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Gresston Fire Department wins training giveaway

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Friday, June 27. 2014

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Action Training Systems (ATS) and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) announced Gresston Volunteer Fire Department as one of the 50 winners of the 2014 ATS/NVFC $250K Training Giveaway. The announcement comes during International Fire/EMS Safety and Health Week, which this year focuses on the importance of all personnel receiving adequate training with the theme of “Train Like You Fight.”

The 50 winning departments will each receive a one-year subscription for 20 learners and one administrator to the Essentials of Fire Fighting series via the ATS Online Learning Management System. This totals nearly $250,000 worth of online training. The series contains 33 interactive courses, streaming video, and PowerPoints to teach Firefighter I and II skills and prerequisite knowledge. Essentials of Fire Fighting teaches to the current NFPA 1001 standards and can be used as a training resource to simplify technical knowledge and reinforce training objectives. The department administrator can track the progress of up to 20 students through the program. All applicants also receive a 10% discount off of any ATS training program.   [Full Story »]

Lloyd Rogers

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Thursday, June 26. 2014

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Age: 77

Died: Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home, Inc of Eastman has charge of arrangements.

Jim Roland

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Thursday, June 26. 2014

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Age: 76

Died: Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Arrangements: Hiers-Baxley Funeral Services of Ocala, Florida was in charge of arrangements.

Girls win

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Thursday, June 26. 2014

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Child drowns in family pool

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Thursday, June 26. 2014

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Eastman rescue, Dodge County Emergency Medical Services and Dodge County deputies were called to a Log Cabin Road address at approximately 4:51 p.m. on Thursday, June 19 to a call of a juvenile not breathing.

When medical personnel arrived, they found that a 19 month old girl had drowned in a family swimming pool. Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) was immediately started and was continued until the child arrived at Dodge County Hospital by ambulance.

The attempt to revive the child failed and McKinley Faith Adkinson, died late Thursday afternoon.
Authorities said the girl’s 10-year-old sibling also was at home with a 19-year-old babysitter when the girl was found in the pool. Authorities are investigating the incident.

Random thoughts

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Wednesday, June 25. 2014

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RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) claim conservatives need to support the party nominee, usually a non-conservative. I agree - most any Repub is better than any Demo leftist. But when Indiana RINO Richard Lugar lost his Senate primary by a 60% - 40% vote, he refused to support the man who defeated him. Lugar was hurt by the fact that he hadn’t lived in Indiana since he sold his house in 1976 and moved to the D.C. suburbs. In fact, the Republican Party cut off funding for the nominee, walking away and forfeiting the seat to a liberal Democrat for six years, perhaps more. We’re supposed to support victorious liberal Republicans but they seldom reciprocate.
The party did the same in Missouri. Democrats took both seats so we’re stuck with Demo losers in both states. It’s rather difficult to take control of the Senate when you throw away winnable elections. No wonder the people refer to them as the Stupid Party. All Republicans running for Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat are preferable to Michelle Nunn, a big-time leftwing loser. Ms. Nunn has been endorsed by Hanoi Jane Fonda and ultraliberal Emily’s List, which supports liberal women candidates. Back to liberal Republican Richard Lugar: He has donated several thousand dollars to Michelle Nunn’s Senate campaign.
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Letter to the Editor

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Wednesday, June 25. 2014

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Dear editor,
Insurance is nothing more than a form of protection for whatever the future may bring. We all seek a form of security protection. In each of our lives things are going to change from time to time. Security must not be seen as a one-sided affair. The one insurance that we truly need requires certain specifics without any ins and outs.
The greatest insurance can be found in the teaching found in the Holy Bible. It tells us that we should not have any other God before us. In our everyday living we are faced with different gods. A god is something we put our heart and faith in. Heathenism is a god of material things. Domination has become a powerful god in this nation among its citizens.
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Letter to the Editor

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Wednesday, June 25. 2014

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Dear editor,
What a perverse country we now call the United States of America and an oxymoron in the word “United”, given the compete enmity that is now so prevalent among the populace of this once so great nation. And who perpetuated this awful and epidemic asunder? The president himself, (Barack Obama, his spouse and those thugs that Mr. Obama appointed to his cabinet) that has now caused such a disarray and a fissure in our constitution would mirror the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” and all the kings men couldn’t put him back together again, he was so broken.
Start with the most recent news item of how that legalized Mafia or otherwise known as (IRS) targets everyday citizens in a shakedown of your banking account for the governments booty. Well, let me back up a tad bit, “everyday citizen?” Perhaps NOT! Unless you are a liberal democrat elected senate and state representative who is Mr. Obama’s lap dog who carries water for this tyrant and will act as a praetorian sentinel then you’re safe from the (IRS) but if you are a Christian, conservative, Tea Party voter or any other “red colored state valued identifier,” all bets are off, the IRS is coming after you as discovered this past year in all of Mr. Obama’s scandals.
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Cities recognized for ethics ordinance

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Wednesday, June 25. 2014

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Eastman, LaGrange and Peachtree Corners were recognized for earning the “Cities of Ethics” designation at the Georgia Municipal Association’s (GMA) Annual Convention June 23 in Savannah. The cities join more than 200 cities that have received the City of Ethics designation.

Also, the cities of Baxley, Blairsville, Byron, Cedartown, Cochran, Covington, Douglas, Hahira, Hawkinsville and St. Marys were recertified as Cities of Ethics. In addition, the Georgia Mountains Regional Commission was designated as an “Organizations of Ethics.” [Full Story »]