GwinnettForum | Number 19.80 | Jan. 14, 2020
IT MIGHT BE RAINY and colder these days, but pretty soon, food trucks will be out in their glory at many locations around Gwinnett. This scene, from Suwanee, was taken during one of their five Food Truck Fridays. The next such day will be May 1. However, food trucks are usually at most of the 40 scheduled events the City of Suwanee hosts each year.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett Libraries Adopt New Method To Classify Books
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Legislature: Meet Only Every Other Year and Have Less Mischief
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Before Session Begins, Here Comes a Legislative Gender Policeman
UPCOMING: 12th Kiwanis Father-Daughter Dance To Be Both February 7 and 8
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Commission Adopts Record $1.84 Billion Budget for 2020
RECOMMENDED: The United States of Trump by Bill O’Reilly
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Is Federalist Candidate for U.S. President
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell Us More About This Important Stone Structure and Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Gwinnett NAACP Plans Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday Supper on January 19
Gwinnett libraries adopt new method to classify books
By Charles Pace
Director, Gwinnett County Public Library
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | For over 100 years, most public and school libraries in the United States have used the Dewey Decimal classification system to organize their books. However, over the last 10 to 15 years, a few libraries have started to go in a different direction and as of this month, the Gwinnett County Public (GCPL) Library will be joining their ranks.
Pace
The Dewey Decimal System was created in the late 1800s by Melvil Dewey, who also co-founded the American Library Association and made numerous other contributions to the library field over the course of a career that spanned decades. The familiar Dewey System is based on numbers, for example, the 100s are philosophy, and the 200s are religion and so on.
At the time Dewey developed his classification system, most libraries operated closed stack collections. In a closed stack system, you would have had to search the catalog, identify the book you wanted, and then take the information to a staff member sitting behind an imposing wood desk. The librarian would then go into the book shelving area and retrieve the book for you. The Dewey System worked pretty well in this type of arrangement, but it has become outdated for a fast-paced 21st century library system like Gwinnett County Public Library.
Dewey call numbers require a lot of work to learn and remember and we are dependent on a distant committee of librarians to provide updates. For example, for many years Dewey used the term “cookery” for cookbooks. In other cases, certain classifications of materials are spread over many different call number ranges, for instance, photography can be found in as many as four different locations depending on the specific topic. The inadequacy of the Dewey system has become increasingly apparent in recent years and other systems such as the Richland Library in South Carolina, and Anythink in Colorado have moved away from Dewey in recent years. Fortunately, there is a better, more customer friendly alternative to Dewey, the BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) system.
BISAC is a classification method that has been used by bookstores for several decades and is intended to make it easier for customers to find what they are looking for on the shelf. BISAC uses words rather than numbers to classify materials.
Underneath each broad subject heading you will find sub-headings followed by the books in alphabetical order by the name of the author. So you would walk into the library and see a big sign for the category “Animals” for instance, underneath that you might find a sub-heading for “leopards” and then the particular book you wanted to find would be available by the author’s last name.
All GCPL branches are in the process of converting over to this new system and we hope to be completely finished by the end of January. In addition, we are putting up all new signage, which will direct our patrons to the appropriate shelving areas they are seeking.
Our goal is to make easier for customers to find what they are looking for and to have a more pleasant experience when they visit one of our branch libraries. An additional benefit is that it will make it much easier and quicker to train our staff on shelving materials. We are excited about our new shelving system and encourage everyone to come and visit one of our branches so you can see it in action for yourself.
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Legislature: Meet only every other year and have less mischief
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JAN. 14, 2020 | The only constitutional requirement that the Georgia Legislature must fulfill each year is to pass a state budget.
And as such, this usually amounts to quite a fight, as the duly-elected legislators move to help their friends, or hurt their enemies.
Oh! If they would only do adopt a budget! But no. These legislators don’t just tamper with the budget. Every self-important committee chair (and there are many, many legislative committees) seek to offer us plain folk “protection” from all sort of self-imagined problems that many of us do not realize exist, if they exist at all. The legislators want to save us from many problems that only they can foresee.
And so here they are off to all sorts of manipulations. They busily button-hole first one fellow legislator after another, seeking to get support for their own petty bills. Many a promise is made to support trivial bills of other legislators, so that they can get their petty bills passed.
And what are these petty bills? You can be sure that in passing any particular legislation, someone or some entity is going to gain some advantage. And someone, maybe the balance of us out in the non-legislative world, will perhaps be gored in the process.
