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FOCUS: Peach State FCU to award over $161,000 in scholarships, grants
By Heather Griffin, Lawrenceville, Ga. — Peach State Federal Credit Union is currently accepting applications for its 2017 scholarship program, which will award more than $161,000 in scholarships and educational grants. The program was established to honor the credit union’s founders, past and present board members and employees, as well as the lifetime achievements of several notable school system and community leaders.
MYSTERY: This one might not be in Asia
This edition’s Mystery Photo certainly doesn’t look like an Asian scene, does it? You might be surprised as to its location. Start your mind working, then send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown. First in for the last Mystery Photo competition was Ross Lenhart of Pawley’s Island, S.C.: “I took the same picture. Climbed […]
12/6: Truth ministry; new head of Stephens operations; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Truth Ministry Has Special Partner in 72 Pound Golden Retriever
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Mitchell Stephens Now Heading John D. Stephens, Inc. Operations
SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center
FEEDBACK: Here Are More Details on Times When Georgia Cities Were Chartered
UPCOMING: Tech guru to speak at GGC fall graduation
NOTABLE: Chris Walker Named Volunteer of the Year by the City of Sugar Hill
RECOMMENDED: Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River Grows With Importance for Commercial Purposes
TODAY’S QUOTE: Always Wondering Which One of These Characters Would Show Up
MYSTERY PHOTO: Three Obvious Clues May Help You Solve This Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: GACS Math Team Wins Second in 32nd Mercer Math Competition
BRACK: Mitchell Stephens now heading John D. Stephens, Inc. operations
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | A long time Gwinnett enterprise has another person in charge these days, though the company operates much the same as before. The company is John D. Stephens Inc., run for years by John D. himself of Snellville. Today his former companies are run by his youngest son, Mitchell, 47, while the father concentrates his efforts in another company with work around the Atlanta Airport.
FOCUS: Truth ministry has special partner in 72-pound golden retriever
By Scarlett Rigsby, Lawrenceville, Ga. | “Building relationships.” “No us and them.” “Meeting others where they are.” “It all counts”….these are statements frequently heard when the mission of Nothing but the Truth Ministry is explained.
I founded Nothing but the Truth as a charitable 501c3 in 2010 with the idea that it would seek to understand the needs of the community and then to mobilize ministry partners to meet those needs. What began as a small Bible study in a room of a local extended stay hotel has grown rapidly into a multi-faceted ministry. In 2013, the Nothing but the Truth’s Ministry Center opened its offices on Langley Drive near downtown Lawrenceville. It is centrally located near several low-income housing options.
12/2: The West and Islam; When Georgia cities were chartered
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TODAY’S FOCUS: The West Needs To Come Together With Islam To Destroy ISIS
EEB PERSPECTIVE: What Is The Oldest City in Metro Atlanta?
SPOTLIGHT: Heaven and Associates, P.C.
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Place CID Works To Expand Boundaries During 2017
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech Librarian Is A Winner of “Love My Librarian Award”
RECOMMENDED: The Whistler by John Grisham
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River’s Banks Steeped in History Going Back 12,000 Years
TODAY’S QUOTE: Wonder Why He Doesn’t Get Many Invitations To Parties?
MYSTERY PHOTO: Does This Architecture Tell You Anything about This Building?
LAGNIAPPE: Walton EMC Line Technicians Place in Lineman’s Rodeo in Kansas
CALENDAR: Model Railroad Exhibit Through Holidays at George Pearce Park
BRACK: A look at when cities in Georgia were chartered
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Officials in the county seat of Lawrenceville have been selling themselves short. Perhaps it’s because when new people come into office in Lawrenceville, and that the institutional memory went the door. For the Lawrenceville officials have been saying recently that they are the second oldest city in Metro Atlanta.
FOCUS: The West needs to come together with Islam to destroy ISIS
By Alvin Leaphart, Jesup, Ga. | The moving forces in society are not lawyers. Lawyers simply work within the framework of society as it exists during a period in history, trying to make sense out of it, and maintain peace and harmony in society.
The moving forces, or the changers, are religious leaders, activists, and radicals in all groups. Religious leaders work to keep things as they are; activists seek change; and radicals use one or the other, or both, to destroy a society and create a new one in their own image.
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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