FROM ATHENS, GA., taken at the Richard Russell Library at the University of Georgia, Latino officials are shown with Sheryl Vogt, right, director of the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. From left are Deborah Gonzalez, former Georgia State Representative, Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, and Javier Díaz de León, Consul General of Mexico in Atlanta. For more on this event, see Today’s Focus below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: UGA Libraries, GALEO To Catalog Hispanic Influence in Politics
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Candidate Profiles for ContestedGwinnett City Elections
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Four Letter Writers Question Whose Job It Is To Feed Hungry Etc.
UPCOMING: Scottdale Resident Wins $50,000 Hudgens Prize for Georgia Artists
NOTABLE: Snellville To Offer Digital Badge Program To Hone Computer Skills
RECOMMENDED: Hippie by Paulo Coelho
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Continues To Produce Notables in Country Music Field
MYSTERY PHOTO: Picture-Perfect Scene Is Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Public Safety Festival This Saturday at CoolRay Field
UGA Libraries, GALEO to catalog Hispanic influence in politics
The Russell Library at the University of Georgia.
By Sheryl B. Vogt
Director, The Richard B. Russell Library
ATHENS, Ga. | Documenting the contribution of the Latino and Hispanic community on Georgia politics is a new project of The Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia Libraries.
Vogt
Along with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and GALEO Latino Community Development Fund (LCDF), the Libraries announce a statewide initiative to document the contributions the Latino and Hispanic communities have made to the landscape of modern Georgia politics. The Russell Library and GALEO will work to identify and document people and organizations representing the interests of the Latino and Hispanic communities. This effort will preserve traditional records and manuscripts and capture oral histories with elected officials, activists, and business leaders.
Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of GALEO and the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund, says: “Inclusion of the Latino community and our work at GALEO and the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund into the archive demonstrates the growing influence and power of the Latinx electorate and our community in the future of our state.”
Gonzalez announced the donation of nine collections to begin this new collaboration with the Russell Library: the papers of former state Senator Sam Zamarripa, longtime state Representative Pedro Marin, the first two Latina state Representatives Brenda Lopez and Deborah Gonzalez, four community leaders-Leonard Gomez, Jason Esteves, Evelyn “Mimi” Woodson, and Adela Yelton, and the organizational records of GALEO.
Sam Zamarripa is the first Hispanic to serve in the Georgia State Senate, representing the 36th District located in eastern Fulton County, Georgia. Mr. Zamarripa served two terms (2003-2006), representing the City of Atlanta.
Rep. Pedro Marin has served House District 96 in the Georgia General Assembly for 17 years. Rep. Marin was the first Hispanic in the Georgia House.
Along with DeKalb County Judge Tony del Campo, Zamarripa and Marin developed and founded GALEO in November 2003. A nonpartisan nonprofit, GALEO’s mission is to increase civic engagement and leadership development of the Latino and Hispanic communities across Georgia. GALEO LCDF was established subsequently as a charitable nonprofit and nonpartisan organization to promote engagement of the Latino and immigrant communities on issues that matter to them.
Brenda Lopez made history in 2016 when she became the first Latina elected to the Georgia General Assembly, representing House District 99 in Gwinnett County.
Deborah Gonzalez became the second Latina in the Georgia General Assembly through a special election for HD117 in November 2017.
In 2015, Leonard Gomez was elected by the Grantville City Council to serve as Mayor Pro-Tem. This election makes Leonard Gomez the first Latino to serve in that capacity in the state of Georgia. Previously, Leonard served two years as the City of Grantville’s City Council Member representing Post 4 Coweta County.
Jason Esteves, an attorney and former educator, serves as Assistant General Counsel at Equifax Inc., where he manages litigation matters for the company. Esteves currently serves as Board Chair and an at-large representative on the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education.
Columbus City Councilor Evelyn “Mimi” Woodson, a retired U.S. Army veteran, recently won her sixth term to represent District 7. Elected in 1994, Woodson was the city’s first Hispanic councilor, and is now the longest serving Hispanic elected representative in the state.
