Please support & attend Feb. 16 MFMC Talent Show

The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee Tri-County Talent Show is always an entertaining showcase of our youth from Walton, Oconee and Clarke counties, demonstrating how horrible lynching deaths 50+ years ago at the Walton-Oconee border can result in an opportunity for education and enlightenment half a century later.

Woven brightly,

Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.

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PLEASE ATTEND FEB. 16 TRI-COUNTY TALENT SHOW/MLK CELEBRATION

 

Dear Moores Ford members and friends,

   At 7 p.m. on Saturday, February 16, the  Moore's Ford Memorial Committee is hosting our Sixth Annual Tri-County Talent Show/Martin Luther King Celebration.

   If you have never attended one of these, NOW is the time! They are terrific.

  

   Help us "Live the Dream, Celebrate the Dream, Achieve the Dream" at the Oconee County Civic Center.

 

   PLEASE SUPPORT MOORES FORD SCHOLARSHIPS

   These talent shows are our main fund raising events for Moores Ford Memorial Scholarships. If you cannot attend our show, please support these scholarships by mailing your check to Moores Ford Memorial Scholarships, Box 1813, Watkinsville, GA 30677. All donations are tax exempt.

   To help promote this event, please open the attached flier, print some copies and post them in prominent locations.

 

   WE AUDITION FEB. 4TH AND 6TH:   If you know any high school age performing artists, please encourage them to audition. Fine arts teachers and front offices have applications. Student artists for our art exhibit are also being sought.

 

   Our next MFMC meeting will be 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Sanctuary in Watkinsville. Despite the inclement weather, our annual meeting went well last Jan. 19. Will send meeting highlights shortly.

   All the best,

   Rich 

 

 

 

High School Talent Sought for MLK Celebration

Feb. 16 Tri-County Talent Show Set for Oconee

   As a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor the King Holiday, the Moore's Ford Memorial Committee is issuing a "Call for Performing Artists" to prepare acts and artwork for its Sixth Annual Tri-County Talent Show/Martin Luther King Celebration, set for 7 p.m., Sat., Feb. 16 at the Oconee County Civic Center.

   Currently enrolled public high school students, grades nine through twelve, from Athens-Clarke, Oconee and Walton Counties are eligible to compete for $1000 worth of prize money. Permitted acts include songs, music, dance and step teams, poetry and dramatic readings, both solo and group. An art exhibit will accompany the talent show.    

   "We realize our talent show is late for the King holiday," said  MFMC secretary Rich Rusk. "But these shows are infused with the spirit of Dr. King. We urge everyone to attend."

   The benefit performance will raise money for Moore's Ford Memorial Scholarships.  The multiracial citizens group, formed to commemorate two African American couples killed by racial violence at the Moore's Ford Bridge in 1946, awards seven $1,000 scholarships to area high school seniors each Spring as "living memorials" to George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom.  

   Performers and artists should focus on the Talent Show's theme - Live the Dream, Celebrate the Dream, Achieve the Dream –  on Dr. King and his legacy, or the more general themes of social justice and racial healing. Auditions will be held at 6-8 p.m., February 4 and 6 at the civic center, next to Oconee County High School on Hog Mountain Road.

   For information, call  706-769-0988; 706-202-7802or richrusk@bellsouth.net.  

By Rich Rusk, Secretary                                            

Moore's Ford Memorial Committee