176 MORE GRADUATES: Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) awarded 176 bachelor’s degrees at its summer commencement ceremony, held last week. The college now has more than 7,000 alumni. Dr. Jann L. Joseph, president of Georgia Gwinnett College, presents Courtney Williams, graduate student speaker, with her bachelor’s degree in business administration at the commencement ceremony. Williams spoke on behalf of her fellow graduates. She described how she had to overcome many doubts and fears to take “leaps of faith” to find and fulfill her purpose. The ceremony included the college’s first paralegal certifications, earned by political science majors Immanuel Dowling and Ibeth Gutierrez.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Suwanee Begins “Art for All” Fundraising To Expand Town Center Park
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Baseball Anywhere Is Always Enjoyable, Yet Its Stories Are Legendary
ANOTHER VIEW: Concerning Last Week’s Testimony before Congress by Robert Mueller
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Another Issue with Five Comments from the Readers
UPCOMING: Traffic Flow Changes Wednesday at Snellville’s Main Intersection
NOTABLE: Curiosity Lab Announces Partnership with Smart City Expo Atlanta
RECOMMENDED CD: Empire of Gold; A History of the Byzantine Empire by Thomas E. Madden
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Fuller, Ida Cason Callaway Form Partnership That Changed the Area
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s a Building with Unusual Footings as This Edition’s Mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Highlight of New School Year in Buford is $85 Million High School
CALENDAR: Snellville Commerce Club to Meet Next Tuesday at Noon
Suwanee begins “Art for All” fundraising to expand Town Center Park
Kids enjoying Suwanee Splash Pool, by Frank Sharp
SUWANEE, Ga., July 30, 2019 | The City of Suwanee has announced their first-ever capital campaign for public art. The Art for All campaign seeks to raise $1.25 million in private contributions to support the inclusion of three new public art pieces in the Town Center Park Expansion.
Suwanee’s public art – and the vibrant, distinctive community that comes with it – is funded entirely through sponsor support; no tax dollars are used. The city completed a fundraising feasibility study in 2018 and kicked off the Art for All campaign this summer with the first major (and, to date, largest) commitment of $100,000 from Quantum National Bank.
The Art for All campaign has also been chosen by the Community Foundation of Northeast Georgia as one of the highlighted nonprofits at its annual Good-2-Give Gala on August 17. The event will host 700 philanthropic Gwinnettians and bring additional awareness to campaign.
The City of Suwanee has long been steady and passionate about supporting the arts. The city launched a successful public art initiative in 2008 with the creation of its Public Arts Commission.
It also adopted a policy of encouraging developers to include public art in their projects and pledged the city to do the same. Since then, the city has welcomed over a dozen artworks placed by developers on their properties. In 2015, a public art master plan was implemented that envisions a community packed with appealing, interesting, creative public art that enhances the quality of life for residents, visitors, and businesses in the area.
Doug Shipman, chief executive officer of the Woodruff Arts Center, says: “People realize the arts are a big economic development piece. When a company decides where it’s going to move or grow, it looks to arts and culture, especially in the Atlanta region.”
The city recently committed $16 million to fund an extension of Town Center Park; upon completion, this public space will be one of the largest urban parks in metro Atlanta. It will increase the size of Town Center Park from 10 to 30 acres. The additional $1.25 million will fund three signature art pieces – an interactive, signature installation; a gateway entrance piece; and an installation in the railroad underpass. This will provide additional territory above and beyond the basic infrastructure of the park, and act as a catalyst to transform the project from a park to a place.
Cities have long considered public art a key component of a vibrant community — an essential element of placemaking and city design, a tool for promoting community connectedness and economic development, and a means of providing people with unique experiences.
Assistant City Manager Denise Brinson says: “While Suwanee provides the infrastructure of new parks and green spaces, it is the support of private citizens and businesses that provides the public art that has played such a significant role in what Suwanee does, what Suwanee is, and how Suwanee is viewed. With the help of our citizens, we will continue to elevate the role of public art and the impact of artistic engagement in our community.”
