GwinnettForum | Number 25.86 | Nov. 4, 2025
THE FIRST BUILDING in the vast Rowen development has been announced — its Rowen Convergence Center. Here’s an architectural sketch of how it will look. Rowen is a 2,000-acre life sciences and research campus being developed near Dacula. The center will break ground in mid-2026.
TODAY’S FOCUS: County allocates funds for food assistance
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Is it worth it to keep switching what time it is?
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
ANOTHER VIEW: Atrocities going on in Nigeria and Sudan
FEEDBACK: Had pleasant experience as Gwinnett juror
UPCOMING: 30th Christmas Canteen opens Nov. 28 at Aurora
NOTABLE: Rowen announces its Convergence Center
RECOMMENDED: The Poetry Remedy, by William Sieghart
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Not built yesterday, but where and what is it?
LAGNIAPPE: Suwanee wins “Exceptional Street” designation
CALENDAR: America Recycles at fairgrounds on Nov. 8
County allocates funds for food assistance
By Deborah Tuff
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | As many residents brace for the impact of service disruptions in federal nutrition assistance programs, Gwinnett County is allocating $250,000 to help families access essential food and hygiene products. The County will use existing annual contracts to purchase a large supply of shelf-stable food, hygiene products and household goods identified by local food cooperative partners as items most in demand.
Gwinnett County will enter a zero-dollar distribution agreement with six cooperative ministries located in Buford, Duluth, Grayson, Lawrenceville, Lilburn and Norcross. Once vendors deliver the items to a central site, County employees and volunteers will divide the supplies and deliver them directly to the partner locations. Residents in need are encouraged to contact their local co-op to schedule an appointment for assistance.
Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson says: “When federal safety nets are disrupted, local governments and communities have to step in. More than 90,000 Gwinnett residents rely on SNAP, and as those benefits pause, we’re doing what we can to fill the gap. What started as food distribution has become a lifeline for thousands of families.”
This effort builds on five years of county partnerships focused on addressing food insecurity. One key collaboration is with the Atlanta Community Food Bank through the Mobile Food Distribution Program, which delivers food directly to residents where they live, work and gather.
Community Services Director Lindsey Jorstad says: “Working through them allows us to reach residents across the entire county while making sure help gets where it’s needed most. Our goal is to meet people with dignity and make it a little easier for families to get by.”
The items being purchased include soups, cereals, peanut butter, pancake mix, fruit cups, granola bars and electrolyte drinks, along with paper towels, disinfecting wipes, laundry detergent, dish soap and other basic household needs.
This year alone, the County has hosted 42 mobile food distributions, while serving 334,000 meals to more than 64,000 residents. Since 2020, the County and its partners have held 323 distributions across Gwinnett, served more than 430,000 residents in over 103,000 households and distributed 2.8 million pounds of food.
Gwinnett’s food distribution events provide families with more than groceries. Fire and Emergency Services offers free home safety education and smoke detector installation in residents’ homes. The Water Resources Assistance Program helps families fix plumbing and install water-saving fixtures. One Stop for Help Community Navigators connect residents on site to housing, health care and job support.
Residents can pick up free food and resources at upcoming mobile food distributions, starting at 3 p.m. and continuing while supplies last. Events are planned for the following dates:
- Nov. 4 at Lenora Park in Snellville;
- Nov. 18 at Bryson Park in Lilburn;
- Dec. 9 at Rock Springs Park in Lawrenceville;
- Dec. 16 at Shorty Howell Park in Duluth; and
- Dec. 23 at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville.
Residents who need food or other assistance can reach the One Stop for Help Community Navigators any time at (770) 822-8850 or use the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s Pantry Map to find local pantries.
For older adults, the Health and Human Services Division’s Home Delivered Meals Program provides a five-day supply of frozen meals each week to homebound, ill or incapacitated seniors age 60 and older. To learn more, call (678) 377-4150.
Gwinnett County will continue working to identify additional funding sources to support food distribution efforts.
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Is it worth it to keep switching what time it is?
