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FOCUS: Community Foundation awards $160,000 in 30th anniversary grants

FOCUS: Community Foundation awards $160,000 in 30th anniversary grants

By Paige Havens | The Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia (CFNEG) is awarding $160,217 in grants to 33 non-profit organizations in our community as part of the Foundation’s 30th Anniversary celebration. These awards are part of the Foundation’s annual discretionary grant disbursements that are gifted to help non-profit organizations further key projects, programs or community initiatives.

Julie Keeton Arnold, 2015 Grants Committee Chair shares: “Our goal was to award at least 30 grants to honor the Foundation’s 30th anniversary, but we had to stay within our granting budget.

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by · June 9, 2015 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Gwinnett angle to Saturday’s Triple Crown horse race

FOCUS: Gwinnett angle to Saturday’s Triple Crown horse race

By Keith Mason | This weekend, millions of Americans will see American Pharoah compete for a Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes in New York, the final leg of America’s oldest continuous outdoor sport—horse racing.

I will be at the Belmont Saturday with a stake in the race, as a partner in Donegal Racing’s thoroughbred, Keen Ice, who will run from post position No. 7. A racing fan for years, I am in an awkward position—pulling against a Triple Crown contender in my favorite sport. I would not be terribly disappointed to finish behind what could become America’s first Triple Crown winner since 1978. But I would be exhilarated to actually win the Belmont against such an outstanding horse.

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by · June 5, 2015 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Sugar Hill kicks off Thursdays@TheHill on June 11

FOCUS: Sugar Hill kicks off Thursdays@TheHill on June 11

By Scott Andrews | SUGAR HILL, Ga. June 2, 2015 | The sweet life in Sugar Hill is about to get a little sweeter. Thursdays@The Hill, which will feature food trucks, a farmers’ market, live music, cornhole and more, will be held on the second Thursday of each month through October, the first starting June 11.

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by · June 2, 2015 · Today's Focus
Gerstein in 2015 photo.

FOCUS: You can also help veterans at Gwinnett Veterans’ Resource Center

By Ellen Gerstein | Thank you for your service to our country” and for my freedom, is my sentiment as I reflect upon what does Memorial Day mean to me and our country.

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by · May 27, 2015 · Today's Focus
Duluth's Ascension Art Project.

FOCUS: Duluth public art to be a tool for city’s economic development

By Alisa Williams | The City of Duluth began a journey to define its unique character and translate it into public art throughout the city in October of 2014. Workshops were held to allow citizens to help fill Duluth’s canvas with art that tells the one-of-a-kind story. The Duluth Public Art Master Plan knits the diverse community together by defining and implementing the city’s expression—its signature — to the world.

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by · May 22, 2015 · Today's Focus
Gagnon

FOCUS: GGC professor makes exploring family history a little easier

By Edward Foster | Michael Gagnon, an associate professor of history at Georgia Gwinnett College who lives in Sugar Hill, has produced a series of web pages that should interest anyone who wants to explore their own family history, the local history of Gwinnett County, the history of Georgia, or the history of the US in the 1800s.

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by · May 19, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: There is help to stop domestic violence

By Rosanna Szabo | LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., May 12, 2015 — A few days before Christmas, George was arrested for simple battery and criminal trespass. He refused to leave Anna’s Lilburn apartment and pushed past her, causing her to fall to the ground. He wanted to see their baby and would not leave until he hac.

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by · May 12, 2015 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Truckers should have “crash avoidance” technology on big rigs

FOCUS: Truckers should have “crash avoidance” technology on big rigs

By John Suthers | The tragic deaths of five young women on Interstate 16 recently is a stark reminder of the dangers that tractor-trailers pose to all drivers on Georgia highways.

Five Georgia Southern University nursing students, riding in two cars, died when a tractor-trailer failed to stop for traffic slowed by a prior accident on I-16 in Bryan County during the early morning hours of April 22. Two other students were injured.

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by · May 8, 2015 · Today's Focus
Scene at Eagle Ranch

FOCUS: Eagle Ranch has served many children from Gwinnett County

By Stefanie Long | Just a few miles north of the Gwinnett line, there’s a place uniquely designed to help make life better for children and families going through a crisis. It’s called Eagle Ranch.

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by · May 5, 2015 · Today's Focus
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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.

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by · May 1, 2015 · Today's Focus
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