PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL LICENSE PLATES
The chance of your ever seeing one is pretty close to zero but such sightings do occur and if you ever see #55 then you are looking at the front of my Explorer as I have that number.
Here is a bit of info on such plates FYI:
"Souvenir license plates of two designs were offered to the public during the 2017 inaugural season but only one, offered by Motor Vehicle License Systems (MVLS), is known to have been used in official inaugural activities and therefore qualifies as a presidential inaugural license plate for our purposes. Neither of these souvenirs was valid for use on motor vehicles except for when the MVLS design was used in conjunction with official inaugural activities.
As of January 11, 2017, no announcement about the use of special inaugural license plates had been made by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, and a Wall St. Journal article published two days later indicated that plates would not be made. Nevertheless, the committee announced just two days before Inauguration Day that it was considering the use of special license plates. After President Trump had been sworn into office his limousine and that of Vice President Pence were marked with plates numbered 1 and 2, respectively, in the design pictured above. An article in the April 2017 issue of PLATES Magazine indicates that other vehicles in the inaugural parade, such as motorcycles of the U.S. Park Police and Metropolitan Police Dept., also had plates of this design.
The 2017 commemorative inaugural license plate features digitally-printed registration number characters and a fully graphic background. As in the past three inaugurals, it was offered through a joint venture of Hunter International Corp. and Motor Vehicle License Systems. Although they could not be used on privately-owned vehicles, an expiration date legend, “Expires March 31, 2017,” is printed in the upper right corner. As with past issues, plates of this design were all made with specially-ordered combinations, which is to say there was not a batch of sequentially numbered plates that were randomly distributed. Each set cost $50 and the maximum number of characters permitted was five."
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9/14/17
Whole Foods will open in Kennesaw next month. / (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Restaurant, food and dining news
Whole Foods Market is set to open a new store on Friday, Oct. 6 in Kennesaw at 1300 Ernest Barrett Parkway. A relocation of Whole Foods Market’s Harry’s Farmers Market store in Marietta, which will close October 5, the new store will feature offer opening day product demonstrations and samples, and the first 500 customers will receive free gifts cards ranging in amounts from $5 to $50 with one $500 card. Five percent of opening day sales will be donated to the Swift-Cantrell Foundation, which supports the development of Kennesaw’s Swift-Cantrell Park.
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Expense Report for Council/Mayor and Youth Council
During this time the Council representative for the Youth Council was Yvette Daniel, who as you can see likes to spend City money.
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Lopez et al v. Castle Lake Homes Corp - Case 15-1-1129
The Final Approval Hearing is still pending but the proposed order granting preliminary approval of the stipulated class action suit against Castle Lake Homes Corp, Masal Partners Ltd and Amak Partners LP is now published on the Cobb County Superior Court site.
The Pleadings and exhibits run 52 pages and were filed 8/22/17.
Members of the class are current and former tenants who paid Castle Lake for water and sewer charges and those who paid any fines to Castle Lake.
A 'Settlement Fund' of $125,000 will be provided by the Defendants to the Plaintiff's lawyers to be held in escrow pending approval of claims.
Plaintiff lawyer's costs and assorted fees are the responsibility of the Defendants.
The recently published documents are to large to publish here but the filing and other court documents are available at the Superior Court Site
Here is a sample of the latest documents.
If you were (or are now) a tenants of CLMHP during the covered dates you should contact the Carroll Law Firm at their below address. If you are in contact with others who may be covered, please forward the information about the coming settlement to them so that they can put in their claims.
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9/11/17
'THE GENERAL' - A Locomotive that hanged 8 spies.
Those looking for a photo of the original 'General' might take a look at page 277 of https://archive.org/stream/photographichist08inmill…
And also there are lots of photos of it over the years, every time they redid it the engine looked nicer, the problem is to find the earliest photo as it changed so much over the years. Probably the photo cited above is the earliest.
It seems that the engine in the Civil War Museum has only 2 pieces (undercarriage) of the original General. Probably not all that surprising due to the many times it was 'restored' over the years, even to changing from wood burning to a coal fired boiler.
Here is a cite from Wikipedia FYI you can read up on why it is now numbered 3, that alone is worth looking at:
Retirement and Exhibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_%28locomotive%29
"The General was retired from service in 1891 and stored on a siding in Vinings, GA where it awaited its final fate. Early the next year, E. Warren Clark, a professional photographer, discovered the engine in Vinings, and approached John W. Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (which had won the lease on the Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia in 1890), with the proposal of restoring the General for exhibition at the upcoming World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Thomas approved of the idea, and the General was soon taken to the NC&StL Ry Shops at West Nashville to be restored. At this time, the engine was given a Radley-Hunter style balloon stack similar to the engine's original, and was reverted to a wood burner. The engine had been restored by 1892, a year before the exposition"
'THE GENERAL' - A Locomotive that hanged 8 spies.
Those looking for a photo of the original 'General' might take a look at page 277 of https://archive.org/stream/photographichist08inmill…
And also there are lots of photos of it over the years, every time they redid it the engine looked nicer, the problem is to find the earliest photo as it changed so much over the years. Probably the photo cited above is the earliest.
It seems that the engine in the Civil War Museum has only 2 pieces (undercarriage) of the original General. Probably not all that surprising due to the many times it was 'restored' over the years, even to changing from wood burning to a coal fired boiler.
