HONORED: Former Lawrenceville City Manager Robert “Bob” Baroni received the Lifetime Service Award from the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) in recognition of his 42 years of service to the city. The award was presented to Baroni at the Lawrenceville City Council Meeting recently. Baroni also served as Lawrenceville city clerk and the city’s recreation director. During his time in Lawrenceville, several large projects, including a new city hall, were built at zero debt to the city. Shown is the Baroni family, daughter Beth Bannister; wife, Gloria; grandson, Jake; Baroni, and grandson Andrew, all shown with Georgia Municipal Association Director Lamar Norton. A reception Thursday at City Hall recognized Baroni for his years of faithful service.
IN THIS EDITIONTODAY’S FOCUS: Here’s What One Couple Saw on A Visit to Our 50th State—Hawaii!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Salvation Army Couple’s Next Post Is Tampa; Will Be Missed Here
ANOTHER VIEW: Wants No Part of That Gator around Lilburn
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: One Perspective of Washington State’s Mail-In Voting Procedure
UPCOMING: Parks and Recreation Offering Plethora of Camps This Summer
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Place CID Expands for Fourth Time, Adding New Properties
RECOMMENDED: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Garden Club of Georgia Dates from 1928 Founding
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Opportunity Often Wears
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately Home Comes with a Story
LAGNIAPPE: Quiet Afternoon During a Setting Sun
CALENDAR: Author Plans Visit to Peachtree Corners
TODAY’S FOCUSHere’s what one couple saw on a visit to our 50th state — Hawaii!
By Sandy and Rick Krause
LILBURN, Ga. | My wife and I recently visited in Hawaii. We never had a goal to see all 50 states, but this trip accomplished that!
We toured the four main islands—Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii, starting in Honolulu, Oahu. We stayed a block off Waikiki Beach and enjoyed walking around downtown and the beach.
Among the places we visited was the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor. We took a Navy launch to the USS Arizona Memorial, watched a film, and visited the museum. It was most touching. We also toured the National Cemetery of the Pacific, State Capital, Chinatown, and Iolani Palace.
Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
On a tour around the Island, there was Diamond Head, Oahu’s famous North Shore, a Dole Pineapple Plantation, and plenty of scenery. Pineapple farming is dying out in the state. Hawaii had been home to 85 percent of the world’s pineapple production. There was also for us a whale watch, and we saw several Humpback Whales.
We then flew to Kauai, the “Garden Isle,” for beautiful scenery, including Waimea Canyon and film locations for the Jurassic Park movies. On a helicopter tour of the island, we could see Jurassic Falls and the gorgeous NaPali Coast.
It was in Wailua that we discovered Hawaii’s love affair with Spam. This item is widespread on menus morning, noon, and night in fast food and upscale restaurants. Hawaii may be the only state where McDonalds has spam on the menu. A Safeway that we shopped had an end cap full of Spam—more than 460 cans!
On the eighth day, we flew to Maui, and crossed the island to Kaanapali Beach on the west coast. We saw rusting buildings of sugar mills. Sugar cane and processing are also dying out in Hawaii. We learned that Hawaii’s five biggest industries today are tourism, macadamia nuts, Kona coffee, orchids, and cattle.
Manana Island off the coast east of Oahu
Another day, we took the “Highway to Hana,” which is regularly on compilations of the best road trips in America. Later we flew to Hawaii, and drove across the island from Hilo to Kailua Kona. We toured Volcanoes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Kona has a touch of bohemia, similar in ambiance to Key West, which brought back memories of our stays there in the early 80s.
The trip was most pleasurable; the islands, beautiful. There were some negatives. Hawaii is wrought with species extinctions and alien species invasions. To illustrate one: we planned to bird watch, and before we left home, researched birds we might see on the trip. Entire families of birds have been taken to extinction, and a significant cause was man’s unintentional introduction of wharf rats, then the purposeful introduction of mongoose, to eliminate the rat problem. All this was worse than a failure, and now, there is an increasing problem of feral cats.
However, we toured this beautiful place and blotted these from our mind and focused on the positive attributes and properties of the islands. And when is the best time to visit? Whenever your weather back home is disagreeable, it is said, it is nearly always nice here. So consider Hawaii any time!
Aloha, and Mahalo!
