Oconee County, GA Politics

 

Here is a link to Bobby Saxon's personal blog writing about his qualifying expedition to Atlanta the other day. His story about Bob Smith running away is hilarious. Anyone want to tackle a fund raiser for Bobby at Ashford Manor Bed and Breakfast? Let me know. Here is a secure link to the ActBlue online donation site for Bobby's campaign. C'mon people, cough up some bucks for a Veteran from Oconee County who deserves our support. Now somebody tell Onlineathens.com commenter Jacob Durden that Bobby has qualified already.

70-some odd people parked at the Park Avenue Bank at the start of Highway 316 just across the Oconee county line and took a short shuttle run in Prius Hybrid cars (Pri-ii?) to the home of Pat and Neil Preist, who have done an outstanding job making their house as energy efficient and sufficient as possible without creating a wind turbine. They have multiple solar panels on their new tin roofed house, a 3000 gallon rain water cistern partially underground collecting rain off the roof of their barn/garage, perma-culture gardening of things like blueberries which will grow forever and other activities. Board of Commissioners member Chuck Horton attended as did former candidate Mary Mellein. Other familiar faces included Charlie Baugh and Carter and Becky Vaughn. Many new faces came from various places including Athens resident Lucy Kern. There was solar cooking baking cookies and tofu, free range eggs, plants, gardening wrenches for removing privet and Russian Olive trees and a variety of

Angela Helwig works in the Board of Commissioners office and is a true patriot in every sense of the word. She loves her country and volunteers her time in a variety of ways. Her editorial co-written with her husband shows how much of a hole Congressman Dr. Paul Broun has dug himself in every time he preaches the so called Four Way Test.

Even though Elijah Clarke's short lived independent state of 1794 did not include modern day Oconee County, it is always an interesting look back at our history. There is a talk tonight by Steve Scurry at Cine' that might touch on this: Steve Scurry is giving a presentation this Sunday, April 27, called "Defending the Beloved Land." He will be reporting on his latest findings about the Oconee War, a little known conflict between the Creek Nation and early White settlers that occurred in Georgia in the late 1700s. The presentation will be held at Athens Cine from 6-9pm. Suggested donation is $3. More info: Steve's articles in the Flagpole: http://flagpole.com/News/Features/OconeeWar/2004-04-07 http://flagpole.com/News/Features/OconeeWar/2004-04-21 http://flagpole.com/News/Features/OconeeWar/2004-04-28 http://flagpole.com/News/Features/StevenScurry/2007-04-18 http://flagpole.com/News/Features/MermaidsAndAlligators/2008-03-05 http://flagpole.com/News/Features/Mermaid