GwinnettForum | Number 22.33 | May 9, 2023
NEW SIGNEES FOR IMPACT 46: Summer of Impact Signing Day was held at Central Gwinnett High School, where the City of Lawrenceville, Impact 46, Central Gwinnett High School, Discovery High School, and Hearts to Nourish Hope kicked off the Summer of Impact internship program for the fifth year. The students include, from left, Wynter Walker, Kennedy Bryant, Alejandra De La Luz, Leilani McFarland, Valery Valdez Ramos, Kennedy Randolph, Kennedy McNeal, Rahima Coulibaly, Christine Le, Denis Gashi, Adarius Bryant. Not pictured is another signee, Madison Harris. A total of 58 students applied from Discovery High School and Central Gwinnett High School. After completing a multi-step interview process, the final 12 students were selected and offered positions with local businesses.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Williams will seek Gwinnett Superior Court seat
EEB PERSPECTIVE: California governor has patience, waiting in the briar patch
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
ANOTHER VIEW: McConnell, McCarthy need to really move on the budget
FEEDBACK: Justice Thomas must have heard this said in court
UPCOMING: Medical School in Suwanee to graduate nearly 300 on May 23
NOTABLE: Whataburger officially opens Buford location on May 10
RECOMMENDED: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Celestine Sibley was renowned Southern journalist and author
MYSTERY PHOTO: Squat figure asks you where it is located
LAGNIAPPE: County purchases mobile police vehicle for $1 million
CALENDAR: The 10th Gwinnett Multicultural Festival will be Saturday, May 13
Tuwanda R. Williams will seek Gwinnett Superior Court seat
(Special to GwinnettForum)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | The 2024 political season is beginning to warm up, as a candidate has announced for a retiring judge’s seat for Gwinnett Superior Court.
Tuwanda Rush Williams, who has served as a senior assistant county attorney and a deputy county attorney in the Gwinnett County Attorney’s Office for the past nearly 18 years, will run for the Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge seat being vacated by Judge Karen Beyers. Her last day as a county employee will be May 17, 2023.
In her previous position, she handled both transactional and litigation matters for Gwinnett County government elected officials, departments, offices, and the judicial system. She has lived in Gwinnett for 23 years, and is a native of Rochester, N.Y. She remembers spending summers and holidays in Orangeburg and Kingstree, S.C. with relatives.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Syracuse University and a Juris Doctorate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. She has been a resident of Gwinnett County since December 2000 and is a longtime member of Friendship Baptist Church in Duluth, where she has co-taught Wednesday Night Bible Study to high school students and served on the Finance, Greeters and Marriage Ministries.
She is married to Dr. Anthony Williams, an Army veteran and retired educator. They have two adult children. Anthony is a youth and adult minister in Fairburn, and Autumn is a chemist with Prizere Corporation and will start pharmacy school in Chapel Hill, N.C. in August.
Ms. Williams has been a member of the Georgia Bar since 1992. Her legal experience is expansive, with over 25 areas of the law. She also is a long-time member of the Gwinnett County Indigent Defense Committee.
Prior to her employment with the Gwinnett County Department of Law, Ms. Williams was employed with the City of Atlanta Law Department. Her legal experience also includes four years in private practice.
The candidate served as an officer of the Gwinnett County Bar Association for five years, being president of the organization in June 2013. She was the first African American officer of the Gwinnett Bar Association in its 60-plus year history. She is also a 2015 graduate of the 30th Anniversary Class of Leadership Gwinnett, and she has served on various “learning day” committees, including Glance Gwinnett, since her graduation.
Since 2005, Tuwanda has performed dozens of hours of community service through nonprofit organizations such as Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Peachtree Rose Club, Family Promise of Gwinnett County, and the former Rotary Club of Gwinnett Tomorrow. She also received the Phoenix Award from the Gwinnett Chapter of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers in November 2022. She has received recognition as a “Trailblazer” of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys and as a finalist for the “Pay It Forward Award” of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Moxie Awards.
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California governor has patience, waiting in the briar patch
Newsom, left, with President Joe Biden in 2021. White House photo.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
MAY 9, 2023 | Given the current political circumstances, you can see why there are few viable Democratic candidates for president in 2024.
Democrats feel that President Joe Biden is doing a good job as the leader of the nation, passing numerous bills through the Congress, in spite of having nothing less than staunch opposition from the leadership-less Republicans. Why challenge a successful first-term Democratic president?
