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The ew Sixth Streetbridge, which wasorigially slated to

ope last October, will soobe ready or use, as repairsrom a cotractors mistakeear completio.

Accordig to the GeorgiaDepartmet o Trasporta-tio (DOT) District Egieer

Thomas Howell, the prob-lem delay resulted rom atoo-thi layer o cocrete,reerred to as the shy cov-er, that was applied by E.R.Sell Cotractor.

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Last week in pictures: (clockwiserom top) Participants in the MLK Jr. Parade through downtownGrin on Monday, January 21; 2012 General Grin David Lamb withWalter Jones, Sr, who was named 2012 Cit izen o the Year and the2013 General Grin at t he 100th Annual Grin-Spalding CountyChamber o Commerce Awards Banquet; the new Kroger on Hwy 16had their ribbon cutting ceremony on January 23 and is ocially openor business (photo credit: Taurus Freeman, Director o Planning andDevelopment City o Grin).

Oops! Our apologies to Blair Toombs o Breaking TraditionPhotography, who took the photo o the Zombie Socks Series guys(and ladies) that ran on our ront page o the Jan. 10 issue anddid not receive proper photo credit. We also apologize to TerryHuddleston and the Adult Literacy Program, who was shown

receiving a check rom Central Georgia EMC. We incorrectlyidentied the organization as Spalding County Ferst Foundation.--- We strive or complete accuracy in all o our content, but sincewe're human we're bound to make mistakes. I you'd like to let usknow about one or more o them, please email jessica@the-grip.

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Soldier KIA during KoreanWar to return home at last

Sixth Street Bridge shouldopen within one week

Image: Sheila Marshall

As the teeage yearsapproach, may par-ets d themselves

o a bumpy road lled withagst. For Aaro ad Mela-ie Morris, the parets o12-year-old Matthew Mor-ris, however, lie has recet-ly become ot a bumpyroad, but a joyous rollercoaster ride with their soat the helm.

It all bega i earest iDecember whe Matthewasked his parets I his am-ily could sposor a child othe Salvatio Armys Agel

Tree. Aaro ad Melaieagreed, but what they dis-covered ext was shockigto them all.

Whe we saw the A-gel Tree, it was just so sad,Melaie Morris said. It wasliterally white, coveredwith childre. He couldtbelieve they weret ask-ig just or toys; they wereaskig or uderwear adsocks.

Matthews reactio was

oe o sorrow, he said,brigig him to his keesi tears.

He immediately askedi they could select moretha oe child, but hismom explaied they wereot i a positio aciallyto do so.

Arrivig home, Mela-ie said her so wet tohis bedroom, but sooemerged with a pla thathas chaged all their livesi ways oe o themimagied.

Matthew approachedhis mom ad dad ad a-ouced he had compriseda list o his belogigs he

wated to sell i order toraise more moey to spo-sor more childre o theAgel Tree.

Melaie said she ad herhusbad were shocked,ad iitially attempted togetly persuade him to re-cosider.

We just wated to besure he uderstood that ihe did this, oce his thigswere goe, they were

ThreeSixFive: Giving to those in need year roundSHEILA A. MARSHALL :::Editor; [email protected]

I had lost hope.

I didnt think hewould ever becoming home... Itwas the most over-whelming thingIve ever heard.

-- Charlie Byarsabout the return ofhis brother, Bobby(pictured right)

The city o Gri Board o Commissioers (BoC) re-cetly selected Joae Todd to serve as mayor orthe upcomig year.

Todd was ot the oly ame metioed or the positio,however, as Commissioer Doug Hollberg was also omi-ated or the positio by Commissio Rya McLemore.

Oce the oor was closed or omiatios, McLemoreasked i the mayors positio, also the BoC chairmaship,was ot a hoorary oe that should be shared amogstthe board members.

I do have special reasos or watig to be chairma thisyear, ad it has to do with beig o the

Todd serves again as Grin mayorSHEILA A. MARSHALL ::: Editor; [email protected]

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Read more o the Byars amily story on p. 2

The Free ThoughtSociety o Spald-ig ad Fayette

couties, alog with thePeachtree City Humaists,are sposorig a lectureo evolutio that coicideswith Darwi Day the timemay who believe i evolu-tio celebrated the birth-day o Charles Darwi.

The evet will be held at6:30 p.m. Feb. 2, at the Hil-to Garde I, located iPeachtree City, ad will ea-ture as keyote speaker Dr.Jerry Coye, a evolutio-ary biologist.

Coye, a proessor i the

Free Thought Societyto observe DarwinDay with scienticlecture on evolution

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Matthew Morris, the 12-year-old Grin boy who is the driving orcebehind the ThreeSixFive Foundation, is seen with just one o thebags o Christmas gits he purchased in support o the SalvationArmy's Angel Tree project. Altogether, he ully provided Christmasor 10 local children in need.


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here are mometsi our lives that areuorgettable we

will always remember ex-actly where we were adwhat we were doig whethese evets take place.

