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Visitors flooded Alpharetta Saturday for the kickoff of the annual Downtown Farmers Market.

The popular event, now in its 18th year, will run Saturday mornings through Nov. 27. The market, which features close to 90 vendors, is sponsored by the Alpharetta Business Association and is set up to provide safe distancing and hand-sanitation stations.

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Man denied entry to party arrested for striking host ROSWELL, Ga. — Officers were beckoned to a house party along Riverwood Lane March 27 after an uninvited guest allegedly smashed a bear bottle over one homeowner’s head.

Jose Roni Colindres-Florez, 35, address unknown, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

Police said Colindres-Florez was known to guests at the party as someone who could become adversarial after drinking. When he showed up to the March 27 gathering, apparently after having been drinking, the host wouldn’t let him in and asked him to leave.

Colindres-Florez responded by hitting the victim in the head and neck with a glass beer bottle, police said.

The victim was able to avoid some of the blows and did not sustain any serious injuries.

Colindres-Florez left the scene, striking the victim’s car with his own on the way out. He was later apprehended at a bar along Holcomb Bridge Road.

Manufacturing building breached by burglar ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police were dispatched to a March 28 burglary at the

PUBLIC SAFETY Robatech USA manufacturing plant on Alderman Drive.

Police said a male suspect dressed in black used a crowbar to pry his way into the business, and surveillance footage showed him break into one of the offices inside.

The company’s owner was not sure if anything was missing, but told police a laptop was possibly stolen. Police collected fingerprints. No arrest was made.

Neighbors report gunshots coming from wooded area ROSWELL, Ga. — Police responded to reports of gunshots near Raintree Drive on March 27.

Residents said they heard the shots coming from a wooded area and saw two males sprint from the woods moments later. One witness said the men got into a black SUV and sped away.

Police found 14 9mm shell casings on leaves in the woods. No one was arrested.

Same vehicle spotted at string of auto break-ins ROSWELL, Ga. — Police received reports of three separate auto breakins near Alpharetta Street on March 22.

Witnesses described a gray Dodge Charger with a temporary tag near the scene of each of the thefts, police said.

Handguns were stolen from two of the vehicles and a gym bag was reportedly stolen from the third car.

One of the victims told police he followed the Dodge Charger from the

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DRUGS & DUIS arrests Rodolfo Sanchez Hernandez, 27, of Creekside Way, Roswell, was arrested March 24 on Houze Way for DUI, failure to obey traffic control device and driving while unlicensed.

Lisa Elvira Green, 34, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was arrested March 26 on Crossville Road for DUI and impeding the flow of traffic.

Raeshaundra Danye’lle Aikens, 22, of Parkwood Drive, Stockbridge, was arrested March 27 on Marietta Highway for DUI, open container violation and tire requirements.

Christopher D. Lunsford, 47, of River Oaks Drive, Woodstock, was arrested March 27, on Canton Street for DUI. Gustavo Adolfo Maya, 37, of Lenox Park Drive, Buford, was arrested March 24 on Ga. 400 for DUI and stopping, standing, parking prohibited in specified places.

Steven Alphonso Hector Jr., 36, of Executive Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested March 25 on Ga. 400 for DUI and speeding.

Jennifer Michelle Turner, 41, of Bennington Place, Canton, was arrested March 27 on Ga. 9 for DUI and no taillights.

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Alpharetta delays plan to promote itself as wedding hotspot

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta officials are still grooming plans that would engage the city to the wedding industry.

The latest proposal, presented at the City Council’s Monday night meeting, isolated on three sites that could be converted and marketed to stage outdoor weddings.

The total bill for the initial enhancements would run around $44,000.

But council members had an array of questions, and they ultimately decided not

to take the plunge until more details about future costs are worked out. There were also questions about how much time and security the city would expend in hosting wedding events.

Councilman John Hipes pointed out that the endeavor had been proposed to bolster the city’s hospitality industry which has struggled recently because of the pandemic. The industry brings in about $9 million annually to city coffers in the form of hotel-motel taxes. Most recent figures presented show occupancy rates still below 50 percent.

Alpharetta arts group unveils latest sculpture on outdoor tour

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Arts Alpharetta has announced its latest offering for public display, a work by internationally renowned sculptor Olu Amoda.

The work, “Miles,” is on display in Brooke Street Park in Downtown Alpharetta and represents the first endeavor in collaboration with the newly formed Alpharetta Cultural Arts Commission.

Amoda is known for re-purposing materials and metals to express modern African sensibility. The son of a goldsmith, he was born in Okere Warri in Niger in 1959. He graduated in sculpture from Auchi Polytechnic in 1983 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Georgia Southern in 2009.

