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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
It is such a blessing to know we are getting healthy food, we are getting good food,” said Terry Atwater, It Takes a Village CEO. “We've been able to reduce our overall food cost right now about 71% because of ICT Food Rescue, so it's huge.”Reverie Roasters is one of seven other businesses that donates its leftover food. Hand said, “it's fantastic that is going to someone who needs it, appreciates it and that we're able to do it.”In the United States 67.58 billion pounds of food is thrown out. That's why businesses like Reverie, even national chains like Starbucks and Panera Bread are stepping up and donating its leftovers.So instead of Reverie’s leftover food filling a dumpster, it's fill the bellies of Wichita’s hungry. Merritt said, “it feels good to actually see that impact of this, this is who you're impacting. It's real lives. Real people.”... (T Food Rescue helping feed the hungry and eliminating food waste)
And we need to address these problems. We are next to a school,” said neighbor Terry Vo.Ruxin Wang and his wife moved to South Nashville about two months ago. His son said they moved to Nashville from China after retirement in search of a better life.“I tried to let them enjoy their retirement [life]. I take them [traveling] across the world. I just didn’t know it would end up like this,” said Wang.The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 615-74-CRIME.Share this:Related PostsAdvertisement... (WKRN.com)
However, some businesses say they have had some challenges with the new containers. Frontier Medical Plaza Building Manager Terry Johnson at Babson & Associates Primary Care says the larger containers do not fit in their previous trash enclosure area. The container now sits in their parking lot taking up one to two spaces. Johnson says not only is the waste sitting out for the public to see, but he's concerned about snow removal. The container now sits where their snow would be piled in the winter.In addition, Johnson says their business received the container without any warning back in October and now have to accommodate the changes. He argues that not only is it a challenge for the business, but he expects monthly fees to go up considerably.Nemecek says with any change their are going to be some changes and requirements. She says they are working with businesses to figure out the best solution to keep their costs down. In fact, monthly fees may actually decrease for some, according to Nemecek. She said if a person was getting service three times a week with a 1.5 cubic yard container and was able to change to only two times a week with a 2 cubic yard container, they would actually see a drop.Nemecek says residents should keep in mind the three 8% increases for trash removal over the past three years when taking these newer monthly rates into consideration. (KGWN)
JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM JOHN SPINK / AJC/JOHN SPINK / AJC DeKalb County appeared to take the brunt of the storm. Dunwoody City Councilman Terry Nall warned the clean-up effort will take time. “Despite the massive power outage and loss of traffic signals, everyone, so far, seems to be calm, patient, and considerate, especially at intersections,” Nall said. “This will not be a quick fix, as outages are expected to last for several days.” As of 5 p.m. Tuesday roughly one out of three Georgia Power customers in the county remained without electricity. Half of DeKalb’s school were also without power late Tuesday. Schools there will remain closed Wednesday, as will the Fulton, Gwinnett, Clayton, Cobb and Atlanta school districts. With children staying home and power out, local merchants prospered, especially those offering creature comforts usually taken for granted. In East Atlanta Village, damp and sweaty customers squeezed inside Joe’s East Atlanta Village to get their coffee fix. Software engineer Kyle Woodlock, 33, walked one-and-a-half miles to Joe’s in search of one large café americano and a large café mocha with whipped cream. It had been a rough night for Woodcock. A massive tree fell near his house, taking out power lines and poles up and down his dead-end street in unincorporated DeKalb’s Eastland Heights neighborhood. His car was stranded behind it.Officials said the county was hardest hit in metro Atlanta Traffic was heavy on metro streets as many returned to work, though some roads remained closed, forcing drivers and MARTA buses to find alternate routes. After shutting down operations Monday, MARTA resumed both rail and bus service. The transit’s CEO, Keith Parker, said bus services would increase as soon as blocked roads could be cleared. Southbound lanes of interstates were packed with Irma evacuees eager to return home, though officials warned it was too soon. Wait another day, GDOT spokeswoman Natalie Dale cautioned. “If you’re headed back, you really need to know what you’re headed back to,” Dale said. “A lot of these places in south Georgia and Florida have no power. There are gas shortages. If they get to south Georgia or north Florida and they run out of gas, there’s a good chance they will not be able to get gas.STEER CLEAR: These are the roads closed in Atlanta after IrmaGETTING AROUND: Metro Atlanta transit to resume Wednesday“If they can wait one more day, they’re going to be headed back to a much safer area,” she said. But for those who left their homes behind in Florida, one more day was a lot to ask. It took Maryam Davani Hosseini three hours Tuesday afternoon to drive from Milton to Forsyth. Her GPS kept telling her it would be a nine-hour drive back to Miami, but it had taken her 20 hours... (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Sheriff Terry Johnson joined the conversation to ask the man to put his weapon in his car, which he declined to do. “This is an open-carry state,” Knox told the people around him wondering why the sheriff hadn’t arrested the man with the gun. “This is not about the firearm.” JOHNSON AND GRAHAM Police Chief Jeff Pritchard were on the scene by 10 p.m., and there were about eight marked and unmarked cars on either side of the monument from different agencies. East Elm Street off Court Square was lined with Highway Patrol cars and at least two from the Mebane Police Department. Cars from the ACSO and Graham police were diverting traffic from the square. Johnson told the Times-News and two TV camera crews that officers didn’t intend to arrest anyone, but had a zero tolerance policy for any criminal activity. When a man on the east side of North Main Street shouted an obscenity, Graham police immediately went after him, chasing him down an alley, where he managed to escape into the neighborhood. Law enforcement wasn’t treating it as a protest, so permits weren’t an issue. People in the crowds also were policing themselves. Although loud and at times confrontational, Knox — a self-described gang banger wearing a red bandana — helped maintain calm on the northeast side. On the northwest side, a man who refused to give his name and advised people not to talk to the media also kept the crowd from jeering when police went after a man on the other side of the street. He also advised people to go home and let the growing number of law enforcement officers protect the monument before something ugly ended up as a viral video, and even cleaned up trash after the crowd dispersed. By that time the crowds had reached their peak sizes. Barrett Brown, president of Alamance NAACP, arrived and started negotiating with Knox and Johnson to get the crowds dispersed. Negotiations took a while. Each crowd wanted the other to disperse first. The crowd on the northwest side backed away from the corner gradually, and the northeast crowd moved north on Main Street. A 22-year-old man on the northwest corner was arrested for disorderly conduct, according to Graham police, for shouting obscenities when asked to leave. The crowds were basically dispersed by about 12:30 a.m., and all but a few sheriffs’ deputies left the scene. “Y’all did a good job,” Knox called out to Johnson and Prichard as he and his friends left. Reporter Isaac Groves can be reached at igroves@thetimesnews.com or 336-506-3045. Follow him on Twitter at @tnigroves. (Burlington Times News)
