Matthew StrotherNews editor

Not many people can claim to have conducted an orchestra in Kindergarten, and not many, if any, have conducted an orchestra while dressed as Indiana Jones, except for 7-year-old Charlie Kirby.

Charlie has perfect pitch and an uncanny ear for music, but it’s not surprising since he comes from a long line of musicians. Charlie’s mother is Long Cane Elementary School music teacher Kathy Kirby, whose father, the late Jim Bradley, played in the Naval School of Music Third Army Band, and directed the Therrell High and later Westminster schools bands in Atlanta, and Osborne High School band in Marietta. He spent a total 42 years directing bands before he retired from Cobb County Schools in 1999.

Jim Bradley met his wife, Connie Bradley, at the University of Southern Mississippi, where Kathy Kirby relayed he serenaded her by playing his piccolo to her while she was in class.

“Dad played in the first Atlanta Pops group at the Fox Theater and grew up in Atlanta playing oboe all over,” Kathy Kirby said.

Her grandfather, Charlie’s namesake, was Charles Bradley, “and his claim to fame was the East Atlanta Elementary Band, but he also had Lovett Schools and the Emory Wind Ensemble in Atlanta,” she said. He also made mouthpieces for clarinets and saxophones.

“Everybody in our family (is musical), and when we say everybody, we mean everybody … we’re all music teachers,” Kathy Kirby said.

Charlie’s sister, Abbie, 5, already has a talent for sing-ing. His older sister, Katie, 14, is a dancer averaging 10 hours a week at dance and is also in chorus and drama classes at Troup High School. She also has performed with the New Horizon Community Theatre in West Point.

So it’s little surprise that Charlie inherited the musi-cal gene. The fourth generation maestro got to conduct the Indiana Jones theme song in front of a crowd - twice. The first time was the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra’s Children’s Concert series in February 2011. Then he again conducted the orchestra in August.

“I was, like, really excited,” he said.

Charlie, who is huge fan of Indiana Jones and the music of composer John Williams, conducted the first show in full Indiana Jones getup. Complete with a hat and whip, the then 6-year-old led the orchestra in a rendition of the “Raider’s March.”

Conducting involves keeping the orchestra in time and cuing them in at the right time.

“I’m trying to get them in the right tempo – fast or slow,” Charlie said.

The young maestro pulled it off, but had some criti-

cism for the performance, saying there were a couple sour notes.

“The problem was that they were having too much fun looking at me conducting,” Charlie said.

At home, Charlie enjoys acting out scenes from the movie and playing the theme on piano. He has been learning piano for about three years under the tutelage of his Meemaw, Connie Bradley.

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A file photo of Charlie’s grandfather, Jim Bradley, conducting. Bradley was known as a longtime band director at several Atlanta-area schools.

Charlie attending the Boston Pops with Indiana Jones hat on and his baton.

Charlie Kirby sits beneath a projection of his great-grandfather and namesake, Charles Bradley.

SubmittedCharlie Kirby, 7, conducts the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra.

Charlie Kirby plays the cornet for the first time with mom Kathy Kirby looking on and dad Robert Kirby in the background listening to a composition.

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PINE MOUNTAIN — Callaway Gardens will host the 20th anniversa-ry of the Georgia Junior Duck Stamp Exhibit this year.

The program is made available through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to promote con-servation through the arts. Each year Georgia youth participate in the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design contest. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade select a North American duck,

goose or swan; research the species and its habi-tat; then depict the bird in an artistic medium.

Following the competi-tion, the artwork goes on an exhibition tour around Georgia. The exhibit will be on display in the Daisy Classroom of Callaway’s Virginia Hand Callaway Discovery Center 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Oct. 31.

Winners on the state level receive prizes and certificates. The best of show winner competes nationally for thousands of dollars in scholarships. Georgia was represented

in the national competi-tion by Colin Williams, a 17-year-old artist from Savannah, who also in 2011 finished in the top 10 nationally by receiving an honorable mention.

Christina Morrissey, 14, from The Savannah Country Day School, was the Georgia 2012 conser-vation message winner. The works from both of these artists along with all of the Georgia winners can be seen and enjoyed at Callaway Gardens through Oct. 31.

Federal junior duck stamps may be purchased

for $5 plus shipping and handling by calling 1-800-STAMP-2-4. For more detailed information on this program, visit http://duckstamps.fws.gov.

The USFWS sponsors this program annually to promote conservation through arts. According to the USFWS website, for every dollar spent on Federal Duck Stamps, 98 cents goes directly to purchase vital habitat for protection in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Since 1934, sales of Federal Duck Stamps to hunters, stamp collectors

and other conservation-ists have raised more than $700 million that has been used to acquire more than 5.3 million acres of habitat for the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Admission to Callaway Gardens is $18 for adults, $9 for children ages 6 to

12, and children ages 5 and under are admitted free. Special event rates may apply. Tax is included. For additional information, call 1-800-CALLAWAY (225-5292) or visit www.callawaygardens.com.

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In honor of National Infant Mortality Awareness Month, the LaGrange Housing Authority is encouraging residents to use Text4baby, which is offering an enrollment contest and other initiatives during the month of September.

Text4baby, a free service that provides health and safety tips and resources to expectant mothers and moms with babies under 1 year old, is the largest mobile health initiative in the country and in two and a half years has enrolled more than 400,000 moms in the service.

“We, the LaGrange Housing Authority, are committed to the

following core values: sensitivity to the needs of clients; customer satisfaction; confidentiality; treat-ing others ethically; teamwork; honesty and integrity; the spirit of excellence; effective management; professional attitude; staff empow-erment; trustworthiness; account-ability; and continuous learning,” said LHA executive director Pat Pittman. “These core values pro-pel our efforts in supporting the Text4baby program and Infant Mortality Awareness Month.”

In the United States, six in 1,000 babies die before their first birth-day. By providing pregnant women and mothers of infants with free, accurate and easy-to-understand health information via text mes-

sage, the program aims for more mothers to connect with resources, care and knowledge to make the best choices for their children.

Those who sign up for Text4baby this month will be entered to win a year’s supply of Johnson’s baby products. Pregnant women and mothers of children under 1 year old can enroll by texting BABY – or BEBE for Spanish – to 511411.

“The LaGrange Housing Authority’s mission is to provide affordable, quality housing for low to moderate income persons and to improve their quality of life,” Pittman said. “This includes bring-ing an awareness of the impor-tance of having healthy mothers and healthy babies.”

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A Selma, Ala., woman and her mother were charged with suspected marijuana trafficking by Troup deputies after a stop on Interstate 85.

The officers said Antonia Ann Leshore, 37, was driving a Nissan Altima near mile marker 8 when they saw it and believed her window tint was too dark. When they stopped the car, they found 10.5 pounds of marijuana inside. Leshore and her mother, Theresa Williams, whose age was unavailable, both were arrested.

Four face drug charges

Troup investigators charged four men with methamphetamine possession after going to a house where they suspected the drug was being sold. They found the resident of the house on Southern Pine Drive, Nicholas Edmond Powell, 23, try-ing to hide meth under the bed. Another man in the house, David Alan Perndon, 35, was found with two small bags of meth in his pants. They also found scales and other drug paraphernalia in the house.

While making the arrests, two o ther

men drove up in a white truck. When they stopped the truck, they found a box with a bag containing 3 grams of meth and seven hydrocodone pills. Billy Ray Griffin, 41, of Rob Roy Road, and Alan Brice Wood, 25, of Old Pond Road, with methamphetamine and hydrocodone possession.

Woman could be charged with aggravated assault

LaGrange police may charge a woman with aggravated assault after a man was stabbed on Snelson Street on Thursday.

Witnesses said they saw a woman come out of a house and grab a man, not letting him go until he hit her in the face. Another woman then ran out into the road and stabbed the man in the left leg. The man then got in a car and fled the scene. Witnesses also said the victim had come to the Snelson Street house and provoked the women with a gun earlier in the day.

When police met up with the victim later, he had a stab wound to his left thigh but refused treatment.

Woman, mother charged with marijuana trafficking

Charlie practices his conducting in Boston.

Charlie, in full Indiana Jones costume, with LaGrange Symphony Orchestra conductor Patricio Cobos after the 2011 Children’s Concert.

However, Charlie’s musical talents manifested even earlier.

“He would sing Mozart and Beethoven and all that when he was 2 and 3, but by the time he was 5 he’d learned to conduct with it, so he was conducting Beethoven,” Kathy Kirby said. “… That’s when he started and (the symphony) actually watched that video … and that’s when they let him do the children’s con-certs in 2011.”

The kindergartner strolled up on stage in full Indiana Jones costume at the February concert that year, to the delight of the audience, who didn’t real-ize it was part of the show. However, Charlie is also enthusiastic about his recent trip to see the Boston Pops con-cert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where Williams conducted.

The Kirbys tried to meet Williams, but

to no avail. However the trip was still very eventful for Charlie, who jumped up and made his own conducting moves during the concert.

Boston Symphony Orchestra conduc-tor Keith Lockhart saw the video of Charlie conducting the 2011 children’s and sent him a package of memorabilia and letter saying he could one day be a conductor. His ultimate goal is to con-duct the Boston Symphony, following in the footsteps of his conducting hero John Williams.

Charlie’ father Robert Kirby, a LaGrange police detective and former music teacher, still works on music part time. Charlie says his father “conducts a computer,” describing him working on a score for a movie for an Atlanta-based movie company in front of his computer, unconsciously making hand

motions. Robert Kirby also has written music for his church and Colorado State University and North Carolina univer-sity, and had one of his pieces played by Central Florida Symphony.

Charlie said his favorite conductors include Lockhart and Williams, classical conductors Beethoven, Bach, Brahms and Mozart, and his father. In addition to Indiana Jones, he likes other John Williams scores from the Harry Potter and Star Wars movies, “E.T” and “Jaws.”

Charlie’s mother said he used to keep his keyboard near his TV and would listen to the music from movies he liked and play it back until he learned it by ear. He particularly picks up Williams’ compositions with ease. Charlie’s room also shows off other signs of musical interest.

“The child has a bust of Brahms in

his room, and a conducting poster on his wall among all the normal children things,” Kathy Kirby said with a laugh. “Most kids don’t have Brahms in their room.”

The Kirbys think Charlie has perfect pitch, noting how frustrated he gets if something is off-key. His father has played the Indiana Jones theme on piano in the wrong key to get Charlie out of bed.

“It does bother him when every-thing isn’t sung correctly,” said Connie Bradley.

When he was 3, he told LaGrange Symphony Orchestra conductor Patricio Cobos he played the Harry Potter theme “way too slow.”

Matthew Strother can be reached at mstrother@lagrangenews.com or 706-884-7311, ext. 229.

ExhibitsOngoingLegacy Museum

on Main at 136 Main St. hosts the exhibit “Bubbling Up Business: Bottling Industry of Troup County and Area.” Bottles from area bottling plants loaned by local collectors com-prise part of the exhibit. The museum is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. 706-884-1828.

Jill Philips: Student, Teacher and Painter with the Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange and Donna Jackson, iron works artist, runs until Sept. 29 at LaGrange Art Museum. The exhibit combines the giant garden insects of metal worker Jackson with the out-of-door artistry of Philips, and showcases local tal-ent from the VAAL. Works are available to purchase with pro-ceeds benefitting LAM. Admission is free. Opening reception is Sept. 7 from 7 to 9 p.m with a private VIP cura-tor’s circle reception at 6 p.m.

