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HERE’S THE
SCOOP
Easter egg
celebration
rescheduled
Due to inclement
weather Sunday, the
drive-thru Easter egg
celebration at Summers
Field Park was resched
uled. The event is now
set for Friday, April 2
from 6-7 p.m.
Cars will enter on
Houston Street from
College Drive and slowly
circle the park, stopping
at each station. No foot
traffic will be allowed.
Have your Easter basket
ready and outside the
car window and candy
will be delivered to you.
Four local churches
are teaming up to make
this event happen
include First Baptist,
First Methodist, Antioch
Baptist and New Fife
Anointed Ministries.
Local blood drive
surpasses goal
SEE PAGES 3A & 5A
Lanie Long (right) and
Charles Glass hold up the
shirt that was given to blood
donors at the most recent
American Red Cross Blood
drive.
RSCA fishing team
is state runner-up.
SEE PAGE 1B
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With COVID (hopefully) waning,
BBQ & Blues plans full schedule
Except for sporting events
with socially distanced seating,
Barnesville-Famar County has
not gotten together to have fun
for over a year. That will change
beginning April 15 when BBQ &
Blues kicks off with a full sched
ule of events.
Sadly, the days of major
concerts at Ritz Park seem to
have passed us by but there will
be plenty of music, smoke and
sizzle on festival weekend.
The action begins Thursday,
April 15 with the traditional
kickoff party at United Bank
from 5-7 p.m.
Friday is family fun night
with free music, a community
cook-off, a kids park and the
return of Taster’s Alley.
Taster’s Alley will feature
civic groups competing with
firefighters, law enforcement
and first responders to see who
can put out the best spread.
Revelers can pay $5 and sample
all the wares and help decide
Thursday, April 15
Friday, April 16
Saturday, April 17
the winners in various catego
ries. The winner gets $100.
Backyard grill masters can
compete in the community
cook off. The categories for that
competition include best wings,
best dessert and best Bloody
Mary. The entry fee is $25. First
place will receive $100 with sec
ond place getting $50 and third
place $25.
Music will fill the air begin
ning at 5 p.m. at the stage near
the United Bank drive-thru
windows off Greenwood Street
at 5 p.m.
Focal performer Caleb An
thony opens the show followed
by Wes Robinson and Jesse
Dickinson. The feature set will
be delivered by The Furloughs,
a band from Griffin.
Cook teams will fire up the
grills Friday and man them all
night as they compete in the
GBA-sanctioned competition.
The fellowship hall at First Unit
ed Methodist Church will be the
turn-in point with the first burnt
offerings due in by 10 a.m.
Volunteers and judges are
needed for this event. To volun
teer or to acquire more informa
tion, call the chamber office at
770.358.5884.
CALEB ANTHONY
THE HERALD GAZETTE/WALTER GEIGER
#6 Lady Trojans rolling
Freshman Cara Bishop of the #6 LC Lady Trojans pursues a ball near the end line during a recent match at the
LC soccer complex. The Lady Trojans are 8-3 overall and 6-0 in Region 5AA action as the regular season winds
down. LC has two games after spring break next week then the playoffs start April 22. The Trojans are also in the
thick of the region race with only one loss.
Local writer, Paul Sinor,
nominated for Georgia Author of Year
KAY S. PEDR0TTI
kayspedrotti@gmail.com
Paul Sinor, a Barnesville
author with numerous books
and movie scripts to his credit,
has again been nominated for
Georgia Author of the Year
through the Georgia Writers
Association based at Ken-
nesaw State University.
This is his fourth nomina
tion, Sinor said. The Writers’
group received 106
nominations this year;
95 were approved as of
ficial. Twelve authors are
competing for the finalist
and winner wards in
Paul’s category, detec
tive-mystery.
The designated book
is We’ll Meet Again, the
fifth in the Max Maxwell detec
tive series. He also has written
a four-book mystery series
set in Atlanta in the
1950s.
Sinor received a
People’s Choice Telly
Award for his produc
tion of “Minutes to
Midnight.” His books
are available from
Amazon, Barnes and
Noble, Black Opal Books or
through his website, www.
paulsinorbooks.net
SINOR
Early runoff
voting starts
next week
Early voting in the April
13 special election runoff to
choose a new chief magistrate
will be held next week. Ballots
may be cast Monday through
Friday, April 5-9 at the elec
tions board office in the
county annex.
Due to the quick turn
around from election day
to the runoff, there is only
one week of advance voting.
Hours are 8 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
and 1:30-5 p.m. daily.
The runoff pits Paul Kunst
against Jeff Mason, the top
two finishers in the special
election.
The elections board certi
fied the results of the special
election last week with only a
minor change from the elec
tion night count.
The ESPLOST passed by a
vote of 1340-769. In the chief
magistrate race, Kunst had
820 votes to 776 for Mason.
Brutz English with 364 votes
and Shannon Williamson with
240 votes were eliminated.
GORDON STATE
HIGHLANDERS
If
Gordon football
plans homecoming
this weekend
The Gordon State Highland
ers club football team will
host homecoming festivities
Saturday, April 3 when they
take on Middle Georgia. Kick
off is set for 7 p.m. at Trojan
Field.
The Highlanders are 0-2.
A game this past weekend at
Columbus State was impacted
by weather.
©2021 THE HERALD GAZETTE, BARNESVILLE, LAMAR COUNTY, GA 30204, 770.358.NEWS