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CHATTAHOOCHEE FISHING SCENE: Roving Photographer Frank Sharp captured this magnificent image of Fishing Day at Jones Bridge Park in Peachtree Corners, as lots of people were on and in the river enjoying themselves. This scene was taken with the water relatively shallow, as people are out among the rocks in the river casting away. For another scene of this area, see Lagniappe below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Travel Sports Is Difficult Work, But Hey, It’s for Our Kids!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Jekyll Island Is Little Known Among Newcomers to Georgia
ANOTHER VIEW: State Representative Asks To Terminate 287(g) Federal Program
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
FEEDBACK: Many Other Aspects of Our Lives Changed as Newspapers Fade
UPCOMING: It’s Official! Sugar Hill Promoting Downtown Area as “Shine” District
NOTABLE: Several Transportation Projects Coming to the Gwinnett Place Area
RECOMMENDED: Power Politics by Martin Wright
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Explorers from Spain Were First Europeans Coming to Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s Another Covered Bridge For Your Consideration
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s What Happens After the Fishing Day Is a Success (or Not)
CALENDAR: Workshop on Adopt-a-Stream Being Planned
Travel sports is difficult work, but hey, it’s for our kids!
By Gregg Stropher
PEACHTREE CORNERS | Who even knew that the category known as “Youth Sports” would (cumulatively) be a 50 percent larger business (in revenue) than the organization that owns the consistently highest-rated shows on television, the National Football League? It’s travel baseball (or soccer or hockey), today an American tradition that didn’t use to be!
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Most weekends in this country, parents dedicate their entire weekends to carting their children off to whatever sport (du jour) their kids have taken an interest in. And therein lies the amusing part: are these kids really interested? Or could it simply be the parents living out their own dreams? (Does the word vicarious have any relevance for you?)
Long treks, super-early mornings (try “be here by 7,” when you live 1.5 hours or more away…on a Sunday), sleepy kids, loading the cooler and grabbing the sunscreen, parents going in totally different directions…this is all part of the fabric. Coulda – shoulda – been in church, and a lot of these folks certainly would be, if not for “travel ball.” This is Americana!
We love our boys and girls, and we want them all to lead fulfilling lives, having fun along the way. We have all noticed that their youth is fleeting, and they have a very short window to enjoy these types of athletic challenges. The lessons that sports teach us about life cannot be overstated. The social skills. The “team concept.” The work ethic. The determination, the ability to work through adversity, the unyielding need to finish what you have started. These “rules of the road” (and there are many more) are what allow us to blossom into functioning human beings, ready to take on the world’s challenges as we mature.
We know these activities teach them so, so much, and help build their individual character. But still, we worry. Just as our own parents worried about us, thinking that our generation was the one destined to see the end of the world. Today many of us feel this way now.
The funny thing is, particularly in Atlanta, one of the truly spectacular cities in the United States, these travel ballparks are fully integrated, blacks mixing with whites mixing with Hispanics mixing with Asians mixing with/mixing with…
People of all sorts get along. Everyone treats everyone else with the respect. Doors are opened, tents are set up by committee (even with help from – God forbid – that “other team”), people actually say “Please” and “Thank You” more often than not, and just about everyone endeavors to have a good time (hey, once you are “all in,” enjoy the ride!).
Generally, politics is not a topic that surfaces. We know that to be a good thing (particularly in this “highly-polarized environment” that we keep hearing about). But that’s the thing – we don’t experience this environment of which “they” speak.
I see parents of all races and creeds doing what every kind and caring parent would do, which is give their kid(s) a better shot at chasing the American dream (however defined) than they had themselves. It’s not easy, but hey, after all, we’re out here for our own flesh and blood!
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Jekyll Island is little known among newcomers to Georgia
The Jekyll Island Club
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JUNE 4, 2019 | If you are a native Georgian, let me suggest you almost have a duty to tell those who come here from other states about Georgia’s wonderful coastland, particularly about the gem on the Georgia coast, Jekyll Island. Actually, Georgia’s approximately 100 miles of coastland has many wonderful areas to visit, from Tybee Island on the north to almost-pristine Cumberland Island on the south.
Jekyll, with its eight miles of open white-sand flat beaches, is owned by the State of Georgia, with 65 percent of the island by law to remain unspoiled. There are no boardwalks or hawkers of trinkets, just open beaches.
Ask your neighbors if they have been to Jekyll. We suspect that more than 75 percent of those “from away” haven’t been to Jekyll Island. It’s their loss. Encourage them to go.
