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PAGE 4B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. MARCH 24. 2022
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Awards • Groups • Weddings • Birthdays • Anniversaries • Students • Reunions
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By Kathy Fellows
Ryan Johnson, the Pick
ens 4-H Senior Club vice-
president was selected to
travel to Union County as a
Judge at the Cloverleaf Dis
trict Project Achievement
competition on Saturday,
March 19 th.
This is a challenging
event where students are re
quired to choose a topic and
give a presentation. Judg
ing is very competitive with
multiple kids from sur
rounding counties in each
project.
RT Jones Hospital
staff reunion
planned for 4/ 23
Members of the R. T.
Jones/Northside Hospital
staff, Pink Ladies and hospi
tal chaplains will hold a re
union on April 23 from 11
a.m.- 2 p.m. at Sharp Moun
tain Baptist Church Fellow
ship Hall. The cost is $15
Contact Jan Blalock at
jan.blalock@yahoo.com for
more information and to reg
ister. Deadline to register is
April 9.
Lions meet
The Jasper Lions Club
meets on the 2nd and 4th
Thursdays of each month at
7 p.m. in Walker Hall at the
First Baptist Church of
Jasper. For more information,
call 706.253.LION (5466) or
email us at
georgialions@mac.com.
Weight Loss
Group meet
Choose to Lose - Weight
loss group meets at the Pick
ens County Community Cen
ter Room #1 every Friday
morning. Weigh in time is
between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Meeting runs from 9:30 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m. No charge. Call
Pat Groves for more infor
mation at 1-417-413-8025.
TOPS meet
TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) meets every Mon
day night at 5 p.m, Cool
Springs Baptist Church, 4671
Hwy 53E, Tate.
For information, call 706-
897-2376.
Narcotics
Anon, meet
Narcotics Anonymous
meetings are held on Mon
days, Tuesdays and Fridays
at 8 p.m. at Jasper United
Methodist Church, 85
Church Street Jasper, Ga.
Senior citizens
card game
Come join other senior
citizens to play the card game
Pinochle at the Pickens Sen
ior Center open each week
day from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Send a
News Tip
Call the Progress office at
706-253-2457
The Pickens County Ani
mal Shelter invites you to
their Open House this Satur
day, March 26 from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Come meet the new
director, Emily Bell and their
staff. They will offer punch
and cookies and a special
“Lucky Dog” adoption fee of
$50 that day.
Interested in volunteer
ing? From 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
that day, you can find out
more about what volunteer
opportunities there are....
from dog and cat socializa-
Chris Feldt will be speak
ing about some interesting
bits of local history - from the
Civilian Conservation Corps
to the Dude Ranch, The Orig
inal Appalachian Trail Ap
proach Trail location, Col.
Sam Tate and the Tate Moun
tain Estates, The Conna-
Pickens County Veterans
Memorial Park is preparing
for Vietnam Veterans Day on
March 29th at 11 a.m. The
Marine Corps League De
tachment 1280 will host the
event.
This annual event recog
nizes our eternal gratitude
and respect to those who
served during the Vietnam
War Era. OnMarch29, 1973,
the last 2,500 troops were
withdrawn from South Viet-
Grab & Go Location
A temporary library loca
tion called Pickens Grab &
Go is open to the public in
side Mountain Education
Charter High School (located
at 339 West Church Street)
while the Pickens County Li
brary building is closed for
renovation and expansion. At
Pickens Grab & Go, library
patrons can check out and re
turn materials, place and pick
up library holds, request in
terlibrary loans, pay fines,
browse the library’s collec
tion, and access Wi-Fi and
printing services. Visit se-
quoyahregionallibrary. org/pc
1-project for more informa
tion, including up-to-date
service hours for Pickens
Grab & Go. [If space allows,
please keep reminding your
readers of Grab & Go.]
Celebrate Fine
Forgiveness Week
Have you been putting off
visiting your library because
of fines? Sequoyah Regional
Library System is offering a
fine forgiveness program in
honor of National Library
Week (April 3-9). During this
week only, visit any Se
quoyah library, tell a staff
member that you wish to take
tion, becoming a foster, trans
porting to rescues, help with
shelter duties and bringing
back Doggy Day Out where
volunteers as a group activity
go to Lee Newton or Doris
Wigington Park to give our
shelter pups a mini vacation.
