A place where veterans and their families can find local, state and federal services in one place is now open in Gwinnett County. Commissioners, veterans and community leaders cut the ribbon to the Veteran and Family Services office in Lawrenceville on Monday. The project streamlines access to resources like food, transportation, workforce development, housing and childcare.The renovation of the office was funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.
Retired Lt. Col. and District 3 Commissioner Jasper Watkins spearheaded the project alongside County staff and partner organizations from around the community, including Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 90.
The Veteran and Family Services office is located inside the Gwinnett Senior Services Center on Swanson Drive. A OneStop 4 Help community navigator will be onsite to assist veterans and their families Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Christ Episcopal Church in Norcross gets interim rector
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The Rev. Canon Elizabeth H. Hendrick has been appointed the interim rector at Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross, according to Geoffrey Wilson, the church’s senior warden. Her first service at the church will be on October 23. The church’s longtime rector, the Rev. Ceci Duke, retired recently after 13 years at the church.
A search committee is presently working on a new full-time rector for the congregation, which meets at 400 Holcomb Bridge Road in Norcross.
The Rev. Hendrick recently completed seven years as rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Snellville. She is a native of Apopka, Fla, and a graduate of the University of Florida, with a MBA from Rollins College. She is also a graduate of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Tex. with a master’s degree in divinity.
Her previous assignments have been at All Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif. for three years and another three years as canon pastor of the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris, France.
New Peachtree Corners program helps find parking spaces
The solution allows Peachtree Corners residents to see real-time parking space and EV charging availability in the Town Center. This is accessible via the city app, Corners Connect. In addition, this also helps city managers to make real-time informed decisions on parking capacity, infrastructure planning, traffic management and security safeguards based on data around events happening throughout the city.
A new collaboration between high-tech firms and the Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners will allow residents to see in real time available parking spaces and EV charging availability.
The city is working with Cradlepoint, a wireless network, and with T-Mobile to make the program available.
In addition to improving the Peachtree Corners visitor experience, the technology also enables city planners to make real-time informed decisions on parking capacity, infrastructure planning, traffic management and security safeguards based on data around events happening throughout the city.
Suwanee gets a new 25-acre park, anchored by its library
The City of Suwanee has broken ground on a long-awaited expansion of Town Center Park on Main and the DeLay Nature Park. The 25-acre site was purchased in 2002 as an early acquisition of the community-driven comprehensive park and open space initiative. The Suwanee City Council approved a master plan for a future city park in 2019.
The dual parks will transform the area, creating a cohesive “neighborhood” to encompass the Suwanee library, PlayTown Suwanee, Fire Station 13, and result in the rerouting of Main Street and median closure on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road.
Town Center on Main will be an urban-style greenspace with a unique character, personality, and purpose, similar to but separate from the existing Town Center Park. The Suwanee library will serve as the anchor for this new space much like the way City Hall relates to the existing park. The majority of the site – roughly 15 of the wooded 25 acres along the existing Brushy Creek Greenway – will remain largely undisturbed as the DeLay Nature Park.
The park plan features a mixture of urban and rural environments, including:
- A roughly 900-foot, elevated signature bridge for pedestrian and bicycle use, spanning the entire park and crossing a one-acre water feature,
- An open terrace plaza at the peak of the park’s elevation with large-scale pavilions,
- Sandpit volleyball courts, and
- An iconic public art piece.
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