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Preserving peace and quiet A family enjoys a quiet afternoon amid the flora and fauna at the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve in Johns Creek. The 46-acre Nature Preserve will host its annual “Wild About Autrey Mill” fundraiser Saturday to help fund operation of its classes, camps and trails. Read more, Page 4.

Barbara Duffy Center expands charity’s reach

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Thousands in valuables taken from storage unit JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police were called to a Life Storage Facility along Jones Bridge Road on April 12 to investigate a theft.

The victim, 60, told officers he found an unfamiliar lock on his storage unit when he arrived. Management couldn’t explain why or how the lock had been switched, but opened the man’s unit. It had been ransacked. An Omntec Proteus demo case valued at $3,000 was missing, along with an Omntec mini touchscreen valued at $1,500, according to police.

The victim told officers only his brother and son had access to the storage locker, which he’d last visited Oct. 5, 2020.

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Home burglary reported along Landing Entry

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A home undergoing renovations on Landing Entry was burglarized overnight April 14. Crews working on the residence arrived to find a window open and the garage door slightly ajar.

The head contractor told police some of his equipment was stolen from the property, including a commercial spray machine and ladders.

The homeowner, who was in the process of moving out, said a push mower, socket set and plastic tub he’d left behind were missing.

Thief removes purses from car inside garage

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Two purses were reported stolen from a BMW X4 parked in a garage on Vidaulan Court on April 14.

The homeowners told police the last time they drove the car was April 7, and they left both purses in the passenger seat. The victims didn’t notice the purses, which contained their house and

Drugs & DUI arrests Rosetta Denae Jackson, 26, of Wesley Plantation Drive, Duluth, was arrested April 13 on State Bridge Road for DUI and speeding.

Charles Anthony Cain III, 39, of Colonial Way, Atlanta, was arrested April 13 on Medlock Bridge Road for DUI, following too closely, manufacturing/selling/possessing/ distribute drugs and possession/ purchase of any controlled substance.

Marcelo Caldeira, 52, of San Francisco, California, was arrested April 17 on State Bridge Road for DUI and following too closely.

car keys, missing until two days later.

That same day they left the garage open, according to police.

The victims said they searched their home, garage and other vehicles for the purses and couldn’t find them.

They called the police after the president of their homeowner’s association told them about another theft in the neighborhood, police said.

Local students named 2021 Coca-Cola scholars JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek High School senior Adi Bora and Sarah Lao, a senior at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, have been recognized as two of the country’s most outstanding high school leaders by the Coca-Cola ScholBORA ars Foundation.

Both have been awarded a $20,000 college scholarship.

As members of the 33rd class of Co-

ca-Cola Scholars, Bora and Lao were recognized as change agents, positively affecting others in the community. They are two of 150 selected from 99,403 applicants from across the country to receive this scholarship.

A joint effort of CocaLAO Cola bottlers across the country, the CocaCola Scholars Program is the largest corporate-sponsored, achievement-based

scholarship program in the United States. With the addition of the 2021 class, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation will have provided more than 6,450 Coke Scholars nationwide with more than $75 million in scholarships over the past 33 years.

“We believe that identifying these young leaders throughout the country and encouraging their passion for serving others not only empowers the students, but also lifts up those around them.” said Jane Hale Hopkins, president of the Foundation.

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Fulton County Schools nearing end of 5-year capital plan Nearly $980 million spent in building improvements

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — The Fulton County School System is entering the final year of its five-year building program in better shape financially and operationally than expected.

“What a climb we’ve had and we’re almost at the top,” said Louis Mosley, interim director of operations for the district. “The good news is I have a message of promises made and promises delivered.”

Under Capital Plan 2022 which kicked off in June 2017, Mosely said 88 of the district’s 105 schools will have been “touched” in some way, either through building upgrades, technology improvements, safety equipment or combinations of all.

The $980 million capital plan is funded primarily through the 1-cent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, which was renewed by voters for a fourth time in June 2017 and runs through June 2022.

The current SPLOST was initially projected to raise $940 million over the five-year period.

