April 17, 2019 Page 5A
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ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
by Don Daniel
Ihave come up with an idea to save taxpayer money.
After a business trip requiring going up 1-75 through
Atlanta, mid-day not during moming or afternoon
rush, traffic was absolutely horrendous. Ga. 400 was
a nightmare. Got to thinking sitting in traffic and coming
to the conclusion, speed limits were totally ignored and
driver courtesy is something in the past.
So, Georgia's DOT could save a lot of money by do-
ing away with speed limit signs, even on 1-75 splitting
Monroe County, because the
speed limit is totally ignored
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and very seldom if ever is the
speed limit enforced on our
county and state roads. Take
a look at the weekly "Busted"
reports in this newspaper and
you will discover more traffic
violations other than speed-
ing.
A retired law enforcement
officer told me "you gotta
remember law enforcement
wants to go for the big crimes
with the big fines such as
drugs, etc. Speeding and
how close you are parked to
the white lines doesn't bring much money into the city,
county and state coffers'
Therefore, lets do away with all speed limit signs and
stop signs because obviously they are not working and are
ignored. Think of all the money that could be saved and
made. Sell them as scrap metal.
LAST WEEK could be classified as "shake up" week in
county government. A surprise to everyone as well as the
county zoning officer was her getting canned by Czar Jim
with the obvious approval of the Fabulous Five.
Then there was the tumultuous reign of the hospital
board chairman's resignation and the naming of Dr.
Craig Caldwell as the new interim chairman. After the
resignation of the former chairman, there are rumors
and innuendos about the county commission chairman's
involvement in an attempted sale of the hospital -- this
may be far from over.
Reporter Richard Dumas, who has been aware and
tipped off on the turmoil surrounding the hospital's
chairman's resignation and the commission chairman's
involvement in hospital going-on's, wrote a most com-
prehensive story in last week's paper. Hope you read the
story and will read it again.
Having covered and reported on Monroe County Hos-
pital since 1972, our local hospital has been like a ship in
a tumultuous storm. Finally it looks as if our hospital is
on the fight path to serve us like it should be intended to
do.
WONDER WHAT kind of birds we heard chirping
during broadcast of The Masters? I never heard the bird
sounds that I am hearing on television. Just wonder if
they are recorded and broadcast to make The Masters
seem more ecologically friendly.
HERE ARE some outstanding big checks our Monroe
County Finance Officer has paid: $29,071 for a Dodge
Dumngo; $5.865.40 to county attorney Benjamin A.
Vaughn for legal services; $26,208.23 to Butts County
Water and Sewer Department for water lines; $2,091.61
for wage garnishment of thirteen county employees;
$15,748.20 to F-5 Hauling services for bulk/yard waste;
$16,159.46 to Georgia Power for electricity to several
county locations; $7,436 to Middle Georgia Regional
Commission for dues April to June; $5,392 to Smyrna
Police Distributors for jackets; $12,500 to Standard Prop-
erties for Riata Water taps reimbursements; $13,345.90
paid to Thomaston Hardware Co. Inc. for a Grasshop-
per Mower; $17,402.35 to United Bank for such items
as a purchase at Ingles, Walmart, Dairy Queen. Georgia
Bobs BBQ, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, King and
Prince Hotel on St. Simons, Holiday Inn Express, Sprin-
ghill Suites, Marco's, Hampton Inn, Hilton International
in Washington, D.C Little Caesars; $84,080.39 to Wade
Tractor andEquipment; $10,275 to Watch Guard Video.
Seventy-eight checks paid $303,353.89 in taxpayer
money.
A MAJOR sewage spill was the answer to last week's
The Question and J Clanzy was the first with the correct
answer. He receives a certificate for a Dairy Queen Bliz-
zard, dozen Dunkin Donuts, slice of Shoney's strawberry
pie, slice of Jonah's pizza, Whistle Stop fried green tomato
appetizer, Sweet Tea dessert, Forsyth Main Street t-shirt,
sandwich, chips and drink at The Pickled Okra.
Here's The Question for this week: Name the family
who gave a parking lot to the City of Forsyth. First correct
answer after twelve noon Thursday gets the certificate.
HOPEFULLY ANOTHER warehouse is being an-
ticipated at the industrial park in Smart next to the Five
Below warehouse. The facility is expected to hire 200 and
begin operations in mid-2021.
Then there was the announcement that a local real
estate company owner/developer/county commissioner,
George Emami, would like to convert one of the oldest
buildings in downtown Forsyth referred to as the "ice
house'; According to the front page stor he has plans to
convert the building into a downtown hotel, restaurant
and the possibility of a brew pub.
Monday night, Forsyth's city council was to hold a pub-
lic hearing to discuss adding a downtown entertainment
district which would allow walking around downtown
with an alcoholic beverage in your hand. I am sure re-
porter Diane Glidewell will have details on thehearlng.
