By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
A Lee family was injured, including three children who were seriously injured, when the car they were riding in overturned on Monday, Sept. 17. Read more Here
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Lee Family Injured In Wreck
Sonny Shroyer To Appear At United Way Celebrity Waiter Night
Sonny Shroyer will appear at the United Way Celebrity Waiter Night Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 5-9 p.m. Help support a good cause. All money for United Way in Madison County stays in Madison County. 
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Madison County Votes Wet
Madison County votes wet. Unofficial results, including provisional votes at http://www.voterfocus.com/enrstatic.php?county=madison&election=66
Wells Fargo Store Manager Killed In Wreck
By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
Carrin Rebecca Meadows, 40, the store manager of the Wells Fargo Bank in Madison was killed in a traffic accident in Valdosta, Ga., Monday afternoon, Aug. 21.
According to the Georgia State Patrol, a pickup truck was traveling down Howell Road with a trailer and lawn mower in tow.
The pickup truck struck Meadows’ car on its left side as she attempted to turn left onto Howell Road from Otter Creek Road, Georgia State Trooper First Class Victor Mobley said.
The impact of the collision sent both the pickup and the car over the ravine, which did not have a guardrail, into Grand Bay Creek below.
All parties involved in the wreck were transported to South Georgia Medical Center.
Attempts to resuscitate Meadows were unsuccessful.
A dive team from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to look for evidence in the creek so that the Georgia State Patrol can reconstruct the accident.
Two others were seriously injured in the accident.
Carrin resided in Lake Park, Ga. Her husband, as well as two daughters, Christine Elliott and Curstie Day, and four grandchildren survive her. She had worked at the bank in Madison for 10 years.
Browning, Kendrick, Moore, Pickles Winners; Harper and Davis in Recount to See Who Faces Pickles in Runoff
Congratulations to Edwin B. “Bailey” Browning III new county judge-elect. Congratulations also go out to Doug Brown, Democratic nominee for School Superintendent. Ronnie Moore, Democratic primary winner for District 3 County Commissioner and ?, Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Elections. Congratulations to Amy Kendrick, Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Elections. In a squeaker, she slipped by Jada Woods Williams 1974-1940. Karen Pickles was the top vote getter for District 4 School Board member. She will have to face either Bobby Harper or Donnell Davis in a runoff in November. Right now, a recount will have to be done and provisional ballots counted before her opponent will be known.
Citizens For Madison County Holding Planning Meeting
Citizens for Madison County will hold a planning meeting on Thursday, Aug. 2, at the Extension Office, located next to the Ag. Center in Madison. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and the topic of discussion will be what can be done to defeat the wet county issue on the ballot in late August.
Cherry Lake Fire Rescue, Inc. Hosting Barbecue Chicken Dinner And Political Rally
Cherry Lake Fire Rescue, Inc. will hold a barbecue chicken dinner and political fundraiser this Saturday, Aug. 4.
Dinner will begin at 5 p.m. The cost is $7 per plate.
A political rally and cake auction will be held immediately after the dinner.
To reserve your barbecue plate, please call Cherry Lake Fire Rescue at (850) 929-2354 at least one day prior to the event and leave your name, plus how many plates are desire and a return call phone number to verify, or the information may be email to clfr@embarqmail.com.
Candidates who want to give a five-minute presentation are asked to leave their name and a return phone number to verify at the same phone number and email address above.
The deadline to reserve a space at the podium is on at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3.
The department ask that no substitute speakers be allowed to speak for the candidates and there are to be absolutely no solicitations during the event.
Grilled Chicken Dinners Available Friday
Madison Church of God will be selling grilled chicken dinners this Friday, Aug. 3, from 11-2 p.m. at the church, located at 771 NE Colin Kelly Highway.
In addition to grilled chicken, dinners will include baked beans, coleslaw, bread and dessert.
Delivery is available for five or more orders. The dinners are priced at $7 each.
Contact Misty at (850) 251-6996 or A.J. at (352) 457-7592 to place your orders.
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Jacob’s Ladder: Sometimes You Don’t Know What Hits You
Sometimes you just don’t know what hits you.
That’s what a player for the Houston Cougars found out in 1970 when he was playing against the Florida State Seminoles.
I wish I could hav
e seen the hit. I wish it were on YouTube like a lot of clips from old football games are. I bet the Cougars’ player wished he had seen it coming but he didn’t. No one knew it was going to happen except for a Seminole player named Dan Whitehurst.
