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k-THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1992
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Wednesday, July 29, 1992
Thursday, July 30, 1992
The regular meeting of the Perry Housing Authority will be
held tcxlay at 4:00 at the Authority Office.
Friday, July 31, 1992
NARANON, a support group for the family and friends of those persons
experiencing alcohol and drug abuse problems, meets each Tuesday,
Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Friday meetings arc in the
Houston Medical Center Annex; Saturday meeting is at the Hodac
Community Crisis Center, 404 Duke Ave., in Warner Robins.
AUGUST
Saturday, August 1, 1992
NARANON, a support group for the family and friends of those persons
experiencing alcohol and drug abuse problems, meets each Tuesday,
Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Friday meetings arc in the
Houston Medical Center Annex; Saturday meeting is at the Hodac
Community Crisis Center, 404 Duke Ave., in Warner Robins.
Sunday, August 2, 1992
Monday, August 3, 1992
The American Legion will meet today at 7:00 p.m. at the Agri
Building with a meal.
Tuesday, August 4, 1992
The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive today at Crossroads
United Methodist Church, 1600 Main St., Perry. 2:30 p.m.- 7 p.m.
The Perry City Council will meet today at 7:30 p.m. at the City
Hall.
The Perry Lions Club will meet today at 7:30 at Denny's Restaurant
in Perry.
The ADD Parent Support Group will meet today at 7 p.m. at
Nations Bank on Russell Parkway in Warner Robins.
Wednesday, August 5, 1992
The W.R.A.L.C. Functional Test Unit Retirees meets today
for their monthly coffee break. This meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. at
Eckerd’s Restaurant in the Hosuton Mall.
V Agricenter events I
Agricenter schedule
A JULY
July 29-Aug. 1-... National
Junior Brangus
Show... Beef/Dairy Arena,
Bcef/Dairy Barn, 7 am-6 pm daily,
July 31-Aug. 2...G01d Kist
Triple Crown Horse
r-jLI A Show. .. Covered Horse Arena,
ii/^iriPirfUTPr? Horse Barn, Reaves Arena, 8 am
dai ly , free.
AUGUST
August 15-16... Ga. Cutting Horse Association Show...
Covered horse arena, horse barn, free, 9 am-daily.
August 21-23... Ga. Wildlife Federation "Buck-A-
Rama"... Georgia Living Center, Heritage Hall, McGill Building,
Friday 1-9 p.m. Saturday 10 am-9 pm, Sunday 10 am-6 pm, $6 adult,
children 6-12 S 3, under 6 free.
August 21-23 Horseman's Quarter Horse Show. .. Covered
horse arena, horse barn, Reaves Arena, 9 am, free.
August 26...Timberlake Grocert Co. Retail Food
Show... Georgie Loving Center, McGill Building, 9 am-spm, free.
August 28-30. ,.5E Antiques & Collectibles
Market. ..McGill Building, $2, Friday 2 pm-Bpm, Saturday, 9 am
6pm, Sunday 10am-spin.
August 30... Perry First Baptist Church - Praise Sing... New South
Arena, 7 pm, free.
PLEASE NOTE ITEMS ON THIS CALENDAR ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
CALL 987-2774 TO CONFIRM EACH EVENT.
Rotary Club hears all the
benefits of Camp Can Do
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Perry Rotary Club listened to a
presentation by Carolyn Holmes,
placement director for Camp Can
Do, a summer camp for disabled
children, at their regular meeting
Monday.
The program is sponsored by the
Houston County Interagency Coun
cil which includes a number of
medical, special care, legal and med
ical organizations. The camp is six
weeks in length and has 76 children
in this year’s program. According
to Holmes, in the past the camp
had only enough funds to be a half
day program but a grant from the
Pcachbclt Mental Health Center has
made a full day schedule possible.
"We take children who range
from mildly disabled to profoundly
disabled and give them a chance to
participate in physical and intellec
tual activities. Whether it is a
group or individual activity each
child is working one on one with a
teacher," Holmes said.
The camp is held at Stephens
Elementary School in Warner
Robins. The cost is SBO. Holmes
answered a question from the audi
ence regarding a family’s inability
to pay the fee.
