HUNTING EGGS: A scene like this is anticipated April 20, when the Easter Bunny returns to Rossie Brundage Park, 350 Autry Street, in Norcross. Mayor Craig Newton says that the city will host two hunts, the first at 10 a.m. on Saturday. In addition a special needs hunt will be held at 1 p.m. Those wanting to attend the special hunt should register in advance at www.norcrossga.net/925/holidays. Special considerations will include scooping nets for children in wheelchairs and a tent with beanbags for sensory-sensitive children. (Photo by Jennifer Motola.)
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: Chamber Makes Inside Move To Pick Nick Masino as Its New President
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lynn Ledford Ran Elections in Gwinnett Ever So Smoothly
ANOTHER VIEW: What Ever Happened To Fiscal Conservatives in the Republican Party?
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.
FEEDBACK: County Will Benefit Once Traffic Situation Can Be Improved
UPCOMING: After First Successful Class, Coding Boot Camp Offers Courses Again
NOTABLE: Muslim Community Hosting Peace Symposium on April 20
RECOMMENDED: The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
GEORGIA TIDBIT: John Stone’s Career Combined Medicine and Literature
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s Mystery Photo Is Simple Swinging Bridge with Few Clues
LAGNIAPPE: More Color around Gwinnett, This One in Duluth
CALENDAR: Suwanee’s Glow in the Park and Community Lantern Parade Is Saturday
Chamber makes inside move to pick Masino as its new president
By Stephanie Hannum
DULUTH, Ga. | The Gwinnett Chamber, one of the largest suburban Chambers of Commerce in the nation, has gone internal for its new president and CEO, picking Nick Masino, to be effective July 1.
Masino (Photos by Jennifer Stalpcup)
Following a four-month search process, the Gwinnett Chamber board of directors voted in appointing Nick Masino, currently Gwinnett Chamber and Partnership Gwinnett’s chief economic development officer, to take the reins from Dr. Dan Kaufman, who has served in the role since 2013.
The Chamber conducted a search for Dr. Kaufman’s successor, resulting in the interviews of six finalists, “ says 2019 Gwinnett Chamber Board Chairman Tom Andersen. “Nick brings incredible energy and dynamism to the job, with great experience in having directed economic development for the Chamber through the Partnership Gwinnett initiative for over a decade.
“He’s well respected, not only in Gwinnett County, but in the entire metropolitan Atlanta region and in international circles. With his experience and skill set, he will clearly be able to hit the ground running in leading the Gwinnett Chamber to new heights. He will continue in the line of extremely talented and effective CEOs for the Gwinnett Chamber.”
Masino joined the Gwinnett Chamber in 2007 and has served in the key economic development leadership role for the past 12 years. He oversees the business recruitment and retention efforts for Gwinnett, as well as the implementation of the Partnership Gwinnett Strategy. To create this community-focused economic development (ED) organization, Masino worked with public and private leadership to commission ED studies in 2011 and 2016; and spearheaded the implementation efforts of the initial plan in 2007—which has since brought approximately 250 company expansions or relocations, more than 23,000 new jobs and more than $1.7 billion in investment to Gwinnett.
Over the past 12 years, Masino has led his team in significant accomplishments, including major project wins such as Asbury Automotive (2007); Hisense (2010); Primerica (2011); Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US (2012); Comcast (2015); Kaiser Permanente (2017) and Hapag-Lloyd (2018). In addition, Masino has been awarded Georgia Trend’s Most Notable Georgians (2015-2019); 40 under 40 – Georgia Trend magazine; 40 under 40 – Atlanta Business Chronicle; and International Person of the Year – Governor’s Award Finalist – Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Masino’s economic development career began in February 2007, when he accepted his current role, but he was no stranger to the field. In December 2007, he ended his second term as mayor of the City of Suwanee having been one of the youngest mayors in Georgia’s history. During his tenure as mayor, the city of Suwanee embarked on a comprehensive economic and community development project highlighted by the construction of a 24,000 square foot City Hall and the popular 65-acre Suwanee Town Center, which led Suwanee to be named a CNN-Money magazine’s Top 10 Town in America. Prior to his position with the Gwinnett Chamber, Masino spent 12 years in the recruiting and staffing industry.
