Mayor’s motorcade deadline is Dec. 9, 2009
Tweet For 51 years, cities across Georgia have brought the joy of the holiday season to patients at Georgia’s regional mental health and mental retardation hospitals through the Mayors’ Christmas Motorcade. The program, begun in 1958 by the Georgia Municipal Association in cooperation with then Governor Ernest Vandiver, relies on citizen participation in each city [...]
Read More →Government already taking over medicine
Tweet Don’t wear a pink ribbon during breast cancer awareness month next October, Congressman Bishop. You didn’t just vote for a government takeover of medicine, you celebrated it with parties at your district offices. Less than one week later, we see what life will be like under your plan. An Obama administration task force just [...]
Read More →What are you doing with your talent?
Tweet I am often amazed at how we so easily bury the gifts and talents that God has given us. When I think about the many people who go to jobs day after day that they can’t stand; how they work in areas that they were not called to; how they allow their jobs to [...]
Read More →Church Briefs
Tweet Nov. 21 Baker County Assembly of God Church will host a gospel sing at 6 p.m. featuring The End Time Singers from Bainbridge. Info: (229) 734-4347). A great night of gospel music is on tap beginning at 7 at the Spence Field Maule Pilot Lounge, 2099 Georgia Hwy.133, Moultrie. The featured artists are In [...]
Read More →An awesome pancake day for Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County
Tweet Kiwanians Dr. Larry Perkins (left) and Bob Fowler get things going on the pancake griddle at the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County’s annual breakfast. The down-home aroma of pancakes on the large, specially-made griddle and sizzling sausage and bacon wafted tantalizingly through the air at the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County’s annual pancake breakfast [...]
Read More →Albany housekeeper wins a tidy $280,000
Tweet An Albany housekeeper is celebrating a “tidy” Georgia Lottery win. Belinda Gilliard, 43, matched all five winning numbers in the Nov. 10 Fantasy 5 drawing and won $280,127. Gilliard purchased her jackpot ticket at June Bug’s Grocery, 1905 S. Madison St., Albany. “I went by the store to pick up a printout of the [...]
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