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Staff Picks...................................................... 3 Entrepreneur Focus....................................... 5 Bass Fishing Hype......................................... 9 Rectify............................................................. 13 Shadow Run Farm........................................ 19 September/October Calendar.................. 24 The Return...................................................... 27 Paparazzi...................................................... 34 Sports: Penn State Scandal........................ 35 Scenes from Texas and New Mexico.......... 36 Kitchen Table................................................. 41 Artist Profile: Andrew Patrick Henry........... 43 Vent................................................................. 48

Contributing Writers Laurie Cochrane Pamela Guerra

Contributing Photographers Robert Cannon David Kaufman Robby Long Phil Pummell Jenna Walker

ABOUT THE COVER Instagram is a photography application that allows users to get imaginative with funky, vintage filters. It’s an easy-to-use creative outlet that has become a cultural sensation. Instagram photos aren’t usually posed, but are instead a little quirky, a little...more. The artistic abilities of our local phone-photo snappers inspired us to sponsor an Instagram contest on our Facebook page and to proudly feature some of the entries on our cover. Thank you for sharing with us, and keep up the great work!

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Ron Westbury, Penny Griffin, and James Westbury, the owners and directors of Brightmoor Hospice, know firsthand how hospice can benefit patients with limited life expectancies and their families. Beginning in 2004, they were helped tremendously by hospice care during the terminal illness of a loved one. In that same year, their personal experiences helped them decide to add hospice to the assisted living and nursing home services already provided by Brightmoor. In April 2012, they opened a new 12-bed, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. Brightmoor Hospice also serves about 90 people in their own homes and at the nursing home and assisted living facilities.

The focus of hospice is on palliative measures, and Brightmoor Hospice takes great care to provide the highest level of comfort for both patients and families. The inpatient facility has a chapel, a communal living room, a family quiet room, a children’s play area, and laundry and kitchen facilities for family members. Patient rooms provide many conveniences for residents and their families, including a hide-a-bed, a large bathroom with a roll-in shower, a private patio, cable TV, and individual heating and air systems.

Ron Westbury knows that the decision to seek hospice care is never an easy one. “In a sense, it’s a decision to let go,â€? he says. Despite the inherent difficulties, Ron, Penny, and James and the staff at Brightmoor Hospice do their best to fulfill their vision of providing professional, ethical, and individualized end-of-life care with dignity, trust, and compassion as guiding values. %ULJKWPRRU +RVSLFH _ 1HZQDQ 5RDG *ULIĂ€Q *$ _ _ www.brightmoorhospice.com

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Josh and Ashley Woods In 1986, when it came time to build a storage unit in the backyard, Josh Woods’ stepfather, Rod Rosenthal, decided that he would be able to a better job than anyone he could hire. Rod was right, and Better Bilt Buildings was born. Josh came to work at Better Bilt in 2002; he and his wife Ashley bought the business seven years later and have been running it ever since. Since 2001, the business has been located alongside Highway 19-41 north of Griffin. The cabins and storage units on display are quite impressive.

One of the most notable things about Better Bilt is the level of service they provide to customers. Josh includes services that many of the bigger competitors do not, such as custom designs, one-on-one computer-aided design (CAD) sessions, and handling all permits with the county. It’s a full-service stop for building needs, and the finished product doesn’t disappoint. Josh and his crews build everything from small storage units to full-sized cabins, pavilions, and recently, even an airplane hangar. Customers get to deal with Josh directly, instead of a sales associate.

