By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Sometimes I wonder why I continue to publish GwinnettForum. I’ve said before that at least it extends my life through this participation with the wider community. Thank you for allowing me to do this, and from responding from time to time.
Every now and then, I get a noteworthy comment comes from a reader, and it makes me proud to publish these thoughts and ideas, so that you, the other readers, can benefit from their viewpoints.
For instance, today we have two letters that illustrate this point.
One is from Charles Blair in Lawrenceville Few people outside Lawrenceville probably know of him, if they are not in the field of industrial machinery tools. Charles works mostly alone, fabricating in his metal shop components that have keen tolerances. If you need a spare part duplicated, Charles can do it. He is also clearly a deep thinker, and we benefit from his thoughts.
The other letter-writer printed in this issue is an old friend from South Georgia, Alvin Leaphart, an attorney who is in a solo private practice in Jesup, though widely known as a member of the bar. He is also an outdoorsman, particularly in sailing, and enjoys being on the Georgia coast. Both writers were commenting on the Paris attacks.
Consider also two of our regular contributors, George Wilson, a private businessman from Stone Mountain, and Debra Houston, a retired businesswoman from Lilburn, both stimulate our minds with their comments. Debra speaks for a lot of us in this edition in frustration from having a land line telephone.
One of our favorite Mystery Photos from earlier this year.
We’re pleased, too, with a growing list of people contributing their recollections of the Mystery Photos we have been running for almost two years. Some of the scenes they share with us are as beautiful as any National Geographic photographs. And this week we have one of them not only spotting the mystery, but sending us a photo of him and his wife at the site of the most recent mystery.
Participation by our readers vindicates our publication. We invite our current readers to tell others about our publication, so that they can widen their scope through reading it. At least the cost won’t hurt their weekly budget.
Getting deep-felt correspondence from people like these enriches all our lives. We are thankful to them, and others sharing their views with us through GwinnettForum.
Please pardon this aside in this issue. The sheer thought of people enjoying, and responding to our Forum, thrills me. Again, “Thank You!”
A BRIDGE? Do you remember a comment last week that the new Atlanta Falcons stadium is now wanting a bridge of its own? Seems to me that the new Mercedes-Benz stadium has a case of envy, now that the Atlanta Braves have a bridge of their own in the making. I can hear Atlanta politicians and Mercedes –Benz officials thinking: “If the Braves can have a bridge, why can’t we?” Wonder where it will go?
STOCK? Another Atlanta sports story has the Atlanta Braves thinking about offering stock in their baseball club, much like many people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, own stock in the Packers. But talk about the timing of coming to the market now, when the Braves have suffered through one of their worst seasons in years? But of course, stock traders say that when you, as an investor, venture into the market, do so when you can buy low.
We suggest you wait to buy Braves’ stock. If their performance this year is any indication, let others buy this year, and you buy next year, when we suggest the price could be lower.
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