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Addressing problems Of local youth

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NF Thrive identifies elements that threaten well-being of children ►►PAGE 4

The Harp Singers sit arranged by voice range in the atrium at Alpharetta City Hall Sunday, meeting for the 148th annual June Singing.

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MILTON, Ga. — On June 7, a local phone company reported 175 cell phones and SIM cards stolen from its stockroom.

The manager said that he had received several calls from their alarm company at 1:30 a.m., but he knew that the power company had been working in that area and that the store had momentarily lost power.

When he arrived at the store at 9:30 a.m., the employees noticed that a large amount of cell phones and SIM cards

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Woman gets 10 harassing collection calls a day JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A woman reported June 2 harassing phone calls from a debt collection company about money she does not owe.

During the first call, the woman was told that she owed $590 from an account she started in 2010 when she worked at a grocery store. She has never been an employee at the store named and does not owe the amount specified. Even after the woman explained herself and told them to stop calling, the company has continued to call her.

The woman said she has been receiving at least 10 calls a day about the nonexistent debt. The company has also been repeatedly contacting her family members.

The woman has frozen her account as a precaution and is checking for fraudulent activity.

Scam can’t fool restaurant owner ROSWELL, Ga. — A restaurant owner hung up on a fraudulent call March 24 recognizing it was a scam and alerted police about the incident.

were gone from their stockroom. The inventory indicated that a total of 175 items were missing.

The manager discovered that the back door leading to the stockroom was propped open. It appeared that a pair of scissors found at the scene was used to pry the door open.

The front door had no signs of forced entry.

There was no security footage of the incident as the store’s power had been down.

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The owner had received a call from a man claiming to represent the Georgia Power Company. The man, who identified himself as “Richard,” told her that the restaurant’s power bill was $900 overdue and wanted her to pay immediately.

The owner, however, said she was familiar with the scam and hung up before Richard could give her any instructions on how to make the payment.

When she called back and asked for his employee number, Richard disconnected the call.

According to the woman, Richard had a “slight middle eastern accent.”

All crime reports published by Appen Media Group are compiled from public records. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor Appen Media Group implies any guilt by publishing these names. None of the persons listed has been convicted of the alleged crimes.

DUI arrests ►► Royce Marland Britt, 42, of

Canton, was arrested June 7 on Birmingham Highway in Milton for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Shane Michael Vadner, 28 of Westbrook Road, Milton, was arrested May 29 on Cogburn Road in Alpharetta for DUI, open container, and speeding. ►► Emily Catherine Wuetig, 26, of Brook Circle, Roswell, was arrested May 25 on Alpharetta Highway in Roswell for DUI, failure to maintain lane, and seat belt violation. ►► Rachel Christine Needham, 22, of Beaver Creek Road, Alpharetta, was arrested June 5 on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Betty L. Caceres, 44, of Caswyck Chase, Alpharetta, was arrested June 3 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI and following too close. ►► Margaret A. Nuber, 56, of Kilmington Court, Alpharetta, was arrested June 2 on Park Plaza in Alpharetta for DUI and duty upon striking an unattended vehicle. ►► June A. Ramsey, 57, of Gardner Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested June

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Participants aim to solve youth problems

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. — Community leaders and stakeholders met once again Wednesday, June 8 for the North Fulton Thrive project to discuss ways to improve the well-being of children in the county.

Through a series of meetings sponsored by the United Way of Greater Atlanta, the project’s goal is to find solutions for the major problems facing the youth of north Fulton County.

These issues range from the familial to economic. Instead of focusing on just one issue, however, Thrive aims to create a more coherent picture of their struggles.

“We as people don’t live in vacuums,” said Demetrius Jordan, senior director of regional development at United Way of Greater Atlanta and creator of the project.

Each category or challenge affects the other, he said.

The issues don’t stand alone, but rather exist in an intricate web full of overlaps. By understanding how they are interconnected, the community can better work together to help the children reach their full potential.

In Thrive’s first meeting May 27, the group analyzed the most recent data from a variety of sources. They focused on graduation rates, financial stability, health insurance and unemployment rates to measure the needs of Fulton’s children, their families and community.

Their findings give north Fulton an overall child well-being score of 81.4 out of 100. The Greater Atlanta region, in comparison, received a score of 58.9.

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From left are North Fulton Thrive leaders Monica Garrett, co-chair, Demetrius Jordan, project founder, Freda Hardage, co-chair, and DePriest Waddy, regional director of United Way of Greater Atlanta.

“The current overall child well-being score for north Fulton is good,” said Regional Director DePriest Waddy. “But we can do even better.”

Thrive grouped the data into six major problems facing the youth of Fulton County: • Unfulfilled basic needs.

• The heroine epidemic.

• Misinformation on the effects of mental and physical trauma.

• Lack of coping skills and accountability.

• A shortage of affordable housing.

• The growth of poverty.

Then the participants were challenged to dig deep into the core of these problems to find their root causes and

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then dream big to find solutions for them.

In the discussions, similar themes kept cropping up and overlapping. One of the most common concerns was a need for a stronger and more involved greater community to be part of the solution.

In their next and final meeting in June, North Fulton Thrive will create a practical plan of action. “[The project] helps us pinpoint exactly where the challenges in the community are. [Then] we can focus our resources, our collective talents, and mobilize to effectively address them,” Jordan said.

Although North Fulton Thrive draws the biggest crowd, similar meetings are taking place all across the Greater Atlanta region. From Fayette County to Cherokee County, each community has different needs and will have different plans to address them, said North Fulton Thrive co-chairwoman Freda Hardage.

“Whatever our communities do, whatever course of action we ultimately take, is going to impact our next-door neighbors,” Hardage said.

Even the counties outside of the region could potentially feel the effects of Thrive.

Jordan plans to compile all of the committee projects’ results after the third meeting and share them in September.

Thrive’s ultimate goal is to develop a course of community action to improve the lives of all children.

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Roswell settles suit allowing high-density development

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. -- Two members held their noses, then voted “aye.”

Even the councilman who made the motion couldn’t bring himself to vote for it.

In the end, though, the Roswell City Council Monday night approved a residential development of 31 homes on seven acres near Holcomb Bridge and Old Scott roads. The measure, which passed 4-2, puts to rest a six-month legal battle over a high-density project that has drawn a large share of resident interest.

The developer, Traton Homes, hadoriginally sought to build a 52-unittownhouse at the site. But residentsand city planners objected to allowing a high-density development on land that is zoned agricultural-residential andcivic. Negotiations dragged on through the fall and the developer altered plans to call for 33 single-family homes on small lots at the site.

That proposal was voted down by the city council Dec. 14, and the city was slapped with a suit.

Since then, no city in North Fulton has dedicated more time and effort into

pushing for stricter codes on residential density. The city council has held regular work sessions to revise its Unified Development Code, hashing out new limits on where high-density residential can be built and the minimum size of each lot.

So it was with some irony that the spearhead of that effort, Councilman Michael Palermo, made the motion Monday to allow the zoning changes for the new development. It took him

nearly a minute to have his motion seconded.

Palermo said he thinks the public is losing out because a portion of the property had been zoned for civic use.

He followed up by casting one of the two dissenting votes on his own motion.

Nobody on the council expressed elation.

Mayor Jere Wood said the city had little choice because it stood a good chance of losing the suit and ending up

with more than 50 townhomes on the property. Without tipping his hand too much, City Attorney David Davidson said there certainly was a chance the city could lose the suit.

“My concern is, given the location of this property, there is a high probability of an unsuccessful result,” Wood said.

“There is always a possibility of success, but … I am not optimistic at all we’d have a positive outcome.”

Wood continued: “If we litigate this, there’s a high probability that we would not do as well as with the settlement.

There would also be the probability of the costs of the litigation and the potential for damages.”

As part of the settlement, the city did allow for some variances to the size of each property as a means of increasing the buffer between the new development and surrounding properties.

Resident Jason Sabatino, who lives near the property, said he and other neighbors had been involved in negotiating with the developer from the start, trying to find a way to increase lot sizes for the site. He said there were few concessions.

The current settlement, he said, was about as good an outcome as could be expected.

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TALES FROM THE TRAIL:

What did you do to prepare for the AT? When I asked that to Kimberly, who works at Alpharetta Outfitters and who hiked as a young woman the entire trail by herself in 2015, she was silent for a minute with a RAY APPEN blank stare on her Publisher, AT Hiker ray@appenmediagroup.com face and finally said simply, «You can›t.

You just have to do it.»

I was not sure exactly what she meant then, and now after the first 700 or 800 miles of walking the Trail upand-down these mountains, sleeping on the ground in a tent carrying all my worldly possessions in a backpack, including my food and water, I’m still not sure what Kimberly was trying to say, but I do have an idea. And, if you were to ask her today the same question you probably would still get that same look -- the same one you probably would get from me as well.

Not a lot about walking these 2,000 miles makes a lot of sense in the way we are used to validating, measuring, or justifying the world around us off the trail. The rational is not linear. It is nowhere near the right brain sector -- or is it left? And you cannot use it as collateral for a loan with the bank and you cannot cash it in and buy a car.

The logic is as ephemeral and mysterious as the smile in the Mona Lisa, or the haunting melody of the Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes,” or as driven as Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”

The trail is as unique and rare as Bob Beamon’s monstrous 29-foot Leap in Mexico City or Mary T. Meagher’s almost permanent destruction of the 200- and 100-meter butterfly world records in a single day --records that defied all challenge for over 20 years.

Maybe if you asked me “What was it like walking the AT?” instead of “how to prepare for it” I could give you a better answer.

I would probably say something like “It is like walking into C.S. Lewis’ wardrobe and coming out on the other

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side,” and that would be about as close as I would be able to get. Only, with the Trail, I am not sure one ever returns completely from the other side of the wardrobe.

