I am a detective with the Perry Police Department in Perry, Ga., and I would like to extend my gratitude to the two Columbus residents who came to my aid last week at the Georgia National Fair in Perry.
I was patrolling on the fairgrounds when I was asked to assist a food vendor with a suspect trying to pass off counterfeit $20 bills. When I saw the suspect, he tried to evade me and we wound up getting into a physical scuffle when he was resisting arrest.
David Whitaker and Chris Condon of Columbus were visiting at the fair and saw this event taking place. Instead of standing around and watching “the show” as everyone else seemed to be doing, they immediately jumped in to assist me, and helped me to take the suspect to the ground, where he was handcuffed and arrested. Because of these two good Samaritans’ immediate actions, they were instrumental in preventing a convicted felon from escaping me who was in possession of more than 50 counterfeit large-denomination U.S. currency bills.
I was born and raised in Columbus before moving to Perry, and I was very proud indeed when I discovered that my two “undercover partners” were also from my hometown.
Everyone in Columbus should be proud of their actions, and I can’t thank them enough for their assistance. Thank you again, Mr. David Whitaker and Mr. Chris Condon!
Chris Sutcliff
Perry
Political friends
Six hundred of our closest friends joined us for dinner at the annual Customer Appreciation Day at Mel and Abe’s Barber Shop recently. It was heartwarming to see so many people enjoy themselves with great food and good times. Our faithful friend Mel Long hosts the annual event, and we’re appreciative of his giving back to the South Phenix City and surrounding community. Our thanks to Mel, his brother Abe and stylist Denise for being perfect hosts.
Customer Appreciation Day proved we can get people out and we will next year come election day. Right now, we have several missions we are serious about:
Get more people, especially young people, registered to vote for the next statewide election.
Get our current elected officials to support our NO NEW DUMP initiative for the next legislative session.
Get river tourism projects on the drawing board to benefit both Phenix City and Columbus along the Chattahoochee River.
Bring safe, clean, attractive industries to our area, not junky salvage yards and smelly dumps.
Let’s be clear: Any candidate supporting stinking dumps, unsightly salvage yards and related industries will not get our vote or support next year.
In fact, we already consider them no political friends of ours.
Fletcher Tolbert
EDC Grassroots Director, Phenix City
Small print
The old bait-and-switch plan … gets them every time.
Notice how easy it is for the editor to put a headline on a news item that points in a direction that the article did not. Those who never read the article never got the real meat
The headline could sneer, jeer, or ask a question that prompted doubt … it could have even been an attempt at humor. Whatever, it was bait-and-switch and it distorted the intended commentary … and abused the author.
That is not my gripe here, by the way. I am today aggravated by names that are put on bills in Congress, trickery intended to confuse, obfuscate, and lie in order to slip things by the “busy” who may also be lazy, dumb, and inexperienced and do not read the bill itself (with or without a lawyer to explain it to them). It is done all the time. We do it daily in loan agreements, contracts, sales agreements, merchandise disclaimers, etc
So, do we need lawyers? Daggone right we do. And it is important to realize that it is better to have a lawyer who is not an aggressive trial lawyer to get us out of a fix, but rather to have a smart lawyer who will keep us out of a fix. Every family needs one. And a smart doctor also, who effectively keeps us out of trouble, i.e. the hospital, and does not make his or her primary living getting us out of trouble. And a competent CPA and investment advisor, etc.
Only problem is that we won’t have any money left for ourselves. So we start living cheaper and smarter and enjoying the free things … don’t we? Pipe dreaming again … oops, I mean jogging and drinking water.
Jack Tidwell
Columbus
To the rescue
My family and I were here visiting old Army buddies a few weeks ago, staying at a downtown hotel. Even though it was against my better judgment, we went out for a late night stroll near the Riverwalk. As we were walking back several young people, who appeared to be doped up and/or intoxicated, approached us and gave us a hard time.
Just as I started to become really concerned for our safety, two police officers from Columbus State University came around the corner and the troublemakers ran to their car. The officers followed, and we were able to move on quickly to our hotel.
Downtown Columbus is a special place, and it is nice to know you have special people like these officers taking care of it.
Curt Scott
Chattanooga
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