GwinnettForum | Number 18.89 | Mar 26, 2019
DRONE TIME: Working on the Paul Duke High Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program are, from left, Stephen Cochran, UAV Program Director; students Noah Budnitz, Josh Taylor and Smith Patel; Therman, the Infinite Energy mascot; students William Tomsik, and Seysla Chann-Hong, and Lee Conger, School Technology Coordinator. On the back row are school principal Dr. Jonathan Wetherington and Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason. For more on this program, see Upcoming below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Taking a Look at Green New Deal for Georgia and for Nation
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering Our First Vacation, and a Certain Refreshing Drink
ANOTHER VIEW: Roving Photographer Enjoys Trip Through Panama Canal
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: Looking at a President’s Character when Kicking a Man Deceased
UPCOMING: Duke High Students Working on Advancing School’s Drone Program
NOTABLE: Grants from Jackson EMC Foundation Help Two Local Non-Profits
GEORGIA TIDBIT: John D. Gray’s Companies Among First Gun Makers for South in War
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s Another Structure That Is Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: There’s a lot going on around Gwinnett
Taking a look at Green New Deal for Georgia and for nation
By Tim Echols, vice chairman, Georgia Public Service Commission
WAYNESBORO, Ga. | Shiny new objects are fun to look at. In the case of the Green New Deal, let’s hope it stays on the shelf.
Echols
First, Georgia’s overall electricity prices are currently sitting at 15 percent below the national average, according to power company comparisons using Energy Information Administration data. Our competitive electricity prices have been good for both consumers and businesses.
Just recently, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry stood in front of the Vogtle reactors being constructed and declared, “This is the Green New Deal,” as the top head went onto one of the units. Though uttered in Waynesboro, Georgia, it certainly was a message intended for Congress.
Why? The Green New Deal, as originally written, leaves nuclear out of the mix. In fact, it called for a complete phase-out of nuclear energy in ten years. That is a mistake because nuclear plants allow for carbon-free uninterruptible baseload generation of electricity for possibly 80 years. This is especially important since we in Georgia have closed or fuel-switched over 4,800 megawatts of coal-fired generation—plants that could run 24/7.
These actions coupled with significant environmental investments have yielded results. SO2, NOx, and mercury emissions are down over 90 percent and CO2 emissions are down over 50 percent. Georgia has one of the most diverse fleets in the country including nuclear energy, natural gas, hydro, coal and massive amounts of solar.
Speaking of solar, Georgia is a national leader, and we have more solar on military bases than any other state. We have created massive solar fields in Middle and South Georgia. Companies like Target, Walmart, Johnson and Johnson, and Google have participated in our forward-looking “commercial and industrial program” to help achieve their corporate renewable goals.
There is a reason that Georgia was named the top state to do business in by Site Selection magazine for a fifth straight year. We have competitive labor environments and leading workforce development programs, low taxes and utility costs, favorable regulatory environments, and a cooperative state government. And we have a Public Service Commission and investor-owned utilities, including our electric cooperatives and municipal utilities, who work hard to help businesses meet their energy and environmental goals.
The Green New Deal plans for a carbon tax and carbon regulation through a “cap and trade” program. The Green New Deal claims to make fossil fuel plants, including clean natural gas, irrelevant. The Green New Deal offers social and economic justice and security through 15 requirements—which space will not allow me to list.
The Green New Deal prescribes national mobilization of our economy through 14 mega-expensive infrastructure and industrial projects. The Green New Deal will, in short, send energy prices spiraling upward in our state. An American Action Forum study found that nationally the Green New Deal could cost somewhere between $51 and $93 trillion over the next ten years.
Names like “Green New Deal” and “Clean Power Plan” sound harmless enough, but both of these massive federal programs steal power away from states and give it to bureaucrats in Washington D.C. and they raise prices in the process. They are both a raw deal for Georgians. No, thank you.
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On our first vacation and a refreshing, cool drink
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
MARCH 26, 2019 | Vacations are considered routine today. For the average working Joe, you can look to the time after World War II when taking some time off—sometimes with pay—began to be routine with working people.
However, for many people who were self-employed, and that includes those working on the farm in earlier America, taking time off was considered a blasphemy, a waste of time, since it was necessary to work daily to put food on the table.
Historians tells us that the Romans were the first people to enjoy travel for pleasure…not managing a week here or there, but wealthy Romans would take off one or two years for their vacations!
