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Community Development Director Ben Song delivers a presentation and fields questions at a July 26 City Council meeting.

The mayor and council members voted to approve a contract for improvements to City Hall and discussed plans for addressing the collapsed amphitheater at Newtown Park. Read more, Page 3.

Roswell Police reflect on arrest in cold case

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Johns Creek man arrested for driving stolen SUV JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A Johns Creek man caught driving a rental that was reported stolen was arrested July 31 during a traffic stop along State Bridge Road.

Rubin David Adams, 24, was charged with theft by receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, driving while license suspended or revoked, possession of marijuana, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony and several traffic infractions.

A patrol officer pulled Adams over for speeding. He initially gave officers a false name and claimed he borrowed the Jeep Compass from a friend who rented the vehicle, police said. The report stated that Adams didn’t have a license or paperwork to document the rental. The

PUBLIC SAFETY jeep also smelled of marijuana, according to police.

The vehicle proved to be stolen out of Atlanta, and Adams had an arrest warrant out of Minnesota. Police said someone rented the vehicle from Enterprise with a fake Minnesota driver’s license under the name “Roc Adams,” and never returned it.

Inside the SUV, officers reported finding a loaded Glock 9mm handgun, two iPhones, 5.2 grams of raw marijuana and temporary tags registered to a different Jeep Compass. They impounded the vehicle and seized the weapon, pot and iPhones.

Police investigate burglary within gated community JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police were dispatched to a residential burglary along St. Ives Country Club Parkway that was reported July 30.

The suspects broke in through a back porch door and ransacked the interior of the home. It was not immediately clear what items were stolen.

Police said the burglars turned all

Drug and DUI arrests Anna Caroline Veal, 24, of Parkview Lane, Alpharetta, was arrested July 27 on Jones Bridge Road for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

Carme D. Martin Rayo Solis, 72, of Lathkil Court, Alpharetta, was arrested July 27 on Old Alabama Road for DUI, obedience to required traffic-control devices and failure to maintain lane.

Bahar Hamidizadeh, 28, of Howell Park Road, Duluth, was arrested July 29 on State Bridge Road for DUI, open container violation while operating motor vehicle and speeding.

Qiaoyang Huang, 29, of 8th Street NW, Atlanta, was arrested July 31 on Medlock Bridge Road for DUI and obstruction of intersection. the breakers off in the home’s outdoor power box. The victim said it was a weekend home that her family last visited July 25.

Well-known Atlanta attorney cited for battery at concert ALPHARETTA , Ga. — Personal injury attorney David Van Sant, a self-described Georgia super lawyer, was arrested during a Phish rock concert at the Ameris Bank Amphitheater late July 31.

Alpharetta Police say Van Sant, 44, of Milton, snatched an iPad mini from a LiveNation employee working the concert and threw it into the stands. He was charged with theft by taking, three counts of simple battery and public drunkenness.

Two LiveNation workers and a security officer accused Van Sant of harassing them from his party box. One of the employees told police Van Sant told him

he “needed to loosen up and should join their party.” The worker said Van Sant then reached over the railing and bear hugged him around the neck from behind.

A second worker who witnessed the incident rushed over and told Van Sant not to touch anyone again. She said he jumped over the railing, then slapped the brim of her cap and pushed her glasses into her face. When she told Van Sant not to touch her again, she said he replied, “What are you going to do about it?”

Van Sant had returned to his party box by the time a security guard came to the area to talk to the offended parties.

The guard said Van Sant reached over the railing and squeezed her neck hard enough that she later had to go to the hospital to be treated for neck pain.

At some point, Van Sant grabbed the iPad that an employee was using to keep tabs for food and drink orders. He threw it into the crowd of 12,000 people and it wasn’t recovered until after the concert, police said. The device was undamaged.

Van Sant told police he threw it because he wanted the employees “to party with him” and said “it was over loving.”

He reportedly said he’d done “shrooms” and police detected the scent of alcohol on him, according to the arrest report.

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Mismanagement overshadows Johns Creek City Council decisions

By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Lack of oversight and its consequences were key themes for two items raised at the July 26 City Council meeting.

In 2019, city officials made the move to a brand-new city hall on Lakefield Drive. The hub cost taxpayers $24 million — $10 million to buy the building and $14 million for renovations and expansions. At the time, the city ensured taxpayers the new building would save them money in the long run.

Two years later, the city continues to pour money into the project. Multiple phases of re-engineering totaling $500,000 are earmarked to make city hall fulfill its original purpose.

At the direction of the City Council, former City Manager Warren Hutmacher made budget-driven adjustments to the structure during construction that reduced its functionality.

At the July 26 City Council meeting, Mayor Mike Bodker took responsibility for a lapse in oversight on the project, saying council members share in the blame.

“If there’s yelling to be done at anyone, it’s us yelling at ourselves,” Bodker said to City Manager Ed Densmore. “Because we forced the [adjustments]. We didn’t make Warren, our city manager at the time, bring those to the council for individual decisions. They got made along the way, that was his job, and that’s my fault as well as my colleagues.”

One of the biggest failures of the building is in the design of the police department’s facilities. Poor placement of sprinkler systems could taint evidence in an evidence room. A too-small loading dock makes moving large items into the evidence garage without contamination impossible.

In fact, it’s useless right now, Bodker

said.

The building does not do what it was intended to do, so residents continue to foot the bill.

Community Development Director Ben Song said the $110,217 approved at the July 26 meeting is the second phase of round one of the “value engineering.”

Amphitheater repair remains in limbo The Newtown Park Amphitheater’s collapse in June was found to be caused by poor construction of the structure’s supportive beams.

First opened in 2014, the collapse has the city, and its residents asking questions.

Bodker said the city’s first insurance claim on the amphitheater collapse was denied and they are awaiting a ruling on a second, supplementary claim.

During his monthly report at the meeting, Densmore asked council members how they would like him to proceed.