When asked if they predict the family business will continue to the next generation, Josh laughs and says, “Avery, one of our six-year-old twin girls, loves to come up here and talk to the customers while they look around, and she helps put the checks in the boxes for the crew. She says she wants to run the business someday.�

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Kay Landham’s business started as an attic sale that began in November 2011 and was to last through Christmas. Due to overwhelming customer response, Kay opened Shop @ 11th in $QWLTXHV *LIWV DQG &RQVLJQPHQW the building that formerly housed Jim & Joe’s Photography. Kay’s father, the late Joe Johnson, was Joe of the well-known studio, which operated in Griffin from 1953 to 2005. Business at Shop @ 11th has been “fabulous,� according to Kay, with customers coming from all over the state. The shop lives up to the slogan on its sign: “A most interesting place.�

Shop @ 11th sells an eclectic mix of furniture, dinnerware, paintings, and collectibles. Some of the wares are antiques; others are newer creations, often with clever, artistic touches. “I’m all about fun,� says Kay, who enjoys being a part of Griffin’s growing antiques market. The establishment also offers consignment, dealer booths, and estate sales. Estate sales are especially dear to Kay’s heart since they allow her to help families. Kay believes that personal service and a genuine concern for customers set her shop apart. She does business by her father’s philosophy: “If you do right, you can never go wrong.�

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Dustin and Meredith Graves Two years ago, Dustin and Meredith Graves learned that their then six-month-old daughter had severe wheat and dairy allergies. The concerned parents sprang into action, researching organic foods and changing the way they shopped, cooked, and ate. Meredith began making popsicles as a way to provide a healthy, homemade treat, and it became a delicious hobby.

One day Dustin said he wanted to start riding his bike to work, and Meredith jokingly showed him a photo of a bicycle with a popsicle cart on the back. Her hint worked, and they bought the supplies they needed to start making popsicles to sell. Their delicious homemade popsicles did so well at the farmers’ markets that they decided to move to a retail space and take the business of sharing their love of organic foods to the next level.

After only a couple of weeks on Hill Street in downtown Griffin, Hill Street Market and Gourmet Pops has already created quite a buzz, selling not only popsicles with unique flavors such as pineapple cilantro and plum ginger, but also to-go salads in a jar, local organic produce and meats, smoothies, and healthy snacks. “Griffin has evolved in such a positive way, and we are so excited to be a part of this community,â€? says Dustin. +RXUV 0RQGD\ 7KXUVGD\ )ULGD\ DQG 6DWXUGD\ 1RUWK +LOO 6WUHHW *ULIĂ€Q *HRUJLD _ _ WKHKLOOVWUHHWPDUNHWSRSV#JPDLO FRP

Tommy Cox Minit Car Wash, a locally owned and operated, full-service car wash, will celebrate its twentieth year in business next year. Owner Tommy Cox and his wife Angie attribute the company’s longevity to competitive prices, hardworking employees, and an ability to change with the times and technology.

Tommy has been working in the business for most of his life, since he was 10 years old, washing towels at his father’s car wash in East Point. When the time came to choose a new location for the business, Tommy and his dad, the late T. Calvin Cox, selected Griffin. Minit Car Wash officially opened in 1993 and offers a variety of services, including fullservice washes, headlight restoration, detailing, and daily specials, as well as monthly and yearly wash cards (unlimited washes for a certain time period).

Minit Car Wash has embraced changes in the field, regularly updating their equipment and washing methods. Since opening, Minit Car Wash has recycled its water to help in water conservation. According to Tommy, the modern car wash uses more efficient chemicals than those of yesteryear, resulting in a cleaner car.

Tommy and Angie make Minit Car Wash a welcoming place. While waiting for their cars to be washed, customers can browse the selection of Circle E™ candles, for which Tommy and Angie are authorized retailers. Angie has begun a tradition of decorating a seasonally themed tree in the lobby for customers to enjoy. Tommy and Angie are active in the local community and appreciate the relationship between the business and the community. Angie says, “I like the fact that we live in the town we work in.â€? Minit Car Wash is looking forward to another twenty years of providing thorough, reasonably priced services to their customers in Spalding and surrounding counties. +RXUV 0RQGD\ 6DWXUGD\ D P S P 1RUWK ([SUHVVZD\ *ULIĂ€Q *$ _ _PLQLWFDUZDVKJULIĂ€Q FRP PFZJULIĂ€Q#JPDLO FRP

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BASS FISHING HYPE

By Ronnie Garrison will never forget the first bass I caught. My mother and I were fishing the creek just below the dam on the Usurys' pond, catching bream and small cats on earthworms. When my cork went under, I expected a fight from a fish that stayed underwater and pulled in small circles. Instead, when I raised my cane pole, the fish took off sideways then jumped out of the water! That 11-inch bass hooked me on more exciting fishing.

