GwinnettForum | Number 21.86, Nov. 15, 2022
LET’S HEAR IT for new members of the Youth Advisory Council of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful. For more details, and to see those named to the Council, go to Notable below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: WWII African campaign opens the way to Sicily and beyond
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnett legislators: address the county commission’s salaries
ANOTHER VIEW: Pulling a fast one on your high school baseball coach
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
FEEDBACK: Outside ownership of homes can hurt a community
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville to name Mullin as new police chief
NOTABLE: Bucking a trend, Georgia Gwinnett College fall enrollment is up
RECOMMENDED: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River is dividing line between Georgia and South Carolina
MYSTERY PHOTO: Unusual story goes with this Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Chef and Author Jonathon Scott Barrett will speak Nov. 17
WWII African campaign opens the way to Sicily and beyond
By Jim Cofer, second of two parts
SNELLVILLE, Ga. | After Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed American forces would join the Allies in defeating Germany and Italy in Europe. American generals were anxious to join the fray and invade the continent.
Cofer
But the seasoned British military wisely recognized that inexperienced GIs were not ready to take on the battle-hardened Germans. They convinced the U.S. to launch attacks on French Morocco and Algeria, which were held by the Vichy French, who had sided with the Germans.
This should produce an easy victory, inspire confidence, and bolster the Brits in battling Gen. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in Libya and Egypt. A victory there would allow the Allies to cross the Mediterranean and come up through Italy into Germany from the south. The Vichy had negotiated an “armed neutrality” with the Germans which allowed them to keep all weaponry.
In July, 1942, President Roosevelt sent a Task Force, code name Operation Torch, headed by Gen. George Patton, to French North Africa. Patton left Hampton Roads, Va. with 19,000 men, on 850 ships including the Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger Battle Group. My father, Wendell Cofer, recalled that the Task Force had to zig-zag across the Atlantic to avoid German submarines. Soldiers endured cramped quarters and toilets that often didn’t work.
The landing zone was to stretch 800 miles across Africa from Casablanca to the Bay of Algiers. Patton’s orders were that Americans would not fire first, hoping that the Vichy would surrender and join with our forces.
At dawn on Sunday, November 8, 1942, the amphibious assaults began with Patton wearing his famous pair of revolvers. The Vichy lit up the beaches with searchlights and began to rake the area with machine gun fire. Big mistake!
The Navy battle group sitting offshore opened up with their big guns, pummeling the French shore batteries. Carrier-based aircraft, Dauntless, Wildcat, and Avenger, bombed and strafed the French positions. The battle was over in less than three days. Landings of troops and materiel began.
Once the Vichy were disposed of, American troops began moving rapidly by rail toward Egypt to assist their British comrades to seek to subdue the charismatic German “Desert Fox,” General Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel.
The GI’s were transported in railway cars dubbed “40 & 8,” which could carry 40 men or 8 horses. Conditions were miserable under the desert sun with standing room only and bouts of dysentery from buying unwashed fruit from Arabs along the tracks. Outdone by the Allied supply chain, Rommel abandoned his troops in March 1943 and went back to Europe. The 185-day campaign ended with the surrender of all German and Italian troops in Tunis on May 12, 1943.
The American troops next invaded Sicily in July 1943. Encounters with the Germans were mostly exchanges of heavy artillery with little hand-to-hand combat. Artillery pieces would be positioned during daylight and then fired all night. After 38 days of fighting, the Allies successfully drove German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian mainland.
My father had numerous stories about this phase of the war; my favorite was the one about each soldier digging a fox hole just big enough to get below ground level, thereby avoiding shrapnel from nearby incoming rounds. One night during an intense artillery exchange, he answered a call of nature and visited the latrine. When he returned to his fox hole, he found only a large crater.
Gwinnett legislators: Address county commission’s salaries
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
NOV. 15, 2022 | Gwinnettians have just elected a new 30-member diverse delegation to the State Legislature. A pressing issue should be their first order of business: they should address the inadequate salaries of the Gwinnett County Commission.
As regular readers of GwinnettForum know, the issue of “21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members” is one of our Continuing Objectives.
The current chairman of the commission’s salary is $85,921, totally out of date and inadequate for the job. The district commission’s salary is $57,462, more in keeping for a part time job. But these salaries also need to be addressed.
We won’t go into the background or necessity to address these salaries. People in Gwinnett are familiar with these arguments.
Therefore, we stress and emphasize to the newly-elected delegation of legislators: recognize the importance of this salary problem, and address it up front and foremost during the coming legislative session. Don’t wait until the last minute, when everything gets out of whack, to act.
