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PAGE 10A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 12. 2023
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Awards • Groups • Weddings • Birthdays • Anniversaries • Students • Reunions
Amicalola Garden Club hears about
scams, “putting garden to bed”
Submitted by Amicalola
Garden Club
Amicalola Garden Club
meeting resumes after sum
mer break. A meeting was
held on September 19 at the
Tate Community Room.
Hostesses were Ms. Peggy
Andrews and Ms. Gail
Cleveland. The ladies did an
excellent job in decorating
the room for fall. A barbecue
luncheon was served and pro
vided by members.
Guest speaker was Cap
tain John Cagle with the
Pickens County Sheriffs De
partment. Captain Cagle is
commander of the Criminal
Investigations Unit with an
extensive career in law en
forcement beginning in 1979.
You too can Change a
Child’s Story. Become a vol
unteer with Court Appointed
Special Advocates (CASA)
of the Appalachian Judicial
Circuit today. We are blessed
to have many wonderful ad
vocates to look out for the
best interests of children in
foster care. Unfortunately,
we consistently need more
community volunteers to ad
vocate for our children in
need.
CASA Volunteers are
trained community volun
teers who are appointed by a
judge to advocate for an
abused and neglected child
in juvenile court dependency
proceedings. Volunteer ad
vocates speak to everyone
After 30 years of service with
the Georgia Bureau of Inves
tigation, he worked more
than six years at Dawson
County Sheriffs Department.
In 2014 he began teaching
courses at the University of
North Georgia before joining
the Pickens County Sheriffs
Department.
Captain Cagle and his as
sistant, Rhonda Freeman,
gave an informative and in
teresting presentation on how
to avoid scams, including
phone, impersonator, charity,
prize, lottery, travel, and
timeshare scams. Several vic
tims in Pickens County have
fallen prey to these scam
mers. There is a tremendous
amount of interest in scams
that are going on in Pickens
County. The biggest take
involved in the child’s life,
including their family mem
bers, teachers, doctors,
lawyers, social workers, and
others; and then make writ
ten recommendations to the
court as to the child’s best in
terest. The advocate is often
the only constant adult pres
ence in the child’s life.
If you are interested in
learning more about becom
ing a CASA volunteer and
the rewards that come along
with this important role, you
can visit our website at ap-
palachiancasa.com or email
us at advocacy@appalachi-
ancasa.com. Our next train
ing session will occur on
Monday and Thursday
evenings beginning Monday,
away is just hang up and
don't become a victim.
Lou Charland gave the
horticulture tip on putting the
garden to bed. Lou provided
interesting tips on planting
fall crops, mulching and win
terizing your tools.
President Linda Allred
talked about the clean up of
Freedom Park and the Tate
Cemetery. Discussion was
given to Tate Day on Novem
ber 4th and the club partici
pation. The Laurel District
meeting will be held at the
Wheeler House in Ball
Ground on October 24th.
President Allred welcomed
returning member Sally Eu
banks.
October 9 at 5:30 p.m. and
ending Thursday, November
9th. For more information,
visit appalachiancasa.com,
email advocacy@appalachi-
ancasa.com or call 706-276-
2272
Adventist Community
Services Food Pantry
The Adventist Commu
nity Services Food Pantry is
available the first four Sun
days of the month from noon
until 2 p.m.
Jasper Seventh Day Ad
ventist Church, 600 Burnt
Mountain Road, Jasper (just
past the library.) 706-253-
2782.
Youth writing
contest
deadline
October 20
Submitted by Sassafras
Literary Exchange
Deadline for the Creative
Writing for Youth will be
coming to an end a week
from this Friday, Oct. 20.
The competition, in its 42nd
year, is presented by the
Sassafras Literary Ex
change. It is open to any
student in grades 6 through
8 and 9 through 12 who live
in and are educated in Pick
ens County.
The three categories are:
Fiction, Nonfiction and Po
etry. Poetry entries should
have no more that 50 lines
while the other two cate
gories should have 1,500
words or less. A student
may enter once in each cat
egory. With assistance from
the Community Bank of
Pickens County, Sassafras is
able to offer cash prizes.
First place for middle grades
winners is $60 in each cate
gory with 2nd place earning
$40 and 3rd place winner
will receive $20. First place
in the high school division is
S75, 2nd place $50 and third
is $25.
With a grant from Pick
ens Arts and Cultural Al
liance (PACA), Sassafras
now has a web site (de
signed by Vered Klein-
berger). In addition to a
paper copy of the entries,
Sassafras asks that a digital
copy of each entry be sent to
Sassafrasliterary.org. These
will be assigned an ID num
ber and referenced back to
the paper copy. All entries
should be turned in to the
language arts teacher by the
end of the school day, Fri
day, Oct. 20. Arrangements
are being made to pick up
entries from home schooled
students and those in alter
nate educational programs.
UNG's Blue
Ridge Campus
awards
scholarships
The University of North
Georgia (UNG) honored 32
students with about $15,000
of scholarships and cele
brated the philanthropy that
made those scholarships pos
sible at the sixth annual
Tomato Sandwich Supper
held Sept. 28 at UNG's Blue
Ridge Campus.
