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22 THE CHEROKEE LEDGER-NEWS SPORTS SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 Cherokee County Gridiron Club’s Players of the Week Sponsored by Creative Awards & Promotions Creekview (vs. Chattahoochee) Offense: Donovan Deal Defense: Nick Luly Special Teams: Daniel Bailey ••• Etowah (vs. North Forsyth) Offense: Bryan McCulloch Defense: Ryan Wilborn Special Teams: Devonte Wheaton ••• River Ridge (vs. Model) Offense: Austin Terrell Friendly Service at Your Local Sears Hometown Store. 25 % off assorted tractors Offer good thru 9/26/10. WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17 Defense: Phillip McKay Special Teams: Vince Njoku ••• Sequoyah (vs. Cass) Offense: Ben Rogers Defense: Malcolm Mitchell Special Teams: Ben Rogers ••• Woodstock (vs. Newnan) Offense: Kevin Bolak Defense: Alex Kops Special Teams: Mick Stapleton *Cherokee had a bye week Friday, September 24th thru Sunday, September 26th, 2010 15 % off all � appliances PLUS extra t 5 % off Owned and Operated by Name • Store address • Store hours • Phone number Owned and Operated by Name • Store address • Store hours • Phone number ■■■ “This is huge win for us,” said Teter, whose Chiefs lost to Creekview and Johns Creek before knocking off Northwest Whitfield on Sept. 10. “We challenged the kids after the Johns Creek loss about how they were going to respond as far as practice, game prep and everything else, and they’ve handled it very well. “We’ve had two great weeks of practice, and as long as we can continue to do what we’ve done the last two weeks, we’ll be fine.” “It was mistakes that killed us, and at critical times, too,” Cass coach Rick Casko said after his team committed three first half turnovers and had a mix-up on its defensive set that led to a 53-yard run by Rogers on the first play of the second half – setting up a Sequoyah touchdown run two plays later. “You can’t make the type of mistakes we did tonight and win football games. “But I will say this for our kids, they fought all the way and played hard from start to finish. Now we just have to go back to work and get Kenmore ® appliances and fl oor care with your Sears card � � Offers exclude Electrolux, Jenn-Air ® , Dacor, Fisher & Paykel, sewing machines, countertop microwaves, water heaters, air conditioners, humidifi ers, dehumidifi ers, bags, belts, fi lters, carpet cleaning chemicals, accessories, closeouts and Everyday Great Price items. Cannot be combined with other Sears card discounts. Sears card offer not available at Outlet stores. Offers good thru 9/30/10. ready for next week.” Complementing Rogers’ outing for the Chiefs, Swaney rushed for 100 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 17 touches, while junior Obie Myers had 58 total yards and a rushing touchdown. After a sluggish start to the night for both teams, which included an exchange of turnovers and a pair of punts, Sequoyah drew first blood. Starting on their own 44 late in the first quarter, the Chiefs went 56 yards in three plays, scoring on an 11-yard touchdown run by Myers, one play after the junior running back hauled in a 35-yard reception from Rogers. Following another exchange of turnovers – an interception by Sequoyah senior Spencer Zorzi and a lost fumble by the Chiefs’ offense one play later – Cass evened the count at 7-all on an 18-yard scoring strike from Windom to Stephens with 6:41 left in the second quarter. Taking advantage of the Colonels’ third turnover of the half, Sequoyah went back ahead save an additional 7.65% (the national tax average) on all purchases made between Friday, September 24th and Sunday, September 26th. We will collect all applicable taxes but the 7.65% discount should help alleviate your tax burden. Offer valid 9/24 thru 9/26/10 at Sears Hometown Stores, Sears Appliance & Hardware Stores and Sears Home Appliance Showrooms only. 20 % off all Craftsman ® power lawn & garden and outdoor storage Offer excludes Everyday Great Price items and generators. Offer good thru 9/26/10. Your neighborhood store - and so much more. Sears Hometown Store is the best of both worlds - the value, selection and services you want, right in your neighborhood. FOR AN EVEN GREATER SELECTION SHOP SEARS.COM BUY ONLINE, PICK-UP AT YOUR LOCAL SEARS STORE 110 Bluffs Pkwy, Canton, GA Mon-Sat 9:30am-7:00pm, Sun 11:30am-4:30pm 770-720-9020 Owned & Operated by Paul & Elizabeth Kim CHIEFS: Sequoyah approaching every game as a ‘must win’ FROM PAGE 18 less taxing more savings event CANTON STORE NAME September 24th thru September 26th, 2010 On eligible items. Excludes Alaska. VISIT US ONLINE AT: SearsHometownStores.com JA#009C029 less than 2 minutes later when Swaney punched the ball in from 3 yards out, though Cass responded with a 56-yard touchdown pass from Windom to Wright on the ensuing drive. The swapping of scores continued in the third quarter with Swaney scoring on a 6-yard run and Windom hitting Batiste for a 21-yard touchdown in the first 4 minutes of the frame. Sequoyah re-opened a lead at 24-21 with 4:14 left in the quarter following a 22yard field goal by Wortham, before Rogers’ 68-yard scoring run in the fourth provided the Chiefs’ with just