UpcomingThe Journey -

Connections art exhibit will be at the Cochran Gallery on the Square beginning Thursday and running until Oct. 26. The exhibit con-tains “quilts” of canvas created in collabora-tion with or inspired by someone’s cancer journey. Each piece is accompanied by an essay explaining its meaning.

EventsSaturdayLocal growers sell

produce, cheeses, baked goods, plants and other locally made items at Market on Main from 8 to 10 a.m. in the park-ing lot behind Carmike Theater. Troup County extension agents Celeste Garrett and Randy Drinkard will be at the market to answer questions about food preservation, canning, gardening and summer horticulture.

The third annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s starts at 9 a.m. at Vernon Woods Retirement Community.

To learn more or form a team, go to www.alz.org/walk, or call 706-327-6838.

A benefit bike ride for Lisa Walker begins with registration at 9 a.m. and kick stands up at 11 a.m. at the VFW Post 4629 at 305 W. Haralson St. Registration is $15 per bike, food plates are $5 and sausage biscuits with coffee are $2. All proceeds go to benefit Walker, who is surfing from her third bout of cancer since 2004.

MondayThe preview lec-

ture for the LaGrange College spring 3-D lecture series on Brazil is 10 a.m. at Dickson Hall and will feature four members of the college faculty and administration that will introduce their top-ics - the history, music, literature and ecology of Brazil - for the 2013 series. Attendees are asked to park in the Vernon Street (clock tower) parking area and a shuttle will drop them at the door of Dickson Hall in time for a cup of Brazilian coffee before the previews begin. Martha Pirkle, 706-880- 8244.

A beginner scrapbook class is offered at the Active Life Center on Ragland Street at 11 a.m. There is no cost for the class. A registra-tion form and supply list can be picked up at the center.

Free, confidential HIV testing is available starting at 4 p.m. at Pathways at 122 Gordon Commercial Drive. Must be at least 18. 706-845-4054

TuesdayAdvanced Tai Chi for

Health class is 11:45 a.m. at The Active Life, 140 Ragland St. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art improving balance, coordination and relax-ation. Call Holly at 706-883-1618 to register.

The Interfaith Food Closet at 416 Pierce St. in LaGrange is open from 1 to 2:45 p.m. to help people in need of food. 706-882-9291

The annual Mah Jongg Benefit for West Georgia Hospice is 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Active Life Center.

Call Tammy Forbus at 706-845-3962 to reserve your table. Tables of four are $80, proceeds benefit patient care ser-vices.

WednesdayPreschool story time

at LaGrange Memorial Library is at 10:30 a.m. and includes stories, fingerplays, songs and a craft time. 706-882-7784

ThursdayStory Hour featur-

ing stories, fingerplays, songs and rhymes for preschoolers and their escorts is at 10:30 a.m. at Hawkes Library in West Point.

Tai Chi for Health for beginners is 12:30 p.m. at the Active Life, 140 Ragland St. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art improving balance, coordination and relax-ation. Call Holly at 706-883-1618 to register.

The Interfaith Food Closet at 416 Pierce St. in LaGrange is open from 1 to 2:45 p.m. to help people in need of food. 706-882-9291

New Community Church hosts Career Connect, a free job search assistance and networking event, at 5:30 p.m. with repre-sentatives from the Department of Labor Career Center, Troup County Works, staffing agencies, businesses and industries.

Beginner ballroom dance lessons for all ages are given from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Active Life center on Ragland Street. 706-884-5857

FridayThe Active Life senior

center at 140 Ragland St. offers oil painting classes at noon for all adults 55 and older. 706-883-1681

The LaGrange Woman’s Club Fall Fashion Show and lun-cheon is noon at First Methodist Church. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased by calling 706-884-1832. Proceeds from the show are used for the upkeep of Bellevue.

Vendors sell fresh pro-duce, cheeses, honey, boiled peanuts and other items at Callaway Gardens Farmer’s Market from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gardens’ Robin Lake Beach in Pine

Mountain. Admission is free to the market through the beach entrance.

A monthly silent social for people with hearing loss is at the LaGrange Mall food court starting at 5 p.m. for any one who is deaf or hard of hearing, or any person interested in learning more about sign language. Nancy Smith, 706-402-2205

Sept. 29Local growers sell

produce, cheeses, baked goods, plants and other locally made items at Market on Main from 8 to 10 a.m. in the park-ing lot behind Carmike Theater.

The 10-mile, third annual HOPE for a Day breast can-cer walk begins at Lafayette Society for Performing Arts and ends at Lafayette Square. Walkers raise a minimum of $500. Registration is $100. Registration forms are available online at bffl-hopeforaday.org or for information, call 706-302-0886 and leave a message.

Paint the Town Pink begins at 1 a.m. at Lafayette Square in downtown LaGrange. Free clinical breast exams, women’s health screenings and informa-tion will be available.

MeetingsMondayA Girl Scout leader

meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Lafayette Parkway. 706-957-0948

Boy Scout Troop 10 meets at 7 p.m.

in the Troup County Sportsman Building on Roanoke Road.

TuesdaySalvation Army Home

League meets at noon at 806 Murphy Ave.

The LaGrange chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy meets at 3 p.m. at Bellevue at 204 Ben Hill St.Sept-May

LaGrange City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. in the council chamber/courtroom at 208 Ridley Ave.

LaGrange Serenity Groups and Al-Anon meet at 6 p.m. at Self Help Harbor, 909 Stonewall St

Grief Share, a support group for people griev-ing the loss of someone close, meets at 7 p.m. at Cedarcrest Community Church at 2380 Roanoke Road. 706-882-6327

The LaGrange Shufflers meet at the Active Life center at 140 Ragland St. for regular square dance from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 706-812-8840

WednesdayA bereavement sup-

port group meets 11 a.m. at Hospice LaGrange.

The Lunch Bunch and Al-Anon meet at noon at Self Help Harbor, 909 Stonewall St.

ThursdayRehearsals for the

LaGrange Civic Chorale are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Troup High School chorus room. choralsociety@charter.net, 706-882-2734

LaGrange Serenity Groups and Al-Anon meet at 7 p.m. at Self

Help Harbor, 909 Stonewall St.

FridayThe Lunch Bunch

Alateen Family Group meets at noon at Self Help Harbor, 909 Stonewall St.

ChurchesSaturdayTrinity SDA Church

Prayer and Bible Study Center at 710 Jenkins St. holds a free Bible study from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Pastor Walter Gordon, 706-812-0760

The Master’s Touch Anniversary Singing featuring group New Harmony and Power is 4 p.m. EST at 854 Lee Road 374 in Valley, Ala. Hamburgers, barbecue, ice cream and other des-sert available. 334-332-7748 or 706-882-2386

SundayNew Harmony C.M.E.

Church in West Point holds early worship ser-vice at 10 a.m.

Living By Faith Worship Center hosts a day of celebration and dedication of their new home located at 1898 Greenville Road with a celebration service at 11 a.m. with speaker Aaron Hobbs of Newark, N.J., and dedication service at 3 p.m. with pas-tor Calvin Marshall

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The family of the loving late Ms. Roberta Robinson (“Baye”) would like to express sincere thanks

to all who shared in love, care, and loss of my Mother “Baye”

through visits, phone calls, cards, donations, food, fl owers, thoughts, and prayers. To Rev. Jairo Gay and LUMC family, friends, Pastors, WG Hospice staff , Dr. Modi and staff ,

and Lakes-Dunson-Robertson Funeral Home staff .

Truly grateful,Daughter

Jenniel Flowers, nieces, nephews,

host of grandchildrenBe joyful always; pray

continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for

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Dear Annie: My daughter, “Gina,” was the first one in our family to go to college. Of course, we all were proud. She chose a school that was rather pricey, but she had some scholarships and loans. She graduated last year.

In college, Gina needed me to be a cosigner on her loan. Now I am discov-ering the cost of doing so.

Gina did not get a job right after graduation, and her bills have come due in a big way. The loan companies are demanding their money and are going to start tapping Gina’s wages. She makes just enough to get by as it is.

I understand the loan companies are due their money, but they are not will-ing to work with Gina so she can pay an affordable amount each month. I assume they will get around to going after my wages, as well, and I can’t afford that, either, since I am a sole homeowner with my own bills.

Now I know why college is so unaf-fordable for most people. I worry for my daughter and am not sure what to do. — Stressed in Pennsylvania

Dear Stressed: We spoke with Gail Cunningham, vice president of Membership and Public Relations at the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. She said to first be sure that the threat of garnishment is real, since many states do not allow it. Here are her further recommendations:

Since both you and your daughter are responsible for the debt, but neither can make the full payment, consider splitting it. Although money is tight, a shared burden lessens it.

When a collector calls, ask to speak to a supervisor. Explain why you are behind in payments and your plan to resolve the situation. It is important to have a workable plan to present and not to make any promises you can’t keep.

The collector’s goal is to get as much money as he or she can, so it may appear that they’re not going to budge. However, it is critical that you stick to your plan, as doing otherwise will only

lead to more problems.You may want to consult with a coun-

selor at an NFCC Member agency by calling 1-800-388-2227 or going online to www.DebtAdvice.org.

Dear Annie: I am married to a won-derful woman who was widowed 10 years ago. She has two adult children. The daughter is planning to be married soon.

My wife thinks I should be in the wed-ding photos with the bride and groom as if we were the parents. I disagree.

Perhaps photos of my wife and me as attendees, but certainly not in the wed-ding pictures as if I’m the bride’s father. I am 50 years old. Her daughter is 32. We have been married for five years. Please help. — Photo Shop

Dear Photo: This is up to the bride. If she wants you to be in a family wed-ding photo, please agree to do so. If she prefers that family photographs include only her mother, that is also OK, and we are glad to see that you are gracious enough to step aside.

Make sure your wife understands that it is inappropriate for her to insist that you be in these pictures.

Dear Annie: My wife is “Married to an Octopus,” and we have a very happy marriage.

I’ve been with one woman my entire life, and I’m still madly in love with her. We’ve been married for more than 19 years and have a couple of wonderful children, and I still think she’s the hot-test woman on Earth. I can’t keep my hands off of her, but I am respectful and only do it in private.

I make her breakfast in bed at least once a week, bring her flowers often and shower her with love letters. We’re not all bad. — Happily Married Mr. Octopus

Dear Annie: May I, a male in his 70s, respond to “Bob,” who said that aging, obese, snoring and unhealthy women are the reasons for bedroom problems? Perhaps in his home, but not in ours. I can’t pinpoint exactly when intimacy

began evolving into something deeper, but when I retired, I became so appre-ciative of this woman who, for more than 30 years, managed our home and family and always ensured that my life was as comfortable as possible. I show my love and thanks by having her cof-fee ready each morning and performing household labor. I don’t mind that her body has added weight (so has mine). I compliment her continuing beauty, magnificent heart and kindness to oth-ers. — Kathy’s Grateful Husband

Dear Grateful: Bless your heart. We were overwhelmed with mail from men and women, agreeing and disagreeing with Bob. Read on for a tiny sample:

From Kentucky: “Bob” is right. Men don’t look at obese women walking by. But you won’t see a woman taking a sec-ond look at an obese man, either. The majority of obese people have chosen that course by eating too much.

