GwinnettForum | Number 22.20 | March 10, 2023
UKRAINIAN ART: An exhibition that features works by contemporary Ukrainian artists and creatives was on display recently. The works of these artists who continue to fight back show images of the world that could be, and not the one disfigured by the war. Milton resident Laura Suggs, was especially impacted by the display and purchased two of the works. From left are: Greg and Laura Suggs and artists Olga Gorman and Iryna Kalyuzhna. Artworks by Ukrainians that were not sold are still available at Ansley Real Estate office in Alpharetta. Profits benefit HelpingUkraine.us, a local humanitarian relief organization raising funds to help distribute medical supplies, blankets, generators, stoves, and other vital materials to the citizens of Ukraine.
A REMINDER: Yes, it sneaks up on us. Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday. Set your clock forward one hour on Saturday night!
TODAY’S FOCUS: Is corporate greed the source of many of our problems?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Early Realtor Jim Hood and why Gwinnett grew
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering the 1970s, and Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl
FEEDBACK: Was not aware that anyone felt bad for rats
UPCOMING: County names Cephasto as is new fire chief
NOTABLE: PCOM students complete mission trip to Guatemala
RECOMMENDED: Confessions by Kanae Minato
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Three counties once came together in what is now Winder
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this six story classic building?
LAGNIAPPE: Southwest Chamber names Corbin Blue “Character” winner
CALENDAR: Civic breakfast, Women’s History Month
Is corporate greed the source of many of our problems?
“Greed needs Guardrails”! – Robert Reich.
By Ashley Herndon
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | This expansion of greed needs journalists and the owners of media to take notice and act. Where are Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Jack Anderson, and William Serrin in today’s media? My best guess is the current corporate owners will not hire them unless they lie like the actors under the thumb of people like Fox, Newsmax, One America and ilk. There is enough muck out there just waiting for the next class of muckrakers. It is time to “Get ‘er done!”
Herndon
However, elected officials like DeSantis, Abbott, Noem, Haley, McCarthy, Jordan, and others have made and are trying to create regulations banning muckraker articles and expositions. Can you imagine putting a teacher in jail while allowing dunces to walk around in public with battle grade armament and kill students and shoppers. Gather the automatic weapon proponents and their guns, and allow those who feel they must own one to go help Ukraine. That country needs them,
The decade of 100 years ago {1920-1929} is replaying itself in this century.
- Example: migrant children coming into the United States from Latin America without their parents, who are fleeing violence and poverty, have ended up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country.
- Example: A not-properly-maintained train carrying dangerous chemicals derails, causing the toxic plume that is sickening people in East Palestine, Ohio.
- Example: Rather than investing in proper maintenance and intuitive internal improvements, too many corporations are buying back stock for personal gain. It’s corporate gimme gimme gimme!
There are other examples in ever increasing numbers because of slashing federal and state regulations during the 1980s, the first decade of the 2000s, and guess what…continued under Donald J. Trump.
Greed is making life dangerous for ever greater numbers of people while Kevin McCarthy and crew are dedicated to wanting to slash more safety and equitable solutions, even Social Security and Medical assistance. That is no surprise. Corporate personhood made greed legal and that has made life difficult and dangerous for ever greater numbers of people.
Many, especially the Neo-Fascists hiding under the false guise of being Republicans, and posing for the corporate persons’ who bought them, and are committed to shifting costs and risks on to those who do the actual work. This is merely because they need to build another vacation home or buy a bigger yacht.
Ask yourself, would you do the jobs in animal slaughterhouses for $30 to $50 an hour, much less the pitiful pay the children are receiving?
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not surprised by a train wreck or of companies hiring children. If the Neo’s hiding under the GOP tent had not supported massive cuts in regulations, such would not have occurred. Greed, both personal and corporate, is making life dangerous and fearful for more average people.
Poverty is violence, bestowed upon living, breathing people by greed.
Poverty is on purpose. The philosophy of the Confederacy has not gone away.
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Early Realtor Jim Hood and why Gwinnett grew
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
MARCH 10, 2023 | Back when Gwinnett was just beginning its growth in the 1960s, Realtors were not so numerous in the county as they were later. Jim Hood of Lawrenceville, who died in Monroe last week, had a “catbird seat” to watch Gwinnett grow, as he was in real estate since 1964.
He told me in 2007: “Back then, there was no Board of Realtors, which only started in 1970, when we had only six people in the business in the entire county. At the end of 2022, NAMAR (National Association of Metro Atlanta Realtors, the successor to the Board of Realtors) in Gwinnett had 6,033 members!
