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Hospice invites public
to special presentation
Hospice of Houston County
would like to invite all interested
individuals to attend a special
presentation entitled "Walking
Between Worlds" Spiritual
Perceptions of the Dying," which
will be held on Monday night, May
16 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the
Church of Christ on Corder Road.
Executive Director, Jackie Connors,
plans to share her research and
reflections of events,
communications, and insights
surrounding the dying process.
Please register by calling 922-
1777 by May 13.
Perry dub to raise funds
at annual road block
The Exchange Club of Perry
will have their annual Road Block
this Saturday, May 14th from 8:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
They will be in two locations
collecting donations for the
Prevention of Child Abuse. The
club will be at the intersection of
Marshallville Road and Courtney
Hodges Blvd. and also at the
intersection of Swift Street and
Macon Road in front of Stanley
Furniture.
Agency to distribute
surplus commodities
Jim Brophy, Executive Director
of the Middle Georgia Community
Action Agency, Inc. announces that
USDA surplus commodities will be
given away Wednesday, May 11,
1994 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the
National Guard Armory in Perry.
If someone is picking up your
commodities for you they must
bring a signed statement from you
authorizing them to pick it up for
you unless they were authorized on
the application.
The agency is an equal
opportunity employer and serves
persons regardless of race, creed,
color, sex or national origin. For
more information call 987-03503.
Please bring your own bag.
Support group to meet
at hospital May 26
The Support Group in the Perry
area to caregivers of persons with
Alzheimers disease or related
disorders such as Parkersons, Picks
disease, depression and others met
Thursday, May 5 in the dining
room of Perry Hospital.
The guest speaker for the event
was Attorney Robot T. Tuggle 111
who presented detailed advice and
information on legal and financial
aspects in dealing with those
illnesses.
The next meeting of the group
will be Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m.
in the Perry Hospital dining room
at no cost Dr. Susan Rayboume
will be the guest lecturer. She has
done extensive research on
Alzheimers disease and the drug
Please see GROUP, page 9A
Shackleford
gives update
on Isles Pkwy.
ah sections ot the Golden Isles
Parkway are either completed, under
construction, or in some phase of
preconstruction, Golden Isles
Parkway Association members and
guests heard last Friday night.
Georgia Department of
Transportation officials warned,
though, that environmental hurdles
are delaying or will delay the
preconstruction process at
numerous points.
That message was delivered by
DOT Commissioner Wayne
Shacklpford and state
preconstruction engineer John
Lively at an informal barbecue
dinner at Little Ocmulgee State
Park at Mcßae last Friday.
The event, which attracted
roughly 200 people, was planned
by the Golden Isles Parkway
Association and former DOT Board
member Downing Musgrove to
give state legislators, local
officials, and private citizens a
chance to tell DOT officials about
the importance of the Parkway.
One of the 14 roads in the
Georgia Developmental Highway
System, the Golden Isles Parkway
will be a four-lane corridor running
along U.S. Hwy. 341 from 1-75 in
Perry to the port at Brunswick.
"I just want to tell you how glad
I am that you have organized
yourselves into an association,"
Shackelford told his listeners at the
dinner.
U.S. Hwy. 341 is now only one
of four roads in the Developmental
Highway System to have an
association to promote it, he noted.
Although he spoke proudly of
the overall quality of the state
highway system and its bridges,
Shackelford said that the
Developmental Highway System
had been approved 30 years too late.
He added, however, that ever
since the system was approved, the
state has been consistent in
providing funding for work on
widening the proposed
developmental corridors to four
lanes.
The DOT is also using
increasing numbers of consultants
to speed up the work on these
roads, Shackelford said.
He explained, though, that "a
number of very tough issues
involved in building a road" have
been slowing progress on the
developmental highways.
Please see ISLES PKWY, page 9A
Mayor encourages
citizens to donate
junk cars to KFG
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Got an old clunker trashing up
your yard and neighborhood?
Don’t know what to do with it
and can’t afford to get it towed to
the junkyard?
Well, here’s a suggestion from
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall that
won’t cost you a dime and will al
low you to support a good cause at
the same time.
According to Worrall, the Na
tional Kidney Foundation of Geor
gia has a special program through
which they pick up people’s old
junk cars, free of charge, and then
sell them at both auctions and
salvage companies.
All proceeds are utilized in the
Foundation’s funding of medical re
search, educational seminars, medic
alert jewelry, rehabilitation pro
grams and financial assistance to
patients across the state'. Over a
quarter of a million Georgians
: suffer: from kidney and urological
disease.
To donate a car to the Kidney
Foundation, simply call toll-free, 1-
800-633-2339, extension 25.
Callers will be sent a packet of
Please see FOUNDATION, page 9A
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Little Leaguers Detrel McCarter (batting) and
Jeremy Barr prepare for the Perry Rec
Department’s opening day games Monday. Their
team, the Perry A’s, defeated the Rangers In a
close 15-14 Mighty Mite division game.