Name Withheld: When I was 58, my wife decided that I should get my testosterone checked. I did — and hap-pened to mention that my wife had put on an extra 50 pounds. Boy, did I get an earful on the way home. Women are wired differently. They equate sex with love. Most men feel that sex is a physi-cal thing. All this, and I still love my wife very much.

Florida: Women of America, please ignore this pathetic loser. This jerk is an embarrassment to all decent men. Plenty of men have laughable beer bellies and think watching golf and NASCAR is exercise.

Greencastle, Pa.: I’m female and am repulsed by obese women. Recently, I watched a large friend eating ice cream. She doesn’t understand why she can’t get a man interested in her.

Boston: Bob left out the most impor-tant part. In the darkness of one’s bedroom, one can be in bed with a fan-tasy. But no amount of testosterone will make it any easier to kiss the lips that have been yelling at you all day long.

California: I’m a 52-year-old man,

married for 31 years. I enjoy talking to my wife on the phone, but lose my libido as soon as I see her. Men are visu-ally stimulated. I have even searched dating sites looking for sex. Bob is cor-rect: The women on the dating sites are single because they are fat.

Ohio: A man marries a woman for two reasons: She knows how to treat a man and looks fine, and she is kind and courteous and knows her place.

Tannersville, Pa.: I always get a kick out of the ED commercials in which the woman is slim and attractive. Why don’t they show the real slob the man goes home to after working all day? They should be marketing blindfolds, not drugs.

Louisiana: I was married to a mor-bidly obese man and found his body revolting. He was a wonderful lover, but we had sex in the dark, and I tried not to look at him below the neck.

Massachusetts: Women haven’t cor-nered the market on laziness and obe-sity. It just seems that women are more likely to overlook these faults than men. So when your wife wants sex, just shut your eyes and imagine someone hot. She’s been doing that for years.

From a Nurse: According to Kaiser State Health Facts, 71.2 percent of adult men in the country are overweight or obese compared to 57 percent of adult women. People are more likely to become overweight if the environment they live in is conducive to unhealthy eating and inactivity.

Married people tend to live in the same environment. Each partner should be willing to help and support the other to reach healthy goals and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmail-box@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd St., Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Pitfalls of cosigning; Bob strikes a chord

The LaGrange alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi will sponsor its Little Miss Krimson and Kreme pageant 7 p.m. Saturday at Lafayette Christian School.

Young girls from the surrounding counties will make presentations, including talents and modeling. Several local youth and teen organi-zations, including Teens R’ Us and True Essence, will provide additional entertainment.

Admission is free.Contestants are:•JaKayla Cameron, a

second grader at Glanton

Elemen-tary School in Grantville and daugh-ter of LaShondra Gates and Michael Cameron. JaKayla enjoys reading, singing, dancing and making new friends, and aspires to be a school teacher.

•Cristiana Chachere,

5, a kindergarten stu-dent at Landmark Christian School and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Chachere. Cristiana enjoys playing tennis and soccer, swim-ming, ballet, tap and acrobatics and aspires to be a doctor.

•Sa’Meia Davidson, 7, a sec-ond grader at Fairfax Elementary School in Valley, Ala., and daugh-ter of Yolanda Jones and Vinyatta Davidson. Sa’Meia enjoys dancing on her dance team at church, cheering and

being with her family.•Jada Green, 9,

a fourth grader at Berta Weathersbee Elementary School and daughter of Stephanie and Antione Green. Jada enjoys cheering, singing and playing basketball, and aspires to be a vet-erinarian.

•Janiyah Lindsey, 9, a fourth grader at Whitesville Road Elementary School enjoys tumbling and cheerleading, and aspires to be an elemen-tary school teacher.

•Makayla Robertson, 9, a fourth grader at

Long Cane Elementary School and daughter of Katrina Robertson. Makayla enjoys singing, softball, swimming and basketball, and aspires to be a veterinarian.

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Ahdawan Yasharahla was named the first-place winner for the state of Georgia in the fourth annual “What Home Means to Me” poster contest.

The competition, sponsored by the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, provided the opportu-nity for youths across the state to showcase their art skills and writing abilities. There were

three categories for elementary, middle and high school.

The winner of each catego-ry received a cash prize, and the chance to compete at the national level. The winners at the national will receive cash prizes along with their artwork and writings published in the NAHRO calendar.

Yasharahla’s entry will be judged at the National NAHRO conference in Las Vegas, Nev., in October.

Local youth gets top prize in state in poster contestAndawan Yasharahla is awarded by LaGrange Housing Authority executive director Pat Pittman for his first-place win in the state of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials’ poster contest.

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Emma Francis Eslinger was born Sept. 18, 2012, at 6 pounds, 13 ounces and 19 inches long to Brittney Abernathy and Trey Eslinger. Emma is the grandchild of Toby Abernathy and Frank and Rhonda Eslinger.

William Rhys Jones was born Sept.

15, 2012, at 8 pounds, 1 ounce and 21 inches long to Brandi and William Jones. Brandon is the grandchild of Randy Nelson, Charlotte Fitzgerald, James Jones and Melissa Donald.

Maddison Jean Harpole was born Sept. 11, 2012, at 8 pounds, 10 ounces and 20.5

inches long to Rhonda and David Harpole. Maddison is the grandchild of Buddy and Diane Harpole, Randy and Melody Seem and the late Jeannette “Jean” Seem.

Austin Alexander was born Aug. 28, 2012, at Northside Hospital to David and Andrea Alexander of Marietta.

Meadow Ivy Blandinburg was born Aug. 21, 2012, at 7 pounds, 5 ounces and 19.5 inches long to Mia and Marcus Blandingburg. Meadow is the grandchild of Teresa Bray, Charles Allen Sr., Rhonda Blandingburg and Terrell Blandingburg; and great grandchild of Betty Dallas.

During the weekend of Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, former students, faculty and staff of Ethel W. Kight School – currently Ethel Kight Magnet School – gathered in LaGrange for a reunion. The group celebrated the school years of 1956, when the school opened, to 1973, when it integrated with Troup County schools.

The reunion also was a tribute to Ethel W. Kight, the school’s namesake, described as a lady of vision, a heritage and a legacy.

The reunion kickoff began Aug. 31 as the group gathered at Lafayette Garden Inn for the a meet and greet and registration. The group was treated with

food, followed by a dance of old and new music pro-vided by D.J. Monte, son of a reunion participant. About 300 people attended.

On Sept. 1, the group, schoolmates and guests, participated in a variety of activities, including a golf tournament, tour of the school led by 1966 graduate Marion Shealey, a visit and tour of the Explorations in Antiquity Center, as well as a visit to the Antioch Community Festival. On Sept. 1, participants took pictures and ate a banquet at Del’Avant with tributes to former principal Jone Debnam by his son, Jone Debnam Jr., and to Kight by her nephew, state Rep.

Carl Von Epps, and by former teacher and principal Oliver Greene.

The Rev. Willie T. Edmondson, a school attendee, was keynote speaker. Following the meal and program, the group danced with live band accompaniment.

On Sept. 2, the group traveled to West Point for church services at Bethlehem Baptist Church. After a powerful sermon by Edmondson, the reunion group was treated to a farewell reception sponsored by the church and Edmondson before dispersing.

The reunion committee and reunion effort was coor-dinated by Alton Burton, class of 1966.

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State Rep. Carl Von Epps stands to talk to a group of Ethel Kigh School reunion attendees about his aunt, the school’s namesake, the late Ethel Kight.

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of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Valley, Ala.

Roe’s Chapel United Methodist Church hosts a Women’s Day program at 2:30 p.m. Pastor Johnie Basketville and Rising Grove Baptist Church are special guests.

Welcome Baptist Church hosts its 92nd church anniversary at 2:30 p.m. with special guests the Rev. Crawford Strozier of Solomon Grove Baptist Church.

New Solomon Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 1825 Pole Bridge Road in Pine Mountain, presents “Packing the Pews with the Fruits of the Spirits” at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Fred Stanley of Zion Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Valley, Ala., is

guest speaker.The Arbor Grove Baptist Church at

200 Brown St. celebrates its anniver-sary at 3 p.m.

WednesdayGrief Share, a support group for

people grieving the loss of someone close, meets at 6 p.m. at Cedarcrest Community Church, 2380 Roanoke Road. 706-882-6327.

Trinity SDA Church Prayer and Bible Study Center at 710 Jenkins St. holds community prayer and Bible study at 7 p.m. Pastor Walter Gordon, 706-812-0760

Hogansville Church of Christ, 4885 Mountville Road, holds a study on the book of Revelation at 7 p.m. with speaker J. Robert Brooks. 706-637-

6476St. Paul CME Church, 250 Lower

Glass Bridge Road, hosts Bible study at 7 p.m.

ThursdayCelebrate Recovery, a faith-based

recovery program, meets at 6 p.m. with a fellowship meal and worship at the welcome center of First Baptist Church on Church Street. 706-884-5631

Immanuel Ministries and Worship Center at 75 Patillo Road holds Bible study at 6:30 p.m.

True Life Christian Ministries, 500 S. Lee St., hosts Bible study at 7:30 p.m. for adults and youth.

FridayTrue Life Christian Ministries, 500

S. Lee St., hosts movie night from 7 to 9 p.m. Sylvia Cameron, 706-402-6670

Sept. 29Trinity SDA Church Prayer and

Bible Study Center at 710 Jenkins St. holds a free Bible study from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Pastor Walter Gordon, 706-812-0760

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Q: My husband and I have three kids from his previous marriage and two from mine. He favors his kids and he accuses me of favoring mine. We fight about it a lot. Please help!

Juli: Playing favorites among children can be an issue in any family, but it’s especially difficult in blended families. It’s unrealistic to think that you’ll have the same feelings of affection and con-nection with stepchildren as you do with your biological children, particu-larly early in the “blending” process.

To the extent that you and your husband are divided on this issue, the problem will grow worse. You’ll begin to view his children as causing division and he’ll feel the same way about yours. It’s critical that you begin to work as a team, learning to love and understand all the children. Sometimes a forced role reversal can help. For example, you might focus on praising his children and he focus on praising yours.

Your feelings do not have to deter-

mine your behavior. You may feel more connected to your kids, but that doesn’t mean you’re destined to act out those feelings through favoritism. Part of maturity is learning to act on principle rather than always responding to emo-tion. It might be helpful for you and your husband to write out principles that you want to guide your parenting. For example, “Every child in our fam-ily is worthy of love,” or, “Every child in our family deserves to be heard and understood.”

Working through the complications of step-parenting takes a lot of effort and determination. But the results will be worth it. For more tips on how to blend your families together, visit www.smartstepfamilies.com.

Q: My wife and I sent our last child off to college this fall. I’m worried that we won’t be able to reconnect now that the kids are out of the house. Do you have any suggestions?

Jim: You’ve invested many years

together as partners in parenting. But it’s probably been a while since you and your wife have been able to relate to each another as best friends. Author Alyson Weasley has developed a list of 10 suggestions to help make this hap-pen.

1) Recognize that friendship takes a lot of work — and time. Even without the kids at home, you’ll still lead busy lives. Establish a few hours each week to spend quality time together.

2) Find out what your spouse is pas-sionate about, whether it’s theater or sports or gardening. Then join her in it, even if it’s not your cup of tea.

3) Find some things that you and your spouse both enjoy, as well.

4) Use conflict to sharpen and purify your friendship. Honest disagreement is essential for healthy communication.

5) Care for one another. You’d put an arm around a childhood friend dur-ing tough times. Do the same for your spouse!

