GwinnettForum | Number 23.12 | Feb. 9, 2024
QUILTS FOR UKRAINE: a Duluth quilting group will be donating 35 quilts to people in Ukraine. Elleda Rule of Duluth shows off some of the quilts. On Monday, February 12 at 2 p.m. the quilters will hand off the quilts to HelpingUkraine.us representatives at the Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station in Atlanta. The Ukranians are from Odesa People’s Church in Ukraine and will take the quilts back to the war front. The quilts will be on display at this museum through February 19. For more information, see Upcoming below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Realize big savings by using LED light bulbs
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Tell your legislator to vote against sports gambling
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
ANOTHER VIEW: Gerrymandering circumvents fair voting
UPCOMING: Harris new chair of Hudgens Arts Center
NOTABLE: Walton EMC grants 23 Gwinnett schools $130,868
RECOMMENDED: The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Once indentured, Ewen rose to prominence
MYSTERY PHOTO: Distinctive traditional church is today’s Mystery
CALENDAR: Get rid of hazardous waste Feb. 10 in Lawrenceville
Realize big savings by using LED light bulbs
(Editor’s Note: The writer is owner of Energy Concepts in Duluth, an LED lighting consultant and supplier of energy-efficient lighting for 43 years in Gwinnett County. He is also a veteran, an author of 14 books, member of The American Legion and past president of Duluth Civitan Club.—eeb)
By Jerry Robb
DULUTH, Ga. | Light bulbs are heavily regulated by environmental policies of federal and state governments. Invented by Thomas Edison, the standard-type light bulb has become an extinct species, thanks to climate change, man-made or natural.
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August 2023 brought the death of the standard incandescent/halogen light bulb, from the Department of Energy. The ban is a result of climate change law. There are a few exceptions that still can be made, such as oven lights; but they too will bite the dust. The war against standard light bulbs began in the 1980s with the advent of the Compact Fluorescent Lamp, the ones that look like ice cream cones.
While the government was debating the banning of natural gas appliances last year, the incandescent light quietly met its demise.
LED (light emitting diode) bulbs have come a long way since the blinking red and green lights on a computer. With the advent of white LEDs, it drastically changed the lighting world.
If your facility (or home) has not converted to LED, here is the question to answer: Would you invest $10,000 to save $5,000/year on your electric bill for 10 years? That makes it a $10,000 investment with a $50,000+ payout! That’s a two-year payback!
A typical office building with a $40,000 annual electric bill consists of 40 percent lighting, 40 percent for heating and air conditioning, HVAC and 20 percent miscellaneous. An LED lighting changeout would drop the lighting cost from $16,000 to $8,000. If going green, do the green that has a payback in the least amount of time.
Here are some terms to know:
Lumens: A lumen is a unit of light-brightness. The number of lumens (brightness) does not depend on the number of watts. For instance, a 100-watt incandescent lamp produces 1,600 lumens. A 100-watt LED produces 13,500 lumens. Lower electric bills are good for the bottom line and for the environment.
Lifespan: LED lamps have lifespans (number of hours on until burnout) ranging from 15,000 hours for standard A19 bulb (like table lamps) to 100,000 hours for parking lot lamps. The now banned incandescent had a lifespan of 1,000-2,500 hours until burnout. Most LED lamps have a five-year warranty against burnout.
Color: One of the most common complaints of new light bulbs is the color of the light. LED is available in all ranges from soft white/warm white to daylight white. This color is indicated on the lamp and the side of the box, i.e., 2700K-3500K (warm white), 4000K cool white, 5000K bright white. Many LED lights today come with selectable color light and brightness.
How to buy: Trying to figure out at the store which bulbs to buy can be confusing. Here’re two suggestions:
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- To replace a standard 60 incandescent: buy 9-10 watt LED.
- To replace a standard 100 watt bulb; buy 15-16 watt LED.
If you have any questions, contact me at 678-283-9787 or go to www.LetThereBeLight-LED.com. If an LED conversion is not in the budget, you might lease. The monthly energy savings will make the payment.
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Tell your legislator to vote against sports gambling
Via Wikipedia.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
FEB. 9, 2024 | One topic is up front today from disparate elements: the National Football League and the Georgia Legislature: gambling.
Here before Super Bowl Sunday, does it appear to you that the National Football League wants to have its cake, and eat it, too?
Have you noticed how cozy the football league is cuddling up to gambling?
- Right in front of us, on national television, televised games are gobbling up advertising dollars from national gambling companies.
- Inside at least one NFL stadium, there is an open bookie operation .
