GwinnettForum | Number 25.29| April 11, 2025
ANOTHER MURAL COMING: The Lawrenceville Arts Commission has been awarded a $20,000 Project Grant from the Gwinnett Creativity Fund to support the creation of a Magnolias on a Sweet Breeze community mural. It will be seen near Georgia Gwinnett College on the Collins Hill Road overpass of Georgia Highway 316. Under the guidance of muralist Angela Bortone, members of the community—including Georgia Gwinnett College students, faculty, and visitors—will have the opportunity to participate in painting the mural. From left are Mayor David Still and Arts Commission Members Casey Spinks, Aura-Leigh Sanders, and Jennifer Hammond. The Gwinnett Creativity Fund seeks to assist arts organizations in growing, evolving, and expanding access to artistic and cultural experiences. Registration opens to the public on April 17 for community painting days in late April.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Housing unit buys hotel for seniors and homeless youth
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here’s another use of “artificial intelligence”
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
ANOTHER VIEW: Is a solution possible for the Israeli-Palestine fight?
FEEDBACK: About Victor Orban and Donald Trump
UPCOMING: nesevo moves to Norcross and larger facilities
NOTABLE: GGC’s Career Services also guides on business attire
RECOMMENDED: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Elements of Agricultural Adjustment Act are continuing
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another lighthouse begs to be identified
CALENDAR: Garden Fest at Grayson Library on April 15 and 17
Housing Corporation buys hotel for seniors and homeless youth
By Leija Prijaca
PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. | An extended stay motel in this city is being converted into apartments by Gwinnett Housing Corporation (GHC). It is acquiring Spring Swallow Lodge at 7065 Jimmy Carter Boulevard to transform the motel into affordable housing for seniors and homeless youth ages 18-24. The Lodge is located on a 4.69-acre parcel and features 73 apartments of 450-650 square foot efficiencies with fully equipped kitchens.
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GHC purchased the property in March for $8.7 million. With an estimated total development cost of $14 million, GHC has identified most of the funding for this project. Gwinnett County government has committed $7.7 million in federal funding to support the acquisition and rehab. Additionally, GHC has obtained preliminary commitments from the Greater Atlanta Community Foundation and Chase Bank.
Successful conversion has the potential to increase economic opportunities in the following areas:
- Reduced Transiency: Converting Extended Stay Housing (ESH) to permanent housing will lower the residential transiency associated with ESH and will have a stabilizing community effect.
- Lower Crime Rate: Analysis of Gwinnett Police data shows high criminal activity surrounding ESHs, typically a result of negligent management practices with low personal stake in the community’s well-being. The development will be locally owned and operated with screening criteria targeting seniors and college/career/vocational training-bound youth aging out of foster care system.
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The new project is near Peachtree Boulevard
Create healthier living environments: This includes improved energy efficiency standards, more greenspace, professional property management to ensure resident and area safety, modern amenities, increased living space, and various interior and exterior safety features.
- More permanent affordable housing in southern Gwinnett County: The Gwinnett County Comprehensive Housing Study states that only three percent of Gwinnett’s apartments rent for less than $1,000 a month (attainable to households earning $40,000 annually or less). 70,000 Gwinnett households fall into this earning category. According to Gwinnett Citizen, in 2021, the fastest-growing county in Georgia, Gwinnett County ranks third in its homeless population. The Gwinnett Daily Post has recently reported that “Georgia experienced a two percent increase in homelessness from 2019 to 2021, with more than 10,600 currently unhoused.” With this development, GHC will address the shortage of affordable rental housing for Gwinnett’s most underserved population.
- From housing insecurity towards financial self-sufficiency: Although ESH provides shelter for housing-insecure families, they often trap households in a tenuous situation because of high costs and inability to save for an apartment. GHC’s vision is to create sustainable communities, with a focus in combining the “bricks and mortar” approach with the provision of critical, on-site services, in collaboration with trusted partners, such as educational opportunities, employment assistance, financial literacy and wellness programming.
