GwinnettForum | Number 23.77 | Oct. 1, 2024
SCHOLARSHIPS ON THE WAY: Georgia Banking Company’s CEO Bartow Morgan Jr., center, presents a $400,000 check to Georgia Gwinnett College President Jann L. Joseph. This donation establishes scholarships for students studying exercise science and wellness at the college. Others present include GGC’s Development Director Jennifer Hendrickson, GBC’s Gwinnett Market President Jennifer Bridwell, and GBC’s Business Development Officer/Bold Banker, Wanda Weeger. Meanwhile, GGC’s Grizzly looks happily on.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Horrifics from Helene devastating for a long time
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Like Hugo, hopefully some good will come out of Helene
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering good food in Houston, Texas
FEEDBACK: We have trashed the Earth that God gave us
UPCOMING: GBC grants $400,000 in scholarships to GGC
NOTABLE: Athens artist is winner of $50,000 Hudgens Prize
RECOMMENDED: The Fourth Turning by Neil Howe and William Strauss
OBITUARY: James Scott Vandiver
GEORGIA TIDBIT: The legacy of the Georgia Bottlers of Coca Cola
MYSTERY PHOTO: Older Sanctuary is today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Southeastern Railway Museum photo exhibit opens Friday
Horrifics from Helene devastating for a long time
Chimney Rock, N.C., before and after the hurricane.
By Susan McBrayer
SHELBY, N.C. | Ann Royster, who lives here, has a way of turning lemons into lemonade. So when Hurricane Helene hit Shelby Friday, wiping out power and uprooting tall trees, Ann got out her camping gear, cranked up the old camping stove and invited her neighbors over for a makeshift dinner. (Ann, my sister, turns everything into a party.)
McBrayer
Unfortunately, not everyone in the wake of Helene has been so lucky. I was raised in the foothills of Western North Carolina and I am heartbroken to hear the reports of this storm’s devastation and destruction.
After leaving Atlanta Friday, the storm took a turn to the east and hit North Carolina with a fury the state had not seen coming. Power outages, crushed buildings, blocked interstates, unprecedented flooding, unsafe water and deaths have been all over the news. Everyone has his own dramatic story.
Local news sources can supply more current information, but I can only report what my family and friends were telling me on Sunday, September 29. They are all without power and some are also without water. (My cousin in Spartanburg, S.C., says they don’t even have 911 emergency services!)
My brother in Hickory reports that the whole town is pretty much shut down and even the hospitals had no power on Sunday. Not sure about today.
Sadly, much of the town of Chimney Rock appears to have been washed out and cut off from outside traffic. The main street is now a river of mud and some of the wooden shops on the side of the road have been smashed to timbers.
Flooding near Asheville, N.C.
Near Asheville, parts of the main roads are gone, broken up into asphalt chunks and swept away by the rushing rapids of the Broad River. Some of the roads have literally fallen off the side of the mountain. Asheville is having more flood damage than it’s had in 100 years. My friend there says the city water has been cut off because it’s undrinkable and FEMA is trying to provide them with fresh water. My cousin is postponing her wedding scheduled for next weekend.
My friend in Black Mountain is getting her water out of the creek in her backyard and sterilizing it with stuff she uses when backpacking. A friend in Tryon had filled his bathtub with water, which was a good thing, since the entire town is now without water.
A Montreat friend says the stairs going from his cabin on the side of a mountain to the street below are a waterfall now. She also tells me all she can see of her two-story boat dock on Lake James is the roof.
Another friend, trying to drive down Interstate 85, said there was “pandemonium” at the few gas stations that were actually open.
The destruction in western North Carolina is reportedly the worst it’s been in our lifetimes. Yet these are early days and the horrific effects of Helene are going to be devastating for a very, very long time to come.
