GwinnettForum | Number 22.28 | April 21, 2023
A STUDENT at Georgia Gwinnett College has devised a plan to recycle food waste into compost. Dr. James Russell and students K.J. Hartfield and Stephen Johnson work together to turn dining hall waste into compost. To learn more details about the program, see Upcoming below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Some American cities suffering from fiscal irresponsibility
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Book recounts criminal life of Dixie Mafia’s Billy Birt
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
ANOTHER VIEW:It’s high time to get something done about weapons
FEEDBACK: Remembers “preacher’s rooms” in Monroe County
UPCOMING: GGC’S “Roots to Shoots” program repurposes food waste
NOTABLE: GGC’s School of Business earns re-accreditation
RECOMMENDED: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Several reasons why this community is called Talking Rock
MYSTERY PHOTO: Free standing art piece is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Rohan Pai wins “Character Award” from SW Chamber
CALENDAR: April 22 is Drug Take Back Day at Gwinnett Police precincts
Some American cities suffering from fiscal irresponsibility
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | As a fiscal conservative, I have criticized both political parties for their mutual failure to balance the budget and reduce the national debt. The GOP has been disingenuous on this issue, lowering taxes on the wealthy while not cutting expenses. Under President Trump, our deficit reached new higher levels.
But a recently issued report on fiscal affairs, 2017-2021, and the 75 largest U.S. cities stunned me. The site, Truth in Accounting, said that the fiscal situation is getting more severe in several key cities which have Democrats as mayors, something played up by the Republicans. This is not surprising in that of the 100 largest U.S. cities, two-thirds are led by Democrats.
The city of Atlanta is ranked 25th regarding financial issues. On the positive side, it is improving, rated as a “B” because it “comes close to meeting its balanced budget requirement.” But barely. Atlanta has less than a million dollars in reserves. On the negative side, because the stock market went down in 2022 and pension funds are invested in it, expectations are that Atlanta’s rating will go down when the next report comes out.
The relatively good news is that debt per taxpayer decreased in New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Pittsburgh and Miami. But it was already outrageously high in these entities. The average New Yorker would owe $56,900 if the city were to pay off its debts. For the other cities, this is the cost per taxpayer to pay off their city’s debt: Philadelphia, $21,800; Dallas, $14,700; Pittsburgh, $14,600; and Miami, $14,000.
The even worse news: debt per resident is high and still increasing in these cities: Chicago, $41,900 (up 16%); Honolulu, $26,100 (up 14%); Portland, $23,400 (up 15%); New Orleans, $22,700 (up 33%);and St. Louis, $18,000 (up 8%). When will the officials running these cities wake up and address their looming disaster?
The fiscal deterioration of our major cities should not be ignored by the Democrats. On almost every domestic issue, Democrats lead the GOP in national polling, showing the Republicans are out of step with the average American. The one exception is prosperity, including fiscal integrity.
Gallup recently polled Americans, asking: “Looking ahead for the next few years, which political party do you think will do a better job of keeping the country prosperous?” The GOP came out ahead, 51% versus only 41% for the Democrats. Prior to 2010, the Democrats had been winning on this issue since World War II.
Falling confidence in the ability of the Democrats to keep our nation doing well (including fiscal integrity) is bound to hurt them long term at the ballot box in both state and national elections. People, at least the more responsible ones in both parties, want a balanced budget on every level of government.
It makes no sense for our largest municipalities to keep running deficits. They cannot go on adding debt forever. Will these cities eventually declare bankruptcy, stiffing those Americans holding their bonds? Many cities already have, including Detroit ($18 billion in debt), Stockton, and San Bernardino in California, Moffett, Okla. and Washington Park, IIll., which filed twice.
Unfortunately, we will just have to wait and see.
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Book recounts criminal life of Dixie Mafia’s Billy Birt
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
April 21, 2023 | Most people in Gwinnett may not have heard of the “Dixie Mafia.” That is the term applied years ago to white Southern gangsters operating in several areas, though not connected to the Italian Mafia members who hung around together operating in the northeast. The Dixie Mafia had many illegal operations outside the law in the South.
According to Wikipedia, these criminal gangs of Dixie Mafia operated independently and primarily in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama, particularly around the outer areas of the cities of Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Hattiesburg, Dallas, and Atlanta.