EEB PERSPECTIVESalvation Army couple’s next post is Tampa; Will be missed here
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher, GwinnettForum
JUNE 10, 2016 | Gwinnett will lose two exemplary residents soon, as Captains Abby and Andy Miller are transferred by the Salvation Army to new positions in Tampa, Fla. He and she will be the associate area commanders for the Tampa Corps.
The two captains have made a solid mark in their four years here, leading the Lawrenceville Corps of the Army to new heights in community involvement, social interaction and congregation building. Andy’s grandmother, Joan, has resided in Gwinnett since 1989 when she and her late husband, Andrew Miller Sr., retired to Gwinnett. They had at one time been the Southern Territorial Commanders based in Atlanta, and purposely chose Gwinnett to retire for its good weather, and because of its great Atlanta airport connections.
Andy Sr. was in demand all over the country for speaking engagements, therefore often on airplanes. Before his retirement, Andy Miller Sr. was the national commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, based in New York.
The entire Miller family for generations have been involved with the Salvation Army. One of Andy Sr.’s offspring, Sue Swanson, is now with the Army in Chicago. At one time she and her husband, Barry, were the number two Salvation Army officers in the world, based at the London headquarters. Andy III’s father is with the Army, as the area commander in Quincy, Ill.
The Miller family
Abby and Andy are now packing prior to their move next week. They came to Gwinnett from Army offices in Dallas, during which time Andy III earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Southern Methodist University. His book, based on his dissertation, is entitled: Holistic Hospitality: A Bridge to a Future Army. The couple will be highlighted at a reception at the Sugarloaf Corps location during the June 18 church service at 10:30 a.m.
Andy III says that it is with “fear and trembling” that he moves to his higher post. “That Corps has had some difficulty, but we look forward to a challenge there. While I would like to stay in Gwinnett, we understand the Army moves you often, and after all, God leads me.”
The couple have three children, Andrew IV, 9; Titus, 7; and Georgia., 5.
Andy III is sold on “….our mission. No one does spiritual and social work combined better than the Salvation Army. We are liberal and conservative at the same time, serving people aggressively in Jesus’ name, but committed to the gospel, and able to use a variety of different gifts. I’m not just a preacher, but am necessarily involved in the community, in relationships, communicating the gospel, and working with the homeless community. We love to be visible through our uniform and through the way we work our faith. We have to be visible to do our job.
“What this means is that we punch beyond our weight. The Salvation Army is small in many ways. Our national church membership is now with only 125,000 people, and with that number, you would not think that we should be the Number One charity in the country, but we are.
“You must take into consideration the balance that the Army has in social and spiritual ministries. Our congregation in the Lawrenceville church numbers 275, which makes us the Number 1 or 2 largest congregation in the Southern Territory of 15 states. (During the winter, the Clearwater, Fla. Corps increases, and then they are number one, and larger than we are.”)
These two Millers, following in the footsteps of his grandparents’ impact on Gwinnett, will be sorely missed.
We wish the Andrew Miller III’s family Godspeed in Tampa. And as Andy will tell you, it’s foreordained.
ANOTHER VIEWWants no part of that gator anywhere around Lilburn
By Debra Houston
JUNE 10, 2016 | A Gwinnett man found a five-foot alligator in his pond recently. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources sent out a specialist to investigate.
The agency thinks the animal came up the Yellow River, which is nearby. According to WSB-TV, the DNR may not do anything about it. The laid-back gator isn’t bothering a soul. Maybe he’ll just move on. Yes, but where?
The story seemed quaint until I learned the pond was in Lilburn. Hey, that’s where I live. We need to talk.
May I address the 450-pound gorilla in the room? Yes, that silverback who found itself a target when a boy fell into the enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. Officials killed the animal and then all hell broke loose. Animal lovers everywhere protested, claiming the primate wasn’t hurting the boy. Why kill it? The zoo said the gorilla was unpredictable and there was no time to spare.
So I wonder, why we aren’t concerned about a rambling gator? Have you seen the teeth on those suckers? I suspect big gators have big appetites. A dog, cat, or small child might satiate a ravenous reptile. And if it were dumb (smart?) enough to swim up a river, it might be stupid enough to stroll through the neighborhood where the kids are playing.
