GwinnettForum | Number 20.56 | Aug. 4, 2020
CONSTRUCTION IS PROGRESSING nicely at the Lawrenceville Square as the expanded Aurora Theatre’s new Performing Arts Center is taking shape. The project is expected to be complete in the summer of 2021. Note the current Aurora Theatre in the upper left, with its stage seating 250 persons. The expanded stage in the new facility will have 500 seats. Until the new Center is open, the Aurora seeks to be innovative with performances during the present pandemic.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia Needs a Balanced Budget; Here Are Ways To Increase Revenue
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Republicans’ Immediate Response to Postponing Election Was Gratifying
ANOTHER VIEW: There Are All Kinds of Ways For Exercising Right in Your Own Home
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: We Probably Won’t Downsize, for We Couldn’t See Fiona the Fawn
UPCOMING: Harvest Gwinnett Offering 4×8 Plots in Snellville and in Norcross
NOTABLE: PCOM Graduates 162 Students in 2020 in Online Ceremony July 29
RECOMMENDED: The Vapors by David Hill
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Macon Native Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin Noted for Sociology Studies
MYSTERY PHOTO: Unusual Architectural Style Makes This Mysterious Photo Difficult
LAGNIAPPE: Snellville Establishes Towne Center Entertainment District
CALENDAR: Odie Lindsey, Vanderbilt writer-in-residence, plans Gwinnett Zoom Talk
Georgia needs a balanced budget; Ways to increase revenue
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | We need a balanced budget. But 14 percent across the board cuts, as Governor Kemp Brian originally mandated, aren’t the way to do it. Neither are 10 percent cuts, his revised demand.
Is the Governor’s office so incapable that it cannot determine which state agencies are over-funded versus underfunded in this Corona Era?
For example, why should the Department of Public Health be facing any cuts when COVID-19 cases are going up? Its duties are vastly increasing, and our very lives are at stake. Shouldn’t the health department budget be increased?
And, who believes that cutting $950 million from the K-12 public school budget is a good idea? Or slashing funds for state universities which have already raised their tuition substantially? But that is what the GOP legislature sent to Kemp…and he signed.
In any case, as we should know from the example of private industry, the easiest way to balance a budget is increased revenue, rather than debilitating budget reductions. (For details on the budget, go to https://gbpi.org/2020/overview-of-georgias-2021-fiscal-year-budget/#revenues-and-general-fund-collections).
Here are ways Georgia could more intelligently go about any cuts.
Rescind the previous questionable Georgia tax cuts that never should have been approved by our governor and the Legislature in the first place. We must have increased state reserves, created in good times in anticipation of bad years. - Have a progressive state income tax (currently over half of our tax revenue) whereby the very wealthy pay a higher percentage of their earnings. Georgia’s top income tax is 5.75 percent whereas California has a scaled tax going up to 12.3 percent for those making millions.
- Raise corporate income taxes, which at 5.75 percent for Georgia are lower than most states. For example, Louisiana has an 8 percent rate. Iowa has a 12 percent rate.
- Increase cigarette taxes, currently at only 37 cents per pack. Georgia has the nation’s third lowest tax on cigarettes. Also, tax vaping heavily to bring in much more income.
- Legalize and heavily tax marijuana. Colorado took in $302 million in marijuana tax revenue last year alone. Georgia can do the same thing.
- Increase Georgia’s motor fuel tax. For example, Florida is a third higher. The 2020 budget for Georgia includes gas revenue of $1.9 billion. If Georgia’s rate was the same as Florida, Georgia would bring in $627 million more annually.
- Increase our state sales tax. The combined states and local sales tax for Georgia is 7.31 percent, whereas neighboring Alabama is 9.22 percent.
- Lessen excessive tax breaks (corporate welfare) for the airline and movie industries.
Georgia is currently a low tax state compared to many other states. Even after implementation of these recommendations, Georgia would still be at an affordable tax state level and we could improve educational and other vital services during this COVID-19 crisis.
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Republicans’ immediate response on election was gratifying
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG. 4, 2020 | Note that today is exactly three months until the national election on November 3. 
It was gratifying to find several national Republican figures quickly speaking out once President Trump mentioned postponing the national elections.
Key figures one after the other immediately responded, all negatively. That included Senators Mitch McConnell (nice surprise), Lindsay Graham, Thom Tillis, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Adam Kinzinger, among others.
Senate Finance Committee chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa minced no words, saying, “All I can say is that, it doesn’t matter what one individual in this country says. We still are a country based on the rule of law. And we must follow the law until either the Constitution is changed or until the law is changed.”
