Good Morning Gwinnett Podcast

www.PodcastUniversity.training, www.GoodMorningGwinnett.comThe Gwinnett Chamber announced seven winners and recognized more than one hundred finalists on Wednesday at the 2022 Moxie Awards, presented by Northside Hospital.Established to honor women professionals, the Moxie Awards program welcomed its largest crowd in program history with nearly 600 attendees.This year’s winners included:• Enlightened Employer Award - RudHil Companies• Greater Good Award - Carol Burrell, President & CEO, Northeast Georgia Health Systems• Influence Award - Melissa Meeker, CEO, The Water Tower• On the Rise Award - Jasmine Billings, Community Development Manager, City of Lawrenceville• Outstanding Organization Award - Explore Gwinnett Tourism & Film• Pay It Forward Award - Jennifer Hibbard, CEO, View Point Health• Moxie Award - Jennifer Fennell, District Manager, Jackson EMCSOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com

Enroll In Podcast University and Start Your Own Podcasthttps://www.noisepodcastnetwork.com/p/podcast-universityThe Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office is planning to offer one new amenity to inmates in the county jail in an effort to cover the cost of keeping track of nonviolent offenders who are out on bond.If that sounds a bit confusing, here it is in a nutshell: Chief Deputy Cleo Atwater unveiled two programs the Sheriff’s Office wants to initiate during a business plan presentation to the county’s 2023 Budget Citizens Review Team on Monday.In one of the programs Atwater highlighted, the sheriff’s office would begin providing tablets with educational and entertainment options on them to jail inmates. The inmates would have to pay out of their inmate accounts to use the entertainment options on the tablets and those proceeds to cover the costs of the other program, which is a pre-trial program where nonviolent offenders would wear ankle monitors while out on bond.SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -a division of Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comGwinnett County officials have extended the deadline by which local nonprofits have to apply for Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery funds.The county announced on Friday that the application deadline will now be Sept. 9. Gwinnett county government and the United Way of Greater Atlanta will be allocating $4.25 million in funds that was provided to the county by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -A divison of Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comThe Lilburn Community Improvement District, along with the city of Lilburn and Gwinnett County, is updating it’s Livable Centers Initiative master planning study — and would like input from the community.Through the initiative, the study will examine how Lilburn can be improved in various areas including transportation, real estate, parks, green space and other developments.The study not only provides a framework for implementing projects aimed at strengthening the Lilburn CID, but also helps Lilburn and the CID qualify for federal funding, according to a press release.SOURCE: www.AJC.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com-A Division Of Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comIn its first year, the Lawrenceville Police Department’s co-responder program with View Point Health handled nearly 900 crisis calls — but arrested less than a dozen people — in the city, according to numbers released by the city.The Project F.I.R.S.T. program was launched on July 1, 2021 and concluded its first year on June 30. Officials from View Point Health team up with officers in the program to form a Community Response Team that handle calls that involve someone experiencing a mental health crisis.The team was called to respond to 879 incidents during its first year in operation, but only had to arrest people on eight of those calls.SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett County Public Schools is hiring to fill hundreds of new teaching jobs it recently created to reduce class sizes.The number of teachers in Gwinnett, Georgia’s largest school district, increased from 12,623 in May to 13,095 in August. Of those teachers, 130 were hired to account for increased enrollment, and 182 were hired to reduce class sizes in the initial budget passed in June.SOURCE: www.AJC.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com The old public housing units in Lawrenceville and Buford, some that date to the 1950s, are on their way out.And Deborah Ingle, for one, won’t miss them.Ingle, who’s lived in public housing in Lawrenceville for six years, is thankful for the home she has and the community of which she’s a part. But the floor plan in her unit isn’t inviting, she said, and the kitchen doesn’t have a dishwasher – something she misses sorely.By Northside Hospital CareersADVERTISER CONTENTNurses need a break? Enter now to win a date night for two!“I’m going to have a brand-new everything,” said Ingle, 73. “It’s like buying a brand-new house, which I have never done. How blessed can you get?”Efforts are being made across the state to upgrade existing public housing by renovating or building new homes and, in some cases, surrounding them with mixed-income communities. With oversight from housing authorities, private developers are building many of them with the help of tax breaks or other incentives.SOURCE: www.AJC.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com - Brought to you by Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comSnellville residents may see changes to city alcohol sales coming soon.The city recently announced that residents will vote on whether they want the city to issue licenses to businesses for package sales of alcohol in the Nov. 8 election.“Restaurants can serve, now, but we’ve never had package sales and that is something that several people over the years have looked into,” Snellville City Manager Butch Sanders said.

