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MIDWEEK
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
WEDNESDAY, August 26,1992
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Deaths
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tails, please see page 3A.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Over one million
have visited
Agricenter
The Agricenter has announced
that over one million visitors
entered the facility since its
opening. The story is on page
3A
Special football
preview
This edition features five full
pages of football stories from
both of Perry's high school
teams including team, coach
and players pictures. For more
information, please see pages
8-12A.
Stafford receives
appointment
Governor Zell Miller has ap
pointed Sherrill Stafford to his
Environmental Advisory Coun
cil. The story is on page 13A.
INDEX
AGRICENTER EVENTS 5A
PEGGY BLEDSOE IB
CALENDAR 5A
CLASSIFIED 8B
EDITORIALS _4A.
ENTERTAINMENT 6A
HOME & GARDEN 2B
BRIGETTE HAMILTON 4A
LEGAL NOTICES 4B
LIFESTYLE 1B
KELLIE ROWDEN 4A
POLICE REPORT 2A
REMEMBER WHEN 4A
SPORTS 8A
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Concert tickets
for fair go on
sale Aug. 29
Tickets to concerts in Reaves
Arena during the third annual
Georgia National Fair will go on
sale Saturday, August 29, at 100
a.m. All seats are reserved at
$19.50 (including gate admission to
the fair and the service charge).
Concert tickets will go on sale by
mail order, Reaves Arena box of
fice, charge by phone and outlet lo
cation August 29.
The biggest names in country
music will perform at the Georgia
National Fair. Alan Jackson and
Diamond Rio will take center stage
Saturday, October 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Vince Gill and Pam Tillis will star
Saturday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m.
Currently, Alan Jackson is in the
midst of his first headlining lour
with his six-man band, The
Strayhorns, in support of his sec-
Please see TICKETS, page 7A
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Home sweet home!
The Perry Players finally have a place to call their own. The group has placed $6,000 down
to purchase the old Sak’s building at 909 Main Street. The building, when renovated will
contain 6,000 square feet. During the next year, the players will be seeking donations and
community support to complete the purchase of the building which will ultimately cost
$120,000 including renovations. During a press conference held August 24, Dennis Hooper,
president of the Players, gave some inspirational remarks to an audience of 60-70 community
leaders, Perry Player members and ministers. The main theme of his remarks regarded the
two underlying principles he feels describes what the Players are all about: community
involvement and high-quality entertainment. Jim Worrall also gave a few comments
complimenting the Players on their cultural enrichment of Perry. He felt the Players were
something for Perry to be proud of. Pictured before the theater-to-be are D. Shawn
Kitrell, Cathy Stanley, Dennis Hooper, Donna Hooper and Carol Howard.
Visitors forced out of
Florida stop in Perry
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Hurricane Andrew swept a number
of people into Perry Sunday and
Monday according to informal
surveys taken by llie Welcome Cen
ter staff and some local businesses.
”We had 54 visitors from Florida
on Sunday. A normal Sunday for
us means about 20 visitors. About
half of the people were vacationing
in Florida and decided to finish their
vacation somewhere else and the
other half were Florida residents
getting well away from the storm,"
Fay Riddles, executive director of
the Convention and Visitors Bu
reau, said.
"There was one lady who was the
grandmother of three kids that she
had with her. She said her daughther
and son in law were police officers
in Naples, Florida and they couldn't
leave. The lady was taking the kids
to Atlanta," Welcome Center Host
ess Cheryl Kersey said.
"We were visiting my daughter in
Port St. Lucie and as the storm got
closer we talked about leaving.
After church on Sunday, we had
dinner and jumped in the van.
Now, we're going to spend a little
time in Georgia before going
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home," Peggy Green of Louisville,
Kentucky said Monday at the Wel
come Center.
The Greens arc travelling with
their long-time friends the Piets
who have had several close calls
with natural disasters.
"It seems like disasters strike
right after we leave a place," Wilma
Piet said.
