Halloween Sunday Funday

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East Cobb Park is hosting a special Halloween edition of the Sunday Funday event on Sunday, October 26, 2014 from 3pm to 6pm. The event includes live music by The LooSe ShoEs Band as well as food from Zaxby’s. Activities include a costume contest (scariest, funniest, most imaginative and best dog costume), Big Daddy DJ, games, inflatable jumpies, face-painting, and more. Guests of all ages are encouraged to come in costume.

Date:
Sunday, October 26, 2014 from 3pm to 6pm
Costume Contest at 4pm

Parking:
Free in the parking lot.
Overflow parking will be available at the new WellStar facility on Roswell Road with shuttle service to the park.
For your own safety, as well as the safety of others, please don’t park along Roswell Road.

For more information, please visit EastCobbPark.org

Walton Baseball Silent Auction

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Walton Baseball is hosting a silent auction at Marlow’s Tavern in East Cobb. The auction will include a collection of vacation homes (including Tuscan villas in Italy, a home in Hilton Head and lake/mountain homes), football and baseball tickets (including four dugout level Braves seats with a special batting practice experience, fifty-yard-line tickets to the Iron Bowl game between Alabama and Auburn, and multiple seats to various Falcons games), signed sports memorabilia (including an authentic signed Lebron James jersey, a Tom Brady signed football and several items signed by Braves players), and gift certificates (restaurants, spas etc). Last year’s event was very well attended, a lot of fun and a great way to socialize with other East Cobbers and friends so mark your calendars for Tuesday the 28th, 2014.

Date:
October 28, 2014, from 6pm – 10:30pm

Admission:
Free!

Address:
Marlow’s Tavern in East Cobb/Merchant’s Walk

Parking:
Free!

For more information, please call steveheinrichs @yahoo.com or visit www.waltonbaseball.org

Fall Festival & Trunk or Treat

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The Fall Festival & Trunk or Treat is fun for the whole family! Sewell Mill Baptist Church provides a safe environment for families to enjoy a festival of fall activities! Includes a night of Trunk or Treat, games, candy, food, music, an old-fashioned cakewalk, hayrides, roasting marshmallows and fellowship! Children trick-or-treat by going from car trunk to car trunk to get their bag filled with goodies. Bring your entire family dressed in their favorite costumes (nothing scary). Contact sasha.watson@sewellmill.org for more information. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/808764792502010/ to invite your friends!

Date:
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Admission:
There is no monetary charge to attend, but they are asking each person to donate 1 canned food/nonperishable item for Storehouse Ministries which is a local food bank that Sewell Mill supports. There will be a charge for food and the cakewalk.

Address:
Sewell Mill Baptist Church
2550 Sewell Mill Road
Marietta GA 30062

Parking:
Parking is free and attendants will be safely directing traffic.

For more information, please call 770-971-2636 or visit http://sewellmill.org/wordpress/2014fallfestival

Ner Tamid Holiday Gift Sale

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Congregation Ner Tamid Women’s Group presents an evening of shopping, food and door prizes, featuring popular vendors of fashion, jewelry, accessories, and home decor, including Stella and Dot, Thirty-One, Tastefully Simple, Rodan and Fields, Mah Jongg Maven, Oli and Ve, GGs Fashion Forward, Lia Sophia, Essential Oils, as well as a host of other favorites.

Non-alcoholic beverages and hors d’ouevres will be available for purchase. Complimentary childcare will be available. For more about this event, being a vendor, and Congregation Ner Tamid, which since 2006 has been holding services and religious school in various Cobb County locations and just moved into its own building, visit www.mynertamid.org or call 678-264-8575.

Date:
Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 6 pm to 9 pm

Admission:
FREE Admission

Address:
Congregation Ner Tamid
1349 Old Hwy 41, Suite 220
Marietta, GA 30060

Parking:
FREE

For more information, please call 678-264-8575 or visit http://www.mynertamid.org

Free Dental Day

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Marietta Family Dental Care is offering their annual Free Dental Day. This is a first come, first served event open to adults age 18+! They are offering one FREE service per person: a filling, extraction, or cleaning. In the past, people have started to line up as early as Friday morning, November 7th, 2014. Treatment numbers will be given out starting at 4:30am on November 8, 2014. 150+ people will be treated.

Date:
Saturday, November 8th, 2014

Admission:
Free

Address:
4720 Lower Roswell Road
Marietta, Ga 30068

Parking:
Please park at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church

955 Johnson Ferry Rd
Marietta, GA 30068

For more information, please call 770-973-8222 or visit www.NaturalSmile.biz

Multi-Cultural Festival

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Georgia Highlands College Diversity Committee and Student Organizations Woman-to-Woman, Brother2Brother, and La Mano have collaborated to organize a Multi-Cultural Festival . These organizations are known for their support and advocacy on enrichment of diversity, minorities, and women/male empowerment. This event will represent a wealth of World Cultural expression through food, dance, music, artwork, fashion, crafts, and cultural fact exhibits. This will be a day filled with learning, teaching and festivities. Don’t miss out on the BIG event.

