Georgia Nature Photographers’ Association - Central is currently exhibiting a nature photography show at A Novel Experience Bookstore in Zebulon. The show will run through the end of May. On Saturday, May 18, GNPA-Central will host a reception at the bookstore from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Lamar County High School wraps up two weeks of spring football practice with a controlled session Friday at Trojan Field. The practice is set for 5 p.m. and open to the public.
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The Barnesville Kiwanis Club is hosting its annual reverse raffle Friday, May 17, at 7 p.m. at the Barnesville Civic Center. The party this year will be a Hawaiian style luau.
Tickets for the 21 and over event are $100 per couple and includes an all you can eat cookout catered buy Ooo La La Catering, an open bar and entertainment. There will be major prizes with every 15th ticket pulled and a grand prize of $5,000 cash. All proceeds will benefit the Barnesville Kiwanis Club.
To purchase tickets contact Chad Williams or Kenny Hutto at 770-358-7211; T.J. Imberger, 770-584-3448; Jeff Marable, 770-468-8078; or Doug Cherry, 770-468-0066 or any Kiwanis board member.
The Department of Corrections (DOC) has new plans for the local facility off the MLK bypass which housed a pre-release center before it was shut down and mothballed in April 2011.
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Sen Saxby Chambliss gave the commencement address at Gordon State College Friday. The following is the text of his remarks:
Thank you, Dr. Burns, for that generous introduction.
President Burns, trustees, alumni, graduates, family and friends: Thank you for allowing me to share this wonderful day in your lives and in the life of this institution.
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United States Senator Saxby Chambliss addressed Gordon State College graduates Friday morning advising them to “embrace their humility.”
“Why? Because you’re going to need it,” he said. “Because somewhere along the line you are going to fail and you’re going to fail spectacularly.”
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