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This Week: Calendar Kids’ Crafternoon: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville.

Drop in for a fun, selfdirected “Make it and Take it” craft. Check our Facebook page on Wednesdays to find out what we’re doing.

Oconee County Library Children’s Section. All ages. Free and open to the public. For more information, please call (706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee.

TOPS weight loss: 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Government Annex Building, Highway 15, Watkinsville. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) is a nonprofit support group for weight loss. Members can share challenges, successes, or goals, hear a brief program and discuss plans for the week. (800) 932-8677 or www.tops.org.

Oconee Youth Playhouse presents Hairspray: 7 p.m. Friday, Oconee County Civic Center, 2661 Hog Mountain Road, Watkinsville.

Oconee Youth Playhouse presents the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Hairspray Aug. 19-21 and Aug. 26-28 at the Oconee County Civic Center. Hairspray performances will be at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with 3 p.m. matinees on Sunday. Tickets are $18 adults, $16 students and seniors, and $14 for age 12 and under and will be available in the lobby of the Oconee County Civic Center starting an hour before each performance. Cash or check only. For information about advance ticket sales, see the Oconee Youth Playhouse Facebook page. oconeeyouthplayhouse.com.

Oconee Farmers Market: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oconee County Courthouse, 23 N Main Street, Watkinsville. The market is open rain-or-shine on Saturdays through the last Saturday in November.

Located in front of the courthouse in downtown Watkinsville.

Your Library @ the Oconee Farmers Market: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oconee County Courthouse, 23 N Main Street, Watkinsville. Join us for a fun activity and pop-up library! Register for a library card and check out books, too. Free and open to the public. For more information, please call (706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary. org/oconee.

Intro to Excel 2010: 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville.

Learn the basics of using Excel, the parts of an Excel Window, creating a spreadsheet, using basic formulas, and more.

Limited to 5 participants.

Registration is required.

All programs are free and open to the public.

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Eateries step up to the plate for kids

By WAYNE FORD

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A special “Dine Local” event on Thursday will benefit the Oconee County Resource Council, an organization dedicated to helping young people in the county.

Fourteen local restaurants have pledged to donate a percentage of the day’s proceeds to the council.

The restaurants will display a

bright green poster in a window to alert diners they are participating in the program.

The Resource Council, which is part of the Georgia Family Connection Partnership, sponsors the Oconee Food for Kids and the Oconee Mentor programs.

“The financial donations that the restaurants give us are very generous. They help support the Food

for Kids and mentoring programs,” said Resource Council Executive Director Ann Hester.

The Dine Local campaign also helps raise awareness in the community that these programs exists, Hester said.

“We do have kids that are hungry on the weekends and we do have a mentoring program for kids that need help,” she said. “It’s a miscon-

ception that Oconee County doesn’t have 965 kids living in poverty.”

Participating restaurants are Bone Island Grill, Catch 22 Gastro Pub, Chef Ming’s, Chops & Hops, Dickey’s BBQ Pit, Di’Lishi Frozen Yogurt Bar, Dominick’s, Fifth Ave. New York Pizza, Girasoles, Keba, Krimson Kafe, La Parilla, Subway Hog Mountain and Zaxby’s in Watkinsville.

Potter Michael Klapthor holds one of his clay ray guns. At right are two more of his creations.

Shaped by science fiction

Watkinsville exhibit will feature Decatur potter’s clay robots

By WAYNE FORD

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Decatur potter Michael Klapthor was shaping clay about four years ago for an art show with a science-fiction theme when lo and behold a figure emerged.

A thick-bodied thing with a weathered and worn look had taken shape. It was the tell-tale image of a robot that was spawned from the potter’s muddy hands.

Since that day, many clay robots have taken

shape in Klapthor’s studio.

On Aug. 26, some samples of these robots will come to Watkinsville.

The 14th Annual Perspectives Georgia Pottery Invitation opens that day at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Center. And one of the galleries will showcase Klapthor’s work in an exhibit called “Atomic Clay.”

Perspectives, which will offer more than 5,000 pieces of pottery for sale, opens from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. that day. The exhibit of 50 Geor-

gia potters runs through Sept. 14.

Klapthor, whose father retired from the U.S. Air Force, has lived several places as a result of military orders, but his family moved to Georgia when he was 15. He went to high school in Augusta and finished college at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville.

