Facility celebrates nearly 3 decades hosting Oconee's Star Student program
Five high school students who earned the title Star Student, along with their Star Teachers, gathered on the morning of Feb. 17 at the Family Life Enrichment Center in North High Shoals for a breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, grits, gravy and biscuits.
This hot breakfast - followed by comments from some of the area's brightest students - has become a tradition at this facility, which opened 30 years ago. For the past 28 years Family Life has hosted the Star Student breakfast, which is sponsored locally by the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce.
A long line of students have made their way through the cafeteria line here, with most of those star students from the past now pursuing a successful career in the real world.
But these students, like most high school seniors, are first looking at what's next in their education.
A history of service
Family Life opened its doors in April 1981 as a 100-bed nursing home facility and assisted-living quarters.
At the breakfast, Athens Academy Associate Headmaster J.P. Watson, who presided over the Star Student program, thanked the owners, Joe and Magda Bennett, for "their long-term service here in Oconee County and in particular this the 28th year for their hosting the Star Student and Teacher Recognition Breakfast."
Magda Bennett told the gathering, which included business leaders and representatives, that it has been a pleasure for the "health care ministry" to host the breakfast.
The facility is now a landmark for the High Shoals community. Joe Bennett said soon after Family Life opened, he saw the need to have a real celebration for the star students and teachers. In those years, about the only meeting places for such an event was at the high school or elementary schools, he said.
"I felt like it would be a good setting for the community," he said. "There was nothing around when we opened out here."
It's also become a family tradition, said his wife, Magda Bennett.
"We have five children and they've all grown up in the business," she said.
In the early days of the Star breakfast, there were two high schools. Today there are five, with the addition of another public school and two more private s
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