The proposed conversion will reduce the negative impacts that occur with poorly managed Extended Stay Hotels (ESHs) by converting their use to a better run and more stable permanent affordable housing product. It will also increase the supply of permanent affordable housing in Gwinnett. ESH management practices and their use as housing-of-last-resort has contributed to economic blight around these properties. This problem is further compounded by the fact that Gwinnett has the highest number of ESHs in the country.
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Here’s another use of that term “artificial intelligence”
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
APRIL 11, 2025 | Watch out! Today here’s another story that is hard to believe, but yet another advancement that others are finding useful. It came our way because no one on a committee wanted to keep the minutes. This technology can blow the mind.
The new buzz word is “artificial intelligence” (AI), something that up to now, I find hard to get my brain around. But this week I got a new insight in the way AI might help us.
It came from a zoom meeting of our church’s finance committee. One member heard that we might use AI to produce minutes of the meeting. Eight of us were on that Zoom call, with the recording of the session via Otter.ai, Inc. The company is based in Mountain View, Calif.
Immediately after the one-hour meeting was over, we had a written verbatim transcript of that session. As each of us talked, it listed our name and what we said, by paragraphs. What we got back was most complete in its detailed wording of what each of us said. The transcripts can come back to you in English, French or Spanish.
For a 30-minute session, the work is free. If you want to record more time, there are several pricing plans. The cost is $8.33 per month (billed annually) for a 90-minute conversation. Another plan for $20 per month allows four hours of transcribed conversation.
Unknown to me, Otter has been around for a while. Tracey Rice of Peachtree Corners used Otter when with a major company, and had this to say:
“I used Otter for a whole year in 2022 when I was the project manager with a nonprofit. The transcript was definitely useful, especially when we wanted to capture verbatim comments. But you have to sift through a lot of’ ‘um’s’ and ‘ya know’s’ to get to the real content.”
Then she added: “The verbatim transcript is difficult to use because of all the gibberish in there, but the summary seemed quite useful (and pretty darn amazing, if you ask me!) It has definitely come a long way since I used it. If I were responsible for the minutes, I would find it helpful.”
There are at least two similar services:
Fireflies is an AI tool that helps with meetings by transcribing, summarizing, and analyzing conversations. It has strong collaboration features to make teams more productive. It is best for team collaboration, analyzing conversations, and automating workflows. Fireflies.ai is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
MeetGeek is a similar service. It automatically detects the language, meeting and context so your notes are always tailored with zero manual set-up. MeetGeek, founded in 2020, is based in Bucharest, Romania.
Unfortunately, in most meetings, there is a lot of trash amidst the valuable parts. This AI transcription was most complete. It would be most helpful, perhaps, in recording the exact wording for a court of law, or perhaps for the United Nations. However, in most meetings, an informed person might find it easier to reconstruct the minutes from jotting down careful notes, and leaving all the set-asides and gibberish alone. And there was plenty of that in our, and most, meetings.
It was amazing, but ineffective, in that a person would have to review and severely edit the transcript to build reasonable minutes of the meeting.
Evaluation: This usage is accurate, but not worthy for most meetings.
We still cannot imagine what gee-whiz ideas might be around the next corner. No doubt our minds will be amazed again!
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Is a solution possible for the Israeli-Palestine fight?
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | If the Israeli-Palestinian peace was easily obtained, it would have been done long ago. But it’s complicated. There will be no peace until the Palestinians have a reputable, unified governing party and Israel has a moderate government. Neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis are currently ready for peace in that neither side has met these criteria.
Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a radical terrorist group elected by Gaza residents. Since its founding, Hamas has been openly dedicated to killing all Israeli Jews, as shown by the massacre which started this latest war. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put together a fractious right-wing governing coalition, including extremists wanting a single state with inequality for Palestinians.
So, there are major problems on both sides. However, no one should confuse the underlying Israeli Palestinian problem with the bloody, inhumane terrorism by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Hamas attacked peaceful Israeli citizens, murdering 1,200 of them and injuring another 4,600. Children were burned alive. Women were raped and tortured. Elderly men decapitated. This act began the current war.
