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4B Weekend Edition - July 18-19, 2020 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com LOCA^STATE Forsyth couple opens dream bagel shop during pandemic BEN HENDREN I Forsyth County News Forsyth County residents Gary and Cathy Trentacosta recently opened The Bagel Hole, a bagel shop on Peachtree Parkway. BY SABRINA KERNS Forsyth County News CUMMING — Gary Trenta costa has dreamt of opening up his own bagel shop with his wife, Cathy, for years, but after having kids and other life events pop ping up, the idea has always been pushed to the backburner. Eventually, however, Gary retired after working for more than 30 years in the food indus try. After only three weeks of not working, Cathy Trentacosta said that he simply could not take it anymore. “He came to me and he said, ‘What do you think about if we just do it now? Just open the bagel business now because this is what I’ve always wanted to do,’” Tren tacosta said. “And I just looked at him and I said let’s go for it.” With their New Jersey roots and experience in the food industry, they were both confident that their little bagel shop would find suc cess in Forsyth County, and so they started planning for The Bagel Hole, a shop that they opened on Monday, June 22, on Peachtree Parkway in Cumming. Cathy said that they are excited to open and start seeing custom ers. The shop has a large menu, which customers can browse even on their website, and she said that all of the shop’s baked goods such as bagels and pastries will be made fresh each and every morning before the shop opens. All of the recipes listed on the menu were also created by Cathy herself. They have also been test bak ing their specialty bagel krisps for the past six months, giving them out to others for feedback and flavor recommendations. Cathy said that they are just like regular bagel chips, but they named their bagel krisps after their daughter, Kristen. She said that Kristen was diag nosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma twice at a young age, and now they want to donate a portion of their sales made off of the bagel krisps to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society “as our way of giving back,” Cathy said. Now that they are open, the shop is serving their bagel krisps along with sandwiches, pastries, coffees, bagel holes and what they hope is their soon-to-be-famous bigger baker’s dozen — which includes 14 bagels. The Forsyth County couple has been planning for the Bagel Hole’s opening since they first signed their lease in October. Cathy said that they had planned to open in January, but they ended up run ning into issues with finding an architect. Then, they had to go through several county inspections and were planning to open soon. “And what happens right before that?” she said. “A pandemic.” She said watching restaurants closing all around them while try ing to open their own left them scratching their heads. They were unsure of what to do, but they kept on with their plans. Now, they have measures in place to keep their employees and customers safe. They have sanitizer and wipes available for employees and customers, every thing is being wiped down regu larly to make sure all areas of the shop are clean, employees are washing and sanitizing their hands as soon as they come into work, and they have added outside seat ing to encourage social distancing. The shop is also offering online ordering and curbside pickup via their website. Cathy said she’s optimistic about the shop’s future since many typically do pick-up orders from bagel shops anyway. “It’s always a little scary ven turing out on an endeavor of your own like a restaurant, especially during a health crisis,” Cathy said. “We’re just hopeful that we are supported by the community as a small business.” Cathy said that her and her husband both are hopeful for the future of the business, though. “I think things are a bit more relaxed in terms of more people are going out with the precautions and stuff, but I think people are just — they’re putting their toes in the water now, and so we’re going to be happy to be there for them,” Trentacosta said. Rev. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95 CAMERAS BY DESIREE SEALS AND MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA - The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for jus tice and equality, died Fri day at the age of 95. Vivian began staging sit- ins against segregation in Peoria, Illinois, in the 1940s — a dozen years before lunch-counter protests by college students made national news. He met King soon after the budding civil rights leader’s leadership of the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, and helped translate ideas into action by organizing the Freedom Rides that forced federal intervention across the South. Vivian boldly chal lenged a segregationist sheriff while trying to register Black voters in Selma, Alabama, where hundreds, then thousands, later marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. “You can turn your back now and you