GwinnettForum | Number 20.86 | Nov. 24, 2020
HERE’S AN INSIDE VIEW of the new pedestrian bridge in Peachtree Corners, which opened last week, giving walking access to the Town Center from the Forum shopping center. An inset photo shows the bridge as motorists see it. (Photo by Frank Sharp.)
(Editor’s note: The next issue of GwinnettForum will be published on December 1 because of the Thanksgiving holiday. –eeb)
TODAY’S FOCUS: Mountain Park area of Gwinnett to advocate for its future
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lawrenceville’s “Country Club,” Hometown Barbeque, has closed
ANOTHER VIEW: Peachtree Corners installing 25 license plate readers
SPOTLIGHT: Centurion Advisory Group
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Georgia Gwinnett College names Low as provost
NOTABLE: GALEO Institute graduates 22, including six from Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
GEORGIA TIDBIT: After growing up in Atlanta, Mary Hutchinson had solid art career
MYSTERY PHOTO: You’ll be an expert, or perhaps lucky, if you spot this Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Gwinnett Chamber’s Small Business winners are released
Mountain Park area of Gwinnett to advocate for its future
By Kate Pittman
MOUNTAIN PARK | After eight months of pandemic-related isolation, many in the Lilburn-Mountain Park community were startled to discover condominiums sprouting along stretches of Arcado Road. The old Bryson Farm homestead on Killian Hill Road has just been rezoned for more. Plans are in the works for commercial development on the heavily wooded lots at the intersection of Arcado and Killian Hill Roads, near Trickum Middle and Killian Christian schools.
Pittman
The old farm house on Lilburn-Stone Mountain Road (at the high tension power lines) is gone, and subdivisions are under construction. During this quiet time of social distancing, development within the City of Lilburn has made much progress in building townhomes around Lilburn City Park, as well as a senior-living community across from the new Lilburn Library and City Hall. All of this new development is within their city limits.
Changes are happening for unincorporated Lilburn and the surrounding Mountain Park area as well, with or without the knowledge or input of the community. This is not because of any nefarious plot, but because plans were already laid, and construction is a business requiring few modifications for social distancing.
The pandemic has changed our collective behavior in many ways, forcing us to stay closer to home. This is a good time to take stock of our entire community; to notice what it has become, and to imagine how we would like to see it evolve.
The unincorporated and incorporated part of Mountain Park in Gwinnett (in red)
If we don’t like what we see and aren’t getting the community we want to live in, the responsibility lies squarely at our own feet. Before COVID-19, it was easy to cherry-pick what was important to us, a “choose-your-own” definition of “community.” We saw our neighbors as the homes within our subdivision (while ignoring the subdivision down the road). We drove from one end of the county to the next choosing where to shop, dine, entertain ourselves, and even where to send our children to school.
Decisions made about roads, permitted construction, and numerous services are made mostly at the county level, overseen by our elected commissioners. If you live within the limits of the City of Lilburn (or any other city), those in elected positions are charged with carrying out the “will of the people.” But they cannot carry out your will if they don’t know what you want. If you don’t like what you see, and haven’t personally called your elected representative, then you must take some measure of responsibility for the results.
In theory, that is a fine idea, but we are all busy dealing with daily concerns; few of us have the time to keep up with permit or rezoning applications, or to study websites to see proposed changes as they are being drawn on a map. We can go it alone, or we can work together as a group to guide the future of our community.
The Mountain Park Community Association (MPCA) formed to advocate for the future of the extended community in the Parkview School district, the City of Lilburn, and the surrounding unincorporated areas (zip codes 30047 and 30087).
Become an engaged member of your community. Learn how your local government works to serve you and how you, as a member of a larger group, can influence the future of the Mountain Park Community by revitalizing our commercial nodes, and by modifying zoning laws to preserve and enhance the semi-rural character of our community.
