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Page 4 — Wednesday, October 5,2011, The Millen News
Opinions, yours and ours
The Chatter Box
By Deborah Bennett
The annual Fair-on-the-Square. sponsored by Millen Better Home
town, was another huge success. The crowd was large, the food deli
cious, the entertainment great, the parade exciting and the arts and
crafts booths varied and worthy of browsing.
Kudos to all involved in the event!
The Millen News will publish a special edition on Wednesday, Nov.
9. honoring our local veterans and active duty service men and women.
Please send us photos of veterans in their uniforms, if possible, along
with their name, branch of service and date of service. Also, note if it
is in “memory” or “honor” of the veteran. There is no charge for this,
and your photos will be returned. You may e-mail photos and infor
mation to: themillennews@yahoo.com. Please send the photo as a
separate jpeg file attached to your e-mail. You may also mail photos
and information to: PO. Box 909, Millen, GA 30442.
Advertisers, individuals and groups who would like to send a mes
sage to our veterans thanking them for their service may take out an
advertisement for $35. Add $7.50 if you want to use a photo with your
message. Messages and photos should be e-mailed to:
lavonnad@thetruecitizen.com. You may also mail your information
to: PO. Box 909, Millen, GA 30442
The deadline for submitting material is Thursday, Oct. 27.
Happy birthday this week to: Lula Mock, David Thompson, Howard
Siebert, Shirley Herrmann, Kim B. Garvin, Johnny Thomas, Harold
Moore, Jay Bowers, Shirline Dudley, the Rev. James Jackson, Jody
Bowers, Gail Bassett and Nancy Blanchard.
Celebrating wedding anniversaries are: Mr. and Mrs. Midge Chance
and Mr. and Mrs. Dana Edenfield.
Military Active Duty List: E-5 SSgt Roy T. Davis Jr.. U.S. Air
Force, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom; Spc. Jeremy Allen
Johnson, U.S. Army, 59 th Quartermaster, Afghanistan; Spc. Joe Boone,
U.S. Army. 877 th Engineers, Afghanistan; Akeam Williams Sr.. U.S.
Army, Afghanistan; 1LT Justin Grey McBride, U.S. Army, 1st Battal
ion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rdAirbome Brigade Combat Team,
Vicenza, Italy; Lt. Col. James E. Davis, U.S. Air Force, Department Of
Defense Inspector General's Office, Pentagon; Sgt. Darcelyn M.
Kimbro, U.S. Army, Fort Gordon. Augusta,; Specialist Jeremy Johnson,
U.S. Army, 59th Quartermaster Company, Ft. Carson. Colorado; Cpl.
Adam T. Lanier, 2 nd Marine Division, 2 nd Bt. 6 th Marine Regiment,
Weapons Co., Scout Sniper Platoon, Afghanistan; Cpl. Patrick Barnette,
U.S. Marines, 29 Palms, California; Sgt. Adam Demshar, 44th Signal
Battalion, Baghdad, Iraq; Cpl. Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Camp
Pendleton, CA; E5 Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric B. Kelsey, U.S. Navy,
NS A Naples, Italy; Senior Airman Charles F. Woods, Moody Air Force
Base, Valdosta, GA; Stuart Burrus, U.S. Air Force, Shaw AFB, Sumter,
S.C.; SPC 4 Travis D. Motes. 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas;
Capt. D. Slade Burke, U.S. Air Force, 451 ELRS/LGRA/Flight Com
mander, Kandahar Airfield. Afghanistan; Staff Sgt. Gilbert C. Sheppard
III, 48th Brigade, 118th Field Artillery, Iraq; Chief Petty Officer Andy
D. Crosby. U.S. Navy, Elroy Destroyer, Norfolk, Va.; Stephanie Crosby,
R.N., U.S. Navy, Lafayette Destroyer; Jimmy Cooper. U.S. Army Na
tional Guard, 878th Engineering Battalion-Augusta, Persian Gulf ;
1st Lt. J.R. Taylor. 25th Infantry Division, Schafield Barracks, Oahu.
Honolulu, Hawaii; SPC. Daniel Stuart, 18thMEDCOM, 121 General
Hospital, Seoul. Korea; Jeffrey Sweat, U.S. Navy, USS Kauffman.
