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Follow Loganville’s lead
Published October 23, 2009
One local leader told me Mayor Ray Nunley’s decision to strip funding from the Loganville Chamber of Commerce was the best and boldest move made by an elected leader in Walton County in more than a decade.
The Loganville City Council voted earlier this year to stop funding the chamber and the utility costs it was paying for the city’s building that housed the chamber.
Earlier this month, the council voted to award proceeds of the hotel/
motel tax to the Walton County Chamber of Commerce.
This year, that comes to $15,992. The majority of that will go to the chamber’s One Walton program, an attempt to present a unified image of Walton County.
It’s a marketing plan that chamber leaders hope will get everybody thinking in terms of a united county.
Loganville’s buy-in to this is impressive and it should send a powerful message about the importance of everybody getting on board.
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Hot Tamale tomorrow: Brian Arrington, managing editor of The Tribune, was eager to tell me what a good event the Hot Tamale Chili Cook-off is each year in Grayson.
Arrington is a judge in the event, and he was excited about it. You should be too, if you’re blessed with an iron-clad stomach.
It benefits the Greater Grayson Chamber of Commerce and the Grayson Cluster Schools Foundation. The cost is $5 per person, but children younger than 5 get in free. The event is set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Grayson City Park.
If you’re looking for more fall fun, consider Corn Dawgs Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch on Highway 81, which is ongoing.
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Photo credit: Thanks to Frank Bird, who took the picture of the Loganville cheerleaders with Touchdown Club member Dawn Berkhan that ran with a story about her in The Tribune recently.
The school has rallied around Berkhan, a breast cancer survivor who has a child who graduated from Loganville High School in 2009 and another who is an 11th-grader there now.
It was an inspiring story, and the pink ribbon painted on the field and stickers on helmets in Berkhan’s honor prove how Loganville is a community with people who care for one another.
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