GwinnettForum | Number 25.61 | August 8, 2025
MULES WERE ROUTINELY USED back in the 1934-35 era when the Snellville Consolidated School building got an addition. For years, those living in Snellville could hear its school bell ringing throughout the day. For a story on that bell, see Another View below. (Photo from Vanishing Gwinnett, Volume II.)
TODAY’S FOCUS: Shopping trip brings worry about our country
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Cities allow citizen comment at various times
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
ANOTHER VIEW: Old Snellville Consolidated School bell finds new home
FEEDBACK: Another business practice you seldom hear about
UPCOMING: GGC readying the stage for arrival of students
NOTABLE: Norcross drops ethics complaint against mayor
OBITUARY: Bob Baroni
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta native Amos becomes well known artist
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where in the world is this cathedral located?
CALENDAR: Smart Money for Parents workshop plans three sessions
Shopping trip brings worry about our country
By Norman Baggs
SUGAR HILL, Ga. | Made a quick trip to Walgreens yesterday. Certainly nothing out of the routine as it’s a regular on the “need-to-go” list.
Awaiting my turn to check out, I noticed the Hispanic lady in front of me. Her transaction seemed very routine, as though she had done it hundreds of times before. She interacted with the cashier in a friendly manner, presented a coupon for the two 8-packs of Gatorade she bought with other items, and paid for her purchase with cash, like I would do a few minutes later.
As the mind will do, I idly wondered if maybe she had teenagers at home, or perhaps a husband working in construction. Somebody in need of lots of rehydration at least.
Just another day in the life of modern suburbia.
Until I checked out and walked into the 95-degree heat of Georgia summer radiating up from hot asphalt, and the thought hit me: by tomorrow, that lady could be housed in the sweltering tent city called Alligator Alcatraz.
You would like to think such a future would only be likely if she were in the country illegally, but that’s not necessarily true, as there have been many reports of documented immigrants and American citizens taken in by the zealots of ICE as they work to satisfy the hunger for deportation that drives some in Washington.
Photos of the temporary tent city that is Alligator Alcatraz are reminiscent of nothing so much as the chain-link cages in which animals are kept at rescue shelters. Given its location in the swamps of Florida, it isn’t hard to imagine the heat, the bugs, the odors, the foul plumbing and inadequate facilities that beleaguer those housed there.
Initially, the idea was that only those accused of criminal activity would be sent to the swampy confines. But since we’ve learned many — credible reports suggest most — are guilty only of entering the country illegally and no other crimes. And some not even of that.
As a nation we have historically condemned concentration camps, gulags, “re-education” prisons and a host of other penal abuses of mankind in various countries. And yet here we are.
I think it’s a good thing that we’ve slowed the flow of those coming into the country illegally at the border. Yet we have lost our minds on the issue of deportation, willingly destroying families and individuals in a willy-nilly fashion regardless of the lives they’ve lived or contributions they’ve made to our society.
Three of our grandchildren, all born here to an American mother, have Mexican fathers. Will they one day be sent packing to a foreign country in which they’ve never lived? Are Hispanic features, or a Hispanic name, enough to have them wrangled to the ground by an anonymous mask-wearing agent of the federal government and shipped off to a tent-town protected by dangerous reptiles?
Are we really that heartless and inhumane?
I don’t know the solutions to the problems that Washington never seems capable of solving. But I do know that a nation that claims to have been founded on the principles of Christianity, proclaims itself as a leader of the world, and professes to love freedom and justice, is doing an incredibly bad job of living up to expectations.
And a trip to buy Zyrtec shouldn’t leave you wondering about the very soul of the country you love, or the people who live in it.
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Cities’ citizen comment comes at various times
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG. 8, 2025 | Have you ever appeared before your city council to make a public comment? Some citizens feel the need to go on record about matters within their city. In some Gwinnett towns, it’s easier than others, because of when the city allows such public comment.
Let’s face it: much of the machinations before our councils are required by law, some of it is long-winded, and often it is boring. But our cities must go through these maneuvers to keep matters legal and operational.
Some cities allow “consent agendas,” to move along routine, non-controversial matters that require city action. That helps. But ever so often meetings go on and on.
We wondered how the different Gwinnett cities handled public comment. We contacted the city clerks, who keep the city minutes and know what is going on, and asked each: “When do you allow public comment?”
