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Doug,
Sorry you missed out on the activities , I was on the bus and it was couples night at Christies you and your wife could have gotten buy one get one free lap dances.

My daughters (5 and 7) find Christie's to be Greensboro's crowning architectural achievement.

My daughters (5 and 7) find Christie's to be Greensboro's crowning architectural achievement.

Good thing it's a Saturday so no naive employees get fired for curiously clicking on your Christie's strip-club link while at work.

Excerpt from Rhino times.

Do you believe that Walter Childs said that?

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April 10, 2008
A month before the May 6 primary, supporters and opponents of the $457 million in school bonds on the ballot are getting organized.

One group, Vote Yes for Kids, is taking out ads, including billboards, in support of the bonds. Another group, The People's Choice, which includes school board members Deena Hayes and Walter Childs, will send out a mailing opposing them, according to Hayes.

There are two school bonds, one for $412 million dollars worth of new schools and renovations, and one for $45 million to rebuild Eastern Guilford High School, which was destroyed by arson in November 2006.

The $412 million bond would create seats for 6,000 students at about $68,000 a seat, or roughly $1.5 million a classroom.

In addition, the $412 million bond would build only four new schools. One is an $80 million high school near Piedmont Triad International Airport that would be one of the most expensive in the state. The other new schools on the list are a $33 million replacement for Jamestown Middle School, a $25 million elementary school in the southeastern part of the county and a $25 million elementary school in northern Greensboro.

That bond is for 27 projects, including the four new schools. Among the larger projects are $33 million for new classrooms, a library and a gym at Southeast Guilford High School; $31 million for the same improvements at Southwest Guilford High; a $20 million addition and renovations at Alamance Elementary; and a $17 million expansion of Summerfield Elementary.

The $412 million bond also includes $24 million to expand Ragsdale, combining it with the old Jamestown Middle building. The Jamestown and Ragsdale projects were planned for the 2003 bond, but cost overruns and new projects pushed them off the list. Many Jamestown-area residents were angered by the delay, and some have said they will oppose the new bond because of that.

Hayes described The People's Choice as an ad-hoc organization of people opposed to racial and ethnic disparity in the schools. She said the group opposes the bonds because minority residents of the county will not benefit from it as much as white residents, who she said are getting "palatial" schools such as the Northern Guilford middle and high schools.

Hayes said, "Taxpaying citizens of color are asked to support the school system, and their kids are getting the least benefit from it."

Hayes and Childs also said The People's Choice opposes the bonds because the construction contracts from the 2003 and 2000 school bonds went disproportionately to white construction companies.

"We're making sure that moneys that are allocated for schools are equitably distributed among all the contractors," Childs said. "It needs to benefit the black community as well as the white community."

Guilford County Schools has a program in place that is supposed to ensure that minority contractors get a share of construction contacts. Childs, however, said that many of the contracts arranged under that program go to businesses owned by white women.

"We don't know if those were fronting for large white companies," Childs said.

Doug, do you have something against us folks here in Archdale? We have the only Hardee's remaining in the Triad. Call me and we'll have breakfast there sometime.

I like folks in Archdale, LA and Trinity, too. I know they're not riding the Christie's bus.

hugh, you know I wouldn't have gone to that Christie's site on my computer at work, either ... even though doing so is legitimate journalism.

Keith: darn!

brian, I don't think the term "well built" refers to the building's architecture.

People all over the Triad, join hands, (come on)
Start a love train, love train.

All of you furniture people from Austria
And all you folks from the Far East too
Come get the train up to Christies
And all you folks from Archdale and Trinity too.
If you miss it, we'll feel sorry , sorry for you.

People all over the world...

Soon as you're done with all your orders.
You've seen all the showrooms, and shaken hands too.
Come get the train up to Christie's
Cause if you don't come, Doug will be table dancing for you.

O'Jay:

After seeing your daughter featured in the paper last week, I have to say she's a credit to her mother.

I've never seen a more accurate statement on this blog, Douglas.

I don't know who was responsible but was nice of the N&R to run it. thanks

Since she is blond, one can only hope that some day she can achieve the zenith of appearing in the Rhino's Smoozefest photos.

How could that be better than Flow Athlete of the Week?

I was back to being sarcastic. Doug.