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NEWS BRIEFS: How much cash should you keep in reserve?
With economic uncertainty and layoffs in a number of sectors, many people want to know how much personal cash they should have on hand. While a general rule of thumb is to have enough cash to cover expenses for about six months, accounting and finance expert Dr. S. Cathy McCrary says a number of factors can impact the amount of cash that one should have available.
Gwinnett Forum | Sept. 17, 2024
“In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”
— Swiss Novelist, Poet and Politician Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792-1873), via Lee Klaer, Duluth.
DULUTH FALL FESTIVAL
Duluth Fall Festival volunteers are hard at work getting ready for the 2024 Festival. This great community event will be held Saturday and Sunday, September 28-29. It begins on Saturday morning with a huge parade through Downtown Duluth. There will be hundreds of arts, crafts, sponsor and food booths, and entertainment on two stages.
Sunday starts with a Road Race at 8 a.m. followed by worship on the Green by Duluth First United Methodist Church. Then follows entertainment, booth shopping, and FOOD, FOOD, FOOD!
For more information, please go to the Festival website:
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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