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Honoring the past

At a June 21 meeting, the City Council passed an ordinance to address defacement and tampering with a cemetery, specifically focused on the Macedonia African Methodist Church cemetery. Kirk Canaday visits the cemetery weekly, helping to clear the area and uncover unmarked and desecrated graves and has lobbied the council for years to allocate funds to its restoration. Read more, Page 6.

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Residents report burglary at Aster Circle home JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police responded to a burglary at a home on Aster Circle late June 21. The victims claimed 20 to 30 handbags, clothes, shoes and an Xbox console were stolen from the house.

One of the victims called 911 after she was alerted by her security alarm.

Police arrived and found the back door kicked in.

Both residents claimed they saw a suspicious vehicle parked outside the home in the days leading up to the burglary. Investigators had yet to identify any suspects, according to the police report.

sister with a nude photo of her boss.

Trier India Adale Harris, 29, was charged with eavesdropping/unlawful surveillance.

Police began investigating Feb. 17 when a Jamont Boulevard resident reported harassing text messages and emails from an ex-employee. He said Sharina Daniell Harris sent the threatening messages for two weeks after he fired her. She demanded money she felt he owed her.

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Big Creek Greenway is officially a big deal

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmedia.com NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — It was one giant leap for Alpharetta June 29 when officials opened the city’s last leg of the Big Creek Greenway.

After nearly six years of delays, the Greenway now runs uninterrupted from Roswell’s Big Creek Park north to the Fulton-Forsyth County line at Union Hill Park — a 10 mile paved and wooden path 12 feet wide.

The last part, the 2.8 miles from Marconi Drive north, was the biggest challenge, pitting the city in countless negotiations for strips of parkland to bypass the Golf Club of Georgia, tunnel under Windward Parkway and angle north to Union Hill Park. It wasn’t cheap, about $10.9 million, but parks officials say the Greenway consistently ranks as the most popular amenity in Alpharetta.

Speaking to a group of about two dozen people at the opening, Alpharetta Parks and Recreation Director Morgan Rodgers said he recalled thinking about this day more than 25 years ago while he was with the Roswell Parks Department.

“I was in meetings where they talked about connectivity, and I remember the thought of how in the world are we ever going to connect with Forsyth County?” he said. “Here we are in 2021, and we’re living the dream.”

Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin said the idea to complete the city’s portion of the trail was only an idea in 2015. Strong support from city staff, the City Council and outside groups like Bike Alpharetta helped push through a parks bond that contributed $7 million to the project.

“They got it done on time, under budget, and now we can celebrate,” Gilvin said.

Dennis Carman, president of Bike Alpharetta, said the Greenway offers more than a recreational resource to visitors.

With ideal conditions for cyclists, he said, the trail serves as an auxiliary corridor for those who wish to commute on two wheels.

“It’s a multi-purpose pathway, not only [for] exercise and recreation, it can serve as a commuter connector route as well,” Carman said.

The torch now passes to Forsyth County, where plans to extend the Greenway from its current terminus at Halcyon south to Alpharetta awaits construction to widen McGinnis Ferry Road, which separates the two jurisdictions.

Jim Pryor, Forsyth County Parks and Recreation director, said he’s ready.

“It’s our most popular facility in Forsyth County,” he said. “People love it.”

Right now, the county’s hands are tied just about a mile shy of the goal line.

“For a long time, we’ve been wanting to connect the Greenway, and it’s been a lot of work, a lot of partnership,” Pryor said. “When McGinnis Ferry Road gets widened, we intend to do that.”

Just last month, Forsyth County opened two segments of its Greenway a combined distance of 5 miles as far north as the Sawnee Mountain Preserve.

Pryor said issues have developed over the years with the boardwalk portions of the trail, and the county is replacing a lot of the wooden sections that have rotted.

But standing among the celebrants at Union Hill Park, Pryor had his eyes on the immediate north, the strip that will connect Forsyth County with Alpharetta.

“They’ve done their part of the bargain, and when the work gets done [at McGinnis Ferry Road], we’ll have our side,” he said.

