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6/4: On travel sports for kids; Jekyll Island; Ending a federal program
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Travel Sports Is Difficult Work, But Hey, It’s for Our Kids!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Jekyll Island Is Little Known Among Newcomers to Georgia
ANOTHER VIEW: State Representative Asks To Terminate 287(g) Federal Program
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
FEEDBACK: Many Other Aspects of Our Lives Changed as Newspapers Fade
UPCOMING: It’s Official! Sugar Hill Promoting Downtown Area as “Shine” District
NOTABLE: Several Transportation Projects Coming to the Gwinnett Place Area
RECOMMENDED: Power Politics by Martin Wright
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Explorers from Spain Were First Europeans Coming to Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s Another Covered Bridge For Your Consideration
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s What Happens After the Fishing Day Is a Success (or Not)
CALENDAR: Workshop on Adopt-a-Stream Being Planned
BRACK: Jekyll Island is little known among newcomers to Georgia
By Elliott Brack | If you are a native Georgian, let me suggest you almost have a duty to tell those who come here from other states about Georgia’s wonderful coastland, particularly about the gem on the Georgia coast, Jekyll Island. Actually, Georgia’s approximately 100 miles of coastland has many wonderful areas to visit, from Tybee Island on the north to almost-pristine Cumberland Island on the south.
Gwinnett Forum | April 30, 2024
“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
– Former Prime Minister Sir William Churchill (1874-1965).
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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