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Protecting Linus:
Blanketing the world
Project Linus was born
Christmas Eve. 1995. to
provide homemade blan
kets to help comfort chil
dren in need. By July
1999. 300 chapters existed
with more than 100,000
blankets having been deliv
ered worldwide.
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tor 'Project Linus
Project Linus welcomes
knitted, crocheted and
quilted blankets, any size,
any pattern, in child
friendly colors, and wash
able. Anyone, any age can
help.
Project Linus is alive in
Perry. Coordinator for the
Pern’ Chapter is Emily
Heath who may be contact
ed at 987-3921 or
dheatho2@sprynet.com via
email.
The recipient of Perry s
chapter of Project Linus
blankets is The Children's
Hospital at the Medical
Center of Central Georgia
in Macon.
Emily presented the
blanket project idea to the
Perry United Methodist
Church United Methodist
Women meeting Sept. 1.
The Quilters Guild mem
bers plan to make some
blankets and other church
es and nursing homes in
the area will be contacted.
Emily Heath welcomes
calls from individuals and
groups who would enjoy
such a needlework project.
Blankets also may ia: lasli
ioned of quilt squares from
craft departments or flan
nel squares bordered by
crocheted edge.
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An overflowing Perry
United Methodist Church
full of relatives and friends
paid tribute to Laura May
Watson at funeral services
Sept. 5. She was a called a
great lady and "other moth
er" by Mattie Grace Raby of
Indianapolis who had been
sitter for Martha Lynn and
Draper Watson since they
were ages four and two and
was considered one of the
Watson family all her life.
With love and leadership
Laura May Watson had
molded and made the 15th
of 17 children of the Grace
family into the college grad
uate. teacher, principal and
city assistant school super
intendent she has become,
and Mattie- eloquently
related her appreciation.
The Rev. Jim Shipley
related endearing memo
ries of Laura May and won
dered "if she has not
already started re organiz
ing parts of heaven like she
would the nursing home
when she would visit Gard
ner, just to make sure
everyone is served and
knows they are greatly
loved.”
He found a poem she
kept in her Bible that best
expresses her heart:
Let me give:
1 do not know how long 1 11
live
But while I live. Lord, let
me give
Some comfort to someone
in need
By smile or nod kind word
or deed
And let me do what e'er I
can
To ease things for my fellow
man.
I want naught but to do my
part
To “lift" a tired or weary
heart.
To change folks' frowns to
smiles again -
Then 1 will not have lived in
vain
And I'll not care how long
I'll live
If I can give and give - and
give.
• ••
"Mrs. Laura May”
by Stanford Griggs Dur
rance
Laura May Watson was a
special lady
Many folks would say
But to me and a select
Just
Visitin’
Joan
□orsetrt
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group
She was the great "Mrs
Laura May.”
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To Mattie,
she was her
"Other
Mom"
To some
she was
"Mrs. G.”
But most of
all. she was
“Ma- M a ”
and "Gam-
Mama"
Watson
To her beloved Earn i lv.
She loved her God.
Her Family and her Friends
Her compassion and devo
tion
Were an inspiration to the
end.
She had eves that twin
kled.
And a smile bright as the
moon.
We were ever so blessed
That she could light up any
room.
Her laughter stays with us.
even now'
On this we can relv.
She'll live within our hearts
today.
Tomorrow and on High.
Remember her theme:
"1 lived. I died, 1 had an
awfully good time"
Take comfort in what 1 sav.
Continue through life with
a smile
For as you know, she
would have
Wanted it that way.
• ••
Member Bobby Tuggle
introduced Todd Snyder to
the August 31 meeting of
Perry’ Kiwanis Club at New
Perry Hotel. The University
of Wisconsin graduate is
Department of Natural
Resources Wildlife
Research Division Biologist
and also Breeding Bird
Atlas Coordinator.
Snyder brought news
that the Georgia non game
wildlife conservation auto
tags will soon generate
some $9 million over the
past fire years. It is the
most successful special tag
in the nation.
