Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Candice breaks out the sash
My spywitness confirms that former Miss Georgia Candice Little broke out the eight-year-old sash (isn’t the crown getting a little rusty, babe?) and went back home to Hart County, Ga., to help celebrate the opening of a new automotive plant that opened up there.
It was big doins down there in north Georgia. Candice gnoshed on a plentiful breakfast/brunch buffet. And she lent her considerable star wattage to quite a cast of characters. Here are some of the other luminaries:
According to a company press release, local and area officials attending the grand opening included Jack Edmunds, chairman of the Joint Development Authority; Cary Bennett, vice chairman of the Joint Development Authority; Doug Cleveland, chairman of the Hart County Chamber of Commerce; Hartwell Mayor Matt Beasley and city councilmen; Jon Caime, Hart County administrator; Lavonia Mayor Ralph Owens; Chairman of the Hart County Board of Commissioners R.C. Oglesby and commissioners; Chairman of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners Sammy Elrod and commissioners; and the mayors of Royston, Franklin Springs and Carnseville.
State officials attending included Chris Clark, Georgia’s deputy commissioner for global commerce; State Sen. Nancy Schaefer; Dr. Ruth Nichols, president of North Georgia Technical College, which is provider of the Quick Start program; Nancy Cobb, executive director of OneGeorgia Authority; Mark Lytle of the Georgia Department of Economic Development and Buddy Glazner, executive for economic development for Georgia Power.
Candy bopped to the Hart County Bulldog Band as it entertained. She toured the new facility, a $30 million, state-of-the-art manufacturing plant that will churn out fuel tank systems. She marveled at the great fortunes of Gateway Industrial Park.
Why the hell is she doing all this down there? She’s ours now. Candice, get your butt back up here and start sashaying us up some new business here in the mountains.
NOTE: Scottie-too-hottie let fly this afternoon that he and wife Candy hit Maui and St. Lucia recently. For their honeymoon, I’m assuming. Nice work, Scottie-too-hottie. You’ve got some scratch to spend, son.
Le, all beamed up
John “Punnyman” Le really poured it on tonight at 6, going bananas over a crane lifting up a beam on a new building that will eventually be a place sick kids can go to feel better.
Once again, Le inserted himself directly in the story. He signed the steel beam. He described it as a “momentous occasion” as the beam was lifted, live on the news. He noted that he had never “beamed anything up” before.
Yet another example of Le laying waste to all journalistic integrity.
Hey, camera guy, over here
It’s always funny when the camera and the talent aren’t in synch. Tonight, Tammy fell victim. When the camera was late in hitting her, and she stalled, she just smiled and offered an awkward, “Thank you very much.” When Darcel falls victim, she’ll usually say something snippy like, “OK, my turn.”
I know what a physical therapist does, but what’s a physical therapist “assistant.” Is that somebody who hands the real PT a towel, or just cuts the lights when they leave the room?
Yeah, I linked to this in an earlier post. I particularly like this “whereas”:
WHEREAS, Ms. Little has worked as a physical therapy
assistant and plans to attend medical school and establish a practice as a pediatrician…
Medical school… yeah, right.
This was probably more appropriate on your entry about the beauty pageants (sorry, “scholarship competitions”), but helps show in what high regard the folks in Hartwell still hold her (and daddy’s convenience store): http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/1997_98/leg/fulltext/sr647.htm