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PAGE 16A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JANUARY 29. 2015
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Spring Plant Sale now underway
By Darla Huffman
Another brick in the wall at Ball Ground
The always popular Annual
4H/Master Gardener Spring
Plant Sale is underway. If you are
interested in adding to your land
scape or garden this year and are
not familiar with this event, you
might want to check it out. Each
plant is chosen for its suitability
to this area and purchased from
nurseries that meet the standards
developed over the past 18 years
of plant sale success.
Over 600 packets containing
the order forms and plant de
scriptions were mailed out this
week to past customers and plant
lists requests. If you did not re
ceive this information you can
find all of it online at www.pick-
ensmg.org where you can also
see pictures of the plants that are
for sale.
What’s for sale? Too much to
list here, of course, but blueberry
bushes are always popular and
these are old enough to start
bearing the first year. Other
berries available are blackber
ries, strawberries, raspberries and
other home grown eatables are
figs and muscadines. Then there
is a section entitled Featured
Plants that features some inter
esting unusual things, mostly
shrubs and small trees such as
Deutzia, Yuki Snowflake, Thuja
Green Giant and Pink Lemonade
Blueberry. You’ll fine plenty of
old favorites traditional to this
area - Crape Myrtle, Gardenia,
Azaleas (both evergreen and na-
Master Gardener volunteers stuff envelopes with plant sale particulars. If you haven’t got
ten one, call 706-253-8840.
tive) and, what no southern yard
can be without, Camellia.
You can order online or come
by the Extension Office, if you
can find it. It is the process of
moving to a new location, out of
the depot, where it has been for
all of these years, and into the
Chamber of Commerce building
in Lee Newton Park (502 Stegall
Drive, Jasper) on the first of Feb
ruary. So come and visit us there
or call 706-253-8840 or e-mail
ugel227@uga.edu.
Order and pay for your plants
by February 27 to be picked up
on Saturday, March 14, at the red
bam behind Jasper Middle
School. This is not only a great
opportunity to get some really
good plants but also to support
the 4-H and Master Gardeners in
one of their few fundraising ac
tivities. All the proceeds from the
sale go back into the community.
A definite win/win situation.
The conceptual design plan of how the sign will eventually look.
By Larry Cavender
Progress Contributor
What exactly is it? That’s
what area residents have been
asking about the brick wall
standing at the comer of the Can
ton Highway/Old Highway 5 and
Gilmer Ferry Road intersection
in Ball Ground.
It is, simply, a brick wall. The
brick masonry has been com
pleted, but according to John
Byrd of the Ball Ground City
Council, it will be much more
than just a wall in the coming
months. When the project is
completed, it will be nothing less
than a work of art.
The wall will eventually be a
sign of welcome for the city of
Ball Ground, but instead of a
simple sign with welcoming
words, there will be three im
ages, all representing various as
pects of the city’s heritage.
Centering the sign will be a bas-
relief locomotive heading out
ward toward the viewer. To the
left of the locomotive will be a
mill worker and to the right a
Cherokee Indian.
The mill worker and the
Cherokee Indian will actually be
statuary, all sitting on a semicir
cular base. On the front edge of
the base will be these words,
“Historic Downtown Ball
Ground, Est 1883.”
The mysterious brick wall as it stands now in Ball Ground at the
corner of Canton Highway and Old Highway 5.
Byrd, who is the project
chairman, brings a great deal of
expertise to the project. He is
also the owner of John Byrd
Signs in Ball Ground and has
many years experience in design
ing signs. The sign, according to
Byrd, is a “work in progress.” To
help defray cost, Byrd has volun
teered much of the labor on the
project and works on it as time
permits.
Several months have passed
since the brick wall was com
pleted, so many months that
Byrd could not remember the
exact date when the masonry
was completed. When asked
when residents can expect to see
the completed project, Byrd
shrugged his shoulders and
replied, “Whenever I give a com
pletion date, something seems to
come up and I have to postpone
it.”
When pressed on the issue,
Byrd said, “It’s my hope that the
sign will be completed by late
spring or early summer.”
Regardless of when it is com
pleted, the sign, without a doubt,
will be something in which the
citizens of Ball Ground can be
proud.
WE'RE CHEROKEE'S COMMUNITY
HOSPITAL WITH AN EMPHASIS ON
COMMUNITY
Northside Hospital-Cherokee offers more than the latest medical
treatments. Since becoming part of Cherokee County in 1997,
we've been a devoted member of the community. We contribute
to Partners in Education in Cherokee County schools and our
physicians and staff have donated more than 10,000 hours of
volunteer work to local organizations. In all, we've invested
millions in local community centers, academic institutions and
charity organizations in Cherokee County. We will continue to
invest in and support Cherokee. Because it's our home, too.
Northside Hospital
Cherokee
Cherokee's community hospital.
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Alzheimer’s
Caregiver
support
The Alzheimer’s Associa
tion, Georgia Chapter, has two
Caregiver Support groups in
Pickens County. The meetings
are held at Fellowship Presbyte
rian Church, 389 Bent Tree
Drive, Jasper, on the 4th Mon
day of each month at 1 and at
Trinity Church, 2685 Steve Tate
Hwy. in Marble Hill, at 1 on the
2nd Monday. The group is facil
itated by Susan Jackson. Please
call Susan at 706-268-3322 by
the Friday prior to each meeting
to make a reservation for care
provided during meeting.
Our vision is a world without
Alzheimer’s. To leam more,
visit www.alz.org/georgia or call
800-272-3900.