Friday, March 20, 2009
All I need is help
Talk about yelling for help, they should have made themselves more clear on what type of help Salem Community wanted.
A drive by Thursday evening saw that they had pilled up the remains of the "Dr McLain's " office to burn, is this the type of help they needed ?
Other piles of debris was spotted and found out that some were the remains of structures that were not lived in, is this the type of help they wanted?
Several piles of trees and debris were lined up along the roadside, is this the type of help they needed?
I guess when A community yells for help,, others should ask first of what exactly do they need as for "Help" before one does help.
A drive by Thursday evening saw that they had pilled up the remains of the "Dr McLain's " office to burn, is this the type of help they needed ?
Other piles of debris was spotted and found out that some were the remains of structures that were not lived in, is this the type of help they wanted?
Several piles of trees and debris were lined up along the roadside, is this the type of help they needed?
I guess when A community yells for help,, others should ask first of what exactly do they need as for "Help" before one does help.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
can you see me now?
Channels 38 and 28 are the ones off today, others can still be veiwed?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
On Hold
We' re holding off all comments until after the "Big Switch" has arrived.......
Sunday, January 04, 2009
NASCAR driver McQuagg dies at 73
In July 1966, Sam McQuagg made a memory for his two sons that will last a lifetime.
Driving a Dodge Charger, the Columbus born and bred racer won the Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Sam McQuagg Jr., now 51, remembers what it was like being a kid in victory lane at Daytona.
“I remember getting to climb all over that car in victory lane,” McQuagg Jr. said. “I was all over it and through it. And my brother, Mark, was up on the hood.”
McQuagg Sr., 73, died Saturday morning at St. Francis Hospital from cancer. Visitation will be Monday from 6-8 p.m. at McMullen Mortuary. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at McMullen.
McQuagg raced mostly on the short tracks of Georgia, Alabama and Florida and spent the later part of his life as a corporate pilot.
He ran a total of 62 NASCAR Grand National (Sprint Cup) races between 1962 and 1974, with 21 Top 10 finishes
His lone Grand National win came in Daytona. McQuagg earned $21,000 for the victory, but the real bonus came when he returned to Columbus, McQuagg Jr. said.
“We went down to Daytona that year in ‘65 Chevrolet station wagon,” McQuagg Jr. remembers. “We drove it back to Columbus and went to Chuck Hutton Dodge. He and mother drove off that lot that day with two new 1966 Dodge Chargers.”
It looked like that win was going to land McQuagg in the seat of an established temam. He got an offer in 1967 to drive for the Wood Brothers.
“But there was a hitch,” McQuagg Jr. said. “They told him he would have to use Firestone tires. My dad was a very loyal man. He said he would only run Goodyears.”
The reason?
When McQuagg started racing and was running short on cash, Goodyear gave him tires.
“He just said he couldn’t do it,” McQuagg Jr. said.
NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough ended up with the ride.
McQuagg also played a big role in one of NASCAR’s most famous wrecks. In 1965 -- the year he was Grand National Rookie of the Year -- he was leading the Southern 500 at Darlington.
Yarborough tried to get past McQuagg’s yellow No. 24 car. Yarborough’s car flew over the guardrail, rolled six times, and ended up in the parking lot.
For several year’s ABC’s Wide World of Sports showed the clip during its intro.
“That was the agony of defeat,” McQuagg Jr. said.
Though McQuagg never found stardom in the big leagues, he was a well-known local short-track racer who played a role in bringing brothers Bobby and Donnie Allison and Red Farmer to Alabama.
McQuagg told his story to the Ledger-Enquirer in 1996.
He was at a North Florida Championship race when he ran into the men who later formed the famed Alabama Gang.
“It was about 1958, 1959, and they were asking me what racing was like up here and I told them we were racing three or four nights a week,” McQuagg said. “And they came up here and run some races with us and then decided to move here. But they liked the Birmingham area better than Georgia.”
McQuagg was inducted into the Jacksonville (Fla,) Speedway Hall of Fame and the Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Association
But when McQuagg walked away from racing, he never looked back.
Late in his racing career he became a pilot. In 1973, he went to work for the W.C. Bradley Co. as head of the aviation department and retired 24 years later.
The last 10 years of his life, McQuagg and his wife of 54 years, Joy, travelled the United States in a motor home.
“They went from Alaska to South Florida, New England to California,” McQuagg Jr. said. “They put 450,000 miles on three different motor homes and had a real good life.”
