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Review process for library books ignites passions at board session By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com
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The Cumming City Council approved a new general liability insurance plan for the city at its March 15 regular meeting.
Cumming insurance costs rise 9.6 percent Council also considers golf carts on streets CUMMING, Ga. — The Cumming City Council approved a change to the city’s general liability, property and casualty insurance provider at its March 15 regular meeting. Cumming currently has insurance under The Travelers Company, with a premium of $326,250. If renewed, the
cost of the policy would rise 12 percent to $367,146. The council instead chose to pursue a policy with Selective Insurance, which quoted a premium of $357,676, a 9.6 percent increase from the city’s current insurance costs. The city also received a quote from Liberty Mutual Insurance with a $475,000 premium. Council members voted unanimously to approve the plan with Selective. The City Council also discussed, but did not vote on, amendments to the city’s alcohol ordinance and its policies regarding “personal transpor-
tation vehicles,” namely golf carts. The proposed alcohol ordinance changes could open up the rules on where residents could consume alcohol in the city. The change would allow residents to consume alcohol outside in areas approved by the city, so long as the cup or can sports a 3-by-5-inch fluorescent sticker identifying the vendor that sold the alcohol. The changes could also allow cigar shops to sell distilled spirits. Right
Good samaritan dies giving roadside aid
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — After months of heated debate, Forsyth County Schools is taking a second look at its policies on books containing “sexually explicit” material. The move follows Georgia legislators’ introduction of Senate Bill 226 — the “Library Bill” — which would make it easier for parents to challenge books they consider “harmful to minors.” Up to this point, school librarians have had a choice in what goes on their shelves, but under SB 226, parents who believe school materials to be obscene would be able to report them to a principal or school administrator. The school official would then have 10 days to determine whether the materials should be banned, and if parents disagree with the ruling, they could appeal to the school board. Georgia legislators have until April 4 to decide whether SB 226 will become law.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A Forsyth County man died and another was injured March 18 after they were struck by a vehicle on Peachtree Parkway near Granite Lane. A Toyota Prius was traveling south on Peachtree Parkway around 7 a.m. when it made a sudden left turn onto the concrete median. Nearby citizens stopped to assist with the crashed ve-
hicle, according to a press release from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. Two citizens were attempting to open the driver’s side door when they were struck by a Dodge Durango that was traveling north on Peachtree Parkway. The Durango driver could not see the pedestrians due to the Prius being in the way, according to the press release John Waldon, 48, was transported
to Emory John’s Creek Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The other pedestrian was transported to Northside Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The sheriff’s office’s Traffic Specialists Unit continues to investigate the incident. — Jake Drukman
DeKalb County police nab three suspects, meth and guns By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com
DUNWOODY, Ga. — The DeKalb County Police Department Narcotics/Vice Unit conducted a major drug bust and arrested three suspects near Dunwoody Crossing on March 15. The bust led authorities to seize 157 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, 152 pounds of powder methamphetamine, 8 pounds of cocaine, 4 pounds of heroin mixed with fentanyl, 5 ounces of cocaine mixed with fentanyl, 183 pounds of marijuana, 900 Xanax pills and 2 gallons of liquid meth. Additionally, detectives recovered five rifles, four handguns, and “a large amount” of money.
In a March 16 announcement on Facebook, the DeKalb County Police Department stated all three suspects were charged with trafficking offenses in relation to the incident but did not release their names or specific charges. Anyone with information regarding the sales, use or possession of illegal narcotics within DeKalb County, is asked to contact the DeKalb County Drug Hotline at 770-724-7762.
The DeKalb County Police Department Narcotics/Vice Unit seized several pounds of drugs and weapons while serving an arrest warrant near Dunwoody Crossing March 15.
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Officer cites 2 alleged racers in 45 minutes
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A Johns Creek police officer pulled over and cited two alleged street racers within 45 minutes of one another on March 1. The first stop occurred around 9:15 p.m. when Officer J.T. Tait noticed “several” vehicles weaving through traffic on State Bridge Road at Medlock Bridge Road, according to the incident report. Tait pulled over one of the drivers, whose actions the report described as “a reck-
less display of speed and unsafe lane changing.” The driver presented a temporary license and told Tait that another vehicle had been on his tail, and that he had taken an opportunity to get in front of the vehicle. Tait cited the driver for reckless driving. Just 45 minutes later, Tait was patrolling the same area near Johns Creek High School and noticed more vehicles weaving through traffic. Tait saw the vehicles line up at a red light and accelerate quickly when it turned green, according
to another report. Tait pulled one of the alleged racers over and cited him for reckless driving and racing. The North Fulton and Metro Atlanta areas have seen a slew of street racers in recent months. The Alpharetta Department of Public Safety performed a largescale operation to catch street racers in late January, leading to 69 traffic stops, 43 tickets issued and four arrests. Roswell police were notified of alleged street racers in the city in late February, and police have issued citations for incidents.
