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Posted on December 30 at 12:48 p.m.
correction: it's Papa Murphy's not Papa John's...see this is how rarely we go out to eat. BTW..i have lost about 45 lbs since May...alot due to not eating out.
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Posted on December 30 at 12:31 p.m.
seriouslyfolks
I was thinking along the lines of a Jason's Deli...there are much healthier choices there. Subway isn't too bad..but not much on variety if you want healthy. I have been on a crusade to change my eating habits and consequentally my families too. We have made alot of changes and that includes not eating out as much and making good choices when we do. Unless this Pizza Ranch offers good salads then it will not be for me. I do like Papa Johns and Wheat State because as far as pizza goes I can build my own and therefore choose not to have all the bad stuff. Good luck with your diet! I am convinced now more than ever that it is all about your mind set. The longer you go the easier it gets.
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Posted on December 30 at 9:58 a.m.
just what we needed...another pizza place and another chicken place...i would much rather have a place that serves healthier food. my family will not be patronizing pizza ranch.
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Posted on September 26 at 5:08 p.m.
I don't understand this concept of "Clean Air Emporia". If we ban smoking from restaurants and bars the air we breathe in Emporia won't be any cleaner. It will be the same ol air we breathe now.
I don't understand making something that is legal into something that will be punishable by law.
I don't understand people who are OK with having government step into our lives to tell us what we can or can not do. These people that are ok with it are only because it is something that suits them. If the ban being passed was about something that they wanted to do they would all be arguing that the government has no right to tell them what to do.
I don't understand making every single public place (restaurants and bars) non smoking. Why is it ok for non smokers to claim every place as theirs (except for individual homes) and not ok for smokers to have a few places that is theirs?
Why is it that there is so much effort put into an ordinance banning smoking from all public places and so little effort being put into some of the other unhealthy things that go on everyday? How about if someone puts some effort into eliminating the gangs in this town? or the drug activity in this town? or stopping the guy that squeals his tires and speeds down my road every single morning and every single night? or stopping the littering of the streets (I find a large amount of trash in my yard and at the curb about every other day that was not put there by my family)? or eliminating the stray dogs and cats in this town?
I just can't get on board with this ordinance. I'm all for helping people be healthy, but this is over the top.
I'm guessing that there are a few people that have whined about cigarette smoke when they went into a bar or restaurant, but I'm also guessing that these are the very people that whine about every little thing that comes along. I have lived here for six years now and I just have not encountered so much cigarette smoke in any place I've been in that I felt that it was offensive. Where I lived before I can't remember there being any place that was actually a non-smoking establishments. People there had a reason to gripe and complain. There needs to be some places that are non-smoking establishments, but I don't see any reason to make them all non-smoking except to suit the few who think that the world should revolve around them.
Posted on September 25 at 11:05 a.m.
useyourhead...my thoughts exactly. I was wondering myself why people seemed to think that Staples and Sutherlands was part of local retail. I don't know either where the right place would be to build, I am not too thrilled about the Graphic Arts location...well, at least I don't want it to be close to the schools. I have actually always thought that the schools are in a terrible location, but there were put out there before my time.
Posted on September 25 at 10:58 a.m.
Create, you are right, There are no guarantees, so lets keep on doing what we've been doing. Keep rejecting ANYTHING new coming in. I agree we need something other than retail jobs coming in...but I don't see em' running to our town. I have not heard of any interest. Why do you think that is? I wonder if we had more retail maybe the town would look a little more appealing to some of those folks that would provide the manufacturing, technical, and industrial jobs that we all want. I just think that our town is not attractive to those folks.
I do my part to try to "Shop Emporia First", but sometimes, many times the the things I want or need just aren't here, OR maybe I've gone to Sutherlands and attempted to buy a big item like a trailer and was treated like there day was being interupted. In fact, it was my husband who tried to buy the trailer and he never was waited on and he went to Topeka to buy the trailer. I have been there and some of the other businesses in this town and treated terribly. That often plays into wether I shop here or elsewhere. I can't stand spending my money at Wal-Mart...they don't have any competition here and they know it. I have been know to drive two hours (where I have family I can visit anyway) and buy my groceries because I pay half the price I do here.
I would not want a lot of of "big box" retail stores coming in...maybe we should evaluate what we've got. If we can keep new, and potentially beneficial places from coming in, maybe we should kick out some of the places that are not. Maybe we could slim down some on some of the chain restaurants here and save our dollars for local folks like Amanda's. We don't seem to have a problem though with welcoming in the next Taco Bell Pizza Ranch Express Chineese food with open arms.
What has struck me many times about this town is that there is a lot of close-mindedness. Yes, I believe too that we should take our time to make good decisions about our town, but nothing has really changed since my family moved here about 6 years ago. In that time I have heard of several retailers wanting to come in and they are always rejected. How much more time do we need to see that we really need to do something if we want to improve, if we want the younger generations to stay here and not run the first chance they get?
And for those who say we need more time and that are so against allowing a new store or two to come in, what is your plan? What do you think should be done? I mean other than what we have been doing...because I truly believe that there is no time like the present. I don't think we have years to mess around with this. I feel this town slipping into what none of us wants...the beginnings of a ghost town.
