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The Annual Hubbard Day Celebration
will begin on Saturday, April 13 with
the King and Queen Pageant at 6 p.m. It
Will be at "r he newly renovated Monroe
County Board of Education Auditorium,
25 Brooklyn Ave Forsyth.
The Hubbard Alumni Association
Banquet will be Friday, April 19 at 7 p.m.
at Monroe County Conference Center,
475 Holiday Circle, Forsyth. The key-
note speaker with be Mrs. Loft Johnson,
evening news anchor at WMAZ, Chan-
nel 13. Tickets for the catered banquet are
now available for $40 per person.
The Hubbard Day Parade will kick off
at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning, April 20.
Line up is in front of Robins Financial
Credit Union, 75 East Johnston Street
The parade will proceed to the William
Hubbard School campus.
For tickets to the banquet or more
information on the 2019 Hubbard Day
Celebration, contact Winifred Berry at
478-747-362Z
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Karen Quinn Greg Music
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Tripp Shipman March 13
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This week's birthdays and anniversaries are courtesy of Forsyth Lions Club calendar. To have your name
added to the calendar, contact Virginia Remick at 994-5426.
Children's birthday notices through age 12 and birth announcements are published free of charge for
the community. Email Diane Glidewell at news@mymcr.net, with information and picture.
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1989 Fountain is runner-up.
Local artist Raye Ammtrong~5 "Forsythia;'
valued at $400, that she painted for the inau- Senate Bill 117 propases the Towaliga Judicial
gural festival to be held March 22-25 will be Circuit to becomprised of Monroe, Lamar and
on display at a number of locations throughout Butts counties.
festival week.
First Baptist Chui'ch of High Falls dedicates its
fellowship hall in memory of Rev. Thomas H.
Perkins.
Monroe County four schools report that cases
of flu are subsiding after reaching a peak
when 15 percent of students were absent one
week.
Forsyth accounts receivable clerk Glodelle
Ver-zyl, wha has worked for the city for 23.
years under three mayors and four city clerks,
is retiring.
MaryPersons Lady Bulldog 'sophomore
Neosha Walker scores 37 paints in a 66-53
win over the ILE. Lee Lady Rebels, with 26
rebounds and five assists.
Forsyth-Monroe County Kiwanis assumes
sponsorship of Unit 51 of the Boy Scouts of
America, one of the oldest units in the nation
formed when BSA was chartered in 1910,
after Forsyth Lions Club asks to be relieved of
sponsorship.
John Turner of Monroe County starts on his
third gallon of blood donated to the Red Cross
on his' 18th vis' to the local blood drive by
Monroe County Hospital Ladies Auxiliary.
Laura Ann Martin of Mary Persons and April
Leneen W llingham of Monroe Academy are
named Monroe County 1989 STAR students.
STAR teachers are Mike Franklin and Wendell
Ramage.
Sonny Trammell breaks a Forsy~ Golf Course
record when he fires a 63 (30-33) to set the
now record for 18.holes, ~ing the old re-
cord set by All Jernigan in 1983 by one stroke.
Nine people in Meadow Park Subdivision file
suit against Forsy~ city council and two camI
ponies to stop a 50-unff apartment complex
on Highway 41 North.
Rhonda Ann Moore. is named Miss Monroe
County in the Annual Ja :ees' pageant, first
runner-up is Melissa Roberts; second runner-up
is Francino Pope.
Over 100 local Girl Scouts, representing five
Brownie Troops and three Junior troops, attend
an overnight program at Monroe County
Clubhouse.
1999
Forsyth will buy CommuniComm and operate
it while it rebuilds and upgrades the cable
system.
A group of concerned citizens with Bill Baze-
more as spokesman addresses Monroe County
Board of Education about adding soccer,
another non-revenue-procJucing sport, to the
systom sports program.
Sixth grader Leah Hunter wins Monroe County
Middle School annual Spelling Bee; Amy
Bath.Mary Persons boys and girls basketball
teams finish the season as number one seeds in
the northern sub-region.
Matt C-~ffin signs with the Air Force Academy;
Curtis Danielly signs with Middle Tennessee
State.
Southern Textiles, Inc. is purchasing the 58,000
square-foot former Pridecraff building on
Highway 41; the company makes bedspreads
and other bed linen. It expects a kickoff of 55
employees with 110-150 at full capacity.
Monroe County Courthouse is the target of a
telephone bomb threat; no bomb is found.
Fred Greene of Forsyth is named Commercial
Caffleman of the Year at the 38th Annual
Georgia Cattlemen Convention.
Belinda Benson of Forsyth is s~ving on the
1999 Georgia Farm Bureau Women~ Commit-
tee, and Doug Longer of Forsyth is serving on
the Young Farmer Committee.
