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Louise Jones and Dot Willis recently presented two ceiling fans to Kolomoki Mounds State Park superintendent Matt Bruner as a gift from the Pilot Club of Blakely. After visiting the park last spring, members of the Pilot Club noticed a need for a new ceiling fan in one of the pavilions. It was brought before the club and voted on unanimously to purchase the fans. More ... If you are already a print subscriber to the Early County News the only thing you have to do to get your FREE online subscription started at earlycountynews. com is send us an email message to ecnews@windstream. net including the password you want to use to login. More ... For many years, my mother, bless her heart, has instructed my brother and me on exactly what we’re supposed to do when she’s no longer with us. More ... Anybody got any strings they can pull? It would be nice if we could give them a yank and expedite the funding of the final leg of the four laning of U.S. 27. Word is the DOT is planning to push completion of the stretch between Blakely and Cuthbert back to 2016 or 2017. More ... We participated in trick or treating this year, not as tricksters but as treaters. It’s been a long time since I’ve doled out candy to costumed kids and it wasn’t half bad. More ... Stories like this turn me absolutely green with envy. It’s probably a guy thing. Most men couldn’t fix a dead car engine if their lives depended on it. And most would give anything if they could. I’m one of them. I come by my ignorance of internal combustion honestly. When I was a kid, my dad never worked on the family car, and neither did I. More ... Politicians are often accused of “putting the fox in charge of the hen house” — of giving someone with a vested interest in an issue control over how that issue is resolved. More ... “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.” — George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3. More ... The finale for the recent Calhoun County Relay for Life was Friday, Oct. 16 at the Calhoun County football field. A large crowd was on hand for games, food and fellowship. Many booths were set up around the field selling food and other items, and all proceeds went to the American Cancer Society. More ... James “Whistle” Summerset brought this bunch of sweet potatoes by our office the past week. He grew these at his home in Hentown and dug them up Oct. 23. More ... Daily Events Nov. 9 — Rhythm band practice - 10:30-11:30. Lunch: Pepper steak and brown gravy, winter mix, glazed yams, wheat roll, fresh fruit. More ... |
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