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Mixed in with small locally owned<br />
restaurants and specialty stores you<br />
can also find a number of little galleries<br />
focusing on painting, sculpture, jewelry,<br />
and gifts. There’s a homegrown quality<br />
to a lot of downtown’s independent<br />
businesses and the personality and<br />
creativity of their owners is half the<br />
fun. A fresh food and juice bar doubles<br />
as an art gallery and meeting space at<br />
the Humanitree House on 8th St. and<br />
at Sweet Sticks Skateboard Shop on<br />
Broad St. you’ll find the owners screen<br />
printing original designs on sweatshirts<br />
and offering kids discounts for good<br />
report cards.<br />
Augusta also hosts enough festivals,<br />
outdoor concert series, and sporting<br />
activities to keep your calendar pretty<br />
full just about all year long. While tourists<br />
and locals alike take part in watching<br />
the internationally known Masters Golf<br />
Tournament. The first week in April also<br />
offers exclusive acts during the Major<br />
Rager, Rock for Dough, or Partee on<br />
the Green. In September downtown<br />
transforms for the Arts in the Heart<br />
festival, where arts vendors and crafts<br />
people from all over the South East set up<br />
shop alongside foods stalls from almost<br />
every country imaginable. A relative<br />
newcomer, the annual Westobou festival<br />
brings contemporary art, music, and films<br />
to the Garden City and is not to be missed.<br />
As you can tell, there’s no shortage of<br />
things to do. I recommend getting out<br />
there, getting involved, and having<br />
some fun!<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
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