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SUNDAY u |s| K 3 nr HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL ■ PERRY CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING - The City of Perry will be accepting your Christmas trees for recycling at the Recycling Center located at the corner of James Street and Houston Lake Road Jan. 5, 2008 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Those who bring a tree for recycling will receive a free seedling. ■ WR REC WATER AEROBICS - The Warner Robins Recreation Department Water Aerobics Program is held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday each week from 9-10 a.m. The monthly cost is as fol lows: city residents - S2B; county residents - $56, out of county residents - $97, Senior citizens 50 years old and up - sls. For more information please call the Recreation Department at 478-929-1916. ■ WRLT AUDITIONS - Warner Robins Little Theater MALKIN From page SB Beltway media didn’t want to deliver. There’s a reason the magazine and newspaper editors are naming every thing but the surge as their top story of the year. (Putin? The Virginia Tech massacre? Come on.) Good news in the war on terror is bad news for those rooting for failure. Far easier to play up casualties and sectarian strife, sensa tionalize accusations of atroc ities, and demonize the men and women in uniform to indulge Bush Derangement Syndrome, as Washington Post staffer and NBC military analyst William Arkin did on LETTER 1 From page 6A to Robins AFB. All these results culminate in adecline in the standard of living for local residents and the guarantee of continuous SPLOSTs and higher property taxes in the future to provide and support the infrastructure required by Oaky Woods development. The state’s Department of Natural Resources once listed the Oaky Woods site as the most important to be maintained in its natural state for recreational use by cur rent and future generations of Georgians. Its importance cannot be overstated. Oaky Woods provides a unique habitat for a wide variety of flora, fauna and wildlife. It is home for a black bear population that would be lost in the development of some thirty to forty thousand houses. Once Oaky Woods is developed, its unique nat ural beauty is lost forever. The recreational opportuni ties it has afforded sportsmen and nature lovers will not be available. Local businesses and governments will lose the economic contributions derived from Oaky Woods originating by its attraction to our community of so many people who are drawn to its beauty. There is still the possi bility that the wonders of Oaky Woods can be saved for nature lovers to enjoy, time is of the essence. There is a group formed to work on behalf of preserving this uniquely beautiful* treasure. Its many qualities make it a perfect candidate for either a state or national park or forest. If you are interested in help ing to save Oaky Woods, go to www.saveoakywoods.com for more information. - David Wittenberg, Kathleen JONES BROTHERS Additions & Remodeling 478-781-2660 __yii Teddy Joftes Any Type Home Improvement www.jonesbrothers construction, com MONDAY 7 FD 8 |9 10 will be holding auditions for its fourth show of the 2007-08 sea son, “The Old Settler," Jan. 7-8, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the theater’s location on 502 South Pleasant Hill Road in Warner Robins. The play is a drama by John Henry Redwood, Dramatists Play Service, and directed by Venis GLover. The script calls for an all black cast of one man and three women. The play’s description: “This is a gentle,'sweet-natured com edy about life in Harlem in 1943. The story chooses to remember the good without the bad, being about the relationship of two ‘SO - church-going spinsters or, as they were called in those days, Old Settlers, Elizabeth and her sister, Quilly. Tfie play revolves around what happens when a handsome young fellow, Husband Witherspoon, newly arrived from the Deep South, rents a room in Jan. 30 when he lambasted troops for enjoying “obscene amenities” and serving as a “mercenary” force. One of the troops Arkin considers a “mercenary” was Army 2nd Lt. Mark J. Daily. On Jan. 19, a reader e-mailed me that ttie 23-year-old stand out soldier had been killed in an IED attack in Mosul along with three other comrades. To MoveOn and Democrat leaders and the anti-surge press, he’s just another number. Another “victim.” Another pawn. But on his MySpace site and across the Internet, his immortal words 1.877.312.W1ND | windstream.com BLAIRSVILLE 231 Hill Crest Plaza, Suite 3 7067456911 BLAKELY 717 S. Church Street 2297258585 CAIRO 48 2nd Avenue N.w. 229.3772100 CANTON 1353 Riverstone Parkway, Suite 100 770.4792000 Oftemdsi/nAttand It avaiiabte in the conthwnttl United Status sos new, first time DISH Network residenttal customers. 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Play dates will be: Evening performances - Feb. 15-16, 21- 23, 28-29 and March 1, 2008 at 8 p.m. Sunday matinees: Feb. 17 and 24 at 2:30 p.m. Call 478-929-4579 for more. ■ ELECTION REGISTRATION DEADLINE - The deadline for voter reg istration for the Feb. 5, 2008 Presidential Preference Primary election is Jan. 7, 2008. Contact the Board of Elections at 987-1973 for more informa tion. ■ MOSSY CREEK MS COUNCIL ELECTIONS - Mossy Creek Middle School will hold a School Council elec tion Jan. 8, 2008 at 6 p.m. in the media center. The election is to elect four parent/guardian representatives to serve on the council for the remainder of the resonate: “Some have allowed their resentment of the President to stir silent applause for set backs in Iraq. Others have ironically decried the war because it has tied up our forces and prevented them from confronting criminal regimes in Sudan, Uganda, and elsewhere. I simply decid ed that the time for candid discussions of the oppressed was over, and I joined.” He declared simply: “I genuinely believe the United States Army is a force of good in this world.” It’s the legacy 2Lt. Daily oi-jf - - , ■ -■ ftw"• i v* •* -. attsa*- 1 ; y^Tn/B^vgPS > ltcrsfywT l i."By‘' ?ia Ha^K% ! I BRING HD I HOME FOR HK m THE HOLlDAYS.Jftgffijig SIGN UP FOR DISH NETWORK AND GET: II FREE |DishHD T " FOR 6 MONTHS (REQUIRES 18-MONTH COMMITMENT AND QUALIFYING PROGRAMMING) THE BEST IN HD PROGRAMMING CLEVELAND 2435. Main Street, Suite A 706.865.2442 • COMMERCE 149 Pottery Factory Drive 706.3356640 CORNELIA 342 Habersham Hills Circle 706778.2500 DAHLONEGA 340 Wal-Mart Way, Unit C 706.867.3333 WEDNESDAY 16 |ls| 14 ©FREE HD DVR RECEIVER UPGRADE <55.98/MO DVR SERVICE FEE APPLIES) VISIT US IN GEORGIA: DALTON 100 W. Walnut, Suite 108 706.2797000 DAWSON 163 N. Stonewall Street N.E. 229.995.5800 DAWSONVILLE 66 400 Center lane S„ Unit 155 706.216.2222 OOUGLAS 400 E. 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CORRECTION: Last • week, I reported that the omnibus spending bill included $lO million in “emergency” funding for attorneys of illegal aliens. The information was based on an erroneous assertion by House GOP Whip Roy Blunt. In fact, the funding is for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division’s Office of Immigration Litigation to defend illegal alien deporta tion orders. AN AWESOME HD DVR RECEIVER FITZGERALD 112 E. 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