OPENING THIS AUGUST will be Gwinnett’s newest school, the McClure Health Science High School, located at Steve Reynolds Boulevard and Club Drive. The school is expected to open with about 700 students from the Meadowcreek Cluster. However, it will have a capacity for 1,500 students. Nicole Mosley is to be the principal. The architect is Lindsay Pope Brayfield Clifford Associates of Lawrenceville, while the contractor is McFarland-Dyer Associates Inc. of Suwanee. For more details, visit this link.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Walton EMC Annual Meeting Hears of Preparations for the Future
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering The Many Good Discussions with Steve Rausch
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering Racial Slurs When Growing up in Bygone Georgia
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: Wants More Media Exposure to Other Beliefs and Religions
UPCOMING: Three Entities Partner To Expand Arts Education at Central Gwinnett
NOTABLE: Rotary Club of Gwinnett Makes $40,000 Gifts to Charities
RECOMMENDED: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Brumbys in Cobb County Take Control of Marietta Daily Journal
MYSTERY PHOTO: Classic Photograph Might Give a Clue to this Mystery.
CALENDAR: City of Duluth Plans Celebrate July Fourth holiday with activities July 3
Walton EMC annual meeting hears of preparations for future
By Greg Brooks
MONROE, Ga. | Customer-owners participating in Walton Electric Membership Corporation’s (EMC) Annual Meeting on June 15 learned that the cooperative’s board has been planning for Plant Vogtle’s impact for years.
Simonton
Board Chair Sam Simonton of Bold Springs (Dacula) told the members at the meeting: “Even though Vogtle’s impact is still somewhat unsure, your board has been actively and aggressively pursuing any way possible to lessen its effect. We’ve been looking at this issue for years, continually adjusting our response as we learn new information.”
The remarks came during a yearly address to fellow customer-owners where the board chair reports on the state of the business.
He added: “Although we’re doing everything we can, including putting money aside to lessen the impact, Plant Vogtle is going to raise our electric bills some. How much that’s going to be is still up in the air, but our best estimates right now are around eight to 12 percent. Every electric consumer in Georgia, no matter where they get their power, is going to see an increase in what they pay.”
Simonton reminded those in attendance that the board’s primary focus is to watch out for customer-owners’ interests and keep that ideal in mind as the basis of every decision.
CEO Ronnie Lee updated customer-owners on the progress of serving the state’s largest electrical load, the Facebook Newton Data Center, that provides statewide benefits. “We executed contracts for two solar facilities in South Georgia to supply the renewable energy [for the data center],” said Lee. “The two farms will generate more than 800 jobs and add substantial money to each county’s tax income. The total investment will reach more than $230 million.”
“Our cooperation with Facebook is being noticed by other companies locating in and near our area. They’ve seen how we met Facebook’s needs and are interested in having your cooperative serve their facilities as well. Every one of these contracts benefits us all,” said Lee.
Lee informed the crowd that Walton EMC had a community impact of nearly $20 million in 2018 through the combination of various charitable programs (like School EmPOWERment Grants, Operation Round Up, employee charities and corporate donations) and local taxes.
Also during the business session, customer-owners re-elected three directors – Billy Ray Allen of the Mountain Park district, Johnny Allgood of the Southwest Walton district and Dawn Taylor of the Five Forks-North Snellville district.
Customer-owners showed great interest in new and updated exhibits as well as new attractions in the children’s area. They also enjoyed annual meeting traditions like free ice cream, soft drinks, door prizes and entertainment.
The answer to the most-asked question after the annual meeting, “Who won the truck?” is Edward and Shelley Lynn of Watkinsville. The Lynns received the keys to a recycled pickup truck retired from the Walton EMC fleet.
Walton EMC is a customer-owned electric utility that serves 130,000 accounts across 10 Northeast Georgia counties between Atlanta and Athens. Its primary focus is providing exceptional service at the lowest possible cost.
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Remembering my many good discussions with Steve Rausch
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JUNE 21, 2019 | Another close friend of mine has died, Steve Rausch, 67, of Peachtree Corners. Services for him were Monday at Perimeter Church.
