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UPCOMING EVENTS
The Cumming Arts Center's new
exhibit, "Never Stop Learning'/ is
on display now through Dec 3.This
exciting exhibit includes SAA mem
bers new artwork as well as artwork by
77 talented art students from Lambert,
Denmark, Central, North and South
Forsyth High Schools and two Home/
Art Center Classes. Gallery viewing
and Gift Shop hours areThurs-Sat,
11am-3pm.The Arts Center is located
at 111 Pilgrim Mill Rd in downtown
Cumming and is open during the week
for ongoing classes and open studio.
Visit sawneeart.org for more informa
tion about all Cumming Art Center
activities including the 19th Annual
November 12 & 13 Christmas Festival
at LanierTech.
Treat theTroops Southern Style,
which provides comfort foods for our
deployed soldiers, will have a packing
event at 7 p.m., Nov.14. attheVFW
Post 9143,1045 Dahlonega Hwy.,
Cumming. Please bring homemade
cookies (six per twist-tie baggie and
labeled if they contain nuts), candy,
individual servings of packable food,
travel-size toiletries and letters or cards
of appreciation.Tax-deductible postage
donations are needed. If you know of
anyone who is currently deployed out
side the Continental United States,
email Linda their name, military mail
ing address and expected return
date. For more information, email Ikt-
jones@bellsouth.net, or go online at
www.treatthetroops.org.
Ongoing
Lord of Life Lutheran Church:
Please join us for worship on Sundays
at 10:30 a.m. You can also view the ser
vice live each Sunday through
Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/
lordoflifealpharetta.org). Lord of Life
Lutheran Church offers a Christ-
centered/fa m i ly-oriented m i n istry. The
church is at 5390 McGinnis Ferry Road,
Alpharetta. For more information, call
770-740-1279 or visit www.Lord-life.
org.
Episcopal Church of the Holy
Spirit will have Sunday service at 8:30
a.m. and 10:45 a.m., (coffee & conver
sation held after each service), and
adult education at 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday service at noon. Each eve
ning Compline is held via Facebook
live at 8 p.m. on www.facebook.com/
ECOHS.net. We also have Bible Study
onTuesday at 6 p.m. andThursday at
10:30 a.m.Thursday beginning on Oct.
11. Visit www.ecohs.net for all available
opportunities, including Vacation Bible
School coming up. Episcopal Church
of the Holy Spirit is at 724 Pilgrim Mill
Rd., Cumming.
Members of
VVA chapter
1030 sit on
just some
of the 60
bikes they
purchased
from local
Walmart
store man
ager Vickie
Cranford.
Photo submitted
to Forsyth County
News
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The 200-member organi
zation focuses its efforts on
assisting homeless veterans,
other veterans in need and
supporting a host of com
munity organizations. The
chapter also annually
awards college scholarships
to Forsyth County high
school graduates.
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Halloween
enjoying some spooky
music.
And as some families
started to grab their buck
ets of candy and head back
home, they said they
couldn’t have been happier
with the event.
“I loved it!” one
Cumming Elementary stu
dent said excitedly while
walking with his family
back to their car. “Look at
all this candy I got!”
Photos by Sabrina Kerns Forsyth County News
Members of La Familia Hispana, the largest club
at Forsyth Central High School, helped to pass
out candy alongside their sponsor and recent
Leadership in Education awardee, Vince Cordoso.
A student dressed as
Elmo rummages
through the candy he
has collected so far.
A cowgirl-
turned-
pirate bal
ances
across an
obstacle
course to
earn her
next
piece of
candy.
A fairy
princess
floats her
way
through a
game at
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Cumming
Health and
Rehab res
idents
Nellie
Allison,
left, and
Dorothy
Powers
celebrate
their 100th
birthdays
in
October.
Sabrina Kerns,
Forsyth County
News
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Birthdays
Photo submitted to Forsyth County News
From the left, Betty Fogal, Alma Abercrombie,
Joe Jones and Robert Jones stand around Nellie
Allison to celebrate her 100th birthday.
around 11 years ago.
“When she was 89, she
called me and said, ‘I think
I want to come down there
[to Georgia] because I
couldn’t move when I’m
90,’” Sandy said, laughing.
So they found her a low
income apartment in
Alpharetta where she lived
independently until 2018.
She first moved into
Cumming Health and
Rehab in May 2019 where
she met Nellie, her now
fellow centenarian.
Nellie grew up in south
Georgia as the oldest of 14
siblings, four boys and 10
girls, and one of her
youngest sisters, Alma
Abercrombie, said she
always worked to help take
care of them when she
could.
“She was sort of our sec
ond mom because I was
only maybe nine when my
momma got real sick,”
Alma said, explaining that
Nellie was always the one
to make sure everyone had
food at the table and a gift
on Christmas day.
Nellie got married when
she was 16 years old and
eventually moved to the
Atlanta area where she and
her husband had three kids,
a daughter and two sons.
And even though she took
care of her kids and
worked full-time at Big
Star Supermarket, Almas
said she still always made
time to take care of others.
“She had a boy who,
when he was 16 years old,
was living in a van, and
Nell’s son brought him
home with him one day,”
Alma said. “Next thing
they knew, the boy was
staying there with Nell
until he finished school.
“She was always looking
at the other person,” she
continued.
Now that Nellie’s mem
ory is fading, Alma said
she tries to step up and
finally be the one to take
care of Nellie for a change,
coming to visit her from
Conyers every chance she
has.
She and about 25 other
friends and family mem
bers came to Nellie’s birth
day party this past week to
see her and make new
memories while remem
bering old ones.
“It was great,” Alma
said. “To be here that long,
she’s outlived a lot of ‘em.”
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