GwinnettForum | Number 21.76 | Oct. 1, 2021
NEW MURAL ON THE WAY:: Starting on October 4, local Lilburn Artist Sonny Franks will begin painting the City of Lilburn’s newest public art mural on a large brick wall of the City’s restroom facility near the children’s playground at Lilburn City Park. The mural will feature monarch butterflies of various sizes flying through an open window, creating the magical perspective that the wall opens up into a whole new world. Franks was inspired to create this mural by the Monarch butterfly gardens that are planted and maintained by the Ladybugs Garden Club. This garden club of local Lilburn volunteers maintain the various gardens along the Camp Creek Greenway trail in partnership with the City of Lilburn. Funding for this public art project comes from the City’s public art fund, which is fueled by a small percentage charge on certain development permit fees. You may watch Franks paint live during the Lilburn Daze Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturday, October 9.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgians should reject radical Jody Hice for secretary of state
EEB PERSPECTIVE: When folks in the country got the time of day from railroads
ANOTHER VIEW: Old-line Republicans should retake control of their party
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Drama-filled headlines will continue to dominate news
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville smallest U.S. city to get $5 million ReCAST grant
NOTABLE: Gwinnettian adopts nieces who were in foster care in Canada
RECOMMENDED: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Tom’s Foods of Columbus now owned by San Antonio Snacks
MYSTERY PHOTO: Spectacular night shot of classic structure is the Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Part of what it takes to put on a really big weekend in Duluth
CALENDAR: Former County Chairman to speak Sunday at Snellville Historical Society
Georgians should reject radical Hice for secretary of state
By Jack Bernard,contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | U.S. Rep. Jody Hice was one of the prime speakers at President Trump’s rally in Perry, Ga. on September 25. Hice, who has endorsed by Trump, is trying to push out Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, a traditional conservative Republican, his opponent in the GOP primary for Secretary of State. He has a good chance unless GOP voters wake up and see him for what he really is, a radical con man out for himself.
What was Raffensperger’s unforgivable crime? When asked by Trump to violate the law and his oath of office, he refused to miraculously find 11,000+ votes to overturn the Georgia presidential election results.
The Freedom Caucus is the furthest right-wing of all of the Congressional caucuses, constantly making mischief and disrupting progress. Its communications chair is our own Rep. Hice. In that Hice was formerly a country North Georgia, right wing radio show host, a minor league Rush.
Hice, a proponent of the ‘Big lie” that the presidential election was stolen, went on the September 13 Natalie Harp show on the OAN network and expounded a wild theory that 217,000 Georgia ballots were lost in the 2020 election.
Hice
Further, Hice is a major exponent of the ridiculous assertion that it was radical Democrats who invaded the Capital on January 6 and that Trump supporters were simply peaceful patriots. Per Hice: “It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others.”
It should be noted that Rep. Hice was one of only 21of 435 House members who had the audacity to vote against giving Congressional Gold Medals to the police officers who bravely defended our Capitol under siege from violent right-wing zealots. For someone who calls himself a “patriot” and a defender of law and order, that vote reached a new level of hypocrisy.
Post-election, General Mark Milley called his Chinese counterparts to ensure that a radical president did not get us into World War III in order to unconstitutionally retain power. In a tweet on Sept. 16, Hice demanded “answers”, stating that there was “collusion” between China, Gen. Milley and House leader Nancy Pelosi, and that the transcripts of calls be released. Hice has absolutely no evidence of collusion or “treason” by Milley, a national hero.
It’s ironic that Hice never seemed concerned about Presidential collusion with Russia when Trump was in power.
The Georgia representative also wants Sec. of State Antony Blinken fired for incompetence, blaming him for the Afghanistan withdrawal problems. He doesn’t even acknowledge that this Administration airlifted out more than 100,000 Americans and allies in a superhuman effort.
He also fails to mention the key role that his idol, President Trump, played in negotiating a one-sided date specific deal that returned 5,000 terrorists to Afghan streets in return for absolutely nothing to the Afghan government. No wonder the government fell so quickly; to the Afghan people, it was obviously just an American puppet.
I will be supporting Georgia’s Secretary of State in the Republican primary. I will not be voting for Jody Hice for this or any other elected position. I hope Georgians will reject the Hice candidacy.
