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VOLUME XIX, ISSUE 3 MAY-JUNE 2017

MAYOR'S MESSAGEWinterville’s day to shine is almost here! The Marigold Festival is only a few weeks away, and the city looks beautiful. The marigolds are planted, plans are being finalized, and festival marketing is well under way. The most exciting news to report is that The Miss Marigold Pageant is back home in the auditorium! While the building is by no means finished, it has been restored to a usable state, so we are able to employ it as community space while we continue to work on it. None of this would be possible without your volunteer efforts. I will be forever grateful to this community for all that you have done to help out. We have so much to be thankful for as citizens of this special city. I hope to see you all at the many events during the Marigold Festival!

$25,000 Matching Grant for AuditoriumI am very excited to announce a fundraising kickoff that will take place at the Marigold Festival on May 20. A private citizen has very generously offered to match dollar for dollar all donations to the Auditorium renovation up to $25,000 through the end of 2017. So, if you purchase a nameplate for one of the seats at $500, the city gets $1,000 to put into the renovation. Tax-deductible donations can be made to the Winterville Heritage Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization. Contact Wendy Bond at City Hall for more information.

Cauthen Joins Public WorksWinterville is pleased to have Roger Cauthen as the newest member of the City of Winterville Public Works team. Roger recently retired as Director of Athens Clarke County’s Landscape Division and has joined Public Works Director Tom Doonan on a part time basis to further the efforts of streetscaping and overall landscaping in Winterville. Roger will be instrumental in planning the future health of the city’s trees and landscaping as well as planning and implementing some of the projects that will be brought forward from the recent Design Charrette with UGA. Welcome, Roger!

Sincerely, Dodd Ferrelle, Mayor

IT'S FESTIVAL TIME!Marigold Planting

Saturday April 15 was a beautiful day for planting marigolds, so that’s what we did! A band of over 40 volunteers came out to the Front Porch Bookstore to plant approximately 4,000 marigolds across our beautiful city. Cofer’s Home and Garden gave us a great deal on the flowers, and volunteers provided the labor to plant them. What a wonderful community we have! I hope everyone enjoys the cheerful marigolds for months to come.

Silent AuctionThis year, we will hold a silent auction the day of the festival. We have beautiful art, including pottery, prints, and metal work donated by our vendors. The work at left by Maggie Baxter is just one of the items to be auctioned. The Marigold Festival board has been cleaning out their closets, so there are some great finds, from vintage decorative plates to watercolor prints of European scenes. Come by and check out all of the great items. The silent auction will run from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Depot. Proceeds from the silent auction go to help fund this year’s chosen city improvement project. Thank you for your support!

Looking for a Heart of Mari-GOLDWould you like to be involved in this year’s festival? We have plenty of opportunities to help out! We need vendor ambassadors, runners to deliver sponsor packages, parking attendants, and more. If you’d like to be a part of the best hometown festival in the world, please contact us at marigoldfestival@gmail.com or leave a message on the festival voicemail at 706-742-FEST. Thank you!

New This Year: EcoVillage The EcoVillage will showcase environmental organizations and their important ecological solutions for our local and regional communities. Children 14 and under can participate by visiting each booth in the EcoVillage. Those who visit and get their entry form stamped by all booths will be entered in a drawing for the kayak at right, donated by Academy Sports. The drawing will be at 3:00 p.m on the day of the festival. Come out and see the wonderful organizations working to ensure a clean and healthy environment in our community!

IT'S FESTIVAL TIME!The Big Day

The Marigold Festival is May 20. Beginning at 6:30 a.m., Winterville United Methodist Church will serve breakfast in the church banquet hall. A $7 breakfast plate includes eggs, sausage, grits, biscuits, pancakes, juice, and coffee. A sausage biscuit with coffee or juice can be had for $2, and a cup of coffee or juice for fifty cents. There will also be a bake sale. The festivities will start at 7:30 a.m. with the 42nd Annual Marigold 10K run. To register, go to marigoldfestival.com/10k-run. Next, the parade begins at 10:00 a.m. The Marigold Festival is always looking for parade participants! Walking groups, cool vehicles, businesses, civic and church organizations, schools, families or individuals, music or talent groups —everybody is welcome to march in our hometown parade! If you are interested in participating, please fill out the application at marigoldfestival.com/parade. Parade participants must be checked in by 9:30 a.m. Of course, the fun continues all day, with a kids’ area, vendors galore, amazing food options, and fantastic music, culminating with Atlanta’s Michelle Malone.

