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Bread crumbs for learning Visitors to Shakerag Park now have something more to do on the nature trail.

The city has installed a StoryWalk, featuring successive pages from a children’s book to encourage greater literacy and physical activity. Read more, Page 21.

Cities set deadline for sales tax decision

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Johns Creek welcomes three new businesses

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Local businesswoman to head civic program

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Man evades police twice following traffic incident JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police tried to arrest a Johns Creek man after he escaped a traffic stop along Old Alabama Road late Feb. 26. But they were unable to capture him on two separate occasions.

Officers obtained warrants for the arrest of Daniel Clinton Furtado, 30, of Old Preston Court. The charges were for reckless driving, speeding, fleeing or attempting to elude police officer and a number of other traffic-related offenses.

The saga began when a patrol officer spotted a sport-styled motorcycle speeding near Autry Falls Way and attempted a traffic stop. The motorcycle sped away, and the officer tracked the vehicle to Furtado’s home. Police spoke to his girlfriend, who told them Furtado lived at the residence and drives the motorcycle.

Police asked the woman to bring Furtado outside, but he refused. He spoke to officers over the phone and told them he

PUBLIC SAFETY was sick with COVID-19, claiming he’d been home all day. Furtado told police that a friend had borrowed the motorcycle, but officers had seen the bike travelling in the area 45 seconds before they arrived to the home.

Police left after they couldn’t persuade Furtado to meet with them. The man called officers back to his house the following day. He apologized and said he didn’t come outside because he was afraid. He admitted that it was his motorcycle that bolted from the traffic stop, but he claimed a friend named “Chris” was riding it. He said he had security cam footage of the friend quickly returning the vehicle and fleeing into the woods. But when police arrived, Furtado told them the camera had stopped recording shortly before “Chris” returned the motorcycle. When the investigators asked Furtado to come downstairs and show them the motorcycle, he ran into the woods behind the house and escaped again, according to police.

Officers added a misdemeanor obstruction charge to Furtado’s list of warrants.

Investigators seize 21,000 child porn photos in raid

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek Internet Crimes Against Children task

DUI arrests Larry M. Brown, 39, of East Rockborough, Stone Mountain, was arrested Feb. 22 on Old Alabama Road for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

Arthuro Coronel, 21, of Bells Ferry Road, Canton, was arrested Feb. 23 on Medlock Bridge Road for DUI and expired tag.

Robert Raymond Benz, 25, of Evanston Lane, Marietta, was arrested Feb. 26 of Old Alabama Road for DUI and failure to maintain lane. force recovered more than 21,000 alleged child pornography images after agents raided raided a Johns Creek residence Feb. 24.

Joe Kent Ayers, 63, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. The task force recovered the lewd images from multiple devices.

Police did not reveal the location of the search warrant. Public records show Ayers lives along Ivey Oaks Lane.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched the investigation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tracking federal stimulus funds in education Recipient

CARES 1 (March 2020)

U.S. Total $31 (billion) K-12 $13 Higher Education $14 Governors $3 Georgia $ 411 (million) to governors to be used to help private schools recover from the disruption of the pandemic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fulton County commissioner pitches transit element in renewed sales tax

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

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

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

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

Estimated revenues Early estimates provide different revenues for a renewed transportation sales tax, depending on the tax rate and how the money is apportioned. Right now, there are three scenarios under consideration.

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

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

• A 1% sales tax over five years: Would generate around $500 million for distribution to cities — outside Atlanta — according to population, plus an additional $200 million for transit projects in North and South Fulton let voters decide whether to extend it another five years.

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

District 1 County Commissioner Liz Hausmann stressed that including transit — such as MARTA bus and rail

— to the equation would open opportunities for federal assistance. She said she has met with state transportation officials who have explored funding sources through Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

She said she shared with them the regional transit plan and the fund-

ing needs, and this was the first time federal officials have inquired about Fulton County and the region’s transit plan specifics.

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

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

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

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

East Point Mayor Deana Holiday Ingraham objected to the presentation, saying she was “blindsided” by Hausmann’s pitch.

“There clearly was knowledge that

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SCHOOLS

Innovation Academy partners with firm to foster students’ problem-solving skills

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

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

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

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

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

“I have never seen such generosity,” Garth said. “It’s so incredible that

this company, that even in this time, they have been so generous for no other reason than to offer what they have.”

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

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

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

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

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By KATIE ANDERSON newsroom@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — While the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in over 100,000 businesses nationwide shutting down permanently, Johns Creek is still becoming home for new businesses.

While they enjoyed owning a successful Atlanta hair salon for some time, John and Rhonda Wilkens moved their International Style Bar to Johns Creek after COVID-19 had a negative impact on their business.

Previously, their Peachtree Street location saw many travelers from nearby hotels, but with COVID putting a strain on travel, business dwindled. The Wilkens had a friend suggest Johns Creek as a new home for the salon. On Feb. 10 the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to welcome the salon to the city.

