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PAGE 6 B 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. BOOK YOUR SUMMER PARTIES NOW! 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