2/12: Growth for NE Georgia; Bezos and the Enquirer; Senior services

RETURNING HOME: A vintage Southern Railway locomotive has returned to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, after nearly four years of restoration work. Southern Railway No. 6901, an E8a diesel passenger locomotive, routinely powered Crescent passenger trains between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. It pulled the last Southern-operated Crescent train before Amtrak assumed operations of the route. The Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors built the unit as No. 2924 in 1951. Southern donated the locomotive to the museum in 1979, and it later pulled New Georgia Railroad excursion trains. Norfolk Southern donated electrical, motor and wheel work, which its crews performed at Juniata Shop in Altoona, Penn. During winter, the Museum has varied hours of operations. Call 770-476-2013 for hours.

TODAY’S FOCUS: Norton Forecasts What?  More Growth Headed to Northeast Georgia

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Go for It, Jeff Bezos; Take on the Slimy National Enquirer

ANOTHER VIEW: Gwinnett Expanding Senior Services at Two Additional Locations

SPOTLIGHT: Primerica, Inc.

FEEDBACK: Mea Culpas Makes One Person Remember His Impersonating Ways

UPCOMING: Suwanee Medical School Now Has New Name—-PCOM Georgia

NOTABLE: County Approves Construction of New State Patrol Post in Suwanee

RECOMMENDED: The Muse of the Revolution by Nancy Rubin Stuart

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native Vereen Bell Wins Success with Swamp Water Book

MYSTERY PHOTO: This Statue Has the Right Attitude Towards Valentine’s Day

LAGNIAPPE: Winter color

CALENDAR: Workshop on Making Memory Quilts Scheduled for February 16 

Norton forecasts what?  More growth headed to Northeast Georgia

By Billy Chism

GAINESVILLE, Ga.  |  Frank Norton, the CEO and chairman of The Norton Agency in Gainesville, gave his 32nd annual Native Intelligence presentation last week at the new Lanier Tech campus. He told the crowd that metro-Atlanta’s population is coming Northeast Georgia’s way.

Chism

It’s already happened in Gwinnett County, where the population will soon top one million. During the last 20 years, this rapid growth has moved up I-85 and Georgia 400 – to Forsyth, Jackson and Hall counties. And this growth is expected to accelerate in the decades ahead.

Norton said: “We know progress can move at light speed.”

But it can create challenges. The main challenge in Northeast Georgia, Norton pointed out over and over again, is the lack of affordable housing. He said this problem exists in every county in Northeast Georgia.

He said almost no single family housing is available in the $150,000 to $200,000 range. This lack of affordable housing… well, Norton was blunt. He calls it a crisis.

He also said a home selling for $225,000 is not considered affordable housing. He pointed out that some counties only want to build homes with a price tag starting at $300,000 or $400,000.

Norton speaks.

He warned if this happens, there will be no housing options for teachers, firefighters, police, or other service workers who keep a county going. They all will have to drive in from somewhere else.

As for Toccoa and Stephens County, Norton pointed out that the completion of the Currahee Connector – a four-lane highway from Toccoa to I-85 – was among several major highway projects completed during Gov. Nathan Deal’s two terms in office.

“We estimate that more pavement has been laid in our region in the last eight years than the 30 years prior,” Norton said.

The good news is this new four-lane highway helps my hometown of  Toccoa and Stephens County when it comes to expanding existing industry or bringing in new business.

I’m sure this new four-lane played a part in the recent announcement by the Georgia Municipal Association naming Toccoa as one of nine cities in Georgia that are a great place to live, work and play.

And by gosh, we are. We have a great downtown. We have Lake Hartwell. We have beautiful rolling hills and mountain views in the distance.

When I look at a map of Northeast Georgia, I see that lush, green Chattahoochee National Forest stretching from the North Carolina line down into Lumpkin, White, Habersham and Stephens counties.

These counties, along with Rabun, Towns and Union, make up the heart of the Northeast Georgia mountain area – an area I believe offers so much and makes where we live so special.  We are different up here.

We’ll get our growth in the years ahead, you better believe it.

And when we do, Toccoa and Stephens County, where I live, I believe, are positioned to handle it. We have an almost unlimited water supply. We have a sensible land use plan that provides a way forward.

And sooner or later, let’s hope some home builders start building some affordable housing in our county.

And that’s something to think about.

