GwinnettForum | Number 20.46 June 30, 2020
NEW BRAND NAME: Northside Hospital announces the completion of the launch of a new brand name, Health Choice Urgent Care, formerly ChoiceOne Urgent Care. The new name, Health Choice, represents a reintroduction of the Gwinnett County centers to the community in conjunction with new ownership (Northside Hospital) and management (Urgent Care Group). Information about the transaction that took place earlier in the year can be found here.The centers offer walk-in urgent care, and occupational health services, accept all major insurance, and have affordable self-pay options. Additionally, all Health Choice centers are VA Authorized urgent care providers. For more information about services and locations, visit www.healthchoiceuc.com. In the photograph are David Maloney (CEO, Urgent Care Group), Sang Dao, MD (Medical Director, Health Choice), Debbie Mitcham (CEO, Northside Hospital Gwinnett Campuses), Caleb Howell (X-Ray Tech, Health Choice).
TODAY’S FOCUS: Hey, Sports Leagues: Lighten Up with Your Ticket Prices for Now
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The Red Daylily, John Wesley, Marlene Buchanan and Wendy’s
ANOTHER VIEW: Memorable Travel Sites Let You Feel What Happened to Others
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Removing Monuments Opens Way for New Statues of this Age
UPCOMING: Randy Redner To Remain President of CFNG through 2023
NOTABLE: State Launching Test to Determine Internet Connectivity
RECOMMENDED: Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Irrigation Keeps Georgia Farmers Profitable for Many Crops
MYSTERY PHOTO: Great Gobs of Rock All Hang Together in This Mystery Photo
Hey, sports leagues: Lighten up with ticket prices for now
(Editor’s Note: Today we present a new contributor, Alex Tillman, a native of Valdosta who has lived in Albany and Fitzgerald, and a new reader of GwinnettForum. –eeb)
By Alex Tillman
VALDOSTA, Ga. | An open letter to Major League Baseball, the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and the National Collegiate Athletic Association:
Tillman
In January 1942 baseball Commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis hand-wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt asking him if baseball should proceed during the war. FDR’s answer was immediate in what became known as the “green light” letter. The president felt the nation needed baseball and recreation in general as a morale boost for the nation. We needed it then and we need it now.
Sports have changed since 1942, especially considering the advent of big television contracts and the billions of dollars that have attracted corporate America into the game, but it is still the people’s games. We played games on vacant lots, in backyards, on driveways and in the streets. Before we picked our teams we had to argue over the names for the teams. Who would be the Bulldogs and who would be the Yellow Jackets?
The ground rules were set depending on the make-shift field. Your mother’s rose garden was always out of bounds. As little boys we imagined ourselves playing for our favorite teams in front of packed houses of cheering fans. It was escapism then and it remains so for old men like me today.
When I attend a sporting event, the responsibilities of my world go away for a short time. I’m focused on the action between the white lines and I try to outguess the coaches’ next move. It seems easy from the comfort of my seat to call the right plays when I know it is not.
A driving catch by an outfielder, a perfectly executed double play, a textbook open field tackle, and a pick and roll to the hoop are a thing of beauty far removed from the realities of COVID-19 and social unrest. A real fan of the game can appreciate a good play by the opponent even though hating the results. These games were ours long before franchises cost over $1 billion and ticket prices outpaced the wallet of the average American. We understand and support free enterprise and capitalism, but there are limits to one’s self interest. FDR and Judge Landis understood that.
It’s time for major sports to put aside their greed for the sake of your fellow countrymen who fear for their jobs and their futures. The millionaires and the billionaires need to quit squabbling. You are woefully out of touch with your fellow Americans.
For the remainder of this year, cut ticket prices and go back to work playing your boyhood game for a living. Restart minor league baseball for the smaller markets. Fall without college football in the southland is sacrilegious. To the athletes we are so envious of your talents and to the owners we would love to trade jobs with you. The long-term goodwill you would create would far surpass the short-term financial loss. It’s time for sports again. It’s time to “Play Ball!”
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Red daylily, John Wesley, Marlene Buchanan and Wendy’s
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JUNE 30, 2020 | The return of an old friend: Last year, this daylily output was a feature photo in this publication, and now the plant has blossomed for another year. It’s located just outside our kitchen window. Its compatriots, the orange type, develop earlier each year, and we await the red daylily’s bloom with anticipation. We found this about old friends: “Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.”
John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, was born June 28 in 1703. We in Georgia are steeped in his ministry in the early Georgia colony, along with his brother, Charles. And we remember him often as we see he is the author of many of our church hymns.
