GwinnettForum | Number 23.09 | Jan. 30, 2024
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TODAY’S FOCUS: GGC revamps athletic department administration
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Background on voting about transit in Gwinnett
SPOTLIGHT: Heaven and Alvarez, LLC
ANOTHER VIEW: Misconceptions abound about the Middle East
FEEDBACK: Baldwin boys, half brothers, made considerable impact
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville moves to annual multi-family housing inspections
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners employs technology to curb vandalism
RECOMMENDED: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Baldwin served 10 years in Congress and 12 as Senator
MYSTERY PHOTO: Figure out where this photo taken from above is located
LAGNIAPPE: After leaving Cambodia, Donlevy now GOAL winner
CALENDAR: Gagnon’s last lecture at GGC will be Jan. 30
GGC revamps athletic department administration
By Dale Long
JAN. 30, 2024 | Georgia Gwinnett College has announced the appointment of Dr. Darin S. Wilson as vice president for campus and external engagement after spending 13 years establishing and guiding the college’s successful athletics program as associate vice president of athletics.
The college also named Georgia Gwinnett College athletics Administrator Dr. Ian Potter as the executive athletics director, succeeding Wilson.
Wilson
In this new GGC role, Wilson will have responsibility for optimizing campus physical resources. This will include administering space allocation and management of the new Convocation Center along with the campus’ fleet management, event management and schedule systems management, and other special campuswide projects. Wilson will also help increase the GGC’s community awareness and partnerships in Lawrenceville and surrounding Gwinnett County.
He will continue to have administrative oversight of GGC Athletics, but daily operations will be administered by Dr. Ian Potter in the new role of executive athletics director, beginning February 1.
Currently serving as the deputy athletics director, Potter has played a key role in GGC athletics since its founding in 2012. He was one of the department’s original staff members, overseeing compliance and academics, and recently has collaborated on budget and financial matters. Potter also has supervised several sports within GGC Athletics. Potter has been the inaugural president for the NAIA’s newly formed Athletics Compliance Administrators Association and chairs the Continental Athletic Conference’s Compliance and Eligibility Committee.
Potter
Before coming to GGC, Potter was assistant athletic director for Compliance and Academics with Augusta (Georgia) University. He was a member of several regional and national committees, including being the Southeast representative for the National Compliance Administrators Association.
Under Wilson’s Athletic Director leadership, GGC’s six intercollegiate programs have had unprecedented national and conference successes. Teams have captured 18 NAIA national championships and 28 conference championships, and collectively won more than 1,600 games and achieved a 77% winning percentage. Each team has achieved top-10 national rankings. The quality of GGC’s athletic facilities have helped its programs host NAIA Opening Round competitions and bring visitors to Lawrenceville and Gwinnett County.
Wilson is a two-time NAIA National Athletics Director of the Year recipient and has been recognized three times as an Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. He has won multiple Continental Athletic Conference’s Athletics Director of the Year awards. Wilson has served on several NAIA national committees, including the National Administrative Council and Athletics Directors Association’s executive committee. He currently is a member of the NAIA’s Membership and Hall of Fame committees. Wilson has been an influential leader of the CAC and former Association of Independent Institutions.
Wilson has an undergraduate and master’s from Union College (Kentucky) and a Ph.D. in higher education leadership from Capella University in Minneapolis, Minn.
Potter holds a bachelor’s in communication studies and master’s in counselor education from Clemson University. He earned his education specialist degree in educational leadership and attained a Doctorate of Education in higher education administration from Georgia Southern University.
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Background on voting about transit in Gwinnett
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JAN. 30, 2024 | Gwinnett County commissioners have signaled that they plan a vote on another transit plan in the fall of 2024. Therefore, let’s look back at the ways solving the transit problem has been approached in the past.
Previous Gwinnett commissioners have been slow to approach rapid transit problems over the years because each time it is voted on, there has been significant opposition against it … .until the most recent vote, back in 2020.
