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Red Cross plans annual luncheon
The Dalton Whitfield American Red Cross proudly presents the 16th annual Holiday Potpourri Luncheon & Bridge Benefit. The event is scheduled for Nov. 6 at the Dalton Golf & Country Club.
There will be massages, beautiful area rugs, gift baskets, dinner’s from many of Dalton restaurants, fine home décor and much more. You will have a chance to buy tickets at our “Chance to Win” for some really wonderful gifts and certificates. This was a very popular event and we had wonderful success with this last year.
Tickets are $50 per person and advance registration is requested. Proceeds from the luncheon will benefit local disaster relief services. During the past year, over 120 individuals were assisted by the local chapter. The chapter provided food, clothing and emergency shelter in their time of need.
The doors will open at 10:00 a.m. to allow guests to shop at the many vendor tables that will be set up. Lunch will be served at 12:00 and a fashion show will take place during the lunch hour. Music will be provided by Paula Pasqua- Violinist and Vocals by Paul Joseph, Harpist Beth Blackburn. Clothing will be modeled by The Fine Store, Talbot’s, Belk’s, Unique Selections and Jim’s Slack Shack.
Committee members of this event are Dee Ashworth, Nancy Crutchfield, Betty Andersen, Jennifer Moorer, and Annette Daniel. Staff members include Lane Ashworth, Laura Cleary and Retta Gavin.
For more information on this event as a guest or vendor, please call the chapter office at 706-278-5144. Space is limited-but good times and shopping are abundant.
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Town Crier: Snow ball
As the Town Crier walks the streets calling out the news of the week once again, he finds himself announcing the snow. We’ve had bigger snows, as anyone that lived through the Blizzard of ’93 will recall. Humvees couldn’t get through the streets. A week after the snow fell it was announced on the national news that the last places Fed Ex still couldn’t get into were Chattanooga and Dalton. But it has been years since we’ve had so many different snow days over a winter. And winter isn’t over yet.
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Town Crier: Canned
This time of year, in the middle of the dead of winter, I would go with my grandmother out the screen door of the back porch and around the back of the house to a wooden door that opened to a space underneath. It wasn’t a basement, but just an area with a dirt floor and room enough to stand up in. The dirt on the floor was like dust since it never rained under there. Along one wall of this cool, dark, dry space was a series of broad shelves. From the shelves she would shop, just as if she were walking down the aisle of a grocery store. She would make two or three selections from the shelves and then we would go back through the cold afternoon, closing the wooden door behind us, and make our way back into the house. The back porch door opened into kitchen. She would stop there and I would go on into the living room to watch the black and white television or play with toys. Within half an hour the house would fill with the smell of good things cooking for supper that night. Good, fresh things. Things that smelled of half a year ago. For you see, the items on that shelf in the dark, under the floor, were jars. And in those jars were summer.
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