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15. 'Colors and Forms: Modem Printmaking From
Mexico.' Through July 29. 'Flowers of Summer.'
Through Sept 2.
CLASSES
BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES Register now for five-
and 10-week sessions in Latin, swing, shag and
•salsa. Contact Dance on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
Through Aug. 1. Call 706-357-541 lfor info, or visit
www.unstrictlyballroom.org.
BOB (SALON) CLASSES bob (SALON) is offering
a series of classes. Aug. 21: Cutting and Dressing
Workshop; Sept. 25 & Oct. 9: Creating Your Own
Portfolio; Oct. 30: Catwalk and Editorial Workshop.
Cost: S250-S300. For reservations, call 877-443-
2643.
CANOPY STUDIO New Adult Beginners Trapeze class
on Mondays at 7:45 p.m.; new Extreme Conditioning
class on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. and Thursdays at
6:30 p.m.; yoga classes on Thursdays at 12 p.m.
706-549-8591, www.canopystudio.com.
CHAKRA BELLY DANCE Invoke the Goddess within.
For women only. All shapes, sizes and skill levels
welcome. Red Lotus Institute on Tuesdays at 7:30
p.m. 706-549-2913.
DOG & PUPPY TRAINING Family dog classes for obe
dience and manners. Puppy Preschool to establish
solid foundations for good behavior. Private lessons
for working toward behavior problem resolution.
Newly-adopted shelter and rescue dog discounts.
East Athens—indoor facility. Positive Pet People
Dog Training, 706-548-2508, www.positivepet-
people.com.
DOULA WORKSHOP Athens Baby Space is hosting
a DONA-approved birth doula workshop. Red Lotus
Institute. Sept. 2-4. Cost: $180 before Aug. 1; $195
after. www.athensbabyspace.com/events_DONA_
training.html or call 706-369-3977 or 706-296-
9394.
GENEALOGY Want to team the basics of tracing your
family lineage? A pencil and paper are all you need.
ACC Library on Tuesday, July 18 from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. FREE! No registration required. 706-613-3650,
ext. 350.
HOME CANNING Canning in the Garden , an intro
duction to the pressure cooker method of home can
ning. Botanical Garden Visitor Center on Thursday,
July 20 at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $17. 706- 542-6156.
HOMEBUYER EDUCATION SEMINAR Learn how
to choose the right mortgage, understand credit
and more. Explore affordable housing options for
low- and moderate-income families. Miriam Moore
Community Service Center on Saturday, July 15 from
12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Preregistration required, call 706-
208-0048.
MAIN STREET YARNS Classes in Beginning knitting.
Advanced Beginning Knitting, Felted Bags, Socks,
Crocheting, Spinning and more. Private knitting
lessons avail. Main Street Yarns and Fibers in
downtown Watkinsville, 706-769-5531, www.main-
streetyarn5.c0m.
MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES Tae Kwon Do classes for
kids and adults, beginner to advanced. Taught by
three-time AAU National Champion Jason Hughes.
Self-defense, Olympic-style sparring, more. Live Oak
Martial Arts. Chase St. Warehouses, Studio AB. 706-
548-0077, www.liveoakmartialarts.com.
MIND BODY INSTITUTE Current classes: Gentle Yoga,
Intro to Yoga, Back Care Yoga. Self-Massage Yoga,
Self-Hypnosis class. Bridges to Health class. Call for
times and cost. 706-475-7330.
ROLFING Learn the basics of Rolfing with certified
Rolfer Neal Anderson. Earth Fare on Wednesday. July
12 at 7 p.m. FREE! Please sign up, 706-227-1717.
SHAG DANCING Classes in shag dancing, the official
state dance of South Carolina. Singles or couples,
6-week session. These classes fill up quickly, register
now. YMCA, 915 Hawthorne Ave., Thursdays, July
27-Aug. 3i at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $80-$90 singles,
$150-$180 couples. Bonnie, 706-254-999*.
TAI CHI The Hunyuantaiji Academy of Georgia offers
classes in traditional Chen Style Taijiquan and the
Hunyuan Taiji and Qigong system of Feng Zhiqiang.
www.chetizhonghua.ccm. Todd, 706-614-3342. Cart,
706-546- 8422.
VEGETARIAN COOKING 'Vegetarian Delights' cook
ing class at Earth Fart on Wednesday, July 19 at
5:30 p.m. FREE! Pleast sign up, 706-227-1717.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL SKILLS Learn ancient
woodland skills with local instructors Bill Burt, Scott
Jones, Cart Lindberg and Nate Tha Wookie* Olive.
