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Table of Contents High Cotton Music Hall

Kate Josey visits Quebec

Chandler Blake Jackson Pugh

Currahee Military Weekend

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Clarence Cameron (Big C) and Walter Gordon (Smokestack Willie) rock the High Cotton Music Hall. Photo/Stephanie Crump

High Cotton Music Hall

By Vivian Morgan/The Hartwell Sun

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lmost every community has a sweet spot - a place that beckons you from the street and wraps you in its warm embrace the second you cross the threshold. For Hartwell, that sweet spot is the High Cotton Music Hall.

While High Cotton features a wide variety of music - from rock, to R&B and country - it is, on many occasions, the down-home blues that rule the roost It happens every third Saturday when the blues jam charms musicians and patrons alike.

High Cotton’s magical spell also encourages participants to release their inner blues personas. Host Clarence Cameron transforms into “Big C”, and Hartwell attorney and High Cotton co-owner Walter Gordon, morphs into his alter ego, “Smokestack Willie.”

“Clarence brings a broad experience with the blues,” Walter said. “His background was church music, as many people have, and then he branched into the blues. He has the unique ability to keep the show going, bringing in different musicians to play with one another. In most cases, they’ve never played with one another. When they take the stage and he tells them what key it’s in, they crank it up and it’s almost like everybody falls in line and has practiced together 6 Lake Living November 2015

for a long time.”

In addition to Walter, the principals in High Cotton are Pam Gordon and Steve and Stephanie Crump.

“I have the best partners in the world,” Walter said. “We’re all in this together and that means somebody has to clean the bathrooms. Somebody has to sweep and somebody has to pick up the cans and bottles and do the recycling. All of us do that and all of that gets done. And other people have come in and helped us with things too.”

While Walter is quick to heap praise on Clarence and his fellow partners, there is no denying that Walter can play a mean harmonica and can bellow out the Mississippi Delta blues with the best of them.

“While the blues jams give local musicans an opportunity to play and to be seen, it’s just wonderful that High Cotton has a wide variety of music that fits everybody’s tastes,” said patron Rebecca Williams. “I love that it’s local.”

In addition to its monthly blues jams, High Cotton is quickly gaining a reputation for bringing in high quality singers and musicians like Ike Stubblefield, Friends of Lola and Randall Bramblett.

One essential element that distinguishes High Cotton is its quality of sound.

“I think it is the combination of the natural acoustic properties of a 100-year-old brick building together with the highly sophisticated sound engineering that Steve Crump is able to accomplish with our equipment.”

While the patrons know the sound is good, it is also the atmosphere that keeps them coming. Walter jokes that the vision for High Cotton was that it have the feeling of a juke joint without anybody pulling out a knife.

The music hall also serves a more significant purpose for the Crumps and the Gordons.

“We want to bring out young musicians and get them involved,” Steve said.

And, according to Walter, that desire will lead to midweek jam sessions for young people between the ages of 12 and 18.

In addition to the youth jams, the blues jams, and concerts by seasoned artists, there are plans on the table to open the doors on some Sunday afternoons for gospel.

“We will continue to book quality live music acts and deeply appreciate all the support the community has shown,” Walter said. “I don’t think we’re ever going to set the woods on fire as far as it being a profit-making business, but as long as we can keep the bills paid that’s what satisfies us.”

For anyone looking for a getaway close to home, then High Cotton is the sweetest little spot in the region.

For more information on High Cotton Music Hall and its schedule of entertainment, visit www.highcottonmusichall.com. High Cotton is located at 57 Depot St., Hartwell.

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Several students from Georgia attended a summer French program in Quebec City, Canada. Pictured are (from left) Zach McGarry, Olamide Oladapo, Tellia Catherine, Meg Borquez, Laura Garcia, John Boyes and Kate Josey. Photo/Submitted

Kate Josey visits Quebec

By Denise Matthews/Franklin County Citizen Leader

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ate Josey is still reveling in the experience she received from attending a summer language program at the Universite’ Laval in Quebec City, Canada, in 2014.

Although it has been a year since the 2012 Franklin County High School salutatorian completed the six-week course, her enthusiasm for her trip has not diminished.

Quebec City is heralded as the cradle of French civilization in North America and is the only major city in Canada that offers a 100 percent French-speaking environment, making it the ideal location to learn French.

“Quebec City has kept its

French heritage,” Kate said.

