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- FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - Sunday, Deomtwr S, 19OT
Curtain call!
Right, North Forsyth
High School drama
students Paul Moss
and Jessica Tinney
portray Sir Yes Sir
and Lady Yes Mum
in the school's
production of ‘The
Emperor’s New
Clothes,” running
;! Dec. 6-7 at 7 p.m.
in the school’s
!; auditorium. For more
information, call Jamie
or Rachel at
(770)781-6637,
ext. 354.
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Family events
Holiday wreath-making class
Learn to make a traditional hol
iday wreath using natural materi
als. The class will be held
Monday, Dec. 6. from 7-9:30
p.m. at Midway Park. The
instructor is Wendy Smith. A fee
of S3O includes all supplies. For
more information or to register,
ca11,(770) 781-2215.
Christmas Village
Creekside Methodist Church
invites you to its Christmas
Village Dec. 6-7 from 7-9 p.m.
(rain dates: Dec. 12-14). The
event will feature a live nativity
soene, petting zoo, music, bon
fire and marshmallow roast,
cbokie decorating and refresh
jents. The event is free.
onations accepted for nonper
ithable foods to benefit
sojoumer’s House. For more
call (770) 888-
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•Outdoor live nativity scene
;Salem Baptist Church will pre
sent an outdoor live nativity
sL-ene Dec. 10-11 from 6:30-9
0 n». featuring a a hay ride.
Groups are welcome and there is
no admission fee. For more
call William
Philips at (770) 889-0607.
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‘Holidays’ at the library
Forsyth County Public
(ajnrary presents “Holidays," a
ohildren’s program to be held
Jtfturday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m. and
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11 am. for ages 3 and up. Crafts
and a puppet show. "The Little
Snow Girl." will be featured. For
more information, call (770) 781-
9840. ext. 233.
Sawnee Ballet Theatre presents
the ‘Nutcracker’
... Dec. 10-12. Tickets are now
available for purchase at Kroger.
Parsons and the Sawnee
Community Center. For more
information or to provide support
for the nonprofit Sawnee Ballet
Theatre, call (770) 887-0756.
‘Christmas in Cumming’
... an arts and crafts show, will be
held Friday. Dec. 10. from 4-10
p.m. and Saturday. Dec. 11, from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cumming
Fairgrounds, featuring caroling and
inule-drawn hayrides beginning at
7 p.m. on Friday. Free Santa pho
tos will be available from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Admission
is $1 with children 12 and under
free. For more information, cal)
(770) 423-1330.
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Kids' holiday workshop
Moms, this is your chance to
take care of holiday errands.
Kids, this is your chance to make
gifts for Mom, Dad and other
special friends. The workshop
will be held Saturday. Dec. 11,
from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at
Midway Park. All supplies will
be included in the registration
fee of $25. Julie Auten is the
instructor. Participants need to
bring a sack lunch. Pre-registra
tion is necessary. For more infor
mation, call Forsyth County
Parks & Recreation at (770) 781-
2215. .
Christmas carol festival
... will be held Sunday, Dec. 12,
at 7 p.m. at Cumming First
United Methodist Church. The
150-voice choir will present "A
Christmas Carol Festival” at the
church, featuring many tradition
al carols.
Daves Creek Elementary
... will hold Family Reading
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The Other Cinderella
Otwell Middle School
students were
scheduled to present
‘The Other Cinderella,"
an alternative take on the
traditional fairy tale,
Friday and Saturday,
Dec. 4-5. Left, Naomi
Collett (left) is Cinderella
and Ashley Black
performs as her
sister, Melissa.
Photo/Scott Rogers
Night Thursday. Dec. 16, at 6:30
p.m. in the school's media cen
ter. For more information, call
(770)888-1222.