What we need is an inventory of how many pieces of legislation are already on the books which gives some tax advantage to particular entities. Perhaps such an inventory would have enough impact on voters to instill consternation in them, and throw out these unfair bills, and maybe toss out the bill-writers, too.
There are many “sweetheart” bills passed that benefit certain individuals, and these are too numerous to mention. But we’ll give you one as an example: shrimpers in Georgia are exempted from paying taxes on fuel for their boats. Remember Georgia has the largest shrimping fleet on the East Coast.
That exemption is unfair to taxpayers and other companies. We suspect Georgia shrimp consumers would not mind paying a few cents more per pound for shrimp if this exemption, and similar exemptions for other industries, was eliminated. What all this would amount to would be a far-fairer tax system, where the pet companies of legislators would not be given a tax advantage.
Remember that the Legislature must meet for 40 days every year with its principal assignment to pass a budget? For sure, the wrangling over the budget is the key focus each year, and always causes not merely a stir, but a big fight. In the meantime, the legislators advance many other pieces of legislation that most of us would they rather not do, and usually only amounts to satisfy mainly some of their constituents.
One of the items that GwinnettForum has on its List of Continuing Objectives is for the Legislature not to meet as they do now, every year, but that the Legislature should meet every two years.
Why? Simply to protect us citizens from often-unneeded legislation, and at the same time, eliminate the budget fights by one half, since they would come only every other year. That would make less time for the Legislature to be creating more mischief.
How about this? Texas and a few other states have Legislatures that meet every other year. We look forward to the time when Georgia will adopt an every-other-year Legislature.
Pass the budget? Yes. But stop meeting so much. Pass legislation so that the Legislature meets every other year! That’s worthy legislation!
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Before session begins comes a legislative gender policeman
Editor, the Forum:
Now a new Georgia State Representative has decided to be the moral police by filing a new bill that would ban transgender students from playing in an athletic organization if their assigned gender, when they were born, doesn’t match who they are now.
This gender policeman is Rep. Philip Singleton, (R-Sharpsburg) and the bill he is introducing is HR 747. This article was seen on Facebook from the NPR site – GPB story by Sarah Rose January 7, 2020 if you want to read it. I didn’t need to read the whole story to know this bill is nothing more than pandering to the far-right Evangelicals disguised as an issue towards women’s equality.
He is worried if his daughter, who must be a gymnast, competes against a transgender person, they would have an advantage over his daughter to win a competition. What a far out crock! Depending on the skill and age, all children compete on the same level. There could be girls who are stronger than other girls in the same age category. This is where skills come into play. He just has a problem with the LGBTQ society and is a bully. In fact, I bet he doesn’t care about the suicide rate among this part of society.
I strongly suggest if this bill comes forward, we all need to write our representatives to vote this bill down. I know a lot of people from the LGBTQ group and they have yet to convert me to their lifestyle, (if any group who has influenced me, it’s the nuns and priests who abstain). Why can’t people just mind their own business and live and let live?
It’s a shame we have to have people like this Representative legislate morality. There are more pressing issues facing us. This is pure foolishness, a waste of legislative time, and just is plain not necessary.
— Sara Rawlins, Lawrenceville
Concerned about this nation and its ill-informed electorate
Editor, the Forum:
As a former social studies teacher, I am concerned about our ill-informed electorate. Voters seem to lack a firm grip on facts to inform their votes. I blame our schools for not teaching appropriate thinking skills. Those who avoid facts are not patriots but are simply illiterate.
As a former psychologist, I am concerned about our nation’s apparent paranoia. Our nation seems to be engulfed in fear and anger. We fear immigrants, we fear
our perceived enemies, we fear members of the opposite party, and we seem to fear our own political institutions. Our anger seems to fuel an increase in senseless violence. I fear a breakdown in our collective mental health.
As for me, I call on anyone to give me hope by providing facts that are encouraging rather than depressing.
— Al Schneiberg, Sugar Hill
Enjoyed piece about the Georgia jigsaw puzzles
Editor, the Forum:
I loved your piece about your Georgia jigsaw puzzle. Thank you for the website and your article. I love working puzzles and will definitely be purchasing them.
