CHECK PRESENTATION: Board members of the Sugar Hill Business Alliance (SHBA) presented Mayor Steve Edwards with a check for $5,000 raised at their recent golf tournament held at the Sugar Hill Golf Club. The organization chose to dedicate funds from this year’s annual event to the ongoing construction of the new Sugar Hill Veterans Memorial. Trace Adkins, a long-time supporter of veterans and active military, also took time to meet SHBA board members before performing hits like “Still a Soldier” in The Bowl that evening. From left are Mayor Steve Edwards, Business Alliance President Tom Sheldon, Membership Chair Candy Hilliard, Trace Adkins and Treasurer Jacqueline Sheldon. Located across from Sugar Hill City Hall, the Sugar Hill Veterans Memorial Plaza features monuments recognizing each branch of military service as well as a water feature, and eternal flame surrounded by a community plaza.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Housing Corporation and Norcross Partner in New Venture
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New Book Sheds Light on Horrific Murders of Three Gwinnett Policemen
SPOTLIGHT: The law firm of J. Michael Levengood, LLC
FEEDBACK: Our Own Energy Boom Allows United States To Pull Out of Middle East
UPCOMING: Tom Doran To Become Gwinnett County Police Chief on November 15
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Stripers Attendance Grows by 8%, Best Growth since 2011
RECOMMENDED: The Sublime Engine; A Biography of the Human Heart by Dr. Thomas Amidon and Stephen Amidon
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Three Entities Are Early Sponsors of Trustee Garden in Savannah
MYSTERY PHOTO: Oversized Rocker in a Field Is Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Author Daniela Petrova on Friday, Sept. 27 visits Liberty Books, in Lawrenceville
Housing corporation and Norcross partner in new venture
By Lejla Prljaca
Executive director, Gwinnett Housing Coalition
NORCROSS, Ga. | The Gwinnett Housing Corporation (GHC) and the City of Norcross is seeking to provide more quality, affordable housing, and will begin this process with a ribbon cutting of the Mitchell Road Duplex, a Pathway Home project. The event will be at 2 p.m. on Monday, September 30, at the site, 2105 Mitchell Road.
Prljaca
The occasion symbolizes the city’s efforts to bring more quality, affordable housing to the area and improve the lives of its residents. The families who come to live in Mitchell Road will have the opportunity (and support) to move from homeless to permanent housing.
In the current economy, housing prices continue to soar, and many residents are finding it difficult to continue renting or owning homes. The lack of quality affordable housing affects area schools, local businesses and families. As a partner in the Georgia Initiative for Community Housing (GICH) through its own LiveNorcross Initiative, the City of Norcross strives to make quality affordable housing available to all its residents.
Norcross Mayor Craig Newton says: “As the city grows and develops, we want to ensure our city is an attractive place to live for all who call our city home. Our desire is that Norcross feels like home to all of our residents, regardless of where they reside or if they rent, lease or own a home in our great city.”
It is an honor for the Housing Coalition to partner with the City of Norcross on this initiative. It is inspiring to see the city and Gwinnett create an environment where affordable housing providers such as GHC can serve our hardworking families. We look forward to more projects in the future.
Recently, the Gwinnett Housing Corporation (partner of the City of Norcross and co-lead in the city’s GICH project) acquired a duplex on Mitchell Road and invested over $100,000 in improvements to the property and building. The duplex is the latest addition to GHC’s growing Pathway HOME program inventory, a housing program for families experiencing homelessness. GHC partners with local organizations who serve these families for a period of two years and offer them access to various self-sufficiency programs while they reside in Pathway HOME properties throughout Gwinnett County.
The Pathway HOME program has proven instrumental in successfully moving families from homeless to homeowners. It is the goal of both LiveNorcross and the City of Norcross that this newest property will prove the same for some of the families identified earlier this year in the LiveNorcross Extended-Stay Survey. The survey, unveiled in May, revealed that 84 percent of respondents live full-time in these motel rooms.
