VIEW OF REVEL PROJECT: Here’s an artist’s conception of what the business and entertainment area around the Infinite Energy Center will look like in a couple of years. At the left is a Westin Hotel, adjoining the conference center. Housing, restaurants and entertainment activities will align the roadway through the property. For more on this, see Elliott Brack’s perspective below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Executive Finds Soccer Is a Transferable Skill Helping Later in Life
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New Focus for County Will Be Revel Project, at Infinite Energy Center
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Recalls Days in Southwest Georgia and Dinner-on-the-Ground
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville Marks Opening of Downtown’s Thompson Square
NOTABLE: Suwanee PCOM Student Is Winner of MAG Student of the Year
RECOMMENDED: Agent Running in the Field by John LeCarre
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wiregrass Georgia Covers Parts of 23 Counties in the South Area
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lots of Craftsmanship Went into Construction of This Building
CALENDAR: Master Gardeners Talk is November 2 at Vines Park
Elections in Gwinnett cities on tap for this coming Tuesday
Reminder: If you live in one of the cities of Gwinnett County, remember that there are elections in 12 of these municipalities this coming Tuesday. To acquaint you with the candidates, and to learn more about them, you can read the Candidate Profiles, listed by cities, to the right of the front page today. The profiles were composed by the candidates and provided by readers at no charge to the candidates. –ee
Executive finds soccer is a transferable skill helping later in life
(Editor’s Note: Recently we put some questions to Sean Moynihan of Grayson, who is in commercial real estate in Metro Atlanta, about why he moved to Gwinnett, and what he found life was like. Here are his responses.—eeb)
By Sean Moynihan
Executive Vice President, Newmark Knight Frank, Atlanta
GRAYSON, Ga. | Why did I move to Grayson from New Jersey? Mainly for free babysitting, since my wife’s family lives nearby. We quickly realized Grayson’s charming, neighborly environment was the perfect place to raise our three children. It’s been a great decision. Whether it’s a swim team meet or an informal get-together, there’s a sense of authentic neighborliness that is hard to find these days.
Moynihan
What about traffic in Gwinnett? My commute to Buckhead means I leave early to avoid traffic, one of the first to arrive at my office. Long workdays contribute to my professional growth and made me value quality family time outside of work.
How about quality of life in Gwinnett? In the 18 years I’ve lived here, there has been a noticeable progression in both the quantity and quality of entertainment and events. Downtown Lawrenceville is one of our personal favorites. The Rail Yard in downtown Grayson is a new project where all of the buildings are exact replicas of historic Georgia train stations. And the area offers some fantastic dining destinations (Big Daddy Que, Sam’s on Main and Exhibit A(le).) There is a remarkable innovation, which will certainly add to the population growth we’re already experiencing.
Tell us more about your involvement with youth soccer. Soccer has been my passion since before I was old enough to lace up my own cleats. I played competitively at the NCAA Division One level as well as a brief professional stint in the USL (United Soccer League). The game has opened a lot of doors for me, including my career in commercial real estate. My kids got involved with Gwinnett Soccer Academy (GSA) as soon as they were old enough to start playing. It was just a natural fit for me to come on as a staff coach in 2005. The biggest benefit of coaching is spending time with each of my kids as they’ve progressed through the club.
Why is soccer important to you? I played soccer at every level, and I don’t remember the wins or losses. What I remember are the trips, the relationships, the things we got to do together. It’s a transferable skill that players learn through competitive soccer that will help them later in life. Soccer teaches how to confidently work in high pressure environments with multiple personalities and multiple coaches (bosses). Unlike a football coach, a soccer coach is not calling the plays. A good coach (and boss) trains people so that they can make their own decisions at game time.
Speak to the diversity in soccer. One of the other fantastic aspects about soccer is the multicultural experience that it delivers and how it can unite people from so many different walks of life. Gwinnett is a melting pot, and at GSA we have players and families from Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean Islands, among other places.
