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The second grade class of Mrs. Sue Garrett at Por
terdale Elementary School recalled the days of
the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving earlier
this week when they donned Pilgrim and Indian
Joint Thanksgiving
services planned
Joint annual Thanksgiving services
will be held tonight (Wednesday) at
the First United Methodist Church
at 7:30 p.m. with the First Baptist
and Covington Presbyterian Chur
ches joining for the service, accord
ing to an announcement by the
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Herring Street paved
The Herring Street paving and guttering project is now complete
with the exception of gome widening work that remains to be
done near the Emory Street intergection. The road ig paggable.
and now provides an alternate to Emory Street as a pas gage way
from Oxford to Covington, especially in the event that a train
blocks the street.
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First Thanksgiving relived
pastor of the host church. Rev. Jack
Nelson.
Speaker for the combined service of
thanksgiving this year will be the
interim pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Rev. Eddie Crawford. Rev,
Nelson will be in charge of the
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costumes made by the class members. The class
has been studying the history of the Pilgrims and
their Plymouth, Mass, colony.
service with Dr. Sam B. Hay or the
Presbyterian church giving the
prayer of thanksgiving.
Music for the service will be under
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SANTA is coming
Santa Claus will be arriving on the Square in downtown Covington on
Friday morning, Nov. 26, at 9:30 a.m. on a City of Covington fire
truck to officially open the Christmas shopping season.
Santa will be welcomed by Lee Mayfield, chairman of the Covington
Retail Merchant Association, along with children who will be waiting
to visit Santa in "Santa's House” which has been erected on the south
west corner of the Square.
After his arrival, Santa will be available in his house to greet children
and hear their Christmas wishes each shopping day until Christmas.
Santa’s hours will be posted by the front door of his house and will vary
with the times that most children are out of school.
Winston Brown and students of his industrial arts class erected
Santa's House this year, and Mr. Mattingly's art class did the touchup
painting of the house. Both classes are from Newton County Compre
hensive High School.
Pilot's memory trees
Mrs. Catherine Jennings and Mrs. Frances Allen have announced that the
Pilot Club is beginning to receive “Christmas Remembrance Tree” donation
from the community.
The Christmas trees will be lighted in a special ceremony on December 3,
1976 at 7:30 p.m. on the square.
One tree will be designated to be in honor or memory of our servicemen
with the red, white and blue bulbs. The other two trees will be in honor or
memory of our loved ones.
If you would like to make a donation to this worthwhile project, clip the
coupon and forward with your dollarls).
Enclosed Is $ . Please light bulb for the following:
Memory / / Honor/ j
Memory / I Honor/ /
[Use blanfsheet of paper for additional names] Designate servlcanen.
My nane and address:
MAIL TO: Pilot "Christmas Rananberence Trees"
c/o Mrs. Catherine Jennings
P. 0. Box 53
Covington. Georgia 30209
Covington, Georgia — Thursday, November 25.1976
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Roy Varner Chamber
banquet speaker
Roy Varner, chairman-elect of the
Newton County Board of Commis
sioners, will be the guest speaker at
the quarterly membership banquet
meeting of the Newton County
Chamber of Commerce Monday
night, Dec. 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the
cafeteria at Newton County
Comprehensive High School.
Varner will discuss his feelings on
Mayors' Motorcade
effort underway
The collection effort has begun for
the annual Mayors’ Motorcade to
Milledgeville, sponsored each year
by the Georgia Municipal Associa
tion.
As in the past, the city of Covington
will participate in the project. The
idea of the program is to collect good
quality Christmas gifts to be given to
the 3,400 patients who must spend
the holiday at Central State Hospital
in Milledgeville.
Each year, gifts are collected in
Covington and numerous other cities
around the state and taken to Mill
edgeville for the patients.
Persons in the Covington area who
wish to donate gifts to this effort may
do so. day or night, at the Covington
Fire Department headquarters in
the municipal building. All dona-
Kiwanis will
.meet today
This week's meeting of the Coving
ton Kiwanis Club has been moved
forward one day due to the Thanks
giving holiday. President Al
LaFlamme announced that the club
will meet Wednesday (Nov. 241 at
the Crest Restaurant at 1 p.m.
LaFlamme said there would be no
program today but club members
will be served a meal at The Crest.
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the conduct of his office during his
four year administration which will
begin in January. Members of the
1977 Chamber Board of Directors
will be elected at this meeting.
Chamber President Sam Ramsey
will preside over the meeting and
review the accomplishments of the
Chamber during the past year. At 8
p.m., following the banquet, there
tions should be in by Dec. 7, and
firemen will transport them to Mill
edgeville on Dec. 8.
Mayor Bill Dobbs says the project
is very worthwhile and has urged
local citizens to participate as much
as possible.
Some suggestions for gifts include
outer wear, underwear, nightwear,
cosmetics, rain wear, smoking
supplies, shaving supplies, craft
articles, candy, dental supplies,
games and puzzles and writing
materials.
Each gift should be wrapped and
clearly labeled as to its contents and
whether it is intended for a male or a
female. The name and address of the
donor should also be included.
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Roy L. Varner
will be a Community Christmas
Carol program in the school gym
nasium.
The one-hour program is being co
sponsored by the Chamber of Com
merce and the Newton County Sys
tem as another effort to help bring
Newton Countians together for the
overall betterment of the commu
nity.
Members of the Chamber of Com
merce and their wives and guests are
invited to attend the quarterly
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