400 The Life - September 2017

JUST ONE SQUASH

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TAKING A BIGGER STAGE Forsyth's state senator is aiming for the Governor's Mansion. But first, he'll have to introduce himself to the rest of Georgia's voters.

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PLUS: For Northside's Dr. Patel, it's not always about where you escape, but who you're with.

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had only been at the Forsyth County News for a couple months, so it had to have been one of my first assignments. My editor asked me to cover a fundraiser for a local politician running for the state Senate seat. When I arrived slightly late, I was immediately greeted by a tall gentleman with an easy disposition. He thanked me for being there and asked if I needed anything; I declined, saying I was looking for someone. Ten minutes later, I found out that the man who greeted me was actually Michael Williams, the politician I was sent to photograph. Since that day in 2014, he has gone from literal political unknown to a dark horse looking to take the governor's seat. He’s made national headlines by being the first elected official to officially endorse then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump and has been endorsed by the likes of Dog the Bounty Hunter and Roger Stone. Yes, that Roger Stone.

So regardless of what side of the political fence you fall on, you can't deny that story of Williams' rise is as intriguing as it is improbable. But if the last 18 months or so have taught me anything, it's that improbable certainly doesn't mean impossible.

We've got a lot more for you, too, so grab a seat and check out our September issue of 400 — The Life.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Personal Place: Northside's Dr. Patel

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Beating the Tag: The Tommy John Epidemic and Dr. Tim Griffith

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COVER STORY Who is Michael Williams?

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Camp Chronicles: Lambert Longhorns

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Just One: Squash

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Entertainment Guide

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here might not be a profession that needs a place to escape the daily stresses of life more than being a surgeon.

But for Dr. Siddharth Patel, a vascular surgeon at Northside Hospital, it’s less about where he goes than who he goes to.

When not performing surgery or his other duties at the hospital, Patel said he makes every effort to be with his wife and two young sons, 7-year-old Aayan and 2-year-old Aarin.

“Having gone through the rigors of medical training and surgical training and fellowship training, I certainly saw my share of mentors and senior surgeons who were basically in the hospital their entire life,” Patel said. “Even though I love to practice surgery, it was always important for me to have that work-life balance.

“Committing to surgery doesn’t mean you have to commit yourself or sacrifice your family.”

Patel said he typically does between two and four procedures over two shifts a week, not including unexpected procedures and emergencies.

Once he is out of the hospital, family time is the priority.

“My philosophy is I want to

be home for dinner with my family most nights out of the week, if not all nights if I can,” he said. “I don’t book myself surgery-wise where I can’t do that.”

Patel said his schedule allows him to take his older son to school four days a week and also spend time with him playing Legos, sports, guitar and riding bikes, though his younger son is starting to catch up.

“We’ll pack up the bikes, head out to Alpharetta on one of the trails and spend half the day out there and ride,” Patel said.

With the age gap between his sons, there aren’t many common activities that interest a toddler and a second grader.

“With a four-and-a-half-year age gap, they have very different interests,” Patel said. “The little one is starting to sneak up on the big one and everything he’s doing."

Patel said he’s hoping to soon get his older son involved in one of his own favorite pastimes.

“I like to play golf and like to do that as often as I can,” he said.

“Next summer, I’m hoping to get our older one into golf lessons, and that’s something we can do together and I’ll feel less guilty about spending a few hours away.”

At the end of the day, we all need a place to call our own, but for Dr. Siddharth Patel, that place is constantly on the go.

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im Griffith sits in his scrubs in a lightly adorned examination room at Peachtree Orthopedics’ Cumming office, the same space where earlier in the day he saw a patient who had pitched in four baseball games in four days.

In Griffith’s view, that’s not right. A pitcher, especially one who’s young and still growing, should not be throwing that much and putting his arm at serious risk for future injury. A bigger problem is that Griffith, an orthopedic surgeon who’s been with Peachtree since 2014, is seeing cases like that more and more, with the resulting injuries stacking up.

“Oh, there’s no question that it’s an epidemic,” Griffith said.

Arm injuries, particularly in the elbow, are far from an undercover issue in baseball. Every young MLB pitcher forced to go under the knife — Yu Darvish, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg are just a few in recent years — raises the alarm to the fragility of the pitching arm.

