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The Office Cat
Apparently some people think you can escape anything if you go far enough away and finda desolate enough location. Ask Ronnie Cofer about it. He spent his 50th birthday last week in a Shaker Village hidden in the Kentucky hills where he claims there was no phone reception. Oddly enough, he and Sharon made it back home the day after the big event. Molly Newsome, a freshman at the University of Georgia, has been named a Diamond Darling for the Bulldog baseball team and will be assisting with various activities with the team this year. According to Donna Hardy at the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce, we will be getting another doctor in January. Dr. Nadine HalliBurton will be in family practice with Dr. Mahesh Duggal and Dr. Lester Johnston at Med-Link - Washington with special emphasis on women's health. Her husband, O'Neil Foster, is a computer expert and will be conducting his business from Washington-Wilkes. A group of more than 20 Wilkes Countians will be returning home Wednesday (October 17) from a trip with Nita Edwards Riley to Italy. Reports sifting home from some of the travelers tell of swim suits and swimmers on the beaches. I'm sure we will hear more about the trip. Washington-Wilkes Artist Dolores McAvoy was last year's ArtFest winner of $1,000 when she was awarded "Best of Show" in the Washington-Wilkes Arts Foundation ArtFest. The award was for her booth featuring her oil and acrylic paintings. An additional $750 in cash prizes was also awarded to other artists participating in the show. The same prize money will be available at this year's Art- Fest on Saturday, November 3, in Downtown Washington. . . . Also that weekend, there will be the Tignall Fall Festival with the Tignall Homemakers giving their beautiful birds and flowers quilt to some lucky ticket holder. But before we get to the ArtFest, there will be the Market Days Street Festival in Downtown Washington. There will be lots of entertainment and lots of vendors throughout the day, and a street dance spilling over to side streets Court and Allison later in the evening. . . . This is also the night for the haunted and ghost tours of the Washington Historical Museum and Robert Toombs House. Paula George Stevens was busy at one of her many community service projects last week when she got a call from Josephine Cullars, the secretary at the Washington-Wilkes Elementary School. Paula has twin sons -- Douglas and Dalton -- who are students at the school and she listened when Josephine said that the principal said that she (Paula) needed to come to the school NOW. Dreading what she might find, Paula went to the school and found 10-year-old Douglas sniffing and holding his arm. At the time that Paula received the call from Josephine, Douglas was trapped in one of the student lockers and they were trying to get him out. Douglas told Mom that he just wanted to "see if I would fitinto one of the lockers." He did. And another student came along and flipped the lock trapping Douglas inside. The door had to be pried open and somehow Douglas hurt his arm. . . . Paula was still trying to recuperate from Dalton breaking his foot while running backward down the hall and tripping over another student's foot. . . . All's well that ends well. Douglas is over his slightly injured arm and Dalton got the cast off his foot this week. And Paula is wondering if she will make it through high school! Lawyer Jim Roberts is teaching a legal communications class at Clemson University and invited Lawyer Chip Hardin and Citizen Mark Waters to be guest lecturers one night last week. Chip went first and talked about the U.S. Constitution. Mark followed and discussed restrictions on our civil liberties during wartime. Even though Mark was born here and attended school here, he seldom is introduced as just "Mark Waters." Jim introduced him to the class as "Emilie Claire Johnson's husband" and his other more significanttitle of "The Handbell Lady's husband." Jim then gave the students Mark's real background. . . . Mark walked out in front of the class and said: "As you can clearly see, I'm not a lawyer, but I played one at The Washington Follies at the Little Theater last weekend. I was Ken Nugent. Call me. One call does it all." Apparently the students do get to see television because there was an uproar of laughter. . . . If you missed The Follies last week you won't know that Mark played Ken Nugent in the Parade of Celebrities for the show. Saturday was a perfect day for Mule Day. The attendance was great and everybody enjoyed all the many attractions. Stargazer Chris Hetlage of Atlanta is developing an unusual village near Raytown in Taliaferro County. The location is one of very few "dark spots" left in the Southeast. It has dark skies and no (or very few) electric lights intruding on the area. That's how Hetlage and fellow stargazers ended up creating Deerlick Astronomy Village, a secluded subdivision of high-tech, private observatories sprouting from 96 acres. A 10-acre hilltop was cleared and set aside for stargazing festivals and periodic use by members. Some of the Deerlick Village property owners are building weekend cabins (no lights). Others have just a small observatory housed in a wooden building with a retractable roof that slides away to allow telescopes to point skyward. Sounds interesting.
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