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NEW for 5/17: Roving world with Nikon, primaries, silos
Click here to read the full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Roving the world with a Nikon
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Where to find your candidates on your ballot
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
ANOTHER VIEW: Don’t prejudge people by their silos
FEEDBACK: Finds Mr. Black dividing our country in two
UPCOMING: Ross to speak at Memorial Day service
NOTABLE: GGC wins three National Science IT grants
RECOMMENDED: Don’t Dress for Dinner, a play by Marc Camoletti and Robin Hawdon
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Sherman captures Fort McAllister, near Savannah
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us where this monument is located
LAGNIAPPE: Lilburn Splash Pad to open May 18
CALENDAR: Saturday’s Multicultural Festival is at Gwinnett Place
BRACK: Where to find your candidates on your ballot
By Elliott Brack | Some thoughts today that might help you when voting in the May 21 General Primary in Georgia, if you haven’t already early-voted. You may be overwhelmed if you look at the Gwinnett sample ballots, which you can access to the right of this column. There are so many names on the sample ballot, and the ballot is long.
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.
NEWS BRIEFS: Ross to speak at Memorial Day service
The commissioner of the Georgia Department of Veterans Services will speak at the annual Gwinnett Memorial Day service on Monday, May 27, at 1 p.m. on the grounds of the Fallen Heroes Memorial at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville. She is Patricia Ross, who previously served as the chief operating officer of the Veterans Education Career Transition Resource, VECTR Center, for five years.
NEW for 5/14: On bridging cultures, Kentucky Derby and a special prayer
Click here to read the full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Bridging cultures and bonds through Rotary students
EEB PERSPECTIVE: How the Kentucky Derby became fashionable
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s a prayer for Mother’s Day
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Animal Shelter at capacity; adoption fees waived
NOTABLE: Winner told for 13th Movers and Shakers awards
RECOMMENDED: Mala of the Heart, edited by Ravi Nathwani and Kate Vogt
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia state parks total 85,000 acres
MYSTERY PHOTO: Eight-man-tall statue is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Key ingredients here for blossoming daylilies
CALENDAR: Mulberry possible cityhood meeting is 7 p.m. Tuesday
Gwinnett Forum | Jan. 10, 2025
“Nothing makes us feel more connected than when we are engaged in a healthy balance of thoughtful speaking and hardcore listening.”
— Belgian-American psychotherapist and relationship expert Eshter Perel (1958- ) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
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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.
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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