Also, the council was to review the city's Travel Policy to
review amendments. Wonder if the amendments will in-
dude approval of council member spouses and children
attending out-of-town, specifically to the beaches, confer-
ences and the taxpayers picking up the family tab.
Donald Danid is the founder and former publisher of
The Monroe County Reporter. Email him at mediadr@
bellsouth.net.
TO THE
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To the Editor:
In response to criticisms in this
newspaper of my plans to build
Midsouth Packers, I want your
readers to know that this busi-
ness will be an asset to Monroe
County. The UGA Small Business
Development Center plan for this
facility indudes six to eight full-time
jobs at anywhere from $30,000 to
$50,000 per year. Several people have
already expressed an interest in these
jobs. Local cattle farmers will soon
be able to come the short distance
from Barnesville and other towns to
process their cattle instead of driv-
ing hundreds of miles and countless
hours to places such as Bluffton or
Athens.
The Agricultural Department of
Georgia has been a supporter of this
project for at least three years now,
ever since the project first began.
Any misunderstandings about the
building have been resolved, and
we have agreed to every condition
imposed and clarified at a meeting by
the Commissioners on March 4. We
are also complying with every state
and federal regulation.
Progress in Monroe County? This
state-of-the-art meat processing facil-
ity will be the first USDA-TA organi-
To the Editor:
Monroe County needs to
patrol Hwy. 18 between
Juliette and Forsyth
every morning. I usually
getbehind two school buses between
6:55 and 7:15 a.m. to Forsyth. There
is a red Toyota that constantly passes
all the cars behind the buses and
the buses either in turns or double
lines every time. They are gonna kill
somebody! I couldn't get the license
CAROLYN'S CORNER by Carolyn Marfel
TIe other day I was watching an
d man walk down a sidewalk
Forsyth. His steps were slow
d methodical. He relied on
his trusty cane to help maintain his bal-
ance. I continued to watch as he entered
a nearby pharmac It took a great deal
of effort for this older gentleman to get
where he needed to go, but step by step
he reached his des "tmation.
I dare say that most of us take for
granted the ability to put one foot in
front of the other. We step in and out of
our vehicles with ease. We step over our
children's toys and we step outside for a
breath of fresh air. Steps. We don't think
much about them do we? Yet, Father
God thinks about them all the time. He
remembers the day His Son, Jesus took
the most courageous, determined steps
ever taken.
Painfully, step by step, carrying a
heavy cross Jesus reached His destina-
tion. On a hill far away, He died on a
JUST THE WAY IT IS by Sloan Oliver
Oh the hypocrisy! For years,
leftist and socialist cities such
as San Francisco, Seattle,
Portland, Denver, Chicago,
Dallas, NYC, Austin, and Detroit have
&dared themselves "sanctuary cities"
meaning that those cities refuse to ap-
prehend, detain, or even identify illegal
aliens. The sanctuary cities (SC) refuse
release illegals into their cities. It's price-
less!! Dems know that everything they
say about illegal immigration is a lie.
Cities with illegals are not safer; illegals
are not more patriotic than Ameri-
cans; and SC's don't have less crime.
Like they lied about Trump-Russian
collusion, the Dems are lying about the
benefits to society ofillegals. Dems are
to cooperate, whatsoever
with federal authorities,
such as Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement
(ICE), in regards to iUegals.
SC's even refuse to inform
ICE when they are holding
dangerous illegals; and if
asked to hold an illegal
until the Feds arrive, they
refuse and then release.
them. The SC's actu-
ally discriminate against
Americans in favor ofille-
gals, often not charging il-
legals for crimes for which
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complete hypocrites but
aren't intelligent enough
to understand they're
being played by Trump.
Then again, Dems cannot
help themselves; they're
only doing what they do
best - lie and engage in
hypocrisy.
ON SUNDAY, Nancy
Pdosi appeared on CBS'S
"60 Minutes,'. Very ironic,
she feels the President
Trump is a threat to the
U.S. Constitution yet it
Americans are charged;.
reason being, SC's don't want the illegals
to be deported and they think ifillegals
are charged that they'll be deported.
NOT A single Dem says a disparaging
word about an illegal - ever. When an
illegal murdered Kate Steinle and Mollie
Tibbets, not a single Dem castigated
the murderer. Instead, the Dems made
idiotic statements such as, "illegals
make our cities safer" (Nancy Pdosi)
or "illegals act more American than do
American dtizens" (said by Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)). Nancy Pelosi
(D-San Frandsco) even called illegals
"little angels". And every single Dem
insists that every illegal must remain in
the country - forever. The way we know
that every Dem wants illegals to remain
is because NONE of them favor deport-
ing an illegal - ever. In short, Dems
support illegals over U.S. dtizens.
