WANT TO RIDE on the Olli shuttle at the Curiosity Lab in Peachtree Corners? Citizens are invited to The Curiosity Lab on Tuesday, October 1, at 11 a.m. to learn about the driverless shuttle. Olli is a 10 seat autonomous vehicle built by Local Motors of Phoenix, Ariz., which will operate the unit on the Peachtree Corners test track in real-world time conditions. The rides will take place after officials speak at 11 a.m. Representatives from Local Motors will be on hand to answer questions and provide added information. The event is expected to last 45 minutes to an hour.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Norcross Co-Op Buys New Building; Needs Funds for Build-Out
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Cokie Roberts Was Central Figure and Trusted Voice on Capitol Hill
SPOTLIGHT: Agrisel USA Inc.
FEEDBACK: All of Gwinnett Was Devastated by Arc Road Murders in 1964
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville Seeks Helpers To Plant Over 1,500 Trees and Shrubs
NOTABLE: Local DAR Chapter To Sponsor Wreaths Across America in Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: Nan by Nathaniel Bellows
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Plays Big Role in History of Country Music in USA
MYSTERY PHOTO: Don’t Jump to an Immediate Recognition for This Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Learn of Latino Genealogy on Tuesday, October 1 at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Library
Norcross co-op buys new building; Needs funds for build-out
By Ellen Queen
NORCROSS, Ga. | Back in 2013 when Norcross Cooperative Ministry (NCM) decided to increase its transformation ministries (to include job services, health fairs, financial education, and children’s activities), two modular building units were added to temporarily house those programs.
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The ministry wanted to assess the value of these new efforts before making any decisions to expand the physical footprint. The overwhelming success of these programs means NCM needed to find a more permanent solution for its needs.
NCM recognized that the temporary use permits for modular units will expire at the end of 2021, and that the permits cannot be renewed again. Over the past six years, these temporary units allowed NCM to add approximately 1,500 square feet of much-needed space. Should this space be lost, some programs will have to be reduced or eliminated.
Furthermore, space used for food, clothing, toys, storage, and office space in the main building is already at or above capacity. To continue and expand NCM programs, larger space is needed. Expanding the current Mitchell Road building has been evaluated and deemed insufficient and cost-prohibitive.
Therefore, the board of NCM is announcing the purchase of a new building in the Pinnacle Park area of Norcross. This new facility is located at 500 Pinnacle Court, backing up to the new City of Norcross Pinnacle Park. The new building will allow NCM to continue current services as well as greatly expand programs to residents of southwestern Gwinnett County. It is expected that the new building will be sufficient to serve the co-op for years.
Moving date to the new location will be later on in 2019, once the build-out is complete. Today NCM is operating in approximately 13,500 square feet. Space in the new building will contain 15,000 square feet. However, the total space available in the new building is 43,500 square feet, currently occupied by an environmental engineering company, printing company and a retail consulting company. Eventually those leases will end, and NCM will expand into the additional space as needed or rent it to other nonprofits and/or community partners. The building is a half mile from a bus stop on Beaver Ruin Road, and a quarter mile to a stop on Brookhollow Parkway. The building has sufficient parking space for its clients.
The new building cost $1.6 million. Financing from Piedmont Bank allowed a closing on September 6. It will cost between $500-700,000 to build-out the space for NCM, including the furnishings.
So far, NCM has raised approximately $250,000 for the build-out. Another $125,000 is pending, and there is another $75,000 raised in in-kind donations. NCM officials are starting a campaign to raise the additional funds needed to complete the renovations. They ask the community to support their “Beyond the Building” Campaign. Donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 1489, Norcross, Ga. 30091 or dropped by the office at 2275 Mitchell Road in Norcross.
The Norcross co-op was founded in 1986 by two churches in Norcross. It is now supported by 25 local churches represented on its board. The ministry in 2019 serves an average of 700 families each month. There are five full time staff members, nine part time staff members and more than 200 people each month volunteering within the co-op.
Five other co-ops now operate in Gwinnett County, with each serving people in certain Zip codes within the county.
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Cokie Roberts was central figure, trusted voice on Capitol Hill
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 1, 2019 | The news of the death of Cokie Roberts of Washington, D.C., came to me in the car on the way home. It hit me as if she were a member of my extended family who had died.