Soccer is truly the world’s game, and it can serve as a bridge that teaches young people how to work together, navigate challenges and achieve a common goal. We need much more of that in our culture today, whether it’s on the field or in the workplace. If you listen close enough, the game will teach you new lessons every season that can make you a better person and professional.
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New county focus will be Revel project at Infinite Energy Center
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
NOV. 1, 2019 | Up until 1984, Gwinnett County had no retail shopping focus. With its 15 towns then (16 now, as Peachtree Corners became its own city in 2012), no one city stood out as a mecca for retail and entertainment.
Something changed all this in 1984, as Gwinnett Place Mall opened on February 1, and immediately people from all corners of the county (and from distant northeast counties) started flocking to the mall.
While the mall flourished for years, since then the Gwinnett Place luster has dramatically declined. Another mall (Sugarloaf) was being built close by. Then the largest mall in the state, the Mall of Georgia has effectively pulled business away, and it now thrives on its own for retail activities and a wide variety of eating establishments. Then, too, another element: the auto industry moved near the Mall of Georgia, offering most major brands along Georgia Highway 20.
Mark the year 2021 when there will be a new focus for Gwinnett, at least in restaurants and entertainment. That’s the date the new Revel property is expected to open in the midst of the county at the Infinite Energy Center. It’ll be massive, a $900 million, 118 acre mixed use and entertainment complex. It will also eventually include a major convention hotel, built adjacent to the convention center, something long needed.
Revel essentially will be the new focus of Gwinnett, as it will pull people from all of Gwinnett, and way beyond. There will be a continuing certain excitement going on, the area often full of people dining or patronizing entertainment facilities. One of its attractions is easy access. It’ll have major roadways funneling people to it: I-85, Highway 316 and Sugarloaf Parkway.
It’s being built by North America Properties as a public-private partnership with the Gwinnett County and Visitors Bureau. This is the same company that built Avalon center in North Fulton County, which has become popular.
Here are some of Revel’s features:
- Some 300,000 square feet of curated shopping and chef-driven restaurants;
- An 18,000 square foot food hall;
- A 12-screen Regal Theatre movie complex, consisting of 55,000 square feet;
- A total of 300 residences, of single and multi-family housing;
- Eventually 865,000 square feet of high tech offices in several six story buildings; and
- The Westin Hotel, a four star, 340 room unit.
It’ll be visited often by Gwinnettians, we suspect, but will have a ready-made, continually changing crowd from the 1,000 events that the Infinite Energy Center hosts each year. Put it this way: there will be a continual “buzz” around the area.
Within 15 minutes drive of Revel live 344,551 people, with an average household income of $86,326, and 54.6 percent college education. But its draw will be from even farther away, not just the 900,000 people in Gwinnett, but in reality, all of Northeast Georgia.
Opened recently is the first of several parking areas for Revel. The parking decks are massive, with a capacity of 2,400 vehicles, perhaps the largest in suburban Atlanta. While parking was the first sign of the activity at the site, starting in January 2020 will see the first construction for Revel, aimed at its 2021 opening.
- To catch a glimpse of what the area will look like, see renderings at https://experiencerevel.com/media/1067/revel_leasing_2019_7_rev-1.pdf.
The Revel site will send Gwinnett into a new level of sophistication and development, and become a new focus for the county.
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Recalls days in southwest Georgia and dinner-on-the-ground
Editor, the Forum:
Love the tidbit about Wiregrass Georgia! Having grown up in SOWEGA (South West Georgia), I was reminded of many fond memories from my formative years. Back then, my grandparent’s church, Mt. Zion Church in rural Norman Park, Ga., had all-day singings and dinner on the ground every year.
When our extended family got together, we did indeed, on occasion have fried mullet – along with grits, and the best hush puppies you can ever imagine. Often, there was a hand-cranked churn of ice cream to follow. My grandmother and other ladies from the community met at my grandparent’s house for Home Demonstration meetings (These were craft/do-it-herself-gatherings.), and to quilt. There are still eyebolts in the ceilings of some rooms of the house from which quilt frames were hung.
