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The
Commerce News
Page 10A • November 14, 2007
Social News
Garden Club Announces
Door Decoration Contest
Kristi Nicole Healan And
Michael Hill Are United
Library Board To Set
Long-Range Goals
The Commerce Garden Club
Council is sponsoring the 2007
Christmas Door Decorating
Contest. The contest is open to
residences and business in the
Commerce area.
Contestants will be judged
Thursday, Dec. 6, between 6 and
9 p.m. To enter the contest, you
must contact Elizabeth Benton
Scalise at 706-335-7435 before
Monday, Dec. 3.
Categories and rules for the
contest for homes and businesses
are as follows:
Door and Mailbox - fresh:
Decorations must be 100 percent
fresh materials such as vines, fruit,
berries, twigs, pods and boughs.
No artificial materials should be
used in this category.
Commerce’s annual Secret
Santa Workshop will be held
Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Commerce
School of Dance, North Broad
Street, from noon to 3 p.m.
It’s a children’s Christmas
shopping event sponsored by
the Commerce Area Business
Association, the Downtown
Development Authority and the
Pilot Club of Commerce.
All gifts will be priced under
$10, and there will be volunteers
to help children select gifts and
Jackson Creative Community
Resource Center will host a “Ms.
Cured for Life” pageant at 7 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 8, at the Commerce
Cultural Center. Proceeds will
benefit the center’s Relay for Life
team. There will be food vendors.
Applications will be taken
through Dec. 30, and forms are
available from 2 to 4 p.m. week
days at Jackson Creative, 106
Industrial Parkway, Commerce.
Contestants must be over 21,
have a sponsor to pay the $25
Whole House - fresh and
permanent: In this category 80
percent of the materials must be
fresh, but permanent materials
may be included. Dried materials
may also be used.
Door - permanent: Artificial
or permanent materials may be
used as well as dried materials.
Lights - traditional or novel
ty categories: Three awards will
be made in this category: “Most
Elegant,” “Most Unusual,” “Best
Traditional.”
All entries must be well light
ed for night judging. A panel of
out-of-town judges will view the
entries.
For more information or to enter
the contest, contact the council at
706-335-7435.
manage their money. Vendors
will bring merchandise to the
site a week prior to the event.
Volunteers will set it up and sell
it and get the proceeds to the
merchants.
“We’re searching for vendors
that are interested,” says Hasco
Craver, DDA executive director.
“This is a great opportunity for
local businesses to market to kids
right here in the downtown.”
Call 706-335-2954 for informa
tion or to enroll as a vendor.
entry fee and sell 10 tickets to
the pageant. Contestants need a
formal gown, and make-up artists
will be available. Each contestant
will receive a free guest ticket.
A mandatory stage rehearsal
will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb.
1, at Jackson Creative.
Tickets for audience members
will be $7 in advance, $10 at the
door and $30 for a family of five
or more.
For information, call 706-335
5379.
Kristi Nicole Healan and
Michael Jack Hill of Braselton
were united in marriage Sept.
29, 2007, at Hamilton Mill Golf
Club, Dacula, with Alan Stevens
officiating.
The bride is the daughter
of David and Angela Healan,
Braselton, and Mike and Wanda
Hill, Maysville.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her father. Amanda
Healan served as maid of honor
and Stevie Adams and Kelly
Garrison were bridal attendants.
Madissyn David was the flower
girl.
Jason Hill served as the best
man. Mack Garrison and Mickey
Boswell were groom’s attendants.
Parker Hill was the ring bearer.
Following the ceremony, a
reception was held at the golf
club.
The couple resides in
Braselton.
The Commerce Library Board
will hold its annual long-range
planning meeting Monday, Nov.
19, beginning at 5 p.m. with a brief
business meeting and continuing
through dinner.
