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Families squeeze in a final weekend of summer fun
Break ends as school starts this week for Hall, Gainesville students
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Trever Beatty, 6, and Conner Beatty, 4, of Gainesville swim in the beach area of Lake Lanier at Vanns Tavern Park on Saturday. The two will be heading back to school this week. - photo by Erin O. Smith
With one final weekend before school starts for most, local youngsters and their parents set out for the lake, the playground and beyond on a sunny Saturday afternoon. James Benefield and Meagan Fisher of Gainesville took their kids to the lake. They bobbed along on tubes and floats at Vanns Tavern Park near the Hall-Forsyth county line.