After college he moved to Athens and took

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SPECIAL Butterfly Dreams Farm recently held its annual ESP Day to entertain the children at the Extra Special People summer camp in Watkinsville. Butterfly Dreams volunteer Marie Babcock shows a child how to properly brush a horse. Children were able to ride horses at the farm off Hog Mountain Road in Watkinsville. Butterfly Dreams provides therapeutic riding instruction for children with disabilities such as autism or emotional disorders. ESP conducts programs for children with disabilities and hosts a camp at its facility near downtown Watkinsville.

Cullen Goss is spending his summer working on homes and riding a bicycle from Portland, Maine, to Santa Barbara, Calif.

The 2015 graduate of Oconee County High School is participating in the Bike and Build organization’s program that sends eight groups of cyclists across the country where they stop at points to work on Habitat for Humanity homes or other housing projects for those in need.

Goss, a rising sophomore at California Polytechnic State University where he is studying mechanical engineering, is a member of a Please see RIDE

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Author Philip Lee Williams will read poetry at the University of Georgia’s Special Collections Library next month.

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Philip Lee Williams, an author living in Oconee County, will be one of the readers at an event hosted by the University of Georgia Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History.

The event is planned for 7 p.m. Sept. 14 in the

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Special Collections Library auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building.

Williams, the author of several books, has two published books of poetry, “The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of Williams Bartram” and “Elegies for the Water.”

Other poets reading at the celebration of po-

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etry and nature are Clela Reed, Robert Ambrose Jr. and retired Department of Ecology Professor John Pickering.

D.A. Crossley, research professor emeritus in Department of Ecology and President of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History, will present the authors.

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a group of about 30 riders making the cross country trek that began June 18 in Maine and is expected to end on Sept. 2 in California.

Goss, the son of Ben and Cindy Goss, is on a course taking him 3,873 miles across the country.

Each of the eight groups are starting at different points, such as Charleston, S.C., Providence, R.I., and Virginia Beach, Va., as they head west to the Pacific coast and working on housing projects along the way.

Goss, who is also a triathlete, and his group were in Texas last week working on a home in Amarillo before heading into Arizona.

Each member is responsible for raising a $4,500 registration fee to defray expenses on the journey, according to a news release. The shortest daily ride is 40 miles and the longest is 100 miles, while the daily average is 70 miles.

“It’s been a real challenge,” Goss’ grandfather, Wytch

Stubbs of Avondale Estates, said last week. The grandparents have been able to follow their grandson’s progress across the country on a website that updates the locations of each group of riders.

Tragedy struck one group of riders in July when a car hit and killed one biker and seriously injured a second near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

The most common challenges and mishaps, according to the organizaton, include flat tires, occasional thunderstorms, heavy automobile traffic, construction delays, blistering heat and gale force headwinds. Sleeping accommodations along the route includes trailers, church pews and most often, tents.

Bike and Build, a nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, Pa., was founded in 2002. During these annual treks, they also create media attention to the issue of affordable housing.

SPECIAL With Cullen Goss (second from right) are his parents, Ben and Cindy Goss, and an unidentified cyclist.

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his first job at Good Dirt, where he taught children’s art classes and adult classes on using the pottery wheel.

After about three years in the Classic city, he moved to Atlanta where he has lived the past eight years. Today, he operates out of his studio Mudfire in Decatur.

The robot pottery was birthed from the unusual art show.

“Some friends of mine had organized a general scifi themed art show. I was excited to be a part of it, but I didn’t know what I would contribute,” he said recently.

But as potters are apt to do, Klapthor began experimenting.

“I started sculpting with the pottery and it became a shape and look that lent itself to a basic looking 50s and 60s style of robot. The kind of clunky ones. The ‘Lost in Space’ ones with the tube arms,” he said.

“It was a fun art show, but the response was really good. I had such a good time designing and making them, that I stuck with it. I’ve been branching out in doing larger pieces,” he said about the robots that can range in height from 6 inches to 2 feet.

Since that time, Klapthor has exhibited his robots in about a dozen shows and has even made a few ray guns.

Klapthor said he enjoyed his time in Athens, where he lived within walking distance of downtown. He frequently had meals at Weaver D’s and 5 Star Day Café, a drink at the Manhattan Cafe and listened to music at the 40 Watt Club.