I soon graduated to a Zebco spincast reel on a limber rod. I used it to try to catch bass, casting plugs like Lazy Ikes, Hula Poppers, and Rapala minnows. I also used Mepps spinners and the newfangled rubber worms from Creme. Fishing in ponds around my house, I learned to cast to stumps and to other cover where the fish lived.

Fishing ponds was always a quiet, contemplative activity. There were few unnatural sounds. In fact, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, there were so few cars on nearby roads we usually looked to see who was going by – we always knew them.

An airplane going overhead was so rare we would stop and watch it until it was out of sight.

Although I usually fished from the bank or waded the shallows while fishing, sometimes I got the chance to fish from a wooden jon boat. We sculled the boat with a paddle, easing silently around the pond looking for places I could never reach from the bank. One of my uncles got an electric motor, a huge, heavy thing that was fairly quiet and made moving around on the water much easier. We kept it turned off most of the time to stay quiet.

We also sometimes used a small gas motor to push us around. They were loud, smoky things that we seldom cranked since they were often hard to start with the pull rope, and we just knew that the noise and commotion they caused scared the bass.

I got to go to Clark’s Hill, the new reservoir about 20 miles from my house, a few times a year. It was huge, but my fishing was usually limited to casting from the bank or wading the shallows, just like in ponds. My bus driver’s boat was slightly bigger and had a larger motor than those I was used to, and he took me to the lake a few times. It was thrilling to putter along at about five miles per hour, slow by today’s standards, but it opened up a lot of new fishing water to me. We still sculled it around to fish. On the big lake we saw few other boats, and they were like ours. It was normally very quiet even there.

By the time I got out of college and moved to Griffin in 1972, bass fishing had changed. Bass boats were getting popular, and I bought my first in 1974, a 16-foot boat with a motor that was huge for the time: 70 horsepower. When I joined the Spalding County Sportsman’s Club that year, I had the second-biggest motor in the club!

Bass fishing had gotten noisier, with bigger motors on fishing and pleasure boats. More and more people were on the bigger lakes since they were accessible to all. Much of the peace and quiet disappeared.

Tournaments got bigger and bigger, too. The first Bassmaster Classic was a fairly small affair where the qualifying fishermen were flown to a mystery lake. Now tournament sites are announced months in advance and hyped by the tournament organization and local businesses.

Weigh-ins have become a circus, with blasting music, flashing lights and fireworks.

Competitors are encouraged to put on a show, yelling and dancing. Some have even done break dances on the stage and in their boats. All is filmed for TV and draws millions of viewers.

Bass boats now look like NASCAR racers, wrapped with advertisements and costing more than many houses. They have huge motors with 250 horsepower being standard. Electronics such as GPS will show you exactly where you are, and fishfinders will show every detail under and out to the sides of the boat. Many bass boats even incorporate radar so you can run in the fog and see other boats.

Competitors blast off from the starting point and race at 70-plus miles per hour to fishing holes. It is not unusual in a seven-hour tournament for anglers to use five or six of the hours running to a place far away where they think they can win. Running 150 miles each way to fish one spot for an hour sometimes pays off with winning stringers.

I love tournaments but will never give up the peace, quiet, and joy of fishing smaller waters, without all the hype!

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Set to air in early 2013, the series begins with Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release from prison based on new DNA evidence in the rape and murder case of 16-year-old Hannah Dean.

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Denise and I sat and talked just outside one of the stage doors where the crew was setting up lighting for a scene that was taking place in a carefully staged bedroom. We discussed what it would be like for Daniel, coming home to face not only an array of people from his past, many of whom are not happy with his release, but also dealing with the fact that everything in the world has changed so drastically during his time in prison.

