GwinnettForum | Number 22.76 | Oct. 24, 2023
JACKSON EMC JOURNEYMAN linemen recently helped string four miles of electrical wire in Guatemala. From left are Pete Arteaga, Corey Willard, Michael Fraser and Ben Campbell pose at Jackson EMC headquarters before heading to volunteer to bring power to a village in Guatemala. For more details, see Notable below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: United Way asks: How are the children of Gwinnett doing?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: This utility plans to install big storage batteries in homes
SPOTLIGHT: Centurion Advisory Group
ANOTHER VIEW: Rep. Collins acts like a six year old, wanting to get his way
FEEDBACK: Enjoys Forum; on Herndon ideas and transportation
UPCOMING: Norcross seeks to make cultural plan a reality
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC linemen build power line in Guatemala
RECOMMENDED: Heaven Help Us by Alice La Plante and Clare La Plante
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Macon novelist writes books with strong characters
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this snow-covered mountain is located?
CALENDAR: Intersection improvement groundbreaking in Lilburn on Oct. 25
United Way asks: How are the children of Gwinnett doing?
By Aliza Gevirtz, director of engagement,
United Way of Greater Atlanta – Northeast Region
OCT. 24, 2023 | United Way of Greater Atlanta’s latest child well-being data highlights areas of high need throughout their 13-county footprint.
Gevirtz
United Way of Greater Atlanta’s 2023 Child Well-Being Outlook: Insights for Impact Report analyzes five years of data on child well-being across the 13-county metro Atlanta area. This Index offers a comprehensive assessment of children’s environment from birth to adulthood across Greater Atlanta’s 1,265 neighborhoods, as measured by census tracts, including those in Gwinnett County.
The Ticking Clock: The data shows that both temporary pandemic-era funding and resources provided by public and private organizations helped stabilize overall child well-being post-pandemic. This includes relief in the form of rental assistance, eviction moratoriums, food assistance, and stimulus payments.
United Way of Greater Atlanta’s President and CEO Milton J. Little, Jr.says: “While the region’s average was maintained, our data shows a significant number of neighborhoods in crisis, where COVID-era resources and support systems are increasingly disappearing, jeopardizing children’s ability to thrive. Many of these places are disproportionately communities of color and areas where access to training, technology, food, and healthcare are severely lagging. Every child deserves to have a quality education, live in a safe neighborhood, and have the opportunity to fulfill their promise.”
A focus on Gwinnett: The data also tells us that 79 neighborhoods in Greater Atlanta have both low and declining child well-being. Over 77,000 children call these neighborhoods home. Gwinnett accounts for one-quarter of the 79 high-need neighborhoods and one-third of the 77,000 children in need. Within these neighborhoods, 39 percent of families live below 200 percent of the poverty line.
Because the circumstances and environment for these children have worsened over the last five years, it is critical we collaborate with partners to address the needs of families living in the identified high-priority neighborhoods and ensure that they have the resources to enable our region to thrive. At the national level, Georgia already falls behind nearly 75% of states, ranking 37th in child well-being, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Other Key Findings:
- Academic recovery: Research shows that Third Grade reading proficiency and Eighth Grade math proficiency are reliable indicators of future success in academics. Each of the 13 counties that make up Greater Atlanta saw a decrease in Third Grade reading proficiency from 2019 to 2022, and 11 of the 13 saw a decrease in Eighth Grade math proficiency in the same time frame. In Gwinnett neighborhoods that have been identified as having both low and declining child well-being, 68 percent of Third Graders are not proficient in reading and 41 percent of Eighth Graders are not proficient in math.
- Opportunity youth: In Greater Atlanta, nearly 14,000 youth ages 16 to 19 are currently outside of work and educational pathways. In Gwinnett neighborhoods with both low and declining child well-being, 86 percent of youth in this age range are considered opportunity youth.
