Busy weekend includes festivals, volunteer work at Sandy Creek Nature Center

There is a call for volunteers for Saturday work at the Sandy Creek Nature Center. The habitat restoration volunteer work day gets underway at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Claypit Pond Trail area of the Nature Center off Old Commerce Road in Athens. 

They're handing out free tree saplings in Statham: today's event at the Statham Public Library is marking Abor Day. 

This is festival weekend in Braselton: the annual Braselton Antique and Artisan Festival begins today and continues through Sunday. 

It's called the Georgia Bigfoot Conference: it gets underway today and wraps up tomorrow at the Rabun County Civic Center in Clayton. Hundreds of Bigfoot believers and other crypto-zoologists are expected to take part.