He was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, and his father was a Nonconformist—a dissenter from the Church of England. Wesley studied at Oxford, where he decided to become a priest. He and his brother joined a religious study group that was given the nickname “the Methodists” for their rigorous and methodical study habits; the name wasn’t meant as a compliment, but Wesley hung onto it anyway and managed to attract several new members to the group, who fasted two days a week and spent time in social service.
John Wesley was somewhat like his father, not taking the normal route to the pulpit. Instead, he took to the fields, traveling on horseback, preaching two or three times a day. He began recruiting local laypeople to preach as well, and ran afoul of the Church of England for doing so.
The Georgia Encyclopedia tells us that John Wesley became a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and, along with Charles, sailed for Georgia in 1735. Charles and John traveled to Georgia with James Oglethorpe on his second voyage to the colony. In Georgia, John served as the rector of Christ Church in Savannah. Difficulties arising from Wesley’s strict discipline with his congregation, as well as an unsuccessful love affair, led to his return to England in 1738.
Though there’s no evidence that he actually wrote it himself, “John Wesley’s Rule” does a fair job of summing up his life:
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.
Marlene Ratledge Buchanan of Snellville has a new book out, a Southern cozy mystery, complete with a love story, a murder and a couple of ghosts, which are sure to entertain.
An unexpected inheritance leads a school teacher to find an extended family, long dead, living in the family home place. One demands she leave, and the other asks for protection. A little love, a little laughter, and a great deal of Southern charm leads the reader into a book of hidden family secrets. Here’s a link to find the book.
In this pandemic, food shortages popped up. And of all things, Wendy’s eateries, known for hamburgers, ran out of beef! So, the home office in Dublin, Ohio took action. It started promoting a spicy chicken sandwich, coming with mayonnaise, tomato and lettuce, and at an attractive price: 2 for $5.
We took ‘em up on it, and whammo! It’s a winner, some even saying it’s better than the all-time favorite Chick-Fil-A sandwich. Yummy!
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Memorable travel sites let you feel what happened to others
By Ashley Herndon
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | Travel is such an interesting thing to do. Here are some suggestions.
Have you ever been to Manzanar, the World War II Japanese Internment Camp in California? You take U.S. Highway 395? Did you feel it?
Herndon
Have you ever been to Yorktown Battlefield? Did you feel it?
More nearby, have you ever been to Chickamauga Battlefield? Did you feel it?
Have you ever been to Bunker Hill? Did you feel it?
Have you ever been to Battle Mountain Indian Colony? Did you feel it?
Have you been to Bull Run, Petersburg, The Wilderness or Appomattox? Did you feel it?
Have you ever been to Bannockburn in Scotland? Did you feel it?
Have you ever been to a funeral in Gaza or Jerusalem? Did you feel it?
Have you visited Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg Battlefield Monument? Did you feel it?
Have you visited the Sand Creek Massacre? Did you feel it?
Have you been to a California Mission Cemetery? Did you feel it?
Have you ever visited a United States National Cemetery? There’s one nearby in Canton and Marietta.
Have you visited Vicksburg National Monument? Did you feel it?
Have you been to Hiroshima or Nagasaki? Did you feel it?
Have you visited Normandy’s beaches? Did you feel it?
How about Flanders Field and the Poppies? Did you feel it?
Have you touched the bullet holes in the walls of Berlin Municipal buildings? Do you have a piece of the Wall?
How about Buchenwald and other charnel houses and concentration camps?
Have you ever visited an immigration holding pen on the US-Mexico border? Did you feel it?
Have you ever been to Golgotha? Did you feel it?
Have you been on a Freedom or Protest March? Did you feel it?
Did you watch a video of George Floyd die? Did you feel it?
So, I ask, when you last visited the Slave Markets in Louisville, Ga. and St. Augustine Fla…Did you feel it?
I have been to many of these places. I have felt it at every one! I felt different emotions at each. But loss and sadness were the strongest. Time for us to feel good.
Just downtown in Atlanta, go the MLK, Jr. Center. Stand by the pool, soak it in…if you don’t get jacked up and ready to roll…well what can I say?
I get some of the same feelings when I see the marchers for freedom on today’s streets and public places, all over this world…but I also feel HOPE. Let’s not let the hope get pushed away by the greed and power seekers.
Our Creator knows evil lurks. Today’s stories are too sad for us to ignore, this is the 21st Century. Do you feel it?
