The Small Group Ministry at Heritage Christian Church will offer “DivorceCare: Surviving the Holidays,” a free, encouraging seminar for people facing the holidays after a separation or divorce. The seminar will be held on Sunday, Dec. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. Childcare will be provided.
The seminar features practical suggestions, guidance and reassurance through video interviews with counselors,...
The United Methodist Men of Peachtree City United Methodist Church will host a “Birthday Party for Jesus” Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m. for toddlers up to fifth graders. The party will be held in the PTCUMC Children and Youth Center at 400 Windgate Road.
Activities will include singing, face painting, crafts, refreshments and a special visitor from The...
Congregation B’nai Israel will host a Book Fair at Barnes & Noble in Fayetteville Saturday, Dec. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Dec. 12 is the second night of Chanukah, the Jewish celebration of the victory of the Maccabees and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. It also commemorates the miracle of the oil that burned for 8 days....
McDonough Road Baptist Church and Compassion International will present contemporary Christian singer and songwriter Travis Cottrell in concert Sunday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m. at McDonough Road Baptist Church in Fayetteville.
Cottrell, worship leader for all Beth Moore Bible study events, will perform as part of the Gloria Christmas Tour. Also in concert will be Dove Award winning...
A special celebration will be held at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church on Saturday, Dec. 12, to honor the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of all the Americas. A special Mass will be held at noon followed by a festive lunch in the parish hall. All are invited.
Father Fernando Molina-Restrepo, pastor of...
The third annual “Old Fashioned Christmas Bazaar” plus this years’ chicken barbecue will be held Saturday, Dec. 5, at Sharpsburg Baptist Church. The Bazaar, sponsored by the Olive Branch ladies group, will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Among the many items included will be homemade jams, jellies, relish, baked goods and other goodies. There will...
‘Wonder of Christmas’ to be presented
McDonough Road Baptist Church in Fayetteville will present “The Wonder of Christmas” on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 10:55 a.m. Under the direction of Mark Karki, minister of music and worship, the Celebration Choir, orchestra and children’s choir will combine to perform this inspirational musical.
McDonough Road Baptist is at 352 McDonough Rd., just past the...
Kristen Anne Doyle and Cody Tyler Wilcox were married at Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Newnan on Oct. 10, 2009. Father Dan Fleming conducted the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Michael and Annette Doyle of Peachtree City. She is the granddaughter of Mary Anne Ripple and the late Donald Ripple, and the late Donald and Evelyn Doyle,...
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Jones of Fayetteville announce the engagement of their daughter, Caroline Jessie, to Matt Holt, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Holt of Madison, Ala.
The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Landmark Christian School and is a senior accounting major at Auburn University.
The groom-elect is a 2006 graduate of Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala....
Jody “Alison” Keller and Jon Brandon Sellers were married at Pilgreens on Lake Dow on Oct. 24, 2009. Marvin Thomas of Newport News, Va., conducted the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott (Karen) Keller and Mr. and Mrs. James (Linda) O’Shea of Fayetteville. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bosworth...
Devin and Elise Hipp of Peachtree City announce the birth of their daughter, Evelyn Grace Hipp, born at 1:28 p.m. on Sept. 2, 2009, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. Evelyn weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz. and was 20 inches long. Grandparents are Rick and Molly Mendenhall of Peachtree City and Mark and Jan Hipp of Peachtree City.
At this writing I don’t know what President Obama will decide and announce this week on Afghanistan, but I do hope he considers the men and women in our armed forces at the top of his priority list. Presidents have not always done so.
Making strategic decisions that deploy our armed forces inevitably costs the lives of some of our...
The year 1965 was a period of phenomenal transformation. The country was experiencing unparalleled change on all fronts, President Johnson establishing Medicare and Medicaid, passage of the Voting Rights Act, wading into the Vietnam War.
NASA’s Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed into the moon after successfully photographing potential landing sites for the Apollo program to follow. The Soviet Union was going...
Sometimes two old souls can find each other and form a friendship that is anchored in rock-solid respect and like thinking.
Such is my friendship with one of the greatest Southerners of modern time – Zell Miller. We understand each other and, quite simply, we speak the same language, the language of the Scotch-Irish who embedded themselves deep in the...
While Obama has been at great pains to make a show of avoiding taxes on the middle class to pay for his healthcare changes, his proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation.
All states except for Connecticut, Illinois,...
Whether you are looking to remodel your bathroom or kitchen or you just need some deck staining or pressure washing, Karettis Industries can handle the task. They also can do radiant attic coating for keeping the cool temperatures in the summer and heat in during the winter. Owned by Nick Karettis, a native of Athens, Greece, Karettis Industries...
If you’re planning a window or door replacement project, then now’s the time. If you do it now you can receive a tax credit for 30 percent of the cost of qualified energy-efficient windows and doors, up to $1,500 for this year. We also offer a five year labor warranty and lifetime window warranty on these windows.
