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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Sunday, October 9,2022 FORSYTHNEWS.COM
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The Cumming Greek Festival will be held this year at Saints Raphael, Nicholas & Irene Greek
Orthodox Church, located at 3074 Bethelview Road.
Cumming Greek Festival returns to town next weekend
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
A taste of Greece is coming back
to Forsyth County.
Saints Raphael, Nicholas & Irene
Greek Orthodox Church, located at
3074 Bethelview Road, is hosting
the Cumming Greek Festival
Friday, Oct. 14 through Sunday,
Oct. 16 at the church. Admission
and parking are free.
“Join us for a unique opportunity
to experience the rich Greek cul
ture,” festival officials said in an
announcement. “We’H once again
have continuous live entertainment,
including traditional bouzouki and
other live music, and energetic per
formances from our very own
Greek dance troupe!
The festival will be open 3-9
p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday and noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday.
The weekend’s festivities will
include a market with vendors,
Greek food and wine and dancing.
“There’s fun for the whole fami
ly here at the Cumming Greek
Festival,” the announcement said.
“Not only is there singing, dancing
and shopping, there’s also a place
for the kids to enjoy themselves.”
For those who don’t have a lot of
time or want to avoid crowds, the
festival also offers a drive-thru ser
vice, where meals can be brought
directly to visitors’ vehicles.
For menus and more informa
tion, go to CummingGreekFestival.
com.
King’s Hawaiian, Junior Achievement team
up to open storefront in Discovery Center
King's Hawaiian
recently cut the rib
bon on their new
storefront at the Mike
& Lynn Cottrell Junior
Achievement
Discovery Center
located on Alliance
Academy for
Innovation's campus.
Submitted photos
By Sabrina Kerns
skerns@forsythnews.com
King’s Hawaiian recent
ly cut the ribbon on their
new storefront at the Mike
& Lynn Cottrell Junior
Achievement Discovery
Center located on Alliance
Academy for Innovation’s
campus.
As the new presenting
partner of the JA Finance
Park seventh grade pro
gram, the King’s Hawaiian
space will give more than
15,000 students a year a
glimpse into the realities
of adulthood while offer
ing them an opportunity to
navigate those complexi
ties in an authentic, hands-
on environment.
The JA Discovery
Center is filled with busi
ness and bank storefronts
that students can explore
and run to simulate real-
life situations they will
find themselves in when
getting their first jobs,
going to college and plan
ning out their finances in
the near future.
The JA Finance Park
programs give seventh and
eighth graders the opportu
nity to manage a house
hold budget and learn
about personal finances
through classes on budget
ing, credit scores and
more. They are then
assigned an education
level, salary and family
scenario that they use to
practice planning out a
real budget and then going
to storefronts to plan out
housing, utility and food
costs.
“Since opening our
Oakwood facility in 2011,
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Abrams raises
$85M in race
for governor
Kemps haul trails at $60M
By JEFF AMY
Associated Press
Democrat Stacey Abrams continues to raise
more money than incumbent Republican Brian
Kemp in the Georgia governor’s
race, but her heavy spending
means she has less cash remain
ing for the final sprint through the
Nov. 8 election.
Abrams said Friday that her
campaign and an associated lead
ership committee had raised more
than $36 million in the three
months ended Sept. 30. Abrams
has collected a total of $85 mil
lion since announcing her second
bid for governor.
The Democrat said she had
more than $11 million in cash
remaining, after spending nearly
$44 million during the third quar
ter
Abrams has effectively lever
aged a Republican-backed law
that allows top Georgia candidates and legislative
caucuses to collect unlimited contributions
through leadership committees, while coordinat
ing spending with traditional campaign commit
tees, leaving no difference in who controls the
money and how it can be used. Her One Georgia
Committee raised $20.8 million during the quar
ter, while her direct campaign raised $15.4 mil
lion.
After Abrams outraised Kemp nearly 3-to-l in
the early summer, Kemp has narrowed the gap,
announcing Wednesday that he’d taken in $28.7
million. Kemp has raised nearly $60 million for
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FCCF calls on
community for
donation help
By Sabrina Kerns
s ke rns@f o rsythnews.com
The Forsyth County Community Foundation is
asking the community for donations as it works to
grow an endowment fund that could provide
annual grants to local nonprofits.
A branch of the North Georgia Community
Foundation, the FCCF stated in a press release the
fund would help continue its mission to make a
difference in Forsyth County and keep charitable
dollars in the community.
“We have the vision of making a local impact
with local dollars as we work to better our com
munity,” FCCF Chair Mary Helen McGruder
said. “We take pride in the fact that all of the
money contributed will go into our endowed fund,
the FCCF Community Fund, and pour back into
Forsyth County today, tomorrow, and in perpetu
ity.”
FCCF is run entirely by a local advisory board
focusing on the charitable needs in Forsyth
County and how they can address those needs.
Board members include:
• Mary Helen McGruder, Chair, Community
Advocate
• Jack Allen, Ingram Funeral Home
• Phill Bettis, Bettis Law Group
• Steve Cooper, Cooper & Co. General
Contractors
• Bettina Hammond, Community Advocate
• Linda Hughes-Hardie, Community Advocate
• Lynn Jackson, Northside Hospital
• James McCoy, Forsyth County Chamber of
Commerce
• Jeff Stephens, Le Roy, Cole & Stephens, LLC
• Kevin Tallant, Miles Hansford & Tallant, LLC
• Brian Tam, Tam’s Restaurants
Learn how to donate to the FCCF Community
Fund through the organization’s website, www.
ngcf.org/fccf.
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Forsyth County
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