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The Office Cat
The Tiger Marching Band will be leading the Homecoming Parade Friday afternoon as they make their way through Downtown to Tiger Stadium. The parade will form at the Washington-Wilkes Parks and Recreation complex on Lexington Avenue and will begin the trek through town at 4 p.m. . . . The senior girls who will be vying for Miss Homecoming Queen 2007 are Corie Slaton, Katie Haughey, Brittanay Turner, Ashley Burt, and Priscilla Oguje. As of Monday night, the Miss Wilkes County Pageant has a total of 50 girls competing for various titles. These titles begin with Baby Miss, continue with Toddler Miss, Tiny Miss, Little Miss, Petite Miss, Deb Miss, Teen Miss, and Wilkes County Miss. It should be a funtime and it will be held at the "new" Pope Center on Lexington Avenue. The traffic accident which occurred on the Thomson Road near Highway 80 at the end of the Washington Wilkes Golf Course sent one woman from Athens to the Medical College of Georgia. She had to be airlifted. But left behind was another almost tragic story. Her two little Schnauzer dogs were in the vehicle with her and when the accident occurred they were so frightened they ran away. The dogs were very special to the couple involved in the accident. Various ones searched for the little dogs to no avail. A call went out to Gloria Wheatley, Wilkes County Animal Control Officer,and this brought Gloria and volunteers Bonnie Branch, Margaret Rae Evans, and Lincoln Bounds (maybe others) to the scene. After searching many hours, they finally found the dogs the next day in the yard at the home of David and FifiHarris which is almost directly across from the Highway 80 intersection. It was a happy ending to what could have been a pet-owner nightmare. Linda and John Webster and Kay and Pug Nelms are home from a week-long trip to San Antonio, Texas. Their hotel was right on the scenic San Antonio River. The River Walk with all the shops and restaurants went right through the center of the city. They toured many of the historic sights in the area and were amazed at how well they are preserved. One special attraction that Kay and Linda enjoyed was the McNay Museum which houses incredible artwork of famous artists including Picasso, Van Gogh, and Renoir. John says that he and Pug enjoyed the museum but they would have been just as happy at a car show. They were glad to get home to some "real Wilkes County Barbecue." The Washington Follies opens next week at The Playhouse on North Alexander Avenue. The production is directed by Jo Randall and accompanied at the piano by Wilkes County Native Sherri Bowers who has come back home to retire. It promises to be a most entertaining show. Ann Tiller and her Primary Performers will be one segment of the program; and young violinists Mason and Ethan Jones will be rendering their music. Other singers in the show are Dr. Erick Pagan, Shay Harris, Darren Pharr, Michael Moore, Debbie McLeod, Kay Nelms, and Rick Price. Zach Dehil has graduated from Marine Combat Training at Camp Geiger, N.C., and is now at Camp Delmar, Camp Pendleton, California. He will be starting his Military Occupational Specialty training to become an Assault Amphibian Vehicle Crewman. Zach's barracks are right on the beach and he's enjoying this part of his training very much. There were no dark clouds in the sky Saturday night when the crowd started gathering for the Melanie Hart Concert of contemporary Christian music on The Square -- just a few wispy white clouds in a blue sky. The first shower came about 30 minutes into the concert and sent most of the crowd scurrying for cover. Carla Brown had just sung and Michael Moore was singing. When some of the crowd came back after the next shower, Mrs. Hart began her singing. . . . Norris says on Hill Street that night he got .375 of an inch of rain and Sandtown got .6 of an inch. When I got home from the concert, it had not rained there and I live less than a mile from The Square. The same thing was true on Spring Street, but both got pretty good showers later that night. Jim and Shelby Caddell have been on vacation in the cool mountains of North Carolina. Jim brought me a clipping of Carole Currie's column in the Asheville newspaper. Mrs. Currie's husband's family homeplace is in the Danburg area of Wilkes County -- the home of the late Hattie Lou and Walter Currie -- and her column was about them and a "fascination with Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt." In the column Carole told about a time when the Currie homeplace was on the Washington-Wilkes Tour of Homes. Many of the people who toured the beautiful old Victorian home that day commented that it reminded them of their grandmother's house. Towards the end of the tour, she heard Tom, a cousin of hers who was host in the dining room, giving a spiel about how Eleanor Roosevelt and a group of ladies had stopped by the house on their way back to Washington from Warm Springs and had been served punch from the punch bowl which was in the room. Carole said she had to disappoint the tourists by saying, "Not true." . . . Knowing of their interest in the Roosevelts, Tom later sent the Curries a book about The Roosevelts and Campobello Island which piqued their interest. The Curries have just returned from a fascinating trip to Campobello Island and Carole was writing about it in her column.
An Alzheimer's Symposium will be held Wednesday, October
17, in the Pope Community Room of the Mary Willis Library from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. Registration begins at 9 a.m. For more information or to register call
1-800-272-3900. | |||||