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Commission revokes expired massage parlor’s license By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners voted March 16 to retroactively revoke a massage parlor’s business license that had expired at the end of last year. At an administrative hearing, commissioners revoked the massage and spa license of Fengxia Yao, who once owned Sunset Massage on Peachtree Parkway. Yao sold the business sometime last year to Ming Hu before her license expired on Dec. 31, 2021. The sale came some three years after the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office charged Yao with allowing certain sex acts for hire in the business after a 2018 sting operation. The March 16 revocation by the commission means that Hu, the current owner, will be unable to operate the massage parlor until 2025. County code states the sheriff’s office will deny issuing a massage and
spa license if the county has revoked a license for the same location in the previous three years. Speaking to commissioners, Yao’s lawyer, Logan Butler, argued that retroactively suspending Yao’s license and consequently restricting Hu’s ability to operate the business was unconstitutional. Butler noted that Hu was not present to speak on his behalf at the hearing, but Brandon Bowen, the lawyer representing the county, said Hu had been notified of the hearing in advance and could have chosen to attend. Bowen said the 2018 charge was not processed in court until 2021 because of the pandemic. During the litigation, Yao presented the court with a bill of sale between her and Hu dated June 23, 2021. The judge dismissed the charge on July 7 because Yao would no longer be operating the business. Sunset Massage has had more recent run-ins with the law. Sgt. Jennifer See testified the sheriff’s office conducted a compliance
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check at the establishment on Sept. 22, 2021, then an undercover operation eight days later. She said the office found four code violations and one instance of a sex act for hire during the
visits. The county’s lawyer says Yao was still operating the business during the September sting, and she and Hu had not declared the sale to the sheriff’s office. See said the office did not receive notice of the sale until Oct. 7, 2021, one week after the sting and around four months after the bill of sale was dated. She also said Yao was present at the business during the September undercover operations and her massage license was displayed on the wall. Bowen accused Yao and Hu of intentionally not giving the sheriff’s office notice of the change in ownership “in an effort to evade the ordinances of the county and to engage in criminal activity.” Butler said Yao faced difficulties in selling the parlor but had notified the county and the sheriff’s office when she was required to. Commissioners voted 4-0 to suspend Yao’s license. Commissioner Molly Cooper was not present at the hearing.
City invites residents to plant more trees By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — The City of Milton launched Plant! Milton last month to help keep Milton green. Plant! Milton, a multi-pronged initiative, came about after the City Council passed amendments to the Tree Canopy Conservation Ordinance in 2020, which focuses primarily on tree removal requirements. City Arborist Sandra Dewitt, who heads up Plant! Milton, told the City Council Feb. 7 that after the amendments were passed, Councilwoman Carol Cookerly suggested that the city create an initiative to encourage Milton citiDEWITT zens to plant trees. Department of Communications, Parks and Recreation Department and Economic Engagement, partnered together to create Plant! Milton. She said it aims to not only ask people to plant trees but give them the resources and information they need about how to plant a tree, where to plant it and what to plant. Now, the city hopes Plant! Milton and the ordinance will complement each other and help support the preservation of forests, tree-lined roads and green city
views, increasing Milton’s tree canopy and overall quality of life for residents. Cookerly said she’s appreciative of the city staff’s efforts. “I did not know that this idea had taken flight and I am very appreciative,” Cookerly said. “Thank you to all of staff that got busy with this. It’s very well done.” Later in a post on the City of Milton’s Facebook page, Mayor Peyton Jamison echoed those thoughts. “Trees can add character, color and much more to any community, particularly one like Milton, where so many of us enjoy the outdoors,” Jamison said. “Plant! Milton is a terrific, living testament to this fact and trees’ special importance to our city. I look forward to seeing this initiative grow, along with more Milton trees.” According to the city, Dewitt’s job includes working closely with city staff and community partners. “Whether in your yard, along our roads or around public spaces, trees are very much a part of Milton’s identity and why so many of us love this city,” Dewitt said. “We hope that Plant! Milton will nurture that love so that it grows – much like we hope that we’ll have more trees growing and thriving here.” Other efforts include hosting events, showcasing the Mark Law Arboretum at Bell Memorial Park and offering Plant! Milton-themed merchandise for resi-
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Milton city council members plant a black gum tree along one of the trails at Providence Park in celebration of Georgia Arbor Day on Feb. 18. Volunteers from the North Fulton Master Gardeners, the city’s partner with the Plant! Milton, were also on-hand to advise attendees on how to properly plant trees. dents involved in tree plantings. Dewitt will also be featured once a month on the City of Milton’s Facebook page under “Ask the Arborist,” where she will address tree-related questions
from residents. To ask a question or show proof that you’ve planted a tree, email askthearborist@cityofmiltonga.us. For more information, visit cityofmiltonga.us/PlantMilton.
