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NEW for 2/1: Surviving COVID; Pyle’s dispatches; Resolutions
Click here to read the latest full edition. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Lilburn Distillery survived Covid by making hand sanitizer
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Ernie Pyle’s dispatches from the war had hidden messages
ANOTHER VIEW: Did you flunk keeping resolutions? You are not alone
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Glad to see Senate trying to delay Democratic actions
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville takes action following police investigation
RECOMMENDED: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Tallulah Falls once considered the “Niagara of the South”
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check out this gorgeous fall scene near lake
LAGNIAPPE: Braselton’s Mulberry Park pecan tree will have to come down
CALENDAR: Norcross Cemetery Tour set for Sunday, February 6
VIEW: Did you flunk keeping resolutions? You are not alone
By Collin Elder | Keeping up with those New Year’s resolutions? Chances are that you’re not—and you’re not alone. A 2021 survey suggests that fewer and fewer people are making the changes they set out to do at the start of the year. Only 35 percent of the participants reported completing all of their goals.
Gwinnett Forum | July 5, 2024
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.”
—American columnist and humorist Erma Bombeck (1927-1996).
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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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