One gang of these criminals was centered in nearby Winder and Barrow County in the late 1960s and 1970s. Its leader, Billy Sunday Birt, is said to have murdered over 50 people, the number depending on who you talk to. He was mainly a contract killer, but quick to take offense at what people did or said to him. He was proficient in using dynamite (which he is said to have stolen from the Rock Quarry near Buford) to blow up homes, killing those inside with no notice, which apparently did not bother his conscience.
Birt
He ended up in prison for robbing the National Bank of Walton County in Loganville, and he robbed others. He also was later convicted of earlier murdering two people in a robbery in Wrens, Ga. and for this was sentenced to die. Later the death sentence was set aside and re-sentencing was ordered, which never happened. However, Birt spent the rest of his life, about 40 years, in prison, eventually suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, and hung himself in his cell.
Billy Birt’s wife, Ruby Nell Birt of Winder, has detailed facts about the Dixie Mafia and her husband in a book, Grace and disgraced, as told to a veteran newspaperman of Gainesville, Phil Hudgins. Though Ruby Nell Birt is essentially the author of the book, through the skilled writing of Hudgins, she is also the main victim of the story, as the long-suffering and innocent wife who often knew little of her husband’s criminal activity. She stuck by him through thick and thin, even while he was in prison. She would often take her children to visit him in the several prisons where he was incarcerated. She eventually divorced him, but stayed in contact. One of her happier times was when a sheriff got him released into his custody, so that one of his sons could baptize him in church before his whole family. He had never been in churches before. Then he was returned to prison.
Hudgins describes Ruby Nell Birt as a God-fearing, hard-working Christian woman, who had to work several jobs at a time to keep her five young children with her. Before he was locked up for the last time, Birt was often either was away into mischief, or was carousing with other women. He never discussed his illegal activities with his wife, though he would sometimes tell her about his other women. Strung out on drugs before his final arrest, Birt seldom provided the money his wife needed in raising the kids, and later could not provide any needs, since he was in prison.
The 406-page book goes into great detail in telling the Birt story. Passages in the book include Birt’s own words in letters written from prison.
The book is available for $24.95 at chartebooks.com, Amazon and at philhudgins.com.
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It’s high time to get something done about weapons
By Dan Bollinger
LOGANVILLE, Ga. | My question is now, and has been for a long time, is what part of the “well-regulated militia” do some people not understand? That’s particularly in the context of the Second Amendment.
Bollinger
I do not believe the framers of the Constitution intended unfettered military grade weapons to be standard fare for the populace. Militias are intended to defend the state, the state being defined as the whole of the nation. And militias are widely believed to avoid the necessity of a standing organized military. One could argue, since we do have a standing army, that there is no need for a militia, or the possibility of one.
Another concept I feel is misconstrued is that we need arms to protect ourselves from our own democratic republic government. This has been exacerbated by the conspiracy theories abounding today, theories though thoroughly and unequivocally debunked for the most part, drive some individuals and organizations to feel the need for weapons which only serve a purpose of killing human beings. Really?
All of the above being said, it is time for all of us to step back and get some perspective. Do we really need AR-15’s and the like on the street and readily available to anyone? For God’s sake, do not offer a rebuttal that the National Rifle Association offers, the good guy theory.
You really want to arm teachers? They are good guys, but 90 percent would not know how to react to an active shooter, nor would they want to. That is not an answer. That is only a political argument, to give cover for a politician looking for re-election.
Therein lies the problem affecting a lot of the issues facing our nation today. Our representatives today are responsive to lobbyists and their money, polls that influence voters, and the prestige that is extended to those duly elected. Most have forgotten the honor of serving and doing the right thing. Doing the right thing would mean making an honest effort to solve the issue of gun violence, comprehensively, without fear or favor to special interests no matter what it means for re-election.
Go re-read the Second Amendment (How many of you have?) Read all of it, as a complete concept, not a group of one-liners.
Anyone and everyone involved in policy, do something about his proliferation of weapons. It is high time!
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Remembers “preacher’s rooms” in Monroe County
Editor, the Forum:
There were many homes with “preacher’s rooms” in rural Monroe County, where I spent my childhood in the 50’s.
It was not unusual to find a family of five or six children living in a two bedroom with a “kitchen” and Living room. The exterior walls were “sealed” with cardboard from boxes to keep the heat in from an open fireplace, and to keep the cold out. Strangely, I never remember one of the homes catching fire.