Steve was also a close critic. We enjoyed each other’s company principally through our different philosophies. Yet we both reveled in talking the issues, and recognized that we agreed that we disagreed. There was no acrimony there, just straight-forward differences.
We conversed over the phone, through emails, face-to-face over meals, and every time we finished, we were both content with one another. Our talks wandered: to his previous work in the floor covering and tile businesses; to his love of flying; about his lake house on Lake Hartwell; about how we grew up; and often about politics. Both of us did a poor job of convincing the other.
My first contact with Steve was when buying parquet tile floors for our den. That was back in my newspaper days, and he was an advertiser. Years later the friendship continued over idea lines.
Rausch
Four days before Steve’s unexpected death, he was in my office, us going at it as usual. Actually, we were more in sync on that visit, talking about a flying buddy of his. It was that day I just learned that Steve, growing up in Dayton, Ohio, had carried, like I did, a paper route.
“You ought to write about paper routes for kids, which we don’t have much today,” Steve said. What has happened is that newspapers stopped relying on high school kids to throw a paper route, since neighborhoods changed with the growing suburban population, and houses were on bigger lots and farther from each other. The houses were too far apart and the routes too long to use kids on bicycles. So the routes went to kids over 16, or grown-ups, who had automobiles, and could cover the longer routes. Instead of a high schooler with 100 customers, these new routes had maybe 300-400 customers. It was more of an additional job for adults, instead of a part-time income for kids.
Steve’s route in Dayton included a business area. He went to the newspaper first and picked up part of his newspapers. “I would then go to the nearby businesses block each morning, and in those days, virtually everyone took the paper,” he told me. “Then I got another load of papers in my bicycle with the front-end basket and completed my route though my neighborhood.”
My paper route was near my home in Macon. I picked up my papers three blocks away at a service station, and could throw my route in about 40 minutes. Several of us carriers often ended up the first customers about 6 a.m. at a local bakery, where fresh, hot doughnuts were ready for us. That may be why I don’t particularly enjoy doughnuts today, since early on we ate so many back then.
But back to Steve. He once wrote to me: “The world isn’t being destroyed by Democrats or Republicans, red or blue, liberal or conservative. The world is being hurt and damaged by one group believing they’re truly better people than the others who think differently. Stop this by respecting other opinions even if you disagree. Just politely disagree and then move on.”
Steve leaves his wife of 44 years, Christy; three children, Tim, Jill and Jen, and six grandchildren.
Steven William Rausch, 1951-2019: may you rest in peace
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Remembering racial slurs when growing up in bygone Georgia
By Ashley Herndon
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | I do not write to point fingers at anyone in particular in my home state of Georgia or any other state. I am proud to have grown up there with firm family roots in Gwinnett County. But, growing up, I was exposed to meanness, in private and in public. As a student at Grady High in Atlanta and a graduate of Columbus High in Columbus, I was and am still amazed at the lack of recognition about the depth of “anti” sentiments expressed that date far back and continuing into the present. Give me a break.
As a Grady student, at athletic events and sometimes when being greeted on the street (wearing the Red and Grey) by students from other Atlanta schools, a song would erupt aimed at us Grey Knights. They sang out anti-social taunts followed by smirks and laughter. Jealousy is an evil thing. It hurt.
I grew up in Morningside Baptist and was taught that such thinking was dishonest and without honor. Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins was our Sunday School teacher. I was terribly offended by the slurs I had heard against my minority friends and wanted to fight the offenders, but was held back by my Jewish friends who advised me to simply ignore ignorance. I do not know even to this day how they kept from losing control. I get that same feeling today in other parts of the USA when some folks mock my Southern accent, which I wear with pride, just as my friends wore their heritage at Grady and later in Columbus.
We rode the “16 Noble” bus home to Morningside from downtown. Sometimes while waiting to embark, we would be mimed by folks, even some adults with racial taunts. That was in the 1950s, in the supposed to be “City Too Busy to Hate.” This reputation and position would not have been possible without the contributions of our Jewish friends. At Columbus, we were proud to be The Blue Devils, the moniker said to be given us by General Jack Pershing.