So what did I do to prepare for it? Let me give it a try.

I read to my children every night beginning when they were infants. We read about a velveteen rabbit, little princes, warriors, hobbits, goblins, kings, and about sleeping beauties, good and evil.

We›d listen to music every night after we finished reading. I would be on the floor next to

You cannot just decide to break monstrous sports records or create songs that pull the souls from listeners’ bodies with abandon or move them to tears or unabated joy. You just do it.

their crib and we would usually both fall asleep before the end of the first song which usually would be Linda Ronstadt›s «Good Night.»

We put puzzles together and we built sand castle›s with droplets of seawater mixed with sand and we tried to build impregnable forts of sand capable of defying an incoming tide.

We would camp out at night at the beach and play trenches in the sand dunes, net minnows out of the surf, and dive into the near translucent seawater to find whelks, sand dollars, and starfish. Sometimes we would even find tiny seahorses to our wonder and our delight!

We read at night, played cards and engaged in ferocious battles on Risk and chess boards.

When Harry Potter started coming out we would sit in chairs without moving for what seems like a eternity, each with their own book; each on their own journey with Harry; and in silence and in complete sync with the moment

at hand.

I prepared for my hike the same way we would all prepare for it -- by believing in stories, and legends, and good magic and bad -- the stuff of which childhood is composed and nurtured.

We all start out the same way with the same sensibilities and just like the little prince was able to do, we all knew without a thought or thinking how to draw an elephant and we all could walk into the back of the wardrobe into a world that did not resemble the one we grew to know as adults -- before we lost our ability to see, feel, and understand what was real and what was really important.

You, Kimberly, were quite right I believe. One cannot prepare to walk the Trail because all of your life prior is your preparation. The Trail does not have expectations and is the great equalizer for all those who walk it. It does not judge. It does not really have any requirements other than one›s ability to wonder and be amazed and be awed by each moment of the walk. You cannot practice experiencing grace or beauty or wonder. You can only receive it when it is there and embrace the moment and those that follow with wonder and with love.

You cannot just decide to break monstrous sports records or create songs that pull the souls from listeners’ bodies with abandon or move them to tears or unabated joy. You just do it.

As a child every day you embraced the wonders and miracles of each day until age begins to take it›s toll and clouds parts of your vision and baffles the words and sounds of life that were all natural before and that you heard and saw without effort.

The trail gives back possibilities -possibilities of the moment --glimpses of grace and color, and silence, and effort, and all possibilities, and nothing you can do prepares you to receive those opportunities any better or any worse. You just have to do it as Kimberly said and try to remember those stories, the sandcastles, and the heroes and the magic of the moment which you once took for granted as the only reality within your world.

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Muhammad Ali: Agent for change who did it his way Cassius Clay burst on the scene like an exploding rocket. He shocked white America and made one little redneck kid look hard at the way America was changing in the 1960s.

HATCHER HURD I was the little Executive Editor hatcher@appenmediagroup.com redneck growing up in Georgia but not quite a Georgia cracker. I was born in Texas and until the age of 8 lived in Fort Worth, Texas. Now that was not exactly the heartland of liberalism, but until I moved to a small town in Georgia, I never really had to confront race and racism.

In Georgia, as a third grader it hit me like a bucket of cold water. There was no such thing as the N-word then.

In my family – and that included aunts, uncles and cousins – I don’t remember hearing it. It wasn’t considered polite conversation. But it was more a matter of grammar than social conscience.

However this was the 1960s and social change was only just beginning to break the vise-like grip of Jim Crow laws. I would be a sophomore in high school before the first black students – just a handful then – showed up in our lily white midst.

While all that was happening, here was Cassius Clay, a brash boxer with Olympic Gold who was gaining headlines with his mouth. Soon he would back up everything he said and more – in the ring and out.

Looking back, I can’t really say what I thought about him. It was so startling to see any athlete, much less a black athlete, say outrageous things. Soon, the civil rights movement would be saying “black is beautiful.”

But long before that, this brash boxer was saying, “I’m black and I’m pretty.”

He didn’t shy away from controversy, he sought it out. When he announced his conversion to Islam and that he was exchanging his slave name for Muhammad Ali, it was like a slap in the face to white America.

I was confused. I was 14 and I couldn’t understand why someone with all the attention and glamour in the

world that the boxing champion enjoys would risk all of that.

I had to learn that this Ali guy was not like other people in so many ways.

Today, we call it the establishment.

That is a nice apolitical, aracial way to sum up American society that even in the mid-‘60s was mired in the 1950s.

I liked Ali as a rebel, but he was a true rebel. He did not flinch even when it would cost him.

He would not fight in Vietnam and refused to serve. He didn’t go to Canada, he stayed here. Here was a man who stood on principle even thought people called him traitor and coward.

Again, I didn’t know what to make of this man Ali. In the South, you answered your country’s call. Yet people were beginning to question the government about a lot of things. By the end of the decade, the world was turned upside down.

Ali defied all logic to me. Here was a boxer – a heavyweight no less – who delighted in his footwork at least as much as his punches. He fought like no fighter before him. In his prime, no one could hit him.

When he came back to boxing, he simply changed the sport entirely. He fought all over the world, and the world loved him for it. He pulled Uncle Sam’s beard and the world loved him for it.

Finally, we would come to love him too. I didn’t really know how much I admired Ali until the 1996 Olympics and that electric night of the opening of the games. Who would be chosen to light the Olympic flame for Georgia?

When Ali appeared out of nowhere and despite his trembling hands looked out at everybody and drank in the moment as the crowd roared, I felt a surge of pride that here is one man the whole world knows. He is opening our Olympic Games. Yes we belong on this world stage because Ali came to share it with us.

It was a journey for me to accept Ali as a hero. He was not always heroic.

Look at the feet of any hero and the clay is there. But Ali is a man who came far and achieved almost every dream he really wanted. And like Sinatra sang it, he did it his way.

And even a little redneck kid in Georgia is a better man today for the battles he fought outside the ring.

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Leadership North Fulto Ex-GIs get home improvements from volunteers

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ALPHARETTA-ROSWELL, Ga. – The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce takes a proactive stance to build tomorrow’s leaders today through its Leadership North Fulton program. And the culmination of the nine-month leadership training course is participating in one of four team projects.

One of those projects wrapped up recently when team members pulled off what they called the Warriors Weekend Project. The team organized a volunteer weekend of sprucing up the homes of elderly North Fulton veterans and making improvements that upgraded their quality of life and their ability to maintain independence.

The group recruited some 63 volunteers to work on three houses in one weekend that had been nominated

by Senior Services North Fulton. The Members of the GNFCC Leadership North F makeovers included landscaping, some State Brian P. Kemp for helping veterans. Fir house painting and even replacing Ward, City of Roswell; Carol Anderson Ward, toilets.

Evans, Senior Services North Fulton. Second The addition of a couple of wheelchair Permanente; Paul Cantrell, Insight Wealth ramps were absolute godsends to the families, said Leadership NF team member Paul Cantrell.

Haley Evans, volunteer manager at “We made it our mission to improve North Fulton Senior Services and a team the quality of the home life for these member said it was “overwhelming” to aging veterans and give them more indesee so many volunteers come out to help. pendence,” Cantrell “At Senior Sersaid. vices North Fulton it With the donais our mission to help tion of materials seniors live as long from Home Depot, as possible in their volunteers built four own homes. We had wheelchair ramps. spouses concerned “For some, these that they would not ramps meant they be able to stay in could stay in their their homes because homes, and their of mobility problems spouses could get the veterans had,” them into the car for Evans said. a doctor’s appoint“If you can’t get ment,” he said. out the door, that is Team member Ola real problem. These ivia Ibrahim (Greater ramps took a lot of North Fulton Chamstress off families.” ber of Commerce) said KENDRA PLOTKIN Kendra Plotkin, Co-chair of the Leadership North Fulton the best thing about co-chair of the Leadthe project for her ership North Fulton, was seeing members said these work of the community get together behind this projects are an important aspect of the project. leadership program.

“It was overwhelming to see how “Going into the community to be many people were willing to help when public servants and problem-solvers is we asked,” she said. the culmination of their work over the

Going into the community to be public servants and problemsolvers is the culmination of their work over the last nine months.”

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The exciting unveiling of The New Georgian Lakeside Assisted Living and Memory Care will be HATCHER HURD/HERALD

ulton team get the thanks of American Legion Post 201 and Georgia Secretary of st row from left are: Randy Major, Home Depot; Carol Swan, HomeStretch; Chris , Leadership North Fulton; Olivia Ibrahim, Greater North Fulton Chamber; and Haley row are American Legion Post 201 Commander Dennis Turner, Roger Bauer, Kaiser Advisors; and Roger Wise Jr., North Fulton ambassador for the secretary of state. last nine months,” Plotkin said. “They learn to work together toward a common goal. Each person uses the skills and connections they bring with them plus the skills they’ve learned at Lead-

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA PUBLIC NOTICE Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Notice is hereby given that a public hearing shall be held before the Mayor and Council of the City of Alpharetta, Georgia on June 20, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. regarding the adoption of the budget for fiscal year 2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017) and to set the millage rate. The public hearings will take place at City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, in City Council chambers.

The proposed budget is available on the City’s website, www.alpharetta. ga.us, as well as in the Department of Finance (City Hall, 2 Park Plaza) from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday through Thursday) and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Hymns from early America resonate through City Hall June Singing a tradition in Alpharetta

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Early American Sacred Heart hymns echoed through City Hall’s atrium Sunday in what has become the city’s longest-running tradition.

About 30 Sacred Harp (also called shape-note) singers from around the region participated in the 148th annual June Singing.

