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Issue 10.13 | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
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TODAY'S FOCUS SUWANEE, Ga., May 14, 2010 -- Can you name the Heavyweight Boxing Champion from Gwinnett County who won a 15-round decision against Joe Louis, had a career record of 96-25-1 with 58 knockouts, 42-0 amateur record with two Golden Gloves titles, and is in the International Boxing Hall of Fame?
Boxing and Gwinnett may not be synonymous today, but there was a time when Ezzard Charles from Lawrenceville was on the map and number one. One local group which did not forget was the selection committee of the newly established Gwinnett County Sports Hall of Fame. Sponsored by the Gwinnett County Public Schools Foundation Fund, Inc., the inaugural Hall of Fame, Class of 2010, of has been named. Among the inductees for 2010 will be the late Ezzard Charles, once the world heavyweight boxing champion, who was born in Lawrenceville. The late former champ will be represented by his son, Ezzard Charles II of Chicago. "It was quite a surprise to receive the call. I have wanted to visit my father's birthplace in Lawrenceville. This is most certainly an honor and I look forward to attending on his behalf." The first induction ceremony will be a joint event with the Gwinnett Braves at Coolray Field on Sunday, June 6, 2010, during the 2:05 p.m. game. Additional Gwinnett athletes who will be inducted on June 6 include
This first-ever event will recognize athletes who have competed in any facet of Gwinnett County athletics in public or private schools, or who have represented the citizens of Gwinnett with honor on a state or national stage. Ticket information is available at www.gcps-foundation.org, or by request at 678-301-6077 or 678-301-7287. Raffle tickets are also available for a host of great prizes, including a flat screen television set, AirTran tickets and other prizes. Sponsorship opportunities to become a charter member of the Gwinnett County Sports Hall of Fame are available by contacting the GCPS Foundation office. The Gwinnett
County Public Schools Foundation Fund is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization.
Proceeds from this charitable event will support academic initiatives
benefiting the 159,000 students in the 123 schools of Gwinnett County
Public Schools. EEB PERSPECTIVE MAY 14, 2010 --It's catching up time today, tidbits collected over the last few weeks. Pay attention!
An environmentally friendly cure comes from Walter Reeves, the Georgia Gardener. Testimonials that it works are coming in. If you have an any problem, test it and respond so others may try it. Simply pour two cups of plain club soda (carbonated water) directly in the center of a fire ant mound. The carbon dioxide in the water is heavier than air and displaces the oxygen which suffocates the queen and the other ants. The whole colony will be dead within about two days. And soda water is cheaper than other so-called "cures."
Besides eliminating the ants, club soda leaves no poisonous residue, does not contaminate the ground water, and does not indiscriminately kill other insects. It is not harmful to pets. Each mound must be treated individually and a one liter bottle of club soda will kill two to three mounds. * * * * * YOU THINK you're creative? How about this Tennessee idea, another state where apparently, state budgets are tough. One legislator has proposed an additional tax, on something many people think of as free. The proposal is to tax free hotel breakfasts that many travelers eat at some hotels and motels. How's that for thinking outside the box? A tax on a free item! We'll score tit an "A" on the innovation front! * * * * * IN KENTUCKY,
new limits affect the payday loan business. Borrowers will be limited
to two loans totaling no more than $500 at any one time. Payday lenders
typically apply high interest rates on loans tied to a borrower's employment
paycheck. "Kentucky seems to be leading the way" in limiting payday loans, said Meagan Dorsch, spokeswoman for the National Conference of State Legislatures. * * * * * A COMMITTEE drawing up a strategic plan to guide University of Georgia academics and facilities during the next decade also is taking a look back to see how well UGA lived up to the goals set in its last 10-year program. The result is a mixed bag of successes and failures. For more, go here. Two significant achievements:
One of the biggest accomplishments at UGA in the past decade wasn't in the plan at all, like the medical campus partnership with the Medical College of Georgia. * * * * * ORDERING a sandwich the other day at an airport, we were told: "We don't have any small sandwiches. We only have large." Is it any wonder that Americans are overweight? You may remember that often sandwiches have named that ought to tell you something: "Whopper," "Big Boy," and "SuperSize." Again: no wonder Americans are overweight! But Hurrah for Wendy's, at least. Though Wendy's offers a single, double or triple hamburger, you can also order a junior burger (for 99 cents). It's enough for most of us, and is a bargain compared to most of the other offerings. ABOUT OUR SPONSORS
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Second Fort Daniel Frontier Faire is scheduled for May 22-23 The second annual Fort Daniel Frontier Faire and Public Archaeology Event will be held May 22 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and May 23 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. in Hog Mountain at 2505 Braselton Highway, which is Georgia Highway 324. Militia and frontier re-enactors and the site archaeologist will be promoting awareness of the historic value of Fort Daniel, Gwinnett's War of 1812 militia outpost, along with the late 1700s frontier fort it replaced. Efforts are underway to save the site tract that is threatened by commercial development. Fort Daniel was listed on the 2009 Georgia Trust's "Top 10 Places in Peril." You can help save this historic treasure, perhaps the oldest historic site, in Gwinnett. Activities
on these two days include site excavation and brick-making demonstration,
where the public is welcome to participate; frontier militia demonstrations;
history museum and site artifacts; children's Parking for the festival is available at NorthView Church, 2000 Gravel Springs Road, at the intersection of Georgia Highways 124 and 324. The festival
is an Archaeology Month Event cosponsored by the Gwinnett Archaeological
Research Society. For more information, contact Jim D'Angelo, president
and site Archaeologist, at 770-513- 1576. or Shannon E. Coffey, event
coordinator at 404-906-4832; or
visit www.thegars.org or PCOM Georgia to award degrees to 76 doctors on May 23 The second
class of doctors will graduate from the Georgia Campus of the Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee on Sunday, May 23, at 2 p.m.