Come and meet other volun
teers to buddy up for the day
to play with the shelter pups
in the exercise yard as well!
Volunteer applications are
available at the shelter, but
also you can go to www.pick-
ensanimalshelter. com.
haynee Lodge, arsons at Mt.
Oglethorpe and Sharp Top,
escaped convicts and more.
The speech will be held
On March 31, at 7 p.m. at the
County Administration Of
fices at 1266 E. Church St. in
the Pickens Room and is
sponsored by the Pickens
nam thus ending military in
volvement in what is now the
longest war in our country’s
history. The last of the Viet
nam War POWs held in
North Vietnam arrived home
on United States of American
soil during the same period.
On March 29, 1974, was de
clared Vietnam Veterans Day
by Presidential order and the
support of Congress with
Public Law 93-232. Over
58,000 honorable and brave
advantage of fine forgive
ness, and be forgiven a cer
tain amount in overdue fines
per library card. Some fees
may be excluded.
Weekly Storytimes
April 6, April 13, & April
20, 10:30 a.m.
Join Miss Crystal at Pick
ens County Recreation De
partment (1329 Camp Road)
in classroom #1 for story
time! Enjoy tech-themed sto
ries on April 6, “duck” into
storytime on April 13, and
get hipping and hopping on
April 20. There will be a
themed craft to go along with
the stories! Children must be
accompanied by an adult. To
register, call 706-692-5411 or
visit calendarwiz.com/se-
quoyahreglib
Meet-&-Greet April 7, 4p.m.
This National Library
Week, connect with your li
brary. Drop in for food, fiin,
and gifts while experiencing
technology the library offers!
This is your chance to view a
large scale version of the
floor plan for our upcoming
renovated and expanded
Pickens County Library
building! Registration is not
required.
Be-Paws We Care will be
there as well as they are part
ners and volunteers support
ing the shelter. They will
have information on their
next Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
Certificate Sale as well as the
Pickens Community Cat Pro
gram (PCCP). Have “outdoor
cats” that need to be fixed to
prevent those unwanted lit
ters? Come between 10:30
and noon that day and talk to
Eileen and Casey about the
PCCP.
Historical Society.
Chris Feldt is a member of
the Pickens Historical Soci
ety, and has been a resident of
the county since moving here
with his family in late 2018.
He is a writer, poet, historian
and has a penchant for tom
foolery.
souls who fought and died
during the Vietnam War, ones
who are missing and those
who died since from the con
sequences of that war, de
serve the eternal gratitude
and respect of this nation.
We will “Welcome
Home” Vietnam Veterans at
this event at 11 a.m. on Tues
day, March 29th at 599 Vet
erans Memorial Blvd
(Veterans Memorial Park).
Everyone is invited.
www.sequoyahregionalli-
brary.org
Pickens County Library, 100
Library Lane, Jasper, 706-
692-5411
Pickens Grab & Go, 339 W
Church St, Jasper, 706-692-
5411
This piece came up as a
Facebook memory from
March 2020 at the beginning
of the pandemic. While the
pandemic has improved, Mrs.
Fellows said the sentiments
contained here are still her
exact thoughts.
Never forgetting
where we come from
Joey likes the comer bis
cuit-extra brown, fried
bologna-nearly burned with a
side of strawberry jam. We
had our customary Sunday
breakfast with percolated
coffee from the pot just like
my Granny Beck used.
I still use our mothers’,
grandmothers’ and great
grandmothers’ bowls, pans
and utensils daily. It reminds
me of where we came from.
This morning I wept while
making breakfast. I was
thinking about how spoiled
we are. We have all the food
we want and every conven
ience imaginable. This social
distancing and going into
“survival mode” was a way
of life for our ancestors. My
Granny Beck used home
made lard and water to make
her biscuits -she told me she
didn’t know how to do it any
other way. She had never had
butter or milk to spare for
biscuit making. She taught
me to make jams and jellies.
She and my Ma Crowe never
wasted food. They made
something out of everything.