Adela Yelton, elected in 2015 to the Avondale Estates Board of Mayor and Commissioners, served for four years. While on the board, she helped launch an education committee to attempt closing the gap between the city and the DeKalb County school system.
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New: Candidate profiles for contested Gwinnett city elections
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 8, 2019 | Today GwinnettForum begins a new service for its readers, aimed at helping make good choices in contested Gwinnett city elections of November. We take this move as part of the first of our Continuing Objectives for Gwinnett County, which says “High quality candidates for elective office in Gwinnett.”
On the right side of each web page, we show a “Candidate Profile” button. Click it and it will take you to a list of 52 candidates for the 12 contested city elections in Gwinnett. There are no city elections this year in Auburn, Berkeley Lake, Duluth and Rest Haven.
The Forum provides this list of candidate profiles as its part of public service to the community. We are not charging the candidates for this service. All candidates featured in GwinnettForum are voluntarily responding to our questionnaire. Some candidates have yet to complete the profile. We will add their completed profiles as they are submitted in the coming days.
It’s our hope that in each of the cities where there are elections, our readers will carefully scrutinize the profiles that the candidates submitted, in order to determine which they think will make the best mayor or city councilperson in their cities. After all, we believe in the people’s voting decisions, and anticipate that their choices will serve their city admirably.
While most of the profiles are answers to simple demographic questions, the final question asks simply: “Why do you want to get elected?” You will note that we ask that the candidate explain their reason for running in less than 100 words. Sadly, a few candidates went over 100 words, and to be fair to all, we clipped those submission after 100 words.
The Pew Research Center has reported that “Only 17percent of Americans today say they can trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (3 percent) or “most of the time” (14 percent).” This is at an all-time low.
Yet it’s said that the best government is the one closest to the people. After all, it is at the city level people are most closely connected to their government, concerned about such essential services as pothole repair, zonings, garbage collection, and sometimes police protection. They know they can show up at council meetings and be heard when they have a problem, and that often, they will know the people on the council personally. After all, they are the people they talk to at the grocery stores, or go to church with, or see at their kids’ soccer and baseball games, or are on stage at local plays.
What concerns many are the local residents who do not vote at all, or fail to register to vote. You wonder why. It may take some purely local incident to raise their level of interest in city government.
People seeking elective office, especially at the city level, are fulfilling their civic responsibility in this distinctive way. Certainly, they don’t do it for the pay. (Two cities in the county, in Buford and in Grayson, do not even pay their elected officials.) Even in cities where there is a stipend for service, it is usually small.
Therefore, we ask readers to consult the Candidate Profiles to become better acquainted with their neighbor-candidates. Then go out and support your choice, in anticipation that this will lead to better government.
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Four letter writers question whose job it is to feed hungry, etc.
Editor, the Forum:
Always enjoy reading GwinnettForum and the various columnists. Yes, I was one of those lefties whose early teachers insisted I write with my right hand. Which I do, although large or gross motor skills, such as swinging a bat, or tossing a basketball are dominated by the left hand side.
And, Raleigh Perry is spot on with his assessment of Jesus’ mandate to feed the hungry, care for the poor, tend to the orphan and widow. The question, which has caused far too much money to be spent on political campaigns, is how that responsibility falls to society. Some would argue it is an individual mandate, while others would suggest it falls to churches, para-church ministries, and a host of NGO’s of every sort. And others would suggest that the government has a mandate to address this issue.
I’m not prepared to say with conviction that this is purely an individual or church/para-church mandate, though Teresa and I are grateful to support much work of this nature, through such organizations. And I am certainly not prepared to say this is purely a government mandate. The primary challenges with a government-only solution are two. The first is a general lack of accountability, which is critical to lead to desired change and outcomes. The second is that government-only solutions foster a sense that the government can be the ultimate provider, or has the answer to all the hard or complex questions, or can provide solutions for every challenge the citizenry faces. Unfortunately, government is populated by humans which, by definition, are frail and flawed.
