DOESN’T THIS LOOK LIKE FUN? It’s a scene from the Chattahoochee River from last year’s “Whatever Floats Your Boat” event, which will take place for the second year from Rogers Park on July 20. For more details, see story in Upcoming below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: McClure Health Science High School Aims for Specialized Student Learning
EEB PERSPECTIVE: We’ve Always Been a Dog Family; One Looked Like Walter Cronkite
ANOTHER VIEW: Both Political Parties Are Using Tactics To Add to the National Debt
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Winning Elections via the Electoral College Is Governmentally Sound
UPCOMING: Biking Group Seeks Volunteers To Help Disabled Learn To Ride
NOTABLE: Baptist Foundation Awards $60,000 to Truth Community Clinic
RECOMMENDED: The Shadow War by CNN reporter Jim Scuitto
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Cockspur Lighthouse Marked Entrance to Channel of Savannah River
MYSTERY PHOTO: Long, Two-Laned and Covered, So Where Is It?
LAGNIAPPE: Throngs Crowd Lawrenceville Lawn on the Fourth
CALENDAR: Peter Yarrow to be live in concert at Temple Beth David in Snellville on July 13
McClure Health Science High School aims for specialized student learning
By Nicole Mosley
Principal, McClure Health Science High School
DULUTH, Ga. | The launch of the new McClure Health Science High School, to open on August 5, 2019, will provide students in the Meadowcreek Cluster a unique learning experience!
Mosley
Through internships, hands-on learning, and certification opportunities, students will get a jump on future careers while still in high school. Our curriculum has been developed with students and their future in mind. Lessons will focus on critical thinking, collaboration, authentic learning, and problem-solving, through the health science lens.
Students may earn health science certifications during high school to support their transition to college and/or work. Students also may choose to begin their college work, including the option to start or even complete an associate’s degree by the time they graduate from high school. The option to begin or earn a two-year college degree and high school diploma while at McClure Health Science High School will provide students a competitive edge for college admission. It will also save them thousands of dollars in college tuition. Other students may choose to enter the workforce directly from high school.
At McClure, students will have the option to take studies in three different pathways: Clinical Care, Medical Support, and Health Informatics and Technology.
- The Clinical Care program is perfect for students interested in learning more about emergency medicine and trauma, exercise physiology, and patient care.
- Medical Support: If the student is interested in becoming a medical office assistant or wants to manage a medical office, they will enroll in the Medical Support program.
- The Health Informatics and Technology program links information technology, communications and healthcare.
All three pathways will prepare students for life after high school through advanced placement (AP) courses, dual enrollment options, research classes, internships, and industry certifications.
While at McClure, there are no Georgia High School Association activities; the school will provide students opportunities to be active through student associations and service organizations. That would include such programs as Relay For Life, Gwinnett Student Leadership Team, clubs for Future Health Professionals and Hispanics Promoting Education, and Student Council.
There will also be clubs, as well as dance and theatre opportunities and an extensive intramurals sports. A focus on personal wellness and fitness will help ensure that our students not only learn well, but live well. A student who attends this school is not committing to a career or college major.
Students will learn the Gwinnett County Public Schools’ AKS curriculum in order to be prepared no matter the direction they choose for a college major or career. McClure may be a Health Science-themed school, but our focus is on students.
The students and families who choose McClure Health Science High School are choosing to be a part of something special—a focus on preparing students for the future, one where they learn well with us!
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We’ve always been a dog family; One looked like Walter Cronkite
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JULY 9, 2019 | Even before our family had children, we’ve had dogs. All lived to older lives.
We’ve also had a few temporary dogs, not always of our choosing.
When returning from our 3.5 years in Germany in the Army, we shipped home George, a purebred German wire-haired terrier. He was with us in Iowa and in South Georgia. He died when he was nine years old.
Neighboring friends gave us a young blond Cocker Spaniel. He didn’t work out. You see, this spaniel, Clifford, named by our children, was simply not very intelligent. A couple moving to Atlanta thought he was adorable, and he went with them.
We journeyed one day to Jacksonville, Fla. to look for a beagle. We met the dog and his mother, a beautiful small beagle, and our kids fell in love with him immediately. We never met the father. Our kids named him Clifford George for the two previous dogs, and he quickly understood “C.G.” We got him as a pup, thinking he was a 13-inch beagle. Then he started growing. When full grown, the only aspect of him that was 13 inches was his tail. And he weighed 50 pounds. Remember, we never met his father. Something about the tone of a four-cylinder engine vehicle bugged him. He would chase cars and trucks, going up to 35 mph.
