Free-For-All Friday 4/29/16
Decatur Metro | April 29, 2016 | 7:07 amFeel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local topics not yet discussed here over the past week.
Feel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local topics not yet discussed here over the past week.
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Goodbye, April… Hello May!
LTB Decatur High graduation tickets (in the stadium). The school only gives out 12, and I’m going to need more than that. Please email me cblank1111(at)gmaildotcom.
Try decatur yard sale group on Facebook
Can someone tell me what the original use for the tag and title building on east Ponce was. Looks like it was originally a school
I guess I haven’t been paying attention. Where on E Ponce?
Across the street from Glennwood Elementary School
Oh, you mean the property title insurance office. I don’t think it was ever a school. It looks like it was built as a residential styled commercial building. Some folks with a longer history than me may be able to shed more light.
I used to work there. Just asked the owner. It was the original Georgia headquarters for the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It was also used by the AJC in the 1960s.
Ok – curious what people think about this…………………..
I was in the Valero across from Thinking Man the other day. Right next to the check out is a large glass case full of bongs. glass pipes and other paraphernalia. I have a son in middle school and I don’t really want him in there. I often see the middle schoolers and high schoolers going in that Valero given the convenience of the location. Given the recent discussion on risky behaviors, I am wondering if anyone else is bothered by this and the in your face nature of the display. I get that it is their right to sell such merchandise, but that does not mean we have to frequent such a business or tolerate it. In fact, I wonder if others had issue and told them that they would intentionally not shop there, if they would make a different decision regarding what they sell. Thoughts?
What is it about the bongs that bothers you, whereas ubiquitous alcohol advertising and availability (presumably) does not?
My point is that we’re all quite well informed of the existence and availability of various drugs. Whether we choose to use (and abuse) them probably has very little, if anything, to do with a display in a store window.
if bongs, or waterpipes rather, keep the kids from vaping, i think that’s a net win.
I imagine the easiest way to make kids attracted to going in the Valero is by telling them they can’t go there.
I could be mistaken, but I think you need to be a certain age to buy these items.
I would say that if it is their legal right, it sort of has to be tolerated. Anyway, it’s not the Valero per se I’d be worried about, but the ravine behind the Valero….
Details please!
What is the story on the various “comments closed” discussion items last week? I was out of town, and saw them while catching up. Please, no repeating of the bad things that got comments closed- was it just an attack of trolls?
please come out to Little Shop of Stories this evening from 7-9pm to support a local young writer, Edith Stubbs, in the publication of her first book, Amelia the Hedgehog.
hope to see you there.
My middle school niece is dying to get a hedgehog (her parents not so much). Weighing niece’s happiness vs. sister’s wrath on a purchase of this book as a gift…
A hedgehog as a pet?? No.
Dont you need to live in England for that? The Cotswolds or something? Whatever they are.
Are cars parked on the periphery of Dancing Goats illegally parked? Or are those actually legitimate spaces? I ask because I have an incredibly difficult time getting out of my parking space that faces the complex with the shoe store when there is a car to my left, right, and behind me.
Back into the spot initially. Getting out will be much easier and safer.
intown = smaller car
Are the cars illegally parked? Or are they in legitimate spaces? What’s convenient for others may not be convenient for the rest of the world.
I don’t think there’s anything illegal about the parking, in the sense that it’s just car storage on private property, but there could be a legal issue as it relates to fire access. If there’s a 20′ width of space down the middle between the cars on both sides it’s fine but if it’s less than that the cars along the building are likely obstructing a fire lane.
Bulldog needs to go out and get him a boot or two. It seems like a booming business.
That’s not a bad idea! I just have an issue with people thinking that they can just do as they please, particularly when it impacts others.
Asked here last w-e and had no response, so I’ll try again… Anyone know what’s going into Heliotrope? Now looks like the remodeling might even span over into Sawicki’s. When the paper over the windows was down, I saw something in Helitrope that looked like a counter that might be having a bar added to it …. Curious minds….
No.
Thanks from the whole family to the woman who parked in front of the VA on Clairmont to help a family of geese cross the road on Saturday around 8p. The little one were just little fluffballs with feet…
Those things are nasty. And when you visit Nana and Pop Pop at Clairmont Place you’re likely to get goose poop all over your shoes.