getting additional
support
from
Congress for the bailout
effort have dimmed significantly given the recent
uproar over millions of dollars in bonuses provided to
troubled insurance giant
American
International
Group Inc., the largest
recipient of government
support.
The officials, who spoke
on condition of anonymity
because they were not
authorized to speak publicly about the Geithner’s
plan, said it will have three
major parts.
One program will use
the bailout fund to create a
public-private partnership
to back purchases of bad
assets by private investors.
A second portion of the
plan will expand a recently
launched program being
run by the Federal Reserve
called the Term AssetBacked Securities Loan
Facility. That program is
providing
loans
for
investors to buy assets
backed by consumer debt in
an effort to make it easier
for consumers to get auto,
student and credit card
loans. Under Geithner’s
proposal, this program
would be expanded to support investors’ purchases of
banks’ toxic assets.
The third part of the
Geithner plan would utilize
the resources of the FDIC,
the agency that guarantees
bank deposits, to purchase
toxic assets.
Stocks manage to post gain
NEW YORK (AP) —
Wall Street’s mid-March
rally is on hold, but the
market still managed its
first two-week gain in close
to a year.
After starting Friday
mixed, stocks veered lower
in the afternoon as financial
stocks fell and investors
collected profits from the
advance that saw the Dow
Jones industrial average rise
14 percent over seven trading days. One reason for the
market’s pause after such a
big surge: It ran out of
upbeat economic and corporate news the past two
days.
The major indexes did
eke out a gain for the week.
The Fed jolted the market
this
week
with
an
announcement of plans to
buy hundreds of billions of
dollars worth of debt securities in hopes of reviving
lending. Stocks initially
jumped on Wednesday
when the plans were
announced but then fell
Thursday and Friday as
investors became concerned
that the huge injection of
money into the economy
could cause inflation.
Many analysts believe
stocks were due for some
retrenchment.
children, Hannah and Graci
Robison, Tiffany, Alex,
Raven and Lavi Hooper,
Cole Ridley, John Hunter,
Jaxson and Jagger Reed, all
of Chatsworth; special
friends, Will Dee Jackson of
Chatsworth and Sherman
Ball of Dalton; several
nephews and nieces.
Services are Sunday at 2
p.m. from the chapel of
Shawn Chapman Funeral
Home with the Rev.
Jonathan Padgett and the
Rev. Russell Hood officiating.
Burial will be in
Dewberry Cemetery.
The family will receive
friends at the funeral home
after 1 p.m. today.
Arrangements made with
integrity by Shawn Chapman
Funeral
Home
and
Crematory, Chatsworth.
www.legacy.com
Barbara (Barbi)
Ledford
Mrs. Barbara (Barbi)
Ledford, 73, of Dalton,
passed away Thursday,
March 19, 2009, at her residence.
She was preceded in
death by her parents, Louis
and Olive Furst.
She was a member of
Trinity United Methodist
Church.
She is survived by her
husband, Donald Ledford of
the residence; daughters and
sons-in-law, Babbi and Greg
Trotter and Glory and Brad
Young, all of Dalton and
Sherry and Billy Brindle of
Calhoun; brother, Alfred
Furst of Spokane, Wash.;
grandchildren,
Olivia
Trotter, Scout Plott, Cayla
Plott, Blake Brindle, Meagan
and Bart Walraven; cousin
Lorraine McLaren; special
friends, Johnnie Slaton,
Sandra Fortenberry and Dot
Norrell.
The funeral is today at 2
p.m. at the Pleasant Grove
Chapel of Julian Peeples
Funeral Home with the Rev.
Rhoda Howell, the Rev. Fred
Johnson and the Rev. Jerry
Campbell officiating. A
white dove release ceremony
will conclude the service.
Burial will be at West Hill
Cemetery.
The family received
friends at the funeral home
Friday.
Julian Peeples Funeral
Home, Pleasant Grove
Chapel, Dalton, is in charge
of funeral arrangements. For
more information, call 706259-7455.
www.legacy.com
Psychics seeing wave of
patrons worried about money
BY MARTI MAGUIRE
Raleigh News and Observer
Forget about love.
As the Dow has declined,
so has amorous interest
among patrons of psychics.
What has replaced it? A
dogged focus on cash.
“They want to know if
they should take their money
out of the stock market or if
they should get out of a business or stay with a business,”
said Rachel Johnson of the
Psychic Studio in Raleigh,
N.C. “People are coming
asking if I can do a spell to
help their finances.”
Johnson says she can read
the future in the palm of a
patron’s hand or with the flip
of a tarot card. She does not
cast spells.
Such confusion about her
abilities may stem from
another recent development
— a wave of newcomers
seeking out her services.
Business had been up for
a few years but hit a fever
pitch late last year, said
Johnson, who has told for-
tunes for 18 years, following
in the footsteps of her mother. Their business includes
another
mother-daughter
psychic team in Smithfield,
N.C., who are their relatives.
The stock market is a
major point of patron concern, though many also ask
when they’ll find jobs.
Romance has been the big
loser, she and other psychics
said.
Rosemary McArthur, the
Colorado-based founder of
the American Association of
Psychics, said many of her
members are reporting an
increased interest in their
services. But, she said, the
hard times have also buoyed
the popularity of psychic hot
lines that don’t compare in
quality to the psychics who
register with her group.
“People are vulnerable,
and they’re easily taken in by
people who tell them what
they want to hear,” said
McArthur, whose moniker is
“The Celtic Lady.”
“People don’t ask about
their relationships so much
anymore,” said Sophia Todd,
a fourth-generation psychic
who has seen a modest bump
in business at her two
Durham, N.C., locations.
She’s seen a surprising
increase in the number of
business owners who come
to her hoping to catch a
glimpse of future profits —
or losses — for their enterprises. To help them, she
finds herself spending a lot
of time reading the money
line on her clients’ right
index finger for signs of
future wealth.
She doesn’t boast much
skill in predicting the ebb
and flow of financial markets
— she says her psychic abilities apply to people, not
intangibles like the stock
market. It’s a distinction that
answers a common question
posed by critics of psychics:
Why can’t they predict lottery numbers?
“If I could do those
things,” Todd said, “I wouldn’t have to work at all.”
But quick fixes are a big
lure for people seeking a way
out of financial distress,
leading some to seek out
help from lesser lights.
Cheryl Anne McGill is an
association member who
fields calls from around the
globe at her home base near
Asheville, N.C., and hosts a
radio show. McGill said
some of her regular customers have cut back on their
readings as finances get tight
—
hourlong
readings
reduced to half-hour ones.
Some who started with
shorter
sessions
have
dropped out entirely. But the
downturn has also brought in
a steady flow of new customers.
She does the reading
before they ask any questions and often finds financial issues troubling them.
“About once a day I am
reading for people who just
lost their job or will be losing
their job shortly,” said
McGill, who noted the trend
started just before the
November elections. “They
are very fearful of what the
future will bring for them.”
Budget: Deficits may become unsustainable
➣ Continuedfrom page 1A
Federal Reserve and that he
remained confident that
Obama’s budget, if enacted,
would produce smaller deficits.
Even so, Orszag acknowledged that if the CBO projections prove accurate, Obama’s
budget would produce deficits
that could not be sustained.
“Deficits in the, let’s say, 5
percent of GDP range would
lead to rising debt-to-GDP
ratios that would ultimately not
be sustainable,” Orszag told
reporters.
Deficits so big put upward
pressure on interest rates as the
government offers more attractive interest rates to attract borrowers.
“I think deficits of 5 percent
(of GDP) are unsupportable,”
said economist Mark Zandi,
chief economist at Moody’s
Economy.com. “It will lead to
higher interest rates to the point
where it will force policymakers to make changes.”
Republicans immediately
piled on.
“This report should serve as
the wake-up call this administration needs,” said House
Minority Leader John Boehner,
R-Ohio. “We simply cannot
continue to mortgage our children and grandchildren’s future
to pay for bigger and more
AP PHOTO
President Barack Obama makes remarks to representatives of the National Conference of State
Legislatures Friday in the Eisenhower Executive
Office Building on the White House campus in
Washington.
costly government.”
But Obama insisted on
Friday that his agenda is still on
track.
“What we will not cut are
investments that will lead to
real growth and prosperity over
the long term,” Obama said.
“That’s why our budget makes
a historic commitment to com-
prehensive health care reform.
That’s why it enhances
America’s competitiveness by
reducing our dependence on
foreign oil and building a clean
energy economy.”
Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget for the 2010 fiscal year
beginning Oct. 1 contains
ambitious programs to over-
haul the U.S. health care system and initiate new “cap-andtrade” rules to combat global
warming.
Both initiatives involve raising federal revenues sharply
higher, but those dollars wouldn’t be used to defray the burgeoning deficit and would
instead help pay for Obama’s
health plan and implement
Obama’s $400 tax credit for
most workers and $800 for
couples.
Obama’s budget promises
to cut the deficit to $533 billion
in five years. The CBO says the
red ink for that year will total
$672 billion.
Most disturbing to Obama
allies like Senate Budget
Committee Chairman Kent
Conrad, D-N.D., are the longer
term projections, which climb
above $1 trillion again by the
end of the next decade and
approach 6 percent of GDP by
2019.
Among about a dozen
major changes to Obama’s
budget, Conrad is looking to
curb Obama’s 9 percent
increase for non-defense
appropriations to show shortterm progress and insists that
the long-term deficit and debt
crisis will have to be addressed
via a special bipartisan commission.
R.I. strip club to host job fair
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)
— Here’s a job opportunity
you won’t need to buy a new
wardrobe for.
Hoping to take advantage
of Rhode Island’s floundering
economy, owners of the Foxy
Lady strip club in Providence
plan to hold a job fair today.
They say they’re looking
to fill around 30 positions,
from strippers and waitresses
to disc jockeys and bartenders, at that club and two
others in Massachusetts.
“I need more managers, I
need more competent staff,
and I need more attractive
waitresses to go along with
the ones I have right now,”
said co-owner Tom Tsoumas.
The naked truth is that
Rhode Island’s economy is
among the worst in the
nation, with an unemployment rate of 10.3 percent in
January.
The Providence club isn’t
immune from the recession
but is still drawing customers
willing to drink and pay for
lap dances, said manager Bob
Travisono.
“It’s taken a hit,” he said.
“It’s not as bad as restaurants
and stuff like that. In times
like this, they seem to drink
their sorrows away.”
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Cowboys Eat(on) up Vols
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DAYTON, Ohio — Looking at the
thicket of bodies clogging the middle
of the floor, Oklahoma State’s Byron
Eaton wasn’t sure how he’d create his
final shot. So, he kept dribbling.
Stunningly, after 40 minutes of
give-no-ground basketball, everything
opened up right in front of him.
The Cowboys’ barrel-chested point
guard found a clear path to the basket
for a three-point play with 7.2 seconds left Friday, lifting his team to a
77-75 victory over Tennessee in the
first round of the NCAA tournament.
Oklahoma State (23-11) will play
either East Tennessee State or
Pittsburgh, the top seed in the East
Regional. The Panthers sprawled
across the first three rows of seats
behind the Oklahoma State basket for
the start of the second half, doing a little firsthand scouting.
They were gone long before Eaton
— a five-sport star in high school who
also played a little football — gave
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the game its final shoulder-down
nudge.
Tennessee (21-13) got caught flatfooted, allowing Eaton to drive the
lane untouched. Tyler Smith came in
late and unsuccessfully tried to block
the shot, which fell through the net as
Eaton tumbled to the floor after the
contact.
“He just gave me the middle,”
Eaton said. “I was looking for the contact. I knew it was coming. I just tried
to concentrate on making the basket.”
Smith had a chance to win it for
Tennessee, but his jumper from
behind the arc hit the side of the rim
and bounced up to the top of the backboard as the buzzer sounded. Smith
led all scorers with 21 points.
“I knew it was going to come down
to the wire,” Oklahoma State coach
Travis Ford said. “If you study our
team and their team, that was just the
way it was going to be. We figured out
how to survive.”
Tennessee has reached the NCAA
tournament in all four years under
coach Bruce Pearl, who’s had some of
his best coaching moments there —
starting with his emergency stint as
the Boston College mascot for one
game in the 1981 tournament.
This wasn’t one of them. He left
the floor complaining to the referees
that no foul was called on Smith’s
final shot, which came off a play the
Volunteers run in practice every day.
“It’s a shot that he takes and makes
a lot at the end of practice,” Pearl said.
“I didn’t want anybody else taking
that last shot.”
No matter how it turned out, this
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AP PHOTO
Tennessee’s Tyler Smith, left, fouls Oklahoma State’s
Byron Eaton on Friday. Eaton completed a three-point
play in the closing seconds to beat the Vols, 77-75.
Murray nears
lofty territory
PREP BASEBALL
FROM STAFF REPORTS
starter Oren Wilson when Tyler Jones’ fielder’s choice scored Ryan Greeson.
