TIMOTHY JONES is flanked by his music teachers, Kathy Bunn and Patti Bennett, at ceremonies dedicating a HAWK crosswalk Tuesday in front of the Norcross First United Methodist Church. In the back are Robert Michener of the Gateway85 CID and Norcross Councilman Andrew Hixson, while Tim’s brother, Joseph, and his mother, Nancy are at the right. For more information, see Today’s Focus below and Elliott Brack’s Perspective.
IN THIS EDITIONTODAY’S FOCUS: New Audible Crosswalk Helps Blind Student Cross Beaver Ruin Road
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Small Bit of History Made on Beaver Ruin Road Tuesday Afternoon
ANOTHER VIEW: Move Toward Socialism by Democrats Signals Another Trump Victory
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
FEEDBACK: Trump’s Recent Tweets Are Good Examples of Xenophobic Behavior
UPCOMING: Snellville Post Office Anticipated To Move Location to Wisteria Drive
NOTABLE: Peach State Employees Donate Items To Gwinnett’s Salvation Army
RECOMMENDED: Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Yellow Hammers were Early Singing and Recording Group
MYSTERY PHOTO: Look Up In Thinking of Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: State of Peachtree Corners Address Coming on July 22
TODAY’S FOCUSNew audible crosswalk helps blind student cross Beaver Ruin Road
By Eric Fischer
NORCROSS, Ga. | On Tuesday at 3 p.m., Timothy Jones, blind at birth, walked across Beaver Ruin Road using an audible HAWK Signal system crosswalk for the first time. The crosswalk opened with his walk.
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Timothy, who was home-schooled, has a love of music and began lessons when he was five to play the piano by ear. He then studied for years with Patti Bennett and learned classical music, largely provided to him in braille from the Library of Congress in Washington.
Betsy Grenevitch, also blind, taught him how to read braille. This remarkable “perfect pitch” talent went on to gain his bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts of Music in Organ from Mercer in Macon in 2019, where he lived on campus.
Timothy is now working to obtain his master’s degree in Piano Pedagogy from Georgia State, so that he can teach others, especially children, to learn how to play piano through braille.
For Timothy to travel to and from school independently, it is necessary to cross Beaver Ruin Road from his residence on Light Circle in Norcross.
Gateway85 Community Improvement District has been planning a crosswalk project, with a grant from the Georgia Department of Transportation and financial assistance from Gwinnett County Department of Transportation. The original plan did not include an audible component, but this was about to change.
Robert Michener, director of operations for the Gateway85 CID, says: “This came about by happenstance. We had identified the need for the crosswalk on the very busy Beaver Ruin Road, because of the location of a church and the school, and the many apartment communities located within that area. As project manager, I was out inspecting the progress when I was approached by Timothy’s mother, Nancy. She asked if the system was audible. It was not.” Gateway85 then made another investment of $15,000 to add sound. The entire project cost $205,000.
All this is background for why people gathered for Timothy’s birthday celebration on July 16 as the HAWK system was turned on. Timothy was among the first to walk across Beaver Ruin Road, a route he will take daily as he enters Georgia State to work on his graduate degree in August.
According to Gateway85’s Executive Director Emory Morsberger: “This is the kind of thing we love to do. We are always on the lookout for projects to improve traffic, landscaping, reduce crime, and improve the overall quality of life while promoting economic development in the district. Helping this young man continue to pursue his dreams in teaching blind children to play the piano required an extra effort we could not turn down.”
Nancy Jones appreciates the help the CID has provided for her family. “We are so proud of Timothy’s ambition and courage to live an independent life that he can achieve. We cannot thank Robert and the entire team at Gateway85 enough!” Timothy’s mother says.
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Small bit of history made on Beaver Ruin Road Tuesday afternoon
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JULY 19, 2019 | There was excitement in the air Tuesday afternoon, as a small group gathered mostly under a shade tree in front of the Norcross First United Methodist Church, though there were chairs empty in the sun. They might not have been there for the dedication of a new crosswalk on busy Beaver Ruin Road if it hadn’t been for a chance conversation between a mother and an employee of the Gateway85 Community Improvement District.
When Mrs. Ray (Nancy) Jones in Norcross learned that the Gateway85 Community Improvement District was installing a traffic crossing near her home on Light Circle, she asked if the crosswalk would be audible. It was not scheduled to be, but Robert Michener of the CID found an additional $15,000 to make it a HAWK crossing (High Intensity Activated Crosswalk), audible for Nancy’s blind son, Timothy, 26. This change adding the audible signal took place in a short, three week time frame.
