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As part of its mission to preserve the city’s tree canopy, the Alpharetta Natural Resources Commission held its annual Arbor Day tree planting March 6 at the Marconi Drive access point to the Big Creek Greenway. Aided by more than a dozen Cub Scouts and other volunteers, Deborah Zemlock, center, organized the planting of two Serviceberry trees, a variety native to Georgia that flowers in spring and produces berries for birds.

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Police probe auto break-ins in Henderson Village area ROSWELL, Ga. — An unwelcome visitor showed up to Studio Six on Feb. 26 and pointed a gun at guests staying at the hotel along Old Dogwood Road.

Victims said the gunman banged on the door of their hotel room, claiming his “people were here.” When the residents tried explaining to the suspect that he had the wrong room, he began arguing with them through the door.

Police said one female guest returned to the hotel in the middle of the argument and tried to calm the gunman, but he pointed his weapon at her and said, “Are you ready to die tonight?” She was able to back into the room and lock the door without injury.

Police sought surveillance footage from the hotel’s staff to identify the suspect.

Man faces traffic charges after fleeing from police ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police arrested a Johns Creek man who was clocked driving 93 mph along Ga. 400 on Feb. 22.

Akash Hedge IV, 23, of Scarborough Way, was charged with reckless driving, speeding and fleeing and eluding.

A patrol officer spotted the man speeding in a 65 mph zone near Haynes Bridge Road and tried to make a traffic stop. Hedge pulled into the parking lot of a senior living facility along Morris Road just off Ga. 120. He told police he was visiting his grandmother. But when an officer checked with the nursing home, there was no record of a patient by the name Hedge gave officers.

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Burglar points weapon at startled homeowner

ROSWELL, Ga. — A resident along Pine Bloom Drive walked into his garage Feb. 22 and was greeted by a masked man rummaging through his wife’s car. When the homeowner interrupted the suspect, he ran to a getaway vehicle parked at the end of the driveway and retrieved a semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine from the backseat.

The suspect waved the gun and pointed it at the homeowner before jumping into the passenger seat. A second suspect in the driver’s seat then sped away toward Old Alabama Road. It was not clear if any item’s were stolen from the victims’ car.

Dispute over customers spurs fight at barbershop ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police were dispatched to Milton Salon on Old Milton Parkway where a barber was reportedly attacked at knifepoint Feb. 25.

According to police, the suspect intervened as two barbers were arguing about helping clients. Officers said a 40-year-old Cumming man punched one of the barbers in the head, then grabbed a knife from the shop’s kitchen. The man continued throwing punches at the victim while he held the knife.

Officers watched video footage of the attack. The victim declined to press charges.

Robber attacks visitors exiting from vehicle ROSWELL, Ga. — Police were dispatched to a home along Pine Grove Road late Feb. 23 after an armed robber ambushed three Lyft riders being dropped

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DRUGS & DUIS Jonathan F. Gansereit, 52, of Brierfield Road, Alpharetta, was arrested Feb. 24 on Rucker Road for two counts of DUI and failure to maintain lane.

Nicholas Dean McFadden, 24, of Creekside Way, Roswell, was arrested Feb. 23 on Alpharetta Highway for public drunkenness.

Kelli M. Denson, 47, of Huntcliff Village Court, Sandy Springs, was arrested Feb. 24 on Holcomb Bridge Road for possession of cannabinoid, possession of psilocybin, unlawful possession of prescription pills, possession of marijuana and improper lane change.

Damien Wihbear Williams, 40, of Canyon Lake Drive, Atlanta, was arrested Feb. 26 on Riverside Road for DUI. Freddie Espinal, 27, of West Oak Drive, Woodstock, was arrested Feb. 27 on Ashley Manor Drive for possession of schedule IV drug, failure to maintain lane, violation of traffic control device and U-turn when prohibited.

Lucio Antonio Dicicco, 52, of Bluffton Way, Roswell, was arrested Feb. 27 on Woodstock Road for DUI and hit and run-duty upon striking unattended vehicle.

Mark Alexander Tatum, 30, of Parkmont Drive, Roswell, was arrested Feb. 27 on Holcomb Bridge Road for DUI. Brittany Nicole Lee, 33, of Holcombs Pond Court, Alpharetta, was arrested Feb. 27 on Holcomb Bridge Road for DUI. Charles Robert Seltzer, 59, of Hembree Forest Circle, Roswell, was arrested Feb. 28 on Hembree Forest Circle for possession/purchase of schedule I or II drugs.

