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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020
New Story Walk in place at Commerce Public Library
There is a new Story
Walk now in place at the
Commerce Public Library,
“Snowballs by Lois Ehlert.”
There is a craft at the end
of the story for children to
pick up and take home.
“Displays for children
will be highlighting win
ter stories for the month of
January as well,” library
manager Angel Abounader
states. “Be on the look-out
for special Zoom program
ming in the weeks to come.
The library will also contin
ue the Korean Culture Pro
grams in the new year.”
CLOSED JAN.1-2
The library will be closed
on Jan. 1 for the New Year’s
Day holiday, as well as on
January 2.
Fines will continue to be
waived till further notice.
Abounader shared, “The
2020 year has been a chal
lenging year for everyone,
including libraries. On be
half of the Commerce Pub
lic Library, I want to per
sonally thank our patrons,
board members and the
city for their support during
these difficult times. New
policies, procedures and
ways of delivering library
services and programming
have been a challenge; but
this has allowed libraries
everywhere the opportunity
to adapt and evolve with the
times, something libraries
do well. We will continue
to work hard to keep our
patrons and staff safe, en
couraging mask wearing,
social distancing and doing
thorough cleaning, as well
as quarantining returned li
brary books for four days.
We will continue to offer a
variety of in-house, on-line
and outreach programs and
the ever popular Take and
Makes.”
She adds, “Be sure to
follow our programing on
Facebook, and look for up
coming Zoom programs
in the coming months. If
patrons have suggestions,
please be sure to reach out
or email me at aabounad-
er@prlib.org. We will all get
through this together and we
are hopeful for 2021. Many
blessings!”
NEW BOOKS
New adult fiction now
available include:
Stuart Woods’ “Hush-
Hush,” Harold Gilber’s,
“Germania,” Marjolyn Van
Heemstra’s “In Search of
a Name,” Lynne Truss’
“Murder by Milk Bottle,”
T. Davis Bunn’s “Tranquil
ity Falls” and Nev March’s
“Murder in Old Bombay.”
Germania is a novel taking
place in Nazi Berlin.
More titles of new non
fiction that are now on the
shelves include:
“The Wim Hof Method;”
“Happiness Becomes You”
by Tina Turner; “Simply
Living Well, A Guide to
Creating a Natural, Low-
Waste Home” by Julia Wat
kins; “The Age of Wood.
Our Most Useful Material
and the Construction of
Civilization” by Roland En-
nos; and “Flower School, A
Practical Guide to the Art
of Flower Arranging” by
Calvert Crary.
Children home for the
holidays might be inter
ested in “Big Nate Stays
Classy” by Lincoln Pevice,
“The Fowl Twins Deny All
Charges” by Eoin Colfer or
“Becoming a Video Game
Designer” by Daniel Halp-
ern.
Dottie Jones and Tami McClung are pictured with
the Ingles Holiday Gift Basket, which Mrs. Jones
and her granddaughter won by submitting a picture
of the two of them baking cookies for the family.
EJCHS art students selling calendar as
fundraiser for Hurricane Shoals Park
East Jackson Comprehensive High School visual art stu
dents are selling calendars as a fundraiser for Hurricane
Shoals Park.
Each year, the Art in the Park event sponsored by the
Tumbling Waters Society raises $12,000 to $15,000 an
nually to support and maintain Hurricane Shoals Park
in Maysville. The event was cancelled this year due to
COVID-19 and the art students at EJCHS decided to creat
ed a calendar with original artwork depicting their favorite
scenes at the park as a fundraiser.
The calendars are $20 each and can be purchased at the
Historic Courthouse in Jefferson, Jackson County Senior
Citizens Center, Jackson Chamber of Commerce and the
Crawford Long Pharmacy in Jefferson.
All proceeds will go to the Tumbling Waters Society.
The calendar is sponsored by EJCHS Art Department,
Andy Garrison and Wilco Printing & Signs.
