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PAGE 8A 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.