1-10-07

Tue, 01/09/2007 - 5:18pm
By: The Citizen

You gotta love that high-tech tornado warning system we have in PTC. The alarm at the Parkway and Braelinn Road sounded five minutes AFTER the worst of Sunday night’s storm had gone through. I thought the whole idea was to warn us ahead of time.

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At the rate things are going, they’ll have to cut down the last stand of trees in PTC to keep up with the demand for “Impeach Harold Logsdon” bumper stickers.

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I’m happy for the new commissioners. I hope they remember that the will of the people has always been low density. I am already afraid that Ga. Highway 54 is going to end up looking like Upper Riverdale Road and that would not be good. I wish business coming into the county would be encouraged to take up the space already empty here before they build. A slowdown on strip centers would also be a plus to our county. So many are going up and I am not convinced they look the best for Fayetteville no matter how attractive [or] aesthetically pleasing they are.

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The newest “Hogzilla” was found right here in Fayetteville. It’s a good time to re-educate locals: if you have a pet (be it pig, snake, turtle, bunny, whatever) don’t release it into the wild when you get tired of caring for it or it gets too hard or boring for you. Find another domestic home for the pet; there are also various rescues here and in the metro area. When released into the wild, these ex-pets damage the local ecosystem and become dangerous to people and their pets. And, frankly, it’s just cruel to take an animal used to being cared for and force it to survive on its own.

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When you call the Allied Waste Services customer service line, you will hear a recorded message listing the holiday service interruptions, including Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving and July 4. The message then goes on to tell you that service would be shifted back one weekday each holiday to give their employees these holidays off. This is common business practice and is acceptable. What is not acceptable is the company not living up to this plan. This past Monday was New Year’s Day. My family, long-time customers of Allied Waste and the companies they have bought out over the years, was prepared to have our normal service day of Tuesday pushed back to Wednesday. And when the company did not show up Wednesday, we assumed they would be out the next day. But when no one showed up by 3:30 p.m. on Thursday to service our street, we called that customer service line. After being on hold for an extremely long time period, we were told a truck was working our route and would have the trash picked up by 8 p.m. No one showed up. On Friday afternoon, we found several of these overloaded garbage cans had been turned over due to the high winds and bad weather experienced in the area that morning. With several of our neighbors being elderly and unable to pickup this mess, we first spent time cleaning up our neighborhood. Then we called Allied Waste again. After another long hold time, the customer service representative told us again that someone was working our route and would be here by 8 p.m. When confronted with repetition of this message, the representative said, “Well, that’s what I’ve been told to say to you,” and became very hostile. No truck showed up Friday. It is now 9:45 on Saturday morning and that truck that should have been here several days ago just showed up. The lack of service by Allied Waste Services is completely unacceptable. It left our neighborhood in unsanitary and dangerous conditions. Loaded trash bags and loose trash were strewn around yards and in the roads. While I understand that Allied Waste did not themselves destroy our neighborhood, their actions, or lack thereof, resulted in these conditions. This is also not the first time Allied Waste has “forgotten” our neighborhood. This past summer, no trucks from Allied Waste were seen on our street for over a week and a half. When we requested an emergency pickup, we were told they would eventually get to us, but they could not tell us when. Last year, the men threw our trash barrel down on the pavement so hard that it broke the wheels off the bottom, making it impossible for us to roll it up and down our driveway which has a steel grade. After four months of calling them everyday to request a new trash can and being told it would be here “today,” we finally got a working can. My family and several others on our street have decided to cancel our service with Allied Waste and will be finding a more responsible, reliable service. We hope that no other Fayette County citizens have endured this complete lack of customer service, and hope that this letter will warn others considering the Allied Waste service of the dangers and inconveniences the company has brought upon their current customers.

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The AJC from Wednesday verified Mayor Harold Logsdon’s ineptness. He said the city will do nothing to control the kudzu growing in the greenbelts. This proves, once again, the mayor has the vision of a blind man walking in a room filled with landmines. I guess the kudzu will destroy whatever his over-development strategy doesn’t kill. Where there is no vision the people will perish.

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Finally, Fayetteville has a new nice dining restaurant, ONYXX. It has a wonderful atmosphere, the people are friendly, our waiter, Chris, was just excellent. We had an appetizer of shrimp on grits with roasted corn salsa. I have never had anything quite so unusual and it was wonderful. My meal was blackened tilapia and it was good too. My husband had clams with pasta which he thoroughly enjoyed. The only thing I think would do different is the butter for bread: it is sweet and not to my taste. They also play jazz music sometimes. I hope Fayetteville will support this new endeavor; it is well worth the wait and I do not know the owner or anyone connected with it.

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Does anyone know how much the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were compensated for attending James Brown’s funeral?

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To 100-year-old Judy Meade of Peachtree City: you go, girl! I want to be just like you when I grow up.

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I would like to see the 1-800-GOT-JUNK people get their own junky signs off of the right-of-ways in Fayette County. We’re looking more like Clayton County every day.

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Illegal immigration has become very profitable to many greedy Americans. It’s a taxpayer-subsidized form of slavery. Just about under every rock, there’s someone making money off illegal aliens.