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
NOV. 4, 2025 | As we fell back with our clocks this week and returned to Standard Time, we again wondered: is Daylight Saving Time something we should keep? Is it valuable? Will our country be better off in forgetting this shift in keeping time twice a year. And is it merely confusing us? Would we be better off with the standard “God’s time?”
The reason we still observe this “saving” time: Congress thought Daylight Saving Time (DST) would conserve energy during World War I. The first country to install this saving time was Germany in 1916 with this one-hour difference, mainly to save energy.
However, earlier than that, DST was first observed in Canada. In 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario, today’s Thunder Bay, came up with the idea to turn their clocks forward by one hour and thereby were the first area to do so to see daylight “earlier” in the day.
Other locations in Canada followed suit: Regina in Saskatchewan in 1914, then the cities of Winnipeg and Brandon in Manitoba in 1916. Note that both are major agricultural areas. According to the April 3, 1916, edition of the Manitoba Free Press, Daylight Saving Time in Regina “proved so popular that by law it now brings it into effect automatically.”
Proponents of the new way of keeping time said we could make better use of natural daylight by moving clocks forward an hour, which reduced the need for artificial lighting and therefore conserved fuel. After being repealed after World War I in the United States, the practice was reintroduced during World War II and later standardized nationwide by the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
Almost from the first, opposing monkeying with time were farmers everywhere in Germany and in the USA. It ran against human (and animal) nature, like pigs, and cows, who wanted to be milked twice daily at the same time.
Another group always vocal about Daylight Saving Time are parents, who find children in school often having to mount school buses in the dark. That’s a strong lobby, so far, to little avail.
As an experiment, between January 1974 and April 1975, the entire United States went on Daylight Saving Time year-round to “combat the energy crisis.” Nobody liked it, so we went back to observing Daylight Savings Time again. Since then, there has been no tinkering with the time.
It is our Congress which establishes how we observe time. Years ago, mainly at the insistence of the railroads, Congress instituted time zones, which are reasonable designations. After all, there’s a vast amount of time between when the sun peeks over the horizon on the East and West Coast. We’ve measured it, and it’s three hours!
So, OK time zones. And OK a standard time in each area of the country.
But OK switching back and forth twice a year for what is obviously a small return? Is it worth it?
In all reasonableness, it seems today that Daylight Saving Time is rather useless. If you are a proponent of not changing the clocks twice a year, let your Congressman know. If enough of us shout out, perhaps we can get rid of this useless institution.
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Terrible atrocities going on in Nigeria and Sudan
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | Let me applaud international and United States groups which want to end needless slaughter overseas. Peaceful protests are one way of expressing indignation and obtaining meaningful change. However, the efforts of these groups must be balanced—and they have not been.
The Jewish state of Israel has been singled out by the left while mass slaughters in the Sudan and Nigeria have been ignored by both the right and left. This is antisemitic, plus its clearly and horribly racist implying that African nations are not worth the West’s sympathy.
Although I am a Zionist, I have always advocated for a two-state solution whereby Palestinians get their own state. Interestingly, the Trump-brokered peace plan is virtually the same as what numerous others have long advocated, that is, an outside group of Arab leaders managing the transition. The key is that both Hamas and Israel have finally agreed to what has been obvious all along.
Maybe now the world will finally decide to address the horrendous slaughter that continues in Africa. It is a travesty that both the left and right have ignored for so long.
In the Sudan, as documented by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office, both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed large scale atrocities, including murder and rape. These war crimes are caused by two competing Sudanese generals who are seeking absolute power. The conflict began over two years ago, resulting in the displacement of 12 million civilians, by far the largest forced migration in recent history.
It is difficult to know the exact number of casualties. But, in testimony to Congress in 2024, U.S. special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello estimated that the number of dead may have exceed 150,000 people with many killed since. It is believed that there were 61,000 men women and children murdered in Khartoum state alone.