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City Council takes first look at fiscal 2022 spending plan

By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Mayor Mike Bodker delivered his 15th and final proposed budget at the June 21 City Council work session.

Bodker gave an overview of the nearly $61 million fiscal year 2022 budget ranging from an overarching priority list to governmental employee salary cost-ofliving adjustments.

“The budget is a communication tool for our residents and staff to sort of help them appreciate the city’s priorities — the city is the city council in this instance — and how we intend to spend our staff time and resources to further those priorities,” Bodker said.

Bodker identified five budget priorities: community safety, stormwater and infrastructure, asset and infrastructure maintenance, enhancing the park system and addressing traffic congestion.

As the top priority, community safety agencies — police and fire — account for more than half the spending.

The presentation also gave a summary of the previous fiscal year, ad-

dressing where funding came from and how revenue was impacted during the lockdowns of the previous year.

As expected, the city saw revenue decreases in streams like the local option sales tax, hotel-motel tax, recreation program fees and others. However, Finance Director Ronnie Campbell said the city has also seen a more rapid return to normalcy than expected.

The mayor also discussed efforts to restore the city’s original estimated allocation of $26.6 million in American Rescue Plan funding. The award, announced in March, was revised in May to $7.1 million by the Treasury Department, which used a different formula to disburse funds.

Based on talks he’s had with Sen. Jon Ossoff, Bodker said it would take an act of Congress to restore the original estimate, a scenario he called unlikely.

City Council members will review the proposal and bring notes, questions and suggested changes to work sessions in July and August before bringing the budget to the public for hearings.

The city must pass a final budget before Oct. 1, the start of its fiscal year.

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Social justice commission prepares policy revisions for City of Brookhaven

By CHAMIAN CRUZ newsroom@appenmedia.com BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Anticipation is building as Brookhaven’s Social Justice, Race and Equity Commission approaches its first year of existence.

The commission met for its regular monthly meeting June 24 to discuss upcoming events it hopes will create community engagement.

Founded in September in response to months of protests over police brutality and racism, the commission is reviewing city policies, procedures and the police department to draft a list of recommendations to the Brookhaven City Council by the end of the year. The council allocated $179,635 to fund the commission, and elected officials will decide whether to enact policies based on the commission’s recommendations.

Chairman John Funny said the point of the commission is to review policies and ensure there are no inherent biases or injustices, but he also stressed there are no glaring improprieties in current city operations.

“As the country was dealing with a lot of racial issues in the year of 2020, I put together an op-ed for the mayor and council just sharing that Brookhaven is a great city and I would want it to remain a great city,” Funny said. “I considered it an opportunity as a new city to take a look under the hood and do a tune-up if needed.”

Brookhaven incorporated in 2012.

Funny, who has served on the city Planning Commission and on the board of the Brookhaven Police Foundation, said he thinks the social justice commission may be one of the few of its kind in the country.

“We are working with an organization out of Ohio, The Kettering Foundation, and they have expressed to us that we are one of the few that have this commission in place,” Funny said. “So, they are awaiting the output of our product to be able to share with others the great things that we are doing.”

Chrysalis Lab, an Atlanta-based company that provides facilitation services, partnered with the Kettering Foundation to manage and execute the work of the commission.

In its first phase, the 35-member commission reviewed the city’s vision statement and launched community surveys.

In phase two, it divided up into subcommittees to develop community engagement

plans.

The third phase involves an engagement plan to identify community partners and prior issues on policing, procurement and hiring. The final phase will be for the commission to present the City Council with recommendations.

Up until last month, the board had been conducting all meetings online. It plans to host a number of events this summer, such as pop-ups at Northeast Plaza on Buford Highway where there is a large Hispanic population, to educate the public about its mission and to collect feedback from the broad Brookhaven community.

The commission will also hold a series of Civic Dinners, also with a virtual option similar to Zoom meetings.

Commission member Stephen Causby said all of the Civic Dinners will focus on racial equity.

Funny said the summer campaign will be vital to the commission’s success.