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Construction begins in earnest on Roswell History Museum By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com
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ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell Historical Society’s 25-year dream is finally coming to fruition. Construction began in early February to transform the second floor of the Roswell Cultural Arts Center into a museum solely dedicated to housing items, such as textiles, artifacts, rare books and photographs, that detail the founding of the City of Roswell in 1854. Roswell Historical Society President Kevin Bamford said that for decades the society shared the second floor of the Roswell Cultural Arts with the Georgia Ensemble Theatre and partnered with spaces like the Visitor’s Center for small showings. But in 2021, Bamford decided it was time to push for a permanent space. “It’s called Historic Roswell, we’re the Roswell Historical Society, we have all these collections, we need to get it out so people can see it,” Bamford said. “We need to have a space where people can touch it, feel it, know the stories throughout history, and I really worked hard to bring City Council members in and understand that story.”
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Bamford said he received a lot of positive feedback from the Roswell City Council at a budget presentation last year, and because the Roswell Cultural Arts Center is a city-owned building, the city agreed to spend approximately $150,000 to renovate the top floor for the museum. Building Four Fabrication, a fullservice exhibits and display firm in Atlanta specializing in custom-fabricated visual designs and environments as well as hospitality and custom artwork, is working on the build-out. Bamford said that should last until the end of March or mid-April. The project has already been pushed back due to supply-chain issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Bamford said the goal is to unveil the museum at the end of the summer or early fall. Right now, a $75,000 capital campaign is underway to help raise the remaining funds necessary to complete the museum’s design and implementation plan. Bamford said the society has raised about half of that total so far. “I think it’s just an exciting time,” Bamford said. “A lot of people have been hoping for this to happen at some point, and I know our surrounding sister cities have been able to put money towards opening similar things. … It was time for Roswell. Roswell is where it started.” In 2018, the City of Alpharetta opened the Alpharetta and Old Milton County History Museum at 2 Park Plaza. The museum was more than four years
in the making and houses a permanent collection of artifacts, interpretive displays and a Stories Project kiosk where visitors can hear 70 local residents speak. The museum was funded by the City of Alpharetta, developed in partnership with the Alpharetta Historical Society, and put together under a more-than $300,000 contract by Malone Design/ Fabrication, a Decatur-based creator of museum and visitor center exhibits. Bamford and Elaine DeNiro, archivist for the Roswell Historical Society and City of Roswell Research Library and Archives, said the Roswell museum will be similar in that it will have a space for permanent displays as well as for rotating exhibits that celebrate differentmilestones in Roswell history. DeNiro said she’s excited about all the new opportunities the community will have. “Between the archives, the research library and museum, it’s going to be an amazing facility,” DeNiro said. “We’ll no longer have to be trotting around with our stuff and taking it across town. Now we can have a beautiful space with all our resources right there. The other amazing thing because of all this is that people have been contacting me to donate additional photographs and artifacts because they know now that they’re going to be seen at some point.”
