GwinnettForum | Number 21.18 | Mar. 5, 2021
DAR ESSAY WINNERS: This Zoom photo shows local winners in a Daughters of the American Revolution American History essay contest, sponsored by the Philadelphia Winn Chapter, for 2020-2021. This year’s topic was on the Boston Massacre, marking the 250th anniversary of this historical event that began on March 5, 1770. The participating students were instructed to imagine themselves witnessing the events of the Boston Massacre and what role that would have played in their family’s decision to help organize colonists against the British King and Parliament. In the photo from top left are Linda LaPerre, DAR member who presented the awards; Alana Lanford, eighth grade winner of Parkview Christian School, with parents, Liz and Barry Lanford; Jeremiah Annor, fifth grade winner of Riverside Elementary School, with his parents, Francis and Tina Annor, and sister, Janice Annor (second from right); and Beckham Fobart, seventh grade winner at Parkview Christian School, with his parents Jason and Jennifer Fobart.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Commission chairman lauds pursuit of excellence, the “Gwinnett Standard”
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Pay the Gwinnett County commission chair a higher salary
ANOTHER VIEW: New bill would stop gerrymandering and expand voting access
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: Today’s politics can seem like the infamous Gordian Knot
UPCOMING: Sugar Hill Opens Its New Art Gallery and History Museum
NOTABLE: Kristin Edwards of Duluth Wins Region’s Director of Year Award
RECOMMENDED: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Eugenius A. Nisbet was an original Supreme Court justice
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another mill that is today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: David Snell to be speaker at March 15 meeting of Gwinnett Historical Society
Chairman lauds pursuit of excellence, “Gwinnett Standard”
Hendrickson
By Doug Nurse
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | In her first State of the County address, Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Nicole Hendrickson on Wednesday lauded the County’s pursuit of excellence called the “Gwinnett Standard.”
“You may not have heard the phrase the ‘Gwinnett Standard,’ but I can guarantee you’ve felt it,” Hendrickson said. “What’s normal here would be awesome almost anyplace else. What’s ordinary in Gwinnett is extraordinary elsewhere.”
She said when she first came to Gwinnett County in 2006, she fell in love with the opportunity, diversity, parks, recreational facilities, collaborative spirit, and unity of purpose found here.
It’s easy to take excellence for granted because it’s not always obvious, Hendrickson said. She highlighted Gwinnett’s elite Triple AAA/Aaa bond rating just reaffirmed by the three major rating agencies. She also cited the award-winning parks and library systems, the state-of-the-art F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center studied by people from around the world, and the Police Department’s repeated certification by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, making Gwinnett one of the four percent of 18,000 departments to be CALEA certified.
She noted that while the county has changed over the years, the tradition of excellence has not. Many people have moved to Gwinnett from around the country and around the globe, and they influence and are influenced by the Gwinnett Standard.
“Whenever someone new comes to this county, they see the services County government provides all around them, the education their children receive, how community organizations offer support and encouragement, and the way residents interact,” she said. “As they see what has already been accomplished by working together, their standards rise to the Gwinnett Standard.”
The Gwinnett Standard will help us deal with change, Hendrickson said. Her fellow commissioners addressed some of the challenges facing the county in a brief video, including:
- District 1 Commissioner Kirkland Carden lauded the county’s small business assistance program, which dispensed $20 million in federal funds to struggling businesses, and the new Gwinnett Entrepreneur Center, which will help nurture small businesses.
- District 2 Commissioner Ben Ku said the county must adopt mass transit as it grows to one million-plus residents. Other improvements being considered are enhancements to the I-85 corridor and a new Bus Rapid Transit system.
- District 3 Commissioner Jasper Watkins III highlighted the county’s partnership with the Gwinnett Health Department to renovate a vacant retail building into a vaccination center and urged everyone to get the vaccine.
- District 4 Commissioner Marlene Fosque focused on homelessness in Gwinnett, and featured Project RESET, a program to help struggling renters stay in their homes.
Hendrickson said the Gwinnett Standard has been reflected in the county’s response to the pandemic, with departments on online services and events and celebrations being held virtually. She pointed to the county’s Summer Meals service for children, which added 11 new locations around the community and offered meals to seniors to help address food insecurity.
She recognized the contributions of other agencies during the pandemic, such as the school districts, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, and Gwinnett Health Department, and praised teachers for being a “remarkable force in maintaining normalcy for our children.”
Hendrickson challenged the audience and viewers to uphold the Gwinnett Standard and promised that she and the district commissioners would do the same.
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Pay the Gwinnett County commission chair a higher salary
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
MARCH 5, 2021 | Over the years, GwinnettForum has championed a more adequate salary for the chairman of the Gwinnett County Commission.
