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THE
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Permar Publications
April 5, 2010
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Vol 38 Issue 14
Kingston Town Hall
Above: U.S. Representative Jack
Kingston (R-Dist. 1) address
es area residents during the
Wednesday, March 31 town hall
meeting held in the Terrill Thom
as Auditorium at the College of
Coastal Georgia.
Right: Susan Layman, center,
asks Kingston a question during
the question and answer portion
of the town hall meeting.
Islander Staff Photo - Permar
Healthcare and federal budget main
topics at town hall meeting
County defers
Catering law
• Police radio upgrade
OK'ed at $1.5 million
By Matthew J. Permar
The Glynn County Commis
sion deferred action last week
on a new ordinance section
that would regulate alcohol
ic beverage sales by catering
companies.
During their Thursday,
April 1 meeting, the commis
sion was set to hold a public
hearing on an amendment to
the Liquor, Malt Beverage and
Wine Ordinance that would
add a new section pertaining
to alcoholic beverage catering.
The ordinance amendment
would authorize and regulate
the sale and distribution of
alcoholic beverages by licensed
caterers at “off-premises”
events.
In addition, it would autho
rize bona fide non-profit civic
organizations to have up to
twelve events per year where
alcohol is served.
The new law would require
an ‘off premises license’ appli
cation and fee. It would also
require an event permit appli
cation and event fee.
Caterers who want to serve
alcohol would be required to
obtain an annual permit at
$1,000 per year that will allow
them to serve alcohol at an off-
premises site.
The event fee is $50 per
event, unless the organization
is a bona fide non-profit group.
For them the fee is $25.
At the beginning of last
week’s meeting commission
chairman Howard Lynn (Dist.
4) announced the item had
been pulled from the agenda.
After the meeting Commis
sioner Don Hogan (At Large
#1), who sponsored the ordi
nance amendment was asked
why the item was pulled.
Hogan said, “We’ve gotten
a lot of phone calls about this
one, about the need to make a
few changes, to tweak it a lit
tle. The calls came from cater-
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Catering law
At Representative Jack
Kingston's (R-Dist. 1) town
hall meeting last Wednesday,
most of the attendees were
concerned about the recent
passage of the healthcare bill
and its attendant costs.
A few, however, were
pleased with the bill's passage,
proud that the president had
signed it and would willingly
pay higher income taxes to
support healthcare.
Most of the audience
responded with groans to this
By Pamela Permar Shierling
statement, but Kingston said
we needed to rise above the
fray and bring both sides of the
health care issue together.
One of Kingston's concerns
with the bill are the new taxes
which will be imposed on
insurance companies and the
fact that the cost will be passed
through to consumers.
His other concerns with the
new law included:
•$569.2 billion in new
taxes
• $5.28 billion in medicare
cuts
• the new bureaucracy that
will be created
• the 16,000 new Internal
Revenue Service agents who
will be added
• the individual's freedom
to choose their healthcare has
been taken away
• the government is now
involved in the patient/doctor
relationship
• the fact that local doctors
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Town hall meeting
Judge extends
time for jail
mediation
By Matthew J. Permar
When a lawsuit challeng
ing the location of the Glynn
County jail expansion project
first hit the U.S. Southern
District Court in early March,
Federal Judge Lisa Godbey
Wood ordered the plaintiff
and defendants to enter into
third party mediation with the
court.
Originally, Judge Wood
gave the parties until the end
of March to come to terms
over the proposed jail expan
sion project.
Last week, at the request
of both parties, Judge Wood
granted a deadline extension
of six weeks, extending the
mediation period to May 14.
The mediation between
plaintiff Catherine Browning
and the defendants, Glynn
Comity Commissioners How-
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Mediation extended
Spend $20;
help save the
local economy
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
In order to help stimulate
the lagging economy, The
Islander Newspaper is sponsor
ing a new business promotion
aimed at supporting our local
merchants and businesses.
The Islander is encourag
ing all our readers and their
friends to spend $20 on the
20th of every month with local
merchants.
Hopefully this will help
save the local economy with an
idea that has been done with
great success elsewhere in the
United States.
It's up to us to turn the
economy around which we can
do with our own grass roots
effort. We don't need to sit
around and wait for our elect
ed officials to do something.
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$20 on the 20th
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