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Table of ContentsHigh Cotton Music Hall

Kate Josey visits Quebec

Chandler Blake Jackson Pugh

Currahee Military Weekend

200-year-old-house

Love Him Love Them

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Almost every community has a sweet spot - a place that beckons you from the street and wraps you in its warm embrace the second you cross the thresh-

old. For Hartwell, that sweet spot is the High Cotton Music Hall. While High Cotton features a wide variety of music - from

rock, to R&B and country - it is, on many occasions, the down-home blues that rule the roostIt happens every third Saturday when the blues jam

charms musicians and patrons alike.High Cotton’s magical spell also encourages participants to

release their inner blues personas. Host Clarence Cameron transforms into “Big C”, and Hartwell attorney and High Cotton co-owner Walter Gordon, morphs into his alter ego, “Smokestack Willie.”“Clarence brings a broad experience with the blues,”

Walter said. “His background was church music, as many people have, and then he branched into the blues. He has the unique ability to keep the show going, bringing in different musicians to play with one another. In most cases, they’ve never played with one another. When they take the stage and he tells them what key it’s in, they crank it up and it’s al-most like everybody falls in line and has practiced together

for a long time.”In addition to Walter, the principals in High Cotton are

Pam Gordon and Steve and Stephanie Crump.“I have the best partners in the world,” Walter said. “We’re

all in this together and that means somebody has to clean the bathrooms. Somebody has to sweep and somebody has to pick up the cans and bottles and do the recycling. All of us do that and all of that gets done. And other people have come in and helped us with things too.”While Walter is quick to heap praise on Clarence and his

fellow partners, there is no denying that Walter can play a mean harmonica and can bellow out the Mississippi Delta blues with the best of them.“While the blues jams give local musicans an opportunity

to play and to be seen, it’s just wonderful that High Cotton has a wide variety of music that fits everybody’s tastes,” said patron Rebecca Williams. “I love that it’s local.”In addition to its monthly blues jams, High Cotton is

quickly gaining a reputation for bringing in high quality singers and musicians like Ike Stubblefield, Friends of Lola and Randall Bramblett. One essential element that distinguishes High Cotton is its

quality of sound.

Clarence Cameron (Big C) and Walter Gordon (Smokestack Willie) rock the High Cotton Music Hall. Photo/Stephanie Crump

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“I think it is the combina-tion of the natural acoustic properties of a 100-year-old brick building together with the highly sophisti-cated sound engineering that Steve Crump is able to accomplish with our equip-ment.”While the patrons know the

sound is good, it is also the atmosphere that keeps them coming. Walter jokes that the vision for High Cotton was that it have the feeling of a juke joint without any-body pulling out a knife.The music hall also serves

a more significant purpose for the Crumps and the Gordons.“We want to bring out

young musicians and get them involved,” Steve said. And, according to Walter,

that desire will lead to mid-week jam sessions for young people between the ages of 12 and 18.

In addition to the youth jams, the blues jams, and concerts by seasoned art-ists, there are plans on the table to open the doors on some Sunday afternoons for gospel. “We will continue to book

quality live music acts and deeply appreciate all the support the community has shown,” Walter said. “I don’t think we’re ever going to set the woods on fire as far as it being a profit-making business, but as long as we can keep the bills paid that’s what satisfies us.”For anyone looking for a

getaway close to home, then High Cotton is the sweetest little spot in the region.For more information on

High Cotton Music Hall and its schedule of entertain-ment, visit www.highcotton-musichall.com. High Cotton is located at 57 Depot St., Hartwell.

The Randall Bramblett band performs to a standing-room-only crowd at High Cotton. Photo/ Stephanie Crump

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Kate Josey is still rev-eling in the experi-ence she received

from attending a summer language program at the Universite’ Laval in Quebec City, Canada, in 2014.Although it has been a

year since the 2012 Frank-lin County High School salutatorian completed the six-week course, her enthu-siasm for her trip has not diminished.Quebec City is heralded as

the cradle of French civi-lization in North America and is the only major city in Canada that offers a 100 percent French-speaking environment, making it the ideal location to learn French.“Quebec City has kept its

French heritage,” Kate said. “It is a beautiful, sprawling city near the St. Lawrence River. Old Quebec was my favorite part of the city”Kate was at the Universite’

