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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Braselton News
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Local group encourages writers to explore talents
Book Signing Ahead
Members of the Northeast Georgia Writer’s Club will participate
in a book signing featuring “Our Journey” on Saturday Dec. 8,
from 12-1 p.m., at Luna Coffee House, located in downtown
Hoschton.
BY KRISTI REED
he latest project of a local
writer’s group was the
publication of an anthol
ogy in honor of a member who
passed away in April.
The Northeast Georgia Writer’s
Club was established in 1973 by
Jane Wilheit, along with several
other writers. Wilheit was known
for her support of the Northeast
Georgia Council of the Arts and of
the Challenge Child organization,
an advocacy group for special needs
children. Wilheit was honored by
the Girl Scouts of America as their
first “Woman of Distinction” in the
late 1990s.
Wilheit, a club member since its
inception, passed away in April of
this year. The club dedicated its
recently published anthology, “Our
Journey,” in her honor.
“Our Journey” is a collection of
63 stories and poems by 22 different
writers in the club. The book’s title
refers to the journey of the writers.
“I guess you would say it’s our
take on the different facets of life,”
said Ruthanna Kilpatrick-Bass,
president-elect of the club.
“Our Journey” is divided into four
themed categories. The categories
are “Preparing for the Journey,”
“Places on the Journey,” “People on
the Journey” and “Pictures of the
Journey.”
BOOK SIGNING
On Saturday, Dec. 8, club mem
bers will be participating in a book
signing featuring “Our Journey”
from 12-1 p.m. at Luna Coffee
House in Hoschton.
Kilpatrick-Bass said the club’s
book is 82 pages long and sells for
$12.50. The book can be purchased
at the Northeast Georgia History
Center gift shop. Frames Younique
in Gainesville and the Northeast
Georgia Medical Center Gift Shop.
Proceeds from the book fund club
events. Kilpatrick-Bass hopes the
book will help the club attract new
members and help promote further
writing efforts.
The anthology is the club’s lat
est publication and is an important
activity for club members. To fur
ther their writing goals, members
also participate in monthly meet
ings, attend conferences and com
pete in an annual writing competi
tion.
The competition culminates
with an awards luncheon in May.
Winners are recognized in catego
ries including poetry, lyrics, short
stories, non-fiction articles, lyrics
and children’s stories. The highlight
of the annual awards ceremony is the
presentation of the “Snoopy Award”
for outstanding writing achievement
and the “Woodstock Award” recog
nizing outstanding contributions as
a member of the Northeast Georgia
Writer’s Club for the previous year.
“I really enjoy the competition
and I really enjoy the opportunity
that I have to further my writing,”
Kilpatrick-Bass said.
Kilpatrick-Bass is very excited
about what is ahead in 2008 for the
club.
“We have many projects to
promote our writing and to pro
mote writing in the community,”
Kilpatrick-Bass said. “We want to
bring talent out of writers who have
yet to be discovered.”
The purpose of the Northeast
Georgia Writer’s Club is to foster
good writing, to encourage mem
bers to publish their written works
and to learn the joy of writing.
Kilpatrick-Bass also enjoys the
opportunity to meet regularly with
her fellow writers and to learn from
special guest speakers.
“[Our meetings] are eclectic,” she
said. “We have had speakers such
as Gordon Sawyer. He has writ
ten a lot. He writes for Backroads
Georgia. In February, we are going
to have Jean Mahavier speak. She
is the chair for the Poetry in Schools
project in Georgia. She also was
the judge for the poetry section of
our contest last year. We just have
different people who can promote
publication and who can promote
places that we can publish our work.
They can tell us different experi
ences they have had with publishing
their works.”
Kilpatrick-Bass said the club has
had many distinguished members
over the years, including Clara
Martin, a former writer of The
Gainesville Times and head of the
journalism department at Brenau.
“There have been many distin
guished people who have been
members and many distinguished
writings have come out of the club,”
Kilpatrick-Bass said.
The Northeast Georgia Writer’s
Club meets on the first Wednesday of
every month at St. Paul’s Methodist
Church in Gainesville.
“Right now, we have 30 club mem
bers, but it’s growing,” Kilpatrick-
Bass said.
She added that she has truly
enjoyed being a member of the
club.
“I am in total awe of the members
who have been there many years and
their accomplishments,” she said.
“They’re like mentors. I enjoy that.
It’s just a very nice group of ladies
and I have really enjoyed going and
being a member.”
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Community makes giving a tradition
YOUNGSTER GREETS SANTA
Caden Alford is the first to greet Santa at Sunday’s ‘Traditions of
Christmas’ event. Caden told Santa he has been very good all
year long.
BY KRISTI REED
Traditions of Braselton held its
annual “Traditions of Christmas”
on Sunday. The event, now in its
second year, is a holiday celebration
focused on family fun and helping
others.
Kay Constantino, a member of the
Traditions of Braselton social com
mittee, said community members
decided to place the emphasis of this
year’s event on giving.
“The parents said they wanted
this to be an opportunity to teach
the kids about giving,” Constantino
said. “We wanted to get the chil
dren involved in giving and let them
understand the real meaning of
Christmas.”
The community joined together
Sunday to support several charities.
Community members contributed
new toys for the Marine Corps’ Toys
for Tots program and canned food
for the Jackson County Department
of Family and Children’s Services’
Holiday Connection.
The community also col
lected monetary donations for
CASA (Court Appointed Special
Advocates). CASA is a nonprofit
organization which helps abused
and neglected children in Jackson,
Banks and Barrow counties find
safe, permanent homes.
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funds to help an Athens family
which recently lost all their posses
sions in a house fire. The family of
five has three young children.
Cash donations were also accept
ed to help children at Fowler
Elementary School purchase addi
tional school uniforms. Social com
mittee member Linda Ferguson said
her daughter, Natalie Bishop, teaches
a class with several underprivileged
children who cannot afford to buy
additional uniforms for school. The
community’s goal is to raise enough
money to buy each of the children in
Bishop’s class at least one additional
uniform.
Though the focus of the event was
on bringing joy to those less privi
leged, there were plenty of activities
aimed at pleasing the youngest resi
dents of the community. Children
had the opportunity to meet with
Santa and have their pictures taken.
The event also featured marshmal
low roasting, hayrides and caroling.
Tommye Stewart, social commit
tee member and one of Santa’s elves
for the day, said the event was a fun
learning experience for the chil
dren.
“My favorite part is seeing the
children being generous and giv
ing to others,” she said. “The chil
dren learn to give instead of just to
receive.”
Newspaper website tops 1 million hits average
MainStreetNews.com, the news and information
website for newspapers in Jackson, Banks and Madison
counties, announced this week that the site is now aver
aging over one million hits per month. That translates
to 324,000 page-views and 107,000 unique visitors
each month.
“Through October of this year, we averaged
1,012,925 total hits each month,” said co-publisher
Scott Buffington. This is a goal we’ve been working
toward for the past couple of years, but we didn’t
expect to get here this soon.”
The site is currently undergoing a major overhaul.
Beginning in January, an enhanced classified viewing
and placement system will be implemented. Later in
2008, a redesign will take place that will encourage
more reader participation, as well as expanded adver
tising opportunities.
Eventually, Buffington wants full online subscrip
tions of the entire newspapers available for readers
who prefer an electronic edition.
“Most of our readers still want a printed newspaper,
but we are increasingly being asked to provide the
entire paper electronically,” he said. “And some want
both. We are working toward accommodating those
requests.”
The Braselton News, already has a full electronic
edition available at braseltonnews.com. Readers can
access the entire newspaper in PDF format.
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