Planning for the McIntosh class of 1997 ten year reunion is underway. Alumni of the class of ‘97 and parents of '97 al

• Fincher graduates from Dalton State

Jaimee Lyn Fincher, of Peachtree City, was among the 538 students to graduate from Dalton State College on May 4. Fincher earned an Associate of Arts degree.

Dr. James Tabor will be returning to Peachtree City for the first ever Peachtree City Literary Festival, to be held July 27-29.

• Burdg graduates from UGA

Jinee Burdg graduated this spring from the University of Georgia. She will be going to the University of Maryland for an intership to become a registered dietician. Burdg is a graduate of Starr’s Mill High School and has been a resident of Peachtree City for nearly 15 years. She is the daughter of Tom and Kathy Burdg.

The year was 1947, the United Nations partitioned Palestine into two sections, Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Duke Philip Mountbatten, and the Everglades National Park was established in Florida.

In Fayetteville, Ga., native son Huie L. Bray began a construction and real estate business he's still active in, 60 years later.

The box office is now open for Southside Theatre Guild’s production of “Crazy for You.”

The beloved Broadway musical features the music of George Gershwin, amazing dance numbers and a farcical comedy about staging a Broadway-style show in the old west.

Twilight Theatre Company will wrap up their very successful production of “Les Miserables: the School Edition” this weekend with performances at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday night at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater.

The fourth annual Fayette Idol singing contest will be held Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m. at the Villages Amphitheater. Two groups of contestants, age five through 12 and 13 and older, compete in this popular real life show.

Plans are underway to hold a festival in Peachtree City that will feature food and entertainment highlighting the cultural diversity of resident in Peachtree City’s civic and business community.

The Fayette County Civitan Club in Fayetteville and the Line Creek Civitan Club in Peachtree City united their efforts recently to reach out to serve those with learning and early childhood and other developmental disabilities.

Recently, the Peachtree City - Falcon Field Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) visited several Fayette County middle schools to make multi-media presentations to students, faculty and staff about the CAP and its Cadet Programs. The squadron is very active and is the premier squadron in Georgia. Four out of the last five years, the squadron has received the Georgia Wing Squadron of Merit award for its outstanding programs and officers.

Victor Felts (left), the assistant dean for campus life and the director of sorority and fraternity life at Emory University, welcomes the new officers of the Atlanta Southern Crescent Alumnae Panhellenic Assocation after officially installing them as the group's 2007-2008 executive board. The new officers include, from left, president Chantel Adams (Chi Omega), treasurer Leigh Mitchell (Zeta Tau Alpha), vice president Laura Potash (Alpha Chi Omega) and secretary Cele Eifert (Gamma Phi Beta). Photo/Special.

Nichelle Moore of Peachtree City was recently selected to participate in Cities of America's 2007 national competition that will take place Dec. 12-17, 2007 in Orlando, Fla. Moore learned of her acceptance into this year's competition as Cities of America, Inc. announced it via mail November 13, 2006. She was also selected based on her participation and performance in the Teen Division 1 Atlanta Preliminary Competition in August, 2006.

On Wednesday, June 13, Sean Phillips from Fayette County High School participated in the live broadcast of the Teen Forum Show at Georgia Southern University during the annual Georgia Boys State, a leadership conference for males who are rising seniors in their high schools and are interested in politics and government.

Volunteers from Peachtree City Chapter Order of DeMolay helped the Peachstate Regional Group #160 of the Early Ford V8 Club of America raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at their “Kruise for Kids” recently.

Boy Scouts from Troop 75, sponsored by the Peachtree City United Methodist Church, headed to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico in June for a rigorous 11-day, 56-mile trek in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in the Rockies. Only Scouts who are at least 14 years old are eligible to attend Philmont. The Scouts have been training for several months under the direction of adult crew leaders Dave Pollard and Rich Shepherd. Pictured are (back row from left): co-crew leader Carl Eifert, Jim Jensen, Pollard, Tim Sullivan, Lukas Love, and Shepherd; (front row): Ben Brettin, Spencer Marion, Chaplain's aide Nate Shepherd, Nathan Vassey, and co-crew leader Thomas Marion. Photo/Special.

Planning for the Fayette County High School class of 1987 twenty year reunion is underway. The event is scheduled for Saturday, August 18 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Wyndham Peachtree Hotel & Conference Center, in Peachtree City.