He plans to attend the Perspective’s Gala Opening on Aug. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Tickets are $20.

And Klapthor can discuss robots.

“I thought it would resonate with men and people my age because of the sci-fi look, but the response has been a lot more universal.

I think it appeals to people in a lot of different ways.

People enjoy that it’s all about fun. And the robots convey a lot of personality and emotion,” he said.

“I think it has really clicked with the people who like them,” the potter said.

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Lego Club: 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. Let’s build!

Join us in creating Lego art and playing Legobased activities. Lego blocks provided! Ages 3-11. Free and open to the public. For more information, please call (706) 769-3950 or visit

www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee., www.athenslibrary.org/oconee PRISM: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. PRISM is a positive, safe space without judgment for all teens who share a common vision of equality. All you have to do is be yourself!

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call (706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee.

Scream Free Parenting Class: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Grace Fellowship Church of God, 1120 Malcom Bridge Rd, Bogart. Grace Fellowship Church will offer a Scream Free Parenting Class from on Wednesdays beginning Aug.10 until Oct. 26 at 6:30-8 p.m. at Grace Fellowship, 1120 Malcom Bridge Road. The cost is $15 for required workbook and childcare is FREE. Join us for a 12 week study (DVD,

discussion, exercises) designed to equip you for your most important job…PARENTING! Led by Scream Free Parenting Certified Leader, Wendy FletcherClements. To register (required), visit http:// graceathens.com/connect/details/scream-freeparenting/ or for more info. call the church at (706) 769-4001. $15., 706-769-4001, graceathens.com/connect/ details/scream-freeparenting/ Fiction Addiction: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. Do you have something to say or a story to tell? Now is your chance to have your voice heard. Get excited because this writing event will be moderated by a published Young Adult author!

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call (706) 769-3950 or visit www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee.

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Group again pushing for Bible classes

By LEE SHEARER TheOconeeLeader.com

Members of an Oconee County Christian group returned to the county’s board of education to press their request to teach public high school students for-credit Bible classes.

Members of the group, Oconee County Christian Learning Center, have come to several meetings asking the board to allow students at the county’s two high schools to leave those campuses to take for-credit Bible studies classes at the center.

The nondenominational group,

which believes in the inerrancy of the Bible, would operate under the umbrella of Prince Avenue Christian School, an Oconee County private school.

When Oconee County Christian Learning Center members came to a June meeting, board member Kimberly Argo asked whether the group had a written agreement with Prince Avenue Christian concerning accreditation.

At Monday’s meeting, learning center advocate Rick Pettigrew said they had a verbal agreement with Prince Avenue. Prince Avenue head of school Seth Hathaway

told him there will be a written agreement, Pettigrew said, assuring the board that he would come back with that agreement.

The center is asking the board to allow students to leave the campuses of North Oconee High School and Oconee County High School for “religious release time,” much the same as when students leave campus to work at jobs. They also want the school system to grant academic credit for the Bible classes, as an elective course.

Board members did not respond to Pettigrew’s plea, nor to a recent graduate of North Oconee High School, Kyle

Clark.

The learning center would make students feel loved, and that there is a better future, Clark said.

Pettigrew quoted the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in pleading the learning center’s case.

“When the state encourages religious instruction ... it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs,” Douglas wrote in a 1952 majority opinion. “To hold

that it may not would be to find in the Constitution a requirement that the government show a callous indifference to religious groups. That would be preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

“We find no constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion,” Douglas wrote. “We cannot read into the Bill of Rights such a philosophy of hostility to religion.”

“To not accommodate our proposal,” Pettigrew said, “places your action or non-action in a non-neutral light.”

Couple will sell books in Oconee

By LEE SHEARER TheOconeeLeader.com

Oconee County once again has a bookstore.

Walls of Books started out in Athens, but moved recently to a storefront in Watkinsville, said Greg Phillips, a Warner Robins native who owns the store with wife, Stephanie.

Walls of Books is a franchise that grew out of middle Georgia’s Gottwals Books, which began as a single store in Warner Robins in 2007.

After Shane Gottwals’ store grew to four stores in Georgia, he began franchising his business model about four years ago. Now Walls of Books counts 14 stores in Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., Louisiana and Kansas, either operating or on the way, Gottwals said.

