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10A ♦ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007 Bn ■*:**," mS^w"^f ft, ll^Mßii A Tfr * A - r -^^ MT Tn |w, m ,. .q A. a a A -, * § jg^®®®iHL^HrSr s te ■■ - ; Ak ’ "i' -JHBHm» ■ f ~?Wr - «jiv .**Bf ***•• «•«* ■ 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. | " —' """ "*'* ' ' ' HP -V 1 ■ ? 1 • ■ -'fv fq-- *7 M I jn : 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 if V .. k. ■>- .. , £ ■;: ’’ft! ■ - ./ jfl ': i .*’■• '’’ -'f- ■ ;'/ T - *?* --£? ; I ‘i v Mi g - '•■" a ' T . "It's not been able to support Itself pretty much since It's been In Perry" - Salvation Army Capt. Jennifer £>yeener 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. ;' J V*,, _• ’ > ‘ ’ f~ ‘ "l *’ ' ' & £ ' / ''' ’T, cf/7?,e 3fyn/c S^icmc/ Tuesday, October 16 11:30 am - 1 pm Tickets are $lO each. (lunch and gift included) RAFB Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar You must have a ticket to attend. Sponsored by Houston Healthcare, RAFB Health and Wellness Center, American Cancer Society and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Call 923-9771 for more information and to purchase a ticket. T r> ■■■■■■ Houston Healthcare Jjl 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 12 1 * 1 Annual Breast Cancer Luncheon “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Qenes” Presented by Marcia Berlin 4 breast cancer survivor, registered 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. 541 sA 54034