NEW for 6/27: Scary storm, property taxes, feedback

GwinnettForum  |  Number 22.46  | June 27, 2023

FUNDING CHECK: Among those getting funded by Explore Gwinnett is the Lionheart Theatre of Norcross. From left are Lisa Anders, head of Explore Gwinnett; Tanya Gilmer, producing director of Lionheart; and Victoria Hawkins, marketing director of Exploring Gwinnett. See Upcoming below for other groups getting funded.

IN THIS EDITION

TODAY’S FOCUS: Driving in scary storm and helping one stranded 
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New Jersey residents must stand in awe of Georgia taxpayers
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: In earlier days, parents had a deadline for their kids
UPCOMING: Explore Gwinnett awards $183,000 to arts groups
NOTABLE: Lilburn Police Chief Hedley announces retirement
OBITUARY: Elizabeth C. “Busy” Belden
RECOMMENDED: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Get out and visit Georgia’s Seven Natural Wonders
MYSTERY PHOTO: What can you find out about this painting?
LAGNIAPPE: Loggerhead sea turtles are beginning their nesting season
CALENDAR: Author Lisa See coming to Norcross on July 8 

TODAY’S FOCUS

Driving in scary storm and helping out one stranded

By Holly Moore

SUWANEE, Ga. |  This past week, on my way to visit my father in Ozark, Ala., I drove through a heavy thunderstorm. It brought to mind a stormy summer drive about 22 years ago with this same destination.  

Moore

On a hot, muggy Sunday, I was taking my daughter, Melissa, to my parents for a weeklong stay.  My mother had purchased an antique chest-of-drawers and old church pew from two local shops on a previous visit to our home.  She wanted them for their 70-year-old home’s hallway but wasn’t sure how to get them there.  

I assured her they would fit in my van. Concerned they wouldn’t, Mom countered she’d be glad to drive her truck to Atlanta and drive Melissa to her house. My mother used the old, small, red truck for hauling soil, manure and plants.  It was, in my opinion, a glorified tin can on wheels. 

I was loathe to imagine my mother and daughter traversing Interstate 85 through Atlanta in that truck so I determined that we’d fit both pieces and our luggage in my van…and we did.  With Melissa sitting up front, chest and luggage in the rear and the pew, upside down on the back seat, we could just close the doors!  

I love back roads. With the advent of GPS, trips are shorter but not as interesting.  On this trip, going via I-85 to Tuskegee and Union Springs, onto Clio on State Route 51, we’d head southeast through Skipperville and into Ozark on SR 105.  

Leaving Clio, we hit a gully washer – pounding rain, strong winds and lightning striking all around.  In the distance, lightning struck a pine tree.  Like a firecracker, the tree exploded.  I was praying that a tree not fall on our car! 

Almost immediately, we crested a hill and there, at the bottom, lay a large tree across the road.  Slowing to a stop, we saw a car in the ditch. A man got out of the car, climbed over the tree and came up to my driver side window.  I could see that he was wearing a black suit with a clerical collar. Rolling down the window, getting instantly soaked, I asked:”Are you okay?” 

He was; he’d tried to go around the tree and was stuck.  He introduced himself as the Rev. James Pitts, the pastor of Pea River Presbyterian Church in Clio, and said he’d been visiting a parishioner and was on his way home.  I offered him a ride since I would be turning around. 

As he locked his car, Melissa, who’d been sitting quietly, said, “Mom – where is he going to sit?” 

I’d forgotten about the pew in the backseat! 

The solution was for Melissa to scramble onto the upside-down pew and for me to drive very slowly.  When Reverend Pitts heard that we hailed from Suwanee, Ga., he said he grew up in Norcross.  We had been at our Norcross church that very morning! We discovered people we knew in common. Small world. 

We were able to deliver Reverend Pitts to his home, and with a detour arrived safely at my parents’ home 30 minutes later. Both pieces of restored furniture still sit in the front hallway. Every time I see them, I remember our serendipitous drive in a scary storm.

EEB PERSPECTIVE

New Jersey residents must stand in awe of Georgia taxpayers

By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum

June 27, 2023  |   Those of you who don’t like to pay high property taxes ought to be pleased you don’t live in New Jersey.

That state has the distinction of having the highest property tax in the nation. Residents of that state pay property tax at a rate of 2.13 percent.  Property tax owners in Georgia pay at a rate of 0.87 percent, right in the middle (25th) of all the states.