Up until then, I didn’t totally recognize the impact she had on all of us as a person familiar with the Washington scene. She was thoroughly connected with the city and its halls of politicians, public servants and bureaucrats, having been the daughter of not one, but two members of the House of Representatives (father and mother) and her father had even been the majority leader. Plus, Cokie Roberts knew every nook and cranny of the Capitol, and knew not only the members, and their office staff, but the maids and waiters there. She had enormous contacts, giving her a substantial grounding of everyday Washington. She was a trusted voice.
Her reports to the country were examples of clarity and understanding of what is usually a most complicated circumstance. You felt you were getting an up-to-date and unbiased report of what was really going on. Not only that, but her reports were like she was speaking, more like talking, to you directly. There was such a calmness and an honesty in her reports. She was a wonder. We were the beneficiary of her work and insights.
Cokie Roberts: 1943-2019: may you rest in peace.
JURY DUTY: Some people want no part of jury duty. They consider it a waste of their time, perhaps even cutting into their pay. They really don’t want to do what some consider a public duty.
Other look upon it as more worthwhile, of a way of giving to the community.
Recently I was officially summoned for jury duty, and “served” my one week-or one trial in this capacity. But I never once had to grace the courthouse grounds. That’s because here in Gwinnett County, when you get your jury notice, you enter an automated system that lets you know each night after 7 p.m. during the week whether you will have to appear for duty the next day.
You can either call or use the computer to find if you have duty the next day. Each night when I called, I was told that I did not have to appear the following day. It was that way all week, so though I didn’t have to go to the court, I put in my time being “on call.” (You don’t get paid that way; if called to appear for service, you are paid $30 a day.) In Gwinnett, if you are a jury on a case, you are dismissed for the rest of the week when your case is finished.
It’s not like that in some other counties. Many have a large pool of jurors actually appearing at the courthouse to see if they will be called on a jury. The automated aspect in Gwinnett is managed by Abby Carter, who has been with the county for 12 years, and the jury manager for seven years. She says that most counties operate a call-in service, but many do not have the one day or one trial aspect that Gwinnett has. Abby puts it this way: “In Gwinnett County, we don’t require anyone to come in unless they are needed.”
SAVINGS TIME: Larry Zani reports from Kaiserslauten, Germany, that Germany and most of Europe end Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time) this year on Sunday morning, October 27. In the U.S., the change will not be made until a week later on Sunday morning, November 3.
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All of Gwinnett was devastated by Arc Road murders in 1964
Editor, the Forum:
Enjoyed your article on the Arc Road murders. At that time I lived on Pleasant Hill Road about two miles from the murder site. Arc Road was a dirt road connecting Pleasant Hill Road and Beaver Ruin Road.
That night my neighbor and I had been Crappie fishing at Lake Lanier and were on our way home and passed Arc Road at about the time the murders occurred. We obviously knew nothing of what was happening until the next day.
The families of the victims were absolutely devastated. It was deeply disturbing to all Gwinnettians and even more to those of us who lived nearby. It took a long time to adjust, particularly after the murderers were apprehended and their identities and relationships to the victims revealed. Their relationships explained how the murders were able to get the drop on the policemen and murder them with their own guns.
— Hoyt Tuggle, Buford
Taking a long view of what he thinks has happened to the USA
Editor, the Forum:
This fine, well-educated country we’ve become could be a soap opera each morning in daily episodes. The ending is pre-determined: some moderate level government person/persons must be sacrificed on the stone of shame in the Nation’s Capital. Deteriorating republics are comedies. Their characters are continuously more foolish. The patrons act like drug addicts who passionately think they have the grail. And nothing gets done unless the President acts like a king.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
Supporting pointless foreign faraway adventures is worthless
Editor, the Forum:
Joe Briggs is right and so is GwinnettForum. You’ll notice those theoreticians who support pointless foreign adventurism in faraway places usually have no sons to send to these hellholes. I believe in the Ron Paul philosophy and Rand Paul’s modified version of same: essentially get out of these places, dump all foreign aid and remember Joe Sobran, “Anything called a ‘program’ is unconstitutional.”
— Marshall Miller, Lilburn
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Lawrenceville seeks helpers to plant over 1,500 trees, shrubs
The Lawrenceville Housing Authority has begun the first phase of redeveloping its aging properties that were originally built in the 1950s and 1960s. In partnership with the City of Lawrenceville, it is nearing completion of the first phase of replacement units in a development named Thompson Square, located at 188 Constitution Boulevard in Lawrenceville.
The goal is to create a safe, enjoyable and verdant environment where families can raise their children surrounded with plush greenery and playground areas.
