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March 7, 2006
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Rank of Gwinnett County law enforcement motorcycle officers in attendance for the ribbon cutting of the Peachtree Corners satellite police precinct.
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February 28, 2006 was a big day for all of us who live in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. It was the day we cut the ribbon opening our new satellite police precinct located in the Market Square Shopping Center on Peachtree Parkway. Heretofore, this area of western Gwinnett was covered by officers from the West Precinct, which is located near I-85 off Jimmy Carter Boulevard, a ways away. Thanks to the strong ongoing efforts of our District 2
Commissioner
Bert Nasuti,
Peachtree Corners now has its own neighborhood precinct and the citizens are loving it!
Although the West Precinct is the smallest of all the police precincts in Gwinnett County, it is the busiest, fielding over 100,000 calls a year. Included in this precinct is the Norcross Zip code 30093 area east of the Interstate where a lot of folks get picked up. The offenders are 90 percent Hispanic and at least half of that is driving offenses. You can check this out for yourself by viewing ScanGwinnett, which will let you see the daily admissions to the Gwinnett County Detention Center. This is a rogue’s gallery of downright scary humans. At least, I think they are humans. There is an easy access link button to ScanGwinnett on the homepage of
www.theweekly.com
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The United Peachtree Corners Civic Association is hosting a timely meeting about Public Safety on Monday night, March 27, 2006 at Simpsonwood Conference & Retreat Center, 4511 Jones Bridge Circle in Peachtree Corners at 7:30 p.m. The West Precinct Commanding Officer,
Major Christa Spradley
will be speaking, as well as Officer Tiffany Davis
from Community Relations, and Daria Currie
, the C.O.P.S. Liaison from the Peachtree Station neighborhood. This promises to be a riveting meeting, my friends. The public is invited.
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The Gwinnett Medical Center has received a prestigious Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for 2006. The County Commissioners presented a Resolution of Recognition to Gwinnett Medical Center on February 21, 2006 for achieving this wonderful accolade that only 225 hospitals in the whole county received. St. Joseph’s is the only other hospital in Atlanta to get one. I love knowing that we can get world-class healthcare right in our own county.
The brand new hospital facility, Gwinnett Medical Center – Duluth, is still under construction, but expected to open for patients in the summer 2006. This is the Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital replacement facility that will increase inpatient capacity by 35 percent with a total of 81 beds. The Emergency Department will more than double, from nine rooms to 24 rooms to accommodate an anticipated 60,000 annual visits.
Building a new hospital is quite a feat, especially when you consider that 17 hospitals in Georgia have
closed since 1995. Only one of these, Tatnall Memorial Hospital in Tatnall County, has managed to reopen under new management. I don’t think most people realize this sorry fact! If this isn’t a clarion call for the Governor, I don’t know what is!
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I was reading a
From the Heart newsletter, which is a publication of the Gwinnett Health System, and noticed a startling nasty item. Did you know that grocery cart handles carry more germs, bacteria, and bodily fluids than surfaces in public restrooms? Researchers at the University of Arizona tested 1,100 surfaces in public areas and found that grocery cart handles trail only public bus handrails and equipment at children’s playgrounds in a ranking of the dirtiest public surfaces.
So, I guess the first thing one ought to do before unloading the groceries at home is to wash your hands. This takes cooties to a whole new level.
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My next-door neighbor has a really impressive display of pansies and tulips, but I saw sadly that her deer friends have mowed that garden right down. The whitetails have eaten my tulips as well. I believe they know the instant the deer repellent is washed away so sometimes they get ahead of me. We surprised nine deer in our backyard last week. That’s quite a few—they make a big dent in the ivy and honeysuckle vines back there. March is generally our worst month for winter weather in Atlanta, but this year has been a warm anomaly. There is undoubtedly at least one more cold snap coming at us, so do not plant new tender annuals quite yet. Gardeners cannot wait to start digging!
Hope all is well and thanks
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