6) Be accountable and honest about your own hang-ups and struggles. Don’t hide them from your spouse.

7) Establish daily habits together. Pray or take a walk. Just a few minutes of uninterrupted time with the one you love can work wonders.

8) Affirm one another every day. Make an effort to highlight your spouse’s strengths.

9) Be transparent. If you’re feeling angry or sad or depressed, don’t be afraid to say so.

10) Communicate, communicate, communicate! Relationship experts agree that regular communication between spouses can build a friendship that weathers the storms of life.

Maintaining marital friendship takes a lot of work, but it’s worth the effort. It will help you and your wife develop deeper intimacy as you move into the “empty nest” years.

Be mindful not to play favorites in blended stepfamily

From the LaGrange Daily News, 1987.Front Page NewsNew Troup High School to Open

Tuesday — Six years in the planning and $9 million in the building, Troup County Comprehensive High School will open for classes Sept. 8 as county schools being the 1987-1988 academic year.

The new facility, built with more than $9 million in state funds, will house more than 1,400 students in grades nine through 12. Planning for the school began in 1981 when officials of West Point approached Troup County about consolidating the school systems.

The 125,750-square-foot school lies on a 69-acre site at the intersection of Hamilton Road and Interstate 85. It includes two academic wings and a voca-tional wing.

Also opening Tuesday will be Whitesville Road Middle School and Lee’s Crossing Middle School.

“Students will return to air-conditioned, revitalized buildings,” Superintendent Otis Abernathy said.

$2 Million Renovations Begin at Smith Hall — Renovation of historic Smith Hall has begin, according to Dr. Walter Y. Murphy, president of LaGrange College.

The contract was awarded to Daniel Lumber Company, LaGrange contractor. Ward and Wetherington Inc. of LaGrange is the architectural firm. Cost of the reno-

vation will be just over $2 million and completion of the projects is expected to take approximately one and half years.

Funds for the project were made pos-sible by a matching grant of $1 million from the Fuller E. Callaway Foundation and from broad-based support of alumni, trustees, employees, businesses, founda-tions and individual friends of the college.

Area Meeting to Explore Teen Issues — A special community meeting is set for Sept. 21 to discuss ways community leaders can pool together to help solve teen-related problems in the area, according to City Councilman Chris Joseph. The community-wide meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in the city recorder’s courtroom.

The meeting was called in response to a June 23 proposal made by Lewis L. Banks Sr., education chairman for the Troup County N.A.A.C.P., at a meeting of the LaGrange City Council. Banks urged the mayor and council to enlist community leaders to become role models for a target group — middle school-aged children, grades six through eight — in an effort to battle social, health and moral problems faced by the youth.

In July the city council appointed three area groups to tackle the request for a “community-wide attack.” The groups

are the Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Development, a Troup 2000 committee and the Task Force on Teenage Fatalities.

60 Meet to Discuss Youth Issues — About 60 concerned community mem-bers met in the city recorder’s courtroom Monday night to address problems faced

by area youth and to develop a strategy on how to combat those problems.

City Councilman Chris Joseph, chairman of the council’s com-munity development committee, headed the community meeting, which saw representatives from various help-related agencies shar-ing ideas on local concerns.

Mary Balcerak of Mental Health expressed great interest in the

project and suggested that it might be more beneficial to start the project with fourth graders, because “that’s when peer pressure kicks in.”

Chris Joseph and Lewis Banks expressed great hopes that area agencies already working towards solving teen problems will join with the community group to share input and help in starting a broad-ranged effort.

The group will continue to gather at called meetings in the future.

Teachers of the Year Honored — Two local outstanding educators have been honored as Teachers of the Year

in Troup County and LaGrange City Schools. Mountville first grade teacher Brenda Clifton, a 17-year teaching vet-eran, is Troup’s 1987 Teacher of the Year. LaGrange’s Teacher of the Year is Bill Parsons, a sixth-grade instructor at Berta Weathersbee School since 1981. Both teachers will represent their respective school systems in the state competition.

West Georgia Tech Grad Honored for Achievement — Mike Baker, a spring graduate of West Georgia Tech recently passed all eight automotive ser-vice excellence tests on his first try, the first local student to achieve this feat.

Baker earlier demonstrated his ability by winning the local VICA (Vocational Industrial Clubs of America) contest. His instructor, Warren King, nominat-ed Baker to be the GOAL (Georgia Occupational Award Leadership) repre-sentative for two consecutive years.

Off to College — Faculty and students at the University of Georgia won’t be see-ing double this year, but they will be see-ing two sets of twins from LaGrange — quadruple assets on the Athens campus. Freshmen Dan and Don Hudson both plan pre-med majors. Kim Fowler will be a sophomore transfer from Furman University, majoring in nutrition science and research, while Karen Fowler will be a sophomore studying interior design.

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Charles E. McCann and Marie Liles McCann celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 29 with a party for friends and relatives at Gray Hill Baptist Church.

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There was a time when Democrats and Republicans alike could talk sense about tax rates, in terms of what is best for the economy, without demagoguery about “tax cuts for the rich.”

Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and John F. Kennedy spoke plainly about the fact that

higher tax rates on indi-viduals and businesses did not automatically translate into higher tax revenues for the govern-ment. Beyond some point, high tax rates on those with high incomes sim-ply led to those incomes being invested in tax-free bonds, with the revenue from those bonds being

completely lost to the government — and the investments lost to the economy.

As President John F. Kennedy put it, “it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.” This was because investors’ “efforts to avoid tax liabilities” make “certain types of less productive activity more profitable than more valu-able undertakings,” and this in turn “inhibits our growth and efficiency.”

Both Democratic presi-dent Woodrow Wilson and Republican presidents Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush said virtually the same thing.

This disconnect between higher tax rates and higher tax revenues is not peculiar to the United States. Iceland and India both collected more tax revenue after tax rates were cut. In Iceland the corporate tax rate was cut from 45 percent to 18 percent between 1991 and 2001 — and the rev-

enue from corporate taxes tripled at the lower rate.

It doesn’t always have to be this way. Everything depends on how high the tax rate is initially and how other things are going in the economy. But at least we can do without the claims that tax cuts are just ways of helping “the rich” or that we have to raise the tax rate because we have a deficit. We need more tax revenue, not higher tax rates that can backfire.

This has not always been either a partisan issue or an ideologi-cal issue. John Maynard Keynes said in 1933 that “given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduc-tion of taxation will run a better chance, than an increase, of balancing the budget.”

New York Times eco-nomics writer David Leonhardt recently took the “no panacea” approach to rebut the argument for tax cuts. Presidents Bush 41 and Bill Clinton both raised tax rates, and the economy continued to grow, while the economy declined after President Bush 43’s tax rate cuts,

Leonhardt argued.The 800-pound gorilla

that gets ignored by peo-ple who use these talking points is the dominant economic factor of those years — namely the huge and unsustainable hous-ing boom that led to a catastrophic housing bust that took down the whole economy on Bush 43’s watch.

Tax cuts are not a pana-cea. In fact, nothing is a panacea or else, by defini-tion, all the problems of the world would already be solved.

Ironically, it was Mr. Leonhardt’s own news-paper that reported in 2006, “An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy is driving down the projected budget defi-cit this year.”

Expectations are of course in the eye of the beholder. Rising tax rev-enues in the wake of a cut in high tax rates was a possibility expected by five different administra-tions, both Democratic and Republican, over a period of more than three-quarters of a century.

No one expected auto-

matic and instant surges in economic growth. Both John F. Kennedy and John Maynard Keynes spoke in terms of the long-run effects of lower tax rates, not the kind of instant results suggested by Mr. Leonhardt’s graph of growth rates — least of all during a very volatile housing market in which American homeowners took trillions of dollars in equity out of their homes.

Back during the 1920s, when there was no such monumental economic factor as the housing boom and bust until 1929, there was a rapid increase in both tax revenues and jobs after the tax rates were cut. Today, the uncertainties generated by an activist and anti-business administration probably have more of a chilling effect on invest-ments than the tax rate does.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoon-ists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Sept. 18The Albany (Ga.)

Herald on Constitution Week:

Sept. 17 marked the 225th anniversary of the world’s most enlightened political document — the Constitution of the United States.

This document, which replaced the Articles of Confederation on Sept. 17, 1787, lives on as the blueprint for how a repub-lic should work. It makes a grand statement, one that set course for a new direc-tion in government.

Its seven articles and 27 amendments — the first 10, the Bill of Rights, were designed to spell out immunities of individual U.S. citizens and to close off the danger of tyranny from a central govern-ment — are what separate America from the rest of the world.

For some, these are just words on parchment. But for an American, they should be cherished.

Because of these inspired words, Americans are free to speak words of their own without fear of gov-ernment reprisal. We are free to pray, pontificate, protest, soothe, offend, encourage, criticize or just say nothing — whichever we choose.

As a gauge of the Constitution’s importance, you can look back to the first president, George Washington. Washington’s copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights — acquired by his Mount Vernon estate this summer — shows notes he made in that book. The notations, something fairly uncom-mon for Washington, show he looked at it closely as his guide for executing his duties as the nation’s chief executive.

We have to wonder whether many of today’s elected officials ever con-sult the document. They would do well to follow Washington’s example.

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The great tax divide will continue to divied us all

WASHINGTON — Now it’s Mitt Romney who wants to be the candidate of change.

Romney seized on President Barack Obama’s comment that “you can’t change Washington from the inside.” Grasping for a way to right his cam-paign and appeal to independents, the Republican nominee said he has what it takes to end the nasty partisanship in the nation’s capital.

“I can change Washington,” Romney said Thursday. “I will change Washington. We’ll get the job done from the inside. Republicans and Democrats will come together.”

Romney was expected to press the issue again Friday during a campaign rally in Nevada, a state hard hit by the nation’s housing and unemployment woes.

Obama, traveling Friday to Virginia and addressing an AARP convention by satellite, planned to keep hammering Romney for comments he made in a private fundraiser about 47 percent of the country believing they are victims and entitled to a government handouts.

Obama, who ran for president in 2008 on a pledge to fix Washington’s combat-ive tone, said in an interview that he had come to the conclusion “you can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.” Adding that he wanted people to speak out on issues, he went on to say: “So something that I’d really like to concen-trate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so that they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward.”

After Romney focused on the “can’t change Washington from the inside” segment of Obama’s remarks, the presi-dent’s campaign countered quickly by

noting that Romney said exactly that in 2007, when he was running for the 2008 Republican nomination: “I don’t think you change Washington from the inside. I think you change it from the outside.”

Obama adviser David Axelrod defend-ed the president’s comments on NBC’s “Today.” ”He said in order to move Washington and to move the Congress, you have to enlist the American peo-ple,” Axelrod said.

“That was the lesson he learned from the standoff on the debt ceiling last summer, and he’s been making that point consistently,” Axelrod said. “The fact that Gov. Romney picked up on it and attacked him on it is just one more example of how he’s just cascading from one gratuitous attack to another, instead of talking about solutions to the problems we face.”

Obama’s campaign also released a web video Friday morning targeting older voters, many of whom would fall into the group of Americans Romney referenced when he said that nearly half of Americans don’t pay income tax but get benefits. Senior citizens receiving Medicare make up about 15 percent of those getting federal benefits; about 22 percent of those not paying income tax are seniors who get tax breaks that offset their income.

The Obama video features voters commenting on Romney’s assertions, including one man who says “It offends me.”

