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Page 4A - Pike County Journal Reporter - Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Opinions
Geiger’s Counter: A lookity box gift idea for Dad
I saw where the cast
of the TV show
‘Friends’ got back
together for a reunion
episode recently. I didn’t
bother tuning in. Having
never watched a single
episode of the show, the
reunion held no interest
for me.
1 am told the cast from
‘Sex in the City’ is plan
ning a reunion event. 1
won’t bother watching
that one either as 1 have
never watched it. 1 have
also never watched ‘Sein
feld,’ ‘The Office,’ ‘Grey’s
Anatomy,’ ‘The Walking
Dead,’ ‘American Idol’ or
any of the popular series
on the ‘lookity box,’ the
descriptive term a great
aunt used for her big
console TV back in the
day.
1 did watch ’Sharp
Objects’ in its entirety
because it was largely
filmed here and 1 met
so many of the people
involved personally. 1
am kind of embarrassed
to admit the last show 1
watched with any regu
larity before that was
‘Desperate Housewives’
but 1 miss it desperately.
1 might watch a reunion
episode of it if Gabby,
Lynette and Bree are
involved.
Prior to that, the last
show 1 watched religious
ly was ‘Mork and Mindy’
which boasted the fledg
ling comedic genius of
Robin Williams.
1 prefer a good book to
television but I do watch
sports. 1 never miss a
Georgia football game.
1 enjoy college football
and, to a lesser extent,
college basketball. The
Falcons? Not so much!
Wake me when the vastly
overrated Matt Ryan
follows Julio out
the door.
1 will, howev
er, watch soccer
all day. 1 often
watch matches
announced only
in Spanish. 1
can’t under
stand a word
but love hearing
the excitement
in the voices of
the play-by-play
announcers
and the ex
tended, exag
gerated screams of
“Goooaaaallllll.” 1 par
ticularly enjoy watch
ing the US Women’s
National Team which, at
this writing, has won 41
straight matches and is
the favorite to win gold
in the upcoming Olympic
Games.
Just this past week, 1
tuned back in to watch
the Atlanta
Hawks after
a long time. 1
heard so many
good things
about Trae
Young that 1
watched a game
and the team
rekindled my
interest.
Other than
sports, 1 will
stream a movie
-1 prefer old
Westerns - every
once in a while
but 1 am not big on TV se
ries or, at least, I wasn’t
until recently.
1 heard a lot of talk
about ‘Yellowstone’ and
then, late one night when
I could not sleep, I was
running through the
channels and saw Para
mount was running the
entire series. 1 watched
two episodes before
sleep took over but the
hook was set. 1 ordered
DVDs of the first three
seasons and started
at the beginning. 1 was
enthralled.
Kevin Costner plays
John Dutton who is
trying to save his huge
ranch from all sorts of
encroaching threats.
Kelly Reilly plays his
daughter Beth, whose an
tics alone make the show
worthwhile. Several fe
males 1 know swoon over
Kayce Dutton, played
by Luke Grimes but Rip
(Cole Houser) is the big,
bad and often deadly
cowboy.
The last episode of
season three couldn’t
have ended in a more
bizarre fashion.
Cliffhanger does not
even begin to describe it.
The lives of several of the
stars were hanging in the
balance when the credits
rolled.
There is some drama
still regarding when the
first episode of season
four will air.
It appeared it would
be Father’s Day, June
20 but Paramount has
pushed it back due to the
aforementioned Olym
pics.
Do your Dad a favor
and introduce him to
‘Yellowstone.’ Buy the
DVDs if necessary but
have him start at the
beginning. There is time
to get caught up.
If he liked ‘Mork and
Mindy’ or could stomach
‘Desperate Housewives,’
he will love it.
Walter Geiger is the editor and
publisher of the Pike County Journal
Reporter and The Herald Gazette in
Barnesville. He can be reached at
news@barnesville.com.
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GEIGER’S
COUNTER
Walter Geiger
Editor & Publisher
SUBMITTED PHOTO
These tires and more were picked up off the side of Hugh-
ley Road recently where they had been dumped. Pick Up
Pike is asking all citizens to clean up along their roads and
other areas of the county where litter is present.
Pick Up Pike volunteers clean
up 18 tires from Hughley Road
American Legion
Post 197 volunteers
recently removed 18
tires (at a total of 480
pounds) from the side
of Hughley Road.
Georgia Power
cleaned up the right of
way to install electric
service for a new subdi
vision on the road and
the tires were uncov
ered.
Anyone can be a
Pick Up Pike volunteer
and the organization
encourages all citizens
to talk to children and
others about littering,
clean up along their
roads and even join
others to team up and
tackle more heavily-
littered areas of the
county. Find out more
at the organization’s
Pick Up Pike (PUP) face-
book page.
“Pick Up Pike en
courages our members
to get outside and make
a difference the first
week of every month,”
said Blanche Rossi.
“We are asking all our
community members
to step up and clean
up their road front
age and maybe even
step up and help your
neighbors with theirs
too! You don’t need an
event to remove litter
from our environment.
