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Please help my injured dog
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Editor, About five months ago I was given a baby pit. I call her Beautiful. She was born with only one toe on her left hind leg. She came into the world with a deformity but my love for animals allowed me to take this 3-week-old puppy into my heart. At the same time, two other puppies wandered into my yard.
Beautiful is loving, great with children and simply loves to be loved on. On March 30, I was in a car accident and she was in the car with me. Right now, I’m under the doctor’s care.
On May 22, Beautiful got hit by a car. Her baby teeth were knocked out, bones in her hip and her hip joint itself are broken and her back and belly are cut and bruised.
The people who hit her left the scene but called the police. Beautiful had wandered into the road so it wasn’t the driver’s fault. The police never came out so my neighbors informed me of the accident.
When I got outside my dog was no longer in the street. She was lying in the grass on the side of the road, frightened. I called for her and she got up and ran under the house. I couldn’t get her out. I called the police and they couldn’t assist me. I called the animal control but they only offered to put her to sleep. The vet was closed and I had no transportation because of my own accident.
I called a friend to retrieve her from under the house and noticed she could no longer stand up. I crushed the pain pills I had received from the doctor and fed them to her every six hours to ease her pain.
I later found out Beautiful needs an operation. The procedure will cost between $2,500 and $2,800. I don’t have the proper finances to bring Beautiful back to health so I’m reaching out to the community in search of a little hope for my pet and close friend.
If you are able to assist Beautiful and me, please call Dr. Shealy at 912-354-6681.
 
— Gloria Wynter Christ
Hinesville
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Dear editor: Another election cycle is finally over and the voters of Bryan County have spoken. We will have three new county commissioners in January 2011.
My congratulations go out to Jimmy Henderson of District 5, Carter Infinger of District 4 and Wade Price of District 2. I look forward to working with them as we continue to take care of the business of the county.
All three races were contested, which gave the voters a choice of who they wanted as their commissioner. Those who did not prevail in this election are to be applauded for offering themselves as candidates.
Our county owes a debt of gratitude to retiring commissioners Rick Gardner with eight years of service, Blondean Newman with eight years of service as a commissioner and 30 years as tax commissioner, and Toby Roberts with 18 years on the county commission.
These three spent many hours establishing policies and procedures for our county government and many meetings with state and local officials to achieve the best possible outcomes regarding our county on numerous issues. Their many years of experience will be sorely missed.
I well remember the first time I ran for public office and lost. Sometimes those who are not elected are the winners because they don’t have to go to all the meetings – that is said with tongue in cheek, of course.
After my loss, someone sent me the following quotation from President Theodore Roosevelt, which I keep on the wall in my office:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
And my wish for all the citizens of Bryan County is to have a truly blessed Christmas and a prosperous and happy New Year’s.

Jimmy Burnsed
Chairman
Board of commissioners

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