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NJROTC Cadets Won Five Trophies in Air Force
JROTC Drill and Physical Training Competition
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Peach County NJROTC
Cadets competed in the Air
Force JROTC Drill and
Physical Training Competition
on Saturday. October I, 2011
at Veteran’s High School in
Warner Robins. Eighteen cadets
represented their unit and won
4th place out of 22 schools in
unarmed regulation inspection,
second place in push-ups, first
place in sit-ups, second place
in the one mile run, first place
Manchester Railroad
Set for Weekend
The 14th Annual Manchester
Railroad Days event will be
held this weekend and will be
lots tor fun for all train enthu
siasts.
This Saturday the railroadiana
show will be at the Manchester
Mill from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The show will feature sales by
vendors, model layout displays
and personal collections.
14th Annual
Manchester
Railroad Days
Train Show, Saturday, Oct. 15
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Admission is $2.00 for adults and children 12 and under are free!
• Vendors • Model train layouts • North 6A Live Steamers
• Pump Car Rides • Covered Train watching Platform • Personal collections
Events get underway Friday evening with a Railran reception from 6:00 p.m.
to 900 p.m. at the Manchester Community Building.
For more information, call (706) 846-5341
www.maichester-ga.com
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Election shall be held on November 8, 2011, in conjunction with the General
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business on October 11, 2011. Absentee/early voting will be held
October 17 through November 4, 2011 in the City Hall at the Byron
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8 , 2011 .
as Overall Physical Training
Champion. The team was beat
by one second in the mile run.
This event enabled PCHS
NJROTC cadets to gage their
performance prior to competing
in the Area 12 Navy JROTC
Drill Meet at Luella High
School in late October. The
cadets were extremely happy
with the five trophies won. but
know with more practices, they
can perform much better.
Also on Saturday outside the
mill, children and adults alike
can enjoy rides by live steamers
that are handmade engines to
scale (71/2 inch gauge) and can
pull riders behind them. Only
a few' blocks away, a covered
train watching platform pro
vides plenty of rail action of
the Manchester yard (junction
of the Atlanta and Birmingham
NJROTC Students are active¬
ly involved in community
service activities, drill competi¬
tions, field meets, and educa¬
tional field trips. Therefore, they
are developing skills in lead¬
ership, teamwork, profession¬
alism, sportsmanlike conduct,
and career readiness. The
cadet instructors are Warrant
Officer Ronald Appling and
Petty Officer Marvin Bert.
Congratulations cadets!
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Events will get underway
Friday evening. October 14 at
the Community Center at 6 p.m.
with a reception for visitors fea
turing a slide show presentation,
Cost on Saturday is $2 fro
adults and children 12 and
under free. Please contact
Jennifer Elliott Meares at (706)
846-5341 for more information.
The Threat Behind the Veils
force the governments of their
host countries to allow them
to govern themselves by the
Islamic Sharia religious laws
within their ethnic communi¬
ties.
This has already begun to
create serious problems in
several European countries
such as France, Italy, England
and others as the domestic
laws of those countries are
being superceded within the
growing Muslim communities
there by the strict religious
laws of their former home¬
lands. In those communi¬
ties women are treated the
same way as they were in their
Islamic home countries, even
though they are now residents
or citizens of free societies in
w hich they have equal rights.
Islam is now the second
largest religion in France. In
an attempt to prevent Muslims
from imposing their reli¬
gious laws on their society,
the French government passed
a law prohibiting Islamic
women from wearing veils
which cover their faces and
hide their identities in public.
In response to this law bands
of young radical Muslims
rioted, burning hundreds of
vehicles and businesses. Italy,
Belgium and the Netherlands
are now finalizing veil ban
laws and will likely face the
same violent response.
The Islamic countries of the
Middle East have been using
profits from their oil exports
to build new Mosques all over
the world. Everyone in this
country is probably aware
of the one they arc building
near the site in New York
City where the twin towers of
the World Trade Center were
destroyed by radical Muslims
on September II, 2011. Yet
in many Arab countries
Christian churches arc not
allowed to exist at all and the
lew Christians who still live
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ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ
IT ( o/umnist
Years ago while traveling
through the Middle East 1 was
on a flight from Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia to Beirut, Lebanon. 1
noticed many of the passen¬
gers on the plane were Muslim
women wearing black “burka”
outfits, which covered them
from head to toe except for
their eyes. To pass the time
I began reading a book, then
when I heard the pilot announce
we were about to land I looked
up and saw all the women had
changed out of their burkas and
were dressed in the latest dress
designs from Paris.
After having traveled in their
country for several days that
was the first time I saw the
faces of Saudi women. In their
country females aren’t allowed
to leave their homes to go out
in public unless they arc com¬
pletely covered and escorted by
a male relative. Some Islamic
countries don’t strictly enforce
those laws, but overall Muslim
women don’t have the free¬
doms we now take for granted
in Western society. In Saudi
Arabia women aren’t allowed to
drive, vote or otherwise partici¬
pate in politics.
Hundreds of thousands of
Muslims have been moving to
Europe and the United States,
bringing with them the customs
of their Islamic homelands.
This wouldn’t be a problem
if those immigrants would
assimilate into the societies of
the places they move to like
all other groups have in the
past. But a large number of
them are actively working to
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OCTOBER 12,
in those countries arc perse¬
cuted.
Right now a Pastor in Iran
named Youcef Nadarkhani
who converted from Islam
to Christianity has been sen¬
tenced to death by hanging
for the crime of •‘aposta¬
sy’’, defined by the Iranian
Supreme Court as “turning his
back on Islam’’ and “convert¬
ing Muslims to Christianity”.
He broke Iranian law by
holding Christian church ser¬
vices in his home and baptiz¬
ing other Muslims who have
converted. Because he refused
to renounce his Christianity
during his hearings he will
likely be executed soon.
Meanwhile in our country,
the United States of America,
many symbols of Christianity
which have been part of our
nation since it was first estab¬
lished are being removed from
government buildings and
public places. Prayer in our
schools, at sporting events
and other public gatherings
is being eliminated through
lawsuits brought by atheist
groups. Yet at the same time
thousands of people rally to
defend the right of Muslims to
build more and more Mosques
every day, everywhere.
1 personally know many
good Muslim people, but
unfortunately they are silent
as the radicals in their reli¬
gion continue to seek control
of it for their own politi¬
cal purposes. Alter having
traveled through all of the
Middle East for many years
I know' that there are many
more of the radicals than there
are of the moderates in the
Islamic world. I also know
that their goal is to impose
their religion and its laws on
the rest of the world. It is
already happening, whether
anyone chooses to believe it
or not.
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