A graduate of The Ohio State University, Masino holds a bachelor’s degree in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication. He and his wife—his high school and college sweetheart, Suzanne—are the parents of three children, Anna, Vincent and Julia.
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Ledford ran elections in Gwinnett ever so smoothly
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
APRIL 16, 2019 | Elections in Gwinnett are very complicated processes, we have known all along. Gwinnett has been blessed to have Lynn Ledford as its Elections Director for the last 17 years. She has worked in the office for 32 years.
Lynn is cool under pressure during Gwinnett elections. Remember, the number of people who have registered in Gwinnett has exploded in recent years, from 86,000 people when Lynn was first in the office to today’s 544,000 Gwinnettians registered. But all went smooth with Lynn supervising operations.
Running the elections division is a two-way job, first simply registering newcomers. But the really significant job is a wider managerial one of supervising the 2,800 to 3,200 people it takes to put on an election. This is especially difficult when you remember that those in charge of the 156 Gwinnett polls are all part time workers. They are recruited seasonally each year to take on the responsibility of making sure the elections are held in the correct manner.
Lefford
So here has sat Lynn in the hot seat for these elections. And the Gwinnett elections have taken place smoothly each time. Lately they have been more complicated, especially in view of also now being required to have the elections in Spanish also.
You wouldn’t know it was difficult from dealing with Lynn. She went through these many ballot-casting days in a calm, efficient and deliberate manner. We’re pleased to see her promoted to higher office. Her successor will benefit from her managing and training people in the right way to hold an election!
NEW SUBJECT: Finally, after learning about it in infancy, I’ve figured it out.
Why was it when you were little they were insisting that you knew about colors and shapes of items before you? What was the reason?
It was interesting at the time, since it helped distinguish one item from another. Sometimes there were multiple items of the same shape, hoping to distract you.
Today we find that distinguishing colors and shapes is still useful for us, especially when you are a Senior Citizen.
Here’s why: knowing colors and shapes helps you distinguish the medicine tablets you take by mouth every day.
In the morning, I take four tablets: a green one, a yellow tablet, and two white tablets. One white one is in the shape of a circle, while the other is an elongated pill not as wide at the ends as it is in the middle. Football shape, you might say. See, I recognize it, though was not taught about football shapes when a kid.
For today, without knowing colors and shapes, I would be at a loss as to what medicine I was about to swallow.
And all this makes me appreciate my early childhood educator. I hear I was good at colors and shapes. Good thing, these days.
SANDY MOSS of Loganville responds to a recent photo sent in by Chuck Paul of Norcross, one with lots of white balls of flower blooms. Sandy says that it is a picture is a “Snowball Bush,”which traditionally blooms around the time of “Blackberry Winter” here is Georgia. Thanks, Sandy!
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Whatever happened to fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party?
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. “(The GOP tax bill is) creating jobs, growing the economy, raising wages by reducing rates, removing special interest carve-outs.” — Rep. Jody Hice, 10th District in Georgia, which includes part of Gwinnett.
Taxpayers in Gwinnett should be angry that the promised cornucopia of tax benefits has not positively affected them. Rep. Jody Hice indicates that the GOP “Tax Cut for the Wealthy Act” (officially mistitled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, TCJA) passed in December 2017, would be a “wide-ranging and meaningful transformation…empowering middle-class families and small businesses”. He was right about the “transformation” part, but wrong about beneficiaries, who are the wealthy and big corporations.
Rep Hice, you are no conservative. Stop pretending. You and your GOP colleagues controlling Congress managed to cut taxes while significantly increasing spending (especially for the military).