In 1965 the Georgia General Assembly voted to create MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, allowing a vote for the plan in the five core metro counties: Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett. Cobb voters rejected participation, while the other four counties voted to be part of the overall Metro Authority.
In 1966 Georgia voters approved a constitutional amendment to permit the state to fund 10 percent of the total cost of a rapid rail system in Atlanta. Two years later, in 1968, Atlanta and MARTA’s core counties rejected a plan to finance MARTA through property taxes. In 1971—when the issue was presented to voters again—Clayton and Gwinnett voters dropped their support, and MARTA ended up being backed by only DeKalb, Fulton, and the City of Atlanta.
While moving people around crowded Metro Atlanta continued to be a problem with all the growth in the area, and seeing the fast growth in Gwinnett, local commissioners did little about transit for 19 years.
Finally, in 1990, now with 350,000 residents in the county by then, commissioners called for another transit vote. But long-term fears soon surfaced. In one pre-vote public meeting, newspapers quoted the tone of those at the meeting:
“That place,” one man said, referencing the state’s capital, “has a reputation for murder and rape — the wrong people. We don’t need ‘em, we don’t want ‘em.”
Said another: “Do we really want a direct line for the drug dealers at Five Points to get new markets among our fourth-and fifth-graders?”
The upshot was seen in the vote: only 29 percent of Gwinnetians voted for joining MARTA in 1990.
Another 22 years would pass before the county put the transit issue to voters. This was in 2012, when the county proposed a one percent sales tax for transportation. By then, nearly 500,000 more people had moved to Gwinnett. But the 2012 vote tally was very similar to 1990: again 29 percent rejected MARTA coming to Gwinnett.
Now we come to 2019, and another proposal for Gwinnett to enter into a contract with MARTA for transit services. This time the vote was closer, 40 percent approving MARTA, but again, another vote against traffic.
The last vote on transit in Gwinnett was in 2020, when there was a proposal to expand heavy rail to the county, but not to join MARTA. This vote was razor thin, 198,514 for the plan, but 199,537 against it. Another transit vote lost.
What’s different about the transit proposal Gwinnettians are expected to come before them in November, 2024?
There are significant elements: first of all, there is no tie at all to MARTA. The proposed one cent for transportation will be for expansion of a Gwinnett transit system, not tied to the Atlanta system except through connections.
Secondly, and this is significant, the Legislature has changed transit votes in Georgia so that sales taxes on such votes can be collected over 30 years, allowing counties to plan significant long-range improvements. Previously, the collections could be over five years, not allowing funding for long-term solutions.
Now, what’s your view on this anticipated transit vote for Gwinnett?
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Misconceptions abound about the Middle East
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, GA. | The Democratic Party is losing younger progressives who are increasingly seeking out third party candidates or saying that they may not vote in 2024. One reason is the skewed view progressives have of the Gaza War, started by Hamas terrorists and proven to be a humanitarian disaster.
Misconception 1: Israel was created by Jews forcefully displacing Arabs. But in fact: Israel was created by United Nations Resolution 181, with 33 votes for and 13 (mostly Muslim) nations against. The British ruled the territory for 60 years prior to that time when it was not a nation. After Israel declared independence in 1948, five Arab armies subsequently invaded. Post-war, Egypt then took over Gaza and Jordan took over the West Bank, abolishing Palestinian hopes of having their own state (now known as a “two state solution.”)
Misconception 2: Israel consists of only European Jews, new to the Middle East. But in fact, there have been Jews in the Middle East for almost all of recorded history. They are called Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, and their appearance is similar to that of Arabs. At the time of the creation of Israel, there were almost a million Jews living in Islamic nations, many under oppression. Virtually all of them left those nations for Israel.
Misconception 3: The only reason Hamas exists is because of Israeli oppression. But in fact there is no tradition of democracy anywhere in the Middle East, other than in Israel. There are a multitude of radical Islamic terrorist groups, both Shia and Sunni. When given a rare choice, Gaza residents voted to be ruled by Hamas. The Hamas Covenant states: “(Hamas) strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.”
