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THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 11. 2009 - PAGE 5A
—Movie Scene Filmed
Cont. from Page 1A
filmed scenes inside the
church until around noon.
The cast and crew took a
break for lunch at a cater
ing tent set up at Hurricane
Shoals Park and filming
began again around 1 p.m.
Filming inside the church
ended around 5 p.m.
Before ending filming
for the day, a scene was
shot outside the church at
an antique hearse featur
ing Duvall and actor Lucas
Black.
Two members of the
Tumbling Waters Society
Helen Gunnels and Becky
Perry were present for
the filming. Recreation
department director Rick
Sanders and assistant
Cathy Robinson were also
present.
Earlier filming for
“Get Low" was done in
Newnan, and the next
stop is Dallas. Extras are
needed to film a funeral
scene in Dallas Feb. 28
and anyone interested in
participating is asked to
apply online at extrascast-
ingatlanta@gmail.com.
“Get Low" is based on a
true story and Duvall por
trays Tennessee eccentric
Felix “Bush" Breazeale, a
man who planned his own
funeral in 1938 while he
was still alive. Black por
trays a funeral director.
The movie also stars
Sissy Spacek, as Duvall’s
wife, and Bill Murray, as
a funeral director. Spacek
and Murray did not film in
Jackson County.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Experience At BJC
Hospital Very Satisfactory
Editor:
I was recently in the
hospital at BJC and I
would like all the nay
sayers out there who
continue to talk badly
about the hospital and
those who work there to
hear about my experi
ence.
I am very pleased with
the job the staff did,
from the emergency
room to the staff on the
hospital side. Dr. Neel is
my physician and I can't
say enough about my
friend. I'm sorry I can't
remember everybody's
name who saw to my
needs, but I was very
impressed with their
professionalism.
Thank you Daniella,
Lori, Virginia and the
rest. You made my stay
there as comfortable as a
hospital stay could pos
sibly be. I have been in
the bigger facilities and
one key difference is that
the staff at BJC is more
personable, they take the
time to talk with you,
to hear your complaints
and needs. We all need
to remember they see us
when we're not at our
best, and at the same
time they must be at
theirs.
I was saddened that
some of the staff who
were there the last time
I stayed are now gone,
but I understand why
the administration had
to do what it did. From
my experience, everyone
there is doing a tremen
dous job.
Jerry Ray
Maysville
— Craver: Valentine’s Day
Cont. from Page 4A
don't try to give me
advice, I love you when
your patience allows
you to wait for me to
go on a long run after
an even longer day
at work before eating
dinner together. I love
your eyes, I love you
when you let me have
the television remote
during football season,
I love your addiction
to desserts, I love you
when you walk so softly
through the house while
I nap, I love your laugh.
I love your artistic tal-
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I love you for loving me
too!
Happy Valentine's Day.
Hasco Craver is
executive director of the
Commerce Downtown
Development Authority.
He lives in Commerce.
Economic Stimulus: City Council
Relaxes Rules On Yard Sale Frequency
By Mark Beardsley
Residents trying to make
a few extra dollars during
the lean economic times
got a small boost from the
Commerce City Council
Monday night.
At the suggestion of Ward
2 Councilman Donald
Wilson, the council agreed
to allow residents to double
the number of yard sales at
any one address. The mea
sure lasts through January
of 2010.
Currently, city ordi
nance limits yard sales to
one every six months at
each residence. A permit
is required, but there is no
charge for the permit.
The change will allow two
yard sales per six months at
any address.
Wilson had proposed
allowing unlimited sales,
a notion city manager
Clarence Bryant opposed,
expressing the concern that
some people would wind
Terry Minish Recognized
Commerce Mayor Charles L. Hardy Jr., right,
reads from a plaque presented to Terry Minish at
Monday night’s Commerce Council meeting. The
city council honored Minish for his 16 years of ser
vice on the Downtown Development Authority.
up holding sales virtually
every weekend.
“That causes a lot of prob
lems in neighborhoods,’’
Bryant said, asking that the
council put some limit on
the number.
Mayor Charles L. Hardy
Jr. proposed doubling the
number of sales to four per
year.
Squirrels To
Take Cover?
The council took no
action, but read an ordi
nance designed to allow —
under certain conditions —
residents to get permits to
shoot “animal pests.’’
Hardy noted that absent
Ward 5 Councilman Richard
Massey has long promot
ed a means of alleviating
squirrel problems. The ordi
nance would require a $20
fee for a 90-day permit. The
fee would cover the cost of
police doing a background
check, and convicted felons
need not apply.
The council will act on
the ordinance at its March
meeting.
“This will be one way
to get rid of the squir
rel population in some of
the neighborhoods,’’ the
mayor said.
A Glimmer Of Hope In Housing Market?
By Mark Beardsley
The president of an
Atlanta-based real estate
market research company
offered a glimmer of hope
last Wednesday for the resi
dential housing market.
Speaking to members of
the Jackson County Area
Chamber of Commerce at
the monthly breakfast, John
Hunt, founder and president
of ViaSearch, said he’d spot
ted “the first positive sign in
two years’’ for the Atlanta
area housing industry.
The number of re-sale
houses (as opposed to
sales of new houses) has
started up, Hunt said, in
part because of the num
ber of foreclosures forcing
prices down.
“When prices get back
to a certain level, the buy
ers will flood back into the
market,’’ Hunt predicted.
“Re-sale has to come back
first. New homes will follow.
New homes have started to
turn a corner here because
their prices are finally begin
ning to correct.
“We see re-sale closings
continuing this trend and
going positive (compared to
last year) by June or July of
this year. That’s our stance
today, and two quarters
later, new homes should fol
low by the end of this year
or the beginning of 2010.
We need to see that kind of
change by the end of this
year. We have to see it.’’
According to Hunt, the
recession was only the
third of “three strikes’’ that
knocked out the housing
industry. The first was the
inflation in prices of new lots
and new houses that began
in 2003. One result was that
the median price of a new
house got to $85,000 more
than the cost of an existing
home, a record spread.
“That gap is critical,’’ Hunt
commented. “A five to 10
percent gap was normal.
Now the gap is 35 percent.
You have to pay a 35 per
cent premium to buy a new
home over a re-sale.’’
Prior to that, residents of
the 26-county Metro Atlanta
area bought four new hous
es for every five re-sales.
Now that figure changed
to just one new house for
every five re-sales.
The narrow gap, along
with easy credit and low
interest rates, encouraged
people who normally
wouldn’t have bought hous
es into the market.
“We’ve borrowed buyers
from the future with cheap
money, bad lending prac
tices and piled them in the
present, and we’re paying
for it,’’ Hunt said. “That’s
exactly what happened.’’
But when the (price) gap
hit 20 percent, demand
for new homes “absolutely
capitulated,’’ he added.
However, during the last
4-5 quarters, demand for
re-sales has crashed and
the pricing of new houses
is “beginning to correct,’’
according to Hunt.
“This trend is going to
continue through this year.
That’s going to, believe it or
not, help bring the market
back.’’
Hunt’s “second strike’’
was the sub-prime mort
gage crisis, which arrived
in the second quarter of
2007. He pointed out that
through June 8, some $4.9
billion in foreclosures of
houses, land, lots, specula
tive houses and personal
foreclosures occurred. By
Dec. 31 that amount hit $9.8
billion.
“It took a year and five
months to get to $4.9 billion
and only six more months
to double that. It’s accelerat
ing,’’ Hunt said.
He also predicted that the
amount of business foreclo
sures “is going to skyrocket
this year.’’
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