RECENT STORYTIME: Elizabeth Williams, for whom the library in Snellville is named, was remembered recently at a ceremony for the new building. Charlene Canady, granddaughter of Mrs. Williams, was present, and read to children in the branch during Storytime, much as her grandmother read to children when a teacher. For more on Mrs. Williams, see Elliott Brack’s Perspective below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Urges vote for City of Mulberry, citing local control
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering the library’s Elizabeth H. Williams
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Community Improvement District
ANOTHER VIEW: Beware! The Mulberry vote is not what you think
FEEDBACK: Note the writer’s wordage in this diatribe
UPCOMING: New technical application makes for safer streets
NOTABLE: Southern Living lists Lilburn among best towns
RECOMMENDED: The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Social change agendas bring on new movements
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s a tribute to someone; but who?
CALENDAR: Richt speaks Thursday at Salvation Army lunch
(Editor’s note: Today we present opposing views on the vote on whether the northeast portion of Gwinnett should become the City of Mulberry. Immediately below is one view, while the opposing view is presented below in Another View. GwinnettForum takes pride in presenting two sides of this issue. –eeb)
Urges vote for City of Mulberry, citing local control
By Michael Coker
BUFORD, Ga. | Here is a statement from Citizens for Mulberry, Inc.
Coker
Passing the City of Mulberry referendum will allow us the opportunity to bring local control back to our community.
When my family first moved to the Hamilton Mill area 30 years ago, Gwinnett County’s population was small enough that we knew our local county commissioner personally. The county commissioners understood the needs of each individual neighborhood in their district because they knew their neighbors and the residents of the community.
Today, Gwinnett County has a population larger than five U.S. states, and yet we still have the same five county commission seats in Gwinnett County. Most Gwinnett citizens never meet their commissioner, and each Gwinnett County commissioner represents over 200,000 people. No single Gwinnett commissioner lives in the proposed city limits of Mulberry, yet they are making decisions about our future.
Gwinnett County is too big for only five county commissioners to make decisions about what is best for our community. We need our neighbors to make zoning and growth decisions. Neighbors who sit in our traffic, neighbors who have children attending elementary school in trailers, and neighbors who understand the strain that uncontrollable growth has put on our community.
Majority Leader Chuck Efstration and Senator Clint Dixon have given this community a gift: the gift of a city that will allow us to control our own future. Each Mulberry City Council member will represent only 7,000 of their closest neighbors. If you have concerns about a permit for 1,000 homes on Clack Road, about a strip mall built at the front of your neighborhood, or about 600 apartments next to Seckinger High School, you will know exactly who to call to express your concern. Small, local government is always the best form of government because it returns power to the people.
When I speak with my neighbors, the City of Mulberry is overwhelmingly popular. The only ones who oppose the City of Mulberry are those who have the most to lose: the developers who want to bring high density apartments and uncontrolled commercial development to our neighborhood.
The developers will do anything to stop us, including filing a lawsuit to take away our right to vote. No court in Georgia has ever ruled that this Mulberry city model is unconstitutional, and the timing of the lawsuit, days before the start of early voting, tells you everything you need to know about the true intentions of those trying to take away your right to vote.
We might not have the developers’ money, but we have tremendous community support. We need all our community to join and vote “yes” during early voting to send a clear message in favor of local control. That is why I am asking you to vote yes for the City of Mulberry now during early voting or at your local precinct on May 21.
I grew up here, and now I raise my children here in Mulberry. Majority Leader Efstration and Senator Dixon said it best at the town hall: if the City of Mulberry does not pass, we will not recognize this community ten years from now.
You might not agree with every detail of the legislation or how the city will operate, but remember, these small details can be changed by you as a voter in the future. What cannot be changed, however, is that we will not get another opportunity to pass the City of Mulberry and to get the local control we need to keep this area as one of Georgia’s best places to live.
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Remembering the library’s Elizabeth H. Williams
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
MAY 7, 2024 | It’s great to read of some of the early leaders of Gwinnett County being remembered. It was last week when the person for whom the Library in Snellville is named, Elizabeth Williams, was the focus of a small ceremony at the new library.
From what we have read, Elizabeth Williams’ life was one of service to the community, and as a teacher for years in Snellville schools.
Elizabeth Hiter Williams was born in Tennessee and came to the Snellville area when she was in the tenth grade. She graduated from the old Snellville High School known as the Rock School, which included grades one through eleven.
