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THURSDAY. MARCH 11.2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 5A
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Today I was advised by
our health department I can
not get the second dose of the
Pfizer vaccine at our health
department. WHY?
Because I didn’t get the
first dose there. I have the
CDC vaccine card showing
proper recording.
After paying county taxes
for 25 years, being 72 years
old with a diabetic diagnosis
I thought I may qualify. Still
wonder why?
Brian Hitchcock
To the Editor:
I agree wholeheartedly
with our own historian/au-
thor Larry Cavender. Rush
Limbaugh was a national
treasure. He loved God and
America in that order. Some
disagree. Joy Behar of "The
View" had some horrible
things to say after his pass
ing. Some in our own county
have said things (most of
their words allegedly spoken
by Rush were taken out of
context) that demonize Mr.
Limbaugh. People that say
bad things about people who
they disagree with politically
and have died can be sure of
one thing One day it will
be you lying in a coffin.
Karma anyone?
Dave Ray
To the Editor:
When I was in the first
grade below the old jail on
Main Street years ago, the
Coca Cola company gave the
school comic books about
Smokie the Bear. It taught us
not to play with matches, be
careful with fire, and never
throw trash on floor and
down outside. We grew up
doing those things because
we wanted to make Smokie
proud of us.
We are so lucky to live in
a beautiful place with lots of
trees, flowers and mountains.
I can’t imagine living with
houses and apartments touch
ing and hundreds of cars rac
ing their motors.
But something is wrong
now. Going up Burnt Moun
tain Road looks like a
garbage dump. Trash is
everywhere. I know the peo
ple who live there don’t do it.
Horace and I go for a ride
every Sunday morning on the
back roads to see Mother Na
ture and it is the same way.
Tires in the woods, washing
machines and old TVs and
mattresses everywhere.
Is there some way to look
through trash and find names
on some of it? If we had a
name and address to see who
it belongs to, then they can
say why it is there.
I know everyone is happy
to live here and will have an
idea on how to correct it.
Janelle Walker
To the Editor:
The Capital Riot and What It
Means
I voted for Mr. Trump two
times and might again. I al
ways get to vote for the best
of two lessers.
There are a bunch of you
out there in media land that
think Mr. Trump was the
cause of the capital mess. I
do not. But after the riot got
rolling he did not do his job
as commander in chief.
It was not an insurrection.
Insurrectionists come at least
with matches and cans of
kerosene and set fires. Real
insurrectionists come with
guns and execute anyone that
opposes them. Real insurrec
tionists come with bombs
and hand grenades and do a
whole lot more damage and
call for a national uprising to
throw off tyrants. None of
that happened. A bunch of
amateur rioters messed up
the place and beat on police
who would not defend them
selves for fear of their
"Woke" bosses.
The entire intelligence
community got it wrong
again but they have never
gotten it right since before
Pearl Harbor. The head of the
FBI, who is from Georgia,
still has nothing to say, he
being busy "investigating"
and all. So we invest billions
to know ahead of time what
bad people are planning and
we were totally surprised yet
again. Why bother?
Nancy and Mitch were ab
sent from leadership again.
They had no plan and were
totally flat footed by the
whole thing. They are re
sponsible for insuring the de
fense of the capital. They
failed. There never were in
structions to the police to use
deadly force to repel intrud
ers if and when they breached
the doors or windows. Their
instructions for defense must
have been "Stand there and
let them beat the hell out of
you, and for God’s sake, you
cannot shoot anyone."
Once it started President
Trump should have ordered
an immediate military re
sponse and ignored the stupid
laws that prevent and tangle
that kind of action. If troops
were not available he should
have planned for them.
Every commanding general
in the chain should have been
relieved of command and
their swords broken for their
failure to be prepared. The
Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of the Army should
have been immediately re
moved from office. The
mayor of DC was worthless.
Keep in mind that these
people who are our "leaders"
are supposed to protect and
defend the nation. They
could not even prevent of
bunch of amateurs from
trashing our capitol. Can you
imagine what some genuine
really competent bad people
could do? We may find out if
we keep sending nincom
poops to positions of leader
ship.
Gary Pichon
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Rotary has distributed 74,043
free meals in Pickens since July
Rotarians and Headstart staff are unloading 100 boxes offree USDA government food for Headstart families. Ten
other Pickens non-profits received the 35 pound food box. Amicalola EMC transported the perishable fresh food.
By Jasper Rotary
The Rotary Club of Jasper
took advantage of the USDA
Farm to Families Program to
receive and distribute six
loads of 550 free food boxes
to area non-profits totaling
74,043 meals. The 35-40
food pound boxes contained
milk, eggs, produce, cheese,
meat and various vegetables.
Rotary District 6910 had a
Feed 1 Million Food Chal
lenge and asked clubs to
signup if they wanted to par
ticipate. Max Caylor, club
president, said, “If we can
help our residents with free
food we are going to get all
we can for them.”
Amicalola EMC
CEO/President Todd Payne
and Amicalola’s staff have
been instrumental in the lo
gistics of unloading the
trailer and reloading for dis
tribution. Payne said, “We
are happy to help because
these are or customers and
Celebrate the spring equinox this year
The official beginning of
spring is a highly anticipated
day among people who can't
wait to put away their winter
coats and soak up some
warm sunlight. But the day of
the spring equinox is just as
worthy of celebration for its
uniqueness as it is for its
symbolic connection with the
end of winter. According to
the Old Farmer's Almanac,
on the spring equinox, which
is sometimes referred to as
the "vernal equinox" or the
"March equinox," the sun
crosses the celestial equator
going south to north.
Equinoxes (there's another
one in September each year)
are the only two times a year
that the sun rises due east and
sets due west for everyone on
Earth. As the sun passes
overhead on the equinox, the
tilt of Earth is zero relative to
the sun. That means that the
planet's axis neither points to
ward or away from the sun.
Though it's understandable
why so many people appreci
ate the spring equinox, which
ushers in increasing sunlight
hours and later sunsets, the
day's uniqueness makes it
even more worthy of celebra
tion. This year the spring
equinox happens on Satur
K&j
day, March 20 at 5:37 a.m.
EDT in the northern hemi
sphere.
we have another opportunity
to help them with food. The
EMC staff are also responsi
ble for helping Gilmer Ro
tary distribute 40,000 meals.
The most difficult deliv
ery was that one load could
not go to Jasper but could
only go to Talking Rock’s zip
code 30175. Rotary and
EMC organized pickup sta
tions at Hinton United
Methodist Church, Talking
Rock First Baptist Church
and Bart’s Store in Blaine.
The 550 boxes were gone in
90 minutes.
The next food truck is
scheduled to be delivered to
EMC on April 20th and eight
nonprofits and 550 families
will have free government
food to help them eat and
save money.
Headstart, the Burnt
Mountain Center, the Boys &
Girls Club, CARES, Timothy
House, ACES, Jasper Hous
ing Authority and Cowboy
Church receive the food
boxes. “As long as the dis
trict and USDA provide the
food we are going to get it to
our people,” said Caylor.
Cherokee
Chorale
The Cherokee Chorale
presents
Ola Gjeilo’s
Sunrise Mass
& -
Timothy Powell's
Consider the Lilies
An Appalachian Requiem
Scott L. Martin, conductor
Live Streaming
Sunday, March 21, 2021
at 4:00 p.m.
$10 fee for access to the livestream link
Visit CherokeeChorale.org
for More Information
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