15.11: Crash avoidance; traffic relief; New York City

Georgia Gwinnett College’s (GGC) national reputation continues to grow as Information Technology students captured first and second place wins during the Association of Information Technology Professional National Collegiate Conference. GGC’s team members and their coaches are, from left, Yury Park, Quan Tran, Matt Berger, Dr. Lissa Pollacia, Aida Syrkett, Tyler Thornton, Dr. Evelyn Brannock, Ryan Alexander, Raquel Lawrence and Jonathan Mayran. See story below in Notable.

IN THIS EDITION

TODAY’S FOCUS: Crash Avoidance Technology Should Be Required for Big Rigs
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Time To Move On Gwinnett Traffic Relief Is Right Now!
ANOTHER VIEW: What Living in New York City Is Like
FEEDBACK: More On Nursing Students and Clinical Rotations
UPCOMING: Nash Sworn in as Head of the Association County Commission of Georgia
NOTABLE: Lilburn Farmers Market Gets Grant from Community Foundation
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Vidalia Onion Among Major Georgia Agricultural Success Stories
TODAY’S QUOTE: Another Reason Why the Weather Is So Important
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only Two Recognized a Famous Home in Portugal
LAGNIAPPE: Enjoying the Pinewood Derby of Scouting

Truckers should have “crash avoidance” technology on big rigs

By John Suthers

(Editor’s note: The following comment appeared in a recent edition of the Savannah Morning News. John Suthers is a Savannah trial lawyer. With the recent tragedy on Interstate 1-16, we thought this was particularly timely as a new call to action. –eeb) 

SAVANNAH, Ga., May 8, 2015 — The tragic deaths of five young women on Interstate 16 recently is a stark reminder of the dangers that tractor-trailers pose to all drivers on Georgia highways. 

Five Georgia Southern University nursing students, riding in two cars, died when a tractor-trailer failed to stop for traffic slowed by a prior accident on I-16 in Bryan County during the early morning hours of April 22. Two other students were injured. 

The GSU students were on their way to their last day of clinical rotations at a Savannah hospital. Sadly, this tragedy might have been avoided with the use of “crash avoidance” technology on tractor-trailers. Forward collision avoidance and mitigation technology is already fully developed and comes as a standard feature on many new automobiles.

This life-saving technology works by taking over the brakes and engine of the tractor-trailer when an imminent collision is anticipated and alerting the driver to the danger. Many systems brake the vehicle autonomously if the driver does not respond.

An auto brake system may not always be able to prevent a crash, but it can reduce the vehicle speed, mitigating the severity of the crash and injuries caused thereby.

Not only is forward crash avoidance technology available, studies have shown that it can prevent collisions and fatalities. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the U.S. government agency whose mission is to achieve “the highest standards of excellence in motor vehicle and highway safety.” NHTSA is well aware of the existence and effectiveness of forward collision avoidance technology. It estimates that current forward collision avoidance technology could prevent over 2,500 crashes each year and future generation systems could prevent over 6,300 crashes annually.

In Australia, that country’s equivalent of our Department of Transportation investigated forward collision avoidance technology. A detailed study of Australian crashes found that the use of such technology would have resulted in a 20-40 percent reduction in the number and severity of fatal crashes and a 30-50 percent reduction of injuries.

In light of such evidence, one must question why NHTSA has failed to move forward and require that this basic crash avoidance technology be installed on all tractor-trailers. Estimates of the cost to retrofit current tractor-trailers to meet this standard are in the range of $500 per truck. This cost pales in comparison to the costs and consequences of lost lives and severe injuries resulting from tractor-trailer collisions.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, there are nearly 100,000 injuries and 4,000 deaths annually on U.S. highways as a result of tractor-trailer collisions. In 2013, 97 percent of those killed in two-vehicle crashes involving a large truck and a smaller passenger vehicle were the occupants of the smaller automobile.

Georgia is currently among the top five states in the U.S. in truck-related fatalities.

Road Safe America, joined by the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and other highway safety groups, is calling on Congress and NHTSA to require forward collision avoidance technology on all current and future tractor-trailers. The recent heartbreaking wreck on I-16 is another example of the tragedy that can occur when a truck driver is distracted or otherwise not alert. It is time that the trucking industry implemented the technology that is already available to take over and avoid a collision when a fatigued and distracted truck driver does not do so manually.

Let’s honor the memories of those five nursing students by demanding that Congress and NHTSA immediately require the installation and use of forward collision avoidance technology on all tractor-trailers.

Gwinnett must act now to have traffic relief … by 2025!

