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CTHE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1993
Perry viewpoint
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The Houston Home Journal
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Managing waste starts
at home
If you had to keep all your family's garbage in your
yard, chances are you'd find ways to reduce what you
produce.
Because landfill space is limited, Georgians must reduce
the amount of waste w'e produce.
Help Georgia. See if you can reduce your family's
amount of solid waste by 25 percent. We must help future
generations by managing our waste better today. I lere are
a few simple things you can do to make landfills last
longer:
•Buy products that have minimal packaging-and if you
can't reuse or recycle them, stomp them before you put
them into the waste stream.
•Share magazines with doctors' offices, community
centers or senior citizen centers.
•Don't "brown bag" lunches-use a lunch box instead.
•If you don't want to receive catalogs and other unso
licited mail, call or write the company and ask them to re
move your name from their mailing list.
Be creative. Think how your family can reduce its
garbage by one quarter and share your ideas with your
friends and neighbors.
Somalia: endless?
There's no doubt U.S. intervention in Somalia was a
heart-warming, generous, humanitarian move-a lifesaver
to helpless starving natives.
The doubt is whether U.N. forces (mostly U.S.) can
solve that country's massive, chronic and long-standing
problems. If not, when do we leave?
There are those who point out African leaders have tra
ditionally been incompetent and corrupt, enriching them
selves at the expense of their people and their land's natu
ral resources. Traditionally, also, they have blamed colo
nialism, imperialism, capitalism or exploitation by multi
national corporations for their failure.
Professor George Ayittey of American University is
author of a book, Africa Betrayed which paints a gloomy
picture of the future on that continent-an almost hopeless
one, a worsening dilemma no Western nation could hope
to solve.
He believes African leaders (he calls them misleaders)
have long ruined the continent with systematic corruption,
constant civil wars, tyranny, violations of human rights,
mismanagement of natural resources, etc.
Columnist Paul Harvey writes that most African nations
are poorer today than when colonial rule ended in the
19605. The birth rate in many of these countries is twice
the world average, income far below average.
Professor Ayittey reports most African countries are in
ruins. He points out that the gross domestic product in
black Africa for the two decades between 1965 and 1987
declined while Asia's rose sharply.
Citing Liberia as a prime example of helplessness, he
notes that with its vast oil reserves per capita income there
should be high. Instead, corruption has been so rampant
Liberia can't meet debt payments.
This is the general rule in Africa, not the exception.
Ayittey says Angola, Mozambique, Sudan, Uganda and
Zaire are in chaos similar to that in Somalia.
This inevitably poses the U.S. taxpayer with the ques
tion: where does U.S. benevolent intervention in Africa
stop? Can we ever lift a country such as Somalia out of the
doldrums, with massive aid and military forces?
If that’s impossible, what do we do when the limits of
our generosity and financial outlay are reached?
President-elect Bill Clinton will have an agonizing
choice to make, if indeed the chronic problems in Somalia
are beyond our ability to solve.
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Perry Scrapbook
Coach Eric Staples, left, presents the 1963 Region 2A championship trophy to
Perry High School February 21. Dwayne Powell, captain of the Panthers, accepts
for the school. In the background are the sub-region and Christmas Invitational tro
phies won by the Panthers this season.
STREET TALK . Do you know who represents you on city council?
Phillip Small
"Yes. Mr. Hervia Ingram."
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Ricky Kendrick
"Yes. Bobby Glover."
We are fruit bearers, not producers
Abide in Me, and I in you. .4.?
the branch cannot bear fruit of it
self, unless it abides in the vine, so
neither can you, unless you abide in
Me.
I am the vine, you arc the
branches; he who abides in Me, and
I in him, he bears much fruit; for
apart from Me you can do nothing.
If anyone does not abide in Me,
he is thrown away as a branch, and
dries up; and they gather them, and
cast them into the fire, and they are
burned (John 15:4-6).
There is a common misconcep
tion among believers as to how we
relate to Jesus Christ and the roles
wc play.
This misunderstanding is deadly
to the vitality of our faith. It pro
duces tired, unenthusiastic, and dis
appointed or jaded Christians.
It is the foolish idea that we are
to be fruit producers instead of fruit
bearers. As Dr. Charles Stanley so
aptly describes in his book, The
Wonderful Spirit Filled Life, there
is a world of difference.
"In the above scripture Jesus
makes a clear delineation between
the vine and the branch. The two
are not the same. He is the vine; we
are the branches. The two are joined
but not one.
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Casey Hayward
"Yes. Mr. Hervia Ingram."
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Kim Mullins
"Yes. Ralph Gentry.”
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The common denominator in na
ture is the sap. The sap is the life
of the vine and its branches. Cut off
the How of sap to the branch, and it
slowly withers and dies.
