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Pictured accepting the award from Jack Steed, KWRB, is Jan Robertson. Also pictured are Cheryl Taylor, Watson, Francis Wilson, Michael Robertson and Duemberger. 1, 1 mump m gi 11 \mm . yy fgy I'|BK» f?I la I 8>» „ . % - ■ .:•■ HTTtlfttftt'-'ißlßlHk* ■ - -J~. . - ■■«—■ LI lilj 1 hbemMui^m J*■ p I 1 . J ■'**. ■''.; , 'v\ i ■ if- - y y^ 't It* ndk V ' *f BMt .. Submitted Quail Run Elementary School was recently recognized by Keep Warner Robins Beautiful and the Central Georgia Board of Realtors with the Clean Campus Award. Pictured accepting the award from Pete Ferrer, CGBR, is Dr. Doug Rizer, principal. Also pic tured are, from left: Miranda Burke, Duemberger, KWRB, Thomas, Stephanie Douglas, Alexander Pegues, Rizer, Ferrer, Ann Gregory, CGBR, and David Carr, KWRB. Douglas and Pegues also serve as members of the KWRB Youth Advisory Board. Landscaping program ■1 H Hstilff l/ f ' .f j % jyhnfc jr > Submitted At the October meeting of the Greenbriar Garden Club, members were treated to a program presented by Walter Lewis, owner of A&A Landscaping, who shared informa tion on landscape lighting. He is shown accepting the club’s token of appreciation from Vice President Ann Sturm. Looking good UfISTYH Scottish trip r Ty*• a a A _ s» Submitted On a recent trip to the Scottish Highland Games at Stone Mountain, Melinda Kicklighter of Elko visited with Randy and Carolyn Bruce of Virginia Head, Va. All of the Bruce grandchildren attended Montessori Children’s House, which was owned by Kicklighter for 32 years. Randy and Carolyn Bruce have just published the third book in the Chronicles of Robert de Brus, King of the Scots. The books, which give a sweeping view of the life of Randy Bruce’s ancestor, also are illustrated by him. For more information on these books, see RebeKing.com. * *** 1.. r, i:A*’J..lf *-.Tt * ! «.: (Igpmi J>-- ' . T* iHHFV ' ffri 'TBi 1 j? 0 1 f! JSi. [ I r +in k *1 bH'^■.Sf-ftj■- BNy^AmM rff 'in. f w ■ 1 | Submitted Rebecca Stevens sorts out toys. Toys for Kentucky from Houston County By Bro. J.C. Stevens Guest Wrier Grace Baptist Tabernacle Manchester, Ky. The spirit of Christmas was stirring in Bonaire and the surrounding area dur ing the month of October. Notice of a toy collection for children in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains was published in the Houston Daily Journal. Spearheaded by Robert and Earline Cole the col lection is a small part of a big ministry of their cousins Brother J.C. Stevens and his wife, Rebecca. When Robert and Earline first learned of the Christmas project, in 2000 they intended to contribute just a few things to brighten up a child’s life. Word went out through the Bonaire United Methodist Church where they are active mem bers. The response reaped a trunk spilling over with toys. Their van had very little vacant space. Each year contributions of toys for children in Kentucky have come piling in. “We don’t even know where most of the toys came from,” Earline said. “We leave home for a little while and when we return there are more toys.” She is thinking of posting a large “Thand You!” sign for everyone to see when then quietly leave toys. Earlier in the year, a small pick-up truck loaded down with toys was delivered to Forsyth. More recently the Coles, assisted by a friend, Evelyn Grizzle, delivered two vanloads of toys to a Forsyth pick-up location. On Oct. 5, the final load was delivered to Forsyth. The little shed at the home of Becky’s brother, Thomas Cole, in Forsyth is packed to capacity. Contributions came from Bonaire, Centerville, Perry and Warner Robins. The Stevens’ will be hurriedly making stops along the way in Macon West Georgia. The used toys will be SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2006 ♦ unloaded for God’s handy men to repair and have ready to bring a smile to a child in Kentucky on Christmas morning. Becky Stevens who has been legally blind since birth has her eyes wide open when it comes to dis tributing toys to the chil dren. She knows each fam ily, names, and ages of each child. Becky makes her list but she does not have to check it twice. She knows exactly which child gets which toys. Brother Stevens and Becky want everyone to know how this ministry began and how much it means to the children in Kentucky. Stevens writes: Becky and I moved to the mountains of Southeast Kentucky in December of 1973. We have served as full time missionaries ever since. Our greatest bur den for the people here was because of the spiri tual rather than the physi cal poverty. In 30 years, this country has opened up a lot. However, when we first came here it was like the wild wild west. There are still probably more guns here than people. Only a couple of years after coming into Clay County Kentucky, we began to share some few toys (all used) with some of the families closest by the church. As I began to share the need of families here with some of our sup porting churches, many of them wanted to help by col lecting toys and other items for us to distribute here at Christmas. One year (only one!) a church in North Carolina bought 25 turkeys for us to give to members of our immediate church fam ily at Thanksgiving. That didn’t work out so well because of certain people who were not part of our church family getting angry because they saw them selves as being slighted. When we started giving away toys at Christmas, we had maybe 15 or 20 families we helped. Now we are try- Thank You for a Wonderful Year! We Wish You a Merry Christmas! dTho 926 Carroll St. • Perry, GA 31069 478-224-8888 T-F 9am-spm SAT 10am-2pm ing to provide some help to well over 400 children each year. We have some fam ilies that probably would have nothing at all but for what God provides for us to provide for them. Most of the families are not quite so destitute, but Christmas would bring very little. I know that Christmas ought to always be about so much more than gifts, but try to tell that to a child who knows that others are get ting nice things when they themselves will receive but little. One of the first chil dren that we ever shared Christmas with is now a grown woman with children and one grandchild. She has thanked us so many times for the toys we brought, telling us how that her Mama and Daddy bought her the same little baby-doll for Christmas every year for five or six years because it was all they could afford. As you come into our area along the main roads, you see how the most well-to-do people in this country live. When you get off the “beaten path”, you see a totally different picture. There is no industry in Clay County. Very lit tle work of any kind and minimum wage is the best most jobs will pay. Tobacco farming is dying out, and less than 10 percent of the coalmines that were work ing when we first came into SE Kentucky are still open. Plenty of coal. It’s just high sulphur, and there’s little market for it anymore. Clay County is officially the poorest county in Kentucky. But there are a lot of other areas like this all over the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, Virginia and West VirginiaNo change of any significants in the last couple of years. There may be one or two more coal mines open but not enough to change the percentage considering the huge num ber of working mines when we came here in 1973. 5C