East Cobb Weekend Events: Craft show; book sale; football, and more

East Cobb weekend events, Cobb Book Fair

This weekend’s events calendar in East Cobb contains more fall-like and holiday-themed events, as well as the last presentation of the year for a community theater troupe.

The first holiday craft fair of the fall is the St. Andrew UMC Craft Show, 11-6 Friday and 10-4 Saturday at the church (3455 Canton Road). There’s free admission, and you can shop for items from over 40 vendors. Lunch items and baked goods for sale. All proceeds go to St. Andrew’s women’s mission work projects;

The Cobb Library System’s Fall Book Sale (above) is all this weekend, 9-5 Friday and Saturday and 1-5 Sunday, at the Cobb Civic Center (548 S. Marietta Parkway). Debit, credit, cash and checks will be accepted. Your buying limit will be two boxes of items at a time on Friday until 1 p.m. Sunday is BYOB (Bring Your Own Box) Day. You can bring any size box you like and fill it to the top. Profits go to help the library system purchase items for branches around the county;

It’s the halfway point in the high school football season, and all six East Cobb teams are in action Friday, headlined by Walton at Lassiter. It’s been a while since both teams had losing records for this showdown, but the Raiders are 2-3 and the Trojans are 1-4. This is a region game, so more than local bragging rights are on the line. It’s homecoming for Pope against Johns Creek, while Sprayberry is at Osborne, Kell travels to Villa Rica and Wheeler visits Newnan. Kickoff at all venues is 7:30 p.m.;

The final production of the year for CenterStage North continues this weekend and next at The Art Place (3330 Sandy Plains Road): “Point of Order,” about how a small town in decline goes out of its way to honor a long-departed hometown celebrity to spark a revival. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., as well as next Thursday-Saturday, also at 8. Tickets are $20;

Starting Saturday, and continuing weekends only through Dec. 1 and longer hours afterward, is the Good Mews Holiday Decor Market. The location is the same, the Sandy Plains Exchange Shopping Center (1860 Sandy Plains Road, Suite 202), and for now Saturday hours are 10-5 and Sunday hours are 12-5. The East Cobb-based cat shelter is accepting donations of holiday decor and collectibles for all major holidays on site Saturdays 10-3 and Sundays 12-3 through Nov. 17. Ensure that all items are clean, new or gently used, and in good working order;

From 10-2 Saturday, it’s the Mt. Bethel Christian Preschool Fall Festival, taking place in the Fairfield parking lot at the church (4385 Lower Roswell Road). Events will include touch a truck, pony rides, a petting zoo, inflatables, games, balloon art, food and much, much more! Exciting silent auction items and baskets will be available. Admission is $1 per ticket or 11 tickets for $10.

You’ll find more details about those events and can check out more of our calendar listings for this weekend and beyond.

Send your events to us and we’ll post ’em here: calendar@eastcobbnews.com.

 

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