HOGANSVILLE Itt)M.; Nl,:ws - THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2003 PAGE 3-A
Festival Scenes
By David Boggs
ING THE UNEXPECTED - Ella Boggs made friends at the Hummingbird
with a healthy-sized boa constrictor visiting from Indiana.
By Clint Claybrook
COME Y'ALL - Bill Stankiewicz welcomes
to the Thursday night kick-off dinner.
By Clint Claybrook
ELMIS, TOO - Yep, Elvis was
present, too, at the Hummingbird
Festival, even if not, in the flesh,
By Clint Claybrook
There was 'something for everybody' among the arts and crafts exhibits
Hogansville over the weekend.
By Clint Claybrook
ART WORK
- Art work by
Troup County
high school
and middle
school stu-
dents was
highly
praised by
festival offi-
cials.
By David Boggs
BROWSING- One of the appeals of the festival is the opportunity to peruse
wide variety of arts and crafts offerings in an open-air market setting
Crowd Biggest Ever,
• T
Says Festl00 al Chief
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
Last weekend's Hummingbird Festival in
Hogansville drew a bigger crowd than ever
before, one of the event's organizers told the
City Council at a Monday night meeting.
And it raised some $11,000-plus for the
Hogansville Heritage Trust, Bill Stankwiecz.
That money, like the other raised by the pre-
vious will go into renovation projects, includ-
ing the remodeling of City Hall.
He said there were an estimated 6,000
visitors on Saturday and another 3,000 on
Sunday. If that count was accurate, the week-
end crowds topped the old "best turn-out" of
an estimated 7,000 over the weekend.
Stankwiecz said he went to the City
Council meeting "to thank the city for the
terrific support that we received" from the
local government.
tie said one surprise over the weekend
was the quality and quantity of offerings that
the first Art Fest attracted from middle and
high school students in Troup County.
"I'm glad that I didn't judge the art com-
petition," he said. "That was wonderful."
The kick-off dinner Thursday night at the
Victoria Belle, a special events center near
downtown also attracted its best crowd for
the Hummingbird Festival, Stankwiecz said.
There were some 136 tickets sold for the
dinner, with all of that money going to the
charitable trust, he noted. A silent auction
that ran throughout the dinner and a little
later raised some $2,800, event organizers
said.
And, Stankwiecz noted, "We had more
entertainment than ever before."
All told, there were some 140 booths lin-
ing the streets and sprawling over into some
yards and a downtown parking lot. The food
court offered everything from cold soft
drinks to fried pies and shish-kabob and was
one of the busiest places around.
Although some concessionaires said busi-
ness started slowly on Saturday, several of
them said that "Sunday is always a better
day, for sales."
Stankweicz said he heard some of the com-
ments about sales being slow, "But a lot of
(the concessionaires) were already coming
around on Sunday saying they wanted exact-
ly the same spots for next year."
The arts and crafts ranged from trinkets
to antiques: One Baptist Church was encour-
aging festival-goers to pick up their litera-
ture and find the way to eternal life; puppies
were up for adoption for a mere $35; the old
Hogansville Depot attracted lots of visitors,
and all the comments about Jim and Jerry
Harmon's efforts at renovating the old depot
and turning it into a railroad museum seemed
to have been positive.
"Boy, they've done a lot with this place,"
one visitor said. "It was falling down (before
the Harmons bought it from CSX and began
the restoration project.
Kids got to play with a snake and an
American Alligator at one exhibit, and found
rides, a Moon Walk and other attractions to
keep them well occupied.
And, the weather?
It was awesome: Autumn temperatures
and the weak sunshine of fall made for two
great days out.
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The Chattahoochee-Flint Regional
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meet Thursday, Oct. 30 beginning at 6:30 p.m.
at the Regional Development Center in
Franklin.
This will be a Legislative preview meet-
ing. Local legislators from this region have
been invited.
Meetings are open to the public.
Please call Kathy at 706-675-6721, ext, 201
to obtain additional information.
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