Monthly Archives: September 2016
Booth business is opportunity for students
A school-based business at J.C. Booth Middle is helping eighth-grade students with disabilities learn important social skills for their transition to high school and...
Foundation presents grant to clinic
The Heritage Community Foundation presented a $5,000 grant Aug. 31 to the Good Shepherd Clinic and its executive director, Chelsea Folds.
The funds will be...
Traffic advisory for homecoming parade
The annual McIntosh High School homecoming parade is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 5, and will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the school.
The parade route...
City vehicles up for online auction
Peachtree City will be accepting bids on Govdeals.com for a Toyota Camry, two ambulances, and various pieces of office equipment this week.
The auctions will...
Church BBQ set for Sept. 24
The Methodist Men Chicken-Que is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24, with pickup between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
For $8 per ticket, pick up your...
Liberty Tech students getting involved
Liberty Tech students showed their community involvement recently in a big way.
About 200 students and their families walked in the Pink Posse to support...
Club raising funds for service dog
Peachtree City Rotary Community Corps will work again this year to provide a second service dog to a deserving veteran through Healing4Heroes. The dog...
Rome photo exhibit coming next month
In early October, Gianfranco Folchitto will provide a photographic tour of one of the world’s greatest cities at the Peachtree City Library on the...
Learn about new Peachtree City app
“Gateway to the Bubble” is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1:30-2:15 p.m. at Fayette Senior Services’ Peachtree City (The Gathering Place, 203 McIntosh Trail).
A...
Your cry out to God this Friday can make an impact
I was visiting with a prospect recently and invited him to church. I told him I was beginning a sermon series entitled “Fourth and...
Religion Briefs 09/21/16
Bethany plans yard sale Sept. 23, 24
Bethany United Methodist Church will have a yard sale Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24, from 8...
Congregation B’nai Israel will welcome Jewish New Year Oct. 2
Rosh Hashanah 2016, the Jewish New Year, will officially begin Sunday night, Oct. 2.
The Jewish New Year is different from the customary New...
MRBC to host simulcast
McDonough Road Baptist Church in Fayetteville will be a host site for the “Cry Out 16” nationwide simulcast, Friday, Sept. 23, from 7-10 p.m.
Nancy...
Hellsten joins staff at COS
Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church announces Madison Hellsten as its interim High School Youth and Family Ministries Coordinator.
“Madi” is a student leader and co-worship...
Volunteers needed for Hopewell’s hunger event this Saturday
Hopewell United Methodist Church in Tyrone invites the community to participate in its “Stop Hunger Now” event to be held on Saturday, Sept. 24,...
Manchester to speak on ‘aha’ moments that heal
International speaker, Christian Science practitioner and lecturer Chet Manchester, from King Ferry, N.Y., will give a one-hour talk on “Aha moments that heal,”showing how...
Change in a bottle for the babies
Members of All Saints Anglican Church participated in the Fayette Pregnancy Resource Center’s Baby Bottle Campaign. Between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day this year,...
Aid for the refugees
The New Day Circle at First Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City recently adopted a refugee family. The family came to America through World Relief...
Owen Matthew Bohdan, 15, of Fayetteville
Mr. Owen Matthew Bohdan, 15, of Fayetteville, Georgia, passed away on September 17, 2016.
He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Eric and Mary Bohdan. ...
Luther Ruben Knowles, 89, of Fayetteville
Luther Ruben Knowles, 89, of Fayetteville passed away on September 13, 2016. He was born and raised in Fayette County.
He proudly served his country...
Trump’s 6 transformative ideas
The best analysis I’ve seen anywhere about Donald Trump, Hillary and her Democrats and the hapless Republican Party comes — wait for it —...
Questions for debate
Next week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could determine the outcome of the election. As polls show Trump leading in some...
Earrings and hair
It happened many years ago when my toddler niece, Nicole, grabbed a gold hoop earring dangling from my ear and gave it a good...
Oddo in cabal on commission?
We have reached a point at the county governmental level to where the patience has been eaten away. There is a leadership breakdown where...
What’s really holding our nation back? Maybe Republicans?
I read Joel Kinsman’s letter (9-14-16). While I agree with Kinsman’s premise that is a very bad candidate who cannot be believed, and...
Obama’s swift pathway to a melting pot military
If it’s impossible to reduce a veteran’s ability to own weapons another option may be to reduce the military force. Ergo; the less troops,...
Fayetteville cops: Avoid Hwy. 54 West on Tuesday afternoon
Update - 8 p.m.: Fayetteville police reported at 8 p.m. that Hwy. 54 has been re-opened.
Motorists using Ga. Highway 54 West in Fayetteville are...
Drake Field
The area on Lake Peachtree we now call Drake Field has a neat history well before that day it was so named.
In 1956, several...
Things to Do_Sept.22-Oct.9
September
September 22
Free and open to the public, the Southern Crescent Storytellers will host an Open Mic storytelling night at the Fayette County Public Library...
One candidate forum cancelled; Sept. 27 event still on
A candidate forum originally scheduled for Sept. 29 sponsored by Fayette Visioning has been cancelled.
A spokesperson said the change was made “due to scheduling...
Showing some true grit
Last week’s Fayette on the Page 2016 kickoff party at the library included a community read of “True Grit” by Charles Portis.
Between sets of...
Author event set for Sept. 24
Several local authors who are members of the Peachtree City Library Writers Circle will be in attendance at an event scheduled for Saturday, Sept....
Class marks Greek Day
Third-grade students at Peachtree City Elementary celebrated the culmination of their study of Greek architecture and government with a Greek Day event.
Students dressed in...
Signature sponsor named for race
Webb & Taylor, LLC presented a $5,000 donation to the Rotary Club of Peachtree City as the signature sponsor of the Dragon Boat Race...
