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March 11, 2009
^Reporter
The entire cast sings “There’s No Business Like Show Business” to open the show.
O ver 300 guests at
tended the 2009
First Baptist Youth
Choir’s annual din
ner theater “A
night at the Grammy Awards”
Emily Gregg serenades Jared Rackly with the 1971
Grammy winner “You’ve got a Friend.”
on Feb. 28. Choir members paid
tribute to winning songs over
the last 50 years. Special guest
hosts Sonny and Cher (Taylor
Hamrick and Laila Becceril) en
tertained the crowd with cheesy
jokes in be
tween per
formances.
The awards
for “greatest
performance
in a youth
choir dinner
theater” go
to perform
ers Kimberly
Vinson,
Callie
McMichael,
Laura
Corley,
Kasey Smith,
Rachel
Hunter,
Brian
Czarnowsky,
Will
Edmiston,
Schuyler
Sandusky, Obi Studle,
Caleb Watson, Daniel
Collins, Jennifer Martin,
Emily Gregg, Jared
Rackley, Cassie Hensel,
Woody Gregg, JT
Atkinson, Amelia Heath,
Kirsti Slaughter, Taylor
Chambley, Emily
Compere, Aaron
Tomberlin, Tia Chastain,
Caroline Waldrep, Macy
Morgan, Logan Grigsby,
Christina Ligeikis,
Matthew Czarnowsky,
Hannah Watson, Bridget
Buff, Taylor Hamrick,
Laura Corley, Jon
Smallwood, Laila Becerril.
The “best crew award”
goes to those who worked
behind the scenes: Trason
Buff, Andy Herring, Kyle
Hensel, Dana Rackley and
Chelsea Wessells. The “most
patient youth choir director”
award goes to Glenn Gregg.
A special lifetime achieve
ment award goes to the par
ents of each youth choir
Cassie Hensel lamented about sum
mer camp in “Hello Muddah, Hello
Faddah” from 1962.
member who helped pitch in
and cooked, cleaned, setup,
made costumes, fixed hair,
make-up, baked cakes and
everything else parents do.
The cake auction raised
$2,500 and the dinner net
ted $2,000 that will be used
by the choir to travel to San
Antonio, Texas this summer
on its annual choir tour.
Elvis was
back in the
building as
Jon Small
wood re
ceived a
standing
ovation
when he
belted out
the King’s
1967 hit
version of
“How Great
Thou Art.”
(Photos/
Gina
Herring)
Bridget Buff looked lovely in
the cast performance of “We
are the World.”
Reminiscent of Karen Car
penter in 1970, Jennifer Mar
tin sang “Close to you.”
Dozens of bidders compete to buy items in the silent auction.
Friends show ‘Up’
I t started as an idea to
have a small church
wide dinner to help a
friend. It became a com
munity event.
The “Up for Kylie” dinner,
silent auction and fun day
held Feb. 28 at Maynard
Baptist Church and raised
over $7,500 for five-year
old Kylie Seitz, who is bat
tling cancer.
Everything was donated,
said event coordinator
Heather Chesnut. The
event included chicken din
ner plates, hotdog dinners,
inflatables donated by
Gravity Play USA and over
120 silent auction items,
bowtox treatments, oil
changes,a Mark Richt
autographed football and
more.
Chesnut is in Gini and
Dave Seitz’s Sunday
school class and thought it
would be nice for the
church to host something
Even coordinator Heather Ches
nut plays with daughter Allie
Grace and Jillian Gastley on the
jumping bag.
for their family.
“The Lord just laid it on
my heart to do this. When
you think of a family
church, you think of
Maynard. But, it was
amazing how much it
grew,” said Chesnut.
“People are still dropping
by making donations. We
have a very supportive
community.”
Even the weather cooper
ated. A day that started
out rainy and gloomy gave
way to sunshine just
moments before the big
event began.
And Kylie was there too.
Despite just having com
pleted her fourth round of
chemotherapy, she enjoyed
playing with other kids.
Kylie’s mother, Gini, says
she is humbled by the
amount of community sup
port her family has
received since Kylie’s can
cer diagnosis in August.
“Words cannot describe
the humble gratitude we
have for everyone who has
supported our family,” said
Seitz.
Kylie ended up back in
Egleston Children’s
Hospital last week with a
high fever. She had to
receive IV antibiotics and a
blood transfusion. Kylie is
scheduled to have limb
sparing surgery on March
17. The next round of
chemo will start after she
recovers a few weeks from
for Kylie
Kylie Seitz takes a trip down the
giant slide with Clay Baswell, Jr.
surgery, around the first of
April. She has completed
four rounds of chemo and
has ten more rounds to go
after surgery. Gini says her
faith in God is what keeps
her going.
“We have a very long
road ahead of us,” said
Gini. “We could not do this
without the support we
have received. I don’t know
how people do it without
the spirit of Jesus in their
hearts and without family
and friends to lift them up.
It is all so overwhelming.”
An account to help the
Seitz family is at Monroe
County Bank. You can keep
up with Kylie’s progress
and send her your love and
support at
www.carepages.com / carepa
ges / PrincessKYLIE.
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