Warren and Lois Nunn have been married 64

years today - Tuesday, July 11. That's a lot of years! Pretty soon after they married, they had an apartment in the home of Mrs. Lula Jones on Court Street. This was next door to the home of Lola and Rufus Rider - my home - and I can remember as a child visiting them and all the neighbors gathering in our yard on hot summer nights trying to get a little breeze. People lived upstairs across the street over what is now the Fitness Center and Steve Albertson and Charles LeGette's offices, so we had a good many neighbors.

The Fitness Center reminds me of

Marvin Hudson, our Major League Umpire, who was "behind the plate" at the Braves game at Turner Field Thursday night. Marvin had to "get tough" one time.

think he might have been first base umpire Sunday, but never could get a good look at him to be sure.

Residents of the Spring Street and Camelot area (Pembroke Drive and Arden Road) have been having an interesting visitor. A Piebald - or white fawn - has been in the area. I know that Gary and Dean Mansfield and Jim and Shelby Caddell have seen it and I expect there are others.

Joann Charping Baldwin has been selected as a hostess at the Ritz-Carlton Georgia's Restaurant and has had some unique opportunities and experiences during the three weeks she has been there. Sometimes she is hostess for breakfast and sometimes for dinner in the evening. In November there will be opportunities for hostessing at lunch. Last week she volunteered to serve at a wedding reception, even though she didn't quite know what to expect. It turns out the bridegroom was none other than David Green, former University of Georgia Bulldog quarterback now with the Seattle Seahawks. The wedding was on the landing at the lake and Joann was stationed just inside the door and got to see the ceremony. Then the 50 volunteers served a seated full course dinner to 500 people in the banquet hall. It was after midnight when she finished and she had to be back as hostess for breakfast so she just curled up with a pillow in her car and slept until 5 a.m.

When answering the telephone here at The News-Reporter Monday, I took a call from Kuwait - first time I have talked to somebody in the war-torn area. It was Tommy Tallent who had seen an article about himself in a recent issue of The News-Reporter and wanted to request that we put it in The Lincoln Journal. Tommy is the son of

Paula and Boyd Tallent and a graduate of Lincoln County High School.

Another of our servicemen has made it safely through a year in Iraq and arrived home early Monday morning. Major John Gentry, husband of Katherine Pope Gentry, and son-in-law of Susan and Edward Pope Jr., arrived at Fort Stewart, Ga., about 5 a.m. Monday and is home with his family now.

Charlie Burgess and Jerry Hackney will be doing a benefit chicken barbecue for Sheriff Gary Rogers and his family on the same day as the "Ride for Gary Poker Run" on Saturday, July 22. They will be cooking at the Young Farmers Building on North Alexander Avenue and plates will be $6.00 each Tickets may be purchased at Washington Ford Mercury and Poss-Ace Hardware.

After seemingly being in hiding for a while, hummingbirds are making a comeback. Hummingbird watchers have surmised that the weather was too hot for them for a while, but many watchers report their return. Thelma and Bill Moore on the Tignall Road are filling up three feeders twice a day and sometimes more. Kaye and Pug Nelms in Logan Woods are having lots of the beauties and Buzzy Randall

on East Robert Toombs has a beautiful Ruby Throat. His feeder is in a place that it's easy to see and watch it.

A note from Pinkie Young, former resident of WashingtonWilkes, reads: "I just wanted to write you and let you know how right you are about being on your best behavior when you are traveling! Our family has not lived in Washington for two years now and we still see our next door neighbors and other townspeople when we are traveling. We recently vacationed in St. Simons Island and Jack and Laura Leard (our next door neighbors while we were in Washington) were right down the beach from us.

Olivia and Caitlin played in the ocean like they had never had a break from each other. I also saw Katie Haughey and Mike Scarborough on the beach."

Washington-Wilkes lost a good friend, a loyal supporter, and a faithful church member last week when

Miss Penelope Wills died at the age of 99. Miss Penelope was a graduate of Shorter College and was an avid basketball player. She coached basketball and taught school in Hart County before she decided to change careers and got her certification as a laboratory technician at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. She was a pioneer, because this was in the days when women didn't often do things like this. She came back home to Washington General Hospital, then Wills Memorial, where she retired when she was 80 years old. Family, friends, and community will miss her.

Lloyd Johnson reports seeing a white-tail deer just standing in the yard at the home of Mary Lou Dyer at the corner of Water and Jefferson streets late one evening. There are no woods nearby and Lloyd thought that it might have been a long way from home - or maybe it had found a home.

The annual Independence Day Parade early on the morning of The Fourth continues to grow. This was the ninth year that we have met in Fort Washington Park for the parade and we had well over 100 partici pants. . . . The Fourth of July activities on The Square began early and continued until late. There are all kinds of estimates as to the size of the crowd. Some say less that last year; some say about the same; some, more; with estimates as high as 6,000. It was a very big crowd and a good show. The response to Watchmaker's buffet was reported as "overwhelming" and other vendors were pleased with the response they received.

Haskell Porterfield is the winner of the Jeep Grand Cherokee that was raffled and given away June 30, with proceeds to benefit the family of the late Edye Turner McClain.

Norris says the first week in July produced on two-tenths of an inch of rain. The total for June was 3.8 inches; and we have a deficit for the year of about 6.3 inches.

Reports are that many people participating in the Bike Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) and came through Washington-Wilkes commented that they would like to come back and spend some time here. A couple from St. Simons Island did just that last week. They came and stayed at the Fitzpatrick and did the whole tourist deal. . . . Many of the riders and their support people also commented that WashingtonWilkes was the best place they had been and that we treated them better than anywhere else did.

The Wills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, that group of Washington Wilkes folks who do so many things for the hospital, has two big events coming up soon. The annual

fashion show will be held on Saturday, August 12, at the VFW Post Home and is always lots of fun. Looking further into the future, the

Celebrity Waiters Dinner will be held on October 10 with entertainment by Elizabeth Long and Friends with special guest, Little Roy Lewis. Both events add to the coffers of the club for purchasing much needed hospital equipment.

Choice Nash on the Newtown Road saw a sign in front of a church in Augusta and liked it so much that he suggested it to the congregation at Victory Baptist Church on the Newtown Road as a possibility for their sign in front of the church. They liked it and put it up. It reads: "Jesus is my rock and I'm on his roll."