1/8 full issue: Berryhill to coach again; Oldest law firm; Blue wave?

POSSIBLE GREENWAY: Gateway85 CID is undertaking a study to develop a concept for a greenway near Beaver Ruin Creek.  This proposed multi-use trail and greenspace will expand connectivity, improve accessibility, promote a healthy lifestyle and capitalize on available open space while complementing proposed mixed-use development in the district. A public meeting is scheduled Wednesday, January 16 at 4 p.m. at the CID Office, 1770 Indian Trail-Lilburn Road, suite 150.During this public meeting, the public is invited to share thoughts, provide insight and help refine the Beaver Ruin Creek Greenway concept. No RSVP required.  Contact Matt Gore for questions.

TODAY’S FOCUS: Damon Berryhill Returns to Manage Gwinnett Stripers for Third Season

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Powell and Edwards Continues Run as Longest Ongoing Law Firm

ANOTHER VIEW: Were the Midterms a Blue Wave or Just New High Water Level?

SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre

UPCOMING: Gwinnett County Budget for 2019 Is $1.82 billion, Up 4.8 Percent

NOTABLE: Deadline is January 31 for Submitting Snap Suwanee Photographs

RECOMMENDED: The Journey, a film.

GEORGIA TIDBIT: W.E.B. Dubois Had Productive Years Working in Georgia

MYSTERY PHOTO: Clues include Harbor, Water and Boats in This Mystery Photo

LAGNIAPPE: Here’s why Gwinnett Place Area Roads Stay So Clean

CALENDAR: A New Year Brings More and More Upcoming Events

Berryhill returns to manage Gwinnett Stripers for 3^rd season

By Dave Lezotte

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.   |  The Atlanta Braves have announced that Manager Damon Berryhill will return as manager of  Gwinnett Stripers for the 2019 season. This will be Berryhill’s third season in this position. He will be joined by three coaches in their first season with the Stripers, pitching Coach Mike Maroth, hitting Coach Bobby Magallanes,  Coach Einar Díaz and Athletic Trainer Nick Jensen, who will be in his second season.

Berryhill

The Gwinnett Stripers open the 2019 season at Coolray Field on Thursday, April 4 with a 7:05 p.m. game against the Norfolk Tides. Memberships for 2019 are on sale now by calling the Coolray Field Ticket Office at 678-277-0340. For more information, visit GoStripers.com/memberships.

Berryhill, 55, has guided Gwinnett to a 141-140 (.502) record over two seasons since being named the sixth manager in team history on December 12, 2016. The Laguna Beach, Calif. native piloted the Stripers to a 70-69 record and a second-place finish in the International League South Division in 2018, the team’s first winning record since 2015. Gwinnett finished fourth in the International League Wild Card race, just 3.5 games behind winner Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Berryhill owns a career record of 559-527 (.515) in 1,086 games across 10 seasons as a minor league manager with the Texas Rangers (2008), Los Angeles Dodgers (2009-15), and Braves (2017-current) organizations. He was named Pacific Coast League Manager of the Year in 2015 while with Triple-A Oklahoma City.

Selected by the Chicago Cubs in the first round of the 1984 January draft, Berryhill enjoyed a 10-year Major League career as a catcher with the Cubs (1987-91), Braves (1991-93), Boston Red Sox (1994), Cincinnati Reds (1995), and San Francisco Giants (1997). He batted .240 with 47 home runs and 257 RBIs in 684 regular-season games and appeared in 20 postseason games with the Braves (1992-93) and Giants (1997).

Maroth, 41, enters his fourth season with the Braves organization, his first as Gwinnett’s pitching coach. He served as the pitching coach for Advanced-A Florida in 2018.

Maroth joined the Braves in September 2015 and spent his first two years working as the minor league pitching rehabilitation coordinator (2016-17). Prior to joining Atlanta, he logged four seasons as a pitching coach in the Detroit Tigers organization. Originally selected by the Boston Red Sox in the 1998 draft, Maroth pitched for five different organizations during his 13-year professional career, including the Red Sox (1998-99), Tigers (1999-2007), St. Louis Cardinals (2007), Kansas City Royals (2008), and Minnesota Twins (2010).

Magallanes, 49, joins the Braves organization as Gwinnett’s hitting coach after four seasons in the Cleveland Indians system. He spent 2018 as the bench coach for Triple-A Columbus after serving as the hitting coach for the rookie-level Arizona League Indians the previous three years (2015-17).

Magallanes has a 17-year minor league coaching career The Los Angeles, Calif. native was named the Angels Minor League Employee of the Year in 2003 and was selected to the World Team coaching staff for the 2011 MLB All-Star Futures Game.

