The Chatter Box
By Deborah Bennett

School is out, and summer vacations are coming. Don't forget to take a copy of The Millen News with you on vacation. Have someone snap a photograph of your group with the newspaper at a prominent landmark, and we will publish it in our "The Millen News goes on vacation" feature. (The newspaper must be displayed in the photo.) This has been very popular in the past, and, hopefully, you will continue to send us your photographs.

Also, we need photographs for our "Favorite Family Photo" feature. So search your photo albums, and send us your favorite photos which will be returned. Be sure to name the people in the photo.

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I know that summer has officially arrived when everything on television is a re-run. The only shows that seem to be current now are the news broadcasts!

Bonanza and Gunsmoke are two of my all-time-favorite television shows, but after awhile I even tire of them. I once thought that if we just had satellite television we would always be able to find something to watch. I now know that is not so. There is still nothing new to watch.

I guess this means that I now have the time to do all those things that I have been putting off like trimming the hedges, washing my car, repotting my house plants, raking pine cones, etc. On second thought, I think I can stand a few more reruns of Bonanza and Gunsmoke. There just might be one I have not seen before, and I would not want to miss that!

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Happy birthday this week to: John Troisi Jr., Roy Head, Stewart Rackley, Tori Smith, Debbie Richards, Kimberly G. Bennett, Ginger D. Lanier, Robert Pierce, Shirley Dwight, Trevor Weathersby and Susan D. Godbee.

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Military Active Duty List: Sgt. Adam Demshar, 44th Signal Battalion, Baghdad, Iraq; Lance Cpl. Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Radio and Communications, Bahria, Iraq; Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric B. Kelsey, U.S. Navy, NSA Bahrain; PV2 Ashley Clifton, U.S. Army, Yongsan, Korea; Airman First Class Charles F. Woods, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA; Capt. Andrew P. Thomas, U.S. Marines, F.A.S.T. Company, Yorktown, VA; Stuart Burrus, U.S. Air Force, Bossier AFB, Bossier, LA; SPC 4 Travis D. Motes, 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas; Capt. Donald Slade Burke, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Calif.; Staff Sgt. Gilbert C. Sheppard III, 48th Brigade, 118th Field Artillery, Iraq; Petty Officer 3rd Class Jamie A. Yager, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps Base Hawaii; Petty Chief Officer Andy D. Crosby, U.S. Navy, Elroy Destroyer, Norfolk, Va.; Stephanie Crosby, R.N., U.S. Navy, Lafayette Destroyer; Jimmy Cooper, U.S. Army National Guard, 878th Engineering Battalion Augusta, Persian Gulf ; 1st Lt. J.R. Taylor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Iraq; SPC. Daniel Stuart, 18th MEDCOM, 121 General Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Jeffrey Sweat, U.S. Navy, USS Kauffman, MM3 59/ E-Division, A-Gang, Norfolk, Va.; Cpl. Larry Lamont Clark, U.S. Marine Corp, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Bagdad, Iraq; Khan Young, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, Persian Gulf; Robert Milton Jr., E-3, U.S. Army, Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Ga., Mission Kuwait; Arnold R. Mosley, 2nd Lt., U.S. Air Force.