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ContentsNovember 2014

Lake LivingVOL. 10, NO. 4

Cover: “Coming Home” Original print of Pam Renfroe. Hart County resident Pam Renfroe, owner of The Renfroe Collection of Fine Arts, is a licensed artist for The Coca-Cola Company, John Deere, Hart County EMC and others.

04 Minnie’s Snowbuddies

08 Love Him, Love Th em

12 Pamela Renfroe

16 Scenes from Currahee Military

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18 Th e Green Dress

24 Ethan Crump

28 Daytrip to Helen, Georgia

30 Th is Holiday, Create a Colorful Feast

34 Bryan Dooley’s Farm

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Green to the City of Toccoa

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Happy Holidays


By Mark HyndsTh e Hartwell Sun

At Jimmy and Minnie Haygood’s house, every day is a snow day at Christmas time. Well, more like a snowman day. Each holiday season, nearly 200

snowmen in all shapes and sizes clamor for space in the kitchen, liv-ing room, and dining room at the Haygood house. Every inch of level surface, from the fl oor to the furniture, provides a spot for Minnie’s snowmen collection. Even a fl ower pot by the screen door provides a home. “I just like to look at them,” said Minnie recently about her collection. “Th ey are always smiling so it always makes me feel good.” It takes about half a day to set them all up she said. While she stops short of calling it a tradition, the snow-men arrive each year on the day after Th anksgiving. “Everybody is out shopping so it’s a perfect time for me to get done,” said

Minnie’s SnowbuddiesMinnie Haygood has over 200 Snowmen in her collection

Minnie poses with one of her latest additions, bought for her by Teresa, her daughter-in-law in Gatlinburg, Tenn.


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Minnie. “Th ey aren’t telling me, “Put this one here and put this one there.’” Stored in containers in a barn in the backyard, her husband Jimmy handles the transportation inside the

house, but that’s it for his services. “She does it all herself,” said Jimmy. “I just get them in here.” Minnie credits her grand-son, Jim, with getting the

collection started. “About seven years ago, we were up at Tim’s (her son and Jim’s dad) house and he pulled out an old snowman,” recalled Minnie. “You could tell it had been

in his toy box for awhile. He said, ‘Here maw maw, you can have this.’ I took it home and put it up and decided I’ll get another one. Th en, I got another one, and

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another one, and it just took off from there.” Th e smallest ones are Christmas ornaments that adorn the Haygood tree every season. Th e largest are nearly three-feet tall, which can be intimidating to her 20-month old grandson, Reese.

“He was just nine months old last year so I think he liked them, but didn’t know how to get to them,” said Minnie. “Th is year I think he will really enjoy them.” Her favorite snowman is one that her father bought for her the year before he died. Th e most unique, at least in her eyes, is the one

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that plays piano. Th ere is also one that rides a rocking horse. Some of the snowmen are made of glass, some are stuff ed like a teddy bear, and some are made of wood. Th ere are ceramic ones and porcelain ones. Some wear hats, some wear scarves, and some wear sweater, but nearly all have a corncob for a nose. Th ere are even two who appear to be fans of the Georgia Bulldogs by the big “G” on their chest. Some have long legs that dangle off the shelf and some have no legs at all, they rest in a Santa sled. Th e snowmen come from as far away as Gatlinburg, Tenn., though many are gifts whose origin is not immediately known. “Rachel (her sister) gives me one nearly every year,”

said Minnie. Th ere is some debate on the actual total number in the collection. Her grand-daughter, Marissa, the unoffi cial, offi cial, keeper of the count, says it 165. But Minnie is quick to point out that some of them are in connected groups so there is more addition to be done. With Minnie adding to the collection pretty fre-quently this time of year, the number will rise. “I got one in the moun-tains in August and bought another one just the other day, “ she said. Once the snowmen have taken up their rightful place in the Haygood house, all who come to visit know the yuletide season has arrived. “It means Christmas is here,” said Jimmy, with a big grin.