Misconception 4: Israeli Arabs are oppressed and segregated. But in fact Muslims who are Israeli citizens have always had full political and social rights. There are nearly two million Islamic men, women and children in Israel who enjoy these rights, which would not be available to them in Arab majority nations. Since the creation of Israel, there have been 100 elected Arab Knesset (Parliament) members. These include several key deputy speakers and ministers. About 10 percent of the Knesset is Muslim.
Misconception 5: Prime Minister Netanyahu is popular in Israel. But in fact, prior to the October 7 terrorist attack, the majority of Israelis had a negative view of Netanyahu. Only 29 percent viewed him very favorably. Even looking at the Jewish community, only 36 percent viewed him very positively. However, only 7 percent supported the right wing coalition that he leads.
What will happen now that the war has no clear ending point? There is no easy solution to the on-going Middle Eastern crisis.
Israel has offered to halt the war if Hamas leadership departs the territory. Hamas has refused. However, it is clear that under a negotiated truce, Israel will require Hamas to end its control over Gaza. That position will never change.
There needs to be a reasonable consolidated Gaza-West Bank ruling coalition established directly by Arab states, one excluding Hamas. Then, the Israelis also must dump their far-right government and elect someone capable of negotiating a lasting peace, which Netanyahu won’t do. Until both of these things are accomplished, war will continue and innocents will die.
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Baldwin boys, half brothers, made considerable impact
Editor, the Forum:
Abraham and Henry Baldwin of Connecticut were half-brothers and have impacted our country and my life. They were both from Connecticut and attended Yale. Henry started a law practice in Pittsburgh and was in support of protective tariffs, pleasing Andrew Jackson. He was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court by Jackson. Baldwin Township in Pennsylvania was named for him. My high school is named for him.
Abraham came to Georgia and founded the University of Georgia, starting with the Franklin College on the north campus of present day UGA. The Agriculture College in Tift County is named after him. And a county in Georgia is named for him.
– Byron Gilbert, Duluth
Find possible help for new homeowners in water bill
Editor, the Forum:
In my latest water bill was a little pamphlet that I hardly ever look at and usually end up putting it in the trash. But this month an article caught my eye (because of the bold lettering) which was about first time buyer’s grants.
Go to the Gwinnett County website and click on Gwinnett Grant Programs. There is a program called Homestretch for first time home buyers. You have to meet certain criteria and be ready to jump through a couple of hoops, but I think it may be worthwhile for those who are looking for a way to put a down payment on a home. It’s for those who never thought they could afford a home.
– Sara Rawlins, Lawrenceville
Dear Sara: Yes, we saw it too, and was included in a recent note in GwinnettForum. Thanks for calling more attention to this possible help for first-time homebuyers.–eeb
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Lawrenceville moves to annual multi-family housing inspections
A new framework for annual city inspection of multi-family housing has been adopted in Lawrenceville. It seeks to enhance property maintenance standards and ensure tenants’ well-being.
The need for the ordinance arises from concerns related to property maintenance issues, including heating, cooling, water, structural, electrical, and sewer problems that may go unaddressed, leaving tenants with limited recourse.
Property owners must complete inspections prior to obtaining an annual Occupational Tax Certificate. Owners of developments with four or more multi-family rental units must comply with inspection requirements. Property owners must submit a Code Compliance Certificate annually when applying for their occupational tax renewal, covering one-third of the multi-family rental units on the premises. New developments are exempt from the required inspections and the code compliance certificate for the first five years. Duplex communities and single-family homes are also exempt.
The ordinance places specific requirements for licensed and certified inspectors, including mandatory meetings and required documents.
UGA offers new classes for adults in Gwinnett
OLLI@UGA announces a pilot project of classes at the UGA Gwinnett Campus for 2024. OLLI stands for “Osher lifelong learning institute.” This is a learning and social community program for adults 50+. It offers a range of classes, events, travel opportunities, shared interest groups, all for the love of learning.
