NEW for 8/21: On Congress Center, package store, patriotism

GwinnettForum  |  Number 20.61  |  Aug. 21, 2020

PEACHTREE CORNERS is getting its first package store, located on Peachtree Parkway near a new RaceTrac convenience store.  While the city gets income from other forms of alcoholic beverages, this is its first package store, which is expected to open on Wednesday, Aug. 26. For more on this topic, see Elliott Brack’s Perspective below.

IN THIS EDITION

TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnettian Chairs GWCC, Now Quiet Because of COVID-19
EEB PERSPECTIVE: First Package Store in Peachtree Corners To Open Wednesday
ANOTHER VIEW: Time for All Americans To Be Patriotic About COVID-19
SPOTLIGHT: Heaven and Alvarez, LLC 
FEEDBACK: Whole Lot Easier To Vote Absentee or at Early Voting Sites
UPCOMING: Gwinnett’s Chamber Announces Support for Fall Transit Referendum
NOTABLE: County Lowers Millage Rate as Tax Digest Grows by 6.5 Percent
RECOMMENDED: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Lots of Sources Available in Tracing a Family’s Genealogy
MYSTERY PHOTO: Clock Tower Feature May Be the Key for This Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Gwinnett Library Presents Dr. David Gushee in Virtual Talk August 27

TODAY’S FOCUS

Gwinnettian chairs GWCC, now quiet because of COVID-19

(Editor’s Note: the author is the founder and chairman of Russell Landscape Group of Sugar Hill, which he found in 1987. He holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He is a former chairman of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and was its 2017 Citizen of the Year. The company’s clients include Augusta National Golf Club, Opryland USA,  and Disneyland, among others.  The company also has offices in Nashville, Tenn., Savannah, Ga., Tampa, Fla; Destin, Fla.; and Charleston, S.C.)–eeb

By Bill Russell
Chairman, Russell Landscape

SUGAR HILL, Ga., August 21, 2020 |  Georgia World Congress Center  (GWCC) was constructed during the early 1970s and opened in 1976.  The complex currently spans 220 acres, owns over $3 billion in assets, generates more than $1.9 billion in annual economic impact and last year hosted over three million visitors at more than 400 events. GWCC is currently the nation’s fourth largest convention, sports, and entertainment venue trailing in size only those in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Orlando.  

Russell

Former Gov. Nathan Deal appointed me in 2011 to serve on GWCC’s 15 member Board of Governors and I’m currently serving my second term as Chairman. Gwinnett is well represented on the GWCC, with  Don Balfour and Glen Hicks on the board. Frank Poe is our executive director. 

GWCC currently manages the following five facilities:

  • GWCC’s convention center has 119 meeting rooms, 1.5 million square feet of exhibition space, 350 full-time employees, hundreds of part-time employees and 80 full-time police.
  • The College Football Hall of Fame includes  items of interest for all college football enthusiasts.  The facility has 95,000 square feet of space and welcomed more than 250,000 visitors last year.
  • Next door to the Hall of Fame is the iconic Centennial Olympic Park created as an entertainment nexus for the 1996 Olympic Games. GWCC recently hosted “Legacy of Dreams” with 250 stakeholders to celebrate the park’s $27 million make-over. Upgrades included a new amphitheater for concerts, water features and bike depot.
  • The fourth GWCC owned facility is the world class $1.6 billion retractable roof Mercedes Benz Stadium.  MBS has been a gold standard of excellence hosting the College Football National Championship in 2018, the 2018 Major League Soccer All-Star Game, Super Bowl No. 53 in 2019 and was prepared to host the 2020 College Basketball Final Four prior to COVID-19 cancellation.   
  • Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic GWCC’s primary focus was devoted to the development of a new $500 million, 1,000 room Signa Hilton Hotel to be constructed on the former Georgia Dome Site. Since the hotel will be financed using tax exempt bonds construction has been paused until bond markets become more favorable. 

GWCC experienced historic financial success in 2019 and was anticipating similar results in 2020. However, following March’s rapid spike in COVID-19 cases and CDC’s warning against large gatherings, the hospitality industry, including GWCC’s robust convention business, plummeted. During the past 120 days GWCC had 86 events either cancelled or postponed and all but 98 full-time employees furloughed. GWCC’s pre-COVID workforce was comprised of passionate, competent, and dedicated professionals, yet in a matter of weeks, through no fault of anyone, we were forced to destroy it.  

GWCC’s executive director and his leadership team have focused their primary efforts on generating alternative revenue streams including space rental in Building A for a COVID Health Care Facility, offices for Georgia Building Authority in Building B and space for Hertz Car Rental in parking decks.