Of the city’s more-than-300 events held each year, this is the longest continuously running production. For nearly a century and a half, Sacred Harp singers have converged on Alpharetta on the second Sunday of June to lend their voices to America’s great composers of the past.

Chords of hymns from early American composers such as William Billings, Justin Morgan and Amos Pilsbury flooded the chamber with something that was a little more than singing and something less than shouting.

Participants take turns standing at center, directing others -- not with

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From left, David Smead and Lisa Bennett of Decatur and Judy Mincey of Calhoun sing out while keeping tempo with their hands. some sissy baton but with an open hand sweeping up and down in a rhythm that could slice through brick.

There was casual chit-chat between songs, even some jokes, but once the opening chords found a harmony the group was off – committed to the hymn with the heart and precision of a well-practiced choir.

“This is Americana,” said Lisa Bennett, a singer from Decatur.

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Singers keep time by watching the conductor, raising and lowering their hands in rhythm and by watching each other.

Another angle to the sound comes from the fact that, unlike most fourpart harmony choirs, these singers are arranged so the treble and the tenor are double, men and women an octave apart. So instead of four-part harmony, there are actually six levels of harmony.

Judy Mincey of Calhoun said there are no rehearsals.

“We don’t practice, we just sing a lot,” she said. “Even though the tenors have the major melody, each part has a melody. So we’re not just singing harmony with them. We’re singing another melody.”

The complexities of so many harmonies was not lost on 15-year-old Dalton Lewis of Tallapoosa who got his first chance to conduct Sunday. Singers coaxed him into more than one verse after he indicated one was enough.

“I was nervous,” he said later.

Richard DeLong grew up in Alpharetta participating in June Singings with his grandmother. He said he’s proud of the heritage the tradition brings.

“We sing together just about every Sunday somewhere,” he said.

The concert drew a small crowd of visitors. Some even grabbed extra Sacred Harp hymnals and followed along.

“This is very good,” said Scott Christopher of Alpharetta, who attended the concert Sunday with his wife Rachel and their infant daughter, Elise. “I enjoyed it. It’s a good community event.”

Rachel Christopher agreed.

“We sing, too, so it’s fun for us,” she said.

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Milton council honors students entering military

By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — After graduation, high school seniors usually have college or getting a job on their minds. But for a select group, the choice is a bit different. On June 6, the Milton City Council presented a proclamation to students from both Milton and Cambridge high schools choosing to take a military path.

Councilman Bill Lusk thanked the students for their service. He said June 6, 2016 marks the 72nd anniversary of D-Day. More than 7,000 American troops gave their lives on that day in addition to the thousands of other allied forces that participated in that assault, he said.

“It showed the American resolve,” Lusk said. “Not only defending our homeland, but defending the land of our friends worldwide.”

Now 72 years later, America continues to face threats not only on our homeland but worldwide, he said.

About 1 percent of our population has chosen to participate in our military, Lusk said.

“This 1 percent is protecting the people in the United States along with

The students honored: Cambridge High School students: Elijah Daniel Abley, Keaton James Bruder, Benjamin Nicholas Faber, Benjamin Emmanuel Padezanin, and Michael Andrew Takacs will join the Marines; Aimee Grace Dervishian will attend the Naval Academy; Matthew Ryan Hughes received an ROTC scholarship to attend the University of Oregon; Alexander Jaquith will join the Air Force, and Seth Joseph Schroeder will join the Coast Guard.

Milton High School students: Jack Bluth will attend the Air Force Academy; Preston Dawes received an Army ROTC scholarship to attend The Citadel; Angus Ho received an Army ROTC scholarship to attend Auburn University; Clayton Marshall received an Army ROTC scholarship to attend Clemson University. millions of our friends worldwide.

Tonight we’re here to recognize those 1-percenters.”

Students in attendance were both from Milton and Cambridge high schools.

Mayor Joe Lockwood said he and the council were honored to have the stu-

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Students from Milton High School and Cambridge High School are recognized by the Milton City Council. dents at the meeting. “You have a proud mayor and city council,” Lockwood said.

“We cannot tell you a heartfelt thank you enough that is worthy of what you guys have elected to do. We appreciate it and are behind you all the way.”

Lusk read the proclamation which said, “Every year, thousands of students across America choose to pursue both higher education and military service by attending U.S. military service academies, military universities, or enrolling in officer training programs; and in order to qualify for selection, these students must excel in academic,

athletic and leadership abilities.”

These students will be developed mentally, morally and physically and will be imbued with the highest ideals of duty and loyalty, and with the core values of honor, courage and commitment before being commissioned as officers, Lusk read.

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New owners to revive apartments for low-income seniors Rebuild America to invest $5M in Alpharetta’s Dogwood Square

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA , Ga. – In the wake of rising costs for housings, especially in North Fulton, an Alpharetta mainstay for low-income seniors is in line for a $5 million makeover.

The City Council recently passed a resolution in support of the renovation plan in an effort to help Rebuild America secure federal tax credits to help finance renovations at the Dogwood Square.

It is an assisted living facility that has been in operation for about 30 years. The renovations would give it a new lease on life.

The building is home to some 100 apartments, and each unit is scheduled to receive in excess of $50,000 in renovations, according to Glenda Leduc, president of Mansermar, Inc., the firm that manages the facility.

In addition to the investors’ funds they hope to draw from the tax credits, Leduc said the non-profit also plans to secure a loan to upgrade the facility.

“Today, that’s one of the few ways you can do affordable housing,” Leduc said.

The general partner is the entity that drives the deal and manages it, taking care of the day-to-day details, Leduc said. The general partner, in this case Rebuild America, is able to use those dollars to make it happen.

Applying for the federal tax credit is a complicated process that involves achieving certain qualifications, including demonstrating service to the community, local support and access to

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Dogwood Square apartments on Janis Lane near downtown is under new ownership, and plans call for major renovations of the 30-year-old facility. support networks – in this case healthcare and transit. The tax credits come through the federal government and are passed through individual states. In Georgia, the Department of Community Affairs oversees the awards.

“It’s a competitive process, and you have to submit an application to them and give them all the details and convince them of why they need to allocate it to you,” Leduc said. “The organization must convince the state that it can deliver on the promises it makes.”

Once an organization receives the tax credit, it is equipped to solicit investors and form a limited partnership.

In the case of Dogwood, the general partner is a non-profit and the limited partner, who receives the tax credit

is for-profit. But there’s nothing that prohibits a for-profit organization from receiving the tax credits.

“The investors put money into the project in order to get the allocation of those tax credits because it benefits them for their purposes,” Leduc said.

That’s how you get the money in order to do the renovation or construction.

“For us, it means the renovation and rehabilitation of a property that might not otherwise have been able to be preserved for housing for years to come.”

Leduc said the City Council’s resolution in favor of the Dogwood application was critical because one of the things the state looks for when it scores

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With the city’s support, the agencies find projects are more successful, Leduc said.

“Another scoring factor is locating a project in a livable community because a lot of these residents – particularly when you’re talking seniors – cannot drive. So you need access to public transportation, parks that are close, access to pharmacies, to medical facilities, to grocery stores,” she said.

Dogwood is on the MARTA line serving Alpharetta, and pharmacies are within close walking distance.

Programs like Dogwood pay for themselves in the long run, she said, They keep low-income seniors healthier so less money is spent on Medicare reimbursements or on frequent trips for medical trips and hospital stays.

Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle said the city’s Comprehensive Plan calls for an effort to keep its seniors in the community and ensuring affordable housing is one aspect of that effort.

He said Alpharetta has always had a strong support network for seniors, such as Meals On Wheels, and efforts sponsored by the local Rotary Club.

“We’re happy to help,” Belle Isle said. “We’re happy to be given the opportunity to help.”

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Avalon, Halcyon designer Lamar Wakefield Perfecting your elevator pitch talks about today’s design principles Alpharettabased Wakefield Beasley and Associates may very well be the hottest architectural firm in Atlanta right now for developers and communities looking for signaGEOFF SMITH ture, mixed-use Assurance Financial, gsmith@lendtheway.com centers. After designing the Town Center at Atlantic Station 20 years ago, the firm went on to design many projects around the United States and Atlanta, including Avalon here in Alpharetta, the recently started Halcyon project in Forsyth and the much-anticipated Battery Park surrounding the new Braves stadium in Cobb.

I was fortunate last week to sit down with the company’s co-founder and CEO Lamar Wakefield at the firm’s Alpharetta headquarters in Avalon.

“The only thing susceptible to failure is the retail, so we have to energize the space 16 hours a day,” Wakefield said about his recent mixed-use developments. “When shoppers leave, the residents need to be showing up.”

This is the philosophy of today’s large projects, which is much different than how things were done when Wakefield Beasley started in 1981.

Back then, projects were built mostly by merchant builders who built for a quick resale upon completion.

There was not as much thought on the part of the developer about the long-term sustainability of the project. While this was beginning to change in the late 1990s, it continued right up until the economic collapse of 2008. And while many in that industry were hit hard, Wakefield found a positive.

“As painful as it was,” he said, “the planning today is incredible. The loans are underwritten well on good banking principles.”

Avalon is a prime example, where Wakefield’s team developed WAKEFIELD 128 merchandizing plans before finally settling on one that worked.

“That never would have happened before 2008,” he said.

In these plans they considered mixes of different retailers and how those retailers complemented and supported each other. They considered how the location of each retailer affected the entire development and they put restrictions on having retailers in competition with each other. And before all of that, they studied not just the demographics of the people who might go to Avalon, but the psychographics.

This means studying the types of personalities, opinions, attitudes, interests and lifestyles of the people who would come to Avalon. And that is something Wakefield thinks a lot about these days.

“You know, people are ordering things online more and more. Sitting at home on their couches and ordering things, and some people are wondering if all retail is moving in that direction,” he said. “But did you know we are designing the first-ever Amazon store in Texas right now? There will always be a need for human interaction and to get out and experience things.