Still, 15 Democrat House Representatives refused to vote in favor of a resolution supporting Israel and condemning Hamas’s savage unilateral massacre. These pro-Palestinian propagandists included the Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, head of the Progressive Caucus.
All the Democrats not supporting the resolution were all people of color. As someone who started his career in civil rights…and remains a strong DEI advocate, I find this disturbing. These representatives do not understand the history of Israel or the underlying nature of the conflict. They view Israel as a U.S. civil rights issue, white people taking land from people of color, treating them unequally. Although there are some Israeli bigots, this pro-Palestinian is simplistic,
Israel is a Jewish state designed to be a refuge for persecuted Jews. Similarly, Saudi Arabia is a Muslim state.
Yes, European Ashkenazi Jews, fleeing persecution in Europe, were a force in the creation of Israel. But Mizrachi/Sephardic Jews, racially indistinguishable from Arab Muslims, were in the Middle East throughout recorded human history. These Mizrachi/Sephardic Jews were treated as second class citizens by the Muslims controlling Middle Eastern states.
Decades ago, most Israelis believed it was possible to have a peaceful Palestinian state co-existing side by side with Israel. At the 2000 Camp David Summit, President Bill Clinton proposed this to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Barak accepted, but Arafat refused and started the Second Intifada.
Disturbingly, the number of Israelis believing in a Palestinian state had fallen to 35 percent even before the attack. Because of Hamas inhumanity and Palestinian Authority corruption on the West Bank, 70 percent of Israelis now want sovereignty over Gaza and the West Bank. I believe Israeli public opinion will only change if a path to peace is clear.
When Hamas is removed and the Arab states form a reputable Palestinian government, only then will a moderate Israeli government be elected and a two-state solution be enacted. If Hamas stays in power, there will be no end to bloody conflict.
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About Victor Orban and Donald Trump
Editor, the Forum:
Seeing how Victor Orban of Hungary is 61 years old, he can technically rule for another 20+ years as a dictator.
We are lucky that convicted felon 47 is 78 years old, and the average age for a lot of men in this country to live to is about 80+ years old. You can see some of convicted felon 47 cognitive behavior disappearing, especially when he speaks.
My opinion is that he won’t finish out his second term. But if he does, he’ll be too incoherent to govern effectively, if at all. So the third term is out for him.
– Sara Rawlins, Lawrenceville
Dear Sara: Can you see any improvement if the vice president was elevated? — eeb
Useless deaths of Palestinian children worries him
Editor, the Forum:
George Wilson offered moral clarity on April 4 when he penned “Israel has become a threat to humanity,” calling for mercy, justice, and equal rights. How Randy Brunsen stretches this plea for justice into a call for the extinction of Jews is mind-boggling.
According to the United Nations, about 100 Palestinian children have been killed every day since Israel resumed its war on Gaza March 18th. Every one of their deaths was backed and supported by the U.S. Mr. Wilson is explicitly calling for an end to genocide; not an expansion.
– Joe Briggs, Senoia
Story from Belarus offers insight for us
Editor, the Forum:
While searching some public broadcasting offerings lately, I came across an interview from last September. Three young women exiled from the tyranny of Lukashenko in Belarus were discussing what they had witnessed as the former more democratic government had been usurped by a dictator.
Yes, there were many parallels to what we are witnessing and we could go on about them; what really struck me was a comment by one of the young women.
Her husband has been arrested for speaking out against the dictator and put into a jail somewhere; she knows not where because no communication is allowed. She is leading a continuing resistance to the current regime from exile as she obviously would be immediately arrested if she returned to her homeland.
Her comment was that there was not a failure of politics during and after the takeover by a dictatorial autocrat, there was a failure of morality.
We hear almost every day comments about the lack of resistance from both political parties to our current “leadership” (if such it is) and the comments are always comparing one party with the other. Both parties are made up of individuals and the comment on morality seems strikingly more applicable than a scourge of “parties.”