Díaz, 46, joins the Braves organization as a coach with Gwinnett following six seasons (2013-18) on the Major League staff of the Baltimore Orioles. A native of Chiriquí, Panama, Díaz was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent catcher in 1990 and went on to play 11 Major League seasons.

Jensen, 26, returns for his second season as Gwinnett’s certified athletic trainer, his fourth season in the Braves organization. He has also held the same post with the rookie-level Gulf Coast League Braves (2016) and Class-A Rome (2017). He holds a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from East Carolina University and a master’s degree with a concentration in athletic training from the University of Delaware.

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Powell and Edwards continues run as longest ongoing law firm

By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher

JAN. 8, 2019  |  The oldest continuing law firm in Gwinnett is changing its name—again.

The new firm is named Powell and Edwards of Lawrenceville. It was previously known as Webb, Tanner and Powell. Jones Webb and Bill Tanner both have retired from management of the firm, though continue as “of counsel” with offices at the firm.

Tradition at the firm is to change its name when partners retire. The firm was originally begun at Allison and Pittard, back in 1929, when Marvin Allison and Charles Pittard joined forces from their previous private practices. Allison also began  publishing the Lawrenceville News-Herald in 1941.

Webb

Jones Webb joined the firm in 1952.  Later, at Allison’s death and with Pittard being elected the first judge of the Gwinnett circuit (out of the Piedmont Circuit). Webb was the sole lawyer at the firm before bringing in Howard Fowler.  The two had grown up across the road from each other in Etowah, Tenn.

Webb had graduated from the University of Tennessee, and married Marian Allison while in the Army in 1950. He then attended the University of Georgia law school, and began his legal practice in 1959 with Allison and Pittard.

Webb recruited Fowler, an Air Force veteran, and who was an Emory University law graduate, having practiced in Tifton and Macon before accepting a post with a Gainesville law firm. Shortly after Allison died and Pittard became a Superior Court judge, Webb asked Fowler in 1960 to join him in practice.

Tanner

Bill Tanner, a Lawrenceville native, came to the firm in 1966, soon after first starting in law with an Atlanta firm. When joining the firm, there was a lot of land speculation in Gwinnett, and Tanner specialized in real estate law. Soon the firm was known as Webb, Fowler and Tanner.

Over the years, about 50 now prominent Gwinnett attorneys began their careers with the firm, and later went on to their own practices. One of the most prominent was Larry Edmundson, who became a partner at the firm, and was the attorney for the Gwinnett School Board.  Later he would leave the firm to become a judge on the U.S. Fifth Circuit of Court of Appeals.

Tony Powell

Anthony (Tony) Powell, 61, grew up in Lawrenceville and joined the firm in 1982. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and the Mercer University Law School. He has specialized mostly in municipal law, representing the City of Lawrenceville for 25 years; and the city of Snellville for 10 years. He and also represents the cities of Auburn and Social Circle. It’s been a tradition for the firm to represent cities back to the original Allison-Pittard days.

The current Powell-Edwards firm has three partners and six associates. Besides Tony Powell, the other two partners are Nathan Powell (Tony’s son), and Brian Edwards.

Edwards

Nathan Powell

Nathan Powell is a graduate of Greater Atlanta Christian School and the Georgia State University Law School. He became a partner in the firm in 2016.  He and his wife live in Dacula. His special interest is in civil litigation and estate planning. His mother, Emily Powell, is a senior magistrate judge in Gwinnett.

Brian Edwards, who is from Snellville, is a graduate of Shiloh High School, and earned both his bachelor’s and law degree from the University of Georgia. He and his wife live in Tucker. He has been with the firm since 2004 and his specialty is commercial real estate transactions.

First known as Allison-Pittard, today Powell and Edwards continues that line of succession and is the oldest continuing practice in Gwinnett.

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Were the midterms a blue wave or just new high-water level?

By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga.  |  The Democrats won big time in this year’s mid-terms. Hopefully, that will silence Trumpettes who said “You can’t believe the polls” because of the 2016 election polling inaccuracies. But, the real questions for the Democrats is strategic: “Where do we go from here?”

The progressive wing is pushing for more leftward movement on items like “Medicare for All” and student loan forgiveness. What’s left of the moderate wing is convinced that the Dems should fill the centrist hole created by the abdication of the GOP in its rapid capitulation to all things Trump. Here is my take.

The mid-terms were not about the Democrats at all. They were about President Trump. He is just unlikeable, even if you support his policies.