It’s about 300 miles from here. We take Interstate 75 to Macon, then 1-16 toward Savannah, turn on Georgia 57 southeasterly toward Reidsville, then to Jesup. Afterward you have the four lane U.S. 341 to Brunswick. Then head south on U.S. Highway 17. A six mile causeway leads you to Jekyll.
Some coastal states have built-up condos lining the ocean, with only glimpses of beaches and little access to the ocean. Not Jekyll. Most of the beach area is open. You park and walk to the beach, maybe 50 feet away.
There’re plenty of places to stay, from the new pricey Westin, to popular-price motels (two new), to lower priced older places, all facing the ocean. On the bay side of the island is the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. And there’s a story.
Prior to World War II, the Jekyll Island Club was THE place for our country’s millionaires. You name them, they were there: the Rockefellers, Morgans, Cranes, Du Bignon, etc. Starting in 1888, there were only 100 families as members. On 240 acres on the Intracoastal Waterway, they built elaborates “cottages,” which today we might call McMansions. Each “cottage” lacked one modern twist: a kitchen. That’s where the elaborate Victorian Jekyll Island Club came in: the wealthy all took their meals there. The only way to get to the island was by boat in those days, and these wealthy families boated or took a ferry from Brunswick to hobnob with themselves and a few servants.
Since 1942, the millionaire families haven’t been back. American intelligence during World War II worried about the concentration of all this wealth on the island, and the rich were evacuated. They haven’t returned.
M.E. Thompson was a former county school superintendent who became governor. His name is associated with the eventful “three governors” chapter in our state’s history. He came to office in 1946 when the courts declared him the governor after Gene Talmadge died before he could re-take his office for his fourth term. (Herman Talmadge and the sitting governor Ellis Arnall all claimed the seat, but the courts ruled Mr. Thompson could serve until the next General Election.) Thompson was the duly-elected lieutenant governor.
In perhaps the most distinctive land purchase in Georgia history, Thompson in 1947 bought the whole island for the state for the sum of…$675,000! That’s 5,543 acres of land! It opened to Georgians in 1947, and it is run by a State Authority, and essentially is a state park. What a bargain! Thank you, Governor Thompson.
Last weekend the Georgia Press Association again convened at Jekyll, bringing people from throughout the state. It was a great weekend at a great site.
Consider a trip to Jekyll…great any time of year. And tell your newcomer friends.
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State representative asks to terminate 287(g) federal program
By Pedro Marin
State Representative, 96th District
NORCROSS, Ga. | Allow me to categorically state my opposition to renewing the federal 287(g) program of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in Gwinnett County. On June 30, 2019, the existing Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will expire.
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Let me ask the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, other elected officials and key stakeholders to publicly support its termination. The INA’s 287(g) program does not reflect who we are as a county and who we aspire to be as a community. It is time for such practices to end.
For over 20 years, I have lived in and served the great county of Gwinnett. When I began my political career in 2002, the population was slightly less than 600,000. Today, according to the United States Census Bureau, Gwinnett County has reach nearly one million residents. This exponential growth has occurred, in no small part, due to an increase in minority and immigrant populations.
In 2000, 31 percent of the county self-identified as persons of color. Now, our county is predominantly comprised of residents originating from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands. And, this trend is only going to increase. Based on census projections, the county will be 70 percent minority by 2035. In 35 years, the population profile of the county has changed dramatically.
Gwinnett County is a community where Christians, Muslims, Hindis, Jews, Sikhs and other faiths worship freely. Gwinnett is a place where strip malls full of international goods are thriving with eager shoppers. Children attend class with other students whose families arrived to the county one month ago, one year ago, or one decade ago from some other part of the world. Gwinnett is a global county teeming with local pride. Application of the 287(g) program in this environment invites racial profiling, diminution of trust towards local law enforcement, increased animosity towards people of color and erodes our spirit of solidarity.
The 287(g) program empowers local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law. Its purpose, as stated in the MOA, is to “enhance the safety and security of communities by focusing resources on identifying and processing for removal of aliens who fall into ICE’s (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) civil immigration enforcement priorities.” The priorities are broad in their language and definition.
One priority targets those who have been convicted of any criminal offense. Another priority outlined in the memo targets those who have been charged with any criminal offense that has not been resolved. This vague language could lead to actions by some law enforcement officials that constitute racial profiling. As the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia correctly surmised, the program may have been well intended, but its implementation has been problematic.
