Happy Thanksgiving to all and a special thanks to our soldiers, our police, our firefighters and all others who help keep us safe. As bad as the news is out there now, we still have the best darn country, the nicest people and the most freedoms anywhere. Let’s focus on this for a day and forget the rest. God bless!

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Wouldn’t it be grand if, by next summer, when Peachtree City celebrates its anniversary, the famously unseen but much talked about cart paths accessing The Avenue, The Bridge To Nowhere, and the corner of Paschall Rd./Ga. Highway 74 (the current underground ghost tunnels, as we locals like to think of them) could be paved, lighted and (hallelujah!) open for golf carts? We could all weep tears of joy at the completion, be photographed sitting in our golf carts lined up to go through them at the ribbon cutting, and have the photos be the cover for any publication highlighting the anniversary celebration. We could have a tunnel-naming contest as part of the anniversary celebration. Bring in the Guinness Book of Records, maybe, to document the record-setting length of the struggle for completion? Bernie McMullen, are you paying attention? Where are those bids you promised for this? City Council, you need to find the money for this ASAP. Keep the DOT, GDOT, EPA, FBI, CIA, GBI, OSHA and UGA (oops, on the last one) out of this. We’ll keep it a secret till it’s done, promise, pinkie swear.

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I am adamantly against the proposed termination of the path system traveling through CedarCroft subdivision. Until the bridge on Ga. Highway 54 can be completed, it is the only path that allows every single citizen of Peachtree City a safe, legal route to the Wal-Mart/Home Depot shopping area by golf cart. Any other route would require a golf cart driver to cross Hwy. 54 or travel illegally on MacDuff Parkway. Closing this portion of the path system also allows this subdivision to disassociate itself from the very thing that makes Peachtree City so unique: the path system. It is my understanding that the developer was aware of alternative path options but chose this design for undoubtedly self-serving reasons. I have serious reservations about my homeowners association being financially responsible for a large portion of MacDuff Parkway, but I would never ask you to remove the road because it brings crime to our neighborhood. MacDuff Parkway is the only way in and out of our subdivision, with the exception of the path system you have been asked to remove. I would suggest CedarCroft organize a strong neighborhood watch program instead of separating itself from the unique transportation option this city offers. Just as you have asked Centennial to pay for MacDuff, you should ask CedarCroft to pay for the maintenance of the cart path or at the very least share our burden. Wilksmoor Village has spent countless hours trying to become an established part of the city. CedarCroft has made a selfish and illogical request that undermines all the hours and effort of many Wilksmoor Village residents. Please carefully consider the impact this will have on our village and its residents. Do not allow CedarCroft the right to remove this path system. It is a major artery in the path system.

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What kind of daughters are the parents of Fayette County raising these days? My wife and I were in the McDonald’s on Hwy. 54 in PTC on Friday about 7 p.m. or so, and two 16-, maybe 17-year-old girls pull up in a white Volvo S40 four door (pretty nice car for high-school-age daughter) with a Fayette tag. Like most teenagers, they were talking on cell phones, and I overheard them saying, “We are here, where you guys?” Moments later, two more girls pull up on a golf cart — pretty typical Friday night for teenage girls in PTC, we figured. Then all four girls go into the restroom at McDonald’s and they are in there for at least a half hour doing who knows what? I mean, who hangs out in a McDonald’s rest room with three other teenage girls for a half hour or so? What the heck are you girls doing in there all that time? By this time another gentleman and his son sit down beside us, and they hear the girls in the restroom a mere 25 feet away and they comment on all the noise coming from the restroom, too. Some more time passes and they finally come out, giggling like teenage girls do (my wife and I raised four children ourselves). Then the four girls, who still have not purchased a thing from the McDonald’s that they have spent almost 45 minutes at, go outside and all four girls (who are CLEARLY under 18) all light up cigarettes supplied by one of the girls (the one with the black purse the size of an overnight bag). It was so sad seeing those four girls with so much life and potential ahead of them, looking so ugly taking draws off the cancer sticks that they had convinced themselves would make them look so cool. I bet all four girls’ parents would cringe at the thought that their daughters were out doing things like this, or as I guess is possible, they probably learned these cool traits at home. How sad.

