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Page A8 Lake Oconee News Friday, September 29,2017 ATLAS's 10th annual golf tournament planned at (uscowilla Georgia NEWS briefs On Monday, Oct. 2, sup porters of ATLAS Ministry, Inc. will hit the award winning course at Cuscow- illa for ATLAS’s 10th annual golf tournament. ATLAS Ministry, Inc. is a non-de- nominational Christ centered community resource that works with families who are committed to setting their lives on a healthy and pro ductive new path. Serving Greensboro and the sur rounding areas, ATLAS provides programming from birth through adulthood. If golf is not your game, have no fear. The annual event houses multiple ways to get yourself or your business involved. In addition to the 18 holes, golfers and guests from the community are invited and encouraged to browse and bid on an array of items in the silent auction located inside of the Waterside restaurant at Cuscowilla. 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You will find beauty items, gift certificates and other unique items up for grabs as well! There is still time for you or your business to be a part of this event! If would like to donate items for the auction, please contact Chasen Crawford at 706-453-0581. Right along side the nail biting moments of finding out the tournament winners, community members are itching to know who will win the Super Raffle basket valued at over $1,000. The basket includes gift certif icates for Da Corrado Ris- torante, Bone Island Grill, Filet’s Steak and Seafood, El Sitio Mexican Grill, Oconee Brewing Company, Iron Fork Cafe, Parkside Main 8 Theatre, Cafe 44, Pickle Barrell, Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee, and many more! Tickets for the Super Raffle Basket can yours at a price of one for $10 or three for $20. Tickets are going fast so he sure to reach out to the ATLAS office at 706-453- 0581 to get yours. You can also purchase tickets the day of the event before 2:30 pm ivhen you stop by the silent auction! 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His specialty areas are 20th Century cultural history, modern Southern United States history, and Foodways, the study of culture and history through the lens of food tradi tions. He has presented his research on barbecue at numerous prestigious historical conferences such as the Food Heritage and Culinary Practices, Sorbonne Universities in Paris, the American Studies Association and National Council on Public History. He has also served as an advisor for the development of “Smokin’History: BBQin America” a museum exhibit forthcoming at the Atlanta History Center. He has served as a content advisor for television programs like Jamie Oliver’s “Naked Chef,” an episode about Georgia barbecue, and Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods episodes: “Southern BBQ Trail” and the “Civil War.” As part of his research on the topic of barbecue he has become a ‘trained’ BBQ judge and has judged over 50 contests includ ing Memphis in May, the Big Pig Jig in Vienna, the American Royal in Kansas City and the Jack Daniel’s International BBQ Compe tition. Dr. Craig S. Pascoe COMPILED BY GEORGIACLIPS.COM SRTA gets award for I-85 toll lane credits program Georgia’s State Road and Tollway Authority recently received a Toll Excellence Award for a program it launched on the Interstate 85 corridor in 2015 to address congestion on the interstate. Source: Gwinnett Daily Post U.S. Supreme Court grants temporary stay of execution to Georgia inmate Keith Leroy Tharpe, known as “Bo,” was set to be put to death at 7 p.m. EDT at the state prison by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital, but the hour came and went as the justices considered his case. Just before 11 p.m. EDT, the court announced the temporary stay. Source: AccessWDUN Bryan County accused of having too many voters The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a non-profit organization out of Plainfield, Ind., has included Bryan County along with 247 other counties in the nation on a list of jurisdictions they say have more registered voters than adult residents in the county. Source: Savannah Morning News Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert McMahon nominated for assistant secretary of defense post President Donald Trump’s nomination is pending Senate confirmation, and McMahon said he isn’t sure how long that might take. Source: Macon Telegraph Obamacare survives -- GOP concedes on last-gasp repeal try Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline. Source: Athens Banner-Herald Extent of damage to cotton crop from Irma not yet known The impact of Tropical Storm Irma’s heavy winds and long duration on the cotton crop is not known yet. Source: Moultrie Observer UGA's Mark Fox not surprised by NCAA assistant coaches arrests The big story that shook up the college basketball world on Tuesday didn’t come as a shock to Georgia coach Mark Fox. Auburn assistant Chuck Person was one of four assistant college basketball coaches and 10 people total were charged by federal prosecutors with fraud and corruption as part of a covert FBI investi gation since 2015 looking at the criminal influence of money on coaches and players in NCAA basketball. Source: Athens Banner-Herald Georgia Tech seeks $63 million in bonds for Lockheed purchase The school plans to use bonds to purchase and renovate 32 acres along the north of Lockheed’s property. Another 20 acres to the south would be purchased and held for future expansion. Source: Marietta Daily Journal Discussion held in Gainesville about opioid epidemic to raise awareness The Brenau Downtown Center’s auditorium was packed Tuesday night for the Partnership for a Drug Free Hall’s Forum Series: Not My Family. The subtitle was “Pain Pills and Heroin are Killing our Families.” Bailey said there were an estimated 59,000 overdose deaths nationwide in 2016, and Northeast Georgia Medical Center sees an average of 63 overdoses in the emergency room each month. Source: Gainesville Times Our Family is serving you and your family and we are in our 3rd generation of service. 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