It was easy to set up a softball game or a group to all chip in and pick strawberries when they were ripe. We all rode the same school bus that was driven by one of the kid’s fathers. It was definitely a different time. I feel blessed to have grown up in this era.
– Lou Camerio, Lilburn
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GGC’S “Roots to Shoots” program repurposes food waste
With more than 11,000 students and more than 1,000 faculty and staff, the dining hall at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) stays busy serving more than 3,000 meals daily. That can add up to a lot of food waste if all those diners don’t clean their plates. One student decided to find a way to repurpose all that organic material, making GGC’s dining operations more sustainable while at the same time providing a teaching tool to students.
Stephen D. Johnson, 28, a senior studying environmental science with a focus in natural science, developed the program he calls “Roots to Shoots” to solve food needs, food waste, and food production issues at GGC. The program takes food waste from the GGC dining hall and uses it for soil compost at GGC’s microfarm, which is used to grow fruits and vegetables for the dining hall and local food banks.
Johnson, a native of Jamaica, who now lives in Duluth, started the program as part of his capstone class project in the fall 2022 semester. It was through knowledge he’s acquired as an environmental science major. He and second-year environmental science student K.J. Hartfield, 23, of Dacula, collect food waste from the dining hall every Tuesday and Friday and take it to the microfarm compost system, where it begins the cycle that will end as fresh fruits and vegetables on meal plates for students and those in need.
He says: “I wanted to bring recognition to Georgia Gwinnett College and its environmental science program by engaging students with a hands-on experience that will equip them for the work world,” said Johnson. “GGC’s mission is to educate and contribute to the community, and with the Roots to Shoots program, it can fulfill this mission through education, sustainable farming practice and community engagement.”
GGC professor of biology Dr. James Russell said Johnson’s program is an excellent example of collaboration between different entities at the college and the local community. He says;
“A local non-profit organization donated the three-bin compost system we currently use at the microfarm, the GGC dining hall has been instrumental in collecting and sorting food waste for the compost system, GGC Fleet Services provide transportation twice a week for movement of food waste to the microfarm, and the GGC Environmental Science Department oversees the compost system and microfarm management. It’s an excellent example of the good that can be done when different areas work together.”
Johnson said the program’s current focus is on soil creation (“the roots”), and future efforts will be to develop sustainable agricultural practices and products (“the shoots”) that will be used for educational, environmental and social outreach. He hopes for Roots to Shoots to be incorporated into the college’s curriculum so that it continues to grow long after he’s graduated.
Johnson said he designed the program to teach students more than how to be self-sufficient. One of its main goals is to also teach them how to become leaders and teachers in their communities by equipping them with practical social science skills such as communication, reasoning and problem-solving, using math and science to find solutions as they work with students and community leaders both on and off campus.
“It’s a program all colleges can adopt,” said Johnson. “I would love to see this system adopted by other institutions so that we can keep this practice going because it’s beneficial to the environment and the people who live in it too.”
Taste of Lilburn will be April 29 at Salem Church
A Taste of Lilburn will be April 29 from 4-7 p.m. at Heritage Hall of Salem Missionary Baptist Church. It is sponsored by the Lilburn Woman’s Club. There will be over 20 restaurants participating. Tickets prior to the event are $10, and can be purchased online at www.TasteofLilburn.org. Tickets at the door will be $15.
GGC’s School of Business earns re-accreditation
Georgia Gwinnett College’s (GGC) School of Business (SBA) successfully earned re-accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), an international accreditation body.
Dr. Tyler Yu, dean of the college’s business school, says: “AACSB accreditation ensures both a high-quality standard of teaching, research, curriculum, and learner success, and a relevancy and impact to the communities the business school serves.”
The accreditation process involves rigorous internal focus. These standards require excellence in areas relating to strategic management and innovation, curriculum and assessment, and community engagement and societal impact. AACSB also reviews faculty qualifications and requires faculty and staff to be active participants in the school’s governance.
GGC joins more than 981 institutions across 60 countries and territories that have earned AACSB accreditation.
Lee is new volleyball coach at GACS
Lee
New volleyball coach at Greater Atlanta Christian School (GACS) is Crystal Lee, Athletic Director Tim Hardy announces. She was a GAC varsity assistant coach during the 2022 season, and played an instrumental role for the Spartans’ state championship team. She previously coached at Johns Creek High School from 2019-2021, and she coached club Volleyball at 575 Volleyball and A5 South as well. Lee also played collegiate Volleyball at Georgia State University from 2015-2018.