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Under the direction of Tirone and others is the cast that brings Daniel Holdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey to life. This group is made up of talented actors with notable experience in the industry. At a recent Q&A session, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron (True Blood), Luke Kirby (Mambo Italiano, Take This Waltz), Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins, Silent Hill 3D), Clayne Crawford (A Walk to Remember, 24), Bruce McKinnon (The Dukes of Hazzard, The Wronged Man), and Jake Austin Walker (The Chaperone) sat down to take questions from both the press and a group of GUDPD VWXGHQWV IURP *ULIĂ&#x20AC;Q DQG 6SDOGLQJ +LJK 6FKRROV They each told a little about their individual backgrounds DQG VWDUWV LQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;OP LQGXVWU\ DQG SURYLGHG VRPH JXLGDQFH and tips for the excited aspiring actors. After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the turns of character that the cast must make real as the inhabitants of Paulie, but also the many subtle details of performance that create believable small-town Georgians to populate Daniel Holdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story. I asked Adelaide to give us a sample of her best southern accent (sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually Australian) but she insisted we all must wait until the show airs to hear it.

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The cast also gave details about the characters they portray on Rectify. Abigail Spencer, who plays Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister Amantha, gave us some insight on how Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homecoming affects not only himself, but the people closest to him. She alluded to the idea that since Amantha has made Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freedom her lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus, it may be hard IRU KHU DV ZHOO WR UHDGMXVW WR WKLV QHZ UHDOLW\ DQG Ă&#x20AC;QG something else to live for. J. Smith-Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character, Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, must deal with learning how to be a parent to a man who left as a boy so many years ago.

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Born in Dekalb County, Georgia, Samantha moved to Long Island, New York, to live with her father when she was five years old. Here, she was introduced to the prestigious riding stables for which the area is well known. She began competing in shows at age six, and horses rapidly became Samanthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whole world.

Samantha wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t popular in school. She was constantly drawing pictures about horses, talking about horses, writing about horses.

This preoccupation, along with her athletic build, inspired the nickname â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horse,â&#x20AC;? which she carried throughout high school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first it really bothered me,â&#x20AC;? Samantha says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but as I started winning ribbons in shows, I started to take it as a compliment.

When the other kids called me that, I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see you do what I can do on a horse!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Samanthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream of teaching came true with her first private student when she was 16. By the time she was 18 years old, she was teaching over 25 students. Her carefully chosen teaching style comes out of her own experience. Until she was 12, Samantha had ridden at a full-service stable where her lesson horse was groomed and saddled for her when she arrived, then led away to be cared for after she left. Then Samantha went to work at a trail barn. There, she worked long hours with just the hope of being allowed to ride at the end of the day. Samantha realized that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never learned how to put a saddle or bridle on a horse. She knew nothing about grooming. It was when she had to work for the privilege of riding that Samantha knew this was the only way to ride and to teach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you go beyond just riding the horse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when you interact with him â&#x20AC;&#x201C; brush his coat, scrape his hooves, comb his tail, clean his stall â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when you begin to care for him, he begins to really care for you. That relationship is missing when you just show up, and the trainer has done all the work for you.â&#x20AC;? Since then, Samantha has made sure that each of her students, whether coming for one lesson or for years, knows how to move around horses safely, and how to tack and groom a horse properly before they leave. Her philosophy: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about responsibility, self-reliance and respect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for themselves and others, and for the horses.â&#x20AC;?

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Samanthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad, Stephen, has always fully shared and supported her passion for horses and made her dream his own. So when â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aged to Perfection,â&#x20AC;? a large white thoroughbred that she had already ridden for a couple of years, came up for sale when Samantha was 17, it seemed that it was meant to be. Samantha nicknamed her first horse â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shadow,â&#x20AC;? and they went on to win numerous championships and ribbons together. In 2000, when she was 21, Samantha came back home to Georgia, and she and her husband, Harry, began their search for the perfect horse farm in 2006. Her father bought the lovely, 25-acre Shadow Run Farm, named for Samanthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first horse, as Samanthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;inheritance,â&#x20AC;? and the dream was complete. Her dad wanted to be able to share in her dream with her, not make her wait until he was gone to realize it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so Samantha received her inheritance early, and her dad is very involved in the running of the farm.

