9/25, full issue: Dog memories; Sloppy writing; Abbreviations; Political change

TWO ART PIECES:  A new mural is being exhibited in downtown Norcross, on the wall at the Paizanos pizza restaurant, on Wingo Street. The mural has the likeness of people important to the history of Norcross. It will be dedicated on Sunday, September 30 at 4 p.m. in Thrasher Park by the Norcross Public Arts Commission. Local Historian Gene Ramsay will give details on people depicted in the mural. Mosaic artist Jennifer Freeman will talk of the to-be-unveiled sculpture.

TODAY’S FOCUS: Months Later, Grief Hits, Finally Brings Relief about Loyal Companion

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Sloppy Writing and Old News Stories, Plus Check Out Abbreviations

ANOTHER VIEW: Who Has Changed, the Democratic Party or Its Former Followers?

SPOTLIGHT: Comet National Shipping

FEEDBACK: Thinks Outpouring of African-American Voters Will Elect Abrams

UPCOMING: Libertarian Party Forms Gwinnett Affiliate; Barker Is Chairman

NOTABLE: GGC Dedicates Family Executive Forum Area to Stephens Family

RECOMMENDED: Movie: Dog Days

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Church Bishop and Namesake of Andrew College Once Owned Slaves

MYSTERY PHOTO: Beautiful Columned Home Seeks Identification

CALENDAR: Georgia Author of the Year Katie Hart Smith To Visit GGC

Months later, grief hits, finally brings relief about loyal companion

By Billy Chism

TOCCOA, Ga.  |  Memories of my early childhood are hazy. But one memory remains clear: My dad lifting me up to see a puppy sitting inside a barrel in our backyard. I was four years old.

Chism

He had brought the puppy home from the town’s fire station, where an entire litter was dropped off.

We named him Spot. I probably insisted. For the next nine years, that scrawny little dog would become my constant companion, and a whole lot more.

He was short-haired, with a number of brown and black spots. His snout was brown on one side and black on the other, with a white streak up the middle. I loved to rub his head.

As the years went by, Spot and I spent endless summers in the woods behind our house – woods with towering longleaf pines and huge oaks, with a stream running through the middle.

Spot was with me when I built a pine-log hut in the woods, using pine branches to cover the roof.  On some days, we spent hours exploring every inch of the woods. We’d even spend time inside the hut, just lying there.

When we weren’t romping in the woods, I was riding my bike around the neighborhood. Most Saturday afternoons, I would ride my bike to the Park Theater for an afternoon double feature.

I would lean my bike against the side of the theatre. In a grassy area, Spot would curl up underneath my bike. When the movies were over, I would run outside. Spot always would be waiting for me.

When I was old enough for a newspaper route, Spot would run along beside my bike every morning as I delivered the Atlanta papers. An aging German Shepherd chased us at the end of the route each day, but we were always faster.

I never considered a time when I wouldn’t have Spot.

Then, one summer day my next-door neighbor, Don Tennyson, told me he had found Spot’s body in my hut. Don told me Spot must have been hit by a car, limping his way into the woods.

I was 13 years old when we buried Spot in Don’s backyard, next to where Crown was buried. Crown was Don’s dog and had died a few years earlier. For years, Spot and Crown were buddies. Now Spot was in the ground, covered with the same bricks that covered Crown’s grave.

For months, I thought about Spot. But I never cried.

Then, on a cold January afternoon after school, I was sitting in front of a gas heater in our hall. Blowers were putting out hot air. Suddenly, I began to weep. I cried and cried, finally realizing how much I missed my little dog.

For the first time, I experienced grief. Real grief. As I look back, I see this was another gift Spot gave me, preparing me for later times.

I’m now 67 and have lived a fortunate life. My family has been blessed. I’m grateful for that, and grateful for having a little dog. We had a grand old time.

Billy Chism is former editor and publisher of the White County News in Cleveland. He is retired and lives in Toccoa with his wife, Patti.    

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Sloppy writing and old news stories, plus check out abbreviations

By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher

SEPT. 25, 2018  |  Pet Peeve Department: Readers may be astounded to know how many people in the public relations field take a mighty lazy approach to writing a news story.

If we have seen one, we must have seen at least one a week, of the stories that begin this way: “This Company is pleased to announce……..”

Over and over we see stories starting off this way. So “….pleased to announce” gets our goat. Not wanting to bore our readers with this continual use of a sloppy phrase, we change it.  We simply have it to read: “This Company announces…..”  Simple and to the point.