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Go for it, Jeff Bezos; Take on the slimy National Enquirer

By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum

FEB. 12, 2019  |  When you think of the higher elements of our American democracy, terms harking back to the Declaration of Independence easily come to mind: “Freedom,” “Liberty” and the “Pursuit of happiness.”  With these thoughts extended, you soon remember many positive aspects, such as “The American way,” “Getting the job done,” and our “Can-do attitude.”

It’s worked for more than 250 years in our Republic. It is democracy in action.

Unfortunately these days all too often we see another side of the United States, where un-American terms gnaw at the basic American character.  We’re thinking of the words “extortion,” “blackmail,” “bullying,” and “sleaze.”

Such terms came into focus last week when a supermarket tabloid tried to bamboozle Jeff Bezos, the self-made American billionaire whose business idea has become a whirlwind institution, Amazon.  He has parlayed this into companies throughout the world that have made him the richest person on the planet, with a fortune of $136 billion.

So the National Enquirer broke a story telling the world of an extra-marital affair which preceded and led to the break-up of Bezos’ 25 years marriage.  The CEO of the company that owned the supermarket tab wanted to bully and control Bezos.  But Bezos didn’t act as they thought he might, but struck back instead.

Bezos is quoted as saying:  “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption,” Mr. Bezos wrote in a come-back story in the newspaper he owns, The Washington Post. “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out.”

Bezos

The American journalism industry has long been embarrassed by many base-level elements of the publishing business, who see the First Amendment as their highway toward riches by choosing the lower path toward news.  Many of these less-than-quality publications even go so far as offer their readers rewards in cash by giving them the tips and details when a public figure, or even an everyday person, might be up to no good, so that the newspaper can churn out unfavorable stories about them.

Even worse, it’s understood by the standard press that many times these juicy-gossip supermarket sheets have refrained from publishing a negative story about a person or company for one reason. That happens when the target of the story caves in and pays hush-money to the publication’s corporate entity so that the story would never see the light of the day.

To put it bluntly, such “tell-all” publications are not the press’ most shining elements. You don’t hear of the National Enquirer’s name being mentioned in stories announcing high quality awards, like the Pulitzer Prize or any other honor.  Who wants even to associate (or read) these publications?  Unfortunately, the answer is that many people read these publications, not for news, but for slime and filth about people, and certainly not for opening their minds to the higher elements of life.

Now that Jeff Bezos has felt the sting of the tabloid press, he’s not sitting still. He has the wherewithal to fight the National Enquirer and doesn’t need other people’s support. But we can give him encouragement.  We say, “Go for it Jeff.  Take them on. Give ‘em the devil, and do all you can to discredit and shut down such sleazy journalism.”

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Gwinnett expanding senior services at 2 additional locations

By Vivian Gaither
Centers Operations Manager, Gwinnett Community Services

FEB. 12, 2019  |  Existing senior centers in Grayson and Snellville will soon be operated by Gwinnett County Senior Services under agreements approved by commissioners recently.

The Grayson center will be in an existing facility behind city hall. Grayson Mayor Allison Wilkerson says: “When the Grayson Senior Center was built in 1996, the original vision was to use it to provide meals and activities for seniors. The city of Grayson is very excited to partner with Gwinnett County for this wonderful and worthy use of our beautiful facility.”

Snellville Mayor Barbara Bender says: “The city of Snellville is pleased that we had facilities available at T.W. Briscoe Park to allow Gwinnett Senior Services to expand their programs supporting our senior population.”

Both new centers are expected to open in March and both will accommodate 40 people. The project will receive federal funding through the Atlanta Regional Commission.

The waiting list for the County’s Centerville facility has grown to 150 people, according to Blake Hawkins, deputy director for community services. He says the demand is high in southeast Gwinnett because it was in the first wave of settlement in the 1970s and those early residents are now aging.

District 3 Commissioner Tommy Hunter says: “I am grateful to the Grayson and Snellville city councils for generously providing valuable space that will allow the County to expand services to more seniors.”

There are four senior centers in Buford, Centerville, Lawrenceville and Norcross that are currently operated by Gwinnett Health and Human Services as gathering places for adults 60 and older. Hot, balanced lunches are available five days a week. Seniors find daily planned activities such as exercise and dance classes, arts and crafts, table games, billiards and day trip excursions. The centers also host performers and speakers on medical, financial and consumer issues important to seniors. Membership is free but some classes and day trips have small fees.

