GwinnettForum | Number 25.72 | Sept. 16, 2025
SUWANEE FEST is back for its 41st year this weekend! Suwanee Fest returns to Town Center September 20-21. There will be food, entertainment, and lots of community spirit. Named one of the Southeast’s best festivals, Suwanee Fest draws thousands each year. The weekend kicks off with the Suwanee Fest Parade on Saturday at 9 a.m marching through Main Street, Suwanee Dam Road, and Buford Highway. This year’s Grand Marshal is Dr. Mary Kay Murphy, a lifelong public education advocate.
TODAY’S FOCUS: After parents’ deaths, family aids youth to college
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Tidbits: Coke now in Costco’s food takeout counter; St. Peter’s so enormous!
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
ANOTHER VIEW: Georgia—the best for business, but not health care
FEEDBACK: Court expansion just another media distraction
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Symphony launches 29th season on Sept. 21
NOTABLE: Duluth’s Railway Museum plans two keystone events
RECOMMENDED: Her Blue Body Everything We Know, by Alice Walker
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Four-star Marine general was a native of Fitzgerald
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us the story behind this bright yellow house
LAGNIAPPE: Lawrenceville, Norcross, Duluth are most diverse cities
CALENDAR: Burke, COO Gwinnett School, speaks Sept. 18 at SWGC
After parents’ deaths, family aids youth to college
(Editor’s note: After a recent column raised the questions of what qualities affect youths while growing up in later life, we got this response from one reader who faced the death of two parents when a youth. Here is that response.—eeb).
By John Titus
PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. | As a boy, my family lived in a suburb of Philadelphia. When I was 10, my father, George, died. My mother, Clare, wanted to sell our house and move into an apartment. I, of course, did not want to leave my friends and the only home I had ever known. She told me we could stay, but as she would have to work, I would have to help with the household chores, such as cleaning the house, washing dishes, helping with the laundry, and taking care of the yard. She was teaching me responsibility.
Four years later my mother died after descending into alcoholism. Those were a hard four years, but during that time, I learned a lot about household expenses, mortgage payments, extra costs to help pay the township for installing a sewer system, and so forth.
Fortunately, my grandmother, at 76 years of age, was around to raise me. My mother’s brother, who was my Godfather, became my guardian. I still remember that, when I asked him what he wanted me to do, his response was “I just want you to be a boy again.”
My mother died in April, and I went directly from the hospital to live temporarily with my grandmother in Philadelphia. School authorities did not want me to miss time at school. They quickly located a young male teacher, who lived near my grandmother, and arranged for him to pick me up each morning and deliver me back home until the end of the school year in June. I returned to my same school which was Plymouth-Whitemarsh Junior/Senior High School. It was newly established, and I was in the 3rd graduating class in 1958.
Close neighbors were also important during my impressionable years. There were next door neighbors who took an interest in me. One who was meticulous about his lawn encouraged me to look after mine by sharing tools, showing me how to use them and staying “on my case” to see that my lawn was cut, and bushes trimmed at regular intervals.
On the other side was a couple interested in my school progress. Later, the man got me a job one summer during college. During the next summer, when I could only work about six weeks, as I had a six-week Naval ROTC obligation, this couple hired me to paint their house. Another neighbor was my Little League coach and taught me about good sportsmanship.
There was also a couple who took my grandmother and me to church every Sunday. It only involved an extra four miles for them to drive, but it was much appreciated.
An additional example would be another uncle, married to my father’s sister. She had been my Godmother. Early on this uncle had offered to pay for my college education. He was fairly well to do and as a young man had attended Princeton. I was fortunate to be admitted to that university, and he paid all my expenses.
Obviously, I had important support from my family, but many others – neighbors, church friends, teachers, school administrators, gave me support and by doing so set examples for me and others.
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This and that: Coke now in Costco’s food takeout area; St. Peter’s so enormous!
By Elliott Brack,
Editor and publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 16, 2025 | Save money on your water bill. Here’s how: if you have an irrigation system for your lawn, you may be watering far too much.
Tim Waters of Waterways Irrigation, who is a full-time Gwinnett firefighter when not working on watering systems, feels that most people water their grass too much. He told me when working on my system: “Water for about 10 minutes every other day. That’s enough to keep your lawn healthy.”
