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Thomasville Insights
Season 6 Episode 6- The Bicentennial Activity Book, 200 Years In 24 Pages
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We sit down with Jennifer Vanderbeek and Mimi Greitzer to share how a free bicentennial activity book helps kids explore 200 years of Thomasville history through hands-on learning. We dig into how the content gets chosen, how the illustrations are drawn, and how community support turns a big idea into something every student can hold.
• overview of the Thomasville 200 Bicentennial Activity Book and what it covers across 200 years
• distribution plan for Pre-K through fifth grade across city schools, county schools, Brookwood, and homeschool families
• the two-year process of brainstorming, revising, and narrowing down to a 24-page activity book
• using an interpretive plan to choose high-impact history moments without getting lost in side stories
• keeping the story accurate while making it fun and age-appropriate for young learners
• illustration and layout challenges, including creating a cover that blends old Broad Street with today
• why funding and sponsorship make it possible to provide the book at no cost to students
• a quick run of Thomasville history facts from 1910 to 1920 and how they still shape the community
• upcoming reminders on voting dates and a family movie night at the Ritz
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Welcome And Fall Banter
SPEAKER_05Welcome to Thomasville Insights with the City of Thomasville. On the podcast, we'll talk to experts on everything from Thomasville history and events to daily operations and city business, all while having some fun in the process.
SPEAKER_03Welcome to Thomasville Insights with the city of Thomasville. I am Austin Reims and I'm here with my co-host Ricky Zambrano. Good morning, Austin. How are we doing today? I'm doing good. We're falling into fall. We got some little bit of fall weather. Everybody's feeling good.
SPEAKER_05One day.
SPEAKER_03The high season of uh of Thomasville is the fall. Um everybody's hopes kind of uh you know hopes rise rise and then they fall. And then they fall because we're falling back into some summer weather.
SPEAKER_05Hey, you notice something? What's that? Uh I'm a little hoarse.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh you you yelling, you you yelling at the TV?
SPEAKER_05I'm I'm playing injured right now. Oh playing injured, yeah. Playing injured.
SPEAKER_03Ricky's such a tough guy.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, tough guy. You know, I gotta get to this mic and fulfill my obligation to you. Um so I'm the I'm playing injured, even though my my my voice is very hoarse from yelling at my uh or instructing. Yelling is a tough word, so instructing my U9 soccer team all weekend.
SPEAKER_03All right, all right. Um so um, you know, uh I'm glad you're instructing.
SPEAKER_05That weekend led into some history.
SPEAKER_03Okay, all right, all right. Um, well, again, uh, you know, Ricky does it all, so he is uh he is a uh a soccer coach uh as uh as he does a bunch for the city
Why The Bicentennial Matters
SPEAKER_03of Thomas Hill as well. And uh we're gonna talk to a couple ladies who do a bunch for our community. So we're gonna talk to uh Jennifer Vanderbeek, and she's the program manager for uh Thomasville Center for the Arts and also Mimi Greitzer, she's the uh curator of engagement, which is a cool title. Uh and she works with uh the Thomas uh the History Center there in Thomasville. So uh this is a cool interview coming up um and a cool product. Uh tell me about the product that we're gonna get into. Or it's not the the uh the book.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, the well the the the bicentennial activity book. Um, you know, again, uh just the whole thought of how that came to be, and that's what we end up talking about. Um you know such such great detail uh about the start of it and the finish and and really you know what it is, it's a way for the kids uh to be a part of history in a fun, interactive way. And uh, you know, that that's cool. That's cool to celebrate history uh with kids. You know, it's important that as we go on throughout the years, that uh that kids and schools and education remains connected to history, um and and and that's really what this project is. So uh again, kudos to to the groups that put this together. Um kudos as well, and we mentioned that at the end of the show, but the the bicentennial committee for all they're doing to celebrate the bicentennial. Um you know, as you look at things and you say, you know, what are you celebrating with Bicentennial? I mean, we're celebrating us, right? We're celebrating our community, uh, those that were with us in the past, those that laid the bricks to begin, um Thomasville, and and and we're living that out today.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and um, you know, uh uh just to um add more to what you're saying, Ricky, um something that people maybe should should think about, but again, you have um certainly art and and history represented in this interview, but um also finance, uh, you know, uh you got to have support, and uh we appreciate those who have supported this project and the Bicentino committee. But uh, you know, it's amazing when you when you start seeing um good works of art or um you know history, um, you're also seeing support of those things as well. And so uh I love to live in a community that sees all of it as important uh and we all benefit from it.