Current unprecedented times provide no roadmap for any of us to follow.  However, the adverse effects of this pandemic will not define GWCC’s promising future. Together our exemplary leadership will navigate the challenges and GWCC will continue to be recognized as the nation’s premier event destination by delivering exceptional service and creating memorable experiences! 

EEB PERSPECTIVE

First package store in Peachtree Corners to open Wednesday

By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum

AUG. 21, 2020  |  Starting in 2012, three Peachtree Corners partners began efforts to open the city’s first liquor store.  Now, eight years later, that’s about to happen.

Peachtree Corners’ first beer, wine and distilled spirits store, Corners Fine Wine and Spirits,  is expected to be open 10 a.m. Wednesday, August 26 (barring unforeseen circumstances) at 5730 Peachtree Parkway, where there is a new traffic light.  It is across from the RaceTrac convenience store, off a new portion of Engineering Drive eastward into Technology Park. 

Partners in the story are all three Peachtree Corners neighbors. Attorney Gerald Davidson is the majority partner, and is joined by Stu Cross, a retired Coca-Cola executive, and by Libby Curry, wife of the late John Curry.  Davidson previously owned a similar store in Dawsonville, which he sold in 2018.

The 10,000 square foot store will have about 20 employees. Rob Ramon of Johns Creek, with 25 years in the business, will be the general manager.

When the partners started thinking of having such a store in 2012, there was a tremendous amount of work to be done.  First, the City of Peachtree Corners did not have local regulations for governing package stores. The city had provisions for selling wine and beer, and even liquor by the drink, but not for a package store.

The partners’ initial effort was to get 35 percent of those registered to vote to petition the city for a referendum on the subject. Davidson recalls: “It was on election day in 2012, and we planned to invite voters when coming out of the polls to sign our petition. We had a tent and donuts and coffee for them, and figured this was the perfect place to sign up registered voters.

“But the day turned cold, below freezing, and rainy, and few voters took the time to sign the petition. That made it harder.”

Inside the new package store

Eventually, the Davidson trio sought a speciality polling firm to obtain the signatures. “After talking with a new package store owner in Arkansas, he recommended a firm to get the signatures on the petition. And to our surprise, that firm was National Ballot Access, located in Lawrenceville. They went to work, and three or four  months later had the necessary signatures to call a special election. The city referendum for package stores passed by 74 per cent in 2014.”

Then came the need to find land for the store. Davidson and his partners first sought land on Peachtree Parkway, which failed, and then at another tract. Both negotiations with the landowners proved difficult and time-consuming, as years rolled by. 

Their present site was once a hole about 50 feet deep. The land also had a giant hill on it.   Davidson says: “We engineered the site, and thought we could develop it ourselves. When we finally saw the numbers, it was more than we wanted to invest on our own. So we approached RaceTrac, a company with deeper pockets, and got them to sell us a pad on their property. This worked out well for both of us, and we think that we each will drive traffic to the other.”

Rick Maxian of Duluth was the architect for the building, and Wakefield Beasley of Peachtree Corners did the elevation work.  The contractor was Ordner Construction of Duluth.

How important will the store be for the city?  If Corners Fine Wine and Spirits grosses $1 million, the city of Peachtree Corners will get $70,000 in taxes.  And Davidson feels his store will easily gross that.

It’s taken eight years.  Now the City of Peachtree Corners can gain added revenue from a package store within its boundaries.

ANOTHER VIEW

Time for all Americans to be patriotic about COVID-19

By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist 

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. |  Ignore the local, state and national politicians who tell you COVID-19 is under control. Only a month ago (July15), Gwinnett County COVID-19 stats showed 12,217 residents had the virus. The latest Georgia Department of Public Health  report (August 8) shows a much different picture: 21,411 cases, 2,251 hospitalizations and 287 deaths. Within a week, we will have doubled COVID-19 cases versus just a month ago.  

Developing an effective vaccine is something all Gwinnett citizens should want to see happen ASAP. The arrival of a vaccine and getting it for yourself is the patriotic thing to do, helping all Americans. 

Vaccinations and wearing a mask should not be politicized by anyone. But vaccinations and masks have become a political football because of extremists. And this unfortunate alienation and divisiveness, which has increased substantially over the past decade, potentially has serious health consequences. 

On the right, there are those who just don’t believe in science and also there are the Libertarians. Climate change is a hoax, according to some; so is a possible COVID-19 vaccine and vaccines in general. For others, the federal government wants to force independent minded Americans to wear masks and take shots; they resist on principle alone. Less than half, only 43 percent, of Republicans say they would get the shots, even though their hero, President Trump, has been pushing a vaccine as the ultimate solution. (Source: Morningconsult.)