If you cut back on the amount of water your lawn gets, you save two ways: a reduced charge for water from Gwinnett County Water and Sewer, and since your sewer bill is based on the water used, it’s a double whammy, saving two ways. Try it and you’ll find out.
Local author Julie Rutkowski of Norcross, who thinks and puts on paper some of the ordinary aspects of life, has two new books out, both available on Amazon.
One is called Bet That Song was Written for Me, which sells for $14.95 paperback and $7.99 Kindle. It has 229 pages and has a cover painted by her Norcross High classmate Kim Pitts of Buford, now a professional artist. His work, entitled “Yesterday When I was Seven,” is currently on display at the Sugar Hill Art Gallery.
Her second book is Jack and The Quest for Chipmunks, which is 64 pages, and $9.95 paperback or $5.99 Kindle.
Continuing to follow her heart in writing, she also has a third book underway, with a working title: Is a Lima Bean a Vegetable?… and Other Culinary Quandaries.
Brand swap: Have you noticed? Costco, at its snack counter, is now offering Coca-Cola, not Pepsi. The switch came about a month ago. This is not just a change in drink offering for Costco in Atlanta, where Coca-Cola is headquartered. It is a company wide change.
Think of how big a deal this is….for both soft-drink companies.
For you who do not know, Pepsi was founded in 1893 in New Bern, N.C. Apparently the Atlanta area is still served out of New Bern, since we spotted 18-wheelers from New Bern Transport dropping off Pepsi products on two different days recently in Gwinnett. Coke was founded in 1886 in Atlanta. From its beginning, the company has promoted the drink as “Delicious and Refreshing!”
In April 1833, the world’s oldest taxpayer-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The money for the Peterborough Public Library came from the State Literary Fund, tax money collected from the sale of capital stock for the purpose of paying for a state university. There wasn’t enough money in the fund to fulfill its original purpose, so a Unitarian minister named Abiel Abbot proposed that some of the money be used to purchase books that could be lent to townspeople free of charge.
Vatican astounding: Reading a book by Bill Bryson (“Neither here nor there: Travels in Europe”), when he got to Rome, he was astonished at how large St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican is. It’s not big; it is enormous.
Look at these facts: It is 730 feet long, 364 feet wide, and the distance from the floor to the top of the dome is 438 feet! It can seat 20,000 worshipers. Another mind-boggler: four grand pillars that support the dome are each 50 feet wide! It is the largest church in the world! Astounding!
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Georgia — the best for business, but not health care
“Georgia’s recognition as the No. 1 state for Best Business Climate by Site Selection is a testament to our partnership approach to job creation and economic growth.”—Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (Jan. 8, 2025).
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | Let me agree that Georgia is one of the best states for business. But it is also one of the worst for health care delivery and coverage.
A recent Fortune column lists the top hospitals in the USA, including both teaching and community. Over 2,500 facilities were recently ranked via “data.” The study estimated that if the best practices these hospitals used were employed in all American facilities for just Medicare patients, there would be a savings of over $15 billion annually for Department of Health and Human Services.
It should disturb our governor, who likes to brag about his successes, that not one of these hospitals of any size was located here in Georgia. Especially when we examine the specific, objective criteria and used-clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience, and financial health. Thus, the ranking accounted for a wide array of factors such as mortality/morbidity, readmissions, inpatient charges, and inpatient satisfaction.
Further, we have had nine rural hospitals close in the last few years, plus the Atlanta Medical Center, a 460-bed facility which had been bought by Wellstar (a Georgia based non-profit system). But then Wellstar closed his hospital without regard to the pain this would inflict on lower income Georgians, pushing even more patients into overburdened Grady Hospital.
Although Governor Kemp fails to acknowledge the fact, Georgia politicians like him care little about the health status of the state’s citizens. Per Emory professor Dr. Whitney Rice, poor health status is because of “…structural and social conditions in our state, which include significant challenges accessing quality reproductive health care, systemic racial inequalities, and policy.” When is the last time Kemp discussed the negative effects of his health policy decisions?