Brack
One of our Continuing Objectives for Gwinnett County, published in each issue, is: “21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.” For several reasons, which we have never understood, the county has failed to act on this objective over the last few years.
Now at long last, the Gwinnett County Commissioners have passed a resolution seeking a higher salary for the chairman of the Commission. The chairman now is paid a salary of $76,266, an inadequate salary that was last changed in 2007. And consider that this is a full-time job, seven days a week. nThat is far too low for that position which oversees over 5,000 employees and in a county with a budget of $1.9 billion dollars. (Yes, billion.)
The recent Commission resolution suggested that the chairman’s salary be $136,011, which is the base salary of sheriffs of counties with more than 500,000 people. Why they would compare it to a sheriff’s salary is beyond me.
While that change would be a step in the right direction, we see the chairman’s job as significantly more important than the sheriff, or any other elected official in the county. With Gwinnett County having a population of approaching one million people, we could see a salary of $200,000 as adequate for such responsibilities. We see no reason why we should not reward our top county official with the highest salary of any county commission in the state. After all, Gwinnettians demand and deserve good leadership. The position, not an easy job, is worth $200,000. We expect the very best from our county commission chairman, and we should reward that person with a significant compensation.
Hendrickson
No leader of a private business of such a size would work for such a current paltry salary. Gwinnett needs to adopt a salary for its chairman that is at least in line with the pay scale of comparable chairs of other counties. For instance, the chairman in Cobb County makes $135,125, while the Clayton chair’s salary is $167,021.
By coincidence, the two most populous counties in the state (Gwinnett and Fulton) pay their chairs of the county commission inadequately. The chairman of the Fulton County Commission, Robb Pitts, makes only $50,735.
Meanwhile, the pay of the four Gwinnett district commissioners is $48,308 and is considered a part time job. Their salaries were last raised in 2016. Charlotte Nash, the chair of the commission at that time, asked that her salary not be raised, since she was already drawing a pension from the county as a retired staff member. She had previously retired as the county administrator.
Consider too the compensation for the county administrator, who works side-by-side with the chairman. The salary of Glenn Stephens, the administrator, is $344,851.
Remember, too the salaries that Superior Court judges in Gwinnett are paid. With their state salary and local supplement, the judges make $187,460.
It’s good to see movement in raising the salary of the county commission chairman. Now pray that the increase in salary will be comparable for the job.
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New bill would stop gerrymandering, expand voting access
By George Wilson, contributing columnist
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. | In the face of massive voter suppression legislation in Republican legislatures around the country, Democrats in Congress are trying to pass a law, called the “For the People Act,” to stop partisan gerrymandering, limit money in politics, and expand voting access. It needs greater attention.
The “For the People Act,” numbered in Congress as H.R. 1 and S. 1, would provide for automatic voter registration across the country and would require paper ballots. It would require that early voting be made available and would expand mail-in voting. It would authorize $1 billion for upgrades to state voting systems.
Polling by Data for Progress and Vote Save America shows that the principles in H.R. 1 are popular, across parties. Sixty-eight percent of Americans approve of the reforms in the bill. Sixteen percent oppose the measure.
Moreover, the items within the bill are also popular. Eighty-six percent of Americans support a plan to prevent foreign interference in our elections; seven percent oppose it. Eighty-five percent of us want to limit the amount of politics; eight percent oppose that idea. Eighty-four percent of us want more election security; eight percent do not.
Furthermore, seventy-four percent of us want to see non- partisan redistricting; 11 percent do not. Sixty-eight percent want to see 15 days of early voting; 19 percent do not. Sixty percent want same-day voter registration; 29 percent do not. Fifty-nine percent want automatic voter registration; 29 percent do not. Even with the Republican attacks on mail-in voting, fifty-eight percent of us want to be able to vote by mail; 35 percent do not.
Democrats passed a version of H.R. 1 in the previous Congress, but then-Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, refused to take it up. Now, every House Democrat supports the bill, while Republican lawmakers generally oppose it.
However, to try to stop the bill from becoming law, Republicans are anticipated to launch a full-throated defense of the filibuster, a tradition that enables a minority in the Senate to stop legislation unless it can command 60 votes. Republican objections to this popular, and seemingly vital, measure will test whether the Senate will protect the filibuster or continue to chip away at it.
Of all today’s news, then, this issue, the fate of the “For the People Act,” is one that most certainly will matter in the future.
Finally, the Democrats could attach a limited, popular set of voting rights measures to a reconciliation bill. A bill, for example, that would fund physical and election systems infrastructure could make respect for certain minimum voting rights a condition of states’ receiving money.