For Charlie Byars, Dec. 7,1950, was such a day theday he leared his brother,Bobby Byars, oly 18-years-old, was missig i actiodurig the Korea War.

Ill ever orget it. I was13-years-old ad i theeighth grade at Gri Ju-ior High School, he said. Ica remember it just like itwas yesterday. I was i Mr.Grady Doaldsos wood-workig class. I saw thesherif come i ad talk toMr. Doaldso, ad the

he told us to tur the ma-chies of.His teacher the called

him to the rot o theclassroom, where the sher-if spoke the words thatwould orever chage hislie.

He said that Bobby wasmissig i actio ad that Ieeded to get home to bewith my parets, CharlieByars recouted. You caimagie what that was like.

They were icosolable, es-pecially my mother.

He said his amily kewwhere Bobby had last beerom his most recet letter the Yalu River, preparigto eter Machuria.

It was at that time, Charliesaid, whe Chiese troopsmoved i to support northKorea orces, drivig U.S.soldiers back to north Ko-rea.

It was a massacre, hesaid. Out o all the hu-dreds o troops, I believeoly 37 made it back.

Over the days, weeks,moths ad years that ol-lowed, Charlie Byars saidhis mother always kewher so would come home.

My daddy died i 1964,ad mama died i 1972,but the last thig she saidto me was, Bobbys go-ig to come home. I kowshe meat he was goig tocome home alive. He didt

make it home alive, but heis comig home, he said.This is such a blessig orour amily.

Charlie Byars said he wasotied Dec. 26 that hisbrothers remais would atlast be returig to his sur-

vivig amily i Gri.I had lost hope. I didt

thik he would ever becomig home, he said.I broke dow like youwouldt believe. It was themost overwhelmig thigIve ever heard. It was sad,but I rejoiced, too.

He said may soldiersremais were returedto the Uited States bynorth Korea i 1993, whichis whe he ad Bobbysolder brother, Bud Byars,each were asked to pro-vide blood or DnA testig,which has bee ogoigsice that time.

We got word the day a-ter Christmas that eougho Bobbys remais hadbee idetied that theycould sed him home, hesaid. There were 208 crateswith 1,000 bodies. Theyoud Bobbys remais isix o those crates. I have

more aith ow i the mili-tary tha I ever did beore.They say o ma let be-hid ad they mea it.

Bobby Byars remais willarrive i Atlata Feb. 14,ad a celebratio o his liewill take place at 11 a.m.Saturday, Feb. 16, at OakHill Baptist Church, aterwhich he will be laid to resti the Veteras Cemeteryat Oak Hill.

I would just like to kowthat hes celebrated orwhat he is a Americahero, Charile Byars said. Hegave his lie or this coutry,as did may others. Theyshould ever be orgotte.

goe. He wast goig toget all this stuf back orChristmas, she said.

Matthew was resolutei his decisio, so he wasallowed to begi postigphotos o his possessios

o Facebook. Although heiitially had oly a esti-mated 25 rieds o thesocial media site, primarilyamily ad school rieds,oce word o what he wasdoig became kow, thatumber quickly grew toexceed 300, at which timehis parets created a ewpage, Matthews ChristmasList.

He oud a purpose ithis beyod social media,Melaie said.

Ater receivig maymessages askig why hewas doig this, Matthewlmed a YouTube video,i which he tearully ex-plaied the purpose o his

auctio to sale his belog-igs. The video has beeviewed worldwide, with theamily hearig rom peopleacross the Uited Statesad as removed rom Gri- as Thailad.

Oce the Gri commu-ity leared o Matthewsgoal, his auctio umbersrose ad doatios pouredi, so much so that his origi-al goal was ar surpassed.At the ed o Christmas day,the rst child selected romthe Agel Tree was oly oeo 10 icludig oe amilywith six childre who re-ceived ot oly a ew o theitems o their wish lists, but

more tha they asked or.As or Matthew, he also

received what he hoped tod uder his amilys tree a harmoica.

I wodered i he would besad o Christmas morig,but he wast, Melaie said.Istead, he said, This is so

great! I bet all those kids arehavig a great Christmas!Matthews happiess was

soo abated, however, be-cause he kew that thesechildres eeds did oted o Dec. 25.

It was just the act thatthey were askig or socksad uderwear. They werehavig to ask or daily e-cessities, he said.

With that i mid, theThreeSixFive Foudatiowas bor.

Basically, [it works] just tohelp people year roud, hesaid. We took somethigad made it somethigbrad ew. We had a brai-

stormig sessio ad hada board meetig a weeklater.

Aaro ad Melaie Mor-ris are ow i the processo seekig 501(c)3 desiga-tio, which will allow the

ThreeSixFive Foudatio to

uctio as a oprot or-gaizatio.He wats to help kids

ot oly at Christmas, but365 days a year, Melaieexplaied. He said, Every-body helps kids at Christ-mas. Its easy to get them tohelp kids at Christmas, butthey eed help throughoutthe year.