C.G. stayed with us about 14 years. The afternoon he died, I was resting in the hammock after some yard work. C.G., by then slowed by a stroke, came around the corner of the house, and crawled up in the hammock with me. We may have been there a half hour or hour. Later that day, we found him dead across the street in a neighbor’s yard.
A veterinarian, knowing of our loss, next gave us Reilly, a brown feist of about 12 pounds. He was with us for 18 years.
Herky, on guard.
Then came our current dog, who is slowed now at about 15 years. He’s Hercules. We got him from the White County Dog Pound, and he and I bonded immediately. He weighs in at about 18 pounds. The back end looks like a Jack Russell, the front end is more undetermined. I still walk him about 6:30 each morning, but he walks ever so slowly now most of the time, then he’ll speed by me going home.
We had another dog temporarily, a big old dog with an enormous face that showed up at our house when we had George. Somehow he reminded us of Walter Cronkite, which we named him. We fed him outside, and he wouldn’t leave. We mentioned him in the newspaper. No one claimed him. After two weeks, our Pontiac dealer’s wife said she would take him, the same day a farmer came and said the same.
So he went to the Pontiac dealer’s house. Two weeks later, he reappeared at our place, some 4-5 miles and across a swamp from our house. We took him back to his new home. A few days later, Walter was back at our house, and the exasperated Pontiac dealer’s wife vowed that was it. “And I just fed him chicken last night.”
We called the farmer about Walter, and he said he would take him. The farm was a good 10 miles from us, and that’s the last we ever heard of Walter Cronkite, the dog.
Yep, we’re a dog family, enjoying them all, even Walter Cronkite for a few days.
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Both political parties are using tactics to add to the national debt
By Debbie Houston, contributing columnist
(Part one of two)
LILBURN, Ga. | Our national debt has skyrocketed to $22 trillion. Someone please tell the Democrats. I watched pieces of the two-night debates but grew weary of one candidate trying to out-Marx the other. So I read the transcripts online.
This is what I learned: Democrats uniformly promise free college and forgiveness of all student loans. Andrew Yang wants to give every adult in America $1,000 a month, no questions asked. When interviewer Diaz-Balart pointed out it would cost $3.2 trillion annually, Yang said a value-added tax would pay for it. Diaz-Balart pointed out that the new salary would be spent on the new tax.
I learned that Bernie Sanders wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure. That kind of money would make a nice slush fund. I also learned that Corey Booker wants to eliminate “wealth inequality,” or, in other words, he’s going to tax the rich and redistribute the wealth. At least Sanders admits he’s a socialist.
Marianne Williamson believes African-Americans should receive reparations on behalf of their enslaved ancestors. Breitbart reports that if the bill passed it might cost up to $17 trillion. Not to be insensitive about how black people were mistreated, but we simply don’t have the money.
The most troubling issue was the notion we should extend health care benefits to illegals. I humbly ask, “Why is that our job?” We have homeless people crowding our streets, and veterans who wait weeks to see a doctor at the V.A. Did you know 20 veterans a day commit suicide in this country? The lives of these men and women are not less important than those crossing the Rio Grande illegally.
My own Republican Party has taken from Peter to pay Paul. Some economists have predicted that by the end of his first term, President Trump will have added $5 trillion to the deficit. Critics cite his tax cuts and amplified military spending as the cause, but if memory serves me right, candidate Trump promised to lower our national debt.
What’s the solution? Politicians can lower the deficit only by spending less than the government brings in. According to John Mauldin, a financial writer, “a 1 percent tax on 1 percent of households above $10 million could raise about $200 billion a year, or $2 trillion over 10 years.” No problem: Some Democratic candidates propose a 70 percent tax on the wealthiest. In that case, expect the rich to deposit their money in overseas banks.
Democrats can fulfill their wild campaign promises only through taking everything we own – money and property. But they have to get elected first.
Part 2 on Friday will list the five presidents who added the most to the deficit and a closer look at Donald Trump’s campaign proposals and how they might add to the debt.
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Winning elections via the Electoral College is governmentally sound
Editor, the Forum:
Well, Jack Bernard has laid out very well what is needed for “mob rule.” He declares that what we need is a pure democracy, which I call mob rule.
Elimination of the Electoral College would essentially give the election of every president to five or six states. Guess what readers? Georgia isn’t one of them.