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Th ey say children change everything. When David and Linda Gunter got married, they never planned on having any children, but those plans quickly changed with a phone call in 2006. Th e father of Linda’s late friend called to ask if she would be willing to take all fi ve of the friend’s children, ranging in age from 7-17. Th e Gunters were his last hope of not splitting the children up. With that simple phone call, the Gunter family grew from two to seven and the Gunters became tasked with caring for fi ve children while still maintaining their

community involvement. In 2000, David became a Biblical counselor, helping with marriage and fam-ily counseling. He has also been involved in disciple-ship through small groups since 2004 and has written several Bible studies. Linda, on the other hand, started a homeless shelter in honor of her father in Vine City. When the Gunters moved from the metro Atlanta area to Lavonia, the ideology that created the homeless shelter, George’s Place, began morphing into what is now Love Him Love Th em Ministries. “Love Him Love Th em

was created from a passion to apply ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind and Love your neighbor as yourself ’ (Mat-thew 22:36-40) to our lives and help teach others to do the same,” Linda said. “If all God’s people would follow these two commands, we could eliminate poverty and the need for governments’ attempts to meet certain needs.” Th e ministry, now a nonprofi t organization, was already a part of a local jail ministry and was helping people with their needs, like bills and clothes, in the Northeast Georgia area

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when the Gunter family added its fi ve new members. With the addition of the children, the Gunters’ com-munity involvement began to evolve. Love Him Love Th em now sponsors a middle and high school girl group called Respect that meets weekly. Th e adults that work with the girls mentor them by teaching useful life skills and how to be respectful, successful, drug and alcohol free independent citizens.

For the last four years, the ministry has also served Th anksgiving meals to people in Franklin, Hart and Stephens counties. “We served over 130 people last year,” Linda said. “Th is year we hope to be able to serve between 300-500 people. If anyone needs or knows someone who would like to have a meal delivered on. Th anksgiv-ing, please go to lovehim-lovethem.com to add their name.”

Not only has being responsible for the children shown the Gunters new ar-eas in the community where they can help, it has also

broadened their horizons on the diff erent places where they can help. Since their children are

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Haitian, the two oldest were born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Gunters decided to take a family trip to Haiti for the Christmas 2010 holidays. “We as a family to go serve orphans in Haiti after the earthquake at a family meeting instead of spend-ing money on Christmas,” Linda said. As they set out on the trip, the Gunter family had no idea it would quickly be-come a new cause for Love Him Love Th em. Since that fi rst trip to Haiti, the Gunter fam-ily has returned on behalf of the ministry to provide Christmas and months of food supplies to over 500

orphans and adults. Th e ministry also sup-ports the Valley of Hope School throughout the year by paying the teachers’ salaries, sponsors a goat and chicken entrepreneurialship program, fi nances water wells, fi nances the construc-tion of schools and churches and hopes to open a voca-tional school soon. “We all enjoyed our time there helping people in need that decided we would keep doing it,” Linda said. “It’s so funny because I didn’t want any kids, now one of my favorite things to do is hang out with the children at the orphanages in Haiti.” As the Gunter family was traveling and helping

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people in the United States and Haiti, another Franklin County family began their own international journey that not only changed the life of a child, but theirs as well. Troy and Macarena Poole hadn’t thought of adopt-ing a child after having three children, but things changed when they learned of the plight facing orphans in Ukraine. “Children from Ukraine are put on the street as soon as they graduate,” Macarena said. “Many are used in hu-man traffi cking and some even commit suicide. Th ey don’t receive a good educa-tion.” So the Pooles began their journey to adopt Dima. Now that Dima is fi nally home, the Pooles have not stopped trying to help oth-

ers. Th ey have joined Love Him Love Th em to help the ministry grow and help more families around the world. Th e plan is to partner with families who need assistance fi nancially in adopting children in need by off ering two scholarships

per year. In the future, the ministry hopes to part-ner with an orphanage in Ukraine the same way it did in Haiti. “Our main goal is to share Jesus with everyone we meet at home and the rest of the world,” David said. “Without Jesus, meeting a

need is just that “meeting a need.” We can give people food and money to meet a current need, but if they die without Jesus, what did we accomplish?” For more information about Love Him Love Th em, visit www.lovehim-lovethem.com.