While his parets arehadlig the legal aspecto such a udertakig,Matthew has busied him-sel with plaig the extevet or local childre ieed Matthews BirthdayBash which will be a cel-ebratio ot or himsel, but

rather a birthday party orthe kids he has bee calledto serve.

Already scheduled to beheld i April at Gri SkateI, doatios cotiue topour i, as well as calls romthose who wat to helpMatthew i his eforts.

May people are help-ig to put that together. Icouldt do it without thoseguys, Matthew said o hisgrowig team o volu-teers. Everybodys take asecod out o their day tohelp with everythig, ad Icouldt be more grateul.He said he is particularlythakul or the supportad ecouragemet he hasreceived rom his parets.I dot kow how they doit, he said. Its still a mys-tery to me.

Although he is deter-mied to help as maychildre as possible, he ac-kowledges that this pathwill chage his lie, as well.

Hoestly, I thik its go-ig to make me a betterperso, Matthew said. Ikew stuf like this was go-ig o all over the world,but I didt kow the eedwas so drastic.

Asked what he would sayto those who questio whyhe is puttig such efortito helpig those less or-tuate tha himsel, Mat-thew said, I would say lookaroud at the world yourei ad the poverty thatstakig place. Do you otsee what I see? Itll chageyour heart.

Such a simple thig to do,but those who kow Mat-thew would say he alreadyhas chaged theirs.

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Byars' remains return home 63 yearsater being MIA in Korean War

Departmet o Ecology adEvolutio at the Uiversityo Chicago, is the author oWhy Evolutio is True, abestseller.

Accordig to Deise Mar-ti, oe o the evets or-gaizers, the eveig williclude ot oly Coyeslecture, but a questio adaswer sessio ad a booksigig.

She said a evet o thisature is rarely held o the

south side o Atlata, adthat the public both evo-lutioists ad those whostill questio the theory are welcome to atted.We have had a Darwi Day

celebratio the last coupleo years, but Dr. Coye was

goig to be i South Caro-lia, so I asked him to comehere rst, she said. Theresso much iormatio, wewated to ocus o his lec-

ture. I highly suspect mosto the people who attedwill already kow this ior-matio, but Im really hop-ig people who still have

questios will come. This isa well-kow scietist whorelates very well to peoplewho may ot have a back-groud i sciece. The talkis or the o-scietists. Itsa chace or people to heara scietic lecture desigedor laypeople.

Marti wet o to saythat although evolutio isstill questioed by some, ithas bee prove scieti-cally soud.

Evolutio is a theory ohow the orgaizatio ospecies works its the waythat every livig thig ithis world has evolved rom

a sigle species ad howit was all atural, withoutsuperatural itererece,she said. But those who be-lieve i creatioism are wel-come to come. There will bea questio ad aswer ses-

sio ater the lecture, adDr. Coye would love tohear rom those who havequestios. This is his areao expertise, ad he is well-qualied to aswer them.

Marti wet o to de-scribe the Free ThoughtSociety as a group o idi-viduals whose belies areot based o dogma, buto realism ad sciece.

We do ot hold a su-peratural world view, shesaid. It is comprised mailyo athiests, agostic adhumaists.

Marti said the evet willbe best-suited or those o

high school age ad older.For additioal iormatio,please e-mail [email protected].

lecture, cont.

Matthew and his mother Melanie, shopping or gits or the children.

Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist who wrote the book, "Why

Evolution is True," will be speaking in Peachtree City on Feb. 2,Charles Darwin's bir thday.


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Cold temperatures ad rigid witer weather havewreaked havoc o all o our souther sesibilities.Beig a Miesota ative, my time here i the south

has thied my ski. My rieds ad amily togue-i-cheek call me Dam Yakee or a reaso, as I have ullyembraced my souther liestyle ad would ot tolerate15-below-zero temperatures.

Warmig the house up has great appeal whe thetemperatures dip low to the reezig poit. Where I comerom, the thermostat always stayed at 68 or 69 degrees, adyou layered your clothig ad wore warm socks. Takig theextra chill of the house waited util diertime, whe youmade somethig delicious ad warm out o the ove.

Welcome to Miesota hotdish. I other parts o thecoutry its called casserole or potluck, but where I grewup it was hotdish. I ca almost hear my readers gigglig,ad Im ot mad. I you thik thats uy wait util I justget of the phoe with oe o my sisters, ad have a thickMiesota accet, tiged with a souther drawl. Thatsuy.

I had bee cravig the warm comort I grew up with, adhad rasacked the reezer ad patry. I had o recipe, justa idea o what I had to work with ad a cold house.I had may o these igrediets o had, ad yall kowyour Gypsy Gourmet is as rugal as she is creative. I stilldot have a acy ame or it, but I ca tell you that myamily polished of a 13x9 casserole dish i less tha 24hours. A ice additio to this is some garlic Frech bread.Util ext time, eat well, laugh ote, be ree ad be you.