Pending the insurance company’s decision on whether to cover the damage, however, no work can begin, Bodker said. Any work now could jeopardize the claim.

Councilman Lenny Zaprowski expressed anger saying that the residents of Johns Creek will not pay for this, and that the city should investigate, find and sue the responsible parties.

Council members said they could not give Densmore further direction without more information provided.

Councilwoman Stephanie Endres suggested the temporary support equipment holding up the roof could be putting undue stress on the remaining structure. By the time an insurance claim could come through, Endres said, the structure might need total reconstruction.

The amphitheater issue was left unresolved.

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CDC enacts new eviction moratorium Counties step up efforts to distribute relief money

By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com NORTH METRO ATLANTA, Ga. — While the courts wrestle with challenges to a new eviction moratorium issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Metro Atlanta counties are scrambling to distribute federal relief money to tenants and landlords.

The CDC’s order, more narrowly focused than an earlier version that expired July 31, places a moratorium on evictions in areas of substantial and high transmission for COVID-19. About 67 percent of counties nationwide now show high or substantial transmission rates. Fulton and DeKalb counties have high transmission rates.

The new moratorium expires Oct. 3 and was immediately challenged in court filings by lawyers for a group of landlords and real estate companies.

As the case plays out, local governments are trying to find ways to stop a flood of eviction orders that could leave tens of thousands of Metro-Atlantans homeless.

The goal of the moratorium is to decrease movement in order to limit virus spread and transmission. It gives tenants and landlords more time to receive rent relief and increase vaccination rates.

DeKalb County enacted its own eviction moratorium on July 30 before the CDC’s previous moratorium expired.

The emergency judicial order, signed by Superior Court Judge Asha

Jackson, said a large number of citizens were facing “imminent dispossession of their residences” with DeKalb tenants owing an estimated $50 million in rent to landlords.

In February, DeKalb County launched its Tenant-Landlord Assistance Coalition program to provide financial assistance to renters facing evictions and their landlords facing revenue losses.

After a cyberattack damaged the county’s ability to access pending applications, emails and submitted documents, the TLAC application process was reopened on a more secure platform June 21.

As of July 29, the county said, TLAC has distributed $3.45 million of the $31 million that was allocated for rental and utility assistance to 763 DeKalb households.

In Fulton County, commissioners updated cities on rental relief aid distribution at a meeting Aug. 2. The relief program began as federal dollars started arriving in spring 2020. Fulton County has adjudicated and paid 100 percent of all eligible applications that were received.

“I could not be more proud of the progress we have made as a county and as cities of Fulton on our emergency rental assistance program,” Fulton County Chief Operating Officer Anna Roach said.

Fulton County has expended $9.84 million of its available $16 million in rental relief assistance. It set an additional $1.1 million for distribution last week.

The dispersals represent assistance to 1,852 residents outside the City of Atlanta, Roach said.

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On Aug. 2 the Milton City Council voted to approve the Painted Horse Winery and Vineyards’ two permit requests that would allow the business to continue to host certain events on their 18-acre farm.

Painted Horse saga ends with Milton approving limited activities on site Most contentious permit withdrawn by farm winery

By JOE PARKER joe@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — The Milton City Council voted Aug. 2 to allow the Painted Horse Winery and Vineyards to continue holding certain events, but generally only those that had occurred before those gatherings caused issues for some neighbors.

The council approved a permit request that will allow the 18-acre farm to host certain events like kids birthday parties or other “agricultural related activities.” However, other gatherings like weddings, corporate

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events or private parties — which some neighbors strongly opposed — are off the table after the Painted Horse chose to withdraw its permit application to host such events.

City Council members voted unanimously to approve the agricultural related activities permits, with variances that allow existing parking and a structure to remain in place, and to accept the Painted Horse’s withdrawal of a permit to operate as a “rural event facility.”

The council’s Aug. 2 decisions bring an end to months of occasionally heated discussions among the board, the business and surrounding homeowners on how the property can be operated. The vote comes after the board moved twice to table a decision.

The Painted Horse has contended it has been hosting events like birthday parties and weddings longer than the City of Milton has existed, and that those uses on the site were effectively “grandfathered” into the land use of the farm. However, the city has remained firm in its opposition, despite initially recommending approval of certain variances and permits before reversing course more recently.

The city also says it has fielded a growing number of complaints of traffic, noise and other quality of life issues stemming from larger events

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SCHOOLS

Fulton Schools change protocols on masks for students

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — Fulton County School System officials changed course on the district’s mask mandate from “recommended” to “mandatory” just days before the start of school Aug. 9.

The decision created some confusion and concern among parents.

The mask-up order is in effect for schools where “high community spread” is occurring based on Fulton County Public Health statistics. Currently, high spread is happening in 13 of the 14 cities within the Fulton County School System.

Only Johns Creek remains below the threshold of 100 cases per 100,000 population based on data collected in the week ending Aug. 4.

Superintendent Mike Looney said the decision to mandate masks will help schools manage the COVID pandemic most effectively.

“Our ability to continue moving forward depends on all of us wearing masks, staying home when sick, and following all the other mitigation strategies recommended to reduce the spread of the virus,” Looney said.

There was a sharp increase in

the number of cases in North Fulton from the previous week. In the Fulton County Board of Health report for the week ending July 29, none of the cities in North Fulton met the threshold of high transmission.

In the space of seven days, the numbers jumped across the district.

Even Mountain Park which had no reported cases at the end of July reported a ratio of 150 cases per 100,000 population by early August.

As school kicks off this week, all students, except those in Johns Creek, will be required to mask up. For students in the 15 schools within Johns Creek, masks will remain “strongly recommended” but not mandatory.

The decision caused some concern in the Johns Creek community, because the city is just two cases below the number needed to mask up.

