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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Baby Oope: Dave Marr and his wife Krista
Dean had 8-pound, 12-ounce Sally Grey Marr
early Thursday morning, Sept. 1, whom Dave
describes as "healthy and beautiful like her
mom." We at Flagpole are thrilled. See this
lovely new writer/artist to your left on this
page.
Remembering 9/11: Bob and Nancy Hart vis
ited New York City just after Sept. 11, 2001
and came home determined to create the
9/11 Memorial Trail, in memory of those who
were killed in the attacks. They did, and you
can visit the trail at 320 Morton Farm Lane,
where there will be a memorial ceremony on
Sunday, Sept. 11 at 6:30 p.m. Bob has spent
10 years working on this trail, which winds
through the woods on their property; it's east
of Athens, off Lexington and Morton roads.
You can get a preview of
the trail at bobhartart.com.
It's the only 9/11 memorial
in Athens.
A Message for the Citizenry:
The Middle Oconee and
North Oconee rivers have
been low all summer, and
they're showing extreme
drought conditions now.
Both rivers are very, very
low. This week, the Middle
Oconee is setting low-
flow records for this date,
based on almost 80 years
of stream gauge records.
(To clarify: it's not setting
all-time low-flow records,
but it was the lowest it
has ever been on Aug. 31
of any year since record-keeping started, 77
years ago. And this is very, very low.) Now
that Athens is drawing on its back-up supply
at the Bear Creek Reservoir rather than the
rivers, the lake's level is dropping, too.
Athens knows how to conserve water—we
showed that in 2007 and 2008—and it is
absolutely time to do it again. Short of pray
ing for the perfect hurricane that makes a
soft landing on the coast and then brings us
soaking rains, we've got to get serious about
water conservation.
The ACC Public Utilities Department has all
the information online about rules and regula
tions as well as the best practices—just look
for Water Conservation on their section of the
ACC website.
A lot of the information online is from
last year's Georgia Water Stewardship Act.
It's state law that you can't water between
10 a.m and 4 p.m., no matter the day of
the week or your street address (with some
exceptions for thingsTike new sod, but many
of those situations can be avoided by smart
planning).
Hopefully, our culture shift will reach a
point where no one—not even a few unin
formed property managers—is planting new
shrubs and sod in August, and that's just
outdoor watering. What we need to do, right
now, is be diligent about all of our water
use, indoors and anywhere else. It is also
well worth wondering if state environmental
officials shouldn't be just about ready to
begin issuing a brand-new statewide drought
declaration.
Navy showers, everybody! Friends don't
let friends plant sod in summer—especially in
a drought. [Ben Emanuel]
Running for It: The 10th Congressional District
got carved up worse than Athens-Clarke
County in the recent bloodletting at the
Capitol known as reapportionment. Looks like
there's no love lost among the Republicans
in the Legislature for our congressman, Paul
Broun, Junior. No wonder, since Broun
trounced a prominent state senator in his first
campaign and a prominent state representa
tive in his second. To show there are no hard
feelings, the legislators cut a couple hundred
thousand voters out of Broun's stronghold up
in far northeast Georgia and replaced them
with a bunch of people south of Atlanta. Most
of Broun's former supporters ended up in a
new congressional district centered around
Gainesville, and there was some speculation
that Broun would simply run in the new dis
trict, which also now includes part of Athens-
Clarke. He ended that by announcing last week
that he's sticking with the 10th District. So,
we win some; we lose some. The northeast
portion of Athens-Clarke escapes from Broun.
The rest of us are still his subjects. At least
Krazy Korner won't have to move.
In re: redistricting: if you really want to
understand what is going on with the various
redistrictings, especially in Oconee County,
you need to keep up with Oconee County
Observations, the political blog run by jour
nalism prof Lee Becker at oconeecountyob-
servations.blogspot.com. Lee is a voice of
reason, and he looks at the facts and analyzes
them. As you will see when you go to his
blog, he gets out the redistricting maps and
compares them to the census tracts and the
voting precincts and historical voting trends—
a very refreshing just-the-facts approach in
this day of shouting "commentators," which
sometimes even Substitute Dope is guilty of
being. We've been so focused on Athens-Clarke
that we've practically overlooked what was
done to Oconee County in order to create a
safe district for the new Republican rep for
merly known as "Democrat Doug."
The Political Bug: Dan Matthews made a
credible though losing effort in his run for
the old state representative seat in Oconee
County and a small portion of Athens-Clarke.
Now, Dan has qualified to run for Mayor
of Watkinsville. Since the majority of his
strength in the legislative race came from
Athens-Clarke, Dan must know something the
Substitute Dope doesn't.
Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.ccm
On Sunday. Sept. 11, at 6:30 p.m. there will be a ceremony at the 9/11
Memorial Trail in memory of those who were killed that day 10 years ago.
4 FLAGPOLE.COM • SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
