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Food Network champion and local baker to host cookie class at Lake & Local

Food Network champion and local baker to host cookie class at Lake & Local

Food Network champion and local baker to host cookie class at Lake & Local

News Staff
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Reva Alexander-Hawk is a local baker with quite the resume’! Owner of Merci Beaucoup Cakes, Reva is a Food Network champion several times over, with three seasons on “Amazing Wedding Cakes” and more recently, “Cake Wars” on Food Network.
From left, fifth graders Noah Hulett Sinohul, Alexander Rochau and Ian Ortiz work on unlocking the coded lock.

From left, fifth graders Noah Hulett Sinohul, Alexander Rochau and Ian Ortiz work on unlocking the coded lock.

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Mindblowing Mysteries camp teaches critical-thinking skills

Photos And Story By Lena Hensley
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Among the multiple activities, the Summer Inspiration Program has in stock is a camp that specifically targets intellectual challenges. The Mindblowing Mysteries camp at Putnam County Middle School teaches students problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
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Calendar of Community Events (7/22)

News Staff
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Submit your events to editor@msgrnews.com See more events and a regional events calendar online at msgrnews.com. LOOK FOR THE CALENDAR MENU ITEM. PUTNAM SATURDAY, JULY 23 What: Drawing Skills I When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: The Artisans Village Art Gallery, 110 W. Marion St.
Staff members and volunteers hand out SnoBiz Shave Ice to campers during a break at Lake Oconee Academy’s Camp Invention. CONTRIBUTED

Staff members and volunteers hand out SnoBiz Shave Ice to campers during a break at Lake Oconee Academy’s Camp Invention. CONTRIBUTED

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Innovation That Excites: LOA hosts youth science camp

Brendan Koerner
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Camp Invention, an organization associated with the National Inventors Hall of Fame, recently held its annual youth science camp in June at Lake Oconee Academy. The organization hosts camps all around the country and is open to all kids from kindergarten through sixth grade.
Victoria Wilcox

Victoria Wilcox

Q&A with Doc Holliday author Victoria Wilcox

News Staff
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Victoria Wilcox is a leading authority on Doc Holliday, the deputy with Wyatt Earp at the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. She will be the Georgia Writers Museum’s “Meet the Author” presenter at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, (doors open at 6:30 p.m.
At LOA honors night are, from left, Tayla Merritt and Charles Campbell. CONTRIBUTED

At LOA honors night are, from left, Tayla Merritt and Charles Campbell. CONTRIBUTED

LOYA announces largest class of scholarship recipients for 2022

News Staff
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Lake Oconee Youth Alliance (LOYA) has announced its largest class of scholarship recipients to date. In 2022, eight local high school graduates were awarded scholarships to continue their educational plans.
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Calendar of Community Events

News Staff
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Submit your events to editor@msgrnews.com See more events and a regional events calendar online at msgrnews.com. LOOK FOR THE CALENDAR MENU ITEM. PUTNAM SATURDAY, JULY 16 What: Memory Walk and Sidewalk Sale When: 5-7 p.m. Where: City Center Stage, 118 N. Jefferson Ave.
Mark Ruehle (center), along with his friends and family, get ready to participate in the third-annual Lake Oconee Boat Parade.

Mark Ruehle (center), along with his friends and family, get ready to participate in the third-annual Lake Oconee Boat Parade.

Freedom rings true at Lake Oconee boat parade

Lance McCurley
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
The smell of barbeque, sounds of laughter and a sense of freedom powered the third-annual Lake Oconee boat parade during Independence Day.
Playing tug-of-war are the Ghost Riders (left) and the War Eagles (right).

Playing tug-of-war are the Ghost Riders (left) and the War Eagles (right).

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Survivor camp teaches kids to overcome challenges

Photo And Story By Lena Hensley
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Among multiple activities offered by the Summer Inspiration Program of the Putnam County Charter School System is a camp that teaches kids the importance of not giving up and pressing on, even if at first you fail.
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