| Having been born in the South, we boys growing up never even thought of how hot it got in the summer time in Georgia. It was just plain hot, and we accepted that in the days before air conditioning was standard. Suffer from heat? Not us. Sweat during the summer? Probably, but it seemed natural, and didn’t slow us down.
By Marlene Ratledge Buchanan | Please do me a favor? Take off your shoes and stand on the pavement for three minutes. Now, play fair and do this in the hot part of the day. How did you enjoy that? Are your toes tingly pink? Did you feel the sizzle of summer? Now consider your dog? He hasn’t the option to get off the pavement if he is tethered to you with a leash.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: PCOM Georgia Holds Commencement for 270 Graduates
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Tidbits of Summer, Including No Hat, No Shorts, No Service
ANOTHER VIEW: With It Hot Outside, Consider These Tips for Staying Cooler
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Gwinnett
FEEDBACK: Reader Challenges Conventional Thinking of Winston Churchill
UPCOMING: New Scholarship at Gwinnett Tech Honors Service of Rick Davis
NOTABLE: Johnson To Head DNR Law Enforcement Division in Northeast Georgia
RECOMMENDED: Unexampled Courage by Richard Gergel
GEORGIA TIDBIT: DeSoto’s Expedition Had Enormous Impact on Pristine Native Americans
MYSTERY PHOTO: Determining Where East and West May Help Solve This Mystery
CALENDAR: Adopt-a-Stream Workshop To Be on June 8
By Elliott Brack | Summer has definitely arrived well in advance of its normal start for Gwinnett, June 21, giving us a full three more weeks of hot weather here at beginning of summer. (I like hot weather; Hurrah!)
Today let’s salute people years ago who approved planting trees in the parking lot of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. By having the foresight to plant shade trees, now maturing, between the rows in the parking lot, we now enjoy their summer shade, and it just makes the area a whole lot nicer.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Seminar at GGC Focuses on the Golden Spike and U.S. Railroads
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Hurrah for the Arrival of the Hottest Day of the Year So Far in Atlanta!
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Comment on Sen. David Perdue Draws Two Conflicting Views
UPCOMING: Three Juried Shows Are Now On Display at Hudgens Center for the Arts
NOTABLE: Snellville Cracking Down on Unsolicited Advertising Materials
RECOMMENDED: Movie: Ladies in Lavender, from the Short Story by William J. Locke
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Ellen Axson Wilson Was First Georgia Native To Become First Lady
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Lighthouse Framed within a Gate, So Where Is It?
LAGNIAPPE: Paul Duke STEM School and Peachtree Corners Note Arbor Day
CALENDAR: Pump Boys and Dinettes Opens at Lionheart Theatre Now
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TODAY’S FOCUS: The Most Recent Year, 2016, Was the Warmest Year on Record
EEB PERSPECTIVE: How About Eliminating Manufacturing of Mobile Homes?
ANOTHER VIEW: Modesty One of the Characteristics of Many of Greatest Generation
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
FEEDBACK: Six Letters on Varied Subjects Today
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Tech Launching New Health Program, “Sterile Technicians”
NOTABLE: Duluth Recognizes Nine Citizens for Contributions to Community
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Early Moravians in Georgia Were from the Present day Czech Republic
TODAY’S QUOTE: Even Ages Ago, There Was Conversation About the Truth
MYSTERY PHOTO: Look Up To Recognize This Special Shape
LAGNIAPPE: Workshop Coming Soon for Brain Injury Survivors
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
– Nighttime TV Host Johnny Carson(1925 – 2005).
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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