• I want to give a thumbs up to the three Cherokee County employees who chose not to participate in the wellness program. To the 900 participating, I want to ask, is a $100 discount per pay period worth giving up a large portion of your freedoms and privacy? A large portion of that information likely will at some point be used against you.
• Have faith and let the Lord bless you throughout this New Year.
• Where did we lose our history? To some it is no mystery. The Ball Ground train station was a charm. So sad it ended up on some rich man’s farm.
• Well, Woodstock’s Tom Turkey got hit by a car and is no longer with us. You will be missed, turkey.
• God bless the USA.
• Hey folks. Got stopped by the local police department. Was cited for not having my rural route on my driver’s license. Then did some checking, and the good ol’ state patrol said they didn’t have but one place to put an address and that had to be my P.O. Box. Did some checking and the tag office and said they could look at your county and should tell them all they needed to know.
• Thank you Allen Temple AME church in Cherokee County for a wonderful Martin Luther King Jr. unity breakfast, and congratulations to Coach Glasper for winning the 2012 Unity Award.
• So you expect the schools to raise your kids, you expect the fast food restaurants to make your dinners so you can bring them home, and you expect these dating sites to hook you up with a spouse. Too bad people in the world today don’t want to take care of things or business themselves. No wonder things are so messed up in this country.
• In the passing of Tom the Turkey, maybe we should bury him in City Park and then have a festival, “Tom the Turkey Day.”
• This election is not about pro-choice or pro-life, pro-union or anti-union, pro-war or anti-war, it’s not about gay marriage or no gay marriage, it’s about what’s good for the country as a whole. Sometimes we need to put our personal preferences and stop being selfish and do what’s best for the country we love. If we don’t, we are not going to have the freedoms and the rights to argue about our personal preferences at a later date.
• With regard to the Univeter Road railroad crossing, quit your belly-aching or at least belly-ache to the right authority. It’s the Northeast Georgia Railroad that fixes the crossings. They typically get grants from the government to help out with the expense and they get awarded money often on the basis of closing another railroad crossing. Start getting after the railroad, not the county.
• Instead of waving at your neighbor, how about ringing more cowbell?
• I lost my license at Lake Allatoona a couple of weekends ago, and today I received it in the mail, saying they found my license at the bottom of the lake. I don’t have a name or a return address or anything, but I want to thank the person who mailed my license back to me.
• Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the majority of people who smoke are less educated?
• Instead of leaving passive aggressive messages to all the daughters-in-law, how about discussing visiting one on one with your son, or sit your son and daughter-in-law down together and discuss it peacefully.
• How can casino-style games be a tax on the poor as stated in the Cherokee Voice? Gambling of any kind is a personal choice, it’s not a tax.
• Mike Joyce’s letter “Retreat to somewhere else,” was right on the money. If we can’t spend the money in our county, then those people need to pick up and leave.
• The only reason people are dissing Newt Gingrich is because they know he will destroy Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
• I miss Bob.
• Congratulations to those Cherokee County teachers that have realized that Chip Rogers is not their friend. To the teacher who says she’s a dedicated Republican, why would a schoolteacher be a dedicated Republican?
• I get that extremely sad feeling every time I travel south on Main Street and pass Serenade subdivision where Bob used to hang out. We miss you, Bob.
• Thank you Chip Rogers for supporting our schools and holding a town hall meeting that actually meant something.
• If you look in Webster’s dictionary under incompetence, you’ll find a picture of the Canton water department.
• Erika, you forgot to say in your “Talk to people not machines,” and I may be aging myself here just slightly, but we had to remember phone numbers in our brains and when we called places, a real person answered the phone, not just personally, but a business. And we didn’t have to “press 1” for a language or “listen carefully because the options have changed.”
• I feel sorry for people who worship logs.
• Hey folks, do your research before you believe the attack ads on presidential candidates. If you do the research, you’ll find that 90 percent of those attack ads are wrong.
• To the comment about it’s not the county’s responsibility to build the seniors anything: Is it not the seniors’ responsibility to help build schools and sports complexes? Get over it.
• Cherokee County should not build the seniors anything since Cherokee County are the people that live in it: You are wrong. We fought the wars, we helped finance medical breakthroughs, built roads, brought infrastructure a long way since the ‘40s. Through sheer hard work and perseverance; no you shouldn’t build us anything. Just keep breathing the free air and enjoying the conveniences you have daily because of us.
• It’s obvious the elections in Iowa and in Atlanta and Fulton County are not run as well as they are in Cherokee County. Kudos to Janet Munda.
• The Cherokee County fire chief really needs to look at moving all their personnel around. It didn’t work well years ago, and it’s going to backfire just like it did before Chief Gunnin came in and straightened it out. You need to pay attention. It’s not working.