"If the family cannot afford the
SBO which covers the entire cost of
the six weeks then we find away to
raise it. We will not deny a child
the chance to participate due to a
lack of money," Holmes said.
The children participate in a
range of activities including paint
ing, ceramics, pre-writing and read
ing skills training, working with
puppets and for the more pro
foundly disabled there are regular
stimulus exercises.
"We are beginning to do some
work with computers which opens
up an entirely new world for these
children in terms of their ability to
communicate," Holmes said.
The camp provides transporta
tion for all the children who require
it through buses loaned by the
county. A recent outing provided
the children an opportunity to go to
the movies.
"We went to see Pinnochio and
.the children loved it. A lot of them
had never been to a movie before.
The small things that we take for
granted are often out of reach or too
difficult for a lot of these kids.
They love swimming and some of
them have learned to swim through
our weekly trips to a local pool,"
Holmes said.
The camp is staffed by seven
teachers who come from both regu
lar and special education back
grounds. The camp budget for die
six weeks is $13,890 which in
cludes bus driver's salaries, icachTr's
salaries, snacks, bus aides and sup
plies. The income derived from the
tuition is $4,800. Holmes left a
number of pamphlets with the
Roatarians describing the financial
needs of the camp.
"Probably a third of our kids
come from Perry. In the past the
number was lower but now that we
have available transportation we arc
able to reach more students. In the
past parents with disabled children
had to hide them or keep them in
the house all of the time, that is no
longer necessary," Holmes said.
For further information on the
camp, contact Sue Netzley at 929-
7767.
Norsworthy
reports to
Marine base
Marine Staff Sgt. Harold G. Nor
sworthy, son of Robbie A. and
Harold G. Norsworthy Sr. of Perry,
recently reported for duty at Marine
Corps Logistics Base in Albany.
The 1975 graduate of Perry High
School joined the Marine Corps in
Feb. 1983.
Developing a financial
plan to fit your needs
More than 42 million Americans
own stock. Many also regularly
buy bonds, real estate partnerships
and other investments.
You don't have to be rich to be a
successful investor.
What you have to be is willing -
willing to commit, over time, to a
disciplined financial plan, willing
to rely on the best advice possible
and then decide for yourself how
much risk you want to take for
some potentially handsome returns.
Investors, for example, who pur
chased stock from household names
such as IBM or Coca-Cola decades
ago have seen their investments
grow enormously over the years.
Although there's no guarantee of fu
ture performance, a participant in
Interstate/Johnson Lane’s Long-
Term Growth Portfolio who ini
tially invested $50,000 when the
model portfolio began in 1977
would today have more than
$300,000 -a compounded average
growth of 18.2 percent. If the same
person had left $50,000 in a sav
ings account paying 5 to 5.5 per
cent during that time period, the ac
count would be with $93,000 -
almost doubling in value but just
barely keeping up with cost-of-liv
ing increases.
Beginning an investment plan
doesn't mean picking up the stock
listings in the local paper and then
throwing darts. At the same time, it
doesn’t have to be as complicated or
time-consuming as a set of federal
lax return forms. The best way to
start is to get to know a financial
consultant or broker you like and
trust, and work together to sort out
your financial needs and objectives.
Meet regularly, perhaps once a quar
ter, to review progress and do fur
ther planning.
A goal should be to accumulate
wealth over time by continually
adding to your investments. Invest
ing is a long-term process, not a
one-time exercise.
The first step in beginning a fi
nancial program is to decide what
you would like money for in the fu
ture and how much you will need.
Do you want funds to: pay for chil
dren's educations? provide for your
retirement? help pay for current ex
penses? Develop a list of your
needs, writing down how much
they will cost and approximately
when you will need the money.
Some needs will be immediate,
some in five to 10 years and some
even more in the future.
Next, determine whether you
want growth or income. If most of
your needs arc long-term in nature,
five years or more down the road,
you'll probably want your in
vestments to provide growth -- in
creasing value over time with little
or no current income. If you're liv
ing on a fixed retirement income,
your primary goal may be to earn
dividends and interest while protect
ing your principal. Or, like may
people, you may choose an invest
ment route that offers both growth
and income. In addition to growth
or income, you'll want to consider
how "liquid" you want your in
vestment to be - how easily you
could convert it to cash if you
needed it.