United Way of Greater Atlanta is sharing these findings and others on our website. Individuals and corporations interested in making a difference are encouraged to donate to the Child Well-Being Mission Fund and to engage in volunteer opportunities alongside grantee partners.
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This utility plans to install big storage batteries in homes
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 24, 2023 | The good aspect of emergencies is that they make you look for ways to avoid that emergency in the future, so that you will improve.
The utility industry, specifically the electrical side, faces a serious and continuing problem: how to generate more electricity, since people are finding more ways to use electric power, from having more cell phones, more vehicles powered by electricity, and even more household items like cordless drills now charged with electricity. Seems utilities continually need to supply more power to customers
But one small utility may have come up with a possible way to benefit the industry.
A utility in Vermont, Green Mountain Power, wants to install storage batteries in many customers’ homes to absorb the additional power that wind and solar energy can now generate when they are producing a lot of it. Then when demand peaks during the summer, the utility could draw power from these many home batteries. By doing that, the utility would not have to build more costly power lines to bring in more electricity.
However, if at any time if the power lines were interrupted, then the utility could pull power from all these many batteries in people’s homes, with no interruption in service to the customers. The battery in the homes could feedback power into the overall system to keep the system intact.
The home batteries would also be a back-up system to the individual customers so that they were never out of power during this emergency.
Yes, all this would be expensive for the utility. But charge that off against the cost of having to add expensive and slow-to-build power lines to bring in power. Not only that, but providing batteries for customers would be a much faster turn-around
There’s another consideration: climate change. We’re seeing more hurricanes, winter storms and wildfires, which are highlighting the possibility that electric grids can be vulnerable. That means that an alternative system, such as storing power in individual home batteries, can offer this additional help to the utility industry.
Green Mountain Power is betting, in effect, that it would be financially feasible to have batteries in the many homes of its customers than to build more power lines to bring in more electricity. It’s a way the electric utilities have never had before, that is, a way of storing power during less costly generation through wind and solar or other means.
All this will be costly, of course. Green Mountain anticipates spending $280 million to install batteries in homes over the next seven years. They feel they will recoup these costs through lower wholesale electric rates.
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Collins acts like a 6-year-old, wanting to get his way
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | The Grand Old Party (GOP) just does not have its act together, as shown by the fight to elect a Speaker. Our country narrowly averted a government shutdown last month when then conservative House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) made a last-minute deal with Democrats to pass a continuing resolution (HR 5860) to keep the government open for 45 days at existing spending rates. It passed. But no thanks to Georgia’s Rep. Mike Collins, representing Georgia’s 10th District, including part of Gwinnett.
Collins voted against the bill because it was not one-sided enough and did not cover totally unrelated items like border security. However, this was never supposed to be a border security bill. It was a compromise, a straightforward stop gap measure to keep the doors open while the GOP controlled House could finally figure out how to do its job.
Apparently, if the above action by Collins is an example of his thought process. He is a trucking executive but does not understand how politics works in a two-party system. In a democracy, we have something called compromising to get things done. We do not shut down our government because we cannot get our way. Congressmen should not behave as though they were all six-year-olds, Rep. Collins. I hope you do not run your trucking outfit like you vote.
Collins
In any case, the new, unimproved MAGA version of the GOP has shown itself unable to govern. After right winger McCarthy finally compromised, the even more extreme members of his party came for his head. In an astonishing feat, McCarthy was kicked out as speaker because a handful of his own party members, led by an accused pedophile, would not support him. So, for the first time since 1776, we have no Speaker of the House. Way to go GOP; that will show those Democrats!
For those of you who are too young to remember, Congress was once functional. And it was not that long ago. The parties disagreed on many things, but they were led by pragmatists who wanted to get matters accomplished and respected the opposition. And they knew that with three branches of government that they would not always get their own way.
The reasons for the change are complex and include the incitement of Trump, who believes that all-out warfare between the two parties will put him back in the White House. But there are other factors.