SPEAKER_05Two two good foundations of education, right? Yep. I mean, you know, you talk about that, you got arts and history. That that's that those are two you know pivotal uh parts of the foundation of education.
SPEAKER_03All right. Well, uh Ricky, thank you very much, and uh let's let's get on to this uh important interview welcome ladies.
What’s Inside The Activity Book
SPEAKER_05Thank you. It's a it's a pleasure to have you guys here. We've got a great topic here to talk about, so we're gonna we're really gonna dive right in, but I'm gonna allow you again you guys a second to just if you got anything to add, you want to introduce yourselves a little further, you know, a little bit of when when you moved to Thomasville, anything like that.
SPEAKER_01I moved here at birth.
SPEAKER_05That's right. So born and raised. Born and raised here, yes. In Jennifer?
SPEAKER_02Uh I moved here in 2014 up from Tallahassee.
SPEAKER_05So Okay, so you've still been in the general area.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Okay, perfect. All right. All right, so let's get right into it. Uh, Mimi, for some of our listeners may not be aware of the Thomas Foy 200 Bicentennial Activity Book. Can you inform our listeners what content is actually in the activity book?
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. So the activity book focuses on the last 200 years of Thomasville's history. We start with who was here before all these American settlers arrived, the Appalachian, the um the Muscogee, uh, a little bit of the Seminole Nation coming in as well, and we talk about what the land was like, and then we move into the original settlement of Thomasville, why we've got 200 years of history and not 201 or something. Uh so we talk about Thomas Jefferson Johnson, we talk about the agricultural economy that was here, and then we of course we move through. There's the Civil War and our role in that, there's the resort era that Thomasville is so famous for, where we talk about why people were coming into our area so frequently and so abundantly, and then what happened after that, the movement from this tourist economy to trying new things with factories and industries, and how we've kind of melded all of those things from agriculture to tourism to a little bit of factory businesses around here into modern-day Thomasville. So it covers a little bit of everything.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's that's awesome. Um so do you have like portraits of men and women of the year in this booklet or anything like that? I'd like I don't know why that question's on here, but um somebody insisted that we that we have for those who don't know, uh Ricky is man of the year, yes. I think by this point everybody knows. Oh yeah. I'm making sure of it.
SPEAKER_05I'm making sure that's surprising that uh Imagine Thomasville, yeah. Uh you become the spoke unofficial spoke. Unoff for Imagine Thomasville.
SPEAKER_03I don't think they want me as a spokesman.
SPEAKER_05I think they probably shouldn't. That's right.
SPEAKER_03I think they're gonna have some drops in membership. There's gonna be a phone call. I'm be like, hey Austin. Yeah, okay. We'll have to talk with S Maria button.
SPEAKER_01Unfortunately, the portrait hadn't dried yet for us to include it covered up next time.
SPEAKER_03Next time.
SPEAKER_01That's yeah, 200 years from now.
SPEAKER_03That's right. Yeah, and the uh the 300th, yeah. In 100 years, we'll uh we'll have that portrait.
SPEAKER_01Something like that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Only they wouldn't know. I know. I was gonna say, yeah, I like how they were looking at us like we would know what it is. Like you have way too much faith in us.
SPEAKER_05You look very knowledgeable.
SPEAKER_03I know. Well, I'm not very knowledgeable. If you can look knowledgeable, it's helpful though. And the glasses make it. Like these glasses, I don't need the prescription, I just wear them. Um back to the interview here. Sorry about that aside, but I just had to throw that in there. But uh uh Jennifer, um, tell me about the more on
Getting Books To Every Student
SPEAKER_03the book. Tell me who it's distributed to.
SPEAKER_02It's going out to all of the pre-K through fifth graders in city uh city schools, county schools, and uh and Brookwood as well. So so all the youngsters get copies. I love it.
SPEAKER_01And available to homeschool too. Yes, that's right. That's right. That's amazing.
SPEAKER_05Um yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh Will Glenn and I counted Oh you so you know, you know how much you know how many you paid the price.
SPEAKER_05Uh you know how how we counted those 2,800 books that the county needed. Yeah. I'm still seeing like activity books roaming in my head when I started. That's right. That's right, that's right. Well worth it. Well worth it. And and ladies, before we go, any you guys did wonderful jobs. Yes, thank you.