Do this job to make Gwinnett even greater.
Today let’s examine what this new legislative delegation looks like. It is amazingly diverse, as you will see. First, it’s made up of 30 citizens, 20 Democrats and 10 Republicans.
Now let’s look at other demographic identities. It consists of:
- Ten White males.
- Five Black females.
- Four Black males.
- Four Asian males.
- Three Asian females.
- Two White females.
- Two Hispanic males.
Let’s look at their religions:
- Fifteen are Protestant.
- Six are Catholic.
- Four are Muslim.
- One says “no religion.”
- Four are unknown.
Where were they born?
- Eight of them are from Georgia. That includes four born in Atlanta, two in Lawrenceville, and one each in Americus and Decatur.
- There are 14 from Southern states.
- Two each from Puerto Rico and New Jersey.
- Two from Nigeria.
- And then the rest from many areas around the entire world. That includes San Francisco, Oklahoma, Indianapolis, Elkins, W.Va., Jordan, Manila, Seoul, Palestine and Bangladesh.
By now, anyone reading this can get an idea of just how diverse the people of Gwinnett are, based merely on where their elected legislative delegation is from.
The rest of Georgia isn’t anywhere nearly as diverse as is this Gwinnett group of legislators. You wonder what the “good old boys (and today girls) of Middle and South Georgia will be thinking of the legislators from Gwinnett. With it being solidly Democratic in politics, and with the overall statehouse members being majority Republican, that alone may prove to have some stumbling blocks.
Yet the Gwinnett group will find some legislative members from other parts of Metro Atlanta who are increasingly diverse also. The halls of the legislature are far different from what it has been in the past. It is beginning to reflect the population more than ever. That may be the most positive aspect of the 2023-24 legislature.
We look forward to the time when this new face of government in Georgia can become a solid block of common good and decency, able to overcome their differences and work to make the Empire State of the South even better.
That’s a view of who the citizens of Gwinnett have elected. Now, legislators, go and do your job in the best way possible.
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Pulling a fast one on your high school baseball coach
By David Simmons
NORCROSS, Ga. | Early spring, 1972, Greenfield, Indiana, varsity baseball practice, Saturday morning, cold, and six inches of snow on the ground. Our coach, former Greenfield High football star who wore double zero (00), known as Zeke, had cleared off a big patch of the parking lot so we could have practice using hard rubber baseballs.
As the end of practice neared, I was catching our fire baller and starting pitcher, Tracey Cole. Zeke was standing behind me observing as Tracey got his pitches in. Things were going along just fine until he fired a fastball and I plumb missed the ball!
The ball hit me square in the face, with no catcher’s mask on. I swear, right between the eyes. The impact was spread evenly among my forehead, nose, and the lenses of my glasses. Down I went. Zeke thought I was a goner. But I popped right up. Fearing the worst Zeke was so relieved I was ok, but exasperated. He then swore he would never worry about me ever again. Sure! I never even got a black eye, it was a miracle, but a half inch or so in any direction would have been a totally different story.
Fast forward about 15 months, late spring 1973. Greenfield Central was hosting the baseball sectionals and we were playing our county rival, Fortville. Leading off the top of the second inning was their star first baseman, cleanup hitter, and masher of baseballs, Big Joe Hall. I’m in on the grass playing third base, hands dangling, when Big Joe hit a screaming meemie, an absolute frozen rope straight at my head! I barely got my glove up to thwart off the rocket that sent my hat and glove flying into left field.
Bowled over backward, I don’t know what came over me, but in a moment of brilliant, mischievous, ingenuousness, I feigned death. The ump called time, pointing my way toward third base.
Perfectly okay, I just lay there, motionless. Meanwhile, having watched it intently, worried and concerned, Zeke flew from the dugout. Just as he leaned over me, I burst out laughing, saying: “I thought you were never gonna worry about me again?”
Astonished, he grinned, shook his head in resignation, turned to go, and under his breath said, “I’ll get you for this.” As he jogged back to the dugout, our shortstop Mike Burton handed me my glove and hat and play resumed. We went on to win that game and ultimately became Sectional Champs.
Two weeks later, Zeke was coaching our school supported summer league and my hair was creeping down over my ears. One day at practice Zeke told me I had to get a haircut to play on his team. I just laughed and said: “I guess you got me back.” I turned and walked off the practice field, never to return, my high school days were over.
Four years later, late spring 1977, I finally got a haircut, the day before my first job interview after graduating from Indiana State University. As best I know Zeke stayed on for a long and successful career at Greenfield Central.
