If you really want to be a part of a vibrant, alive community Colquitt is the place to live. Swamp Gravy rehersals start next week  Jerry Stropnicky , this year’s director will be here for auditions, but don’t worry, if you can breathe and speak passable English you are in. It is a great group of people. Some great actora and singers, some not so great… All ages, shapes, colors and sizes celebrating community and living in Southwest Georgia.

The Icon Mural tribute to Agriculture has begun. The mural committee will meet Mon. night at 6 to finalize the plans with Charlie Johnston, the award winning international muralist. He has finished cleaning the peanut silos and removing 60 years of dust and grime. He is from Winnipeg, Canada, so he is having to get use to the heat. But he never complains, maybe he is like lots of others and grateful for a job.

The courses on e-commerce are going well and the stores around the Square are learning to sell their products across the country through the medium of the 21st Century.

AS I travel and tell the Colquitt story people ask me if we are able to retain our young people. In most communities kids leave as soon as they graduate from High School to seek jobs or higher education. I really don’t know how to answer that scientifically, but I now have an answer. The three major churches within the city limits are having an explosion of babies being born in thier membership. Don’t you think that is a good indication of whether Colquitt has any young people?

More next time. I think I’ll write about Dog Days.