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Prosecute to the fullest extent
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Staff
Updated: Oct 24, 2007, 9:00 AM
Published: Oct 9, 2007, 9:16 PM

Dear Editor:

 

My name is Deana Flanagan-Crews and I’m the best friend of Sherry Martin-Arthur. I’ve known Sherry for 27 years.

I also am a firefighter/EMT. I’ve also seen bad and ugly motor vehicle crashes. I responded to Hwy. 280 near Hwy. 204 back in April, 2005 when Jack Barfield and Emily Mosley were speeding and driving recklessly to school. Upon arriving to that scene, I saw Ginger Reagin’s vehicle.

Ginger was a very good friend of mine. I knew her for about 25 years and I knew Garrett from birth. No person should have to see babies, children or teenagers die like this.

You see, Melissa and Heather Arthur were just like my daughters. My daughter Heather was best friends with Melissa and Heather Arthur as well. These three girls hung out as sisters just about every weekend and during the week.

Sherry and I will get to see my Heather graduate. We will not get to see Melissa or Heather Arthur or Laura Cobb graduate.

Sherry and I can’t take Melissa or Heather Arthur to the mall, out to eat, to see a movie, to the beach, to the fair or anywhere else. We didn’t get to celebrate Melissa’s 18th birthday on Sept. 3 nor Heather Arthur’s 16th birthday on Sept. 14. Instead, we talked to two cold graves while looking at a third and made a sign to put by the accident site.

Sherry and I miss Melissa and Heather Arthur every day. Not a day goes by that we do not think of them.

Tam Duc Le is still here. He gets to graduate. His parents can hug him and tell him that they love him.

In response to Heather Harper, we don’t blame Laura Cobb for letting Tam Duc Le drive her car. We blame Tam Duc Lee for three felony counts of first degree vehicular homicide. We blame Tam Duc Le for reckless driving, driving too fast for conditions and failure to maintain his lane.

Tam Duc Le is responsible for our daughters not being here today. I say prosecute him to the fullest extend of the law.

 

Deana Flanagan-Crews

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Staff
Updated: Dec 8, 2010, 3:56 PM
Published: Dec 8, 2010, 3:57 PM

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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