Future Democratic presidential candidates also realize that they don’t want to go through being beat up over and over by Donald Trump (if he is the Republican standard bearer.) Why go through what will almost for sure be continual condemnation of them and their family, the way Trump always bullies people?
Then consider: why go up against a sitting-President Biden if you are almost sure to lose the Democratic nomination. Though all in the party are concerned about Biden’s age, it just doesn’t seem worth it to put your name out there when you know Biden will likely have no trouble being the nominee of the party.
Then there’s what appears to be another logical argument. With former President Trump facing multiple lawsuits in the next year, who’s to say he’ll be the party nominee? It is looking more likely that Trump will be spending lots of time in court in the next 18 months, and not be able to spend as much time on the campaign trail. Will the GOP realize this, and feel it necessary to dump Trump and nominate someone else, like DeSantis of Florida? He doesn’t have the baggage that Trump has, though he has his own similar faults.
Meanwhile, one key Democratic figure who seems like B’rer Rabbit, just hiding in the briar patch, is California Governor Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats look upon Newsom as a viable future presidential candidate. Now age 55, he is perfectly set to run for president in 2028. The most likely opponent for the nomination could be another Californian, Vice President Kamala Harris, who now holds a more visible current stage than Newsom.
But look around: are there other major named Democratic possibilities? None jump into the mind quickly. Perhaps the fact that assuming Joe Biden runs for a second term and will likely win the nomination, why should any other Democrat get involved now when mounting a viable campaign for president is so far-fetched?
About Newsom: he’s a fourth generation San Franciscan, who at age 36 became the youngest mayor of that city in 100 years. He held the position for two terms, and then was elected lieutenant governor of the state, also for two terms. He won the election for governor in 2018, and again in 2022, after easily surviving a 2021 recall election.
Childhood wasn’t easy for Newsom, who has dyslexia. It has challenged his abilities to write, spell, read, and work with numbers. Throughout his schooling, Newsom had to rely on a combination of audiobooks, digests, and informal verbal instruction. Meanwhile, he was an athlete, in basketball and baseball, and graduating in political science from Santa Clara University on a baseball scholarship.
In 1991, Newsom and associates started a winery, which has been successful. The company has grown to manage 23 businesses, including wineries, restaurants and hotels.
The lack of major Democratic presidential figures make it even more likely that Gavin Newsom will continue to stay in the limelight as the effective California governor back there in the brier patch, just willing to come out when needed.
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McConnell, McCarthy need to really move on the budget
Social Security card, front and back, top and bottom, Form OA-702. Rev. (9-61)
“Even many Republicans stand for protecting Social Security and Medicare—but they’ve shown they can’t be trusted to keep that promise.”– Social Security Works (Feb. 7, 2023) .
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | GOP congressmen are up in arms over President Biden’s daring to say that Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare. After a fact check by several sources, we found that the president spoke the truth.
The progressive Social Security Works group does not trust Republicans and neither do many other liberal groups. And for good reason. The GOP has a long history of attacking these programs via indirect means.
Former President Trump vowed to save and protect Social Security and Medicare. Contrary to his promise, he then appointed, and the Senate confirmed on a party line vote, Sandy Springs’ Rep. Tom Price as the head of Department of Health and Human Services. Price, as well as then House Speaker Paul Ryan, wanted to do away with traditional Medicare and raise the age of eligibility for Social Security.
Neither suggested the better alternative, doing away with the maximum taxable amount under Social Security. The cap is $160,200 for 2023. The wealthy pay nothing into Social Security after that amount, even if they make millions.
As for Medicare, I do not want to hear the GOP say yet again that the only way to save it is to do away with it by making it a voucher program, dumping costs on seniors. Instead, how about doing away with the expensive Medicare Advantage program? It was originally touted as a way to save money via privatization, but is riddled with fraud and has cost taxpayers more every year.
Instead of slashing hard won entitlement benefits, cut elsewhere and raise revenues to balance the budget. Other federal government programs should be evaluated based on costs and benefits and funding for ineffective programs should be modified. Perhaps the best place to cut is on military spending, which is out of control and has gone from $46 billion in 1960 to $778 billion under Trump! (Can you imagine?) Planes, tanks, and other items in the budget primarily because of lobbying by the industrial military complex, (Ike’s timeless phrase), need to be deleted.