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Fulton County commissioner pitches transit element in renewed sales tax

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmedia.com FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Mayors across Fulton County should decide once and for all next month whether to attach transit funding to a proposed five-year extension to the countywide transportation sales tax.

Right now, there doesn’t appear to be much appetite for splitting the take, estimated at between $500 million to $700 million, depending on which tax rate — .75 cents or a full penny — is on the ballot.

The issue drew heated comments at a March 5 online meeting between county commissioners and the mayors from about a dozen of the 14 cities that would participate in the sales tax.

Right now, the cities — not including Atlanta — are reaping transportation dollars from a .75-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2016. That five-year tax ends in one year, and cities are exploring whether they should let voters decide whether to extend it another five years.

No city has spoken vehemently against the extension, but adding transit to the mix has created a stir.

District 1 County Commissioner Liz Hausmann stressed that including transit — such as MARTA bus and rail — to the equation would open opportunities for federal assistance. She said she has met with state transportation officials who have explored funding sources through Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

She said she shared with them the regional transit plan and the funding needs, and this was the first time federal officials have inquired about Fulton County and the region’s transit plan specifics.

“Again, all of this is predicated on what we can do locally,” Hausmann said.

Everyone at the county level, she said, understands the cities’ needs for local transportation improvements.

“But without some sort of transit component, we feel strongly that we’re going to miss opportunities,” Hausmann said.

Mayors in the southern portion of the county took offense when Hausmann presented a breakdown of how much money a 10 percent portion of the tax could mean for transit.

East Point Mayor Deana Holiday Ingraham objected to the presentation, say-

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ing she was “blindsided” by Hausmann’s pitch.

“There clearly was knowledge that this was going to be brought up,” Holiday Ingraham said, adding that the meeting agenda provided no mention of a presentation on transit.

The East Point mayor went further, stating Georgia’s largest funding award for transit, $100 million in 2018, was for bus rapid transit service proposed on Ga. 400 express lanes, which lies in the northern area of the county, she said.

For her part, Hausmann said the transit information had been compiled for informational purposes only and had only been finalized the evening before. She said transit funding had been discussed at prior meetings, also.

“We literally had a final meeting to figure out what we could share with you as late as yesterday afternoon,” Hausmann said.

Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker said the timeline and specifics for setting up a ballot measure this fall is too difficult to let the transit issue drag on.

“We’re going to need to set a ‘go’ or ‘nogo,’” he said.

Estimated revenues Early estimates provide different revenues for a renewed transportation sales tax, depending on the tax rate and how the money is apportioned.

Right now, there are three scenarios under consideration.

• A 0.75 % sales tax over five years: Would generate around $500 million for distribution to cities — outside Atlanta — according to population.

• Another option under consideration for the same tax rate would be to allocate a portion of the overall revenue for transit projects, leaving the lion’s share for local transportation projects among the cities.

• A 1% sales tax over five years: Would generate around $500 million for distribution to cities — outside Atlanta — according to population, plus an additional $200 million for transit projects in North and South Fulton Bodker suggested the cities discuss the issue with their elected leaders and come back next month prepared to reach a decision.

“I don’t want this looming over our heads,” he said. “At some point, we have to make a decision.”

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Billions on the way to help schools Federal relief package includes aid to schools for remedial programs

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com ATLANTA, Ga. —The pipeline of federal stimulus funds directed to K-12 schools will continue to flow with the passage last week of a third round of COVID-19 assistance.

The $1.9 trillion package, known as the American Rescue Plan, allocates nearly $170 billion for the nation’s K-12 public schools. It is nearly six times the first round of funding passed in June under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, and double the amount approved in January in the second round.

Georgia has been among the top recipients of stimulus funds for K-12 education. The money primarily follows Title I of the federal education law, which allocates money to districts with more low-income students.

The Georgia Department of Education received $411 million in round one, $1.7 billion in round two, and could receive up to $3.4 billion in this latest legislation.

Congress also allocated funding for higher education, as well as directly

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But it is the nation’s public schools that are the recipients of the lion’s share of federal stimulus. The third round of funding is intended to help schools open and remain open safely, as well as help students recover from learning loss after months of upheaval.