The president’s suggestion made the United States sound like some Latin American nation trying to keep a dictator in power. It was shocking.
Our nation has been through difficult times before prior to elections. But our country has never wavered in holding an election. Think of some of those times.
- During our civil war, when our nation’s capital was threatened with invasion by the Confederates. But the vote in 1864 went on, a big win for Abraham Lincoln;
- After the serious Spanish Flu aftermath in 1920, a time also devastating;
- Even during the Great Depression, no one thought of postponing the election. And as it happened, the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his speedy actions help put our country back on its feet; and
- During World War II in 1944, and in 1940, just before a war.
Perhaps the 2020 election can turn the economy and the current pandemic around so that our nation will return more to normal functioning.
The 59th presidential election date is set in this way: It is “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November,” which this year is “the first Tuesday after November 1,” or November 4.
Walking through a drug store on August 2, what did I spy? Why, of course, Halloween cards are now being on display. And that orange-and-black day is nearly three months away! Maybe there are some people who rush to buy the best Halloween cards when they are fresh. As a long time observant of Halloween (my birthday), it seems a bit too early for me. But watch out: the Christmas merchandise will be on display soon!
Getting an absentee ballot in the mail, it got me to thinking: would I be helping the poll workers in the August 11 runoff, if I instead cast an early ballot, after surrendering my absentee? That was the poll workers could more easily and automatically count my vote, and not have to verify my signature, etc.
We asked this of Kristy Royston of the Gwinnett Elections Office, and was surprised at the answer.
“No, it would mean more paperwork if you wanted to vote in person early and would surrender your absentee ballot. It would require you to fill out several forms. Not only that, but our information on you shows that you got the absentee form for the run-off, so you can’t vote until you go through that surrender procedure. Just cast the absentee vote and either put it in the booth at the early voting area, or mail it in.”
Now you know. These procedures also apply for the fall election, too.
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There are all kinds of ways for exercising in your own home
By Carl I. Woods,
Director of wellness and recreation , Georgia Gwinnett College
AUG. 4, 2020 | For most people, staying in shape is a challenge even during the best of times. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing federal and state restrictions that have gyms and yoga studios from coast to coast closing their doors, it might be harder than ever to motivate yourself to exercise. But there’s no reason to let the call of the couch woo you into inactivity.
Woods
It’s a huge loss and almost depressing for some people when they can’t go to the gym. But there are plenty of ways to stay active at home – and even people who don’t exercise regularly should set aside the time.
Exercise is good for the mind as well as the body. In a crisis like today’s, keeping one’s mental health is as important as anything.
It’s really important to do the basic things – drink water, walk before or after meals, and watch your meal consumption, because our bodies aren’t burning as many calories as they normally would when going to our places of work and back each day. Doing the physical basics can set you on the path to holistic health.
Parents might find their children are perfectly fine with hanging out in their rooms all day for weeks. It’s equally important, if not more so, to keep them active as well. The American Medical Association recommends children get 60 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per day.
Find some family exercise time. Have some fun with it. Go old school and play Red Light, Green Light, Simon Says, Red Rover, even good old Tag – those basic game-playing exercises help children with coordination and cognitive development which are so important. Make them think they’re just having fun when they’re really out there running, jumping and getting a workout.
As for the adults, some ways to get exercise can be quite productive. Home-bound Americans can use their extra time at the house as an excuse to do those repairs or projects they’ve been putting off. Clean out a closet or two. Or get started on spring cleaning and storage. Even yard work is a great way to exercise.
Check out these tips to keep your mind and body in shape during this national crisis:
- Get outside! Take a walk, jog, or do yard work. If you have to pass someone, do it quickly and maintain that distance of six feet of separation.
- Add a little movement to your everyday routine. Walk and converse on the phone instead of sitting. Or use heel/toe raises at the kitchen sink, squats before sitting down, inline pushups on the steps as you go up, or a few lunges down the hallway.
- Use the internet in a different way. There are thousands of classes online for everyone at every fitness level that teach a spectrum of exercise programs, from CrossFit to yoga and everything in between.
- Do bodyweight exercises like push-ups, sit-ups and lunges, or use common household items for weight resistance.
- Don’t forget to stretch! Flexibility is very important for overall health, especially as you get older.
- Exercise your brain. Try downloading a meditation app to your smart device or doing brain-buster puzzles.
- Drink plenty of water.
