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Lifestyle Becca Akridge heads Cheerlcading has l>een a very big part of her life since she was in seventh grade. Therefore it s not too surprising that Becca Akridge graduated June 4 from Perry High School and left Sunday for a summer of instructing cheerleading for Universal Cheerleaders Association of Memphis, Tenn. This is the same organi zation which instructed her Perry High squad each summer. She filled out a summer instructor applica tion last camp and heard in the fall that she was eligi ble for December tryouts in Peachtree City for Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North and South Carolina. In early March Akridge learned she was selected. That led to a week of train ing at Panama Citv May 24 - 30. This week she will be instructing in Effingham County. Each week will be spent at a different college teaching 5 or 6 squads of high school and junior var sitv cheerleaders. Not bad to get paid for doing what you love to do. Becca plans to attend Middle Georgia College in the fall and hopes to be a cheerleader, too. She ll be on <ampus this Saturday for tryouts. Good luck, Becca. Meanwhile, her sister Tara is attending Kenne saw State University and finalizing plans for her First Baptist Church Perry wedding to Mark Mclnvale Aug 28. • •• Bobby Ragan. Perry High School Class of 1964. and his wife. Nancy, hosted the wedding of their daughter, Gerin. and Rick Hannebaul at Pleasant Hill Presbyter ian Church in Duluth, June 5. Special guest was Germ's grandmother. Johnnie Ragan of Hender son. The couple was married by The Rev. William Dant zier who also married her parents 29 years earlier: however on June 6. At her wedding reception at the Payne-Corley House in Duluth. Gerin dedicated a special song to her parents honoring them on their 29th anniversary’. Other relatives attending were Billy and Carolyn Ragan, Jerry and Joyce Ragan. Becky and Johnny Chappell, Farise Bryant. Joyce Wilder, Heather Wilder. Tom Stage, Larry and Gloria Brannen, Hugh and Jane Ragan. Penny and Steve Zinsenheim. Madison and Davis. Jackie and Maury White. Bill and Anjum Ragan and the bride’s brother. Drew Ragan of Morehead Citv, N.C. • •• Sincere sympathy to Louis and Euna Hartley on the death of her daughter, Jeanette Bridges of Fort Valley. May 30. • •• Get well wishes to Hunter Cotton Hammerle. 4 1/ 2 years, who had tubes inserted into both ears at Houston Medical Center Outpatient Surgery June 4. Told several things he could not do ’til tomorrow, next day he was asking “is today tomorrow?” Cotton has Maggie 5 1 /2, Callie 3, and Dayton 2 to play with this summer at home in Lea Glen while his dad Mark works at Robins Air Force Base and his mom Terri, a Wesleyan Col lege grad, tutors students in math. Don and Alma Dayton's four older grands belong to daughters Debbie and Patti. Cotton's other grand parents. John and Zoe Hammerle, live in Fairhope, Ala. • •• Congratulations to Joe and Michelle Andrews on the birth of a baby girl. May 20. at Medical Center of Emm*** pm iIP * f m RS Just Visitin' Home Journal Lifestyles Central Georgia. Heather Lily (Joe has his Scottish and American flower. Lily for his late mother) weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces. She joins big sis ter. Allyssia Constance (for Michelle’s mother) 15- months-old, in the Andrews home. Michelle's mother, Con stance Moore of Renfrew, Scotland, arrived June 7 for a four months visit. Her father, Ricky, hopes to visit later and accompany Con nie back to Scotland. • •• Louise Nowicki recently attended the high school graduation of her niece in Winter Park. Fla. The daughter of Louise's sister. Or. Marie Shafe, graduated with honors and has received a full scholarship to the University of Florida in Gainesville. Louise is one of eight sisters and has five brothers. Seven of the eight girls were together for this event, converging from Fernandina. Orange Park. Doctors Inlet. Jacksonville, Carrollton and Perry. • •• Terri and Paul Harvard and daughter Halev of Guyton and Cliff and Sylvia Grimes attended gradua tion