Here’s are the responses of the city clerks:
- Brook Haney, Auburn: “After staff report, or at end of meeting. Must fill out a form on the subject before they speak, and item must be on the agenda.”
- Leigh Threadgill, Berkeley Lake: “End of agenda.”
- Robyn O’Donnell: Suwanee: “Audience participation happens mid-way through our agenda – after all public hearings, announcements, approval of the agenda, approval of minutes, and Council recognition – and prior to New Business.”
- Kim Wolfe, Buford: “At end of agenda.”
- Chandler-Faith Pitts, Mulberry: “Early on after we vote on minutes from the prior meeting and before first / second reads and action items.”
- Monique Philip, Norcross; ‘Usually at the beginning.”
- Robbie Schwartz, Loganville: “Loganville allows public comment at the end of our work session and during public hearings on zoning cases. Public comment is not allowed at our regular council meetings unless it has been combined with the work session.”
- Teresa Lynn, Duluth: “In the beginning.”
- Kyn Chereck, Peachtree Corners: “Public comment takes place towards the beginning of the Council meeting.”
- Melisa Arnold, Snellville: “We do it at the end.”
- Karen Pierce: Lawrenceville: “Near the beginning of the agenda.”
- Jennifer Scott, Braselton: “Beginning.”
- Jane Whittington, Sugar Hill: “Before the agenda.”
- Heydi Ortiz, Grayson: “At beginning of meeting.”
- Brittany Nix, Dacula: “At end of meeting.”
- Anja Peay, Lilburn: “There is no public comment for each meeting.”
Wow! Such variance! Eight cities allow public comment near the start of the council sessions, six do it at the end of the meeting, one does mid-way, and one doesn’t allow public comment at all!
Naturally, we asked Lilburn Mayor Johnny Crist why no citizen input during regular Council sessions. His response: “I have a regular town hall meeting the week after council meetings. Anybody who has any issue comes to that, and if I can’t solve it, then we get them immediately to the staff member who can solve that issue for them, or then we bring it to the council. We’ve never had a complaint in my years as mayor. We want to solve it personally to satisfy our citizens.”
Certainly, Lilburn’s method is going the extra mile to listen to its citizens.
Is there a perfect way? Who can tell? For me, I would prefer the public comment to be at the start of the meeting, so citizens can state their business directly to the council, and not have to stay until toward the end of the meeting.
But mainly: people should have easy access to speak their piece to the council when they want, and Gwinnett councils do that!
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Old Snellville Consolidated School bell finds new home
(Editor’s note: The following story first appeared in the August edition of the Snellville History Society. The author is now retired in Alabama, and has recently completed the writing “200 Years of Snellville History.”—eeb)
By James W. Cofer, Jr.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. | During the first half of the 20th century, in Snellville the old school bell could be heard all over town as it signaled teachers and students at Consolidated School when it was time to start/end school, begin/end classes, and recesses. The large bell was housed in a covered, weathered, wooden tower about 15 feet above ground. The tower stood by a massive coal pile that fed the school’s many pot-bellied stoves, which kept the classrooms warm in winter. It is not known for sure exactly when the bell tower was installed but it likely was when the school was built in 1922.
During this author’s student days (1951-1959), the bell was rung by tugging on a rope that led from the tower to a window in the original auditorium. The principal pulled on the rope at the prescribed time.
Snellville Historian Tom Ewing recalls a humorous bell event. It was well understood by all that nobody but the principal, Bill Britt, was to ring the bell. Local jokester, Hugh Snell, saw Britt’s young son, Clarkie, walking down the hall and told him a big fib.
“Hey, Little Bill, your father is looking for you.” Young Clarkie asks: “What does he want?” “He wants you to ring the bell” Snell responds. Without hesitation, Clarkie climbs up into a chair, grabs the rope, and begins ringing the bell for the whole school to hear. Snell quickly disappears just as Big Bill strides into the room to see who is ringing his bell. That day, more than one lesson was learned by Clarkie.
The old Rock School was torn down in 1974; the bell mysteriously disappeared and was assumed lost forever. Then in 2013, Dan Leclair, son-in-law of auto mechanic Windall Martin, came forward with the bell, which had been stored in a family barn for years. No questions were asked. Windall operated a service station and auto repair garage about a half mile from the school. His garage had a wrecker, which could have facilitated transport. Supposedly, he took it down as the building was being dismantled. Snellville owes Windall a debt of gratitude for preserving this historic relic.
