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Sheriff’s Office earns two accreditations

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Wide gulf stalls road widening Negotiations to widen a 4.5-mile stretch of McGinnis Ferry Road has Forsyth County at odds with Johns Creek and Alpharetta, which share ownership of the route on the south. While estimated costs have ballooned to $60 million since the project was first proposed, Forsyth County is in the midst of getting everyone on board so the work can begin. Read more, Page 4

Alpharetta loses bid to alter Ga. 400 plan

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County graduation rate rises to all-time high

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School superintendent named state finalist

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Man charged with DUI following 3-car wreck CUMMING, Ga. — A Cumming man was arrested following a three-car accident Sep. 13 off Ga. 400 at Bald Ridge Marina Road. A witness called 911 to report a 2007 Chevy Impala was driving erratically on northbound Ga. 400 and did not appear to slow down for a red light. The vehicle collided with another

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vehicle which, in turn, collided with a third.

Deputies say the man was uncooperative and ignored statements and questions posed to him. He was arrested for DUI, failure to obey a traffic control device. He was transported to the Forsyth County Jail.

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

ties found him with a partially empty alcoholic beverage in his hand.

After consenting to a search, authorities found marijuana on the man. He was arrested for possession of marijuana less than an ounce.

Valuables reported stolen from two parked vehicles

Residence burglarized while owners on vacation

CUMMING, Ga. — A Cumming woman reported that two cars had been burglarized in the Fieldstone Park subdivision on Sep. 13.

The woman explained that she parked her 2012 black Lexus in the parking lot of the clubhouse and later discovered the back window had been broken some time between 3:30 and 5:15 p.m. She told deputies that her backpack was taken.

A 2016 white Chevy Tahoe was also burglarized. The owner said her purse was taken.

Authorities say the women told them their possessions were left in plain sight.

A security camera may provide video to assist in the investigation.

CUMMING, Ga.—Deputies responded to a call for burglary/breaking and entering at a Cumming home on Sept. 17. The woman who reported the incident said she had received a call from her vacationing friend who claimed to have video footage of a possible burglary at her Cumming home. The homeowner asked the woman to check on the house.

When she arrived, she noticed signs of a break-in and notified authorities.

Authorities are awaiting the homeowners’ return to obtain the video footage which apparently logs the burglary occurring between 9 p.m. and midnight Sept. 16.

Unconscious man found behind store CUMMING, Ga.—Authorities received a call Sept. 16 about a man who appeared to be passed out behind a Lakeland Plaza business. When they arrived, depu-

Deputies arrest worker on charges of theft CUMMING, Ga.—Authorities received a call from Academy Sports on Peachtree Parkway in the late-night hours of Sept. 19. The manager reported that an employee had taken several items. The theft was witnessed by another employee and was confirmed by video footage.

When questioned by deputies, the employee reportedly admitted that he had taken the items which totaled $215.57. He was transported to the Forsyth County Detention Center.

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13 vehicle break-ins reported in 1 night throughout county

By DENISE RAY denise@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — A recent rash of motor vehicle break-ins has sparked concern in two neighborhoods off Browns Bridge Road in north Forsyth.

Incident reports show 13 breakins took place from midnight of Sept.

17 through the early morning hours in nine residences. Seven occurred in Saddlecreek and two were in nearby Northwalk.

In one case, a woman’s credit cards were taken and used to make more than $1,000 in purchases at Walmart and gas stations from Oakwood to Norcross to Stockbridge. The cards have been reported lost. Her work laptop was also taken.

A computer, medical equipment and specialized glasses were taken from a Ford F-150 truck, and an iPad was removed from its computer mount in a 2016 Ford F-250 registered to the Johns Creek Fire Department.

According to Chad McGiboney, deputy fire chief for the Johns Creek Fire Department, the computer would time out and lock down so no information could be accessed. He added that the computer will be “pinged” to reveal its location.

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said that ‘Entering an auto’ is a “preventable crime” and it happens countywide, adding “it’s a huge problem not just in Forsyth County but throughout metro Atlanta.”

“Take your valuables — garage door opener included — inside the house if you park on the driveway or roadway.

Lock your vehicles,” Cpl. Doug Rainwater, public information officer for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, said.

Incident reports show that fingerprints were left and have been lifted for evidence. Video footage exists of several of the incidents and are being investigated by the sheriff’s office.