Doing so will raise constitutional questions about how much the federal government can require of states and procedural issues as to whether such measures would violate the “Byrd Rule.” (Under the Byrd Rule, the Senate is prohibited from considering extraneous matters as part of a reconciliation bill or resolution or conference report thereon.) But it would be worth a try.
But it would be worth a try.
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Today’s politics can seem like the infamous Gordian Knot
Editor, the Forum:
Image via The Noun Project.
Today’s politics is rather like the infamous Gordian Knot.
Question: Why are we having to endure the current cultural wars and incitements? Is it ignorance or choice?
Ignorance may be caused by not having the opportunity to learn. Let’s do a brief examination:
I was taught in logic, philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, literature, and business courses that life, (other than luck and inheritance), is all about choices and exposure.
Do we know better? Were we taught critical thinking skills at home, in school, or at work?
If we were taught math in Base 8, we could not survive in our world of Base 10. If we were not taught math at all, the idea of the square root would cause us to examine the underground network of plants…if we knew what a root was. When posed with seeking the answer to 9 X 17,759.37 our cranial facilities would warp.
Anyone have a sword and the strength and wisdom to use it?
Where is Alexander when we need him?
Come on Joe, swing hard.
— Ashley Herndon, Oceanside, Calif.
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Sugar Hill opens its new art gallery and history museum
Ribbon-cutting at the museum and gallery
The city of Sugar Hill has opened a new Art Gallery and History Museum just across West Broad Street from the Eagle Theatre.
The History Museum offers permanent and special exhibitions of a large collection of items collected, researched, and displayed by the Sugar Hill Historic Preservation Society. Exhibits and displays include photographs, documents, and memorabilia that highlight the community’s churches, schools, volunteer fire department, gold mining and moonshining history, and the impact by and affiliation with the creation of Lake Lanier.
The current special exhibition focuses on the first Black families in Sugar Hill and follows a month-long partnership between the city of Sugar Hill and Black Women’s Association of Sugar Hill in February to celebrate Black History Month. The community space also offers a research room for visitors to investigate their genealogical history thanks to a partnership with and sponsorship by the Suwanee Creek Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution.
The city’s new Art Gallery, the first city to offer a city-directed gallery, offers a unique bright space for visitors to enjoy an eclectic mix of changeable featured works from artists. The space will also host traveling exhibitions on a regular basis as curated by the Sugar Hill Arts Commission. The gallery’s first show features small works available for purchase including photography, mixed media, pottery, and sculpture.
Located in the heart of Sugar Hill on West Broad Street, these community spaces on the ground level of the Broadstone at Sugar Hill invite visitors, residents, and passers-by to stop in for a quick visit, a trip down memory lane, or a trip to another world brought to life in unique art pieces.
The gallery and museum are staffed by a combination of volunteers from the SHHPS, the Arts Commission, and city staff. Its hours are Tuesdays and Thursday, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.; and Wednesday and Friday, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Lawrenceville Lawn reopens March 20 with NEWSIES
Here’s a view of the newly renovated Lawrenceville Lawn with a permanent amphitheater. (Photo by Bruce Johnson).
The City of Lawrenceville is reopening its Lawrenceville Lawn with a premiere performance by the Aurora Theatre as part of the “Broadway on the Lawn” series. The partner organizations will present the high-energy musical Disney’s NEWSIES at the new outdoor amphitheater for a one-night-only community performance on March 20, at 6:30 p.m. The performance is free, but registration is required to attend. Online registration opens on Friday, March 5 at 8 a.m.
The Lawrenceville Lawn, a 5.5 acre public park underwent a 14-month, $1.8-million renovation to further enhance the city’s live, work, and play dynamic. In addition to its existing volleyball courts and playground, the improved Lawrenceville Lawn, located steps away from the historic square, features new amenities, including a 40-by-60-foot permanent amphitheater, two performance stages, arbor shades for tables, as well as additional bathrooms and public parking.
Architect and design partner Stevens & Wilkinson, contractors at Bayne Development Group, and geotechnical consultants from GeoHydro spearheaded the renovation, which was completed in early 2021. To commemorate the completion of the project, the City of Lawrenceville will hold a special ribbon cutting ceremony prior to the premiere performance.
Since 2006, Aurora Theatre and the City of Lawrenceville have been partners in presenting musicals under the stars, with the program evolving and taking on many forms and titles over the years. Disney’s NEWSIES is the second installment of the newest tradition, Broadway on the Lawn, launched in 2019 as a salute to Broadway with a live performance of In the Heights.
To commemorate the completion of the project, the City of Lawrenceville will hold a special ribbon cutting ceremony prior to the premiere performance.
