Oconee County, GA Politics

The Priests house is in the narrow area of an Athens mailing address in Oconee County, this near the newer shopping centers near the border of Clarke and Oconee counties. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:39:04 -0400 Subject: [oconee] A second "Sustainability Showcase"   Hello everyone concerned with our future The Oconee Democrats are gearing up for another "Sustainability Showcase" -- two weeks from today. The event will take place from 3 to 5 on Sunday, October 24th. See the information below about this fun and informative event that showcases Democrats' concern for the environment, green jobs, and the increased national security that comes from greater independence from oil and the electric grid. If you can help that day, please let me know. We'll have informational stations set up -- and we could use drivers willing to ferry people in their hybrid or bio-diesel cars. More than 100 people attended...

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...