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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Stitt On; fry now, you all know—Ml ww
o# you may low forgotten—the results of
last nook's «ttction$. ficyuttKjm non every
contested net on the state and Moral levels,
and our two most closely fought local races,
for nayor and ACC Commtisfon District S, am
needed for run-ofH between Money Demon
and Gwen Clooney and Jared Bailey and Dave
Hudgins, respectively The runoff t* scheduled
fw Tuesday, Nov 30 and the ACC Board of
Elections hopes to fet early voting
started fry Nov. IS.
Those votes mean a lot earty fraC
lots cast d the Board of Elections
office accounted for nearly 25 percent
of ati those cast m the general elec
tion. When they, along with maii-m
absentee ballots, were tallied—after
aU 24 local precincts had -eported on
election night—Clooney's lead over
Spencer Frye for second place grew
Horn 47 votes to 5BB. When the Board
of Sections posts those totals fry
precinct—that may have Happened fry
the time this is printed—wtH have a
much mere detailed picture of how
things actually shook out in the race.
Check it out on the Board of Elections'
website, tf that's the kind of thing
you're into.
capacity that might agam require him to make
split second decisions regarding the use of
deadly Me
Now this same officer has. m the bne
of duty shot and lotted 5 3-year-old Samuel
Thomas Cunmngham in. who was arguing
with hti friend John Wtitie Jennings—and
holding a knife to his throat—when
Pasquaietti encountered them m Jennings
apartment. The police say the officer shot
Jen«»ngs *f the officer hadn't arrived when he
did* It s entirety possible.
But the question of whether Pasquafetti
could masonafrty have been expected to try to
defuse the situation without the use of deadly
force *s enormously grave, and amounts to far
more than 'Do you support our heroic polite
or do you notr Thn entire community— and
not just ; % neigh*
bors—needs to acknowledge the necessity of
♦sting—again— whether Ptoquatetti H some
W w'O Vw« 9f i WWW traO
nsky situation* on our behalf, and our shared
H-tenest in the answer
A legacy of Action: Atlanta, sadly was no
stranger to the AIDS outbreak m the IfrfrOs.
. , t .a frwu _^Wk_s
#»*0 Pfk WUPf w *^U W*IHMKS Pe)
were active *n mhjrmmg puttie and wodt-
under President frtil Clinton. The group w*tt
disc ws* the history of AIDS m Atlanta, as nett
as the impact of the AIDS legacy Prefect
which wdl archive histone at accounts of the
AIDS outbreak for more information, go to
kpubbcheatth uga.edu. [lemon Pnhttf
Congratulations: Nugf s Space woe Ks
case before the Georgia Supreme Court
Monday meaning its property U»-
exempt status has been restored, de’tt
have more on this next week.
Difficult Choices, Difficult Questions:
Last year, when ACC Senior Police
Officer Lou Pasquaietti shot and kitted a JO-lb.
dog that he said lunged at him with its mouth
open, the important questions to ask didn't
have anything to do with whether the dog
should have been secured by its owners, or
with whether a dog's life is more important
than a police officer's safety, or even with
whether we. as a community, should sup-
port the officers whose difficult and often
thankless duty it is to protect us from harm.
The important questions at that time were
whether the discharge of his firearm on a city
street had been this officer's best
the circumstances, and «f not
whether it was in the community's best inter*
est for this officer to continue serving in a
ptdta. area 1H0. if feck Kentonsprint dug. wNck was badh damaged fry a Bit tarty Mm 1 Nsfiti
m front ef the ft E M steeple, and see John New s article « City Pages. p. 5.
Cunningham because be fretioeod
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wt Ml pH lHlnraiff wP9rT QHu
the Athens Bonmr Herotd, and the ACCPO has
confirmed, that Pasquaietti did not give verbal
commands for Cunningham to drop the knife
ft w>#a hta mesamii TKm tnf i,r5mi~rh tw fr^memwi
OCTWf to wfipen inf incwfn 11 Qfrng
investigated by the ACCPO and the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation.
We need and vp^rid on police officers,
and they desenm our support, cooperation
and thanks. No one hem is suggesting that
bam to kayaariMa NmM of
qualification or performance, and no one here
is passing judgment on Officer Pisqualetb
in advance of the findings of the current
investigations. Would Cunningham have kitted
mg to prevent an epidemic. On Nov. IS at
5:30 p.m.. the University of Georgia s Phut 0.
f* r> i i»a~fS^14 f IL|> w llwalth
lOVfnxn IWwK fix ina nt#nr
Sciences witt boat a panel dfocussien with
four NIV/AIDS issues leaders Bruce Gamer.
Jim Martin. Nancy Parti and Sandra Thurman.
Each panelist ti personally connected to the
cause: Gamer ti a survivor of the disease
who has been active in numerous Atlanta
and natfonel AIDS initiatives; Martin, a for
mer Georgia state representative, played a
hey role in passing numerous pieces of HIV/
AIDS legislation; Parti, the pendent and CEO
of the Georgia Center for Oncology fresearch
and Education, ti a forawr president of AID
Atlanta; and Thu, man served as "AIDS Czar"
Mom to love; If you haven't had your fitt «#
local mggm and crafts, the Athens farmer*
Market Is ertewdfog Ms market loosen to
mttude (Sec. 4. 11 and tfr fmm 9 a m. to naan
at frtihop Park Mopefutty the weather weal
be dtiwmt since the Dec. Ifr ATM «*tt be hati
day* themed. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday,
the AfN witt not take place on Nov 17 (IP]
A few Things, BVJ; When the ACC Mayor and
Commission decided to mi alam for a wntr
bawsfoe afowg Seedy Ciwek they H
ACC Planning Director Brad Griffin
4ijifw Ttw nKMf
Zoning maps would Have to be altered
to refine? the change In plans. The
■"A ■ r ■ >. rr .,
House Thursday. Nov 11 from 5-7: 30
p.m. at J J. Hams Elementary School
{2300 Dameisvitle td.) to dticuss
f i-of .a ~jk j *;•.•■*-*.■ * w mam *
UW wT
creek*, the Upper Oconee WatersHetf
Network ti expanding its autumn qaer
tetiy momtoting event to mdude an
as you know, a massive chemical spin
caused fry a fire at an upstream plant
turned the water bttie and kitted att
the fish this summer They need extra
volunteers to make that Happen so
get involved The project starts at
♦ a.m. Saturday. Nov 13 in the East
•road Street parking lot at Dudley
Pfrrk. Go to wwwoown arg for more
info... The deadline to submit projects
to be considered for January's Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day of Service s thn
Friday, Nov. 12. find out mom at www.
AthemMLKday.org. And if you have
a 35-foot cedar you'd Kht to
to ACC to be used as the j
we fr» fiont of Oty Hall this
catt ftfto Brown at the ACC Landscape
Management Division at (70B) 413-3541.
And Finally. Otatro are being sought for posi
tions on the Athem-Clarhe County Industrial
(Economic) Development Authority, toe
Development Authority toe ACC library Board,
the Board of Health the Construction Board of
Appeals, toe Division of Family and CMdren
Services Board and the Planning Commission.
Applications are duo fry Nov, 15. go to www.
0,j ': $ vto fi :
(John Nine)
4 FiAGPQlE.COM NOVEMBER 10,2010