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Volume 126, No. 7
2 Sections, 20 Pages
Wednesday
Feb. 19,1997
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Shriners plan barbecue
Members of the Perry Shrine
Club will hold their annual spring
barbecue on April 18.
It will be held at the Shrine bar
becue facility located along Hodges
Boulevard next to the Sandman
Motel.
Plates will sell for $5 and bulk
barbecue will sell for $6 per pound.
Exchange Club members
selling strawberries
For the fourth time in as many
years, Perry residents can look for
ward to a shipment of strawberries
during March.
Members of the Perry Exchange
Club will have fresh-picked straw
berries available for pick-up March
14 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and
■ March 15 from 8 a.m. until noon at
the Advance Auto Parts parking lot
on Sam Nunn Boulevard.
Price is sl2 per flat (12 pints per
flat).
Tickets are on sale at PDQ Photo
Shop, 1002 Ball St. (987-1538),
First Family Financial, Perry
Market Place (987-2222) and from
most Exchange Club members.
Profits from the sale will be used
to support local charitable projects.
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Regional chamber program
to honor Sam Nunn
THOMAS VBLLE “Sam
Nunn Day” will be proclaimed in
south Georgia in May.
In conjunction with the annual
meeting of the South Georgia
Chamber of Commerce in
Thomasville May 1-3, a royal
salute to Sen. Sam Nunn, who
served in the U.S. Senate for 24
years, will be held May 2.
“Legislators, governmental lead
ers, business men and women
among others, will convene here for
the gala occasion,” said Howard
McLeod, chairman of the Board of
the Chamber of Nashville.
Former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter and Ga. Gov. Zell Miller
have been invited to participate in
the affair.
Additional information can be
obtained through Tbdd Evans,
chairman at (912) 246-4774 or
Lloydf Eckberg, president of the
South Georgia Chamber of
Commerce at (912) 228-1299.
Rodeo arrives
The Georgia National Rodeo, set
for Feb. 20-22, helps focus atten
tion on the Georgia National
Livestock Show at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter.
The Livestock Show begins Feb.
20 and continues through March 2
with activities daily.
Ticket information is available
by calling 987-3247.
Fkb sticks on menu
Here are the menus for public'
school lunches in Houston County
this week:
Feb. 19 Com dog or fish
sticks or nuggets with roll, maca
roni and cheese, one vegetable, two
(See FISH, Page SA)
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New recreation
director now
on the job
From Staff Reports
Tommy Morris, new director for the Perry
Recreation Department, began work in that posi
tion Feb. 18.
“I’m getting indoctrinated today,” he said dur
ing an interview at city hall. “I have been signing
papers I need to become an employee!”
Morris, a native of Cordele and most recently
director of recreation for the city of Gardena,
Calif., was approved as recreation director by
council during their Feb. 4 meeting.
He succeeds Tom Dominey who resigned that
position during September 1996.
The new director said his immediate plans are
to get a “feel for things and talk with the staff to determine the needs of the depart
ment.”
“I will be looking at sports and classes,” said Morris. “And, the Rozar Park gym
needs anew floor. We will try to get anew floor as soon as possible.”
“I am looking forward to a long relationship with the City of Perry,” he added.
Morris urges anyone with suggestions or questions regarding the recreation depart
ment to contact him at 988-8131.
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PREPARING TO ENTERTAIN. Alfred P. Doolittle (Bill Mitchell of Perry, center)
and his cronies (left to right, Jeff Baggett,Drew Butler, Matt Pate, Dick McCoy,
Richard Smith) are preparing an evening of musical entertainment at Perry Players
Theater.
My Fair Lady opens Feb.
20 at Perry Players Theater
By PAULINE LEWIS
Lifestyle Editor
The musical, “My Fair Lady”, will be
presented by Perry Players at the Perry
Players Theatre, 909 Main Street in
Perry beginning Feb. 20.
The players will offer perfor
mances Feb. 20-22, 26-28, March 1
and 5-7 at 8 p.m.. Other perfor
mances will be Feb. 23 and March 2
at 2:30 p.m.
Reservations for tickets to the
approximately 100-seat theater are
available daily by calling 987-5354.
The reservation line is open from 10
a.m.-3 p.m. Accommodations for
those with impairments are avail
able upon request.
According to Perry Players offi
cials, those attending the musical
can expect to laugh and be touched
by the adventures of Eliza Doolittle,
Professor Higgins, Col. Pickering,
Alfred Doolittle and the townspeo
ple of London.
My Fair Lady is a musical adap
tation by Lerner and Lowe of
Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” the
tale of a young tum-of-the-century
English woman and her metamor
phosis from a common flower girl to
a lady.
Visitors can expect to see contin
uing renovations at the theater as
well. Members of the community
theater organization are conducting
a fund-raising campaign to com
plete renovations to the building
they purchased about five years ago.
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TION. Professor Heniy Higgins J(Phil Ballard
of Peach County) and his comrade, Colonel
Pickering (Brant Frost of Macon) instruct Eliza
Doolittle (Avery Villines of Macon) in the intri
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New Director On Job
Looking to the future, members of the
group will host auditions for the summer
production. Deathtrap, April 27 at 3 p.m.
and April 20 at 7 p.m. at the theater.