On the left, there are many who have no faith in anything coming out of this Administration. They worry that the vaccine will be rushed without adequate testing because of the President’s low poll numbers and his need to seem to make progress on controlling the pandemic before November. They fear (42 percent) the vaccine will actually give them COVID-19; (Source: apnorc.org).  Only 25 percent of African Americans and only 37 percent of Latins say that they would get vaccinated. Yet 71 percent of Democrats agree that they would get the vaccinations. (Morningconsult.)

There’s also an age component to compliance. Some 67 percent of seniors say that they would get vaccinated, but only 40 percent of those under 60. Does that mean that our society just doesn’t care about our elders? Our nation is the most religious democracy in the world. Where does the Bible say to only care about yourself and not your parents or grandparents? 

In the meantime, while the social media is full of libertarian types making fun of masks, COVID is spreading like wildfire.  Gwinnett isn’t the only county out-of-control; similar increases are happening all over the state. How can we be opening school classrooms…like Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and President Trump have demanded…  with this happening? 

It’s past time for our political and moral leaders to speak up, both Democrats and Republicans. Americans of all stripes must be united in fighting COVID-19….or we all lose. 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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FEEDBACK

Whole lot easier to vote absentee or at early voting sites

Editor, the Forum: 

Let me say that I liked your idea about taking your absentee ballot to either the Elections office or dropping it into an Early Voting box. I also am encouraging Georgians to Early Vote from October 12 to October 30. This is three weeks (Monday through Friday, plus one Saturday.)  I would like to see 80 to 90 percent of Georgians cast their ballot this way between Early Voting and by absentee ballots. 

There will be little or no waiting during October Early Voting.  Plus, you get to see that your choices are scanned and counted. Right on the spot. 

Finally, the more early votes cast makes it easier on local election offices — both prior to Election Day on November 3, and when the election is over. 

So, vote early. It’s easy, fast and convenient. And you can be assured your vote is counted. 

Is it the safest way?  Simply remember that poll workers all wear masks and there is plenty of disinfectant when you enter and exit a polling precinct. Mainly, most of the time few people are in the precinct during Early Voting, so you are in and out quickly. 

          — Billy Chism, Toccoa 

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UPCOMING

Gwinnett’s Chamber supports fall transit referendum

Gwinnett’s Chamber of Commerce has approved support for the November 3  referendum on public transit. Its board came out in favor of Gwinnett County passing the 30 year plan to add a one cent county sales tax to fund transit expansion and enhancement projects. 

Tammy Shumate, chairman of the Gwinnett Chamber board of directors says she “Encourages all registered voters in Gwinnett County to vote in favor of approving the referendum scheduled for November 3, 2020.”  

Early voting for the transit referendum is set to begin October 12 and continues until October 31. To learn more about the transit referendum, click here. To read more about Connect Gwinnett Transit Plan, including a comprehensive report, click here

Adds Chamber President Nick Masino: “Concerning Gwinnett’s economic potential, the development of transportation alternatives is essential for retaining and attracting new and expanded businesses and high-paying jobs. The development of a robust transit system gives our county regional connectivity, greater access to top workforce talent, and improved mobility throughout the county where our residents have the enhanced ability to live, learn, work, and play.” 

Women’s groups plan virtual political forum on Aug. 27

Eight local women’s organizations are planning a virtual forum on August 27 with candidates for county commission chairman, sheriff and district attorney participating. The Zoom meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.  All six nominees of their party for these posts have confirmed their participation.

The moderator will be  Dr. Tracey S. Fisher, principal of Ardenia Communications Services of Dacula.

The forum will be hosted by the Gwinnett County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., in partnership with: New Jerusalem Baptist Church, United Ebony Society of Gwinnett, Inc.; National Council of Negro Women – Gwinnett Section; Upsilon Alpha Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Forward Gwinnett; League of Women Voters of Gwinnett County; and Mu Epsilon Sigma – North Fulton Alumni Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.

The event will be hosted on Zoom. To register for the event, visit this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-gwinnett-county-political-forum-tickets-113776833572. Registration through Eventbrite is limited to 500 Zoom participants on a first-come, first-serve basis. It is also available on Facebook. Each contest will have a 30 minute question and answer session with prepared questions. 

NOTABLE

County lowers millage rate as tax digest grows by 6.5%

Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday adopted 2020 millage rates to fund county services. The rate for Maintenance and Operations for the General Fund was lowered to 6.95 mills, down from 7.209 mills in 2019.   

