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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Braselton News
Page 11A
Lions Club welcomes special guest Weekend book sale planned by
LOCAL BOOK GIVEN
Lions Club District 18-D Governor Ruth Payton receives a copy of
“Passing - Stories through the History of Hoschton & Braselton
Georgia,” by Robbie L. Bettis, from West Jackson Lions Club presi
dent B. Gordy.
Arts festival
planned in
Winder
The Georgia Piedmont Arts
Center in Winder is inviting
everyone to attend the 10 th annu
al Harvest of Art two-day indoor
festival on Saturday, November
10, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
and Sunday, November 11, from
noon until 4 p.m.
The festival is being held the
same weekend as the Winder
Chautauqua Celebration.
Art in all mediums will be dis
played and offered for sale both
days. There will be art demon
strations all day long on Saturday
and children’s art activities will
be offered on Sunday.
More than 20 area artist have
already registered to partici
pate, including: Joyce Nelson,
painter; John Weber, photogra
pher; Jo Cooper, painter; Dottie
McCague, jewelry design; Alice
Stark, painter, jewelry designer;
Ben Willingham, painter and
gourd artist; Bill Cooper, potter;
Rose Hardy, glass artist; Lou
Germain, ceramic artist; Bobbie
Austin, painter, sculptress;
Myrna Trapp, potter; George
Germain, painter; Joyce Shores,
potter; Craig Gill, glass artist;
Loy Lawrence, woodworker;
Luz Rodriquez, painter, potter;
Kathleen Gill, glass artist, pho
tographer; Rebecca McCartt,
painter, mixed media; Christina
Sullo, potter; Paul Handy, pot
ter; and Charleen Romine, glass
artist.
The Georgia Piedmont Arts
Center is located E. Athens Street
at the intersection with Park
Avenue in downtown Winder.
This event is free to the public.
Call Kathleen Gill at 404-202-
3044 for additional information
or visit the web site at www.
GeogiaPiedmont Art sC enter,
com.
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The West Jackson Lions Club
recently welcomed District 18-D
Gov. Ruth Payton to a meeting.
Payton started with a presen
tation called, “Why are you a
Lion?” and said that Lions Club
members throughout the world
have a heart for helping others.
One of the Lions Club’s most
important initiatives is the
Campaign SightFirst II Program.
Since 1990, Lions Club mem
bers have done more to prevent
blindness and restore sight than in
their previous 65 years as “knights
of the blind.” In a decade-and-a-
half, Lions have prevented severe
vision loss or restored sight to
27 million people - more than
the combined populations of New
York and Tokyo. On average, $6
can save one person from becom
ing blind, according to the club.
This year, 300 eye surgeries will
be conducted by the Georgia Lions
Lighthouse Foundation through
the Camp for the Blind. Twenty-
four percent of the Feader Dogs
Program comes from the Fions
Club. It costs $39,000 to raise
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Vintage Tractors will be on dis
play at Hoschton Towne Center on
Saturday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m.
The event is a coordinated
effort by the North Georgia Two-
Cylinder Club and the Hoschton
Business Alliance.
Free admission, free parking,
vendors and various activities for
kids will be available.
A pet costume contest will be
sponsored by Dixie Pet Supplies.
Pumpkin carving for kids at noon
will be sponsored by Coldwell
Bankers RMR.
Tractor Club president, Dale
Wiley, of Wiley Farms in Jersey,
Ga., will display his 1957 John
Deere model 720. The model is
one of the larger models of that
era.
Another late 1920s model on
display will be a Ford Kit Tractor.
During hard times, country folks
could not afford both a car and a
tractor. The Ford Motor Company
offered a kit that would convert
either a Chevy or Ford car into a
working tractor for the approxi
mate price of $90. The model
was recently purchased from the
original owner’s family at a trac-
person.
Fions Club members have also
collected eye glasses, hearing
aids, cell phones, provided diabe
tes education (diabetes and glau
coma silently stalk the vision of
tor event in Indiana. The owner
knows of only one other model in
a museum in the mid-west.
A special tractor, painted in a
color to prevent neighbors from
borrowing her tractor, will be on
display. A Farmall “B” Tractor
was recently restored in bright
pink.
The Tractor Club will perform
various competitive events dem
onstrating skills in operating older
millions who may not even know
that they are at risk), eye screen
ing, and hearing programs, among
others.
For more information, call 706-
654-9365.
model tractors, including a “slow
race,” an “egg balancing” event
and a “kiddy peddle” tractor race.
The public can help determine the
“People’s Choice” award, and the
owner will receive a trophy.
The event is sponsored by
Tractor Supply, Gene & Matt’s
Tractors, Mayfield Dairy and the
Farm Bureau.
For information, call 770-331-
5525.
The Jackson County Certified
Fiterate Community Program will
sponsor a sidewalk book sale from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 19-20, at the Commerce
Fanier Technical College campus,
631 S. Elm Street.
Proceeds will benefit the coun
ty’s adult literacy programs.
Hardback books will cost $2 and
paperbacks will be $1, with more
than 1,000 books available.
For more information, call 706-
335-9549.
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Vintage Tractor Show ahead Oct. 27 in Hoschton
TRACTOR SHOW
Vintage tractors, such as this one, will be on display at Hoschton
Towne Center.