MM3 59/E-Division, A-Gang, Norfolk, Va.; Cpl. Larry Lamont Clark,
U.S. Marine Corp. 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune,
N.C. Baghdad, Iraq; Khan Young. U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, Per
sian 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 DebraA. Mosley, Tech. Sgt., U.S. Air Force,
Randolph AFB, Texas; and Staff Sgt. Charles “CJ.” Amerson, U.S.
Army, Afghanistan.
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FOOTBALL INSIDE?
It seems that football season crept up and started before I had
a chance to notice. High schools are in their fifth or sixth week,
colleges in their fourth, pros well underway.
Watching the Steelers-Jets on TV last Nov. 26,1 made a note
about the game conditions and stuck it in a file.
Found it a couple of weeks ago.
The game was played in horrendous conditions. Rain, cold,
re-sodden grass tom up by the end of the first half, yard lines
gone, ball never dry, uniforms black with mud.
In short, perfect conditions for football!
Unlike Georgia and the South, northern football enjoys few
warm afternoons and nights. By September’s end, Friday nights
are often cold and even wet. By November, snow and frozen turf
are not uncommon.
I love that such horrendous conditions do not stop a football
game. Francis Wallace, in his 1950s book Dementia Pigskin,
writes that when the rains come, baseball players head to the
dugouts, golfers to the locker rooms, and tennis players cover
their rackets and do the same.
Football players play on!
You’ve seen November and December games on TV from
Green Bay and Chicago. Vendors sell little ice cold Coke!
I remember a couple of games from back in the 1950s, one a
Browns-Lions game at the old Lakefront Stadium in Cleveland
with temperatures in the teens and winds roaring off Lake Erie
and swirling snow in high velocity circles, the other in wind and
snow at the University of Toledo with single digit temperatures
as Toledo and Ironton fought for a minor league pro champion
ship.
Most football games are still played outside, of course. High
schools for sure, colleges with the exception of Syracuse, and
maybe a couple more and most pro teams.
This brings me to the point of this column, a real change that
has come to football over the past few decades.
Some pro teams do not play home games outside. They play
inside in air conditioned comfort, Joyce’s beloved Manning-led
Colts and our Falcons included. We have attended games in the
Georgia Dome and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. I grant
that it is still football and when Peyton is at the helm, played at
its highest level.
Side point: sure do miss him!
However, and this is a purely personal opinion, indoor foot
ball seems somewhat antiseptic and almost surreal. Real grass
can’t even grow. The game is played on perfectly flat plastic.
The yard lines remain clear and bright and straight. There are no
holes, no slipping on mud, no wet footballs, no wind; uniforms
stay clean.
Good gracious!!
Football is made to be played on grass whether on a vacant lot,
playground, or Limbaugh Stadium and Soldier Field. Football
is outdoors, sun, stars, wind, rain, snow and ice.
OK, the last two not around here!
But you get my point.
Enjoy the rest of the season!
Library News
By Sharon Blank
The library will be closed on Monday, Oct. 10, for staff
training. We will reopen Tuesday at our usual time.
Ever wonder about your ancestors? Want to trace your family
tree, but not sure how to go about it? Come to our genealogy
workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. and leam about the great
resources available to dig up your family roots and discover new
techniques to find out your family history! This great free work
shop is open to everyone and will be led by genealogy expert
Sharon Rowe.
We would like to congratulate our bookmobile specialist Bar
bara Gilbert on 30 years of service to the people of Screven and
Jenkins counties! She has been officially working for the library
system, driving the bookmobile, since Oct, 1, 1971. Thank you,
Barbara, for your many years of service to the people of Screven
and Jenkins counties!
Wednesdays are wonderful at the library! Every Wednesday at
4 p.m. we have our fun storytimes for preschool and elementary
aged children. Kids get to listen to a story and do a craft related to
the story. It’s a ton of fun, so bring your kids and help them learn
to love reading!
The Jenkins County Library Board will be meeting at 10:30
a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Jenkins County Memorial
Library. The Screven-Jenkins Regional Library Board will be
meeting at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Screven County
Memorial Library. The public is welcome to attend these meet
ings.
Want the news on the latest happenings at the library? Head to
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