To meet our goal we partnered with Trees Atlanta, a nationally recognized non-profit citizens’ group that protects and improves Atlanta’s urban forestry by planting, conserving, and educating. With its help, The Authority will be planting 80 native shade trees and 1,500 shrubs at Thompson Square.
Native trees provide excellent habitat for humans and wildlife. It is anticipated that these trees will grow to maturity and provide shade, cleaner air, cleaner stormwater, and many more benefits. This will be a first Trees Atlanta project of this magnitude in Gwinnett. The Authority needs volunteers to make this event a success.
The planting projects are scheduled for October 5, 12, and 26 from 9 a.m. to noon. Expert tree planters from Trees Atlanta will teach volunteers how to correctly plant trees and shrubs and we will provide all of the necessary tools. Volunteers just need to dress for getting dirty and bring drinking water in reusable containers.
If you are interested in volunteering, or if you know of any other groups who may want to participate, please reach out to Susan Cunningham at susan@treesatlanta.org and she will assist with the registration.
Enjoy Suwanee Fine Arts Festival Oct. 5-6 at Town Center Park
Savor the Flair d’art at the Suwanee Fine Arts Festival on October 5-6. With a bit of a French twist, enjoy the unexpected at every turn!
There will be more than a few buskers milling through the park as festival goers discover a myriad of fine artists and live exhibitions to dazzle the imagination at the newly revamped Suwanee Fine Arts Festival this fall, presented by the North Gwinnett Arts Association. With the emphasis on fine art, there will be plenty of painters, glass blowing, pottery, a make and take silk scarf and bandana water marbling station and the coveted Chalk Walk Competition. Go to ngaa4arts.com/fineartsfest to reserve a piece of the sidewalk. Walk-ups will be accommodated as space allows.
The Suwanee Fine Arts Festival is located in the award-winning Suwanee Town Center Park. Art is a major part of Suwanee’s culture, providing an ideal location for a fine arts festival. Organized by the North Gwinnett Arts Association, with a 10-year history of running the successful springtime Arts in the Park, this festival is now a two-day fall festival with a focus on high quality, fine art.
Guest Artist, Suzy Schultz, will host a stunning, open-air gallery on Center Stage. Suzy is an artist whose paintings and drawings explore the themes of longing, struggle and the spiritual search for home.
Visitors can also enjoy the Suwanee SculpTour, and visit the NGAA Center for the Arts, both located in Suwanee Town Center.
Kudzu Art Center 12×12 Silent Auction continues through Oct. 6
Kudzu Art Zone is now exhibiting its annual 12 x 12 show of paintings. All works are available in a silent auction, which continues through Saturday, October 6.
Also included are several themed baskets stuffed with items – two Christmas, a Fall, and another featuring teas and tea pot and cups, and another one with wine and wine glasses.
Kudzu’s hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery is also open Sunday, October 6, the last day to bid on all these items. Kudzu Art Zone is located at 116 Carlyle Street in downtown Norcross. For details call 770-840-9844 or see website: kudzuartzone.org.
Gwinnett Police plan hiring event for Oct. 5-6 in Lawrenceville
The Gwinnett County Police Department is conducting a hiring event for police officers and communications officers October 5 and 6 in Lawrenceville. During this event, police officer applicants will be given the opportunity to complete a physical fitness assessment, background investigation check, and an oral interview. Athletic attire is recommended.
Communications officer candidates can complete their background investigation check, dispatcher software testing, and an oral interview at the event.
The event runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Gwinnett County Police Training Center in 854 Winder Highway, Lawrenceville. Preregistration is recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. To learn more about these positions and register, visit www.GwinnettPoliceJobs.com.
Local DAR chapter to sponsor Wreaths Across America here
The Philadelphia Winn Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, of Lawrenceville, announces that Wreaths Across America is coming to Gwinnett County on December 14. East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens and the Philadelphia Winn Chapter are partnering to participate in the National Wreaths Across America project.
Volunteers and wreath sponsors will lay remembrance wreaths on veterans’ graves on December 1 at East Shadowlawn, 87 Scenic Highway in Lawrenceville. East Shadowlawn is the first cemetery where WAA will have a presence in Gwinnett County.
Local residents can help the chapter honor and remember fallen heroes by sponsoring remembrance wreaths and volunteering on Wreaths Day. Sponsorships ($15 each) will ensure that a wreath is hand-crafted, made of all-American balsam, and hand-tied with a red velvet bow in Columbia Falls, Maine.
