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FDIC info for Decatur First Bank

Here is what the FDIC is reporting on Decatur First Bank.

It will take this blogger some time (later) to browse through it.  Feel free to comment if you get a chance to first. It's a relatively small bank, but appears solid from what I've seen so far.

Note tools are there to compare it to its peers.

Here are the financials provided at the DFB site.

It doesn't have ATMs, but refunds the charges for your first 10 withdrawals from any ATM during a month. After that, you can buy something with your debit card and get cash back.

Internet banking works fine.

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Snoopy over Decatur

It was hard to miss the blimp from almost anywhere in Decatur during the tournament. Late one day, I saw it cruise over Decatur to get a closer look. "justguessing" has a confirming image, taken at considerably closer range:

Here are some interesting (at least to me) facts about the airship, which is 130 feet long, 45 feet high, and 38 feet wide. It's TV camera has 80X magnification.

Evening cloud over Decatur, GA

Some clouds are look ominous. Others are calming.

Biking news

From 231 Sycamore:

Improve Our Roads - Volunteer for Bike Count 2008
In order to better track greater Atlanta's progress in making it safer and easier to ride a bike, Atlanta Bike Campaign launched an ongoing data collection effort to count bicycle traffic. You can improve the roads for cyclists by volunteering to help with our bicycle counts!

Volunteers can sign up for one or more 2-hour time slots on a weekday. Volunteers are asked to enter their data into an online spreadsheet within 3 days of taking the counts. Count data will be released to the media.

Dates: Tuesday (9/30) and Thursday (10/2)
Times: (2 shift opportunities) : 7:00 - 9:00 am & 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Brief training is required.

For details and to register please visit the ABC Bike Count Page HERE.

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Bike Emory Meeting
When: October 15th, 2008 - @ 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: DUC Room 363

Summary: Bike Emory is looking for people with a passion for cycling who want to make a difference.We are seeking cyclists who want to help improve cycling conditions, lead group rides and more. If you want to get involved with making Emory and the surrounding community a world class place to bike, we want to meet you.
Full Details: Bike Emory is looking for people with a passion for cycling who want to make a difference.We are seeking cyclists who want to help improve cycling conditions, lead group rides and more. If you want to get involved with making Emory and the surrounding community a world class place to bike, we want to meet you. Bike Emory meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the DUC.Refreshments and snacks will be served. Planning to come? Drop us a line at info@bike.emory.edu.

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Please join us on Tuesday, Oct. 7th at the Decatur Recreation Center, 231 Sycamore St., for the city's 1st ever "Walk-Bike to School Day Pep Rally", with celebrities, prizes, entertainment and more. The following day, Wednesday, Oct. 8th, is International Walk-Bike to School Day. Students and parents, please consider walking or biking to school that day.

Chris Lewis honored

Chris Lewis, Asst. Program Coordinator for Decatur Active Living, who specializes in programs for city residents 50 yrs old and over, was recently recognized by the Georgia Gerontology Society with a Citation of Merit: "The Georgia Gerontology Society annually acknowledges the outstanding achievements of individuals in the field of Gerontology through the presentations of awards during its annual meeting and conference." Congrats to Chris!

 

Here are some other articles regarding Decatur Active Living:

http://championnewspaper.com/images/Newcomers09.pdf

(pdf page 8/page 6 of the actual publication)

 

http://godekalb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7755&Itemid=2131

231 Sycamore

Notes & open discussion for Tuesday, 9/30/2008

Notes may be added until noon. Feel free to comment anytime.

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DECATUR

The latest Decatur Now Show features Whit's End and the DBF.

Carl notes PASTE is featuring "Warm in the Wake," a Decatur band.

BLOGGERS OF DECATUR [BOD]

Merri @ Memorable Moments notes there's a sales tax holiday on energy efficient products 10/2-5.

Cecilia @ Random Oenophile reviews the wines from Del Rio Vineyars & Winery in Rogue Valley, Oregon.

Decatur Mom helped a box turtle over a wall, whether is wanted help or not.

This blogger had at least a half dozen box turtles over on Pinehurst St. as a kid. We'd tape numbers on their shells, put them in the middle of a circle. The first one to cross the outer circle (with verbal and hand signal encouragement) won the race. I kept them in a large wire pen with several feet of dirt (which they liked to dig down into) in the bottom and fed them lettuce and such. They seemed contented. After a few years, I took them over into the woods near a creek and bid them farewell and godspeed.

Now, I always stop when I see one trying to cross a road, and place it on the other side before it gets crushed by a passing vehicle.

DEKALB

See news from the heart of DeKalb (within 5-6 miles of Decatur) at Decatur-DeKalb.com.

Morning news shows are reporting more stations with regular gas. Best time find gas to avoid lines is in the wee hours. Colonial pipeline is now at 60% of capacity.

A NYT article speaks of the gas shortage in several SE cities.

