Travis A. and Jill Page Family Named Farm Family of the Year

1_Layout 1 9/20/12 11:00 AM Page 1 Since 1865, Telling It Like It Is And Defending The Peasant's Right To Know Our 148th Year, Number 3 Friday, September 21, 2012 Madison, Florida www.greenepublishing.com Travis A. And Jill Page Family Jim von Roden Named Farm Family Of The Year To Be Honored At National Fallen Firefighters 31st Annual Nation - al FaCllen eFirefieghtmers onies Memorial Service will honor four Florida fire - fighters who died in the line of duty. They are among the 80 firefighters who died in 2011 and five firefighters who died in previous years who will be remembered at the of - ficial national service held at the National Fire Academy in Emmits - burg, Maryland on Sun - day, October 7. Captain James L. von Roden, age 49, of the Lee Community Volun - teer Fire Department James L. von Roden died after collapsing while en route to a brush fire on March 12, 2011. Greene Publishing, Inc. Photo by Emerald Greene, September 18, 2012 Firefighter Joshua O. Burch, age 31, of the Flori - da Forest Service died from burns sustained when The Travis A. and Jill Page family were named Farm Family of the Year at the Annual Farm Bureau Din - he and another firefighter were overrun by fire ner held Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Madison. Travis and Jill are shown holding their twin daughters, Addilyn and while operating at the Blue Ribbon Forest Fire on Pailyn. Look in next week’s Madison County Carrier for a special section featuring photos and stories from Please see von Roden, Page 3 the dinner. Sonny Shroyer To Appear At Celebrity Waiter Night By Jacob Bembry cut short by an injury. Greene Publishing, Inc. “A lot of people think I played with When the United Way hosts Burt Reynolds, but I was there before Celebrity Waiter him,” Shroyer said. Night on Tuesday, Tom Nugent was Sept. 25, from 5-9 the head coach for p.m. at Shelby’s the Seminoles when Restaurant, they Shroyer played and will be waited on by ESPN analyst Lee local celebrities Corso was the quar - like Edward Meggs, terback. Deanna Samaha Shroyer gradu - and Jackie John - ated from the Uni - son. Also on hand versity of Georgia. that evening will be Shroyer’s model - a celebrity whose ing career began fame reaches a lot when he posed for farther than Madi - the cover of the son. Sonny Shroyer, Georgia-Georgia best known as Sonny Shroyer Tech football pro - “Enos” on The Dukes of Hazzard will gram in 1961, wearing football gear. also be on hand. His first movie was Like a Crow on Before Sonny’s acting career be - a June Bug , starring Oscar-winner gan, he played football for the Florida Mercedes McCambridge. State Seminoles before his career was Please see Shroyer, Page 3 B.E.A.R Center Charter Presents First School ABy pLynpetrteo Novrreis d Monthly Report Greene Publishing, Inc. After months of To School Board planning, prepara - Photo Submitted By Lynette Norris tion and paperwork, Greene Publishing, Inc. several members of With the school year now underway, Sean Gold - the board for James er and Jamie Newberry, representing the B.E.A.R Madison Preparato - Guign And Judi Wyche Center (formerly the Madison Excel School) pre - ry High School, at - sented their first monthly report to the school board. tending the Madison After a difficult day at the Center, Golder, the County School Board Named 2012 Florida chief administrator of the facility, told the board Meeting, Sept. 18, fi - that “Sometimes Murphy (of Murphy’s Law) is our nally heard the news friend,” adding that he wanted transparency in the they had been wait - process that the Center was going through in getting Tree Farmer Of The Year ing for: the school The Florida Forestry Association recognized Benjamin “Guign” and Judi things off the ground and running smoothly, and board’s approval of Wyche, owners of a 330-acre tree farm in Madison County, as the 2012 Florida that included the occasional bumps and hurdles as the new charter high Tree Farmer of the Year at its Annual Meeting on September 6 in Destin. Please see B.E.A.R., Page 3 school. “Forestry and tree farming have been in the Benjamin Wyche family for Dr. Cheryl decades,” said Lynetta Usher Griner, president of the Florida Forestry Associa - James, speaking for tion. “A small business owner in Madison County, Ben has owned and managed the school district this 330-acre Tree Farm, named ‘Rollercoaster Hill,’ since he inherited it from committee that had his father over 10-years ago. This property has been a Certified Tree