- This year the league is playing the Super Bowl in the mecca of gambling, Las Vegas.
- After years of not allowing a NFL team to land in the gambling mecca, now the NFL has a team known as the Las Vegas Raiders.
How cozy does the NFL want to get with gambling? Will we next see NFL players allowed to bet openly, perhaps on games in which they are not playing? It seems headed in that direction.
Gambling per se, and betting our hard-earned money, is something we never considered. In the past, parents taught their children that gambling should not be tolerated. Yet it has flourished in all ages in many cultures. It’s not unusual for individuals to be seriously harmed by the habit of gambling.
To bring the topic closer to home, it appears that members of the Georgia legislature have not remembered what their parents taught them: gambling is a no-no.
For years the gambling lobby has been licking its chops to gain a foothold in Georgia. In ages past, they tried to bring horseracing to Georgia. After all, they reasoned, we already are housing horses in the wintertime in Georgia, training them for the spring races. (That was focused in the past in Hawkinsville.) Year after year, the gambling industry pushed for horseracing to be legal in Georgia, but it has never passed the Legislature.
We recognize that Georgia already has gambling in the Georgia Lottery. While many Georgians opposed its coming to the state (including this writer), the Georgia Lottery with former Populist Gov. Zell Miller solidly behind it, finally became legal on June 29, 1993. It was sold as an educational measure. Indeed, it has helped pay for thousands of high-achieving students to attend Georgia colleges.
So now the gambling industry is seeking to convince Georgia legislators that sports betting should be allowed in the Peach State. Why, “everyone else is doing it” they suggest. That means that if Georgia doesn’t jump on this bandwagon, they will be missing out on substantial revenue, and yes of course, we might could reduce taxes because of that.
Poppycock!
Gambling certainly won’t reduce our taxes. They may even go up if it passes.
The gambling measure has the approval in the Senate, and is now being considered before the House of Representatives. But thanks to a measure added to the bill by Sen. Bill Cowsert of Athens, should the House pass a gambling bill, it would be only to seek passage through a Constitutional Amendment. And we’re willing to bet!, that such a bill wouldn’t pass muster of the Georgia voters.
However, before it is too late, get in touch with your representatives. Tell them to vote “No!” to keep Demon Gambling out of the state of Georgia. Continue to keep Georgians as pure as we can be.
Now go enjoy the Super Bowl this Sunday without having to bet on it. Go Chiefs!
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Gerrymandering circumvents fair voting
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | A few years ago, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled against having gerrymandering cases, no matter how unfair, brought into the Federal Courts. This decision exacerbates the political fighting at the state level, gutting voting rights and unfairly removing decision making from the voters and transferring it to “those who would manipulate maps for their own political gain.”
Upon the release of the decision, the non-profit Brennan Center correctly predicted that Georgia and three other Southern states controlled by the Republican Party (Texas, North Carolina and Florida) would be the battleground states for gerrymandering. According to them, “the country saw some of the most gerrymandered maps in its history.”
Some states have enacted laws to make the process more equitable. However, this has not happened in Georgia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina. They have been solid red in past years but are becoming bluer, slowly but surely. And that fact scares the GOP leadership on the national, state and local levels.
Georgia, a big state with rapidly changing demographics, is a GOP top gerrymandering priority. And so is voter suppression, aimed at Democrats (especially Latinos and Blacks).
Once upon a time, gerrymandering was a hit-and-miss proposition. But no more. With simple computers, districts can be gerrymandered down to the block level. (The result is often a splitting of normal political and city boundaries.) In most states, including Georgia, any want-to-be candidate can go to the Capitol, where a staff member will assist them in creating various geographic scenarios to help get them elected. In effect, it is the candidate choosing who he wants to vote for him, instead of the people picking who they want to vote for. I’ve personally seen the process in action in Atlanta.
In the above four states, gerrymandering means having very high concentrations of Democrats in a few districts while spreading out the rest of the democratic vote in the remaining districts (the majority of districts) to get more Republicans elected. It subverts the will of the voters by making the impact of each vote unequal.
Existing maps of Georgia House districts illustrate how this plays out, giving the GOP an unfair advantage despite voter preferences. In Georgia, 49 percent of the vote went for Trump, but 64 percent of Georgia representatives are Republican. Democrats have only five Congressional seats out of 14, rather than seven.
In fact, the same is true in the other three states. In Texas, Trump received 52 percent of the 2020 presidential vote. Yet, the GOP has 25 of Texas’ U.S. 38 House seats (66 percent)…rather than 19 (50 percent). And in Florida 51 percent of the vote was for Trump, but 71 percent of their House Reps are Republicans. That’s a major over-balance in all three states!