The founders were looking far more into the future, creating in the structure they established, a representative democracy. They apparently understood human nature much better than Mr. Bernard gives them credit.
He repeats the cry of the left that Bush and Trump lost the popular vote. What they did was win the elections by the system in place. They were smart enough to strategize for an electoral win. Every vote counted within the framework of the election system.
A pure democracy might be described as two wolves and one sheep discussing what’s for dinner.
— Emil Powella, Lilburn
If no Electoral College, New York and California would be in control
Editor, the Forum:
I know that the idea of everyone’s vote counting equally is popular with a lot of people, but consider this: New York and California combined have enough popular votes to elect every president. Without the electoral college, the votes in no other state (with the possible exception of Texas) would count in any presidential election. The founding fathers foresaw this possibility and wisely found a way around it. It’s called the Electoral College.
Of course, every state could save a lot of money by not holding those unnecessary elections.
— Bob Wilkerson, Norcross
Dear Bob: Not totally right about California and New York. But the gist of your idea is sound. At last count, there were 38.8 million people in California, and Texas has 29.76 million. There are 20.1 million in New York. Now Florida has passed New York for third, with 21.65 people. A record 137.5 million Americans voted in the 2016 presidential election.—eeb
Raises scary questions about what if Iran had its own bombers?
Editor, the Forum:
As we watch Iran continue to build nuclear inventory, we must not fool ourselves about the final objective. Regardless of any plans to delay their ultimate goal, they will generate weapons grade uranium in the near future. They are also very aggressive in changing the ownership of Mecca, the elimination of Jews in the Middle East, and the removal of western powers from the Middle East.
If Iran had our fleet of bombers, or submarines that carry nuclear weapons, what would they do with them? The world has balanced the ownership of nukes after we dropped two bombs in August of 1945. For 74 years no one has used these weapons against another. What amazing restraint! Yet what is in the future with another tier of thinking owning these weapons? Today weapons can be delivered in so many different ways than before.
So back to my question, what would the imams do with a fleet of bombers? No proposals asserted. Search for your own answers.
— Bryan Gilbert, Duluth
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Biking group seeks volunteers to help disabled learn to ride
Biking is a skill that many of us take for granted. But consider what you might miss out on if a disability made it difficult for you to learn this skill – family bike rides, healthy outdoor exercise, or even getting to and from places independently. So consider, then, what a gift it could be to be able to give someone this skill.
iCan Bike is a national program that does just that, by using specialized instruction to teach people with disabilities to ride a two-wheel bike independently. And for the first time, it’s coming to Gwinnett. Local non-profit The Guide Project is bringing the camp to George Pierce Park in Suwanee on July 15 – 19. But they have a huge need for more volunteers to make this happen. That’s where the Gwinnett community comes in.
iCan Bike Gwinnett needs volunteers to spot each of their riders throughout the week, providing physical support, motivation and encouragement. Sessions are 75 minutes each day, so the time commitment is small, and the return is big. (Plus, The Guide Project is so grateful for volunteers that they’re willing to accommodate a variety of schedules!)
It’s a perfect opportunity for students, as volunteers need to be 15 years or older and can earn service hours for their participation.
It’s also ideal for local businesses and their employees who want to show their commitment to the community. Work for a company that gives their employees a day of service? Volunteering for one shift of iCan Bike Gwinnett each day adds up to about one day of service.
- To volunteer or for more information, visit www.guideeachother.org/icanbike-gwinnett and click on Volunteers. Or contact Stacey at Stacey@guideeachother.org or 470-322-5005.
Georgia’s only river festival returns again to Duluth on July 20
The only river festival in Gwinnett County returns for the second year on July 20 at Rogers Bridge Park in Duluth. Event Coordinator Kristin Edwards says: “With such an overwhelming response to the event in its first year, we had to bring it back again for our community to enjoy.”
“Whatever Floats Your Boat” has something for everyone! Residents can tube down the Chattahoochee River, enjoy live music, yard games, rock climbing, inflatables and of course food trucks.
This event is presented by 10 Dollar Tubing and the City of Duluth. Admission to this event is free. Available to rent will be tubes, rafts, kayaks and standup paddle boards. Participants may also choose to bring their own.
All event participants on the river are required to wear a life jacket, no matter the age!
Come out with the whole family, even your four-legged family members, for some fun in the sun. Pack your sunscreen, your favorite bathing suit and your sense of adventure for this family friendly event. For more information, visit this website.
