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Railroad Days brings fun to the community
St. James Plaindealer
Last week and over the weekend the St. James community celebrated Railroad Days with a week full of events. There were runs, games for kids, and the parade to just name a few things that occurred during the week.
On Saturday a lot of people were out enjoying all the activities the day had. One of the big hits for the kids was the Schmidt s Bakery donut eating contests. For each age group, there were at least five kids ready to eat a donut.
After the contest, there was a car show, kids games, horse-drawn wagon rides, and the parade, which had a large turnout of people in and observing it.
Woman who immigrated as a child thanks her Minnesota hometown with mural
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Jun. 13—Laura Murvartian spoke only a few words of English when she arrived in St. James. She and her parents and sisters were one of the first Hispanic immigrant families in the small town in which over one-third of its residents are now Hispanic or Latino. Now a successful business executive in Georgia, Murvartian is giving her adopted hometown a colorful thank you for its warm welcome 45 .
Mural honoring past and present St. James residents to be painted next month
St. James Plaindealer
Starting in early May, work on a new mural in St. James, along the east side of the Eyecare Center of St. James, will start, with former St. James resident Laura Murvartian commissioning the project for artist Yehimi Cambron.
Cambron is a well-known artist in Atlanta, and the two recently were in St. James on April 10 and 11, taking portraits of St. James residents of all ages for the mural. The mural will be Cambron s first work outside of the Atlanta area. [The theme of the mural] is how the community s legacy and how [it] poured into us, and now we are their legacy, said Murvartian. There will be more prominent portraits from the people that were engaged with our lives and were there from 1976 to 1986. And then we want to feature similar individuals of today s community the people that are engaged in the community today.
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