Only in North Carolina is the number of Representatives proportionate (50 percent of votes went for Trump, 50 percent of Congressmen are Republican). If the number of Congressmen were proportional to the GOP/Democrat vote ratio in the three other key swing states, the Democrats would control the 2023 House rather than the GOP.
That’s the power of gerrymandering; it circumvents a fair vote.
There is only one way to solve the problem of gerrymandering. And that is to put Supreme Court justices in place who will support democracy rather than their right-wing activist ideology. And that means having more Democrats in the U.S. Senate to confirm appointments, along with a Democrat as president to nominate reasonable people rather than ideologues.
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Suwanee Greenway has been HUGE for the city
Editor, the Forum:
There is a lot of history in the past 20 years in Suwanee. Moving City Hall to its current location was somewhat controversial. Yet today it is beautiful.
Developers had a lot of land which wasn’t usable because of the flood plain. So the developer exchanged their unusable land in a 5 for 1 trade. The Greenway, which floods once in a while, now has eight plus miles of walking, running, bicycle riding, almost entirely off road. The City 20 years ago started this project and the greenway is a HUGE benefit to the City. Nick Masino, Dave Williams were two mayors that did a lot of this.
Great for runners. But also great for home values along the Greenway.
– Don Balfour, Norcross
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Harris new chair of Hudgens Arts Center
Lifelong Duluth resident and its most recent Mayor Nancy Harris has become chair of the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning. Her two-year term began on Jan. 1, 2024. This will be the second time Harris has served as chair.
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Laura Ballance, the executive director of the Hudgens Center , says: “We are fortunate to have someone with Nancy’s experience and passion for the arts as our chair. She has been a valuable asset and understands our needs and goals. She is the ideal person to move into this important role.”
Harris replaces Kate Awtrey-King, owner of Awtrey Media Group, whose tenure as chair began in 2020. Awtrey-King has now joined the Hudgens board of trustees.
Harris says: “Our main focus is going to be just keeping the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning alive and active. We will continue to send a message to the region and the county leadership that the Hudgens is an invaluable resource for our region. Our county is lucky to have it. I’m very passionate about the Hudgens and I’ve seen the positive value it brings.”
Harris has deep roots in the community. B.B. Harris Elementary School was named in honor of her father, B.B. Harris, a former Gwinnett County school superintendent. She served as principal there, as well as at Suwanee Elementary and Norton Elementary.
“When I was a principal, I pushed for my schools to be art-based schools,” Harris says. “All those experiences were preparing me to chair an art board. I’ve always had those passions to push forward.”
Harris was elected Mayor of Duluth in 2007 and recently completed her fourth term. She did not seek re-election. Under her guidance, Duluth experienced transformative construction projects that allowed the city to grow, yet still retain its historic charm.
Among her efforts was the creation of the non-profit Duluth Fine Art League. “This grassroots group helped the Duluth citizens start to want art and expect art,” she says. “It laid a good pathway for us to bring public art to the city.”
Harris holds her undergraduate and graduate degree from the University of Georgia and earned a specialist degree in educational administration from Georgia State University.
Her previous community involvement includes: the advisory board for Artworks! Gwinnett; past president of the Gwinnett Municipal Association; the board of the Gwinnett County Public Library Foundation; and the board of the Duluth Fall Festival.
Duluth group produces quilts for HelpingUkraine.us
Note the distinctive pattern in this Duluth quilt.
A dedicated quilting group known as “Nesty,” comprised of 15 retired women from Duluth, have completed 35 quilts to be donated to HelpingUkraine.us.
Established with a mission to combine camaraderie and community service, Nesty meets monthly to craft quilts destined for charitable causes. Through their collective efforts, they have not only formed deep friendships, but also found a meaningful way to give back to those in need.
Through her long-time-Rotarian husband, Bob, Nesty member Elleda Rule was connected to HelpingUkraine.us and was moved by their mission. She and her fellow Nesty members decided Ukraine should be the focal point of support for their latest endeavor. The Odesa People’s Church, in collaboration with Helpingukraine.us, will facilitate the delivery of these handcrafted quilts to villages in need across the region.
The hand off of the quilts will be on Monday, February 12 at 2 p.m. at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlantic Station. Nesty quilters and Ukrainians will be in attendance to share their experiences.
The quilts will be on display at the Millennium Gate Museum until February 19 when the Frontlines Chaplain and Organization Director at Odesa People’s Church, Marina Serdichenko will leave for Ukraine.
