3/12: Correcting transit misinformation; More on big vote

ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK SHARP found little action at the Gwinnett County Elections Office on Grayson Highway in Lawrenceville on Sunday. This and other polling places are open through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for early voting for the referendum concerning transit options in Gwinnett County. The last date to vote is March 19, when all county polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

TODAY’S FOCUS: Replacing Houston’s Misinfo Gives Every Reason to Vote for Transit
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Transit Approval Could Mean More Buses, Routes and Frequency Soon
ANOTHER VIEW: Transit Vote So Important She Put First Yard Sign on Her Property
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: More Response to Comments Previously Printed Opposing Transit Vote
UPCOMING: New Medical Center Afib Procedure Helps Patient Quality of Life
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Commission Goes on Record Opposing Two Legislative Bills
RECOMMENDED: The Republican Workers Party by F.H. Buckley
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Columbus Painter Was First Black Woman Solo at Whitney Museum
MYSTERY PHOTO: Come up with Your Own Name for This Artistic Work
CALENDAR: See some great coming events

Replacing Houston’s misinformation gives every reason to vote for transit

By Greg Cantrell, co-chair, Go Gwinnett

DACULA, Ga. | If a voter simply replaces the misinformation in Debra Houston’s piece, “Here’s a voice against Gwinnett ever joining up with MARTA,” with the truth, they’ll have every reason to vote yes on the MARTA referendum March 19.

Cantrell

Houston said we shouldn’t want the big city to the south telling us what to do. We agree. We believe that Gwinnett County has grown and prospered under strong leadership that is the envy of the region. The contract that voters are asked to approve does connect Gwinnett to the rest of our region, but it fully maintains local control. If anything it allows us more control as we will hold three seats on the MARTA board.

Houston makes it sound as though we are simply turning over the keys to MARTA. That simply is not the case. It’s Gwinnett’s plan and Gwinnett’s money that can only be used for Gwinnett projects.

Gwinnett officials will be the ones who decide on transit projects in the county and allocation of services. Our money does not go to pay for any of MARTA’s existing debt and MARTA has no ability to impose a tax on us at any time. No one is “demanding” us pay anything, we are simply changing who we contract with to execute our transit plan so we have greater accessibility and connectivity.

The plan includes building a heavy rail spur that will extend the line from the Doraville station – where thousands of Gwinnett residents go every week to board the train – to Norcross. There will be a multimodal station, which will spur significant redevelopment and raise property values. Houston said that could take 25 to 30 years. Wrong. It’ll take 10 to 15. Once that is completed, future Gwinnett leaders could decide to build further north into the county. It’s up to us, not MARTA.

Overall, the plan includes so much more than heavy rail. The plan will double local bus and express routes, increase park and ride locations, offer on-demand services, and bring online much needed bus rapid transit, direct connect, and paratransit services.

The build-out is designed to be “pay as we go,” allowing the county to move dollars around to accommodate population changes, new needs, and technological advancements that we can’t foresee today.

Houston said the idea of joining MARTA is “absurd.” What’s absurd is laughable contention that Gwinnett is an island that’s not part of the Metro Atlanta region. Our county’s economy, our jobs, our home values are intrinsically linked to the entire region. More than 200,000 Gwinnettians commute to work in other counties – and more than 190,000 people commute from other counties to jobs in Gwinnett.

Equally absurd is the idea that the world has stood still since 1991, when Ms. Houston first voted no. The county has tripled in size. Back then, some openly worried MARTA would rapidly diversify the county. That happened anyway, and today we’ve embraced our community’s rich diversity and maintained our exceptional quality of life.

Back then, major employers that bring high paying jobs didn’t demand access to transit for their employees. Today, it’s a must, meaning Gwinnett is at a competitive disadvantage and often no longer invited to offer a bid for the kind of economic development we all desire.

A yes vote is to admit the obvious, that this is best for the future of Gwinnett. A no vote is to deny the

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Transit approval could mean more buses, routes and frequency soon

By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum

MARCH 12, 2019 | If more transit options are approved in Gwinnett on March 19, what you will see soon in Gwinnett will be more buses, more routes and more frequency of bus service. All will be a major improvement in public transit in the county.

We talked with Karen Winger, head of the Transit Division of the Gwinnett Department of Transportation, to understand these expanded local bus routes.

Currently Gwinnett County Transit, which began local bus services in 2002, operates five bus routes and another five express bus routes, plus a pilot paratransit service in the Snellville area.

