Brooks will

celebrate the 20th annual Brooks Day Festival and Road Race this Saturday.

There will constant entertainment, arts and crafts, children's activities

and much more.

The day kicks

off with the one-mile run at 7:30 a.m. and the 10K race follows at 8 a.m.

Race day registration begins at 7 a.m. and awards and drawings for prizes

take place at 10 a.m.

The 10K course

is TAC-certified and runs along the historic and scenic Mcintosh Trail.

The course is well marked and monitored and away from traffic and congestion.

There are time "splits" each mile and there are two water stations.

Boy Scout Troop

#73 will host a spaghetti dinner the night before the race at Brooks Town

Hall. The dinner is free to the race runners and $4 for everybody else.

There will be a sports expo at the dinner and the following day Dr. John

Ricardi, a local chiropractor, will give adjustments both before and after

the race.

The entertainment

starts at 10:30 a.m. with the Ramblin Rose Band, which will also perform

at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30, 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. The Brooks Elementary School

chorus will perform at 11 a.m. and Jordan Wilson will perform at noon.

The New Five

cents Band will play at 12:30 p.m. and the Southside Country Strutters

will strut their stuff at 2 p.m. Miss Patsy's Georgia Belles will show

off their moves at 3 p.m. and the Whitewater Middle School eighth grade

chorus will sing at 4 p.m.

Visitors can

participate in a number of activities from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There will be

old fashioned games to play, a Winston Cup Series race car to view, BBQ

to eat, arts and crafts to peruse and, new to the festival, the War Between

the States Living History Camp. Uniformed solidiers will perform interactive

demonstrations including manual of arms, firing and drilling throughout

the weekend.

The evening

will close with the Dance in the Park featuring the Allen Goodman Band

from 7:30-11:30 p.m. Admission is $2 for ages 12 and up and children under

the age of 12 are admitted for free.

For more information

on Brooks Day, phone 770-719-0137 or 770-719-7799.

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