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The Braselton News Page 3A Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Braselton Benefit bingo being held at 1904 building to help local family Hoschton 7-year-old who wants to become mayor meets with Hoschton’s mayor Photo by Ben Munro Hoschton Mayor Lauren O’Leary shows 7-year-old Addison Eich a mayoral nameplate made specially for her. Eich, a second grader, plans to run for mayor one day and met with O’Leary and a group of city officials on Feb. 16 to discuss the duties of the job. Submitted photo Addison Eich, a second grader at West Jackson El ementary School who seeks to become mayor of Hoschton one day, shows a campaign sign she made. Six ty-three people have signed Eich’s sign so far. By Ben Munro ben@mainstreetnews.com A tenant of Braselton’s 1904 building is reaching out to help one of its business neighbors. Flourish Taproom will host a benefit bingo night for John and Tracey Carden, who own Carden Records, on Tuesday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. Both busi nesses are housed in the 1904 space. According to a Facebook post by Flourish Taproom, Tracey was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast can cer with ovarian, lymph node and bone inclusion in 2019. The benefit bingo night will help cover the Carden’s expens es. Flourish Taproom owner Mike Martin said he wanted to extend a helping hand to a fam ily he’s grown to know. “That’s kind of what we like to do anyway, but because we’re seeing their story play out first hand, it’s somebody that our heart went out to and wanted to try to get involved and help as much as we can,’’ Martin said. Bingo cards will cost $5 each with no limit on card purchases. Multiple rounds will be played By Ben Munro ben@mainstreetnews. com Hoschton downtown lead ers continue to plan a 140-year celebration for the city, and that celebration will include leav ing behind some current-day artifacts. City officials will bury a time capsule to be opened in 2081. “We put a date on it of open ing it up when the city turns 200,” downtown development authority member Joe Vogt ex plained. The time capsule is part of a day of celebration set for Oc tober to honor the city’s 140th anniversary which it reached in 2021 but will commemorate this year. The celebration will be held in concert with Hoschton’s Oct. 7-9 fall festival, though the specific day has not yet been set. Event organizers aim to highlight four areas of the city’s history — agriculture, medicine, trade and the rail road — during the celebration. The DDA hopes to display a banner soon and have t-shirts made to spread word about the event. FRENCH FESTIVAL PLANNED While plans for the 140-year celebration are in the works, the DDA also looks to intro duce a French-themed event called the “French Toast” in late spring. The event would feature French wines and pas tries. The DDA voted to approve the event and put it before the city council for final approval, though a date has not been set. Meanwhile, the DDA has discussed plans to potentially hold its inaugural barbecue festival during the third week of October to coincide with a large pickleball tournament hosted by Hoschton’s Cress- wind community. CORNHOLE LEAGUE TO BEGIN IN LATE MARCH Hoschton’s inaugural corn- hole league will begin March 23 with matches being hosted by The Red Thread Kitchen on Hwy. 53. Competition will run for six to eight weeks. Down town Development Authority member Shawn Manaher proj ects that the league will feature 20 teams — or more. “I think we can more than crush that,” Manaher said. for prizes donated by local busi nesses. One hundred percent of proceeds will go to the Carden Family. The Cardens, who have two sons, will attend the event, ac cording to Martin. Martin said he’s received “good community response” to the bingo night so far through social media. “We think we’re going to have a ton of people to show up to help this family,” he said. “A lot of people having gone through their story with them, this is somebody who is a lo cal mom who’s really having a tough go of it. She’s got a lot of the community that’s support ing her already.” Martin said while the goal is to raise money, the main pur pose of Flourish’s bingo night is to show the Cardens support. “We want them to know that there are people in their com munity who really see what they’re going through, we see that they’re struggling, and we want to spend a night just en couraging them,” he said. Flourish Taproom is located at 9924 Davis St Suite 1 in Bra selton. OTHER NEWS In other news, the DDA: •heard from new member Marsha Hunter — who was swom-in Feb. 15 — that the group should wait until June to apply for grant funding for a community garden. Hunter told the DDA that more time is needed to collect informa tion for the application. The proposed garden will be locat ed on a two-acre tract on East Broad, New and Oak streets. DDA member Jeff Parkinson noted that the site will require “a great deal of work.” •elected Parkinson, who was recently swom-in as a member, as its new secretary and trea surer. By Ben Munro ben@mainstreetnews. com She may be years away from being