“It is a beautiful, sprawling city near the St. Lawrence River. Old Quebec was my favorite part of the city” Kate was at the Universite’ Laval from June through July of 2014 and attended three classes – grammar, phonetics and simple conversation – which lasted until about noon most days.

Students in the program were told in their first class that ALL conversation in class and on campus would be conducted in French, Kate said.

And it wasn’t as if students could sneak off and speak English with each other in a corner Kate said, no matter how much they wanted to.

Students were monitored –

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even during excursion trips.

“Most of the students stayed on campus,” Kate said. “And were dying to speak English by the end of the day. But they couldn’t.

Many of the students were there on scholarship and a mandate of the scholarship was that they had to speak French all of the time. If they were heard speaking English, their scholarship could be revoked.”

Kate attended class on campus, but actually lived in Quebec City with her host, Lise, and two other students who were from Nebraska and California. She and the two other students each had a room in the “apartment”-like abode and Kate rode the bus – about

an hour trip – back and forth to school.

“The country was gorgeous, the people were so talented and friendly and it was really interesting to see how the syrup was made,” Kate said.

In essence, the whole trip was “unforgettable,” Kate said smiling at the memories.

Unforgettable and challenging.

“The first week of class was amazing,” Kate said. “Then the next two weeks were really hard and very stressful. I got homesick, but I talked to my professor and her reassurance and advice made the next two weeks wonderful. I didn’t want to go home.”

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Folks became familiar with Chandler’s kitchen skills recently when he was a contestant on the Food Network show Rachael Ray’s Kid’s Cook Off. He made it to the finals of the six-week show that pitted him against seven other child chefs.

Chandler comes from a cooking legacy and probably has a little french fry oil running through this veins.

“His grandmother, my mom, Jenny Bryson, was the owner of the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in Carnesville several years ago,” Autumn Pugh, Chandler’s mother explained. “She was a wonderful cook and I am a pretty good cook as well.”

“I have always loved to cook,” Chandler said.

Chandler tends to lean toward Nordic cuisine, as he likes the culture and has a special fondness for Vikings.

Chandler evidenced his skill for Nordic recipes in the first episode of the Cook Off when he made gravlax – a salt cured salmon – and beet root with cream sauce for his first dish.

“I didn’t even know what it was,” Autumn chuckled.

When she saw the application for contestants for the Rachael Ray Kid’s Cook Off, she knew Chandler had to enter.

Even though she knew it was a long shot, Autumn said she sent in the application and was blown away when she got a reply that same night.

“I couldn’t believe they chose me from a little town like Carnesville,” Chandler, a longtime fan of the Food Network, said.

For the next several months there were mountains of paperwork, Skype cooking demonstrations with Rachael, more interviews and more paperwork to go through before his place on the show was set.

“It was definitely no walk in the park getting on the show,”

Chandler Jackson Pugh (center) took some time to share his experience with Franklin County Avita clients. Avita Regional Deputy Director Rob Hill (left) and Avita Director Care Staff Jody Page brought Avita clients to meet and talk to Chandler and ask questions about his cooking and what it has been like to compete on the six-week Food Network cooking competition. His mother, Autum, also attended. Photo/Denise Matthews, Franklin County Citizen Leader

look good in 20 minutes and not being intimidated by the enormous cameras that surrounded him daily.

“I loved being on the show,” Chandler said. “I made a lot of good friends – Nick, Zack and Chris especially – and we still e-mail each other all of the time. I also really enjoyed meeting Rachael – she was really nice – and all of the judges were great, too, especially Marcus Samuelsson.”

Food Network ‘kidtestant’ Chandler Jackson Pugh (right) stands with his No. 1 fan, mother Autumn. Photo/Denise Matthews, Franklin County Citizen Leader

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Autumn said. “He also had to get a work permit.”

Whittled down first by producers from hundreds of applicants, and then by Ray from 12 to the final eight, Chandler and Autumn set down in New York, N.Y., at last on July 5.

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Not to be outdone, Kailah and Ailyah David of Westminster, S.C., tried on their own GI helmets and showed them off to their mother. Photo/Tom Law, The Toccoa Record

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World War II reenactor must pay attention to detail, have plenty of time to devote to the hobby and a love of history from the period.

A little extra money, certainly doesn’t hurt, either.