Walton EMC grants 23 Gwinnett schools $130,868
It’s no secret that teachers often spend their own money in the classroom. Most could use more funds to help students learn and succeed.
Since 2016, Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) has pitched in to help local educators accomplish their learning goals through its School EmPOWERment Grant program. The cooperative just completed the 2023-24 round of grant distributions across its 10-county service area.
A total of 59 public and private schools received 70 grants totaling almost $370,000 for programs spanning technology to literacy to fine arts and more. Grants ranged from $264 to $20,300 with the average being $5,243. Walton EMC CEO Ron Marshall says: “Many of these grants touch every student in the school that receives them.”
The grant money giveaway – almost $2.7 million since the program began eight years ago – doesn’t affect customer-owners’ power bills. That’s because the funds come from unclaimed refunds due to former customers whom the co-op can’t find.
“Our first priority as an electric co-op is providing safe, dependable and affordable electric power,” says Marshall. “Serving our community runs a close second. Our School EmPOWERment Grant program is a perfect example of how we bring community service to life.”
- To see where the EmPOWERment grants went in Gwinnett County, CLICK HERE.
Spring enrollment up 4% at Georgia Gwinnett College
With a new year comes new growth at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) as spring enrollment continues its upward trend. Preliminary numbers from the college’s enrollment management office place GGC’s student enrollment at 11,115, which is up four percent from this time last year.
Michael Poll, GGC’s vice president for enrollment management, says new student admission applications for the fall 2024 semester are currently running six percent ahead of fall 2023, which is an all-time high. Poll says he expects the trend to continue.
GGC’s retention rate, which measures the percentage of students who returned to the college from the previous year, has seen steady growth. Sixty-seven percent of first-year students returned to GGC for their second year in 2022. That retention number rose to 69 percent in 2023. The percentage of second-year students who returned to the college for a third year jumped to 50 percent in fall 2023, up from 43 percent the prior year.
Poll credits the upward trend in admissions to several strategies. The college’s Instant Decision Day events, where GGC admissions counselors provide on-the-spot admission decisions to eligible high-school seniors, have been expanded.
“Now, our goal is to offer that program twice a year – once in the fall and once in the spring – to all Gwinnett County public high schools,” he said.
Other recruitment strategies include expanded visits by the GGC admissions team to all five states that border Georgia, including Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. GGC offers a waiver to high school students in Georgia’s bordering states that allow them to attend the college as in-state students, paying in-state tuition.
The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
From Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: This book is an engaging look into the lives of the upper echelon of New York City during the late 1930s. Katie Kontent is a middle- class New Yorker enjoying an excursion to a Jazz Club with her roommate, Evelyn Ross, when they notice Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, sitting at a nearby table. Once they become acquainted, they enjoy the evening, which opens a door to a world in which Katie is swept up quickly. Through Tinker, she meets people who introduce her to new mores and values that are different from hers and challenging in ways that she learns to navigate with ease over time. In the course of one year, she experiences wrenching changes, losses, career success and relationships that change dramatically over this period. It’s a delightful coming-of-age story filled with the highs and lows of growth and the heady winds of the wealthier set.
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Once indentured, Ewen rose to prominence
From humble beginnings as an indentured servant, William Ewen rose to become one of the Georgia colony’s most respected citizens and a patriot leader during the American Revolution (1775-83), serving as the first president of the Georgia Council of Safety.
Believed to have been born in England in 1720, Ewen landed in the colony of Georgia on December 28, 1734. He was selected by the Board of Trustees to work for Thomas Causton, chief magistrate and a storekeeper in Savannah, in the Trustee store for the term of two years. Causton described him as a “Sober and Carefull Lad,” and he undoubtedly met every settler in the new colony in the course of his duties.
Ewen was awarded 50 acres on Skidaway Island at the end of his indenture and, though an artisan by trade, tried his hand at farming. After several unsuccessful years, he was forced to give up his farm and returned to Savannah in 1740. Finding work in the private store of John Bromfield, he became involved with the discontented settlers of Georgia—known as Malcontents —who took issue with the policies of the Trustees. Dubbed a “virulent mischief maker” by Trustee secretary William Stephens, Ewen emerged as a voice and leader of the Malcontents. He served with Thomas Stephens on a committee to propose changes in the administration of the colony to the Board of Trustees.
Ewen acquired more land during this time and began to be appointed to several important posts, such as commissioner for the town of Ebenezer, superintendent for Savannah, and later vendue master, or auctioneer, for the colony. Moreover, he was a leader in the Anglican Church in Georgia, holding several offices for the parish of Christ Church. Sometime before 1760 (the exact date being unknown) Ewen wed Margaretha Waldhauer of the Salzburger settlement in Ebenezer.