Polling shows Obama with a slight lead nationally, as well as in many of the eight or so battleground states that will decide the election. That includes Virginia, where Democrats with access to internal polling say Obama is up 3 or 4 percentage points over Romney in Virginia, a slimmer margin than in some recent public polling.

Obama has also pulled ahead of Romney in cash on hand, a key measure of a campaign’s financial strength. The Democrat has more than $88 million to spend in the campaign’s final weeks, while Romney has just over $50 million at his disposal.

Romney’s campaign is seeking to regroup after a rough stretch that included the emergence of a video in which he tells wealthy donors at a private fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax and that they believe they are victims and enti-tled to an array of federal benefits. Obama has cast those remarks as a sign that Romney is out of touch with most Americans.

“When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be depen-dent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven’t gotten around a lot,” Obama said Thursday during a forum on Univision, the Spanish-language TV network.

Romney is also facing criticism from some in his own party that he’s spend-ing too much time raising money and not enough time talking to voters in the eight or so battleground states that will decide the election. In response, his campaign added a Sunday rally in Colorado to his schedule and announced a three-day Ohio bus tour that kicks off Monday.

At the same time, his wife, Ann, said GOP critics should lay off. “Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” she said Thursday evening in an interview with Radio Iowa.

“This is hard, and you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now, and it’s an important election,” she said. “And it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is

and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experi-ence and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”

The president will campaign this weekend in Wisconsin, a state Romney is trying to put in play. Republicans are hoping the addition of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to the GOP ticket will help them claim victory there — or at least force Obama to spend time and money to hold the state.

Even with Election Day under seven weeks away, voters across the country are already casting ballots. By week’s end, early voting will be under way in two dozen states.

Obama was also making a play for older voters Friday by speaking via sat-ellite to an AARP convention and taking questions from the group’s members. The president’s campaign is seeking to gain an advantage with seniors and vot-ers nearing retirement by attacking the Republican ticket’s plan for Medicare.

The popular federal entitlement for seniors was the focus of a new televi-sion ad from the Obama campaign. The ad, scheduled to air Friday in Colorado, Florida and Iowa, presents a Democratic refrain — that Romney and Ryan would turn Medicare into a voucher program that could raise seniors’ health costs by up to $6,400 a year.

Independent groups have said that a House Republican budget proposal led by Ryan could lead to higher costs for older Americans. But exactly how much is far from clear. The ad relies on the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning think tank, for the fig-ure it cites.

Supporters of the Ryan plan say com-petition among private insurance pro-viders could wring waste out of the system and bring down costs.

Romney tries to seize the mantle of change

WASHINGTON (AP) — Issued 150 years ago this week, President Abraham Lincoln’s ini-tial proclamation to free Southern slaves is enjoy-ing a public showcase to match its increased pro-file among scholars.

Lincoln released his lesser-known pre-liminary Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862 — 100 days before the final version. The first of the two docu-ments has gained impor-tance among historians as a turning point in the Civil War.

Slavery and its aboli-tion were once treated by historians as minor parts of the story behind the Civil War, but that began to change after the Civil Rights move-ment of the 1960s, said historian Edward Ayers, president of the University of Richmond. Since then, the steps that led to emancipation have been recognized for their importance — with the Sept. 22 proclamation being a prime example.

“All our thinking about this has undergone remarkable recasting over the last 50 years,” Ayers said. “People begin now with slavery as the fundamental fact and emancipation and less with union as being the sole focus of attention.”

C o m m e m o r a t i o n s

began Monday with a national forum mod-erated by Ayers at the Smithsonian Institution. The discussion was broadcast to 100 schools, museums and libraries. The National Endowment for the Humanities also organized readings at the Lincoln Memorial.

Meanwhile, the only surviving version of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in Lincoln’s handwriting will make an eight-city tour of New York state this fall. The official government copy from the National Archives will be shown beginning Saturday in New York City at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Other exhibits will fea-ture copies of the final version in the months preceding the Jan. 1 anni-versary of its issuing.

The preliminary proc-lamation served as a warning that if the Confederacy did not end its “rebellion” against the United States and vol-untarily abolish slavery, then Lincoln would order the slaves freed on the first day of 1863. Lincoln believed it was a way to use his military powers to push to end slavery.

Lincoln drafted the preliminary proclamation over the summer of 1862 but held off on releas-

ing it because of Union defeats. He felt there was enough of a victory when Confederate forces turned back after the Battle of Antietam in late August that he went ahead.

There was once skep-ticism among historians about Lincoln’s deliber-ate approach. For exam-ple, neither version of the proclamation covered five slave-holding Union border states that were freed in separate federal actions. But Ayers says most scholars now view Lincoln as shrewd.

“What we used to see in some ways as a kind of political calculation, we now recognize as a nec-essary political ability to get things done,” Ayers said.

Slaves also had decided by the time Lincoln was drafting his proclamation in the summer of 1862 that they had a role to play in the war, said his-torian Thavolia Glymph of Duke University. They were flocking to Union soldiers to declare alle-giance with the North.

“ The prel imi -nary Emancipation Proclamation essentially confirms, affirms what the slaves have been say-ing all along — that you can’t win it without us,” Glymph said. “Lincoln agrees.”

Even before the pre-liminary emancipation,

Lincoln floated sever-al ideas about how to end slavery. In 1861, he put out a plan for Delaware and other bor-der states that would pay people to free slaves they owned, though it was never enacted. He also was studying ideas about encouraging slaves to return to Africa or Central America to sepa-rate the races, historian Eric Foner of Columbia University said.

His declaration that slaves would be freed was a turning point in a long process, Foner said.

“No one person or one moment is responsible for the end of slavery,” he said.

The government issued miniature copies of the preliminary emancipa-tion that were distribut-ed widely to soldiers in the field. Some survive and have been traded by collectors.

The official U.S. copy with Lincoln’s signature was a paper booklet held together with a ribbon. It’s in relatively good condition at the National Archives but is rarely shown. It has been han-dled less than the final proclamation, which has endured long-term exhi-bition and exposure to light in the past, said Catherine Nicholson, an archives conservator.

In recent years,

researchers visiting the National Archives have become increasingly interested in seeing records related to eman-cipation, from the federal government’s Freedman’s Bureau and pension records for U.S. Colored Troops, said archivist Reginald Washington.

Views on the history and impact of emancipa-tion continue to evolve, Ayers said, while at the same time many people still separate black his-tory and white history.

“What historians have shown us over the past 50 years is that these are all part of the same history,” Ayers said. “Listening to just one of those stories is like listening to half a conversation. You can’t understand what was

going on.”Visitors recently to the

National Mall on a recent day, though, generally didn’t know much about Lincoln’s initial warning on slavery.

Ray Morrison, a 64-year-old architect from Irvine, Calif., said he was familiar with the final version of the document but not its precursor.

“I do recall that it was a tactic to focus the Civil War, because there were some defeats, to make it not a war of rebellion but a moral issue,” he said of the Jan. 1 document.

Daniel Smith, 21, a stu-dent at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, said he had only been taught about emancipation coming in January 1863.

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DALLAS, Ga. (AP) — An emaciated teenage Georgia boy told police he was forced to kneel for hours at a time by his stepfather and mother, who now face charges of child cru-elty after allegedly confining the teen in a bedroom for years and then sending him by bus to Los Angeles to seek a homeless shelter.

Investigators in Paulding County, Ga., planned to conduct a Friday afternoon search at the home where authorities allege Mitch Comer was kept in such seclusion that his two younger sisters in the same house did not know what he looked like.

“The sisters haven’t seen the brother in over two years,” Paulding County sheriff ’s Cpl. Ashley Henson said. “They didn’t even know what color his hair was.”

Stepfather Paul Comer and mother Sheila Comer face charg-es of false imprisonment and cruelty to children, Paulding

County jail records show. They were being held without bond.

Arrest warrants filed Sept. 12 and 13 in Georgia say the couple “made Mitch kneel on the floor, bend his head and place his fore-head against the wall, and place his hands behind his head for long periods of time.”

The boy said he was fed small quantities of food daily, accord-ing to a Los Angeles police statement.

Renee Rockwell, a lawyer for Sheila Comer, said her client is “standing by her not guilty plea.” Rockwell said she hopes a judge grants her client bond at an Oct. 4 hearing, saying her client is not a flight risk and that her son has been removed from the home.

“I’m staying deep in prayer that the judge sees fit to grant her bond,” Rockwell said.

Phone messages left for a law-yer for Paul Comer were not immediately returned Friday afternoon.

The FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have joined the case, Henson said.

Mitch Comer told police his stepfather gave him $200 and a list of homeless shelters before he was put on a bus to Los Angeles on this 18th birth-day, police in Los Angles said Thursday.

Retired Los Angeles police Sgt. Joe Gonzalez was work-ing security at a downtown bus station Sept. 11 when he spot-ted the 87-pound teenage boy who stood just over 5 feet tall and looked much younger, Los Angeles police said in a state-ment Thursday.

The boy told Gonzalez his stepfather declared that he was now a man before putting the teen on a bus.

Because he was so childlike, police worried that he wasn’t as old as he claimed and decided to investigate further. The teen told authorities he had suffered years of abuse after being taken

out of school in the eighth grade.Paul Comer had his own busi-

ness repairing home appliances, said next-door neighbor John White. They rarely spoke.

Comer’s wife never left the house unless she was with her husband, not even to check the mail, White said. Their two daughters would sometimes come outside and play, but only in the back yard. Neighbors assumed the girls didn’t go to school either — they never caught the bus that picked up other children in the cul-de-sac every morning.

Neighbors said they had no clue the Comers had a son until a detective came knocking at their doors asking questions last week.

“I had no idea, no clue. There were no signs of a son at all,” said Dion Walker, who’s lived next to the Comers for two years. “The few occasions we would see them go to the van, it was always the parents and the

two girls.”She said her 8-year-old daugh-

ter would occasionally play with the Comer girls, who she ini-tially thought were the same age as her own daughter. They were the same size and seemed to have the same maturity level. However, she said police later told her the Comer girls were 11 and 13.

Walker said the Comer family did not take part in neighbor-hood association meetings and their girls never attended the neighborhood Halloween block parties.

“We said one day, why don’t you come over here? And they said their father would not let them cross the yard. So from that point I stopped letting my daughter go over there. And they would just stare at us.”

Walker said police swarmed the Comers’ home last week, arresting the parents and tak-ing both girls into protective custody.

New details emerge on Georgia teen found in L.A.

Lesser-known Emancipation document gets spotlight

Kelvin ChanAssociated Press

In a now familiar global rit-ual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut’s latest iPhone.

Eager buyers formed long lines Friday at Apple Inc. stores in Asia, Europe and North America to be the first to get their hands on the latest ver-sion of the smartphone.

In New York, several hundred people lined up outside Apple’s 5th Avenue store. Jimmy Peralta, a 30-year-old business management student, waited three hours before getting the chance to buy his new gadget. Was it worth the wait?

“Definitely,” he said, noting that the new phone’s larger screen and lighter weight com-pelled him to upgrade from the iPhone 4. “A little treat for me on a Friday morning, why not. Why not be part of something fantastic? It’s just such a smart phone it does all the thinking for you, you can’t get any easier than that.”

Catheryne Caveed, 23, was in line at a Verizon store in the Queens borough of New York. An iPhone 4 user, she had no regrets about skipping last year’s model, the iPhone 4S. The only real upgrade in the 4S, she said, was Siri, the voice-controlled “personal assistant.”