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Lawrenceville’s “Country Club,” Hometown Barbeque, has closed
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
NOV. 24, 2020 | For about 50 years, residents of Lawrenceville have traveled south a few miles on U.S. Highway 29 to eat at what was sometimes called “the Lawrenceville Country Club.” Of course, there was no bona fide country club, with golf and tennis, in the area.
This facility was a small restaurant in what was once a Sinclair service station. Among its operators were Hoke Houston, and later on the Crowe family. Stanley Gunter bought it from the Crowes. When the highway was four-laned, Gunter moved it slightly north and opened what has been Hometown Barbeque.
Kelly
In 2004, Gunter sold Hometown Barbeque to Martha Kelly, 72, and George Richbourg, 70, good friends and partners, who both feel now is the time to retire. Hometown Barbeque’s last day of operation was Saturday (November 21).
What eventually became the Kelly-Rickbourg operation started in 1999 out of a concession trailer in the parking lot of The Prescription Shop in Lawrenceville. Richbourg, Martha’s late husband and another person served barbecue and other sandwiches on Fridays and Saturdays. Martha recalls: “They did that for five years, enjoyed it, and found it was fun and a good way to meet people.”
Richbourg
During that time, George’s daytime job was as a finance executive for Kubota Tractor while Martha was teaching fourth and fifth grade at Benefield Elementary School. Martha had met George through his involvement with the school and its PTA after George moved to the area in the early 80s. Meanwhile, Martha’s husband, a chef, and the other partner got out of the business. Eventually Martha and George both left their regular jobs, became partners full time on Labor Day weekend in 2004, and bought the former Gunter’s operation. They have been serving at the location ever since. They began perfecting their barbecue and offerings, working nights and weekends to get their restaurant off the ground.
And now both are retiring. Martha told us: “I’m just going to take it easy, and not feel tied down. I’ll clean out my house, do some traveling perhaps, and enjoy life.” Richbourg, too, is ready to settle into full time retirement. Martha is a native of North Carolina, and a graduate of the University of Florida.
Our best to these two hard workers in their retirement.
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Hometown Barbeque for years was the regular meeting site for a group of Lawrenceville “good old boys,” who gathered there for lunch each Thursday and Saturday at noon to enjoy one another’s company. Martha called them the Lunch Bunch, and it included many politicians, attorneys, bankers, a few elected officials—all men—- just to chew the fat. Wayne Mason points out that at the end most of the group sat at a Republican table, and three or four Democrats usually sat at another table.
Bill Atkinson, a regular at the Thursday and Saturday lunches, recalls that there was another person who had first bought the eatery Houston operated. Bill says: “That was Charles Moore, but after two weeks, he sold to the Crowes, saying that running a restaurant was too much work.”
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Peachtree Corners installing 25 license plate readers
By Mike Mason
Mayor, City of Peachtree Corners
PEACHTREE CORNERS | The City Council and I consider community safety of utmost importance. Gwinnett County Police Department (GCPD) provides excellent service to our residents and businesses, but we felt there was more that we could do to enhance the safety of our city.
Mason
At our October meeting, the council and I approved a contract for 25 license plate reader (LPR) cameras to be installed along the city’s main thoroughfares. We expect the installation to begin in December of this year; the average installation is 6 – 8 weeks. The annual lease is $2,500 per camera per year. The cost is part of the city’s 2020-21 budget.
The information collected by the cameras will assist GCPD in solving cases such as those involving stolen vehicles, entering autos, thefts, property damage and other crimes. Data that is collected from these cameras will only be accessed by the GCPD. The city will not access the data, and it will only be stored for 30 days.
The new cameras are solar-powered and will be mounted on 10-foot poles. Each will be positioned to collect data from vehicles entering the city. The locations of the 25 cameras were selected by the GCPD. Attached is a map showing the camera locations.
The cameras will be part of a larger database to address the gap in camera coverage of public right-of-way in our city. Peachtree Corners has relatively low crime rates, however, we have state and county roads that run through our city that carry over 150,000 vehicles daily. Adding an additional crime-fighting tool that GCPD can use makes our city that much safer. Below is additional information.