- For more information regarding the City of Suwanee’s Art for All capital campaign, visit Suwanee.com or contact Denise Brinson at denise@suwanee.com or 770-904-3385.
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Baseball anywhere is always enjoyable, yet its stories are legendary
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JULY 30, 2019 | Yes, I enjoy baseball, but I may love baseball lore even more. The game itself is beautiful, the pace easy, the unexpected can explode at any time, and always there seems to be a comparison of records of baseball immortals.
But the stories! They take you back to extraordinary moments.
There’s Babe Ruth, the first with 60 homers in a single season (now broken), standing as a landmark. Mentioning Ruth, you must mention Hank Aaron, and breaking the total home record at Atlanta Stadium with No. 715 (and even more later).
Stories abound: While the poem Casey at the Bat tells one story, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance is baseball poetry at its best. The last player to hit .400 (Ted Williams, .406 in 1941), and the great DiMaggio and his 56 game hitting streak (also in 1941)! And Johnny Vander Meer pitching two consecutive no-hitters in 1938, and Jackie Robinson integrating baseball. Then the Braves winning 11 straight National League division titles, and that great pitching staff of Maddox, Glavine, Avery and Smoltz? We may never see such a complete staff again.
- Let me raise a question here: how many batters can you strike out in a nine-inning game? The answer may surprise you. See below.
Baseball plays by the same rules everywhere, yet has such a rhythm about it. All you need is two competing teams, then sit back and enjoy. One weekend, my son and I were in a small community in North Carolina for a herring festival. The afternoon feature was a doubleheader between two high school teams. We sat through both baseball games, didn’t know any of the players, yet by the end of the day, we recognized certain characteristics of players on the two teams. It was a great time, thoroughly enjoyable games.
While in baseball the pace can seem slow, yet something distinctive can erupt any minute. It might be a rousing hit, or strike-out, or even an infield fly with runners on base. Or a passed ball, or grand slam, or a relief pitcher that changes the completion of the game. You never know. You sit in anticipation.
Baseball brings its own music with it. Can’t you see Harry Carey hanging out of his Chicago broadcast booth leading with “Take Me Out to the Ball Game?” And what’s a game without peanuts or Cracker Jacks?
Stadiums have their own appeal. There’s the Green Monster left field wall in Boston, home runs in San Francisco dropping into the Bay; and at Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field, home runs hit by the opposing teams get thrown back onto the playing field. Have you noticed how many coats of paint are on the stadium seats at Wrigley Field? My estimate is 37 coats. It has its own charm.
Back to strikeouts. It was in 1948, in Thomaston, Ga. When R.E. Lee Institute was playing my own Lanier Poets in a high school game. On the mound for R.E. Lee was Hugh Radcliff. He struck out the side in the first inning…..and in every inning in the ball game. One player who struck out reached first base when the catcher couldn’t handle the third strike. So what did Radcliff do? He struck out four batters that inning, ending the game with 28 K’s, a record not seen since.
Radcliff is still living in Comer, Ga. He’s the uncle of Tommy Carraway of Lawrenceville, who reminded me of the story the other day. I remember reading about it in 1948, and the record still holds today. It’s another story that makes baseball so enjoyable.
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Concerning last week’s testimony before Congress by Robert Mueller
By Therin Scott
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | The first impression of Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee is this effort may turn out badly for Democrats. Chairman Gerald Nadler (D) extracted damaging information that the report did not exonerate the president from charges of Obstruction of Justice. But the un-emotive, in-eloquent Mueller will do little to deliver that information to a wider audience.
Mueller
n the positive side, Hank Johnson (D), thankfully, managed to not embarrass himself, District Four and the State of Georgia.
Under Republican and to a lesser extent Democratic questioning, Mr. Mueller look tentative and surprisingly out of his depth. He is almost 75 years old. Perhaps this is why he didn’t want to testify.