Nigeria is just as dismal a story, if not worse in many aspects. There are numerous armed groups fighting the central government. Because of space, this column will zero-in on only the most violent—Boko Haram. Since 2009, Sunni group Boko Haram (and a breakaway group called ISWAP) has been engaged in terrorist activity designed to purge all Shia Muslims and Christians from Nigeria’s Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. It has attacked numerous churches during worship.
According to the World Health Organization, over 10 million people have been displaced in Northeast Nigeria alone due to the Islamists terror group Boko Haram. Other groups have lower, but still startling, estimates. One UN agency recently indicated that in just one region of Nigeria there are currently nearly three million “internally displaced people” and nearly four million men, women and children facing food insecurity in Nigeria alone.
Since the rise of Boko Haram, an estimated 125,000 Christians and 60,000 Shia Muslims have been murdered in Nigeria by this terrorist group. About 1,000 Christians are still being slaughtered every month.
Sudan and Nigeria are humanitarian disasters. But both have been virtually ignored by both the left- and right-wing pressure groups in the USA. After all, they are in Africa, per President Trump- “(bad phrase)” countries.
Is that what the rest of us believe? If not, contact your Congressman to move Sudan and Nigeria up on the priority list.
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Had pleasant experience as Gwinnett juror
Editor, the Forum:
Last week I had jury duty and was pleased to find it a pleasant experience, overall.
The jurors met in Gwinnett County Courthouse’s beautiful state-of-the-art annex, conveniently connected to a dedicated parking deck. The gigantic jury assembly room offered free Wi-Fi and even charging stations between each chair. Screens listing the names of the jurors were attached to the ceiling (so no more butchering difficult names).
The room had a large jury lounge with free coffee and several vending machines, and the men in charge of the jury were friendly, approachable and treated us with respect.
It was not all fun and games, of course, because of the inevitable long waits. But most people brought their electronic devices to entertain themselves. Also, I thought the room was very cold. I have been called for jury duty in several different counties and this was my favorite experience. Well done, Gwinnett County!
– Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill
Every gerrymandering diminishes your vote
Editor, the Forum:
America is heading for a minority of its voters deciding our next president. The electoral college already favors smaller, Republican states. This enables states with less population to have a greater influence in our presidential election.
In addition to this advantage, Republicans are seeking to redistrict in such a way that in each redistricted state a minority of voters would win the state. Such gerrymandering diminishes my vote and the vote of every Democrat. This is not the American way.
– Alan Schneiberg, Sugar Hill
Demolition of the White House was upsetting
Editor, the Forum:
Your recent article about demolition of the west wing of the White House was so upsetting! It is an appropriate symbol of what is happening to our country.
– Lili Outzs, Athens
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30th Christmas Canteen opens Nov. 28 at Aurora
Christmas Canteen returns to the Aurora Theatre for its 30th season, running from November 28 to December 31. Under the direction of Katie Erin Chambers, choreography by Kari Twyman, and musical direction by Ann-Carol Pence, this year’s production promises a swinging holiday celebration with a special twist: a featured horn section joining them for the first time.
Christmas Canteen features sketches and stunning musical moments. Audiences—whether longtime patrons or first-time attendees—will leave singing, laughing, and filled with holiday cheer.
This season is particularly poignant, as it marks the final Christmas Canteen under the musical direction of Aurora Theatre’s co-founder and producing artistic director, Ann-Carol Pence. Since the show’s inception in 1996 as a 1940s holiday tribute honoring World War II veterans, Ann-Carol has performed over 1,000 songs from the piano bench, shaping the show into the cherished holiday tradition it is today.
Reflecting on her departure, Ann-Carol says: “Christmas Canteen has been an amazing gift—an experience that brought me the deepest happiness, sitting behind a piano, wrapped in music, community, and joy. After 30 incredible years, I’m excited to finally enjoy the holidays from the other side of the rehearsal room, with eggnog by the fire, enjoying the show from the audience’s perspective for a change.”
From its origins celebrating the Big Band era and honoring military service, to its evolution into a revue that blends contemporary carols, comedic parodies, and authentic storytelling, Christmas Canteen has become a multigenerational holiday tradition. This year’s edition is no exception, offering something for everyone: heartfelt moments, laugh-out-loud comedy, and music that bridges generations.
