LIVESTOCK COMPETITION WINNER: State Rep. Bonnie Rich (R-Suwanee) recently won the Livestock Legislative Showdown. The competition took place recently at the Georgia National Fair in Perry. This is a competitive event between senators and representatives to determine which chamber of the Georgia General Assembly can best handle livestock in a showmanship ring at a livestock competition. The legislators were partnered with experienced 4-H or Future Farmers of America students who coached them on proper animal handling, showmanship and ring etiquette. Rep. Rich is at the left, with student coach Colleen Barber of Ware County High in Waycross in the middle and Rep. Tom McCall (R-Elberton) at the right. Rep. Rich says of the event: “I learned what makes a good beef cattle and all the hard work that goes into showing livestock, most of which takes place on a daily basis for many months before the actual show.”
TODAY’S FOCUS: We Find a Lady Whose Enjoyable Hobby Is…..Bush hogging
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Will Election 2020 in Gwinnett Be 1984 Upset in Reverse?
ANOTHER VIEW: Government Questionnaire Seemed To Be Unruly Interruption
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FEEDBACK: Time for Dems To Abandon Their Impeachment and Get a New Hobby
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NOTABLE: GACS Student from Duluth Is National Merit Semifinalist for 2020
RECOMMENDED: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
GEORGIA TIDBIT: National Newspapers Credit Georgia with Saving the Union
MYSTERY PHOTO: Highway, Buildings, Hills Could Identify This Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Shiloh High Team Hears More About Digital Badge Program
CALENDAR: Zombie Run 5K will be October 19 in Braselton
We find a lady whose enjoyable hobby is … bush hogging
By Marlene Ratledge Buchanan
SNELLVILLE, Ga. | One of the greatest joys of my life is bush hogging. On the tractor, I can hide, pretend I can’t hear anyone call and just be alone with my thoughts. I have stopped bushhogging except for two or three times a year. It “ain’t pretty,” but the wildflowers are coming back and the summer insects are as well.
Marlene Ratledge Buchanan
I have old-fashioned ageratum. Mostly what you can find now is a hybrid and it doesn’t re-populate. My neighbor has goats, which love to eat in my yard. We had to stop that when they began devouring all my flowers and getting into the garages where Snell has his old cars.
My ageratum will be skimpy this year, but next year if anyone would like some seeds, they are welcome. Ageratum has a lavender blue puffy flower that is loved by butterflies. They also provide cover for the lightning bugs to dig under the roots to live in the heat of the day.
Wild asters, yellow goldenrod, etc. have been blooming. These are the kinds of plants and shelters that help with our bugs. I won’t mow again until all the ageratum has gone to seed and we have had our first frost. Next spring, I will cut early in the spring and leave it for the summer.
In order to have native bugs at home, we need to plant more native flowers and shrubs, like the native azaleas, daisies, zinnias, dahlias, lark spurs, and asters. The “old-fashioned” plants are what a friend of mine called them. They are beautiful and provide nectar.
The hot, dry summer of 2019 has really been detrimental to our plants and animals. I try not to water anything but my few potted things. The fireflies live in the ground and it has been so dry that you will mostly find them nearer water than in the yard this summer.
Sweet Shrub is another old-fashioned bush that nature’s insects like. The goats did a job on my Four O’clocks and tiger lilies so I won’t have any seeds of those this year.
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I would like someone to put a honey bee hive on my property. We need to help restore that population.
Now maybe you see why bushhogging is such fun for me.
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Will election 2020 in Gwinnett be 1984 upset in reverse?
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 11, 2019 | Many of our readers may not remember what happened politically in Gwinnett in 1984.
It was a major year for change in Gwinnett.
There’s reason many Gwinnettians may not remember it. That’s because in 1984 there were 226,100 people in Gwinnett. Today the population is 921,781, so another 701,681 people live here now. A majority were just not here in 1984.
Four major events took place:
- Gwinnett Place Mall opened, the first mall in Gwinnett.
- Gwinnett Technical College opened its doors.
- The Gwinnett Hospital System opened its now vast Lawrenceville campus, and closed its Button Gwinnett and Buford Hospitals.
- In the 1984 election, all Democrats running with opposition lost the election.
The last event, the political one, was the beginning of the change in politics in the county. The only Democrat to survive was Probate Judge Alton Tucker. Seventeen Republicans in all 17 races. Up until 1984, Democrats had virtual control of the county. But 1984 changed all that, and since then, Republicans have ruled the roost in Gwinnett.
