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Volume 127,
% No. 31
*4 Sections,
30 Pages
Wednesday,
Aug. 5, 1998
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
This Week
Registration continues
for soccer play
Registration for fall soccer
programs at the Perry
Recreation Department has
been extended through Aug.
14. Persons interested in play
ing soccer this fall should con
tact the department at 988-
2860 or visit the Recreation
Department at 1060 Keith
Drive, Perry.
Meanwhile, a youth nature
day trip planned to Lunar Lake
at Robins Air Force Base, orig
inally planned for Aug. 6, has
been postponed to Aug. 13.
Registration is still avail
able for the program, a 6-hour
trip including hiking and a
cookout at Robins.
Participants will leave at 9
a.m. Aug. 13. A fee of $6 will
be charged.
Food commodities to be
distributed
The Middle Georgia
Community Action Agency,
Inc. will be distributing com
modity food at the Perry
National Guard Armory on
Aug. 12, 13 and 14 from 8
a.m. until 4 p.m.
You must bring your own
large paper bag, document
showing your name and social
security number, such as a
social security card, document
showing your name and street
address, such as a utility bill or
business letter, completed and
signed authorization form if
you are picking up food for a
household other than your
own.
Domestic violence help
offered through HODAC
Officials with HODAC’s
Victim Resource Center
announce anew service for
victims of domestic violence,
in Houston County effective
Aug. I.
Domestic Violence
Response Team (DIVERT) is a
core of volunteers and staff
who will begin responding to
Houston Medical Center and
Perry Hospital’s Emergency
rooms 24 hours a day, seven
days a week when a victim of
domestic violence is brought
in.
This is another community
collaborative to better serve
the citizens of Houston
County. If you are interested in
volunteering or need more
information about DIVERT,
call 953-5675.
First games set
Just in case you were won
dering: Westfield will open the
football season Aug. 28 at
home with Fullinglon. Perry
will open the season Sept 4 at
Vidalia. The first home game
is Sept. 18 against Dodge
County.
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PROTECTORS Scott Free {in the fore
ground) oversees the moving of o half
century old crape myrtle tree from proper
ty along Washington Street. Workers have
been working the past week on readying
two older homes on the property for a
move to the Hill Road area. After deter
mining the tree, located on the former
Andrew property, had been tagged for
destruction, Perryan Donnie Free coordi
nated to move the crape myrtle from the
property that is being cleared for con
struction of anew CVS pharmacy to his
Pat Cartledge
Meet the man
behind the
gardens at the
New Perry Hotel
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Times-Journal Staw
One of Pat Cartlcdge's ear
liest memories is of wak
ing up early on a summer morn
ing in his family’s old home on
Main Street and hearing his
grandmother out in the garden
with her clippers.
“My mother and my grand
mother taught me about plants,”
he said. “When I was a child. I
had a garden. I would grow
plants and sell them to the ladies
in our neighborhood.”
“I don’t see how some people
go through their life and never
are aware of the beauty we are
blessed with," he added.
That love of gardening has
lasted all through Cartledgc’s life
—and his artistry can be seen all
through the year in Perry. Just
stop by the New Perry Hotel and
walk around from the shady front
grounds to the flower gardens in
the back.
Cartledge, who lives in
Forsyth now and comes to Perry
for two long visits each year to
work on his gardens, is getting
older now.
He can’t get down on the
ground and work with plants the
way he once did. but with the
help of his long-time assistants
Calvin Whitest and Ernest
Sparks, he’s still a master of gar
dening.
“I try to paint with colors in
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business location,. Robbins-Free Realty,
about 150 yards down the street. "Here,
the tree will be easily viewed by passers
by at our historic office in downtown
Perry," said Free. Local landscaper, Tony
Bass, said the tree is about 20 reet high.
"When you see how the branches are
developed, you just know you are wit
nessing the artwork of Mother Nature in
the purest form. I would be sick to know
we nad the opportunity to save the tree
and did not do it."
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A SMALL SPACE - One of Pat Cartledge's talents as a
gardener is creating beauty in a small space. He is
shown here in the area behind the New Perry Hotel
which he calls the Shade Garden.
the garden.” he explains.