The Snellville Historical Society and the Snellville Alumni Association raised $13,000 to build a new tower with granite marker in 2014 and installed the bell on the U.S. Highway 78 property of the Snellville United Methodist Church (now Snellville Community Church). Architect Chad Smith designed the tower structure, and the Yonah Mountain Timber Builders built the structure, complete with an illuminating floodlight.
In 2025, the Church sold the property housing the bell, and it needed a new home. The Snell family, for which the city is named, graciously offered to move and provide a permanent home for the bell tower, granite marker, and a stone bench (that was once part of the school steps) to the E. R. Snell homeplace on North Road, where the Snellville Historical Society is located.
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Another business practice that you seldom hear about
Editor, the Forum:
Here’s a companion note to your column about the piano tuner you mentioned in the GwinnettForum on August 5.
There’s a good friend who was a work colleague for several years. His dad was a home builder and he told me that when building a home, he would give the buyer an estimate of what the house would cost. When the building was finished, if the cost was less than what he had estimated, he then gave the new home owner a rebate. He explained the cost was not as great as he had expected.
Not many folks would do that.
– John Titus, Peachtree Corners
Prefers daytime for public meetings on county tax rate
Editor, the Forum:
Our Gwinnett commissioners are considering keeping millage the same for the coming years.
How convenient for the commissioners to host two of the three meetings during the day when the vast majority of us are at work! Yes, I know there is a third meeting in the evening, but come on, commissioners, put in a little overtime and have all of them in the evening.
– Tim Sullivan, Mulberry
Raleigh: use DuckDuckGo for browser and get privacy
Editor, the Forum:
In reference to Raleigh Perry’s comments about Google’s invasive targeting, I’d suggest he change from Google to DuckDuckGo. They block tracking apps immediately. The amount of junk I’ve received dropped drastically as soon as I changed to DuckDuckGo. I use it on both my laptop and my phone.
– Fran Stewart, Lawrenceville
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Georgia Gwinnett College readying the stage for fall
As Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) prepares to welcome students back for the fall semester, the campus is buzzing with activity.
Ed Dyal, assistant director of campus logistics, says: “With fewer students on campus during the summer, it’s a great time for us to inspect all the classrooms, from cleaning to making sure the equipment is in good working order. That also includes making sure our furniture is in good shape, and the landscaping throughout the campus is pristine. We have a high standard when it comes to making that good first impression.”
In the classrooms and labs, faculty are busy preparing materials. For Morgan Southerland, lab supervisor, that means getting science labs ready.
“This is our time to reset the labs, including anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, biology and microbiology,” she says. “This fall, we’ll have up to 60 labs ready for classes. It’s a lot of work, and thanks to help from our student lab assistants, we’ll be ready. These students assist with things like solution prep, stocking supply carts, setting up lab tables and preparing bacterial cultures and making sure lab coats are restocked.”
Haley Sharpton, a senior biology major, likes the hands-on experience she is gaining by working in the lab.“Biology is great because you can go into so many different aspects,” she says. “I want to become a medical science liaison, work in a hospital or lab setting and study genetics.”
For Lynn Ashton, a junior biology major, working in the lab means doing what she loves. “I took a research biology class and fell in love with it. I want to earn my PhD in microbiology and focus on antibiotic resistance.”
While biology isn’t her focus, Andrea Bake, a junior nursing major, says the experience will help her in her career. “This experience is helping me be more familiar with set-up. I want to be a nurse in the NICU or labor and delivery.”
For the nearly 1,000 students that will be moving into GGC’s residence halls, planning is key to ensuring that they feel welcomed and connected. Ricky Clark, director of student housing, finds: “The suites are in tip-top shape and we’re putting the finishing touches on the activities we’ll be offering to our residents. We want them to have a great living and learning experience. There’s a lot of excitement building up. Our RAs (resident assistants) are in training to welcome our new and returning Grizzlies. This is where greatness lives!”
Another important element of campus life? Food.
Victoria Hanson, director of auxiliary service, is ready: “We are preparing our six unique on campus dining venues, each offering a variety of options for students, faculty and staff. We’re also gearing up for the numerous special events on campus.”
