By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Gwinnett had an unusually high turnout for the 2016 presidential election. There were 430,935 registered, Elections Director Lynn Ledford tells us, and 332,149 persons voted. That’s 77 percent of those registered ending up voting. Attaway! Gwinnettians.
OK, SOME OF YOU SAID if the election didn’t turn out like you wanted, you might move to Canada, remember? There may be a better way to help out in the next election besides leaving our country.
How about moving to a swing state? There are states with close counts, such as Michigan, Wisconsin or Ohio. Might work out for you to help turn one of those state around.
Don’t like the cold? Consider moving to Florida or North Carolina, both places with slim margins for the winner. Who knows? If enough moved, it might make a difference in future elections. Or you might just stay in Georgia and help its move to a swing state position.
FORMER GWINNETIAN Gail Johnson now lives in Rutland, Vt., and has decided to run for the Board of Alderman in that city. The election will be on March 7, 2017, not far away.
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She’s been active in Rutland, completing a long stint as chair of a county architectural review board and was a representative to a regional transportation study group before moving to Rutland. She works with the Rutland Housing Authority. She currently oversees volunteers and activities in the city’s 54-street neighborhood known as Historic South West Rutland.
Johnson is a graduate of the University of Louisville, has a master’s in education degree from Georgia State University and another master’s in public policy from George Mason University. She is a military veteran, having served on active duty as a U.S. Navy Finance Officer during the Vietnam conflict and became the first female military Finance Officer assigned to the then largest stateside U.S. Naval Base in Charleston, S.C. Good luck, Gail!
SOME OF US (often me) are slow to adopt modern technologies. Recently when our indoor-outdoor thermometer was no longer functioning, I was considering a new one. Then when on another mission to a hardware store, I unexpectedly spied a wireless indoor-outdoor thermometer, and bought it. The good part is that installation was easy, compared to running a wire linking the inside reader with the outside temperature gauge.
All I needed to do was to locate the outside gauge somewhere within 165 feet of the inside temperature (and humidity) reader. And almost immediately, the two units synced, and now we’re in business, knowing how hot or cold it is outside any time of day. The unit cost $20, and works wirelessly wonderfully. Hurrah for technology!
EVER WONDER why there are so few diners in the South? You see diners all over the northeast, and most of the time their food offerings are tempting, and good, and often also serve as a community meeting place.
So why few diners in the South? Let us suggest it’s that two Southern institutions, Waffle House (founded in 1955 in Avondale Estates) and Huddle House (founded in 1964 in Decatur) have about cornered the market for individually-owned diners. These two companies concentrated their growth in the South. These modern chains have their own following, offer good, standard menus, and are usually successful. Someone else think of another reason for not many diners in Dixie?
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