AIRPORT CANOPY: Expected to be completed this fall will be a giant canopy over the North Entrance to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The South structure will be completed by next fall. The structure depicted here will be covered with a polymer, known as ETFE, from back in the 1970s, which was used as a lightweight coating by the aerospace agency. That same polymer is used at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. It’s a thin but strong fabric, which is pliable, will be in two levels and be airtight. Air will be pumped between the levels. ETFE has a low friction coefficient, which simply means dust and dirt and other debris tend not to stick to the material, making cleanup easy. The canopy will be translucent, protecting arrivals from the elements. At night it’ll take on a different look, as thousands of LED lights, many in colors, will illuminate it. For instance, red and black for the Falcons, red white and blue for Independence Day, green for St. Patrick’s Day, etc. It ought to be a sight! Thanks to Chuck Paul of Norcross for this photo.
IN THIS EDITIONTODAY’S FOCUS: Community Foundation of NE Georgia Grant’s Impact Nears $500,000
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Casino Gambling in Georgia Will Harm Local Entertainment Venues
ANOTHER VIEW: Feels President Trump’s Many Positions Result in “Yes, I Can”
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FEEDBACK: Appreciates the Way GwinnettForum Challenges Her Thoughts
UPCOMING: Suwanee’s Summer Porch Jam Part of International Make Music Day
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Symphony International Conductor Concert Will Be June 18
RECOMMENDED: The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse by Alexander McCall Smith
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Union Campaign Under Wilson Late in War Laid Waste to Area
MYSTERY PHOTO: Is This Mystery Photo from a Spaghetti Western? You Decide
CALENDAR: Three Photography Workshops Coming Soon
TODAY’S FOCUSCommunity Foundation of NE Georgia grants impact nears $500,000
Grant recipients.
By Heather Loveridge
DULUTH, Ga. | The Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia recently awarded 27 grants to area nonprofits at their annual grant awards celebration. The event was one of the highlights of the year for the Community Foundation. The grants totaled almost $250,000. Including nonprofits who received challenge grants, the total impact being funneled into area nonprofits is $500,000.
The Community Foundation’s Good2Give Community Fund provides the funding for the grants, along with the help of the Community Foundation’s generous fundholders. The grants received are just a portion of the estimated $5 million the Community Foundation will pour into nonprofits this year, along with education programming and other support services.
Randy Redner, president and CEO of the Community Foundation, says: “This is why we do what we do. We are surrounded by many great nonprofits doing incredible work each and every day. To be able to support some of them in the work they do, to help them impact even more people and change even more lives, that is part of our mission at the Community Foundation. Including this year’s grants, the Community Foundation has now donated over $80 million to worthy charities since 1985!”
The main focus of this year’s grant awards were food insufficiency, early education and homelessness. However, up to one third of the Community Foundation’s grant funding was also allocated for programs and projects outside of the focus areas, including the arts, healthcare, and more.
Anyone can give to the Community Foundation’s Good2Give Community Fund. There is no age limit or dollar amount restrictions on the fund as giving is something the Community Foundation wants the entire community involved in. To donate or learn more, visit www.cfneg.org.
2018 Grant Winners
Arts
- Barefoot in the Park $5,000
- Hi-Hope Service Center, Inc. $5,000
- The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning $25,000
Education:
- HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education), Inc. $10,000
- Mentor Me North Georgia, Inc. $3,995
- Next Generation Focus, Inc. $5,000
- Norcross High School $10,000
- North Fulton Community Charities $5,000
- Path Project and FCA Soccer $15,000
- Single Parent Alliance and Resource Center $5,000
- United Way of Greater Atlanta $10,000
Food Insufficiency
- Action Ministries $5,000
- Hands of Christ Duluth Cooperative Ministry $4,000
- The Lawrenceville Cooperative $15,000
- North Gwinnett Co-Op $15,000
- Nothing but the Truth, Inc. $5,000
- The Place of Forsyth County $5,000
Healthcare
- Good Samaritan Health Center $10,000
Homelessness/Shelter
- Eagle Ranch, Inc. $5,000
- Family Promise Forsyth County $5,000
- Family Promise of Gwinnett $20,000
- Norcross Cooperative Ministry $5,000
- Positive Impact – Safe Place $5,000
- The Salvation Army of Gwinnett $10,000
- Supporting Adoption & Foster Families Together, Inc. $10,000
Social Service
- Corners Outreach – Industries $20,000
- Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services $5,000
Total Amount $242,995
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Casino gambling in Georgia will harm local entertainment venues
Infinite Energy Center.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher, GwinnettForum
JUNE 15, 2018 | When Justin Timberlake played the Infinite Energy Arena on May 11, there was a record attendance, along with record gate receipts, as more than 12,149 people were in attendance, paying $2.2 million for tickets for the performance. A few days later, the U2 tour would break the Arena’s attendance and gate receipts records again.
