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Sherrilyn Denise Young
Sherrilyn Denise Young
Clayton, bom October 24,
1975, to Jesse Paul and
Beverly J. Kelly Young.
She was the eldest of her
siblings. She received her
education in the Jenkins
County School System and
was a graduate of the Class
of 1996, she furthered her
education by attending
Swainsboro Technical
College and Augusta
Technical College.
At an early age she
joined the Williams Grove
C.O.G.I.C. church family,
later she sang in the
Primary, Junior and Mass
Choir, and she served
on the Sunshine Band;
a servant and supporter
wherever she was needed.
Sherrilyn was joined
in holy matrimony to Mr.
Johann Clayton on May
20, 2006, and was graced
by God with two beautiful
children, Sherhanna and
Shemecia.
She was employed with
Pmitt Health-Bethany for
ten years, and employed
with Fort Gordon Dietitian
Dept., Kohl’s and presently,
Jenkins County Board of
Education food service.
She was predeceased by
her maternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. James
& Gladys Kelly, and
paternal grandparents, Ms.
Josephine Young and Mr.
Joe Haynes, Sr.
Sherrilyn leaves to
her wonderful memories
to her husband, Johann
Clayton; her daughters,
Sherhanna and Shemecia
Clayton, all of Millen, GA;
her parents, Jesse Paul &
Beverly Young, Millen,
GA; Siblings, Carla Diaz,
Jeffery (Shante) Young,
Savannah, GA, Jason
(Melaine) Young, Augusta,
GA, Phillip (Marioma
Lloreta) Young, Jamera
Young and Tyshiada
Young, Millen, GA; her
god-parents, Frank & Inez
Sheffield; god-children,
Kiersten Lake and E.J.
Gilmore; and three special
aunts, Glennis (Rev. Fred)
Murray, Lillie Mae Hall,
and Carrie Robertson, and
a host of other aunts, uncles,
nieces, and nephews.
Wake was held June 30th
from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00
p.m. at James A. Kirkland
Mortuary
Walter Olliff Moore, Jr.
Walter Olliff Moore,
Jr., age 65, passed away
peacefully Tuesday, June
27, 2023 due to illness.
He was born in Jenkins
County, a graduate of
Buckhead Academy class
of 1976, a retired Master
Carpenter, and a member
of Millen Baptist Church.
“Ollie” was a diehard
Georgia Bulldog fan, an
avid golfer in his younger
years, a Jeopardy watching
enthusiast, had a love
for Reese’s Cups, and
Mountain Dew. He enjoyed
watching his children and
grandchildren play sports
and he was a volunteer
coach at the Jenkins County
Recreation Department
throughout the years, he
also enjoyed spending time
in his countryside cabin
and hanging out at Rocker
Supply..
He was preceded in
death by his father, Walter
Olliff Moore, Sr.
Graveside Services
were held at 11:00 am
Saturday, July 1, 2023 at
the Millen Cemetery with
Rev. Tim Fields officiating.
Visitation followed.
Survivors include his
wife, Karla Moore; mother,
Jackie Miller Moore;
daughters, Nikki Chance
(Dave) and Tara Allen
(Drew); all of Millen;
grandchildren, Kaidence
Moore, Kelsey Amerson,
Weston Birdwell, and
Kollin Allen.
He was also survived
by his canine companions,
Harley, Zoey, and Sadie
and several cousins.
Active Pallbearers
were Chris Chance, King
Rocker, Bud Johnson,
David McMillan, Dave
Waters, Charlie Lanier, A1
Knight, and Tim Frawley.
Honorary Pallbearers
were Mike Reeves, Chris
Lee, Rodney Garvin, L.
C. Williams, Keith Taylor,
Ray Roberts, Murray
Taylor, Lindy Wilson and
the Buckhead Academy
Class of 1976.
Donations may be
made to American
Stroke Association, 7272
Greenville Ave., Dallas,
TX 75231405. www.stroke.
org.
Congress, before tackling AI, save
local journalism
By Brier Dudley,
Guest Columnist
for
The Times
The tech industry’s
shiny new thing, artificial
intelligence, is suddenly an
urgent priority in Congress.
Senate Majority Leader
Charles Schumer on
Wednesday announced “a
sprawling congressional
effort to set new rules” for
AI and catch up to European
regulators, The Washington
Post reported.
