GwinnettForum | Number 25.73 | Sept. 19, 2025
IT’S TIME FOR THE TIEBREAKER. The gloves are back on as the City of Suwanee and City of Sugar Hill gear up for Round 3 of the Food Fight, a friendly but fierce competition to support the North Gwinnett Co-Op. This year’s bout runs from September 20 (Suwanee Fest) through October 19 (Sugar Rush). Round 1 went to Sugar Hill. In round 2, Suwanee came back swinging! Now it’s time for the third match and both cities are in it to win it. From left are Parker (Suwanee’s mascot); Suwanee Mayor Jimmy Burnette; Sugar Hill Mayor Brandon Hembre; and Eddy (Sugar Hill’s mascot).
TODAY’S FOCUS: Deer study in PC city shows population increase
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Conviction out of Brazil can give USA hope
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
ANOTHER VIEW: Group from Big Canoe sees Kenyan nonprofit in action
FEEDBACK: Why do rural people vote against their self interest?
UPCOMING: Suwanee to conduct another survey to improve city
NOTABLE: New Sugarloaf CID sculpture dubbed “Ascension”
RECOMMENDED: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: by Alice Walker
GEORGIA TIDBIT: J.W. Golucke built 27 Georgia courthouses
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s mystery photo may ring a bell with you
CALENDAR: Lake Lanier shore sweep coming September 20
Deer study in PC city shows population increase
By Louis Svehla
PEACHTREE CORNERS | Recent site observations and a marked increase in resident reports suggest that the deer population in Peachtree Corners may have exceeded sustainable levels. Concerns raised include more frequent deer-vehicle collisions, ecological strain from over-grazing, and residential property damage.
In response, the City of Peachtree Corners launched a two-part initiative:
- A resident impact survey
- A camera-based population study conducted by a wildlife biologist.
The impact survey began on August 8, 2025, and will conclude on September 19, 2025 (today). The purpose of conducting the impact survey and population study is to provide the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and USDA Wildlife Services, the only entities authorized to manage game populations, with the data needed to evaluate current conditions and develop potential management strategies.
Because deer are primarily located on private property, any management options proposed by these agencies will be voluntary and subject to property owner approval. The City of Peachtree Corners expects to receive proposed options in the February–March 2026 timeframe and will facilitate meetings between DNR, USDA Wildlife Services, and interested property owners.
Deer Impact Survey Findings: In July 2025, the City received 798 responses to its online deer impact survey. The results reveal a consistent and widespread presence of deer in residential areas, along with significant impacts on safety, property, and quality of life. Key findings include:
- 96% of respondents denied feeding deer on their property;
- 87% reported seeing deer on their property daily or weekly;
- 74% reported deer-related property damage including destroyed landscaping and gardens;
- 66% typically saw groups of three or more deer at a time;
- 62% actively used deer deterrents, with many reporting limited success;
- 53% witnessed or experienced deer-vehicle collisions or near misses (East Jones Bridge, Spalding Drive, and Peachtree Corners Circle frequently mentioned); and
- Open-ended comments revealed strong concerns about overpopulation, traffic hazards, and safety risks, along with calls for humane population control and frustration over feeding practices.
Deer Population Study: To accurately assess herd characteristics, the City was divided into 20 distinct 100-acre zones. Wildlife cameras were deployed in 10 zones on August 8, 2025, and will remain in place for 21 days. On August 30, 2025, the cameras will be relocated to the remaining 10 zones for a second 21-day period, concluding on September 19, 2025.
Upon completion of the study, the wildlife biologist will analyze the camera footage to assess key herd characteristics, including buck-to-doe ratios, population and density estimates, and distribution and habitat use. The final report is expected to be completed by December 12, 2025. The report will be submitted to the DNR and USDA Wildlife Services, who will use the information to develop appropriate population management options tailored to local conditions.
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Conviction out of Brazil can give USA hope
By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 19, 2025 | A story out of Brazil this week bears a striking similarity to events in the United States, giving us an inkling of hope.
The story was out of Brasilia, Brazil’s capitol, reporting that the nation’s Supreme Court had convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a failed conspiracy to overturn the 2022 Brazil election in a coup. The plot sought to disband courts, empower the military and assassinate the president-elect.