enough to hang on. “This win was huge – every game is huge for us from now on,” Rogers said. “(Losing) those first two games kind of put us in a hole, obviously, and we’re approaching every game as a must win. That’s how we have to approach it.” Windom highlighted the Colonels’ outing by completing 20 passes to eight different receivers for 256 yards and four scores. Stephens hauled in six passes for 86 yards and two touchdowns, senior Tarris Batiste had six grabs for 49 yards and a score, and Wright caught two balls for 76 yards and a touchdown. Looking for its third-straight win, Sequoyah travels to regionleading Rome (4-0) this Friday for an 8 p.m. start. The Chiefs defeated the Wolves 13-12 last season in Hickory Flat. BRANDON MICHEA | LEDGER-NEWS Sequoyah running back Obie Myers (22) prepares to make a cutback on his way to an 11-yard touchdown run, Friday night against Cass. SPORTS REGISTRATIONS & BRIEFS ■ BASEBALL 11U & 12U Tryouts: Strikers Baseball Organization will hold tryouts for its 11U & 12U teams on Sat., Sept. 25 at Frank Moore Park, located off Hall Station Rd. in Adairsville. Tryout for 12U run from 10 a.m.-noon, followed by the 11U tryouts from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Contact Jason Johnson at 770-312-1494 for more info. SWIMMING • Stingrays Swimming out of the Eagle Watch Country Club pool, is offering swim team, Stingers program, lessons and masters swimming. Contact Angie Nicolletta at 770-722- 9384 or anicolletta@gmail.com for more information. • • • Send community sports registrations & briefs to sports@ledgernews.com or fax to 770-928-3152. Please make sure to include contact information in announcement.
LEDGER-NEWS CHEROKEELIFE SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 THE CHEROKEE LEDGER-NEWS 23 Les Marmitons cook up a storm SPECIAL Enjoying tapas at dinner are, clockwise, from left, Judy Dollar, Charlie Dollar, Ritz-Carlton chef Peter Zampaglione, Brenda Laird, Ron Laird, J.P. Jobin and Carol Klaus. Vietnam vets reunite, BY JANET PELLETIER janetp@ledgernews.com honor the fallen When Bill Brown picked up the phone one rainy Saturday night, he had no idea how it would change his life. On the other end of the line was a man who had shared something so emotional and personal Brown, to this day, couldn’t talk about with his wife, let alone others. “The voice on the other end asked if this was the Bill Brown that was in the Scouts in Quang Tri, Vietnam, and I just froze,” Brown said. “It was a voice out of the past. I said, ‘is this little blond-headed Perry Kearns that was my gunner?’ and you could almost hear him sob on the other end. He said, ‘man I’ve been looking for you for 15 years.’” Brown and Kearns served in a reconnaissance Scout platoon attached to the 77th Armored Division of the U.S. Army, but hadn’t spoken before that night five years ago in some 35 years. Kearns told Brown he had, along with fellow platoon member Larry Fincher, been searching Social Security and other records they could obtain from the Army to try to track down all the men that had served from 1969 to 1972 in the platoon to see if they’d like to attend a reunion. Brown was hesitant to attend the reunion that year in Texas, because he wasn’t sure what to expect. “For 35 years, I never had contact with anyone at all,” he said. “If you went to Vietnam, when you came home, you almost had to apologize for having gone to begin with. It’s not like how the public receives the soldiers coming home today. We never got that. Everybody just kind of buried it.” He said he was afraid it would amount to a bunch of men still stuck back in Vietnam, blaming the war for everything that had gone wrong in their lives. His wife encouraged him to go, telling him they would get right back in the car and drive home if he felt uncomfortable. But, the reunion would be a whole different picture than what he’d imagined. “The guys were just like me; they weren’t interested in telling war stories and talking about bad things,” he said. “They were just glad to see somebody that they had put their life in their hands with so many years ago. It was like coming home to your family.” Since 2005, Brown has attended the reunion, which is held at a different veteran’s home, each year. In 2006, it was Oregon, 2007 North Carolina, 2008 California and last year, Colorado. This year, Brown played host in his hometown of Marble Hill, just north of Canton. Thirty to 35 veterans from as far away as California, the Great Lakes, Minnesota and Puerto Rico attended with their wives and girlfriends Sept. 16-19 for a weekend full of activities. The reunion started off with a barbecue at Brown’s home that Thursday night. Brown posted crosses leading up his driveway to three final crosses dedicated in traditional military tribute to the men from their platoon who died or were missing in action in the war, joined by combat boots and rifles. Fincher, who is from Texas, was one of the first platoon members to get the ball rolling in searching for all his comrades. In 2002, he was contacted about visiting a fellow soldier from the platoon who was in poor health. “I thought if I could find him, I could find others,” he said. And so he began tediously