Tickets for Christmas Canteen 2025 are on sale now. Celebrate the holidays with Aurora Theatre and experience the music, laughter, and joy that has made this production a cherished tradition for three decades.
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Jackson EMC supporting food assistance groups
Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) is investing $90,000 to support three food assistance organizations serving families across northeast Georgia, reflecting its continued commitment to community well-being.
Chip Jakins, Jackson EMC President and CEO, says: “Jackson EMC believes in neighbors helping neighbors. Our local food banks and community partners are on the front lines of serving families in need.”
As part of ongoing community outreach efforts, Jackson EMC is sponsoring 40 truckloads of food to support families facing food insecurity. Both the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia and the Georgia Mountain Food Bank will receive 20 truckloads each to help replenish shelves and provide thousands of nutritious meals to families in need across Jackson EMC’s 10-county service area.
In addition to food truck sponsorships, Jackson EMC has awarded $20,000 to each of the following organizations to strengthen operations and improve energy efficiency:
- The Georgia Mountain Food Bank received $20,000 to replace its facility lighting with new energy-efficient fixtures.
- The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia received $20,000 to purchase new electric forklifts, which will enhance warehouse efficiency and reduce energy consumption.
- StreetWise Georgia, based in Gwinnett County, received $20,000 for its food distribution program.
Rowen announces its Convergence Center
On Oct. 13, Rowen’s mission came to life at the 2025 Convergence Summit. More than 200 scientists, artists, educators, and business leaders came together to celebrate the convergence of art and science—exploring ideas that spanned neuro-arts, technology, conservation and the evolving relationship between humanity and the digital world.
Driven by a strategic partnership between the Rowen Foundation and Gwinnett County, the Rowen knowledge community activates as a collaborative learning and transformative thinking hub for tomorrow’s leaders of industry.
This spirit of exploration and collaboration will become manifest in the Rowen Convergence Center, announced at the event. Designed as the epicenter of our knowledge community, the Center will break ground in mid-2026 and will welcome the next generation of innovators, dreamers, and creators to work side by side under one roof.
The Convergence Center marks a milestone for Rowen, transforming the interdisciplinary vision into lasting infrastructure. It will empower leading minds across the agriculture, medical, environmental, and technology sectors to gather and focus on solutions that enhance human well-being.
Walton EMC linemen participate in rodeo
Walton EMC apprentice line workers pitted their expertise against the industry’s best and returned home winners from last weekend’s 41st Annual International Lineman’s Rodeo.
The electric cooperative’s team dominated the apprentice division for electric cooperatives, garnering three of the top five awards. In all, Walton EMC linemen picked up six awards for top finishes among a field of 750 elite competitors.
Local linemen earning outstanding scores and honors in the prestigious contest include:
- Harry Ruiz led the team with three, top-five awards. He was named fourth-place finisher overall among apprentice linemen and second place in the electric cooperative division. Points earned for his fourth-place score in the written test event elevated him to the highest finish among the Walton EMC team.
- Nate Howell turned in the team’s best individual performance, earning second place overall in a timed event involving a “mystery” task revealed before he competed.
- Mason Tolbert earned third place in the co-op division for his combined score in four individual events.
- Hollis Lucas was named fourth place in the co-op division based on his scores in individual events.
The Poetry Remedy, by William Sieghart
By Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: The Poetry Remedy by William Sieghart is a collection of poems that provide balm for the injured soul. On each page is the description of a spiritual malady explained in language that is easy for the reader to assimilate. On the opposite page is a poem that speaks to the possible resolution of the malady in a wholesome and yet somewhat ethereal manner. Savoring delight in the poems and the peace that comes from being truly understood is the reward the reader has in store as these poems are explored and digested. The topical headings under which the poems are presented are the following: Mental and Emotional Well-Being, Motivations, Self-Image and Self-Acceptance, The World and Other People, and Love and Loss cover the spectrum of human relationships. This is a warm and inviting collection that will soothe the heart and open the mind to new possibilities. The full title is The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul.