“We’re really, really getting ready to go right into this public engagement component,” Funny said. “This is a big piece, because I think the public should have input into what we’re doing.”

Brookhaven has a fair mix of racial diversity. Of its roughly 55,000 residents, 53 percent are white, 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 10 percent Black and 5 percent Asian.

And, while the city is majority female, its city staff and police department are more than 60 perent male.

Valerie Lemmie, director of exploratory research at the Kettering Foundation, who sat in on the meeting Thursday, praised the commission for its work so far.

“I appreciate the opportunity to really observe and be a part of the innovative and creative work that your community is engaged in. Very few communities take on a responsibility this demanding and this challenging and rise to the occasion,” she said. “I have just been so impressed with everyone’s participation, engagement, ideas and mutual respect. That’s the model you want the community to take and you are doing an excellent job.”

The Brookhaven Social Justice, Race and Equity Commission meets the third Thursday of each month. Meetings are streamed on the City of Brookhaven’s Facebook page. For more information, visit www.brookhavenga.gov/sjrec. The commission will release exact dates for upcoming events at a later time.

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Johns Creek City Council passes cemetery desecration ordinance

By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — For years, the Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery has been used as a dumping ground for lawn debris and garbage.

Tucked behind homes in the St. Ives neighborhood and up a gravel drive off Medlock Bridge Road, many are unaware of its existence at all.

Kirk Canaday first learned of the cemetery in 2017 when residents were campaigning to fight construction of billboards in Johns Creek. He has been dedicated to the project ever since.

“It’s one of those things, something needs to be done, and it wasn’t being done,” Canaday said.

He is not alone in his efforts to preserve Macedonia after years of near neglect. He has allies in the Johns Creek Historical Society, Girl Scout troops, Student Leadership Johns Creek, volunteers and most recently, the City Council.

An ordinance, submitted by council members Stephanie Endres, Chris Coughlin and Erin Elwood, addresses defacement and tampering with the cemetery and includes maximum pen-

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The cemetery lies just behind homes in the St. Ives neighborhood. Lawn debris and other trash regularly shows up on the grounds. alties of $1,000 or six months in jail.

Passed on June 21, the law will work in coordination with existing cemetery desecration laws in Georgia.

This is only the beginning of efforts

to preserve Macedonia Cemetery and honor the people buried there, Canaday said. The city is in the process of buying the land from Fulton County, and until it’s finalized, historic landmark status and efforts to restore the area have been placed reluctantly on the back burner.

Canaday has been lobbying the City Council and city manager for years to add a line item in the budget for the cemetery to no avail, he said.

This year, however, Councilwoman Endres plans to change that.

Endres said that at the July 12 work session, she will propose allocating $100,000 of the budget to maintenance and preservation efforts based

in part on estimates for necessary work submitted by Canaday.

First steps would include clearing the area of overgrowth and performing ground penetrating radar to get a clearer picture of the location and total number burial sites within the cemetery.

Many grave sites are unmarked or have had their headstones stolen.

Estimates by New South Associates, which performed a survey on the land in 2016, said there could be as many as 114 graves in the cemetery with burial dates ranging from 1893 to 1988.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — More than 100 girls fastpitch softball teams from 14 states are heading to Forsyth County and Alpharetta for four days of tournament play at The Triple Crown Southeast Nationals July 15–18.

The tournament will be held at multiple sports facilities including Alpharetta’s North Park and Fowler Park and Forsyth County’s Coal Mountain Park, Sharon Springs Park and Central Park.

Fastpitch club travel teams from throughout the country with top nationally ranked girls 14U, 16U and 18U squads will compete for the Southeast Nationals title over the four-day event.

The players, coaches and fans – including 80 umpires – will be a welcome sight to the area’s hospitality industry which has suffered doubledigit losses in occupancy rates over the past year.

Things have recovered from levels during the height of the pandemic, when hotel occupancy rates were at 10 percent, said Michelle Daniels, vice president of Business Development for the Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce.

“Over the last six months, the Forsyth County hotels have bounced back tremendously, thanks to the incredible Forsyth County Parks & Recreation team who were able to create safety measures to allow sports tournaments to resume,” Daniels said.