“We understand that people are tired when they pull up at their house after work or activities, but take a few extra seconds to survey your car before you get out,” Rainwater said,

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Cities at odds with Forsyth County over McGinnis Ferry widening Johns Creek, Alpharetta balk at county proposal

BY PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County is facing pushback from its partners in a multi-million-dollar project to widen McGinnis Ferry Road.

Both Johns Creek and Alpharetta have signed on to help fund the project, but they are balking at terms of an agreement with Forsyth County that, among other things, calls for the cities to commit more money than they originally planned.

McGinnis Ferry Road runs along the southern border of Forsyth County, with Alpharetta and Johns Creek hugging parts of the highway to the south. Even with two lanes in some spots, it serves as a major east-west commuter route from Gwinnett County west through North Fulton. It is destined to become even more popular due to the state’s plan to add an interchange at Ga. 400.

The widening project covers a little over 4.5 miles from Sargent Road in Johns

Creek to Union Hill Road in Alpharetta.

Plans call for widening the route to two lanes in each direction with a 20-foot-wide raised median, shoulders and sidewalks on each side.

Both cities had set aside funding from the 2016 transportation sales tax and other local sources to help with the project. But neither city has committed anywhere near the $9 million Forsyth County is asking from each. Forsyth committed $18 million back in 2015 — about half the bill — based on the project’s original estimated cost of around $35 million. The county is now placing a price tag of $60 million on the project and is anticipating some help from the state, possibly as much as $10 million.

Cities asked to pay more So far, Alpharetta has upped its commitment to $6 million for its share, although that figure has not been formally approved by the City Council. The city had originally set $4 million as its portion.

Johns Creek has committed $5.5 million, all from transportation sales tax dollars.

Alpharetta wants nothing to do with the Forsyth proposal as it stands now.

“It’s not going anywhere,” Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin said.

Alpharetta City Administration Bob Regus said everyone was probably surprised by the increase in cost, including Forsyth County. But, he added, any time there are three separate entities sharing costs and obligations on a road project, things get complex.

“It just takes time to establish a relationship with our counterparts and dig into the issues we need to dig into,” Regus said, adding that Forsyth County is a much bigger government than either of its two municipal partners. “I don’t want to speak for Johns Creek, but I think we both struggle with the increased ask.”

Another element in the current Forsyth proposal would allow the county to acquire or condemn property in Johns Creek and Alpharetta at the cities’ cost if the cities’ delay in acquiring the property would cause the project to fall off schedule.

“When we do respond to Forsyth, we want to be in charge of acquiring our right of way,” Regus said. “We want to maintain our relationship with our citizens, even if it leads to eminent domain of their property. The city will not give that away.”

Sheriff Office earns two accreditations

By DENISE RAY denise@appenmediagroup.com The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office was recently honored with advanced accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.

At a ceremony before the County Commission Sept. 19, Sheriff Ron Freeman was presented with a certificate acknowledging his office’s work to regain a status of professionalism and efficiency recognized throughout the country.

Sheriff Ron Freeman said his deputies and staff give him ample opportunities to brag, but the CALEA accreditation

is something special.

“I’m very proud of the work these men and women have done,” Freeman said. “Not only did we get our basic accreditation back in record time… but we got our advanced accreditation back.”

CALEA accreditation, he said, serves as the gold standard for public safety agencies. The CALEA programs provide public safety agencies with an opportunity to voluntarily meet an established set of professional standards, which require comprehensive and uniform written directives that clearly define authority, performance and responsibilities. They provide reports and analyses

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Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Freeman, right, receives a certificate of advanced accreditation from Craig Hartley, executive director of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Sept. 19 in Cumming.

to make fact-based and informed management decisions and prepare public safety agencies to address natural or man-made critical incidents.

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office first became accredited through CALEA in 2003. It continued to meet standards for renewals until 2013 when it was dropped under former Sheriff Dwayne Piper.

Freeman launched an effort to regain accreditation as part of his election campaign in 2016. Basic accreditation was received in November of 2017. This is the first time Forsyth County has received CALEA’s advanced accreditation.

The process of obtaining CALEA accreditation begins with a rigorous self-assessment, requiring a review of policies, practices and processes against

Alpharetta has another meeting scheduled with Forsyth officials later this month.

For its part, Johns Creek has submitted a counter proposal back to Forsyth County. It calls for breaking the project into phases.

