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A team of grandsons
Farmers Market on Wednesdays and Sundays. Wilkes County tomatoes are guaranteed safe from the salmonella threat we've been plagued with in recent weeks. . . Samille and James Sherrer brought delicious plums last week. ƒ A caravan of Lindseys traveled to St. Augustine, Fla., last week for a family vacation. Alice and Buddy Lindsey, their children and grandchildren, traveled together and the children (adults, too) enjoyed keeping up with each family car with cell phones and walkie-talkies. They spent a day at Silver Springs and had so many in their family that they got the group rate on tickets! Enjoying this vacation together with Alice and Buddy were Jane, Graham, Jesse, and Jordan Echols; Lisa, Kenny, Connor, Vivi and Colin Isham; and Laura, Tony, Audrey, and Abby Williamson. ƒ The golden raintrees and the crepe myrtles are blooming and beautiful in spite of seldom getting a refreshing drink. Marjorie Sale Gibson, a transplanted Wilkes Countian in the Atlanta area and daughter of Lois Sale of Tignall, was attending a Wednesday night supper at the First United Methodist Church in Dallas when she heard somebody at the table behind her say "Washington- Wilkes." She turned to see who it was and what they knew about Washington-Wilkes. It was the church's associate pastor and he was talking to a lady who has recently come into the church with her family. Marjorie found out that she is the wife of Dan Branan, another transplanted Wilkes Countian. Dan is the son of Dr. Bill Branan and Susan of Washington-Wilkes. He and his wife, Kya, and children, Seth and Trinity, are very active in the children's ministry and ladies Bible study group. ƒ Don't forget to get up early on the Fourth of July (Friday) and be ready to participate in the Independence Day Parade at 8:00 a.m., beginning in Fort Washington Park (behind the courthouse.) Walkers, bicycles, strollers, wagons, pets, and scooters are welcome to participate (no motorized vehicles) and there will be prizes for the best red, white, and blue dressed, and for the best decorated. It's a short route and if you don't feel up to walking, you can join the "sitters" (if you bring your chair) who wait in the park for the parade to return. . . . Activities on The Square will begin getting underway at 1 p.m. and continue until after the fireworks show beginning about 9:15 that night. I hear that around 10,000 people are expected to participate in the day's activities. ƒ The University of Georgia Baseball Team put on quite a show in the College World Series last week but lost the final game Wednesday night. I'm sorry that I won't get to see them play any more. They were like grandsons to me and I will try to follow their careers in the sports pages as they go their separate ways. ƒ Our world traveler, Anna Stover, has been home for a couple of weeks to help her dad, County Commissioner Jerry Stover, get adjusted following his accident about two weeks ago. Anna says that with the help of so many friends here in Washington-Wilkes she hopes to get everything taken care of and travel back to her home in London after the Fourth of July. Jerry had been to one of the hospitals in Augusta to visit his friend, Tom Wells, after surgery, when his diabetes played tricks on him and he and his truck went off the road between here and Thomson. ƒ E-mail from Betty Lane in North Carolina says that she read in the May 22 issue of The News-Reporter that Jerome cookies were served at the Grant/Warren wedding reception. She says that it brought back fond memories of a dear loved one, Elva Pipes, Godmother of her daughters, Angela and Edie. I remember, too, that Elva made these cookies and also pound cakes which she donated to her church and the Lions Club for fund-raising events. "Thanks for the memories," Betty says. "I think I will make the cookies and surprise Ed and the girls." ƒ The News-Reporter and Radio Shack have been closed all this week to give our employees a week's vacation. Sparky, Mary, and Jane have been in-and-out doing various jobs that have to be done. You know that next week I will probably be in trouble trying to come up with items for this column. Please call me bright and early Monday morning, July 7, and tell me all that you know. ƒ Here is a poem that I have always liked since the days of my fourth grade teacher, Miss Annie Sue
Wynne. I used to know who wrote it but can't recall right now.
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