50¢ Friday/ Saturday Perry News-HeraldApril 12-13, 2013 Serving the Tree Capital of the South Since 1889 News Forum NFMC to build $2.4 million facilityPerry News-Herald in downtown Perry? The Perry City Council has agreed to commit up to $500,000 in support of a project spearheaded by North Florida Medical Centers, Inc., (NFMC) that could result in the Free ‘Movie in the construction of a $2.4 Park’ tonight! million medical complex in downtown Perry. “Wreck-It Ralph” will be The council’s action was shown on the big screen at met by applause during its Forest Capital Park tonight regularly scheduled meeting (Friday), starting at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday night, April 9. Admission to the “Movie “Welcome to downtown,” in the Park” event is free and Mayor Daryll Gunter open to everyone. told assembled NFMC The outdoor movie representatives. screening is being sponsored NFMC is pulling together by the Florida Department of a grant proposal to secure Health in Taylor County. funding for the project from Free popcorn, pizza and state and federal sources. water will be served. “We have heard about the city’s revitalization plans Historical Society for downtown and we’d like meets Monday With architectural features similar in style to Taylor County’s former courthouse, the proposed The Taylor County ➟ Please see page 3 medical center could be up to three stories tall with a ground-level parking garage on the first floor. Historical Society will meet Monday, April 15, starting at 7 p.m. Guest speaker will be Tommie Stanaland, discussing the Perry-Foley Internet cafes banned; 3 close here Airport. President Wanda Cash Taylor County has three immediately upon Scott’s outlets closed voluntarily. local operations could not cafes out of business across encourages all members and fewer businesses than it signature, and by Thursday, Two had signs on their be reached for comment. the state. interested persons to attend. did at the beginning of the all three locations here were doors stating they were The Florida House On Thursday, April 4, the week after Florida Gov. closed. now closed, while the third overwhelmingly passed CS/ Florida Senate substituted Rick Scott signed a bill The state left the task appeared unoccupied. HB 155 Friday, March 22, CS/HB 155 for its own Save the date for into law banning so-called of ensuring internet cafes Brown said the city had in a 108-7 vote. The bill, version (CS/SB 1030) and Survivors Reception “internet cafes,” closing were closed to local law received a request to shut among other provisions, passed it as well in a 36-4 Cancer survivors will be as many as 1,000 such enforcement, but Perry off utility services to that more clearly defines what vote. able to “Rock Around the locations across the state. City Manager Bob Brown location. constitutes slot machines ➟ Please see page 3 Clock” at a 1950s-theme The bill went in effect said Thursday that the local Representatives from the and in effect puts internet Sock Hop bash planned in their honor Monday, April 29. The annual Relay for Life Cancer Survivors Reception We did it! will be held at Crosspoint Saturday Baptist Church (920 Courtney Road), beginning at 6 p.m. mail run “We will be serving an authentic diner-style meal, complete with hamburgers will stay, and root beer floats,” Relay Event Chair Tanya O’Neal said. for now The Survivors Reception is a kick-off event hosted before The United States the American Cancer Society Postal Service’s (USPS) Relay For Life, slated May plan to end Saturday mail 17-18 at the Taylor County delivery in August has been High School track. officially delayed after the U.S. Congress stepped in the way. Submissions sought In February, USPS for new ‘They Were officials announced that Saturday delivery to street Here’ addresses would be end on Honor your loved one by Aug. 5, a move they said including them in the next would generate cost savings installment of the Taylor of approximately $2 billion County Historical Society’s annually once the plan was “They Were Here” series. fully implemented. President Wanda Cash In response, Congress invites families to submit added language into its biographical sketches and continuing resolution, photos of their loved ones for which funds the federal Taylor County United Way recently concluded its local campaign by inviting area students to help place the final pieces on its “Tree inclusion in the book. government through the end Meter” at the corner of the courthouse. The local campaign exceeded its annual fund-raising goal with a grand total of $285,323. “The “Volunteers are at the of September, mandating students’ efforts were awesome this year,” Campaign Associate Glenda Hamby said. “You might say that their campaign was ‘Change historical society every that the postal service for Change,’ because most of what they raised was in pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.” Perry Primary School (PPS) held a penny Thursday from 1-5 p.m. and maintain a six-day delivery drive raising $623.81. Taylor County Elementary School (TCES) focused on nickels and dimes a day and raised $229.86. Taylor County will be happy to help. All schedule. The resolution Middle School (TCMS) had class competitions to see who could raise the most. The student council sponsored the event and the photos will be returned,” she passed March 6. school raised $311.10. The Taylor County High School Student Council and class officers raised $500 in one day. The total raised by said. On Wednesday, the the campaigns was $1664.77. Shown above are: (on ladder, top to bottom) Graham Lynn and Naldrec Dixon; (front row, l to r) Kevin Postal Service’s Board Kaden Clark, Colbi Bodiford, Tucker Wiles, Laney Cruce, Nytil Austin and PPS Principal Pam Padgett; (second row, l to r) Hamby, Co- of Governors released ‘Adopt a Brick’ at Chair Mark Wentworth, TCES Vice Principal Sabrina Lytle, Skylar Albritton, David Porter, Jayden Morgan, Co-Chair Dick Jarvis, TCES a statement saying they Principal Shelly Strickland, Keon Irvin, Daniel Everett and TCMS Principal Kiki Puhl. Rosehead Park were delaying the plan The Perry Rotary Club is to end Saturday delivery, offering the opportunity to but called for Congress to “adopt a brick” at Rosehead Online: www.perrynewspapers.com give them more flexibility Park, which is currently under in developing delivery construction. schedules. Bricks are $50 each (up to “Although disappointed three lines of text available on with this Congressional Perryeach brick). News-HeraldE-editions now available action, the board will Applications are available After a combined presence located at www. offered later. devices. follow the law and has at the Perry-Taylor County 176 years in print, the perrynewspapers.com, Currently available E-editions can be found directed the Postal Service Chamber of Commerce as Taco Times and Perry which includes “e-editions” to everyone, the new by clicking the “E-Edition” to delay implementation of well as from any Rotarian. 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A-10 www.perrynewspapers.com Sports .................... A-6 60% 60% A-2 Perry News-Herald Looking Back April 12-13, 2013 Remember when... Weekend fund-raisers help kidney patient By ANTHONY L. WHITE [email protected] They cooked for us and they cleaned up behind us. When we needed comforting, they smiled and made everything okay. They protected and watched over us. And, more than anyone else in the world, our mothers loved us. No one will argue with the notion that there’s nothing like a mother’s love. That is, unless you’re Beverly Richardson. The Perry native, who now lives in Atlanta, has found something comparable to a mother’s love: her sons’ love. Since being diagnosed with kidney failure in 2011, Richardson says her sons have shown her that children can love their mother just as much as their mother loves Serving up 1909 them. It was Richardson’s teenage son, Tyree, who convinced her to go to the hospital’s Calendars have long been a staple of courtesy gifts banks give to customers. While today’s emergency room when she first became ill calendars may come with glossy illustrations in 2011. or small enough to fit in your pocket, it was a “I had been going to my primary physician different story 100 years ago. That’s when The Perry Banking Company gifted its customers with for about a month,” Richardson recalls. “I beautifully designed calendar “plates.” One such was being treated for pneumonia. They were plate survived the ensuing decades and is now giving me breathing treatments, but I wasn’t on display at the Taylor County Historical Society getting any better. One day, I was so sick thanks to the generosity of local resident Ruby Morgan.