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The Big Canoe Chapel Women’s Fellowship invites all women to a picnic.  And not just any picnic. This event, “Come to the Turquoise Table” picnic, inspired by Kristin Schell’s book, “The Turquoise Table,” is all about “Finding community and connection in your own front yard”, a quote from he…

The May 26 meeting featuring Celebrity Cruises’ new ship Apex with trips to the Greek Islands will be a double session, with the first meeting at 4 p.m. and the second at 6:15 p.m. in the Mountains View room at The Clubhouse at Lake Sconti. Seating is limited, so please call Dream Vacations,…

The Big Canoe Chapel Women’s Fellowship invites all new members and ladies interested in learning more about the Women’s Fellowship to the New Member Breakfast on June 12. The event will take place in Cousins Hall at The Big Canoe Chapel from 9 to 10:30 a.m.  A complimentary delicious breakf…

Big Canoe Car Club members drove 38 cars to the club’s event at the crossroads parking lot in Tate on a beautiful Saturday morning May 1. Passersby, noticing the big collection of vintage and new cars of all types, joined the event with their unique cars making it a showcase of beautiful car…

This year’s hike in Nature Valley will have something for everyone. Everyone is welcome to join us. We will meet at the Wellness  Center at 9 a.m. and hike via the Wildflower Trail (easy) to the Lake Trail (moderate) to the Jeep Trail parking lot on Wilderness. Total approximately 1.1 miles.…

The residents of Big Canoe probably don’t know just how fortunate they are to have the physical facilities that they’ve grown accustom to in Big Canoe. Take Lake Petit for example. If the dam and the lake had to be constructed today, it would run into the millions. Did you know that when it …

The Big Canoe Chapel Women’s Fellowship invites all women to a picnic.  And not just any picnic!  This event, “Come to the Turquoise Table” picnic, inspired by Kristin Schell’s book, “The Turquoise Table” is all about “Finding community and connection in your own front yard,” a quote from he…

During the beautiful springs we have here in North Georgia, we all think about gardens, often visit gardens, and sometimes plant gardens. 

Big Canoe Chapel Women’s Fellowship has a strong and active outreach program providing opportunities to volunteer in the community.  One such opportunity is with Jasper’s Community Thrift Store, located at 110 Samaritan Drive, with the mission to “serve members of our community who find them…

As we shared with readers in April, the Big Canoe Chapel Benevolence Committee’s mission is to provide support to individuals as well as charitable and faith-based organizations in need, focusing on Pickens and Dawson counties.  Our assistance is primarily in the form of financial support, b…

Members of the Big Canoe/North Georgia Friendship Force have not been traveling this past year due to the pandemic but we have been connecting with other clubs and each other via Zoom calls. Our last gathering was in person at Gibbs Gardens March 23. It was a lovely day, seeing many of our m…

The charity concert at The Terraces on Sunday, April 11 was a huge success from every angle: perfect weather, money raised to help ACES and Ruth House, incredible music and 250 very happy ticket holders.  Sponsored by the Big Canoe Black Bear Society with support from the Big Canoe Chapel th…

The project to remove the rotted swimming-platform wood pilings and to conduct an inspection of the Disharoon Lake drainage system was complicated by the discovery of a leak last week. Since then, work crews have constructed a temporary dike that will divert Disharoon Creek and allows the dr…

Who doesn’t love a kitten!  They are so adorable and get into so much mischief.  They are always entertaining us and melting our hearts.  There is a good reason spring is known as “kitten season” as a  lot of litters are born around this time.  BCAR has taken in several litters recently and …