Besides it being a sloppy and lazy beginning by the writer, let’s face it: the company itself cannot be pleased.  (And maybe the company can’t even announce!) Maybe people in the company may be pleased at the announcement, but a company is not a living, breathing person, and we know that the entity doesn’t have the means to give a hoot.

You PR scribes and practitioners: get more creative!

Abbreviation Test: Our former newspaper colleague Bruce Black of Peachtree Corners wonders how many simple abbreviations that are commonly used in the media the average person would know without resorting to Google.

We’ve picked 10 of his submissions for you to work on.  We’ll show the answers at the bottom of today’s offering.

So, what does these 10 abbreviations stand for?

1. CID
2. MSA
3. BOGO
4. PSA
5. ROI
6. LTL
7. AP
8. IB
9. Indy
10. API (an old one.)

Suckered Again: Every so often, an old story gets new legs. Within the last month, it was been the story about the Georgia town of Toomsboro being for sale.  That small town is located in northern Wilkinson County, where I am from, being born in the southern edge of that county.

A person who lives in Toomsboro presently was baffled by the “announcement” that the town was for sale. “The “Toomsboro for Sale” story pops up in the national media every two or three years.  Far from being the whole town, many of the vacant downtown buildings have been owned by the same guy from Florida for at least ten years.  For sale signs have been up almost that long.  I don’t think anybody is stupid enough to pay what he wants for the properties.  More importantly, nobody has a good idea of what to do with it once they buy it, short of throwing away a lot of money to maintain the property.”  

Abbreviation Answers: Check to see how you did:

1. CID: Community Improvement District.
2. MSA: Metropolitan Statistical Area.
3. BOGO: Buy One, Get One free.
4. PSA: Public Service Announcement.
5. ROI: Return on Investment.
6. LTL: Less than Truckload.
7. AP: Advanced Placement.
8. IB: International Baccalaureate.
9. Indy: Independent retail store.
10. API: Alabama Polytechnic Institute (The original name of Auburn University.)

Traveling Sign: Cece Turner of Auburn reports that the sign in Duncan’s Corner pointing the way to parts of the world has been moved….across the street. Seems a developer is working on the land where the sign was originally located, and at least had the good sense to keep the distinctive sign intact across the street. (The mileage to the distant lands won’t change!)

This sign caused Roving CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt years ago to stop and talk to the late Mr. L.D. Duncan about why he had the sign up.  Mr. Duncan said that many travelers got lost in the area, often knocking on his door for directions. So he erected the sign, with direction of the ways to many places, including both London and Hong Kong. But even then, people often wanted directions from him. His idea: “People can’t read.”

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Who has changed, the Democratic Party or its former followers?

By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga.  “Tell the truth, tell me who has been fooling you? Tell the truth, who has been fooling who?”- Eric Clapton

A social media posting came from a close friend, a hard hat, stating that he could not understand what happened to the Democratic Party of his father. And, that it had changed, and that is why he could not support Democrats.

Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were the Presidents that my friend believes were the best. Both were liberals, although my friend doesn’t realize it, and Democrats.

Per the left-wing New Republic (June 4, 1913), Wilson “signed bills that created the Federal Reserve and progressive income tax rates, secured humane working conditions for merchant seamen and railroad workers, restricted child labor and curbed the power of large corporations. After the U.S. entered the war in Europe, his administration began operating the railroads.” The only area in which Wilson, a Southerner, was conservative happens to be race. He supported Jim Crow.

Per the historian Arthur Schlesinger: “The world we live in today is Franklin Roosevelt’s world.” According to The Nation, a leading liberal publication, Roosevelt wanted a “world based on four fundamental human freedoms—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.”

Roosevelt was undoubtedly a liberal; he was even called a socialist by Republican Congressmen. Among his “New Deal” actions, he signed the Securities and Exchange and Glass-Steagall Acts, reforming banking and creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Securities and Exchange Commission. He was responsible for Congress creating the Civilian Conservation Corps, directly employing people, and having the Federal Government give cash to states for unemployment benefits. He pushed Congress to regulate agriculture and create the Rural Electric Authority and Tennessee Valley Authority. He pressured Congress to create Social Security. These are only a few of the left-of-center actions pushed by FDR, who also wanted universal health insurance.

Many of these ideas are now promoted by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and others. So, it is clear that the Democratic Party has not strayed very far from its core principle: by taking a larger role, government can improve our lives. It is the blue-collar worker who has changed, buying the refrain that somehow the Democratic Party no longer represents them.

