Happy birthday to Lillian Bibee, Jim Damron, Lori Dalton and Ella Mae O'Dell.

Happy anniversary to Matthew and Makala Best.

Get well wishes go to Reba Williams, Betty Cheeks, Sam Belcher,  Faye Torbett, O.R. "Red" Young, Sue Young, Susie Moser, Otis Young,  Molly Gray, Mammie Belcher, Wail Dalton, Thelma Matoy, JoAnn Queen, Boyd Rodgers, Emma Best, Wayne Lynn, Charlotte Duncan, Sharon West, Justine Williams, Margaret Wall,  Virgil Tipton,  Faye McDaniel, Gladys Best and Patsy Long.

Sympathy is extended to the familes of Robert Davis and Sharon West.

Friends Meeting of Ball Play will host the 5th Annual Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There will be entertainment, food, vendors, games for children and door prizes. There will be a general store with crafts, baked goods and canned food for sale. There will be hot dogs, chili, nachos w/cheese, vegetable soup, cotton candy and drinks for sale. Come and enjoy a day of fun with us. For more information you can call 295-2680.  Kenneth Gay will be singing gospel music for the Fall Festival at Friends Meeting of Ball Play in Tellico Plains, on Oct. 20 at 11 a.m.

Etowah resident and local author, Frances Brown Dorward, will be at The Bookshelf on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to sign copies of her new book, "Uprooted," a novel about a family who was displaced by the building of the Tellico Dam.  Frances is well known in the area for her first book, "Dam Greed."  The Bookshelf is at 108 Scott St. in Tellico Plains.  Call 423-253-3183 for more info.

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