To touch and feel them.”

He told the story of how last Easter, more than 600 people showed up to Avalon’s town green – and there was

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“The days of the strip center are over,” he said. “People want healthy living with walkable and sustainable environments.”

And apparently they want Wakefield Beasley to design it. Along with Halcyon and the Braves’ Battery Park, the firm is working on designs for town centers in six suburban cities around the metro area including Tucker, Lilburn and Sugar Hill. The firm is in such demand for its high-profile mixed-use projects, one would not be able to guess that it has designed more than 130 million square feet of industrial space across the world. This type of work has been the firm’s bread and butter and laid the financial bedrock for the many other studios within the firm to operate out of.

“Someone told me a long time ago that industrial is always the last to go in a recession and the first to come back,” he said.

Today, the firm also has studios for institutional, municipal, residential and interior design, to name a few.

Next week, you can read about Wakefield’s thoughts on what communities need in order to stay competitive, and about his firm’s work on the Braves new Battery Park and his involvement in a project next to the Falcon’s new stadium called City of Refuge.

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The Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce’s ad for Alpharetta Restaurant Week wins an award.

Alpharetta Restaurant Week ad wins national award ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce has recently won a national award from the Association of Free Community Papers for its 2015 Alpharetta Restaurant Week promotion.

The advertisement took first place in the “Best Single Ad Over 12 Inches, Color and Newsprint” category at AFCP’s 2016 Best of the Best Awards.

The advertisement ran in print as a promotion for Alpharetta Restaurant Week. It featured Fergal Brady, 2015 board of directors chairman emeritus for the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce, along with the headline “Great Food, Great Deals!”

A coupon card for various restaurants participating in Restaurant Week was included as part of the advertisement. A sidebar was also created to recognize the event’s spon-

sors.

Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce Chairwoman Kim Matherly said the award is a reflection of the event’s success.

“Restaurant Week is a great way for the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce to highlight and support all the restaurants within the community,” Matherly said.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — It’s been 12 years since Tino Mantella assumed the position of president of the Technology Association of Georgia.

Mantella delivered his final presentation as president June 8 during the Executive Lunch Connection at The Metropolitan Club off Windward Parkway. The presentation covered the 2016 State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia, highlighting the achievements and challenges facing the state’s technology community.

“I wanted to leave on a high note,” Mantella said. “Twelve years have gone by really fast for me.”

TAG membership has grown by over 500 percent under Mantella’s leadership. Mantella has helped build a board of 60 technology stakeholders since 2004. He is also a member of the boards of Venture Atlanta Coalition Inc., TAG Education Collaboration, the Tech College Foundation Board, the Chamber of Commerce in North Fulton and Georgia and on the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

Alpharetta has over a quarter of metro Atlanta’s top 25 technology employers while also housing over 600 technology companies, he said. The state has added 12,000 jobs in the technology industry in the past year.

The Technology in Georgia report highlighted talent, capital and innovation, which Mantella called, “the three most important elements for building the infrastructure of any community.”

Technology companies in Georgia accounted for $2.94 billion investment capital last year. Software development accounted for 44 percent of investment capital.

Georgia ranks among the top five

states in the country in workforce quality, availability of skilled labor, access to capital and patent growth.

Mantella said the focus of technology company spending has seen a shift in the past year from big data to MANTELLA security.

Since demand for people with technology skills is high, companies are looking to broaden their hiring source as concern for outsourcing grows in the wake of a “talent gap.” This means expanding overseas to find more experienced professionals in the field of technology.

“We do a good bit of research each year,” he said. “Data is driving everything now.”

With Alpharetta’s growth as a technology hub comes the desire to bring in new talent and youth.

“It’s a challenge to have that ‘cool’ factor,” he said. “This area is really working on that.”

Mantella mentioned new advancements in the North Fulton area like Avalon and schools that have developed strong reputations in the country.

According to Money magazine, Atlanta is second among cities most attractive to millennial workers. Georgia Tech, Emory University and the University of Georgia rank among the top 50 in research and development.

Millennials are Georgia’s most educated demographic with 37 percent holding a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Mantella will stay in his position until December and will spend his last months at TAG training his successor.

A new president will hopefully be selected soon with an offer placed by August or September, according to Mantella.

Kiddie Academy of Alpharetta celebrates opening ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Local business owners Shweta Sharma and Amit Jain were joined by family, friends and the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the official opening and ribbon-cutting for Kiddie Academy of Alpharetta.

The new 12,000-square-foot educational child care center is located at 3200 North Point Parkway, next to Alpharetta High School.

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Kiddie Academy of Alpharetta owners Shweta Sharma and Amit Jain mark the opening of their academy with a ribbon cutting ceremony. They were joined by their families, friends, business partners, academy director Janna Brumby and new teachers.

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What: The Lodge invites everyone to enjoy a free informational meeting and potluck to celebrate Norwegian culture and history.

When: Saturday, June 18, 5-7 p.m.

Where: Barrington Hall Activity Room, 535 Barrington Drive, Roswell More info: SofNTrondheim@gmail.com, 404-953-2525

WILLIAM J. WARNER BOOK SIGNING

What: Author William J. Warner will be available to sign copies of his books “Inside FBI Polygraph” and “Appalachian Impasse.”

When: Saturday, June 18, 1-3 p.m.

Where: Land of A Thousand Hills Coffee House, 352 S Atlanta St., Roswell More info: michelle@keymgc.com

POSSUM TROT 10K

What: The 38th annual Possum Trot 10K will be held along with a one mile fun run and after party. The 10K is a qualifier for the Peachtree Road Race.

When: Saturday, June 18, 7 a.m.

Where: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell Cost: $30 for 10K, $15 for fun run More info and registration: chattnaturecenter.org

KEVIN HORGAN BOOK SIGNING

What: Local author Kevin Horgan will be signing copies of his historical novels “The March of the Orphans” and “The March of the 18th.” Half of the royalties he receives benefits charities for veterans.

When: Saturday, June 18 Where: Barnes & Noble, 7660 North Point Pkwy., Alpharetta More info: kevinhorganbooks.com

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

What: Roswell will host a celebration full of dancing and live music at Pastis

Restaurant and Bar in commemoration of Freedom Day, which marks the abolition of slavery in Texas, June 1865.

When: Sunday, June 19, 7-10 p.m.

Where: 928 Canton St., Roswell More info: roswellgov.com

FATHER’S DAY PADDLE

What: Celebrate Dad (and Grandpa) with an afternoon canoe trip for the whole family.

When: Sunday, June 19, 1-4 p.m.

Where: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell Cost: $30 general public, $25 members, Dads save $5 More info and registration: chattnaturecenter.org/families/canoe-programs

WORLD’S HOPPIEST 5K ROAD RACE AND AFTER PARTY

What: The 5K Road Race and Craft Beer Festival will combine for one event-packed day with live music and a free beer for every runner of legal age.

When: Monday, June 20, 8 p.m.

Where: Race starts at the Corner Deli, Downtown Alpharetta, 10 Roswell St., Alpharetta Cost: Prices start at $35 for the race, $50 for the festival More info and registration: worldshoppiest5k.com

“SUMMER IN PROVENCE” C OOKING CLASS

What: Chef Wendy Gay will teach students how to cook a variety of meals, salads and desserts at the historic Barrington Hall. Complementary wine and mini tour included.

When: Tuesday, June 21, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Where: Barrington Hall, 535 Barrington Hall, Roswell Cost: $50 More info and registration: 770-6403855

FREE SKIN CANCER SCREENINGS

What: Northside Hospital will provide

free skin cancer screenings for the public. Appointments are required.

When: Wednesday, June 22, 6-9 p.m.

Where: Northside Hospital-Forsyth, 1100 Northside Forsyth Drive, Cumming More info: Make an appointment by calling 404-531-4444

WENDY WAX BOOK LUNCHEON

What: Bookmiser will host a luncheon with USA Today bestselling author Wendy Wax to discuss her new book “Sunshine Beach.” Limited seats available.

When: Wednesday, June 22, 11:30-1:30 p.m.

Where: The Mill Kitchen and Bar, 590 Mimosa Blvd., Roswell Cost: $35 More info: bookmiser.com, 770-9931555

FARMERS MARKETS, FOOD TRUCKS: ALPHARETTA FOOD TRUCK ALLEY

What: Alpharetta’s Food Truck Alley on Thursday evenings offers a variety of six to eight rotating area food trucks.

When: Thursdays, 5-9 p.m., through Oct. 20.

Where: Old Roswell Street in Alpharetta’s historic district More info: awesomealpharetta.com

ALPHARETTA FARMERS MARKET

What: The Alpharetta Farmers Market features fruits, vegetables, natural meats, fresh flowers and herbs, and a variety of home goods.

When: Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., through Oct. 29.

Where: Old Canton Street in downtown Alpharetta More info: alpharetta.ga.us

FOOD TRUCKS N’ FORSYTH COUNTY

What: Forsyth County offers rotating food trucks at Lanier Technical College every third Monday through July.

When: Monday, June 20, 5-8 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Conference Center at Lanier Technical College, 3410 Ronald Reagan Blvd., Cumming More info: web.cummingforsythchamber.org

MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER: TIM SPARKS AT AUTREY MILL

What: Guitarist Tim Sparks will play at the Autrey Mill Nature Center as part of his southeast tour.

When: Saturday, June 18, 7:30 p.m.

Where: 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns Creek Cost: $18 for members, $23 for nonmembers More info: autreymill.org/performances.htm

ROSWELL’S SUMMER PUPPET SERIES

What: Crabgrass Puppet Theatre presents “The Pirate, the Princess, and the Pea” as part of Roswell’s familyfriendly Summer Puppet Series. Show times available at roswellgov.com.

