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Arts Council to locate on Main Street The Grove Hill Town Council voted Tuesday to give the local Arts Council $8,000 for a proposed Art and Cultural Center in the downtown Gordon Building. Gina Skipper, Terry Norris and Mike Williamson were on hand representing the arts council. The proposed use of the building includes an art gallery, workshops for photography, painting and pottery, and meetings of the Arts Council, and local Book Club and Writer's Club meetings. Other special events could also be scheduled there. There is no cost to the council to use the building for the first year, thanks to the Gordon family. There would be a cost of $1,000 for insurance and taxes to the council. It will cost approximately $4,000 to renovate the building for the council's use. Money put into the building may be deduct- ed from the second year's rent, Skipper said. Utilities for the building are expected to be $7,000 annually. "We wanted to fill up one of those empty buildings," Skipper said. "We also like the idea of it being close to the mini-park being worked on (by the town)." They hope to one day sponsor an artin the park festival in that minipark. The council expects to staff the center with a senior aide, like the county museum, and make use of its many volunteers. The council hopes to contribute approximately $3,000 to the preparation of the center. The proposed center will be open three days-a-week. "We want to ease into this," Skipper said, "…and see how things progress." The council was formed in 2005. "We have had tremendous success," she said. The group has sponsored or co-sponsored a variety of programs including symphony concerts, children's plays and a children's art camp, photography contests and the new mural in the courthouse square. With the new arts center, "we will bring people to Grove Hill that will not come normally," Norris said. "They will come buy gas and go by the restaurants. We are getting a good reputation for this type of thing." In other action from the Tuesday meeting, a permit for Saturday's parade marking the opening of the Dixie Youth baseball and softball season in Grove Hill was approved. The parade will begin at 9 a.m. with line-up on Church Street in front of Grove Hill Baptist Church and proceed right onto Dubose, then right onto Jackson, then turn right onto Cobb, then turn left onto Church and proceed to S.P. Hudson Park. • A $125 donation was made to the program for the Clarke County Junior Miss pageant. • A $100 donation was approved for a sign for the golf tournament benefiting the Clarke County softball team. • A $50 ad was approved for the Coffeeville 200th birthday cookbook. • A $195 ad was purchased for the Dixie Youth section of The Clarke County Democrat.
• A mobile home permit for 166 Forest Lane was tabled until the next meeting.
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