Hometown Christmas presented in Cedartown during December
The Bold and Beautiful Red Hatters of Cedartown will present a Hometown Christmas at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 in the Cedartown Civic Auditorium.
Featured will be bagpipes by Joe Dunaway, Rockeretts Sisters, singing by Colleetoe Sanders and Nancy Woods with music by Lonnie Starnes, dancing and a visit from Santa. Jim Glaze, retired Army colonel and pastor of New Harmony Baptist Church, will recognize veterans.
The cast will include local talent and the Sole Mate and Second Step dancers.
Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased from any Red Hat member for $12.00. Proceeds from the 2014 December show will go to the Foster Parents Association.
Members have become a team to combine talents that include props and costumes.
This group includes Vera Odom, charter members Co-Queen Shelia Angel, Vice Queen Barbara Wood, Pink Hat Princess Pam Roberson, Co-Vice Queen Edith Russell and Treasurer Gayle Towe; Mahalah Rudeseal and Alice Brown.
For ticket information, call Smith at 770-546-4717, Brown at 706-331-3108, Russell, 706- 676- 7042, Ruby Edwards, 256-4472814, Angel, 770-7779124, Wood, 770-328-7970, Rudeseal, 770-749-9535.
Queen Mother Patricia Smith started the Bold and Beautiful Red Hatters in June 2002. There were 15 charter members at the first meeting at Petro’s Pizza Restaurant in Cedartown. Today, there are 35 charter members.
Initially, the group met for a meal and fellowship. Later, they decided to find ways to give back to the community. They visited nursing homes to entertain residents. This was followed by shows at a building on Third Street.
In 2004, Smith met with Gary Redding to discuss a show at the city auditorium. Approval was given and the first one drew people from North Carolina, Huntsville, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Since that time, the group has held fundraisers for Cabin Fever in Cave Spring, the Blind Association in Summerville, and sponsor Walk a Mile in Her Shoes each October for battered women awareness (shelter) in Cedartown.