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The Paper | Thursday, September 26, 2013
COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS The Crawford Long Museum will be offering for the first time a Victorian Tea program, “Naughty Women, Lovely Tea” from 4-6 p.m. on Sept. 28. Wear your best hat and enjoy tea time while learning about Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary) and Madame Bovary. The program is being presented by Sloane Thompson Meyer of Literature to Life. Tickets are $15 for Museum members and $20 for non-members. Enjoy scones with lemon curd, tea sandwiches, fruit and a choice of blended teas. Each guest will receive a sfavor to commemorate the museum’s first Victorian tea. For reservations, contact the Museum at 706-367-5307. Space is limited. sss House of Clay is offering Clay Handbuilding classes. Participants will have the opportunity to create at least one clay project during the class scheduled from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, Tuesday, Oct. 8, and Thursday Oct 24. Each class is $25 and includes a trip back to the studio to glaze the pieces. To register, contact House of Clay at 770-519-8900 or houseofclaybraselton@ gmail.com House of Clay is located at 5117 Highway 53 in Braselton. sss Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry star Whisperin’ Bill Anderson returns to his “adopted” hometown of Commerce on Nov. 16, when he appears on stage with Joey+Rory and T. Graham Brown. The show is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Bill Anderson Performing Arts Center, located inside Commerce High School, and all proceeds will go to benefit the Bill Anderson Scholarship Fund. Tickets for the Nov. 16 show in Commerce are on sale at WJJC Radio. Visit www. wjjc.net/billanderson.html or call 706-335-3155. sss The Jug Tavern Square Dance Club is sponsoring Round Dance classes at the YMCA in Winder. Another introductory class will be at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, and it’s free. No membership is required either in a square dance club or at the YMCA. Modern Round Dance is choreographed and cued ballroom dancing that progresses in a circular pattern around the dance floor. Round dancing differs from freestyle ballroom dancing in that each Round Dance has been fully choreographed ahead of time, and a “cuer” at the front of the room tells the dancers what steps to do. Lessons will continue on Wednesdays beginning Oct. 9. The cost will be approximately $10 per couple, per lesson. Singles are welcome. Email marybrenda@ windstream.net or call 706-654-9847. sss The next fundraising event on the Humane Society of Jackson County calendar is the Sept. 28
Mimosas for Mutts and Margaritas for MeowMeows. There will be a Mimosa focused buffet as well as a Mexican lunch at the Jefferson Civic Center. Tickets are $35 each or $25 for tickets purchased as a table for eight. Call 706-367-1111. sss Ahoy, matey! Are you ready to “Get your pirate on?” The Piedmont Rape Crisis Center will hold its annual Pirate’s Ball on Oct. 5 at the Winder Community Center. Tickets are $35 each or $50 for couples in advance or $40/$60 at the door. Also tickets for a chance to win three prizes including a UGA customized golf cart, a 32-inch high definition flat-screen TV and home entertainment center or a $100 gift card are on sale for $10 each. For more information, visit piedmontrapecrisis. org or contact Darryl Gumz, PRCC board chairman, at 770-6056656 or by emailing dgumz@windstream.net. sss A pageant benefiting Emery Todd Evans will be held Oct. 5 at the Galilee Church Family Life Center in Jefferson. The ages will be from 1-17. It is open to all boys and girls. At the pageant, children and adults will be honored that is living with and or has passed away form epilepsy or any other brain related illnesses. The Jefferson youngster will be going to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital a minimum of seven days as doctors hope to find a cause and cure for his ongoing seizures. The benefit will help with expenses while Emery is taking this journey to get well. Emery can be found on FaceBook at Find a Cure for Little Emery or on his website at Emerytoddevans.weebly. com. Donations can be made through PayPal at emerytevans@yahoo.com or at Community Bank and Trust locations to the Emery Evans Fund, P.O. Box 495, Jefferson, GA 30549. sss Fall into Recycling, sponsored by Keep
Jackson County Beautiful, will be from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Jackson County Transfer Station. The event will be collecting E-waste, documents for destruction, paint, fluorescent light bulbs, eyeglasses, auto oil and batteries and household batteries. Call Susan Trepagnier at 706-708-7198 or email strepagnier@ jacksoncountygov.com for details. sss The second annual fall festival and chili cookoff – a COTA for Braden K event –will be held Oct. 12 at the Jefferson Parks & Rec Department. There will be lots of games, face painting, crazy hair, bounce houses, cake walks, food, fun and more from noon to 6 p.m.. For more information, contact Julie at 567204-1069 or visit www. cotaforbradenk.com An entry form for the chili cook-off is available by emailing mgknebel@ hotmail.com All proceeds from the event go to COTA in honor of Braden K for transplant related expenses. Donations can also be sent by mail to the Children’s Organ Transplant Association, 2501 West COTA Drive, Bloomington, IN 47403. Checks or money orders should be made payable to COTA with “In Honor of Braden K” in the memo line. Credit Card donations are also accepted online at www. COTAforBradenK.com. sss Join Piedmont CASA for its second annual Superhero Run which returns to Fort Yargo State Park on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 2 p.m. The 1K is flat and great for families with children. 5K runners registering at www.active. com (“CASA Superhero Run”) will be guaranteed a T-shirt at the end of the race. Onsite registration begins at 1 p.m. at picnic shelter #5. The family fun 1K run starts at 2 p.m. and the 5K at 2:30 p.m. Sponsorships are still available. Call 706387-6375 or visit www. piedmontcasa.org.
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Cyndi Smith cheers Scouts and parents about the popcorn fundraiser now under way.
It’s Scout popcorn time It’s popcorn sales time as Pack 282 of Hoschton joins with other Boy Scouts in participating in the organization’s only fundraiser. There are five dens in Pack 282 which meets at Center United Methodist Church on Jackson Trail Road in Hoschton. Cyndi Smith, who is serving as the “Official Popcorn Colonel” for the Pack, says the boys are excited about the sales opportunities with 16 Trail’s End Popcorn items available for ordering. Items range in price from $10 or $55 and include five new flavors including buffalo cheddar cheese and bacon ranch. If you aren’t a popcorn eater, you can still support Boy Scouting through support of “Popcorn For Our Troops” with a $30 or $50 donation to have popcorn send to military men and women serving overseas and veterans’ organizations. Orders will be taken through Oct. 31 with delivery during November. The timing is right for making popcorn items a holiday gift idea. Sales are available from Scouts or online. Smith, who kids that her Colonel title is a play on the popcorn word kernel, said 37 percent of the funds from popcorn sales will stay with the local troop to help fund camps, badges and other Scout-related expenses. Seventy percent goes to local Scouting programs to fund camping activities. Any Scout who sales $2,500 in popcorn will have a college fund set up on their be-
half and 6 percent of all his future popcorn sales will go into that college fund for use when it’s time to further his education. Smith said the Pack had hoped to participate in the Hoschton Fall Festival, however, the Scout Day with the Atlanta Braves is being held this weekend and other Scouting activities are also slated. Smith can connect you with a Scout taking popcorn orders by contacting her at 678677-5369 or cindimsmith@gmail.com