Tim Richardson, 54, is a native of Marietta and is descended from some of Cobb's earliest settlers. A resident of Acworth since 1980, he and Marty, his wife of 34 years, have three adult sons, Ben, Andy and Bill, and one grandson. Richardson is a 1971 graduate of Marietta High School where he was a Governor's Honors Program nominee in Art and school correspondent to the Marietta Daily Journal. He graduated from the Radio Broadcasting program at Elkin's Institute in Atlanta and is a 1982 honors graduate in Electronics Technology from what is now Chattahoochee Technical College. He also has diplomas from NRI in Digital Electronics Servicing and Computer Programming. Following several years as an announcer at several area radio stations, he owned and operated the family business, Richardson's Bicycle Shop in Marietta, from 1976 until 1982. He has been associated with Böwe Bell + Howell in Durham, NC since 1982 as a Senior Customer Service Engineer for the Atlanta area. In that position he uses a combination of his skills in mechanics, electrical controls, electronics and computers to repair and maintain high speed mail processing systems. He was appointed by President Reagan and served as a Local Board Member with the United States Selective Service System for twenty years. Richardson served as a Commissioner for the Acworth Housing Authority. He is recipient of the President's Award of the North Cobb Touchdown Club and served as a club treasurer for several years. He has coached with the Acworth Youth Football Association and also served as president and a member of the board of directors, Commissioner with the North Georgia Youth Football League, Coach with the Acworth Baseball Association, Coach with the Kennworth Track Club and a volunteer for the North Cobb High School football and track programs. Richardson is an amateur radio operator (W4IOU) and a computer hobbyist. Other leisure time pursuits include photography, genealogy, curio and relic firearms, gardening, golf, bicycling and local history. He is a member of the Kennehoochee Amateur Radio Club, the National Rifle Association and a life member of the American Radio Relay League. He is a former Boy Scout (Troop 717 Marietta) and Explorer Scout (Post 717 Marietta) and was inducted into the Order of the Arrow, Egwa Tawa Dee lodge. He is a graduate of the Acworth Police Department's Citizens Police Academy and a member of the Cobb County Community Emergency Response Team. Richardson also serves as a soldier in the Georgia State Defense Force. During his previous two terms on the Acworth City Council, he has served as Chairman of Public Safety, Chairman of Public Works, Chairman of Economic Development and Chairman of Administration. He has also served as liaison to the Acworth Downtown Development Authority, the Acworth Area Covention and Visitor's Bureau Authority, the Acworth Historic Preservation Commission, the Acworth Planning and Zoning Commission, Acworth Revitalization Grant Committee and the Acworth Tree Commission. He currently serves as Chairman of the Parks and Recreation Committee.

Tim Richardson City of Acworth 4415 Senator Russell Ave. Acworth, GA 30101 678-801-4009 City Hall Office 770-917-0590 City Hall Fax 770-974-5259 Home Send e-mail to TimRichardson

Eligibility to join the Georgia State Defense Force extends to men and women between the ages of 18 and 64. Prior military experience is not required. If you want the opportunity to serve your state and your nation, contact me for more information. PFC Tim Richardson click on the above link to e-mail

A friend sent this picture to me recently...it is me at a Christmas party in December of 2002. I weighed somewhere around 345 or 350 pounds (I had stopped getting on the scales when I hit 335). I made a New Year's resolution in 2003 that I would lose some weight but just lost a few pounds over the next few months. Then in August of 2003, Marty and I went out to eat lunch with some friends. The other couple found a seat in a booth and when we went to join them, I could barely squeeze myself into the seat and my stomach was pressed so tightly against the table I could barely breathe. Boy was I so embarrassed! Over the next few days I made up my mind I was going to lose some weight.

Here's grandson Michael just before his 3rd birthday enjoying some chocolate frosting...

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How Can We Blame it All on Guns?

Editor: For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns. It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised in broken homes. It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day. After all, we give our children quality time. It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets as children. It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care centers where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the law of the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children look on and make sure than no blood is spilled. It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on average, seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for adult consumption. It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.

It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so spoiled with material things that they come to equate the receiving of the material with love. It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created when contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time. It couldn't have been because our nation is the world leader in developing a "culture of death" in which 20 million to 30 million babies have been killed by abortion. It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to teen-agers who kill their newborns. It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and by handing out condoms as if they were candy. It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are no laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions don't have consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it. Nah, it must have been the guns. Addison L. Dawson San Angelo