With 1.25 million Georgians uninsured, our state has the third largest number of uninsured residents in the nation. Because of Kemp’s opposition to full Medicaid expansion, he has directly and willfully caused this dire situation, harming some of our poorest citizens. Specifically, he created and has pushed a very unsuccessful and costly ACA Medicaid “waiver” called Pathways. Kemp said Pathways would cover 100,000-200,000 Georgians. But only 4,300 are enrolled. One source found that 400,000 more state residents would get coverage if Georgia simply had normal Medicaid expansion.
Plus, because it has reduced the federal Medicaid match from 90 percent to 66 percent, Pathways has cost the state a tremendous amount of money.
In any case, Georgia has a budget surplus of $16 billion. Expanding Medicaid would only have cost us $143 million annually, while creating many jobs. Another easy solution, and a healthy one, would be to increase Georgia’s cigarette taxes, the second lowest in the nation, to cover the cost.
Meanwhile, Georgia also has some of the nation’s worst maternal and infant morbidity and mortality rates. And, under Kemp, their healthcare has gotten worse. The maternal and infant death rate increased by nearly a third between 2018 and 2021.
To conclude, short-term Georgia must do a much better job in health care financing and delivery. The long-term solution to coverage is national single payer health care (traditional Medicare for All), which would bring down expenditures and cover all citizens as in all other major democracies.
Until this happens, as medical lobbyists strongly oppose it, we must still make progress by seeing to it that the least powerful Georgians get the health care they need.
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Court expansion just another media distraction
Editor, the Forum:
I just about fell out of my chair when I read Dave Simmons’ note about appeasing the opposition by acceding to their demand to pad the Supreme Court with additional justices.
I hope he didn’t bite off his own tongue, having so firmly stuffed into his cheek! Certainly, Trump’s nominations would be less welcome than ants at the picnic!
That would be an excellent way to stir the pot, however. One more thing to distract the media while the real work gets done.
– Rick Hammond, Flowery Branch
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Gwinnett Symphony launches 29th season on Sept. 21
Gwinnett Symphony launches its 29th season with the 80th Anniversary WWII Victory Concert on Sunday, September 21 at 6:30 p.m., presented under the banner of the Atlanta International Symphony Orchestra, a large-scale collaboration hosted at the iconic Atlanta Symphony Hall. This commemorative event unites musicians from Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra, and a distinguished mass choir representing Atlanta, Houston, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Gwinnett’ Symphony’s Artistic Director, Robert Trocina, was hired to ‘orchestrate’ this collaboration between two local orchestras (Gwinnett Symphony and Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra) and six different choral groups (three local choruses and three from other states). The venue, Woodruff Arts Center, was chosen because of its size, reputation, and locale.
Trocina says: “Collaborations like these are rare and important. They remind us of the power music has to unite voices across boundaries—and how orchestral music can serve as both historical reflection and emotional catalyst.”
The program features:
- COPLAND – Fanfare for the Common Man
- BERNSTEIN – Overture to Candide
- COPLAND – A Lincoln Portrait
- Bella Ciao & Guerrilla Song for Brass Quintet
- GOULD – American Salute
- WILLIAMS – Theme from “Schindler’s List”
- DRAGON – America the Beautiful
- -Intermission-
- Xinghai – Yellow River Cantata, and
- SOUSA – Stars and Stripes Forever.
Artists include:
- Robert Trocina, Artistic Director and Conductor
- Chunhe Zhang, Conductor
- Gregory Pritchard, Conductor
- Brandon Graham, Narrator – A Lincoln Portrait, and
- William Pu, Violin.
Oak Road at Hutchins Road to get a roundabout
Gwinnett County is building a new roundabout at the intersection of Hutchins Road and Oak Road to improve safety and ease traffic congestion. In addition to the roundabout, the project includes new concrete sidewalks, enhanced drainage systems, and updated curbs and gutters. Commuters should be aware of lane shifts and minor delays throughout the construction period, though access to residential properties will remain open.
A contract in the amount of $2.56 million for the construction of Oak Road at Hutchins Road roundabout project was awarded to Backbone Infrastructure, LLC of Sugar Hill, in June.
The project, which began in August and is expected to be completed in late 2026, is funded by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. For more information about how your pennies work in Gwinnett, visit GwinnettSPLOST.com.