Darlington added to its lead in the fourth
with two more runs on Cole Miller’s twoout, two-run single off Puryear, who allowed
five runs (two earned) and five hits over four
innings. He struck out five and walked five.
But Puryear’s bat stayed in the lineup and
helped to spark Murray’s rally in the bottom
of the inning when he led off with a solo
home run. Two batters later, Jones hit a tworun double that knocked Wilson (three-plus
innings, four runs, six hits, one walk and two
strikeouts) out of the game. Jones was later
picked off at second base. Colton Roberts
Murray County’s boys soccer team is
one step closer to a No. 1 seed for the
Region 7-4A playoffs.
With a typically solid defense boosted
by a stronger offense this season, the
Indians have been untouchable in subregion play so far, with the latest victory a
3-0 win at Woodland-Bartow on Friday.
“As we always seem
to have, I’ve got an
PREP
excellent defense this
ROUNDUP season,” Indians coach
Randy Baggett said.
“And my goal keeper
(senior Rolando Reyes-Ambriz) is topnotch, he’s special.
“But then, we’re just working better as a
team and playing with more focus and
more discipline this year. That’s been our
emphasis from the start of this year. We’ve
got several seniors who are leaders and
they want to go out with a strong season.”
At Woodland, the Indians opened the
scoring in the 29th minute when Carlos
Ortiz set up Michael Lopez’s goal. Edgar
Reyes did the same for Mickey Guerrero
with a minute remaining in the first half.
Rafael Pacheco converted a penalty kick
15 minutes into the second half for the
final margin and the Indians (10-1-2, 4-0 in
Region 7-4A) — who outshot the Wildcats
13-6 — were able to coast to the win.
“We had a pretty good start to the second half,” Baggett said. “And then because
we have Cass on Monday night, we tried to
rest some starters in the second half to give
them a breather and let some others get
some game experience.”
In goal for the shutout was ReyesAmbriz, who recorded three saves before
giving way to Daniel Paniagua for the rest
of the match. Paniagua also had a save.
In addition to Monday’s makeup match
against Cass — the girls will play at 5:45
p.m. and the boys at 7:45 — the Indians
finish their sub-region schedule next Friday
with a rivalry trip to Northwest Whitfield.
■ Woodland-Bartow girls 1, Murray
County 0: The Lady Indians stopped
Woodland’s offense after the Lady Wildcats
scored on a corner kick midway through
the first half, but couldn’t muster a tying
goal in the Region 7-4A match.
Lupe Miranda had nine saves in goal for
Murray County (1-9-1, 0-3), which took
five shots on goal in the game.
■ Northwest Whitfield boys 2, Rome
1: Ismael Solis’ 30-yard, free-kick goal
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Murray County
left-hander
Chandler
Puryear
delivers a firstinning pitch
against
Darlington
batter in their
non-region
baseball game
Friday in
Chatsworth.
Darlington won
9-5 and Puryear
gave up five
hits and five
runs over five
innings while
striking out five
and
walking five.
MATT HAMILTON
The Daily Citizen
Tigers topple Murray
Darlington takes advantage of Indians miscues
BY ADAM KROHN
[email protected]
CHATSWORTH — It was a long, grindit-out game between Murray County and
Darlington, but in the end a few critical
errors by the Indians were the difference in a
9-5 loss Friday night in a non-region contest
that lasted almost three hours.
“We played very poor defense tonight,”
Indians coach Jason Lanham said, referring
to his team’s three errors that led to six runs.
“If we make the routine plays, the score is a
lot different. I think we very easily could
have won that ballgame and I think it was
more us giving it away. That is what happened there.
“Darlington is a great team and I tip my
cap to them. They’re going to make a lot of
noise in their classification (Class 1A). It
doesn’t matter how many how many “A’s”
you’ve got beside your name, if you can play
the game of baseball, you can play. And
Darlington’s one of those clubs.”
The Tigers (7-1), ranked No. 10 in Class
A in the GaSports.com coaches poll, opened
the scoring in the second inning with three
runs off starter Chandler Puryear. With runners on second and third and one out, a mishandled fly ball by right fielder Tyler Timms
loaded the bases. Puryear’s wild pitch with
Jack Stevens at the plate broke a scoreless
tie, and Colton Roberts’ fielding error four
batters later led to another run. Brice Baker’s
RBI single put Darlington up 3-0.
The Indians (5-2), got on the board in the
bottom half of the inning off Darlington
WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT
Bulldogs have home-state edge against Arizona State
BY CHARLES ODUM
DULUTH — Arizona State’s role as
favorite in its NCAA tournament opener may
be offset by unranked Georgia’s home-state
advantage today.
The Sun Devils are the No. 6 seed, but
11th-seeded Georgia is playing only an
hour’s drive from the University of Georgia
campus.
Georgia (18-13) sneaked into the NCAA
field as an at-large team, and then was automatically placed in Duluth because it is the host
school for the first- and second-round games.
Third-seeded Florida State will face No.
14 seed North Carolina A&T in today’s second game.
Georgia expects to have the home-crowd
advantage at the Arena at Gwinnett Center,
where it has posted a 5-1 record the last five
seasons, including a win over Clemson this
season.
“It’s definitely a home-court advantage
for us,” Georgia guard Danielle Taylor said
Friday. “It’s a great opportunity. We hope to
capitalize on it.”
Arizona State (23-8) lost its last two
games after losing point guard Dymond
Simon, the team’s leading scorer, to a knee
injury. Simon traveled with the team but will
not play.
The NCAA, hoping to boost attendance
for the opening rounds of the tournament,
moved to 16 sites this year instead of eight.
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.
Arizona State coach Charli Turner Thorne
said coaches resisted the new format
“because the higher seed would end up playing on a lower seed’s home court or hometown.”
But now that the 19th-ranked Sun Devils
are in exactly that situation, they’re ready,
Turner Thorne said.
“You know what? It is where we’re at and
I understand that and appreciate that,” she
said. “The bottom line is that we are here and
we would not be in the NCAA tournament
unless we knew how to win on the road.”
Georgia coach Andy Landers said the format switch should be good for the tournament.
“The different things we have done, things
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we have attempted to do with sites, in my
view all these things have been attendancedriven,” Landers said. “This is a piece of the
tournament that all of us want to get better
and make better.”
Georgia expects to have more fans at the
game, but Arizona State’s bigger concern is
replacing Simon, the junior who averaged
13.8 points and 3.2 assists. Simon suffered
the injury in the first half of a loss to Stanford
in the final game of the regular season. While
playing without Simon, Arizona State lost to
Southern Cal in its opening game of the Pac10 tournament.
“It probably was a blessing in some ways
just to go home early and have more time to
regroup,” Turner Thorne said.
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NCAA: Kansas, Collins roll
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NCAA appearance amounted to a big step forward for
Oklahoma State, which
advanced to the Final Four
in 2004, then fell on hard
times. The Cowboys were
relegated to the NIT the last
three years, prompting them
to hire Ford.
Even though it was a transition season in Stillwater —
Ford estimates that he’s
installed perhaps 60 percent
of his offensive and defensive systems — Oklahoma
State was finally back playing with the big boys. His
feistiness seemed to rub off
on the Cowboys, giving them
an edge they’d lacked.
Ford’s fiery demeanor
temporarily cost them on
Friday. Unhappy over his
team’s early effort, he told
an assistant coach he was
going to get a technical to
fire up his players. He angrily complained about a call
during a timeout and got a
technical from Mike
Sanzere. The two free
throws were part of a fivepoint spurt that gave
Tennessee its biggest lead at
32-25. Ford berated Sanzere
after tearing into his players.
“I wanted to get it,” he
said of the technical. “I told
them: ‘You guys have got to
get as fired up as I am
now.”’
With their free-flowing
style, the Cowboys are
accustomed to overcoming
big leads and giving them
away. Eaton hit a pair of
pull-up jumpers in a 13-2 run
that closed the half and put
Oklahoma State up 38-34.
The stocky, 5-foot-11
guard also had a hand —
two of them, actually — in a
tone-setting moment during
the run. He and Tennessee’s
Wayne Chism, a 6-foot-9
forward who weighs 242
pounds, wrapped their arms
around a rebound and
wouldn’t let go. Chism
yanked and they both tumbled to the ground, but
Eaton refused to let give up
the ball.
Ford liked that.
■ Marquette 58, Utah
State 57: In Boise, Idaho,
Lazar Hayward scored 26
points and Marquette made
10 straight free throws down
the stretch to beat Utah
Statein the first round of the
West Regional.
Jerel McNeal and Wesley
Matthews each scored 14
points for sixth-seeded
Marquette (25-9), which
blew a 14-point lead before
rallying from a six-point
deficit to win.
Jared Quayle led Utah
State (30-5) with 18 points.
The 11th-seeded Aggies
recovered from a dismal
first half by shooting 12-for20 to start the second half,
but couldn’t hang on and
lost their fourth straight
first-round game.
■ Missouri 78, Cornell
59: In Boise, Idaho, DeMarre
Carroll scored all but two of
his 13 points in the second
half to help the third-seeded
Tigers pull away from the
plucky Big Red.
Leo Lyons finished with
23 points and 10 rebounds
for the Tigers (29-6), the
Big 12 tournament champions who returned to the
NCAAs for the first time in
six years and will face
Marquette in the second
round.
Ryan Wittman led the Ivy
League champions with 18
points and 14th-seeded
Cornell (21-10) hung around
in this game for a half, trailing by only four.
■ Kansas 84, North
Dakota State 74: In
Minneapolis, Sherron
Collins scored a season-high
32 points and went toe-totoe with NDSU star Ben
Woodside, while Cole
Aldrich had 23 points to
lead the defending NCAA
champions.
walked, was moved over on a
perfectly executed bunt by
Jacob Pritchett and scored on
Justin Shaw’s game-tying
single before Darlington shut
down the rally.
In the sixth, the Indians
found themselves in a selfinduced jam when relief
Lady Vols learn just in time
BY BETH RUCKER
AP PHOTO
Missouri guard J.T. Hiller leaps out of bounds as he
chases a loose ball during the Tigers’ game against
Cornell on Friday. The Tigers won, 78-54.
Woodside played all 40
minutes and scored 37
points, and fellow senior
Brett Winkelman had 15
points and 12 rebounds to
keep third-seeded Kansas
(26-7) from getting comfortable.
Still, the Jayhawks managed to hang on and will
play Dayton in the second
round.
In their first season of
eligibility for the tournament after a four-year waiting period following their
move from Division II, the
Bison (26-7) proved they
belong.
■ Syracuse 59, Stephen
F. Austin 44: In Miami,
Jonny Flynn scored 16
points, Rick Jackson and
Arinze Onuaku each added
12 and the third-seeded
Orange cruised past NCAA
first-timer Stephen F. Austin.
Syracuse (27-9) ran out
to a 20-4 lead, never letting
the Southland Conference
champions get anything
going, and will meet
Arizona State in the second
round.
Benson Akpan led
Stephen F. Austin (24-8)
with 12 points, with Nick
Shaw adding 10.
■ Arizona State 66,
Temple 57: In Miami,
James Harden’s only basket,
a 3-pointer with 4:02 left,
helped the Sun Devils hold
off Temple and reach 25
wins for the first time since
1975.
The Sun Devils’ scoring
leader 1-for-8 and was held
to nine points, less than half
his average.
Junior Derek Glasser
scored a career-high 22
points and Jeff Pendergraph
also had 22 for the Sun
Devils, playing in the tournament for the first time
since 2003.
Dionte Christmas scored
29 to lead Temple (22-12),
which was eliminated in the
opening round for the second year in a row and hasn’t
won a tournament game
since 2001.
■ Pittsburgh 72, East
Tennessee State 62: In
Dayton, Ohio, DeJuan Blair
had 27 points and 16
rebounds as the Panthers,
playing their first game as a
top seed, survived a frightful
40 minutes from East
Tennessee State.
Pittsburgh (29-4) will play
eighth-seeded Oklahoma
State in the second round.
The Panthers had better
improve if they want to go
much further. They made 18
turnovers, struggled with
ETSU’s end-to-end press
and hardly looked like
potential national champions.
Kevin Tiggs scored 21
for the Buccaneers (23-11),
who shot just 31 percent but
still had a chance to become
the first No. 16 to down a
No. 1 until the final two
minutes.
■ Louisville 74,
Morehead St. 54: In
Dayton, Ohio, Louisville
had a few early missteps,
but uncoiled its full-court
press in the second half and
rolled to an easy victory
over Morehead State.
With the win, No. 1
seeds improved to 100-0
against No. 16s since the
tournament expanded in
1985. There have been a few
close calls, and Morehead
State (21-16) kept up for a
half.
