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The Office Cat
Advance Auto Parts on East Robert Toombs Avenue, next door to CVS, will have its grand opening on July 6 and 7. . Presley Blakey says that he was fortunate enough to see a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently (they are no longer circulated and delivered in Wilkes County.) It was the Memorial Day issue and he says that there were pages honoring Georgia solders who have died in Iraq. He was proud to see Wilkes County's Phil Scarborough honored. . Dean Mansfieldbrought me a copy of an article in a May 1962 issue of The News-Reporter. The article was about her husband, Gary Mansfield,being a winner in an essay contest sponsored by the Pilot Club of Washington. Under the leadership of the late Esalee J. Burdette, members of the senior class at Washington-Wilkes High School had written essays on the United States flag. In the final judging, Gary, Bo Griffin and Carolyn Trantham had been declared the three winners. They were guests of the Pilot Club at a dinner meeting and received their awards: a whopping $5.00 for first place; $3.00 for second place; and $2.00 for third place. Titled "Our National Flag; What It Means to Us," Gary's winning essay was printed in the May 3, 1962, issue of The News-Reporter. . Don't forget to call and tell me about your vacation or interesting things you are doing this summer. The number is 706-678-2636. Ask for "The Cat." . The flowers on The Square and in the Downtown area are beautiful and add a lot to our town. I thank those responsible for planting them and caring for them. To enhance those flowers, we need well-kept and trash-free sidewalks and gutters -- not just in the Downtown area but all over town. We can all do our part to help city workers do their job. . After some home renovation, Doris Rhodes is "cleaning out" and finding interesting things. Last week she found a "Kewpie" doll. On the back she had written "Lions Club Carnival, 1956." Many of us remember those funtimes at the annual Lions Club Carnival, sometimes held on The Square, sometimes on the Lions Club lot on North Jefferson Street (where the Georgia Baptist Association Mission Center now stands.) . A group of Red Hat Ladies -- 17 of them -- from Aiken, S.C., came one day last week for lunch with Jean Blair-Davis at her Tea Room housed in her Southern Elegance Bed and Breakfast. Jean says they had a great time. . . . As a result of seeing Jean's home during the Christmas Tour of Homes, one lady and 19 of her friends, mostly from Michigan, were guests in the Tea Room on a recent Saturday. . Lawrence Hyde who now lives in Savannah, keeps me posted on Savannah and Washington-Wilkes connections. He has just discovered that a neighbor of his was in Pharmacy School at the University of Georgia with our Dean Nunn, pharmacist at Fievet Pharmacy. Lawrence was a guest of the neighbors at a church dinner and was introduced to the guest sitting next to him. He was Joey Fievet's roommate when Joey was in Pharmacy School at the university. . Carol McTier is moving her Garden Party gift shop from its present location at the southwest corner of The Square to one of the storefronts in the Fitzpatrick Hotel. The move should take place about the end of July. . Model "A" enthusiast Chris Townsend has inherited a motorcycle! His uncle died recently and left Chris a 94 Honda Pacific Coast motorcycle. Chris says his parents wouldn't let him have a motorcycle because they said that the only time the uncle got in trouble when he was growing up was on his motorcycle. Chris had to go to Virginia to claim his inheritance. Instead of riding it back to Washington-Wilkes, he "hauled it." Terry Bridges is "seeing what he can do to get it going." . . . Chris, Tara, Garston and Henry recently spent a week at North Myrtle Beach and were joined by other family members. . . . Chris says he was very glad to get back to Washington-Wilkes where he knows folks and they know him. "We don't realize the personal service we get here at home," he says. At Myrtle Beach he had to pay for gas before he pumped it, along with some other puzzling things. . Lem LeRoy and his youth choir at Carmel Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., have returned from their annual choir concert tour. One of the highlights was singing the National Anthem in Shea Stadium in New York, home of the New York Mets baseball team. Albert and Eudora Huyck attended the final performance of the choir at their home church. June 24. . Jerry Stover reminds that road construction beginning soon from The Pumping Station (TPS) on SR 17 to the Oglethorpe County Line will have a rock and gravel surface for a few weeks. This is a stretch of highway about 16 miles long. Be careful when traveling on it. . Thanks to all our readers and advertisers for helping us meet deadlines so that we could get the July 5 issue of The News-Reporter printed early.
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