Mike and Kathy Ivey rescue an abandoned
horse and pig after the owner abandons them
and they are about to be put down by animal
control. A neighbor rescues the abandoned
2009
Camp Kaleo, owned and operarl~ by the
Georgia Baptist Convention, may have to do
without its 29-acre lake this summer as the
county drains it to replace a faulty flood gate.
Eliana Bunn of Forsyth is returning to Iraq to
work as an interpreter for the U.S. Army. She
can speak and interpret all 21 dialects of
Arabic.
Rosemary Walker welcomes over 100 people
as the first-ever, month-long Monroe County
black history exhibit opens.
C-eorgia Stale Patrol asks Monroe County
commissioners to build a new headquarters for
it; the post in Forsyth writes almost $1 million a
year in tickets for Monroe County.
Forsyth-Monroe County Chamber of Commerce gives
hey Builders a Golden Nail award for its new office on
johnstonville Road.
Four Mary Persons football players sign leflers of ink nt:
Devin Chambliss, Jadarius Hdmlin, Chris Buwden, Devarick
Jones.
Mary Persons graduate Justin Harvey wins a regional
Emmy for his work as a producer with Nashville Public
Television.
This look at what Monroe County residents wore reading in the
Reporter 30, 20 and 10 )'ears ago this week Is brought to yon by
Monroe County
Memorial Chapel
'We set the standards
that others follow'
Harley Ray 'Spanky" Beck
86 West Main Street * Forsyth
478-994-4266
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Calendar items run free of charge as a community service each week as
space allows. Mail items for the Community Calendar to Diane Ghdewell at
news@mymcr.net by 8 a.m. on Monday.
March 1-29
Youth Art Student Exhibit
Monroe County Schools Visual Arts Department
will host the Youth Art Month Student Exhibit
featuring artwork from Georgia Art Education
Association District 5 schools at Monroe County
Fine Arts Center from March 1-29.
March 8,9,10
Annual Used Book Sale
Friends of the Monroe County Library will hold
its Annual Used Book Sale in coniunction with
the Forsythia Festival. The sale ts at Monroe
County Clubhouse, behind the hbraryThere will
be a Preview Sale on Thursdayl March 7 from
5-7 p.m. (Members only, but you can loin at the
door!) The sale will be open to the public on
Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9 from 9
am-6 pm and on Sunday, March 10 from l-Spin
(box sale!) All proceeds benefit the library and a
college scholarship for a local student.
March 9
COP to hold Mass Meetings, County
Convention
On Saturday, March 9 at 9 a.m Monroe
County Republican Party will convene Precinct
Mass Meetings to elect delegates and alter-
nates to the Republican Party Convention at
New Providence Baptist Church, 2560 US 41
S, Forsyth.Registration opens at 8 a.m: Monroe
County residents who are registered to vote
by March 9 and believe in the principles of
the Repubhcan Party are urged to participate.
Monroe County Republican Party Convention
will convene at 10 a.m. on March 9 at New
Providence Baptist Church to (1) elect Delegates
and Alternates to the Eight, Congressional District
Convention(s); (2) elect Delegates and Alternates
to the Georgia Republican State Convention: (3)
adopt the Rules of the County Republican Party:
(4) elect officers for the 2019-21 term; and (5)
conduct other business as necessary For infor-
mation, contact Denise Herring, Chairman of the
Monroe County Republican Party at monroeco-
gop@gmail.com. The Eight Congressional District
Convention will convene on Saturday, April 13,
at 10 a.m. TBA in Houston County.
March 9-10
rsyth Festival
The two-day arts & crafts show in downtown
Forsyth will include a Kid's Corner (with wrist-
bands available), sporting tournaments, live en-
tertainment, mouth-watering foods, fine arts and
crafts on Saturday and Sunday, March 9 and
10. FaithFest, a faith based singing competition,
will be Saturday night. Visit ForsythiaFestival.com
or call 478-994-9239 for more information
March 11 *
Monroe County Board of Health Publk
Meeting
Monroe County Board of Health, 106 Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. Drive, Eorsyth will hold its quarterly
public meeting on Monday, March 11 at 6 p.m.
March 16
SAT Prep Bout Camp
Friends of Monroe County Library arid Monroe
County ACE will sponsor an SAT Prep Boot
Camp at Monroe County Library, 62 W Main
Street, Forsythia Saturday, March 16 beginning
at 10 a.m. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Call 478-994-7025 or stop by to register.
The $25 registration fee includes four hours of
instruction by current and retired certified educa-
tors and an SAT study guide to keep.
March 21-22
Baloage & Silage . 'K rt Course
The Extension Agents of Monroe, Jones, Upson
and LamarCounties will host a Baleage and
Silage Short Course March 21-22. This two-day
intensive program will cover all aspects of bale-
age and silage production and includes both
lectures and equipment demonstrations. Registra-
tion is $80 and includes program materials and
meals. Submit registration to Monroe County
Extension Office or online at www.georgiafor-
ages.com