When the Board of Realtors began in 1970, the late Boyd Duncan was its first president, and two years later, Jim Hood headed the organization. (See list of past presidents by clicking here.) Jim was also later president of the statewide Georgia Association of Realtors.
In the 2007 interview, Hood remembered when Gwinnett had about 40,000 residents: “There were no shopping centers as we came to know them. The first McDonalds in the county was in Lawrenceville on South Clayton Street.”
Then something happened to stimulate growth, as Jim remembered: “It was in 1964 when Gwinnett joined the Atlanta toll-free telephone area. Some living in Atlanta found it to be a beautiful, quiet and charming place to live and they said ‘This is just the place for us.’ Since then Gwinnett’s population has doubled about every ten years since that secret leaked out.”
Hood
ood said back then “By and large, newcomers have been welcomed into Gwinnett with open arms. But newcomers created the need for more and wider roads, shopping, water, natural gas, schools, parking, athletic facilities…to make this a better place for themselves and their children. Therefore, it’s been the non-natives that caused the growth of the county.”
He added: “Some of us were in business before most people in Gwinnett came to the county, while others went into business here because of the newcomers.”
Though not a developer but someone who majored in real estate sales, Jim had a warm spot in his heart for those working in development. “How about a little slack for the developers, builders and Realtors who provided what the county needed so that newcomers could join the people who made up this great county? After all, the developers take the financial risk to provide products, and without their risk, this growth of people wouldn’t be here! By the way, would you want a bankrupt developer to build your house? What’s wrong with developers making money?”
Then he said: “Most of us are glad most of you (newcomers) are here. Just remember, we were here first, and you owe it to the next generation of new Gwinnett residents to be as kind and accommodating to them as we were to you. We were born here, and to us, Gwinnett’s always been home.”
Hood listed three reasons for Gwinnett’s long-term growth:
- Gwinnett has its own water intake in Lake Lanier.
- Growth of substantial modern highways feeding into Atlanta, led by former Sen. Steve Reynolds.
- Building of a two-way feed to supply water for residents all around the county. In 1974, water was running dry in Snellville because of the one-way feed. The county built a 48 inch water feed line around the eastern part of the county, and a 30 inch main around the western portion, providing water from two directions, resulting in adequate supply for the county.
Jim Hood: (1938-2023): May you rest in peace.
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Remembering the 1970s, and Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl
By David Simmons
NORCROSS, Ga. | Everybody in my age group just has to have a story, a memory about the song by The Looking Glass, Brandy You’re a Fine Girl. It was everywhere in 1972.
Simmons’ 1970 Ford Mustang
My story goes back to 1966. When the United Auto Workers, went out on strike, my dad, who worked Light Up and Break Down at the Indianapolis Ford Steering Plant on East Washington Street, being a good Union member, decided to go out and find temporary employment, since he had no idea how long the strike would last.
He hired on at Custom Metal Industries (CMI), owned and operated by Don Pope. I was only 11 years old, so the particulars are beyond me. He worked for Don until the strike ended, but the good will forged by my father came back and blessed me five years later.
At the end of my sophomore year in high school, when I was 16, my dad took me over to Custom Metal Industries and introduced me to Don. He told Don I needed a summer job. Don smiled, and said, “If he is able to do half as good as you did, your son’s got a job with me.”
So that began a string of five out of six summers I worked at Custom Metal. The only exception was the summer of gas lines and inflation (1973), where the economy was so bad that Don couldn’t use me, or any other temporary summer help, as usual, even though it was the peak time for his business. So instead I went to Toledo, Ohio to find work. (That is a whole another story for another time.)
But in the summer of 1972 I was starting my third summer at CMI. Summer being the busy season, Don had also hired a friend of mine, Fred Carpenter, who was without wheels at the time. Therefore, every weekday morning that summer I picked Fred up in my 1970 Ford Mustang at his house at 10 minutes after 7 so we could make it to work by 7:30.
We always listened to WIFE 1300 AM in my Mustang on the way to work, and every morning that entire summer at 7:15 they played Brandy You’re a Fine Girl.
And Fred and I rocked it out. I mean, we sang along and rocked side to side so much that there were times that I was afraid we were going to flip the car over on its side. And because of that song, we always arrived at work in a good frame of mind, enthusiastic, happy and eager to put in a good day’s work.
So, whenever Brandy You’re a Fine Girl comes on the stereo, my mind goes back to that summer of 1972. If your memories are half as good as mine, you probably had a great summer too.
