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Local artists paint TimesHerald boxes for the community

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ocal artists have painted beautiful designs on a selection of Times-Herald boxes to be displayed in Newnan. The newspaper boxes have a variety of designs featuring local wildlife, celebrating the class of 2020 and showing off beautiful landscapes, among other things.

Bette Hickman with the Newnan-Coweta Art Association said the project has started with eight people willing to work on the boxes, and the hope is that more individuals will become involved in time.

Individuals will be able to pick up a copy of the Newnan Times-Herald from the boxes.

Margo Merrifield, president of the Newnan-Coweta Art Association, painted her box with things one can find in Georgia, such as wildlife and nature. Her box took about 10 hours of work over the course of several weeks at the Arts Center at the Coweta County Recreation Center.

“It’s fun to do,” Merrifield said. “I always like doing the community projects. I worked on a couple of murals downtown and in different places. DFCS has one of the murals that I designed for them.”

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ABOVE:Margo Merrifield shows off her newspaper box, which includes old maps and a road less traveled.

LEFT: A beautiful landscape and a road less traveled appears on the newspaper box painted

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Tammy Troyer’s newspaper box is a tribute to the graduating class of 2020, whose graduation was unlike any other.

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“Down the road from here in the adolescent center they just put up, there’s a mural in there that we did with the Carnegie Library as the centerpiece and worked out different markers for Newnan. I sketched in and everyone came in and filled in. Bette was a big help on that one, too. She helped design some of the people in the bus that we had in there,” Merrifield added.

On another side, Merrifield painted a road sign with different landmarks and their distances from Newnan.

Another interesting feature of her box is several maps visible on the newspaper box.

“I was going through cleaning out my office, and I found some maps and thought I don’t need these things anymore, who uses maps? But then I thought what a cool idea it would be to incorporate into a piece of art, especially since this is kind of like the road less traveled,” Merrifield said.

“I’ve always been fascinated by maps.

Where do they go? How do they get there?

What other way can I get there?” Merrifield

added.

Merrifield said she thought the maps came from a map of Georgia. She had maps of other places, such as Puerto Rico, but she said she hated to cut them up.

“Maybe that will be a future piece down the road,” she said.

Local artist Tammy Troyer painted her newspaper box as a tribute to the graduating class of 2020. Her daughter was a member of that class, who, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, found their graduation experience to be wildly different from the normal experience.

“It was real important for me to capture that moment and what it was all about, so it’s pretty self-explanatory,” Troyer said. “They are a part of world history, every graduate of that class.”

Rather than walking across a stage, receiving their diploma to the cheers of their classmates, family members and well-wishers, the graduating class of 2020 instead was relegated to being recognized at home, being honored with the assistance of an internet meeting app such as Zoom.

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John Stevens worked with acrylic paints for the first time with his newspaper box, and did great work with Georgia red foxes.

for many graduates, such as Troyer’s daughter, but it will remain as a unique moment from the pandemic.

“I want these kids to understand they didn’t get their dream graduation, but they’ll be in history forever. It will never be forgotten, and I tried to tell my daughter that,” Troyer said.

Troyer said rather than physically attending a graduation, they held a small get-together at their house, with her daughter in her graduation gown in the living room.

“We all tuned in on our Wi-Fi, Facebook, YouTube, so I just tried to capture that for them, because it was really unusual,” Troyer said.

The front of the box resembles an online meeting, with students appearing in boxes on video, similar to a Zoom internet meeting.

Troyer also said she had hoped that members of the 2020 graduating class could come over to sign the box.

Another local artist, John Stevens, painted Georgia Red Foxes on his box. Stevens said it was his first time working with acrylic paints, and the work

was somewhat different from what he was used to with oils.

“It was different,” Stevens said. “It dries so fast, and orange and brown are very difficult to make.

There’s only one brown. I use brown, add white to it, and all the color’s gone or it turns pink. So I had to figure out how to make the browns. It was difficult, but in the end, cleanup is easy.”

Stevens said he made crib notes for himself to figure out how to properly create colors using acrylic paint, and compared his notes with someone who uses acrylic paints on a more regular basis.