On the other hand, there has been one change: The Democratic Party is now the defender of minorities (Blacks, Hispanics, Gays, etc.) and women. Is that why white blue-collar men are leaving the party? Decide for yourself.

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Thinks outpouring of African-American Voters will elect Abrams

Editor, the Forum:

There is tremendous vitality in the African-American women’s vote.  They are getting out the vote; they’re voting; and they’re running for office.  They got Doug Jones elected in Alabama, and I believe with all my heart that they will get Stacey Abrams elected in Georgia. That will be the best thing that’s happened to Georgia in a very long time.

— Susan Northcutt, Lawrenceville

Feels one guy predicts a depression, it means economy will do well

Editor, the Forum:

If George Wilson is predicting a depression, a great economy is inevitable. This guy can’t pick winners.

          —  Alan Crowell, Duluth

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Libertarian Party forms Gwinnett affiliate; Barker Is chairman

The Libertarian Party of Georgia announces a new affiliate, the Libertarian Party of Gwinnett County. The affiliate was formed earlier this year and is already beginning to grow and increase its involvement in Gwinnett County.

Officers of the local party are David Barker, Lawrenceville, chairman; Theirn Scott, Lawrenceville, vice chairman; and James Stuart, Sugar Hill, secretary.

Several Libertarian candidates will appear on Georgia ballots this year.  Ted Metz of Atlanta is seeking to become governor; Smythe Duval of Marietta, secretary of state; and two persons are seeking the two slots on the Public Service Commission, John Turpish of Vinings and Ryan Graham of Atlanta. In addition, the Libertarian candidate for commissioner of insurance is Donnie Foster of Atlanta.

Two Libertarians are running for Congressional seats. Aaron Gilmer of Canton seeks the District 9 Congressional slot, while Martin Cowen of Jonesboro is running in District 13.

Three candidates are running for the Georgia House of Representatives. Jay Strickland of Smyrna is running for the House in District 42; Patrick Marcacci of Sandy Springs runs in District 52; and Desmond Kennedy of Stockbridge in District 90.

The Libertarian Party believes and supports smaller government, less taxes and more freedom. Barker says: “The Libertarian Party is committed to America’s heritage of freedom: individual liberty and personal responsibility, a free-market economy of abundance and prosperity, a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace and free trade.”

The affiliate meets at 7 p.m. on the fourth Monday of every month, at McCray’s Tavern on the Square in Lawrenceville. Anyone is welcome to attend and be part of the discussion. For additional information, leave a message on the Facebook page, follow on Twitter, or via email at david.barker@lpgeorgia.com.

GGC dedicates Family Executive Forum area to Stephens family

A big contingent of Georgia Gwinnett college supporters helped dedicate a new executive conference center recently. Among them on the front row:  U.S. Representative Rob Woodall; Regent Richard Tucker of the University System of Georgia; Senators Renee Unterman and David Shafer; Rep Pedro Marin; Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson’ GGC student Alexandra Yon; Reps. Dar’shun Kendrick, Sam Park and Timothy Barr; and  Lilburn Mayor Johnny Christ. On the second row are Lawrenceville City Councilman Tony Powell;  GGC President Stas Preczewski; and  Lawrenceville City Councilmen Robert Clark and David Still.

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) welcomed Gwinnett community leaders recently for a “Celebration of Growth and Appreciation.” The day’s events included a ribbon-cutting and a facility dedication.

Guests gathered first for a tour and dedication of the Stephens Family Executive Forum, a state-of-the-art, corporate-style facility that will host executive speakers, teleconferences and other interactive presentations. The 1,600-square foot room will seat 59 and feature the latest in audio-visual technologies.

Stephens

The executive forum was made possible by a significant gift from the family of Gwinnett resident John D. Stephens in support of the college’s commitment to high-quality higher education. Entrances will bear special signage recognizing the Stephens family.

President Stas Preczewski says: “We greatly appreciate the generosity of the Stephens family and their commitment to providing our students with a learning space that will prepare them for today’s professional working environments.”

The Stephens Family Executive Forum is located in Building W, a recently completed academic building expansion of 54,000 square feet. The structure includes faculty offices, classrooms, student gathering and study areas, the dean’s office for the School of Transitional Studies, an office, activity and classroom suite for the GGC Honors Program, and an experimental classroom designed for project-based, experiential and service learning activities.

While Building W opened in time to welcome students for the fall semester last month, the college held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony today to mark its completion. It also marked the end of Georgia Gwinnett’s formative construction period, during which the college built all key operational facilities.