Leftover biscuits for sand
wiches. I cry every time I
think of my daddy having an
onion and a cold biscuit in his
“dinner bucket” for his
school lunch. He was a
grown boy before lunches
were served in school. He
told of the lunchroom ladies
at Tate School giving him
extra food because they knew
he was hungry. Much like
The Pickens County Coin
Club meets the first and third
Tuesdays of the month at
5:30 p.m. with an auction
starting at 6:30 p.m. at the
Amicalola Electric Center’s
Dean Center at 544 Highway
those wonderful ladies
throughout our community
are doing now-feeding those
children in need.
What we are going
through pales in comparison
to the lifestyle of our ances
tors during The Great De
pression and WWII-and
times before that.
May we never forget
where we came from and the
sacrifices made by those be
fore us. May we be grateful
that we’ve never felt hunger.
May we appreciate more our
water, heat, electricity, food,
modem conveniences-the list
could go on forever. May we
never forget that to make it-
we have to help each other-
like our ancestors did. They
relied on one another. My
great-grandmother Dorothy
Beck was a midwife-the en
tire community relied on her
to birth their babies. She de
livered over 100 and they all
lived. Y’all remember, all ba
bies were born at home. No
medication. Nothing but hot
water to sterilize with. No
bleach. No Lysol. No toilet
paper either. But they made
it. Because they had to.
We can do this. Because
we have to.
So, reach deep inside
yourselves today and pray for
the sick and hurting. Help
somebody-somehow.
We have extra bologna
biscuits for anybody on Cove
Road that’s in need. Come
by, blow your hom and I will
set it on the porch for you.
Kathy and her husband Joey
are native Pickens Countians
and enjoy beekeeping with the
help of their son, CJ. They enjoy
Jeeping, traveling, camping, hik
ing and gardening. Kathy is a
Registered Nurse, avid reader,
baker and enjoys making jams
and jellies. She will have an oc
casional column in the Progress.
515 in Jasper.
All ages welcome and you
don't have to be a member to
attend. For more information
contact Chris Paire, cptxag-
gie@yahoo.com, 678-770-
0118.
Future Military
Museum
For Pickens
County
The SAL (Sons of the American Legion Post 149) is in
terested in bringing a Military Museum to Pickens
County. We have a gentleman that has an impressive
collection and wants to share it with the public. We are
looking for help in obtaining a building/warehouse to
display this collection that covers all eras of history.
This would be a fantastic addition to Pickens County.
It would be a noble attraction for visitors from all over
to visit our county.
Anyone interested in helping us make this venture a reality;
please contact Jerry Greer at
sharpmountainqraphics@elliiav.com or call 706-253-3230
This week's recipe brought to you by
Rooster's Markets
54 Roosters Way, Jasper, GA • 706-301-8176
Garden Fresh Corn
Salad
INGREDIENTS
3 cups raw corn kernels (from about 4 cobs) ***
1 medium tomato, chopped (about 'A cup) ***
% cup chopped green onion
1 cup quartered and thinly sliced cucumber
(preferably English cucumber) ***
'A cup chopped fresh leafy herbs (choose from
basil, dill, mint, parsley and/or cilantro)
'A cup chopped radishes ***
1 medium jalapeno, very thinly sliced (omit if
sensitive to spice) ***
% cup Rooster’s Market extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon Rooster’s Market red wine vine
gar, to taste
2 medium cloves garlic, pressed or minced
'A teaspoon fine sea salt, to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 ripe avocado, diced ***
INSTRUCTIONS In a large serving bowl, com
bine the corn, tomato, green onion, cucumber,
herbs (don’t skimp on the herbs!), radishes, and
jalapeno. In a liquid measuring cup or small
bowl, combine the olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt
and several twists of black pepper. Whisk until
blended, then pour it over the salad. Toss to
combine. Add most of the avocado (reserve
some for garnish), and gently toss. Taste, and
add more vinegar for more tang (I usually add
another full tablespoon), or salt for more overall
flavor. Garnish with the remaining feta or avo
cado. Serve promptly, or chill for later. This
salad keeps well for 3 to 4 days in the refriger
ator, covered.
Upcoming history speaker will discuss
unique tales of east Pickens
The Connahaynee Lodge, shown here in flames in 1946, will be among the topics at an
upcoming historical society program on March 31stpresented by Chris Feldt.
“Welcome Home” Vietnam Veterans
March 29th at Veterans Mem. Park
Library news, upcoming events
Coin Club to meet April 5