The new location is 10955 Jones Bridge Road, Suite 102. For the month of March, in honor of Women’s History Month, International Style Bar is currently offering 50 percent off a $100 service to women.

Johns Creek is also home to a new World Of Beverage location which opened its doors on March 3 at 10305 Medlock Bridge Road, near the intersection of Wil-

son and Medlock Bridge roads.

The Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce also hosted a grand opening for TS Braid Styles, a braid shop located at 11130 State Bridge Road, on March 10.

While the city is seeing some business growth, it has not been easy for all businesses during this time.

Since receiving approximately $3 million in CARES act funding through Fulton County in October, the City of Johns Creek has been working to aid local businesses with grants to offset their loss of revenue caused by the pandemic. City officials decided at a Nov. 16 meeting to allocate $2.7 million of its award to help struggling businesses, while the other $300,000 would go to non-profits to aid the vulnerable population.

As of the beginning of March, the city has assisted 472 businesses by providing $5,000 grants and is evaluating five additional businesses for their qualifications.

This leaves $315,000 of the funds designated to assist struggling businesses.

City Council members have been reaching out to business owners to encourage them to apply for the program and receive a grant.

The city also reminds local businesses that they have until March 31 to renew their business tax certificates.

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Leadership Johns Creek graduate to serve as new executive director JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Leadership Johns Creek will kick off its 13th year with the class of 2022 in August with a new executive director.

Nakia Mattis has been tapped to lead the organization.

Nakia currently works as the regional director of Program Management for a large national healthcare system that includes 137 hospitals. Over the past 22 years, Mattis has built a successful career in healthcare, information technology leading successful client implementations.

She has a dual Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Clark Atlanta University and industrial engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She also has a Master of Science in healthcare administration from the University of Maryland.

Mattis was a member of the Leadership Johns Creek Class of 2020 T.H.E. Cricket Team raising money for the first electronic scoreboard in Georgia. Outside

her busy career, Nakia volunteers with the Junior League of Atlanta, Habitat for Humanity and at her church. She is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Atlanta Board of Realtors. She is also an avid runner and fitness expert.

She lives in Johns Creek with her husband, Lawrence, and their son, Hunter, and daughter, Penelope, “Leadership Johns Creek has been so fortunate to have Kris Custis as executive director for the past two years,” Heather Redrick, LJC president said. “Kris has worked tirelessly with the class participants to bring many valuable community projects to Johns Creek residents. We thank her for her devotion to our community. Nakia is the perfect choice to fill her shoes because of her energy, experience and knowledge of the program as a LJC graduate.”

You can contact Nakia Mattis directly at mattis@leadershipjohnscreek.com or 404-210-2543.

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Pop’s Coffee combines motorcycles and caffeine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I swear to God he thinks this is his

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If you are sure that you only have spider veins (little purple or red netted cluster of tiny veins) and have no signs of any underlying vascular issues (tired, achy legs, swelling of the ankles, discoloration of the skin at the feet or ankles, restless leg syndrome, blue bulging veins etc.) then you can treat the spider veins with sclerotherapy or laser treatments – sometimes a combination of both.

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If you find yourself experiencing any of the symptoms of vein disease, then your path to a cure is quite different.

The first step is to visit a physician and discuss you vein disease. This is critical, as insurance companies require proof/ documentation of a vein complaint along with several specific questions answered about how your vein issues are affecting your quality of life. This first documentation of a vein complaint is Day 1.

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companies mandate that a patient try “conservative therapy” for 90 days before any medical vein procedure will be covered. Conservative therapy consists of over the counter pain medication, leg elevation, exercise and medical grade compression stockings. If it seems likely that vein disease is causing the patient’s symptoms, an ultrasound will be ordered. The ultrasound provides a map of the venous system and a diagram of which vein or veins are diseased and would benefit from treatment. Medical records and ultrasound report are sent to an insurance carrier for review and prior authorization is requested.

(Prior authorization is not a guarantee of coverage, and if you know a politician, please ask them to fix that!)

Often, a patient’s varicose veins can connect with one another. That means that treating one cluster of varicose veins can sometimes result in multiple adjacent varicose veins also going away.

It is often in the patient’s best interest to space out treatments to minimize the number of treatments needed to achieve a cure.

So, as you can see, a patient who has never tried “conservative therapy” and who has multiple varicose veins needing treatment may require 5 months or more to complete treatment given 1) a 90 day conservative therapy waiting period, 2) a prior authorization review, and 3) a month or two of spaced treatments. Cosmetic treatments would then typically follow medical treatments if desired. This can all be greatly accelerated if a patient has already completed conservative therapy before their first consultation with their physician or if the patient is not going through insurance for treatment.

A final useful tip is that the spring and summer are still a great time for a first meeting with a vein specialist. Given the potentially lengthy timeline outlined above, a spring or summer appointment can help ensure that treatments are completed in the same calendar year. This helps eliminate the danger of having to reach a deductible more than once.

If you or a loved one has venous disease or spider veins, know that advanced, minimally invasive, safe and highly effective treatments are available.

