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I^, J&ji jdfl j/ifttt : %f' r^ : >a; ’;:? *V MjSl ttJgB3HK|BIWHBp vJ|te>. 4^: -.. . V. .. : 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. INDOOR WEATHER TEAM Perry Heating k Cooling **» 987-2335 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% Bit. Gome f/iomef 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. ( 'p'i’WVp J Sundays: 8:45, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. \——ZJEL-/ E-Mail FBCP@hom.net Home Page WWW.hom.net/-FBCP FALL QUARTER STARTS SEPTEMBER 29 Don't wait - apply now for an exciting career in AUTOMOTIVE *AIR CONDITIONING WELDING * MARKETING & MANY MORE CALL OR STOP BY TODAY (912) 988-6850 www.mid-ga.tec.ga.us pL. JfliPlii : tg&L V a«| |P j Well lull/cuitom tocli that ate approximately 100 times kektet than teal toch ike utme satl 'Oelivete/ telocale/ any iiye ot sliapel fftiveu/ajj markers, maillot hol/tts, ijaie tn/i, rod ijarilens, ati/ waterfalls. Wed., Sept. 22, 1999, Houtton Home Journal ■ Page 3A