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By Lauren PeeplesTh e Hartwell Sun

Strategically positioned at her easel in her private stu-dio in Hart County, Pamela Renfroe gracefully strokes her paintbrush across a canvas outlined with the scene from her latest theme to commemorate Th e Coca-Cola Company. As a licensed artist with Th e Coca-Cola Company since 1988, Renfroe has se-cured her trademark artistic talents through approxi-mately 30 diff erent Coca-Cola pieces she has created for the soft drink company. In November, her ex-

hibit will be displayed at the Art Center in downtown Hartwell. A reception will be held Nov. 6. “I will be there signing prints, trays and anything the attendees might like of my work. I’m really looking forward to meeting all who may be able to attend,” said Renfroe. “I also like to talk with those who might be inter-ested in painting themselves for a career. It can be such a joyful experience beyond belief for those are gifted in that area. I especially en-courage parents and grand-parents to bring children who love to draw and paint.

I would love to talk with them.” In July, Renfroe attended the 40th Coca-Cola Col-lectors’ Convention held at the Crown Plaza Ravinia in Springfi eld, Ill. Th e convention was open to the public in addition to collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia from through-out the United States there to purchase and sell. Collec-tors were allowed a certain amount of time to purchase the items they want before all items were available to the public. “My husband, Bob, and I had a wonderful time at the National Coca-Cola

Collector’s Convention. Not only were we able to see old friends with the club, but we made new ones as well,” said Renfroe. “Our sales were very lucrative resulting with col-lectors from coast to coast. We’ve been blessed to have been licensed by the Coca-Cola Company for close to 35 years and recently signed a new contract with the company. We are also lucky to have collectors in the States and abroad resulting in many cherished friendships.” At the convention, Ren-froe displayed original oil painting partially fi nished,

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“Timeless Joy”, an original oil painting intended to rec-reate the historical Hartwell Coca-Cola Bottling Com-pany when it opened in the 1950s. Owner of Th e Renfroe Collection of Fine Arts, Renfroe has been a profes-sional artist for nearly 40 years. “I have loved every min-ute of it, including the long hours. I work through the night and sleep until lunch time. I suppose I’ve become much like a hermit,” said Renfroe, whose passion for art began as a young child. “My parents recognized this love of art and encour-aged me from the very beginning.” Renfroe moved to Hart County with her parents during her senior year of

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Pictured on left: Th ere were plenty of fl ags and patriotic slogans on display during the Veterans Parade through downtown Toccoa in Currahee Military Weekend held the fi rst weekend in Oc-tober. Included was this large American fl ag on a Shriner’s mini-vehicle.

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in the stillness of the house. Mama was sleeping now much of the day. We took each other in, and I noticed that she was “showing” and felt the baby when we hugged. She laughed and said, “Look at this. I can’t even zip my skirt or button my pants” and the laughter echoed in the room. Angie was trying to make the best of the situation until she could fi gure out what could be done, and I felt com-pletely helpless and anxious for her at the same time. It seemed that we were always in need those days with never a way to solve the problem. I’m sure Pete had not had time to help Angie shop for maternity clothes since he was on the road fi ve days a week. May-be she was reticent to ask for money for new clothes, knowing how strapped they were for money. Her own mother was two hours away and our mother was in bed dying. What were any of us to do? My new sister-in-law Angie, by anyone’s stan-dards, was a beautiful woman. Naturally beauti-ful, with huge, thick-lashed eyes, beautifully-shaped eyebrows and a generous mouth in the perfect oval face. And she had thick chestnut hair that curled naturally. It was easy to see how my brother had fallen in love. Th is sister-in-law that I barely knew had been one of the beauty pageant winners who rode in the 1967 Rose Parade. She had

The Green DressBy Maureen DeLoach

Riding home from the university for Christmas break that winter of ‘68 was a blur. In the daze I’d been in for three months, I could have been transported home by elephant without questioning how or why. It would have been a minor detail in the journey that was forming around me, just a few more bumps in the road. I was entering new territory-- coming home to a dying mother, a new sister-in-law who was fi ve months pregnant and my younger siblings who were about to be left parent-less. As I rode home that December to spend what would be our last Christmas together with our mother, all the changes we’d been through in the past three years were constantly circling around inside my head. Mama had developed cancer my senior year in high school and had seemed cancer free for two years, but silently the disease had been spreading, and this time there would be no getting better. Mama never directly told us younger siblings that she was dying. My brother Pete took on that responsibility as he had so many others, arriving in Athens one day in the fall of my junior year and breaking the news along with our hearts. Make no mistake, we loved our mother and we knew she