The cameras will take still photos of objects that enter the camera’s field of view. For vehicles; the data will include a timestamp, a vehicle’s make, color and license plate. The cameras operate 24 hours per day.
The LPR cameras capture still images. Police use the information to identify vehicles that are associated with illegal activity and or are of interest to police. A real-time alert is sent to GCPD for vehicles that meet the criteria. However, the cameras are designed to photograph any moving object including pedestrians.
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Georgia Gwinnett College names Low as provost
A new provost has been named at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC). He is Dr. George S. Low, the new senior vice president for academic and student affairs and provost at GGC. He will assume his duties in mid-January 2021. GGC President Jann L. Joseph says “His diverse experience in higher education over the past three decades will be an asset to GGC and the community. He will assume his duties in mid-January 2021.
Low
Dr. Low comes to GGC from California State University (CSU), East Bay, Hayward, where he serves as the dean of the College of Business and Economics and professor of marketing. There, he encouraged the revitalization of the entrepreneurship concentration, to increase the entrepreneurship ecosystem on that campus and build strong links to the thriving technology sector in the Bay Area.
Before his service at CSU, East Bay, Low was the dean of the College of Business and Economics at Radford University, Radford, Va., where he led the development of a comprehensive implementation blueprint for the college’s five-year strategic plan in collaboration with faculty, department chairs, program directors and associate dean.
Low also served as associate dean of undergraduate studies and international programs in the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Tex. Additionally, Low served in various roles at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, and Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Low earned his doctorate in business administration from the University of Colorado-Boulder, his master’s degree in business administration at the University of Western Ontario, and his bachelor’s degree in advertising from Brigham Young University.
Snellville partners with developer for City Market building
The city of Snellville has agreed to partner with developer Mid Cast LLC to design, build and lease the planned City Market building for The Grove at Towne Center.
Mayor Barbara Bender says: “The City Market will be a centerpiece of The Grove and will draw visitors from across the region who want to enjoy a unique dining and shopping experience in the heart of Snellville.”
The Grove as a whole will be a commerce center reflecting the early days of Snellville’s entrepreneurial roots dating back to the city’s origins and the old Sawyer Store. The two-floor, 24,000-square-foot market building will include eateries, a coffee shop, a small market, spacious, flexible event space and craft beverage options. Plans call for it to be managed by an independent operator brought in by Mid Cast and approved by Mayor and Council.
The Snellville Downtown Development Authority will own the building. Under the agreement, the city will partner with Mid Cast on the selection of an architect to design the building with the Mayor and Council approving final design and budget numbers.
The city’s anticipated bond offering will pay for the construction of the building which is estimated to be in the $6-7 million range. The future or prospective tenant will be responsible for internal design and build out.
The City Market will feature outdoor seating, patios, pick-up and drop-off vehicle lanes for ride sharing and take-out order availability.
City officials hope to select an architect before the end of the year and expect the building to be opened in summer of 2022. Design concept renderings will be released sometime in early 2021.
The Grove at Towne Center will be a mixed-use town center property, comprising 18 acres between Oak Road, Wisteria Drive, North Road, and Clower Street, in downtown Snellville. The Grove at Towne Center’s first phase will include over 50,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, office, and entertainment space, and approximately 250 multi-family luxury apartments.
Snow promised in Duluth’s “Deck the Hall” event Dec. 7
Grab your snow boots and mittens because it’s about to snow in Downtown Duluth.
Start the holiday season off right with Duluth’s annual Deck the Hall event on Duluth Town Green. Enjoy a giant snow slide, real snow playground, crafts, pictures with Santa, a train ride with Mrs. Claus, a laser show and other activities. It’s all for free on December 7 from 2-7 p.m.