The EJCHS students whose artwork is featured are: Eliz
abeth Hollett, Bella Turco, Jasmine David, Delilah Yang,
Breanna Massey, Abby Seagraves, Jazmen Wells, Kendall
McDonald, Karol Zamora-Ortiz, Isaac Miller, Jenifer Ro
driquez and Ashley Alvarez-Sarduy. The cover art is the
Art in the Park 2020 first place winner, Lillian Dempsey
from Jefferson Academy.
CALENDAR COVER
KIWANIS HOLDS CANNED FOOD DRIVE
The Kiwanis Club of Jefferson recently held a
canned food drive at Bell’s in Jefferson. The drive
was done to benefit the Food Bank at First Baptist
Church of Jefferson. “The people of Jefferson re
ally came out today and showed why this is such
a great place to live,” said Kiwanis member Nate
McDonald (pictured). Club President Josh Shep
pard expressed his appreciation to Bell’s and their
shoppers for their incredible generosity. “This was
a fantastic day of service made possible by Bell’s
and brought to a successful conclusion by the gen
erosity of the many customers there,” Sheppard
said.
EMC Foundation gives $87,500 to local service groups
The Jackson EMC Foun
dation board of directors
awarded a total $233,944
in grants during September,
October and November, in
cluding $87,500 to orga
nizations serving Jackson
County. Grants included:
•$15,000 to Boys and
Girls Clubs of Jackson
County, to provide supplies,
materials and technology
for its academic develop
ment and achievement pro
gram in the Jefferson and
Commerce club locations.
•$15,000 to For Her Glo
ry. a Gainesville agency
that provides breast cancer
patients in Banks. Barrow,
Franklin, Gwinnett. Hall,
Jackson and Lumpkin coun
ties with items that are not
covered by insurance, such
as wigs, bras, compression
sleeves and gloves.
•$15,000 to SISU of
Georgia, Inc., a Gainesville
non-profit organization pro
viding educational, thera
peutic, nursing and family
support services to children
with disabilities in Banks,
Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall,
Jackson and Lumpkin coun
ties, to support the Early In
tervention Program that pro
vides special needs children
with classroom instruction,
individualized therapy and
nursing services.
•$7,500 to Lekotek of
Georgia, a charitable or
ganization that provides
accessible play, adaptive
technology and toys, in
formation and resources
to children with disabili
ties from Banks. Barrow,
Clarke, Franklin, Gwinnett,
Hall, Jackson. Lumpkin
and Madison counties, to
provide services through its
Gwinnett satellite office.
•$5,000 to Northeast
Georgia History Center, in
Gainesville, for its Land of
Promise exhibit renovation
and updated content, which
will complement state-man
dated school curriculums
and educational program
ming that is open to all
schools in the Jackson EMC
service area.
•$15,000 to North
east Georgia Care. Inc.,
in Gainesville, for its My
Baby Counts program,
which provides education
al materials on parenting
skills to pregnant women
and new parents in Banks,
Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett,
Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin and
Madison counties.
•$10,000 to Sacred Roots
Farm, in Gainesville, pro
viding a safe haven for
women and children res
cued from sex trafficking
and abuse throughout the
Jackson EMC service area,
for childcare expenses, ed
ucational programming and
counseling services.
•$5,000 to Ark Family
Preservation Center, Inc.,
which serves families in
need of therapeutic support
to help them remain unified
and prevent abuse, for its
Supervised Family Visita
tion Program that provides
supervised visitation for
children in foster care, in
Banks, Franklin, Jackson
and Madison counties.
Jackson EMC Foundation
grants are made possible by
the 198,972 participating
cooperative members who
have their monthly electric
bills rounded to the next
Community hosts benefit concert for Dutton family
The Chateau Elan com
munity recently held a bene
fit concert to support a local
couple who were seriously
injured in an accident.
Chateau Elan Music in
the Park outdoor concert
was organized in hopes of
energizing more commu
nity support around Keith
and Jennifer Dutton of Jef
ferson. The couple was in
volved in an accident in Au
gust, and organizers hope to
continue to raise support for
the family.