Farm since reviewed the school’s 2003. It is obvious that Guign and Judi have a shared commitment to protect the 150-page application, ecological value of their land, while producing forest products that Florida said that the applica - needs.” tion had met the “Benjamin and Judi Wyche are a wonderful example of a family that finds deadline and was “re - many benefits from owning and managing forests,” said Alan Shelby, executive ceived in a complete vice president of the Florida Forestry Association. “We can all learn from their Please see Charter, example of being good land stewards with core values of hard work, communi - Page 3 ty responsibility and commitment to protecting Florida’s forest legacy. Their Please see Wyche, Page 3 Index Local Weather 1 Section, 10 Pages Around Madison 4 Obituaries 4 Fri 87/67 Sat 89/67 Sun 88/68 Mon 90/64 Women In Business 5 From Page One 3 9/21 9/22 9/23 9/24 Classifieds/Legals 9 History 8 Sunshine and clouds mixed. A Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper More sun than clouds. Highs in the Times of sun and clouds. Highs in Editorials 2 Church 7 stray shower or thunderstorm is 80s and lows in the upper 60s. upper 80s and lows in the upper the low 90s and lows in the mid possible. 60s. 60s. S M T 2_Layout 1 9/20/12 8:22 AM Page 1 www.greenepublishing.com 2 Madison Enterprise-Recorder Viewpoints & Opinions Friday, September 21, 2012 Whether you like it or not, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But, many Madison County Jacob’s Ladder Americans choose to skip it, opting for larg - Extension Service Jacob Bembry Diann Douglas Columnist er meals later in the Guest Columnist day. This is why Sep - tember is designated as Build a Better Break - fast. A meal that has been the subject of much research over the years, it is a proven Make Breakfast fact the breakfast Lost Causes eaters are better off than breakfast skip - A Priority pers. population doesn’t like run out the door, pop Do you believe in yourself? Do Saul as a know-it-all vindictive reli - Breakfast literally traditional breakfast one in the toaster, top it you believe in others? gious leader, Jesus saw His heart. Je - means breaking the food. Don’t let these ex - with peanut butter or Jesus was the greatest believer sus made Saul into the greatest fast. Your body has cuses keep you from cream cheese and add in people the world has ever seen. preacher the world has known. gone without food dur - starting your day off sliced fruit, roll it up He saw something in Simon, who The main thing that helped ing the night’s sleep, on the right foot with a and you can eat it on became Peter. He saw something in these people was the grace of Jesus operating in a fasting healthy breakfast. your drive to work. Saul, who became Paul. He saw Christ. mode for 10 to 12 hours. Most breakfast Find a recipe for a high something in you. He saw something It is what saved Peter. A body needs food to foods are low in calo - fiber muffin, bake a in me. He loved us enough to go to It is what saved Paul. fuel up for the day’s ac - ries and fat. Skip the batch and eat one with the Cross and die for us. It is what saved me and it is what tivities, so that is why coffee and donuts or a a glass of milk or or - In the gruff, unrefined Simon, has saved you, if you have accepted breakfast is so impor - drive through the fast ange juice. He saw a man who could lead others Jesus Christ. tant. It has been food window. Break - For a nontradition - to Him. He would groom the Big Do you know someone who may proven students who fast doesn’t have to be a al breakfast, leftover Fisherman into the Big Evangelist. seem like a lost cause? Why not in - eat breakfast perform cooked meal, if you veggie pizza and a glass In the educated and religious vest time in them and tell them better in school; they find it hard to pull a of milk is a good Saul, He saw someone He could use. about Jesus Christ? He is the Savior have a longer attention breakfast together be - choice. Try mashed Although the world may have seen of lost causes. span and score higher cause you aren’t a pinto beans on a tor - on tests. The same ap - morning person, take a tilla, topped with moz - plies to adults, their few minutes the night zarella cheese and a Madison County… work performance is before to plan what you glass of 100% orange better when their body will eat. It may be that juice will meet the cri - is fueled at the start of you boil an egg or cut teria of a healthy Jail the day.

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