On the Fulton County School’s social media sites, parents said the city will likely exceed 100 per 100,000 in the next few days. They questioned why the mandate order would not be put into place at the start of school.

Others said many students in Johns Creek schools live outside the city in communities with high transmission, so borders are meaningless.

The move to mask also drew passionate reactions on both sides of the issue. One parent said the decision to make masks mandatory “made zero sense,” noting kids have already spent a “maskless” summer interacting with each other.

Others said requiring masks is a small price to pay to keep the community safe.

Revised quarantine procedures Following updated guidelines from the Georgia Department of Public Health, the Fulton County School System has changed its quarantine procedures from those in use last year.

Previously, students who were exposed to a COVID positive individual were required to quarantine for 10 days.

This year, all students, regardless of vaccination status, can remain in school after a direct contact if they are symptom-free and wear a mask while on school district property for 10 days after exposure.

Also, all students who report a pending test result may continue reporting to school if they are, and remain, symptom-free, and wear a mask while on school district property until the test results are received and reported.

Superintendent tweets about mask mandate ATLANTA — Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney took to Twitter over the weekend to explain the last-minute decision to mandate masks in most schools this week, and to ask for community cooperation.

In a Friday afternoon tweet before the Aug. 9 district opening, Looney said he was receiving a lot of feedback about the new direction. He explained “we’re ALL acting out of love and care for students” and to “stay classy FCS.” Looney noted his concern over the growing number of students and staff reporting positive COVID tests, and said if the community wants “uninterrupted school…we have to turn these numbers around.”

In the week ending Aug. 4, the Fulton County School System had 91 students or staff reporting a positive case of COVID. The school district projects an enrollment of 94,400 students this year and has nearly 7,000 teachers and 4,000 non-teaching staff.

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Three area schools to open with new principals Alpharetta Elementary Principal Cathy Crawford began her teaching career with Fulton County Schools in 2001 as a special education teacher at Hillside Elementary School.

Over the course of her CRAWFORD 22 years with the district, Crawford has also served as an Instructional Support Teacher and Special Education program specialist for the Northeast Learning Community.

She returns to Alpharetta Elementary after having initially served as its assistant principal from 2018 through 2020, when she left to become the assistant principal at Centennial High School.

Crawford earned her bachelor’s degree from Elon University, master’s degree from Kennesaw State University, and earned her education specialist degree in school leadership from the University of North Georgia.

She succeeds Kathleen Stamper who is now principal at Liberty Point Elementary School.

FLOWERS

Manning Oaks Elementary Principal Nikkole Flowers began her teaching career in 2001 as a middle school teacher with Atlanta Public Schools before joining the Fulton School System as a language arts teacher at Sandtown

Middle School.

In 2011 she was named an assistant principal at Holcomb Bridge Middle

School, followed by the move to Centennial High School as assistant principal in 2017.

Flowers earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida State University and earned her education specialist degree in school leadership from Mercer University.

She succeeds Jennifer Rosenthal who is now principal at Spalding Drive Elementary.

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Roswell Police detectives reflect on arrest in oldest unsolved homicide

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — After 33 years, two months and six days, Roswell police arrested the man they believe murdered 8-year-old Joshua Harmon, whose body was found in a wooded area 100 yards from the apartment complex where he lived.

It was the department’s oldest unsolved homicide.

Master Police Officer Jennifer Bennett led the investigation for about four years. As an investigator of crimes against children, she knew the case would bring challenges, but she said she was determined to see it through.

“This case had a profound impact on the police department,” Bennett said. “That any homicide, and especially a child homicide, would be unsolved for so long is incredibly frustrating. Some of us have grown up knowing of this case and to now have children of our own, it is distressing to know that there is a family that for 33 years has had few answers with regards to the death of their child.”

During a traffic stop July 21, officers arrested 56-year-old James Michael Coates from the back of an Uber and booked him into the Fulton County Jail. In June, detectives received lab results from DNA evidence collected from the scene which linked him to the murder, and they were able to secure warrants for his arrest.

Coates is charged with seven counts of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, false imprisonment, cruelty to children in the first degree, concealing the death of another and tampering with evidence.

Coates previously served a 20-year prison sentence for a child molestation case that occurred in 1990.

Roswell Police Chief James Conroy said in a press conference he hoped the most recent arrest offered a sense of closure to Joshua’s family.

“I only wish Josh’s mother Cherie could be here today, but what I do know is that she is with Joshua and they are looking down on us and they are happy with these developments,” Conroy said.

Cherie passed away Oct. 15, 2020, at the age of 65.

She reported Joshua missing Sunday, May 15, 1988,

when he didn’t return home for dinner. In an online memorial, Cherie said Joshua had been playing outside that day and had gone to wait for his friend to finish dinner before he disappeared. Police and volunteers discovered his body two days later.

“Evidence found at the scene indicated the juvenile was a victim of homicide,” the 1988 police report states.

Although the case went cold, few ever forgot Joshua. Bennett, who was often in touch with Cherie, said she thinks she would have been excited that Coates was arrested, but it would have been tempered awaiting a conviction.

“Cherie was a lovely person who had experienced frustration within her life that few can imagine,” Bennett said. “It would break my heart to give her an update with no progress. But being the resilient woman that she was, she would take it in stride and provided encouragement for the investigation to continue.”

Detective Zack Kowalske said Bennett was “truly the driving investigative force” of the contemporary investigation. He took over as the lead detective on the case 18 months ago. By that time, he said, the case had exhausted most of its leads other than the DNA evidence.

“However,” Kowalske said, “I have been involved with the case since 2014 when a new team was tasked to the case. … I have always been focused on the forensic side of it. My first memories of the case were utilizing the original crime scene photographs from 1988 to locate the original crime scene within the woods.”

Roswell detectives, in partnership with the GBI, routinely re-examined the evidence to keep pace with evolving leads and advancing technology. Their breakthrough came in February, when, with the permission of Joshua’s family, his body was exhumed in hopes of identifying further evidence.