Along with dining, Hanson’s team is also getting the GGC Bookstore ready. “We have books arriving daily so we’re getting them ready for students to pick up. We make it as quick and convenient as possible. Students can go to the bookstore’s second floor concierge and pick up their books.”
Even with all the activity on campus, something special like a birthday doesn’t go unnoticed.
“We celebrate everyone’s birthday in a special way, Hanson smiles and says: “Any GGC student, faculty or staff can stop by the dining hall to pick up a free cupcake.”
Nickie is new chair of Gwinnett Impact Board
Rachael Nickie as the new chair of the Gwinnett Impact Board of the United Way of Atlanta. A long-time board member and advocate for community development and equity, Ms. Nickie is outreach manager of the Gwinnett County Police Department. She replaces Wayne D. Ellison of Hoschton, who has completed two impactful terms as chair.
The Gwinnett Impact Board guides United Way’s investments and strategies in the county, where the organization has helped drive measurable improvements in child well-being, education, and economic mobility. Through collaborative partnerships and targeted initiatives, United Way continues to address the root causes of inequity and build stronger, more resilient communities. Together with local partners in Gwinnett, last year United Way helped over 358,000 people:
- 171,700 people secure housing and basic needs;
- 176,933 children receive early learning assistance;
- 7,693 students with college and career support; and
- 1,894 people access financial counseling, job training and placement.
Ms. Nickie moved to Gwinnett nine years ago from Tampa, Fla. She is a 2018 graduate of Leadership Gwinnett and is member of the Rotary Club of Sugarloaf; serves on the boards of United Way of Greater Atlanta in Gwinnett, is an ambassador on the Gwinnett County Public School’s Superintendent’s Leadership Council and mentor in GCPS’s Community Mentoring Program.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in public administration from Baruch College as a National Urban Fellow. Born in St. Vincent, in the Grenadines, she grew up in Miami, Fla. She lives in Lawrenceville with her two daughters. She enjoys live music, water sports, and traveling abroad.
Norcross drops ethics complaint against mayor
Mayor Craig Newton of Norcross has been exonerated of all matters concerning an ethics charge against him. Norcross City Council voted 5-0 on Monday to drop the investigation. The ethics complaint was filed by former Mayor Bucky Johnson on March 4, 2025.
On May 5, the City Council authorized the initiation of an investigation through the appointment of a Special Commissioned Investigator involving financial transactions by the mayor. The special master making the investigation, Attorney Jim Elliott of Butler Snow of Macon, notified the Council after completing the investigation.
The special master’s investigation on the matter was first opened by the Council at a special called meeting on August 4, where Elliott wrote, in part, “I find no evidence that Mayor (Newton) improperly inappropriately retained city funds for his personal use.”
Bob Baroni
Bob Baroni, former city manager of Lawrenceville, died Monday.
While the obituary is incomplete, funeral services will be Saturday, Aug. 9, at 1 p.m. at Tim Sewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road in Loganville. Visitation is Aug. 9 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Atlanta native Amos becomes well-known artist
An artist accomplished in several media, Atlanta native Emma Amos explored difficult issues concerning politics, gender, race, and cultural history in her work. Her highly expressive visual art combined printmaking, painting, and textiles with photography and collage. She was also known as a teacher, curator, writer, and activist.
Amos designed a glass mosaic bench, bronze chair, and gazebo with mosaics and plantings, situated on three large ovals, as part of the Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Plaza in Atlanta.
Amos was born on March 16, 1938, in Atlanta to India DeLaine Amos and Miles Green Amos. In Atlanta, where her family has lived for generations, she grew up in the rich cultural environment surrounding the middle-class African Americans of the city.
Even as a young child, Amos knew that she would be an artist. In 1954, at the age of 16, Amos left Atlanta to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she majored in art and took courses in weaving. She was awarded a diploma in 1960.
Amos spent a year in Atlanta, where the New Arts Gallery held the first solo exhibition of her prints in 1960. She then relocated to New York City, which she called home for the better part of the next six decades. In New York she embarked upon a career as a textile designer with noted designer Dorothy Liebes, and studied etching with Letterio Calapai at Atelier 17 in Greenwich Village and lithography with Bob Blackburn at his Printmaking Workshop. She also attended New York University and received a master’s degree in 1966.
After a five-year courtship, she and Robert Levine married in 1965. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Amos curtailed her activities while the couple’s two children, India and Nicholas, were young. She taught weaving in Greenwich Village and at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art in New Jersey.