Dozens of World War II re-enactors descended on Toccoa the first weekend in October for the 15th annual Currahee Military Weekend which honors all veterans, but especially the 17,000 to 18,000 airborne troopers who trained at Camp Toccoa at the base of Currahee Mountain.

It’s a prime weekend for re-enactors to perhaps meet some of those World War II veterans and show off their uniforms and equipment dating from the war years.

Louis Jenkins of Shelby, N.C., brought his field kitchen equipment.

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War era. The difference? The World War II table was made in classic tongue and grove hardwood, the Vietnam era out of plywood.

“Normally, I could feed about 50 people from that one World War II era stove,” Jenkins said. “I had planned on doing that two or three times, but the rain has canceled that.”

Heavy rain the first weekend in October canceled many Currahee Military Weekend events and sent reenactors home early Saturday morning.

“It would have been just like in the war,” Jenkins said.

“The men would line up here and we would serve them food into their mess kits.”

Jenkins said he worked 33 years as a paramedic in North Carolina before retiring.

Once in retirement, he had to find something to keep him busy.

World War II re-enactor was

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Re-enactor Junior Stove, with the help of Lawrence Kinder of Clarkesville, tries to remove this stubborn bayonet from a rifle. Kinder and Stove attended Currahee Military Weekend events held in Toccoa the first weekend in October. Photo/Tom Law, The Toccoa Record

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Louis Jenkins of Shelby, N.C. sits under a tent while his field kitchen equipment remains unpacked. The stove in the foreground is a World War II-era piece of equipment capable of preparing meals for up to 50 people. Photo/Tom Law, The Toccoa Record

Then there was Command Sgt. Maj. Junior Shove who traveled all the way from Fort Dix, N.J. for the weekend of events.

Rain chased him inside, too, but he took the time to show 13-year-old Logan Mays of Carnesville how to attach and detach a bayonet on a World War II rifle.

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Eric Kalameja of Virginia was found taking shelter under the upraised rear door of his Ford Explorer seeking a needle and thread to stitch his World War II uniform.

Kalamaja said he served in the 101st Airborne Division as a younger man and is now president of the Virginia 101st Airborne Division Association. It was his first trip to Toccoa for the military weekend.

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Tom Jones Sr.’s house was originally a two-story cabin built in the 1700’s on land that was granted to John Mullins. The back part sloping at right is an extension of the structure, part of which also was a garage. Photo/J. Todd Truelove, The Toccoa Record

A visit to a 200-year-old house

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f one visits Tom Jones Sr. at his Stephens County residence, they might not realize they’re standing in a centuries-old structure.

The house, originally a twostory cabin, is located near Lake Hartwell.

It’s undergone extensive renovations twice — once in the early 1970s and more recently in 2008 — disguising that the structure is almost 230 years old.

Jones said the original cabin was built sometime in the late 1780s, several years after John Mullins was given a land grant for 1,289 acreas near the Tugaloo River in 1785.

Jones said the property has

only changed hands a couple of times over the past 250 years.

“At some point, John Mullins sold that land to another family sometime around 1814,” Jones said.

The Hacketts owned the property for about 36 years, but widow Hackett sold the tract to Richard Dean in 1850, who gave it to his son, Russell, as a wedding present.

It’s been in the Dean family ever since, once divided by 200 acres for each of six children.

For many years, much of the property was used as farmland for corn and wheat.

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In the early to mid-1900s, sharecroppers tilled the land and harvested the crops with a percentage going to the Deans.

When Lake Hartwell was created in the early 1960s, some of the land was covered by water.

“Three of my aunts and uncles lost land to the lake (Hartwell),” Jones said.

Richard Arthur Dean gave the portion of the property with the two-story cabin to Winnie Mary Dean, for caring for him and his wife, Lucy Brown Dean.

Winnie Dean undertook the first series of renovations to the cabin.

She later gave the property

to Jones’ mother, Sarah.

Since the mid-1800s, the house and its surroundings has experienced only six or eight months when it wasn’t owned by one of the Deans or their descendants.

That period came in the late 1980s when the property was sold to a developer and became part of Dean’s Point.

But not long after, Jones and his wife, Nancy Kirk, jumped at an opportunity to purchase the portion of the property on which the Dean family homeplace stands.

In 2008, Jones and his wife renovated and enlarged the house.

