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Festival
Of Trees Opens
Thursday On ATC Campus |
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| By
Jimmy Ezzell True Citizen Editor |
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The
first annual Burkeland Garden Club Festival of Trees kicks off Thursday, Nov.
21, with a gala from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Waynesboro-Burke Campus of
Admission is $10 and includes heavy hors d’oeuvres catered by Good Day Café and entertainment. Bidding for trees, wreaths and tablescapes begin that evening. The admission fee guarantees return entrance for the remainder of the festival through Sunday. Proceeds from the Festival of Trees will benefit the club’s proposed city of Waynesboro beautification project to landscape the park at the corner of Liberty and Ninth streets. The Spirit of the Season is the theme for the tree fest and the four-day event promises to enliven, enlighten and entertain all who attend, according to Jan Blackburn, publicity chairman. Area performers will entertain, while viewers bid on trees, wreaths and tabletop decorations. |
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The trees are sponsored by local businesses and individuals, decorated by local
designers, individuals and school organizations. The festival will be open from 9 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. on Friday. An evening with Santa will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. along with a two showings of a children’s puppet show. Admission is one-half price from 6:30-8:30. Additional Friday events include entertainment, crafts for children and children’s games. Vendors will have seasonal items for sale. Entertaining on Friday will be the Anointed Voices, Way-nesboro Primary School led by Ginger Jenkins, Blakeney Elementary School led by Nancy Carroll, Whitney Webster, Derrick and Emily Dixon, Ressa Cupp and Beatrice Moore, Puppets of Faith and Quicksteps. The festival continues on Saturday from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. with live entertainment and vendors. On Saturday, a teddy bear tea party will be sure to serve up a cuddly tradition for girls and boys of all ages, said Reesa Smith, coordinator of the event. “Real tea with sugar cubes and a ‘beary’ good menu will be served in the company of favorite teddy bears,” she said. Two tea parties are scheduled, 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Advance tickets are $5 each and are available at Simply Daisies or by calling Smith at 554-7394. Parents are invited to bring their cameras to capture the moment, Smith said. Entertaining on Saturday will be Quicksteps, Puppets of Faith, Altofer Family, Jade Tigers with Sensei Tyrone Tablada, Burke County High School Band, Community Choir, Chad Crews, Collin LeBlanc, Leah Smith, Sammy Seay, Jessica Mooney, Amy Veldboom, Laura Stone and Natalie Clark. (See Rest of Story in The True Citizen) |
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What's
In A School's Name?
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| By
Ben Roberts True Citizen Staff Writer |
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This
much is known: The students, facility, text books and furniture
Superintendent Doug Day told the board at their November meeting that he would like for them to think about the issue, talk to the community and come back with a definitive answer in December. Day said it was time to begin putting the school’s proper name on contracts and other forms of paperwork. Blakeney Elementary is named for Robert E. Blakeney, a black educator who helped shape the curriculum and education of Waynesboro and Burke County’s black population for over three decades. Blakeney came to Burke County in 1936 to serve as principal and the vocational agriculture teacher at the Waynesboro High and Industrial School. He would serve as the school’s principal until 1965. It was during Blakeney’s tenure, in 1955, that a new school complex was first constructed on the current site of Blakeney Elementary. That same year, Blakeney helped oversee the consolidation of nearly 70 rural black schools, on that site, under the roof of Waynesboro High and Industrial School. Ten years later, in 1965, the school had grown enough to designate different buildings as a high school, a junior high and an elementary school. At that time, Robert Blakeney became the principal of the high school. In 1966, the board of education renamed the school Blakeney High and Elementary in honor of Robert Blakeney’s tireless efforts in education. Blakeney retired as principal in 1967 because of failing health and passed away the following year. Wilbert Roberts, the current principal of Blakeney Elementary since 1977, was once a student under the watchful eye of Robert Blakeney. Roberts remembers Blakeney as a tall, imposing figure that walked the school’s halls, commanding respect. “He was a strong leader who wanted a good education for all the students in his school. His facility was representative of that,” Roberts said. (See Rest of Story in The True Citizen). |
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