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School News . 44 Photo by Kim Bates Faith Calendar . 46 32 Aquatic Center Preview Church Listings . 60 A digital version of the Interior photos show progress as School Listing . 62 magazine - along with preparations continue for May 9 ribbon Community Numbers . 63 information on how to contact cutting. us, submit a story or photo, Clubs . 64 or advertise - is available at 42 Teachers of the Year Home Sales . .. 66 www .sixeslivingmagazine .com . Is your favorite educator among this Elected Officials . .70 year’s winners? Advertisers Directory . .. 72 Contributing Writers Don Akridge . 16 Dr. Mike Litrel . 22 Michael Caldwell . 14 Debbie McAdory . 24. Sonia Carruthers . 21 Joe McKechnie . 48 Cindy Crews . 41 Brian Poole . 15 Dale Coker . 40 Lisa Randall . 29 G Lora Grooms . 56 Lynne Saunders . 26 Candi Hannigan . 25, 59 Kirk Smith . 26 Patty Ponder is the Market Director Dr. Scott Harden . .36 for Sixes Living Contact her at Mayor Donnie Henriques . 55 Pete Thomas . 48 (770) 615-3322 or Kurt Johnson . 17 Jodi Tiberio . 52 [email protected]. Kara Kiefer . 23 Tim Timmons . 28 Mark Kissel . 41 Stacy Ward . 40. 2 SIXES LIVING | April 2013 BE FEATURED ON OUR PAGES Email your photos to [email protected] SIXES LIVING | April 2013 3 Sixes Living Community Board Publisher AroundAbout Local Media, Inc . The Sixes Living Community Board consists of well-respected community leaders, Market Director from different walks of life. Our board assists us in many ways: as contributors to the Patty Ponder magazine, judges for the annual Trailblazer award and advisors who offer valuable [email protected] (770) 615-3322 feedback . Executive Editor Dale Coker: Dale is a pharmacist who owns Cherokee Kara Kiefer Custom Script Pharmacy in Holly Springs and lives in [email protected] (770) 615-3309 Woodstock with wife Susan . The University of Georgia graduate is vice president of the International Academy of Title Editor Compounding Pharmacists . His community involvement has Candi Hannigan included Cherokee County Habitat for Humanity, youth league [email protected] (770) 615-3318 coaching and serving as a lay leader in his church. Dale’s latest achievement is co-inventing the patented Topi-CLICK, a topical metered dosing device that has been featured Art Director by Oprah, Suzanne Somers, Dr. Oz, and The Doctors Show . Michelle McCulloch Contact Dale at [email protected]. [email protected] (770) 615-3307 Digital Marketing Director Cindy Crews: Cindy is a longtime Cherokee County James Ball educator . She joined the Sixes community as the assistant [email protected] (770) 615-3310 principal of Sixes Elementary School in 2011 . Cindy and her husband, Andy, have lived in Woodstock for 20 years, Sixes Living, a publication of AroundAbout Local and they have two beautiful “young adult” daughters. Her Media, Inc ., is a monthly community magazine . motto: Children are the future of the human race; teach The magazine’s goal is to build a sense of them well . community and pride in the Sixes, Holly Springs and surrounding areas by providing residents with positive stories and timely information. It distributes a total of 16,000 free copies . Dr. Joe McKechnie: Joe is the senior pastor of Sixes Approximately 14,800 are mailed to homes and United Methodist Church . Joe grew up in Cobb County, businesses and an additional 1,200 are placed in where he graduated from McEachern High School. After racks around the community . Many readers catch earning a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the the latest edition online each month. University of Georgia, Joe spent six years as a television sportscaster . He has a master’s degree from Asbury Sixes Living welcomes your comments, stories and Theological Seminary and a doctorate of ministry from advertisements. The deadline is the 15th of each Southern Methodist University (SMU). Joe is married to month . Catherine, and they have two children, David, 5, and Grace Subscriptions are available for $24 per year. Send Ann, 2 . check or money order to the address below . The viewpoints of the advertisers, columnists and Cheryl Ruffer: Cheryl is the co-founder and co-director submissions are not necessarily those of the editor of Give a Kid a Chance-Cherokee, Inc. After graduating from or publisher and the publisher makes no claims the University of South Florida in Chemical Engineering, as to the validity of any charitable organizations Cheryl worked for 15 years in the chemical industry . Her mentioned. Sixes Living is not responsible for work since moving to Canton in 2003 has been with MUST errors or omissions. No part of this publication Ministries, The Salvation Army and starting Give a Kid a may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or Chance . She lives in BridgeMill with her husband, Bruce, by any means without written permission from the and children Jackson, 15, and Rachel, 14 . publisher . All rights reserved . © Copyright 2013 . Sonia Carruthers: Sonia is the executive director and CEO of Cherokee FOCUS and the Cherokee Youth Works program, Sixes Living based in Holly Springs. 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Volume 1, Issue 2 4 SIXES LIVING | April 2013 Saturday & Sunday MAY 18 19, 2013 10 AM 5 PM IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN CANTON, GA EXIT 19 OFF I575 Artist Market Entertainment Literary Celebration Wine & Beer Garden (Author discussions & workshops) Serenity Gardens Free Parking Children’s Experience Concessions SPONSORS SCHEDULES & INFORMATION Canton Tourism, Inc. 770 704 6244 Jones Family Foundation [email protected] Grant Design Collaborative “canton festival of the arts” on facebook Cherokee Tribune www.cherokeearts.org Bank of North Georgia City of Canton, Georgia Footprints Publishing, LLC Around About Local Media, Inc. SIXES LIVING | April 2013 5 cfoa_towne_laker_ad_2013.indd 1 2/21/13 4:15 PM COMMUNITY AROUND SIXES The People, The Places and by CAnDi HAnnigAn The Pleasures that make Sixes/Holly Springs As we reported in the March What’s new? issue, the Cherokee Recreation While the Hickory Log Creek Reservoir isn’t necessarily new and Parks Agency is building to the county, the news is that it is now open for public use . a $16 million aquatic center The 411-acre lake is stocked with bass, brim, crappie and catfish. off Sixes Road near the I-575 Boats with electric motors, canoes and kayaks will be allowed intersection. You may have seen on the water, but not sailboats or boats with gas or diesel the sign on Sixes Road marking motors . The parking area will be open 8 a .m . – 5 p .m . seven the construction site, or you days a week, and 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. between Memorial Day and might have caught a glimpse of Labor Day.