Whitefield Academy recently named Michael Fernandes as its academic dean. For the past 11 years, he has served in school leadership positions including middle school principal, upper school principal and assistant headmaster in the Orlando area.
Most recently, he led the division principals and academic team as the assistant headmaster of a for-profit, PreK–12 independent school of 1,080 students. “I am confident that Michael will lead our academic program to higher levels of success, even as we experience growth in enrollment,” says Dr. Kevin Bracher, headmaster of Whitefield Academy.
A new brochure spotlighting black heritage tourism sites has been unveiled. The tour, entitled “Marietta’s Black Heritage Walking Tour: Walk Together Children,” is a joint cooperative project of a group of black community leaders, the Marietta Visitors Bureau and the City of Marietta.
The tour spotlights 13 sites of historic significance to the black community, which are located within a mile radius of the Marietta Square. Some of the sites that on the tour include Old Zion Baptist Church, Cole Street Baptist Church, the original site of Turner Chapel Church, the Blue Eagle Fire Company and Lemon Street Elementary School.
For more information, please contact the Marietta Visitors Bureau at 770-429-1115.
ARTS of Cobb’s facility has recently expanded. The newly renovated 5,500-square-foot center has been redesigned to better serve as a mixed use art facility, providing a home for toddler to senior art, music and dance programs, a live theater space and a new home for artists to showcase and sell their work in the spacious lobby gallery.
“This has long been my dream,” says Lauren McBride, owner and director. “From the moment a toddler discovers how to make music to one of our talented casts completing an amazing performance, ARTS of Cobb is dedicated to helping people discover their passions, grow in their life skills and find joy through art.”
For more information about ARTS of Cobb, visit artsofcobb.com.
After the Marietta Zombie Walk stick around for a double-feature “drive-in” featuring the classic Gamera “Attack Of The Monsters” and the original “Night Of The Living Dead”.
ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS (1969)
also known as “Gamera vs. Guiron”
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Three children, two boys and a girl, stumble upon a flying saucer. The boys both step in without hesitating, and are whisked away to a planet in Earth’s orbit but on the exact opposite side of the Sun. Inhabiting this planet are two women with Midwestern accents, who hypnotize the children to find they fantasize about milk, donuts, and Gamera, our favorite hero turtle. The women simply want to eat their brains. Back home, no one will believe the little girl’s story of alien abduction, not even Officer Concha (pronounced “Cornjob”). Finally, Gamera rescues the children while fighting Guiron, a monster with a giant knife for a nose. Gamera kills Guiron while doing gymnastics on a parallel bar and takes the kids home, where the kids hope for peace, understanding, and the end of traffic accidents.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
Director: George A. Romero
Barbra and her brother Johnny travel by car from Pittsburgh to the countryside to visit the gravestone of their father in the cemetery. Out of the blue, they are attacked by a strange man and Johnny is murdered. Barbra runs and releases the brake of Johnny’s car since the keys are in his pocket, and flees to an isolated farmhouse, where she locks herself inside. Barbra is in shock and soon she finds a man, Ben, who is also escaping from the inhuman creatures and he reinforces the doors, windows and openings in the house. He also finds a shotgun and a radio and they learn that the radiation from a satellite that was returning from Venus has somehow reactivated the brain of the dead. Then they find five humans hidden in the basement: Harry Cooper, his wife Helen and their daughter Karen that is sick; and Tom and his girlfriend Judy. Harry has an argument with Ben, since he believes that the basement is the safest place for them and Harry goes not agree. Along the night, the te!
nsion between the two men grows while the house is under siege by an increasing legion of living dead.
Date:
October 19, 2013 7:30pm-11pm
Admission:
0; bring food for the living
Address:
50 N Park Sq NE
Glover Park / Marietta Square
Marietta, GA
The Marietta Derby Darlins present Marietta Mayhem, a double-header event debuting two home teams: Air Raid Sirens and Bombshell Brawlers and a halftime exhibition featuring the Atlanta Derby Brats. One ticket, two bouts. Doors open at 3pm.
4pm, BOUT 1: Kannapolis Rollergirls vs. Marietta Derby Darlins Air Raid Sirens 6:30pm, BOUT 2: G*Force vs. Marietta Derby Darlins Bombshell Brawlers
Tickets: $15 at the door and online at: www.MariettaDerbyDarlins.com Kids ages 6-12 are $8, Kids 5 and under are FREE!
Date:
August 24, 2013 from 4pm to 9pm
Admission:
Cost: Tickets: $15 at the door and online at: www.MariettaDerbyDarlins.com Kids ages 6-12 are $8, Kids 5 and under are FREE!
Doors open at 3pm
Address:
Cobb County Civic Center
548 South Marietta Pkwy SE
Marietta, GA 30060
Join Congregation Ner Tamid for the High Holy Days this year. Starting Sunday evening October 2, 2016 with Rosh Hashanah and concluding with Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 12. Tickets. Child care is available at most services.
All High Holiday services this year will be led by Rabbi Joseph Prass, their newly installed spiritual leader and Jewish community engagement manager at the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Kol Nidre will again feature Rachel Halverson on cello.
Date:
Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 7 pm to Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 8 pm
Admission:
$72 for non-members, must be purchased in advance
Address:
Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Hwy 41, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060
Parking:
FREE
For more information, please call 678.264.8575 or visit http://www.mynertamid.org
This fast, flat, certified 5K race in Marietta is fun for the whole family (and dogs, too)! Chip timing, live DJ, trophies in 14 age groups, prize giveaways and great t-shirts define the Hot Lips as the must-run race of the fall. Families, dogs, runners and all walkers are welcome.
Entries will be capped at 500 participants for this celebratory event, so register now! Cost is $22 per person if registered prior to September 14th and $30 on race day (if available).