If the individuals would find the strength of moral character to stand for what is right for the country, then vow to defend and protect from threats both external and internal, would we not find a Congress more engaged in taking back the powers that have been ripped from it?
Perhaps as you consider communicating with your congressmen, you might ask them how they sleep at night … or why they seem to sleep all day, too.
– T. David, Peachtree Corners
More on 25th amendment possibility
Editor, the Forum:
Let me agree that President Trump suffers from an extreme case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
However, the chance of getting the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet members to declare the president unable to perform the duties of presidency is not within the realm of possibility. The president’s control of the Republican Party is too complete.
Also, I am not convinced that Vice President Vance would be an improvement. Because he is more focused than Trump, the move toward autocracy would be even more rapidly pursued than it is now.
– John Titus, Peachtree Corners
Should not diagnose a patient without meeting them
Editor, the Forum:
It’s rich to see folks, with no inside knowledge, offering their perspective on invocation of the 25th Amendment. If narcissism was the defining and over arching litmus for application of the 25th Amendment, we’d have no presidents!
I might add, why did not anyone in authority proffer the 25th for Joe Biden, who was clearly struggling w/his faculties? It’s academic; we all know what happened. But all we heard at the time were crickets…and a complicit media. As Dr. Schneiberg and any other clinician knows, it’s not clinically sound to diagnose a patient without at least meeting them.
While fun in animated polarized discourse, post-facto pearl clutching has no place in rigorous decision making. You can hate Orange Man and all he is, but let’s get past the noise.
– Jeff Gorke, Suwanee
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nesevo moves to Norcross and larger facilities
The operations center at nesevo
nesevo, an Austrian global company specializing in networking solutions, IT services, and logistics, recently announced plans to expand its footprint in Gwinnett County, leasing a 13,000-square-foot facility in Norcross for manufacturing and office operations. The company plans to create 30 new jobs over the next five years and is working with Partnership Gwinnett on the expansion at its Pacific Drive address in Norcross.
Victor Handl, Manager/Director, nesevo U.S., says: “Gwinnett County provides a diverse talent base to reflect our global presence, excellent access for international connection, and a very strong tech-industry foundation. We are excited about the business growth potential available in metro Atlanta and the U.S., and want to thank Partnership Gwinnett and the community for their support.”
An ISO 14001-certified corporation, nesevo values environmental stewardship and strives for green best practices in all its operations. It is headquartered in Austria with offices in China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States.
Norcross Mayor Craig Newton added, “We welcome nesevo to Norcross and are pleased to have them as a member of the strong and ever-growing technology industry here in Gwinnett.”
nesevo was already operating out of a smaller location in unincorporated Duluth. The company selected a larger facility in Norcross and the Gateway85 Community Improvement District (CID) that could better accommodate its growth plans. For more information on nesevo, visit www.nesevo.com.
County’s Unified Plan wins planning group’s 2025 award
Gwinnett County has received national recognition for its forward-thinking planning and commitment to a high quality of life. The County’s 2045 Unified Plan was named the winner of the Quality of Life Award by the American Planning Association’s Sustainable Communities Division during the 2025 National Planning Conference held in Denver.
The award honors projects that demonstrate outstanding efforts in planning that enhance the well-being of communities. Gwinnett’s 2045 Unified Plan stood out for its comprehensive and inclusive approach to future growth, infrastructure, housing and environmental stewardship—ensuring that residents’ needs are at the heart of the County’s long-term vision.
The 2045 Unified Plan sets the course for Gwinnett’s future, addressing population growth, climate resilience, housing diversity and mobility while promoting equity and sustainability throughout the County’s 437 square miles. To view the full list of APA award winners and learn more about the 2045 Unified Plan, visit the APA Sustainable Communities Division’s website.
GGC’s Career Services also guides on business attire
In the forefront is GGC student Ashley Vega. In the background is Emily Rios. Photo provided.
