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Border Wars All-star games set June 6 with It’s the Monster Mile at Dover Ga. vs. Tenn. International Speedway Sunday Page 1B Page 5B THE DAILY CITIZEN Friday,May 29, 2009 •Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents THINGS Area unemployment falls TO CHECK Dalton Career Inside: Center job market may be turning around? OUT Companies hiring workers Center,said for Continuing “Well, I’m optimistic. I’ve “job orders” Education offers always been optimistic,”he said. ON THE BY CHARLES OLIVER Labor reported Thursday that the from local free computer Melissa Hulsey, president of 3 INSIDE [email protected] unadjusted unemployment rate in companies classes for dis- Ashton Staffing, said she is seeing the metro DaltoN area (Whitfield looking for placed workers an increase in demand for workers Unemployment dropped in and Murray counties) was a pre- workers were Page 6A in the Dalton area. April in the metro Dalton area, and liminary 12.8 percent in April, up about 50 “In November,the bottom fell some experts said the local job down from a revised 13.6 percent percent in out, in all areas, including Dalton. In Whitfield County students market could be stabilizing or even in March. April from March, and it looks like improve in all areas of improving. Danny Cope, manager of the they’ll finish May up 20 percent. ➣ graduation test. The Georgia Department of Georgia Department of Labor’s Does this mean that the local Please see JOBLESS, 6A See page 3A Gov. Perdue orders more budget cuts statewide. Judge See page 6A Preventing problems in mulls puppies helps develop good adult dogs. See Pet Connection, school Page 1C FROM TODAY’S challenge BY RACHEL BROWN FORUM [email protected] “For all you truck bashers out there, if it wasn’t for Attorneys argued in court on truckers you wouldn’t Thursday over the legality of using $3.1 have a thing in your million in taxpayer dollars to help build home.” a sewer plant and run nearly three miles of sewer lines for a new Whitfield “Maybe they should send County high school on Crow Road. Carolyn Towns over to Superior Court Judge William T. New Hope School to Boyett said he will review the evidence conquer the food fight and make a decision “as soon as possi- crowd before a teacher ble.” comes into contact with a Peter Olson argued on behalf of the green bean.” Concerned Citizens of the Prater’s Mill Community and Whitfield County that MATT HAMILTON/The Daily Citizen See page 2A expanding a sewer system with educa- tion funds isn’t authorized in state A Close Shave statutes or the Georgia constitution. Stan Hawkins, the school system’s Park Creek Elementary School fifth-grade student Jamel Darville,12, shaves the head of his teacher Alan Martineaux at the school Thursday afternoon. Martineaux made a WEATHER deal with the students that if they all passed their CRCT tests for reading and math, he ➣ Forecast: Partly sunny Please see CHALLENGE, 2A would let them shave his head. Today’s High: 83 Tonight’s Low: 56 Details, Page 10A It’s West Point or bust for INSIDE graduating Southeast pupil Classified..............2C Comics..................7B BY RACHEL BROWN Crossword..............6B [email protected] Dear Abby...................7B Horoscope.............6B Jimmy Nussbaumer says he knows he’ll probably be Lottery..................2A deployed to the Middle East Movies.................6B when he finishes his education. Obituaries.............8A He knows the commander in Opinion................4A chief is a man he voted against in the first election he could Sports......................1-3B MISTY WATSON/The Daily Citizen vote in last November. He knows he’ll have to pass up Robert Curtin will walk down the aisle at Harmon some of the traditional party Field tonight to receive his diploma opportunities of college life — but he doesn’t care. As the only Southeast High DHS student School student accepted this 7 69847 00001 6 year to the U.S. Military Academy — he graduates overcomes autism tonight — Nussbaumer said he never finished his applications BY RACHEL BROWN to any other schools. [email protected] It was West Point or bust. “I just kind of fell in love Robert Curtin was 2 when he was kicked out of a pri- with it,”he said, recalling how vate pre-school in Indiana for not sitting in a circle with he visited his brother,Joey, who the other children. graduated from the academy in “I just thought he was high energy,” said his mother, 2005. MISTY WATSON/The Daily Citizen Roberta Curtin. “After a lot of crying and denial, I finally “We all made a bigger Jimmy Nussbaumer has been