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Friday, July 4, 2025

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Hippie Hootenany to invade Bobby Brown Park today

news@wsgcradio.com – Looking for something more than fireworks to celebrate your Independence Day? Bobby Brown Park has just the event for you – the July 4th Hippie Hootenany. Come join a bunch of outdoorsy, musical, art-loving hippies and have a blast.

It all cranks up at 2 p.m. with food, vendors, fire spinning, face painting and more. The Hootenany will have music beginning at 3 p.m. with Nicole Quinn, followed by Offbeat And Side Trackd and Alyce Drive. A fireworks display will follow the music at dusk.

Food and beverage concessions will be on site serving burgers, potato salad, hot dogs, sweet tea and more.

Don't forget to bring your folding chairs or towels.

Campsites are available for those who would rather spend the night and head home the next day.

The park is located at 2509 Bobby Brown State Park Road.

Jurassic World: Rebirth is now showing at the Elbert Theatre

news@wsgcradio.com – Jurassic World: Rebirth is now showing at the Elbert Theatre.

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.

A skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park.

The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

The film is directed by Gareth Edwards from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp and is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Denis L. Stewart and Jim Spencer.

Showtimes are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and there is a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $7.50 and the box office opens 30 minutes prior to showtime.

ECPS holding kindergarten orientation for parents

news@wsgcradio.com - With the new school year on the horizon, Elbert County Primary School (ECPS) is hosting Kindergarten Parent Orientation to get parents ready for sending their children off to school for the first time.

The orientation is scheduled to be held July 10 at ECPS and will be split into two different alphabetized sessions. The first session starts at 5:30 p.m. and is for parents with students whose last name starts with an “A” through students whose last name starts with an “H.” The second session is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. and is for parents of children whose last name starts with “I” through “Z.”

The orientation is limited to two adults per student and students are not required to attend.

For any questions or concerns, call 706 213-4700.

Community Calendar

Friday, July 4

• Independence Day
• Hippie Hootenany, 2-9 p.m., Bobby Brown Park
• Fireworks and Fun, 3 p.m., Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
• Jurrasic World: Rebirth, 7 p.m., Elbert Theatre, $7.50

Saturday, July 5

• Jurrasic World: Rebirth, 7 p.m., Elbert Theatre, $7.50

Sunday, July 6

• Jurrasic World: Rebirth, 2 p.m., Elbert Theatre, $7.50

Monday, July 7

• Arts & Crafts (7yo+), 3 p.m., Elbert County Public Library
• Elberton City Council, 5:30 p.m., Elberton City Hall

Tuesday, July 8

• Children's Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Elbert County Public Library
• Children's Storytime, 1 p.m., Bowman Library
• EC BOE work session, 5:30 p.m., EC BOE Office

Wednesday, July 9

• Downtown Elberton Farmer's Market, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Elberton Square
• Lego Palooza, 2 p.m., Bowman Library
• Arts & Crafts (6-Under), 3 p.m., Elbert County Public Library
• Bowman City Council, 6:30 p.m., Bowman City Hall

Thursday, July 10

• Lego Palooza, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., Elbert County Public Library
• EC BOC work session, 5 p.m., Elbert County Complex
• Kindergarten Orientation, 5:30 p.m./6:30 p.m., Elbert County Primary School

Friday, July 11

• Jurrasic World: Rebirth, 7 p.m., Elbert Theatre, $7.50

Saturday, July 12

• Chess Tournament, 10 a.m., Elbert County Public Library
• Jurrasic World: Rebirth, 7 p.m., Elbert Theatre, $7.50

Sunday, July 13

• Jurrasic World: Rebirth, 2 p.m., Elbert Theatre, $7.50