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TILLMAN UMC CHRISTMON TREEThe Christmon Tree at Tillman United Methodist Church is decorated, from left, by LaShaw Paine, Jim Gaddy, Paul Chernutan, Mary Jane Kennemore and Pastor the Rev. Dawn Britt. Christmons are a type of Christmas Tree decoration representing a variety of biblical and theological concepts. The term is a combination of Christmas and monogram. The church at 940 Concord Road, Smyrna, will hold a Christmas Eve service of Lessons and Carols at 7 p.m. Dec. 24. Scripture verses about Christ are read beginning in Genesis and ending in John. After each Scripture verse is read, one or two carols are sung relating to the scripture previously read. The Christmas tradition ends in darkness with only candles lit while “O Holy Night” is sung.

What can you do with your live Christ-mas tree after the holidays are over?

Bring it for the Chipper! Home Depot on Cumberland Parkway and Keep Smyrna Beautiful will again host the Smyrna-Vin-ings area site for the Christmas tree recy-cling event on Jan. 3.

Keep Smyrna Beautiful will offer citizens a free tree seedling for each tree dropped off while they last. Vegetable and flower seed packets will also be available. Volunteers will be on hand to direct traf-fic and to help citizens unload their trees. Davey Tree Experts will chip the trees and deliver free mulch.

If you would like to donate your tree, simply remove all the ornaments and the base and bring it to the Home Depot on Cumberland Parkway between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Jan. 3. Home Depot asks that trees not be dropped off until the day of the event because of space limitations. Also, please do not bring wreathes and gar-land. The wire used to hold them together cannot be chipped. To volunteer, call Keep Smyrna Beautiful at 770-431-2863. For information on mulch delivery call Davey Tree Experts at 770-451-7911.

Keep Cobb Beautiful is also sponsor-ing free Christmas tree recycling drop-off locations throughout Cobb County.

Trees will be accepted at select Home Depot locations on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 only:

• 1200 East-West Connector in Aus-tell

• 1062 Richard Sailors Parkway in Powder Springs

Recycling trees creates mulch, fuel, wildlife habitats and other useful material.

For more information, call (770) 528-1135 or email [email protected].

AFTER YULE, BRING CHRISTMAS TREE TO

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PHOTOS WITH SANTACONTINUE

The City of Smyrna and the Smyrna Optimist Club continue their tradition of welcoming Santa again this year at Aunt Fanny’s cabin on Atlanta Road across from the Smyrna Market Village.

Children can visit Jolly Old Saint Nick at Santa House (in Aunt Fanny’s cabin) on Dec. 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 and 23 from 6 to 8 each night. Donations for the pictures with Santa are given by the Smyrna Optimist Club to the Police Department’s “Shop With a Hero” program.

With the closing of Emory-Adventist Hospital in Smyrna, Rep. David Scott is looking at the possibility of opening a Vet-erans Administration medical facility on that site.

Rep. Scott, who represents the 13th District which includes most of Smyrna, spoke at the Smyrna Business Association last week and urged members of the com-munity to share their support of the idea.

Rep. Scott said he has cosigned a letter to the VA with Sen. Johnny Isakson urging that “we move the bureaucratic loopholes out-of-the-way” to turn it into a VA facil-ity. Some $68 million is earmarked for a new VA facility in metro Atlanta, Scott said.

Smyrna Council-man Wade Lnenicka said that he is contact-ing new VA Director Robert MacDonald to look at the facility. Other council members indicate that they would rather see the property remain as a community hospital, rather than a government facility.

“We will lose it, waiting on the paper-work due, to the VA slowness,” Scott said.

With Republicans controlling the summit beginning next year, Sen. Isakson would become chair of the Veterans Com-mittee.

“That would be good way to get the VA hospital here,” Scott said, suggest-ing that the president could also expedite action on the request.

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A group of Smyrna area residents is working to find a buyer for the circa 1850 Hooper-Turner House who will restore the structure and save it for future genera-tions.

This highly visible “time capsule” at 5811 Oakdale Road unifies The Historic Area of the River Line.

The River Line Historic Area stretches from Vinings to Mableton along the Chat-tahoochee River and includes historic Civil War battle sites and remnants of battle for-tifications.

