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Tuesday, November 24

Thank you to our Chamber Chatter Sponsor, Medical Plaza 400

Days Gone By Vintage Market offers antiques, handmade items, home decor and gifts for any occasion. The downtown Dawsonville store is celebrating the holiday season and is ready to help you with gift-giving or making your home festive for the holidays. Days Gone By is located at 58 Highway 9 South. Check out one of their live sales by visiting their Facebook page, at Facebook.com/DGBVintageMarket or call (706) 300-4983

Atlanta Bread is now open at 12 Dawson Market Way, Suite 280. The Cafe offers fresh pastries, bagels, desserts, breakfast, lunch and dinner entrees. They are open for dine-in, curbside pickup or delivery via DoorDash. For more information visit atlantabread.com or call 706-525-5171.

Cheryl, Shauna and Melissa Price’s online boutique, Sweet Sassafras, has now opened a location inside Soul Sisters Antiques. Located at 40 Hightower Parkway, you can now shop the on-trend boutique clothes, jewelry and accessories for all sizes in store. For more information visit sweetsassafrasboutique.com.

The city of Dawsonville and the Georgia Department of Transportation celebrated the new designation of Highway 9 from downtown Dawsonville to the county line at Silver City to now be known as Thunder Road. The designation celebrates the city’s rich history in racing and moonshine.

The Pool Room is now open after closing for six months for renovations. The opening was celebrated with a grand opening and visit from Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. The Pool Room is now open for dine-in and carryout options. The Pool Room is located at 9 Bill Elliott Street. To place an order, call 706) 265-2792. View the menu at dawsonvillepoolroom.com

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Atlanta Bread Dawsonville is now open! We are ready to serve you with our freshly baked pastries, breads, coffee and much more. All health and sanitation are in place with hand sanitizer stations located at the front, register and take out area. We are offering dine-in, take out, curbside and delivery with third party providers. To place your order online visit us at https://direct.chownow.com/order/4748/locations/36808. We are available on Postmates for delivery: https://postmates.com/merchant/atlanta-bread-company-dawsonville. Our current hours are Monday-Saturday 6:30 am-9:00 pm and Sunday 7:00 am – 8:00 pm.

Northside Hospital BMT Program ‘significantly’ exceeds expected survival rates for 11^th year

For an 11^th consecutive year, The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute has been recognized as having among the best survival outcomes in the United States for bone marrow transplants.

The data was reported in the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Final 2019 Transplant Center Survival Report and from Be The Match®.

One hundred seventy adult and pediatric transplant centers were included in the analysis of patients who received their first allogeneic transplant between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2017 using unrelated or related donors and who had reported follow-up. The one-year survival of patients transplanted at Northside was 81.1%.

Northside is one of only two adult BMT programs in the U.S. that has achieved survival outcomes that significantly exceeded their expected survival rate for the last 11 consecutive annual reporting cycles, and Northside is the only program in Georgia to over perform.

“The BMT Program at Northside is the largest allogeneic transplant program in Georgia,” said H. Kent Holland, M.D., medical director of The BMT Program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute. “Our success is a direct reflection of the combined experience and expertise of the teams in our inpatient and outpatient BMT units, our stem-cell laboratory and blood donor center.”

Innovative treatments and research are major components of the BMT Program at Northside. Northside offers chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and other immunotherapy treatment options including novel clinical research trials, and recently began studying an investigational treatment that uses convalescent plasma in patients currently fighting COVID-19.

Northside’s Cancer Institute receives sixth straight award for outstanding cancer care

For the sixth consecutive time, the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeonshas granted its annual Outstanding Achievement Award to the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute.

Forty-eight accredited cancer programs throughout the United States received the 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award, representing approximately seven percent of programs surveyed by the CoC January 1–December 31, 2019. Northside Hospital is the only program to have received the award six times. Northside has received the recognition for every survey performed since the award’s inception in 2004 (2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019).

“These cancer programs currently represent the best of the best when it comes to cancer care,” said Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, MACP, chair of the CoC. “Each of these facilities is not just meeting nationally recognized standards for the delivery of quality cancer care, they are exceeding them.”

“This award is a direct result of the hard work of our medical staff and their ongoing commitment to provide high quality, multidisciplinary cancer care,” said Patti Owen, director of the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute. “We couldn’t be more pleased to have received it a sixth time.”

The Northside Hospital Cancer Institute is the largest and most comprehensive cancer hospital network in Georgia and a leader in cancer care. Northside ranks in the top five in the nation for newly diagnosed and/or treated cancer cases and diagnoses and treat the most new cases of cancer in Georgia.

For more information about the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, visit builttobeatcancer.com.

The former Mill Creek Environmental building is for sale! Click here to learn more: https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/1732-Perimeter-Rd-Dawsonville-GA/19751650/

Five-Star Architectural offers barrier shields for businesses

Businesses looking to prioritize safety as they reopen may want to consider the desktop and teller barrier shields manufactured by Five Star Architectural. Click the photos above to view shield specs. For more information contact Five Star Architectural at: 706-265-7284 or [email protected]

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