Little ones get a close-up view of Saturday’s college football screenings at Avenue East Cobb. ECN photos.
The autumnal equinox—also known as the first day of fall—still felt very summer-like.
The day that the Sun moves north across the celestial equator—signalling the coming of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere—brought with it plenty of sunshine to the East Cobb are.
Temperatures hovered around 80 degrees Saturday, and the low humidity and a gentle breeze made outdoor activities irresistible on what’s also the first day of fall break in Cobb County.
Sparser weekend crowds than usual gathered at East Cobb park for walking, picnicking and relaxation, as Cobb schools will be out of session all next week.
The local forecast calls for more of the same over the next week—sunshine, mild temperatures and little to no chance of rain.
Highs from Sunday through Tuesday are expected to be in the mid 80s with lows in the high 50s.
Cooler weather and clouds will move in after that, with highs forecast around 80 through next weekend and lows in the low- to mid 60s.
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Angela Williams describes how her life has changed since she was the victim of childhood abuse as “a 40-year journey I’ve been on.”
She’s shared her story as an advocate for those who’ve gone through similar ordeals, helping them to learn how to reach out for support.
The East Cobb resident is the author of several books on the subject, including an initial memoir, “From Sapphires to Sorrows,” which explained how she began climbing out of her situation.
But Williams admits she’s long been haunted by the challenges of living with what happened to her, even as she continues to guide fellow victims to develop resiliency for a lifetime.
Last week, she published another memoir, “Loving Me: After Abuse,” which she says is a deeper, even more personal telling of the path out of abuse, with the aim of it being “a self-help guide.”
She held a book launch last week at the DK Art Gallery in Marietta and on Sept. 30 will be leading a “Time to Heal” Conference in Woodstock.
For 14 years, starting at the age of three, Williams was the victim of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. She said 93 percent of abusers are people their victims “know and trust.”
Williams said coming to terms with the emotional as well as physical pain of being abused hasn’t been easy to confront, but after a conversation with a friend she decided she needed to do just that in her latest book.
In order to truly help others even more, Williams realized she had to make herself even more vulnerable in sharing her story.
“It’s about wanting to live a life where you’re not tormented,” Williams said in a recent interview with East Cobb News. “It’s about walking in a life where you’re living to your fullest potential.”
Even as she went all-in on helping fellow survivors, including getting a degree in forensic psychology, Williams said “it took many years” for her to feel that she was truly moving in that direction.
In the book, Williams details “the amount of shame and feeling so unlovable” that led to a suicide attempt at the age of 17.
It left her homeless, and she persevered with her work ethic, and as a young adult got married and had children (who attended Pope High School and the University of Georgia).
“I worked on burying it,” Williams said of her memories of being abused. “It felt like holding a beach ball under water 24/7. I tried to mask it, but I wasn’t healthy.
“I wasn’t the wife and mother I wanted to be.”
She said she underwent “intense counseling” after thinking about suicide again—Williams said she never attempted to carry it out—and in her 30s, began to feel the clouds lifting.
“I learned to give myself grace,” Williams said. “I really built my faith in God.”
Her advocacy led to the creation of Angela’s Voice, which provides resources for the awareness, prevention and healing of child sexual abuse.
They include workbooks to teach children to defend themselves against abusive behavior, and she conducts support groups for survivors.
Williams has taken her message to schools, non-profits, faith communities and medical offices, and is developing more curricula.
“It’s about helping survivors to heal,” Williams said, adding that only one in 10 people who are abused will ever tell anyone about it.
“I hope that my book will give them the hope that they need,” Williams said.
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International quilt artist, fabric designer, author, and color expert, Anna Maria Horner will appear at the East Cobb Quilters’ Guild evening meeting on September 28th and their daytime monthly meeting on September 29th. During the day meeting, Anna Maria’s presentation on Blueprint Quilting will go in depth about her unique composition styles and her adventurous variations on those themes. She will illustrate her creative process as a fine artist, fabric designer, and quilter. Many of the quilts in her lecture will show off the inspiring stories, processes, and tools that she uses to create her quilts. The lecture is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the creative process and bring home some of the inspiration for your next project, whatever the medium might be.
During the evening meeting on September 28th, Anna Maria will host a Meet & Greet allowing attendees the opportunity to talk to her about herself and her inspirations in a small group setting. Additionally, at both meetings, there will be many quilts on display, and Anna Maria & co pop up store! featuring a curated selection of her current fabric bundles, quilt kits, patterns and templates.