Our annual deficit has gone up significantly in recent years under a supposedly conservative Republican Congress. It is projected to reach $984 billion by the end of this year, over double the $438 billion figure in 2015. Since the TCJA will directly increase our national deficit by nearly $2 trillion over the next ten years (Tax Policy Center, December, 2018), more than one such law would bankrupt the nation.
Wealthy taxpayers with incomes in the top one percent got an average annual tax cut of 3.4 percent $51,000. Those with incomes of less than $25,000 only got $60, less than one half of one percent. Middle income families only received a tax cut of $900, 1.6 percent.
Rep. Hice also writes about how small business would be helped by the TCJA. I suppose he was pleased because the original Act as approved by the GOP House would eliminate the death tax on small business owners.
However, prior to the TCJA, the estate tax only affected very wealthy business owners who left estates of more than $5,490,000, which is double that for a couple. The final TCJA as signed by Trump gives a full exemption of $22,360,000 for a couple …not exactly the small businessman you were led to believe would benefit. The TCJA is set up to help doctors, lawyers and business chiefs…not the little guy with a landscaping business.
The TCJA was just a continuation of “voodoo economics” to use Bush 41’s term. Supply side economics (Reaganomics) has been thoroughly discredited. Tax cuts in the long run don’t pay for themselves, as any decent economist will tell you. When Reagan tried it, he ended up raising taxes multiple times to offset his earlier cuts. Bush 41 raised taxes further to attempt to balance an out of whack budget deficit caused by the Reagan tax cuts.
As Ha-Joon Chang, economist and author, stated: “Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are — a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer.”
You would have thought that the GOP would have learned, but obviously they did not. What ever happened to the true fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party?
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County will benefit once gtraffic situation can be improved
Editor, the Forum:
Thank you, Debra Houston, for your point of view regarding the feedback and commentary on the recent transit proposal. Too often we are reluctant to voice our opinion because of the frequent use of innuendo and emotional response from an opposing point of view.
Someone mentioned that the outcome was not a true indication of the “will of the people” since only 17 percent of registered voters cast a ballot, when in fact the other 83 percent did influence the outcome by not taking a stand one way or the other. Sometimes you win by just showing up; but you certainly will never win if you don’t. The supporters of expanding transportation certainly have plenty of time to come up with a more understandable and more transparent proposal. Most residents agree that there is a need to improve the traffic situation in the county and we will all benefit from that happening.
— John Moore, Duluth
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After first successful class, Coding Boot Camp offers courses again
Because of the expanded demand for computer coding skills and those needed to analyze and solve complex data analytics and visualization problems, the city of Peachtree Corners, in collaboration with Georgia Tech Professional Education (GTPE), will again offer classes at Prototype Prime, the startup incubator located in Technology Park Atlanta.
There was such a high interest in the first computer coding boot camp that began in January, GTPE is offering a second 24-week coding boot camp to begin in May. Additionally, two data science boot camps will be offered beginning in August.
Mayor Mike Mason says: “Our first coding boot camp was a tremendous success. The class was full weeks before it began, and we had a waiting list of potential students who wanted to register. This was a good problem to have, and we are delighted that we’re able to work with Georgia Tech again to offer not only coding classes, but data science and analytics as well.”
Details on the Classes: There will be three classes, beginning May 28 and both August 5 and 6. Each will last 24 weeks.
Web development is a high-growth career track, and the Georgia Tech Coding Boot Camp teaches students the specialized skills to tap into this industry. Through a fast-paced, immersive curriculum, students learn the skills needed to become proficient in front-end and back-end technologies. Students graduate with the skills needed to become a full-stack web developer. Classes will be held three days a week and taught at Prototype Prime, the city’s startup incubator.
With the rise of data in today’s economy, Georgia Tech’s program focuses on teaching learners the practical and technical skills needed to analyze and solve complex data analytics and visualization problems.
The 24-week class meets three days a week and will be taught at two locations, Prototype Prime and the Community Chest room at Peachtree Corners City Hall.To enroll, or for additional information on the Georgia Tech Professional Education coding boot camps, please visit the Georgia Tech Professional Education website or call 404-328-7187.