In March, the Georgia Sexual Assault Kit Initiative taskforce, a subset of the Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, provided Roswell Police with funding to pursue additional DNA testing on evidence from the crime scene.

Results from that testing, performed by an independent laboratory, CyberGenetics Inc., linked Coates to the crime. Kowalske said the lab results gave him a sense of confirmation.

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Zack Kowalske, with the Roswell Police Department, has been the lead detective in the Joshua Harmon case over the past year, a murder that has gone unsolved for more than three decades.

“To have an answer based out of science in this case reaffirmed why I am passionate about utilizing the disciplines of the forensic sciences to bring truth and justice to cases,” Kowalske said.

Kowalske and Bennett began their careers with the Roswell Police Department. Since joining in 2009, Kowalske has spent most of his career within the Crime Scene Investigations Unit. Bennett has been with the department for 18 years.

When the murder occurred, Conroy was in college.

Since then, he’s worked a 30-year career, retired as chief of police in DeKalb County and joined the Roswell Police Department. He said 85% of the department had not even been born when Joshua was murdered.

“This shows you that police officers are not going to stop,” Conroy said. “We will continue until justice is done.”

Police spokesman Tim Lupo said the Roswell Police Department has seven additional open cold cases. Six are homicides and one is a missing person’s case.

Joshua’s case remains an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Roswell Police Department at 770-640-4100, or provide anonymous information through Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (8477).

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Atlanta Wedding Extravaganza floods Alpharetta with blushing brides

By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Taffeta, flowers, dj’s and table settings filled The Hotel at Avalon Sunday for the Atlanta Wedding Extravaganza.

This marks the extravaganza’s first in-person event since January 2020. The twice-yearly expo was virtual, like many events, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Sunday, however, coming off the heels of more than a year of isolation, brides and grooms — many who had postponed their weddings for public health reasons — were celebrated.

“It’s nice to see people excited about something,” Atlanta groom-to-be Tyler Schmidt said.

That’s exactly what Alpharetta resident and producer of the Atlanta Wedding Extravaganza Shelly Danz envisioned.

“The idea is, we want the brides and the grooms to feel special,” Danz said. “They’ve been stuck inside and trying to figure out what they want for their weddings, and this is just a good opportunity to meet vendors and get ideas.”

Some couples tag-teamed the event, while other brides and grooms brought along wedding heavy-hitters for support.

Donning nametags that read, “Bride,” “Groom,” “Mother of the Bride,” and “Best Man,” among others, more than 650 patrons sipped champagne, mingled with vendors, tasted cakes and entered raffles.

Among the 80 vendor booths was downtown Alpharetta business IndieHouse modern fragrance bar, manned by owner and founder Carrie Hadley.

For Hadley, Sunday’s event was all about building awareness.

“We want to get people thinking about their fragrance for their wedding day,” Hadley said. “It’s an important piece that often gets overlooked. And there’s so much to do in a wedding, so I totally understand that, but we can take that one little piece and help you feel confident about that.”

Scent is a critical part of memory, Hadley said, so by allowing brides and grooms to create their own

Guests at the Atlanta Wedding Extravaganza perused 80 vendors’ booths ranging from florists to cake decorators and showcasing table settings, indoor sparklers, fragrances and more.

fragrances, they’re getting to handcraft how they will remember their special day for years to come.

Like many other vendors in attendance, IndieHouse was not just selling products, but also experiences.

The fragrance-making process at IndieHouse is an event in its own right, Hadley said, but for weddings, it can be made into a larger occasion, for bridal showers or personalized bridesmaid gifts.

Local venues also made their way to Avalon to vie for a chance to host the nuptials.

Johns Creek’s The Standard Club was in attendance to promote their multiple event spaces.

Also hoping for a piece of the action was the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau. Although boasting over 60 venues within city limits, the primary goal of the CVB was to draw wedding guests to stay in Alpharetta hotels, President and CEO Janet Rodgers said.

As such, calculating the economic impact of hosting the extravaganza is difficult, Rodgers said. With weddings and expos like Sunday’s, it’s all about the long game, though the visitors to Avalon and the city at large will contribute positively to the local economy.

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Understanding your Healthcare Options Brought to you by – Lyubov Abrams, Health Insurance Broker My client rang me last night. He was on his way to the hospital and wanted to know if his emergency visit would be covered. As I tried my ABRAMS best to reassure him that he should focus on taking care of his health not his insurance at this time, part of me did think about all the Americans out there who are worried about going to their doctors, hospitals and other medical facilities because they too are concerned that their insurance won’t cover their procedures.

The truth is medical debt takes the prize for the staggering crisis in our healthcare industry. We all want to save money on our insurance premiums but at what cost to our coverage?

In a world full of options, it is difficult to pull through the weeds and really un-

derstand what option is best for you and your family. There are many luring and attractive offers for health coverage on the market but it’s important to understand the risks that come with such options. The old saying when it sounds too good to be true it probably is, definitely applies here.

Whether you are an individual, family, or small business it’s important to consider the risks and benefits of the plan you choose before you sign the dotted line. Some plans have limited benefits and don’t meet the minimal essential coverage requirements, others will reimburse up to a specified benefit amount with no out of pocket maximum, and some meet ACA requirement but have HMO networks that can keep you from being covered with your doctors.

When choosing a plan, the key items to focus on are: network (PPO, HMO, EPO, POS to name a few), your deductible and coinsurance, maximum out of pocket, policy term and policy maximum, and exclusions. No one wants to read a 100

page policy, but it’s important to have a general understanding of your policy when you sign up because you don’t want to be left with any surprise bills.

Additionally, many carriers offer a 10 day free look period for the sole purpose of making sure consumers understand what they signed up for. These are consumer protections that every individual should take advantage of.