So people gathering at the crosswalk on Tuesday saw Timothy officially dedicate the crosswalk with the first walk across. Those present cheered, as newsmen took frames of his historic walk, with cars stopped on both sides of the roadway.
Timothy will be using the crosswalk often, as he travels to Georgia State University this fall working on a degree in organ music. He’s a person gifted with perfect pitch, his mother learned early on. When Tim was about two years old, his mother was in the kitchen when she heard a piano playing single notes of the melody line of a gospel song, “Lamb of God,” which they played often on a CD. She found “Timothy was holding onto the piano with his left hand, eyes level with the keyboard, and playing the notes with his right hand. I told our church organist about it, and she said, ‘Get him a teacher.’”
He started taking music from Patti Bennett, now of Flowery Branch, when he was five years old, and continued for 14 years. He earned many superiors in state and national competition. He won the Irl Allison Award from the National Piano Guild, and was on its magazine cover.
At age 12, he began to play a family organ that was once owned by his grandfather. Now he wants to concentrate on the organ. Nancy says: “It took forever to find an organ teacher, who became Karen Bunn of Johns Creek, one of the organists at St. Philips Cathedral.” Once he entered Mercer, his main organ professor was Dr. Jack Mitchener. He graduated from Mercer in Macon earlier this year.
Another important step in Timothy’s music education was learning Braille, and especially Braille music. He had to know Braille music to function in college. He got loads of help from Vocational Rehabilitation Services in this area, and at age 21, took a gap year to learn the computer equipment provided by the state for him.
Timothy has two brothers, Stephen, 24, who finished in computer sciences at Liberty University this year; and Joseph, 21, who is studying business at Gwinnett Technical College.
Sunny Tuesday was a heartwarming day, not just with the heat, but with the realization that a semi-governmental agency, the Gateway85 Community Improvement District, was nimble enough to change a project quickly, and improve the life of the area.
Now, good luck, Timothy, on your work at Georgia State.
As Rep. Pedro Marin said at the gathering, “History was made on Beaver Ruin Road today.”
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Move toward socialism by Democrats signals another Trump victory
By Theirn Scott
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | Thanks to Donald Trump, the 2020 general election is going to be unique. It appears the election may become a referendum on which economic philosophy we want: capitalism or socialism? Now it should be obvious to all that our current capitalist scheme has socialist components thanks to the influence of modern liberals. And the democratic socialism of the Democratic Party would be built on a capitalist foundation. But there is a significant difference between where we are today and where the current Democratic Party left would take us.
The leftward move of the Democratic Party is a most interesting political development in the era of Trump. It is also the single most significant development that could ensure his re-election. Even nominating Joe Biden may not be sufficient to ensure victory. After the recent debates Biden’s quickly losing ground. But even if successful, Biden will be pulled so far left by this Democratic “mother of all primaries” process that he will risk losing a significant portion of the 30 percent moderates who are, by and large, capitalists.
American presidential elections are a complicated affair thanks to the Electoral College System, which, thanks to social media, Trump managed to his benefit. And while many are screaming for the elimination of the Electoral College, the irony is if it were still deployed today the way the Founders envisioned it, Donald Trump would not have been elected. So what? Well, if a political novice like Trump can game the system, his opponents need to pay attention.
The Democrats won’t make the same mistakes in 2020 they made in 2016. However, capitalism versus socialism is a core worldview question that will grab the attention of the middle-class, which, while it may be shrinking, is still a dominant force in politics. They will pay attention to this debate.
It’s dangerous to speculate on the outcome of an election 15 months in advance, but a Trump victory is more likely than not. Thanks to demographics there’s no doubt the arc of history is bending leftward. I’ve heard Modern Monetary Theory mentioned in the mainstream media more than once in the last week. But my gut tells me the threat of more socialism in an era of enormous debt, both public and private, will slow the arc of change to Trump’s benefit.
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Trump’s recent tweets are good examples of xenophobic behavior
Editor, the Forum:
Many have labeled President Trump’s recent Tweets about the four congressional members of “The Squad” as racist, probably because each of these women is a person of color. I don’t view his comments so much as racist but as xenophobic. This big word refers to an attitude of hatred or fear of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers, which is held by many Americans (especially Donald Trump).
Xenophobia has more to do with ethnicity than race. People with the same or a similar racial identity may view each other as foreign, different, or strange based on their ethnic differences, such as coming from or having ancestors coming from a foreign country or culture.
Telling people of different ethnicities to “go back to the country you came from” when the people actually come from your own country sounds like xenophobia. Like Trump’s immigration policies that have brought on the humanitarian crisis along our southern border, his recent tweets and ICE deportation raids seem xenophobic and part and parcel of attempted ethnic cleansing of America.
