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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 170
Wednesday
August 30, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
TORCH
IN SPORTS
■ Houston County's volleyball
team picked up its first loss of
the year, but on the other hand,
added four more wins to its total.
Westfield's softball team notched
a walk-off win, Perry won as did
the International City Warriors
football team. Also, look for a fea
ture and column on the Braves.
-See 1B
IN BRIEF
HCBOE sets new
millage rate
The Alzheimer's Association will
present an educational program April
4 on how to plan ahead. Topics
include: Understanding Alzheimer's
disease, taking care of yourself
financially, how changes to Medicaid
law may impact you and your par
ents, coming changes to long-term
care insurance and estate planning
and estate recovery.
It will be presented by Tracy
Ford, LMSW, Director of Programs
and Services for the Alzheimer’s
Association and Sherri Goss,
MEd, BCE, Financial Advisor with
Rosenberg Financial Group, Inc.
It is slated to run from 7-8 p.m. at
Summer's Landing in Warner Robins.
Call 478-746-7050 for directions and
to register. According to a release,
there is no charge for attendance.
More school
meetings announced
Perry Primary School has set its
School Council meeting dates. They
are: Oct. 24, Jan. 23, 2007, March
20, 2007 and May 22, 2007. All,
according to a release are to take
place at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria.
Also, Kings Chapel Elementary
School has set its meeting dates.
They are: Sept. 28, Jan-. 25, 2007,
March 29,2007 and May 3,2007. Its
are slated to take place at 4 p.m. and
in Room 178.
In addition, Shirley Hills
Elementary School's dates are:
Thursday, Oct. 26, Jan. 25, 2007
and April 26. No times or meeting
places were provided, so check with
school officials.
And finally (for this Journal pub
lishing date - others are to follow),
Eagle Springs Elementary School’s
council meeting dates are: Thursday,
Oct. 19, Jan. 11, 2007, March 29
and May 24. All except the May 24
date, according to a release, will take
place at 7:15 a.m. and in the school
media center. The May 24 meeting
will be at 6:30 p.m. at a location to
be determined.
DEARLY DEPARTED
■ Nancy Evelyn Edwards, 62
■ D. K. “Dot" Roughton, 86
INDEX
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WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
FOOD 1 B
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Wood goes from
American Chopper to
eyepopper
By JOE
SERSEY
Journal
Correspondent
Latisha Wood
has an artist’s '
eye. It’s her right
one and with it, she
has used her talent to
propel herself to the top
of her field.
Wood was born with a
birth defect that cost her
vision in her left eye, but
now she is one of the top
motorcycle customizing art
ists in the United States, and
one of the few women doing
the work.
“I started drawing when
I was about 2 or 3 years
old,” Wood said. “My father
(Gerald Wood) did a lot of
religious paintings. I inher
ited that natural ability.”
What Wood didn’t know
was that her father also
painted motorcycle helmets,
doing pinstripes and gold
leaf on helmets. He rode a
1980 Honda Gold Wing.
Duo plans for Farm/City Days Parade
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
HHJ Li fet.style Editor
They’re first cousins. They
went to law school together.
They work for the same
law firm and they’re both
Kiwanians.
They also both have a
lot of experience with writ
ing numbers on the street
with colored chalk, round
ing up beauty queens and
horses, tractors and clowns,
and getting the annual
Farm/City Days Parade into
order for the long march
from Washington Street into
downtown Perry, and own
Courtney Hodges Blvd. all
the way to the north gate to
celebrate the opening of the
Georgia National Fair.
John Gray Walker and
John Hulbert are in their
third year of coordinating
the Georgia National Fair
See PARADE, page iA
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Latisha Wood and her brother Joe stand next to a pair of her artful creations.
It wasn’t until after she
started working with bikes
that she learned of his
involvement.
He was killed by a drunk
driver when she was about 2
months old.
“If my father were still
alive, I’d have started paint
ing motorcycles a lot soon
er,” she said. “He’s always
been an inspiration to me.”
As the Grateful Dead
used to sing, “What a long,
strange trip it’s been.” Wood
made her own unusual jour
ney to national recognition.
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Dynamic duo John Hulbert and John Gray Walker are rounding up the entries for the
Farm/City Days Parade, which celebrates the opening of the Georgia National Fair.
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She was born in California
and raised in Connecticut as
part of an extended family
that includes four brothers
and two sisters.
She lived in Hartford,
Conn., when she graduated
from high school and attend
ed Hartford Art School.
Such was her talent in
high school, a portrait she
did for a high school com
petition was disqualified for
being too good.
“It was too realistic for a
high school student,” her
brother Joe Moore said of
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the incident.
“I majored as an illustra
tor (at Hartford Art School),”
Wood said. “I did water col
ors, ink and dyes.”
The Hartford Art School
is part of the University
of Hartford, but after her
graduation, Wood took the
starving artist route, but that
lasted only a short while.
“I had just been laid off at
Cosco’s after Christmas,”
she said. “It wasn’t even a
month, and I was working a
freelance job designing a
See WOOD, page lA
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Below the
fold
■ Organizations team
up for blood drive
to honor the life of
Christian Quon
■ Duo begins planning
for annual Farm/City
Days Parade
"(They) threw the
train Into
emergency stop
when the light hit
him, but there is no
friction to stop a
train, IPs steel on
steel.”
- Houston County Sherriffs
Traffic Supervisor Lt. Mike
Stokes
Man MM
by train
Was riding mower
on railroad tracks
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A Kathleen man was
killed around 1 a.m.
Saturday while riding
his lawnmower on the
railroad tracks near his
home.
Anthony Todd Potts,
38, of 809 South Highway
247 - A, was pronounced
dead on the scene after
being hit by the train.
The train attempted
to stop but was unable
to, said Houston County
Sherriff’s Traffic
Supervisor Lt. Mike
Stokes.
“It takes about a mile
to stop a train,” Stokes
said.
Stokes added the train’s
conductor and engineer
“threw the train into
emergency stop when the
light hit him, (Potts) but
there is almost no friction
to stop the train, it’s steel
on steel.”
See TRAIN, page iA
Red Cross sets
blood drive in
memory of Quon
Special to the Journal
The Houston-Middle
Georgia Chapter of the
American Red Cross and
Feagin Mill Middle School
are teaming up for a blood
drive to honor the life of
Christian Quon.
The drive, which is
open to the public, will
take place Sept. 7 from
2-7 p.m. at Feagin Mill
Middle School.
Quon, who passed away
during a fatal tree acci
dent only hours after the
last day of school, May
26, would have begun
the seventh grade last
Friday at Feagin Mill.
His mother, Lancie Quon,
See DRIVE, page zA
At A Glance
What: Blood drive to
honor the memory of
Christian Quon
When: Sept. 7, 2-7 p.m
Where: Feagin Mill
Middle School