MAJOR DEVELOPERS THROUGHOUT GWINNETT have introduced plantings around malls, subdivisions and business parks to enhance the areas. Roving Photographer Frank Sharp recently snapped this scene along Pleasant Hill Road east of Interstate 85 in the Gwinnett Place CID to highlight the beauty of the area’s flora. Cherry trees are among the first to bloom, along with crabapple and pear trees and Japanese Magnolia. It all adds up to make shopping a little more enjoyable to be surrounded by such beauty.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Vote Yes on Transit for the County, and for Personal Reasons, Too
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Do You Turn Off the “Lights” When You Leave a Room?
ANOTHER VIEW: Dying Husband Quietly Makes Westward Trip a Dream for His Wife
SPOTLIGHT: Renasant Bank
FEEDBACK: To Do Business on the Mainland, Britain Must Accept the Unacceptable
UPCOMING: New Peachtree Corners Partnership For Self-Driving Shuttles
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation Awards $64,000 Grants in Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
GEORGIA TIDBIT: The Atlanta College of Art Dates Back to Founding in 1905
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can a Simple Steeple Suggest To You This Photo’s Location?
CALENDAR: Town Hall meeting Concerning the Georgia Legislature Coming February 28
Vote yes on transit for the county, and for personal reasons, too
(Editor’s Note: The writer of today’s focus is a resident of Suwanee and a commercial insurance underwriter who struggles to commute to and from Buckhead every work day. —eeb)
By Stacey Long
SUWANEE, Ga. — We are all sick of traffic. We’re exhausted with unreliable travel times and wasted hours idling in a car. We’re stressed when delays make us late for work or for picking up the kids from school. We plan our schedules around rush hours.
Long
All Gwinnett County drivers would favor solutions that took cars off the road and led to less congested commutes.
The Connect Gwinnett transit plan gives us that solution. A “yes” vote will certainly provide more mobility options for reliable commute times to and from work for riders – a luxury few if any drivers in Gwinnett enjoy today. But it would also benefit drivers who might never step foot on a MARTA train or bus because it will take literally thousands of cars off our roads.
When executed, the plan will build new dedicated lanes for Bus Rapid Transit lines that will parallel I-85, creating a “train on tires” that will zip commuters toward their destinations while leaving more space for drivers on I-85. It will also double the number of the highly popular Express Commuter Routes.
Even as bad as traffic is today, our current bus service already helps. Gwinnett’s commuter buses carry 29 percent of the passengers in the HOT lanes while comprising only two percent of the vehicles. For every 10 people taking transit, there are nine fewer cars on the road.
New Park and Ride lots in areas such as Loganville, Harbins, Braselton, Buford, Dacula, Snellville and others will allow commuters to quickly board express buses or car pools.
Once the heavy rail line is extended into Gwinnett, it will shorten many road trips because currently 69 percent of MARTA users from Gwinnett County drive to existing train stations in neighboring counties.
Voters widely know this plan will connect Gwinnett to the rest of our region through MARTA. Fewer know this plan also invests heavily in road improvements. The Connect Gwinnett plan would build new lanes, improve traffic signals and upgrade roads, intersections and interstate corridors to better accommodate transit vehicles in every corner of Gwinnett County.
Corridors slated for new lanes and other improvements include I-85, I-985, Georgia Highways 20 and 120, U.S. Highways 29 and 78, Satellite Boulevard, Peachtree Industrial, Pleasant Hill Road, McGinnis Ferry Road. Right away, Georgia Highway 316 is set to get new, managed lanes if the referendum passes.
Gwinnett County is not getting any smaller. As we enjoy unprecedented economic growth across the county, we can expect to see 500,000 new jobs and 350,000 more residents by 2040.
Some of you won’t ever use MARTA. Some will use it every day. Others will use it on occasion to get to the airport or attend an Atlanta United or Falcons game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. But all will benefit from more options.
Vote yes if you want more options for a stress-free ride to work where you can connect to Wi-Fi, text with friends or read the morning news. And vote yes if you want a speedier drive to work with thousands fewer cars on the road as you listen to the radio or a podcast.
We can all vote yes for the sake of the county’s future. And we can all vote yes for selfish reasons too.
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Do you turn off the “lights” when you leave a room?
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
FEB. 26, 2019 — Most of us have everyday habits, some good, some bad.
Some of those habits go back to childhood, and can be beneficial to us now.
For instance, back in the late 1930s, when the Rural Electrification Administration was beginning to loan the funds for the wiring of rural America, many of those first homes merely had “lights,” to provide illumination for a single room. The varied Electric Membership Co-ops soon got around to selling their customers on additional ways to use electricity, in machines useful for the home, pumps (for wells), washing machines, refrigerators and radios.