The question remains as to whether this federal program positively impacts our county. First, it is a fiscal burden with no clear benefit to the county’s collective public safety and wellbeing.
Second, families live in a perpetual state of fear believing their relative(s) may be stopped, arrested, detained and possibly deported for innocuous violations such as driving without proper identification.
Finally, the public trust of local law enforcement erodes and leaves many of our residents at great risk of victimization, exploitation and abuse. Their silence allows criminals to target immigrant communities realizing their fear of deportation outweighs their fear of violence or manipulation. Public policy should never compromise our humanity or call to service.
We are a global county teeming with local pride. Gwinnett, it is time to end 287(g).
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Many other aspects of our lives changed as newspapers fade
Editor, the Forum:
While your expansive piece on the demise of newspapers was profferred with years of experience and knowledge, one must also consider the changing lifestyles and electronic media as additional factors. Newspapers lost their most profitable advertising to the Internet with autos, homes and jobs all virtually disappearing.
But concurrent with the demise of newspapers was the lifestyle change in buying habits as the biggest advertisers, department stores, consolidated and became a secondary market for most consumers, even before Amazon and some others grabbed that business. And the Wal-Marting of America forced many local, family-owned businesses out with an inability to compete against the Bentonville, Ark., behemoth. And truthfully, the reality that the weather report and (sometimes) partial sports scores subscribers were reading, was printed 10 hours earlier, while television provided the latest live display of in-depth information, be it the Weather Channel, ESPN or someone else.
Newspapers were so much an important part of our lives, if you’re like me and over 50. But, those days are now gone and unfortunately so are the top-rated reporters, who so enriched our lives and served as watchdogs on institutions large and small.
— Howard Hoffman, Berkeley Lake
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It’s official! Sugar Hill promoting downtown area as “Shine” District
Introducing the SHINE District!
The SHINE District
The City of Sugar Hill is affectionately naming its downtown entertainment area “Sugar Hill’s Intersection of Neighborhoods and Entertainment,” the SHINE District.
It’s a nod to the history of moonshining in the Chattahoochee River Basin, as well as to highlight the city’s growing downtown focused on the arts and entertainment. Sugar Hill officials feel it’s a fun way to honor its history as the city looks to the future.
Recognize, too, that local patrons will be able to purchase “shine”, that is, licensed alcohol from an establishment or vendor within the SHINE District in a non-glass SHINE marked To-Go Cup and carry the open container anywhere within the SHINE District. That means you’ll be able to take your drinks from E Center restaurants to the Bowl or Splash Park. You’ll also be able to enjoy your food and drinks on the E Center plaza without having to finish your drinks before you leave the restaurant.
The SHINE District boundaries are marked in the map and include the entire E Center, The Bowl, and the Splash Park.
One lane to be closed on Georgia Highway 316 in coming week
On Friday, June 7, the Georgia Department of Transportation will begin replacing concrete slabs along Georgia Highway 316 between Georgia Highway 120 and Collins Hill Road. In order to complete these replacements quickly, a continuous single lane closure will be in effect throughout each weekend from June 7, to July 14.
These closures will be scheduled beginning Fridays at 9 p.m. and ending Mondays at 5 a.m. Additional nightly closures will be permitted Mondays through Thursdays, 7 p.m. overnight to 5 a.m. No work will be scheduled July 4, through July 7, leaving the road open to holiday traffic.
This maintenance contract was awarded to Pittman Construction and will replace portions of concrete making the route safer for the traveling public. Please slow down and drive alert through the work zone.
Peachtree Corners Chick-fil-A plans reopening on Thursday, June 6
After a complete re-building, the Chick-fil-A in Peachtree Corners will reopen on June 6.This will come after almost 29 years after it first opened. The new facility will have an expanded dining room, multi-lane drive-through and expanded kitchen capacity.
The reopening of the restaurant comes as franchise owner Wayne Farr celebrates nearly five decades with Chick-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A has been a part of Farr’s life even before the chain’s founding in 1967. Farr spent many years with Chick-Fil-A Founder S. Truett Cathy as his Sunday School teacher and later working alongside Dan Cathy and Jimmy Collins to open some of the first Chick-fil-A locations in Georgia. Farr became an operator nearly 47 years ago in December of 1972 where he opened the North Dekalb Mall location. Farr also operated a similar restaurant at Rivermont Station in Alpharetta.