It’s good to see elected
officials trying to get ahead
of the curve and avoid
pitfalls of new technology.
But before going too
deep into tomorrow’s tech,
perhaps they ought to
handle unfinished business
with todays.
Namely, addressing
severe harm to the news
industry that’s resulted
from their laissez faire
approach to Big Tech over
the last two decades.
Start by passing the
Journalism Competition
and Preservation Act. It
would allow news outlets
to collectively negotiate
content deals with tech
platforms.
This is a straightforward
response to the imbalance
of power between news
publishers and giant tech
companies that dominate
the digital advertising
marketplace.
Other democracies are
lapping Congress on this
problem, with JCPA-like
policies in place to level
their playing fields. The
latest passed in Canada’s
Parliament on Thursday,
despite threats and bullying
by Google and Facebook.
The JCPA nearly passed
last year. An updated
version advanced out of a
Senate committee June 15
with a 14-7 vote.
This is probably the
simplest and most taxpayer
friendly of all the recent
proposals in Congress to
“rein Big Tech.”
JCPA is a market-based
approach enabling private
companies to resolve their
differences, negotiating
fair compensation like the
digital music industry has
for years.
Despite outlandish
and contradictory claims
by the tech lobby and
its allies, JCPA won’t
break the internet, stifle
conservatives, amplify
conservatives or lead to
censorship and collusion.
Passing JCPA would,
however, prove that
Congress can tackle a
known problem with
mature tech businesses.
If Congress can’t do that,
how can it possibly craft
regulations preventing
harm from a nascent
technology that’s not
widely understood?
Elected officials don’t
have special insight into
where AI is heading and
how it will be used.
But they do understand
the importance of local
news. They also have a
responsibility, enshrined in
the Constitution, to protect
America’s independent,
free press system.
Call it a natural
intelligence system,
with some 80,000 print,
broadcast and digital
journalists gathering and
synthesizing information,
answering questions, and
imparting knowledge.
This system is proven to
improve decision making
by individuals, businesses,
and government, and
increase the performance
and effectiveness of
democracy.
The JCPA is also a proven
approach.
The same companies
saying JCPA will be a
disaster have already
started paying for news.
They’ve been making deals
to pay the largest news
outlets, including The New
York Times and Wall Street
Journal, for use of their
digital content.
Left out, and needing
the support of JCPA, are
smaller outlets that don’t
have resources and heft
to negotiate alone with
Google and Facebook.
The internet didn’t break
when platforms negotiated
content deals with small
and large papers across
Australia, which passed a
law similar to JCPA in 2021.
“News outlets are getting
compensated and hiring
more journalists and
Google and Facebook
did not go under in the
land down under,” Sen.
Amy Klobuchar, JCPA’s
lead sponsor, said during
the June 15 Judiciary
Committee meeting.
Nor did the internet
break when tech platforms
started paying digital music
publishers, to compensate
for content showing up on
their sites.
But allowing tech giants
to make billions off news
content, while leaving
local news outlets to
shrivel and die, is causing
untold problems for
America’s democracy, civic
engagement, and cohesion.
Congress has repeatedly
investigated and
documented these harms.
“These trillion-dollar
companies scrape local
news content and data for
their own sites and leverage
their market dominance to
force local news to accept
little to no compensation for
their intellectual property,”
a 2020 report by Sen. Maria
Cantwell found.
A recent poll in
Washington state, by the
Northwest Progressive
Institute, suggests there’s
broad support for correcting
this via JCPA.
In a survey that explained
how publishers want to be
compensated, and tech
companies say they’re
already helping publishers
by delivering web traffic,
55% of respondents agreed
that “big tech companies
like Google and Facebook
should be obligated to pay
media publishers for news
content.”
Just 17% disagreed and
27% were unsure. The
survey, of 773 likely voters,
has a 3.5% margin of error.
Perhaps that’s being
heard in the other
Washington, especially as
the media industry sees
record levels of layoffs this
year.
Dean Ridings, CEO of
the America’s Newspapers
trade group, said members
of Congress are supportive
but it’s hard to get any bill
done nowadays.
“I think the response I’m
continuing to see on the
Hill has been good,” he
said. “If anything, there’s
an increasing awareness,
of the continuing need to
support local journalism
and that’s on both sides of
the aisle.”