But many a rural home at the beginning only had a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling, and the homeowner felt good about not having to light a kerosene lamp for illumination at night.
Those early EMC-homeowners recognized one aspect of this new gizmo: the more you had the “lights” on, the more it cost them each month. Remember, this was during the days of the Depression, and every cent was important.
So came a question that sticks with me until today, “Did you turn off the lights when you left your room?” These days although those “lights” are not as precious in cost as they once were, it’s hard for me to leave a room with the lamp on, or leaving the television playing, or switching off an electric heater…..all whether at home or in an office.
These habits are deeply ingrained into me. Bet many of you, at least those of you who are older, find yourself in the similar habits. You may have even taught your children these habits. Nothing wrong with that.
Now another admonition, one again dating back to earlier hard times.
“Did you clean your plate?”
Food was costly once (and even today). Watchful parents wanted you to eat enough and to eat correctly, but also didn’t want anyone wasting food. Especially, if you had been the one who put the food on your plate when it was being passed around, your parents might have said: “You took (that much) food out, so you are supposed to eat it. If you don’t want that much food, don’t put so much on your plate.”
Today I still find it difficult not to eat everything on my plate. It’s not so much about wasting food, as it is a habit.
What particularly rubs me the wrong way is when you are at a meeting where people go through a buffet line, and serve themselves……then eat only half the food THEY put on their plate. Why did they load up their plate, just to see it wasted? That’s unreasonable.
One more that bugs me: when people call you on your landline telephone, and tell you: “Call me back on this number.” You see, they assume that you answered on a cell phone, or even a land line telephone displaying their number. But every phone doesn’t have that feature. (I even have one phone with a rotary dial. You can bet that one doesn’t have equipment to tell me the incoming number.)
Yes, today’s I’ve been venting. You probably have some similar items that bug you, probably instilled you when you were a child.
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Dying husband quietly makes westward trip a dream for his wife
By Karen Burnette Garner
DACULA, Ga. — My husband of 44 years, Larry Thomas Garner, recently died. He was 67. For the past ten years, neurological issues had created mental havoc that doctors seemed to be unable to diagnose. In desperation, I compared scans of his brain, looking for anomalies the doctors could have missed. Anything to help.
Larry Garner
Five years ago, we were challenged with another crisis – colorectal cancer, fairly advanced. I worked days, and cared for him at nights, watching him face the surgeries, the worry, the fear. It was a dark time, but we made it through together. With support from our family, our circle of friends, and my compassionate employers, we were covered with good old-fashioned prayer. We hoped. The cancer regressed. We looked forward to life, altered, but together.
Larry was alone during the day, while I worked. As soon as I was pension-eligible, I left my job and devoted myself entirely to his needs. His neurological problems were finally diagnosed as vascular parkinsonism, little strokes in the brain accumulating to cause traumatic brain injury. He gradually lost the ability to concentrate, to walk without assistance, to shop with me at the grocery store.
The worst news: there was no cure. There would be no dreamed-of adventures, no bucket list, retirement places we had dreamed of sharing. We took joy in having a good day, a good moment, a day without pain, a silly inside joke we shared. We took blessings where we found them.
I arranged short business jaunts (I’m also an artist) around his good days, and he was fine on his own. Last October, he seemed to rally unusually, and my son tempted me with a mother/son, six-day trip to the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley in Arizona. As a lover of John Wayne westerns, I was thrilled at the prospect. Larry urged us to go.
Karen Garner in Monument Valley with her son, James.
I prepared everything to make it easy for Larry to manage, arranged for friends and family to check on him, and he assured me he would be okay. While I traveled, I slept peacefully, I hiked trails and enjoyed delicious meals. Phone calls home were answered with bright cheerfulness, and encouragement to “enjoy everything.” I sat on the edge of the Grand Canyon, and soaked up its majesty. When the full moon rose in Monument Valley, silhouetting the ancient towers, I was grateful that my husband was safe at home, giving me this wonderful chance to see lands of my dreams with our son.
Returning, I saw the truth. Larry’s body was in a fatal spiral of collapse, cancer markers rising, organs failing, gnawing pain. He had hidden it, not wanting to spoil the trip for me.
I had spent the last ten years caring for him, waiting on him, seeing him through, exhausting me. He wanted to grant my dream, something we would now never do together. It was his gift, a sacrifice, that would see me through what was ahead.
Three weeks later, he was gone, but he left my grateful heart. God bless you, love.