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Was not aware that anyone felt bad for rats
Editor, the Forum:
A recent article in the New York Times told of the many rat traps over the ages, and how some people wanted to catch mice humanely.
I was not aware anyone felt bad for the rats. They are very destructive to buildings and carry many diseases. The black plague which killed millions of people and many other diseases. Many people would die from starvation without control—as much as 40-50 percent of the food supply would be contaminated.
In New York City, there are four rats for every human. It is a war trying to keep the number controlled with the technology pest control companies have now. If you went to live trapping many stores and small companies could not have safe areas because the cost would triple.
The EPA is already taking many baits off the market, with the industry trying to develop new methods to replace working baits in California, and now coming to other states. We only control the number of rats.
They do get smarter. As we find new ways to eradicate them, then we have to get smarter again. What if they get a new disease to share with humans—they are in nasty trash areas—-often trash that has been thrown out with medical disease at hospitals. Covid type disease could be shared. Wait till the rat lovers start dying or starving. That might change their minds about rat control!
– Sammy Baker, Contractors Best Pest Solutions, Buford
Comment on UGA football team, coach hit nail on the head
Editor, the Forum:
Your most recent column about the University of Georgia football team and its coach hit the nail on the head. And this is from a loyal Georgia Bulldog.
– Billy Chism, Toccoa
Has first-hand experience of 5 hospitals on recent list
Editor, the Forum:
Let me definitely agree with story on the first five hospitals on the list. I know nothing about the other ones. Emory Hospital and Northside Hospital have great staff and doctors. They make you forget about your surgery fright.
I am all about the Front Desk Staff being friendly and kind. I was a supervisor for Front Desk staff.
– Malakah Banath Yasharahla , Forest Park
As a people, we seem to have less backbone than before
Editor, the Forum:
We are certainly blessed to have great healthcare facilities close by.
In response to “Do nothing” Congress, just a reminder there is more than one body in our system. In my opinion both parties should be ashamed of their results and fiscal irresponsibility; it’s exasperating as a taxpayer to see how wasteful our so-called leaders are.
Too much pork /largess will eventually move us as a nation headed towards hard times. We borrow money to pay back money we borrow. Why don’t we wake up?
I love watching college football; however, although I was never on the team in high school, some of my buddies were kicked off the team if caught or heard using coarse language \; disrespecting a teacher; smoking (not much drinking back then) etc, etc. We as a people appear today to have less moral backbone but that’s another story .
– John Moore, Duluth
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County names Cephas as is new fire chief
Gwinnett County has a new fire chief, as the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners have approved a recommendation by County Administrator Glenn Stephens to appoint Fred Cephas to the role. Current Gwinnett County Fire Chief Russell Knick, who has served since 2018, will move into a leadership position within the County Administrator’s Office.
Stephens says: “With his military background and over 20 years of experience in Gwinnett Fire and Emergency Services, Fred brings a wealth of knowledge to his new role as chief. As deputy chief, he strengthened operations within the department and increased trust within the community, and I look forward to seeing where he leads the department in the future. At the same time, we are fortunate to retain Russell’s experience and leadership as he transitions into a new role.”
As a teenager, he admired the hard work and dedication of firefighters in his hometown of Mobile, Ala., and believes his life has come full circle. Cephas found his passion to serve in 1996 when he joined the United States Air Force. After basic training, he was assigned to the Louis F. Garland Fire Academy where he trained as a Department of Defense Aircraft Rescue Firefighter. Following his military service, the veteran firefighter served the Winston-Salem Fire Department before launching his Gwinnett County career in 2001.
Serving in the field alongside first responders while they answered emergency calls during an arctic blast that swept the nation over the past holiday season counts as one of Cephas’ most memorable moments in Gwinnett. He cited the commitment, resilience, professionalism and courage he witnesses as the reason he is proud to lead the department.
The new fire chief’s priorities are continuing to work on retention and team building within Fire and Emergency Services and supporting other departments and agencies in the county government. His promotion is effective April 1.
Cephas holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA from Shorter University. He is also a graduate of Leadership Gwinnett 2019.
Deluca-Johnson joins staff of Railbow Village
Deluca-Johnson
Cheryl Deluca-Johnson has joined Rainbow Village as its Special Projects Coordinator. She is the former CEO of Street Grace, Women’s Program Supervisor at MARR Addiction Treatment Center, and a consultant with World Hope International. She has also served on the board of the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia and the strategic planning committee for Annandale Village. She has lived in Gwinnett County for five decades. The wife of sportscaster Ernie Johnson, she has been “MOM” to six children – four of whom were adopted, and three with special needs. When not working with the nonprofit, you can find her playing with her five grandchildren, swinging a racquet on a tennis court, or worshiping with the congregation at 12Stone Church.