The questions from the Intelligence Committee were rather enlightening. Ranking Member Nunes discussed Joseph Mifsud and the FBI’s lack of interest in a man former FBI Director James Comey described as a “Russian Operative” who visited the U.S. in December of 2016. This was one month before the FBI interviewed George Papadopoulos about the timing of his meeting with Mifsud, for which Papadopoulos was found guilty of perjury. Papadopoulos told the FBI he met with Mifsud before being involved with the Trump campaign when it was actually afterward. He wasn’t sure and instead of saying that, he picked before. Bad mistake.
The election of President Trump and the culmination of the Mueller investigation in these hearings are a reflection of the state of our country. Both reveal just how corrupt and broken our beloved experiment in liberty has become.
Should President Trump be impeached? Probably. While his demeanor arguably doesn’t achieve the level of a “High Crime and Misdemeanor,” evidence of Obstruction of Justice surely does. On the other hand, should the FBI be investigated and people convicted if they engaged in a biased and illegal investigation of the president? Yes, and quickly.
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Perhaps there’s a future where little machines will work great for us
Editor, the Forum:
I guess I’m an optimist too when it comes to our future. I look forward to the future for my children, grandchildren and so on because they will be necessary to provide the actual brain-power for many of the machines that will be invented to make life better for all. I can see how frightening it might be by allowing companies to replace humans with machines, but there will always be a need for actual human interaction with machines so they will work properly.
I guess I think back on the Disney movie Wall-E where the little machine does the right thing and protects the humans and helps open their eyes to the possible disaster if allowed to just let machines do everything for them. I’m sure some human will invent some kind of “poison-pill” to stop the take over of machines if it comes to that.
I see a Renaissance coming with the return of Artisans and Laborers working with their hands and minds to counter the loss of jobs to machines. We need to encourage our children and their children to turn to the Arts and Manual Labor for satisfaction when and if their jobs are replaced by machines.
My fear for our future is allowing pollution to go unchecked. If we don’t push back and demand clean air and clean water, it won’t matter if machines take over. By then it will be too late anyway.
— Sara Rawlins, Lawrenceville
Thanks, Miss Sara: We needed a good jolt of optimism. Thank you for it. –eeb
If interested in political betting, there’s always the English system
Editor, the Forum:
There is a UK based site – politicalbetting.com – which does precisely what it says. UK elections, US elections, majority size, vote percentage etc… there are folks out there who’ll bet on it. And don’t forget you can now bet on sports in New Jersey, if you are so inclined, or as Robert Mueller would say, “If that’s in your purview.”
— Tim Brookshaw, Sugar Hill
Feels Mueller testimony set up the president for prosecution later
Editor, the Forum:
Fox and Friends can think what they want, what Robert Mueller did was knowing that a sitting president could not be prosecuted. This has set Trump up for a prosecution after he is out of office. All of those crying for impeachment are fools. They can do it, of course, but it will go nowhere in the Senate and Trump will walk.
— Raleigh Perry, Buford
Needed is single set of billing codes and payment terms by insurers
Editor, the Forum:
I am not sure that single-payer dictates Medicare-For-All or mandatory coverage, but rather we need a single set of billing codes, payment terms, and a level playing field for providers, much the same way as the Pentagon provides its contractors.
Today each insurance company has its own rules, networks, etc, and blow up provider billing costs. We need competition by providers; not payers who limit and restrict provider innovation. Whether single-payer is used as a mechanism to provide national healthcare seems to me to be a separate issue from clearing the path to refocus healthcare on healthcare instead of insurance companies.
Also, I think about 70 percent of the total cost of government and schools is people – salaries and benefits. Of that 70 percent, about 30 percent is healthcare. Cut the cost of administering healthcare 10 percent and we see a reduction in our federal, state, and local taxes.