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher, GwinnettForum.com

MAY 8, 2015 — There’s always a big time gap between conception of an idea and its completion.  That’s true in social interactions in getting people to agree, in marketing of a new product, and certainly in construction projects. 

An old idea is getting more attention in Gwinnett. More people are recognizing the need for the county to have a modern transit system, that is, to include some sort of rail system, whether it be light rail, perhaps street cars, or heavy rail, either connecting to the MARTA system, or even an extension of  MARTA itself.

For sure, if Gwinnett voters were to approve a MARTA referendum, or any kind of rail transit referendum, as early as the 2016 General Election, realize how long it would take to see the completion of construction of such a system.  Those involved in transit say that it would take at least six years, if not 7 to10 years, before the lines would be running. We’re then talking the year 2025.

That’s a long time to keep bottled up in traffic.

Should the approval of voters for such a system be delayed beyond the 2016 election, by another two to four years, then the rail transit system could not start until 2027 or 2029!

That’s why it is important today, in the year 2015, for serious discussion to begin looking at how people are going to be getting around Gwinnett in the future.

Our own reading is that right now, in 2015, a majority of Gwinnettians would vote for a rail system. After all, they are tired of being gridlocked and delayed on our highways. And since the last vote on MARTA in Gwinnett, back 25 years ago in 1990, nearly 500,000 people have moved into the county. Many of these new residents were used to rapid transit in their former communities. They can’t understand how Gwinnett is so far behind other communities in providing rapid rail transportation.

Recognize another element: rapid transit is obviously a tool for economic development. Firms considering moving to Gwinnett for expansion want to locate in a county where their employees can get around reasonably. Not having a transit system in Gwinnett is one reason new companies coming into Metro Atlanta might choose Fulton or DeKalb, or even Clayton County instead. We can make the job easier for those seeking to attract new firms to the county by working on transit now, in 2015.

Remember, too, that those people who will eventually use a rapid transit line in Gwinnett won’t necessarily just be people from Gwinnett. Residents in other parts of Atlanta will use rapid transit to go to their jobs in the expanding Gwinnett workplace. And yes, since rapid transit is partially supported by fares, they’ll be helping to pay for the system like Gwinnett riders do.

You can perhaps think of your own reasons for wanting rapid transit in Gwinnett.

We urge business leaders to come together to lobby for an early vote on rapid transit in the county. We urge the Chamber of Commerce and the county commission to take steps now to begin to pull people together to help bring solutions to our overcrowded highways.

To delay is to only exasperate the transportation problem. We need action beginning in 2015 to move this idea forward.

Time’s a’wasting!

Update on Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta Auction Now Underway

Several readers sought to snap up the last copies of the Gwinnett County history book, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, mentioned in the last GwinnettForum. The last two books offered at regular prices went quickly on Tuesday morning, with several other people also wanting to purchase a copy.

As a result, the fifth-from-last book is now being auctioned off, with the last bid of $50 for the copy. All other bids must increase at least by $5, with the deadline for this auction being 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 14. Half the proceeds of the last five books will be given to the Salvation Army.

After the fifth-from-last auction is over, the fourth-from-last book will be offered, with the starting bid on that book at $60.  Deadline from this sale will be May 21 at 9 a.m.

Even in New York City, the Golden Rule can bind us together

By Debra Houston

MAY 8, 2015 — My oldest son moved to New York City in March, specifically to midtown west, infamously known as “Hell’s Kitchen,” though he assures me it is no longer the hellhole of popular lore. Times Square and Broadway are nearby, and he texted me a photo he shot from his apartment window of a neon sign advertising a musical.

Houston

All of this was fascinating, but hailing from the huggy-huggy South, I had to ask, “Are the people nice there?”

He said New York was quite a culture shock after growing up in Gwinnett County, but admitted, “If you’re nice to New Yorkers, they’re nice back.” 

I consider myself a theorist by nature, and high on my list is the notion that people are people wherever you go.  Human hearts, regardless of their demographics, yearn for dignity. With the exception of wartime conditions, people of reason try to “do unto others as we would have them do unto us.” This is often hard to believe, especially after watching the news for more than five minutes, but remember, “bad news leads.”

Here’s the view of a Broadway show sign outside the window of Debra Houston’s son in New York City.

I first tested my theory in 1982 when my husband and I visited Paris. Before we left, some of our friends pooh-poohed the idea of vacationing in France, stating, “The French are the rudest people on earth and they despise us Americans.”

We disregarded their remarks and found more than enough French warmth  — from the woman who rescued my husband when he stepped onto the wrong train (headed to Italy without me when we should be headed to Paris together) to the man who stopped and explained the Metro to confused tourists from Lilburn. Kindness followed on the heels of kindness.