Phillips came to the book business after a career in restaurants, he said. But he is an avid reader, as is Stephanie, who teaches dental hygiene at Athens Technical College. In Warner Robins, he became friends with fellow business owner Gottwals.

“We hit it off, as small business owners,” Phillips said. Phillips watched Gottwals’ book business grow, and after moving to Athens three years ago, decided to give the book business a go.

In some ways, Walls of Books is like many bookstores – the business sells both new and used books.

Customers can bring in books in “gently used” condition for store credit, and the store will also take back books they’ve sold someone for credit.

Store credit is good for up to half of what customers pay for used books. Since

Greg and Stephanie Phillips have opened Walls of Books in Watkinsville.

“I get more joy when people come and find a new author, or find a book they’ve been looking for, or a particular edition they’ve been looking for.

That’s what you enjoy the most.”

Greg Phillips, who owns Walls of Books with wife Stephanie

the prices of the used books are deeply discounted, Phillips said customers can get the books they want for a lot less than if they bought them new, or even buying used books online.

When customers buy books in the 1971 Hog Mountain Road, Suite 130 store, there are no shipping costs, and store credit cuts the cost in half, he explained.

Phillips finds a different kind of joy in running a bookstore than he did in the restaurant business.

“I get more joy when people come and find a new author, or find a book they’ve been looking for, or a particular edition they’ve been looking for. That’s what you enjoy the most,” he said.

He also likes it because of his own reading habits.

“That’s another reason I love selling books – finding new authors,” he said.

The store maintains a small stock of rare and collectible books, but aims first of all to keep authors in stock that are in high demand. They don’t always have every book by every author, but one of the advantages of being a Walls of Books franchise is they can get it in from somewhere else.

Repeat customers are the mainstay of the book business, Phillips said. “The key customer for us is the

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reader who is on a budget,” he said.

Walls of Books also works with schools and

textbooks, and one goal, once they get fully settled in, is to work with book clubs, Phillips said.

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Elena Arenas (right) talks with Simone Biles while stretching at the Karolyi ranch earlier this year. Biles won the Olympic all-around gold medal last week in Rio and was a member of the US gymnastics team that won the team gold medal last week in Rio.

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The United States gymnastics Olympic team won the team gold medal last week and area gymnast Elena Arenas had a frontrow seat for their training.

Arenas, who trains at Georgia Elite Gymnastics in Oconee County, has been invited for several years to the Karolyi Ranch, which is the site of the USA Gymnastics national training center. It is there that Olympic gymnastics teams since 2001 have trained.

This year’s Olympic team consisted of Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian.

Biles won the all-around gold medal and Raisman won the all-around silver medal. Biles won the gold medal on the vault. Kocian won the silver medal on the uneven bars.

“It was really cool because I looked up to them when I was younger and I went to training camps with them this past year.

I got to watch them prepare for the Olympics and watch their path. To see them in the Olympics on TV was crazy,” Arenas said. “It showed me hard work does pay off. They obviously did great. At the camps they were training so hard and so much preparation went into the Olympic Trials. It was cool to see their goals.

“I was star-struck on the first couple of days.

We have two practices – one at morning and one at night. In between, we have a break and we got to hang out with everyone.

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Elena Arenas (far right) stands next to Olympic all-around gold medalist Simone Biles while United States Gymnastics national coordinator Marta Karolyi speaks to Olympic hopefuls at the ranch in Texas.

Elena Arenas and 2012 Olympic allaround gold medalist Gabby Douglas We would go into Gabby Douglas’s room and hang out and be normal friends.

It was (weird) at first but we started to loosen up.”

Her father and coach,

Pete Arenas, said there are usually around 30 gymnasts, six juniors, at the national team camp during an Olympic year.

“During the Olympic

year, Marta (Karolyi) doesn’t keep a lot of juniors at the camps because she is so geared and focused on the Olympics, so she is keeping an eye on the girls that are eligible for the Olympics but she still has to field a junior team, so there are six juniors that get invited to camp during the Olympic year and she was one of them along with five of her friends. It was pretty neat,” he said. “At one of the camps, she got invited to a selection camp for Canada. There were six juniors there but we only had three weeks to prepare so we crammed trying to get ready for routines.”