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get her cologne.” And so I agreed, reluc-tantly, to go to town later that day to look for a pat-tern and material and sew a “homemade” dress for my sister-in-law’s fi rst Christ-mas with us. I hoped it wouldn’t insult her. As I wandered through the fabric store that af-ternoon, my mind was unsettled. I knew the dress would have to be simple because there were only a few days left until Christ-mas. It would be a blind eff ort, without a single fi t-ting since it was going to be her “surprise” on Christmas morning. I tried to imag-ine what she would think, would it look cheap and not worth wearing? Would she say, “It’s lovely” in her gracious way although she knew she’d never wear it.

Didn’t she deserve more than a homemade dress? “Maybe,” I thought, “I won’t fi nd the right material and I can have an excuse to just get her some nice cologne.” My meandering continued, and I saw fabrics with bold designs and fabrics with strong colors-nothing that I felt was right for Angie. And then, on a bolt al-most hidden on the shelf, I noticed a bolt of moss green wool. It was diff er-ent from most of the other fabric, subtle and soft, and I thought how well it would match her chestnut hair. I felt a bit of enthusiasm. I turned to the pattern books and browsed through the maternity sections. And there it was. A yoked dress with short sleeves and a simple jewel neck-line. Below the yoke was an

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supposed to open tomorrow, but…” I felt the pressure of Mama’s foot telling me I’d said enough. Angie looked a little unsure as she said, “What’s this” and took the top off the box. She folded back the tissue paper, and there, lying neatly, was the green dress. She took a breath. “Oh my,” she said as she unfolded it and held it up, tears in her eyes. “Well?” I asked looking for re-assurance. I felt Ma-ma’s foot again. “It’s beauti-ful!” she said and I saw her hazel eyes fi ll to the brim. My lip was quivering,too, but I wasn’t ready to call it success yet. “Why don’t you try it on because we need to see if it fi ts, and I still have to hem it before we all go to Mass tonight.” I held my breath as she went into her room, un-

zipped the green dress and slipped it over her head. It was a perfect fi t and Angie glowed in it. We all ad-mired it and told her how beautiful she looked, and then I got out the pins and sat on the fl oor of their room marking the hem through the tears in my eyes. Angie kept repeating, “It’s so beautiful.” And it was; on her, it was elegant!We did all go to Midnight Mass together, one last time. Shortly after that, Mama went back to the hospital and never came home. She died on Easter Sunday, one month to the day before her fi rst grand-son Frank was born. Th ese days, most people I know get almost anything they want for Christmas. And if they don’t, they use one click shopping at Ama-

zon any day of the year. But that Christmas in Moultrie in 1968 is a vivid memory of a “real” Christmas. We were living in so much desperation and unspoken need. For just a little while, things shifted from coping with the process of dying to focus-ing on the new life that was soon to come. It focused on an humble gift but meeting someone’s real need. And for just a while that night, I think we all felt a joy we hadn’t known in months. Th e memory of that green dress has become a remind-er for me to look towards the future, to keep my faith and hope, when the sad days we all go through come calling… I think Mama knew all along what a blessing the green dress would be.



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missioners, it’s time for the “lighting of the village.” Th is year, Mayor Judy Holloway will join with a few young children for the offi cial “lighting.” Th ere’s a big countdown, and then one of the children fl ips a switch. Magically, the entire town is lighted. Christmas trees come into view, and thousands of lights line the Alpine Village. “Th is is such a beauti-ful time to be in Helen,” Holloway said. “Visitors come from all over North Georgia, and we’re so happy to welcome them. It’s such a festive, fun evening.” It takes six weeks to put up all the lights, more than 15,000 of them. “And the city has switched to all LED bulbs that last a lot longer,” said Helen public works director Ross Hewitt. Th is will be his 20th year “of bringing in Santa in Helen.” Th e trip to Helen is only 45 minutes from Toccoa. So it’s an easy drive from most


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Lamartine Hardman, who served as Georgia governor from 1927 to 1931, bought the house in 1903, where it remained in the family until

the state acquired the entire farm and Indian mound prop-erty in 2000, as a gift from the family. Th e house is furnished in the period of the 1920s.