The classes offered at the Gwinnett branch for 2024 include:
- February 27 at 10 a.m.: Myths and Truths, stealth fighter stories.
- March 13 at 1 p.m.: Writing your story with humor and heart.
- April 3 a t 10 a.m.: Using Census records to find folks.
- May 1 at 10 a.m.: A history of London, told through a single building.
- June 4 at 10 a.m.: Investment basics.
For more opportunities about OLLI@UGA, there will be an Open House on Thursday February 1 from 10:30-noon at the UGA Gwinnett Campus, 2530 Sever Road NW, Lawrenceville, 30043. This event is free to attend and parking is available.
For the initial semester, people can register for OLLI classes at UGA Gwinnett without becoming members. However, with a membership, members can take classes online or make the short drive to Athens to take classes offered there. There are over 120 classes being offered this semester on a wide range of subjects. For more information, email olli@uga.edu, or visit the website at olli.uga.edu.
Second Taste of Lilburn will take place April 20
The Lilburn Woman’s Club is accepting applications to participate in the second annual Taste of Lilburn. The event of food from local restaurants with live music will be held on Saturday, April 20, from 4 until 7 p.m.,at Heritage Hall of Salem Missionary Baptist Church. Tickets may be purchased prior to the event and at the door.
- If you are a professional chef, bakery or restaurant and would like to participate, visit this website for more information and an application at WWW.TASTEOFLILBURN.ORG.
Peachtree Corners employs technology to curb vandalism
The City of Peachtree Corners’ Marshal’s Office and Gwinnett County Police Department, are working to address the increase in vandalism-related incidents that have been occurring at the Town Center and Forum shopping centers.
Over the past 45 days, several vandalism-related events have occurred in the stairwells of the Town Center parking deck. As an immediate action, the Marshal’s Office placed temporary motion-activated cameras in strategic locations within the Town Center parking deck stairwells. The placement of these cameras has led to the identification and capture of several of the individuals responsible for multiple incidents of tagging/graffiti that were occurring.
As a long-term solution, the City has installed video cameras that are equipped with geofencing, motion alerting, object detection, and speaker features to aid in the identification of suspects as well as curtail any future vandalism of the deck and stairwells.
If any member of the public observes any illegal activity at any locations within Peachtree Corners, they should contact 911 and report the incident.
Pangle wins Lawrenceville DAR essay contest
Collyns Pangle (middle), a fifth grader at Dyer Elementary School is the 2023-2024 American History Essay Contest winner for the Philadelphia Winn Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, in Lawrenceville. The award was presented by Lynn Jacques, chapter regent (left) and Linda LaPerre, American history committee chair. The topic for this year’s contest asked students to imagine that they were a newspaper reporter asked to cover a new march by John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, that was played for the first time on May 14, 1897. Attending the awards presentation were Collyn’s family and her teachers from Dyer Elementary School, Mrs. Linda Bailey and Mrs. Chelsey Miller.
Gateway85 gathering focuses on Latino community
The Gateway85 CID hosted a gathering at the Corners Outreach facility that brought together 38 community participants, including business leaders, non-profit organizations, and government officials from diverse sectors to address the pressing needs of the expanding Latino community in the Gwinnett County area. With a primary objective to enhance accessibility to vital human services, education, and employment opportunities, the collaborative discussion focused on sharing ongoing initiatives to support Latinos and identified opportunities for joint efforts, experimentation, and new implementations.
Despite the perception of America as a melting pot, Latinos in Gateway85 and beyond continue to face significant challenges, ranging from language barriers to poverty and limited educational and professional opportunities. Of particular concern are new immigrants who may lack awareness of available resources, hindering their chances of success in building a better life in the United States.