Samardo Samuels led
Louisville (29-5) with 15
points Terrence Williams,
who danced a little prematurely at midcourt before the
game, added 13 points and
nine rebounds. Kenneth
Faried had 14 points and 11
rebounds for Morehead
State.
■ Arizona 84, Utah 71:
In Miami, Nic Wise scored
21 of his 29 points in the
second half, Chase Budinger
added 20 and the 12th-seeded Wildcats proved it
belonged in the field of 65.
Jordan Hill added 17
points and 13 rebounds for
Arizona (20-13), which has
been in the NCAAs 25 years
in a row, but hadn’t reached
the second round since
2006.
Tyler Kepkay scored 19
points for Utah (24-10),
which was 8-for-32 from 3point range and matched a
season-high with 20
turnovers.
■ Dayton 68, West
Virginia 60: In
Minneapolis, Chris Wright
scored a career-high 27
points to lead the 11th-seeded Flyers to their first victory in the NCAA tournament
in 19 years.
Charles Little added 18
points for once-mighty
Dayton (27-7), which had
been 1-13 against Bob
Huggins’ teams dating to his
days storming up and down
the Cincinnati sideline.
Darryl Bryant had 21
points and Devin Ebanks
added 14 points and 12
rebounds for West Virginia
(23-12).
■ Xavier 77, Portland
St. 59: In Boise, Idaho, C.J.
Anderson scored 14 points
and Xavier shot 54 percent
from the field to reach the
second round of the NCAA
tournament for the third
straight year.
The Musketeers (26-7)
stifled Portland State’s usual
barrage of 3-pointers and
showed they could shoot
from the outside, too, making eight of 19 tries.
Derrick Brown, B.J.
Raymond and Dante
Jackson added 13 points
each as Xavier overwhelmed
the Big Sky Conference
champion Vikings.
■ Southern Cal 72,
Boston College 55: In
Minneapolis, Taj Gibson had
24 points on 10-for-10
shooting from the field,
sending the 10th-seeded
Trojans to an easy win over
the Eagles.
Dwight Lewis had 20
points and DeMar DeRozan
added 18 points and nine
rebounds for USC (22-12),
which maintained the
momentum from last week’s
Pac-10 tournament title and
advanced to Sunday’s second round in the Midwest
Region.
Corey Raji led No. 7 seed
Boston College (22-12) with
15 points.
Indians: Hitters earn respect
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: NCAA TOURNAMENT
pitcher Pritchett failed to
step on first base after Miller
hit a ground ball to first,
loading the bases with none
out. The Tigers then capitalized on Thad Jolley’s sacrifice fly and Wilson’s runscoring single.
Darlington tacked on two
more runs in the seventh on
Chase Butler’s sacrifice fly
and an Indians fielding error
that allowed Lee Couch to
score.
Tigers coach Chad Woods
was happy to get the win.
“We haven’t seen a hitting
team like Murray County
this year,” he said. “Our
pitchers had a lot of pressure
on them to shut them down.
But we found a way to win.”
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —
Pat Summitt says her freshmen-laden squad has finally
started to get it: You can’t
win just because Tennessee
is on the front of your jersey.
And the light may have
come on just in time as the
young Lady Volunteers begin
the trek to keep the program’s unblemished streak of
reaching the regional semifinals alive. Now all Summitt
has to do is keep the light on.
“I think it finally, hopefully, might have sunk in for
them, in terms of what they
have to do to be successful,”
Summitt said. “You just
don’t show up and play.”
Things seemed to click
for the Lady Vols (22-10)
when they watched their
first NCAA selection show
and drew a No. 5 seed and
No. 12 Ball State as the first
round opponent. They’ll
play Sunday night as part of
the Berkeley Regional.
They were treated to a
broadcast that included
clips of other teams’ success
against them and talk of
Tennessee’s “off season.”
Since then Summitt has
been fairly pleased with her
players’ attitudes and focus
in practice. But with seven
freshmen, two sophomores
and only one senior, she
knows there’s still plenty
that could go wrong.
“I could sit here and
drive myself nuts about how
are we going to respond and
who’s going to show up. I
think the thing for our
coaches right now that is so
important is that we bring a
calmness
and
direct
approach to how we want to
do things,” she said.
The Hall of Fame coach
with eight national titles on
her resume, including the
past two, has been reminding
the Lady Vols to take everything one possession at a
time, one opponent at a time.
Because of its inconsistent play, Tennessee has not
been able to handle the best
effort it always gets from
every team it plays.
Area: Dalton baseball wins
zipped into the right corner of the net in
overtime and gave the Bruins (6-4, 2-2) a
much-needed win.
“We kept our playoff hopes alive,”
Bruins coach Ryan Scoggins said.
Joseph Torres scored on from 25 yards
out from the right side with about 30 seconds left in regulation to set up the overtime period.
Northwest outshot the Wolves 18-9 and
Oscar Solorzano had six saves in goal.
Despite outshooting Rome 10-4 in the first
half, the Wolves still enjoyed a 1-0 halftime lead, the goal coming on a corner
kick.
■ Southeast boys 5, LFO 0: Fernando
Villasenor scored three goals, two in the
first half, to pace the Raiders (12-2, 7-1).
Carlos Flores, Adrian Avalos and Alam
Tiador scored the Raiders’ other goals in
the victory.
Jesus Serna and Estrada Azurdia split
time in goal, with each recording a save,
coach Jamison Griffin said. Avalos and
Bernabe Rangel had assists and Sammy
Torres turned in a solid game from his
midfield position, Griffin said.
■ Holy Spirit boys 2, Christian
Heritage 2 (3-2): Christian Heritage
quickly scored twice on penalty kicks but
Holy Spirit got three in a row in the second
set of five to win the match.
Joey Dunaway, Taylor Gray, Josafat
Rodriguez, Isaac Sanchez and Viktor
Ferraz got PKs in the first set for the Lions
(1-1). Nick Jang and Andreas Dixon scored
in the second set, but Holy Spirit then shut
down the Lions while scoring the game’s
final three PKs.
Christian Goddard’s goal off an assist
by Gray gave the Lions a 1-0 lead at halftime. After Holy Spirit tied the game at 1,
Christian Heritage’s Nick Jang scored to
give the Lions a 2-1 lead. Holy Spirit’s
goal in stoppage time sent the game into
overtime and neither team was able to
score.
Christian Goddard gave the Lions a 1-0
lead at halftime, scoring with an assist
from Gray.
Damien Chaney and Cole Currie split
time in goal, combining for 12 saves. The
Lions took nine shots.
■ LaGrange Academy girls 2,
Christian Heritage 0: The Lady Lions
were defeated for the first time in three
matches this season with the road loss.
Varsity baseball
■ Days after rain or wet field conditions canceled three games and shortened
another, Dalton played twice and picked up
two victories at the Scenic City Classic,
beating Science Hill, 12-10, and Red Bank,
14-3, in Chattanooga.
Colton Kinnamon picked up the win in
both games for the Catamounts (3-2), earning the Science Hill victory with 1 1/3
inning of relief work. He struck out three,
walked one and allowed no runs and no
hits as he followed up starter Alex Roberts
(4 2/3 innings) and Nick Ray (1 2/3).
Garren Palmer delivered a two-run single to the left-center field gap in the top of
the seventh to score the winning runs,
sending home Stryker Brown and Toombs
Norman, who had reached on a walk and
error, respectively.
Palmer finished with a pair of hits and
three RBIs, while Carter Crutchfield was
3-for-5, Blake Raber had a three-run home
run and Brown added a hit and drove in a
run.
In the five-inning victory over Red
Bank, Kinnamon started and lasted 2 2/3
innings before giving way to Ray.
Kinnamon allowed three runs on four hits
and five walks while striking out four,
while Ray had two strikeouts and two
walks while allowing no hits in relief.
Brown went 2-for-4 with four RBIs,
Norman was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Palmer
was 2-for-3 with two RBIs, Crutchfield
had a hit and drove in two runs and Raber
and Phillip Schenck each added a hit and
an RBI.
Dalton plays at McCallie today at 1
p.m. against either McCallie or
Independence. If the Cats win, they’ll play
again at 7 p.m. at Chattanooga’s AT&T
Park; if they lose, they’ll play at 4 p.m. at
AT&T.
Varsity softball
■ Christian Heritage 6, David
Brainerd Christian 6: Shelbee Wilbanks
went 3-for-4 and pitched a 7-hitter with 13
strikeouts for the Lady Lions (0-1-1) in a
game stopped after seven innings due to
darkness. Wilbanks issued five walks.
Ann Marie Massengale and Abbey
Stuckey had two hits for Christian
Heritage. Rebecca Leonard added a double
for the Lady Lions.
Varsity tennis
■ Christian Heritage girls 4, Griffin
Christian 1: Catherine Landers and Emma
Reigel each won 8-0 singles matches for
the Lady Lions (2-1).
Camden Hardaway and Ann Kathryn
Anglea and Carly Griggs and Katie Long
also posted 8-0 wins in doubles.
9th baseball
■ Northwest Whitfield 11, HeritageCatoosa 10: The Bruins won the road
game in eight innings, with Kane Gibson
and Hank Henson each contributing two
hits, Henson striking out four in seven
innings on the mound to earn the win and
Matt Allen facing just three batters as he
picked up the save.
MS golf
■ Ringgold boys 186, Bagley 213:
Colby Hipp led the Braves with an 8-over
44. Jacob Sexton and Rodney Ray each
shot 56 and Blake Carver had a 57.
Ringgold’s Brooks Thomas was medalist
with a 38.
■ Bagley girls 119, Gladden 124: Alex
Westmoreland shot 59 to lead the Lady
Braves and Bailey Storey posted a 60.
Tillie Hughes shot 61 and Kaitlyn
Moneymaker 63 for the Lady Braves.
MS soccer
■ Dalton boys 6, Lakeview 0:
Francisco Hernandez had two goals while
Rayn Czyz, Ramiro Huitanda, Allan Lopez
and Eder Mora all had one for the Cougars
(3-0). Andreas Barragan was credited with
two assists while Czyz, Huitanda, Osvaldo
Bastida and Luis Becerra each had one.
Raymundo Bahena got the shutout in
goal.
■ Dalton girls 2, Lakeview 0: Ale
Hernandez scored both goals for the Lady
Cougars (3-0) and Yanet Hernandez had
one assists. Goalie Rosa Moreno had three
saves.
MS softball
■ David Brainerd 4, Christian
Heritage 2: Megan McKinney gave up
three hits while striking out seven and
walking five for the Lady Lions (0-2).
Sarah Massengale had a double for
Christian Heritage.
MS tennis
■ Christian Heritage boys 5, St. Jude
4: Winners for the Lions — who improved
to 3-0 overall and in Independent Schools
Conference play — were, in singles, No. 3
Devin Sanders (9-7), No. 5 Morgan Craig
(forfeit), No. 6 Gregory Howard (8-6). In
doubles, No. 1 Phillip McClure and Evan
Townsend won 8-3, while No. 3 Craig and
Howard accepted a forfeit.
■ St. Jude girls 9, Christian Heritage
0: The Lady Lions fell to 1-2 overall and
in ISC action.
MS track
■ In a five-way meet among Whitfield
County middle schools at Northwest High,
Valley Point’s girls and Westside boys
came out on top.
In the girls meet, Valley Point scored 90
points to pull away from the competition,
while Eastbrook was second with 72 points
and Westside (62), North Whitfield (59)
and New Hope (37) rounded out the field.
The Lady Green Waves were led by
sixth grader Gabriela Gonzalez, who won
both the 100 meter dash in 14.15 seconds
and the 200 in 30.78.
She also ran the anchor leg for the winning 4x200 relay team, which also included Tasha Bridges, Karina Sandoval and
Hannah Ridley and turned in a time of
2:12.
Other Valley Point winners were
Keirsten Nigh (discus, 61 feet, 9 inches)
and Tasha Bridges (long jump, 12-2 1/4).
Westside won the boys meet with 99
points, while Eastbrook was second with
94.5. North Whitfield (58.5), New Hope
(54) and Valley Point (27).
Results other than Valley Point’s were
not called in by coaches.
THE DAILY CITIZEN
SCOREBOARD
SPORTS BRIEFS
First-day ratings
for NCAA climb
NEW YORK — More
viewers are tuning into
the NCAA tournament.
CBS executives
believed fans would turn
to the games as welcome
distraction from the
floundering economy.
Television ratings from
the first day Thursday
may be proving that true.
Despite a dearth of
wild finishes and big
upsets, the games’ average rating was 9 percent
higher than last year.
They earned a 4.7
overnight rating and 10
share, compared with a
4.3/10 in 2008.
A rating is the percentage of all homes with televisions watching a program. The share is the
percentage of all TV sets
in use at the time.
Overnight ratings measure the country’s largest
markets.
