5-27 LDN RETAIL A&B Higgins LaGrange Chapel Funeral Home rd OPEN HOUSE & RIBBON CEREMONY • JUNE 3 2-4 p.m. 521235 “Our family serving your family in your time of need” www.higginslagrangechapel.com Family owned and operated (706) 884-7117 LaGrange Dailylagrangenews.com News Nation SATURDAY’S SPORTS Dragon arrives at A former LaGrange International Space WEATHER Today’s artist: Jessica Coon, Academy softball Station in historic fourth grade, West Point player wins a national first….......... 4 Elementary School; high, 92; championship on the low, 65 .................. 2 college level............ 1B Vol. 169 • No. 422 • 18 pages Weekend, May 26-27, 2012 50 cents daily/$1.50 Weekend Stupendous summer fun abounds in Troup County From zip-lines, to fishing to circus magic, your family won’t be bored Sherri Brown Staff writer In the never-ending quest to create summer fun and family memories, parents spend hours planning vaca- tions and family outings. That’s just what our family did recently. On a long weekend, we headed to Pine Mountain to try out the new TreeTop Adventure, advertised as a “dizzying course of zip-lines and other high-flying chal- lenges deftly woven into the File photo natural forest.” Camp Cowpie is one of many camps for children held in It sounded like fun and Troup County this summer. Camp Cowpie is a long-stand- it was. That is, if you don’t ing summer tradition for boys. mind balancing on wires 30 feet above ground. Plenty of summer camps It’s one of Callaway Garden’s newest attrac- to choose from for the kids tions, designed after a Boys and Girls Clubs team traveled throughout Boys and Girls Clubs of West Georgia’s summer program runs the southeast checking out throughout the summer with an emphasis on physical activity, edu- cational enrichment and fun. The summer program is June 4 through other zip-line and tree-walk- July 27. Cost is $60 for all eight weeks, including lunch every day ing adventures in order to and a club T-shirt. To register, stop by the club or call the main office create the best tree-walking at 706-812-9698. experience. The result has Hogansville Boys and Girls Club Monday-Friday participants literally walk- 7 - 8 a.m., Early Bird program ($2-per-day charge) ing among the trees on 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., regular summer programming wooden discs, swings, lad- 5 - 6 p.m., evening program ($2-per-day charge) ders and swinging bridges. LaGrange Boys and Girls Club 7 - 8 a.m., Early Bird program ($2-per-day charge) There are also five zip-lines. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., regular summer programming My daughter had been on a zip-line at camp last year Camp Cowpie and my husband thought it June 4-8, Evan’s Farm, 81 John Harris Road, LaGrange $75 before May 31, $95 after that date, open to boys entering sec- would be a great adventure. ond through fifth grades I was up for it, too, until I was about 20 feet up in See CAMPS | 7A the air and remembered I didn’t like heights. succeed in creating family a maximum waist size of 48 The good news (for memories. They’ve enjoyed inches. Closed toe shoes are me) is that the guides are multiple re-tellings of how required. The course takes Sherri Brown / Daily News happy to rescue you if you mom was rescued from a about 60 to 90 minutes to Zip-lines and high wires are part of Callaway Gardens’ TreeTop Adventure, one of many freeze in place and can’t tree. complete. local attractions that families can enjoy this summer. go any further. It may take a few minutes to get the TreeTop Adventure First Fridays in ladder and set up the pul- TreeTop Adventure Downtown LaGrange ley system, but they’ll get includes five zip-lines along The First Friday movie Trail shares beauty you down. When they tell with 19 more sections of and music series on down- you to jump and you can’t, ladders, discs, wires, net- town Lafayette Square will they’ll give you a push, too. ting and other suspended return June 1. The mov- of land, strength of faith It was a much more suc- surfaces, all among the ies are shown on a screen cessful adventure for my trees - as high as 30 feet in the square, beginning at daughter and husband Sherri Brown Both the house and the chapel were built above the ground. It is dark. Attendees bring blan- Staff writer not only to be strong, but also to remem- who made it all the way open from 10 a.m. to 6 kets or chairs to sit on. through the “challenges.” ber. They built the foundation out of rock p.m. daily through Labor Downtown restaurants are Danny Daniel wanted to find a way to Fortunately, they weren’t and some of the beams are from the origi- Day at Callaway Gardens. open and many provide transfer his faith to the next generation. ready to try it again like nal First Baptist Church on the Square Cost is $30 per person and carry-out for picnics on the He found it at the end of a dirt road in building, bought during renovations in some of the others around reservations are required. square. Retail merchants us. One little guy zipped Heard County. 