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Like Hugo, hopefully some good will come out of Helene
Hurricane Hugo in 1989 as it approached South Carolina. Photo via NOAA.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 1, 2024 | Hurricane Hugo came ashore at Sullivan’s Island near Charleston, S.C. on Sept. 22, 1989, one of the most destructive hurricanes to hit the Atlantic Coast.
A few weeks later, I flew Delta to Charleston. Approaching the city, from the air the destruction was so vast that you wondered how anyone could survive such an onslaught. Homes were destroyed in many places. Obviously, power lines and trees were scattered at random. It was awful. The storm caused 22 deaths in the United States.
Last week, Hurricane Helene rampaged through Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, destroying much in its path. More than 100 people are dead, at least 25 in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, 42 in North Carolina, and probably more in other states. Disclosure of more deaths can be expected.
Families have been ripped apart. And it’ll take months for the clean-up. Some destroyed towns may never be rebuilt. Tourism in the Appalachian states will suffer. Western North Carolina roads are closed, and bridges destroyed. It will take months to replace these facilities. Helene may exceed the damage Hurricane Katrina caused in 2005, which destroyed 800,000 homes and caused over $160 billion in damage.
Yet out of this vast obliteration, mankind will find ways to survive, and even improve. We certainly saw that in Charleston after Hurricane Hugo.
Once Charleston started recovering, it realized that the storm’s winds and water damaged or destroyed many of the Lowcountry’s historic buildings. It left much of Charleston’s iron, plaster and fine wood work in disrepair. Property owners and stewards of historic civic buildings had to search as far away as Europe to find professionals with the skills needed to repair the damage, since there were not enough skilled artisans in the United States to meet the demand for repairs and restoration of these historic buildings.
In response to this gap, a group of Charleston leaders planted the seeds that led to the founding of the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA) in 1999. Classes were offered at several different locations in and around the city of Charleston, including the city’s iconic Old District Jail, which became the college’s primary location for 17 years.
In 2004, the college was licensed to recruit students for the four-year Bachelor of Applied Science degree and two-year Associate of Applied Science program. Students take regular college classes in the morning, and then work with the world-famed skill artisans in the afternoon. Its graduates land jobs around the world, and are employed at places like the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress and as skilled artisans in Europe.
Broadwater
In 2009, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Colby M. Broadwater became president and reorganized the college, since it was losing money. Initially, he cut the budget by 50 percent, with such items as eliminating individual secretaries for its professors. Today, the college is well-financed and sound. In 2015, it began operations in the Old Trolley Barn on Upper Meeting Street, a remodeled facility beautifully enhanced by the work of its students.
A walk through the ACBA shows students working in stone carving, plaster, architectural carpentry, ironworking, blacksmithing and classical architecture. The quality of their work is amazing. The college currently enrolls about 150 students.
It’s a stretch after a hurricane to find something positive. But Charleston founded the only building arts school in the country after Hugo.
We anticipate and pray that something good can come out of Helene.
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Remembering good food in Houston, Texas
By David Simmons
NORCROSS, Ga. | Back in 2015, I was visiting my friend Dave in Galveston, Tex., and for some reason we drove up to Houston and around lunch time I saw this sign (Frenchy’s ) and yelled “Stop! Pull in there!”
Simmons
Frenchy’s brought back some great memories from 1981. I was working as the sales manager at a Remco TV, which was an electronics and appliance rent-to-own store located just 12 blocks south of the “Eighth Wonder Of The World,” The Houston Astrodome. Which was very convenient for the store manager and myself, as we were both huge Nolan Ryan fans. Eight or ten times that summer we would cut out from work and head up to the Astrodome to see Ryan pitch.
Early that summer we hired a new sales associate, a nice young guy who had been a star running back at the University of Houston a couple of years before. Both his sophomore and junior years he had 1,000 yard rushing seasons, but a couple of games into his senior year he blew out his knee real bad, so football was done with him. It was a promising career cut short.