The Fulton County School System received approximately $18 million in the first round of CARES funding last summer. Those funds are expected to run out by the end of the fiscal year in June, with the second round of funds on deck.

“Fulton has been allocated an additional $75 million to be used by the end of the federal fiscal year in September 2022,” said Marvin Dereef, chief financial officer for Fulton Schools. “The Board of Education and superintendent are currently reviewing plans for the use of these funds.”

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Congress has directed schools to spend at least 20 percent of the latest round of stimulus on plans to mitigate learning loss.

A Fulton Schools study has revealed significant learning loss among students occurred between January and August last year, despite them having spent only two months in virtual learning due to COVID. Dereef said the district is analyzing data to determine the extent of learning loss over the first semester — August to January — in the current school year.

Officials say they hope the updated figures will paint a more accurate picture of student performance under COVID disruption.

The Fulton School Board will hear the report in April, along with plans on how budget allocations will be directed toward learning loss measures.

“Federal CARES funds are intended to be supplemental and address needs caused by the COVID-19 crisis,” Der-

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eef said. “The uses can [also] include mitigation efforts, like purchasing PPE for employees and students, and address revenue shortfalls.”

Despite the federal funds allocated for COVID relief, Dereef said significant budget concerns still exist. The decline in enrollment this year translates to the loss of millions of dollars in state funding next year, even if some students return to Fulton Schools in August.

Rising contributions to the teacher retirement system and the district’s “fair share” reduction in state funding will challenge the budget.

Dereef said no decision has been made on whether the millage rate will increase for property owners, or if staff will get raises beyond the $1,000 stipend already promised by Gov. Brian Kemp for teachers.

Fulton Schools will hold public hearings on the FY22 budget on May 4 and May 13.

Lawmakers debate expansion of school voucher program

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com ATLANTA, Ga. — The debate over public school funds converted to private school vouchers is again taking center stage in the General Assembly as lawmakers debate the issue of school choice.

In the closing days of the 40-day session, lawmakers are considering two bills that could expand the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship to include significantly more students, and millions more tax dollars.

Education advocacy groups have mobilized their members to oppose the legislation, which they say diverts funding from public schools and has never been evaluated for its effectiveness.

A statement from the Georgia PTA said use of public funds for private schools “promotes division without diversity, creates division and separation within the community and violates the mandate of separation of church and state.”

More than 300 private schools participate in the special needs scholarship program. The vast majority are religious-based schools.

The special needs scholarship was first passed in 2007 to provide students with disabilities vouchers

that could be used for private school tuition. The program has proven popular, growing from 900 students in its first year at a cost of $5.5 million, to more than 5,000 students last year awarded nearly $34 million in scholarships.

Currently under discussion by legislators are two bills to expand the voucher program for more students next year. House Bill 60, sponsored by Rep. Wes Cantrell (R-Woodstock), and Senate Bill 47 sponsored

by Steve Gooch (R-Dahlonega) will open the eligibility for students with a wider range of disabilities.

Under the current scholarship program, students must have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) which defines “qualifying disabilities” established under federal law. Those conditions include autism, intellectual issues or physical disability that affects the ability to learn.

Both HB60 and SB47 would expand eligibility for vouchers to any student with a 504 plan, which is much broader than an IEP, and covers many factors not covered under an IEP. A 504 plan primarily deals with protections from discrimination in learning, such as allowing more testing time for students with attention disorders.

Analysis from the Professional Association of Georgia Educators determined “504 plans are also

granted for conditions that are temporary, treatable and/or can be readily managed in public schools particularly with assistance from nurses.”

Under Cantrell’s legislation, any student covered by a 504 plan would be eligible for a savings account equal to the student’s portion of state funding at their zoned school. The school will keep any local and federal funding it earns.

“This bill has been crafted with public schools at heart,” wrote Cantrell, a former schoolteacher, in a guest column for the Georgia House newsletter.

“Research shows public schools benefit in states that support educational choice.’

The Senate version of the bill also opens the scholarship to students with 504 plans, including students who received preschool special education, or who have been adopted or placed in foster care within the previous year.

In an address on the Senate floor Gooch said the expansion of the scholarship is necessary for students with extra needs who are not well-served by public schools.