When: June 13-18 Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell Cost: $5 per ticket, children under 2 get in free.

More info: 770-594-6232, roswellgov. com

ROSWELL FARMERS & ARTISANS MARKET

What: The Roswell Farmers & Artisans Market offers fresh, local farm, ranch and artisan foods direct from producers, and much more.

When: Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon.

Where: Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St., Roswell More info: roswellfam.com

JOHNS CREEK FARMERS MARKET

What: Held at the Newton Park Amphitheater, each market features more than 25 local farmers and vendors with organic and/or sustainable foods and produce.

When: Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon, through Sept. 13.

Where: 3150 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek More info: JohnsCreekGA.gov

BARENAKED LADIES

What: Barenaked Ladies with Special Guests OMD and Howard Jones will perform as part of their “Last Summer on Earth” tour.

When: Wednesday, June 22, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 2200 Encore Parkway, Alpharetta Cost: starting at $20 More info: vzwamp.com

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Where: The Forsyth County Animal Shelter, 4065 County Way, Forsyth County More info: 678-965-7185

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ROSWELL’S SUMMER PUPPET SERIES

What: Tanglewood Marionettes presents “The Dragon King” as part of Roswell’s family-friendly Summer Puppet Series.

Show times available at roswellgov.com.

When: June 20-25 Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell Cost: $5 per ticket, children under 2 get in free.

More info: 770-594-6232, roswellgov. com

LIBRARY EVENTS: PHYSICAL THERAPY WORKSHOP

What: Physical Therapist Dr. Kim Richards will give a free presentation on osteoporosis and bone mineral density, followed by exercise demonstrations for the pelvic floor and core.

When: Tuesday, June 21, 6-7:30 p.m.

Where: New Milton Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Alpharetta More info: facebook.com/asaphysicaltherapy

COLLEGE ADMISIONS SEMINAR: MOREHOUSE COLLEGE

What: Morehouse College Senior Associate Director of Admissions Michael Moore will be available to talk about the admissions process and give tips on how to put together the best application.

When: Tuesday, June 21, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Where: Roswell Branch Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: afpls.org, register at 770640-3075

SMALL, SMALL WORLD

What: Funded by the city of Johns Creek, the library will host free programs throughout June to teach children ages 2-4 about music, movement, art and literature around the world.

Registration required.

When: Wednesday, June 22, 10:3011:15 a.m.

Where: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Branch Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns Creek More info: afpls.org

PET ADOPTIONS: FORSYTH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER What: Pet adoptions When: Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

What: Dogs and cats looking for their forever home will be up for adoption by the Crabapple Knoll Vet Clinic. People are free to come by and play with them for a while.

When: Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: 12604 Crabapple Road, Alpharetta More info: view available pets at adoptapet.com, petfinder.com

FULTON COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES What: Pet adoptions When: Every Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

Where: PetSmart, 6370 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta Additional adoptions: Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Fulton County Animal Services, 860 Marietta Blvd. NW, Atlanta More info: 404-613-4958

SPCA ADOPT-A-CAT MONTH

What: In celebration of Adopt-A-Cat month, the Georgia SPCA is discounting adoption fees for kittens, to $75, and cats, $50 for adults up to four years old and $25 for adults older than four.

When: Month of June Where: 1175 Highway 23 Suite 109, Suwanee More info: GeorgiaSPCA.org

OF INTEREST ELSEWHERE: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL’S TORUK

What: Inspired by James Cameron’s “Avatar,” Cirque du Soliel’s live performance of “Toruk – The First Flight” envisions a world beyond imagination, thousands of years before the events of the film.

When: June 15-19, times vary Where: Infinite Energy Arena, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth Cost: $35-$128 More info: infiniteenergycenter.com

ZERO PROSTATE CANCER RUN/WALK

What: ZERO invites the Atlanta community to come together and help fund the end of prostate cancer through a 5K run/walk. This year’s event additionally will honor the former executive director Joe Blumberg, who lost his battle to prostate cancer December 2015.

When: Saturday, June 18, 8 a.m.

Where: Home Depot/Costco Parking Lot, 6400 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Sandy Springs More info and registration: 4dad.org

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GET OUTSIDE GEORGIA:

On those really hot days…

STEVE HUDSON

Get Outside Georgia, Chattahoochee Media Group

It’s a reality of summer. Sometimes we have days when it’s just too hot to get outside.

That was the case earlier this week, you’ll recall, when the temperature was in the high 90s and the humidity was about

the same.

On days like that, I stay inside in air-conditioned comfort. But I’m still planning my next adventure…using a map!

I admit it - I’m a map junkie.

Whether it’s a hand-drawn sketch on an old paper napkin or a detailed printed map showing every detail of a trail, there’s just something about maps and exploring the world via a piece of paper. Studying a map can reveal new places to explore, new sights to see and new ways to get to them. It can be an adventure all by itself.

Back in the old days, in what my kids refer to as “the previous millennium,” maps were exclusively paper.

Printed U.S. Geologic Survey topo maps, which we called “quads,” short for “quadrangles,” were the ultimate.

Each of these 1:24,000 scale maps covered an area measuring 7.5 minutes of latitude wide by 7.5 minutes of longitude deep. Their extreme detail and invaluable topographic data were more than enough to lure me in, and if I wasn’t careful I could spend hours upon hours poring over them and imagining the real-world wonders they hinted at. I’ve still got some paper quad maps that I used in the ‘80s and ‘90s, complete with pencil notations and numerous coffee stains. They’re priceless resources loaded with hiking, fishing and other info that I still use today.

It’s still possible to purchase printed maps, and sometimes I do.

These days, however, there’s an easier way – and, you guessed it, all it takes is a computer. In fact, if you search “topo maps,” you’ll find a number of online map sources.

My favorite online topo map source is store.usgs.gov, where you can download PDF files of individual topo maps for free. There is a lot of functionality and power in this site and in the maps it provides, but here’s the short version of how to use it: First, go to “Map Locator and Downloader,” where an index map gives you access to the entire United States and a lot more. For example,

yesterday I downloaded the Tray Mountain quadrangle, which I’ll use later this afternoon to look for waterfalls – and just now I downloaded maps of the island of Palau, in the western Pacific, which I’ll be visiting later this year.

How do you specify the map you want? From the main screen, the “Navigate” function lets you move around and zoom in on any area of interest, while the “Mark Points” function lets you drop a pin to mark a spot. Once you’ve dropped a pin, simply click on the pin to see a list of maps that cover that area.

And now the great news: This site allows you to download those topo maps for free. Under the download column, simply select the name of the map. It will appear in your download cart. Click “Download,” and the file will be transferred to your computer.

Just be aware that these are fairly large files, often 40 MB or more.

Once the download is complete, you can open the file and explore the map to your heart’s content. Use the map to locate hiking destinations, out-of-the-way fishing spots, hidden waterfalls and more. You’ll find that a topo map is the perfect tool for planning your next great outdoor adventure – the one set for next week, when it’s just a little cooler!

Topo maps are an outdoor adventurer’s best friend. You can learn how to interpret them in Steve Hudson’s book “Bluelining 101,” which focuses on the art of finding and fishing streams which appear only as blue lines on topo maps. It’s available from local outdoor shops, on Amazon, and online from chattahoocheemedia.com.

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World War II vets honored o JC Veterans Association hosts special guests at golf tourney

By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The dining room at the Standard Club was filled June 6 with veterans, but they all stood to salute three special guests – all were World War II veterans who served overseas.

The honorees were Francis Turner who served in Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army in Europe; Marine private Bill Novinger who served on Guam and Iwo Jima; and Navy veteran Art Shariau, who also served on Guam.

Turner, 94, sailed to France in December 1944, on the Queen Elizabeth, then the largest ocean liner in the world. But it was no pleasure cruise with German U-boats prowling and thousands of GIs crammed below deck.

Turner arrived just in time to participate in Patton’s drive to relieve the 101st Airborne surrounded in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

“I was an engineer in the supply

I was an engineer in the supply depot.

We set up Camp Lucky Strike near Havre [a French port] and it was our job to keep Patton rolling. As fast as cargo was landed, we shipped it out to Patton.”

FRANCIS TURNER Served in Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army in Europe depot. We set up Camp Lucky Strike near Havre [a French port] and it was our job to keep Patton rolling. As fast as cargo was landed, we shipped it out to Patton,” Turner said.

Turner stayed with Patton until Germany Surrendered in April 1945.

“In August they sent us to Marseilles where we were going to get on

a ship to take us to the Philippines to prepare for the invasion of Japan. But the atom bomb was dropped and we didn’t have to go,” he said.

He was part of the European occupation army and didn’t get home until 1946. His closest call came when his truck was sideswiped on the Autobahn and he went through the windshield.

“I had my helmet on when it happened, so I didn’t get hurt much. You always wore your helmet. Patton fined you if you were out of uniform,” Turner said.

Today, he lives in Flowery Branch.

Art Shariau, 90, graduated from high school at 18 in 1944. He had already received his draft notice but was allowed to graduate and went straight into the U.S. Navy. He received two months of training, and from there straight to the Pacific Island of Guam.

“I served under Admiral “Bull” Halsey, he was known as the Patton of the Pacific.

Guam was an American base captured by the Japanese early in the war and recently retaken by the Americans.

When Shariau landed, the fighting was supposed to be over.

“But as soon as I got on the island in 1945, I was issued fatigues and a carbine and put in a tent. We would go on patrol. Even though the fighting was officially over, there were still Japanese on the island who hadn’t gotten the word and were still trying to shoot us,” Shariau said.

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n D-Day to Guam was my brother was there and we got to spend four months together before he shipped out. I hadn’t seen him in over a year.”

Shariau said in the military you grew up quickly.