Under the Voting Rights Act, the courts were once active in ensuring that votes were equal. But under the radical Supreme Court led by Roberts that changed. As things now stand, House Districts are politically gerrymandered, drawn to elect partisans like Rep. Collins. Often, via splitting counties, the intent is to minimize the impact of black and Hispanic voters in counties like in Gwinnett. Until we have a Supreme Court that is willing to stand up for true democracy, these abuses will continue.
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Enjoys Forum; on Herndon ideas and transportation
Editor, the Forum:
As usual, I enjoyed today’s (10/20) Forum, particularly Ashley Herndon’s call for a different approach to the recurrent crises in Israel. America pays a hefty price to maintain oppressive ethnic segregation in Israel even though we have socially and constitutionally rejected it here.
But speaking of past rejections, you are again hawking a perpetual expense for a bus program that ultimately benefits and subsidizes the rental housing industry and warehouse jobs. How possibly is a 30 year commitment to buses that run between shopping, hospitals, warehouse jobs and apartments going to benefit the young couples who want to buy a home, raise a family, and thrive in Gwinnett county? How will someone who lives in a subdivision of single-family homes benefit from those transit buses?
– Joe Biggs, Senoia
Dear Joe: Gwinnett is no longer suburban; it is urban, and as former Chairman Wayne Hill indicated, no one element of the transportation system is the answer. But each element helps form part of the answer. I’m also reminded that former state DOT Chairman Wayne Shackelford said that the highway department could build expressways 37 lanes wide, but it would take forever to maneuver across all the lanes to get off the expressway. –eeb
Ed Hunt in heaven making St. Peter laugh
Editor, the Forum:
The late Ed Hunt was a long-time educator in Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS). He was noted for bringing history to life in the classroom at Central Gwinnett High School, where he also coached football and other sports. He went into administration and was the assistant principal when Parkview High opened. During his GCPS years he was assistant principal at Duluth High, Shiloh High and then returned to Parkview. He retired but was asked to please come back and work part time. We were pleased to have him with us for several more years.
I have often had students tell me Ed Hunt was the most understanding and supportive person. One said: “He was the only assistant principal who made you feel good about yourself when you got into trouble.” Ed found the positive in every person he met. No one left him without a handshake and a smile.
Ask him how he was and the reply often was “Ahhh, If’n I was any better, I’d have to be twins.”
But if you got into trouble: “Son…..get on in here.”
Nancy Smith, who lived next door to the Hunt family, had him as a Social Studies teacher at Central Gwinnett, and later taught at Parkview and Shiloh with him.She recently wrote: “My heart is broken but I hear buckets being kicked. For me, he was the gentleman farmer who lived next door and set my destiny into education.”
I was a counselor at Parkview and often sat in on disciplinary conferences with Ed and students. He gave the kids a choice—suspension or the paddle, back when the paddling was ok. Most chose the paddle. A student made an electric paddle for him. It hung on his office wall.
I loved that man. Ed was one of a kind and the world was better for him. I can promise you one thing, St Peter is already laughing as he holds open those Pearly Gates for Ed to kick a bucket through.
– Marlene Ratledge Buchanan, Snellville
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Norcross seeks to make cultural plan a reality
In the City of Norcross, the phrase “A Place to Imagine” is far more than a tagline; it’s a movement. With the adoption of the Norcross Master Arts and Cultural Plan earlier this month by Mayor Craig Newton and Council members, the city has a blueprint for the robust expansion of its public art identity, recognition of its rich history, and celebration of its cultural diversity. A labor of love for the Norcross Public Arts Commission (NPAC) for the last 14 years, Chair Bob Grossman and his fellow board members look forward to making this plan a reality. To ensure all stakeholders are represented, NPAC has issued a call for input from the public
Grossman says: “This is a major step forward for NPAC and for the citizens of Norcross. For the first time in our city’s long history, we have a strategic roadmap that will enrich the lives of our citizens and key stakeholders through arts and culture. This plan helps build upon our current assets and provides recommendations for improving in those areas where there are opportunities for growth. Based upon extensive interviews and community forums, there is clearly a mandate for the city’s support of the arts. We know that such arts and cultural activities can engage all the diverse communities within our reach.”
