Food City to open Wednesday
DBell@CalhounTimes.com
The parking lot of the Food City on the corner Dews Pond Road and Lovers Lane has been full of vehicles this week as shelves are stocked, employees are trained and the final touches are made as the store prepares to open Wednesday, Dec. 4.
The new grocery store will include more than 49,700 square feet of space at the retailer’s first location in Calhoun.
“While we operate a number of other locations in the area, we are certainly excited to join the Calhoun retail community and have the opportunity to serve it’s area residents,” said
Steven C. Smith, Food City president and chief executive officer.
The Calhoun location includes an in-store bakery/deli, complete with a hot food bar, large café seating area and pizzeria. Full service meat and seafood departments offer premarinated and seasoned oven ready products, plus a complete selection of top quality meats that are allnatural with no solutions added, including Certified Angus Beef and fresh sushi. In-house meat cutters hand cut steaks and fresh meat to order. Expanded grocery, frozen food and produce departments offer a wide selection of gourmet, international and specialty items. The Food City floral boutique is staffed with a designer seven days per week, offering a full assortment of fresh-cut floral arrangements, bouquets, gift items and more. Rapid checkout service is provided by six traditional check-out lanes and four self-check-outs.
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This year’s concert will include several secular arrangements such as “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and fan-favorite “The Chipmunk Song.” Other Christmas carols and narration will “tell the true reason for Christmas,” Sellers said. Those songs include “Sweet, Little Jesus Boy,” “Away in a Manger” and “Mary Did You Know.”
“I have written all the arrangements for the group since the 1980s. I try to do something new every year,” Sellers said. “There are some things I’ve discovered we can’t take out of the program or I’ll hear about it later. ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘The Chipmunk Song’ are some of those. I took them out once and had people stopping me in the grocery store all year asking me why we didn’t perform them.”
Tickets are available at the GEM Theatre box office and Belmont Baptist Church, located at 275 W. Belmont Drive in Calhoun.
For more information about the Blewer Food Center, which is a ministry of the Gordon Memorial Baptist Association and services hundreds of families during the year, call 706-629-5407 or visit gordonmemorialbaptistassoc.org/blewer. The food center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.