Heroes Day Set for Saturday

They serve us every day and rarely get the recognition they deserve - firemen, EMTs/Paramedics, Sheriff deputies, 911 operators, military, veterans, reserves, and teachers. They do their jobs because they believe in what they are doing and have the love for it in their heart.

As a small token of appreciation, the September Saturdays Festival will honor them with Heroes Day this Saturday, Sept. 28. Heroes Day will include the Touch-a-Truck Experience with public safety and military vehicles and equipment for the young and the young at heart to climb on and in.  The Touch-a-Truck Experience will include the Douglas County Fire/EMS Department, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department, and the City of Douglasville Police Department. The Teachers of the Year in the Douglas County School System will be recognized at 2 p.m. on the Courthouse stage.

The 11th annual September Saturdays Festival is the largest annual event in the County and is reminiscent of the old county fairs where the community fairs where the community came together. The Festival recreates the feeling with the Community Marketplace that will contain more than 120 vendors and exhibitors. The food court will offer up delicious delights from nine vendors including festival funnel cakes, snow 
cones, and kettle corn.

Concerts and programs will be presented every 30 minutes on the Courthouse steps, beginning with the Presentation of Colors by the US Navy Sea Cadets and the National Anthem by the Dorsett Shoals Elementary School Chorus at 12 noon, to the closing demonstration by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department K9 Unit at 5:30 p.m.

The Flint Hill Masons will have their Computerized Child ID Program (CHIP) in the Courthouse Atrium; the Friends of the Douglas County Library will have its Used Book Sale in Citizen’s Hall; and the Douglas County Lions Club will host free Vision Screenings in the Tag Office Lobby during the day.

Children will delight in free inflatable games, free train ride, and free carnival ride on the grounds. The Society for Creative Anachronism will recreate the Middle Ages on the Courthouse lawn with reenactments and sword fights.

It’s all fun; it’s all free; and its sole purpose is to celebrate community.  The festival goes from 11:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a free outdoor movie, “Epic,” at 8 p.m.

The festival has free admission, free parking and free features due to the generosity of community-minded businesses.
• Gold sponsors include SunTrust Bank, AT&T, West Georgia Technical College, Coca-Cola, Douglas County Farm Bureau, and 
Thornton Chevrolet.
• Silver sponsors include Resurgens Orthopaedics, Kaiser Permanente, Georgia’s Own Credit Union, Google, GreyStone Power, 
Jones Wynn Funeral Homes, and Georgia Power.
• The stage sponsor is the Douglas County Sentinel.
• Media sponsors include the Douglas County Sentinel and Chapel Hill News and Views.

September Saturdays is a program of the Douglas County Board of Commissioners through its Department of Communications and 
Community Relations.