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The Office Cat
We reported a couple of weeks ago that former Tiger Tyrekus (A.J.) Bowman was Player of the Week in basketball for the Peach Belt Conference in which he plays with the Augusta State University Jaguars. Well, he has done it again! He got the same honor for his play last week. He was one of our faithful teenage workers here at The News-Reporter during his high school days. Go A.J.! .. The movie which has been in production at Holly Court Inn in Washington- Wilkes for about a year will have its final filming in July or August instead of April as originally planned. .. Rev. Dr. Denise Moss will begin serving the Episcopal Church of the Mediator in Washington-Wilkes and the St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Elberton this month. She and her husband, Rev. Dr. David Moss (retired), will be living in the Episcopal Rectory on Liberty Street after January 15. Rev. Moss, known to her friends as "Denni," was ordained January 6 by Bishop J. Neil Alexander at the Elberton church. .. I have information from a reliable Washington-Wilkes source that Zaxby's will be renovating an existing building and opening one of its restaurants here, beginning this month. The chain of restaurants is based in Athens. However, there is no official word yet. .. I thought we would have had more rain Friday and Sunday than we did. Norris recorded 1.3 of an inch Friday; and .95 of an inch Sunday and early Monday morning, for a total of 2.2 for the period. . . . He also says that he was out around 5:30 a.m. Monday morning and heard a fast-moving straight-line wind moving from the southwest to the northeast just above the treetops. If it had been closer to the ground it would have done some damage. .. Gloria Rhodes enjoyed Christmas holidays in Franklin, Tennessee, with her daughter and son-inlaw, Elisha and Bill Delaney. Gloria and Elisha visited the antique shops and malls in both Franklin and Nashville and had brunch at Lillie Belle's Tea Room located in a beautiful Victorian house in the historic district of Franklin. They lunched at the Cheese Cake Factory in the Green Hills Mall, and all three attended a show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. They also enjoyed an excursion to Bell Buckle, another little village with lots of antiques and other interesting shops. .. Kenneth Echols has always been a loyal Tiger fan, but he appreciated a gift he received Christmas from his uncle, Jimmie Goldman of Lincolnton. It was a Red Devil championship hat with a picture of Coach Campbell on it. If you know Jimmie, you know that he has always been as big a Red Devil fan as Kenneth has a Tiger fan. .. As many of you already know, we had major trouble with our big newspaper press last Wednesday. No amount of figuring and working would make it run more than a few papers at a time before "breaking down" again. It was getting late Wednesday afternoon, so editor/ publisher/printer Sparky Newsome, made the decision to send all three of the papers we print - Mc- Cormick, Lincolnton, and Washington - to Greater Georgia Printers Inc. in Crawford. We appreciate all the offers of help and the patience of our readers in waiting for delivery last week. Beginning this week, The News-Reporter will be printed regularly in Crawford (at least for a time) and will be a single section. Full color will also be available on certain pages for graphics and for advertisers. More details will be available by next week when the whirlwind has settled down a little. .. Dell James came by to tell us that her granddaughter, Shannon James (Scott), was on The News- Reporter tree featuring Wilkes County babies celebrating their first Christmas in 1976. Shannon's daughter, Summer Scott, was on the tree in 2002; but Emma Grace Scott, who was born in 2006, got in too late to appear on the current tree. So Dell bought an ad so that she could have the picture for her baby book. The picture was in last week's paper. Both girls are daughters of Shannon and Joey Scott. .. After reading my mention of James Whitcomb Riley's poem about "When the frost is on the punkin'," Kay Nelms brought me a well-worn book called Child Rhymes by Riley. The book had belonged to Kay's mother, the late Katherine Anderson Callaway, and Kay remembers reading the poems herself and also having her mother read them to her and to her sister, Linda Webster. The first copyright on the book is 1890 and Kay's book was a 1920 edition printed by the well-known Bobbs- Merrill Company. Other poems in the book that I remember are "Little Orphant Annie," "The Bear Story," "The Funny Little Fellow," "Curly Locks, Curly Locks," and "The Raggedy Man." .. Each verse of "Little Orphant Annie' ends with these words: An' the Gobble-uns'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!"
That reminded me of the "ghost hunt" to be held this next weekend at The Fitzpatrick Hotel. It's really not called a ghost hunt, it's billed as a "paranormal investigation." I don't think I want to go looking for any ghosts. I wouldn't sleep a wink for many nights, and I'd be afraid of my shadow for longer than that.
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