Chicken, Bacon,Broccoli, CheesyHotdishIngredients

-- 3 to 4 large chicken breasts,Cajun seasoned and cubed

--17 oz rozen broccoli forets

-- 4 - 6 slices o diced cooked bacon

-- Hal a sweet onion, diced smalland sauted lightly

-- bag hearty wide egg noodlescooked or 6 minutes and drained

-- 1 C shredded cheese or the top(Use your avorite, I used Gouda)

-- 8 oz Philadelphia cream cheese

--6 to 8 oz sharp cheddar Velveetacheese cubed

--1 C whole milk

--1 tsp Chicken House Conturesdried organic lemon thyme(Available at Birds o a Feather &Hill Street Market downtown)

-- 1 tsp granulated garlic

-- 1 generous tsp resh mincedgarlic

--1 tsp Cajun seasoning (TonyChacheries or your avorite)

InstructionsEverythig i its place, as the sayig goes.Have the chicke, baco, oio, ad oodles preppedad ready. Take the broccoli out ahead o time. Preheatove to 350 degrees, ad butter a 13 x 9 bakig dish. Ia heavy-bottomed our-quart stock pot o medium heat,melt cream cheese ad Velveeta, addig the milk to makea creamy sauce. Add seasoigs, rememberig to crush

the lemo thyme to release the aturaloils. Add the rest o the igrediets,mixig getly so it doest crush theegg oodles ad reserve the cup oshredded cheese or toppig.

Traser to the buttered 13 x 9 bakigdish, top with shredded cheese ad

bake i the ove or 25 to 30 miutesor util bubbly. Serve with resh Frechbread or garlic toast.

Minnesota Hotdish

Sam Granger, known aroundGrifn as just Sam G, or just "thecrazy olk artist" due to his afnityor painting unusual scenes andupon unusual objects, shares someo his story and inspiration withThe Grip:

How did you get startedpainting?

My ow ex-wie was ussigbecause Id gotte laid ofrom my job ad didt haveoe. I took a olie careerquiz that said i should be aartist. So as a joke, I did it.What would you say to someonewho says I cant paint?

Teach yoursel. Limits areput o by the mid. Opeit. There are other types oart too. Play with clay, sew,kit, assemble somethig.Just create somethig.Any advice or anyone out therelooking to make a business rom

their hobby? What does it take?Flexibility, Patiece, adDetermiatio.Share with our readers how/whyyou made the leap to make aliving being an artist.

I had kee surgery ad wasout o work or 4 moths.Durig that time, I did a loto art maily as therapy ormy mid. Id heard rumorsthat my job was makigsome chages ad I wasprobably goig to be laidof i a couple o moths,

so I made the decisio topursue my art as a career,ad quit.Whats your daily (or painting)routine?

I dot really have a routie.I d somethig ad I make

somethig else out o it.Whatever Im workig withwill tell me what it wats tobecome. I may go weeks ata time without ispiratio,the I will get ito a groovead do 30 pieces i a week.

How do you get inspiration?

I usually get my ispiratiosittig o the porchdrikig cofee. Ideas orart projects will start rolligito my head. I also, seethigs ad Ill say hey, i camake that ito somethigelse. I also get a lot oispiratio rom music,especially blues. WheIm i a creative slump ad

cat come up with ewideas, I pait chickes.Where did the reedom chickencome rom and how did thatbecome your signature (do youconsider it your signature?)

Whe my wie ad Idivorced, I had a cofeepotcollectio. Whe I gotito my ew house I hadall o these cofeepots adowhere to put them. Ioticed the spout o oeo them remided me o abeak, so I gured out how

to make a chicke out oit. I paited it up ad gotthe idea to pait stars othe body with a red adwhite tail. I amed him theFreedom Chicke. Latero I started paitig them,ad the later I startedpaitig people ridigthem. As ar as sigaturepieces, I have several really.Freedom Chickes, Flufythe Chicke, The DevilWoma, ad Rev. UriahStragelove (my pervertedsake hadlig preacher)to ame a ew.

Most o your paintings seem tobe a snapshot o stories. Do you

eel that way, and i so, couldyou tell us a little bit more aboutthose stories?

I pait lie, ote i a twistedway, but may come romlie experieces. Some areiueced by amily storiesthat I wat to pass o. Ilike to make art that makespeople smile, but alsomakes them thik. I mosto my paitigs, I try toportray a scee right beoreit happes. I wat peopleto look at it ad use theirimagiatio to determiethe outcome.

Most o your scenes depict thedeep south, and sometimesportray Arican American orBiblical themes. Could youcomment on this? Why paintthose topics?

The deep south is whereIm rom. Its my heritage.I love it ad try to depictmay aspects o it. I mymore serious works, I tryto tell a story about thepast to remid people o it.Blues is a importat parto my lie. It is my music ochoice. Blues is oe o thetrue America art orms,ad oe o the ew that catrace their origis to here. Ipait the music, stories Iveheard about the musicias,ad ote iclude somelyrics i the art itsel, hopigthat someoe will researchad liste to it. Blues is ablack art orm. I depict themusic ad subject mattero the sogs. I also had a6th grade music teacher

who itroduced me toegro spirituals. That hasiueced my art ad lieas well. I ote do portrayBiblical or Religious themesito my art. I do it i

diferet ways by depictigold time churches, makigcrosses, ad my opiioso some moder religiousperspectives. I maily try todepict religio i the eyeso our acestors, religio asa part o olk lie.