The Mitchell Road Duplex is located near the Mitchell Road Mosaic Mural (a 2018 community project aimed at beautifying this corridor), and is walking distance to both Norcross Elementary School and Summerour Middle School. With access to public transit right next to the duplex, this project will truly give these families an opportunity to save money, work with their case manager and stay in the community without disrupting their children’s education.
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New book sheds light on horrific murders of 3 Gwinnett policemen
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 27, 2019 | It is one of the darkest moments in Gwinnett history. Three Gwinnett County policemen were gunned down with their own weapons and left handcuffed together and found the morning of April 17, 1964, just off Beaver Ruin Road. As a result, Gwinnett got the reputation as an unsafe, lawless and backward county.
More than a year after the murders, after painstakingly difficult investigations, police charged three persons. Two were found guilty of these cold-blooded murders. (One turned state’s evidence and got off without sentence.) Another was paroled after 25 years in prison, but Alex Evans died after more than 50 years in prison, becoming the longest tenured prisoner.
The crime was an especially heinous one, in that 16 bullets of 19 fired found their mark on the officers’ bodies, two of them shot directly in the face. The preparation of their bodies for viewing by an undertaker in Buford, the standard custom then, was a particularly difficult job.
Years of unsurpassed growth helped Gwinnett eventually outgrow that unsavory reputation, though many who were living here in 1964 still are deeply disturbed about the murders.
On September 20, a new book was released concerning the horrible incident. It is entitled Arc Road, named after the road where it all happened. The author is a 65-year-old Peachtree Corners resident, Tony Tiffin, who had never written a book before. While replete with large verbatim conversations from the legal transcript of two trials, it is still a work of historic fiction, something that bothered me at first when direct quotations were employed of actual people involved with the case.
However, Mr. Tiffin’s characterizations of the conversations, while harsh, sound genuine and ring true, as one person told him of the language used by many in those days working with law enforcement, “Keep in mind we are not talking about cupcakes and ice cream.” Essentially, Mr. Tiffin boiled down 1,200 pages of transcript of the trials to quote questions and answers directly from the record the words of attorneys and defendants in the book.
The author also spent a day talking with one of the three involved, Alex Evans, who was then at Hardwick Prison. “He would sometimes incriminate himself in talking to me, as I would catch him in a lie, and he would get mad. I would tell him that I was not there to interrogate him, but to interview him, as it was my job to find out if he was telling the truth. He would pitch a temper tantrum, and the guards would have to come into the room. But I learned a lot talking to him. Though Evans denied it, lots of people who knew him told me he was capable of doing this.”
The telling of the story has been a 10 year effort by Mr. Tiffin, a Georgia native of Augusta, who was raised in Atlanta and is a graduate of Briarcliff High School, and former automobile and corporate aircraft salesman. He says: “My father was a military police officer, and he told me once when I was six years old sitting in his lap, that if I ever got in trouble, go find the nearest policeman. He died two weeks later. Living in this area when the three were killed, I could not get that out of my mind, and decided 10 years ago to write the story.”
If you want to know more about this unfortunate bit of Gwinnett history, this is the book for you. This amazing and difficult chapter of Gwinnett life is available at Amazon for $17.95.
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Our own energy boom allows U.S. to pull out of Middle East
Editor, the Forum:
The upside of the U.S. energy boom is oil independence from the Middle East.
How many Forum readers want to send the Gwinnett senior class of 2020 to fight a war in defense of the despicable human rights policies of either Saudi Arabia or Israel? But that is exactly what President Trump is preparing to do and Netanyahu has been pushing for. There is no US interest at stake from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. This goes on while our own roads crumble and our citizens can’t afford to go to the doctor. We have committed the first act of war by denying Iran the right to sell its oil. When FDR did that to Japan we got attacked at Pearl Harbor and DC got their European war.
When John Kerry returned from Vietnam he testified before congress asking “Who is going to be the last American soldier who dies for a failed policy?” That goes through my mind every week when another American is slaughtered in Afghanistan.
