THE CALLAWAY FAMILY of Georgia has been the subject of two recent (and today’s) Georgia Encyclopedia tidbits. Many probably did not know that a Great Lakes ore vessel is named for Cason J. Callaway. The ship, built in 1952, is 767 feet long, is a self-discharging bulk carrier, and plies a route between Duluth, Minn. and Cleveland, Ohio, hauling iron ore pellets. She is named for Callaway, who spent most of his life in Georgia, working in the textile industry. He became a member of the board of directors of US Steel in 1944 and served until his death in 1961.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Industrial Revolution from War Capitalism and Plantation Capitalism
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Route of Phase 3 of Sugarloaf Parkway Extension May Surprise Some
ANOTHER VIEW: Reject hate and fury by taking high road to future
SPOTLIGHT: Mingledorff’s
FEEDBACK: Suggests Another Slogan for the USA: “Let America Bake Again”
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Medical Center in Peachtree Corners To Open August 5
NOTABLE: Mitsubishi Golf Classic Gives More Than $300,000 in 2019 to Charities
RECOMMENDED: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Former Blue Springs Farm Turns into Callaway Gardens
MYSTERY PHOTO: You Would Have Had To “Look Up” To Have Seen This Mystery
CALENDAR: Check out events coming soon
Industrial Revolution from war capitalism and plantation capitalism
By Ashley Herndon
(Editor’s note: the author is a native of the area and grew up in Atlanta and in Gwinnett.—eeb)
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | War Capitalism is an interesting phrase. Does it relate in today’s world? History shows us that War Capitalism began with producers and merchants achieving success on their own, followed by the willing partnership of the State for protection when it moved from a local endeavor, (when there was no internet, airplanes, or Interstate Highways.) As trade grew, together the Capitalists and States jointly inserted themselves in unique ways into global networks of production, commerce, and ownership, creating War Capitalism. Since certain cultures and religions were prohibited from owning land in some countries, these people became tradesmen and “money lenders,” leading to the development Capitalists.
Herndon
Example: The cotton trade. Between growers and spinners, between spinners and weavers, between producers and consumers. Long before the advent of new production technologies, they had already rearranged the global cotton industry and global cotton network, via State backed and protected monopolies. England, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Japan, China, and the Middle East all practiced the same strategy with different tactics and intensity.
NOTE: This is not socialist thinking; it is a review of History. Question: Who were the real Pirates? Was it the individuals interrupting trade or the Joint Ventures? Both sought personal profits from the ‘stuff’ (raw materials, cloth, manufacturing, sugar, rice et al), produced by others. Answer: I suppose it depends on whether you are Buying or Selling.
Starting (full steam) in the 16th Century, armed capitalists backed by rich states reorganized the world’s cotton industry, which set the stage for this domination by force, theft, slavery, expropriation of lands, capital, and goods. Once Europeans discovered the benefits of cotton and then silk, all changed. (Check out the fancy duds worn by the “Elite”, not to mention the spices, herbs and perfumes.) Millions died, while “the few” prospered.
War Capitalism and Plantation Capitalism set the stage for the Industrial Revolution. Just think, it all goes back to the production of the local artisan, then family producers, not executives or kings.
Now, understand this before you throw too many rocks and comments: I have no problem with capitalism, per se; I am an active and willing participant. However, I do have a problem with excess and greed and the pounding of those and holding down those who do the actual productive work, which is, in my opinion, where equity should take place, not hiding in the boardroom or on “the Street.” I do not use the word “Fair” since I believe there is such thing, so I insert “equity and equitable” where some folks spray the other word. Someone needs to manage, just not overlord. My mentor used to advise “Sell, don’t tell!”
If you haven’t read Dickens and Twain lately, it’s not too late. Try Hemingway and Hersey for the results of War and Plantation Capitalism. Then decide if Twain was correct when he is attributed to have said: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Or, Bertrand Russell’s quote: “If any of the things that we value are to survive, the problem must be solved. How it can be solved is clear; the difficulty is to persuade the human race to acquiesce in its own survival. I cannot believe that this task is impossible.”