Altogether, there will be some 160 miles of the proposed 10 local daily routes that will come with a “Yes” vote, some extending out of Gwinnett. The routes at the full build out will include:

• Gwinnett Place Transit Center to Doraville MARTA station (Route 10).
  Peachtree Corners to Lilburn (15).
• From Multi-Modal Center at Jimmy Carter via Singleton Road to Steve Reynolds Boulevard to Gwinnett Place Mall (20).
• From Multi-Modal Center via Breckenridge Boulevard to the Infinite Energy Center (25.)
• From Lilburn to the Multi Modal Center (30).
• From the Multi Modal Center to Peachtree Corners (35).
• Gwinnett Place Transit Center to Lawrenceville, via Gwinnett Tech and Gwinnett Medical Center (40).
• Peachtree Corners, via Gwinnett Mall and Infinite Energy Center to Georgia Gwinnett College and Lawrenceville (45).
• From Tucker via U.S. Highway 29 to Lawrenceville and Georgia Gwinnett College (65).
• From Mall of Georgia on the eastside to I-985 Park-Ride Lot at Buford (85).

Commuter bus service will be expanded, with several more pick-up points. These buses will run directly from their origin to downtown areas. At present, there is commuter service only from Indian Trail Road, Sugarloaf Mills and I-985 in Buford.

Winger

Additional commuter pick-up points will initially be in the Hamilton Mill area and in Loganville. Eventually other starting points will include the areas of McGinnis Ferry Road; Braselton; Oakwood in Hall County, at Harbins and two other areas not yet named along Georgia Highway 316; and at four points along U.S. Highway 78. (Some of these areas are presently served by the Georgia Regional Transit Authority (GRTA). All these routes will run every five or ten minutes during peak hours, with other frequencies depending on demands of the ridership.

Winger injects a new thought into what could happen. “We are planning to offer to riders the possibility of a subsidized door-to-door service. That is, firms like Uber and Lyft could pick up people at their home and be driven to connect with a bus stop or transit station. This would be a ‘last mile’ connection to the transit sites.”

Another element of the overall transit plans calls for additional sidewalk construction in residential areas that would extend to transit pick-up sites.

In order to recap, the transit vote would essentially provide five forms of transit service:

• Paratransit Flex Service, already in operation and expandable to other less dense areas relatively soon.
• More local bus service in operation perhaps by 18-24 months, as soon as new buses can be built.
• Rapid Bus Service along specific routes, relatively soon.
• Bus Rapid Transit: within five-ten years.
• A new Multi-Model station in Norcross, at least 10 years out.

What could come: passage of the transit vote March 19 could begin a vast change in movement of people, connecting Gwinnett to areas across the entire Metro Atlanta area, and laying the basis for greatly improved service in the future.

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Transit vote so important she put first yard sign on her property

By Sara Rawlins

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | I say yes to a “Vote Yes for MARTA” yard sign, which I proudly display in my neighborhood. You have to understand I have never put any kind of political sign in my yard, but I felt this is really important to our community, our county.

Rawlins

Doing nothing on transit for our county is not an option. I came to Gwinnett 40 plus years ago and watched it grow. Sometimes the growth was painful and we paid for it by watching our schools overflow with kids and having to build more schools. I said yes to the penny tax for that.

Do any of you remember when Georgia Highway 316 stopped at Georgia Highway 120? Now it goes all the way to Athens. At the time it would have been cheap while the road was being built to put in limited access. The state didn’t foresee the crowding of this particular road and put in stop lights to control the flow of traffic. How is that working out?

I could never understand why Gwinnett was so opposed to having some kind of transportation system as it continued to grow. Look at the blight in some areas of Gwinnett where growth got out of hand and never had a chance to improve. Buford Highway comes to mind as well as Jimmy Carter Boulevard and part of U.S. Highway 78. Also, look at the traffic flow in those areas. It is some of the heaviest in the county.
They understand traffic. They know where bus stops and park and rides need to be built. They can build rails to transport people to their destination because they study the population growth areas.

I will give Gwinnett kudos for trying to solve the traffic condition when they put in the Gwinnett bus system a couple of years ago, but it fell short in my opinion. I looked at one of the bus schedule maps for Gwinnett and couldn’t make heads or tails where it comes or goes and it definitely does not come down Buford Drive.