Attempts to slur us by other school students was routine. I have to admit we used to ride through drive-ins wearing our letter jackets, perhaps a bit provocative. But some of the offenders were in our Sunday School Class at the First Baptist Church. It appears listening and learning skills have not improved very much over the decades.
How could anyone be unaware of such meanness? We all shopped at Rich’s, owned by an open, honest, philanthropic family. That was the man and family who helped with teacher pay in Atlanta during the depression. In Columbus, the largest department store was Kirvens. They too were great contributors to the entire community.
Evangelical, Hard Shell, Open, Conservative, Congregational, Universal, or whatever, “Agape” is the password and the by word, and oh, and lest we forget, Jesus was a Jew. Isn’t it strange how so many of the more “conservative” faiths use the “Old” Testament as a cudgel to persecute/prosecute the more progressive folks, who tend toward the “New” Testament?
Still, I wouldn’t give up anything for my Georgia heritage.
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Wants more media exposure to other beliefs and religions
Editor, the Forum:
Thank you for running Tim Echols’ insightful article today, “Learning about anti-Semitism while visiting in Israel.”
As a Jewish woman, it’s important for me to read about an educated and worldly person’s view on Jewish culture, traditions, and beliefs especially while in Israel. And, Tim’s experience and interpretation about anti-Semitism as a Christian.
I have studied Christ’s teachings and incorporate those into my daily life as a Jew, however maintain my deep love and respect for my tribe and lifelong dedication to Judaism.
In Jacksonville, Fla. and during the 1970s, a TV program was on the air called, The God Squad. The show featured weekly guests and viewpoints from all denominations and helped a largely southern conservative city become more aware and tolerant.
My hope is to view more media exposure about other religions and beliefs in our children’s lives and as adults in a broadminded forum.
— Bonnie Hayflic, St. Augustine, Fla.
Feels Echols’ visit to Israel was nothing short of propaganda trip
Editor, the Forum:
Tim Echols’ recent participation in the American Jewish Committee’s leadership program is propaganda whose goal is to separate Americans from American values and garner support for Israel’s policies. It seems to be as effective on him.
We fought two bloody wars (Civil and WWII) to explicitly dismantle racialist governments and establish the notion that all men are created by one god and thus equal under the law. George Washington feared that ‘adopting’ a country would lead us to exchange our values for theirs. In Israel, rights are restricted to Jews. In America, rights belong to all men. Let’s not confuse the two.
— Joe Briggs, Suwanee
The crux is usually more about how we arrive at agreed-upon goals
Editor, the Forum:
I found myself agreeing with George Wilson’s assessment of the need for government services to expand proportionally with the expansion of the private sector. In fact, here was a guy (of the right) complete agreeing with another guy (of the left) right up until…the final paragraph.
As I had written in recently about being careful when ascribing motives (regarding the MARTA vote in Gwinnett County), I will do so here again.
To Mr. Wilson (and other folks on the left), I posit that most – if not all – of our goals are the same. We simply have a respectful disagreement as to how we arrive at those goals.
— Gregg Stopher, Peachtree Corners
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Three entities partner to expand arts education at Central Gwinnett
A strategic partnership between the Gwinnett County Public Schools and the City of Lawrenceville will see an expansion of the arts education for students at Central Gwinnett High School. This comes after a groundbreaking on Lawrenceville’s new Performing Arts Center and the expanded home of Gwinnett’s only professional theatre.
The Aurora Theatre, the city, and Gwinnett County Public Schools have formed this partnership to expand arts education opportunities. The School of the Arts at Central Gwinnett High School, a themed “school within a school” experience, will begin offering programs in the fall of 2020 with a state-of-the-art facility opening in 2021.
CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks says: “The City of Lawrenceville and the Aurora Theatre are leaders in the arts community and we are excited to partner with them to bring the School of the Arts to life. This will have a positive impact on the students at Central Gwinnett High School, other students in Gwinnett County, and the greater Gwinnett arts community.”
