The Dodge County News

Dear editor,
As much as we want to complain about things, we’ve got it so much better than so many others. A couple of months ago I was selected by Samaritan’s Purse to join a team of volunteers going to Rwanda to hand out Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoe boxes to the children over there. What a life-changing experience that was for me. Homes without water or electricity; children without shoes, without school supplies, without hygiene items, without toys, without candy and yet, these children were happy. Of course, they were much happier after they received the gift-filled shoeboxes that many, like you, packed!

It’s very humbling when a child gets excited over receiving wooden pencils or a pad of paper. At one of our distribution stops we were told that the children each receive one wooden pencil at the beginning of the school year and they have to make it last because there might not be another one. How many pencils do we throw away? We all need remember that someone else is praying for the things that we take for granted. [Full Story »] 

Former Dodge County Board of Commissioner Carl Hosford addressed the current board of commissioners about widening the Chester Highway at their meeting on Monday. July 14.

Hosford told the commissioners that the highway was “a disaster waiting to happen”. He explained that when a school bus meets a log truck or 18-wheeler, the buses have to move off on the shoulder of the road to avoid hitting trucks.

Hosford told the commissioners he had been told by interim county manager Bobby Peacock the highway was on the list to be resurfaced using Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST) funds this year.

Hosford requested that commissioners use money from the local Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) for road improvement to widen the Chester Highway 12 inches to 18 inches on both sides.
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The following arrests were reported by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office for the dates June 1, 2014 thru June 10, 2014.

Steven Patterson – 6/3/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count).

Brandon Pearce – 6/3/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count).

Katherine Gaskins – 6/3/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count).

Otis Cross – 6/3/14 – manufacturing marijuana (one count).

Kayla Cross – 6/3/14 – manufacturing marijuana (one count).

Dylan Yawn – 6/5/14 – burglary (one count).

Kevin J. Shurling – 6/5/14 – burglary (one count).

Terry Girtman – 6/5/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count) and violation of oath by a public officer (one count). [Full Story »] 

Age: 5 months

Died: Friday, July 4, 2014

Arrangements: Crosby Funeral Home of Alma was in charge of arrangements.

Many outsiders simply become part of the Washington, D.C. establishment elite after they are elected. Many move to the D.C. suburbs and become lifers detached from their home states. RINO liberal Richard Lugar sold his house in Indiana in 1976 as soon as he was elected to the Senate. He finally lost the Republican Primary in 2012 by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin. Maybe the voters finally noticed he had left the area years before. Lugar recently donated $4,000 to liberal Democrat Michelle Nunn’s campaign. Some kind of Republican he became - good riddance.
VDARE.com (great site I check daily) writer Thomas Martel calls conservatives playing ball with liberals on immigration reform “left-libertarianism Open Borders loonyism.” The Libertarian (losertarian) Party supports open borders in its platform and usually gets about one or two percent of the vote.
Sacramento, California is now requiring cab drivers to understand English and the drivers are complaining, naturally, probably not complaining in English, either. Customers are saying that they are unable to communicate with their drivers, says Downtrend.com writer Robert Gehl.
Remember John F. Kennedy’s tax cuts? I never cared for any Kennedy and always thought JFK’s tax cut program (which produced a surge in tax revenue) was the only thing he did that I approved of. Liberal Democrats Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey attacked the tax cuts, claiming they would wreck the economy.
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Age: 74

Died: Thursday, June 26, 2014

Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 78

Died: Saturday, June 28, 2014

Arrangements: Lowe's Funeral Home of Helena was in charge of arrangements.