Between classes and campus activities, there is one place that Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) student Ashley Vega, ’26, who is studying cinema and media arts, makes sure to stop by—GGC’s Career Services.
“Career services has been an incredible resource for me,” she said.
Dr. Roslyn Brown, director of Career Services, said that it’s a one-stop place for students to prepare for life after graduation: “We are one of the few such departments that truly provides career counseling and coaching, along with career advising.”
GGC’s Career Services also offers career coaching and development workshops, a career resource library, and The Merri M. Brantley Professional Attire Closet, where students can borrow career-ready attire. Vega notes: “They supported me with access to business attire, ensuring I was prepared and polished for professional events,” Vega said.
Students like Vega can take advantage of the many services offered, including graduate and professional school assistance.
Brown says: “We help students who plan to attend graduate school with preparation for taking standardized entry tests, like the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and Occupational Therapy/Physical Therapy (OT/PT) shadowing.
With the array of available services, students can set one-on-one appointments for graduate school assistance/career counseling, attend career fairs and career development workshops, and stop by for quick questions. Students can also get assistance with their resumes and cover letters. There is even a photo booth where students can obtain professional portraits.
Ultimately, GGC Career Services wants students to achieve success, with one caveat, Brown says: “We talk to a lot of students, and many times, their parents, and remind them that we are not a job placement center,” she says. “We provide the resources to help students get job interviews. That’s our goal.”
Brown adds that along with coaching students on what to do, she also guides them in what not to do. That includes not being late for an interview and not having an outdated LinkedIn account. “We offer mock interviews to help students gain confidence in how they present themselves and communicate professionally with potential employers,” she said.
For Vega, Career Services has helped her prepare for life after graduation. “Take advantage of the services and courses that Career Services provides while you can,” she says. “It will definitely take you into the right direction towards your career goals.”
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
From Shyla Nambiar, Norcross: A Confederacy of Dunces is a comic novel with a larger-than-life main character, Ignatius Reilly, an overeducated, unemployed, lying lay-about living with his long-suffering mother in 1960s New Orleans. A car accident sets off a hilarious chain of events in which Ignatius is forced to get a job, organizes a worker’s protest at his new employer’s factory, works as a hot-dog vendor, and ends up at a strip club being attacked by a cockatoo. A host of memorable, perfectly depicted minor characters populates the book, and the plot converges in a rollicking climax that brings events together. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel highlights some of the issues prominent during the Sixties, such as social justice and sexual equality, while satirizing Ignatius, a deluded, self-important figure and a prime example of the comic anti-hero. The novel was published posthumously, after the author’s suicide.
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Elements of Agricultural Adjustment Act are continuing
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase.
After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the AAA in January 1936, a slightly modified version of the law was passed in 1938. The program was largely successful at raising crop prices, though it had the unintended consequence of inordinately favoring large landowners over sharecroppers.
In addition to the state’s economic challenges, Georgia’s soil was in poor health. The state’s decades-long dependence on cash-crop agriculture encouraged farmers to plant every available acre with cotton, which eventually depleted the soil and led to erosion. By the beginning of the Great Depression, Georgia’s cotton, farmers, and land were all in a poor state.
Roosevelt, familiar with Georgia’s economy through his frequent visits to Warm Springs, proposed the AAA within his first 100 days of office. The act passed both houses of Congress in 1933 with the unanimous support of Georgia senators and representatives. In essence, the law asked farmers to plant only a limited number of crops. If the farmers agreed, then they would receive a federal subsidy. The subsidies were paid for by a tax on the companies that processed the crops. By limiting the supply of target crops—specifically, corn, cotton, milk, peanuts, rice, tobacco, and wheat—the government hoped to increase crop prices and keep farmers financially afloat.
The AAA successfully increased crop prices. National cotton prices increased from 6.52 cents/pound in 1932 to 12.36 cents/pound in 1936. The price of peanuts, another important Georgia crop, increased from 1.55 cents/pound in 1932 to 3.72 cents/pound in 1936.