"In 1989 we left San Fransisco
Airport five hours before the
earthquake happened there. Last
year we were in Phoenix and two
days after we left the city was
flooded. Disasters seem to follow
us," Piet said.
"We make sure that whenever they
leave someplace we leave with
them," Green joked.
The two women were accompa
nied by their husbands Louis Green
and Louis Piet. All four of the
group reported long lines of cars
coming to and leaving Florida dur
ing the afternoon hours Sunday.
"It was bumper to bumper both
ways,” Louis Piet said. "There
were long stretches of highway
where we would be going no more
than 25 miles and hour," he said.
Businesses that depend on trav-
Please see STOP, page 7A
Workers fill in hole caused by sewer work
A crew from Gary Jones Costruction replacing an old city sewer line near Courtney Hodges
Boulevard and W.F. Ragin Drive had the ground give way around them twice In a two day
period. Crews worked well into Tuesday night in an effort to stabilize the area.
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City votes to clear
$1 million debt for
1977 utility bonds
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
The Perry City Council voted
Tuesday in a specially called meet
ing to pay oil the remaining SI
million owed on water and sewer
bonds from 1977 in order to clear
the way for new bonds to be issued
for major utility work.
City Attorney David Walker read
the resolution outlining the terms
of the agreement. With the vote, it
was agreed to set aside $1,000,000
lo cover the outstanding debt on the
1977 bonds. The bond to be issued
in the coming months is expected
to raise approximately 51.7 million
to fund the utility work near the
North Perry Bypass. Southern
Trust Company of Atlanta will be
the paying agent for the 1977
bonds.
In a linanee committee meeting
held prior to the council meeting,
members Ralph Gentry, Bobby
Glover and Charles Lewis agreed to
set up a meeting with Dale Grim,
Ten weekend car
accidents leave
only one injured
By BRIAN LAWSON
Staff Writer
Perry was the scene of 10 auto ac
cidents during a 72 hour period
from Friday to Sunday evening.
The accidents ranged from a sin
gle driver DUI to two incidents of
hit and run to a driving on the
wrong side of the road collision.
The Perry Police Department
called the number of accidents,
"Unusally high."
Friday saw accidents take place on
Courtney Hodges Boulevard and
Cathy Street over a failure to yield,
an incident near Perry High School
involving two cars after one vehicle
was following too close, another
wreck resulting from following too
close happened on Houston Lake
Road and Highway 341. The toll
mounted as a failure to yield at the
Day's Inn resulted in the unyielding
driver leaving the parking lot and
proceeding directly into the side of a
vehicle travelling on Sam Nunn
Boulevard. The crash produced the
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owner of Dale's House of Styles, to
discuss the re location of City
Hall. Grim's shop is the only
property in the surrounding area
not owned by the city.
I he committee discussed alterna
tive plans drawn by the architectural
firm of Dunwoody, Becland and
Henderson of Macon for the con
struction of the new City Hall.
Currently, city officials and em
ploycss complain of the lack of of
fice and storage space and the need
for additional room for growth.
The architects have completed over
$5,000 worth of work designing
possible schemes for the new build
ing. The committee's decision to
approach Grim and find out the
terms under which he might be in
terested in selling his property was
urged by Mayor Worrall.
1 think the best thing to do
would be to sit down with Dale,
find out if he's interested in selling
Please see BONDS, page 7 A
only injury of the weekend with the
injured driver being treated at Perry
Hospital for back and neck injuries.
The Comfort Inn's awning was
struck and dislodged by a confused
motorist and a driver crashed into a
light pole on Jcannic Street. The
Jeannie Street driver was later ar
rested for driving under the influ
ence. The intersection of Swift
Street and Macon Road was the
scene of one of the two hit and run
incidents which occurred Friday.
The second incident was near Pig
gly Wiggly on Macon Road. A
third hit and run happened near
Burger King on Saturday.
Sunday night , a vehicle travel
ling the wrong way down
St. Patrick's Drive was broadsided
by a motorist attempting to make a
left turn into Wendy's. Neither
driver was injured.
For the 10 total accidents, police
estimate the damages will run into
five figures.