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Wednesday, December 26,2018
dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 7A
The glory that was The Christmas Wish Book
As a child and into my teenage
years, a singular event announced
that Christmas was cornin’.
That was on the day in early
November each year when I went
to the mailbox and discovered
that the Sears Christmas Wish
Book had arrived. I was so excit
ed.
I’d open the box to find a green
or red-covered catalog filled with
dreams. It was one of the happiest
days of the year as I snatched it
out, held it close to my chest, and
ran to the house to show Mama. I
wish I had a dollar for every hour
that, over the years, I spent flip
ping through its pages filled with
Barbie dolls, transistor radios,
and canopy beds.
I didn’t just browse. I studied it.
I wished with all my heart. Over
and over, I read the descriptions. I
turned pages down and then I
would get a piece of notebook
paper and write down the toy or
other item, the catalog number,
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and the price.
Despite all this research and
wishing, I don’t think I ever got
one item from the Sears Wish
Book.
Now, don’t feel sorry for me
because I always got a few good
gifts and often things from the
Wish Book list -1 was beautiful
ly stocked in Barbies, dollhouses,
and her clothes - but Mama nor
mally went to town and bought
them or Santa brought them.
It’s hard to recall a time when
ordering wasn’t today’s press-the-
button easy. You had to fill out the
order form and send a check or
money order (this was before the
popularity of credit cards). Mama
and Daddy never possessed a
credit card in their lives. And they
probably wrote no more than
seven or eight checks a year
which were primarily for taxes
and insurance.
For most of his life, Daddy
faithfully went to the phone and
power companies every month
and paid in cash.
Since I didn’t know where
Santa or Mama might be buying
my Wish List, it never deterred
my enthusiasm for the Sears
Wish Book. It is one of the last
ing joyful memories of my child
hood. I cherished then and now
every moment of my Christmas
wishing.
The Sears, Roebuck catalog
and my people have a long, tan
gled history. Into the mountains,
these catalogs took modem
America and household items
that they would have never seen
anywhere except in the Sears,
Roebuck pages. The catalog and
the U.S. mail kept them tethered
to a world that they could only
imagine, one that laid far from
the hollers of their reality.
Mama told this story:
She was about 6 years old and
her sister, Ozelle, was just over 7.
Their daddy had recently
announced his anointing by the
Holy Ghost to be a preacher in
those far-flung mountains filled
with churches that only met one
or two Sundays a month. A
church had called him for his first
pastor position so he was going to
be ordained in a day-long service
that would include a break for
dinner on the ground.
Maw-Maw had scraped up
enough coins to buy “tarns”
(berets) for Mama and her sister.
She ordered a red one for Mama
and a blue one for Ozelle. She put
the money in an envelope and it
mailed it off. The girls were spin
ning with excitement. They had
never before had anything store
bought and to get something from
Sears was extraordinary. Every
day, they were disappointed when
they ran to check the mailbox.
The day of the ordination
arrived. Still, no hats. They were
heartbroken. Just as they were
crawling in the wagon to leave,
the postman arrived. With the
hats.
“We were the happiest little
girls you ever did see,” Mama
recalled.
Sadly, this previously great
American company is teetering
on the edge of financial min,
close to the end.
My Christmas wish this year is
that Sears survives. I wish that
with all my heart.
Roncla Rich is the best-selling
author of Let Me Tell You
Something. Visit www.rondarich.
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FROM 1A
Safety
seeks to identify options that
policymakers should explore.”
Along with DeVos, the safety
commission includes leaders of
the departments of Justice,
Health and Human Services and
Homeland Security. They issued
their findings after more than a
dozen meetings with teachers,
parents, students, mental health
experts, police and survivors of
school shootings.
While the report doesn’t
encourage schools to arm
teachers or staff, it says they’re
allowed to, and it points them
to a Justice Department grant
that can be used for training.
Still, the group underscored
that having a police officer who
works in the school is the best
option to respond to violence.
Among its other proposals,
the commission urged states to
adopt laws allowing “extreme
risk protection orders,” or court
orders that temporarily restrict
access to firearms for people
who are found to pose risks to
themselves or others. The
group recommended against
raising the minimum age to buy
a firearm, generally 18 in most
states, saying there’s no evi
dence it would reduce killings.
Meanwhile, the Georgia
Senate School Safety Study
Committee released its recom
mendations in November after a
series of public meetings across
the state in the summer and fall.
In its report, the committee
said it explored “possible pro
grams, solutions and safeguards
to strengthen school safety in
three key areas: the prevention
of emergencies at or attacks on
our schools from occurring in
the first place; the physical
security of school buildings,
facilities, and buses themselves
in the case of an actual emer
gency; and the responses of
school authorities, state and
local law enforcement and
emergency services personnel,
students, teachers and staff to
active emergencies should they
occur on campus.”
The committee recommends
increased state mental health
counselors and allowing local
school systems to use special
purpose local option sales tax
revenues to fund the hiring of
additional social workers or
counselors (SPLOST funds are
restricted to facilities improve
ments and other capital devel
opment projects).
The committee also calls for
a “data-sharing system by
which Georgia’s schools, social
services, and law enforcement
agencies are able to coordinate
together to create, share, and
curate secure individual student
profiles throughout a student’s
educational career.”
Dawson County Schools has
allocated about $400,000 from
ESPLOST funds for school
safety measures since the dead
ly shooting in Florida last
February, along with an addi
tional $47,940 provided by the
state legislature.
Included in the new measures
is an additional emergency
lockdown method added to
each school’s front office so
that the staff there can initiate a
school wide lockdown. A “buzz
in” system was also added to
each school so that the front
office is only accessible after
establishing communication
with the staff and being cleared
for entry.
The board also approved the
addition of mirror window tints
to outside doors and windows
and removed the recycling trail
ers that attracted visitors to the
campuses.
The board also created the
position of a Safe Schools
Coordinator, a post Tony
Wooten was hired to fill in
June.
The board created the posi
tion in April, stating that the
coordinator would be responsi
ble for assisting with the strate
gic direction of all system-wide
school safety services, facilitat
ing the development and moni
toring of the system’s emergen
cy preparedness plan, imple
menting programs and activi
ties to reduce school violence,
collaborating with the school
resource officers and being a
liaison between the sheriff’s
office and the school system.
The board of commissioners
also approved positions for two
new school resource officers so
that each school will have a
full-time officer. The board of
education pays half of the sala
ry for each SRO with the coun
ty paying the other half.
Miller said it’s important to
allow local school districts to
determine what their security
needs are and how best to
implement safety measures
even while “state and federal
oversight is appropriate.”
“Local school boards and
(governments) should be
empowered to put in place pro
active mechanisms to ensure
the most vulnerable, our kids,
are properly protected,” he
added. “Eve always been a pro
ponent of Second Amendment
rights, but child safety is criti
cal.”
Rep. Emory Dunahoo,
R-Gainesville, said the study
committee’s recommendations
are a starting point for discus
sions in the legislature.
The House also launched a
school security study commit
tee this year, but has not yet
released a report or recommen
dations from its four public
meetings.
Dunahoo said the legislature
will be looking at the “big pic
ture” in 2019.
“I think it’s a going to be a
big part of what we do in the
House,” he added.
Dawson County News staff
writer Jessica Taylor contribut
ed to this report.
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