Ever wonder how that money pile from these performers is split up? You may not realize this, but the performer gets it all.
That’s right. Even though the venue, the Infinite Energy Center, provided the stage, sound, seats, et al, the Center makes not a dime from the gate receipts. Every nickel goes to the artist.
The best the Center can do is to sell enough drinks, popcorn, hamburgers and merchandise items to hope to make a few bucks to keep the building open. It’s standard procedure in order to get the big names to local venues, for the entertainers demand the entire gate for themselves.
We bring this up as the lobbyists for the gambling world are now working extra hard to convince the Georgia legislature to authorize casino gambling in our state. Yet these gambling interests don’t merely want legalized casinos. Oh, no. They also want to build high-rise hotels adjacent to the casino, and then seek to attract big-name entertainers to perform at the hotel. That allows them to pull in big crowds to the hotel, which in turn will allow more people to throw away their money at the adjacent casinos.
Look further. The casino people include in their contract with the entertainer that the entertainer is barred from performing at any other venue within 100 miles of Atlanta. That would include the Infinite Energy Center, the Omni, Fox Theatre, the Cobb Performing Center or any other venue within 100 miles of Atlanta.
Therefore, under casino gambling, venues like the Infinite Energy Center are directly harmed. Remember, they were built with local tax funds. With the arrival of casino gambling in Georgia, these locally-built arenas will lose attendance from big-name entertainers, and cut significantly into the possibility that the Center being able to break even annually, much less be in the black.
And do you have any idea who suffers in such a situation? You’re not going to like the answer. Why, of all things, it’s the public, the local taxpayers, who will suffer! Yes, you and me. After all it was the local government which had to guarantee payment for the construction and operation of the arenas and other venues.
These days the gambling interests are promising the State of Georgia high tax revenues if we legalize such gambling in Georgia. But they do this by gobbling up not only the revenue from gambling, but revenue from their massive hotels. And meanwhile, they pay to the state only a paltry fee, compared with their enormous revenue. And as a consequence, other venues built solely for entertainment by the local governments are harmed immensely.
Legalized gambling is big, really big, and reaps millions in profits. That’s why they are spending millions to legislate casinos here.
These days, and especially this political year, is the time to talk to our legislators. Explain to them that the unintended consequence of legalized gambling is that it will cost local governments, who have built entertainment venues. Tell them you want to keep the entertainment local, and not at a big hotel adjacent to a casino.
Tell them you don’t want any more gambling in Georgia. After all, it will hurt Georgia in so many ways should casino gambling be approved here.
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Feels President Trump’s many positions result in “Yes, I can”
By Debra Houston, contributing columnist
LILBURN, Ga. | President Trump went and did it again. No one in their right mind believed he’d meet with the little ghoul of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. People always underestimate the president. Let me count the ways.
When Trump ran for president, his opponents laughed. I recall watching MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on election night, 2016. As blue states rolled red, she said something didn’t look right with the map. I’ll say! Trump was winning.
When Trump took office, the Left predicted failure and said they’d impeach him before 2020. Surely he couldn’t bring jobs to workers, but he said, “Yes, I can.” The unemployment rate is down to 3.9 percent according to the Labor Department. Likewise, no one foresaw the stock market climbing to all-time highs, in which Trump replied, “Yes, I can.”
Remember ISIS? They were killing kids in front of their parents. Instead of drawing a red line in the sand, Trump gave his field commanders greater decision-making power. They whipped ISIS down to a pulp. Didn’t think he could do it? Ah, he said, “Yes, I can.”
And now we come to the little schoolyard bully who looked trite in comparison to our confident leader. They met, they talked and they posed. Oh, to hear what our president might have said in private to the lollypop dictator of North Korea.
It may have gone like this: “Say, Kim, I’ll help you turn North Korea into Trump Tower Two, but only if you do the following. First, destroy your nuclear arsenal. I can’t help you if your rockets can reach my country. Second, you’ll stop starving your people and you’ll release all political prisoners. I’m told there’s over 200,000. That’s too many, Kim. That’s way too many.
