For the 2022 General Election, GwinnettForum asked all candidates facing opposition in Gwinnett County, plus all statewide candidates, to visit for 30 minutes so we could evaluate their candidacy. This qualified these candidates to answer six political questions in 100 words each. You can read their answers below by clicking on their name links below.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Ordner Construction’s 11th annual 5K will benefit several charities
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here’re some delightful old photographs that came our way
SPOTLIGHT: Law Office of J. Michael Levengood, LLC
FEEDBACK: Now expect political promises, fantasy images and scare tactics
UPCOMING: One stop veterans center opens in Lawrenceville
NOTABLE: Suwanee gets a new 25 acre park, anchored by its library
OBITUARIES: Pearl Chao Sharp
RECOMMENDED: 50th Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Maine native in Atlanta donates land for Grant Park
MYSTERY PHOTO: Watch it; things are not always what they seem
LAGNIAPPE: DAR chapter distributed free books at Elisha Winn Fair
CALENDAR: Fort Daniel Frontier Faire will be October 15 at Hog Mountain
By Elliott Brack | It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then you find something good unexpected happens to you. Suddenly it’s there, and you were not even thinking about it. You are just lucky. This windfall came to me recently from Norman Baggs, my former colleague at the Gwinnett Daily News.
We’ve enjoyed the saying: “Things are not always what they seem; but then, they never were.” This could apply to this edition’s Mystery Photo. Figure out where this photograph was made, and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and tell us where you live.
The last mystery photo, said Billy Chism of Toccoa, “Is an easy one… Atlanta Botanical Gardens. …
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Sculptor Olu Amoda wins $50,000 Hudgens art prize
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Now the newspaper, too, resorting to blood-and-guts journalism
ANOTHER VIEW: Volunteering for Naval assignments turned out OK
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
FEEDBACK: She’s no fan of any spider, and especially of Joros
UPCOMING: Classes in Lilburn offer job training in construction skills
NOTABLE: Classes in Lilburn offers job training in construction skills
RECOMMENDED: How We Win the Civil War by Steve Philips
GEORGIA TIDBIT: It’s apple time in the Georgia mountains near Ellijay
MYSTERY PHOTO: Flying horse sculpture provides mystery for this edition
LAGNIAPPE: New officers take office for Snellville Historical Society
CALENDAR: Picnic with the police on the Braselton Town Green on October 13 from 5-8 p.m.
By Elliott Brack | A few years back, we stopped looking at local TV news, except primarily to see if it was going to rain the next day. (Though the weathermen sometimes get it wrong on the rain, they can pinpoint storms better than ever, and they help keep us safe.) The reason we stopped looking at the nightly local news was that local TV news has deteriorated to mainly blood and guts, shootings, and ambulance chasing. Why bother with such bloodlettings? Is such real, solid reporting?
By Stephanie Lloyd | Sculptor Olu Amoda of Smyrna has been named the 2022 Hudgens Prize recipient, with a cash award of $50,000 and a solo exhibition at the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for Art and Learning in 2023. Born in Warri, Nigeria, Amoda earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Georgia Southern University in 2009, and has since made Georgia his home.
“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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