By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JULY 19, 2022 | Here’s something that might be mighty important to some Gwinnettian. You can now access the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline with a three digit telephone code, 988, providing quicker and easier access. The old number was 800-273-8255. To me, this really seems to be a major, and mighty important, change.
Now for some catching up: First, keeping up with the Braves. As noted here today elsewhere, newspapers are declining significantly. One particular way you can tell it is in sports reporting. Once one of the larger departments of the newsroom, today’s AJC sports is almost a ghost of itself. And where are the Furman Bishers or the Jesse Outlars? (Bisher passed in 2012 and Outlar in 2011.)
Consider coverage of the Atlanta Braves. With the newspaper’s earlier deadlines, night games are not reported the next morning anymore. You ought to be thankful that the Falcons and Atlanta United play mostly in the daytime, so as to be in the next morning’s paper. Luckily, you can easily follow golf and tennis that way, too.
But not baseball. The newspaper keeps promoting that we should use the online edition to keep up with late sports, but the dedicated-in-hands newspaper doesn’t think that way.
Of course, maybe we should, and that would give us the overnight scores. Maybe the drive of the Braves to overtake the New York Mets will spur us on checking the online morning paper. So far we haven’t.
Yet through the magic of the internet we found several quick, enjoyable ways of getting the Braves scores and highlights. There are several links to this type of information. Input “Braves-Nationals (date)” and click “Game Recap” to get the gist of the game.
Washing time: Another change: modern science continues to improve the way we do routine activities. Now we have found a way around lugging in those heavy plastic bottles of laundry detergent.
It’s called “Sheets.” Each sheet has detergent in it, and comes in a small recycled box of 50 for $14.99. It weighs seven ounces.
Compare that weight with a large detergent container, one in those bright orange colors. That comes in a 108 fluid ounce size (1.62 gallons). Now if water weighs 8.3 pounds a gallon, we figure that orange container comes in about 13-14 pounds. For sure, you know it when unloading your car.
So no more heavy lifting the detergent. Those we have talked to say the new method of Sheets works beautifully. No more heavy lifting. Go to https://sheetslaundryclub.com to check it out.
City budgets: Two of our Gwinnett cities have among the highest city budgets in Metro Atlanta.
The city of Atlanta had a proposed budget for 2023 of $745 million. The next highest is Marietta, with a budget of $392 million.
The City of Buford is the third-highest proposed budget for 2023 in Metro Atlanta, at $182,355,657. Lawrenceville ranks fourth at $172,520,402.
The main reason the Marietta, Buford and Lawrenceville budgets are so high is that all three operate enterprise funds. Marietta has extensive electric and water operations, while Buford and Lawrenceville both have electric and gas distribution operations included in their budgets. The city of Norcross has its own enterprise fund in electrical operations. Its 2022 total budget is $44,548,294.
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