Time to make American great again by getting out of the Middle East for good. It’s not like we have made it any better.
— Joe Briggs, Suwanee
Dear Joe: Good to see us agreeing. Every time we send more troops to the Eastern wars…..we can expect some of them to return in body bags. That’s why we should pull all our troops from those areas. –eeb
Summer evening less fun without the excitement of the firefly
In response to Byron Gilbert, “Where have all the fireflies gone? They are not seen in Duluth”
Summer evenings have lost much of their excitement because of the loss of the abundance of fireflies, or lightning bugs, we remember from our youth. Even as adults, we delight to see these little blinking lights in the dark; but, alas and alack, we are destroying their habitats. As the song says, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot”. This is very quickly becoming our reality.
We have had some on our property in Harbins, but not as many as in years past. Our property is mostly natural. Other than a flower bed and flower boxes, we have nothing “under cultivation” (no fescue, etc.), so it is just natural ground cover, grasses, woods, and pinestraw, making it insect-and-varmint-friendly.
— Elizabeth Truluck Neace, Dacula
Raises point concerning non-political governmental employees
Editor, the Forum:
Jack Bernard makes some excellent points in this piece. But there needs to be clarity regarding these “non-political federal government employees”.
According to Wikipedia in 2011 there were 2.79 million civil service employees. In 2015, 69.9 percent of those employees were “competitive service” employees, about 1.95 million people. Union membership is about 770,000 according to the Wikipedia pages for the American and National Federation of Federal Employee Unions. That’s about 39.5 percent of the competitive service. Therefore, no objective follower of politics would disagree that a significant number of federal employees are, at minimum, sympathetic to the goals of the Democratic Party.
One can say they are “non-political” but it would be a stretch to conclude they are apolitical and not capable of mischief.
— Theirn Scott, Lawrenceville
Dear Therin: Surely , the non-political group could not possibly be capable of mischief!—eeb
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Doran to become Gwinnett County Police Chief on Nov. 15
Gwinnett’s Deputy Police Chief Tom Doran is the new county police chief, succeeding A.A. “Butch” Ayers, who is retiring after 35 years of service to Gwinnett County. The announcement came from County Administrator Glenn Stephens.
Doran
Doran, a 26-year veteran of the Police Department, assumes his new role on November 15.
Ayers announced: “I have decided that the time is right to retire and pass the torch to my successor. The men and women of the Gwinnett County Police Department are the finest anywhere in law enforcement and it has been a great honor to serve with them.”
Doran began his career as a police officer with Gwinnett County Police in September 1993. As deputy chief, he commanded the department’s Operations Bureau, including the Uniform Division, the largest division in the department. He has overseen the Support Operations Division and served as the East Precinct Commander and Special Operations Commander. He is also an 18-year veteran of the S.W.A.T. Team, previously serving as the Unit Commander.
A 2009 graduate of the Georgia Law Enforcement Command College, he holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbus State University and has logged more than 3,700 hours of specialized training during his career.
Stephens says of the appointment: “The Gwinnett County Police Department is a prime example of the succession planning and leadership development that the County strives to cultivate and develop in all of its departments. Doran is the fifth police chief in a row to begin his career as a police officer and rise among the ranks to assume the role of police chief. I credit the superior level of expertise that exists within the leadership in our police department, including the tremendous leadership of Chief Ayers, for this tradition.”
Duluth area STEAM students to demonstrate projects Oct. 1
Come see the Duluth cluster schools take over Parsons Alley on October 1 for an evening filled with the wonders of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM). The event will start at 6 p.m.
The event will host all schools from the Duluth cluster, which will be showcasing their Project-Based Learning (PBL) projects. These schools will be presenting projects from each grade level that align with the curriculum from the first nine weeks. The projects are heavily influenced by science and mathematics with some influence from humanities and arts. Projects will be reflective of real-world applications and demonstrate a high level of student engagement.