Why olk painting?

Im utraied, ad seltaught. The ew skills Ihave I leared o my ow.I eel that I rely o creativitymore tha skill. Most oart is made rom recycledmaterials. I like art that isu. Really, does aotherbowl o ruit eed to bepaited?

Where do you sell your art?

Most o my stuf I sell atshows throughout theSoutheast. I also sellto dealers ad galleriesatiowide. I sell a lot oart through my Facebook

( w w w . a c e b o o k . c o m /samgolkartas) page adhave just opeed up a shopo Etsy. I also sell out o myhome studio occassioally,by appoitmet.

Peace, love, freedom chickens, and free hugs from a Concord artist


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Its ot so easy beig acollege kid these days.

The job market orrecet graduates has beeshaky while, at the sametime, studets are leavigschool with more debt tha

ever beore. I you havechildre who will somedaybe attedig college,should you be worried?

You might ideedhave cause or cocer.Americas ow owe moreo studet loas tha ocredit cards, accordig tothe Federal Bak o newYork, the U.S. Departmeto Educatio ad othersources. For the collegeclass o 2011, the mostrecet year or which guresare available, the averagestudet loa debt wasabout $26,500, accordigto the Istitute or CollegeAccess ad Successs Project

o Studet Debt.This type o debt load,

coupled with the strugglesto d a well-payig jobcommesurate with theireducatio, is causig mayrecet graduates to get ofo the wrog oot i termso developig savigsad ivestmet strategiesthat could help themthroughout their lives.

So, what ca you do?I you wat to help your

kids pay or college, youmay wat to cosider a 529pla. Whe you ivest i a

529 pla, all withdrawalswill be ree rom ederalicome taxes, as log asthe moey is used orqualied college expeses.(However, o-qualiedwithdrawals may besubject to ordiary icometax plus a 10% pealtyo the earigs portio.)Cotributio limits are high,ad, cotributios may beeligible or a tax deductioor credit or residets icertai states.

A 529 pla, while valuable,is ot the oly collegesavigs vehicle available.You may also wat tocosider a CoverdellEducatio Savigs Accout,which, like a 529 pla, cageerate tax-ree earigsi the moey is used orhigher educatio expeses.However, a Coverdellaccouts cotributiolimits are much lowertha those o a 529 pla.You could also establish acustodial accout, kowas a UGMA or UTMA, whichofers some tax beets

ad o cotributio limits.noetheless, while these

vehicles may help you savead ivest or college, theymay also divert resourcesthat you might have usedor other acial goals such as a comortableretiremet. O course, itsot a either-or situatio theres othig stoppigyou rom cotributig to a

529 pla, Coverdell accoutor custodial accout alogwith your 401(k) ad IRA.

Clearly, though, it will takedisciplie ad perseveraceo your part to savead ivest or both yourchildres educatio adyour ow retiremet. Likeeveryoe else, you dothave ulimited resources.But you do have aother

ally time. The earlieryou begi ivestig oreducatio ad retiremet,the greater your chaceso achievig your goalsi these areas. Ad byuderstadig how your

goals iteract, you ca workto make sure you do'tiadvertetly derail oewhe savig or aother.

Avoidig the studetloa debt trap while stillmakig progress towardyour retiremet savigs willrequire creative thikig ad both you ad yourchildre may have to makesome sacrices alog theway. But the ultimate goals a college degree thatist oe big IOU ad acomortable retiremet are worth the efort.

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o ote durigthe process oi t e r v i e w i g

job seekers, there is astumblig block whe Iask them to describe theirkey skills, experiece adaccomplishmets.

I I had a quarter or everytime someoe said, I reallydot have much experieceor ay accomplishmets,Id be very rich. That is rarelyever the case.

I you have ever beei a orgaizatio, doevoluteer work, servedo your childs PTA, doeud-raisig or doebookkeepig or yourselor others, you have quite aew uctioal, traserableskills.

There are may uctiosyou perorm that you mayhave doe o a voluteerbasis that are traserable

to job resposibilities. Yes,you should also have somework experiece, but dotoverlook these traserableskills.

Lie experiece may havetaught you eeded skillsthat employers seek. Amog

the skills you may havedeveloped somewherealog the lie throughoutyour career ad persoallie are istructig others;

maagig moey adbudgets; workig with thepublic; workig efectivelyas part o a team; meetigdeadlies; orgaizig ormaagig projects; publicspeakig; commuicatigverbally ad i writig;providig leadershipad orgaizatioalefectiveess; sel-motivatio ad goalsettig; creative thikig;ad problem solvig.

