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The Smyrna Area Council, which is the Smyrna branch of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, recently named Warren Stubbs and Ryan Byers as co-Citizens of the Year. This is the first time in the eleven year tradition that the Council has selected two winners of the Smyrna Citizen of the Year award.

Warren and Ryan are sports ministry directors at the Smyrna First Baptist Church. They started the Upward Sports Ministry in 2005. They wildly successful program has benefited and impacted the lives of many of those living here in Smyrna Vinings.

The nonprofit sports program includes basketball, softball/T-ball, cheerleading and flag football.

As my family has also been blessed to have been impacted from this program, I would like to congratulate Warren and Ryan on this award, as it is a symbol of how much they have done for the Smyrna Vinings community.

Congratulations!

Technorati Tags: Smyrna Citizen of the Year, Smyrna Area Council, Upward Sports, Cobb Chamber of Commerce

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Help “Stuff A Bus” with Cobb Christmas on Wed., December 10th.  The CCT bus will be in our downtown (Market Village/City Hall area) from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 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.

About Stuff-A-Bus

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. Host sites can be businesses, schools and other entities that have organized toy and food drives.

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 and begin promoting and collecting in November. All donations are stored and transported to Jim Miller Park—the Cobb Christmas Distribution Site-during distribution week.

For more information go to www.CobbChristmas.net, email Stuff-A-Bus@CobbChristmas.net or call 770-428-2601, extension 272.

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Keep Smyrna Beautiful will be out and about on Saturday to help keep Smyrna’s roadways clean and litter-free.

Don’t like litter on the roadways? Join other dedicated volunteers to help keep Smyrna’s roadways clean. The event is usually 1 to 2 hours. Registration and equipment checkout begins at 8am at the Smyrna Recyclying Center located at 645 Smyrna Hill Drive, Smyrna, GA 30082. Refreshments, safety training and equipment will be provided.

Technorati Tags: Keep Smyrna Beautiful, City of Smyrna Georgia, Adopt-A-Mile

St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church and School invite the community out on Saturday, October 4, 2008 for a St. Francis’ Day Festival.

Celebrating the role of animals in our lives, the festival will be held from 11 AM to 2 PM at the church property near the corner of Atlanta Road and Cumberland Blvd (Just across the street from Ivy Walk) in Smyrna.

There will be a pet blessing, crafts and games for the kids, pet parade and a Low Country Boil fundraiser.  So bring your dogs, cats, gerbals, and other four legged friends; don’t forget your lizards, hermit crabs, fish, and any other pet that slithers, creeps or swims! We will also bless the “Dawg Run,” the new playground behind the St. Benedict’s Episcopal School B-Hive.

Our Pal’s Place Animal Rescue and Education Center (www.ourpalsplace.org), a Marietta-based no-kill shelter, will hold educational workshops on pet overpopulation, responsible pet ownership and dog bite prevention for the youth and children.  They will also be bringing a few dogs who have been rescued from the county shelters that are looking for a permanent home.

The Rev. Lang Lowrey, Vicar of St. Benedict’s, states, “I expect that this will be a great time for families, both with two-legged and four-legged children to come out, have fun and grow as a community.  I hope we will have a lot of new faces and wagging tails join us for a wonderful day.”

You can visit www.mysaintb.org to find out more about the St. Benedict’s St Francis’ Day Festival.

Technorati Tags: Smyrna Events, St Francis Day Festival, St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church and School

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