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Cumming service organization honors charitable member CUMMING, Ga. —The ChestateeRiver Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) awarded Feb. 13 the DAR Community Service Award to Linda Jones, founder and organizer of Treat the Troops Southern Style. Since founding Treat the Tell the Herald Troops (TTT) in 2012, Jones and Send photos, announcements hundreds of Cumming commuand letters to newsroom@ nity volunteers have packed care appenmedia.com. packages for overseas military and even canine military. O ver the years, the care packages have amounted to over 17,655 boxes and 2.1 million cookies. Most of the treats are home-baked by volunteers. Treat the Troops also provides toiletries and includes student letters to soldiers in the packages. J ones has worked tirelessly to provide items, boxes, funds for shipping and even a postal truck to load the 300-500 boxes packed at each packing event, Chapter Regent PerrieTucker said. Jones has volunteered thousands of hours to organize and arrange each TTT packing night and Chestatee River DAR was honored to present her with a framed DAR Community Service Award certificate, Community Service lapel pin, and a rose bouquet. For anyone interested in volunteering at Treat the Troops, their upcoming packing night will be on May 8 starting at 7 p.m. at the Cumming VFW Post 9143 on Dahlonega Hwy. — Carl Appen

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Linda Jones, center, holds the Daughters of the American Revolution Community Service Award at a Feb. 13 presentation in Cumming.

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Forsyth County commissioners discuss a change to the county’s alcohol ordinance that allows businesses a license if their sales are derived from entertainment activities at their Feb. 20 meeting.

Forsyth County paves way for food, fun, alcohol sales By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County has broadened its rules on alcohol licensing to include businesses specializing in food and fun. At a public hearing Feb. 20, the County Commission amended the alcohol ordinance to provide a path for activity-based entertainment establishments to serve alcohol in the county. The amendment adds a provision that allows the businesses an alcohol license if they derive 70 percent of sales from combination of food and recreation activities.

The original ordinance restricted alcohol licenses to businesses that drew half of sales from food. Activity-based entertainment businesses have been dubbed “eatertainment” within the hospitality industry and can include a variety of activities from ax-throwing, arcade games, pickleball, escape rooms and miniature golf. Alex Warner, vice president of economic development for the Chamber of Commerce, said a popular venue in unincorporated Forsyth County that meets the eatertainment criteria is X-Golf at the Halcyon retail and restaurant hub. X-Golf features a handful of finger foods from soft pretzels to

cauliflower bites, and a full bar with specialty cocktails, beer in buckets and pitchers, hard seltzers and other spirits. Warner said he expects similar additional businesses within the county soon. “I think we’ll see a few of them in 2025,” Warner said. The City of Cumming, which has its own alcohol licensing ordinance, is home to Tin Cup Grill at City Center. It offers a 14-hole miniature golf course; sophisticated brunch, lunch and dinner menus; and craft cocktails, beer and wine selections.

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