She went on to the University of Georgia and returned to teach English at the Snellville Consolidated School. It was later closed and torn down; the site is now occupied by the Snellville City Hall. When the school closed, Mrs. Williams moved to the Snellville Middle School where she taught seventh grade until her retirement, after a career of 36 years. She was enshrined by her fellow teachers in the Gwinnett County Association of Educators Hall of Fame.
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Jim Cofer, who recently wrote the history of Snellville, and who now lives in Birmingham, remembers her as one of his teachers. “If there are two words to describe her, those would be ‘spunky’ and ‘caring.’ She aroused a desire to learn in a group of farm kids who had very little other intellectual stimulation.”
Cofer says that “the man who built the original E.R. Snell house wanted to start a dairy. He moved the Hiter family from Tennessee to Snellville, including Elizabeth Hiter, to run the dairy around 1930. Elizabeth was first unhappy to be in Snellville until she met Oliver Perry Williams (O.P.), whom she was married to for 51 years. They produced one son and two grandchildren. They were members of the Snellville United Methodist Church.”
As a teacher, Cofer says that Mrs. Williams “was a strict disciplinarian, basketball scorekeeper, and theater coach for numerous plays. She read aloud to her classes many of the old southern classics (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, William Green Hill, etc.) in the original dialect. She could hold a sixth grade class spellbound for an hour. You just didn’t want recess to come in the middle of one of her stories.
“She also had a bolo paddle in her middle drawer which was applied vigorously to any boisterous or offending country boy.
“On rainy days, she led the whole school in many grand marches and dances in the gym. Square dancing was one of her specialties.
“On play nights, she would come out and give an overview of the play in a booming voice that was heard all over the packed gym without a microphone. She was one of Snellville’s classic teachers and citizens.”
Her years of teaching in the Snellville area and her generosity in sharing her love of books and reading with others prompted Snellville city officials in 1988 to recommend that the library being built on Lenora Church Road in Snellville be named the Elizabeth H. Williams Library.
In September, 2023, the new Elizabeth H. Williams branch in Snellville opened, located in the city’s planned development, The Grove at Town Center, on Wisteria Drive. The new 22,000 square foot branch occupies the first floor of the two-story building and serves children, teens, and adults with community spaces, a multipurpose meeting room, 20 computer workstations, and Learning Labs that include a maker’s space and a recording space.
Don’t you know Elizabeth Hiter Williams would be proud!
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Beware! The Mulberry vote is not what you think
By Steve Hughes
DACULA, Ga. | My name is Steve Hughes. I am a 70-year-old retiree and have lived on Four Seasons Court in Dacula for 35 years. Recently, I filed the first lawsuit of my life. That lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the charter for the proposed City of Mulberry.
Hughes
Since my suit was filed, it has been criticized by The Citizens for Mulberry, Inc. They said, “No court in Georgia has ever declared this city charter structure as unconstitutional and we expect the lawsuit will fail. Unfortunately, the motivations behind the filing have nothing to do with constitutionality.”
It is true that no court in Georgia has ever declared this city charter structure (aka city-lite} as unconstitutional. There is a reason this is true. It is because no court has ever had the opportunity to rule on the merits of the city-lite structure.
The original charter for Peachtree Corners adopted the city-lite structure. Later Peachtree Corners had to amend their charter to avoid a legal challenge. Here is what Mike Mason, the Mayor of Peachtree Corners, said in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article published on Jan 12, 2018: “No one ever told me, or anyone with the ‘Yes Campaign,’ that what we were proposing had an unconstitutional element,” Mason wrote. “We were assured this innovative concept would work.”
In a recent town hall Chuck Efstration told the attendees that “they folded.” But did they? In 2015, residents of Forsyth County were considering the creation of the City of Sharon Springs. They were going to use the same city-light structure used in the original charter of Peachtree Corners.
The Forsyth County Attorney wrote an opinion on the city-lite charter. He determined that it violates the Georgia Constitution. I quote from an article by Appen Press Kathleen Sturgeon on May 16, 2017, concerning Sharon Springs: “The first iteration of Sharon Springs included the formation of a ‘city lite.’ However, later that year, the bill’s sponsor, then-District 25 State Rep. Mike Dudgeon, said the delegation decided the bill was “unconstitutional.”
Citizens for Mulberry, Inc states that my motivation for filing a lawsuit has nothing to do with constitutionality. You decide if this is true.
Ask yourself why an unconstitutional charter was presented to the citizens of this area for a vote. Why have a charter that states that Mulberry will not have the ability to levy a property ad valorem tax, when the Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that every municipality in Georgia has that right. Check Peacock v. Georgia Municipal Association.