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Route of Phase 3 of Sugarloaf Parkway Extension may surprise some
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG. 2, 2019 | Some day, years from now, a few homeowners in Gwinnett are going to be surprised to find a four-lane highway mighty close to the homes that they occupy in 2019. The roadway will be the extension of Sugarloaf Parkway, which planners have already put in motion.
The current Sugarloaf Parkway extends from Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Duluth, in a northeasterly semi-circle through the edges of Lawrenceville past I-85, crosses Georgia Highway 316, circling past Five Forks Trickum Road, on past Scenic Highway and Georgia Highway 20 near Grayson to its present end at Georgia Highway 316 near Dacula. But there’s more coming.
A new part of the road, currently known as Phase 2, won’t happen soon. Eventually it will push the four-lane road to Interstate 85 between Gravel Springs Road and Georgia Highway 20. This 6.8 mile extension anticipated completion time of this road will be in about two years. The road will include a four lane divided highway with a raised median, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, turn lanes as well as grade separation at I-85, Georgia Highway 124, Old Fountain Road, Old Peachtree Road, Fence Road, Georgia Highway 8, and Georgia Highway 316.
The new road will add roadway capacity and address peak period congestion in the northern part of the county, which is experiencing rapid population and employment growth.
Click on the map to see a larger version of it.
Then after the local four lane highway circles to I-85, there is to be one more phase of this road: Phrase 3, from I-85 back to Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, ending within the City of Sugar Hill south of the county’s E.E. Robinson Park.
Building four-lane roads today is costly. The extension from Georgia Highway 316 to I-85, currently known as phase 2, is anticipated to cost $305 million.
Phase 3 may not come until after 2030. Its route follow right-of-way that was previously known as Northern Arc, a now-dead four lane road that sought to connect I-85 with I-75. That route provided an alternate, especially for trucks, traveling from Northwest Georgia to I-85 and points northeastward.
Phase 3’s route, to be 5.8 miles, passes just north of the Mall of Georgia, abuts the rear of the Best Buy property line. You can see pine trees growing there now. On the other side of Georgia Highway 20, the road’s closest neighbor will be the Bank of the Ozarks.
The road passes over Plunkett Road and I-365. On Plunkett Road, it will bisect two subdivisions, Sage Stone and Westleigh. The route between the two subdivisions is clearly obvious by being undeveloped with tree overgrowth now. Years from now, it will be alive with the roar of vehicles clearly heard in these two areas, where houses are close to the right-of-way. I bet that many of this area’s current homeowners are not aware that a busy four-lane highway will be that close to the location some day.
By that time, the way our mobile society operates, many of the current homeowners may not be living in those houses, having moved away. Yet the area could suffer from highway noises. The value of the housing could possibly be negatively affected by the projected road.
Yet no matter where you live in Gwinnett, there may be noise problems from vehicular traffic. The very nature of Gwinnett’s growth insures this.
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A. BRACK: Reject hate and fury by taking high road to future
Alabama Gov. George Wallace and President Richard Nixon, February 1974. Credit: Wikipedia, via National Archives.
Editor’s note: My son, Andy, has been vacationing with his daughters, and wrote this while away in Canada. –eeb
By Andy Brack, StatehouseReport.com
AUG. 2, 2019 | One of the best things about vacationing in Quebec for the last week has been that we haven’t had to listen to people talk about Donald J. Trump.
Most of the newspapers and television stations are in French, as is much of the conversation overheard while visiting interesting places in Montreal and in villages just north of the border with America.
But some of the tension gripping the United States slipped in, thanks to the ubiquitous nature of social media. This includes two of the most gripping opinion pieces we’ve read in months.
First came The Baltimore Sun’s defense of its city after the president attacked it for being infested with rats. Even South Carolina’s GOP U.S. Sen. Tim Scott seemed to think Trump went too far, telling The State newspaper, “I think anytime you leave the impression, intended or not, that you’re targeting vulnerable people, I say, ‘God have mercy on the party.’”
