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THURSDAY. AUGUST 18.2022 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 9A Love People - news? Send your own birthdays, | weddings, anniversarys other | big events. articles@pickensprogress. com © Page 9 August 18, 2022 Awards • Groups • Weddings • Birthdays • Anniversaries • Students • Reunions Gail and Tom Harrison celebrate 60 years of marriage On July 30, 2022, Gail and Tom’s daughters, Andrea Har rison Hulsey and Julie Harrison Walker, hosted a luncheon, catered by Mary Ann’s Country Cooking, at the Robert P. Jones Community Center. Andrea and Julie provided a cake and cupcakes. Photos were taken by granddaughter Alexis Waker, grandson Brian Hulsey gave the prayer and blessing. During the celebration, 50s and 60s music was in the back ground. Many family members and friends were in atten dance. Gail and Tom were married on July 28, 1962 at Kirkwood Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Beer and history August 25 Robert Scott Davis, Jr. will be speaking at the Pend- ley Brewing Company on August 25th at 7 p.m. on the subject of Andrew Pickens and his involvement with the Treaty of Long Swamp. The talk is sponsored by the Pickens Historical Soci ety is free and open to the public. Davis, has more than 1,000 publications dealing with genealogy, history, records, and research, most of which deal with the state of Georgia. He has been widely quoted by or appeared in CNN, Time, Smithsonian, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Class of1972 Re union August 27th The PHS Class of 1972 50th reunion is still on for August 27th at 6 p.m. at the Jasper campus of Chatta hoochee Tech. If any of you are unable to attend in person and would like to virtually visit the group, please contact trina.boteler@gmail.com for an invitation for a Zoom meeting. GriefShare Help and encouragement after the death of a loved one GriefShare is a special weekly seminar and support group designed to help you rebuild your life. We know it hurts, and we want to help. Wednesdays starting August, 24th at 1 p.m. at Foothills Community Church, 13724 Hwy. 53, Marble Hill. 770- 892-6312 Weight Loss Group Choose to Lose - Weight loss group meets at the Pick ens County Community Cen ter Room #1 every Friday morning. Weigh in time is be tween 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 informa tion at 1-417-413-8025. Pickens Library announcements Pickens 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. Renovation and expansion is projected to be completed by fall of this year. Visit SequoyahRegion- alLibrary.org/PCL-Project for more information, includ ing up-to-date service hours for Pickens Grab & Go. Wednesday Family Story times September 7, September 14, & September 21, 10:30 a.m. Join Miss Crystal at Pick ens County Recreation De partment in classroom #1 for weekly storytimes. We'll have themed stories and a themed craft! Children must be accompanied by an adult. To register for this event, call 706-692-5411 or visit Calen- darWiz.com/Sequoy- ahRegLib Strollers and Stories at Jasper City Park September 16,10:30 a. m. Bring your stroller and kids and meet us at the Duck Pond in Jasper City Park. We'll do a lap around the pond, learn about the library, complete a scavenger hunt, and end with a storytime! Children must be accompa nied by an adult. Registration is not required. Cosmic Oil Pastels September 20, 3:30p.m. Join us at Pickens County Recreation Department to create a magical cosmos using oil pastels. Participants will use NASA imagery as inspiration for artwork while learning about geology of planetary bodies and moons. For ages 10 and older. Children must be accom panied by an adult. To regis ter for this event, call 706-692-5411 or visit Calen- darWiz.com/Sequoy- ahRegLib JjejOAaLCL MARBLE FESTIVAL LEE NEWTON PARK 500 VETERANS MEMORIAL BLVD, JASPER October 1 & 2, 2022 Saturday 10 am to 6 pm^lr Sunday 10 am to 4 pm Quarry Tours Open to the public once a year Adults $20 Children 6-12 $18 5 & Under Free SATURDAY in Downtown Jasper SAM ROAD RACE 10 AM PARADE TROLLEY RIDES TO LOCAL SHOPPING AND RESTAURANTS INCLUDES ADMISSION TO FESTIVAL Festival Admission Adults Children 6-12 5 & Under Veterans Seniors Join us in celebrating the beautiful North Georgia Mountains, Historic Pickens County, and Fall Splendor SHINE rain or Couple finds love at the funeral home For Ricky McGuirt and Sharon Stanfield it was love at first sight, even if that first sight was a funeral home. By Dan Pool Editor dpool@pickensprogress.com On Saturday Ricky McGuirt and Sharon Stan field will be married in a brief ceremony at In Their Honor of Jasper Funeral and Cremation. It’ll likely be a lively af fair at the funeral home. The odd choice of the site for their upcoming wedding, however, is appropriate as it’s where they met and where they both intend “to depart” from. For the interview, most of their answers were in the form of jokes and the couple likes to laugh, having no reservations saying they found love at the funeral home. As Stanfield explains, both she and McGuirt lost long-time spouses in 2020 and both used In Their Honor for the funeral services. Stan field said she came to adore Don and Kimberly Ware, the owners of the funeral home, and continue to visit with them. One day the funeral home was doing a quilt drive, when McGuirt stopped by with donations and Stanfield first set eyes on him and, as she said, she knew what she wanted. “He came in with the quilts, wearing overalls with the most beautiful head of curly hair that I had ever seen,” Stanfield said. “I went over and asked, ‘Can I rub your hair?”’ McGuirt has a matter-of- fact demeanor, as though a stranger asking to rub his hair is all part of a day’s business. After the head-rub, he went on with his daily er rands. But the romantic sparks didn’t escape the notice of Stanfield, nor of Kimberly Ware. Kimberly makes clear she has never listed matchmaker on her resume, nor ever tried to set anyone up. And she recognizes that some families may not appreciate the fu neral home staff trying to arrange romance for the wid ows. But in this case, she felt God was pushing her to play Cupid and see that Ricky at tended a memorial service a few weeks later for all the families who had used their funeral services. She said Sharon had al ready showed up to the can dlelight vigil, but Ricky was no where in sight. So Kim berly called him and pretty emphatically let him know he must attend. When he arrived, Ms. Ware said she encouraged him to sit next to Sharon. A little later, Ware noticed the couple laughing and en joying themselves at the somber event. Don went over at one point and asked them to hold the laughter down a little. Sharon said on that night, it had been a long time since she had been on anything like a date but when the evening ended Ricky walked her to her car and opened the door for her and she decided he was the “sweetest person on earth.” And now the wedding is set for later this week. McGuirt said it seemed ap propriate to have it at the fu neral home, “We met here, we’ll be married here and we’ll depart from here.” For the wedding, Ricky and Sharon, both in their six ties, say their families are very supportive and will be there. He said for the wedding, “Maybe there will be 10 peo ple there, maybe 20, maybe nobody, but it doesn’t mat ter.” Both say it “will be sim ple, sweet - like everyday life.” They plan to get lunch at Johnny’s Pizza after the service and invite any family members there to go with them. Ware said she and her hus band are aware that using fu neral homes for weddings and other events is a trend as traditional venues are often booked up months ahead. She said when they built the funeral home, they intention ally used a floorplan and col ors that make it suitable for any number of gatherings, in cluding some Bible study groups and a veterans group that meet there. She said they are open to hosting other events but rec ognize it needs to be some thing respectful of the building’s primary purpose. “The death industry can weigh on you,” she said. “Ever since we have been open, Don has worked to have an element where death is just a part of life.” Appalachian CASA’s XWa . & its^2x6 itf/umc Friday, August 26,2022 6:30 pm- 10:00 pm Chateau Meichtry Family Vineyard and Winery For event page and ticket sales, please go to https://www.gaeasa.org/red shoe party/ or click the QR Code below! a For more information, please Contact Destiny Morgan,., —at 706-276-2272 or advocacy@appalachiahcasa.com This week's recipe brought to you by Rooster's Markets 54 Roosters Way, Jasper, GA • 706-301-8176 Muscadine Wine Ingredients 6 cups granulated sugar 3 quarts filtered water l quart mashed muscadine grapes l (1/4-ounce) packet active dry yeast (7 grams) Directions • In a large, cleaned, and sanitized gallon-sized glass container, dissolve sugar in water. • Add mashed grapes to water and sprinkle active dry yeast over top, but don’t stir. Cover container with a clean cheesecloth or kitchen towel and place in a dark and cool area, ideally between 68 F and 72 F. Let mixture rest for 24 hours. • Once a day has passed, stir mixture well and cover again, returning it to a dark and cool area. From this mo ment on, you need to stir mixture every day at the same time, for a full week. • After seven days of stirring and resting, strain liquid into another clean and sanitized gallon container with an air lock. • Fill with additional water to come up to the top of the gallon container. Let wine ferment for six weeks in a cool and dark place. • After six weeks, strain liquid again and place it in a clean gallon con tainer. Cap lightly for three days to allow for any more fermentation to cease. • Pour wine into bottles with an air tight cap and store in the fridge.