Ewen was elected to the Commons House of Assembly on March 25, 1761. The assembly from 1761 to 1764 worked closely with the new governor, Sir James Wright, to improve government and increase trade. In March 1765 Ewen prepared a bill to impose duties on a number of articles imported from other continental colonies in an effort to allow the Lower House to assume more governmental power. However, news of the Stamp Act (1765) reached the colony and ignited a revolutionary movement, with Ewen at the forefront, both officially in his capacity in the assembly and unofficially as a Son of Liberty at Tondee’s Tavern. By the end of January 1775, Ewen, with many others, signed the Continental Association, adding Georgia to the united stand against the rule of Great Britain.
On June 22, 1775, Ewen was elected president of the Georgia Council of Safety, which met for the first time on July 4, at the convening of the First Provincial Congress in Savannah. The council comprised 16 members and was charged with conducting the affairs of opposition against royal rule. Ewen resumed the role of president pro tempore, in the absence of Butler, for a few months. Though he lived to see Georgia declared independent, Ewen died sometime in late 1776 or early 1777, as his will, written in 1776, was probated on June 20, 1777.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Distinctive traditional church is today’s Mystery
Note the budding trees next to this traditional church. You seldom see churches with this style of architecture being built any more. Now can you pinpoint where this house of worship is located? Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to tell us where you live.
The last Mystery Photo was somewhat difficult, but our regular sleuths came through pretty well. Among them that recognized the photo were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Stew Ogilvie of Lawrenceville; and Lou Camerio, Lilburn.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. gave a fuller explanation: “Today’s mystery photo was taken at the Club Med Magna Marbella, a 35-acre high-end all-inclusive family resort located in the south of Andalusia, overlooking picturesque Marbella and the Mediterranean Sea. It was the first ‘Club Med’ branded resort located in Spain. It first opened in May 2022, after major renovations were made to what was one of Marbella’s original hotels from the 1970s, the landmark Don Miguel Hotel, which had closed and was abandoned in 2013.”
This beautiful photograph came from Rebecca Hendrickson of Raleigh, N.C.
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Get rid of hazardous waste Feb. 10 in Lawrenceville
Hazardous waste collection will take place Saturday, February 10, from 9 a.m. until noon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. Volunteers are needed for this event. Any type of hazardous waste will be accepted, from cleaners to auto batteries, fire extinguishers, fluorescent bulbs and ballasts, Latex and water-based paints, pesticides and poisons and many more. Questions about the event or to volunteer, can be directed to Kim Davis at 770-822-5187 or gwinnettcb@gwinnettcb.org.
Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason will be the speaker for the Men’s Civic Breakfast at Christ Episcopal Church in Norcross on Saturday, February 10 at 8 a.m. The breakfast will be in Webster Hall of the church, located at 400 Holcomb Bridge Road in Norcross. The wider community is invited.
Celebrate Mardi Gras with a twist at the Bingo Luncheon for individuals aged 50 and up, hosted at the Pinckneyville Community Recreation Center on Tuesday, February 13, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration is required by February 9. Participants will indulge in a traditional New Orleans-style lunch and bingo, bringing the spirit of the Big Easy to life. Call 678-277-0920 for more information.
Valentine’s Day storytelling at the Grayson Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library will be Wednesday, February 14, from 6 to 7 p.m. It will be a fun storytime filled with love, giggles, and stories that will warm your heart, then allow listeners to make a craft to take home!
Immigration Legal Screening Clinic will be held on February 16 at the Lilburn Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is hosting a free Immigration Legal Screening Clinic. Participants will have the opportunity to consult with a lawyer to see if they are eligible for any immigration relief.
Hear two prominent authors as speakers at the Hooper-Renwick speaker series on Thursday, February 22 at 7 p.m. The speakers are Victoria Christopher Murrary and her fellow author and friend, ReShonda Tate, among the top African American authors. A reception will begin at 6 p.m. The event will be at the Lawrenceville Arts Center, 125 North Clayton Street. Two graduates from the former Hooper-Renwick School, Dr. John Maxey and Joyce Moore, will talk about the history and significance of the school.
A program on at-risk communities will be Friday, February 23 at 8:30 a.m. at Corners Outreach Auditorium, 1854 Shackleford Court, Norcross. Come to learn about the groundbreaking findings of the Child Well-being Index 2023, and the state of the children in Gwinnett. It is sponsored by United Way of Greater Atlanta.
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