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Newspaper Page Text(7Tf If 3&au«tmi Mmnf If Qim .ijitunml ’ FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2003 \qjjr Joan Dorsett Just Visitin’ jdorsctt@cvansncwspapers.com Gordon and Doshia Scarborough recently visited his son Ray and Tracie Scarborough and children Joe and Molly at their home in Clinton, S.C. Gordon’s daugh ter Angela and Bud Abeney and daughter Taylor of Charlotte joined them there. Sunday afternoon Doshia’s son Chris and Tonya White and children Lyndsey, Emily and Jeremy of Warner Robins visit ed them at their Ridge Circle South home to celebrate Gordon’s 68th birthday with homemade peach ice cream and birthday cake. • • • Congratulations to Ryan and Alice “Missy” Street Thompson upon the birth of their son, Griffen Blake Thompson, June 28, at Houston Medical Center. Griffen, born at 8:40 p.m., weighed eight pounds and measured 21 1/4 inches. Proud grandparents are Paul and Marie Williams of Warner Robins and Alice Street. • • • Westfield graduate Jamie Jaros, twin daughter of Mike and Sally Jaros who now live near Massee Lane Gardens, spent her spring break on a UGA Wesley Foundation mis sion trip to Chel, Guatemala. Jamie found people there who spend their days making bright garments or harvesting and preparing coffee beans and corn. Jamie says they are very accepting of the Lord as they have no material things to get in the way of knowing God per sonally. • • • Linda Johnson, who has been seriously ill in intensive care at Perry Hospital since the first week of June, has now been moved to a room and has hopes of returning to her home soon. Linda, who suffers from multi ple sclerosis, credits the many prayers for pulling her through her illness and thanks friends for caring for her family mem bers. She has much praise for everyone at Perry Hospital. • • • Triplet Kathleen Rood, 1998 PHS graduate, received her degree from Georgia College and State University in May. In August she will be going to Georgia Southern University on staff with the interdenomi national organization Campus Outreach where her goal is to tell the Gospel of Jesus Christ for college students to hear. She is trusting God to raise up indi viduals, families, churches and businesses that will be commit ted to support her financial needs. You can reach her this summer at 474-8393. Meanwhile, triplet Jennifer Rood is finishing up her mas ters degree in accounting at UGA and triplet Matthew is in boot camp with the Army in Oklahoma. • • • Phil and Sandy Smith and Bill and Elbe Loudermilk are back from 17 glorious days of travel in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Luxembourg. Landing in Frankfurt, they spent a couple of days with the Smiths’ friend at Heidelberg who has taught 15 years in military schools there. By rental car, both men taking turns, they drove the Romantic Trail of walled cities Rootenberg down to Ausberg. In Munich they visited muse ums and huge flea markets for antique tools and linens. They visited German churches and cathedrals which all had pipe organs. They watched parasail ing in the Austrian alps and enjoyed the cleanliness of beau See VISITIN’, page 11A a business from borne WR military wife and mom gave up combat boots and fatigues to be a beauty consultant By Charlotte Perkins HHJ Lifestyle Editor WARNER ROBINS - Jeanette * Deatherage took a little while to find her calling. A native of Green Bay, Wis., she went to college from high school, but decided after a year that she wanted to join the Air Force. That was how she met her husband, Craig, who is now a chief master sergeant with 21 years of Air Force service. They met in Biloxi, Miss., and were married in 1982. By 1984, although she loved her public affairs work in the Air Force, Deatherage was fac ing a tour of duty in the Phillippines, which would mean separation from her husband. Unhappy about the pending f" ~ ‘ ~ Jeannette Deatherage with her Mary Kay car. First Lady Mary Perdue's summer safety tips From staff reports This summer, Georgia’s First Lady Mary Perdue is emphasiz ing the issue of children’s safety. “Georgia’s children will be spending a lot of time outdoors in the coming weeks, increasing their risk for injury. Parents can follow a few simple guide lines to ensure that their chil dren stay safe, healthy, and happy this summer” she said. Here are her tips for parents: •Try to avoid sun exposure during the peak hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you are plan ning on being out in the sun, apply a sunscreen with an SPF greater than 15, thirty- minutes before going out. Also, don’t be fooled by those cloudy days. Children are still at risk for sun burn. The perils of phone books and post offices I realize I’m off on a tear again, but looking up a phone number and using it for a gov ernment facility shouldn’t be a time-consuming hassle. Like most folks, my time to waste is limited and when I do get a lit tle to throw away, I resent using it for stuff like this. Now let me ask this, who planned the entries for the area post office phone numbers in the directo ry? In the Perry phone book the Kathleen Post Office is listed just like that, under the Ks but also under U. S. Government. It has two different numbers, one works, one doesn’t. The one that works is usually busy. The Perry book lists every post office in the area under U.S. Government except the one in Bonaire and that isn’t listed at all. When you do find that number in the Houston County book, it along with the Warner Lifestyle separation, she was beginning to wonder if she could have the kind of marriage and family they both wanted if she stayed on active duty. It was about that time that she had her first encounter with the company that would make it possible for her to have a career and stay at home. “I had my first facial and skin care course,” she says, “and I realized that this was some thing that I could do for myself, and that I really liked getting away from the combat boots and fatigues.” She left active duty, joined the Air Force Reserves, and began training to be a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant. It was a career choice that has served her well for nearly 20 years, and has also made it pos sible for her to be a stay-at home mom while serving as many as 300 customers all over the country, and to take her Hr*"' JJft i MARY PERDUE •Make sure that children are well hydrated. It is important Irene Hamer Columnist ireneharner@juno.com Robins, Byron, Elko and several other post offices, have a toll free 800 number. Do they really have that many long distant callers that they require an