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from A to Z that is.
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City studies renovation of old
school building for city hall
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
Perry city council members were
expected to launch the next phase of the
city hall renovation project during their
Feb. 18 meeting.
At press time, council was considering
awarding the contract for renovation of
the former Houston County School Board
building which is located next to the city
municipal building.
Low bidder for the project is John Pitts
Construction of Forsyth who presented a
bid of $247,341. This figure includes the
installation of an elevator to provide
handicapped access, said City Manager
Skip Nalley.
Nalley pointed out that additional costs
that will be incurred in the project will be
$19,700 for contingency, $9,000 for vinyl
siding and gutters, $ 13,600 for the phone
system, $35,875 for carpet and $14,000
for waterproofing wall.
Visitors Bureau panel doesn’t
support promotion effort
with radio station WPGA
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
The Perry Area Convention and
Visitors Bureau promotions committee
will not recommend to the regular Board
participation •in a promotional project
involving a local businessman’s radio sta
tion.
Instead, they will probably recommend
the Bureau, in conjunction with the
Georgia National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter, become the owners of a low
power radio frequency.
That could be used to transmit promo
tions about upcoming events at the
Fairgrounds and promote the Perry area,
said PACVB member Davis Cosey during
a committee meeting Feb. 13.
Perry City Manager Skip Nalley said
local radio station owner Lowell
Register’s proposal to use his AM station
located in Perry as an electronic highway
for promotions of the area is a “good idea.
But what he wantsto do here is more than
we can do financially.”
Register has attended several meetings
with city officials to discuss the idea of
using WPGA to serve up a format of gold
en oldie music mixed with numerous
spots plugging different events and busi
nesses in this area. His target group is the
Interstate 75 travelers who would be lured
to the re iio frequency with billboards urg
ing them to tune into WPGA for informa
tion about the area.
Ninth annual Dogwood
Festival just six weeks away
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff.
The ninth annual Dogwood Festival set
for April 5 and 6, has promises of being
one of the best ever, according to Perry
Area Chamber of Commerce festival
organizer Karen
Nikitopoulos.
Plans are under
way for numerous
events, including
some new ones, to set
the stage for the
upcoming festival.
Pre-festival events
include the annual
Dogwood Pageants
held March 21 and 22
at the Perry High
School Auditorium.
March 21 pageants will be Miss Pre-
Teen (grades 6 and 7), Miss Teen (grades
8-10) and Miss Dogwood (grade 11 - age
23).
The next night will feature Little Miss
“This brings the total to $339,516 and
we have not included any monies for inte
rior decoration, signage, computer sys
tem, drive-in window, exterior lighting,
landscaping/irrigation or possible
upgrades to the mechanical systems,” said
Nalley.
He said according to reports, the city
has $322,000 in funds available for the
project if the Houston County Board of
Education will release the $75,000 the
city agreed to pay for the Sam Nunn pro
ject.
That money is left over from the agree
ment between the city and the school
board to renovate the old Perry
Consolidated School for the new school
board offices.
City officials agreed to help raise funds
for the renovation of the old school when
the agreement was made about four years
ago. The school board sold the old office
building to the city as part of the project.
However, some officials balked at the
amount of money Register asked the city
to consider putting into the project. That
figure came in at about SIO,OOO per
month.
“That is an incredible amount of
money to spend per month on promo
tions,” said PACVB chairman Walter
Lewis.
Cosey told the group one subject that
“has been talked about a long time is the
purchase of our own low power station.”
The cost for such a device came in at
around $17,000 a few years ago, he
added.
Such a system would be beneficial to
the Agricenter and the downtown area,
said Mike Froehlich, executive director of
the Agricenter.
Community based information, along
with information about the Agricenter
would have a direct impact on tourists, he
said.
Register has been offering a sample of
the tourism-oriented programming for the
past month with up to six 2-minute breaks
in the music per hour for local information
and promotion. He has also rented several
outdoor advertising signs along 1-75 from
Macon to Cordele to attract listeners to his
tourism-music programming.
His concept is based on a similar one
which a businessman used at Adel for sev
eral years to promote the Green Frog busi
nesses.
(Grades K-2) and Junior Miss (grades 3-
5).
Applications for the pageants may be
picked up at the Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce.
For more information, Nancy
Whiddon may be contacted at 987-8000,
said Nikitopoulos.
Anew event will be the Dogwood Golf
Tournament, she said.
The tournament will consist of a two
person scramble set for April 4-5 at the
Houston Lake Country Club.
“I have seen a lot of enthusiasm
expressed for the tournament,” said
Nikitopoulos. “Ever since I have been
chairman I have heard people say ‘You
really need to have a golf tournament as
part of the Festival.’ Here it is!”
For more details on that event, persons
can contact Claude Thom at 987-3243.
One thing that always draws a crowd
to downtown Perry during the Festival is
(See FESTIVAL,-Page SA)
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