That’s good but
lawmakers must still
overcome doubts and
nitpicking that impedes
progress and benefits tech
giants.
In Congress “there is
always something found”
to hold up tech bills,
Klobuchar said in the
committee meeting.
“When we try to stand
up for democracy and do
something about the news
organizations something
else is found wrong with
that. When we pass bills
out of this committee on
child privacy and pom,
and, as Sen. (Lindsey)
Graham knows, trying to
do something on Section
230, oops, now there’s
something wrong with that,
on the left or the right, on
the left or the right, it really
doesn’t matter what. What
is the same? What does all
this have in common? It
helps the platforms every
single time,” she said,
punctuating her words by
thumping her pen on her
desk.
That doesn’t inspire
confidence as leadership
turns to AI.
Saving America’s
independent, local press
system deserves as much or
more urgency.
This problem is clear,
the research is done, and
a fix is at hand. Pass JCPA
and show the public that
Congress is up to the
challenge of whatever’s
coming next.
tlyrcns That
Touch th£ Apart
The Times
This past week I was privy to a video of a young man,
looked to be about 15, asking "what if "questions about
heaven. What if when you stand before the Lord and he
says to you, "well done my good and faithful servant"?
What will you do? He continues on. What if he says to you,
"I am yours and you are mine"? What will you do? What
if he says to you, "I love you and you love me, you have
shown that in your walk with me, welcome to heaven my
child"? What will you do?
These phrases stmck a part of me I have never tried to
find. Apart I am guessing that just stayed hiden. Now, don't
get me wrong, I know that I am heaven bound, I know that
I will see Jesus face to face. But, I just never stopped and
thought, what will I do when he says those things to me?
I know one thing, tears will flow. That is a given. But,
I have thought about it. And I will probally say to Him,
"Thank you Lord for all you have done for me while on
earth. Thank you Lord for saving me from a lifetime of
misery. I am so glad to be here with you and glad to be back
with my family that I have missed for so long. I stand in
Your presence in awe of what you are and what you have
done." Even now, I get teared up when I think about it.
I am sure, this young boy on the video didn't know that it
would touch me the way he did.
But, he made me look at my
life and ask those questions.
This reminds me of a
hymn that was dear to my
Grandmother, Mama Nell. I
have told you before, she
would always sing around the
house. She read God's word
every day and night. One of
her favorite things to say to
me was, "I just cannot wait
to stand in the presence of the
Lord." As a child, I wasn't sure
what that meant exactly. But,
I did know who the Lord was.
But, now, I know. Now, I feel the same way. I stand amazed
in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene. I wonder how he
could love me, a sinner, condemed and unclean.
The hymn, "I stand amazed in the presence" was written
by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel who was bom in Iowa in
1856. From a young age, Charles showed great talent. He
loved music very much.
In 1912 he went to work for a Homer Publishing in Chicago.
You see, Gabriel grew up on an Iowa fami. he learned how
to play music by playing the reed organ in his home. He did
become one of the prilific composers of his day.
Later on in life, he would marry, Fannie Woodhouse, but
that marriage did not work out, even though they had one
child. Later in life he married, Amelia Moore and they had
one child also.
The inspiration for this timeless hymn is not known.
However, Mr. Gabriel wrote both the words and the melody
to this song. I can just imagine, after reading the lyrics,
that Jesus himself must have shown Charles something like
never before. Maybe a dream of heaven, or maybe he just
found a passion for Him that he described in words. We do
know, however, this is taken from the book of Luke. Luke
22:41-44 reads, "And he was withdrawn from them about a
stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed. Saying, Father,
if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless
not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared an
angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being
in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was
as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground".
May you, do as I did, and ask yourself those questions and
stand amazed in His presence.
Please sing along
I stand amazed in the presence
of Jesus the Nazarene,
and wonder how he could love me,
a sinner, condemned unclean.
How marvelous! How wonderful!
and my song shall ever be;
How marvelous! How wonderful!
is my Savior's love to me!”
For me it was in the garden
he prayed, "Not my will, but thine,"
He had no tears for his own grief,
but sweat-drops of blood for mine.
He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calv’ry,
And suffered, and died alone.
When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
Twill be my joy through the ages
To sing of His love for me.
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
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