Roddick upends
Djokovic at BNP
INDIAN WELLS,
Calif. — Andy Roddick
beat defending champion
Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-2
Friday to reach the semifinals of the BNP Paribas
Open.
No. 7 Roddick’s game
was solid all-around
against No. 3 Djokovic.
The error-prone Serbian
made 30 unforced errors,
18 more than his
American opponent.
The semifinals appearance will be Roddick’s
third at Indian Wells. He
lost to Lleyton Hewitt in
2005 and to Rafael Nadal
in 2007.
Off to a career-best
23-3 start this season,
Roddick next faces the
winner of the quarterfinal
between No. 1 Nadal and
No. 6 Juan Martin del
Potro.
Illness forces man
from NCAA game
MIAMI — A male fan
in his 70s passed out at
the NCAA tournament
Friday and was not
breathing when paramedics reached him, a
spokesman for Miami
Fire Rescue said.
The man was unresponsive while being
taken to the hospital. He
was carried out of
AmericanAirlines Arena
after being treated briefly
at his seat about 20 rows
from the court.
The man was stricken
about 15 minutes before
Arizona played Utah
while players warmed up.
Goodell meets with
new chief of union
NEW YORK — New
players’ union executive
director DeMaurice
Smith has met with NFL
commissioner Roger
Goodell as he makes his
transition into the job.
NFL spokesman Greg
Aiello says the two met
for about an hour one-onone Friday and had a good
visit. The meeting was
intended for Smith and
Goodell to get acquainted,
not bargaining.
Smith was elected
Sunday to replace the late
Gene Upshaw as the NFL
Players Association chief.
The 45-year-old Smith is
a Washington attorney
with connections to
President Barack Obama
and new Attorney
General Eric Holder.
Up-close tickets
will cost plenty
The list price for frontrow seat at the new
Yankee Stadium for an
individual game will cost
$2,625.
Individual game sales
for the first season of the
$1.5 billion ballpark start
Tuesday, and the Legends
Seats that ring the infield
start at $525 a game.
Those seats cost $500$2,500 as part of full season tickets.
Other field level seats
cost $95, $150, $275,
$300, $350 and $375.
— Associated Press
LOCAL
Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Phoenix at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
Colorado at San Jose, 8 p.m.
Prep Schedule
Today
Varsity baseball
Dalton vs. TBD at McCallie, 1 p.m.
Varsity golf
Dalton, Northwest Whitfield boys at Warrior
Invitational, Mossy Creek GC, Cleveland, 1
Varsity soccer
Sequoyah at Northwest Whitfield, 1
Christian Heritage girls at LaFayette Christian, 2
Osborne at Dalton, 6
JV baseball
Dade County at Northwest Whitfield, Noon
JV golf
Northwest Whitfield at Warrior Invitational, 1
JV soccer
Woodland at Murray County, noon
Freshman baseball
Dade County at Northwest Whitfield, 2
Middle school baseball
New Hope at Valley Point tournament
TELEVISION
On Today
AUTO RACING
10 a.m.
SPEED — American Le Mans Series, 12 Hours of
Sebring, start of race, at Sebring, Fla.
Noon
SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, pole
qualifying for Scotts Turf Builder 300, at Bristol,
Tenn.
1 p.m.
SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, “Happy Hour
Series,” final practice for Food City 500, at Bristol,
Tenn.
2 p.m.
SPEED — American Le Mans Series, 12 Hours of
Sebring, finish of race, at Sebring, Fla.
2:30 p.m.
ABC — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Scotts Turf
Builder 300, at Bristol, Tenn.
BASEBALL
9 p.m.
ESPN — World Baseball Classic, semifinal,
Venezuela vs. South Korea, at Los Angeles
BOXING
6 p.m.
ESPN CLASSIC — Champion Juan Carlos Gomez
(44-1-0) vs. Vitali Klitschko (36-2-0), for WBC
heavyweight title, at Stuttgart, Germany
7 p.m.
ESPN2 — Champion Juan Carlos Gomez (44-1-0)
vs. Vitali Klitschko (36-2-0), for WBC heavyweight
title, at Stuttgart, Germany (same-day tape)
COLLEGE WRESTLING
6:30 p.m.
ESPN — NCAA Division I, championship match,
schools TBA, at St. Louis, Mo.
GOLF
3 p.m.
NBC — PGA Tour, Transitions Championship, third
round, at Palm Harbor, Fla.
HORSE RACING
5 p.m.
ESPN2 — NTRA, Lane’s End Stakes and
Rushaway Stakes, at Florence, Ky.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
11 a.m.
ESPN — NIT, second round, Baylor at Virginia
Tech
1 p.m.
CBS — Regional coverage, NCAA Division I tournament, second round, quadruple header,
Villanova vs. UCLA and Connecticut vs. Texas
A&M, at Philadelphia; (3:20 p.m.) Memphis vs.
Maryland and Oklahoma vs. Michigan at Kansas
City, Mo.; (5:40 p.m.) Purdue vs. Washington and
Gonzaga vs. Western Kentucky at Portland, Ore.;
or (5:45 p.m.) North Carolina vs. LSU and Duke vs.
Texas, at Greensboro, N.C.
NBA BASKETBALL
8:30 p.m.
WGN — L.A. Lakers at Chicago
RODEO
9 p.m.
VERSUS — PBR, Tacoma Invitational, at Tacoma,
Wash.
TENNIS
4 p.m.
FSN — ATP/WTA Tour, BNP Paribas Open, men’s
semifinals, at Indian Wells, Calif.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Noon
ESPN2 — Whip-around coverage, NCAA Division
I tournament, first round, Missisippi St. vs. Texas, at
Columbus, Ohio; Georgia vs. Arizona St., at
Duluth, Ga.; UCF vs. North Carolina, at
Chattanooga, Tenn; or Lehigh vs. Auburn, at
Piscataway, N.J.
2 p.m.
I tournament, first round, Sacred Heart at Ohio St.;
N. Carolina A&T vs. Florida St., at Duluth, Ga.;
Charlotte vs. Purdue, at Chattanooga, Tenn.; or Va.
Commonwealth at Rutgers
8 p.m.
I tournament, first round, Fresno St. vs. California,
at Los Angeles; W. Carolina vs. Vanderbilt, at
Albuquerque, N.M.; Montana vs. Pittsburgh, at
Seattle; or DePaul at San Diego St.
10 p.m.
I tournament, first round, Marist vs. Virginia, at Los
Angeles; Drexel vs. Kansas St., at Albuquerque,
N.M.; Gonzaga vs. Xavier, at Seattle; or UC Santa
Barabara vs. Stanford, at San Diego
HOCKEY
NHL Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L OT Pts GF
New Jersey
47 21 3 97 222
Philadelphia
38 22 10 86 226
Pittsburgh
39 26 8 86 232
N.Y. Rangers
37 26 8 82 181
N.Y. Islanders
24 39 8 56 180
Northeast Division
W L OT Pts GF
Boston
45 17 10 100 239
Montreal
36 26 9 81 212
Buffalo
34 29 8 76 209
Toronto
29 30 13 71 214
Ottawa
30 30 10 70 186
Southeast Division
W L OT Pts GF
Washington
45 22 6 96 237
Carolina
38 28 7 83 209
Florida
35 26 10 80 197
Atlanta
29 37 6 64 219
Tampa Bay
23 33 15 61 186
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
W L OT Pts GF
x-Detroit
48 15 9 105 270
Chicago
37 22 10 84 225
Columbus
37 28 6 80 198
Nashville
35 30 7 77 184
St. Louis
32 30 9 73 196
Northwest Division
W L OT Pts GF
Calgary
41 23 6 88 231
Vancouver
38 23 9 85 213
Edmonton
34 27 9 77 202
Minnesota
33 30 8 74 180
Colorado
31 39 2 64 188
Pacific Division
W L OT Pts GF
x-San Jose
46 14 10 102 225
Anaheim
34 31 6 74 197
Dallas
33 30 8 74 202
Los Angeles
30 31 10 70 186
Phoenix
29 35 7 65 174
GA
173
203
219
193
229
GA
170
215
203
255
204
GA
212
209
200
246
236
GA
212
185
199
199
210
GA
215
191
212
178
229
GA
173
206
217
209
218
Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss or
shootout loss.
x-clinched playoff spot
———
Friday’s Games
New Jersey 4, Minnesota 0
Carolina 5, N.Y. Islanders 4
Detroit 6, Atlanta 3
Philadelphia 6, Buffalo 4
Pittsburgh 4, Los Angeles 1
Edmonton at Chicago, late
St. Louis at Calgary, late
Today’s Games
Dallas at San Jose, 4 p.m.
Toronto at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Washington at Carolina, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Columbus at Florida, 7 p.m.
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Chicago, 3 p.m.
New Jersey at Boston, 3 p.m.
Edmonton at Minnesota, 3 p.m.
AUTO RACING
Food City 500
At Bristol Motor Speedway
Bristol, Tenn.
Lap length: .533 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 125.773.
2. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 125.74.
3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 125.453.
4. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 125.289.
5. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 124.954.
6. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 124.808.
7. (43) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 124.541.
8. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 124.508.
9. (26) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 124.492.
10. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 124.267.
11. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 124.194.
12. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 124.13.
13. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 124.13.
14. (71) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, 123.945.
15. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 123.897.
16. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 123.698.
17. (28) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 123.658.
18. (8) Aric Almirola, Chevrolet, 123.65.
19. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 123.626.
20. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 123.61.
21. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 123.562.
22. (19) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 123.538.
23. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 123.523.
24. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 123.491.
25. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 123.427.
26. (44) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 123.427.
27. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 123.372.
28. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 123.324.
29. (12) David Stremme, Dodge, 123.118.
30. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 123.071.
31. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 123.032.
32. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 123.024.
33. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 122.827.
34. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 122.725.
35. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 122.709.
36. (96) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 122.654.
37. (07) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 122.404.
38. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 122.349.
39. (34) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 122.248.
40. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
41. (6) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.
42. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, Owner Points.
43. (09) Sterling Marlin, Dodge, 123.19.
Failed to Qualify
44. (36) Scott Riggs, Toyota, 122.193.
45. (41) Jeremy Mayfield, Toyota, 122.162.
BASKETBALL
NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
x-Boston
51
18
.739
Philadelphia
34
32
.515
New Jersey
30
39
.435
New York
28
40
.412
Toronto
24
45
.348
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
y-Orlando
50
18
.735
Atlanta
41
28
.594
Miami
36
32
.529
Charlotte
31
38
.449
Washington
16
53
.232
Central Division
W
L
Pct
x-Cleveland
55
13
.809
Detroit
33
34
.493
Chicago
32
37
.464
Milwaukee
31
39
.443
Indiana
28
42
.400
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
San Antonio
45
22
.672
Houston
45
25
.643
New Orleans
42
25
.627
Dallas
42
28
.600
Memphis
17
50
.254
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
Denver
44
25
.638
Portland
43
26
.623
Utah
42
26
.618
Minnesota
20
48
.294
Oklahoma City
19
49
.279
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
x-L.A. Lakers
54
14
.794
Phoenix
37
31
.544
Golden State
24
44
.353
L.A. Clippers
17
51
.250
Sacramento
15
54
.217
GB
—
15 1/2
21
22 1/2
27
GB
—
9 1/2
14
19 1/2
34 1/2
GB
—
21 1/2
23 1/2
25
28
GB
—
1 1/2
3
4 1/2
28
GB
—
1
1 1/2
23 1/2
24 1/2
GB
—
17
30
37
39 1/2
x-clinched division
y-clinched playoff spot
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Thursday’s Games
Atlanta 95, Dallas 87
Cleveland 97, Portland 92, OT
L.A. Lakers 114, Golden State 106
Friday’s Games
Dallas 94, Indiana 92
Charlotte 102, Toronto 89
New Jersey 96, Miami 88
Sacramento 121, New York 94
Utah at Oklahoma City, late
Memphis at New Orleans, late
L.A. Clippers at Detroit, late
Boston at San Antonio, late
Minnesota at Houston, late
Washington at Denver, late
Philadelphia at Golden State, late
Today’s Games
Atlanta at Cleveland, 1 p.m.
New York at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Indiana at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Boston at Memphis, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Portland at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.
Washington at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Miami at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Houston at San Antonio, 3:30 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Toronto, 3:30 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 3:30 p.m.
Cleveland at New Jersey, 6 p.m.
Golden State at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Sacramento, 9 p.m.
NCAA Tournament
EAST REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday, March 19
At Greensboro Coliseum
Greensboro, N.C.
Texas 76, Minnesota 62
Duke 86, Binghamton 62
At The Wachovia Center
Philadelphia
Villanova 80, American 67
UCLA 65, Virginia Commonwealth 64
Friday, March 20
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Xavier 77, Portland State 59
Florida State (25-9) vs. Wisconsin (19-12), late
At UD Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Oklahoma State 77, Tennessee 75
Pittsburgh 72, ETSU, 62
Second Round
Today
Philadelphia
Villanova (27-7) vs. UCLA (26-8), 1:05 p.m.
