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Volunteers for the Real Life Center’s apple team show off apples they’ve picked from the Harvest for Real Life Orchard located on Dogwood Church property in Tyrone. In the first first year of harvest, volunteers have picked over 3,350 lbs. of fresh produce to distribute for families in need. The fruit is distributed through the Real Life Center at 220 Parkade Cte in Peachtree City. For more information on how to get involved, visit the website, www.reallifecenter.org or call 770-631-9334. Photo/Special.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/first-year%E2%80%99s-apple-harvest

The Olivet Church will host a “Let Us Rise Up and Build”, Wednesday Night Worship service tonight, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m.

The guest speaker will be Dr. Freddie Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.

Olivet worship services are open to the public. Everyone is welcome to experience this night of prayer, praise and powerful preaching.

The Olivet Church was founded in 1991 and is located in the heart of North Fayetteville, 877 Ga. Hwy. 314 North between Ga. Hwys. 138 and 85. The senior pastor is Dr. William Holmes Robinson.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/olivet-church-host-%E2%80%98rise-and-build%E2%80%99-service-tonight

St. Paul Lutheran Church and School will host its first annual Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 3 p.m. The event welcomes all furry, feathered, finned, and scaled members of the family.

Pastor Rob Maulella will preside over the prayers and blessings. The event is held in honor of the Feast of St. Francis, the patron saint of animals.

The service will take place at the downstairs entryway and soccer field area. Animals must bring their human with them and must be safely secured in a cage, carrier or on a leash.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/st-paul-lutheran%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98blessing-animals%E2%80%99-set-sunday-ptc

Salute to veterans at FFBC Thursday
Fayetteville First Baptist Church will have a special program to honor veterans and those currently serving in the U.S. military on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. The featured speaker will be retired Brig. Gen.  Peter T. Madsen, PE. The event also will feature the Southern Aires Big Band and Inman Elementary School Chorus. For more information call Glenn Stringham, 770-461-8378, email  Glenn@fayettevilleFBC.org or visit www.fayettevillefbc.org. The church is at 205 East Stonewall Ave. (Ga. Hwy. 54 E.), Fayetteville.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/religion-briefs-110613

Just prior to Halloween, David Epps, pastor of Christ the King Church and Bishop of the Diocese of the Mid-South, shared a children’s sermon about “How you are like a jack o’ lantern.” Epps related that the pumpkin was chosen, washed clean, opened up, experienced the removal of the “yucky stuff inside,” was given new eyes to “see the world as God sees it,” given a nose to “smell the good things in life,” a smile put on its face, and a light placed inside of it.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/lesson-jack-o%E2%80%99-lantern

Dogwood Church in Tyrone will offer GriefShare – Surviving the Holidays, a seminar, Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 7-9 p.m. The group will meet in the Atrium area of the church office.

The video offers suggestions on how to handle hard-hitting emotions during the holiday season and how to scale back on activities and holiday preparations. There will be a small group discussion to discuss concepts and to share concerns. Each attendee receives a Survival Guide containing over 30 days of devotional readings that target specific concerns faced by grieving people.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/griefshare-holiday-seminar-set

… has little to do with website rollout problems, never mind the hysteria that spread among TV talking heads. Sure, it’s easy to throw rocks at the flawed rollout, but it just isn’t what matters about Obamacare.

I’ll tell you what I think but I warn you this may not be an easy read.

New systems have had bumpy starts since before Democrats discovered entitlements, and we all know the hiccups and crashes of a new system. We also know websites, databases and complex systems can be fixed, or at worst can be scrapped and replaced.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/terry-garlock/11-05-2013/obamacare-debacle

By Robert Ross and Trey Ragsdale

The diverse members of the Steering Committee for the Fayette County visioning process were busy last week preparing information requests from our partner, Market Street Services.

As Market Street begins the next steps in their analysis, they will begin to conduct extensive research on a range of geographical, community and economic factors. The group will present their findings at a Community Leadership meeting on Dec. 9, 2013.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/robert-ross/11-05-2013/fayette-county-visioning-process-underway

I am responding to The Citizen vol. 21, No. 1,008 from Wednesday, Oct 30.

I love Halloween. Autumn has always been my favorite season, and Halloween was always the grand finale for me as a kid.

Being at the age where I am too old to partake in the Halloween festivities that children enjoy, yet not having kids of my own to take trick-or-treating, my Halloweens these days are little more than a night-long marathon of scary movies. Nonetheless, I still look forward to Oct. 31 like I did when I was young.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/reader-spooked-paper%E2%80%99s-halloween-link-sex-offenders

A public letter of praise from me to the staff of the Peachtree City Public Library is long overdue.

Since our daughter was about 3, our family has taken her to the library. Now, at age 5, when she hears that we are going to the library, her excitement level rates about the same as if we said we were taking her out for yogurt at TCBY.

The staff has worked hard to create a kid-friendly environment, stock the shelves with nourishing, fun brain food, and consistently been just as friendly as can be to me and my little learner during our visits.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/ptc%E2%80%99s-outstanding-library-staff-deserve-some-praise-0