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Safe Kids Dalton receives grant
Safe Kids Dalton recently received a $3,000 grant and 140 car seats from UPS.
Original reports were that the grant was for $50,000. Another organization got the larger donation.
Safe Kids Dalton held a car seat check safety event at the Kmart on Walnut Avenue last month with 81 seats inspected, 38 seats removed and 57 given out by 14 certified passenger seat technicians.
Retta Gavin, Safe Kids Dalton coordinator, said, “There is no way we could have done this without the support of all agencies: the Dalton chapter of the American Red Cross, Georgia State Patrol, Dalton Police Department, Dalton and Whitfield County fire departments, Hamilton Medical Center, EMA, Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department, Murray Medical and Mohawk Industries. This is a way we can put seats into the hands of those that otherwise cannot afford them.”
Others who participated were the Walnut Avenue Chick-fil-A with general manager Rusty Reid, a former 18-year paramedic, and Kmart, which offered car seats for sale at a reduced rate.
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Derby time
Owen Halman, 8, of Dalton, lines up his car “Fire Bullet” before a race during the Boy and Cub Scouts grand championship Pinewood Derby Saturday at First Presbyterian Church.
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Helpin’ and paintin’
With his bracket busted and interest in the men’s college basketball tournament waning, Pierce Montgomery spent Saturday re-painting the Dalton home of a Vietnam veteran who couldn’t do the work himself.
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DSC officials explain possible cuts
Dalton State College officials know the state budget cuts they planned for almost a month ago won’t be as deep as expected. What they don’t know is exactly which of the proposed cuts they’ll have to implement.
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Higher education funding is at center of debate
More than 4,000 students, including several at Dalton State College, have banded together to push back against proposed state cuts to higher education funding.
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Local officials view possible cuts at college with concern
Dalton State College plays a big part in plans by local leaders to grow and diversify the area’s economy, so they are viewing proposed cuts to the college with some concern.
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Young couple awaits Habitat for Humanity home
Luis Sanchez knows how the Gutierrez family feels as they watch their house being built by the Dalton-Whitfield Habitat For Humanity.
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Superintendent decision coming Monday night
The Richland 2 school board in Columbia, S.C., has chosen a superintendent — Whitfield County Schools superintendent Katie Brochu was one of three finalists — but won’t publicly say who it is until Monday, according to The State newspaper.
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Area arrests for March 21
Recent arrests from the Whitfield and Murray County jail reports.
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Marilyn Helms: Companies vary on correcting products, services
In the first half of my column on my Dalton State College quality management systems class quality “problems” project, I discussed the situations that companies did not resolve.
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“Do You Remember?” cast announced
Members of Dalton Dance Company will perform in Dalton Arts Project’s “Do You Remember?” spring concert — a look back at the music they grew up with as well as the music enjoyed by previous generations of teenagers (now parents and grandparents).
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