ELLAVILLE — The Ellaville Lions Club will sponsor its annual Halloween Carnival starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31 at the Thomas Edwin Wall American Legion.

A delicious barbecue and chicken supper will be served. There will be a Halloween costume contest starting at 6:30 p.m. Mothers, please have your children here on time for them to show off their costumes for judging.

The Rev. Peter Verbulen will be in the dunking booth. There will be a lot of games for children to play as well as bingo for the adults after the meals are served.

So get your families ready, and come on down for an enjoyable night of entertainment with the community. For more information call Jim Sellars (President) at 937-2061 or any other Lions Club member.



Wins quilt

Congratulations go out to Melba Peek Welch for winning the lovely quilt that the senior citizens raffled off at their annual yard sale in the Ellaville City Center. The Seniors raised close to $400 on this raffle.

This was a hand-made quilt of different fall colors in squares, and the seniors themselves quilted this lovely piece of art.

Congratulations Melba.



Downtown Trick or Treat

Ellaville-Schley County Chamber of Commerce and the local businesses will be having the annual Downtown Trick or Treat event from 4:30-6 p.m. Oct. 29.

The ages will be from 1-12 years of age will be allowed to participate in the event this year.

Mothers, if you wish to enter your children in a Halloween costume contest, please have your children in the City Park beside the Confederate Statue by 5:30 p.m. for judging. This is where the judging will take place. There will be first-, second- and third-place winners, so get your children all together and take them downtown for this event.

Let me say: when out trick or treating at night, be real careful.



Family Connection will meet

The Ellaville-Schley County Family Connection meets at noon Oct. 29 at the Wildcat Country Cafe in the conference room.

Guest speaker will be Brad Ray, executive director, Southwest Georgia CASA. His presentation will be on domestic violence.

Make plans to attend this special event.



Surprised son, pastor

The Rev. Robert and Joyce Postom were invited to attend their sons surprise Appreciation Day for the associate pastor Sunday on Oct. 11 at First Community Church in Douglas.

Their son, the Rev. Chris Postom, did not know about this special event honoring him on this day. Robert (his Daddy) said that the family did not enter the church until they had started the Sunday morning service, which was a big honor for Chris as well as Robert himself.

The Rev. Robert Postom, was asked to preach the morning worship service. The way that they surprised Chris was that Robert and Joyce left Ellaville on Saturday morning, and went down to their daughter’s (Missy Lee) home in Alma, where they spent Saturday and Saturday night before attending the special service for Chris' church n Sunday. The whole family attended this special event.

While in Alma on Saturday, their granddaughter was in a cheerleaders competition, so they all went over to Fitzgerald for the District cheerleading competition, and while there, guess who they ran into? The Schley County's High School cheerleaders, who had come for the same event. What a small world.

Congratulation to Rev. Chris Postom for being honored as his church’s associate pastor.





Birth announcement

Josh and Lori Gill Taylor are proud to announce the birth of a sweet little girl born at 10:24 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2009, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany. She has been given the name Kinley Alise Taylor. She weighed 6 lbs. 2 oz. and was 18 inches long ay birth.

Kinley's maternal grandparents are Tyrus and Ann Gill , and parental grandmother is Darlene Taylor and the late Mickey Taylor, all of Ellaville.

After having several medical issues, the family returned home to Deer Road, Ellaville on Oct.15. Unfortunately, due to doctor’s orders, Kinley cannot have visitors until sometime in November.

We all are so proud that the family and Kinley are home and doing much better. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you.



Enters quilt in State Fair

If you remember about two weeks ago, I put in the paper that Lettie Royal had entered her quilts in the State National Fair in Perry. Lettie did not place, but she got a lot of votes, and just missed getting the People’s Choice Award.

Lettie’s niece went over and got their things out of the fair and Ashli said that the lady that checked her out with Lettie's quilts said that they were very impressed with her quilts, and told her about how close she was to missing the big People’s Choice Award.

Don't worry Lettie; enter next year and you will do well, but we all here at home know how talented you are, so we are very happy that you entered your lovely quilts in this year’s fair. We're still very proud of you.