I have yet to hear from the opposition to the transit vote give details of what they would do. Let’s hear any idea they have. If it’s increasing toll roads, to me that’s more money out of a person’s pocket. Toll lanes have yet to relieve congestion on Interstate-85. If it’s to build more interstate lanes or build the Outer Loop, again, you would need that extra penny sales tax that you seem so dead set against. I don’t think halting building in Gwinnett will happen either. Just look at Lawrenceville and all the new construction that is going on in that little town, or should I say city now?

Progress is going to happen. Most of us are getting older and probably won’t see the benefits of a new transit system for commuters. I would rather pay for it now than wait until it is too late to do anything. Things are never going to get cheaper. Population growth isn’t going away. Let’s prepare for our children’s future and let’s get traffic under control.

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More response to comments previously printed opposing transit vote

Editor, the Forum:

Why am I not surprised that Debra Houston is opposed to the transit vote? I honestly believe she’d be opposed to the invention of the wheel if she had the opportunity.

Anyone with half a brain should know that we need something besides more roads! As Hal Rives, the former director of Georgia Department of Transportation, once told me, “You can’t pave your way out of a traffic problem.” And he should know!

— Robert Hanson, Loganville

Editor, the Forum:

In Debra Houston’s March 8 article against Gwinnett joining up with MARTA, she calls some of the “for” people “zealots.” She also said: “While the gung-ho pro-MARTA, pro-Stacey Abrams zealots are waiting with baited breath for the spur to take place, someone in Gwinnett had better keep an eye on our money.”

I for one intend to keep an eye on my money. I also intend to keep an eye out for the zealots, because I’m concerned about what they used to “bait” their breath. I’m waiting with bated breath to find out.

— Michael L. Wood, Peachtree Corners

Fake news has been a problem since before the time of Jonathan Swift

Editor, the Forum:

Today Americans wring their hands about the systematic lying in politics. Media claim to be fighting to uphold the principles of truth and the existence of verifiable facts against unprecedented challenges.

But the very idea that ‘fake news’ is a new problem is itself ‘fake news.’ Way back in 1710, Gulliver’s Travels author Jonathan Swift wrote, “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

And lies, slander, and libel were central features of politics, public discourse, and other human enterprises long before Swift. How did previous generations deal with the prevalence and power of falsehoods? How has art, by embodying a different kind of truth, served as both a party to and a shield against lies? And does misinformation pose a bigger problem now because of the speed at which it can spread digitally?

— Ashley Herndon, Oceanside Calif.

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New Medical Center afib procedure helps patient quality of life

The Strickland Heart Center at Gwinnett Medical Center-Lawrenceville (GMC) has a new Convergent atrial fibrillation (Afib) procedure employed as a minimally invasive approach, which is used to treat chronic Afib patients after traditional therapies, such as medication or standard ablation, has failed.

Afib is a heart rhythm disorder that involves irregular quivering or rapid heart rhythm in the upper chambers of the heart, which increases the risk of blood clotting and pooling. Over 70 percent of people between the ages of 65 and 85 are living with Afib, and in total this condition now affects 6.1 million in the U.S.

The Convergent procedure stems from a combination of expertise from a cardiac electrophysiologist and a cardiothoracic surgeon. The goal is to restore a patient’s regular heart rhythm through traditional catheter and surgical ablation, a two-step process used to block the abnormal signals causing irregular heartbeat. During this process, the cardiothoracic surgeon makes a small incision in the abdomen to gain access to the outside of the heart. Next, ablation takes place, causing tiny scars in the heart muscle, which disrupts or eliminates erratic electrical signals in the heart. Finally, the electrophysiologist enters the inside of the heart through a vein in the leg to remove abnormal signals that occur around the pulmonary veins.

Harvey

Richard L. Harvey, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon at GMC, and electrophysiologist Joshua Lovelock, MD, are working collaboratively to provide the best outcome for these patients.

Dr. Harvey says; “Many patients, with severe Afib, have experienced less than optimal results with standard medical treatment. This hybrid procedure is a combination of the highest quality of care an electrophysiologist and cardiac surgeon can offer, simultaneously.”

Generally, patients who benefit the most from the Convergent procedure have been treated once before using common treatments and the Afib returned. Common treatments include medications, designed to regain and maintain heart rhythm, a pacemaker and/or a standard catheter ablation procedure. Most patients with chronic Afib fail drug therapy and are deemed untreatable. This procedure is designed to provide a successful alternative for these patients.