DENIS ENCOURAGE illegals to
break our laws; they wdcome the crimi-
nals with open arrn and they don't
want any illegals deported. So, when
President Trump announced that he is
considering authorizing ICE to release
illegals into the sanctuary dues, you
would think that the Dems, in those
dties, would rejoice. But you would be
wrong. OMG, the Dems are in a tizzy;
they are screaming and shouting about
Trump being a racist for threatening to
was her evil Democrats
who attempted a coup to overthrow
him. Also, very ironic that she daims
President Trump is unfit to be presi-
dent yet she, and all Dems, supported
Obama, who will go down in history
as our worst president and most cor-
rupt - once the full measures of Obama
corruption is exposed.
THE MUELLER Report proved there
was no collusion involving anyone in
the Trump campaign. However, collu-
sion did occur but all of it was between
Democrats. Was it collusion when the
Dems rigged their 2016 primaries to
insure that Hillary received the nomina-
tion over Bernie? Was it collusion when
CNN provided debate questions to
Hillary? Was it collusion when Loretta
Lynch, the Attomey General, secretly
met with Bill Clinton while Hillary was
under investigation? Was it collusion
when the FBI refused to charge Hillary
with obstruction ofjustice even though
she destroyed evidence while she was
under investigation? Inquiring minds
want to know.
IF YOU need proof that Dems prefer
illegals over Americans, the following
headline says it all, "NY Dems block bill
expanding college tuition for Gold Star
families after approving $27M in tuition
aid for illegal immigrants" You read that
correctly; Dems in NY approved giving
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cally processed Animal Welfare Ap-
proved Facility in the state of Georgia.
As far as the commissioners are
concerned, they went above and
beyond. District 2 commissioner Ed-
die Rowland took his personal time
to visit the facilty at UGA before their
meeting, and had to be impressed at
the deanliness, lack of odor, refrig-
eration, proximity to residential
buildings, and integration into a busy
academic community before he voted
favorably. And finally, it has been
noted that this is agricultural land
that will be used for a conditionally
approved agricultural process accord-
ing to Monroe County zoning law.
Joseph R. Egloff
Monroe County
Joseph Egloff is the owner of Rocking
Chair Ranch and Midsouth Packers.
number but when I do I'm turning it
in!
Brad Harris
Forsyth
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cross for our sins. I'm so thankful for
every step our Savior took, including
the ones He took on a resurrection
morning when He rose from the dead
leaving behind an empty tomb!
This Easter let's rejoice and give
thanks like never before for the costly,
sacrificial steps Jesus made to make our
salvation possible!
Carolyn Martel is the advertising man-
ager for the Reporter. Email her at ads@
myrncr net.
tuition aid to illegals but denied college
tuition to families of service members
killed in action. At one time, Demo-
crats proudly served in the military,
proudly supported the military and
proudly supported service members.
That's no longer true and hasn't been
since Bill Clinton's presidency. I know
military personnel who served in the
White House (WH) when Clinton was
president It was known that Bill and
Hillary were hostile to the military and
to service members. That hostility actu-
ally increased during Obamals reign in
the WH. Now, Dems favor illegals over
service members. I simply don't under-
stand how any service member, past or
present, can support a political party
that despises and disdains all aspects of
the milita .
FM TRYING to find one level-head-
ed, sane Democrat in Georgia. If you
know any; please ask them to tell Stacey
Abrams to shut her pie hole. Every
time she speaks, she makes a fool out
of herself and makes every Dem look
as unintelligent as she. Perhaps they
are. Almost daily, Abrams is on another
news show spouting off about how, "I
was robbed", "the election was rigged"
or "the Republicans are undemaining
our democracy." First off, tell Stacey that
we don't live in a democracy; we have
a "representative republiC' and want to
keep it that way. Next, tell Stacey that
her Dems are the ones undermining
our elections. The Dems are purpose-
fully sowing doubt in voters' minds by
daiming "fraud" and "voter suppres-
sion" every time they don't win. Just like
there was no Trump-Russia collusion,
there was no voter fraud or voter sup-
pression in Georgia. Stacey lost for the
same reason that I-Iillary lost - she's a
terrible candidate and a worse person.
Stacey proves that Georgia made the
correct vote every time she speaks. Hill-
ary still thinks she won in 2016. Heck,
the Dems still think that AI Gore won
back in 2000. And now, Abrams is cry-
ing the same tune as other loser Dems.
The whining gets old and no longer
works. He); didn't Stacey play the race
card as well? I thought so. Stacey; your
race card doesn't work either. Take your
race baiting elsewhere.
Sloan Oliver is a retired Army officer
who lives in Monroe County. Email him
at sloanoliver@earthlink.net.