I don’t want a five-foot reptile wandering down Main Street in Old Town. We had a couple of harmless guinea fowl parading around there once that possibly met their fate when a fox or coyote devoured them. Coyotes in Gwinnett — that’s weird, too.
But no, I don’t want anyone to hurt the gator. I think the DNR should transport the crazy thing back to its natural habitat, and if the agency refuses, then it should contact PETA. They’ll save anything — a gator, a gorilla, or even a garden snail.
In fact, I think we’d do the gator a huge favor by sending it packing. By now it has surely figured out there are no lady gators in Lilburn. It is spring, and we know where a gator’s fancy turns to at this time of year.
I say send that lonely gator home, somebody. He is certainly not welcomed here in my natural habitat of Lilburn.
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One perspective of Washington state’s mail-in voting procedure
Editor, the Forum:
Since I made Georgia my new home territory 4.5 years ago, one of the first things I did—-after going through the unnecessarily arduous process of getting my drivers license!—was register to vote. I have always told people proudly that I have never missed a chance to vote since I was 21. When I first went to vote here in my designated place, the Duluth Festival Center, my mind began whirling about how I could help my new home state make the voting process less expensive, more effective, more educational.
The state of Washington, from which I moved, uses only the U.S. mail for voting. Election costs have gone down dramatically. They no longer have to go through the frustration and expense of hiring poll sitters, renting or buying booths, sites, directional signs, etc. Washington state experienced much higher voter participation with this process.
In that state, a voting packet is sent out one month ahead of the deadline, with an information pamphlet that had resumes on all the candidates logically organized by district, region, state and nation. There is an explanation of the issues/measures from pro and con sides. A special secure return envelope has instructions on how to vote and return.
The voter, then, at their leisure, can sit down and actually educate themselves on the election and casting their vote. They can even take time to thoroughly investigate items on which they are confused and unsure. The voter will also not have to struggle to get to the polls on a Tuesday workday. They can cast their vote any day at any time. There is no inconvenience or expense of taking off from work. You can fill out your ballot (referring to your notes in pamphlet) and return in envelope by election day. How humane. How sensible. How simple and efficient.
Voting officials say it also lowers the already miniscule fraud of 0.003% to 0.001%. The drawback is not getting a Peachy “I have voted” sticker!
— GG Getz, Duluth
Feels Wilson’s comment against war was “spot on”
Editor, the Forum:
George Wilson is “spot on” in his letter on the folly of perpetual Middle East war. Every dollar spent in the Middle East seems to cost us another. Worse, our Georgia congressional delegation seems ready to cut Medicare and Social Security in order to sustain the madness.
— Joe Briggs, Suwanee
Dear Joe: I didn’t read it that way. I thought he was against war in general. –eeb
Atlanta Braves seem on a tear to lose 100 games this year
Editor, the Forum:
After watching the Braves lose another one, I am at my wits-end on what they should do, or I should do.
First, I’ll offer this: The management has again shot itself in the foot ! You don’t fire the manager plus the bench coach. Anyone with the least knowledge about baseball knows what the bench coach’s responsibilities are! One of them is that he advises the manager on strategy, and when the manager is tossed or fired, takes over as interim manager.
Next, the management makes feckless Terry Pendelton the bench coach!
Talking to my friend Dr. Lanier Harrell the other night, he says that the Braves are headed for a 100 games lost record this year if they don’t turn things around. I will have to agree. They are one third the way through the season and have lost a lot of games. Go figure.
— David Earl Tyre, Jesup
Dear David Earl: All of us fans are upset. How can a team go down so quickly? Must be bad management, and we mean, at the front office. Have you noticed that teams with majority owners who get in the swing of the game often have better records than corporately-owned teams? Remember when we had Ted? Also: the game now is to follow whether Minnesota in the AL or Atlanta in the NL has the worst record. Last time I looked Minnesota was 17-40, and the Braves 16-42 (.298 vs. .276).–eeb
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UPCOMINGParks and Recreation offering plethora of camps this summer
Now that summer is here and school is out, many parents are looking for activities frothier children. Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation (GCPR) offers many different options for summer camps. From full day adventure camps, to half day specialty camps, there are many activities.
Kids receiving swim lessons. Lifeguard India White teaching Soleil how to swim while the rest of the class watches.
