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♦ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2006
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cover on a Jamaican rum
cake.
“I watched a lot of
‘American Chopper’ re
runs,” the 25-year-old artist
said, “and grabbed my port
folio, jumped in my car and
drove to their shop.”
The show is based out of
Orange County Choppers
in New York about an hour
away. This was in 2003.
She met one of the mechan
ics who pointed her to the
show’s custom painter
Justin Barns, one of the
three artists OCC uses.
“He was painting one
of their bikes, and he let
me work on (the show’s)
Liberty Bike.”
Bikers around the country
know that bike and through
it her work.
“I worked for them about
two years,” Wood said.
“OCC was the first (place)
I worked with the pro
cess. Just to get my work
featured on the Discovery
Channel is a huge boost.
Bikers watch that show.”
Wood painted David
Mann’s bike, which fur
ther enhanced her national
reputation. Mann was
a renowned artist most
famous for his painting
“Ghost Rider” featuring a
motorcyclist riding with a
herd of horses.
She developed her
Houston County roots •
through her grandparents
who lived in Warner Robins
until her grandfather’s
death.
Those roots deepened
with the arrival of her older
brother Joe Moore.
“Connecticut was too
expensive,” Moore said.
“I wanted to own my own
home, start my own busi
ness.”
Moore recently opened his
own automotive repair busi
ness he called JAM’S.
The name is made up of
the first initials of his chil
dren from first born Joey,
Anthony, and Mackenzie
and soon to be bom Skylor.
“I kept telling her to come
down here,” Moore said. “I
got this shop, and you can
do your own thing. I want
her to work in the same
facility.”
Wood spent about a year
in Warner Robins before
moving to Covington. Her
work can be seen around
town. Moore and Wood col
laborated on a bus from his
shop on his home property.
“Our first job was a
gigantic bus for a retired
railroad conductor,” Moore
DRIVE
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initiated the drive as a meth
od for those touched by him
and by the tragic event to
come together and partici
pate in a project that would
give back to the community.
Principal of Feagin Mill,
Paige Reaves, said she
hopes the drive will encour
age the faculty and staff
of not only her school, but
the entire Houston County
School District to donate.
“What better way to do this
than by allowing those who
knew and loved Christian
PARADE
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Farm/City Days Parade for
the Perry Kiwanis Club and
they’re already asking for
entry forms to make the
parade the best ever.
For the Kiwanis Club, the
parade is a community ser
vice and a fundraiser, since
the club receives a stipend
from the Georgia National
Fair officials for organizing
the parade each year. Its
success depends on having
a lot of participation, and
everybody is welcome. Being
native Perryans, they also
remember that the Farm/
City Days Parade is older
than the Georgia National
Fair.
“They used to have a con
test to catch a greased pig,”
John Hulbert says, laugh
ing. Walker explains that the
old parade used to end with
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Stokes said they don’t
know why he was out there,
said.
Neither of them could
remember the nartie of the
railroad company he worked
for, but Wood designed the
thoroughbred horse they
painted on the back of his
bus.
“You can still see it in
Warner Robins,” she said.
“I did two bikes for guys in
the Air Force here.”
She makes her home in
Covington and travels the
bike show circuit when not
in her studio painting.
Her current project is
the Tattoo Bike for former
Olympian Joe Leroy who
hired her to paint what bik
ers call “tins.”
That’s the unfinished gas
tank and fenders. In Leroy’s
case, he wanted her to
showcase his tattoos on his
bike’s tin.
Wood uses a combination
of painting, metal etching
and airbrushing to get her
ideas onto the tin.
“Nobody does metal etch
ing,” she said. “That’s my
signature technique.”
Wood chose Georgia as
home because it is cen-
trally located. She travels
throughout the country vis
iting bike shows where she
draws large crowds, usually
children, which gave her the
idea of future projects.
“I really would like
to write and illustrate
children’s books,” she
said. “I would like my first
children’s book to be about
motorcycles.
“I go to these shows and
thare’s nothing for kids and
that’s too bad because the
kids love it,” she continued.
“I’ll be doing demonstra
tions and kids will be stand
ing around.”
She’s also like to try her
hand at tattoo art. She drew
the pattern for Moore’s son
feature on his right shoul
der blade.
“I’m her experiment,” he
said laughing, “but she can
do what a lot of tattoo art
ists can’t. She can create
her own designs.”
In fact, Wood is hoping
to get her work featured
on “Miami Ink” on the
Learning Channel.
But for right now, Wood
has enough work. She takes
from two to six months
on each of her projects.
Interested parties can see
her work at www.famesof
steel.com or catch her at
JAM’S. She’s a sucker of
her nieces and nephews,
having already customized
her nephew’s skateboard,
yet another option on her
strange trip from portraits,
to rum cakes, to tins. *
the chance to give something
greater than themselves -
the chance to give the ‘gift
of life’ to those in need?”
said Red Cross Executive
Director, Catie Kriewald.
To be eligible to give blood,
donors must be healthy,
weigh at least 110 pounds,
be at least 17 years of age
and not have given blood in
the last 56 days.
Walk-ins are welcome, but
appointments are highly
recommended. To make an
appointment, call your local
Red Cross at 923-6332 or
email office@redcrosshmga.
org.
a few carnival rides.
Now it’s a big event with
entries from the GNF as
well as across the commu
nity, and it’s a true com
munity parade, with room
for floats, marching bands,
karate students, daycare
groups on floats, Shriners,
school groups, businesses
and just about anybody who
wants to join in. This year,
Mayor Jim Worrall will be
the grand marshall.
It’s important to go ahead
and sign up, Walker and
Hulbert say, noting that one
of their biggest headaches
is last-minute entries, since
the sequence of the parade
needs to be mapped out.
To get into the parade, call
either Walker or Hulbert at
987-1415 for an application
form. The parade will get
organized in front of Perry
City Hall at 9 a.m. on Oct.
7 and will begin promptly at
10 a.m.
but “alcohol was involved.”
The incident happened
about three miles south of
Ga. 96 on the tracks along
Ga. 247 in the 800 block of
Highway 247, Stokes said.
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The Poker Run for
the Ronald McDonald
House In Macon was a
success, said organizer
Lisa Kay Jackson. “We
made $8,936 on Poker
hands, CD’s, 50/50
tickets, dunking booth
and donations. We are
still collecting money
because by the end of
\the month we would
like to hand Ronald
McDonald house a
SIO,OOO check." The
event was held Saturday
land sponsored by
Kappa Nu sorority (Beta
Sigma Phi Chapter) and
American Patriots with
stops at Lane Packing,
Hooters, Jughead’s and
AP’s Hideaway. Pictured
as Hooter’s in Warner
Rob/ns are organizers
land participants along
with the Hooter’s girls.
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