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Submit your events to articles@jcnews.com See more events and a regional events calendar online at www.jcnews.com LOOK FOR THE CALENDAR MENU ITEM Gray Garden Club Daylily Sale The Gray Garden Club will be selling daylilies April 15 from 10-5 at the Hometown Spring Festival in Gray.
More than 60 vendors are signed up to be at the Hometown Spring Festival in Downtown Gray Saturday sponsored by Main Street Gray. CONTRIBUTED

More than 60 vendors are signed up to be at the Hometown Spring Festival in Downtown Gray Saturday sponsored by Main Street Gray. CONTRIBUTED

Hometown Spring Festival offers fun-filled day

Main Street Gray will be holding The Hometown Spring Festival in downtown Gray, Saturday April 15, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., with music entertainment going on until 9 p.m., to give Jones County a day filled with fun.

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–George Sheffield “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:2 3).

Les Dames Magnifique contributes to B&G Club

One of Les Dames Magnifique’s pet projects has been to provide services to the local Boys and Girls Club, which includes youth from both Jones and Baldwin Counties. The last monetary donation was presented in March by our Ambassador, Mrs. Mattie Middlebrooks.

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Mobile Food Truck Jones County will receive only one Mobile Food Truck for this quarter. Mobile Food Truck from Middle Georgia Community Food Bank will be at Greater Jordan Chapel Church in Haddock on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Line will open at 11:00 am.
A photo of Evan Gochenaur with Stacie Kelly, a paraprofessional at Jones County Pre-K. CONTRIBUTED

A photo of Evan Gochenaur with Stacie Kelly, a paraprofessional at Jones County Pre-K. CONTRIBUTED

Jones County mother gives appreciation to Pre-K

Lauren Gochenaur is the mother of Evan Gochenaur, a little boy here in Jones County with special needs, and like every other mother she was concerned about her son flourishing in school, but she said the Jones County Pre-K staff has subdued a lot of her worries and helped her son prosper in school.

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Sunrise Service There will be a Sonrise Service at Round Oak Ancestor’s Memory Park on Sunday, April 9 at 6:45 a.m., led by Pastor Darrell Burns. Come and join us in praise to Jesus Christ. Easter Service at Sunshine Church is at 9:45 a.m.
2023 TEEN MISS PRIDE OF JONES COUNTY – Winner: Talia Middlebrooks; first runner-up: Kennedi Mills; second runner-up: Amelia Clinard

2023 TEEN MISS PRIDE OF JONES COUNTY – Winner: Talia Middlebrooks; first runner-up: Kennedi Mills; second runner-up: Amelia Clinard

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“And they brought the colt to Jesus and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him” (Mk 11:7) On Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling the prophesy of Zech 9:9, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he...