But matters (and the population diversity) are fast changing. Hillary Clinton won Gwinnett in the 2016 Presidential race. Then in the 2018 election, Stacey Abrams won the county overwhelmingly, causing heads to turn. She also pulled along with her several other Democrats who few thought would win office.
Now the obvious trend in Gwinnett is that the 2020 election will see the Democrats score heavily, somewhat like the 1984 election outcome….except in reverse.
In fact, it looks so bad for Gwinnett Republicans that their party is having difficulty scaring up candidates for office. We know of only one or two Republicans who say they will contest a Democrat in office. And those Republicans who are in office are running scared, almost meekly.
Even the popular Republican Gwinnett County Sheriff, Butch Conway, feels the pressure. Some have suggested that the only way he can remain in office (he was elected sheriff in 1996) is to run as a Democrat. But the sitting sheriff cannot stomach national Democrats, and if he runs, will do so under the Republican banner. But the question: will he run or retire?
Another Republican office holder, District Attorney Danny Porter, some say might switch parties, since he may be seeing the writing on the wall. Although in office since 1992 (28 years), he remembers what happened in the last election to highly-respected Republican Solicitor General Rosanna Szabo, first elected in 2006. Out of the blue, Democrat Bryan Whiteside upended Szabo after 12 years in office.
While Republican County Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash has announced that she will not be a candidate in the 2020 voting, several Democrats have begun campaigning for this office. But again, where are any solid Republican candidates? Nowhere to be found!
Remember, in 2016, Mrs. Nash, considered by many to be a solid chairman, had opposition from Gabe Okoye, who got 48 percent of the vote. And with the population changes since then, some say that foretells a Democratic victory in many county-wide offices. That’s why it looks like “Shades of 1984” all over again, except in reverse.
Now you 700,000 not living here in 1984, have a new understanding of the ramifications of politics in Gwinnett County.
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ANOTHER VIEWGovernment questionnaire seemed to be unruly interruption
By Debra Houston, contributing columnist
LILBURN, Ga. | The federal government chooses who receives The American Community Survey, which not only asks for your race, but your ancestry. Yes, Uncle Sam is interested in your family tree. The cover letter I received stated, “The survey is so important that a Census Bureau representative may attempt to contact you by telephone or personal visit if we do not receive your response.” There are fines, too, in the thousands.
Feel the squeeze? I called the Census Bureau. “I thought the survey was a hoax the first two times you mailed it and so I chucked it.”
“It’s not a hoax,” the lady said. “It’s a continuous survey. If you don’t want to answer the questions on race, then don’t.”
I didn’t mention race, but ah — she did. It made me wonder how many others have complained. No less than George W. Bush has categorized the survey as “government intrusion into Americans’ personal lives.”
If you Google the survey, you’ll find that Rand Paul has held hearings on its constitutionality. The Supreme Court has since ruled that it isn’t a violation.
Know your history: In this country, race prevented large numbers of black people from voting during the Jim Crow era. In addition, Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps during World War II.
And here’s credence that we’re nothing but a number to the government: after “Person Number One” completes the survey, Numbers Two through Five are supposed to write their answers. Person Number Three at my house said “Absolutely not!”
Per the cover letter, the data will be used “to develop programs to reduce traffic congestion, provide job training, and plan for the health care of the elderly.” These well-intentioned programs sound familiar, don’t they, as if a politician had written them. Who “develops programs?” Social architects, of course, who will engineer our communities based on potentially discriminatory factors.
I told the Census lady, who was more than weary of me by that point, “Our country is divided enough without the government further categorizing us by race.”
“Don’t answer anything you object to,” she said. So I chose general questions only and mailed the survey back in hopes that the Supreme Court will revisit the matter soon.
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Time for Dems to abandon their impeachment and get a new hobby
Editor, the Forum:
Your guest columnist wants to hold Romney out as an example of ”courage?” Did he forget Romney denigrated Trump because they were competing for the nomination?
Romney wanted to be Trump’s Secretary of State, but was denied. Is it any wonder he is not shy of condemning Trump? Nevermind that Romney votes the GOP party line and supports Trump’s agenda. Romney was not an effective example to spotlight.
While Mr. Bernard is waiting on the GOP to abandon Trump, he should review the last three years where we have been assured multiple times by Rep. Adam Schiff that he has ”ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.” Now that the Mueller report has been reviewed, disappointed the Dems, and placed on the shelf, Schiff has yet to provide that ”ample evidence.” Now we discover Schiff lied to Americans about the whistleblower and The Washington Post awarded him four Pinocchios for his efforts.
