Plenty of weekend food available
Tour of Homes on April 2-3.
With all the cold and rainy weather we’ve had, some homeowners are late getting to clean yards, etc. . . . We had a cold and rainy week last week, with
Norris Ware recording 2.4 inches for the week.
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Ladies, we're not going to have to do much cooking this weekend. Two
Relay for Life teams will be giving us opportunities to eat-out this weekend and benefit Relay for Life. The CSRA Adult Day Health team will have hamburgers and hot dogs and all the goodies that go with them Friday from 11 a.m. until sold out. They will be located on West Robert Toombs Avenue. . . . On Saturday, the Laugh-Inn@Wills team will serve hot dogs, sausage dogs, hamburgers, etc., at Auto Plus (formerly Bumper to Bumper) on East Robert Toombs Avenue. Serving is from 9 a.m. until all sold out. See a related article elsewhere in this newspaper for more details.
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Two other events on Saturday will keep us home cooks out of the kitchen. The Lions Club will have chicken barbecue plates ready at 11 a.m. . . . And then Fishing Creek Baptist Church will be having one of its Country Cooking Suppers at the church from 6 to 8 p.m. You can read about both of these in this week’s News-Reporter, too.
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Seventeen-year-old Brandon Ware, son of Todd and Teri Ware of Monroe, and grandson of Norris and Frances Ware of Washington, was the speaker for Youth Day at Sardis Baptist Church at Rayle during the morning worship service Sunday.
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Joe Barnett's appearance on the “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” program on the Food Network will be aired again on March 24 at 9 p.m. and three hours later at 12 a.m. on March 25.
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Washington's First Baptist Church is again without a pastor. Rev. Klay Aspinwall’s resignation was accepted during conference at the morning worship service Sunday morning. He has been pastor for about 16 months.
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Members of the First United Methodist Church were hosts Sunday night to a group of 15 students, staff, and alumni from Maryville College in Tennessee. They were riding their bicycles from there to St. Simons Island on the coast of Georgia and were on their spring break. They came to Washington- Wilkes from Toccoa, had supper prepared by church members, spent the night on the premises, and following breakfast served by church members, they headed for Louisville, Ga., and then to St. Simons.
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I've been asked to remind everybody that the old North Alexander School will be open for visitors during the Tour of Homes. The directors of the association invite us all to come see the restoration that has been done and what is in store for the historic old building.
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Up, up, up. Gas prices (as of Tuesday morning) from west to east on U.S. 78 through town were $2.73, $2.74, $2.76, $2.75, and $2.74.
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The First United Methodist Church is having another one of its auctions to raise money to retire the loan on the construction of the new fellowship hall. They had one several years ago and it was lots of fun. This year there will be a roast beef meal followed by the auction on Sunday, March 28. There will be all kinds of treasures to bid on, including holidays at beach condos, jewelry, services such as cleaning and organizing your world, cakes and cookies, and the list goes on. The newest item is authenticated seats from Lowe’s Grand Theater in Atlanta. The seats were used by patrons to watch the debut of the movie Gone With the Wind.
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Taylor Randall ΒΈ granddaughter of Jo and Buzzy Randall, and daughter of Randy and Kim Randall of Clinton, S.C., presented her senior voice recital Sunday at Presbyterian College to a large and appreciative audience. Taylor has a beautiful and powerful voice and is in the process of auditioning for positions in theater and music all along the East Coast to New York, following her May graduation from Presbyterian College.
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Suzanne Norman brought me a copy of the October 28, 1938, issue of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, a publication of the Southern Methodist Church. A friend had found the publication, noticed an article in it about Methodists in Washington- Wilkes and sent it to Suzanne. The lead article on the front page and other articles throughout the publication were about the Washington Methodist Church celebrating its sesqui-centennial (150 years). Rev. Foster Young was pastor of the Washington Methodist Church. (I can’t believe that I remember him, but I do. Maybe it is because he had a son named Joe who was about my age. I wasn’t but six years old in 1938). The program participants were not limited to Methodists. The main speaker was Dr. W.P. King, editor of The Christian Advocate, and Dr. John Mell, a well-known Baptist minister was one of the speakers. Dr. D.V. Cason, pastor of the Washington First Baptist Church, was in charge of the eve- ning service. ( I remember him, too, and he had three sons.) Rev. Stewart Long was pastor of the Washington Presbyterian Church and had a part on the program, and I remember him, too. He had two children. R.H. Pharr was chairman of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church and assisted with the program. The publication had pictures of the church and of several of the parsonages that had served the church, and gave an extensive history of the town. . . . One interesting statement about the city was: “The city has some industry but no effort has been put forward by the citizenry to get manufacturing established there. Washington, it can readily be said, is not dependent upon industry for support of its businesses.”
