GOOD CITIZENSHIP AWARD: The Atlanta Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) have honored Dee Camerio of Lilburn with the Bronze Good Citizenship Medal Award. This Medal was authorized in 1895 and recognizes persons whose achievements are noteworthy in their community or state. Ms. Camerio is past Treasurer and Chaplain of the Atlanta chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. The Medal was presented in recognition for her service for military veterans and their families. As a Veteran’s Administration accredited claims agent, she has voluntarily helped over 200 veteran families with claims for VA benefits. Jim Freeman, president of the Atlanta Chapter SAR which is the oldest chapter in the state of Georgia, made the presentation.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Walton EMC Solar Farm Providing More Than Just Electricity
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnettian Participating in NFL and Football Player Negotiations
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s One Guy’s Views on Most Recent Presidential Debate
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Talk About Your Unusual Ideas: How About Only 15 U.S. Senators!
UPCOMING: Snellville Adopts Ordinance Concerning Short Term Rental Property
NOTABLE: Meadowcreek Graduate Wins $7,000 Les Dame d’Escoffier Scholarship
RECOMMENDED: Understanding Democracy in America by Professor Ken Masugi
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Author, Anne Rivers Siddons, Dies at 83 in Charleston
MYSTERY PHOTO: Attractive Church Begs Question of Its Location as Today’s Mystery
LAGNIAPPE: 67th Annual Gwinnett County Fair Continues Through Saturday
CALENDAR: Check out these coming events
Walton EMC solar farm providing more than just electricity
Sheep grazing at a Silicon Ranch solar farm, similar to the one Walton EMC relies on to power Facebook’s Newton Data Center, are helping to improve the soil, air, water and economy. Silicon Ranch’s Regenerative Energy platform delivers the maximum environmental benefits from its solar facilities. (Photo provided)
By Greg Brooks
BLAKLEY, Ga., Sept. 16, 2019 | A solar farm that Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) depends on to provide electricity to Facebook’s Newton Data Center is now a farm in every sense of the word.
When Facebook decided to build its Newton Data Center, the social media giant chose Walton EMC as the power supplier. One of the deciding factors in picking the co-op is that it could meet Facebook’s desire for 100 percent renewable energy to power the facility.
Walton EMC then partnered with Silicon Ranch, one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, to build and deliver some of that renewable energy. Their resulting 1,200-acre solar farm is located in Early County, which is primarily an agricultural community.
It turns out that those 1,200 acres are producing more than solar electricity. Once solar panels are installed on a tract of land, the land underneath typically goes idle. It’s usually mowed, but any agricultural production or cultivation ceases.
Silicon Ranch has changed that. Their Early County site is the first new build to incorporate the company’s holistic Regenerative Energy™ platform.
To deliver Regenerative Energy, Silicon Ranch partners with renowned regenerative ranchers and farmers who deploy holistic farming practices on the solar farm. The solar farm then provides forage for grazing animals, pollinator habitat (for honeybees and the like) and wildlife environment.
The grazing animals, like cattle and sheep, return their wastes to the soil, building valuable organic matter. The farmers that partner with Silicon Ranch also plant cover crops and refrain from tilling the soil.
By controlling the timing, intensity and frequency of grazing to mimic the natural relationship between native grasslands and large herds of grazing animals, the Regenerative Energy process improves soil health and increases the cycling of nutrients, carbon, water and energy.
In contrast, traditional farming methods, like using synthetic fertilizer and heavy tillage, deplete the soil’s organic matter.
Besides enabling the production of a marketable agricultural commodity on the solar farm, Regenerative Energy provides many other benefits, including:
- Improved soil;
- Improved air and water quality;
- Increased diversity in animal and plant life;
- Trapping carbon in the soil;
- Job creation; and
- Stronger rural economies.
The program is verified by independent, trusted third-party entities and certified.
Walton EMC CEO Ronnie Lee says: “We’re proud to partner with such a forward-thinking company. Silicon Ranch, through their Regenerative Energy program, is extracting the maximum environmental benefits from their solar development. They’re delivering much more than renewable energy.”
Reagan Farr, president and CEO of Silicon Ranch Corporation says: “We at Silicon Ranch are excited to pioneer this holistic program that generates clean energy, healthy soil and food, and jobs for farmers in Georgia. As the long-term owner and operator of every project in our portfolio, we are committed to continuously exploring new opportunities to be better stewards of our land and better citizens in the communities we serve.”