Trump is an arrogant know-it-all who pushes around his considerable weight (239 or maybe 329?). He’s the stereotypical type of New York City guy that is despised in most rural areas of our nation, especially the South. Frankly, I am very surprised that the white rural areas still support this con man, but they do.

On the other hand, white women are fed up with his misogynistic bombast. And, the more educated they are, the more fed up they are. That’s why the Democrats swept the normally Republican suburbs.

However, even if he is proven by Robert Mueller to be guilty of conspiracy and obstruction, simply going after Trump via impeachment by the House is not enough. Frankly, what happens if the House succeeds? The Senate, controlled by amoral, calculating Mitch McConnell, will never remove him. Even if it does, Mike Pence, not a liberal, becomes president. In the meantime, the public becomes angered about a do-nothing Congress, but this time the Democrats in the House take half the blame.

Therefore, if the Democrats want to win in 2020 and beyond, it’s up to the them to come up with broad policy proposals to make the lives of ordinary Americans better, especially the blue-collar Trump Democrats in the rust belt states. And then they must aggressively and unabashedly sell these proposals to the voters. Medicare expansion is a good start, as is higher education financing and infrastructure.

But, explain how these ideas can be financed without turning us into Greece. And, be upfront and state that corporations and the wealthy need their tax breaks (implemented under Bush, Obama and Trump) taken away to partially pay for these expenditures. The Democrats can make the wave into a permanent new water level, but only if they have the courage of their convictions.

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Aurora Theatre

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Gwinnett County budget for 2019 is $1.82 billion, up 4.8 percent

The Gwinnett Board of Commissioners adopted a $1.82 billion budget for 2019 last week. Board members held a public hearing on the budget December 10 and accepted comments in writing and online before making their final decision.

The operating budget, excluding transfers between funds, is up about 4.8 percent. Much of the increase in the operating budget is related to increased personnel costs as the county adds personnel and addresses compensation issues. The budget includes a $1.39 billion operating budget and $438 million for capital improvements, including SPLOST-funded projects.

In regards to the increase in staffing, Nash noted that Gwinnett’s population has grown by 22 percent since 2008 while County staff has only increased eight percent.

Nash said the annual budget maintains core county services such as police and fire protection, jail, courts, roads, transit and water. Additions for new or ongoing initiatives reflect priorities set by the Board of Commissioners last spring.

She says: “This budget continues Gwinnett’s tradition of conservative budgeting based on multi-year planning. It maintains adequate reserves, uses pay-as-you-go financing for capital improvements and also sets aside money for future obligations.”

One focus for the 2019 budget is making sure that a “safe and healthy community” remains a top priority. The budget adds more police officers in the community and sheriff’s deputies to staff the detention center as well as new courtrooms resulting from the expansion of the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. The budget includes funding for Fire and Emergency Services positions and construction of the Georgia State Patrol Post 51. Commissioners also added about $250,000 in seed money to address the opioid crisis.

Another priority, “mobility and access,” includes expanding transit and improving and maintaining roads and the airport.

Maria Woods, director, Department of Financial Services, says that funds for economic development and redevelopment, a new Water Innovation Center, reliable Infrastructure, and the 2040 Unified Plan fall under the “strong vibrant local economy” priority, while “Communication and engagement” includes the addition of education and outreach positions for the departments of Planning and Development and Community Services.

The tax digest, the value of all assessed property, is above its pre-recession level at $30.3 billion after hitting a low in 2013 and beginning to recover in 2014. Less than half of the total operating budget is funded with property tax revenue.

Braselton seeking to develop 71-acre park on town property

The Town of Braselton is seeking a Georgia firm to develop a master plan for a community park and provide bid documents. The park is to be located on a 71-acre tract owned by the Town.

Submittals will be considered from firms with demonstrated and verifiable experience in the design and development of recreational parks and green space areas, says City Manager Jennifer Scott. Proposals must be submitted by February 8, 2019 at 2 p.m.

The Town may select one firm or may select multiple firms to engage for specific services. The full RFQ as well as addenda to this RFQ, if issued, will be posted on the Town’s website at: www.braselton.net/town_info/rfp_bids/index.php

• All questions may be submitted via email no later than February 1, 2019 at 5 p.m.

Deadline is Jan. 31 for submitting Snap Suwanee photographs

The City of Suwanee is accepting submissions through January 31 for its annual Snap Suwanee photo competition. The annual photography competition provides a means for participants to share images that convey something telling about the Suwanee community, and is open to professional and amateur photographers alike.

The mission of the contest is to celebrate the City of Suwanee; therefore, all photos entered will ideally be composed of subjects and locations within the Suwanee city limits within the past two years.