Greensboro, N.C.
Duke (29-6) vs. Texas (23-11), 8:45 p.m.
Sunday, March 22
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Xavier (29-4) vs. Florida State-Wisconsin winner,
2:20 p.m.
At UD Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Pittsburgh vs. Oklahoma State (23-11), 2:50 p.m.
———
SOUTH REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday, March 19
Greensboro, N.C.
LSU 75, Butler 71
North Carolina 101, Radford 58
At The Sprint Center
Kansas City, Mo.
Michigan 62, Clemson 59
Oklahoma 82, Morgan State 54
At The Rose Garden
Portland, Ore.
Gonzaga 77, Akron 64
Western Kentucky 76, Illinois 72
Friday, March 20
3B
PRO BASEBALL: SPRING TRAINING
At American Airlines Arena
Miami
Syracuse 59, Stephen F. Austin 44
Arizona State 66, Temple 57
Second Round
Today
Greensboro, N.C.
North Carolina (29-4) vs. LSU (27-7), 5:45 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Oklahoma (28-5) vs. Michigan (21-13), 5:50 p.m.
At The Rose Garden
Portland, Ore.
Gonzaga (27-5) vs. Western Kentucky (25-8), 8:10
p.m.
Sunday, March 22
Miami
Syracuse (27-9) vs. Arizona State (25-9), 12:10
p.m.
———
MIDWEST REGIONAL
First Round
Friday, March 20
At UD Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Louisville 74, Morehead State 54
Ohio State (22-10) vs. Siena (26-7), late
Miami
Arizona 84, Utah 71
Wake Forest (24-6) vs. Cleveland State (25-10),
late
At The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Minneapolis
Kansas 84, North Dakota State 74
Dayton 68, West Virginia 60
Southern California 72, Boston College 55
Michigan State (26-6) vs. Robert Morris (24-10),
late
Second Round
Sunday, March 22
Miami
Wake Forest-Cleveland State winner vs. Arizona,
2:40 p.m.
At UD Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Louisville vs. Ohio State-Siena winner, 5:20 p.m.
At The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Minneapolis
Kansas (26-7) vs. Dayton (27-7), 2:30 p.m.
Michigan State-Robert Morris winner vs. Southern
California
———
WEST REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday, March 19
Kansas City, Mo.
Memphis 81, Cal State Northridge 70
Maryland 84, California 71
Philadelphia
Texas A&M 79, BYU 66
Connecticut 103, Chattanooga 47
At The Rose Garden
Portland, Ore.
Purdue 61, Northern Iowa 56
Washington 71, Mississippi State 58
Friday, March 20
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Marquette 58, Utah State 57
Missouri 78, Cornell 59
Second Round
Today
Kansas City, Mo.
Memphis (32-3) vs. Maryland (21-13), 3:20 p.m.
Philadelphia
Connecticut (28-4) vs. Texas A&M (24-9), 3:35 p.m.
At The Rose Garden
Portland, Ore.
Washington (26-8) vs. Purdue (26-9), 5:40 p.m.
Sunday, March 22
Second Round
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Missouri (29-6) vs. Marquette (25-9), 4:50 p.m.
GOLF
Transition Championship
Friday
At Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club,
Copperhead Course
Palm Harbor, Fla.
Purse: $5.4 million
Yardage: 7,340; Par: 71
Second Round
Steve Stricker
69-67 — 136
Nick Watney
69-67 — 136
Troy Matteson
69-68 — 137
J.J. Henry
69-68 — 137
Charles Howell III
71-66 — 137
Retief Goosen
69-68 — 137
Joe Ogilvie
71-66 — 137
Tom Lehman
68-69 — 137
Stuart Appleby
70-67 — 137
Jonathan Byrd
67-70 — 137
Rich Beem
71-67 — 138
Trevor Immelman
68-70 — 138
Steve Flesch
71-67 — 138
Scott McCarron
69-69 — 138
Mark Wilson
68-71 — 139
Jeff Overton
69-70 — 139
Joe Durant
73-67 — 140
Brian Gay
71-69 — 140
Matt Kuchar
72-68 — 140
Heath Slocum
71-69 — 140
D.J. Trahan
68-72 — 140
Stephen Ames
66-74 — 140
Kevin Sutherland
69-71 — 140
Steve Lowery
70-70 — 140
Tim Herron
70-70 — 140
Richard S. Johnson
69-72 — 141
David Toms
68-73 — 141
Kenny Perry
67-74 — 141
Will MacKenzie
70-71 — 141
Jonathan Kaye
73-68 — 141
Charlie Wi
68-73 — 141
Briny Baird
70-71 — 141
Brett Quigley
73-68 — 141
Ken Duke
71-70 — 141
Mathew Goggin
67-74 — 141
Cameron Beckman
69-72 — 141
Jeff Klauk
71-70 — 141
Bill Lunde
70-71 — 141
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TRANSACTIONS
Friday’s Moves
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Released RHP Scott
Chiasson and C Guillermo Quiroz. Optioned OF
Nolan Reimold and LHP Wilfrido Perez to Norfolk
(IL). Assigned INF Brandon Snyder and INF Blake
Davis to their minor league camp.
DETROIT TIGERS—Optioned C Dusty Ryan to
Toledo (IL) and RHP Alfredo Figaro to Erie (EL).
Assigned INF Scott Sizemore to their minor league
camp.
MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned C Wilson Ramos to
New Britain (EL). Reassigned LHP Mike Gosling and
RHP Kevin Mulvey to their minor league camp.
SEATTLE MARINERS—Optioned RHP Gaby
Hernandez, IF Mike Carp and IF Bryan LaHair to
Tacoma (PCL).
National League
HOUSTON ASTROS—Agreed to terms with C Ivan
Rodriguez on a one-year contract.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Optioned OF Jamie
Hoffmann to their minore league camp.
NEW YORK METS—Optioned LHP Jonathan Niese,
C Robinson Cancel and RHP Connor Robertson to
Buffalo (IL). Assigned RHP Kyle Snyder, RHP Matt
DeSalvo, LHP Jon Switzer, LHP Heriberto Rueles
and LHP Casey Fossum to their minor league camp.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
BOSTON CELTICS—Assigned G J.R. Giddens to
Utah (NBADL).
CHICAGO BULLS—Re-signed F Linton Johnson to
a second 10-day contract.
Women’s National Basketball Association
SACRAMENTO MONARCHS—Traded F Kim Smith
and G A’Quonesia Franklin to Phoenix for C-F
Barbara Farris.
SEATTLE STORM— Waived F Kelly Santos.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
BALTIMORE RAVENS—Signed TE L.J. Smith to a
one-year contract.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Signed CB Cedric Griffin to
a contract extension.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Agreed to terms with FB
Leonard Weaver on a one-year contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
DALLAS STARS—Assigned F Tyler Shelast from
Hamilton (AHL) to Idaho (ECHL).
LOS ANGELES KINGS—Activated F Justin Williams
from injured reserve. Recalled D Davis Drewiske from
Manchester (AHL).
PHOENIX COYOTES—Signed D Jeff May to a multiyear contract.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Signed C Trevor Bruess
to a two-year contract.
Lowe goes five,
says he’s ready
for the opener
KISSIMMEE, Fla. —
Derek Lowe plans on being
ready to start on opening
day. The rest is up to
Atlanta Braves manager
Bobby Cox.
Lowe worked five
innings in Atlanta’s 8-6 loss
to the Florida Marlins on
Friday. The right-hander
allowed four runs and seven
hits, struck out two and
walked none.
Lowe said he felt good
about the outing and smiled
when asked about the opening-day assignment.
“It wasn’t the greatest of
games,” Lowe said. “I am
just trying to figure out
what I am doing. There will
be days like today. It’s just
a matter of being ready for
opening day.”
Lowe didn’t have to face
All-Star shortstop Hanley
Ramirez, who was scratched with tightness in his
throwing shoulder.
“He’s OK,” Marlins
manager Fredi Gonzalez
said. “We are erring on the
side of caution. It’s not a
problem.”
Lowe joined the Braves
in the offseason, signing a
$60 million, four-year deal
after going 14-11 with a
3.24 ERA for the Los
Angeles Dodgers last season.
He likely will be the top
starter in Atlanta’s restruc-
tured rotation, joined by
fellow newcomers Javier
Vazquez and Kenshin Kawakami.
Cox wasn’t ready Friday
to announce a starter for
Atlanta’s April 5 opener at
Philadelphia but praised
what Lowe has done this
spring.
“I think he and the team
are just ready to get started,” Cox said. “There’s no
opening-day starter yet. I
should have some news by
next Wednesday.”
Atlanta’s Tom Glavine is
scheduled to make his
spring debut on Saturday
against the New York Mets.
Glavine is working his way
back from elbow and shoulder surgery that sidelined
him for much of 2008.
Cox said he didn’t know
if Glavine would go two or
three innings but that the
left-hander was in excellent
shape and ready for opening day.
The Marlins scored two
runs in the 10th inning off
Emiliano Fruto to get the
win. John Raynor had a
sacrifice fly and Brett
Carroll singled in a run.
Andrew Miller allowed
two runs and six hits in five
innings for Florida. He
struck out two and walked
one.
David Ross and Jason
Heyward homered for
Atlanta.
GOLF
Watney shares top
spot with Stricker
PALM HARBOR, Fla.
— Nick Watney, coming
off a wrenching one-shot
loss to Phil Mickelson at
Doral, kept right on rolling
Friday with a 4-under 67 at
the Transitions Championship to share the 36-hole
lead with Steve Stricker.
It will be the third
straight weekend round
that Watney will be in the
final group. He played
with Mickelson the last
two rounds at the CA
Championship, and it
might not get any easier at
Innisbrook.
Stricker, who also had a
bogey-free 67, is playing
quite well this year, too.
Take away one bad
patch — a 77 in the last
round to lose the Bob
Hope Classic, followed by
a missed cut in Phoenix —
and Stricker has shot par or
better in every round this
year. This was his 10th
straight sub-par round.
They were at 6-under
136 on a Copperhead
Course that is among the
strongest tests on tour. It
has become even tougher
with sunshine that is baking out the greens and
strong wind in the after-
noon that makes it field
more like June than the
Florida swing.
Jonathan Byrd reached
8 under through 11 holes
until he kept finding the
bunker and making bogeys.
He had to settle for a 70
and joined Charles Howell
in the group at 137 that
included two-time U.S.
Open champion Retief
Goosen (68), Stuart
Appleby (67) and former
Ryder Cup captain Tom
Lehman (69), who turned
50 last week.
LPGA Tour
HUXQUILUCAN,
Mexico — Lorena Ochoa
is back home in Mexico
and leading the Mastercard
Classic.
The LPGA’s No. 1 player shot a 7-under 65 on on
the hilly BosqueReal
course outside Mexico
City that has often gotten
the best of her.
She sailed through the
difficult course with five
birdies and an eagle on the
541-yard ninth hole. She
held a two-stroke lead over
Na Yeon Choi.
Brittany Lang and Yani
Tseng shot 68s and were
tied for third.
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THE DAILY CITIZEN
ANNOUNCEMENTS
103
Found
Found small blond female dog
approx. 12-15lbs. Mt Pleasant,
Cohutta/Beaverdale Rd. area.
Call 706-980-3392
Found small dog on Antioch
Road, Sat. March 14th, Please
call to identify 706-529-8915
104
Lost
Lost yellow female lab west of
intersection at Old Ringgold Rd.
& Houston Valley Rd. Answers to
“Lexie” Call if seen 706-2266499 or 706-508-3429
Missing from Springlake Golf
Course/Hwy 225 S. area.
Female, English Bulldog. Brindle
and white. Wearing Red collar
with tag. 706-517-3010
105
Special
Notices
Fish Day! Live fish for pond
stocking. Wednesday, February
25th, 9am-10am at Chatsworth
Farm and Garden in Chatsworth.
706-695-4321. Tommy’s Fish
Truck 501-796-6349.
EDUCATION
251
Business
Opportunities
316
Part-Time
Employment
Part Time Office Position
beginning late April. Small
Dalton Chemical Distribution
Company
Candidate must be highly
organized and have excellent
communication skills. We will
train the right person, but
strongly prefer experience.
Responsibilities include, but
are not limited to the following:
*Quick books- Payables and
Receivables.
*Customs Shipment clearing
and International Logistics.
*Delivery scheduling/Bills of
lading
*Answering the Phone
Hours: 9-3 M-F, Pay:
$12/hour and Retirement Plan.
Respond to :[email protected]
322
Sales
#1 BEDDING RETAILER
Hiring Sales Assoc.
Top Commissions Paid
Some exp. required.