I moved to Atlanta November,1990 after finishing a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail. I accepted the offer of my best friend on Simpson Mill court, Duluth of a free place to live till I got back on my feet, went to work at Kurt’s on the River. Bought my house in Norcross, 1992. Been here ever since.
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Outside ownership of homes can hurt a community
Editor, the Forum:
We in Lilburn are seeing a plethora of townhomes. Most of them are owned by investors who are from other states.
So, to your point, do not be fooled. Investor-owned homes run the same risk of deterioration over time that apartments do. These investors also buy whole subdivisions of single family homes as well.
As a public elected official, I have grave concerns going forward as to how well these investor-homes will be maintained. Will the citizens of Lilburn be angry with us in 10-15-20 years for our shortsightedness?
– S. Scott Batterton, councilman, City of Lilburn
Dear Scott: Wow. You raise a whole new concern about how those with investment money can wreak havoc by their outside ownership. That’s scary! Many in Gwinnett get unsolicited telephone calls from people wanting to offer cash for our homes. Now we understand better how this can hurt a community. Thanks for your insight. -eeb
Stagnation possible, and maybe imperial presidency
Editor, the Forum:
Let me congratulate GwinnettForum on its early-on identifying abortion as a major issue in the election. I will still say it wasn’t universal, but did deliver a youth vote that might have stayed home.
Another important issue underlying the small change in Congress is that the Republicans are not perceived as the solution to the problems facing the nation. Inflation, gasoline, crime, education, health care, immigration, climate change are not in the wheelhouse of the conservative candidates or at least the Trump endorsed candidates.
Return to the status quo is not acceptable for Democrats and independent voters. So we find ourselves with basically minimal change. Very little will happen beyond investigation and stagnation. Imperial presidency time.
– Byron Gilbert, Duluth
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Lawrenceville to name Mullin as new police chief
Mullin
The sole finalist for the new police chief of Lawrenceville is John Henry Mullin, who spent 15 years as one of the initial policemen in Sandy Springs, says City Manager Chuck Warbington. Mullin also was with the Fulton County Police Department for nine years as a uniformed patrol officer. Since 2021, he has been working directly with county management leading the code compliance, animal control services, and park rangers division in Forsyth County.
Mullin joined the Sandy Springs Police Department as one of its original 86 officers, a department roughly the size of the police department he will soon lead in Lawrenceville. He rose through the ranks to major and served over operations and administration while the department grew to 155 sworn officers.
In addition to his law enforcement experience, Mullin has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbus State University. Mullin also graduated from the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville and the Senior Management Institute for Police.
His anticipated start date is December 16, 2022. The Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police assisted the city in leading the search.
Building products firm add 20 new jobs in Gwinnett
Wolf Home Products, an innovator in the building products industry, have expanded their operations and will add approximately 20 new jobs in unincorporated Gwinnett County over the next two years. With 30 employees distributing bath and kitchen cabinets from Southeast Georgia to San Antonio, the move into a 200,000-square-foot facility at 2200 Cedars Road near Lawrenceville will allow for continued growth throughout select markets.
Wolf Home Products Chief Operating Officer Brad Kostelich says: “The overall scale of the operations will help drive productivity and efficiencies, creating an opportunity for us to deliver more value to the market.”
Founded in 1843, Wolf Home Products has become one of the largest suppliers for bath and kitchen cabinetry and building and outdoor living products in the country. It operates 34 facilities and serves more than 3,500 independent dealers in the United States and Canada. Their high-quality products, supported by industry-leading warranties, earned national recognition, winning first place in the manufacturer project category in the North American Deck and Railing Association National Deck Competition in 2020.
Georgia Department of Economic Development Deputy Commissioner Kristi Brigman says: “Expanding companies, like Wolf Home Products, accounted for 74 percent of total projects last fiscal year. Georgia’s existing companies are the backbone of our economy, and our partners in Gwinnett County have been dedicated to creating an environment where business can thrive.”
Georgia Gwinnett College fall enrollment is up
Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) was among eight of the 26 University System of Georgia (USG) public institutions that realized enrollment gains in fall 2022, according to USG data released last week.
GGC’s fall 2022 total student enrollment totaled 11,030, up about a percentage point from last year. Total enrollment includes new, returning and transfer students.
Full-time student enrollment at GGC is at 65 percent, up two percent from fall 2021. Part-time enrollment is down two percentage points, indicating that more students are enrolling as full-time students at the college.
GGC President Jann L. Joseph says: “In the face of enrollment declines that higher education is experiencing across the nation, I’m very happy that GGC is defying the trends.
