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Wednesday, March 2,1994 Houston Times -Journal- Calendar of Events The Masons of Houston Lodge No. 35 F&AM, Perry (Thomas Fast, secretary, 987-2376) meets every second and fourth Monday night of each month at the Masonic Building, Jemigan Street Meals are served at a nominal charge beginning at 6:30 p.m. Regular meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. All member Master Masons and visiting brethren are welcomed. Perry High Booster Club: Meets every 2nd Monday of each month at Perry High School at 7:30 pjn. Houston Drug Action Council (HODAC): A free rape support group is now being formed. The group will begin meeting on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Houston Drug Action Council, 2762 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins. (Next to Warner Robins Supply) Those interested in attend ing please call 953-5675. American Legion, Robert D. Collins Post 24 meets the first Monday night of each month at the County Ag Building at 733 Carroll Street. Meals are served beginning at 7 p.m. All American Legion members are urged to attend and visiting Legionaries are welcome. Houston County Retired Teachers: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn in Warner Robins. Perry Rotary Club meets each Monday at noon at the New Perry Hotel. The Perry Evening Optimist Club meets the first and third Thursday of each month at Denny's. Perry Exchange Club meets each Thursday at Quincy's at noon. Ochlahatchee Park will be holding registration for girls and boys baseball and softball every Saturday in February from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the clubhouse. Meetings for parents, coaches and volunteers are held every Monday night at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse. For more information, contact David Knowles (987-2820). The Perry Wilderness Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at the Perry United Methodist Church lo cated at 1001 Carroll Street in Perry. Newcomers are welcome. Tuesdays & Thursdays: Step Aerobics from 6:30-8 p.m. Sponsored by the Perry Recreation Department. Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Perry High School Cafeteria. Deborah Hamlin, ACE Certified Instructor. 10 weeks is S3O. This is an on-going program. Children's Grief Support Groups will begin the first week in March for Children who have lost a loved one to death. Groups will meet according to ages from Kindergarten and first grade through teen years. These free groups will meet for 6 weeks. Registration is being accepted now. Call Emily Dennis Hospice Bereavement Services Coordinator for information/registration at 922- 1777. March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31: AARP Counselors will be available at the Houston County Public Library from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. to provide free tax assistance to low or moderate income taxpayers. Appointments are not required. March 4 & 5: Georgia Baptist Mission Fest free, 404-936-5210. March 5, 12, 19, 26: AARP Counselors will be available at the Houston County Public Library from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide free tax assistance to low or moderate income taxpayers. Appointments are not required. *7ftadc(duic&&i (We Only Whack The Prices) Redken Condition Curl Reg. S4O Now Supersensationally Priced at *3o°° Redken Vector Reg. $45 Now s 3s°° New ISO Perm Sweeping The Country Reg. SSO Now s 4o°° (extremely long hair $5 extra) Perry Market Place • 987-3730 Mon - Fri 9-7 Sat 9-6 Special ends Nov. 30 Hi. >v n ISf M: || ||| ipF J|| JjlP > | vffSl ft fljj§f&|l§ra|ra§l Ip Wgm i W* * v ' BK |p - HLHf Isflil Bobby Pennington, left, end Matthew Arthur gave testimony to the Marie Burroughs during a special retirement service held In her honor at Houston County High last week. Burroughs Honored During Special Service BY PAUUNE LEWIS Staff Writer Approximately 70 peers, teachers and other dignitaries from the field of education, gathered in the Houston County High School Cafeteria at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, February 24, to honor Marie Burroughs, Food Services Supervisor, who was retiring after eight and one-half years in her pre sent position, and with a total of 27 years of service. About a dozen of those present gave testimonials as to Burrough’s PHS Freshmen Hear The Testimonial Of Gallaspie By VETO F. ROLEY Staff Writer "You will become what you hang around," Richard Gallaspie, a speaker for Arrive Alive, told ninth graders at Perry High School Tuesday. As a senior in high school in Ohio, Gallaspie was captain of his high school's football, baseball and wrestling team. One year after graduation, Gal laspie was paralyzed from the