PCOM students complete mission trip to Guatemala
At the volcano Pacaya, Guatemala, are PCOM students Shrey Patel, Ahmedabad, India; Jessica Meredit, Marietta;Maddy Felice, Cumming; Meghan Pommier, Brandon, Fla.; and Alice Manning, Marietta. Pacaya’s elevation is 8,373 feet above sea level.
Sixteen Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine students and faculty members exchanged their Christmas holidays for a mission trip to Guatemala where they impacted the lives of almost 1,000 patients.First, second and third year DO students, along with a DO student from the PCOM South Georgia campus, staffed several clinics located near Antigua, some in remote mountainous areas.
Donald Penney, MD, the chair of clinical education and a clinical professor of emergency medicine at PCOM Georgia, served as the chief medical officer for the trip arranged through International Medical Relief, a nonprofit mission organization headquartered in Colorado.
During the trip, the students’ routine included debriefing sessions each day after clinics to discuss issues related to the day’s work. Some of the students used their free day to hike Pacaya, an active volcano. Manning was fascinated to see a Guatemalan cooking a pizza on top of lava at the volcano’s peak.
Dr. Penney, who noted that the Guatemala trip was dedicated to the memory of PCOM Georgia Doctor of Osteopathic student Danny Martinez, is planning another mission trip to Tanzania this summer through International Medical Relief. The organization is active in multiple countries and provides hotel lodging, transportation to and from the clinics, as well as some meals. In addition, the organization provides medications, eyeglasses and dentistry, along with follow-up care for patients needing attention after the clinics.
According to first year DO student Alice Manning (DO ’26), the trip to Guatemala was “an amazing and eye-opening experience.” She said, “Spending five days in clinics opened my eyes to the poor healthcare system in Guatemala and how much of a difference we can make by volunteering, donating medications, and providing health care through mission trips.”
She added: ““In the United States, we take for granted having clean water, being taught at a young age to wash your hands, and how to brush and floss our teeth. As a medical student sometimes you are so focused on treating the ailment that you can forget the importance of prevention and giving your patients the knowledge.”
Confessions by Kanae Minato
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: Set in Japan, this quick read tells the story of a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter was murdered by one of her own students. The teacher knows who did it but, instead of turning the student over to the police, she tells her students there is a murderer in their midst and she is going to get her own revenge. What follows is a cleverly written twisted tale, ever so slowly revealing more and more, until there is a disturbing but satisfying outcome. The story is told from different points of view so you see the flawed thinking of each narrator and you can never be quite sure where the story is going. True, it’s about pre-teens and is pretty far-fetched. And, occasionally, it drags. But the plot is about punishment and it gets better as it goes along. I would have entitled this book Revenge. A good beach read.
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Three counties once came together in what is now Winder
Snodon, Jug, Jug Tavern, and Brandon are all former names for the city of Winder, the county seat of Barrow County in northeast Georgia. Encompassing nearly 11 square miles and located 42 miles northeast of Atlanta, Winder is now considered an Atlanta bedroom community.
Originally Winder extended from the railroad crossing of Broad Street (then Jefferson Road) into three counties—Jackson, Walton, and Gwinnett—which came together at the center of town, causing much confusion in matters of governance. The situation was remedied in 1914 when Governor John M. Slaton signed a constitutional amendment creating Barrow County, and Winder became its county seat, thereby avoiding further territorial disputes.
Established as a trading center called Snodon by Creek and Cherokee Indians during the colonial period, Winder became an important railroad link between Athens and Atlanta by the turn of the 20th century. The Creeks and the Cherokees centered their activities around the area now occupied by Athens and Church streets, and white settlers arrived in the late 1700s. The settlement name of Snodon was changed to Jug and then ten years later to Jug Tavern, a name explained by stories ranging from the presence of a jug-shaped field to a popular tavern’s location. Incorporated in 1884, the town flirted briefly with a name change to Brandon before returning to Jug Tavern in 1890 and finally becoming Winder in 1893.
