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NEW for 3/24: Commuting, shutdowns and Founding Fathers
Click here to read the latest issue. Inside this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Morning Commute Time in Atlanta: Strange Driving Is Normal
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Major Widespread Shutdowns Create Another World for Most of Us
ANOTHER VIEW: You Might Be Surprised at the Ages of Founding Fathers
SPOTLIGHT: Howard Brothers
FEEDBACK: Had a Relative Who Died in Philadelphia of Spanish Flu
UPCOMING: County Parks Limit Hours and Close Certain Areas During Virus
NOTABLE: Community Foundation Well on Way To Raising Fund for COVID-19
RECOMMENDED: Blue Flowers by Carola Saavedra
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Present Georgia State Capitol Opens amid Celebration in 1889
MYSTERY PHOTO: Unique Images are in This Edition’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Go Bird Walking with Southern Wings on March 28
BRACK: National Civil Rights Museum is a solid attraction for Atlanta
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | If you haven’t been, you need to visit the National Civil Rights Museum in downtown Atlanta. The setting is superb: the parking garage serves three museums, with a central green vista from the garage to the Civil Rights and Coca Cola Museums and to the Georgia Aquarium.
Gwinnett Forum | Dec. 20, 2024
“….if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”
— Canadian Author Robertson Davies (1913-1995).
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.
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