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To do business on the mainland, Britain must accept the unacceptable
Editor, the Forum:
Brexit has everyone and everything on the table. It’s like a soap opera about Europe and Brexit. There isn’t anything that doesn’t seem to be involved or changed by the March 29 deadline. Even the Sterling has somehow risen against the EU.
Every desire for independence has reemerged with passion. Scotland and Ireland are rumbling. Their independence would break up the UK. France’s Macron calls things grave. The Germans see the UK as totally unprepared for a “no deal” situation.
Ministers are attacking each other. MP’s are defecting threatening to destroy their parties. The EU is backing Spanish claims to Gibraltar, calling it a colony. Contracts for leases in London are being challenged as companies want to be released to leave the UK. Courts not allowing this. The picture is mildly apocalyptic, as PM May continues spinning her wheels. She’s refusing to face the fact that the EU is not going to succumb. To do so would open the floodgates to other countries wanting modifications, negotiated terms.
The truth is PM May is just not up to the task. She is poorly cast. Confounded by political correctness that keeps everyone dodging the core issues, Britain begs for an eloquent leader to pierce the bubble and tell it like it is. It is humiliating to the people with any heritage in Britain. To do business in the mainland, Britain must accept the unacceptable.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
Report out of Minnesota may bring hope for Alzheimer’s and ALS
Editor, the Forum:
Our family works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Department of Natural Resources.
Last week we saw an alarming report out of Minnesota about entitled “Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)” among deer elk moose, a prion mad cow type illness. It had warnings of immediate future human infection.
Today we got the link below. The prion aspect has been ruled out. An unknown bacteria was found. A cure is in hand. This report states that the prion protein was a byproduct of the bacteria. This bacteria has been found in humans and is believed to be the cause of 15 percent of misdiagnosed Alzheimer patients and is involved in ALS . We can only hope this research proves to be correct.
Tom Payne, Wayside, Ga.
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New Peachtree Corners partnership for self-driving shuttles
The city of Peachtree Corners recently announced its partnership with Sprint to build the Curiosity™ Lab at Peachtree Corners, a 5G state-of-the-art test track for developing and demonstrating self-driving shuttles as well as serving as a testbed for Smart City technologies. The living laboratory, located on Technology Parkway, is expected to be operational by early summer. The news has already attracted Curiosity™ Lab’s first customer even before the 1.5-mile track is complete.
Phantom Auto, a technology company that offers a teleoperation-as-a-service solution for autonomous vehicles (AV), recently visited Peachtree Corners to demonstrate its technology for a number of Fortune 100 and 500 businesses. The city provided the route that the Mountain View, Calif.-based company used to test its remote driver teleoperation platform. From 2,500 miles away, a remote operator successfully drove a vehicle along a 10-minute route in Peachtree Corners.
Phantom Auto Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Elliot Katz says: “This was a terrific opportunity to demonstrate our technology to several major U.S. companies and show how they could integrate our technology into their businesses. We were extremely pleased to be able to work with Peachtree Corners. The city moved at ‘startup speed’ to make this possible.”
The technology to develop fully autonomous vehicles still has some gaps, which according to some, may persist in perpetuity. Thus, Phantom Auto offers remote driving technology that would allow a tele-operator — driving from up to thousands of miles away — to take over when a situation arises that the autonomous vehicle is not equipped to manage.
As the future of AV technology continues to evolve, the possibility of remote operators assisting AVs traveling down the road may be on the horizon.
City Manager Brian Johnson says: “As the home of Technology Park Atlanta, Peachtree Corners has long been associated with being at the forefront of new technology. This was a chance to showcase our efforts by expanding and supporting innovative emerging technology. Curiosity™ Lab at Peachtree Corners is a prime example of the type of real-world laboratory environment that allows emerging technology to be tested and demonstrated here in our city.”
The city expects the 5G testing laboratory to attract both startups and established companies to experiment and to use the track for testing software and hardware technology. Prototype Prime, the city’s startup incubator, will play an important part in the living-laboratory test track that houses an Intelligent Mobility accelerator to support emerging AV technology businesses.
Here are polling sites for March 19 referendum concerning transit
Early voting is now open for the March 19 referendum on transit in Gwinnett. Advanced voting will be through March 15 on Mondays through Sundays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Board of Election office at 455 Grayson Highway in Lawrenceville.
Beginning March 4 through March 15, there will be seven additional satellite locations to cast your vote in the transit referendum concerning MARTA. Those locations, all open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, are at:
- Bogan Park Community Recreation Center, 2273 Bogan Road, Buford.
- Dacula Park Activity Building, 2735 Old Auburn Avenue, Dacula.