GEORGIA

Eleven of thirteen Georgia reps (including Hank Johnson of Decatur, and John Lewis) voted against the Financial Markets bill. [AJC]

The Georgia voter registration deadline is 10/6. [AJC]

US

The Stock Market dropped 777 points (6.98%) yesterday, which a drop of about $1.1T.

Congress is off for Rosh Hashannah today, so don't expect any progress.

WORLD

World stock markets drop sharply in reaction to US developments. [StarTribune]

POLITICS

The finger pointing continues in the House, with some interesting new takes.

Read and type opinion at Decaturight.com.

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Gov. Perdue asks for use of strategic reserves

Gov. Sonny Perdue [who is in Europe] has asked Pres. Bush to release crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (Click here to view the letter to the president.)

“As President Bush and Congress work on a plan to rescue our financial markets, I urge them to also focus on our fuel shortage in the Southeast,” Perdue said in a release. “As refinery capacity is returning to pre-hurricane levels, I believe a surge in crude from the Reserve would bridge the gap until full production resumes and lessen the impact of shortages on the daily lives of our citizens.”

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 57.4 percent of crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is out, a slight improvement from Friday. Three refineries re-opened over the weekend; two refineries remain completely shut down. Oil is on the way, they say.

Keep us posted, governor. In the meantime, Georgians will continue to keep each other informed via Twitter.

Thomas Wheatley | CL | 9/29/2008

But, the Governor shouldn't bother leading a prayer for gas, as God is busy helping America and the World with the financial crisis, and he's a bit peeved after he sent a hurricane into the Gulf after Georgia prayed for rain and ATL is now complaining about the collateral damage. [AN | CL]

Insider Advantage has an interesting rationing idea. This blogger has a simpler idea. No gas if your tank is  more than half full.Topping off tanks exascerbates the problem.

Creative Loafing files for bankruptcy. Loafing to continue.

Creative Loafing Inc. — which owns alternative weekly newspapers in Chicago, Washington, Tampa, Charlotte and Sarasota, as well as Atlanta — today filed for bankruptcy protection. Prompting the move was a debt load of more than $40 million.

The company will ask federal bankruptcy Judge Caryl Delano to stay any attempt by creditors to liquidate the assets or take control of the company.

“We’re doing the right things,” Eason said. “This will give us a fresh start. It is a reorganization, not a liquidation. Everybody gets paid.”

JFS | CL | 9/29/2008

They need to stop loafing around, and get busy making money. How about a name change to Creative Hustling?

In this blogger's humble opinion, it should stop cutting trees and go strictly online.

I partially blame Thomas Wheatley. OK, I'm just saying that because he endorsed DM as the best Decatur blog, and links to DM far more often. That's petty, isn't it? ;-) Perhaps the red head can work for Nick at an increasingly popular blog after he gets laid off at CL.

House votes down financial markets bill as market plummets

Looks like politics as usual in DC. The Republicans apparently felt the Dems were trying to take full credit for the bill, based on what Nancy Pelosi said. She's saying the Repubs didn't deliver as many yea votes as promised, even though she couldn't deliver just 14 more Dem votes, allowing 95 Dems to vote against it.

Or, as Dick Morris thinks, the Dems don't want to have it pinned on their tails, because it's very unpopular throughout the country. so they helped vote it down because not enough Repubs were for it. [Sometimes the guy seems to know what he's talking about, and sometimes not.]

Whatever.

Lots of political posturing on both sides, while the stock market drops like a rock [down 716 as of this post].

Can't these turkeys, whether they have an R or a D after their names, put politics aside just once to keep our economy [and maybe even the global economy] from tanking?

If you think waiting in line for gas is bad, imagine waiting in line to withdraw your life savings from a bank before all its cash is gone, like people did in 1929 (after the FDIC funds are already exhausted).

Reminds one of this from Groucho Marx:

If that doesn't work for you, try this.

The first part, AKA "Whatever it is, I'm against it," is hilarious. The "I always get my man" afterward was a bit too silly for me.

Tickets available for Decatur Wine Festival on 10/01/08

CORRECTION (thanks to Cheryl, and Steve)

The Decatur Wine Festival is on 11/1 from one to four this year. Tickets will be on sale on November October 1st, Cheryl says.

In a comment, Steve questions the timing, since the event itself is two days after that. Hmmm, is somebody drinking wine already? ;-) Steve speculates Cheryl meant 10/1, not 11/1.

In my haste to post a correction, I didn't even notice that.

UPDATE: Cheryl and now confirmed she did mean 10/1.

You can get them at www.ticketalternative.com or at www.decaturwinefestival.com (which will be active soon).

There will also be a limited number of tickets for sale at Decatur Package Store.

inDECATUR regrets the error (as the big boys say on the back page when they make an error).

The confusion resulted from what must be the remnants of last year's site. See continuation for details.

As we've all learned, you can't believe everything you read on the internet.

And, this blogger needs to take a few moments to check a post for reasonableness before posting it.