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He said that some of Gen. William T. Sherman’s Yankee troops also used a road located near the house when they were marching north from Savannah in 1865. “My grandfather (Richard Arthur Dean) watched Sherman’s troops. Many of them came up that road,� said Jones. “He was about eight or nine years old.�

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Love Him Love Them just returned from Haiti with a filming crew. Linda Gunter of the ministry is pictured with Haitian orphans. They spent a week in Haiti serving in different orphanages, churches and schools. Photo/Love Him Love Them

Love Him, Love Them

By Kandice S. Eberhardt/Franklin County Citizen Leader

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t’s a case of orphans helping orphans to help orphans.

In 2011, the David and Linda Gunter family decided to spend the Christmas holiday in Haiti helping children who were orphaned after the earthquake. The trip quickly turned into a new cause for Love Him Love Them.

“Love Him Love Them is a non-profit 501(c)3 charity created from a passion to apply ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind and Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Matthew 22:36-40). Our goal is to live our lives this way and help teach others to do the same,” Linda said. “If all

God’s people would follow these two commands, we could eliminate poverty and the need for government’s attempts to meet certain needs.”

Since that first trip to Haiti, the Gunter family has returned every year on behalf of the ministry to provide Christmas and months of food supplies to hundreds of orphans and adults.

The ministry also supports the Valley of Hope School throughout the year by paying the teachers’ salaries, sponsoring a goat and chicken entrepreneurship program and financing water wells, the construction of schools and churches and

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is currently helping with a vocational school.

It was the desire to help orphans that sparked Linda’s desire to form a Haitian children’s choir to tour the United States.

As Linda began searching the internet to see how many, if any, Haitian children’s choirs were touring the United States, she found videos of the Ugandan Thunder Children’s Choir.

“I wanted to know how they went about organizing everything from the tour to getting the children in the country,” Linda said. “It just so happened that one of the students I taught in Bible study was roommates with

another Franklin County native who interned with the choir. I asked her to find out if her roommate would mind getting me in contact with the founder.”

When Linda and founder Melinda Fowler of Ugandan Thunder finally met, Linda had a long list of questions.

When the Haitian children’s choir starts its first tour, Linda is hoping they will have concerts booked for every day of the 13 weeks of July, August and September 2016 they are in the country.

They are already in negotiations for bookings with The United Nations, Six Flags, Chick-Fil-A, churches and schools.

Children from the Ugandan Thunder Children’s Choir perform at a school during one of their tours in the United States. The choir began touring the US in 2009. Photo /Ugandan Thunder Children’s Choir

“People can have them come sing at their church, school, office or college,” Linda said.

All of the money raised by the Haitian children’s choir will go to either Haiti or another Love Him Love Them ministry in Ukraine to help other orphans.

Visit www.lovehimlovethem.com for more information about Love Him Love Them and visit www.penniesforposho. org for more information about Pennies for Posho, the charity of the Ugandan Thunder choir.

Members of the Love Him Love Them Choir get ready to perform in Haiti.

Photo /Ugandan Thunder Children’s Choir

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Prices continued to gain traction. The Median Sales Price increased 8.5 percent to $178,000. Days on Market was down 8.1 percent to 68 days. Sellers were encouraged as Months Supply of Inventory was down 23.1 percent to 5.0 months.

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Firewoman

Kaitlyn Weaver, 19, is following in the footsteps of her parents and training to become a volunteer firefighter in Stephens County. Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt

By Kandice S. Eberhardt/Franklin County Citizen Leader

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lot of time and effort goes into becoming and remaining a volunteer firefighter.

Just ask Stephens County’s Kaitlyn Weaver, who’s among a handful of people training to stay on the county’s volunteer force.

Weaver’s parents are both firefighters with her father, Jody Marcus, serving as the chief of the Carnes Creek Fire Station, and her mother, Susan, who drives one of the fire engines at Station 2, which is under the purview of the Carnes Creek VFD. “Growing up (around my parents), I got an interest in it,” Weaver said.

The 19-year-old said that when she was in the eighth grade at Stephens County Middle School, she signed up as a junior firefighter

where she and her comrades would train and compete in events such as who could put on their firefighting gear the quickest.

“I put on my gear in 26 seconds,” Weaver said.

Her mother said that familiarity with gear is a critical aspect of firefighting allowing the firefighter to dress without having to take time to think about what goes where.

“The time limit is a little added pressure,” said Susan.

While anyone can sign on to volunteer, to remain on the volunteer force, they have to complete training within a year’s time.