For instance, Coleman Middle School will showcase projects on helping people and animals survive in extreme temperatures, demonstrations on the impact of water movement and a focus on how we can be more environmentally conscious by effectively reducing our carbon footprint.
STEAM activities are kid-friendly and include interactive displays sponsored by community groups, companies and individuals that challenge keen minds and demonstrate how everyday items can be used in imaginative and innovative ways. For more information about the event, visit www.duluthga.net/events.
Duluth Historical Society releases new story book about the area
A new story book about the Duluth area has been compiled by the Duluth Historical Society and will be on sale at the Society’s booth at the Calaboose (old jail) during the Duluth Fall Festival this weekend. The title of the book is Retold Stories of the South.
The book is edited by Candice Morgan and Nancy Sturgis and comes from several people in the area. The stories are steeped in history and more colorful than time itself. Stories that are handed down through time and generations are repeated over and over, changing a little each time they are retold. Legends, truths, and folklore are the “Stories of the South.”
People may purchase the book with a $12 donation to the Society.
Many of the 21 stories in the book come from the unwritten and often nearly forgotten history of the area. The book includes some of the areas no longer on the map, such as Shakerag, Ocee and Sheltonville. Illustrations on the cover of the book come from Duluth Artist Ann Odum. More details are on the Society’s website, www.duluthhistoricalsociety.org.
Gwinnett Stripers attendance grows by 8%, best growth since 2011
The 2019 season saw the Gwinnett Stripers increase their attendance over the previous year for the first time since 2011. The Atlanta Braves’ Triple-A affiliate drew 212,342 fans to Coolray Field, an increase of 16,387 (eight percent) over 2018 and the club’s largest attendance since drawing 225,259 in 2016. The 16,387 increase was fifth-highest in the 14-team International League.
Attendance highlights from 2019 include:
- Surpassing the 3-million fan mark (11-year total stands at 3,181,670 in 758 dates);
- Average attendance of 3,169 per game, highest since 2016 (3,218);
- June average of 3,677 was the highest for the month since 2015 (4,237);
- August/September average of 3,454 was highest for the months since 2015 (3,704); and
- Weekend average of 4,137 bested 2018 (3,718) by 419 fans per game;
In addition to 67 regular-season openings and two Governors’ Cup Playoff games, the Stripers hosted numerous events at Coolray Field, including the Bassmaster Elite Series weigh-ins, the Sip-N-Swine BBQ Festival, the P4 Childhood Cancer Foundation Home Run Derby, the Greater Atlanta Congenital Heart Walk, the Georgia High School Association Baseball State Championship, and the inaugural Braves 44 Classic. The Stripers were also set to host high school football for the first time during the Corky Kell Classic in August, though both games were cancelled by heavy rain.
Throughout the 2019 season, the Stripers raised over $38,000 for the Atlanta Braves Foundation and other non-profit organizations through four specialty jersey auctions, the video board message program, and the 50/50 Raffle. The club donated a total of $10,000 to non-profits via the Gwinnett Stripers Grant Program, awarding four $2,500 monthly grants (increased from $1,000 in previous seasons) to Operation Homefront, Good Samaritan Health Center of Gwinnett, Mending the Gap Inc., and Spectrum Autism Support Group.
Since January, the Stripers have gained over 20,000 followers across the team’s three main social media platforms, @GoStripers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The rise is thanks in part to the “Beat the Fridge Race,” a game day promotion that went viral during the summer and has accumulated more than 80 million views worldwide.
Adam English, Stripers vice president and general manager, says: “We have only taken the first steps toward our goals of bringing more fans to Coolray Field and increasing our community outreach in Gwinnett County and beyond. Our staff will continue to seek new and innovative ways to improve all facets of the club as we work to build a strong future for the Stripers.