Event goers will have the opportunity to interact with Santa and Mrs. Claus, take photos at the new giant ornament installations on Town Green and enjoy a traditional tree lighting ceremony with a little laser show flare. During the event, there will be City Hall’s Open House from 4-5 p.m. This event is put on by the City of Duluth and the Duluth Fall Festival.
GALEO Institute graduates 22, including six from Gwinnett
The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials has graduated 22 new leaders from its GALEO Institute for Leadership (GIL), held recently in Lilburn, including six from Gwinnett County.
This is the 23rd group of graduates resulting from GALEO’s leadership development efforts. The total number of GALEO Institute for Leadership alumni now stands at 725 people from across the state.
Those graduating who live in Gwinnett include Claudia Valencia, Buford; Jeniffer Chow and Jose Florez, Norcross; and Jasmin Alvarez, Karen Padilla and Karen Perez, all from Lawrenceville.
GALEO Institute for Leadership graduates heard inspiring words from GALEO Chief Executive Director Jerry Gonzalez and GALEO coordinator for operations and communications, Polo Vargas. The cohort also heard from two of their own graduating class, Nancy Vicente and Claudia Valencia.
Virtual Gwinnett Pink 5K raises $502,000 for cancer technology
The 2020 Northside Hospital Paint Gwinnett Pink 5K Walk/Run for Breast Cancer may have looked different, being virtual this year, but that didn’t stop the overwhelming show of support from the community. Nearly $502,000 was raised for breast cancer programs at Northside Hospital Gwinnett and Northside Hospital Duluth, a 300 percent increase over previous years.
That success was made possible in large part from a donation from long-time hospital philanthropists Sandra and Clyde Strickland, who contributed $390,000 to Paint Gwinnett Pink. Shown with them are Jason Chandler of the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation and Tom O’Toole, husband of Beverly O’Toole, associate director of Annual Giving/Special Events at the GMC Foundation. Chandler says: “Northside is built to beat cancer and we have two of our most generous construction workers in Clyde and Sandra Strickland.” Money raised from this year’s Paint Gwinnett Pink will be used to purchase technology offering advanced digital breast tomosynthesis, also known as 3D mammography.
Gwinnett teachers get $23,557 in grants from Jackson EMC
Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) has awarded eight Gwinnett County middle schools $23,557 in Bright Ideas grants to fund 15 innovative classroom projects in eight schools.
Gwinnett County middle school Bright Ideas grant winning teachers are:
- Lori Leigh Alderman, Jordan Middle School, $1,177 for “Tactile Learning Beyond Walls”;
- Celia Ayenesazan, Radloff Middle School, $2,000 for “Sustainable Communities: A Model for the Future”;
- Tracie Banner, Dacula Middle School, $2,000 for “Programming the Future”’
- Arpan Bosmia, Northbrook Middle School, $1,885 for “Drone Medics to the Rescue”’
- Aimee Burgamy, Hull Middle School, $1,377 for “Digital Drawing with a PEN”;
- Andrew Cox, Twin Rivers Middle School, $1,980 for “Radioactive Radon”;
- Sarah Farr, Twin Rivers Middle School, $739 for “Literacy Through Social Studies”;
- Beth Feustel, Hull Middle School, $447 for “Koozie Maker”;
- Sheila Harmony, Coleman Middle School, $1,461 for “Greenhouses, Gardens and Green Thumbs”;
- Anna Herdliska, Twin Rivers Middle School, $1,990 for “Microscopy from Miles Away”;
- Jason Hurd, Twin Rivers Middle School, $2,000 for “Driving By With Auto AI”;
- Jessica Morse, Twin Rivers Middle School, $2,000 for “Wireless for Zoom Lessons”;
- Susan O’Neill, Hull Middle School, $645 for “Sensory Tools for Special Needs Learners”;
- Kari Salomon, Hull Middle School, $1,856 for “Green Communities Kid Vids”; and
- Maile Steimer, Jones Middle School, $2,000 for “Classrooms Without Borders Virtual Reality.”