Until then, Susan said that volunteers are allowed to join in on fire call responses, but had to stay out of the “hot zone” which varies

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Pictured next to Weaver is her mother, Susan Marcus, an engine driver.

Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt

depending on the size and type of the blaze.

“You have one year to get your registered volunteer firefighter training,” said Susan.

A lot don’t make it.

Kaitlyn Weaver said that when she started training this year, there were 19 other trainees with her.

As of mid-September there were only four remaining,

and three of those were women.

“We have a lot of females coming in and joining us,” Kaitlyn said.

Susan said that they had five firewomen currently active at Station 2 — enough to fill a truck.

Kaitlyn said that her father accompanied during her first venture into a house fire and was constantly ask-

ing her how she was doing.

“The rule is, two in, two out,” Kaitlyn said, adding she found it difficult entering a house fire because she is a bit claustrophobic.

She also has trouble lifting some of the heavier fire equipment tools, but she

doesn’t let that stop her.

“I get it done, one way or the other,” Kaitlyn said.

She said that one of her favorite aspects about being a volunteer firefighter is that she assists with the friendly firefighter program at elementary schools.

The volunteer fire departments participate in the friendly firefighter program at local elementary schools. Weaver explains to students about fire equipment. Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt

Kaitlyn Weaver said that firefighting for her is all about helping anyone she can. She said that she gets it done, “one way or the other.”

Photo/Kandice S. Eberhardt

Each station has been assigned local schools they visit to conduct the friendly program.

“We go to the elementary schools and teach how to get out of a burning house,” said Kaitlyn, adding she verbally explains certain

processes while other firefighters physically act them out.

In the end, Kaitlyn said her main goal in becoming a firefighter was a desire to help others.

“I enjoy helping everybody,” she said.

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Ed Shaw holds his small savings bank outside its original home, the former Bank of Lavonia downtown. Photo/Denise Matthews

Money in the bank

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d Shaw held the little tarnished silver coin bank in the palm of his hand, smiling as he held it out for Margaret Ayers, Northeast Georgia Bank vice president, to examine.

“It was handed down through the years from my great-great-granddaddy to my daddy,” Shaw, a lean and tanned veteran told Ayers of the little coin bank. “I got it from my daddy when he died.”

Shaw and his wife, Delma, from Starr, S.C., were in Lavonia specifically to see and talk to Ayers.

“We saw her picture and the write-up in the Anderson Independent and wanted to show her the bank,” Shaw explained. “We thought it came from the bank she works at.”

Examining the old bank with delight, Ayers told Shaw that it actually came from the Bank of Lavonia, which was originally located in Lavonia where Sassa-Frass Hair Salon now resides.

“That bank opened in 1898,” Ayers told the Shaws, speaking of the small granite building on the corner of Grogan and East Main

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Shaw pried the bank open and found a quarter from 1897 (right) inside.

Photo/Denise Matthews

streets in downtown Lavonia. “They probably gave these banks out then.”

A fact evidenced by the blackened quarter dated 1897, which Shaw found when he pried open the

bank.

“The bank has a place for a key on the bottom which could only be opened by someone from the bank,” Shaw said. “But I pried it open and found the old

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Ayers, a local historian, gave the Shaws, married for 63 years, a brief history of the Bank of Lavonia and then took them to SassaFrass Hair Salon to show

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“This has been a great trip, Shaw said of meeting Ayers and visiting the old building. “We have really enjoyed it.”

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The Links @ Lake Toccoa

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This is the view of the par-3 eighth hole at The Links at Lake Toccoa. The seventh green is to the lower left and the ninth fairway is in the upper left.

The eighth hole can play anywhere from 145 to 165 yards. Photo/The Links

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ike a phoenix rising from its own ashes, the municipal golf course in Toccoa has embarked on yet another new life.

The course, now known as The Links at Lake Toccoa, has reinvented itself numerous times over the last 74 years,

the latest opening to public play in early September.

The venerable nine-holer’s first incarnation began in the late summer of 1941 when three avid Toccoa golfers decided a local course was needed.

Rufus Harding, Thomas B. McNeeley and Frank Gross announced

their intentions to build a golf course near Toccoa.

In mid-September a group of interested citizens met at Toccoa City Hall to discuss the formation of a club with 100 shareholders to oversee the course construction.

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incorporated with 80 of the needed 100 shareholders.