— Mike Wood, Peachtree Corners
Likes Forum’s diversity; Sees in news lots of negative screeching hysteria
Editor, the Forum:
Good to see some more diversity of thought in GwinnettForum this week!
Let me offer some rebuttals to George Wilson’s list of high crimes and misdemeanors.
George, back in my youth I experimented with mind-altering substances. I’m afraid you may have stumbled upon my old stash, because the dystopia that you describe is not what I see around me.
I don’t actually know anyone in the news business that has been killed, tortured, or even arrested in this country in the last two years. If one does a little research, I think the negative/positive ratio of press coverage to this administration and to conservatives in general is something like 90/10 in favor of negative screeching hysteria. I’m betting you might get a little fussy if you got that kind of treatment.
Looking at the list of “investigators” who have been fired reads like a who’s who of hacks and lackeys with an agenda to preserve the status quo. Your boys spent two years and several million taxpayer dollars to try to find a unicorn that doesn’t exist. It’s been nothing but crickets from the mainstream press and network news since that all went down the tubes. Fox News predates this administration, and has been successful by presenting news that the Alphabets don’t cover (Fast and Furious, Lois Lerner, James Rosen…). Believe it or not, there’s a market for free thought and conservative opinion.
— Rick Hammond, Lawrenceville
Call Washington about the debt ceiling since Treasury upside down
Editor, the Forum:
I like to think I am Progressive not Regressive, as many in loyal opposition seem to be. But wouldn’t it be nice for Congress to deal with what is, rather than reaching for what some think is the ‘brass ring,’ that is, impeachment.
- The Treasury is upside down, in case anyone noticed or even cares. When the checks stop coming, many, too many will care and too many will suffer.
- Stop playing games and get the debt ceiling raised with caveats to continue cutting needless and unnecessary expenses. The old “Golden Fleece’ is still residing in D.C.
- Attack, attack, attack. Shoot let’s get Russia to start paying some or their WWII debts.
Mnuchin is moving cash around at such a pace, it is like kiting checks. That can only work so long. ‘Pssst’…The ceiling was passed in March. Oops.
If you want to call you Washington delegation, call them about the $$$$$$. Suggest they do this before their month long vacation and government paid-for trips.
— Ashley Herndon, Oceanside, Calif.
Enjoys seeing bipartisan discussion with both sides of issues
Editor, the Forum:
The last edition (July 16) is a good example of a bipartisan forum that Elliott Brack offers, with both sides of a question that many of us have in the back of our minds.
Where are we headed and how do I help (or hinder) our destiny? The next generation will determine our direction , maybe not this election cycle but the next one for sure. Did our parents and grandparents feel nervous when our generation voted in the late 60s and 70s? Probably. Thanks for a great edition and for offering space for both sides of the debate.
— John Moore, Duluth
An authoritarian regime could develop unless we are vigilant
Editor, the Forum:
Thanks for publishing George Wilson’s message on the origins of authoritarianism. Yes, such a regime could happen in America.
Many German people never thought the Nazi regime could supplant its own democratic government. By the time they realized it was happening, it was too late.
We still have an election in 2020. Let’s hope the American people send a message we are still a nation of laws, not men.
— Billy Chism, Toccoa
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Snellville Post Office anticipated to move location to Wisteria Drive
The Snellville Post Office will move from its Oak Road location to the former SunTrust building at 2440 Wisteria Drive. The city and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) inked a deal Tuesday, in what is being called a “major win” for the city’s eagerly anticipated Towne Center project.
Mayor Barbara Bender says: “This is a historic day for the City of Snellville. We have been working on this deal for at least five years and saw it as a major piece in our goal of creating a Towne Center where residents can live, work, learn and play and making Snellville a destination for visitors. The city would like to thank the Postal Service for its help in making the Towne Center project a place we can all be proud of.”
Mayor and Council approved the purchase of the vacant SunTrust building on Wisteria Drive in May for $725,000. City leaders feel the access and parking around this building offers a significantly safer situation than the difficult parking and traffic pattern around the existing post office building. The new post office will have 5,000 square feet of space, compared with 12,000 for the former building. Negotiations also highlighted the fact the current post office contains a lot of unneeded space since mail delivery functions have moved to a new facility in Centerville.
Based on this new commitment by USPS, the city has re-engaged with a committed developer to finish a development agreement to create the Towne Center on the block between Oak Road, Wisteria Drive, North Road and Clower Street. The Towne Center will provide the city’s downtown with residential, educational, commercial and recreational properties surrounding a city market and new Elizabeth Williams Library already greenlighted following an agreement with the county last year. The Towne Center is expected to spur growth in the surrounding areas of the city, as outlined in the recently revised comprehensive plan.