can keep your club in your hand, but you cannot beat down justice. And we will register to vote because as citizens of these United States we have the right to do it,” Vivian declared, wagging his index finger at Sheriff Jim Clark as the cameras rolled. The sheriff then punched him, and news coverage of the assault helped turned a local registration drive into a national phenomenon. Barack Obama, who hon ored Vivian with the Presi dential Medal of Freedom in 2013, tweeted Friday that “he was always one of the first in the action — a Freedom Rider, a marcher in Selma, beaten, jailed, almost killed, absorbing blows in hopes that fewer of us would have to.” “He waged nonviolent campaigns for integration across the south, and cam paigns for economic jus tice throughout the north, knowing that even after the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act that he helped win, our long journey to equality was nowhere near finished,” Obama wrote. Among many other trib utes, The King Center in Atlanta tweeted: “Rev. C.T. Vivian. Courageous. Bril liant. Sacrificial. A power fully well-lived life that lifted humanity. We will miss you.” And the Rev. A1 Sharpton, who heads the National Action Network, tweeted that Vivian “made this nation and world a better place. ... RIP, my friend.” Speaking with students in Tennessee 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, Vivian urged them to act strategi cally as they advocated for justice and equality. The LAV0NDIA MAJORS I Associated Press In this Jan. 2007 photo, C.T. Vivian uses an intercom with Rev. James Lawson on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to discuss the experiences they encountered in 1961 as Freedom Riders, a group of college students who defied segregation on interstate buses across the American South. civil rights movement was effective not only because of its nonviolence, but because activists made sure their messages were ampli fied, he said. “This is what made the movement: Our voice was really heard. But it didn’t happen by accident; we made certain it was heard,” Vivian said. Cordy Tindell Vivian was born July 28, 1924, in Howard County, Missouri, but moved to Macomb, Illi nois, with his mother as a young boy. He studied the ology alongside future civil rights leader and U.S. Con gressman John Lewis at the American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee, where they trained waves of activists in nonviolent protest. King made Vivian his national director of affili ates at the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference and sent him around the South to register voters, an effort that brought Vivian to Selma in 1965. Stand ing on the Dallas County courthouse steps as a line of Black people stretched down the block behind him, he argued for their voting rights until Clark’s punch knocked him flat. Vivian stood back up and kept talking before he was stitched up and jailed, and his mistreatment helped draw thousands of protest ers, whose determination to march from Selma to Mont gomery pressured Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act later that year. Vivian continued to serve in the SCLC after King’s assassination in 1968, and became its interim president in 2012, lending renewed credibility after the organization stagnated for years. He also co founded VISION, the pre cursor to Outward Bound; the Center for Democratic Renewal; and a consult ing firm that encouraged improvements in race relations. “There must always be the understanding of what Martin had in mind for this organization,” Vivian said in a 2012 interview. “Nonviolent, direct action makes us successful. We learned how to solve social problems without violence. We cannot allow the nation or the world to ever forget that.” Vivian died at home in Atlanta of natural causes Friday morning, his friend and business partner Don Rivers confirmed to The Associated Press. ■ Continued from 1B lake, we have to purchase another camera or we have to pay for an expensive pro tection plan,” Adams said. The plan costs roughly $40 per month per officer that has a camera. Adams said the current contract DNR has with its cellphone pro vider allows for a replace ment or upgrade at no charge almost annually. The camera has to be manually turned on, though there is a remote trigger capability by the supervisor if needed, Adams said. “We have always under stood the benefits of body cameras, both from our own perspective and that of the general public,” Col. Thomas Barnard said in a news release. “It was time to upgrade the technology we used and we put it to the test right away.” The department had a chance to try out the new body camera setup while in downtown Atlanta and else where “assisting other law enforcement agencies dur ing recent protests,” accord ing to a news release. “We used the livestream- ing feature of the body cam eras to see exactly what was happening on the ground and to know where our wardens were in real time. It was a great asset to have both for public and officer safety,” Barnard said. 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