Oconee County, GA Politics

Ralphie babe is "Cooking with the Commissioner" right here is little old Oconee County down at Heritage Park, trouble is you have to fork over $25.00 to the Ralph Hudgens re-election campaign, a/k/a "Friends of Ralph Hudgens" and you even get a t-shirt to wipe the BBQ sauce off your chinny chin chin. Annual Cooking with the Commissioner Date Saturday, October 26, 2013 Time 4:00pm to 7:00pm Location Heritage Park 2543 Macon Highway Watkinsville , GA 30677 About Commissioner and Suzanne Hudgens invite you to the Annual “Cooking with the Commissioner!” Your ticket includes a meal and a Cooking with the Commissioner T-shirt . Commissioner and Suzanne look forward to seeing y’all there for an afternoon of great food and fun. Registration ends October 25th. Sponsorship opportunities are available; please contact Candi Sprague at Cand...

Subject: up coming activities Don't forget the Central School House and the cabin will be open this weekend.  11-2 and that the Historical Society will be at the COGS Expo 10-4. Here is the agenda for the meeting Monday evening OCAF 7pm Oconee Historical Society Meeting Agenda Monday, March 19, 2012 OCAF on School Street , Watkinsville     1.      Welcome and Introductions 2.      Minutes of January Meeting 3.      Treasurer's Report 4.      Old Business a.      Watkinsville Cemetery Grant b.     Central School House (CSH) Renovations Report c.       Signs at CSH and Heritage Park (HP) d.     Web Page and Promotions e.      Chamber of Commerce Membership f.        Georgia Historical Society Membership ...

The Oconee County Historical Society hosted free tours of three structures including the breathtakingly well preserved school house with new tin roof and a fresh coat of paint at Heritage Park Saturday during the Oconee County Recreation and Park Department's extremely successful "Touch A Truck" event Saturday below Farmington.  Tractor rides were given with large donation buckets not seeing nearly enough action for this history minor's preference. At one time several years back I was on a volunteer residents Historic Sites and Tourism committee tasked to find the perfect footprint for this school's relocation, which made national news coverage at the time. There were all kinds of hassles over methane pipes from former landfills as to exactly where and how close to the road and I am glad we are not still in meetings trying to figure out the best place to leave it. The Oconee County Historical Society gave tours of the three structures at Heritage Park in Sou...

The Oconee County Historical Society needs our support, donations and attention. Please consider taking your children to the Touch a Truck event this Saturday at Heritage Park and tour the three historic buildings on the grounds as well. Subject: minutes of last nights meeting MINUTES 2010 March 15 ATTENDANCE:  Sheila Jackson, Linda Bernard, Melissa Piche, Dory Brown, Lisa Douglas, Ben Jackson, Richard Pendergrass, Peggy Sommer OLD BUSINESS: Grant application:  Richard reported that he did not sent in a grant application to the Watson-Brown Foundation this year because he could not find some old pot belly stoves that matches what was already available in Central Schoolhouse.  It was decided that we would all keep an eye out for some and maybe try again next year. Meeting location:  We agreed that we would continue to use the OCAF facilities for meetings in the future. History   Village   Planning:  The next meeting of the Rec. Dept committee o...

Please attend or lend a hand or donation to this Oconee County Historical Committee endeavor with the open house at the Central Schoolhouse, tenant house and Rose Hill home in Heritage Park in southern Oconee County. Subject: Saturday Hi,             We have agreed to hold an open house of the 3 buildings that are currently part of   Heritage   Park .  We agreed to gather at 9:30 so we could get organized before the event started at 10:00.  If you can come join us for any part of the day it would be very much appreciated.  The event ends at 1.             According to my notes from last night here is a list of things people have agreed to do:             Richard will print out more copies of the flyer about Central Schoolhouse and fix a bucket and sign for collecting donations for the hayride. ...

Let's make sure Heritage Park gets done correctly and we do not have another Elder Mill Park shrinkage or shrivel. Subject: report on Heritage Park discussions On February 9,  Richard and I met with the Citizen Advisory Committee on Recreation Affairs Subcommittee on the   History   Village   at   Heritage   Park . Also present were representatives from the Cultural & tourism committee, Economic Development and this Historical Society. There were 5 items of discussion that we were asked to get input on from our various groups.  Those items were the (1) types of historical structures to be included (2) Where to put them in the area of the park designated for the   History   Village   (3) The current Park Master plan (specifically 'Do we need a pond?' (4) What time period should the village cover if any (5) Funding options We would like your input on these items before our next meeting the end of March.  You can e-mail comment...

I am a little conflicted about the circus coming to town (or county). I believe they are certainly entitled to make their living, but I just wish they would take better care of their animal acts. There have been a bazillion free tickets floating around so I can only imagine how many other things they are going to hawk on the grounds of the Heritage Park near Farmington this week. This article is in today's Red and Black newspaper on campus at UGA. Travelling circus hosts rare acts and unusual professions - Variety

The Central School house was moved a couple miles down the road to Heritage Park a few years back too Heritage Park and it created a positive buzz of national media notoriety for Oconee County. Now the lack of action by the Board of Commissioners in the planning and budgeting for this facility is appalling but just more evidence of the disdainful practice of supporting something on the surface but denying important funds and infrastructure behind the scenes. Can't really call this lip service per se, but more of a bait and switch approach to appearing supportive to some thing that would be almost impossible to oppose, then behind the scenes making sure nothing gets appropriated or done on the project. The proposed park around Elder Mill Covered Bridge is another example of saying one thing and doing another.