CUTTING THE RIBBON at the Infinite Energy Center parking deck are, on the front row, Richard Tucker, GCVB Board chairman; Jace Brooks, Gwinnett County commissioner; Stan Hall, GCVP chief operating officer; Col. Art Riling, GCVB Board; and Chris Cochran, Brasfield and Gorrie project manager. On the back row are Tom Martin and Tommy Hughes, GCVB board; Tim Vogt, Infinite Energy Center operations director; Mike Cera, Infinite Energy Center project and contract manager; and Nick Masino, Gwinnett Chamber president and CEO. For more details, see Elliott Brack’s perspective below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett Historical Society Gets Grant for Digitizing Local Newspapers
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Parking Deck at Infinite Energy Center Is Suburban’s Biggest
ANOTHER VIEW: Other Democrats Owe Joe Biden a Mountain of Gratitude
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: “Brainwashed” Trump Supporter Notes CREW’s Staff Backgrounds
UPCOMING: Holtkamp Completes Two Murals on New Building Facing Interstate 85
NOTABLE: Board Appoints Kristi Royston as Gwinnett’s New Election Supervisor
RECOMMENDED: Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Early Georgia Settlers Promoted Viniculture at Trustee Garden
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another Lighthouse Shining Its Light Asking Where It Is Located
CALENDAR: Let Your Dog Enjoy Pooches in the Park in Braselton on September 28
Gwinnett Historical Society gets grant for digitizing local newspapers
By Beverly Paff, trustee, Gwinnett Historical Society
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | Research on Gwinnett will become a little easier locally, as the Gwinnett Historical Society has secured funds to digitize historic Gwinnett newspapers. Funds from a grant through the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation of Atlanta and donations from Jackson EMC. and private sources fund this project.
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The R.J. Taylor Jr. Foundation promotes genealogical research in Georgia by providing grants to individuals and organizations to defray the cost of publishing approved print and digital projects. Such projects must use records of a genealogical nature and a significant portion of the project must contain genealogical records concerning Georgia citizens who were residents prior to 1852.
Gwinnett Historical Society’s (GHS) Tyler Holman helped secure the grant. He is a North Georgia College student who has also contributed to recent editions of The Heritage, the GHS publication.
The grant from the Taylor Foundation was for $10,741 to the Gwinnett Historical Society, which will work with the Digital Library of Georgia(DLG), University of Georgia Libraries, to digitize the following newspapers:
- Weekly Gwinnett Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga., 1871), Jan 1879 – May 1885[
- The Gwinnett-Herald, Jun 1885 – Dec 11, 1894;
- The Gwinnett-Herald, Jan 1895 – 1897;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.) Jul 27 1894 – Aug 31, 1894;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Jan 1903 – Dec 1905;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Jan 1906 – Dec 1908;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Jan 1909 – Jun 1912;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Jul 1912 – Oct 1915;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Nov 1915 – Nov 1918;
- News-Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Nov 1921 – Aug 1924; and
- Weekly Gwinnett Herald (Lawrenceville, Ga.: 1871), Jun 28 – Dec 1878.
GHS also received a $1,000 donation from Jackson EMC, as well as smaller personal donations to be used toward any additional costs incurred during this project. The work is expected to be complete within 18 months. This project will create full-text searchable digital surrogates of the newspapers and present them online for free in the Georgia Historic Newspaper database of DLG. Users will be able to search the database for geographic, corporate, and personal family names.
Making these historic Gwinnett newspapers available in a searchable format advances and encourages scholarship on Gwinnett County and the region of northeast Georgia. These newspapers contain a wealth of information on all facets of life during this period and are one of the richest sources available to historians studying life in this region. Making it easier to access these newspapers will encourage professional and amateur scholars to incorporate the unique perspective of the people of this region into their work. Topics of interest covered in these papers include politics, agriculture, labor and industry, race relations, as well as colorful local commentary on everything from national news to social life.
Meanwhile, the Gwinnett County Public Library has microfilm for the Gwinnett Daily Post at the Collins Hill branch from September 1995 to December 2004, January 2005 to August 2006 and September, October and December 2006 and from January 2007 to December 2008. It also has microfilm from when this paper had different names pre-1995 (Gwinnett Post Tribune and Gwinnett Daily News.) It has the Gwinnett Daily News from February 1965 to September 1992.