“All of a sudden I was grown up. I changed from a kid in a hurry. I had no choice about it anyway,” he said.

He was a fire controller for one of the guns on the ship, and they too were preparing for the invasion of Japan before the A-bomb was dropped.

“I was in two years and had shore leave only once. I never had a uniform that had my rating [rank] on it or a ribbon. I had to borrow a dress uniform to go home in. We were moving fast all the time. Inspections for us were like a Chinese fire drill.”

Bill Novinger, 94, was a member of the 5th Marine Division and took part in the invasion of Guam and Iwo Jima.

Novinger turned 18 on March 1, but he too was allowed to graduate high school. He reported to San Diego and two months later he was bound for Guam.

Next stop for Novinger was the island of Iwo Jima. It was the fierc-

HATCHER HURD/HERALD

The Johns Creek Veterans Association honored three World War II veterans June 6 at its charity golf tournament. From left are Francis Turner, U.S. Army; Bill Novinger, U.S. Marines; and Art Shariau, U.S. Navy. They are congratulated by retired U.S. Air Force Col. Lee Ellis. Ellis was a combat pilot shot down over Vietnam and made a POW. He wrote a book “Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton.” est battle the Marines were to fight in World War II and the only one in which Marine casualties outnumbered the enemy. Some 21,000 Japanese soldiers died in the battle and only 216 were captured. The Marines suffered 26,000 casualties of whom 6,800 died.

“I turned 19 on Iwo Jima. It was about a week later I got my birthday present,” Novinger said.

“I was shot through the chest.”

To most of the Marines in that fight it must have seemed the only way off the island was to be carried off. His

wounds were severe – he would have 60 percent disability – and it was not until 1946 that Novinger finally returned home.

But Novinger spent 30 years as a golf pro before retiring. Today he lives in Johns Creek.

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NF students win “Making a Difference” essay contest NORTH FULTON, Ga. — The Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta has recognized six Georgia students in their first essay contest, “Making a Difference” during the awards ceremony May 7 at Oglethorpe University. Students across the metro Atlanta area wrote about influential Georgia Muslims and how they inspire others.

The winning students were selected from an overwhelming number of entries in both the middle and high school levels.

The middle school winners are: • First Place: Fatima Safdar from Fulton Science Academy in Alpharetta, writing on Henna Inam • Second Place: Alizeh Subhani from ILM Academy in Roswell, writing on Dr. Rana Hajjeh • Third Place: Ozair Khan from ILM Academy in Roswell, writing on Ahmed Salim The high school winners are: • First Place: Sania Shaikh from Cambridge High School in Milton, writing on Hadayai Majeed • Second Place: Alaa Elasser from Milton High School in Milton, writing on Maria Ebrahimji • Third Place: Faiz Syed from Walton High School in Marietta, writing on Farooq Mughal.

Contestants were asked to select one out of the listed top 100 Influential Georgia Muslims and write about how their achievements inspired the students to reach for their goals.

“The essay contest was designed to encourage students from across Georgia to start thinking about their careers and how they will reach their goals. The essays received were so heartwarming and achieved the objectives we set out to achieve,” said Soumaya Kalifa, founder and executive director of Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta. “Three main themes became apparent as the judges reviewed the entries: students did not know there are such amazing role models in their own community; they are proud to read about the accomplishments of these amazing people; and this contest began the discussions between students and their families career, goals, and how to achieve them. In my opinion, this ISB initiative has been a huge success.”

The 100 Influential Georgia Muslims, an initiative of the ISB, were recognized in 2014 for their significant contributions in diverse areas, both professional and personal, to their respective communities and as citizens of Georgia.

A blind panel of judges selected the winning essays based on clarity of writing as well as correct syntax, grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Azizah Kahera, left, presents Fatima Safdar of Alpharetta with the first place award for the middle school level in the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta essay contest.

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Rotary Club of Alpharetta gives $1,000 scholarship ALPHARETTA, Ga. - Each year, the Rotary Club of Alpharetta recognizes a high school senior who is an excellent scholar and exhibits outstanding qualities in academics, leadership and service. Students must submit an essay, academic records, and a recommendation letter from a teacher to be considered by the Judges. Jim Paine served as the Chairman of the Rotary Scholarship Committee along with other Alpharetta Rotarians. This year’s 2016 Rotary Club of Alpharetta recipient of the $1,000 scholarship is Dhakshi Balakumar.

Dhakshi recently graduated from Alpharetta High School with a GPA of 99.56 on a scale of 100. She was ranked 37th in her class of 527 students, staying on the honor roll for all four high school years. Dhakshi plans to attend the University of CaliforniaBerkeley to study this fall. She has demonstrated great leadership skills by: • Participating in the Leadership Experience Opportunity; • Serving a the business manager at Alpharetta High School’s Creative Arts magazine; • Participating in Future Business Leaders of America, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair; • Serving as a Raider Ambassador; • Participating in the Model United Nations; and • Playing a violin for four years.

Other achievements include playing soccer, participating in LincolnDouglas debates, attaining membership in the National Honor Society and the English National Honor Society, and acting as a content developer for Technocademy.

Dhakshi also won dozens of awards and among them include:

• Outstanding Achievement in French and AP Biology; • First place in Alpharetta High School and third place in Fulton County’s Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Microbiology; • First place in Fulton County and second place in the state in FBLA Business presentation; • First place in Fulton County and in the state in FBLA and in the state for entrepreneurship; • First place in Fulton County and eighth in the state FBLA for marketing; • National Merit Commended Scholar; • AP Scholar award with distinction; • Johns Hopkins University Book Award; and • Georgia’s Governor Honor program in Biology.

“Dhakshi is an exceptional young woman, combining high intelligence, inquisitiveness, and diligence,” said Frank Fortunato Dhakshi’s teacher at Alpharetta High School. “Her dedication and hard work, along with her skill as a manager of people, and her passion for excellence shines.

“I am privileged to have worked with her.”

Dhakshi said she was grateful for the Rotary’s help “The Rotary Scholarship will empower me in paying for my college education,” said Dhakshi. “Interdisciplinary studies in Cognitive Science captures the intersection of my interests.”

“It is an honor to give Dhakshi a scholarship to help her further her education,” said Kirk Driskell, President of the Rotary Club of Alpharetta. “With all the leadership skills that she has already demonstrated through her high school years, what a valuable asset she will be to any school, organization or company.”

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By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Clinical trials by an Emory Johns Creek radiologist have astounding results in eliminating pain at the source – the nerve signal itself.

Dr. J. David Prologo is the radiologist who is blazing the trial in what is called cryoablation interventional radiology. Using X-rays to guide a needle-like probe, Prologo can zap nerve endings with a freezing material that will cause the nerve endings to reduce pain signals if not completely at least to more than tolerable levels.

Prologo is the director of Interventional Radiology Services at EJCH. He has used the procedure to treat phantom limb pain in amputees and has also had success treating pain in trauma patients and cancer patients – and eliminating the need for risky opioid painkillers.

“What we do is a procedure with the image guidance, so that we can reach places in the body no one else can reach,” Prologo said. “Now we are applying the procedure to the pain sources [directly].”

The procedure was first applied to phantom limb pain – PLP – for amputees.

When a limb is amputated, it necessitates the severing of nerve endings as well and these can be damaged so that these nerve endings can keep firing off pain signals that are perceived as coming from the missing limb.

A patient suffering from chronic pelvic pain read about the trials and asked Prologo to try the procedure on her. She had spent more than two years of chronic pudendal neuralgia and she wanted to try a new therapy.

Prologo said he was reluctant at first, but after consulting with other radiologists agreed to try although it had never been done before.

“The pudendal nerve is hypersensitive but it had always been impossible to get to it. With the cryoablation probe we thought we could do that. And we were successful,” Prologo said.

“We freeze the pain source. Patients who could only take opioids before are now free of those with cryoablation,” he said. “Patients with years of pelvic pain are cured with one treatment.”

Prologo said he was just in the right place at the right time to begin studying cryoablation and the remediation of pain.

Emory Johns Creek Hospital Radiologist J. Officer Dr. Dapo Odetoyinbo without invasive

We freeze the pain source. Patients who could only take opioids before are now free of those with cryoablation.”

DR. J. DAVID PROLOGO Emory Johns Creek radiologist “It really was the luckiest thing to happen to me in my career to be the one to get into this,” he said.

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But his father-in-law came down with kidney cancer, so he got permission to treat him.

“He agreed to it, and he did awesome.

He was able to get up and do things again. It was really something to watch him play catch with his grandson again,” Prologo said.

After that first case, the “floodgates opened,” he said.

EJCH Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dapo Odetoyinbo said Prologo’s work is an integral part of what EJCH tries to be for the area.

“From the outset we have continued to be a full-service hospital in every sense of the word,” Odetoyinbo said. “We deliver world-class health care at the absolute highest level.

“Having physicians like Dr. Prologo doing the research they do is what Emory tries to do. We have the leading edge clinical trials not yet available to the public so our patients don’t have to travel elsewhere. That leading edge treatment is here.”

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pain. It is one treatment lasting about an hour. Cancer tumors can attach to the bone and the lesions that attach are extremely painful.

“We are not 100 percent sure that pain is permanently relieved but we have patients who are three and four years out now and the pain has not come back,” Prologo said.

While it is not cure for cancer, its palliative effects are life-changing for patients.

By taking the pain away and taking away the need for opioids, the quality of life soars for these patients.

“I mean their other option is to be zonked out on narcotics. With say abdominal cancer, we can freeze the abdominal nerve and their pain is gone,” he said. “The nerve signals are not dead but they are arrested. Clinically for now we can only say pain is absent for two to three years.”

Initially, Prologo had trouble getting permission to use the procedure to treat cancer pain.

