GwinnettForum | Number 22.63 | Aug. 29, 2023
HERE ARE THE 2023 MOXIE AWARD WINNERS of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. See below in Notable for details of the awards. From left, the winners are Dr. Audrey Arona; Lisamarie Bristol; Obria Medical Clinics, represented by Robin Mauck; Kim Hartsock; Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music, represented by Valencia Giles; Muriam Nafees; and Logan Serrano.
TODAY’S FOCUS: “Bears make a difference” seeks turf for its players
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Little girls jumping on a walkway, and hearing Miss Georgia
SPOTLIGHT: Crowne Plaza Hotel
ANOTHER VIEW: Vietnamese native seeks OK to build veterans memorial
FEEDBACK: Had the guy only been capable of accepting defeat
UPCOMING: Two from Gwinnett to named to Veterans Hall of Fame
NOTABLE: Six residents on county budget review team
OBITUARY: Greta Harmon Loeber
RECOMMENDED: Witness to Dignity by the Rev. Russell J. Levenson Jr.
GEORGIA TIDBIT: George Woodruff set UGA football on the way to success
MYSTERY PHOTO: Park-like setting is today’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Check out a well-landscaped corner in Lawrenceville
CALENDAR: Health director to address Snellville Commerce Club Sept. 5
“Bears make a difference” seeks turf for its players
By Tim Adams
DACULA, Ga. | Do you believe that all children should be given an equal opportunity to participate in youth sports? The benefits are undeniable in terms of physical, mental, emotional and social health. Research shows that participating in youth sports leads to immediate and long-term benefits for youth, their families, and their communities.
Gwinnett County has roughly 190,000 children and per their 2022 annual report, Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation partnered with 31 athletic associations to provide sports opportunities to 32,866 athletes. This puts the overall participation rate at 20 percent. However, if you look at our Special Needs population, this participation rate is less than 0.5 percent with only two athletic associations providing dedicated programs for these athletes, at Grayson and Mountain View schools. Only Grayson has a field appropriate for these athletes.
The Mountain View “Bears Make a Difference” program was founded in 2018 and is the embodiment of what youth sports should be. Bears Make a Difference is currently a volunteer run, co-ed baseball program dedicated to athletes with mental, physical, and multiple disabilities. For the upcoming fall 2023 season, we plan to serve 50 athletes and their families who come to us from 28 different schools and represent 11 school clusters and one private school.
If you are ever in the area, you should stop by Rabbit Hill Park in Dacula on Sunday afternoon for an experience that may well change your life. You’ll hear parents from all teams cheering for every player on the field. You’ll see our “Buddies,” who are youth, high school or college baseball or softball players themselves, working with our athletes to keep them safe and teach them the game.
You’ll feel the energy, the joy, and the confidence from our athletes as they play and set an example for all of us on the true spirit of sports. This program provides a critical time for socialization with their peers and our buddies. Teachers and parents often say that being part of this program boosts our athlete’s confidence and overall quality of life.
With the growth and success of the program, it hasn’t been without challenges. We currently play on a small dirt field. For our spring 2023 season, we had scheduled 18 games, but we were only able to play eight games because of unsafe field conditions. Can you imagine the heartbreak of having to tell parents that their child can’t play today because the field is too muddy, again, and hear that child crying in the background?
The goal is to raise $350,000 for this field. So far, we have raised $35,000.
This is where you can help. We plan to build a turf field that will be a “home” for these kids; a place where they can play even when the weather doesn’t cooperate. The cost of a turf field is significant, but we remain undeterred in our goal, given our program’s spirit of overcoming the challenges before us. We know that we can’t do this alone. We need the support of our community; we need you to help to make this dream a reality.
- Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/bearsmakeadifference/.
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Little girls jumping on a walkway and hearing Miss Georgia
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG. 29, 2023 | It was a quiet tapping on the door. At first, I paid no attention to it. If I had not been in the den, I would not have heard it.
Then the sound came a second time. Why wasn’t the doorbell used? Opening the front door, I was greeted by three little girls, maybe two or three years old. They all began jabbering immediately, excitedly trying to out talk one another. I couldn’t imagine what they were saying.
Then I looked up, and saw one of the little girls’ father, a neighbor from across the street, standing at a distance in the yard. He explained it all:
“They want to walk on your stone path.” Oh.
What fascinated these little girls was a blue stone path (see photo) from the street toward our backyard. They had spotted it from across the street, and could not wait to try it out.