Thik back to yourlie experiece or workexperiece ad make alist o skills you have thatare particularly importator the job you wat.Add other skills you watto commuicate to theprospective employer to

get the job you wat, adlist at list three to six othese key uctioal skills.For each skill, write twodetailed examples o whe

you used it. Try to eatureresults rom these icludigmoey saved, icreasedsales or improved eciecy.Emphasize the resultsyou achieved ad ayother accomplishmets,ad dot orget the mostimportat skill problemsolvig. Thats what makesa employer wat tohire you. Ca you solve aproblem or a compay?

I you have doe ay othese i your voluteerwork, school activities orlie experieces, they arepowerul traserable,uctioal skills thatemployers seek, ad thatwill help you geerate aiterview.

Stay positive ad startcompilig your list to addto your resume ad reerto whe you get the call tocome i or a iterview.

Identify skills and include them on resumes

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RELIGION/RELATIONSHIPS

L

ove is patient, loveis kind. It does not

envy, it does notboast, it is not proud. 5Itdoes not dishonor others,it is not sel-seeking, it isnot easily angered, it keepsno record o wrongs. 6Lovedoes not delight in evil butrejoices with the truth. 7Italways protects, alwaystrusts, always hopes, alwaysperseveres. 8Love never ails.1 Corinthians 13:4-8

I love 1 Corithias 13. Imea, who doest? Itsprobably the most quotedpassage o love i theBible. not log ago i mystudies, verse seve, alwaysprotects, chaged my lie.

The Greek word or protectis stego, ad it meas tocover over i silece. Coveri silece. I thik mostus thik o some orm ophysical protectio isteadwhe we read this scripture.But, it literally meas thatwe cover a idividual withsuch a cloak o love that ooe ca see his or her aults.Ist that beautiul?

Love doest expose theaults o others. We all eedlessos i tamig i ourtogue. We speak blessigsor cursigs. Lie or death.Ad, ar too ote, we speakegative words aboutaother perso, leavig a

path o destructio behidus, a path that the woudedidividual is orced to walkthrough.

Proverbs 18:8 says,Rumors are daity morsels

that sik deep ito oe'sheart. We eed to pausebeore we speak, ad ithose words are ot helpuli ay way, we eed toremai silet.

The easiest way to avoidexposig aother's aults

is to ot look or them.Typically, we will dwhatever we are lookigor, good ad bad, so i welook or good, well dgood.

I we were to see peopleas God sees them, well, thatwould chage everythig.

Choose to look or thegood. I we see aults, weshould choose mercy, adcover with a cloak o love.

Aythig else is simply otlove, o matter how we tryto shake it.

Discoverig the truemeaig o 1 Corithias13 protect chaged the

way I view love. Ad, moreimportatly, it chaged theway I love.

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MERRITT MELANCON :::University o Georgia

That rectagularutritio label o theside o your cereal

box or o the back o thatpeaut butter jar turs 20years old this year.

Whe it was itroducedi 1993, the nutritio Facts

rectagle was meat to helppeople uderstad howeach o their ood choicest ito a healthy diet. It wasthe rst time the iormatiohad bee preseted i such astraightorward ad uiormway.

"It was revolutioary,"said Jessica Leighto, Ph.D.,seior utritio sciecead policy adviser i theFDAs Oce o Foods adVeteriary Medicie othe agecys website. "Forthe rst time, people hadcosistet iormatio theyeeded right at the poit opurchase or the majority opackaged ood products."

FDA survey data show

that use o the nutritioFacts label has icreasedover the past decade. About54 percet o Americacosumers ow say thatthey use the nutritio Factslabel o the side o theirood whe makig decisiosabout what to eat.

Still, as easy-to-read ad asuseul as the nutritio Factslabel is, there are parts othe label that people oteigore, said Coie Crawley,a Extesio utritioexpert with the Uiversityo Georgia College o Familyad Cosumer Scieces.

The calorie couts, totalat couts ad sugars usuallycatch peoples eye rst,but other parts o the labelare importat or eatig ahealthy diet, she said.

Serving Size: Ote peopleigore the servig sizespecied o the label. Thisis a importat piece oiormatio because theservig sizes are sometimesot what people wouldaturally cosume.

A good example is sayig aservig size o a sot drik is 8oz. o a 20 oz. bottle, yet theperso is probably goig tototally cosume it all at oce,Crawley said.

Fat: Total Fat, saturated atad tras at values are allimportat i seeig how aood ts ito a healthy diet.However, whe the FDAstarted requirig tras atsto be listed o the label,people bega to ocus othat umber more tha othe total amout o at adsaturated at i their ood.

I tell people to add boththe saturated ad trasats up to kow the actualamout o uhealthy at theyare cosumig, Crawley said.I some cases to reduce thetras at, the mauacturericreased the sources osaturated at, like palm oil,to maitai the desiredtexture or mouth-eel o theood. People did ot oticethis chage. Saturated adtras are both bad or yourarteries.