— Joe Briggs, Suwanee
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Traffic flow changes Wednesday at Snellville’s main intersection
On Wednesday, July 31, traffic in Snellville will begin utilizing the displaced left turn lanes at the Intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and Scenic Highway in order to turn left onto Scenic Highway (State Highway 124.) Crews will work overnight Tuesday and have the intersection operational before Wednesday’s morning commute.
This is the second displaced left turn intersection built in the state of Georgia; the first one is located in Dawson County at State Highway 400 and State Highway 53.
This project implements improvements to Henry Clower Boulevard, along with constructing displaced left turns from U.S. 78 onto Scenic Highway, and adds southbound right turn lanes from State Highway 124 on to U.S. 78. All of these improvements will increase safety and traffic flow.
Northbound drivers are reminded no right or left turns will be permitted onto U.S. Highway from State Highway 124. Northbound traffic wanting to turn right on U.S. 78 toward Loganville or left toward Stone Mountain will now use Henry Clower Boulevard.. Southbound through traffic and left turns will not be significantly different.
- To watch a video simulation of the new traffic pattern, please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmp39Zmw0o&feature=youtu.be
Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra starts new season Oct. 5
The Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra announces its 2019-2020 concert season. All concerts except for Music in Newtown Park will take place at the Johns Creek United Methodist Church, 11180 Medlock Bridge Road in Johns Creek.
The orchestra’s 13th season will feature the rollout of two new concert types – a Pops concert and a concert for kids. JCSO Executive Director Linda Brill says: “We are responding to feedback from our audience members, who have indicated a strong desire for Pops and family programming. A Kids Christmas will be designed to be sensory-friendly, and will be a perfect experience for anyone desiring a casual concert atmosphere, from families with very small children to patrons on the Autism spectrum or with Alzheimer’s.”
Music Director J. Wayne Baughman adds: “We are also excited to collaborate with many Johns Creek community organizations this season, including the Johns Creek Chorale, School of Rock Johns Creek, Chattahoochee High School, and North Atlanta Dance Theatre. Our audiences will be amazed at the breadth of artistic talent that resides right here in Johns Creek.”
2019-2020 Season will be:
October 5 at 7 p.m. , Music in Newtown Park. This is a free concert of light classical music.
November 16 at 7:30 p.m. School of Rock Johns Creek and JCSO String Quartet, featuring the 1960s girl group The Crystals.
November 30, 11 a.m.: North Atlanta Dance Theatre.This concert will feature favorite holiday songs, dancers and sing-alongs, in a casual atmosphere where kids can be kids.
December 21 at 7:30 p.m. Christmas Gala Concert: The Johns Creek Chorale and Johns Creek native, soprano Bevin Hill, will be our special guests as we celebrate the Most Wonderful Time of the Year in a hometown holiday spectacular.
March 28, 2020: 7:30 p.m.: A Night In Russia. This blockbuster will be a musical tour of Russia, from Bald Mountain to the Great Gate of Kiev, including Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2. This concert will incorporate Chattahoochee High School’s finest young musicians into the performance.
Curiosity Lab announces partnership with Smart City Expo Atlanta
Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners has announced its strategic partnership with Smart City Expo Atlanta (SCATL) and the grand opening of its 5G enabled autonomous vehicle and smart city living laboratory.
SCATL is the only U.S. edition of Smart City Expo World Congress held annually in Barcelona. The conference will bring together more than 2,500 attendees, 200 speakers and 50 exhibitors at the Georgia World Congress Center from Sept 11-13, 2019 to discuss the state of “smart cities” and the technological trends driving their success.
Curiosity Lab is a publicly funded, real-world living laboratory and testbed featuring a one and a half mile autonomous vehicle test track in Peachtree Corners within a 500 acre commercial office park. The Lab offers companies the opportunity to transition unique, innovative technologies from controlled environments into an active community.
Brian Johnson, City Manager for Peachtree Corners, says: “Startups and mature companies around the world are interested in using the Lab’s test track to better understand how their technology operates in a suburban community with people working and living around them. Our partnership with Smart City Expo Atlanta offers companies the opportunity to demonstrate their technology firsthand and jumpstart the Expo. It will also provide citizens and conference attendees a glimpse of what the future test site will look like.”