eligible to run for public office, but Addison Eich has gotten quite a head start on the campaign trail. The 7-year-old West Jackson Elementary School (WJES) student recently announced to classmates her intentions to run for mayor of Hoschton one day and garnered 63 signatures on a hand-made campaign sign toward that goal. To prep for her future campaign, Eich met Feb. 16 with Mayor Lauren O’Leary and other top city offi cials at city hall, including city manager Joe Hayes, city clerk Jennifer Kidd-Harrison and Downtown Development Au thority Chairman Sri Kumar to discuss the duties of job. Eich held a Q&A with O’Leary, during which she asked the recently swom-in mayor a number of questions, including if the city has vice mayors (Eich has a long fist of candidates for her administra tion), if mayors make laws for schools and how many speech es mayors give. She also asked how city government works to make Hoschton better. “We all work as a team,” O’Leary answered, noting all public officials who head up different departments. “ ... So, all together we kind of make it work. I don’t think anybody could do it without somebody else.” Additionally, Eich asked O’Leary what she liked best about serving as mayor. “For me, the best thing is being able to be a voice at the table, so I work with a lot of the community and talk a lot,” O’Leary said. Eich was then asked what she additions she’d like to see in Hoschton. “Maybe more playgrounds,” she said, noting playgrounds town has since covered the line, but Scott noted that one tropical storm “could be dev astating.” The town’s water and sew er infrastructures and wells in that area would be at risk if the erosion continues. The project will also im prove 2.3 miles worth of the with twisted ladders and mon key bars in particular. Eich’s desire for public office was motivated by reading an American Girl book in which the main character’s mother runs for mayor. Eich created a campaign sign and asked her second-grade classmates and WJES teachers to sign it. Eich’s mayoral plans were unbeknownst to her mother, Mary Eich, a fifth-grade special education teacher at WJES, un til she saw the campaign sign. “She came home one day and pulled the campaign poster out of her book bag,” explained Mary, who said this idea began about three weeks ago. “So, town’s riverwalk. Erosion has eaten away sections of the path “where it ran close to the river’s edge and the bank fell in.” according to Scott. “When we’re done with this, we’re going to build it back better than it was,” Scott said of the riverwalk. The project will be funded she initiated it completely by herself and she had gotten her friends to sign the poster at school.” “We just encouraged it,” Mary added. “We think it’s great.” One of Mary’s friends was then able to arrange the meeting with city hall. Eich’s visit in cluded receiving her own may- oral nameplate and Hoschton Police Department patch. She was also given a chance to sit in the police department patrol vehicle and work the siren. The mayor, city staff and city attorney all signed Eich’s campaign sign. Then on Mon day, Eich officially called through a zero-interest GEFA loan with $200,000 of princi pal forgiveness. “This is not a project that we have a choice on whether or not to do it,” Scott said. “It was a project that had to be done and we just had to figure out how to do it and how to fund it.” Hoschton’s work session to order. Mary said she’s looking for ward to her daughter’s political future, though another job may be on the horizon, too. “I’m excited,” Mary said with a laugh. “I think it’s great. Someone told me that I have to save her for law school be cause they think that’s how she’s going to go, so we’ll save some money.” Eich could actually run for mayor in 10 years. A mayoral candidate only has to be 17 years old to run for office according to Hoschton’s qualifying requirements. Work will begin as soon as the contractor — Shamrock Environmental Corporation — can mobilize materials, Scott said last week. Resi dents of adjacent neighbor hoods will be notified of the work due to the amount of construction vehicles expect ed. February 23, 2022 ~ Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Ocean vessel 5. Lose color 9. Small jump 12. Give a job to 13. Sacred image 14. Actor Vigoda 15. Dueling sword 16. Oak or ash 17. Batch 18. Flower holder 20. Drake and stag 22. Zoo enclosures 25. Exercise place 26. Canola or olive 27. Wise person 30. Yodeler’s feedback 34. Fruit drinks 36. Grassland 37. Lunch hour 38. Onion’s kin 39. Scant 41. Sick 42. “ Impossible” 44. Legal tender 46. Backbone 49. Sulk 51. Young fellow 52. Corrosive stuff 54. Sticky strip 58. In the past 59. Frigid 60. go bragh 61. Congeal 62. Weeding implements 63. Marsh plant DOWN 1. That woman 2. Haunch 3. Wrath 4. Annoy 5. Tantrums 6. Real estate measure 7. Fawn’s mom 8. Foe 9. Corridor 10. Certain woodwind 11. 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Sometimes you get what you pay for - and sometimes, you get more. Subscribe Online at braseltonnewstoday.com Hoschton DDA Time capsule to be included in Hoschton’s 140-year anniversary celebration event River continued from 1A
