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Lifestyle 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. , \ Made "With ' fjjJ] Ivniipr Loving Care - jB'O 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. • •• 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 987-1823 group She was the great "Mrs Laura May.” ' % % % -V. * I m, i WL 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. • •• Relatives, friends and Ridgewood Park neighbors paid a fond farewell to Ivy See VISITIN , Page 3B Page 1B Yard Salas j t/r-t • | I m 1 1 ! J' I f « ; "f 4 4 l iM I * 2-U 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 Bkr... 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 Advance tickets '12.00, at the doot *15.00 Children 11 a under TREE' with an adult Dows open at 6:oopm i ii’ srsifi ,■11"'; i;iii ■. THE MCHAMAVS i Or to onto ocfvonco Mcfcots by moll, oond oKocb or moooy onto motto ooyablt to. Jimmy 0. Bom on Ooopol Sing. 446 Socond St. Mooon, QA For atom •nlonmUon caH (612) 745 02*6 or 1*0*7800320 (M-f tom Opm) Wed., Sept. 8, 1999 ” ■==-” j j' A. Jar- W£w ' 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 r 1 ... 1 6 * -** llil UUiiiL * - 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 urdav by Lea Rogers and Mracelctottintaltta«M«ReMlS- Ctrtsta tart Mr, 217 K. Buis *. (1121 123-2611; POOR - Sntft M Irak CMta Ink Sim. IN Cano tl (§121H7-5341; COUEU • Mute t HlnA fen, IN in la. 1112) 273-386: EASTMAN -Cttta teem. 222 inn. (§1:1 374-5M2: SWIM - Ik Mn Inacl CMta Ink SMI, 206 Mm RM. 1112) 272-120-. ■uhwehui - cmsm wm tmhf. no n Mama SUII2) 652-6336; IWMASTON - MM tan a VaW. 1525 ta. II Nat. 716-766-3331; wen -mm CMna iin am. 2175 mm An, 1112) 763-65 N, ES Hunt, M 2 SacaM St. (112) 763-7171; (won CMnmcte CnM. 1355 M Man An . (§l2) 7M-1111 mt Cna Raact. 661 Snnl St 1112) 765-1265. Houston Home Journal 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 * jtab <• jg 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!" i i 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. First Baptist Perry 1105 Main Street • 987-2002 Service Times: Wednesdays. 6:45 p.m. I F ‘ <4 < P J Sundays: 8:45. 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. - 1 " S -/ K-Mail PBCl’i"hiim.net Home Uajje WWW.hnm.net/-PBCI’ *45 1*4I 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!