Annual Spring Tour of Homes to be held this Saturday

The annual Washington-Wilkes Tour of Homes 2007 gets underway Saturday morning, March 31, when tour headquarters at the Washington Wilkes Elementary School on East Street (off East Robert Toombs Avenue) opens at 9 a.m. for registration and directions. Both the Day Tour and the Candlelight Tour will be held on this same day with the Day Tour hours being 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and the Candlelight Tour, 6-9 p.m. The tour is sponsored by the Washington Kiwanis Club and the Washington Woman's Club in partnership with the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce. Members of the Kiwanis Club will be co-ordinating the operation TheNews- of courtesy cars to provide transpor- tation for visitors during the Day Tour. Rest room facilities are available at tour headquarters. Any tour home may be visited individually by paying $5.00 at the door. Other tour packages will be available at the Chamber of Commerce located on The Square from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31. Tickets will be available at tour headquarters on Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Cost of tickets is $25 for the six homes on the Day Tour; $25 for the four homes on the Candlelight Tour; and $45 for both the Day and Candlelight tours. The Washington Woman's Club will be having a seated luncheon at the clubhouse at the corner of North Alexander Avenue and Court Street at a cost of $10 each. Reservations are required. The First United Methodist Church will provide a buffet luncheon in the fellowship hall of the church. No reservations are required. The six houses on the Day Tour are the home of Dawn and Sam Moore on the Tignall Road; Magnolia Cottage, home of Virginia Lee King and Skeet Willingham, 212 West Robert Toombs Avenue; the Anderson-Dowling Home at Danburg; Holly Ridge, home of Vivian and Roger Walker at Sandtown; the home of Chrean and Archie Brown, 211 Court Street; and the Dr. Linus M. Ellis House owned by Nellie McGee, 403 East Robert Toombs Avenue. The four houses on the Candlelight Tour are the home of Sharlene and Allan Zima, 206 South Alexander Avenue; the home of Amy and Shane Moore, 1277 Tignall Road; home of Rosemary and Billy Caddell, 120 Tignall Road; and the Wills-Nash House owned by Vivian and Roger Walker, 223 East Robert Toombs Avenue. The Mary Willis Library, the Washington Historical Museum, the Robert Toombs House Historic Site, and Callaway Plantation will also be open, as will in-town churches, including the First United Methodist Church, First Baptist Church, Washington Presbyterian Church, and the Episcopal Church of the Mediator.