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Post subject: Re: Wow LaFayette woke up will Trenton now?
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:19 am
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The debate goes on and on but the fact remains that you can't dictate Morailty from a little county in NW Georgia. If Jesus could't stop the drunks during his time (keep in mind not drunk off WINE because wine didn't mean wine) then what makes us think we can stop them here in this small County by stopping Resturants for serving a little WINE and a Beer or two with your meal????
Post subject: Re: Wow LaFayette woke up will Trenton now?
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:13 am
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Just wanted to take the time to reflect on the time this has been discussed. Please look at the date that dadeinfo.com first discussed this topic. This isn't just something that came up since the "Special Called Meeting". The date was June 16th when David first made a post about this issue.
Quote: Beer, wine in restaurants in LaFayette gets the go-ahead LaFayette City Council decided Monday evening, June 14, to allow the sale of beer and wine in city restaurants. The motion passed by a 3-1 vote.
Mayor Neal Florence expressed his hopes that this measure will help appease “liquor by the drink” proponents.
“This will give them something,” he said Tuesday, noting that sales of hard liquor in restaurants will “probably not” follow on the heels of this vote. “They’ve been trying for two-and-a-half years …. this should be enough.”
Responding to pressure from a few local restaurant owners last year, who yearned for the revenue and atmos-phere that alcohol sales in their establishments would bring, LaFayette City Council elected to give the public the say in the matter. Despite having already voted “no” to beer and wine sales in restaurants, the city council decided during its May 11, 2009, meeting to place a “liquor by the drink” referendum on the Nov. 3, 2009, ballot. The measure failed to pass by a mere 22 votes.
But the city council kept feeling the pressure.
“Many of the restaurant owners had still talked to us on just wanting beer and wine,” council member Andy Ar-nold said Tuesday. “This is different than what the referendum was on. The referendum was on liquor by the drink.”
Up until now, perhaps the only place in town to purchase a beer in a social setting was the LaFayette golf course. Arnold said that fact was a minor contributing factor in the council’s decision, not at all a deciding one.
“I don’t know that [beer sales have] really been a success at the golf course,” he said, “but we felt that since the golf course was city-owned, it was a little bit of an issue not to offer [beer] for private citizens to have with their meal as well.”
The restaurant owners, however, don’t care why the motion passed. They’re just happy.
“Oh great! Oh wow! Wow, wow, wow, thank you!” was the emphatic response from Miguel Santiago, owner of Yan Yesica & Janiria Mexican restaurant in LaFayette. “Now they have to work out the license.”
Santiago was one of the proprietors who kept pushing to have beer and wine available in restaurants. Now that the vote has passed, the sooner taps start flowing, the happier he’ll be.
“I want them to come out with the license as soon as possible,” he said.
The official paperwork necessary to start uncorking bottles in Santiago’s restaurant isn’t yet written or signed, but it should be happening soon.
“Once we get the ordinance drawn up and have the two hearings [necessitated by law]….businesses will be able to obtain a license, probably from City Hall,” Arnold said.
The first of the council’s two work sessions to hammer out the details of the ordinance is set for next Tuesday.
There will be limits and regulations imposed in the new ordinance, of course. Arnold said he and the other council members are reviewing similar ordinances used in other cities in the northwest Georgia area, to see how their restrictions are structured.
“It’ll probably be 70 to 75 to 80% food sales that must occur,” he said, meaning that a restaurants which will be selling beer and wine must nonetheless still receive about three-quarters of its revenue from the sales of food, rather than alcohol.
Key Koukous, owner of Twin’s Pizza & Steaks, feels that, even in limited amounts, the availability of alcohol will have a positive impact on whether future visitors to LaFayette decide to stay in town for the evening. The new soft-ball fields, especially, he said, will have “people outside drinking, and we have to keep them in town, we want to keep them here.” Having beer and wine available in local restaurants for softball parents to continue enjoying off the field will be, in his opinion, a significant boost to the local economy.
Koukous is just plain grateful that LaFayette will now be “like everyone else… Chickamauga [was] help[ed], Fort Oglethorpe [was] help[ed]” by the sale of beer and wine in restaurants, he said, “so why not here?…I’m the one who put [it] on the board. We want[ed] to get it.
racinwithrex Post subject: Re: Wow LaFayette woke up will Trenton now?Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:28 am
Joined: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:58 pm Posts: 1438 Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 12 time That's what we had been discussing in the City of Trenton, but you know these Good Ole Boys are the same Good Ole Boys in the County. Just not enough open-minded people in Dade County YET!