Silicon Ranch is the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country. To learn more, visit siliconranch.com.
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Gwinnettian participating in NFL and football player negotiations
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 17, 2019 | You may know that there are discussions going on between the National Football League and its professional athletes about a new collective bargaining agreement. These are tough talks. The National Football League Players Association and the owners are now in negotiations before the current agreement is to expire, after the 2020 season.
But did you know that one guy in the room in the negotiations is a Gwinnett Countian? He’s Dewey McClain, the former Atlanta Falcon player, who played here from 1976 through 1980. He is one of two representatives of former players who are in on the talks.
McClain now lives in Lilburn, and he is also a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 100th District, centered in Lilburn. Since he announced for the House, starting in 2013, he has never had opposition, even in his first term. The genial McClain met his wife, Linda, when in high school back in Oklahoma. They have two daughters.
He is originally from Okmulgee, Okla., and his college career was at East Central State University, in Ada, Okla., where he graduated with a degree in history. Once out of college, he signed with the Falcons as a walk-on, and was a linebacker for five seasons. The Falcons traded him to Green Bay, where he never played. Later he played one year in New Orleans, and in the US Football League.
After his football days, McClain was for 23 years a member of the City of Atlanta Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department, and later was in Workforce Development.
McClain
He has served as a member of the National Former Players Association board for six years, the last two as chairman. He also has a three year term as a board member in 1998-2001. Priest Holmes, a former running back with Kansas City, also represents the former players. Only players actually vote on the agreement.
McClain, as a professional athlete, was a labor union member. He’s not your normal labor member. He became the president of the North Georgia Labor Council, representing 90,000 labor union members in the Atlanta area. That includes such union members as teamsters, steel workers, pipefitters, letter carriers, screen actors guild members, and even members of the Atlanta Symphony. That’s 65 different groups.
McClain recalls: “When I was on the board of the North Georgia Labor Council, they were looking for a replacement when the president abruptly resigned, and I was appointed to fill the balance of the two year term. Then I was elected to a four year term.” The former football player left the North Georgia Labor Council in February of 2019, then was named president emeritus.
McClain has another duty as a former football player. He is on the Players Adjusted Trust Fund Board, which is funded through fines levied on players. The board has a corpus of approximately $40 million, generating $3-4 million in grants each year. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The negotiations between the NFL and its players is a complicated process. Normally, there are eight owners and staff in such talks, plus an equal number of player representatives. Both sides have their lawyers and accountants, so sometimes there are 25-30 people in the room. Hope was that an agreement could be reached before the start of the 2019 season. But it didn’t happen. Talks continue.
Next time you read about the NFL labor talks, remember that someone from Gwinnett, Dewey McClain, is listening to and contributing to these negotiations.
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Here’s one guy’s views on most recent presidential debate
By Theirn Scott
SEPT. 17, 2019 | This recent presidential debate with “only” ten candidates seemed worthy of attention. Three hours is a long time to pay attention to politicians. I admit that I drifted back and forth between the television set and my computer. I paid close attention when I liked the question or when one of the five I find the most interesting were involved: Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang.
Biden came off, as expected, as the most moderate, still a tad too far left economically to my taste, but at least he continues to be grounded in reality.
Did Sanders get up on the wrong side of the bed Thursday or is he always this angry? He’s a self-described socialist. We know where he stands. He designed the platform all the others, except Biden and former congressman John Delaney, are touting. It’s too bad he wasn’t the candidate in 2016. He would have given Mr. Trump a run for his alleged billions.
Yang, the oxymoronic socialist entrepreneur, can be credited with, as Buttigieg noted upon recovering from stunned silence, “originality” regarding his offer to personally provide $12,000.00 a year to 10 people who come up with the best plan for use of the money. Whether this is a legal use of campaign funds or not remains to be seen.
Warren. What can I say about her? As someone said on C-SPAN Friday morning, “She (or any of her competitors for that matter, except possibly Biden) would create the biggest recession since the Great Recession” with her unprecedented tax increases. True, assuming Trump’s potential trade war recession is relatively mild. But recession or no, Ms. Warren needs a refresher course in Keynesian Economics. Tax decreases are fiscal stimulus. Tax increases are not. Now if I’m recalling Keynes correctly, tax increases during boom times to bring down deficits are acceptable. Unfortunately, we are approaching the end of the longest post WWII economic expansion with the largest annual deficits and largest total debt, $22T, soon to be $24T thanks to Mr. Trump. All the economic programs the Democrats are promoting involved multiple tens of TRILLIONS in additional spending, offsetting taxes not to mention radical changes by central (government) planners to address global warning. Any objective person will conclude the future economy faces serious risks.