This race was founded by a Marietta girl born with cleft palate who wanted to give back to needy families with children who cannot afford treatment for this crippling birth defect. Since inception, the Hot Lips Hustle has changed over 200 children’s lives through The Smile Train.
For more information and to register for the event, please visit www.hotlipshustle5k.com or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/hotlipshustle5k. We are also available via email at hotlipshustle5k@live.com should you have any questions about our event or our cause.
Date:
Saturday, September 20, 2014. Registration opens at 7:15AM, Race begins at 8:00AM.
Admission:
$22 pre-registered runners/ $30 on race day. Dog entries welcome!
Address:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
2922 Sandy Plains Road
Marietta, GA 30066
Parking:
Parking is available at Holy Trinity (the event site itself), as well as at various public parking lots off of Sandy Plains. We ask that race participants please refrain from parking at the Post Office next door.
First United Methodist Church of Marietta is gearing up for their 44th semi-annual consignment sale. Parents, Grandparents and Moms-to-be find incredible savings on fall and winter fashions from 300 sellers! The sale offers infant through size 18, as well as maternity clothes. They also offer strollers, high chairs, baby furniture and misc. nursery accessories. Children’s toys, games, puzzles, books and movies can be found at a fraction of the retail price. Due to safety concerns, no strollers/wheeled carts are allowed on the sales floor.
Workers- you may sign up by email info@lil-lambs.org. Seller/Workers receive early shopping privileges.
Shoppers- Shop early on Thursday, September 5th, 6pm – 8pm ($5.00 early shopping fee, Thursday only), Friday, September 6th, 9am-7pm and Saturday, September 7th, 9am-1pm. Many items are 50% off on Saturday!
Childcare available while you shop, by reservation (770) 429-7850 ext. 7860 (charges apply).
Date:
Pre-sale Thursday, September 5th, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm (w/$5 entrance fee)
Friday, September 6th, 2013 from 9am to 7pm
Saturday, September 7th, 2013 from 9am to 1pm
Admission:
$5 admission for pre-sale on Thursday
Address:
Marietta FUMC Family Life Hall
56 Whitlock Avenue
Marietta, GA 30064
For more information please call (770) 429-7850 ext 7858 or visit www.lil-lambs.org.
Erica now volunteers 2 days a week at Smyrna Program Services. “MUST helped me when no one else would.”
Erica, her husband and daughter left their home in South Georgia for the big city of Atlanta. He was offered a great job working as a security officer. They knew moving the entire family would be an expensive undertaking, but they were willing to take the risk. It would be a fresh, new start for the family.
Two months after their transition, the unthinkable happened. The company went bankrupt. Suddenly, they were left with nothing and no support. The family moved into a hotel room. When the money ran out, they slept in their car while he continued to look for work. When they could no longer do that, they drove up to MUST’s Elizabeth Inn Emergency Shelter and knocked on the door. There, they were greeted by staff and volunteers ready to help them get back on their feet.
Two weeks after their arrival, Erica’s husband found a great job. They were able to move out and finally begin their new life. Today, she volunteers two days a week at Smyrna Program Services. “MUST helped me when no one else would,” she says with a smile. “My family will never forget that.”
And this wouldn’t have happened
Thanks to Carol, an amazing 5000 students a day receive a sack lunch during the MUST Summer Lunch program.
A sweet elementary school teacher with her hair pulled back from her endearing face arrived at MUST Ministries 18 years ago. Summer was fast approaching and Carol worried about what her students would eat.
“If MUST will provide sack lunches for my children, I will drive to their homes and deliver them,” she offered. MUST agreed. Those 25 students ate every weekday that summer and today, an amazing 5000 students a day receive a sack lunch during the MUST Summer Lunch program.
Think about our community if MUST didn’t exist. More than 33,000 people would not have been helped this year by receiving food, housing, employment services and clothing from the area’s most comprehensive outreach to those living in poverty.
While MUST supporters took summer vacations, so did their giving. But the need didn’t. Support is down and demand is up. Without your financial support, precious programs, including our Elizabeth Inn Emergency Shelter, will have to be cut.
Please help right here, right now. Your neighbors are desperate for the services MUST provides, but we can’t do it without you. We are praying you will respond so others can find stability again. We are grateful for your response to this urgent request. Thank you for making your online gift now.
1 John 3:17-19
New International Version (NIV)
17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
As always, thank you for partnering with us to serve our neighbors in need.
Sincerely,
Dr. Dwight “Ike” Reighard
President and CEO
MUST Ministries is a non-profit, faith-based organization helping 33,000 people in eight counties break the cycle of poverty and homelessness. MUST provides basic necessities such as food, housing, employment services and clothing free of charge without regard to income, race or religious beliefs.
Set in an imaginary village populated with a variety of fairy tale characters, “The Big Bad Wolf” delves into the dark secrets we try to hide from the world. Little Red Ridinghood finds herself stuck between accepting herself for who she is, and who she wants the world to think she is. Goldilocks finds herself resenting the attention the world pays to Little Red, and the Boy Who Cried Wolf has a sheep that is straying from the flock for a better life.
This original musical is performed by our Young Actors Cast, ages 10-15.
Date:
August 2nd, 2013 at 7:30pm
August 3rd, 2013 at 7:30pm
August 4th, 2013 at 3pm
August 9th, 2013 at 7:30pm
August 10th, 2013 at 7:30pm
August 11th, 2013 at 3pm
Admission:
$12.00 for adults
$9.00 for children
Address:
11 Whitlock Ave
Marietta, GA 30064
Parking:
Parking is available on the street, and in various public parking lots situated around the Marietta Square
1 John 3:17-19 
