Jones County remembering Sheriff Danny Heath

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Jones County remembering Sheriff Danny Heath

TRENTON, N.C. (WITN) – Jones County is remembering Sheriff Danny Heath who died instantly on Monday.

This early morning a sheriff’s van is parked on the garden of the courthouse in Trenton with bouquets and a large black wreath on its entrance. A flag at the sheriff’s business office is flying at half-staff.

A flag outside the Jones County Sheriff's Office flies at half-staff Tuesday. — A flag outdoors the Jones County Sheriff’s Office environment flies at 50 %-employees Tuesday.(WITN)

Jones County Resident, Ruth Willaford says she was stunned when she listened to of Heath’s passing. “I assumed it was awful for this kind of a man or woman that we have in Jones County.”

County leaders are also astonished. “Shocked truly, is the operative phrase. I can not convey my regret for the family,” stated Jones County Board of Commissioners Vice Chairman, Charlie Dunn.

The 52-yr-previous Heath had served as sheriff due to the fact very first becoming elected in 2010.

by Contessa Zumalt — August 4, 2021 in Van Jones Wife

Remembering the 200th Anniversary of the 1821 Greek Revolution: Ibrahim Pasha and Mystra

Mystra, viator.com

Greek songs remember Ibrahim Pasha in a negative way. I did not realize who he was and what he almost accomplished. The online encyclopedia Britannica describes him as brilliant. None of his atrocities of the civilian population at Missolonghi or Morea (Peloponnese) are mentioned. In the Britannica article the Greek Revolution is stated in two sentence: Ibrahim landed in Greece in 1825, subdued Morea, but a combined British, French and Russian Squadron eventually compelled the Egyptian force to withdraw.”1 The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica and the most recently revised and updated article by Adam Zeidan, Assistant Editor, ignore the European and American primary sources accounts that portray a different viewpoint of Ibrahim Pasha.

Mystra today whc.unesco.org/en/list/511/%5B/caption%5D

As George Santayana said, “History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”2 It is estimated that 3,000 Greek men were killed during the Exodus of Missolonghi by Ibrahim

by Contessa Zumalt — July 27, 2021 in Greek Woman

Remembering the very first Meadowlands Pace

by Bob Heyden

Let’s take a look back at the very first Meadowlands Pace in 1977 with a dozen notes of interest:

1. The inaugural pace was held on a Tuesday night (July 12, 1977).

2. Going into Pace Night, the Meadowlands track record for sophomore pacing colts was 1:55.1 set by Oil Burner on Sept. 6, 1976. The overall track mark was 1:54.3 by Shadyside Trixie. Both were lowered in the Pace elims by B Gs Bunny to 1:54.

3. It was a 10-race card with an 8 p.m. post, seven of 10 winners paid between 4-1 and 5-1, 11 drivers in the two elims went on to the Hall Of Fame. The two longest-priced horses were Keystone Banshee with Peter Haughton at 77-1 (eighth) and Stan Banks drove Thorpe Messenger to a fifth and qualifying spot at 87-1 and then was sixth in the final at 81-1 —

by Contessa Zumalt — July 11, 2021 in Female Escort