"Congratulations to our
students. Thank you to our
generous donors," UNG
President Michael Shannon
said. "Thank you for chang
ing these students' lives. We
are a beacon here. We bring
opportunity."
Scholarship winners in
cluded two students from
Pickens County.
Georgia Mountain Opportu
nities Scholarship: Irena
Faber of Jasper.
Claude Williams & Virginia
Quintrell Merit Scholarship:
Melody Wade of Talking
Rock.
South State Bank Scholar
ship: Nola Chester, of
Jasper.
Weight Loss Group
Choose to Lose - Weight
loss group meets at the Pick
ens County Community
Center Room #1 every Fri
day 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 information at 1-417-
413-8025.
VOTING
2023 General Municipal Election
This election is for registered voters who live in the City of
Jasper & the City of Nelson
Sample Ballots:
Available in the Board of Elections Office at 3100 Camp
Road, Suite B, Jasper GA. Also, sample ballots and voter
information are available at www.mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Absentee Ballots:
Absentee Ballots will be available by mail beginning
October 16th, 2023. An application is required for all
ballots. Applications are available in the Board of
Election’s Office or online at www.mvp.sos.ga.gov . The
last day to apply for an absentee ballot is October 27th,
2023. Absentee ballots may be submitted by mail or
placed in the drop box location at 3100 Camp Road,
Suite B, Jasper GA.
Early Voting:
Begins Monday October 16th, 2023 and ends on Friday
November 3rd, 2023, from 8 am- 5 pm daily at the Pickens
County Rec Center, 1329 Camp Road, Jasper GA.
Saturday Voting:
Saturday October 21st & October 28th ONLY; 9 am- 5 pm
at Pickens County Rec Center, 1329 Camp Road,
Jasper GA.
Registration Deadline:
The last day to register to vote for the General
Municipal Election is
October 10th, 2023.
Election Dav:
November 7th, 2023 Polls Open from 7 am- 7 pm
City of Jasper Polling Precinct located at 55 G.G. Lovell
Street, Suite C, Jasper GA
City of Nelson Polling Precinct located at 1985 Kennesaw
Avenue, Nelson GA
For questions or if you require additional information,
please contact the Pickens County Board of Elections &
Registration at 706-253-8781.
Appalachian CASA Recruiting More Advocates
Beta Eta Chapter
Initiates New Member
Pictured are Beta Eta President Lisa Barnett with new
member Kristy Newton.
Beta Eta Chapter enjoyed hearing an updated report on
the Kali Shay Foundation from member Mallory Childers.
Kali Shay Foundation was one of the charities to whom the
members gave donations that evening.
New member Kristy Newton was also initiated at the
September 26 meeting. We are so excited to have this
teacher/ librarian, who is Tate Elementary Teacher of the
Year, as our member. Susan Johnson gave a report on book
donations from Beta Eta to Pickens County Family Partners.
This is also an ongoing project for the chapter, with dona
tions that evening.
Beta Eta is the local Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma In
ternational, an honorary society for outstanding educators.
If you are a woman educator and like to leam more about
our Chapter. Visit our website at
https://sites.google.com/view/betaetaga or email our Presi
dent Lisa Barnett bamettdkg2224@gmail.com
Serve Pickens Day
Proclaimed by Commissioners
Pickens County Commissioners have proclaimed Sat
urday, Oct. 21 as Serve Pickens Day. (Back Row L-R)
Margo Austin, Wendy Kaplan, Steve Franzen, and Terry
Franzen with Commission Chair Kris Standi. See more
about Sen’e Pickens Day on Page 7A.
Heritage Pie
Ingredients:
3/4 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
4 ounces softened cream
cheese
Vanilla flavoring 1/4 tsp
3/4 cup White Karo Syrup
3/4 cup shelled black wal
nuts
Store bought crust
Directions'.
Cream sugar and
creamed cheese. Slowly
add eggs and syrup and
flavoring.
Cover bottom of crust
with walnuts. Pour mix
ture over nuts and bake for
45 minutes at 345 degrees
or until top is firm.
Fall of the year provides a great variety of heavenly gifts.
Muscadine, black walnuts and fall flowers are all great gifts
from our past.
Harris Farm was filled with black walnut trees and as our
remodel of the farm moved forward I found myself picking
up black walnuts by the bushel.
Now what in the world do you do with all these walnuts.
Black walnut cake and Heritage Pie were quickly the an
swer.
Heritage pie was my favorite but not everyone likes black
walnuts. A definite taste of some who love it and some not
so much. My sweet husband loved butter pecan ice cream
and I loved black walnut. A difference that didn’t matter to
me when the ground was covered with free black walnuts.
Try it you might just like it.
Black walnuts have large amount of protein and man
ganese. Packed with vitamins and nutrients making black
walnuts a superfood for snacking.
Remember not everyone likes black walnuts but they are
truly healthy. Just pretend these aren’t loaded sugar and
syrup.
Black walnuts have large amount of protein and man
ganese. Packed with vitamins and nutrients making black
walnuts a superfood for snacking.
Tune in to The Cherie Show Monday through Thurs
day 11 a.m., 5 p.m. and midnight on ETC TV 3 from Ball
Ground to Turtletown.
Check out our programs for more recipes and fun on You
Tube Cherie Martin or Cherie Martin Heart of the Home.