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The True Citizen, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 — Page 3
Display of dedication
Volunteer donates decades of service to help with fair exhibits
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
If it can be made by hand,
grown in the soil or preserved
in a Ball canning jar, she’s
probably seen some variation
of it.
From popsicle stick creations
to intricate patchwork quilts
and prolific peanuts to still life
paintings, Mary Ann Johnson
has seen some of the best work
Burke County artisans, growers
and homemakers have to offer.
For decades, she has volun
teered her time at the Exchange
Club Fair to manage the exhib
its entered in the contests there.
Next week’s fair will mark her
35 th year.
The role requires her to cat
egorize hundreds of entries and
help prepare them forjudging.
It’s tedious work but she enjoys
seeing what comes through the
doors each year.
“There are so many good
ideas and different items on dis
play at the fair,” she says, de
scribing in awe the handmade
guitars she’s seen crafted.
“Even the little ones come up
with the most unique things
made out of the most unusual
items.”
Many of the entries take
months to make or produce be
fore they are proudly entered as
exhibits.
“They are so time consum
ing,” Mary Ann says. “We have
some people who start on a new
project right when the fair is
over and work on it all the way
until the next October.”
She remembers when her
children, now grown with fami
lies of their own, would ready
their projects for the fair and
how proud they were to bring
home a colorful ribbon and
prize money to boot. They’d
use the money to buy Christmas
gifts or add to their savings ac
counts. It was then that she was
asked if she’d like to help out
by former Extension agent
Anne Perry. She graciously said
yes and has been there ever
since, putting in long hours be
fore the fair gates ever open.
Now, Mary Ann watches as
her grandchildren enter projects
each year and continues to vol
unteer her time.
Longtime Exchange Club
member and former president
Nell Mobley has been by Mary
Ann’s side in the exhibit hall for
more than two decades and can
testify that it’s a tough job but
one that’s done out of devotion
to the fair and this community.
“It’s not an easy job and it’s
something you do because you
just love the fair. It’s certainly
not one I would have tackled
without her,” she says. “I just
enjoy it so much, though, and
it’s because my heart is in the
Exchange Club.”
Next week’s fair will mark Mary Ann Johnson’s 35 th year vol
unteering in the exhibit hall.
SEE FOR YOURSELF
After entering the front gate, take a few minutes to stroll through the
exhibit hall and check out this year's entries. Burke County 4-H mem
bers have decorated booths along one wall with themed educational
projects. Two others are lined with entries in a wide variety of catego
ries, such as models, crocheted and quilted blankets, pottery, wood
working, garden produce, jewelry, basket weaving and needlework.
FAIR WEEK 2011
The Exchange Club Fair will run next Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 11-
15. Gates open each weekday at 5:45 p.m. and on Saturday at 3 p.m.
On the midway, there will be plenty of games and rides to enjoy.
Look for old favorites as well as a few new additions.
Also, twice each night, hunker down for some fast action with Chase's
Racing Pigs. Watch as four pigs scramble around the track and even
slosh their way through a swimming leg of the race. Sponsorships are
still available for local businesses to have their name plastered across
the broad side of a pot-bellied pig .. can't beat that kind of publicity.
Call Bob Mallard at 478-569-4174 or Anne Marie Kyzer at 706-554-
5388 for more information.
Kelly named to statewide education panel
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek @ thetruecitizen .com
A Burke County Commis
sioner will serve on a statewide
panel for the Georgia Department
of Education.
Terri Kelly was named to State
Superintendent Dr. John D.
Barge’s parent advisory council.
Only 30 parents from across the
state were selected to
serve on the council.
They will meet three
times during the year
with Barge to discuss
education issues, focus
ing mainly on increas
ing parental involve
ment and family en
gagement to promote
student success. Mem
bers also have the op
portunity to participate
in Georgia’s first Fam
ily Engagement Con
ference, a joint project
of the Georgia DOE
and Georgia PTA. The
February event will
give educators and
parents across the state a chance
to network and exchange ideas.
Kelly was nominated by the
local school system and selected
by a committee of DOE represen
tatives based on her responses to
a list of questions.
The panel’s first meeting is
scheduled for Oct. 21 at the Geor
gia DOE office in Atlanta.
MLK signal
coming down
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
The iconic traffic light on MLK has met its end.
The mid 1970s red light is coming down and will be replaced
with four-way stop signs.
“It’s a dinosaur,” Waynesboro city administrator Jerry Coalson
conceded, explaining the light was put up to help control traffic
back when Blakeney and Waynesboro Elementary were located
nearby. “When we had all those buses going through, that was
the way to do it ... but now, it’s not an efficient way to direct
traffic.”
Although the schools have moved, the traffic has stuck around.
A survey just completed by the Waynesboro Police Depart
ment showed that 5,382 cars passed through the Martin Luther
King/Ninth Street intersection during a three-day period from
Saturday to Monday. The average speed through the 25 mph
zone was 22.
“Most people are following the law,” Police Chief Alfonzo
Williams told city council Monday night. “I think a four-way
stop would much more feasible and would help move traffic
through there faster.”
Coalson said it would also knock out the $60 a month in op
eration expenses, in addition to the occasional repair bills that
sometimes reach $1,000.
For the next few weeks, the light will remain up and flashing
red in conjunction with the stop signs.
City officials haven’t decided what to do with the old traffic
light but are considering selling it by auction or sealed bids.
Correction
In a recent issue of The True Citizen, an article addressed
the county’s plans to stabilize what it called the old Pine Hill
school house. A reader has since pointed out that the one-
room schoolhouse in question is not the Pine Hill School House
but another one from an outlying area in the county. The old
Pine Hill school house was moved to an area near the schools
and was restored by the Burke County board of Education to
be used for hands-on history lessons.
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