Lake Lanier also helped, continuing to draw visitors looking to get outdoors in a safe environment, she said.

The Southeast Nationals is a showcase event.

“The tournament brings in thousands of new visitors annually, and we work with event planners to ensure our local businesses are showcased,” Daniels said.

The chamber partners with local hotels, restaurant and retail operators to coordinate visitor itinerary options,

Triple Crown Alpharetta hotel pick-up totals: 2017 Triple Crown SE Nationals: 525 total room nights 2018 Triple Crown SE Nationals and TC/USA Nationals: 1,700 total room nights 2019 Triple Crown SE Nationals and TC/USA Nationals: 1,500 total room nights 2020 Triple Crown SE Nationals: 650 total room nights 2021 Triple Crown SE Nationals anticipated total room nights: 750 (estimate) including local adventures to explore while off the field, she said.

“By doing this, visitors are spending time and money at Forsyth County businesses which supports the local industry and boosts tax revenue,” Daniels said.

Alpharetta, with 29 hotels, is likely to get a big boost from the tournament. The occupancy rate has been on the incline since January when the rate was just over 40 percent. The rate has climbed to 56 percent currently.

Janet Rodgers, president and CEO of the Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureau, said her organization measures economic impact by the number of Alpharetta hotel rooms that are occupied by an event. Historically, the CVB uses $216 ($80 hotel room, $50 gas and $86 meals) per day as a consistent formula to calculate economic impact.

Rodgers called it a conservative and consistent formula the bureau has used for years.

This year’s event is expected to rack up 750 room nights and pump close to $195,000 into the local economy, Rodgers said.

“Given that Alpharetta’s travel landscape is currently over 90 percent leisure and individual travelers, having group sporting events stay in the destination is a substantial occupancy and revenue booster for our hotels,” she said.

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In medical school, one of my favorite professors loved to say, “50% of what you are going to learn during these four years will ultimately be proved wrong.”

As I sat in my hard wooden chair taking notes on apparently error-ridden knowledge, I hoped that the 50% that was misinformation was at least not the half that mattered.

As it turns out, one of the pieces of misinformation apparently concerned perineural invasion. In medical school, I was taught that some tumors track along nerves because nerves are convenient highways to other parts of the body. This was the “path of least resistance idea.” Professors also posited that some of the vessels and lymphatics running along with the nerve are an additional reason for tumor growth along nerves – essentially the idea that tumors spreading along nerves is really just tumors spreading along the surrounding lymphatics and blood vessels – “business as usual.”

Several recent studies presented by Dr. Lester have provided data that sheds new light on this subject: In one experiment, scientists placed a nerve next to but well apart from a tumor growing in a petri dish. The tumor extended a strand of cells in the direction of the nerve and grew toward the nerve. This challenges the idea that perineural tumor growth in patients is simply cancer extension along nerves already touching a tumor. Then, the scientists tested proteins found in the nerve and found that the entire nerve did not have to be present in the dish to attract tumor growth. When scientists put a small amount of a nerve protein called GDNF (glial derived neurotrophic factor)

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In another experiment, scientists placed pancreatic cancer cells next to the sciatic nerve inside of a live rat. Predictably, the cancer grew and invaded the sciatic nerve. The muscles relying on the sciatic nerve were unable to function which caused partial paralysis. However, when the scientists delivered radiation to the rat’s sciatic nerve BEFORE implanting the pancreatic cancer, the tumor grew but paralysis did not occur upon tumor implantation against the nerve. Nerves that had received radiation produced less GDNF.

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Health Insurance – What are my options, and what is right for me?

Brought to you by - Josh Dougherty, Xperience Benefits After our 2nd year of being in business, it did not take long to figure out that people absolutely love talking about health insurance! KidDOUGHERTY ding of course. However, for as much as people do not WANT to talk about it, the truth is that you MUST talk about it. Why? For business owners that sponsor benefits, typically benefits are their 2nd highest cost behind payroll itself! For individuals, it has the potential to be a family’s largest bill besides their mortgage!

