Cobb County's Main Calendar of Events

Nov. 6-8 and 12-15 - Non-profit organization, Curtain Call Youth Players, performs stage musical “Bye Bye Birdie.” The Art Place-Mountain View, 3330 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta. The satirical play, set in 1958, tells the story of rock-and-roll superstar Conrad Birdie who is drafted into the army and plans a farewell performance on the Ed Sullivan Show to promote his song, “One Last Kiss.” For tickets or more information, call 678-560-8001 or www.ccyp.org.

Nov. 10 - Board of Commissioners meeting. 9 a.m. BOC Room, second floor, 100 Cherokee St., Marietta.

Nov. 11 - Board of Zoning Appeals variance hearing. 1 p.m. BOC Room, second floor, 100 Cherokee St., Marietta.

Nov. 13 - Lunch and Learn: Holiday decorations from the garden. Noon. Central Library, 266 Roswell St., Marietta. Presented by Cobb master gardener Becky Blades. Bring your lunch and enjoy an hour-long presentation on how to use greenery and berries to make festive holiday decorations.

Nov. 13-14 - Marietta Bluegrass Festival. Jim Miller Park. Friday, 6-11 p.m.; Saturday, noon-10:30 p.m. Friday, adults: $10, under 12, free. Saturday, adults: $12, under 12, free. For details, call 770-961-5974.

The newly-opened Cobb Safety Village is off to a great start, but the Safety Village Foundation needs the community's help in keeping it operational and up-to-date. The foundation is hosting a benefit where all of the proceeds will go to the upkeep of the village.

Tickets are still available for the Stop, Drop, Rock 'N' Roll gala set for 6:30-10:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7. The event will feature live music, food, dancing, public safety demonstrations and interactive tours of the Safety Village. The emcee for the evening is Moby in the Morning.

Tickets are available for $100 per person. Group packages are $500 or $1,000 and include tickets, a personal tour by public safety officials and future placement of a personalized brick at the village.

For more information or to RSVP, visit cobbcounty.org/safetyvillage or contact Annette Friant at 770-528-3313. TV23 also spoke with Helen Goreham, district 1 commissioner and foundation board member, to explain more about the event (video)

The Family Dependency Treatment Court Program recently received a more than $445,000 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Congressman Phil Gingrey will present the grant 9:30 a.m., Monday, Nov. 9, in the BOC Room, second floor, 100 Cherokee St., Marietta. The FDTC program began as a part of Cobb Juvenile Court in 2006 and is designed to break the cycle of substance abuse and neglect. The program partners with Mother's Making A Change, a Community Services Board treatment program, to provide substance abuse treatment and education. It assists and monitors families in treatment and during their recovery for a minimum of two years. The FDTC program has been extremely successful and the grant will help it provide more services to families. The program will be able to hire a full-time in-home therapist; obtain a professional evaluator who will review current procedures and offer strategies to improve efficiency; purchase a screening tool that will help the program document the success of treatment with clients; and implement new family-oriented education and treatment. The grant will be distributed over a three-year period.

A District 1 town hall meeting will be held 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Public Safety Training Center, located at 2109 Valor Drive, Marietta. Commissioner Helen Goreham will host the informative meeting and provide information about projects in the district and progress being made throughout the community. All district 1 residents are encouraged to attend. For more information, call 770-528-3313 or visit cobbcounty.org/goreham.

Cobb County will hold its next Keep Cobb Beautiful Electronics Recycling Day Saturday, Nov. 14, at two Marietta locations. The event will be held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Jim Miller Park, 2245 Callaway Road, and Piedmont Church, 570 Piedmont Road. Residents are encouraged to bring in their old computer monitors, microwave ovens, computer CPUs, stereos, laptops, copiers, modems, cell phones or printers to be recycled for free, rather than having the items added to a landfill. Other items accepted at no charge include video machines, disk drives, VCRs, telephones, film and digital cameras, CD players, portable radios, CD-ROMs and scanners. Televisions are accepted, but there is a $10 fee charged for each one. For a complete list of recyclable items, visit cobbcounty.org/kcb. In addition to electronics, workers at the locations will be accepting new or gently-used shoes to benefit the charity Soles4Souls. For more information, visit giveshoes.org.

Commissioner Tim Lee will host an informative town hall meeting for district 3 residents 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 16, at Marcus Jewish Community Center. People are invited to learn about projects happening in the community and get their questions answered. The community center is located between Sandy Plains Road and Holly Springs Road at 2509 Post Oak Tritt Road, Marietta.. For more information, call 770-528-3317 or visit cobbcounty.org/lee.

Season tickets for the 2010 Encore Series at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre are on sale now. The season will begin with live shows Jan. 21-24 by local Pebblebrook High School ComPAny 2010.

Popular music vocal group The 5th Dimension, best known for hit singles from the 1960s and 1970s such as "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" and "Up, Up and Away," will take the stage Saturday, Feb. 13. Country singer Julianne Hough will perform on Saturday, March 6. Hough, who released a Christmas album last year, is a two-time professional dance champion on the television show “Dancing with the Stars.”

The Osmond Brothers, who have performed for audiences for almost 50 years, will demonstrate their singing talents on Saturday, March 13. The appearance will feature Wayne, Jay and Jimmy Osmond.

Frankie Avalon, famous as an acting and singing teen idol during the 1950s, will perform on Saturday, March 27. His 38 movies include “Beach Blanket Bingo” and “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.” Actress, singer and comedian Vicki Lawrence and her alter ego “Mama” will close out the season with their stylings on Saturday, April 10.

Individual show tickets will go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 18. The Jennie T. Anderson Theatre is located at 548 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta. For more information, call 770-528-8490.

Chairman Sam Olens and County Manager David Hankerson recently presented signs from the former Naval Air Station Atlanta to Dan Cox of the Marietta Museum of History and Bob Ormsby of the Aviation Museum of Marietta.

The signs will serve as permanent reminders of the county's gratitude and appreciation to the sailors, Marines and civilian employees and families who served our community and country valiantly over the 50 years the Marietta base was open. NAS Atlanta closed as a result of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission report.

The Georgia National Guard recently assumed ownership of the site and is building its new Joint Forces Headquarters there.

The Theatre Project will present Disney's "Aladdin Jr." Nov. 6-8 at Mable House Amphitheatre. The performances will be Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person. Children 12 and under are free. VIP tables that seat four are also available for $25. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic and enjoy dinner and a show. For more information, visit mablehouse.org. To reserve a VIP table, call 770-819-3285.

Anderson Farm Road will be closed to thru traffic between Ewing Road and Flint Hill Road Monday, Nov. 9,-Wednesday, Nov. 25, to replace a water main at the Silver Comet Trail crossing. For detour information, visit the "Road Reports" section at cobbcounty.org/dot.