The city, through the Downtown Development Authority, purchased the former bank building in June. The post office will be located on the planned Towne Center greenway, which will provide a pleasant walking and biking opportunity for Towne Center residents and visitors. City officials anticipate construction to begin on the greenway in early 2020.
The USPS now has 90 days to complete a review of the project which will include a public meeting, the date of which is to be determined. The project is expected to go out to bid in October. For more information and updates on the Towne Center project visit www.snellville.org/the-towne-center-snellville.
County plans 4 chances to learn about working at election polls
Gwinnett citizens interested in the electoral process and who want to give back to the community are invited to attend one of Gwinnett County’s four upcoming poll official hiring events in July.
The Gwinnett County Voter Registrations and Elections Division is looking for citizens of all backgrounds, but especially needs bilingual poll workers, particularly Spanish speakers. Gwinnett County elections personnel staff 156 polling locations on Election Day plus eight advance voting locations. To comply with federal law, bilingual polling officials must be available to assist voters at each polling location during elections.
Poll officials can gain valuable work experience and earn $75 to $300 per day.
The hiring events are set for:
- Thursday, July 18 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Five Forks Branch Library, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lawrenceville;
- Saturday, July 20 from 9 a.m. to noon at Collins Hill Branch Library, 455 Camp Perrin Road, Lawrenceville;
- Thursday, July 25 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at OneStop Norcross, 5030 Georgia Belle Court, Norcross; and
- Saturday, July 27 from 9 a.m. to noon at OneStop Norcross, 5030 Georgia Belle Court, Norcross
Among the requirements, applicants must be at least 16 years old, a U.S. citizen and be able to read, write and speak English. They also must be a Gwinnett County resident or a Gwinnett County government employee and they must have access to a computer for required online training.
NOTABLEPeach State employees donate items to Gwinnett’s Salvation Army
Peach State Federal Credit Union members have donated personal care items and non-perishable food to the Salvation Army of Gwinnett on Sugarloaf Parkway. The credit union collects items throughout the year and makes quarterly donations to food banks in their service area. Shown are Hazel Barrett, volunteer coordinator for the Salvation Army of Gwinnett with Deborah Fancher, business development for Peach State FCU. The Salvation Army provides various programs and services for youth and adults in need including music, arts, practical training, worship, and more. Barrett says: “This contribution will help us feed our guests as they work to get back on their feet. Donations like these help us provide for those in need and we are very grateful for the generosity of Peach State’s members.”
RECOMMENDEDDecluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: When you think of decluttering, do you think of neatly stacked storage bins and rows of pretty boxes cradling your possessions? Well, think again. De-\cluttering, says author Dana White, does NOT mean organizing. Decluttering means purging! Yes. Throw that stuff out! She says it’s better to live with the regret of missing something you discarded than to hang onto it because you think you might need it. She calls her method ‘deslobification’ and says you can do it in the ‘awkward pauses’ of your real life. She occasionally talks down to her readers, but she does have a few good ideas, saying her book ‘takes the drama out of decluttering.’ I found it hard to imagine any more could be said on the subject after de-cluttering guru Marie Kondo came onto the scene. However, the morning after I finished this book, I could not wait to start throwing things away!
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Georgia Yellow Hammers were early singing and recording group
The Georgia Yellow Hammers, an old-time fiddle string band from Gordon County, were active from the mid- to late 1920s. Members consisted variously of Bill Chitwood, Clyde Evans, Bud Landress, Charles Ernest Moody, Phil Reeve, and sometime recording associates Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter, and Elias Meadows.
George Oscar “Bud” Landress was born in Gwinnett County in 1882 and moved to Gordon County in 1905. William Hewlitt “Bill” Chitwood, born in Resaca in 1891, was the youngest of 12 children. Chitwood’s older brother had a homemade fiddle that Chitwood sneaked out on occasion and learned to play. He also learned to play the banjo but never liked the guitar. Landress had the same versatility and also preferred the fiddle and banjo. During this period of pre-country southern music, the fiddle and banjo were predominant, and the guitar somewhat newfangled.
C.P. “Phil” Reeve, born in 1896 and the third member of the band, came to be business manager of both the Georgia Yellow Hammers and also of Andrew and Jim Baxter, fiddler and guitar player, respectively.
The Baxters, who were African American, were also from Gordon County. Reeve’s father died in 1900, leaving Reeve’s mother to care for four small children. To support them she sold musical instruments. From age nine, Reeve drove a mule wagon around Gordon County delivering parlor pump reed organs. He even went to a school in Indiana to learn piano tuning and player piano maintenance.
