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Summer shines: Hot holiday weekend kicks off season
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Swayde Stephens holds on to her German shepherd Vala as the two float down the Etowah River Sunday with her sister Sienna Stephens and friend Georgia Chester. - photo by Michele Hester Dawson County News
In a high-pitched squeak, 4-year-old Patience Finnegan ran toward her grandma. "Look, Nanna, I'm soaking wet," she said, as she turned around and ran back into the sprinklers with her sister Kassidy at Rock Creek Park's Rotary Island. Roxanne Zacharias of Cumming just smiled as she watched the little ones enjoy an afternoon cooling off from the sun's hot summer rays.