One-act play participants honored at competition

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Three Colquitt County actors were recently honored during the Region One-Act Play Competition, held Oct. 25 in Tifton. Students from Colquitt County High School and C.A. Gray Junior High performed “The Lottery” by Brainard Duffield, adapted from the short story by Shirley Jackson. Sophomore Darius Washington and senior Jacob Eubanks were named to the All Region Cast. Junior Johnny Goodwyn was awarded Best Supporting Actor.

 

Live Oak Garden Club ready for fall festival, pancake breakfast

LIVE OAK, Fla. — The Live Oak Garden Club is hosting its Fall Festival and Pancake Breakfast on Nov. 4. The festival and breakfast will be held at the Garden Club’s clubhouse, located between Shands Live Oak Regional Medical Center and the Suwannee County Coliseum.

The breakfast, which includes pancakes and ham or sausage, is $5 for adults, $3 for children or $15 for the whole family. In addition to the breakfast, there will also be an almost new yard sale as well as plant vendors and craft vendors to help people get a start on Christmas shoppping.

In addition to supporting the Garden Club’s projects in the community, proceeds from the yearly event help fund the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs youth projects that the local club supports. Last summer, Florida Garden Clubs sent more than 630 youths from first through sixth grade to camp in Longwood at Camp Wekiva. An environmental conference for high school students, SEEK (Saving Earth’s Environment Through Knowledge), is held each summer in Ocala. The club was proud to send four Suwannee High School students to the conference this past summer. Scholarships are also available for seniors entering a Florida college/university and for all levels of college coursework. Their course of study must meet garden club objectives. Deadline for applications is May 1, 2018.   For more information, check out the club’s website at liveoakfloridagardenclub.com.

 

Church hosts new model of ministry with market

DALTON, Ga. — Lydia’s Market, part of the mission of First Baptist Church of Dalton, represents a new model of ministry that enables craftspeople to use their God-given talents to support themselves, church officials say. Every item sold at the market is sold at a price that helps allow coffee pickers, basket weavers, seamstresses and leather workers (among other crafts) to be paid a fair wage large enough to support themselves, their families and their communities in sustainable ways. This is only a small effort but serves to advance spiritual, social and economic avenues. Lydia’s Market was named in honor of a woman known as Lydia, introduced in Acts, chapter 16. She is described as a successful businesswoman who dealt in expensive purple cloth in a time when most women were viewed as little more than property. This woman called Lydia was a community leader who committed to supporting the ministry of the disciples and the greater community because she felt called to empower others. All revenue generated by the market goes directly to the creators, ensuring all monies contribute to the economic opportunity and stability of the workers while protecting their environments. Vendors will provide jewelry, leather goods, coffee and chocolates, bags, baskets, baking items and nativity scenes. More information about the vendors can be found at fbcdalton.org/lydiasmarket. The market is open Thursday, Nov. 2, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 4, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, Nov. 5, from noon to 3 p.m.

 

Go through the looking glass at the haunted theatre

TIFTON, Ga. — The Tift Theatre for the Performing Arts is putting on their annual haunted theatre. Kaylee Stokes, business manager for the theatre, said that she and about 70 volunteers have been working for over two weeks to create the walk-through experience. The theme is Alice in Wonderland, but this is not the Disney version of the classic story. The cost of admission is $7, or $6 with a canned good item. All of the proceeds will go to supporting the theatre and the canned goods will be donated to organizations that help those without food security. The Tift Theatre for the Performing Arts is located at 320 Main St.

 

Clear, cold, then warming 

VALDOSTA, Ga. — After a chilly start to the work week, South Georgia’s temperatures should gradually warm up through Friday under clear skies, according to forecasters. Monday was expected to get off to a cold start with morning lows around 35 degrees thanks to a cold front that moved through Saturday, said Katie Nguyen, meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Tallahassee, Fla., office. “We’re finally getting some cooler, drier air,” she said. With the cold front out of the way, a high-pressure system should center itself over the Southeast in coming days, bringing clear skies and drier air, said Danielle Knittle, a meteorologist with the private forecasting firm AccuWeather. From a Monday high of 69 degrees, a warming trend should bring daytime temperatures up into the low 80s by Friday, according to the weather service’s forecast. Overnight lows should climb into the upper 40s and lower 50s at the same time. Skies should stay sunny to mostly sunny through the work week, though Knittle said some cloud cover could build up by the weekend. Neither forecaster saw much of a chance of rain or severe weather across South Georgia this week.