Here is a cite from Wikipedia FYI you can read up on why it is now numbered 3, that alone is worth looking at:
Retirement and Exhibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_%28locomotive%29
"The General was retired from service in 1891 and stored on a siding in Vinings, GA where it awaited its final fate. Early the next year, E. Warren Clark, a professional photographer, discovered the engine in Vinings, and approached John W. Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (which had won the lease on the Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia in 1890), with the proposal of restoring the General for exhibition at the upcoming World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Thomas approved of the idea, and the General was soon taken to the NC&StL Ry Shops at West Nashville to be restored. At this time, the engine was given a Radley-Hunter style balloon stack similar to the engine's original, and was reverted to a wood burner. The engine had been restored by 1892, a year before the exposition"
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Visitor Post 9/10/17 by Antonio Jones
I spoke before the Mayor and Council about our trash service in Kennesaw at the 1 hour and 20 mins mark.
We need to leave Republic Sanitation and either lease or purchase our own equipment and run our own sanitation department not just the billing portion. It was stated that it will cost 2.5-4 million dollars to restart our own sanitation department.
Well my thinking is we have over $40 million dollars in our SPLOST fund that can be used to restart our department. Those funds has been used to build a splash pad for the city and the cost was in the millions of dollars. We as an city have sold all of our departments that produce revenue and have to rely on property taxes just to fund our local government. It's time for the backwards thinking to take a back seat.
Who in their right minds would allow a trash company to own all the trash cans and keep raising the fees on the customers "WE DO"! We will be paying Republic Sanitation $2.7 million dollars next year up from $2.4 million dollars this year. Who is to say Republic will not raise the fees another $300k the following year.
Our fees keep going up but services has been going down. Lastly the city paid $2.4 million to Republic and received only $146,000 in revenue from them.
Sounds like to me the CITY OF KENNESAW IS JUST TRYING TO PASS THE BUCK WELL THAT WILL STOP WITH ME!!! VOTE TONY NOV. 7TH!!!
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/232654675 Like my page https://www.facebook.com/TonyforKennes…/
TV WEATHER PEOPLE ARE PRETTY MUCH WORTHLESS
As are all these talking head politicians who told 6 million people to RUN FOR IT.
Folks next door are Cubans from Miami, their relatives showed up with small U-Haul.
They come up here from Miami and now the storm shifted to the West coast and people from Naples, Ft Myers etc are going to Miami.
The guy asked me what I thought of the hurricane and I said he should have stayed in Miami.
Just one more comment - these talking heads on TV weather are usually full of smelly brown stuff. The only times the 'weather' leads is when there are hurricanes or tornadoes so obviously they want to make a gianormous deal out of it so they get a lot of face time.
You get better odds of finding out what to do by flipping a coin.
That whole bunch of weather guessers are usually wrong, watch the map and do what you think is best, this time around it would be to stay home and not go 900 miles for nothing.
Kennesaw to increase sanitation fees Oct. 1
Beginning Oct. 1, Kennesaw residents will pay more for their sanitation pickups and possibly more each year.
The Kennesaw City Council voted Sept. 5 to charge $14 per home per month with Republic Services remaining the provider — the same provider since 2013. The council also agreed to allow for annual rate increases by Republic Services without council approval. By April each year, Republic Services must provide city officials with notice of an increase based on market pricing.
Information: kennesaw-ga.gov.
CAROLYN CUNNINGHAM FOR THE AJC
Friday, September 8, 2017
GRAND OPENING SET FOR OCTOBER 6th
The opening of the new Whole Foods will coincide with the closure of Harry's Farmers Market in Marietta, about six miles away. The closure of Harry's Marietta, slated for Wednesday, October 4,
Here are photos of what it looks like today and you might note that in the parking area there are 4 spaces set aside for charging electric cars.
Q&A on the News
Q: Some stores’ parking lots now have charging spots for electric cars, and they are clearly marked as such. I always see non-electric cars parked in these spots though, mostly because these spaces are close to the door. Can you be ticketed for this, and if so what is the fine? —Shirley Pyle, Dallas
A: Many businesses, universities and organizations with charging stations maintain and enforce their own rules when a non-electric car parks in one of their vehicle charging spaces.
A: Many businesses, universities and organizations with charging stations maintain and enforce their own rules when a non-electric car parks in one of their vehicle charging spaces.
For example, Georgia Tech requires a special permit for electric cars, and charges a $50 fine for anyone parking in a charging space without the correct pass.
Kroger, which has electric vehicle stations at many of its stores statewide, also manages these spots itself.
“Our parking lots are monitored, and our associates and security team work hard to enforce proper parking procedures, which includes Kroger reserving the right to tow or boot non-electronic vehicles parking in the electronic vehicle charging stations,” Felix Turner, the corporate affairs manager for Kroger’s Atlanta division, told Q&A on the News. Ponce City Market in Atlanta also handles the parking violations like any other and issues a ticket, a spokesman for the mixed-use development told Q&A on the News.
BEER WINE AND SUNDAY SALES License application -
A hearing before the Mayor and Council of the City of Kennesaw shall be held on the 18 Day of September 2017 at 6:30 pm. All interested persons take notice. Place: City Hall Kennesaw, Ga.