Laval from June through July of 2014 and attended three classes – grammar, phonetics and simple conversation – which lasted until about noon most days.Students in the program

were told in their first class that ALL conversation in class and on campus would be conducted in French, Kate said.And it wasn’t as if students

could sneak off and speak English with each other in a corner Kate said, no matter how much they wanted to. Students were monitored –

even during excursion trips.“Most of the students

stayed on campus,” Kate said. “And were dying to speak English by the end of the day. But they couldn’t. Many of the students were there on scholarship and a mandate of the scholarship was that they had to speak French all of the time. If they were heard speaking English, their scholarship could be revoked.”Kate attended class on

campus, but actually lived in Quebec City with her host, Lise, and two other students who were from Ne-braska and California. She and the two other students each had a room in the “apartment”-like abode and Kate rode the bus – about

an hour trip – back and forth to school.“The country was gor-

geous, the people were so talented and friendly and it was really interesting to see how the syrup was made,” Kate said.In essence, the whole trip

was “unforgettable,” Kate said smiling at the memo-ries.Unforgettable and chal-

lenging.“The first week of class was

amazing,” Kate said. “Then the next two weeks were really hard and very stress-ful. I got homesick, but I talked to my professor and her reassurance and advice made the next two weeks wonderful. I didn’t want to go home.”

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little french fry oil running through this veins.“His grandmother, my mom, Jenny Bryson, was the owner

of the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in Carnesville several years ago,” Autumn Pugh, Chandler’s mother explained. “She was a wonderful cook and I am a pretty good cook as well.”“I have always loved to cook,” Chandler said.Chandler tends to lean toward Nordic cuisine, as he likes the

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episode of the Cook Off when he made gravlax – a salt cured salmon – and beet root with cream sauce for his first dish.“I didn’t even know what it was,” Autumn chuckled.When she saw the application for contestants for the Rachael

Ray Kid’s Cook Off, she knew Chandler had to enter.Even though she knew it was a long shot, Autumn said she

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dler had to think fast on his feet, coming up with recipes, cooking great food, making it

look good in 20 minutes and not being intimidated by the enormous cameras that sur-rounded him daily.“I loved being on the show,”

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Food Network ‘kidtestant’ Chandler Jackson Pugh (right) stands with his No. 1 fan, mother Autumn. Photo/Denise Matthews, Franklin County Citizen Leader

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A World War II re-enactor must pay attention to detail,

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ly doesn’t hurt, either.Dozens of World War II

re-enactors descended on Toccoa the first weekend in October for the 15th annual Currahee Military Weekend which honors all veterans, but especially the 17,000 to 18,000 airborne troopers who trained at Camp Toc-coa at the base of Currahee Mountain.It’s a prime weekend for

re-enactors to perhaps meet some of those World War II veterans and show off their uniforms and equipment dat-ing from the war years.Louis Jenkins of Shelby, N.C.,

brought his field kitchen equipment.It included a vintage table

from the World War II era and one from the Vietnam

War era. The difference? The World War II table was made in classic tongue and grove hardwood, the Vietnam era out of plywood.“Normally, I could feed

about 50 people from that one World War II era stove,” Jenkins said. “I had planned on doing that two or three times, but the rain has can-celed that.”Heavy rain the first week-

end in October canceled many Currahee Military Weekend events and sent re-enactors home early Satur-day morning.“It would have been just

like in the war,” Jenkins said. “The men would line up here and we would serve them food into their mess kits.”Jenkins said he worked 33

years as a paramedic in North Carolina before retiring.Once in retirement, he had

to find something to keep him busy.World War II re-enactor was

Re-enactor Junior Stove, with the help of Lawrence Kinder of Clarkesville, tries to remove this stubborn bayonet from a rifle. Kinder and Stove attended Currahee Military Weekend events held in Toccoa the first weekend in October. Photo/Tom Law, The Toccoa Record

Not to be outdone, Kailah and Ailyah David of Westminster, S.C., tried on their own GI helmets and showed them off to their mother. Photo/Tom Law, The Toccoa Record

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the 101st Airborne Division as a younger man and is now president of the Virginia 101st Airborne Division As-sociation. It was his first trip to Toccoa for the military weekend.