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
From Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: Eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is headed for home in Nebraska from a juvenile work farm where he served 15 months for involuntary manslaughter. His father has recently died, his mother having abandoned them years ago. Emmett’s plan is to pick up his brother in Nebraska and head for California to start a new life. These plans go awry when two fellow inmates hitch a ride in the trunk of the parole officer’s car and arrive in Nebraska with Emmett. These inmates dramatically change Emmett’s plans by commandeering Emmett’s car and heading with him and Billy to New York City. While they still take the Lincoln Highway, it is in the opposite direction. A series of adventures occur peopled with delightful and unusual characters add a sparkling dimension to a memorable tale. Told from the standpoint of many characters, Amor Towles latest title is a page-turner with fun, wisdom, and close calls.
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Several reasons why this community is called Talking Rock
The town of Talking Rock, as well as a creek of the same name, is located in Pickens County in northwest Georgia. The area was originally part of the Cherokee Nation, and several explanations regarding the origin of the name Talking Rock exist.
Historian James Mooney wrote that the Cherokees called the creek “Nunyu-gunwaniski,” meaning “rock that talks.” An Indian trader told Mooney that the creek was named for a rock where the Cherokees held council. Nearby is Ball Creek, probably named for Indian ball games played at the council ground. An 1820 map shows Talking Rock Creek as “Rolling Stone Creek.” One theory suggests the name could have come from an “echo rock,” a natural echo chamber.
In 1805 the state of Georgia surveyed the Federal Road, its first state highway, through the Cherokee Nation and across Talking Rock Ford at the site of the present-day Highway 136 bridge.
The Sanders brothers, who were Cherokees, gave their name to the first community established there, Sanderstown. In 1819 missionaries built the Taloney mission (later Carmel mission), a day school for the Cherokees, along Talking Rock Creek. Later, the Fort Newman stockade was built nearby. Cherokees were held at Fort Newman before their forced removal to the West in 1838.
At the subsequent white settlement of Talking Rock, in the late 1840s, English-born brothers William C. James, and Thomas Atherton built a cotton factory, a cotton gin, a wool carder, a gristmill, a sawmill, and a blacksmith shop. The Lebanon Presbyterian Church stood at the “Y” fork in the road. During the Civil War (1861-65) the Third Kentucky Cavalry (Union) defeated the local Confederate Home Guard in 1864, putting a temporary halt to the depredations against local pro-Union families. The Atherton mills were destroyed during the war, and the Lebanon Church, except for its cemetery, was destroyed in a snowstorm in 1888.
Modern Talking Rock grew up and incorporated in 1883 around the newly arrived railroad, which facilitated the growth of the marble industry in the area. The original community, at the ford, became today’s Blaine community. The new Talking Rock eventually became larger than Jasper, the seat of Pickens County. It had a factory, mills, cotton gins, stores, and hotels.
After World War II (1941-45) the decline of marble and cotton caused Talking Rock to wither into hardly more than a few churches, scattered farms, and ruins. The incorporated town of Talking Rock today consists of antique stores, a schoolhouse museum, and according to the 2020 U.S. census, 90 residents.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Can you figure out where this modern art is placed?
Where’s this piece of modern art? At least it’s highlighted in a bright, open setting, not hidden in some dark corner. Send your best answer to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
The most recent mystery photo baffled a lot of people, with lots of wild guesses, one person even thinking it was a specific lake in the Adirondacks. Even the person who first recognized it, admits that he took the easiest course. Dr. Michael Gagnon, the GGC professor from Flowery Branch, wrote: “Just a guess, Lake Lanier? Honestly, I live on the lake and see these sorts of scenes often. In reality, it could be just about any lake. I guess the lake because of the depth markers in the water to warn boaters away. Anyone who boats knows to look for those as danger may be just below the surface in shallow water. Like in Jeopardy, when in doubt, go for the obvious answer.”
The photograph came from Buford City Commissioner and School Board Chairman Philip Beard.
While there were numerous guesses, only four more readers came through with the right answer, including Kay Montgomery, Duluth; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who said: “I will be shocked if anyone identifies today’s mystery photo with any real degree of confidence, as there are so many possibilities, even if just staying within Georgia. That said, and to follow your advice, I will make the leap of faith into Lake Lanier. I will go even further to suggest that it was taken somewhere near Buford Dam, but that might be stretching the imagination a little bit too far.”
