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The Office Cat
I had not looked closely at the new windows that have been installed at the old North Alexander School until last week. They are really nice and add so much to the appearance of the old building. But there are about 90 more windows that need replacing. The North Alexander School Association (NASA) is seeking contributions for this project. You can send a contribution to P.O. Box 922, Washington. The Robert Toombs House and the Washington Historical Museum have planned an interesting event for October 27. The two houses will be sponsoring a "haunted tour." It's titled "The Tales from the Toombs and The Mysteries of the Museum, Haunted Tour." For the first time ever, the behind the scenes hauntings will be revealed. The never-ending question -- "Are these houses haunted?" -- will be laid to rest. The tour is open to the public and will take place from 6-9 p.m. Five dollars will get you a ticket for both museums. . . . This is also the date for Market Day on The Square. Kevin and Alicia Madden have been church planters in Canada for 11 years. September 30 will mark the seventh anniversary of The Potter's House Community Church in Westbank, British Columbia. Kevin is the founding pastor and current pastor of this church. But come December 1, he will join the staff of the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists as the Church Starting Coordinator for Western Canada. He will no longer be pastor of the Potter's House, but will begin this new ministry as a recruiter and coach for new church planters and for a network of regional strategy coordinators throughout the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Canadian territories of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. He and Alicia will be installed as career missionaries at a special commissioning service in Greenville, S.C., in February. They have two sons and a daughter. Michael is 18 and just graduated from high school. Noah is 13; and Taylor is six. Kevin is the son of Wayne and Nancy Madden of Washington-Wilkes. Chris Townsend brought me a copy of Vantage Point, a publication of the Georgia Baptist Convention. One of the articles in the magazine had a picture of a man and woman reading The Lincoln Journal at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (The Lincoln Journal is owned by Wilkes Publishing Co. -- The News- Reporter.) Looking further I found that the picture was of Benny and Sandra Pate. Benny is a former pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Lincoln County and Sandra is from Lincoln County. Since pastoring New Hope Benny has earned master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He is now serving as Specialist in Leadership Ministries for the state of Georgia and lives in Winder. There was a full-page article about Washington-Wilkes native Dean Ware in last week's Greensboro Herald-Journal. Dean had served for 13 years as Chief Financial Officerfor the Wilkes County Board of Education until January of this year when he was appointed Chief Financial Officer for the Greene County School System. In the article, Dean is credited with saving Greene County "a cool half-million dollars his first eight months on the job." Dean is the son of Frances and Norris Ware of Washington- Wilkes; husband of Cristy Ware; father of Blake, Charlton, and Gracen Ware; and brother of Dr. Todd Ware and Pam Ware Hall. . . . I had forgotten that Dean had been a Federal Investigator with the United States Officeof Federal Investigations in Washington, D.C., for four years until I read this article. It was at a time when Pam worked at The News-Reporter and we were always concerned for Dean's safety. . . . We'll have more on Dean next week. It's good to have Peggy Barnett back home from her summer sojourn in the cool North Carolina Mountains. Now we can resume her "live" book reviews instead of having "reruns." However, this week's book review is a rerun of somebody else's review. Just wait until next week! Tink's Grass-Fed Beef and the Farmers Market were in the news in the Summer edition of Leaders Magazine. Lizzie White had a special guest last week. Her great-grandson, 14- year old Isaiah Cooke from Brooklyn, New York, came to visit her and attend the Mercier family reunion. He surprised Lizzie by writing about his visit. In part, he said, "I came here to visit Georgia and to my family reunion and I had a nice time. I learned many different things during my stay here. While I was here I had a lot of fun with my cousins that I met for the first time." Have you noticed all the broken pecan limbs piled on the side of the roads where homeowners have removed them after they broke? All of them are heavily loaded with pecans and I hope that means we are going to have a good crop this year. We all know that we've not had a drop of rain for the past week. Norris says we now have a deficitof 10 inches for the year. That's if you live in his area of the county. Other areas have had less rain and a greater deficit. Washington-Wilkes has an advertisement in the current issue of Southern Living encouraging visitors to come to Washington-Wilkes: Stay in an 1898 era hotel or one of 12 B&B's; Shop the historic Downtown Square; and See over 100 ante-bellum homes. Many people from all over the country and some foreign countries are doing just that. The tourist business in Washington- Wilkes is great and there are many projects in the works to create more attractions. I'll tell you about them as soon as I get it all together.
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