My legal challenge is not a last-minute attempt to rob our community of the right to vote for local control. It is the voice of a citizen using the only means at his disposal to shout out to the voters, “Beware! The city for which they want you to vote is not the city you are going to get.”
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Note the writer’s wordage in this diatribe
Editor, the Forum:
Jack Bernard [is] a liberal blaming Trump and Rep. Mike Collins falsely about immigration policies. Jack just wants voters for Democratic agenda at the cost of letting illegals in on their agenda to murder and turn our country into lawlessness.
It is obvious to any reasoning person that – Jack – Biden’s and democratic policies on immigration are pure evil in action and intent. And that policy and anyone who supports it is an anarchistic to the Constitution and Bill of Rights and defines themselves as a combination communist with fascial authoritarianism . And a deceiver of truth with extra self-righteous twist of irresponsible moral conscience.
– Arthur Peddle, Lilburn
Dear Arthur: beautiful language. We have not seen it expressed that way. We appreciate you giving your view of what you think. —eeb
Former teacher agreed with Baker’s viewpoint
Editor, the Forum:
Let me totally agree with Sammy Baker’s assessment in his letter to the editor of how most immigrants feel about illegals crossing the U.S. border. I taught English as a Second Language to adults for 20 years and found that the huge majority are conservative, especially those who are educated.
A Ph.D. neighbor who came here as a child agrees and wonders where the idea started that all immigrants are liberal and would vote Democrat if given the choice. Those who came here legally, crossed all the t’s, dotted the i’s and spent a considerable amount of money to do things the right way don’t feel favorably about the illegal border crossers being ushered right in.
– Louise Stewart, Norcross
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New technical application makes for safer streets
By Louis E. Svehla
Peachtree Corners announces a collaboration with global provider of image-grade LiDAR technology, Seyond. This collaboration enables Seyond to deploy and validate its LiDAR solutions in a real-world environment to create safer streets and smoother traffic flow for both vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) in Peachtree Corners.
Seyond’s LiDAR solution is already deployed within Curiosity Lab’s smart city ecosystem and at a select intersection in the City of Peachtree Corners. These locations use a combination of Seyond’s LiDAR, OmniVidi Perception Service Software Platform and Blue-Band Integrator AI to provide a real-time 3D mapping of the areas, with both vehicles and pedestrian object detection.
These combined technologies collect real-world data that can be used to implement traffic and VRU signal solutions to make intersections safer and more efficient, while also protecting citizen privacy. The collected data from Seyond’s data and Blue-Band’s analysis can be used by the city to adjust traffic signals, pedestrian crossing signals, intersection design and more to address specific safety and efficiency needs based on real-world data.
Seyond Co-founder and CEO Junwei Bao says: “By collecting data from high-volume intersections across vehicular and pedestrian traffic, we will be able to improve the quality and reliability of detection results, which can help validate Intelligent Traffic Solution-based use cases. Our technology can be used at a signal intersection but also across parking, large areas of pedestrian crossings and more. Curiosity Lab and Peachtree Corners will allow us to explore these use cases in a real-world environment as we continue to advance and validate our solutions for public use to improve safety for all.”
With exceptional range and clarity, Seyond’s LiDAR system is able to map large environments up to 1,640-foot range that would usually require multiple traffic cameras. The hardware, originally developed and tested for autonomous vehicles, is manufactured to be automotive-grade and has been designed to withstand extreme weather conditions. These capabilities enable Curiosity Lab and Peachtree Corners to have accurate monitoring 24/7 to make the most educated intelligent transport updates to meet the needs of citizens and visitors.
Curiosity Lab Executive Director Brandon Branham says: “LiDAR allows the city to collect data on traffic movement, congestion, wrecks, near misses and even pedestrian activity, while protecting everyone’s privacy. Seyond’s solution takes the capabilities of LiDAR one step further and enables us as a city to evaluate how we can make our major intersections safer and more efficient for VRUs and everyday traffic.
“Especially with Peachtree Corners’ multi-use trail expanding, this technology will allow us to evaluate if we need to extend crosswalk times for pedestrians to ensure they cross major intersections safely, identify if we need to redesign intersections to be more efficient with higher-volume traffic, adjust traffic signal timing and more. With Seyond’s solutions, we will be able to see farther, clearer and react faster to transportation and VRU needs across Peachtree Corners.”
Seyond’s solutions are currently deployed at the Peachtree Corners Circle intersection with plans to expand to additional use cases. Learn more about Seyond’s technologies at https://www.seyond.com/.