But The Sun should win a Pulitzer Prize for its unblanched look at a presidency marked more by insult than any iota of decency. Here’s an excerpt from “Better to have a few rats than to be one:”
“Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s [Rep. Elijah] Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”
And if you thought that was explosive, turn South to Alabama, where columnist John Archibald talked with a daughter of former Gov. George Wallace, whose race-based 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns have parallels to the rhetoric coming from Trump’s White House. In a July 31 commentary headlined, “George Wallace’s daughter: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’” Archibald describes how Peggy Wallace Kennedy said as a child, she didn’t understand the hate and vitriol of her father’s national campaigns.
“She understands now,” Archibald wrote. “She understands all too well. Her father was wrong. ‘We cannot go backward,’ she told a group of teachers at the Birmingham Public Library last week. ‘We have to go forward.’”
Wallace Kennedy, who has a book coming out later this year about dealing with her father’s legacy, did not mention Trump, Archibald wrote. But in the column, she said the nation’s political throes a look a lot like what happened in her world in the 1960s.
“Each of us individually need to act with compassion and pray for our democracy. I hope we don’t go back. But it looks like where we are slipping … that seems to be where the top is taking us. … I’ve never seen anything like it. I saw Daddy a lot in 2016.”
The escalating, hate-filled rhetoric spewed by today’s president isn’t going to diminish. It might calm down for a few days here, a few days there. But the language of fear will continue to rise because, as Archibald wrote, it works: “Fanning the flames of fury works on crowds way better than policy solutions or wonkish approaches to governmental reform. Play on the resentments and you never have to get too deep into answers.”
For America to end this McCarthy-esque era of bullying, lying and rage, Democrats will have to do more than fiddle along the 2020 campaign trail. They will have to exile wishy-washiness from their modus operandi. They can’t base their campaigns only on being against Trump.
In short, they have to be FOR something big. They have to promote better opportunities for all Americans so that we can earn more economically and heal as a society.
They’ve got a few months to figure it out. And if they don’t, look for the fire hydrants of hate and racism to continue and for people to look seriously at moving to places like Quebec.
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Suggests another slogan for the USA: “Let America Bake Again”
Editor, the Forum:
In American history Election Day was a raucous holiday when women (who could not vote) baked special cakes to encourage the men to vote for the “right” candidate. Election Day was a big deal. Election Day was a day off to party for your candidate. It was a time to meet your neighbors and celebrate democracy.
In our confused politics today, we have lost that holiday spirit that unified our patriotism and excited us to participate in democracy. So I suggest that instead of “Make America Great Again” we substitute “Let America Bake Again”.
— Alan Schneiberg, Sugar Hill
Yes, Alan, during earlier times, in rural areas, farmers had more control of their time, so on Election Day, they stopped routine chores and celebrated our country. Once they moved to the city, and worked as they say “for wages,” they could not control their own time as much, and this phase of our country was lost. –eeb
In this new age, is mankind about to step into the role of creator?
Editor, the Forum:
The invention of steel, gun powder, a 26 letter alphabet, and a binary culture of humanism and monotheism allowed 500 years of European dominance. It created a technological edge that was exploited. As we have gone through the industrial and cyber revolutions, we find ourselves in a powerful new spot. We have made things to help us work. Now we are going to make things that think, that can make things, that can talk. All this is pretty far from the cave.
Yet………are we about to step into the role of creator? What ethics will we have for these artificial intelligence products? Can we throw them away like a toaster oven? Will we need a code of law for interaction with these products? Or will they just be treated like a laptop that’s there for our needs and thrown around. When it becomes unfixable, it is hit with a magnet. Parts can be sold off.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
Mueller’s testimony made it known that his report was enough
Editor, the Forum:
Robert Mueller didn’t want to even be there! It was NOT because of his age! Also, he even made it known at one point after his last testimony that he was done with it. He knew there was nothing more he had to say or knew to tell.
Democrats just can’t let it go. Just like a spoiled kid, they will keep digging for something to get on President Trump. But what they are really doing is digging themselves into a bigger hole and that is why Trump is going to win again in 2020. There are those now who realize this.