Like many of my customers, Kevin wanted to feel secure with the coverage he selected. He was an affluent businessman, made too much to qualify for a subsidy, and was looking for catastrophic coverage with a strong PPO network.

I recommended a short term medical plan that not only suited his needs but also his budget. There are several private plans that healthy individuals, families, and businesses could greatly benefit from. As long as there is a mutual understanding of the limitations of such private plans, I have seen many clients take advantage of the lower premiums and PPO networks these plans have to offer.

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And while it is tempting to go online and sign up on your own, buyers beware.

There is fine print to every policy. Unless you are working with a trained professional, you probably aren’t aware of what you are signing up for. It’s always a good idea to trust an expert, but be weary of agents that only discuss the benefits of a policy and leave out the items that are not covered.

As we have all witnessed last year, life is truly unexpected. One minute we are having parties and the next minute we are all quarantined. We can’t predict the future but we can take the steps necessary to ensure that we have the right coverage in place in case something does happen. If you have any questions about your current plan, a future plan, individual and group plans alike, please reach out to me.

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Completing your health homework with Wellstar Avalon Health Park Pediatrics Brougth to you by – Wellstar A new school year is right around the corner. While kids may be the ones returning to the classroom, parents still have their own homework to do too: making sure their child has a healthy start.

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“I believe in treating the whole child. What I mean by that is of course, their physical health is very important, but I also feel that their emotional health is very important,” said Dr. Brandi Lewis, a pediatrician at Wellstar Avalon Health Park. “My goal is for all my patients to be resilient, happy and healthy, and I work with families to accomplish that goal.”

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Encourage questions and conversations. Have frequent discussions with your child to ensure they feel comfortable heading into the new school year.

Limit screen time. Be sure to limit your child’s screen time an hour before their bedtime, so they can wake up well-rested and feeling their best.

Ways to be top of the class After you’ve set your child up for a safe, healthy school year, take time to complete these other tasks before they head back to the classroom.

Finish summer assignments. Be sure your child completes any assignments, such as their summer reading list.

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Benzene in Certain Sunscreens – What You Need to Know Brought to you by – Dr. Brent Taylor, Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta Alarmingly, a laboratory named Valisure detected toxic levels of benzene in 78 common sunscreen and after-sun products TAYLOR such as certain brands of aloe vera gel. Their findings are important because benzene is a carcinogen – a substance that causes cancer, and we apply sunscreen specifically to avoid cancer.

Benzene is known to cause leukemia and lymphoma. How exactly benzene usually causes cancer has not been fully characterized. It appears that benzene can create toxic breakdown products in the lungs and the liver. These products react with DNA to result in broken DNA and altered chromosomes. The disrupted genes can no longer keep cells from growing or can get cells stuck in a permanently growing state, and cancer is set in motion.

Benzene is a chemical solvent and a basic ingredient in the manufacture of many chemicals. According to the CDC, benzene ranks in the “top 20 chemicals for production volume” and is used to make plastics, resins, lubricants, dyes, rubber, detergents, drugs and more. Benzene is found at significant levels in cigarette smoke and in some e-cigarette vapors. As an aside, I recently saw a billboard on the side of the highway that said “Be Patriotic.

Vape!” A grand American flag was in the background of the billboard. If you know a youngster who is considering vaping, please let him or her know that there is no proven connection between vaping and patriotism (though scientists employed by the vaping industry may be working on it).

Given how common benzene is, it may be surprising to learn just how dangerous it can be even in small doses. In the United States, OSHA (the Occupational Health and Safety Administration) defines the permissible exposure limit as 1 part per million (ppm) in the air during an average work day. This is a limit for on-the-job exposure. In contrast, the limit set by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is 2 parts per million (ppm) for a drug product “with a significant therapeutic advance.”

The guidance is that benzene is not to be used at all if its use is avoidable, and the laboratory Valisure found no detectable benzene in over 200 sunscreen and aftersun products tested. Therefore, there is no reason that we should tolerate benzene in any of our sunscreens.

Valisure’s list of benzene-containing sunscreens and after-sun products was broad and included major manufacturers. To see the lists of products that did and did not test positive, visit: https://bit. ly/3w8LyJL and https://bit.ly/3v8KzYP. Well-respected companies such as Neutrogena, CVS Health and EltaMD made both lists with some products testing positive and others not. More than 75% of the identified products are sprays. Unfortunately, there is no easy rule of thumb to avoid benzene. Dermatologists typically divide sunscreens into physical blockers (those that contain zinc and titanium to reflect the sun) and chemical blockers (those that use chemicals to “quench” ultraviolet rays). Regretfully, both physical and chemical blocker sunscreens are on the list of benzene-containing sunscreens.

Importantly, Valisure’s tests on the sunscreens did not identify benzene as a breakdown product of the tested sunscreens. Therefore, the presence of benzene appears to be from contamination [during the manufacturing process] and not from breakdown of the ingredients.

What should we do? The best approach is likely to pick a sunscreen from the non-contaminated list or not on the contaminated list and continue using sunscreen. We know that the sun causes more than 3 million skin cancers per year in the United States. And we should be thankful that the FDA and laboratories like Valisure are helping to keep us safe.

What did my family do? We threw away a sunscreen that happened to be on the bad list and still applied sunscreen during our most recent beach trip. No company is perfect. No process is perfect. No product is perfect. Our job as parents, spouses or children is not to eliminate risk but to manage it to the best of our ability, and sunscreen continues to be a very important and proven method for reducing the risk of skin cancer. This was true even before Valisure’s research report. And Valisure appears to be helping us make sure that a good product gets even better.

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Roswell Dental Care now offers facial injectibles Brought to you by – Dr. Destinee Hood Many people have been vaccinated, and the COVID-19 Pandemic guidelines of wearing a face mask have relaxed.

However, since our upper face was all anyone could use to display emotion, there is a rise in the request for neurotoxin (Botox®, Xeomin®, etc.) and facial fillers to enhance facial appearance.

