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♦ SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2006
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OPINION
Daniel F. Evans
Editor and Publisher
Julie B. Evans
Vice President
Don Moncrief
Managing Editor
Centerville moves along
Developing a real downtown for the
City of Centerville is an ambitious
idea and there is a good possibil
ity that the Downtown Development
Authority, in cooperation with city offi
cials, can pull it off.
What started as a dream, which most
people believed was far-fetched, is now
moving forward.
A rough designation of the areas that
will be included in the downtown has
been discussed by the city officials and
development authority members. The
public is going to be given a voice in deci
sions all along the way to assure enthusi
astic and total
support.
The proj
ect will take
a long time.
It is ambi
tious. It will
be expensive.
Seed money
has been
received.
Once a plan
is adopted
and ready to
be put into
effect, many
interests -
financial, political and individual - will
have to come together.
Sources of money must be found.
But, first, plans are progressing at a
reasonable pace. We look forward to final
plans and some idea of how big the proj
ect will be.
The possibilities are intriguing. We
hope that a real downtown Centerville,
with charm and appeal, becomes reality.
Perry working on downtown
Perry already has a downtown. It
has been there for decades. More
than a hundred years, in fact.
Perry’s downtown has been remodeled
a few times in through the years. Each
time there has been a theme. It has kept
downtown from deteriorating, as hap
pens in many small cities as development
moves to the outskirts.
Perry’s downtown is dynamic. It has
stores, restaurants, offices, a nationally
recognized hotel, sidewalks and a recent
ly remodeled government office building,
which housed the county courthouse for
decades.
With all this to work with, the Downtown
Development Authority is working hard
to add new attractiveness and appeal to
the area.
Fortunately, merchants and others with
a financial interest in downtown, always
have worked together well.
What is going on now will continue
to ensure that when people speak of
Downtown Perry it will be to point to it
with pride, rather than consider it a relic
of the past.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Pleased with senators
I was pleased to see our two U.S. Senators, Saxby
Chambliss and Johnny Isackson, join in supporting the
extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which passed
99 to 0! Georgia Congressman John Lewis stated during
the committee hearings that “Discrimination still exists.”
What I don’t understand is why leaders in our state of
Georgia who believe that our state and localities should
be exempt from the odious requirements have failed to
apply to “bail out” through a federal review? For exam
ple, why didn’t our Congressman Westmoreland, who was
so vocal about our being included once again, ask for a
federal review? Only 33 in the U.S. House voted against
the extension!
- Frank W. Gadbois, Warner Robins
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Foy S. Evans
Editor Emeritus
The project will take
a long time. It is
ambitious. It will be
expensive. Seed money
has been received. Once
a plan is adopted and
ready to be put into
effect, many interests
- financial, political and
individual - will have to
come together.
Second language a reality
I assume that you have started learn
ing the Spanish language. If not,
have you overlooked what is going
on around you?
While most Americans consider
English the official language of this
country and efforts are being made to
pass a federal law to that effect, some
thing is going on around us over which
we have no control.
Like it dr not (and I don’t), ours is
becoming a two-language country at
light speed.
Stores, banks and other businesses
have signs in Spanish advising that
the language is spoken there. Call
most large businesses on the telephone
and you have a choice of speaking in
English or Spanish to the recorded
voice.
Buy a computer or some product
that must be assembled. Instructions
are in both English and Spanish. We
are not becoming multi-lingual. We
already are.
Many businesses require that employ
ees speak Spanish as well as English.
The number is growing daily.
Spanish language newspapers are
cropping up all over the country where
there is a Hispanic community. There
are at least two Spanish language
newspapers in Middle Georgia.
If you need yard work done it proba
bly will be necessary to speak Spanish,
if you want to communicate with the
person doing the work.
IM REALLY^
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'Peace' activists have gone wild
You’re walking down the street
when you spot an anti-war pro
tester wielding a peace sign on
the corner. Quick, what do you do?
Duck!
As we battle global jihad, perplexed
and apoplectic pacifists are showing
their true colors. Rainbow tie-dye has
turned to raging-bull red.
Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams
displayed what the Australian media
called “her feisty Irish spirit” to hun
dreds of schoolchildren this week in
a murder-minded diatribe against
President Bush. “I have a very hard
time with this word ‘non-violence,’
because I don’t believe that I am non
violent,” confessed Williams. On the
plus side, the rest of the sane world
will no longer make the mistake of
believing that Peace Prize-winner
Williams is non-violent, either (though
the Nobel committee took the peace
out of Peace Prize when it handed one
to suicide bomber manufacturer Yasser
Arafat in 1994).
While the kids cheered, Williams,
the world-renowned pacifist, fumed:
“Right now, I would love to kill George
Bush.” In America, we don’t call this
irrational hatred “feisty Irish spirit.”
We call it “unhinged.” Or, as Charles
Krauthammer first diagnosed it, Bush
Derangement Syndrome.