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When folks in the country got the time of day from railroads
Photo from railroad historian Robert Hanson of Loganville.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 1, 2021 | Songwriter Johnny Mercer was born in Savannah, but probably never rode on the daily passenger train, the “MD&S.” The letters stand for the train’s name, the Macon, Dublin and Savannah. But you see the train, powered by a Baldwin 4-6-2 steam engine, didn’t go on to Savannah. It ended each day’s run in Vidalia, then reversed itself and choo-chooed back to Macon in the afternoon. It was a short train, a mail car and one or two passenger cars. But it was vital to people along its route in South Georgia. The line also hauled freights, of course. (Vidalia passengers could catch the Seaboard rail lines Montgomery-to-Savannah service to go into Savannah.)
The MD&S was the rail line that gave me my first train ride. We lived in Macon, and our family was from Allentown, in Wilkinson County, one of the stops on the MD&S. The daily service left the Macon Terminal about 8 a. m, with stops at Dry Branch, Jeffersonville, Danville and finally for me in Allentown, I rode the train by myself when about age 10, to visit my relatives, particularly my grandmother, in Allentown. Her house faced the rail tracks, with the cotton gin during summers blaring away down the road on the other side of the tracks. Allentown, in those days, had a population of about 300, with two general stores, and most importantly, the Four County Bank, serving the area where four counties square up: Wilkinson, Laurens, Twiggs and Bleckley, just south of town.
One incident forever engraved in my mind concerning the MD&S. Of the four sons in my grandmother’s family, only one, the youngest, named Homer, was in World War II military service. The others were either too old, or didn’t pass the physical exams. (My father was called to service, but turned down because of a “heart murmur.” But he lived to an older age.)
After basic training, Uncle Homer was stationed on the West Coast, at Fort Lewis, Wash. This was a terrible place to send him, in that he had asthma. The cold, wet climate of Washington was bad for him, and eventually, the Army discharged him, and he was coming home.
Members of our large family gathered at the train depot one bright morning about 9 a.m. awaiting his arrival. He came off the train in his winter olive drab uniform looking fit. His oldest brother, Marvin, was first to greet him. What surprised me is that they “shook hands.”
Perhaps I was expecting they were close enough that they would hug. But the somewhat distant handshake has stood in my mind all these years. Of course, after that came the onslaught of the relatives with the hugs, his mother, other brothers and their wives, nieces, nephews and cousins smothering him. After all, to us, he was the returning hero, though he had been discharged as unfit, because of asthma. And the MD&S had brought him home.
Back to Songwriter Johnny Mercer and the lyrics he wrote about one train he helped make famous. The one verse that sticks in my mind is where he describes the timely aspect of the train service to those living out West: “Folks around these parts get the time of day, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.” For those living along the route of the MD&S, its service was also regular and mostly on time. Yes, we could almost set our clocks by its twice-a-day arrival.
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Old-line Republicans should retake control of their party
By George Wilson, contributing columnist
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. | The University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats has been tracking insurrectionist sentiments in United States adults, most recently in surveys in June. They have found that 47 million American adults–nearly one in five–agree with the statement that “the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.” Of those, 21 million also agree that “use of force is justified to restore Donald J. Trump to the presidency.”
The survey found that many of these 21 million people with insurrectionist sentiments have the capacity for violent mobilization. At least seven million of them already own a gun, and at least three million have served in the U.S. military and so have lethal skills. Of those 21 million, six million said they supported right-wing militias and extremist groups, and one million said they are themselves or personally know a member of such a group, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
This group of 21 million who agree both that force is justified to restore Trump and that Biden is an illegitimate president has two additional views that are also on the fringes of mainstream society:
- 63 percent agree with the statement that “African American people or Hispanic people in our country will eventually have more rights than whites” – a belief sometimes called “the Great Replacement.”
- 54 percent agree that “A secret group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles is ruling the U.S. government,” which is the key belief in the QAnon movement.
This, in my view, shows how right-wing propaganda coming from Fox, social media, and talk radio has been a major influence in trying to destroy our democratic Republic.
Moreover, only a small percentage of people who hold extremist views ever actually commit acts of violence. However, studies show that many Americans hold views that could turn them toward insurrection.
It’s time for old-time Republicans to take back their party and restore some sanity to the process for the good of the nation.
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Drama-filled headlines will continue to dominate news
Thank you for the comments regarding The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the decline of newspapers in general.
All “news” outlets, newspapers and other print media, electronic media, cable, broadcast, all outlets, are businesses. As such, they need to deliver a product which will draw eyeballs. The human condition is such that drama, and headlines and story lines which appeal to the negative or dark side of human nature, are attractive and enticing. Therefore, regardless of political persuasion, whether an outlet is deemed far right or far left, negative and drama-filled headlines will continue to dominate, as they attract eyeballs. And advertisers want eyeballs.
