App Will Help Revelers Find a Safe Ride Home

In order to ensure that anyone who has had too much to drink doesn’t hit the roads on New Year’s Eve, the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety has come up with a plan.

The Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) has joined with safety partners across the state to create a list of contacts for free rides to help everyone get home safely – and in keeping with the technological age we’re in, an app has been created to make it just that easy. Across Georgia on New Year’s Eve, and Super Bowl Sunday, there will be a wide variety of taxi companies and designated driver services providing free rides home for people “in need of a sober driver.” The service, and corresponding app for it, is part of the GOHS program to eliminate drunk drivers on Georgia roads. The following are steps to help you download the Georgia Sober Ride App for the iPhone and Android: Android Market (for non-Apple products) iPhone…

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Dinner and a Movie

'New Year's Eve' Is Two Hours You'll Never Get Back

This holiday movie bonanza has a massive, celebrity-stuffed cast, but little else.

Movie: "New Year's Eve" No less than a dozen different story lines intertwine in the star-stuffed film "New Years Eve." These stories are somehow spliced together and made into a movie. The small stories include first kisses, midnight rendezvous, newborn babies, dying fathers, trapped strangers and husbands at war. The end result is a big, bloated cast of celebrities with very little to say, except, happy holidays. So who's in the film ? Let's roll the credits… Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Hector Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank, Sofia …

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Fire Officials Urge Caution with Fireworks

Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services offers safety tips for using legal fireworks to ring in 2011.

While Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services discourages the use of fireworks during New Year's Eve celebrations, officials acknowledge that many people will use the potentially dangerous explosives. To reduce the risk of injury and property damage, fire officials offer the following recommendations:

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Patch Picks The 10 Best New Year’s Events

Dacula may not have a peach drop or a Times Square, but there are plenty of activities in town and nearby this New Year’s Eve.

1.     Friends Sports Bar and Grill Looking for a place to hang out with your friends and neighbors? Head to Friends at 752 Dacula Road for a New Year's Eve celebration that includes a live band and buffet. Tickets are $10 each. Call 678-407-2700 for more information. 2.     Dos Copas Mexican Grill A good place to celebrate any time of year, Dos Copas is pulling out all the stops for New Year's Eve.  This year's celebration, a black-and-white themed event, will feature a balloon drop, champagne toast and the Reality Check band. Call 770-614-3077 or stop by Dos Copas at 2463 Hamilton Mill Parkway to reserve a table. 3.     Fatso's Sports Bar and Grill Fatso's will kick off its New Year's Eve celebration at 9 p.m. For $60 per person, you …

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