Then there was Command Sgt. Maj. Junior Shove who traveled all the way from Fort Dix, N.J. for the weekend of events.Rain chased him inside, too,

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If one visits Tom Jones Sr. at his Stephens County residence, they might

not realize they’re standing in a centuries-old structure.The house, originally a two-

story cabin, is located near Lake Hartwell.It’s undergone extensive

renovations twice — once in the early 1970s and more re-cently in 2008 — disguising that the structure is almost 230 years old.Jones said the original cabin

was built sometime in the late 1780s, several years after John Mullins was given a land grant for 1,289 acreas near the Tugaloo River in 1785.Jones said the property has

only changed hands a couple of times over the past 250 years.“At some point, John Mul-

lins sold that land to another family sometime around 1814,” Jones said.The Hacketts owned the

property for about 36 years, but widow Hackett sold the tract to Richard Dean in 1850, who gave it to his son, Russell, as a wedding pres-ent. It’s been in the Dean family

ever since, once divided by 200 acres for each of six children.For many years, much

of the property was used as farmland for corn and wheat.

In the early to mid-1900s, sharecroppers tilled the land and harvested the crops with a percentage going to the Deans.When Lake Hartwell was

created in the early 1960s, some of the land was cov-ered by water.“Three of my aunts and

uncles lost land to the lake (Hartwell),” Jones said.Richard Arthur Dean gave

the portion of the property with the two-story cabin to Winnie Mary Dean, for caring for him and his wife, Lucy Brown Dean.Winnie Dean undertook the

first series of renovations to the cabin.She later gave the property

to Jones’ mother, Sarah.Since the mid-1800s, the

house and its surroundings has experienced only six or eight months when it wasn’t owned by one of the Deans or their descendants.That period came in the

late 1980s when the property was sold to a developer and became part of Dean’s Point.But not long after, Jones

and his wife, Nancy Kirk, jumped at an opportunity to purchase the portion of the property on which the Dean family homeplace stands.In 2008, Jones and his wife

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A visit to a 200-year-old houseTom Jones Sr.’s house was originally a two-story cabin built in the 1700’s on land that was granted to John Mullins. The back part sloping at right is an extension of the structure, part of which also was a garage. Photo/J. Todd Truelove, The Toccoa Record



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Tom Jones said the barn on his property was used to store corn. He was not sure when it was built, but one can see that the original structure was improved at some point. Photo/J. Todd Truelove, The Toccoa Record

used as one of the walls.He said that some of Gen. William T. Sherman’s Yankee

troops also used a road located near the house when they were marching north from Savannah in 1865.“My grandfather (Richard Arthur Dean) watched Sherman’s

troops. Many of them came up that road,” said Jones. “He was about eight or nine years old.”Jones said that as for future years, he has a trust set up to

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It’s a case of orphans helping orphans to help orphans.

In 2011, the David and Linda Gunter family decided to spend the Christmas holiday in Haiti helping children who were orphaned after the earthquake. The trip quickly turned into a new cause for Love Him Love Them.“Love Him Love Them is a

non-profit 501(c)3 charity cre-ated 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’ (Matthew 22:36-40). Our goal is to live our lives this way 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 government’s attempts to meet certain needs.”Since that first trip to Haiti,

the Gunter family has re-turned every year on behalf of the ministry to provide Christmas and months of food supplies to hundreds of orphans and adults. The ministry also supports

the Valley of Hope School throughout the year by paying the teachers’ sala-ries, sponsoring a goat and chicken entrepreneurship program and financing water wells, the construction of schools and churches and

is currently helping with a vocational school. It was the desire to help

orphans that sparked Linda’s desire to form a Haitian children’s choir to tour the United States.As Linda began searching

the internet to see how many, if any, Haitian children’s choirs were touring the United States, she found vid-eos of the Ugandan Thunder Children’s Choir.“I wanted to know how

they went about organizing everything from the tour to getting the children in the country,” Linda said. “It just so happened that one of the students I taught in Bible study was roommates with

another Franklin County native who interned with the choir. I asked her to find out if her roommate would mind getting me in contact with the founder.”When Linda and founder

Melinda Fowler of Ugandan Thunder finally met, Linda had a long list of questions. When the Haitian children’s

choir starts its first tour, Linda is hoping they will have concerts booked for every day of the 13 weeks of July, August and September 2016 they are in the country. They are already in negotia-

tions for bookings with The United Nations, Six Flags, Chick-Fil-A, churches and schools.

By Kandice S. Eberhardt/Franklin County Citizen Leader

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If you want to take the temperature of the economy, the housing

market is one of the most ac-curate thermometers.