For the last three years we have suffered through a non-stop barrage of misinformation, insults, and bald-faced lies by Dems and their trusty sidekicks, the media. Trump advocates have weathered all the Democrat and media lies about a collusion that didn’t happen. Mr. Bernard should not be hopeful Trump’s supporters will abandon him now. If anything, we are more determined to stick with him because of what we have witnessed.
But enough of that! What about Biden? Why is there no universal condemnation of Biden’s video proudly bragging of his successful effort to have the Ukrainian prosecutor fired? Simply download a copy of the affidavit where the former Ukrainian prosecutor details how and why he was fired for investigating Biden/Burisma.
Trump’s supporters are in this for the long-haul, so it might be more gratifying for unhappy Democrats to abandon their impeachment efforts and get a new hobby.
— Jean Barnes, Norcross
More on right-handedness vs. left-handedness and what that means
Editor, the Forum:
In case anyone wants to know, both my wife and I are right-handed. My daughter is left-handed and my son is right-handed. I have seen teachers, however, try to change which hand students write with.
There is a brain problem there. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and the right side of your brain controls the left side of the body. Trying to force a change that is not normal for the child could cause mental problems. I do not think that teachers do that any more. No one tried anything like that with my daughter and when she writes, she writes like a right-handed person, but with the left hand.
— Raleigh Perry, Buford
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20th annual Great Days of Service Are Oct. 25-26; Sign up mow
Sign up for the Great Days of Service to help your community.
Participate in the largest volunteer event in the nation October 25 and 26 as the Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services’ holds its 20th Great Days of Service.
Participants can stock shelves at food pantries, plant gardens, pick up trash, help renovate a home, collect non-perishable food items, host a book drive, or contribute in many other ways to help community agencies in Gwinnett. An estimated 100,000 people in Gwinnett do not know where their next meal is coming from. About 61 percent of low-income children grow up in households with no books, greatly increasing their odds of dropping out of school.
There are many projects, so you can choose one that fits your skills, interests, or preferred location. Last year’s event involved thousands of participants working on 451 projects that benefited 86 agencies. You can participate as an individual, group, family, or company. To register, call 770-995-3339 or visit www.gwinnettgreatdaysofservice.org.
Lights On Afterschool program At Collins Hill Park Oct. 24
Gwinnett County invites children, parents, business leaders and community leaders to come together to celebrate after-school programs at Walk Among the Stars, part of the National Lights On Afterschool initiative, at 6 p.m. Thursday, October 24 at Collins Hill Park.
The event, which is free, will highlight the contributions of afterschool programs and draw attention to the need for more after-school programs to serve the millions of children nationwide who are unsupervised and at risk each weekday afternoon. Walk Among the Stars is one of more than 8,000 National Lights On Afterschool events nationwide emphasizing the importance of keeping the doors open and lights on for after-school programs.
Tina Fleming, director of the Gwinnett County Department of Community Services, says: “Walk Among the Stars celebrates the remarkable work being done by government organizations and community partners. It is a powerful reminder that after-school programs offer a range of important support to children and families. Unfortunately, there are not always enough accessible after-school programs, and too many kids are home alone in the afternoons where they can be exposed to at-risk behaviors. After-school programs can be life-changing for many of these children.”
Walk Among the Stars features a Neverland theme this year. Participants are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite characters and enjoy STEAM activities, interactive games, crafts, inflatables and more.
After-school programs support students by offering them opportunities to discover new skills and learn new things, like science, community service, robotics, Tae Kwon Do and poetry.
Recent data from America After 3PM, a study on after-school programs commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance, shows a vast unmet demand for after-school programs nationwide. In Georgia, only 16 percent of children participate in an after-school program, yet 40 percent would be enrolled if a program were available. Parents of children in after-school programs are overwhelmingly pleased with the programs with 90 percent saying they are satisfied with their child’s program and 79 percent reporting that after-school programs give working parents peace of mind.
- More information on the Afterschool Alliance, Lights On Afterschool and America After 3PM is available at www.afterschoolalliance.org. Collins Hill Park is located at 2225 Collins Hill Road near Lawrenceville.
Sugar Hill’s 5th annual Sugar Rush Festival will be Oct. 19
Celebrate the fall season with artfully festive flavor at Sugar Hill’s fifth annual Sugar Rush festival. Set for October 19 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., the event features festival classics like face painting and inflatables, as well as activities and entertainment unique to Sugar Hill including an arcade, performances in The Bowl amphitheater, and gem mining with the Sugar Hill Historic Preservation Society.
Sugar Rush has been voted “Best Festival in Gwinnett” based on years of great vendors and activities. New this year, The Eagle Theatre will offer $1 movies with showings of the Goonies at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. A car show, caricature artist, and several surprises round out the Sugar Rush program, alongside the juried art show curated by the Sugar Hill Arts Commission.
