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A big crowd was in attendance when the Houston Arts Alliance and the Perry Arts
Center hosted a gala party, “The Art of Chocolate,” on Feb. 10 at the Arts Center in
Perry. The event featured music by the Georgia Big Band, an array of chocolate treats,
along with wine and cheese. ABOVE: Houston Lake Country Club was one of the cook
ing teams offering delectable chocolates at the event.
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Commissioner Jay Walker and his wife, Mary, left, enjoyed the evening with Maston
and Jackie Bell.
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Jimmie Lou Leverette and Donna Tabor were among the party-goers.
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Kelly Hamsley, Sandra Morgan and Betty Hotchkiss were asmong the cateters.
Party time
LIFESTYLE
It takes a brave woman
to deal with telephones
The telephone has
become a necessary
evil in this world of
noisy electronic equipment
as far as I am concerned.
Kids like to answer the
phone. I hate to hear it
ringing, I hate answering
it.
I had a friend whose grand
mother used to say that the
phone was installed for her
convenience and if it wasn’t
convenient to answer it, she
wouldn’t. And that was
before answering machines
and caller ID! She was a
brave woman.
At what point did we start
feeling like the sound of a
phone ringing meant there
was an emergency and you
needed to drop everything
* and run to answer it?
My daughter loves to
answer the phone. She, of
course, doesn’t think that
there is some emergency
when she runs to it. She
simply wants to get there
before anyone else does.
Then there’s the added ben
efit of possibly getting to
talk to someone she knows
before I do.
If she does manage to
reach the phone before I do,
it’s most likely because I am
not in a position to answer
it. That’s probably because
I am in the shower or tak
ing a much-needed nap.
For anyone else, it might
be helpful when someone
else answers the phone
when they can’t, but not
in my case. If my daughter
answers it and hears, “Is
Mrs. Snyder there?” she’ll
run to wake me up or yell
through the crack in the
bathroom door until I turn
the shower off because I
think the house is on fire.
All of my children have
been given instructions not
BIRTHS
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Gabriel Alexander
Jacobs
Gordon and Deitra
Roberts Jacobs of Warner
Robins announce the
birth of a son, Gabriel
Alexander Jacobs, at
Houston Medical Center
Feb. 12. Grandparents of
the baby are Marvis and
Delores Roberts of Warner
Robins.
Karisma Emon
Dickey
Derrickßenisha Wheeler
and Eric Dickey of Warner
Robins announce the birth
of a daughter, Karisma
Emon Dickey, at Houston
Medical Center Feb. 12.
Grandparents of the baby
are Charnita Wheeler of
Macon, Jeanette Dickey
of Warner Robins, Leo
Dickey of Macon, and
Jesse Maddox of Warner
Robins.
Levi Austin Williams
Billy and Amy Dunn
Williams of Butler
announce the birth of a
son, Levi Austin Williams,
at Houston Medical Center
Feb. 12. Grandparents of
the baby are Alice and
Ronny Henett and Larry
Dunn of Butler, Billy
Williams, Sr. of Rutledge,
Tenn., and Ginger Whitley
of Mauk, Ga.
Dah’Xariah Zishae
Clark
Shabonda Clark of
Warner Robins announces
the birth of a daughter,
Dah’Xariah Zishae Clark,
at Houston Medical Center
Feb. 11. Grandparents of
the baby are Ruby Lee
Clark, Betty Water and
Peggy Clark of Warner
Robins.
Shania Andrea
Na’shay Williams
Travis and Dominique
Branch Williams of Fort
Valley announce the birth
of a daughter, Shania
Andrea Na’shay Williams,
at Houston Medical Center
Feb. 11. Grandparents
of the baby are Denise
and Charles Green of
Fort Valley and Nazelene
and Starling Williams of
Albany.
Garrett Stephen
Hale
Andrew and Aimee
to wake me or bother me
when I’m in the bathroom
except in the event of a house
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Laura Snyder
Laura on
Life
ever,
apparently believes that
someone wanting to speak
to me on the phone con
stitutes a viable emergen
cy that I simply forgot to
include in that list.
So, I stand there dripping
wet yelling, “Where’s the
fire?!”
“There’s no fire.
Someone’s on the phone!”
“Who is it?!”
“I don’t know!”
“Lady or man!”
“Lady!”
“Did she sound like
Grandma, Aunt Teresa, or
the next-door neighbor?!”
“No! Come on, mommy,
she’s waiting!”
“I’m stark naked, drip
ping wet, freezing cold, and
I still have shampoo in my
hair! I’m not coming out
for just anyone!”
“She sounded impor
tant!”
“Who did she ask for?”
“Mrs. Snyder!”
I groaned. “Okay, for
future information, anyone
who asks for “Mrs. Snyder”
is not in the category of
someone I want to talk to
while I am in the shower!”
Poor kid. There are so
many rules to remember.
She mentally adds to the
list: Mommy can’t talk to
Westlake Hale of Kathleen
announce the birth of a
son, Garrett Stephen Hale,
at Houston Medical Center
Feb. 10. Grandparents of
the baby are Stephen and
Dorothy Hale of Orange
Park, Fla., and Bill and
Jeannine Westlake of
Riverton, 111.
Amere D’Patrick
Malachi Wilborn
Willie and Kenya
Hampton of Warner
Robins announce the birth
of a son, Amere D’Patrick
Malachi Wilborn, at
Houston Medical Center
Feb. 10. Grandparents
of the baby are Judith
Jenkins of Belle Glade,
Fla., Laverne Hampton
of Warner Robins and
Garland Hampton of
Warner Robins.
Kyndal Michelle
Crawford
Letcher Jr. and Mickey
Freeman Crawford of
Warner Robins announce
the birth of a daughter,
Kyndal Michelle Crawford,
at Houston Medical Center
Feb. 9. Grandparents
of the baby are James
and Monika Freeman
of Ocean Springs, Miss.,
and Letcher and Onieda
Crawford of Columbus.
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someone if she’s freezing
cold. Oh wait, unless it’s my
friend from next-door.
As if the telephone isn’t
enough to drive you crazy,
other people have a million
ways to interrupt my daily
life. So many ways, in fact,
that the interruptions have
become my daily life.
My husband may call me
during the day and if I don’t
get to the phone before the
fourth ring, he’ll hang up
and call my cellphone which
is usually in my purse...
at the bottom., in another
room.
My purse is a virtual no
man’s land. Even some
thing that is emitting a
high-pitched Bach move
ment and beaming like a
lighthouse beacon can not
immediately be found in my
purse. By the time I find
it, open it, and answer it,
he has hung up again. I
throw the cellphone back
into the depths of my purse
and run for the computer
where he’ll be trying to e
mail me.
If I don’t answer him in a
reasonable amount of time,
he thinks I’ve fallen down
the stairs or I’ve flown to
Tahiti with the pool-boy or
something.
We don’t have a pool boy.
In fact, we don’t have a
pool. But if we did, he would
think that.
So as I sprint around the
house, chasing the prom
ise of a communique from
my husband, I wonder what
it would be like to be my
friend’s grandmother and
simply not answer it?
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Happy First Birthday
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Derhammer cel
ebrated her first birthday on
Jan. 22. She is the daughter
of Karl and Lori Derhammer.
Grandparents are Carolyn
Sutton, Mary Derhammer
and John Derhammer.
Frances Rowen is the great
grandmother.
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