Financial Services Director Buffy Alexzulian reports that the value of net taxable property in Gwinnett increased about 6.5 percent from the 2019 value. “We have been fortunate to see steady growth in the tax digest in recent years, allowing the Board to roll back the General Fund millage rate when they can,” says Alexzulian.

Property taxes are based on millage rates set by county government, the schools and cities. One mill equals a dollar tax per thousand dollars of assessed property value.

The Gwinnett County Tax Assessor calculates the total value of all property in the county, in what is known as the tax digest, by conducting annual updates of residential and commercial property. Gwinnett property owners have been notified of this year’s assessed values. 

The Board also set the rates for Recreation, Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Service, Development and Enforcement and Economic Development. The 2020 total of all property tax millage rates for property owners in unincorporated Gwinnett County will be 14.71 mills. Details on millage rates are available online at www.gwinnettcounty.com.

New Gwinnett Salvation Army leaders come here from Texas

New Salvation Army Officers at the Lawrenceville Corps are Captains Analese and Paul Rynerson. Both natives of Texas, their previous posts have been in El Paso, Dallas and College Station, Texas. Currently, they are involved with distribution of emergency food during the COVID crisis. Captain Paul says: “In July, we distributed 28,000 pounds of emergency food to 2,645 individuals in 613 households. In August to date, we have distributed 15,550 pounds to 311 households.”  The Gwinnett Salvation Army Corps office is at 3455 Sugarloaf Drive in Lawrenceville. 

Gwinnett’s Park among speakers at Democratic convention

Among the speakers at the 2020 National Democratic Convention this week was Rep. Sam Park, state legislator from Gwinnett representing District 101.  He has served in this position for two terms. He was included among 17 “rising Democratic leaders” who addressed the convention Wednesday on the theme that “leadership matters.”

Parks

No other Gwinnettian in recent years has spoken at the Democratic convention.

Park told GwinnettForum: “Under the leadership of President Trump and Governor Kemp, our nation and state has been ravaged by the coronavirus. Yet under Republican leadership, it is business as usual. As a native Georgian proud to call Gwinnett my home, that is unacceptable. I know we can do better. 

“Between now and November 3, I will continue to encourage Georgians to use the power they have to determine our shared future and to vote. And I will continue to do all I can to elect Joe Biden as our next President. Together, we will step up to the challenges we face rather than ignore our harsh reality and shirk responsibility. I have hope that together we will rise up and continue the hard work of perfecting our union to ensure liberty and justice for all.”  

Adkins writes book of watching father go through dementia

The book, Gifts From My Father, written by Dan Adkins of Duluth, is an uplifting, bittersweet discovery of 21 “Gifts” realized during a father’s journey through dementia. Recounting real situations created by the disease of dementia, it gives positive interpretations and some practical applications of each “Gift.” The stories include humor, emotion and most of all, humanity, as the disease takes its toll on one father, who is now dead,  over a several-year period. While all dementia situations are different, there are many similarities in the stages that both the person and his or her loved ones go through. Readers will feel the frustration and anger as well as the compassion and warmth through the various circumstances you find in the book.

This is not a book of science, nor how and why of dementia. It’s a book of caring, communication, love and the desire to find uplifting gifts from the grief of a terrible, destructive disease. It will be helpful to those who have a loved someone experiencing dementia, especially in the early stages. Even if you suspect dementia, this book will give you various behavioral signals to look for. It allows you to have some understanding of the changes that your loved one will go through over the course of time. It is available at amazon.com.

RECOMMENDED

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

From Raleigh Perry, Buford: If the Renaissance is one of your favorite periods, this book is about a man who personifies it.  It is a big book and it is heavy, but it is about the best coverage of Leonardo that I have ever seen.  The weight is because the paper is for photographic quality and there are plenty of pictures.  It has excellent reproductions of his art as well as his inventions or experiments.  Since my major interest in history is Medieval and Renaissance, it was a must read for me.  I tried to meet Isascson in Florence in 2002 and 2005 and went to his home in Vinci, but he was not there either time.  If my memory is OK, I think this book is now out in paper.  The hardbound costs $35.

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GEORGIA TIDBIT

Lots of sources available in tracing a family’s genealogy

Genealogy, or the research of family history, is a far different field of inquiry in the 21st century than it was in the past. Viewed as the pursuit of a great and noble heritage, genealogy was earlier treated as a hobby and a pastime, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, genealogy is also the personal history of ordinary people, and each person has a unique genealogy.