Grossman credits in large part the Commission’s partnership with Purpose Possible – a consultancy firm with the aim of transforming communities by empowering mission-driven organizations. Acknowledging that arts and culture are essential to any thriving community, the plan taps into Norcross’s unique legacy with its historic city center and stature as one of the most diverse communities in Georgia.
Grossman added, “We are already known as a city with a robust performance arts calendar between our festivals and live concert series. Focused primarily on public art like sculptures, mosaics, and murals, this forward-looking master plan will further celebrate our cultural diversity while fostering connections, enhancing the sense of a warm and welcoming environment, encouraging important dialogues, and delving into our rich history. We want to ensure that we are listening and responding appropriately to the diverse needs of our citizens. This will be an important economic engine for the city, and we have much to accomplish. We need to procure some early wins by completing several exciting public art projects already in the works.”
Among those projects for which a call for artists has already been issued:
- Beautifying public fences around the Downtown area – NPAC has requested renderings, ideas, and themes from local artists
- Creating a gateway to Heritage Park that involves the painting of a series of stairs that lead up to the park and will serve as a whimsical identifier of the pocket park, to which the Commission plans to add public art sculptures in the future
- Crafting interactive murals on various platforms around the city – a way to engage the community and visitors by creating a backdrop for photo ops.
“We have a blank canvas right now,” said Grossman. “This plan presents a wonderful opportunity to explore and examine what people would like to see and do here in Norcross from an artistic standpoint. We want to truly engage all stakeholders and encourage them to help us plant seeds for our actions in the future.”
Norcross residents wishing to share their ideas with the Commission are encouraged to email npac@norcrossga.net or message through their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/norcrossarts. Local artists are also encouraged to follow NPAC on Facebook to be apprised of projects when the city seeks requests for proposals.
Jackson EMC linemen help build power line in Guatemala
Four linemen from Jackson EMC volunteered with other linemen recently from Georgia’s electric cooperatives to bring electricity to a remote village in north central Guatemala.
In just 17 days, the linemen built four miles of electric lines to bring power to Sesaltul, a village that had never experienced the benefits of electricity. The linemen brought electricity to approximately 90 households, two schools and two churches.
Jackson EMC journeymen linemen from seven Georgia EMCs, including Walton EMC, participated in the work, sponsored by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association International Foundation.
Lineman Pete Arteaga, a Jackson EMC lineman in Gainesville, said the project initially seemed daunting – until the volunteer linemen from the participating cooperatives learned more about each other. “Once we started working together and realized what each other knew and were capable of, and what each person was good at doing, that really helped out a lot,” he said.
The linemen didn’t have the benefit of the tools and equipment they typically use for line work.
“Here at home, we have bucket trucks and line trucks and various battery tools. There—there’s nothing. It’s all on hooks and hand tools and very physical,” said Corey Willard, a Jackson EMC lineman in Jefferson.
Their work included building power lines along paved roads in Sesaltul. However, the real challenge arose when they extended electric service to homes, navigating through difficult terrain along trails in heavy vegetation leading to the villagers’ homes. Local villagers helped the linemen find each home.
“I’d say 99 percent of the huts were dirt floors,” said Michael Fraser, a Jackson EMC lineman in Lawrenceville. “They had bamboo walls or big palm leaves [on roofs]. And some of the huts had tin roofs with block walls. They slept in mainly hammocks or a makeshift little bed.”
Each village home received four lights, two switches and two outlets. Turning on the lights in the homes for the first time was an unforgettable and heartwarming experience.
“You would flip the breaker on and turn the switch on and they would look at the light, just look at it. Then, immediately they would go over there and turn it off like they were going to run out of power if they left it on,” Fraser said.
