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It ssas m> pleasure last week to once again recognize a large number of
employees of the Public Schools of Robeson Counts for long service to the
school system with a pinning ceremony l or the third sear in a row. I presented
pins mounted with various semiprecious stones to employees who had
reached certain milestones in their careers- live sears, ten sears, fifteen sears,
twenty years, twenty live sears, thirty years and* above thirty sears.
While there are. among our some 3.000 employees, mans who didn't fit the
various categories rccogni/ed. it was felt that they will be recognized at a
future time as they reach one of the milestones I mentioned. We used, as a
cutoff date for inclusion in one of them. July 1st. I hus anyone who had not
reached one of the categories recognized by that date, would be recognized
when they did reach it.
F.ven with the limitations, we still recognized almost 400 employees during
the two pinning ceremonies which tool place Wednesday and Thursday of last
week at a local restaurant Among them were 18 who have been with us for 30
years and 31 who have been with us over 30 sears. The total number of sears
served bs school employees recognized was 5.716 years doesn't cover all the
sears of service devoted to our schools and their students by employees because
of the number of sears served by those who didn't fit a recognized
category.
The important thing, as far as I'm concerned, is that we make it a point to
give special recognition to those people who keep our schools running- to
show them, in a special way. how much we appreciate them. I believe that
ceremonies such as the Pinning Ceremonies show them that.
At the same time that we recognize these people, you can't help but have a
kind of sobering thought. With mans employees thinking about retirement
after having served for thirty years. I look at "the 49 who have reached thirty
years and besound and worry lest they decide that they are reads to go to a
more leisurely life style. You're looking at about 1500* years of experiencecertainly
not an easy thing to replace. I hope, though, that the dedication that
these employees have demonstrated during their tenure will encourage them
to continue with us. Our students, along with the school system itself, depend
on them and I have to believe that realization on the part of these employees
will cause them to continue to contribute their efforts and know-how as they
have for so long.
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JOHN WALKER LINDH
Last week I decided to take the "Lindh" off. since most references called
him simply John walker. This is surely one young man who will need our
prayers for months, perhaps years, to come, even if he is not executed for
treason or a somewhat lesser crime. Not only is there a question in my mind as
to whether or not HE was brainwashed. I wonder about some of the hijackers
killed on the four airplane (lights on our "notorious" birth date. Now it sounds
as though some of the "suicide bombers" may have thought this would just be
a routine hijacking, with no idea that they were going to their deaths.
What appears to be some kind of secret tape that w as discovered by persons
on "our side" of this war against terrorism apparently shows Osama bin Laden
CELEBRATING the success of the "attack on America" and indicating that
his terrorist group WAS behind that attack. (I myself have come to believe thy
must have been responsible.)
But I STILL have a question: "Does the fact that Chinese president Ziang
Zemin has (reportedly) ALSO been rejoicing, playing videos of the Twin Towers
collapsing. OVER and OVER, indicate the ZIANG WAS ALSO somehow
INVOLVED?
I don't believe his government was in on the planning. NEITHER do I believe
his government is really our FRIEND, just because American companies
are allowed to set up plants in China. Communism is not just an ECONOMIC
SYSTEM!
I was surprised to read in the 1999 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia
that "Jiang Zemin" replaced Zhao Ziyang as general secretary of the Chinese
Community Party in 1989. Zhao was dismissed "for supporting a prodemocracy
movement." (Over a decade ago Ziang also became chairman of the Communist
Party's Military Commission and the Chinese GOVERNMENT'S Cen-f
tral military Commission, according to this biography.)
It looks to me as though DUPLICITY is involved if Ziang has promised to
support George W. in the U. S. fight against terrorism.
It's hard to understand why our president congratulated Ziang on entry into
WTO. IF he had heard that this was going on.
I see these three possibilities. (There may be others.)
(1) Either he must not have heard about Ziang's obsessive watching of reruns
of our tragedy?(He's only human. And. particularly these last three
months he has had even LESS TIME to leam the very latest about everything
that's going on. He stays busy making decisions, taking actions.)
(2) Or is he still trying to use a "positive, feedback" kind of psychology to
encourage Ziang to change his course of action and do what our president
WANTS him to do.
(3) What concerns me most (with both Ziang and Putin) is the probability
that we have ONE MORE president who knows little or nothing about the
way communism has been working fro over 80 years. "THEY" are not "just
like us". The fact is that members of that "cult" have been brainwashed to use
EVERY possible form of deception to get what they want for their own government.
What that system has done in country after country (using terrorism
and a multitude of other methods) all around the world is almost unbelievable
to any person who has grown up believing in the Bible and the Ten Commandments.
DECEMBER 7
Now I think I can appreciate what-"DECEMBER 7" babies must have been
going through over the past 60 years. (At least they have not had to deal almost
nonstop TV, radio, and newspaper references to their birth date all these
years.) For the past three months that's what we "SEPTEMBER 11" babies
have been doing. But now I've begun to think of my birth date as an important
and hopeful "TURNING POINT' for our country.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
1 agree with Fayetteville Observer columnist Kim Hasty. Parents don't have
to spend a ton of money to make their kids happy. She points out that her four
children played with the boxes their playthings came in long after they get
bored with those expensive toys. Reminds me of Byron, my own children, and
my brothers and me. (Back then WE never had expensive toys, but neither did
we feel sorry for ourselves because of that. Today on the "Turning Point"
program, Mr. Jeremiah pointed out the fact that what children need most is
their parents' focused attention, yea round.
I still feel like it's almost a crime to borrow money to "give Christmas" to
our children. THAT'S NOT WHAT THE FIRST CHRISTMAS WAS ALL
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