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By Army Pfc. (by Colonel’s order) Andrew Guthrie (Ret.)
AFN Headquarters Newsroom 1960-’61
Frankfurt am Main Hoechst

School safety

By Glen and Linda Smith
Bedford

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” So observes Claudius in the play Hamlet.
    Certainly personal trials often come in multiples, while collective sorrows and even tragedies daily abound. We need not be news junkies to apprehend their frequency and sadness. Plane crashes, floods, tornadoes, typhoons—we are bombarded by the stark reality of the suffering. Yet perhaps none of these tragedies slam us with more emotional impact than school shootings.

Pepper Time

 

The hours of ten, two and four o'clock have long been  known as "Dr. Pepper time."  

Whitney Jones hopes pepper time comes for her a bit later in the day.  That's because Jones has been chosen as one of five finalists for the Doctor Pepper Challenge, to be held at halftime of the ACC football title game the evening of Dec. 7.

Sports commentary: The Army Team

 

Go Army!  Beat Navy!

Next weekend, I'll get to see if yet another of my accursed streaks might come to an end.

In case you're keeping score at home, my favorite teams have endured the following strings of bad luck:

-Minnesota Golden Gopher football – Last won the national title in 1960.

-Buffalo Bills – Nary a Super Bowl win in the team's history.

-Chicago Cubs – 106 years since they last won a World Series.

Added to this ignominy are these nuggets:

What'll it be, Ladies?

 

Liberty's Seminole foes shall be challenged this year to keep up with the Joneses.

That would be Mikalah Jones, the Lady Minutemen's preseason candidate for Seminole Player of the Year consideration.

That would also be Mike Jones, the Liberty head coach, who also happens to be Mikalah's father.

The good news is Jones has nearly everyone back from last year's team, which finished 12-9 overall (5-7 in the Seminole).  The only one not returning is Lauren Morgan, who is focusing on volleyball.

No shortage of talent; just short

 

They sure don't grow 'em big in southern Bedford County.

At least when it comes to boys basketball.

The Golden Eagles open this year's campaign with a roster that has only two players measuring out at over six feet in height.

Heck, even the girls' team has a taller player.

Thankfulness: A command

Each year the President issues a proclamation for Thanksgiving. Here is President Obama’s from last year:

Liberty boys basketball preview

 

Who will lead this team? 

That may well be the biggest question for a Liberty boys team which lost last year's leadership to graduation, including Adam McKinney, Ryan Hensley and Tre'von Lightfoot.

The team will also deal with the fact that it is laden with five new faces, including a trio of transfers.

A new approach

 

Surprises are rarely neutral:  They can be good or they can be bad.

For Steve Mills, Jefferson Forest's new head coach of the girls team, his early-season surprises clearly fall in the latter category.

Mills found out early in his tenure that he would begin his inaugural campaign absent two of the team's best players from last year.  Guards Cassidy Ratliff and Katie Cousins have opted not to play roundball this season.  Instead, the duo will focus on soccer, a sport in which they have proven acumen.

Senior citizens

 

With age comes wisdom, says the adage.

New Jefferson Forest Head Coach Paul Redgate has to hope that along with that wisdom comes a propensity to win.

Redgate switched from coaching the JF girls (which he'd done the previous five seasons) to taking the reins of the lads' team when Paul Smith stepped down following last year's campaign.

Redgate likely didn't realize he'd have such a senior-laden crew this season.  Of the 14 guys on the roster, 10 are seniors.