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Wheeler High School cheerleaders marched with the band at the 25th EAST COBBER parade Saturday. ECN photos, video
While most major community activities have returned to normal in the wake of COVID-19, there has been one major event whose absence has been notable.
The year 2020 was to have been the 25th anniversary of the EAST COBBER parade and magazine, but was cancelled due to the pandemic. The event was delayed again in 2021, with public health guidance still uncertain.
The logistics of pulling off such a large, comprehensive community event are daunting enough. But last spring, when I spoke to founder and then-publisher Cynthia Rozzo, she was optimistic about a return.
However, she sold the magazine to Laren Brown, her advertising manager, not long after that, in the summer of 2022, and there just wasn’t time to take over the helm of the publication and pull together its signature event.
So the parade and festival would have to wait until 2023.
On Saturday morning under pleasant skies, Johnson Ferry Road was closed off for the silver anniversary of the parade, and a familiar vibe returned with it.
More than 50 community organizations and businesses made the mile march from Mt. Bethel Elementary School to Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, where a festival took place with a similar number of exhibitors.
Those numbers aren’t what they were before the pandemic, but the friendliness was hard to miss. Kids enjoyed bouncy houses and snow cones, spectators brought their dogs and small businesses and non-profits laid out their wares and information.
Brown came to our table with a swag bag and said her first shot at organizing the event was quite an undertaking. She had assisted Rozzo, who was on the scene Saturday to lend a hand for which her successor was grateful.
Recreating a small-town flavor of an old-fashioned community parade was what Rozzo wanted to provide to a Sunbelt suburb where people come from all over.
After four years of waiting, they got to enjoy that atmosphere again, and our community really feels like it’s got its groove back.
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The remnants of the Gritters Library building in Northeast Cobb stood in a heaping pile Monday as demolition crews completed their work.
The nearly 50-year-old building in Shaw Park, which closed in June, was torn down as the Cobb County Public Library System begins a rebuilding project that’s expected to take a year.
The new branch on the same site will be much more than a library. The 15,000-square-foot replacement, at a cost of $9.8 million, will include county workforce development programs and the Northeast Cobb Community Center, which is being relocated from another part of Shaw Park.
Gritters patrons are being directed to the Mountain View Regional Library and library staff will be reassigned to other branches until the new library opens next year.
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An architectural rendering of the new Gritters Library-Northeast Cobb Community Center.
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Risa Rambo wants to compete in the Transplant Games in Birmingham, Ala., next summer because “this one is so close and I hope my boys and sister can go.” ECN photo.
After undergoing a heart transplant in her mid-40s, Risa Rambo found refuge—as well as a rigorous physical rehab regimen—in competitive sports activities.
She earned medals in two different runnings of The Transplant Games of America, including being the most Valuable Participant for the Team Georgia in 2012.
Some of the medals Rambo has earned at The Transplant Games of America.
A year later, the former high school and college basketball player was at her home on St. Simons Island when she suffered a hemorrhagic stroke, a life-threatening rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
“My son found me, I was unconscious,” Rambo, 63, says in an interview with East Cobb News in the lobby of the Sterling Estates assisted living community on Lower Roswell Road, where she has lived for the last eight years.
After being rushed to a hospital in nearby Brunswick, Ga., she had emergency brain surgery. Rambo was unconscious for several weeks, and later had to undergo a more grueling rehab in Atlanta at the Shepherd Center, which helps patients recover from spinal cord and brain injuries.
She would be lifted out of bed by rehab specialists, and “they would work you real hard,” from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. almost daily.
“They had to teach me how to walk again,” Rambo said. “I was real scared.”
Part of the therapy was putting a basketball in her hand when she walked, to keep her head up.
Rambo, who as Risa Turton was a hoops star at Crisp Academy and Crisp County High School in Cordele, Ga., and played at the University of Mississippi and Mercer University, knew she would never be able to live the same way again.
After college, she married and raised three sons, and after her divorce, stayed active playing golf on St. Simons. She returned there after leaving Shepherd.
But she could no longer do basic things for herself, such as cook or even change bed linens.
Rambo as a basketball player at Ole Miss.
“I just needed help,” she said. “I couldn’t live by myself.”