“Miles” is a sculpture created entirely of repurposed automatic transmission clutch discs. It stands 16 feet tall and is shaped in the figure of a woman.

“He takes metal pieces and figures out what else they can be,” said Mike Bu-

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Hipes asked whether a city investment into a wedding site campaign would pay for itself.

The plan presented Monday called for varying enhancements to the Mansell House, the Alpharetta Arts Center and the formal courtyard at City Hall.

Alpharetta Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Director Morgan Rodgers said the current price tag for improvements does not include all the fine-tuning details necessary to launch a campaign to market the city as a wedding destination.

“I would say we’re about halfway

there,” he said.

The Parks Department has identified three locations the city could enhance to promote as Grade-A wedding sites: The Mansell House in Wills Park — Cost of $11,500 would include landscaping, replacing the two gazebos and enhancing the porch with new fans, lighting and paint. The estimate does not include upgrades to the house itself, an enterprise that would require consultation with the Alpharetta Historical Society.

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Members of Alpharetta’s arts community welcomed internationally acclaimed sculptor Olu Amoda, second from right, and his sculpture, “Miles,” to Brooke Street Park April 1. The work is the figure of a woman created entirely from automatic transmission discs. Present with the artist are, from left, Ben Hollingsworth, Arts Alpharetta; Gene Andrews Alpharetta Cultural Arts Commission co-chair; and Mike Buchanan, Arts Alpharetta.

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Forsyth County Schools challenges stimulus funding formula

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — Officials with Forsyth County Schools are questioning a formula for federal stimulus funds they say is lopsided and unfairly penalizes the district based on the makeup of its student population.

Georgia’s public schools have received nearly $6 billion in federal stimulus funds in the past year aimed at helping K-12 schools respond and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The school-based funding has been included in three separate stimulus bills approved by Congress over the past year.

The first two rounds under then-President Donald Trump were referred to as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act; the second under President Joe Biden were included in the recently-approved American Rescue Plan.

Lawmakers mandated the education funds be allocated to school systems based on the percentage of students receiving Title 1 services tied to lower family income. Fewer than 14 percent of Forsyth County’s 51,500 students fall into that category, according to the Georgia Department of Education. The statewide average is nearly 57 percent.

The formula puts Forsyth County Schools, with its low Title 1 population, at a distinct disadvantage for COVID relief funds. Officials have maintained the district is facing the same challenges as all districts in providing education under pandemic disruptions.

In total, Forsyth County Schools received $20.5 million in federal funds, equal to $397 per student. By contrast, Atlanta Public Schools with 1,000 fewer students, received the equivalent of $6,234 per student.

In an email sent in January to the Georgia Department of Education prior to the second round of stimulus funding, a Forsyth County Schools official questioned the continued reliance on the Title 1 formula for future allocations.

“If Title 1 is used again…Forsyth will be shorted again, and some school districts could receive more in CARES

Top 10 recipients of Federal Stimulus Funds for K-12 Education in Georgia Total stimulus funds (3 rounds)*(in millions) DeKalb County $ 486.1 Gwinnett County $ 440.4 Atlanta (Public) $ 314.4 Clayton County $ 263.9 Fulton County $ 262.5 Cobb County $ 247.5 Richmond County $ 181.5 Bibb County $ 155.0 Chatham County $ 154.1 Muskogee $ 147.5

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2021 Enrollment** (change from 2020) 92,353 (-864) 177,402 (-2,817) 50,433 (-1,606) 51,844 (-2,305) 90,219 ( -3,371) 107,068 (-4,639) 29,158 (-1,240) 21,097 (-492) 35,709 (-1,511) 30,514 (-864)

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Acts fund than the austerity cuts,” wrote Larry Hammel, chief financial officer for the Forsyth County School System.

The email was obtained under the Open Records Act. Most Georgia school systems began the school year in the red after $950 million in state education was cut through “austerity reductions.” A mid-year budget adjustment restored 60 percent of the cuts, but many school systems, including Forsyth County Schools, still struggled.

“Forsyth had a $23 million deficit in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget, and receiving $1.7 million in the first round of CARES Act funds did not help,” Hammel wrote.

The formula remained unchanged through all three rounds of stimulus funding for Georgia, which grew from $411 million in the first round to $3.8 billion in the latest round approved last month.

A spokesman for the Georgia Department of Education said the decision on allocations is out of the hands of education officials, at both the state and national level.

“The funding method was determined in law, not by the U.S. Department of Education,” said Matt Cardoza, external

affairs director for the department.

Of the 193 school districts in Georgia, 10 systems received almost half of the nearly $6 billion in federal stimulus funds allocated to the state. Forsyth County Schools ranked 60th among the 193 districts in terms of total funds received, despite its size as the 6th largest in the state with 51,548 students.