Posted on September 24 at 12:39 p.m.
I don't know about building out on 24th. I know that I have kids in school here and I wouldn't want to see business being built there at all. I think that could lead to all kinds of problems. I do think that while I wouldn't want Emporia to become just like Topeka or Wichita, (I think we all should venture out of the city limits and visit places, but I do enjoy a smaller town with some conveniences), but I do think that Emporia needs growth and change. Not the kind of growth that people here are afraid of...none of us want the unsavory things that come along with city life, but I do think that this area is a little stagnant. I want some new things, maybe I would make fewer trips to Topeka or elsewhere in search of different! I don't want the same stuff all the time, my gosh shopping here sometimes is about like having meat and potatoes every darn day of the world and never trying something different. I would be in favor of a Lowe's, a Home Depot, anything that would give me another choice. I shop online at both of those places. Would I stop going to Bluestem or Sutherlands? No! I would continue going to those places when they have the things that I need or want (or when I get good customer service more often than not). I shop at those places now as well as all the other places I shop out of town and online. I would still shop at the places that have been here forever as well as new places if we ever got anything new around here. I also would welcome a Target or something like it because I think Wal-Mart needs some competition. I wish to heck we could get our Big Lots back because I loved shopping at the one we had here and I hate the one in Topeka. I wish we would get rid of the majority of the fast food restaurants here and pizza joints and bring in some places that have healthier foods such as Jason's Deli. (Especially these places that we have two or three of in one small town.) And darn it I wish we would get a yarn store here (although I have found some wonderful yarn at Second Love Gifts, but I need more choices and not the pathetic selection at Wal-Mart!) Our local/existing stores aren't going to suffer people! We will all still shop at the same places but we will also shop at new places if we have em. So PLEASE find some place to build, use existing buildings that are currently merely eyesores, use the brains and imagination that we were all given to make it work somehow. COMPROMISE! We DO have a nice town, but what's wrong with making it better?
Posted on September 19 at 10:23 p.m.
I am still just baffled by the nonsense...I do not smoke, and I have been to most of the restaurants in this town at least once, and I have not found any environment that allows smoking to be offensive. I do realize that some people are more sensitive to smoke than others...but honestly I am bothered more by the cigarette smoke at my mom's house than in any restaurant in this town.
Secondly, as I stated in another post, there are just not that many eating establishments in this town that allow smoking. I bet I can just about count them on one hand. There are certainly far more non-smoking establishments than smoking allowed establishments in this town. The few places that do allow smoking do not offer anything that you can't get from some other eating establishment in this town. So, for all those who are for this ban....could all of you name at least one restaurant that you would start spending your money at that you don't currently? I doubt if you’re missing as much as you think you are. Furthermore, maybe if more of us spent less money eating out, we would be a much healthier society. Maybe instead of spending so much time and energy pushing some unnecessary ordinance, the people of this town that want to be healthier could push for some restaurants that serve healthier food. Think about it, you are griping about some cigarette smoke that may or may not be detrimental to your health because you want to patronize a restaurant that serves food that is probably detrimental to your health. No offense to the restaurant owners, its good food, but I am trying to eat healthy and I find it pretty difficult to find a lot of really healthy food eating out. I notice too that restaurants that cater to people trying to eat healthy don’t allow smoking.
So, why is it that we can’t be happy with what we have….lots of restaurants that serve food and no smoke, and a few restaurants that serve food and allow smoking? Why shouldn’t smokers have a place to go out to eat and enjoy their cigarette with their meal if that is what they want? Maybe what needs to be done is to have a few Smokers’ Only establishment. Only smokers could patronize such a place, only smoking employees could work there.
Posted on September 17 at 5:03 p.m.
Mr. Dixon,
Well said! I would also like to say that there is a card available to the public listing many of the businesses in Emporia that are smoke free. This card is designed to be folded and carried in your purse or wallet. I found this at the Emporia Rec. Center fitness area. It is quite a lengthy list and I know there a many businesses in Emporia that are Non Smoking buildings that are not on the card...my point being that people have plenty of choices if they don't want to mix with smokers. I have seen several comments from people stating that they can't take their families out to eat or go into places without encountering cigarette smoke and they would like the ban so they can go into all these places. I think that is just ludicrous because there is a large enough variety of places that do not allow smoking to suit just about anyone and any taste.
So, people do have choices. But for some that isn't enough...they want it all. If we leave it how it is now both smokers and non smokers have places to go that suit them. Why is this a problem?
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Posted on January 8 at 8:19 p.m.
Tell..
I don't care what the commissioners make, and I'm sure they do work hard. Most of us do. I think it is disgusting that the commissioners are getting a raise when everyone else is struggling to make ends meet...many of us on $9.00 an hour or less since there are not alot of really high paying jobs in this town or anywhere else right now. And so in a time when there is such financial distress, instead of putting our tax dollars to something like emergency food and shelter programs, we will work our tails off so that our tax dollars can serve to give raises to commissioners. Kudos to Marshall Miller for recognizing that it is not an appropriate time to be giving commissioners raises.
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