The city’s preferred plan would be to widen a 0.7- mile section, roughly one-third of the total run through Johns Creek, from Sargent Road to Seven Oaks Parkway. With a total estimated cost of $5.1 million, Johns Creek would pony up about $1.2 million. The Johns Creek proposal does not address who pays for utility relocation and stream mitigation along the route for an estimated cost of $1.6 million.

Forsyth County officials say they would need to iron out how much the county would be on the hook for regarding utilities and stream mitigation. They also say they are not anxious to see the project broken up into phases.

Forsyth wants to move forward Speaking at a recent County Commission meeting, Forsyth County Attor-

See ROAD, Page 18 internationally accepted public safety standards, according to Cpt. Mark Flowers, policy/accreditation manager for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

For each of the 439 standards, there are almost 1,500 additional items that need to be met, he said. Meticulous records are required to document that performance meets standards. Everything is then reviewed off site by independent assessors with significant public safety experience, such as retired law enforcement, police chiefs and retired supreme court justices.

‘It’s hard to get,” Flowers said. “You wouldn’t want your child to go to college that’s not accredited. You wouldn’t want to go to a hospital that’s not accredited, either. You want your law enforcement agency to be accredited.”

Each agency accredited by CALEA must maintain compliance files which are reviewed annually by compliance service managers.

CALEA assessors will visit the sheriff’s office again in four years to review the agency, its practices, policies and community programs. Once compliance is verified, the agency will receive advanced accreditation for another fouryear term, Flowers said.

The Sheriff’s Office also received certification from the Georgia Chiefs of Police at the commissioner meeting.

Each agency certified through the Georgia Chiefs of Police Certification Program must maintain annual compliance files, according to Flowers.

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Alpharetta mayor: Ga. 400 interchange issue is dead in the water

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta’s campaign to move a proposed express lane interchange on Ga. 400 from Webb Bridge Road to a site farther south is dead.

Mayor Jim Gilvin dropped the bombshell at the end of the Sept. 23 City Council meeting, announcing that a drive to get the Georgia DOT to change its plan to place the interchange just north of Webb Bridge Road never had a chance.

The City Council formally adopted the petition last month in the wake of fears that the express-lane-only interchange would clog residential roadways already at capacity near Webb Bridge.

The council recommended Encore Parkway, located farther south, would be more suitable and would coincide with the city’s efforts to revitalize the area near North Point Mall.

Gilvin reported at the council meeting that he had met with GDOT officials that same day and was told the city’s option is not being considered.

“I wanted to let everyone know that, unfortunately, GDOT expressed no interest in pursuing our suggestion for using the bridge that was built at Encore Parkway to accommodate four lanes and

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continues to move forward with their proposal,” Gilvin said. “GDOT was quite emphatic that they have no interest in revisiting that.”

A foregone conclusion The mayor added that the decision seemed to have been made long before the current city council had time to consider an option. He said he was told by a GDOT representative that back in 2017, a delegation consisting of one member of the Alpharetta City Council and a representative from the North Fulton Community Improvement District had visited GDOT headquarters and asked that Encore Parkway not be considered as a site for an interchange.

Gilvin said the 2017 meeting was inappropriate.

“There was no public input; there was no public vote by City Council,” he said.

Following the meeting, Gilvin said he was not given the names of the former council member and North Fulton CID representative who approached GDOT in 2017. He said he was told that the city representative is no longer on the City Council.

There are only three people who were on the 2017 City Council who no longer serve: Mayor David Belle Isle, Council-

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“I don’t recall hearing about a meeting on that subject,” Belle Isle said.

“There wasn’t a lot known about the specific GDOT plans at the time.”

Kennedy responded in the same way.

“I never met with GDOT,” he said, adding that he doesn’t know of the meeting Gilvin was referring to.

Chris Owens, a civil engineer, served as liaison to the Alpharetta Public Works Department during his eight years on the City Council. He said that during that time, he had frequent contact with the Georgia DOT. Those conversations, he said, were relayed back to the City Council.

“I did not talk with [GDOT Commissioner] Russell McMurry and his staff about ruling out a particular interchange,” Owens said.

GDOT says public input guided decision A spokeswoman for the Georgia DOT would not address the issue of any 2017 meeting with Alpharetta and the CID. She did release a statement saying that after two years of work with Alpharetta including multiple public information open houses earlier this year, GDOT received a great deal of local input on the project.

“Unfortunately, the recent request to

make Encore Parkway an express lanes interchange doesn’t fit in the timeline necessary for advancing the project,” she said. “GDOT will continue to work with the City of Alpharetta and will have public hearings next year as we move forward on the Ga. 400 Express Lanes project which will serve millions of Georgia motorists and Alpharetta residents among them.”

