Sunday Alcohol Sales a No Go in Powder Springs
The issue was brought up at a council work session Wednesday.
It looks like wine and beer coolers in Powder Springs will stay dark on Sundays for now.
Sunday alcohol sales was on the agenda for a Powder Springs City Council workshop Wednesday. It was discussed ... briefly.
Mayor Pat Vaughn said she had gotten inquiries from three residents on the issue.
The governor has signed legislation that would allow counties and cities to vote on Sunday alcohol sales.
Several local cities and counties have decided to put the issue on a ballot in the fall.
But in Powder Springs, it looks like a dead issue for now.
"If they want to buy liquor, they can do it on Saturday," Powder Springs Councilwoman Rosalyn Neal said.
Vaughn told members of the council she had promised she would bring it up for discussion. But nobody else had anything to say, and the council moved on.
The new legislation, if on a ballot and approved, would allow alcohol sales in liquor stores, grocery stores and convenience stores. Restaurants are already able to sell alcohol by the drink on Sundays in many places.
Georgia is one of only three states that ban packaged alcohol sales, including beer, wine and hard liquor, on Sunday.
D Nelson
12:21 pm on Thursday, June 2, 2011
Guess I won't be shopping in Powder Springs on Sunday.
Holly Roberson
2:13 pm on Thursday, June 2, 2011
I'm sure there are folks on both sides of the issue. So I'm sure many share your sentiment.
Melinda Paris
10:29 am on Friday, June 3, 2011
Sounds like business as usual in Powder Town..For those that are having alcohol cravings and CANNOT wait til Monday, why not purchase on Saturday as we've been doing since the beginning of time, I personally can't believe how much time has been wasted on such a subject this year alone in the legislative and etc,considering how many people are out of work, or hours have been cut, and on and on and this one item..and I know mom/pop liquor store owners that have actually enjoyed their ONE day off--as that one day of revenue will not be enough to hire a 3rd person, but yet the big box stores will be the ones to make the $$$, as usual..I say just purchase the other six days a week and NO BIG DEAL..AND give some of the small business owners the one day off they deserve..Kudos' to P.S. for not spending days/nights on this subject, there is too many other BIG issues going on in our area for such a immature subject...
Tea Man
3:27 pm on Friday, June 3, 2011
"If they want to buy liquor, they can do it on Saturday," Powder Springs Councilwoman Rosalyn Neal said.
The word of a true bureaucrat, she might as well have said "Let'em eat cake!" I thought City Councilmen were to represent the people, not make their decisions for them.
We're supposed to be a free country!
Melinda Paris
1:33 am on Saturday, June 4, 2011
I don't know this councilwoman, however, I believe she thinks like most of us, too much time has spent on this crap with our country, state and LOCAL Governments being in big trouble financially so she made one comment and moved on and seriously one comment on such a low PRIORITY "THING" is too much. Our city councilmen and women need to get real and address the serious problems of not having enough money to pay the bills, and cut all the crap spending, and wasting time is one of them...I'm more fed up with this County paying lawn service companies to cut the grass at our County Police/Fire stations, and I have pictures to prove it, and the county manager making big bucks--when we have prisoners that as a taxpayer I feed, clothe, and provide shelter for sitting on their butts watching a flat screen TV, doing nothing and we being ask by the County Gov't to please help cut the grass on the side of the road, as the county cannot afford to do that any longer, and I'M ALSO FED UP with the County shutting down important things to our people, one of them is our library in Powder Springs--we should be screaming in P.S. about that shut-down and the furlough of our firemen and policemen, A FIRE STATION WAS SHUT DOWN THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF FURLOUGHS AND THEN VACATIONS--THERE WAS NO ONE TO MAN THE STATION, SO OUR COUNTY IS CAUSING US CITIZENS TO LIVE IN DANGER ZONES, WITH THIS HAPPENING, AND SO WHO CARES WHO BUYS BEER ON WHAT DAY, THAT ISN'T IMPORTANT, DRINK WATER..
Safe/Political/Popular? Choose "Right"
9:50 pm on Sunday, June 5, 2011
We must be from the same roots....I couldn't have said it better....NOW, it's time to do something. I'm so tired of their petty code violations and refusing to help me with the enormous extra charges on my water bill. I've been without water for 3 months, gone thru cancer surgery, and had (one) of them act like sugar to my face and the devil when I had an organization call them to work out an arangement we all could live by. I've offered to work anywhere they needed me (even though I'm on disability and am limited to amount of hours a day). I've contacted everyone I know to help me from there ex: Rick Eckert, The Mayor, Linda & Ms Hudson w/the water dept., my coucilwoman, my senator, and now I'm going PUBLIC.....I hope to find someone who will legally put them in place I've had my house robbed and the cops wouldn't even go to the houses of the robbers (after I led them to them...yes I had to do their job because I was alone with a 12 yr old and no protection) They took my x's motorcycle after it was supposedly found "down the street" but never notified me they had it. It wasn't until many month's had gone by that I discovered it missing. It was stored behind a camper that also belonged to my x. I guess they are riding it around. It had a tag on it and was titled to my x whose address showed here at the time???(con't)
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9:53 pm on Sunday, June 5, 2011
Now they have a warrant for me and my "77" year old Mother for not appearing on a code violation that was dropped the year before. My Mom helped me get my home but doesn't live here. " No commercial vehicles at residence". ???? It's a dang truck with a camper. The camper is a little higher than the truck but it doesn't have a business name on it and hasn't seen work in 5 years due to my x not being able to work????? My mother is on oxygen and in VERY poor health. We have always paid our taxes on time, never caused any disturbances, so WHY??? Do they really need a few hundred dollars that dang bad??? I went thru cancer surgery (yes Linda on my face) and almost had to have the surgery repeated because I was unable to properly care for wound......What happen to real people??? Is the government just robots out to destroy the little people who are the backbones of this world??? Lord help us and please if there is any decency left in that city, open up their eyes and ears and see that I NEED A LITTLE HELP HERE. I'm not asking for a hand out. I cant come up with that much money at once. I'm on a very limited income. $2000 water bills about killed me. If they don't come for me to put me in jail, I'm sure they'll find something else to shut me up. But I'm not taking any more. I am in need of legal help and I WILL FIND IT. ALL In Favor say....NO Powder Town it's time to step down and do what's right for the people....not the city gov't .
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9:57 pm on Sunday, June 5, 2011
And by the way....I had my water bill paid down to $217.00 from over $3000 due to a leak (in the winter time and couldn't repair until ground softened) They turned me off charged me another $75.00 and continued chargeing me for two months while I was TURNED OFF... Now it's over $400 but never used another drop ...????
Pam J
9:33 am on Monday, June 6, 2011
It looks like some of us are getting a little off course here. I just think it's interesting that you can't buy alcohol in a store on Sunday, but you can go to a restaurant or bar on Sunday and get drunk. Then you get behind the wheel and drive home. And hopefully you get there safely