With all the sturm und drang over immigration reform, it’s easy to forget the other demographic pig in a python that is changing our country. That is the graying of America and Forsyth County. Old people are among the fastest-growing group in the nation, and their numbers will swell in coming years as people who are old live longer and us baby boomers join the group.
Huge policy implications. Huge moral implications. Huge financial implications. And it intersects with the immigration issue, as you are probably aware if you have been in a nursing home recently. Many of the people who take care of our elderly are immigrants, and compassion and treating the elderly with dignity transcends their legal status.
The power of mulch. Community is where you find it. And sometimes it’s hard to recognize. But it was there in the line for free leaf mulch on Saturday at the city leaf dump in back of Reynolds Park Rec Center. Pickup trucks as far as the eye could see. W-S’s skyline off in the distance. A fraternity (and sorority) built around the pitchfork and the wheelbarrow. Not half bad.
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