GGC’s student body continues to mirror the rich diversity of Gwinnett County, with its Hispanic student population rising to 27 percent, up a percentage point from last year. This year, GGC recently earned a federal designation as a Hispanic serving Institution. For the ninth consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report named GGC as the most ethnically diverse Southern regional college.
GGC continues to maintain its Minority Serving Institution and its Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution designation. Other race/ethnicity data (rounded off) provided by the USG Semester Enrollment Report for fall 2022 reflect the following student demographics:
- Asian – 1,349 or 12.2 percent.
- Black/African American – 3,496 or 32 percent.
- Hispanic – 3,010 or 27 percent.
- Native American – 25 or 0.2 percent.
- Pacific Islander – 21 or 0.2 percent.
- White – 2,604 or 24 percent.
- Multi-ethnic – 432 or 4 percent.
- Unknown/undeclared – 93 or 1 percent.
GC&B names new members of Green Youth Advisory Council
Nelson Mandela perhaps said it best, “The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.” As it has before,, Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful is tapping into the local “youth of today” to help evolve its programming while empowering an up-and-coming generation to act as ambassadors for the eco-focused nonprofit out in the community.
The Green Youth Advisory Council for the 2022-2023 school year are:
- Stephanie Aguirre, Senior – Paul Duke STEM HS (High School);
- Hailey Brown, Junior – Mill Creek HS;
- Asha El, Freshman – Norcross HS;
- Alice Garcia, Junior – Berkmar HS;
- Haven Hardy, Senior and Jean Yu, Senior, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology;
- Esther Jung, Sophomore – Mill Creek HS;
- Kaylin Koen, Senior – Mountain View HS;
- Hannah Nguyen Le, Senior – Paul Duke STEM HS;
- Carolina Luevano, Senior – Paul Duke STEM HS;
- Anthony McIver, Senior – Parkview HS;
- Mrinali Pathak, Freshman – North Gwinnett HS;
- Vinh Pham, Junior – Brookwood HS;
- Serena Pradhan, Sophomore – Parkview HS;
- Luke Winter, Senior – Greater Atlanta Christian School.
The 10 returning members from last year’s Green Youth Council:
- Ariella Ayenesazan, Junior – Peachtree Ridge HS;
- Suraj Chatoth, Senior – North Gwinnett HS;
- Danielle Chun, Junior – Mill Creek HS;
- Ella Lee, Junior – Mill Creek HS;
- Jack Prewitt, Senior, and Shivali Singh, sophomore, – Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology;
- Arshan Rafiq, Junior – Peachtree Ridge HS; and
- Amay Shah, Senior – Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology;
- Miles Simmons, Senior – Archer HS; and
- Trevor Spake, Senior – Brookwood HS.
Involvement in the Green Youth Advisory Council provides its members with the opportunity to develop leadership skills, collaborate with like-minded peers, engage youth in community service, be a GC&B ambassador, earn service hours, and be considered for a $1,000 post-secondary scholarship.
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The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: When bistro owner Olivier Brule’ finds a man’s body on the floor of his bistro in Three Pines, Canada, one morning, he is puzzled and alarmed. The other residents of this remote tiny village are also shaken to the core and nearly everyone becomes a suspect. Who is the murdered man? Where did he come from? And why in the world would anyone want to kill him and leave him in this popular bistro? It takes the persistent, intelligent prodding of the gentle Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Quebec police force to unravel this tragedy. If you’re looking for a fast-paced thriller, this book will disappoint because this mystery is a slow-paced, character-driven novel. It is the fifth in the Inspector Gamache series, but it can stand alone. I enjoyed listening to this story read by British actor Ralph Cosham on a downloadable audiobook from the Gwinnett Public Library.
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Savannah River is dividing line between Ga., S.C.
The Savannah River, one of Georgia’s longest and largest waterways, defines most of the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina. The river originates at the confluence of the Seneca and Tugaloo rivers in Hart County in eastern Georgia. The confluence also forms Lake Hartwell, a large reservoir built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Though the Savannah itself begins in the Piedmont geologic province, its tributary headwaters originate on the southwestern slopes of the rugged Blue Ridge geologic province of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Only about six percent of the Savannah’s entire drainage basin, however, lies within the Blue Ridge. The rest lies in the Piedmont and in the Upper and Lower Coastal Plain provinces
On a map, the basin roughly resembles an arrowhead. It encompasses 10,577 square miles, of which 175 square miles are in southwestern North Carolina, 4,581 square miles are in western South Carolina, and 5,821 square miles are in eastern Georgia. In Georgia, the basin drains portions of 27 counties.