One day during his first week on the job I took him out to lunch, told him to pick the spot and he took us to Frenchy’s. It’s a Cajun style fast food chicken joint. Spicy fried chicken. It was so good. I really enjoyed it, so the next day I invited him out to lunch again. Told him to surprise me.
He took me into neighborhoods I would have never ventured into without armed guards had I been on my own. We went down these little side streets and then finally into this alley where we found a parking space and stopped beside this old dilapidated, run down tin garage.
We walked inside where it was spotlessly clean, and they were offering barbecue. I was glad I was with him, because the folks made a to-do over him as he was a local celebrity, but man o’ man, they were giving me the once over. I didn’t fit in as I was the only one there severely lacking melanin.
He walked up to the counter and ordered and I said, make it two. We each got a barbecued half chicken, a mess of baked beans, cole slaw, and two slices of Rainbow white bread, fresh out of the bag. I had a ten spot out and ready, but the lady said four fitty, no tax, then apologized cause they had just raised the price a quarter. What an experience!
Stuff like that doesn’t happen to you every day. The guy didn’t last long at Remco TV, so I never got a chance to go back there. Lord knows I never could have found it on my own, and needless to say, probably would never gotten out alive, even if I had.
My, my, being in Texas brought back some memories.
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We have trashed the Earth that God gave us
Editor, the Forum:
Regarding your question, “For what purpose did God put man on Earth?” Genesis 1:26 (NASB) says in part, “…Let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” The Westminster Catechism states: “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.”
Your article says, “God put man on this Earth to solve problems…”, but it seems to me that the problems on Earth have been and are being created by mankind. Two things come immediately to mind: When God created the Earth, it was perfect in every way, including air and water that had not been polluted.
Look at what our manufacturing companies do to both of those every day. We have trashed the Earth that God gave us. We create problems that will never be remedied.
– Elizabeth Truluck Neace, Dacula
Singular in praise of recent columns
Editor, the Forum:
Your last two columns, on football and God, were great. Real heartfelt expressions. Plain talk. No agendas (well, you have your favorite teams and all…). From the heart. Good Journalism!
I hope you are OK in this storm. 9.5 inches at my house so far. Finish the month strong!
– Will Nelson, Buford
Nature moves slowly, but also eliminates CO2
Editor, the Forum:
My wife, Peggy, and I recently visited Ireland and learned that the peat bogs surrounding Galway are remarkable for their effectiveness in trapping CO2. Nature moves less quickly to work with limestone than your friends in Nova Scotia but I suspect with a similar result.
– John Michael Lovegood, Lawrenceville
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GBC grants $400,000 in scholarships to GGC
Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) has received a $400,000 gift from Georgia Banking Company to provide scholarships to students studying exercise science and wellness.
Bartow Morgan Jr., CEO of Georgia Banking Company, says: “This is part of our own culture to support organizations that have a positive impact on the community. In the case of Georgia Gwinnett College, the impact is generational.”
Dr. Jann L. Joseph, president of GGC, responded by saying: “We greatly appreciate the long-standing support that Bartow has shown our college, not only with his valuable expertise and time but also with this scholarship fund for our students.” Morgan is a member of the Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation.
The Georgia Banking Company Wellness and Recreation Scholarship Fund will provide students with up to $2,000 per semester and can be renewed up to four years. Eligible students must have a 3.0 GPA and be enrolled full time and in good standing at GGC.
Jennifer Hendrickson, associate vice president for advancement at GG, adds: “Bartow has driven efforts that have greatly enhanced the college’s resources and student opportunities. He has championed the company’s participation in GGC’s Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP). The CAP program gives our students and faculty the opportunity to interact with business leaders. That interaction helps prepare them for careers in the business sector. It’s professionals like Bartow that see a need and step up to help.”
Careers in exercise science and wellness offer many avenues. Dr. Lauren Tapp, associate professor of exercise science and physical education department chair at GGC, says: “It’s a diverse major in that our students can pursue careers from physical therapy and physician assistant to public health education, athletic trainers and coaches. Many of our students hold part- or full-time jobs, plus going to school, so this scholarship will mean a lot to them.”