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Okefenokee Swamp has many stories to tell
The Okefenokee Swamp and environs are a distinctive folk region, shaped by Celtic ethnicity, geographic isolation, and Primitive Baptist religion. The swamp alone covers more than 700 square miles of southeast Georgia and northwest Florida.
Indian peoples occupied the “land of the trembling earth” through the early 1800s, when most were driven out or forcibly removed by Europeans. From the early 19th through the mid-20th century, the swamp was home to an independent, self-sufficient community of “crackers,” most of whom came to Georgia from North Carolina and were of Scottish and Scots-Irish origin. They scratched out a living through livestock herding, subsistence agriculture, and naval stores.
During the 1800s this region had one of the smallest African American populations in the state. After the Civil War more Blacks were drawn to the interior of southeast Georgia by jobs in farming, turpentining, logging, and the railroad industry. Oral accounts describe the work songs of gandy dancers (crews of Black railroad track layers), sacred music of Black churches, and the blues and juke joints of the Black turpentine camps. Of these only the sacred music traditions continue in the region today.
From 1912 to 1951 naturalist and folklore collector Francis Harper documented the traditions of European Americans living in and around the Okefenokee, including the region’s distinctive folk speech, tales, music, customs, home remedies, and beliefs. Harper’s work with the “Okefinokee folk” (the spelling harks back to early maps) was completed by his widow, Jean, and folklorist Delma Presley with the publication of Okefinokee Album (1981). The Harpers were instrumental in the establishment of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in 1937, which ultimately resulted in the relocation of the swamp’s human inhabitants and ironically marked the end of the historic period of Okefenokee folklore that Harper had worked so hard to record.
Although people no longer live in the swamp, many Okefenokee folk traditions continue in nearby communities. A few individuals still make the traditional poled boats, suited to maneuvering in tight water.
Okefenokee families for years have taken advantage of the mild climate and large expanse of “honey plants” such as gallberry and tupelo gum to keep bees for honey. The counties surrounding the Okefenokee are now home to the state’s largest commercial honey operations.
The distinctive ecosystem of the great swamp is the subject of legends, tall tales, and personal experience narratives about bears, ‘gators, and other encounters with the natural world. Georgia’s best-known traditional storyteller was fishing guide Lem Griffis. Griffis, who died in 1968, entertained visitors to his fish camp outside Fargo with well-honed whoppers such as this tale, called “Odd Insects,” told to Kay L. Cothran: “See that honey a-sittin’ up there on the shelf? Well, I crossed my bees with lightnin’ bugs so they could see how t’ work at night, an’ they make a double crop o’ honey every year.” Stories about hunting and fishing, colorful characters of the past, and memories of growing up on one of the “islands” in the Okefenokee still abound in the region.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Not built yesterday, so where and what is it?
This wasn’t built yesterday, and it’s been working for years. Can you figure out what this mystery Photo is, and where it is? Send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com and tell us what your hometown is.
Three readers told us that this red-bricked home in Boston, Mass. was the Pierce-Hichborn House, circa 1711. But the guy who sent us this photo, Chuck Paul of Norcross, took it recently when touring Boston and said that a sign there said it was the home of Patriot Paul Revere.
Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C., George Graf of Palmyra, Va. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas said it was the Pierce-Hichborn House. Peel added: “Today’s mystery is located at 29 North Square in Boston’s North End historic district. Originally built in 1711, this three-story, brick building marked a shift away from the more traditional, Tudor-style, timber cottages that dominated the city in the 17th century. It is one of Boston’s earliest surviving brick houses, with many of the original, handmade bricks being imported from England as ship ballast, well before most of Boston’s own brickyards were established and operational.
“The Pierce-Hichborn House was purchased in 1781 by Nathaniel Hichborn (1737–1824), a Boston-born craftsman and shipbuilder who lived and worked in the city’s North End, the heart of Boston’s maritime industry. He was a first cousin of the American Revolutionary patriot, Paul Revere (1735–1818), who lived in the Tudor-style cottage immediately next door to the Pierce-Hichborn House.”