A panel of judges will select images that best depict Suwanee; an overall Judges’ Choice winner will also be named. Winning photographs will be exhibited for a one-year period at City Hall beginning in March. Visit Suwanee.com for more information and an entry form.

The Journey, a film

This is a background fictional account of how ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland were settled, bringing about the peace accords. It brings together two key players (and enemies), Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, who meet for the first time and are forced to travel together (and start to speak to one another), on a hours-long auto journey in bad weather to catch a private jet to take Paisley to his 50^th wedding anniversary. Both eventually open up and start to steadfastly defend their positions. Both have long seen each other as villains, Paisley seeing McGuinness as a terrorist, and McGuinness feeling that Paisley is using his influence for violence.  Finally, after rigorous arguments by each person, the two eventually realize the greater good can take place by them agreeing that both sides were wrong, rather than continue fighting. They shake hands. Peace is achieved. It’s a plausible account of a significant moment.  –eeb.  (available on Netflix).

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Du Bois had productive years working in Georgia

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist who poignantly addressed the issues of racial discrimination, black social problems, and world peace during the first half of the 20th century. During two extended stays in Atlanta, 1897-1910 and 1934-44, Du Bois contributed immensely to the black intellectual and activist community and produced a number of studies that explored the social, economic, and political conditions of African Americans in Georgia and across the United States.

Du Bois

In Georgia, Du Bois wrote some of his best-known works, including The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, and Black Reconstruction, and established a journal dealing with the African American experience called Phylon. (Phylon resumed publication in 2015 as an online journal, a collaborative effort of the Atlanta University Center‘s Woodruff Library and Clark Atlanta University.) Du Bois’s life and work in Georgia improved the lives of blacks in the state and across the country while educating all races about the contributions of African Americans to American society.

Du Bois was born in the small New England hamlet of Great Barrington, Mass.  In 1885 Du Bois attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. There he was exposed to the harsh realities of Jim Crow segregation and the social and economic residuals of slavery that continued to keep most blacks in a squalid state of poverty and impotence in the South. Du Bois graduated from Fisk in 1888 with a B.A. degree .

Du Bois enrolled in Harvard in the fall of 1888. He entered as a junior because Harvard would not accept all of his Fisk credits. He graduated cum laude in 1890, receiving a B.A. degree. In 1891 he received an M.A. degree in history from Harvard, and between 1892 and 1894 he studied in Germany at the University of Berlin. After returning to the United States in 1894, Du Bois accepted a professorship at Wilberforce University in Ohio and completed his dissertation on the African slave trade, receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1896.

Du Bois left Wilberforce in 1896 and accepted a position as an assistant instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he embarked on a sociohistorical urban study of African Americans in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Negro (1899). This study remains a pioneering work in urban sociology.

Before publishing The Philadelphia Negro, Du Bois accepted a faculty position at Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) in 1897. Atlanta University president Horace Bumstead brought Du Bois to Atlanta to establish a sociology program and to develop the university’s curriculum. Du Bois’s major work to come out of this relationship was his famous series of conferences and studies on black social conditions called the Atlanta University Studies.

(to be continued)

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Clues include harbor, water and boats in this Mystery Photo

Harbors, water and boats often make good Mystery Photos. Where’s this one?  Send in your answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.

James Pugsle of Atlanta was the first with the answer to the last mystery photo, recognizing a bridge near Mobile. The photo came from Lou Camerio of Lilburn. James wrote “This appears to be the Interstate 65 bridge over the Tensaw River north of Mobile.” He adds: “In 1970, three friends and I built a raft, and floated it from Montgomery to Mobile, through the Tensaw. At night the jungle was black and noisy with animals, and the moonlight sparkled off of huge white sand sandbars.”

George Graf of Palmyra, Va. gives more detail: “The General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge (aka The Dolly Parton Bridge) located in Creola, Ala., carries four lanes of Interstate 65 across the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta northeast of Mobile, Alabama. Built from 1978 to 1980, it spans a distance of 6.08 miles (10 km) over the delta, making it, along with the Jubilee Parkway across Mobile Bay to its south, among the longest bridges in the nation. Walter K. Wilson, a chief of engineers with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and long-term resident of Mobile, is credited with being one of the first people recognizing the need to construct a high-level bridge on Interstate 65 over the Mobile River that would not impede waterway development. The state of Alabama named the bridge in his honor after completion of construction in 1978.”

Another view, from Susan McBrayer

Alan Peel, San Antonio, Tex., writes: “The photo was taken from the car as it heads North on I-65, just before Mobile River, about 18-miles North-East of Mobile, Ala. I recognized it as I have travelled over it many times as I drove between Atlanta and my new home in San Antonio. It is certainly an impressive bridge as you approach it, so I can appreciate why the driver/passenger took the time to photograph it while driving on it on I-65.”

