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More than 70 Gwinnett County public schools have been honored in the Green & Healthy Schools Program, including 23 schools that qualified for the highest recognition, Reaching Higher award level.

The Green & Healthy School Program is a joint initiative of Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and Gwinnett County Public Schools. It is a system of strategic planning, teaching, learning and doing that results in a greener and healthier natural world, according to the program’s website.

Organizers of the annual Gwinnett County Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade have picked a young woman who, as a teenager, committed herself to taking a stand against food insecurity to be this year’s parade grand marshal.

Lauren Seroyer has been named the grand marshal for the 2020 parade, which will take place Jan. 20 in Lawrenceville and is organized by the United Ebony Society of Gwinnett County Inc.

“I started dancing because I wanted to be just like my big sister,” Caylie Newcom said. Sister Alicia would fix Caylie’s hair before dance class and pick out a leotard for her little sister to wear.

Caylie, 25, had some big dance shoes to fill. Sister Alicia, now 28, just wrapped up a stint at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre where she has been performing in the national touring production of the Broadway musical “Wicked.”

Each year before Parkview High School’s Marine Corps JROTC Toys for Tots drive, Staff Gunnery Sergeant David Erwin tells his students he hopes they wake up Christmas morning with their wish lists fulfilled.

He also reminds them, that’s not the case for every family. That’s what makes the annual drive so fulfilling for Parkview JROTC cadets.

South Gwinnett recently hosted its annual Wish Upon a Comet: Intra-Galactic Toy Drive through a partnership with The Quinn House.