The reasons for the increase are varied and controversial.

Major league pitchers are throwing less than they did in the past, but they’re throwing much harder, and more velocity puts more strain on ligaments like the ulnar collateral ligament, which is what’s replaced in the increasingly common Tommy John Surgery.

And while pitch counts are watched more closely in pro ball, the increased workloads of younger pitchers might be offsetting that benefit. That’s mainly where Griffith is working, meeting the crisis head-on at its source and trying to change the future of baseball for the better.

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BELOW: Dr. Griffith examines Tibor Szenti at Peachtree Orthopedics' Cumming location. RIGHT: An advertisment feautring Dr. Griffith as a team physician for the Atlanta Braves sits on an a counter in the office.

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scene has a reputation for being particularly rigorous and taxing on prospects’ arms. A recent column by Baseball America editor John Manuel addressed the topic.

“A lot of kids have left their arms at the East Cobb complex,” a scout told Manuel. “A lot of clubs are wary of Georgia high school pitchers.”

Not everyone is to blame, in Griffith’s eyes. He works as the team p h y s i c i a n f o r Fo r s y t h C e n t r a l ,

Lambert and West Forsyth high schools and spoke positively of those schools’ management of pitchers. The implementation of a more regimented pitch count rule in 2017 was another step towards greater protection of pitchers on the high school ranks.

“Most of the problems I’m seeing, they’re not through the schools,” Griffith said. “They’re through travel ball and teams like that.”

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Pruitt would be in agreement. In the almost 30 years that he’s been coaching baseball, Pruitt has seen more players throw more during the year and not get what he sees as the proper rest. He can only advise his players on what to do during the season, because once they hit travel ball, it’s almost always out of Pruitt’s hands.

“I understand the desire of these kids

to want to play in college or even beyond that,” Pruitt said. “And they feel like every time it’s their turn to throw, that might be the time they get seen … they get so geared up on that, and I think it’s having a profound effect on their health.”

Griffith didn’t play baseball himself, but he quickly discounts the notion that pitchers should try to get seen as much as possible. He has worked with the New

York Mets and the Atlanta Braves in draft preparation and in diagnosing injuries, and doing so hasn’t made him sympathetic to the idea of upping a young pitcher’s workload.

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because I’ve met professional pitchers who didn’t start pitching until they were in college.”

The travel organizations aren’t ignoring the uptick in arm injuries, and they have their own precautions to manage pitchers’ workloads. Perfect Game, a leading organizer of showcases and tournaments, has its massive LakePoint complex out in Cartersville, and the facility is in constant motion for much of the year.

Perfect Game’s tournaments follow MLB’s PitchSmart guidelines, which resemble those that the Georgia High School Association implemented this year. Team Elite, a local travel program that counts Forsyth Central’s Ethan Hankins and South Forsyth’s Landon Sims among its members, tries to be even more conservative than that in how it handles pitchers, said Brad Bouras, Team Elite’s founder and general manager.

“We don’t necessarily send out literature and education pieces, because we’re not an orthopedic group … but we obviously do everything we can to explain to parents,” Bouras said.

“Sometimes, kids want to play and pitch more than we let him because we know it’s been a long time (and) they haven’t built up.”

Griffith said the general agreement among orthopedic surgeons is that players need to take three months a year off from throwing. That idea hasn’t become a staple, though, to Griffith’s dismay.

“Despite our recommendations, despite us trying to make that a presence in the community, we’re not necessarily seeing people respond,” Griffith said.

Forsyth Central alum Nik Verbeke remembers abiding by those guidelines, more or less. But he still played travel baseball for most of the year, hopping between different teams, playing tournaments most weekends and seeing plenty of teammates getting hurt and burnt out.

“When you’re like 10, 11, they think you’ve got a rubber arm,”

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Verbeke said. “So I’m sure they threw me multiple times during a weekend. I’m sure that I overdid it sometimes, for sure.”

Verbeke, who now pitches for Furman University in South Carolina, has been lucky enough to escape significant injury so far. That’s why the specifics of the arm injury epidemic have been so hard to nail down: Some pitchers can well-exceed guidelines and be unscathed, and others can be overly cautious and still get hurt.