Cemetery restoration continues
In the meantime, the society continues with efforts to restore the Old Roswell Cemetery on Woodstock Steet, which is under the guidance of Roswell Historical Society Project Chair Janet Johnson. In April 2021, the cemetery, officially called Methodist Cemetery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The register is the federal government’s official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. The Old Roswell Cemetery is only the fifth property in the city to achieve the designation. The other properties are Bulloch Hall, Barrington Hall, Smith Plantation and the Historic District. Bamford said it took five years and three submissions to get the Old Roswell Cemetery on the list. To date, Bamford said more than $65,500 has been raised for the cemetery restoration, 272 monuments have been repaired and funded by private donations, over 1,000 monuments have been cleaned by volunteers trained by the Roswell Historical Society, and 97 organizations and businesses have donated funds or volunteer hours. Additionally, Bamford said 254 descendants who have family members
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Books: Continued from Page 1 Forsyth County Schools Chief Technology Officer Mike Evans told the board at a March 8 work session school officials are awaiting guidance from the state before making changes to the district’s book challenge process. However, Evans said, they are looking at ways to expedite the process from 45 days to 30 days and to be able to review multiple books at a time within that period. If the changes are approved, Evans said volunteers will spend a significant amount of their own time reading the challenged books outside of school. Among the proposed changes are creating subcommittees with smaller teams to read and make recommendations that would apply to the entire district rather than to one school, requiring schools to complete an annual comprehensive review of media center books and requiring new purchases to be vetted through alternative reviews. Evans said school officials have also been in conversation with Follet School Solutions, which owns the district’s library management system, to offer an option that would provide parents email notifications informing them of the books their child checks out and restrict a child’s access to books based on their parents’ requests. Parents taking the lead School Superintendent Jeff Bearden said he agrees parents should be more involved in their child’s book choices so they better align with their family values, but pointed out that nothing precluded parents from doing that now. He said children should also be taught to be educated consumers so they can decipher between right and wrong. “I just strongly encourage parents who are very concerned about this – don’t wait for us,” Bearden said. “Please be having those conversations right now because you can control this as a family yourself. … I don’t want to get out in front of the Legislature, and I don’t want us to be in a position to where we’re overreacting.” Previously, Evans said only one or two books were challenged a year in the district. Board Vice Chairwoman Kristin Morrissey said that accounts for about 0.002% of the district’s entire collection. “I think we need to give credit to our media specialists for doing a really good job and let them know that we appreciate all the work they’ve done for years and years building a good collection,” Morrissey said. “… They’re doing a great job. There are just a few things that have stuck to the cracks, and they are learning how that happened and how to avoid that.” Despite these efforts, some parents continued to protest for nearly two hours
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Alison Hair scolds the School Board for not doing enough to clear the district’s libraries of “sexually explicit” material. School library content drew heated debate at the March 15 meeting.
A speaker addresses the Forsyth County Board of Education at a March 15 regular meeting after Board Chairman Wes McCall clears the room due to disorderly conduct from the public. at the board’s March 15 regular meeting, saying school officials are not acting fast enough. Board room cleared One parent, Alison Hair, went so far as to read a sexually explicit excerpt from a book she alleges is at one of the district’s libraries, despite the board’s policy prohibiting profane remarks. She did not cite the title or author of the book. “You’ve all got those readings,” Hair said. “Take them home and read them to each of your children, read them to your mother, read them to your pastor because it is sickening. … I am having to make a different school choice for my child based on the unethical behavior of this board.” After repeatedly banging on his gavel and calling on Hair to stop reading, McCall asked security to clear the board
room. “I am done,” McCall said. “This is unacceptable. We have tried and tried to listen to you.” McCall later allowed individual members of the public to re-enter the room to speak to the board. Angie Darnell, another speaker at the meeting, said she thought some parents were expressing misplaced concern. “If a parent is upset at content or subject matter in a book, library books are far less accessible than anything a child can scroll and find online,” Darnell said. “A library book cannot jump off a shelf into your child’s hands.” She said establishing an approval process and audit by another committee of already approved library books seemed redundant, and it could create a great deal of emotion and protest when book after
book can be targeted because of content. In February, the district banned eight books from its libraries for their sexually explicit content. Those books were out of more than 500,000 books available in the district’s school libraries. They include “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, “Juliet Takes Breath” by Gabby Rivera, “L8r, g8r” by Lauren Myracle, “Me Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews, “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult, “Out of Darkness” by Ashley Hope Perez, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “The Infinite Moment of Us” by Lauren Myracle. Some students and parents have spoken at past board meetings saying they are concerned the banned books are disproportionally about characters or written by authors who are LGBTQ+, women or people of color.
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Cumming: Continued from Page 1 now, the shops are limited to selling beer and wine. To qualify as a distilled spirits vendor, shops would still have to make at least 60 percent of their gross revenue through cigar sales. Councilwoman Linda Ledbetter was apprehensive of the changes, questioning why cigar shops could sell alcohol when they don’t sell food. Referring to the provision that would allow outdoor alcohol consumption, she expressed concerns about people drinking around children. The city continues to work on an ordinance that would allow residents to drive golf carts, or personal transportation vehicles, on city streets with speed limits of 25 mph or below. City attorney Kevin Tallant cited Peachtree
City as one municipality that allows golf carts in the streets. The council also approved installation of a new $96,800 speaker system for the arena at the Cumming Fairgrounds. The current system was installed in 2001, and staff said the new system would allow for better and more consistent sound quality. Council members also issued a proclamation honoring two Cumming middle school students who won the Georgia Association of Educators’ Region 2 Spelling Bee on Feb. 26. The students, Nimal Murugan, a 7th grader from South Forsyth Middle School and Sharanya Vats, a 6th grader from North Forsyth Middle School, will advance to the March 18 state spelling bee. The proclamation noted that it is “extremely unusual” for two students from the same school district to win the regional level competition.
