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The Office Cat
.. The beautiful little girl with the flags on the front page of the Memorial Day issue of the Athens Banner Herald is five-year-old Caroline Gentry, granddaughter of Susan and Ed Pope Jr.; and daughter of Katherine and John Gentry of Athens. Caroline's picture is surrounded by hundreds of names of servicemen and women who have lost their lives in foreign wars since World War I. She was participating in a walk through the cemetery at Mars Hill Baptist Church Sunday, looking for the gravestones of veterans. .. Bonnie Allison, who first told me about coyotes in town, called to say that one morning last week there was a coyote just three feet from her back steps. She's concerned about children playing outside unattended when there might be coyotes around. .. The Fountain Salon and Spa in the Downtown Washington area is sporting a new awning and sign. It really adds a lot to the business and to that section of Robert Toombs Avenue. .. Due to a fall sports conflict in March when tryouts were held for the Tiger Marching Band Auxiliaries, not many students participated in the tryouts. Another tryout day has been scheduled and all interested high school girls are encouraged to try out. Tryouts will be held for both colorguard and majorette on Thursday, May 31, and June 1, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the high school band room. Call Jeff Thomas or Tara Townsend for more information. .. Molly Newsome and Bonnie Bounds, members of the Watson Brown Junior Board of Directors, went to Abbeville, S.C., and Augusta Wednesday of last week to present Watson Brown grants. In Abbeville they were treated royally and taken to lunch and on a tour of various locations in Abbeville. They were afraid they would not make it on time to their four o'clock appointment at the Imperial Theater in Augusta. When they arrived (on time) to present the grant for restoration of an historical organ that was being returned to the theater and restored, there were representatives from the three television channels there as well as the newspaper. The presentation was aired on the ten and eleven o'clock news that night - and Molly and Bonnie looked good. .. An abridged version of Ann Rule's book, Too Late to Say Goodbye, about the murders of Dolly Hearn and Jennifer Corbin is included in this month's Reader's Digest. .. Members of the Macon Historical Society came to Washington last week for their "Backroads Ramble." Mark Waters was their host for a full day of events. They visited the museums, had lunch at the Fitzpatrick Hotel, toured the town, and had dessert and coffee at Wisteria Hall. .. Tourism Director Ashley Barnett's interview on tourism in Washington-Wilkes has been on Northwest Airlines (an audio interview) for the whole month of May. Ashley says that May is Northwest's busiest travel month of the year, reaching more than 700,000 people. The four-minute interview plays 24 hours a day, seven days a week. .. Krystle Kvalheim, 2007 Washington Wilkes Comprehensive High School honor graduate, will be serving as an intern with the Georgia Press Association at The News-Reporter this summer. In the fall, Krystle will be a student at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. .. Knowing about my interest in marbles, Nancy Barnett brought me one that she had found on the grounds at her home on Sims Street. It's not the usual kind of marble like you buy in the store and I'm doing some research to see what I can find out about it. Nancy and Danny's property is on land which used to house servants for The Cedars, and she says they find lots of interesting things buried in the dirt sometimes when they are digging. She also found some "things" that she and I both thought might be associated with telephone poles or electricity poles. I called Warren Nunn, who retired from the Rayle Electric Membership Corporation, and described them to him. He says the bluish-green, thick glass ones are probably pole-top insulators used by the telephone company. He also said that they haven't been used in 40-50 years and could be as old as 100 years. The dark brown ones were used on "light poles." Nancy's were the bluish-green ones. .. Manuel Hunter says that his dad, the late Cecil Hunter, had a school bus like the one described in this column for the past two weeks. Cecil owned his own bus and drove a route for the Crawfordville schools. .. Reports that I hear are that ground will be broken for the new Wilkes County high school complex sometime in June. .. Joseph Baldwin and Chelsea Friedlander will be presenting a concert of sacred music at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening, June 10, at six o'clock. Joseph is a Washington-Wilkes young man and a student at Northwestern University. Chelsea is a student at Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio. Laura Baldwin of Washington Wilkes, a student at the Medical College of Georgia, will be their piano accompanist. .. Reminiscent of years long ago on The Square Sunday was what appeared to be children from a family gathering at the Fitzpatrick Hotel. A dozen or more children of varying ages in their "Sunday Best" clothing were running and playing on the lawn in the center area.
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