Sugar Hill and Huntsville, Ala. center partner on Apollo anniversary
The City of Sugar Hill is partnering with the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., on a Global Rocket Launch to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. On July 16, 2019, the City of Sugar Hill joins with organizations and individuals from around the world to launch model rockets in honor of the mission in which Commander Neil Armstrong took his “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The U.S. Space and Rocket Center set the date of the Global Rocket Launch to coincide with the date the Huntsville-developed Saturn V moon rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying Commander Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin to the moon. The Apollo 11 mission brought the world closer together in a moment of celebration for mankind’s monumental achievement, and the Rocket Center is partnering with groups from around the world to bring that sense of unity and accomplishment forward with the Global Rocket Launch.
Sugar Hill will host a community rocket building activity followed by a community rocket launch on Tuesday, July 16. After the rocket launch the Eagle Theatre will host a special presentation of the new film Apollo 11 at 3 p.m. The movie will be free for those that participate in the rocket launch and $2 for all others. Details concerning the specific place and time of the building and launch activities as well as if materials will be supplied will be given via www.cityofsugarhill.com/rocketlaunch.
Baptist Foundation awards $60,000 to Truth’s Community Clinic
Truth’s Community Clinic, a Lawrenceville, non-profit healthcare organization, was recently awarded a $60,000 grant from the Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation. The money will be used for operating expenses, to pay for referrals to medical specialists, and to fund pharmacy supplies.
Truth’s Community Clinic provides non-emergency primary care, including medical, dental and pharmaceutical services, to low-income families in the east Gwinnett County area. Patients with insurance or Medicaid are not accepted. Although healthcare services at the clinic are free, a $20 donation is suggested to help defray expenses.
Clinic Director Scarlett Rigsby says: “This generous grant will allow us to expand our efforts to reach a struggling patient population. Poverty and illness are inextricably linked, and low-income patients suffer disproportionately. We are grateful to the Foundation for supporting our mission to provide compassionate and quality care to those who otherwise would not be able to afford it. This is an investment in both the health of individuals and the health of our community.”
Truth’s Community Clinic was founded in 2003 and serves Lawrenceville, Dacula and surrounding communities with non-emergency primary care. It partners with Nothing but the Truth, a faith-based organization that assists struggling families in Gwinnett County through its food and housing ministries and community outreach events. The clinic is located at 250 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville. For more information, visit www.truthsclinic.org.
Gwinnett Under 14 boys soccer team starts GoFundMe site for travel
Winning team members on the front row include Dylan Lenze, Diego Vargas, Dennis Martinez-Sanchez, Cohen Cantrell (holding trophy), Mason Keith, Santi Penuela and Jamiah Burdine, On the back row are Cole Nelson, Brian Beltran-Perez, Kenechi Walker, Erick Martinez, Joseph Jimenez, Carlos Lopez, Diego Soza, Oscar Valcacel, Fabian Jasso, Robel Abesolom and Coach Barat Killian. Not pictured is Connor McIlhinney.
The Norcross-based United Futbol Academy Under 14 soccer team won the Southeast Region and will compete in the U.S. National Cup in Commerce City, Colo. on July 19-23. The challenge is that the team has about 10 days to raise $10,000 to cover the trip.
Team manager Sean Nelson says: “Many of our families make great financial sacrifices just to play on the team during the regular season. Over $700 in travel expenses per child on short notice is difficult.”
One of the team moms, Lynn Eeves, says: “When we won the Southeast Region last week, we had to commit to the tournament within days. Then comes the harsh reality that we have to get the team to Colorado, house them, feed them and get them ready to play.”
The team set up a GoFundMe page in hopes of raising enough in donations to help lighten the financial burden. Parents are also committed to get local businesses and organizations to sponsor the trip.
- To donate, go to www.gofundme.com/f/national-soccer-tournament-fee-for-05-boys. Or contact team manager Sean Nelson at sean@surgelabs.com.
The team of 14-year-old players are mostly from Gwinnett County. The team compiled an impressive 35-4-4 record winning the Disney Boys Soccer Showcase, the Concorde Fire Challenge and the SCCL Cup. The team continues to practice during the off-season for the tournament at Summerour Middle School.
