Here’s a mystery photo from the water to the mountains. Figure out where this photograph was taken and send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com. Don’t forget to include your home town.
Tim Sullivan, Mulberry told us that the most recent mystery was “Union Station, now serving as the United States Courthouse in Tacoma, Wash. He added:
- “Original Name: Union Passenger Station
- Current Use: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
- Location: 1717 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Wash.
- Architects: Reed and Stem (also co-designed Grand Central Terminal in NYC)
- Built: 1909–1911
- Renovated: 1990–1992 for courthouse conversion.” The photo came from Rick Krause of Lilburn.
Others recognizing it included Michael Green, Milton; Allan Peel, San Antonio, Texas; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.
Yet there is more detail from the last edition’s mystery photo. It comes from Allan Peel, who sent in the photo. He says:
“Hey Watson, something is amiss! It seems that EVERYONE that you identified in the last GwinnettForum that guessed the location of my last mystery photo submission was wrong! It was not the Cape Spear Lighthouse. Rather, my photo was of the Green Point Lighthouse in Port de Grave, Newfoundland, approximately 27 miles (as the crow flies) west-northwest of the Cape Spear Lighthouse. I find it odd that so many folks got this wrong, since these two lighthouses look nothing alike, and there is ample information on, and photos of, both of these lighthouses on the internet.”
- SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Click here to send an email and please mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
EMC Foundation grants $38,000 to Gwinnett charities
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total of $81,320 in grants for organizations during its recent meeting, including $38,000 to organizations serving Gwinnett County.
$10,000 to the Salvation Army of Gwinnett, Lawrenceville, for its Financial Emergency Services Program to provide housing assistance for families in need in Gwinnett County. - $9,000 to Good News at Noon, Gainesville, for its Transitional Living Program to support individuals from Barrow, Clarke, Hall, Gwinnett, Jackson and Lumpkin counties.
- $9,000 to Lydia’s Place, Watkinsville, for its Elevate Program to provide rental assistance for young adults facing homelessness or aging out of the foster care system in Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett and Madison counties.
- $5,000 to Bigger Vision of Athens, Inc., for its Overnight Shelter Program to provide essential shelter services to individuals from Banks, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Madison and Oglethorpe counties experiencing homelessness.
- $5,000 to Latin American Association, Inc. for its Homelessness Prevention Program to provide rental assistance for families in need in Barrow, Gwinnett and Hall counties.
Jackson EMC Foundation grants are made possible by the 225,092 participating cooperative members who have their monthly electric bills rounded to the next dollar amount through the Operation Round Up program. Their “spare change” has funded 2,142 grants to organizations and 440 grants to individuals, putting more than $22.4 million back into local communities since the program began in 2005.