A third step, and possibly the
Police charge teen for auto entries
Perry Police arrested Richard
Huguley, 19, of Perry Saturday and
charged him with six counts of en
tering automobiles to commit theft.
Perry Police Captain Jim Hardy
described the circumstances around
the arrest.
"We have had a large number of
illegal entries in autos since mid-
July. The incidents took place
primarily in the King's Chapel area
around the King's Villas Apart
ments. The suspect we arrested
matches the description we had been
given by witnesses. We have com
Mims listed to national honor roll
The United States Achievement
Academy announced today that
Janet Shenita Mims has been rec
ognized for academic achievement
as a United States National Honor
Roll Award winner.
Mims, who attends Perry Middle
School, will appear in the United
States Achievement Academy Offi
cial Yearbook, published nation
ally.
“Recognizing and supporting our
youth is more important than ever
before in America’s history. Cer
tainly United States Achievement
Academy award winners should be
congratulated and appreciated for
their dedication to excellence and
achievement,” Dr. George Stevens,
executive director of the USAA,
said.
The USAA National Honor Roll
Awards provide honor roll students
with many benefits and services and
is a great tribute to a student’s dedi
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most important, is determining
how much risk you should take to
realize your investments. Often this
depends on how much money you
have to invest, and how strong your
current investments are. Generally,
small investors should concentrate
on high-quality stocks and products,
putting the bulk of their assets into
safer investments with long-term
reward.
Whether you're risk-oriented or
not, an important part of any finan
cial plan of balance. Every in
vestor’s portfolio - the total
"package" of securities or invest
ments held - should be varied. One
person may choose to combine
stocks, bonds, short-term govern
ment bonds, long-term corporate
bonds and cash. Someone else may
stick to stocks, but the slocks
would vary by industry and size of
company.
Investors have many different in
vestments to choose from. Some of
the more common ones are high
lighted here:
• Stocks - Actually shares of
ownership in a company, stocks
provide you with the right to share
in the firm's profits and growth.
Slocks offer the potential for gains
when the share prices rise, as well
as the possibility of regular divi
dend payments.
• Mutual funds - An investment
company that enables its sharehold
ers to pool their money into a sin
gle professionally managed account,
these are often ideal for beginning
investors.
• Bonds - Essentially loans to
corporations or governments, bonds
offer fixed and steady interest in
come, plus the opportunity for ap
preciation if interest rates decline.
Government bonds often offer tax
advantages.
• CDs - Certificates of Deposit
provide a safe way to lock in inter
est rates for a set period of time.
These arc available through banks
or brokerage firms.
• Real Estate - Often a good
hedge against inflation, these in
vestments include purchasing land
as well as real estate partnerships.
• Gold - Also a good hedge
against inflation or dollar weakness,
investors can purchase gold bullion
coins or gold mining stocks.
With more than 1,500 stocks
traded on the New York Stock Ex
change alone, there's no shortage of
investments available to someone
who wants long-term financial suc
cess. The key is to meet with a fi
nancial professional to decide what
types of investments are best suited
to our needs and those of your fam
ily, and then to build a balanced
portfolio over time.
John Rogers is an account
executive in the Macon
office of Interstate/Johnson
Lane.
pleted our interviews with the sus
pect and we are still doing the lab
work on the case," Hardy said.
Huguley was also charged with
two counts of theft by taking. He
is currently in the county jail await
ing a preliminary hearing. Bond
on the eight counts is $17,500.
"We have to write the reports on
the case which will be time con
suming because you're talking
about six separate incidents. Once
we complete the reports we'll give
them to the district attorney's office
for their consideration," Hardy said.
cation, talent and ability.
Mims is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Mims of Perry.
Hulbert graduates
from Andrew College
Jodi N. Hulbert of Perry recently
graduated from Andrew College in
Cuthbert. She was one of more
than 70 students who completed
their degree requirements. Andrew
graduates are a diverse group of stu
dents from as nearby as Cuthbert
and as far away as Kimbabwe,
Japan and England.
Andrew College, a fully accred
ited, two-year liberal atrs college re
lated to the United Methodist
Church, has provided educational
opportunities for students for nearly
150 years. More than 90 percent of
Andrew’s graduates continue their
education at institutions throughout
the United States.
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