In 1980 Amos began teaching at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she was a professor until she retired in 2008.
Amos’s technique reflected her diverse training and contained distinctive features. Multihued figures that populate many of her images are often seen in motion, floating, falling, and extending beyond the picture plane. Textiles are used to add color and texture. Woven fabric, either African textiles or her own weaving, borders her work and is meant as an anchor and a point of context and connection. Powerful symbols proliferate—Xs, handprints, eyes, and flags vary in placement and meaning.
Amos died on May 20, 2020, of natural causes, after a prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Where in the world is this cathedral located?
Check out this magnificant cathedral. Your job is to locate where it sits, and this might be a difficult one. When you have figured it out, send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com and list your hometown.
Only one person was able to identify the last mystery. It was the reliable Georg Graf of Palmyra, Va., who recognized the Bay of Fundy area of New Brunswick, Canada, in this old photo. Several others suggested sites in Maine. The photo came from Rick Krause of Lilburn.
George sent along a photo from Google street views looking out from the New Brunswick Route 1 bridge at Digdeguash which is on the Digdeguash River which flows into the Passamaquoddy Bay which is an inlet from the Bay of Fundy. He said: “The low tide photo in your mystery told me almost immediately that it was from the famous Bay of Fundy area.”
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Smart Money for Parents workshop plans three sessions
Jazz in the Alley in Norcross, Saturday, August 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Betty Mauldin Park. Playing will be Mabu’s Ark Band, led by Brad Young. With a smooth mix of jazz, soul and reggae, their feel-good sound is a whole vibe—to get you swaying, smiling and maybe even dancing under the stars. Let the rhythm carry you away. It’s the kind of summer night that makes your soul sing.
Smart Money for Parents will be the topic at the Norcross Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on August 12, 19 and 26 at 11 a.m. Learn how to budget, save, and plan for you and your children in this three-part series.
Meet Author Jacinta Howard at the Snellville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on August 13 at 7 p.m. She discusses her romance novel, When Forty Blooms. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Understanding lobbying in Georgia—A Candid Conversation—-will be the subject of the August 14 meeting of the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will be at the Hilton Hotel Northeast in Peachtree Corners at 11:30 a.m. Panelists will include Lewis Massey, Hunter Loggins, Jamie Lord and Jet Toney. The moderator will be Dale Russell (Cannot accept walk-ups.) This panel is designed to be engaging, accessible, and informative for voters, business leaders, nonprofit professionals, and anyone curious about how government really works. You are invited to attend, ask questions, and walk away with a deeper understanding of one of the most influential aspects of public policy. “Registration is necessary.”
Grow Your Business: Lunch & Learn with Reference Solutions. Learn how to use the U.S. Business and Consumer Modules to target specific groups of businesses or individuals who may most likely be interested in your products or services. This will take place on August 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the Duluth Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library.
Join author Lo Patrick as she discusses her newest Southern mystery, Fast Boys and Pretty Girls. Books will be available for purchase and signing. This will be at the Duluth Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on August 16 at 5 p.m.
Are you a corporate professional dreaming of leaving the 9-to-5 hustle to become your own boss? Attend a workshop, “Your corporate escape plan” on August 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library. This workshop provides a clear and actionable roadmap to help you confidently transition to self-employment.
Join for a lively conversation with Leigh Dunlap, screenwriter-turned-novelist, as she discusses her debut Southern thriller novel, Bless Your Heart. She will be appearing at the Duluth Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on August 20 at 6:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Churches in Jane Austin’s Northanger Abbey: Join author Brenda S. Cox for a visual and historical journey through the churches that shaped Jane Austen’s life and novels. Books will be available for purchase and signing. This part of the Gwinnett Reads Jane Austin will be at the Lilburn Branch of Gwinnett County Public Library on August 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Meet Sissy Goff and David Thomas, nationally recognized speakers, bestselling authors, and co-hosts of the popular Raising Boys and Girls podcast, on Friday, August 22 at 9 a.m. at Greater Atlanta Christian School, 1575 Indian Trail Road, Norcross. The event is free and open to the public with registration link: here.
Volunteers needed: Looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for the September 24 British Car Fayre in downtown Norcross. Time: between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. If interested, send an email to: Bill Aguilar at: wcac04@yahoo.com. Include your name, email and cell number.
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