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Journal/Charlotte Perkins
The supper at the airport was held under a tent, which fortunately withstood thunder,
lightning and rain.
SUPPER
From page iA
Authority Chairman Art
McDonald said he hoped to
see a bigger terminal at some
Airport man
ager Patsy
Goff greets
former man
ager John
Houser and
his wife, Ann.
Journal/Charlotte
Perkins
EFFORTS
From page iA
Lightfoot said, “Every
day there has been some
thing new out. I’m a bargain
shopper and I like the older
things. So do my children.
They found vintage clothing
here.”
Mostly, though, she talked
about the need for the store
in the community.
While Lightfoot is nei
ther poor nor elderly, her
sympathies were with those
customers who had limited
transportation or financial
hardships.
She said that her husband
teaches in Perry, and has
learned that there are “some
serious needs in this town.”
“There is a group of cus
tomers that can walk here,”
she said, “and they have
sold some things here that
the other bargain stores
don’t offer, like mattresses
and box springs, and appli
ances.”
“The ladies who work here
have so much compassion
and respect for the people
who shop here,” she added.
“They ask about their cus
tomers’ family members and
pray for them.
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Journal/Charlotte Perkins
Mary Beth Lightfoot makes her last purchase at the
store as volunteer Kenneth Padget watches. Flyers that
Lightfoot had left in the store to encourage customers
to speak out at the City Council meeting were removed
from the store on Friday.
point, and spoke of the air
port as a “field of dreams.”
Ken Pike, flight instructor,
and Todd Smith, mechanic
at the airport, also talked
with the pilots. Pike empha
sized courtesy and commu
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"It's not been able
to support Itself
pretty much since
It's been In Perry"
- Salvation Army Capt. Jennifer
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Lightfoot, who has waged
a one-woman battle to keep
the store open, was still plan
ning a visit to Perry City
Council on Tuesday night.
She was worried that she
got the employees in trouble
with her efforts to save the
store by distributing flyers
urging customers to attend
the council meeting, but she
wasn’t giving up on the idea
of having a store with plenty
of old-fashioned bargains
and employees who pray for
their customers.
“Maybe the answer is for
Perry to start its own store,”
she said.
Inside the store, Salvation
Army Capt. Jennifer
Queener described the situ
ation in financial terms, say
ing that the store has not
“had the income to be able
to support it for the last 10
years.”
nications for safe landing.
Smith, who is retired from
the air force and has exten
sive experience in aircraft
maintenance, offered annual
inspections and modifica
tions.
“It’s not been able to sup
port itself pretty much since
it’s been in Perry,” she said,
although she added that
“For the last few months
the community has stepped
up and helped.”
She conceded that the clos
ing of the store would mean
that the Salvation Army no
longer had a presence in
Perry, but said, “Our aim
is not to pull out of Perry
forever.”
The closest Salvation
Army thrift shop for Perry
customers will now be at
305 Green Street in Warner
Robins.
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Tickets are $lO each.
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MOORE
From page iB
and “hanitizer” (hand san
itizer).
Grown-ups also make up
words.
. I liked “momnesia: The
Swiss cheese brain syn
drome that will let you
remember precisely how
each child on your daugh
ter’s soccer team likes their
sandwiches made when
it’s your turn to bring the
snacks, but also makes you
forget where you put your
keys to take them.”
Others neologisms
included “phleck” (some
thing very nasty); “wonder
mous” (one step greater
than wonderful); “grivel”
(a combination of “sniv
el,” “drivel” and “gripe”);
and “PLRK” (pronounced
“plirk,” it’s a combination
of play and work because
we work so hard at games
and sports and play at our
jobs).
You can read all the com
plete entries or add your
word at augusta.chronicle.
com/living.
Let’s count down to what
I think was the best sub
mission:
3. WILLBEE :
Call 987-1823 to subscribe
The Perry Area Chamber of Commerce
W Presents the jfl
10™ Annual Fall Challenge
& Taste of Perry
Thursday, November 1,2007
Clay Shoot
at The Gamelands of Henderson Village
L S4O per/person (round of 25) 1
* Golf Scramble
■ex Houston Springs i
Morning Golf Fleet: Registration at Bam & Shot Gun Start at 9am
Afternoon Golf Fleet: Registration at Noon & Shot Gun Start at Ipm
$75 per/person OR S3OO per team (4 members)
Taste of Perry
at Houston Springs Fainx’ay Ridge Clubhouse
Admission: sl2 in advance sls at the door
Contact Maggie Jenkins for more information
£ (478) 987-1234
Maggie@perrygachamber.com
“Something that we are
not quite sure what it is,
but some day we probably
will. It started when I was
a child and my older sister
was getting a pimple ... it
was just a big red bump
on her chin at the time. ...
my sister said that it didn’t
really look like a pimple
and Mom said, ‘lt probably
will be.’ My sister shrieked,
‘What’s a willbee?!’
“From then on, if we
didn’t know what some
thing was, it was a ‘will
bee.’”
2. NACHO RULE (from
Trisha Whisenhunt): “We
never put enough cheese
on the nachos, so we decid
ed when we felt we had
enough, then we needed to
double it.
Therefore, ‘nacho rule’
means to double your
efforts, or increase the
amount.”
1. BLACK DOGGED
(from Susan Everitt of
Augusta): “When you are
so full you can not eat
another bite.” Here is
the winner’s wonderfully
expressed origin:
“A sweet, stray nonde
script black dog came to
our house, so my father
decided to feed it. He gave
the dog several cans of
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dietician and working mom
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
food, and could not fill the
dog up. This continued for
several days.
“My dad decided to sfee
just how much this dog
would eat. He opened the
first can of dog food into a
dog bowl - the dog ate the
whole can in one bite.
“The second can - the
dog ate it again in one bite.
Third can - it took two
bites.
“Fourth can - the dog
looked at it for a while,
then ate it in four or five
bites. Fifth can - the dog
looked at it, walked away,
then came back and ate
it - very slowly - in many
bites.
“Sixth can - the dog
looked at it, walked away,
walked back to it, walked
away again, walked back
to it, and then just curled
up around the dog bowl
and (lay) there: He had
officially ‘black dogged’ on
the dog food.”
Thank you all for play
ing. I’ve peeked through
your curtains at so many of
your wondermous secrets,
though, that I’m thorough
ly black dogged on them
and really need to get back
to PLRK.
Reach Glynn Moore at
glynn.moore@morris.com.
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