A follow-up meeting is planned as the new initiative community welcomes continued collaboration and participation.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: It’s not every play that kills off the lead character before the play is half over. But despite the name, this one does. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is really more about Caesar’s assassins than about Caesar. Here, Shakespeare uses his imagination to focus on and examine the motives, the emotions and the struggles of the murderers and what happened to them afterwards. The ‘bard’ wrote for an Elizabethan audience and usually played fast and loose with British history. But living centuries after the ancient Romans, Shakespeare was able to stick closer to history in this tale of betrayal. Yes, he took a few liberties. But, for the most part, readers get a nice overall view of what happened before and after the Ides of March based on Shakespeare’s source, the Plutarch biographies of Caesar and Brutus. I think this play is one of Shakespeare’s easiest to read and it’s my favorite.
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Baldwin served 10 years in Congress and 12 as senator
(From previous edition)
At the 1787 constitutional convention, Abraham Baldwin served on the Committee of Postponed Matters, later called the “Grand Committee,” which was tasked with determining how to apportion state representation in the national legislature. On the committee, Baldwin changed his vote on small-state representation to the national Senate, possibly because he feared the alienation of small states after befriending the Connecticut delegation. In so doing, he was instrumental in bringing about the “Great Compromise” that established representation in each house of Congress—equal representation in the Senate and apportionment based on population in the House of Representatives. Baldwin himself considered his role in the Great Compromise to be his greatest public service.
Beginning in 1789, Baldwin served five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1789-99) and two consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate (1799-1807), one of these as president pro tem. As a member of Congress, Baldwin was an avid supporter of limited nationalist policies and was widely perceived as the leader of the moderate wing of the Democratic-Republican Party. Throughout his political career, Baldwin was a consistent ally of both James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and a staunch opponent of Alexander Hamilton’s policies.
Baldwin is remembered today in Georgia primarily for his statewide educational program that created a state university and provided state funds for that institution. Highlighting his own education principles, Baldwin once stated that Georgia must “place the youth under the forming hand of Society, that by instruction they may be moulded to the love of Virtue and good Order.”
He believed that no republic was secure without a well-informed constituency. Baldwin never married. In a curious parallel to a later renowned Georgian, Alexander Stephens, Baldwin assumed custody of six of his younger half-siblings upon his father’s death and reared, housed, and educated them all at his own expense.
On March 4, 1807, at age 53, Baldwin died while serving as a U.S. senator from Georgia. Later that month the Savannah Republican and Savannah Evening Ledger reprinted a eulogy of the great statesman, which had first appeared in a Washington, D.C., newspaper: “He originated the plan of the University of Georgia, drew up the charter, and with infinite labor and patience, in vanquishing all sorts of prejudices and removing every obstruction, he persuaded the assembly to adopt it.”
Baldwin is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton and Baldwin County in middle Georgia are named in his honor. A statue of Baldwin was dedicated on the University of Georgia campus in 2011.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Figure out where this photo taken from above is located
Some of you have seen the building, but not from this angle. Can you tell us where it is? Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
The last mystery was located far from here. Jay Altman, of Columbia, S.C. told us it is “The Holy Trinity Church, is a Romanian Orthodox Church located on the northern bank of the Tamava Mare River in Sighisoara, Romania.” The photograph came from Sharon LeMaster of Decatur via Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. added: Today’s mystery photo is of The Holy Trinity Church, a Romanian Orthodox Church located along the northern bank of the Târnava Mare River in Sighişoara, Romania. The construction of the church started on May 29, 1934 and was completed 3 years later, holding its consecration ceremony on October 31, 1937. The ceremony was conducted by 40 priests and two ministers and was attended by more than 10,000 people. It is now the center of the town’s Roman Orthodox community.
“The reader will likely notice the green-on-white sign along the bottom of the mystery photo. It is actually painted along the wall that separates the church property from the bank of the Târnava Mare River. The full text reads (in Romanian)… ‘Viaţa este o condiţie necesară pentru a exista dar insuficientă pentru a fi. Fă-ţi datoria şi vei afla cine eşti!’which can be translated to…‘Life is a necessary condition to exist but insufficient to be. Do your duty and you will find out who you are!’