GDOT first unveiled plans for the interchange just north of Webb Bridge Road last December. Dubbed “Webb+,” the structure would be designed to allow access only to traffic using the express lanes.

At a meeting held earlier this summer with GDOT officials in charge of the project, Alpharetta City Councilman Jason Binder said the Webb+ access point would likely affect local traffic along several city streets, including Cumming and Academy streets, Westside Parkway and Webb Bridge Road — most with residential developments. He pointed out that GDOT’s claim that the interchange would have minimal effect on local traffic was faulty because the nearby roads are already at or over capacity.

Gilvin said Alpharetta never protested Webb+ before September, because the city never received accurate traffic projections from GDOT.

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Forsyth graduation rates climb to all-time high

By DENISE RAY denise@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — Forsyth County leads Metro Atlanta county school districts in graduation rates for 20182019.

The Georgia Department of Education reported this month that Forsyth County Schools posted a graduation rate of almost 95 percent, well ahead of the state average.

The rankings show that the county beat its county and state record for high school students graduating from school.

All five county high schools exceeded the current state of Georgia graduation rate of 82 percent. Lambert High School and South Forsyth High School made the top 35 schools in the state.

Georgia’s graduation rate has increased by 12 percentage points since 2012, with steady increases each year.

During the 2018-2019 school year, 71 Georgia school districts recorded graduation rates at or above 90 percent. Twenty-four districts recorded rates at or above 95 percent.

Forsyth County graduation rates 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

94.4% 94.1% 94.6%

Fulton County School System also posted strong numbers, graduating students in record numbers from the district’s 19 high schools. Fulton’s graduation rate of 87.2 represents a 0.4 percent increase from last year, but it remains below the established district goal of achieving a 92 percent graduation rate.

Fulton’s graduation rate also exceeds the state average by more than 5 percentage points.

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Bearden named finalist for education award

By DENISE RAY denise@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden has been named a finalist for the 2020 Georgia Superintendent of the Year.

Nominations are sent to the Georgia School Superintendents Association from local school boards, regional education service agencies, business organizations and communities, and education colleagues in the state.

Finalists are then singled out for leadership abilities and superior skill sets in the community, school boards and staff, according to GSSA. Bearden joins Samantha Fuhrey of Newton County Schools, Noris Price of Baldwin County Schools, and Mark Scott of Houston County Schools as a finalist.

The winner will be announced at the GSBA/GSSA annual conference in December.

“Being selected as a Georgia Superintendent of the Year finalist for the past two years is an honor, but it is also very

humbling,” Bearden said.

“What gives me the greatest joy is the validation of the great work that is happening in Forsyth County Schools. It doesn’t happen without strong board leaderSPECIAL ship, visionary Forsyth County Schools principals, an Superintendent Jeff outstanding Bearden has been corps of faculty named a finalist for the and staff, en2020 Georgia Superin- gaged parents, tendent of the Year. a supportive community and talented students. My only goal is to represent us in a way that is truly reflective of the outstanding team we have at FCS. Home, plus school, plus community equal student success. That’s what matters most.”

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Roswell craft brewery reps talk industry history, trends

By JULIA GROCHOWSKI julia@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. — The craft brew industry had little to no foothold in the North Atlanta market 20 years ago, and now, it’s become a burgeoning business.

Roswell alone is now home to three breweries: Gate City Brewing Company, From the Earth Brewing Company and Variant Brewing Company.

Gate City Brewing Company Founder Pat Rains and Variant Brewing Company Business Office Manager Michael Curling attended the Sept. 26 Roswell Rotary Club meeting at Roswell Area Park to speak about their industry.

The national economic impact of the craft brew industry last year, according to Rains, was $79.1 billion, including $5 billion in direct wages and benefits.

“This industry is burgeoning here, and it’s doing that and growing across the country,” he said. “The economic impact of all the breweries is pretty staggering.”

And the impact is also felt by Roswell’s tourism industry, Rains added.

Both his and Curling’s breweries encourage visitors to stop, shop and visit other places within the Historic District.

“It’s a trickle-down effect,” Rains said.

Rains, a native of Portland, Ore., was inspired to help found Gate City Brewing Company when he moved into Roswell and was unable to find craft beers similar to the ones he enjoyed in the Northwest. So, he decided to try his hand at making his own.