Call Bruce 423-255-2081 or
fax resume 423-892-9893
or email resume to
[email protected]
Lawncare & Landscaping.
10 yrs experience. Call Josh for
free estimates 423-580-9454.
YARD SALES
2 Family Yard Sale Rocky Face.
21 Turkey Trot. off Bradberry Rd.
Sat. 21st 7am-1pm. Great
Items!!
General
Georgia Carpet Industries is
looking for sales representative
with a minimum of 1 year
experience in the flooring
industry.
Email
resume
[email protected]
or
mail to PO Box 2087 Dalton, GA
30722.
Growing
real
estate
Title
Company now hiring full-time
title abstractor with a minimum of
3-5
years
experience
for
northwest
Georgia.
Please forward
confidential
resume and salary history to
[email protected]
for immediate consideration.
Excellent and rare
opportunity.
311
Health Care
Children’s Medical Services is
taking applications for on-site
DME and O&P service providers
to staff a monthly orthopedic
clinic - must be a Medicaid
provider. Interested applicants
shall request an application by
April 15, 2009. Applications must
be completed and returned by
April 30, 2009. Call Beverly
Jones at 706-272-2219 for an
application packet.
Nurse Practitioner /Physician Asst.
A busy fast paced medical
practice with fully integrated
EMR is looking for an efficient
NURSE PRACTITIONER /
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT
Prefer 1 year of experience.
Excellent benefits. Please email
or fax your resume to:
[email protected]
OR 706-279-2679
HANDLING HAGGLERS
#Haggling is commonplace at
yard sales. People try to
negotiate on everything from 20
dollars to 20 cents.
#Know the minimum price you
will accept for each.
#Consider the time of day. You
may consider being more
negotiable near the end of the
sale.
#If you don’t like someone’s
offer, ALWAYS make a counter
offer and keep negotiating.
#If you can’t agree on a price,
take their name and number.
You can call them after the sale
if the item doesn’t sell.
$$$To place an ad in the Yard
Sale Section of this newspaper:
Call Laura 706-272-7707
or
Jennfier 706-272-7703
TIP
OF
THE
DAY
1650 S. Lee Hwy,
Cleveland, TN.
General
Services
3 Family Yard / Move Sale. Sat.
8a-2p. 1232 Percheron Dr.
Mountain Oaks Subd. Some
furniture, clothes, and more!!
Big Indoor Yard Sale Church
Fundraiser. Misc items, Easter
Decor & more. Sat. 3/21, 8a-4p.
Eastside Baptist 913 E. Morris.
DON'T MISS SATURDAY
March 21st 7 a.m.- 4 p.m
Multi-Family Yard Sale
Dollar General StoreOld Winn Dixie Parking Lot on
Cleveland Hwy.
Hot Dogs -- Hamburgers -- --Hamburgers -- Home Made
Cakes
"Come See the Easter Bunny"
Giant Sale Sat. March 28th. 8a2p. Inside Varnell Church Gym,
Hwy 2. Sale your stuff, rent
space with tables for $15.
Info: 706-694-9800.
Huge Inside Yard Sale Thurs. Fri
& Sat. 1822 S. 41 Hwy
Resale Store. Shoes & clothes.
.99¢. 706-537-8250
Multi Family Yard Sale: Clothes,
household, furniture, electronics,
childrens, Eden Valley Estates,
Sat, 3/21. 7am-11am,
Yard Sale Pick- Up Providence
ministries needs your left over
items to support the Providence
rescue Mission and their Boys
home. Drop Off or call before
sale for pick up. Dalton 711 S.
Hamilton St 275-0268, Calhoun
289 Hwy. 53 East 629-1613
Ft. Oglethorpe 291 Battlefield
Pkwy. 858-7974
Yard Sale Rain or Shine 6am-?.
Piano, lawn mower, deep freeze
& more. 2430 S. Dixie Hwy at
A&D Salvage. Benefits Southeast
Football
ESTATE SALES
501 Pets for Sale
PETLAND
Our puppies start at $199.
Scott’s Furniture Co.
401
310
TIP
OF
THE
DAY
Experienced Furniture Sales
Person Apply in person to
SERVICES
EMPLOYMENT
YARD SALES
AFTER YOUR SALE
#Remove ALL of the signs you
posted. This will be easy of you
made a list.
#If you have large unsold
merchandise, place a
classified ad in this
newspaper to sell the
remaining items. Ask us
about our 1 item specials for
a great deal on your ad cost!
#If you wish to donate unsold
items to charity, remember that
most donations are tax
deductible. Ask for a receipt.
#NOW RELAX! You deserve it!
$$$To place an ad in the Yard
Sale Section of this newspaper:
Call Laura 706-272-7707
or
Jennfier 706-272-7703
Dalton
3 Family Yard Sale. Sat. 7am2pm. Corner of Airport Road and
Ben
Hill
Road. Furniture,
household items.
Big Family Yard Sale 9:30a-4p.
404 Barbara Ave.
Yard Sale Farrington Subd.
(Moving sale) Furniture, clothing,
appliances, toys, misc. 1511
Habersham Way. Sat 8am-1pm.
Yard Sale Sat. 7:30am-1pm. 112
Timberland Dr. Infant & kids
clothing, furniture, household
items, electronics and more.
Cohutta
Huge Yard Sale. 3888 Mount
Pleasant Road. Lots of furniture,
clothes, and much much more.
Saturday, 8am-?
Rocky Face
Huge Indoor & Outdoor Yard
Sale Sat. 8am-1pm. Mill Creek
Childcare Center off Mill Creek
Rd. Many different items. 706673-665. Benefits Mill Creek
Childcare Center
Chatsworth
6 Family Sale. Lots of nice items!
Red light at Central, Hwy 76.
Sat. 10am-?. 4856-
New puppies.
American Eskimo, Beagle,
Bichon Frise, Cairn Terrier,
Chihuahua long and short hair,
Dachshund, French Bulldog,
German Shepherd, Golden
Retriever, Italian Greyhound,
Japanese Chin, Lhasa Apso,
Maltese, Min Pin, Miniature
Schnauzer, Pekingese, Corgi,
Pom, Poodle, Pug, Sheltie,
Shiba Inu, Shih Tzu, Silky,
Westie, Yorkies.
Full warranties.
Shots up-to-date.
In Kroger Shopping Center
1349 W. Walnut Ave.
Dalton, Ga.
706-226-7387
502
Free Pets
1 year old Bassett/Beagle.
Free to good home.
Call: 706-483-7046
Black and white female cat.
Spayed, shots. Grey male cat,
neutered, shots. Both declawed
to inside home. 706-934-4408,
706-934-2823 or 706-980-0707
Look for the solution to today’s Sudoku Puzzle
on page 6B of the classifieds.
705
Homes For Sale
**17 private acres in Cohutta. 3
BR/2.5 BA Full basement, deck,
storagebldg. New paint and
flooring. Priced $20K below
appraisal. 706-529-0650
FREE Cat to a good home.
Friendly, Loving, INDOOR, Gray
longhair, front declawed. Fully
litter box trained. Female,
approx. 10 yrs old.706-226-8211
3bd, 2ba, 2 car gar. deck,
laundry,
micro.,
Built ‘07.
$115,000.
Rent
to
own
$750/down. $850/mo. 706-5818634
Free puppies to a good home.
Will be medium size dogs. Call
for more info 706-226-0241 or
706-537-0849
CABIN: Toward Ellijay, 3 bdrm 2
bath beautiful cabin. Noisy
stream, spring, decks, secluded.
706-273-4514. *Also lot for sale.
ITEMS FOR SALE
605
Computers
Dell Computers w/Window XP
professional
17”
LCD
w/keyboard & mouse. 80 gb hard
driver w/512 mb of ram. $250.
Call 706-529-3472 lve msg.
Used DELL Laptops $399
Used Dell PCs $195
New PCs w/XP $429
706-858-5888 or 423-499-1975
WANT TO BUY
651
Want to Buy
701
Auctions
Want to buy Ping Pong or Pool
Table. Call: 706-264-2682
ANNUAL SPRING
EQUIPMENT AUCTION
SAT. March 28, 2009 10AM
sharp at Lewisco Auction and
Realty Lot.
6 miles east on Hwy 64
Cleveland, TN. Consignment
check-in March 23-28 9am to
5pm.423-479-2144
423-303-8998 423-650-0785
704
FSBO Adorable 3BR+1.5BA
909 Stoneleigh Rd. Mod kitchen
+BA, Hwd+Tile, fenced backyd
$134,000. Call 706-508-3695
FSBO. 1.18ac. 4br, 2ba (8rms),
attached/detached c/ps. New
heat pump. Near school & Ch.
1/4 mi. of I-75. 706-673-4583
HUD ACQUIRED
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706-537-0083
Must sell for pay off! Murray Co
2-story, 5 BR 2.5 BA. .95 acres,
in-ground pool. Wooded lot.
$106,000. 706-847-9360 - 2701983
705
Homes For Sale
No Credit Check. Owner
Financing. Rent to Own or
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Mark Burnett 706-529-5901
DALTON
1211 Nelson St, Fixer upper.
2BR 1BA, $49,900, $1,000
as low as $425 mon
126 Magaughey Chapel RD
2BR 1BA, $79,900, $1,000
down as low as $550 month
722 Timberlake. $89,900
3BR 1BA $1,000 down. Pmyt as
low as $750.00 per mon.
1827 Swanson N Dalton 2 br
1ba, $69,900 $1000dn $495 mn
4200
Mount
Pleasant
Beaverdale. 5BR 2BA - not in
subd. $159K $1100 dn, $1100
month
3038 Hurricane Rd. 2 bdrm 1
bath. $69,900. $1,000 down,
$615 month.
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2441 RIDGE RD, DALTON
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$25K to $45K. 706-259-4898
705
Homes For Sale
$2,000Dn. Starting at $700/mo.
OWNER FINANCING. Several
3Bd/2 Ba. homes in Whitfield &
Murray Remodeled, very nice.
Owner/Broker706-529-0650
3 bdrm 2 bath foreclosure only
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Commercial
Buildings
751
Apartments
1130/1132 Burleyson $485mon
$240dep. 2BR 1BA. *707-2
Lance 2BR 1.5BA Newly
remodeled, 1st wk 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 bdrm apartment, off Old Grade
Rd. Stove, refrig. Private lot big
yard on dead end st. $100 wk.
$200 dep. 706-226-5678 after
10am or 278-1520 after 7pm
2 BR 1 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
*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
728
Commercial
Rental
*302 S. Thornton 5,500 SF,
includes
utilities,
between
Newspaper office & Bank of Am.
*1515 Abutment Rd. 10,000 sq.
ft. includes utilities. Many sizes
or suites. 1.3 mi. S. of Walnut
*Camelot Bldg, Near I-75. 1514
W. Walnut Ave. Between Long
John Silvers & Burger King.
5,500 S/F.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30.
Doctor’s Offices for Rent
Medical Suites, 2500 SF avail.
1008 Professional Blvd.,
Dalton. Distinctive Modern
Bldg., 3rd floor w/elevator.
706-279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30
2, 3 & 4 bedroom apt. starting at
$140 week. Utilities included.
706-260-9183
2br./1ba. Duplex, Hwy 225
North. C/ H/ A, W/D hook-up,
appliances, water furnished. No
pets. $375/mo., $200/dep. 706581-2062
3bd/1ba Duplex off Cleveland
Hwy. All appls, dishwasher, w/d
hkup, c/h/a, $550/mo. $250/dep.
706-581-2062. No pets.
All property is privately owned.
Visit www.tmarealty.com for
additional information or call
706-876-1108.
Office: 2700 S.F. Excellent
condition. 1143 E. Walnut Ave.
Call: 706-581-1037
Restaurants for rent: *410 S.
Hamilton (fmrly Bailey’s Diner)
Incl. equipment $3,495 mo. 30
day setup time - Free Rent. *801
E.
Walnut
Ave.
Barrett
Marketplace $2995/Mo. $2000
dp. (fmrly El Taco) fully furnished.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30
Retail Shop for Lease. 3000 SF
total. Chatsworth Area, Great
Location. 706-483-9187
Warehouse for lease in Dalton
20,640 dq. ft. & 25,800 sq. ft.
Call: 706-278-1566
RENTAL HOUSING
751
Apartments
$100 Move-In Special !!
2 bd 1 bath apartments Dalton
& Murray Co. Spacious Kit.
w/dishwasher, stove & refrig.
Washer/dryer hookup. CHA
706-278-6485
1 STORY completely furn. effic.
Cable TV, phone, microwave,
kitc. supplies, linens, utilities
furniture North Tibbs Road.
$149/weekly, 278-7189.
1 STORY, 1 bedroom, low utility
bills. Water furnished, washer/
dryer connection, utility room,
attic storage. N. Tibbs Rd.
(706)278-7189
1, 2, & 3 Bd Apt’s - Starting at
$100/week. Power, water,
cable, furnished.
