Sardis Baptist Church will have a fall festival Saturday, November 15, at 6 p.m. at the church. A hotdog supper with all the trimmings will be served and many fun activities including a hayride, face-painting, bubble gum blowing contest, go-fishing booth, cupcake walk, dart throw, bowling, and lots of other fun activities are planned for the children and youth and the young at heart. This is a family affair and Rev. Jim Newsome, pastor, and members of the church cordially invite everyone to come out and bring your family and friends and enjoy all the fun and fellowship. ƒRev. Jim Newsome brought a very inspiring message on "Planting Trees" at Sardis Baptist Church Sunday morning. The children departed to the annex for children's church with Brooke Berry and Trey Berry after the congregational singing, praises, prayer requests and the children's sermon and prayer by Pastor Newsome. Family night was held Sunday evening with a meal and mission meetings. ƒShoe Boxes for Samaritan's Purse are due this Sunday at Sardis. A dedication ceremony will be held with the children bringing the shoeboxes from the foyer into the sanctuary and placing them on the communion table. A goal of 30 boxes has been set for Sardis. ƒBaptism will be held at Sardis Sunday for Hunter Armour in the church baptismal pool. ƒThe Lunch and Learn Club will hold their monthly meeting on Wednesday, November 19, instead of the usual fourth Wednesday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This will be at 10 a.m. at the City Hall. Any interested lady is invited to attend. ƒPrayers continue for Manuel Wheatley, Doris Walker, Shane Echols, Lamar Berry, Ann Crittenden, Avola Callaway, Marshall Sherrer, Mary Hawes, Kris Berry, Robert and Edythe Harper, Dorothy Callaway, Sallie Mae Arnold, George Casey, Brenda Bruce, Katherine Hopkins, Nancy Gillfan Pluch, Denise Adams Blaschke, Helen Hall Price, Priscilla Maxwell, Gary Rogers, Mike Webb, Linda Stevens, Nancy Moon, Cindy McCarty, J.W. and Bonnie Boatwright. There are many others who need prayer and we pray for them in their special needs. ƒRuby Arnold, Kim Berry, Aaliya Berry, Brooke Berry, Trey Berry, and Kaitlyn Porter attended the lovely wedding of Brandon Berry to Erin Yearwood in the Chapel at Helen. A reception followed. Chuck and Julie Berry, Bob and Betty West, George and Tricia Stone of the Tyrone community, and others from Wilkes County also attended. This was Ruby's first trip to Helen, making it even more special for her. ƒFrances Fendley, Richard Burkett, and JoAnn Perez went to the soccer game in Washington Saturday to watch Greg Glenn play. ƒBonnie Boatwright enjoyed having breakfast at Sandy Cross Cafe near Lexington Monday morning of last week with several of her classmates of the 1956 Class of Oglethorpe County. Joining Bonnie were Eddie and Jo Ann Paul York, Morris Smith, J.B. Harrison, Jimmy Coile, Helen Smith Jones, Carole Morgan, Peggy Bray, and Capes Graham, Joyce Pledger Silvey and Ladyne Brooks McDonald. ƒ Faye Johnson of Gray came and spent the weekend with Ruby Arnold and while here visited around to all her other sisters. Faye and Dorothy Callaway attended a bridal shower Saturday for Jennifer Arnold in Lexington at the Baptist Church. ƒWilda Boatwright and Sudie Kennedy went to Thomson Thursday to visit Wilda's sister, Hazel Webb. Saturday they went to Union Point to visit Frances Nash and Jo Ann Lewis at Greene-Point Nursing Home. ƒGeorge and Mozelle Casey visited Frances Fendley Sunday afternoon. Frances reports that George is feeling much better and improving every day. ƒFrances Fendley went to Crawford with Debra (Bobby) Armour to Quiet Oaks Nursing Home in Crawford where Debra attended a meeting and Frances visited Melvie Esco. ƒPeggy Echols and Jean Cofer joined Thomas Fanning and Mary Donna Lunceford and enjoyed the womanless beauty pageant at the Washington- Wilkes Comprehensive High School Cafeteria Saturday night. ƒDoris Smith Walker was honored Sunday, October 26, on her birthday by her children at a surprise dinner at the beautiful home of Mike and Debra Sherrer on Bartram Trace. Tents and tables were set up in the yard in the peaceful atmosphere with a fall setting of trees covered with colorful leaves. A barbecue dinner with all the trimmings was enjoyed by family members. Aside from the traditional birthday cake there were three other cakes. "Happy Birthday" was sung. Those helping Doris celebrate along with her husband Billy were her sisters and her children, including Mildred Berryman of Watkinsville, Louise Smith and Lucile Edmonds of Anderson, S.C., Mablean Sherrer, Linda Buff, Debra Sherrer, Sidney Walker, Becky Orr and Janet Lewis, and all of their families with about 45 people in all coming for this special occasion. ƒClyde and Sandy Whittington went to Crawford Saturday to watch Zachery and Kyle Frankel play in their soccer game in which they won. ƒRuth Flynt enjoyed having her daughter, Jane Taylor Bailey, and her granddaughter, Taylor Roth of Bogart, spend Saturday with her. ƒBonnie Boatwright visited her cousin, Mildred Berryman, at the Winterville Retirement Center recently. ƒJ.W. and Bonnie Boatwright met Bonnie's sisters, Frankie Jones of Athens and Martha Jones of Bogart, for lunch Tuesday at Fatz in Athens. ƒAlex Avery spent the weekend with Haley Hill Chafin. Troy and Shirley Chafin's visitors over the week were Mack Chafin, Ronnie and Racquel Chafin, Sheila Arnold, Blake Arnold, Mandy and Walker Young. ƒSunday was Neil Frankel's birthday and Neil, Kim, Zachery, Kyle and Bryce Frankel enjoyed a dinner with Clyde and Sandy Whittington. ƒShirley Chafin, Ronnie and Racquel Chafin went to the fellowship hall of the Baptist Church in Lexington to celebrate Sheila Chafin Arnold's victory in winning the tax commissioner's race in Oglethorpe County Tuesday night. ƒBonnie Boatwright enjoyed visiting Ruth Flynt Sunday afternoon.