The event will be at the Tommy Hughes Ballroom at Gwinnett Center in Duluth.
Speaker
for the graduation ceremony will be the 16th Surgeon General of the United
states, Dr. David Satcher. He is now on the faculty at the Morehouse School
of Medicine. Two events during May on Gwinnett Sierra Club program On Thursday,
May 20, the meeting of the Gwinnett Sierra Club will hear Joel Hitt, a
Georgia Master Gardener, on native plants and organic gardening. The group
meets at Berkmar High School at 7:30pm. If you have any questions about
the meeting, please contact Tom Morrissey at thmorrissey@bellsouth.net
or call 404-513-4069. NOTABLE Gwinnett
Medical Center (GMC) has entered an agreement with Kaiser Permanente to
provide inpatient services for their health plan members. The four-year
contract, which became effective April 15, includes both the Lawrenceville
and Duluth hospitals.
Phil Wolfe,
president and CEO of Gwinnett Medical Center, says: "Contracting
with Kaiser Permanente is a positive move for GMC for many reasons. The
most important is that Kaiser Permanente members in our community who
need inpatient services will have access to the exceptional care that
is available in our system." Walton EMC awards $5,000 grant to Gwinnett Community Clinic Walton EMC Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to Gwinnett Community Clinic (GCC), as part of its community investment process (Project Roundup). This grant was used to purchase cardiopulmonary equipment for testing of Clinic patients.
Electrocardiography equipment and supplies were purchased for obtaining 12-lead electrocardiograms and rhythm strips providing interpreted cardiology reports. A new digital spirometer allows the Clinic to obtain flow volume loops, peak flows and other pulmonary function reports, which are diagnostic tools to assist Clinic physicians in the treatment of patients with pulmonary disease and shortness of breath symptoms. Gwinnett Community Clinic is a non-profit healthcare clinic providing low cost primary care services to uninsured, indigent residents of Gwinnett County. All health care treatment at the clinic is provided by volunteer physicians, nurses, phlebotomists and other allied health providers. For more information about GCC you may contact the clinic office at 770-985-1199. RECOMMENDED
GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA
Georgia's coast is more than 100 miles in length. Its most impressive natural feature is the chain of barrier islands that fringe the shoreline. Separating the islands from the mainland is a belt of tidal marshes, four to six miles wide. Amid the marshes, and running the length of the coast, are the waterways that, from the earliest years of the region's European occupation, have been known as the inland passage.
The natural "water highway" of this inland passage provided a protected route for intracoastal maritime traffic, enabling smaller craft to avoid the outside passage along the coast, a route often impassable due to frequent Atlantic Ocean northeasters and tropical storms. Spanish traders and Franciscan friars traveled the waterway between the friars' chain of missions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. English colonists utilized the route to transport cargoes of rice and indigo to the markets in Charleston, S.C., and in Savannah. During the antebellum period, when large rice and cotton plantations were established on the Sea Islands and in the freshwater river estuaries, the inland waterway was increasingly utilized. Small coasting vessels transported plantation commodities to the larger markets for sale. These craft called at the tidewater plantations to load bags of cotton and tierces, or barrels, of rice for shipment. The rural nature of the islands and mainland coast made the waterway a crucial link with the outside world for the shipment and receipt of domestic goods, plantation equipment and supplies, as well as mail. Despite
Georgia's relatively short coastline, the Union navy had a difficult task
in containing Confederate smugglers and blockade runners during the Civil
War (1861-65) because the convoluted network of creeks and rivers afforded
many opportunities for escape. The inland waterway thus facilitated communication
between plantations despite the Union blockade offshore and in the sounds. CREDITS GwinnettForum is provided to you at no charge every Tuesday and Friday. If you would like to serve as an underwriter, click here to learn more. Send
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