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By J. Todd TrueloveTh e Toccoa Record

Th e raising of goats is a relatively new venture for Toccoa resident Bryan Dooley. He’s got 25 acres of family property not far

from Liberty Elementary School that he uses for his farm and the three types of livestock on it — goats, chickens and cows. But goats are what Dool-ey said he’s considering for a long-term farming opera-tion with a goal to provide

an alternative for the selling of goats in northeast Geor-gia rather than taking them to the sale market. In early October, Dooley had three male goats and 48 pregnant female goats on his 25-acre tract. He said that each of the nannies would likely repro-duce two kids. Dooley said that rais-ing goats is easy, but it isn’t something anyone should start until they know enough about it. “You don’t raise problems; you buy into problems,” he said. For instance, Dooley said that one problem in raising goats includes parasites that are produced after deer eat a

certain type of worm found under fallen leaves. Th e parasite can be dangerous for a goat herd. To resolve that problem, he has two guinea that eat the parasitic critters which protects the goats. Another challenge for goat herders are of the four-legged variety. Foxes and coyotes also may attack at night and steal away the younger members of the herd. “Make sure you spend your money on your perim-eter fence,” Dooley said. However, even if an animal like a fox makes if through the fence to attack on Dooley’s farm, they’ll come face-to-face with

At the time of this picture in early October, Dooley had a total of 51 goats, 48 of which were female.

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Dooley said he started no-ticing that some of his herd started to go missing. He eventually learned there was a new predator that Jack and Maggie have a harder time fending against — hawks. Dooley said he started farming several years ago as he looks toward retiring

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can be raised on the same paddock (or pasture) as cows because cows feed on grass while goats prefer weeds. Some facts about goats Dooley noted include: • Various goat breeds are used for milk, meat and wool. • Th e most expensive goat ever sold cost $194,547. • Goats only have bottom teeth. Th e top is only gums.

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Haden Gailey’s family has just expanded in a big way. She has eight new babies and is more than delighted with the birth of her furry new crew. Yes, though it takes a while for some to fi gure it out, Haden’s new babies are

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males, three silver males and two blue females this time,” Haden said of the new pup-pies. And though the silver Weimaraners are the AKC standard recognized that can be shown (the blues meet the standard and can be registered, they just can’t be shown), it is the blue pups that are in demand, according to Haden.

“Th e blues are the fi rst to go. I already have people wanting the blue pups,” Haden said. Th e savvy breeder has no trouble getting homes for her babies which she sells on Puppy Finder and Puppy File. “My puppies have gone to Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, N.Y., Alabama and Vancou-ver, Canada,” Haden said. “And 95 percent of them go to people who want them as pets and keep them in their homes. Th ey thrive with be-ing part of a family.”Yes, Haden keeps up with all her babies, becoming Facebook friends with those that purchase her dogs. “I love getting pictures. I get feedback so I know that what I envision is what I am getting. If the dogs are not

what I intended for them to be, it is not worth doing.” Loving, working with and breeding her dogs is defi -nitely a worthwhile project for Haden and she hopes that Jayden may enjoy the same one day as well. “I have started talking to Jayden, telling her that when she is in high school, the dogs could be a source of income for her,” Haden said. “I told her I would give her a female.” Th e 10-year-old is more interested in travel ball than puppies right now, though. “She is not as crazy about them as I am,” Haden sighed. “But I think they will grow on her.” As for Haden, it’s all love all the time, and with this new litter, she has a bunch of new “babies” to steal her heart.


