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THURSDAY. JANUARY 7. 2016 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 11A
Jasper Merchants announces 2016 plans
Incoming officers for Jasper Merchants Association (l-r) Kirk Raffield, vice president; Haley
Bouchie, president: Susan Horton, treasurer; and Paul Poore, secretary.
The Jasper Merchants Associ
ation would like to announce our
board of directors for the next
two years. President elect is
Haley Bouchie of ALL-A-CART
Mobile Food Service. Vice Pres
ident elect is Kirk Raffield who
is an individual member. Treas
urer elect is Susan Horton of
Horton’s Pet Supply. Secretary
elect is Paul Poore of Relay For
Life of Pickens County. This new
board is excited to be a part of
the JMA and look forward to
serving the members of the or
ganization and the people of
Pickens County.
The JMA would also like to
announce several already
planned events for the upcoming
2016 season and the dates these
events will be held on. So get out
your calendars and mark the
dates for these exciting free fam
ily friendly fun filled events.
Saturday, March 26, 2016 -
JMA Spring Festival - This
event will combine three events
together. Festivities begin at 9
a.m. and go until 2 p.m. at Lee
Newton Park. One area will be
the 2nd Jasper Arts Fair (Spring
Edition) in the park and ride sec
tion on Stegall Drive. Second
area will be the 9th Annual
Easter egg hunt (start time TBA)
in the front section of the park.
Third area will be the annual
Spring Fling hosted by the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary Unit 149
and will be located in the back
section of the park by the stage
area.
Saturday, April 9, 2016 -
3rd Annual BARK in the
PARK at Lee Newton Park from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This event is a
fundraiser to benefit Be-Paws
We Care and Big Canoe Animal
Rescue, with dogs for adoption,
a vet clinic, vendors, and lots of
fun and prizes. Also on this day
is the annual Relay For Life yard
sale that will take place in front
of the Chamber of Commerce
building. The Jasper Farmer’s
Market will be open over in the
park and ride area.
Monday, October 31,2016 -
Annual Trick or Treat on Main
Street Downtown Jasper from 4
- 6 p.m. The 2nd Annual Zombie
Walk Jasper will begin at 6:30
p.m. in downtown Jasper and
walk down Stegall Drive to Lee
Newton Park where a free family
friendly recently released movie
will be shown at the Park.
Saturday, December 3,2016
- 10th Annual Night of Lights
Parade Christmas Event
Downtown Jasper with live
music, tons of vendors, and pic
tures with Santa Claus, all start
ing at 4 p.m. The Parade of
Lights begins promptly at 6 p.m.
with lots of awesome floats cel
ebrating the Christmas spirit and
the flavor of living in Pickens
County.
The JMA meets the 2nd
Thursday of every month starting
in February to November. The
JMA currently meets at Rocco’s
Pub located at 47 Mountainside
Village Parkway in Jasper, GA.
These meetings are open to all
and we welcome anyone to come
and join us in these meetings.
You can contact the JMA ei
ther by visiting our website at
www.jasperjma.com or by
emailing us at jaspermer-
chantsassociation@gmail.com or
by calling our Event Hotline
Number at (706) 426-1968.
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By U.S. Senator
David Perdue
Almost a year ago, I stood
next to my wife Bonnie, put my
hand on my Father’s Bible, and
swore to uphold the Constitution
and represent the people of
Georgia in the United States
Senate. This is a role I never
imagined, but one I take very se
riously.
To emphasize the magnitude
of this responsibility, I held my
first staff meeting at the National
Archives—home of the Declara
tion of Independence, the United
States Constitution, and the Bill
of Rights. We reflected deeply
on the role of our federal govern
ment and the need to hold it ac
countable to the people we
represent.
I came to the Senate with a
sense of urgency to make a dif
ference. In my first weeks, I
sponsored three bills that would
help put in place a system that is
more representative of Georgia’s
priorities, including a constitu
tional amendment to balance the
budget, a Fair Tax system, and
tenn limits legislation. But as a
businessman with no political
experience, it immediately be
came clear to me that Washing
ton’s budget process is broken. It
has only worked four times in
the last forty years. In the real
world, this would have been
fixed long ago.
Our government today
spends more than two thirds of
its annual budget on mandatory
expenses. That is more than four
times what we spend on defense.
This explosion in spending has
propelled our nation into a debt
crisis that is already well past the
tipping point. In fact, Washing
ton has racked up so much debt
that it amounts to nearly one mil
lion dollars for every American
family. Equally as concerning,
career politicians have no plan to
solve this problem anytime soon.
Clearly, we simply have to
get our nation’s finances in order
to ensure our economic security,
but also to project American
leadership and guarantee our
country's security. The United
States must have die financial re
sources available to invest in a
strong military, support our al
lies, and secure our nation from
foreign threats.
We can definitely solve this
debt crisis and save Social Secu
rity and Medicare. We can also
deal with this global security cri
sis, but we have to get started
right now.
As a member of both the Sen
ate Budget and Foreign Rela
tions Committees, I am in a
unique position to help change
the direction of our country. My
goal is to continue to work to
focus Washington on solving
these two deeply interconnected
crises for our kids and grand-
kids.
Earlier this year, the Budget
Committee produced a conser
vative budget that cut $7 trillion
from the President’s ten-year
budget and paved the way to re
peal Obamacare and send this
repeal to the President's desk.
Unfortunately, Washington ulti
mately fell into its old ways and
abandoned this budget, just as it
has done 36 times out of the last
40 years. Reforming this broken
budget process is just one step
we must take to get our country
back on track.
Additionally, from my seat on
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee, we focused much of this
year on stopping further nuclear
proliferation and completing the
first State Department authoriza
tion since 2002. The absence of
global leadership from the
United States has led many of
our allies to question our finan
cial and military commitments
and invoked doubt in our ability
to defeat terrorism once and for
all.
Looking forward, my goal is
to get Washington to adopt a
more holistic approach to fixing
the underlying drivers of our
debt and addressing these global
security challenges. Georgians
and Americans camiot afford an
other 12 months of inaction on
these issues in Washington,
which has created a dangerous
power vacuum at home and
around the world.
Finally, I would like to thank
you and your family for your
continued feedback and support.
I am humbled and sobered to
serve as Georgia’s junior Sena
tor, but encouraged for the fu
ture. I still share your outrage
with the fiscal irresponsibility
going on in Washington.
We have much work to do
next year and I am energized that
with your help we can change
the direction of our country.
Thank you for all you have done
to help us this year.
[United States Senator David
Perdue is the junior senator from
Georgia and serves on the Sen
ate Budget, Foreign Relations,
Agriculture, and Judiciary Com
mittees. Previously, Senator Per
due was the CEO of Reebok
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