of the Grimes' grand son, Michael Hutchings, at Geneva County High School auditorium. May 28. Michael is tffe son of Debra and Mike Hutchings of Hartford. Ala. who also have sons, Mark age 13 and Matthew age 14. Mark returned to Perry for a visit with his grandparents and is spending this week in Guyton with his Aunt Terry and her family. Terri Grimes Harvard teaches second grade at Guyton Elementary though not Haley who just com pleted that grade. • •• f fen f mt0 B Hlk \ via mm jgs Special Photo SMART AND PRETTY, TOO! Keri Eckhardt has been named to the Presi dent's List as a sophomore at Georgia College and State University Congratulations to 1997 Perry High School graduate Keri Eckhardt who has been named to the Presi dent’s List for her sopho more year at Georgia Col lege and State University. Keri made the Dean’s List her freshman year at Macon State College and at G.C.S.U. this year. She has been accepted into the nursing program and will major in nursing with a specialty in Neo natology (premature babies). Keri’s proud par ents are Robert and Wanda Eckhardt. Meanwhile older sister Brandi is a senior at John son Bible College at Knoxville, Tenn. Younger sister, Megan is a rising Junior at Perry High and is a member of the varsity Page 1B to summer of cheerleading instruction 11 JMP-’ ' *rwr Special Photo WANTS NEW UNIFORM Becca Akridge hopes to trade her PHS cheerleading uniform for one at Middle Georgia College. cheerleader squad which will attend Universal Cheer leaders Assn, camp at Mer cer University this summer. • •• Sincere sympathy to Juanita Amberg and Paul and Judy Vianey upon the death of Charles Amberg. May 25. • •• Jim and Kopie O'Neal recently attended the pp isi> n w! o £\- e B ßatiq^ Jr ’ s ™99w( i ■B VI BIGGEST SALE OF THE SEASON tees, tanks si|oQ more great savings p, l. on dresses, swimwear, & Snorts cover-ups, shoes S phis sizes and more! Save even more with $lO coupon above. Perry Crossroads, 1015 St. Patrick’s Drive Open Daily 10-9; Sunday 1-6 TAM < 912 > 98 * 4959 CHMMB Earn 5% Rebates on Fashion Bug Charge Card purchases. Visa, Master Card, Discover and ati Novus cards also accepted. Wed.. June 9, 1999 eighth grade graduation from Mt. Vernon Presbyter ian School of their grand son. Mitchell O'Neal Perley, the son of their daughter. Suzy Mitchell received many honors including some on the national level: the National Physical Fitness Award signed by the Presi dent and the President’s award for educational FASHION BUG we re every woman GRAND OPENING SPECIALS Houston Hme Journal excellence and outstanding academic achievement for being in the 90th percentile in all subjects in grades 1 - 8. He also was presented the Exemplar Award by one of his teachers. Marsha Powell. He has been accepted to begin high school at the Westminster Schools. The family returned to Atlanta Sunday for Mitchell to celebrate his 14th birth day. ••• Sincere sympathy to Leonard and Hatsie Kinsley upon the recent death of her father, Alvin Kennedy Sr., in Baton Rouge, La. • •• Evelyn Oldham has been enjoying the company of her twin daughter. Brenda and Jeff Brown of Pearl River, La., and their daugh ter, Andrea and Gary Bailie and four children. And therein lies still another tale of Perry twins. Brenda's twin sister is Linda Fountain and the girls were born in Macon October 24, 1951. Linda is married to Jimmy of Northrop Grumman Corp. and is a longtime employee of Robins Air Force Base. Their children are Nicole who will graduate from Shorter College in Decem- Ever> look. %/ For even style of woman. c t In Misses, Plus, Junior and Girls sizes. 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Her daughter Elizabeth and Ralph Tabor recall that she visited them and Perry so often over the years that Perry United Methodist Church wanted to put her on the roll. It is fitting that she would spend her final years nearbyv • •• Congratulations to Mar tin and Kimberly Pinkney on the birth of Leyton Lewis Pinkney, June 4 at 1:05 a.m. at Coliseum Medical Center. He weighed in at a strapping 10 pounds 1 See VISITIN', Page 3B ssßsmseeonwwSssaais »nc tees