By Kasie Bolling | Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful will host a first-of-its-kind national event focusing on litter on March 23. The Keep America Beautiful affiliate is calling the event “Connecting People and Places: A Community Conversation About Litter,” which is intended to address the issue of littering on a hyper-local scale.
Not too much was going on when this photograph was taken. However, this area can fill quickly before you know it. Identify where this photo was taken, and tell what goes on within these four walls. Send your idea to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Four readers spotted the last mystery photo. George Graf of Palmyra, Va. wrote that it was at the “Intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Street NW in Washington D.C. At the bottom of the building with the black window canopies is the Capital Grille….
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Lawrenceville and Hudgens partner for art installation
EEB PERSPECTIVE: One guy’s faith in Coach K really paid off for Duke University
ANOTHER VIEW: With war in Ukraine, might be a good time to plant wheat
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
FEEDBACK: In Gwinnett, sometimes trees don’t stand a chance
UPCOMING: Family Promise bed race returning to Lawrenceville on April 23
NOTABLE: Southwest Chamber selects Savannah Johnson for Character Award
RECOMMENDED: The Southernization of America by Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Primus King turned away at polls in Columbus in 1944
MYSTERY PHOTO: Figure out where this building is located
LAGNIAPPE: Heavy pre-World War II bike-for-two can be yours
CALENDAR: Hugh art supply sales through March 15 at Norcross Gallery and Studios
By Elliott Brack | Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is basking in honors these days, as he nears the end of his meteoric career. He is worthily being recognized for being the best college basketball coach ever, as evidenced by his record 1,196 victories … and still counting as the team enters the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament this week.
By Melissa Hardegree | Art is now a way of life in Lawrenceville, with a newly formed partnership between the City and The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning. Master works from the Hudgens’ permanent collection can now be viewed at Lawrenceville City Hall. Works from the collection will rotate on an ongoing basis – providing new and exciting art for the enjoyment of the community.
By Byron Gilbert | In the 1970s, I had hair and lived in the small town where I went to college in Ohio (Ohio Wesleyan). Some of the years I spent working for a 500 watt daytime radio station that carried the Chicago Board and had agriculture shows and middle-of-the-road music. I could tell you the price of corn, soybeans, and winter wheat daily. These were the grain crops in the area and pigs and chickens were popular. Morgan and Arabian horses were bred there. West of town was Select Sires.
On Saturday, April 23, 2022 beds mounted on bicycle wheels will race around the Lawrenceville Square in a Bed Race to benefit Family Promise of Gwinnett. “It’s a light-hearted race to call attention to a very serious problem,” says Carol Love, executive director of Family Promise of Gwinnett County.
“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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