SPEAKER_03It's a great way to tell our our history, a creative way to tell our history, include uh, I think Thomasville does a good job of this of like pulling people in. Um, you pull in um, you know, tremendous artwork and tremendous uh storytelling to tell our our history, and um hopefully it it it leads to more renewed interest in in local things.
SPEAKER_05So well I mean besides yourselves, uh we did have two other friends that were part of this uh this small group that uh put this all together. Um who were they?
SPEAKER_01So we were part of a group we call ourselves the Educators Committee, but it consists, of course, of me and Jennifer, but also Kitty Spivey, who is at Pebble Hill Plantation, uh, and also Sarah Byrne, who was with the Jack Hadley Black History Museum. And they were very instrumental in helping us come up with ideas and taking those bits of history and creating fun activities that kids can enjoy and still learn something from, and making sure we were being accurate and true to Thomas Filt's past.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Or Ephraim will get you. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02We did not want to risk the wrath of Ephraim.
SPEAKER_03That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER_05That that's a good w a bit of wealth of knowledge and talent sitting at that table. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Thankfully, we weren't sitting at that table.
SPEAKER_03That's right. We weren't let's take note. We weren't asked. We were not asked to be at that table. But that's fantastic. And talent. That would be nice to have for me. But um, so Jennifer, uh, talk about, and this is a this is a hard deal. There's always there's a million ideas. Um, you're in the in the art world, as it were, and uh there's a difference between ideas and execution. And you gotta get it done. Um you gotta get it done on time. So just talk
From Big Ideas To Real Pages
SPEAKER_03about that. I mean, that that's difficult, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02Well, as we were talking about earlier, um off uh recording, this was about a two-year project. The first year was ideas and figuring out what it was going to look like, what what we wanted in the book. And it went through many iterations. Um but eventually we got to the point where like, okay, we have to we have to put something on paper, we have to get a starting point. So we decided on an activity book because it seemed like the most appropriate use of the information and it was um interactive as opposed to a history book or just a picture book, or you know, a children's book. And I ended up putting together three sample pages from some of the high points in history that we had designated, and we're like, okay, let's at least have something, then we can like mark up these pages, see what we like, see what we don't like, and go from there. And that's when the book started to really take form.
SPEAKER_03That's awesome. Yeah, and and uh what's the Steve Jobs quote about a real artist ship, right? They they make product and they they have to have to get it done. Right. Uh so um that was kind of one of his quotes as uh his designers were fighting about what the iPhone would look like or whatever. You you still have to you have to do it. So kudos to you guys who uh who have shipped out a fantastic product that uh the community can enjoy. So Ricky, you got the next question? Uh you could why don't you hit it? Okay, all right. Here we go. Well, since Ricky took over the last podcast, like literally, so um, I get a couple questions here. Maybe uh with so much history in Thomasville and Thomas County, how did the uh History Center help decide what would be highlighted in the book?
Choosing History Without Leaving People Out
SPEAKER_01That was a tough one, it was a tough one. There's there's a lot to cover. Thomasville, I know folks today, if you've lived here all your life, you look at it and you say, Oh, what's there to talk about? There's so much that people just don't know about, and so much that we can say about it and go into in depth and spend hours on. But really, what happened, we looked back and at the Thomasville History Center a few years ago, we put together an interpretive plan. And that was to say, all right, what really matters in telling the story of Thomasville? Can we condense that into elevator pitches? So we've got a list, and this really helped us with the bicentennial committee overall, was saying, all right, if this is this time period, say pre-contact with European settlers, and we're talking about what do people need to know in order to have an idea of what was going on at this time period. So we had those points, and we were able to go through and say, all right, here's this section. If we're writing a page in the book on that and putting activities with it, what do the kids need to know? And that was good at helping us stay on point with everything and not straying into the weeds too much because there are a lot of weeds that we've got to do. It's hard to do, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, there's just a lot of interesting side stories.
