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Gainesville, West Hall to open football season in Marvin Orenstein Kickoff Classic
Game named for Marvin Orenstein, who supported high school football in Hall County for decades
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From left, West Hall High football coach Tony Lotti, Temme Schooler, Linda Orenstein and Gainesville High football coach Bruce Miller hold a banner naming Friday's season-opening game The Marvin Orenstein Kickoff Classic. Orenstein was the long-time owner or Gem Jewelry. His daughters, Schooler and Linda Orenstein, now own the business on the downtown Gainesville square. - photo by For The Times
“We were so honored, you could have knocked us over with a feather,” owner of Gainesville’s Gem Jewelry Linda Orenstein said. That was the reaction of Orenstein and her sister, Temme Schooler, who run the business together today, when approached by football coaches of Gainesville High and West Hall High on April 28 with a totally unexpected surprise announcement. The Spartans’ coach, Tony Lotti, and Red Elephants’ coach, Bruce Miller, brought in a banner to the business located on the downtown square with the naming of their 2016 game in honor of their father, Marvin Orenstein, a long-time ardent supporter of high school sports for all the schools in Hall County.
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