However, similar to the current special needs scholarship, there is no provision in either proposed legislation that the receiving school provide special education services to the student.

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Roswell firm shares its skills to promote problem-solving at new Innovation Academy

By TIFFANY MORGAN newsroom@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Students will have a place to call their own this fall when Innovation Academy opens for classes in downtown Alpharetta.

Urban Escape Games, a Roswellbased company specializing in recreation and amusement services, has partnered with the school to create an escape room.

The idea sprang from a conversation Principal Tim Duncan had with his staff on the use of escape rooms in schools. The idea intrigued Margaret Garth, English Department chair of Innovation Academy.

As someone new to the concept, Garth began doing research around the region and reached out to Urban Escape and contacted them.

Garth spoke to the company’s coowner Dede Zambrowicz, and said she enjoyed her welcoming persona and her willingness to jump on board with Innovation Academy.

“I have never seen such generosity,”

Garth said. “It’s so incredible that this company, that even in this time, they have been so generous for no other reason than to offer what they have.”

The room that was donated to the school is known as the CDC Escape Room, and it focuses on healthcare, one line of workforce study within the school’s core of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Urban Escape Games escape rooms are designed by an in-house team. The idea behind the structure is to engage participants to find clues, crack codes and solve puzzles to escape the room.

The school’s structure will be a professional escape room, and Garth said the school will be able to offer its business partners opportunity to use it as well.

“The whole purpose of Innovation Academy is to approach education in a different way,” Garth said. “The fact that we have this professional escape room that students can use…the problemsolving and being able to have this kind of experience is something I’ve never seen at another high school before.”

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA

Alpharetta ends 8-year run of weekly Food Truck Alley Officials say City Center draws its own following

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta has decided to end what has become a Thursday night tradition in downtown.

The city announced earlier this month it will discontinue the Food Truck Alley, which, during its heyday drew crowds of hundreds to the downtown area from April through October.

The decision follows a city review of its special events and a determination that the event no longer serves the need it was created for.

The city launched Food Truck Alley in 2012 as a means of bringing people to a struggling business district. A lot has changed since then.

With the opening of City Center in 2018, the downtown has exploded with close to two dozen new restaurants, large-scale office buildings, residential dwellings — and people.

“We began Food Truck Alley in 2012 when the Downtown Alpharetta we know today was little more than an idea,” said Alpharetta’s Assistant City Administrator, James Drinkard. “We really had only three restaurants and a handful of retailers operating at the time, so we lacked a critical mass that would draw people to the downtown core. Without more restaurants and businesses, we could not attract diners and shoppers, but without the diners and shoppers we could not attract new businesses.”

Reaction on social media was mixed, with some residents saying they are sad to see the tradition end. One suggested moving the location to city parks where summer sports are scheduled.

City Councilman Ben Burnett, who serves as liaison to the Alpharetta

Department of Economic Development, acknowledged the sentiment.

“Residents are starved to get out. It’s been a really tough year,” he said. “In 2019, Food Truck Alley’s attendance was pretty sad. I’m in favor of special events that bring people together when the governors executive orders allows us to move forward.”

The city still has a slew of downtown events on the calendar, like the Taste of Alpharetta, Brew Moon Fest and concerts in the park. Those events remain in limbo, however, until threats from the coronavirus subside.

Burnett said Alpharetta will respond in kind to keep people engaged with the city.

“We all make decisions that we want back,” he said. “I’m no different. But I’ll own it and learn from it. If the people want food trucks, I’m glad to make it happen.”

The city created Food Truck Alley as a free event that would attract residents hungry for family entertainment that would also allow restauranteurs to “dip their toes” into Downtown Alpharetta without the high overhead of opening a permanent location.

“Food Truck Alley quickly became a huge success that helped to create the vibrant environment we envisioned,” Drinkard said. “It really was the seed from which the idea of Downtown Alpharetta sprouted and ultimately grew into the destination it is today.”

Drinkard said the city had always expected Food Truck Alley to be temporary. It was intended, he said, to provide the boost downtown needed to grow.

City officials say that there will still be regular events happening in Downtown Alpharetta, they will just not involve food trucks or other elements that compete with local storefronts. Instead, the city wants to create activities that help to maintain the vibrant atmosphere and buzz that has grown here, and they want to partner with downtown merchants to do it, Drinkard said.