Curling and the founders of Variant City Brewing had similar experiences.

Curling said he grew up in Roswell and

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From left, Pat Rains, founder of Gate City Brewing Company; Roswell Rotary Club President Gordon Owens; and Michael Curling, business office manager for Variant Brewing Company, discuss the craft brew industry and its effect on the economy at the Sept. 26 Roswell Rotary Club meeting at Roswell Area Park. is a long-time resident, and he could not have imagined opening the company anywhere other than Roswell.

Unlike other industries, Rains said, the craft beer industry tends to be collaborative and, for whatever reason, philanthropic.

“One of the most unique things about this industry is the collaboration and how friendly everybody is,” Rains said.

“I had heard about it, but until I got into the industry, it was something I couldn’t really explain to somebody coming from a business background… When you’re

not competing, it makes it easy to have a brewery and do good things.”

Curling said the breweries will often share ingredients and tips and, most recently, host walking tours to promote business in both companies.

Both breweries are also frequently involved with local nonprofits and allow these groups to host meetings and special events within their space.

“These guys both have it in their DNA to serve the community through their breweries,” said Roswell Rotary Club President Gordon Owens.

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Both companies were attracted to Roswell because of its community, and they wanted to continue the legacy by giving back, Curling said.

“We want to be a part of the community,” he said. “It’s always been a big part of what we do… The community supports us, and we want to support the community.”

Most recently, Gate City Brewing Company has partnered with End Human Trafficking Now to release the Freedom Fighter IPA to raise funds and awareness about human trafficking.

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Buckhead CID makes private transportation public With app-driven ride-sharing programs like Uber and Lyft woven into the fabric of our communities, and selfdriving cars on the horizon, the Buckhead Community Improvement District Geoff smith inked a contract last Assurance Financial, gsmith@lendtheway.com week to incorporate the systems into a public-like transit service.

The Buckhead CID approved a one-year contract for $607,000 with Via Transportation Inc., a service more focused on the ridesharing aspect and typically confined to specific areas.

In this case, Via has partnered with Mercedes-Benz Vans to provide vans within the Buckhead CID. Like Uber and Lyft, a rider would use an app to request a ride. Within minutes, a van with other passengers would arrive nearby and take you close to your destination.

From a transit perspective, it’s a great alternative to providing your own system because there is really no upfront cost. It’s almost like subbing out a transit system to a private company. The system is meant to compliment the free Buc Shuttle service that runs through the corridor, but has more flexible routes and can get passengers to that “last mile.”

“When we created the buc there was no such thing as a smartphone, much less on-demand transportation,” said Denise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead, in a recent Atlanta Business Chronicle article. “Transition-

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ing to microtransit allows us to provide a more convenient service for our current riders and also opens up opportunities for expanded service down the road.”

The comment could mean that one day the Via service, if it works well, could supplant the current bus system.

One of the biggest knocks on MARTA these days is that it doesn’t get riders close enough to where they need to be.

Or there are too many connections. You might take a bus to the North Springs MARTA station, for example, but if it takes you into town, you might still have several blocks to walk after getting off.

Many riders then either get on a busline, or Uber of Lyft their way to their final destination.

Intown there is much more connectivity and MARTA has more train stops and bus routes that a worker wouldn’t have too much trouble say stepping out for lunch and not having to drive to get there. But out in the suburbs, there is nowhere near the network of public transportation. I can imagine the folks in Alpharetta taking note, and maybe the North Fulton CID thinking that this could be a great way to get workers around the different nodes. Certainly it would increase value for the various business parks if it was free and easy to get from work to Avalon or downtown Alpharetta for lunch.

The $607,000-contract that the Buckhead CID agreed to sign certainly shows that the service isn’t free. It’s free to the riders, but someone has to pay for it. And you know who that is? It’s the commercial property owners in that district. A CID, or community improvement district, is a geographical area

where all of the commercial property owners agree to pay an added tax every year. That money goes into an account where a board made up of those property owners, and usually some members of the community, decide how the money is spent within that corridor. The funds are typically used to improve and maintain infrastructure, like building better looking sidewalks, improving infrastructure, or installing and maintaining landscaping. All of these things improve the corridor and thus improve a potential tenant’s desire to want to be in that corridor. With increased demand, it increases the values of those properties within that corridor. So by paying the added tax, the commercial properties owners are increasing the values of their properties as well as the incomes generated by their properties.

