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ANOTHER VIEW: Get your mammogram every year. Make it a priority
By Barbara Myers | A teacher, a pharmacist, a public health advocate and a diabetes care and education specialist, Mandy Reece, a doctor of pharmacy is adding one more title to her resume. Recently diagnosed with breast cancer, Reece has become even more adamant about advocating for yearly mammograms for adult women.
NEW for 5/26: PCOM grads, Jimmy Carter Blvd., and Southernisms
Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: PCOM grad wins highest student honor, pursues medicine
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Background on the naming of Jimmy Carter Boulevard
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
ANOTHER VIEW: Send GwinnettForum your favorite Southern phrases
FEEDBACK: Six letter writers offer their thoughts on a variety of subjects
UPCOMING: Gwinnett summer meals program begins on May 30
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville boasts new kinetic wind sculpture
RECOMMENDED: One Mind by Larry Dossey, M.D.
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Indians in Georgia spoke many languages
MYSTERY PHOTO: Traditional man-on-horse statue is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Memorial Little Free Library opens in Peachtree Corners
CALENDAR: Author Daniel Black speaks June 1 at Duluth Public Library
NEWS BRIEFS: Memorial service for body donors is May 13 at PCOM
Medical students at PCOM Georgia are learning about the intricacies of the human body firsthand, through the College’s body donation program. PCOM is one of three medical schools in the state that operates a full-time, 24/7 program of this nature. The service is Saturday, May 13 in the Atrium at PCOM Georgia, 625 Old Peachtree Road in Suwanee.
Gwinnett Forum | April 23, 2024
“The best way out is always through.”
–American Poet Robert Frost
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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