Conference attendees are invited to view live demos the morning of September 11 and can expect to see drones, autonomous vehicles and other innovative technologies moving about. There are a limited number of demo slots available, but companies looking to secure a spot can submit a proposal to info@curiositylabptc.com
Aarti Tandon, Co-Founder and CEO of Smart City Expo Atlanta maintains: “As the Southeast’s largest and most advanced technology hub, Atlanta is a natural location for the development of IoT, mobility, and smart city technology. Our partnership with Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners is a transformative way to exhibit real-world IoT technology in action and will help conference attendees visualize the future of their communities. We are thrilled to be working together on this cutting-edge demonstration.”
Empire of Gold; A History of the Byzantine Empire by Thomas E. Madden
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: This lecture series presents the history of the Byzantine Empire from the time Western and Eastern Rome were contiguous through the many battles that continued from the Fifth Century until its fall under the Ottoman Empire in 1457. The Byzantine Empire existed from 330 to 1453. Its capital was founded at Constantinople by Constantine I (r. 306-337 CE). The Empire varied in size over the centuries, at one time or another, possessing territories located in Italy, Greece, the Balkans, Levant, Asia Minor, and North Africa. The author paints a compelling picture of the life and times who strove for dominance over the centuries. The study guide is a great help in summarizing each chapter and drawing out the primary themes with a few questions for thought and summation. Loaded with detail and vivid descriptions of battles, it brings life to an important period in European history. Recommended for history buffs.
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Fuller, Ida Cason Callaway formed partnership that changed the area
(Continued from previous edition)
Fuller Callaway said that one of his greatest accomplishments was marrying Ida Jane Cason of Jewell in 1891. They met while she attended Southern Female College in LaGrange and after their marriage lived frugally on what Fuller termed “cash street rather than mortgage street.” Between 1914 and 1916, he engaged architect Neel Reid, of Hentz and Reid, to design their Hills and Dales home on Vernon Road in LaGrange. The Italian style of the home complemented the gardens that Sarah Coleman Ferrell had planted on the site beginning in 1841. Fuller and his wife had two sons, Cason Jewell Callaway and Fuller Earle Callaway Jr.
Like his father, Cason Jewell Callaway (1894-1961) spent years as a textile manufacturer, a businessman, and a state agricultural leader. He achieved his greatest success in developing Callaway Gardens after retiring from Callaway Mills. A native of LaGrange, Cason attended Bingham Military School in Asheville, N.C., and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville before getting a degree from the Eastman School of Business in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. After finishing school, he returned to Troup County to work in the mills. He developed Valley Waste Mills into a commercial success by refining recycling operations.
During World War I (1917-18) Cason joined the U.S. Navy and worked in the Navy Supply Corps’ Bureau of Supplies and Accounts at Navy Headquarters in Washington, D.C. After Cason returned to LaGrange, his father stepped away from active mill management, and Cason began managing the mills. He married Virginia Hollis Hand of Pelham, and the couple had three children, Virginia, Cason Jr., and Howard Hollis (known as “Bo”).
Convinced in the 1920s that the national economy was heading for rough times, Fuller advised his two sons to choose one business arena and sell off their other holdings. The brothers sold most of their businesses and created a new corporation, Callaway Mills, which oversaw mill management. One key to Cason’s success in mill management proved to be salesmanship, a trait he shared with his father. Cason established relations with General Motors, entered the rug and tire-cord business, and hired managers and salesmen to market mill products.
Thanks to careful stewardship and to profits made from selling the other businesses, Callaway Mills survived the Great Depression without closing any plants, while management kept at least one member of every mill family fully employed.
