Who Has The Answer?
      Burke County and the state of Georgia followed the rest of the nation with rising unemployment numbers for the month of July. Nationwide, the percentage of unemployed workers hit a four-year high of 5.7 percent while Georgia's rate hit 6.2 percent. Burke County had an official rate of 8.7 percent...
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By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      Mrs. Vera Heatwole, age 102, of Dayton, Va., died Saturday, Aug. 9. She is the mother of Byard Heatwole and Doris Landis of Waynesboro. She was a remarkable woman, according to her daughter-inlaw, Rose Mary Heatwole. Her death notice stated her life was long and full of meaning. She became deaf...
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: Aug. 19, 1998 Ten-year-old Allison Lloyd won top honors in a national track meet held in Hershey, Pa. She won the 100-meter dash for 9- to 10-year-old girls with a faster time (13.52 seconds) than the 9- to 10-year-old boys.
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Bill Shipp
ONE-TERM JOHN
      If an aging presidential candidate loses his car keys once in a while or absent-mindedly puts his shoes in the Frigidaire, it's OK by me. I know how it is. If you keep playing this game, you begin to slip. So it is with John McCain, whose 72nd birthday is Aug. 29.
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Don Lively
COUNTRY PREACHING
      Country preachers are a different breed with different circumstances and problems than their city counter- parts. In an earlier time it was customary for country preachers to live in houses on the church property, once known as pastoriums. Oddly, that word no longer appears in either Webster's...
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Dixie Divas
PITCHING CONNIPTION FITS
      Right then and there in the Los Angeles International Airport, I thought I was going to have to pitch a conniption fit. That, to explain a conniption fit properly, is when a woman of Southern origin creates a scene of dramatic wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Letter to the Editor
      Congress on Vacation Editor: Close down congress. A five week vacation and not allowing a vote on drilling in America by Americans is just how Pelosi and the Democrats want to run our country. Nancy and the Democratic Party members in Congress refuse to have a debate on drilling in America. Wh...
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