Carbohydrates: People ote doot realize that the amouto sugar listed is icluded ithe total carbohydrates adis ot i additio to it. Peoplewith diabetes eed to ocus

o the total carbohydrates,sice sugar ad starch bothicrease blood glucoselevels. Fiber: Also led udercarbohydrates o the label,ber is aother utrietvalue that people dot payeough attetio too. MostAmericas eed to moreber; ideally a ood will haveat least two to three gramsper servig.

Geerally atural platbers are preerable to addedber rom supplemets adortied ber-rich oods. Thebest sources o these types ober come rom vegetables,

like beas ad peas, wholepieces o ruit ad wholegrais.

Sadly, utritio labeligo produce is volutary, sopeople do ot kow howhealthy it is or them ulessthere is separate sigagewhere the produce is sold,Crawley said.

The FDA utritioists may

update the two-decade oldutritio label i the i thecomig years to make iteasier to uderstad. I theydo chage the label, Crawleybelieves there should seriousrevisios to the servig sizead sugar portio o thelabel.

More realistic servigssizes would go a log way ihelpig people uderstadwhat they cosume o adaily basis.

She also would like to seethe sugar cotet o eachproduct broke dow iadded ad atural sugars.A separate added sugarcategory would help peoplemake more iormeddecisios about what theywould like to eat.

Basically, people have togo to the igrediet listigto see how may diferetorms o sugar are added,she said. They also haveto see how high o theigrediet list the diferettypes o added sugar are.The rst igrediets listedare the greatest i weighti the ood, but i there arethree or our diferet addedsugars ad they are scatteredthroughout that igredietlist, people really caot tellhow much there really is.

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Question: My work is deadlinedriven, so I sometimes nd mysel

in ront o a computer or longhours, even overnight when I ampressed. I have used those 5-hourenergy drinks, maybe two per day,to stay awake. I know that goingwithout sleep is not good, but

is there any harm in the energydrinks?

I my college days, Iresorted oce or twiceto a product called no-

Doz to keep me awake orcrammig or or workigo a ight shit. It wasbasically cafeie. It didthe trick, but I elt awul theext day. I elt a little betteri the crammig succeeded.

The eergy drik youare citig cotais aboutthe amout o cafeie ia cup o cofee. I you areparticularly sesitive tocafeie, that would keepyou awake or a bit. I would

preer the cofee becauseI could use a avoredcreamer.

The real mechaism or

revvig your metabolism,however, lies i otherigrediets. They areloaded with B vitamisthat really make youritracellular egies purr.

The eergy drik has oead a hal times the amouto iaci that you eeddaily. niaci, or vitami B3,is used by your body to turcarbohydrates ito eergy.

Oe o its orms, icotiicacid, is also used to helpbrig your cholesteroluder cotrol. Whe take

i large doses, it causesushig o the ski, rapidheart rate, ad a massivehot ash. Sometimespeople experiece itchigo the ski with the ushig.I short, you may eel likeyou are goig to explode

i ames. Fortuately, theush is usually over i 30miutes to a hour.

I you are takig two othese daily, you are gettiga substatial amout oiaci. It is water-soluble,like vitami C, so it leavesyou via the kideys airlyrapidly. Large doses,however ca harm yourliver, so I would avoid moretha oe every twelvehours, ad limit to oe perday whe you ca.

Vitami B6 is ecessaryor umerous chemicalreactios i the body. Theeergy drik cotais 20times the daily requiremet.

Vitami B12 also helpscovert glucose to eergy,ad this drik packs moretha 80 times what you

eed durig the day.As a precautio, i you

are takig a daily vitami,discotiue it i you areusig the eergy driksbecause the daily vitamiwill likely have heavy doseso B-complex. This will give

you a double whammy.You metioed sleep

deprivatio, which ismaybe a larger threat toyour health. Iterruptio oyour circadia rhythms maykeep you rom doig yourbest work as you meet yourdeadlie.

So, the eergy drikprobably wot hurt you,but try ot to do two i thesame day. They really cabe hard o your liver. Ad,too may shots will tie youi kots.

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Misc. ::: Photographersrom the Georgia naturePhotographers Associatioare displayig their worksat the J. Joel EdwardsPublic Library i Zebulo,located at 7077 U.S. Hwy.

19. The matted ad ramedpieces eature wildlie,owers, ad ladscapes.GnPA meets at the librarythe third Tuesday o eachmoth at 6:30 P.M. ad wel-comes guests. The libraryivites the public to viewthese pieces durig regularlibrary hours: MWF 10-5,

TTh 10-7, ad Sa 10-3.

January 24-Feb 3; Three LittleFoxes preseted by MaiStreet Players; I a charm-ig home i the south, livesthe prosperous Hubbardamily. Desperate broth-ers Be ad Oscar, with aclever sister Regia, hatcha pla or Regias ailig

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This year 82 groups rom 23states atteded equalig4,000 studets.