DeKalb County Schools, the state’s 3rd largest school district, received the most federal stimulus among the state’s school districts. It has received $486 million to date — $5,264 per student. The district recently returned to face-to-face instruction after seven months of universal remote learning.

Forsyth County Schools was the largest school district in the state to open last August with in-person instruction.

Cardoza said the federal stimulus funds do not come with any incentives or mandates to open schools to face-to-face learning.

“We have allowed local districts to determine [their instruction model], but State Superintendent Richard Woods has stated clearly he believes face-to-face is the best model for the majority of students,” Cardoza said.

Legislative session concludes with sweeping measures

By JEFFREY ALBERTSON newsroom@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — The Georgia General Assembly adjourned March 31 at midnight, ending a legislative session that attracted controversy and applause.

With 40 legislative days complete, legislators now direct attention to redistricting efforts this summer.

Statewide The state attracted national attention following passage of SB 202, titled the “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” which introduces sweeping changes to absentee ballot requirements and other election law.

The bill, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp March 25, changes Georgia’s absentee voting rules, adding

new identification requirements and moving back the request deadline.

A record 1.3 million absentee ballots were cast in the 2020 Georgia General Election, overwhelming some local elections officials.

Previous provisions of the bill to require an excuse to vote by mail,

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Lawmakers adjourn session with education impacts

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com ATLANTA, Ga. — The Georgia Assembly ended the first half of its twoyear session on March 31 with more of a whimper than a wail as most of the headline-grabbing bills passed in the days before adjournment.

Most of the highly debated legislation, including voting reform and expansion of special needs vouchers for public school students, was on Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk before the final day of the 40-day session.

The final day was busy as lawmakers passed legislation dealing with homeschooled students’ eligibility to play on public school teams, the rights of “pandemic pods” for small groups of students, and adding vaping product information to the drug and alcohol courses.

Approved measures are now before Gov. Kemp who has 40 days to sign or veto the legislation. The governor can also do nothing and allow the bill to go into law.

Education advocates across the state came up short on their annual push to defeat expanding the program that provides private school vouchers for students with special education needs.

Since its original passage in 2007, lawmakers have sought to expand the Special Needs Scholarship program to include an expanded list of what defines a “special need.”

Of the three voucher bills introduced this session, Senate Bill 47 sponsored by Rep. Steve Gooch (R-Dahlonega), made it across the finish line and awaits the governor’s signature. The bill allows students with 504 plans access to vouchers, and not just Individualized Education Plans as defined under federal law.

Education advocates lobbied that 504 plans are often temporary and can be mitigated by changing the learning environment for the student.

Another piece of education legislation, the “Tim Tebow bill,” made it to the governor’s desk after years of consideration. Now renamed the “Dexter Mosely Act,” the bill allows homeschooled students to participate on public school extracurricular teams.

The student must be enrolled in at least one class at their home school.

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Big-ticket items, city debt key Roswell City Council discussion

By ZOE SEILER newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell City Council continued its look at the budget March 29 as it navigates the final months of its fiscal year and prepares for a 2022 spending plan that goes into effect July 1.

On tap at the meeting was the city’s capital budget — one-time, big-ticket items that includes tens of millions of dollars for road work, building repairs and vehicles.

Roswell Finance Director Ryan Luckett provided an overview, saying the city’s capital projects budget is split between maintenance capital and one-time capital.

Maintenance capital involves maintaining the city’s current assets and is typically funded by current revenues.

One-time capital includes one-time projects, such as construction, and is typically funded with non-recurring revenues, like impact fees or a Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. One-time capital projects account for about 83 percent of the city’s current capital projects budget of $92.2 million, Luckett said.

“The bulk of those projects are in our transportation department, and that’s mainly because of the TSPLOST program that makes up the bulk of that,” Luckett said. “Other major sources include the Environmental and Public Works Department at $8.2 million, Recreation and Parks at $3.5 [million], Administration at $3.2 [million], and then it just kind of goes on from there.”

Luckett also outlined the city’s debt level which is used for either one-time projects or catching up on deferred maintenance.

“That’s never really a goal of ours, but if we’ve been in a situation where we haven’t been able to allocate funding to maintenance over several years, then we

would try and catch up on that,” Luckett said. “If it’s a project that’s so large that it would take years to accumulate enough reserves to do a pay-as-you-go, so debt may be the best option.”

Roswell is sitting at $16.7 million in capital-related debt as of June 30, 2020.

Luckett mentioned the $5 million loan from the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank for additional local resurfacing will be added to the debt amount, once the City Council approves the funding.