In 1934 and 1935 Callaway Mills suffered two employee strikes. Eventually management won out and strikers left the area, but the economic stresses of the decade led Cason to retire. He became chairman of the board of Callaway Enterprises and served until 1937; his brother, Fuller Jr., became president. Cason accepted national positions, served on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, and was a director for various national companies.
(To be continued)
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Here’s a building with unusual footings as this edition’s Mystery
How about this Mystery Photo for an unusual setting? Now figure out where it is located, and what goes on in this building. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
The last edition’s Mystery Photo was more difficult than imagined, it appears, since there were so few answers. The photo came from a guy on vacation in Canada, Andy Brack of Charleston, S.C.
Jim Savadelis, Duluth was the first to identify the Mystery: “Today’s photo is from the Mural Festival in Montreal, Canada,” while Lou Camerio, Lilburn gave us more detail: “I believe this is along Duluth Avenue in Montreal Canada.
Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: “My guess is Montreal, Canada. Naturally, my first thought would be Duluth, Ga., because of the little sign beside the mural. Then my second thought was Duluth, Minn. However since you said, ‘think again,’ I’m going to branch out and guess that this might be one of the murals in the summer’s Montreal Mural Festival. There is a Rue Duluth there and it’s possible that the little green emblem on the street sign resembles a fleur-de-lis, but I know it’s a stretch.” She was right!
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. wrote: “This mystery photo is of the ‘Summer of ‘67’ mural, presented by Roots Canada from the WhatIsAdam Mural Street Art Festival 2018 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (which is incidentally where I was born and raised before moving to the USA at age 35).”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. said: “Since 2013, organizers of the MURAL Festival have invited both local and international artists to beautify Montreal by adding giant paintings to places around the Canadian city. The mission of MURAL is to democratize art, revitalize the urban landscape, and support the cultural, social, and economic vitality of the community. Installed in the heart of the city, MURAL revitalizes the Boulevard Saint-Laurent, a historic and notable civic artery. MURAL’s portfolio of over 80 permanent murals in Montreal is recognized as an important Canadian epicenter for urban art and culture.”
Highlight of new school year in Buford is $85 million high school
School begins August 7 in Buford, with the new $85 million Buford High School opening its doors to students. The new plant, which has been compared to a college campus, took two years to construct. The 400,000 square foot building was erected by Charles Black Construction Company of Cleveland, and the architect is Breaux and Associates of Alpharetta. The school is composed of three distinct buildings, for Academics, Fine Arts and Athletics.
Snellville Commerce Club speaker on August 6 at noon at the City Hall will be Jay Markwalter, executive director of the Georgia Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus. He previously was the first Executive Director of the Lawrenceville Tourism & Trade Association serving for seven years.
National Night Out will be on Tuesday, August 6 in Lilburn. This will be the 10th annual National Night Out and will be at Plaza Las Americas. The civic event is aimed to support anti-crime efforts and strengthen neighborhood spirit by building relationships with local law enforcement and other civil servants. For more information on this free event, please visit https://www.cityoflilburn.com
Small Business Workshop: Join Stephanie Sokenis, on Tuesday, August 6 at 6 p.m. at the Suwanee Branch Library. Hear Mr. Sokenis, an accredited small business consultant from SmallBiz Ally, to learn how to grow your small business through email marketing. Reach new customers, increase loyalty, and do more business. Presented by the Gwinnett County Public Library, registration is required by emailing events@gwinnettpl.org. Free and open to the public.For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Terence Lester will speak Thursday, August 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Suwanee Branch Library. He is a thought leader in the realm of systemic poverty. He is known for his nationwide campaigns that bring awareness to issues surrounding homelessness, poverty, and economic inequality. This is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
U.S attorney to speak: The U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, B.J. Pak of Lilburn, will speak at a Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce meeting on August 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the 1818 Club in Duluth. Pak, the 25h presidentially-appointed U.S. Attorney for North Georgia, is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. He is also a graduate of Stetson University, where he was a Florida Academic Scholar. He is also a registered Certified Public Accountant in Illinois.
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