By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JAN. 12, 2024 | The best localized Christmas card we got this year was from newcomers to Georgia, Pam and Eugene Brooks of Norcross. Their card was from Allport Editions, and entitled “Georgia Christmas,” by David Price, from 2004. It’s still up-to-date.
Well illustrated, the “Georgia Christmas” card read:
A Partridge in a Peach Tree
Two Swinging Golfers
Three Stone Mountain Lookers
Four Blooming Magnolias
Five Golden Peanuts
Six Savannah Ghosts Dancing
Seven Metro Trains a-Screeching
Eight Cokes a-Fizzing
Nine Braves Batting
Ten Blue Crabs a-Crawling
Eleven Falcons a-Running
Twelve Pecans a-Glazing
Bet you sang along when reading this refrain!
Mighty proud: It does our heart good to read about a Georgia company that has exploded with success…..six days a week. We’re talking about Chick-fil-A of course, which has an amazing history.
Opened by Truett Cathy in 1980, at first only in malls, it today has 2,806 far-flung mostly free-standing outlets, and annual sales (in 2022) of $19 billion. Wow! The company earns more revenue per restaurant than any other fast-food chain!
Chick-fil-A has operations in 47 states, only not in Hawaii, Alaska and Vermont.
It’s the largest purchaser of Sunkist lemons in the world…some 250 million lemons each year. And each store makes its own pickles from cucumbers, soaking them in brine for three days. And what does the “A” in Chick-fil-A stand for? Grand A chicken.
Attaboy, Chick-fil-A. Keep it up!
Habits are hard to break. Much of the way you go about your life today comes from what you learned from your parents when you were small. Such as:
- “Switch off the light when you leave the room.”
- “Take off your hat in the house.”
- “Clean your plate.” (That was usually followed by “You should think of the poor, starving children in China.”)
- “Waste not, want not.” (That applied to most everything.)
Speed cameras at four locations in Norcross are working in reducing accidents, the city manager, Eric Johnson, reported the other day. Mainly, with autos moving at slower speeds, accidents are down, and accidents with injuries are down.
In their three-plus years of operations, the city has been paid by the camera company owners more than $6 million, which for the most part is building in reserve to help pay for the city’s new police headquarters now being planned. Ninety-six per cent of the violators do not live in the 30071 Zip postal code area, that is, they are not Norcross residents.”
The four speed cameras are located near schools where serious accidents happened in the past: on Lawrenceville Street, Mitchell Road, and two on Beaver Ruin Road. Speed cameras were not installed near the city’s two high schools or on Atlantic Boulevard near an elementary school.
So slow down on these areas, or help pay for the anticipated Norcross police building.
Whether you live in Pennsylvania, you can enjoy a delicious Pittsburgh-style steak grilled on your grill or backyard fire pit. The term “Pittsburgh-style” refers to a specific grilling method in which the outside of the steak is charred while the inside remains rare or medium-rare.
- Have a comment? Send to: elliott@brack.net
Follow Us