“I was trying to think of what to do, and something different but something with Georgia. My wife said ‘Why don’t you do some kind of animal from here?’” Stevens said. “I looked at it, picked out a bunch of pictures.” Stevens did the foxes in an impressionistic style, he said.

“Through that, I started to realize I can paint animals as well,” Stevens said. “I enjoy it, and I have Bette to thank for getting me into acrylic. That’s the only media that will work on metal, and the color will actually come back and become more vibrant when they put a clear coat on it. It creates depth.”

In total, local artists have painted eight newspaper boxes that will be displayed at a later date. The goal of the Newnan-Coweta Arts Association is to exhibit the boxes and have the artists on hand. That date has yet to be formally announced.

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Ja’Kiah Chester is pictured with Leap for Literacy founder Stan Tucker, who provided Western Elementary School’s library with copies of Chester’s book, “Unicorns.”

Books by Share Your Story winners donated to school libraries

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wo Coweta County elementary school libraries now contain books authored by their students. Students at Ruth Hill Elementary can now enjoy fourth grader Riley Allen’s “The Farmer’s Rabbit Problem,” and Western Elementary students can check out second grader Ja’Kiah Chester’s “Unicorns.”

Allen and Chester were selected as winners in Leap for Literacy’s Share your Story contest, which provides materials and encourages elementary students to try their hands at writing their own stories. Leap for Literacy then selects winners from area schools and has their stories professionally published and illustrated.

Western Elementary participated in Share Your Story last year, and Chester’s fascination with unicorns resulted in the

second-grader’s winning story.

“I really love unicorns – that’s my favorite thing in my whole life,” Chester said. “The best thing I want to do is just ride on one.”

Chester said her sister helped her draw pictures for her story, which is about the adventures of an unnamed unicorn.

“The best picture is where I’m dancing with the unicorn,” the 7-year-old said.

Chester said she was excited to learn early last year that her story would be published and that she’d like to write more books.

“I want to write about unicorns, but also horses and ponies,” said Chester, who added that she is thinking about giving her unicorn a name for the next BOOKS . 5

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Allen, 9, was the contest’s very first winner. Leap for Literacy founder Stan Tucker visited Ruth Hill early in the 2019 school year to debut his own children’s book, “Stan and the Man,” and to announce to the student that one of their books would be the first one published by the nonprofit organization.

Tucker donated two hardback copies of Allen’s book, “The Farmer’s Rabbit Problem,” to the Ruth Hill library, and paperback versions are available on amazon.com. Chester’s book will follow, along with future winners.

All proceeds from the sale of the books will fund scholarship accounts for the authors. Tucker has set a 10-year goal of publishing 1,000 books by young authors.

Allen has been busy autographing copies of his book, and the fourth grader had the opportunity to see his name in Ruth Hill’s card catalog. He stamped the library copies and added barcodes to get them ready for circulation.

As he performed his author duties, Allen recalled the day his name was announced as the winner.

“I was nervous,” he said. “Out of (hundreds) of kids in the school, what are the chances it was going to be me? Now every single person in school knows my name.”

Writing a book is a long process from creating a story to holding a book in your hands, and Allen had a message for other young writers.

“Don’t give up,” he said. “It’s cool.”

Leap for Literacy’s goal is to address the lack of access to printed materials in at-risk communities. Among the organization’s literacy-based initiatives is the Read ’N Roll Truck, a bookmobile that allows children the opportunity to choose a free book to take home and add to their personal libraries.

Leap for Literacy is reaching out virtually to young authors this year with a Summer Share Your Story Program. Aspiring writers ages 6-14 can participate in an eight-week, step-by-step program to create their own books.

At the beginning of each week during the summer program, participants will receive an instructional email about one step of the writing process. Later in the

Stan Tucker speaks with Ruth Hill Elementary School student Riley Allen, who was the first winner of Leap for Literacy’s Share Your Story contest.

week, they will have the opportunity to take part in a Zoom call with a guest author.

Registration is $25 and includes eight weeks of programming, a scented pencil, crayons, writing resources and a blank book for publishing a story. For more information or to register, visit www. leapforliteracy.org/ssys .

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