Preczewski adds: “This year will be our first without a major construction project on campus. While the construction crane may no longer be our unofficial mascot, our momentum continues in meaningful ways as GGC shifts more attention toward refining our operations, enhancing the student experience, and deepening the relationships of the college with our local business, nonprofit and civic stakeholders. Thanks to their support, GGC continues to be a transformative model for high-quality higher education that changes lives, families and communities.”

Suwanee’s annual report wins national publication award

The City of Suwanee 2016 Annual Report is the national 2018 Savvy Award winner in the category of Graphic Design – Publications. The announcement came during the City-County Communications and Marketing Association meeting in Milwaukee on September 6.

Dubbed “The World’s Most Amazing Annual Report,” Suwanee’s 2016 financial accounting document was written and illustrated in the style of a classic Marvel comic book. The report tells the story of Suwanee, where children frolic in fountains, music plays in the town square, and “happiness is at an all-time high.” Woven within the 16-page narrative are the facts and figures of a traditional annual report.

Over 700 entries in 40 categories were submitted for Savvy Awards this year. 3CMA utilized volunteer judges from across the United States to review every entry and provide constructive comments on the winning entries.

“A traditional annual report is just a bunch of numbers, and it’s boring!” says Abby Wilkerson, City of Suwanee Public Information Officer and the author of the city’s 2016 annual report. “In our version, the numbers are still there, but the comic book tells the story in a more entertaining way.”

GACS senior Victoria Huynh is National Merit Semi-Finalist

Huynh

Senior Victoria Huynh of Greater Atlanta Christian School (GACS)was recently selected as a semifinalist for the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Competition. She is among approximately 16,000 semifinalists nationwide, which represents less than one percent of all U.S. high school seniors.

Semifinalists are selected from about 1.6 million high school students who took the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during their junior year. These semifinalists are competing for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million. Those scholarships will be announced in the spring of 2019.

Victoria Huynh thrives on academics and enjoys academic competitions. She has been a participant in GACS Debate and Mock Trial. She has a passion for politics and women’s rights. Her aspirations for the future are to attend a great university and then pursue medical school.

Movie: Dog Days

Reviewed by Cindy Evans, Duluth  |  My husband and I recently saw this adorable movie! It was a really sweet film for dog owners and non-dog owners alike. There were several stories and characters that all intertwine in special ways. This movie will have you tearing up multiple times. There are also some very funny lines and we laughed out loud. The acting was spot on and you will also want to stay for the funny outtakes. Eva Longoria was especially good as Grace! Definitely recommended for the whole family, catch it in the theaters now. (PG, 1:53.)

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Church bishop and namesake of Andrew College once owned slaves

James Osgood Andrew was a 19th-century Methodist Episcopal Church bishop whose possession of slaves generated controversy within the denomination. Andrew became the symbol of the slavery issue that divided the church in 1844 and instigated the separation of northern and southern Methodist Episcopalians the following year.

The son of Mary Cosby and John Andrew, James Osgood Andrew was born in Wilkes County on May 3, 1794. In 1789 his father became the first native Georgian to enter the Methodist ministry. Young Andrew was licensed to preach by the South Carolina Conference in 1812. The first 20 years of his ministry included the Salt Ketcher Circuit in South Carolina, Bladen Circuit in North Carolina, and the Augusta and Savannah circuits in Georgia. In 1824 he was appointed presiding elder of the Edisto district, which included Charleston, S.C.

From 1820 to 1832, he was elected delegate to the quadrennial General Conferences, and in 1832 he was chosen bishop. Andrew moved from Augusta to Newton County in 1836 to be near the Methodist Manual Labor School, of which he was a trustee. This institution later became Emory College at Oxford.

His Episcopal assignments took him to annual conferences throughout the south and west.

The details surrounding Andrew’s ownership of slaves, and particularly the way in which he acquired them, are the subject of some debate. According to most published accounts, Andrew never bought or sold a slave; rather he had become a slave owner through his wives. In 1816 Andrew married Ann Amelia MacFarlane, with whom he had six children. Upon her death in 1842, she bequeathed him a slave. Andrew’s second wife, Leonora Greenwood, whom he married in 1844, was also a slave owner. When she died in 1854, he married Emily Sims Childers.

Some evidence exists, however, to suggest that Andrew may have first acquired slaves earlier than 1842. A man named James Osgood Andrew is listed on the1830 Athens census as the owner of two slaves, although this man may not have been the bishop. The U.S. census of 1840, taken four years after Andrew is known to have moved to Newton County, lists him as a resident of that county and the owner of 13 slaves.