MusicWe have another fabulous lineup for this year’s festival. Two stages will present musical groups on a staggered schedule, guaranteeing that you won’t miss a note.

Main Stage Lineup Acoustic Stage Lineup 11:00–11:40 a.m. ........Sir Crazy Pants 11:40–12:00 p.m. .......O’Connell & Parke 12:00–12:40 p.m. .......789 12:40–1:00 p.m. .........T.J. Edmond 1:00–1:40 p.m. ...........Sister Moon 1:40–2:00 p.m. ...........Dodd Ferrelle 2:00–2:40 p.m. ...........Welfare Liners 2:40–3:00 p.m. ...........Déjà vu 3:00–3:40 p.m. ...........Klezmer Local 42 3:40–4:00 p.m. ...........Ash Miltiades 4:00–4:40 p.m. ...........New Mantra 4:40–5:00 p.m. ...........Caroline Aiken 5:00–5:40 p.m. ...........Clay Leverett 5:40–6:00 p.m. ...........Matt Joiner 6:00–6:40 p.m. ...........Five Eight 6:40–7:00 p.m. ...........Scott Low 7:00–9:00 p.m. ...........Michelle Malone

Marigold Festival Featured Artist and WCCC Gallery ExhibitThis year, the Marigold Festival Board put out a call for artists to develop a new logo for the 2017 Festival. From a number of submissions, the work of Katie Lawson was selected. Her design will be on the cover of the Festival guide and will grace this year’s commemorative tee shirts and other souvenirs. Katie is an aspiring young artist striving to master her craft. She says she is driven not by the need to be recognized but by passion. Commercial art is abundant in this age of consumption, but Katie wants her work to remind people that there is power in creativity for creativity’s sake. She is self-taught, with less than four years of painting experience, but she adopts a classical approach with a modern touch. As her paintings would suggest, she loves animals and finds peace in nature. At just twenty-two, Katie has a lot of painting ahead of her, and it will be exciting to see how her vision unfolds. You can find her on Facebook as Katie Lawson, where you can watch her paint live every Saturday at 6:00 p.m.The May-June gallery exhibit at the Winterville Center for Community and Culture will debut Katie’s design as well as the designs by all the artists who submitted their work for consideration. The show will have an opening reception Friday, May 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will hang through June 30. —Justin Alan Wilson

THE MARIGOLD FESTIVAL GRAND MARSHALSA Trip to the Beaches

This year Winterville is happy to have selected as Grand Marshal for our annual parade not one but two dynamic and wonderful neighbors, Jack and Martha Beach. If you have lived in Winterville for even a short time, you have no doubt come across this wonderful couple.In 1995 the Beaches decided to relocate both themselves and their business from Rye, New York, to the bright and sunny south. They hit the ground running right here in Winterville. “What you pay in taxes up there in one month covers a whole year down here,” Jack mused over coffee with me one morning. “Do you ever miss it? Life up north? Living off Long Island Sound in Rye?” I asked Martha. With her typical assuredness and alacrity Martha replied, “Oh, no—well, yes, the saltwater. I miss the salt water and of course the salt water fish—but no, nothing else!”The Beaches began their civic life in Winterville when they attended their first city council meeting in January of 1996, two months after their relocation. It was at that meeting that Jack was placed in charge of the Marigold Festival’s souvenir sales. “I was quite surprised,” Jack remembers. “I didn’t even know what a Marigold Festival was.” Jack has been a vibrant part of the Festival ever since. Such was the willingness of our friends to embrace their new community in all facets and ways that it might call upon them.And call upon them we did. In years since, Martha has served on the library board, and Jack was president of our local Civitan chapter, not to mention the plethora of community work days the two have volunteered for: hauling bricks at the auditorium, planting marigolds, cleaning bottles and shelves in the Doctor’s Museum, picking up trash along our roads, and cleaning the fountain on the square, to name only some. When I asked Martha if they were as involved in the community back in Rye she declared, “No, definitely not. It was too clubby up there—golf clubs, yacht clubs, beach clubs, tennis clubs—that’s all anyone did.” This year the Beaches are celebrating a milestone together. They met in 1956, on the beach in Rye. When Martha went home at the end of that day in 1956, her grandmother asked whether she had met anyone interesting. “Well, maybe,” Martha told her. “He insisted on showing me pictures of the deepest photograph ever taken…but I can’t remember his name.” The two were married 51 weeks later and now are celebrating 60 years together. “Sixty years!” Marth exclaimed. “Good Lord, you don’t even get that for murdering someone anymore!”Winterville has found some real gems in our neighbors the Beaches. No better couple could exemplify the spirit of community that Winterville has come to represent, and we are proud to have them as the Grand Marshals of this year’s parade. Thank you Jack and Martha; here’s to the next sixty years!

