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2A ♦ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2006 WOOD From page tA 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 From page iA 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 From page iA 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 TRAIN From page iA 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. v WoS/WmM . h jm ■fTJj KrJ Ip • ’ - f| k/Sd JM Csr ........ . 1 school's in, sale's on cingular phone sale yjbfcL "'V "IT jp. ■ i*"* r% i"** , I j||pl j 'iW'- j • ißadrani' '■Bp,- . m£f ■ j ■>m iMi* nSiSiihinjSj? 1 m1.5 t l| /*>! \ ' .397/ y " ™ HONE; ' r mm 1i: f ' __ _ _ noticed i FREE I IV/ Li vVVmhI ‘ mllifll l , SAQ99 -mm tjfik life jj| flsi ,1, i •**■*' . -a, •WIB *' jf f’ 1, '' / ' . ■LI great value graduate to BLACKBERRY 7130 c ’ j j EMASL AND |! era «*?*# I j ' m mm mm I t! or m * « « M JgßaHm CALL 1-866-CINGULAR / CLICK WWW.CINGULAR.COM / C’MON IN TO A STORE cinqular ..ui PART OF THE BELLSOUTH FAMILY For business sales, call t-866-697-786(1 gabusinesssolutionsPcingul3r.com laGraoge 1501 Ufavefte Ptcvw. 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