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This is also what I have said and still stand behind it with both feet...
racinwithrex Post subject: Re: Wow LaFayette woke up will Trenton now?Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:04 am
Joined: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:58 pm Posts: 1439 Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 12 time chefdavid wrote: Thank You Trenton. Lets get some good places to eat. This is a great first step.
Meeting Time. Tommorow 5:30 City Hall
Don't get to carried away there Chef, this is ONLY a ploy to be able to tell folks that the City needs more Revenue. Then will discuss this very briefly and it won't go any further than that. This commission don't have the guts to vote "FER" this. As I listened to "Tha Fluffer" this morning on his FIRST news update he had made the comment that people were UPSET! I wonder how many phone calls Mr. Stone had to make or get made to "RALLY THE TROOPS"!
Most folks with a little common sense and vision understand the issue. Then they are those who PREACH against it and then meet at their local Resturant in Chatt. to dicsuss the issue... Not sure what you call folks like that but I know what term I use......
"Alcohol should be seen as a blessing that God has given human beings to honor Him, to help heal our bodies, to cheer us up when needed and to add pleasure to meals and social occasions. As Christians, we should be aware of the benefits and dangers of alcohol and use it properly, so we can truly consider alcohol to be the blessing God meant it to be."
On another front what is that saying further to drive equals more accidents. and this one Activity of Alcohol Impaired Related Fatalities by County, 2008
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The activity of alcohol impaired related fatalities is a great measure in comparing county incidences to the aggregate incidences on state levels. In 2008, 28% of all roadway fatalities were related to alcohol. In the map above, green represents the counties that have alcohol fatalities greater than Georgia’s Rate (=28%+), yellow are counties equal to GA rate, gray are counties lower than GA rate, and white are counties with either no alcohol fatalities and no roadway fatalities.
Post subject: Re: Wow LaFayette woke up will Trenton now?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:53 pm
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Talk about attracting tourist:
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Post subject: Re: Wow LaFayette woke up will Trenton now?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:29 pm
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Now David, you have to admit that those grapes were only made by God to turn into Grape Juice and NOT to be used as wine (well at least not in the Bible) according to one source who will reamain Nameless on this blogsite....lol...lol...lol...
What is even more funny is reading other blogsites that don't even agree with this nameless one on a site they choose to post on.... Now how funny is THAT?
by Ron Davis on September 13, 2010 I was talking to a friend the other day about some social issues, and some thoughts came out of that conversation that I’d like to share here as some food for thought. We had a good discussion over lunch, and then as I was driving back to the office, I was processing some of the things we discussed.
I came to the realization that there is a problem with the “socially liberal” label. We generally accept that “conservative” means less government, and “liberal” means more government. On fiscal issues, this is true; but on social issues, it’s not necessarily the case. Let me use for an example the one big social issue that Georgians love to debate: Sunday alcohol sales.
A lot of people will argue that based on religious positions, or the fact that Sunday is the Lord’s day, or that in the name of tradition, we should continue to ban alcohol sales on Sunday. After all, people who want to drink on Sunday can just buy their beer on Saturday.
But is that position liberal or conservative?
You might like to think that it’s a conservative position because it’s one held by many who identify as conservatives, but consider what you would be saying with that approach: “Since I believe I shouldn’t buy alcohol on Sunday, there should be laws prohibiting it.” That’s an argument for more government and (as is often seen with increased government) less freedom.
Freedom isn’t about your preferences, my preferences, or those of anybody else. Freedom is about all of us being free. And whether we’re talking about the freedom to buy alcohol or the freedom not to buy it, we’ve got to be careful that we don’t limit the freedoms of others by having government enforce what we believe.
So whether you support the liberal approach of having more government involvement in social issues or if you like the more conservative view of limiting government in social instances as well as fiscal, let’s call things what they are, and not be afraid of certain buzz words we’ve been taught to abhor.
And finally, let me close this post by offering a reminder that this isn’t meant to be an argument over Sunday alcohol sales. That whole Sunday sales discussion is a great one for another time.
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