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Perry Office
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HELP
From page iA
Misty McAfee, and little
sister of Paul McAfee, was 6
years old when she lost her
battle to cancer just before
Christmas last year. She had
won the hearts of people who
never met her, in great part
because her parents reached
out to their community ask
ing for prayers, and the
request flew by e-mail from
one friend to another.
Soon, hundreds, pos
sibly thousands, of people
knew that a little girl was
faced with a huge problem
- a very aggressive form
of cancer called Alveolar
Rhabdomyosarcoma. They
also learned that Joanna
was much more than a
“diagnosis.” She was a live
ly, bright child who loved
butterflies and stories of
princesses, dressing-up and
make believe and real life
fun like catching fireflies or
running races.
Her battle with cancer
began when she was 3,
when the family was living
in Tampa, Fla. After count
less hospital stays, surgeries
and chemotherapy sessions,
she seemed to be cured. Her
tumor was gone. Her family
was overjoyed, and ready for
everything to settle down.
Both had big families and
many friends in Warner
Robins, where they had
lived most of their lives, and
they moved back home and
enjoyed just being a normal
family again.
“Normal,” sadly, would
last less than a year. By July,
2005, Joanna’s cancer was
back, and growing faster
than before. Short of a mira
cle, there was little hope.
There were prayers for
that miracle and fund-rais
ers by people who wanted
to do anything they could
to help. Jeff McAfee still
marvels at the barbecue sale
at which more than 3,000
plates were sold, and many
people came together as vol
unteers who had never met
YOUR WEATHER TEAM!
TODAY’S
Today's Weather
Local 5-Day Forecast
Thu
10/5
91/62
Partly cloudy Highs
in the low 90s and
lows in the low 60s
Sunrise Sunset
7:32 AM 7:15 PM
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Albany 92 61 mst sunny
Athens 88 62 t-storm
Atlanta 87 62 t-storm
Augusta 90 64 pt sunny
Bainbridge 93 62 mst sunny
Brunswick 87 69 mst sunny
Cartersville 87 62 t-storm
Chattanooga,TN 80 61 t-storm
Columbus 91 65 pt sunny
Cordele 92 62 mst sunny
National Cities
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Boston 59 48 pt sunny
Chicago 60 44 mst sunny
Dalias 95 73 pt sunny
Denver 71 54 tstorm
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Journal Charlotte Perkins
Rep. Willie Talton, center, pushed through legislation to get a Georgia car tag recogniz
ing the Joanna McAfee Childhood Cancer Foundation, after Jeff McAfee called him.
From left, Misty McAfee, Talton and Jeff.
Joanna at all.
Her parents are trusting
that the remarkable out
pouring of love, support and
prayer they received will be
the beginning of something
still bigger - what they are
calling “help today, hope
tomorrow” for children with
cancer.
With Kimberly Bickley,
Tom my Chambers, Jr., Donna
H. Churchwell and James N.
Richardson as directors, the
McAfees have started the
Joanna McAfee Childhood
Cancer Foundation.
Its vision, they explain, is
three-fold.
They want to increase
awareness of childhood can
cer.
“We want everyone to
know how many kids are
dying and how little is being
done,” Jeff says. “The worst
part is that so few are talk
ing about it."
They want to provide help
and support to children with
cancer and to their families.
“All the research dollars
in the world can’t help cer
tain kids,” says Misty, "They
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in the upper 70s and
lows in the mid 50s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:34 AM 7:12 PM
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in the mid 80s and
lows in the low 60s.
Sunrise Sunset
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Dalton 85 63 t-storm
Dillard 83 58 t-storm
Dublin 92 59 mst sunny
Duluth 86 61 t-storm
Gainesville 86 64 t-storm
Helen 84 60 t-storm
Lagrange 89 61 t-storm
Macon 91 62 pt sunny
Marietta 86 61 t-storm
Miliedgeville 90 62 pt sunny
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Houston 93 69 pt sunny
Los Angeles 68 54 pt sunny
Miami 86 78 t-storm
Minneapolis 61 46 cloudy
New York 62 51 rain
need support.”
They want to provide
grants for research to find
cures for the kind of cancer
that took their daughter’s
life. This is a disease for
which the overall survival
rate has not increased in
30 years, and when Jeff
McAfee says that his daugh
ter “didn’t have a fighting
chance,” he means it.
How are they doing?
Well, they still get tears in
their eyes talking about the
daughter they lost to cancer,
but they’re determined to
make something good hap
pen.
Jeff is fitting the founda
tion work in with his job
as an engineer at Northrop
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STATE AND REGION
Meteorologist
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Abundant sunshine
Highs in the upper
70s and lows in the
mid 50s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:34 AM 7:IIPM
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UV Index
Thu 10/5 8 Very High
Fri 10/6 7 High
Sat 10/7 7 High
Sun 10/8 7 High
Mon 10/9 7 High
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Sunshine. Highs in
the upper 70s and
lows in the upper
50s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:35 AM 7:10 PM
aiy Mi Lo Cond.
Peachtree City 88 60 t-storm
Perry 91 62 mst sunny
Rome 88 62 t-storm
Savannah 90 62 mst sunny
St Simons Islandß7 69 mst sunny
Statesboro 94 62 mst sunny
Thomasville 92 62 mst sunny
Valdosta 91 61 mst sunny
Warner Robins 91 62 mst sunny
Waycross 92 60 mst sunny
Phoenix 94 71 pt sunny
San Francisco 57 51 rain
Seattle 67 47 pt sunny
St Louis 67 55 cloudy
Washington, DC 63 53 rain
Grumman, and Misty, who
taught at Warner Robins
High School for many years,
is volunteering her time to
work with pediatric can
cer victims. Joanna’s big
brother Paul, a student at
Huntington Middle School,
is 14 now.
