The Office Cat
How much fun can a veterinarian have?
Seems to me that small town, rural, or country veterinarians have more interesting cases to handle with animals than their city (metropolitan) brothers do. Dr. Les Sales at the Wilkes County Veterinary Services got a call to go to a residence where a deer had gotten its antlers caught in a child's swing set. The deer was too hyper for Les to work with it to be free so the doc had to slightly anesthetize him. As soon as the deer was free, he bounded off into the woods as if nothing had happened. . . . Another time, a family brought in the family dog who had jumped into a creek and impaled himself in the chest on a stick hidden under the water. (In the country we call it a "stob.") Fortunately the family had not tried to remove the stob, so the veterinary staff was able to go to work and remove it professionally and save the dog's life. . . . How many city vets have that much fun??

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Darrell McAvoy, a Wilkes County McAvoy who has lived in South Carolina for a long time, is an extraordinary house painter. He had received a call from someone in Lugoff, S.C., (near Camden), to give an estimate on painting a house. When he knocked on the door, he was surprised when it was opened by a lady wearing a Washington Wilkes T-shirt. She was Linda Pollock Talbert, daughter of the late Dr. Ed and Lucille Pollock, and had grown up in Washington Wilkes. She and her husband

Johnny lived in Washington- Wilkes until a few years ago. They reminisced about "who's who in Washington" before Darrell got down to the business of painting the house. . . . His sister, Barbara McAvoy Wolter, remembers that when she and Virgil were stationed at a Naval Base in Spain in 1985 they met a couple from South Carolina whose house Darrell had painted.

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Have you seen the beginnings of the plantings on The Square to replace the old oak tree? The circle where the tree was does not have a tree but has three large plants of what looks like ligustrum. The trees will be on each corner near the tree, making a canopy. While digging holes to plant the trees, workers found bricks of the foundation of the old courthouse. Interesting. (Now if we just had a canopy of lights for Christmas!)

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Technical Sergeant Glenn Burt of the United States Air Force is back home in the United States after most recently being stationed in Qatar near Saudi Arabia. Glenn arrived in Boston, Mass., earlier this month and is now at Hill Air Force Base at Salt Lake City, Utah. During the 15 years that he has been in the Air Force, he and his family have been in Germany, Korea, and Guam, and they are glad to be home. Glenn's mother, Mary Burt of Washington-Wilkes, is overjoyed to have them back in the United States and hopes they won't have to leave again.

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The Washington Community Food Pantry located at the First United Methodist Church will be changing its name and moving to a new location if all goes well. Margaret and James Jones have offered the use of the former Leard's

Nursery building on East Robert Toombs Avenue to house the pantry. The name will be changed to

"God's Marketplace." In addition to the food pantry, a clothes closet will be available to people to obtain gently used clothing. The facility will be open on Tuesday each week.

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Chris Thornton, Ellis and Pat Thornton's number one son, had an accident on his job last week and lost the finger next to his "pinkie" and part of the pinkie on his right hand. He also has broken bones elsewhere in his hand. After surgeries in Athens, he is back home now in Commerce and healing properly, according to the doctors.

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Jacqueline Nash Al Azawi received a "cake" as a Christmas gift from one of her students at DeKalb Technical College. It was beautifully wrapped so she decided she would just bring it with her when she and her family came to have Christmas with other McAvoy relatives in Wilkes County. When she arrived, she told everybody not to make desserts for the Christmas Eve dinner because she had brought a cake, and she put it in the freezer. When it was time to serve the cake and it was removed from the freezer, a family member noticed that it was not "thawing." Further investigation revealed that it was not a cake but a candle - one of those large candles decorated to look like a cake and which also smells like a delicious cake! So they had no dessert for Christmas Eve.

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Airman Kimmie Bufford is now stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Kimmie is the daughter of Ken and Sherrie Bufford and granddaughter of Guy and Jean Bufford of Washington- Wilkes.

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We've had many favorable comments on the use of color in The News-Reporter for the past three weeks, and each comment is appreciated. Of course you have to pay for anything you get, and color does not come cheap. We'll be depending on advertisers to take advantage of this new capability - and just think of how much those full color ads will stand out. Right now,

Phillips Chevrolet in Elberton is the only one cashing in on this new opportunity. We hope to see some Washington-Wilkes advertisers on board very soon. We are trying to contact businesses to give them information on the cost of color in their advertisements and hope that they will respond with inquiries and orders. We would like very much to be able to keep the color.

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Our two rainy days during the past week produced 1.6 of an inch of rain, making a total of 4.5 inches for the month as of Monday night.

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