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Parking deck at Infinite Energy Center is suburban’s biggest
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 24, 2019 | Back in the early days of development in Gwinnett, finally out of frustration I took to hauling around a shovel in the trunk of a 1974 green wide-track Pontiac. Why? Well, in that early era of development in Gwinnett, there were few groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, and on two occasions, when going to a groundbreaking, of all things, no one thought to bring a shovel.
So for two or three years, my shovel became popular in the photographs (which often I took) of new activities coming to the county. Since then, groundbreakings have become much more routine. These days people know how to put them on. Why, the modern groundbreaking often even has pre-dug Georgia red clay (or even sand) awaiting, spread in a pile. No longer do the dignitaries have to use their foot to spade up the dirt; that’s already taken care of. Now they simply have to break into the already-loosed dirt for the ceremony.
There was a new wrinkle the other day in Peachtree Corners at a ribbon cutting, where humans did not hold up the ends of the ribbon. The ends were attached to two drones. You may have seen a photograph in GwinnettForum.
In other words, modern groundbreaking and ribbon cuttings have become sophisticated.
Yet with all these ceremonial occasions over the years, I had never attended something like I experienced last week. I went to a ribbon-cutting of…..a parking deck. Nope, never been to one of those before.
It was the gigantic 2,400 vehicle parking deck at the Infinite Energy Center, as it prepares for a whole mass of people who will be parking in this area in the future as the Revel development comes on line around the Center. And the ribbon-sniping was for only the first of two parking garages. Another is undergoing finishing touches adjacent. Both are between the Gwinnett Chamber building and the actual convention center itself.
The second parking garage will hold another 880 vehicles, making the area, according to Gwinnett Visitors and Convention Bureau Chairman Richard Tucker, the largest parking deck in suburban Atlanta.
Earlier recently I had first parked at the just-opened Infinite Energy Center parking deck, to attend the Salvation Army “Doing the most good” banquet at the convention center’s ballroom. Parking was so easy, on the ground level just steps away and across the street from the Center’s entrance. Now this new deck consists of seven different levels: one at ground level, two below-ground, and four levels above ground.
And the architects (Wakefield and Beasley of Peachtree Corners) have thought some about this: there are six different entrances-exits at different levels. Think how long it would take to get in (or out) without multiple outlets.
Officials have touted all along that the Infinite Energy Center area would become a virtual center of activity for not only Gwinnettians, but visitors to the county, since it will be both a convention and an entertainment district.
What opened last week was, you might call, the main cog for this new playground of Gwinnett. It shows that our county planners are diligently at work, looking toward the future by establishing an efficient transportation infrastructure before the major additional buildings are built. It bodes well for the Center….and for the county.
Gwinnett is no longer a county where people are unaware of how to do a grand opening or ribbon cutting. I haven’t used my own shovel in an event like this in decades!
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Other Democrats owe Joe Biden a mountain of gratitude
By Debra Houston, contributing columnist
LILBURN, Ga. | In 1991 Senator Joe Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee when a young judge named Clarence Thomas answered questions before it on his way to the Supreme Court. And then, at the last moment, a professor named Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment.
It’s not my intent to rehash the hearings but to recall watching Biden’s eyes. I could feel the wheels turning in his brain. He was in a no-win situation. Radical feminists expected him to hammer Thomas and go easy on Miss Hill. From walking a tightrope in the circus the hearings had become, Biden carefully considered his moves like a professional chess player.
Biden was looking at the presidency. He had run in 1987 but George H.W. Bush had won. So not only was he risking his own electability while Judiciary chair, he was also carrying the entire Democratic Party’s fortunes on his shoulders.
He’d always been a Party man. Time and again. In 2007 he’d again announced his presidential candidacy, but when Barack Obama asked him to balance out the ticket, Mr. Biden put his ambition aside and stepped up to the Party plate. Where is Mr. Obama anyway? His former vice-president could use a friend, because that same party Biden has supported for decades is now beating him up.
It’s painful to witness.