Certainly the businesses in the Buckhead CID will have an advantage over other companies located elsewhere, especially when it comes time to recruit talent if they can show them a free ridesharing service to move more easily throughout the corridor.

Medicine. The family practice has locations in Cumming and Milton.

Morrow and his wife started The Forsyth Bring Your Own Technology Benefit, which helps under-served public school students by acquiring necessary technology. Since its inception, The Forsyth BYOT Benefit has raised over $300,000 to

provide hardware, software and Wi-Fi to assist in the education of those in need.

Founded by Jim and Peggie Morrow of Morrow Family Medicine, The Forsyth BYOT Benefit holds two fundraising events each year.

Learn more about the BYOT Benefit and its events at forsythbyotbenefit.org.

Geoff Smith is a mortgage banker with Assurance Financial focusing on residential home loans for refinances and home purchases.

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The Can-Spam Act of 2003 established the first national standard requiring any electronic mail message, whose primary purpose is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a product or service, to be compliant with the law. This means emails can only be sent to those who have “opted in” or given you permission.

There are many email marketing systems available with very affordable prices for small businesses. They have easy to use templates to communicate your marketing message, include pictures of your products, and create links to your web site and social media pages. In today’s digital marketplace, having an email marketing capability is a proven approach to helping a small business grow sales.

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the car. It played cassettes.

Four young teen Back on I-95, that Galaxy toiled boys in the 1960 on. It was his grandmother’s car and it Ford Galaxy were was old — really old — or at least it felt beginning to panic that way. as they navigated “I thought I told you to get that fuse down I-95 to Miami. fixed,” glared the same trooper. The They kept getting Galaxy was overheating on the side of pulled over by State the road as the boys fidgeted and looked Troopers. A taillight at the ground, fixing their gaze anywhere out was out. It was Ray appen but at those dark glasses that shielded past sundown now Publisher ray@appenmediagroup.com angry eyes. and they had already “You’re going to get back into your received one warning. car and I’m going to follow you to the “Get that light fixed at the next stanext gas station, and if I catch you back tion” they had been told. The tall, mid40-something, starched and ironed, stiff, on this road again and your light hasn’t been fixed, you boys are going to jail this brown-shirted, crew-cut trooper had cut time. Do we understand each other?” them some slack, but who would ever Then his engine started, and the blue know why. light came on as we pulled back out on They pulled into a gas station. Back to the interstate. When we pulled into then, some gas stations had mechanics that next gas station, the trooper didn’t in addition to gas. The mechanic said even stop and just gunned his black and there must be a blown fuse, but heck if tan cruiser back onto the road. he could find the fuse panel.

Just as the sun was rising, we feared “Can’t help you, dudes.” we were to spend the night in jail if we Once the wheels left the station, the got back on that road without a new driver flipped a switch and adjusted a fuse. But we were on a mission, and knob or two, and noise that they called we had someplace to be, and we were “rock” began to pulse through the rapidly getting further and further away windows of the old car, into the dirty upholstery, bouncing off the floorboards. from being able to make our destination on time. And that just couldn’t happen.

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Had it been today, one of us would have pulled out a phone and been talking to someone’s dad, but cell phones were still at least a dozen or more years away. Our “cell phone” back in the day was a quarter and a pay phone.

The old man at the station walked up. He wore a greasy blue jump suit with the name “Bob” stenciled above the pocket.

“You fellers need something?”

After giving us a disparaging look when we told him we couldn’t find the fuse, he opened the car door and began searching up under the dash.

After about five minutes, he stood up, scratched his head and then his stubby unshaven face, and announced that, “Dang if I can find any fuse. Maybe this thang don’t got one. Let me go get Buddy.”

Buddy was the mechanic›s boss, middle aged, almost clean, white T-shirt, anxious and bothered to have been asked by Bob to do something. As Bob faded away into the background, Buddy marched straight to the now cold Galaxy and went straight to the hood, opened it, and disappeared into the engine space for what seemed like a long time. He bumped his head on the hood standing up with a jerk, then scowled and went into the garage and came back with a gurney – the kind you lay down on with wheels so one can roll under things like old Galaxy’s looking for fuses. At last he

emerged and announced “Damn car ain’t got no fuse and I’m done. Now, you boys git. Tired of wasting my time. Git back on the road before I call the law.”

“Mister, if we get back on I-95 we’re going to jail.”

“Did you hear me?”

“Buddy,” I heard someone say, “Buddy, let me go get him and see if he can find it.”

“If I can’t find it it aint there.”