So much in a community is connected to real estate. If home prices are up and foreclosures are down, more people are working.

The last recession appears to be a distant memory. Last week, the Georgia Asso-ciation of Realtors released numbers from the third quarter of 2015. New List-ings increased 4.4 percent to 12,560. Pending Sales were up 22.6 percent to 9,123. Inven-tory levels shrank 6.2 percent to 44,857 units.

Prices continued to gain traction. The Median Sales Price increased 8.5 percent to $178,000. Days on Market was down 8.1 percent to 68 days. Sellers were encour-aged as Months Supply of Inventory was down 23.1 percent to 5.0 months.But it’s not all about the

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A lot of time and effort goes into becoming and remaining a

volunteer firefighter.Just ask Stephens County’s

Kaitlyn Weaver, who’s among a handful of people training to stay on the county’s volunteer force.Weaver’s parents are both

firefighters with her father, Jody Marcus, serving as the chief of the Carnes Creek Fire Station, and her moth-er, Susan, who drives one of the fire engines at Station 2, which is under the purview of the Carnes Creek VFD.“Growing up (around my

parents), I got an interest in it,” Weaver said. The 19-year-old said that

when she was in the eighth grade at Stephens County Middle School, she signed up as a junior firefighter

where she and her com-rades would train and com-pete in events such as who could put on their firefight-ing gear the quickest.“I put on my gear in 26

seconds,” Weaver said.Her mother said that

familiarity with gear is a critical aspect of firefighting allowing the firefighter to dress without having to take time to think about what goes where.“The time limit is a little

added pressure,” said Susan.While anyone can sign on

to volunteer, to remain on the volunteer force, they have to complete training within a year’s time.Until then, Susan said that

volunteers are allowed to join in on fire call responses, but had to stay out of the “hot zone” which varies

depending on the size and type of the blaze.“You have one year to get

your registered volunteer firefighter training,” said Susan.A lot don’t make it.Kaitlyn Weaver said that

when she started training this year, there were 19 other trainees with her.As of mid-September there

were only four remaining,

and three of those were women.“We have a lot of females

coming in and joining us,” Kaitlyn said.Susan said that they had

five firewomen currently ac-tive at Station 2 — enough to fill a truck.Kaitlyn said that her father

accompanied during her first venture into a house fire and was constantly ask-

By Kandice S. Eberhardt/Franklin County Citizen Leader

Kaitlyn Weaver, 19, is following in the footsteps of her parents and training to become a volunteer firefighter in Stephens County. Photo/Kandice S. EberhardtFirewoman

Pictured next to Weaver is her mother, Susan Marcus, an engine driver. Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt



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some of the heavier fire equipment tools, but she

doesn’t let that stop her.“I get it done, one way or

the other,” Kaitlyn said.She said that one of her

favorite aspects about be-ing a volunteer firefighter is that she assists with the friendly firefighter program at elementary schools.

Kaitlyn Weaver said that firefighting for her is all about helping anyone she can. She said that she gets it done, “one way or the other.” Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt

The volunteer fire departments participate in the friendly firefighter program at local elementary schools. Weaver explains to students about fire equipment. Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt

Each station has been assigned local schools they visit to conduct the friendly program.“We go to the elementary

schools and teach how to get out of a burning house,” said Kaitlyn, adding she verbally explains certain

processes while other fire-fighters physically act them out.In the end, Kaitlyn said

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Ed Shaw held the little tarnished silver coin bank in the palm of

his hand, smiling as he held it out for Margaret Ayers, Northeast Georgia Bank vice president, to examine.“It was handed down

through the years from my great-great-granddaddy to my daddy,” Shaw, a lean and tanned veteran told Ayers of the little coin bank. “I got it from my daddy when he died.”Shaw and his wife, Delma,

from Starr, S.C., were in La-vonia specifically to see and talk to Ayers.

“We saw her picture and the write-up in the An-derson Independent and wanted to show her the bank,” Shaw explained. “We thought it came from the bank she works at.”Examining the old bank

with delight, Ayers told Shaw that it actually came from the Bank of Lavonia, which was originally located in Lavonia where Sassa-Fra-ss Hair Salon now resides.“That bank opened in

1898,” Ayers told the Shaws, speaking of the small gran-ite building on the corner of Grogan and East Main

streets in downtown Lavo-nia. “They probably gave these banks out then.”A fact evidenced by the

blackened quarter dated 1897, which Shaw found when he pried open the

bank.“The bank has a place for

a key on the bottom which could only be opened by someone from the bank,” Shaw said. “But I pried it open and found the old

By Denise Matthews /Franklin County Citizen Leader

Ed Shaw holds his small savings bank outside its original home, the former Bank of Lavonia downtown. Photo/Denise Matthews

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them where the old bank used to be in business.“This has been a great trip,

Shaw said of meeting Ayers and visiting the old build-ing. “We have really enjoyed it.”