That leaves Mr. Buttigieg: a great story and a most intelligent man. He’s also the most eloquent ,but as noted above he’s just tweaking Bernie’s platform so it’s just more of the same socialist nonsense. When the time comes to explain how to pay for this road to dystopia, he will probably be the one to endorse “Modern Monetary Theory,” the autobahn to dystopia.
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Talk about your unusual ideas: How about only 15 U.S. senators!
Editor, the Forum:
Rhode Island is about twice the square miles of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh). Rhode Island is a tiny little place that one wonders why it gets two senators.
North Dakota and South Dakota have less than a million people in them, yet they get two senators. Gwinnett County in Georgia is approaching a million and exceeds the population of four states. It has nothing but a House representative that it shares with Forsyth County.
Rhode Island also has just over a million people and has two congressman. Gwinnett County has over 900,000 and is combined with Forsyth and gets one congressman. It’s powerful to be a Yankee.
I have thought since the 70s that we need to rethink our Senate or even our government structure. Perhaps we should group states into regions for the Senate. No more than 15 senators overall. I propose 10 Senate regions.
- Maine, N.H., VT., MASS., R.I., CONN., N.Y.
- PA, NJ, DEL, MD, VA,WV.
- NC, SC, GA, FL.
- AL, MS, LA, TN,KY
- OH, MI, IN, IL, WS.
- TX, AR, OK, CO, WY.
- MINNESOTA, IOWA, MISSOURI , KS, NE, ND, SD.
- S. CAL, AR, NM, HI.
- C. CAL, NEV. UTAH.
- N. CAL , OR, WASHINGTON, ID, MONTANA, ALASKA.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
Dear Byron: Boy! You know how to enliven things. Odd, 10 regions, but 15 Senators. That sounds like an upcoming fight. Besides upsetting all apple carts, you continue to use many of the postal abbreviations, which many times are unsettling at least to me. For instance, it should be Ga., not GA without a period–eeb
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Snellville adopts ordinance on short-term rental property
Regulations on short-term rentals in Snellville, like those used through companies like Airbnb, were adopted by the Snellville Council last week.
While not an issue currently in Snellville, city officials were concerned with reports of activity at short-term rental properties and decided to create regulations locally “to provide for the continued availability of quality transient lodging within the city and proper maintenance of short-term rentals,” according to the new ordinance. Short-term rentals are defined as dwellings rented out for 30 consecutive nights or less.
The ordinance reads: “There is evidence that there can be unsafe short-term rentals, that minimum life safety codes are not enforced, and that unregulated commercial use of these structures can become havens for criminal activity affecting the quality of life in the surrounding communities.”
Under the new ordinance, a separate business license is required for each short-term rental unit, except where an owner owns multiple short-term rentals in a residential community or multiple residential communities and applies for a business license for a single business license for such units.
Applications for a short-term rental business license must be filed with the city’s Planning Department by the owner prior to use of the property as a short-term rental. Sufficient parking for renters must be provided on paved parking spaces within the property, not on right-of-ways. Owners must have security cameras recording all entryways to the dwelling and driveways. Punishment for violating these conditions is a warning, followed by fines and eventual license revocation.
Philadelphia Winn DAR chapter plans to be at Elisha Winn Fair
Great indicators that the fall season has arrived are college football games, a chill in the air, leaves turning color, and The Annual Elisha Winn Fair. Mark your calendar to spend time on Saturday, October 5 at the historic Elisha Winn House at 908 Dacula Road in Dacula. Fair hours will be from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The Philadelphia Winn Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be participating with their “All Things DAR” table, which includes a selection of patriotic literature, bookmarks, pencils, used books will be available to fair attendees at no cost. Although there will be books for all ages, themembers of the Elisha Winn Society Children of the American Revolution will be available to assist the young fair attendees with finding the perfect book!
Meadowcreek graduate wins $7,000 Les Dame d’Escoffier scholarship
Meadowcreek High School graduate Anne Nguyen has been awarded a $7,000 Les Dame d’Escoffier Atlanta scholarship recently. Ms. Nguyen is beginning her college career at Georgia State University School of Hospitality, where she is pursuing a degree in hospitality management.
