This is part 2 about the July 8th
town Hall meeting about the biomass plant proposed for Valdosta.
First let’s hear George Rhynes explain that it’s never too late to reregulate our minds:
Here I’ve selected videos of local County Commission candidates: Continue reading
This is interesting; it’s apparently the same map you can get on paper from the Chamber of Commerce, online with zoom and pan of both sides.
If you select directions, it sends you to google maps.
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Juarez, Mexico, is farther down the road of emphasizing law and order
over education and jobs, as Melissa del Bosque reports in the Texas Observer abo
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Mexico’s Lost Generations:
When Juarez’s (soon to be outgoing) Mayor Jose Reyes-Ferriz visited Austin last April something he said stuck with me.Mexican president Calderon, previously consumed by the drug war, finally noticed and did something:He told the audience that a failure to invest in schools and other public infrastructure had led to the lawlessness in his city. Instead of schools and daycare centers, city leadership only invested in maquila parks and roads. Children were left on the streets to fend for themselves as their parents worked in the maquila factories for meager wages.
“More than 5,000 residents have received job-training grants or temporary work sprucing up parks and sidewalks and planting trees. Officials added thousands of families to a government insurance program and handed out 6,000 scholarships in a city where few students were receiving such help.”Todos somos Juarez (We Are All Juarez).“It’s not enough to analyze it only in terms of public safety. You have serious gaps in the social and economic [areas] that have to be closed,” said Antonio Vivanco, a Calderon advisor overseeing the development effort.
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On July 8th there was a
town Hall meeting about the biomass plant proposed for Valdosta.
Pastor Angela Manning of New Life Ministries sums up why she called this Town Hall meeting:
Speakers included: Continue reading
The VDT writes about Foxborough two days in a row:
Several dozen residents of the Foxborough subdivision came to the Lowndes County Commission meeting Tuesday to again express their dismay at the possibility of having a McDonald’s fast food restaurant located by the neighborhood’s entrance.Candelario (I believe that’s the actual spelling of his name) provided a list of suggestions to the Commission, which Chairman Paulk addressed, including: Continue readingResident Pete Candelaria said he has been living in Foxborough for six years and was speaking on behalf of the residents.
Larry Hagman, most famous for playing Texas oilman JR Ewing, has gone solar.
He says the east coast blackout of 2003 made him think of the fragility of the grid,
so he installed enough solar panels and inverters to power his rather large estate:
He spent about $750,000 and got about $300,000 back in rebates. With the current Georgia 35% rebate and the federal 30% rebate on renewable energy installation, an investment of that amount could get back around $487,500 in rebates. Of course, the average home solar installation isn’t nearly that big, more like $15,000, with something like $9,750 rebate, or around $5,250 net.
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Lin Edwards writes in physorg.com about Parking lots could become ‘solar groves’ (w/ Video):
Architect Robert Noble, who specializes in sustainable design has come up with the idea of turning parking lots into “solar groves” that shade the vehicles, generate electricity, and serve as recharging stations for electric vehicles.Or forget Atlanta. Hahira or Valdosta could do this just as easily.
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Deidra White threw a party at Bas Bleu in downtown Valdosta.
The band lineup kept changing, but it included both amateurs such as
Deidra, Stan White, Charles F. Simons (who is Valdosta Chief of Police
when he’s not playing lead guitar), and professional musicians such as
Joe Smothers of Skannyardle and Brady Carrington and Rory Hoke of The Moore Trio.
The occasion was Deidra’s birthday and a benefit for Diane:
Right now, one of our own Diane, age 48, who is the “Mom” of the kitchen staff at The Bleu Cafe is fighting her own battle against this disease.So on Deidra’s birthday, this Saturday, we’re going to celebrate health and being alive while we raise money to help Diane with expenses while she is unable to work.
Here are a few clips of the band:
That’s the whole playlist. You can pick out individual videos through this link to the playlist.
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Every Saturday morning
in June and July, there’s
a farmers’ market in Hahira on West Main Street,
near the caboose.
Here Andrew Young tells us about it, Saturday morning, July 10th:
This last Saturday,
Tom Kuettner was there, selling goat products.
Gwen Jones
had
squash, tomatoes, okra, watermelons (red and yellow), corn, peas, anything that grows.
Paula Harrigan had free range eggs.
Dana Peters had watermelons and vine-ripened tomatoes.
Gretchen and John Quarterman had pumpkins, pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, zucchini bread, pumpkin butter, okra pickles, strawberry jam, sweet corn, and watermelon.
Here’s a playlist for all the movies. There are more pictures in the flickr set.
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James Cartledge
writes in BrighterEnergy.org:
Investment firm PowerFin Partners LLC is offering to finance more than $100 million worth of commercial and utility-scale solar projects in the US and Canada.Hm, where could we find something like that locally?The company based in Austin, Texas, is looking for projects above 2 megawatts in size (DC), for which permitting is nearly complete.
Projects must be a minimum of 300,000 square feet across as many as four sites.
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