Depending on your family’s status, you may remember your first vacation. For me, it was about the summer of 1948, and my family decided to take a trip from our home in Macon to Florida. In those days, the means of transportation was the family car.
The destination was the Florida coast near St. Augustine. Yep, we stayed in what was then known as “tourist cabins.” These were small, individual quarters to sleep, eat and bathe, and not much else. They were not air conditioned, but had a fan to blow air toward you, but not necessarily cool you.
One incident stands out, even before we arrived at the tourist cabins. We stopped along the road to get a refreshment, since it was hot in the summertime. Perhaps my mother had a Coca-Cola (six ounces in those days), and there’s every chance that I got a 12 ounce Royal Crown, or Nehi Orange. Size, remember, is important to a kid.
But my father surprised us all in his beverage selection. He bought himself a beer, something I had never seen him drink before. Routinely at home, he never drank beer. And this purchase of a “cool one” really upset my Primitive Baptist mother. In sports terms, it would be called the “play of the day.”
While in the St. Augustine area, a prize destination was the alligator farm. I had never seen an alligator before, and suspect my parents had never seen many either. To look into those pens and see alligator-after-alligator, crawling all over themselves, was mesmerizing. If I remember correctly, I also dreamed of them that night.
Then it was down the road a bit, to Marineland, gawking at those amazing different creatures of the ocean. Of course, we also got around in St. Augustine itself, seeing the old fort and oldest house, etc. Altogether, it was something new for us, a vacation.
One other aspect I remember from that trip. When stopping for a refreshment on the way back home, my father did not buy another beer.
Several have asked: where’s your next trip? So far, nothing big or overseas is on the horizon. However, we keep hearing good stories on activities in Greenville, S.C., and hope to motor up that way soon. Send us ideas about what to see there.
One other venture is on the horizon: the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, anticipated this fall. We’ve never been. When we heard that the Met would present Porgy and Bess this year, we started thinking, and hope to be with family members, especially our two granddaughters, there this year. With them living in Charleston, they need to know about this American classic, and see it in the elegant surroundings of the Metropolitan Opera. That will be a nice, but short, vacation for 2019.
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Roving photographer enjoys trip through Panama Canal
(Editor’s Note: Twenty-five photographs of Frank Sharp’s trip to Panama and the Caribbean are now on display through June 6 at the Pinckneyville Community Center, 4650 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Berkeley Lake. Hours are Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. until 9 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The center is closed on Sunday. –eeb)
By Frank Sharp
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | The nation of Panama was on our bucket list for a long time, so we finally made the decision to go. We only live once.
So we found a deal on the Internet so here we are on a Holland-America cruise ship, the “Zuiderdam.” We set sail from Fort Lauderdale and our first stop was the Bahamas. Here we saw the beautiful Royal Poinciana flowers.
Our next stop was the island of Aruba. It has a population of about 100,000. There is hardly any industry, with about 60 percent income coming from tourism. It was beautiful with no pollution.
The guidebook “One Thousand Places to Visit before You Die” mentioned that Panama’s driest month was December, great for photography! It only has two seasons: wet and dry seasons. Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to cross the Isthmus from the Caribbean in 1513.
We finally reached the new Panama Gaton Lake area and went smoothly through the locks. Next we took the old railroad 50 miles to Panama City. This same train had been used in 1849 to transport the California Gold Rush Forty-niners. It was said that the canal could not have been built without the railroad, since it hauled away the vast quantities of dirt that was excavated.
Our final port of call was Costa Rica, which means in Spanish “rich coast,” so named by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World because the natives were wearing gold jewelry. We visited a Dole banana plantation and were surprised to see most of the banana pods were enclosed in blue plastic bags to protect the infant bananas from insects, etc.
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Looking at a president’s character when kicking a man deceased
Editor, the Forum:
It’s a sad day when a president’s character would improve if he kicked a man when he was down. Ours kicks a man when he is dead! And such a well-thought of man as John McCain, who served Americans well in the Navy and in Congress! He did not kowtow to party leadership but voted his conscience, as he did with Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare. Would that our president had such personal integrity.
I write this letter on the release day for the Mueller report. Hopefully the Congress will see all of the report. Maybe the public will see all, or almost all, of it. Maybe the report will support the claim of “No Collusion.” Maybe not. Either way, it’s still a sad day that a president of such low personal integrity and character leads the government of our great country.