The conviction came from four of five justices of the Supreme Court. The court also convicted seven co-conspirators including his running mate, defense minister and Navy commander.
As a result of the conviction, Mr. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison.
Yes, this was in a South American democracy, but what has been going on politically in Brazil had a strikingly similar tone to what has been happening in our country since President Trump arrived on the scene.
Coups in Brazil have been almost a tradition. The county has weathered 15 coups and attempts since Brazil overthrew its monarchy in 1889. But this is the first time a leader of a coup has been convicted by their courts.
Much like Donald Trump, Bolsonaro was a product of the right wing, indeed its leader, guiding the country into a more polarized right wing government. He served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro got heavy support from President Trump, seeing him as an ally in moving a nation to the far right. Trump thought Bolsonaro was being persecuted in trying to reverse a rigged election. Sound familiar?
Our American president even threatened Brazil to drop the case, or see enforced steep tariffs! Sticking his fingers even more into international politics, Mr. Trump threatened sanctions against the chief Brazilian justice leading the case against Mr. Bolsonaro.
We must admit there seems to be no end to the ways Donald Trump can complicate matters, not only here, but in many foreign lands. Americans have never acted in such ways. It is obvious that Mr. Trump has never grasped the American tradition of being diplomatic or even tolerable of other country’s borders.
Even after the court’s decision convicting Bolsonaro, President Trump kept at it, saying he disapproved of the decision. Will he never learn?
The coup, as concocted by Mr. Bolsonaro, would have been quick and sweeping. He would have, first as Mr. Trump has often done, declare a state of emergency. Following, he would have dissolved the Supreme Court, annulled the election result, and given the military sweeping powers.
Can you believe such? Outright disarray and elimination of any sliver of democracy!
To think that such tactics in any democracy would be proposed is to make a mockery of constitutional self rule.
Yet if it can be conceived in Brazil, are there people in the United States who might also want to take such a route?
Finally, the people of Brazil saw the light of day, and convicted a brazen attempt at destroying democracy in their country.
With all the continued antics of the Trump Administration, we hope Americans are beginning to see the light, and will make moves in the 2026 election to turn out some members of Congress and bring our country back to a more centrist direction.
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Group from Big Canoe sees Kenyan nonprofit in action
By Barbara Myers Mason
BIG CANOE, Ga. | Armed with index cards filled with Swahili translations, six Big Canoe residents, members of the Big Canoe Chapel, recently spent several days in poverty-prone pockets of Kenya to witness and support a program geared toward orphans that has a 95 percent success rate of eliminating hunger. Known as Zoe Empowers, the not-for-profit organization has designed a three-year program that comes alongside orphaned households led by teenagers to teach them business skills to support themselves and their siblings. Zoe’s mission works – equipping vulnerable youth with solutions to overcome extreme poverty for good.
The Big Canoe team visited first, second- and third-year programs, in addition to a graduation ceremony. The faces of the teenagers told the story better than words can. Students who had just begun the program looked on in despair and shed tears as they told stories of their many challenges – deceased parents, relatives who forced them from their homes, the need to leave school to support their siblings, lack of work and income, being sexually assaulted, and most of all being hungry.
Dock Hollingsworth, senior chaplain of Big Canoe Chapel and a member of the mission team, saying: “This is the healthiest and most inspiring model for missions that I’ve encountered.”
Amazingly, the second and third-year students had faces of hope and trust as they had become proficient in a business, learned important life skills, owned livestock, and even motorbikes. Some had adopted a homeless child into their families. They were proud that they were able to pay for their younger siblings to attend school. Real joy and feelings of accomplishment were evident as the team members recounted their achievements. And graduation from the program was an arena-filled celebration of dancing and testimonials.
Through coursework, apprenticeships and micro-grants, the group members become welders, mechanics, carpenters, convenience store, boutique, salon and restaurant owners, barbers, seamstresses, or sell specialty food items.
Zoe’s model was designed by Rwandan social workers to empower vulnerable children to permanently pull themselves out of extreme poverty. The program is locally based, employs indigenous staff and resources, and groups 60 to 100 children, about 25 households, into mutually supportive working groups. The organization is supported by a nimble US – based team.