•Prince & the Pauper’
The Sawnee Center presents
Mark Twain’s "The Prince and the
Pauper" Dec. 17. Young audiences
are invited to take a ride on this
dramatic rollercoaster from the
survival of the poor in the streets
of London to the fairy tale life of a
prince living at Buckingham
Palace. Suitable for grades K-9,
tickets are $2 each. For times and
reservations, call (770) 889-4977.
‘The Prince of Peace’
... a live, outdoor nativity scene,
will be held Saturday, Dec. 4, at 8
p.m. and Sunday. Dec. 5. at 6 p.m.
at the First Baptist Church of
Alpharetta. Admission is free. For
more information, call (770) 475-
6556.
‘lnside the Outside Inn’
Cumming First United Methodist
The best and worst
Christmas, ever
My heart ached for him.
There were a lot of presents under
the tree but. given the number of
children in our family, not so many,
really. And midway through the
riotous frenzy of opening them, my
brother was still sitting there,
empty-handed.
It was enough to make you cry.
I knew the truth, of course. That
knowledge was the only thing that
kept me from wrapping my skinny
10-year-old arms around him in
comfort. He had long been my best
friend and a needed refuge in a
world where warmth was infre
quent. Only 13 months older than
me. he could not remember a time
when my shadow did not mirror his
own.
Indeed, we shared the bond famil
iar perhaps only to those of joint
birth. His schooling had faltered
early and so we convinced those
around us we were twins as we
advanced, together, through each
school year. Our circle of friends
overlapped as did our fondness for
tramping through the woods behind
our house, weaving tales of adven
ture and liberation.
The day I raced my bike into a
gravelly slide toward broken bones
and worse, it was Mark who was
riding alongside me, skidding to
our front porch finish line. He was
also the one who frantically sum
moned medical help and then later
delivered get-well notes to my bed
side from our class.
We surfed that same hill on skate
boards, sometimes threading our
limbs onto opposite planks to spi
der down the steep slope. Together,
we laced up our roller skates and
slung them high over the fence that
surrounded Jefferson’s old high
school track. We followed the same
trek to sneak over the chain links
into the city swimming pool at
night with our friends.
When my stepfather built from
spare lumber a playhouse on stilts
Church’s celebration choir (grades
2-4) presents "Inside the Outside
Inn,” a Christmas play featuring
drama, music, dance and costumes
on Sunday. Dec. 5. at 7 p.m.
Deer Creek Presbyterian
... will hold a special family din
ner and cookie swap Wednesday,
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in our backyard, we quickly formed
a neighborhood club and anointed
ourselves co-presidents. Each
week, we gatiiered there with our
friends, whispering the password
and collecting dues. At night, we
built campfires and told ghost sto
ries, enlisting each other to sneak
from the shadows and shriek for the
punch-line finale.
Mark was the best friend I had
ever known and. when he hurt, I
hurt.
And so we both sat there
Christmas morning, miserable. I
shrieked in delight as I opened the
very watch for which 1 had yearned
and, beaming, raced around, show
ing it off. Then I saw his brave
smile of happiness for my good
fortune.
Feeling guilty, I resumed my seat
and prayed for the end of the gifts.
It seemed that moment would
never arrive. Mark’s shell of stoic
composure began to collapse and I
feared he would dart away from the
tree before Mom could draw him
outside at last. Enjoying the sus
pense. my other brothers and sisters
reveled in their presents, amused by
the distress they knew would soon
evaporate.
Finally, it was time to clean up the
mess and Mom gave Mark a sack
filled with wrapping paper rem
nants to haul outside to the trash.
Overcome with disappointment
and rejection, he swiped away an
angry- tear and darted outside
and tripped over his brand new
motorized mini bike. His joy was
absolute.
It was perhaps my worst
Christmas and best.
Dec. 15, at 6 p.m. For more infor
mation. call (770) 887-6801.
Creekside Methodist Church
... invites the community to its
Christmas Village Dec. 6-7 from
7-9 p.m. The event is free.
Donations of nonperishable
foods will be accepted.