The solution is really simple. Work together put the sticks down and work together. Century is a town that life is just beginning to grow again in small steps. Why not make a differance together show the childern and teens they can make a differance , why not show them they have a chance for great future and when mistakes or miss understandings are made ….YOU CAN MAKE IT RIGHT it just takes alittle hard work and faith. How many of parents and grandparents hate seeing our children leave?

And my final question……I really want to know why …Why is it that when few good people want to make a differance in thier community , keep in mind that is giving back uncondtionally. People want to attack their motives instead of using thier resorces to help a town that has been on a slow death until now.

Yes I guess my pebble might make a crack in your shiny glass house. But I think
it is forgotten WHY this all got started……….Reminder for the people :It was for the children to have a bighter future and really the children are our future.
Thank you

I will continue trying to get the public information.

Jack, you write as though you are the end all and know all about anything Century and intimate in a very derogatory tone that anyone that disagrees with you is basically an “idiot”. You don’t know everything, you have only been living in this area for a few years. You are not the “expert” on anything “historical” in this area.

You are just a person like the rest of us who has an opinion and that opinion really only matters to ones self.

Like Max says, there are those who have 2X4’s in their own eye. I am also somewhat amazed at the response of the Town of Century who has been paid – at least by someone, and their rush to “pile-on”.

I understand the righteous indignation of citizen-taxpayers regarding how their tax money is spent or not spent; and I am sure that in time the issue will be all sorted out and cleared up. However, I am also sure that the Town of Century has enough of its own fish to fry.

The “concerned citizen” was very pointed in saying;
“Headstart is not the responsibility of the school board. They have their own funding. They sign leases at all sites. The school board does not tell them where to have their programs. Their director or board then seeks out space to have their program, this includes rent and utilities. They are very separate in their funding sources from the school board. I am under the impression they have had a lease with the church for some time. I will call the Headstart office tomorrow and verify their lease and agreement. I will not be calling the school board for that information as they will not have it.”

Well, let me give you a bit of history and fact regarding Head-Start in Century.

Century did not have a Head-Start program until more than 19 years after Pensacola Head-Start was fully implemented, just like Century did not have a public-access day care until this past April-2008!

Last year, the Century Head-Start was scheduled to be closed because it no longer had a place it could lease – the courageous Director was scrambling to keep the Head-Start in Century from Closing; however, Pastor Stallworth, realizing what a blow shutting down the Head-Start Program would be to the town, stepped up and offered them a place in the old Century High School. He (Stallworth) postponed the plans his church had for that space, and made it available to Head-Start to save the program in Century. Although they (Head-Start) could and would pay rent, he gave them the space for free – putting money back in the pockets of the taxpayers I would think. I don’t believe the Town of Century offered them space, nor did the Chamber of Commerce or anyone else that I am aware of. Once the “concerned citizen” checks on the Head-Start lease, I hope he/she will help find the money to build Head-Start (a proven program) a permanent home building in Century.

When the Day Care Center came up short of funds necessary to complete the construction and renovations necessary to open; it was Pastor Stallworth that lobbied members of the Congress and Senate in Washington D.C. and found the extra funds – almost $100,000; but now for the first time in its history there is a quality Day Care and after school care for Century’s children. Where were the “concerned citizens” during the 12 plus years we worked on that project? And I can tell you this; Without Stallworth’s help, the Century Child Development (Day Care) Center would NEVER have happened.

As for me and my house, we will stand with our Pastor, our Church, and our Lord!

Jack Moran
Bratt/Byrneville

Headstart is not the responsibility of the school board. They have their own funding. They sign leases at all sites. The school board does not tell them where to have their programs. Their director or board then seeks out space to have their program, this includes rent and utilities. They are very separate in their funding sources from the school board. I am under the impression they have had a lease with the church for some time. I will call the Headstart office tomorrow and verify their lease and agreement. I will not be calling the school board for that information as they will not have it.

Mr. Stallworth and his boards know they have to make restitution to the school board and waiting to hear from them is an excuse. They need to walk outside and find the meters on the building(s) they rented, call gulf power and get the bills and while they are doing that they should pay their deposits and get everything in their name.

Anyone that uses the facility space(s) rented by the church do so at the church’s discretion still making the church responsible for all utilities and if they need the money collecting that from the groups using said facility.

By the way, exactly what is this church doing for the community? There has been a lot of ink about Mr. Stallworth but what exactly is the church doing in a positive way for the community that is any more significant than the other church whose congregation are doing their part? I have seen nothing to elevate them above the other churches. It seems all are doing their part and Mr. Stallworth and his congregation are not rising above them in community work. They are all equal. Mr. Stallworth and Mr. Moran are better able to attract media attention.

It would seem that once the media attention is not directed by them then they cry foul.

Concerned citizen, are you telling me that you did not see Barnes on the Channel 3 news when the interviewer asked him what other information of alleged wrongdoing he had. He acknowledged that he did have more, but that he wasn’t ready to divulge it? You would have had to seen the manner in which he said that to know he is on witchhunts.

Everyone should be for positive, progressive movement. Stallworth has already said he will get the bills paid. But he has to be told what he owes first.