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AUGUST 17, 2000
Watson speaks of Veterans Day plans
By Emily Johnstone
News Editor
The release of hundreds,
maybe thousands, of colorful bal
loons and a fly-in of bomber air
craft at the Perry-Houston
County Airport during Veteran’s
Day in November was the topic
of discussion at a recent meet
ing of the Robert D. Collins Post
24 American Legion.
Local funeral home owner/op
erator Draper Watson told the
group he is joining a number of
other funeral home directors
across the country in participat
ing in a project to honor veter
ans and anyone’s patriotic feel
ings for the United States of
America during a program set to
be held Veteran’s Day.
A large number of balloons,
marked with names of citizens
for honor or in memory of, will
be released during the program
at the Airport, said Watson.
Cost for the balloons is $lO
each.
This is part of a nationwide ef
fort to raise monies for the con
struction of a memorial dedicated
to 16 million people who fought
on foreign soil or supported the
war at home during World War
11, he added. Over 400,000 people
Teen volunteers recognized by hospital
By Lanorris Fleming
Staff Writer
Teen volunteers gathered in
the Perry Hospital cafeteria to be
recognized for their determina
tion and hard work in the sum
mer. According to Virginia
Wetherington, director of volun
teer services the number of vol
unteers was smaller this year
than in past years.
“We have had as many as 25
volunteers in previous years,”
she said.
The number of volunteers she
explained is proportional to the
requests from the different de
partments in the hospital. Each
of the volunteers float from, de
partment to department learning
how each runs and helping out
in any way they can.
“This year’s group of volun
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lost their lives during the War.
Of those 16 million who served,
less than 6 million are alive to
day, he added.
The memorial, which will be
built near the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, D.C., is expected
to cost about SIOO million, said
Watson. A national association of
funeral home directors plans to
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Photos by Emily Johnstone
Members of the American Legion Post 24 and their wives listen
as Draper Watson outlines a plan for a special Veteran’s Day
celebration to be held at the Perry-Houston County Airport.
teers worked in the emergency
department, out patient surgery,
registration, business offices and
the ICU,” said Wetherington.
According to Wetherington this
volunteer program has been
around much longer than her 13
years at the hospital.
“We find that students need
more and more community ser
vice hours and this is a great way
to get these hours in for college
applications, scholarships and
other jobs,” she said.
The volunteers all receive a
certificate recognizing their par
ticipation in the program but
they also receive special recogni
tion after the completion of a cer
tain number of hours. At 50
hours the volunteer receives an
American Hospital Association
patch which reads “junior hospi-
journal
raise $5 million to go toward con
struction of the monument, said
Watson.
Watson said he is urging local
citizens to become involved in the
Nov. 10 project.
For more information about
the balloon release, Watson can
be contacted at 987-2423.
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Danielle Andrews, Kimberly Fletcher, Dora Heath, Loren Noel, Erica
Sampson, Jennifer Sweat and Caroline Wyatt pose after receiving
their recognition certificates patches and stars for their work as
volunteers this summer at the Perry Hospital.
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Draper Watson shows a
wartime photo of his late father,
Gardner Watson, during a
speech to the local American
Legion Post.
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Post Consumer Recycling
Post consumer. What does it
mean? That means us. Everyone
is a consumer. It is different from
post industrial. When it comes to
recycling, the user of recyclable
materials is very happy to receive
post industrial materials.
They are very likely to be quite
clean and free of contaminating
stuff. Post consumer recyclables
however are very often full of
stuff they do not want
Often even small amounts of he
contaminating items will ruin a
batch of material which is in
tended for the manufacture of
some new product. What this is
all about is careful separation on
the part of collectors of recyclable
materials. If you hope to sell re
cyclable items you have to offer
a clean load of whatever it is the
buyer wants.
Whether it be glass, alumi
num, cardboard or newspaper,
the user does not want a bunch
of trash.
Now when it comes to plastic,
the buyer expects a very clean
load of recyclable material. Usu
ally, only No. 1 (drink bottles) or
No. 2 (clear milk jugs) are
needed. Drink bottles mixed with
milk jugs are absolutely bad
news.
Also the colored No. 2s (soap
containers or pigmented plastic)
are unacceptable. Added to the
low weight, and high volume in
volved with plastic, there is a low
value factor. It all adds up to mak
ing plastic recycling a very unat
tractive proposition.
For starters, it takes about 32
bales of plastic to fill an 18
wheeler trailer, which will be
picked up at the collector’s dock.
tal volunteer. Upon the comple
tion of 100 hours the volunteer
receives the patch and a red star
and at 200 hours a blue star is
received. This year this recogni
tion was given to Kimberly
Fletcher who has just completed
her third year as a volunteer.
Laura Davis Hospital adminis
trator spoke to the group to
thank them for their hard work
and to encourage them to come
back next summer.
“I hope that this summer has
been a positive experience for all
of you and has shed a favorable
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A bale is a minimum of 800
pounds. It takes 5 milk jugs to
equal a pound, and 4000 jugs to
make a bale.
There must be a $50,000 baler,
forklift loader, and a large ware
house for loose jugs and bottles.
After sorting and baling and load
ing the truck, the buyer will of
fer seven cents a pound for your
recyclable plastic. The truckload
will be about 130,000 milk jugs.
If every family in Perry uses a
gallon of milk a week, it will take
nearly a year to collect enough for
one truckload. At 7 cents a
pound, that will be about SI,BOO
in return for a high capital in
vestment and a great deal of la
bor intensive work.
Happy Hour Workshops does
take some plastic that is collected
on Robins AFB. They are paid to
take, store and process the
bottles and jugs. The clients do
the labor. They already have the
storage area, baler and handling
equipment. For us, however, as
much as we would like to recycle
plastic, it just isn’t practical for
our small community.
light on the health care profes
sion,” said Davis.
According to Wetherington the
program is open to all high school
students who are interested in
helping.
“One upon a time the program
volunteers did so because of altruis
tic reasons,” said Wetherington,
“Now it is more because of the need
for community service on college ap
plications and such.”
The need for volunteers however
does not go away, she said. For more
information about the program, con
tact Wetherington at the hospital.
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