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A new youth travel football team has been formed in LaGrange. Page 13 LaGrange Daily News FRIDAY 50 cents June 25, 2010 lagrangenews.com Tomorrow’s Kitten jumps from car; owner sought weather By Becky Holland window. Next thing I know, the kitten is Lifestyle editor standing on the window sill, and the driv- High 92 Cats have nine lives, the old saying goes. er has never even noticed it. I told my sis- But an 8-week-old, orange and white kit- ter, P.J., that this kitten was going to jump Low 68 ten decided to put that saying to the test out of the car. Just as the driver takes off when it jumped out of moving car in on her turn, the kitten jumps out. Every- Mostly sunny downtown LaGrange. thing happened so fast.” “It was the craziest thing,” said Beth The kitten went straight for Thomas, Thomas, co-owner of Smith and Thomas who was out the door in a flash trying to Interior Designs on Lafayette Square. “I get the kitten to safety and flag down the was standing inside the store, looking out driver. our front window, and I saw it. I noticed a “We were just so shocked. I am sure I black car at the red light. The driver had won’t ever see anything like that ever both windows down, and was looking to again. That was a big jump for that kitten. the left so she could make a turn, when all It came straight for me. I hate to think of a sudden the cutest little kitten popped what would have happened had I not been its head out the window. This young cat leaped from a moving car on Lafayette “I was amazed. A cat is not like a dog. Square this week. It is at an animal shelter in Alabama It is not going to ride with its head out the SEE KITTEN, PAGE 2 awaiting adoption or to be reclaimed by its owner. Today’s artist: Christian Masters, third grade, Unity Elementary School. Retiree steps into shoe-repair business West Point poised to State A caged, 2-inch turtle support traveling with a 10- year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a joint plan taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them By Jennifer Shrader they couldn’t take their Staff writer pet along. After months of wrangling over PAGE 4 the lack of specifics in a county- wide joint planning proposal, West Point City Council is set to approve a resolution supporting joint plan- Nation ning in its conceptual form. When council holds its regular meeting July 12, it will vote on the resolution presented at a work ses- sion Thursday night, which says it wants to “fully collaborate” with Troup County commissioners, LaGrange and Hogansville city councils, and the Troup County school board. “We want to take The governor who Robyn Miles / Daily News a leadership role in became the butt of this and see how it late-night jokes for ‘hik- Judy Pruitt, who opened 4 Shoe Repair on Vernon Road in January, says it took her a long time goes,” said Mayor ing the Appalachian to master polishing a shoe with one hand and turning the shoe without stopping. Drew Ferguson IV. Trail’ may be having The resolution will the last laugh. A year Cobbler tends to customers’ soles allow continuing after South Carolina’s negotiations with Mark Sanford tearfully By Jennifer Shrader apprentice. That led to hunting from Lineville, Ala., more than the county and a say Ferguson confessed an extra- Staff writer down equipment from Mont- 50 miles away. They told Judy in what final form the joint plan marital affair, the The first thing a lot of people gomery, Ala., to Lanett, finding Pruitt she was the closest repair commission will take. It also allows Republican has won a do when they come into Judy a building and opening her own shop to their house. West Point City Manager Ed Moon major state budget vic- Pruitt’s shop is take off their shop. Fred Pruitt also helps his “I have a lot of frequent cus- to continue talks on the plan with tory and seen his shoes. Some even willingly leave wife and does a lot of repairs. tomers, and I wouldn’t trade any- Troup County Manager Mike hand-chosen candi- them there and walk out bare- “I wanted to do something thing for any of them,” she said. Dobbs and the other city managers. date nominated to suc- foot. gratifying that was needed,” she She’s also got a few celebrity The resolution doesn’t commit ceed him. He’s even Pruitt, who runs 4 Shoe Repair said. “And I enjoy meeting peo- clients, including singer Tim the city to any financial support, won standing ovations