— Sandra Moore, Loganville
Dear Sandra: Another reader told me there were online puzzles. Tried some last weekend. They are fun, and amazing. Online puzzles don’t lose pieces like cardboard puzzles do. My best time for a 100 piece online puzzle is 24 minutes, though most were in the 30-35 minute range. Now, go enjoy!–eeb
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12th Kiwanis Father-Daughter Dances to be Feb. 7, 8
Mark calendars now for Friday, February 7 or Saturday, February 8 for the 12th Annual Kiwanis Club of North Gwinnett Father-Daughter Dance at the Phillip Bead Ballroom of the Buford Community Center.
From the initial success with our Father-Daughter Dance in a small banquet room at the Lake Lanier Islands Legacy Lodge in 2, to the continued success at the Buford Community Center in 2019, the word is out that this is the place to be for creating lasting family memories!
Throughout the 11 years of hosting this dance, Buford Kiwanians have entertained over 5,800 fathers and daughters and have reinvested approximately $75,000 back to the community in the form of scholarships or charitable gifts.
The dances are open to daughters of all ages, from toddler to adult, as well as those fathers, stepfathers, significant father figures, grandfathers, uncles, or role models in the life of their special young lady. Family-friendly music is provided to satisfy the musical taste for all who attend.
There will be three dances this year, the first on February 7 at 7 p.m. On February 8, there will be dances at 5 p.m and another at 8 p.m. Tickets are $60 per couple, plus $10 for each additional daughter. For additional information, call 404 386 4782 or visit kiwanis.of.north.gwinnett@gmail.com.
Burke plans piano concert in Norcross Jan. 25
Burke
Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross announces a concert featuring Grammy-nominated musician John Burke on Saturday, January 25, at 7 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Proceeds from the concert will support students from the Hispanic congregation on a spiritual pilgrimage to Ireland in the summer of 2020. Donations will be accepted at the door; suggested amount: $20 for adults; and for $10 students.
Georgia-born pianist and composer John Burke exemplifies just what a piano can do. Inspired by solo pianist George Winston and The Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, John has created a rich, energetic sound that challenges common preconceptions of piano music.
Since 2011, Burke has composed and released eight albums including his solo piano album, Orogen, which was nominated for Best New Age Album for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Burke has also composed scores for screen and stage, written and directed musicals, and sold out famous Atlanta venues with his Superstratum orchestra. His latest work, The Longest Night, released in December 2018, is an adventurous winter album featuring clever mashups of popular songs and holiday favorites.
23rd annual North Atlanta Home Show in Duluth Feb. 7-9
More than 180 home remodeling experts will gather together at the Infinite Energy Center Feb. 7-9, 2020 for the 23rd Annual North Atlanta Home Show. The three-day Show – the largest-ever North Atlanta Home – at the Infinite Energy Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth, will include home improvement experts, buyer discounts, live radio broadcasts and product demonstrations, and is presented by Marketplace Events, North America’s largest producer of consumer home shows. General admission is $8 at the Box Office or $6 in advance online at www.NorthAtlantaHomeShow.com.
Mark Levine, show manager, says: “February is the perfect time to start planning those spring home improvement projects. Homeowners can get a jump on their spring to-do list now by meeting face-to-face with home improvement experts, gathering ideas and inspiration and making appointments, all under one roof.”
Friday, February 7 is both “Trade Day” and “Hero Day.” On Friday only, anyone who works in the home industry will receive free admission to the show, simply by showing his or her business card at the show’s main entrance. First responders, military veterans, firefighters and police officers will also receive free admission with ID, as Marketplace Events thanks the heroes who serve.
Marketplace Events is partnering with Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs”, and his foundation, the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which awards Work Ethic Scholarships to students pursuing a career in the skilled trades. Since 2008 when Rowe launched the foundation, he has led the charge to help close America’s widening skills gap – an issue directly impacting the home improvement industry.
The North Atlanta Home Show will be open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8 and 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9. Children age 12 and under and adults age 65 and older (with I.D.) are admitted free.
Gwinnett Commission adopts record $1.84 billion 2020 budget
The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners have adopted a $1.84 billion budget for fiscal year 2020 that addresses a broad spectrum of areas.
The adopted 2020 budget is a 1.1 percent increase compared to last year’s budget. It consists of a $1.44 billion operating budget and $401 million capital improvement budget, which includes funds from the county’s SPLOST program.
Safe and Healthy Community remains a top priority with funding for a Situational Awareness and Crime Response Center. The budget will also fund equipping the recently constructed alternate E-911 center to provide extra security and support to the main E-911 center. To help the Police Department meet service demands, the approved budget adds 30 more master police officer positions.