SPEAKER_01There are. And we also wanted to make sure, you know, are we telling everybody's story? There are so many groups in Thomasville to cover the history of, and it's hard to say, you know, your history gets to be in the book, yours doesn't. So having to make sure there's a nice balance in there of everybody because this is a book for everybody, all the students who are getting it. We want them to see themselves in that history because they're part of it. Even today. And we talked in the last couple of pages of the book about, you know, now we're moving into the next 200 years. That's gonna be your section. And we tell kids when they come to the museum, you're part of this history, whether you think about it that way or not, what you do today and what you experience is one day gonna be in a history book. So consider that as you move through life. How do you want to be part of that? What do you think you can do to help be part of that? So it's a lot of big questions and trying to condense that down to a uh five-year-old to eleven-year-old level, but I think we managed to capture a lot of that.
SPEAKER_03You got it down to Ricky and I's level. I can testify to that. Five to five to eleven. Yeah, fantastic.
SPEAKER_05Is there any truth to the rumor that had there been one more page, it would have revolved around Austin, the year Austin was born?
SPEAKER_01We were really working on that one, and it just didn't fit. You know, the books like Jennifer brought to us all the information about it. Gotta have uh uh even pages and everything. Just didn't quite make the $100 in sponsorship.
SPEAKER_05Yes, yeah. There you go.
SPEAKER_04There you go.
SPEAKER_01It's an addendum we'll add. Well, I'm I'm sorry, yes, right.
SPEAKER_05Another rumor that your family was asked to provide the extra $100.
SPEAKER_03They declined. They'd pay uh they'd pay money to not have to see it, right? They declined. They lost their phone number. Well, I'll I'll just have to keep working on that uh, you know, Ken Burns 18-hour documentary on myself. Yeah, there we go. Um Jennifer, let's get into Jennifer's thoughts.
SPEAKER_05Let's get into some of the things. Jennifer's cracking up over here. All right, there we go.
Illustration, Accuracy, And The Cover
SPEAKER_05Uh that's the illustration process. That that's really where we go to a level that's uncomprehendable for most of us. Um what takes place in this stage?
SPEAKER_02Well, it's different with every project. This project being history focused, we had to get the we had to get the meat of the book, the the text of the book, what we were trying to say in place first. And so that took a little while to condense those high points of history, those important milestones to pick out which ones would make good um activities. We finally got that done, and I started to place them in pages in the layout program, and we realized that we had 32 pages of possible activities for a book that was only supposed to be 24. So we had to start paring down even before I started illustrating anything. We had to make cuts, and that was that was tough because everybody had their own special pieces that they did not want to see let go. And so it was really, it was a challenge to balance before I even you know broke out the pencils what was gonna go into each section. Because if you look, if you're looking at the activity book um near the page numbers at the bottom on the bottom corners, you'll see those designations that are in that timeline that Mimi was talking about that they use at the History Center. And we were trying to make sure that we had an even distribution as much as possible while also having things that were interesting to kids four or five to 11 years old. So, and once we got the information pared down, then I started doing sketches and pulling reference images. On a lot of the projects I do, I'm doing studies. I'm taking a lot of different references and creating my own version of something to create something that's individual and maybe not unique, but at least my interpretation of it. With history, it's a little different. Thankfully, we had so much information and maps and photographs and old plaques and objects.
SPEAKER_03Which are super cool, by the way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they are very artistic in their own way. Yes, they are amazing. But I would not say that that made it easier. In fact, it kind of made it a little bit more pressure to get things right. You can't do an interpretation of a historical fact or figure or you know uh artifact. So uh it was it was interesting. It was interesting. It was uh how long did I spend on the illustrations? So fast. I mean, yeah, I by that point it seemed like a long time. Well, the whole process again was two years. I think the illustrations for the body of the book maybe took.
SPEAKER_01I mean so you started in fall.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And you were done. I think it was like three or four months. Yes. It was three or four months for the main illustrations and then lots of edits, lots of back and forth as we like honed in. Oh, this needs to be here. Oh, nope, we need something here, looking for any place that we could add more either illustrations that the kids could, you know, use as coloring areas or you know, additional decoration kind of filling space, but also leaving enough negative space. The design of a book like this gets complex just because you're trying to do so much in so few pages. And that was before and that was before I even started the cover. The cover was the last thing that was was done in that.
SPEAKER_03Which is phenomenal.
SPEAKER_02Thank you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, the whole book is is phenomenal. Well, the cover did a great job.
SPEAKER_02The cover came about because I had this idea if we could kind of meld old and new. And so I asked Mimi, do we have a shot of Broad Street? Like just going down the street that shows like the buildings and stuff. And so she had two postcards, one from 1880 something.
SPEAKER_01Something like that in 1920s. And 1920s.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It really captures that move.