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Probably won’t downsize for we couldn’t see Fiona the Fawn
Editor, the Forum:
Fiona
We have a new element living on our property. Her name is Fiona the fawn. We are pretty sure her mother was killed. She started showing up here about a month ago. She was frail looking. It was so hard to not take her in and shelter her. Snell and James felt like she was young enough to still be nursing, but there was no Mama in sight for this little one. She was trying to eat grass and bird seed, but it didn’t appear to be doing her much good.
The Department of Wildlife Management told me they would come out and remove her to somewhere else, but her survival chances were 50-50. If that was the best they could do, she could stay here and we’d try to look after her.
They told me what food was best for the little one and Snell ran to buy it. We mix the deer food with ground sugar beets for a little encouragement for her. Corn has no nutritional value for deer. I didn’t know that, but it is something they like, but does not support them nutritionally.
Fiona has been with us nearly a month now and she is eating well. She knows where her food is and she waits for it. She eats a little and walks back to the sunroom windows to look at us. She is still small but she seems healthier and is playing some in the yard.
Snell thinks we should downsize and buy a smaller place. Then I realized that if we downsized, what would happen to us watching Fiona. We probably won’t downsize any time soon.
— Marlene Buchanan, Snellville.
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Harvest Gwinnett offering 4×8 plots in Snellville, Norcross
Harvest Gwinnett invites gardeners of all skill levels to reserve a plot and be part of Live Healthy Gwinnett’s two newest community gardens.
Applications are now being accepted for 4×8 foot garden plots at Lenora Park in Snellville and Graves Park in Norcross. These raised beds are $35 each and are available for the 2020 fall and winter growing season.
Harvest Gwinnett, a program of Live Healthy Gwinnett, was launched in 2019 to connect community members with hands-on environmental education, to improve local access to fresh produce and to nurture engagement opportunities leading to improved health outcomes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, community gardens act as health promoters decreasing mental and physical stress levels in adults while enhancing mobility, socialization and community impact.
In response to a growing need for access to fresh food, Harvest Gwinnett works alongside community partners to close the meal gap by implementing community gardens, nutrition education, food distributions and more. Harvest Gwinnett’s first community garden in Lawrenceville opened in May 2020 and has already produced more than 400 pounds of fresh food alternatives that have been distributed to families served by local co-operative services, housing authorities and senior food distribution programs. Continued partnerships with Gwinnett Parks and Recreation and UGA Extension Gwinnett will provide important guidance for these two new community gardens.
The Lenora Park Community Garden is located at 4515 Lenora Church Road in Snellville, and the Graves Park Community Garden is located at 1540 Graves Road in Norcross. For more information, and guidelines, visit HarvestGwinnett@GwinnettCounty.com.
Early Gwinnett newspapers available at UGA library
The Gwinnett Historical Society announces that the Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia Libraries has completed the digitization of the Gwinnett County newspaper titles. These newspapers contain a wealth of information on all facets of life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They are one of the richest sources available to historians studying life in this region. You can find them free of charge and searchable online at the Georgia Historic Newspapers website: https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/
This was made possible by the efforts of Gwinnett Historical Society and a grant from the R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation. Here is a list of the Gwinnett County titles available on the Georgia Historic Newspapers website.
Weekly Gwinnett Herald, 1871-1885: https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034079
Gwinnett Herald, 1885-1897:
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053639/
Lawrenceville News, 1894, 1897:
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053638
News-Herald, 1899-1924:
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053637/
Weekly Gwinnett Atlas, 1917:
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053640/
Great Little Minds program wins $25,000
July was a fulfilling month for Gwinnett’s Great Little Minds (GLM) program. It now has over 50 Book Exchange sites and is working to get them all up and running.
GLM recently received a donation of 910 books from Black Child Development Institute in Atlanta, with 300 being books featuring children of color. With Gwinnett becoming more diverse every day, it is important that the youngest minds grow up reading books featuring children that are completely representative of themselves, their culture, and their native language.
In addition to this large donation, GLM recently participated in the United Way 2020 SPARK Competition on July 17 and came out on top! GLM won $25,000 as the top prize and an additional $1,000 from the Viewer’s Choice Award. Keep supporting the GLM initiative to ensure each child in Gwinnett has access to free books.
PCOM graduates 162 students in 2020 in July 29 ceremony
In a 47-minute online ceremony viewed 4,800+ times to date, 162 PCOM Georgia students ceremonially received master’s and doctoral degrees while family members and friends engaged online and cheered them on.
The commencement video hosted by PCOM Provost Kenneth Veit, DO ’76, MBA, premiered on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, on Facebook and YouTube. Jay S. Feldstein, DO ’81, PCOM president and CEO, addressed the class of 2020. He said, “Your job will require flexibility, adaptability and creativity, meaningful new ideas, approaches and discoveries.” He added, “It will demand cultural sensitivity, a focus on equity, tolerance and justice for all. It will take time and touch, and it will demand that you show respect to patients and clients and to their families.”
