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ISSUE 15.09: Hopewell honors pastor; Tragic accident; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Hopewell Baptist To Honor Veteran Pastor on May 15
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Accident Claiming Nursing Students Brings Questions to the Fore
FEEDBACK: Readers Get To View Four Different Thoughts
UPCOMING: Aurora Plans Four Summer Playhouses for Kids; Fourth Suwanee SculpTour
NOTABLE: Marriott Hotel Coming to Gwinnett Center; PCOM Professor Re-Elected
RECOMMENDED MOVIE: Spencer’s Mountain
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Best Work of Erskine Caldwell May Be in Non-Fiction Writings
TODAY’S QUOTE: Thoughts on Things That Cannot Possibly Go Wrong
MYSTERY PHOTO: Not a Single Reader Recognized Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Another Entry in Suwanee SculpTour
FOCUS: Hopewell Baptists to honor Sheals in is 35th year as pastor
By Izetta Sims | Marking his 35th anniversary as pastor, Hopewell Baptist Church of Norcross will honor Bishop Williams Sheals at a “black and gold” black-tie banquet on May 15 at the Gwinnett Arena Grand Ballroom. More than 400 people are expected for the fete. Tickets are $100.
It was a partly cloudy and cool Easter Sunday morning on April 6, 1980, when Hopewell Missionary Baptist welcomed Bill Sheals as its new pastor. The church, which dates back to 1865, at that time had about 200 members. After the morning service, as the children presented speeches, the sound system malfunctioned. Pastor Sheals, then working with an Atlanta housing agency, brought from his car a personal sound system, so that the parents could hear the children. From that moment on, he had the title “Papa Sheals,” by which many church members still address him.
15.08: Protecting computers; On bad government; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Protecting Your Personal Computer: Know Your Enemies
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here’s An Example Where Bad Government Has Erupted
ANOTHER VIEW: Getting Together With Old High School Mates: What Fun!
FEEDBACK: Informs Readers of Firearms Act of 1937
UPCOMING: Farmers Market Returns to Suwanee; Salvation Army Honors Publisher
NOTABLE: Boutwells Establish Scholarship at GGC; Gwinnett Tech Awards Scholarships
RECOMMENDED READ: Red Dirt by Joe Samuel Starnes
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Erskine Caldwell Concentrates on Poverty and Disintegration of Family
TODAY’S QUOTE: How You May Not Appear to Others on the Internet
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only Two Recognized Major Landmark in Paris
LAGNIAPPE: Art on a Limb Returns to Suwanee Creekway
FOCUS: A key to protecting your computer is to know thine enemies
By Robert Covington | Security breaches are big news these days. It seems like the major media outlets discovered cybersecurity immediately following the Sony data theft, and it has been big news ever since.
The problem of information security threats is not a new one however. When I was a student in college years ago, I worked in the University of Miami data center. One of my jobs was tracking down students who broke security rules. In those days, hackers were usually bright college students breaking into systems just to prove that they could. My prime suspect began his hacking career as a high school student, bringing his skills with him to college. Invariably, I would track those types of perpetrators down, and given the low concerns about computer crimes in those days, they would get off with a wrist slap, and I would be after them again a few months later.
15.07: Interstate truckers; Shivers down spine; Guns and ammo
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Why Interstate Truckers Don’t Buy Much Gasoline in Georgia
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here’s a Situation That Really Send Shiver Down My Back
ANOTHER VIEW: Tax Guns and Ammunition to Fund Security Measures
UPCOMING: Grayson Seeks Vintage Photographs; Ballet Offers Summer Program
NOTABLE: Allgood Expands into Knoxville, Tenn.; Sugar Hill Youth Council Is Active
RECOMMENDED READ: Amish Confidential by Levi Stoltzfus and Ellis Henich
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Erskine Caldwell Is Prodigious Author, Writing about the South
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why It’s Better To Know Some of the Questions
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only Two Recognized Casablanca Mosque
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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