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Removing monuments opens way for new statue of this age
Editor, the Forum:
Let me agree with your recent article on the orderly removal of monuments. Over time we all find that the subject, person or event, may no longer have the same significance that they did when first erected. I do agree that there is no place for mob rule to bypass legal procedures simply for speed or anger.
For myself, I would like to see some of these monuments placed in a new location where they have relevance and can be shown in their proper perspective. The purpose of these monuments were not just to honor a person or event, but also to educate future generations. We need to make sure that these monuments and future ones will do that more effectively.
You also make a very good point about how the removal doesn’t really change the reality. Many of us remember after the fall of the Soviet Union that many of the old symbols were taken down. Yet we still see shadows of that horrible system taking control once again.
I am also glad to see some of these be removed for another reason. This makes space for new ones, just think about who we might find worthy of taking the place of the old ones taken down. It’s a chance for younger people to make monuments that are more relevant to them. And think of the new
commissions for those who carve stone or cast bronze. For the architects, engineers and artists who will be inspired to create. I find this event exciting and I look forward to the future.
— Charles Blair, Lawrenceville
Slogan for a new T-shirt: “Everybody’s multicultural”
Editor, the Forum:
“Everybody’s Multicultural.”
As in Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “Finding Your Roots” on PBS….everyone is a mix of a bit of this, a bit of that.
The “All Lives Matter” is getting a backlash as aggressive to the “Black Lives Matter” movement. I believe most of those promoting “All Lives Matter” thought they were expressing a unity message, but it’s been taken the wrong way by the Black Lives Matter group.
Let’s see “Everybody’s Multicultural” on T-Shirts!
— Liz Collins, Durham, N.C.
Article overlooked the commercial ship, NS Savannah
Editor, the Forum:
Your Georgia Tidbit of Friday was about ships named “Savannah.” There was yet another ship named for Savannah.
The NS Savannah’s keel was laid in 1955. She was a commercial nuclear-powered ship. She was launched in 1959, completed in December 1961 and her maiden voyage was in August of ‘62. She was taken out of service in January, 1972. President Eisenhower wanted to show that nuclear energy could be used for peaceful purposes. The ship is now moored in Baltimore and at one time she was in Charleston, S.C.
— Raleigh Perry, Buford
Enjoyed chart of high-density cities; U.S. cities not that big
Editor, the Forum:
Used the rapid-transit population density chart sent by Tom Fort for an enjoyable map tour of high- density cities. Looked up a few cities I didn’t even know of. Comparatively, our cities aren’t that big, are they?
— John Haeger, Lilburn
Dear John: You are right. We in the USA are so ignorant of the rest of the world. I remember when on a trip to China about 10 years ago, we learned that there were 91 cities in China with more than a million people, compared to seven cities in the USA. Now I understand China has over100 cities with over a million. Wuhan has 11 million. We live in such a small world of our own.–eeb
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Redner to remain president of CFNG through 2023
Randy Redner accepts a donation to the Coronavirus Relief Fund from Pastor Brian Choe at Atlanta Promise Church (Michael and Sarah Park also pictured).
The Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia’s Executive Board announced today that President and CEO Randy Redner has decided to remain in his current position through the end of 2023.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Redner had announced he would be leaving the Community Foundation at the end of 2020 and a new president/CEO would take his place. However, as it has for many people, COVID-19 changed everything. During this time, the Community Foundation has focused on what was best for the entire community, both short and long term.
Dick LoPresti, Community Foundation board chair, says: “We have all observed and been inspired by Randy’s superior leadership during this difficult period. The relief stage of this pandemic has been challenging, but we also understand that the recovery stage will be longer and harder. As a result, the executive board felt that Randy’s strong leadership is needed more than ever. History teaches us that consistent leadership during challenging times like these is critical.”
For Redner, as COVID-19 progressed, it became evident that he needed to remain where he was. “The road to recovery will be a long one but I know we will all work together to help our communities and I’m thankful to continue being a part of that.”
State launching test to determine internet connectivity
The Georgia Broadband Deployment Initiative (GBDI) is launching the Speedtest by Ookla Pilot project statewide through August. The goal of the project is to equip school leaders with the clearest picture possible of internet connectivity for Georgia’s students and teachers for the upcoming school year.
Governor Brian Kemp says: “We’re grateful that so many internet service providers and mobile phone carriers have stepped up to meet Georgians’ connectivity needs in this critical time as we’re coping with the continued impacts of COVID-19. Still, too many households don’t have reliable internet connections, so the Georgia Broadband Deployment Initiative is introducing the Speedtest project to give Georgia’s educational leaders new data to drive decisions for remote learning options for students.”
