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MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us where you think this architectural gem is located
Today’s Mystery Photo is a distinctive architectural gem, but may be hard to locate. Give it your best effort, and send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
Last edition had a most difficult photo, with only George Graf of Palmyra, Va. able to solve it. It was the L.L.Bean Flying Point Paddling Center, in Freeport, Maine.
NEW for 9/20: On Trump, abortion, and Oxford comma
Click here to read the latest edition. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: On Trump and secret documents: is he the Manchurian Candidate?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Abortion will drive a change in the 2022 elections
ANOTHER VIEW: Some considerations about the Oxford comma
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Likes occasional obituaries of local residents in Forum
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners homeowners get 15% reduction on flood insurance
NOTABLE: GGC again ranks as number one in ethnic diversity in nation
OBITUARIES: Fred A. Banks
RECOMMENDED: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta College of Art becomes absorbed into SCAD
MYSTERY PHOTO: This group readying for a day on the water
LAGNIAPPE: Peach State FCU donates to Walker County schools
CALENDAR: School Superintendent Calvin Watts speaks on State of Schools Wednesday
BRACK: Abortion will drive a change in the 2022 elections
By Elliott Brack | Have you detected a major shift in the national political world? If it proves as big as we think it is, there will be some blockbuster surprises come this fall’s election results. It centers around abortion, and women of all races, in all sections of the country, and old and young, do not want career politicians dictating control of their bodies at either the state and national level.
FOCUS: On Trump and secret documents: Is he the Manchurian candidate?
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist | Former Attorney General William Barr stated the above regarding U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s recent decision to appoint a “special master” to screen the multitude of top-secret documents found at former President Trump’s residence at Mar-A Lago. It is no accident that Trump’s attorneys sought out a Trump-appointed judge, someone who decided to appoint a special master without ever having seen the confidential documents in question herself.
NEWS BRIEFS: Peachtree Corners homeowners get 15% cut on flood insurance
Residents of the City of Peachtree Corners will soon get a savings on their flood insurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that the city’s Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) has increased to a Class 7 rating, down from a Class 8 rating. That means that residents will see a 15 percent discount on their flood insurance premiums.
MYSTERY PHOTO: This group readying for a day on the water
You can’t ask for a better sport than paddling. Here’s a group preparing for a trip on the water. See if you can determine where this photograph was made. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
Perhaps it’s because so many people have been there, for there were many correct answers(14) to the last Mystery Photo. It was of Grand Central Station in New York City.
Gwinnett Forum | July 26, 2024
“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)
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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