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 [...]
Read More →The Albany Journal Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22
Tweet A stranger at Subway just politely told me that I have cream od broccoli soup in my beard. My wife would not be proud. #
Read More →A century of living right Mary Taylor
Tweet Longevity in itself is fine, but the real point of living right is the love, and Mary Bass Fitzgerald Taylor, my grandmother, is a solid example of not only a long life, but a loving one. On Nov. 8, she turned 100. To celebrate, family came from all over, some of whom I’d never [...]
Read More →What-Cha Say, Albany?
Tweet THE CITY SHOULD REPEAL Lajuana Woods’ business license until all the money she took from ADICA is repaid. So, what’s up with the repayment plan she worked out? FOOD AT L’JUA’S IS great – and GREAT service. The servers are very nice, very fast to serve, always smiling. I think L’Jaua’s will be around [...]
Read More →Albanians Eat More Chicken
Tweet catch phrase at Albany’s Chic-Fil-A drive thru. Then again, this isn’t your typical fast food restaurant. Here, patrons are more likely to hear, “See you tomorrow!” Happy customers are return customers and that’s exactly what has put the Albany store in the top three across the nation in terms of cost efficiency and profitability. [...]
Read More →Computer Antivirus Protection is essential
Tweet Each week in this column I answer your technology questions in a way that hopefully makes your life easier and your interaction with techie things less complicated. Sometimes your unspoken questions seem more important to me than the spoken ones. Let me explain. For example, clients bring me PCs with various ailments that they [...]
Read More →Put the pen down, ADICA
Tweet And this group is still meeting to decide how to spend millions of our dollars? You have got to be kidding me. It is one of three things; the powers that really run things downtown are either corrupt, ignorant, or apathetic. Actually, I believe it is all three. The Albany-Dougherty Inner City Authority will be using their [...]
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