If you’re one of those who
prayed for Joanna, or if your
heart goes out to all children
with cancer, now’s the time
to make a note on your 2007
calendar. The tags, which
can be ordered at the local
tax office, will cost $25.
The design is done, the
law has been passed, but
there’ll still have to be 1,000
orders before production of
the tags begins.
Obituaries
MARIAN K. BOWERfI
PERRY - Marian K. Bowers, 89, died at the Perry Hospital
on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006. Funeral Services will be held
at 3 p.m. today at Watson-Hunt Chapel. The family will
receive friends between 2-3 p.m. before the service. Bom
in Harrison County, Miss, and the daughter of the late Ned
and Nell Kocher, Bowers had lived in Houston County for
10 years. She was a member of St. Phillip’s Cathedral in
Atlanta, a past president of Beta Sigma Phi, a member of the
DAR and the Red Hat Society. She was an excellent seam
stress and was in a Warner Robins Crochet Club. Survivors
include her children: Nedra Spurlock of Perry, Victor Bowers
of Suwanne and Dr. Chauncey Bowers of Pasadena Calif.
Grandchildren: Donnell Albritton of Marietta, Karen Daly
of Bonaire, Jennifer Pool, of Sugarhill and Amanda Upper of
Raleigh, N.C. Great grandchildren: Jamieson Black, Raychel
Black, Melissa Daly, Carly Daly and Tyler Daly. Please sign
the online register at watsonhunt.com
NANCY J. AGEE
WARNER ROBINS - Nancy Jo Agee, 50, passed away
Monday. Visitation will be today from 7-9 p.m. at McCullough
Funeral Home. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday
in the chapel of McCullough Funeral Home. Go to www.
mcculloughfh.com to sign the Online Registry for the fam
ily
COUNCIL
From page iA
"It’s just a nice piece of land
we fell in love with. We plan
on enjoying it for the rest of
our lives, out there with our
pets and kids.”
“If the county’s ordinance
permits it I don’t think we
ought to object to it,” Horton
said.
“It appears to allow it.
I’d rather check on it than
hear about later,” said City
Attorney Jim Elliott.
The city will have code
enforcement go out to the
site next week.
RATE
From page iA
level. During the preceding
three months, the nation
al rate was higher than
Georgia’s.
Statewide, the number of
initial unemployment claims
dropped about one-fourth
from July to August from
44,027 to 33,852. It is also
down about 5 percent from
the 35,634 claims in August
of 2005.
Georgia added 47,300 non
farm jobs in August, with
GROUP
From page iA
the group contact Evelyn
Grizzle at 923-3996 or
Judy Coleman at 923-2141
or 923-9209.
The B-K Connection has
“Karing for Kids” as its
motto, and will hold bake
sales on Nov. 18, Dec. 16 at
Ace Hardware in Bonaire.
Donations of casseroles,
cakes, pies, cookies and
candy are needed. Contact
Earline Cole at 923-9731
to donate items.
The group is inviting
all first grade students in
the area to participate in
coloring the logo design
for the Bonaire-Kathleen
Connections team. Joanna
McAfee attended Bonaire
Elementary School.
Each class will be asked
to select their favorite col
ored design.
These will be submitted
to the Bonaire-Kathleen
Connections team to be
judged. Final selections
will be displayed in the
window of Davidson’s
Grocery Store.
The winning entry will
receive an event T-shirt
featuring the logo. Entries
must be received by Nov.
1.
Additionally, raffle tick
ets at $2 each are being sold
on a 12-inch color televi
sion donated by Coleman’s
Upholstery Shop.
Tickets for a small
Raggedy Ann & Andy
set and a cancer blanket,
each made by a local resi
dents, are $1 each. Contact
DAVID OVERTON JEWELERS
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905 Downtown Carroll St. • Perry
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2006 ♦
In other business the city
approved a budget tramsfer
for $73,900 from SPLOST
streets Wall Street to pay for
engineering and surveying
services on the Feagin Mill
Road extension by Mid State
Engineering. The council
also approved the bid from
Mid State Engineering for
the project.
And, the council also
declared surplus eight old
hand-held meter readers so
they could be sold off. The
city will have a surplus auc
tion on Nov. 4. The gates
open at 9 a.m. and bidding
begins at 10 a.m.
the bulk of those among sea
sonal workers in local edu
cation, as schools opened
for the fall, according to the
state Department of Labor.
Another factor in the decline
in the jobless rate was a sea
sonal drop of 24,858 in the
state’s workforce, as some
people gave up their search
for temporary summer
employment and left the job
market.
Georgia labor market data
are not seasonally adjusted
and are available at www.
dol.state.ga.us.
At A Glance
To learn more about
Joanna, about the Joanna
McAfee Childhood Cancer
Foundation, and how to get
your “Joanna Tag”, visit www.
SupportCancerKids.org or
www.RememberJoanna.org.
Donations can be made on
line or mailed to the Joanna
McAfee Childhood Cancer
Foundation, 107 Crest Pointe,
Warner Robins GA 31088.
To volunteer, e-mail
info@SupportCancerKids.org.
Grizzle, Coleman, or Carol
Elder at 923-6572 for more
information.
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