These gains were not distributed equally, however, among all Georgia’s farmers. Subsidies were distributed to landowners, not to sharecroppers, who were abundant in Georgia. When the landlords left their fields fallow, the sharecroppers were put out of work. Some landowners, moreover, used the subsidies to buy efficient new farming equipment. This led to even more sharecroppers being put out of work because one tractor, for example, could do the job of many workers.
In 1936 the Supreme Court struck down the AAA, finding that it was illegal to tax one group—the processors—in order to pay another group—the farmers. Despite this setback, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 had set the stage for nearly a century of federal crop subsidies and crop insurance. In 1936 Congress enacted the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, which helped maintain production controls by offering payment to farmers for trying new crops, such as soybeans. Crop insurance was included in the new Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, which paid subsidies from general tax revenues instead of taxes on producers.
The legacy of crop subsidies and crop insurance continues well into the 21st century.
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Another lighthouse begs to be identified
Lighthouses around the world keep sending out signals and beams of light to ensure that ships are aware of treacherous ground. Can you recognize this lighthouse, and tell us where it is? Send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com, and also tell us where you live.
The previous mystery photo was early on identified by Georgia Graf of Palmyra, Va., who wrote: “This is the India Gate (formerly known as All India War Memorial), near the Rajpath (officially called Kartavya path) on the eastern edge of the ‘ceremonial axis’ of New Delhi. It stands as a memorial to 74,187 soldiers of the Indian Army who died between 1914 and 1921 in the World War I, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. A total of 13,300 servicemen’s names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The gate evokes the architectural style of the ancient Roman triumphal arches such as the Arch of Constantine in Rome, and later memorial arches; it is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai.The photograph came from Paige Havens of Hoschton.
Also recognizing the photograph were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Allen Peel of San Antonio, Texas, and Stewart Ogilvie of Rehobeth, Ala.
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Garden Fest at Grayson Library on April 15 and 17
Calling all gardeners, garden enthusiasts, and everyone in between! Garden Fest is returning for its sixth year at the Grayson Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on two days, Tuesday, April 15, and Thursday, April 17. Both days hours will be from noon to 6 p.m.
Writing Your Memoirs is the subject of a three-session workshop on April 16, 23 and 30 at the Collins Hill Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Learn how your experiences and life lessons can entertain and inspire others in this writing workshop.
The PDC Club in Norcross will have as its speaker on April 16 Coleen Kiernan, from Gateway85 Community Improvement District. The meeting will start at 8:15 and be finished at 9 a.m. at 45 South Café. All are invited.
Mindful Spaces will be presented at the Snellville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on April 17 at 6 p.m. Learn about the mental health benefits of decluttering and organizing. Utilize tips and tricks to overcome the feeling of being overwhelmed.
Two Easter Egg Hunts will take place in Norcross on April 19 at Rosie Brundage Park. The first hunt will be at 10 a.m. packed with hidden treasures and the Easter Bunny. Then at 1 p.m. there is a hunt designed for kids with special needs, featuring beeping eggs and special scoops for those in wheelchairs. The hunts are sponsored by the City of Norcross.
Recycling day in Peachtree Corners will be from 9 a.m. Saturday, April 19, until noon, at City Hall. Residents may dispose of paper materials and electronic waste free of charge.
Stand-up comedy writing workshop will be at Lionheart Theatre in Norcross on Saturday, April 19 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This is for ages 17 and up. Cost is $20. Visit the Classes page on lionhearttheatre.org to register.
Author talk: Join L.S. Topping as she discusses her creative nonfiction book, The Other Woman, about a journey of rediscovery, resilience, and the power of an unbreakable spirit. The talk will be on April 22 at 6 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Branch of Gwinnett County Public library. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wesleyan Artist Market, the 27th annual, will be April 25-26 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Wesleyan School in Peachtree Corners on Friday and from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday. Featured will be a curated selection of artwork, handmade goods, and jewelry, with offerings from professional artists as well as students. Admission is free.
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