R.W. Jenkins grew up in South Carolina and has always had a love for national parks. He talked about that love on a late spring morning while sitting inside his office at the Gulf Islands National Seashore Headquarters.
The sun is officially shining down on us. And if the sun is out, the guns are out! When we talk about guns—also known as our arms — we are primarily looking at those biceps. The biceps are made up of a short head and long head, thus the prefix “bi.” When you see someone flex his or her guns, the line in the middle identifies the two different muscles. On the top, you see the short head and the bottom is the long head.
Just when you think you have seen it all, you haven’t. I know a lot of our readers aren’t on Facebook 24/7 like our District 4 County Commissioner. Some of you learned about Rob Williamson’s midnight raid on the sign for the first time in last week’s issue. A lot has happened since then. RW continues to plead his case on the internet and had an email campaign directed to the county commissioners before Monday’s regularly scheduled county commission meeting. The very meeting where RW could have brought up his new found emotional connection to the former sign. An emotional connection that he did not have before he was swayed by a few on Facebook. As you will read in this issue, he was chided by his fellow county commissioners and I applaud them for that. However, I don’t personally believe it went far enough. We cannot trust a chairman that is led by emotions. Emotions are fleeting and not to be relied upon. And, you make bad decisions when you are led by your emotions. Such as, “I don’t know what came over me.” Or “It was in the heat of the moment.”
It is with a heavy heart that I write this letter to you. Yesterday, I stated my position and had every intention of moving forward; however, Commissioner Williamson’s recent Facebook post demands an answer.
In Monday’s county commission meeting, Commissioner and Chairman Rob Williamson put the other commissioners difficult position when he removed the signs from the causeway in the middle of the night Thursday. Quite clearly he undermined the board as expressed by both Lane Lynchard and Sam Parker. He failed to defend county staff for following through with what the board asked of them. He never apologized nor did he fully admit to the severity of what he had done. He villainized the board in an attempt to come out a hero amid the illegalities of his actions.
Typical Robbie Williamson thinking. He goes to remove a public sign at 1 am WITHOUT any tools. Now that he admitted he did it Robbie should be charged with destruction of public property. When the new sign goes up and if someone doesn’t like it, according to Robbie, they can remove the sign. Can you picture Robbie stumbling around at night looking for tools?
Tim and Karen Price love their new home in Holley by the Sea. They moved to the area from Atlanta in recent years, and they said they had friends in the area. Driving through the neighborhood, they said they knew they wanted to live here.
West Navarre Intermediate School students in Janet Bryan’s and Jessica Teague’s classes closed out the school year with a hands-on project to wow their parents.