–Elizabeth Truluck Neace, Dacula
Article about south Georgia brings back wonderful memories
Editor, the Forum:
Just reading through GwinnettForum and saw the Encyclopedia story about South Georgia. During my growing up years, my dad was a pastor, and music was a part of the family. Most of it would be deemed Southern Gospel or even Bluegrass Gospel, by those who do such classifications.
Teresa and I moved to Georgia in 86 with a corporate transfer. Our first four years were in Savannah, during which time I traveled Southeast Georgia, in my work for an insurance company.
While there, I met two gentlemen in Alma Georgia, the Blueberry Capital of the world, who were ardent fans of Southern Gospel. At some point during the late ‘80s, maybe 88, they invited Teresa and me to Waycross, for an all-night sing, held at the high school auditorium. We went, and enjoyed it, as I knew most of the songs. The highlight was hearing J.D. Sumner in person, who had one of the most remarkable bass voices in gospel music. Thanks for bringing back memories.
— Randy Brunson, Duluth
Old-time trick-or-treating was always safe around his home
Editor, the Forum:
I enjoyed your reminiscing about Halloween. Born in 1940, I also only remember “grab bag” costumes, never store-bought. We lived in a small neighborhood of 58 homes with only two streets. Trick or treating was safely done. We were often invited inside, where the homeowners would try to guess who we were. We never spoke, only indicated “Yes” or “No” by nodding or shaking our heads. My most memorable costume was when I was a scarecrow with a broomstick tied around my neck and lying across my shoulders. At every house I had to turn sideways to get in the door!
— John Titus, Peachtree Corners
Editor, the Forum:
I enjoyed your article about Halloween, and loved your recollections of it from childhood. I have never known anyone before with a birthday on that day. So you have been forced into celebrating Halloween — like it or not! I actually don’t like it either!
— Kathryn Willis, Duluth
Mentioning Oscar Peterson brings back memories at Paschal’s
Editor, the Forum:
Oh! I enjoyed hearing Oscar Peterson again.
Did you ever experience jazz at Paschal’s La Carousel in downtown Atlanta? You really missed some of the great jazz artists of our time if you didn’t. Oscar Peterson was one of them. Thelonious Monk was another. And I remember Lou Rawls singing Tobacco Road and you could hear a pin drop. The jazz was great! Thanks for the article that brought back many memories!
— Kathy Gestar, Sandy Springs
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Lawrenceville marks opening of Thompson Square
Current Housing Authority Director Lejla Prljaca and former Director J.L. Thompson
The City of Lawrenceville and the Lawrenceville Housing Authority (LHA) recently celebrated the grand opening of LHA’s newest development, Thompson Square. A collaborative partnership between the two entities, Thompson Square features 40 modernized affordable housing units with common space, landscaping and sufficient parking for the community. The project, managed by Richport Properties, is roughly $5 million and provides upgraded housing stock to the tenants who have been living in the 60-year-old units surrounding City Hall.
Thompson Square is part of LHA’s ongoing preservation efforts to revitalize its aging housing stock. As LHA worked with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to move its entire portfolio to a more stable funding platform, the authority approached the city leadership to convey its plans and to use this unique opportunity to incorporate the city’s downtown revitalization efforts into the portfolio development strategy.
The City of Lawrenceville and Richport Properties worked with LHA to update and build Thompson Square to reflect the character and esthetics of a walkable, urban community complementing the private development projects of SouthLawn and City View.
Chuck Warbington, city manager, says: “The goal with Thompson Square was to incorporate it into the overall strategy for having dense, urban residential housing in a walkable downtown environment. Together with Richport Properties and the LHA, the City leadership has achieved that objective and we are very pleased with the outcome.”
- For more information on the Lawrenceville Housing Authority, please visit www.lawrencevillega.org.
Gwinnett, Hispanic chambers sign alliance
The Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce (GCOC) and Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) have agreed to participate in an alliance and made it official at its October board meeting. This Memorandum of Understanding is meant to encourage and further collaboration between the two parties to best serve their members and the diverse community.