So, what do we do? Given that we live in the 21st century, we take up arms (our keyboard) and Google “health insurance”. Doing so will give you a litany of large companies that pay to have their websites at the top of your page and most force you to input information so that some telemarketer will call you selling whatever policy their company pushes. Ok, that may be a bit extreme, but you get the point. So, what are my options and what is right for me?

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asking where you are. If you are a business owner and you are looking to offer benefits to your employees, there are HMO, PPO, EPO & POS plans available. There are pros and cons to each one of these plans. Also, if you and your employees are willing to undergo simple underwriting, there are self-funded or level-funded plans that (if you qualify) allow you to garner quality PPO plans, at heavily reduced rates.

If you are an individual/family seeking a plan, we would ask about 2 items: 1) you and your family’s overall health and 2) your household income. Why? There are plans on the individual market that, like above, if you can pass underwriting, you may be eligible for quality plans at a discounted rate. Regarding household income, the passing of the new CARES Act has expanded what is considered the Federal Poverty Level and has increased the amounts of subsidy dollars for folks that qualify for a Marketplace (aka Obamacare) plan. If this is not a route you have looked into recently, we encourage you to do so.

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As many questions as answers are raised by these studies. Will we one day have medicines that treat perineural tumors by inhibiting neurotrophic factors? For tumors that do not track along nerves but that invade muscle, bone or other tissue, will medicines increasingly target growth factors in these tissues to prevent spread? Already, medicine that targets “vascular endothelial growth factor” is being used to treat certain cancers. Perhaps one day a local injection of a medicine that blocks neurotrophic factors will be used to help treat perineural tumors.

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More about birds and their feathers The grandkids were here last weekend, and it’s safe to say that a good time was had by all! There was a little too much rain for us to do much fishing, but we did get in a bit of rock collecting (more on that STEVE HUDSON next week).

Get Outside Georgia, And we enjoyed aa4bw@comcast.net looking for birds.

You may recall that our back deck has become a favorite dining room for all sorts of birds. My wife and I have had a great time watching the feeder and the bird bath. We’ve picked up a number of bird ID books. We have binoculars for watching the ones that stay a little farther away. We’ve even got a little USB camera that focuses on the main feeder, giving us some high-tech views of some of our feathered friends.

We’re learning to identify them (fun in itself!), and we have even taken one more step and put up a couple of hummingbird feeders.

We talked about the hummingbird feeders in a recent column. The two feeders hang right outside our den window.

Near them are several containers planted with hummer-friendly plants, too.

For a while, we were not getting any hummingbirds at all. Then, just about a week ago, that changed. First, we would see one every couple of days. Then one every day. Then two…then four…and then, just yesterday, we counted eight separate visits. They’re coming more frequently, and they’re staying at the feeders or the flowers for longer at a time.

Apparently, the word is out (“Free food at the Hudson place!), and that’s been really exciting.

The grandkids and I had fun watching the feeders and looking for the occasional hummingbirds, and (like kids everywhere) they quickly became fascinated with all the avian comings and goings. It’s really neat to see kids become interested in something in the natural world, isn’t it!

They also had a blast practicing casting with their new fishing rods. Yes, being the dutiful Granddaddy that I am, I made sure that there were two shiny new Zebco spinning outfits waiting when they arrived.

Because of the afore-mentioned rain, our fishing time was limited to one 45-minute excursion. I must be a good teacher, too, because the grandson hooked a nice bass.

It’s always fun to enjoy the out-ofdoors with kids.

And that brings us to…

A correction: I remember when my own kids were little, we spent a lot of time walking around in the yard and down by the pond looking at things. A favorite thing to look for was always feathers. We’d spot one, and one of the kids would announce its presence. “Look, Daddy! A feather!”

Thanks to the pond by the house, many of those feathers once belonged to Canada geese. Those geese loved the pond, and it was pretty common to see shed feathers (especially during molting season, which is this time of year) laying on the ground.

But that brings us to an “uh-oh.”

