By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 2, 2022 | Let’s have a little fun today.
Many of you are baseball fans.
So how well do you know your major league teams, and also know the name of the stadium which is home for each team?
Try your luck. Right below is the list of teams, and the lists of the stadiums. Can you match the team and their stadium? We’ll make you a “gimme.” The answer for the Atlanta Braves will be C-28.
And there are some easy ones, such as the teams playing at Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field and Dodger Stadium. But what team plays at Globe Life Field, or Guaranteed Rate Field? Yep, some tough ones, unless you are on your toes about major league baseball.
Answers will be coming in the Tuesday edition. Meanwhile, enjoy this exercise.
Pristine medians: have you noticed the care that three cities are taking to the medians of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard? The cities of Duluth, Suwanee and Sugar Hill have taken the medians, originally planted in grasses, and added a variety of bushes and trees and cultivated them into attractive sites. That not only beautifies the area, it reduces the amount of grass space that the cities have to cut. So it’s pretty and less costly. Just like Community Improvement Districts beautifying their exits, the areas in Duluth and Suwanee are planted with shrubs and plants that require a minimum of water to survive. Sugar Hill uses a different approach, planting clumps of trees dispersed along the way. It all adds up to most comforting, caring medians.
New fashion statement: What is it with men’s shoes these days?
Have you noticed how many of the guys are walking around in shoes with…of all things … .white soles? Yep, brown, cordovan, black and even colored shoes, with a pure white sole.
Can’t imagine why you would want white sole shoes. It really draws attention to the foot, the lowest part of the fashion world, especially the sole!
Maybe it’s just a gimmick by the manufacturers to sell more shoes. It seems to be working, even with the catalog stores now offering this trend.
And yes, we’ve even seen a few shoes with colorful red or orange soles. Can’t imagine why, unless you are a Bulldog or Clemson fan. But promote your team with a colored sole?
Where and when did this $50 copay for medical visits come from? Seems every time I see someone in the medical field these days, no matter how minor, there goes another $50 copay fee.
Was I out of the loop, in another world, or maybe just plain not paying attention when someone imposed that fee on us?
(Reminds me of adverbs. I think I was out of the class for some reason the time they came up.)
That new fee is probably something that some governmental agency or bureaucrat thought up. Or maybe it was the insurance companies, not wanting to charge us higher premiums, but requiring that we pay an added $50 every time we visit a doctor. That way the insurance companies are “hands off,” free and clear of harming our pocketbooks. I can hear them now: “We didn’t raise your premium,” at least for that.
Yet how come I am paying this fifty dollar outgo every time I turn around?
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