Sherri Price - No Longer Looking for Juvenile Offenders

Sherri is a proud North Georgia country girl born and raised in Royston, Georgia and returning to her roots (origin not hair!).  Her mother was a homemaker and her father worked in construction.  Sherri inherited good genes as her father, nearing eighty years of age, is still active as a construction superintendent in a third generation commercial construction business.  Sherri attended grade school in Royston but traveled to nearby Carnesville for Middle School, and then Franklin County High School. After graduation Sherri begin a thirty year career with the Juvenile Court System of Athens-Clarke County where she progressed from secretary to Deputy Clerk before retirement.  Sherri derived a lot of satisfaction from assisting young people in her position with the court system and enjoyed the interaction with the public. 

Sherri and Keith as Square DancersSherri is currently relocating from the Athens area back to Royston and a less hectic pace.  She has two children-a daughter, Autumn, who is a Brenau University college student.  She also provides Sherri with the opportunity for time well spent with a grandson age two.  Her son Myles works with chickens (in a poultry enterprise).  Sherri and her partner Keith Lester have formed a budding lawn care business named Lester’s Services that Keith started part time twenty-years ago.   Recently, the business has taken off  with over thirty accounts at present and growing.  The clients are in both the Athens and Royston area.  Keith and Sherri are so busy they have few hobbies, those being square dancing and running series races.  Both require stamina!

Sherri started running with Keith in her forties as a form of exercise but after four years found it to be an “addiction”.  Sherri and Keith run in at least one race a weekend, but usually more.  Sherri and Keith ran over one hundred and ten races in 2014, winning a coveted Black Bag Race Series Hoodie and has a goal of qualifying for a Clover Glove windbreaker in 2015.  Sherri completed the 2014 running campaign in first place in the competitive female 45-48 age division in both Run and See Georgia and the Black Bag Race series.  Her best 5K time was Sherri and Keith as Runners28:50 in a 5K, and slightly over an hour in a 10K.  She and Keith have run the last two Athens Half Marathons.  Her favorite races are any without “hills”.  Sherri has met many friends on the race course and admires them for their tenacity displayed weekly.  She notes that the running family “encourages each other and that the support is wonderful”.   Sherri appreciates race coordinators presenting the awards starting with the senior members of the running community first. She does not consider herself in that category but finds that she receives her award quicker when the awards are presented in that sequence.  

Bob checking out from the back of the pack.  Look for the profile on Donnie Chaffin and profile on the Reed family of runners (Allyson, Hannah, and Lauren).