The most impactful benefit of using the Convergent approach is improving the patients’ quality of life. Patients experience irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, fatigue and an increased risk of stroke or heart failure. Due to the highly qualified cardiac surgeons on staff, GMC can handle the most severe Afib cases.

Snellville seeking 6 new members for its revamped arts commission

After a brief hiatus, the Snellville Arts Commission (SAC) is back with a new focus. Created in 2012, the Snellville Arts Commission was designed to increase art awareness in the community.

SAC had created murals, held cultural events and organized, led by Nedra Bailey, the successful ongoing exhibit space for local artists in the City Hall Community Room. However, the “new” SAC will now be more of an advisory commission as opposed to one charged with staging various events.

To be appointed by Mayor and Council, the city is seeking six new SAC members who will serve four-year terms (with the exception of three initial members who will only serve a two-year term, so the membership terms will be staggered). A seventh member – whether it is the mayor or a councilmember – will be appointed annually by the Mayor and Council. The Mayor and Council believe this new direction will increase public input and better direct the city’s cultural efforts.

Under the new terms, SAC is not authorized to spend city money. Expenditures for art acquisition, performances, art programming, art education, fundraising and other purposes consistent with the promotion of public and performing art in Snellville will be recommended to Mayor and Council who will then appropriate the funds.

Animal shelter offering free dog adoptions on Fridays in March

The Gwinnett Animal Shelter is bringing back Free Fridays during the rest of March and hosting a puppy version of a St. Patrick’s Day special. This month, all adoptions are free on Fridays. Dogs typically cost $45 to adopt and cats typically cost $30.

Animal Welfare and Enforcement Division Manager Alan Davis says: “Free Fridays have always been a huge success. It makes adopting pets more affordable for people, which means animals find forever homes, and ensures that we have room for new arrivals. It’s a positive experience for everyone.”

You can enjoy the luck of the Irish a day early by celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday, March 16 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All adoption fees for pit bull mixes are waived. Scores of pups at the shelter have some pit bull lineage so there are many choices.

All pets adopted at Gwinnett Animal Welfare have been vaccinated, neutered and microchipped and are ready to go to their new home.

The shelter is open for adoptions Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gwinnett Animal Welfare is located at 884 Winder Highway in Lawrenceville. Find updated information about available pets and activities at www.GwinnettAnimalWelfare.com.

Gwinnett commission goes on record opposing two legislative bills

The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners has forwarded a resolution to the Gwinnett legislative delegation opposing two bills that would undermine local governments’ ability to establish community design standards and encourage economic development.

The resolution says that House Bill 302 and Senate Bill 172 would negatively affect quality of life issues, including economic growth and the health, safety and welfare of Gwinnett residents. The bills, the resolution says, would prohibit local governments from regulating building design elements in single or double family dwellings.

The resolution states that building design standards protect property values, attract high-quality developers, and encourage development and redevelopment. Building design standards also ensure that residents and business owners that their investments will be protected and that the standards help ensure affordable housing options are available without sacrificing Gwinnett’s unique character or threatening economic growth.

The Republican Workers Party by F.H. Buckley

From Theirn Scott, Lawrenceville: F.H. Buckley is Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, a naturalized citizen, born and raised in Canada. Many books seek to explain the Trump phenomenon. This one is excellent. It is pro-Trump, but not a polemic. It is also well sourced. It identifies four voter quadrants. The one labeled Populists by Lee Drutman of the Voter Study Group, Donald Trump identifies as The Republican Workers Party. The first chapter asks ‘How the hell did we get here?’ It concludes with a statement ‘…the causes he (Trump) identified will continue to dominate American politics.’ How will the political parties address these causes? Buckley says the Republicans have essentially founded a new party, ‘The Republican Workers Party.’ The Democrats’ response appears to be the embrace of Democratic socialism. In 2020 we’ll learn if the Republican Workers Party will continue to be a winning coalition.

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Columbus painter was first black woman solo exhibition at Whitney Museum

A prominent abstract painter of the 1960s and 1970s, Alma Thomas was the first African American woman to have a solo art exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in 1971.

Born in Columbus on September 22, 1891, Alma Woodsey Thomas was the eldest daughter of John Harris Thomas, a successful businessman, and Amelia Cantey, a dress designer. Alma Thomas showed artistic tendencies as a child when she used local clays to make homemade puppets and sculptures. Her home life was a constant changing environment of cultural activities, as her parents arranged for various lecturers and speakers to make presentations there.