Metro Atlanta gets new 943 area code METRO ATLANTA — As if 770, 678, 470 and 404 weren’t enough, a new area code just arrived in Metro Atlanta: 943. The Georgia Public Service Commission approved the new area code to appear in the region beginning March 15. Telephone customers with area codes 770, 678, 470 and 404 may be assigned the 943 area code if they get a new phone service or an additional line, but existing phone numbers won’t change. Alpharetta, Roswell, Dunwoody,
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milestones in Roswell history. DeNiro said she’s excited about all the new opportunities the community will have. “Between the archives, the research library and museum, it’s going to be an amazing facility,” DeNiro said. “We’ll no longer have to be trotting around with our stuff and taking it across town. Now we can have a beautiful space with all our resources right there. The other amazing thing because of all this is that people have been contacting me to donate additional photographs and artifacts because they know now that they’re going to be seen at some point.”
Cemetery restoration continues
In the meantime, the society continues with efforts to restore the Old Roswell Cemetery on Woodstock Steet, which is under the guidance of Roswell Historical Society Project Chair Janet Johnson. In April 2021, the cemetery, officially called Methodist Cemetery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The register is the federal government’s official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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Johns Creek, Cumming and Sandy Springs will all host 943 numbers, along with cities such as Duluth, Lawrenceville, Gainesville, Marietta and Peachtree City. A news release from the city of Alpharetta urges those in the affected area to ensure their phones and services recognize 943 as a valid area code and continue to store or program phone numbers as 10 digits. — Jake Drukman
The Old Roswell Cemetery is only the fifth property in the city to achieve the designation. The other properties are Bulloch Hall, Barrington Hall, Smith Plantation and the Historic District. Bamford said it took five years and three submissions to get the Old Roswell Cemetery on the list. To date, Bamford said more than $65,500 has been raised for the cemetery restoration, 272 monuments have been repaired and funded by private donations, over 1,000 monuments have been cleaned by volunteers trained by the Roswell Historical Society, and 97 organizations and businesses have donated funds or volunteer hours. Additionally, Bamford said 254 descendants who have family members buried at the Old Roswell Cemetery have been located, and many of them have shared their family documents and photos with the City of Roswell Research Library and Archives. The next steps in the project are to restore the cemetery’s entrance off Woodstock Street, so the National Registry plaque can be installed. To donate to the Roswell Historical Society’s capital campaign, visit roswellhistoricalsociety.org or send donations to Roswell Historical Society P.O. Box 1636 Roswell, GA 30077 and reference Museum Fund. For updates or more information, visit the Roswell Historical Society on Facebook.
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Top children’s summer camps BY ADAM DARBY adam@appenmedia.com
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JOHNS CREEK and CUMMING, Ga. — As kids clamor for time away from school after classes end, local summer camp programs are starting up for the season. This is a better time than ever for your children to get some fresh air, be active, or share common interests with others their age. The Johns Creek and Cumming areas are perfect for children’s summertime activities with many different camp opportunities set on the calendar in the upcoming months. There is plenty for kids of all ages with different interests to enjoy. Here are some nearby summer camps to keep on your radar.
Summer Camp – Footprints Dance Alliance When: June 6 to July 19 Address: 1204 Canton Highway, Cumming Price: Prices vary depending on program and age group Phone: 678-648-2473 Footprints Dance Alliance offers several different summer camps, activities and opportunities for children ages 2-18 who love to dance. For younger kids, activities include arts and crafts, dance classes, dance games, ballet, tap, jazz, tumbling, and story time while older participants can enjoy more intensive dance and cheerleading courses. This is a perfect opportunity to pursue your passion for dance while building new friendships in the process.
