LIFE IS NO FABRICATION. LIFE IS REAL.

Recent rains resulted in most of our county being without
water.

Some residents never had their water supply interrupted. In an area
devastatingly affected by weather, they lived on, basically untouched
by its negative, destructive impact.

It seems entirely possible to live in blissful ignorance of the
realities of the world around us.

If one is not personally touched by the harshness of the reality, they
can live as if the idea that it exists is merely fabrication. I was
without water; therefore I know the water situation was real!

It is never a solution to ignore truth and embrace fabrication. It is
vital to know facts and truth.

Drugs are a documented problem in Stephens County.

The percentage of judicial cases in our community involving illegal
drugs is a statistic that says we do have a drug problem.

Thankfully many live in this community untouched by the harsh,
destructive realities of the drug problem.

However, the facts remain, and continually remind us, that the needed
confrontation of the drug problem is not merely a fabrication
motivated by the pursuit of money.

Stephens County Anti Drug Coalition has been instrumental in getting
over 90 individuals into rehabilitation since last years drug march.

Those individuals are real people who had a real addiction to real and
illegal drugs.

Those 90 people being helped by SCADC reflect hundreds of lives
positively impacted by their diligent, sacrificial, and compassionate
work.

I wonder how many lives have been rescued from addiction, families
restored to healthy relationships, and crimes avoided by those denying
the problem exists? SCADC is making a difference!

I have personally witnessed the devastation of drugs. I have met with
families gripped in the pain and fear of loved ones addicted.

I have looked into the strained eyes of addicts searching for a way
out of their destructive dilemma.

I have prayed with people desperately searching for some solace in
their world which is gripped in the stronghold of addiction. I know
that the drug problem is real.

Separation of church and state as presented in a recent letter is
fabrication.

The constitutional bill of rights states: "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances."

The legality of, and right to post, the sign pictured in an earlier
letter is actually supported by our constitution!

Those seeking to remove God from American society have so effectively
declared separation of church and state that many accept it as truth.

On Oct. 17 individuals from this community will gather to make a
statement about the drug problem. We will walk the streets of Toccoa
to declare our firm commitment to the challenge.

I will be among those walking that day; Lord willing and the creek
don't rise!

Life is not fabrication, life is real!

Terry Addis

Toccoa