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Repeated muscle contractions from frowning, squinting, raising eyebrows and even smiling cause skin to furrow and fold, gradually resulting in the formation of facial lines. There is a misconception that neuromodulators change your appearance. The proteins reduce the contraction of these muscles to preserve how your face looks, before it has a chance to make static wrinkles (the deep lines that don’t go away). These injectable proteins have been shown to be an effective treatment to smooth the appearance of forehead wrinkles, frown lines, crow’s feet, and lip lines. Another misconception is that a toxin is being injected into your body. Botox and other neuromodulators are purified, FDA-approved proteins that works by relaxing wrinklecausing muscles, creating a smooth, enhanced appearance. Not only will it

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BY ADAM DARBY adam@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell Arts Fund hosted the inaugural Beaucoup Jazz and Blues Festival and Pop Up Art Village July 31 at the East Village Shopping Center on Holcomb Bridge Road. The 12hour music and arts festival ran from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Residents and attendees enjoyed a full line up of local Blues and Jazz musicians taking the stage as local artists and vendors set up sales booths along the perimeter of the site.

“I am excited for the opportunity to bring a fantastic creative experience to this part of town, serve community where community is,” said Roswell Arts Fund Executive Director Ghila Sanders.

“We hope to create a new tradition that speaks to the unique character of this beautiful area, enhancing the livability of North Fulton, connecting people, highlighting our local talent and homegrown businesses.”

Local artists were permitted to sell their art to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Pop Up Art Village portion of the festival featured 75 painters, photographers, sculptors, leather and metal craftspeople, glass blowers, jewelers and

more. The community celebration also included local food trucks and beverages throughout the day. Vendors included From the Earth Brewing Company and King of Pops.

“The festival is a first, and it is a bold continuation of the Pop-Up Performance Series that we launched in 2020,” Sanders said. “The success of the 2020 Pop-Up Performance Series gave us the desire to set audacious goals for this coming season and brought us to the creation of a Jazz and Blues Festival.”

The series initiative was fully funded through private sponsors and ticket sales. The Roswell Arts Fund hopes to continue celebrating the arts within the community by hosting future festivals and events showcasing the work of local artists, musicians and food vendors.

In recognition of COVID safety regulations, the festival adhered to safety protocols outlined by the CDC, state and local governments.

“For this festival, we selected a vast space that offered us the opportunity to work with limited capacity and still create a sense of place. There will be plenty of room for everyone to keep at a comfortable distance,” Sanders said. “Music is giving, and after such a challenging

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OPINION

Looking up (way up!) in August Okay, so Captain Kirk was right. Space is the final frontier. As a child, I heard him say that dozens of times on “Star Trek,” which I faithfully watched on our trusty old black and white TV. About the size of STEVE HUDSON a small refrigerator, Get Outside Georgia, aa4bw@comcast.net that TV was hot stuff for its time. It picked up four whole channels! I especially liked turning the channel-changer knob, which dropped into position with a remarkably satisfying “clunk.” For that reason, if no other, that old set (was it a Philco?) will live on in memory forever.

Yep, technology is a wonderful thing.

Especially since it brought space, in the form of “Star Trek,” right into our very own home.

Space and technology, it seems, go together like – well, like space and technology.

But come the second week in August, you won’t need technology beyond your very own eyes to experience some spacetype excitement on your own. The reason?

The annual Perseids meteor shower.

We Earthlings get to see the Perseids each year when Earth intersects the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle. That comet orbits the Sun every 130 years or so, leaving a trail of tiny sand-sized pieces of comet debris in its wake. When one of those pieces encounters our atmosphere, it plunges in at an unbelievable 37 miles per second. Friction with the air causes the fragment to burn up in seconds in a streaking blaze of light – and that’s when some lucky observer (maybe you or me!) gets to see a meteor.

Since these particular meteors appear to come from the area of the constellation Perseus, they’re called the “Perseids.”

Though a few Perseids meteors are already appearing (experts say they started about July 25) and will continue to be seen to some degree until about Aug. 18, the peak viewing will be Aug. 12 through 14.

What will you need to see some of these meteors? The answer is “not much!”

In fact, you won’t really need any hightech aid at all. All that’s really required is your eyes and a comfortable chair.

Speaking of chairs, one that reclines is ideal since it lets you rest comfortably as you scan the sky for those ephemeral streaks of brilliance. That’s definitely easier on the ol’ back than standing up and craning your neck, something that we (how to put it) more seasoned sky watchers appreciate more and more each year.

Or you can dispense with the chair and just lie back on a blanket on the ground. That works too.

What about binoculars? Some like to use low-power, wide-field binoculars to gather more light and make fainter meteors easier to see. But your unaided eyes will work just fine.

You’ll need one more thing too: a willingness to give up some sleep. Meteors are best viewed in the dark, of course, and the best viewing will be sometime after midnight. But for determined meteor watchers, that’s not a problem. They’ll tell you that sleep is overrated – especially when there are meteors to be seen.

Finally, you’ll need a nice observing spot – ideally one that’s away from the distracting artificial light of civilization. Yes (and despite the obscuring glow from nearby streetlights and occasional passing cars) I’ve been able to see them from my front driveway. But I always see many, many, many more if I make the effort to get away from light pollution and find the darkest sky I can find.

Where can you go to find such a spot?

Aside from your driveway or backyard, or from the middle of a nearby horse pasture (ask first, of course), there are a number of other possibilities.

One of the top sky-watching locations in Georgia is Stephen C. Foster State Park down in south Georgia’s Okefenookee Swamp. This park has been certified as a dark sky park by the International Dark Sky Association and is a top destination for folks who want to check out the sky without the aggravations of light pollution.

Laura S. Walker State Park in Waycross is also offering some special events tied to the Perseids – among them “Meteor Showers and S’mores” on Saturday, Aug. 14. Contact the park at (912) 287-4900 for details.