Once, I’d have been tempted to pick up that feather. In fact, I talked about picking up feathers in a recent column.

Kids (of all ages) seem drawn to them.

But it turns out that you can’t do that. You can’t pick up feathers from most wild birds, including migratory birds such as geese. So says the law.

Say what?

Yes, it is true. I checked with the Department of Natural Resources, asking specifically about the goose feathers, and they confirmed it. No collecting goose feathers. In fact, no collecting of almost any feathers in the wild.

I’m paraphrasing here, but the law says that it’s not okay to collect feathers.

So, disregard all that stuff you’ve heard or read about gathering goose feathers out in the wild for use in projects and things. You can’t do it.

Need some goose feathers for a craft project? They’re available for sale in lots of craft and hobby shops. Yes, you can use feathers you buy at the craft store.

But no, you can’t pick up goose feathers from the park or the yard, even if they’re just lying there in the wet grass.

Those are from wild birds, and the wild birds (and their parts) are protected.

What do you tell your kids who want to take a feather home? They probably aren’t interested in the details of the statutes and treaties protecting various bird species. That’s too much info and more than most young ones are interested in.

Instead, tell your kids that dropped feathers are part of the natural world.

Other creatures may use them (maybe to build a nest or something?), so let’s leave them in place where they are.

Then go home and make some lemonade and grab the binoculars and go birdwatching in a nearby park or even in your yard.

Kids have a way of seeing right to the heart of things, and I’m betting they’ll be fine with that.

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First night out, after long time gone We wove our way slowly in and out of the late afternoon crowd on our way to get in line for the concert. It was humid and not so comfortable, but at least the heat was beginning to recede.

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All around us, folks were in shorts, golf shirts, tee shirts, sandals, Braves hats, halter tops — some “appropriate” and some not so much — jeans, pirate bandanas, scatterings of various band shirts and sunglasses (everyone except me).

Everyone chatted, mingled, peoplewatched, and generally behaved wonderfully, waiting. Yes, waiting. Waiting, like adults should wait, adults with their heads screwed on properly, respectfully and civilly. That sounds kinda similar to another (historical - 1969) concert/festival from another lifetime, no? Except that at that festival, there wouldn’t have been a single cell phone — in contrast to today where those phones appear invisibly bound with unbreakable cables to almost every ear or hand in sight. Those phones bug me.

What was it that Nobel Prize winner (in 1975 for Economics) Herbert Simon said?

“What information (i.e. use of cell phone today) consumes is rather obvious; it consumes the attention of its recipients.”

That is, it detaches, separates/isolates from the immediate, the here and now, the essence of things —humanity — and only replaces it with a shallow substitute, a wholly unsatisfying one at that. We miss so much that we can never recover because of the distraction of those phones.

Anyway, after we got inside the gate and got situated in our seats, my old friend, “crowd-generated anxiety,” paid me a visit.

“Hiya, long time. Wasup? Kinda crowded isn’t it. Not many exits are there?”

“Go away. Go far away, I don’t have the time to pay attention to you right now.

Get!“ I replied.

Added to that was the other penny in everyone’s shoes, that awkwardness that I sense half that the world is beginning to experience — that transition of going from a world of pandemic-generated chaos, isolation, disruption and fear, back to the more familiar world of

non-pandemic dysfunction.

Moving through the queues to get into the concert, people seemed at ease. No one seemed to be in a hurry — for once.

Being in a hurry, I think, is some sort of a disease. It is maybe one of the worst aspects of living in our lovely amazing North Fulton so many of us call home. Especially beguiling are those in such a big hurry that they ride bumpers, honk, weave in and out of traffic and generally make public fools of themselves. Me, me, me, me. And, of course, the majority have no reason to be in a hurry. Most of the time, they are just impatient, myopic and can’t help it.

We made it past security and then, Yuenglings in hand, we managed to get to our seats without spilling or overly disrupting the folks already in place.

Giant fans were blowing air down from above. The night looked inviting; we were going to enjoy this first night out since the pandemic. That was my thought. And the bands, more than a couple times kept saying how ecstatic they were to be back out in front of a live audience. It’s been a long, long road home I kept thinking.