Samantha is committed to her horses. She keeps a close eye on them, and if she sees that a horse no longer has its heart in her program â&#x20AC;&#x201C; becoming â&#x20AC;&#x153;absentâ&#x20AC;? and mechanical â&#x20AC;&#x201C; she rotates him out of the program or sells him to a private owner who can give him the one-on-one relationship he needs to get that spark back in his eye. Samantha also has a goal of rescuing at least one horse per year to give back to the animals who have done so much for

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her and her students. She has saved horses from ending up in kill wagons at auction or from homes that could no longer afford to feed them, and transformed them into healthy, happy lesson and show horses.

Samantha has transformed many riders, too. She has the ideal blend of tireless enthusiasm, discipline, compassion and horse sense that it takes to successfully manage both a farm and a pack of kids â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from preschoolers through teens â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who are constantly working around the barn. A few of these are from financially privileged families, but most come from families that make considerable sacrifices to keep their children in the saddle. Shadow Run is a place where they can get away from the everyday pressures they face among their peers. They work, ride, train, and just hang out together outdoors without caring that they all smell like horse poop. One of Samanthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students, Nicole, who began riding in first grade and is now a senior in high school, says, as she expertly saddles a bay horse for her lesson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped me through so much. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like therapy for me, in a way. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been through some rough stuff, and I tried to take it up more after that, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really, really helped me.â&#x20AC;? A younger student, Logan, pipes up from the stall behind her, where sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brushing her horse, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It kind of just happened for me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve loved it ever since. And since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m homeschooled, and not in the public school setting, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped me make a lot of friends.â&#x20AC;?

Samantha offers boarding and lessons, along with periodic horse camps, which she tries to schedule to coincide with the public school breaks. And, of course, there are the shows. Samantha is particularly excited about her brand-new IEA (Interscholastic Equestrian Association) English riding team. Nicole explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You draw a horse that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen before in your life, and you get on and ride it. It really shows your riding ability. It sort of levels the playing field because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not competing against someone with a $50,000 horse.You get used to riding different horses and figuring them out. It really helped me grow as a rider, just in one year, because you have about 10 steps to figure out the horse before you get in the ring!â&#x20AC;?

happy. I love to see a big smile on the face of a kid riding around the ring with a sixth-place ribbon!â&#x20AC;?

Samantha feels incredibly grateful to be living happily ever after at Shadow Run Farm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love being here. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do anything else than be here with my horses and these kids.â&#x20AC;?

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our young men all grow up in the same city. All have a natural talent and love for music and performing. These guys form a band and become an international sensation, playing all around the world to wildly enthusiastic crowds. The Beatles? Yes, but the same is also true of The Return, a Beatles tribute band described by Pete Beaudrault, the President/CEO of Hard Rock Cafe, as “Absolutely the next best thing to the originals.” One small difference between The Beatles and The Return – instead of Liverpool, the city in which the guys grew up, and in which all four still live, is Griffin.

The Return differs from the many Beatles tribute bands in existence today. The successful ones usually have older members who were handpicked from all over the place. Rarely does a Beatles tribute band include two guys from the same town, let alone four guys who grew up in the same town, are close in age, and are good friends apart from what they do musically as a band. These differences, which make The Return unlike other tribute bands, make them more like The Beatles, who grew up together in the same city (Liverpool, England) and were friends first. The Return’s band members Richard Stelling (as John Lennon), Shane Landers (as Paul McCartney), Michael Fulop (as George Harrison), and Adam Thurston (as Ringo Starr) began playing together in their late teens and early twenties, as did The Beatles. Though they have been performing together for years, the men in The Return still enjoy spending time together outside of their work. If real-life camaraderie translates into special energy and charisma on stage, then The Return may have an edge over “manufactured” bands.