In 2020, Jackson EMC awarded a total of $64,000 in Bright Ideas grants to 47 teachers in 25 middle schools across its service area.
The Bright Ideas grant program awards up to $2,000 annually to middle school teachers within Jackson EMC’s service area to fund innovative classroom projects that would go unfunded otherwise. An independent panel of judges evaluates the applications based on measurable goals and objectives, innovation, student involvement and implementation plans.
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
From Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: Robert Kolker’s non-fiction narrative, Hidden Valley Road, is the first-hand account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs. Don and Mimi Galvin are the parents of 12 children: Ten boys and two girls with six of the boys gradually succumbing to schizophrenia. The account covers the years from 1955 to 2017. The chapters alternate between highlighting different family members and research that was occurring on schizophrenia. Family dynamics are laid bare with the boys seeming like regular gangly and energetic young men who slowly become unmanageable, thus tearing at the fabric of the household. This book is a poignant and difficult read. It is also celebratory in terms of the resilience of some members of the family and the advances in the treatment of mental illness. The full title is Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family.
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After growing up in Atlanta, Hutchinson had solid art career
Mary E. Hutchinson practiced as a professional artist in New York and Atlanta during the mid-20tth century. Though little known today, she achieved critical recognition and produced more than 250 works, including oil paintings, drawings, and etchings. Her artwork features highly finished, introspective portraits, especially of women and African Americans, and is significant for its critical engagement of gender, sexuality, and race.
Hutchinson
Mary Elisabeth Hutchinson was born on July 11, 1906, to Minnie Belle and Merrill Hutchinson in Melrose, Mass., her mother’s ancestral hometown. She grew up in Atlanta, where both of her parents were teachers. Her father taught piano and served as a church organist, while her mother taught a mix of poetry and oratory at Washington Seminary, Atlanta’s elite private school for girls.
Hutchinson attended Washington Seminary, probably because her mother taught there, and then went on to study at Agnes Scott College in Decatur. Hutchinson had her first exhibition as a young student in 1925, when she and her private art teacher, the painter Marion Otis, exhibited together in the windows of the Henry Grady Hotel. Atlanta’s newspapers covered the event as a part of a promotional push to establish an art museum in the city, which opened the following year as the High Museum of Art. That same year, 1926, Hutchinson accepted a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York.
Hutchinson studied art at the National Academy of Design from 1926 to 1931. She began making her way in the professional art world just before U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration implemented a variety of New Deal programs to help the nation’s “needy artists.” Hutchinson participated in these programs from their inception, teaching for the Federal Art Project at the Harlem Community Art Center. She also continued to make her way in the New York art world as an independent artist.
Hutchinson’s subject matter and style challenged cultural norms at a time when the increasing dominance of abstraction in modern art suppressed displays of social activism. She examined issues of race in her work by painting the people and scenes of her daily life, including a number of the young students she encountered at the Harlem Community Center. Her social and intimate life revolved around women, and in today’s perspective she would be considered lesbian. Her first partner, Joanna Lanza, was also her primary model from around 1931 to 1935, and from 1935 to 1945 she shared her life with Ruth Layton.
By 1934 Hutchinson had attracted enough critical attention to support her first solo New York exhibition at the Midtown Galleries. At the same time, Atlanta’s recently established High Museum boosted her national profile by acquiring two of her paintings Italian Girl (ca. 1932) and Two of Them (ca. 1933). Professional recognition followed quickly; she joined the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors soon after the High Museum acquisition. Throughout her career Hutchinson participated with a variety of New York art organizations, including the New York Society of Women Artists, the Society of Independent Artists, and the American Artists Congress. With these and other organizations she kept to an active exhibition schedule.