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Because so many blue collar workers now speak ONLY Spanish, illegal aliens who speak SOME English are working in higher-paying, first- and middle-management positions. To keep your present job, you’d better speak fluent Spanish.

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Instead of criticizing the U.S., why don’t Catholic leaders go to Mexico and build up the country with new schools, hospitals, roads, libraries and factories and train these hard-working people to become successful and independent?

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When politicians say that Mexico is a “good neighbor,” what do they like the best: tons of drugs or millions of illegals?

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Thumbs down to obfuscating hair-splitters, who imply that we are arrogant and ignorant to call ourselves “American,” on the grounds that anyone living in North and South American can make the same claim to the title “American.” When we are in the United States of America, we are entirely correct to say we are Americans in America. “America” is not a part of the name of other nations.

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eodnnaenaj1's picture
Submitted by eodnnaenaj1 on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 7:18am.

My suggestion to you and your neighbors would be to dump Allied Waste. Most of our street used to deal with them, however, AW is consistently rude and provides poor poor customer service. And heaven help you if you ever have billing problems. Seems most of the containers on our street now are for CLM, I have found them to be very good in all of their services. Seems AW has been through several changes and buyouts, perhaps the many management changes creates the problem. CLM, on the other hand, is locally owned and operated, and they really seem to care about customer satisfaction.


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Submitted by Git Real on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 9:21pm.

I would like to see the 1-800-GOT-JUNK people get their own junky signs off of the right-of-ways in Fayette County. We’re looking more like Clayton County every day.

Good Free Shots Submission. Perhaps it would help if the Fayette County Marshall's would get off their fat butts and shuffle down the right-of-way and pull these illegal signs up. They know who the culprit is... Gee, you have their phone number. Do your job guys.

Oh well..... they won't even enforce the leash laws.


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Submitted by mudcat on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 8:03pm.

My Friday submission to Free Speech was not included in today's paper.

Steve Brown is going to court on Feb 1 and I asked why The Citizen does not report this, since I know it is an alleged ethics violation during the time he was mayor.

Cal didn't print that, but he did manage to get Brown's picture on the front page of the paper. Why is that?
meow


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Submitted by CCB on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 8:13pm.

Mudcat, you never have much to say of any value.


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Submitted by mudcat on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 7:27am.

I think it is because there is hardly anything of value published in Free Speech to comment on.
meow


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Submitted by ptctaxpayer on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 9:07pm.

CCB--- I could not have said it better. Mudcat Schadenfreude was not edited by Cal--- just ignored. What mindless drivel. The voters said that they were not interested in Brown in the last election. Only Mudcat and the "Hair on Fire" Fritz crowd care now. LOL...Mudcat, with her Glenn Close Fatal Attraction, counts the Free Speeches, speculating which are from Steve Brown. Go away Mudcat.


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Submitted by bad_ptc on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 8:11pm.

Whats the accusation?


mudcat's picture
Submitted by mudcat on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 8:13pm.

meow


Submitted by IMNSHO on Tue, 01/09/2007 - 10:14pm.

You gotta love that high-tech tornado warning system we have in PTC. The alarm at the Parkway and Braelinn Road sounded five minutes AFTER the worst of Sunday night’s storm had gone through. I thought the whole idea was to warn us ahead of time.

All the alarms for Fayette County sounded at the same time, at 7:20pm. This was just about as fast as humanly possible after 911 dispatch center was notified of the warning.

It was an extremely fast moving storm, which was fortunate for Fayette County.

Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 8:01am.

All we got was heavy rain in PTC. I don't know why they blew the horn at all. Even so, I didn't hear it and I live near the dam.
If you will notice the storm was on a Sunday evening. Just who do you think was on duty to make such a decision? No one.
If the terrorists ever strike again it is likely to be on a holiday week-end on a Sunday, late at night, and no moon.
The USA has become a Tuesday through Thursday society for service, day shift only--if not on vacation or sick leave. Everyone took that advice from our various governmental employees.
Even the TV stations have klutzes working any other time.
Washington DC is practically deserted. Does any one know what our disaster plan is in PTC? Get into the bathtub?

Submitted by IMNSHO on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 9:33am.

I don't know why they blew the horn at all. ...
If you will notice the storm was on a Sunday evening. Just who do you think was on duty to make such a decision? No one.

Why did they sound the sirens? Because the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Fayette County, and if that happens the procedure is to sound the sirens.

Who was on duty to make the decision? First, there is no "decision" to be made. If a tornado warning is issued, the sirens are supposed to be sounded (as they were). No ifs, ands, or buts. No one having to "decide" to do it or not. As to who actually was "on duty"... the people that sound the alarms are the same people that answer your call for help if you call 911... the 911 operators/dispatchers. And they are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no breaks. It being a Sunday evening does not mean there are fewer on duty than any other evening (if anything, there may be more, because it is the weekend).

I'm sorry you didn't hear the siren closest to you. I can assure you it was working properly. Just because you didn't hear it, doesn't mean it didn't go off. Do you even know where the nearest siren is? You can call the non-emergency number for 911 @ 770-461-4357 and they will be glad to tell you.

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Submitted by ILuvFayette on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 2:44pm.

Some people will never be happy, no matter how the scenario played out. I clearly heard the sirens and would rather have them sound off and no tornado than have no sirens and end up with several people injured and/or killed.


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