Gwinnett County Public Schools’ Fine Arts Director David Dubose says: “Lawrenceville’s vision calls for a diverse and substantial talent pool within a regional epicenter of community, and the investment in this School of the Arts will move us closer to that goal. ” Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnsonadds: “Good schools make good communities and we are excited about this opportunity at Central Gwinnett and grateful for the commitment of our City and Gwinnett County Public Schools to make it a reality.”
Central Gwinnett High School Principal Shane Orr and his team have worked with David Dubose to create an exciting program design. Through research and site visits to other Fine Arts schools, the team has developed an overview of the program and is working on the details regarding the student experience.
Currently, Central Gwinnett High School has a Fine Arts and Communications Academy that serves approximately 325 students. This academy will be greatly enhanced and the School of the Arts will provide a rigorous and engaging curriculum focused on three key areas:
- Performing Arts— Theatre, Television and Film, Dance, and Music;
- Visual Arts— Two Dimension, Three Dimension and Digital Art, and Fashion Technology for the Arts; and
- Film and Broadcasting, Theatre Technology, Sound Recording, and MIDI technology.
The School of the Arts’ college-preparatory curriculum will combine required coursework with expanded fine arts classes, internships, and work experiences for students at a pre-professional and professional level.
A unique feature of the School of the Arts will be the opportunity for select students to study in a Fine Arts Conservatory setting. Admittance and participation in the Conservatory program at the School of the Arts will be determined through auditions, interviews, and juried presentations and performances. The signature Conservatory program will provide students with expanded course opportunities, include regular work with industry professionals, as well as participation in internships and work-based experiences.
Snellville’s Temple Beth David to get new rabbi in mid-July
On Friday, July 12, 2019, Rabbi Jesse Charyn will be installed as the new spiritual leader of Temple Beth David in Snellville. Barry Nickelsberg, president of the Synagogue, says: “This will be a proud day and our search has been handsomely rewarded.”
Charyn
Rabbi Jesse, as he likes to be called, began his rabbinic studies upon graduation from Arizona State University in 2011, enrolling in the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He was ordained in 2018 at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute. He plans to continue his studies toward a master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Temple Beth David will be his first rabbinate. Previously, Rabbi Jesse served as a Hebrew teacher, Jewish educator, religious school director and chaplain intern and resident.
His college education was preceded by four years in Israel where he served as a member of the IDF (Israel Defense Force) as an airborne, special forces soldier. “This was a defining experience in my life,” he says proudly, “and I maintain lifelong bonds with my Israeli teammates. I also met my wife Shira in Israel, which makes those years even more meaningful.
The installation itself will be conducted by Rabbi Adir Yolkut, a close friend and fellow graduate of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. Nickelsberg adds: “We are planning a gala weekend to celebrate Rabbi Charyn’s installation.”
The installation will take place during Shabbat services on Friday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, July 13, Rabbi Jesse will lead Shabbat services in the morning. Celebrations will continue Saturday evening at 8 p.m. with a special concert by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame.The weekend is open to all. Temple Beth David is located at 1885 McGee Road, Snellville.
Deadline approaching to apply for Gwinnett 101 Citizens’ Academy
The Gwinnett 101 Citizens Academy is now accepting applications for the 2019 fall cohort, which runs August 29 to November 19. Gwinnett 101 is a 12-week program offered twice each year that aims to develop and nurture informed and engaged residents, students, and business owners in our great county.
Participants will interact with leaders in their county government, visit county facilities to get a first-hand glimpse of how the county works, and build a network with others who live, work, and learn in Gwinnett. For more details, the class schedule, and the application, visit www.gwinnett101.com. The deadline to apply for the fall term is July 1.
Expanded parking deck at GJAC now ready for occupancy
Phase One of the new Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center parking deck is complete. Construction continues on the SPLOST-funded courthouse expansion. Visitors may park in the main public lot in front of the building on Langley Drive, the new parking deck behind the building at the corner of Constitution Boulevard and Nash Street, or in the overflow lot on Nash Street when visiting GJAC. Visit the webpage to learn more about the project and watch a time-lapse video of the demolition of the old parking deck.