“Sure,” I said back to the father (and the little girls). “Just be careful, for some of the stones are higher than the other ones, and you could trip.”
And off they ran toward the spaced-out stones, ready to have a big time jumping from stone to stone. I watched them for a while. A little later, they were gone, probably well exhausted from finding something as simple as a stone walkway completely fascinating.
It was a pure joy to see them and hear their small voices having such a good time on something as insignificant as a stone walkway! I hope they come back and enjoy this walkway again, and I get to see them running on these steps once more.
The current Miss Georgia, Tara Schiphof of Sugar Hill, is shown with Dave Post of Suwanee, a member of the Gwinnett Rotary Club, after she spoke to the club recently. Post was a captain in charge of the Reserve Division for former Sheriff Butch Conway, and was once assigned to watch over another Miss Georgia and Miss Gwinnett at an autograph signing.
As the 2023 Miss Georgia, Tara will be in the Miss America contest on December 12-15, 2023 at the Mohegan Sun resort in Uncasville, Conn. She was runner-up Miss Georgia in 2022. Winners of the state competitions may participate in the Miss America finals only one time.
She brings as her talent to this contest dancing as a ballerina. She was a professional ballerina for eight years, dancing with the Boston Ballet. She routinely practiced ballet for 30 hours a week.
Tara is a native of King, N.C., she is now a national marketing representative for Stanley Black and Decker. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has a master’s degree from Wake Forest University.
The current Miss America spoke without notes for about 30 minutes to the Gwinnett Rotarians, with members saying it was one of their better programs. When asked how she would prepare for the Miss America pageant, she told Rotarians: “If you have to prepare, you are not ready.”
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Vietnamese native seeks OK to build veterans memorial
(Editor’s note: the following letter from a native of Vietnam, now a Gwinnett businessman, was initially sent to the Gwinnett Parks and Recreation Board.—eeb).
By Tim Le
DULUTH, Ga. | It has been several years since I asked Gwinnett County Park and Recreation for the opportunity to build a Vietnam Veterans Memorial. I know that there was a reservation from Gwinnett County in providing public land for statues because of a certain lawsuit at the national level. I still don’t understand the details of that lawsuit and how it is affecting Gwinnett County.
Today, I read in the GwinnettForum about the two founding members of Snellville and the dedicating of two bronze statues of Tom Snell and James Sawyer on public land. I don’t see the difference between commemorating the two founders of the City of Snellville and the many soldiers that sacrificed their lives so that we all can enjoy the freedom that we have today.
In addition, I visited the recently built Vietnam War Memorial in the city of Morrow. This monument stands right in front of the City Hall building. In addition, the city of Dunwoody had committed to allow the construction of another Vietnam War Memorial in their city. Dunwoody has a very small Vietnamese population; however, the city is open to the idea and has already approved for this project.
There are 80,000 plus Vietnamese living in Georgia. Estimates are that there are 25,000 people from Vietnam living in Gwinnett County, which has the largest Vietnamese population in the state. We bought into the “Live, Work and Play” and “Gwinnett is Great” slogans. The number of Vietnamese businesses in Georgia and especially in Gwinnett County are significant. Most residents are homeowners and contributed significantly to the Gwinnett County tax base.
I ask that you and Gwinnett County reconsider in allocating public park land for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Had the guy only been capable of accepting defeat
Editor, the Forum:
Had only their guy been capable of accepting defeat as virtually every failed Presidential candidate has done in this country, it is stunning to realize how different our world, his, and that of his adoring followers would be today.
- He could run unfettered in 2024 to regain his position without legal constraints.
- All but New York indictments would have never materialized.
- There would have been no reason to have 63 legal decisions go against him in lawsuits over multiple states claiming the election was stolen, including Georgia, where recounts cost us over $1 million.
Instead, his plan to make America great again has turned into a baseless, ugly, partisan fistfight costing millions in legal fees, countless court dates, needless death to January 6 insurrection supporters and Capitol police, and the deep-rooted polarization of politics with even loyal Republicans unable to recognize their party.
– Howard Hoffman, Berkeley Lake
Overwhelmed at the concept of mandatory voting!
Editor, the Forum:
Mandatory voting in Australia. What a concept!….if only!
– Barbara Knox Luckhurst, Duluth.
More details on the founding of Duluth, Ga.