Bank South announces two new board members
Rusty Wood is
elected bank
board chairman
Bank South, Houston County
has announced the election of WJ.
"Rusty" Wood as Chairman of the
Board of Directors, replacing James
B. Stubbs who continues on the
Board as Director Emeritus.
A graduate of Western Carolina
University, Wood is President of
Tolleson Lumber Company in
Perry and serves in a number of
civic and business professional
organizations including Chairman
elect, Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce; Director and
Chairman, Governmental Affairs
Committee, Southeastern Lumber
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Perryans support local library
The Perry Friends of the Library Book Sale held last week was a huge success reports
PFOL members. Marti Bloodworth, Billie Sue Thompson and Mary Ferguson spearheaded the
sale which raised over $2,100 to be used at the local library located on Washington Street.
For News And Subscriptions
Wednesday, May 11, 1994
W. J. "Rusty” Wood
Manufacturers Association; Vice
Chairman, Westfield School Board
of Trustees; and serves as an
ordained deacon, Perry Presbyterian
Church.
Wood is married to the former
Terry Tolleson and they have one
daughter, Whitney, age eleven.
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BOE continues
to defend two
site selections
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Concerned Citizens of
Houston County were on the
agenda for the Houston County
Board of Education regular meeting
Tuesday afternoon, May 10; how
ever, none of the members of the
Perry group made the meeting.
Even though the citizens group
was absent from the meeting, board
chairman Zell Blackmon continued
to state the board's policy over the
location of two proposed middle
schools in Houston County. Both
middle schools are scheduled to be
built north of Highway 96, with
Concerned Citizens of Houston
County calling for one of the
schools to be built in the Perry
area.
Blackmon said that the schools
were being built in accordance to a
Plans for Station 58 on track
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
WPGA-TV should go on the air
in late July or August, said Lowell
Register.
Register, who earlier said he
hoped to have the station on the air
in April, said the reason for the de
lay was getting Federal approval on
the station's tower and late equip
ment arrivals. "We are going as fast
as we can go," he said.
The tower fa- WPGA, channel
58, will be located in an antenna
farm east of Macon. Register said
the antenna farm was the only loca
tion he could put his tower, which
will stand 900 feet tall.
Register added that the tower
will send back a "city grade” signal
Stafford named
vice chairman
of bank board
J. Sherrill Stafford has been
elected Vice Chairman, Board of
Directors, Bank South Houston
County.
Stafford is the full-time
Chairman, Houston County Board
of Commissioners and serves in
numerous community/civic
organization positions including
Vice President, Houston County
Board of Health; chairman. State
Environmental Council Board of
Directors; Air Force Association
and Board of Managers, Association
of County Commissioners of
Georgia. He also teaches an adult
Perry, Georgia - 50 Cents
five year plan that called for new
schools and new school wing. He
repeated the board's assertion that
Perry Middle School would receive
a new wing for the 1995-96 school
year.
"We've worked extremely hard to
have a good communication policy
relative to the issue," said Black
mon, who added that he had spoken
to four different groups in Perry
about the middle schools. He re
peated his offer to speak to any
group about the board's decision.
Before going into executive ses
sion on student matters, legal is
sues and land, Blackmon said the
board was not discussing the pro
posed offer of land from the citi
zen's group, saying the offer was
not "firm" enough for the board to
consider it.
over Perry. The tower will send
produce a 1.3 million watt signal,
allowing WPGA to cover the Ma
con Area of Dominate Influence,
the 121st largest market in the
United States. He said WPGA
would be one of the strongest sta
tions in the Macon area.
"We are waiting on some gov
ernment agencies to clear the
hoops," said Register. "It always
seems that you have to something
(more) before you can move on."
Register said WPGA would not
initially have a news program.
"Initially we want to get on the air
with Fox programming," he said,
adding that he hoped to on the air at
least by the first NFL pre-season
game in the latter part of August
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Sunday class with over 100
members at the First Baptist
Church in Centerville. He is a
graduate of the University of
Georgia.
Stafford is married to the former
Ann Hallman and they have two
daughters, Laura and Dorothy.
Children's groups
will be able to fish
at Agricenter lakes
Organized groups of children
will be able to fish once again at
the Georgia National Fairgrounds &
Agricenter during National Fishing
month in June. One of the
Agricenter's lakes, which has been
stocked with catfish, will be
available at no charge on a
reservation basis.
Organized groups include boy
and girl scouts, churches, schools,
civic clubs, etc. Fishing is open to
children only up to 16 years of age.
Each child is permitted to keep up
to 10 fish.
"This is the fourth year the
Agricenter has provided the free use
Please see FISHING, page 9A