Separate junior camps for ages 5 and 6, in addition to camps for 7 to 13, offer different activities tailored for each specific age group. GCPR will also be offering free swim lessons for campers at six locations this summer. The swim lessons will impact more than 450 children ages 6 to 13, with 135 hours of instruction time and value of $22,000.
The importance of summer camps is endless. Summer camps offer kids the opportunity to be physically active; they help build self-confidence and self-esteem through a variety of activities that removes the competitiveness of academic school life. Kids at summer camps gain resiliency with the encouragement they receive, making it a great environment to endure setbacks and try new things. Kids develop life-long skills and become more independent, as well as have free time for unstructured play where they can have fun and be silly with their peers.
At Gwinnett County Parks, campers have a blast in our top-notch facilities, while they explore the outdoors on the wooded trails, playgrounds, and picnic areas encouraging them to embrace environmental responsibility. Summer camps began June 6 and continue through July 29.
- For more information or to register, call 770-822-8840 or visit www.gwinnettparks.com.
New London Theatre presenting To Kill a Mockingbird starting June 10
An American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, is to be presented by the New London Theatre opening June 10 and continuing through June 26. Show times are Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. , and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 on the day of the show. Children/students (3-19) and seniors (55+) are always $10. Tickets can be purchased either online through our website or at the theatre box office.
Shows are performed at New London Theatre: 2338 Henry Clower Boulevard in Snellville in New London Plaza inside Hello Again Variety Mall. For additional information about this and future performances, auditions, ticket purchases, volunteering, or donations, visit www.newlondontheatre.org.
NOTABLEGwinnett Place CID expands for 4th time, adding new properties
Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District is expanding, with six land parcels with a total fair market value of $27 million. This will bring the district membership to 245 commercial properties.
In a recent vote, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners approved expansion of the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District’s (GPCID) boundaries. The commercial property owners joining GPCID in the 2016 expansion are all located in unincorporated Duluth at the following addresses: 1600 Executive Drive, 1705 Executive Drive, 3805 Crestwood Parkway, 3885 Crestwood Parkway, 3801 Breckinridge Boulevard and 1760 Pineland Road.
Joe Allen, executive director of Gwinnett Place CID, says: “The investment and involvement of commercial property owners is the lifeblood of GPCID, and we are pleased to welcome our newest members who are contributing to our ongoing effort to expedite mobility, quality of life and economic improvement strategies for the benefit of businesses, employees and visitors to Gwinnett’s central business district.”
The expansion brings the total value of the GPCID to an estimated $617,211,400, and is the CID’s fourth geographical expansion since it was founded in 2005. Steve Berman, founder of OA Development and chairman of the CID, says: “We have witnessed the mobility improvements, transportation projects and security enhancements GPCID has brought about in the area and decided to have the Crestwood Pointe I and II properties be a part of the District’s continued growth by joining the organization. We look forward to further promoting the area and bringing about even more positive change.”
Suwanee seeks to know what residents think about a new park
The City of Suwanee is in the early planning stages of a new park, and wants to know what citizens would like to see in the new communal space.
The approximate 20-acre site (locally known as the DeLay Property) located behind the Suwanee library and PlayTown Suwanee on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, is set to be the City of Suwanee’s next great park. Purchased in 2002 as a future park site, the property was an early acquisition in the Open Space Initiative.
Suwanee City Manager Marty Allen says: “At this time, the park is only in the preliminary planning stages. We are not sure if we’re planning for the immediate future or the midterm.”
A brainstorming session with consultants and City Hall staff was conducted in mid-May, while stakeholder interviews will take place during the month of June, as well as man-on-the-street-style interviews. Surveys have been collected at recent Town Center events including the June 3 Food Truck Friday and June 4 Movies under the Stars.
Allen adds: “The type and character of this park is still to be determined. The proximity to Town Center provides an opportunity to enhance both locations, We’re hoping that the community can help us with creative ideas that have not been done in our region. By engaging the public, we hope to make this space another one of Suwanee’s great places.”
Citizens who are interested in voicing their opinions can take the online survey by visiting www.Suwanee.com. For more information regarding the City of Suwanee’s new park, contact Downtown and Business Development Manager Adam Edge at 770-904-3388.
