Articles by: GwinnettForum

Le’s greater family

FOCUS: Gwinnett family escaped Vietnam via the sea in a small boat

By Tim Le |  After the fall of Saigon, more than one million Vietnamese Boat People gave up their livelihood and dignity to seek democracy and freedom.  About 700,000 Vietnamese refugees successfully resettled in the USA between 1975 and 1997.  

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by · July 29, 2022 · Today's Focus
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NEWS BRIEFS: Gwinnett Place site team releases plan for redevelopment

The Gwinnett Place Mall Site Revitalization Team has completed a redevelopment concept of what the dying Gwinnett Place Mall site could become. Its Global Villages concept is based on extensive community input and a data-driven, market supportable and economically feasible analysis.

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by · July 29, 2022 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another artist’s conception to identify and locate

MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another artist’s conception to identify and locate

For the mystery for this issue, it’s a sculpture. Not only must you figure out where this piece of art is located, but also tell us what it represents. You might be surprised. Send your idea to elliott @ brack.net and tell us your hometown.

Sara Rawlins of Lawrenceville recognized last week’s mystery. “This sculpture is made up of several fire hydrants to look like the old fashion toy: Jacks.

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by · July 29, 2022 · Mystery photos
NEW for 7/26: Updated song; thoughts on Liz Cheney

NEW for 7/26: Updated song; thoughts on Liz Cheney

Click here to read the full edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Applying recent insurrection to popular gospel song
EEB PERSPECTIVE: January 6 hearings show Liz Cheney being highly responsible 
ANOTHER VIEW: Some thoughts when you feel old age creeping up
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: Remember when you used them to wrap fish, too? 
UPCOMING: PCOM to graduate 75 new master’s degree holders this morning
NOTABLE: GGC students have option of attending summer resource camps
RECOMMENDED: Alienist by Caleb Carr 
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Stevens and Wilkinson was major architectural firm since 1947 
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bright red objects are for you to guess about today 
CALENDAR: GGC president to address Snellville Commerce Club on August 2 

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by · July 26, 2022 · Full issues
Cheney during a recent Jan. 6 committee hearing | Photo via CSPAN.

BRACK: Jan. 6 hearings show Liz Cheney being highly responsible 

By Elliott Brack  |  The nation isn’t talking much about who’ll be running in the 2024 presidential election.

Instead, we’re concentrating on what happened on January 6.

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FOCUS: Applying recent insurrection to popular gospel song

FOCUS: Applying recent insurrection to popular gospel song

By Ashley Herndon  |  Here is the original version of the song, “I Come to the Garden Alone, by Charles Austin Miles (1868-1946), a prolific author of gospel songs.  Alongside it, is another version I penned  is what the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, 3 percenters, and others gave us on January 6:

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by · July 26, 2022 · Today's Focus
Schneiberg

ANOTHER VIEW: Some thoughts when you feel old age creeping up

By Alan Schneiberg  |  Old age has creeped up on me. So I wanted to share some thoughts about growing old that gives me a laugh. So here are some musings about growing old.

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by · July 26, 2022 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: PCOM to graduate 75 new master’s degree holders 

NEWS BRIEFS: PCOM to graduate 75 new master’s degree holders 

On Tuesday, July 26 at 11 a.m. 75 master’s degree students will graduate from PCOM Georgia, a health sciences university in Suwanee, at the Gas South District in Duluth. The graduates include 45 biomedical sciences students and 30 physician assistant students.

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by · July 26, 2022 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bright red objects are for you to guess about today 

MYSTERY PHOTO: Bright red objects are for you to guess about today 

Today’s mystery is a bright structure alongside a highway. Figure out first what it is, then where it is and send your idea to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown. 

Last week, Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill not only recognized the Mystery Photo as the Chapel In the Hills in Rapid City, South Dakota…

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by · July 26, 2022 · Mystery photos
NEW for 7/22: More on newspapers, Norcross council, Greene

NEW for 7/22: More on newspapers, Norcross council, Greene

Click here to read our latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Some reasons that newspapers may be declining
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Norcross Council considering charging seniors for waste pick-up
ANOTHER VIEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene is snookering the Democrats
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: PCOM pleased to give medical insight to prospective doctors
UPCOMING: County adds new SPLOST proposal to ballot this November
NOTABLE: Gas South District, Northside Hospital form outreach pact
RECOMMENDED: How the Brain Works
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Cotton Patch Gospel author was Clarence Jordan
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may think this Mystery is in a rain-soaked area

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by · July 22, 2022 · Full issues