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With hits like “My Girl,” “Get Ready,” and “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” the Temptations Review featuring key member Dennis Edwards will have you dancing in your seats on July 12. Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, the Grammy-winning pop band, will take you down memory lane on July 26 with their classics “Young Girl,” “Lady Willpower,” and their version of “To Love Somebody.” Closing out the season on August 9 is none other than fabulous fiddler Charlie Daniels and the Charlie Daniels Band. Daniels’ blend of southern rock and country catapulted him to worldwide fame with songs like “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” For ticket information, call 770-719-4173 or visit www.southerngroundamp.com.
FOREST PARK Tsunami Volleyball Tsunami Volleyball is a not-forprofit Junior Olympic Volleyball Club founded 14 years ago in the Atlanta area. Tsunami’s mission is to provide the highest level of coaching available for girls and boys volleyball players seeking to improve their individual skills and to compete at the highest level possible with their team. While improving individual and team volleyball skills is important, the club also believes in teaching players to value hard work, discipline, commitment, sportsmanship, teamwork, competition, and respect for themselves and their teammates as well as a life-long love of the game! Tsunami offers a complete set of tools including club volleyball teams, youth devel-
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opment programs, summer camps, individual skills training, and small group clinics to help improve volleyball skills and physical fitness. Coaches also offer individual guidance regarding college recruiting along with several useful tools which will help players achieve their dreams of playing volleyball at the next level. Check out Tsunami at 5163 Old Dixie Hwy., Suite 100. For information call 770-462-4950 or visit www.tsunamivolleyball.com.
GAINESVILLE Elachee Nature Science Center Take a breath of fresh air this summer at Elachee, one of the premier environmental education centers in Georgia serving 35,000 students from more than 22 school systems and an additional 30,000 visitors to the museum and preserve each year. Located in the 1,400acre Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve in North Georgia at 2125 Elachee Drive, the center is celebrating more than 30 years of building environmental literacy for Georgians through quality educational experiences, museum exhibitions, special programs, and resources for schools and the general public. Elachee’s curriculum is designed to develop a healthy ecological consciousness and includes preschool, elementary, and secondary education programs paralleling the Georgia Performance Standards. Other offerings include teacher education, summer day camp, special public programs, scout and home school programs, children’s birthday parties,
and facility rentals. Elachee is a private, not-for-profit institution supported by program fees, memberships, fundraising events, museum admissions, and donations from corporations, foundations, and individuals like you. Call 770-535-1976 or visit www.elachee.org to learn more.
GAY Big Red Oak Plantation Big Red Oak Plantation, located at 8428 Greenville St., provides one of Georgia’s finest bobwhite quail and whitetail deer hunting habitats on 2,500 acres. Stroll a certified forest with gently rolling hills, tall oak and pine trees, broom sedge, and other native grasses. The plantation’s southern boundary runs along beautiful Red Oak Creek, which attracts an abundance of wildlife. Plus, the plantation offers a worldclass state-of-the-art sporting clays facility, host to the 2013 Georgia State Sporting Clays Association Championship. The facility attracts worldclass coaches and is gaining recognition as one of the premier sporting clays courses in Georgia and in the Southeast. Log on to www.bigredoakplantation.com or call 706-538-6870 for more information.
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at Splash Park at 54 Post St. Special attractions include a rain tree, water mushroom, pipe falls, volcano sprays, deck sprays, and a tipping bucket, plus many more water jets and sprays. The park will be open from 10 am to 8 pm from Memorial Day through the end of September. During the school year, the park will be open from 10 am to 7 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Call 770-583-2289 or visit www.grantvillega.org.
HAMPTON Atlanta Motor Speedway Speed. Adrenaline. Exhilaration. That’s what you’ll find at Atlanta Motor
Coweta Film Tours are scheduled so you may enjoy a full day visiting filming locations around the region.
SENOIA ON THE BIG SCREEN WALKING TOURS (begin and end at The Georgia Mercantile Co. in Senoia)
ELDERS MILL WATERFALL AND CAMPSITE (located on Elders Mill Road outside of Senoia)
WALKIN DEAD TOURS AND EVENTS (begin and end at Cherokee Rose in Haralson)
GRANTVILLE DEAD WALKING TOURS (begin and end at Zombie Geeks in Grantville)
GRANTVILLE The Grantville Splash Park On a sweltering summer day, nothing feels better than a cool splash of water. Cool off
For schedules and pricing, visit www.cowetafilmtours.com