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Calling all Children
Help make the World’s Largest and Greatest Scrapbook for our Troops!The staff of Accent Gwinnett Magazine would like to dedicate this issue to the late Lawrenceville Mayor Bobby Sikes and his family.
Connect with the Troops Project continues as Connect And Join attempts to create the World’s Largest and Greatest Scrapbook with heartfelt messages for the troops.
In July of 2006, Connect And Join, a family support and education service publishing company, announced the launch of their www.connectwiththetroops.com portal. As part of the launch, the company held a nationwide scrapbook initiative to have school children create the World’s Largest and Greatest Scrapbook in support of the troops. Connect And Join has received thousands of scrapbook pages from schools across the country to date and is extending the project to attempt a goal of 120,000 pages! The Connect with the Troops portal offers free tools that allow teachers, classrooms or students to communicate with and express support for U.S. troops or individual soldiers while tying patriotism into the curriculum.
Students of all ages are asked to show their support for the troops by sending in their letters, scrapbook pages and warm wishes. Help us reach our goal of 120,000 pages!
If you have any questions please contact Kim Poeppelmeier at Kim@kehcomm.com or via phone at 410-975-9638.
To learn more about Connect And Join or their Connect with the Troops project, visit our websites at
www.ConnectAndJoin.com or www.ConnectWithTheTroops.com.
Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful
Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Celebrates 27th Anniversary and Recognizes Positive Community Action
Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful hosted over three hundred community, business and government leaders for their 27th annual awards banquet on Friday, January 5th at the Atlanta Marriott Gwinnett Place. Celebrating achievements and accomplishments in Gwinnett throughout 2006, seven awards were presented to groups and individuals for ongoing efforts to make our community safer, healthier, and more livable in areas such as recycling, volunteerism, education and neighborhood improvement. Pictured below, receiving the “Education Award,” is McKendree Elementary in Lawrenceville. The leadership of Principal Cindy Antrim and Teacher Mandy Collins is certainly making a difference in the lives of tomorrow’s leaders. Annually, McKendree Elementary School is a top scorer on the Environmental Achievement Profile. During the past year alone, they recycled almost 20 tons of paper and continually worked to conserve energy and reduce air pollution. Accent Gwinnett wishes to congratulate all of the award recipients including Sgt. David Spell (Enforcement Award), Jim Kraus (Volunteer of the Year Award), Daryl Knight (Environmental Studies Scholarship at Georgia Gwinnett College), City of Berkeley Lake (Recycler of the Year Award), Jordan, Jones & Goulding (Howard Allen Business & Industry Award), and J.K. Murphy-Gwinnett Daily Post (Neighborhood Pride Award).
During all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, don’t forget about our four-legged friends. Every year, six-to-eight million dogs and cats end up in shelters and three-to-four million of them are euthanized because there is no room. The Society of Humane Friends is a small no-kill humane group that has a licensed shelter in Lawrenceville and needs your help. They accept cats and dogs on a space available basis from other shelters (such as Gwinnett County Animal Control), owners who can no longer keep them, and found strays.
Currently, their biggest need is donations. The society is opening a low-cost spay/neuter clinic for all Gwinnettians, but needs more funds before the doors open. They also can use donated items such as dog and cat food, kitty litter, towels and more.
Animals taken in by the society are fostered in members' homes and are tested and vetted before they are offered for adoption. Potential adopters are carefully screened to ensure a good match of people and pets. The society has a return policy and always take animals back at any future time should circumstances change. Adoptions are hosted at
Petco on Highway 124 in Snellville.
To donate or find out more information about how you can help, call 770-962-1549 or visit www.societyofhumanefriends.com.
Mealor Family
Mealor Family Donates First Major Gift to Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation
Dr. Daniel J. Kaufman, president of Georgia Gwinnett College, announced today that the Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation has received its first major financial gift. Kaufman stated that the gift was given by long-time Gwinnett residents, entrepreneurs and business owners Mr. Gladston Mealor, Mrs. Carolyn Mealor Streetman, Mr. Clyde Streetman, and Mr. Sidney Mealor. Kaufman and GGC Foundation Chairman Glenn S. White recently accepted the check for $150,000.
Suwanee Cares About Safe Driving
The Suwanee Police Department hopes that a lot of drivers will resolve to drive more safely in the New Year. To help ensure that they do, at least within the Suwanee City limits, the police department has implemented Suwanee CARES, a traffic enforcement program targeted for Highway 317 from Horizon Drive west to Moore Road. Suwanee CARES, which stands for Suwanee Corridor 317 Accident Reduction and Enforcement Strategy was implemented December 13.
“The 317 corridor accounts for 56 percent of the crashes and injuries that occur in Suwanee,” says Lt. Cass Mooney.
“We want to let everyone know that we’re going to be more strictly enforcing the speed limit and other traffic laws particularly along Lawrenceville-Suwanee/Suwanee Dam Road, in an effort to reduce the number of accidents.”
Duluth' Mayor Invites You
The Honorable Mayor Shirley Fanning- Lassiter and the Duluth Civitan Club are pleased to sponsor the
Third Annual City of Duluth “State of the City” Address on Tuesday, February 13th from 11:30am – 1:00pm
at the Public Safety Facility located at 3276 Buford Highway in Duluth.
Admission is $25 at the door; Tables of 10 are available for $225.
Kurt’s restaurant will be providing the lunch. Tours of the facility and the Judgmental Shooting Simulator will be conducted following lunch at 1:00pm. RSVP’s are required no later than February 8th. Please contact
Terry Crouch at
ltcrouc@attglobal.net or 678-242-0520.
This is a limited seating engagement!