On the revenue side, Roswell sits in the middle of its surrounding cities in terms of property value, he said.

The city’s property tax value — its tax digest — stands at $6.2 billion. The tax digest represents the taxable value of all commercial and residential property in the city.

— 40 percent of its fair market value.

Area-wide, Sandy Springs has the largest tax digest at $10 billion, followed

by Alpharetta at $6.6 billion. Johns Creek follows just below Roswell with a digest of $5.6 billion, and Milton, which is heavily residential, stands at $3.2 billion.

Luckett said that while Roswell’s digest is about 75 percent residential and 25 percent commercial, its total debt per capita stands at about $177 per person. By contrast, Johns Creek and Milton have per capita debt of amounts of about $800.

“This isn’t necessarily [to say] the residents aren’t bearing the full brunt of the debt that’s been issued here,” Luckett said. “They can spread it across residential and commercial properties whereas Milton, Johns Creek, as well as ourselves, we’re more resident heavy. I would compare in this situation where we stand both with Milton and Johns Creek.”

The City Council will meet next on April 12 for a regular meeting at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 38 Hill Street.

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The Roswell City Council met on Monday, March 29, via Zoom to continue discussions of the upcoming year’s budget with Director of Finance Ryan Luckett before the proposed budget goes before the City Council for a vote.

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It was the right time and the right place for Roswell.

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Dance school fills need in Roswell

By ZOE SEILER newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — At age 3, Nancy Tolbert Yilmaz knew she wanted to take ballet.

So, her mother, not knowing what ballet was, searched for classes for her toddler. For a couple of years, Yilmaz danced in the basement of her teacher’s house near Lenox Square.

As time passed, Roswell created its own recreation department, and Yilmaz was in one of the first dance classes offered.

“All of the kids in Roswell signed up for everything that was suddenly offered,” Yilmaz said. “I mean this was all new to us. We’d never seen any of this.

So, I started with what was the very first recreation department.”

At age 21, the sixth-generation North Fulton resident opened Tolbert Yilmaz School of Dance in 1979 with fellow dancer Mary Lynn Taylor. The pair aimed to fill a need in the community to offer classes to children in the city when there weren’t many options at the time.

“I really, sincerely thought this would be just something maybe once a week, go in, teach classes, continue with my professional career and, yeah, it changed,” Yilmaz said. “It changed overnight.”

The studio started out in a small, fixer-upper house on Canton Street. On the first day of class registration, they expected a few dozen kids. To their surprise, 350 children showed up to take dance classes.

“It was the right time and the right place for Roswell,” Yilmaz said. “Families were moving in. It was the time that

things were changing.”

The studio is now located on Houze Way in a new 24,000-square-foot facility that opened last August.

“We have our own black box theater in there,” Yilmaz said. “We have Atlanta Dance Medicine as one of our tenants, so they see dancers for physical therapy and injuries. We have a full costume shop. I’m so excited about our costume shop, because we have a dry cleaning rack that we put our costumes on.”

The studio has grown from having two teachers to now 27 faculty members and 13 other staff members over the last 42 years.

Tolbert Yilmaz School of Dance is a ballet-based studio that focuses on building a good ballet foundation and providing opportunities for students to also learn other styles of dance.

The studio offers ballet, hip hop, acrobatics, tap, and musical theater classes. Students can also learn how to perform using aerial silks.

In addition to the dance studio, the school has three performing companies.

One is the Roswell Dance Theatre, which is the ballet company students 10 years old and above can audition for annually.

The studio also offers a modern dance company and a pre-professional dance company. The pre-professional program consists of dancers that do ballet and modern dance who are on track to receive a college scholarship.

Members of the Roswell Dance Theatre have received scholarships to some of the finest performing arts schools in the country, like The American School of Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and Marymount Manhattan College.

Students have also gone on to per-

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Nancy Tolbert Yilmaz opened Tolbert Yilmaz School of Dance in 1979 to fill a need in her community at a time when local dance classes were limited. The performing company’s biggest winter production is the Nutcracker.

form for the New York Metropolitan Opera, Walt Disney Productions, Universal Studios, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Tyler Perry Studios.

In 2020, the studio had to reinvent itself during the pandemic. The studio was closed until July, so teachers and dancers shifted to virtual classes, recorded recital dances, using Zoom for every class.

Students began returning to the studio in July, about everyone was back

by September.

“So, what we did was we were extremely strict,” Yilmaz said. “We did not allow anyone in the studio before they had a temperature check, hand sanitizer and a mask. Then we had hired a cleaning crew to come in and clean the studio between each hour.”

The staff also created a carpool line for picking up and dropping off students. Only dancers and faculty members are allowed into the facility.