“People in New York are super busy, mom,” my son pointed out, “but generally they’re not rude.” 

When I visit New York in June, I will learn for myself what the Big Apple is like, but I feel confident enough to predict that my theory will once again pass the test.

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Wants more nursing students, more clinical options for them 

Editor, the Forum:

Thanks for your thought-provoking article on the nursing students. I have two daughters at Georgia Southern (GSU) , and while they are not nursing students, they do travel Interstate 16 to Savannah frequently, as do many other Southern students. (I encourage alternate routes!)

I think the idea of having a satellite campus in Savannah for GSU’s nursing students is a good one.  I do believe we need more—not less—nursing programs though.   We have a huge shortage of nurses, especially those willing to work in rural communities, like some of these students had planned to do.

The other problem? These students have a shortage of clinical options. The GSU students trained one semester at East Georgia Memorial in Statesboro, while the other was in Savannah. There are few hospitals in southeast Georgia that offer this type of training the students need.  There also are no trauma centers between Augusta and Savannah, (I understand, too expensive to operate for many of these communities).  It is a dilemma that this part of the state has been grappling with for decades.

Again, thanks for your thoughtful commentary. I hope it receives a wider audience.

— Rebecca Rakoczy, Madison

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UPCOMING   

Nash sworn in as president of County Commissioners’ association

Gwinnett County Chairman Charlotte Nash has been sworn in as president of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and will lead the association’s 40-member Board of Managers for the next year.

Nash

ACCG is Georgia’s county association and provides public policy and legislative advocacy, leadership development, civic and community engagement initiatives, insurance and retirement programs that specialize in local government needs and other cost-saving programs. Formed in 1914, ACCG today serves as a catalyst for advancing Georgia’s counties.

As ACCG President, Chairman Nash will work with ACCG Executive Director Ross King and the Board of Managers to lead the association and guide policies over the next year.  During this time, ACCG will be consolidating two of its offices and moving to 191 Peachtree Tower in Atlanta, completing the course design work for the ACCG Lifelong Learning Academy, working with the state to implement the new transportation law passed during the General Assembly, expanding the programs of the Civic Affairs Foundation.  and the state and federal government.

Ms. Nash says: “I am honored and humbled to serve as president as we enter the second century in ACCG’s history. I look forward to working with my fellow officers First Vice President Tommy Lyon of Elbert County, Second Vice President Allen Poole  of Haralson County and Third Vice President Harry Lange Harris County as we continue our efforts to advance Georgia counties.”

Chairman Nash was first elected to serve as Gwinnett County chairman in a special election in March 2011 and ran unopposed in the 2012 primary and general elections.  She has extensive experience in local government issues, having worked in Gwinnett County government for more than 25 years, as well as serving as president of a consulting firm specializing in governmental public strategy and management.  She was first named to the ACCG Board of Managers in 2012 as an At-Large Representative.

Hogan Construction gets contract for Lilburn City Hall-Library

Construction will begin soon on a new building to house both Lilburn City Hall and a Gwinnett Public Library branch. The two governments previously agreed on cost-sharing details for the project in May of last year after signing an initial understanding in 2011. Hogan Construction Group LLC of Norcross was the lowest of four bidders at $11,294,000.

Gwinnett County will manage construction and the two entities will share in the cost. The library portion of funding comes from SPLOST monies. Construction will take about 14 months. The 47,940-square-foot, two-level building will include 5,217 square feet of shared community and support space in addition to the 18,864-square-foot library and 24,927-square-foot city hall. It is designed to meet LEED Certification Version 3.0 through the U.S. Green Building Council.

Primary funding for Gwinnett’s public library system comes from Gwinnett County. District 2 Commissioner Lynette Howard says: “The existing Lilburn branch at 788 Hillcrest Road is one of the system’s oldest and smallest branches, so we are relocating it to a building twice the size and making it more computer-oriented.”

Lilburn had outgrown its present city hall at 76 Main Street. It needed space for public safety and municipal courts and wanted to develop a downtown core by relocating to a more accessible and prominent location. Mayor Johnny Crist says: “We want to express our sincere appreciation of the partnership formed in making this project a reality.”

The local governments have already worked together to realign Main Street with two roundabouts to smooth traffic flow to Old Town and to lower Church Street by eight feet to improve sight distance and safety. The $3.5-million project was also supported by the State Road and Tollway Authority and the Lilburn Community Improvement District.

Brenau University expands to location in Jacksonville, Fla.

The governing body of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has approved Brenau University’s application to begin immediately offering undergraduate and graduate degrees at a new location in Jacksonville, Fla.

