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THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009 - PAGE 5A
FOOD Wive
Food Carriers
Commerce Post Office employees recently completed a food drive that
resulted in the collection of 1,200 pounds of food for local food banks. Left
to right are Chad McDuffie, Melba Miller, Lynn Fouche, Jan Sewell, Rhonda
Johnson, Melissa Prochnow, Rebecca Fonseca, Connie Oliver and Jason
Baugh.
EMC Backs Away From Coal Plant
The election of President
Obama and the ensuing
talk of heavier regulations,
including “cap and trade,"
has led Jackson EMC to
pull out of a group planning
to build a coal-fired power
plant in Middle Georgia.
“The uncertainty on coal-
fired plants and finance in
the credit markets meant a
high degree of risk we didn’t
want to place on our mem
bers," said JEMC president
and CEO Randall Pugh.
He said the JEMC board
voted in February to with
draw from the group of 10
EMCs that had been plan
ning to build the power
plant near Sandersville.
JEMC was the largest
member in the group. Four
EMCs have pulled out of
the project following last
year’s elections.
Pugh said a long-term
power agreement between
JEMC and a national ener
gy firm will expire in 2015
and planning for the facil
ity in Sandersville was part
of the firm’s replacement
options.
Other options are still on
the table, he said.
— Finding God In The ‘Bad Data’
Cont from Page 4A
day lives. And perhaps
this causes us to ignore
things that shouldn't be
ignored.
Here's an example:
suppose a very good
friend, who is abso
lutely trustworthy, tells
you he saw a ghost. His
story is clear, rational
and consistent and he
is obviously convinced
of its truth. But if you
are technically inclined,
and perhaps Republican,
ghosts just don't fit into
your world view and you
have to dismiss the story
as bad data. No doubt
your friend was halluci
nating or dreaming.
Or, suppose you read
an account (as I did
recently) of a very eru
dite man, an internation
ally known figure, who
had a near-death experi
ence. He found himself
sitting up in a hospi
tal bed, where he was
recovering from a very
serious operation, and
saw a dark cloth cover
ing the far end of the
room. Beside the cloth
were two "presences"
as he called them. They
spoke — not in words
but in some way that he
understood, and said,
"Everything is ready
now." He understood
that to mean that his
death was prepared for,
and it changed his life.
From that point on he
had no apprehensions
about his own death.
Again, this had to be
bad data, doesn't it? The
man's mind and body
were stressed; he was
probably under sedation.
It simply couldn't have
been what he thought
it was. Most scientists
would see it this way If
they accepted the event
at face value, it would
require a very long expla
nation — an explanation
that is not forthcoming.
But as any researcher
can tell you, the details
that don't fit — the bad
data — sometimes hold
the clue to an important
revelation. Someone said
"God is in the details,"
and perhaps he is also in
the bad data.
Willis Cook is a retired
electrical engineer who
was born in New Orleans
and grew up in the
Mississippi Delta. He
lives on Varner Road in
Franklin County.
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Laid Off In March, Keith
Everson Hired As WJMS Principal
By Kerri Testement
An assistant superinten
dent who was part of the
Jackson County School
System’s layoff plan will
soon take the helm as
principal of West Jackson
Middle School.
Keith Everson — assis
tant superintendent for
human resources and sup
port services — was the
lone administrator in the
school system’s layoff plan
that included the elimina
tion of 28 teaching and
non-teaching positions in
March.
But, superintendent
Shannon Adams con
firmed Friday that Everson
will become principal of
West Jackson Middle
School next school year.
The Jackson County
Board of Education must
approve the personnel
change when it meets
for its regular meeting
Monday, June 8.
“I’ve spoken with board
members and I don’t antici
pate there being a problem
with that recommendation,
so I was confident enough
to send out a systemwide
email that that would be
the case,” Adams said.
Everson previously
served as principal of
WJMS for five years before
being named the district’s
director of administrative
services.
When Everson left
WJMS, April Howard
became principal of the
school. She also later left
the school to become the
assistant superintendent
for teaching and learning
for the Jackson County
Relay For Life This Weekend
At E. Jackson Comprehensive
The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life will be held
in Jackson County beginning Friday night and continu
ing into Saturday morning May 29-30 at the East Jackson
Comprehensive High School track.
Survivors will arrive at 6 p.m., with a survivors’ ceremony
set for 7 p.m. A luminary service will be held at 9:30 p.m.
Entertainment will be ongoing throughout the night as
team members walk the track all night long.
School System.
Howard resigned from
that position in May to
become the director of
middle/secondary instruc
tion for the Jefferson City
School System, starting
July 1.
WJMS’s existing princi
pal — Rise Hawley — will
replace Howard as the
assistant superintendent
of teaching and learning
for the Jackson County
School System, effective
July 1, Adams said.
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