- George Pierce Park Community Recreation Center, 55 Buford Highway, Suwanee.
- Lenora Park Gym, 4315 Lenora Church Road, Snellville.
- Lucky Shoals Park Community Recreation Center, 4651 Britt Road, Norcross.
- Mountain Park Activity Building, 1063 Rockbridge Road, Stone Mountain.
- Shorty Howell Park Activity Building, 2750 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth.
Jackson EMC Foundation awards $64,000 grants in Gwinnett
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total $93,200 in grants during their January meeting, including $64,000 to organizations serving Gwinnett County. They include:
- $20,000 to North Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry, for its Medication Assistance Program, which covers the cost of non-narcotic/controlled substance prescriptions for senior citizens and families.
- $15,000 to L.A.M.P. Ministries, in Gainesville, for its Community Youth and Children’s program, which combines group and individual counseling, community activities and mentoring to provide high risk youths in Banks, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and Lumpkin counties.
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The foundation presented a $15,000 check to the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry.
$15,000 to Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry, for its Emergency Assistance Program, by providing emergency food supplies, shelter, prescription medications and referrals to local clinics, enabling them to move toward self-responsibility.
- $5,000 to Bethany Christian Services of Georgia, to help provide financial assistance for foster care development.
- $5,000 to Jewish Family and Career Services, a nonsectarian agency providing human services programs, for its Ben Massell Dental Clinic in Gwinnett County to provide dental care to 232 uninsured, low-income residents.
- $2,500 to Happy Sacks, a program of the Duluth First United Methodist Church, to provide weekend backpacks filled with nutritious foods to needy children in seven local schools.
- $1,500 to Cozy Quilters of St. Matthew Women’s Club, in Winder, to help purchase fleece, thread and other materials and supplies to make quilts for distribution to the sick, injured or terminally ill in Jackson, Barrow and Gwinnett counties.
Jackson EMC Foundation grants are made possible by the 190,610 participating cooperative members who have their monthly electric bills rounded to the next dollar amount through the Operation Round Up program.
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir is an inspirational walk through the major events of her life from humble beginnings while living in a Bronx housing project. She spares no events when chronicling the personal struggles and triumphs that blend into what feels like a long and delightful conversation with a strong-willed and exceptional person. In addition to the steps she took to forge her career after not speaking good English in elementary and secondary school, she shares her challenges with Type I Diabetes, of which she was diagnosed early on. Family plays a large part in shaping her desire to reach her goals and ultimately serve the community at large. My Beloved World is about believing in oneself and demonstrating self reliance. It is also about humility and a willingness to know oneself and not be distracted from the path that has been charted, that of becoming a Supreme Court Justice.”
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The Atlanta College of Art dates back to founding in 1905
The Atlanta College of Art (ACA), founded in 1905, was a four-year accredited private art college in the city until 2006, when it was absorbed by the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD). ACA was located in the Woodruff Arts Center, a multi use art complex composed of the High Museum of Art, the Alliance Theater, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Midtown Atlanta.
In 1905 an art school and museum, later to become the Atlanta College of Art and the High Museum of Art, were formed as an outgrowth of the Atlanta Art Association. Ben Shute, a young alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, came to teach at ACA in 1928. The art school was accredited in 1949 and incorporated into the Woodruff Arts Center in 1963.
Notable graduates include Radcliffe Bailey (mixed media), Maia Kayser (computer animator), Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier (photography/painting), Maurice Novembre (animator), and Kara Walker (mixed media). ARTicles, an annual journal published by the college, focused on alumni news as well as general information about the college and its exhibitions. The ACA library’s holdings included more than 25,000 books, 180 periodicals, and 90,000 slides, as well as a rare books collection and an artists’ book collection.
Campus facilities included a library, electronic media center, studio and classroom spaces, photography darkrooms, two exhibition spaces, a student exhibition space, and the ACA Gallery, as well as dormitory housing and a store supplying textbooks, art supplies, and computer equipment.
The ACA Gallery, located in the Woodruff Arts Center, continues to be open to the public at no charge; ongoing shows rotate between faculty and student, and international, national, regional, and local artists. Nationally acclaimed artists who have exhibited at the ACA Gallery include Layla Ali and Whang Inkie.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree was offered in 12 specialized disciplines, including communication design, drawing, electronic arts, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Student activities included internships, volunteer opportunities, clubs, and student government.
In fall 2003 there were more than 350 full-time students and more than 75 faculty.
Atlanta College of Art, with the support of the Fulton County Arts Council, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the city of Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs, also administered and housed the Georgia Artists Registry, a collection of images and information about six hundred Georgia artists. Membership in the Georgia Artists Registry, administered today by SCAD, is free, and acceptance is based upon slide review.
