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The True Citizen, Wednesday, September 28, 2022 — Page 5
Michael N. Searles
The expression, “Where do
we stand?” is a common one.
We like to know how we mea
sure up. When you graduate
from high school, your ranking
is listed in comparison with
those who graduated with you.
In baseball, a team’s record of
wins and losses is ranked with
WHERE DO WE
others in their division. States
also have rankings in a variety
of areas.
If you want to live in the
heathiest states in the country,
you can choose Massachusetts,
Hawaii, Vermont, Utah, or
Connecticut.
If you wish to live in the
state where the people are hap
piest, you can select Hawaii,
Utah, Minnesota, California,
and New Jersey. Many read
ers may wonder how New
Jersey made the top five. It
might be surprising but New
STAND?
Jersey has the second-lowest
share of adult depression, the
second-lowest suicide rate and
the fourth-lowest divorce rate.
If you wish to live in a state
that’s best for business, you can
select Virginia, Utah, Texas,
North Carolina, or Colorado.
If the best climate year
round is your desire, you can
select California, Hawaii, Tex
as, Georgia, or Florida. While
each state has
features of SEE
which they are SEARLES,
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Ronda Rich
0 COME, ANGEL BAND
It was Friday night. We had
just walked in from a supper
of hamburgers and Cokes,
with all the family, at the Soda
Fountain.
A friend, Barbara, texted
urgently that our mutual friend,
Dinah, was being rushed to the
hospital. Possibly a stroke.
Dinah, a dark-haired beauty
from my girlhood, was a teen
ager when I was in patent
leather shoes and lace-trimmed
socks. Dinah wore dresses with
swirling skirts and tiny waists.
She was kind and, though
I was little and not of much
use, she always had time to
entertain me, listening to the
stories that my five-year-old
self recited. Her laughter was
like a lightweight, springtime
green leaf.
Like many mountain fami
lies, she and her parents lived
in a neat, small house within
a stone’s throw of her grand
parents’ two-story, frail farm
house that carried the scent
of a hundred years that it had
seen. They lived within holler
ing distance so they stood on
their porches, talking across
the yard.
The memory is
faint but still there:
Daddy and Dinah’s
granddaddy sitting
SEE
RICH,
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BURKE COUNTY BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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Monument Company
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1484 llalcvondale Rd/PO Box 1921
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ROOFING
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176 Salem Circle Hwy. 56 N., Waynesboro, GA 30830
Auto & Small Engine Repair
706-871-2042 or 706-535-1054
Owners: Chris and Veronica Neely
411 Neely Circle, Waynesboro, GA 30830
Service List:
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Over 30 years of experience,
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202 Peachtree Street ^
Waynesboro. GA 30830
V-Twin Service
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842 Liberty Street. Waynesboro, GA
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706-833-9867 or 706-551-5100
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To be included in the Burke
County Business Directory,
contact Roy Chalker
at 706-554-2111.