The adopted budget includes two more ambulances and three heavy-duty pickups equipped with Advanced Life Support capabilities to the Department of Fire and Emergency Services. The additional vehicles will free up fire engines and ambulances for other emergency calls.
The budget provides funding for an 11th Superior Court judge put in place during the state’s 2019 legislative session, and includes District Attorney and Administrative Office of the Courts plus supplementary sheriff’s deputies for courtroom security.
Duluth planning once-a-month movie series at Red Clay
The City of Duluth is introducing a new event series: Cinema at the Red Clay. This free event will take place the last Wednesday of the month in January, February and March.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the movie will begin at 7 p.m. Seats are given on a first come, first served basis as seating is limited.
The movies to be shown are: January 29 – The Great Gatsby; February 26 – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; and March 25 – The Wizard of Oz. The Red Clay Music Foundry is located at 3116 Main Street.
The United States of Trump by Bill O’Reilly
From David Earl Tyre, Jesup: Though not a big fan of Bill O’Reilly, he writes well and I have read most of his books.He states that writing this one was a bear. I can understand this, as it was well researched and written. Both liberals and conservatives should find it interesting. In the book, the author points out Trump’s strong points and weaknesses. LOL! Anyway, O’Reilly maintains that the main problem with the Washington establishment, Deep State, if you will, is the fact that Trump is not a politician. He is a businessman! He doesn’t think like a politician and this drives the establishment wild. O’Reilly didn’t cut Trump any slack, but was fair in his interviews and exchanges. I read it in three sittings and found he ‘told it like it is.’
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Pinckney is Federalist candidate for U.S. president
(Editor’s Note: Where did the name of the Gwinnett County area of Pinckneyville come from? It came from one of two Pinckney cousins of Charleston, S.C. Previously, we have run a three-part profile of Charles Pinckney from the South Carolina Encyclopedia. Today we finish the last of these profiles of the Pinckneys, with more on Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. We’re publishing this since no one is quite sure which of the two Pinckneys made the investment on the 1800s frontier in Gwinnett County.—eeb)
(Continued from previous edition)
During the defense of Charleston, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney commanded Fort Moultrie and made a futile attempt to convince General Benjamin Lincoln, commander of the southern army, to defend the capital at all costs. When Charleston fell, the British placed Pinckney under house arrest and made a hapless attempt to lure him away from the American cause. The British later sent Pinckney to Philadelphia, where he was exchanged in 1782. He rejoined the southern army but saw no further action. Pinckney’s first wife, Sarah Middleton, died in 1784, and he married Mary Stead in 1786.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Following the war, Pinckney devoted his efforts toward rebuilding his law practice and his rice plantations. In 1787 he served as a delegate to the constitutional convention, where he ardently and ably defended the exporting and slaveholding interests of southern planters. A staunch Federalist, Pinckney was important in South Carolina’s ratification of the federal Constitution in 1788. He later helped draft the state’s 1790 constitution.
Over the next several years Pinckney rejected President Washington’s numerous offers to serve in federal office—as commander of the army, as associate justice of the Supreme Court, as secretary of war, and as secretary of state—explaining that he needed to remain at home to restore his fortune. However, in 1796 Pinckney accepted Washington’s offer to serve as minister to France.
The next year President John Adams appointed him as one of three commissioners to negotiate a treaty with the French government. When French diplomats demanded a bribe from their American counterparts to facilitate discussions, Pinckney is credited as having exclaimed “No! No! Not a sixpense” and urged his government to raise “millions for defence but not one cent for tribute.” In 1798 President Adams, anticipating war with France, appointed Pinckney commander of the southern department of the United States Army. He was discharged from military service in 1800.
Pinckney returned to politics in the election of 1800 as the Federalist Party’s vice-presidential candidate. In 1804 and 1808 he was the Federalist candidate for president, but realizing that he had little chance of winning, he never actively campaigned. Instead, Pinckney devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural experiments (he was a member of the South Carolina Agricultural Society) and civic service. He helped establish South Carolina College in 1801 and served on its first board of trustees.
He also busied himself as president of numerous organizations, including the South Carolina Jockey Club, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of South Carolina, the Charleston Bible Society, the Charleston Library Society, the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, and the national Society of the Cincinnati. Near the end of his life Pinckney campaigned against dueling in South Carolina. He died in Charleston on August 16, 1825, and was buried in the cemetery of St. Michael’s Church.