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Pop’s Coffee combines motorcycles and caffeine

By ZOE SEILER newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Walk into Pop’s Coffee Co., and the first thing you see is the large barista area on the left and a wall of motorcycle helmets on the right.

The coffee shop sold its first cup of Joe four months ago and has sold over 10,000 cups since, owner Gordon “Gordy” Erickson said.

Erickson also owns Pop’s Garage Fabrication which shares the same building. The garage opened in 2013 and is a high-end, custom and regular service restoration motorcycle business.

Erickson met Colin McDonald, whose family has become a second family, when he started working at the motorcycle shop, too. The pair are now business partners, owning both the motorcycle and coffee shops.

Erickson said he wanted to create more foot traffic to the motorcycle shop, and, though he is allergic to caffeine, he liked McDonald’s idea of opening a coffee shop.

“People find comfort in a cup of coffee, and with that comfort hopefully it would lead them to kind of explore what we have to offer next door,” McDonald said. “That’s worked really well for us.”

Erickson describes the space as 10,000 square feet of entertainment, and he enjoys watching customers’ reactions when they walk into either store and show others around.

“I watch them, and it’s kind of like they’re taking credit for the shop, which makes me feel like, wow, that’s the best thing we could ever do. It’s kind of turning into their shop,” Erickson said.

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Gordon “Gordy” Erickson and Colin McDonald opened Pop’s Coffee Co. in November to create more foot traffic to Pop’s Garage Fabrication. able, and customers can bring one of their own for display. One regular customer of both shops brought in a helmet with an array of stickers.

“Every sticker was one his dad gave him when he was a kid growing up,” Erickson said. “The helmet’s like a family heirloom. I let him stand on the counter and put it exactly where he wanted.”

The pair are also working on a motorcycle for the customer.

“I swear to God he thinks this is his

house and his shop but that’s how it’s supposed to work,” Erickson said.

Pop’s Coffee Co. strives to source their products locally, from the coffee beans to the produce. Their coffee and chai teas are from Atlanta, they get milk from a creamery in Clermont, and the produce comes from a greenhouse in Jasper.

The most popular drinks so far are the honey cinnamon latte and peanut butter mocha, which the owners say

tastes like Reese’s pieces. They also serve a house blend roast called Eyes Open.

The menu offers a variety of food items such as salads, a yogurt parfait, muffins, a waffle biscuit and empanadas from Belen de la Cruz, an Argentinian bakery in Johns Creek.

“I think what helps us a lot is that we are craftsmen, and we pay attention to a level of detail that a lot of people miss on our motorcycles, and that for me is the same approach that I take with our food,” McDonald said.

Pop’s Coffee Co. is open for dine-in, and all of the tables are spread at least 6 feet apart. All employees wear masks and constantly wipe down hard surfaces with a disinfecting spray.

Plexiglass barriers have been installed in front of all order and pick-up areas. Additionally, there are hand sanitizer stations at all entrances, bathrooms and trash cans.

Pop’s Coffee Co. is at 11444 Alpharetta Highway in Roswell. It is open Monday through Saturday from 7 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Some quiet, some quiet, my kingdom for some quiet Working from home the past year — God, it’s really been that long — certainly has its advantages.

For instance, my commute has been lowered from 45 minutes to about 4.5 steps, which has JOE PARKER probably increased Editor joe@appenmediagroup.com my life expectancy by eliminating the strain on my heart from being forced to putz along behind someone traveling at 31 mph on Arnold Mill Road.

That commute cutdown also allows for that extra half hour or so of sleep, which, at the time of my alarm clock blaring, I value more than any of my worldly possessions.

There is also the convenience of wardrobe. My daily outfit could have been sourced from the “Guy Going To The Gym Who Hasn’t Done Laundry In Several Weeks” collection. Those stretchy waistbands are valued because with the lack of exercise and always being just a few steps from the fridge, the seams of my pre-pandemic pants seemingly scream in shock whenever I try to wear them.

Speaking of appearances, when you’re

not seeing people outside of your household every day, you can let yourself go a bit. My wife may not see this as an advantage to working from home, considering I wasn’t much to look at beforehand, but hey, gotta find your own wins sometimes.