By mid-November, work had started on the course with Jimmy Livingstone, a golf professional from Atlanta, overseeing the layout and design of the nine holes.

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Ping, a black Lab, is the official mascot of The Links at Lake Toccoa. His job is to chase geese from the greens and fairways adjacent to Lake Toccoa. He also has the new grill named in his honor. Photo/The Links

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Last year’s Indoor Arts and Craft show drew 30 vendors and hundreds of shoppers looking to get a start on Christmas shopping. Photo/Mark Hynds, The Hartwell Sun

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or seven years, Judy Earle and the Ladies Circle at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, have provided a place for locals to get an early start on their Christmas shopping.

The annual Indoor Arts and Crafts Sale will set up for the eighth time on Saturday, Nov. 14. The show runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Founders Hall at the church.

“It’s a great way to get a jump on your holiday shopping,” said Earle. She helped start the sale when she moved to Hartwell from Michigan.

“It was always something we did up north, said Earle. I didn’t know f any particular shows like it around here, so we decided to start it.

Earle said that first sale brought about 20 vendors. This year’s sale will top out at 31.

“Some have come every year, said Earle. “I put most of them in the Founder’s Hall, which holds about 250 people.”

She said a few will set up on a covered, concrete breezewat that runs between the hall and the church.

“It’s a little cool in the morning, bit the vendors like the extra space,” said Earle.

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I try to have a variety of different items each year, said Earle.

“But everything has to have a handmade affect in it. I don’t allow anything that’s been purchased at a store.”

In addition to the crafts, baked goods and frozen casseroles made by church members will be for sale. Earle said there will be raffle periodically through the day.

“Each of our crafters donates an item,” said Earle. “We do it about every 30 minutes and you have to be present to win.”

Earle said the money raised from booth fees and other sales will go to the church for different things as well as local charities and organizations.

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The first dock on Lake Hartwell

By David Butler, The Hartwell Sun

Al Sims and his good friend and neighbor, Al Snyder, built the first dock on Lake Hartwell. Snyder obtained the very first permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

David Sims, Al’s son who was just 5 at the time, enjoys rafting on the lake during the summer of 1966.

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ocks can be very simple and functional, or elegant and elaborate.

For former district superintendent of Georgia Power Al Sims and former Hart County Post Master Al Snyder, the decision to build the first dock in Hart County was simple.

“We both had young children and we just wanted somewhere that was for them to climb up and jump into the water like young children like to do,” Sims said.

According to Sims, Snyder and his wife, Dot, were the

first people to buy a home on lakefront property.

“Both of our families would get together and our children would play on the beach area around the lake bed,” Sims said. “It was like a public beach out there.”

Sims said when the idea of building the first dock in the early 1960s, Lake Hartwell was not quite full yet.

“Snyder obtained a dock permit from the U.S. Corepsof Engineers once we decided we wanted to go through with building it,” Sims said.

“Dock permit No. 1 was the very first permit issued on Lake Hartwell.”

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The Sims and Snyders were good friends as well as neighbors. From left, the late Betty Sims, Al Sims, Dot Snyder and the late Al Snyder.

The dock was built out of 4x4 timbers and 2x12 planks.

“We obtained the materials to build the dock from old, obsolete construction sites in Bowersville,” Sims said.

“We built the dock on the shore with a water elevation of two feet. We wanted the dock to be above water when the lake filled up.”

According to Sims, Hart County residents thought the lake level was going to stay the same.

“Back then, people didn’t realize the lake level was going to fluctuate,” Sims said.

Snyder and Sims took a couple of months to build

the dock.

“The children got to enjoy it for a few months before it was destroyed,” Sims said.

“We had a rainy summer and the lake came up in the flood stage and tipped the dock over on its side.”

Sims said it was the first dock in Hart County and also the first dock in Hart County to be destroyed.

“To my knowledge, as long as Al Snyder was living there was not another dock built at his location,” Sims said.

“We didn’t build another dock because once it flipped over, we decided to dismantle it.”

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Tim Akin checks out a pontoon boat with an outboard engine at Hartwell Marina. Winterizing procedures for outboard motors differ from inboard motors.

Photo/Vivian Morgan, The Hartwell Sun

Winterizing your boat

By Vivian Morgan, The Hartwell Sun

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ith the warm breezes of summer now becoming a faint memory, it’s time to pack the boats away for the winter months. And that means winterizing.