Another excellent bet, and one that’s not quite so far away for most of us, is Hard Labor Creek State Park in Rutledge.

The park is offering a number of rangerled after-dark kayak tours, weather permitting, designed with the express purpose of seeing Perseids meteors. These are scheduled on Aug. 11, 12, 13 and 14 (that’s Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday). Note that preregistration is required, and each trip is limited to 10 participants (8 years of age or older).

Learn more by calling the park at (706) 557-3001.

In any case, once you’ve located a good watching spot, set up early to give your eyes time to adjust. If you must use a flashlight, put a red filter over it to preserve your night vision. Turn off the cellphone, too, for that bright screen can quickly obliterate your night vision.

So… Bone up on your constellations. Learn where Perseus is. Then find a good spot, settle in around Aug. 11 to 14, and put your eyes on the sky.

Yes, TV sci-fi is good. But this is way, way better!

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Once upon a time Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there were three little children who were starting to grow up. They took swim lessons, learned to walk, then skate and ride bikes. They learned RAY APPEN how to read and Publisher Emeritus color with crayons ray@appenmedia.com and stay inside the lines — more or less. And they loved to play on playgrounds.

One day, it was time to start school — the “big school” — which back then meant a small brick one story school nestled in the middle of old neighborhoods. The school was close to their home and, truth be known, they could have walked to school or rode their bikes, like their mom and dad when they were little children, but they didn’t because, well, times had changed, and little children walking to school was maybe not as safe as it used to be “a long time ago.”

So, instead of walking to school, their dad usually drove them in the

family’s old blue Volvo station wagon the parents had bought brand new when the first child was born in a far away place called Miami. That blue Volvo was sort of a “home” for everyone for many years — like almost 30 — and it also turned out to be the only “brand new” car that the parents would purchase for another 35 years or so.

The old Volvo took the family on vacations, usually to the beach. It transported them to Ohio and back lots of times to visit grandparents and cousins, and it took everyone at least once to Disney World and Washington D.C. It never failed the family; it just kept on rolling and the CD player - (a small metal box that people used to put these round metal discs into that played music) played music for the children while they waited in the dropoff line early in the mornings at school “Sam Stone came home to his wife and family…”

Looking back, it was probably safe to guess that the children at one time must have believed that was the only music that existed or that their father simply just loved listening to this sad sounding storyteller singer called

John Prine.

It’s also a strong probability that all three kids still to this day are transported back to the Volvo and that waiting line in the mornings when they hear one of those songs. Life’s like that; we remember certain events, certain smells, and for sure, special songs, and we never forget the people who go with them. The memories sometimes feel to me like little Christmas presents or silver dollars found in an old chest.

And now that old elementary school is starting yet another year.

The children have new lunch boxes.

Some have new book bags, pencils and a brand-new notebook. Their hair is combed, teeth brushed, and anxiety and anticipation color their countenance.

“I got a brand-new pair of roller skates. You got a brand-new key.”

The school is still small — and still sort of reminds me of a bird’s nest way up within the arms of an ancient oak tree. And as I ponder the day, questions flow through my mind.

“Will we still get that call from the bus driver saying that our son fell asleep and forgot to get off the bus, and do we want to meet her at the corner of …. to get him? Will there be another Mr. Whitt who made school fun and feel safe? And how about Deb-

bie Pitts? Tell me there will be another Debbie who read stories to those children, who taught them to write stories that made the parents weep that night while the kids read them aloud.

“But most of all — and it still makes me cry to even think of her — tell me, please tell me, that this old elementary school will have another Jackie Littlefield — principal Jackie Littlefield who managed, protected, led and nurtured her minions in no less a manner than George C. Scott did with his soldiers or Mother Teresa did for the poor. Tell me so. Tell me this school in which my granddaughter Phoebe started this week —possibly in the same classroom that her dad sat in so long ago, or her Aunt Amelia or Uncle Carl — will nurture her like Jackie did my kids and all the other children. No political correctness. No tap dancing. No protocol that doesn’t make sense. No parents trying to tell the school how to teach. Just Jackie and what was right for “her kids” always, no matter what. No kid left behind. No kid picked on. Yes, you can.

No bureaucracy mucking things up.

Not on her watch.

Happy, yet another first day of school Alpharetta Elementary. Happy first day of elementary school Phoebe.

Be fierce. Be kind. Learn. Play. Enjoy this precious time you are beginning.

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Wilson Creek Elementary Principal Stephanie Haga joined the Fulton County School System in 2005 as a science teacher at Autrey Mill Middle School where she spent six years as a teacher and grade level lead.

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In 2012, Haga was selected as one of the district’s first STEM Program specialists, and spent four year supporting teachers in math and science instruction in the Central Learning Community.

In 2016, Haga was named assistant principal at Heards Ferry Elementary School, before moving in 2018 to her most recent position as assistant principal at New Prospect Elementary School.

Haga earned her bachelor’s degree from Southern Adventist University , and her Master’s degree in elementary education from Vanderbilt University.

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PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF JOHNS CREEK MAYOR AND COUNCIL AUGUST 16, 2021 MEETING The Mayor and Council of the City of Johns Creek will hold their monthly meeting on: Monday, August 16, 2021

5:00pmWork Session 7:00pm Council Meeting

Both Work Sessions and Council Meetings will be held at City Hall located at 11360 Lakefield Drive, in Johns Creek, 30097 and are open to the public.

Should you have any questions regarding these public meetings, please call the City Clerk Allison Tarpley (678-512-3212).

