Main Street News: August 8th

I can’t believe that the calendar is now saying August. It seems like the time is flying by! Now as I finish putting everything away from the Community Picnic for another year, I can’t help but look back on that night and smile. I smile not because Mother Nature cooperated (hmm, well that might have a little something to do with it!) I smile not because my feet are finally forgetting how much they hurt after reaching 20,000 steps that day.  But I smile because each year Barnesville residents come together on this night and celebrate how amazing their community is and how wonderful the people they call their neighbors are. Since I didn’t grow up in town and have lived here just over a year, I have a little bit of an “outsider’s” perspective of the community. It was fun to look around at the Community Picnic and see how everyone interacted and came together just to relax and have a good evening in great company. One word came to my mind, and it is the one single word I can use to describe the citizens of Barnesville. That word is proud. You could tell the parents were proud of their kids on stage competing for Miss Barnesville and Princess Blue Eagle. You could tell the organizations present were proud to serve Barnesville, including the Main Street Program. And you could definitely tell that everyone was proud to call Barnesville home.

Originally, Miss Barnesville would have been the next event on the Main Street calendar. Because we already crowned our new royalty at the community picnic, we don’t have any scheduled events in August besides Show ‘n Shine this Thursday the 11th^th. We know everybody in town will be busy getting ready for the much anticipated Potato Days, so this might not be so bad. This will also give everyone time to go through your closets to get ready for the Fall Area-Wide Rummage Sales on September 24^th!