It was during the last game of the 1970 season and Houston was trouncing FSU when the Houston player intercepted a pass and took off bound to make another touchdown. Bill Parcells, who would later coach the New York Giants and New England Patriots to Super Bowl victories, was an assistant coach at FSU at the time. He began yelling, “Somebody, do something!”
Whitehurst, who played linebacker for FSU, did do something. He left the sidelines and tackled the Houston player.
Like that Houston player, I have had times when I didn’t know what hit me. I didn’t know what hit me in December when I went into cardiac arrest and woke up the next week in the hospital in Tallahassee. I had always thought that there would be pain and warnings associated with anything like that. The only thing I can remember before it happened that day was that I was tired. I didn’t know that a linebacker was going to step off the sidelines and knock me flat out.
We don’t always get warnings, so isn’t it better to be prepared? We take our lives in our hands every day when we get in a car and head to work. Others have to take their lives in their hands at work.
I am glad that when I got blindsided, I was healed but I am happier that I was saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. If I had not been rescued from death’s door, I know what would have been on the other side of that door – eternity in Heaven with my Savior.
What is the alternative for those who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior? An eternity in a lake of fire, filled with everlasting torment.
There’s your warning. If you have not, make a decision to accept Jesus Christ today.
Jacob’s Ladder: Amazingly Awesome, Awesomely Amazing
I have seen some amazing things in my lifetime. I have been a part of some awesome things myself. Awesome and amazing are not words that can describe what people must have seen in Galilee 2,000 years ago.
I remember sitting at an FSU baseball game. It was being broadcast live to the nation (at least the cable subscribers back in 1986 or 1987) on ESPN. FSU vs. LSU. An epic battle between two teams ranked number one and two. Mike Martin had removed the FSU pitcher (it seems that it was Richie Lewis) from the game with FSU leading 2-1. I may have the score wrong. Anyway, in the bottom of the ninth with the score tied 2-2, Paul Sorrento launched a rocket over the fence with a runner on base and FSU won 4-2.
I remember watching on TV as Byron Wells, a reserve FSU senior with very little playing time, hit the shot of his life and FSU beat Duke for the first time 89-88.
I even know that I was on the brink of death and Jesus brought be back to life. That was awesomely amazing. It was amazingly awesome.
All these amazing and awesome things cannot compare with what those people in Galilee and Nazareth and Jerusalem saw. They saw God incarnate as Jesus Christ performing miracles. He was a man who was God. He was God, yet He was a man. How amazingly awesome and awesomely amazing is that?
Today, we read the Bible and find that God insists in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Awesome. Amazing.
I look forward to that awesomely amazing day and that amazingly awesome day when I will get to see Jesus, who paid the price for my sins, face to face.
Amazing.
Awesome.
Sinkhole On I-10
A sinkhole has opened near the eastbound weigh station and one lane of traffic has been closed until further notice.
Family Looking for Father’s Daughters from a Previous Marriage
The family of Cleveland “Buster” Waters is desperately trying to find his two oldest daughters from a previous marriage. The daughter’s first names are Vicky and Terry. If you know of their whereabouts, please call his daughter, Carolyn, at (850) 464-0516.
Special Elections Issue Coming Up
By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
On Wednesday, August 1, The Madison County Carrier will publish a special section entitled “Meet the Candidates.” In preparation for this informative section, Greene Publishing, Inc. has questions for each candidate.
Each candidate is asked to email Jacob Bembry (Jacob@greenepublishing.com) for copies of the questions for the race. Each candidate’s answers will appear exactly as he or she has answered them in the “Meet the Candidates” section.
In addition, candidates can also purchase ads for the special section.
If anyone has questions about this special election issue, please email them to Jacob@greenepublishing.com.
Gov. Rick Scott Appoints Fain Poppell to Madison County School Board
Fain Poppell was appointed to the vacant District 1 School Board position by Gov. Rick Scott.
Students Invited To See Electric Car Designed By MINDDRIVE
By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
Students are invited to Madison County Central School on Thursday, June 21, from 10-11 a.m. to see an electric car designed and built by students from MINDDRIVE.
MINDDRIVE is an educational program that teaches at-risk urban high school teens about automotive design and contemporary communication through hands-on work.
According to their website (www.minddrive.org): The automotive class works together to “build prototype high-efficiency alternative fuel plug-in electric vehicles designed to drive efficiently. The communication class teaches students how to write, present, photograph, video, construct and manage web pages and use social media channels.”