Kamala Harris has insinuated that Biden’s a racist because he didn’t support mandatory busing back in the early ‘70s. There were plenty of liberals and parents of all races who opposed it, but Miss Harris is betting that her uninformed supporters won’t even bother to Google it ‘cause it was so last century, y’know.
We’ve seen presidential contender Julian Castro shout down Biden in the last debate. — “Have you already forgotten what you’d said two minutes ago?” Castro looked small, like a kid making fun of his hard-of hearing grandpa. Dude, Joe Biden deserves your respect. And that’s coming from a conservative Republican.
That’s right, Jules, it’s Mr. Biden to you and the other juvenile delinquents standing in his shadow. You owe him a mountain of gratitude because men and women like him remained moderate enough for the Democratic Party to sustain its electability. Democrats may never win another election because of you and the other children who are promising to give away the store.
And maybe that’s why Biden is running — not because he wants to this time, but because he must. He may be the only one who can save the party from oblivion.
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“Brainwashed” Trump supporter notes CREW’s staff backgrounds
Editor, the Forum:
As a “brainwashed” Trump supporter, I was astonished Jack Bernard would publicly reference Center for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW). The immediate assumption is that CREW is a non-biased organization that is only working in the public interest. Why would Jack Bernard fail to mention such important information?
Let’s look at some of the illuminating information about CREW that Jack failed to share with the readers:
- One of CREW’s founders, Norman Eisen, was a Deputy General Counsel for Barack Obama’s transition team.
- CREW’s current Executive Director is Noah Bookbinder, who worked for Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont.
- CREW’s Press Secretary worked on the communication team preparing talking points for Senator Hillary Clinton leadership staffers.
- According to Bloomberg.com, 93 percent of CREW’s investigations for the 2016 campaign targeted Republicans.
- Ariel Linksy is CREW’s Chief Operating Officer and worked for Hillary’s 2008 presidential race and a supporter of Planned Parenthood.
- CREW’s Deputy Director, Donald K. Sherman, served as a staff member from 2011-2015 for Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings.
Some of CREW’s more notable Board members are former Democrat Senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill; Zephyr Teachout, a Democrat from New York who ran for the US House in 2015 but lost to a Republican. Al Dwoskin has donated more than $2 million dollars to Democrats including large donations to Hillary’s campaign.
Yes, absolutely there are groups like this on both sides. And, they both serve a real purpose—EVEN IF all the groups are stacked with people promoting their version of the truth. However, if a list of supposed crimes, violations, suspicious activities, are to be listed, then everyone needs to know the identity and biases of the accusers. Everyone ever born has had a bias to some degree or another on (most) every topic. Knowing that particular bias can tell us a lot.
Perhaps Jack Bernard needs to investigate the investigators at CREW before providing us their list of so-called Trump administration dark deeds.
— Jean Barnes, Norcross
Here’s another view of the comment referenced above
Editor, the Forum:
Thank you so much for the article “Getting mighty swampy and boggy in the heart of Trumpland” by Jack Bernard. It is essential that Americans learn the facts and this article states facts. Of course, one article could never cover all the corruption and crimes of this administration as he stated in the article but he did a great job and I am grateful.
— NJ Foster, Grayson
Where have all the fireflies gone? They are not seen in Duluth
Editor, the Forum:
Today (last Thursday) was a nice day to sit outside and enjoy Georgia. I remember dusk as children, and the beginning of the twinkle of hundreds of fireflies. We would run inside to get a saved peanut butter jar or mayonnaise jar. We all had pocket knives, so holes were soon in the jar tops.
The harvest began. Some of the guys would wait for them to glow, then rip off their abdomen to have a glowing gem for the end of a nose, or a ring finger, earlobes, etc. Amazingly, we never ran out of fireflies. Fun, before color television, was outdoors until there wasn’t any more light.
But today, in Duluth, we see no fireflies.
Now for many reasons, we don’t see many of these beautiful bugs at night to soften and delight the darkness. They may still exist far into the wilderness areas. I was a child eight miles south of a fairly major city. Suburbs weren’t dead then. In one man’s lifetime, that has changed. Interestingly, the author of Silent Spring (Rachel Carson), had a bridge named after her in my hometown. She was raised in suburbs near my mother’s childhood home.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
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Holtkamp completes 2 murals on new building facing Interstate 85
West side mural
Holtkamp Heating and Air has seen the completion of murals on the sides of its new headquarters on Interstate 85 at the Suwanee gateway. The large murals have transformed two exterior sides of the new building into a highly visual landmark and will serve as an ongoing source of pride for the city of Suwanee and Gwinnett County.
