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Newspaper Page Text6A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, August 15,2018 Its not gossip when deciding for whom to pray Gossip is usually an unsa vory but juicy hot commod ity. Particularly among cer tain people. My grandmother reveled in the little nuggets of infor mation she would glean from people, which is prob ably why she loved to go to the grocery store and beauty parlor when I was younger. She could find out all kinds of dirt on just about anyone, down to what pew they sat on in church. Granny was a great col lector of dirt; and like her sole and sometimes-favorite grandchild, people just told her stuff. Unsolicited, out of the blue, random yet glori ous stuff. Some of this stuff was about people Granny didn’t know, which was rare. I think the old gal knew everyone in our little com munity. But the best tidbits were about folks she did know - especially people she did not like. Perhaps the most interest- SUDIE CROUCH Columnist ing thing about Granny’s ability to collect all this dirt is that while it came to her fairly easily, Granny was quite judicious with who she told what. There was one exception, of course. Granny’s best friend, LuRee. What’s so funny is that for the longest, those two little mean women would scrapple and fuss with one another deep-fried Baptist style. Then one day, a vortex in the Universe opened and I think Satan himself caught a chill. The two of them walked out of their Sunday School room, arm and arm, hug ging and slopping sugar on one another like they were best friends. I remember seeing this as I stood in the hall just as plain as it was yesterday; they even moved in ‘80s style slow motion as they walked towards the double doors to go outside. “When did you and Miss LuRee decide y’all liked one another?” I asked from the backseat on the way home. “What?” my grandfather perked up at this news. “We have always been friends,” Granny lied. Look at her lying right after leav ing the house of the Lord. “Littie ‘un, scoot back in your seat; lightning is about to hit your grandmother,” my Pop said. “Woman, the two of you ain’t never been friends. I have seen y’all shoot evil looks at each other across the sanctuary before. What’s going on?” Granny twisted in her seat as she drove. “We found out we both dislike the same person.” Nothing brings two peo ple together more than shared hate. “Oh, good Lord,” my grandfather muttered under his breath. “Helen, what were you doing gossiping in church?” “It was not gossip, Bob,” she said. “Yes, it was.” “No, it was not.” “Then what do you call it?” he asked. Well, for once, the old gal was speechless, which did not happen often. She didn’t say a word the rest of the way home. I, like my grandfather, thought that was a one-time event and they would end up back mortal enemies loathing one another over Amazing Grace and I’ll Fly Away, but the friendship stuck. It was almost like two rival mafia bosses joining forces or something with these two. It was unnatural and scary. Usually, it was a Sunday afternoon phone call that went on for at least an hour, Granny sprawled across the bed on her stomach, shoes off and feet in the air as she and LuRee discussed things. My grandfather would just shake his head as he watched his football game. “Your grandmother is in there gossiping,” he would say during a commercial break. I nodded. It was just a fact. “I am not,” Granny pro tested heatedly as she came down the hall. “I resent you saying that, Bob.” “Well, I don’t know what else to call it.” “We are talking about who to pray for,” she said. “Say what?” “You heard me,” she said. He may not have; the man was deaf in one ear. “We are talking about who to pray for.” My grandfather rolled his eyes. “I’ll bet.” “We were. We were talk ing about who we needed to pray for and the best way to know who to pray for, is to discuss their circumstanc es.” She paused and gave him a look. “I think we may need to pray for men who don’t believe their wives, too.” He snorted. “I’ve heard it all now.” From that day on, when ever the phone rang, and it was LuRee, Granny would proceed to hold their so- called prayer discussions. This went on for several decades, and when Granny passed away, LuRee passed six months later. “You suppose they are allowed in the same comers of Heaven?” I asked Mama the other day. Mama laughed softly. “Those two are together, I know they are,” she said. “And they are still talking about who they need to pray for.” Sudie Crouch is an award winning humor columnist and author of the recently e-pub- lished novel, "The Dahlman Files: ATony Dahlman Paranormal Mystery." FROM 1A Millage than the year before. District 2 Commissioner Chris Gaines said he plans to ask the board to roll the millage rate back and shift the burden onto other revenue sources. LOST revenue been steadily increasing with the new develop ments on Ga. 400, and about 84 percent of those funds are gener ated by visitors to the county, Gaines said. “We are very fortunate to have a great sales tax base that is pri marily driven by people that live outside our county,” he said on Tuesday. “In my opinion we should try to rely more on those revenue dollars and lessen the burden on Dawson County citi zens by keeping the property tax as low as possible.” The county is also anticipating another increase in the tax digest next year, when phase two of the countywide reassessment (which includes industrial and commer cial properties) is complete and when properties developed in 2018 are on the books. “This is a balancing act because there are true needs throughout the county government that have not been met, and we have asked employees to do more with less over the last 10 years,” Gaines said. “It does take revenue to meet and operate with a high level of service that citizens deserve, how ever in my opinion we need to be looking at funding most of these needs with the increase in LOST revenue we are experiencing.” Previous hearings were held on Aug. 2 and Aug. 9. One citizen spoke at the Aug. 9 hearing. Mike Wenson, who lives on the Lake Lanier waterfront, asked the board to cut expenses and reduce the millage rate. “My taxes are going through the roof. And I know as govern ment employees you can turn around and raise taxes and not take into consideration the prob lems that people have paying them,” Wenson said. Wenson said his property taxes have gone up 102 percent in the past three years. He also said that he felt there were mistakes made in the county wide revaluation and that he had appealed his assess ment. “I think there’s plenty of oppor tunities for cost cutting and I don’t think you need a 13 percent increase this year,” Wenson said. “Please roll back the millage rate.” District 3 Commissioner Jimmy Hamby said he sympa thized with Wenson because his taxes had gone up too. “I’m in the same position you are, my taxes have went up too... We’re not exempt,” Hamby said. “But we have equipment that we use way beyond their life. We can roll that back, but we will wind up with old equipment...If you call an ambulance; I want them to get to you. I want it to be a good vehicle that won’t break down.” “You just cannot believe how we suffer over this budget,” District 1 Commissioner Sharon Fausett said. “I’ve still got stuff on my kitchen table from the other budget because I was so bothered over something we couldn’t do. We want the best for everybody here, there’s just so many needs.” In other business: Impact Fees The commission is also set to have its final of two hearings on impact fees at 6 p.m. Thursday. Impact fees are collected on new developments and help offset the cost of capital improvements and services as the county devel ops, including parks and recre ation, roads, libraries and public safety. Under the proposed impact fee schedule, the maximum fee for a new single family home in 2018 would be $3,372.16; the maxi mum fee for a new general use office building would be $1.39 per square foot; and the maxi mum fee for a new shopping cen ter would be $1.64 per square foot. The board could vote Thursday to impose the fees at the maxi mum amount or at a smaller per centage of that amount. The board enacted impact fees in 2006 and voted in May 2009 to suspend the fees so that develop ers who were deterred by the high cost would build in the county. Since then, no impact fees have been collected. Commission meetings are held in the second floor assembly room of the Dawson County Government Center, located at 25 Justice Way in downtown Dawsonville. 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