Gwinnett Chorus seeking singers for May 20
If you are a singer, you are wanted!
The Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra and Chorus has scheduled presenting Mozart’s Requiem highlights on May 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gas South Theater. It needs singers for this 12 minute performance. Also being performed that night will be Mahler’s Titan Symphony.
The chorus welcomes experienced singers who love to perform. Rehearsal will be held at Discovery High School on Sunday, May 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and includes 30 minutes of rehearsal time with the orchestra. Music will be provided. Concert attire is all black for men and women (no tuxedos). Participation is free. However, each participant must purchase a ticket to the concert for $18. The chorus will sing four of the most famous choruses from the Requiem totaling approximately 12 minutes of performance time. They are: Dies Irae, Rex Tremendae, Confutatis and La Crimosa.
Southern Living lists Lilburn among best towns
A Gwinnett city has made the Southern Living list of the best small towns in Georgia. The City of Lilburn is among 28 Georgia small towns on the list.
A posting recently read: “One of America’s most distinctive (and second-largest) Hindu temples, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, is in this small town just outside of Atlanta. Head to Old Town Lilburn for a bite at 1910 Public House, then stroll along the Camp Creek Greenway Trail to see the sights and shop your way through Antiques in Old Town. Also check out the Yellow River Wildlife Sanctuary, whose mission is to help animals and educate visitors. Tour the woodlands by biking along the Camp Creek Greenway, where you may see foxes, deer, owls, and other wildlife. The 4.2-mile trail links to area parks.”
Georgia Transmission re-elects Jones to office
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Otis P. Jones of Lawrenceville has been reelected as secretary-treasurer of the Georgia Transmission Corp. Board of Directors. In addition, he serves on the Jackson Electric Membership Corp. (EMC) Board of Directors.
In 2023, under Jones’ leadership, Georgia Transmission invested $297 million, completing 125 capital projects, including the addition of 34.5 miles of transmission lines and the construction of nine new substations.
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: Mild-mannered Sebastian Harding had worked his way up in ecclesiastical circles to become the warden of a small hospital attached to the diocese’s cathedral in Barchester, England. For nearly six decades in the 1800s, Harding had led a quiet, old fashioned life in this intimate cathedral community. But when a new, young doctor with reforming ideas came to town, Harding’s world turned upside down. The incoming zealous reformer took issue with the fact that Harding was living in a big, beautiful home and making a large salary – both supplied by the diocese – while the 12 old men he spiritually cared for at the hospital received very little. The doctor stirred up a hornet’s nest and everyone had to get in on the act. Oh, the bickering among the arrogant clergymen! What a moral dilemma! This book is not a page turner, but it’s certainly a completely charming tale.
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Social change agenda bring on new movements
(From previous edition)
The growing sentiment among Americans against the Vietnam War (1964-73) generated numerous protests in Georgia. The largest antiwar demonstrations occurred during the fall of 1969, as part of the national “moratorium” campaign. In October and again in November, thousands of students gathered on campuses across the state to remember those killed in Southeast Asia. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Atlanta witnessed many antiwar demonstrations, most of which followed a route down Peachtree Street to Piedmont Park.
As the state’s capital and one of the South’s largest cities, Atlanta was home to numerous colleges and universities, and the city became a gathering point for many activists. It also became home to a countercultural community. Commonly called “hippies,” counterculture followers advocated illegal drug use, communal living, relaxed sexual norms, and other behaviors that went against mainstream American culture. A movement that shocked and confused many Americans, the counterculture seemed even more bizarre to many conservative southerners. The Atlanta counterculture centered mainly on Peachtree Street, between Eighth and Fourteenth streets. There, hippies found businesses that catered to their lifestyle, including music shops, coffeehouses, nightclubs, and health food stores.
The success of the Great Speckled Bird, an underground newspaper that operated out of a house on Fourteenth Street in Atlanta, symbolized the considerable size and longevity of the 1960s student movement in Georgia. From 1968 until it ceased operation in 1976, writers for the Bird filled each weekly issue with stories about New Left causes. Founded by students from several Georgia colleges, the newspaper kept activists outside the metropolitan area in touch with the student movement. At its height in the early 1970s, activists distributed the paper throughout Georgia and the Southeast.
The commitment to social change that motivated the student movement in the 1960s did not end with the coming of the 1970s. In Georgia, as across the nation, new organizations formed to address the concerns and fight for the rights of previously ignored or marginalized groups of people.