Navigation, the art of the bow, drill fire, stone knap
ping, and much more. Hosted by the Roots Farm
in WinterviUe, July 22, 23, 30 & 31. Preregister by
calling 706-534-5033 or see www.thawookie.com/
wildskills.htm. A portion of the proceeds go directly
to local organic farming.
THE WILDS OF OCONEE COUNTY
WISE WOMEN Wise Woman Circle hosted by
WomanSpace. Topic: 'Embracing Change in Our
Lives." Friday, July 21 at 7 p.m. Register by calling
706-424-1960.
MEETINGS
ALTERNATIVE HISTORY Discussion group designed
to give serious, unbiased inquiry and research into
the anomalies within the orthodox view of ancient
history. Hot Corner Coffee on Sundays at 7 p.m.
More info: solarcross@hotmail.com.
CHESS CLUB The Classic City Chess Club meets at
Borders every Saturday at 6 p.m. and at Earth Fare
every Thursday at 6 p.m. Nickolaus Johnson, 706-
413-1417.
FLYBALL RACING Competitive team dog racing.
Oouble Dog Dare Flybail Racing Club practices
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at Lucky Dog Agility in
WinterviUe. For info contact, dddflyball@alltel.net,
www.flyballdogs.com/dddare.
LISTENING FORUM ACC Leisure Services is holding
'Listening Forums' in which members of the com
munity may discuss topics that relate to Leisure
Services. Third Monday of every month at 7 p.m.
706-613-3800.
SHAMU & MARRIAGE Come together to discuss
the article "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy
Marriage" (avail, at http://tinyurl.com/nov8j, pod
cast at http://tinyurt.com/et9aj). Borders on Friday,
July 21 at 8 p.m.
GREEN PARTY The ACC Green Party meets the fourth
Tuesday of every month at Common Ground, 157 N.
Newton St. at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
SUPPORT GROUPS
AIDS ATHENS Support groups for individuals with
HIV/AIDS: general support, music therapy, women
only, substance/alcohol abuse and more. AIDS
Athens, 706-542-2437.
ALZHEIMER'S GROUP The Athens Area Alzheimer's
Support Group meets once a month at the Adult Day
Care Center, 1774 Old W. Broad St. Call 706-548-
6476 for meeting times and details.
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUP Support group
meets at St Mary's Hospital (lobby conference
room) on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Rick, 706-783-
5706.
PREGNANCY/ INFANT LOSS SHARE-Pregnancy and
Infant Loss Support Group meets the third Thursday
of every month at the Loran Smith Center. Open to
all parents who have experienced a perinatal loss.
Pat Nielsen, 706-475-5622.
SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER Weekly therapeutic groups
available for adult sexual assault survivors and adult
(male and female) survivors of childhood sexual
abuse. Aso, the SAC is starting up a weekly group
for middle school girts who have been sexually
abused or sexually assaulted. FREE! Call 706-353-
1?12 fur details and meeting times.
SUICIDE SURVIVORS Open to anyone who has lost
a loved one to suicide. Nugi’s Space, 306 Oco ee St.
on the second and last Wednesday of every month
at 5:30 p.m. Linda Philips. 706-227-1515.
HELP OUT!
FREE COMPUTERS! Volunteer 12 hours with Free IT
Athens over the course of three Sundays helping
to recycle and refurbish old computers, and earn a
free recycled computer for yourself. No experience is
necessary. Common Ground on Sundays from 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m. through the summer. To register, email
semmy@freeitathens.org.
HOST FAMILIES NEEDED The Program for Academic
Exchange seeks host families for high school ex
change students from 40 countries for the upcoming
school year. Ages 15-18. Rebecca O'Grady, 706-621-
3736, 1-800-555-6211, www.pax.org.
MEALS ON WHEELS Volunteers needed to deliver
meals to homebound clients, one day per week, from
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Must have own vehicle.
meals@accaging.org; 706-549-4850.
PROJECT SAFE The Project Safe Thriftstore
in seeking volunteers to help sort price and
sell merchandise. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Email
prpjectvolunteer@yahoo.com, 706-425-8863.
RECORDING FOR THE BUNO Recording for the Blind
and Dyslexic is seeking volunteers who would be
willing to contribute 90 minutes a week to record
and prepare textbooks for people with text disabili
ties. Email kstanley@rfbd.org or call 706-549-1313.
