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Thursday evening flyover to include Floyd, Redmond, Cartersville hospitals.
Jandy's Frozen Yogurt won't be back. 'We don’t see how we can safely re-open because we are a self-serve business.'
34th Bartow resident dies, 64th in NW Georgia. State toll rises to 1,494. Kemp to tour Floyd modular hospital this morning.
Kemp: Summer day camps OK; no overnight camps. A bit more 'room' for restaurant guests. Shelter-in-place continues for those 65 and older.
State Health Department to deploy 'over 1,000 contact tracers within weeks to strengthen its contact tracing efforts' of coronavirus, patients testing positive.
Business: April home sales down, from 1.1% in Floyd County to 10% in Gordon and 31.2% in Bartow. Average sales prices climb in two of three counties.
Rant of the Day:
Tuesday evening, after shutting down for the day, a good friend started texting about the day's headlines, specifically the loss of Jandy's Frozen Yogurt. He wasn't surprised, especially because of the self-service nature of the business, and he predicted more were to come.
Earlier in the day, we saw where a chain of restaurants -- Sweet Tomatoes -- was closing for similar reasons. It was known for soups, salads and such, and was among one of our niece's favorite spots in her high school years in the Mableton area.
In these days of extra precautions at restaurants and other establishments, where the fewer -- no, make that the fewest - hands are better, much of the self-service thing is gone. Drink machines, salad bars and such are endangered at best.
And add to that Jandy's and that crazy toppings bar. It was more than a dessert stop; it was the source of some great memories of our kids growing up -- and our grown-ups being kids again.