You don’t need an
event to make a differ
ence. All you need is
you! Choose your time
to make that difference.
Please take photos of
your litter pick up and
share them, so we can
all be excited and joyful
about the difference we
are making in our com
munity!”
‘Wait’ has more than one meaning
BY CHARLES WHATLEY
cbwhatley@hotmail.com
Wait! It’s never easy ...
we did it when we were
growing up and going on
a trip with our parents.
Our children did it and
now our grandchildren
are doing it ... asking the
proverbial question, “Are
we there yet?”
Waiting is no easier
for adults than it is for
children. One of the
doctors asked me to run
a lab test every hour dur
ing the night. 1 ran the
first test and realized I’d
be up all night; there is
no way to sleep knowing
you have to get up in an
hour ... all night long.
So I called with the first
result and he asked if 1
were going to call him
every hour ... 1 said yes
and he told me to simply
run the next test in the
morning and call him
then.
There are actually
three uses of the word
“wait.” The first two are
verbs and the third is a
noun.
The first is “to remain
inactive until something
happens.”
The second is “to con
tinue doing what you are
doing until something
happens” and the third
is “the interval between
being told something will
happen and the time it
actually happens.” And
there are 67 synonyms
and antonyms for wait!
“Wait” came from the
early Middle English
“waiten” in 1150-1200AD
and from Old High Ger
man “wahten” or “a
watch.” So it carries with
it the idea of expectation
or waiting for something
you might anticipate or
expect will happen ... be
alert!.
Acts 1 says, “[2] Be
fore he (Jesus) was taken
up, he gave instructions
by the power of the Holy
Spirit to the men he had
chosen as his apostles.
... [4] And when they
came together, he gave
them this order: “Do not
leave Jerusalem, but wait
for the gift I told you
about, the gift my Father
promised.”
The disciples were not
simply hanging out or
waiting for something to
happen; they were antici
pating and expecting the
fulfillment of a promise
... they knew something
was going to happen.
1 wonder how many
people now go to church
waiting, anticipating, ex
pecting, knowing some
thing will happen?
Charles ‘Buddy’ Whatley is a re
tired United Methodist pastor serving
Woodland and Bold Springs UMC and,
with Mary Ella, a missionary to the
Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
SPECIAL PHOTO
It’s always a good
idea to regularly
calibrate farm equip
ment such as spray
ers (left). Failure to
do so could result
in over applying
pesticide or under
applying - both of
which can be inef
fective and costly.
Equipment should be
calibrated a mini
mum of once a year
and ideally before
the start of each
growing season. The
Pike Extension office
has calibration cards
to help with the
process.
Pike Extension: Now is the time to do some equipment calibration
We all know spray
ers, or really equipment
of any kind, should be
calibrated, but who has
the time?
Is it really that big of a
deal? It shouldn’t be too
far off from last year...
Think again!
Calibrating truly is a
vital piece of the puzzle
when it comes to correct
ly applying pesticides.
If you are not calibrat
ing, you are not only
shooting yourself in the
foot but you also run the
risk of over applying and
therefore illegally apply
ing chemical or under
applying which can be
ineffective and costly.
Failing to calibrate
sprayers can have dev
astating effects on your
pocket book, your time
and the environment, so
do the right thing and
calibrate your sprayer!
Remember, calibration
should be completed
a minimum of once a
year though it would be
beneficial to check each
season of use before ap
plications are made.
If you do not know
how or need to knock the
rust off since it’s been
awhile, please contact
Brooklyne who can come
out to perform a calibra
tion with you. We also
have calibration cards
at the Extension office
that serve as an excellent
pocket guide in calibrat
ing boom, boomless,
backpack and airblast
sprayers.
BROOKLYNE WASSEL
PIKE EXTENSION AGENT
Pike County
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Publishers: Walter and
Laura Geiger; staff:
Jennifer Taylor,
Brenda Sanchez and
Rachel McDaniel.
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BY BWAIN W. PENN
100 YEARS AGO
June 17, 1921: The Pike Republican party called
a meeting in Zebulon on June 25 to elect a county
chairman to replace Mr. Gilmore, now a citizen of
the newly formed Lamar County. The request came
from four executive committee members from Con
cord, Springs, Meansville and Zebulon districts.
75 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1946: Pike County residents helped
offset shortages of meat, wheat, fats and oils by
consuming 5,636,800 pounds of fresh fruit and veg
etables. It was estimated that each county resident
would consume 1,695 pounds of food in 1946.
50 YEARS AGO
June 17,1971: Concord Baptist held a special
service on Father’s Day with a ceremonial note burn
ing as the last loan payment was made for the new
parsonage, valued at $27,106. The land was donated
to the church by heirs of George M. Strickland Sr.
25 YEARS AGO
June 19, 1996: Two months after Griffin nar
rowed its choice down to two water reservoir sites
in Pike, the fate of either location was still a mystery.
The situation resulted in standing room only at the
Pike Kiwanis club meeting to discuss the topic.