He was speaking to the 95 Doctor of Pharmacy graduates, the 43 Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences graduates, and the 24 Master of Science in Health Sciences/Physician Assistant Studies graduates.
Shawn Spencer, PhD, RPh, dean and chief academic officer of the PCOM School of Pharmacy, offered final words to the Doctor of Pharmacy students. He said, “Follow your passion, be compassionate with yourself, and be true to what you have become. Our nation needs you. The world needs you. Those who think they can impact the world are the ones who do. Press onward and upward.”
After their final collegiate roll call, the graduates symbolically moved their tassels from right to left
Skyler Tuholski, was selected to speak on behalf of the biomedical sciences and physician assistant graduating classes. She said, “My hope for us all is that we thrive in our strengths and are humbled by our mistakes. That we find fulfilling joy in our work each and every day and never stop seeking the knowledge to change or save someone’s life.” To read more about the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine commencement ceremony held May 21, 2020, click here.
Jackson EMC Foundation grants $57,500 to Gwinnett charities
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total $89,302 in grants during its July meeting, including $57,500 to organizations serving Gwinnett County residents.
$20,000 to Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta—Gwinnett, divided between the Norcross and Lawrenceville clubs’ Power Hour programs, part of its overall Academic Success program that provides club members with daily support, resources and guidance needed to complete school assignments while maintaining educational confidence and ability.
$10,000 to St. Mary’s Independent Living Extension (SMILE), a Lawrenceville nonprofit where adults with developmental disabilities receive care and instruction so they can engage and thrive in communities where they live, work and play, for its Asleep But Not at Risk program, which provides overnight care staff for those adults.
$10,000 to United Methodist Children’s Home of North Georgia (Wellroot Family Services), in Gainesville, which provides financial assistance for foster care development, training, recruitment and community building throughout Jackson EMC’s service area, to help close the gap between the need in Northeast Georgia and the number of available homes.
$10,000 to YMCA of Georgia’s Piedmont, Inc., in Winder, for its Pryme Tyme program providing homework help, sports, arts and crafts to children from economically disadvantaged families in Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall and Jackson counties.
$7,500 to Bethel Haven, in Watkinsville, to support mental health services and therapeutic counseling sessions for distressed children, teens, adults and families in Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Madison, and Oglethorpe counties
The Vapors by David Hill
From its founding in 1832 as a federal reservation by President Andrew Jackson, to its becoming the smallest national park in 1921, Hot Springs, Ark. has always had visitors. The hot spring water, coming out of the ground at 143 degrees, pulls people in. A continued flow of people attracted money, and vice. Gambling became common in this town following the Civil War, though it was illegal throughout Arkansas. The flow of dollars to politicians kept the dice and card games, and soon horse racing, going. The Chicago, Kansas City and New York mob wanted in. All this was well before gambling became legal in Las Vegas, when Hot Springs competed with Havana, Cuba in gambling. This is a fascinating book on how a people can allow illegal means to take over because nearly everyone in town benefitted. The author writes objectively from the perspective of his family being involved. The full title is The Vapors: a Southern Family, the New York Mob and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, American’s Forgotten Capital of Vice.—eeb
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Macon native Lumpkin noted for sociology studies
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Lumpkin was born on December 22, 1897, in Macon to Annette Caroline Morris and William Lumpkin, a veteran of the Civil War (1861-65). As a member of a prominent Georgia family and the daughter of a veteran, she was inculcated in the cultural mythologies of the Lost Cause and white supremacy. The Lumpkin children responded differently to their upbringing: although Katharine’s eldest sister, Elizabeth, remained committed to the Lost Cause, another sister, Grace, later wrote a series of leftist novels.
Lumpkin
As Lumpkin describes in her autobiography, her racial attitudes slowly but irrevocably changed during her undergraduate and graduate careers. She attended Brenau College in Gainesville from 1912 to 1915 and worked there as a teaching assistant following her graduation. In 1918 she moved on to Columbia University in New York, where she received an M.A. in sociology the following year. Between 1920 and 1925 Lumpkin worked as the national student secretary for the YWCA’s southern region. In 1925 she entered the sociology program at the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1928.