—David Cappi

AUDITORIUM HOSTS FIRST PLAYCircle Ensemble Theatre has come home. After six years of being a “gypsy” company, we are thrilled to be the resident professional theatre company at the lovely, historic Winterville Auditorium. We cannot overstate the contribution of this warm, tight-knit community in enabling this dream to come true. From the “brick brigade” to Jack Eisenman to Mayor Dodd Ferrelle, this was truly a community effort.The partially renovated state of the auditorium provided the perfect atmosphere for the production of Oh! What A Lovely War, Joan Littlewood’s vaudevillian musical about World War I. The enthusiastic audiences were an extraordinary beginning to a long and beautiful relationship. Upon further renovation of the auditorium, when climate control is available, Circle Ensemble will offer summer programs for children, acting classes, and all types of exciting theatrical adventures. Thank you Winterville; we will make you proud!

—Lisa Mende, Executive Director, Circle Ensemble

DESIGN CHARRETTE RESULTSDid you get a chance to see the results from the UGA College of Environment & Design’s Charrette that were displayed at the kick-off to the Front Porch Bookstore concert series on April 8? The design concepts were developed by the 23 landscape architecture, historic preservation, and environmental planning students who visited Winterville over the weekend of Feb 24–26, 2017. After an initial public input session with Wintervillians at the Depot that weekend, the UGA charrette team explored the town first-hand, seeing the historic town center, community garden, Center for Community and Culture and Auditorium, Pittard Park, and Five Points commercial center. Their design challenge was to enhance what makes the town a great place to live, envision a Five Points that looks more like the rest of Winterville, and harness the tourism potential of the Firefly Trail. With these goals in mind, the students generated ideas in response to what they heard and observed, such as housing options that allowed seniors to “age in place” either by modifying their current homes or finding a smaller home that suited their lifestyle. A desire for friendly interaction with neighbors on daily walks led to suggestions for an expanded sidewalk network, enhanced crosswalks on Main St., and wooded trails connecting neighborhoods to the town center, park, and Winterville Elementary School. The casual vibe of the popular bookstore concert series led the students to suggest using the “backyards” of the civic buildings—City Hall, the police station, and the bookstore—as a larger gathering space, enhanced by adding back porches to City Hall and the bookstore, stringing lights, and adding a community fire pit to the empty green lawn. Five Points was given a makeover by redesigning auto-centric stores to cater to bicycle tourism, rebuilding the Golden Pantry with a storefront in keeping with historic building types, and adding street trees and sidewalks for beauty, shade, and color. Next steps for Winterville will be crafting policies that help incentivize improvements and tailor changes over time. At a follow-up presentation on April 18, charrette professor Pratt Cassity outlined some of the ways other communities have used design review to achieve the private-sector changes that interest Winterville. The community has time-tested options for protecting its character and ensuring that new development fits in and meets the community’s goals for limited, quality growth. The College of Environment and Design is looking forward to continuing to work with Wintervillians through this process.

—Jennifer Martin Lewis, Outreach Coordinator, UGA Centerfor Community Design & Preservation

THE WINTERVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND CULTURE

COFFEE HOUSEMonday–Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

COURSE OFFERINGS FOR MAY 2017Weekly Classes

Tuesdays Pilates 6:00–7:00 p.m.Wednesdays Reflexology by appointment How to Stay Fit As You Age (Starts May 3) 10:00–11:00 a.m. Beginning Oil Painting (Starts May 10) 5:30–7:30 p.m. Belly Dancing 6:00–7:00 p.m.Thursdays Collage Art (Starts May 11) 10:00 a.m.–noon Mah-Jongg 1:00–2:00 p.m. Gentle Yoga 5:30–6:30 p.m.Fridays Little City Hookers Crochet Club. Needlers welcome! 1:00–3:00 p.m.

