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The
Commerce News
Page 10A • MARCH 26,2008
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706-769-1550
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Loop 10
Timothy
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Birth Announcements
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Inside Ingles at 220 Highway 334,
Commerce
Jacque Craven, left, talks about how to garden successfully in
a drought, while husband, Ron Craven, right photo, sells plants
to benefit the Commerce Public Library’s building fund. The
activity took place Saturday during the annual Fall Plant Swap
and Sale.
New Art Exhibit Coming To Library
This week will mark the end of
the Commerce Public Library’s
month-long juried art show fea
turing the work of seniors at
Commerce, East Jackson and
Jefferson High schools. Planned
as the first of what will be a yearly
tradition, the county-wide Senior
Art Show offers an opportunity
to see what the county’s young
and serious artists are doing.
“If you haven’t been by to see it
yet,’’ says library director Susan
Harper, “I hope you’ll make it a
point to do so before the week
ends. We’ve felt privileged to host
such a show.’’
Coming to the library’s meeting
room March 31 is an extraor
dinary display of pastels by
Franco-American artist Rebecca
Limpalair-Bentley. She is an
American who adopted rural
Brittany as a “surrogate home’’
after marrying a French citizen
and relocating to Brittany with
him for 15 years. Her landscapes
of the rural countryside of this
unique province of northwestern
France are striking.
Now back in the U.S. and liv
ing in Greenville, SC, Fimpalair-
Bentley is teaching art at the
Michelin Bilingual French School,
and continuing to pursue her
own art, currently in the form
of abstract painting. Her Breton
landscapes will be on view at the
library throughout the month of
April.
New Yoga Series
Starting Soon
The library’s second series of
Yoga classes comes to an end
April 1, and a third series will
begin the following Tuesday eve
ning. Taught by certified Yoga
instructor Shannon Frank, the
classes are offered Tuesdays from
6 to 7:30 p.m. and cost $40 for a
five-seek series.
All who are interested in reserv
ing a space in the new series
are invited to call the library at
706-335-5946.
New Titles On
Library Shelves
Two special novels by African
American women deserve the
spotlight among this week’s
selection of new books. Ellease
Southerland’s “Fet the Fion
Eat Straw’’ has been re-released
in a 25th Anniversary edition.
Described in the pages of the New
York Times as “a family novel, a
psalm of love, an entire lifetime of
desire and talent and frustration
and triumph whittled to an arrow
in the heart,’’ this autobiographi
cal novel makes history all over
again as it reaches a new genera
tion of readers.
And Atlanta writer Pearl
Cleage’s new novel, “Seen It All
and Done the Rest,’’ increases the
fame and enhances the reputa
tion of an author whose earlier
novels have been book-club picks
and bestsellers. “Seen It All” tells
the story of a black actress with
a fabled European career who
comes home to America reluc
tantly, only to discover “the place
she was always meant to be.”
Mystery fans .start reading more
quickly — there’s a lot for you to
look at. New on the library shelves
this week are Finda Fairstein’s
latest courtroom drama, “Killer
Heat,” Stephanie Barron’s histori
cal suspense novel, “A Flaw in
the Blood,” and Silver Dagger
Award-winner Morag Joss’ “The
Night Following,” as well as
Andrew Britton’s patriotic thrill
er, “The Invisible,” and Jeffrey
Archer’s classic murder mystery,
“A Prisoner of Birth.”
Want more murder from the
chicks? Try Faura Fippman’s
“Another Thing to Fall,” featured
in People Magazine recently;
Southern mystery-writer Patricia
Sprinkle’s “What Are You Wearing
to Die?”, Nancy Martin’s “Murder
Melts in Your Mouth,” Dana
Stabenow’s latest dispatch from
the frozen north, “Prepared for
Rage,” and — last and lightest —
another Gourmet Girl Mystery
from sisters Jessica Conant-Park
and Susan Conant, entitled “Turn
Up the Heat.”
Nonfiction readers, there’s
something for you, too. “How Not
to hook Old” pairs its blunt title
with no-nonsense instructions for
ways to look “10 years younger, 10
pounds lighter and 10 times bet
ter.” Thomas Moore, the author
of the now-famous “Care of the
Soul,” addresses those who are
more concerned with the stuff
that’s not just skin-deep in his new
book, “A Fife at Work: The Joy
of Discovering What You Were
Born to Do.” And Dan Ariely’s
“Predictably Irrational” is a book
that’s been making headlines as it
explains “the hidden reasons for
the weird ways we act.”
Upcoming Events
Cold Sassy Quilters meet
ing: Thursday, March 27, from 6
to 8 p.m.
Book Vine: Friday, April 18, at
1:30 p.m. This month’s book for
discussion is 'The Glass Castle,”
by Jennifer Wall, and copies are
available at the library’s front
Lolee Jewell Bowen
Jamie and Amy Bowen of South Jackson announce the birth of a
daughter, Folee Jewell Bowen, Friday, March 7, 2008, at Northeast
Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville. She weighed six pounds, 14
ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. She is the sister of the late Katie
Fynne Bowen.
The grandparents are the late Regina Means, formerly of Hull; Frank
Donnelly, Gainesville; and Daniel Bowen, Maysville. The great-grand
parents are Mary Hogan and Jack Hogan, South Jackson; and Melissa
Gowder and harry Gowder, Maysville.
Caden Austin Gage Phillips
Timothy and Sheri Phillips of Nicholson announce the birth of a
son, Caden Austin Gage Phillips, Monday, March 3, 2008, at Athens
Regional Medical Center. He weighed six pounds, 12 ounces and was
19 1/2 inches long. He joins a brother, Steven Brant McClure, 5.
The grandparents are Sharon Fagg, Nicholson; and Foretta and
Darrell Phillips, Danielsville. Earl Herron, Tennessee, is a great-grand
parent.
desk at a cost of $8.50.
Library Board meeting: The
governing body of the library
will hold its monthly meeting
Monday April 21, at 5 p.m. All
library board meetings are open
to the public.
Kidsercise: Wednesdays at
10:30 a.m. Children’s librarian
Catherine Harris leads a program
of activities for the 18-month to
4-year-old set (and for their par
ents).
Mommy and Me: Fridays at
10:30 a.m., a lap-sit story time
for infants 6 to 18 months old
and their parent, grandparent or
caregiver.
Book Sale: The library will have
a big book sale April 24, 25 and
26. Don’t miss it!
Local Physician Recognized
Dr. Milene Argo, right, of Hill Medical Group, recently received
the Community Faculty Award presented by the Georgia chap
ter of the American College of Physicians. She serves as a
volunteer assistant clinical professor for the Medical College
of Georgia. She is pictured with Ralph Sams, a student at the
Medical College of Georgia, one of eight MCG students who
spent a month with Argo to get first-hand medical experience.
The award recognizes excellence in education.
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