Seems to me that neither the Libertarian approach is an ideal approach, nor is a government-only approach an ideal approach. As Isaiah said, “come now, and let us reason together”.
— Randy Brunson, Duluth
Editor, the Forum:
I love everything Raleigh Perry said about left handers and about the word “left.” Bravo, Raleigh!
— Susan McBrayer, left hander in Sugar Hill
Editor, the Forum:
Yes, Jesus wanted us to take care of the poor. “Us,” not the government. So, I do not think He was a socialist in any way. Maybe the writer thinks he leaves a question or a way out when he says “a bit of a socialist.” However, the word socialist comes across the news every day and when it does the meaning is very clear that the government will take care of everyone’s needs. Jesus is very clear that we, the Church believers, should do this and not leave it to the government. Jesus a socialist? No way.
— Ron Buice, Hog Mountain
Editor, The Forum:
Matthew 22:21:”Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”
Over two millennia, there have been numerous interpretations of this piece of scripture. This debate will continue on, one would surmise, until the Second Coming.
But I am hard-pressed to find any interpretation that Jesus commands us to utilize the government (presumably the author’s reference to “social services”) to “feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick,” etc.
Conservatives are not “against” these types of activities; conservatives are against an inefficient and wasteful bureaucracy that appears to only know how to throw more money at the myriad of problems faced by our modern society.
How many trillions have been spent on the “Great Society” or the “War on Poverty,” to what end result? All in the name of “compassion.”
It is quite easy – particularly with a complicit media complex – to paint conservatives as cold, calculating, and heartless, only interested in their own well-being. If that is the case, why is it that conservatives donate to charity at more than two times the rate of so-called liberals? Why do they volunteer more of their free time? Donate blood at a much higher rate? To many of your readers, this will be earth-shattering news, as the seminal book, Who Really Cares, was not given a great deal of coverage when it came out 13 years ago.
In any case, as previously stated, conservatives and liberals share many of the same goals; we simply disagree on how best to achieve those goals.
— Gregg Stopher, Peachtree Corners
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Scottdale resident wins $50,000 Hudgens Prize for Georgia artists
The fifth recipient of the $50,000 Hudgens Prize for Georgia artists is Paul Stephen Benjamin of Scottdale. The winner was announced at The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning on Saturday.
Benjamin
Mr. Benjamin said of the award: “It’s truly an honor. I’ve been submitting for a number of years and to actually be a finalist was an honor. But to take it even further and actually win the prize is a tremendous experience.”
Ife Williams, executive director of The Hudgens, says: “The arts are so important to the health and vitality of a community. The Hudgens Prize is just one piece of what we are doing to change lives through our dynamic arts program.”
Mr. Benjamin received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA from Georgia State University. Benjamin is a recent recipient of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCOA) of Georgia Working Artist Project. Benjamin exhibited new works in 2017 at the MOCA as a part of the award.
He says: “I am a multidisciplinary artist. My work brings the past, present and future together through use of the color black. The color black becomes an entry point into discussions of Blackness. I create multi-layered artworks, which incorporate history, text and popular culture. I employ painting, sculpture, installation and video in my work.”
Benjamin was also recipient of the 2014 Artadia Award. In 2016 Benjamin exhibited Black is the Color at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. His work has been on exhibit at the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs in Atlanta. Among his awards to date are the Winnie B. Chandler Fellowship, Diasporal Rhythms Artists Recognition Award, Hambidge Fellowship, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Studio Program and the Forward Arts Emerging Artists Award.
The Hudgens Center hosted the first $50,000 competition for Georgia artists in 2010 with award winner Gyun Hur’s solo exhibition in 2011. Atlanta artist, Pam Longobardi was the 2013 Hudgens Prize recipient and Bethany Collins was the winner in 2015. Lauri Stallings is the most recent recipient and her work was on display in 2018.