Snvder's work encom
passes everything that isn't
game species mammals
that aren't trapped, fish
that aren t fished, birds
that are songbirds, rep
tiles. frogs, butterflies
even digger wasps.
The Natural Heritage
program is buying habitats
for carnivorous plants.
Snyder said.
The Georgia Breeding
Bird Atlas has volunteers
keeping track of 175
species which breed here
including the barred owl.
In Georgia there are now
49 bald eagle nests show
ing a comeback recovery
from 30 years ago when
there were none at all.
Among the animals the
non-game wildlife section
studies are painted
buntings, pelicans, skim
mers and sanderlings,
skinks, alligators, sala
manders. snapping turtles,
bog turtles, loggerheads,
sea turtles, manatees,
northern white whales,
bats and insects.
Kiwanian Robert Brown
called attention to a% tele
vision special on Kiwanis
Club's world service project
lodine Deficiency Disorder
which will be aired on ABC.
Sept. 24.
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Relatives, friends and
Ridgewood Park neighbors
paid a fond farewell to Ivy
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CHOICES. CHOICES. CHOICES! Courtney Hamsley
considers her options. (Yard sales are full oj great
Perryans can find great buys every Saturday at someone's lawn
BY CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Home Journal Staff
Por most people
Saturday morn
Ing mean's a
chance to sleep
late or to catch
up on work around the
house and yard, but for
Dot Hendrix. Harold and
Mattie Ruth Ross, Alice
Hernley and June Fisher,
it means rising early to
check out the classified
pages in the Hume uum
rial, putting on walking
shoes and going on a
treasure hunt through
the local yard sales.
"People who don't go,
don’t know what they're
missing!" Hendrix said
last Saturday morning as
she checked out the bar
gains at a yard sale held
by Nancy Shelton McLen
don.
Well, if you didn't hit
the yard sales last week
end. here's a partial list of
what you missed:
• Browsing under the
shade trees in front of the
Shelton family's old home
place and watching some
enthralled children
checking out everything
from stuffed bears to a
■Hn
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WISHFUL INSPECTION Rosetta and Charlene
Yoder of Montezuma check out a bike at the Shelton
Jamily yard sale on Main Street.
JIMMY D. BENSON GOSPEL SING
WARNER ROBINS CIVIC CENTER • 700 WATSON BLVD • WARNER ROBINS. GA
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1999 • 7:OOPM
TALENT: McKAMEYS • ISAACS • NELONS
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kids hockey goal and
stick set.
• Watching Joan
Dorsett finally make up
her mind to buy a
“smokeless grill" for $6 at
Susan Strickland's indoor
sale.
• Going through stack
after stack of clean, neat
ly folded, great-looking
children's clothes with
prices anywhere from 50
cents to $5.
• Finding great bar
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- especially curtains and
bedspreads.
• And finally part
ing with some small
change all along the way.
This reporter, starting
out with the firm plan of
buying absolutely noth
ing. came up with a set of
wooden candle sconces
($2), a set of six hand
made placemats ($1). a
set of candlesticks from
Israel ($2), and clay sun
and moon wall hangings
from Mexico (irresistible
at sls. which is still a
huge price for a yard sale
purchase.)
Who has yard sales?
Many of the sales
like the one held on Sat
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Checking oft a
Saturday morning
Southern
TRADITION
buys for kids.)
Home Journal Photos by Charlotte Perkins
her friend Donna
liardage arc planned
as a way of clearing out
“extras" before moving to
a new home. Some are
held by parents (or even
groups of parents) to sell
toys and clothing that
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100 s AND COUNTING Johnny Shipes holds his
niece Danielle, as she clutches a stuffed bear, and
notes that “She's got about a hundred oj them
already!"
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ON THE LOOK Dot Hendrix looks for baskets to
recycle for Christmas giving.
Gome f/(ome /
We invite you to come and be a part of our family.
Loving and Caring in Jesus’ Name.
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1105 Main Street • 987-2002
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children have outgrown.
And some, of course,
are held by people who
go to yard sales all year
round and have to have a
sale to have room in their
homes for still more yard
sale purchases!