Editor, the Forum:
The article about the founders of the different cities of our county was enjoyable. However, I wanted to update your info on Duluth.
Duluth was founded by Evan Howell who came to this area in 1821. He had a large farm in the area that is now near Pleasant Hill Road and Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Evan Howell built a road from his farm that crossed Peachtree Road (now Main Street in Downtown Duluth) and continued towards Lawrenceville. At the time, people called the new town Howells Cross Roads (not Landing). In 1871, his grandson, Evan Park Howell, was asked to rename the town. He chose Duluth because of a unique political story that was being told about a railroad town in Duluth, Minnesota.
– Kay Montgomery, Duluth
Supports idea of Vietnam veterans memorial
Editor, the Forum:
It would be nice to acknowledge the large and active Vietnamese population in our county, the association of many of their older members with us in the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers who served with them, often side by side. Or maybe, we just don’t want to remember that. It would fit a long and shameful pattern and it is a shame.
– Tom Upchurch, Suwanee, Captain, USAF, Vietnam 1969-1970
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Two from Gwinnett to named to Veterans Hall of Fame
Two military veterans from Gwinnett are among the 15 people that will be inducted in the Georgia Military Veterans Hall of Fame for 2023.
The two are Air Force Lt. Col. James Wesley Williams who now lives in Norcross, and is a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, and Army Sgt. Carvis Pittman Williams of Snellville, who served in World War II, and will be honored posthumously.
The induction ceremony will be in Columbus on November 4. Since its inception in 2013, the veteran’s Hall of Fame will have honored 177 Georgia veterans, including this year’s class.
Lt. Col. Williams is a native of Memphis and a ROTC graduate of Tennessee Tech University. Based in Thailand, he flew missions over Vietnam in F4 Phantom airplanes. On his 228th mission in 1972, he was shot down and taken prisoner to the Hanoi Hilton POW camp, where 662 were held. After the Paris Peace Talks, he was released after 313 days in captivity. He later earned two master’s degrees (from Pepperdine and Central Michigan), and became the head for 20 years of the ROTC program at Tucker High School.
Carvis Williams was born in Snellville in 1919 and graduated from Snellville Consolidated School in 1936. He grew up on his parent’s dairy farm. He attended the University of Georgia before working at the Bell Bomber plant in Marietta. He was drafted into the Army 1944, and was in a rifle company of the Third Division, seeing action at the Siegfried Line, and on through the Nurmberg campaign. In April 1945, PFC Williams won the silver star for his gallantry.
Later in life, Williams was a farmer, raising soybeans and cattle on Dogwood Road, and was for 40 years was on the board, including 25 years as president, of the Gwinnett Livestock and Fair Association. He was elected to the first five-member county commission in 1969. He also was a district supervisor of the Upper Ocmulgee Soil and Water Conservation District for 18 years. The bridge over the Yellow River on Killian Hill Road was named for him in 1997.
12th Peachtree Corners Festival is Sept. 22-24
The Peachtree Corners Festival is a major item on the calendar of the city each year. Filled with music, food, arts and crafts, the family-friendly festival continues to be a symbol and trademark of our community’s excellence. This year, it will be the 12th festival, and is scheduled for September 22-24, Friday to Sunday. It will be at the Town Center.
- For more details, visit https://www.peachtreecornersfestival.com/
6 residents on citizen’s budget review team
A team of six residents will weigh in on county government priorities before the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners proposes the 2024 budget.
Gwinnett County department directors and elected officials will present their 2024 business plans to a Citizen’s Budget Review Team beginning August 28. The team will evaluate the needs of the departments and agencies. The team will recommend funding priorities from the viewpoint of a resident.
Veteran team members Hilda Abbott, David Cuffie, Michelle Kang and Asif Jessani will again lend their expertise. Abbott is the founder of RudHil Companies, co-chair of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Hispanic Business Center and member of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Cuffie is CEO of Total Vision Consulting LLC and director of church ministries for Berean Christian Church Gwinnett. Kang is with the Korean American Public Action Committee of Atlanta, and Jessani is a principal marketing and technology consultant with CCS.
New to the review team this year are Leadership Gwinnett graduate Michael Park and nonprofit executive Ronald S. Skeete. Park currently works with the Whitlock Group in commercial insurance and risk management. Skeete is a member of the 100 Black Men of North Metro Atlanta where he volunteers to coordinate programs that serve young people in Gwinnett, Cobb and North Fulton Counties.