with her husband, Fred, says she ple. I’ve always worked. It never Duggar and editorial cartoonist one of the sticking points of previ- from Republicans who loves that people put their trust crossed my mind I wouldn’t be a David Boyd. There’s one celebri- ous talks. months ago called for in her like that, especially success.” ty, however, she’d love to snag – Council has spent much of the his resignation. because she’s been open only Much of the work Judy Pruitt especially since there’s current- summer debating whether to join PAGE 12 since January. did on old Coca-Cola crates until ly no shoe repair shop in his the plan, which some feared would The business, which Pruitt her brother-in-law built her a hometown of Newnan. mean county leaders micromanag- decided to pursue in her retire- platform so she could properly “I’d love to do Alan Jackson’s ing planning and zoning decisions ment years, has been thriving. reach the machinery. She stands boots,” she said. specific to the city. It’s been more than a year since less than 5 feet tall. I 4 Shoe Repair is at 1685 Ver- Others say a joint plan with Opinion a shoe repair shop was open in With a pledge to repair just non Road across from Parmer Troup County would tie the city’s LaGrange. about everything, Judy Pruitt Brothers Grocery. The phone hands when it comes to Harris “I retired last year from a local also has a “list” of items to repair number is (706) 884-4180 and County. West Point’s borders cross Columnist Andrea industry, and I didn’t know what that some may consider odd. the hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. into Harris County, and much of Lovejoy had a mission I wanted to do,” Judy Pruitt said. There were hats, bags and even Mondays through Wednesdays, any future growth may see is pre- in Pennsylvania: Find- “I knew I didn’t like sitting holsters for guns – one even had and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays dicted to occur in Harris County. ing the cornfield where around.” the bullets still slid in along the and Fridays. The shop doesn’t Initial drafts of the county’s joint Lafayette nearly She wound up taking her hus- belt. close for lunch, because that’s plan resolution were considered bought the farm. band’s boots to a shop in Lanett, “You just never know what the time when most customers too broad by West Point city staff, PAGE 6 Ala. – the closest she could find – people want,” she said. can pick up and drop off shoes. council and the city’s planning to be re-heeled. When she devel- And the people have come board to be too broad. oped an interest in repairing from all over: Newnan, Carroll- Jennifer Shrader can be shoes, the owner, Peter Geloso, ton, Greenville, Pine Mountain, reached at jshrader@la- Jennifer Shrader may be reached 80, who originally is from the Hogansville and Luthersville. grangenews.com or (706) 884- at [email protected] or Bronx, N.Y., let her be his One of her first customers was 7311, Ext. 236. at (706) 884-7311, Ext. 236. INDEX Calendar . 3 Classifieds . 16-18 Comics . 7 Work ethic, fate led woman into real estate Community . 3 By Becky Holland selling houses. I loved it.” Crossword . 7 Lifestyle editor I Neighbors When Frenelle found out that her primary job was going to “downsize International . 5, 9 Bikel Williams Frenelle remembers baby-sitting,” she recalled. the company” and she was going to Legals . .1-12B growing up in LaGrange and attend- She worked hard “to always be the lose her job, she called her mother. Local ........2 ing LaGrange High School, where first at everything she did,” said her “She was so excited,” Pittman National 2, 5, 8-10 she was president of her senior class, mother, Yvonne Pittman. recalled. “She was like, ‘Mom, Mom. Opinion . 6 and thinking “I wanted to be a doc- That work ethic has earned I lost my job.’ The girl was excited Sports . 13-15 tor and deliver babies. I liked babies.” Frenelle the title of Realtor of the and happy, and here I was thinking State . .4 Laughing good-naturedly, Frenelle Year for Troup County, which will be about taking up payments for her car, TV Listings . 12B said, “That is until I had kids.” presented in September. home and then, of course, a wedding, Married with three children with It was that drive and will that and she was happy. I was like, ‘Girl, three children younger than 7, brought Frenelle into the real estate are you out of your mind? What are Frenelle loves her family, and loves world.