— Marilyn Clayton, Lawrenceville
Look at the company Georgia is in with new voting machines
Editor, the Forum:
I see that Dominion Voting also sold voting machines to New York, Illinois and Nevada. Being in company with Chicago, Las Vegas and New York City is a dubious honor.
— Mark Smith, Eatonton
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Gwinnett Medical Center in Peachtree Corners to open Aug. 5
Gwinnett Medical Center has announced a new GMC Primary Care and Specialty Center will open August 5 in the heart of Peachtree Corners on Peachtree Parkway, putting accessible, industry-leading healthcare on the map for area residents.
GMC Primary Care and Specialty Center-Peachtree Corners will deliver several services for individuals and businesses seeking specialized and preventative care. Offerings will include primary care and corporate health programs from GMG Primary Care, as well as cardiology, gastroenterology, obstetric and gynecologic care from a variety of local specialists. Additionally, onsite offerings will include orthopedics, 3D mammography and digital X-ray.
Barbara Joy Jones, DO, an alumna of GMC’s Graduate Medical Education program, will serve as the lead primary care provider for the new facility.
Phil Wolfe, president and CEO of GMC, says: “Delivering care that is both high-quality and convenient is instrumental to our mission of transforming healthcare. We believe that the addition of this facility will further that mission and promote healthier communities.”
- To learn more about the new GMC Primary Care & Specialty Center-Peachtree Corners, visit gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/ptc. In addition, GMC is offering free concussion baseline testing August 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and August 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register, visitgwinnettmedicalcenter.org/ptcbaseline. For questions, contact Kristy Crea at kcrea@gwinnettmedicalcenter.org.
Snellville sets meetings for ideas on improving its T.W. Briscoe Park
What would make T.W. Briscoe Park in Snellville better?
Snellville leaders will be looking for answers to that question at two public meetings as part of Phase III of the T.W. Briscoe Park Master Plan update.
Nearly $4 million was set aside in 2014 Special Local Option Sales Tax funds for renovations at the park, possibly including a multipurpose building.
Parks and Recreation Director Lisa Platt says: “A new multipurpose building would give us better ability to provide more diverse programming, better meeting and activity rooms and better offices for. It’s about being able to offer more options to visitors to the park. It opens a lot of options we haven’t been able to provide.”
The first meeting to discuss this will be from 6 to 8 p.m. August 15 at the park office at 2500 Sawyer Parkway. The second meeting is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at City Hall, 2342 Oak Road.
This would be the fourth round of SPLOST improvements at the park. The first three – dubbed Phase I, IIa and IIb – started in 2008 and included additional restrooms, additional sidewalks, a multipurpose field, parking lot improvements and a softball complex.
The meeting is open to the public. Citizen input will help determine the needs of the community which will shape the future use of the park. For more information call the parks office at 770-985-3535.
Mitsubishi Golf Classic gives more than $300,000 in 2019 to charities
More than $300,000 was raised for local charities at the seventh Mitsubishi Electric Classic, held at TPC Sugarloaf last April.
The funds are going to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett and other local charities. Since its inception in 2013, the Mitsubishi Electric Classic has donated a total of $2,347,005 in support of charitable organizations in Gwinnett County and the greater Metro Atlanta Area. This year the contribution was $312,533.
Stan Hall, chief operating officer of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, says: “Aside from the obvious opportunity to provide world class professional golf at TPC Sugarloaf, the Mitsubishi Electric Classic has had a direct impact on the betterment of our community. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Gwinnett locations, Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett, Cink Charities, Cooper’s Crew, Women’s Club of Sugarloaf C.C. Charities, and many others have received direct financial contributions as a result of the efforts of the tournament’s charitable outreach programs. We could not be prouder to partner with and assist these deserving charitable organizations as they continue to influence so many lives in a positive and much needed manner.”
Kent Hora, president and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., says: “We’ve had seven successful years as the title sponsor of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic. That is only possible with the effort of so many people, including many dedicated volunteers and others in the community. To have an opportunity to give back in such a significant way is at the forefront of what we do and is meaningful for everyone at Mitsubishi Electric.”
