The poll question on our website last week was, "Do you believe it is possible for Millen and Jenkins County to recover from all of the job losses experienced in the past three years?"

Responses as of Monday were: Yes - 18; No - 51; and Maybe - 12.

We had one reader comment as follows: "While Millen has the factory space, the drive into Millen from most directions takes you through slum areas that would turn off any potential company and its management. Head out towards Dublin any day, look right or left for two miles or so and you see a bad looking area, not that the people living there don't want to improve it, or want jobs. I don't know. The mayor is a Millen businessman, so needless to say he wants Millen to grow. I believe the city needs to approach and offer property and tax concessions to various companies. They might be doing that already, but keeping it secret doesn't let the people of Millen know someone is trying, and being kept secret, they lose access to people in Millen who might know someone in the prospective company where they could use their influence. I hope for the sake of all who live here and have businesses here that something comes this way soon."

To participate in this week's poll, go to http:// www.themillennews.com.

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Television commercials don't often catch my attention, or if they do, it is because of their offensive or silly content. Recently, however, I saw one that I thought was very creative.

A man and woman are shown walking into their bedroom carrying suitcases, presumably returning from vacation. The woman falls face-first on top of their bed and begins to "tell the bed" how much she missed it and that she would never again sleep in another bed. The man then does the same thing. I couldn't help but laugh, because I know how they felt.

A recent trip left me feeling the same way. Our accommodations were great - except for the beds. While pleasing to look at, sleeping on them was another matter. About halfway through the first night, my husband got up and attempted to sleep in the recliner chair, leaving me wishing I had thought of it first. Our son and daughter-in-law complained the next morning that they, too, had not slept all night in their lumpy bed. The only person who slept through the night was our eight months old granddaughter, and she can sleep anywhere. We experienced a second night of no-sleeping and were more than ready to get up and go home the next morning.

A hotel/motel commercial of several years ago used the slogan, "The lights are always on." I now know why - no one can sleep in motel/hotel beds!

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Happy birthday this week to: Sara Helen Burke, Kenny Williams, Shelby Burke, Daisy Edenfield and Vivian Davis.

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Celebrating wedding anniversaries are: Mr. and Mrs. John T. Herrington Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Brown.

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Military Active Duty List: PV2 Brianna Joiner, U.S. Army National Guard, Ft. Leonardwood, MO; PV2 Jeremy Johnson, U.S. Army, 59th Quartermaster Company, Ft. Carson, Colorado; Ronnie Perryman, Charlie Troop, 108th Calvary Division, 4th Platoon, Afghanistan; Lance Cpl. Adam Lanier, U.S. Marines, 8th & I Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.; E-4 Sr. Airman Roy Davis, U.S. Air Force, RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom; Lance Cpl. Patrick Barnette, U.S. Marines, Baharia, Iraq; Sgt. Adam Demshar, 44th Signal Battalion, Baghdad, Iraq; Cpl. Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Camp Pendleton, CA; E5 Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric B. Kelsey, U.S. Navy, NSA Naples, Italy; Senior Airman Charles F. Woods, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA; Stuart Burrus, U.S. Air Force, Osan AFB, Korea; SPC 4 Travis D. Motes, 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas; Capt. Donald Slade Burke, 735th Air Mobility Squadron Detachment 1 Commander, Richmond Royal Australian AFB, Richmond, Australia; 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, Randolph AFB, Texas; and Debra A. Mosley, Tech. Sgt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas; and SPC Charles "C.J." Amerson, U.S. Army, Camp Adder, Iraq.