Within Capital Plan 2022, the North Fulton region saw the construction of two new schools, Innovation Academy in Alpharetta and the replacement of Crabapple Middle School in Roswell. Both are set to open to students this fall.

Other construction projects in the region include renovations or additions at five area high schools, redesigned media centers at nine middle schools, and playground upgrades at three elementary schools.

Older schools also received roof replacements and fire alarm upgrades, which Mosley said is critical in keeping everything inside the building in optimal condition.

“Quite a bit of the work is what people cannot see, [because] it’s the infrastructure behind the scenes,” Mosley said. “But these are key components of maintaining your facility and protecting investments.”

The pandemic hit the construction industry hard, with projects put on hold initially, then gradually reopening with a tighter labor pool, new safety precautions and social distance mandates that slowed progress and increased budgets.

Mosley said the district had budgeted a 5 percent overage in the construction budget, but during the pandemic the costs rose in some areas up to 15 percent. Careful planning and budgeting by district planners, along with an unexpected rise in revenues, helped weather the storm.

“COVID-19 had a really strong impact on what have we done, [and required] significant fiscal oversight responsibilities,” Mosley said. “So, kudos to everybody in the planning phase because through that we’ve been able to be more successful.”

In addition to construction projects, Capital Plan 2022 also includes upgrades and enhancements to technology, safety and security and transportation initiatives.

Technology upgrades kicked into high gear last spring when the system went to remote instruction because of the pandemic. While many students already had school-issued devices, the district had to ensure all students had access.

“Technology touches everything in the district,” Mosley said. “It wasn’t always that way, but it is that way now and will continue to be that way.”

Voters will be asked to renew sales tax Since first approved by Fulton County voters in in 1997, the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax has raised nearly $2.5 billion for the Fulton County School System. The money collected has allowed the system to fund capital programs without borrowing money.

In January, the Fulton County School System was able to pay off its last remaining bond, which was issued in 1998.

The 1-cent tax is added to transactions in Fulton County and is a source of revenue that school officials say is funded by both residents and non-residents.

“The value [of SPLOST] means the burden of keeping up the school district does not fall solely on homeowners,” said Julia Bernath, president of the Fulton County School Board. “Anyone who chooses to shop in Fulton County is supporting our schools.”

Voters have approved the renewal of the SPLOST four times to continue funding the list of education projects contained within the capital programs.

Only projects presented under the SPLOST referendum to the voters can be funded with its proceeds.

The Fulton County School System is expected to ask voters next year to renew SPLOST for Capital Plan 2027.

Earlier this year, the district completed an intensive facilities assessment to determine the priority of projects and an overall budget which will be presented to voters for approval.

The focus was on security and stability of the network, and more than tripling the capacity of the bandwidth to support an all-virtual learning environment.

Capital Plan 2022 also includes security camera upgrades in all schools.

Already, 77 schools have been retrofitted, with the remaining schools slated for completion next year. Cameras will also be installed in school buses, which are increasingly transitioning to propane fuel as opposed to diesel.

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Girl Scout cookie sales crumble during pandemic

BY SYDNEY DANGREMOND newsroom@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta are calling on the community to open their wallets and their mouths to help with a cookie surplus created by pandemic-depressed sales.

When annual cookie sales began in January, COVID-19 cases were surging to new peaks, and many troop leaders and their Scouts did not feel safe selling the treats in-person, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta CEO Amy Dosik said. While sales were offered online, the warehouse still has roughly 720,000 boxes of cookies left unsold.

“We’ve sold a little more than two and a half million boxes this year,” Dosik said. This is a marked decline from their typical four million boxes per year average.”

Dosik said they anticipated lower sales this year, “but what we didn’t anticipate was the severity of that winter spike in COVID cases. That, I think, really made many of our troops hesitant to do any sort of in-person cookie activity.”

Many troops opted out of cookie sales entirely, said Two Bridges Service Unit Director and Troop Leader Keri Michaelis. When she’s not leading her own troop of seventh-grade Girl Scouts in Johns Creek, she’s aiding other troop leaders in the area. Michaelis attributes the lack of participation to pandemic burnout.

