The town of Tyrone is currently accepting resumes from citizens interested in serving on their Planning Commission. The ad is on their website but I’ll bet you can’t find it by clicking the listed topics. It is just for show. Not mentioned is the criteria for acceptance. Applicants must be gullible enough to think their efforts would be given appropriate consideration by the council, be able to take direction from the administrative advisory staff, comfortable with not having all the facts, sit by while outside professional planners make all the real decisions, be willing to violate Georgia and Tyrone laws, generally rubber-stamp the administration’s plans even if it harms property owners, and get the blame if wrong decisions are made. Not advertised is the necessity for new town management, and sincere representatives of the citizens to qualify Aug. 27-31 for mayor and two very important council posts for this year’s November election. Followers of the status quo will be given preference. Knowledgeable, independent thinkers need not apply.

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Does anyone really believe the PTC council vote on TDK? They’re just trying to get the public to back down. I believe the council said the road is on “hold,” which means it can come back at any time. I love the part about the city council “unofficially” signaling the Fayette County Commission (oh, how weak). Why wouldn’t the city officially tell the county commission? This is another smoke screen. Coweta County will make all kinds of promises and then everyone will jump back into action building the extension. Oh, no, there’s a 2009 deadline for the right of way. Get real, remember the phony FAA deadline for purchasing the right of way? Oh, yeah, it was in writing, too, and they sealed the deal around 60 to 90 days after the fact. Pathway needs that road so don’t think for a second they are going to kill it. The Direct PAC guys are claiming that Mayor Logsdon is not in the developers’ back pockets and the TDK vote proves it. Give us all another break. He tried to hold the vote up. The mayor’s fondness of lying means we shouldn’t believe a word the guy says (Do the Direct PAC guys remember, “I will reduce the budget and roll back taxes”? I sure do.) This is just an election ploy by the Direct PAC on behalf of Stuart Kourajian and Judy Rutherford to get the voters to believe they mean no harm. If they want us to believe them, they ought to kill the project and get our money back. No votes for Stuart and Judy in 2007 until they officially kill the TDK project.

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Don’t be fooled as Harold Logsdon is not even close to killing the TDK Extension. He took the Pathway and Direct PAC contributions and now it’s payback time. He already got the Pathway people a sweetheart deal on their TDK land. For those of you who keep say Pathway has no real interest in Coweta Coweta, think again. A 3/13/2003 AJC article entitled, “Pathway leads in home site closings,” makes it very clear. “Pathway Communities, a development company based in Peachtree City, ranked No. 1 in metro Atlanta last year with the most home site closings by a developer. The same company accounted for 40 percent of the new home sales in Coweta County priced over $130,000 last year.” Oh, yeah, East Coweta is developer heaven and Harold Logsdon, Bob Lenox and Fred Brown can whine all they want, but we have nothing to gain from building TDK. Their financial paradise is our traffic hell.

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The grapevine says ex-mayor Joel Cowan is downright enraged he can’t get a big box store on his Highway 54 property. He advised the developer to threaten to build a Hooters on the land to scare the city into allowing a Kohl’s instead. Watch for Mayor Logsdon to raise objections about Hooters because it will threaten his beloved Y-Knot saloon (but he really wants the big box). The mayor always favors huge chains over locally owned businesses, so you can count on him to push for more big crime magnet stores.

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I would like to publicly thank Shane Bishop from the Peachtree City Public Works Department for finding my purse on the golf cart path. He had it returned before I knew it was lost. Thank you!

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With the rising price of gas in this county and over the whole country, it really makes you sit back and think and get mad. What kind of reasoning is behind letting all the deputy sheriffs drive their patrol vehicles home? This makes no sense. Did you know some of Fayette County’s so-called finest live in Coweta, Clayton and other surrounding counties? It’s just a complete misuse of county taxpayer money. Let them do what everyone else does: Drive your own vehicle to work, then get in your little patrol car and stop wasting my hard-earned tax money. Yeah, people see you doing this on your way home: You stop and pick up items from the grocery store, or stop at the local barber for a haircut on the way home. It’s a slap in the taxpayers’ faces. Most of all its a misuse of taxpayers’ funds. But, hey it’s not just the sheriff’s department. The Fayette County Fire Department and city of Fayetteville Fire Department are just as bad if not worse. Have you seen the types of vehicles these department are buying: New pickup trucks, new Crown Vics, Explorers, Yukons? Fayette County fire chiefs get a new vehicle every year that rolls around; they might wait two years, but that’s very rare. At least seven vehicles are taken home each night. The city of Fayetteville Fire Department has at least four or five vehicles taken home every night. Can you just image the cost per month it takes to keep these vehicles full of fuel? This money could go to good use to help with other and more important countywide or citywide projects.

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What is going on? How can a high school student be arrested for “underage possession of alcohol” and still be allowed to play in a high school sport? Not only did they get selected to the team and play but was a co-captain of that same team. This person then went on to be the “inspirational” speaker at the graduation ceremony. A student can make a bad grade for one semester and not be able to play, but you can go out and get arrested and still play high school sports. Now there is an assistant principal arrested for DUI on a golf cart on a Sunday morning and “We are waiting to see” is the response from the school board. Are we becoming another Clayton County?