Several transportation projects coming to the Gwinnett Place area
The Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (GPCID) will be the site of multiple transportation and infrastructure projects this summer. The various projects will be done by the Georgia and Gwinnett County Departments of Transportation and are funded by GPCID, Gwinnett County SPLOST and a grant from the State Road and Tollway Authority. See below for a full list of projects. Unless listed otherwise, any lane closures will occur between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Pleasant Hill Road sidewalks and streetscapes from Old Norcross Road to Club Drive are currently underway. Project completion is set for June 17, 2019.
The Venture Drive at Day Drive roundabout project will begin late June 2019. The project includes the installation of lighting at the roundabout, curb and gutter, sidewalks and associate drainage improvements. Construction is anticipated to be completed in February 2020.
The Venture Drive at Steve Reynolds Boulevard Intersection Improvement project will add a second eastbound through lane and extend the southbound left turn lane. The existing traffic signal located at the intersection will be replaced with a new traffic signal. The project includes the installation of curb and gutter, sidewalks and associate drainage improvements.
Construction is scheduled to begin late June 2019 with completion by February 2020.
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is directing a project to extend the two lanes at the northbound on-ramp at I-85 and Pleasant Hill Road. The merge point on the on-ramp will be pushed further downstream, using existing shoulder space. This initiative will give vehicles more space to merge and reduce the frequency of back-ups extending into the intersection. Construction should begin mid-July 2019.
- For more information or to request before and after project images, contact, Maggie McDaniel at mmcdaniel@c21pr.com.
Power Politics by Martin Wright
From George Wilson, Stone Mountain: Power politics is a form of international relations in which sovereign entities protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression. The term was the title of a 1979 book by Martin Wight, which the Times Literary Supplement listed as the 18th most influential book since World War II. Power politics is essentially a way of understanding the world of international relations. Nations compete for the world’s resources. It is to a nation’s advantage to be manifestly able to harm others. It prioritizes national self-interest over the interest of other nations or the international community. Techniques of power politics include, but are not limited to, conspicuous nuclear development, pre-emptive strike, blackmail, the massing of military units on a border, the imposition of tariffs or economic sanctions, bait and bleed and bloodletting, hard and soft balancing, buck passing, covert operations, shock and awe and asymmetric warfare.
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Explorers from Spain were First Europeans coming to Georgia
(Continued from previous issue.)
Although two major military expeditions under Captain Juan Pardo were dispatched into the Appalachian mountains between 1566 and 1568 from the short-lived Spanish colonial city of Santa Elena on Parris Island, Georgia’s interior saw no further exploration until 1597, when two Franciscan missionaries and a soldier briefly pushed inland as far as Altamaha and Ocute near present day Milledgeville.
When Spaniards heard rumors of an overland expedition from Mexico, they sent yet another expedition to these same towns under soldier Juan de Lara in 1602, and at least five reconnaissance expeditions were dispatched into the interior Coastal Plain between 1624 and 1628, including two trips under Ensign Pedro de Torres that penetrated as far as central South Carolina.
During this same period Franciscan missionaries explored other populated regions of southern Georgia, establishing missions at Utinahica near present-day Lumber City, Ibihica and Ocone near Folkston, and Cachipile and Arapaja near Valdosta by 1630. The well-documented expedition by Fray Luis Geronimo de Ore in late 1616 skirted the back side of the Okefenokee Swamp before descending the Altamaha River to the coast.
The final Spanish exploratory expedition into Georgia’s interior took place in the winter of 1645-46, when Florida governor Benito Ruiz de Salazar Vallecilla led a group of soldiers north from the Apalachee mission province into the villages of the unconverted Apalachicola province along the lower Chattahoochee River in southwest Georgia and eastern Alabama. Though there were sporadic visits to these villages as late as 1695, the Ruiz expedition was the last major Spanish exploratory venture into Georgia. The remaining portions of north Georgia would eventually be explored by English traders and soldiers during the late 17th and early 18th century, long before ownership of the land was acquired through treaties between 1733 and 1838.
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Here’s another covered bridge as a mystery for you to identify
Here’s another covered bridge for you to identify as this edition’s Mystery Photo, and there’s not much to go by in the way of clues. Figure out where this Mystery Photo might be and send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, to include your hometown.