Back to New Jersey: a proposal before their Legislature would give older New Jersians a terrific tax break, something similar to what we have in Georgia. The Democratic Legislature is proposing giving senior citizens what amounts to up to a cut in half of their property tax. Anyone 65 years and older with an annual income of $500,000 or less would be eligible for this reduction beginning next year.  The idea is that this would make New Jersey a better place for seniors to retire.  The proposal has a name which indicates the focus of the plan: “StayNJ.”

Some 85 percent of New Jersians have incomes of less than $200,000 annually. So this new rate for citizens of that state would help a substantial portion of senior citizens in New Jersey.

A tax break like that is not new to Georgians, and residents of 11 other states: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Washington. In most cases, the exemption is a portion of the home’s value that can be added to the homestead exemption.

Here in Georgia, including Gwinnett, the exemption on property taxes means that those over 65 are exempt from paying school taxes. That can be a significant portion of a property tax bill…at least 60 percent of many Gwinnett bills.

The ten highest property tax rates in the U.S. are :

  1. New Jersey – 2.13%;
    2. Illinois – 1.97%;
    3. New Hampshire – 1.89%;
    4. Vermont – 1.76%;
    5. Connecticut – 1.73%;
    6. Texas – 1.60%;
    7. Nebraska – 1.54%;
    8. Michigan – 1.53%;
    9.
    Wisconsin – 1.53%; and
    10.Ohio – 1.52%.

Don’t know about you, but I have no problem in paying reasonable taxes to the governments.  

After all, you pay taxes to local governments so that it will function reasonably; will look out after your manner of living in a safe environment (such as police, fire and health services); will educate your children, and in many cases will even pick up your garbage, all included in what you pay in local taxes.  Add to that the larger federal taxes that go to our common defense, produce a wide circle of services, and even provide (with your input) benefits to you in your latter years (Social Security). 

Here in Georgia, some residents in the last two years have found themselves on the receiving end of something vastly different: a surprise tax refund. Seeing the state of Georgia get high revenues, Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation giving up to $500 to each taxpayer. 

While such a move is pure Populism and a playing to the people in a real political sense in the strictest form, still it has been a welcomed letter in the mail to many Georgians.

New Jersey residents must stand in awe of Georgia taxpayers.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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FEEDBACK

In earlier days, parents had a deadline for their kids

Editor, the Forum: 

Wow, hard to believe people need laws to cause them to be home after midnight.  I remember my parents extended my being in the house from 8:30 p.m. my freshman year, to midnight my senior year in high school except for special school or fraternity (Columbus High had fraternities and sororities), functions.  And then with enforced special rules.  Not on time or not at where agreed upon meant lost nights out.

But the main thing is, what can anyone not do prior to midnight that must happen afterwards?  Nothing but live, instead of putting yourself and others at risk.  Adults need to act like adults by stopping the legal sale of drugs (alcohol is a drug), from midnight until noon the next day…and like the song goes, Never on Sunday. But today all that is old school, with so many communities allowing sale of alcohol on Sundays!

– Ashley Herndon, Oceanside, Calif. 

Dear Ashley: Yeah, my parents surely “suggested” a curfew for me when in high school. I remember recognizing the times were changing, when one girl friend I was dating had a later curfew than I had. And, I made sure she kept my curfew, but never let on!—eeb

Enjoys Forum more than other larger periodicals

Editor, the Forum: 

I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed Gwinnett Forum over the years. I often find that I learn more from reading it than I do from reading other larger periodicals.

Fran Worrall, Lawrenceville

Some seniors can benefit with a homestead exemption

Editor, the Forum: 

I have discovered many seniors are unaware they can be exempted from school taxes. You must be 65 years old (or older) and earn less than $112,000.  Many other exemptions exist, but this one seems to apply to many people. The Senior must apply. Check it out at:-https://gwinnetttaxcommissioner.publicaccessnow.com/PropertyTax/AvailableExemptions.aspx

On another note, I enjoyed your story about camping with your mother-in-law several issues ago. You certainly qualified for son in law bonus points!

Cathy Loew, Peachtree Corners

Dear Cathy: By coincidence, see EEB’s Perspective today on homestead exemption in New Jersey.We also learned from Vicky Sutton-Jackson in the Tax Commission’s office that the  number of parcels in 2022 with homestead exemptions for 2022 was 170,319. –eeb

Titanic resting place should be treated as cemetery

Editor, the Forum: 

I am sorry, boys and girls, that I have little sympathy for those who went down to the bottom of the sea.  There are those who do stupid things like that “just because they are there.”  At a quarter million dollars per passenger, they certainly did not get their money’s worth.  I think ships that have sunk at sea should be treated like a cemetery.  Fifteen hundred people died on the Titanic sinking and their final resting places should be left alone and not become a tourist site.