The class created an electric plug-in vehicle in August 2010. The car achieved between a 300 and 440-mile per gallon equivalent. Students have built three functioning cars over the last three years.
There are currently 18 students in MINDDRIVE from five urban high schools in Kansas City, Mo. They work on a one-to-one ratio with mentors who are engineers, designers, automotive specialists and other people from various vocations.
Currently, the class is conducting a coast-to-coast experiment, traveling from the West Coast to the East Coast. Their projected time in Madison to charge the batteries is expected to be from 10-11 a.m. on June 21.
The intent at this time, according to Sam Stalnaker, with the Madison County School District, is to be in Madison for one-and-a-half to two hours for a question and answer period. Students will gather around the car and learn about non-traditional energy.
“We believe this is a wonderful opportunity for youngsters in your community involved in math, science or various creative pursuits to share in a remarkable experience,” said Jim Huntington, with MINDDRIVE.
Sue Chamblin Frederick To Sign Books
By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
Sue Chamblin Frederick will be at the Madison County Library on Saturday, June 9, to hold a meet the author/book signing party, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sue Frederick’s memories take her to her childhood. She remembers her Granddaddy Terry’s country store and hog farm in Pinetta. She envisions the hot, sandy Belleville Road and a wooden bridge that spanned the Withlacoochee River.
Years have passed since she was Sue Chamblin and she pulled out a Nehi grape soda from an ice-filled washtub and she watched her Granddaddy Terry slap his Poland China hog named Pony with a whip from a willow tree. Warning them that Pony would eat them alive and to be careful, that didn’t stop Sue and her siblings from jumping off an old wooden fence onto the back of Pony as he “rooted and snorted his way around the muddy hog pen.”
“I left the tobacco fields of Pinetta years ago and began a life in a big city, but my thoughts never strayed far from the sight of summer green watermelons dotting the farmland,” Sue said, “or the fear of outdoors toilets that housed the biggest spiders in the county. It will always be home.”
Today, Sue writes spy novels. Her current novel, The Unwilling Spy, is set in World War II.
Promotional material for the book reads, “One must beware of this sweet Southern belle, “whose eyelashes are longer than her fingers, her lips as red as a Georgia sunset. Yet, behind the feminine façade of a Scarlett-like ingénue, lies an absolute and utterly calculating mind – a mind that hints of genius – a genius she uses to write books that will leave you spellbound.”
Beneath those eyelashes, one will discover she is dangerous. According to the book’s press release: “Put a Walther PPK pistol in her hands and she will kill you. Her German is so precise she’d fool Hitler. Her amorous prowess? If you have a secret, she will discover it — one way or the other.”
Her upcoming novel set for this fall will be Madame Delflote, Impeccable Spy.”
She also has another novel completed and almost ready to be published. Called Sanctuary of the Heart, the book is about the struggles of a Georgia family during the Depression era.
Not bad for a country girl, who was born in Live Oak in a three-room tin-roofed house, where the Suwannee River lies in close proximity and “flows the color of warm caramel.”
Born one of seven children, she said that her brother, John Chamblin, who lives in Madison, was the most intelligent.
Currently, Sue and her husband live on 20 acres in the piney woods of Florida. Her biography reads that her two daughters “live their lives hiding from their mother, whose imagination keeps their lives in constant turmoil with stories of apple-rotten characters and plots that cause the devil to smile.”
Jacob’s Ladder: The Hurricane
I can feel your hurt, I know your pain,
You’re walking against the wind,
Walking in the hurricane.
You need someone to erase the stains
You can’t hide, you can’t pretend,
Walking in the hurricane.
So many nights you spend on bended knees,
Crying tears, saying, “Lord, help me please,”
Your broken heart you can’t explain
To anyone not walking in the hurricane.
And, your heart breaks like it never has before,
The rain keeps falling and you watch it pour,
No umbrella, no raincoat you walk through the storm,
With nothing there to keep you warm.
Looking to Heaven for answers, not knowing if there’s one,
You pray to God in the name of His Holy Son,
“Lord, help me please, come and take this pain,
I’m so tired of walking through the hurricane.”
As you tread through the streets, you see the toppled trees,
But through the power lines you hear a hum like a symphony,
You can make it, Jesus can conquer your pain
And send a dove to lift you out of the hurricane.
Keep walking on water, with your head held high,
Remember always God is there in the night,
He’s there in day, He’s there in the pain,
Helping you walk through the hurricane.