My hair is beginning to resemble that time when I was a freshman in high school and wanted to see what it looked like if I let it grow long. Turns out, like a sheepdog sitting on my head. My hair can seemingly defy gravity, growing outwards instead of down, which eventually makes me resemble Toad from the Mario Brothers games.

There are many other advantages to having your home double as your office, but there are also some downsides. And considering my 20-month-old daughter is currently kicking a tambourine while repeatedly pressing a button on a noisemaking toy, while yelling, and a kids show with songs so cutesy they induce rainbow vomit is playing in the background as my wife takes a work call, I’d say a particular pitfall is a lack of quiet.

Never in my life have I held silence in such a high regard. And never will I have the same kind of disdain for toy manufacturers.

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decibel output their products should have.

The kinds of people who view the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa caldera — which many scientists consider to be the loudest “sound” ever experienced on Earth that could reportedly be heard from 1,900 miles away — as aspirational.

Simultaneously, they seem to be having a competition on which company can produce the most annoying sounds and songs. By my vote, they are all winning.

It would be a bit more bearable if my daughter had fewer toys, but thanks to relatives, she has about the same number of playthings as galaxies in the observable universe. And boy, don’t my parents look happily vengeful when handing her some new toy that has a speaker larger than those used in concert venues.

Exacerbating the audio onslaught is my daughter’s own noise output. It just doesn’t seem feasible that something this small could produce so much noise, akin to a field mouse squeaking at the volume of the Saturn V rocket takeoff.

She’s also at the stage where her needs and emotions have far outpaced her vocabulary, so the next best option, according to her, is to scream interminably.

While working from home is fantastic in many aspects, I now seek out quiet with the same fervor as food, shelter, love and beer. So, if that next round of stimulus checks come in, I know which industry I will be boosting — the soundproof audiometric booth sector. Apparently one can be had for about $6,000, and that sounds like money well spent.

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Back when my sole responsibility in life was to “learn” (oh, glorious days), I remember writing a high school paper on organizational theory and reading RAY APPEN about an amazing social Publisher Emeritus ray@appenmediagroup.com scientist and Nobel Prize winner named Herbert Simon. That was so long ago, but frequently these days, I find myself remembering stuff that Simon studied and wrote about because so much of what I see today seems to beckon back to him.

One of the many things he is remembered for is his theory of “bounded reality” and how we process information and make decisions. He theorized a lot about the role and impact that the amount of relevant information played in any decision-making process. That is, did more information mean a better decision? I think he ended up concluding that humans have a very finite capacity to process information and that, no, more information did not necessarily lead to “better decisions.” In fact, he speculated, that often information overload led to worse decisions because we stopped thinking once we were overloaded and just settled for a decision that worked “well enough” within our emotional and intellectual constraints to process the information at hand.

My favorite quote from Simon is: “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” Woah!

An excess of one thing creates a shortage of something else. Everything is linked.

As my D.O. told me once, “it’s always something.” Everything has a cost. But sometimes we just miss that entirely. I think we get too caught up in life and fail to see the life we live. And maybe that is the silver lining of this pandemic and the crushing restraints it has imposed upon all of us. It’s making us slow down enough to process things, to reevaluate, to recalibrate our lives and our aspirations and priorities.

Maybe it’s just my imagination, but I think I am seeing that almost every day, and we collectively muddle through this, this maelstrom — this Cesar crossing the Rubicon moment in time.

So, I think that maybe a lot of us are reprioritizing because we’re sort of done.

We’re grasping, embracing small, beautiful things — like, well, delivering gifts to people just to make them smile or singing a song to someone just because we can — or can’t! It seems like everywhere I turn I am finding more examples of this grace, this

restart. I was going to write about a few of these “small things,” about this retreat from “more, bigger, faster, prettier, more distraction, less time, more connections but fewer friends, so I asked a friend to give me a short description of the “small thing” that he and his wife Lisa have been doing. I was going to gather a few more to include, but after I read what Tom wrote for me, I decided that was enough. He did a great job and what he wrote says it all. So here is my column that I didn’t write — written by my friend Tom. Enjoy.

“Ray, Thanks for your interest in our story with Lasagna Love.