Raleigh Perry, Buford

Methodist Camp Meeting has loose ties to Chautauqua

Editor, the Forum: 

I’ve really enjoyed several of your articles lately; Your recounting of the trip you and your wife took with your mother-in-law in tow being the highlight among others. 

Today, however, I was immediately intrigued by the mention of the Methodist camp meeting. I had a sneaking suspicion that it had loose ties to a place I describe as my personal idea of “Heaven on Earth”—the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. I was lucky enough to earn a scholarship to spend an entire summer season there post-college. 

Did you know these Methodist Camp Meetings evolved into a movement which later resulted in the organization of a community of lifelong learners stationed all over the United States, but most notably a group/Institution ensconced just outside of Jamestown, N.Y.? I’ve included a long article for your perusement, which you can read here

– Cathy Muth, Norcross

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UPCOMING

Explore Gwinnett awards $183,000 to arts groups

Explore Gwinnett has announced awarding $183,000 in funding for project and operational grants through the 2023 Gwinnett Creativity Fund (GCF). Now in its fourth year, the GCF provides financial support to arts and cultural organizations that boost Gwinnett County’s economic development and further the community’s diverse cultural scene through funding from Gwinnett County.  

Lisa Anders, executive director of Explore Gwinnett, says: “We are fortunate to be part of a community with such a flourishing arts and culture scene, and we commend all who applied for a GCF grant this year, as the efforts put forth were fantastic. These organizations have made a profound impact on our community’s well-being, cultural growth and vitality. The Gwinnett Creativity Fund is a partnership with the support of Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, and it’s truly an honor and privilege to support the area’s talented individuals and groups each year through the Gwinnett Creativity Fund.”

The GCF’s 2023 Operations Grant Cycle awarded a total of $74,000 in funding for seven arts and culture organizations. Operations Grant recipients include:

  • Atlanta Harmony Celebration, $4,500;
  • Aurora Theatre, $20,000;
  • The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning, $20,000; 
  • Lionheart Theatre, $7,000;
  • Live Arts Theatre, $6,500;
  • Suwanee Arts Center $10,000; and
  • Weird Sisters Theatre Project, $6,000.

The GCF’s 2023 Project Grant Cycle awarded a total of $109,000 in funding for 17 arts and cultural projects taking place in 2023. Project Grant recipients include:

  • African American Culture and Arts, Annual Festival, $3,000;
  • Aurora Theatre, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” $17,000;
  • Fezziwig Foundation, “Into the Woods,” $3,500;
  • Fresh Films, Summer Creative Cred Workshops, $17,000;
  • Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, “Nutcracker,” $8,000;
  • Gwinnett Classic Theatre, “Waiting for Lefty,” $2,000;
  • The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning, Permanent Collection Project, $6,000;
  • JapanFest, $6,000;
  • Norcross Gallery and Studios, Citywide Photo Contest,$3,000;
  • Lilburn Elementary School, Inclusive Playground Mural, $7,500;
  • Live Arts Theatre, “The Taming,” $2,000;
  • Spectrum Autism Support Group, Autism-Friendly Arts and Musical Playground, $7,500;
  • Sugarloaf Ballet, “Hansel and Gretel,” $2,500;
  • Suwanee Arts Center, Summer Art Camps, $4,500;
  • Suwanee Performing Arts, “Broadway in the Park,” $2,500;
  • Suwanee Public Arts Commission, “Pierce’s Corner Mural,” $10,000; and 
  • Weird Sisters Theatre Project, “Pros and Cons of Killing Your Cult Leader,” $3,000.

Policing with compassion, collaboration extended

The Gwinnett Police Behavioral Health Unit contract with View Point Health has been extended. By adding police and licensed mental health clinician teams into police operations, Gwinnett Police can use compassion and collaboration to help with those experiencing a mental health crisis. The unit plays a key role in answering routine and emergency calls with an opportunity for residents to receive the care they need. The growth of this partnership has also led to the addition of more licensed clinicians in the unit. 

Jennifer Hibbard, CEO of View Point Health says: “Thanks for the support of the county commissioners and our law enforcement partners, whose funding enables us to continue this important work.” 

