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Scenes from Rozar Park:
Perryans offered loving care to
evacuees with health problems
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Home Journal Staff __.
On the morning of Sept.
15, with thousands of
evacuees from Chatham
County pouring into mid
dle Georgia,
Area Red Cross officials
faced a serious set of prob
lems. Some people were
arriving in need of medical
attention from dehydration
or uncontrolled diabetes,
and still others were home
bound. chronically ill or
disabled people who need
ed a level of care that
could not be offered at the
shelters set up at the
Georgia National Fair
grounds.
They found a steady
supply of people ready to
pitch in and turn the
recreation center at Rozar
Park into well some
thing veiy much like a
temporary hospital.
For starters, the staff at
Perry Hospital pitched
right in, and public health
nurses were on the job in
record time. A team of
workers skilled at earing
for the elderly volun
teered from Suinmerhill
Nursing Home.
Terry Lovell and Janet
Duffin of the Recreation
Department staff became
[Tart of the team, working
tirelessly with the Suzanne
Hulette of the Red Cross,
hospital administrator Lora
Davis and other health
care providers to solve
problems and find ways to
make sure their overnight
“company" had a good stay
in Perry and got the med
ical care and medications
they needed.
Local pharmacies
Akin's and CVS donated
needed supplies and even
medicines.
Tanya Brown of the
Suinmerhill staff went to
some extra effort when she
met a young mother with
five day old twins to care
for. She invited the
woman, her babies, her
eight year old child and
her mother Al.I. to spend
the night in her home.
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Cheerful and enthusias
tic the next morning, all
Brown could talk about
was how “darling" those
twins were and how much
she had enjoyed getting up
to bathe and feed them.
Churches and clubs
were called on for help
with little advance notice ,
and within a few hours,
members of the Kiwanis
Club were preparing and
serving supper, as repre
sentatives of several area
churches arrived to check
out the logistics and make
plans of their own.
Members of Rehoboth
Baptist Church, when
asked to contribute to
breakfast for the visitors,
decided to cook the whole
thing themselves and were
at the center bright and
early, cooking grits, eggs
and ham for a smiling
group of "patients" who
were beginning to feel right
at home.
Other groups, including
All Saints Episcopal
Church of Warner Robins,
brought in donuts and
fruit. At noon that day.
lunch was provided by
members of the Perry Unit
ed Methodist Church.
Mary Jane Kinnas of the
Houston Healthcare Com
plex (also a volunteer in
the effort) was one of sev
eral people involved in
effort to find enough blan
kets to keep 140 people
warm for the night.
After she and others
reached out to congrega
tions attending prayer meet
ings in a last-ditch appeal,
the blankets Hooded in.
Police Chief Potter, who
along with most law enforce
ment personnel got little
sleep while the evacuees
were here went to Wal-
Mart and purchased the
remaining needed blankets.
“It made me so proud of
Perry'." Kinnas said, “just
to see how people respond
ed so quickly, without
question or delay, when
they were asked to help.
This is such a good com
miinity."
Houston County Commission Report:
Public Notice
The Houston County Board of Commiutonwi dona hwaby announoa that tha miilage rata will ba aat at a masting Said at Parry City Hall in Parry. Oaorgia
on Tuaaday, Ootobar 5, 1998 at 9:00 am. Pursuant to tha roquiramanta of O.C.Q.A 48-5-32, tha Board doss haraby publish tha following praaantation
of tha currant ysar'a tax digast and proposed levy along with a history of tha tax digest and levy for tha past five years.
COUNTY WIDE 1994 1996 1996 1997 1998 1999
Real & Persona 41.083,818,436 41,122,780.373 »1,334,985,816 41,456,149,706 41,509,706,399 »1,615,718,989
Motor Vstricter * 138,736,554 4164,951,623 4187,022,034 4203.877,706 4223,206,122 4221.980,521
Mobile Homes 48,081,841 49.398,304 411,298,543 412,097,683 412.420,994 413,492.498
Timber 44.180,491 42,485,159 43,009,850 42,967,309 42,795,776 44,650,490
Gross Digest 41.212,817.322 41,299,816,459 41.536,316,243 41,675,092,403 41,748,129,291 41,856,742,498
Less MBO Exemptions 458,876 660 481,410,425 491,640,321 439,582,406 487,532,614 4105,139,440
Net Digast 41,153,940,862 41,218.206,034 41,444,775,922 41,585,509,998 41,860,596,677 41,760,603,058
Net MBO Milage 9.56 9.49 8.40 8 30 8.30 8.91
Nat Taxes Levied 411,020,133 411,560,766 412.136,117 413,159,733 413,782,952 415,597,873
Net Levy 4 Increase 4394,256 4540.633 4675,361 41,023.616 4623,219 41,814,921
Nat Levy % Increase 3.71% 4.91% 4.98% 8.43% 4.74% 13.17%
Nat Mandats MBags* 0.82 0.89 0.64 0.50 0.50 0.67
Nat Texas Levied 4946,231 41,084,202 4780,179 4792.755 4830,298 41,172.904
Nat Levy 4 Increase {468,9091 4137,971 (4304,023) 412,578 437,643 4342,606
Nat Levy % Increase -6 79% 14 58% 28.04% 1.61% 4.74% 41.26%
TotNMNage 10.37 10.38 8.94 8.80 8.80 9 58
Total Taxes Levied 411,966,364 412,844,968 412,918,296 413,962,489 414,813,251 418,770,777
Total Levy 4 Increase 4326,347 4678.804 4271,328 41,036,193 4880,782 42,157,528
Total Levy % Increase 2.79% 5.67% 2.16% 8.02% 4.74% 14.76%
• MMege levied (or the express purpose of paying expenses mendued by court order, stats or federal law which are not funded by stats or federal funds.
FINE DISTRICT
(Unlnoorporatsd Only) 1994 1996 1998 1997 1998 1999
Red 4243,882,100 4261,074,664 4332,496,785 4383,792,970 4408,032,710 4431,774,446
Mobile Homos 46,666,846 46,120,868 47,687,424 48,046.892 48.227,364 47,870,283
Gross Digest 4248.437,946 4287,196,523 4340,183,209 4391,838,882 4416,260,064 4439,644,728
Nat Digest 4249,437,946 4267,196,623 4340,163,209 4391,838,862 4418.260,064 4439,644,728
Nat Firs Milage 2 00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00
Nat Texas Levied 4498,876 4534,391 4680,326 4783,678 4832,520 ' 4879,289
Nat Levy 4 Increase 439,308 436.516 4145,936 4103,362 448,842 446,769
Net Levy % Increase 8.56% 7.12% 27.31% 16.19% 6.23% 5.82%
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