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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East Cobb Halloween events: Pumpkin Patches, fairs, festivals and more

East Cobb UMC Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkin Patches are already open at a couple of East Cobb churches, and other faith communities and other arts and musical groups have Halloween-themed events through October.

Here’s a sampling of what we’ve got for this week, and if you have something to submit to our calendar listings, check the information at the bottom of this post:

Pumpkin Patches continue through Oct. 31 at Mt. Zion UMC (1770 Johnson Ferry Road) and St. Andrew UMC (3455 Canton Road).

Both churches will have weekend events to get into the mood of the season, which hasn’t felt much like fall, but cooler weather is expected later this week.

On Friday (11-6) and Saturday (10-4( is the 17th Fall into Crafts Marketplace at St. Andrew, an early and easy way to start holiday shopping while benefitting the church’s women’s mission projects.

On Saturday, Mt. Zion is having its Party in the Patch event from 10-2, and kids are invited to show up in their costumes for treats, games and a lunch for purchase.

On Sunday afternoon, treat your kids and the whole family to a Ghost and Goblins Concert that starts at 4 at the Lassiter Concert Hall (2601 Shallowford Road), featuring the sounds of the Georgia Philharmonic.

Other events during the month include Trunk or Treat events at several churches as well as Sprayberry High School, a fall festival at The Avenue East Cobb, a community fair at Paper Mill Road Baptist Church and a special haunted theater production at Pope High School.

Check our special Halloween listings for more things to do, this week and through the end of the month.

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We’re just getting started with the holiday season, leading into the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year events.

If you have events you’d like to share with the East Cobb community—holiday or not—we’ll be glad to post them. E-mail us at calendar@eastcobbnews and we’ll add them to our calendar listings. Feel free to send photos, flyers and of course contact information as East Cobb News aims to make our calendar listings the best around!

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