The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) has announced a significant allocation of $280,000 from its million-dollar budget to fund a comprehensive study aimed at enhancing safety, beautification, and transportation infrastructure along Jimmy Carter Boulevard in the Gateway85 Community Improvement District (CID).
The commissioner of the Georgia Department of Veterans Services will speak at the annual Gwinnett Memorial Day service on Monday, May 27, at 1 p.m. on the grounds of the Fallen Heroes Memorial at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville. She is Patricia Ross, who previously served as the chief operating officer of the Veterans Education Career Transition Resource, VECTR Center, for five years.
Click here to read our latest issue.Inside this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: From U.S. Grant, to the Dixie Chicks, the World Has Gone Crazy
EEB PERSPECTIVE: A Perfect Storm from COVID-19 Resulted in a Changed Primary Election
ANOTHER VIEW: Reflections about Memorial Day and the George Floyd Incident
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
FEEDBACK: While Reading Ashley Herndon, the Tears Started To Flow
UPCOMING: Gwinnett CARES Act Program Has $20 Million Available
NOTABLE: Arts Organizations in County Get $51,000 from Explore Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: Book on CD Review: Six Months That Changed the World by Professor Margaret MacMillan
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Drip Irrigation Technique Emits Precise Steady Drip for Crops
MYSTERY PHOTO: For the Fourth of July, Here’s What May Be a Cream Puff Mystery
CALENDAR: Two Farmers Markets in Gwinnett To Be Open This Weekend
Today’s Mystery Photo doesn’t give you much of a landmark that you can easily identify, but one thing we can tell you: it’s not taken in our hometown of Allentown, Ga. See if you can figure out where all these converging bits of architecture is located. Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown. ALSO: Duluth DAR places flags on vets’ graves; Dacula hosts Memorial Day Parade.
“What I remember most of those times (the Depression) is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.”
– American Author and Broadcaster Studs Terkel (1912 – 2008.)
Below are links to the ballots Gwinnett voters face in the May 21 voting.
NONPARTISAN CANDIDATE ANSWERS
To read answers to four questions posted by GwinnettForum to non-partisan candidates, click here. Answers in partisan races are forthcoming.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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