June Ramblings…
So Saturday I stopped by their house with some juicy peaches (from our downtown Farmers Market) to visit - and ask a favor. They jumped right in on the favor part - and kept me laughing the whole time. They also showed me a vintage video of an Austin City Limits show featuring Merle Haggard, and Allison Krauss singing the old Bad Co tune “Oh, Atlanta.” THEY got the video from another neighbor, after showing him a fragment they had hastily recorded off the program. He showed up a week later with a box of ACL tapes for them.
The picture is of game pieces, and the game board.
Another neighbor of mine, in a little Georgia village called Register, once commented sadly, “If they take away your school, you might as well forget it.”
I think of his comment when I think of the latest in Millville.
This is all in response to an unfortunate and immodest proposal put forth by Bay District School Superintendent James McCallister. Like everyone else, Bay District Schools is having budget difficulties. At least two new schools have been proposed in the west bay sector, I mean, area. So the proposal is to CLOSE, or God help me, repurpose, Millville Elementary, and close A. D. Harris School. Here is a link to the News 13 story about A. D. Harris.
Millville is also a distribution site for the summer lunch program.
More on Bay district budget woes - Click Here
And go to the meeting the folks at Millville Elementary have arranged at Immanuel Baptist Church Thursday night at 7p.m.
UPDATE: Something worked! Bay District had decided to spare A. D. Harris and little Millville school. No word yet where the evidently necessary cuts will come from, but surely closing the schools that serve some of our neediest and most rewarding students.
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Brush With Coldness
Brush with coldness
So my daughter suggests we go on GMA, since I make her watch it every morning.
I’ve told my children that they have to watch News13 This Morning so I can keep an eye on them, since the camera allows me to see back into the living room when they are watching. I’m not sure if they buy this, but they think it’s creepy all the same.
So, we’re in NOO York CITY and dutifully trek down to the Times Square Studio with our duane reade bag of shirt boxes (they didn’t have any poster board) and Easter Color markers.
We were on such a packed (and exciting) schedule that I could not finish the sign the night before. I knew enough to know we’d be waiting plenty that morning anyway; what I didn’t realize was that we’d be waiting in such cold weather!
We were of course wearing gloves (with fingers), and the evidently knowledgeable gentleman from Boston who somwhow materialized in front of us on que mentioned 48, which I assumed meant 48 degrees.
I’m used to being cold, since we work in temperatures designed for the comfort of computers rather than mammals, so I just figured the wind was numbing the tips of my fingers and causing me to shake uncontrollably.
When I had requested tickets, I assumed that being part of the ‘studio audience’ involved sitting on a riser watching other people work in chilly conditions. I really wanted to wish Deanna ‘Happy Birthday’, though, since she had to work that day and it just happened to be the day we were up there. It also happened to be St. Patrick’s Day, so there were -surprise- Celtic dancers, and my own personal favorite, live bagpipers. Just like News13 This Morning!
Because of the crowd, we were not in the first cut of those to be included in the INDOOR studio audience; I asked if someone else could hold the birthday sign for Deanna; the producer saw me shaking violently- and said,"Just come on in!”
By that time we were sincerely willing to just head to the conveniently located Starbuck’s next door. But we went ahead inside, and met a real New Yorker, the natty security guard who actually lives in Bedford Stuy! Just like the Billy Joel song! The one I like.
Then, we met a lady from- Eglin! She too, had been brought in shaking from the street and placed on a pile of coats-scarves-mittens-and-jackets that had accumulated in the window facing Hard Rock across Broadway. Again, she too was accompanying her college age daughter and roommate on their Spring Break-from Auburn!
Had the ABC producers had any real nose for news, they would have realized they had a scoop, “Why Florida Teens Spring Break in New York City.” See if you can follow this:
On our communal way to New York, some of our party saw Joe Francis at PC International Airport as he came in for his Bay county court appearance, then snapped pics of Flo Rida (it took me seeing the poster to get that his name is a play on the name of our fair state) in the airport, and as we made our way into Times Square, what do we see but a huge MTV promo of Flo Rida in PCB!
So we traipse around the murder capital of the world- DC, I let my child go to Times Square by herself to get t-shirts for her friends- we get back to our warm cozy neighborhood, and I see the front page of the paper- Girl Raped and Thrown over Balcony !