More information about the congregate meals program or other services for seniors and their families is available from the Gwinnett Senior Services Center located at 567 Swanson Drive in Lawrenceville or by phone at 678-377-4150. The office is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Mea culpas make one person remember his impersonating ways

Editor, the Forum:

With all the mea culpas coming out recently both in the political and entertainment arena, I felt compelled to write you to make the following confessions.

When I was a much younger, as a man I dressed as a woman for a Rotary Halloween party.  I thought I did a pretty good job of it until a fellow Rotarian, Donald Johns, walked up to me and made the following comment: “Dave, don’t you ever consider having a sex-change operation because you are the ugliest woman I have ever seen!”

This blatant criticism came from a guy who at the time was dressed as a female nurse, white hat, dress, stockings and all.   Does that make me sexist?    Probably, but it was fun.

Also when I was a lowly cashier at a bank in Duluth, I was feted with a baby shower just before the birth of our first son.  My wife was not even invited! BTW, this event made the Gwinnett Daily News in an article written by one Elliott Brack.

Does that make me a mother-to-be impersonator?    Honestly, I had no idea it was going to happen.

And finally although I have never claimed American Indian heritage, I did play a mean game of “Cowboys and Indians” when I was a lad. Of course I was always a cowboy and we usually won the fights.  Does that make me anti-American Indian?

Well, since I am almost 73 years old, there probably is no danger that I will one day run for public office. I guess I’ll just continue living one day at a time, thankful for each one, and try to be the best person I can be.

— Dave Robertson, Flowery Branch

Finds agreement with columnist on U.S. military spending

Editor, the Forum:

Let me agree with Jack Bernard’s criticism of our military spending.  An honest person simply can’t criticize the spread-the-wealth rhetoric of left-wing politicians like Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez and not wonder if we would be better off spending our wealth on even the wildest social programs rather than throwing it away in the middle east desert as we have done since 9/11.

But Jack knows that the lion’s share of our military budget is committed to protect and insulate the state of Israel in an entangling alliance that is strangling us. Israel has been at odds with its neighbors since 1923 not because of European Jews, their numbers, or their religion, but for the violent ethnic cleansing and the supremacist government that they created in Palestine.

— Joe Briggs, Suwanee

Buford resident glad to see another viewpoint to consider

Editor, the Forum:

Just wanted to drop you an email and let you know I really appreciate the article you printed on February 5th regarding Buford receiving a bum rap.  Very well said!

My husband Robby and I live in Buford. We appreciate all the wonderful attributes of this small town.  Lately it seems writers (the AJC) only want to cast a negative view over a truthful one.  Thank you for giving readers a more positive viewpoint to consider.

— Dana Maxwell, Buford

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Suwanee medical school now has new name — PCOM Georgia

On February 8, the Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (GA-PCOM), will begin the process of rolling out a new name – PCOM Georgia, for its Suwanee campus.

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) President and CEO Jay S. Feldstein  says: “The new name more simply and accurately describes the college’s presence in the state and better speaks to the breadth and depth of the region the college serves,”

The occasion was marked at the medical school with students, faculty and staff members coming together to share soup in newly branded mugs to mark the occasion. In an effort to give back, community members are collecting cans of soup to be donated to a Gwinnett County food bank.

According to Dr. Feldstein, “The name PCOM Georgia is reflective of our new cohesive identity system that can grow with additional locations.”

PCOM Georgia’s new name is now more consistent with the names of PCOM – the degree-granting institution in Philadelphia, Penn. – and of PCOM South Georgia, the College’s additional location in Moultrie, Ga. Dr. Feldstein explains that it will take some time to fully reflect the new name on such items as signage, brochures and stationery. “The launch is planned to be a soft launch, a gradual introduction of the change to various markets,” he said.

• For further information about the new cohesive identity system, please visit www.pcom.edu.

County approves construction of new State Patrol post in Suwanee

Gwinnett County will get a new Georgia State Patrol post and HERO unit station on Interstate 85 near Suwanee. Gwinnett commissioners have approved a $5.22 million contract with Carroll Daniel Construction Co. of Gainesville to build the post and HERO station on the site of a former Interstate-85 rest area in Suwanee.

District 1 Commissioner Jace Brooks says troopers have been working from leased space on Pleasant Hill Road since 2013. He adds: “We’re proud to help build this new facility and glad the state patrol unit will have a permanent home here in Gwinnett County.”

The state’s Department of Transportation owns the 12-acre property along I-85, just north of Lawrenceville Suwanee Road. The rest area closed in 2005 and has been used as a storage area since then. The entrance and exit will be on Old Peachtree Road. The County agreed in 2017 to pay for the facility’s design and construction.