Other Classes & EventsMay 4 Senior Pot Luck Luncheon 12:30–1:30 p.m. Speaker: Seth Hawkins, Tree CareMay 2 Poets of Winterville 6:30–7:30 p.m.May 5 Art Exhibit Opening: Marigold Festival Logos 5:30–7:30 p.m.May 6 Digital Photography (Ken Storey) 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.May 8 Learn to Crochet 6:00–7:00 p.m.May 9 Photography Group (Invitation Only) 7:00–9:00 p.m.

Coming in JuneJune 1 Senior Pot Luck Luncheon and Lecture 12:30–1:30 p.m.TBA Collage Art, Cardboard Sculpture, AARP Safe Driving Course

ROOM RENTALS AVAILABLE!

Pre-registration & payment is required. Call 706-742-0823 or stop by our office. Check our website for course details at www.wintervillecenter.com. Have an idea for a program? Contact Jack Eisenman, Executive Director, at wintervillecenter@gmail.com.

CIVIC CALENDARMonday, May 1 Planning and Zoning, 5:30 p.m., City Hall Tuesday, May 2 City Council Workshop, 5:30 p.m., City HallMonday, May 8 Municipal Court, 5:30 p.m., City HallTuesday, May 9 City Council Meeting, 7:00 p.m., City HallSaturday, May 20 MARIGOLD FESTIVALTuesday, May 23 Tree Ordinance Workshop, 6:00–7:00 p.m., City Hall Town Hall Meeting, 7:00–8:00 p.m., City HallMonday, May 29 Memorial Day (City Hall Closed)Monday, June 5 Planning and Zoning, 5:30 p.m., City Hall Tuesday, June 6 City Council Workshop, 5:30 p.m., City HallMonday, June 12 Municipal Court, 5:30 p.m., City HallTuesday, June 13 City Council Meeting, 7:00 p.m., City Hall

Looking Ahead: On August 15, Winterville will celebrate Charter Day 2017, the 113th anniversary of the Georgia Legislature’s approval of the charter of the City of Winterville.

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYEROn the first Thursday in May our city will once again join communities across our country in observing the 66th annual National Day of Prayer. This will be Winterville’s seventh consecutive such celebration of thanksgiving and petition.Winterville area churches and the city will cooperate in a Noon Ceremony at the Flagpole in front of City Hall on Thursday, May 4. All are invited to join in prayer addressing ten specific topics concerning our way of life, our communities, our state, and our nation. Prayers will be offered by church and community leaders, and music will be led by Mr. Brian Hawkins of Winterville First Baptist Church. Any attendee is welcome to participate and offer individual petitions at the conclusion of the formal presentations.

—Ray Fairman

ATHENS-CLARKE HERITAGE FOUNDATION'S 50th ANNIVERSARY Winterville hosted the Spring 2017 ACHF celebration of their 50th anniversary, and it was a most incredible day! Perfect Georgia early spring weather accommodated 38 participants who enjoyed a two-hour walking tour of the city’s historic district, followed by an inside look at the partially restored Historic Winterville High School and Auditorium, then wrapping up with the season-opening concert at the Front Porch Book Store.Tour-going neighbors and visitors were treated to a look inside the Carter Coile Country Doctor’s Museum, one of only a couple such museums in the country, and the historic school campus, both of which received renovation awards from the ACHF. The historic train depot was also open to tour guests, some of who learned for the first time that it was the Georgia Railroad—one of the earliest railroads in the country—that transformed this agricultural area into a bustling community. Indeed, it was the railroad that attracted the Winter family from Germany and gave our city its name.Thank you, ACHF, for 50 years of promoting the understanding of the importance of our historic buildings, our neighborhoods, and our heritage. We are proud to partner with you to preserve the history and heritage of Winterville and Athens-Clarke County. Thank you for spending a day with us!To become a member, sponsor, or volunteer with Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, visit achfonline.org.