For details. 706-463-0672,
706-463-0671 & Español
706-463-0945
Apartments
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
STRAWBERRY COMMONS:
All utilities included w/washer
& dryer hookup. 1 & 2 bd apts.
$550-625 *$100 off off-1st
months rent. (706) 271-0020
UNDERWOOD LODGE
Furnished Efficiency with
kitchenette. All Utilities &
Cable!! Laundry Facility
Available.
Move In Specials $70-$90
for first week!
706-226-4651
Unfurnished,
Dalton,
rural,
Upstairs over barn /stable. 1
bedroom. Kitchen appliances.
Covered carport. No pets. Not
suitable for children. $400 mo,
Plus utilities. Phone 706-6739631
752
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$275 dep. 706-694-3094, 706264-2052 or 706-264-9521
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March 28th & 29th
704 Chattanooga Ave. Dalton,
GA 2 BR / 1 BA
Opening Bid: $50 Down, $200 a
Mth. $60,000
Email: [email protected]
FOR RENT
**LAFAYETTE – 404 Glenn St. 2
Br 1.5 BA $400 Dep $595 a Mth
**COHUTTA – 2 BR / 1 BA
Duplex $100 Deposit $100 Wk.
or $160 a Wk w/ Power-Water
**TUNNEL HILL /VARNELL
3971 Lake Kathy Rd, 3 BR / 1
BA Mobile $230 Dep. $115 wk
Call PARK CANYON APTS
706-226-6054
Apartment for Rent. 2BR/1 BA
located in Chatsworth. $435.00
mth $300.00 Deposit. NO PETS
706-483-9187
City west near Creative Arts
Guild. 2bd 2ba, CHA, WD conn.
Lease, references req’d $550
mon $300 dep. 706-463-3171
DUPLEX - DUG GAP RD. Large
2 bdrm 2 full bath. NO PETS.
$575 month & $575 deposit.
Appliance furnished. 706-2772002
Lakeland Rd, Dalton - 51,000
SF. West Industrial Dr., Dalton 300,000 SF. Gi Maddox Pkwy.,
Chatsworth - 31,500 SF. Duvall
Rd., Chatsworth - 175,000 SF.
Watson St., Rome - 8,100 SF.
751
DUPLEX: 890/892 W. Addis,
Tunnel Hill. Apt. 2 BR 1 BA, $125
wk, $250 dep. House - 3 BR 1
BA $600 mon. $300 dep. 706279-1380 wkdays.
Efficiency apartments, all utilities
paid. $100 week, $125 deposit.
706-581-8192 or 706-463-0704
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**COHUTTA – 4036 Parliament
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$1200 a Mth $160,000.
**ROCKY FACE – 208 Ina Dr. 3
BR / 2 BA $2500 Down, $950 a
Mth, $130,000
**LAFAYETTE – 404 Glenn St. 2
Br1.5 BA $1000 Down $625 Mth
**CHATSWORTH - 30 Sun Mtn
Spur. 2 BR / 1 BA Vacation
Rental / Lake Home $1200
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3 bdrm, 2 bath home on lower
Dug Gap Rd. Deposit required.
No pets. $625 month. 706-2175405
3 bedroom only $220 month.
Buy 5% down, 30 yrs at 8%
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3 BR 1 BA, $150 wk, $320 dep.
1309 Cooger Rd. 706-279-1380
wkdays.
March
Special
Only!
No
Deposit.Clean 2 BD 1 bath apt.
All appliances included, washer
dryer & water included. $450
month. $50 off 1st month rent.
706-264-0066 or 706-517-25
Motel Rooms For Rent: 2107 S.
Dixie Hwy. 41. Standard $95/wk. Lg.$125/$135wk.
Dep.= 2 wks. rent. Furnished +
TV, basic cable, private phone.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30
3 br, 1 ba, on 1 acre lot.
Conveniently
located
near
bypass & Chatsworth Hwy.
$250/dep. $550/mo. C/H/A. 706275-6704
3br/3ba Beautiful Ft.Mtn home
w/ Gorgeous views! Easy drive,
not past the park. 2500sq/ft. All
new kit and new lrg Mstr Suite! 2
car gar. A deal @$1100/mo w/
$260/mo extras (706)537-6523
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MOVE RIGHT IN, 1 & 2 BD
efficiency apts, furnished, all
util’s, w/d furnished, TV, In
Chats., & Dalton, near hospital.
706-313-1733 or 695-0625
Brand New 3 bdrm, 2 bath home
2 miles off Carbondale Rd. exit.
$700 mon, $500 dep. No pets.
Call: 706-260-9656.
Rocky Face. 800 SF basement
apt. w/d hookup. Utilities, cable,
water included. 1 bd open floor
plan. $125 wk, 706-226-4347.
For Lease, 2-story house, Quiet
country setting. 5 minutes from
Mall. living rm, dinning rm
combo, kitchen,bdrm, bath, & 2
full porches, main floor. 2BR,
bath, utility room & full porch
down stairs. Large yard, quiet
street. $500/dep $750/mon. 2788130 or 278-3631, for appoint. &
application.
STAYLODGE - WILLOWDALE
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1st Week $100.00
706-278-0700
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752
Homes For Rent
Home for sale or lease
purchase. 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath,
bonus room, 3 car garage.
Located Dug Gap Rd. 706-2175405
778
Mobile Homes
For Rent
Owner Finance. Flexible down
payment. $650/mo. 3 bdrm 2
bath, 1 acre lot in Tunnel Hill.
Call Steve 706-270-1342.
NGEMC area, *3 bdrm. $575
month. $350 dep. Cable & water
furnished. *1 bd $140 wk. utilities
furnished. 706-694-8010
Owner Finance: Lease purchase
or rent. 3 bd 2 ba, doublewide on
1 acre. Good area in Chatsworth
Steve 706-270-1342
Westside area-2BR, 1BA, C/H/A,
W/D Conn., utilities included.
Mo. Or Wk. rates. Also 2BR,
2BA mobile home. 706-673-4808
or 706-264-6786"
Rent / Rent to Own. $450 and
up. 2 & 3 bedroom. Ashley
Brooke. S. Hwy 41. Clean and
safe! Call 706-279-1553
Winter Special- 1st wk. FREE 1 yr. lease - Sweetwater Rd. 3
BR 2 BA, $145wk, $290dep. So.
end of Murray Co off Hwy 225 S
1/2 + acre lots, beautiful country
setting. Several to choose from.
Sweetwater Rd., Chatsworth Hwy.
225 Fm Chats Hwy. Take Hwy 225
S 13 mi. Fm Calhoun, take Hwy
225 N, 6 mi past Elks Golf
Course, 1 mi N. of 4-way at
Nickelsville. 706-279-1380 wkdys
Two nice 2 bedroom mobile
homes. Close to mall. Water
furnished. $90/week.
Call 706-226-5859 3pm-9pm.
For Sale or lease. 2 bd, 2.5 bath.
Gated community & swimming
pool. Starting $900 mon (includes
monthly
fees)
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706-673-2121 or 706-581-2778
Lease or Lease Purchase. New
condo’s. N. Summit. 2 & 3 bedr,
single level w/garage. Gas
fireplace, hardwood floors, pool,
clubhouse, fenced yard. $850 $1050/mo. $800/dep. 706-4631139 or 706-463-3392.
MOBILE HOMES
776
Asking $1,900 for this 2001 Ford
Taurus, automatic, V6, power
windows & locks, power seats,
CD player, and also has new
tires. This car looks and runs
great. Call 706-218-8021
807
Import Autos
TRANSPORTATION
801
Antiques
& Classics
1968 Dodge Charger, Vibrant
Red, Completely Restored, 454
High Perf. Engine, Very Sharp
$29,500. Call 706-618-7899 or
706-695-8643.
806
1991 Mercedes Benz 420 SEL
white w/ Lt. gray int., sunroof,
Michelin Tires, Fully Loaded.
Excellent Cond. Great Price.
$3950. OBO. Call: 706-2641932
2000 Mercedes Benz E320.
Silver, auto, leather, clean
condition, like new. Great on
gas. 35K miles. $10,500. 561512-7521.
Domestic Autos
2001 - Jaguar, 4.0, S-Type.
67,458 Miles. $ 12,200.
Call: 706-217-8171
2006 Cadillac STS, 6 cycl, nav.
sunroof, heated & cooled seats,
fully loaded, white diamond.
29,000 miles. $19,900.
706-277-3729
Mercedes Benz 1999, Mint
condition. Very clean. Model
S320, black. $7,500. 561-6763335 or 706-370-4649.
Mobile Homes
For Sale
INVESTOR'S SPECIAL 9 mobile home rental units in
Tunnel Hill area. 100%
occupied. On rented lots and
do not have to be moved. Well
established and maintained.
Excellent return on investment
(20%+) $135,000 706-260-9988
778
Domestic Autos
Westside Area: 1 and 2
bedroom mobile homes.
Call 706-673-4000
9-5:30
753 Condos For Rent
806
5B
Mobile Homes
For Rent
*House, Mobile Homes water &
garbage serv. provided, off S.
Bypass between Chatsworth
Hwy & Riverbend Rd., wkly or
mthly rates. Ref. & dep req’d.
706-260-6097. No calls after
8:30pm or 278-8130
2 BR 1 BA 2012 -1 Abutment
Rd. 2 BR 2 BA - 2111 B Dixie
Hwy. $120 wk, $240 dep. 706279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30.
3 bedroom 2 bath mobile home
on Hwy 225, private lot. Central
heat and air, water furnished.
Call 706-581-8028
3 br 2 ba mobile home.
Beaverdale area on Dantzler Cir.
$500 mon. $300 dp. 706-2781528 - 706-259-8480 6-9
HUGE DISCOUNTS!
2 & 3 BD homes, many w/ hdwd
floors. Country setting. Large lots
& private pond. Carbondale
area. $100-$135/wk. 706-3838123
We are currently screening applicants for additions to
our working family in our Tufting and Extrusion
Divisions. If you have experience in any of the
following positions please stop by to apply:
Applications are accepted
Monday through Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm
Apply in Person. No Phone Calls Please.
Tufting Machine Operators
Enhanced Graphic Loop Machine Operators
A stable work history with at least two years of continuous employment
is a must. A qualified applicant must also understand English
instructions and identify English letters and English numbers.
Cherokee Carpet Industries is a locally owned
Carpet Manufacturer doing business since 1994.
We offer Competitive wages, Medical and Dental Insurance,
Life Insurance, Disability, Paid Holidays, Vacation Pay, 401k ,
Credit Union, and many other benefits.
APPLY IN PERSON OR FAX RESUME
601 CALLAHAN ROAD
DALTON, GA 30721
FAX (706)260-2798
Located East off Lakeland Rd.
Move in Special! 1/2 Price.
Quiet community. From $95 to
$135 week. Utilities included.
706-506-3561 or 678-910-5776
F i n a n c e D i re c t o r – T h e D a i l y C i t i z e n
W H AT W E L O O K F O R I N Y O U
• Demonstrated team-building skills
• Strong change management and leadership skills
• Strong organizational, analytical and written/verbal communication skills
• The ability to quickly understand the organization’s business drivers, and operational needs
• A highly disciplined approach to financial reporting and forecasting
• Excellent computer skills
• Newspaper or media industry experience is a plus but not necessary
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Serve as a key business partner with the Publisher and Department Heads
• Provide sound leadership in contingency planning
• Review financials with the Publisher and each Department Head
• Complete monthly product profitability reporting and analysis
• Provide support for accounting issue resolution as needed, among other duties
• Prepare month end journal entries and reconciliations.
• Generate all monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the Publisher and other location management.
• Prepare the company’s annual budget with assistance from Department Heads and Publisher
• Complete financial projections and variance reports.
• Oversee and direct accounting staff in day to day duties and complete timely reviews of the staff.
• Maintain credit policies to ensure the company’s receivables are within acceptable levels working
closely with both the Advertising Director and the Circulation Director.
• Maintain necessary financial and payroll records based on CNHI standards.
• Ensure weekly accounts payable invoices and biweekly payroll are processed and all benefit-related
items are addressed on a timely basis.
• Provide requested data and analyses as requested by the Publisher or executive management.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures in the daily operation and functions of the
accounting department as outlined in the CNHI Employee Handbook and the CNHI Accounting
Policies and Procedures Manual.
• Responsible for our on-site HR coordinator and Safety team coordinator.
J O B Q U A L I F I C AT I O N S
The successful candidate will have minimum of a B.S. degree in Accounting or Finance, and a
minimum of three years of progressively responsible positions within accounting and finance
areas. Experience managing and leading other associates is preferred.
The Daily Citizen values your work and offers you a competitive compensation plan. In
addition, The Daily Citizen offers an array of benefits including paid holidays and vacation, a
401K plan and medical, dental and vision plans.