Gwinnett Chamber Board Chair Tom Andersen says: “With the rapidly changing population demographics in Gwinnett County, the Gwinnett Chamber for years has embraced the notion of diversity and sought ways to put this sentiment into action. Hispanics have achieved real growth, both in population and influence in our community, and Gwinnett County is the beneficiary of the many Hispanic businesses which are located here. We are thrilled to enter into our agreement with this influential business association representing the interests of Hispanics, and look forward to a long, mutually beneficial relationship involving real collaboration on issues vital to the members of both Chambers.”
The purpose of this alliance is to foster a mutual understanding and a working relationship between GCOC and GHCC as well as to encourage further collaboration between the two parties to best serve their members and the diverse community.
Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Chairman-Elect Antonio Molina, adds: “With this agreement, we formalize in writing our mutual commitments to each other, but most importantly, we mark a historic moment that will be for the betterment of our members, our chambers, our county, and our state.”
Suwanee PCOM student is winner of MAG student of the year
Phung, left, and Raja
A PCOM Georgia Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) student, Akila Raja (DO ’21), has been named the 2019 Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) Student of the Year. Each year, the award is presented to a student enrolled in only one of Georgia’s medical schools. Raja was recognized October 18 and 19 at MAG’s annual House of Delegates meeting held in Stone Mountain, Ga.
Former DO Council President Annie Phung (DO ’21) nominated Raja for the award highlighting Raja’s work on a Road to Recovery Panel held last fall. The event featured five individuals affected by substance abuse and included an interactive Q and A session. More than 100 faculty members and students from all programs attended the panel which was partially funded by the D’Alonzo Fund, given annually to a student whose goal is to host a project that will benefit the community.
As part of the MAG nomination, Phung noted that Georgia was ranked ninth in opioid overdose at the time, with deaths from overdose increasing exponentially. Prior to the Road to Recovery event, Raja surveyed students and faculty members about their personal and professional encounters with addiction to highlight the impact this topic has on the campus.
In her nomination letter, Phung said that the epidemic is frequently discussed in the medical field, however “medical students have little exposure to the role that we can play in mediating substance dependence.”
Prior to attending PCOM Georgia, Raja graduated cum laude from the University of Florida, Gainesville, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Cell Sciences. She is also a graduate of Boston (Mass.)University, where she earned a Master of Science in Medical Sciences. Her thesis topic was “Food Insecurity and Alcohol Use in People with HIV Infection and Substance Use Disorder.”
Peachtree Corners Curiosity Lab wins redevelopment award
For the second time in just two years, the city of Peachtree Corners was recognized for its redevelopment efforts, this time winning the Metro Atlanta Redevelopment Summit (MARS) award for Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners. The city’s Curiosity Lab was selected by a panel of economic developers for its forward-thinking approach in creating a real-world testbed with 5G connectivity and a 1.5-mile autonomous vehicle test track and intelligent mobility incubator.
Agent Running in the Field by John LeCarre
“The 88-year old LeCarre has turned out to be a masterpiece in his 25th spy thriller. In essence, this book seems to flow better than some earlier ones, which were hung murkily in darkness for many pages before becoming understandable. LeCarre brings back in 2018 to England a field agent, and though given a seemingly quiet post, quickly finds more intrigue stirring. Meanwhile, LeCarre gets in his digs at both the ever-changing Brexit problems and Donald Trump sticking his nose into Britain’s business. While some LeCarre books move slowly, this one clips along at a fine pace from the very start. What we like is that LeCarre often seems to leave the next part of the story alone, yet it’s obvious what is to happen, so brevity is accomplished without loss of story. The old plotmaster’s voice is as powerful as ever.”—eeb
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Wiregrass Georgia covers parts of 23 southern counties
Georgia’s wiregrass region covers all or a portion of 23 counties from Savannah to the Chattahoochee River.
The major features of Georgia’s wiregrass region are the pine trees and wiregrass growing on its sandy soils, as well as the many creeks, rivers, and swamps that form its wetlands. A round-bladed perennial growing in outwardly bending clumps, wiregrass (Aristida stricta) reaches a height of more than one foot and lends the region its name.