Before this the...
The Fayetteville First United Methodist Church will hold its annual Christmas Tour of Homes this Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 6.
The hours you may visit one or all six homes is 1 to 5 p.m. A donation of $15 is requested.
The funds will go to the Square Foot Ministries so completion of the Fayette Counseling Center can be...
Ryan Lewis had his first open heart surgery at five days old and had his second at four months old. He had a congenital heart defect that basically gave him half a heart. When he was just over three and a half years old, he had a heart transplant. Today, he is a happy and healthy pre-K student, wrestling...
The Southern Crescent Chorale will join other area community choruses and the Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra in presenting Handel’s Messiah at the Clayton County Performing Arts Center located at 2530 Mt. Zion Parkway, Jonesboro, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
On Sunday, The Southern Crescent Chorale presents the annual concert, “Christmas...
The Peachtree City Fire Department is offering online training courses for its 142 career and volunteer personnel.
The department last week won approval from the city council to shift $11,261 from other training programs in this year’s budget to fund the online training agreement with Target Safety. The programs, which are web-based, are available 24 hours a day, officials said.
The...
The Peachtree City Police Department will be hosting a basic Community Emergency Response Team class beginning February 9th, 2010. The classes will be held each Tuesday for ten weeks concluding on April 13th from 6 p.m. to approximately 9 p.m.
The CERT program offers valuable insight into the first few critical hours following an emergency related event and how...
Well, it looks like you’ve made it another year — almost. The hurdle of the holidays, overstuffed with physically unhealthy portions of food and fiscally unhealthy credit card bills, still must be jumped. In this economy the bar of self-control has been set really high as we watch our waistlines expand almost as fast as cash disappears out of...
A few weeks ago, I was visiting with family in northeastern Tennessee. Out to dinner with my brother and his wife, we were joined by their 7-year-old granddaughter, Annie.
Annie is smart (“I’ve never made anything less than an ‘A’ in school.”), pretty, affectionate, and a chatterbox.
At one point, I asked, “Annie, what do you want to be when you...
The perceived necessity of a Manhattan Declaration would have jarred the Pilgrims from prayerful contemplation of game birds and the like at harvest festival time, 1621. What — religious liberty so uncertain a thing as to warrant, five centuries later, a 4,700-word document justifying Christian defense of Christian principles?
Even so. On Nov. 20, a coalition of American religious leaders...
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems — of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
Many of the things the government does that may seem stupid are not stupid...
I’m sure I would like Sarah Palin if I got the chance to meet her. We share many things in common. She is still married to her first spouse, as am I. She has a Down syndrome son. I have a brother with Down syndrome. We share the same faith and we both like the outdoors. She is conservative...
How many things in our lives would we like to depend upon the generosity and selflessness of our fellow man, and do you think we would like the outcome?
You say, “Williams, are you now putting down generosity and selflessness?”
No, I’m not. Let me ask the question in a more direct way. Say you want a nice three-bedroom house. Which...
Sometimes there is just a better way of confronting and defeating life-controlling and life-altering issues like drug and alcohol addiction. For John Barrow and the staff at A Better Way Ministries the solution comes when a life is surrendered to Christ.
Beginning operations in 2006, the ministry is based on the Teen Challenge model. With its offices in Peachtree City,...
The U.S. Census Bureau Nov. 18 released the 2008 poverty estimates for every school district and county in the nation. Data for Coweta County showed 11 percent of children ages 5-17 living in families in poverty.
The data is part of the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program, representing the only current source of Census Bureau poverty data...
The Coweta County Commission has scheduled a public hearing on Dec. 15 to consider a Neighborhood Agribusiness provision to the county zoning ordinance. The measure surfaced in July at the request of Fayetteville resident Scott Tyson who wanted to establish a small farm operation for sustainable agriculture, organic farming and agritourism on his 10-acre Sharpsburg property.
The Coweta County Planning...
With fall in full swing and winter on the horizon, the cooling seasonal temperatures are sure to make Georgians’ heating bills go up. Now is the time to make sure your home is well prepared to keep you and your family warm without undue use of your heater.
“While customers are seeing some relief on their natural gas bills because...
Newnan Police Chief Douglas ‘Buster’ Meadows has formalized an agreement with the A Child Is Missing Alert Program that has led to a high tech method now in place to search locally for missing children, missing elderly (often with Alzheimer’s), college students, and missing persons who may be mentally or physically challenged or disabled.
Effective November 12, upon receipt of missing...
On the November 13, 14, and 15 the cadets of the Newnan Coweta Cadet Squadron held their Fall 2009 Basic Cadet Training weekend in Hogansville. A BCT is a weekend training exercise designed to teach cadets search and rescue skills and leadership for the future.
The cadets arrived to the Flat Creek Campground outside of Hogansville that Friday. After...