Also recognizing this photograph were Steve Ogilvie, Lawrenceville and George Graf, Palmyra, Va.
More Mystery Photos needed
GwinnettForum is mighty low on Mystery Photos. Scour your computer for good photographs that you have taken in the past. A good place to start is remembering your travels throughout the world, which should shower you with possibilities for photos. Even better would be for you to look around your neighborhood and spot some scenes that might make our readers work hard to determine where the photo was taken. Engage our photo-spotters in a search from one of your creations!
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After leaving Cambodia, Donlevy now GOAL winner
Gwinnett Technical College student Pagna Donlevy of Snellville has been named Gwinnett Technical College’s Georgia Occupational Award (GOAL) of Leadership winner. She was among 90 students nominated for the honor at Gwinnett Tech this year among 10,000 students.
She left her village of Battambang, Cambodia at age 15, during the continued civil war. She arrived in the United States unable to speak English and with no money to go on and succeed and achieved her dream of going to college. She will graduate in December 2024 with an associate’s degree in residential construction management.
Before enrolling at Gwinnett Tech, Donlevy earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 2013 and taught math at The Bement School in Deerfield, Mass. She moved to Georgia in 2016 as the director of Global Partnerships and International Outreach at Brandon Hall School.
Gagnon’s last lecture at GGC will be Jan. 30
Last lecture: Come hear Dr. Michael Gagnon’s last lecture and celebrate his retirement. He will speak January 30 at 3:30 in Cisco Auditorium in Building C at Georgia Gwinnett College. His subject will be “Judge Augustin Smith Clayton (17830-1839),” a life in the early republic. Refreshments and brief reception will be held immediately following the event in the Cisco foyer provided by the School of Liberal Arts.
Open House about OLLI@UGA will be at the UGA Gwinnett campus, 230 Sever Road in Lawrenceville, on Thursday, February 1 at 10:30. The event is free, and will discuss OLLI class starting in February at the UGA Lawrenceville campus.
Writing Workshop on “Remembering Black Food Traditions” will be held February 1 at the Centerville Branch Library at 11 a.m. Come write about your favorite memories tied to Black food traditions!
Author Karen Eber will be at the Lawrenceville Branch Library on February 3 at 11 a.m. Learn about the science of storytelling as author and professional storyteller, Karen Eber provides a sneak peek into her book, The Perfect Story. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Tickets are available for the February 3 concert by the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra. Center Stage Rhapsodies will feature Pianist Awadagin Pratt in the concert at the Johns Creek Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m. Pratt will be the featured soloist on Florence Price’s “Piano Concerto in One Movement.” The Symphony will also perform William Grant Still’s Festive Overture, Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement, and Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World. Secure your seats by calling 678-748-5802, go to this site online.
Historic Cemetery Tour of Norcross City Cemetery will be held on Sunday, February 4, at 2 p.m. Join Gene Ramsay for a historic tour. Discover Norcross’s history, decode street names, and hear captivating stories. Don’t miss this chance to connect with Norcross’s past! For details, visit here.
Snellville Commerce Club will meet at noon on Tuesday, February 6, at the Snellville City Hall Community Room. Speakers will be Nessa Griffin and Latifah Rasheed, both with the Gwinnett County Public Library. They will take the group on a field trip to tour the new Elizabeth H. Williams Gwinnett County Public Library in the Grove. Reservations are required.
Butterfly-in-the-Sky special screening, will be on Tuesday, February 6 at 7 p.m. at the Aurora Theater stage at the Lawrenceville Arts Center. This documentary tells the story of the PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow,” its host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television.
Meet Author Hank Phillippi Ryan at the Lilburn Branch Library on February 8 at 7 p.m. She will be discussing her new psychological thriller, One Wrong Word. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason will be the speaker for the Men’s Civic Breakfast at Christ Episcopal Church in Norcross on Saturday, February 13 at 8 a.m. The breakfast will be in Webster Hall of the church, located at 400 Holcomb Bridge Road in Norcross. The wider community is invited.
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