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Newspaper Page TextHERE’S THE SCOOP VFW Easter egg hunt The VFW Post 6542 will host an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday April 9 from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. There will be three age categories with 0-3, 4-7 and 8-11. Light refreshments will be served and children can get a free photo taken with the Easter Bunny! Pinwheels at courthouse for child abuse prevention month SEE PAGE 2A Subscribe. Your name goes on the label in this box BBQ & Blues set to sizzle JB Strauss will headline the BBQ & Blues concert. The concert begins at 5:30 p.m. with Caleb Anthony and the Holliday Troubaours. Strauss will take the stage at 8 p.m. WALTER GEIGER news@barneville.com The sweet, savory smells of smoked barbecue and all the fixins will fill the air in down town Barnesville this weekend as the BBQ & Blues Festival returns to a thankfully post- COV1D world. The festival kicks gets in gear Thursday with the After Hours kickoff party at United Bank from 5-7 p.m. There will be plenty of food and libations and locals can get to know members of the early arriving cook teams. The campers and smokers will roll into town in earnest Friday and the main event concert will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the grassy area between the United Bank operations center and First United Methodist Church. Admission is $5. Beer and wine will be available as will a kids park area for the youngsters. Tasters Alley will also be open. Participants can sample various BBQ fare and vote on the winners. The music begins at 5:30 p.m. when Caleb Anthony and the Holliday Troubadours open the show. The headline act, Barnesville native and Nashville star JB Strauss and his band, will take the stage at 8 p.m. After long hours of cook ing overnight, the BBQ kings and queens will be turning in entries all day Saturday. Visi tors can sample competition barbecue for $7 and vote on which is the best as part of the People’s Choice contest. There will be free music all day Saturday. Strauss and An thony will do an acoustic set at 11 a.m. followed by El Diablos at 12:15 p.m. Local band Jackie and the OGs will perform at 1:15 p.m. They will be joined by another Nashville recording artist, Da vid Hawkins, on the pedal steel guitar. They will follow that up with a show Saturday night at the VFW Club. The final act, 8th Street Cats, takes the stage at 2:30 p.m. followed by the barbecue awards ceremony. For more information, call the chamber of commerce of fice at 770.358.5884. Sheriffs golf tourney on tap April 13 at Morgan Dairy Sheriff Brad White will host his Wednesday After the Mas ters Golf Tournament April 13 at Morgan Dairy Golf Club. The fee for a four-person team is $400 and includes eight mulli gans and lunch. There are various sponsor ship levels available for busi nesses and those who do not play golf. All proceeds are tax deduct ible and go to fund the LCSO Office of Community Affairs. For more information, call 770.358.5159. LC soccer claims region crowns The LC Trojans and Lady Trojans clinched Region 3-AA soccer championships Thursday with wins over Washington County at Trojan Field. Both teams will be #1 seeds and host first round state tournament matches beginning April 14-15. Lady Trojan senior Alaina Cato (above) holds up the girls trophy during the postgame celebration. With her are teammates Kaylee Hamrick (left) and Giada Ritch (foreground). For more, see below 2A and 8B. Trojans, Lady Trojans take region titles WALTER GEIGER news@barnesville.com The LC Trojans and Lady Trojans clinched their respec tive Region 3-AA region soccer titles Friday night with wins over Washington County. The Lady Trojans (15-4, 10-0) are ranked #7. They rolled past the Golden Hawks 7-1 on Senior Night Thursday. Vanessia Byrd and Cara Bishop each had two goals to pace LC. Maci-Lauren Lanier had one goal and dished three assists. Alaina Cato and Samiya Smith had single goals. Smith had an assist as did Giada Ritch. The Lady Trojans also gar nered a win over NE Macon by forfeit. Northeast does not field a girls soccer team. The Trojans (12-6, 10-0) picked up two wins last week. On Tuesday, they traveled to Northeast and won by mercy rule 10-0. Caleb Miler had two goals and two assists while Mason Bushby had two goals and one assist to lead LC. Mat thew Ctibor had a goal and two assists. Adding single goals were Luke Sappington, Josh Moore, Jay’D Banks, Gabe Blount and Chip Crawford. Dealing single assists were AJ Haygood, Daniel Navarro, Moore and Samuel Edwards. On Friday, LC topped WACO 2-0 in a tough, conten tious match which included a benches-clearing altercation. Suspensions are expected to be forthcoming this week. Miller had a goal and an as sist for LC while Justin Brannen had a goal. Crawford had a key assist. Both Lamar teams are #1 seeds entering the Class AA state playoffs and each will face the #4 team from Region 4-AA in the first playoff round in matches to be played here. At present, the Lady Trojans opponent would be Johnson High of Augusta (44, 4-3). It appears the Trojans will battle Westside of Augusta (4-6, 4-4). Those games would be played April 14-15 on the local pitch. ©2022 THE HERALD GAZETTE, BARNESVILLE, LAMAR COUNTY, GA 30204, 770.358.NEWS

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The Herald-gazette. (Barnesville, Ga.) 1981-current, April 05, 2022, Image 1