“They’re both finally out
of ICU and have recent
ly been transferred to the
Shepherd Center in Atlanta
where they still have a re
ally long road of recovery,”
said Lisa Harris, RE/MAX
Center. “Their oldest son,
Hayden, was playing on our
Chateau Elan Mixed Dou
bles Tennis Team this sum
mer, but now this college
student has a completely
different life that is dedicat
ed to taking care of his par
ents and two younger sis
ters. We really just want to
help them since their family
needs our community’s sup
port right now.”
CONCERT
Good Measure Band
helped organize the con
cert and performed for free.
They sang 70s and 80s rock
hits like Mustang Sally,
Pretty Woman and Sweet
Home Alabama, along
with some popular Country
songs like Girl Crush and
Tennessee Whiskey.
The crowd loved the band
and many suggested the
neighborhood do more out
door concerts like this on
a regular basis, organizers
said.
The group raised over
$7,000 for the family and
give credit to the event’s
organizers, Mike LaMorte,
Kelly Harms, Rhonda Kup-
ka and Lisa Harris.
The organizers thank
Cloudland Vineyards &
Winery, Jack’s Bar & Grill,
Houndstooth, Lisa Harris
Realty, Longhorn’s Steak-
house of Braselton, May
nard’s at the Corner, Ninja
Steakhouse, Nova Rose
Designs, RE/MAX Center,
Traveling Vineyard by Don
na Ramberg, Travis Thread-
gill Tennis and others who
contributed to the event.
“We all know that one in
six restaurants across the
USA have closed in 2020,
so we want to encourage
folks to support these local
establishments and person
ally thank them for all they
do for the community when
you visit.” says Harris.
The event was held in the
Chateau Elan Subdivision
and organizers said it was a
good venue hold the fund
raiser since there are var
ious locations throughout
the community that are de
signed for large events. Or
ganizers decided to have the
concert in Chateau Elan’s
Oxley Village since there
is a dedicated stage with
an open field available for
playing, dancing and social
distancing.
HOW TO DONATE
“It was a successful fund
raiser event benefitting a
local family,” said Chateau
Elan resident Rhonda Kup-
ka. “All were entertained
listening to great music on a
perfect day.”
If you’d like to contrib
ute, visit the Dutton Fami
ly’s GoFundMe at https://
gf.me/u/yy5xzf or contact
Lisa Harris where a dona
tion site is located at RE/
MAX Center’s Braselton
office.
dollar amount through the
Operation Round Up pro
gram. Their “spare change”
has funded 1,583 grants
to organizations and 390
grants to individuals, put
ting more than $16 million
back into local communities
since the program began in
2005.
Any individual or chari
table organization in the ten
counties served by Jackson
EMC (Clarke. Banks, Bar-
row, Franklin, Gwinnett,
Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin,
Madison and Oglethorpe)
may apply for a Foundation
grant by completing an ap
plication, available online
at https://www.jacksonemc.
com/foundation-apply or at
local Jackson EMC offices.
Applicants do not need to be
a member of Jackson EMC.
PUBLIC NOTICE
In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 36-35-4(a)
(3) and Section 2.18(d) of the Hoschton
City Charter, public notice is hereby
given of the intent of the governing body
of the City of Hoschton to consider, at its
regularly scheduled meeting on January
18, 2021, at 5:30 P.M. at the Hoschton
City Hall Council Room, located at 79
City Square, Hoschton, Georgia 30548,
the passage of an ordinance to amend
Section 3-308(1) by eliminating it in
its entirety and substituting in its place
the following, with an effective date of
February 1, 2022:
Section 3-308 Compensation
The Mayor shall receive as
compensation the sum of $1,000
per month. Each member of the
Hoschton City Council shall receive
as compensation the sum of $500 per
month.
This Public Notice and a copy of the
proposed Ordinance shall appear in a
prominent place in the City Clerk’s office
at Hoschton City Hall, 79 City Square,
Hoschton, Georgia 30548, and copies
of this Public Notice and the proposed
Ordinance shall be available for public
inspection continuously during the three-
week period preceding the meeting on
January 18, 2021.