On June 14^th at the City Council meeting in Ball Ground, Debra Garrard, President of BGBCA, presented to Mayor Rick Roberts a check from our fundraising efforts at the April event at Homiller House. Sally Eubanks was also present from BGBCA. Comments from Debra to the Mayor and City Council were as follows:

  “As a result of our event and fundraiser at the Homiller House in April of this year, on behalf of the Ball Ground Business & Community Association, I’m pleased to present to you for the City of Ball Ground a check in the amount of $5,000.00 to be used for purchase of additional benches and trash receptacles for the downtown area. Our association, which is comprised of area businesses and community individuals is happy to be able to provide this gift to our beloved city.” 

Ribbon Cutting for Sull Graphics

 On Wednesday, June 6^th, in conjunction with the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce, the Ball Ground Business Association formally welcomed Sull Graphics to Cherokee County with induction into the Chamber and a ribbon cutting . The ceremony took place at 11am, and included refreshments and a tour of the facility after the formal announcements.
  
Speaking for Ball Ground Business Association, President Debra Garrard stated "I'm happy to be here today to officially welcome a wonderful community-oriented business to our organization. Sull Graphics provides exciting state of the art digital graphics printing and marketing products for their clients. They are actively engaged with folks at the Cherokee Chamber as evidenced by this gathering here today, and also with local high schools and other organizations to bring training and job opportunities to our local workforce.. Since joining our organization in January of this year, Sull Graphics has demonstrated great generosity in support of the Business Association's projects as well as making their very excellent conference room available to us for our monthly board meetings. All of this to say, we are so glad you guys decided to come and make your home in Cherokee County with us. We are glad you are here, and happy to formally celebrate your arrival and your undoubtedly bright future among us."

We are pleased to announce UNIVERSAL ALLOY CORPORATION as our June 2018 Business of the month. We want to thank them for their service to our community.

Universal Alloy Corporation was incorporated in the state of California in October 1961 and began operation of its first small extrusion press in our Anaheim facility. As the commercial aircraft market increased and the company grew, a second plant was opened in September 1997 in Canton, Georgia to better serve customers in the Eastern United States. The desire for a stronger presence in the European market prompted UAC to construct a state-of-the-art facility in Dumbravita, Romania in 2009. The continuing success of the company has allowed for multiple expansions of the Canton facility and most recently the newly constructed facility in Ball Ground, Georgia which began operation second half 2017.

Universal Alloy Corporation (UAC) provides hard alloy aluminum extrusions to the aerospace industry and other applications requiring high strength aluminum.
Our presses range in size with a variety of diameters up to our largest 29 inch container on our 16,200 ton press providing small and intermediate as well as large 
heavy press shapes. UAC is qualified with all major aircraft manufacturers and specializes in hard to make and tight tolerance shapes. In addition to extrusions, our worldwide capabilities include casting, machining, surface treatment, stretch-forming and assembly providing our customers a full range of services to accommodate their requirements.

Ball Ground Historical Society

Our "Member of the Quarter" for 2nd Quarter this year is the Ball Ground Historical Society. BGHS is a valued promoter and protector of our shared history, and sponsors wonderful programs to inform and educate us about our history on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm at City Hall in Ball Ground located at 315 Valley Street. Meetings are open to the public. BGHS is very supportive of the efforts of BGBCA and are currently a Gold Sponsor, and Raffle Basket donor for our event at Stripling-Lovelady-Homiller house in April. They also arranged for Frank Homiller, (of the Homiller family) to be the featured speaker at their monthly meeting on March 27th. Mr. Homiller brought lots of "before and after" pictures of the restoration of the house, and was a wealth of information. We appreciate BGHS's collaboration with us to bring more visibility to this wonderful event. Additionally, individual members of the Society are supporting our fundraising efforts by buying tickets to attend the event, which will in turn increase our ability to provide funds to support projects benefiting our community.  Thank you BGHS! You are a wonderful community partner!