Seek out a vein specialist who is a member of the American College of Phlebology (ACP) and who has taken and passed the board exam of the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine (ABVLM). Dr. Brent Taylor is a committed and caring vein specialist. Consider calling Dr. Taylor at Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These engineers apparently use busy airport runways as guides for the kind of decibel output their products should have. The kinds of people who view the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa caldera — which many scientists consider to be the loudest “sound” ever experienced on Earth that could reportedly be heard from 1,900 miles away — as aspirational.

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

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

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

She’s also at the stage where her needs and emotions have far outpaced

her vocabulary, so the next best option, according to her, is to scream interminably.

While working from home is fantastic in many aspects, I now seek out quiet with the same fervor as food, shelter, love and beer. So, if that next round of stimulus checks come in, I know which industry I will be boosting — the soundproof audiometric booth sector.

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When less is more Back when my sole responsibility in life was to “learn” (oh, glorious days), I remember writing a high school paper on organizational theory and reading about an amazing social scientist and Nobel Prize winner RAY APPEN named Herbert Simon.

Publisher Emeritus ray@appenmediagroup.com That was so long ago, but frequently these days, I find myself remembering stuff that Simon studied and wrote about because so much of what I see today seems to beckon back to him.

One of the many things he is remembered for is his theory of “bounded reality” and how we process information and make decisions. He theorized a lot about the role and impact that the amount of relevant information played in any decision-making process. That is, did more information mean a better decision? I think he ended up concluding that humans have a very finite capacity to process information and that, no, more information did not necessarily lead to “better decisions.” In fact, he speculated, that often information overload

led to worse decisions because we stopped thinking once we were overloaded and just settled for a decision that worked “well enough” within our emotional and intellectual constraints to process the information at hand.

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

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

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

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

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

We’re grasping, embracing small, beautiful things — like, well, delivering gifts to people just to make them smile or singing a song to someone just because we can — or can’t! It seems like everywhere I turn I am finding more examples of this grace, this restart. I was going to write about a few of these “small things,” about this retreat from “more, bigger, faster, prettier, more distraction, less time, more connections but fewer friends, so I asked a friend to give me a short description of the “small thing” that he and his wife Lisa have been doing. I was going to gather a few more to include, but after I read what Tom wrote for me, I decided that was enough. He did a great job and what he wrote says it all.

So here is my column that I didn’t write — written by my friend Tom. Enjoy.

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

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

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

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

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

It’s also a great family activity for kids to help with. Children are often the best cheese sprinklers and cookie tasters in the family, and it’s a great way for them to learn about helping others in our communities.

The full story and how to get involved is at https://www.lasagnalove.org/. Become a Lasagna Mama/Papa/Family. Collaborate with partners in need. Request a lasagna. Love.”

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

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

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Continued from Page 4 this was going to be brought up,” Holiday Ingraham said, adding that the meeting agenda provided no mention of a presentation on transit.

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

For her part, Hausmann said the transit information had been compiled for informational purposes only and

had only been finalized the evening before. She said transit funding had been discussed at prior meetings, also.

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

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

“We’re going to need to set a ‘go’ or ‘no-go,’” he said.

Bodker suggested the cities discuss the issue with their elected leaders and come back next month prepared to reach a decision.

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Johns Creek installs StoryWalk at Shakerag Park

By KATIE ANDERSON newsroom@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The City of Johns Creek has installed a StoryWalk along one of the nature trails at Shakerag Park.

A StoryWalk is a book, in this case “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates” by Ryan Higgins, that has been deconstructed, laminated and placed page by page along an outdoor trail. While StoryWalks are often fun, temporary activities put on by or at libraries, this installation is a permanent amenity along the trail.

The concept was developed by a Vermont woman as a way to increase physical movement and encourage childhood literacy. The StoryWalk in Shakerag Park is placed along the nature trail near the playground so that children and their families can read the story while they walk the path.

StoryWalks have been installed in 50 states and 13 countries including, Germany, Canada, England, Bermuda, Russia, Malaysia, Pakistan and South Korea.

Inspired by the success of the StoryWalk in Forsyth County’s Hawk Creek Park, Johns Creek City Engineer Erica Madsen pitched the idea to the Public Works Department.

Madsen worked with librarians for permission from a publisher to use their book along the trail.

The mission of the StoryWalk is to nurture bodies and minds through reading and physical movement, Madsen said, and the city is excited to bring that

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Laminated pages from “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates” by Ryan Higgins, line the StoryWalk in Shakerag Park. to Johns Creek.

“The whole point is promoting literacy and physical movement at the same time,” she said. “So I hope it’s just a way that people can just do one more thing and enjoy the park.”

While there are no plans for additional StoryWalks, Madsen said she would love to add more to the other parks in Johns Creek and encourages families to visit the StoryWalk at Shakerag Park and Hawk Creek Park in Forsyth.

Additionally, the sidewalk leading to the fishing pier in Shakerag Park was recently completed, giving residents another outdoor activity to enjoy in Johns Creek.

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