CampVentures – Kiddie Academy When: Call for availability Address: Johns Creek, 10100 Medlock Bridge Road / Cumming, 450 Brannon Road Price: Call for more information Phone: Johns Creek–470-722-3163; Cumming–470-253-7114 CampVentures promises your children a summer of exciting exploration. Kids can enjoy hands-on activities, field trips, and themed events while balancing individual needs and interests for ages 5-12. This is perfect for a more educational experience that serves as a summer camp and childcare. Camp All-American – Christian Camp When: May 31 to Aug. 5 Address: 9500 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek Price: Prices vary; call for more information Phone: 678-405-2266 Camp All-American offers a variety of different camps to ages from elementary to high school. This week-long Christian camp experience allows kids to have fun, make friends and learn more about God. Activities include daily Bible reading, music, prayer, fun games and more. Summer Camp – Johns Creek Arts Center When: May to August; Mon-Fri from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Address: 6290 Abbotts Bridge Road, Building 700, Johns Creek Price: Call for more information Phone: 770-623-8448 For young art enthusiasts, consider registering for a summer camp program at the Johns Creek Arts Center. The art camps are perfect for children ages 6-18. Kids can enjoy a variety of artistic activities including ceramic hand building, pottery, sculpting, drawing, paint-
Wills Park Summer Camp – Alpharetta Community Center When: June 6 to Aug. 5 Address: 175 Roswell Street Price: $150 for residents / $225 for non-residents Phone: 678-297-6100 This is the perfect opportunity for kids who love the outdoors and being active. Wills Park continues their annual camp program that includes supervised activities, arts and crafts, swimming, special events, field trips, and more. Children must be ages 6-10 to apply with an “extreme” option available for children ages 11-12. Wills Park remains a summer hot spot for guests and residents. Teen Adventure Camp – Preston Ridge Community Center When: June 6 to July 29 Address: 3655 Preston Ridge Road, Suite 100 Price: $225 for residents / $337.50 for non-residents Phone: 678-297-6194 The Teen Adventure Camp is an opportunity for your older kids to enjoy some outdoor adventure and try new things. Teens will travel daily to explore exciting destinations. Activities include hiking, tubing, swimming, bowling, museums, parks, movie theaters and amusement parks. This is for children ages 12-15. Camp Kingfisher – Chattahoochee Nature Center When: May 31 to Aug. 5 Address: 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell Price: Varies depending on the camp program; call for more information Phone: 770-992-2055
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Roswell council approves Verizon data center expansion By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — In the face of neighbors’ continued protests over noise concerns, the Roswell City Council unanimously approved a request by Verizon to connect its data center on Turner Road to an existing facility in Alpharetta. The move comes six months after Verizon submitted a request to have the property at 10325 Turner Road rezoned from office professional to civic and institutional. The company also sought a conditional use for a major utility facility. City planning staff has said the use of a major utility should be less intense than other uses allowed in civic and institutional zoning, or even uses allowed under office professional zoning. At the outset, staff recommended approval of the requests with conditions, but when the matter went before the Roswell City Council in December, a group of residents said they were worried about the noise the 50,800-squarefoot facility would emit and how that could affect their property values. The request was deferred for 90 days. On March 14, David Kirk with the law firm Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders said Verizon has since made substantial modifications to its initial plans. Now, rather than housing three 18,100-square-foot pods with two diesel generators each, the facility will only have two pods built in phases. The land on the southern half of the property where the third pod had been proposed will not be developed. The revised site plan also includes 50 parking spaces, 14,500 square feet of office space and a 40-foot neighbor-
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The revised site plan for the 50,800-square-foot Verizon data center on Turner Road in Roswell shows adjustments made since the original plan was submitted in September. On March 14, the Roswell City Council approved the telecom company’s request to rezone the property to allow for expansion. hood compatibility buffer along the back of the property, where the Turner Road right-of-way and a residential subdivi-
sion are located. Kirk said the equipment yard in the back of the building on the western side
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ARC seeks public views on transportation management plan update By DAVID PENDERED METRO ATLANTA — The Atlanta Regional Commission is conducting an online survey of commuter mobility patterns as the beginning of a two-year effort to update the region’s program to improve air quality and reduce traffic congestion. April 8 is the deadline to complete the first survey, which is part of the ARC’s “Mobility Connections: A Plan for Expanding Opportunity” project. This is ARC’s version of a Transportation Demand Management Plan, which intends to include livability and economic matters in addition to the two core functions of air quality and mobility. The survey is presented in a multiple-choice format. It takes a few minutes to complete and asks basic questions about how people travel to and from their destinations. Subjects include travel mode to school or work; if the mode changed during the pandemic and whether it’s