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This is to the man at Huddleston Pond who lets his bird dog (brown/white) hunt defenseless ducks mornings and evenings, even after your dog hunted down the white duck (which is unable to fly) and almost killed it. Go to the dog park, throw a Frisbee or toss a ball if you need to exercise your dog. Letting your dog hunt down defenseless ducks in a city park with hardly any water left in the lake is a cruel thing to do. Two batches of baby ducks disappeared. Their mother, being hunted down by your dog, took off. Without her, the baby ducks had no chance of survival. If you want to give your dog a natural environment, take it on a trip to the country. It won’t be as easy as just crossing the street and walk to the park.

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How does someone with a history of a felony get a job? Did you know that if you have a felony charge in your past, there is just about no one who will hire you. I am writing because I know a someone like that. A young black man who does have a criminal record. Fighting is what got him into trouble. No thefts, no dishonesty. He comes from a rural area outside of Peachtree City. Most of the jobs he has had have been under the table. Too many companies have policies of no felonies. Can’t they take it on a case by case basis? This young man just lost his job, and his wife is expecting their first baby in one month. Temp agencies won’t touch him. I have been helping this couple out as much as I can, but a job is what he needs. A hand up, for someone who has changed his path, and for a year and a half has walked the straight and narrow. If you are a business owner, and want to give this young man a chance, please help. He is very hard-working. His last job was for a landscape company, and he was there for a year and a half. He is still on probation, and has to pay probation fees every week. If he can’t pay his fees, he goes to jail. And, his wife has their first baby alone. I have set up an email for anyone who can at least talk to him about a job. He has no access to a computer or email. I am sure I will get lots of quack emails, but I am willing to wade thru them, to help this young man, and his pregnant wife. Please email any offers of an interview to jobseeker30269@yahoo.com.

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Formulas for determining whether or not potential home buyers can afford their selected homes are so simple a fifth grader could understand it. Unfortunately, many home buyers are not as smart as the average fifth grader. Based on the foreclosures I have witnessed, the budgetary and lifestyle priorities actually go something like this: 1. All seven family members must have a cell phone. 2. Cable TV is installed before the bedroom furniture. 3. At least two adults must drive gas-guzzling SUVs. 4. At least one SUV must be outfitted with a set of $2,000 chrome wheels and a sound system that would vibrate the moon into Mars. 5. A full-fat-five hot tub. 6. The most expensive home furnishings on the market. 7. At least one party every month with lots of booze. 8. All three A/C units must run 24-7 from April through November. 9. The SUV with the chrome wheels and shock-and-awe sound system must be washed daily. 10. All adults must stay home at least four days a week. Now comes the most important part. All of the above must remain in place even after Fayette Water System and EMC begins cutting service on a monthly basis.

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The theory of evolution, just like the theory of gravity, is part of the state-mandated science curriculum and the children are tested on it. Teach it.

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Some friends and myself are frequent patrons of a local restaurant in Fayetteville located across from the Fayetteville Fire Station. We are disappointed in the new service we have been receiving from a server. Being disrespectful, stand-offish and downright rude is the best way to lose our business. Congratulations go out to you; you have done just that.

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Fences work. That’s why we have them around our houses— not to be unwelcoming, but to ensure that all guests knock at the front door. Comprende?

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Chose which presidential lie you prefer: “I didn’t have sex with that woman” or ”A path to citizenship for illegal aliens is not an amnesty.”

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Is the government that can’t get a passport out in three months going to be the same one that will be responsible for enforcing whatever regulations come from an immigration bill?

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While swimming at [a private club] pool this week with my young sister, a dead rodent was discovered in the deep end of the pool. Naturally, the lifeguards were alerted to this problem and retrieved the animal from the pool. Alarmed and disgusted, we left the pool immediately. But this is not the first problem we have had at this pool however. The week before, an underground pipe burst near the pool, spraying water all over pool-goers’ bags and towels. About 15 minutes later a maintenance worker arrived and covered the hole with a tabletop held down by a rock. Real problem-solver, right? That same week, the pool was so filthy that you couldn’t see to the bottom. Only after receiving complaints did the lifeguards decide to even try to fix the issue, whereupon one lifeguard informed me that they were out of chlorine. A pool with no chlorine? Shouldn’t the lifeguards and management have been aware of this before the pool opened? Aren’t there rules about sanitation? Being a private club, it would seem that it could afford to staff more responsible and alert lifeguards and employees. It just seems as though there is not enough authority over the young lifeguards. They cannot just watch the pool for 45 minutes until their break. They must be aware and responsible for the cleanliness and well-being of the pool and pool area. Perhaps this letter will get the attention of some patrons who pay so very much for their memberships to this sometimes disorganized and utterly disgusting recreation area.

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Ask family members of the 4 million drug addicts if they think the two Border Patrol agents who shot a drug smuggler in the butt should be in prison for 11 years. No, no, a thousand times no!

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It’s not complicated. Self-respecting nations require that entry be made through designated LEGAL ports of entry. And nation-honoring\respecting citizens don’t like it when aliens enter by illegal means. We really, really, REALLY get ticked at elected officials who respect neither national sovereignty nor citizens’ demands.

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Before the days of sunscreen, I don’t remember a lot of older people with skin cancer. I’m 70, played and worked in the sun in my youth and do not have cancer.