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Don Butler and Jannetta Johnson, State Senate Door Keepers, posing with Senate visitors Miss USA Erin Grizzle, Miss USA Teen Christina Garrison, and Miss USA Junior Miss, Copelyn Jue.
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A LOOK BACK
IN TIME
- On March 30, 1842, Dr. W. Crawford Long performed an operation, successfully employing sulphuric ether in extracting a tumor from the neck of Mr. James M. Venable. Mr. Venable was the grandfather of Mrs. G.S. Kelley and Mrs. Virginia Bagwell of Lawrenceville.
- This from the News-Herald March 20, 1920 edition: “The prediction is that Lawrenceville will soon have 3,000 inhabitants. It is considered one of the best towns in all Northeast Georgia.”
- March 5, 1944, Three arsonists set fire to the brick Lawrenceville High School building.
- From the News-Herald, February 19, 1903: “The bell has been placed in the new Baptist Church tower and it can be heard much plainer since it has moved.”
- From the News-Herald February 13, 1908: “Each reader and subscriber of this paper will receive a free box of kidney and bladder pills from E.C. DeWitt and Co. of Chicago, Ill.”
- From the News-Herald, March 3, 1917: “Dr. Claude Kelley just installed an x-ray machine in his office. There are only 2 of these machines in the county.”
- From the News-Herald, February 1928: “John Bryant, janitor at the courthouse, is 89 and he works six days a week.”
FASCINATING FACTS
- All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter. Every English queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.
- Ailurophobia is the fear of cats. I fear the cats who howl at night in my neighborhood.
Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and mother died on the same day.
- John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding were the only United States presidents to be survived by their fathers.
- Think you need to go on a diet? President Taft weighed 352 pounds.
- The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its body size is the ant.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
VERY SPECIAL
CELEBRATIONS
- Sarah and John Briscoe celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on Saturday January 23, 2010 at the Commerce Civic Center in Commerce, Georgia. The event was attended by friends from all over the state. Sarah is a graduate of Lawrenceville High School and John graduated from South Gwinnett High School and many of their school friends and teachers went to Commerce to celebrate the milestone with Sarah and John, their children and grandchildren. The Briscoes live on a family farm in Commerce, Georgia. Sarah was Sarah Dunson before she and John were married, and her parents lived on Crogan Street in Lawrenceville.
- Gerald E. and Betty Jo Adams of Lawrenceville celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in January 2010. Gerald and Betty Jo were married on January 1, 1950 in Atlanta and they have three children: Kathy Housewright, H. Scott Adams and Jeanne D. Apple. Their four grandchildren are Jerry and Jonathan Housewright, Clint Adams and Genevieve Garcia. Their great grandchild is Nevaeh Housewright.
- The wedding of Amy Christine Marien and Sean Martin Petro will be on Saturday April 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at Little Gardens in Lawrenceville. Amy is the daughter of Beth Blaney Marien and Michael Marien of Flowery Branch, Georgia.
CURRENT NEWS
- The annual XYZ Day sponsored by area Methodist Churches will be held on March 16 at the Tucker United Methodist Church. The day begins with a breakfast buffet then exciting speakers and interesting events plus an appetizing lunch make the day a great one. For more information call The Tucker United Methodist Church or contact your local Methodist Church.
- The Dacula Mayor is Jimmy Wilbanks and councilmen are Wendell Holcombe and Greg Reeves.
- In Lawrenceville the Mayor is Rex Millsaps, councilmen are P.K. Martin, Marie Beiser, Mike Crowe and newly elected councilwoman Katie Hart Smith.
- Dacula City council members voted to install nine additional city lights in several areas including Old Peachtree Road north of the Publix shopping center; Forestdale Drive near Harbins Road, Golden Avenue, Freemans Mill Road from Eastside Drive to Franklin Drive; Williams Farm Road at 316; Harbins Road south of 316.
- SarahCare, is an adult daycare center that has opened in Snellville. It is located at 1567 Janmar Road. For information call 770-685-6971.
- Retired employees from Central Gwinnett High School met for lunch at Oyster Bay Restaurant in Lawrenceville, on February 18, 2010.
- The Northeast Georgia Civil War Roundtable will celebrate its 15th year on March 15, 2010. The celebration will be held at the Gwinnett History Museum at 3 p.m. on March 14. All interested in the War Between the States history are invited to attend the meeting.
- The Golden Wings senior club meets on the second Wednesday of each month at the Bogan Road Senior Center in Buford. The lunch meeting begins at 11 a.m.
- Todd Wofford is now head coach of the Central Gwinnett Black Knights. Wofford served as co-offensive coordinator for the Gainesville High School Red Elephants for the past five years.
- The Strickland House on Buford Highway in Duluth is a great place to visit and see lots of Duluth history and artifacts.
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