“The 4S looked the same as the 4,” Caveed said. With the 5, “everything is different — even the headphones.”

Apple’s stock was up less than one percent, or $5.61, to $704.23 in late morning trad-

ing.Earlier, in London, some

shoppers had camped out for a week in a queue that snaked around the block. In Hong Kong, the first customers were greeted by staff cheer-ing, clapping, chanting “iPhone 5! iPhone 5!” and high-fiving them as they were escorted one-by-one through the front door.

The smartphone will be on sale in the U.S. and Canada hours after its launch in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Britain, France and Germany. It will launch in 22 more countries a week later. The iPhone 5 is thinner, light-er, has a taller screen, faster processor, updated software and can work on faster “fourth generation” mobile networks.

The handset has become a hot seller despite a new map app that early users have deemed inferior to Google Maps, the software it replaces. Apple received 2 million orders in the first 24 hours of announcing its release date, more than twice

the number for the iPhone 4S in the same period when that phone launched a year ago.

In a sign of the intense demand, police in Osaka, Japan, were investigating the theft of nearly 200 iPhones 5s, including 116 from one shop alone, Kyodo News reported. In London, police sought help finding a man wanted in connection with the theft of 252 iPhone 5s from a shop in Wimbledon early Friday morn-ing.

Analysts have estimated Apple will ship as many as 10 million of the new iPhones by the end of September.

Some fans went to extremes to be among the first buyers by arriving at Apple’s flagship stores day ahead of the release.

In downtown Sydney, Todd Foot, 24, showed up three days early to nab the coveted first spot. He spent about 18 hours a day in a folding chair, catching a few hours’ sleep each night in a tent on the sidewalk.

Foot’s dedication was largely a marketing stunt, however. He

writes product reviews for a technology website that will give away the phone after Foot reviews it.

“I just want to get the phone so I can feel it, compare it and put it on our website,” he said while slumped in his chair.

In Paris, the phone launch was accompanied by a workers’ protest — a couple dozen for-mer and current Apple employ-ees demonstrated peacefully to demand better work benefits. Some decried what they called Apple’s transformation from an offbeat company into a multina-tional powerhouse.

But the protesters — urged by a small labor union to dem-onstrate at Apple stores around France — were far outnum-bered by lines of would-be buy-ers on the sidewalk outside the store near the city’s gilded opera house.

Not everyone lining up at the various Apple stores was an enthusiast, though. In Hong Kong, university student Kevin Wong, waiting to buy a black 16 gigabyte model for 5,588 Hong Kong dollars ($720), said he was getting one “for the cash.” He planned to imme-diately resell it to one of the numerous grey market retailers catering to mainland Chinese buyers. China is one of Apple’s fastest growing markets but a release date for the iPhone 5 there has not yet been set.

Wong was required to give his local identity card num-ber when he signed up for his iPhone on Apple’s website. The requirement prevents purchas-es by tourists including main-land Chinese, who have a repu-

tation for scooping up high-end goods on trips to Hong Kong because there’s no sales tax and because of the strength of China’s currency. Even so, the mainlanders will probably buy it from the resellers “at a higher price — a way higher price,” said Wong, who hoped to make a profit of HK$1,000 ($129).

A similar money-making strategy was being pursued in London, where many in the crowds — largely from the city’s extensive Asian com-munity — planned to either send the phones to family and friends back home as gifts or sell them in countries where they are much more expensive.

“It makes a really nice gift to family back home,” said Muhammad Alum, 30, a mini-cab driver from Bangladesh. “It will be two or three weeks before there is a SIM card there that can work it, but it’s coming soon.”

Others who had waited over-night said the iPhones cost roughly twice as much in India as in Britain, making them very welcome as gifts.

Tokyo’s glitzy downtown Ginza district not only had a long line in front of the Apple store, but another across the main intersection at Softbank, the first carrier in Japan to offer iPhones.

Hidetoshi Nakamura, a 25-year-old auto engineer, said he’s an Apple fan because it’s an innovator.

“I love Apple,” he said, stand-ing near the end of a two-block-long line, reading a book and listening to music on his iPod.

“It’s only the iPhone for me.”

iPhone 5 launch draws Apple fans worldwide

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Around 30,000 Libyans marched through the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday in an unprecedented protest to demand the disbanding of powerful militias in the wake of last week’s attack that killed the U.S. ambas-sador and three other Americans.

The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, in which at least one mili-tia is suspected of par-ticipating, has sparked a backlash among many Libyans against the mul-tiple armed factions that have run rampant for months in cities around the country. The militias have become more power-ful than the regular secu-rity forces, and successive governments since last year’s fall of Moammar Gadhafi have been unable to rein them in.

The militias, which are the legacy of the “revo-lutionary brigades” that fought Gadhafi in the civil war, have taken on roles as security, guarding state facilities and neigh-borhoods, but they also are accused of acting like gangs, detaining people, intimidating critics and clashing in the streets.

Friday’s march targeted in particular Ansar al-Sha-riah, a militia of Islamic extremists who officials and witnesses say par-ticipated in the consul-ate attack. The group is also accused of attacking Muslims who don’t follow its harsh interpretation of Islam.

“No, no, to militias,” the giant crowd chanted as it marched along a lake in the center of Benghazi, filling a broad boulevard. They carried banners and signs demanding that militias disband and that the government build up police to take their place in keeping security. “Benghazi is in a trap,” signs read. “Where is the army, where is the police?”

Other signs mourned the killing of U.S. Amb. Chris Stevens, reading,

“The ambassador was Libya’s friend” and “Libya lost a friend.”

“Benghazi has been thrown wide open, it’s full of chaos, looting and crime,” said Ihsan Abdel-Baqi, a woman in her 50s who joined the march. “We want our dignity back. We are not afraid of anything.”

The giant crowd poured into a square in front of the main camp of Ansar al-Shariah in the city, unfurling a long Libyan flag and chanting, “With our lives and souls, we redeem you, Benghazi.” Military helicopters and fighter jets flew overhead, and police mingled in the crowd.

Several thousand Ansar al-Shariah supporters lined up in front of the camp in the face of the crowd, waving black and white banners. But there was no immediate friction between the two sides.

The militias first arose when Benghazi and the rest of the east rose up against Gadhafi’s rule early last year. Residents formed local “brigades” that took up arms and fought regime forces. Over the civil war that followed such militias formed around the coun-try.

Since Gadhafi’s fall and death around a year ago, the militias have remained in place and have grown stronger, boasting arsenals of auto-matic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and pick-up trucks with heavy machine guns. Many have no particular ideo-logical bent, but some are strongly Islamist.

Their strength was on display in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. Heavily armed gunmen believed to be militiamen mixed in with a crowd of Libyans protesting an anti-Islam film outside the mission, Libyan offi-cials say. Libyan security forces at the scene with-drew because they were heavily outnumbered and outgunned.

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MOSCOW (AP) — Vera Lesovets held up photographs of her dog, Yasha, a spunky 5-year-old corgi, nipping play-fully at the heels of a German shepherd twice her size.

But Yasha’s life was cut short this week: After snacking on something in a Moscow park, she fell into a seizure at Lesovets’ apartment and began foam-ing at the mouth. The family rushed her to a nearby animal clinic, where the veterinarian said this was the sixth case he had seen that week, and there was nothing he could do.

On Friday police opened a criminal investigation into what they suspect are poisonings by dog killers. Cruelty to animals is common in Russia and animal protection laws are rarely enforced, but reports of as many as 70 dead dogs this week have spurred the police to take action.

While some residents suspected that a vigilante matriarch, wary of her children being bitten, might be the cause of the attacks, Lesovets was quick to suspect a more malicious culprit: dog hunters, a kind of deadly hobby gaining ground in the Russian online community.

Dog hunting forums — the most well-known of which are Vreditelyam.net and Pest.net — are populated by those who call themselves “volunteers” and provide

graphic photos of their trophy killings. The sites require extensive registration and identification processes for partici-pants.

“It’s a whole community. They have websites,” said Lesovets, an event man-ager. “They write how they kill them, post photographs, tell you which poison is better and where to buy it.”

In the case of this neighborhood’s dogs, the poison of choice was amanita phalloides, also known as the death cap mushroom, which has no known anti-dote and is dangerous for both animals and humans.

Before the attacks, the Pyatidesyatiletya Oktyabrya park in southwest Moscow — named to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution — allowed residents to give their dogs a moment’s respite from cramped city living and frolic without a leash in the grass or in the snow.

Owners no longer feel safe to do that, as the number of slain dogs keeps grow-ing. Police estimates have ranged from 40 to 70 killings, based on complaints filed by owners. According to the web-site of one nearby veterinary clinic alone, they had received about 20 cases that week, 14 of them fatal.

The police were first notified of the poisonings early this week and for-

mally opened a criminal investigation on Friday.

Masha Beshina was out walking her dog on Thursday when she discovered some pieces of ham suspiciously scat-tered in the part of the park where she usually walks her dog.

“Unfortunately the police don’t take measures,” said the middle-aged teach-er. “Because for them a dog is not really something that exists.”

Russian law calls for a prison sentence of up to two years for those who kill or abuse animals, but animal rights activ-ists say it has been rarely enforced.

“We need investigative bodies, the police, the courts, the judges to start working,” said Darya Khmelnitskaya, director of Virta, a charitable fund for animal welfare. “The legal clause already exists.”

She said that one way to target dog killers would be to track IP addresses of the users who spread information about it online or shut down the sites completely. While some of the sites have been closed, information is still easily spread by individuals through websites such as Vkontakte, the largest Russian social network.

According to Khmelnitskaya, only nine cases against dog hunters in Moscow have made it to court since 2011, with

just one ending in a conviction.On the site Vreditelyam.net, now

moved to the domain vredy.org, the owners state in their manifesto that they consider themselves keepers of the peace: Since Soviet times, the popula-tion of stray dogs, which now reaches an estimate of 25,000 in Moscow alone, has ballooned, and fear of bites and attacks has grown as well.

But just as the population of strays has grown, Muscovites also have long been a friend to many of the shaggy mutts. Dog hunting has touched a nerve in a society where stray animals have traditionally been ignored by the state and instead taken in by big-hearted citizens. One group established on Vkontakte in oppo-sition to the dog hunters has attracted almost 4,000 members.

Most of the local residents said their dogs were former strays found either on the streets or in Moscow’s overcrowded, underfunded shelters.

“I took these dogs off the street from homeless people four years ago,” said Oleg Maksimov, a middle-aged man who said he works for a construction com-pany.

“How can I wait for someone to poi-son these dogs, these dogs that I saved from a likely death?”

Police probe alleged poisoning of dogs in Moscow

Libyans hold giant march against militias

Jill LawlessAssociated Press

LONDON — The song remains the same, as Led Zeppelin once observed. But Zeppelin fans can visit the band’s music anew thanks to a film of the rock titans’ last show together in 2007.

That was the band’s first full show in 27 years. Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones got together again

Friday to promote the film — but that may be as close as fans will get to a new reunion.

At a news conference, the members flatly declined to answer when asked if they were tempted to perform together as Led Zeppelin.

Plant said that even lining up onstage to answer ques-tions — “like a bunch of soccer managers being inter-viewed after a match” — was not his idea of fun.

The band members have moved on, with Plant in par-ticular finding success in other genres. He has played with musicians from Mali and won a Grammy in 2009 for his rootsy collaborations with bluegrass musician Alison Krauss.

