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Coyotes visit Downtown
That good rain we had for two days last week brought us an inch of the good stuff, according to Norris. . Gracen Ware, Miss Wilkes County 2008, and Kristen Lukich are featured on an I-20 billboard which goes up this week. Gracen and Kristen were photographed at Wisteria Hall in Washington. The billboard is located at I-20 East, Exit 144, Crawfordville, and will remain in place for a year. Gracen is the daughter of Dean and Cristy Ware, and Kristen's parents are Jeff and Mary Beth Lukich. . In 2004, WJBF, Channel 6, Augusta, discontinued its Hometown News segment. The program will be re-activated on Friday, March 28, featuring Washington-Wilkes, live from our town. Representatives of Channel 6 will be here this Friday to meet with Tourism Director Ashley Barnett and others to plan this first presentation. . One night about two weeks ago, Katherine and Preston Sanders were traveling on North Alexander Avenue when they saw in the distance a pack of dogs crossing the street. They went on down North Alexander and when they came back the "dogs," who turned out to be fivecoyotes, were visiting the Post Officeand the Sanderses watched as the coyotes went on down the street to visit the Woman's Club and Fievet Pharmacy. Katherine and Preston live in the loft apartment over Petal Pushers Christmas Shop and also have a farm in the Tyrone area of Wilkes County. . After reading the mention of Grandview in this column last week, Myra Blackmon of Athens sent the following e-mail: "My father (Steve Blackmon) was born in Grandview in 1925, in the house that now belongs to Anna Norman Heaton. As a child, I remember going to the Mary Willis Library where Miss Kathleen Colley and her sister, Mrs. Marion Boyd, were the librarians. Miss Kathleen in particular delighted in children who wanted to hear all the stories about the library and its funky old artifacts, like the moose head. My cousin, Linda Blackmon, and I spent many an hour listening to Miss Kathleen's wavery old voice telling tales of what seemed to us in the 1950s as ancient history! She especially loved to tell the tale of the great eclipse of the sun and how they and several other school girls were hired to draw the eclipse, with each of them assigned a quadrant. Heaven only knows what damage was done to their eyes! I also recall photos showing the young ladies in their proper long black skirts at their easels as they drew this most important event. Thanks for triggering such a nice memory!" . Scott Lewis, the State Farm man who worked hard and lost 150 pounds, has just celebrated a year of keeping that weight off. Good for him! . Golden daffodils are blooming all around town -- a little early but a welcome sight. Some of the prettiest I've seen are in the yard at the home of Bobbie Sue and Lloyd Johnson on Water Street. Bobbie Sue says they are "straight from the wilderness." . The Lions Club (that's LIONS -- no apostrophe) is having one of its "Sunday Dinners After Church" March 2. The dinner is at the Lions Club building on Spring Street from 11:30 a.m. until all plates are sold. This is a dinner where you get seated personal service from the Lions themselves, such as bringing you your plate, keeping your tea glass filled, etc. Call Mary Hubbard or any Lions member for tickets, and tickets will also be available at the door. . Washington-Wilkes STAR Student Troy Colvard, and his chosen STAR Teacher, Amy Wheatley, will be honored at a special breakfast today (February 28) at The Fitzpatrick Hotel. . The 54th Annual Washington Area Junior Steer and Heifer Show will get underway at the McGill-Woodruff Agricultural Center here on Saturday morning, March 1. I remember the first one. It drew lots and lots of boys and girls and their steers and heifers, and lots of people came to see them. The buyers of the show animals create their own show as the auction gets underway following the show, and they put in their bids for the animals of their choice. . Sandy Wray, an associate member of the Kettle Creek Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and her husband Chuck, from Menifee, California, were in Washington for the recent Battle of Kettle Creek Celebration and Revolutionary War Days. Both expressed how much they enjoyed the hospitality of Washington-Wilkes. Kettle Creek Chapter members were delighted to welcome them to our town. Mrs. Wray placed a wreath at the base of the Kettle Creek marker in memory of her ancestor. As tradition merits, she wore white gloves. But hers were unusual gloves. They formerly belonged to the 1940s era dazzling movie star and dancer Ginger Rogers! The Wrays live in the Los Angeles area where there are many little shops that sell "movie star items" and that's where she found these. They were not expensive -- comparable in price to gloves today -- if you could findwhite gloves today! . Dr. Katherine Sanders, who lives in Washington and practices medicine in Conyers, has been researching gluten sensitivity and celiac disease for the past two years. As a follow-up to her recent program at the Kettle Creek Chapter NSDAR about these diseases, she will be offering a panel of blood tests for gluten sensitivity and celiac disease Friday, February 29, at Petal Pushers Christmas Shop in Downtown Washington from 9 a.m. to noon. Dr. Sanders estimates that over 90 percent of the people who are gluten sensitive have never been diagnosed and that the sensitivity can be a contributing factor in many diseases.
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