PERSPECTIVES
The Mayor
ROCHELLE ROBINSON dedication. Let’s make the 2020-2021 school
MAC’S WORLD By Mac Palmer. Son of Chuck Palmer, a writer for News & Views.
year a success! Continuing with providing for our community, I’d like to share the great work Keep Douglasville Beautiful is doing. KDB hosted the inaugural Church Street Farmers Market on June 9th. This program has been in the works for some time and it has been a huge success thus far, regardless of its rainy first few weeks. In May of this year, our Farmers Market Coordinator, Conner Burke, was able to secure a $500 grant from AgSouth to assist in promotion of the Farmers Market. It is open every Tuesday through September 29th from 3pm to I cannot believe that August is already here
7pm (rain or shine) at the Old Police Precinct
– 2020 has truly been one of a kind! Since the
parking lot located at 6730 Church Street. If
end of the 2019-2020 school year was spent
you haven’t stopped by, please do! The pro-
in virtual classrooms and graduations were
duce is beautiful and as fresh as you can get.
pushed back to June, it doesn’t seem like there
The Market is also an excellent way to support
was even a summer break. But here we are on
local businesses and farms. The vendor list for
the verge of the 2020-2021 school year.
the Market has grown each week and I’m al-
With so much uncertainty moving into this unprecedented time, I want to take the opportunity to thank all the Douglas County School System teachers, administrators, and support staff who serve our families. Their commitment to the care and education of our youth and community is vital. Possibly the best example of the amount of support this community has for education was the recent vote to extend the ESPLOST on June 9th. This was a monumental victory for our community, students, and the School System overall. By the end of this ESPLOST in 2026, the Douglas County School System will be debt free and be able to provide top-tier facilities and instructional tools that will optimize the preparation of our students to succeed both in and out of the classroom. I am confident that the adversity our students currently face will prepare them for any obstacle that will come their way. The education they receive from the schools in our community play a huge role in that. Again, I applaud all the hardworking teachers, administrators and support staff for their diligence and
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ready looking forward to the next season As we continue to navigate these uncertain times together, I urge everyone to remain diligent in fighting the spread of COVID-19. If you begin to feel sick or think you may be experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, call either your healthcare provider, a provider at a federally qualified healthcare center, or Cobb & Douglas Public Health. I encourage everyone to continue showing support for our first responders, health care workers, and, especially at this point, our educators. I remain in awe of the amount of support and care this community has shown one another throughout this year. I expect it will only continue to grow and strengthen as we move forward. I hope that you and your families stay healthy and safe. Check in on loved ones whether it’s a phone call or a virtual call and be certain to get fresh air! We are in this together, and together we will overcome any obstacle set before us. May God bless you, your families, and the City of Douglasville.
I told my son Mac that he needed to get a job in order to support his toy and book habit. “Okay, I want to look for fossils, you know, a paleontologist.” His prospects seemed limited without a car. Yes, he volunteered the term “paleontologist.” He loves dinosaurs. I told him his dream job would have to wait, he should pick something closer to home. He opted for being a columnist. I guess he figures if Dad can do it, he can too. Introducing “Mac’s World,” a mixture of his answers to my questions, his own writing, and a little descriptive narrative. Hi. I’m Mac. My Dad is a writer. My Mom is Teacher of the Year! We are so proud of her and her trophy and cornhole boards. I will be in Second Grade. I miss school. I miss my teacher and my class and my buddies and mostly recess and the playground. Dad says I can share my adventures so I hope you like them. I finally got baby chicks. One day my Dad said “okay.” We looked at lots of chicken coops. I liked one called the Omlet Eglu the best. Get it? Omlet is like the food. Eglu instead of Igloo. I wanted chicks because they are so cute and soft and I like eggs. My MiMi makes the best scrambled eggs. I like deviled eggs too. AA (Mac’s aunt) makes good deviled eggs. The Eglu has everything built in. My Dad ordered it, but it was going to be a long time to get it, so he made a temporary coop. It took a long time to build. I helped. Indeed, Mac was taken with the Eglu, mostly for the clever name. I have to say, though, in all my research, I was impressed with the design so I ordered it in March. Because of high demand, it was scheduled for August. The chicks grew faster than the temporary coop. At first the chicks stayed in a plastic box in our basement with a red light to keep them warm. They poop a lot. They even get pasty butt. It’s disgusting, wiping dried poop off with a warm cloth. Gross. We named them Tilly, from the show Big City Greens, Nugget, because of chicken nuggets, Buffy, because they are a kind of chicken called Buff Orpingtons, and Flash because Flash is my favorite superhero and he is fast and I am fast. I can run about a million miles per hour. The coop we built is called a chicken tractor. Continues On Page 57.
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