Since the implementation of these behavioral health units, View Point Health has responded to over 3,500 calls, of which less than two percent resulted in an arrest. This program provides a clinical intervention from a licensed clinician to support law enforcement officers to further ensure the safety of the community

NOTABLE

Lilburn Police Chief Bruce Hedley announces retirement

Hedley

Lilburn City Manager Police Chief Bruce Hedley plans to retire after 12 years in the top position and 15 years with the city. His retirement is effective July 7, 2023. 

Then City Manager Bill Johnsa tapped Hedley for the position in April 2011. The Lilburn native was the town’s deputy chief at the time but had been serving as interim police chief.

Under Hedley’s tenure, crime has decreased dramatically and the city enjoys that level of safety to this day. Hedley was routinely praised by past and current city officials for maintaining a safe community. Over the past decade, crime statistics show a 48 percent decrease in “Part 1 crimes,” such as homicides, robbery and burglaries. 

Such low crime figures are a testament to Hedley’s leadership of the Lilburn Police Department, an agency with 30-plus sworn officers, City Manager Jenny Simpkins says.“Hedley got his officers to embrace an approach that’s keen on community engagement. It’s not unusual to see our officers in our City Park talking to citizens or playing catch with youngsters. They are respected in the community and they have earned it, in part, due to Hedley’s program.”

Last year, Hedley won the Gwinnett County Chamber’s Leadership Award for his excellence in community-oriented engagement. Hedley is a past president of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police. 

Capt. Chris Dusik will serve as acting police chief. He has served 18 years with Lilburn police after two years in Central Florida.

OBITUARY

Elizabeth C. “Busy” Belden

Elizabeth “Busy” C. Belden, 68, of Peachtree Corners, peacefully entered the presence of her Lord and Savior on early morning hours of June 23, 2023, at her home in the presence of family members.

Belden

Visitation with family: The family will gather with friends on Wednesday, June 28, from the hours 6 until 8 p.m. in the Peachtree Corners Chapel of Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes and Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Peachtree Corners. The family is delaying her memorial service to welcome the birth of another grandchild, who is due to arrive any day now. Therefore, plans for a service date when the family will be announced later.

An announcement for her celebration of life service will be posted on the Crowell Brothers website,  or you may contact Christ Episcopal Church, 400 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Norcross, 770-447-1166.

Busy was born September 11, 1954, in Chicago, Illi. to the late David and Jane Collins. Busy’s first love was her immediate and extended family. Her most treasured moments and priorities were built around them.

She grew up within Michigan. At 17, she traveled alone to Colorado to attend college, driving a Volkswagen bus, adorned with painted flowers and with no heater. She chose her college based on where she could snow ski the most. Busy attended Emory School of Law, graduating in 1979. She practiced commercial real estate for 43 years. In her career she was in-house counsel. She was recruited by several national law firms, ending her career with Akerman, LLP.

Busy was an avid athlete. She could ski, water or snow; snowboard; headstand on a paddle board; swim for miles; surfboard; scuba dive; dock a boat in a strong wind. She played on several championship tennis teams. She first hit a pickleball in the sport’s infancy. She trekked to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Despite her excellence, Busy pursued athletics for joy, rather than awards.

Her love of travel was an annual “must.” She crossed the U.S., visited Alaska, the Serengeti, Great Britain, Ireland, much of Europe, completed a self-driving tour of New Zealand and a trek to Bhutan.

Busy served on the boards for Gwinnett Tech Foundation and the Robert Fowler YMCA. She was a Stephen Minister at Christ Church, Norcross.

Busy is survived by the love of her life, Judge Warren Davis; cherished children, Alison Bengochea and husband, Matt; Brett Belden and fiancée, Kate Lucas; Jane Yang and husband, Richard; Angela Christon; Abby Davis; Alison Sadler and husband, Adam; and Alex Davis; beloved grandchildren, James Christon, Davis Christon, Adele Sadler, Helen Sadler, Ellis Sadler, Clara Swetlik, Estela Bengochea, and Ezra Bengochea; sisters, Patti Landreth, and Peg Allen and husband, David; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, extended family and dear friends. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, www.pancan.org in her memory. 