Paige Sander, her sister and legal guardian, lives in East Cobb, and in 2015 Rambo came to live at Sterling Estates to be closer to her. There, the staff cooks her meals, does her laundry and cleans her room once a week.
She walks with something of a limp, but is alert and responsive in a busy facility where she greets everyone, including a 106-year-old resident.
Rambo takes walks around the Sterling Estates pedestrian loop and enjoys the facility’s small pool.
But she says she wants to try cooking again soon, and desires some more independence.
Most of all, Rambo wants to get back to the Transplant Games, which became a major source of support and social life with her fellow transplant recipients.
The next Transplant Games take place in the summer of 2024 in Birmingham, Ala., and Rambo is excited about an in-person return. A virtual competition took place during the pandemic, and she was mailed some medals.
But she misses the camaraderie and wants her family to take part in the experience, which like the Olympics also includes opening and closing ceremonies.
Rambo had a long recovery from a stroke in 2013.
“This one is so close,” Rambo said. “I hope my boys and my sister can go. The closer it gets, the harder I train.”
She wants to compete in swimming, cycling and basketball. She and her sister attend Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, where Rambo shoots basketball two or three times a week.
“I’m still trying to get it up to the goal,” she said. “I’ve got a year to work on it.”
Rambo says she can drive, but prefers not to, and gets where she needs to go with her sister and via the Sterling Estates vans that circulate around East Cobb.
She has checkups twice a year at Emory University for her heart, and said that she “checked out well” after a recent EKG.
While she knows the activities are helpful for her brain and body, it’s the connection to others that she values just as much.
After having to retire due to her medical situation, Rambo said “I didn’t do anything for a while, and I got depressed. I wasn’t sleeping.”
At Sterling Estates, she pulls out the facility’s daily activities calendar, which is crammed with outings, bingo, movies and physical therapy and exercise sessions.
Rambo’s stroke rehab included walking with a basketball to help keep her head up.
She also enjoys spending time with friends she has made on the Team Georgia of the Transplant Games. They’ve gone to Braves games and are having a fish fry in August.
Rambo speaks matter-of-factly about the myriad of health issues she’s endured—”I’ve come a long way”—and even the death of one of her sons last year to suicide at the age of 30.
A good support system, Rambo said, has been vital for her recovery.
“You trust in God, and my friends and my family,” she said.
Water workouts are part of Rambo’s continuing recovery from a stroke.Family visits and social activities with fellow transplant recipients have been a big part of Rambo’s support system.
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Gritters Library branch manager Maria Benac shows a scrapbook page of ballet classes at the Shaw Park facility in 1976. (ECN photos)
As children busily made gingerbread replicas of Gritters Library, branch manager Maria Benac was paging through scrapbooks on Saturday containing the history of the Northeast Cobb community hub that for nearly 50 years has housed much more than books.
Saturday was the final day that the Gritters building that was completed in 1973 was in service. A new 15,000-square-foot facility on the same site—and double the size of Gritters—will open in about another year.
“I cried a little bit this morning,” Benac said, explaining that they were mostly tears of joy. Reconstruction plans hit a snag last fall before Cobb commissioners approved an improvised construction contract of $9.8 million for the new facility.
Nestled under a canopy of trees at Shaw Park, Gritters Library serves a rapidly growing population of more than 62,000.
The new Gritters building also will house workforce development programs in conjunction with CobbWorks, a county government agency, and the Northeast Cobb Community Center, which is relocating from another part of Shaw Park.
Gritters patrons are being directed to the Mountain View Regional Library and library staff will be reassigned to other branches until the new library opens next year.
“It’s just been a blessing,” Benac said. “This is a dream come true.”
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The program includes a partnership with the Cobb County School District and Marietta City Schools and is particularly aimed at keeping children reading during the summer vacation months.
Readers earn “BINGO” credits that are good for badges and prizes, as well as eligibility for the grand prize.
Participants track their reading with a Beanstalk account, and a traditional paper log is also available.
More information about the challenge can be found by clicking here; you can create a Beanstalk tracking account at this link and a traditional paper log at this link.
