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4/6: On trip to Israel; Gwinnett’s growth; Life’s mysteries

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TODAY’S FOCUS: A Visit to Israel Turns Out To Be Quite Complicated with Surprises
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Fulton Leads Georgia in Population Growth; Gwinnett Ranks Second
ANOTHER VIEW: Hawking and Graham Both Pondered the Mysteries of Life
SPOTLIGHT: Hayes Family Automotive Group
FEEDBACK: We Need More Unfiltered Information About Positions of Candidates
McLEMORE’S WORLD: Tweet
UPCOMING: County Seeking Poll Workers at Two Sites Next Week
NOTABLE: Women’s Clubs To Collect Items for Domestic Violence Victims
RECOMMENDED: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
GEORGIA TIDBIT: John Burrison Is Credited with Keeping Folk Pottery Traditions Alive
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s Another Mystery Photo with Few Clues
CALENDAR: Gwinnett Multicultural Festival Coming Soon in Duluth

by GwinnettForum · April 6, 2018 · Full issues

Feb. 2018 issues of GwinnettForum

In this post, you will find full issues of GwinnettForum for February 2018. Click the QuickLink below to go to a particular issue. Or use your browser’s search function to find a word or phrase. QuickLinks to February issues: 2/2 | 2/6 | 2/9 | 2/13 | 2/16 | 2/20 | 2/23 | 2/27 . A WINNER: This painting by […]

by GwinnettForum · February 26, 2018 · Another View, Calendar, Elliott Brack's Perspective, Full issues, Mystery photos, Today's Focus

5/30: Body donor program at PCOM; Our Bill of Rights; more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Body Donor Program at Ga.-PCOM Is Key Element in Medical Training
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Americans Distinctively Thrive Under Our Bill of Rights
SPOTLIGHT: BrandBank
FEEDBACK: Finds She Likes to Live in a Diverse Society in Gwinnett
UPCOMING: Lift Up Atlanta Plans Summer Fun Festival June 17 in Lawrenceville
NOTABLE: Ga-PCOM Confers Degrees on 265 Students in Its Ninth Graduation
RECOMMENDED: Sybil’s Family Restaurant in Jesup
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Here’s a List of Ten Major Civil War Sites in Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: We Should Be Thankful That We Misunderstand One Another
MYSTERY PHOTO: Abundance of Clues Should Help Guide You To This Identification
CALENDAR: Seventh Annual Peachtree Corners Festival Coming on June 10-11

by GwinnettForum · May 30, 2017 · Full issues

5/2: New PC city hall; Charm of an older hotel; Data and guns

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Peachtree Corners To Buy Building in Technology Park for City Hall
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Stay at Older Hotel in Hot Springs, Ark. Proves To Be Memorable
ANOTHER VIEW: Good Data Equals Good Public Policy in Gun Debate
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Tech To Host Coding Youth Camps This Summer
NOTABLE: Eastside Medical Center Proudly Flies Donate Life Flag
RECOMMENDED: This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Artist Find Acceptance, Including Major Work Done for Coca-Cola
TODAY’S QUOTE: Problems With Having an Open Mind
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us Who This Bust Represents and Where It’s Located
LAGNIAPPE: Roving Photographer Frank Sharp Visits Zoo Atlanta
CALENDAR: Paper Shredding at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lilburn on May 13

by GwinnettForum · May 2, 2017 · Full issues

3/27: Suggested baseball rule changes; Dilapidated buildings; Climate change

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Nine Rule Changes That Would Improve the Game of Baseball
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Crumbling Buildings in Rural South Georgia Can Depress You
ANOTHER VIEW: Say What You Want, But Facts Show that Climate Change Is Real
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning Inc.
FEEDBACK: Separate But Equal, R&R, Medicare and Life in Gwinnett
UPCOMING: New Library Program Offers Hi-Tech Coursework Design
NOTABLE: Upgrading of Crooked Creek Reclamation Plant To Cost $136 Million
NOT RECOMMENDED: Slow Horses by Mike Herron
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Fannin County Namesake Attends West Point, and Becomes Planter
TODAY’S QUOTE: George Carlin on the Intelligence of the Average Person
MYSTERY PHOTO: All You Have To Do Is Suggest Where This Waterwheel Is
LAGNIAPPE: Propellant by Hair Spray Project at GGC Emphasizes Data Importance
CALENDAR: Coming events

by GwinnettForum · March 28, 2017 · Full issues

3/10: On volunteering; 3 women of achievement; poisoned chalice

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Volunteering Your Time In Retirement Can Be Satisfying Experience
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Three Georgians Inducted in Women of Achievement Hall of Fame
ANOTHER VIEW: Author Foresees Trump To Become Victim of Poisoned Chalice
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce
FEEDBACK: Feels It’s Best for the County for Commissioner Hunter To Resign
UPCOMING: Snellville Announces New Senior Housing Community
NOTABLE: County Votes To Continue Employment Training at Corrections Center
RECOMMENDED: Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Emory University Hospital Dates Back to Year 1904
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Living a Long Time Can Make You Believe
MYSTERY PHOTO: Flag May Give You a Clue As To This Photo’s Location
CALENDAR: Duluth Middle School To Present The Lion King Jr.