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Can a simple steeple suggest to you this photo’s location?
Take a look at this steeple. From this photo, can you determine where it is located? Figure it out and send your idea to elliott@brack.net to include your hometown, too.
Jo Shrader of Suwanee was first to recognize the previous Mystery Photo as the Birthplace of Noah Webster, in West Hartford, Conn. She says: “The Noah Webster House was built around 1700 and was the birthplace of Noah. It is a simple frame house with a gable end roof. Exterior is clapboard with an added chimney that was used in the kitchen. The house underwent extensive restoration in 1968 and serves as the West Hartford Historical Society headquarters and is open as a museum.” The photo was submitted ages ago by Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. adds that it was “….declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962. It was probably built sometime in the first half of the 18th century, as part of a 120-acre farm, and is a typical frame residence of that era. A modern museum addition, roughly in the shape of a barn, was added in the 1970s after the property was rehabilitated and prepared for use as a museum.
“Noah Webster’s father mortgaged the farm, including this farmhouse, for Noah to attend Yale College. Webster returned to the house after graduation, and was engaged as a teacher at local schools. His interest in lexicography, which is the art of the craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries, prompted him to release a series of publications, beginning with a spelling book in 1783 and culminating in the publication in 1828 of his Webster’s Dictionary of the American Language, which sold millions of copies during his lifetime, and laid down basic principles for dictionaries and spelling books that are still used today.
“The house was continuously occupied as a private residence until 1962, when it was given to the town of West Hartford. In 1966 it opened as a museum and currently contains several items with Webster associations, including early editions of the Dictionary of the American Language and Blue-backed Spellers, as well as china, glassware, a desk, and two clocks that Webster owned as an adult.”
Other readers identifying the house included Jim Savadelis, Duluth; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va. Grafs tells us: “Noah Webster set up New York City’s first daily newspaper. In December, 1793, American Minerva, later changed its name to the Commercial Advertiser. For the next four years Webster would edit the paper, writing a vast amount of its content himself – the equivalent, in fact, of some 20 volumes of articles and editorials.
“Webster was involved in an early debate about global warming. He was the author of a pamphlet, Are Our Winters Getting Warmer (1810), in which he debated with, among others, Thomas Jefferson over climate change in America’s recent history. He was also an early opponent of slavery in the United States. Webster was in favor of gradually emancipating African slaves in America. In 1792 he took up the role of secretary of the Hartford anti-slavery society in Connecticut; a year later, he gave a lecture which was later published. He was great-uncle to a very famous poet. Noah Webster was the great-uncle of none other than the poet T. S. Eliot.”
Fifth Leadership Challenge Workshop will begin February 26 with a four hour session, and continue for five other periods, concluding on April 9. The Workshop brings local leaders together to equip them to serve the community. It is sponsored by the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. It will be facilitated by Betsy Corley Pickren, with guest instructors. For more information, visit www.SouthWestGwinnettChamber.com, or call 678-906-4078.
Town Hall meeting concerning the Georgia Legislature, Thursday, February 28 at 7 p.m. at the offices of the University of Georgia Campus, 2530 Sever Road, in Lawrenceville. The meeting will be hosted by Sen. Zahra Karinshak and Rep. Sam Park. They will provide information on bills that could pass before the crossover day of March 7. Constituents will also have the opportunity to voice their concerns and ask questions regarding legislation proposed this legislative session.
Italian Car Show will be Saturday, March 2, in Lillian Webb Park in Norcross from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Italian cars such as the Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Lamborghini, Lancia, Maserati and DeTomaso Pantera will be on display. Not only will guests get to view the cars, they will also have the chance to weigh in on which cars are the best during the car show’s People’s Choice award as well as Best Modified, Car I Would Most Like to Drive Home and Best Original Unrestored Car.
Snellville Commerce Club will move its March 5 meeting site. The meeting is at noon at the Snellville Hampton Inn, at the intersection of Pharrs Road and Georgia Highway 124. Speaker will be Christopher Blocks, of Work Source Atlanta Region.
ANNUAL PLANT SALE, from the University of Georgia Extension Service, runs through March 6. Plant experts are offering a host of fruit shrubs and trees. Purchasers must pick up their prepaid order on March 14 at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. No orders are shipped. For order forms or for more information, visit www.ugaextension.org/gwinnett, or call 678-377-4010.
Southern Wings Bird Club will meet Monday, March 11 at 7 p.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Speakers will be Kathy and John Shauger, who will present photos on their recent birding trip to Trinidad and Tobago.
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