Yesterday was a good day. Lisa and I had 8 lasagnas to make. A trip to the store for ingredients. Prep and bake lasagna (and bread and cookies!). Deliver to local families. And, then, relax.

Lasagna Love started less than one year ago, founded by Rhiannon Menn, who created it to give families a bit of extra care during COVID times. It really resonated with us when Lisa saw an online post in January and we thought “Sure, we can make lasagna!”

We’ve experienced how simply receiving a home-cooked meal eases burdens and worries and how much we’ve appreciated neighbors coming together for us. It resonates with others as well, as in the 10 months since its first deliveries, some 20,000 families across the U.S. (~400 in Georgia) have joined with Lasagna Love to provide dinner. Families have needed to manage employment challenges, illness and work-life-children-education balance like never before this past year, and the little grace of a lasagna makes things a bit brighter.

Although the encounters are set up to be contact-less, we’ve had folks open their doors to us and been able to love from afar. You don’t do it for the gratitude, but while we’re providing a much-needed meal, we’re getting back love and gratitude. It’s an example of mutual kindness which just makes this world a bit brighter.

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Thanks Tom, you nailed it much better than I ever could have.

— Ray And PS: What does this more, faster, bigger, more expensive, more, more, more mindset consume? Well, what it consumes is obvious, isn’t it? It consumes our soul.

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I put on the boots and set off to see what I would see. The only trouble was that it was late by the time I got going (darn those chores!), and so I only had a couple of hours.

When time is short, one of my favorite places to hike is at Allenbrook, part of the Vickery Creek Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. The drive to the site is short, and the trail is scenic and varied and not too long for a quick excursion.

The Allenbrook tract is tucked in between Roswell Road (Ga. 9) and Big (Vickery) Creek. If you’re going down the hill from Roswell toward the river, the parking area is on your left. But it’s hard to spot, and you’ll miss it if you’re not careful.

Once parked, the first thing you’ll see is Allenbrook, a red brick structure dating from the 1850s. Back then it served as a residence and office for the manager of nearby Ivy Woolen Mill, and in a stroke of good fortune, the building was spared

by Union troops. The story goes that as troops approached, the resident manager raised a French flag in an attempt to save the house and the nearby mills. He was partially successful; the troops burned the mill, but they left the house alone.

I do a little math. The house, I determine, is approaching 170 years old.

I play with numbers some more as I make my way down the first of two sets of timber-and-earth steps set into the hillside. I count them as I descend (if you’re interested, there are 42 steps in the upper set and 34 in the bottom set).

The steps take me to the main trail.

Straight ahead, a third set of steps (22 this time) leads to the top of Lover’s Rock (careful…no handrail). But I turn right and follow the trail toward the creek, which (since there are as yet no leaves to block the view) I can clearly see far below.

After a while, I come to a little wood landing. Below it, more steps take me down a steep spot. There are four flights of steps here, with 12, 5, 14 and 10 steps, and at the bottom is the creekside trail.

I turn left, walking upstream toward Lover’s Rock. It’s neat from the top, but it’s spectacular from below. Since I’m in a numbers frame of mind I decide to count the paces it takes to get there, but I get distracted watching an otter in the creek and lose count. Oh well. Another day for that one.

After a while I reach the rock. I hang around for a while, taking some pictures.

But the light is fading. Soon, I turn and begin the hike back.

On the way back I notice something that I had seen but not really noticed

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Continued from Page 18 before. An enormous tree (I think it was some sort of oak, but I’m not a very good tree guy either) had fallen across the trail and blocked the way. Someone had come along and cut out a section to open up the trail again (thank you!).

And the cut log was right there, right beside the trail, rings and all.

I’m not a tree expert, like I said, but I do love to count tree rings. And that’s when it dawned on me that this was a brand-new fallen tree. The most recent ring would thus be the current ring, right?

So I could start there and count back to see how old the tree was. Did I have time? Sure.

I started counting. Most rings were clearly visible, so it was not too hard to do.

2020…2019…

After a while I got to 2000, the turn of the millennium. I kept going.

Then, there! The year my youngest was

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Numbers…

I kept going. There was the year I graduated. There was the year of the moon landing. There was the year I was born.

More rings, more numbers…

I kept counting. My goal now was the year that my dad was born. He’s in his mid-90s now, and I was getting close, but I was running out of rings. Would I make it? I kept counting, and there it was! That

ring right there was the year my dad appeared on this earth.