As the branch draws its life from
the vine, so we draw life from
Christ. To abide in Christ is to
draw upon His life. His life is made
available through the presence of
the Holy Spirit in our lives. The
abiding presence of the Holy Spirit
is the life of Christ in us. . . .
Jesus Christ dwells in us
through the person of the Holy
Spirit. To have the Spirit is to have
the life of Christ within. . . .
The practical outworking of all
this is twofold: (1) personal victory
over sin and (2) Spirit-energized
service. God never intended for His
children to live defeated lives.
The Holy Spirit is God's answer
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Mike Nipper
"Yes. Buddy Roper.”
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Linda Mcßae
"Yes. Charles Lewis."
to the problem of personal sin. His
presence in us endows us with a
source of power and strength that
can bring our characters in line with
God's demands for holy living.
God gives us the potential for
real change. That change is die fruit
the Christian bears. Wc have every
thing wc need foi radical transfor
mation, for wc have living within
us Christ Himself.
If wc will only learn the lesson
that wc can't produce this fruit,
only He can. Wc must just main
tain a healthy relationship with the
vine and we will automatically bear
His fruit.
I had lunch the other day with a
new Christian. He shared how in
his business he had declared every
thing he took in, whereas in years
past he had conveniently forgotten
to mention some of the cash trans
actions.
A year ago, if he had been told
to do that, he would have just
laughed and made up an excuse.
I asked him what made the dif
ference. He said that he knew it
would please his Lord and he didn't
want to disappoint Him.
Abiding in Christ allows us to
bear the fruit that Jesus Christ
through His Holy Spirit produces.
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EPD meeting
a success,
could be nicer
They came. They saw. But
who conquered?
I know you’re wondering who
came and who saw. I can tell you
that. The Environmental Protection
Division did. But I can’t tell you
who conquered.
The public meeting held at
Perry High School Auditorium by
the EPD Thursday night was any
thing but boring except toward the
end when the same issues were re
peated.
I’m not writing this column to
take sides on the issue of whether
Medusa should be able to burn haz
ardous waste at the Clinchfield
plant or be refused a permit to do
so. Aren’t you relieved?
The Thursday night meeting
was a success. Not because any side
won or anyone conquered. It was a
success because citizens were given
a chance to voice their opinions
whatever they were. Those who
hadn’t decided how they feel about
the Medusa plan got a chance to
hear different viewpoints to help
them decide.
1 applaud citizens for coming
out on a rainy night to inform and
be come informed on a serious is
sue. It’s our duty to be well versed
on issues that affect us.
1 also applaud EPD Director
Harold Rchcis for doing his best to
handle the meeting in an orderly
manner. 1 could tell he meant busi
ness when he said “Excuse me, I’m
talking” when someone in the
crowd tried to interject.
That brings me to the next
happening at the meeting that I
don’t applaud, and that’s the rude
ness. Several times during the
hearing part of the meeting when
Mr. Rchcis allowed different ones
to voice their opinion, some very
rude immature individuals in the
crowd would interrupt. I heard one
man yell “next.”
The repeated outbursts of rude
ness should have been left back in
grammar school. Some middle aged
men were acting like they were
two. Whatever happened to adult
behavior and courtcousness?
Some of the audience members
were upset that people other than
Pcrryans were at the meeting. That
whole point is futile since people
on both sides of the issue had
speakers from out of the area.
The behavior by some of the
people was plainly ridiculous. I
hope at the next meeting in six
weeks the behavior will be more
polite. I have a feeling it won’t.
Some will have a lot of growing up
to do before then.
I’m afraid it’s only going to
get more radical and rude before it’s
all said and done. The looks of bit
terness and hate on different ones’
faces tell the story.
Whatever the decision is by the
EPD, I sincerely hope everyone can
act in a decent manner. When every
thing is said and done people arc
what count.
A special thanks to Perry High
School for allowing the community
to be guests in their auditorium.
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I want to commend
Councilman Hervia Ingram. He did
an excellent job the last few
months while serving as mayor
pro-tem during Mayor Jim
Worrall’s absence.
He was attended all the
meetings and conveyed a class act.
Earlier this week Mr. Ingram passed
the title to Councilman James
Moore, who I’m sure will do a
great job.
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Congratulations to Lillian
Harmon for 34 years of perfect
attendance in Sunday school. What
dedication!
What if everybody had her
attitude of dedication? We’d get a
lot more things done. She’s got a
tremendous amount of spunk.
I only wish I had as much
“sticktoitivencss.” It’s too easy to
quit these days. I hope this
generation hasn’t lost our
American, dedicated, pioneering
spirit. A job well done Mrs.
Harmon.