accepted to went to get him tested.” hoopla out of it than he did,” the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He Curtin was autistic. said school counselor Jackie graduates Southeast tonight. Tonight at 8, Curtin will graduate from Dalton High Gunn. “He’s just outstanding in PayNothing School with about 260 other students and with a college every way.” teacher recommendations, go through an interview prep diploma. To get in the academy, and application process with U.S. Sen. Saxby Until You Nussbaumer had to write three Sell Your House! essays, pass a physical ➣ Please see DALTON, 6A endurance test,submit three ➣ Please see SOUTHEAST,6A CASH The Jewelry Exchange We Buy Gold! New,Used or Broken On Site Jewelry Repair Free AppraisalswithImmediate Payment 711 E. Walnut Ave. • 706-278-1134 lOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS – FOR MAY 28 ATYOUR Georgia: Midday Cash 3: 6-3-7, Cash 4: 0-3-8-3, Evening Cash 3-1-1 PAGE 2 Cash 4: 2-7-6-7 Fantasy Five: 12-21-8-25-23 SERVICE Tennessee: Midday Cash 3: 0-9-0, Lucky Sum: 9; Cash 4: 5-7-6-8, Lucky Sum: 26, Evening Cash 3: 5-7-7, Lucky Sum: 19, Cash 4: 5-9-1-9, Lucky Our mailing address: Sum: 24 2A Friday, May 29, 2009 P.O. Box 1167 Dalton, Ga. 30722-1167 Our shipping address: TODAY’S FORUM Challenge: Decision ‘soon’ 308 S. Thornton Ave. Dalton, Ga. 30720 Editor’s note: Please “How about we run some ➣ Continued from page 1A An ESPLOST (educa- sewer line, Olson said, which tional special purpose local was “a minor distance” Our Web site: keep your comments as of Lewis Grizzard’s old brief as possible. Get to the columns?” attorney, said the intergov- option sales tax) can be away. www.daltondailycitizen.com point! Longer comments ernmental agreement issued only for specified “We would never contest should be submitted as let- “There’s nothing wrong between Whitfield County items which voters approve that if there was a sewer line in a referendum. The 2006 that existed on Crow Road or Our offices are located on the ters to the editor. If you with the trade center that a Schools and Dalton Utilities referendum voters approved Highway 2 that the school west side of the intersection of include a name, please spell couple of bulldozers couldn’t for the $8 million project it. Call 706-272-7748 to take care of.” by a 3-1 margin allows for system couldn’t pay to tap Thornton Avenue and Morris isn’t subject to court review. reach Today’s Forum. expenses “including but not into it,”Olson said. Street in downtowN Dalton. Intergovernmental agree- “Tim Trew,Gary Brock, limited to the building of a The agreement with We’re open 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. ments are constitutionally “Chick-fil-A on West John Thomas and Katie new high school and new Dalton Utilities would allow Monday through Friday. protected,he said. Walnut Avenue needs to Brochu should all be run out The proposed sewer line elementary school.” the school system to recoup How to call us: redesign its parking lot and of Whitfield County.” would be 2.7 miles and have School system chief some of the initial cost their drive-through window a capacity of 450,000 gallons financial officer KeNNy through future tap-on fees. It MaiN number: 706-217- lane. You can’t get in and you “This is to Stan Hawkins: per day. Olson said the Sheppard, the only witness was the least expensive of NEWS can’t get out and if you’re Don’t lay the new high school school,scheduled to open in called during the hour-long three proposals school lead- (That’s 706-217-6397) parked in the handicapped on everybody in Whitfield 2011, would need only 3 per- hearing, testified that a ers considered to provide WheN you’re not sure with whom spaces against the building on County. We may have voted cent of that amount, leaving $129,000 sewer tap-on fee sewer or septic services to you need to speak, our operator the west side of it you might for SPLOST,but we didn’t a remaining capacity big was paid to Dalton Utilities the new school. will make sure you’re transferred to as well forget it. It’s a night- vote to have a high school enough to serve 1,600 with ESPLOST funds. Building the school now the person who can best help you. mare around there.” next to Prater’s Mill. We’re homes. Sheppard said Hawkins would save taxpayers $5 mil- not all morons.” Delivery: 706-272-7705 “How is that a necessary advised him in February to lion to $7 million off a $62 “I thought we were function for the education of refund that money with million budget, Hawkins Our staff can take your subscrip- through with Dick Cheney “Our pastor Gary Mimbs children?” Olson said.