The Georgia DOT will continue to own the property but will lease it to the Georgia Department of Public Safety in exchange for housing HERO assistance units at the facility.

The new 10,797 square-foot building will house command staff offices, day rooms for troopers and HEROs, classroom space, evidence storage and a dormitory for 16 troopers. Officials anticipate the building will open in spring 2020.

Sugar Hill city manager receives GMA’s certificate of achievement

Radford

Sugar Hill City Manager Paul Radford has received the Certificate of Achievement from the Harold F. Holtz Municipal Training Institute from the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA). This Institute is a cooperative effort from GMA and the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, providing a series of training opportunities for city officials. To receive a Certificate of Achievement, a city official must complete a minimum of 72 units of credit, including at least 36 hours from a list of required classes. The training program consists of a series of more than 60 courses.

The Muse of the Revolution by Nancy Rubin Stuart

From John Titus, Peachtree Corners: This is an excellent biography of a Founding Mother. As a playwright, poet and historian, Mercy Otis Warren was a wife, mother, homemaker, author and patriot. She was a mostly overlooked participant in the USA struggle for independence. Married to James Warren, a leading Massachusetts patriot, and encouraged by John Adams, she anonymously wrote plays and poems supporting the revolutionary cause. She interacted with other major figures of the period such as Sam Adams, Henry Knox, Elbridge Gerry, and George and Martha Washington.

Her closest relationship was with John Adams as a mentor, and Abigail Adams, as a close friend. As early as 1775 she began compiling material for her History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. Initially opposed to the proposed Constitution she campaigned for a Bill of Rights. Publication of her History in 1805 caused an estrangement from the Adams, but they later reconciled.

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Georgia native Vereen Bell wins success with Swamp Water book

Vereen Bell wrote fiction and magazine articles set in the southern outdoors, and he achieved popular success with Swamp Water, a coming-of-age novel set in the Okefenokee Swamp. A World War II(1941-45) naval officer, Bell was killed during the Battle for Leyte Gulf.

Bell

The son of Jennie Vereen and Reason Chesnutt Bell, a prominent Georgia Supreme Court judge, Vereen McNeill Bell was born in Cairo on October 5, 1911. After graduating from North Carolina’s Davidson College in 1932, he began his career under the tutelage of Frederic Litten in Lake Charles, La., writing for Sunday School and juvenile magazines. In 1934 Bell married Florence Eleanor Daniel of Thomasville. They settled near Bell’s family home in Cairo and had two sons, Vereen McNeill and Frederic Daniel.

Bell worked briefly as an editor at the Detroit, Michigan-based American Boy/Youth’s Companion, but he preferred to write as a freelancer from his south Georgia home. In the late 1930s his outdoor stories and wildlife photography routinely sold to Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. His two novels, Swamp Water and Two of a Kind, first appeared serially in the Post.

Swamp Water (1940) follows a defiant young man into the wild Okefenokee,

where his friendship with a fugitive ignites a struggle within his backwoods community. The story inspired a 1942 Hollywood movie and a 1952 remake. Two of a Kind (1943) tells a similar story of a young man’s conflicting loyalties against a backdrop of sporting dogs and field trials. Several of his stories about hunting dogs were published in a posthumous Armed Services Edition compilation, Brag Dog and Other Stories, which was republished in 2000 in an expanded form.

In World War II Bell volunteered for navy air combat intelligence duty. He was a Naval lieutenant assigned to the escort carrier USS Gambier Bay when the ship was sunk October 25, 1944, near Samar in the Philippines.

In 1947 Bell’s college roommate, D. Grier Martin, established the Vereen Bell Award for creative writing at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., in his memory. Bell was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2015.

• To view the Georgia Encyclopedia online, go to http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org

This statue has the right attitude towards Valentine’s Day

Years ago, people didn’t like the idea of others showing affection to one other in public. Yet here is a statue that’s doing nothing more than that, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Can you figure where it is?Send answers to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.

Now to the last Mystery Photo. It was from Molly Titus of Peachtree Corners. We thought that the drop in elevation might throw off some viewers, not realizing that it was in the flat area of Florida. That didn’t to several, including Jo Shrader of Suwanee.

Several of the regulars, including Jim Savadelis of Duluth and Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill, agreed.

