I remember when the "island" was built in the lake from the silt dredging the last time---not too long ago!
Didn't the MacIntosh students used to go on there for parties?

I have a suggestion to dredge it again:

Rent a sampan or two. Hire everyone out of work who wants dirty job.
Let them dive down beside the boat and bring back up a bucket of silt with which to build another island! (they could cut the grass first.)

It would take thousands or at least hundreds a long, very long time.

Set up a camp similar to the old CCC camps of the 30s behind the town hall and feed them two meals a day and with a cot furnished there in tents. The lunch meal might be fried fish and corn bread fixed on the work spot. Swet iced tea could be sent by the town ladies.

They did worse jobs than this in the 30s. I saw them.

If you actually seen the CCC at work you must be an old goat.
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Let us just psychoanalize some of your statements a little.

I am not a goat, old or young!
Most old people are not goats!

I deduct from many of your statements that old people are in the way and are to be criticized. Yeahm they ignore your rantings occasionally and try to warn you of errors, but you have no interest!

Apparently you are not a "Christian." Reverence to old people is required by them, and the other religions. Mainly because you will be one of them if you aren't run over with a bus.

I can only conclude from your statement that it would have been impossible for me to have seen the CCC at work! Again, you insinuate that stuff past your memory have little or no value.

Why do you and MyTgoat have "goat" problems? Hers give milk even when they aren't "fresh." (Due to the fact that she didn't see the deed done!)

I still know you are an old goat. And the term "old goat" usually refers to a person's attitude and outlook and has very little to do with age. So, under those standards you definitely are an "old goat." Re: another of you asinine statements, I guess as long as we are not hit by a bus we do not have to worry about an early demise. Guess we are all safe in Peachtree City since we have no bus service. Wonder where all those people in the obits were standing when the bus got them?

Ya old goat can be considered a pejorative, but in most cases is said in a familial and friendly way. Nevertheless, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) existed from 1932 to 1942 and lost its funding during WWII. It was a definite product of the Great Depression. Now you made the statement that you personally saw the CCC at work, and thus by making that statement was old enough to remember and make judgements based upon it. Being conservative, lets say a 10 year old is capable of that kind of life long memory. Therefore, being currently in 2009 and being 67 years from its latest existence and 77 years from its earliest and adding 10 years for your age to adequately rememebr it--you will be conservatively between 77 years old and 87 years old, with a mean of 82 years.

So if you are 82 years old, that is much older than the typical blogging community and older than the current life expectancy for men--77.6 years. Either you are very old for the blogging community, and have lived longer than the life expectancy of current men in the US, or you are not "remembering" correctly or are exaggerating. Either way, I do not think it was an attack on you, more like a surprised reaction.

You are just like the other person : too old for the "blogging community."
If that isn't prejudice and generalizing, I never have seen it!

I assure you I saw CCC work going on!
Which you never have!

Reread the post, Bonkers. I did not say that you were too old to blog. I personally have seen a lot of strange stuff from you, and you have posted under more than one name and have denied it. It is not a hard exercise to find out as you sometimes would respond to an alterego post under the wrong name. I personally thought that you were too young to see the CCC in action, yet claim to do so. I guess that my assuption was wrong, but no matter. In any case, you are taking offense when there is none to be had. Your statements in the past have certainly had elements of impeachablity. You doth protest too much

More than one name----when?

Strange things, what?

You said bloggers were young people! Bull---mostly old foggies and foggesses!

Bhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
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Never thought I'd say this, but you have the beginnings of a great idea. You can tell from Haddix's response that a million dollar dredging project will not be in any PTC budget in my lifetime, so we need a creative solution.

Don't need a sampan, after all the lake is only 2 feet deep, but ask the Sheriff for 100 community service people each week - you know, the ones given community service instead of jail time ad get a bucket brigade going. Cost to the city a couple of shovels and lots of buckets. I think if you made a point of working them hard and only requesting workers who committed their crime in PTC, the crime rate here would go down. And it should only take 10 or 20 years to dredge the lake. By the time they are done, it would need it again.

And to be sure we don't run out of workers, we need to pass more and more laws that catch the unsuspecting and trick them into our own little CCC work project. The first new law would be to prohibit Clayton and Coweta people from using our lakes, cart paths and rec facilities. They don't pay taxes but they come over every weekend and bike on the paths, picnic by the lake, leave their trash and even swim in the lake (currently illegal). Stop them, fine them and make them work for a month on the dredging project. They won't come back.

Second law would be the one we are already working on - walking signs. Ban them, but offer the sign walkers a job in the public works department standing around supervising the bucket brigade.

You can swim/fish in Lake Peachtree if you are a resident, or a guest of a resident of Peachtree City.

The PTC Police do seem reticent to ask anyone who is using the lake about their proof of residence. When 8 of them pile out of a beat up van with Fulton Co tags, this, I believe, is reason to question them.

I was serious. Shirley you knew that?

Your idea is a copy but a poorly planned one. It would take hundreds or maybe thousands to do it in a year or so---not a handful of PTC swimmers and fishermen.
By the way is there some law about visiting other counties, cities, states and using their public facilities that aren't private or require membership?

You folks better stay off the red-nek riviera!
They might do you like the Illinois swim club did the day care swimmers!