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by Allison Smyly constantly strive to emulate the Fab Four in hairstyles, costumes, gear/instruments, and even accent and mannerisms on stage. They try to play and sing each song note for note, rhythm for rhythm, drum fill for drum fill. The effort put into the nitty-gritty details makes for an experience close to the real thing. Jim Weiss, senior VP of Public Relations for Turner Broadcasting, said, “Seeing The Return is like traveling back to Liverpool in the early 1960s. The Beatles live, thanks to The Return.”

As did The Beatles, The Return has evolved over the years.

In 1995, as a high-schooler, Michael Fulop got together with three musician friends, Mike Williamson,Young Hines, and Jerry Walker, to learn and play Beatles songs together, strictly for fun. Some friends caught wind of their new hobby and asked them to open for their band. They reluctantly agreed to “go public,” but before they did, they decided to imitate The Beatles as best they could in appearance, with thrift store black suits and combed down “mop tops.” The guys were pleasantly surprised by the crowd’s enthusiastic response. They were asked to play again that night, and slowly, they agreed to play more and more. It was fun. Audiences liked it. The group called themselves The Roaches. (Get it?)

When the guys realized that they could make money AND have fun, they decided to take it to the next level, hiring a manager/agent and researching The Beatles more in depth.

Adam Thurston (“Ringo”) joined the band in 1996, left in 2002, and came back in 2007. Shane Landers joined the band in 2000 as the new “Paul,” Richard Stelling in 2001 as the new “John.” Michael Fulop (“George”) helped start the band and never left. As time went on, the band decided that their entire performance would be as authentic to an early 1960s Beatles 27

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concert as possible. They began to acquire more and more of the same type of instruments and gear that The Beatles used.

They practiced more. They played bigger and better gigs and ventured farther from home. In 2000, the band renamed themselves The Return.

The Return now enjoys international success. They have played in classic Beatles venues such as Abbey Road Studios in London and the Cavern Club in Liverpool, which even today survives and thrives as a contemporary music venue.

The Return headlined an event in Tokyo commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Beatles’ playing there. They have played at many Braves games and were named the #1 Braves band in 2009. In July 2012 they played at the US Swimming Olympic trials in Omaha, Nebraska. They’ve performed at private parties and events for Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, media mogul Ted Turner, the CEO of Coca-Cola, and others. Two years ago, they debuted their “Sgt. Pepper’s and Beyond” show in front of 10,000 people in Hermosillo, Mexico. Shane Landers says, “The band has given me a chance to not only play music for a living, which is something I wanted from an early age, but it’s allowed me to travel all over the world, as well as leading me to my wife...The past twelve years have been a blast of going to interesting places with the best of friends.”

Although they travel around the world, The Return’s band members remain firmly rooted in Griffin, Georgia. Three of the four were born in Griffin; Michael moved to Griffin at age 8. They were all in junior high and high school chorus in the Griffin schools. All four men live in Griffin with their wives and children (nine among them) and remain close friends as well as band mates. According to Richard Stelling, the large amounts of time that the band members and their “awesome” two-man crew, David Kaufman (Sound Engineer) and Dennis Bradley (Stage Manager) have spent together have drawn them all closer: “Some people might think that with spending so much time on the road...things might grow a bit stale; for me, it’s quite

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the opposite.” Michael Fulop says, “It’s really a family in every sense possible...The majority of the guys in the band, past and present, have met our wives through the band...The guys are like my brothers and their kids are like my nieces and nephews.”

The band relies as much as possible on local people and businesses to keep functioning and growing. Wayne and Gloria Goodman of Record Heaven have supplied the band with countless pieces of musical equipment. Local guitar luthier/ repairman Tom Dodson has been indispensable in repairing the slew of guitars used by the band. A local photography business, One Six Photography, has done professional photos and a promotional video for the group. Local musician and artist Mike Williamson, who was also a founding band member, and Chad Baker of Armchair Studios, have worked on set and logo design for The Return. The band has received help with graphic design from Trent Shiflett, who works at local printing shop J-Max, which is where the band buys the t-shirts they sell at shows.

The band members have been profoundly impacted by their experiences over the years, as have their audiences. Says Adam Thurston: “We are truly blessed to be able to do what we do.

