Today is Third Thursday in Hahira. I'd go, but I promised to be somewhere else. Maybe somebody can take pictures?
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University at Buffalo installs solar array at entrance
Meanwhile, about a thousand miles north of us, a 750 kilowatt solar array opens in Buffalo, New York.
According to PR of yesterday from the University at Buffalo, UB’s 3,200-Panel ‘Solar Strand’ to be Dedicated at Opening Ceremony: Will provide enough electricity to power hundreds of student apartments on campus,
In celebration of Earth Day and to promote clean, renewable energy development, the University at Buffalo and New York Power Authority (NYPA) will dedicate the UB Solar Strand, the 3,200-panel photovoltaic array, at an opening ceremony on Monday, April 23.
Those panels seem inclined quite a bit more than ones around here. That’s because UB is at 43 degrees north latitude, way north of our 31 degrees. And there’s a lot less sun up there, too. Yet they just installed a solar array more than twice as big as the 350 KW array in Valdosta.
UB is a university, and it uses the project for more than a single practical purpose:
Continue readingEarth Day and Valdosta Farm Days Saturday 21 April 2012
It’s a food festival Saturday in Valdosta!
Before, after, or during stocking up on local food at
Valdosta Farm Days at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse,
you can mosey up Patterson Street to Drexel Park for lunch, music, fun, and
education at Earth Day!
Drive, bike, or even walk; it’s only a little more than a mile.
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Appended is the text of the announcement.
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Continue readingVideos of Rally for HOPE @ LCDP 2012 03 24
Rain kept the numbers down, but the enthusiasm was strong in Lakeland at the Rally for HOPE, 24 March 2012.
The announcement said:
This will be a Rally for the Hope Scholarship and a Voter Registration. Everyone concerned about HOPE is invited. We will have guest speakers and will hear from those students and families affected by the current status of HOPE.
The featured speaker was Janice Barrocas of HOPE for Georgia, which is running a three year nonpartisan campaign to save HOPE scholarships.
Bikram Mohanty explained that there will be a shortfall of $270 million for the HOPE scholarships in 2012. Janice Barrocas pointed out there were really two HOPEs now: the other one being the Zell Miller scholarships. Bikram showed a map that illustrates that very few Zell Miller Scholarships go to south Georgia.
Janice Barrocas and Bikram Mohanty discussed that HOPE is funded by a lottery, and lottery funds are down in the recession. The blue line on the chart is deposits from the lottery into the HOPE program, the red line is expenditures, and the green line, dropping rapidly, is reserves at the end of the year.
Janice Barrocas noted that
The end users of this program were not at the table
when the recent HOPE changes were passed. Especially students mostly found out when they got stuck with bigger bills they had to pay. Students and their families may still be too polite to mention they have financial troubles, but it’s time to break the culture of silence when it’s a choice between the family eating or the student going to school. Betty Marini pointed out students loans add up to $1 trillion dollars, which is a huge drag on the economy.
Matt Flumerfelt observed that there is a push for divestiture and privatization these days, and he wondered if the silence around the quick passage of the recent HOPE changes wasn’t because it was a money grab for the lottery funds.
Tech school HOPE is grants, and most tech school students get them. If HOPE went away, the lottery would Continue reading
Five Points Steering Committee presentation by Mara Register @ LCDP 1 August 2011
Mara Register gave a very interesting presentation about
the Five Points Steering Committee (FPSC) last night
at the monthly meeting of the
Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP).
Videos of her talk will appear on the LCDP youtube channel.
She sent her slides to me this morning for publication by LAKE.
Here they are
on the LAKE web pages,
in PPT, PDF, and HTML formats.
She said there is no FPSC web page, but their meetings are shown in the calendar of events on Valdosta’s city website. The next FPSC meeting shown there is for 18 August 2011.
| Date: | 8/18/2011 5:00 PM |
| Location: | Valdosta City Hall Multi-Purpose Room
300 N. Lee Street |
I will probably post some more here about what she said and some of the Q&A that ensued. Meanwhile, you can see the slides for yourself.
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