Wreaths will be sent to East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens, where volunteers will place them on markers of our fallen heroes. Volunteers will pronounce the veteran’s name after they place a wreath, to ensure that the legacy of duty, service and sacrifice of each veteran is never forgotten.
Sponsoring a wreath means local citizens will have the opportunity to join a grateful nation in saying “thank you” to our veterans. There will be more than 1,200 locations nationwide this year on Wreaths Across America Day.
East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens was selected because of its Veterans Section and over 375 veterans’ graves. Tim Smith, managing partner of Gwinnett Cemeteries, LLC and owner of East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens, says: “We are honored to be hosting the Wreaths Across America Ceremony. This event honors all service men and women who sacrificed so all of us can enjoy the blessings of our freedoms and liberties.”
Philadelphia Winn will be selling wreath sponsorships at Lawrenceville locations during the month of October. Residents can visit its tent at one of the following events from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.:
- October 5, Elisha Winn Fair, 908 Dacula Road in Dacula;
- October 12, East Shadowlawn, 87 Scenic Highway, Lawrenceville;
- October 12, Lilburn Daze, Lilburn City Park, Lilburn; and
- October 19, Fort Daniel Frontier Faire, 1725 Auburn Road, Dacula.
Those interested in sponsoring a wreath may send a check to Ann Story, Regent of Philadelphia Winn Chapter DAR at P.O. Box 172, Bethlehem, Ga. 30620. Make the check payable to Philadelphia Winn Chapter DAR. Include name, address, email address, and phone number, so the chapter can invite those contributing to lay a wreath to honor a veteran at the ceremony. Or, purchasers can pay online at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/ga0265p.
Nan by Nathaniel Bellows
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: Nan leaves rural Vermont for New York City to obtain a college degree in English. Along the way her innocence is tested by the urban world with its larger than life happenings and people who both attract and repel. Nan discovers a talent for writing with short stories that brim with psychological light and shadow. Though her world is enlarged by the New York experience, she returns periodically to Vermont to visit her parents and to try and make sense of a family tragedy. The reader will weave in and out of the events in this novel that reads like short stories put together with a single theme. Luminous and heart rendering, Nathaniel Bellows’ novel, Nan, is a slow, but sure journey to understanding and peace hard won.
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Georgia plays big role in history of country music in USA
WSB Barn Dance
Country music has played a large role in the culture of Georgia, as it has in all southern states, and Georgians have played major roles in the history of country music.
The event often referred to as the birth of country music took place in 1927 in Bristol, Tenn., when the Victor Records talent scout and recording engineer Ralph Peer set up a temporary recording studio on the last leg of his tour of the South. During these sessions, which came to be known as the “Bristol Sessions,” Peer recorded Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, who would become country music’s first major stars.
Four years earlier, Polk Brockman, who worked as director of the phonograph department in his grandfather’s Atlanta furniture store, had urged Peer to record the Georgia cotton mill worker Fiddlin’ John Carson. The success of Carson’s recordings of “Old Familiar” tunes (early country music recordings put out by Columbia Records) convinced Peer and Victor Records to seek more artists in the musical style that would become known as country. Carson can arguably be called country music’s first performing star. He certainly had the first commercially successful country recording.
The growth of commercial country music corresponds with both the urban migration of rural southerners, prompted to move first by the promise of city jobs and then by the agricultural setbacks of the Great Depression, and with the rise of radio as a form of entertainment.
As rural southerners moved to the cities and to the North in search of employment, they took their musical tastes with them. “Barn Dance” radio programs emerged in the mid-1920s with Chicago’s “National Barn Dance” in 1924 and Nashville’s “Grand Ole Opry” a year later, and they grew in popularity through the 1930s with venues in major cities throughout the United States and Canada. The Atlanta radio station WSB ran the “WSB Barn Dance” from 1940 to 1950.
The repeal of prohibition in 1933 facilitated the growth of the honky-tonk era, which brought a more raucous musical style and lyrical content into country music. Honky-tonks were dance halls where lively music accompanied dancing and drinking. In the 1950s the popularity of honky-tonk musician Hank Williams (an Alabama native) was a turning point, bringing the honky-tonk ethos not only into mainstream country music but into pop music as well.