RECOMMENDED

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: Set in London in the aftermath of World War I, this entire book covers less than 24 hours. The day begins with Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway on her way to buy flowers for a party she’s hosting that evening. Later, Clarissa’s old beau arrives unexpectedly and they examine their memories as well as their current emotions. Then a stranger with PTSD turns up wanting to kill himself and we hear about his troubled thoughts. More characters and memories show up, as well. Written in a stream of consciousness style, this story has no plot. It’s primarily psychological. Time flows between the present and past and we learn what people really think about each other. We also know how much the memories of their pasts influence their present moments. Basically, the reader travels around London inside people’s heads. I gave it a thumbs down at first, but it eventually grew on me.

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GEORGIA TIDBIT

Get out and visit Georgia’s Seven Natural Wonders

(Editor’s note: We’ve published this before, but since we are now in summer, it’s a good time to consider making a trek to the Seven Natural Wonders of the State of Georgia. Go and enjoy these features of the state.–eeb)

The Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia are the most physically spectacular or unusual sites in the state. These landscape formations resulted from powerful forces of nature during geologic time—probably more than 60,000,000 years ago—and, with the exception of Providence Canyon, predate human activity in Georgia.

Tallulah Gorge

The first list of natural wonders was compiled by the state librarian, Ella May Thornton, in response to an inquiry by a journalist. Her list, which appeared in the Atlanta Georgian magazine on December 26, 1926, included Stone MountainOkefenokee Swamp, Amicalola Falls, Tallulah GorgeWarm Springs, Jekyll Island Forest on Jekyll Island, and the marble vein in Longswamp Valley in Pickens County.

 Thornton acknowledged that some items on her list were arguable and “there are a number of others of equal rank.” Two that she selected and that the Atlanta Georgian described—Jekyll Island Forest (“wild life flourishes there almost as it did before the white men came”) and marble deposits in Pickens County (“the largest single vein of marble known to the world”)—have not made recent lists.

Two later lists of Georgia’s natural wonders appeared in Georgia Voyager magazine in 1997 and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. This collection describes the generally recognized Seven Natural Wonders of the state.

The list from 2001 includes:

  1. Amicalola Falls
  2. Okefenokee Swamp
  3. Providence Canyon
  4. Radium Springs
  5. Stone Mountain
  6. Tallulah Gorge 
  7. Warm Springs

MYSTERY PHOTO

What can you find out about this painting?

Today’s Mystery Photo is something different, a painting, and some of you may recognize the artist. What we want to tease you with is what this painting reflects, and where the depiction is located. Add bonus points if you can tell us where this painting is hanging, and something about the artist. 

Several people were able to spot the recent mystery, the Cape Meares State Park lighthouse, near Tillamook, Oregon. The photo came from  Rick Krause of Lilburn.

Among those recognizing the photo were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Michelle Scott, Covington; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex., who wrote: “Since Cape Meares is 249-feet above sea level, the lighthouse itself did not need to be very tall. In fact, at only 38-feet high, it is the shortest lighthouse along the Oregon coastline. So while the lighthouse was “short in stature”, it was certainly “long in reach” as the light beam could be seen as far as 21-miles away!”

SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers and send it along (but  make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)  Send to:  elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission.  Thanks.

LAGNIAPPE

Loggerhead sea turtles are beginning their nesting season

Loggerhead sea turtles are most visible during the nesting season, which begins in early June and lasts through the end of July on the Georgia coast. The hatch often occurs in August. This photo of a turtle about to lay her eggs is from William Hicks of St. Simons Island, who took this photo on Jekyll Island.

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island is the Number One go-to spot to educate yourself on what is perhaps considered the most iconic animal in the Golden Isles. Learn about the journey the sea turtle takes when venturing out to sea and view gallery exhibits focusing on the sea turtle.

CALENDAR

Author See coming to Norcross on July 8 

Meet Author Lisa See on Saturday, July 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Norcross Cultural and Arts Center. Enjoy an evening with this best selling author. Here’s the link to get the Lisa See tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gwinnett-county-public-library-presents-an-evening-with-author-lisa-see-tickets-629488155017

Meet Children’s Authors Kahran and Regis Bethencourt on Saturday, July 15, at 11 a.m. at the Duluth Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. They are the founders of CreativeSoul Photography. They will be talking about their new book Crowned, which encourages the imagination of young children. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Writers’ Workshop with the Atlanta Writers Club will be held Saturday, July 15, at 12:45 p.m. at the Duluth Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Learn more about writing, network with other writers, and listen to accomplished authors.  Atlanta Writers Club officers Kim Conrey and Patrick Scullin will present “Marketing for Writers.” 

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