South side mural
Mural artist Jason Watts of Chicago, Ill., spent four weeks bringing the mural to life on two sides of the building, seen by tens of thousands of vehicles on Interstate 85 each day. One mural features Settles Bridge, representing the past and pulling the viewer into the mural. As they traverse the bridge, this metaphorically leads the viewer into the present and the iconic Suwanee City Hall that serves as the center of the community today. A secondary mural on the south-facing side of the building captures the energy and vibrancy of the music, arts, and parks scene in Suwanee.
The artist says: “Gwinnett County is such a beautiful area, and I wanted this mural to stand out as a celebration of the community, while also being in harmony with everything here as well. It’s gratifying to create something that’s hopefully beautiful in its own right, and that people enjoy seeing every day.”
Suzanne Holtkamp, vice president of Marketing and Operations, says: “Our goal with the project was to create a distinctive visual landmark art piece that celebrates and reflects elements of the area’s community, beauty, history and diversity. Suwanee values public art as a way to beautify the community. Therefore, we are pleased to be the first to bring that beauty to the other side of the gateway with a gorgeous mural capturing Suwanee’s past, present and exciting future.”
You can “Ride Olli” on driverless track in Peachtree Corners Oct. 1
The City of Peachtree Corners is welcoming residents to “Ride Olli,” the new driverless shuttle that will be running along the city’s Curiosity Lab. The event will be Tuesday, October 1 at 11 a.m. at the 1.5 mile intelligent mobility test track on Technology Parkway. The event is expected to last 45 minutes to an hour.
Unlike the Sept.11 event, this is an opportunity for the general public to see and ride Olli. Olli is a 10-seat autonomous vehicle created and built by Phoenix, Arizona-based Local Motors. The Curiosity Lab track runs the entire length of Technology Parkway, the main road that runs through Technology Park Atlanta.
This is the first test track in the entire country that offers real-world conditions. There are many tracks throughout the U.S. that offer testing opportunities for AV technology, but all are in a controlled environment. Curiosity Lab is set along a city-owned street, Technology Parkway, which offers opportunity to interact with people and vehicles going about their daily businesses.
The track offers fully operational 5G, 1G of dedicated fiber, DSRC units, video surveillance, smart poles and a 25,000 square foot technology incubator. The incubator space is located at 147 Technology Parkway and offers a network operations center for the track. The goal of the technology incubator is to help IoT Mobility and Smart City early startup companies to grow and scale.
Board appoints Royston as Gwinnett’s new election supervisor
The Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections has appointed elections veteran Kristi Royston as elections supervisor for Gwinnett County. Royston has served as Gwinnett’s assistant elections supervisor since January 2010.
Royston
Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections Chairman John Mangano says that “Kristi has demonstrated that she is fully capable of handling the sensitive and complicated job of running elections. We have full faith that she will continue the fine tradition of well-run elections for Gwinnett County.” Royston has been acting elections supervisor since July.
Royston helped oversee the Elections Office’s compliance with the Department of Justice mandate to provide bilingual elections materials, as well as increasing voter engagement by offering additional days and hours for advance in-person voting at the main elections office and satellite locations in the 2018 General Election.
In 2018, Royston received the Frances Duncan Award from the Georgia Secretary of State for her expertise in registering eligible voters and conducting honest and impartial elections in a fair, efficient and accurate manner.
Prior to working with Gwinnett County, Royston was the elections supervisor in Barrow County. She also worked in the Athens-Clarke County Elections and Registration Office as well as the State Elections Division under Secretaries of State Lewis Massey and Cathy Cox. She is a University of Georgia graduate with a degree in journalism, emphasis in advertising.
Snellville police win governor’s top award for highway safety
From left are Gov. Brian Kemp, Snellville Police Department Police Chief Roy Whitehead, Lt. David Matson and Allen Poole, director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.