Here’s another view of the bridge, sent in by Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.

FINALLY GETTING CREDIT: It was Elizabeth Truluck Neace of Dacula who sent in to photo of the Fort Yargo mystery photo. Thanks for bringing this up to date.

Here’s why roads around Gwinnett Place stay relatively tidy

Wonder how the roads around Gwinnett Place stay so free of trash?  Crews are out most days within the Gwinnett Place CID and the Interstate 85 interchanges, being vacuumed weekly. Other roads within the CID are cleaned every other week. All roads have stray trash (cigarette butts, etc.) removed every week. Landscaping installed by the CID within the public right of way is also maintained. As of November 30, 2018, CID-funded efforts have removed 47.02 tons of trash and 1,319 illegal signs from the 10-miles of right of way maintained by the CID.

SNELLVILLE COMMERCE CLUB will meet at noon on Tuesday, January 8, at the community room of City Hall. Guest speaker will be state Rep. Brett Harrell. Mr. Harrell was from 2000 until 2003 mayor of Snellville. He represents District 106 in the Georgia House and currently serves on the Budget and Financial Affairs Oversight, Regulated Industries, Rules, Transportation and Ways and Means Committees.

Septic Tank Maintenance Workshop will be January 10 at 1 p.m. at OneStop Norcross, at 5030 Georgia Belle Court, Norcross. The Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources will teach attendees how their septic system functions, how to prevent problems, and how to determine if a repair is needed. Attendees may also qualify for a 5 percent credit on their stormwater utility fee. Please preregister online.

Tips about Social Security: Whether you are about to retire or start a new chapter, Social Security provides financial benefits, information, and tools to help secure today and tomorrow for you and your family.  This will be presented on Saturday, January 12 at 11 a.m. at the Suwanee Branch of the Gwinnett Public Library, and then presented again on January 18 at 10:30 a.m. at the Collins Hill Branch in Lawrenceville. It is to be presented by Gwinnett Library, in partnership with the Social Security Administration.  The program is free and open to the public.

Author Visit: Brad Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of over 12 novels.  Hear him on Sunday, January 13 at 3 p.m. at the Peachtree Corners Branch, 5570 Spalding Drive, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092. His latest, Daughter of War, is another heart-pounding thriller starring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill. This event is free and open to the public.  Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Get your birding year off to a good start by attending the Southern Wings Bird Club meeting on Monday, January 14 at 7 p.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Speaker will be Peter Gordon, educational director of the Elachee Nature Science Center in Gainesville. He will tell of a birding journey through the seasons and discuss the birds people in the area can expect to see throughout the year. Peter will also talk about the Elachee Nature Science Center and the exciting things that are going on there.

Promotional meetings: The Town of Braselton business owners, managers and staff from all over Braselton (four counties, four zip codes, and four state highways) are invited to four quarterly network meetings and discuss ideas or suggestions they have for promoting business in Braselton.  Each meeting is held in a different part of town.  All are welcome to attend!  Snacks and refreshments will be served.  Mark your calendar and come join us. The next meeting will be on Georgia Highway 211 at 6:30 p.m. on January 15 at Primrose School of Braselton,2711 Old Winder Highway.

NORTH ATLANTA Metro Area Realtors (NAMAR) is holding its annual EXPO on January 17, 2019, at the Infinite Energy Center, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Nearly 150 exhibitor booths will be in attendance.

Free Nature Photography Workshop at the Gwinnett Public Library’s Five Forks branch, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road in Lawrenceville, on January 26, at 2 p.m. Join the Georgia Nature Photographers Association for this informal talk and Q&A nature photography workshop.  They will provide information about cameras, editing software, and tips for getting better photographs with the equipment you already have.

CHIPPING CHRISTMAS TREES: Bring One for the Chipper will be held on Saturday, Jan. 26 at Bethesda Park in Lawrenceville. The mulch resulting from the chipped trees will be used in Gwinnett County parks and trails and on county school grounds. Cut Christmas trees will be accepted at Gwinnett County Fire Stations locations between December 26, 2018 and January 20, 2019. Before dropping trees off, trees must be free of lights, tinsel, decorations and tree stands in order to be tree-cycled.

PHOTO EXHIBIT by Connie and Steve White of Sugar Hill is now on exhibit at George Pierce Park in Suwanee. They are members of the Georgia Nature Photographer’s Association. The exhibit is entitled “God’s natural through photographs and artwork.” The artwork is by Connie and the photo by both Connie and Steve. The exhibit continues through April 29.

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