Since its inception nine years ago, The Hudgens Prize program has been generously supported by an anonymous donor who has provided $500,000 to not only fund the prize, but a significant portion of the administration, exhibitions and process.
In The Hudgens Prize’s 10 year history, The Hudgens has engaged 15 jurors from the global arts scene, had 19 finalists and awarded the fifth Hudgens Prize recipient this year. This year’s Finalists Exhibition will be on view at The Hudgens until October 26, 2019.
The 2019 Hudgens Prize Recipient Paul Stephen Benjamin will have a solo exhibition in The Hudgens’ galleries from August-October 2020.
Breathe Better event will be Oct. 14 at Lawrenceville center
Northside Hospital wants to help you breathe easier at their 2019 Breathe Better Gwinnett event. The event will take place 3-7 p.m. Monday, October 14 at the GMC Resource Center, at 665 Duluth Highway in Lawrenceville.
Now in its second year, Breathe Better Gwinnett will offer participants no-cost lung screenings and interactive booths to learn more about lung health and early diagnosis and treatment of lung disease.
Northside Hospital Gwinnett health care professionals will offer on-site screenings and testing including lung function, lipid profile and blood glucose, and bone density. Additional activities will include a breathing lung exhibit, inhaler demonstrations, prize drawings and other giveaways. Flu vaccines also will be available at no cost.
Whether you have a chronic cough or trouble breathing, have been exposed to smoking or other irritants or have a family history of breathing problems, Breathe Better Gwinnett will offer participants a more comprehensive understanding of the risks of pulmonary disease and proper prevention techniques.
There is no cost to attend Breathe Better Gwinnett and free parking is available.For more information or to register for lipid profile/blood glucose, lung function or bone density testing, call 678-312-5000 and press “1” for classes. Early registration is encouraged, as spaces will fill quickly.
Snellville to offer Digital Badge Program to hone computer skills
Snellville’s Digital Badge Program kicked off Thursday with a meeting between city officials and area educators.
A digital badge is an indicator of accomplishment or skill that can be displayed, accessed and verified online. The badges are earned by completing certain tasks outlined online in subjects such as financial management, and can be used by students, job seekers or employees looking to advance their education or career. A digital badge is a digital version of a traditionally paper certificate used to designate course completion or competency.
Now the city is looking to partner with area schools to offer the free program to students using LRNG.org, an online resource “powered by” Southern New Hampshire University.
Mayor Pro Tem Dave Emanuel says: “We can use this for elementary school, middle school and high school students to improve skill sets of those who participate.” Emanuel said he believes Snellville is the only city in Georgia and the smallest city in the country to adopt the program, joining larger cities like Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.
Country Living magazine says Duluth Fall Festival among best
Country Living magazine has just named the top ten festivals in the United States. Duluth Fall Festival was the only one in Georgia on the list and came in at Number 5.
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Jackson EMC Foundation awards $60,200 to Gwinnett nonprofits
Berkmar mentoring program received funds.
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total $78,600 in grants during its September meeting, including $60,200 of which benefit organizations serving Gwinnett County.
$15,000 to Boy Scouts of America, Northeast Georgia Council, serving all Jackson EMC counties, to provide uniforms, handbooks and camp fees that will help underprivileged youth participate in scouting, teaching them to make ethical choices and promoting citizenship, leadership, mental and physical fitness.
$15,000 to Hope Clinic, in Gwinnett County, which specializes in internal medicine and chronic care management for low-income patients to help them avoid costly hospitalizations, to provide mental health services to uninsured patients in Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall and Jackson counties.
$15,000 to SISU of Georgia, a Gainesville non-profit organization providing educational, therapeutic, nursing and family support services to children with disabilities in Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and Lumpkin counties, to support the Early Intervention Program that provides special needs children with classroom instruction, individualized therapy and nursing services.
$10,000 to NOAH’s Ark, Inc., in Dahlonega, to provide assistance with trauma and support group counseling to survivors of domestic violence in Gwinnett, Hall and Lumpkin counties.