Chamber names 7 women as Moxie Award winners
Seven Gwinnett County women were named as winners of the 2023 Moxie Awards by the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. Established to honor women professionals, the Moxie Awards program welcomed more than 500 hundred attendees to the Gas South District for this year’s celebration.
Now in its sixth year, the Moxie Awards program hosts business leaders from across the metro Atlanta region. Seven winners were selected from 134 finalists. This year’s winners include, from left:
- Pay It Forward Award – Dr. Audrey Arona, CEO and District Health Director, GNR Health Department;
- Influence Award – Lisamarie Bristol, solicitor general, Gwinnett County;
- Enlightened Employer Award –Obria Medical Clinics, represented by Robin Mauck, executive director.
- Moxie Award – Kim Hartsock, managing partner, –Atlanta Office, Warren Averett;
- Outstanding Organization Award: Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music, represented by Valencia Giles, director;
- Greater Good Award, Muriam Nafees, Volunteer Gwinnett and Collaboration Manager, Gwinnett County Government; and
- On the Rise Award – Logan Serrano, Marketing and Communications director, Leadership Gwinnett.
Greta Harmon Loeber
Greta Harmon Loeber, 76, of Peachtree Corners, died unexpectedly August 23 in her sleep at her home. She retired from Gwinnett County Public Schools, after 21 years of teaching.
She was a native of Shelby, N.C., and raised in Chesnee, S.C. before moving to the Atlanta area after marriage. She is survived by her daughter, Mandy and granddaughter, Avery, of Peachtree Corners; son, Donny (Tamara) of Venice Fla.; her former husband, Donald Jr. of Atlanta; and her sister, Kathy (Barry) Potter of Chesnee, along with their two children and many cousins in her close-knit and extended South Carolina family.
Her parents were George and Ozelle (Cash) Harmon of Chesnee.
In her 30s, Greta started college at Brenau University, and earned a degree in education. She went on to earn a master’s of arts in education from Piedmont University, and a doctor of education degree from Walden University, studying teacher leadership.
She began teaching with the Gwinnett schools in 1990, first as a fourth grade teacher, then later as a math specialist teaching both children and teachers. After retiring, she continued to teach at the university level. She was an alumnae of Gwinnett Teachers as Leaders and Senior Leadership Gwinnett.
She had a deep love of her church family. She was one of the early members of Christ Church, Episcopal in Norcross, since 1979, and participated in many of its activities. Her work in the church included being at times in the choir and member of the music committee, and was a eucharistic minister. She had been a member of the church vestry, Godly Play trained, Worship Forum chair and on rector search committees most recently in 2023, as well as an unofficial church historian.
Greta had an open mind and independent spirit. She had a particular thirst for learning and in music. She was an active participant in yoga and water aerobics at the local YMCA. She had a special talent for burning grilled cheese sandwiches, creating amazing salads and making the best grits, so good it would ruin you for all others. She was a master shopper and never missed a good deal. Loving the thrill of the hunt she was especially gifted in finding the perfect present for any occasion. Above all else, she cherished spending time with her family.
Funeral services will be held at Christ Church Episcopal, 400 Holcomb Bridge Road in Norcross on Sept. 2 at 11 a.m. A reception following the services will be held in Webster Hall of the church. Crowell Brothers Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Burial will be in the memorial garden of Christ Church. In lieu of flowers, consider making a donation in Greta’s name to Christ Church, Rainbow Village or a charity of the donor’s choice to support a classroom near you. (Photo by Tracey Rice Photography)
Witness to Dignity by the Rev. Russell J. Levenson Jr.
From John Titus, Peachtree Corners: A few weeks ago, a political commentator suggested that the GOP needed to find a ‘throwback’ candidate who exemplified decency and dignity. His example was George H.W. Bush. The author of this book is the rector of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas, which was George and Barbara Bush’s church home. Russell Levenson was their pastor, priest, and friend for the last decade of their lives. He provides an intimate look at their lives during that time and the traits they exhibited, love, humility, humor, hospitality, decency, dignity, and a deep faith. If you were admirers of George and Barbara Bush, this book is a ‘must read’ for you.
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Woodruff set UGA football on the way to success
George Cecil “Kid” Woodruff coached the University of Georgia football team from 1923 to 1927, bringing the Bulldogs’ program to national prominence. As an alumnus he was instrumental in the building of Sanford Stadium and the hiring of coach Wally Butts, and the Georgia practice fields are named after him.
