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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
THE COMMERCE NEWS • THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
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Social
Jackson EMC awards $90,815 in grants
Artist's work on display
Portrait artist Abner Cope is pictured with his wife, Sandra, who is also
the portrait subject and who joined the Commerce Public Library staff this
summer. Cope gave a gallery talk and shared the highlights of his career with
patrons on Thursday, Nov. 3. His work will be on display in the auditorium
through Dec. 31.
Super Smash Bros, tournament
for teens set at Commerce Library
There will be a Super
Smash Bros. Tournament
during Teen Game Night
Thursday, Nov. 10, from 5 to
6:30 p.m. at the Commerce
Public Library. The winner
will receive a coupon for a
large pizza.
Teens can register at the
door. Light refreshments will
be served.
Young Writers Contest
The members of the Pen
& Sword teen writers group
have entered a Young Writ
ers Contest. The winners will
have a chance to have their
original work published by
Book Logic Publishers.
The library will display
each participant’s work at the
library during the first week
of January, 2017.
“Good luck participants!”
says youth coordinator, Sun
shine Duckett.
The young adult writ
ers meet the first and third
Wednesdays of each month
at 5 p.m.
New Shelving Up
Patrons are invited to stop
by to see the new shelves in
the library’s lobby. New adult
fiction and nonfiction books
are displayed cover-out for
easier browsing. Books from
the last six months will be
kept on these new wooden
shelves, while books from
the previous six months will
be displayed right around the
corner close to a couple of
comfortable chairs.
Legos And Veterans
Since Veterans Day is Fri
day, Nov. 11, honoring vet
erans will be the theme for
the two upcoming Lego Club
meetings scheduled on Sat
urday, Nov. 12, from 1 to 2
p.m. and on Tuesday Nov.
22, from 4 to 5 p.m. The
children will be encouraged
to use their imaginations to
create military vehicles.
Kelley Nicholson, who
facilitates the program, com
mented: “Perhaps there will
even be an imaginary Marine
vehicle to use on Mars or an
Air Force rocket designed to
get there.”
Book Vine To Meet
The Book Vine meets
on Friday, Nov. 18, at 1 p.m.
The discussion will be about
“Brooklyn,” by Colm Toib-
in. One reviewer writes that
this book is “one of those
magically quiet novels that
sneak up on readers and
capture their imagination.”
It is the story of a young
Irish immigrant in Brooklyn
in the early 1950s and has
been made into a motion
picture that has been nom
inated for four Academy
Awards, including Best Pic
ture.
Children’s Programs
Children’s programs
include the following:
• Mondays at 10:30 a.m. -
Banks-Jackson Homeschool-
ers
• Wednesdays at 10:30
a.m. - Kidsercise
• Wednesday Nov 16, at 5
p.m. - Teen Writers
•Thursday, Nov 10, at 5
p.m. - YA Super Smash Bros.
Tournament
•Thursdays at 4 p.m. -
Magic Cards
•Thursdays at 6 p.m. -
chess
•Fridays at 10:30 a.m. -
Baby and Me
•Saturday, Nov. 12, at 1
p.m. - Lego Club
Adult Programs
Adult programs include
the following:
•Mondays at 11 a.m. -
Hooks and Needles
• Mondays at 6 p.m. - yoga
•Wednesdays at 1 p.m. -
cards and games
• Friday, Nov 18, at 1 p.m. -
Book Vine Book Club
• Saturdays at 11 a.m.
English as a Second Lan
guage (ESL)
The Jackson EMC Founda
tion board of directors award
ed a total $90,815 in grants
during its October meeting,
including $42,150 to agencies
serving area residents.
The grants include
Support Adoption
•$15,000 to Support
Adoption & Foster Fami
lies Together (SAFFT), a
non-profit serving abused
and neglected children in
Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and
Lumpkin counties through its
Family Life Center in Gaines
ville, to provide access to five
months of supervised visita
tion, case management, par
enting training and coaching
to four families in crisis who
are currently on awaiting list.
Rainbow Village
•$15,000 to Rainbow
Village, a Duluth long-term,
transformational housing
program that provides fur
nished apartments and
comprehensive support for
homeless families with chil
dren in North Metro Atlanta,
to help provide rent for its
early childhood develop
ment center facility.
Hope Haven
•$12,150 to Hope Haven,
an Athens agency provid
ing a variety of programs to
support developmentally dis
abled individuals in Clarke,
Barrow, Jackson, Madison
and Oglethorpe counties,
to help purchase a 15-pas-
senger van that will be used
to transport participants to
and from community access
programs, community living
support, residential alterna
tive, prevocational, support
ed employment, respite and
other services.
Foundation grants
Jackson EMC Foundation
grants are made possible
by the more than 183,200
cooperative members who
have their monthly electric
bills rounded to the next
dollar amount through the
Operation Round Up pro
gram. Their “spare change”
has funded 1,130 grants to
organizations and 338 grants
to individuals, putting nearly
$11.5 million back into local
communities since the pro
gram began in 2005.
Any individual or charita
ble organization in the 10
counties served by Jackson
EMC (Clarke, Banks, Barrow,
Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall,
Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison
and Oglethorpe) may apply
for a Foundation grant. To
do so, completie an applica
tion, available online at www.
jacksonemc.com/founda-
tion-guidelines or at local
Jackson EMC offices.
Applicants do not need
to be members of Jackson
EMC.
For more information
on the program, call Jack-
son EMC at 1=800-462-3691.
Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Mondays through Fri
days. The website is www.
jacksonemc.com.
Present $15,000 check
Jackson EMC Foundation board member Capt. Mark Sizemore presents
a $15,000 foundation grant check to Hope Haven representatives Christian
Aquino, service recipient; Nick Bourke, board member; Mike Walker, execu
tive director; Mim Bourke, board member; Sarah Austin, board member; and
Robert Harden, board member; that will help the organization purchase a
15-passenger van to transport service recipients.
Headmaster’s
Corner
by
Steve Cummings
ACS TO HOST FOOT
BALL PLAYOFFS - Con
gratulations to our Football
team, as they reeled off 4
straight wins to end the year,
and will host the first round of
the State Playoffs this Friday
night. This is the 5th year in a
row the Eagles have made the
State Playoffs, and the first
time we have hosted a GHSA
football playoff game.
Led by Coach Chris Wil
liams, the Eagle coaching
staff has done a great job with
this group of young men.
Coach Williams’ motto all
year has been FAITH, FAM
ILY, FOOTBALL, emphasiz
ing the fact that your faith in
Jesus is the number one prior
ity.
Best wishes to the Golden
Eagles, as they head into the
State Playoffs this week.
ATHENS
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
“Affordable Quality Education Since 1970”
K3-12TH CALL (706) 549-7586
www.athenschristian.com
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