Andrew’s ownership of slaves, by whatever means, was contrary to Episcopal custom. A growing abolitionist movement was evident within Methodist ranks at the General Conference of 1844. The real issue was whether or not the Methodist Episcopal Church would accept or disapprove of slavery. Northern delegates sponsored a resolution asking Andrew to “desist” from exercising the Episcopal office as long as he owned slaves.

Southern delegates countered that the church would be destroyed in states that prohibited emancipation. The resolution passed by a vote of 110 to 69. A Plan of Separation between northern and southern Methodist Episcopalians resulted, and the next year representatives of the Southern Annual Conferences met in Louisville, Ky., to organize their own church. The first General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, assembled in Petersburg, Va., in 1846, and Andrew was invited to preside.

During his career, Andrew contributed to religious periodicals and published two books, Family Government (1846) and Miscellanies (1854). During the Civil War (1861-65), he resided in Summerfield, Ala. After his retirement in 1866, Andrew continued to conduct church conferences when his health permitted. He died in the home of a daughter and son-in-law, the Reverend and Mrs. J. W. Rush, in Mobile, Ala, in 1871, and was buried in Oxford. Andrew College in Cuthbert is named for him.

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Home is all decked out and alighted, as if awaiting guests

Today’s Mystery Photo is all alighted, as if guests are expected.  Traditional in design, all we ask is that you tell us where it is located, and something about the house. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.

Either Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. was the only person to identify the most recent Mystery Photo, or we lost some emails.  Allan wrote:  “Today’s mystery photo is of the main entrance to the Zwinger Park and Memorial in Dresden, Germany. The Zwinger is a fortress and palace built in Baroque style and designed by court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. It served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court. The original location was formerly part of a 12th century fortress of which the outer wall is conserved and still standing. The main entrance shown in the mystery photo is called the ‘Kronentor’ gate, which in German means ‘Crown Gate’.

“The name ‘Zwinger’ derives from the German word meaning ‘an enclosed killing ground in front of a castle or city gate’ and is named for the cannons that were placed between the outer wall and the inner defensive wall. The Zwinger was not enclosed by the outer walls until the Neoclassical building by Gottfried Semper called the Semper Gallery was built on its northern side in the 18th century.

“Today, the Zwinger is a museum complex that contains the Old Masters Picture Gallery, the Dresden Porcelain Collection, and the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments. I have attached a photo (from Wikipedia) that shows the view today from inside the Zwinger Memorial so that the reader can get a better perspective of the grandeur and scale of the outer walls, the palace and the interior garden.”

AUTHOR VISIT: Meet Georgia author of the year Katie Hart Smith at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore inside Building E of Georgia Gwinnett College on Wednesday, September 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. She has written a wide array of work ranging from medical and academic to non-fiction and children’s stories. Inspired by people, places, and political and social issues, Smith’s writing also includes a monthly column in the Gwinnett Citizen newspaper titled “From the Heart.”

HAPPY CARNIVAL returns to Suwanee on Saturday, September 29 from 2 to 9 p.m. at Suwanee Town Center. Among activities will be carnival games and rides, inflatables, food trucks, talent competition and music. The talent show will provide $250 cash prize in each age group., with a $20 entry fee. Proceeds benefit Happyfest, a 501c(3) nonprofit. More details can be found at www.happyfeat.org. Enjoying a previous Carnival are Erika Gill, Leann Morgan, Allison Wright, Jay Thrasher and Madi Sheerer. On back row is Cameron Chalmers.

Sophie and the Pirates will have 15 performances  through October 6 by the Gainesville Theater Alliance on the state at Pierce Auditorium at Brenau University. Patrons can select and purchase their seats on the website, www.gainesvilleTHEATREalliance.org, or by calling the GTA Box Office at 678-717-3624, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ART AUCTION: Through October 7 you can bid on the Kudzu Art Zone’s annual 12×12 Extravaganza Silent Auction and Fine Art Exhibit, at its location at 116 Carlyle Street in Norcross. Over 100 works by member artists are offered, along with nine themed baskets for bidding.  The paintings are all 12 x 12 inches, small and affordable, perfect for gift giving; bids start at $50 or are available for immediate purchase at $100. For information on this affair, classes or workshops call 770-840-9844 or see the website:   www.kudzuartzone.org. Hours are Fridays and Saturdays 11 am to 4 pm.

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