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The Jenkins County Times
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So, this weekend is Fair On The Square. This will be the first year we
have a float in the parade. Now, before y’all start bragging Saturday on my
decorating skills regarding the float, just remember, you can have that done!
That’s right! I wish I had been the one to come up with the idea of renting
parade floats! I mean, you call this company in South Carolina, tell them
which one you want and they send it down, put it in line, and hang your
banners. No more com fed looking floats for me! The past two years we
have entered floats in the livestock festival in Sylvania and let me tell you,
hokie ain’t even the word for it.
The first year we slapped a newspaper machine on the end of the trailer,
threw a few haybales on it and we were off! Why didn’t we win the best
float? I mean come on. Last year, it wasn’t much better. This year in Millen
however will look like the old Dairy festivals.
Now, talking about parades made me remember the time I was in a charity
womanless beauty pageant. As the winner, I had to be in the Peach Blossom
parade in Johnson, SC. Y’all, I had my big behind on the back of a ford
mustang convertible and as I’m waving, a gust of wind comes from nowhere
and blows my wig right off my big bald head! Y’all I looked like a bald Mary
Alyce as the crowd of onlookers laughed!
Thank God for a sense of humor cause I just kept right on waving and
blowing kisses as my wig lay in the middle of the street like a hug dead
spider! I never saw that little puff of hair again.
So y’all make sure to get tons of pics of me waving and throwing candy
this weekend. No booing please! That’s all for now, take care!
I received a call from a good friend this past week. He recently purchased a new boat and
was trying it out in a local pond. While on its maiden voyage, the motor came off the back
of the boat and sank in about 15-20 feet or water. I don’t know if you have ever tried to dive
that deep, but it is a challenge to hold your breath and physically swim that deep, let alone
get down there and look around before you come back up for a breath of air.
To make a long story short, I am a certified scuba diver and we have a friend who happened
to have equipment that I could borrow along with a couple of tanks already filled and ready
to go. Saturday after lunch Renee’, myself, and a good friend gathered at the pond to go
in search of the lost boat motor. We had been given a pretty good location of where the
motor went swimming. I will go ahead and say right here the given location was not exactly
accurate.
I planned to enter the pond and slowly swim the bottom from one side to the other in a
grid pattern. I didn’t have a compass with me which will work under water but I planned to
place survey flags in the bottom of the pond so I could keep up with where I had been. That
worked for about 50 feet until the bottom became so hard I could not get a flag to stick into
the bottom. So, I thought I would continue swimming straight until I got to the other side.
Keep in mind there are no visual references on the bottom of the pond. So, after I thought I
should be close to the other side I decided to surface and just see. Not only was I still quite
far from the other shore, but I was also 75 feet or so off of my straight line. When searching
for something the size of a large suitcase in a pond with visibility at 3-5 feet, veering that far
off course is very unproductive.
We decided to regroup. We ended up tying 3 sections of rope together that totaled about
200 feet. On one end of the rope, we hooked a heavy anchor. Renee’s stood on the shore
while my good friend went out in the boat. Renee’ would mark a spot on the far shore and
tell where the anchor should be dropped. I would then follow the rope across the bottom. We
did this four or five times. Each time moving the rope over about 5 feet before I would slide
back across the bottom of the pond. I was pulling myself along the bottom of the pond and
all of a sudden I basically hit the lost motor. The place where the anchor had dropped on that
path was about 2 feet beyond the motor. Ironically, on that pass, I passed three of the initial
flags I placed in the pond on my first attempt to basically navigate blind.
Many times, it is hard to see the big picture if you are not in the trenches each day. It may
also appear that nothing is being accomplished. When I was pulling myself along that rope
in the bottom of the pond, I was enjoying it, but I was thinking, I am just swimming along
looking at sand and silt. But I trusted the people who were guiding my path. Then suddenly,
there was what I was looking for. If I would not have tmsted those people on the surface
that could see better than me while in the bottom of the pond, the motor may still be lost.
Surround yourself with people you tmst and who are on the same mission as you are. When
you do that there is no telling what you can accomplish.
By Joe Brady, Editor
for
The Times
John Paul Hearn, Superintendant
Jenkins County School System
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