GACS student from Duluth is National Merit Semifinalist for 2020
Greater Atlanta Christian School (GAC) announces that senior Nicolas Veltmaat of Duluth has been named as a National Merit Semifinalist in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Competition. Mr. Veltmaat has been named among approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Veltmaat
Semifinalists are selected from about 1.6 million high school students who took the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during their junior year. These semifinalists are competing for 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million. Those scholarships will be announced in the spring of 2020.
Nicolas is a four-year varsity soccer athlete and plans to pursue a career in biomedical engineering. He reports that his favorite subjects in school have consistently been math and science. “I contribute my success on the exam to my GAC school courses, which helped me to expand my knowledge and develop my problem-solving skills,” he says.
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
(Editor’s Note: is no one but Karen Harris of Stone Mountain reading any books? We’re out of reviews except for Karen, who diligently sends in her short reviews on books and movies. But how about the rest of you? Surely you don’t stay glued to the (lousy) television all the time! Write us 150 words on what you read, good or bad. Don’t give the plot away: just tell us what you think about your recent reading or viewing educational adventure. –eeb)
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: This book is a luminous and affecting story of how the basic human need to connect with someone can supersede fear of rejection. Addie reaches out to her longtime neighbor, Louis. The request is to come to her home and sleep with her at night for conversation. Addie and Louis have been living alone for years in houses devoid of their mates, who both died. They both have children who live far away and have lives of their own. The emptiness of the night is excruciating for them both, hence Addie’s courage to initiate a friendship. The unfolding of the friendship leads to an intimacy that neither had with their mates as they reveal the regrets they have about their marriages and the untimely death of their partners. This is a beautiful example of how important friendship is and how it can revive the souls of those in their twilight years.
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National newspapers credit Georgia with saving the union
With the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850, Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis.
Slavery had been at the core of sectional tensions between the North and South. New territorial gains, westward expansion, and the hardening of regional attitudes toward the spread of slavery provoked a potential crisis of the Union, which in many ways portended the tragic events of the 1860s. In 1850, however, compromise and conciliation remained viable alternatives to secession and war.
There were many southerners in the decades before the Civil War (1861-65) who preferred disunion over any concessions on slavery. These radicals, often known as fire-eaters, called on the South to reject the Compromise of 1850 as an assault on the constitutional right of slavery. As in the nullification crisis of 1832, South Carolina led the protest. Immediate secessionists were numerous throughout Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Georgia was best prepared to respond to events, having established a provision for a special convention to deliberate alternatives; the convention, held in Milledgeville, would be a testament to the skill and moderation of a handful of Georgia statesmen.
Howell Cobb, Alexander Stephens, and Robert Toombs represented Georgia in Congress and wielded a great deal of political influence within the state. Their roles in these events not only aided the passage of the Compromise of 1850 in Washington but also ensured the defeat of the radical secessionists in Georgia. The culmination of their efforts was the Georgia Platform.
The November elections for the special convention to be held in December 1850 demonstrated an overwhelming support for the pro-Union position in Georgia. Of the 264 delegates to the convention, 240 were Unionists. In a five-day session the convention drafted an official response to the tensions threatening the Union. Only 19 delegates voted against the Georgia Platform. The genius of the document lay in its balance of Southern rights and a devotion to the Union.
The platform established Georgia’s conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850. Much of the document followed a draft written by Charles Jones Jenkins and represented a collaboration between Georgia Whigs and moderate Democrats dedicated to preserving the Union. In effect, the proclamation accepted the measures of the compromise so long as the North complied with the Fugitive Slave Act and would no longer attempt to ban the expansion of slavery into new territories and states. Northern contempt for these conditions, the platform warned, would make secession inevitable.
This qualified endorsement of the Compromise of 1850 essentially undermined the movement for immediate secession throughout the South. Newspapers across the nation credited Georgia with saving the Union. Nevertheless, the conditions upon which the Georgia Platform rested would fail the tests of time, bringing in the next decade a replay of events with different results—secession and war.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Highway, buildings, hills could identify this Mystery Photo
How many of you have been to this city? You may recognize some features of today’s Mystery Photo that will alert you to the location of this municipality. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
That flowing river and half-timbered houses were in Strasbourg, France, as Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill told us: “Maison des Tanneurs in Strasbourg, France. It’s in a neighborhood called “Petite-France” along the Rhine River. Would love to know where the photographer was standing when it took the photo. (from a barge or from one of the banks?)” The photograph came from Molly Titus of Peachtree Corners.