“I think parents are overwhelmed, kids are overwhelmed, and they just didn’t want something additional to participate in if it was truly optional,” Michaelis said.

Only about 80 percent of Michaelis’ troop participated in sales this year, but they still had no trouble reaching their goal.

“I think because there was an increased demand and

a decreased supply, in terms of the number of girls selling and the number of troops selling, there was a greater opportunity for more sales,” Michaelis said.

And although this year’s sales required new initiatives, Michaelis’ girls decided to view it as an exercise in creativity and business acumen.

Her daughter Nora almost tripled her sales from previous years by filling the vacuum and learned a lot in the process.

“She’s learning skills about marketing and communication and entrepreneurship as a seventh grader, and I love that for her,” Michaelis said.

The troop heeded guidance from the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta on how to do in-person booth sales safely. They used social media to get the word out, created a drive-thru cookie booth and implemented contactless delivery.

“It was really pretty easy,” Michaelis said. “I’m very proud of how we all pivoted in a pandemic to still keep cookie sales going. So much of what we do, we rely on cookie season financially, so to just opt-out entirely was not something we wanted to do.”

Money from cookie sales stays local and is, “the biggest source of powering girl adventures,” Dosik said.

At the troop level, the money goes toward funding merit badges, camps and service projects. At the council level, funds provide Scouts in need with financial assistance and camp upkeep.

For Michaelis’ troop, money generated through cookie season is being saved for a trip to Washington D.C. that was postponed due to COVID-19.

Dosik and the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta still hope to sell the remaining boxes through their online platform: showmethecookies.com.

“I think especially in this pandemic year, Girl Scout-

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Nora Michaelis prepares to sell Girl Scout cookies in drive-thru cookie booth at Parsons Pointe Dental in Johns Creek on March 13, 2021.

ing has been an essential lifeline for girls to keep them academically engaged and socially connected,” Dosik said.

Selling the remaining cookies in their warehouse is imperative for continuing their work in the community, Dosik said.

For Michaelis and her troop, overcoming the hurdles of selling cookies in a pandemic served as an important learning experience.

“I think there are things we’ve learned from this that we will carry forward,” Michaelis said.

Nature Preserve to host ‘Wild About Autrey Mill’ fundraiser

BY SYDNEY DANGREMOND newsroom@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Autrey Mill Nature Preserve will host its sixth annual “Wild About Autrey Mill” fundraiser Saturday, May 1, from 7 to 10 p.m.

The outdoor event will feature musical entertainment, refreshments and a silent auction to raise money to continue the work of the preserve.

“All of this will go to educational programming, and the salaries that allow us to encourage appreciation, exploration and conservation of the history and the environment of the Johns Creek area,” said Lara Maltby, president of the Board of Directors.

Maltby said she is excited for the opportunity to celebrate what makes Autrey Mill special, ranging from its protected species to its precolonial history.

Attendees will get the chance to meet a Eurasian eagle owl, a falcon and a hawk from the Winged Ambassadors as well as hear musical entertainment from South Carolina singer-songwriter Mark

AUTREY MILL NATURE PRESERVE

An American Chameleon sits atop fence at Autrey Mill Nature Preserve in Johns Creek. The American Chameleon is one of many species whose home is protected by the preserve.

Humphries.

Maltby said she hopes the event will serve to re-engage the local community with the preserve and remind them of the importance of protecting its land.

“The more that the community is invested in the area, the more that they can understand why it’s valuable to keep it,” Maltby said.

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A hummingbird feeds at a flower at the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve in Johns Creek.

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North Fulton Improvement Network hosted its seventh Fireside Chat, which covered elements, like tourism, that are essential to the economy’s growth in the North Fulton County area.

Group stresses continued support for hospitality industry

By TIFFANY MORGAN newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. –– Supporting small businesses became crucial when COVID-19 shut down the nation.

For Fulton County and the surrounding region, tourism is a major driving force in economic development.

Jack Murphy, chairman of the North Fulton Improvement Network, highlighted the importance of the hospitality sector his Fireside Chat on April 21. The chat addressed the financial vulnerability in Fulton County and how tourism has and can affect that.