Athens artist is winner of $50,000 Hudgens Prize
Artist Victoria Dugger of Athens, Ga.
Victoria Dugger of Athens is the winner of the 2024 Hudgens Prize for the Arts announced at an awards ceremony held Saturday at the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning.
The $50,000 Hudgens Prize is one of the largest awards in the nation given to an individual artist. The purpose of the competition is to elevate and promote the arts throughout Georgia, while providing a transformational opportunity for the winning artist.
Born in Columbus and a current resident of Athens, Dugger’s practice spans painting, mixed media works and sculpture. Working across these forms, she produces objects that blur accepted categories, exploring novel modes of self-expression and embodiment.
Dugger will receive a cash prize of $50,000 and a solo exhibition in the future at the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning.
Other finalists were Krista Clark of Atlanta, Joni Mabe of Athens and Sergio Suarez of Atlanta.
The 2024 Hudgens Prize jurors include Annette Cone-Skelton, CEO and founding director, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; Floyd Hall, executive director, The Atlanta Contemporary; and Melissa Messina, curatorial and advisory services consultant, and curator, Mildred Thompson Estate.
The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning is a non-profit organization that has been focused on supporting the arts in Georgia since its establishment in 1981. Its mission is to bring together art lovers, leaders and learners through quality art education programs and exhibitions. The Hudgens presents enriching and inspiring art exhibitions in five gallery spaces throughout each year; offers art education and programming, in multiple languages, for all ages and abilities; and provides outreach through the arts that support Georgia’s traditionally under-served individuals, families and communities.
Previous winners of the Hudgens Prize for the Arts include Gyun Hur (2011), Pam Longobardi (2013); Bethany Collins (2015); Lori Stallings (2017); Paul Stephen Benjamin (2019); and Olu Amoda (2022).
The Hudgens Center is located at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, in Duluth, on the Gas South District campus. For more information about exhibitions, events and arts education at the Hudgens, visit the website at www.thehudgens.org or call 770-623-6002.
The Fourth Turning, by Neil Howe and William Strauss
From Randy Brunson, Suwanee: In this book, published in 2009, Neil Howe and William Strauss explore the cycles of history and what they mean to 21st century America. They describe a High, or a period of confident expansion. This is followed by an Awakening, or a time of spiritual exploration and growth. Third is an Unraveling in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. And the fourth turning is a Crisis, when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. The authors analyze several centuries and cultures as they draw their conclusions about America. And they find that each cycle lasts about the length of a human life, 80 or so years. And within each of these cycles are four turnings.
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James Scott Vandiver
James Scott Vandiver, 67, of Lawrenceville, passed away on September 26, 2024. A Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 5, 2024, in the Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home in Lawrenceville. Interment will follow at Crest Lawn Memorial Park, 2000 Marietta Boulevard, Atlanta. The family will receive friends from 9 a.m. until the service.
Scott was a member of the Gwinnett County Republican Party and the Lawrenceville Citizens Police Academy. He was also a Past Master with the Atlanta Peachtree Masonic Lodge No. 59, Free and Accepted Masons. He was preceded in death by his parents, Arlond Bruce Vandiver, Jr. and Martha (Scott) Vandiver. He was a Republican candidate on the November ballot for House District 102 in the Georgia General Election.
Scott is survived by his daughters Chloe Vandiver, and Claire Vandiver, and fiancé, Zach Elliott. Scott was a dearly loved father, faithful friend, and esteemed member of the community.
Arrangements will be completed by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 300 Simonton Road, Lawrenceville.