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Th e City of Toccoa has already left its footprint on clean energy and alternative fuel consumption with the conversion of fi ve vehicles in its fl eet to compressed natural gas (CNG) approxi-mately two years ago. It turns out those were merely baby steps. Th e initial conversion was a trial run to ascertain whether the use of CNG in vehicles would result in signifi cant savings to the city in regard to fuel expen-ditures. It did — and the savings are still there. In conjunction with the conversion, the city installed a CNG fueling station in

Toccoa for its vehicles with the help of CNG Technol-ogy Systems of Atlanta at a cost of nearly $55,000. It was fi nanced through a leasing agreement with the Georgia Municipal Author-ity. Five additional fl eet trucks, purchased from the Mike Jones Ford dealership in Toccoa, recently under-went conversion by Altech-Eco, a North Carolina company which provided training to city employees so they are able to perform future conversions them-selves. According to City of Toccoa utilities department director Harry Scott, there are 25-30 vehicles in the water department and ap-

proximately 25 vehicles in use in the gas department. Th e vehicles using con-ventional gasoline will be replaced with the CNG vehicles as they age and are no longer fi t for city service. City offi cials are mulling the feasibility of build-ing two additional fueling stations, two of 2,000 that industry analysts say are expected to be built nation-wide by 2019. Th ey will be available to the public to take advantage of the spike in demand of CNG, which is a cleaner-burning fuel than conven-tional gasoline, as well as being cheaper. In the process, city of-fi cials are learning that, like Kermit the Frog, it isn’t easy

being green. “Th ere are so many op-tions available, but generally we have decided on two stations right now,” said city manager Billy Morse, “one in the Toccoa area and one on I-85, at 17 in the Lavonia area. But there is so much to learn since this is our fi rst one. we have not completely decided on where, what and so forth.” Morse said he is hope-ful all the details get ironed out before the beginning of the new year and a recom-mendation can be presented to the city commission for action. Th e driving force, of course, behind all of this is the considerable cost sav-ings to the city. Scott said

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the city has locked in a pur-chase price of no more than $1.25 per gallon for CNG, far less than the price tag for conventional gasoline. Th ere also is a tourism component that makes a lot of sense. A CNG fueling station appears to be a natural fi t for Toccoa since it it located at a strategic spot between Atlanta and tourist attrac-tions in North Carolina and South Carolina. “People who can drive vehicles that can use CNG (form) a network that they can plug into and they plan their routes based on where they can fi ll up,” said Morse. “ “We want one in Toc-coa because that’s where we are and that’s where our vehicles are based for the most part,” said Morse. “But we want to be near I-85 to capture travelers so that’s the thinking there.” But there are other mo-tives behind the eff ort, ones that go beyond the bottom line. It’s a quality of life issue since CNG releases fewer harmful emissions into the

atmosphere. “I’m an asthmatic so that’s important to me,” said Scott. It’s an important con-sideration to many people, whether they live in met-ropolitan areas or more secluded regions like north-east Georgia. “I think people like the notion of ‘green,’ “ said Stephens County Develop-ment Authority executive director Tim Martin, “they like to see communities pay attention to that.” Morse said offi cials are committed to improving the quality of life for its resi-dents. He said that can be seen in the construction of a new municipal swimming pool that opened in August, as well as various renova-tions to the Schaefer Center for Performing Arts and a concerted beautifi cation ef-fort by civic and municipal organizations to spruce up city environs. Th e move to CNG is just another facet in that convic-tion. “Natural gas is the clean, green fuel of choice,” he said.

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Nov. 15 • Tri County Chris-tian Home Educators 4th Annual Holiday Bazaar - 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Cornerstone

Baptist Church in Hartwell. Proceeds to benefi t Hart Life. There will be lots of vendors for your shopping pleasure. Tables are $15. If you would like to have a table at the event contact April Beasley 706-376-9050.

Carnesville:Dec. 4 • Christmas Tree Lighting - 7 p.m.Dec. 6 • Breakfast with Santa - 9 a.m.Dec. 6 • Christmas Parade - 2 p.m. with the Party in the Park following.

Canon:Nov. 30 • Christmas Tree Lighting - 6 p.m. with a pep-per show and musical.Dec. 6 • Christmas Parade - 11 a.m.

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Lighting - 6 p.m. Train ride and bouncy slide begins at 5:30 p.m.Dec. 14 • Christmas Parade - 3:30 p.m.