Along these lines, H.L. Mencken said in 1918 “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
So with the exception of the very fine GwinnettForum, I have opted out of “news”. Limiting my exposure to negative headlines and all the related drama increases clarity of thought and internal peace.
— Randy Brunson, Duluth
One-by-one she has unsubscribed from one-sided views
Perhaps newspapers should take a neutral stance on politics and just publish their opinions as opinions or editorials (only on the editorial page) and report actual news for a change.
One by one, I have unsubscribed because I cannot stomach the one-sided view of the world or small town as seen through the eyes of the editor.
— Ginny Fontana, Braselton
In paper-reading family, her father awaited AJC each morning
As an Atlanta native, I’ve been reading The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for decades. My father waited every morning in the driveway at 5 a.m. for the “paperboy” when it was The Atlanta Constitution. If he was running late, my father would let them know.
I absolutely love reading the paper. When we moved to Suwanee from Lawrenceville, our delivery was late most of the time or didn’t even show up. I finally gave in and went to the digital version of the AJC. I balked at first, but now I’m enjoying it. I think the digital provides more content than the paper copy was able to do.
— Mary Beth Bender, Suwanee
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Lawrenceville smallest U.S. city to get $5 million ReCAST grant
Lawrenceville has received a five-year, $5 million federal grant from the Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (ReCAST) program administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA). Lawrenceville ReCAST seeks to assist high risk youth and families, promote well-being and resilience in communities, and promote linkages to trauma-informed behavioral health. The grant will take effect October 1, 2021.
Mayor David Still says: “A team of talented community partners came together to create an impressive proposal and will now work collaboratively toward the betterment of our community using a multimodal approach.”
This coalition included Impact46, Georgia Center for Opportunity, and Families First. They will work together to increase access to mental health services and reduce trauma among high-risk youth and their families; increase access to social services; strengthen community relations; and increase diverse voices in city government.
Through the ReCAST grant, the City of Lawrenceville plans to:
- Expand the Summer of Impact Youth Internship Program through the addition of intern positions and participating schools;
- Expand the Project FIRSTCo-Responder program of the Lawrenceville Police Department
- Form an internal diversity committee to increase community engagement of city employees;
- Launch a City Youth Council in Lawrenceville area public high schools, including Central Gwinnett and Discovery High Schools, with an emphasis on inclusion of high-risk youth and civic engagement;
- Create a referral process to community partners for direct assistance to 400 families, working toward a goal of providing direct support to 1,500 residents by year five.
City Manager Chuck Warbington feels that “The ReCAST grant can be transformational for our community. Much of the grant’s included programming was already taking place or in the planning stages by community partners and the City of Lawrenceville. The $5 million in federal funding and the potential for a renewal in the sixth year can have exponential impact and improve the quality of life for nearly all of Lawrenceville’s more than 30,000 residents.”
The City of Lawrenceville is one of nine cities included in the 2021 ReCAST grant, and the smallest getting such an award. The other cities are: Philadelphia, Pa.; Denver, Colo.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Milwaukee, Wis.; San Antonio, Tex.; Oakland, Calif.; and Flint, Mich.
SAMSHA was established in 1992 by the U.S. Congress to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities. The ReCAST federal grant program assists high-risk youth and families, promotes community youth engagement programs, and provides trauma-informed behavioral health services. The ReCAST program’s overall goal is for local community entities to work together in ways leading to improved behavioral health, empowered community residents, reductions in trauma, and sustained community change.
Norcross’ Crowne Plaza Atlanta Norcross will open soon
Norcross will soon see the opening of a Crowne Plaza Atlanta Northeast hotel, located on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, just north of Holcomb Bridge Road. The hotel has been refurbished completely, adding new features. The hotel is expected to open soon, only awaiting a fire marshal’s inspection. The hotel was previously known as a Holiday Inn Resort.
The new hotel includes a state-of-the-art fitness center, men’s and women’s steam rooms and saunas, outdoor pool, and healthy food options in the Marketplace. Onsite dining is available at 1870 Restaurant and Bar (Norcross was founded in 1870), which offers a gourmet take on regional American classics. With 9,400 square feet of meeting space and the Crowne Plaza brand’s signature Plaza Workspace flexible and co-working areas, the property gives guests numerous options to connect, work and socialize.
Owned and operated by Apsilon Hotels, the property is just northeast of Atlanta and eight miles from IHG’s Americas headquarters.
