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UPCOMING EVENTS
Forsyth County
Sheriff's Office's
Seniors and Lawmen
Together (S.A.L.T.) will
hold a monthly meeting
Wednesday, November
16, 10 a.m., at the
Fraternal Order of Police
Lodge at 248 Castleberry
Industrial Dr. in
Cumming.The meeting is
open to all Forsyth
County senior citizens
and will feature different
speakers and topics per
taining to senior safety,
including guest speaker
Linda Ledbetter of Age
Well Forsyth. Bring your
soda pop tabs forThe
Ronald McDonald House.
For more information,
contact CpI. Jenny Belafi
at (678) 513-5880.
Christmas Arts &
Crafts Festival at The
Forsyth Conference
Center at LanierTechnical
College is this Sat/Sun,
Nov 12, 9am-5pm & Nov
13,10am-4pm. It is locat
ed at 3410 Ronald Reagan
Blvd (next to The
Collections) in Cumming.
This is one of the largest
indoor arts and crafts fes
tivals in Forsyth County
featuring unique, hand
crafted works by over 100
professional artisans and
craftsmen. Attractions
include an "Elf Corner"
Gift Shop-a special shop
where kids can shop!
(Elves will help them
choose gifts for family
and friends with gift
wrapping included), a
Festival ofTrees Shop of
1 to 4ft trees fully deco
rated by local artists, and
Photos with Santa/
Santa's Sleigh. Food
Vendors will be available
outdoors. Admission is
Free and Hosted by
Sawnee Association of
the Arts &The Cumming
Arts Center. It is spon
sored in part by a grant
from the Forsyth County
Arts Alliance and addi
tional sponsors. Visit
sawneeart.org for details.
The Cumming Arts
Center's new exhibit,
"Never Stop Learning'/
is on display now
through Dec 3.This excit
ing exhibit includes SAA
members new artwork as
well as artwork by 77 tal
ented art students from
Lambert, Denmark,
Central, North and South
Forsyth High Schools and
two Home/Art Center
Classes. Gallery viewing
and Gift Shop hours are
Thurs-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 saw-
neeart.org for more infor
mation about all
Cumming Art Center
activities including the
19th Annual November
12 & 13 Christmas
Festival at LanierTech.
FROM 1A
NoFo
Gainesville City Council.
At the helm of NoFo Gainesville is
head brewer Andrew Greene, who
hails from NoFo Cumming, where he’s
held the title of head brewer for rough
ly a year.
Greene, a Roswell native, U.S.
Marine Corps veteran and Georgia
State graduate, has about seven years
of brewing experience under his belt.
His immersion into Georgia’s craft
beer scene began with a bartending gig
at Cherry Street Brewing in Cumming;
from there, he dabbled in the packag
ing side of the trade at Jekyll Brewing
in Alpharetta and the brewing process
itself at Monday Night Brewing in
Atlanta.
“I kind of just got the bug and start
ed working jobs trying to learn as
much as I could,” Greene said.
Amongst his first brews at Monday
Night stands an IPA labeled “Formal
Jorts,” tailored for occasions in which,
according to its description, “you want
to put your best foot forward.”
That particular brew, Greene said,
was “probably the first one that I did
where I was like, ‘Man, that’s not half
bad. People might actually like this.’”
Though Greene doesn’t play favor
ites when it comes to craft beer, his
natural leanings are toward lagers and
pilsners — and he’ll be able to produce
both at NoFo Gainesville with the use
of new lagering tanks.
Unique to that location as opposed to
its predecessor, the horizontal condi
tioning tanks will refine the brewery’s
lagers by “cleaning up” the production
process.
“Lagers are kind of a delicate pro
cess,” Greene said. “They take some
time to do, and we’re doing the best we
can with what we have (at the
Cumming location). The lagering tanks
will allow us, as far as our lagers and
pilsners, to be able to do a better quali
ty and help our process overall.”
Lagering tanks aren’t a “specialty”
piece of equipment, per se, but they are
an expense many brewers don’t make
because they aren’t required to pro
duce lager-style beers, Greene said;
rather, they’re a tool that, when wield
ed, produces a noticeably next-level
quality.
With the opportunity to be part of
something “from the ground up,”
Greene envisions NoFo becoming not
just a fixture of midtown Gainesville,
but a gathering place for the communi
ty at large.
“Our thing’s not necessarily about
being a huge brewery. It’s more about
that area and those people,” he said.
“We hope to extend what we already
have in Cumming — a place people
can come have a beer, relax and feel at
home. We want to be as immersed in
Gainesville as we can be.”