Duluth’s Railway Museum plans two keystone events
The Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth has announced its two keystone events for this Fall. “Both are aimed at kids of all ages,” according to Executive Director Chuck Miller. “We’re seeking community partners to help us make both seasonal events the best ones we’ve ever hosted.”
October’s Train or Treat has been expanded to Train, Trunk or Treat and moved to Saturday, October 18. Starting at 10 a.m., the event has grown into the museum’s Trunk or Treat Fall Classic Car show and a Trick or Treat event for the kids in Building 1. Families and car owners are encouraged to be dressed for the occasion.
The event features a live concert band, a costume contest, a scavenger hunt, many of Duluth’s best businesses hosting tables full of candy, classic cars, treats from the trunks of the cars, train rides, and, did we mention, trick or treat candy? The museum is currently seeking area business sponsors to dress up, host a marketing table, and hand out Trick or Treat candy. See below for more information.
The museum’s annual Festival of Trees benefit is planned for November 15 to January 4 during regular museum hours. The Holiday classic has been extended by a week, offering more time for Holiday visitors to experience the variety of highly decorated trees in Building 1. Santa’s arrival by train is Saturday, November 15. Specific details will be posted on the museum’s social media and website with news of a possible Santa return in December.
Carter Center honors Williams for election work
Kelvin Williams, deputy elections supervisor with Gwinnett Voter Registrations and Elections, has received the Georgia Award of Excellence in Election Administration.
Created by the Georgia Democracy Resilience Network and The Carter Center, the honor spotlights the commitment of poll workers and election administrators across Georgia. Williams has served Georgia voters for more than 20 years.
Since 2016, the honor says that “he has served in Gwinnett County with integrity and commitment, ensuring that every voice in our community is heard at the ballot box.” Elections Supervisor Zach Manifold presented the award during the second annual Georgia Civic Excellence Awards Dinner.
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. A beautiful collection well worth the reader’s time and reflection.
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Four-star Marine general was a native of Fitzgerald
A veteran of World War II (1941-45) and the Korean (1950-53) and Vietnam (1964-73) wars, Raymond G. Davis is one of the most renowned modern military leaders from Georgia. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1952 for his extraordinary strategy and leadership during the Korean War at the Chosin Reservoir in November-December 1950. In his career of more than 33 years as a Marine, Davis was also decorated with the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, two Distinguished Service Medals, two Legions of Merit, the Purple Heart, and numerous other national and international military awards. At the time of his retirement as a four-star general in 1972, he was the assistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.
The son of Zelma Tribby Davis and Raymond Roy Davis, Raymond Gilbert Davis was born in Fitzgerald on January 13, 1915. After his second-grade year, his family moved to Atlanta, where he graduated from high school in 1933 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with honors, in 1938. An Army ROTC cadet at Georgia Tech, he chose the marine corps for his career.
When the Korean conflict began with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in 1950, Davis, by then a lieutenant colonel, was sent to Camp Pendleton, Calif., and given the task of recruiting an 800-man battalion in five days, which he accomplished.
Davis’s unit saw little conflict until MacArthur ordered the invasion of North Korea. In bitterly cold weather the regiments fought their way up existing roads until they reached the Chosin Reservoir, where in late November they were surrounded by more than 125,000 Chinese soldiers in a counterinvasion.
For several days they were pinned down in fierce fighting with the Chinese. Fox Company, a small force that had been left behind at the Toktong Pass, was also surrounded and under heavy fire. As the crisis escalated, Davis came up with a plan: he proposed to leave everything his marines could not carry, break through the enemy lines, and journey east all night through the high mountains to come around behind the enemy soldiers surrounding the unit at the Toktong Pass.
At dawn, Davis’s battalion took the Chinese by surprise and fought their way into the stranded company. Then they proceeded to take the Toktong Pass away from enemy forces, opening it for the Fifth and Seventh regiments to get through. After the battle, the regiments made their way southward to safety. For his role in rescuing thousands of men, U.S. President Harry Truman presented Davis with the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1952.
Davis returned to conflict during the war in Vietnam (1964-73), where as major general he served as deputy commander and then commander of the Third Marine Division. Then he returned to the United States, earning his third and fourth stars and serving as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.
