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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
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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
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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
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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
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This week's recipe brought to you by
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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.