1997. The chapel has wood from the Gardens admission is addi- are also open later on these A long time LaGrange lawyer, Daniel church, but also hand-hewn wood salvaged past us on his third round tional. Reservations can be Friday nights. of the excursion. discovered the hills with Hillabahatchee from Daniel’s grandfather’s cotton gin. made at callawaygardens. 7 p.m. to midnight June Creek about 15 years ago. He and his son, Daniel wanted to share the beauty he Once was good enough com or by calling 800-225- 1, The movie is “Footloose” for the other two. And, Lyle, spent the next few years building a found in the land, but he also wanted to 5292. Participants must be followed by a DJ-led dance log cabin, then an open-air chapel in the share the strength of his faith. He forged for me, a third of it was 54 inches or taller. Harness just fine. The morning did woods, both overlooking a natural water holds up to 260 pounds with See SUMMER | 7A fall at the creek. See TRAIL | 7A What are you waiting n Election 2012 for? Get those cuties registered today Incumbents face opposition There are some 60,000 people living in Troup County. Many of them are children, a large percentage of whom are between the ages of birth to 12 years old. in upcoming primary All of them are cute. Staff report Don’t believe it? Just visit our website said he couldn’t because he nents Mike Freeland and had already qualified as a Kenneth Ragan. Democrat at www.lagrangenews.com and click on Most incumbents will the link to our Cutest Kids Contest and Democrat. William Herndon also qual- face challengers this year Boyd was overturned, ified for the position. you’ll see what we mean. Already there for the July 31 primary and are almost 50 of the most precious faces, but later ruled that Harris’ Five candidates are general elections. nominating petition as an vying for the District 3 mischievous smiles and bright eyes star- In the non-partisan ing back at you from those who’ve been independent was deficient. seat left by Ken Smith, who probate court judge race, Boyd later allowed Harris did not seek re-election. registered, all hoping to claim the prize Larry Harris, who ran of The LaGrange Daily News Cutest Kid. on the ballot anyway. Republicans Lewis Davis, against Troup County In the sheriff’s race, former commission chair- Not every cutie, however, has been Sheriff Donny Turner in entered yet in the newspaper’s Cutest incumbent Donny Turner man Tim Duffey, Ellen the 2008 election, quali- qualified as a Republican, Gilmore, Ashley McCoy Kids Contest. We know they’re out there. fied Friday to run against We’ve seen them and we know just how is simple. Register, talk it up, post it on along with Danny and Tripp Foster will incumbent Donald Boyd. Harrington and James face off in the primary. cute they are. It’s not too late to get them Facebook, call your friends and get them During the 2008 election, registered and in the running. all prepared to cast their ballots. Woodruff. Ruben Hairston Qualifying as a Democrat Boyd had ruled that Harris is the Democratic candi- for the seat was Deedee G. The contest is open to every child who Voting is exactly a week away (it actu- couldn’t run for sheriff as has an adult within a finger’s touch of ally begins at midnight on June 1), so date. Williams of West Point. a Democrat because he In County Commission Four incumbent board our website. All one has to do is have an there’s still time to get those little dar- failed to submit the proper email address and a picture of the young- lin’s registered, giving them full access races, incumbent District 2 of education members will qualifying documents and commissioner Buck Davis face opposition. In District ster they happen to believe is the cutest to every single vote they can garner. And when Harris tried to qualify kid they’ve ever laid eyes on.