Margaret Moore
Wilderness: I kr.uw that's not what Oconee
County is. I'm sure some of you even live there.
But 45 minutes of driving around in confusion
and increasing hunger because none of the roads
in Watkinsville that one is looking for can be
found does not put one in a good mood. Perhaps
it's some kind of a small-town thing designed
to discourage outsiders? At any rate, you may
know very well how to reach Mars Hill Road and
once you do, you'll drive until you hit Manders
Crossing, a shopping center so new it still has
plenty of slots to fill at which point you can
make your way into Ferrando's Italian Pizzeria
(1260 Mars Hill Rd., 706-769-5552), just opened
and as shiny and new as the rest of the area.
An expansion of two family-owned restaurants
in South Carolina, it tries harder than necessary
to sell the "Italian" part. Were posters of The
Godfather, 'The Sopranos' and Frank Sinatra all
required? It's strangely abundant in such signi
fies and yet also bare at the same time, with
a large, clean space, massively high ceilings
that contain more fans per square foot than any
place in town except perhaps the big-box hard
ware stores and corner-mounted TVs tuned to
ABC for the World Cup, but in fact showing "The
Suite Life of Zack and Cody." The pizza takes a
bit longer to reach you than it does at Little
Italy, and you will have table service from one
of the waitrons snazzed up in a necktie. This is
to say, they're aiming for a family market, a wise
decision for the location. You can get individual
slices of the specialty pies, which will run you
$3.50 each, if you like a lot of toppings. Neither
the "all meat' nor the veggie slice looked all
that promising, with the typical tiny baits of
sausage rather than slices of the same, and the
crust didn't wow (too white-floury, too watery),
but the pizza was better than first impressions
might indicate. Perhaps it's only the sense of
seasoning someone in the kitchen has, but it
wasn't bland, and the tomato sauce wasn't bit
ter, as it often is at lower-priced places. The
stromboli was equally passable, filled with ham,
pepperoni and green peppers, though in shape
and structure, it was closer to a calzone than to
the classical form. Numerous combos come with
a frequently refilled beverage, a host of des
serts are on the menu and the restaurant does
take-out business but not delivery. If I lived in
the area, I'd certainly take my munchkins there.
Ferrando's is open for lunch and dinner Monday
through Saturday.
Wilderness, Part 2: Having seen the ad in
Flagpole for Vine Street Caf6 (585 Vine St.), like
the rest of you, I ventured into the Iron Triangle
to see what of the multiple menu items adver
tised was available. The answer was 'not much."
The patroness was flooded with requests for soul
food from Flagpole readers, but it's simply too
hot right now to cook it, so what the restaurant
ends up being more like is showing up at your
relatives’ house and seeing what all they have to
eat. Fried fish and a turkey sub were obtained,
the former minimal and the latter nicely soaked
with vinegar and loaded with onions on the bot
tom. Hush puppies were nearly snowball-sized,
with a thick crust of batter, and made with very
finely ground com meal, producing a sweet, pow
dery sensation in the mouth when bitten into.
But the food is nothing special yet. The point of
the place is that it is a sign of life in the area
other than a small grocery store or a barbershop.
The cops stop in on a regular basis (their sta
tion is across the street) and there are signs on
the walls warning that possession of drugs in
the restaurant will not be tolerated. In a neigh
borhood where a guy tries to sell you instant
mashed potatoes out of a large cardboard box on
the street comer, any step in the right direction
is worthy of notice. Keep checking back with it
The owner is happy to feed you.
What Up?: While in Manders Crossing, I wandered
into Crushed Grapes and Hops, a wine and beer
store open six days a week that serve* those
who need to B their OB while dining in Oconee
County. The selection of beer seems slightly
deeper than that of wine, but they do make
their own labels, and the young people behind
the counter seem to know what they're talking
about Fancy stuff resides in a temperature-con
trolled room. What's Cooking, on Oglethorpe, is
not in fact, closed. Mellow Mushroom down
town now has at least one house-made brew on
it. menu, which the waitresses will be happy to
fill you in on. It's got a strong apple flavor at
first, almost a cider, which subsides into a basic
lager that leaves no aftertaste on the tongue.
It's odd and it doesn’t seem to go with pizza or
garlic, but it's an interesting first effort, and
more should be forthcoming.
Hillary Brown
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