The households, headed by the oldest remaining sibling in the family, receive support from a trained Zoe facilitator who manages 10 to 12 groups, and a volunteer village mentor recruited by group members. Each group selects a name and elects its own chair, secretary, treasurer and pastor. The leadership team is responsible for setting the agenda; however, a prescribed curriculum contributes to each group’s success. In addition, a “table bank” allows members to invest in each other’s businesses. Zoe is comprehensive, empowering the children in eight areas of need including food security, health and hygiene, education, vocational and business training, gender equality, housing, and child rights.
The organization, founded in 2004 as a relief organization, transitioned in 2007 to a program that empowers children to become self-sufficient. Currently enrolling nearly 80,000 children in 12 countries in Africa and India, the model has impacted more than 230,000 vulnerable youth. Relying on individual and church contributions to fund the program, the Zoe Empowers website outlines many ways to offer support.
Aside from Dock Hollingsworth, other members of the Big Canoe Chapel Kenya mission team included Melissa Hollingsworth, Randy Wiersma, Bob Crouch and Barbara and Bill Mason.
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It would be impossible to hear boatman talk
Editor, the Forum:
Shooting boats, regardless of whether they are carrying drugs, in international waters, is nothing more than a declaration of war. The Department of Defense (or War), whichever, proclaimed that they heard members of the boats talking.
Look at this seriously. The first boat had three, or more, very large motors on the transom of the boat. I would say that it would be difficult for the 11 men to even hear each other with the noise the motors made. However, the pilot of the helicopter said he heard with special equipment the men talking – that’s near impossible!
And now it looks like neither was heading for the United States. Even if they were, they could not have enough fuel to get there. President Trump just wants to start a war with Venezuela and there is a reason: Venezuela has a lot of oil and it would be that that Trump was after.
On the first boat, the video that I saw specifically three very large motors, but they were all on the left side of the transom. If that was all they had, steering the boat would be difficult. As a Navy veteran, I have been there and seen that, if one engine of a two screw ship was down, it caused difficulty in steering.
It is another Trump story like Greenland, which our president wants to “conquer.” There it is the minerals he wants and that is all. Greenland, it is believed, is full of heavy metals that are used for computer chips and other electronics.
– Raleigh Perry, Buford
Will vote “No!” on E-SPLOST in November
Editor, the Forum:
There is a grassroots campaign in progress to defeat E-SPLOST in November. The school board needs to be sent a message that the taxpayer is sick of their frivolous spending.
We operate within our budget, why can’t GCPS? Enrollment is flat and GCPS has become greedy. I will be voting no on E-SPLOST.
– Cathy Loew, Peachtree Corners
Why do rural people vote against their self interest?
Editor, the Forum:
Jack Bernard’s recent article (Sept. 16, 2005, Georgia—the best for business, but not health care ), was an excellent article with accurate facts. This bad state health policy affects rural people the most. I wonder why they keep voting Republican against their own self-interest.
– George Wilson, Stone Mountain
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Suwanee to conduct another survey to improve city
Suwanee has some big questions about its future, and it’s turning to the people who know the city best for answers: you!
As part of the yearlong strategic planning process, the City of Suwanee is partnering with Polco, a community engagement platform, to conduct The National Community Survey (NCS), a nationally recognized tool that helps cities better understand what matters most to their communities.
A random selection of 3,000 Suwanee households will receive a mailed invitation to participate. If your home is selected, the city wants you to take a few moments to follow the instructions and share your thoughts, as your voice plays an important role in shaping Suwanee’s future.
Suwanee has a proud history of using this survey to inform planning and policy, and your input makes a difference. In fact, based on the 2022 results, Suwanee was named the 2023 Voice of the People Award winner for Excellence in Safety and ranked among the top 10 nationally in several key areas:
- #2 for taking care of vulnerable residents;
- #3 for overall quality of parks and recreational opportunities;
- #4 for opportunities to attend special events and festivals;
- #4 for making all residents feel welcome;
- #4 for openness to people of diverse backgrounds;
- #6 for social opportunities and activities; and
- #9 for treating all residents fairly.
