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Coweta man builds artistic birdhouses
A birdhouse made by Bruce Barnes to look like a Louisiana bayou bait shop.
PHOTO BY JEFFREY CULLEN-DEAN
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oweta Resident Bruce Barnes began building birdhouses after he had a surplus of wood from constructing a shed himself. He took after his father, he said, who had a versatile skill set from masonry to electrical work to plumbing. Barnes picked up those same skills growing up. He'll often take on projects, such as replacing the tile in a friend's home, with limited experience.
"I just like to make stuff," he said. "I seem to be good at that. I did a retile for a friend. She said, 'Can you do that?' I said sure. I'd never done it, but I was sure I could do it. I borrowed a wet saw, got the materials and put it down." The friend was impressed with the work, Barnes said. "She said, 'How many of these have you done?' and I said, 'Can I count this one?'" Barnes said. The birdhouses started as a simple project, Barnes said. He used six pieces of wood — four for the sides and two for the top and bottom. He said he liked the shape, but
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felt the process was too easy, and the finished results were "plain" and "boring." "So I started making them differently," he said. Barnes started dressing up his birdhouses. One birdhouse was built to look like a Louisiana bayou bait shop. Another resembles a Hobbit hole from The Lord of the Rings. The decorations for the bayou birdhouse were fashioned out of small items, he said. A mentos can became a refrigerator, wires functioned as hoses and a small piece of aluminum was cut to be a gas nozzle.
"I didn't know what it was going to look like completely, but I decided it was going to be a wren house — a smaller hole — and then I decided to put the dock on," he said. Barnes said he starts one of his birdhouses with an idea — like a bayou bait shop — but doesn't plan ahead beyond that. Because Barnes has many pieces of stained glass in his shed, some of Barnes' birdhouses were outfitted with stained glass windows. Prior to retiring, Barnes said he made stained glass windows for a living. One birdhouse, a gift to a neigh-
bor, featured a shamrock cut into the house that was filled with green stained glass. The neighbor collected shamrocks, Barnes said, so he added the extra decoration for her. "It's fun, but I don't want to turn it into a business because then I would have to make them," he said. Barnes said he worked with stained glass for 25 years in Florida. He picked it up when his brother made a stained glass piece, and he thought he'd make
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Skaters come from all over to enjoy new skate park BY JOE ADGIE
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A skater hits the top of the bowl at the new C. Jay Smith Skate Park, which held a grand opening event on Saturday.
katers came from all over the state of Georgia and beyond on Saturday to officially open Newnan’s C. Jay Smith Skate Park. The skate park has been very warmly received by members of the Newnan community and by those in the skating community, who packed the park to enjoy the skater-designed, skater-built park. And as city officials revealed, they had been packing the park for days leading up to Saturday’s official grand opening. “This is close to the turnout we’ve had every day,” said Cleatus Phillips, Newnan city manager, who spent the day on his bike taking in the park. “This is very similar to the crowd we’ve been having every day.” Both Phillips and Hasco Craver, assistant city manager for Newnan, said that people traveled from all over to take in the new park. “They’re coming from all over the state,” Craver said. “We’ve had people from Alabama. People are coming from 2 ½, three
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hours away and crossing state lines.” Phillips said he talked to people who had come from Birmingham and Athens. Craver said the new park is considered a “category killer,” where the new park is so much better than the others in the category, that it winds up dominating the category, in this case, the category of skate parks. Among those visiting the C. Jay Smith Skate Park on Saturday, were a handful of pro skaters, including Eli Williams of Doomsayers. Originally from the area, Williams now calls San Francisco home, and came back for the opening of the park. After the park was formally opened, Williams and several pro skaters took to the bowl of the park and flew through the air, impressing the large crowd that built around the bowl. Joining Williams was San Diego native Brandon Turner, one of the more well-known skaters of the 1990s. Turner praised the park for its many features, some of which he said are not usually seen in skate parks. “It’s a perfect park,” Turner said. "It has all the amenities. It has a pump track that full skate parks usually don’t have.”
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Kanten Russell, senior designer and project manager for Newline Skateparks, designer of the park, explained that it was by skaters, for skaters. “The design of the park really was largely because of the input we received, and we came here in person to do some public input meetings,” Russell said. "We were able to do that before COVID hit, and although we’ve had a lot of experience designing a lot of skate parks, we really wanted to know what they specifically wanted here to make it feel like it belonged in Newnan, and what we heard was the things that were missing from other skate parks.” Russell said some of the features requested by skaters and members of the community were friendly features, something everyone could ride on, regardless of skill level. In addition, a “pro-level, world-class bowl,” a homage to the drained-out swimming pools from the 1970s in California, was also requested. Others requested urban terrain, inspired by a lot of downtown areas in Atlanta, such as a central feature that Russell called the AT&T Bank, based on a famous skate spot near the AT&T building in downtown Atlanta. “Between that, and just the colors, we wanted it to feel like Newnan colors, and we wanted there to be a lot of room for people to all ride together,” Russell said. “There’s probably at least 100 people here, but there’s still room where no one’s crashing into each other. We wanted to have really good flow and really good lines where people have that opportunity.” Indeed, while there was a large crowd at the skatepark on Saturday, there were no incidents witnessed where skaters crashed into each other. Russell said the goal of the park was to make it a “world-class destination, not only for Newnan but for the whole state of Georgia.” “We were directed by Newnan to make this something that everyone could be proud of, and to come in from the surrounding cities,” he said. “Our team came here yesterday and this morning and rode around with the locals and tested it out. Half the people we talked to weren’t even from here. That was really cool to see and hear their take, that it was worth it for them to drive an hour or more to ride this.” Throughout the day, individuals of all ages were able to enjoy all features of the park, including the splash pad, the large slides, ropes course and the playground. In addition, live music was on hand, as well as food trucks.
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BIRDHOUSES FROM PAGE 1 one himself. "I thought it'd be fun, so I bought some stuff and started," he said. "After working I thought, 'There's gotta be some way to do this easier.' So I took a class." At the time, Barnes worked as a teacher. He took a class at a night school on stained glass, but the instructor quit at the end, he said. According to Barnes, the principal of the night school asked him if he would teach it as a replacement, even though he had only taken one day's worth of the class. Barnes accepted. "I was actually teaching the class instead of taking the class," he said. Barnes said he spent the summers between school years making stained glass pieces. After 12 years of teaching, some cultural changes and budget cuts at the school, Barnes said he decided to go into stained
MarkeTplace glass full time. "Glass is a strange compound. It doesn't have a grain to it or anything, and when you put a scratch on one side, it weakens the structure. When you put pressure on, it actually comes apart at the weak spot," he said. "It wants to go straight. For curves, you have to convince it. You have the cutter perpendicular to the glass. When you go around a corner you have to make sure it stays perpendicular and your pressure stays constant." Today, Barnes does have some difficulty cutting the glass to the shapes he wants. He is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He said he can't work as long as he used to, and his precision is interrupted by the tremors in his hands that come from the disease. But being a Parkinson's patient hasn't diminished his desire to make things, Barnes said. "It's a bother, but I developed a philosophy. It sounds a little strange, but have you ever noticed a dog that's been hurt and they cut the leg completely off?" he said. "It doesn't change him at all. He just runs off with the other dogs without a car. My philosophy is I'm a three-legged dog. There's a problem. Fix it. Gone."
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