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"This Is Your Life" ... 'Blues Brother' Brian De Forge

Councilman Brian De Forge is honored as Citizen of the Year by the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce.

Posted by Matthew Schoenmann, January 23, 2013 at 11:51 pm

Submitted by the City of Beaumont

Councilman Brian De Forge was honored as Citizen of the Year by the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce.

De Forge was surprised with a "This Is Your Life" presentation at a Jan. 17 dinner at the Grand Oak Steakhouse. At the end of the program, he and childhood friend Adrian Chatigny delight the crowd with a Blues Brothers impression.

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Just to clarify - the Patch didn't respond to complaints as a reason to change this. This has been…Read More in the works for a while and the same changes have been made back east as well as out here. What they did was go to Facebook style comments which allow users to control their own blogs and posts and delete anything not acceptible to them. That is not the purpose of the forums here on the Patch - these are discussion boards. These type of boards debate ideas and concepts and facts and anyone posting from ego or factually incorrect is supposed to be called on it. They are two different types of posting and Facebook posting does not work when you are discussing issues of government within a local government. I do agree with your last statement, though - the Patch will go down as a credible news and discussion forum because whoever it is that made the changes is in a position of power and is not going to admit they were wrong. FYI - the thought that Victor removed my post or ATC's post doesn't fit - they were both put back up once we made a complaint, so they obviously weren't flagged as inappropriate. It goes deeper than that. Thanks for your thoughts in response to my comments - they are appreciated! Jeremiah Price

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No, Renee, no offense to you and thank you for your suggestion but I will never start doing the…Read More "Twitter" hashtag thing to point my comments in a linear stream. I will quit posting first. I notice that now that my reply to Victor's comment has been put back, but his is still gone. Will you give us all the contact phone number for the Patch executive who decided to force all this upon us without ever a trial or anything else? And I agree with Dex on another post - whoever is doing the site design and maintenance needs to get further information and training or find another job. The glitches on this web page are simple HTML errors that could have been easily fixed by this time by anyone with basic HTML knowledge. I am sorry for the advertisers here - they might have gotten more real estate, but they have far less exposure now. With drop in readership that is occurring as we speak they will soon look for other places to advertise - places that pay attention to the desires of their readers. Sorry that you have to deal with all this, Renee - you were doing a very fine job that we all appreciated until they made your life miserable right along with ours. Well, not our lives but certainly our patch experience! Jerremiah

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I personally don't have too much control over the way the site looks and functions, since it's part…Read More of Patch overall. However, I am forwarding all your suggestions on to our design team and appreciate all the feedback-- positive and negative! And Jeremiah, I've asked around about the FB commenting thing some more, and there really are no plans to do away with our Patch logins. The FB comments are just meant to be a "plus" for those who want them... and others don't have to touch :)

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