Arm injuries can be particularly challenging to deal with, as they’re typically a more subtle injury, less apparent than an ankle twisted around or a bone sticking out of someone’s leg. The intrigue of diagnosing injuries is part of what attracted Griffith to the field, and the uptick in arm injuries over the years has drawn his attention independent of any media coverage.

He’s looking into ways to improve treatment of injuries, working on a study with MLB that involves statistical analysis of surgical techniques and their outcomes. But Griffith’s main focus with young pitchers is prevention, with the hope that they can play longer before they get injured or that they avoid injury altogether.

Griffith’s patients and their parents have almost always been receptive to his suggestions and guidance. There’s the occasional instance of noncompliance, but nobody outright says that they don’t believe him.

Griffith thinks of the issue as being somewhat like getting people to stop smoking cigarettes — enough education and awareness, and knowledge will become more pervasive. The worst thing that he can do is not say anything.

“I think the danger is seeing these kids and saying, ‘Oh, this is a strain … and we’ll be okay,’ because they probably will be, and not taking this opportunity to educate them and ask them about their numbers or ask them about what they’re doing, what their volume is,” Griffith said. “So it just takes the extra time as a doctor to do that.”

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'Who is Michael Williams?'

We get a glimpse into Forsyth's state senator looking to take Georgia's top job and how he plans to do it.

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Kelly Whitmire ยง Photos by Micah Green

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f you haven’t heard about gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams yet, you will.

The state senator who represents the majority of Forsyth County in District 27 announced his candidacy to succeed term-limited Gov. Nathan Deal in June, and since then has been travelling across the state, meeting voters, answering phones and getting his name out to Georgians.

He hasn’t been in the political sphere for long, and less than other Republicans running for governor whose current political titles are of a higher profile. He ran his campaign for senator on that resume – a political outsider whose first campaign experience was handing out flyers for the senator he would eventually oust, a businessman who owned a chain of SportsClips Haircuts before claiming insurmountable Affordable Care Act regulations made him sell and run for public office, a Mormon, a legislator who gave his personal cell phone number out to more than 400,000 people in the robo-call email he uses as his main form of campaign communication, a candidate who said he would do things unapologetically dif-

ferent than the Gold Dome establishment.

Different, how?

I n S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 5 , Williams was the first elected official in the state to endorse then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and appears to be following the same blueprint to the Governor’s Mansion.

“Up until a couple of years ago, I was busy raising my family, running my business and just got tired of politics as usual,” Williams said. “That resonates a lot with [voters], and then when they find out I was the first e l e c t e d o ffi c i a l h e r e i n Georgia to support Donald Trump, especially in north and south Georgia, that automatically gives a lot of credibility and support.”

Since he began on the road toward Georgia’s top position, Williams has received both praise and rebuke, depending on who you ask, for channeling Trump by attending an armed anti-Sharia law rally in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, stating Democratic border control policies were to blame for the rape of a Gwinnett County woman by illegal immigrants and holding a press conference at the state Capitol to slam fellow candi-

'One of the first things that we kind of have to overcome is, ‘Well who is this Michael Williams guy?’'

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date Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, where he penned him “Campaign Casey.”

His early support for Trump made him a r i s i n g n a m e i n c o n s e r va t ive c i r c l e s .

Recently, he was endorsed by Republican strategist Robert Stone, who Williams said was instrumental in getting Presidents Trump, George Bush and Ronald Reagan elected.

“He came out and endorsed our campaign and recommended that Trump support us as well,” Williams said, later adding, “It gives a lot of credibility to what we’re doing, to me and my candidacy and to the campaign we’re working, so that’s probably the biggest thing. Also, it gives us a bigger stage to draw support from.”

Stone came to town and spoke at a fundraising event for Williams in Atlanta in August.

In June, Williams held his first fundraising event with a well-known conservative of a different breed – Duane Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter.

The two met at Trump’s inauguration and bonded on legislation Williams proposed to increase pay for law enforcement officers.

Chapman has since visited Williams in Forysth and had him as a guest on his new podcast. In June, he endorsed Williams for governor.