GGC program recognized for accounting education research
Thanks to the efforts of two faculty members in its School of Business, Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) has achieved a worldwide ranking for research in accounting education. This marks the first time GGC and School of Business (SBA) faculty have been ranked in the Accounting Education Research category.
Routon
Berry
Dr. Reanna Berry, assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. P. Wesley Routon, associate professor of economics, co-authored a paper titled, “Soft skill change perceptions of accounting majors: Current practitioner views versus their own reality,” which appeared in the Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 53, in December 2020.
Analyzing data on nearly 500,000 college students from more than 600 colleges and universities, Berry and Routon studied the degree to which accounting majors are gaining 15 different soft skills, such as leadership, teamwork and interpersonal communication, in addition to accounting competency.
Berry reports: “We found that accounting majors are estimated to be an impressive 46 percent more likely to report they learned a lot about their field of study, compared to other business majors and on average. At the other end of the skill spectrum, leadership is the area where accounting majors most often report skill deficits.”
The paper earned its authors and GGC rankings in the Brigham Young University (BYU) Accounting Rankings system, considered the leading authority in classifying the world’s top accounting research. These rankings are divided into topic categories, as well as 6, 12- and 20- year time periods.
In the 2020 BYU Accounting Rankings, Berry and Routon rank 50th for individual researchers in the Accounting Education Research category for the last six years. Their work led to GGC ranking 36th in the last six years in the Accounting Education Research category. GGC is tied with prominent universities such as Harvard and Stanford.
Gwinnett Stripers opening date pushed to early May
Major League Baseball informed teams on Tuesday that the start of the 2021 Triple-A season will be delayed by a month. As a result, MLB clubs will operate alternate training sites similar to those used during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
The Triple-A season initially will be pushed back to early May, around the same time the Double-A and Class A seasons are expected to start.
Adam English, general manager of the Stripers, says: “We will continue to prepare the ballpark for the safe return of our fans, staff and players, though it’s a month later than when we had originally planned.”
Edwards of Duluth wins region’s Director of Year award
The Southeast Festivals and Events Association (SFEA) recognized Duluth’s Events Coordinator, Kristin Edwards as “Director of the Year” for her efforts in providing Duluth with a fun, creative outlet, even during the recent Covid year.
Edwards
She has been coordinating events for the City since March of 2019. During Covid lockdown, Duluth hosted a few virtual events. This included a TikTok Challenge and a Duluth Shines talent competition. Once lockdown was lifted, Kristin sprang into action.
She began weekly Duluth live events. These included musical performances on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on the Town Green main stage and in Parsons Alley. These live musical performances were to enhance the ambiance for those utilizing the outdoor dining space. Other socially-distanced activities were themed photo-ops, Seek Duluth scavenger hunts, and a drive-in theater. The season ended with the annual Deck the Hall event which featured social distancing activities including photos with Santa inside a snow globe, free caricatures and tree lighting.
The SFEA Kaleidoscope Awards recognizes the marketing, programming and overall event, acknowledges the highest level of achievement in the festival and event industry throughout the southeast United States.
- For information about upcoming events visit www.duluthga.net/events.
Suwanee wins 3 awards from Southeast Festival Association
The best and brightest reimagined events were spotlighted at the Southeast Festivals and Events Association’s virtual awards on February 24. Festivals and events throughout the region were recognized for their strength, resilience, and creativity while trying to lift local economies and bring communities together safely with their reimagined events in our new socially distant world.
The City of Suwanee took home three 2021 awards, including:
- Best COVID Community Response;
- Best Social Media – Top This; and
- Best T-Shirt – Spring Break 2020.
Additionally, two vendors were nominated by the city and also won in their categories:
- Sponsor of the Year – Quantum National Bank; and
- Best Supporting Member – Eventeny.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
From Tim Anderson, Fitzgerald: This book may surpass John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath in authenticity and the depiction of the desperation suffered by millions of Americans. The Texas Panhandle of 1921 was a place of great abundance. By 1934, the land was essentially a Dust Bowl. Elsa, utterly unloved by her family, finds a loving home as the wife of the son of a first-generation Italian-American couple. After enormous deprivation and heartache, Elsa takes her two children, 13 and 8, with little money, and travels to California. There the family suffers one incomparable tragedy after another. In the midst of a tableau that breaks the human spirit, we see these three rise up and battle impossible odds to survive. Readers will fall in love with Elsa, one of the most heroic characters in modern literature. And you will be left with the certainty that you have experienced the Dust Bowl, America’s greatest ecological disaster.
