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THE GRIT
vegetarian restaurant
199 prince avenue
706-543-6592 ??? thegrit.com
open 7 days
breakfast ??? mon-fri 8am-llam
brunch ??? sat-sun 10am-3pm
lunch ??? mon-fri llam-5pm
dinner ??? sun-wed 5pm-9:30pm
dinner ??? th-sat 5pm-10pm
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No smokers, please.
Accepting applications during January. Monday through Friday from 8am to 4pm.
Screening tests required.
706-546-3167 or 706-546-3037
or email us at
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All programs and services of the U.S. Department of Agriculture are offered
on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin,
religion, sex, age, marital status or handicap.
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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Christmas in Athens: It was December 24th
on College Ave. in the dark, when I seen
a man chilling with his dog in the park/ I
approached very slowly with my heart full of
fear. Looked at his dog, oh my God, an ill rein
deer/ But then I was illin' because the man
had a beard and a bag full of goodies, and 12
o'clock neared...
So, what was in the bag, you ask?
Mayor Nancy Denson must have been a
bad girl this year, because Santa didn't bring
her a WaLmart. But Russell Edwards woke up
Christmas morning to find a 35,000 square-
foot box under the tree.
Downtown Athens got a master plan,
although a river district was just a bit too
expensive for its parents to afford this year,
what with the economy and all. Classic Center
Executive Director Paul Cramer got Hancock
Avenue, and if he's really good, next year
Santa will give him the News Building.
State Rep. Doug McKillip got a shiny new
Republican district to run in, but then Santa
went and gave his seat to Regina Quick.
Commissioner Alice Kinman
got a complete streets policy.
Commissioner Jared Bailey is seri
ously on Santa's shit list, because
he got a Cobbham frat house and
the Buena Vista Heights historic dis
trict debacles. Commissioner Doug
Lowry donned a fake beard and slid
down Manager Alan Reddish's chim
ney to deliver a stocking full of coal.
St. Nick brought University of
Georgia employees a big, 80-year-
old pool. Oh, wait, that was
regifted.
Congressman Paul Broun got
nothing, because Santa Claus
doesn't exist???he isn't mentioned in
either the Bible or the Constitution.
These Are My Guns: The shooting
spree at Sandy Hook Elementary
in Connecticut drew sympathetic
statements from nearly every politi
cian in the land. "Shocked by the
news of the shooting in #Newtown."
U.S. Rep. John Barrow (D-Augusta)
tweeted. "My thoughts & prayers
are w/the families & victims of this
tragedy." File that under: Things you
should have thought about before
you bragged, "These are my guns
now, and ain't nobody gonna take
'em away," in a campaign ad.
Broun, a Second Amendment absolutist,
had this to say: Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
You Can't Be Serious!: Cue John McEnroe
throwing a racket. The Athens-Clarke Leisure
Services Department is ending its relationship
with the trainers at Tennis for Life and, as
with just about everything Leisure Services-
related, there is some grumbling going on
about it.
Director Pam Reidy says she crunched the
numbers, and it would cost less money to hire
an in-house tennis teacher, rather than con
tinuing to contract with Tennis for Life. "We'll
still be able to offer the service and make it
more profitable for the department," she says.
Construction at the new tennis center at
Southeast Clarke Park is running behind sched
ule, and it's now opening in June, Reidy says.
Once it's done, Leisure Services will briefly
close the courts at Bishop Park to refurbish
them. "We had expected it to be seamless, but
with the tennis center not opening on the day
we thought it would, there's a little bit of a
lag time," she says.
Leisure Services is interviewing candidates
now, but there won't be any program for the
next two to three months. (Tennis for Life's
Stacy Venker turned down the job, accord
ing to Reidy.) The Clarke-Oconee Tennis
Association recently recognized Venker and
Tennis for Life for their 25 years of service to
the community.
"Most tennis players were surprised by the
ACC decision, and many were not pleased,"
COTA President Robin Stevens says. "However,
COTA will continue to support Athens public
tennis programming in whatever business
model ACC puts forth."
Redistricting Reminder: As of Jan. 1, there's
about a 50-50 chance that you'll have a new
Athens-Clarke commissioner. State legisla
tors drastically redrew the district map last
spring, and those changes are now taking
effect. Many Cobbham residents, for example,
are moving from Jared Bailey's district to
George Maxwell's, and many Eastside residents
will now be represented by Harry Sims, rather
than Andy Herod. Kelly Girtz and Mike Hamby
now have single-member districts, instead of
representing half the county each. Girtz's runs
northeast from Pulaski Heights, taking over a
chunk of Sims' former district, while Hamby's
includes much of what is now Kathy Hoard's
territory from Five Points to the west.
Click on City Dope at Flagpole.com for a
link to the maps.
Walmart Watch: Time to rename this segment,
I guess. Sights on Selig? Eye on Applebee's?
The Anthropologie Observer? While you're
mulling it over, take a gander at www.seligath-
ens.com, in case our Russian novel of a story
last week didn't sate your appetite for infor
mation about Selig Enterprises' new Oconee
Street development plan.
Blake Aued news@flagpole.com
Rudolph's got some some fly antlers.
4 FLAGPOLE.COM ??? DECEMBER 26, 2012 & JANUARY 2, 2013