And, the 64-year-old singer admitted: “I struggle with some lyrics for particular periods of time” — particu-larly for the famously cryptic “Stairway to Heaven.”

He’s not alone. Many listen-ers find that Zeppelin lyrics range from mystical to unin-telligible.

“Maybe I’m still trying to work out what I was talking about,” Plant said.

But the musicians are proud of the December 2007 show at London’s 02 Arena captured in director Dick Carruthers’ crisp and energetic concert film “Celebration Day.”

The concert, attended by 18,000 ticket-holders select-

ed from more than 1 mil-lion applicants, was a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, an early mentor of the band.

Onscreen, the 1970s hard rock heroes — joined by Jason Bonham, son of original drum-mer John Bonham — look relaxed and sound confident as they power through hits including “Kashmir,” ”Dazed and Confused,” ”Whole Lotta Love” and — of course — “Stairway to Heaven.”

Zeppelin tout concert film, mum on future plans

TodayCollege Football

Miami at Georgia Tech, 3 p.m. (Fox Sports South)

LSU at Auburn, 7 p.m. (ESPN)Vanderbilt at Georgia, 7:45

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Kevin EckleberrySports Editor

Auburn’s Quan Bray is still look-ing to score his first collegiate touchdown, but he can cross one thing off his to-do list.

During last week’s dramatic 31-28 overtime victory over Louisiana-Monroe, Bray threw his first col-legiate touchdown pass.

Trailing 14-7 in the second quar-ter, Auburn quarterback Kiehl Frazier threw a backward pass to Bray, who promptly threw the ball back to a wide-open Frazier for a 33-yard touchdown.

Bray also got into the act as a receiver with two catches for 14 yards, and he had two punt returns for 19 yards, including one for 18 yards.

For the season, Bray leads the team with nine receptions for an average of eight yards a catch.

Bray, a sophomore, played his senior year at Troup High after starring at Callaway High for three seasons.

GEORGIA: Former Troup Tiger Chris Burnette helped the Georgia Bulldogs enjoy a record offen-sive day last week against Florida Atlantic.

Burnette, a starter at right guard the past two seasons, helped the Bulldogs amass a school-record 713 yards in a 56-20 victory in Athens.

Burnette has started all three of Georgia’s games this season, and he started all but two games a year ago.

Burnette was red-shirted his first season at Georgia, and he didn’t play in 2010 before landing a start-ing spot in 2011.

LSU: After scoring touchdowns in LSU’s first two games, former Troup Tiger J.C. Copeland settled for opening holes for the team’s running backs last week against Idaho.

LSU ran for 268 yards in a 63-14 victory over Idaho to move to 3-0.

Copeland, a junior, is the starting fullback for the Tigers, and he has six carries for 35 yards with two touchdowns this season.

Copeland’s role mostly involves clearing the way for a host of tal-ented runners, though.

Last year, Copeland played in all 14 games and had a few starts as LSU made it to the BCS national-championship game where it lost to Alabama.

Copeland was recruited as a defensive lineman out of Troup, but he made the transition to fullback soon after arriving at LSU.

KENTUCKY: Former LaGrange Granger Tristian Johnson got on the field during last week’s over-time loss to Western Kentucky, but he didn’t make any tackles.

Johnson, a junior, is a backup defensive tackle for the Wildcats.

Junior Joe Mansour is the back

Bray throws the first scoring pass

Greetings to everybody in Troup County.

I want to take an opportunity to introduce myself as you will be seeing me around various sporting venues representing the LaGrange Daily News.

I’m not new to the Daily News as I have been employed here since last November designing pages for other newspapers in our organization.

I’ve now moved across the room and have joined sports editor

Kevin Eckleberry and have started to become familiar with all the local sports and news here.

I’m not new to the journalism business. I’ve been employed as writer, page designer and chief photographer at several news-papers throughout the United States since 1984. I’ve worked in New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana and Arizona before coming to LaGrange.

I was born and raised in Indiana where basketball is king.

Although I have covered many cham-pionship seasons, I’ve only covered one team with a perfect 29-0 record and that came in in 2009 in Princeton, Ind. when the Princeton Community High School Tigers completed a perfect season.

Over the years, I’ve covered the Indiana Pacers of the NBA, the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL, University of Arizona sports in Tucson, Ariz. among the few.

I also covered the 1996 U.S. men’s and women’s basketball teams as they

Stanton joins sports, happy to be there

Kevin EckleberrySports Editor

David Millsaps and Rick Gasaway were the big winners in the final reg-ular-season event on the Highland Marina Resort team trail.

The two men brought in five bass weighing 16 pounds, 15 ounces to capture the top spot in the tourna-ment on West Point Lake.

Millsaps and Gasaway finished ahead of the team of Reid Hurston and Tim Morris, who were second with 14 pounds, nine ounces.

Darryl Kraft and Ken Kraft were third with 12 pounds, 10 ounces,

and Tim VanEgemond and Tony Campbell were fourth with 11 pounds, 10 ounces.

Mike Squires and Billy Joyce rounded out the top five with 10 pounds, seven ounces.

The day marked the end of the race for the series champion-ship, and Jason Turner and Harry Parkerson ended up capturing the title.

The two men finished with 234 points, giving them a 14-point vic-tory over the second-place team of Ryan Lloyd and Randy Buchannan.

Danny Lavoie and Todd Mahoney were third with 204 points, fol-

lowed by Mike Squires and Billy Joyce with 189 points and Randy Williams and Brian Gay with 185 points.

The anglers were awarded points based on their finishing in each of the 13 regular-season tournaments.

The series wraps up with the Team Trail Classic on Oct. 6, with the awards ceremony set for Oct. 5.

WEST GEORGIA BASS CLUB: The points title in this series will be determined on Oct. 7 when the final regular-season event is held on West Point Lake.

Big winners weigh in as series winds down

Former Troup Tiger Chris Burnette protects Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray during last week's game.

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Grangers lose a thrillerKevin EckleberrySports Editor

The Thomson Bulldogs and LaGrange Grangers played a game for the ages Friday night at Callaway Stadium.

Unfortunately for the Grangers, they ended up on the wrong end of the classic showdown.

In a game where offense was in great supply but defense was hard to find, the Bulldogs used their powerful running game to rally from a 21-0 deficit and win 49-42.

The Bulldogs took the lead for the final time when William Bussey scored on a 19-yard touch-down run with less than four minutes to play.

The Grangers had plen-ty of time to mount a scor-ing drive of their own, but they were forced to punt after three incompletions.

Thomson was able to pick up a couple of first downs to put the game on ice.

“Defensively, they kind of found a sweet spot, and we couldn’t figure out how to stop them,” LaGrange

head coach Donnie Branch said. “That wasn’t very good on our part. But give them credit. They’ve got a really good football team.”

The Grangers exploded out of the gate against a Thomson team that came in ranked second in Class AAA.

Demoton Boyd returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown, and the Grangers were up 6-0 moments into the game.

After a Thomson punt, LaGrange’s offense went to work, with quarterback Zach Giddens throw-ing a 70-yard touchdown pass to Benny Gray, and Giddens threw a two-point conversion pass to Tavone Rivers to make it a 14-0 game.

The Grangers kept it going on their third pos-session with an 11-play, 75-yard scoring drive that was capped by a 28-yard scoring pass from Giddens to Rivers, and it was a 21-0 game with 4:42 left in the opening

Cavaliers edge Tigers

Cougars fall on homecoming

Kevin EckleberrySports Editor

The Callaway Cavaliers found a way.Trailing the homestanding Harris

County Tigers 14-7 at the half, the Cavaliers charged back in the second half to take a 24-21 victory.

It was the final non-region game for the Cavaliers, who improved to 2-1 after a season-opening loss to Heard County.

After falling behind 7-0, the Cavaliers tied it with five minutes remaining in the first quarter on a Wilson Lindsey touchdown run and a Chase Freeman extra point, but Harris County took a 14-7 lead at the half.

Callaway tied it in the third quarter, with Lindsey again doing the honors, this time from close to 30 yards out, and Freeman’s extra point was true to dead-lock the score at 14-14 with five minutes showing on the clock.

After a Harris County three-and-out, Callaway went back to work, driving down the field for a Freeman 25-yard field goal that put the Cavaliers on top 17-14 with 9:57 left to play.

The Cavaliers converted a fourth-and-long on the drive thanks to a completion from quarterback Tez Parks to Pedy Leverette.

The Cavaliers caught a break later in the quarter when they kept the ball

on a roughing-the-punter penalty, and they went on to put the ball in the end zone, with Eddie Culpepper scoring from inside the 10-yard line.

Lindsey had a long run to put the Cavaliers deep in Harris County terri-tory.

Harris County responded with a touchdown drive with less than a min-ute remaining, but when the onside kick failed, Callaway was able to run out the clock.

Callaway will carry a two-game win-ning streak into next week’s Region 4-AAA opener against Jackson-Atlanta.

OF NOTE: For more on Friday’s game, see Monday’s LaGrange Daily News.

Jeff StantonStaff writer

Lafayette Christian School scored first against Crosspointe Friday night, but it was unable to keep the momentum from there en route to a 30-14 loss on homecom-ing night.

Head coach Nick Nehring said one nega-tive attribute was evident in the game, and that’s turnovers.

“We had some mistakes that caught up with us,” Nehring said. “We had a couple of fumbles in the first half.”

The game started with quarterback Matt Brown scoring on a 2-yard run in the first quarter to go up 6-0.

After that, Crossepointe’s athleticism and quickness came into play, especially at the start of the second half when Lafayette Christian tried an onside kick to start play and the Cavaliers returned it for a touchdown.

“That wasn’t the best way to start the second half,” Nehring quipped. “They were a quality team. They made some plays late and that was the ball game.”

Sean McClendon scored in the fourth

quarter on a 4-yard run and Riley Jordan had a sack in the Crossepointe endzone for a safety to give the Cougars their other points.

But the Cougars couldn’t close the gap. On the Cougars’ last possession, Brown throw a long pass that was intercepted., and Crossepointe was on the march when time expired.

The Cougars, now 4-2 on the season, will travel for a 7:30 game next Friday when they play Westside Baptist Academy in Warner Robins.

See LHS | 2B

LaGrange runner Demoton Boyd (left) is congratulated by teammate Dee Smith after Boyd returned the opening kickoff of the game against Thomson for a touchdown.

LaGrange quarterback Zach Giddens looks for daylight on a keeper play against Thomson in the first half.

LaGrange's Tavone Rivers (81) breaks up a pass to a Thomson receiver.

made an exhibition stop in Indianapolis before coming to the games in Atlanta.

That year I also had exclusive access to one of the Olympic gymnastics team members who won a gold medal at the Atlanta games that year. Her name was Jaycie Phelps and I

visited her training camp in Cincinnati. Jaycie was from Greenfield, Ind., the town I was working in at the time. She was only 16, but as I recall, way ahead in years of maturity. I was given complete access to her during my stay and came away with some of the finest photos I’ve ever

shot in my career.I’ve also covered every

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was convicted of raping a Miss Black America pag-eant contestant in a hotel there. I would go to the courthouse each day and wait for Tyson to arrive, then to leave, so my win-dow of opportunity was very narrow to get a shot of him each day.

So as you can see, I

have done a variety of things in the news busi-ness.