Braselton crab cakes featured in “100 Plates Locals Love”
If you love crab cakes, check out a Braselton restaurant. Fleur-de-Lis has been awarded the 2016/2017 “100 Plates Locals Love” distinction by Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Tourism division (GDEcD). Georgia Tourism’s second annual list of “100 Plates Locals Love” is featured in the state’s culinary guide, Georgia Eats.
Located in the Spa mansion at Château Élan, Fleur de Lis is a restaurant that overlooks a small lake, offering guests seasonal gourmet dishes prepared by the spa’s own chef. The subtle theme throughout the restaurant is the feel of water. Calming shades of blue, sand and sea glass are dominant with restful, tranquil swirl patterns found throughout the carpet, wall coverings and furniture.
Jennifer Dees, Town manager of Braselton, says: “I have been returning to Fleur de Lis for over 20 years to enjoy their light, crisp crab cakes. They have been a staple on this menu and a local favorite for both Braselton citizens and world travelers visiting Château Élan.”
Kevin Langston, deputy commissioner for tourism at the Georgia Department of Economic Development, says: “Georgia’s cities, towns and backroads are filled with authentic restaurants and culinary specialties that visitors love to experience when they travel. The list of ‘100 Plates Locals Love’ is our way of providing visitors and locals with suggestions, the same way we would recommend restaurants to our family and friends.”
RECOMMENDEDOur Souls at Night
A book by Kent Haruf
As people live longer these days, more books, both fiction and secular, are about aging people. After all, their problems are different from an average person. The late Kent Haruf in this book addresses the problem of loneliness, and how two people who live two houses apart, but did not know each other well, get on once their spouses are dead. It’s not the normal course that they take, and of course, it’s talked about in town, and eventually, by their distant children. Then other complications set in. Before anyone recognizes it, the situation comes to an impasse that no one wants. This is an easy-to-read and relatively short book, but adroitly done with simple writing and great style. It addresses what many people may find themselves in. Our regret is that we’ll not see more books from this author.—eeb
An invitation: what books, restaurants, movies or web sites have you enjoyed recently? Send us your recent selection, along with a short paragraph (100 words) as to why you liked this, plus what you plan to visit or read next. –eeb
GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA TIDBITGarden Club of Georgia dates from 1928 founding
The Garden Club of Georgia was officially established on June 7 and 8, 1928, at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta. For this inaugural meeting, Mrs. Robert L. Cooney of Atlanta (later to become the editor of the Garden History of Georgia) served as honorary president. Following the formulation of a slate of officers, Mrs. Phinizy Calhoun of Atlanta was elected as the organization’s first official president.
A year later the Garden Club of Georgia held its first annual convention in Augusta. It was at this meeting that the primary aims of this newly established organization were announced: “To promote a love of gardening for the amateur and the professional; to protect our native trees, wild flowers and birds; and to encourage a regard for civic beauty in our various communities.”
One of the earliest and most important projects undertaken by the Garden Club was initiated in 1936. The project’s purpose was to develop a living memorial to the 12 members of the Ladies Garden Club of Athens, America’s first garden club, founded in 1891. The Garden Club of Georgia in collaboration with the University of Georgia‘s Division of Landscape Architecture (later the School of Environmental Design) developed what came to be known as the Founders Memorial Garden. Located on the historic north campus of the University of Georgia, the project was begun in 1939 and completed in 1946.
The Founders Memorial Garden is a testament to the important contribution made by the Ladies Garden Club of Athens; after their inaugural meeting in 1891, the garden club movement grew. Today there are 13 garden clubs in Athens with more than 500 members. The Garden Club of Georgia has 550 member clubs with approximately 15,000 members.
Three distinct national organizations are dedicated to the promotion of gardening and horticultural pursuits in America: National Garden Clubs, Inc. (previously the National Council of State Garden Clubs), the Garden Club of America, and the Gardeners of America/Men’s Garden Clubs of America. The Garden Club of Georgia is federated with National Garden Clubs, Inc. (NGC). Founded in 1929, NGC is the largest garden club organization in the country, with 8,488 individual clubs in 50 states and more than 250,000 members. The primary purpose of these organizations is to foster an appreciation of gardening and to promote civic and environmental responsibility by means of education, conservation advocacy, and beautification.