In 1906 his mother married Lawrence Moss, who owned Moss Music Company in Calhoun—subsequently a music center for the Yellow Hammers and others. Reeve’s stepfather encouraged him to stay in the music business. Somewhere Reeve had also learned to yodel. As can be heard on later records, his voice was somewhere between that of a Swiss yodeler and country music singer (and yodeler) Jimmie Rodgers.
This was the heyday of recording, especially of the newly “discovered” hillbilly music. In 1925, before the Georgia Yellow Hammers began playing together, Chitwood and Landress traveled to New York to record for Brunswick Records. Chitwood played the fiddle and Landress the banjo on these recordings. They recorded “Hen Cackle” and less well known fiddle tunes, such as “Whoa Mule” and “Over the Sea.”
(To be continued)
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Look up into thinking of today’s Mystery Photo
This overhead Mystery Photo awaits you discovering where it is located. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown. That beautiful glass sculpture which was last edition’s Mystery Photo got a few responses, from the regulars. The photo came from Lou Camerio of Lilburn.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. immediately told us: “It’s a modern glass artwork sculpture by Simone Cenedese under the ancient clock tower on Murano Island, Venice, Italy. Glass at one point in history was a very valuable commodity available only in small sizes and to the very wealthy. With the invention of glassblowing, glass became accessible to the general public. Glass was one of the Renaissance world’s most coveted treasures. Glass products were highly prized in the Middle Ages and were predominantly responsible for the power and wealth of the Venetian empire at that time. Secret glass making recipe books are passed down from fathers to sons in glassmaking families.”
Two others recognizing it were Jim Savadelis, Duluth; and Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill, who sent in a wider view. Susan says: “I understand it’s a controversial sculpture (color and style don’t go with the historical background maybe).”
A wider view
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. offered: “Today’s mystery photo is of the ‘Comet Glass Star’, a large glass sculpture that was created by master glass artist Simone Cenedese for the 2007 Natale di Vetro (Christmas in Glass) annual celebration. This stunningly beautiful work of art is on permanent display in the Campo Santo Stefano, a city square located next to a prominent clock tower in Murano, Venice, Italy. The sculpture is assembled from 500 blown glass elements in six different Blue Murano colors and a variety of sizes. A Google search will reveal photos of this sculpture when it is lit up at night that will simply take your breath away!
“Interestingly, Atlanta has a strong connection to the glass making trade of Murano. I am sure that many of the GwinnettForum readers are familiar with the Dale Chihuly glass works that have been prominently displayed at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Although Dale Chihuly is 100 percent American born, he learned much about his trade from the craftsmen in Venice. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, Chichuly went to work at the Venini Glass Factory in Murano where he learned the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today.”
HEY, READERS: We’re getting low on good quality Mystery Photos. Pull out your best possible photos and send them for others to ponder.
CALENDAR
Social Security Pre-Retirement Program Workshop will be Saturday, July 20, at 11 a.m. at the Hamilton Mill Branch Library, 36890 Braselton Highway, Dacula. It is free and open to the public. Whether planning for retirement or starting a new chapter in your life, Social Security provides financial benefits, information, and tools to help secure today and tomorrow for you and your family. Hear from a Social Security Public Affairs Specialist to get answers to your questions. For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
A hazardous waste workshop will be held on July 20 from 8 to noon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, located at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville. Many products in the home are completely safe to use and store until they become waste. When throwing away old batteries, fluorescent bulbs, or pesticides, improper disposal can harm the environment and threaten our water resources. Bring household hazardous waste to the Waste Collection Day There are many acceptable materials. Each person may bring up to five containers. This event is hosted by Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful and the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources.
State of Peachtree Corners will be the topic for Mayor Mike Mason on July 22 at 6 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel, 475 Technology Parkway. The mayor is expected to unveil the city’s future projects, including the Town Center pedestrian bridge, botanical garden and performing arts center. The event is free, with parking available at the hotel.
Health Fair and Back To School Event will be Saturday, July 27, at Bogan Road Park, 2723 North Bogan Road, in Buford from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. The event will prepare attendees for the school year with free health screening, plus activities for the kids. There will be free school supplies for students. The health screenings will be for all ages.
Writer’s Workshop: When it comes to writing, every writer is unique. But mistakes made by first-time authors are not unique. Author and publisher, Nury Crawford, will discuss the most common mistakes new writers make, how to find a competent and affordable editor, the three ways to get your work published, and your writer’s “rights.” Presented by Gwinnett County Public Library, this workshop will take place on Saturday, July 27 at 1 p.m. at the Suwanee Branch, 361 Main Street, Suwanee. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
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