The Georgia Kiwanis District Convention began with a trip to the Atlanta Braves game on Friday, August 25, 2017 .
The delegate session was held Saturday morning with Jay Willis, Angie McDaniel, and Cathy Farley as assigned voting delegates from the Carrollton Kiwanis Club. Also serving as delegates were Joe Bell, Past Lieutenant Governor, and Richard Dixon, Past Governor.
Not shown in this group photo: Jay Willis and Georgia Carter.
The Carrollton Kiwanis Club met Friday, August 25, 2017 in the new Performing Arts Center . Lunch was catered at 11:30 AM.
School Superintendent Scott Cowart offered a tour of the facility and introduced Mrs. Charity Aaron, Director of Partnerships and Communication for Carroll County Schools.
photo: Kiwanis President Jay Willis, Charity Aaron, Director of the Performing Arts Center, and Scott Cowart, Superintendent of Carroll County Schools.
Your ace Fifty Fifty Raffle reporter finally got to draw for the Joker again. After foolishly announcing that the proceeds would go for the Club, I drew the four of Clubs! Now only twenty cards remain and the pot swells to $1380.
Let the visitor beware - for Dr. Fred Richards Introduces guests with a FLARE !!!
September 15, 2017
We were honored with a large contingency of Carrollton High School graduates (class of 1966!), joining us to hear classmate and program presenter Carol Cole Masarra, a Glioblastoma Advocate who lost her physician husband to brain cancer. The visiting members of the class of '66 invited by Richard Dixon were: Phil Carter, Rossie Anderson, Bill Fordham and Marilyn Hubbard (Marilyn's dad, Ellis Merrell, was a charter member of our club and a Past President).
Jack Whitman invited Carol Cole Masarra's brothers,Woody and Eddie Cole and nephew Wood Cole the Fourth! Dick,
"rocket scientist," Ingle brought wife, Susan, who was also a member of the class of '66. Jim Collins and Jack Whitman invited prospective member Johnny Tanner, son of Beauty Queen Barbara Tanner and the late John Tanner, once a long-time, beloved member of our club. Johnny is owner and operator of C.M. Tanner Grocery. Derick Newton brought two prospective members: Leila Shaver (co-sponsored by Richard Dixon), owner of the Shaver Law Group, an estate planning firm based in the Burson Center; and Juyanda Norman, owner of Need It Most, a successful homecare agency. Lacey Robinson arrived with new member Art Bower. Sponsored by Lacey, Art, now serving as Treasurer of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, worked in advertising for 40 years.
Stuart Yahm was all smiles sitting between his two guests: daughter Michele Peterson fro Sacramento, California, and Camille Yahm, once a Christian education missionary and one of the few persons in Georgia who speaks fluent Mandarin.