Williams said he has been all over the state in recent months meeting and discuss-

ing issues facing potential voters. He said there isn’t too much he’s heard that hasn’t come up before, which he said was due to being on the campaign trail for a large part of the last three years with his 2014 and 2016 campaigns, along with getting votes out for Trump last year.

While his campaign style and many views may align with his president, his demeanor does not. Calm, cool-mannered, personable, he openly says Georgia needs to “drain” its own “swamp.” He’s seen “firsthand that the residents of Georgia are not who is represented down at the Capitol underneath the Gold Dome; it’s the lobbyists, it’s the special interest groups and it’s the donors of the people who were elected, that’s whose being represented.”

It worked for Trump, but Williams still has obstacles to overcome. To secure the Republican nomination, he will have to beat out fellow candidates Cagle, Secretary of State Brian Kemp and District 6 State Sen. Hunter Hill.

“One of the first things that we kind of have to overcome is, ‘Well, who is this Michael Williams guy?’” he said. “And I believe that’s one of the things that me traveling and getting to meet people helps them to kind of see I’m just a down-to-earth guy just like them.”

Along the way, Williams has had a lot of time to talk about what Georgians want to

'There are over 3,200 law enforcement officers currently in Georgia on food stamps and that’s an embarrassment to me.'

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LEFT: Williams is congratulated by supporters in 2014 after winning his first state Senate seat.

RIGHT: Williams speaks at a Republican meet and greet in Cumming, after announcing that he would be running for governor earlier this year.

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see from their next governor.

Issues like roads, traffic and little accountability from politicians are often brought up. He said he also supports term limits for state-wide offices, eliminating the state’s income tax and replacing it with a “consumption-based fair tax model,” constitutional carry, pay increases for law enforcement and a bigger stand against illegal immigration.

“We’re going to make sure there are no sanctuary cities h e r e i n G e o rg i a a n d t h a t employers here in the state are only hiring those that are lawfully allowed to be employed,” he said.

Williams said the race has meant a lot of time on the road, at meetings and on the phone.

As a father of four, including a newborn, he said he doesn’t get to see his kids and wife, Virginia, as much but said the family has stepped up to the race.

“She hasn’t traveled everywhere, but whenever she can she comes out there and brings the kids,” he said. “They’ve all been troopers, and they understand what we’re doing and what we’re about and that they won’t see Dad as much for the next hopefully 18 months or so, but, again, it’s worth it. We don’t have as much family time as we did, but we still try to make time at least once a week for us to kind of sit down and have a

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TOP: Williams speaks with Duane Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter. BOTTOM: Williams and Roger Stone chat in front of one of Williams' campaign posters at the Atlanta Hilton Northeast. RIGHT: Scenes from Williams' fundraiser with Stone in August.

'It gives a lot of credibility to what we’re doing, to me and my candidacy and to the campaign we’re working.'

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meal as a family, hang out, talk about what’s going on in their lives and just spend time.”

Over those next 18 months, Williams will keep traveling the state, meeting with voters and hoping the same support that took Trump to the White House will take him to the Governor’s Mansion.

“I’ve really enjoyed the opportunity to kind of travel around Georgia. We have a beautiful state. We have amazing people,” he said. “The reception has been amazing. It’s been wonderful.”

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For the second year, we followed one local high school football team during the preseason leading up to their first game to show you what it's like to prepare for a season in the grueling Class 7A . The first episode of Camp Chronicles, this year featuring Lambert High School, airs Sept. 7 on ForsythNews.com.

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Our celebration of a single delicious, versatile ingredient. This month we turn our attention to the SQUASH.

STORY BY ISABEL HUGHES

Why it’s great:

Squash comes in so many different varieties – from acorn to butternut to spaghetti squash. Native Americans grew the vegetable hundreds of years ago, though they have been traced back 10,000 years to Mexico.

Did you know?

U.S. Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew the vegetables in their personal gardens.

Quick tip: Squash is notoriously difficult to peel, but when baked the skins are much easier to remove; but don't forget to remove the seeds!

Pumpkins are actually considered a type of squash, and one of the first published recipes for pumpkin pie (Pompkin Pudding) was in Amelia Simmons’ 1796 cookbook, American Cookery – the first cookbook to be written by an American and published in the United States.