Verizon: Continued from Page 8 foot masonry screen walls, and a brick screen wall will be installed in the front of the building along the equipment yard. Additionally, there are several retaining walls proposed for the site. The one located next to the neighborhood compatibility buffer will be a soil nail retaining wall, and several others will be placed in the front of the building on the eastern side of the property along the access road. The retaining walls will range in height with the highest points being 8 feet and 8.5 feet. In a Jan. 28 letter to the Planning and Zoning Department, Senior Project Manager Katherine McGah with Morrison Hershfield engineering, said the new facility is needed to keep pace with the ever-expanding need for mobile phones and digital services. “As the workforce continues to transition to ‘remote’ work environments, the need for Verizon’s services will continue to grow,” McGah wrote. “This is in perfect alignment with the Imagine Roswell 2035 Comprehensive Plan goal to ‘expand high tech infrastructure.’” While the Planning Commission recommended approval of the rezoning and conditional use in February, the City Council on March 14 added 14 conditions. They include covering the roof with as many solar panels as they can fit, using generators identical to the Verizon standard data center in San Diego, California. The conditions also prohibit
expected to change again; whether the mode was selected for its speed, comfort and so forth; and how the respondent learns of commute options. The most challenging question appears at the conclusion: “What do you think will be the most important impact on transportation in the Metro Atlanta Region in the future?” The responses provided to this question are: “Transit expansion; New or consistently increasing dedicated funding; Technology (including emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles); Increase in remote work; Population growth; Land use decisions (including densification and expansion of live/ work/play efforts).” The information provided by respondents is to help form the basis of the TDM plan ARC intends to complete by 2023. The primary purpose of a TDM was defined as early as 1994 by the Federal Highway Administration.
A data center is nothing like an office park, and I don’t think that’s been made clear yet.” JUSTIN REYNOLDS Opponent of the expansion project
shining any lights on residential properties, testing generators more than one hour and 15 minutes per week and receiving deliveries between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. The company is also required to keep the undisturbed southern half of the property unfenced. Before approving the request, residents made one final pitch to the City Council, imploring them not to go through with it. Justin Reynolds, who spoke in opposition to the project in December, reiterated that his chief concern was with noise. “A data center is nothing like an office park, and I don’t think that’s been made clear yet,” Reynolds said. “This is an industrial data center, which will produce a great amount of noise from the diesel generators and industrial HVAC equipment. … Yes, the world is going to need more data centers, but it makes absolutely no sense to have a data center right in the middle of a peaceful residential area.”
“Quite simply,” the 1994 definition states, “TDM programs are designed to maximize the people-moving capability of the transportation system by increasing the number of persons in a vehicle, or by influencing the time of, or need to, travel. To accomplish these types of changes, TDM programs must rely on incentives or disincentives to make these shifts in behavior attractive.” Metro Atlanta’s civic and political leaders have implemented some of the measures outlined in the 1994 report. They include employer subsidies to use transit, preferential parking for ride-sharers and guaranteed ride-home programs for workers who may be summoned home to handle an emergency. Some companies had allowed flexible schedules, and COVID-19 closures brought widespread telecommuting patterns for businesses where that was possible. ARC intends for the final plan to improve collaboration between trans-
portation demand and transportation management. The historic divide between TMD and transportation management has blurred in recent years. TDM involves changing behaviors to avoid overloading road capacity and transit to serve commuters. Transportation management involves mobility-related efforts that can include maximizing existing infrastructure, such as turning roadside emergency lanes into travel lanes, metering ramps to control flow onto highways and resolving collisions quickly to clear lanes for travel. The ARC describes the aim of the study as: “TDM offers the region the ability to deliver better environmental outcomes, connect individuals with opportunity and essential services, improve public health and social equity, foster stronger communities, and create more prosperous and livable places.”
Jan Viviani, who said she has lived at Barrington Farms since 1992, said that while she’s appreciative of some of the changes Verizon made, she still opposes the project. “I would implore you to think about this,” Viviani said. “This community has
been there for a very long time. There are established residents there that this is going to impact. … Would you want to live in any of those homes on that back edge and look out on this facility?” The next City Council meeting is slated for 7 p.m. March 28 at City Hall.
This column was originally published on SaportaReport.com.