This marks the seventh time Suwanee has conducted the NCS to gather meaningful resident input on topics such as mobility, public safety, inclusivity, environmental stewardship, utilities, and other aspects. All responses are confidential and reported anonymously to the National Research Center at Polco.
Mailed invitations will begin arriving in mid-2026. Once collected, results will be benchmarked against more than 600 communities nationwide, giving Suwanee valuable insight into what is working and what could be improved. These results inform community planning, resource allocation, program improvements, goal-setting, and policy-making.
Library plans another New Start Incubator program
The Gwinnett County Public Library is now accepting applications for its next New Start Entrepreneurship Incubator Program (NSEI).
This program provides business education for formerly incarcerated individuals through in-person classes, online coursework, and a robust network of mentors and community partners. NSEI is specifically geared towards the re-entry population, which, in Georgia, is disproportionately minority populations and people of color. This six-month course is designed to help community members who have served time in jail or prison create and sustain their own businesses.
Charles Pace, executive director of the Gwinnett County Public Library, says: “Formerly incarcerated individuals are an overlooked population of aspiring entrepreneurs, often lacking the means, access, and support to launch a small business successfully.”
NSEI originated as a grant project in 2021, funded by Google in partnership with the American Library Association.
Coordinated by a team of five library staff members, NSEI includes cohorts of 10 to 15 students who attend monthly presentations by local business experts on topics such as finance, marketing, licensing, and writing a business plan. Following each meeting, participants complete assigned online coursework and receive one-on-one support from experienced small business mentors.
The library provides laptops and Wi-Fi service to students who need them. The program’s culmination occurs at Launchpad, where the aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to community business leaders. The Gwinnett County Public Library Foundation has awarded $15,000 through the Launchpad event. As of this year, the program has graduated 42 entrepreneurs in five cohorts.
New Sugarloaf CID sculpture dubbed “Ascension”
Sugarloaf Community Improvement District (CID) has installed one of the largest sculptures in Gwinnett County at the corner of Sugarloaf Parkway and the I-85 southbound exit ramp. At 37 feet tall, the stainless-steel spires, foundations and walls form the Sugarloaf Ascension Sculpture.
Each element is completely custom. The initial design concept is from Confluence Design Consulting. The vision for the project was to highlight the district as a center where business, entertainment, culture and the arts intersect.
The dynamic shapes of the two spires seem to both move upwards and around each other simultaneously, a physical representation of the way in which the CID’s work “elevates Gwinnett’s Downtown.” In addition to the CID, the main project team consisted of sculptor Gregory Johnson, Huie Design of Atlanta (construction administration consultant) and Integrated Sign and Graphic, Inc. of Lexington, Ky. (the foundation, walls and light fabrication company).
Johnson estimates that the two stainless-steel spires weigh about 20,000 pounds in total; this is his largest stainless-steel project to date.
Gwinnett County Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson says: “This sculpture is more than a work of art. It’s a symbol of Gwinnett’s energy, growth and spirit of innovation. Just as the spires rise together, our community continues to reach new heights when business, culture and people come together.”
Sculptor Gregory Johnson views “…Life as a journey that comes full circle.” He describes his interpretation of this project as: “This sculpture focuses on two simple and elegant geometric shapes. It is inspiring to look at, but extremely difficult to build due to the compound curves. There is an energy that we cannot touch or quantify, like a crashing wave, reaching for the sun or subtly suggesting the energy and interaction between people and places.”
Sugarloaf CID Board Chairman, Brand Morgan, says: “The Sugarloaf Ascension Sculpture is the CID’s largest investment in public art to date. This bold, striking sculpture serves as a welcome to Gwinnett’s downtown, and a recognition that in addition to a thriving business community, we are a vibrant regional arts and entertainment center.”
From the Sugarloaf CID’s original sculpture concept to completion, this project represents over 5 years of hard work and coordination with stakeholders such as Georgia DOT, Gwinnett County and Georgia Power.
Wilson is new NAIA Hall of Fame member
Georgia Gwinnett College’s inaugural director of athletics, Dr. Darin S. Wilson, has been recognized as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ (NAIA) 2025 Hall of Fame class. He will be formally inducted on April 12, 2026, as part of the 2026 NAIA National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
Wilson currently serves GGC as Vice President for Advancement and Community Engagement. Wilson is one of two athletic directors to receive the NAIA National Athletics Director of the Year twice (2015-16 and 2010-11). He also collected the NAIA Under Armour AD of the Year award for the southeast region from the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics in 2018-19, 2014-15 and 2009-10.