This means that Brenau may start advertising for, recruiting and enrolling students now, says Brenau University President Ed L. Schrader.

Brenau plans to start initially offering both undergraduate and graduate level business degrees, including its a Masters of Business Administration, and a two-year Associate of Arts degree on the new campus.

Brenau’s educational format allows for continuous enrollments throughout the year with the university able to offer programs at the convenience of the students. Both on-campus classrooms and online courses will be offered.

Brenau several months ago completed the 4,380-square-foot build-out for leased space on the top floor of a former Bank of America four-story office building at 6622 Southpoint Drive on the south side of Jacksonville. The location is near the J.T. Butler Boulevard and I-95 interchange.

Donny Moore, who has overseen Brenau’s operations in Augusta, Georgia, since 2002, already is in place as the administrator for the Jacksonville site. Brenau has long-standing operations outside of Gainesville in Augusta, Fairburn, Norcross and north of Jacksonville at the U.S. Navy Kings Bay submarine base near St. Marys, Ga.

Lilburn Farmers Market gets grant from Community Foundation 

The Lilburn Farmers Market has received an $8,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. These funds will support the farmers market incentive programs with Wholesome Wave and The My Market Club and for community coaching to provide marketing support.

The Lilburn Farmers Market in partnership with Wholesome Wave Georgia wants all Georgians to have access to wholesome locally-grown food. By doubling Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars spent at our sustainable, producer only farmers market, it hopes to increase access to good food while supporting sustainable farmers and contributing to the local food economy. The My Market Club program offers new farmers market food shoppers monetary rewards to spend on local food.

Mandy McManus, Lilburn Farmers Market manager, says, “After serving the greater Lilburn community for the past five years, the Lilburn Farmers Market is proud to partner with these outstanding organizations to reach out to new potential customers and continue to bring locally grown and produced products to our area.”

Lilburn Farmers Market is a seasonal producer only market located at 1400 Killian Hill Road, Lilburn, operating every Friday night in June, July and August. The Lilburn Farmers Market partners with Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church and Project Generation Gap.

• Please visit www.lilburnfarmersmarket.org for more information. 

GMC becomes affiliated with Duke University Cancer Network

Gwinnett Medical Center along with the Duke Cancer Network announces a new research-based and educational affiliation. Gwinnett Medical Center is the only health system in the state to become an affiliate of this network. 

Phil Wolfe, Gwinnett Medical Center’s president and CEO, says: “Our affiliation with Duke Cancer Network ensures that our patients have access to an array of clinical trials thus expanding their treatment options to fight cancer. For some time, GMC has offered robust treatment options through its research capacities; however, this new affiliation takes our program to a new level.”

The affiliation with Duke will provide GMC membership into the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Alliance for Clinical Trials. Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) was established and designated by NCI as one of the first comprehensive cancer centers. Through the Network, the DCI offers patients and their providers access to the state-of-the-art research and education programs. These community collaborations also provide patients and their providers with greater access to the most advanced treatments and clinical trials closer to home.

Linda Sutton, MD, Medical Director of the Duke Cancer Network, adds:  “Gwinnett Medical Center has an existing infrastructure with highly-developed oncology and research capabilities. This partnership builds on GMC’s strengths and provides a host of options for those patients in metro Atlanta.” Dr. Sutton reiterated that one of Duke’s hallmarks is its commitment to excellence through clinical research.

Research is one of many cornerstones of GMC’s breadth of services for cancer patients. GMC patients can also take advantage of patient navigators, financial counselors and free supportive therapies in both the Duluth and Lawrenceville locations. For years, GMC has been committed to providing the community access to these resources; this new affiliation with Duke further complements Gwinnett Medical Center’s Cancer program. Currently, there are only eight organizations in the nation that have this same research affiliation.

GGC’s info tech students comp major international awards

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) Information Technology (ITEC) students recently competed at the Association of Information Technology Professional (AITP) National Collegiate Conference (NCC). They won three first place championships and one second place out of 14 categories.  A total of 173 student chapters with more than 2,000 student members representing colleges and universities in the States and Canada, gathered for the conference and competition.

The competition was fierce as Aida Syrkett, Lawrenceville, won first place in database design individually.  She and Matthew Berger, Loganville, teamed up to win both mobile application development and Java developer.  The team of Yury Park, originally from Seoul, South Korea, and Quan Tran, an international student from Chau Duc, Vietnam, earned a second place win in the Code-a-Thon.

The NCC is the ultimate event for members of AITP’s student program, which was started in 1968 and is designed for students planning careers in IT or related fields.