— Michael L. Wood, Peachtree Corners
Taking a further look at what might have been in Gwinnett
Editor, the Forum:
It’s a viable argument that the MARTA contract would have been a net benefit for greater Gwinnett County. But there were holes in the plan. Recall there was a book published in 2004 called “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” The thesis was Republicans don’t vote their self-interest to the detriment of the nation. So, what is self-interest in this situation?
I have a mentally disabled but ambulatory son who can’t drive. Between Uber and me we meet his transportation needs. I went to the Gwinnett Transit Town Hall Monday night to find out how this tax increase might help my son. The answer? For our unincorporated part of Gwinnett, it would not help in the short run and probably not in the long run.
Another factoid I learned is that 29 percent of the 1 percent sales tax would have gone directly to MARTA for the next six years ostensibly to pay for the integration into the MARTA infrastructure. After that, remuneration would be the actual costs as determined by the MARTA board on which Gwinnett will have three members.
That we’re not paying the actual costs from the start implies we’re paying more than the actual costs. I expect the negotiation that resulted in that 29 percent number admitted to the possibility, if not probability, that some of those funds will go to upgrades or maintenance or repairs to parts of the system that serves other counties. But then there are those other counties that have protested the sweetheart deal that Gwinnett negotiated. So, let’s call that a wash.
For many in unincorporated Gwinnett the question is a bit muddled. There may not have been any direct benefit as in my case but there could have been the indirect benefit of less congestion. It’s probable that road congestion will grow faster than the transportation deal can reduce it.
The question then becomes, how bad will congestion be if we don’t expand mass transit? The anecdotal answer will be in the ridership of the expanded system. If the buses and Park-and Ride lots are full and congestion is still bad, it would have been worse.
— Therin Scott, Lawrenceville
Dear Therin: Part of that initial 29 percent would have gone for immediate expansion of MARTA buses and more bus routes within Gwinnett. –eeb
Editor, the Forum:
You recently said: “What really hurts in this progressive county is that the vote sent a racial message to the world, for the race question, was surely tantamount, along with the hike in sales tax in defeating the question.”
How could you possibly know? What evidence can you put forth to substantiate such a claim? In politics, as in life, it’s virtually impossible to ascribe motive to any one person’s actions, much less 49,000+ individuals. Count me as being disappointed. I know you to be both smarter – and better – than this.
— Gregg Stopher, Peachtree Corners
Dear Greg: The conclusion came from being around. –eeb
Editor, the Forum:
Trust the people? The people said no. It was the wrong people. Sorry Abe.
Why go to the trouble of offering a referendum vote to the people if you have already decided to ignore the will of the voters? No means no. No, your no means nothing to us. We will stack the deck and try again.
To quote a former president: “Elections have consequences.” Just not in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
— David Simmons, Norcross
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Duke High students working on advancing school’s drone program
The City of Peachtree Corners, long associated with Technology Park Atlanta, a technology hub developed by Paul Duke, has partnered with a local STEM specialty high school to assist in advancing the school’s drone program.
Thanks to the school’s collaboration with Peachtree Corners and Prototype Prime, the city’s startup incubator, the new Paul Duke STEM High School was awarded a 2019 Infinite Energy STEAM Education Grant of $2,000. The monies will be used to launch an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program (UAV). The program is designed to engage students in the full life cycle of designing, building and operating drones for professional applications as well as racing.
It was the students’ practical application that was the deciding factor in awarding the grant to the Paul Duke STEM High School. With the city’s support, students will be working with its Public Works Department assisting with storm water inspections utilizing drones to photograph areas not easily accessible on foot.
The new Paul Duke STEM High School, the first STEM focused high school in Gwinnett County, opened its doors in August 2018. Located in the city of Norcross, its curriculum focuses on applied engineering concepts, artificial intelligence and technology in graphic design, television and film, animation and game design.
Jonathan Wetherington, Paul Duke STEM School’s principal, says: “The Program is a natural extension of our STEM curriculum. Students apply their knowledge from classes in math, physics, engineering, and the arts to specific real-world drone applications. Thanks to the support of Peachtree Corners and Prototype Prime, our students have meaningful projects waiting for them.”
Stephen Cochran, the school’s program sponsor and engineering and computer science teacher, explains: “The award will allow the school to begin purchasing the specialty equipment for conducting aerial photography and videography for city planning and marketing projects and producing a live drone show.”
Students will also have access to Prototype Prime’s intelligent mobility experts, 3D laboratory, and Sprint’s 5G capable Curiosity™ Lab at Peachtree Corners.
Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason says: “The students at Paul Duke STEM High School have an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. They are our future technology leaders. The city of Peachtree Corners is thrilled to support their training and development, and we look forward to partnering on many exciting projects.”
GGC plans seminar on rails on 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike
Inspired by the upcoming sesquicentennial of the Golden Spike Ceremony celebrating the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Georgia Gwinnett College history discipline is sponsoring an American Railroads Seminar, March 26-28, in the Heritage Room of the Daniel J. Kaufman Library and Learning Center.
Sessions are planned on Tuesday at 2 p.m.; Wednesdays at noon; and Thursday at 2 and 7 p.m.
This multi-disciplinary event will feature presentations by faculty in the fields of art, chemistry, geography, history and political science. An exhibition of railroad photos by photojournalist Henry Durand will be available through April 5 on the third floor of the Student Center. There also will be an evening presentation by the Southeastern Railway Museum of Duluth.
- Check the events calendar on the GGC website for session information. For more information, contact Dr. Frank Smith, lecturer of history, at fsmith2@ggc.edu.
Norcross High Foundation to honor three at May gala
Norcross High School Foundation for Excellence (NHSFE) has announced people who will be honored at its 2019 Gala, planned for Friday, May 3. It will will be held at Atlanta Tech Park, 107 Technology Parkway. Last year the gala raised $139,400.
The Gala will honor NHS Hall of Fame inductees:
- Bob and Jenny Chapin, NHSFE board members and past co-presidents;
- Angie Hembree, retired NHS teacher and Lady Blue basketball coach; and
- Dawn Muchow, NHSFE board member, past co-president and past treasurer.
Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase Wish Bricks, which are items requested by teachers to enhance their classroom and to provide unique learning opportunities that go beyond the traditional curriculum. There will also be a live auction featuring a variety of items and vacation destinations.
- Tickets to the Gala are $100 per person and will be available in April for purchase online at www.norcrosshighfoundation.org.
Grants from Jackson EMC Foundation help 2 local nonprofits
A $15,000 Jackson EMC Foundation check to the Friends of Disabled Adults and Children, Too will help provide financial support for its Home Medical Equipment Program. At the check presentation are (from left) Jim Puckett, Jackson EMC Foundation board member; Laurie Ann Kimbrell, development director; and Randy Dellinger, Jackson EMC district manager.
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total $81,150 in grants during its February meeting, including $17,000 to organizations serving Gwinnett County.
$15,000 went to Friends of Disabled Adults and Children, Too, in Stone Mountain, which helps people with injuries and disabilities of all ages regain their mobility, independence and quality of life throughout the Jackson EMC service area, for its Home Medical Equipment Program that refurbishes medical equipment, such as power lifts and motorized chairs.
$2,000 was given to Penfield Christian Homes, to assist people living in the Jackson EMC service area to participate in the substance abuse treatment program.
Stipends available for beginners, others from Georgia Archives
The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council, in conjunction with the University of Georgia and the Georgia Archives, has available two stipends to cover attendance at the 2019 Georgia Archives Institute (GAI). These stipends are funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and are contingent on congressional authorization of continued funding of NHPRC.
The two stipends are available to employees or volunteers at local government repositories. Preference will be given to applicants from underserved communities. Recipients will receive tuition in addition to $1,500 to cover travel and accommodations in Atlanta and will be eligible for a post-training implementation sub-grant. The sub-grant will only be available to the two stipend winners. We will be in direct contact with the winners after GAI.
Look for the grant application on the Georgia Archives website under “Announcements.” To apply, submit a completed application form to Christopher.davidson@usg.edu by April 4, 2019.
Designed for beginning archivists, manuscript curators, and librarians or those whose positions have expanded to include the management and care of their organization’s archives or manuscript/history collection, the Georgia Archives Institute provides general instruction in core concepts and practices of archival administration and the management of traditional and modern documentary materials. The Institute is a two-week program held at the Georgia Archives in Morrow, Georgia, and includes six days of classroom instruction and a three-day internship.
Gray’s companies among first gunmakers for South in war
(Continued from previous edition)
In manufacturing enterprises, John D. Gray incorporated with other partners the Saluda Manufacturing Company, a South Carolina textile mill. He purchased land in north Georgia on South Chickamauga Creek and established a company town (Graysville, in Catoosa County), combining mining, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation. His Graysville Mining and Manufacturing Company mined and processed lime, and he built a large furniture factory, a distillery, a barrel factory, and a large gristmill.