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JUST ONE COOKBOOK

Cheesy Squash and Zucchini Casserole Ingredients:

1 pound yellow squash, sliced 1 pound zucchini, sliced ½ onion, diced 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese ½ cup biscuit baking mix ½ cup butter 2 eggs 1 tablespoon white sugar 1 teaspoon salt 10 saltine crackers, or as needed Crushed ¼ cup bread crumbs Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. Fill a large pot with water and bring to a rolling boil. Add yellow squash, zucchini, and onion; bring back to a boil, and cook vegetables until tender,

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Recipes that highlight our ingredient of the month

about 15 minutes. Drain and transfer vegetables to a large bowl.

3. Mix cheddar cheese, baking mix, butter, eggs, sugar and salt with the cooked vegetables using a large spoon; stir until butter has melted and baking mix has dissolved. Fold crushed crackers into the mixture until the liquid has been absorbed.

Pour mixture into a 1 1/2-quart casserole dish; top with bread crumbs.

4. Bake in the preheated oven until topping is lightly browned and cheese is melted, 30 minutes.

Source: AllRecipes.com allrecipes.com/recipe/229936/cheesysquash-and-zucchini-casserole

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JUST ONE COOKBOOK

Butter “Nut” Craig

Ingredients:

4 tbsp dark rum 1 tbsp orange liqueur ½ tsp ground cinnamon 1 tbsp sugar ¼ cup butternut squash base* 1 tbsp Simple syrup 5 dashes Angostura bitters Juice of 2 lemon wedges Directions: 1. Combine the cinnamon and sugar in a shallow bowl. In a separate shallow bowl, add 1 tbsp of rum. Dip the rim of a double-rocks glass into the rum bowl followed by the cinnamon-sugar to coat, and set aside.

2. Add the butternut squash base, remaining 3 tbsp of rum,

orange liqueur, simple syrup, bitters and juice of 2 lemon wedges into a cocktail shaker filled with ice and stir, then shake until well-chilled.

3. Strain into the prepared glass. *Butternut squash base: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Combine 1/2 cup of butternut squash puree (or pumpkin puree), 2 tsp of brown sugar, 1 tsp of molasses and a pinch of salt. Strain the mixture through a finemesh sieve into a clean bowl.

Use immediately or store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

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MOVIES//TV//MUSIC Our guide to the month's notable releases MOVIES Battle of the Sexes Friday, September 22 A drama chronicling the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean and Bobby Riggs. Starring Emma Stone and Steve Carrell.

Home Again Friday, September 8 A recently separated mother of two starts a new life in Los Angeles, which is complicated by her decision to house three young, charismatic guys.

Flatliners Friday, September 29 Five medical students embark on a daring and dangerous experiment to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life.

Starring Ellen Page and Nina Dobrev.

TELEVISION American Horror Story: Cult Tuesday, September 5 The seventh season in FX's horror series. Little is known, officially, about the plot of this season, but judging by the trailers it will not be short on clowns.

The Deuce Sunday, September 10 HBO's new period drama, starring James Franco, chronicling the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s.

The Good Place Wednesday, September 20 The second seaons of NBC's fantasy comedy series that follows Eleanor Shellstrop's time in the afterlife, as she continues to try and become a better person... and get back to her life.

MUSIC Foo Fighters ­– Concrete and Gold Friday, September 15 Their ninth studio album, Concrete and Gold is where "hard rock extremes and pop sensibilities collide," according to the band.

Shania Twain – Now Friday, September 29 The fifth studio album by the Canadian is her first in 15 years. The single, "Life's About to Get Good" peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Country charts.

The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful Friday, September 22 The Mr. Brightside rockers are releasing their fifth studio album and first since 2012. Brandon Flowers told Rolling Stone, "The best way to put it is that I wanted to inhabit my age, so it's a snapshot – a true representation of where we're at."

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Come out to the fifth Annual Grilling & Gridiron to benefit The Lionheart School. Celebrate this longstanding tailgating tradition on the first day of SEC conference play.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Brought to you by the Atlanta producing partners of Memphis and In the Heights.

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Visit business.alpharettachamber.com 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Etowah Valley Sporting Clays 619 Sporting Hill Drive, Dawsonville, GA 30534

Bruno Mars, Mumford & Sons, Future and Blink-182 to headline.

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