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Like a phoe-nix rising from its

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the latest opening to public play in early September.The venerable

nine-holer’s first incarnation began in the late sum-mer of 1941 when three avid Toccoa golfers decided a local course was needed.Rufus Harding,

Thomas B. Mc-Neeley and Frank Gross announced

their intentions to build a golf course near Toccoa. In mid-Septem-

ber a group of interested citizens met at Toccoa City Hall to discuss the formation of a club with 100 shareholders to oversee the course construction.Hardin was

elected president with Ray Trogdon

elected as vice president. A.J. Morse, Jack Salva-dore and McNee-ley were selected as directors.It was an-

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ber, work had started on the course with Jim-my Livingstone, a golf professional from Atlanta, overseeing the layout and design of the nine holes. It was announced that the course would be open for

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as the fairways are in fine shape, however it will take a little time to have first-class greens,” The Toccoa Record reported members as saying.In its first incarnation, the

course was totally private.Members and their out-of-

town guests were allowed to play but “no residents of this county will be allowed on the course as guests.”

That changed a few years later as in its next incarna-tion, the course was consid-ered semi-private.There were still club mem-

bers, but non-members from all locales could play the course for a fee.It stayed this way for the

next several decades, until the Toccoa Country Club corporation was dissolved in

the mid-to-late 1990s.Showing it’s phoenix-like

abilities, the course was tak-en over by the City of Toccoa and made a daily fee public course. It was re-named The Pines.In 2007 the city decided to

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For seven years, Judy Earle and the Ladies Circle at Sa-cred Heart Catholic Church, have provided a place for locals to get an early start on their Christmas shopping.

The annual Indoor Arts and Crafts Sale will set up for the eighth time on Saturday, Nov. 14. The show runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Founders Hall at the church. “It’s a great way to get a jump on your holiday shopping,”

said Earle. She helped start the sale when she moved to Hart-well from Michigan. “It was always something we did up north, said Earle. I

didn’t know f any particular shows like it around here, so we decided to start it. Earle said that first sale brought about 20 vendors. This

year’s sale will top out at 31. “Some have come every year, said Earle. “I put most of them

in the Founder’s Hall, which holds about 250 people.” She said a few will set up on a covered, concrete breezewat

that runs between the hall and the church. “It’s a little cool in the morning, bit the vendors like the extra

space,” said Earle.The vendors come from all over the region including Ander-

son and Easley in South carolina. Crafters also come from places in northeast Georgia including Commerce and Toccoa. Earle said she has church members that sell as well. Items for sale include woodworking, needle art like crochet

and knitting, jewelry is popular, paintings, glassware, Christ-mas decorations, perosnlaized embrodiery items and even

doll clothes, soaps and framed puzzles. I try to have a variety of different items each year, said Earle.

“But everything has to have a handmade affect in it. I don’t allow anything that’s been purchased at a store.” In addition to the crafts, baked goods and frozen casseroles

made by church members will be for sale. Earle said there will be raffle periodically through the day. “Each of our crafters donates an item,” said Earle. “We do it

about every 30 minutes and you have to be present to win.”Earle said the money raised from booth fees and other sales

will go to the church for different things as well as local charities and organizations.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church Arts and Crafts Sale

Last year’s Indoor Arts and Craft show drew 30 vendors and hundreds of shoppers looking to get a start on Christmas shopping. Photo/Mark Hynds, The Hartwell Sun

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perintendent of Georgia Power Al Sims and former Hart County Post Master Al Snyder, the decision to build the first dock in Hart County was simple.“We both had young chil-

dren and we just wanted somewhere that was for them to climb up and jump into the water like young children like to do,” Sims said.According to Sims, Snyder

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first people to buy a home on lakefront property.“Both of our families

would get together and our children would play on the beach area around the lake bed,” Sims said. “It was like a public beach out there.”Sims said when the idea of

building the first dock in the early 1960s, Lake Hartwell was not quite full yet.“Snyder obtained a dock

permit from the U.S. Corep-sof Engineers once we decid-ed we wanted to go through with building it,” Sims said. “Dock permit No. 1 was the very first permit issued on Lake Hartwell.”

