COMMUNITY CALENDAR

July

The Children’s Ministry of Trinity Baptist Church is honored to be able to give students in our community a backpack filled with school supplies on Saturday, July 13. Guests are invited to come for food, fun and fellowship. Each child in attendance is eligible for one filled backpack until supplies run out. The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church, 1170 Rome Road S.W., Calhoun.

Oostanaula School Community Club,

1595 Oostanaula Rend Road S.W., Calhoun, will host a fundraiser Saturday, July 13, at 5 p.m. featuring High 411 Bluegrass Gospel. Home-cooked meals will be served for $7 per plate and include a drink and dessert. The event will also feature cakewalks and other fun activities. The music begins at 6 p.m. For more information, call Barbara at 770-608-2050.

An AARP Smart Driver Course will be held on July 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Gordon County Senior Center, 150 Cambridge Court in Calhoun. The cost is $15 for AARP members and $20 for nonmembers. Payment can be made by cash or check. Call or text certified instructor Sheila Powell at 706-263-5054 to register.

AdventHealth Gordon is hosting a free maternity fair on Sunday, July 21, for those who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or parents of an infant. The event will be held in Conference Room E (enter through the North Entrance) from 2 to 4 p.m. and will include vendor and exhibit booths, a panel of maternity experts, giveaways and door prizes, tours of the new Baby Place and light refreshments. Limited space is available, and registration is required. To register visit www.AdventHealthGordon.com.

The Christmas Elves Quarter Clothing Sale will be Monday, July 22, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Calhoun First Baptist Church’s Christian Life Center. Everything sold will cost a quarter each. All money made will go toward local food banks: Voluntary Action Center’s Food Pantry, Blewer Food Bank (Gordon Memorial Association), St. Vincent de Paul’s Food Pantry from St. Clements Catholic Church and God’s Pantry from the Calhoun Seventh Day Adventist Church.

The Fairmount City Library will host a $1-a-bag book sale July 22-24 between noon and 5 p.m. Bags will be provided. Call 706-3373110 for more information.

The Gordon County Extension Office will host a Small Ruminant Evening Workshop on July 30 from 5:15 to 8:30 p.m. at the Gordon County Agriculture Service Center. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children and teens. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Guest speakers will include Niki Whitley, FVSU Animal Science Extension specialist, and Hailey Robinson and Greg Bowman of UGA Extension. The deadline to register is July 26 at 5 p.m.

Ongoing

Did you know that nationally the American Red Cross assists 53 people every 60 seconds during personal or local disasters? The local Northwest Georgia chapter is right here in Gordon County. If you’d like to do some meaningful volunteering, please check redcross.org/ local/georgia for opportunities. For more information contact Arthene Bressler at 762-231-9896.

Child Find Requirement Notice for Gordon County Schools: All children ages 0-21 are entitled to a free education, and that includes children with physical, mental or emotional problems. Some of these children are not identified. Please help us locate and identify them. For more information, call the Gordon County Board of Education, special education office at 706-629-4474 or email Alecia Segursky, the director of Exceptional Student Services at asegursky@gcbe.org if you know of a child with a disability that has not yet been identified.

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an election integrity advocacy organization. It argues that the paperless touchscreen voting machines Georgia has used since 2002 are unsecure, vulnerable to hacking and unable to be audited.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs have argued that they need to inspect the databases at issue because they provide the information that is loaded onto voting machines and then record the cast vote records.

“As such, they provide a roadmap for any coding or configuration errors, security breaches, machine malfunctions, tabulation irregularities or other issues,” according to a court filing laying out the Coalition’s arguments.

They also argued that the information is a public record that should be released.

Lawyers for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger countered that disclosure of sensitive information in the databases could jeopardize the security of the election system.

Totenberg wrote in her order that the state had not explained how providing an electronic copy of the databases to the plaintiffs’ lawyers and experts under strict security conditions would create a risk of “third-party criminal hacking.”

The Harris Arts Center is having its Middle & High School Art Show through March 4. Come check out artwork by students at the center, 212 S. Wall St. For more information call 706-629-2599.

The Harris Arts Center, 212 S. Wall St., will host yoga classes on Mondays, at 6 p.m., and Wednesdays, at 10:30 a.m. The charge is $10 for each class, and $9 for HAC members.

For more information call 706-629-2599.

The Harris Arts Center, 212 S. Wall St., has Toddler Friday on the second Friday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Activities include hands-on art, music and storytelling. The cost is $7 per child. For more information call 706-629-2599.

Assured Hospice Care is currently seeking volunteers to visit with our hospice patients is the Calhoun/ Resaca community.♦ Training is provided. Interested persons can contact 770-387-9578 or visit the website at assuredhospice.com.

All children ages

0-21 are entitled to a free education, and that includes children with physical, mental or emotional problems.♦ Some of these children are not identified. Please help us locate and identify them. For more information call the Gordon County Board of Education, special education office at 706-6294474 or email Alecia Segursky, the director of exceptional student services, at asegursky@gcbe. org if you know of a child with a disability that has not yet been identified.

The Calhoun-Gordon County Library is providing U.S. citizenship classes for those who wish to prepare for the civics exam. They are completely free, won’t require any registration or documentation and childcare will be provided to those who attend. Classes are held Thursdays from 4:45-5:45 p.m. For more information call the library at 706-624-1456.

For information on holding or supporting a benefit at the Oostanaula Community Club in Calhoun, call Barbara Talley at 770-608-2050.♦ The club is located at 1595 Oostanaula Bend Road Southwest in Calhoun.

Gordon County Democrats meet the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the McConnell Community Center, 115 McConnell Road, Calhoun. All Democrats are welcome.

The Calhoun Area Writers meet every third Friday of the month at 343 S. Wall St. from 6-7:30 p.m. The club exists to support writers, from published authors to those who simply enjoy writing down their thoughts.