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Symphony concert will be a family affair Maestro to conduct daughter in violin concerto By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Melodies from northern Europe will fill Johns Creek Methodist Church March 26 as the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra performs its spring concert, “A Scandinavian Tour.” “If most of the concertgoers are like me, in that they’ve never visited Scandinavia,” Music Director J. Wayne Baughman said, “then for me, the next best thing to being in a place is experiencing the culture of that place, seeing artworks, or in our case, visualizing what those Scandinavian countries and landscapes look like through the music of Scandinavian composers.” The show will be led by Maestro Baughman and will feature Concertmaster Adelaide Federici as a lead soloist, performing Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. As concertmaster, Federici serves as the maestro’s right hand — she also happens to be his daughter — helping tune the orchestra before the performance and taking over conducting when needed. She has been a member of the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra since its founding 15 years ago. When she’s not performing on her 12-year-old violin in Johns Creek, Federici plays as assistant principal second of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, as a member of the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, in the Edgewood String Quartet and regularly performs with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, among others. Federici also teaches her craft as Kennesaw State University School of Music’s artist-in-residence in violin and is a selfdescribed “freelance violinist.” Federici has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music and spent time in Europe studying at Holland Music Sessions and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She’s played with acclaimed orchestras in the classical music realm for decades but has also recorded with nonclassical performers like Bruce Springsteen and the band Train.
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Federici’s passion for music is in her blood. Her late mother, Lynn Baughman, a violin teacher, had Federici learning to play the instrument at 2 and a-half years old. Baughman was a proponent of the Suzuki method of teaching. “The idea is to teach children to play an instrument like you’d learn how to speak, so a lot of early exposure is key,” Federici said. “I think I was her first guinea pig … my first violin was a Cracker Jacks box filled with newspaper,
and I would just practice holding it under my chin.” Eventually she moved up from the Cracker Jacks box, but she never took her passion seriously until late in high school. “Growing up I never wanted to be a violinist,” Federici said. “I was going to be a doctor and was super into math and science. I mean, I loved playing the violin through high school, but I had no intention of actually having that as my career until the summer after my junior year.” That summer, she went to music camp at the Meadowmount School of Music in upstate New York. For six weeks, Federici practiced for five hours a day. Despite the “terrible” food, she said, her camp experience was a turning point. “I was playing chamber music with other people who had really similar interests and … you just improved so fast and you’re working with these great teachers,” Federici said. “After that I decided that I did want to major in music after all.” When she returned home, she dropped the extra math and science classes she had loaded on her schedule, instead leaving herself free periods so she could practice her craft. She never looked back. Now, after nearly 50 years of playing the violin, Federici has passed a love of music on to her two children. Her daughter plays the violin and dances, and her son plays the cello and is on his school’s soccer team, Federici said.
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Studying music for so long, it’s hard for Federici or her father, Baughman, to pick music favorites, but both said the piece Federici is playing at the concert March 26, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is one of their favorite concertos. “It’s in D minor, which, for anyone old enough to know Spinal Tap, they know that’s the saddest of all keys, and it’s just so beautiful,” Federici said. “It’s just one of those pieces that is truly gut wrenching, and the last movement is very exciting too.” Baughman said he feels lucky to watch his daughter play and to perform alongside her. “We both love this piece, and for me, it’s a privilege to play with a musician who’s as good as she is, and the fact that she’s my offspring makes it very special,” Baughman said. “I obviously regret that her mother is not here to hear that in person, even though I suspect that by some miracle… she will know that her daughter is playing, and she’ll listen
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Adelaide Federici practices the violin at 3 or 4 years old under the tutelage of her mother and violin teacher, Lynn Baughman. in. She might also have some criticism depending on how the performance goes.” The admiration goes both ways. Growing up, Federici said, Baughman was an awesome example of a professional musician. She said the inspiration never waned. “He’s such a great musician, and the Johns Creek Symphony is such a dream for him and to see him in his 70s
following his dreams still … he’s always improving and it’s so inspiring to see that and to be a part of that,” Federici said. “There will likely be tears… getting to play a whole concerto, and one of our favorites together… there’s going to be a lot of emotions.” Tickets for the performance are available for purchase online at johnscreeksymphony.org.
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Cadillac Jack: My Second Act “Is that a liquor…or a body fluid?” It’s a no holds barred type of episode of the Cadillac Jack – My Second Act podcast, with stories from the ditch outside Atlanta Motor Speedway and the bush next to Donna’s mailbox the morning of a neighborhood estate sale. Charlotte got sick, and I am talking REALLY sick (including all over Donna’s car). She is feeling better, but not until Donna took her punishment for oversleeping for the carpool line. Caddy is not a big fan of the new Ga 400/285 updates, but then, who is? The exits are literally changing locations and it is throwing Caddy for a loop. Get it? And Donna explains that how her directional skills are entirely contingent on know-
ing which way Chattanooga is. The interstate dilemma was preceded by a trip to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Caddy observed a Fold of Honor. A Fold of Honor is DEFINITELY not what Donna thought it was. The trip brought back some memories for Caddy though, or lack thereof, and he reminisces about waking up in a ditch. Or a ravine. Not sure.
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