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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010
THE JACKSON HERALD
PAGE 5A
Appreciates John B. Brooks
Road improvements
Dear Editor:
As a business in the Walnut Fork Industrial Park since 1988,
we want to commend and thank the people responsible for
providing us a three-lane road for John B. Brooks Road. The
new road is wonderful and we are thankful for the safety and
convenience this road provides our associates and our logistics
people.
The City of Jefferson and the Jackson County Board of
Commissioners came together and did a good job selecting a
professional construction company [Pittman Construction] and
everyone worked with the individual management at each busi
ness to keep our businesses open and operating as efficiently
as possible. In fact, we had an emergency and had a factory
stopped off and Pittman built us a temporary road to satisfy our
customer requirements.
Many times, we are quick to point out the problems within
our city and county, but this is certainly one time we got it
right!
To those who are responsible, and you know who you are,
we sincerely thank you for “a job well done.” A special thanks
should be given Pat Bell for her support and tenacity to see this
project completed.
Congratulations from The Seydel Companies!
Sincerely,
R.S. (Steve) Adams, Sr.
President
Seydel-Woolley & Co. Inc.
Concerned about tariff bill
Dear Editor:
As the president of a tex
tile manufacturing company,
Buhler Quality Yarns Corp.,
I want to alert members of
this community to an issue
in Congress that is hurting
companies like mine and
that will eventually lead to
more plant closures and job
losses if it is not fixed. The
Miscellaneous Tariff Bill or
MTB eliminates tariffs, i.e.
taxes, on foreign inputs that
are not made in the United
States. This helps U.S.
manufacturers to continue
producing goods in the U.S.
and stay competitive in the
global marketplace.
On December 31, 2009,
however, hundreds of these
tariff suspensions expired,
leaving companies like
mine facing increased taxes
on inputs critical to our
manufacturing.
Typically, Congress
passes an MTB every three
years, but recent devel
opments in the House of
Representatives have placed
its passage in serious jeop
ardy. Early in 2009, House
Democratic leadership
issued a series of legisla
tive rule changes, which
included reclassifying these
tariff suspension requests
as earmarks.
To complicate matters,
last month, the House
Republican Conference
decided to oppose all forms
of earmarks in legislation
throughout the remainder
of the year. This combina
tion of actions has put the
MTB in jeopardy as well
as the tens of thousands of
manufacturing jobs that it
supports.
Failure to pass the MTB
is a missed opportunity to
create jobs in the United
States. Each day these tariffs
remain in place, American
manufacturers lose.
Sincerely,
Werner Cieri
President & CEO
Buhler Quality
Yarns Corp
Jefferson
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10 ,h ANNUAL
NORTH GEORGIA
FOLK POTTERS
FESTIVAL
June 19, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Banks Co. Middle School
712 Thompson St.,
Homer, Georgia 30547
Info: Steve Turpin - 706-677-1528
www.northgafolkpottersfestival.com
An Evening With
Southern writer, storyteller, commentator
The "anti-Southern Belle" and author of
The Cracker Queen:
A Memoir Of A Jagged, Joyful Life
Hosted By:
Friends Of The Jefferson Public Library & Jefferson Civic Center
Friday, June 25
7 pm
At the Jefferson Civic Center
Admission is Free
Refreshments
On The «
Porch &
Book Signi
Books Are Available For Purchase At:
Jefferson Public Library
Downtown Interiors & Love's Gifts - Jefferson
Giftworks & Our Town Antiques - Commerce
www.thecrackerqueen.com
Also available for purchase at the event.
Grow closer or grow apart
LET’S GET one thing
straight right off the bat.
I am not a psychiatrist,
psychologist, marriage
counselor or minister. I
have been married 63
years, two-thirds of my
life, and never sepa
rated or divorced. Mary
and I and Shirley and
I grew apart occasion
ally, but never so far that
we couldn’t get back.
So I am really not qualified to
comment on the total collapse of
matrimony. What I’m saying is,
I don’t know what I’m talking
about and ought to take Proverbs
17:27 and 28 to heart: “He who
restrains his words has knowl
edge. Even a fool who keeps
silent is considered wise; when
he closes his lips, he is deemed
intelligent.”
Now, let us move on. But
please, friends, take this stuff with
a grain of salt.
❖ ❖ ❖
After 40 years, A1 and Tipper
called it quits. And that’s a
shame. They missed out on their
“last best chance to grow up.”
That’s how John Barth defined
marriage.
I don’t know who said “mar
riage is like a garden,” but he
or she hit the nail on the head.
Anyone who tills the soil and
cultivates a marriage - or any
relationship that involves anoth
er person - knows that it takes
a lot of love and a little work
every day.
So husbands and
wives don’t get along.
But they are not alone.
It happens to all of us
occasionally: parents
and kids, teachers and
students, coaches and
players, politicians
and voters, brothers
and sisters, neighbors
next door and across
the street, friends close
by and far away - and lovers.
