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It’s time for
Stream cleaning
Volunteers pick up trash, recyclables during event By Deanna Allen
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Vol. 44, No. 160
‘It’s a real interesting dynamic’ Turnout for Tuesday’s primary hard to predict By Camie Young
DULUTH — A child’s Tonka truck. A fully intact light bulb. Three Asian gardening tools. Two fire hoses. These seven items, along with an estimated 2,000 pounds of trash and recyclables, were discovered Saturday morning during a volunteer stream cleanup along the Bromolow Tributary in Duluth. The cleanup, a partnership between Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, the Hudgens Center for the Arts and the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources, was inspired by an exhibit now on display at the Hudgens Center. Pam Longobardi’s “What Once Was Lost Must Now Be Found: Chronicling Crimes Against Nature” highlights discarded materials, particularly plastics, that have washed up out of oceans and onto beaches. Similar to some of the work in Longobardi’s exhibit, there are plans to use some of the items found during the stream cleanup to potentially create a collaborative piece of artwork for display at the Hudgens Center, said Angela Nichols, director of exhibitions and programs at center. Connie Wiggins, executive director of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, deemed Saturday’s efforts — about 60 volunteers spent roughly 4 hours cleaning up about a ton of trash and recyclables — a success. “The volunteers, their enthusiasm, their care for water in Gwinnett County and their commitment to doing their part to improve our environment was just phenomenal,” she said. Donna and Jim Gawlas of Berkeley Lake were two of the volunteers who donned gloves and braved the mud, the muck, insects, snakes and poison oak and poison ivy to pick up plastic bottles, aluminum cans and some more unusual items. Both work with Rivers Alive and Georgia Outdoor Stewards. “It’s nice to find (a stream cleanup) so close to home,” Donna Gawlas said. “We made a huge start, a huge difference. It’s very gratifying.” Water, Wiggins said, is
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In a year where Georgians will fill out their primary ballot before schools close for the summer, the predictions are hard to make. This is the earliest primary election ever, after a federal judge mandated the election date, and also one of the longest ballots, with MORE ONLINE more than a half-dozen Visit Election Central at www. gwinnettdailypost.com/elections candidates for our voter’s guide including in contests sample ballots, candidate bios for U.S. and more. Senate and Congress. MORE INSIDE A look at the choices in the race If you add for governor..........................6A the Republicans and A handy two-page spread of candidate bios.................... 10C Democrats together, the state school superintendent race has eclipsed a baker’s dozen, and the governor is facing an unusual party challenge. “It’s a real interesting dynamic,” Gwinnett Elections Superintendent Lynn Ledford said of the energetic but early contests. Like many, Ledford no longer has a home phone at her house, so she isn’t sure if the typical barrage of robo-calls will impact voters, while ads have continued to
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Curiosity marks GCPS class of 2014 By Keith Farner keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com
Snellville resident Randy Dellinger, a member of the board of advisors for Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, handles a container of recyclables that were picked up along the Bromolow Tributary during a stream cleanup on Saturday. At left, hazardous materials such as glass and metals were placed in buckets during the stream cleanup. (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
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More than 10,000 Gwinnett high school seniors are expected to graduate this week in ceremonies across the county. The largest graduating classes are Brookwood High (802), Mill Creek High (800) and Peachtree Ridge (758) as the Class of 2014 counts 10,854. The class features 14 military academy appointments, and has earned $148 MORE INSIDE Gwinnett County’s valedictorians million in and salutatorians.....................4C scholarship money, not including the HOPE, Gates Millennium or QuestBridge scholarships. Norcross High ($16.6 million), Mill Creek High ($15.4 million) and Brookwood High ($13.7 million) had the most scholarship money awarded. Eighty-four percent of Gwinnett County Public Schools seniors plan to attend postsecondary schools.
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