Thanks to Lee Tarbell of the Newcomers Club of Cobb County for the following information and photos:
The Newcomers Club of Cobb County held their annual installation of new officers meeting on May 16, 2023 at the John Knox Presbyterian Church in Marietta. This is the Club’s largest and most well-attended event of the year with approximately 60 women participating. It was no ordinary monthly meeting due to the talent and creativity of one member and her team, Dotti Catini. A routine meeting was turned into a dress-up costume luncheon with a theme of “Alice in Wonderland.” There were many “Alices,” “Queen of Hearts,” “Tweedledum” and “Tweedledees” and “White Rabbits” racing down the rabbit hole. This theme was carried throughout with the table and hall decorations and desserts.
The event became so popular after Dotti suggested to the Board in 2016 a way to liven things up and have a lot of fun. Since then each year (except for 2020 and 2021) the event became memorialized with various themes over the years: Hollywood and the red carpet (2017), a Flight Crew on their way to Paris (2018), Run for the Roses Derby Race (2018), Breakfast at Tiffany’s—with various Audrey Hepburns in attendance and finally, the Alice in Wonderland theme (2016 and 2023). If you would like more information or would like to join a great group of women, you can find us at www.newcomersofcobbcounty.com.
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The Sewell Mill Library historical exhibit will include a rendering of the original Wheeler High School campus from 1964.
The Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year (our story from opening day in late 2017) with a special exhibit of historical photos of the community.
Starting Thursday, April 6 and running through May 13, the center’s art gallery will exhibit scans of historic photos of the Marietta and and East Cobb communities, featured in three large wall collages.
The Cobb County Public Library System said that “drawn from local archives and private collections—including the library!—the images invite you to step back in time and get a sense of the deep roots in Sewell Mill’s neighborhoods.”
Bruce Thompson, the branch manager for the Sewell Mill Library who had a similar position with the former East Marietta Library, provided the photos and had this to say about the exhibit:
“These images will introduce the historic neighborhoods around Sewell Mill Library & Cultural Center to newcomers—and to each other. I’ve solicited and scanned photos and newspaper clippings from Kennesaw State University Archives, Marietta History Center, various local places of worship, and Cobb Library’s own wealth of historic images. The exhibit will include familiar scenes and maybe some that are less so, even for long-time residents.”
The exhibit will be open during regular library hours: Monday-Wednesday 10-8, Thursday-Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5.
All Cobb library branches will be closed on Good Friday, April 7, and Easter Sunday, April 9. They will be open Saturday, April 8.
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The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a resolution for the county to submit an application for the Hyde Farm property in East Cobb to be included on the National Register of Historic Places.
What’s officially called the Power-Hyde Historic District contains 136 acres and is what’s left of an 1840s working farm on Hyde Road, located off Lower Roswell Road near the Chattahoochee River.
The national register, which is part of the U.S. National Park Service, was created in 1996 to identify, evaluate and protect historic places “worthy of preservation.”
Nominations for inclusion start with state historic preservation authorities and must include several criteria for consideration.
In addition to the publicity for earning the designation, properties on the register may be eligible for preservation grants and tax credits.
The Hyde Farm property is jointly owned and run by the county (42 acres) and the U.S. government, the latter being the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.
More than 40 acres were sold to the Trust for Public Land in the late 1980s, and 95 more acres were told to the same entity in 2004. Cobb purchased 40 acres and the rest went to the National Park Service.
JC Hyde, the last member of the Power-Hyde families to run the farmstead, died in 2008.
Cobb Parks restored the farmstead in 2013 and conducts monthly walking tours.
Cobb Parks also holds a summer fishing rodeo for kids at Hyde Farm, and the property is used for educational purposes, summer camps and classes.
Tuesday’s action means that the county will submit the application to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Historic Preservation Division for nomination to the national register.
There are more than 40 properties in Cobb that are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Sope Creek Ruins off Paper Mill Road.
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A bouncy house occupied part of the front quad Saturday at East Cobb Park on a warm, sunny day, the last of Eastern Standard Time.
While daylight will be lasting later starting Sunday on the first day of Daylight Saving Time, the weather won’t be hospitable for park or outdoor activities.
There’s a nearly 100 percent chance of rain for most of the day, starting overnight, and lasting through the evening.
Temperatures will be colder too for Sunday and the first part of the week, and highs are forecast for the 50s through Wednesday, along with sunny skies.
Lows will be at or below freezing through Thursday morning, but warmer and wetter returns next weekend.
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The Marietta History Center will feature a traveling exhibit from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education starting later this month.