“There are plans to use the house as a multipurpose community facility to edify our area’s American History, but because the Hooper-Turner House deteriorated during 10 years of vacancy, it is slated to be demolished by The City of Smyrna,” said Roberta Cook, River Line Coordinator. “Losing this historic treasure to homog-enization diminishes the Historic Area and subtracts from the River Line Historic Area identity, character and sense of place.”

Cook urged potential buyers to con-tact The City of Smyrna Attorney, Scott

Cochran at 770-435-2131 or Councilman Ron Fennel at 770-319-5312.

But city officials say they are losing patience, having held on to the structure hoping that some group would restore or move it.

“It’s an unremarkable structure with mold and asbestos problems,” said Coun-cilman Ron Fennel.

The City of Smyrna acquired the house from Ms. Frances Presley. It is a typical “hall and parlor” home, a rural design that was prevalent in the area from the 1840s until the 1890s. The house was added to

‘ANGEL BUYER’ SOUGHT TO PURCHASE, RESTORE HOOPER-TURNER HOUSEthe Cobb County Historic Register with approval of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners on April 22, 2003 after its nomination by Ms. Presley. According to local folk lore, the house served as a Civil War hospital.

“To preserve the house, a viable buyer must make an offer before Christmas,” Cook said. To keep informed and unite with others who want to save the HT House, contact [email protected]. Hooper-Turner House on Oakdale Road.

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To hear some of the discussions on how we should limit the exposure of Christmas in our modern American world, one could almost think that the holiday is one that we invented and can now totally shape or ignore as we choose. Schools declare the official time as a winter holi-day, yet build the calendar around Decem-ber 25 as the focus of the holiday. School children hold pageants, but unlike those in my youth, are not allowed to sing songs or read scripture that mention Christmas for fear of offending.

Yet, no matter how some try to limit the holiday, Christmas is one that is not just an American invention, but a world-wide celebration. One estimate is that Christmas is honored by some 400 million people world-wide. The traditions are deep, having developed over centuries, transformed or refined, but always centered on the birth of Christ.

In our 21st century world, where news is constant around the clock it’s hard to imagine that the news of the birth of Christ could spread from a stable in Bethlehem to Shepherds, to wise-men, to the king in a short time. From Angels to Shepherds to ordinary people, the word has continued to spread throughout all the land, generation to generation, nation to nation.

There was no “good news” news-paper like The Bright Side back in those early days; no instant multi-media com-munication. For the most part, news was spread one on one. Yet, here we are, more than 2,000 years later, with the story of the Christ child still powerfully with us. Today, the story would be on FoxNews, CNN, national and local news with heli-copters hovering overhead and reporters out interviewing the Shepherds. The inter-view might go something like this:

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SHEPHERD: No, and I wasn’t dream-ing. There was one Angel with the message of the baby’s birth and then a whole host of Angels. It was an awesome sight.”

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CHRISTMAS RELATED EVENTSNOW – 22 SANTA PHOTO AND VISITS. The Smyrna Optimist Club will be taking pic-tures of children with Santa. Following this celebration the Smyrna Optimist Club’s Santa House opens at Aunt Fanny’s Cabin as follows: Friday- Sunday, Dec 5-7, Dec 12-14, Dec 19-21 and Monday, Dec 22. Hours: 6pm – 8 p.m. Donations for the pictures with Santa are given by the Smyrna Optimist Club to the Police De-partment’s “Shop With a Hero” program.

• • •16: HOLIDAY PARTY. Smyrna Public Li-brary. Tuesday, Dec. 16 from 5-7 p.m. Smyrna Library, Meeting Room for all ages. Drop in and meet Santa, enjoy holiday music, crafts, and snacks.

• • •14-24: TILLMAN UMC’S “Festival of En-tertainment” this year. Join the performance of the season on Dec. 14 at 11 a.m. for the gala “Christmas Pageant” with luncheon to follow and Santa too!! 20th Come hear your own me-lodic “Smyrna Community Chorus” perform-ing on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. Children’s voices are lifted up for the Annual “Children’s Christmas Angels” on Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. Christmas Eve Service of the Lights, Lessons & Carols on Dec. 24 at 6 p.m. Tillman UMC, 940 Concord Rd. in the heart of Smyrna; Where God’s grace is felt every day.

