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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, SATURDAY JUNE 24, 1989
Perryans unvanquished
by mountain, bad weather
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On the Trillium Trail in Gatlinburg
...Cindy Montgomery and Joan Ogletree
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Beneath Grotto Falls
...Cindy and Joan
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Lisa gets a taste of late-season snow
...Leaving the Ice-covered mountain top
Elementary teachers
to attend workshop
More than 30 Houston County
educators will attend a six-hour
workshop on Monday to become
certified in the Project Learning
Tree program, which can be used to
enhance the teaching of many sub
jects in the county's education sys
tem.
Educators who will participate in
the workshop include teachers from
elementary schools in Perry and
Warner Robins.
The nationally recognized pro
gram, praised by former President
Reagan as one of the nation's ex
ceptional volunteer efforts, was de
veloped by the American Forest
Council and the Western Regional
Environmental Education Council.
The Houston County workshop,
which will be held at Russell Ele
mentary School in Warner Robins,
is sponsored by the Proctor &
Gamble Cellulose Co., with the
help of a trained program facilitator
from the the county school system.
The program currently is being
used in many southwest Georgia
school systems, including Dooly
County, Macon County, Stewart
County, Quitman County, Chatta
hoochee County and the Amcricus
city school system.
Council cancels meeting
Perry's City Council will not
meet the first Tuesday of July, be
cause of the Independence Day
holiday.
There will be only one meeting
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Lisa Murray
...On the Alum Trail
Workshops in other neighboring
counties arc planned later this year.
The program was written by
classroom teachers with support and
assistance of environmental educa
tors, foresters, and representatives
from forest products companies, re
source agencies and conservation
groups.
Designed for teachers and other
educators working with students in
kindergarten through grade 12, it
uses the forest as a "window" into
the natural world, helping young
people gain an awareness and
knowledge of the world around
them, as well as their place within
it.
The program provides ready
made lessons and activities that can
be used to supplement existing
curricula and offers more than 175
activities that help teach science,
mathematics, language arts, social
studies, humanities and other sub
jects.
Implementing the Project
Learning Tree program in Houston
County is part of Proctor & Gam
ble Cellulose's continuing efforts to
support educational opportunities in
the Middle Georgia area.
in July, unless the mayor and
councilmcn sec the need for a called
meeting. Otherwise, the council
will meet next for its regularly
scheduled July 18 session.
By Joan Ogletree
Special to HHJ
May 9, 6 a.m. - We left Atlanta
in the rain for our assault on the
mountain, leading to our destina
tion, the LcConte Lodge, Gatlin
burg, Tcnn.
We arrived 11 a.m. in Gatlin
burg, picked up our lunches from
the Burning Limb pickup stand.
There were three of us at this point:
Cindy Montgomery, Lisa Murray
and Joan Ogletree.
We started up the Trillium Trail.
The other members of our group
were to meet us on the trail or at
the lodge. They were Felix Smith
Jr. and Phcraby Smith, from Perry,
and Lewis Snyder, from Knoxville,
Tcnn.
The rain had stopped, and it was
going to be a beautiful hike (so we
thought). The mountain sides were
covered with blooming trillium.
We hiked under Grotto Falls.
Everything was breathtaking. We
stopped for lunch along the trail and
Lewis caught up wilh us. Still no
sign of the Smiths.
Three hours on the trail our luck
changed. The temperature dropped,
the wind started to howl and the
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Front row: Pheraby Smith, Joan Ogletree, Lisa Murray
...Back row: Cindy Montgomery, Felix Smith Jr., Lewis Snyder
clouds overflowed. Two hours later,
even wilh rain gear on, we arrived
at die lodge soaked and exhausted.
After drying out, we had a great
supper in the lodge dining hall and
went back to our cabin. Still no
Smiths, and it was getting dark.
We peered out the window, and
there in the gloom and rain stood
two very wet and tired Smiths.
They had hiked the Boulevard Trail,
which is a longer trail, and it rained
on them the whole way.
We drier! them off and hung their
underwear with ours around the
heater. After supper they felt belter.
Needless to say, we all went to
bed early.
May 10 - We woke up up en
veloped in the clouds, visibility six
feet. After a breakfast of pancakes,
bacon, eggs, etc., we spent the
morning in the lodge office around
the heater, reading, playing games
and talking with other guests.
After lunch, Phcraby and I were
silting in rocking chairs while the
rest went walking around the
mountain in the fog.
The door burst open and in
walked a group of senior citizens.
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Would you believe they hike the
trail e very week?
All were in their 70s. One fel
low had hiked the mountain over
400 times. So what are we, a bunch
of wimps?
That night it snowed.
May 11 -We headed down the
Alum Trail, leaving a beautiful
mountain top covered in ice and
snow.
Home to Perry, where the sun
greeted us with 80-dcgrec temps.
Isn't it funny that you have to
get back home to remember what a
great trip you had.