Rotary Club of Gwinnett makes $40,000 gift to charities
Four non-profits were awarded a collective total of $40,000 in grants by the Gwinnett County Rotary Club recently. Club President Mark Willis shares: “This is just one of the many ways our Rotary Club has worked to live out our theme this year, ‘Be The Inspiration.’ Our community is working together to lessen the hardships experienced by many. These grant dollars will be used towards that effort. This year we sought to fund projects that impact two of the greatest needs in Gwinnett County-homelessness and food insecurity.”
Each year the Rotary Club of Gwinnett awards grants to local nonprofits, thanks to their annual fundraising efforts and a charitable endowment the Club set up years ago through the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia.
The four local grant award recipients received $9,000 each and the organizations include:
- Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity: A Brush with Kindness program targeting elderly, disabled and veteran homeowners in Gwinnett County;
- Nothing but the Truth: Weekend Food program targeting Gwinnett County elementary and middle school students who have been identified as food insecure;
- The Salvation Army of Gwinnett’s Home Sweet Gwinnett Program, targeting child homelessness; and
- United Way of Greater Atlanta in Gwinnett County: HomeFirst Gwinnett initiative addressing homelessness and affordable housing needs in Gwinnett.
A total of $4,000 is targeted to Rotary International to aid in their effort to eradicate polio worldwide. Only three countries have reported new polio cases in 2019. Rotary International, working with other groups, has reduced polio cases 99.9 percent since 1988.
The Rotary Club of Gwinnett County, founded in 1973, is the oldest and largest in the county.
Norcross bee info booth at Norcross Farmers Market on June 22
Norcross is a certified Bee City USA. Sustainable Norcross and the Bee City Committee will host an information booth throughout the farmers market on June 22 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lillian Webb Park in historic downtown.
Norcross Garden Club will hold a bee house workshop and a presentation by Hall County Master Gardener Dee Scarpellino starting at 10:15 a.m. after the Chef Demo at 10 a,m. Entrance to the market and all activities are free and family friendly.
Come learn how pollinators play a vital role in our ability to enjoy a healthy community and what each of us can do to make a positive difference in their ability to thrive. Bee there!
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: Mitch Album’s The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto is a magical journey with the main character a disembodied but larger than life presence. The main character ‘music’ describes how it enters the soul of all people in varying degrees. The courtship by ‘music’ of some people, notably Frankie Presto results in a lifetime dance among notes and musical genres that enrich and amaze those who experience his talent. Frankie Presto is courted by ‘music’ after a tragic beginning during which one parent dies and he loses contact with the other. Frankie becomes a mega talented guitarist who changes the lives during pivotal moments. The story describes how the relationship with music burnishes many lives, in quixotic and sometimes delightful ways. This book is thus far my most meaningful read this year. Moments of deep reflection and gratitude have resulted in my experience with this wonderful title.
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Brumbys in Cobb County take control of Marietta Daily Journal
(Continued from previous edition)
Thomas Micajah Brumby Jr., son of Thomas and Mariah Brumby, was born in Mississippi in 1878 and, like his father and uncle, served as president of the famous chair company. As an infant he traveled with his parents to Marietta in 1878 and, as he grew, gradually learned all aspects of the family business. In 1905 he married Cordelia Inman Gray, daughter of James R. Gray, publisher of The Atlanta Journal; they had four children. After his father’s retirement in 1923, Thomas Brumby Jr. took the reins and guided the company through the difficult years of the Great Depression. He too delved into politics, as Marietta councilman and, later, as mayor.
After Thomas Brumby Jr. died in 1938, his brother Robert Eldridge Brumby left his Louisiana law practice to take over the family business. Robert Brumby was born in Marietta in 1883 but left Georgia in the early 1900s to attend Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He married Myrtle Palfrey in 1912, and they had three daughters.
During Robert Brumby’s term as president of the Brumby business, World War II (1941-45) shortages hit the company hard—cane in particular became difficult to import from Asia. Robert Brumby and another brother, Otis Arnoldus Brumby, a newspaperman and Brumby Chair Company board member, finally sold the company to an Ohio firm, but they retained the Brumby Chair name and trademark in hopes of one day restarting the factory. After selling the company, Robert Brumby returned to Louisiana, where he died in 1966.