Andy Williams, executive director of Visit Roswell, and a small business advocate said tourism is crucial their number one goal, which is driving a “transient business” into the community. Getting people to explore the community amenities, historical assets, special events and other qualities is what keeps the economy alive, he said.

“It is having people come to the community to really embrace everything that we offer and to influence the economic vitality of the community through tourism visitation,” Williams said.

The tourism aspect shifted greatly, he said, when the pandemic limited traveling, so the industry focused on local residents, businesses and surrounding communities.

Tourism drives so much visitor spending in Georgia, Williams said, that if it went away, each household would have to be taxed an additional $919 per

year to make up the difference. Just in Fulton County, direct tourist spending supports nearly 70,000 essential workers, which includes hoteliers, concert and other venues, private events as well as others.

The impact of residents and business owners is crucial to the economic growth of the region, Williams said.

But with travel restrictions through the pandemic, the hospitality sector is only now recovering.

“We’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel,” Williams said. “For the first time, we’ve been tracking data from our hotels, and we’ve actually seen positive results that give us hope.”

There is still work to be done, Williams said, with a lot of conversation around workforce development and immediate workforce needs. Pierce said they are focusing on how Visit Roswell can work with their partners to become more involved in that conversation.

Ryan Pernice, founder of RO Hospitality, said for the restaurant scene in Roswell, he looks for employees to be able to carry on a conversation and show up with a smile.

“I think we’re one of the last true bastions of the importance of work ethic, and I don’t really care what your education or even what your work experience is,” Pernice said. “I can teach you what you need to know, and if you’re willing to work, then in restaurants you’re rewarded by work ethic.”

To learn more about the region’s workforce or other Fireside Chats, go to improvenorthfulton.org.

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Uncle Jack’s on Canton Street offers new flavors to Roswell

By ZOE SEILER newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — A new restaurant has taken its place on one of the marquee locations in North Fulton.

Uncle Jack’s on Canton Street in Roswell offers a menu that can create four or five different experiences for guests, and the menu is structured to feed all of the people in the city, Uncle Jack’s CEO Willie Degel said.

“From seafood to scratch made, fresh pastas to chop salads, sandwiches and burgers and different cuts of steak and triad steak, an array of really cool, fun appetizers, stuff like that,” Degel said.

Uncle Jack’s originated in New York but has at least three locations in Georgia. Degel said the first several months in Roswell have been amazing, and the community has responded well to the new restaurant.

He said the experience has been different as guests are adapting to new taste selections on the site of the former Big Ketch Saltwater Grill.

“We’re trying to create an experience in different zones like the lawn,” Degal said. “We call it the great lawn. “We have beautiful picnic tables, fireplaces out there. We’re setting up a small, short, limited, fast, grab style menu for the lawn for people who are walking by.”

Customers can order various menu items on the lawn and either sit down or take it to go. The restaurant also has different patios and is working on building an outdoor bar.

The menu features old-school items since Degel’s research of the city showed that many older people with money live in the city and they were used to eating out often.

Uncle Jack’s on Canton Street opened in November with an American fare menu featuring seafood, pasta, burgers and steak. The restaurant features an outdoor patio, and the staff plans to soon open an outdoor bar.

Uncle Jack’s on Canton Street opened in November with an American fare menu featuring seafood, pasta, burgers and steak. Uncle Jack’s CEO Willie Degel says he wants to create different experiences with different rooms within the restaurant.

“They’re used to old-school items like my oysters jackafella, my lobster thermidor, my baked Alaska,” Degel said.

“These types of items are all done with a spin on them, so they’re a little more new-style, but with the old flair as well that people were used to.”

Degel decided to open a new location in Roswell as he fell in love with the city when he first visited about 13 years ago.

“I love the little tightness of the com-

these little old cities and towns and stop at them so that history, again, what am I doing, I’m reliving my memories,” Degel said. “I’m thinking about all the times I spent when I was little, so I just fell in love with Roswell right away.”

Uncle Jack’s on Canton Street is at 1105 Canton St. and is open Wednesday and Thursday from 4 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 4 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 4 to 9 p.m.