Every year, the Atlanta chapter of Les Dame d’Escoffier awards one deserving female high school graduate the Individual Scholarship for Culinary Education to continue her education in the hospitality industry. As an organization dedicated to supporting women through scholarships, educational programs, externships and networking, Les Dames chooses one young woman who embodies the spirit of its values and who will eventually give back to other women in the industry.
Ms. Nguyen was selected for her impressive high school career and her clear vision for her culinary future. Ms. Nguyen also wants to learn the business-side of the industry. Her long-term goal includes eventually starting her own catering business.
Ms. Nguyen became interested in the culinary arts as a young child. She participated in her school’s ProStart team, a national high school curriculum that teaches both culinary arts and hospitality management. This year, Ms. Nguyen and her team won the state competition and went on to represent Georgia at the national competition in Washington, D.C. in May.
Two Gwinnettians honored by naming of Highway 120 for them
Two Gwinnettians have had portions of local roads named for them. Naming of the Bill Russell and Richard Tucker Highways came from Sen. Brandon Beach of Fulton County.
Senator Beach says: “They have made such a difference in our region and state that I was proud to honor them. They absolutely deserve the accolades for what they’ve done for this community. Their work has put Gwinnett on the map.”
State Highway 120 (between State Route 316 and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard) is the Richard L. Tucker Highway. Tucker is the managing partner of Arlington Capital, LLC.
He is a former president/CEO of the Gwinnett Chamber. He served for 14 years on the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, including one year as chairman.
Named the Bill Russell Highway is the road from its intersection with State Route 13 in Duluth to Parsons Road in Johns Creek. Russell is chairman of the Russell Landscape Group and a graduate of the Ohio State University.
Russell served as the chairman of the Gwinnett Chamber Board in 2004. He received the Chamber’s Public Service Award in 2008 and Gwinnett Citizen of the Year award in 2017. He is also chairman of the Georgia World Congress, appointed in 2011 by Governor Nathan Deal.
Book on CD Review:
Understanding Democracy in America by Professor Ken Masugi
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: These Lectures from John Hopkins University are a summary of some of the ideas presented in the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America. de Tocqueville spent time in America and found the country mores and themes both fascinating and potentially problematic if allowed to go unchecked. Some memorable quotes from the lectures include the following: ‘What is most important in democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class’; and ‘The great genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.’ There are a total of eight lectures. The lectures are interesting, engaging and awaken an interest in reading the text.
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Georgia author, Anne Rivers Siddons, dies at 83 in Charleston
Though all of her 20 books are set in Georgia or concern southerners living elsewhere, Anne Rivers Siddons was best known for books about Atlanta and its environs.
Two novels, Homeplace (1987) and Nora, Nora (2000), take place in a fictionalized version of Fairburn, her hometown, in Fulton County. She was also the author of two books of nonfiction, Go Straight on Peachtree(1978), a McDonald City Guide to Atlanta, and John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975), a series of essays patterned around the changing seasons in Atlanta. Her novel Downtown (1994) recreates her early career as a writer and editor for Atlanta magazine, and her most commercially successful book, Peachtree Road (1989), portrays modern Atlanta’s white elite on the eve of the civil rights era.
Siddons was born Sybil Anne Rivers on January 9, 1936, in Atlanta and reared in Fairburn. She was the daughter of Marvin Rivers, a lawyer, and Katherine, a secretary at Campbell High School. Her education at Auburn University from 1954 to 1958, where she earned a bachelor’s degree, became the inspiration for her first novel, Heartbreak Hotel (1976), which subsequently became the film Heart of Dixie in 1989.
At Auburn she worked as a writer for the college newspaper. An editorial she wrote favoring integration was recognized nationally but criticized by the school administration, and a second, similar editorial led to her dismissal from the newspaper.
After college Siddons worked as a writer and editor at Atlanta magazine with its founder, Jim Townsend. In 1966 she married author and advertising executive Heyward Siddons. She had four stepsons: Lee, Kemble, Rick, and David.
Siddons’s other books include a horror story set in Atlanta, The House Next Door (1978), which Stephen King compared to The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Fox’s Earth (1981), among her best books, is the story of several generations of Georgia women. King’s Oak (1991) moves beyond Atlanta to the more traditional rural South and reflects a concern for the environment, evident in each of her books.
In Outer Banks (1991), Colony (1992), Hill Towns (1993), Fault Lines (1995), Up Island (1997), Low Country (1998), Off Season (2008), and Burnt Mountain (2010) Siddons portrays southern characters, usually Georgians, but she places them in other parts of the South and the world. Her 2000 novel Nora, Nora returns to scenes from her earlier works set near Atlanta.