Mitsubishi Electric Classic returns to TPC Sugarloaf this week
The playing field for the seventh-annual Mitsubishi Electric Classic returns to TPC Sugarloaf April 15-21, with a 78 player roster. It features 10 PGA tour major winners, including noteworthy professionals such as five-time Charles Schwab Cup champion Bernhard Langer, six-time PGA tour Player of the Year Tom Watson and PGA Championship winner John Daly.
In addition to Watson and Langer, the field is set with Masters champions José María Olazábal, Mark O’Meara, Larry Mize, and Sandy Lyle. All seven green jacket winners have made previous appearances to TPC Sugarloaf, and Vejay Singh will be playing in the Masters this weekend.
- The public may purchase tickets online. Kids 16 and under can attend for free with a ticketed adult, and daily tickets start at just $20. For more information on the tournament, visit: www.mitsubishielectricclassic.com.
There’s a twist for Easter Egg Hunt at animal shelter this Saturday
The Gwinnett Animal Shelter is providing a new twist to the traditional egg hunt with an Adoption Egg-Stravaganza on Saturday, April 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Animal Welfare and Enforcement Division Manager Alan Davis says: “Each plastic egg will contain a special adoption price. Some eggs will even contain a surprise for a free adoption.”
Egg-Stravaganza prices are valid only on the day of the event. The standard adoption fee is $45 for dogs and puppies and $30 for cats and kittens. All pets adopted at Gwinnett Animal Welfare have been vaccinated, neutered and microchipped and are ready to go to their new home.
The shelter is open for adoptions Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gwinnett Animal Welfare is located at 884 Winder Highway in Lawrenceville.
Lilburn Daze accepting vendor applications for Oct. 12 event
The Lilburn Daze Arts and Crafts Festival is now accepting vendor applications. This year’s event will be held on October 12 at Lilburn City Park and will mark the festival’s 46th year tradition with over 200 arts and crafts vendors, a variety of food vendors and kid zone featuring free art activities, a train ride, family golf and lots of other fun for children. With an estimated 12,000 attendees, this family friendly festival is one of the most popular in the area. Hosted by the Lilburn Woman’s Club and co-sponsored by the City of Lilburn. Visit www.lilburndaze.org for application forms and more information.
Muslim community hosting Peace Symposium on April 20
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC)—Georgia chapter—is hosting a Free Peace Symposium on April 20 at the City of Light Church in Atlanta.
The event organizer, Nafis Ur Rehman (a Buford resident), explains: “The primary reason and the driver for hosting such symposium is the model of the Founder of Islam, Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him) and his teachings.” The theme of the Peace Symposium is “The Founder of My Faith, a Powerful Force to Establish Peace in Our Society in this Troubled World.”
In an atmosphere of division and fear, where hate groups are flourishing around us, by bringing together religious and non-religious groups together and by learning about each other, AMC seeks to inspire a concerted effort for lasting peace.
A question/answer session and refreshments to follow the speeches. Rehman says that this event would serve as one of those much needed platforms that promote understanding, love and peace.
- The event is free and open to public. Registration is recommended.
Realtor’s foundation makes presentation of 2 scholarships
Modi and Howerton
The Gwinnett County Board of Realtors Scholarship Foundation has announced the names of two winners of $4,000 awards. They are Suraj Modi and Faith Howerton, who each received the scholarship through the Northeast Atlanta Metro Association of Realtors.
Modi will graduate from Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville in the spring. He plans to major in Pre-med or Biology but is undecided on which college he will be attending. Suraj is the son of Vimal and Meeta Modi. Meeta is a realtor with First United Realty.
Howerton will graduate from Milton High School. She plans to attend Georgia Tech and major in Pre-med or Biology. She is the daughter of Peter and Shawn Howerton. Faith’s grandmother, Noel West, is a realtor with Coldwell Banker.