Hartwell Marina owner Brant Tew says it is critical that boats be prepped properly for the winter and that a lot of damage can happen to a boat over the winter months.

For example, the engines can freeze. So, it is important with the inboard engines to drain all the water out. Outboard engines drain themselves.

Once the water is drained

out of the inboard, then it needs to be refilled with non-toxic antifreeze.

“When you winterize a boat you are doing three things. You are keeping it from freezing, you are sealing up the engine to cut down on any type of corrosion, and you pickle the fuel system,” Tew said. “Gas that sits around a long time goes bad. The worst thing to do is let it sit for several months.”

With that being said about the gas going bad, one would think it would be a good idea to run all of the gas out of the tank, but it is not.

“You actually want to have

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the tank pretty full,” Tew said. “A boat fuel system is vented to the atmosphere.

What happens is you will get condensation inside the tank. This creates more water. The best thing to do is stabilize the fuel and keep the tank full over the winter.

Then next season run that tank all the way out and start over with fresh fuel.”

For the corrosion, it is important to fog the engine.

This coats inside the cylinders with a special fogging oil. It keeps it from rusting.

Outside the engine also gets a treatment.

While boat owners can get a very basic winterizing, Tew recommends that they

go ahead and get the servicing they would normally get in the spring.

“If people would go ahead and do the service at the beginning of the winter it will make the spring so much easier,” he said. “If you know what you’re doing, you can do it yourself.

If you don’t know, have a professional do it. A little bit of maintenance cuts down on the damage and the real expensive repairs.

Boat engines get run really hard. Because of that they need a little extra TLC. They are durable. They’re built to handle it but they are not tolerant of taking shortcuts.”

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2015 Festivals and Events Hart County Nov. 5, Thursday—Faces of Hartwell, Better Together.

Exhibit at The Art Center.

Nov. 14, Saturday, Casa Superhero Run at Tugaloo State Park, 1763 Tugaloo State Park Rd., Lavonia, GA. Fun Run 8:30 am/5K 9:00 am. Each participant must complete a registration form. $25 pre-registered 5K—postmarked by 11/04/15. $30 thereafter and 5K race day. $15 Fun Run/ Walk (any age). $65 Family rate (up to 4 runners) pre-registered only. Race day registration begins at 7:30 am. Registration is also available on active.com. T-shirts are guaranteed to runners registered by 11/04/15 and are available as supplies last on race day.

Nov. 15, 15th Annual 5K Run at McGee Heating & Air - 2 p.m. Sponsored by the Northeast Georgia Council on Domestic Violence. For more information call 706-377-4884 or 706-377-4141.

Nov. 16, Sunday, Tellabration. 2:30 p.m. at Hart County Community Theatre on Depot Street. Afternoon of Storytelling.

Nov. 19, Thursday, “Music from Annie Jr.” at the Savannah River Playhouse, Hartwell.

Nov. 21, Saturday, November Blues Jam at High Cotton Music Hall, 57 Depot St., Hartwell. Open Jam for blues musicians of all skill levels. Sign up to play at 7:00 pm; music starts at 7:30 pm. $7 General Admission. Free for jamming musicians. For more information visit www.highcottonmusichall.com.

Nov. 27, Friday. Hartwell’s annual “Home for the Holidays” Tree Lighting. Christmas tree lighting at 6 p.m. at the town square. Come sing carols, ride the horse drawn carriage or the choo choo train and have your time with Santa.

Dec. 1-19, Tuesdays-Saturdays Mistletoe Market 10 a.m.-6 p.m. 338 East Howell St. Downtown Hartwell. Handmade items including soaps, jewelry, ornaments, photography, woodworking, wreaths, themed Christmas trees and more.

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four day event to take place at 233 George Burns Lane, Hartwell, on Thursday, Dec. 3, Friday, Dec. 4, Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6.

Santa’s Shoppe will be included in the Hartwell Tour of Homes on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6.This show will have a large variety of items, all handmade, and a tree decorated with a variety of tree ornaments made by each vendor. There will be Mrs. Santa’s kitchen with homemade jams, jellies, cookies, candies, cakes, pies, salad dressings, soups, and much more. Call Diane at 706-717-8855 or email at ourplaceonthelake@comcast.net for information.

