By Deborah Tuff | The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners has adopted the final Equitable Redevelopment Plan for the Gwinnett Place Mall. The plan was informed by eight months of community engagement with direct input from over 2,000 Gwinnett residents and focuses on a new model for equitable development to benefit historically marginalized communities.
Here’s a maritime setting with a distinctive bridge. Figure out where this photograph was taken and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
Photo by Andy Brack
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, came up with the identity of the last mystery. He writes: “What first struck me as odd about the lighthouse was its location and surroundings….
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TODAY’S FOCUS: After Thailand, Vietnamese family finally lands in States
EEB PERSPECTIVE: County schools starting with record 182,865 enrollment
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Couldn’t wait for second installment of escape from Vietnam story
UPCOMING: Buford branding agency wins an award in communications
NOTABLE: Project SEED at Georgia Gwinnett provides hands-on learning
RECOMMENDED; The Slow Reading Movement:
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Southern Labor Archives located at Georgia State University
MYSTERY PHOTO: This lighthouse seeks to extend your imagination
By Tim Le | On the third night at sea headed to Thailand, we encountered a storm which knocked out the engine. We had to set up a sail that night and let the wind take us. The following morning, the men worked on the Yarma engine and adjusted the valves to generate engine compression and got it going. The remainder of the trip took about a day and was peaceful and uneventful. I remember my uncle making his prayers asking for safety and blessings.
A Buford women-owned, omni-channel branding firm has landed a 2022 Award of Excellence from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts’ Communicator Awards. The award came from their first jointly-written ebook entitled Unconventional Entrepreneurship. The Edge Agency won this award out of over 4,000 entries from firms all around the world.
Yep, another lighthouse for today’s mystery. This time you should extend your imagination of where this particular lighthouse might be. Let’s see if this mystery is difficult for our readers. Send your guess to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Perhaps many of our readers haven’t been to Buford lately. For that is the location of last week’s Mystery Photo. George Graf of Palmyra, Va. pinpointed it: “This is the Stonehedge Garden Club’s Daylily Sculpture,…
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett family escaped Vietnam via the sea in a small boat
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Eventually Northside Gwinnett Hospital will have largest campus in state
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Concern about handicapped parking got his attention
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Place site team releases plan for redevelopment
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville to start using cameras to slow school zone speeders
RECOMMENDED: The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wesleyan College in Macon has sterling reputation
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another artist’s conception for you to identify and locate
CALENDAR: Southwest Gwinnett Chamber meets August 5 at Crown Plaza Hotel
By Elliott Brack | By the time a new 17-story tower at Northside Hospital Gwinnett is completed in 2026, that would mean it would be the biggest single hospital campus in Georgia. Debbie Mitchum, president of that Lawrenceville hospital, says: “We will first add 240 beds to the new tower, and completely build out 12 floors.
“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”
— American Humorist James Thurber (1894 – 1961)
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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