dave
04-12-2003, 01:32 AM
“Laissez les bons temp rouler.”
<p>The 2003 Crawfish festival got underway Friday, April 11th with some flavor of the Delta. On the menu was boiled crawfish, fired tails, crawfish pie, etouffee, and baked pistolettes to name the favorites. “Buzz” was playing oldies in the cooking area while folks drank beer and ate “mudbugs”. If you’re new to crawfish, I would suggest getting the fried tails or etoufee, being the boiled monsters can through you with their looks. At around 4 p.m., the crowd wasn’t very large, but the police were out in force, complete drug-sniffing dogs. Not included in the flyers provided are admission prices, which are $2.00 for the cooking area, or $5.00 for all areas (band stage). You are able to buy t-shirts, full crawfish menu, and other souvenirs without actually paying to get in, since vendors are camped on both sides of the fence. According to festival veterans, ATF is in strict force as always, so if your underage prepare for a shameful walk to the courthouse of you decide to drink. Apparently, it’s ok to have your own cooler of “beverages” as long as you’re outside the fenced in areas which require admission, but you can also drink inside the fence granted you buy their products. Arts and crafts booths are set up past the Bar and Grill, and when I was there didn’t require admission to get in. There were several craft and trinket tables, some carnival style games, and a few peddlers in fake eye and shoe wear. The children can pay to play basketball, walk around in a balloon, or ride a little kiddy train. The only chairs I saw available were milk carton crates, so bring your own if you’ll want to sit in comfort. Even after just a few food patrons, the crawfish shells and other trash was beginning to pile up, so expect a mess in some areas. All in all, it’s a pretty nice time. The food is excellent, and the police-state looks to keep the peace during the event. Head out and have a good time.</p>
Goodloe still crapping on E911.
<p>The gospel according to Goodloe: if you live in Demopolis, you’re an idiot. If you’re located in Demopolis, you can’t serve the rest of the County. A lady, admittedly “on medication”, reports to E911 her trailer is ablaze, and confusion comes between that call and Rescue Squad members attempting to get to the scene. Apparently, the E911 dispatcher told the Squad commander the fire was south of Thomaston, when it actually was north of it. The dispatcher told the squad the fire was at mile marker 30, but the squad commander told the dispatcher they didn’t know the mile markers, which direction do we go. Since we don’t have access to the E911 tape, we can only assume what the person reporting the fire told E911 as to what their location is. Goodloe’s assumption that only E911 personnel have to know where everything is in the county is a little harsh, when you’d think the emergency personnel in the areas of trouble would know a little about their territory. The assumption that anyone from Linden would know all these dirt roads and trails is ridiculous. The only people that know all those roads and paths are the postal workers in those areas, and they can’t even get it right half the time. A fire marshal told me once a trailer, like the one that got burned up, takes about 7 minutes to burn up completely. Unless the fire truck was already in the yard, there wasn’t any real hope for that house. If Goodloe has his way, E911 will be moved to the “county seat”, and all the current employees will be fired so smart Linden folks can be hired…Don’t believe the hype.</p>
Uniontown doesn’t want a landfill.
<p>If you have an opinion and wish to express it regarding the proposed solid waste landfill to be erected ½ mile from Uniontown, be at Robert C. Hatch High School gym Thursday, April 17th, and 6 p.m. Johnny Lee Flowers, chairman of the Perry County Commission, is spearheading the landfill’s birth. The landfill, if done, will be permitted to accept 7,500 tons of garbage each day, which is the maximum allowed. Residents have expressed concern and disapproval of the landfill, stating what it would do to the community; West Nile Virus being one thing mentioned. I thought Uniontown was already a dump. They shouldn’t build the landfill outside of the town, but rather turn the town itself into a landfill.</p>
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<p>The 2003 Crawfish festival got underway Friday, April 11th with some flavor of the Delta. On the menu was boiled crawfish, fired tails, crawfish pie, etouffee, and baked pistolettes to name the favorites. “Buzz” was playing oldies in the cooking area while folks drank beer and ate “mudbugs”. If you’re new to crawfish, I would suggest getting the fried tails or etoufee, being the boiled monsters can through you with their looks. At around 4 p.m., the crowd wasn’t very large, but the police were out in force, complete drug-sniffing dogs. Not included in the flyers provided are admission prices, which are $2.00 for the cooking area, or $5.00 for all areas (band stage). You are able to buy t-shirts, full crawfish menu, and other souvenirs without actually paying to get in, since vendors are camped on both sides of the fence. According to festival veterans, ATF is in strict force as always, so if your underage prepare for a shameful walk to the courthouse of you decide to drink. Apparently, it’s ok to have your own cooler of “beverages” as long as you’re outside the fenced in areas which require admission, but you can also drink inside the fence granted you buy their products. Arts and crafts booths are set up past the Bar and Grill, and when I was there didn’t require admission to get in. There were several craft and trinket tables, some carnival style games, and a few peddlers in fake eye and shoe wear. The children can pay to play basketball, walk around in a balloon, or ride a little kiddy train. The only chairs I saw available were milk carton crates, so bring your own if you’ll want to sit in comfort. Even after just a few food patrons, the crawfish shells and other trash was beginning to pile up, so expect a mess in some areas. All in all, it’s a pretty nice time. The food is excellent, and the police-state looks to keep the peace during the event. Head out and have a good time.</p>
Goodloe still crapping on E911.
<p>The gospel according to Goodloe: if you live in Demopolis, you’re an idiot. If you’re located in Demopolis, you can’t serve the rest of the County. A lady, admittedly “on medication”, reports to E911 her trailer is ablaze, and confusion comes between that call and Rescue Squad members attempting to get to the scene. Apparently, the E911 dispatcher told the Squad commander the fire was south of Thomaston, when it actually was north of it. The dispatcher told the squad the fire was at mile marker 30, but the squad commander told the dispatcher they didn’t know the mile markers, which direction do we go. Since we don’t have access to the E911 tape, we can only assume what the person reporting the fire told E911 as to what their location is. Goodloe’s assumption that only E911 personnel have to know where everything is in the county is a little harsh, when you’d think the emergency personnel in the areas of trouble would know a little about their territory. The assumption that anyone from Linden would know all these dirt roads and trails is ridiculous. The only people that know all those roads and paths are the postal workers in those areas, and they can’t even get it right half the time. A fire marshal told me once a trailer, like the one that got burned up, takes about 7 minutes to burn up completely. Unless the fire truck was already in the yard, there wasn’t any real hope for that house. If Goodloe has his way, E911 will be moved to the “county seat”, and all the current employees will be fired so smart Linden folks can be hired…Don’t believe the hype.</p>
Uniontown doesn’t want a landfill.
<p>If you have an opinion and wish to express it regarding the proposed solid waste landfill to be erected ½ mile from Uniontown, be at Robert C. Hatch High School gym Thursday, April 17th, and 6 p.m. Johnny Lee Flowers, chairman of the Perry County Commission, is spearheading the landfill’s birth. The landfill, if done, will be permitted to accept 7,500 tons of garbage each day, which is the maximum allowed. Residents have expressed concern and disapproval of the landfill, stating what it would do to the community; West Nile Virus being one thing mentioned. I thought Uniontown was already a dump. They shouldn’t build the landfill outside of the town, but rather turn the town itself into a landfill.</p>
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