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CASAblanca gala raises bids for kids
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Elaine Gerke gets a plate of food Saturday during the CASAblanca gala at the Chattahoochee Country Club in Gainesville. The event was held to raise funds for Hall-Dawson Court Appointed Special Advocates. - photo by Erin O. Smith
For some children, a trip to grandmother’s is not picturesque. Janet Walden, new executive director of the Hall-Dawson Court-Appointed Special Advocate program, described her own children’s trip to their grandmother’s as a positive experience. “They know they are loved,” Walden said in her speech Saturday at the ninth annual CASAblanca gala.
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Update: I-985 southbound reopens after closing due to separate vehicle fire, crash
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Lanes have reopened after a vehicle fire and crash Friday, April 4, caused both southbound lanes of Interstate 985 to be blocked in the Flowery Branch area.
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