Applications being accepted for downtown Dalton Christmas Parade

DALTON, Ga. — Since 1985, the Dalton Noon Lions Club has been getting Dalton into the Christmas spirit, and this year is no different. The annual downtown Dalton Christmas Parade is Thursday, Dec. 6, at 6 p.m. Participant applications are available from Wendy Conner at First Bank of Dalton at 3075 E. Walnut Ave. She can be reached at 706-370-4186. The $40 entry fee includes one vehicle. All additional vehicles are $5. Proceeds are used to assist visually and hearing impaired people in the community. Visit www.facebook.com/dalton.noonlions for more information.

Hurricane prayer service planned

VALDOSTA, Ga. — A prayer service for people impacted by Hurricane Michael will be held Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse square, 108 E. Central Ave., according to a county spokeswoman. Prayers will be offered 6:30-7 p.m. for military responders, those who had to be relocated, public safety responders, volunteers and communities working to recover from the storm, said Paige Dukes, Lowndes County clerk and the county’s public information officer. Hurricane Michael slammed the Florida Panhandle / Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm Oct. 10, cutting a deadly swath of destruction into southwest Georgia.

Investigators say burglary caught on camera

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A burglary suspect targeted the wrong house on Tuesday morning as surveillance cameras helped put him behind bars the next day. Police say that the video cameras showed Cedric Antonio Jones and his car at the residence in the 1200 block of U.S. Highway 319 South where two large flat-screen televisions were stolen. “(The burglar) went in through the utility room window,” Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Ronald Jordan said Thursday. “However, they had video surveillance of the burglary, (so) we were able to solve it.” The burglary occurred at about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday and Jones was taken into custody at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jordan said. The televisions had not been recovered. Jones, 35, 159 Shady Grove Road, was charged with burglary and possession of tools for the commission of a crime. Jones is accused of having a screwdriver at the time of the burglary, which accounts for the latter count.

Trick-or-Treat coming to Georgia Museum of Agriculture

TIFTON, Ga. — Children both young and old can have an “unBOOlievable” time at the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village on Oct. 27 with Trick-or-Treat in the Village from 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.  The Museum invites children to don their favorite woodland creature costume and trick-or-treat their way around the historic village. Museum interpreters will welcome all the little costumed trick-or-treaters with candy in the homes and buildings throughout the historic village. A costume contest will be held at 1 p.m. on the porch of the Historic Village Drug Store. For more information on Trick-or-Treat in the Village and other upcoming events, interested persons can contact the Museum at 229-391-5205 or visit the Museum’s website at www.abac.edu/museum.