“I am so proud of our students for what they accomplished at the National Collegiate Conference,” said Dr. Thomas Mundie, dean of the School of Science and Technology. “It is evidence that we have one of the best IT programs in the nation and are quickly becoming known for the excellence of our students and faculty.” The mayor and City Council of Lawrenceville recognized GGC and the winning students as part of the May city council meeting.

Gwinnett Tech’s Murphy runner-up as state Instructor of Year

Sherron Murphy, Gwinnett Technical College’s 2015 Instructor of the Year, has been named first runner-up for the statewide Rick Perkins Award of Excellence in Technical Education. Murphy is a veteran early childhood care and education instructor. Murphy was one of nine finalists for the award, chosen from among top instructors from all of the TCSG’s 23 colleges. Murphy began her career in education in 2011 as a kindergarten teacher for New York City Public Schools. She went on to work as a master teacher for Easter Seals North Georgia before joining Gwinnett Tech in 2006 as the associate director/academic curriculum coordinator for the D. Scott Hudgens, Jr., Early Education Center on campus. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Clark Atlanta University and her master’s degree from New York University.

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Vidalia sweet onion may be Georgia’s best agricultural success story

The Vidalia sweet onion is perhaps the greatest agricultural success story in Georgia’s history. Mose Coleman, a Toombs County farmer, is believed to have been the first grower of the now popular commodity. In 1931 Coleman discovered that his onions were not hot, but rather mild. He managed to sell his onions for $3.50 per 50-pound bag, a very good price at the time. Other farmers in the area, who through the Great Depression years had not been able to get a fair price for their produce, thought Coleman had found a gold mine. They soon began to produce onions, too.

In the 1940s the state of Georgia built a farmers’ market in Vidalia to help the growers sell their produce. Before the construction of the interstate highway system Vidalia was at the crossroads of some of the most important north-south highways. Word spread among travelers about the tasty sweet onions from Vidalia.

The Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain also maintained a distribution center in Vidalia and purchased the locally grown onions when they were in season. Vidalia onions began showing up in Piggly Wiggly stores across the region. Acreage grew steadily over the next 20 years, and by the mid-1970s farmers in the area devoted about 600 acres to the onions.

In the 1970s a push was made for Vidalia onions to be marketed nationally, and growers began mounting additional promotional efforts. Their success led to the establishment of the Glennville sweet onion, named after the Tattnall County city situated about 35 miles southeast of Vidalia. Onion festivals were, and still are, held in both Glennville and Vidalia each May.

In the late 1970s and the early 1980s growers formed marketing groups or cooperatives in an effort to enhance marketing and to prevent bootleggers from selling rebagged onions from other states as Vidalias. In the early 1980s one farmer group advertised that consumers should look for the yellow tag on the bag of the “true” Vidalia sweet onions. Their efforts were reasonably successful and created quite a stir among growers, because some bona fide Vidalia onion farmers were not members of that group. As a result of the continued confusion over what constituted a genuine Vidalia or Glennville sweet onion, growers decided they all needed to work together.

(To be continued)

Buried in the sand?

CLUE: What’s this?  A person buried in the sand?  May be. Now figure out where all this is taking place, and send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include where you live.

Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill recognized the recent mystery photo immediately. She says it is the “Casa de Mateus in Portugal. I have not been there, but a woman in my book club toured Portugal and I remembered this because of what I thought was a dead body statue in the water. Hope someone knows why there’s a dead person in the pool!” It’s not a dead person in the pool, but a statue, but why, perhaps another reader can report. (Photo by EEB).

The significance of the photo is that this is where the owners of the vineyard that produces Mateus wine lives. Descendants of the original family still live in the house, while tourists can tour a portion of the house, with its ornate furniture, tapestries and photographs.

The only other person recognizing the photo was the reliable Ruthy Lachman Paul, of Norcross who wrote: “The city of Villa Real is the capital of the region Trás-os-Montes, in the north Portugal and its largest city. The city was starting in the 15 th century, and was the home of nobility/gentlefolk of Portugal. The magnificent Mateus palace is of the Italian Baroque-style, with wooden carvings well-known and lots of magnificent art. The gardens that surround the palace are considered the most beautiful in Portugal.”

Pinewood Derby

One of the most popular programs in Boy Scout is the many Pinewood Derby programs, enjoyed by both the Scouts and their fathers. Roving Photographer Frank Sharp captured this event in Lawrenceville, with its impressive starting path and finish line. Paul Richardson of Loganville of Pack 535, sponsored by the American Legion, is by the starting gate as the pinewood vehicles near the finish line, while onlookers watch the completion of the race.

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