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munity,” Degel said. “I love the historical aspects. I thought it was like an old wild West town.”

Degel said he enjoyed seeing people walking up and down the blocks, liked the city’s open drink concept, and he loved the nice houses with gas lights on the porches being renovated.

“My mother took me to old antique shops, and we used to drive upstate New York, Pennsylvania, and cut through all

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Duffy Center expands charity’s outreach to those in need

By JEFFREY ALBERTSON newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — North Fulton Community Charities extended its outreach April 13 with the opening of the twostory Barbara Duffy Center in Roswell.

The new building will house administrative offices and boost capacity for childcare, education and workforce readiness programs.

Adding a second building to the campus will free up space to extend food pantry and clothing assistance operations in the main center.

Barbara Duffy, the namesake for the building, served as NFCC’s first full-time Executive Director for 29 years until she retired in 2019. She began as a volunteer at the Community Clothes Closet, providing apparel, household goods and furniture to those in need in the years before creation of the NFCC in 1983. From 1980 to 1990, she held a volunteer chairman position. She was a member of the first elected school board in Fulton County in 1984 and served as the board’s vice president in 1988. Her community service also included service as a Girl Scout leader and charter member of the North Fulton Chemical People organization, a group focused

on adolescent substance abuse.

“What I want you to remember is that every individual (and) family who walked in our door was treated with dignity and respect,” Duffy said in the dedication speech. “I was just so proud to watch how this staff pivoted and continued to help and made it possible for more and more families to reach out to get help that they needed.”

NFCC assisted 8,454 North Fulton residents last year, distributing $1.4 million in direct assistance to keep families in their homes — a 56 percent increase from the prior year.

In all, 584 adults participated in English as a second language, General Educational Development exam preparation and other educational programs. Food was provided 17,543 times.

The charity also offers a path to self-sufficiency through money management and tax preparation programs.

The Duffy Center was made possible by a three-year, $6.2 million capital campaign called “Growing with Purpose.” The campaign was about $30,000 shy of its $6.2 million goal on opening day.

“For the first time, our families will

have a place to seek both financial assistance and the tools needed to help them learn skills and connect them to services to work towards financial stability,” NFCC Executive Director Holly York said. “This center doubles our classroom and technology lab capacity to help families increase their workforce readiness, which is especially important in a post-pandemic economy.”

More information about North Fulton Community Charities and hours of operation can be obtained from the web address, nfcchelp.org.

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The new Barbara Duffy Center in Roswell will allow greater expansion of the North Fulton Community Charities food pantry in the main building.

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ATLANTA, Ga. — The chaos created by COVID-19 may have a silver lining for students dreading the annual Georgia Milestones tests, as well as for schools which feared the impact of low scores on their academic reputation.

Last month the U.S. Department of Education approved Georgia’s request to waive the annual accountability requirements, which is the annual school “report card” known as the College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI).

A key piece of the CCRPI is student performance on the annual Georgia Milestones assessments. Under federal law, all states must administer an annual assessment of student achievement.

The federal government did not waive Georgia’s request to pause the assessments this year; a decision which disappointed state leaders.

“Our students and teachers have worked incredibly hard during this unprecedented time and school systems should not be punished for an unexpected school year,” Gov. Brian Kemp said.

“We will be using test scores as a way to help our students, not as a punitive measure.”

Traditionally the high-stakes tests count for 20 percent of the final grade in tested high school subjects, and are a key factor in retention and promotion of students in lower grades. This year the End of Course tests in high school will count for a minimum of 0.1 percent of the final grade.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods said schools can use other measures to determine retention and promotion in elementary and middle schools.

“Classroom teachers and administrators can hopefully get some relief since the test results of students this year will be used purely as a gauge of student learning rather than an [overall school] score,” Woods said.

Although some districts are adding more weight to the End of Course tests to incentivize students to take the tests more seriously, Fulton County Schools will follow the state’s lead. “[We are] observing the state’s minimum requirement for the weight of EOCs on a student grade,” said Cliff Jones, chief

Fulton County Schools is working with our research partner Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education to determine the learning impact to our elementary and middle school students during the pandemic.”

