Georgia Magazine - March 2013 - (Page 6)

COMPILED BY JENNIFER J. Congratulations to Sandy Sheriff, of Lavonia, the winner of our weekend getaway for two at the King & Prince Beach and Golf Resort in St. Simons in the Georgia Fall Travel Guide giveaway in September. The $25 online winner for October’s Regional Travel Guide is Frances Daniel, of LaGrange. See page 39 of this month’s issue for details on how to enter the Celebrating the Georgia lifestyle current Spring Travel Guide contest. And congrats, too, to our recent online trivia contest winners: December: Debra Stanﬁll, Moultrie; and January: Dale Klitzke, Roswell. Entering our trivia contest is easy. Correctly answer ﬁve simple questions, based on the current digital edition of the magazine, and you could win a $25 Target gift card. Look for our contest links each month online at www.georgiamagazine.org. GEMC ® Established 1945 P.O. 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Advertising: Contact Laurel George, (404) 541-0628, or Laine Wood, (770) 289-5700, or (800) 544-4362 (in Georgia). National advertising representative: National Country Market, (800) 626-1181. Visit www.georgiamagazine.org for more of everything you love about Georgia! web exclusive Look for this icon throughout the magazine. When you see it, go online to our digital edition for BONUS content. web exclusive Also online: • Additional calendar listings • Back issues • Past recipes • Readership survey MAGS MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTHEAST 6 More online at www.georgiamagazine.org Thank you! • In style! Georgia high school seniors interested in a fashion career can enter the 2013 Passion for Fashion Scholarship Competition through The Art Institute of Atlanta for a chance to win a $3,000 scholarship to the school. Firstplace winners in this local competition will go on to compete nationally for a half-tuition scholarship to any Art Institutes school, win a VIP trip to New York and more. The deadline to enter is Feb. 14. For scholarship details, visit www. aicompetitions.com/fashion. • Cheers for a cause. Athens-based Terrapin Beer Co. will host monthly “percentage nights” during public tours of their brewery this year to raise funds for area charitable and service organizations including Georgia Bikes!, the Georgia River Network, Small Dreams Foundation and the Free to Breathe lung cancer association. In 2012, Terrapin helped raise more than $12,000 for local organizations through this program. Click on www.terrapinbee r. com for info. Students from the EKG Technician Certiﬁcation class gather at Kennesaw State University’s College of Continuing and Professional Education, where a variety of classes are offered in accounting, technology, languages, culinary arts and health care. Whether you’re a rising senior, a professional looking to change or move up in your career, or simply hoping to enter the workforce for the ﬁrst time, choosing a college, university or technical school is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Visit the school of your choice during an open house or student preview event. Here, visitors can take campus tours, meet with professors and sit in on information sessions for parents. This month, Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Athens Technical College in Athens, Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, and the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, are a few of Georgia’s colleges and technical schools offering spring preview events. —Laurel George We received our January 2013 issue. Thanks for including us in both the print and digital editions! [See “Open houses attract new students, career changers,” Georgia News, page 8 and 38B.] Looking forward to working with you in the future. —Davia L. Mosley, College of Continuing and Professional Education, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw • Attraction honored. Ruby Falls, located beneath Lookout Mountain, along the Georgia-Tennessee border, was recently named the Escape to the Southeast Travel Attraction of the Year by the Southeast Tourism Society. The 83-year-old attraction is America’s deepest commercial cave and largest underground waterfall open for public viewing. To learn more, visit rubyfalls. com. 8 REID TRAYLOR And the winners are … HEWETT Open houses attract new students, career changers For a sampling of open house events at these and many other Georgia colleges and technical web exclusive schools, web see page 38B exclusive of this month’s digital edition, online at www.geor giamagazine.org. ‘GATE’ offers tax exemption for Effective this month, qualiﬁ ed agriculture producers will be required to have a new tax-exemption certiﬁcate in order to purchase speciﬁed farm-related equipment and products without being charged sales tax on those items. Passed by the Georgia legislature, Georgia HB 386 created the Georgia Agriculture Tax Exemption (GATE) program, which replaces the Agricultural Certiﬁcate of Exemption (ST-A1) form, and broadens exemptions to include equipment parts and energy used in production of an agricultural product. For more information or to apply for the new exemption certiﬁcate, call (855) 327-6829 or visit www.agr. georgia.gov. More online at www.georgiamagaz ine.org ag producers GA DEPT. OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COURTESY OF INITIALS, INC. Georgia glimpses • Company growth. Clarkesville-base d Initials, Inc. was named one of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies by Inc. Magazine, ranking 1,555 on the Inc. 5000 and 77th in the retail category nationwide. The personalized handbag and home organization company, launched in 2005, has thousands of partners who sell their products at home-based parties. To learn more, visit www.initialsinc.com. GEORGIA MAGAZINE 8.new_SW_0113.indd 8 12/12/12 1:27 PM Bird dog notes I enjoyed Anne Marie Kyzer’s article in the January issue [see “Bird Dog Capital of the World,” page 16], and I’m wondering whether Waynesboro: Waynesboro may Bird Dog Capital of the World have had another page 16 notable visitor in years past. I’m speaking of Robert Ruark, who wrote a series of articles for Field and Stream magazine in the 1950s, titled “The Old Man and the Boy.” My wife and I enjoy the magazine and always ﬁnd something of interest to both of us. —Don Henson, Ringgold Georgia craft beers, page 34 January 2013 Tifton’s country music star Kip Moore page 22 www.georgiamagazine.org Allan Armitage and the UGA Trial Gardens page 32 Cover_SW_0113.indd 1 ‘Viewpoint’ love Just wanted to say how much we enjoyed reading Paul Wood’s entertaining and enlightening book “It’s My View.” We look forward each month to receiving GEORGIA Magazine, and Viewpoint is the ﬁrst thing we turn to. —Les and Vickie Carns, Grifﬁn Editor’s note: To purchase a copy of “It’s My View,” see the coupon on page 9 or visit www.georgiamagzine. org/viewpointbook. Share your thoughts about our stories, and we may publish them. Email us at magazine@georgiaemc.com. 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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Georgia Magazine - March 2013

Georgia Magazine - March 2013
Contents
Viewpoint
Mailbox
Liberty Notes
Picture This?
Georgia News
Calendar of Events
Currents
Notes on a journey
From a one-red-light Southern town
Around Georgia
My Georgia
Georgia Gardens
Georgia Cooks
The 2013 Readers' Choice Awards
Snapshot

Georgia Magazine - March 2013