When Michael Whiteside began working at Coweta-Fayette EMC in 1974, there were 12,000 meters in its service area; today there are around 70,000. Raised in Cochran, Georgia, about 40 miles southeast of Macon, he has witnessed, in a tenure highlighted by his becoming president and CEO in 1983, the sextupling of membership and the absorption of Coweta and Fayette counties into metropolitan Atlanta, a change that continues to revolutionize the landscape and diminish the erstwhile rural character. “The biggest difference in the past 20 years,” which has resulted from the transition from countryside to suburbia, is “all the underground [power lines] we've added…driven by all the subdivisions,” Whiteside noted. “Peachtree City is a good example.”

Around 100 people turned out on Sunday, June 24 at Christ’s Church at Whitewater to show their support for Brittany Enterkin’s fund-raising campaign to build a schoolhouse in a rural Cambodia. Six bands, four from Athens and two local groups, provided entertainment as the crowd lay on blankets and sat in lawn chairs in the dimming sunlight.

Providing unparalleled expertise and client service has enabled Scott Burrell, president of Pacific General Financial in Fayetteville, Ga., to qualify for several recent awards.

Corinn Silvestri of Fayetteville has been chosen as a winner in the Coweta-Fayette EMC Washington Youth Tour essay contest. She made her winning essay come to life by creating a conversation between Mother Nature and a man who didn’t understand green power. She carefully explained the importance of green power and how it can affect mankind in the future.

Spring Hill Elementary fourth grade student, Chelsea Pilgrim, earned a first place Blue Ribbon as part of the YMCA 2007 Festival of the Arts. Pictured with Pilgrim is her art teacher, Victoria Menna-Perez. Photo/Special.

Peeples Elementary is the home of the first organized K-Kids Club in the Peachtree City area. K-Kids is a student-led community-service organization, which operates under school regulations and draws its members from the elementary school student body.

Girl Scouts from Troop 277 represent Guatemala at Service Unit 617 Peachtree City's International Festival. Troop 277 collected vitamins for Jungle Kids Mission in Guatemala as part of their Bronze Award project. Photo/Special.

The big day is still over five months away, but in order for any event to be successful it must be properly planned and coordinated. As co-chairs of the 2007 Southern Crescent Alzheimer's Memory Walk on October 6, that is exactly what Iola Snow and Fred Brown of Peachtree City are doing.

Melissa Holzworth and Christopher Wiles, both of Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, have been awarded a Quad/Graphics Freshmen Scholarship to attend Georgia Southern University’s Graphic Communications Management program in Statesboro. Both students will enter into the program in the fall 2007 semester.

McIntosh High School PTSO President Cele Eifert presents the "Outstanding PTSO Volunteer" award to Mel Duhon. The annual award was based on how many hours Duhon is at the school every day operating the Outpost School store and getting all the supplies needed to make the store successful, as well as all the assistance he provides to the Spirit of McIntosh Band Boosters. Duhon attends every PTSO function. His sunny disposition and cooperative attitude is a positive influence on everyone he meets. Photo/Special.

The students and staff of St. Paul Lutheran School gathered together on April 27 to plant a dogwood tree, donated by Skinner Nursery, Peachtree City, in the school courtyard in memory of one of the school's teachers, Linda Kuhl. Kuhl taught at St. Paul Lutheran School from 1998 to 2004. Photo/Special.

Local students named to University of South Carolina honor lists
Local students have been named to the dean's list and/or the president's list at the University of South Carolina for the fall 2006 semester. To appear on the president's honors list, students must take 12 semester credit hours and earn a grade point average of 4.0. For the dean's honors list, students must take 12 semester credit hours and obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher (3.25 or higher for freshmen). Fayetteville students named to the list include: Marissa Marie Nolin (president's list, dean's list); Megan Joann Roseen (president's list, dean's list); Lindsay Renee Walker (president's list, dean's list); Stefanie Victoria Norman (dean's list); and Megan Elizabeth Tatum (dean's list). Peachtree City students named to the list include: Kimberly Megan Blair (president's list, dean's list); Katherine Nicole Sauer (president's list, dean's list); Katherine Emma Tunstall (president's list, dean's list); Maxwell Mulligan Elias (dean's list); and Tiffany Lashaun Hinson (dean's list).