The Shadow War by CNN reporter Jim Scuitto
From Joe Briggs, Suwanee | This reads like one of his extended reports – informative but not the full story. He argues that other countries—specifically China and Russia—have been engaged in what he describes as a ‘Shadow war’, a death-by-a-thousand-cuts conflict where no single incidence rises to the declaration of full hostilities. He points to China’s land-grab of South China Sea archipelagos converted into man-made islands. He notes the rapid buildup of the Chinese Navy is expected to exceed ours in number of war vessels within a decade. He details the advances and remarkable buildup that the Russian navy has achieved in submarines and hypersonic missiles. He concludes with the Russian gambit to tilt our 2016 presidential election away from Hillary Clinton. Throughout he cites only US government and military sources whose job it is to be paranoid, but leaves out the ‘why’ of what motivates China and Russia to such behavior.
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Cockspur Lighthouse marked entrance to channel of Savannah River
(Continued from previous edition)
Located two miles west of Tybee Island Lighthouse in Georgia on Cockspur Island, the first Cockspur Lighthouse was built in 1849 and used to mark the entrance to the south channel of the Savannah River. This structure proved inadequate and was rebuilt in 1857. A twin channel-beacon was constructed at the same time on the north channel of the Savannah River. Built of Savannah gray brick, the lighthouse was fitted with a fourth-order Fresnel lens and illuminated by a sperm oil lamp.
Unlike many lighthouses of the South, this small beacon received only minor damage during the Civil War (1861-65). After the war, the light resumed operation until 1909, when ships with deep drafts were no longer able to use the south channel. The U.S. Coast Guard abandoned the property in 1949, and control was transferred to the National Park Service.
During the early 19th century, the small seaport of Darien was a major shipping center. A deed signed and dated in 1808 by plantation owner Thomas Spalding showed that Spalding sold a small tract of land to the U.S. Lighthouse Establishment for a sum of one dollar for building a lighthouse on Sapelo. The government then contracted with Winslow Lewis of Boston in 1820 for the construction of a 90-foot brick tower, topped by a 15-foot iron lantern. A fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed atop the tower in 1853.
The lighthouse was abandoned in 1862 by retreating Confederate forces stationed on the island. They removed the lens and destroyed the reflector system but left the rest of the facility intact. It was repaired and reactivated by the U.S. Lighthouse Service in 1868. In 1877 a cast-iron beacon, part of the range light system, was placed east of the main tower.
A severe hurricane in October 1898 seriously undermined the foundation of the Sapelo Lighthouse. A district inspector recommended extensive repairs or a new tower. In September 1905 a new lighthouse—a 100-foot steel pyramidal tower with a kerosene-lit flashing light—was activated and a new third-order lens was installed. By 1934 shipping traffic had become nonexistent and the Sapelo station was deactivated. Today, the lighthouse is fully restored and open to the public.
(To be continued)
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Long, two-laned and covered, but where is this bridge?
Talk about your covered bridges: here’s a distinct (and very long) one. Now your job, if you care to take it, is to determine just where this Mystery Photo is located. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
The most recent (July 2) Mystery Photo proved to be quite a mystery to everyone except George Graf of Palmyra, Va. The photo came from Ross Lenhart of Pawleys Island, S.C. Graf identified the Francis Marion gravesite, Belle Isle Plantation Cemetery, Pineville, S.C. Graf told us: “Francis Marion, known as ‘The Swamp Fox,’ was born at his family’s South Carolina plantation in Berkeley County. A man of his time, he owned slaves and fought in the French and Indian War. While fighting against the Cherokee, he saw those Native Americans using landscape as a kind of weapon. After concealing themselves in the backwoods, they launched crushing ambushes. During America’s War of Independence, Marion used those same tactics against the British Army. As a result, some historians call Marion the father of guerilla warfare.”
Lawrenceville Lawn was one scene of July 4th holiday activity
Here’s part of the July Fourth holiday scene from the Lawrenceville Lawn, as captured by Roving Photographer Frank Sharp. Onlookers brought their portable chairs and listened to music before a giant fireworks show. Meanwhile, a similar scene was taking place in communities all around Gwinnett, as its residents took pleasure in the holiday.
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, will perform live in concert at Temple Beth David, 1885 McGee Rd., Snellville, on Saturday, July 13 at 8 p.m.. While Yarrow produced some of the most memorable songs in folk music history (Puff the Magic Dragon, Light One Candle), perhaps his most meaningful undertaking is Operation Respect, which focuses on creating a positive, safe, bully-free school atmosphere for children. Temple Beth David is proud to share the proceeds of this concert with Operation Respect. Tickets are available online at bit.ly/TBD-Peter2019. Adults $18; Children under 13 $9; VIP (First two rows), $36. Doors open at 7:30, concert starts at 8. Tickets will not be sold at the door.
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.
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