Snellville’s Police Department has won the top prize at the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Awards. Gov. Brian Kemp presented the prestigious Governor’s Cup to Chief Roy Whitehead and Lt. David Matson in recognition of the achievements of the Snellville Police Department.
Snellville also won first place in the division of agencies with 26 to 50 sworn officers in the Occupant Protection and Distracted Driving categories. Lt. David Matson and Sgt. Scott Smith prepared the department’s submission qualifying the department for the award.
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: Discovering how many different ways people view the world’s religions was a real eye opener for Episcopal cleric Barbara Brown Taylor, when she began teaching college students in north Georgia. In this thought-provoking yet simple book, Taylor encounters head-on collisions with the misconceptions people have about – yes – even their own religions and tells us how this experience gave her a fresh understanding and eventually altered her own beliefs. In taking Piedmont College students on field trips and giving them hands-on experiences she, and they, began “spiritual shoplifting” and discovered there was much to admire in other belief systems. They also realized that there are as many versions of mainstream religions as there are adherents. In other words, when you’ve met one Buddhist, you’ve only met one Buddhist. I am fascinated by why people think the way they do and when finished reading Holy Envy, I immediately started reading it again.
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Early Georgia settlers promoted viniculture at Trustee Garden
(Continued from previous edition)
Viniculture was promoted at Trustee Garden in Savannah in particular by Philip Miller, chief gardener of the physick garden in Chelsea, but the noble grape vines would not flourish, despite the abundance of local grapes. Similar difficulties were encountered in the growth of imported fruit trees, chestnuts, and olives. One of the early gardeners, Joseph Fitzwalter, favored useful crops such as hops for beer and flax and hemp for naval riggings, but little came of these experiments.
One of the major reasons for the lack of agricultural success was the climate. Contrary to the assumptions of the Trustees and their advisers, Georgia was not subtropical but subject to considerable temperature fluctuations, particularly during the early spring. In addition, there was a lack of skilled labor. Silk making in Savannah was beset by constant strife between the Italian experts and local authorities; only in the German settlement of Ebenezer, with its centralized governance and economy, were silkworms raised consistently on settlers’ plots. But although the wife of the minister there set up a reputable sericulture that provided spun silk for fishing lines until the 19th century, neither wine nor useful and consistent yields of flax and hemp were obtained in the colony.
The story of the Trustee Garden for medical botanicals—a physick or medicinal garden—had a similar trajectory of high hopes and eventual decline, but has wider implications for the history of American plants and drugs. Following models in England, European herbs and medicinal plants were to be grown, as well as such native North American plants as snakeroot, ginseng, sassafras, and sumac, known since the sixteenth century for their medicinal properties.
The main objective of the garden was to serve as the experimental site for a reliable source of exotic botanicals from the Spanish Americas, in particular Jesuit or Peruvian bark (later known as the antimalarial quinine), which was in widespread demand for its fever-quenching properties. Demand was also high for ipecacuhana, an emetic, and cochineal, a plant parasite yielding the scarlet dye used for military uniforms and court dress. The Spanish had severely restricted the export of drugs and dyes that could challenge their monopoly, and Georgia seemed an excellent place to circumvent these restrictions.
(To be continued)
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Another lighthouse shining its light asking where it is located
It’s great to get photos when our readers are on vacation. One person sent in this lighthouse—readers know our love of lighthouse photos. So, figure out this mystery of where this lighthouse is located. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
Several readers recognized a unique entrance in Spain at the last Mystery Photo. The photo was taken in Valencia, Spain, and was contributed by Frank Kellert of Norcross.
Jim Savadelis of Duluth was the first to tell us that the photo was of L’Umbracle at the City Arts Sciences complex located in Valencia, Spain. Lou Camerio of Lilburn also sent in the right answer.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. added detail: “The Umbracle is a space that is a home to numerous sculptures surrounded by nature. It was designed as an entrance to the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. Plans included a 370m high communications tower, which would have been the third highest one in the world at that time; a planetarium; and the museum of science. The total price of the works was estimated to be about 25,000 million pesetas. The project was not without controversy. The Conservative Popular Party saw in the City of Sciences a ‘work of the pharaohs’ that would serve only to swell the ego of the Socialists, who were the driving forces behind the initiative. Later, several successive Popular Party governments continued and expanded the complex way beyond the original Socialist project at an enormous cost, heavily indebting the city.”