GGC President Dr. Jann L. Joseph stated, “I have witnessed firsthand Dr. Wilson’s transformative leadership and the profound, positive impact he has made on our athletics program, students, institution, and broader community.”
Her Blue Body Everything We Know, by Alice Walker
From Susan J. Harris, Stone Mountain: This stunning collection of poems, the Earthling Poems, date from 1965-1990. During this time period she traveled to East Africa where she wrote her first volume of poetry. Alice Walker is candid in the introduction of this volume in saying that writing poetry saved her life, concluding that she might have been a suicide victim without this outlet. This compilation of poetry plumbs the depths of her despair, wonder and curiosity about life circumstances around the globe in all their beauty and horror. There are 13 chapters that include the following “Once,” “Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems,” “Crucifixions,” “Stripping Bark Off Myself,” “Mysteries, Living Beyond,” “Forgiveness,” Revolutionary Petunias, Living Through,” and “Horses Make the World More Beautiful.” Under each of these headings are 1-15 poems that are filled with color, heartbreak, hope, and that intangible longing to heal and live. This is a beautiful collection well worth the reader’s time.
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Golucke built 27 Georgia courthouses
J. W. Golucke was Georgia’s most prolific architect of county courthouses, building 27 (two more are attributed) in Georgia, as well as four in Alabama. Almost all were so substantially constructed and such noble additions to their towns that 18 of the Georgia court buildings remain in use, and three others are still standing.
James Wingfield Golucke was born in June 1857, in either Taliaferro County or, more likely, Wilkes County, to Cornelia Susan Wingfield and Edmund Golucke, a German cabinetmaker. In 1878 he married Amulette A. Darracott, and in 1891 he began practicing in Atlanta. A self-taught architect, Golucke practiced with G. W. Stewart from 1891 to 1900, and as J. W. Golucke and Company from 1900 to 1907.
With the exception of his stone DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Golucke designed his Georgia courthouses in brick, utilizing a Romanesque style for about half of them and a monumental classical style for the others. This monumentality reflects the architect’s willingness to exaggerate classical elements and to manipulate proportions, resulting in an expressive use of the classical language. Although neither is a documented source of motifs or inspiration for Golucke, British architects Nicholas Hawksmoor, of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and Edwin Landseer Lutyens, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are in some ways parallel masters to him, in that they too pushed and pulled at the vocabularies within which they worked.
Faced with the task of creating, within a dozen years, designs for more than two dozen structures of the same building type, Golucke became a master at monumental architecture. He heightened, then broadened, domes. He articulated entablatures and ornamental trim, sculpted architectural masses, and juxtaposed profile and volumetric void in order to compose a dramatic architecture that breathes a heady vivacity. His distortions aggrandized and empowered his court buildings, which, prominently sited on central squares of small Georgia towns, became symbols of the multiple governmental roles so central to small-town daily life.
Golucke’s most ambitious courthouse was built in Newnan (Coweta County) in 1904, at a cost of $56,998; it displays a colossal pride and verticality with which portico, building mass, and clock dome virtually stand “at attention.” The Putnam County Courthouse (1905) in Eatonton is also neoclassical with noble portico, broad dome (again with clocks), and strong masonry accents juxtaposed against brick walls; elaborate lintels over second-floor windows provide noteworthy ornamental interest. Although details vary from project to project, Golucke’s manipulations of light and shadow accenting the sculpted masses of his buildings are sometimes on the edge of the baroque style, or may be considered mannerist in their noncanonical play. At the beginning of the 20th century, Golucke brought expressions of an Edwardian sophistication and cosmopolitan “style” to the heart of rural southern communities.
Other Golucke projects include the Romanesque courthouse of Henry County (1897) in McDonough and the nearby Locust Grove Institute, whose academic building, adapted to government use, continues to serve the community. He has also been credited with two churches in Cartersville, the First Baptist Church (1904-6) and the Sam Jones Memorial United Methodist Church (1906), both Romanesque revival. The recently rehabilitated Fitzpatrick Hotel (1898), facing the square in Washington (Wilkes County) is said to be by Golucke and Stewart, and the James T. Anderson Sr. House (1900-1901) in Marietta (Cobb County) is one of the few known houses designed by the architect.
