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The Glover Park Concert Series on the Marietta Square is the place to be in Marietta the last Friday evening of each month April through September. The park is the perfect setting for families and friends to enjoy a picnic and listen to music under the stars.The group The Mighty Kicks continues this season’s Glover Park concert series May 30 at 8 p.m. and will perform Beach and R&B music.
Concerts are rain or shine. Blankets and lawn chairs may be set up after 4 p.m. no personal tables are permitted in the park. A limited number of tables are available for rent on the first working day of the month for that concert.
2008 Series Performers
- April 25: Prime (Oldies/Classic Rock)
- May 30: The Mighty Kicks (Beach / R&B)
- June 27: Still Swinging (Big Band)
- July 5: Cobb Symphony Orchestra
- July 25: A1A (Jimmy Buffet Tribute Band)
- August 22: The Neons (70s / 80s / Classics)
- September 26: Tyn Times (Beach / Oldies)
The free concerts are presented by the Marietta Parks and Recreation Department and the Downtown Marietta Development Authority. For more information, call Marietta’s Parks and Recreation Department at 770-794-5601.
Many of you have posted comments on this new website and we’d like you to know we appreciate it. Everyone’s name was put into a hat and and the winners of the gift cards are:
Stephanie Hollins – ITunes
Nancy Samford – Dick’s Sporting Goods
Deanne Taylor – Blockbuster
If you didn’t win this time, please keep posting! We plan to make the drawing a regular happening and you could be the next winner.
Hillcrest families looking for a job close to home? Check out this Six Flags job link for a variety of current opportunities:
http://www.sixflags.com/overGeorgia/jobs/JobListings.aspx
Senior Connections provides home repairs such as roofing, plumbing and electrical; weatherization; and safety/accessibility modifications like wheelchair ramps and bathroom safety grab bars. If you are in need, and meet the requirements above, they may be able to help. For more information call 770-455-7602, extension 162 or visit www.srconn.org
Food prices getting to you? Yeah, me too. There’s no avoiding that just like it takes a full wallet to fill up a tank with gas, it takes a fat purse to fill up a cart with groceries. The bad news is, there’s new concern that the Western world’s relatively cheap food supply may be coming to a sudden, and unexpected, end.
The result is that more and more of us will be looking for ways to stretch our food budgets further, for ways to save money shopping for groceries, for rethinking our food consumption habits, for calculating the very real costs of our seemingly insatiable demand for convenience.
Read the rest of the artcle, including good tips on how to save on groceries, here: http://www.blogher.com/family-finance-how-save-money-groceries#readmore
On paper, my wife and I are poor. How poor? In 2005 we made $4,303.84 combined; in 2004 we made half that. We’re in such a low tax bracket that I have trouble convincing the government of our tax return’s accuracy; they simply can’t believe Americans can live on that kind of money.
Yet in many ways, we’re better off than a Wall Street banker: We’ve saved enough money to buy land without a mortgage, we have no credit cards or monthly bills, I work 20 flexible hours a week from home, and my daughter has two stay-at-home parents.
Simply put, we never want for anything, and we have a lot of fun. Read the rest of the story at http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/2007-10-01/Live-on-Less.aspx
Several homeowners have called our office recently regarding letters they’ve recieved in the mail with headlines like, ” Final Notice-Complete and Return” or Important Notice to (Your Name), Complete and Return.” The notices pertain to mortgage disability insurance, look official, and sound urgent. They typically include personal information including name, address, qualification code, and the remaining mortgage balance.
These are junk mail and should be thrown out immediately. Cobb Habitat will not send out, or have anything sent to you for disability insurance, mortgages, entitlement programs etc. We will never give your name or personal information out to any outside agencies. But be aware that there are public records accessible to companies wanting to market their products and services. The companies research this information and include it in letters designed to confuse people into buying their products or services.
Don’t be fooled! If you have any questions about any official looking document you receive and are not sure what to do, PLEASE call our office. We are always happy to help.
Post a response to any article on our new site and we’ll put the names of everyone who posts in a hat on July 11 and draw winners for a variety of gift certificates. We’ll then announce the winners on the website. And don’t stop posting your responses, we plan to make the drawing a regular happening.
Have you started your summer vegetable garden yet? If you haven’t, now is the perfect time. Tomatos are readily available at most garden centers and provide a bounty of fresh, healthy goodness throughout the warm summer months.
Two plants that do very well with tomatoes are basil and marigolds. Basil enhances the flavor of tomatoes, while marigolds emit a substance through their roots that deter nematodes in the soil. Nematodes are primary causes of root rot and other diseases in tomatoes.
I also recommend growing lettuce and radishes between tomato plants. They are both fast growers and will mature well before the tomatoes get large. An added benefit is that the tomatoes will shade the lettuce allowing you to grow lettuce in the warmer weather without danger of the plants bolting to seed.
Have fun and let us, and others know how your garden is growing!
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