Sunday, November 4, is when Daylight Saving time ends and Eastern Standard Time makes its appearance to be with us for about fivemonths. So, Saturday night, before you go to bed, set your clocks back an hour and you'll be right on time for Sunday School Sunday morning.

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Hillary Lindsey, Washington- Wilkes' own famous songwriter and singer, has six songs on the newest

Carrie Underwood (famous country music singer) CD which made the scene on Tuesday, October 23. Carrie sang Hillary's "So Small" on Good Morning America last week. Said one fan, "The songs are amazing!" And Hillary is amazing.

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Kermit Hocutt on Spring Street always has an elaborate Halloween scene and decorations on his front porch. Tuesday morning when he got up he saw a "suspicious-looking character" either asleep or dead in the midst of the decorations. When the police came they found a lifesize "dummy" which someone must have thrown onto the porch. Kermit was relieved!

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The first of the Washington Towne Cars which we've been hearing about for several weeks is on display now for us all to see. The building at the corner of Court Street and Jefferson Street (across the street from the Rider House) will house the cars and one is displayed in the window this week. The windows are covered with paper and have "peepholes" which you can use to see the cars. The cars are custom golf cars but they don't have to be used just on the golf course. They can be used to run errands here in town and for other things -- and save buying that expensive gas that makes our cars run. The business is owned by Washington Retail Ventures.

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Frost in October! The field at the Washington-Wilkes Elementary School was covered with frost early Tuesday morning, and several people report having to scrape frost from their windshields.

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Weekend guests of Wiley and Ann Arnold Crittenden in the Celeste community (near Rayle) were three of Ann's Washington High School classmates and their spouses: Joan Carter and Bill Winter and Cis (Mary Carolyn) Thompson and Emory Street of the Atlanta area; and Julia Willingham and Cutter Knapp of Tallahassee, Fla. The ladies were joined on Saturday for lunch at the Fitzpatrick Hotel by two other classmates, Ruth Harris and Jane Rider Newsome; and Jo Rider Randall who was a junior when the others were seniors.

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Representatives from Early American Life magazine will be in Washington-Wilkes during the annual Christmas Tour of Homes and Colonial Dinner December 7-8. They are coming to make pictures and gather information for the magazine's 2008 Christmas issue. They are inviting homeowners to submit pictures, both inside and outside, of their homes before they come to make their own pictures. They are especially interested in collections in the home and only one home will be featured in the article. Homeowners who are interested can get more information by calling Stephanie Macchia at the Washington Historical Museum, 706-678-2105.

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Saturday's Market Days Street Festival was successful in many ways. It was a beautiful day; the vendors were both old and new with a variety to attract a variety of people; and everything seemed to run very smoothly. The festival spilled over into the shops around The Square and Downtown with merchants reporting a good day of sales. Nobody is giving an officialcount of the crowd in attendance but I'm thinking that they're thinking "in the thousands." . . . I can't report on the street dance because I was at home watching the Red Sox beat the Rockies in the third game of the World Series. It was a good game. I was for the Red Sox and my spouse was for the Rockies, but we're still friends. In case you don't know, the Red Sox swept the Rockies four games straight. I know

Louise Burt enjoyed the games, regardless of who she was pulling for; and I'm sorry Addison was not here to enjoy them with her.

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This coming week (November 3) is another busy and interesting week in Washington-Wilkes. The Washington-Wilkes Arts Foundation's

ArtFest will have 20 artists in all media competing for $1,750 in prize money. The show is on The Square. . . . Dad's Garage will be conducting an improv workshop at The Playhouse of the Washington Little Theater Company with three shows scheduled for the weekend in addition to the workshop. . . . The "I'd Rather Be In Tignall Fall Festival" will be held at the old Tignall School grounds from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. . . . The popular Rotary Pancake Supper gets underway at fiveo'clock Friday to get you to Tiger Stadium in time to see the Tigers play the Tigers (Washington-Wilkes vs. Greene County) at 7:30.

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