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Dang Moonshiner's Ball at Twain's

Awesome dang poster!

 

Halloween at the Brick Store Pub and LEONs

 

Here's what's happening Saturday, Halloween Night

Halloween Bash & Costume Contest
Brick Store Pub
We always have a blast and there's no shortage of people who "throw down"
for the Costume Contest. Cash Prizes - $150 smackers for 1st place + plenty
more prizes for 2nd, 3rd, originality and Best Group, if one shows....hint, hint

Plenty of great Beer & Food to keep it festive and of course the Staff and, the Pub
itself, will be in costume.

Costume Contest starts at 11'ish

LEONs Full Service
......Our 1st Halloween at LEONs

The staff is really shelling out and showing up with the costumes and, of course,
Miles & Melissa have some spooky cocktails in mind.......Spiders? Snakes? Be forewarned!!
A little more mild? Maybe, maybe not. You decide, we're game for some fun.

Brick Store Pub
Monday November 2nd
Beer & Cheese Pairings * Cheeses of Italy
5 beers, 5 cheeses, $30 per guest

Happy Halloween!!!
Mike

Videos from the 10/29/2009 Decatur school board forum

On 10/29/2009, Decatur EDtv held a forum of candidates for the Decatur School Board. It was very well conducted, but unfortunately not well attended. (The Oakhurst District 2 debate was packed.)

Decatur EDtv may present a video of the entire proceeding, as well as questions presented which were not answered due to time constraints. [As of this posting, I see no coverage of the forum there, other than announcing it and a feature on Valarie Wilson.]

In the meantime, here are videos which include the opening and closing comments for the candidates in the two contested races. (Sorry they are a bit shaky, but it's hard to hold a camera steady for very long. The inDECATUR cameraman should have brought a tripod.)

You are also encouraged to study the websites of the candidates. But nothing beats seeing their faces as they speak their words. 

I apologize for not getting these published yesterday, as intended, but I was plagued by technical difficulties.

While you can watch the embeds, the videos are best viewed at the links below them. You can even expand them to full screen if you like and your equipment can handle it.

Here's the video for Garrett G vs. Marc W:

Decatur school board debate 10/29/2009 Garrett G v Mark W from Dave Kell on Vimeo.

This video contains the opening statements for Rob P vs. Valarie W (both of whom are a bit long-winded). Their closing comments are in the next video further down (Vimeo apparently just crops videos which are longer than they allow.)

Decatur, GA school board forum 10/29/2009 Rob P v Valarie from Dave Kell on Vimeo.

Here are Valarie and Rob's closing statements, with Bernadette Seal's closing thrown in for good measure:

Decatur School Board Forum - VW, RP, BS closings from Dave Kell on Vimeo.

It's interesting to compare how they feel about SAT scores, which have been trending downward for five years (see spreadsheet (developed by Garrett) in this earlier post if you can't read it in the video).

Decatur School Board debate 10/29/2009

Debates between the two pairs of candidates going head to head against each other for the Decatur School Board were held at Westchester last evening.

Garrett Goebel debated Marc Wisniewski for the District 1 position. Rob Pope debated Valarie Wilson. Bernadette Seals, who is running unopposed, make statements and answered questions from the audience.

EDtv "filmed" it all. An inDECATUR staff member (the only one at this time) "filmed" the opening and closing comments, and will publish a video collage of that if the EDtv version doesn't come out today.

The Q&A will be summarized later today or tomorrow, IF the full video is not out yet.

Attendance was poor.

 
 

DeKalb History Center has a snazzy new website

Check it out.

 

Passings of DHS teachers and alum

via Marcus Googer

In September I got a note from a friend in Spartanburg about the death of Ann Lewis who taught Senior English at Decatur when we were there . She had gone on to teach at Winthrop and for the last several years had lived in a nursing home in Spartanburg near her siblings. She was about ninety four when she died . Many of us may have memories of her classes.     

                                                                  Peggy Gladding Smith 

Miss Lewis was a very attractive and classy person back when I took English in her class in the North Building in 1963. She would sometimes distract us boys by sitting on the front of her desk, talking in her soft voice.

Wayne Dunn, Class of '60, passed on 10/18.

Jene sharp black,  Class of '53, is seriously ill with pneumonia and a kidney infection. She is at UAB hospital.

Five-year trend in SAT scores at DHS

Garrett Goebel developed this spreadsheet and left copies on the back table at last night's school board candidate forum. 

In the videos of opening and closing remarks, it's interesting to see how incumbents and contenders weigh this information.

 
 

Vince Flynn answers questions at the Eagle Eye

In the video embedded in the previous post, Vince Flynn gave his opening comments to the largest crowd ever assembled in the seven-year history of the independent Eagle Eye bookstore just north of Decatur, GA. 

In this video (best viewed at the link below), he answers some questions from the crowd.

Vince Flynn at Eagle Eye, Part 2 of 2 from Dave Kell on Vimeo.

If there's ever been better coverage of a Vince Flynn book signing, I'd like to see it.

Vince Flynn at Eagle Eye, video Part 1 of 2

The video coverage of Vince Flynn at the Eagle Eye Bookstore had to broken into two roughly 12-minute videos, due to service limitations. This first part contains Vince's opening comments.  The second part contains his answers to some questions. It will be uploaded and embedded once problems with the flaky Decatur WiFi are resolved. Both are roughly a dozen minutes long.

Vince Flynn at Eagle Eye, Part 1 of 2 from Dave Kell on Vimeo.

Vince Flynn at the Eagle Eye

Vince Flynn, author of 'Extreme Measures" (#1 on the NYT Bestseller list)  will speak about his new book 'Pursuit of Honor" at the Eagle Eye Bookstore at 6 p.m. You'd better get there early. You might need to park across the street.