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PAGE 8A - THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS. WEDNESDAY. TUNE 4. 2008
Helping Find A Cure For Cancer
Several members of the Jackson County 4-H
Club participated in the annual Jackson County
Relay for Life Friday and Saturday.The members
are shown at the start of the relay when all of
the teams take to the track to begin their night
of walking. Wayne Neal Chevrolet, Commerce,
presented this year’s relay event, which raised
more than $237,000 that will be used by the
American Cancer Society to help find a cure.
The Relay For Life was held at the Peach State
Speedway in Dry Pond.
Jackson County Relay for Life ambassadors
Sally Ekard (L) and Dale Lister (second from
the left) spoke to the large crowd in attendance
at the annual event Friday night at Peach State
Speedway. Both Ekard and Lister spoke about
their experience with cancer and their fight to
beat the disease. Also shown are Wayne Abbs
(second from the right) and Steve Kinney (R).
Kinney was honored at the event for being the
top dollar individual winner by raising $7,880.
Abbs and his wife Heather and their team mem
bers received the award for Heart and Soul of
Relay and were the top dollar overall team win
ner by raising $17,671. Photos by Sharon Hogan
Right-Wing Group Plans To
Film At Muslim Community
Gas Prices Cut Local
Traffic To Drive-In Theater
City lights
Band line-up
Is Announced
A group that wants a Muslim
organization with a commu
nity near Commerce declared
a terrorist organization plans
to shoot video footage in the
Muslims of America camp in
Franklin County.
The Christian Action Net
work, Forest Park, VA, is prepar
ing what it calls a documentary
entitled “Homegrown Jihad: the
Terrorist Camps Around Us."
Project leader Jason Camp
bell said he hopes to “pull to
gether about 20 hours of origi
nal footage that will be edited
along with content from gov
ernment and media sources." It
will present information it be
lieves ties Muslims of America
to Jamaat ul-Fuqra terrorists
and past violence.
The “Commerce camp" is lo
cated off Hwy. 59 in Franklin
County.
“We have done the research,
now it’s time to go out and get
responses from the other side,
let them have their say," Camp
bell said in a news release.
His plan is to ask Muslim of
America residents for their
comments after viewing a vid
eo produced by Sheikh Muba
rak Ali Gilani of Pakistan.
“I am very interested in
finding out what these Mus
lims have to say about their
Sheikh’s call to develop an
army called 'Soldiers of Allah’
here in America, and whether
they are doing as Sheikh Gi
lani has instructed," Campbell
said.
The Muslim of America com
munity in Franklin County
consists of a number of mobile
homes and a mosque, mem
bers say. They also say a house,
built in Southwestern style by
a Muslim and not part of the
Muslims of America property,
has been characterized by the
Christian Action Network as a
“fortress."
Members of the group say
the property is private and the
Christian Action Network, who
they claim has harassed their
community in the past, will be
denied access.
The news release said the
final product, “Homegrown Ji
had," will be edited for view
ing by a “U.S. House of Rep
resentatives counter-terror
caucus and other government
officials."
It will not be the first Muslim
camp Campbell has entered.
He quotes Sheikah Gilani as
offering an invitation to outsid
ers to visit the camps — “Mus
lims of America villages and
campuses are open for all to
come and see for themselves."
At a recent encounter at
a Muslim camp in Virginia,
Campbell says a CAN camera
man was assaulted.
The Christian Action Net
work’s goal “is to protect
America’s religious and moral
heritage through intensive lob
bying efforts — both in the na
tion’s capital and at the grass
roots level," according to its
founder, Martin Mawyer. Its
initiatives include attempts
to “protect" marriage, opposi
tion to “Gay Day" at Disney
World, opposition to U.S.
participation in the United
Nations and protests against
the National Endowment for
the Arts.
Its Web site offers pamphlets
on “Terror in our Schools,"
“Homegrown Terrorism" and
“Jihad in America," all relating
to alleged Muslim extremism in
the United States.
In 2000, the Christian Action
Network also made an effort
to convince the public that
now-presidential candidate Hil
lary Clinton was a lesbian, ac
cording to Darrell M. West of
Brown University, who posts
“Inside Politics" at www.inside-
politics.org.
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The high price of gasoline is
keeping Commerce area folks
from going to the movies.
At least to the movies at the
Highway 17 Theaters in Dewy
Rose.
That’s right, Dewy Rose. Accord
ing to Joe Woodall, whose family
operated the Commerce Drive-
In for 15 years until its closure in
2000, close to 90 percent of the
Hwy. 17 Theaters’ business came
from Jackson and Clarke counties
— the same people who frequent
ed the Commerce Drive-In.
The Commerce Drive-In closed
in December 2000; Woodall
opened in Dewy Rose in March of
the next year. Gasoline was $1.35
a gallon.
Today, with gas pushing $4 a gal
lon, it’s a different world. A year
ago, a Friday or Saturday night
movie at Dewy Rose would bring
in “at least 100" people, Woodall
said.
These days, he’s lucky to see 10
— although he’s still charging 2000
admission prices.
Woodall clings to a bygone era.
There are a handful of drive-in
theaters left, including a single
screen in Tiger, and a multi-screen
complex, The Starlight, in Atlanta.
Woodall can name the surviving
Georgia drive-in theaters on the
fingers of his hands, with some
fingers left over.
Why would people go to a drive-
in instead of a regular theater?
“We’re still a family-friendly at
mosphere, with popcorn, candy
and drinks," says Woodall, who
also argues that his theater is about
the same drive for a Commerce
resident as a trip to Carmike in
Athens. There is also the idea of
making a “short trip to do some
thing different," he says. The mov
ies are “current Top 10 pictures,"
but drive-ins tend to get them a
week or two later than larger in
door cinemas.
The company has tried to di
versify, adding a corn maze. This
year’s version is a two-acre circu
lar Celtic labyrinth. The cost to
enter is the same as getting in the
theater, $5 for adults and $3 for
kids 4-11.
The theater is located between
Elberton and Bowman on Hwy.
17. For information, visit www.
highway 17theaters .com.
The musical lineup for the
2008 City Lights Festival has
been announced.
The festival, featuring music,
food and arts and crafts, will
be held in Spencer Park Satur
day, June 28.
Musical acts include:
11:00 - Solstice Sisters
12:15 - Peter Aland and Some
Good
1:30 - Curley Maple
2:45-16 Tons
4:00 - The Healers
6:00 - Fatback Delux
8:00 - Tommy Crain & Cross
town Allstars
“These are folk, country,
bluegrass, blues and Classic
Southern Rock bands," said
Hasco Craver, executive direc
tor of the Downtown Develop
ment Authority, which puts on
the annual festival.
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CALL
706-367-5233
The public is invited to attend a
Jackson County
Republican Primary
Candidates’ Forum
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
at the Commerce Civic Center
Doors open at 6:00 • Debate begins at 6:30
BOE Post 1, Sheriff & District Attorney,
followed by a brief intermission.
Resume at 8:15
for Commission Districts 1 & 2
and the BOC Chairman candidates.
Meet the candidates and learn more.
Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact:
Michael Carroll 706-207-2689 or
David Oppenheimer 706-652-2967
Hosted by
The Jackson County
Republican Party
Bring your family, friends and neighbors!