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LOST & FOUNDRY How Green Was My Valley LET JOHN DO IT Sinister inside/outside forces have created turmoil in Oconee County Republican politics (is there any other kind out there?). The local party's choice for a candioate to run in place of Commission Chairman Wendell Dawson has been overruled by the state party at the behest of a small group of willful men, many of them named "John." Could the same thing also happen here in Athens-Clarke? Nobody gives Republican candluate Jim Smith any chance to beat Democrat Ken Mauldin in the general election for District Attorney. Suppose the party decided to supersize its candidate and trade up to one who could win? Surely Col Smith as a loyal Republican would agree to step aside? Then the Johns could have another go at it. Why not Harry Gordon for a return match? Or maybe Wendell Dawson, a proven campaigner? Or maybe a lawyer named John. ^— Come on: let's have some fun. NO SMOKING As I ate lunch at the downtown Taco Stand on August 15, looking out the windows at the SPLOST-funded construction work on Broad Street, I noticed one of the big yellow earth movers idling, spewing plumes of gray smoke frorr its exhaust pipe. I continued to watch; the workers, oblivious, walked by the machine many times. But no one used it, or moved it at all. It just sat there, expelling a car cinogenic cloud above the busy sidewalks. It was still chugging away, still unoccupied, when I left the restaurant 40 minutes later. A call to SPLOST Project Manager Kevin Hamby about this went unanswered. (Brad Aaron) — GO GREEN Want a "Stay Green" sign for your very own front yard? Want to be one of those citizens ready to tell the Commission that the buck stops here and you want them to stop selling off our green space to developers and save the green? To get your Stay Green sign go to geocities.com/athens_staygreen or email to: athens_staygreen@yahoo.com. Pete McCommons (editor@flagpole.com) PATRICK DEAN ATHENS. GA AUGUST; 2000 I'LL RKtH (\XoU B>HT HAMt Tt> Go Too Thi WEEK&ND? BIG mi> Ik^xattok) 15 the best.'rw oz hm get ikho v ovr. ghU/HI HavetoTRavel?get Real! BE6fJ oaoftfeTt /''vl So PtffJT LEAVE HoME Ct f\l So CbtJT YoO fl. rH y Nov/l AM ktAT.'rt "Tc> WAvJtJER. LSTAY ImToWA/.' 1 *W HERETSVREtV VoU'tfesT'J AHP Wz&xl AW>NEY/TA BGOTV ImiMCTH ALlTHIS TfAlE To KUl! FLAGPOLE MAGAZINE Street Address: 112 S, Foundry St., Athens, GA 30601 • Mailing Address. P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603 • E-Mail: mail@flagpole.com Tel: 706-549-9523 • Ads: 706-549-0301 • Fax: 706-548-8981 • Voice Mail: 706-549-2360 • Website: www.flagpole.com EDITOR & PUBLISHER Pels McCommons ADVERTISING DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER A&do (tides PRODUCTION DIRECTOR lory Termer OFFICE MANAGER & COPY EDITOR Msgoret Moore LOCAL SALES MANAGER Ccrolyne AAcrihers ADVERTISING SALES Maggie Anderson, DJ. 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