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New Year's Resolution
Is this a better time to commit to change than any other?
New Year's By Randy Hicks, President of Georgia Family Council
      I love lists. All kinds of lists. Lists of the best movies of all time, lists of the top college quarterbacks in history, lists of Olympic record holders, you name it. From a variety of Internet sources, I've gleaned the following list of the top 10 New Year's Resolutions, and I wanted to share i...
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Colquitt Garden Club names Christmas decoration winners
      Each year the Colquitt Garden Club sponsors the Christmas decoration contests. If you live inside the city limits of Colquitt or own a business in the city limits, your home or business can be judged. This is the only criteria you have to have to be able to qualify to win one of these awards.
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Eighty year old woman marries for the 4th time
submitted by Lindy
      The local news station was interviewing an 80 year old lady because she had just gotten married again for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband's occupation.
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Donations made to the Spring Creek Watershed Partnership
      The Spring Creek Watershed Partnership promotes water quality protection and improvement through education and the installation of Best Management Practices (BMPs). The program is supported through both federal grant funds and non-federal matching funds.
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Nursing Home residents welcome Garden Club members
      On December 19, the Miller Nursing Home residents and staff warmly received the Colquitt Garden Club Nursing Home Christmas Home Project, chaired by Laura Bryan.
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Georgia's unemployment rate decreases in November
      ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor reported today that the state's unemployment rate declined to 4.2 percent in November, down one-half of one percent from 4.7 percent in October and twotenths of one percent from 4.4 percent in November of 2006. The current state rate is three-tenths of on...
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••• Earl and Bubba •••
submitted by Lindy
      Earl and Bubba are quietly sitting in a boat fishing, chewing and drinking beer when suddenly Bubba says, 'I think I'm gonna divorce my wife - she ain't spoke to me in over 2 months.' Earl spits, sips his beer and says, 'Better think it over - women like that are hard to find.
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News Around Us
      Blakely - A Blakely woman has been jailed after trying to kill her two children by forcing them to drink bleach. Kandice Nichole Collins, 22, was arrested at her Willis Cane Home apartment after authorities had been called to the emergency room where the children had been taken.
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Picture of the Past
     Can anyone guess who this young lady is? If you think you know, please call the Liberal before Friday at 5:00 p.m.
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Last Week's Photo of the Past
      Last week's photo of the past of the 1955-56 basketball players and coach were Alice Thomas, J.E. Calhoun, Mary Taylor (top l-r) Jerry Hornsby, Rosie Cook, Mary Ellen Bush, and Alice Jane Worsley. Those guessing correctly were: Katherine Albritton, Willene Musgrove and Joanne Holland.
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Proudly They Serve
      Army Pvt. Zachary C. White has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military...
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One for the road
Submitted by Blake Proctor
      One evening in a busy lounge in the heart of the city, a reindeer walked through the door, bellied up to the bar and ordered a martini. Without batting an eye, the bartender mixed and poured the drink, set it in front of the reindeer, and accepted the twenty-dollar bill from the reindeer's hoof.
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Georgia DOT Fully Prepared as the Winter Season Begins
      As winter officially begins tomorrow, the Georgia DOT reminds you that the Maintenance and Construction employees and their equipment are already prepared for any winter weather we may see this year.
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Miller County Health Department will be closed January 4
      Southwest Georgia Public Health District's 14 county health departments - including the facility in Colquitt - will be closed Friday, Jan. 4 to allow employees to participate in an annual wellness event that promotes health in the workplace.
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SEC football
submitted by Lindy
      1) What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? All "A's" ok ......... Drool. (2) What do you get when you put thirty-two Arkansas cheerleaders in one room?.........A full set of teeth. (3) How do you get a South Carolina cheerleader into your dorm room?......... Grease her hips and pus...
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Colquittans invested with Scottish Rite
      Bo Everson and David Powell, both of Colquitt, were recently invested with the Knight Commander Court of Honor be the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite. The event was held in Macon.
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