Forum on Peachtree Parkway announces new property manager
Storck
Following the announcement of Bayer Properties’ recent third-party management assignment for The Forum on Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners, the Birmingham-based commercial real estate firm has appointed Sue Storck as general manager of the property. She will oversee daily property operations and the execution of new landscaping, amenities and other updates Bayer is implementing at the 500,000-square-foot mixed-use destination. Storck brings more than 25 years of experience from various management positions within the retail industry. Prior to joining Bayer, she worked as general manager for ATR Corinth Properties. Storck also served in numerous management roles with Simon Property Group, including mall manager and office manager for Northlake Mall in Atlanta, and area director of marketing.
The Sublime Engine; A Biography of the Human Heart
by Dr. Thomas Amidon and Stephen Amidon
From Karen Harris, Stone Mountain: The heart is brought to life by author brothers in this scientific biography of the lifeline of all sentient beings. Beginning with ancient time, they depict a heart attack that fells a character in one of many stories in the book as ‘lightning in the chest.The reader will travel to and through Ancient Greece, Italy, England and Germany, learning how the heart symbol came into existence along with the mystery of the heart of a nun that continued to beat after her death. The authors explain how heart catheterization came to be and treatments such as balloon angioplasty, and transplantation. The book closes with stories of two heart patients and their fates which underscore the importance of diet, exercise and managing stress. This book reads as both a scientific study, and a lyrical history. The reader will have a renewed respect for their hearts and the hearts of all.
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Three entities are early sponsors of Trustee Garden in Savannah
(Continued from previous edition)
Therefore, the physick garden at the Trustee Garden in early Savannah was specifically sponsored by three major players in the drug trade of the first half of the 18th century.
The first, the Society of Apothecaries, was a powerful company and guild entitled by royal charter to supply London and environs with drugs. It also held a monopoly to supply drugs, first to the navy and then to the East India Company, through a special stock of drugs prepared on the premises of the society.
The second major player was Hans Sloane, a renowned physician and naturalist, holder of a medical degree from the University of Orange, former physician to the duke of Albemarle in Jamaica, royal physician, president of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians. Sloane was a prolific collector of plant specimens and books on natural history, and a major patron of the physick garden at Chelsea.
The third, Charles DuBois, was a treasurer of the East India Company, which was well represented on the Trustee Council. (It was no coincidence that tropical spices, on whose import into England the East India Company held a monopoly, were not included in the plans for the garden.)
Special funds were set aside for botanist William Houstoun in 1732 and after his death in Jamaica, for Robert Millar in 1734. The money was to finance travel across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea down to the northern coast of Brazil and the collection of specimen for trans-shipment to Georgia. Although unsuccessful in wrestling Jesuit bark and cochineal specimens from the Spanish, Miller sent contrayerva and Peruvian and Capivi balsam to his brother in London. Subsequent exports from Georgia to London did include local and Indian plant drugs, such as jalap, sassafras, snakeroot, and sumac. The German element at Ebenezer, however, did not contribute to the search for local drugs because they were supplied with proprietary medications from Germany.
Despite its brief and spotty success and its decline by the 1740s, the Trustee Garden in Savannah was characteristic of 18th-century scientific and utilitarian interest in the natural world. As an early transatlantic enterprise, its founders prefigured the independent American botanists of the end of the century.
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Oversized rocker in a field is today’s Mystery Photo
Remember Lily Tomlin in an oversized rocker? Well, this isn’t Lily, but someone is in this super-large chair, happily rocking away. So where is it? Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown in your reply.
The last Mystery Photo came from Bob Foreman of Grayson, who was on vacation in Nova Scotia, and took the photo of the St. Paul Island Museum and Lighthouse, 575 Dingwall Road, Dingwall, Nova Scotia, Canada.
First to spot it was George Graf of Palmyra, Va., who wrote: “The St. Paul Island Southwest Lighthouse
At Dingwell, Nova Scotia is a prefabricated, cast-iron, cylindrical tower, painted the traditional white and red of the Canadian Coast Guard and surmounted by a 12-sided iron lantern. It was built to warn vessels away from the dangerous St. Paul Island in the Cabot Strait with a flashing light that was visible to a distance of 18 nautical miles.