The tournament’s continued growth in charitable giving since 2016 is a product of several charity-focused events conducted by the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, including: Birdies for Charity, Stewart Cink Monday Pro-Am presented by TransAmerica, Fiserv Executive Women’s Day, and the Cologuard Celebrity Challenge.
E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc., wins $19.5 million repaving bid
Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded 54 construction contracts for statewide transportation project, totaling $173,927,084. The projects included in the award were advertised on May 24, bids were received on June 21, and contracts were awarded to the lowest qualified bidders on July 8.
The largest single investment contract, worth $19.5 million, was awarded to E. R. Snell Contractor, Inc. The company was hired to resurface 3.56 miles of concrete on I-285/Georgia Highway 407 in Clayton and Fulton counties. This resurfacing project extends from the west end of the airport tunnel to US 29/Georgia Highway 14. This contract, along with 24 other resurfacing contracts, represent 54 percent or $93.5 million of the awarded funds.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: Leni is an only child who has traveled with her parents from the state of Washington to the wilds of Alaska to live off the grid. It’s a harsh, minimalistic, bare bones life. There are very few people to help her if she needs help, and no one lives nearby. Her father, a former Vietnam POW, is now broken, paranoid, volatile and terrifyingly abusive to her mother. Leni is hoping Alaska will be the balm to cure her father’s soul. But it gets worse. You may ask – how can a book that sounds so painful still be good? Well, I didn’t like everything about this book. Some of it is unrealistic and other parts are painfully too realistic. Some of it is even melodramatic. But the bottom line is this – the author tells one heck of a moving story and also gives you a person to root for.
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Former Blue Springs Farm turns into Callaway Gardens
(Continued from previous edition)
During the 1920s and 1930s, Cason Callaway became close friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt, a part-time resident of west Georgia. Roosevelt began visiting Warm Springs in October 1924, while trying to overcome the effects of polio. He and Cason shared a love of the people, a desire to improve the land, and an interest in farming, even though they disagreed on politics.
In 1932, the year Roosevelt was elected president of the United States, Cason led fund-raising efforts for Georgia Hall, the new administration building for the Warm Springs Foundation (later the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation). The foundation was funded by Georgians as a tribute to their new president.
Following his retirement from the mills, Cason set up an experimental farming operation of 40,000 acres at his Blue Springs Farms near Hamilton, just south of LaGrange. He worked with the University of Georgia to develop other showplace farms as part of the One Hundred Georgia Better Farms program, which encouraged better farm practices, between 1944 and 1947. The program encouraged using machinery and developing fine production—whether in beef, wool, or fruits and vegetables. The program officially ended in 1950.
In 1947 Cason had a heart attack. His focus shifted from agriculture to the development of what later became Callaway Gardens, situated on former cotton fields that had been stripped of nutrients by intensive farming. The gardens opened in May 1952. After Cason’s death, his son Bo oversaw operations of the gardens for many years.
Born in LaGrange, Fuller Earle Callaway Jr. (1907-92) graduated from LaGrange High, Georgia School of Technology, and the Eastman School of Business in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He started working in the mills at age 14 and became president of Callaway Mills in 1935. He was a community leader and a benefactor of the town of LaGrange, LaGrange College, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fuller Jr. operated Callaway Mills for many years and established foundations that gave away millions during his lifetime.
In 1948 Fuller Jr. took a ten-year leave from mill management. During those years, he painted, worked with electronics, and assembled a herd of Hereford cattle. He then returned to the helm of Callaway Mills and successfully guided operations until April 1968, when he shocked many by selling Callaway Mills for cash to Roger Milliken and Deering-Milliken Company of Spartanburg, S.C.
In 1930 Fuller Jr. married Alice Hinman Hand of Pelham. Fuller and Alice had met years earlier when their siblings, Cason and Virginia, married. Fuller and Alice had two children, Ida and Fuller III. They lived at the Hills and Dales estate of his parents, where Alice worked for decades to preserve the home and gardens. Since Alice’s death, the gardens have been renamed Ferrell Gardens at Hills and Dales and are open to the public on a limited basis.