“And finally, you must never — never, ever — send another American home in a coma as you did young Otto Warmbier. You beat him into a vegetative state. You’ll apologize to his parents and pay reparations. And Kim, if it ever happens again, you’ll be the one in a vegetative state because I’m the leader of the free world and I can do it. Now, let’s go smile and make nice for the cameras.”
Progressives are apoplectic over Trump’s historical meeting with Little Rocket Man. I won’t go into all their petty criticisms, except one. “No president has ever been able to make North Korea keep their promises.”
To which Trump smiles and says, “Yes, I can.”
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UPCOMINGSuwanee’s Summer Porch Jam part of International Make Music Day
The City of Suwanee will present an international celebration of music at Make Music Day, June 21, in the Historic Old Town Suwanee. It will be the first such event in Georgia. The event kicks off at 6 p.m. and closes at 10 p.m.
First launched in 1982 in France, the event is held on the summer solstice every year in more than 750 cities in 120 counties.
Suwanee is calling the event Summer Porch Jam. It will have the feel of an old-fashioned summer block party. Featuring food trucks and drinks, musicians will be playing outdoors at multiple venues throughout Old Town Suwanee.
The event will include the front porch of Mayor Jimmy Burnette. Southern soul band ThunderGypsy will be the headliner, opening and closing the inaugural party at the Burnette Rogers Pavilion on Main Street. Other local musicians include Shopkeep, Common Ground Andy and Amanda and a student showcase from Town Center Music.
Everett’s Music Barn will host national bluegrass touring acts Taylor Sosebee, Appalachian Travelers and Bluegrass Alliance.
Huthmaker Violins will host bluegrass band Uncle Johnny’s Pickers and feature a violin petting zoo, for those interested in learning to play the strings. Children can make their own shakers with Suwanee Academy of the Arts, then join Up/Down Percussion in a drum circle/jam session in the heart of Main Street at 8 p.m.
Parking will be available at Town Center. From there, it is a short ten-minute walk to the shuttle stop at the library, or 15-minutes for the full walk to Old Town. A full schedule of venues and musicians can be found at Suwanee.com. For more information regarding the City of Suwanee’s Summer Porch Jam event, contact Events Coordinator Kim Towne at 770-945-8996.
45th Lilburn Daze seeking vendors and sponsors for festival
The 45th Lilburn Daze Arts and Crafts Festival is now accepting vendor applications and sponsorships. This year’s event will be held on October 13 at Lilburn City Park and will have over 200 arts and crafts vendors, a variety of food vendors and kid zone featuring free art activities, a train ride, family golf and lots of other fun for children. With an estimated 12,000 attendees, this family-friendly festival is one of the most popular in the area. It is hosted by the Lilburn Woman’s Club and co-sponsored by the City of Lilburn. Visit www.lilburndaze.org for application forms and more information.
Library plans author visit June 23 at Shiloh Baptist Church
Author Matthew Betley will be at Shiloh Baptist Church, 5988 Spalding Drive in Peachtree Corners, on Saturday, June 23 at 7 p.m. the event is hosted by the Gwinnett County Public Library. The author spent ten years as a Marine officer. He trained as a scout sniper platoon commander, an infantry officer, and a ground intelligence officer. He was deployed to Djibouti after 9/11 and Fallujah, Iraq prior to the surge.
Betley, the author of Overwatch, nominated for the Barry Award for best thriller, is back with his latest novel, Field of Valor with Logan West. Set in the aftermath of the discovery of a deadly global conspiracy, the president requests West to form a covert task force with a mission to dismantle nameless enemy. There is no admission charge. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 770-978-5154 or visit www.gwinnettpl.org.
NOTABLEGwinnett Symphony International Conductor Concert will be June 18
The Gwinnett Symphony will have its second annual International Conductor Exchange Concert on June 18 at 7 p.m. at the Discovery High School Auditorium, 1335 Old Norcross Road in Lawrenceville. The orchestra will be conducted in an encore by Maestro Günther Stegmüller, Starkenburg Philharmoniker, Viernheim, Germany. The winners of the International Conductors Workshop and Competition, Whitt Locke and Charles Patterson, will also be conducting.
Admission is $10 for adults, and free for students.
This popular, intensive, and well-respected workshop and competition is open to conductors at all levels of experience. It is based on the symphony conducting techniques of Monteux, Musin, and Szell. Its faculty members are Adrian Gnam, director; with Associate Director Dr. Gregory Pritchard, of the GSCO.
Each participant will conduct the professional ICWC Orchestra in works by Barber, Beethoven, Bernstein, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Johann Strauss, and Verdi throughout the workshop and on this public performance.