- To view the South Carolina Encyclopedia article online, go to http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/
Tell us more about this stone structure and new Mystery Photo
How about this structure for today’s Mystery Photo. We’ll add one clue: this photo is of an element of Georgia history. Now tell us more about it. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
A relative newcomer at photo-spotting is on a hot streak. We refer to David Will of Lilburn, who got his fourth straight correct answer to the Mystery Photo in the present edition. David recognized the Florida East Coast Railway Buildings at the corner of King and Malaga Streets in St. Augustine, Florida. The photo was sent in by Robert Hanson of Loganville, who added: “It is a photo of the Florida East Coast Railway’s headquarters building (actually, originally three buildings, but now tied together by a hallway) in St. Augustine, Fla. The towers of the former Ponce de Leon Hotel are visible in the background to the left. The photo was shot from the lead of Florida East Coast Railway train 228 on September 10, 1993.
The building is now owned by Flagler College and the railroad now has its headquarters in Jacksonville.”
Also recognizing the photo was George Graf of Palmyra, Va., saying: “One of my favorite places. My wife and I used to spend every month of January at St. Augustine Beach for a number of years. Loved the quiet relaxing atmosphere, historic sites, museums, lighthouse, old city center and the farmer’s market at the pier.
“Henry M. Flagler built the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) to link his resort empire and establish the east coast of Florida as ‘The American Riviera.’ Flagler, partner with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, developed the Atlantic shoreline with a chain of luxury hotels from Jacksonville to Key West. Perhaps Flagler’s greatest achievement was construction of the Key West Extension finished shortly before his death in 1913. By 1916, the FEC Railway included 23 railroads, terminals, and bridge companies along 739 miles of track. Steamships linked the railroad at Miami to Nassau, Bahamas, and at Key West to Havana, Cuba. The Florida East Coast Hotel Company owned 14 resorts joined by the rail lines. In St. Augustine, Flagler’s 1888 railway station west of downtown was replaced by three office towers built starting from south to north in 1922, 1923, and 1926. They served as the Railway’s headquarters until 2006, when the FEC provided a $7.2 million gift-in-equity, making possible the transfer of the property to Flagler College. The College is committed to preservation of the buildings and adapting them for College uses.”
Gwinnett NAACP Plans MLK Jr. Sunday Supper on Jan. 19
The Lilburn Police Department is accepting applications for the 2020 Citizen’s Police Academy. This 13-week program is designed to educate and inform citizens about issues that face law enforcement efforts in the city. The academy begins on February 20 and will meet on Thursday nights, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The instruction is comprehensive, and each week a separate area of the department is covered. For details, visit www.cityoflilburn.com.
J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 20 critically acclaimed novels. Her latest novel, Good Girls Lie, examines the bonds of friendship, the power of lies, and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets. Join Gwinnett County Public Library for this conversational discussion between authors Kimberly Belle and J.T. Ellison on Tuesday, January 14 at 7 p.m. at the Peachtree Corners City Hall Community Chest Room, 310 Technology Parkway. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Complimentary refreshments and auction items courtesy of the Friends of the Library.
Gwinnett NAACP presents a Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday Supper, on January 19, at South Gwinnett High School at 4 p.m. in Snellville. The theme is “Reignite, rebuild and reconnect ourselves through history.” For more information and to purchase tickets at $5 each or $20 for families of five or more, visit www.gnaacpmlksundauysupper.eventbrite.com.
“Plan Exploration with a Purpose” is the subject of the Gwinnett Master Gardeners meeting on January 20 at noon at The Bethesda Senior Center, 225 Bethesda Church Road, Lawrenceville. The event is free and open to the public. Speaker will be Scott McMahon, manager of International Plant Exploration at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
MLK Day of Service: Cemetery Field or Peachtree Ridge Park will be January 20 from 9 a.m. to noon. Begin 2020 with service to the community by joining at either of two park locations. Families, service organizations, and scout groups are welcome. Wear pants and closed-toe shoes, and bring gloves i. Tools, water, and snacks will be provided. Call 678-277-0905 for more information. Register online for Cemetery Field or Peachtree Ridge Park. Cemetery Field is at 211 Street, Norcross. Peachtree Ridge Park is at 1555 Old Peachtree Road, Suwanee.
State of the City of Duluth Address will be held on January 27 at 7 p.m. at the Red Clay Music Foundry. . Mayor Nancy Harris will provide her unique twist on the annual state of the city address. This will take the place of the regularly scheduled Council Work Session. Come hear about all the accomplishments of the past year and what the city is looking forward to in the future.
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