Missing for a week, our little lost dog, Ziggie, found her way home Sunday night. I went outside after dark and discovered her running around in the yard with our other pets, a little hungry, but none the worse for her adventure. It was a welcomed and pleasant surprise!

Several folks called me to say they had seen dogs fitting her description at various places, in our area of the county but none of them turned out to be Ziggie. Several also called to see if we had found her. One person even brought a little dog to our house for me to look at Sunday afternoon that she had rescued from a dumpster site. It wasn’t ours, but we took the dog anyway, since the Good Samaritan said she could not keep her.

Two hours later Ziggie showed up in the yard! Maybe her returning was our reward for giving another animal a home. “Thanks” to all who tried to help me find Ziggie. She is safely home now and as I said before, “Her riding days are over!”

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For all the folks who have been asking if there has been any word on the CCA’s proposed prison for Jenkins County, I have been informed that it will be the “end” of November before we know. It had originally been thought that the decision would come at the beginning of the month.

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Happy birthday this week to: Imari Jackson, Vanessa Gordon, Jacob Burke, Ashley Godbee, Danny Troisi, Rebekah Daniel, Bill Knight Sr., Larry Johnson, Elene Bragg, Chase Wilkerson, Larry Adams, C.J. Waters, Christen Hooks, Roy Owens and Sherry Smith.

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Celebrating wedding anniversaries this week are: Mr. and Mrs. Matt Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Landing, Mr. and Mrs. Don Burke and Mr. and Mrs. James Poole.

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Military Active Duty List: PV2 Brianna Joiner, U.S. Army National Guard, Ft. Benning, GA; 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.