Events for August 2015

ATHENS, Ga. ? Come out and join us in downtown Athens at the Sunday Center Market, in The Classic Center's new 440 Foundry Pavilion. The Sunday Center Market will run each Sunday from May through October, with the exception of home UGA football game weekends, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. The family friendly Market is free to attendees and will feature artists, farmers, crafters, food trucks, live music, kids? activities and more. For more information and a complete list of dates the Market will be open, please visit www.SundayCenterMarket.com

Tracker Fire is celebrating their 1st Anniversary in business!  We are hosting an Open House for a Meet and Greet!

Join us for a day of fun and friendly competition as people tug Extra Special People's Jackson County Camp into shape. This camp is for individuals with developmental disabilities and ESP is excited to be joining the Jackson County community! Bring the family because we will have a day of tug-of-war competitions, food, activities and entertainment for everyone!

The band is led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, who credits Stevie Ray Vaughan as the primary influence of his musical style. The latest Robert Randolph and the Family Band album, ?Lickety Split,? was released in 2013. Most recently, the band?s ?Take the Party? was selected as the theme song for SEC Nation, the college football pre-show program featuring Tim Tebow and Marcus Spears that airs on the SEC Network. Visit ClassicCenter.com to buy tickets, call 706-357-4444 or stop by The Classic Center Theatre box office at 300 N. Thomas Street in downtown Athens.

This will be an open-air market with local farmers, growers, and entrepreneurs in a festival atmosphere on a 200 year-old working farm.  The April event will have demonstrations on planting cotton and pumpkins using mules to till the ground.  There will be seminars on home steading practices in May.  Visitors will be able to purchase fresh produce, jams, jellies, salsa, relish, granola, biscuits, muffins, honey, bbq sandwiches, bbq sauce, homespun  items, soaps, lotions, and wood turned items. Tour historic buildings & watch grits & cornmeal being ground. Blacksmiths creating iron work, handmade split oak baskets being made, & quilting in the Teacher's house. Enjoy all this while listening to local musicians.  
Free to the public! 
 
Event sponsor Jackson County Farm Bureau.
 For information or to become a vendor please contact:
Denise Temple 706-367-8877, dftemple@gfb.org or www.shieldsethridgefarminc.com.