He is survived by his wife, Joy Baggett McQuagg and three children, Sam McQuagg Jr., Mark McQuagg and Rita Renfroe, all of Columbus.
Driving a Dodge Charger, the Columbus born and bred racer won the Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Sam McQuagg Jr., now 51, remembers what it was like being a kid in victory lane at Daytona.
“I remember getting to climb all over that car in victory lane,” McQuagg Jr. said. “I was all over it and through it. And my brother, Mark, was up on the hood.”
McQuagg Sr., 73, died Saturday morning at St. Francis Hospital from cancer. Visitation will be Monday from 6-8 p.m. at McMullen Mortuary. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at McMullen.
McQuagg raced mostly on the short tracks of Georgia, Alabama and Florida and spent the later part of his life as a corporate pilot.
He ran a total of 62 NASCAR Grand National (Sprint Cup) races between 1962 and 1974, with 21 Top 10 finishes
His lone Grand National win came in Daytona. McQuagg earned $21,000 for the victory, but the real bonus came when he returned to Columbus, McQuagg Jr. said.
“We went down to Daytona that year in ‘65 Chevrolet station wagon,” McQuagg Jr. remembers. “We drove it back to Columbus and went to Chuck Hutton Dodge. He and mother drove off that lot that day with two new 1966 Dodge Chargers.”
It looked like that win was going to land McQuagg in the seat of an established temam. He got an offer in 1967 to drive for the Wood Brothers.
“But there was a hitch,” McQuagg Jr. said. “They told him he would have to use Firestone tires. My dad was a very loyal man. He said he would only run Goodyears.”
The reason?
When McQuagg started racing and was running short on cash, Goodyear gave him tires.
“He just said he couldn’t do it,” McQuagg Jr. said.
NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough ended up with the ride.
McQuagg also played a big role in one of NASCAR’s most famous wrecks. In 1965 -- the year he was Grand National Rookie of the Year -- he was leading the Southern 500 at Darlington.
Yarborough tried to get past McQuagg’s yellow No. 24 car. Yarborough’s car flew over the guardrail, rolled six times, and ended up in the parking lot.
For several year’s ABC’s Wide World of Sports showed the clip during its intro.
“That was the agony of defeat,” McQuagg Jr. said.
Though McQuagg never found stardom in the big leagues, he was a well-known local short-track racer who played a role in bringing brothers Bobby and Donnie Allison and Red Farmer to Alabama.
McQuagg told his story to the Ledger-Enquirer in 1996.
He was at a North Florida Championship race when he ran into the men who later formed the famed Alabama Gang.
“It was about 1958, 1959, and they were asking me what racing was like up here and I told them we were racing three or four nights a week,” McQuagg said. “And they came up here and run some races with us and then decided to move here. But they liked the Birmingham area better than Georgia.”
McQuagg was inducted into the Jacksonville (Fla,) Speedway Hall of Fame and the Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Association
But when McQuagg walked away from racing, he never looked back.
Late in his racing career he became a pilot. In 1973, he went to work for the W.C. Bradley Co. as head of the aviation department and retired 24 years later.
The last 10 years of his life, McQuagg and his wife of 54 years, Joy, travelled the United States in a motor home.
“They went from Alaska to South Florida, New England to California,” McQuagg Jr. said. “They put 450,000 miles on three different motor homes and had a real good life.”
He is survived by his wife, Joy Baggett McQuagg and three children, Sam McQuagg Jr., Mark McQuagg and Rita Renfroe, all of Columbus.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
2009 Robins Air Show
A free airshow
http://www.robins.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123127840
http://www.robins.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123127840
Friday, January 02, 2009
Motorists' habits spur call for tax increases
We can not win for losing here.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0jhIdk5jvjtf5bEpyAbXQNZJpxAD95F1RB00
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0jhIdk5jvjtf5bEpyAbXQNZJpxAD95F1RB00
Monday, December 15, 2008
yeah they did
remember the second class citizens there, (what ever it is - it can wait).
Point made this evening from another local tv station, Something that has not happened in some 50 yrs in Alabama was put some 8 minutes into the newscast, and followed 2 others storys before a break and another story after the brexk some 12 minutes in.
We'll just have to wait and see how advertisement that is sold to Alabama customers is compared to Georgia customers,,,interesting yes..
Point made this evening from another local tv station, Something that has not happened in some 50 yrs in Alabama was put some 8 minutes into the newscast, and followed 2 others storys before a break and another story after the brexk some 12 minutes in.
We'll just have to wait and see how advertisement that is sold to Alabama customers is compared to Georgia customers,,,interesting yes..