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Lavonia:Dec. 1 • Christmas Tree Lighting - 6 p.m.Dec. 7 • Christmas Parade - 3 p.m.Dec. 12 • Christmas Festival - 5 p.m.Nov. & Dec. Saturday morn-ings • Christmas Market - in the Gazebo area

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Nov. 7—Pilot Club of Hartwell Annual Turkey Supper - 5 - 7 p.m. at the Hart County Senior Center,

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Nov. 8 • Sacred Heart Church of Hartwell Arts and Craft Show - 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Huge Indoor Arts & Craft Show at Sacred Heart Church Social Hall, 1009 Benson Street (across from Quality Foods). Come and see the unique artistry of many local craftsmen and get that Special gift for yourself or others! Baked goods and cas-seroles to be sold Breakfast and lunches available Raffl e tickets available for hourly drawings of great prizes

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Violence. 2:30 p.m. --1 mile fun run; 3 p.m.--5K run/walk. Registration for one or both events is $25 before the day of the race. Race day registra-tion is $30. Packet pick-up and sign-in begins at 1:30 p.m. on race day at McGee Heating & Air Conditioning. Make checks payable to NE GA Council on Domestic Vio-lence and mail to: NEGACDV, PO Box 814, Hartwell, GA 30643. Or register online at www.active.com.

Nov. 21 & 22 - 7:30 p.m.Nov. 23 at 3 p.m. • Savannah River Productions presents It’s a Wonderful Life at Lon-nie Burns Fine Arts Center, Hart County High School Auditorium – Based on the beloved 1946 fi lm, this musi-cal faithfully follows George Bailey’s life. The adaptation retains the warmth and humor of the original. A new holiday classic is for devotees and newcomers alike.

Nov. 22 • Toy ride. Southern Still – The fourth annual toy ride for Marine Toys for Tots Foundation for all children begins at 12 p.m. All vehicles welcome. $20 donation or new unwrapped toy per car/bike. Meet at Swamp Bar in Hartwell. Registration at noon and kickstands up at 1 p.m. Come and enjoy a scenic route through Hart County ending at Hartwell VFW. Food and drinks at VFW. DiMarco performing at 3 p.m. Contact Cathy Carter at 706-436-1967.

Nov. 23 • Habitat for Hu-manity 5K Run/Walk - 2 p.m. at the Tri-County Wellness Park in Royston. $25 per person pre-registration; $30 day of race. Free t-shirt with registration. Register online at www.active.com or www.harthabitat.org or pick up a registration form at any Pin-nacle Bank location. Call 706-356-5479 or 706-436-0741.

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Dec. 2-20 • Mistletoe Market, every Tues. - Sat., 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. At the Art Center on the Square in Hartwell. Wanted: artisans, crafters, and artists. Market will feature the region’s most creative indi-viduals and their handiwork. Items commercially made are disqualifi ed from this market. $15.00 per table. Registration deadline is Friday, Nov. 28. Debra Taylor at 404-558-2276 or [email protected].

Dec. 4 - 7 • Santa’s Shoppe.3rd Annual Craft Show to benefi t NE Georgia CASA is seeking qualifi ed vendors, esp. pottery and wood, for a four-day event to take place at 233 George Burns Lane, Hartwell. Will be included in

the Hartwell Tour of Homes. This show will have a large va-riety of items, all handmade, and a tree decorated with a variety of ornaments made by each vendor. There will be Mrs. Santa’s kitchen with homemade jams, jellies, cook-ies, candies, cakes, pies, salad dressings, soups, and more.Vendors do not have to be present each day of the event. Vendors who would like to participate call Diane at 706-717-8855 or email [email protected] for information. Donation fee is $40.

Dec. 5 • Hart County Cham-ber’s Annual Christmas Parade - 6:30 p.m. Celebrate the Hartwell experience with the Friday evening parade of lights as it winds through town along Franklin Street, ending at the Hart County High School. The cost to enter is $15. The Parade will start at the parking lot at Athens

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Dec. 6 & 7 • Hartwell Service League presents A Christ-mas Tour. Sat. 5 - 8 p.m. and Sun. 2 - 5 p.m. Tickets are $15 and include 1 Christmas shoppe, 4 homes, 1 church and 1 holiday reception. Pur-chase tickets at Bailes-Cobb, Hartwell Chamber of Com-merce or from any Hartwell Service League Member. For information, contact Pat Harper at 706-376-5643.

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