The dock was built out of 4x4 timbers and 2x12 planks.“We obtained the materials

to build the dock from old, obsolete construction sites in Bowersville,” Sims said. “We built the dock on the shore with a water elevation of two feet. We wanted the dock to be above water when the lake filled up.”According to Sims, Hart

County residents thought the lake level was going to stay the same.“Back then, people didn’t re-

alize the lake level was going to fluctuate,” Sims said.Snyder and Sims took a

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the dock.“The children got to enjoy

it for a few months before it was destroyed,” Sims said. “We had a rainy summer and the lake came up in the flood stage and tipped the dock over on its side.”Sims said it was the first

dock in Hart County and also the first dock in Hart County to be destroyed.“To my knowledge, as long

as Al Snyder was living there was not another dock built at his location,” Sims said. “We didn’t build another dock because once it flipped over, we decided to disman-tle it.”

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Brant Tew says it is critical that boats be prepped prop-erly for the winter and that a lot of damage can happen to a boat over the winter months.For example, the engines

can freeze. So, it is impor-tant with the inboard en-gines to drain all the water out. Outboard engines drain themselves.Once the water is drained

out of the inboard, then it needs to be refilled with non-toxic antifreeze.“When you winterize a

boat you are doing three things. You are keeping it from freezing, you are sealing up the engine to cut down on any type of corro-sion, and you pickle the fuel system,” Tew said. “Gas that sits around a long time goes bad. The worst thing to do is let it sit for several months.”With that being said about

the gas going bad, one would think it would be a good idea to run all of the gas out of the tank, but it is not.“You actually want to have

the tank pretty full,” Tew said. “A boat fuel system is vented to the atmosphere. What happens is you will get condensation inside the tank. This creates more water. The best thing to do is stabilize the fuel and keep the tank full over the winter. Then next season run that tank all the way out and start over with fresh fuel.” For the corrosion, it is

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go ahead and get the servic-ing they would normally get in the spring. “If people would go ahead

and do the service at the beginning of the winter it will make the spring so much easier,” he said. “If you know what you’re do-ing, you can do it yourself. If you don’t know, have a professional do it. A little bit of maintenance cuts down on the damage and the real expensive repairs. Boat engines get run really hard. Because of that they need a little extra TLC. They are durable. They’re built to handle it but they are not tolerant of taking short-cuts.”

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Nov. 14, Saturday, Casa Superhero Run at Tugaloo State Park, 1763 Tugaloo State Park Rd., Lavonia, GA. Fun Run 8:30 am/5K 9:00 am. Each participant must complete a registra-tion form. $25 pre-regis-tered 5K—postmarked by 11/04/15. $30 thereafter and 5K race day. $15 Fun Run/Walk (any age). $65 Family rate (up to 4 runners) pre-registered only. Race day regis-tration begins at 7:30 am. Registration is also available on active.com. T-shirts are guaranteed to runners registered by 11/04/15 and are available as supplies last on race day.

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Nov. 16, Sunday, Tellabration. 2:30 p.m. at Hart County Community Theatre on Depot Street. Afternoon of Story-telling.

Nov. 19, Thursday, “Music from Annie Jr.” at the Savannah River Playhouse, Hartwell.

Nov. 21, Saturday, November Blues Jam at High Cotton Music Hall, 57 Depot St., Hartwell. Open Jam for blues mu-sicians of all skill levels. Sign up to play at 7:00 pm; music starts at 7:30 pm. $7 General Admission. Free for jamming musicians. For more information visit www.highcotton-musichall.com.

Nov. 27, Friday. Hartwell’s annual “Home for the Holi-days” Tree Lighting. Christmas tree lighting at 6 p.m. at the town square. Come sing carols, ride the horse drawn car-riage or the choo choo train and have your time with Santa.