Public Library Gala on Oct. 23 will have Dooley as speaker
On Saturday October 23, the Gwinnett County Public Library Foundation will host its annual Puttin’ on the Litz Gala. Entitled “A Night To Fall Into Literacy,” an evening of food, company, and memorable talent. The event will be held at Gas South District (formerly Infinite Energy Center) in Duluth, and feature UGA legend Vince Dooley as our keynote speaker. Funds raised will go to allowing the library system to continue providing free programs that support literacy in all of our communities, such as Beanstack, our Summer Reading Program, tutor.com , and the Career Online High School Program.
The support of Gwinnettians keeps these programs free to our community. Individual tickets and corporate sponsorships are available at https://gcpl.ticketleap.com/gala/. Click on “register” to see Ticket/Sponsorship opportunities. For direct purchase without fees, email your sponsorship/purchase request to Jason DiFranco at jdifranco@gwinnettpl.org.
Gwinnettian adopts nieces once in foster care in Canada
Norcross resident Jamie Christopher received a call last August that drastically changed her life: her sister had suddenly passed away, and her nieces were now in Canadian foster care. Without a second thought Jamie, a single mom and parent to 10-year-old Dalton, fought through her shock, grief, and overwhelm to become the girls’ new guardian. In January of this year, she drove to the Canadian border to pick them up; their kinship adoption was finalized a few months later.
Jamie and her family
Despite the trauma they experienced, the girls are thriving. Jamie and Dalton have provided a stable and loving home and community. They are experiencing so much for the first time, and they are actively involved in their local school and church and involved in sports and Girl Scouts.
Local nonprofit Promise 686 put together an online campaign so the community can help cover the costs of the girls’ immigration paperwork, counseling, and care, all tax-deductible to the donor.
Over $4,000 has been raised so far from neighbors and even strangers who heard about Jamie’s story through Next-Door.
It’s been a hard and exhausting road, but Jamie would be the first to tell you that there have been little miracles along the way that keep her going. In fact earlier this month, she got the news that her family had been selected out of 500 entrants to win a free Disney vacation for adoptive families from Funding Love! This couldn’t have been more fitting, as the family often quotes Disney’s Lilo and Stitch as their family motto: “Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
From John Titus, Peachtree Corners: This autobiography covers Mandela’s life from his birth and boyhood in rural South Africa to his inauguration as president of that country’s first democratic, nonracial government. His early years were spent in a village of grass-roofed huts with dirt floors following a life shaped by custom, ritual and taboo. At age nine his father died, and he was taken to live with a guardian who provided the opportunity for a better education, ultimately resulting in his becoming a lawyer. He attributes his politicization not to a moment of truth, but to a steady accumulation of a thousand slights and indignities which resulted in his devoting himself to the liberation of his people. Most of the book relates to the struggle for freedom and presents the harsh realities of apartheid and its many cruelties. It is a moving account of Mandela’s life, the cost of his choices and his indomitable spirit.
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Tom’s Foods of Columbus now owned by San Antonio Snacks
In 1925 the Columbus-based Tom Huston Peanut Company began selling single-serving packages of roasted peanuts nationally. As of 2006, its more than 1,300 employees in four states produce 20 snack products, which are sold in 43 states under the company’s red triangular logo.
The man behind the logo was inventor John Thomas “Tom” Huston, a Columbus resident whose creations included a mechanical peanut sheller and a roaster for shelled peanuts. Huston literally earned peanuts for his efforts; local farmers in need of his inventions paid him with portions of their harvests.
In 1926 Huston patented a narrow glassine package that he could fill with this local crop. Emblazoned with a triangular label that read “Tom’s Toasted Peanuts,” Huston began selling the packages to independent distributors.
Four years later Huston, as head of the Tom Huston Peanut Company and known as “The Farmer Boy Who Became Peanut King,” was featured in Time magazine. He would not be king for long. The depression, coupled with losses in his frozen peach business, caused Huston to lose his business in the early 1930s. In 1932 the bank that owned the company hired Walter Richards as president, who with other investors ran the company until 1966, when it was bought by General Mills. In 1970 the company’s name changed to Tom’s Foods.
From the company’s earliest days until the early 1940s, it benefited from George Washington Carver’s scientific research on peanut growing and processing. Carver was an unpaid consultant to Tom’s, and some of Tom’s employees assisted Carver as well by providing him with peanut fungi samples.
Though Tom’s has branched out into other types of snack foods over the years—among them potato chips, pretzels, popcorn, cream-filled cookies, pastries, and candy bars—toasted peanuts are still one of its best-selling products. As a result the company is one of the Southeast’s top purchasers of peanuts, turning them into such vending-machine staples as peanut-butter crackers. While other companies focus on larger, multiple-serving bags of snacks, Tom’s concentrates on smaller, single-serving foods that can be tucked away in briefcases or pocketbooks.
