MONTICELLO CONNECTION AT FLIGHT ATTENDANT GRADUATION Last week on Thursday, Nov. 20, my nephew, Nathan Mahan, graduated from Delta Airlines as a flight attendant. The class is a seven-week course and it as close to “boot camp” that I can imagine, 10+ hour days. He called me the second day he was at school and…
JEREMIAH DAVE CARRIES FOR COUGARS Piedmont Academy’s football team is now one step away from its ultimate goal for the 2014 season. The Cougars defeated visiting Monsignor Donovan 38-27 last Friday and are now preparing for the GISA Class AA state title game against Memorial Day. The championship contest will be played at Mercer University…
Jasper Superior Court had some heavy court traffic this week with Judge Hugh Wingfield, III presiding over the trial calendar on Monday and Judge E. Trenton Brown, III presiding over Tuesday’s motion day. Judge Wingfield had just under 90 cases on his docket to review Monday but more than a third of those cases were…
Beatrice Taylor “Bixie” Weems Pearson, age 63, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, at her residence. Bixie, also lovingly known as “Bebe” by her granddaughter, was born in Carrollton, Ga., to the late Walter Collquit Weems and Helen Fisher Weems. She was a graduate of the University of Georgia and received her masters’ degree from Lincoln…
Lenton Gainey, fondly known as “Uncle Bud” to his family and friends died November 8, 2014. He was born March 23, 1920, to the parentage of the late Ebb and Bertha Johnson Gainey. He was educated at King’s Chapel A.M.E. Church school where at an early age he joined the church. He was taught by…
Members of the Jasper County School Board heard from faculty at Jasper County High School (JCHS) and representatives from the Boys and Girls Club during their business meeting Tuesday. Robyn Mullis, JCHS principal addressed board members beginning with the high school’s mission statement which includes “delivering effective instruction and remediation within a safe environment, so…
Gallup did a survey this summer. It asked people how much confidence they had in various institutions. According to the survey, only seven percent of Americans said they trusted Congress a great deal or quite a lot, compared with 29 percent who trusted the presidency. Small business, on the other hand, came in second, with…
Hello, Monticello! Tomorrow is World Hello Day. And why not? There’s a day for everything else. Hello is an English word known almost world wide. To officially participate in World Hello Day, you are required to say “Hello” to at least 10 people that day. Each time you answer the telephone be it using a…
In the last chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Paul ends his letter with a machine gun style rattling off of instructions. Without elaborating with explanation, he simply states some things to do. Included in this succinct list are the following verses: 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is…
I’ Fixin’ To Play Dead (Part 25). The blue flashing lights in the rear view mirror were closing fast and I had to do something. With no driver’s license or identification of any kind, the state trooper would probably lock me up, and eventually it would be discovered that I wasn’t really dead after all.…