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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016
THE COMMERCE NEWS • THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
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Kindle winner
Hannah Chapman, accompanied by her sisters Grace and Joy and parents
Susan and Ron Chapman, won the Kindle Fire E-Reader in the Summer
Reading Program drawing for children.
Wins a Kindle Fire
Victoria Seabolt, right, pictured with Young Adult coordinator Sunshine
Duckett, won the Kindle Fire E-Reader in the Summer Reading Program draw
ing for young adults.
Kindles given away at end of Commerce Public Library summer reading program
The Commerce Public
Library’s Summer Reading
Program for children and
teens has officially come
to an end, and the library
announces that Victoria
Seabolt is the young adult
winner while Hannah Chap
man is the children’s winner
of Kindle Fire E-Readers pro
vided by the Friends of the
Commerce Library.
The teens earned a
chance to win the Kindle
by reading 80 hours while
children who read 75 books
or 50 hours were entered
in their drawing. In addition,
there were five gift card win
ners for the teens, including
Cathleen Hill, Tyliyah Rud,
Anna Claire, Alexis Likens
and Maggie Jiang.
Adults are continuing
to win prizes in their own
summer reading program
with several winners this
past week, including Nancy
Guetter, Mamata Shetty and
Linde Strickland, who won
gift certificates from local
businesses.
Drawings continue until
Sept. 2.
The Young Adult Game
Day is back by popular
demand on Thursday, Aug.
25, at 5 p.m. Ages 11 to 18
are welcome to meet new
friends, play Wii or tradition
al board games and enjoy
light snacks.
The Banks Jackson Coun
ty Homeschool Group has
resumed meeting at the
library on Mondays at 10:30
a.m.
Hooks and Needles has
also come back from a sum
mer break also meeting on
Mondays at 10:30 a.m.
There are three new adult
fiction titles available: Sherri-
lyn Kenyon’s, “Dragonmark,”
Lisa Scottoline’s “Damaged”
and Sandra Brown’s “Sting.”
“Dragonmark” is the con
tinuing story of a dragon
made human against his will.
Regular library patrons prob
ably need no introduction to
the other two authors, but
Scottoline’s book is another
in the Rosata and DiNunzio
series, while Brown’s book is
described as full of nonstop
plot twists about cormption
and deception.
Children’s programs com
ing up include:
• Banks and Jackson
County Homeschoolers
- Monday, Aug. 22, at 10:30
a.m.
•Lego Club - Tuesday,
Aug. 23, at 4 p.m.
• Kidsercize - Wednesday,
August 24 at 10:30 a.m.
•Pokemon - Wednesday,
Aug. 24, at 4 p.m.
•Young Adult Game Day
- Thursday, Aug 25, from 5
to 6 p.m.
• Magic Card Play for
Teens - Thursday Aug. 25,
from 4 to 6 p.m.
•Chess Club - Thursday
Aug. 25, at 6 p.m.
• Baby & Me - Friday, Aug
26, at 10:30 a.m.
ADULT PROGRAMS
•Book Vine Book Club -
Friday, Aug. 19, at 1 p.m.
• ESL English Class - Satur
day, Aug. 20, at 11 a.m.
• Adult Coloring - Saturday
Aug. 20, at 1 p.m.
• Hooks and Needles
- Monday, Aug. 22, at 10:30
a.m.
• Yoga - Monday, Aug. 22,
at 6 p.m.
Adult education center to
hold back-to-school round-up
The Lanier Technical College Office of Adult Education
will be holding back-to-school round ups for adult education
students who want to earn their GED or need basic education
instmction.
The schedule for area events is:
•Wednesday August 24, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lanier
Technical College campus in Commerce, located at 631 S.
Elm Street.
• Tuesday, August 30, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Banks County
Adult Education Center, located at 127 Hudson Drive, Homer.
• Thursday, Sept. 1, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Braselton Public
Library, 15 Brassie Lane, Braselton.
Students who are participating or have previously partici
pated in the programs at the Jackson County Adult Education
Center and the Banks County Adult Education Center are
urged to bring friends that need to work on their GED or work
on basic education skills to move toward a GED.
Instructors and Lanier Technical College employees will be
giving information about dual enrollment and the advantages
of taking college credit classes and working toward the GED at
the same time, the possibility of being able to get HOPE and
PELL to use for college, paid internships, gas and childcare
money and opportunities for the future.
There will be light refreshments and door prizes.
For more information, call the Jackson Center at 770-535-
6277 or the Banks Center at 706-6774302.
Recipe of the week is tea cakes
TEA CAKES
2 cups self rising flour
% cup sugar
1 stick margarine
1 egg (beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream sugar and butter. Next, add egg and vanilla. Mix
well and add flour. Roll out thin and cut cookies. Bake at 350
degrees for 10 minutes.
Submitted by: Amory Hall, Maysville
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An MBD Enterprises Co.
Serving this community since 1962.
Office located at 220 Hwy. 441 S.
in Commerce, GA. 706-335-4066
Hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday By appointment only • Closed Sunday
**We accept M/C, Visa and offer a lay-a-way plan.
Vendors sought for 26th annual Art in the Park festival
The Tumbling Waters Soci
ety is seeking arts and crafts
vendors and food vendors
for the 26th annual Art in the
Park festival to be held on
Saturday and Sunday Sept.
17-18, at Hurricane Shoals
Park, located near Maysville.
The festival features hand
made crafts from all over
North Georgia. Barbecue will
be sold by The Tumbling
Waters Society to raise funds
to benefit the park and the
Heritage Village.
Live entertainment, includ
ing Southern gospel music
hosted by Dugar Strickland
and friends, children’s activi
ties and tours of the Heritage
Village with folk art demon
strations will be offered. Civil
War re-enactments will be
held both days in the Heri
tage Village area.
The 5K Mill Race will take
place on Saturday morning
at 8 a.m.
The two-day Ianuario
Memorial Bluegrass Festival,
featuring BlueBilly Grit and
seven other bluegrass bands,
will be held from 1 to 5 p.m.
on both days.
The Duck Dash will close
the activities on Sunday.
For more information, call
706-367-8688 or download a
vendor application at www.
hurricaneshoalspark.org.
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