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FOCUS: Lanier High bringing “Distinguished Gentlemen” program to fruition

By Vanessa Butts | Lanier High School Counselor Bobby Gueh has taken a winning recipe for mentorship at other schools, and implemented it on a larger scale at Lanier High School. Gueh asserts that, “…the Distinguished Gentlemen program was designed to provide mentorship, academic support, and social development for young men who have been identified as being at-risk. The majority of students in this program come from a low socio-economic status home and have challenges both academically and socially. Currently, an extension of the program has been created at various Gwinnett County Public Schools, and we have now birthed the Distinguished Gentlemen (D.G.) of Lanier High School.”

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by · December 29, 2015 · Today's Focus
BARNHART: Kudzu Art Zone adds an art therapy class to 2016 offerings

BARNHART: Kudzu Art Zone adds an art therapy class to 2016 offerings

By Debra Barnhart | Like many visual art centers in metro Atlanta, Kudzu Art Zone in Norcross, a non-profit gallery and art center, offers a variety of art classes. But not many art centers offer classes led by an instructor trained in art therapy.

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by · December 29, 2015 · Another View
MYSTERY: Humor in holiday photo, but where?

MYSTERY: Humor in holiday photo, but where?

We appreciate the humor in this holiday photo, but where is this Santa hat sitting? Please name the city — and if possible — the corner of the streets where the building is. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

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by · December 29, 2015 · Mystery photos
12/22: Woodall and accountability; Christmas music; letters

12/22: Woodall and accountability; Christmas music; letters

Click here to see the latest issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Woodall Is Misrepresenting Keeping Partners of U.S. Accountable
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Several Ways To Enjoy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
FEEDBACK: Readers Question If U.S. Senate Needs a Makeover; Idea on Merit Pay
UPCOMING: Duluth Sketching Group Produces Coloring Book for the City
NOTABLE: Graduates of Georgia Gwinnett College Now Total over 3,000
RECOMMENDED READ: Slade House by David Mitchell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native Don West Foremost Regional Poet, and Labor Leader
TODAY’S QUOTE: Recognizing That This Nation Has Two Types of Heroes
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Recognize Last Week’s Mystery Cemetery
LAGNIAPPE: Mary Jane Gresham Is Snellville Senior Center Volunteer of the Year

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by · December 22, 2015 · Full issues
BRACK: “Joyful, Joyful” and Beethoven’s Ninth, plus Bernstein in Berlin

BRACK: “Joyful, Joyful” and Beethoven’s Ninth, plus Bernstein in Berlin

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | During the holiday season, we hope you (and I) get to hear and sing one of our favorite hymns, Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee. Somehow it reminds me of Christmas.

The stirring hymn was written in 1907 by Henry Van Dyke, a Princeton University professor of English, who was also a Presbyterian minister. His inspiration was two-fold: the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, and the fourth stanza of Ludwig Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

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by · December 22, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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FOCUS: Woodall misrepresents keeping partners of U.S. accountable

By Joe Briggs | In George Washington’s prescient farewell speech to the nation, he dedicated 11 paragraphs to warning us against ‘passionate attachments’ to other countries and “neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences.” He feared that we would take on that country’s enemies, fight their wars, and accept their values. Defenders of that country would be hailed as patriots whereas critics would be treated as traitors.

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by · December 22, 2015 · Today's Focus
McLEMORE’S WORLD: Yule by GPS

McLEMORE’S WORLD: Yule by GPS

A holiday cartoon from Bill McLemore.

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by · December 22, 2015 · Uncategorized
MYSTERY: Building and its distinctiveness gives clues

MYSTERY: Building and its distinctiveness gives clues

It’s a tall building. And it’s distinctive. Tell us where you think this photograph was taken. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

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by · December 22, 2015 · Mystery photos
12/18: Remembering the Thomasons; Hudgens gets new director; U.S. Senate

12/18: Remembering the Thomasons; Hudgens gets new director; U.S. Senate

Click here to see the new issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Blanche and Troy Thomason of Snellville
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Hudgens Art Center To Announce New Director
ANOTHER VIEW: Something Must Be Done To Reform U.S. Senate
UPCOMING: ARC Seeking Input to Comprehensive Regional Plan
NOTABLE: Here Are Tips for Your Pets from SPCA for the Holidays
RECOMMENDED READ: Shattered Consensus by James Piereson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Many of Melissa Fay Greene’s Books Focus on Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Sit Still and Watch Your Troubles Go Away
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Recognized Recent Photograph
LAGNIAPPE: Fourth Grader Wins Lilburn Woman’s Club Scholarship

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by · December 18, 2015 · Full issues
McCargo with Williams on Thursday night.

BRACK: Hudgens Art Center selects Ife Williams as its new director

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | GwinnettForum has learned that the Hudgens Center for the Arts will name Ife Marie Williams as its new director. She previously was the interim director of the Department of Art and Culture in Fulton County.

Ms. Williams was introduced to the board of directors of the Art Center on Thursday night. Reached by telephone, she tells the Forum she is looking forward to “doing what the Hudgens does well, reach out into the community, and expanding into new programs. The Hudgens wants to do what the community in Gwinnett wants it to do.”

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by · December 18, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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