First Saturday Stroll brings 28 visitors to downtown Watkinsville, packs Farmers Market, raises $$$ for Diabetes Research
Full Moon music recording Studio owner Mark Cooper Smith led a group of 28 people on the first of a series of Saturday Strolls though the City of Watkinsville sponsored by the Oconee County Democratic Committee on a beautiful unseasonably cool morning. Organizer Pat Priest called it "almost too much of a success" and was thrilled to raise $135.00 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a charity of the choice of the owner of the recording studio at First and School Street. He has promoted several years of concerts and softball games for the benefit of a group near and dear to his heart because of his daughter being afflicted with the blood sugar problem. "We had a great turn-out for our first stroll (28) -- in fact, almost too many," wrote Priest in an email to the Oconee Democratic Committe "We raised $135 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Main Street is nosier than I realized when big trucks rumble by, so (her husband Dr.) Neal (Priest) and I ...