For updates, follow @nofogaines-
ville on Instagram.
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FROM 1A
REACH
Sabrina Kerns Forsyth County News
2022-23 REACH Georgia scholars sit at a table
with their parents to sign their contracts, official
ly accepting the role and their future scholar
ships.
“My family didn’t have
much growing up,”
Echuck said. “We had to
go to The Place for food
and clothing. It was tough.
My dad dug ditches during
the day. My mom cleaned
houses. At night when dad
got home, my mom took a
night shift at McDonalds.”
And even though no one
else in his family had gone
to college, Echuck was
determined to go. All
through school, he kept up
good grades and eventually
received the letter he had
been waiting for in the
mail that read,
“Congratulations, you’ve
been accepted into col
lege.”
“I don’t think I read the
rest of the entire letter,”
Echuck said, laughing. “At
that moment, I couldn’t
believe it.”
But when he ran to his
parents with the letter and
told them, they were
forced to tell him they sim
ply didn’t have the money
to afford his tuition.
“There is nothing we
can do,” he remembers
them saying.
That is why he said the
REACH Georgia program
has become so important
to him as an adult.
“That will never be a
line that you’re going to
hear as a student from your
parents because of the
REACH scholarship,”
Echuck said.
Bearden said REACH
begins in middle school
with counselors nominat
ing eighth grade students
they believe “have demon
strated academic promise,
good attendance and good
behavior.”
Students are then asked
to apply for the scholarship
and provide three referenc
es before going through an
interview process. This
year, Bearden said 21 stu
dents applied. Of those 21,
the district invited nine to
be inducted into the 2022-
23 cohort.
District leaders invited
the students and their par
ents up to a table at the
front of the room where
they were met with a con
tract to accept their obliga
tions as members of the
cohort. They must main
tain at least a 2.5 GPA
through high school, keep
good attendance and
behavior, meet with an
assigned mentor and aca
demic coach, and apply for
a HOPE-eligible college or
university in Georgia.
And as the students fin
ished signing the last of
their contracts, the crowd
of community leaders and
educators cheered for each
of them.
“We cannot wait to hear
all the things that you’ll
accomplish in the future,”
said Susan Knight, a
REACH sponsor.
The 2022-23 REACH
scholars are:
• Jonathan Ayala
• Juliette Campos-
Bautista
• Elizabeth Martinez
Angeles
• Amalie Orean
• Maleigha Robinson
• Yanelizeth Rojas-
Nemorio
• Ana Rubio
Hernandez
• Sophia Stargel
• Alyssa Witham
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Audience
members
bow their
heads in
prayer as
Maj. John
Pirtle with
the Georgia
Army
National
Guard leads
the event's
invocation.
Photos by Sabrina
Kerns Forsyth
County News
'The Java Joes' perform one of several wartime
musical selections.
FROM 1A
Veterans
choice to serve in the mili
tary for a variety of rea
sons with some feeling a
duty to help protect their
country and others follow
ing long family traditions
of service.
“Regardless of their rea
sons, all raised their right
hands and swore to support
and defend the constitution
of the United States and
joined a team that lived
together, trained together,
ate together, froze at night,
sweltered in the heat and
sand,” Davis said. “They
laughed, they cried, they
sacrificed. They felt the
sting of battle together.”
He explained it is
important to always
remember the sacrifices
made by veterans and the
sacrifices those in service
will make for the country
going forward into what
ever conflicts lay ahead.
Gary Goyette, Vietnam
Veterans of America
Chapter 1030 President,
thanked the veterans for
their sacrifices.
“And to the many
Vietnam veterans in our
audience this morning, I
say to you — welcome
home,” Goyette said.
Brumablow gave a spe
cial welcome to the several
veterans of the U.S. Air
Force in the audience, not
ing that 2022 marks the
75th anniversary of the
creation of the military
branch on Sept. 18, 1947.
The Forsyth County Fire
Department and Sheriff’s
Office Joint Honor Guard
presented the flags as
Artios Academy Choral
Director Adrienne
Gustafson and her daugh
ter, Amelia, sang the
National Anthem.
A group of mostly high
school students with
Artios Academy and
Christian Fine Arts of
Forsyth performed selec
tions popular during sever
al wars and conflicts
including WWI, WWII,
the Vietnam War, the Gulf
War and the Iraq and
Afghanistan Wars.
The women’s ensemble,
The Bettie Brigade, and
the men’s, The Java Joes,
also performed “Song for
the Unsung Hero,” in
honor of those who lost
their lives during 9/11.
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