It doesn’t pay as well as some jobs, but as I look back, I would have been miserable had I done any-

thing else.And now, here I am in

LaGrange and I’m look-ing forward to making my journalistic mark on Troup County.

See you at the games.

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up place kicker for the Wildcats, and he didn’t appear in the game.

Mansour handled kickoff duties for Kentucky the past two seasons.

SOUTH FLORIDA: Former Troup Tiger Cory Grissom was in his usual starting spot at defensive tackle, but he was held without any tackles during the team’s most recent game, a 23-13 loss to Rutgers.

Grissom has 12 tackles in the Bulls’ first two games.

Grissom is coming off a stel-lar 2011 season where he had 67 tackles, including 9.5 tackles for loss.

Grissom started 13 games as a sophomore and had 13 tack-les, and he had 11 tackles as a part-time player in 2009.

Grissom suffered an ankle injury in the spring, but he was back at full-strength by the time the season started.

SOUTHERN MISS: Former Troup Tiger Jacorius Cotton had five tackles during last week’s 24-14 loss to East Carolina.

Cotton, who had 10 tackles in the season opener against Nebraska, is third on the team with 15 tackles through two games.

Cotton is coming off a break-through 2011 season where he was second on the team with 98 tackles while helping lead the Golden Eagles to a school-record 12 wins.

Cotton, a junior, also played a lot as a freshman in 2010 and had 13 tackles.

HINDS COMMUNITY

COLLEGE: Quantavius Leslie, a sophomore from Callaway High, had a 46-yard touchdown reception during last week’s 41-28 loss to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

Leslie is looking to build on his magnificent freshman sea-son when he had 28 catches for 523 yards with 10 touchdowns.

Hinds is 2-2 this season.MURRAY STATE: Former

LaGrange Granger Qua Huzzie continued his strong junior sea-son with an eight-tackle per-formance in last week’s 28-23 victory over Missouri State.

Huzzie also had a team-high two tackles for loss.

Huzzie is second on the team with 19 tackles, and he leads the way with six tackles for loss.

Huzzie transferred to Murray State from the University of Kentucky for his 2011 season.

Another former Granger, defensive back Josh Manning, is also having a solid season for the Racers.

Manning, who played the past two seasons as Southwest Mississippi Community College, has nine tackles and an interception.

Manning had three tackles and a pass breakup against Missouri State.

POINT UNIVERSITY: Former Callaway Cavalier Albert Trammell got into the game and made a nice impact in the second half of Point’s loss to Millsaps last week.

Trammell, a freshman, is a backup linebacker and special-

teams player for the Skyhawks, who are in their first season of football.

Trammell is one of a hand-ful of former local prep stand-outs playing at Point, a list that includes former LaGrange High quarterback Braxton Smith, a backup quarterback.

PIKEVILLE UNIVERSITY: A pair of former Callaway Cavaliers, wide receiver Dontevius Daniel and defen-sive lineman Desmond Davis, each appeared in last week’s game against the University of Virginia-Wise but didn’t accu-mulate any statistics.

LET US KNOW: If we’re missing someone, please let us know and we will include that information. Email us at lagrangesports@yahoo.com

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Kenny Carroll and Martie Murphy lead the way with 2,072

points, followed by Tommy Gunn and Russell Webb with 1,979 points and Randy Campbell and Tim McClendon with 1,978 points.

A team can receive a maximum of 100 points for winning a tour-nament, giving the second and third-place teams outside shots of catching the leaders.

FLOWERY BRANCH (AP) - Mike Smith credits the Falcons’ success on the West Coast to the performance of his players, not his travel schedule.

Even so, Smith isn’t about to mess with a winning formula.

That means Friday was a trav-el day for the Falcons. Smith led a light practice, packed up his team and headed to the Atlanta airport for an afternoon flight to San Diego — two days before Sunday’s game against the Chargers.

The extra travel day has paid off for the Falcons, who are 5-0 on the west coast in Smith’s five seasons.

Smith’s Falcons, 2-0 in Seattle, also have won at San Francisco, Oakland and San Diego.

Smith says he copied the trav-el plan used by former Ravens coach Brian Billick. Smith worked on Billick’s staff from 1999-2002.

“That’s the way we did it when I first got in the NFL,” Smith said after Friday’s prac-tice. “We basically had success

when we did it that way in Baltimore and I just copied it. It’s been very successful for us.”

Falcons defensive coordina-tor Mike Nolan, the former 49ers coach, said Friday depar-tures for Sunday games are more common for West Coast teams who lose three hours while making cross-country trips to the east.

“The beauty in going from east to west is you actually

gain some time,” Nolan said Friday. “When you go from west to east you always leave on a Friday because you’re losing three hours. It’s harder on those guys than the other way.”

Even with the hours gained, Smith said he likes giving his players the extra day to accli-mate to the west coast.

The Falcons will have a walk-through practice at the Padres’ Petco Park on Saturday. The

Padres are playing at San Francisco.

The team’s clocks and sched-ule remain set on Georgia time as Smith attempts to keep play-ers’ routines feeling as normal as possible.

“I think Mike does an out-standing job scheduling and I think he does take a lot of things into consideration when we go on the road,” said Nolan, who was Billick’s defensive coordinator from 2004-04.

“He tries to keep the body clock, so to speak, in check. Coach Billick did it the same way. I think it’s a very good way to go.

Smith said he sets up the travel schedules long before the season so there are no surprises for players and their families.

“We let our players know once the schedule comes out when we’re playing and where we’re playing and how the week will go,” he said. “Those guys have known forever this is what we’re doing and why we’re doing it and what we need to get accomplished.”

Smith isn’t crediting the 5-0 west coast record to Friday departures.

“I think the reason we’ve been successful out there is we’ve played good,” he said. “I don’t know that it’s always about the travel, but we’ve played well and made plays out there.”

Nolan said careful travel plan-ning “has some play” in road success.

Added Nolan: “The biggest thing is having the better team.”

NOTES: CB Christopher Owens (concussion) and run-ning back Antone Smith (ham-string) have been ruled out for this week. The loss of Owens hurts an Atlanta secondary that lost CB Brent Grimes with a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 1. Dominique Franks moves up as the nickel back. OT Tyson Clabo (hip) and OLB Sean Weatherspoon (thigh) were limited in Friday’s prac-tice and are listed as question-able. Each were listed as ques-tionable and played in Monday night’s win over Denver.

Falcons show they are comfortable out west

Quarterback Matt Ryan will face off against San Diego's defense on Sunday.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Top-ranked Alabama shouldn’t need to be anywhere near its best to beat 50-point underdog Florida Atlantic (1-2) on Saturday — just don’t tell Nick Saban that.

The Crimson Tide coach doesn’t want good enough to be deemed, well, good enough.

“What we try to emphasize with our team is to demand more of themselves so that we can improve as a team and be the best we can be and hopefully play our best when our best is needed,” Saban said. “I sort of try to challenge our players to do that. It’s human nature to get motivated when something bad happens. But why do you need one of these ‘I-told-you-so’ games?”

An Owls’ win would be more of a “that score can’t be right” game.

Florida Atlantic (1-2) coach Carl Pelini is in his first year trying to resuscitate a program that went 1-11 last season and

didn’t win a Sun Belt Conference game. By comparison, Alabama has only lost about half that many games (six) in the past four seasons combined playing in the rugged Southeastern Conference.

The biggest question might be if the Tide — which has steamrolled Michigan, Western Kentucky and Arkansas by a collective 128-14 — can post its third straight shutout. Alabama (3-0) hasn’t done that since Bear Bryant’s unbeaten 1966 team laid goose eggs on its final four regular-season opponents.

Now, that would be a high standard.The Owls are coming off a 56-20 loss

at No. 5 Georgia in another guaranteed big payday game, but they were tied at 14-all at one point in the second quarter.

Pelini has been on the flipside of this type of game as defensive coordinator at Nebraska, where brother Bo is the head coach. He doesn’t expect Saban to let his team come in treating it as a ready-made blowout.

“I think that’s one thing that Nick has been able to do through the years is to be a very consistent football team,” Pelini said. “That is the key for us, and that’s the key for them. Like I said last week, I didn’t say the word ‘Georgia’ until Friday night. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter who you’re preparing for, you’ve got to prepare.

“You’ve got to get them ready to play. Same thing for Alabama. If they want to continue their upward trend as a foot-ball team, they need to prepare for us just like they would prepare for Auburn. If you can do that as a coach, you’ve accomplished 90 percent of your battle because you’re going to continue to get better as a football team. You’re not going to have those mood swings that some teams have.”

The Owls had only squared off against one Top 10 team before this double whammy, hosting No. 6 South Florida in 2007.

Alabama has already beaten another Sun Belt team, Western Kentucky, 35-0 at Bryant-Denny Stadium. That week, Saban griped about media coverage he said presumed the Tide would roll and indicated the team didn’t practice very well. That team just upset the Southeastern Conference’s Kentucky, though.

This week, he’s summoned up Peyton Manning and Michael Jordan as exam-ples of constantly striving competitors.

Saban’s message to his players two weeks ago still lingers freshly in their memories. Linebacker C.J. Mosley said the team talked about that the day after dismantling Arkansas 52-0.

“We got together and said we’ve got to have a better week,” Mosley said. “We have to improve and bring the momen-tum from last week to this week’s game.”

Saban praised the team’s practice efforts this week, perhaps indicating a lesson was learned.

Top ranking Alabama gets breather

quarter.The Bulldogs responded with

an interception return for a touchdown by Dexter Jones to trim LaGrange’s lead to 21-7.

The Grangers answered with a 69-yard scoring drive that ended with a Benny Gray 1-yard touch-down run on fourth-and-goal, and LaGrange was up 28-7 moments

into the second quarter.The Bulldogs got a 13-yard

touchdown run from Chris Tutt and a 6-yard scoring pass from Tutt to Gelyam Parker to trim LaGrange’s lead to 28-21 at the half.

Thomson tied it with 3:31 left in the third quarter on a 25-yard scoring rum from Battle, but the

Grangers came right back with a 75-yard touchdown drive, with Giddens finding Dee Gates for a 9-yard touchdown, and LaGrange led 35-28.

Moments later, though, Thomson tied it when Bussey raced 56 yards for the touch-down, and it was tied 35-35 through three quarters.

LaGrange went back up 42-35 when Giddens threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Dee Smith with 9:42 left, but the Bulldogs moved it right back down the field on their ensuing possession, and Quay Cummings scored on a 17-yard run with 6:49 left, and it was tied 42-42.

After a LaGrange interception,

the Bulldogs took it in for the go-ahead score.

LaGrange begins Region 5-AAAA play next week against Shaw.

OF NOTE: For a more com-plete look at Friday’s game includ-ing statistics and comments from Branch, see Monday’s sports sec-tion.

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PRN opportunity at localcorrectional facility. Excellentcompensation package. Applyonline www.correctheatlh.org!

Security (HW)

SECURITY OFFICERSNational security firm, U.S.

Security Associates, is hiringfor security officer & lead

officer positions in Lagrange.Multiple shifts available atvarious rates ranging from

$8.49-$9. Lead officer wage of$10.50. Send contact info to

amyers@ussecurityassociates.com

Textiles/Factory (HW)

MACHINIST/FABRICATORNEEDED

Established company seekinga machinist for conventional

milling machinesand lays. May include light

fabrication work. Must have atleast five years

experience. Serious inquiriesonly. Please call

706-884-3206 for informationand where to apply.