Entitled “World War II: The War that Changed the World,” the exhibit is the final installment of a series of traveling exhibits from KSU that have been displayed at the Marietta History Center (1 Depot Street, near the Square).
The exhibition, which runs from March 21-April 22, explores the war and its broad global impact. Visitors will encounter individuals who experienced the effects of the war and the Holocaust, from rationing to new opportunities to work and to fight and the struggle for survival in Europe increasingly under Nazi control.
The exhibit was made possible with a 2018 grant from the Breman Foundation, which operates a Jewish heritage museum in Atlanta.
The KSU exhibit is included with regular admission to the Marietta History Center. The cost is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students and free for children under 5 and those with a military ID.
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After a bone-chilling, sub-freezing Christmas, East Cobbers will be ringing in the new year with warmer, albeit wetter, weather.
There was plenty of late-afternoon activity at East Cobb Park Wednesday as temperatures rose into the 60s and sunshine bathed the skies.
There’s an 80 percent chance of rain Friday night and 70 percent during the day Saturday, with highs staying in the low- to mid-60s.
The rain will taper off for New Year’s Eve, down to 20 percent, as revelers attend fireworks celebrations and other festivities.
New Year’s Day on Sunday will be partly sunny with highs in the mid 60s. Monday and Tuesday highs are forecast in the high 60s. Rain returns on Monday night and there’s a 90 percent chance of showers Tuesday night.
Rain will taper off in the middle of the week, with highs Wednesday cooling off to the mid 50s.
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Back in April 2020, the earliest graduating classes from Wheeler High School were supposed to have a collective reunion picnic.
That would have been the 50th anniversary of Wheeler’s first senior class in 1967, and invitations were expanded to go through the Class of 1972.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to that gathering, and reunion organizer Nancy Collier got back in touch this week to say that the event has finally been rescheduled.
It’s now taking place on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the same location of the originally scheduled event (Riverside Day Use Area of Lake Allatoona on Lake Allatoona Dam Road) and the same cost ($25 person, $40 couple).
“It’s on, come hell or high water,” as noted in the attached flyer, which also helpfully points out takes place on the same day as the UGA-Auburn football game.
Two years ago they wanted to have it in the spring to avoid such a conflict, but it’s been a long wait.
The festivities began at 11 a.m. and include food catered by Williamson Bros. BBQ, live music and more.
Check the flyer for more details or visit http://wheeler69.com/. There are instructions in both places on how to pay in advance. If you show up unannounced, “you will go to the back of the food line.”
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The Cobb County Public Library System has themed its 2022 summer reading program “Oceans of Possibilities.”
Kickoff events take place at four venues on Saturday, June 4, from 4-6 p.m.
They include the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center (2051 Lower Roswell Road), and the free, all-age event includes activities, crafts and more to promote social connections and reading.
The challenge officially takes place from June 1—July 31 and is designed to encourage patrons of all ages participate in shared learning experiences and community engagement, and to track their reading times to win prizes.
For more on all Summer reading programs, resources and activities in Cobb, visit www.cobbcat.org/summer.
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Margaret Richlin, the adult services librarian at the East Cobb Library, passed along a number of upcoming classes, clubs and activities for our calendar listings.
We’ll be doing that shortly, but we thought we post these notices in our news column for your perusal. There’s quite a bit going on over the summer. The number to call for more information on each of these is 770-509-2730:
East Cobb Craft Club
Thursday, June 6 and Thursday, July 7, 2-3:30 p.m.
The East Cobb Craft Club meets the 1st Thursday of the month from. Participants are encouraged to bring projects they are working on, or to try something new. The goal is to share and learn from each other. New members welcome.
East Cobb Creative Writers’ Workshop
Thursday, June 9 and Thursday, July 14, 2-3:30 p.m.
East Cobb’s Creative Writing Workshop meets the second Thursday of every month. Participants meet regularly to read, discuss, and critique each other’s work. Each class will offer free resources and information on various writing topics. No experience necessary. All writers welcome.
Keep Cobb Beautiful: How to Save Money Going Green and the 3R’s @ East Cobb
Monday, June 13, 2-3:30 p.m.
In this class, we will discuss eco-friendly methods that also save money. Learn about The Three Rs – How to reduce, reuse and recycle in your daily life, and save money while doing it!
Registration is required and can be done by clicking here.
East Cobb Cookbook Club: Fresh and Easy Summer Recipes
Tuesday, June 14, 4-5:30 p.m.