Yet there is much more to this photograph, as George Graf of Palmyra, Va. wrote: “ Neapolitans may love homegrown, but they don’t necessarily relish the appearance of ‘homespun.’ They lured one Brian Holley, the charismatic leader of Cleveland Botanical Garden, to transfer his talents to Naples in 2005. Holley, in turn, assembled what the Miami Herald dubbed the “dream team,” a group of renowned landscape architects, including Jungles, to imagine a botanical garden like no other.

“The garden would celebrate communities and cultures that, like Naples, fall along the 26th latitude. Those include Brazil, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.  Much of the year following the damage from Hurricane Irma was spent on deepening relationships with other gardens. Their teams visited Cuba twice and hosted garden administrators from the island. They traveled to Puerto Rico to aid a botanical garden’s post-Maria clean up, as so many others had done for them. They toured California gardens. They continued conversations with Haiti’s Botanical Garden of Les Cayes, which Naples had assisted following Hurricane Matthew in 2016.”

Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. added more:  “Today’s mystery photo was taken in the Naples Botanical Garden, a 170-acre world-class garden paradise that features the plants and cultures of the tropics and subtropics between the latitudes of 26 degrees North and 26 degrees South including Brazil, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and Florida. The mystery photo was taken at the Kathleen and Scott Kapnick Brazilian Garden, from a platform that extends out into a lily pond in front of the waterfalls, and allows the photographer to take a picture of the Roberto Burle Marx Plaza that sits on top of the falls. An 8×17 foot ceramic tile mural by Roberto Burle Marx himself is the main feature of the plaza, and is in fact, the only such mural by this architect in the United States.

“This garden is bold, colorful and distinctively Brazilian, giving tribute to the land and people of great diversity and color. It celebrates the country’s rich biological assortment and the visionary landscape designs of Brazilian native Roberto Burle Marx. Having completed more than 3,000 projects in his lifetime, Burle Marx is considered one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century and is frequently referred to as the “father of modern landscape architecture.”

Winter color

The warm weather of the last few days have tempted the red bud trees, as Roving Photographer Frank Sharp shows in the photograph taken in Snellville.  They are so colorful against this lack of leaves on hardwoods nearby. In particular, a drive down Ronald Reagan Boulevard at this time will show the trees and bushes patiently waiting for a few more sunny and warm days before they bud out. And it’ll be soon, for as the bard said, “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Frank made this photo with a Canon Powershot G9X Mark II Camera.

LILBURN POLICE ADADEMY is accepting applications for its 13 week course. Registration deadline is February 15. Preference is given to Lilburn residents or to someone working in Lilburn. The minimum age is 21. For more information, go to https://www.cityoflilburn.com/281/Citizens-Police-Academy.

Making a Memory Quilt: Contemporary memory quilts preserve treasured memories of people, events, accomplishments, and places.  Quilters of previous generations saved scraps of fabrics from dresses, aprons, or shirts out of necessity to use in their quilts.  This created the unintended, yet still special, tradition of quilts holding special memories and connections to people in our families. Join Master Quilter, Elizabeth Thomas, for this workshop to learn more about the art form.  Presented by Gwinnett County Public Library, this event takes place on Saturday, February 16 at 2 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Branch Library, 1001 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville.  This event is free. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.

Meet Historian and Author Jim Jordan: He won the 2018 Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council Excellence Award for his book The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book:  Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade.  These 70 long-lost letters detail the illegal landing of 400 African slaves on American soil by Charles Lamar who used the yacht the Wanderer as a slave ship dropping off slaves on Jekyll Island. Gwinnett County Public Library, in partnership with Liberty Books, presents this author event on Saturday, February 16 at 3 p.m. at Liberty Books, 176 West Crogan Street, Lawrenceville.  This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.

State of the County Annual Report will be February 20 at 11:30 a.m. at the Infinite Energy Center. Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners Chairman Charlotte Nash will review 2018 achievements and present the vision for 2019 and beyond.

Fifth Leadership Challenge Workshop will begin February 26 with a four hour session, and continue for five other periods, concluding on April 9. The Workshop brings local leaders together to equip them to serve the community. It is sponsored by the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. It will be facilitated by Betsy Corley Pickren, with guest instructors. For more information, visit www.SouthWestGwinnettChamber.com, or call 678-906-4078.

ANNUAL PLANT SALE, from the University of Georgia Extension Service, runs through March 6. Plant experts are offering a host of fruit shrubs and trees. Purchasers must pick up their prepaid order on March 14 at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. No orders are shipped. For order forms or for more information, visit www.ugaextension.org/gwinnett, or call 678-377-4010.

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