Woodruff was born in Columbus in 1889. Nicknamed “Kid” because of his small stature, he began his association with Georgia when his older brother Harry (the first “Kid”) became the Bulldogs’ quarterback in the early 1900s. Woodruff followed his brother, playing quarterback from 1907 to 1911. He was captain of the 1911 team. Coach Alex Cunningham said of the diminutive Woodruff, “I would rather see that little bunch of nerve leading my team than any man I have ever seen.”
After graduation Woodruff became a successful businessman in Columbus, but in 1923 he was lured back to his alma mater by alumni and fans who wanted him to strengthen Georgia’s football program. Woodruff was a frequent visitor at Indiana’s Notre Dame football games and introduced the Irish style of football to Georgia and the South. He also brought with him three Notre Dame coaches—Frank Thomas, Harry Mehre, and Jim Crowley—who would become successful head coaches themselves.
The businessman Woodruff signed a contract to receive one dollar a year for his services, but Georgia’s small investment had a high rate of return. In 1927 the “Dream and Wonder” team won the Southern Conference championship and lost only to Georgia Institute of Technology’s team, a defeat that probably prevented the Bulldogs from receiving a Rose Bowl bid. Woodruff retired to Columbus after that season, installing Harry Mehre as his successor, but he had accomplished what he had been hired to do. For the next 40 years he was an active and avid University of Georgia supporter, as well as a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Park-like setting is today’s Mystery Photo
Today’s Mystery Photo looks something like a park, with a city nearby. And maybe the big N and S in the photo mean something! Figure out where this photograph was made, and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Texas, gave detail on the previous mystery: “Today’s mystery photo is a new, 113-foot 5G wireless communications tower that was recently installed in Charleston, SC, near where Septima P. Clark Expressway merges with Interstate 26. It is not-so-affectionately being called ‘Toilet Roll Pole‘ by many in the local community who are upset about its design. It is considered to be an eyesore in what is otherwise a historic part of Charleston.
“The new tower was erected to replace a much simpler white monopole that would overheat and result in spotty 5G service in the area. Despite its odd appearance, the new design allows greater airflow and protects the tower’s components, thereby improving the reliability of the 5G service.” The photo comes from the Charleston City Paper of that city, where the photo was first printed.
Other identifiers: Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; George Graf, Palmyra, Va; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.;and Ruthy Paul Lachman, Norcross, who added: “These ugly towers are all over the USA.”
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Here’s a well-tended and landscaped corner in Lawrenceville. It’s at the intersection of East Pike Street and Buford Drive. (Photo by Frank Sharp.)
Health director to address Snellville Commerce Club Sept. 5
Toddler Time at the Peachtree Corners Branch of Gwinnett Public Library allows toddlers to learn to be attentive and follow directions, develop a love of stories and books, and acquire reading readiness skills. This is a free event and will be held August 29 from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
Commerce Club of Snellville will meet at noon on September 5 in the Community Room of Snellville City Hall. Speaker will be Dr. Audrey Arona, who became the Gwinnett-Newton-Rockdale CEO and district medical director in 2018. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She had a private OB/Gyn practice in Lawrenceville for 20 years. Reservations are required for this meeting. To register, click here.
The 22nd British Car Fayre will be Saturday, Sept. 9 in downtown Historic Norcross, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Join as many as 15,000 who visit this annual event, showing British automobiles and motorcycles from the past. The featured vehicle this year is a Marque MG. There will awards, raffle and “boot” sale, with all earnings going to the Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries. For details, visit this site.
Watch local art come alive in Downtown Braselton! ArtRageous in a juried art festival and live paint project on September 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Braselton Town Green. This indoor-outdoor festival will feature artists showcasing their best works, available for purchase. During the festival, 12 commissioned artists will paint eight-foot cubes on the Town Green, which will be displayed for at least one year at various locations downtown.
Reading is FUNdamental series is scheduled for the Norcross branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on Saturday, September 9 at 11 a.m. Do you believe that reading is fundamental? Would you like to learn how to improve your child’s speech, language, and emergent literacy skills, while reading together? If so, this series is for you!
The 69th Gwinnett County Fair begins September 14 and continues through September 24 at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. The fair is operated by the nonprofit Gwinnett County Livestock and Fair Association.
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