This is the 25th year that the Foundation, through the Northeast Atlanta Metro Association of Realtors has presented a Scholarship to an outstanding high school senior. Recipients must have a first or second generation family member who is active in the real estate profession and is a member of The Northeast Atlanta Metro Association of Realtors.
Gwinnett Place CID board re-elects 2 board members
Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (GPCID) has re-elected two board members during the annual Caucus of Electors in April.
The re-elected members include Trey Ragsdale, manager of Government and Community Relations for Kaiser Permanente in Georgia, and Ben Yorker, director of development for Northwood Ravin‘s Charlotte office. They will serve a three-year term, and join five other board members working to enhance the vitality of Gwinnett Place through future improvement projects and by engaging more property owners to participate in the overall redevelopment efforts of the greater Gwinnett Place district.
Leo Wiener, chairman of the CID Board of Directors and president of Ackerman Retail, says: “We have enjoyed having Trey and Ben on our board and are happy to see them re-elected. Trey has been with us for almost two years and Ben has been with the board since November 2018, being a strong addition to the team.”
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
It’s the most fascinating book so far we’ve read in 2019, bringing to life the untold story of a simple but brilliant Indiana Quaker girl who had been forgotten by history because of the accomplishments of her equally-brilliant husband. The pair became the first American cryptologists, devising their own means of breaking encrypted messages, and pioneering teaching others the methods behind codes, leading to their solutions. The pair got their start working together, but later the wife worked for the Coast Guard, the husband worked for the Army, and neither could talk about their jobs. The super German code machine, Enigma and other such machines, became putty in their hands. The author tells this much like a thriller, a story recognizing long-forgotten heroes of our country and their mighty accomplishments, particularly in reference to both WWI and II. It’s well worth a read, and most difficult to put down.–eeb
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Stone’s career combined medicine and literature
A poet, essayist, cardiologist, and lecturer, John Stone also served during his varied career as professor of medicine, associate dean, and director of admissions at the Emory University School of Medicine. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Discover, Stone achieved popularity and success as a teacher and writer who explored the link between medicine and literature.
Stone
Stone was named Emory’s best clinical professor three times and received awards from the Georgia Writers Association, the Council of Authors and Journalists, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1992 he received a Governor’s Award in the Humanities, and in 2007 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
The grandson of a general practitioner, John Henry Stone was born February 7, 1936, in Jackson, Miss. His father, a production supervisor, died of a heart attack at the age of 45, when Stone was a senior in high school. Stone received his B.A. from Millsaps College in Jackson in 1958 and his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., in 1962. He completed his residency in medicine and cardiology at the University of Rochester in New York and a fellowship in cardiology at Emory University, where he took a position with the medical school faculty in 1969.
At Emory, Stone created one of the first medical school courses combining literature and medicine. He also taught the course for several years, beginning in 1993, at England’s Oxford University as part of Emory’s Summer Studies Program. From 1974 to 1985 he worked full time at Atlanta‘s Grady Memorial Hospital, founding and directing its emergency-medicine residency program.
Stone began his literary career with The Smell of Matches, published by Rutgers University Press in 1972, which won an award from the Georgia Writers Association. In this volume and In All This Rain (1980), Renaming the Streets (1985), which won the Literature Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose (1998), Stone’s witty, insightful, and sensitive poetry examines the common threads between literature and medicine. In the tradition of another physician-poet, William Carlos Williams, Stone believed his duty as a writer was to prepare for “a good death.”
It is in his role as an essayist that Stone best chronicles the relationship between the poet’s sensitivity and the doctor’s clinical examination of the human condition. The 23 essays of In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine (1990) reflect on his career in medicine. We each have a literal and a metaphorical heart, he argues, and both the poet and the physician make use of the same materials. In their introduction to On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays (1991), Stone and coeditor Richard Reynolds observe how often literature and medicine combine to reveal the human dilemma. Their anthology offers numerous examples that “witness and record the isolation and alienation that come eventually to all of us.”
