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TASTE OF
TUCKER
Returns to Main Street L.A. Dison After the COVID pandemic forced many events to move online last year, one of Tucker’s most popular celebrations returns to Main Street this fall. Taste of Tucker is scheduled for Saturday, October 2, offering the best of local cuisine and musical entertainment to attendees hungry for socialization. Founders Art and Karen Wood are excited to bring the event back to Main Street after last year’s turn as a virtual event. “We didn’t want to skip last year, as so many Main Street events did in 2020 because of COVID,” said Art. “But
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the 2020 virtual event raised only half the funds of the 2019 event, and did not offer as much support to the restaurants as we would have liked. We felt it was important to bring people back to Main Street this year, not just to remind people how diverse and firstrate Tucker cuisine is, but because people are ready to reconnect with their community.” Art was born and raised in Tucker, a former Tucker High Tiger (class of 1992). Local residents know Art as “Tucker’s Mortgage Guy;” as the producing branch manager of Art Wood Mortgage Team of Goldwater Bank, for fifteen years he has helped thousands of people realize their dreams of home ownership. His office is on Main Street and he is an active member of both the Old Town Tucker Merchants Association (OTTMA) and the Tucker Business Association (TBA). Both Art and his wife Karen have a long-term relationship with Tucker, and Taste of Tucker was a way to “give back” to a community that had given them so much. Founded in 2010, the original festival was held on the grounds of Tucker First United Methodist Church, and featured local
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