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What is the deal with this paper’s biased coverage for Whitewater High School? Unless I missed it somewhere in the online edition of your paper, there was NOTHING, NOTHING about the loss Whitewater football team suffered to Tucker High School. NOTHING about their 44-0 loss. Why does Whitewater get TOOOOOOO much coverage about anything, but yet when there is something that’s not so good, it gets left out? It seems the biased coverage in your paper works two ways — if it’s good for WWHS, it’s printed; if it’s not good for WWHS, it’s completely left out. What’s the deal?

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The Senior Center in Fayetteville is a gorgeous place. It is a role model for other such centers. However, I do have some concerns. There are people who are prohibited from participating in activities due to the costs involved. Many seniors cannot afford to pay the fees to take classes. Citizens are even charged to attend parties (example: Halloween). There is a walking club, where you are charged $15 to walk. The center seems to be top-heavy on administrative staff and office personnel.

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Regarding the loss of the Hwy 74 northbound entrance to the PTC Post Office: Okay, we will all eventually get used to turning left onto Clover Reach about a half mile before we get there. (Can we put a street sign up? Who even knew the name of that road?) But, as I observed (and followed) the mail carrier truck come out the back of the Post Office, go right into the back entrance to The Avenue, around the traffic circle in The Avenue, take a right out onto Hwy. 54 by Rite Aid and proceed east on Hwy. 54 through the Hwy. 74 lights, I thought to myself: 1. we do not need this kind of traffic going through The Avenue; 2. we do NOT need this additional traffic on Hwy. 54 at that intersection; and 3. if I have to come in and out of Clover Reach to go to the Post Office, then the mail carriers can, too. Such poor planning all the way around, DOT.

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The writer who complained about the Fayetteville police hit the nail right on the head. Most, but not all, of the so-called public servants on the Fayetteville police force are nothing but a bunch of noggin knockers who wake up every morning wishing for a chance to use their gun or club on an innocent citizen. The only place they can find those innocent citizens is in their automobile, so they spend all their time staked out in some inconspicuous spot waiting for a law-abiding citizen that might make a slight mistake so they can write a ticket, and then the idiot judges we have in this area will uphold that citation in the name of the “law” and bankrupt some poor guy who is trying to feed his family. Disgusting. By the way, you can add the Peachtree City police to this group also because they are just as bad.

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When I was a young lad watching old TV shows, the hero always wore white and the villain wore black. Anyone notice what color most police cars are now? Most of their uniforms are black. Did something change, or are they letting us in on a secret?

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If preacher David Epps admires Billy Graham for his humble, modest and non-pretentious life, yet delivering powerful life-altering messages, why not shave the face, throw out all this fancy, over the top garb and appear in coat and tie or maybe a plain cassock if he wants to emulate Dr. Graham. It’s the message, not the fluffy appearance that counts.

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About the Wendy’s on North Peachtree Parkway: The staff is rude. The manager is rude and obnoxious, my food is NEVER right, they NEVER have anything, and to top it off, the place barely stays open till 11 p.m. when it’s supposed to close at 1 a.m. I’ll take the Braelinn Wendy’s over the Kedron one any day. I’ve had it with your rude attitudes and disgusting sense of customer appreciation.

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There is something terribly wrong with the thinking on the part of our government officials in Washington. The majority of our problems with other countries nowadays is in the Muslim countries that have no respect for women whatsoever. Be that right or wrong, what sense does it make to pick a woman to negotiate with them? It reduces our chances of reaching any kind of agreement to almost zero. Doing the politically and fashionably correct thing has brought this country to the brink of collapse. Will we wake up to reality before we are totally destroyed?