Otis Arnoldus Brumby, the fourth son of Thomas and Mariah Brumby, was born in Marietta in 1889. Like his older brother Robert, he left Georgia to attend Tulane University in New Orleans. After graduating in 1911, he moved to Florida, on a doctor’s advice, to mend his poor health. There he became a cub reporter and bought an interest in the fledgling St. Petersburg Times when it went daily. He was on duty as night editor when the story of the sinking Titanic broke in 1912.
In 1916 he returned to Marietta to found the Cobb County Times, for which he wrote a column. He became vice president of the Brumby Chair Company in 1936 and married Elisabeth Dobbs, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Their son, Otis Jr., would enter the newspaper business, like his father, and became the fifth president of the Brumby Chair Company.
Asthmatic, and left with a weak heart and partial hearing loss from a childhood bout with scarlet fever, Otis Brumby championed health care for those who could not afford it, and when the Ku Klux Klan burned a black church near his hometown, he began his column,”You, yellow rats.” He was elected president of the Georgia Press Association in 1941 and, like the other Brumbys, was politically active; in the 1940s he served in the Georgia House of Representatives and on the Cobb County Board of Education.In 1951 the Cobb County Times merged with the Marietta Daily Journal, and Otis Brumby took the helm as chairman of the board, serving until his death in 1953.
(To be continued)
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Classic photograph might give you a clue to solve its mystery
Today’s Mystery Photo might be considered a classic, particularly right now. One big clue: not in the Western Hemisphere. Figure out where this is and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
The most recent Mystery Photo was a doozie, with no one even coming close to solving it. It came from Lou Cameiro of Lilburn, who says it is the sunset on the Dog River near Mobile Ala. at Jubilee’s Riverside Resort, a private residence community. There was good reason no one was able to identify the area, since there were few geographic clues. Meanwhile, you could enjoy this nice sunset.
Here’s what one guy, George Graf of Palmyra, Va., about this mystery: “You were absolutely correct about few clues. If indeed a sunset and with the Spanish moss, must be on the west side of a barrier island, wide river or intercoastal waterway since you can see an eastern shoreline. The mowed grass seems to indicate a park or possible hotel/resort. If a private residence, I won’t find a view. A pier with a blue roof is seen to the left and a seawall on the shoreline are other clues, but I couldn’t find any matching views from your favorite place of Jekyll Island or other barrier islands, though Cumberland Island seemed an early possibility. Finally settled on Wilmington Island even though I had no matching images, so a wild guess indeed.”
Divergent Theme Reception of fine art is Friday, June 21, at The Rectory, 10 College Street, in Norcross, from 6-8 p.m. Highlighting the works of Kim Crowe, Kathy de Cano, John R. Duke, Vickie McCrary, Pam O’Sullivan, Patty Stokes and Betty Juodis, the show will run from June 21-26. Come meet the artists and enjoy the [rockin’!] musical stylings of violinist Justin Monday.
North Georgia Kids Read presents award winning children’s author, Laurel Snyder on Saturday, June 22, at 1 p.m. at the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Peachtree Corners. Snyder is the author of six bestselling novels for children and many picture books. She also teaches in the creative writing department of Emory University. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments served and silent auction by Friends of the Library.
Downtown Duluth
July 3 in Duluth: Fireworks will ignite the sky once again as Duluth’s award-winning patriotic celebration, Duluth Celebrates America, soon. The event will feature food trucks, live music and entertainment from 5-10 p.m. The Backyard to Brooklyn and the A-Town-A-List bands will bring residents to their feet with an assortment of music options. For more information, visit: www.duluthga.net/events.
The Southeastern Pastel Society 2019 National Juried Exhibition will run through August 10, at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center at 514 Green Street in Gainesville. Reception and awards will be on June 13 at 5:30 p.m. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturday from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is Free. This exhibit will feature 76 paintings in a variety of styles painted by artists from nine states. For more information call the Quinlan Visual Arts Center 770-536-2575, or visit quinlanartscenter.org.
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