About half of the company’s employees work on its 38-acre campus in Columbus, where three plants produce its candy, peanut, baked-goods, and cracker products. Tom’s Chips are produced at its plants in Perry, Fla.; Corsicana, Tex.; and Fresno, Calif. In all the company’s facilities, including warehouse space, exceed one million square feet.
Between 1983 and 2005 the ownership of Tom’s changed hands four times. In 1983 the company was purchased by a British firm, Rowntree-Mackintosh; in 1988 it was purchased by a group of local investors; and in 1993 it was purchased by Heico Acquisitions. Under Heico the company failed to turn a profit for a decade.
Snack-food giant Lance Incorporated bought the company in October 2005 for $37.9 million. Six months before the sale, Tom’s Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after defaulting on more than $60 million in debt. In fiscal year 2004 the company lost $6.8 million on $181.4 million in revenue. The company’s revenue was $195.7 million the year before.
(The company is now owned by San Antonio Snacks. As of 2016, Tom’s products are distributed across the country by Snyder’s-Lance.)
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Spectacular night shot of classic structure is Mystery Photo
Today’s Mystery Photo features classic Grecian pillars in this spectacular night setting. What type of building is this, and where is it located? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown!
The recent Mystery Photo turned out to be difficult, as only Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. recognized what people from New England should have spotted. The photo was of the City Hall in Portland, Maine, sent in by Chuck Paul of Norcross.
Peel writes: “Today’s mystery photo is of the 200-foot Clock Tower in the center of the Portland City Hall, in Portland Maine. This building was built between 1909-1912 and designed by the American Beaux-Arts architecture firm Carrère and Hastings from New York. The building’s design is inspired by the French-Renaissance style used for the design of the City Hall in NYC. There are a number of unique features in this building, including the fact that it is the site of the Merrill Auditorium, a 1,908 seat auditorium, and the stunningly gorgeous 1911 Kotzschmar Memorial Pipe Organ (see here), that has over 6,500 pipes, making it the second-largest organ in the world in 1911, while remaining the largest organ in Maine today. Then sitting atop the Clock Tower is a bright, golden weathervane made in the shape of a 1600s era galleon (i.e. sailing ship), with a fully unfurled sail, banner and rigging. When viewed from the ground, the weathervane looks rather small, but it is actually more than six-feet tall!”
It takes this sea of red shirts—and more—to put on the Fall Festival
This sea of red shirts is only part of what it takes to put on the Duluth Fall Festival. Altogether, over 400 volunteers help make the last weekend in September something worthwhile in Duluth. This year the Festival had gorgeous weather to please the always-large crowd. So that you don’t forget, go ahead and write in the Duluth Fall Festival in your 2022 calendar for the last weekend in September.
Norcross Art Splash will be this weekend, October 2-3, in Lillian Webb Park. Hours are from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday. Ninety artists, many from out of town, will show off their arts in several fields. There will be an interactive Kidz Zone, plus plenty of food and drink.
Octoberfest in Duluth on Tap will be Saturday, October 4, from noon until 5 p.m. Featured will be beer from local breweries, with German music being performed on the main stage at the Festival Center.
Snellville Historical Society will meet in the Community Room of City Hall on Sunday, October 3 at 2 p.m. Speaker will be former Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Wayne Hill. Membership in the Society is $15 annually.
Bring the family to the Braselton Town Green on Oct. 9-10 for the Braselton Medieval Faire! This unique and educational event is free to attend and runs Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attendees will experience living history demonstrations including examples of daily life, cooking, music, the arms, armor and martial culture from the 11th century Battle of Hastings to the start of The Tudors’ Reign in the 15th century. The event will also include hands-on demonstrations and a variety of vendors. Presentations currently scheduled for Oct. 9 and 10 (same schedule both days):
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- Noon – A Muse of Fire: English Language from Medieval to Modern;
- 2 p.m. – Time in a Battle: Arms and Armor of the Battle of Hastings; and
- 4 p.m. – Shakespeare’s Soldiers: Arms and Armor of Shakespeare’s History Plays.
Visit https://www.visitbraselton.com/ for more information on this and all the other great events taking place in Braselton.
The first photo exhibition at the new Duluth branch of Gwinnett County Public Library will have its opening on October 15. Artwork will remain on view through November 19. The theme for this year’s show, Imagining the Unreal, will tie together a collection of images in a mind-bending exhibition that includes dreams, fictional narratives, emotional landscapes, surreal visions and other fascinating thematic interpretations. Artwork is juried by Maria L. Kelly, the curatorial Assistant of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, as well as the Collection Manager for The Sir Elton John Photography Collection.
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