Lots of people were perplexed at the most recent Mystery Photo, which came from Ashley Herndon of Oceanside, Calif. Though several guessed, the only correct answer came from Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. He writes: “Today’s mystery photo is a sunset shot of the Historic Oceanside Pier in Oceanside, Calif., about 35-miles north of San Diego. There were a couple of distinctive features in the mystery photo that helped me figure out where this one is located.
“First is the building at the very end of the pier, which in and of itself, is a fairly common feature for these types of long piers. But also quite distinctive are the two towers on either side of the pier about halfway down its length. These structures are completely consistent with similar structures on the Oceanside Pier, namely a combined Bait Shop with Lifeguard Towers located halfway down the pier, and a Ruby’s Diner (a ’50s-style chain diner serving breakfast and American comfort food) located at the very end of the pier. What finally confirmed it for me was the roof-line in the foreground, bottom-left part of the mystery photo.
“Historic Oceanside Pier is one of the longest wooden piers on the West Coast, spanning 1,954 feet in length. Opened in 1987 as the city’s sixth pier to be built, it is located at Pier View Way and The Strand. The first pier near here was built in 1888 but was destroyed by storms in the winter of 1890. It was rebuilt in 1893 at what is now Pier View Way, where all subsequent piers would be located. All past iterations of the pier were built and then destroyed by heavy storms. The current pier was built and formally opened to the public in September 1987, at a cost of $5 million.
PunchyPowell
“At the foot of the pier is the Junior Seau Pier Amphitheatre, which hosts numerous events throughout the year. The Junior Seau Beach Community Center, also known as the Beach Recreation Center, is a 17,000 square feet facility located near the pier that includes a gymnasium, meeting room, stage, and kitchen. Both the amphitheater and the community center were renamed posthumously in 2012 in honor of hometown football hero Junior Seau.”
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As an addendum to the previous Mystery Photo, Bill Bell of Peachtree Corners sends along a photo of author and famed pilot Punchy Powell, made at the 57th Fighter Squadron site by John Slemp.
Cool, relaxing spot for enjoying the river outing with a picnic
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After many are successful at Fishing Day on the Chattahoochee River in Jones Bridge Park, it’s time to enjoy your catch, or just put on a grilling! Roving Photographer Frank Sharp shows that many people are earnest about eating during their outing. Note the activity in the river to the left. The trees bordering the river provide a perfect shade for the dining in the outdoors.
Toddler Trek Tuesday: Honeybee Hunt will be June 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Honeybees are always busy as they gather nectar and help pollinate our plants. Join the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center in Buford as it explores these valuable insects through stories, songs, and fun hands-on activities. For ages 18 months to 3 years. Cost: $10 per person, with one adult free with each paid child. Preregister online with code EHC29170 or call 770-904-3500.
Author Lauren Willing will speak on June 5 at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Gwinnett College Heritage Room on the third floor of the Kaufman Library. She is a bestselling author of historical fiction. Her works include The Other Daughter and The English Wife. Her latest book is The Summer Country. Visitor parking is at Lot 3000 off of Lonnie Harvel Boulevard. The event is open to the public and free and is presented by the Gwinnett County Public Library.
Groundbreaking: The City of Sugar Hill will host an official groundbreaking ceremony for its new Veterans Memorial Plaza on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, June 6 at 9 a.m. Mayor Steve Edwards and the Sugar Hill City Council welcome the Sugar Hill community to take part in the groundbreaking for this community symbol. The ceremony will be held at the intersection of W. Broad Street and Church Street, across from City Hall at 5029 W. Broad Street. NE. The Memorial Plaza includes monuments for the six military service branches, a water feature, and an eternal flame, arranged on a walkable hardscape plaza.
Mary Kay Andrews will speak at the Peachtree Corners City Hall on June 7 at 7 p.m. She is a Georgia author of 24 novels and a cookbook. Her latest novel is Sunset Beach. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Her appearance is presented by the Gwinnett County Public Library.
Adopt-a-Stream Workshop: Learn how to monitor the condition of a creek or stream in a class held by Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful in partnership with the Department of Water Resources. Receive free supplies, training, and certifications in chemical, bacterial, and macroinvertebrate testing. This will be June 8 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville. To find out more about the Adopt-a-Stream program, visit gwinnettcb.org/adopt-a-stream/.
June picnic of the Southern Wings Bird Club will be Monday, June 10, at 6 p.m. at Pavilion No. 1 at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville. The club will provide chicken and tableware. Bring a side dish or salad or dessert. For more details, call Rebecca Deitsch (678-334-1173) or Hank Ohme (770-845-3631).
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