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Join the Sons of Norway Trondheim Lodge at their potluck meeting June 18 to learn more about Norwegian history and culture.

Sons of Norway Trondheim Lodge welcomes everyone ROSWELL, Ga. — The Sons of Norway Trondheim Lodge 3-687 invites the public to its next meeting Saturday, June 18 5-7 p.m.

The meeting will include a potluck dinner, special guests and camaraderie. Featured speakers will discuss different aspects of Norwegian culture and history. Additionally, many lodge members speak Norwegian and are happy to practice the language with guests.

The group holds meetings on the third Saturday of every month from in the activity room of Barrington Hall at 535 Barrington Dr., Roswell.

For further information please call Bill Browning at 404-953-2525 or send an email to SofNTrondheim@gmail.com.

Pictured are five of the recipients who gathered to receive their certificate and monetary gift. From left are Elizabeth Tillman, Dallas Downing, Hannah Kipness, Amy Li and Elizabeth Cohn.

Friends of Alpharetta Library presents scholarships ALPHARETTA, Ga.—The Friends of the Alpharetta Library recently presented nine $500 scholarships to graduating seniors in the North Fulton area. The recipients completed an application complete with a written essay on the importance of a free public library system.

Those students selected include Elizabeth Cohn of Alpharetta High, Luke Donovan of Blessed Trinity, Dallas Downing of Blessed Trinity, Roxana Hojjatie of Milton High, Hanna Kipness of Cambridge High, Olivia Kolkana of Kings Ridge Christian School, Amy Li of Cambridge High, Lillian Shoji of Blessed Trinity and Elizabeth Tillman of Blessed Trinity.

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Signs It’s Time to Erin’s Hope for Friends co-founder Darren Horst, left, plays chess with E’s Club member Josh Carol.

Erin’s Hope for Friends introduces E’s Club ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Erin’s Hope for Friends has recently implemented its E’s Club program to help teenagers and young adults on the high functioning autism spectrum create lasting relationships. Children with HFAS often have difficulty creating friendships and are frustrated by social interaction.

This loneliness might last well into the teen and adult years.

The E’s Club meets weekly and features evening social gatherings, a structured calendar of events and a wide range of activities for all interests.

Some past events include concerts, hiking, sports outings, movie night and art classes.

The club is currently open most Friday and Saturday evenings. Staff and volunteers are always on hand to provide oversite, friendship and encouragement. Participation is free, but any donation is welcome.

EHFF was inspired by Erin Horst, a bullied teenager with HFAS who passed away January 2014. Horst’s family

founded the nonprofit in her legacy to help teens with HFAS make meaningful and lasting connections.

“If Erin had one really good friend that she connected to, that she could do something with for one evening a week, it would have changed her whole life,” said co-founder Darren Horst.

In honor of Horst’s memory, the E’s Club was founded to provide a lowpressure and fun environment for teens with HFAS to meet up. It’s the only center of its kind in the Atlanta area that’s specifically focused on facilitating positive social interactions and developing friendships for teenagers with HFAS. Volunteer opportunities are available online at erinshopeforfriends.org.

As the program grows, the club aims to expand to five days a week and to open in other cities around the country.

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Fellowship athletes sign letters of intent ROSWELL, Ga. — Six seniors from Fellowship Christian School were honored in February during the regular high school chapel service at Paladin Gym on National Signing Day. Five of the six students signed letters of intent to participate in collegiate athletes following their graduation from FCS. The FCS seniors honored included: • Megan Hudgens: soccer at the University of Alabama Birmingham, • Emma Grace Hurley: cross country at Furman University, • Reed Kroeber: football at Furman University, • Rebekah Mann: volleyball at Truett-McConnell College, • Nick Thompson: football at Mercer University as a preferred walk-on, • Jesse Vaughan: baseball at Covenant College.

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Best of the Year: Coaches Highlighting the best local coaches from the 2015-16 season

By JOE PARKER news@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON, Ga- A talented team without a talented coach is destined for mediocrity. In the hotbed of athletic talent in North Fulton and Forsyth County, quality coaches are still needed to harness, develop and ensure execution of athletic talent. North Fulton and Forsyth have no shortcomings where talented coaches are concerned. Continuing Appen Media Group’s Best of the Year, we now highlight the best local coaches, listed in no particular order.

Tim McFarlin (Blessed Trinity football head coach) - Since McFarlin joined Blessed Trinity in 2011, the Titans have gone 51-141 and have won three consecutive region championships. This year, the Titans secured another 13-win season and made their first ever appearance in the state championship game.

David May (West Forsyth girls basketball head coach )- In his fourth year as head coach for the Lady Wolverines, West compiled a 25-7 record this season and won West’s first basketball region championship. May and the Lady Wolverines also won their first-ever playoff game on their way to the final four of the state playoffs.

Matt Kemper (Johns Creek football head coach) - Though Kemper’s Gladiators did not have a winning season, it seemed a winning season to Johns Creek fans.

Entering the 2015-16 campaign, the Gladiators had won just a single game in the prior two seasons.

In Kemper’s first season, Johns Creek compiled a 4-6 record, and before injuries plagued them, the Gladiators were in the playoff hunt at the midseason mark.

Josh Sagel (Lambert boys lacrosse head coach) -- It doesn’t get any better than a perfect season, and Josh Sagel’s Longhorns did just that this season. The Longhorns compiled a perfect 21-0 season and captured the Class 6A state championship for boys lacrosse, their third in school history.

Paul Stevens (Blessed Trinity volleyball head coach) - In his 12th season as head coach for the Titans volleyball team, Stevens led BT to itsr fifth state championship.

Under the direction of Stevens, BT has made eight appearances in the state championship match. Stevens’ 530 wins is eighth all-time in career wins in the state of Georgia.

Chris Yarbrough (Northview girls basketball head coach) Yarbrough led a huge turnaround for the Lady Titans this season.

In the 2014-15 season, Northview went 8-19. This season, the Lady Titans compiled a 16-13 record and made their first appearance in the region championship game in seven years and earned a state playoff berth.

Tim Rice (Fellowship Christian girls soccer head coach) - In his second season with FCS, Rice led the Lady Paladins to a state championship, the school’s firstever state championship in a team sport. The FCS girls’ team compiled an 18-1 record this season and outscored opponents 107-13.

Aisha Kennedy (St. Francis girls basketball head coach) -

Kennedy and her Lady Knights compiled a 31-2 record and captured their second consecutive state MACFARLIN championship this season. In Kennedy’s four seasons at the helm of the Lady Knights, she has compiled a 108-17 record and has won four region titles and three state championships.

John Ford (Roswell football head coach) -- Third-year head coach John Ford led the Hornets to a near-perfect season this year, compiling a 14-1 record and dominating nearly every opponent his team faced. The Hornets won their first region championship since 2010 and made their first state championship appearance since 2006.

Ronnie Davis (South Forsyth softball head coach) -- The 2015 season saw Davis’ War Eagles go 22-5 and capture the region championship in the highly competitive Region 6-AAAAAA. In the state playoffs, the War Eagles made it to the final four.

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John Hanrahan, who recently won three titles at the USA Weightlifting Nationals, now trains and coaches in Alpharetta, Ga.

John Hanrahan captures Triple Crown at USAW Nationals LAS VEGAS, Nev. — John Hanrahan, a double champion last year at the USA Weightlifting Nationals, had set a goal of winning the Veterans titles this year in Folkstyle, Greco-Roman and Freestyle. He has now won all three of them, winning Folkstyle in Iowa earlier this month and taking the Greco-Roman and Freestyle Veteran division titles this weekend in Las Vegas. He now coaches and trains at the Cooler, a sports facility in Alpharetta, Ga., founded by Olympic wrestling team leader John Bardis.

“It’s an amazing facility. We train everybody, we have quite a few post-college wrestlers and Veterans wrestlers.

Just a great group of guys. They are really doing great things, we are taking five team members to the World Championships this fall,” said Bardis.

In Greco-Roman, Hanrahan, the former Penn State NCAA All-American, won an eight-man round robin en route to the gold. In his final match, he defeated former National Team Greco-Roman wrestler Craig Pollard of the Santa Monica Bay WC, 9-0. Pollard won the silver medal. He then competed the next day in the Freestyle Championships, where he advanced to the finals and faced former World Medalist Kevin Hejnal, Hanrahan locked up with Hejnal and executed a foot-sweep maneuver, pinning his opponent in just

39 seconds.

Asked about what keeps him motivated to compete, Hanrahan said, “It is not an easy thing. I added it up.

I started wrestling in 1967 in second grade in Virginia. I have been wrestling for 49 years, going on 50. I tried the Veterans Nationals last year and was fortunate enough to win the Freestyle and the Greco.

This year, I set a goal of winning the Folkstyle, Freestyle and the Greco.

A few weeks ago, I won the Folkstyle out in Iowa. I had a great run here this weekend, it feels good to achieve this goal - not one of my six opponents lasted past the first round or scored a point on me. Our Atlanta based US Wrestling Club is a great place to train, my training partner and team mate Eric Cluck also won his second National Title in Freestyle ,” he said.

Eric Cluck, a Cumming, Ga. native, who is also former NCAA All-American, captured the Div C 85 kg Freestyle title.

Both Cluck and Hanrahan will now prepare to represent Team USA at the World Championships in Poland October 7.

The US Wrestling Club is located within the Cooler, Alpharetta Family Skate Center and hosts advanced training programs for high school and Open Division grapplers. For more information, visit www.USWrestlingClub.com

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Fellowship seniors headed for collegiate athletics ROSWELL, Ga. — Fellowship Christian School seniors Clay Buchweitz and Jake Williamson signed letters of intent to participate in collegiate athletics following their graduation from FCS. Buchweitz will be a preferred walk-on for the Samford University football team, and Williamson decided to play soccer at Berry College.