—Mary Quinn

On April 20, Envision Athens—a community wide effort to develop a common vision for the future of Athens-Clarke County—held its second public meeting. For months, a 38-member team of Athenians from the business community, local government, UGA, social services, local hospitals, as well as independent artists and activists, have worked with Planning Next, a firm out of Ohio that specializes in community planning, to make sure we heard from a wide variety of community members about issues important to them. We began this effort in January with five town hall meetings, where we sat in small groups with citizens to listen to them voice their thoughts, hopes, fears, dreams, and concerns. More than 500 people participated, thinking out loud about transportation, housing, jobs, education, livability, arts, and business. These 500 people shared their ideas of how to move our community forward over the next 20 years.In February, the team met for two days with community stakeholders, that is, groups of local experts in the arts, education, transportation, housing, social services, health, land use, environment, neighborhoods, and economic development. Think about that. Over 100 community leaders took two days out of their busy lives to think about the future of our community. Last week we held a community summit where we condensed the ideas and issues gathered from these meetings into broad goal statements and asked the 250+ people who showed up whether these goals reflected their input: Do the goals paint a picture of where we want Athens-Clarke County to focus its efforts over the next 20 years? Everyone had the opportunity to vote on each goal statement. One of the questions asked was “Who will be responsible for making this project move forward in the future?” Of those attending, 30% responded that the government should have the primary responsibility; 18% of citizens listed business leaders as having the second highest responsbility. Our goal is not to have a plan that sits on a shelf. Rather, we want a document that outlines actions to transform our community. Envision Athens has put in place the foundation to make that happen. But it will take community involvement for the plan to become reality.Now, that might make you a bit nervous. You are probably like me—I’ve never been involved in community planning. So, when the mayor’s office asked me to serve as co-chair for Envision Athens I was reluctant. But then I thought about how living in Athens-Clarke County has affected my life. I am a Presbyterian Minister on staff as a Parish Associate at First Presbyterian Church in Athens. As an owner of Jittery Joe’s Coffee, I have stores and employees spread throughout the community. Moreover, my two daughters went to Barrow Elementary, Clarke Middle, and Clarke Central High School, and now they both attend UGA. I thought about my dad, who taught me that giving back, investing in where you live, is part of being a good citizen, being an adult. So I said yes, and I hope that citizens from all walks of life will jump in with both feet to help build a community that is the best in which we can live, work, play, and retire.

Review the Draft Goals and Answer the Critical QuestionsDid you miss the Community Summit? If so, don’t worry. You still have time to provide your input. Simply go to http://envisionathens.com/review-the-draft-goals-and-answer-the-critical-questions/.

—Bob Googe, Co-Chair, Envision Athens

T-SPLOST 2017The ballot this November will contain, in addition to two city council seats in Winterville, a referendum that provides transportation alternatives, including the proposed Firefly Trail connecting Winterville to Athens. For now, the project to construct the trail from Old Winterville Road to the Oglethorpe County Line has received $17 million in funding approval from the T-SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee. Final approval to put the project on the fall ballot remains with the ACC Mayor and Commission.Firefly, when completed, will be part of a network of regional trails connecting all of Eastern Georgia. For now, it is hoped we can connect Winterville to Athens by offering a non-motorized safe travel route for residents, commuters, students, and visitors to traverse the stretch without a car. Awareness of the “rails to trails” idea is growing, and the route of the historic Georgia Railroad from Athens to Union Point, with Winterville being the “six-mile wood and water stop,” is appealing not only as an alternative to automobile travel but also as an opportunity for everyone to walk, cycle, and skate from dawn to dusk. The virtually flat trail will accommodate people with disabilities and individuals of all ages who need an off-road, safe place to get outside and get around Winterville (and beyond). Currently more than 30,000 miles of rail-trails exist in the U.S., and many communities along these trails have experienced strong economic development as a result, from more walk-in business for convenience stores and restaurants to attracting entrepreneurs.Please get informed and get involved!

—Mary Quinn

Thanks to the City of Winterville for hosting a rest stop and—new this year!—a starting point for the Firefly Trail Ticket to Ride on March 25. Almost all of our 250 riders, including the 40 who started at Pittard Park, came through Winterville, and the city made a great impression! Special thanks to the wonderful volunteers who helped make a glorious spring day even brighter.We are looking forward to returning to the Marigold Festival, one of our favorite events of the year. Please stop by our tent, say hello, pick up information, and check out our cool Firefly Trail merchandise.Finally, our fundraising campaign is going strong as we near the end of the drive on May 22, but we need your help to put us over the top. We’re raising $60,000 to augment Model Miles in Maxeys and Union Point and to promote completion of the full trail in Athens-Clarke County through Winterville. You can donate at www.ioby.org/project/firefly<http://www.ioby.org/project/firefly.

