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MONROE COUNTY
Dec, 10-14
4-H Shotgun team
sign up
4-H Shotgun team
sign-up for NEW
Shooters, 7th - 12th
grade students, will be
Monday-Friday, Dec.
10-14. Sign up 8a.m.
- 5 pim. at the Monroe
County Extension Office,
90 Martin Luther King
Jr. Drive. Cost is $1251
For more information,
call 478-994-7014.
Dec 13
Mary' Persons Band
Concert
Mary PerSons Band
will present its Holiday
Concert at the Fine Arts
Ce6ter on Thursday,
Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m.
Monroe County
Middle School Band
Concert
Monroe County Middle
School will perform its
Holiday Band Concert
at Monroe County Fine
Arts Center at 5:30 p.m.
Best B ld'ms Talent
Show
The Best Buddies Talent
Show will be Thursday,
Dec. 13 from ,6-7:30
p.m. at Forsyth United
Methodist Church, 68
West Johnston StreeL
T-shirts with all the
performers' names and
concessions wilJ be for
sate at the show. Tickets:
are $5 for non-students
and $3 for students.
Dec. 15
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host the UPS Road
Code'Teen Driving
Program on Saturday,
Dec. 15 from 11 a.m.-3
p.m. at 500 Highway
83 South, Forsyth (for-
mer Hubbard Middle
School campus). Lunch
will be provided: Pre
registration is required.
For more information,
contact Joel Tolhver at
478-992-5b05 or itOt-
liver@bfccg.org.
V~'-I~ to p~rfom~
at Arts Center
Voctave will be in con-
cert at Monroe County
Fine Arts Center for 'An
A Cappella Holiday"
on Saturday, Dec. 15 at
7:30 p.m:
Ou /Basket
Community Growth
Enterprise (Outreach
Ministry) will sponsor its
Annual Christmas Basket
giveaway on Saturday,
Dec. 15 from 11 o.m.-2
p.m. at Kynette United
Methodist Church, 266
Martin Luther King Jr.
Drive, Forsyth. For more
information, contact
Program Coordinator
Rosa Evans at 770-
584"6276. ' !'J
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Dec. 17
Combined Munme
Elemen-
tgry knd
Concert
All Mon?oe County
elementary schoc/I
bands will comb/he for
a concert at M6nroe
County Fine Arts Center
on Monday, Dec. 17 at
6:30 p.m
See CALENDAR
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MONROE ENTERTAINS YOU by Dennis Smith
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Enjoy the sounds of
the Holiday Season
this week at Mon-
roe County Fine
Concert follows at 6:30
Arts Center.
If you are like
most folks your
holidays are
brightened by the
sounds of carols
being sung at
your church or
by some strolling
group of well-
wishers who stop
in front of your Dennis Smith
house to offer
a seasonal serenade. You
likely have some special
memories attached to the
holiday dassics you hear
each year. Christmas music
has a way of getting us all
in a joyous, happy mood.
Excellent holiday music
is playing Thursday and
Saturday at the Fine Arts
Center. Get your listening
started with our Middle
School Band under the
direction of home-grown,
MPHS graduate, Miles
Benson. This is a great
opportunity to say hello to
Miles and welcome him
home.
Then the Mary Persons
High School Band Holiday
others have played pri7
p.m. Both Bands perform mary roles in Broadway hit Monroe County Fine Arts Center is ready to welcome you
on Thursday, December for seasonal performances by students and professional
13th. Tickets are available performers. (Photo/Diane Glidewell)
at the door.
VOCTAVE
takes over the big
stage at Monroe
County Fine Arts
Center on Satur-
day, Dec. 15th.
Who or what is
VOCTAVE?
VOCTAVE is
an a capella vocal
group that is com-
prised of 11 professional
singers. The amazing part
of this group's st,ry is the
11 individual stories of the
singers. Each member of
VOCTAVE can sing--re-
ally well. In delving into the
backgrounds of the singers,
MEY learned that Jamie
Ray is a music professor at
Rollins College. Tony De
'Rosa has been a member of
the Barbershop Harmony
Society for 37 years, and his
Barbershop group, "Main
Street" was the 2017 Gold
Award winner.
Several members of the
shows. Most have toured
with one or more famous
entertainers as backup
vocalists, performance or on line at
Kate Lott sang the www.monroefinearts.org
National Anthem at an
Atlanta Braves game earlier SPECIAL HOLIDAY
this year. Tiffany Coburn TREAT Members of the
has been a soloist with the Mary Persons High School
Boston Pops and per- Chorus will perform dur-
formed at both Carnegie ing the VOCTAVE concert.
Hall and Lincoln Center If you missed them on
as well as represented the Monday, Dec. 10th -ou get
USA at the Friendship Fes- one more chance to hear
tival in Pyongyang, North our talented local young
Korea this past Spring. people sing.