A major benefit will include the selection at the end of the workshop of the winner to conduct on a concert of the GSCO during the current or a future season. Past participants have recently gained positions with the Cincinnati, Ft. Worth, Detroit, New Jersey, Portland (ME), St. Louis, Houston, Windsor, Canada, Oregon and Minnesota Orchestras.
The six participating conductors are: Felipe Tristan from Monterrey, Mexico; Daniel Schlosberg from Los Angeles, Calif.; Sungdon Son and Jong Bin Kim from Seoul, South Korea; Wilbur Lin from New Brunswick, N.J.; and John Lincourt from Syracuse, N.Y.
National chain brings new barbecue restaurant to Johns Creek
A national chain is opening its second location in Johns Creek on June 25 at 10:30 a.m. City Barbeque is to be located at 4210 Johns Creek Parkway, near Lowes, in a former Applebee’s site. It will celebrate the opening by giving away food and giving back to six local charities and non-profits during the first week. In addition, the first 50 guests will receive a mystery gift card valued at $5 to $250.
Kansas farm kid and former National FFA president Rick Malir quit his day job, teamed up with a competition barbeque team, and bought an old doughnut shop in Ohio to open his first City Barbeque in 1999. Today the company operates 37 company-owned restaurants in 11 markets, in Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Its grand opening will be on Saturday, June 30, with the official “Rib Bone” cutting at 10 a.m. It will be followed by a rib-eating contest between local fire fighters and police. There will also be face painting, crafts and activities for kids.
The City Barbeque menu features an assortment of smoked meats, including beef brisket, pulled pork, turkey breast, smoked chicken, and smoked sausage, served with the choice of eight different sauces. Scratch-made sides like sweet vinegar slaw, corn pudding, and potato salad are made in-house every day, along with homemade favorites such as creamy mac and cheese, hand-dipped hush puppies, and baked beans with brisket. Fresh salads and homemade desserts round out the regular menu.
Atlanta Market Leader Bryson Brewer says: “We are excited to expand City Barbeque in Johns Creek, Decatur, and throughout the Atlanta area. The Johns Creek joint will smoke all meats on-site and will serve the same award-winning barbeque, homemade sides, and indulgent desserts that guests have come to know and crave.”
The Johns Creek location is almost 5,000 square feet and will seat 88 guests inside and up to 30 guests on the patio. There is also a meeting/party room with AV presentation capability that can host nearly 50 people for those wishing to reserve a private space.
RECOMMENDEDThe Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse by Alexander McCall Smith
“One of our favorite authors is a Scotsman, Alexander McCall Smith. He’s prodigious, sometimes writing four books a year, and never using crude language. He often writes about the same fictitious characters, but The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse is a tale onto itself. Essentially, it’s about life in England and the Netherlands during and after World War II with all its ramifications. You’ll get a different view of this war, and meet some wonderful people in this stand-alone novel. You’ll learn about Berlin after its bombing, Land Girls, American pilots, get an insight into a German soldier opposed to the war, and follow these lives in times after the war. Meanwhile, you’ll be entertained as only this author can, and perhaps be inclined to look into his many other publications, all told in his easy prose and distinctive ideas. Get this and read and enjoy!”—eeb
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GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA TIDBITUnion campaign under Wilson late in war laid waste to area
In mid-March 1865, as the Confederate States of America struggled through its final days, Union Major General James Harrison Wilson began a month-long cavalry raid that laid waste to much of the productive capacity of Alabama and Georgia.
Wilson
In a war where cavalry troops were underutilized, frequently mixed with infantry troops, or simply relegated to hauling supplies and delivering mail, Wilson’s approach to warfare was innovative: he used his 13,480 horsemen, without any infantry troops, in lightning quick raids against the productive centers of the Deep South. Much of the area from central Mississippi to central Georgia remained relatively unscathed, even in the late stages of the Civil War (1861-65). Consequently, cities like Selma and Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus, Ga., survived as vital shipping points and major producers of Confederate war supplies. Wilson’s aim was twofold: to destroy this critical supply link and to prevent the region from becoming the site of a Confederate last stand.
Wilson, the 27-year-old “boy-general,” a native of Illinois, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, ranked sixth in his class in 1860. His star rose rapidly; he served under General William T. Sherman late in the war, after serving under General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg and Chattanooga and heading the Cavalry Bureau of the War Department. Wilson began organizing and training his cavalrymen in northwest Alabama in early 1865. Because southern forces were preoccupied with stopping Sherman’s march to the sea, few Confederate troops were available to slow Wilson’s progress. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, with about 5,000 men, only 3,000 of whom were well mounted, constituted the main Confederate force in the region, but his troops were widely scattered and heavily outnumbered and outgunned.