If you meet our requirements and are up for the challenge and excitement of the newspaper
industry, send your resume, including compensation requirements, for consideration to
William H. Bronson III, Publisher
[email protected] (e-mail preferred)
The Daily Citizen
308 S. Thorton Avenue • Dalton, GA
6B
807
Import Autos
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
808
4-Wheel Drive
1989 Ford Bronco XLT, auto.
Red/white two tone. 4x4. Very
clean. New BFG tires, new
parts. $3,300 706-260-6547
809
Trucks
1999 Dodge Ram 3500 flat bed.
Diesel. $7,500. Call: (706)6734410
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.
Reduced. 2006 Honda Accord
EXL. Like new. Gray. Full
warranty. 36k miles. Loaded.
Leather seats, XM radio,
sunroof, 34mpg. Like new. Great
Cond. Must sell! No tax!
$17,999. obo.
706-614-7719
Well Maintained! Local Car!
2004 Mercedes CLK 320 Coupe
with 80,000 miles. Black ext.,
Beige int., 2DR, SemiAutomatic, Rear WD, 6 Cylinder,
Sunroof, 6 Disc Changer, Push
Button Start/Stop, ASKING:
$21,000/obo.
Call 706-463-1561
s m a l l
a d s
BIG deals
Call the Classifieds
217-NEWS
2000 F-350 Crew Cab Dually.
7.3 Power Stroke. 4x4. New
tires. Choo Choo custom
package. Only 74k miles. Very
nice truck. $17,500. 706-2808268
809
Trucks
2006 Ford F150 GTR show
truck West Coast Customs
conversion. American Racing
chrome wheels. Each with 5
wheel locks for theft prevention.
Bed tauno cover. Only 1000 of
these trucks were made in
2006. "GTR" custom interior.
XM radio, 6 disc CD changer.
5.6L V8 engine. Dual exhaust.
Sunroof. Rear sliding window.
Keyless entry. Female driven.
No wrecks.
35,000 miles.
Only used Full Synthetic Oil.
For more info leave a message
and we will return your call.
706-695-9095
E Mail for more info and photos
[email protected]
811
Utility Trailers
2009 40 ft. goose neck flat bed
trailer. Only used one time.
$7,500. Call: 706-280-8268
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.
6x10 ft. Heavy Duty Trailer. 2’
high sides. Tie down ready.
$700. Call:706-980-2674 after
5pm.
Mobile Concession stand (log
cabin), great for carnival or fair,
completely self contained, AC,
Espresso cart, $15,000.
Call: 706-581-4122 for details.
812Sport Utility Vehicle
856
Asking $2,350 for this 96 Jeep
Grand Cherokee with 6 cyl.,
4x4, CD player, power windows
and locks, and also has new
tires. This jeep looks and drives
great. Call 706-218-8021
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.
2006 GMC 16 ft box truck Yellow. 6.0 V8 Unleaded engine w/
300 hp. Auto. Transmission,
A/C, ABS brakes, Power
Steering, 2 Bucket Seats,
AM/FM radio, 10 ft loading ramp
w’ 1000lb capacity. Mileage
ranging from 40,000 – 75,000
miles. Sale price is $12,000 $14000. Only
method
of
payment accepted is certified
check or money order. Sorry no
financing Contact Josh Hall @
Penske, Day- 706-277-9477,
Night- 423-304-6669
2006 FORD Expedition - Eddie
Bauer 2WD, leather, 3rd row
power fold down, 6 disc CD
changer, 22K miles, like new.
Excellent condition. $24,900.
706-422-8617 - 706-260-1029
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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.
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Like new. 2004 Explorer. V8
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maintained. Many extras. Only
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RECREATION
851
Boats
2001 21’ Bullet Bass Boat.
225 Optimax. $15,500.
Call: 706-226-2161
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Johnson (97), tilt & trim, 55
thrust Minn Kota. $4500 OBO.
706-934-4757
or
[email protected]
.Will
consider motorcycle cruiser
trades.
856
Motorcycles
& Bikes
812Sport Utility Vehicle
2005 GMC Envoy SLT. Loaded
with every option available. 47K
miles, 1-owner, garage kept, non
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Motorcycles
& Bikes
2004 Kawasaki Vulcan 2000.
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garage kept, 10K miles. 5
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pegs. New tires. Price
Reduced $500. to $7,500 obo.
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908
The
Bids
Whitfield County Board of
Commissioners will receive sealed bids
until11:00 AM EDT on April 2, 2009 for
the following:
# ITB#009-09-200 – CAB TRACTORS
WITH BOOM & SIDE MOWERS
Divorce
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
WHITFIELD COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
SONDRA L. REINERS
PLAINTIFF
STEVEN B. WILLIAMS
DEFENDANT
CIVIL ACTION NO. 09CI908-M
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
To: Steven B. Williams
By Order for service by publication
dated the 20th day of March, 2009, you
are hereby notified that on the 20th
day of March 2009, Sondra L. Reiners
filed suit against you for Divorce. You are
required to file with the Clerk of the
Superior Court, and to serve upon
plaintiffs attorney an Answer in writing
within sixty (60) days of the date of the
order for publication.
WITNESS the Honorable Judge of this
Superior Court.
This the 20 day of March 2009.
Melica Kendrick
CLERK, SUPERIOR COURT
FOR: MELICA KENDRICK
P.O. BOX 868
WHITFIELD CO. COURT HOUSE
DALTON, GA 30720
03/21 04/03 04/10 04/17
The bid will be opened and read publicly
in the Board of Commissioners Office.
Anyone interested is invited to attend.
Whitfield County reserves the right to
accept or reject any or all bids for any
reason, to waive technicalities, and to
make an award deemed in its best
interest. The Invitation to Bid document
is
available
at
HYPERLINK
"http://www.whitfieldcountyga.com"
www.whitfieldcountyga.com or at the
Board of Commissioners Office, 301
West Crawford Street, Dalton Georgia.
03/21
03/27
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Clinic for the ladies
The Dalton
Ladies Football
Clinic will be
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Money raised
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Catamount
Care Fund that
supports
community
projects such
as helping a
family last year
at Christmas.
For more
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Fugitive ex-Falcons QB
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CONTRIBUTED
PHOTO
AUTO RACING: NASCAR
That’s two in a row
Martin claims Food City 500 pole
BRISTOL, Tenn. — A week away from
the racetrack gave Mark Martin the break he
needed from his disastrous start to the season.
It certainly didn’t slow him down.
Martin won his second straight pole
Friday with a lap of 125.773 mph around
Bristol Motor Speedway, giving him the top
starting spot in consecutive races for the
first time in 20 years.
Two weeks ago in Atlanta, the 50-yearold Martin became the second oldest driver
in NASCAR history to win the pole. That
pole had been Martin’s first since May 5,
2001, at Richmond.
“It’s the (No.) 5 car,” Martin said in giving all the credit to his Hendrick
Motorsports crew. “We have learned so
much through each individual event that
man, I feel good. We unloaded here rolling.”
It’s the lift Martin and his team need
after falling far short of their early season
goals. His motor blew up at California and
Las Vegas, leading to consecutive 40thplace finishes, and then he cut a tire at
Atlanta while running fourth. That caused
him to finish 31st and he heads into
Sunday’s race 34th in the Sprint Cup Series
standings.
“As soon as we have one good run, one
good finish, we’re going to start feeling better,” he said. “We’ve been a little bit nauseous.”
Ryan Newman, who qualified second,
can relate to that feeling.
He’s also had a rough start to his first
year with Stewart-Haas Racing — his best
finish so far was 22nd at Atlanta — and he’s
32nd in the standings. But he unloaded
quick, was second fastest in practice, and
posted a lap at 125.740 to just miss knocking Martin from the pole.
Three-time defending series champion
Jimmie Johnson was third with a lap at
125.453. Bristol is one of just six tracks
where Johnson has yet to visit Victory Lane,
and his 17.4 average finish is only better
than his marks at Indianapolis (where he’s a
two-time winner but has three DNFs),
Infineon and Richmond.
“I’ve studied video, I have worked with
engineers, I’ve driven many laps in my head
and I started the whole process of convincing myself I love this track so my outlook is
I love this place and cannot wait to get on
track,” he said before practice.
Greg Biffle qualified fourth and Kasey
Kahne was fifth. He was followed by David
Reutimann, Reed Sorenson and Dave
Blaney. Jamie McMurray and Jeff Gordon
rounded out the top 10.
With only 45 cars entered, only two were
sent home. But the two who failed to make
the field were Jeremy Mayfield and Scott
Riggs — the same two who started the season with such optimism after racing their
way into the Daytona 500.
GOT A VIDEO?: Dale Earnhardt won
AP PHOTO
Mark Martin laughs while talking to
Jeff Gordon on Friday after Martin won
the pole for Sunday’s Food City 500.
his first NASCAR race 30 years ago at
Bristol Motor Speedway, and his son wishes he had a video of the monumental race.
Earnhardt drove his Chevrolet to victory
in the Southeastern 500 at Bristol, a fitting
place for his first trip to Victory Lane.
“That makes sense, I guess, him winning
his first race here, because this track, if
there’s a race track that fits his personality,
this would be the one,” Earnhardt Jr. said
Friday before qualifying at Bristol.
“He loved racing here and loved winning
in front of the people here in Tennessee.
This is such an exciting race track, and (I)
just think he fed off of that for all those
years.”
Earnhardt went on to win nine races at
Bristol, but his son has yet to see the 1979
victory in its entirety.
“That’d be awesome to get a videotape
of that race,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “I’ve never
seen it, just some clips of him coming off
the corner.”
The elder Earnhardt was killed in an
accident on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona
500.
BIFFLE INJURED: Greg Biffle
bruised his rubs while fishing earlier this
week and will not race in the Nationwide
Series event Saturday.
Biffle, who will race in the premier Sprint
Cup Series event, said he was hurt Tuesday
night when he jumped from the dock to the
boat and slipped in a wet spot. He banged his
right side on the boat.
“I wish I had a better story, I really do,”
he said Friday. “It’s just one of those freak,
stupid accidents where you take a fall and
you have no way to stop it or brace it or grab
because I was over top of water.
Matt Kenseth will replace Biffle in
today’s race, but Biffle plans to be in his car
for the Sprint Cup race Sunday. Biffle is
third in the Nationwide standings.
ing, Komlo was under investigation for fires at his home
in Chester Springs, Pa., and
another home in Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Komlo had lived in
Chester Springs and worked
as an insurance broker in the
nearby Philadelphia suburb
of Wayne.
Authorities did not know
what happened to him after he
skipped the hearings in 2005.
“This guy apparently has
created some intrigue over
the years,” Vito said.
In the 2005 Palm Beach
County case, Komlo staged a
fire at his home and tried to
make it look like the damage
resulted from a hurricane,
according to Capt. Rob Rush,
of the fire department’s bomb
and arson squad.
PHILADELPHIA — A
former NFL quarterback who
failed to show for sentencing
on drunken driving charges
nearly four years ago was
killed in a car crash in Greece,
authorities said, leaving
behind an unsolved mystery
involving two suspicious fires
and years spent on the lam.
The State Department
used fingerprints to determine that the victim of
Saturday’s
crash
was
William “Jeff” Komlo,
according to Jim Vito,
Chester County’s acting
chief detective. Vito said he
was initially skeptical, concerned because of Komlo’s
history that he might have
faked his own death.
“Even though we heard
that he was deceased, the
first reaction was that, well,
we better make a positive
identification,” Vito said.
Once the State Department verified the fingerprints
were those of the 52-year-old
fugitive, Vito was satisfied.
“As far as we’re concerned, we’re closing this
now.”
A State Department
spokesman, Noel Clay,
declined to comment “out of
respect for the family.” He
would not say where in
Greece the accident happened or release details of
the crash.
Komlo played for the
Detroit
Lions, Atlanta
Falcons and Tampa Bay
Buccaneers over five NFL
seasons from 1979 to 1983.
In July 2005, Komlo
failed to show for sentencing
on two drunken driving convictions.
Two months earlier,
authorities had issued a warrant for Komlo when he didn’t appear for a May 10 preliminary hearing on charges
in an alleged assault on his
girlfriend.
At the time he went miss-
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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) —
Andruw Jones is staying with
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though he has not been added
to the major league roster.
Jones said Friday he
agreed with the Rangers to
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agent if he’s not put on the big
league roster. That pushed the
deadline to Monday.
“We’ve got to the 23rd to
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“We found a lot of evidence that there was an
attempt to burn this place in
multiple spots around the
room,” said Rush, adding
that the case will be closed
once the county gets a death
certificate. “He was still our
only suspect, and we were
convinced that he was
responsible for the crime.”
Komlo starred at the
University of Delaware,
leading the Blue Hens to the
Division II national championship game in 1978.
The Lions picked him in
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