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The Office Cat
Tim Harris of Harris Custom Cycles has received special recognition lately. He took his "New Sheriff," the bike he built for the Georgia Sheriffs Association and dedicated to Wilkes County Sheriff Gary Rogers, to Daytona Beach for the 66th Annual Bike Week Celebration. It won second place in the world-famous Boardwalk Bike Show in the People's Choice category. The bike is also shown in the current issue of "Easyriders" magazine and is in the show room of Harris Custom Cycles located in the shopping center behind McDonald's. Tim and his wife, Kelly, invite everybody to come by and take a look at it. . . .Harris Custom Cycles has also been designated an official United States Motorcycle Manufacturer, bringing some notoriety to Washington- Wilkes as a motorcycle manufacturing location. The shop has been approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. With this license Tim now has a world manufacturing identifier number which will be used in the VIN number on all of his constructions. The eleventh number will be a "W," standing for Washington as the location of each build. .. Susan and Edward Pope Jr. are home from a Three Rivers Cruise which began in the Portland, Oregon area. They cruised aboard the Empress of the North down the Willamett, Columbia, and Snake Rivers. They made many stops, including historic Astoria where there are more than 70 Victorian homes on the National Register Historic Places; The Dalles where they visited the town and then cruised through the locks and dams system; Pendleton; Ranier; and had a magnificent view of Mt. Hood, many waterfalls and wildlife. They also took an underground tour which they say was amazing. . . . During entertainment on board the ship, one of the groups of performers was especially entertaining. Susan and Edward were interested to find that one of them was from Georgia and was a graduate of Shorter College in Rome. .. Washington-Wilkes Major League Umpire Marvin Hudson was the third base umpire for The Braves season opener with Philadelphia Monday night. The Braves racked up a 5-3 win in overtime play. .. Bonnie Bounds, a freshman Honors Student at the University of Georgia, joined fellow students traveling to London as part of the Honors Colloquia Seminar "Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian Culture," during spring break. The trip was designed to study the insights into late-nineteenth-century Britain provided by Holmes' literature. They had a great time. .. An official news release from Zaxby's states that the Washington- Wilkes restaurant will open during this month. The restaurant is adver- tised as "a Southeast favorite for chicken fingers and Buffalo wings," and is expected to create 40 to 50 jobs for this area. .. Those of us who either have had the Atlanta Journal-Constitution delivered to our homes every day of picked up one at one of the newspaper boxes around town purchased our last paper Saturday, March 31. The paper has been circulated in Washington-Wilkes for at least a hundred years. I remember that from my childhood that our family had the paper delivered to our house every day, more often than not by Mrs. Harvey Jackson. My sister and I remember spreading the paper on the front porch and sitting on the top step to read it. My daddy saved every front page of The Atlanta Journal from the day Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, until the end of the World War II. We spent Sunday afternoons helping him assemble the papers, punching holes, and putting them in specially made scrapbooks which he had made in his shop. We still have them. .. Bolton Lunceford is an avid reader of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has been for as long as I have, or longer. She was so bothered when the announcement was made that the paper would not be coming to Washington-Wilkes and a lot of other towns in the state that she called the circulation department of the paper. The receptionist told her that she would get her supervisor to call Bolton. She did, and the supervisor said that the paper was losing money by sending papers to the likes of us. But one of the interesting things about the call was that the supervisor grew up in Washington-Wilkes. Her name is Eula Jones Burton and she is Olivia Jackson's niece. She asked Bolton all about The Square and other places that she remembered in her hometown. .. There was an article in a recent issue of The Loganville Tribune about Dennis Story, former resident of Washington-Wilkes. Dennis has been a volunteer firefighter since 1980 when he began his career with the Wilkes County Fire Department, later transferring to the Washington Fire Department. He transferred to the Walton County station in 1997. He retired this year, but the article says he "still can't stay away. He is now staying on as a support volunteer firefighter." Dennis is the son of the late Frank and Janelle Lamar Story. .. There was an article and picture on last week's Athens Banner-Herald sports page about Demont Gresham, pitcher for the Washington- Wilkes Tiger Baseball Team. It tells how Demont "threw 115 pitches, 71 for strikes, and whiffed two of the last three hitters he faced," for a 5-4 win over Oglethorpe County. .. James Partridge, son-in-law of David and Janie Cravens, and manager of McDonald's in Augusta, won the Ray Kroc Managers Award which is given to less than one percent of McDonald Managers. When he went to Chicago to attend a banquet in his honor and receive the award, the driver of the limousine which was sent to pick him up at the airport was the father of Girl #11 on "Deal or No Deal," the popular television show. The driver was so proud of his daughter that he was showing pictures of her and telling James all about it. James and Jennifer Cravens Partridge live in Augusta and have a monthold daughter, Sarah Grace. .. The Tour of Homes 2007 is now history. The only comments I have been able to get are that attendance was "a little less than average" and the Kiwanis Tour Car drivers say that everybody was complimentary of the tour. .. Grammy Award Winner Hillary Lindsey will be presenting a benefit concert here in her hometown on Saturday, April 28, at the Washington Wilkes Country Club. Better get your tickets early. It's bound to be a sellout. Proceeds from the concert are to be used to buy band instruments for the Washington- Wilkes Middle School Band. . . . Hillary is featured in the April issue of "Distinction" magazine.
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