When this whole thing started 17 years ago, it was four guys learning Beatles songs just for fun. Since then, we’ve been able to travel all across the U.S. and to other countries, making a living playing the music we love, and still having fun.” Richard Stelling says, “We’re doing what we think is important in this world: spreading around the best music out there, showing people where so many musical ideas came from, showing people that there can still be a good message in music.” He adds, “I love to hear from the Baby Boomers who say we’ve helped them relive some great times in their lives. Just as rewarding is hearing from kids who love the Beatles, kids that were born twenty years after John Lennon died, kids that truly get it. It gives us hope that this message will continue on for years, no matter what you hear on the radio.”

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The Penn State Child Abuse Scandal The  scandal,  the  cover-­up,  and  the  fallout by  TAYLOR  GANTT The late, Joe Paterno, former head coach at Penn State. Photo

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Joe Paterno was disgraced and dismissed from the team for his lack of action, dying soon afterward from lung cancer. Sandusky was found guilty on 45 counts of sexual misconduct and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Other highUDQNLQJ VFKRRO RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDOV KDYH EHHQ Ă&#x20AC;UHG DQG ZLOO VRRQ IDFH OHJDO FKDUJHV of their own. And before the dust could settle, the NCAA hit Penn State with a truckload of penalties, LQFOXGLQJ D PLOOLRQ Ă&#x20AC;QH D IRXU year bowl ban, and a free release from scholarship for any Penn State players who want to escape this proverbial Titanic.

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monstrous actions would bring.

So instead of facing the truth and protecting the innocence of actual and potential victims, they chose to hide the misdeeds in order to protect the image of the university. The same can be said of the Penn State fans who rioted after Paternoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismissal from the team.

The culture that college football breeds is inherently a fanatical one; devotion and dedication to your school are ingrained into fans.

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Day trips through Franklin Mountains State Park and southern New Mexico included stops at local wineries, quaint local restaurants, and an outdoor pottery yard covering several acres, at which handmade pottery and ironworks were for sale.

Vast desert and ferocious winds surrounded them on the long drive to New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carlsbad Caverns. On their journey they passed by the rugged El Capitan peak in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Patrol agents at the border checkpoint were surprised to learn that the Moores were traveling that wilderness all the way from Georgia. Formations inside Carlsbad Caverns, including stalactites and stalagmites, were an amazing sight to behold.

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All the winning teams generously donated their prize money back to the cause. The top teams were Chad McDaniel, Matt Pierce, Preston Hardy, and John Canning (Sponsored by Liberty Technology) - 1st place; Will Morgan, Brett Upson, Chris Akin and Tye Waller - 2nd place; J.D. Moore, Michael Colquitt, Jason Goodman, and Tom Kirsch - 3rd place. Matt Pierce won the â&#x20AC;&#x153;closest to the pinâ&#x20AC;? prize, and Jason Clark won the prize for the longest drive.

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By Pamela Guerra Photos by Robert Cannon Things are getting quite colorful in the Barnesville area. If you’ve passed the August Moon Tea Room recently, you’ll have noticed a lively new mural decorating the exterior of the establishment. The super-sized work of art is courtesy of Andrew Patrick Henry, the 20-year-old artist behind The Crusty Brush Art Studio. Along with the tea room, Henry’s murals adorn Memories from the Attic in Barnesville and Red Barn Antiques and More in Milner. His artwork also graces the lobby of the United Bank in Barnesville.

Raised in Orchard Hill, Henry was homeschooled by his parents along with his three older brothers. He earned his art merit badge and eventually attained the Eagle Scout rank from his local Boy Scout troop, Troop 77. Henry was entirely self taught until the age of 18, when he DWWHQGHG D ZRUNVKRS ZLWK *ULIÀQ DUWLVW Teresa Thurston. Thurston encouraged him to look into Gordon College’s art program and speak with Marlin Adams, professor of art and a realist painter, draftsman, and sculptor. “He is a man after my own heart in many ways,” Henry says. The young artist currently serves as Adams’ student assistant and tutors other students fairly often.

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