Make plans to be at the
FAC Saturday to get to ANNE OF GREEN
know the other members GABLES OPENS IN
of VOCTAVE. All are JANUARY 2019
very talented, and you will With Christmas less
understand why they have than two weeks away
been chosen to be part of well, January is not that far
Walt Disney World's pre- in the future, either. For
mier a capella singers. The those theater-goers who
group has received more like watching our younger
than 100 million views on -friends perform, mark your
their videos, has released calendar for Jan. 19-27 to
four albums and had num- see ' ane of Green Gables"
ber one songs on iTunes, by Alice Chadwicke and
Amazon and Spotify. L.M. Montgomery.
Show time is 7:30 p.m. The Backlot Player's Own
Tickets are $30-$40 de- Original Youth Actors
(BOOYA) will be present-
ing the play under the
direction of Jack Branan.
group have sung as lead en- pending on seat locations
tertainers at the Grand Ole andlare available at the
Opry in Nashville. Several door on the evening of the
The BOOYA production is
,an annual part of the over-
all entertainment package
presented by the Backlot
Players Guild. It typically
attracts near capacity audi-
ences. Plan now to attend.
Tickets will go on sale Jan.
14th at The Rose Theater
Box Office, 23 W. Johnston
Street, Forsyth.
AUDITION CALL for
"God's Favorite" by Neil Si-
mon. This is another great
Simon comedy. It calls for
five males and three fe-
males and will be directed
by Samantha Smith. Audi-
tions are Jan. 21 and 22 at
7 p.m. at the Rose Theater,
23 West Johnston Street,
Forsyth.
Dennis Smith writes
"Monroe Entertains You,"
highlighting the enter-
tainment fare offered in
Monroe County and the
people who make it pos-
sible. Smith wants Forsyth
to realize and support the
riches it has in the cultural
arts.
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Mary PerSons construction students show the three banners and three trophies they have earned in the last three years as region champions in the Work-
force Development Skills Challenge.
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ill
By Diane Glidewell
news@mymcr.net
In November the Mary
Persons Construction team
took home the Overall
Winner's Cup at the An-
nual Southern Crescent
Workforce Development
Skills Challenge for the
third consecutive year. It is
one of four regional com-
petitions held in the state.
Sponsors of the competi-
tion, the Associated Gener-
al Contractors of Georgia,
Inc. and its members, took
note of the outstanding
repeat and came to Mary
Persons to recognize the
team on Dec. 6.
"You have earned brag-
ging rights three times in
a row. Congratulations on
what you are doing--You
are preparing yourself for
the future" said Michael
Dunham, CEO of AGC
of Georgia. "We're proud
of you, and the industry
congratulates you. This
opportunity is very special
for us"
Dunham told the stu-
dents that AGC of Georgia
represents big builders, and
big builders need their help
in providing the skilled
workers they must have
to complete their projects.
Currently the industry has
only one skilled worker
coming in for every four
that leave as baby boomers
retire.
"Name your own price
and have a job wherever
you want to live on the
planet" said Dunham.
Also present to con-
gratulate the Mary Persons
construction students
were Christy Kovak of
Sheridan Construction,
AGC of Georgia Member
Development Specialist Bill
Chambless, and Ryan Jones
who is training to be a proj-
ect manager with MEJA
Construction. Sheridan
Construction is the con-
tractor handling renovation
of Monroe County Schools
central office; MEJA was
the contractor in charge of
building Monroe County
Fine Arts Center.
Jones is a 2015 gradu-
ate of Mary Persons who
completed the construction
pathway. He began work-
ing for Monroe County
Schools through the work-
based learning program
Construction teacher D.J. Hurm, third from right, shows
visiting industry leaders the Mary Persons shop, and stu-
dents hear praise for their accomplishments. (Photos/Diane
Glidewell).
in November 2014 and pentry and Cheyla Tafolla
continued working for the and Jorja Conine competed
school system in its facili- in masonry. Michael Ne-
ties maintenance depart- castro served as the team's
ment until April 2017 when captain, coordinating and
he accepted a position with supporting the team.
MEJA. He is also work- Tafolla and Atkins each
ing toward his Bachelor's earned 1st place, Rhodes
degree in business as he and Newton each brought
prepares to move into the home 2nd place, and
position of a project man- Brooks and Melton each
ager where he will handle took 3rd place in their skill
three to six major projects competitions. Over a hun-
at a time for MEJA. dred students competed in
The Mary Persons Con-the Skills Challenge, which
struction team included 13 was held in Griffin on Nov.
juniors and seniors. Mat- 1.
thew Marshall and Cody D.J. Hurm is the con-
, Hickman competed instruction teacher at Mary
welding, Trevor Brooks and Persons and is the instruc-
Matt Nash competed intar and advisor for the
electrical, Ben Newton and team. He said there was not
Gunnar James competed in space for Necastro to cam-
plumbing, Brianna Rhodes pete with the team, but he
and Zachary Mooney cam- worked just as hard as the
Peted in blueprint reading, students who were compet-
Will Atkins and Tucker
Melton competed in car- See BUILD Page 2C
