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June Ramblings…

Does anyone remember this game? From the year I fled the city, 1983, this promotional/souvenir game featured the major players of the day like WSB, C&S Bank, RICHS. This amazing piece of ephemera was given to me by on of the Cove neighbors I’m always talking about- purchased at one of the crazy Cove garage sales I’m always talking about.

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.

Here’s little Millville Elementary, which sits between East Avenue and Gray Avenue near Bay Harbor. Last summer I had the privilige of speaking with a class there, and I visited the school often during summer school. My children’s school was involved in a partnership with Millville and my youngest was enthralled with the children she met.

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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