Others recognizing it included Jim Savadelis, Duluth; and Dick LoPresi, Berkeley Lake;
George Graf, Palmyra, Va. wrote: “At the heart of Strasbourg’s La Petite France district, tucked amid the half-timbered houses and snaking canals of the historic neighborhood, the Tanners House (right side of mystery photo with series of “X” timbers), or Maison des Tanneurs, is one of the area’s most famous landmarks. A lasting vestige of the old tanners district, the former tannery was built in 1572 and is known for its timbered galleries and slanted roofs, where dyed hides were once draped to dry in the sun.”
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. added: “At Petite France, the River Ill splits up into a number of channels that cascade through an area that was, in the Middle Ages, home to the city’s tanners, millers and fishermen, and is now one of Strasbourg’s liveliest tourist hubs, known for cobblestone streets, canals, and well-preserved half-timbered homes. La Petite France was designated as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Grande Île in 1988. Incidentally, the building on the right of the mystery photo is the Maison des Tanneurs (i.e. Tanner’s House) which was a former tannery that was built in 1572 and is now a charming restaurant with an airy outdoor patio and feature upscale Alsatian cuisine (which incorporates Germanic culinary traditions and is marked by the use of pork in various forms).”
Shiloh High Team hears more about Digital Badge program
Shiloh High School Principal Dr. Danyel Dollard (center) speaks during the program presentation concerning the Digital Badge Program now offered by the City of Snellville. Now the city is looking to partner with area schools to offer the free program to students using LRNG.org, an online resource “powered by” Southern New Hampshire University.
Harvest 10-10-10 will be presented October 11-13 at Lionheart Theatre Company in Norcross by Onion Man Productions. Celebrating Onion Man Productions’ 10th anniversary, this collection of ten, ten-minute original new plays explore the themes of new beginnings, letting go of the past and emerging from the ashes. Visit https://www.onionmanproductions.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Public Safety Fall Festival will be October 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Police and Fire and Emergency Services are partnering for this Festival. First responders will show off their emergency vehicles, including a helicopter, ambulance, SWAT personnel carrier, and ladder truck. Coolray Field, 2500 Buford Drive, Lawrenceville.
Open Studio at the Tannery Row Artist Colony is held each second Saturday. The next will be October 12 from noon until 4 p.m. Meet the artists and watch them at work in their studios. See the 2019 Fall Juried Art Exhibit featuring artists from all over Georgia.The studio is located at 554 West Main Street in Buford.
Network in Braselton with your neighbor-businesses on Tuesday, October 15 at 6:30 p. at Braselton Brewing Company in downtown Braselton. This quarterly meeting with other locals people is limited to the first 30 licensed Braselton businesses signing.
Bridge the Gap 5K run will be held at Suwanee Town Center on October 19. It is a Peachtree Road Race qualifying event. Registration is at 8 a.m. and the race starts at 9 a.m. Help bridge the gap for all adults with developmental disabilities as they transition into adulthood and the need for lifelong services. With your support, more adults with disabilities in the community can be served. For details, go to www.runsignup.com/bridgethegapga.
Emil Powella will speak at the Lilburn Business Association October 15 meeting at 11:30 in the Preston Room of Lilburn City Hall. He currently serves on the Lilburn Planning Commission and Lilburn Merit Board. He is also the unofficial city photographer for Lilburn. He retired from a career in marketing, working for several major petroleum companies. His talk focuses on the critical need for companies to “maintain” current customers. For more information: https://www.lilburnbusiness.org/.
Meet Stuart Woods on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, 10 College Street, Norcross. Woods is the bestselling author of more than 75 novels. He is a native of Georgia. He returns to Gwinnett to talk about his newest book Skin Game. Silent auction and beverage bar sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Zombie Run 5K will be October 19 in Braselton at 8:30 a.m. This course will be littered with zombies. The best way to avoid them is to outrun them. But don’t worry, Zombies aren’t real….or are they? Come find out how you will fare. For more details, go to http://downtownbraselton.com.
The 47th Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games will take place October 19-20 at Stone Mountain Park. The games feature a number of pipe bands, folk singers, Celtic rock groups, Scottish country dancing, Highland dancing, sheep dog herding demonstrations and, of course, the athletic games. More than 100 Scottish clan associations will host tents and other organizations will provide tents with information on all things Scottish. The games will also host related activities (free lectures, a Celtic concert and a ball) on Friday, October 18, at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast in Norcross. For the complete schedule and ticket information, go to www.smhg.org.
Juried Art Exhibit at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford continues until November 1. 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.
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