neck down after being injured in a wreck after a prom party. "I had been drinking and driving for four years," Gallaspie told the Panther freshmen. "I knew that when I was drunk, I drove better. I drove 25 miles—l only had two miles to go. I could almost see my porch lights." Traveling at over 100 miles per hour, Gallaspie left the road, hitting a telephone pole. The force ejected him backwards out of his vehicle's passenger side windshield. He landed in a field on his head, breaking his neck, and rolled 70 feet "I realized that I couldn't move and couldn't feel anything," said Gal laspie. "I laid in a field for the next four hours watching my high school buddies drive by." Gallaspie told the students that he spent eight-and-a-half months in the hospital recovering from his in juries. "It's so easy to do something wrong and think that you are right," Gallaspie told the students. "You will become what you hang around." Gallaspie told the students that his father was an alcoholic who beat his mother. He said he told his mother, "Mom, 111 never drink. I'll never do drugs. You don’t have to worry about me. "I loved sports because I had at tention," said Gallaspie. "I was the guy who they wanted on the team, I was always the captain. "My dream was to go to college and play football. The coaches en couraged me saying, 'lf anyone can do it, you can. You have the ability and the drive. We think you can do it.'" Gallaspie said he took his first page 9A helpfulness to her co-workers, the school staffs and all associated with the staff, including "standing up for all of us" when pay was in volved, one said. Teresa Livingston, Lunchroom Manager at Houston County High School, emceed the program. Bobby Pennington, Principal of Perry Middle School, and Matthew Arthur, former Houston County Superintendent of Schools and for mer Principal of Northside High School in Warner Robins, spoke, drink in the ninth grade. "My best friend gave me my first drink," he said. At the end of his senior year, Gal laspie walked away from several of fers to play college football, telling the students that he was tired of other people, coaches, parents and teachers, telling him what they wanted him to do. "It's my life and I can do what I want to do," was his thinking at the time, he said. "You see what alcohol did for me?" Gallaspie asked the students. "From the very first drink I took, al cohol took from me. Before I was bom, alcohol took from me. It took my dreams, it took my father, twice, it took my health and it took my virginity." Gallaspie told the students that his best friend who gave him his first drink was still drinking despite three serious accidents, including one accident where his friend was riding a motorcycle which ran off the road and into a barb wire fence. 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"We are trying to make it (the law) stricter," said Gallaspie, who said Arrive Alive was working on a bill that would result in drivers 21- and-younger losing their licenses if caught with a blood alcohol content of .02. Gallaspie said the level should be zero, since it was illegal for 21-year olds to drink. He added that .02 level was chosen because "the machine might make a mistake and because someone might be on medication." Gallaspie told the freshmen that if the "cops had come down on me" than he might not be in a wheelchair. Six months before the accident that crippled him, the chief of police pulled him over because of a broken taillight. Gallaspie said that he had an eight pack of beer in the car, with an open can of beer between his legs. He added that the police chief ignored the beer, instructing him to Please see GALLASPIE, page 10A Activated Charcoal Has Several Curative Powers Sounds crazy to swallow charcoal tablets, but maybe it's not so crazy. It's more precisely known as "activated charcoal", and knowledge of its curative powers is not new. Ancient Egyptian healers used charcoal to treat poisoning and dizziness. Today, the substance is being used by scientists to combat skin infections, diarrhea, flatulence, hiccups and hangovers. How does it work? It is the most powerful ABSORBENT known to us. It is a substance that attaches things to its surface rather than absorbing them into itself. Charcoal has the ability to absorb nearly anything it contacts. It was tested at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California for intestinal gas. "Activated charcoal reduces the amount of gas either by absorbing the gas itself or absorbing intestinal bacteria that cause the gas," explains Dr. Raymond Hall, Ph.D. Dr. Hall suggests taking activated charcoal shortly after a meal. Doctors in England have also used charcoal to treat infections. 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