The town’s current name resulted from the arrival of the railroad. The Gainesville Midland Railroad built tracks along Midland Avenue in 1883, connecting Jug Tavern with Gainesville, Social Circle, Bethlehem, and Mulberry. The Georgia, Carolina, and Northern Railway, which later merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railway, first passed through town in 1892. Enterprising citizens offered the Seaboard Air Line Railway about 16 acres to bring the tracks through town, originally slated to pass four miles south of Jug Tavern. Townspeople were so delighted with the railway’s decision to relocate the tracks that they changed the town’s name to honor John H. Winder, the general manager of Seaboard.
The Barrow County Courthouse, the Jackson Street commercial historic district, the North Broad Street residential historic district, and the Richard B. Russell homestead are all on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fort Yargo, today a state park, was originally developed in 1792 to protect the area from Creek Indian attacks. The park includes a two-story log blockhouse, 18×22 feet and made of hand-hewn logs about 10 inches thick, that originally housed a well-armed detachment of settlers.
Notable residents of Winder include the Russell family. Richard B. Russell Jr., the longtime chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, was born in Winder in 1897. His father, Richard Russell Sr., a state legislator and Georgia supreme court justice, and Ina Dillard Russell, moved from Athens to Winder in 1894. In 1902 Russell Sr. founded a village named Russell along U.S. Highway 29 on the border of Winder, where he lived for the rest of his life. A collection of Russell Sr.’s papers, known as the “Winder Materials,” were found in the Record House and in the wagon shed on the Russell homeplace, and in 1981 the collection was given to the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia.
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Where is this 6-story classic building?
out this classic in building design. Note in particular the details found in its construction, something modern buildings seldom have. Now figure out where this building is located, and what its use is. Send your ideas to elliottt@brack.net, and include your hometown.
First to recognize the last Mystery Photo was Lou Camerio of Lilburn wrote: “This is the Arno River in Florence, Italy. The dome in the distance is of San Frediano in Cestello, which was the work of pioneer architect Filippo Brunelleschi, (1377-1446). Work on the church was started in 1680 and halted in 1689. The interior was built in the Baroque style and designed by Gherardo Silvani and Giulio Cerutti. Today it is a monastery and still very active.” (The photo came from Bobby Park of Brookhaven.)
Also recognizing the mystery were Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; and George Graf, Palmyra, Va.
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Blum is winner of SWGC’s Character Award for March
Winner of the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber’s “Character award” for March is Corbin Blum of Norcross High. From left are Jim and Kirstina Blum; Corbin Blum; and SWGC Board Member, William Corbin, who made the presentation. The award recognizes outstanding students whose attitudes and actions embody the organization’s mission, passion, and commitment to excellence and community action. Blum serves as the chair on the school’s student leadership council and has been selected for several academic honors societies. He participates in karate, ultimate frisbee, band, and golf.
Christ Church Men’s Civic Breakfast will hear Norcross Mayor Craig Newton at its March 11 meeting at the Activities Building of the church. The event starts at 8 a.m. and includes a full breakfast.
Celebrate Women’s History Month by starting or expanding your small business! Women-owned businesses are growing at a rapid rate and have become a vital sector of the economy. Refreshments will be provided. Empowering Women Entrepreneurs, Tools, Tips, and Resources for Women Small-Owned Businesses, will be presented on Tuesday, March 14 at 11 a.m. at the Norcross branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Registration is required to attend the workshop.
Firearm safety and security classes: Join Gwinnett Police to learn the guidelines and best practices for safe gun handling from police personnel. Classes will be held Wednesday, March 15 and Wednesday, April 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Gwinnett Police Training Center 854 Winder Highway in Lawrenceville. Youth who plan to attend must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. This class is not intended to teach firearm operation; its purpose is to teach safe firearm handling and storage. To sign up, fill out this registration form.
Public Forum: Gwinnett residents are invited to attend the Gwinnett Clean Community Forum on Thursday, March 16 at the Pinckneyville Park Community Recreation Center located at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Berkeley Lake from 5:30 to 7:30p.m. Attendees will hear presentations by Gwinnett Code Enforcement, Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, and Gwinnett Transportation on the collective efforts of the County and residents to keep Gwinnett a safe, livable, and healthy community. Those present will have the opportunity to share their neighborhood successes and ask questions.
Author Visit: Meet Author George Weinstein on Thursday, March 16, at 7 p.m. at the Suwanee branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. He will be speaking on “Why We Read and Write Historical Fiction.” Learn more about the importance of writing and reading family stories and treasuring forgotten history as George Weinstein discusses his newest historical novel, Return to Hardscrabble Road. Books will be available for sale and signing.
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