CLIFF JONES Chief academic officer for the district academic officer for the district. “We are administering the milestones during the school day to face-to-face and for remote students who choose to come into school.”

He said individual schools are working with families whose children remain in all virtual instruction on how to take the EOC assessments.

Currently the assessments cannot be administered remotely, per federal guidelines. However, Woods said if online students decline to take the tests because of health and safety reasons they should not be required to do so and will not be penalized.

As Fulton County Schools deals with significant learning loss over the past year of education disruption, tests and other assessments will be valuable as they gather the data and make remediation plans.

A study of learning loss among elementary and middle school students conducted last summer registered up to two months of learning loss in just the first few months of the pandemic. Moving forward, the district is looking to gather even more data on where the loss is occurring and how to close the gaps.

“Fulton County Schools is working with our research partner Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education to determine the learning impact to our elementary and middle school students during the pandemic,” Jones said. “High school data will be reported out via credit acquisition, SAT, ACT and AP exam performance.”

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Is this where hobbits live?

So there I was, hiking along Hog Wallow Creek in Roswell looking for a place to fish, when I overheard a snippet of conversation from a few yards behind me on the trail.

It went like this: STEVE HUDSON “Are those the Get Outside Georgia, aa4bw@comcast.net steps to where the hobbits live?”

The question was from a young girl of 5 or 6.

“Well, are they, Mommy?” the child said again. “They look like hobbit steps,” she added.

As you walk along the short, graveled trail that parallels a portion of Hog Wallow Creek in Waller Park, it’s easy to see how the child might imagine that hobbits live there. Let me set the scene, and you’ll see why.

Here’s a little history. According to a plaque at the site, one James Isaac Wright donated a 16.1-acre piece of land to Fulton County in 1946 to serve as the site of a public swimming pool and park.

It was named Waller Park to honor the

memory of Wright’s uncle J.H. “Pony” Waller, founder of Oxbow Falls Manufacturing Company in 1896. The county developed the site as a multi-use park, and it was eventually deeded to Roswell in 1953.

These days, the park offers a variety of amenities, including a bit of hiking.

It’s one of those close-to-home gems that often goes under the radar. I’m glad I eventually found it, and I think you’ll like it too.

There are a couple of ways to access this park. On that first visit, I parked at the recreation center, 250 Oak Street.

Then, looking for a way to get to the creek, I soon spotted the first set of stone steps leading down toward what turned out to be a nicely graveled creekside trail.

I could also have parked in the gravel parking area off Oxbo Road, just downstream of the pedestrian bridge which crosses Vickery (Big) Creek near the intersection of Oxbo Road and Frank Lewis Drive. If you park there, walk to the pedestrian bridge and cross Oxbo Road. Then you’ll see the Waller Park

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Continued from Page 12 trail leading upstream along the creek… and toward the steps.

You can also make a hike in Waller Park part of a more ambitious adventure. For instance, it’s an easy add-on for hikers exploring the trails of the Vickery Creek Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Look for the pedestrian bridge which carries you across the waters of Vickery Creek to Oxbo Road. (This is not the covered bridge; that structure is a ways downstream.) Then cross the road and follow the gravel trail up the creek and into Waller Park. Eventually, you’ll come to a small wood footbridge over the creek, and you’ll see the steps climbing the hillside across the creek.

No matter how you get there, I’m betting it won’t take long to fall under the spell of this place – especially its steps.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that these are some of the coolest steps I’ve ever seen. They’re stone, and they’re old, and they have weathered so they blend almost seamlessly into the landscape. But they’re a bit steep and uneven in places so give attention to your footing as you go.

I didn’t know it at first, but there are actually several sets of steps leading down to the creek. You won’t see them from the top unless you look in just the right places, but from creek level they’re much easier to spot. Some are steeper and more challenging than others. And all are exactly the kind of steps that are sure to fire your imagination, whether you’re 6 years old or 60.

One of these days I’ll do a little research and learn more about those steps. Who built them, and when, and why? Were they constructed as part of the early development of the park? Or were they there before then?

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