For Arteaga, the experience also brought back memories of his childhood. “When I was growing up as a kid, I didn’t have electricity until I was nine years old,” he said. “So, I knew what it was going to feel like for these people. It was very emotional for me because I was anxious to get it done so they could experience what I went through.”
Ben Campbell, a Jackson EMC lineman in Neese, said having electricity in their homes will make it easier for villagers to experience modern life. “There was a lot of joy, a lot of smiles,” he said. “You could almost see it in their faces the ideas they had and what they could do in their homes now [with electricity] and the things they can do with their lives moving forward.”
Employees at the cooperative raised almost $7,000 for supplies and equipment at two schools in the village, including ceiling fans the volunteer linemen installed at the schools during the project.
“I will never forget this opportunity and taking part in it,” Campbell said. “It was a long 17 days. It was well worth the experience.”
Heaven Help Us, by Alice La Plante and Clare La Plante
From Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: Heaven Help Us by Alice La Plante and Clare La Plante is a delightful group of prayers to saints who can help with a variety of life situations, large and small. The prologue tells why this book was written including how it could help ease distress about life’s issues. The authors next discuss what a saint is and why one would pray to a saint in times of trouble. All life experiences are included from healing of health issues, financial issues, psychological problems such as fear and anxiety and even how to attract a spouse or a good job! Each entry includes the history of the saint, and directions for how to pray to the saint for resolution. Heaven Help Us is a whimsical diary of how to connect with those who live in the heavenly realm.”
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Macon novelist writes books with strong characters
Novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer Tina McElroy Ansa was born in Macon on November 18, 1949. Macon served as a model for the fictional town of Mulberry, the setting of her first four novels.
After graduating from Spelman College in Atlanta in 1971, Ansa began work as editor and writer for the Atlanta Constitution and later the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Since 1982 she has been a freelance writer with work appearing in magazines, newspapers, short-story collections, and nonfiction anthologies. She also contributed the essays “Postcards from Georgia” to the television series CBS News Sunday Morning and has taught writing workshops at Spelman, Brunswick College and Emory University. In 1978 she married Jonée Ansa and moved to St. Simons Island.
Ansa’s profound sense of place, strong characters, lively communities, and vivid images appeal to a variety of readers. Sharply contrasting the realistic particulars, however, are ghosts that play crucial roles in her stories. They provide charmed, informative, and often healing inner lives for characters otherwise caught up with ties to family, community, and material possessions.
In Ansa’s second novel, Ugly Ways (1993), three sisters return to Mulberry for their mother’s funeral. Ansa’s third novel, The Hand I Fan With (1996), again concerns Lena McPherson, now forty-five, a successful café owner with a “dark copper-colored 450 SLK Mercedes,” fashionable wardrobe, and other valuable possessions.
You Know Better (2002), Ansa’s fourth novel, follows three generations of the Pines women, focusing in particular on children’s issues in the 21st century.
Critical reaction to Ansa’s writings has been favorable. Baby of the Family was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and also won the Georgia Authors Series Award. Ugly Ways was named “best fiction” by the African American Blackboard List in 1994 and 1995, and The Hand I Fan With also won the Georgia Authors Series Award, making Ansa the only two-time winner of the award.
In 2005 Ansa received the Stanley W. Lindberg Award (named for longtime Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg), which honors a lifetime of significant contributions to Georgia’s literary culture.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Find where this snow-covered mountain is located
It’s somewhat famous, and you may have seen it from a distance. Few Gwinnettians, we would guess, have seen it close up. See if you can identify this edition’s Mystery Photo. Once you guess, send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to list your hometown.
The last Mystery Photo was easily recognized by Lou Camerio of Lilburn. He wrote saying that it was “Trahlyta Falls in Vogel State Park in north Georgia. I’ve been there many times. The first time was with the 4-H camp trip that was near there. I believe I was in the sixth grade.” The photo came from Claire Danielson of Black Mountain, N.C. via Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Others recognizing it were George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; and Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex.