Georgians are encouraged to download the free Ookla Speedtest app (Android or iOS-Apple) to the various devices they use to connect to the internet (phones, laptops and computers), and then to take several tests in the places where connectivity is important to them. This will give an individual the ability to accurately see if they are getting the internet speed they need. The easy-to-use Speedtest, along with the information available at the Broadband Initiative website will most importantly assist school leaders planning for their digital learning strategies.
Four Georgia counties (Baker, Clayton, Dougherty and Gordon) have been chosen for a more thorough pilot assessment which will enable county education leaders in those areas to more effectively determine distance learning options in the long term beyond this school year. The State chose the four pilot counties based on geographic diversity (north/south, urban/rural), digital education plans, and public health metrics related to COVID-19 impacts.
The GBDI, led by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the Georgia Technology Authority, has assembled a multi agency team who are all working toward the goal of stronger connectivity options statewide. The Georgia Department of Education, Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, University System of Georgia, Georgia State Properties Commission, and Georgia Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency are all part of this multi agency team.
The message each of these agencies will be distributing across the state through August 31:
- Is your home internet too slow?
- Do you lose a cellphone signal when you are walking around your house?
- Can you get videos on your smartphone, but it takes three hours to download?
If any of these apply, the State of Georgia needs you to take a Speedtest and help build a more connected Georgia.
Jackson EMC Foundation awards $25,000 to nonprofits
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total of $40,000 in grants during its June meeting, including $25,000 to organizations serving Gwinnett County.
$10,000 to Potter’s House, an Atlanta Union Mission facility, to help feed, house, counsel and provide educational programs, such as adult literacy, to men recovering from substance abuse through the Transformational Recovery Services Program at its 570-acre working farm in Jefferson. - $7,500 to St. Vincent De Paul Society—Norcross, to help fund direct aid for housing assistance, including rent, mortgage and temporary housing for Gwinnett County families in crisis.
- $7,500 to StepByStep Recovery, a Lawrenceville community-based grassroots addiction recovery organization that provides a safe and structured environment for men and women in Barrow, Gwinnett and Hall counties as they complete a 12-step program for drug and alcohol addiction, to assist with rent for the men’s and women’s units.
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
From Tim Anderson, Fitzgerald: This is an exciting, enigmatic and refreshing thriller. The sultry and beautiful Anjelica Roux shows up on Amy Whey’s doorstep one night for a neighborhood book club meeting. Plying the attendees with wine and mystery, Roux coaxes secrets from
the group. Most of them think it is innocent fun. Amy Whey knows better, as she has a secret she has kept for 20 years that if uncovered could explode her carefully put together and seemingly perfect family. Roux reveals to Whey that she has learned her long-buried secret and proceeds to blackmail and extort a small fortune from her. The only way Whey can protect herself and her family from the truth is to uncover Roux’s own deep, dark secrets. Joshilyn Jackson reveals herself to be a master storyteller, one with immense ability to weave multiple story lines, while captivating the reader. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.
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Irrigation keeps Georgia farmers profitable for many crops
More than 1.5 million acres of orchards and fields are irrigated in Georgia, and a cornucopia of vegetable, fruit, nut, fiber, and animal feed crops are made possible by the surface runoff and groundwater waterstores that are replenished by Georgia’s generous rainfall. A close look at the workings of the two most prevalent types of irrigation reveals how critical these processes are to sustaining Georgia’s agricultural economy.
With its humming, grinding noise muffled by the 30 feet of water overhead, a well’s submersible pump draws in clear, cool water seeping from cracks and fissures in the surrounding rock and pushes it 150 feet up past the thumb-sized wires supplying power to the pump. After two 90-degree turns at the surface, 1,000 gallons per minute run through a slip joint that allows a stationary well to feed water to a moving pipe. One more turn, and water rushes down an eight-inch diameter pipe that stretches for a quarter mile.
At each joint, set 155 feet apart, a small steel triangular tower holds the pipe aloft. Two tractor-like tires at the base of each tower are driven by a small motor between them. At the end of the pipe, the last tower, known as the boss tower, moves in its regular rhythm: forward one minute, stop; forward one minute, stop. Each of the towers in between the boss tower and the well adjusts in turn, following the boss tower’s lead. Their role is to keep the pipe in a straight line. All along the pipe carefully spaced openings lead water down drop tubes to sprinkler heads, which create a spray that trickles into the soil, replenishing the root zone with an inch of water.