Fuller Jr. helped to found the Institute of Textile Technology in Charlottesville, Va., and along with two other alumni, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, which supports research in all areas of the sciences. In 1943 he organized the Callaway Community Foundation (later the Callaway Foundation). The foundation carried on the work of the Textile Benefit Association organized by his father in 1919. The Callaway Foundation owned all assets of Callaway Mills and has made contributions from income to religious, charitable, and educational organizations. More than $275 million from the foundation have has been given to local, state, and national groups since 1943.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
You would have had to “look up” to have seen this mystery
You would have had to crane your neck to view today’s Mystery Photo. It’s pretty easy to identify the airplane, but where was this taken. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
It was an unusual photograph, and not very many people were able to recognize it. Last week’s Mystery Photo came from Alan Peel of San Antonio, Texas. Jim Savadelis of Duluth was first in, recognizing “….that of a French Watermill in Vernon, Normandy, France. Northeast of “Paris on La Seine.” Virginia Klaer of Duluth was right behind, telling us that it was “….built in the 16th century. It has deteriorated over time so visitors can view anytime but cannot go inside.”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. says that “The Old Mill / Vieux Moulin de Vernon over the river Seine, in Normandy, France. It is a simple half-timbered house built around the 16th century, straddling two of the piers of the 12th century medieval bridge. The bridge crosses the Seine at the level of the island of Talus on which it took support, and connected the Vernonnet commune to that of Vernon.
“Between 1925 and 1930, the Old Mill belonged to a composer of magazines, Jean Nouguès, who arranged to dance on a barge moored nearby. In 1930 , he sold it to an American, William Griffin. Following the death of the owner in 1947, the city began its renovation because of the numerous damages caused during the military operations of the Second World War.
“Today, it is one of the few buildings on a bridge in France and the site was used as a backdrop to the painter Claude Monet, ‘Houses on the Old Bridge at Vernon’ (1883 canvas). See photo.”
Andy Brack of Charleston, S.C.,wrote: “About four years ago in Paris, I boarded a train for Normandy to visit Monet’s Giverny. The train stopped at the charming town of Vernon, where I rented a bike to trek the 5K to Giverny on a trail along the Seine. Upon crossing the river, there sat an old mill (Le Vieux-Moulin) over the river. At the time, it was a mystery why it seemed to dangle over the water because it certainly looked out of place.”
Snellville Commerce Club speaker on August 6 at noon at the City Hall will be Jay Markwalter, executive director of the Georgia Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus. He previously was the first Executive Director of the Lawrenceville Tourism & Trade Association serving for seven years.
National Night Out will be on Tuesday, August 6 in Lilburn. This will be the 10th annual National Night Out and will be at Plaza Las Americas. The civic event is aimed to support anti-crime efforts and strengthen neighborhood spirit by building relationships with local law enforcement and other civil servants. For more information on this free event, please visit https://www.cityoflilburn.com
Small Business Workshop: Join Stephanie Sokenis, on Tuesday, August 6 at 6 p.m. at the Suwanee Branch Library. Hear Mr. Sokenis, an accredited small business consultant from SmallBiz Ally, to learn how to grow your small business through email marketing. Reach new customers, increase loyalty, and do more business. Presented by the Gwinnett County Public Library, registration is required by emailing events@gwinnettpl.org. Free and open to the public.For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Terence Lester will speak Thursday, August 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Suwanee Branch Library. He is a thought leader in the realm of systemic poverty. He is known for his nationwide campaigns that bring awareness to issues surrounding homelessness, poverty, and economic inequality. This is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
U.S attorney to speak: The U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, B.J. Pak of Lilburn, will speak at a Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce meeting on August 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the 1818 Club in Duluth. Pak, the 25h presidentially-appointed U.S. Attorney for North Georgia, is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. He is also a graduate of Stetson University, where he was a Florida Academic Scholar. He is also a registered Certified Public Accountant in Illinois.
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