Stone’s unpublished project, A Bridge across the Dark, chronicles his responses to the sudden illness and death in 1991 of his wife of 30 years, Sarah Lucretia Crymes. He read excerpts from the work at Emory University in 1996. His final published work, Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems (2004), includes poems exploring the poet’s relationship with his mother, his travels to the Middle East, and his love of classical music.
Stone also wrote or coedited several medical texts, including Principles and Practices of Emergency Medicine (1978). Stone died in Atlanta of cancer on November 6, 2008.
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Today’s Mystery Photo is simple swinging bridge with few clues
Here’s nothing more than a swinging bridge……..with little clues as to where it is located. See if you can figure this Mystery Photo out! Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Several readers recognized the bust of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States,located in the entrance of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton, Va. The photo of the bust was sent in by Georgia Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Among those getting the identification right were Lynn Naylor, Atlanta; Ross Lenhart, Pawleys Island, S.C.; Hoyt Tuggle, Buford; Molly Titus, Peachtree Corners; Jim Savadelis, Duluth; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Theirn Scott, Lawrenceville; Faye Hill, Lawrenceville; Jo Shrader, Suwanee; and Lee Klaer of Duluth.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. sent in some detailed information on the photo: “The bust is actually a reproduction of one that was originally created by Harriet Frishmuth as part of a series of busts she made of Virginia-born presidents for an exhibit in the niches of the Rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol building in Richmond.
“The bust shown in the mystery photo was cast in 1957 by Herman Haug who made the copy, along with copies of Frishmuth’s other busts of Presidents Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, W.H. Harrison, Tyler and Taylor. Haug’s reproductions were initially created for display in the Hall of Presidents Exhibition at Jamestown Festival Park as part of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. The bust in the mystery photo was eventually moved to its current location when the museum was opened in 1990.
“When we lived in Peachtree Corners, my wife and I would often go to the Blue Ridge Mountains, occasionally stopping into the quaint and historic town of Staunton, Va.. On one such visit we went to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum and thoroughly enjoyed it, visiting the library, museum, and his birth house (known as the “Manse”). While there, we learned much about the early years of Woodrow Wilson’s life, his education, his time as president of Princeton, his term as Governor of New Jersey and, of course, his presidency from 1913 to 1921.
“It is interesting to note that since Woodrow Wilson’s presidency predates the 1955 National Presidential Libraries Act (which establishes a system of privately erected and federally maintained presidential libraries), the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum is not actually part of the Federal National Archives’ Presidential library system.”
GWINNETT IS SHOWING OFF its foliage colors these days, which seems to tug on the lens of Roving Photographer Frank Sharp. He found this colorful pink dogwood tree near McDaniel Farm Park in Duluth. Meanwhile, the trees have seen their leaves bud out significantly, as the different trees show varying colors of green. Soon the vivid colors will be gone, signaling the warmer weather.
Suwanee’s “Glow in the Park” and Community Lantern Parade and concert returns Saturday, April 20. Suwanee invites everyone to get lit in Town Center at the community lantern parade! Suwanee’s Glow in the Park will feature a strolling jazz band leading an illuminated pageant of light, music, and color around, ending with a concert starring Electric Avenue. Prizes will be awarded for the best glow looks and costumes. Activities begin with lantern making at 5 p.m., with the music on stage at 5:45 p.m. The parade is at 8:15 p.m.
Photo Exhibit of Australia and New Zealand by Roving Photographer Frank Sharp is now on display through April 30 at the Tucker Library, 5234 LaVista Road. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This library is closed on Sunday.
Community Garden beds for rent in Lilburn. Now accepting applications for a year’s rental, until next March 31. Rates are $40 for a 4×8 foot bed, or $60 for a 4×12 foot bed. An Easy Access bed is $20. For more information, go to http://www.lilburncommunitygarden.org/garden-bed-rentals-and-sponsorships.html.
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