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF JOHNS CREEK RFP #21-236 ON CALL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES-STORM PIPE LINING The City of Johns Creek is seeking proposals from qualified Contractors for On Call Professional Services – Storm Piping Lining Services. RFP’s will be received both electronically via BidNet and hard copies to City Hall no later than 2:00 PM on August 24, 2021. A recommended attendance Zoom Pre-bid Teleconference will take place 10:00 AM August 4, 2021. Questions are only accepted and answered online via BidNet. Deadline for questions is August 10, 2021 at 5:00 PM. Quotes, bids, and RFP’s are managed electronically using the Georgia Purchasing Group by BidNet, our online bidding/vendor registration system.

To access bid documents, vendors must complete the one-time, no cost registration with BidNet. Vendors can register with BidNet and view available bid opportunities from the City of Johns Creek Purchasing page. (www. johnscreekga.gov/residents/purchasing) The City of Johns Creek, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 78 Stat. 252, 42 USC 2000d—42 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, part 21, Nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, or national origin in consideration for an award.

All offerors must comply with all general and special requirements of the RFP information and instructions. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Neil Trust at the City of Johns Creek Procurement Division at purchasing@johnscreekga.gov or (678) 512-3233. The City of Johns Creek reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to wave technicalities and informalities, and to make award in the best interest of the City of Johns Creek.

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Alive in Roswell expected to draw thousands more through October

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — After a year-long hiatus, Alive in Roswell broke records in July with people eager to socialize again in the community.

About 7,000 people strolled down Canton Street July 15 for the first event since October 2020, and the next event in August is expected to be just as large. Chris Ward, Roswell special events manager, said it’s been great to have the event back in the city.

“This was our largest crowd to date,” Ward said. “… It’s great to be able to be back. People were very excited and ready to get out in a free, fun, and safe environment and spend time with friends and family.”

The festival is held every third Thursday of the month through October. It is packed with food, drinks and live music. Alive in Roswell stretches down East Alley and Roswell Town Square, which are accessible by the

city’s free trolley service.

In addition to offering entertainment in the city, the event is a unique opportunity for sponsors and vendors to highlight their businesses. Boutiques, small businesses and restaurants surround the venues.

Alive in Roswell is sponsored

by Gate City Brewing Co. and Carl Black of Roswell. It is one of several city-sponsored events to return post COVID-19, including Music on the Hill and Riverside Sounds. However, city officials are monitoring the recent rise in cases.

“The city continues to assess the covid numbers and will make decisions based on that data moving forward,” Ward said.

Dogs are allowed at Alive in Roswell except for on the trolley. City officials also ask that dogs be kept on a leash.

The next event is slated from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 19. For more information and maps, visit aliveinroswell.com.

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Winery: Continued from Page 4 at the business.

With the smoke now cleared, the Painted Horse will be able to continue hosting summer day camps, Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts gatherings, painting classes, “animal petting” and other limited events “tied to agriculture.”

The hours of operation for such gatherings will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday. City staff’s suggested limit of 25 attendees per day on weekdays and a

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limit of 50 attendees on the weekends was approved.

Another condition includes that agricultural events “must conclude” prior to the winery’s tasting room opening its doors to operate.

Several council members, including Laura Bentley, Paul Moore and Carol Cookerly, have voiced their opposition to potential intermingling between alcohol consumption taking place on the same property as an event for children.

At Monday’s meeting, Bentley said it’s an “either-or” issue.

“For me, the agricultural events can take place, but not at the same time the winery is open,” she said.

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against” the crossover between alcohol and agricultural uses.

Councilman Joe Longoria suggested the limitations on the number of people at each event should mitigate the “intensity of use” on the farm that has caused ire among nearby homeowners.

Following outcries from some neighbors and the council’s general opposition to the intensity of land use stemming in larger events being held in a residential area, the Painted Horse first withdrew its application to continue its “Uncorked” concert series that began last year. After hours of discussions at the council’s prior meeting — in which the board chose to defer its vote to Monday — the com-

pany chose to also abandon its plan to host more adult-centric events like private parties and weddings.

Many of those who spoke against the concerts and larger events at nearly half a dozen public meetings related to the permit requests shared their support for kids’ birthday parties and similar activities. Several have also voiced their support of the winery when it was approved in 2019. That approval came with another long list of appearances by the Painted Horse owner Pamela Jackson before the city to operate as the city had to alter many of its prior regulations to accommodate the business.

Jackson did not address the council at the Aug. 2 meeting.

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Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

Raymond Barry, 87, of Milton, passed away August 1, 2021.

Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Director & Crematory.

Kathy Callahan, 66, of Johns Creek, passed away July 312021. Arrangements

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Marsha Hubbard, 64, of Cumming, passed away July 30, 2021. Arrangements

by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Ansley Cox, 42, of Roswell, passed away July 312021.

Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

Julie Manga, 43, of Roswell, passed away August 3, 2021.

Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

Billy Bates, 95, of Alpharetta, passed away July 30, 2021.

Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Director & Crematory.

Sharon Forde, 84, of Alpharetta, passed away July 31, 2021. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Director & Crematory.

Peter Joseph Biegel, 77, of Cumming passed away July 28, 2021. Arrangements

by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Leroy Gall, 88, of Alpharetta, passed away August 3, 2021.

Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

Shirley Sandra Burruss, 72, of Cumming, passed away July 30, 2021. Arrangements

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Joseph Gionfriddo, 91, of Alpharetta, passed away July 27, 2021. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Director & Crematory.

Sara Caroline V. Morris, 98, of Cumming, passed away July 25, 2021. Arrangements

by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Ruth Myers, 95, of Roswell, passed away August 1, 2021.

Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

David Richardson, 42, of Alpharetta, passed away July 31, 2021.

Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

Valerie Rhoads, 63, of Cumming, passed away July 29, 2021. Arrangements

by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Jacqueline Spender, 68, of Roswell, passed away July 30, 2021. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Director & Crematory.

Orien LaRue White, 91, of Cumming, passed away July 29, 2021. Arrangements

by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Jerry Yundt, 80, of Johns Creek, passed away August 2, 2021. Arrangements by Roswell Funeral Home and Green Lawn Cemetery.

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