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FOCUS: The mission of changing lives and leading by example
By Cole Porter | What’s in a mission for an organization? It can be simply an explanation of your product and service that lets the public know what you strive to do in the market. Or alternatively, it can be an anthem that the members of the organization can get behind – understanding that every finger lifted ultimately points to achieving a higher purpose.
FOCUS: Roving the world with a Nikon
By Bill Durrence | In 1988 I was hired by Nikon USA to work in their Nikon Professional Services department. I was one of about a dozen “tech reps” scattered around the United States with the broad job description of working with the professional market—the photographers for newspapers and magazines, commercial studios, hospitals and medical schools, freelancers, etc.—to spread the gospel according to Nikon.
Gwinnett Forum | April 4, 2025
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
— American novelist, satirist, and poet Erica Jong (1942 – ).
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
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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