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The Office Cat
Last week when Major League Umpire Jerry Lane was "behind the plate" and got smacked in the face by a broken bat, our Major League Umpire Marvin Hudson was third base umpire and was helpful in getting the injured umpire on the stretcher and onto the vehicle that took him off the field. The Braves were playing the Marlins in Miami when the accident occurred and Marvin says Jerry was knocked out but "came to" pretty quickly. He's a big man and it was difficult to get him on the stretcher and the vehicle. To complicate matters further, Marvin says the vehicle had a flat tire (and other problems) while going down the tunnel and the rescuers had to transfer him to another vehicle before finally arriving at the medical service center. Jerry was back in the game the next night as third base umpire.
When my granddaughter saw the item last week in this column about bedbugs, she said, "Ugh! That's gross, Grannaw." And it is, but I will have to tell you about an item that Wilkes Countian Boyce Lance, who lives in the mountains at White, Ga., sent me. It seems that bedbugs have made such a comeback recently that Carl Massicott adopted Jada, a Shelter Dog, and has trained her to sniff-out bedbugs. Jada gets $200 an hour in New York City which is infested with bedbugs in hotels, according to the article. As I said in the first column, contrary to what we thought in the 1930s and 1940s, the bedbugs are not an indication of uncleanliness or unhealthy conditions, but "burrow into walls, clothing, furniture, electrical outlets, and mattresses to emerge at night to do their damage."
The Spring issue of the Presbyterian College Magazine, Clinton, S.C., has a beautiful tribute to the late Dr. Elliott Poss of WashingtonWilkes; and a picture of Major John Gentry, a Presbyterian College alumnus and husband of Katherine Pope Gentry of Washington Wilkes, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. . . . Elliott was a 1971 graduate of Presbyterian College and was the college's head football coach from 1985 to 1990. Elliott was 57 years old when he died in February. Chuck Toney, the young man who wrote the tribute, was recruited by Elliott to become a student at PC and Elliott was his mentor. . . . The picture of John was of his greeting Secretary Rice when she visited in Mosul, Iraq, where John was serving with the 122nd Rear Operations Center to augment Task Force Freedom. John is now at home in Athens with his family. . . . Another picture in the same magazine is of another Wilkes Countian - Randy Randall, mayor of Clinton and alumni director for PC. In the picture Randy is "tossing the bow" for the ribbon-cutting for the new downtown Presbyterian College bookstore.
Don't forget that The News-Reporter and Radio Shack will be closed Labor Day, Monday, September 4. Our deadlines are moved up, with legal and classified advertisements and social news due in our office by Friday, September 1, and all other advertisements and news due by noon on Tuesday, September 5. Rural correspondents are asked to slide their news under the front door by noon on Labor Day.
Lillie Crowe is the new director of the Mary Willis Library and Bartram Trail Regional Library. Mrs. Crowe comes to WashingtonWilkes from the Twin Lakes Library in Milledgeville and currently lives "on the lake" in Greene County. We hope she will be joining us as a resident of Washington-Wilkes. More about her next week.
The football Tigers get cranked up Friday night, playing Warren County in Tiger Stadium at 7:30 p.m. Tiger fans got a preview of them last Friday night in the jamboree with Elberton. . . . The Tiger Band is ready to go with the halftime show, having given parents and friends a preview at the end of band camp. . . . The Tiger Cheerleaders will be at their best and it will be a fun night.
Many well-wishers stopped by to congratulate Tommy Garrett for 50 years in the hardware business Saturday. Many people had sent flowers and other gifts. Tommy started work at Poss Hardware in 1956 with Julia Nell and the late Virgil Poss and has been like a son to them through all these years. He was 20 years old when he started. There was a cake the size of a newspaper sheet and "The News-Reporter" was at the top. There were "articles" about Tommy scattered over the page. The cake was made by Juanita Williamson. . . . I know of at least two Washington-Wilkes men who were working on projects Saturday and made at least four trips each to the store. I didn't ask if they ate cake and other goodies every time they went.
The Wills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary wine and cheese drop-in scheduled for September 7 has been postponed.
The September issue of the Georgia Electric Membership Corporation Magazine had several articles and mentions of WashingtonWilkes. Rather than put them all in one paragraph, I have used each one in a separate paragraph.
First of all, the cover featured a picture of the five Washington (D.C.) Youth Tour delegates from Rayle EMC. Molly Newsome, daughter of Sparky and Mary Newsome, of Washington; and Mitch Davis (Oglethorpe County High School), son of Lyn and Deborah Armour of Rayle, were two of the five. Molly was in a picture of several delegates with Representative Charlie Norwood of Augusta. The article included a paragraph from each student, telling what each one thought about the trip.
Another article stated that former Wilkes County Extension Agent Herbert Powell has been appointed to the Rayle EMC Board of Directors. Herbert is filling the unexpired term of Jack W. Bentley who retired in June. Jack served on the board for 10 years.
Still another article told about Hailey James, daughter of Patti and Addison James of Washington. Hailey attended the annual Georgia Cooperative Council Youth Leadership Conference in Covington in July. Her participation in the three-day program was sponsored by the Rayle EMC.
Also in the magazine was an announcement about the annual "His Last Days" Passion Drama September 2-3, in Tallulah Falls. This drama was founded by Carole and Bob Murphy of WashingtonWilkes and several from here will be participating in the program. This one is the 23rd presentation.
The average rainfall for the month of August is 4.48 inches. Norris says we've had 6.8 inches for August, 2006, but we're still short for the year. The storm last Thursday (August 24) brought us 2.1 inches, and we had another tenth of an inch at another time.
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