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. wrote: “This mystery photo is of the L’Umbracle in Valencia, Spain. It is the entrance to the City of Arts and Sciences complex and has a landscaped walk with many different plant species indigenous to Valencia, including the palm trees clearly visible in the mystery photo.
The structure itself is ~1,056 feet long and about 200 feet wide, with 55 fixed arches and 54 floating arches that stand 60 feet high.”
Relationship between the United States and Mexico is the subject of a discussion led by Alexander Wisnoski, III, PhD, on the current dynamics between the United States and Mexico, specifically mentioning reasons for increased friction between the two, and how both countries view their relationship today. This will be on September 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Public Library Branch, 1001 Lawrenceville Highway. The program is presented in partnership with the University of North Georgia.
Hispanic Heritage Celebration in Norcross, at City Hall Thursday, September 26 starting at 6 p.m. Be part of the “this is your Norcross” movement, as you join officials and locals alike in this celebration of Hispanic culture! There will also be an unveiling of the “Here to Stay” Mobile Mural by Yehimi Cambrón at this event. The event will include music, performers, light finger foods from different Hispanic countries, punch and cake.
Silent Auction benefiting the Norcross Community Ministry will be Thursday, Sept. 26, at Simpsonwood United Methodist Church, 4500 Jones Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners. Light refreshments and auction begins at 6:30 p.m., with program to follow at 7:15 p.m. Help keep families in this home by your participation in this event.
Meet Author Daniela Petrova at Liberty Books, 176 West Crogan Street in Lawrenceville on Friday, September 27 at 7 p.m. Petrova will talk about her immigrant experience, the importance of libraries in her life, and her debut novel, Her Daughter’s Mother, which was named “Best Beach Read of 2019” by both O, the Oprah Magazine and The New York Post and one of five thrillers to read this summer by Time Magazine.
Pooches in the Park in Braselton on September 28 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Dogs can “Sit, stay and play” in Braselton Park, 126 Harrison Street, during this time. New this year: Dixie Dock Dogs will be splashing down in Braselton. Lots to do: lure course, wet nose water lounge, “Rover on over” marketplace. Best costumes, best dog trick, others. This is an event for the whole family, including the pooch. Visit www.DownownBraselton.com for more info.
An evening with Author Kyle Mills will be Monday, September 30 at 7:30 at the Peachtree Corners Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library, at 5570 Spalding Drive. Mills is fascinated with the dark side of politics and well connected to the intelligence community. He has authored 13 books under his name and is finishing the Vince Flynn series from notes left by Flynn for the six published books. Lethal Agent is his current novel.
The Good Neighbor Gala, Benefitting Good Samaritan Gwinnett will be held on Thursday, October 3 at Ashton Garden in Sugar Hill. Purchase your ticket in support of Gwinnett’s largest Christian charitable organization serving the low-income and uninsured families with medical, dental and pharmacy services under one roof, and nearing 36,000 appointments just this year! Go to www.goodsamgwinnett.org/the-good-neighbor-gala for ticket purchases and for making your nomination for The Good Neighbor Award.
Club Tropicana at the Hudgens Arts Center in Duluth will be Saturday, October 5 at 7 p.m. Highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the 2019 Hudgens Prize for Georgia Artists. This is a $50,000 prize as well as a solo exhibition for the winning artist. Partygoers will be treated to a Cuban Night Club experience throughout the Hudgens with live music, a Cuban cuisine, a silent auction, games and dancing.
Season Finale for the Johns Creek Symphony will be Saturday, October 5, at 7 p.m. in the Burkhalter Amphitheater in Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road. The concert is presented by the city of Johns Creek. The concert will be conducted by JCSO Founder and Music Director, J. Wayne Baughman, with guest conductor Timothy Aucoin. Repertoire for the performance will include light classical and Pops favorites.
Juried Art Exhibit at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford continues until November 1. The opening reception will be September 14 from 5-8 p.m. Includes a variety of media, including painting, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, mixed media, printmaking, fibre arts, photography, digital art and three dimensional art, including ceramics, pottery and found object sculpture. The Colony is located at 554 West Main Street in Buford.
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