“The COVID guidelines that we have done have made it successful,” Yilmaz said, adding that their safety measures have not changed since the summer.

The studio has reported only two cases of COVID-19 among students since August and there are almost 1,000 dancers enrolled.

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Another patient’s doctor told her that a mass could be watched and that since imaging was not necessary, it would not be covered by insurance. She paid out of her own pocket for a CT scan that identified the cancer that she suspected she had. Multiple other patients shared similar stories. And whereas this may come as a shock to some, it is, sadly, not surprising to me. Physicians are not infallible. I genuinely believe that patients should be their own advocate. Good physicians support their patients seeking additional professional opinions. In fact, my patients and I share similar stories because a second (fifth actually) opinion saved the life – or more accurately the quality and course of life – of my son: I count my blessings that my wife holds to her convictions and advocates for our family. Multiple “second” opinions at her insistence saved my oldest child from a lifetime of developmental struggles and unnecessary deafness. Our oldest effectively stopped talking at about 14 months old.

He never had a diagnosed or suspected ear infection. And although he would eventually turn towards us when we called his name, my wife was convinced that he could not hear. She took him to multiple pediatricians and was repeatedly dismissed with the counsel that “boys will be boys” and “not everyone is a talker.” These were board-certified, well-trained physicians.

Over the course of a year, his speech deteriorated from a dozen words at 14 months to only 2 words at 2 years old. A pediatric ENT, an audiologist and another pediatrician examined him and suggested autism, but when asked, they could not support their conclusions convincingly. The diagnosis just didn’t fit, as there were no other symptoms of autism.

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bounced back from his ear drums was not consistent with open, air-filled middle ears. Dr. Matthew Whitley (Pediatric Ear Nose and Throat of Atlanta) scheduled an appointment to place tubes in his ear drums and explore further. Shortly into the surgery, Dr. Whitley discovered that my son had “glue ear,” which is when a gluelike semisolid forms behind the ear drum.

Our son could hear sounds, which explains how he passed his first hearing test at one year old, but sounds were heard as if underwater, and he could not differentiate between many sounds which made speech unintelligible. Dr. Whitley inserted tubes, removed the glue-like material from our son’s middle ear and restored his hearing.

Within one week our son went from speaking two words to twenty words. We were informed that in a case such as our son’s, it would likely have taken years for the glue ear to resolve on its own. Had we stuck with our first, second, third, or fourth opinion, our son would have been severely affected by deafness (and thus speech) during critical developmental years.

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Physicians have an obligation to present patients with the most reasonable treatment options, even when that treatment option is not available in their own practice. I sleep well at night knowing that I genuinely give my patients treatment that I would not necessarily pick for myself. My job is to present facts and to be a guide but not to choose for my patients. Just today, I saw a patient who was referred to me for Mohs surgery of a basal cell carcinoma on the lower edge of the nose. We reviewed his treatment options together. He had never considered radiation therapy until I presented it as an alternative to Mohs surgery, and ultimately radiation therapy is what he selected. Likewise, I occasionally have patients referred to me for Mohs surgery who select imiquimod cream instead of surgery after I present it as a treatment option for certain types of basal cell carcinoma. When non-surgical options exist, it is a surgeon’s responsibility to help educate a patient about treatment options worth considering.

The providers at Premier Dermatology believe in second opinions and in patient advocacy. I, along with Kathryn Filipek, PA-C, strive to truly listen to our patients and empower them to seek second opinions and alternative courses of treatment.

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Helping Your Older Loved One Move Ahead Older adults often have a great amount of resiliency, as they’ve seen and lived through many trying experiences in life.

The extended impact of the COVID pandemic, however, can be especially hard on them as the isolation of staying home and avoiding large gatherings can lead to a decline in both physical and mental health.

As record numbers of the population over age 65 who are most at risk receive a COVID vaccination, you may find it possible to begin to reconnect with your older loved ones beyond a phone call or online zoom session. As we start to emerge from this pandemic, it’s important to take stock of things that may have changed or are different with them and their environment.

The CDC notes that even under normal conditions the signs of depression, anxiety or worsening memory loss often go unnoticed in seniors. Here are a few things to watch for and some ideas to help transition as we begin to look forward to brighter days.

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Johns Creek hosts Veterans’ Hall of Fame induction

By KATIE ANDERSON newsroom@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Georgia veterans, their families and friends, were honored Saturday at the induction ceremony for the Class of 2020 Georgia Military Veterans Hall of Fame.

This 8th annual ceremony was delayed due to COVID from November 2020. The ceremony has in the past always occurred at St. Luke’s Ministry Center in Columbus, Ga. The Johns Creek Veterans Association and the City of Johns Creek helped co-host and sponsor the event so that it could take place in The Mark Burkhalter Amphitheater at Newtown Park.

