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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2008
Family vacations in Florida
News From
Poplar
Springs
By Willene
Parson Boyle
Julie and Mitch Davenport,
along with Clayton Martin and
other family members, enjoyed
last week on the beach in Florida.
They returned home on Saturday.
They all had a great time.
Those in our community who
are overseas fighting or state
side being trained to defend
our country include: Pvt. Nathon
Bagwell, who is in the hospital in
Augusta after being injured over
seas; Gary Hogman, who is in Iraq;
Jason Ledford; Sgt. TJ. Brookshire,
U.S. Consult, Cheng Du, China,
4080, Cheng Du Place, Dulles, Va.
20189; Kyle Delaigle, who is back
stateside; David McWhorter, Seoul,
South Korea; John Groves III, near
Iraq; Clint Medlock Navy station
in Va.; Timothy Reems near Iraq,
Richard Davenport serving in Iraq;
Kyle Pilgrim; Russell Cantrell;
Shawn McClure; Sgt. Amanda
Justus, a sergreant with the 178
Aviation at Dobbins Air Force Base;
Matthew Sutton; Justin Johnston;
David Puttnum; Alex Head; Tiffany
Sorrows, serving in Iraq; James
Sullivan, who is in the Army serv
ing in Iraq; and Mark Sullivan Jr.,
a Marine who is serving back state
side. Call me if you know of oth
ers who are serving in the Armed
Forces, and please remember them
and their families when you pray.
Those who are sick in our commu
nity include many who have cancer
and need our prayers. Those on the
sick list are: Pvt. Nathon Bagwell,
Barbara Sue Holcomb, Kenneth
Parson, Carolyn Standridge, Julie
Davenport, James “Shorty” Bellotte,
Stephanie Randolph, Ray Bellamy,
Robert Wood, Cindy Hogman,
Erika Barker, Gracie Turpin,
the Rev. Leon Brown of North
Carolina, Mildred Garrison, Perry
Smith, Horace Whitfield, Penny
McClure, David Dunson, David
Campbell, Mae Chitwood Smith,
Ruth Evans, Dristan Tyndell, Trinity
Brown, Juno and Bobbi Samples,
Cranford Smith, David Smith, Ruby
Nix, Roy Broome, Royce Jones,
Steve Fattig, the Rev. Leroy Burns,
Blanch Burns, Odell Wade, Zine
Bell Wade, Claudette Griffin, Loy
Palmer, Allene Montgomery, Wayne
Holcomb, Joshua Thomas, Dennie
Maxwell, Karen Adkins, Angie
Roach, Henry Galloway, Mrs. Bobby
Blackwell, Mary Sims, Darian
Gray, Jerri Gray, Frank Cronic, Dan
Tomlin, Jerry Poole, Greg Baker,
Cidney Wilson, Jeremy Gaddis,
Johnny Westbrook, Tommy Gray
of Cornelia, Jerry Carlan, Luther
Campbell, Echo Evans, Carol Dean
Beck, Johnnie Dalton, Allan Poe of
Commerce, Chad Standridge, Scott
McClure, Winford Baker, the Rev.
Jerry Smith, Coy Marlow, Betty
Griffin, Bennie Jackson, Clifford
Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, William
Wilson, Christine Chitwood, Johnny
Smallwood, Eddie Borders, Pauline
Arfin, Crystal Medlock, Joann
Broome, Michelle McClure, Mary
Bell Echols and J.R. Boswell,
Remember our family when you
pray. If you know others who are
sick, please call me so I can add
their name to our prayer list.
Happy birthday to: Rickey Cain,
Robby Turpin, Richard Standridge,
Dennis Shirley, Kim Mathis, Luke
Brady and Sean Ledford.
Happy anniversary to Paul and
Sarah Carlan.
CASA training planned for June 9
Training for volunteers in the
Court Appointed Special Advocates
(CASA) program will begin June 9.
The training lasts three weeks.
“You will feel satisfaction in help
ing a foster child get a safe and
permanent home," said Annette
Raymond, executive director.
For more information, contact
Raymond at 706-387-6375.
BCHS CLASS OF 1958 HOLD REUNION
The Banks County High School Class of 1958 held its 50-year class reunion May 17 at the First
Georgia Banking Company Community Room, Homer. Twenty-one of the 50 class members
attended. Pictured are: (front row) Joel Dailey, Jeanette Mealor Chambers, Barbara McWhorter
Richardson, Yvonne White Chrisman, Jackie Mabry Frankum, Jeanette Whitfield Williams, Bobby
Martin and Betty Osborne Bohannon; (second row) Jack Queen, Faye Lecroy Norton, Peggy
Samples Tingle, Reba Eubanks McClure, Cecelia Edwards Martin, Catherine Welborn Jones and
Betty Smith Sims; and (third row) Wiley Sanders, Morgan Edwards, Swayne Carlan, Jack P. Nix,
teacher, Sonny McDonald, Willis Welborn and Gerald Mason.
Lynn headed
to Iraq Friday
PFC Christopher Keith Lynn,
Commerce, son of Ralph and
Michelle Lynn, Athens, will be
deployed to Iraq from Ft. Hood
Texas on Friday.
He is the grandson of Thelma Lynn
and Sylvia McDonald, Commerce.
His wife, Bonnie, will live in
Commerce during his deployment.
Group to include Commerce Muslim camp in documentary
A group that wants a Muslim orga
nization with a camp near Commerce
declared a terrorist organization
plans to shoot video footage in the
Muslims of America camp.
The Christian Action Network,
Forest Park, Va., is preparing what
it calls a documentary entitled,
“Homegrown Jihad: the Terrorist
Camps Around Us.”
Project leader Jason Campbell said
he hopes to “pull together about 20
hours of original footage that will be
edited along with content from gov
ernment and media sources.” It will
present infonnation it believes ties
Muslims of America to Jamaat ul-
Fuqra terrorists and past violence.
The “Commerce" camp is located
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,” Campbell said in a news
release.
His plan is to ask Muslim of
America residents for their com
ments after viewing a video pro
duced by Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani
of Pakistan.
“I am very interested in finding
out what these Muslims 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 Gilani has
instructed," Campbell said.
The news release said the final
product, “Homegrown Jihad," will
be edited for viewing by a “U.S.
House of Representatives 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 outsiders to visit the
camps - “Muslims of America vil
lages 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 cameraman was assaulted.
The Christian Action Network’s
goal “is to protect America’s reli
gious and moral heritage through
intensive lobbying efforts - both
in the nation’s capital and at the
grassroots level,” according to its
founder, Martin Mawyer. Its initia-
tives include attempts to “protect”
marriage, opposition 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-pres
idential candidate Hillary Clinton
was a lesbian, according to Darrell
M. West of Brown University, who
posts “Inside Politics” at www.
insidepolitics.org.
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