—Mark Ralston

NEWS FROM NEIGHBORSNEGA RESA

Northeast Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency (NEGA RESA), your neighbor next to the Winterville Center for Community and Culture, is a service agency that provides professional learning opportunities to teachers and other educators in our region. We serve the school districts of Barrow, Clarke, Commerce City, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Jefferson City, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Social Circle City, and Walton. Our services include content expertise in mathematics, science, social studies, and reading/language arts, as well as services related to school leadership and special education. Other specific support services are available based on the needs of our schools and districts.

We have developed a great relationship with the city of Winterville and the WCCC. We share parking with the community center (and try not to monopolize the parking spaces) and share meeting space when needed. Our visitors come from all over this region and often break for lunch at our local restaurants.

We want to be a good neighbor and part of this community. If you would like to learn more about NEGA RESA, please visit our website at www.negaresa.org or stop by to chat. We are in the old Winterville Elementary School; you can’t miss us.

—Keith Everson

Winterville UMC EventsMay 4Community Worship & National Day of Prayer. Meet at the flagpole at City Hall, 12:00 p.m. May 6Rise Up Against Hunger Meal Packaging Event in the Fellowship Hall. At 9:00 a.m. we will need strong people to help unload bulk bags of food. At 10:00 a.m. we can use young and older persons alike to individually package 10,152 bags of food for hungry people around the world.May 20Marigold Festival breakfast in the banquet hall. UMC Women’s bake sale.May 27Thanks for Our Freedom Veteran’s Appreciation Day Service, 10:30 a.m. Hodges BBQ to follow.

WES BeehiveThe Winterville Elementary School hosted their spring carnival and silent auction on Friday, April 21, 2017. We had a great turnout. And thanks to all who attended, we were able to raise over $2,200 for our school. Thank you to all of the community members who donated items for the silent auction, and a big thank you to the Winterville Fire Department and Police Department for coming out to show their support.

Winterville Elementary School will be holding a walk-to-school day on Friday, May 12. Please plan accordingly and slow down for our students.

Winterville Preschool Gives Parents OptionsDid you know that Winteville is home to a Montessori preschool? For the past eleven years, Cindy Jones has operated New Moon Learning Environment at 228 Robert Hardeman Road. Cindy holds a master’s degree in Social Work from UGA, putting those skills to use for two years at Madison/Oglethorpe Mental Health until her children were born. After five years as an at-home parent, Cindy took a position at Athens Montessori School, where she taught three- to six-year-olds for ten years. Once her own children moved on to high school, Cindy decided to open a school herself.While Winterville Elementary offers public preschool for four-year olds, New Moon accepts children from ages two to five, accommodating up to eight children in a prepared environment that fosters self-led learning. “An emphasis on independence and self-help fosters healthy self-esteem in children,” Cindy explains. She adds that the small enrollment allows her to provide more one-on-one attention to each child, as well as creating a sense of security for the students. When this reporter visited, the class was learning about caring for the Earth and the environment by looking at maps, singing songs, and listening to a story about cultures around the world. When the class was asked what shape the Earth is, one student promptly responded, “A sphere!”Learning is enriched by several field trips each month. During summers, New Moon offers an Adventure Camp for six- to twelve-year-olds, providing a variety of activities by traveling daily to different locations and exploring various community resources.New Moon is now enrolling for the 2017–18 school year. For more information or to schedule a visit, contact Cindy Jones at 706-310-0013.

—Lee Ann Pingel with Cindy Jones

Front Porch Bookstore ConcertsSaturdays at 6:00 p.m. Bring lawn chairs, picnic food, the kids, your friends, the dogs...and also a few bucks for tipping the musicians—who graciously play for free—and a few dollars more for the great books you’ll find in the store.

May 6 Parke & O’Connell June 3 North Georgia Bluegrass Band May 13 Repent at Leisure June 10 TBAMay 20 MARIGOLD FESTIVAL June 17 Kate MorriseyMay 27 Norm Rae June 24 Blind Orphan Kitty

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Happy Birthday, Winterville Library!Friends of the Winterville Library (FOWL) will celebrate the Library’s 42nd birthday with cake and punch on Saturday, June 17, from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. It’s a great time to support the library by starting or renewing a Friends membership—just $10 a year for individuals, $20 for families.

CALL FOR ARTISTSCALL FOR POETS

The WCCC seeks artwork of all types for its next gallery exhibit. Subjects

should speak to the theme of "Ripening," broadly interpreted.

The show will hang July–September. For consideration, submit jpegs

of artwork or Word files of poetry no later than June 8 to

WintervilleArtsCouncil@gmail.com.