www.GoodMorninGwinnett.com -This show is brought to by Noise Podcast Network. https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.com Gwinnett County will give vendors who want to do business with the county government or other local agencies a chance to learn how to do so this week.The county’s Purchasing Division will host Gwinnett’s 14th Annual Supplier Networking Event from 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. on Thursday at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, which is located at 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville.“(The) Gwinnett County Purchasing Division invites business vendors to learn how to do business with its 14 County departments and partner agencies,” county officials said in an announcement for the event.

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -This show is brought to you by Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comLocated less than two miles from Gas South Arena and steps away from Sugarloaf Mills mall, Aloft Lawrenceville – Sugarloaf is getting set for a fall opening. Aloft Lawrenceville – Sugarloaf, is a music and technology inspired hotel. The five-story property features 112 loft-like rooms and plenty of vibrant spaces for relaxing after a workday, including the WXYZ bar, a splash pool and a beautifully designed outdoor patio.The loft rooms have airy, 9-foot ceilings, natural textiles, plush platform beds and plenty of outlets to stay connected. Each room includes 55-inch LCD TV, complimentary high-speed WiFi, Aloft signature coffee, and Aloft custom spa inspired toiletries.Aloft Lawrenceville — Sugarloaf is located at 2110 North Brown Rd. in unincorporated Lawrenceville.For more information, visit www.alofthotels.com.SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -This show is made possible by https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comGwinnett’s mask rules are based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s transmission measurements. When transmission is high, the district requires staff to wear masks.On Thursday, the CDC reported the county’s level dropped from high to medium. The district stated on its website that it lifted the mask requirement, but it still “strongly encourages” masks in school buildings.Staff in Gwinnett schools have been required to wear masks for about a month. SOURCE: www.AJC.com By Josh Reyes, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -This show is made possible by Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.com “We have students from all over the world, and the cafeteria is the one place that they all come at some point during the school day,” Karen Hallford, director of school nutrition, said. “So we want to have options for them, so we offer as much variety as we possibly can so they can get in the line and hopefully find something that’s good to them.”SOURCE: www.AJC.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -This show is made possible by Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comBuford resident Clinton Cain shows a page from the book, ‘Sex is a Funny Word,’ to the Gwinnett Public Library System Board of Trustees on Monday night as he calls for the book to be moved out of the children’s sections at Gwinnett library branches.Photo: Curt YeomansSOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -This show is made possible by Noise Podcast Network https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comStudent response to the change has been swift. An online petition to “Bring Back Wi-Fi Access” garnered 10,000 signatures in about three days.What are teens doing behind their screens?Among the top concerns described in comments on the petition was the ability for students and parents to reach each other for reasons from arranging a ride because of a canceled afterschool activity to possible emergencies.SOURCE: www.AJC.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com -This show is made possible by Noise Podcast Network. https://www.NoisePodcastNetwork.comSome parents in Gwinnett wondered if the pandemic reducing social opportunities for their children would also have an effect once they got to school.But Gwinnett, Georgia’s largest school district, is undertaking two major initiatives designed to get more children ready for school. It’s funding $3.6 million for pre-K in eight elementary schools. Gwinnett’s pre-K program had previously been for special needs students. Gwinnett will also expand its Play 2 Learn program, for children from birth to age 5, to all of its elementary schools.SOURCE: www.AJC.com Photo Credit: Steve Schaefer