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 East Cobb resident, Mike Snowden, is giving new meaning to the "smokin' guitar" by making instruments out of discarded cigar boxes, and his creations are selling very well on the internet. Rather than make a guitar out of wood, Mike uses empty cigar boxes to form the body of the guitar and then attaches a neck and strings. The craft of creating cigar box guitars revives a century-old tradition born out of poverty, though modern-day maker Mike Snowden can command top dollars for his product. His guitars sell for $225 on up.
"Vintage guitars are really in now," Snowden said. "People have been making them since Civil War times." The instrument became popular during the Great Depression with early blues and jug bands because they were inexpensive to build and maintain. Rock legend Jimmy Hendrix learned how to play on a cigar box guitar, Snowden said.
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 Ultimate Frisbee, better known as "Ultimate" for short, has grown increasingly popular in the United States in the past decade, especially with high school and college students.
Ultimate was created over 30 years ago and is played on a flat surface field much like football or soccer. The object of the game is to score by catching a frisbee in your opponent's end zone. Once a player catches a frisbee, they can no longer run but still pivot. Their role is to pass the frisbee to one of their teammates in hopes of eventually making it to the end zone. It's the goal of the defending team to prevent the offense from catching the frisbee or by intercepting it.
"The rules are very simple and are similar to rules for games that are familiar to most people, like football and soccer," said Curtis Volin, organizer for the Marietta Ultimate Frisbee Meetup. His group consists of over 150 members and usually meets at least once a week at Terrell Mill Park in Marietta.
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 The 14th annual EAST COBBER Parade & Festival is scheduled for Saturday, September 12. The day's festivities will be kicked off by the EAST COBBER Parade at 10 a.m. The annual parade aims to build a sense of community and reinforce East Cobb County's status as one of the best places to live in the metro Atlanta area. Floats, high school marching bands and a cornucopia of East Cobb groups will march down the one-mile parade route. Kicking off at 10 a.m., the parade participants will march from Mount Bethel Elementary School's parking lot, travel south on Johnson Ferry Road, and then turn into the Fountains of Olde Towne shopping center.
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