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Thanks to schools for encouraging reading
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Editor, Thanks to the generosity and love of books of the students at area schools, including Jordye Bacon, Joseph Martin, Button Gwinnett and Taylors Creek elementary schools, hundreds more children of military families will get brand-new books the next time they go to their pediatrician at Winn Army Community Hospital on Fort Stewart.
That’s because the students at those schools and several others in the area participate in Scholastic’s book donation program, ClassroomsCare, which encourages students nationwide to read and help support families who have sacrificed so much for our country. This spring, for every 50 books that a participating classroom reads, Scholastic donates of beautiful new children’s books to Reach Out and Read, the school readiness program that partners with doctors to provide books to young patients and encourage families to read together every day.  
 Fort Stewart is one of 35 U.S. military bases that provides the Reach Out and Read program to all children ages 6 months through 5 years, and will receive more than 3,000 books this summer through the ClassroomsCare program.  Reading aloud to children can help them cope with stress and anxiety, so this gift is especially significant for the military families we serve.
On behalf of all the doctors, nurses, service men and women and their families on Fort Stewart, I want to thank the students and teachers at Jordye Bacon, Joseph Martin, Button Gwinnett and Taylors Creek elementary schools for supporting such a worthy cause and for sharing their love of books and reading with other children.
 
— Brian Gallagher
National Director of Program Development and Outreach
Reach Out and Read
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Showing gratitude for service
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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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