For the next two and a half days the boss tower will travel over six miles as it traverses the circumference of a 125-acre field of peanuts. By the time it has finished, every portion of the field will have received a uniform helping of water to sustain plant growth for a few more days. As the farmer shuts down the system, he hopes that next week will bring some of Georgia’s annual forty to fifty 40 to 50 inches of rainfall instead.
Nearly 10,000 of these center-pivot irrigation systems cover one million acres of productive farmland in south Georgia. Almost half of those farms lie in the fertile Dougherty Plain at the base of the Flint River. Tapping the deep, pure waters of the Upper Floridan aquifer, their wells pump not only water but also dollars into the region. The additional growth of high-quality peanuts, sweet corn, cotton, and animal feeds, made possible as these irrigation systems fill in rainfall gaps, means dollars for the local economy.
Almost $25,000 more was produced on the peanut field described above as a result of irrigation. Those additional dollars enabled the farmer to pay bankers, fertilizer dealers, coworkers, downtown merchants, and tax commissioners.
(To be continued)
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Great gobs of rock all hang together in this MysteryPhoto
Here’s a clue to today’s Mystery Photo: this scene is not in Georgia! But where is it? Send us your answer, and be sure to include your hometown, to elliott@brack.net.
Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill early on recognized last week’s Mystery Photo, which was sent in by Robert Foreman of Grayson. “This bronze statue is of two ‘Fathers of Confederation’ having a conversation about creating the nation of Canada. It’s located just outside the doors of The Great George Hotel that is across the street from St. Dunstan’s Basilica (seen in the photo). The two Fathers had the same full name but were not related: John Hamilton Gray, the former premier of Prince Edward Island, and John Hamilton Gray, a politician from the province of New Brunswick. The statue, unveiled in 2014, commemorates the 150th anniversary of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, the first of three meetings that led to Confederation. St. Dunstan’s Basilica is the Cathedral of the Diocese of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. It is named for St. Dunstan, an Anglo Saxon saint from Glastonbury, UK. (I have never been to PEI, but I have been to Glastonbury.)”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. also nailed the photo, adding: “The bronze sculpture was made in British Columbia by artist Nathan Scott. Who are these two Johns? They have the same full names. One of them is from New Brunswick and the other from P.E.I. OK, now why are they important? The John from N.B. was a military officer, a politician, a jurist and one of the Fathers of the Confederation. The John from P.E.I. was also a military officer and politician and he was also an administrative head to the Canadian militia on P.E.I.”
Lou Camerio, Lilburn also reported that the photo was in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. told us: “The statue was unveiled on September 10, 2014, exactly 150 years after the Charlottetown Conference (which was held between September 1 to 9, 1864), where representatives from the Maritime British Colonies met to discuss uniting together into a Canadian Federation. This was three years before the British North America Act of 1867 which ultimately formed the foundation of the Canadian Federation and its Constitution and defined much of the operation of the Government of Canada, including its federal structure, the House of Commons, the Senate, the justice system, and the taxation system.
“The sculptor, Nathan Scott, was from Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia and was commissioned in Feb 2014 to create the statue of the two John Hamilton Grays interacting at the 1864 conference. The fact that the artist was from Vancouver Island is interesting in itself because Victoria, B.C. is part of the story of the two John Hamilton Grays and their descendants. In 1872 the New Brunswick Gray moved to Victoria to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of B.C. He died in Victoria in 1889 and is apparently the only one of 36 Fathers of the Confederation that was buried west of the province of Ontario.
“The figure on the left in the statue is John Hamilton Gray (1814–1889), a Conservative and the Premier of New Brunswick from 1867 to 1872. The figure on the right (the one wearing the top hat) is John Hamilton Gray (1811 – 1887), a Conservative Reformer and the Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1863 to 1865. Gray from P.E.I. was also the chairman for the 1864 Charlottetown Conference. According to Scott, the statue depicts a snapshot in time when John Hamilton Gray of New Brunswick (on the left) was doing a sales job on John Hamilton Gray of P.E.I. about the Confederation.
“I found another interesting, if not odd, fact about this statue. Apparently during the unveiling of the statue in 2014, it was noticed that the historic plaque that accompanied the statue was incorrectly titled as ‘John Hamilton Greys’, misspelling the last name of the two founding fathers. After being on display for eight weeks, the plaque was finally replaced at a cost of $1,000…an expensive typo!” (See the incorrect plaque adjacent.)
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