Entries from August 2012

Three generations ski on Lake Mayers

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Wednesday, August 8. 2012
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Emanuel Williams selected as Channel sales trainee

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Wednesday, August 8. 2012
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The number of job offers a recent college graduate can expect to receive may be on the rise, but receiving an offer for a job you are passionate about is still a dream for many. On May 21, 2012, 13 young professionals started a training program to become sales representatives for Monsanto seed brands. Emanuel Williams is one of those new Monsanto employees. [Full Story »] 

Public Library to begin Story and Craft Time

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Wednesday, August 8. 2012
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Got kids? Bring them to the library! [Full Story »] 

Football and Cheerleading registration to be held

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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The Appling County Recreation Department will be having football and cheerleading registration for Mite, Pee Wee and Midget leagues and the Mite football (seven-eight years old) and Mite cheerleading (1st, 2nd and 3rd grade) registration will be begin Monday, Aug. 27 through Friday, Aug. 31 at the recreation department at 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. [Full Story »] 

Lady Pirates Softball Team tryouts to be held

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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The first day of Lady Pirates Softball Team tryouts will be held from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 1st, with the final day on Thursday, August 2nd at the Lady Pirate Softball Field (behind the Pirates Baseball Field). [Full Story »] 

Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary to be celebrated

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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Nancy and Ken Thornton, Sr. will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Aug. 4. [Full Story »] 

Whitney Herndon to wed Christopher Mincey

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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Heather Herndon, Ashley Herndon, Keaton Herndon, Rusty Herndon and Jodi Hunter are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their sister, Whitney Lara Herndon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Bo Herndon, Jr. and the late Cheryl Morris Herndon, to Christopher (ReRe) LeRoy Mincey, son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy and Tashe Mincey, all of Baxley. [Full Story »] 

Sellers and Yarbrough to wed

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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Dennis and Debra Crosby and Randy and Yvonne Sellers of Baxley announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Brandy Rena Sellers, to Jamie Ray Yarbrough, son of Jimmy Ray and Ann Yarbrough of Waycross. [Full Story »] 

“You didn’t build that”

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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President Obama at a recent campaign stop…“If you got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” [Full Story »] 

Higher learning

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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It is a good thing our children are not taught in school like we were when I was a boy. If they were they might actually achieve an education and that is the last thing the political elite seem to want.
Back then, at Hebron Elementary Institute of Higher Learning, we knew better than to sass the teacher because if we did, Mr. Peavy or Mr. Kirkland would make your bottom shine like a new dime. And when we got home, a trip to the dreaded mulberry tree was awaiting. [Full Story »] 

Truth in selling?

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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When I left Walmart one day last week with a $10.00 purchase, my receipt was so long that I felt guilty about the tree I’d just helped to kill. Half the long receipt invited me to complete a survey at a website listed about that store visit. Then came the lure. It read: “In return for your time, you could receive one of five $1,000.00 Walmart shopping cards.” The comma after the word time is mine. Walmart doesn’t deal in commas. The word could is theirs and is the key word. [Full Story »] 

Don’t lose your pizzazz

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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The desire of most people is to enjoy life. I believe that it is safe to say that, as much as possible, to drink life to the lees and live life to the fullest is our ultimate goal. All of our energies are directed to getting the most that life has to offer. The preacher in Ecclesiastes 8:15 put it this way: “So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life that God has given him under the sun.” [Full Story »] 

State Bar sends congratulations

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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Dear Editor,

On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I am writing to congratulate Kevin Gough on his appointment by public defender for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, which includes Appling, Camden, Glynn, Jeff Davis and Wayne counties.
Georgia’s public defenders fulfill a critical responsibility in our state’s criminal justice system. A graduate of the University of Georgia Law School, Mr. Gough brings 25 years of experience in the legal profession, including service as an assistant district attorney, to the position. [Full Story »] 

High school principal welcomes students back

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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Dear Parents and Students,

What an exciting school year 2011-2012 was for the Appling County High School Pirates. Our baseball team won the state championship, our football team made it to the final four, the track team had a state winner in the hurdles, and our literary team won region for the first time. I am looking forward to the great things that our students will accomplish in the 21012 – 2013 school year. [Full Story »] 

Animal Rights

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Thursday, August 2. 2012
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(In reference to last weeks article by Gary Toole, ‘Minister’)

“How can you say, the Hollywood animal activists that promote not eating meat are the chiefs of sinners?” You may as well say that people that choose to be childless are sinners too, because the word also says, “go forth, be fruitful and multiply.” [Full Story »] 
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