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NEW for 3/22: Fighting for principles; USA’s colleges
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TODAY’S FOCUS: We must fight for our principles every single day
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Most of USA’s colleges started by our churches
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Aurora Theatre offers five productions in 29th season
NOTABLE: JEMC Foundation makes grants of $69,575 to Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: One Life by Ellen Holly
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia’s 1877 Constitution in force until 1945
CALENDAR: Sugar Hill’s 85th birthday celebration is March 24
NEW for 11/17: Letting freedom ring; Winford Lindsay; On COVID
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Indeed, it is time for our nation to “Let Freedom Ring!”
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Dacula and Harbins lose cherished member in Winford Lindsay
ANOTHER VIEW: Bringing you up to date on COVID-19 statistics in Gwinnett
SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center
FEEDBACK: Concerned by some going down rabbit hole with character attack
UPCOMING: Largest-ever grant to GGC comes from Goizueta Foundation
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC donates $25,000 to Special Needs School
RECOMMENDED: More Than You Know by Penny Vincenzi
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River, 313 miles long, forms border with South Carolina
MYSTERY PHOTO: Steeply-pitched roof of building is today’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: FDR’s railcar now located at Duluth’s Railway Museum
BRACK: Some thinkers are getting concerned about a right to privacy
By Elliott Brack | Times were far different in the age of the Founding Fathers. They thought long and hard, and recognized that mankind wanted certain guarantees from government. What they came up with was to recognize “certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
BRACK: Freedom from fear is one of our basic rights in the USA
By Elliott Braci | It was the way that President Trump went about trying to deport people that bugged me. He made several announcements and pronouncements well in advance that on a certain Sunday there would be raids to “send ‘em back” to their home country.
This caused great fear among people, many of them working steadily for their citizenship, fearful that they somehow would be caught up in this rush to judgment, and be deported.
BRACK: Today’s world of the Internet brings with it significant problems
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | What hath the Internet wrought?
That most marvelous of a new age at our fingertips is a force more fierce than we had thought. It is not just an information source, but appears to be much stronger a media than ever were pamphlets, newspapers, the telephone, radio or television.
10/30: Remembering Rhodes Jordan, E-SPLOST, more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Rhodes Jordan, Namesake of New Lawrenceville School
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here Are More Reasons To Vote for E-SPLOST Continuation
ANOTHER VIEW: There Are Many Ways an Individual Is Not Free
FEEDBACK: Letters on our Constitution; Annandale Run; and E-SPLOST
UPCOMING: Connie Wiggins Plans To Retire from Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
NOTABLE: Suwanee Medical School Names “Champions of PCOM”; YSS Expands
RECOMMENDED READ: The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia During Administration of Royal Governor James Wright
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Small People Talk About in Gatherings
MYSTERY PHOTO: Five Recognize Home in Slovenia
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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