By March 31, 1865, Wilson and the main body of his force had worked their way to Montevallo in central Alabama, the heart of the state’s iron and coal district (just south of present-day Birmingham). Forrest’s troops offered ineffective resistance to Wilson’s men, who made quick work of the mills, coal mines, and foundries in the surrounding area, including facilities in Elyton (later Birmingham), Irondale, Oxmoor, and Brierfield.
Forrest then concentrated his troops outside Selma as Wilson’s troops rapidly approached that city. The two sides clashed at Ebenezer Church some 19 miles outside of Selma, with a decisive victory for the Union troops. Wilson lost only 12 men while inflicting considerably more damage on Forrest’s troops, with Forrest himself sustaining a minor injury.
Significantly outnumbered, Forrest hastily organized a civilian defense of Selma. Wilson moved against the city on April 2. Casualties were significant on both sides, but Wilson’s onslaught was too much. Forrest and his men fled the city in the middle of the night, putting the torch to the city’s cotton stores as they scrambled out of town.
With the fall of Selma, Wilson inflicted a considerable loss on the Confederacy. Selma’s arsenal contained, among other things, 15 siege guns, 60,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and one million rounds of small arms ammunition. Wilson destroyed the city’s eleven ironworks and foundries, which had produced war goods for the Confederacy, as well as locomotives and rail cars, thus depriving the Confederacy of one of its last reliable industrial centers. Moreover, Forrest’s cavalry would harass Wilson’s forces no more. In a meeting between Forrest and Wilson, Forrest reputedly said to Wilson, “Well, General, you have beaten me badly, and for the first time I am compelled to make such an acknowledgement.”
(To be continued)
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Is this Mystery Photo from a spaghetti Western? You decide
Today’s Mystery Photo, you may can easily tell, isn’t around here. You’ll have to send your mind wandering to identify this photograph. When you do, send us your reply to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
The last Mystery Photo came from Roving Photographer Frank Sharp, a beautiful picture of a gristmill in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Nita Hallford Killebrew of Lilburn was the first to recognize it, saying that “…my family spent many spring break holidays there in the lovely Smoky Mountains.” Jimmy Simpson of Clayton, formerly of Lilburn, also recognized it.
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex.: Today’s mystery photo is of the Pigeon Forge Mill, in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Located along the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River, this historic gristmill complex consists of a mill house, a breastshot water wheel, and a mill dam, all of which are operative today. Interestingly (and somewhat surprisingly) this mill is the only structure in Pigeon Forge that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
“There are three basic types of water wheel designs that are classified according to how and where the water is applied to the wheel, relative to the wheel’s axis. The most common and efficient design is the ‘overshot’ water wheel, where water falls over the top of the wheel. Then there is the ‘undershot’ water wheel where the water flows under the wheel.
Finally there is the design used by the Old Mill at Pigeon Forge, namely the ‘breastshot’ water wheel. In this design, the water enters the buckets about half way, or just above axle height. Generally, the breastshot water wheel is used in situations where the height of water is insufficient to power a water wheel from above. From the photo you can see that the height of the dam is limited, so they needed to use a breastshot design at Pigeon Forge. The disadvantage of this design is that the gravitational weight of the water is only used for about one quarter of the rotation of the wheel, unlike the overshot design where the weight of the water moves the wheel for about half of a rotation. To overcome this low head height, the water wheel buckets are made wider to extract a larger amount of water and provide a greater amount of potential energy from each bucket of water.”
Gee, Allan. We didn’t know all that! Thanks!
CALENDARThree photography workshops: The first is at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center, 2020 Clean Water Drive in Buford on June 23 from 1 to 3 p.m. Join the Georgia Nature Photographers e at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center, 2020 Clean Water Drive in Buford on July 28 from 1 to 3 p.m. They will provide information about cameras, editing software, and tips for getting better photographs with the equipment you already have.
Ink, Paint and Steel is a new art exhibit open through July 13 at The Rectory in Norcross. Explore the works of KatheAssociation for this informal talk and QandA photography workshop. The second will be at the Five Forks Library Branch, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lawrenceville, on June 30, at 2 p.m. The third will brine Linn and Simone Wilson in this new exhibit . Opening night, June 8, is free and open to the public and will include a reception with music, refreshments and the opportunity to meet these extraordinary artists.
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