(To be continued)
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Don’t jump to an immediate recognition for this Mystery Photo
Be careful into jumping to a conclusion about where today’s Mystery Photo is located. This inspiring church is built in the traditional manner with two steeples rising majestically. Just locate it for us, and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
That big rocking chair was recognized by several people last week. Al Swint of Tucker wrote: “I recognize that big rocking chair is located in north Hall County on Georgia Highway 52 between Lula and Clermont. I drive by it when I go to my mountain house near Hiawassee.”
Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Philomena Robertson, Flowery Branch also recognized it, as did Brenda Marquis of Lilburn, who said: “I know it’s on the road going from Georgia Highway 365 toward Cleveland. I just passed it a couple of weeks ago.”
George Graf, Palmyra, Va. told us: “It’s roughly midway between Clermont and Lula at milepost 10 on the east side of Georgia Highway 52 and Lula Road, at the intersection of Persimmon Tree Road. This oversized rocking chair is a well-known landmark to travelers in the area. Dwight Oliver built it around 2006 for children visiting his Goldbrook Pumpkin Farm, but it has since become a permanent fixture.”
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. added: “Today’s mystery photo is of the oversized, wooden rocking chair at the corner of Lula Road and Persimmon Tree Road just west of Lula, Ga. This roadside attraction is over 15 feet high and is a well-known landmark to travelers in the area. In fact you can fit an entire class of 30 children or more at the same time for a class photo! Adults who have sat in this chair report that they too ‘feel like a kid again’ since their feet don’t touch the ground, or even hang over the edge, as evident with the person in the mystery photo. Dwight Oliver actually built three of theses large chairs, two of which still exist. (The first was destroyed by vandals). The other chair is currently on Dwight’s own private property, and is not generally accessible to the public.”
Learn about your Latino Genealogy on Tuesday, October 1 at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Branch, 6025 Buford Highway, Norcross. This program is free and open to the public. Uncover your Latino ancestors and family. Learn how to overcome the challenges of tracing Latino genealogy through free genealogy databases – including Ancestry.com. This workshop will concentrate on resources for Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
A conversation with Dr. Pierluigi Mancin, author of Immigrant Behavioral Health and a public speaker. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Mancini is one of the most sought after national and international consultants and speakers on the subject of mental health and addiction. His area of expertise is immigrant behavioral health. Gwinnett County Public Library is sponsoring this event on Thursday, October 3 at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 2140 Beaver Ruin Road, Norcross. It is free and open to the public. Books in both English and Spanish will be available for purchase – cash or check only. For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
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.
Business Builder’s Breakfast of the Lilburn Business Association will be Friday, October 4 at 8 a.m. at Antiques in Old Town, 93 Main Street. Meeting fee of $5 includes breakfast. Please register to help in food planning. Historian Hugh Wilkerson will share stories at this meeting.
Join Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Gwinnett Legal Aid, in partnership with Gwinnett County Public Library, to learn about domestic violence, how to fight against it, and how to get help. Two sessions are available: on Saturday, October 5 at 1 p.m. at Five Forks Branch, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lawrenceville, and on Monday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Buford Library Branch, 2100 Buford Highway in Buford. This workshop will feature legal information about the temporary restraining order process and how to navigate the judicial system. Both sessions are free and open to the public.
Club Tropicana at the Hudgens Arts Center in Duluth will be Saturday, October 5 at 7 p.m. Highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the 2019 Hudgens Prize for Georgia Artists. This is a $50,000 prize as well as a solo exhibition for the winning artist. Partygoers will be treated to a Cuban Night Club experience throughout the Hudgens with live music, a Cuban cuisine, a silent auction, games and dancing.
Season Finale for the Johns Creek Symphony will be Saturday, October 5, at 7 p.m. in the Burkhalter Amphitheater in Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road. The concert is presented by the city of Johns Creek. The concert will be conducted by JCSO Founder and Music Director, J. Wayne Baughman, with guest conductor Timothy Aucoin. Repertoire for the performance will include light classical and Pops favorites.
16th Annual Art Splash and Wine Festival is October 5-6 in downtown Norcross. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. The area will come alive with both colorful artisan booths and lively tents and browse the artist displays.
Ribbon-Cutting and grand opening of the expanded facilities of the North Gwinnett Co-op will be Tuesday, October 8 at noon. The address is 4395 Commerce Drive in Buford. Following the ceremony, a barbecue lunch will be provided.
Veteran’s Park in Norcross will be opened and dedicated at a ceremony on October 9 at 10 a.m. The park is located at 160 North Norcross Tucker Road. Come and enjoy the festivities and Norcross’ latest park.
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.
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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