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barnesyil I enGaH3fl20.4! iruesdav: MarchH0T2M1 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 Subscribe. Your name goes on the label in this box 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