SPEAKER_02Right. And then I went out and then set up my camera to take the same view of our current street there at it was uh Jefferson and Broad. And then kind of mushed the two together on the computer and then spent hours, hours, hours to uh recreate them, to draw them and then paint them.
SPEAKER_01And to make them blend so nicely, too. Just to go from the old where we've got the dirty streets before the bricks and the horses and wagons, and then all of a sudden you've got cars and model technology. And one of the big things, the what really takes this from a great idea
Fundraising To Keep It Free
SPEAKER_01to an actual product, that was the funding. And that was something as our smaller group, we were kind of like, how do we accomplish this? And that's when we took it to the bigger bicentennial committee and said, Y'all are good at this. What is what can we do to make this become a reality? And a lot of those folks on that committee were able to say, Oh, we're just gonna go talk to this group and these sponsors, and we'll talk to these folks, and this is gonna happen. And they were able to fundraise. For it, so that this could not just be something that maybe some of us sold around town, but could actually be free for the students here, which was a big, big factor in making this book that we want to provide it to everybody. And so all these students were able to get it at no cost through all these grants that we get and our sponsors who are listed in the book as well.
SPEAKER_03That's awesome. And and and you know, I I love that uh just kind of making a point that that uh art and economics go together, right? I mean, people kind of people neglect that, but you know, I tell people, you know, uh William Shakespeare, old Billy Shakespeare was writing for money. Oh yes, and uh that's you know, he and all all these great artists that you see through the history of time, most of them um they needed patrons. They needed patrons, and and and still to this day, of course. And and so um again, kudos to all of Thomas Will, kudos to you guys, but like for all of it making it, making it happen on the raising the funds, the committee raising the funds, those who are giving the funds uh to make this really um uh just an awesome, awesome artwork, but also just history uh for the kids. That's all that's really neat.
SPEAKER_02And hopefully something that is sort of evergreen. We talk about that in like when you're creating any kind of content, you want it, you don't want it to be subject to, oh, you know, this changed or this, you know, that's only good for like this amount of time. This is history and it's the history of Thomasville. And so hopefully it serves a purpose of not just being, you know, oh, this is a cute page that I can color and then throw away. It actually has some some use and some some life in it.
SPEAKER_01It's something teachers can use as well for their um their curriculum. You know, you can always look at the book and go, oh well, we're learning about this and it ties into this moment in Thomasville history. I could just pull this page and have an activity for the kids. So even once these children who have received the book have uh grown up and graduated, there'll be kids coming in behind them who still need to learn some of these concepts, and they'll be able to take from that book and say, there it is.
SPEAKER_05As we talk about that funding, that's a that's a critical part of it. And uh, you know, we we'd like to thank the West Point class of 77, Her Spoilers, Flowers Foods, Literacy for Thomas County, Thomasville Center for the Arts, Ponders, found uh, and and obviously the City of Thomasville for uh for their role and Center for the Arts and the History Center, the Jack Hadley Black History Museum and Pebblehood Plantation, all of those that played such a role in this. Uh, but there's an important part of this as well, the grant that was received. Uh, that's the Cherito Key Foundation uh fund of the Community Foundation of South Georgia. That was a big part of the funding as well. I was at the council meeting when we accepted that grant. Um, so so you know, a lot of pieces that came together um in order to create this funding for such a you know, really an impactful um piece of our community that that's that's out there. It's out there, it's uh it's out and around. And and and again, just you know, we are uh so thankful had had you guys here to have this conversation. And um, and and I'd also like to thank uh both of you on behalf of your organizations and your organizations uh for all the work that you guys have been doing throughout this year to celebrate the bicentennial.
Bicentennial Events Worth Noting
SPEAKER_05Um both the Center for the Arts and the History Center. You guys have just been really killing it throughout the year. Um so many events focused around the bicentennial, and we were talking about that earlier. It's you know, you guys are history, so you're always celebrating history, but but you still found a way to do it. And and um, Austin, you mentioned what was your favorite uh event at the Center for the Arts throughout this year?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they um I it was 200 art pieces. Uh I don't remember the title. It's 200 for 200. 200 for 200, um, which if I was smart, I could remember that. Um, but it was just a really fun event, a lot of different artists, different types of artists. Um, I thought it was a very great community celebration that that um that the Center for the Arts really captured right there.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and so again, you know, thank you ladies for being here and giving us so many details that you know, obviously Austin and I are here, and I counted the books, but there's so much information that that we just didn't know about on how it started and where where it ended and all that. So we really appreciate you guys taking the time to be here with us. But but meaning we're gonna we're gonna use you a little bit while while we have you here. Um, as many know, in honor of the bicentennial, uh our 2026 podcast have included Thomasville History, a that you know segment. So um it's provided by History Center. So we've got you here. We've got we've got one of those experts here, so we're gonna let her uh use her historian voice. Yes, right, and sound a lot better than us talking about.