Throughout its history, the Garden Club of Georgia has been involved in many useful and noteworthy activities, including educational publications and the presentation and coordination of symposiums, conferences, lectures, and educational sessions. Additional efforts have been directed at the development of arboretums and botanical gardens, roadside beautification, sign and billboard control, house and garden pilgrimages, and numerous scholarships for students in horticulture and landscape architecture.
- To access the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Stately home with stories about it is mystery today
Today’s Mystery Photo is a stately traditional home, but there’s a story about it. Figure out where it’s located. Then send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.
The first to answer the last Mystery Photo was Karen Burnette Garner of Dacula, who recognized the Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, Colo. The photo was sent in by Paige Havens of Lawrenceville.
Many others recognized it. Sandy and Rick Krause of Lilburn were among those, writing: “The Red Rocks Amphitheater is just south of Golden, CO. We visited it a few times in the 70s and 80s, while at the Federal Training Center in Lakewood, and visiting my aunt in Boulder.”
They came the others Steve Rausch, Peachtree Corners; Russell Kennedy, Lawrenceville; Emmett Clower, Snellville; John Titus, Peachtree Corners; Mimi Anderson, Peachtree Corners; Jane Bane, Lawrenceville; Michael Wood, Peachtree Corners; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Lynn Naylor, Atlanta; Neal Davies, Decatur; Harriet Nichols, Trickum; Frances Rackow, Peachtree Corners.
George Graf of Palmura, Va. gave detail “Fast forward to August 26, 1964, when the first notable rock show at the venue took place. The headliner? The Beatles. It was the only show not to sell out on the Fab Four’s American tour. However, the 7,000 fans they drew broke the box office record for an open-air venue at that point in time. The band was the first of many to require oxygen canisters on stage, as the thin air caused shortness of breath. By this point in 1964, alcohol had been banned from the venue because of two major incidents. In 1962 at a Ray Charles concert and 1964 at a Peter, Paul and Mary concert, audience members had thrown beer cans onto the stage. This set the precedent of banning alcohol at the venue, a ruling that did not last long. In 1968 there were legendary acts at Red Rocks, including the only modern Red Rocks performance with no known photographs or audio recordings: Jimi Hendrix took the stage with Vanilla Fudge, a show that only exists in memory.”
LAGNIAPPEQuiet afternoon during a setting sun
Sunset hangs over Senior Center as seen from City Lake
Here’s a tranquil scene from Roving Photographer Frank Sharp. He captured this peaceful photograph at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville at the sun was sinking over the lake, while a couple and two dogs enjoyed paddling in the lake. Perhaps you have some quiet scenes such as this that you should send to GwinnettForum!
CALENDAR
Sixth Annual Peachtree Corners Festival is this weekend (June 10-12) at Corners Parkway at Woodhill Drive. Activities begin at 7 p.m. Friday with a pre-festival concert. On Saturday the day begins at 10 a.m. through 6 p.m., with all arts, crafts, entertainment, food and even a car show, all of which continues on Sunday, when activities are from noon to 5 p.m.
Fifth Annual Flag Day in Snellville, Tuesday, June 14, will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on the steps of Snellville City Hall. The theme is “United We Stand.” Refreshments will be served in the Community Room following the program.
Groundbreaking at the new Centerville Senior Center, will be Tuesday, June 14, at 1 p.m. The center is located at 3025 Bethany Church Road in Snellville, and is presently connected to the Library. The new Center will be built by Hogan Construction Group LLC at a cost of $2.24 million. Funding came from the 2014 SPLOST program. The building will consist of 8,500 square feet. It is anticipated to be completed by mid 2017.
(NEW) Author Brad Thor will be in Gwinnett on June 17 at the Christ the King Lutheran Church, 5375 Peachtree Parkway for a book signing and discussion. Presented by the Gwinnett County Public Library, the program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thor’s latest book is Foreign Agents, a non-stop thrill ride that is filled with action, intrigue, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, reaffirming Thor’s position as the “master of thrillers.” Books will be available for purchase and signing thanks to The Books for Heroes Foundation. For more information, visit gwinnettpl.org.
Photography Exhibit on India and the Taj Mahal is open through July 27 at the Collins Hill Library, 455 Camp Perrin Road in Lawrenceville. The work is by GwinnettForum Roving Photographer Frank Sharp. The library standard hours are now Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., and on Sunday from noon until 5 p.m.
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