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Perry youth captures two
painting awards at
Leesburg, Fla. art festival
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
Eight-year-old Jake Mitchem
of Perry knows how to create
beauty with a brush and paint.
Testimony to that are the two
paintings he recently earned
awards for during a Leesburg,
Fla,. Art Festival.
Mitchem, a student at Kings
Chapel Elementary School, was
awarded the People’s Choice
Award in the student art exhibit
during the 20th annual Leesburg
Art Festival.
The youngster, son of Angie
and Philip Mitchem and brother to
5-year-old Tyler, is full of promis
ing talent, according to Frances
Blackstone.
Jake Mitchem has been taking
Blackstone’s art classes with a
group of other aspiring painters at
a local business, Rainbow’s End,
for the past several months.
“I just really started painting
last July during classes at
Rainbow’s End,” said Mitchem.
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The art students were instruct
ed to paint one canvass of each
season, he said.
Two of these were used as
entries in the competition at the
Florida festival.
“I believe he gets his talent
fiom his grandmother, Juanita”
commented Angie Mitchem. “She
paints also. Jake has gone to class
with her in the past.”
“We are surprised at his talent,
and proud of him,” added Phillip
Mitchem.
That goes ditto for Blackstone.
“I’m real proud of him. He is a
great student and shows a lot of
potential.”
Jake Mitchem has submitted
work in the Leesburg Art Festival
for three years.
He also received the Sponsor’s
Award which netted him an extra
ribbon and SSO.
Mitchem said plans to continue
painting with oils and hopes to be
an ophthalmologist when he
grows up.
Times-Journal Photos by Eric Zellars
HUNTING THOSE EGGS
Members of the Eve Chapter 735,
order of the Eastern Star, hosted
their 12th annual community Easter
egg hunt March 22 at Creekwood
Park in Perry. In the picture above,
members of the Eve chapter are
shown with the participants in the
hunt. Voneric Richardson (left) holds
up the first egg found during the
hunt. Winners included (right photo,
from left) Damion Glover, first; Kyle
Littles, second; and Brannon Grace,
third.
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LANDSCAPE ARTIST Jake Mitchem is shown with his two oil
paintings he recently entered in a Florida art festival. His work
draws much praise. While this picture was being posed, two
tourists strolling along downtown Perry stopped to admire Jake’s
work.
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Chib welcome their newest member. Betty Raimdib fcen
ter) into the organization. With her are sponsoring member
Ailene Smith (left) and dub president Rick Thompson. The
organization meets the second and fourth Mondays each
month at 6:30 p.m. at Shoney’s of Perry.
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Thomas Jefferson subject of Wednesday
Afternoon Book Club speaker Drake
Special to the Times-Journal
Michael Drake, headmaster at
The Westfield Schools of Perry,
gave a program about the life of
Thomas Jefferson during the
March 19 meeting of the
Wednesday Afternoon Book Club.
Drake told the 13 members and
one visitor present for the meeting
that Jefferson, the third U.S.
President, is his favorite pioneer.
Club member Jo Hunt intro
duced Paula Geiger, who intro
duced Drake to the club members.
Molly Moss, who offered the
Beltista members to host third yard and
garden show April 5 at Agricenter
By PAULINE LEWIS
Lifestyle Editor
Members of the Beltista Club
of Perry will present their third
Spring Home and Garden Show
April 5 at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
According to a club
spokesman, the show will begin at
9 a.m. and continue through 5
p.m.
Among the available items will
be yard and garden furniture and
Sorrelle members gather at Ochlahatchee
Club House for March 19 meeting
Special to the Times-Journal
Members of the Sorrelle Club
participated in a clean up day at
Ochlahatchee Club House March
19.
The project began at 10 a.m.
with 20 members on hand. Each
member provided cleaning sup
plies and worked until the club
blessing before the meal, presided
over the business session, during
which time routine business activ
ities were conducted. New offi
cers were named for the coming
year and book reviewers for the
next year were listed.
Club member Hilda Walker
shared with club members a
review of her life in Perry. She is
the only club member who has
lived in the community all of her
life.
Hostesses for the meeting were
Dot Greene and Ruth Saxon.
statuaries, bonsai, flower and
shrub containers, fresh garden
plants and shrubbery, orchids,
kudzu baskets, wind chimes, bird
houses, silver, linens and many
other items.
This annual show is sponsored
by the Beltista Club. Proceeds
from the event are used to finance
club donations in the community.
Tickets are $4 pre-sale; $5 at
the door. They may be purchased
from any Beltista Club member.
house was, as one member said,
“spic and span.”
Following the cleaning pro
ject, club members shared lunch
and then discussed business
briefly.
Hostesses were Ann Houser,
Marguerite James, Elizabeth
Tabor and Anna Lee Warren.
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