The REAL cost of living in Belmont
While the Gaston Gazette tracks gas prices, the Belmont Front Porch watches for things that we consider to be closer indicators of cost of living and quality of life: Milk and bread prices.
We tracked milk and bread prices from four local outlets of national/regional chain stores:
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Wed 1/16/08 |
Aldi | Bi-Lo | Food Lion | Walmart |
| Whole Milk | $3.79 | $4.79 | $4.19 | $4.52 |
| 2% Milk | $3.69 | $4.79 | $4.19 | $4.08 |
| Skim Milk | $3.59 | $4.19 | $4.19 | $3.73 |
| White Bread | $.75 | $1.09 | $1.07 | $1.16 |
| Wheat Bread | $.99 | $1.49 | $1.69 | $1.52 |
All prices reflect the “house brands” of each store, not the name brands.
Oh, and you can get unleaded regular gas at the station on Pole Branch Road (Hwy 273) just over the state line below Seven Oaks for $2.84/galllon (Friday 1/18/08 prices).
Conference Championship Sunday
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On the Belmont Front Porch, Conference Championship Sunday is actually a bit bigger than the Super Bowl. The reason? There are TWO games and a lot more emotion wrapped up in the outcomes — plain and simple.
There is a split in the factions, so this year it seems that everyone will be rooting for someone else. This makes for an interesting evening.
No school on Monday and with MLK holiday on top, it is all working well for a wonderful get-together.
There were some stores sales the past week to help with party planning. The food prep is pretty easy — with two games back-to-back — there is time for two complete meals. Nobody really stresses out over it all.
Ok, well, one for the kids, and one for the gamers. The rest of us just sorta come and go.
We will have chili, hotdogs, chips (lots of ’em), wings, and a lot of pickups like the smokie sausage thingy’s. Since we have too many cheese-heads in Belmont, we have to grill out Brats — they are sooo picky with their food choices during ball games.
Right now it appears that overall, people are predicting the Pats and the Pack in the Super Bowl.
It has been a great football season.
Ahh, Canvassing – The Best Part of Local Politics
The best and most intimate form of political work is the old-fashioned, door-to-door, canvassing for votes.
Kudos to Belmont City Council candidate, Richard Turner for recognizing and putting out his platform in the door-to-door format.
Turner’s Platform: richard-turner-platform.pdf
Irl Dixon’s format is to mail something to everyone. Of course, it helps that his office is located on the corner of Myrtle/McLeod and Main Street (Coldwell Banker Realty office). He has a chance to talk to everyone who walks by him. Irl also has a record to run on for this election.
Irl Dixon’s flyer: irl-dixon-mailing.pdf
Our editorial board has not agreed on any endorsement at this point. We will be meeting on Saturday evening for our annual Endorsement Dinner Party and will report the results on Sunday night.
To fill in the newbies to our blogsite, the Endorsement Dinner Party is an unpretentious (ok, just a bit pretentious), intimate gathering of the BFP Editiorial board and their significant others for great food, libation, and humorous discussion (We often have these dinners, this just happens to be prior to this election).
Yeah, Right
It is more like this:
This year’s Endorsement Dinner will be to discuss the candidates, and try to achieve a concensus on who to recommend to our friends and neighbors.
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