And raise taxes to make them equitable for all. For a start, how about repealing the ridiculous Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, who don’t need the extra income. And we can slash other forms of corporate welfare, such as government payments to oil companies and corporate farms.
There are 101 areas that really do need cuts and more monitoring for fraud and abuse, but I think we all get the picture. The sick and elderly can’t adequately defend themselves. There are no powerful lobbyists pressuring Congressmen on their behalf.
The current crop of conservatives have poor memories. Bill Clinton and a GOP Congress stopped the rise in deficits by balancing the budget without cutting domestic programs like Medicare and Social Security. The GOP and Clinton worked together to: a) cut military expenditures; b) grow the economy; and c) increase taxes equitably.
If McConnell and McCarthy want to work with Biden to balance the budget, it can be done again. They just have to work at it, which at present, they are obviously not doing.
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Justice Thomas must have heard this phrase in court
Editor, the Forum:
“Ignorance of the law is not a defense.”
Clarence Thomas must have heard this saying many times in his long career. Every traffic court judge in the country has told it to a defendant at least once. He needs to step down and a replacement found. I do believe that the man or woman that replaces him should be black so that the racial integrity is maintained. This is more important now than ever before.
– Larry Parks, Bovey, Minn.
Raises several issues as he wonders why
Editor, the Forum:
I wonder why?
I wonder why so many Americans support a potential criminal to become president again.
I wonder why so many Americans support a possible rapist to become president again.
I am confused by why so many Americans support a racist for the presidency.
I don’t understand why Republicans want an incompetent president.
I can’t comprehend why Republicans want a president who bans books.
I wonder why so many Americans want a president who encouraged the overthrow of our government.
I can’t understand why Republicans believe neo-fascism isn’t an outcome of their policies.
Would somebody please answer these questions?
– Alan Schneiberg, Sugar Hill
On second thought, he understands this problem
Editor, the Forum:
Your take on a unified effort in our country against gun violence makes a lot of sense. These mass-shooting tragedies will continue to happen across our land unless something like this happens. Beyond that, certain guns do not need to be in the hands of private citizens. Why Congress doesn’t understand this, I’ll never know? Wait, I think I do know.
– Billy Chism, Toccoa
Would like to see off-track betting in Georgia
Editor, the Forum:
Just finished watching the Kentucky Derby. I thought how great it would have been to have placed my bet this morning at the Sandy Springs Off Track Betting parlor and come back home and watch my horse win.
I don’t quite understand the opposition of the Republicans, who are supposed to be so libertarian, to parimutuel betting. How is this so different from the lottery?
– Alvin Johnson, Sandy Springs
Dear Alvin: Parimutuel is not much different from the Georgia Lottery, I suppose. Yes, I enjoy horse racing and the Triple Crown chase, too, and watch racing on television. Yet still, I don’t want to see Open Gambling (like Open Carry) passed in Georgia. Let’s let that tax money go somewhere else.–eeb
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Medical school in Suwanee to graduate nearly 300
Close to 300 newly minted physicians, pharmacists, physical therapists, physician assistants, medical laboratory scientists and biomedical scientists will graduate from PCOM Georgia on Tuesday, May 23. The formal commencement ceremony will be held at the Gas South District, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth, beginning at 1 p.m.
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Family members and friends who have supported the students through their doctoral and master’s degree programs are invited to witness their loved ones’ accomplishments as they walk across the stage to receive their diplomas. Earlier in the month, honors brunches, a military pinning ceremony honoring PCOM Georgia’s five military graduates, an awards reception, and a graduation barbecue will be held.
Julie Ginn Moretz, the chief experience officer/assistant vice president, patient- and family- centered care at Augusta (Ga.) University Health will address the graduates. Inspired by her son Daniel’s battle with heart disease, Moretz has spent a large part of her career as a family leader improving health care for patients and families.
Highlights of her career include serving on the national Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s Advisory Panel and being the first public patient/community member named to the board of directors for the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. She is a recipient of the Woman of Excellence in Health Care Award, the American Heart Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and was honored in Washington, D.C., with the National Healthcare Industry Access Initiative Make a Difference Award.
Snellville author and retired educator has new book out
Marlene Buchanan of Snellville has a new book out. It’s called Tips, Tricks and Techniques, a self-directed approach to easier learning. It is available in paperback from Amazon at $10.99. Marlene, a retired educator, continues to teach the Tips, Tricks, and Techniques curriculum in Senior Centers, Special Needs Programs, and other settings. She is an award-winning author for her Southern Humor and Cozy Mysteries. Marlene shares her humor and inspirations through public speaking, writing columns for various print and on-line magazines, and novels.
