Fast cars; funnel cakes; officer of the year

Two annual October events will bring thousands of visitors to Hall County this week.

*First up, the annual running of the Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta with preliminary preparations and events beginning Wednesday and the main event on Saturday:

Motul Petit Le Mans (roadatlanta.com)

*Then, there’s the annual Mule Camp Market on the Midland Greenway Friday-Sunday featuring arts & crafts and much more, including those ever-popular funnel cakes:

Mule Camp Market – Gainesville Jaycees

And a local lawman has been honored with a special award from a local domestic violence group.

*The Hall County Domestic Violence Task Force recently recognized Flowery Branch Police officer Max Lifirenko from as its Domestic Violence Officer of the Year.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.