With the exception of low and swampy areas, wiregrass once carpeted the forest floor of the state’s Upper and Lower Coastal Plain, forming an extensive open range for wild game and livestock. The Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Coast water divide runs in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction, roughly through the center of the region, and separates the watersheds of rivers that flow into the Atlantic, like the Altamaha, Ogeechee, and Satilla, from those that empty into the Gulf of Mexico, like the Alapaha, Flint, and Willacoochee. Another notable feature of wiregrass Georgia is its karst landscape, or lime-sink section. Located in the western portion of the region, the lime-sink section comprises sinkholes, caves, springs, and disappearing streams.
The wiregrass region of Georgia is the state’s youngest in geologic time. One million years ago the area was underwater, forming part of a sea whose shoreline corresponded with the present fall line. As the ocean receded, a series of five sandy terraces emerged above sea level. The highest of these, the Hazlehurst Terrace, reaches an altitude of about 215 to 260 feet. The seemingly endless expanse of pine forest was later divided into three main divisions: the pine and palmetto flats in the east, the gently rolling “pine barrens” of the interior, and the western lime-sink region.
Early travelers frequently noted the woodland’s open and parklike appearance, the result of a pine canopy that shaded out most undergrowth on the sandy uplands. This canopy was created by the region’s most conspicuous form of plant life, the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), which like wiregrass lends its name to the area as “pine barrens” and “piney woods.”
Plant life in the bottomlands was more diverse, including mixed stands of oak, gum, hickory, sycamore, magnolia, and cypress, as well as smaller plants like cane and saw palmetto. The naturalist William Bartram and his father, John, discovered a rare species of gordonia (Franklinia alatamaha), also known as the Franklin tree, along the lower Altamaha in the 1760s. The forest also supported a rich and diverse fauna, including bears, deer, gophers, rattlesnakes, and wolves, as well as wild hogs called “piney-woods rooters.”
Economic change and immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries had a profound influence on the region’s environmental history. Deforestation altered a unique ecological system, gradually removing much of the virgin forest and its canopy, and transforming it into a landscape of cotton farms and trading towns. Timber clearing and land cultivation increased agricultural runoff, the silting in of creeks and streams, and the evaporation of water in the region’s shallow creeks. Today, mixed farming, including the cultivation of peanuts, soybeans, Vidalia onions, and trees, continues to give the area an overwhelmingly rural appearance.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Lots of craftsmanship went into construction of this building
Talk about your craftsmanship, look at this earlier house. Think of all the hard work, with rudimentary tools, that went into the building of this structure. Now, guess where it is. Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, and this time, don’t forget to include your home town.
Several people immediately identified last week’s Mystery Photo….as being the harbor at Copenhagen, Denmark. At first, we told those people that they were wrong. But by the time Copenhagen was named the fourth time, we began to wonder.
So we asked Frank Sharp of Lawrenceville, who had sent in the photo and identified it as the harbor at Stockholm, if he was sure. Frank and his wife, just back from two long travel trips, replied: “They are right – I am still a bit groggy from the jet lag, which gets worse as we age.”
One of the first in was Lynn Naylor of Atlanta. She wrote: “Nyhavn (Danish pronunciation: [ˈnyhaʊ̯ˀn]; New Harbour) is a 17th-century waterfront, canal and entertainment district in Copenhagen, Denmark. Stretching from Kongens Nytorv to the harbour front just south of the Royal Playhouse, it is lined by brightly coloured 17th and early 18th century townhouses and bars, cafes and restaurants. The canal harbours many historical wooden ships.
“Nyhavn was constructed by King Christian V from 1670 to 1675, dug by Swedish prisoners of war from the Dano-Swedish War 1658–1660. It is a gateway from the sea to the old inner city at Kongens Nytorv (King’s Square), where ships handled cargo and fishermens’ catch. It was notorious for beer, sailors, and prostitution. Danish author Hans Christian Andersen lived at Nyhavn for some 18 years.