“Designed to be easily moved, the lighthouse has been well travelled over the past century. Fabricated at the Dominion Lighthouse Depot in Prescott, Ontario, it was shipped by train and boat to St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia for installation in 1915. Its location has since been roughly split between the southwest corner of St. Paul Island (1915-1982) and the Canadian Coast Guard base at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (1982-2011). In 2011, the lighthouse was relocated in front of a small 19th century frame house that serves as a museum for St. Paul Island.”
Also pinpointing the photo were Jim Savadelis, Duluth; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. who wrote: “The lighthouse was disassembled in March 2011, sandblasted and painted in April, and transported by truck to Dingwall in May. In August 2011, the lantern room was installed atop a concrete base poured on the grounds of the St. Paul Island Museum. The total cost of transporting, erecting, and restoring the lighthouse was roughly $120,000.”
Author Petrova visits Liberty Books in Lawrenceville today
Meet Author Daniela Petrova at Liberty Books, 176 West Crogan Street in Lawrenceville on Friday, September 27 at 7 p.m. Petrova will talk about her immigrant experience, the importance of libraries in her life, and her debut novel, Her Daughter’s Mother, which was named “Best Beach Read of 2019” by both O, the Oprah Magazine and The New York Post and one of five thrillers to read this summer by Time Magazine.
Pooches in the Park in Braselton on September 28 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Dogs can “Sit, stay and play” in Braselton Park, 126 Harrison Street, during this time. New this year: Dixie Dock Dogs will be splashing down in Braselton. Lots to do: lure course, wet nose water lounge, “Rover on over” marketplace. Best costumes, best dog trick, others. This is an event for the whole family, including the pooch. Visit www.DownownBraselton.com for more info.
An evening with Author Kyle Mills will be Monday, September 30 at 7:30 at the Peachtree Corners Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library, at 5570 Spalding Drive. Mills is fascinated with the dark side of politics and well connected to the intelligence community. He has authored 13 books under his name and is finishing the Vince Flynn series from notes left by Flynn for the six published books. Lethal Agent is his current novel.
The Good Neighbor Gala, Benefitting Good Samaritan Gwinnett will be held on Thursday, October 3 at Ashton Garden in Sugar Hill. Purchase your ticket in support of Gwinnett’s largest Christian charitable organization serving the low-income and uninsured families with medical, dental and pharmacy services under one roof, and nearing 36,000 appointments just this year! Go to www.goodsamgwinnett.org/the-good-neighbor-gala for ticket purchases and for making your nomination for The Good Neighbor Award.
Club Tropicana at the Hudgens Arts Center in Duluth will be Saturday, October 5 at 7 p.m. Highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the 2019 Hudgens Prize for Georgia Artists. This is a $50,000 prize as well as a solo exhibition for the winning artist. Partygoers will be treated to a Cuban Night Club experience throughout the Hudgens with live music, a Cuban cuisine, a silent auction, games and dancing.
Season Finale for the Johns Creek Symphony will be Saturday, October 5, at 7 p.m. in the Burkhalter Amphitheater in Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road. The concert is presented by the city of Johns Creek. The concert will be conducted by JCSO Founder and Music Director, J. Wayne Baughman, with guest conductor Timothy Aucoin. Repertoire for the performance will include light classical and Pops favorites.
Ribbon-Cutting and grand opening of the expanded facilities of the North Gwinnett Co-op will be Tuesday, October 8 at noon. The address is 4395 Commerce Drive in Buford. Following the ceremony, a barbecue lunch will be provided.
Veteran’s Park in Norcross will be opened and dedicated at a ceremony on October 9 at 10 a.m. The park is located at 160 North Norcross Tucker Road. Come and enjoy the festivities and Norcross’ latest park.
Juried Art Exhibit at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford continues until November 1. Includes a variety of media, including painting, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, mixed media, printmaking, fibre arts, photography, digital art and three dimensional art, including ceramics, pottery and found object sculpture. The Colony is located at 554 West Main Street in Buford.
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