• • •14: VIVALDI’S GLORIA. First Presbyterian Church, Marietta. Come hear the Vivaldi’s Glo-ria on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. in the Great Hall.

• • •20-22: LIVING NATIVITY. Austell Pres-byterian Living Nativity begins at 7 p.m. each evening Dec. 20-22. In addition to the live ani-mals this year’s edition will feature live music and inside free hot soup, tours of the decorated 123-year-old sanctuary, children’s activities and carol singing around the fire.

• • •24: CANDLELIGHT COMMUNION Ser-vice. Smyrna Christian Church, 910 Concord Road SE, Smyrna will hold a Candlelight Com-munion Service on Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. Carols are sung, Bible verses read and special music. The service will close with Candlelight Com-munion. Everyone is invited. For more infor-mation please contact Lee Delbridge at 770-435-1723.

• • •24: CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE. Cum-berland United Methodist Church, 2375 Paces Ferry Road, Smyrna will be celebrating Christ-mas with a special Christmas Eve service on Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 5 p.m. The service will be a special service of scripture, candlelight, and carols. Everyone is welcome to come and help us celebrate! For more information, please visit www.cumberlandmethodist.com .

DECEMBER13: FLAG FOOTBALL. The Campbell Mid-dle School Foundation invites the public to an afternoon of Flag Football! The Foundation presents the Jingle Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 13 from noon to 4 p.m. The Flag Football Tour-nament will be held in the Campbell Middle School Sports Complex, 3295 South Atlanta Road, Smyrna,. Admission is $2 for adults and children/students. Admission is $2 for adults and children/students. Some features of the event are Flag Football, Family Friendly At-mosphere, Flag Ceremony, Concessions, Food Trucks, and Atlanta Elite Allstar Cheerleaders.

• • •20: SATURDAY MOVIE MATINEE, Smyr-na Public Library, Saturday, Dec. 20, from 2-4 p.m. “Polar Express” (G) [100 minutes]. Movie based on the classic children’s picture book. Plus, we’ll have special holiday refreshments.

JANUARY3: BRING ONE FOR THE CHIPPER. Christmas tree recycling event on Jan. 3 Home Depot on Cumberland Parkway between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

• • •5: TOWN HALL MEETING. State Senator Hunter Hill will hold a Town Hall Meeting Jan. 5. Location to be announced when confirmed.

• • •5: VININGS VILLAGE CIVIC CLUB meets the first Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at various locations around Vinings.. Program: Keeping Your Home Safe. For further informa-

tion, e-mail us at [email protected] or visit our website: viningsvillagecivicclub.org. Members and Guests are welcome.

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6: VININGS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (VBA) meets the first Tuesday of each month for lunch at Social Vinings. Presentation of Vinings Business of the Year. Networking and speakers from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Lunch $15 for Members; $20 for Non-Members and guests are always welcome! A Business After-Hours is held the 3rd Tuesday of each month.

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8: SMYRNA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: lunch meetings the first Thursday of each month at the Smyrna Community Center, 11:45 p.m. Program: Legislative update from legisla-tive delegation.

• • •9: DISCOVER WHITEFIELD ACADEMY Discover Whitefield Academy Campus Tours 9 a.m. Jan. 9, 16, 23,30 and Feb. 6. Family Open House, Saturday, Jan. 24 at 2:30 p.m. 1 White-field Drive, Mableton, 678-305-3000. www.whitefieldacademy.com. Learn more about Whitefield Academy, a Christ-centered prepa-ratory school for grades PreK-4 through 12. For more information contact Linda Simpson, director of admission.

WEEKLY EVENTSSMYRNA BUSINESS EXCHANGE: The Smyrna Business Exchange is Smyrna’s pre-mier close contact networking group represent-ing over 30 local businesses (and growing). Meeting weekly for almost a decade, members of the Smyrna Business Exchange pass business referrals to one another over a light continen-tal breakfast. The Smyrna Business Exchange meets at the Smyrna Community Center every Thursday morning from 7-8:30 a.m. If you have any questions or you would like to RSVP for a complimentary visit, please call current president Jeff Daxe at 770-795-5079 (or email at [email protected]).