From Lake Hartwell, the Savannah River flows southeasterly for 313 miles across the Piedmont and the Upper Coastal Plain until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean approximately 15 miles downstream from the city of Savannah.
At the U.S. Geological Survey river gauge near Clyo, in Effingham County, the Savannah’s average annual flow is 12,040 cubic feet per second, one of the largest discharges of freshwater from any river in the Southeast. (One cubic foot equals about 7.4 gallons.) The gauge at Clyo, approximately 61 miles upstream of the mouth of the Savannah, is the most downstream gauge that records river discharges. Below this point, the Savannah is tidally influenced, and conventional river-flow measurement is unreliable.
The river provides drinking water to two of Georgia’s major metropolitan areas, Augusta and Savannah, and assimilates their treated wastewater. It is also a source of drinking water for the cities of Beaufort and Hilton Head in South Carolina and for many smaller municipalities in the basin. In addition, the Savannah supplies water for the Savannah River Site, which includes the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, in South Carolina, as well as for the two nuclear reactors of Plant Vogtle, a major electricity-generating facility operated by Georgia Power Company in Burke County.
On the coast, the Savannah River is the shipping channel for the Port of Savannah, the nation’s tenth-busiest port for oceangoing container ships, which is operated by the Georgia Ports Authority. Before emptying into the Atlantic, the Savannah forms a braided network of tidal creeks, salt marshes, and freshwater marshes, much of which constitutes the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, one of Georgia’s prime bird-watching spots.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Unusual story goes with this Mystery Photo
There’s an interesting story that comes with this photo. See if you can find out about it, and report back where the photo was taken, and give a glimpse of the interesting tidbit. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and list your hometown.
Last week Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill, was one responding to this photo: “This is the Great Hunger Memorial at the Ennistymon Famine Memorial site in County Clare, Ireland. It was the first memorial to An Gorta Mor (the great famine) in Ireland. It was designed by Allan F. Ryan Halls, an artist from Valencia Island, County Kerry. It was built on the grounds of a 19th century workhouse (where an estimated 20,000 Irish people died) and a mass graveyard for children who perished and were buried without coffins.
“One side of the sculpture depicts a child standing before the workhouse door while the other slab shows the head of an anguished mother with two hands clenched in frustration and an 1848 note pleading with work house authorities to let in the 4-year-old orphan boy, Michael Rice, and feed him so he won’t starve. This account is about a note that was pinned to the torn shirt of a barefoot orphan who had been left, in the freezing cold, at the workhouse door on Feb. 25, 1848.
“The note read, “Gentlemen, there is a little boy named Michael Rice of Lahinch aged about four years. He is an orphan, his father having died last year and his mother has expired on last Wednesday night, who is now about being buried without a coffin unless ye make some provision for such. The child in question is now at the workhouse gate expecting to be admitted, if not he will starve.”
“This memorial was dedicated in 1995 to mark the 150th anniversary of the great famine that wiped out about 1 million victims of the island’s great potato crop failure between 1845-1852 which also forced an additional 1 million Irishmen to leave the country. I’m so glad someone sent in this photo because I didn’t know about this memorial and it made me feel like crying.”
Among others commenting on this photo were George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Stan Burns, Lawrenceville; Allen Peel, San Antonio, Tex.; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; and Sara Rawlins, Lawrenceville. The photo came from John Titus of Peachtree Corners.
Have dessert with Chef and Author Jonathon Scott Barrett on November 17 at 7 p.m. at the Duluth branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. He will share highlights from his book, Cook and Celebrate: A Collection of Southern Holiday and Party Culinary Traditions.
Learn more about doing business with the county. The Gwinnett County Purchasing Division offers a meeting on Thursday, November 17 at 9 a.m. and again at 2 p.m. on this subject. During the one-hour virtual clinic, Purchasing and Transportation staff will share information about the different divisions of Transportation, current and upcoming opportunities, and how to do business with the County. Register for one of the two virtual sessions at gcga.us/QuarterlyClinicSignup.
Sing the Messiah: Join with Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church and members of Gwinnett Symphony Chorus on Sunday, November 20 at 3 p.m. to start the Christmas season off with a Messiah Sing Along/ This event is free to all and all are welcomed. Audience members are invited to sing or simply sit back and enjoy the performance. The Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church is at 800 Lawrenceville Highway.
Cravin’ the Bacon Walk 2022 in downtown Braselton will be on December 1, from 5 to 9 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at $35 a person, and purchasers must be 16 years of age and older.
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