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Suwanee wins “Exceptional Main Street” designation
The City of Suwanee is honored to be named a Georgia Exceptional Main Street (GEMS) community by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. This designation recognizes Suwanee as one of the top Main Street programs in the state, celebrating the city’s commitment to downtown revitalization, economic development, and community innovation. At the October 26 City Council meeting, Cherie Bennett, left, director of the Office of Downtown Development at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, formally presented the City of Suwanee with the Georgia Exceptional Main Street (GEMS) designation and award. In the center is Suwanee Economic Development Manager Chris Hardin, and at the right is Mayor Jimmy Burnette.
America Recycles at fairgrounds on Nov. 8
Snellville Commerce Club will meet on Tuesday, November 4 at noon at Piedmont Eastside Hospital 1700 Tree Lane, in Snellville. President Don Britt will report on the state of the organization, have a financial update and give us a glimpse of future plans and activities. Free parking is available outside of Medical Plaza 1.
Holiday Tree: The 40-foot Norway Spruce from the mountains of North Carolina will arrive at the lawn of the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse, 185 West Crogan Street in Lawrenceville on Tuesday, November 4 at 5 p.m. Once installed, county team members will begin decorating the tree in preparation for the 38th annual Lighting of the Tree held on Thanksgiving night.
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 November 5 meeting will be Darren Croswell,who is the Canadian Consul in Atlanta. The event is free and visitors are welcomed.
Gwinnett Reads Jane Austen series continues with a film screening of Pride and Prejudice. This will be November 6 at 11 a.m. at the Lilburn Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Join us for a movie and popcorn, celebrating the 250th birthday anniversary of Jane Austen.
Lionheart Theatre in Norcross will present the Broadway hit, The Good Doctor (a composition of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov), November 7–23. The show consists of a series of comic vignettes narrated by “The Writer.” The stories are droll, the portraits are affectionate, the humor is infectious and the fun is unending. Tickets are available now.
Grab your favorite fall candle and travel back in time to 1997 as USA Today bestselling author Julia Olivia discusses her newest romance novel, If It Makes You Happy, set in the autumn glow of small-town Vermont. Books will be available for purchase and signing. This will be held November 8 at noon at the Peachtree Corners Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library.
Have some hard-to-recycle items? Rain or shine, you can bring them to America Recycles Day on Saturday, November 8 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville. Volunteers will remove items placed in disposable containers from the trunk or back seat of your vehicle. Recycling electronics is free except for projection/console TVs ($35), computer monitors ($15), and printers ($5). For a full list of acceptable items, visit GCSolidWaste.com or call 770-822-7141.
The Gwinnett Veterans Memorial Museum will mark its 20th anniversary on November 11 from 3-6 p.m. at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse at 185 Crogan Street in Lawrenceville.
Speaking at the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce at its Thursday Thought Leaders luncheon will be Debbie McKinley, CPO of Herschend Family Entertainment, which is based in Peachtree Corners. Among their 49 ventures across the nation, that includes Stone Mountain Park and the Harlem Globetrotters. The event will be November 12 at the Atlanta Hilton Northeast at 11:30 a.m.
Better Cooking for a Better Environment: Demo and Tasting will be presented November 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Help your holiday season go smoothly. Learn how to properly dispose of fats, oils, and grease while sampling holiday treats.
Just in time to implement a year-end tax strategy, Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries is hosting this unique opportunity to learn about how your charitable giving can save you money at tax time. Board member and attorney Kimberly Civins on Thursday, November 13 at 8 p.m. will lead a discussion on smart charitable giving techniques, based on the chapter of your life (pre-retirement, post-retirement, and death-time). The event will be at the NCM office, 500 Pinnacle Court, Norcross.
Local Asian American History and Zine Workshop will be held at the Suwanee Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on November 15 at 11 a.m. Enjoy crafting your very own zine and learn about the vibrant history of Asian Americans in the Atlanta-metro area from the Georgia Asian American Community Archive Initiative.
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