I felt awkward though, and my ol’ buddy anxiety continued to poke me in the ribs. How was this going to go? Then I started inventorying the crowd. That’s when the guy with his wife in the seats next to us, the one that arrived late and then insisted that we were possibly in their seats — until he realized we weren’t — leaned over and asked me if I noticed how “old” everybody was.

“You believe this? Who goes to concerts with nothing but senior citizens?

Did they let out all the assisted livings at once?”

I just grinned and shook my head, but if the truth be told, I was thinking the same thing, including about him (even though he was at least 10 years younger than me)!

I wanted to leave before the encore to beat the traffic, but Christina vetoed that.

“I want to hear “Sail Away,” she said.

“OK,” I shouted back, thinking that I can probably make it just a little longer.

It was nice, darn nice to “get back out,” I thought later; it definitely has been a long time coming. But gosh, that crowd was so old, and Styx surely must all be grandparents now. Glad I’m not like that.

I don’t even recall what music we listened to in the car as we drove home that night. Didn’t matter though, because we got out — with people without masks — and drank a brew, chatted and had a time that resembled normalcy.

“Come sail away, again,” I thought.

Couldn’t get that tune out of my head — even at my age!

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It’s murder buying a house today The ridiculousness of the current housing market has been on seemingly everyone’s lips lately, and as a person who is in the process of trying to buy a new home, it’s been on my lips, but mostly in the form of JOE PARKER expletives.

Editor That’s because joe@appenmedia.com trying to buy a home right now is a more daunting task than Abraham being charged with breaking out the ol’ hatchet and do some seriously intensive “manscaping.” After months into the home selling/ buying process, self-circumcision seems like a walk in the park.

So, for those who are about to take the plunge into buying a home in this nuclearhot market, I’ve listed some tips I hope will help you secure your next house. Granted, I haven’t actually had any luck in the process, but I’ve picked up some valuable advice along the way.

Based on what I’ve seen, these are the things you must do if you stand any chance of actually having a seller accept

your offer: Put in an offer before the “for sale” sign is even in the yard — It doesn’t matter if the house in question is a halfconstructed shed on 200-square feet of land that floods every time the weather gets a tad humid and is listed for $400,000, it’s going to be under contract before you can even schedule a showing. That’s why it’s best just to go around to any house that tickles your fancy and ask the owner if they are willing to sell. If they’ve even considered putting it on the market, you’re too late.

Only look at homes at least $100,000 under your max budget — You may have been pre-approved for a significant amount of money, but ensure that you are only viewing homes (you likely won’t get the chance to see them before they are sold, anyway) that are significantly under that max budget. That’s because in order to even be remotely competitive, you have to throw another $100,000 down above asking.

If you think this is an exaggeration, you are clearly not currently attempting to buy a home.

Be prepared to worship at the feet of sellers — Some people aspire to be dignitaries, bosses or major celebrities, but

if you want to feel like the world is truly at your feet, just sell your home right now.

Buyers are prepared to throw out any incentive, including our first-borns, to secure a new home in this market. No closing costs, no appraisal, no contingencies, no closing until the owner’s 6-year-old has graduated college, an agreement to completely furnish the seller’s next home, etc., it’s all on the table.

Be aggressive — I’m not advocating you actually break into the home you want to purchase and hold a family member hostage until the seller accepts your offer, but you’ll need to do just about everything short of that to get the house.

Another method, again, not one I necessarily advocate, is talking loudly to your agent about your land surveying business and how you are worried about the prevalence of sinkholes in the area during a packed open house on a home you fancy.

Then point out some unevenness in the subfloor, even if it doesn’t actually exist, like your land surveying company.

I hope these tips will help you secure that next home amid the ridiculousness that is the current housing market.

And for those who aren’t in the fray, do you have somewhere my family can stay?

Youth tennis team takes city title

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Oxford Mill youth tennis team won a city championship May 1 for the 10-and-under boys C-3 division. The team won the title in its first trip to the finals.

