To the Editor

This year the Tom A. Finch YMCA only had enough children to make up one team in the Junior-Pro league. In order for the kids to play, Jamie Mills, the youth director at the Tom A. Finch YMCA scheduled games against the Archdale and High Point YMCAs. Coach Vic Finlay, with the help of Coach Keith Underwood, and Coach Jim Gainey, did a terrific job and had wonderful winning soccer season with the Tom A. Finch YMCA “Freedom” Junior-Pro team!

I wanted to write to congratulate the “Freedom” team that won the championship against the Hartley Drive Junior-pro team on Nov. 7, 2009. The children did an outstanding job. They all played their hardest and worked together to win! Congrats to all the kids and the coaches. Thanks also to Jamie Mills for a great job and all his hard work!

Peg Finlay

Thomasville

To the Editor

Dear citizens of Thomasville. I offer thanks and appreciation to you all for your moral support and votes for me during the Thomasville City election held on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, and over the past 18 years since November 1991. I has been a pleasure to have served you this long, the longest term that any other cit council member in the history of Thomasville City.

Thank you for your trust and confidence of which you have placed in me over the past years. Thank you, for your thoughtfulness in times without an end. Thank you for being a helping friend with the economy being what it is for the past two to three years with the loss of jobs and a steady declining and sloping downward. I tried to do my very best to accomplish much for our city and the citizens here. I tried to help save jobs and businesses and I have assisted with many goals and objectives, such as keeping your taxes down, bringing new industries and businesses here, such as Walmart, Unilin flooring, BoJangles, Denny’s, Ruby Tuesday’s, as well as closing the city dumps and helping to convert it into a golf course. I’ve also assisted with having sidewalks for MLK Drive, an underpass for peace Street, new fire stations, CBG Grant program for homes to be repaired, P.A.R.T. transportation and many other things for the city of Thomasville in the past years. Special thanks for the cards you sent and the telephone calls you made to me.

I would like to personally congratulate the two new council members elected, Mr. Ronald Bratton and Miss Jackie Jackson. I wish them good luck with much success for the future.

Some citizens feel lik it was time for a change with new faces, new ideas and new blood to serve on city council with the economy being what it is in the day and time.

Again, special thanks and appreciation for allowing me to serve you all over these past 18 years. May God continue to bless and keep you all

George Burton

Thomasville

Former Thomasville City Council member