Buddy walked off.

A few minutes later, out of the dark we spotted a skinny kid in jeans walking toward us. Couldn’t have been any older than we were. But he ignored us and went over and spoke with Bob. Then he looked over at the Galaxy.

“Who is that?” I asked.

“It’s the owner’s son,” Bob replied. “If he can’t find it, no one can.”

I turned and looked at the skinny kid as he seemed to wade into the engine of the Galaxy. He never looked under the car, never looked under the dash — just went straight to the engine and leaned way in, so far that his arm and half his skinny body seemed to disappear into the mass of oily steel and wire.

“No way,“ I thought to myself. “We are so toast.”

He twisted his body and reached even farther into the engine then rapidly withdrew his hand, holding — OK, fus-

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Who: Continued from Page 17 es. He then proceeded to explain that in this model year, the fuses in the Galaxies were located ….” Bob rushed up to him and slapped him on the back.

“I knew you could find it.”

A few minutes later, the kid, and that is how I will remember him forever — “the kid” — took one last look at the Galaxy, then glanced at us. Then, with just the hint of a smile on his face, shook his head and walked off.

As we barreled down I-95 toward Miami Beach with the player’s tunes blasting “We’re not going to take it,” I couldn’t help but smile and shake my head at what I had just witnessed. The kid was the absolute end of the food chain. The pecking order had reached the end of the line, and the kid — the grease monkey who had been building and taking engines apart since he was probably 6, the one, the closer, the guy the coach nods to at the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded and ahead by one — got the call and delivered.

We made it to the coliseum while the warm-up band was still playing. Then, we watched The Who perform every song off “Live a Leeds,” all of “Who’s

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Next” and all of “Tommy.”

“We’re not going to take it.”

“Nobody knows what it’s like to be the sad man, to be the bad man, behind blue eyes.”

We watched Keith Moon fall off his drum stool, backwards. Loon-Moon they called him. He lit up every stage he ever played on.

Roger Daltry threw that microphone around and whirled it over and over through the air as he belted out “ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.”

And Pete Townshend wound up like a straight-armed pitcher and whirled his arms at his guitar over and over, as cords crashed through everything that was in their way. The band didn’t just play. They raged and we watched. Then they lay us down.

“See me, Feel me, touch me, Feel me.

“Listening to you I get the music, Gazing at you I get the heat, Following you, I climb the mountain….”

That was 49 years ago. Last night, I watched 76 year old Townsend do it again. Nothing had changed. Same rage. Same threat. Same madness.

Same rebel. Same angry guitar. Same promise.

After the opening set, Townsend

took the mike and breathed heavily and sighed.

“We played as many songs for you from Tommy as we could without breaking my heart.”

And I know he did. You could tell.

It was one of those moments of clarity and courage that is so rare today.

And I know that it probably wasn’t so, but the magic of that promise he shared, for some reason, made me think of that skinny grease monkey from a lifetime ago and his mastery of an old Galaxy on an interstate in the middle of the night and of a crew-cut state trooper who for some reason, wasn’t out to conquer or punish, and of four kids hell-bent on arriving at the concert in time to see this British band.

And what do you suppose that the name of that grease monkey was? Well, Tommy?

“Ever since I was a young boy I’ve played the silver ball From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all But I aint’ seen nothing like him In any amusement hall That deaf dumb and blind kid Sure plays a mean pin ball.”

Thank you, Pete.

And thank you Tommy, wherever you are.

Road: Continued from Page 4 ney Ken Jarrard said the county wants to move beyond the design and planning process and get the ball rolling.

“If you look at what Johns Creek is proposing, it’s not embracing the whole project,” Jarrard said. “We would like a renewed commitment to the entirety of the project, not just commit to a phase of the project. We want them to embrace the entirety of it.”

Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills said that skyrocketing costs for road projects has been a fact of life for years.

There is nothing wrong with asking each city to pay a fair share of those costs, she said.

County Manager Eric Johnson urged caution.

“I’ve been here two years, and when I started, there was no commitment by either jurisdiction for $9 million,” he said.

“Starting with a $9 million assumption and going north with that is not going to necessarily get us any place.”

In the long run, he said, if all jurisdictions move to fund acquisition of all the right of way, chances increase that the state may step up with more help.

If the county keeps asking for $9 million from each city, the project will go nowhere, he said.

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So how was the rock collecting trip?

A few weeks back I talked about egg cartons. Egg cartons? Yep. They are the perfect thing for holding rocks if you happen to go rock collecting, which is what I then proceeded to do.