Whataburger officially opens Buford location on May 10
A national fast-food restaurant chain is coming to the Atlanta area. Whataburger is an American regional fast food restaurant chain, headquartered and based in San Antonio, Tex., that specializes in hamburgers. It operates 900 restaurants nationwide.
The company will have a ribbon cutting in Buford at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 10. This location had its soft opening last November. This outlet is located at 2925 Buford Drive (Highway 20 at Brand Smart Way.
It now has restaurants in Kennesaw, Woodstock, and Cumming. Whataburger, in partnership with franchisee Made to Order Holdings, LLC, plans to open more than 50 restaurants in the Atlanta area over the next several years. New restaurants to come will be in Monroe, Covington, Dawsonville, Newnan, Kennesaw, Atlanta and in Snellville at Scenic Highway at North Road.
Operating Partner Willette Stephens, who oversees the restaurant, says: “It’s been exciting to see so many fans in the Buford area enjoy Whataburger’s customizable creations.”
Whataburger is open 24/7, 364 days a year (closed Christmas Day), with breakfast served from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: At the tender age of 19, Edmond Dantes has just been named captain of a successful merchant ship and is about to marry the girl of his dreams. But Edmond hasn’t taken into account the massive envy and wickedness of some of his acquaintances and how one false accusation can completely alter the course of his life. Soon framed and sentenced to a life of solitary confinement in a dungeon for a crime he didn’t commit, Dantes patiently devises an intricately woven plot of revenge against those responsible for his downfall. Set in the early 1800s, this story illustrates how effective revenge can be served ‘cold.’ What starts out simply becomes a beautifully structured, highly entertaining web of intrigue as the story moves quickly along. Farfetched? Yes. Satisfying? Yes! I rarely devour classic novels, but this one was a pure joy to read. I did not want it to end.
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Sibley was renowned Southern journalist and author
Celestine Sibley, a renowned Southern author, journalist, and syndicated columnist, reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999. Over her long career, she wrote more than 10,000 columns and many news stories of astonishing range, dealing with such varied topics as politics and key lime pie. Sibley was one of the most popular and long-running columnists for the Constitution, and her well-written and poignant essays on southern culture made her an icon in the South. Regarded by her colleagues as a reporting legend, Sibley was also the accomplished author of nearly 30 books published between 1958 and 1997.
Celestine Sibley was born in Holley, Fla., on May 23, 1914, to Evelyn Barber and Henry Colley. Sibley’s mother, later known as “Muv” in Sibley’s column, left her guisband and married Wesley Reeder Sibley, a lumberman from Creola, Ala. Adopted by her stepfather at the age of seven, the young Celestine was given his last name and spent her childhood in Creola, a small town on the outskirts of Mobile.
At age 15, Sibley, an ambitious student reporter at Murphy High School’s Hi Times, was hired as a weekend cub reporter at the Mobile Press Register. When she graduated in 1933, Sibley was offered her first full-time paid position at the Press.
During this time, Sibley married Press colleague and journalist James W. Little; the couple had three children together before he died at the age of 45. Sibley later married John C. Strong, who died in 1988.
In 1936, Sibley began writing for the Pensacola News-Journal. In the summer of 1941, her husband accepted a position with the Associated Press. Sibley began working at the Atlanta Constitution on July 21, 1941, assigned to the federal beat. Less than six months later, Pearl Harbor was attacked, the resulting staff depletion, she became one of the first female editors at the Constitution, working under the tutelage of Ralph McGill, whom she later described as her mentor.
Sibley was given her first column in 1944. Both full-time reporter and mother, Sibley was still able to become a front-page news and courtroom reporter, covering the “three governors controversy” in 1946 as well as many high-profile trials.
In the early 1950s, Sibley worked for five years as the Hollywood correspondent for the Sunday Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine, traveling to Los Angeles, and interviewing movie stars and filmmakers. Her profiles, which she later called “fluff stories,” included such celebrities as Clark Gable, Walt Disney, and Jane Russell.
From 1958 to 1978 Sibley covered politics, courts and the Georgia legislature, including the annual 40-day Georgia General Assembly. Sibley’s legislative reporting was considered fair, unbiased, and accessible to the general public.