$5,200 to Boy With a Ball Global, in Gwinnett County, to provide curriculum materials for the Cross Age Mentoring program that pairs Berkmar High School student mentors with middle school students to cultivate connectedness, self-esteem, identity and academic skills.
Hippie by Paulo Coelho
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: Paulo Coelho presents a journey towards ‘wholeness and realization’ as experienced by Paulo, Karla and a group of seekers that travel from Amsterdam towards Nepal. This is a fictionalized biographical sketch which Paulo Coelho lived through during the ‘hippie years’ or the 1960s and 1970s. It is filled with experiences, some frightening, others exhilarating, all making up the tapestry of the time period and Coelho’s life. Like going on a journey with a destination that symbolizes enlightenment, the reader will be enriched by the truisms expressed by the characters who alternately share and listen to the events of others, which lead to the decision to begin this journey. Peppered throughout with drug references which were part of the experiential nature of the time period, it is a thought-provoking story that those coming of age during those years will remember well and look back upon with a longing undefined.
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Georgia continues to produce notables in country music field
Other notable country music personalities have had significant Georgia connections. The songwriting team of Boudleaux Bryant, from Moultrie, and his wife, Felice, wrote many hits during the mid-twentieth century, including the bluegrass standard “Rocky Top” and all of the Everly Brothers’ major hits.
Wally Fowler, from Adairsville, was a singer, songwriter, and promoter who founded a gospel group, the Oak Ridge Quartet (later the Oak Ridge Boys), and also helped to launch the careers of Patsy Cline and Hank Williams. He was also largely responsible for a mid-century gospel phenomenon called “All Night Gospel Sings,” which took place around the South.
Hank Penny, though not from Georgia, performed on WSB radio’s daily “Cross Roads Follies” from 1936 to 1940 and is credited with influencing the development of western swing music. Jack Greene, a 1960s-era country star, began his career by playing in Atlanta. Ray Stevens (born Harold Ray Ragsdale in Clarksdale in 1939) is known for his comedic novelty songs. Guitar wizard and successful songwriter Jerry Reed escaped the poverty of an Atlanta cotton mill village to become a major star in country music and beyond.
Ronnie Milsap graduated from Young Harris College and got his career start in Atlanta. Singer Vern Gosdin grew up in Hampton. Terri Gibbs, popular in the early 1980s, is from Grovetown. Louisianan Eddy Raven spent much of his childhood and teenage years, and first performed publicly, in the tobacco country near Metter.
Noted bluegrass instrumentalist Norman Blake of Rising Fawn has played guitar, dobro, fiddle, and mandolin on many country recordings and is best known for his guitar work on Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline Rag” and the Joan Baez version of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” The Forester Sisters of Lookout Mountain had many hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the country-feminist standard “Men.” Crooner Doug Stone, like Alan Jackson, hails from Newnan. The popular group Confederate Railroad got their start in Marietta and Atlanta. T. Graham Brown, from Arabi in south Georgia, had several hits in the late 1980s and revived his career in 1998 with “Wine into Water.”
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Picture-perfect scene is today’s Mystery Photo
Isn’t today’s Mystery Photo a picture-perfect scene. There’re the half-timbered houses, the river, a bridge, the split in the river, and some nice-looking flowers. All you need to do is identify where this scene comes from. Send our answers to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
The last edition’s Mystery Photo was a windmill, which Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. identified was located “high on Windmill Hill in the center of Conanicut Island in Jamestown, R.I. Built in 1787 and in operation until 1896, the old Jamestown windmill is a three-story, 30-foot high, octagonal structure with a domed cap or bonnet. The bonnet holds the sails and can turn to capture the wind from any direction, maximizing its efficiency. It was originally built to grind corn after the British occupational forces destroyed the previous mill around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island. The original framework of the mill is made of hand-hewn chestnut timbers and the exterior is sheathed in cedar shingles. It is maintained in working condition by the Jamestown Historical Society and major renovations to repair damage from weather and insects were completed in 2001. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.” The photo was sent in by Stewart A. Woodard, Lawrenceville.
Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill wrote: “This is the windmill in Jamestown, R.I., on Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay. Tim and I were there in June.”
And George Graf of Palmyra, Va. identified it as a …”smock mill in Jamestown, Rhode Island within the Windmill Hill Historic District on North Road north of Weeden Lane. The Windmill Hill Historic District encompasses a large rural landscape in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The area’s historical resources include six farmsteads, as well as the Quaker Meetinghouse, the Jamestown Windmill, and its associated miller’s house and barn. The area is predominantly rolling hills with open pastureland and forest. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The area is also rich in prehistoric evidence of Native American occupation, which is the subject of the Jamestown Archeological District listing on the National Register.”
Ribbon-Cutting and grand opening of the expanded facilities of the North Gwinnett Co-op will be Tuesday, October 8 at noon. The address is 4395 Commerce Drive in Buford. Following the ceremony, a barbecue lunch will be provided.
Veteran’s Park in Norcross will be opened and dedicated at a ceremony on October 10 at 10 a.m. The park is located at 160 North Norcross Tucker Road. Come and enjoy the festivities and Norcross’ latest park.
Author Nadeen Green will share her story Let There Be Dragons at the Norcross Branch Library, 6025 Buford Highway, on Thursday, October 10 at 10:30 a.m. It is a cautionary tale for children (and is bilingual in Spanish and English). The story is about fictional fairy tale dragons that are driven to the sea because people are afraid of them. The book highlights the need to share our planet with all creatures. The artist will also discuss the way illustrators make the story come alive in pictures. It is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Nationally-known author and wine expert Kevin Begos will appear at R. Alexander Fine Art, 5650 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners, on Friday, October 11 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The author will discuss his travels along the original wine routes—from the Caucasus Mountains, where wine grapes were first domesticated 8,000 years ago, crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, and then America—and unearth a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Food and wine expert Kevin Begos will appear at R. Alexander Fine Art, 5650 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners, on Friday, October 11 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The author will discuss his travels along the original wine routes—from the Caucasus Mountains, where wine grapes were first domesticated 8,000 years ago, crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, and then America—and unearth a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Harvest 10-10-10 will be presented October 11-13 at Lionheart Theatre Company in Norcross by Onion Man Productions. Celebrating Onion Man Productions’ 10th anniversary, this collection of ten, ten-minute original new plays explore the themes of new beginnings, letting go of the past and emerging from the ashes. Visit https://www.onionmanproductions.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Public Safety Fall Festival will be October 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Police and Fire and Emergency Services are partnering for this Festival. First responders will show off their emergency vehicles, including a helicopter, ambulance, SWAT personnel carrier, and ladder truck. Coolray Field, 2500 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville.
Emil Powella will speak at the Lilburn Business Association October 15 meeting at 11:30 in the Preston Room of Lilburn City Hall. He currently serves on the Lilburn Planning Commission and Lilburn Merit Board. He is also the unofficial city photographer for Lilburn. He retired from a career in marketing, working for several major petroleum companies. His talk focuses on the critical need for companies to “maintain” current customers. For more information: https://www.lilburnbusiness.org/.
Meet Stuart Woods on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, 10 College Street, Norcross. Woods is the bestselling author of more than 75 novels. He is a native of Georgia. He returns to Gwinnett to talk about his newest book Skin Game. Silent auction and beverage bar sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
The 47th Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games will take place October 19-20 at Stone Mountain Park. The games feature a number of pipe bands, folk singers, Celtic rock groups, Scottish country dancing, Highland dancing, sheep dog herding demonstrations and, of course, the athletic games. More than 100 Scottish clan associations will host tents and other organizations will provide tents with information on all things Scottish. The games will also host related activities (free lectures, a Celtic concert and a ball) on Friday, October 18, at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast in Norcross. For the complete schedule and ticket information, go to www.smhg.org.
Juried Art Exhibit at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford continues until November 1. 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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