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Nisbet was an original Supreme Court justice
Eugenius A. Nisbet served in the Georgia legislature, in the U.S. Congress, and as one of the original justices on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Nisbet was also an influential figure in both the secession movement and the Confederate government during the Civil War (1861-65).
Nisbet
Eugenius Aristides Nisbet was born in Greene County on December 7, 1803, to Penelope Cooper and James Nisbet. His father served in the General Assembly and was a framer of Georgia’s Constitution of 1798. The young Nisbet received his early education at Powelton Academy in Hancock County and went on to South Carolina College (later the University of South Carolina).
Prior to his junior year he transferred to the University of Georgia, from which he would graduate first in his class in 1821. He obtained his legal education in the Athens office of Judge Augustin Smith Clayton, and then studied under the celebrated Judge James Gould at the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar at age 20.
Nisbet began practicing law in Madison. In 1825 he wed Amanda Battle, and together they had 12 children. In 1827 he was elected to the state House of Representatives and remained there until 1830, when he was elected to the state senate. Nisbet remained in the senate for seven years, where he advocated the creation of a state supreme court.
A member of the Whig Party, Nisbet ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1836 but was elected in two subsequent attempts. He served in Congress from 1839 to 1841, resigning on October 8, 1841, during his second term. The Macon Telegraph and Messenger, in its obituary honoring Nisbet on April 27, 1871, states that “on account of the condition of his private affairs and a growing distaste for political life, he resigned his seat” and “retired… with an unblemished character and enviable reputation.”
The Supreme Court of Georgia was created in 1845 and consisted of three justices elected by the legislature. Nisbet was elected, along with fellow Whig Joseph Henry Lumpkin and Democrat Hiram Warner. Despite having no judicial experience, Nisbet gained prominence while on the court due to his learned opinions. His time on the court lasted for only eight years; Henry L. Benning was elected to replace him in 1853 when the Democrats gained control of the legislature.
In 1861 Nisbet served as a delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention, where he introduced the resolution calling for disunion and for a committee of delegates to draft an Ordinance of Secession. Upon passage of the resolution, he was appointed to the committee. He introduced the committee report to the full convention and proposed the “unanimity of signature” rule, whereby, as a show of resolve, all convention delegates signed the ordinance regardless of their views on secession. Nisbet also served as a delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress, which met in Montgomery, Ala. He ran for governor in 1861 after secession, but was defeated by Joseph E. Brown.
After the election Nisbet resumed the practice of law in Macon. With a strong dedication to higher education, he also served on the boards of trustees for both the University of Georgia and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Nisbet died in Macon on March 18, 1871.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to http://georgiaencyclopedia.org
Here’s another mill that is today’s Mystery Photo
There’s something about operating grist mills that make them photogenic. Perhaps it’s the running water, or knowing that you can listen to the creaks and groans of the water wheel and mill mechanisms turning that makes them popular. Figure out where this mill is located as this edition’s Mystery Photo. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net to include your hometown.
The nearby Murray County Courthouse was the subject of the last Mystery Photo, easily spotted by Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Lynn Naylor, Norcross; and Lou Camiero, Lilburn;
Peel tells us: “The Murray County Courthouse in Chatsworth, Ga. was completed in 1916. This doric-styled courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980 and is one of only three domed courthouses in the State of Georgia. The courthouse was built on a raised square so that it could peer over the city of Chatsworth. Its raised elevation has made it an iconic image representing Murray County, and is reported to be the most photographed courthouse in the state of Georgia.
“But that is not the only reason why the Murray County Courthouse is famous. In a controversy during the planning stages, Murray County Commissioners went to jail for contempt rather than see any interruptions of their plans. The first court session was held in February 1917. Check out the 2017 article here from Dalton’s Daily Citizen-News website.”
New redbud tree variety shows that spring is on the way
These redbud trees on Mountain View Road in Snellville are a newer variety that is slightly lighter in color, former County Agent Bill Baughman says. Though Gwinnetians need to be alert by staying safe during the current pandemic, by riding around you can see other blooming signs of spring like this throughout the county while not directing mixing with other people. Get out and enjoy!
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Snell to be March 15 speaker at Gwinnett Historical Society
Gwinnett Historical Society will meet on March 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Historic Courthouse in downtown Lawrenceville. Speaker will be David Snell of E.R. Snell Contractor who will be speaking on the history of the Snell contracting company. It is one of the largest highway construction firms in the state of Georgia, with 12 asphalt plants and an asphalt terminal located in the North Georgia area. The speaker is one of several fourth generation owners of the company, and serves as its vice president, corporate secretary and director. He is a former president of the Snellville Historical Society. In 2023 the company will mark its 100th year of operations.
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