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2010 Smyrna Wine Stroll

The 2010 Smyrna Wine Stroll will be featuring more than 60 different wines from around the world! This is the 5th annual event, designed for a fun and educational wine experience. Enjoy live music, wine and fabulous food samples, while giving something back to the local community…

And all for one great price!

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Only $25.00 per person in advance
tickets are $35.00 after May 1st

The Smyrna Wine Stroll is a fun event designed to allow patrons to stroll through our beautiful shopping center while sampling a variety of wonderful wines and shopping with our local merchants.

Sample wines and food at local retailers in the Smyrna Market Village! Enjoy great wine and fabulous food samples. Give to a great cause… all for the Smyrna community.

100% of the proceeds benefit local charities. Past charities benefitting from the event have included Friends of the Smyrna Library, Amir Askarian (Café Michel) Memorial Fund, Blind & Low Vision Services of North Georgia and Woodland Ridge Foundation

Tickets are available at The Wine Cellars.

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Hard to believe it’s already March, but you know what that means. The St. Patrick’s Day Festival at the Smyrna Market Village is quickly approaching. So you’ll definitely want to mark your calendar for one of Atlanta’s biggest and growing St. Patrick’s Day festivals.

The festival is a celebration of Irish heritage enjoyed by over 2,000 people in previous years.

Atkins Park Tavern is the host for this great Smyrna Market Village event and is always well planned and offers food, fun, and music for the entire family.

The festival begins at 4pm and runs until 11pm on March 17th. Irish music, traditional foods, vendor novelties, contests, and other live entertainment make this an ideal event for your family on St. Patrick’s Day.

The festival typically kicks off with Smyrna’s mayor, Max Bacon, dying the Smyrna Market Village fountain green to fit in with the festivities. The event has been popular with Smyrna Vinings residents of all ages, so don’t miss out. It’s certainly an event the whole family can enjoy.

Highlights include:

• Wednesday, March 17, 2010 – 4pm – 11pm
• Traditional Irish Festival
• Carnival Style-Rides
• Annual Dying of the Fountain with Smyrna Mayor Max Bacon
• LiveDJ Entertainment
• Redhead Contest
• Photographers
• Great food available from Atkins Park, Zucca Pizzaria & The Village Café

A portion of the proceeds will benefit Mustard Seed Communities.

The event will be held at the Smyrna Market Village which is located at 2840 Atlanta Road, Smyrna, GA 30080 (Directions).

Contact the host Atkins Park Tavern at atavern@bellsouth.net to purchase tickets for $5 and Get a FREE 16ox. Commemorative Beer Mug at the Event!

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No better way to to kick off Saturday morning, than to endulge in a stack of steaming hot pancakes. The Smyrna Kiwanis will be holding their annual pancake breakfast on Saturday, March 6th from 7am to 11am. The breakfast will be held at the Smyrna First United Methodist Church at 1315 Concord Road.

The funds raised from the pancake breakfast will benefit local children through donations, sponsorships and scholarships.

So come on out and enjoy some great pancakes and give back at the same time.

Founded in 1915 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. Kiwanis consists of over 600,000 members, in nearly 15,000 clubs, located in more than 90 nations. Kiwanis is a Native American word meaning “we share our talents.”

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The City of Smyrna is hosting the 2nd Annual Run Thru the Forest 5k to help raise funds for organ transplant patients. This popular event will be held on Saturday February 27th, 2010.

All proceeds from Run Thru the Forest 5k will benefit the Georgia Transplant Foundation and be used for Cobb County residents who are facing expenses associated with organ transplant.

Your financial support of this very important endeavor will help to make a difference in the life of transplant recipients.

This event is open to all runners and walkers! If you would like to join the fun and get the shirt but don’t feel like you can participate in the race you can register as a “phantom runner”. Register by February 25th and the entry fee is $20; $25 on race day and $20 is you want to be a “phantom runner”.

Park address is: 160 Legion Drive, Smyrna 30080. This is close to S. Atlanta Road & Concord Road. The American Legion is once again serving a great, hot breakfast after the Run Thru the Forest 5k on Feb. 27th.

Cost is $6.00 per person and the American Legion is very generously donating a portion of the proceeds to Georgia Transplant Foundation! Just one more great reason to join us for the 2nd Annual Run Thru the Forest 5k!

This is a “loop course” that will run through scenic Forest Hills neighborhood beginning and ending in Brinkley Park. Make sure you stick around after the race for prizes, awards, and fun! Here’s hoping for a beautiful sunny day!

Click here to register online through noon on February 25th.

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Cobb Christmas partners with Cobb County Department of Transportation and Cobb Community Transit (CCT) to create the county’s most unique and memorable holiday program, Stuff-A-Bus. Think of Stuff-A-Bus as the opposite of Santa’s sleigh, Santa uses his sleigh to deliver gifts and Cobb Christmas makes a CCT bus our sleigh for collecting gifts.

The week prior to Cobb Christmas’ Annual Distribution, a CCT bus travels through the county to Stuff-A-Bus host sites gathering donations of food and toys.

This program would not be successful without the help of local businesses, schools, and other organizations that serve as host sites for Stuff-A-Bus. Volunteers at these locations organize food and toy drives.

All donations are stored and transported to Jim Miller Park—the Cobb Christmas Distribution Site-during distribution week. Individuals are encouraged to drop off donations at any of the “Stuff-A-Bus” scheduled stops.

Help “Stuff A Bus” with Cobb Christmas. The CCT bus will be at the Smyrna City Hall on Tuesday, December 8th from 11:30 to 12:30pm to accept donations of money, new toys, gifts, non-perishable food items, gift cards and gift certificates.

Your generosity will brighten the holidays for thousands of families.

For more information go to www.CobbChristmas.net, email Stuff-A-Bus@CobbChristmas.net or call 678-439-9627.

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