Golucke died at age 64 on October 26, 1907, in Newton, where he was imprisoned on charges of misappropriating funds for the construction of a courthouse in Baker County.
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Today’s mystery photo may ring a bell with you
Today’s mystery photo may ring a bell with some of you. That’s all we’ll say about it. Send your answer to ebrack2@gmail.com, and tell us where you live.
Stewart Ogilvie of Rehobeth, Ala., tells us of the previous mystery photo: “This is the oldest candy company in the United States, Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie, in Salem, Mass., which has been in business since 1806. The company was founded by Mary Spencer, an English confectioner shipwrecked in Salem, who began selling the first commercially made candy in America, known as Salem Gibraltars. The company continues to make and sell the original hand-made Salem Gibraltars, as well as the molasses stick candy known as Blackjack.” The photo came from Rebecca Baumann of Lilburn.
Also identifying the photo were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Allan Peel, San Antonio, Texas.
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Lake Lanier shore sweep coming Sept. 20
Fan Appreciation Weekend will be Friday, September 19 through Sunday, September 21 at CoolRay Field, as the Gwinnett Stripers honor the fans who made the 2025 season great. The weekend closes out the final homestand of 2025, a six-game series against the Indianapolis Indians (Triple-A, Pittsburgh Pirates) from September 16-21.
Residents of Centerville will hold a community rally Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 11 a.m. Residents will protest the proposed development of a funeral home and crematory at 3662 Centerville Highway. Community members are calling on the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners to stop the project.
The 37th annual Shore Sweep of Lake Lanier will be September 20 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Gwinnett, Hall, Forsyth and Dawson Counties at 15 locations. The Gwinnett location will be at 1550 Buford Dam Road in Buford. This annual trash clean-up has volunteers finding all sorts of trash and vessels littering the area. Registration is required for all participants. To learn more about Shore Sweep 2025, visit lakelanier.org/shore-sweep/.
Returning for its 14th year, the Peachtree Corners Festival will take to the Town Green and surrounding area for a full weekend of entertainment and family fun, September 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and September 21 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The community celebration will offer a dynamic mix of live performances, vendor booths, good food and hands-on activities for all ages — all with free admission and parking.
Gwinnett’s first Literary Arts Festival will take place Saturday, September 20 at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse. Local authors, artists, and other vendors are being sought for this showcase of talent and artistry! The event will take place outdoors on the Square in downtown Lawrenceville from 3 to 7 p.m. Contact the county at 770-822-5450 if you have any questions or would like more information regarding this event.
Habits for Healing will be presented at the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library at 11 a.m. on September 20. Learn practical ways to heal your past, start fresh, and create a life that honors the truth of who you are today.
Ribbon-cutting of the Bryson Park/Hood Road Roundabout is scheduled for Tuesday, September 23 at 10 a.m. at the park, located at 5075 Lawrenceville Highway in Lilburn. Join city and county officials as they mark this milestone that enhances accessibility, boosts mobility and improves safety for all.
The annual Public Safety Fall Festival is back for a fun-packed day on Saturday, September 27 at Coolray Field. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., meet Gwinnett’s first responders and enjoy food, giveaways, demonstrations, displays, and the Motorcycle Training Challenge with multiple police agencies showcasing the best of motorcycle courses. Kids can also enjoy a touch-a-truck with a SWAT personnel carrier, fire trucks, and other specialized vehicles. For more information, email PDCommunityAffairs@GwinnettCounty.com. Coolray Field is located at 2500 Buford Drive in Lawrenceville.
Alma Mexicana Atlanta will be presented at the Lilburn Branch of Gwinnett Public Library on September 27. Come for a multicultural experience to learn about the folkloric dances and traditions of Mexican culture.
Ground-breaking for an expansion of Rainbow Village in Duluth will be Monday, September 29 at 10 a.m. at 3427 Duluth Highway in Duluth. The expansion will double the size of housing to help bridge the gap between homelessness and housing security.
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