The Glennville Sweet Onion Festival
is Saturday, May 12, 2012
is Saturday, May 12, 2012
Onion Festival Expecting
Sunny Skies for Saturday
For the 36th year, Glennville is celebrating the harvest of the country’s Vidalia sweet onion crop with a grand parade and festival this Saturday, May 12, at the State Farmers’ Market on South Veterans Blvd. (Hwy. 301 S.) in Glennville.Sunny Skies for Saturday
Katy Bland, 2012 Miss Georgia Sweet Onion, who was crowned on April 21, reigns over the festivities. She is promoting the festival on WTOC Channel 11 and will ride the City of Glennville float with her court in the 10 a.m. parade Saturday
Sharpe Field dedication is May 11
After months of planning and preparation, Sharpe Field will be dedicated this Friday, May 11, at 5 p.m. at Glennville Middle School (GMS), the former Glennville High School (GHS). The public is invited to attend.
Sterling and Shannon Sharpe, both graduates of Glennville High School, Sterling in 1984 and Shannon in 1986, played football on the field that will now bear their name. Both are college graduates who went on to have astounding, record-setting careers in the NFL. Shannon was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in August of 2011.
After months of planning and preparation, Sharpe Field will be dedicated this Friday, May 11, at 5 p.m. at Glennville Middle School (GMS), the former Glennville High School (GHS). The public is invited to attend.
Sterling and Shannon Sharpe, both graduates of Glennville High School, Sterling in 1984 and Shannon in 1986, played football on the field that will now bear their name. Both are college graduates who went on to have astounding, record-setting careers in the NFL. Shannon was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in August of 2011.
Life of Captain Robert
DeLoach remembered
The life of the late Captain Robert Osgood DeLoach is remembered as one of patriotic service to his country. The former Glennville High School (GHS) football stadium, now the Glennville Middle School sports stadium, is named in memory of Captain DeLoach.
Robert was born on July 7, 1918, to Robert Osgood DeLoach, Sr., and Amanda Alexander DeLoach of Glennville.
He was a 1935 graduate of GHS and was well known as a football star. A May 16, 1935, story in The Glennville Sentinel, entitled “Class from Glennville on visit to Washington,” mentions him as one of the 20 GHS seniors on the trip.
DeLoach remembered
The life of the late Captain Robert Osgood DeLoach is remembered as one of patriotic service to his country. The former Glennville High School (GHS) football stadium, now the Glennville Middle School sports stadium, is named in memory of Captain DeLoach.
Robert was born on July 7, 1918, to Robert Osgood DeLoach, Sr., and Amanda Alexander DeLoach of Glennville.
He was a 1935 graduate of GHS and was well known as a football star. A May 16, 1935, story in The Glennville Sentinel, entitled “Class from Glennville on visit to Washington,” mentions him as one of the 20 GHS seniors on the trip.
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