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NEWS BRIEFS: Ross to speak at Memorial Day service
The commissioner of the Georgia Department of Veterans Services will speak at the annual Gwinnett Memorial Day service on Monday, May 27, at 1 p.m. on the grounds of the Fallen Heroes Memorial at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville. She is Patricia Ross, who previously served as the chief operating officer of the Veterans Education Career Transition Resource, VECTR Center, for five years.
NEW for 5/14: On bridging cultures, Kentucky Derby and a special prayer
Click here to read the full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Bridging cultures and bonds through Rotary students
EEB PERSPECTIVE: How the Kentucky Derby became fashionable
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s a prayer for Mother’s Day
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Animal Shelter at capacity; adoption fees waived
NOTABLE: Winner told for 13th Movers and Shakers awards
RECOMMENDED: Mala of the Heart, edited by Ravi Nathwani and Kate Vogt
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia state parks total 85,000 acres
MYSTERY PHOTO: Eight-man-tall statue is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Key ingredients here for blossoming daylilies
CALENDAR: Mulberry possible cityhood meeting is 7 p.m. Tuesday
NEWS BRIEFS: Animal Shelter at capacity; adoption fees waived
The Gwinnett Animal Welfare Center has reached a critical capacity with more than 180 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens currently under care. To ease the strain on staff and resources, the shelter urgently requests potential adopters and foster families to take advantage of waived adoption fees.
NEW for 5/10: On demands of few and presiding over Trump trial
Click here to read the latest full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: We should not accede to the demands of a few
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Today’s most difficult job: presiding over the Trump trial
SPOTLIGHT: Peachtree Campus
FEEDBACK: Call for action in removing Gwinnett District Attorney
UPCOMING: Students named to Impact46 summer internships
NOTABLE: Current GGC new nurses pass license at 100% rate
RECOMMENDED: What W.H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Library houses African American culture and history
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may have seen this lighthouse; where is it?
LAGNIAPPE: Sullens is Lilburn’s May Citizen of the Month
CALENDAR: Two new exhibits open May 11 at Hudgens Art Center
Gwinnett Forum | July 19, 2024
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
–British Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970).
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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