A few of her more recent books, Islands (2004), Sweetwater Creek (2005), and The Girls of August (2014), take place in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
In 2007 Siddons was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She died of lung cancer on Sept. 11, 2019, at her home in Charleston, S.C.
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Attractive church begs question of its location as Today’s Mystery
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It was a local photograph that was the recent Mystery Photo. The photo came from Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill. Stuart Woodward of Oceanside, Calif. was first in with identification of the Bowman-Pirkle House near Buford. “It’s a nice example of 1800’s log cabins, a big one at the time.” Tim Sullivan of Buford also identified the house.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. pinpointed the location: “The John Bowman House (aka Bowman-Pirkle House), at the corner of Sardis Church Road and West Rock Quarry Road, near Buford. It was built in 1818 on the Pirkle Ferry Road, now known as Friendship Road, near Flowery Branch, in the southern portion of Hall County. A well house, several barns and a grape arbor are also on the property. The title of “Doctor” Bowman was earned by learning from the Indians herbal medicine; he planted these herbs by a stream near his house which came to be called “medicine hollow.” He treated both Indians and whites and was well respected in this field. Bowman’s daughter, Amanda, married Noah Pirkle in 1867. Noah Pirkle served in the Confederate Army of the 11th Georgia Regiment.
“The house with few changes remained in the Pirkle family until 1969, at which time it was given to the Hall County Historical Society. In 1977 his great grandson donated the house to Gwinnett County who moved it to the Lanier Museum of Natural History. Later still, it was moved to its current location on private property, even though it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Hall County, it is in Gwinnett County.”
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. also recognized the house, saying: “John Bowman served as a courier for General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and was later friends with the Cherokee Chief Major Ridge. This friendship arose when Bowman helped the Cherokee better assimilate into the white man’s world. In return, Chief Major Ridge gave Bowman some property and three Cherokee braves helped Bowman build the two-story log cabin which served as the heart of a self-sufficient plantation for many years. Unfortunately it was not long after the house was built that the Cherokee were forced out of the area while Bowman continued to live at his plantation cabin.”
67th annual Gwinnett County Fair continues through Saturday
Activities continue through Saturday at the 67th annual Gwinnett County Fair. Roving Photographer Frank Sharp captured these images just as the Fair opened one day, before the crowds came. Location: Fairgrounds at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. The fair is a venture of The Gwinnett County Livestock and Fair Association.
Juried Art Exhibit at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford begins September 14 and continues until November 1. The opening reception will be September 14 from 5-8 p.m. Includes a variety of media, including painting, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, mixed media, printmaking, fibre arts, photography, digital art and three dimensional art, including ceramics, pottery and found object sculpture. The Colony is located at 554 West Main Street in Buford.
Relationship between the United States and Mexico is the subject of a discussion led byAlexander Wisnoski, III, PhD, on the current dynamics between the United States and Mexico, specifically mentioning reasons for increased friction between the two, and how both countries view their relationship today. This will be on September 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Public Library Branch, 1001 Lawrenceville Highway. The program is presented in partnership with the University of North Georgia.
Meet Author Daniela Petrova at Liberty Books, 176 West Crogan Street in Lawrenceville on Friday, September 27 at 7 p.m. Petrova will talk about her immigrant experience, the importance of libraries in her life, and her debut novel, Her Daughter’s Mother, which was named “Best Beach Read of 2019” by both O, the Oprah Magazine and The New York Post and one of five thrillers to read this summer by Time Magazine.
An evening with Author Kyle Mills will be Monday, September 30 at 7:30 at the Peachtree Corners Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library, at 5570 Spalding Drive. Mills is fascinated with the dark side of politics and well connected to the intelligence community. He has authored 13 books under his name and is finishing the Vince Flynn series from notes left by Flynn for the six published books. Lethal Agent is his current novel.
The Good Neighbor Gala, Benefitting Good Samaritan Gwinnett will be held on Thursday, October 3 at Ashton Garden in Sugar Hill. Purchase your ticket in support of Gwinnett’s largest Christian charitable organization serving the low-income and uninsured families with medical, dental and pharmacy services under one roof, and nearing 36,000 appointments just this year! Go to www.goodsamgwinnett.org/the-good-neighbor-gala for ticket purchases and for making your nomination for The Good Neighbor Award.
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