Despite this rich atmosphere of culture, the prevalent social ills of racism and a poor educational system for African Americans caused the Thomas family to worry about the future of their family in Georgia. In 1907 the Thomas family moved to Washington, D.C., where they settled in a house that Alma would occupy for the next 71 years and that remains in the Thomas family to this day.

In high school Thomas excelled at math and architectural drawing. After graduation she enrolled at Miner Normal School, where she studied kindergarten education and received a teaching certificate. After teaching art for several years, she enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., to study costume design. She graduated in 1924 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, becoming the first Howard University student and perhaps the first African American woman anywhere to hold that degree.

After a long and distinguished career as a teacher, Thomas retired in 1960 to focus her energies entirely on her own art. During her professional career she had remained active and visible in Washington’s growing art community, and in the late 1950s she developed the confidence and knowledge to pursue the highly colored abstract style for which she is known. Her close relationships with fellow artists Gene Davis, Jacob Kainen, and Morris Louis of the Washington Color Painters, whose works emphasized abstract color shapes, assured her acceptance in this circle. Thomas’s work was included in the important show Contemporary Black Artists in America, held in 1971 at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Thomas died in Washington, D.C., in 1978 at the age of 86. Three years later a posthumous retrospective exhibition was held at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art. In 1998 the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana organized a retrospective exhibition of her paintings that traveled to Columbus. Today her work can be found in many major museums.

The Columbus Museum holds an important collection of Thomas’s paintings, watercolors, sculptures, and marionettes, as well as a significant archive of her papers. The Smithsonian American Art Museum also has an archive of her paintings and family papers.

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Come up with your own name for this artistic work

Perhaps you have a special name for this artwork. Figure out where it is located and suggest your own name for this piece. Send your idea to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.

Easily recognizing the recent Mystery Photo was Lou Camerio, Lilburn: “This statue is in Brookgreen Gardens, Murrell’s Inlet, S.C., near Myrtle Beach.” He’s right. The photo came from Molly Titus of Peachtree Corners.

Ross Lenhart of Pawleys Island, S.C. wrote: “I hope that I didn’t send this one in to you. It’s easy for me as I pass him almost daily after volunteering at Brookgreen Gardens for the past seven years. The Gardens have thus become ‘holy ground’ for me. This is Dionysus. He sits at the end of the oak alley which was Brookgreen Plantation, now Brookgreen Gardens. These beautiful gardens preserved on the property of four Waccamaw River rice plantations, were left to us by Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington. She was one of this country’s outstanding sculptors.”

Others recognizing the photo include Jim Savadelis of Duluth: “It is a statue of Dionysus, located in Brookgreen Gardens near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina;” and George Graf of Palmyra, Va., who wrote: “The sculpture is “Dionysus” by Edward McCartan (1879-1947) who was an American sculptor, best known for his decorative bronzes done in an elegant style popular in the 1920s. A partially nude male figure, Dionysus, is crowned with ivy. Holding a thrysus (vine covered staff) over the head of a panther, which curls behind his legs. A piece of drapery falls over his left wrist and thigh. This group, originally designed in 1923, was enlarged and remodeled for Brookgreen in 1936.”

Sustainability Workshop: Join Gwinnett County Public Library and Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful Tuesday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Five Forks Branch, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lawrenceville. This workshop will teach you how you can help make your community sustainable for now and the future. Learn about the resources and services available in Gwinnett to help residents with recycling, reducing litter, and beautifying their community. Also, create a “self-watering” seed starter by bringing an empty two-liter bottle. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.

Lilburchaun Parade: Dress in your most festive St. Patrick’s Day attire for the Lilburchaun Parade in Lilburn City Park on Saturday, March 16. A bagpipe player and stilt walker will lead a walking parade inside the park! This family friendly event will include live entertainment. Prizes will be awarded for the best Leprechaun look-alikes, also known as the first ever Lilburchauns! The event starts at 4 p.m. and the walking parade will begin at 4:15 p.m.

Lionheart Theatre in Norcross presents Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, through March 24. The theatre is open Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. This comedy is directed by Scott King. The cast includes Grant Carden, Aaron Sherry, Daniel Cutts, Jamie Goss, Jessie Kuipers, Gregory Nassif St. John, Briana Murray, Doug Isbecque, Colton Combs, Cat Rondeau and Veronica Berman.

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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