poring through service records, and enlisted the help of Kearns, who also began a phone tree. They JANET PELLETIER | LEDGER-NEWS In traditional military tribute, wooden crosses, joined by boots and rifles represent the three soldiers who were lost, either killed or missing in action, from the Scout Platoon. found several people, and 16 came to the very first reunion that year. Some, they found, had died of cancer, of other afflictions or at their own hands. Just a few said they weren’t interested in reuniting. “This is the highlight of their year,” Fincher said of the men. “There was a void in my life up until we started getting together. This isn’t exactly the way to describe it, but it’s somewhat like meeting a twin that was separated at birth.” Al Blankenship from Tennessee described the gatherings as being amongst brothers, because in many ways, the men felt closer than actual blood brothers because of what they had been through. This was the fourth reunion for Dan Snider from West Virginia. Snider’s older brother, Hughie, was MIA after he got caught in an undertow on the beach with a few others and vanished. “These guys are all my adopted brothers now,” Snider said. “It bonds us.” SEE VETS, PAGE 26 BY CAROLYN MATHEWS carolynmathews@ledgernews.com Some of the finest cuisine in Cherokee County is likely to be found in the clubhouse at Soleil at Laurel Canyon – where on Tuesday nights, one might mistakenly think, judging from the number of chefs busily working in the neighborhood’s teaching kitchen, that a filming for the Food Network must be going on. Closer inspection will reveal that all the cooks, clad in white jackets and traditional puffy chefs’ hats, are men. More than 30 men belong to the Canton Chapter of “Les Marmitons,” a men’s club dedicated to preparing exquisite meals paired with fine wines. Les Marmitons is a gastronomic and social club of gentlemen who share a common interest in gourmet food, wine and the culinary arts. Through regular gatherings, members gain knowledge and experience in the preparation, and presentation of various fine cuisines. under the direction of a specially selected professional chef. On Sept. 14, for the first meal of their new season, the chefs were led in the preparation and presentation of a Spanish-themed meal by the executive chef of the Ritz-Carlton, in Buckhead, Peter Zampaglione. Zampaglione recently returned to the United States after living in Spain and Portugal for several years. During his 16 years with the Ritz, he has opened hotels in New York, San Francisco, Paris, Portugal, Moscow and the Middle East. He has worked with great chefs, including worldrenowned Ferran Adria, who was been referred to in Gourmet Magazine as “the Salvadore Dali of the kitchen.” SEE CHEFS, PAGE 25 Lights, camera, action BY JESSICA WAGNER jessicaw@ledgernews.com Come mid-November, the Ryan Seacrest Foundation will bring a “voice” to the patients of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, as its first broadcasting center, for both television and radio, will go on-air inside the Egleston location. “Throughout my 20-year career in the entertainment business, I’ve visited numerous hospitals and centers across the country that have the weighty task of caring for children facing challenges because of life-threatening disease or injury,” Seacrest said. “I have consistently been amazed by the courage of the children and their families and am in awe of the tireless dedication and brilliance of doctors and hospital staff who work to give hope and solutions to so many families on a daily basis.” Seacrest said as a result of his experiences, he wanted to impact the lives of sick and injured children, too. And, through his multi-media station at Egleston, his efforts to enlighten, entertain and educate will become a reality. Although the “American Idol” host has plans to build numerous broadcasting centers within hospitals nationwide, Chris Jones, Children’s director of volunteer services, said Atlanta was RSF’s first initiative. “He was starting the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, and he thought a good place to start was back at his roots, back at his home. That’s why Atlanta was picked as the first broadcasting center location,” she said. Seacrest said he thought it was appropriate for RSF to contribute the broadcast arena since that was where he began his career. “We are excited and honored,” Jones said of the staffs’ reactions after hearing they had been chosen to house the first RSF broadcasting center. “It was a natural fit for us.” The children, she added, also are extremely excited. “Mostly it has impacted Egleston because the children can see construction going on,” she said. “I am not sure that the children in the other locations are aware of the multi-media center, yet. But, they will be.” SEE RSF, PAGE 26 SPECIAL Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Director of Volunteer Services Chris Jones stands out front of The Voice SM, which will be completed in November. The Voice SM, she said, was the Ryan Seacrest Foundation’s first initiative in bringing multi-media centers into children’s hospitals.
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