Date:
Saturday, October 25, 2014 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Admission:
Free admission

Address:
1100 S. Marietta Parkway
Southern Polytechnic State University
Joe Mack Wilson Student Center
Building A Ballrooms (A & B)
Marietta, GA 30060

Parking:
Free Parking

For more information, please call 678-872-8501

Haunted Marietta: The Kennesaw House

Rhetta Akamatsu

Marietta, Georgia, like most Southern towns, has its share of ghost stories, many of which I documented in my book, Haunted Marietta. But of all the alleged haunted places in Marietta, perhaps the most fascinating is the Kennesaw House. Located next to the railroad tracks and adjacent to the Marietta Welcome Center, the very location of the house makes it easy to picture bygone times. History is in the very air, and it does not seem unlikely that shades from the past would linger there and all around the square.

Now the home of the Marietta History Center, The Kennesaw House was originally built in the 1840’s as a cotton warehouse, but was then turned into a restaurant, to serve the passengers from the railroad depot next door. In 1855, the Fletchers bought the building and turned it into an inn. Its location right next to the railroad made it a natural home for Union soldiers and spies during the War Between the States, especially since Mr. Fletcher was an alleged Union sympathizer.

It was from the Kennesaw House, then known as the Fletcher House, that James Andrews and his group of spies plotted their attempt to steal the train, the General, which became the basis for such films as “The Great Locomotive Chase” in later years. In 1864, the hotel was taken over by the Union army, and Sherman briefly used it as his headquarters.

Most of the ghostly activity that has been widely reported in the Kennesaw House seems to stem from the use of the building as a makeshift hospital and morgue during the war. Television documentaries from PBS, CNN, and The History Channel have told the story of visitors who descended to the basement in the elevator, only to be greeted by the gruesome site of a crowded hospital room, men screaming in agony, blood everywhere, as weary surgeons operated and removed limbs with little or no anesthesia. Other people have seen an apparition of what appears to be a Civil War-era surgeon, dressed in uniform, who apparently likes to ride the elevator.

Another ghostly figure that has been reportedly seen, especially by children, in the Kennesaw House, is a lady in an old-fashioned dress with pink trim. Some children have identified her as the lady in a portrait in the house, Mrs. Fletcher, the wife of the second original owner.

Some years ago, the paranormal investigation group to which I belong, Ghost Hounds, investigated the house and caught what appears to be a ghostly figure of a woman on film. Other people have caught anomalies in photos, as well. The museum director, Dan Cox, has also captured several ghostly images in photos taken from the security cameras at the museum.

Whether you encounter ghosts or not, Kennesaw House is a handsome building which houses an excellent museum that is well worth your visit. The museum is open from 10am until 4pm Tuesday through Saturday. It is located just off Marietta Square next to the railroad tracks.

About Rhetta Akamatsu
Rhetta Akamatsu is a long-time resident of Marietta and the author of Haunted Marietta, which is available at local bookstores and online at Amazon and all other major bookstores. She also writes about the Atlanta area for examiner.com as the Atlanta Historic Places Examiner.

Vonage Relocating to Cobb

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Vonage Business Solutions, a communications provider, is relocating to the Towers at Wildwood Plaza on Windy Hill Road in Cobb County from its current location in Midtown. The New Jersey-based company will inhabit nearly 80,000 square feet, giving the company ample room to grow. The relocation is also expected to bring 800 new jobs to Cobb.

“Our move to Cobb County and the Wildwood Towers was driven by our desire to offer our employees a great facility and expanded amenities,” Wain Kellum, president of Vonage Business Solutions, previously said. “We believe this move will help us retain and attract employees from the Atlanta area, which has a highly talented labor pool, particularly in the area of technology.”

To learn more about the company, visit vonage.com.

New WellStar Locations Open

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WellStar Health System announces the expansion of its quality and accessibility to patients with the opening of the WellStar Pediatric Center in Kennesaw and the East Cobb Health Park in Marietta.

The pediatric center, located at 1180 Barrett Parkway NW and now open to patients, offers a range of medical services specifically designed for patients from newborns up to 21 years old. Patients will benefit from low-dose radiation imagine tests, sports injury rehabilitation, pediatrician office visits and afterhours care.

The East Cobb Health Park, a three-story, 162,000-square-foot development at 3747 Roswell Rd. NE that is slated to open in September, will include up to 15 services, including primary care, outpatient surgery and an urgent care center.

Visit wellstar.org for more information.

Richmont Moving Atlanta Campus to Cobb

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Richmont Graduate University’s Atlanta campus is moving to a new location on Windy Hill Road just off Interstate 75 in Cobb County. After considering approximately 90 potential properties, university administrators identified a new 17,800-square-foot space in Cobb. As of June 4, thanks to a private lead gift of $1.2 million, Richmont’s Board of Trustees made an offer of $1.2 million and put the new building under contract.

“We are incredibly excited about this timely transition in the life of the university,” says President Bob Rodgers. “This new building will offer a strategic location to both train students as professional counselors and ministers to continue partnering with local nonprofit organizations in order to serve metro Atlanta residents. We look forward to seeing what the Lord does in this next season.”

Formalized in 2000, Richmont is a product of the Chattanooga Bible Institute and provides Christ-centered education and research. It currently serves about 300 students pursuing master’s degrees in professional counseling, marriage and family therapy, ministry and psychological studies. Students may also earn a specialization degree in addictions, child and adolescent therapy, sex therapy, spirituality and counseling and trauma counseling.

Additional information about the university can be found at richmont.edu.

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