• • •TOASTMASTERS: Interstate North Toast-masters at 3100 Cumberland Boulevard. We meet every Monday at 6:30 p.m. Visit our web-site: 2823.toastmastersclubs.org

• • •TOASTMASTERS: T-Toasters. Paces West, 2727 Paces Ferry Rd., Bldg 1. We meet Wednes-day nights at 6 p.m. and welcome visitors. Visit www.ttoasters.com to find out more.

• • •THE GALLERIA WORLDSPAN Wings Toastmasters Club Tuesdays 12 to 1 p.m., Building 300, main conference room.

MONTHLY OR MOREAMERICAN LEGION, Post 160 Membership Meeting at 7:30 p.m. every 3rd Tuesday and serves breakfast from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on the 2nd Saturday of each month and the AMER-ICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, Unit 160 Mem-bership Meeting at 7:30 p.m. every 3rd Tuesday each month. SONS OF THE AMERICAN LE-GION, Squadron 160 meets at 11 a.m. on the 2nd Saturday each month. All of these meetings are at 160 Legion Drive, Smyrna. For more in-formation, access AmericanLegionPost160.org or call 770-436-2501.

• • •ATLANTA FREETHOUGHT, Regular Meet-ing at 1 p.m. every 2nd Sunday. 4775 N. Church Lane, Smyrna (a mile inside I-285, just off At-lanta Rd). Our historic building was a church in Smyrna/Vinings for 141 years. We’re a non-profit educational organization and meetings/programs are free and open to the public. Call 678-662-3857 or visit our website, www.atlan-tafreethought.org, for more about us.

• • •CUMBERLAND VININGS OPTIMIST CLUB: Meeting for breakfast the 2nd Wednes-day of each month at the Vinings Club, 2859 Paces Ferry Road NW. We are an inclusive club dedicated to community service and welcome everyone as our guest.

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• • •MOMS CLUB of Smyrna West: If you are a stay-at-home mom or part-time working mom whose children are zoned for King Springs Elementary (30082), Norton Park Elemen-tary (30082) or the new Smyrna Elementary

(30080). We offer morning and afternoon weekly play groups and activities. If you have questions about our club or are interested in be-coming a member, please contact us directly at [email protected].

• • •MOM’S CLUB: Are you looking for a sup-port group of other at-home moms and their children? If so, the MOMS Club of Smyrna/Vinings West would love to meet you! We are a chapter of MOMS Offering Moms Support International, and we organize fun, daytime so-cial activities and play dates for the moms and kids in our club. We even have a monthly Moms Night Out! Contact us at [email protected] or visit www.momsclub.org for more info. Our chapter is zoned for Teasley, Nickajack and Russell elementary school residents in the 30080 and 30082 zip codes.

• • •SMYRNA LIBRARY READING GROUP: meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., at the Smyrna Public Library, 100 Village Green Circle.

• • •SMYRNA STITCH-IN GROUP meets the first Monday in the class room at Hobby Lobby, 1355 East-West Connector, Austell. If you like to cross stitch, do crewel work, needlepoint,

etc and want to meet women in the area, please come join us. Contact Phyllis Whittingham at [email protected].

SUPPORT GROUPSADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLIC and Dysfunctional Families meets every Sunday at 2 p.m. at Ridgeview Institute in the Profession-al Building North, 3995 S. Cobb Dr., Smyrna. www.ridgeviewinstitute.com/hosp_info_calen-dar_supp.htm

• • •ALATEEN and Al-Anon Family Groups meet every Monday at 8 p.m. at the Ridgeview Insti-tute in the Day Hospital. 3995 S Cobb Drive, Smyrna

• • •CANCER SUPPORT GROUP, The Star Group To help patients and their families feel more hopeful and less alone through the mu-tual sharing of thoughts, feelings, and concerns related to living with, and surviving cancer. Fourth Thursday of each month at Noon. (A light lunch is served) WellStar Cobb Hospital Magnolia Room Group leader: Raymond Coff-man Please call 770-732-3780 to RSVP.