My, but a lot has changed since then.

It was getting dark fast, so I picked up the pace on the hike back to the truck. And as I drove home, I thought about all those numbers and especially about the ones reflected there in that tree, what they had meant and what they mean and what they might mean in the future.

It was a good drive home.

cers three gunshots rang out during the incident. No one was injured.

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By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — Just a few days after ringing in the arrival of 2020, married couple and business partners Brenda and Julian Hamstead were celebrating their purchase of a home in the Trotter’s Ridge subdivision in Milton. They were excited to invest in their seventh property, their first in hometown Milton, and to breathe new life into the neglected four-bed, three-bath home on 1.6 acres before putting it back on the market.

With a bevy of upgrades slated for the home, low interest rates and the desirability of Trotter’s Ridge and Milton, the Hamsteads expected to have the home sold by May or early June.

But COVID-19 threw a pandemic-sized wrench into those plans.

“Sometimes things got so bleak, we wondered if it would ever get done,” Brenda said.

Fourteen months later, the final upgrades and touches are still being put on the home, its progress delayed months by contractor issues, a shortage of mate-

rials and long waits for appliances. The couple is happy to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the journey has been exasperating.

“Hope is starting to be restored again,” Brenda said.

The issue with contractors fueled most of the delays, with the couple finding the “third time’s the charm.”

Their original contractor had an ill family member last February and left the country to visit their relative as potential lockdowns loomed.

“Then in March and April, it all just seized up,” Brenda said. “Things were put on hiatus, and the contractors couldn’t move forward.”

The Hamsteads faced the decision of the either abandoning ship and selling the home as it stood, or continuing with their plans despite a severely limited pool of contractors still operating or available. And when they did find available companies, the unknowns of the time resulted in widely varied bids.

Slowly over the summer some reno-

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Maxine D. Smith lovingly known as Max, age 88 passed away Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at Morningside of Alpharetta where she had resided for 6 years. She was born on March 23, 1932 to A.C. Holcombe and Varon (Dorris) Holcombe. She was one of three children which both predeceased her in their early childhood (Tillman and Helen). Maxine was a resident of Crabapple during her childhood and spoke fondly of her memories of Crabapple.

She was a long-time member of Providence Baptist Church and was baptized in 1944. She loved attending church at Providence until her failing health no longer allowed her to attend.

She worked for Anchor Hocking Glass for many years until her retirement in the 90’s. She resided in Cumming, GA. until moving back to her childhood area 6 years ago.

She was predeceased by her husband, J.C., parents, A.C. and Varon, siblings, Tillman and Helen, her mother-inlaw, Mamie Jaco and many other family

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She is survived by her daughter Karen Hurley (husband Kenny) of Springfield, Mo, her sister-in-law, Linda Smith of Blairsville, Ga, her sister-in-law, Patricia Garrett of Blairsville, Ga and many other family members and friends.

The family would like to thank Morningside of Alpharetta and Agape Hospice for all of your kindness and caring for our mother. We also want to thank, Burma Parker (husband Marion) for being so dedicated to the care of our mother. You were one special cousin to our Mother.

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Continued from Page 20 vations were completed, but then the couple’s second contractor came down with a serious case of COVID-19, and again work grinded to a halt. Julian said with the contractor already behind on schedule on other projects and months passing with no significant work on the Milton home, they decided to mutually part ways with the company.

By that point, the home had become a regular item on the Trotter’s Ridge HOA agenda and email chain.

“We were generally mentioned in the HOA emails, and the update would generally be, ‘the home still looks terrible,’ but they were very understanding and being very patient,” Brenda said. “We live in Milton, and with all the projects we do, we want to contribute to the area, make it better and add value. We want to create something the people around will be proud of, and they started to understand that and saw the home start to be in a much better state.”

With contractor No. 3 now in on board, the project has moved forward, but not without additional delays.

“Everything we needed, windows, glass for shower doors, sinks, tubs, everything was on backorder,” Julian said.

“Everything was taking twice as long. We couldn’t get appliances at one point. It’s looking like things are settling down, but I still think things area a little difficult to get timely.”

With the end in sight, the couple expects renovations to be done in next 4-6 weeks, the Hamsteads have started looking to their next property to renovate

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