Studio D Productioso Gri perormed theirrecet productio FAMEJR. or their adjudicatioperormace ad receivedthe award or Excellece iDace. Laure James adKylar Duca were amedAll Stars. Faith Fladerswas chose or the 2013Choreography DVD whichis lmed i new York City.Lori Fladers the directoro Studio D Productioswas awarded the Freddie G.Broadway (amed or Fred-

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There were some repairsto the bridge deck thateeded to be doe. Theyhad to go i ad take outsome o the cocrete. It wasthe shy cover over the steel,Howell said. You eed acertai amout o cocreteover the steel. It probablyrequired two or three ich-es, but it was about hal owhat it was supposed to be.

The error was discovereddurig a step o the ispec-tio process i which a i-strumet called a packome-ter tests the depth o the

poured cocrete.It wast the spa o the

bridge; it was oly oe sec-tio, Howell said. Theyvealready doe the removal,but Im ot sure i theyvepoured the ew cocrete.

He said the removal adreplacemet o that bridgesectio was the resposibil-ity o E.R. Sell, a cotractorthat requetly participatesi DOT projects.

It happes. We dotlike it, but somethig hap-peed i the pour, Howellsaid. Its the cotractorsresposibility, the qualitycotrol, ad theyre takigcare o it. They build a lot o

bridges, so its ot like its ay-by-ight operatio. Itsa outstadig cotractor.

Had the mistake otbee discovered, he saidit reduced the bridges lieexpectacy, which he esti-mated to be 40 or 50 years,maybe eve more.

Although he was uableto give a exact date oproject completio, Howellestimated the Sixth Street

Bridge will soo be ope.Its my uderstadig

that we should have thebridge ope withi a week,he said.

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board 13 years, ad thereare thigs that are com-ig up this year that I haveworked or or 13 years, adI am eager to see this carrythrough, ad so I askedthe other people i theywould cosider appoitig

or electig me, Todd re-spoded. We havet hadthe vote yet, but that is thereaso, yes.

McLemore the replied,Well, I just kow that be-ore I got o this board,it seemed like there wassome semblace o a rota-tio. That was what I wastold beore I came o thisboard, ad the weve kido heard the same thigow or our years.

Todd coceded thatMcLemore was correct ithat the positio has his-torically bee shared, butreiterated she had a specialreaso behid watig to

serve i that capacity, de-spite the act that her mostrecet term as mayor ed-ed oly oe year ago.

But we also talk aboutthis beig a hoor thatis shared by the team, ad

we talk about how theteam does it together, adI thik its a good team,ad I just woder i thishoor shouldt be shared,McLemore said i his alcommet o the subject.

Hollberg receivedthree votes or the posi-tio, icludig his ow,McLemores ad that oCommissioer Dick Mor-row. Meawhile Todd ol-lowed Hollbergs suit ivotig or hersel, ad alsogarered the support oCommissioer Cora Flow-ers, Commissioer CythiaReid-Ward ad Commis-sioer Shaheer Beyah, al-lowig Todd to oce agaihold the hoorary positio.I a later iterview, Todddescribed the mayoral po-sitio as symbolic.

The mayor sigs docu-mets ad presides at themeetigs, she said. Its ba-sically just represetig theCommissio.

She the idetied the

Gri-Spaldig CoutyAirport as the logstadigissue she reereced durigthe previous meetigs dis-cussio.

Its the airport whewe traser the airport rom

the city ad couty to theAirport Authority, I watto be the mayor, she said.Whe I ra or oce 13years ago, the airport wasthe big issue. At that time,I was promotig that weeeded to move the airportor the bettermet o thecommuity.

She said that she cam-paiged o the act thatthe ruway could ot beexpaded, ad she eltstrogly that the residecesthat had bee built i thesurroudig area shouldot be take or airport use.Havig spet her 13 yearsas a Gri commissioerpromotig the relocatioad expasio o the air-port, ow that progressis beig made i that di-rectio, she oud specialmeaig i the hoorarypositio o mayor.

Thats the mai reaso I wated to be the oe tosig my ame o that dot-ted lie, she said.

mayor, cont.BRIEFS :::City commissioer seatsor districts 1, 3, 5 ad 6,are up or electio, whichis scheduled or Tuesday,nov. 5, 2013. The qualiyigee is $403.20, which is setby state electios code as 3percet o the gross salaryor the prior year.

A rabid raccoo waslocated i the area o EastCollege Street o Tuesday,Jauary 15, 2013. State

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The State Board oEducatio o Moday,Ja. 21, appoited seveState Charter SchoolsCommissio members,icludig iclude Dr.Charles Kapp, , JeierRipper, Toy Lowde,

Tom Lewis, Paul W.Williams, a Jose R. Perezad James E. Hogg. Formore iormatio o the

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Plas or the proposedroudabout o GeorgiaHighway 16 at theHolloville Road/Old 85Coector itersectio,may have to chage dueto the ew Dollar Geeralat the itersectio. Theroudabout locatio mayhave to be shited, as it is ithe proposed right o wayor the roudabout.


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