We are human beings. No
two of us are alike. We don’t
think alike. We have different
beliefs and opinions. So it’s not
unusual that we have disagree
ments from time to time. Even
the guy who has been married
47 years and says he’s never
had a cross word with his wife
is suspect.
Notice I said “occasionally.”
Most of us have a way of get
ting over our on again-off again
disputes. We have the good sense
- or something - to say we are
sorry, ask forgiveness, and move
on.
But what if whatever separates
us is on and never off? That’s a
different story entirely.
One headline said the ex-vice
president and his wife “grew
apart after 40-year marriage.”
I beg to disagree. I believe they
grew apart during - not after -
their 40-year marriage.
Remember the garden. It takes
a lot of love and a little work
every day. Weeds and neglect can
take over a garden. And when
that happens, the gardeners grow
apart. With love and a little work,
they could have grown closer.
The Gores said their separa
tion was “ a mutual and mutu
ally supportive decision that we
have made together following a
process of long and careful con
sideration.”
They said it, and I guess it’s
true. However, I’ll give you odds
that a lot of the little and big
things that happened over their
40-year marriage were not mutu
al or mutually supportive. I’m
betting there was a lot of fussin’,
fightin’ and stuff going on.
But ah, that long, passionate
kiss! Remember watching it on
TV during that campaign rally in
2000? It smacked of “until death
do us part.” Had “to have and to
hold” and “for better or worse”
written all over it.
A1 said that night that Tipper
was “someone I’ve loved with
my whole heart since the night of
my high school prom.”
Said Tipper of Al, “He’s very
much a gentleman, you know,
with me around the house.”
But he once gave her a
Weedeater for her birthday. That
was not a very gentlemanly thing
to do, was it? It could have been
an omen.
Look, things happen. One thing
leads to another. Occasionally
becomes an everyday occurrence.
Without love and a little work, the
garden fails. Even the Garden of
Eden went to pot.
In spite of all the campaigning
for family values, half of the mar
riages in the United States end in
divorce. That is not good. Neither
is a couple with irreconcilable
differences. Their lives and the
lives of others in the family -
especially the kids - must be mis
erable. That is no way to live. But
who am I to say what is best?
Mary and I were married 50
years...’’until death did us part.”
But in addition to the marriage
vows, we entered into one other
agreement that kept us together.
We promised each other that if
either of us left, we would take
the kids. There was no way I
could care for four younguns by
myself.
I can only imagine what life
would have been like had Mary
and I been unable to reconcile our
petty differences. It would be the
end of our family as we knew it.
It would be the end of a relation
ship - perhaps even a friendship.
Perish the thought, it might have
been the end of happiness... and
finally the end of love.
Had we gone our separate
ways, we would have gone with
guilt because the vows we took
we did not keep. Worst of all,
we would live out the rest of our
lives with the realization that we
missed our last best chance to
grow up.
Virgil Adams is a former owner/
editor of The Jackson Herald.
Early voting continued from page JA
In the State Senate District
49 seat that covers a portion of
Jackson County, Butch Miller
and Jimmy Norman, both
Republicans, qualified.
QUESTION ON
REPUBLICAN BALLOT
The Republican ballot will
also have the following ques
tion on it: Do you support
an amendment to the Georgia
State Constitution so as to
provide that the paramount
right to life is vested in each
human being from the earliest
biological beginnings until
natural death?
STATE-WIDE RACES
Among those to be on the
ballot for state-wide races
include:
•Governor: Jeff Chapman,
(R) Alpharetta; Nathan Deal,
(R) Gainesville; Karen Handel,
(R) Alpharetta; Eric Johnson,
(R) Atlanta; Ray McBerry, (R)
McDonough; John Oxendine,
(R) Norcross; Otis Putnam, (R)
Brunswick; Thurbert Baker,
(D) Atlanta; Roy Barnes, (D)
Marietta; Bill Bolton, (D)
Marietta; Carl Camon, (D) Ray
City; Randall Mangham, (D)
Decatur; DuBose Porter, (D)
Dublin; David Poythress, (D)
Atlanta.
•Lieutenant Governor: :
Casey Cagle, (R) incumbent,
Gainesville; Tricia Carpenter
McCracken, (D) Augusta; and
Carol Porter, (D) Atlanta.
•Attorney General: Sam
Olens, (R) Marietta; Preston W.
Smith, (R) Rome; Max Wood,
(R) Macon; Ken Hodges, (D)
Smyrna; Rob Teilhet, (D)
Smyrna.
•State Superintendent of
Schools: John D. Barge, (R)
Rome; Richard Woods, (R)
Tifton; Beth Farokhi, (D)
Marietta; Joe Martin, (D)
Atlanta; Brian Westlake, (D)
Decatur.
•Commissioner of
Agriculture: Gary Black, (R)
Commerce; Darwin Carter, (R)
Alma; and J.B. Powell, (D)
Blythe.
•Labor Commissioner: Mark
Butler, (R) Carrollton; Melivn
Everson, (R) Snellville; Terry
Coleman, (D) Eastman; and
Darryl Hicks, (D) Fayetteville.
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