Oconee County, GA Politics

A half dozen hearty souls bared rain and the remnants of snow to pick up a gazillion cigarette butts and assorted debris along side the Oconee Connector essentially between the Golden Pantry and the Quick Trip. This clean up was rescheduled from Saturday because of the snow on the side of the road. Not all had melted by Monday. Melissa Steele, Pat Priest, Sara Jane Love, Dan Matthews, and Robert Wyatt Many thanks to the volunteers including Mary Mellein, Sara Jane Love, Pat Priest, Melissa Steele, Ann Stoneburner, Dr. Robert Wyatt and Dan Matthews for coming out on a soggy holiday. The group met at the Barber Creek Fire Station and divided up and picked up trash on both sides of the road, one group heading toward the busy Highway 316 and the other past the Quick Trip and the Golden Pantry. The smart and experienced people brought bags and clean up tools to pick up the trash near the side of the roads. The oncoming traffic kept the volunteers dodging vehicles to grab the wrappers...

This from Mary Mellein and the fine folks of the Oconee County Civitan Club: Subject: Oconee County Civitan Club Fund Raiser - BBQ Hi everyone, As you may or may not know, I am a member of the local Oconee County Civitan Club .  Our purpose is to assist people in need in the local community with a strong focus on those who are disabled in some way.  A current project, for example, is the building of an access ramp for an individual who lives in Watkinsville and will soon be wheel chair bound due to a progressive illness. We are a relatively new organization experimenting with different types of fund raising activities to help pay for these projects.  For the holidays we are conducting the "Inaugural Oconee Civitan Junk in your Trunk BBQ & Yard Sale".  This event is a two prong approach.  First, we are pre-selling BBQ Boston Butt, cooked by one of our own, an award winning BBQ master Wicked Q.  The price is $25.00 per butt.  We will c...

Go buy eggs, dairy and veggies at the Oconee Farmers Market this weekend and consider attending the Saturday Stroll with Mary Mellein, chair of the Keep Oconee County Beautiful committee at 9:00 am leaving from the Courthouse. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:32:47 -0700 From: oconeefm@yahoo.com Subject: Saturday's Market To: oconeefm@yahoo.com Hello, I hope to see you all at the market this week! We will have: many types of pound cake , banana bread , assorted pies, fresh bread, homemade dog biscuits, farm fresh eggs, milk from Johnston Dairy, peaches, scuppernongs, an assortment of jellies and jams, handmade soaps and lotions, squash, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, green beans , field peas, eggplant, onions, canteloupe, watermelon, fresh cut flowers, ornamental plants , herbs, grass fed beef, fresh lamb, woolens, gourds, woodcrafts, salsa from Salsa Ya'll and many more wonderful things, so come on out and support our local gro...