Even after she retired from reporting in the late 1990s, Sibley continued to spend the majority of her days writing books, as well as continuing her columns about Southern life. In 1990 she received the Ralph McGill Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. She also received two honorary degrees during her career, one in 1993 from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., and another in 1996 from Emory University . A few months before her death, Sibley was awarded the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sibley died of cancer at the age of 85 on August 15, 1999. She continued working until the final weeks before her death, with her last regular Constitution column appearing on July 25, 1999. She was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2007 and into Georgia Women of Achievement in 2010.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Squat figure asks you where it is located
Today’s mystery is a beautiful wooden shaped figure that you might call a troll. Look at the intricate placement of pieces to make it look like a human figure. Figure where this photograph was taken and give us details about it. Send what you can about this figure to elliott@brack.net and be sure to tell us where you live.
One of Florence, Italy’s magnificent churches was the last mystery photo, sent in by Michael Blackwood of Duluth. Recognizing it were Barbara Dawson, Dahlonega; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.
Peel wrote: “Today’s mystery photo is of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. The word Novella means New in Italian. Considering that this church was built between 1279 and 1357 by Dominican friars, how in heaven’s name can anyone call this a ‘new’ church, especially since the facade is not only the oldest of all the churches in Florence, but it is also the only church with its original facade still in place today! This church was called Santa Maria ‘Novella’ because the Dominican Order decided to build a ‘new’ church and adjoining cloister on the site of the much older, 9th-century oratory of Santa Maria-delle-Vigne.”
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$1 million command vehicle: Gwinnett Police will purchase a Mobile Command Vehicle to provide a safe and centralized location for staff responding to critical incidents. The vehicle will provide a collaborative space during searches for missing persons, homicide investigations and responses to natural disasters. The Mobile Command Vehicle includes a tethered drone, mobile hotspots, multiple workstations, mobile video warrant system, body worn camera docking stations, printers and a restroom. The mobile command vehicle will be purchased from Ten-8 Fire and Safety, LLC for $1,668,824 and will be delivered to police in 2025. To see another drawing of what the bus will look like, click here.
10th Gwinnett Multicultural Festival will be Saturday
Lunch and Learn: How to Become an Entrepreneur will be Tuesday, May 9 at 11 a.m. at the Lilburn Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Learn how to start your own business and how to create a lender-ready business plan. Lunch will be provided.
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by exploring a local masterpiece. Discover the Mandir Hindu Temple and Hinduism Wednesday, May 10 at 4 p.m. at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, 460 Rockbridge Road, Lilburn.
The 10th Gwinnett Multicultural Festival and County Government Open House will be Saturday, May 13 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Gwinnett Place Mall on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth. Residents can enjoy the day with cultural performances from around the globe, bounce houses, carnival rides, touch-a-truck with public safety vehicles, and more. For more information, email PDCommunityAffairs@GwinnettCounty.com or call 678-442-6520. All ages are welcome at this free event.
The season’s final concert of the Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will be May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gas South Theater in Duluth. Composers to be heard include Lauridsen, Debussy, Garcia and Verdi. For details, visit GwinnettSymphony.org.
Understanding Medicare: Speak with a Specialist on Tuesday, May 16 at 11 a.m. at the Centerville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Get unbiased guidance from a Certified Medicare Counselor about costs and coverage, comparing options, and enrolling in plans.
Ribbon-cutting and reception of Leather and Lace Coffee and Company will be held at Braselton Civic Center 27 East Lake Drive, on Thursday, May 18, from noon until 2 p.m. Ribbon Cutting at 12:30 pm.
Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis will be in Suwanee at Town Center Park on May 20, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Over 2,000 walkers will raise funds and awareness for this rare, genetic disease that progressively limits the ability to breathe and has no cure. This will be the largest CF walk nationwide, and raised more than $2 million in 2022 to support these efforts. To get involved in Great Strides, call the Georgia Chapter at 404-325-6973 or visit: http://fightcf.cff.org/GreatStridesATL. Walk Day is a fun, family-oriented event with a healthy walk, food, and festivities.
Writing Workshop: Show, Don’t Tell: Why it Matters to Your Reader, will be Saturday, May 20, at 11 a.m. at the Lilburn Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Zachary Steele, author and founder of Broadleaf Writers, will take a deep dive into the process of drawing the most out of your characters and settings.
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