The East Cobb Cookbook Club meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month. We read & review a wide range of cookbooks to include: various cooking techniques, specific chefs, and ethnic cooking styles. Each month members choose a themed recipe and prepare a dish to share. Registration is required and can be done by clicking here.
East Cobb Documentary Film Club
Tuesday, June 26, 5-7:30 p.m.
The documentary film club meets every three months on the fourth Tuesday. We watch a variety of films featuring: social issues, education, nature, historical events, etc. Members watch a film together, then discuss it as a group. New members and visitors are always welcome. This month we will be watching the film: Ocean of Obstacles.
East Cobb Cookbook Club: Picnic Foods
Tuesday, July 12, 4-5:30 p.m.
The East Cobb Cookbook Club meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month. We read & review a wide range of cookbooks to include: various cooking techniques, specific chefs, and ethnic cooking styles. Each month members choose a themed recipe and prepare a dish to share.
Registration required and can be done by clicking here.
Adult Book Tasting: Fantastic Fantasea!
Tuesday, July 26, 5-7 p.m.
Book Tastings are a great way to experience new books, genres, and authors. They are offered several times a year at the East Cobb Library. Participants will get an opportunity to sample five books then discuss and rate their favorites. This class will feature some of the best books the fantasy genre has to offer! Registration required and can be done by clicking here.
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Serving up a bowl of chicken penne pasta and garlic bread from Camps Kitchen and Bar.
Food tickets sold for the Taste of East Cobb said the festivities would go on rain or shine, and despite some windy and cloudy skies, a popular community food festival made its return Saturday.
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, several local restaurants and dozens of small businesses and community organizations met the public at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.
Organized by the Walton High School Band Parents Association, proceeds benefitted the Walton band programs.
Students from the Walton and Dickerson Middle School bands performed, and there was a silent auction, raffle tickets, a kids zone, martial arts demonstrations and more.
Also on hand were the Committee for East Cobb Cityhood and the East Cobb Alliance, which opposes cityhood, as their representatives were campaigning ahead of the May 24 referendum, as well as the Cobb Democratic and Republican parties.
A face-painting station attracted all ages.
A shrimp roll from Drift Fish House and Oyster Bar didn’t last long.
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The “Month of Love” is what the Cobb Magistrate Court is calling February, and is offering special wedding appointments on selected dates.
Some of them will be taking place on Valentine’s Day on Monday, but there are other appointments on Feb. 22 as well.
Judges will be conducting group ceremonies throughout the day, and the court will be holding weddings at noon and 6 p.m. daily through February.
Newlyweds also can enjoy a photo area to capture the initial memories of their marriages.
A fun photo area for Cobb’s newlyweds to capture memories of their big day will also be available during the entire month of February.
Chief Magistrate Court Judge Brendan Murphy said in a county release that “we’re glad to welcome those wanting to tie the knot during this Month of Love while keeping the newlyweds and their guests safe and healthy!”
But because of social-distancing protocols, all ceremonies are by appointment only.
Using the Court’s new online reservation system, couples can make an appointment online at www.cobbcounty.org/magistrate or by calling the Warrant Division at 770-528-8900.
Couples must show a valid license issued by a Probate Court in Georgia, and they may invite up to four guests.
Masks are required inside the courthouse, but couples may temporarily remove them during their wedding ceremonies.
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The Cobb County Public Library Book Sale will be held at Cobb Civic Center October 8 – 10, 2021. Per Cobb County policy, masks must be worn and all shoppers must enter through the front doors of the Civic Center.
Materials for sale include books for all ages in both hardcover and paperback, DVDs, Books on CD and audiocassette, and magazines. Prices range from 10 cents to $4.00.
Cobb Civic Center is at 548 South Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta, GA 30060. Hours for the sale are Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm, and Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. There is plenty of free parking.
Acceptable forms of payment are debit, credit, cash, and checks. On Friday until 1 pm electronic devices are not permitted. While we hope you will buy lots of materials, we are only able to sell up to 2 boxes of items at a time on Friday until 1 pm. Please plan to pay and take items to your vehicle before coming in to shop some more. On Sunday we will be working to sell out the Civic Center so please come to buy, buy, buy!
All profits from this book sale go directly to buying more items for Cobb County Public Library’s 15 branches. For more information, please visit cobbcounty.org/library.
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