Upon retirement from the military in 1972, Davis became the executive vice president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Three years later he retired to Conyers, where he became a land developer. Davis served on the board for the construction of the Korean War Veterans Memorial, which was dedicated in July 1995 in Washington, D.C.
Davis died on September 3, 2003, at the age of 88. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in College Park.
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Tell us the story behind this bright yellow house
This mystery photo might be a house along a street about anywhere in the country. Pinpoint this house and tell us its history. Send your thoughts to ebrack2@gmail.com.
What we thought would be an easy mystery turned out to be recognized by five readers. Fran Worrell of Lawrenceville wrote: “This is a tough one, but I think it’s the entrance to the visitor center at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in downtown Atlanta.
“The Martin Luther King National Historical Park was originally established by the U.S. Congress in 1980 to protect the places where MLK, Jr. was born, lived, worked, worshipped, and is buried and to educate future generations about the life experiences and significance of one of the most influential men of the 20th century. The park consists of around 39 acres, 14 of which are federally owned. In addition, the park manages 38 historic structures, most of which were built between 1890 and 1910. The park hosts approximately 700,000 to more than 1 million visitors annual who want to learn more about MLK Jr. The site is open year-round, and no entrance fee or pass is required.”
Then Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas added, “Today’s mystery photo is of the main entrance, shown from the side, of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Visitor Center, located at 450 Auburn Ave in Atlanta. The historic park consists of several buildings surrounding MLK Jr.’s (1929–1968) boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where both Dr. MLK Jr. and his father, MLK Sr. (1899–1984), were pastors.
“After his death, his wife of 15 years, Coretta Scott King (1927–2006), began working to preserve his legacy. Her first major achievement toward that goal was the establishment of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (more commonly known as the King Center), near his birth home on Auburn Avenue. It was established just months after Dr. King’s assassination and was first opened to the public in 1970. Throughout the 1970s, she continually pushed for federal recognition and preservation of the surrounding neighborhood, leading Congress in 1980 to designate the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and establish one of the most significant landmarks in the United States honoring the life and legacy of the civil rights leader.”
The photo came from George Graf of Palmyra, Va, when he visited in the Atlanta area several years ago. Regulars recognizing the photo were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; and Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill.
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Lawrenceville, Norcross, Duluth are most diverse cities
We all know Gwinnett is diverse. Now the website niche.com has produced a list of the most diverse cities in Gwinnett. The list shows the rankings of most diverse places to live in Gwinnett, plus another ranking of that city.
Lawrenceville, Norcross and Duluth are the most diverse areas in the county, and others follow. The list shows also one other element about each area.
Diversity Other
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- Lawrenceville (12th in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Norcross (Ninth in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Duluth (Second in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Mountain Park (Second in best place to raise a family in Gwinnett.)
- Peachtree Corners (Sixth in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Lilburn (12th in best place to raise a family in Gwinnett.)
- Buford (15th in best suburb to raise a family in Georgia.)
- Snellville (Eighth in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Dacula (10th best place to raise a family in Gwinnett.)
- Sugar Hill (Fourth in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Suwanee (First in best place to live in Gwinnett.)
- Grayson (Ninth best place to raise a family in Gwinnett.)
- Berkeley Lake (13th best place to retire in Georgia.)
Burke, COO Gwinnett School, speaks Sept. 18 at SWGC
Water conservation: Learn practical ways to conserve water while landscaping and gardening. This program will be presented September 16 at 6 p.m. at the Suwanee Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library.
The Norcross PDC (people drinking coffee) meets each Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. at the 45 South Café in downtown Norcross. Speaker for the September 17 meeting will be Britt Ramroop of the Gwinnett Police Foundation. The event is free and visitors are welcomed.
Don your dancing slippers and join us for a dance! Members of Atlanta Historic Dance will perform Regency-era dances, followed by instruction. This will take place on September 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public library. This is part of the Gwinnett Reads Jane Austen series.
Coffee Connections of the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber’s will be Wednesday, September 18 at 8:30 a.m. at Atlanta Tech Park. Patrick Burke, interim COO of Gwinnett County Public Schools, will be the guest speaker. It is free for everyone, no registration needed, and coffee and tea will be provided!
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/.
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.
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.
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