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Editor:

Waiting for a loved one to die brings a keen realization of the frailty of life and just how helpless and microscopic are our abilities. In good times, we come and go as we please; we sit, we stand; we work, we play. But during times of bereavement, shortcomings are revealed and thrust to the forefront of our very being.

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The consumption of 18 beers may have contributed to a domestic dispute last week that left a Commerce man charged with battery.

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Keep Jackson County Beautiful wants your Christmas tree. The real trees, that is.

The group again offers its Bring One for the Chipper Christmas tree recycling at the following locations from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Jan. 3.
Those who drop a tree off can pick up a seedling for their yard from volunteers.

The locations are:

•Arcade — City Hall

•Commerce — Lanier Tech/Badcock Center.

•Braselton/Hoschton — Towne Center

•Jackson County Transfer Station on County Farm Road

•Jefferson — Civic Center

•Nicholson — City Hall

•Talmo — Fire Station

The trees will be ground into mulch and used in county landscaping projects.

Commerce residents' trees will be turned into mulch whether they take them to a recycling site or put them out at the curb for the city's Public Works Department to pick up, because all yard wastes picked up by the city are ground into mulch, which is given away to residents who come to the old dump at the end of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to pick it up.

It appears that State Rep. Tommy Benton (R-District 31) will suffer no ramifications from his support for a challenger to Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson.

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