Back row (L to R): Isac Stroemsten and coach Brian Coyle. Front row (L to R): Preston Vu, Jonah Rubenstein, Liam Coyle, Seth Reames, Evan Coyle, Gehrig Kiser and Mason Johnson. Not pictured: Mason Miller, Holden Jain, Bryce Kelly, Greyson Morris, Mac Patterson, Ethan Rayan and William Roeder.

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MILTON, Ga. — Attending high school while participating in a largescale stage production is a difficult task.

However, Milton High School students JackPARKER son Dunlap and Madeline Parker are taking on the larger task of directing their own award-winning one act show, Trainwreck! The Musical, which is set to premiere as a mainstage production at Milton High School’s theatre from July 9-11. The two have collaborated DUNLAP with Milton Arts Council and Milton Community Theatre to bring their farcical murder mystery to a larger audience.

“It has been a pleasure to work with this talented and dedicated group of community members to bring arts to the city of Milton,” said Shelley Hogan, Milton Arts Council Director, and the show’s Executive Producer. “When I saw it, I was immediately excited about the possibility of producing a full, one act version and bringing it to a Milton stage.”

The “melodramatic spoof” is set entirely during a train ride featuring original songs and a variety of colorful characters. The cast is composed of current or recent graduates of the high school’s Advanced Drama program with rehearsals running throughout the summer. Bringing their own distinct vision for the show’s set, lights, costumes, and music, Dunlap and Parker are excited to put their first “full-on writing experience” to the stage.

“It’s definitely a new experience being on the directing side of things, especially since we are working with our friends and peers as the cast. But they are genuinely some of the most talented kids in this community,” Parker said in a press release.

“We are beyond excited to have the Milton community on the edge of their seats guessing whodunnit,” Dunlap said in a press release.

The musical parody was originally written by the students as an entry for Georgia’s ThesCon, an annual thespian conference. After receiving much

praise, the two decided to turn it into a full- length production after they were offer the chance to work with the community theatre. The show begins at 7 p.m. for the first two nights closing with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. for their final performance.

“My favorite thing about the show is how much fun it is! It is laugh out loud funny and it shines through that the kids love what they’re doing,” Hogan said. “I am in complete awe of the creativity, professionalism, talent level, and sheer commitment that these actors have brought to the process. I have been thoroughly impressed with Jackson and Madeline‘s dedication to not only telling a funny story, but doing it with a great set, original music, and thoughtful direction. They are a pleasure to work with!”

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at https://mct.booktix. com. For more information, email any questions to MiltonChildrensTheatre@ gmail.com.

“As our third Milton Community Theatre production, we are proud to showcase Trainwreck! as an example of our local talent. We are encouraged by the positive feedback we receive from our community through attendance and participation in our arts projects,” Milton Arts Council’s President Bill Purdie said.

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Continued from Page 6 Several of the deceased are known to have been enslaved people, while others were descendants of slaves, some of whom were lynched, Canaday said.

Student Leadership Johns Creek has raised more than $3,000 to aid in restoration. Funds have been used to mend headstones and perform research, Canaday said.

SLJC Executive Director Irene Sanders said the organization has also been awarded a grant to develop four documentary films to tell the story of Macedonia.

The projects intend to bring awareness and educate the public, but Canaday made sure to communicate with Sanders that this was not a “feel good” story.

The peoples buried in Macedonia were mistreated in both life and death, whether in the form of enslavement, lynchings or desecration of their graves, Canaday said.

Despite its dreary history, Canaday said he remains hopeful that one day

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Many graves at the cemetery are unmarked or have had their headstones stolen. It is estimated there could be as many as 114 with burial dates ranging from 1893 to 1988. the site will be properly honored. He has plans to turn the cemetery into a beautiful memorial garden that pays homage to those buried and allows visitors to wander comfortably and learn the history. He also hopes to

rebuild the church that anchored the cemetery.

Until then, Canaday will continue to lobby on behalf of the deceased and clear the land himself with a rake at least once a week.

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