Williams would no doubt endorse
the disgusting comments left on an
America Online message board for Sgt.
Leonid Milkin, whose wife, two sons
and sister-in-law were murdered in
Kirkland, Wash., last week while he
was serving in Iraq. Human Events
Online writer Lisa De Pasquale docu
mented the comments of anti-military
Bush-haters:
“Too bad the paid assasin [sic] wasn’t
home also ... Got what he deserved for
OPINION
The point of no return has been
passed. Two languages is a fact of life,
no longer a choice.
The City of Perry is trying to stop the
hands on the clock with an ordinance
making English the city’s official lan
guage. The ordinance dictates that
all business wth the city must be con
ducted in English. This a nice gesture,
but it is merely a finger in the dike that
is broken.
I know a professional man in Houston
County who is taking Spanish lessons
“so that I can get by.” He is going fur
ther. He plans to hire a tutor to teach
his grandchildren Spanish at an early
age.
Early age is the ideal time to expose
children to a second language. I hope
that our educators are giving serious
consideration to including the Spanish
language in the curriculum of our
schools.
Looking ahead, we know that today’s
children will be handicapped when
they grow up and enter the workforce
if they are unable to speak in this
nation’s two most spoken languages.
serving an illegal government in an
illegal war.”
“Maybe he signed up for the wrong
profession because who in their right
mind would want to be a army man?
He should have studied harder in
school and found a real job instead of
joining the army. Lmao, be all u can
be? Don’t patronize me ! People who
join the army either have no education
or come from small towns.. He should
blame himself for his family dying due
to his lack of education.”
“ANOTHER BUSH TRADJEDY [sic]
... YIP FOLKS HERE ARE 5 [sic - 4]
MORE NOTCHES, BUSH CAN ADD
TO HIS BELT.”
Then there’s Dan Frazier, an anti
war huckster in Arizona selling T
shirts with the names of fallen soldiers,
including Marine Cpl. Scott Michael
Vincent, who was killed by a suicide
bomber two years ago. The peace-lov
ing Frazier demonstrated his “feisty”
pacifist “spirit” by ignoring Vincent’s
mother’s pleas to remove her son’s
name.
Want another dose? Earlier this
month, a New Zealand peace activ
ist and former Green Party candidate
who served as a “human shield” for
Saddam Hussein in 2003 was charged
with assaulting a teen-age rock singer
in London. Peace-loving Christiaan
Briggs reportedly harassed the boy’s
Foy
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Columnist
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Michelle
Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
We need to start immediately includ
ing Spanish in our schools’ curricu
lum. It will do no good to protest that
English is our language and everyone
should speak it. Reality says other
wise.
In a few years it will be necessary to
speak Spanish or be left behind or out
of the loop.
Do I like what has happened? No.
But I am a realist. I see what is hap
pening and I know that the genie is out
of the bottle.
Hispanics in this country are the
fastest growing ethnic group. Already
they outnumber blacks. We left the
door open too long and now must face
reality. We cannot turn back history.
Some Hispanics new to this country
are learning the English language and
melding into what we have called a
melting pot. But millions are not giv
ing up their native language and prob
ably never will.
Major stores are bending - actually
jumping - to the join in the change.
They know that dollars are at stake
and money has only one color - green
- but it has many languages.
People with something to sell are
going to sell it in the language spoken
by their customers.
I hope that people who make deci
sions on what our children should be
taught are aware of what is going on
and are going to meet the challenge
soon.
girlfriend and then knocked the boy
to the ground. Briggs ran off laughing
before turning himself in to police. The
victim had to have part of his skull
removed and only days ago awoke from
a coma.
Announcing his decision to take a
stand for peace three years ago, Briggs
preached: “’You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.’ But here
in lies the twist. The change I wish
to see is not simply that of countless
Iraqi lives spared, but that of possibly
inspiring just a small group of people
I know; my family, friends, and com
munity, illustrating to them an unbe
lievably important and simple lesson I
learnt recently: Wanna be happy? Just
centre your life around making others
happy.”
By sending them into unconscious
ness. Saddam would approve.
Meanwhile, at a peace rally in Boston
convened by the Muslim American
Society, a Jewish man who attended
with a video camera was threatened
verbally and physically by hostile dem
onstrators. Seva Brodsky was accosted
by pro-Hezbollah thugs who grabbed
him, cursed at him and attempted to
prevent him from filming the terror
ist sympathizers. It was caught on
tape and posted at the Solomonia.com
blog this weekend. A rally marshal
apathetically told Brodsky: “We cannot
guarantee your safety.”
If the “peace” activists gone wild had
an iota of the same anger, contempt
and callousness toward the jihadists
as they do toward us, we’d be a lot
closer to achieving the peace they love
to preach.
Michelle Malkin is author of the new
book “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild.” Her e-mail address is
malkin@comcast.net.