STEVE HUDSON I want to tell you Get Outside Georgia, about the rock trip, aa4bw@comcast.net but first I want to share a little background.

I grew up looking for rocks. My dad and my granddad were both into rockhounding, as it’s called, and we spent many hours doing rocky things — talking about them, researching them, looking for them, and washing them in the kitchen sink to the unending dismay of my long-suffering mother.

Most of our rock collecting was in northern Georgia, but sometimes it was farther afield. I remember one memorable trip in east Texas, hunting petrified wood on the stockpiles of a sand and gravel plant on the Brazos River west of Houston, where the owners understood the rockhounding affliction and were sympathetic. The plant’s machinery did the hard work for us, dredging gravel from the river and washing it and piling it up in towering mounds. All we had to do was to look through the stuff in the piles.

That kind of rock collecting can be hard on the back, but the pain was worth it because a surprising lot of the stuff in those piles was agate, jasper or petrified wood. There were fossils, too, including things like mammoth teeth. I

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still have the grapefruit-sized mammoth tooth I found there that day, and looking at it now takes me right back to those exceptionally enjoyable days under the blazing east Texas sun.

It takes me back to another thing, too: a time when it was easy to find places to look for rocks.

Back when I was young (“In the previous millennium,” as my oldest son once so delicately put it) people were much more inclined to let you look for rocks on their land. Usually all you had to do was ask.

Today, it’s different. Posted signs are the norm. Land is closed to public access even if you ask (sad but not really surprising in these lawsuit-prone times), and it gets harder and harder to find places to do a little rock collecting if you are, like me, a rule follower at heart and try to follow the letter of the law.

Nonetheless, a few weeks ago I gathered up my rockhounding tools and set off to see what rockhounding adventures might await. It would be a pilgrimage of sorts with return visits to some of the favorite sites from, as they say, those halcyon days of yore. It promised to be great time.

How did it turn out? Well…

Yes, I did find a few good rocks. I picked up a handful of those fossil crinoids I mentioned, and I found a nice brachiopod shell fossil too. I also found a nice piece of lace agate, a specimen made even more appealing by the fact that it was covered on one side with a universe of tiny quartz crystals a millimeter or so long.

So I found some rocks.

But the biggest thing I found was a

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Yewande Idowu, 36, of Roswell, passed away September 17, 2019.

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Ronald E. Lane, 85, of Roswell, passed away September 20, 2019. Arrangements

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plethora of collecting sites that are, alas, collecting sites no more.

“Plethora” is a neat and often misused word. People often use it to mean “lots of” or “abundant,” but what it really means is “a negative excess” — as in a plethora of mosquito bites or a plethora of taxes.

What had happened to those rock collecting sites? Some were still there but were guarded by those NO TRESPASSING signs. Others were overgrown (it doesn’t take long for a patch of dirt to get completely overtaken by underbrush). And still others were simply not there. One, a hillside where I used to find nice jasper, had been replaced by a school. Another, where I used to find colorful agate, had metamorphosed into a shopping center parking lot.

I guess it’s true. You really can’t go home again.

Still, persistence is rewarded. I drove a lot of backroads and looked at a lot of roadcuts, among them one that provided the crinoids and another that gave me the little shell fossil. I even knocked on a total of five doors to see if I might gain

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Dorothy McWhorter, 88, of Roswell, passed away September 19, 2019.

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Sara Lucille Padgett, 87, of Cumming, passed away September 23, 2019.

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access beyond those foreboding yellow signs. Everybody I spoke to was nice about it, and one was even apologetic, but most still said “no.”

I did, however, get one “yes” — and that’s where I discovered that piece of crystal-bedecked agate.

Not long after picking up that piece of agate, I decided to call it a day. On the way back to the truck I stopped to thank the landowner and to show him my discovery. He allowed as to how his grandkids would probably like to look for rocks too. That was all it took to get us talking about grandchildren, which are a great part of God’s plan and which really do make exceptional rockhounding buddies.

Eventually it was time to go. Before I left I gave him the piece I’d found so those grandkids of his would have an idea what to look for.

“That’s mighty nice of you,” he said.

“And you just come on back any time.

Maybe bring those grandkids of your own too!”

How about that. Maybe you can go home again, at least one in a while.

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Ronald Edwin Roetman, 75, passed away September 21, 2019. Arrangements by McDonald & Son Funeral Home.

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