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Page 4 — Wednesday, May 27, 2009, The Millen News
Opinions, yours and ours
The Chatter Box
By Deborah Bennett
On Monday of this week, our nation celebrated Memorial Day. Lo
cally, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) hosted a dedication pro
gram for the Memorial Monument the organization recently placed on
the lawn of the Jenkins County Courthouse.
Another nice way to remember those who lost their lives in service
to our country is to support the ones who are presently serving in our
military.
Charlie Troop, 108 th Calvary Division, 4 th Platoon, has been deployed
to Afghanistan for a year. Donations are being sought for the troops.
Items needed include: letters or cards from “home” magazines, books,
cookies, candy, baby wipes, crackers, ramen noodles, DVD’s, lotions,
hand sanitizers, winter socks-black or green, gum, canned foods with
pop-tops, pens, note pads, envelopes, stamps, puzzle books, canned
cheese, hot chocolate packs, tea bags, plastic cutlery, paper plates, plastic
cups, shampoo, conditioner, chapstick, sun screen, Skin-so-Soft, beef
jerky, Vienna sausages, toothpaste, tooth brushes, dental floss and blan
kets or quilts.
Donations may be brought to Helen Boone in The Millen News build
ing at 856 Cotton Avenue.
The poll question on our website last week was, "Trustees of the
Social Security program said this week that Social Security will start
paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2016, and the
trust fund will be depleted by 2037. How worried are you about this
news?”
Responses, as of Friday, May 22, were as follows: Very Concemed-
15; Moderately Concerned - 3; Slightly Concerned - 1; and No Con
cerned - 3.
A reader comment on the matter was, “I am concerned because I
have grown children that would be affected by this.”
To participate in this week’s poll, go to http://
www.themillennews.com.
Happy birthday this week to: Tracy Herrington, Monica Weathersby,
Ashley Williams, David Clifton, Quinnie Lane, Leslie Rowland,
Jonathan Gay, Daniel McMillan, Cecelia Bragg Howell and Jon
Weathersby.
Military Active Duty List: Ronnie Perryman, Charlie Troop, 108 th
Calvary Division, 4 th Platoon, Afghanistan; Lance Cpl. Adam Lanier,
U.S. Marines, 8 th & I Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.; E-4 Sr.
Airman Roy Davis, U.S. Air Force, RAF Molesworth, United King
dom; Lance Cpl. Patrick Barnette, U.S. Marines, Twenty Nine Palms,
CA; Sgt. Adam Demshar, 44th Signal Battalion, Baghdad, haq; Cpl.
Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Camp Pendleton, CA; E5 Petty Officer
2 nd Class Eric B. Kelsey, U.S. Navy, NSA Naples, Italy; Senior Air
man Charles F. Woods, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA; Stuart
Burrus, U.S. Ah' Force, Barksdale AFB, Bossier, LA; SPC 4 Travis
D. Motes, 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas; Capt Donald Slade
Burke, 735thAir Mobility Squadron Detachment 1 Commander, Rich
mond Royal Australian AFB, Richmond, Australia; Staff Sgt Gilbert
C. Sheppard HI, 48th Brigade, 118th Field Artillery, Iraq; Petty Of
ficer 3rd Class Jamie A. Yager, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps Base Ha
waii; Petty Chief Officer Andy D. Crosby, U.S. Navy, Elroy De
stroyer, Norfolk, Va.; Stephanie Crosby, R.N., U.S. Navy, Lafayette
Destroyer; Jimmy Cooper, U.S. Army National Guard, 878th Engi
neering Battalion-Augusta, Persian Gulf ; 1st Lt. J.R. Taylor, 2nd
Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Iraq; SPC. Daniel
Stuart, 18thMEDCOM, 121 General Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Jeffrey
Sweat, U.S. Navy, USS Kaufffnan, MM3 59/E-Division, A-Gang, Nor
folk, Va.; Cpl. Larry Lamont Clark, U.S. Marine Corp, 2nd Marine
Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Bagdad, Iraq; Khan Young,
U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, Persian Gulf; Robert Milton Jr., E-3,
U.S. Army, Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Ga., Mission Kuwait; Arnold R.
Mosley, 2nd Lt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas; and Debra A.
Mosley, Tech. Sgt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas; and SPC
Charles “C.J.” Amerson, U.S. Army, Camp Adder, Iraq.
Letter to the Editor
We have heard several testi
monials that this truly “made a
difference in their lives and in
future decisions that they will
make.”
With grateful hearts,
Sumer Holloway
’09 Prom Chair, JCHS
Ruth Hearn
Counselor, JCHS
Jim Hite
Dear Editor,
As most of you know, a mock
car crash took place at Jenkins
County High School (JCHS) on
Thursday, April 16. The purpose
of this activity was to ensure the
safety of our students on Prom
night. The success of this event
was a direct result of some very
helpful individuals from this
community.
The mock accident would not
have occurred without these in
dividuals who took time out of
their busy schedules to organize
the events that took place on the
day of the crash, at no cost to our
school or county! Bob Fields,
Dwayne Herrington, Henry
Young, Robert Oglesby and staff
are greatly appreciated by our
school and commended for their
contribution to JCHS and the
community of Millen. Slade
Holloway was responsible for
bringing and staging the cars for
the mock accident also. We thank
each of you for the powerful
impact you made on the lives of
our students and faculty!
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A SALUTE TO THE JROTC OF JCHS
Last week’s Millen News presented a summary of the results
in national competition by the Eagle Color Guard (third) and
Drill Team (4 th ) along with pictures of the presentation of the
many awards won by JROTC members.
And what a JROTC we have at Jenkins County High School
(JCHS)!
Not only is there Color Guard and Drill Team, there is also a
program within the JROTC called the Raiders, a team competi
tion that includes Cross Country rescue (carrying a stretcher over
a mile-long hilly, muddy, and wet obstacle course) and a rope
bridge competition in which a team must cross water 60-100’
wide on a rope bridge the team itself installs. There are two- and
five-mile team runs.
In Raider competition, the Eagles finished fourth in Georgia,
eighth in the nation.
These competitions require a tremendous amount of dedica
tion and most of all discipline. As is true in all competitions, it is
the training and preparation that leads to final success. There are
no short cuts. There is classroom work, there is outside work.
There are study, drills, and marching. There is the demand of
proper dress. There is the demand that grades be kept up in order
to remain in the program.
Yet Jenkins County JROTC is one of the NATION’S best. Re
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member, this unit from a Class A school competes against schools
with as many as 4000 students, maybe larger, from across the
country. In Georgia, the Eagles were in front of schools up to
class AAAAA.
The Color Guard presents the colors at the Millen Milers and
More-hosted Georgia Cross Country championship held in No
vember at Magnolia Springs. And as Joyce and I follow her sons’
football teams across the state on fall Fridays and watch other
schools’ Color Guards present the colors, not one does it as well
as our own JCHS JROTC.
It is obvious that such a fantastic program is not possible with
out leadership. This is a relatively new program and its success
is due to the leadership of Command Sergeant Major Hayward
Thompson and Colonel Ken Wade. All of us who take pride in
our young people, who take pride in their accomplishments, owe
a debt of gratitude to the leadership of Sergeant Thompson and
Colonel Wade.
May I say on behalf of all of us: We salute you!
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