“In the mid-1960s, the Nyhavn Society (Danish: Nyhavnsforeningen) was founded with the aim of revitalising the area. In 1977, Nyhavn was inaugurated as a veteran ship and museum harbour by Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor Egon Weidekamp. In 1980 Nyhavn quay was pedestrianised; it had been used as a parking area in the previous years which had coincided with a dwindling of harbour activities.[2] Since then it has become a popular spot for tourists and locals alike.”
Others getting it right included Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Howard Hoffman, Peachtree Corners; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Ross Lenhart, Pawleys Island, S.C.; Jo Shrader, Lawrenceville; Virginia Klaer of Duluth; and Jim Savadelis, Duluth.
Tree Talk with Master Gardeners will be on November 2 at 10 a.m. at Vines Park, 3500 Oak Grove Road in Loganville. Learn fun facts and helpful hints, such as how to plant trees, ways trees communicate with each other, and more! Explore why leaves change colors with a playful scavenger hunt. For all ages. Preregister by calling 770-554-2284 for more information.
Red Kettle Kick Off with Home Run Derby will be Saturday, November 2 at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville, to benefit the Salvation Army. Activity begins at 12:30 p.m. Activities include live music; live auction, including a signed Freddie Freeman bat and Jason Heyward cleats; pictures with Santa, bouncy house, face painting, and stadium food vendors. Attending will be former Atlanta Brave and MLB Host Mark DeRosa; former Atlanta Brave and Fox Sports Analyst Nick Green; former Atlanta Braves pitcher Mark Wohlers; and local high school baseball and softball superstars. Proceeds from this Red Kettle Kick-Off Home Run Derby event will positively impact thousands of lives through The Salvation Army of Gwinnett County.
Author Visit: Karen White will visit the Historic Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center on November 2 at 8 p.m. Her newest book is The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street. Complimentary drinks and refreshments will be served by the Friends of the Library. The presentation is by North Georgia Reads.
Pet and Safety Festival will be November 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Best Friend Park in Norcross. Come for a day of pet and safety demonstrations, pet services, and family activities! Free vaccinations (RV, DHPP, and FVRCP) and microchips available for the first 500 pets to visit the Gwinnett Animal Welfare trailer. All pets must be on a fixed lead or in a carrier. For more information, please contact Gwinnett Animal Welfare at 770-339-3200.
Help Gwinnett County maintain a sustainable environment by volunteering at the annual America Recycles Day event Saturday, November 9 from 9 a.m. to noon at Coolray Field. Gwinnett residents are invited to recycle paper, paint, electronics, tires, clothing, sneakers and ink/toner cartridges. Volunteers ages 14 and up are needed to unload vehicles, break down boxes, distribute recycling information and support other America Recycles Day activities. The event is rain or shine. Volunteers should register at www.VolunteerGwinnett.net. For more information, please contact Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful at (770) 822-5187.
Origami Day for Beginners will be November 9 from 10 a.m. until noon at OneStop Norcross, 5030 Belle Court in Norcross. Participate in the wonder and beauty of paper folding. If you have never folded before, learn how to make basic models. Light refreshments and materials included. Cost: $5 per person. For ages 8 and up.
Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center is Monday, November 11 at 11 a.m. at the Fallen Heroes Memorial. The ceremony will be televised on TV Gwinnett, the government access channel.
Peachtree Corners Veteran’s Day Ceremony will be November 11 at 11 a.m. at the new Veterans Monument in Town Center. The 45 minute program will include music by the Norcross High School Band and A Capella chorus, plus guest speakers. For information visit www.ptcvets.net.
Southern Wings Bird Club will meet Monday, November 18, at 7 p.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Join Melanie Furr to learn about hummingbirds, a year in the life of these magical little birds. As Director of Education at AAS, Melanie develops and teaches numerous programs about birds for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. A licensed wildlife rehabilitator, her interest in birds was sparked by her volunteer work at AWARE Wildlife Center, where she has been rehabilitating injured and orphaned Georgia wildlife and providing training and enrichment for AWARE’s non-releasable animals for almost ten years.
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