by GwinnettForum · March 10, 2017 · Full issues

2/17: PCOM’s big groundbreaking; Books by the pound; global warming

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Medical School To Hold $8 Million Groundbreaking for Addition
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lawrenceville Getting New Way To Buy Books Saturday: By the Pound
ANOTHER VIEW: American Concern about Global Warming at Eight Year High
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Marginalizing One Segment of Voters Nothing but Gerrymandering
UPCOMING: Suwanee To Have First Full Marathon in Gwinnett on February 26
NOTABLE: Four from Gwinnett Among Top 40 Innovative Companies in Georgia
RECOMMENDED: It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Alliance Theatre in Atlanta Grows in Offering Prestige Plays
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why Wilbur Wright Declined a Speech
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Time the Mystery Is a Famous Horseman
LAGNIAPPE: Boy Scout Creates Snellville Memorial of 9/11 Attack
CALENDAR: Read what’s happening around Gwinnett

by GwinnettForum · February 16, 2017 · Full issues

1/6: New Aurora play; Our continuing objectives; Israel vote

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Aurora Play Depicts Dr. King’s Last Hours at the Lorraine Motel
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Reviewing the GwinnettForum List of Continuing Objectives
ANOTHER VIEW: US Should Have Voted Support for UN Resolution on Israel
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.
FEEDBACK: On Synergistic Thinking, How Government Works, Civics and Founding Fathers
UPCOMING: Lilburn Makes It More Efficient, Easier to Access Public Records
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech’s Eljesa Haxhiu Wins $10,000 for Her Duck Recipe
RECOMMENDED: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Albany Museum of Art Has Large Collection of African Art
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Anyone Needs For Success in Life
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Time The Mystery Photo Asks Not Only Where, But Why?
LAGNIAPPE: DAR in Lawrenceville Provides Gifts to S.C. School for 28th Year
CALENDAR: Get To Know a Tree

by GwinnettForum · January 5, 2017 · Full issues

11/29: 7 points on election; Gwinnett’s first distillery; more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Making a Few Points As She Waits for the 2018 Elections
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lilburn Will Be Site of Gwinnett’s First Distillery by January
SPOTLIGHT: Primerica, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Three Letters Contribute to Dialogue on Political Events
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Cities Plan Their Own Christmas Tree Lighting Events
NOTABLE: Kudzu Art Zone To Mark 10th Anniversary through January
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River Has Major Impact All Along Its Flow
TODAY’S QUOTE: How One Person Thinks after Being Given a Blow
MYSTERY PHOTO: America Based Scene Is This Edition’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Grand Reopening of Fire Station One Museum is December 3

by GwinnettForum · November 29, 2016 · Full issues

“Christmas in Dacula” starts with a 5K and Fun Run, as these four participants show from the 2015 Run. The City of Dacula is planning this third annual Christmas activity for December 3.

11/18: From Christmas in Dacula to smoke across Georgia

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Third Annual ‘Christmas in Dacula’ Scheduled for December 3
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Mountain Fires in Georgia Impacting State as Far South as Macon
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Look at smoke in Macon from wildfires
UPCOMING: 29th Annual Lighting of Tree at Historic Courthouse Is on Thanksgiving
NOTABLE: County To Purchase Historic Promised Land Maguire-Livsey House
RECOMMENDED: A Lowcountry Heart: by Pat Conroy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Little Known Today, Mary E. Hutchinson Was Acclaimed Artist
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Will Rogers Thought of Individual Greatness
MYSTERY PHOTO: Massive Overlapping Steel Provides This Issue’s Quandary

by GwinnettForum · November 18, 2016 · Full issues

DULUTH FALL FESTIVAL

Plan now to join this year’s Duluth Donut Dash 5K race on Sunday, September 29, at 8 a.m. during the Duluth Fall Festival! This Peachtree Road Race qualifier includes a long sleeve shirt, chip timing, and concludes with delicious donuts and coffee from Dunkin for all runners, followed by an awards ceremony. As you run/walk through beautiful Downtown Duluth, you will also be supporting Wellroot Family Services. Wellroot’s programs try to keep families together, provide short-term foster care when needed, and nurture and educate young adults – all leading to happy, healthy families. Learn more about Wellroot and register at this link.

Come join the fun and the Duluth Fall Festival on September 28-29, rain or shine.

For more information, or if you are interested in volunteering, go to the Festival website:

–> DuluthFallFestival.org

Continuing objectives

Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:

Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
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.
21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.

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.