Peel added: “Trahlyta Falls is approximately eight miles south, of Blairsville, Ga., facing north, in Vogel State Park, the second oldest state park in Georgia (the oldest is Indian Springs State Park in Flovilla). The Trahlyta Falls are roughly 60-feet high and are formed by a dam across Wolf Creek that resulted in a 20-acre pond called Lake Trahlyta.
“The lake and falls are named after Trahlyta, a legendary Cherokee woman who lived in the North Georgia Mountains (near present day Dahlonega) and is supposed to have drank from a nearby Fountain of Youth (now known as Porter Springs) to maintain her renowned beauty. After rejecting the advances of the Cherokee warrior Wahsega, she was kidnapped and later died while being imprisoned. According to legend, her dying wish was to be buried in the mountain forests where she came from, and her grave is reported to be located in a traffic circle where Highways 60 and 19, approximately 10-miles south-southwest of Vogel State Park. The gravesite is marked by a five-foot high pile of stones that Native Americans have placed at the site over the years as they pass by, an Indian tradition used to honor the dead and for good fortune. You can see a photo of the stone pile and the historical marker that captures the story of Trahlyta’s life and gravesite here.”
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Intersection improvement groundbreaking in Lilburn on Oct. 25
Foster Parents information session will be held at the Centerville branch of Gwinnett County Public Library at 6:30 p.m. on October 24. Join the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services-Gwinnett County to learn how to become a Foster Parent.
Intersection improvement groundbreaking at Bryson Park and Hood Road in Lilburn will be Wednesday, October 25, at 1:30 p.m. This project is a joint effort between the City of Lilburn, the Lilburn CID, Gwinnett County Transportation, the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank, Kimley Horn, Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation and Ohmshiv Construction.
Navigating Language-Based Learning Disabilities will be presented from an expert at the Five Forks Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. This will be held Thursday, October 26 at 6 p.m.
Dam Dinner: dine outdoors in a European Piazza style while watching artists blow hot glass and paint plein air around the lake area at on Friday, October 27, from to 10 p.m. The event will be held on the dam at Sims Lake Park. Artist Carol Albert, and her band, will set the tone for an evening under the stars. This dinner is a fundraising event to support the programs and administration of the Suwanee Arts Center. The meal will be catered by the anticipated, but yet to open, Raik Mediterranean of Suwanee.
Drug Take Back will be held October 28 in Snellville hosted by the Police Department. This will allow residents to safely discard unused and expired medication. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Snellville Police Department, 2315 Wisteria Drive. There will also be a secondary location at Westside Baptist Church, 2925 Main St. W from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as part of the church’s Fall Festival. Participants can drive or walk up to drop off discarded medication into collection boxes. Medication may be left in its original containers with or without the labels as all items discarded are burned.
History and cemetery tour of Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church will be Sunday, October 29, at 2 p.m. To learn more contact the church office at mtcarmelumc@comcast.net or call 770 449 4498.
“Get IT Done” is the subject of best-selling author and global practice leader, Wall Street Journal’s Chris McChesney, for a leadership seminar on November 1 from 9 a.m. until noon at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta. Breakfast starts at 8:15 a.m. This event is a part of the Community Foundation of Northeast Georgia’s nonprofit academy series, designed to equip all leaders – for-profit, nonprofit and individual – with the tools they need to bridge the gap between strategy creation and successful implementation.
Reading is FUNdamental workshop. Would you like to learn how to build your child’s speech, language, and emergent literacy skills while reading together? If so, this series is for you. This will be held Saturday, November 4, at 11 a.m. at the Norcross branch of Gwinnett County Public Library.
Community Clean-Up in downtown Braselton will be Saturday, November 4. Come help the Downtown Development Authority pick up trash in the historic downtown district from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Volunteers will gather on the town green where they will receive supplies and instructions.
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