Although she had already moved to New York by the time the High Museum opened in 1926, Hutchinson participated in some of the venue’s earliest events and exhibitions. The museum gave Hutchinson her first large-scale solo exhibition in 1932.In 1945 Hutchinson moved back to Atlanta, where she joined the faculty of the High Museum of Art (later the Atlanta Art Institute) in 1946 and shared the remainder of her life with Dorothy King. She left the school under unclear circumstances in 1950 and appears to have broken ties at that time with Atlanta’s mainstream arts community, which revolved around the Atlanta Art Association and the High Museum. Instead she staged exhibitions in 1950 at alternative Atlanta venues, including the Castle Gallery, operated by Hazel Roy Butler, and the West Hunter Branch Library, which served the city’s African American community in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.
Her final solo exhibition, held at the West Hunter Branch Library in the spring of 1950, included a painting titled The Student (ca. 1937). Hutchinson gave the painting to a librarian when the show ended, and today it is part of the collection at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. From 1959 to 1967 she served as the first art teacher at St. Pius X Catholic High School. Hutchinson died in Atlanta on July 10, 1970.
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You’ll be an expert, or perhaps lucky, if you spot this Mystery Photo
With the Thanksgiving holiday coming, today we present what appears to be a difficult Mystery Photo. Since the next GwinnettForum is a week from now, you have the entire week to figure this mystery out. Yep, you are right, there are few clues. But do your best! Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and you may or may not get a leftover turkey leg for your efforts.
Rob Ponder of Duluth easily recognized the recent Mystery Photo: “This week’s mystery photo is an internal gate within the Edinburgh Castle complex in Edinburgh Scotland. The last time our family walked through that gate we were with Lisa Wilson, a Georgia Rotary Student Program student that South Gwinnett Rotary sponsored a few years back.” Sending in the Mystery Photo was Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Randy Brinson, Duluth wrote: “When I saw the mystery photo,I said to myself, self, “You have been there,’ meaning being in Edinburgh Scotland. A quick search tells me to call it Princes Street Gardens, but memory tells me it’s the street that leads to Edinburgh Castle.”
Molly Titus, Peachtree Corners; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Lou Camerio, Lawrenceville: “Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. The lion and ticket gate were the main clues.”
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. adds more: “Today’s mystery photo is obviously in Scotland, as it prominently displays the gold-crowned Lion Rampant Shield bearing the red body, blue tongue and claws of a lion … the shield of the Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland, which is also used by The Crown of Scotland. And what is the most famous of the royal castles in Scotland? The Edinburgh Castle of course!
“Situated on Castle Rock, the plug of an extinct, 350-million year-old volcano, the Edinburgh Castle was built over several centuries. It was the site of the First War of Scottish Independence in 1296, in which the Scottish were seeking independence from English rule.
Construction of the Portcullis Gate from today’s mystery photo was started just after the Land Siege in 1573.”
Gwinnett Chamber’s Small Business winners are released
Showcasing those that dare to start, sustain and succeed, the Gwinnett Chamber held its Small Business Awards on November 20, at the Infinite Energy Forum. Eleven category recipients were recognized for exhibiting best business practices and embodying the entrepreneurial spirit. Winners include, on the back row, Matt Hyatt, Rocket IT, Culture Creator Recipient; Dave Hollister and Steven Tomlinson, Level Seven Facilities Services, Small Business Award: 25+ Employees; Andrea Barclay, Because One Matters, Community Contributor Recipient; and Chef Rosalind Tucker, Tucker’s Catering, Pivot Pro Recipient. On the front row are Chamber President Nick Masino; Sharmin Arefin, Arefin Law Office, Minority-Owned/Woman-Owned Small Business Recipient; Jennifer DeLoach, Bexley & DeLoach, Support System Award; Sandra & Clyde Strickland, Metro Waterproofing, Founder Recipient; John Reynolds, Slow Pour Brewing Company, Small Business Award: 6-24 Employees; and Pierina Anderson, Twin Kookies and Sweets, Launch Recipient. Other winners are Small Business Award: 0-5 Employees – BioReactor Sciences and Emerging Entrepreneur Recipient – Ali Jamal – Stablegold Hospitality, (both not pictured) .
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