At this year’s session, the issues
to be considered for their future
impact include the library’s expan
sion plans, the progress of the
capital campaign for the Building
Fund, and current projections for
future population growth. Also on
the agenda is a request from the
Piedmont Regional Library head
quarters for an increase in the
fees paid for regional services,
along with the issue of Jackson
County support for the county’s
seven libraries.
The board will also look at
trends (coffee shops and gift
shops in libraries, for example),
the library’s interfaces with local
agencies (Boys & Girls Club,
Commerce Housing Authority,
area schools, garden clubs, etc.),
and policies that may need updat
ing or review.
Like all Library Board meetings,
the long-range planning meeting
is open to the public.
Warm Up With Quilts
Heat up the cooler days with a
look at the Cold Sassy Quilters’
annual Holiday Quilt Exhibit,
which goes up this Saturday in
the library’s meeting room and
will officially open next Monday
for a month-long stay.
This very active quilters’ guild
welcomes new members and
also offers chances for just a
dollar each to win the “Holiday
Stars Quilt” on display behind the
library’s front desk. (Also avail
able: six chances for $5, and 24
chances for $20.)
The drawing for the prize quilt
will take place Dec. 19, the day
the exhibit closes and all those
warm quilts go home and get
under the Christmas tree.
Chill Out With Yoga
The library will offer a weekly
yoga class beginning in January.
The initial five-week session is
expected to take place Tuesday
evenings, with a free introductory
class followed by four classes that
will cost $8 to $10 per class, paid
in advance.
The instructor, Shannon Frank,
is the fitness director at the
Athens YMCA and is a certified
yoga instructor. All who are inter
ested are invited to sign up at the
library’s front desk.
New Titles On
Library Shelves
Caroline Kennedy’s remarkable
and lovely compendium of holi
day lore, “A Family Christmas,”
will fill your heart and also fill
many happy hours of reading.
Find out how Groucho Marx felt
about Christmas. Mark Twain,
Pearl Buck, David Sedaris, Ogden
Nash and Calvin Trillin are just a
few of the other contributors, and
central is the real meaning of the
season.
Also new on the nonfiction
shelf is Supreme Court justice
Clarence Thomas’ autobiography,
“My Grandfather’s Son,” a book
as provocative and controversial
as the justice himself, but (all
agree) absorbing reading; Tom
Brokaw’s “Boom!” — the story, told
very personally, of how America
went from “Ike and the man in
the grey flannel suit” one minute,
to “turn on, tune in, drop out”
the next; Jimmy Carter’s “Beyond
the White House: Waging Peace,
Fighting Disease, Building Hope”;
and “Christmas with Paula Deen:
Recipes and Stories from my
Favorite Holiday.”
Very hot new novels include
“Rhett Butler’s People,” by Donald
McCaig, the story of the heart-
breaker from Charleston who
married Scarlett in “Gone with
the Wind”; and “Loving Frank,”
by Nancy Horan, a fictional
rendering of the very real and
lengthy affair between architect
Frank Lloyd Wright and a mar
ried family friend named Mamah
Cheney.
Coming Up
Closed for Thanksgiving:
The library will be closed from
Thursday, Nov. 22, through Sunday,
Nov. 25, and will reopen Monday
morning, Nov. 26, at 10 a.m.
Kidsercise: Wednesdays at
10:30 a.m. Children’s librarian
Catherine Haris leads a program
of activities for the 18-month to
4-year-old set (and for their par
ents).
Birth Announcement
Emilee Marie Sears
Tabitha Nicole Batson and Dennis James Sears announce the
birth of a daughter, Emilee Marie Sears, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007,
at BJC Medical Center, Commerce. She weighed eight pounds,
nine ounces and was 19 inches long. She joins a sister, Cadence
Elizabeth Sears, 3.
The grandparents are Ronald and Doris Batson, Commerce;
Martha and J.B. Sears, Homer; and Dorothy Long, Cornelia.
'Secret Santa Workshop' Offers
Shopping Just For Children
Pageant To Raise Funds
To Support Relay For Life
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Nov. 19, 2007
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