SPEAKER_03That's right. That's right. Get get ready, audience. It's gonna sound intelligent now. Here we go.
SPEAKER_01A lot of pressure there.
SPEAKER_03No, not if you know us.
SPEAKER_01Did you know? All right.
Thomasville History Facts From 1910
SPEAKER_01In 1910, land to the northwest of Thomasville is purchased by John F. Archbold, son of Standard Oil Executive John D. Archbold. He named the plantation Chinkapen Plantation. Fifteen years later, he'd create Archbold Memorial Hospital.
SPEAKER_03How about that? And where would Chinkapen like the name? Anybody know anything about that one? I don't know anything about the name.
SPEAKER_05Do you want to know something? You know why I pivoted to that? I didn't want to have to say that word. Oh, yeah, we get it. I was scheduled, it says Ricky. Yeah. Let's get Mimi to read that.
SPEAKER_03Go ahead, Mimi. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01You're okay. In 1915, a new East Side School building is built in McIntyre Park. Today it is the current home of the Thomasville Center for the Arts.
SPEAKER_03Hey yo, which we are quite grateful for custody of. Beautiful building.
SPEAKER_01In 1919, Flowers Baking Company is founded, and the new factory is built on Madison Street. I'd like to include it also made ice cream in this time.
SPEAKER_03Ice cream was kind of their first was it ice cream came first, or was it ice cream and bread together?
SPEAKER_01Bread first and ice cream on the side.
SPEAKER_03I gotcha. Okay. Man, that's that's awesome. Sounds like a healthy breakfast. Breakfast of champions.
SPEAKER_02You can make bread with ice cream too in our recipes.
SPEAKER_01Bread-flavored ice cream. That's better, too. And of course, in 1920, Thomas County's population stood at 33,044 citizens, up nearly 4,000 since the new year 1910.
SPEAKER_03All right. Fantastic.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I know. That's sorry.
SPEAKER_03Maybe you're hired. We don't have any money, but you're hired.
SPEAKER_05But let look at 10-year time period. That's an impactful 10-year time period that's still impacting, that's still here with us today.
SPEAKER_01And that's outside of the resort period. That is people wanting to move here for jobs and opportunities.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. A lot of a lot of a lot of history right in made right in this era, which is fun to talk about. And just as we kind of look at the population as well. So Ricky, you had one last announcement
Voting Dates, Movie Night, Closing
SPEAKER_03coming up.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, we've got some upcoming events. So as we know, it's uh election season. So elections are on November 3rd. Uh early voting will take place from October 13 through October 30th. So, right, right, right, it's right here. It's here. Um, obviously, early voting takes place at the Thomas County Elections Office. And um, you know, coming coming up on October 17th, we have Family Night, Family Movie Night at the Ritz. And it will be at 7:30 p.m. And that would be Toy Story 5 starring Austin Reims.
SPEAKER_03I was gonna say, I, you know, um, I was I thought it would be your life story. I'm surprised Pixar hasn't done that already, but I hear that's in the works.
SPEAKER_05Um it's coming out with the Saban documentary.
SPEAKER_03Yeah oh boy, oh boy. Uh here we go. All right. Well, uh before this thing gets way off the rails, let's let's end it here. Again, thanks to to our guest for being here. Um, Jennifer Mimi and uh Ricky, you had one last thing you wanted to add to the book.
SPEAKER_05Just as a special thank you to the entire bicentennial committee. Yes, fantastic work, great work to put everything together for the year, lay everything out, uh, so many different moving parts, so many uh so many organizations that are involved with it. If you'd like to know more about the organizations that are part of the bicentennial committee, you can go to thomasville.org. Our bicentennial page has a great listing of all of our um all the members of the committee.
SPEAKER_03Yep. And again, I want to thank everybody for listening. And uh please uh subscribe to us and listen to us on your favorite listening app.
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