additional expense for a toll-free number? No, actually, it’s sim ply another wonderful govern- career along with her when mil itary life has required reloca tion. Deatherage loves her home life and enjoys her time with daughters Melody and Sarah, but she’s a very serious busi nesswoman, too, stocking her inventory in her home so that she can serve her customers faster, taking orders over the Internet and the telephone, and even having customers over for makeovers and “girlfriend time.” She is now an Independent Sales Director leading a team of 85 other Mary Kay beauty con sultants, and in addition to her earnings has been awarded eight diamond rings and the use of eight new cars over the years. Her most recent car is a plat inum 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix with an MK Signature embossed in pink on the dri ver’s door. Did she ever meet the late leg- for children to have plenty of fluids during any activity, even if they do not feel thirsty. A good rule of thumb is 5 oz. of cold tap water each 20 minutes for a child weighing 80 lbs. •During hot weather, dress children in light-colored and lightweight clothes made of absorbent material to facilitate the evaporation of sweat. This will help eliminate heat stress in children during outside activ ities. •Make sure that your chil dren are supervised at all times around the swimming pool. Install a fence of at least 4 feet high to help keep children away from the water, and make sure that there is proper rescue equipment (shepherd’s hook and life preserver) near the ...another wonderful government plan to keep the customers Irom bothering their workers... ment plan to keep the cus tomers from bothering their workers. I tried to call the Bonaire post office the other day to find out if they closed for lunch and if so, what were the times. I called the 800 number listed and waded through a seven item menu and of course, number seven was the one to push if you wanted to speak to a customer service rep. But it was not so simple—there were still three more options to wade through. Finally, I connected with a real person but it became even more bizarre. I asked the rep my mm p| - 4 jura HHJ Charlotte Perkins Jeannette Deatherage with her daughters, Melody and Sarah. endary Mary Kay Ash the glamorous but warmhearted woman who founded the compa ny and brought its sales up to the billion dollar level through encouragement, training and incentives to achieve? “Oh, yes!” she says, “and the first time I had a huge smile all over my face. She was such an endearing person and changed so many women’s lives.” The company Ash founded has been named repeatedly in Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Compapines to Work for In America.” Ash, a charismatic corporate leader who has become synonomous with the pearlized pink Cadillac she drove and also awarded to her top sales people, was the only woman included in Forbes’ “Greatest Business Stories of All Time.” As an indication of how per sonal the corporation still is, Deatherage explains that when Mary Kay Ash died on Thanksgiving Day in 2001, all of the sales people across the country received a call that pool. •As we all know, mosquitoes in Georgia can be very bad. When purchasing bug repellant for your child make sure it con tains no more than 10% DEET. This chemical is absorbed through the skin, and higher concentrations can cause harm to your child. Since many families will be hitting the road for vacations, it is important that children are buckled up, and in the proper car or booster seat. The back seat is the safest place for chil dren; make sure to read your car’s air-bag information before placing a child in the front seat. • Make sure your child has the proper gear to go along with their bicycle, skateboard, or question. His response was—get ready—“ What is the zip code of that post office?” To say I was getting testy is a tiny bit of an understatement. That of course, makes things drag out even longer. I was so annoyed that I couldn’t think of the zip so he had to look it up. You’ll be happy to know that they don’t close for lunch but the Kathleen post office closes for two hours during mid-day. I asked the rep for a local phone number and I was told that he was the customer serv ice representative and I couldn’t speak to anyone at the Bonaire PAGE 9A night letting them know the sad news before it was reported by the media. Deatherage likes meeting her girls every day when they get out of the school bus, hearing about their days and being there for them around-the clock, but she also is teaching them about work. “We help label the products and arrange them in alphabeti cal order,” 12-year-old Sarah says, “and we take messages. Melody and I both can take orders on the computer.” They’re also learning about skin care early, and using some of the products their mother sells,. About makeup, Sarah says, “I like it if it’s not too much. It should be just the right amount.” Sarah, who attends Bert Rumble Middle School, is think ing she might go into some form of animal care when she grows up. Melody, who is eight, and a student at Russell Elementary, thinks she might just like to fol low in her mom’s footsteps. scooter. Children should wear a helmet at all times, along with other protective gear such as knee and elbow pads. Watch out for roads with heavy traffic patterns. •When visiting playgrounds, make sure there are no moving parts where a child could get pinched or trapped. Also, make sure there is no exposed metal that could burn a child. •When taking the boat out, make sure children have a life jacket on at all times. Check the life jacket to make sure it fits properly, and follow all instruc tions on the jacket. It is a good idea for adults to also wear a life jacket - not only is it for their own protection, but it also sets a good example for the children. post office. Apparently he speaks for the Warner Robins and other offices, too. I trundled over to Bonaire to mail my letter and talked to the counter person about this. She said she could see both sides of problem, answering the phones keep them from getting their jobs done but as a customer, she understands the aggravation of having to get through 11 menu options to find a person that may or may not be able to answer your question. She also said the local number for the Kathleen post office is not sup posed to be listed. Now we find our phone book has contraband in it. Think about how many min utes a day are wasted listening to menus on phones, knowing the last option on the list will probably be the one you need. No wonder we are running crazy looking for more time.