The park is also home to the 4-acre Veterans Memorial Walk and the Wall That Heals. The walk features a trail with black, granite monuments recognizing each conflict involving American armed forces since World War I. It also includes special monuments to Purple Heart recipients, POW/MIAs and women in service.

“This city is a very patriotic city, it’s a Purple Heart City,” Col. Rick White, director and chairman of the board for the Georgia Military Veteran’s Hall of Fame, said. “It is home to the largest privately funded veteran’s park in the United States.”

The 2020 class was made up of 16 veterans who were honored for service, valor and achievement.

Five of the inductees honored Saturday had been killed in action or were inducted posthumously. 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr. and Maj. Charles Livingston Kelly were killed-in-action, and Master Sgt. James Rylance Greene, Rear Adm. Irve Charles “Chuck” LeMoyne and Lt. Gen.

John Nicolas McLaughlin were inducted posthumously.

An honor bell was rung as these men were inducted, and family and friends accepted the awards in their place.

Col. Robert Shane Kimbrough was also unable to attend the ceremony because he is in a quarantine before his third space mission this month as commander of SpaceX Crew 2. Kimbrough has logged 39 hours of spacewalking time in 189 days in space. He received his induction for achievement.

The Navy Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or JROTC, of Allatoona High School, assisted in the ceremony. They posted the colors and presented each inductee plaque.

Col. Rick White said that their involvement during the ceremony gave him faith in the young people of America.

“One quick thing about JROTC, it’s about leadership,” White said. “And the U.S. military is a vehicle to teach leadership, they’re doing great things for America.”

Among those inducted into the 2020 class was legendary University of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley.

Dooley joined the Marine Corps for two years in 1954 and then reverted to reserve status until his honorable discharge in the rank of captain in 1967.

Around 20 of Coach Dooley’s previous football players showed up to support him including some from his 1980 National Championship Team.

The Georgia Military Veterans’ Hall of Fame is working with Dooley to create a scholarship for JROTC students in Georgia.

Last year, the Georgia Military Veterans’ Hall of Fame awarded five Georgia ROTC students with the intention of going into military service upon graduation with $3,000 scholarships.

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Lt. Col. Mike Mizell, president of the Johns Creek Veterans Assocation and Coach Vince Dooley, left to right, with Dooley’s Georgia Military Veteran’s Hall of Fame induction plaque.

“When you have 200 to 300 ROTC cadets around the state that competed in a program physically and mentally and then you can only give five scholarships, it kind of hurts,” Lt. Col. Mike Mizell, president of the Johns Creek Veterans Association said. “We’d love to give them all one.”

Mizell said that they hope that having Dooley join the effort will bring more attention to the scholarship program. He said they hope to implement the Vince Dooley Memorial Scholarship Fund for ROTC candidates by this fall.

The other inductees of the class of 2020 include Capt.

John Daniel Allen, Maj. Gen. Peter James Boylan, Jr., Col. Earnest Wayne Dill, Col. Mayo Addison “Bill” Hadden, III, Capt. Edward “Rusty” Holman Hightower, Chief Warrant Officer Robert “Bob” Edward Pennington, Lt. Col. John William Phillips, Sgt. Maj. Michael Earl Roby and Capt. Dr. James Llewellyn Story, Jr.

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Nature centers host events in observance of Earth Day

BY ADAM DARBY adam@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Earth Day is right around the corner, and there will be special events to honor the occasion Thursday, April 22.

To recognize Mother Nature’s big day, the Chattahoochee Nature Center and Dunwoody Nature Center will be hosting special events. The family-friendly events will demonstrate the importance of nature preservation firsthand in a variety of ways.

Each date will showcase a specific aspect of nature to please all groups and ages with free admission or affordable online registration. For health and safety, masks and social distancing will be required.

Here are some of what these locations have to offer: Chattahoochee Nature Center: 9135 Willeo Road Roswell, GA 30075 Events: 2021 Georgia Scavenger Hunt to the Sea April 1 to Oct. 31 A Scavenger Hunt Through Georgia’s Interconnected Water System where you can visit 14 unique sites. Some are entirely virtual and others can be completed online, but contact information about how you can

visit in-person.

Nature Club Dine and Discover: State of the Chattahoochee River with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Jason Ulseth April 22 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Join Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Jason Ulseth, over Zoom for this virtual Nature Club presentation. Jason will discuss the work of a Riverkeeper and the current issues facing the Chattahoochee River including the Water Wars, water pollution, and more. You will receive a Zoom link after you register and before the event.

Register online. Admission for ages 16 and up is $10 for the public and $5 for CNC members. Advance registration required by Wed, April 21.

