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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. 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