Dec. 1-19, Tuesdays-Saturdays Mistletoe Market 10 a.m.-6 p.m. 338 East Howell St. Downtown Hartwell. Handmade items including soaps, jewelry, ornaments, photography, woodworking, wreaths, themed Christmas trees and more. 706-377-2040

Dec. 3-6 Santa’s Shoppe. Vendors wanted for candles, ceramics and knitting, to participate in ... Santa’s Shoppe 4th annual craft show to benefit NE GA CASA will hold a

four day event to take place at 233 George Burns Lane, Hartwell, on Thursday, Dec. 3, Friday, Dec. 4, Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6. Santa’s Shoppe will be in-cluded in the Hartwell Tour of Homes on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6.This show will have a large variety of items, all handmade, and a tree decorated with a variety of tree ornaments made by each vendor. There will be Mrs. Santa’s kitchen with homemade jams, jellies,

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Dec. 4, 5, 11 & 12—“Annie” at the Rock Gym in Elberton, produced by the Savannah River Playhouse. Saturday, December 5, matinee lunch at 12:00 with the show immedi-ately following. Saturday, December 12, dinner at 6:00 pm and show at 7:30 pm. Dinner $40.00 or Show $20.00. Call 706-376-7397 for more information.

Dec. 5, Saturday, Christmas Parade of Lights! 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Hart Co. Chamber of Commerce. Call 706-376-8590 for more information.

Dec. 5, Saturday, Copious Jones from 8:00-10:00 pm at High Cotton Music Hall, 57 Depot St., Hartwell. We now offer online tickets for some of our hottest shows via Eventbrite. For more information visit www.highcottonmusichall.com.

Dec. 5-6 Christmas Tour of Homes sponsored by the Hart-well Service League.

Dec. 8, Tuesday, Hart County High School Band Christmas Concert. 7 p.m. at the Lonnie Burns Fine Arts Center.

Dec. 10, Thursday Spirit of Christmas Dinner. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church gym. Hart County Ministerial Association. For information or to vol-unteer, call 706-376-3164.

Dec. 11,12,13,18,19 & 20—Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at the Hart County Community Theatre. Adults $12, students $10. For more information call 706-376-5599 or www.hartcountycommunity theatre.com.

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Nov. 13-15, The Franklin Community Players will present the musical, “A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol, The Musi-cal” at the Lavonia Cultural Center. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children 12 and under and are available at fcplayers.com or at the box office. Service charges may apply. Show times are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call 706-491-1538 or visit fcplayers.com.

Nov. 29, The Canon Christmas Tree Lighting will be held at Canon City Park.

Nov. 30, The Lavonia Christmas Tree Lighting will be held in downtown Lavonia.

Dec. 1, The Royston Christmas Tree Lighting will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Royston Wellness and Community Park.

Dec. 4-5, Franklin Community Players will present “Christmas Letters” at 7 p.m. at the Lavonia Cultural Cen-ter. “Christmas Letters” is an hour long show with tradi-tional Christmas carols and humorous and heart-warming stories about Christmas.

Dec. 5, The Carnesville Breakfast with Santa will be held at 9 a.m. at the Carnesville Community Center.

Dec. 5, The Carnesville Christmas Parade and Party in the

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Dec. 5, The Canon Christmas Parade will be held through downtown Canon.

Dec. 6, The Lavonia Christmas Parade will be held. The route begins at Lavonia City Hall on Augusta Road and con-tinues to the Silo Center.

Dec. 11, The annual Lavonia Christmas Festival will be held in downtown Lavonia.

Dec. 13, The Royston-Franklin Springs Christmas Parade will be held at 3 p.m. The route begins on Highway 17 in Royston and winds through town on Highways 17 and 29 to the Bi-Lo Shopping Center in Franklin Springs.

Dec. 17, Christmas in Royston, featuring downtown shop-ping, carriage rides and entertainment, will be held from 5-7 p.m. citywide.

Stephens CountySunday, Nov. 22 – Third Day will perform in concert at Toc-coa Falls College’s Grace Chapel and Performing Arts Center at 4 p.m. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m. tickets can be pur-chased through the Toccoa Falls College web site at tfc.edu.

Thursday, Dec. 3 – Christmas in the Park. Celebrate the Christmas season in Paul Anderson Memorial Park from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Stephens County High School Chorus will perform an and Santa Claus will pay visits. The Varsity mobile diner will serve lunch and dinner. The tree lighting ceremony will climax the day’s activities at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday, Dec. 5 – Christmasfest and Lighting of the tree in downtown Toccoa. The annual festi-val of trees will be held Dec. 4-5 in the historic courthouse. The annual Toccoa Christmas Parade will be held down-town on Saturday, Dec. 5. Time TBA.

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