After year-long appointments as an instructor at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., and a postdoctoral fellow at the Social Sciences Research Council in New York City, Lumpkin spent the next two decades as a director of research, first at Smith College’s Council of Industrial Studies (1932-39), then at the Institute of Labor Studies (1940-53), both in Northampton, Mass. During this time, her scholarly output was prodigious. She published The Family: A Study of Member Roles (1933), Shutdowns in the Connecticut Valley: A Study of Worker Displacement in the Small Industrial Community (1934), Child Workers in America (with Dorothy W. Douglas, 1937), and The South in Progress (1940). This last work saw a return to Lumpkin’s southern roots that continued in her next work, The Making of a Southerner (1947). Part family history, part autobiography, and part sociological study, The Making of a Southerner describes Lumpkin’s transition from passive inheritance of white supremacy to conscious rejection of the racial values of a segregated South.
After a year (1956-56) as a lecturer at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., Lumpkin took a position in 1957 as professor of sociology at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. For the next decade she remained at Wells, where she taught a course, “The Negro Minority in American Life,” that often focused on contemporary events in the civil rights struggle. In 1967 she retired to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she taught extension courses at the University of Virginia and was active in the League of Women Voters. She continued to lecture and write and in 1974 published The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke, a study of the important nineteenth-century abolitionist from South Carolina. In 1979 she moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., where she died on May 5, 1988.
Although Lumpkin’s long, rich career was marked by achievement in several areas, it is for her autobiography that she will be remembered. In The Making of a Southerner, she left a classic testament of her conflict as a white southerner committed to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found. In 2016 she was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to http://georgiaencyclopedia.org
Unusual style makes this mysterious photo difficult
From this mysterious architectural style, there’s no telling what this is, or is there any clue as to where this is. This could be difficult. Try to figure out this location and what it is and send your idea to elliott@brack.net, including your home town.
The most recent Mystery Photo was a simple Georgia farmhouse, from the photo collection of Vanishing South Georgia by Brian Brown of Fitzgerald. It was a “fringe photo,” and only two people could identify it.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. recognized the “Josiah Davis House, located south of Canoochee in Emanuel county. Josiah Davis (1847-1902) with his wife Sarah Canady (1849-1927), a childhood neighbor, built this house shortly after their marriage around 1869 and operated a relatively small 318 acre farm that has retained virtually its same acreage since the house was built. Davis was a Civil War veteran who established his farm and never moved from the area again. He raised cotton and corn with the use of sharecroppers, who for the most part were hired freedmen and women, former slaves from nearby plantations. His obituary referred to him as a “frugal and energetic farmer” and was buried not far from his farm in the Old Canoochee Cemetery.”
Graf sent along a photo of a similar photo of a house in Dodson, North Carolina (see adjacent.)
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas also recognized the photo. He told us: “The house was built during the post-civil war Reconstruction Era, the period between 1865 and 1877 when the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating the southern states back into the Union. The house remained in the Davis family until after Davis’s wife, Sarah Canady (1849-1927), died, after which it was sold to Mrs. Mary Peacock and Miss Joan Peacock. As of today, the house still remains in the Peacock family and has changed little from its original construction in 1869. The Josiah Davis House, and associated land and farm buildings, were added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on October 5, 1982.”
Snellville establishes Towne Center Entertainment District
Snellville has established boundaries of the Snellville Towne Center Entertainment District where alcohol can be consumed outdoors. The District includes all areas in The Grove except the areas surrounding City Hall, the Snellville Police Department and the Snellville Senior Center. Beverages must be in a paper or plastic cup no larger than 16 ounces. Alcoholic beverages must be served in the designated Snellville Towne Center Entertainment District and cannot be carried outside of the designated area or into any vehicle. The Mayor and Council also approved a $1.1 million contract to the Dickerson Group for Phase 1 of the Greenway Trail which will create a walking and bicycle path around The Grove at Towne Center. City Manager Butch Sanders said about $400,000 of that money will go toward stormwater improvements in the Towne Center
Lindsey plans Gwinnett zoom talk
Peachtree Corners’ Night Market is open each Friday through October,from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Night Market will feature 40+ local farmers with fruits, vegetables and natural meats, gardeners with fresh flowers and herbs and makers of all sorts of edible home goods from desserts and breads to local raw honey and homemade sauces, jellies, and soaps. Parking is available within the Town Center, 5200 Town Center Boulevard.
Author Visit: Odie Lindsey, a writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, will discuss his debut novel, Some Go Home, virtually on August 6 at 7 p.m. His is a story that follows three generations fractured by murder in fictional Pitchlynn, Miss. that complicates notions of race, class, history, and identity. Presented by Gwinnett County Public Library and Eagle Eye Books, this talk may be seen by visiting www.gwinnettpl.org and finding the link in our calendar listing.
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