Two of the most important movements focused on women’s and gay rights. Many female students who had protested for civil rights and against the Vietnam War began fighting for the equality of women. These women worked hard to change abortion laws and tried unsuccessfully to get the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) approved by the Georgia legislature; the state house voted against the ERA in January 1974, and the state senate voted against it in February 1975. Gay men and women also began speaking out. At UGA the Committee on Gay Education successfully sued the university and in late 1972 won the right to hold a dance for gays and lesbians on university grounds.
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Here’s a tribute to someone; but who?
Today’s Mystery Photo is a monument to somebody…but who? Try to figure out today’s mystery, and submit your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com. Be sure to list your hometown.
Of the last mystery, Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C. wrote: “This is the harbor and citadel of the city of Bonifacio, founded in the year 828. It is the oldest city on the island of Corsica, France. The city has two parts. All transport arrives in the port, with its marina, ferry terminals, and waterfront bars and restaurants. Looming above the port is the citadel, or “Haute Ville”, which is the walled old town, a collection of alleyways, restaurants, museums and historic sites.”
Others recognizing the photo include Steve Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.; and Lou Camerio of Lilburn who informed us: “This is the citadel in Corsica, France. My yacht is the one on the far left.”
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Richt speaks Thursday at Salvation Army lunch
Scholarship award winners will be center-focus at the Commerce Club luncheon on May 7 at noon at Snellville City Hall’s Community Room. The Club annually awards two $1,000 scholarships to students from South Gwinnett and Brookwood High Schools.
Keynote speaker for the Salvation Army’s 10th annual Doing the Most Good luncheon will be Mark Richt, former University of Georgia football coach. The meeting will be May 9 at 11:30 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Norcross. Proceeds support the year-round work of The Salvation Army of Gwinnett County.
Jerry Sheetinger, baseball coach at Georgia Gwinnett College, will be the speaker at the Men’s Civic Breakfast at Christ Episcopal Church in Norcross on May 11 at 8 a.m. Visitors are encouraged to come and hear how Sheetinger inspires his team to superb records. The 2024 Grizzly baseball team has a 44-6 record, and enters playoff games next week.
Next Mulberry Town Hall Meeting will be May 8 at 7 p.m. at the Hamilton Mill Clubhouse soccer field, located at Hog Mountain Road and Hamilton Mill Parkway. An additional meeting will be May 14 at a location TBD.
Interested in learning more about Braselton history? Join us for a stroll through the historic district of downtown during National Historic Preservation Month on May 8, 15, and 22. While the tours are free, please make sure you get a ticket. To help us provide an amazing experience, each tour is limited to 30 attendees. The tour will start on the front porch of Braselton Town Hall, former home of W.H. Braselton. The address is 4982 Georgia Highway 53. To reserve your spot, contact Jessica Payne at jpayne@braselton.net or 706-654-5552.
Author appearance: Stephanie Evans will discuss her book, Africana Tea: A Global History of Tea and Black Women’s Health on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Books will be available for sale and signing.
A Taste of Bridgerton: Afternoon Tea will be served on May 11 at 1 p.m. at the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Additionally, amusing pastimes such as croquet, trivia, and a themed craft will be offered for your entertainment. Feel free to dress in your finest attire befitting the occasion. Registration is kindly requested.
Workshop on Nutrition for a Healthy Life Series will be held on May 14 at 11 a.m. at the Duluth Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Learn about healthy lifestyle changes and healthy recipes to cook. This program will have Korean translation available.
Author Terah Shelton Harris discusses her new book, Long After We Are Gone, on May 16 at the Duluth Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. This is an explosive and emotional story of four siblings each fighting their battle amid their father’s death. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Grief Writing Workshop will be held May 18 at 11 a.m. at the Lawrenceville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. Author Zoe Fishman, who lost her husband in 2017, will lead the workshop to explore the good, bad, and ugly of your hard-won identity.
Multicultural Festival returns Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Gwinnett Place Mall. This is the 10th annual Multicultural Festival and county government open house. Residents of all ages can enjoy a fun-filled day with cultural performances from around the globe, bounce houses, carnival rides, and touch-a-truck with public safety vehicles. For more information, contact the Gwinnett Police Community Affairs Section at PDCommunityAffairs@GwinnettCounty.com or call 770-513-5119.
Community Health Fair on May 19 will be sponsored by the City of Norcross. The event will be on May 19 from noon to 5 p.m. at the Lillian Webb Park in Norcross. The city is partnering with MRI Imaging and other health care officials. All prizes, food, and health services are free to the general public.
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