But I did get to see Diane, Chris, and ROBIN-my heroine! in person. I’m so sorry I didn’t get to wish Deanna “Happy Birthday” on air, so here it is- HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO (DeAnn Lam bear-t) FROM ALL HER HOMIES IN NOO YARK CITY!
PS: I googled “cracker cat” ang got this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article262948.ece
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Top Brains Tops
| The team was still raring to go eight hours later when the apparently indefatigable Tubridy opened a Student Union West classroom for the regular Friday afternoon mock bout. It was then that WMBB was able to uncover the secret of the GCCC team’s staying power- child labor. Turbidy and Rahim are actually dual enrolled local high school students, Rahim attending Panama Advanced, and Tubridy haling from Bay High. They acquitted themselves well, casually answering questions as random as the name of a 19th century feminist and the law of inertia. Dr. Finley was there, as well as coach Jeff Yawn, who gave the students tips while simultaneously playing Brainage on his Nintendo. |
Didn’t get it? Most of us didn’t either, but never fear - Dr. Dan Finley and the GCCC Brain Bowl made Gulf Coast look good on February the 9th, when they won their ninth straight game-undefeated- at the National Association of Quiz-Bowls Tournament. The Brains of Gulf Coast, so to speak, are Carly Karas, Justin Lee, Nicole Maulden, Anas-Abdul Rahim, and Carl Tubridy. They were coached to their Alabama success this year by Dr. Finley, Dean Burbank, Tonia Lawson, and Jeff Yawn. Their streak has qualified them the advance to the two day Nationals in St. Louis in the spring. GCCC will finance the trip, since the Brain Bowl, supported by the Student Activities Fee, is out of cash. They’ve never let that stop them-the GCCC team has gone up against schools like Yale, Vanderbilt, and Dartmouth at the Nationals for the past two years, on the lowest budget in the state of Florida.
Even though budget restraints kept them from the March Florida Practice Tournament in Orlando, they’ve stayed keen with their own frequent practices, complete with red and green electronic buzzers, as well as an appearance on the News13 This Morning Trivia Challenge. This bout was held at the unsporting hour of 6 AM, no doubt an attempt to give News13 contestants Justin Keifer and Greg Sherrod the home field advantage. They further insisted on using Deanna Lambert as the moderator, evidently hoping she could use wily vocal inflections to give hints to Team13. In spite of these hardships, Nicole Maulden and Carl Tubridy were able to defend Gulf Coast’s undefeated status. The team will go to St. Louis and represent Gulf Coast on April 11th and 12th.,
BTW- Charles I reigned only one year. Charles I is the answer.
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About Me
I was born into the middle of The Strip in 1960s Atlanta, Georgia. I was educated in Fayetteville, Georgia and at Georgia Southern College (now University) in Statesboro. I moved with my family to Panama City, Florida in 1999. My two daughters and I have enjoyed exploring the beaches, the Downtown Library, and all of our neighbors' attics and cupboards. I think writing is like pulling teeth but I can't do anything else, and that... not too well. I love looking at pictures and especially old ones, so if you have any, send me a COPY and tell me about it and I'll share it with my readers. Tell everyone you know about this blog, and ya'll come back now, hear?
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Recent Entries:
- Brush With Coldness
- Top Brains Tops
- Last entry - continuted…
- More Bay County Legal Goings On
- More from long ago…
- The more things change - the more they stay the same
- You’ve got to hear this…
- Letters… We get letters…
- Ramblin’ Road Trip
- Garage Sale Gold isn’t always something you buy…
- Hello World - Here I Am…
- Pokin’ Around Downtown Panama City
Other News13 Blogs:
- The Casual Historian - Larche Hardy
- Behind The Scenes - Heather Kretzer
- The Resident Gator - Megan Albright
- The Newby - Jessi Chapin
- Bloggin' From The Beach - Bree Sison
- Gainesville, Georgia's All American Girl - Tuquyen Mach
- ... and yes, my hair is naturally curly - Jessica Foster
- Derby Girl - Enocha Van Lierop
- Cracker Cat - Jeannie Weller