Buchweitz helped the Paladin football team post a 5-5 record this past season. He recorded 39 total stops to place second on the Paladins and was also third on the squad with 42 assisted tackles and 18 solo stops.

Following the season, Buchweitz was selected for the second team of the All Region 6A Squad.

Williamson has led the FCS soccer club to a 14-3 overall this season along with a trip to the state playoffs. Williamson, a four-year

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Pictured from left in the front row are Jeff, Clay and Beth Buchweitz. In the back row are Head of School Kathy Teston, Interim Athletic Director Sandy Stephens and Head Football Coach Al Morrell.

Pictured from left in the front row are James, Jake and Wendi Williamson. In the back row are JV Soccer Head Coach Justin Smith, Head of School Kathy Teston, Interim Athletic Director Sandy Stephens and Head Soccer Coach Ari Durham

varsity player, has netted a school single-season record 43 tallies this spring. He scored 42 goals as a junior and has 122 tallies during his Paladin career.

Buchweitz and Williamson became the seventh and eighth FCS athletes to announce plans to play athletes in college this spring.

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By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@northsidewoman.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. - Jovita Moore grew up watching the news as a child, fascinated by what was happening every day in her native New York City and around the world. But it wasn’t until years later in college that she decided to make the business of news her career.

“I didn’t know as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up,” said Moore, now the main anchor for the evening newscasts on WSB-TV Channel 2. “I was interested by news...and curious to watch, but I didn’t pursue news as a career until college.”

In 1990 she earned her Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York City, and took her first job in television in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Eight years later, via stops at stations in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee, Moore came to Atlanta. She is now closing in on two decades at Channel 2.

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In 2012, she was tapped to replace Monica (Kaufman) Pearson, who was retiring as the main anchor after a career spanning nearly 40 years at WSB-TV. Filling the shoes of Atlanta’s media royalty was a bit surreal at first, noted Moore.

“For the first few months, I just pretended she was on a long vacation!” laughs Moore, who said she finds it hard to believe she’s been in the anchor desk for four years.

Moving to the most prominent role in the news station took some getting used to, she notes, after years as a reporter.

“Being the main anchor is so different from being a reporter, [where] the opportunities vary with each job,” said Moore. “As anchor, I’m representing the station all the time, and there’s a leadership and authority that comes with the position. You become ‘the face’ of the station and that’s a huge responsibility.”

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accustomed to being recognized wherever she goes, but understands that goes with the job.

“You can’t have it both ways - being on local news but not being recognized everywhere you go,” said Moore, who lives in Brookhaven. “I’m comfortable with it, it’s never been a problem for me.”

She said people are always a bit surprised by how “real” television personalities are when they meet them off camera.

“I’m not sure why they’d see us any other way but many do,” Moore laughs.

“I shop for groceries for my family...I put gas in my car...I pick up clothes at the cleaners...just like everyone else.”

Her days are long, beginning in the early afternoon for editorial meetings, then into the makeup chair, before taking her place in front of the camera beginning at 4 p.m., and anchoring the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.

“A typical days also means community events prior to 2 p.m., and events on the weekends that I emcee or attend as a representative for WSB,” said Moore. “My day ends around midnight.”

She is known for the countless hours she devotes to civic associations and non-profit organizations across metro Atlanta, with groups devoted to children and the elderly closest to her heart.

“Our House Atlanta is one of them.

How can we allow newborn babies to be homeless? We can’t,” said Moore, a

mom of two. “So it’s a cause that’s special to me. Meals On Wheels Atlanta is absolutely necessary and relevant to all of us. We have to watch over our elderly and shut-in neighbors.”

Recently Moore served as the featured speaker at the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce “Women Who Walk the Walk” event. The annual event raises funds and awareness for various charities in North Fulton, as well as providing a networking opportunity for women.

Moore said she was honored to be a part of this year’s event which focused on empowering women.

The event also provided an opportunity to interact directly with the community, instead of just through their televisions.

“I think anytime you can get a group of women together in a room to share stories that are uplifting, positive and inspiring, is a good thing,” said Moore. “[Women] should focus more on building each other up, not tearing each other down. When I got the invitation to participate, there was no way I’d turn it down.”

But for all her many accomplishments – which includes a number of Emmy Awards – she says her most important accomplishments are her children.

“If I didn’t do this job, I’d be a full time mom - meaning there would be no place I’d have to be at 2 p.m. every day, and I’d be home for dinner every night.”

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Restaurant sign suffers $2K in damages ROSWELL, Ga. — A local restaurant reported $2,000 worth of damage to their main sign May 24. One of the letters from Brookwood Grill’s red, neon sign was missing along with a decorative, yellow line. The debris from the damage was cleaned up by employees before Roswell police arrived.

The manager gave police a video of an unidentified man tampering with and destroying the sign at 3 a.m., May 21.

$800 worth of fraud in and out of state JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Two instances of fraud were reported by a woman June 1 when she was alerted to suspicious activity on her chip card in Wisconsin.

The woman’s credit card company called her May 28 to ask if she made a $200 purchase in Wisconsin recently.

She told them she did not and thought the matter was resolved.

On June 1, she realized her personal information may have been compromised when she received a call from a technology store telling her that her $600 payment had been declined. The attempted purchase was made in Kennesaw. The woman cancelled the card and contacted Johns Creek police.

Two guns reported stolen from cars JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A man reported June 2 that two guns were missing from his two cars.

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The victim usually kept the two firearms, valued together at $850, in the glovebox of each of his cars. On June 1, when he went to check on them, both guns were missing.

He says he last saw them May 31 and that the cars were always kept locked. According to the police report, there were no signs of forced entry on either car.

102 mph speeder arrested on Ga. 400 ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police arrested a man May 30 for speeding on the Ga. 400 and Haynes Bridge off ramp.

Police were patrolling midday when an officer saw a black BMW suddenly make multiple lane changes and cutting between traffic at a high speed to exit off of the ramp. The car’s speed was measured at 102 mph in a 65 mph zone.

The driver, 28-year-old Drew Fausnacht, was arrested for speeding and reckless driving.

$10K diamond watch missing from home MILTON, Ga. — A $10,000 watch was reported stolen June 6 by a woman when she couldn’t find it in its usual place.

The woman who owned the watch said that the last time she saw it was May 26, when she placed it in the top drawer of her dresser before going to sleep. When she opened the drawer June 5 to retrieve the watch, inlaid with diamonds, she could not find it.

The woman said that only she, her husband and her children regularly have access to that drawer. The only other people that would have had access to it would have been maintenance workers who did work on her home June 2, she said. They had been monitored by her husband, but the woman said there were a few moments where they were left alone.

Police could not obtain any prints from the drawer because of its material.

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Alpharetta City Band invites all musicians to join ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Alpharetta City Band, a traditional community concert band under the baton of Bill Haynes, invites adult and high school musicians in Alpharetta and throughout the north metro Atlanta area to join the group for a fun and easygoing musical experience. Everyone is welcome to join the ensemble, regardless of whether they’re an accomplished amateur musician or just want to reunite with their instrument.

The band is currently seeking players in all sections, but particularly in the percussion, woodwinds and low brass sections. No audition is required, though band members should be able to play at least at the high school level.

Rehearsals are held on most Wednesdays from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Crabapple Government Center, 2624 Broadwell Road, Alpharetta, and performances take place throughout the year. For more information visit www. alpharettaband.com, www.facebook. com/AlpharettaCityBand, or call (770) 475-9684.

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Arrests: Continued from Page 2 4 on Westside Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI, speeding, and failure to maintain lane. ►► Xavier Donte Trammell, 27, of Eufaula, Alabama, was arrested June 5 on Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug related items. ►► Tara Webb Nix, 41, of Sherry Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested June 3 on Sherry Drive in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Sarah Melinda King, 25, of Canyon Point Circle, Roswell, was arrested May 31 on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI. ►► Kevin D. Shea, 37, of Chattanooga,

was arrested May 30 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Basilo Pierzon-Rodrigyez, 28, of Wood Creek Trail, Roswell, was arrested May 28 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, child endangerment, reckless driving, speeding, and child safety seat violation. ►► Peggy Virginia Long, 38, of Wittenridge Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested May 30 on Rucker Road in Alpharetta for DUI, open container, speeding, and notice of change of address. ► ► Ivana Gavranic, 23, of Fairlane Drive, Cumming, was arrested May 26 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, speeding, expired license, and failure to obey a traffic control device. ►► William Robert Bentley II, 45, of

Gunter Court, Alpharetta, was arrested May 18 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI and driving on the shoulder.

Drug arrests ►► Frederick Alexander Wu, 26, of

Newnan, was arrested June 2 on Old Alabama Road in Johns Creek for possession of marijuana, suspended license, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. ►► Andrew Patrick Finnie, 29, of Atlanta, was arrested May 24 on Morris Road in Milton for possession of marijuana, suspended license, and brake light violation. ►► Tristian Mykel Esposito, 26, of Voyage Trail, Milton, was arrested June 7 on Voyage Trail in Milton for possession of marijuana. ►► Victoria Watts, 27, of Dawsonville,

was arrested June 6 on Mills Lane in Cumming for possession of methamphetamines. ►► Crystal Lee Sosebee, 30, of Pleasant Oaks Circle, Cumming, was arrested June 3 on Ga. 400 in Cumming for possession of methamphetamines and possession of drug related items. ► ► Travon Lamark Jones, 33, of Atlanta, was arrested June 4 on McFarland Parkway in Alpharetta for possession of marijuana, suspended license, and headlight violation. ►► D’Andre Cortez Hickman, 27, of Atlanta, was arrested May 30 on Ronald Reagan Blvd. in Cumming for possession of marijuana, reckless driving, suspended license, failure to obey a stop sign, and unlawful use of a wireless device.

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