Gray
When the Civil War began in 1861, Gray was one of the first to manufacture guns in Georgia, under the names of John D. Gray and Company and the Columbus Armory at Columbus. He turned his furniture factory in Graysville into a war manufacturing establishment, and he established the Montgomery Rolling Mill to further the cause in Alabama. A versatile Confederate manufacturer, Gray produced carbines, Mississippi rifles, Enfield rifles, muskets, sabers, knives, canteens, buckets, poles, gunstocks, bayonet-scabbards, pick axes, shovels, cookware for the field, kettles, nests of tubs, castings, trace chains, axes, pole slides, and tent buttons.
He led in the manufacture of “Joe Brown” pikes—poles with sharp blades named for Governor Joseph E. Brown, who ordered them—for the state of Georgia. He owned and developed the Chatata Lead Mines near Charleston, Tenn., for the Confederate government.
Gray initially assisted in the private establishment of the niter works at a cave in Kingston, in Bartow County, which was later taken over by the Confederate Ordnance Department. At the request of the Confederate Railroad Department, Gray surveyed iron and coal supplies in Alabama and Georgia and manufacturers capable of casting iron for use in constructing railroad cars. Union soldiers destroyed all his assets in Graysville in late 1863 and all of his manufacturing establishments in Montgomery, Ala., and in Columbus in 1865.
After the war Gray reconstructed the Dillingham Street Bridge in Columbus that had been destroyed during the war. With the profit he incorporated the Atlanta Mining and Rolling Mill Company, which was financed in part by railroads. He continued to construct railroads, rebuilt Graysville, and worked on large and important projects up to the last years of his life. He died in Graysville on November 17, 1878.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Here’s another structure that’s is today’s Mystery Photo
Here’s another structure we’ll call today’s Mystery Photo. Many of your have seen it. Where is it? Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Last issue’s Mystery Photo was taken at a different angle by Cindy Evans of Duluth, and it mystified most readers. First in was Ashley Herndon of Irvine, Calif., identifying it in Las Vegas, Nev. Susan McBrayer admitted it as a guess, citing the mountains in the distance, but also got the location right.
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. wrote: “Today’s mystery photo is taken from the High Roller Ferris wheel in Las Vegas, Nev. The photo is taken facing southeast towards the airport. The ferris wheel opened to the public on March 31, 2014 and is 550-feet high, with a diameter of 520-feet. There are 28 cabins on the observation wheel and each one can carry 40 passengers. At the time of its opening, it was (and still is) the tallest ferris wheel in the world. However a number of new Ferris wheels are under construction and will top that record, most notably the Dubai Eye at 689-feet (which was supposed to open in 2015, but is apparently behind schedule!)”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. also spotted the mystery. “The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr..
With a height of 264 feet it was the tallest attraction at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, where it opened to the public on June 21, 1893. It was intended to rival the 1,063 foot Eiffel Tower, the centerpiece of the 1889 Paris Exposition. Ferris was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and bridge-builder. He began his career in the railroad industry and then pursued an interest in bridge building. Ferris understood the growing need for structural steel and founded G.W.G. Ferris and Co. in Pittsburgh, a firm that tested and inspected metals for railroads and bridge builders.”
Recycling Opportunity: It’s time to clean out your basement, attic, and yard! Lilburn’s annual Great American Cleanup event takes place on Saturday, March 30 in the parking lot of Lilburn City Hall-Library. Free paper shredding, free tire recycling, and free electronics recycling (with the exception of TVs and CRT monitors – fees apply).
The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company will perform at the Five Forks Branch Library, 2780 Five Forks-Trickum Road, on Saturday, March 30 at 2 p.m. The group performs live audio drama for adults at a wide variety of events, such as DragonCon, Mythic Journeys, and the World Fantasy Convention. They have been performing for 24 years and often have a very specific focus on science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Come hear performances of adaptations and original literary favorites. This performance is for the whole family and is free and open to the public. For more information visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154
Credit Repair Seminar will be hosted by the Psi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. until noon at Norcross High School, in partnership with Regions Bank. The event is free. Attendees are asked to bring gently-used eyeglasses for donation to the Lions club International. Learn why all individuals should know their credit score and debt-to-income-ratio, engage in good credit practices, take steps to repair not so perfect credit, and monitor their credit in the effort to protect themselves against identity theft.
Photo Exhibit of Australia and New Zealand by Roving Photographer Frank Sharp is now on display through April 30 at the Tucker Library, 5234 LaVista Road. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This library is closed on Sunday.
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