| What's the future for Calhoun County? Are we stuck in a downward spiral? Is there hope? If so, where is that hope coming from?
A panel discussion on "The Future of Calhoun County," will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening at Calhoun Middle/High School.
The panel of Calhoun County residents, made up of Ron Blankenship, Superintendent of Schools; Barbara Lay, CEO of Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center; Tom McColley, craftsman and small business developer; and Bob Weaver, President of the County Commission, will take part in the round-table discussion.
Maggie Bennett will serve as host and moderator. At 8 p.m., audience members will be given a chance to join the discussion by asking questions and offering their own ideas and opinions. Admission is free.
The round-table is one of the events in conjunction with "Yesterday's Tomorrows," the Smithsonian exhibit currently on display at Calhoun Middle/High School.
The exhibit shows what people throughout the Twentieth Century thought the future was going to look like.
Tony Russell, coordinator of Lights On! said "It seems especially fitting that we use the theme of the exhibit to try to imagine our own future."
"People care passionately about these hills and hollows that make up our home," he said.
Russell asks county residents to come and join the discussion about the future, and try to figure out how to get there.
Other events connected with "Yesterday's Tomorrows:"
The War of the Worlds," a film based on H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel, will be shown at Calhoun Middle/High School at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The showing is another part of the activities accompanying "Yesterday's Tomorrows," the traveling Smithsonian exhibit which is at the High School now through June 6.
There will be a burial of a time capsule at Calhoun County Park on June 1.
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