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BRACK: Even when searching for a dog, be careful; Scams abound
By Elliott Brack | Somehow, I think was on the way to getting scammed. Over all things, a dog. Ever since our 16-year-old rescue dog, Hercules, died about three months ago, we’ve been thinking about getting another dog. We’ve always had dogs, four main ones, living with us for 9, 15, 18 and (for Herk) 16 years.
7/9: On a new high school, dogs and political tactics
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TODAY’S FOCUS: McClure Health Science High School Aims for Specialized Student Learning
EEB PERSPECTIVE: We’ve Always Been a Dog Family; One Looked Like Walter Cronkite
ANOTHER VIEW: Both Political Parties Are Using Tactics To Add to the National Debt
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Winning Elections via the Electoral College Is Governmentally Sound
UPCOMING: Biking Group Seeks Volunteers To Help Disabled Learn To Ride
NOTABLE: Baptist Foundation Awards $60,000 to Truth Community Clinic
RECOMMENDED: The Shadow War by CNN reporter Jim Scuitto
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Cockspur Lighthouse Marked Entrance to Channel of Savannah River
MYSTERY PHOTO: Long, Two-Laned and Covered, So Where Is It?
LAGNIAPPE: Throngs Crowd Lawrenceville Lawn on the Fourth
CALENDAR: Peter Yarrow to be live in concert at Temple Beth David in Snellville on July 13
BRACK: We’ve always been a dog family; One looked like Walter Cronkite
By Elliott Brack | Even before our family had children, we’ve had dogs. All lived to older lives. We’ve also had a few temporary dogs, not always of our choosing.
When returning from our 3.5 years in Germany in the Army, we shipped home George, a purebred German wire-haired terrier. He was with us in Iowa and in South Georgia. He died when he was nine years old.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 8, 2024
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
– British biologist and writer Sir Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987).
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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