The legacy of the Georgia Bottlers of Coca Cola
As Coca Cola’s fortunes rose in the 20th century, so did those of its bottlers. The roots of the current bottling system may be traced to 1899, when Joseph Brown Whitehead and a business associate purchased from the Coca-Cola Company the exclusive right to bottle the beverage in the United States (excepting Mississippi). In 1900 the Whitehead family moved from Tennessee to Atlanta to develop the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company, whose region included the South, Southwest, and Midwest.
The Whitehead family gave generously to social service, religious, and educational organizations in Atlanta and elsewhere in the state. Family members established three Georgia-based philanthropies whose purposes reflected these priorities: the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, and the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation. Beneficiaries include Agnes Scott College, the Berry Schools, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Tallulah Falls School, and others. Each of the Woodruff funds shares in a common administrative agreement with the Woodruff Foundation.
Georgia’s local bottlers adopted “Your Friendly Neighbor” as their motto, both as a marketing strategy and as a reflection of commitment to their home communities. Bottlers included the Barron family of Rome, the Cobb family of LaGrange and West Point, the Haley family of Albany, the Montgomery family of Atlanta, the Roberts family of Columbus, and the Sams family of Athens. These families have contributed to dozens of educational institutions and charitable organizations in their communities and around the state.
In 1937 Woodruff created the Trebor Foundation and focused its giving on charitable causes within the state. (The foundation’s name, “Robert” spelled backward, reflected Woodruff’s preference for anonymous giving.) After Woodruff died, the trustees changed the name to the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.
Woodruff’s generosity changed the face of Atlanta, inaugurating a new era in the city’s history. Beneficiaries include the Woodruff Arts Center, created in the aftermath of the disastrous Orly air crash of 1962, Emory University School of Medicine and the component programs that make up the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and CARE. In 1979 Woodruff and his brother, George, donated $105 million to Emory, at that time the largest single gift ever made to a U.S. institution of higher education. This gift, combined with the leadership of Emory’s president James T. Laney, transformed Emory into a national institution of academic distinction.
Roberto Goizueta succeeded Woodruff at Coke and continued his predecessor’s legacy of philanthropy. In 1992 he created a foundation, the Goizueta Foundation, to provide grant support to educational and charitable organizations. Goizueta had been on Emory’s Board of Trustees since 1980, and the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School, completed just before his death in 1997, was named for him.
The Coca-Cola Company created the Coca-Cola Foundation in 1984. Housed at the company’s headquarters in Atlanta, the foundation adopted an exclusive education focus in 1989 that continues to guide its giving. The foundation makes grants to nonprofit organizations in the United States and around the world.
The foundation’s overarching interest is education at all levels. Its grantmaking supports classroom teaching and learning, scholarships for promising students, and global initiatives that foster educational and cultural exchange.
At the end of 2022, the foundation listed assets of more than $267 million. Since its inception in 1984, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.5 billion in grants to support sustainable community initiatives —from water to women’s empowerment, from community recycling to wellbeing—around the world.
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Older sanctuary is today’s Mystery Photo
See if you can identify this older church, today’s Mystery Photo. Send your ideas to ebrack2@gmail.com and include your hometown.
Sara Rawlins of Lawrenceville recognized the recent mystery, “The mystery picture is the McLean House in Appomattox, Va. This is the site where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses Grant, ending the American Civil War in 1865. The house was owned by Wilmer and Virginia McLean at the time of surrender. The house was originally constructed by Charles Raines in 1848 and his wife sold the property to the McLeans in 1863.
“The first Battle of Bull Run happened on this farm property that began around 1861 and ended in 1865 with surrender in the parlor of the farmhouse. It could be said the war started outside and ended inside at the same homesite. One more fun fact, Wilmer McLean was too old to enlist, even though he was a retired Major in the Virginia Militia, he ran sugar through the Union blockade, making a small fortune. But since most of his fortune was in Confederate currency he was nearly ruined. The home is now a part of the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places.”
The photo came from Matt Willis of Lawrenceville.