Elena prepared in the three weeks to get ready for that meet, tied 2012 Olympic champion Gabby Douglas on the vault and hit all of her routines but she didn’t get picked for

the meet.

“That is one of the reasons I thought I was going to make it because everyone was telling me I was doing so good,” Elena said.

“When I didn’t, it was upsetting. I could have done better. It wasn’t my best.”

After Karolyi got done announcing the team, Pete recognized he had a chance for what he called “a great coaching moment and dad moment.”

“I have my daughter who just didn’t make the team, what am I going to say to her? She is going to come to me to look for words of encouragement. So I am thinking what am I going to say to this kid? She trained her butt off,” he said. “So it’s over, the girls separate and she starts Please see ‘Arenas’

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Olympic medalist Aly Raisman (left) talks to Elena Arenas at the U.S. Olympic Training Site in Texas.

coming to me and I am like, here it is. And that is when Gabby and Aly came running out of the training room. Right before I could start talking to her, Aly comes up to me and says, ‘It is OK if we take Elena over here and talk to her?’, and I’m like, ‘Sure.’

So there goes my dad moment. They took it away from me but I love it. It was so cool.”

“Aly said she saw potential in me and she thinks I will get assignments in the future,” Elena said.

This is the final year Marta Karolyi will be the national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics, which is one of the reason’s the team called themselves the Final Five after they clinched the team gold medal.

The training camp facility will still be at the Karolyi Ranch but the new coordinator will re-invite gymnasts to participate in the future.

“I am pretty confident.

I have been working hard since that last national team camp,” Elena said.

“Aly and Gabby inspired

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“I got to watch them prepare for the Olympics and watch their path. To see them in the Olympics on TV was crazy” -Elena Arenas me. That was a turning point for me where I realized how hard you have to work to get an international assignment. I am doing pretty good right now and I am hoping to get invited again.”

At 14 years old, Elena wasn’t old enough to be eligible for the Rio Olympics. She said her goal is to qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.

“When I first started to try and train elite, I was just doing it for fun. I didn’t know when I was younger. Now that I am older and it’s more serious, I understand how hard you have to work and enjoy it more,” Elena said. “I have learned to try and enjoy every moment along the way.

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There are goals you have to reach along the way to make the Olympics. You have to cherish those moments and be happy you’ve gotten this far and hope and pray that you make it and work hard.”

Earlier this summer, Elena verbally committed to attend Louisiana State University to join the Tigers gymnastics team. She picked LSU over Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Auburn, all schools she visited. UCLA also offered her a scholarship but she didn’t visit there.

“I visited a lot of schools and LSU felt right for me.

I enjoyed all of my visits.

Every school was great and so much fun and amazing, but to me LSU stuck out,”

Elena said.

Her mother Kim was a standout Gym Dog at Georgia from 1995-1998.

“She was a little sad it was so far away but she is happy for me,” Elena said.

“She would have been happy for me if I would have chosen anywhere. She would have been equally excited.”

Elena isn’t the first from her family to attend college several hours away from home.

“I left Chicago and came down to Georgia. She left Arizona and came to Georgia. We both travelled away for school,” Pete said. “LSU felt right. We also know (LSU associate head coach) Jay Clark. We are very good friends with them so I think that helped in the decision knowing them and being good friends with them. On top of that, the facilities are really, really nice. Georgia’s are really nice. LSU’s are probably a notch better than that. It is unbelievable how nice it is. I am happy for her. I think she will enjoy LSU.”

Oconee’s Harvey wins home run derby at Little League state tournament

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Oconee County and North Oconee hosted scrimmages last Friday night at their respective stadiums in preparation for the upcoming seasons. The Warriors beat Franklin County 41-21 and the Titans gave up a late touchdown and lost 7-0 to Apalachee.

The Warriors host Clarke Central on August 26 and the Titans play at Grovetown on August 26. For photos of each team’s scrimmage from last week, see theoconeeleader.com. The 2016 football preview section by The Oconee Leader will be out next

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McGinnis Harvey, a member of the Oconee County Little League all-star team, won the 11-12 year old Little League Home Run Derby on July 22 during the state tournament kickoff banquet held at Starr’s Mill High School in Peachtree City. Harvey hit 13 home runs in Round 1, 11 home runs in Round 2, and eight home runs in the final round, hitting a total of 32 home runs.

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