Celebrate National Safe Boating Week ~ Lake Lanier Association

Our friends with the Lake Lanier Association (LLA) invite you to an event that will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2015, at Aqualand Marina from 10 AM until 3 PM. They’ll be celebrating the beginning of National Safe Boating Week (May 16th-23rd) with lots of information …

Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club Paddlers Pass Competitors

Our pal Brenda Miller from the Lake Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club (LCKC) shared some good news with us about how our local paddlers fared at the USA Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Team Trials recently held in Oklahoma City. According to Brenda, seven of the eleven paddlers …

Shoal Creek Campground on Lake Lanier

Shoal Creek Campground does exist.  It is not in the federal witness protection program, neither is it closed nor is it a mythical place, such as Brigadoon. It’s just hard to find information on this glorious place to relax on Lake Lanier. Shoal Creek Campground is …

2015 Spring Chicken Festival

You’re never too old to enjoy spring … especially at Gainesville’s annual Spring Chicken Festival! This year’s Spring Chicken Festival is going to be the best yet. There’s no way that anything could rain on this parade of food, fun, people and artwork on the …

Lake Lanier Association’s 2015 Progress & Goals

The Lake Lanier Association held its annual meeting on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at Port Royale and everything went swimmingly.  Ken Cook, local meteorologist and lake dweller, spoke to almost 400 people who braved rainy weather forecasts to attend the event. This is the group …

Lake Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club & U.S. National Team Trials

Our pal Brenda Miller tells lakelanier.com that paddlers from the Lake Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club (LCKC) are among those headed to Oklahoma City for the US National Team Trials on April 24-25, 2015. Twenty-one paddlers who call Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club their home team …

Lake Lanier Association’s Annual Meeting April 18, 2015

When you think of business meetings, you might imagine boring managers (who don’t have a clue about what’s really happening at the company) droning on about TPS Reports. Forget that. The 2015 Lake Lanier Association Annual Meeting, scheduled for Saturday, April 18th from 4:00 until 6:00 …

MotoAmerica Motorcycle Racing Returns to Road Atlanta

Watching motorcycles race on the twelve turns in 2.54 miles at the Road Atlanta racetrack (near the little spot on the map known as Chestnut Mountain, GA) doesn’t sound as exciting as riding your own motorcycle on the exhilarating Tail of the Dragon, on Route 129 …

Elena Myers Races Like a Girl at Road Atlanta’s MotoAmerica

Don’t think girls can ride motorcycles?  Come to Road Atlanta over the weekend of April 17-19, 2015 and watch Elena Myers race like a girl in the big league MotoAmerica road races. It didn’t go over too well at the time, but when I met Darrell …

Apology to Walter Daves & The Sautee Nacoochee Center Contra Dances

Our pal, Walter Daves, is an amazing guy.  Folks at the Sautee Nacoochee Center Association (SNCA) — located in urban Sautee Nacoochee, not far from Sautee, Georgia — describe Walter as: “Sautee Contra Coordinating Committee member, Tuesday Learn and Dance caller & sometimes Saturday big dance caller, …