Also recognizing the mystery were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Raleigh Perry, Buford; George Graf, Palmyra, Va; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Steve Ogilvie, Rehobeth, Ala. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who added:
“The house standing today is not the original McLean House but a reconstruction using most of the original materials. After changing ownerships several times between 1867 and 1891, it was purchased and dismantled by Captain Myron Dunlap from Niagara Falls who originally wanted to transport it to Chicago and reassembled it for the 1893 World’s Exposition. He was not able to complete the work in time, so he then planned to move it to Washington DC and convert it to a Civil War Museum. That never happened either, and so the house was ultimately reconstructed in its original form and location using the dismantled materials from the original structure. It is now the central feature of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.”
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Railway Museum opens exhibit on Friday
Art program: come on Friday, October 4 from 5:30 until 8:30 to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth for a special photographic exhibit. Be at the grand opening of Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy from the Center for Photography and Railroad Art. The museum is located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth. Honor the art of giving with the gift of art.
Georgia Race for Autism will be on October 5 at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, located at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. Check in begins at 7 a.m. There will be a certified 5K race, a 1 Mile Fun Run, a 100-yard Dash, and a Tot Trot. To register, click here. Stay for the free Fall Festival, kicking off at 8 a.m., which lasts until noon. Enjoy a petting zoo, face painting, pony rides, inflatables, balloon art, a sensory fun area, a trackless train, music, entertainment, and a silent auction.
Bananarama III Here We Go Again is returning to the Lionheart Theatre in downtown Norcross. Show times are October 4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m. This is Project Chimps’ annual comedy-variety-drag show hosted by Jolene Goodall with featured performances by Berlinda Wall! It is for ages 16+ and not suitable for all audiences.
Norcross Art Splash Festival is back on October 5–6 in downtown Norcross. View the works of 80 artists from across the country who will show off their talents with folk art, ceramics, paintings, photography, mixed media, fiber art, metalwork, and jewelry. Kids can enjoy the interactive Kidz Zone, with face painting, sand art and inflatable rides. Festival food and drinks will be in abundance to enjoy throughout the weekend.
Alma Mexicana Dance Performance will be at the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public library on Saturday, October 5, at 11 a.m. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Experience the magic of traditional Mexican Folk Dances!
Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra will present a free Classical K-Pop concert at Newtown Park on Saturday, October 5 at 7 p.m. Led by music director finalist Henry Cheng, this unique musical experience will include symphony renditions of some of the world’s most famous K-Pop pieces.
Learn more about Korean culture, seeing live K-POP performances, and trying some delicious food. A Korea Festival will be on Saturday, October 5, and Sunday, October 6, from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. It is hosted by the Korean Festival Foundation. Tickets are $20 each per day (or $30 for both days) and can be purchased here.
Snellville Historical Society will have its semi-annual general meeting at Snellville City Hall on Sunday, October 6, with the doors opening at 2:30 p.m. and the meeting beginning at 3 p.m. Speaker will be Gwinnett retired Fire Chief Tommy Rutledge.
Aging Adult Expo will be at the Dacula Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on October 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Community partners will share information about Medicare, Social Security benefits, health and wellness, mental health, nutrition, elderly law, frauds/scams, safety, tech help for phones, and how to prepare an “In Case of…” binder.
Nutrition for a Healthy Life: The Importance of Hydration will be held at the Suwanee Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on October 9 at 10:30 a.m. Learn about healthy lifestyle changes and healthy recipes to cook. This program will have Korean translation available.
Capture the essence of Norcross in a snap! Norcross Gallery and Studios is hosting the ‘Our Home Is Your Home’ Photo Competition through Sunday, October 20. Whether you’re an amateur or a pro, they want to see the world through your lens. The Gallery is accepting photos from smartphones as well as professional cameras. Submitted photos will be displayed in Norcross City Hall and Norcross Gallery and Studio. Top photos will receive prizes and ribbons. Participants are not required to live in Norcross, but the pictures must showcase the city.
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