• • •OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Meeting Every Monday at 7 p.m. Cumberland United Methodist 2375 Paces Ferry Road, Smyrna.

• • •RECOVERY INTERNATIONAL Self-help support group for stress, anxiety, depression, etc. Meets every Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 4300 King Springs Road SE, Smyrna, in the old rectory next to the church. Contact Alicia Garcia at 678-665-5233 for more information.

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SENIOR CENTER NEWSWolfe Center Activities

The Wolfe Adult Recreation Center and Therapy Pool, 884 Church St., Smyrna, is open to anyone 55 years of age and older. There are daily group fitness classes. Classes offered include: chair yoga, gentle yoga, yogalates, low impact aerobics, zumba, sculpt and tone, senior stretch, men’s yoga, intermediate yoga, sculpt yoga, Tai Chi and 30/15/15.

The Wolfe Adult Recreation Center also offers the following aquatic exercise classes: aqua tone and stretch, advanced water aerobics, low impact water aerobics, hip, knee and back class, ai chi, boot camp water aerobics and aqua zumba. There is also water walking and lap swimming times at the pool.

The Center is open Monday – Thurs-day from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.

The following activities are planned for December:

Quilting Group -- Dec. 4 & 18, Mem-bers with all different backgrounds in sewing, quilting, knitting, crocheting, etc. are welcome to attend this informal group.

Bunco -- Dec. 8 & 31, A friendly dice game where no skills are needed. Begin-ners are welcome.

Paint With Paula -- Dec. 9, A begin-ners paint class using acrylics.

Dorothy’s Travel Log -- Dec. 10, This month, Dorothy will be taking requests from the audience!

Christmas Shopping -- Dec. 11, Take a ride to Newnan with us for some Christmas shopping.

Christmas Tree Ornaments -- Dec. 12,

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Cornhole -- Dec. 16, A simple bag toss game anyone can do.

Jarred Memories -- Dec. 16, Join Jackie for a trip down memory lane. She uses different props to invoke memories from your past.

Holiday Luncheon -- Dec. 19.And much more!For information on how to become

a member of the Wolfe Adult Recreation Center and Therapy Pool or for more infor-mation on any of the activities, please con-tact us at (678) 631 – 5541 or stop by and take a look around.

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Holiday Meet and Eat -- Thursday, Dec. 18, 12 – 2 p.m. $10 /$12 Non-resi-dent. Join your friends to start off the holi-day season. Bill Gleeson with Sounds of Sinatra and Company will put on a festive show, and the Floyd Middle School Choir will entertain with holiday music. Catered by Superior Catering.

First Friday Movie -- Friday, Jan. 2: Still Mine, 1 – 3 p.m. $2 /$3 Non-resi-dent; ticket required. PG-13 starring James Cromwell, Genevieve Bujold, Campbell Scott.

Treat Yourself Tuesday -- Tuesday, Jan. 13: Red Lobster, East-West Connector at Austell Road, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Separate checks; Registration required. Meet at restaurant.

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VININGS ROTARY CELEBRATES 25 YEARSThe Vinings Rotary Club celebrated its 25th Anniversary recently with a dinner party at The Georgian Club. Led by President Joanne Robblee, the invited guests included many of the past presidents from the beginning of the club in 1989, and also Dis-trict 6900 Governor Alicia Michael and former District 6900 Governor Ted Propes. President Robblee highlighted the achievements of the club over the past 25 years, from the funds raised for the Vinings Rotary Charity Fund, the fund raising for the Calvary Children’s Home and the Good Samaritan Health Center, the 5K race held every August that draws a sold out 1500 strong group of runners, the Kalifi Project in Africa that is now an International Rotary event, computer and hospital programs in Central America, and many more activities. Above, 18 of the presidents from the past quarter century gather for a photo.

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Join the 150 voice Mount Paran Choir and Orchestra as it celebrates the season with the “Sounds of Christmas,” a musical and visual spectacular, featuring the classic songs of the season as well as new arrange-ments sure to be enjoyed by all ages. Dec. 13 and 14 at 6 p.m. Admission is free.

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