Genealogical research provides the backbone of all human history and, when carefully done, can elucidate larger historical events. Studying, for example, the War of the Roses in 15th century England requires a study of the major participants’ family histories. So, too, the histories of several families are of particular importance to Georgia’s history: genealogy illuminates the historical links between the Marburys of Augusta, the Telfairs of Savannah, the Cobbs of Athens, and the Woodruffs of Columbus and Atlanta.

Genealogy’s Evolution

Tracing one’s genealogy to prove important lineage was critical during the age of nobility. In England, for instance, a royal family’s right to the throne was secured through genealogical research, which provided information about ancestry, marriages, and descendants. Proving a family’s nobility through ancestry and marriage persisted into the 20th century, at which time genealogical research moved from being the work of such societies as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution, to becoming a pastime of amateur family historians. Divorce and children born out of wedlock evolved from being taboo topics into being integral elements of a genealogical record.

By the late 20th century, a number of strong genealogical societies existed in Georgia. These include the Georgia Genealogical Society (founded in 1964), which takes a statewide focus, and such regionally based organizations as the Southwest Georgia Genealogical Society (founded in 1968), the Central Georgia Genealogical Society (founded in 1978), and the Augusta Genealogical Society (founded in 1979). Each group publishes a journal; maintains separate research publications, guidebooks, or annals; and hosts speakers and special events. Most have ties to a larger genealogical collective, to which they donate publications or act as an informal or even an official friends’ group.

Going Online

The Internet has added a new dimension to genealogy research. Every county in the United States has a genealogy Web site through the USGenWeb program. These sites link researchers to county societies, books, others doing research on the same names, and actual records for a specific county. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints maintains a genealogy Web site, which provides access to records and family trees from all over the world. The Georgia Death Index, spanning 1919 to 1998, is found online and links researchers to a vast amount of related material. The Ancestry Library Edition, a version of the ancestry search tool available on the Georgia Death Index site, is available in all the state’s public libraries through the GALILEO site.

The Six Rs of Genealogy

Genealogical research consists of six basic steps, or the “Six Rs” of genealogy:

request information through interviewing relatives;

record the findings at each step, using genealogy computer programs, charts, or handwritten notes;

research by visiting courthouse sources or other original records or libraries;

read about an era or area’s background through a good county or city history to gain a better understanding of ancestral and historical circumstances;

review and revisit previous work, performing the same steps as needed to fill in genealogical blanks and extend a family’s recorded history further back in time; and

—decide whether the results will produce a published book, a family reunion, or a genealogy family tree program.

MYSTERY PHOTO

Clock tower feature may be the key for this Mystery Photo

A distinctive clock tower may be the locational feature of this edition’s Mystery Photo. Pinpoint the location of this photograph and you’ll be recognized as having an Eagle Eye. Tell us where it’s located by sending to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.

The significance of the Mystery Photo of the last edition was one of its former residences.  George Graf of Palmyra, Va. recognized the photograph as the  Clinton F. Shingler House in Ashburn, Ga.  He says: “Among Ashburn’s most architecturally significant houses, this was the childhood home of Betty Talmadge, a former First Lady of Georgia.”  The photo came from Brian Brown’s Vanishing South Georgia. 

Lou Camerio of Lilburn and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. also identified the photo. Peel writes: “The childhood home of Elizabeth “Betty” Shingler Talmadge (1923-2005), is located in Ashburn, about 70 miles south of Macon. The house is privately owned now and was built in 1914.  Betty Shingler Talmadge was born in Ashburn in 1923 and married Herman Eugene Talmadge in 1941. Herman Talmadge served as Governor of Georgia for two terms between 1948 and 1955. As a result, Betty Talmadge could add two-time former First Lady of Georgia to her list of official titles. She was also the author of two cookbooks and co-founded Talmadge Farms, a country ham curing business in Lovejoy, Ga.  Betty Talmadge briefly had an acting career, in which she played a waitress in the made-for-TV movie, Murder in Coweta County starring Andy Griffith and Johnny Cash, and another role in the 1984 movie The Baron and the Kid, also starring Johnny Cash.”

CALENDAR

Gwinnett library presents Gushee in virtual talk Aug. 27

Author in conversation: Dr. David Gushee will discuss his book with Atlanta’s Joshilyn Jackson in a virtual presentation on August 27 at 7 p.m. He is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University.  He will appear in conversation with Miss Jackson, to discuss his book After Evangelicalism:  The Path to a New Christianity. Presented by Gwinnett County Public Library, AJC Decatur Book Festival, and Georgia Center for the Book, you may hear the presentation by visiting www.gwinnettpl.org and finding the link in our calendar listing. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.

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