Dunwoody Nature Center 5343 Roberts Drive Dunwoody, GA 30338 Events: Free First Saturday - Embrace Earth Day! Sat, April 3 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The Nature Center kicked off Earth Month Saturday teaching visitors about sustainable swaps everyone can make in their daily lives. The program was part of the center’s Free First Saturday series.

The session included an educational hike around the Nature Center’s grounds.

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Family-friendly events for children of all ages are on tap throughout the year at Chattahoochee Nature Center.

activities take place outdoors so please dress for the weather. Admission for a half day is $135 and full day is $180. Members are priced at $114 for a half day and $165 for the full day.

Sunset Yoga April 22 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Backyard Scientists Nature Classes Wednesdays, April 14, 21, 28 (half and full day options available)

Join the Nature Center on Earth Day for a peaceful full body flow under the canopy of trees. This is the perfect opportunity to reconnect with nature and enjoy the long days and cool evenings of spring.

Yoga instructor Kim Hobbs will lead you through a live, outdoor, hour long mind and body experience sure to leave your mind and body feeling flexible, energized, and relaxed. Admission is $10.

Take a break from virtual learning and come to the Nature Center for outdoor nature and science activities. Your child will have the chance to learn about Amphibians and Wetlands. Activities will correspond to each grade level standard. Most

For more information, call the Chattahoochee Nature Center at 770-992-2055 or visit their website at chattnaturecenter.org.

To contact the Dunwoody Nature Center, call 770-394-3322 or visit their website at dunwoodynature.org.

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Through his interactions with an automotive shop, Amoda collected hundreds of the discs.

“Most people are intrigued by an automobile’s beautiful exterior, but the engine’s interior is equally as beautiful, if not more,” Buchanan said. “Heating, bending, cutting and twisting are the dynamics of a vehicle’s clutch discs; these actions were employed in ‘Miles’ creative process. Miles is configured to vibrate and rock gently as the winds transit through, much like I danced to the music created by the hammering of the discs on the anvil.”

The work is part of the Alpharetta Art Walk, a collaboration between the city, the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau and Arts Alpharetta.

The outdoor displays located throughout the city are all associated with a program by which the artist is paid for the “loan” of the work for 18 months. During that time, the piece may be sold, and that sale would include the cost of the loan.

In most cases, artists are paid a $5,500 stipend for the loan.

Arts Alpharetta, which serves as an umbrella organization for about 14 local arts organizations, is involved in its own fundraising efforts to foster public art displays. It helps promote events, teach classes and foster the fine and cultural arts. It seeks to grow art venues, experiences and relationships within the city.

Kim Zane, Alpharetta Cultural Services manager, said outdoor art displays of the quality in Alpharetta show the city’s commitment to the arts.

She said outdoor art will become more prevalent as the city expands its public spaces, particularly along walking trails like the AlphaLoop.

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Krispy Kreme offers free treat for COVID-19 vaccinated guests

By ZOE SEILER newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Krispy Kreme is offering a taste of sweet encouragement for those getting the COVID-19 vaccines.

Anyone who shows their COVID-19 vaccination record card will receive a free original glazed doughnut. A purchase is not required to redeem the offer and guests are limited to one free doughnut per day.

The offer lasts through the remainder of the year, any time, any day, or even every day, said Tricia Moore, account supervisor at FleishmanHillard and representative for Krispy Kreme.

Qualified guests are individuals who have received at least one of the two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine. All U.S. Krispy Kreme locations, including the Roswell store, are participating in this offer, Moore said.

“We all want to get COVID-19 behind us as fast as possible, and Krispy Kreme wants to support everyone doing their part to make the country safe by getting vaccinated

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as soon as the vaccine is available to them,” Moore said.

On March 24, the Roswell location gave out at least 300 doughnuts to vaccine recipients between noon and 5 p.m., which was most of their business since the announcement of the offer was made, according to one store employee.

The company, however, understands that getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a highly personal decision. They advise all employees and guests to consult with their healthcare provider regarding the decision to get one of the vaccines.

For those who choose not to get vaccinated, they can still receive a free original glazed doughnut and medium coffee on Mondays through May 24.

The promotions are part of Krispy Kreme’s “Be Sweet” initiative to inspire joy and kindness, CNN Business reported.

The retailer’s vaccine support is not limited to store customers. The doughnut shop is offering its employees an incentive to get vaccinated by providing four hours of paid time off to get vaccinated, according to CNN Business.

ornate gates at certain entry points. The City Hall Community Room could also be used as a bridal staging area.

Arts Center lawn and patio area — With an estimated cost of $25,000, the former library at Canton Street and Mayfield Road would receive landscape improvements and additional exterior power sources.

