Morning Metro: Commission Off on Retreat, DeKalb Has More Money, and the Original Alcoholic Beverage
Decatur Metro | February 15, 2012
- Decatur City Commission heading to Helen for annual planning retreat [Patch]
- Decatur hires new head football coach from Chattooga [Patch]
- The endless “kids in restaurants” saga continues [CL]
- Woohoo! DeKalb has more money than expected! [AJC]
- Fox Sports Grill leaving Atlantic Station [ABC]
- Roswell “chicken man” facing eviction [AJC]
- Forget about beer, let’s make some mead!! [Gizmodo]
Atlanta road map circa 1930s courtesy of Sandmarg [h/t: ATL Urbanist]
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Heading to Helen!?!?! Hopefully not for planning inspiration.
+1
many years ago, did quite a bit of camping and hiking in north Ga with the signif-other of that era. We had a running joke about how far out of the way we were willing to drive to avoid passing through Helen.
The people responsible for Helen are heroes of mine.
The sheer chutzpah involved is just fascinating. It’s silly and goofy, sure. But imagine a small, dying town saying “with some creativity and loads of brown and beige paint, we can turn this place into a tourist trap and make a fortune.”
Lots of jobs, lots of happy people drinking bad beer and shopping at Das Ist Leather.
Good for them. The ultimate bootstrappers.
Does anyone else think it is um, unusual, that the DeKalb police chief and the DeKalb fire chief are brothers? Are any other family members on the county payroll?
Excuse me but are you suggesting DeKalb county may be corrupt???? I am shocked and appalled sir! Shocked and appalled I say!!
They are both very highly thought of by professionals in other jurisdictions.
Oh man…. Kids and restaurants……
The comments from that link are hilarious.
This one is funny and true- It’s not the kids per se, it’s the indulgent, patronizing, Doctor Spock believing, non-spanking, free range unique snowflake non parenting parents.
On a serious note, i know people with kids want a break and take the kids out to eat, however i don’t understand letting them scream and run around.
I’ve heard the answer “you should know that kids like (insert type of food or certain restaurant here) ” but if someone wants food from that place, I don’t think that means that they should be subjected to getting run over by misbehaving children or go deaf in the process.
My favorite was the one that mentioned the value of socializing kids by taking them out to eat. Categorically, I agree that that’s important. But if they are wreaking havoc in a public place, then there’s a hiccup in the socialization process.
The hiccup is the indulgent, patronizing, Doctor Spock believing, non-spanking, free range unique snowflake non parenting parents.
Exactly.
”I didn’t want to encourage permissiveness, but rather to relax rigidity …” “Every once in a while, somebody would say to me, ‘There’s a perfectly horrible child down the block whose mother tells everybody that he’s being brought up entirely by your book.’ But my own children were raised strictly, to be polite and considerate. I guess people read into the book what they wanted to.”
RE: Fox Sports Grill leaving Atlantic Station:
Stopped in there once in June a couple years ago to find the Braves/Mets game on exactly ZERO TVs. Pathetic. My one and only visit.
I Guess the Braves game was on a network other then Fox.
Ha! To provide full context, this was in the middle of the NBA Playoffs. I could understand those games taking up a majority of the TVs, but to not dedicate a single TV to one of the home teams is ludicrous.
Adding to that, my waitress couldn’t (wouldn’t) put the Bravos on a TV that was centrally located for me, citing said NBA playoffs as the excuse. There might have been 10 other patrons in the place.
A small clarification – the Commission retreat is at Smithgall Woods which is NEAR Helen and a totally different experience (not that I have anything against Helen…). The staff and Commissioners are there for Friday afternoon, Friday night and then the Commissioners leave after lunch on Saturday. The staff stays over Saturday night to draw up an action list based on our discussions. It is the main opportunity for all of us to review past goals and efforts, reflect on the future and create a broad overview of goals for the upcoming year and beyond.
Hope you all get some personal time for some biking/hiking at Smithgall. Biking is great there once you get past that first enormous hill!
Curious to know whether the new DHS football coach will also teach. The article mentioned that he does so at his current school. While on the subject, are the other sports coaches at DHS called upon to teach classes as well?
It almost made it sound like he was keeping his teaching job at Chatooga and only coming to DHS to coach. Could that be possible? A 95-mile commute doesn’t seem entirely feasible over the long haul.
I think that arrangement is only until the end of school year. He will have the 95 mile commute for spring practices. Presumably he will move closer to Decatur this summer (unless he enjoys the commute)
Interesting that coach went to Liberty University (Jerry Faldwell’s) college in Lynchburg.
I’m pretty sure he’ll be teaching at Decatur…I think the “keeping his job at Chattooga” is just for this year.
To my knowledge there are no coaches on staff whose only responsibility is coaching. We don’t have the big bucks like the private schools do.
I can think of no varsity head football, soccer or basketball coach at a private in or near Atlanta that is not also a faculty member. It’s not unusual for a new hire to take an academic year or two get a faculty position, but the idea of a hired gun who does nothing but coach for years at a time is a myth around here.