Dec. 4, 5, 11 & 12—“Annie” at the Rock Gym in Elberton, produced by the Savannah River Playhouse. Saturday, December 5, matinee lunch at 12:00 with the show immediately following. Saturday, December 12, dinner at 6:00 pm and show at 7:30 pm. Dinner $40.00 or Show $20.00. Call 706-376-7397 for more information.

Dec. 5, Saturday, Christmas Parade of Lights! 6:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Hart Co. Chamber of Commerce. Call 706376-8590 for more information.

Dec. 5, Saturday, Copious Jones from 8:00-10:00 pm at High Cotton Music Hall, 57 Depot St., Hartwell. We now offer online tickets for some of our hottest shows via Eventbrite.

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Dec. 5-6 Christmas Tour of Homes sponsored by the Hartwell Service League.

Dec. 8, Tuesday, Hart County High School Band Christmas Concert. 7 p.m. at the Lonnie Burns Fine Arts Center.

Dec. 10, Thursday Spirit of Christmas Dinner. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church gym. Hart County Ministerial Association. For information or to volunteer, call 706-376-3164.

Dec. 11,12,13,18,19 & 20—Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at the Hart County Community Theatre.

Adults $12, students $10. For more information call 706376-5599 or www.hartcountycommunity theatre.com.

Dec. 12 Wreaths Across America. Program sponsored by the American Legion Post 109. Ceremony to kick off laying wreaths on all the veteran’s graves in Hart County. For

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Dec. 19, Saturday, November Blues Jam at High Cotton Music Hall, 57 Depot St., Hartwell. Open Jam for blues musicians of all skill levels. Sign up to play at 7:00 pm; music starts at 7:30 pm. $7 General Admission. Free for jamming musicians. For more information visit www.highcottonmusichall.com.

Dec. 23, Wednesday, The Night Before The Night Before.

7:30 p.m. at Hart County Community Theatre on Depot Street. Sing-A-Long, Teddy Bear Raffle, Visit From Santa.

Admission is Free.

Nov. 13-15, The Franklin Community Players will present the musical, “A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol, The Musical” at the Lavonia Cultural Center. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children 12 and under and are available at fcplayers.com or at the box office. Service charges may apply. Show times are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call 706-491-1538 or visit fcplayers.com.

Nov. 29, The Canon Christmas Tree Lighting will be held at Canon City Park.

Nov. 30, The Lavonia Christmas Tree Lighting will be held in downtown Lavonia.

Dec. 1, The Royston Christmas Tree Lighting will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Royston Wellness and Community Park.

Dec. 4-5, Franklin Community Players will present “Christmas Letters” at 7 p.m. at the Lavonia Cultural Center. “Christmas Letters” is an hour long show with traditional Christmas carols and humorous and heart-warming stories about Christmas.

Dec. 5, The Carnesville Breakfast with Santa will be held at 9 a.m. at the Carnesville Community Center.

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Dec. 6, The Lavonia Christmas Parade will be held. The route begins at Lavonia City Hall on Augusta Road and continues to the Silo Center.

Dec. 13, The Royston-Franklin Springs Christmas Parade will be held at 3 p.m. The route begins on Highway 17 in Royston and winds through town on Highways 17 and 29 to the Bi-Lo Shopping Center in Franklin Springs.

Dec. 17, Christmas in Royston, featuring downtown shopping, carriage rides and entertainment, will be held from 5-7 p.m. citywide.

Stephens County Sunday, Nov. 22 – Third Day will perform in concert at Toccoa Falls College’s Grace Chapel and Performing Arts Center at 4 p.m. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m. tickets can be purchased through the Toccoa Falls College web site at tfc.edu.

Thursday, Dec. 3 – Christmas in the Park. Celebrate the Christmas season in Paul Anderson Memorial Park from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Stephens County High School Chorus will perform an and Santa Claus will pay visits. The Varsity mobile diner will serve lunch and dinner. The tree lighting ceremony will climax the day’s activities at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday, Dec. 5 – Christmasfest and Lighting of the tree in downtown Toccoa. The annual festival of trees will be held Dec. 4-5 in the historic courthouse.

The annual Toccoa Christmas Parade will be held downtown on Saturday, Dec. 5. Time TBA. Sunday, Dec. 6 – The Toccoa Symphony Orchestra will kick off its 2015-2016 concert season with its annual Christmas concert and art sale on Sunday, Dec. 6, at Georgia Baptist Conference Center. The art sale will be held from 2-4 p.m. and the concert will begin at 4 p.m.

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