Remembering a day that was as good as it gets

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Remembering a day that was as good as it gets

Dick Yarbrough

Updated: May 24, 2017, 5:00 AM

Published: May 23, 2017, 2:52 PM

Sometimes things come together better than peanut butter and jelly. Take last week, for example. I was invited to speak at the 20th annual Awards for Excellence in Law Enforcement, sponsored by the Gainesville Kiwanis Club and saluting members of the law enforcement community in the city and in Hall County.

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Published: Aug 6, 2021, 4:00 PM

An article in the January 2020 journal BioScience, endorsed by more than 11,000 scientists worldwide, stated that “the climate crisis has arrived” and that an “immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis.”

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