“Sometimes I don’t have a partic
ular idea, but I always have a
large stock of plants to draw'
from, and I pick one color and
work from that color."
He defines his style as "the
English country bouffant type of
(See CARTLEDGE, Page SA)
Hawkins, Robinson
on short runoff ballot
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Times-Jochnai. Staff
The runoff election on Aug
11, will have a very short list of
candidates, but some interesting
races for voters to decide on.
Locally, in a special election
for the County Commission post
vacated by former Commissioner
Larry Snellgrove, Ed Hawkins
and Gail Robinson arc in a run
off.
This is a non-partisan election
and the winner will take office
immediately.
A retired civil service employ
ee and World War II veteran,
Hawkins has been an active vol
unteer and writer on public
issues, and served for 10 years as
chairman of the Houston County
Red Cross.
Robinson is a rnagna cum laud
graduate of the University of
Georgia where she also earned
her juris doctor degree in law. She
is an attorney with Yancey and
Associates of Warner Robins.
Both candidates are making
their first bid for public office.
Voters, jn both party primaries
will be able to vofc in the contest
between Robinson and Hawkins.
On the Democratic primary
ballot, both Roy Barnes and
Lewis Massey are listed as run
ning for governor. However,
Massey withdrew from the run
off election just after the primary
election.
In the contest for the
Democratic nomination for Lt.
Governor, Mary Margaret Oliver
and Mark Taylor are in the run-
County moving
aggressively on jail,
courthouse, dam work
Bv RICK JOHNSTONE
Special to the Times-Journal
Houston County commission
ers are now moving at an aggres
sive pace on two major projects,
choosing a site for anew jail and
courthouse and the dam project at
Houston Lake.
That is what commissioner
Jim Carter told his colleagues at
the Aug. 4 meeting in Perry
"We still have four or five
viable sites for the project,’’said
Carter. “We are following a
matrix to take the politics out of
the process as much as possible.”
That matrix includes factors
such as cost of the property, near
ness to schools and miles away
from Warner Robins.
Another commissioner, Tom
McMichael, said the choice of
site is expected to be made in two
weeks.
As far as the work on the
Houston Lake dam is concerned,
Carter said it appears to him that
the water is still about a foot and
a half below the pool level.
“They (contractor) have told us
it should end up within six inches
of the previous level," he said.
Carter said thousands of bass
fingerlings have now been placed
in the lake, and "there should be
good fishing by next spring."
Work is also under way on the
public access area to the water.
That public access was required
when federal and state govern
ment funding was obtained for
the project.
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Hawkins
Robinson
Locally, in a special
election for the County
Commission post vacat
ed by former
Commissioner Larry
Snellgrove, Ed Hawkins
and Gail Robinson are in
a run off.
off.
Also, Steve Henson and
Michael Thurmond are on the
run-off ballot for the position of
Labor Commissioner.
On the Republican ballot,
Clint Day and Mitch .1
Skandalakis are facing off for the
party’s nomination for Lt.
Governor; Kip Klein and David
Ralston are in competition for the
nomination for Attorney General
Winners in the Primary run off
will be on the General Election
ballot in November.
All regular Houston County
voting precincts will be open 7
a.m.-7 p.m. Voter identification
will be checked, as required by a
new Georgia law.
‘No sites outside the
city limits are included.
We are required to look at
only sites in the Perry city
limits.’ — Tom McMichael
Carter said the sheriff's depart
ment and stale Department of
Natural Resources are working
on rules for the public access
area.
“It looks like it will be open
dawn to dusk and there will be no
swimming." said Carter. Other
likely regulations include no jet
skis, no alcoholic beverages, and
fishing boats only running at
idled speeds, he added.
Houston County commission
chairman candidate Ned Sanders
asked if any sites outside the city
limits of Perry were included in
the list of potential courthouse
sites.
“No sites outside the city lim
its are included. We are required
to look at only sites in the Perry
city limits,” responded
McMichael.
He said the only way that
could be changed would be a
lengthy process, including a peti
tion of 60 percent of the county’s
registered voters, then a referen
dum on the matter and. finally,
approval by the legislature.
Perry city council recently pre
sented three sites along the Perry
Parkway for consideration for the
jail/courthouse project.