Aside from unforeseen future expen-

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Krispy Kreme is offering free doughnuts to guests who have received a COVID-19 vaccine. All U.S. locations, including the Roswell store, are participating. Guests who show their COVID-19 vaccination record card will receive a doughnut.

ditures, council members took issue with some of the proposals already under consideration.

Councilwoman Karen Richard objected to adding gates to the City Hall garden area, saying it would destroy the open concept the city wants to promote.

Councilman Donald Mitchell said the City Hall courtyard itself had been specifically designed in an elongated quadrifoil

pattern, and he warned against any changes that would alter the architect’s original vision.

Ultimately, Councilman Dan Merkel moved to table any decision to move forward with the proposals until the city could get a better understanding of how the campaign would work to include ample parking, security and staffing.

That measure passed without dissent.

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Legislature: Continued from Page 4 and to restrict weekend voting hours were deleted amid an outpouring of complaints from Democrats, voting rights groups and county elections officials.

The law faces current legal challenges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, based in Atlanta.

HB 479, legislation repealing a Civil War era citizen’s arrest statute, cleared the General Assembly with strong bipartisan support. The House voted 173-0 and the Senate voted 52-1 in favor. Repealing the law was a legislative priority for Gov. Kemp, following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Feb. 2020. The bill now heads to the Governor’s desk.

Late evening of the final day, leg-

islators passed a $27.3 billion appropriations bill with bipartisan support, which secured state funding starting July 1, 2021.

A wide breadth of bills related to taxation, public safety, education, public health, and small businesses await signature from the governor.

Taxation SB 6 - Tax Credit Return on Investment Act of 2021 calls for the House Committee on Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee to obtain independent economic analyses when considering fiscal bills.

HB 593 - Tax Relief Act of 2021 increases the standard deductions for single, married and people over 65 and blind. The law would impact filings starting Jan. 1, 2022. Gov. Kemp has already signed this bill.

Public Safety SB 105 - Statewide probation

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system would be revised to permit the early termination of probation after a person has paid fines, had not had a probation revocation and not been arrested for any serious offense.

HB 255 - Sexual Assault Reform Act of 2021 would create a state tracking system for sexual assault kits through the criminal justice process.

HB 94 - “Porch Piracy” or package theft, would be treated as a felony carrying punishment from one to five years in jail.

HB 286 - Restricts ability of county and city governments to decrease law enforcement funding by more than 5 percent in a fiscal year.

Public Health HB 146 - Paid Parental Leave is expanded for eligible state employees and local board of education employees. The leave is for 120 hours or three weeks.

SB 164 - Modernization of HIV laws to align with science to ensure laws and policies support current understanding of public health. Also supports best practices for prevention of transmission.

HB 43 - Vehicle registration application forms include option to disclose an impairment that may interfere with communication to law enforcement.

SB 85 - “Max Gruver Act” bans hazing and requires public disclosure on the case is adjudicated. Gruver, a Roswell resident, died on Sept. 14, 2017 in a fraternity hazing incident.

Small Business HB 112 - Certain immunities from COVID-19 for small businesses are extended for one additional year. The immunity expires July 14, 2022.

SB 236 - “Cocktails to go” permits restaurants to sell mixed drinks for curbside pick-up. The alcohol has to be sold in a tamper-proof container.

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Education: Continued from Page 4 The bill did not pass on its own.

It was added as an amendment to Senate Bill 42, dealing with student discipline data, after failing as a standalone bill.

The General Assembly also passed House Bill 81 which is the state’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget. It is the only piece of legislation that must be introduced and passed each session. The budget contains an austerity cut of approximately $380 million to the Quality Basic Education formula, the state’s primary mechanism for funding K-12 public schools.

Although significant, the cut could have been worse. The original austerity cut proposed to balance the state budget in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic was $1 billion.

Other education bills of note currently awaiting Gov. Kemp’s signature include: SB 59 - Increases funding for charter schools approved by local boards of education. AlsoSolution creates mechanism for local charters to join the State Health G E N A

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SB 204 - Creates a pilot program to enable students who have dropped out of high school or are at risk of doing so to earn a diploma from a technical college.

SB 246 - Prevents government or local school boards from regulating learning pods.

HB 146 – Provides three weeks of paid parental leave to state employees, including school district employees,

who have worked full-time for at least six months.

HB 287 - Adds information on vaping and tobacco products for students in K-12, and human trafficking information in grades 6 through 12.

HB 32 - Creates a tax credit for newly hired teachers in rural or lowperforming schools.

HB 606 - Adds the Georgia Independent Schools Association to the list of approved school accrediting agencies.

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