Another expert spotter, George Graf of Palmyra, Va. was also perplexed by the photo: “Your photo is driving me berserk. I thought I found a very similar photo, but it is one used numerous times by Georgia Parks for different lakes. So, wild guessing Lake Lanier.”
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Pai wins “Character Award” from SW Gwinnett Chamber
Paul Duke STEM High School’s Rohan Pai has been named winner of the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce’s spring “Character Award.” The award was created to recognize outstanding students whose attitudes and actions embody the organization’s mission, passion, and commitment to excellence and community action. At the presentation of the award were, from left, Duke Principal Jonathon Wetherington, Mark Klafter, Manasi Pai, Scott Lee, Rohan Pai, Jagdish Pai, William Corbin and Frank Meyghani. Pai is a member of several academic and service organizations across our school. In these leadership roles, Rohan demonstrates a passion for his fellow students and helping them excel. He focuses his time and energy on not only being his best but on helping others do the same.
The Braselton Artisan Festivals are held throughout the year, with the two biggest Artisan Festivals featuring 300+ vendors in April and October. In addition to vintage treasures and handmade finds, the April 21-23 show includes plants, yard art, outdoor furniture, and everything needed to celebrate spring. The event in 2023 is the festival’s 20th year!
Drug Take Back: The Gwinnett Police Department will partner with the Drug Enforcement Administration for National Drug Take Back, an initiative that allows residents to properly dispose of unused or expired prescription medications. Residents can drop off tablets, capsules, patches, and other forms of prescription drugs at Police Headquarters and precinct locations. Precincts will be accepting prescription items on Saturday, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Liquids, syringes, and sharps will not be accepted. Residents will not be questioned about medical history or medication possession. For more information, call 678-442-6520 or email PDCommunityAffairs@GwinnettCounty.com.
Community Recycling will be Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. until noon at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville, sponsored by Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, co-hosted with Gwinnett County Solid Waste. Items to be collected that day will include latex and oil-based paints, electronics, tires, clothing, sneakers, and paper for shredding. This is an Earth Day event, and will include Touch-A-Truck, refreshments, a chance for residents to meet their haulers, opportunities to learn about programs and services from various county departments, and more. It will be a “rain-or-shine” event.
Norcross Earth Day Recycling will be April 22 from 8 a.m. until noon at Norcross Public Works. Items for recycling include single-stream recyclables, glass bottles and jars, electronics, and scrap metal. Plus, this year the City is partnering with Friends of Disabled Adults and Children, also known as FODAC, to collect gently used medical equipment. For more information and a list of accepted materials, visit aplacetoimagine.com.
Canning Workshop will be Saturday, April 22 at 11 a.m. at the Centerville Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Learn from Gwinnett County UGA Extension agents the different types of canning processes and prepare your own apple preserves. Limited space. Registration is required.
Climate Intervention Workshop will be held on Saturday, April 22 at 11 a.m. at the Norcross Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Are you concerned about climate change or just want to know what all the fuss is about? Join Climate Interactive Ambassadors to learn about MIT’s En-ROADS and explore solutions with this dynamic, interactive tool.
12th annual Family Promise Bed Race will be April 22 on the Historic Square in downtown Lawrenceville. The Parade of Beds is scheduled at 10:30 a.m., with the races to begin at 11 a.m.
Join with the Gwinnett Historical Society for a new event at the Elisha Winn House on Sunday, April 23, from 2-4 p.m. It is co-hosted by the Society and Gwinnett County. Named “Way Back Winn,” it is intended to give attendees a chance to learn about times gone by with some fun thrown in, especially for kids. It showcases the most significant historic site in Gwinnett County, the place where the county took its first steps after creation by the Georgia Legislature on Dec. 15, 1818. There will be outdoor games, music, tours and refreshments.
Fertility After 40 will be Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Branch. Join Gwinnett County Public Library to hear an enlightening talk by author and podcaster Tamika Michelle Johnson, about her new book, 40+ Fertility Tips for Women Over 40 Who Are Trying To Conceive. Books available for sale and signing.
Foster Parent Information Session will be Tuesday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. at theLawrenceville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library.Join the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services to learn how to become a Foster Parent.
The Curiosity Lab Criterium 2023 bike race will be Wednesday, April 26 in Peachtree Corners, starting and ending at the City Hall. There will be six races, the first beginning at 3:30 p.m. It is a week-long event of USA Cycling. Parking and food will be available near the City Hall.
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