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March 17, 2016 | Nor thFulton.com | An Appen Media Group Publ icat ion | 50¢ | Vo lume 20, No. 11
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Fulton Board of Education mem-ber Katha Stewart, left, watches as fifth-grader Nora Ewing demonstrates at the JCEC Enviroscape how wastewa-ter is recycled through the community and back into the river. JCEC Program Manager Debra Ewing looks on. Read more, Pages 14 – 15
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School enrollment projections on declineLow birth rate, high home prices at fault
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JCA committeemenhonored for memorial4 vets who honchoed Memorial Walk project receive special thanks
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More neighborhoodsgetting repavedSee who is on the list
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Rock palace to get noise ordinanceCity Council meets to tame loud music disturbing neighbors
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2 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com PUBLIC SAFETY
Alleged shoplifters found with $800 in garmentsALPHARETTA, Ga. — Two women, ages 18 and 20, were arrested March 1 for felony shoplifting from a Macy’s depart-ment store.
According to employees, the sus-pects left the fitting rooms with their purses bulging, which had not been bulging when they had entered. Police found a total of almost $800 worth of
clothing allegedly stolen. Both women were arrested for felony shoplifting.
While completing the arrest paper-work, police additionally found a fake Georgia driver’s license on one of the women, making her over 21. She was also charged with possession of false identification in addition to felony shop-lifting.
Man harasses churchgoers about love lifeJOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A complaint was filed March 1 by St. Brigid Catholic Church over a suspect’s frequent harass-ment of male and female churchgoers.
The man, who is known to church-goers, had been creating a disturbance,
and not for the first time.The complainant finally called the
police about the man after he had been seen frightening several women during adoration prayers and shouting about his life, divorce and why he could not get an annulment.
Despite the police’s quick response, the suspect had already left by the time they arrived.
The church insisted the case be documented as this was not the first time the man’s actions had been trou-blesome.
The suspect had been frequently disrupting services with his behavior and was becoming increasingly more bizarre with each incident.
No one desired to press charges at this time.
DUI arrests ► Tamara Cooke, 33, of Kennesaw,
was arrested Feb. 27 on South Main Street in Alpharetta for DUI, failure to maintain lane and headlight require-ment.
► Fnu Somvir, 26, of Autumn Wood Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested Feb. 22 on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane.
► Joseph Peter Rosales, 45, of Norwich Glen Way, Alpharetta, was arrested Feb. 13 on Greenhouse Drive in Roswell for DUI.
► Feliciano Cintron Jr., 22, of Greenhouse Drive, Roswell, was arrested Feb. 13 on Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell for DUI, failure to maintain lane and speeding.
► Jason Mark Acker, 28, of Inola Trail, Roswell, was arrested Feb. 13 on East Crossville Road in Roswell for DUI and failure to maintain lane.
Drug arrests ► Brandon Lamar Davis, 23, of
Loganville, was arrested Feb. 25 on Old
Milton Parkway in Alpharetta for pos-session of marijuana and possession of drug-related items.
► Kaitlyn Elyse Miller-Diaz, 22, of Villa Rica, was arrested Feb. 24 on Ga. 9 in Milton for possession of mar-ijuana.
► Derek Lee Myers, 45, of Atlanta, was arrested Feb. 13 on Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell for posses-sion of marijuana, suspended license, brake-light violation and wanted per-son.
► Joey Aaron Gee, 38, of Gainesville, was arrested Feb. 28 on Meadowbrook Drive in Gainesville for possession of methampheta-mines.
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Dad on pain meds arrested for child endangermentALPHARETTA, Ga. — A father was arrested for child endan-germent March 5 after he was seen parking off-center at a local Racetrac.
Alpharetta police originally responded to a report of a black SUV parked crookedly in the lot. The driver, identified as Norman Bercey of Roswell, 48, went into the store with his 5-year-old son, leaving a woman passenger in the car.
The woman, identified as Bercey’s wife, insisted that he had not consumed any alcohol, despite his constant sway-
ing and slurred speech. She went on to explain that the only reason he had been behind the wheel was because her bad corneas prevented her from driving at night.
Further questioning revealed that Bercey was on multiple pain medications, including morphine and Valium. Test-ing confirmed the presence of multiple drugs, but found no traces of alcohol. The pill bottles were found on his person.
Bercey was arrested for DUI with multiple substances and child endangerment.
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Pterygium is a noncancerous growth on the surface of the eye. It appears as a wing-shaped fl eshy growth that originates from the con-junctiva over the white part of the eye and extends into the cornea, the clear part of the eye. Also known as “surfer’s eye,” it can commonly occur in individuals who have prolonged exposure to sunlight, such as surfers, farmers, and construction workers. Besides UV light exposure, it is associated with windy and dusty exposure.
Individuals with pterygia can occasionally have no symptoms at all. These individuals can simply be observed but are advised to protect themselves from UV light with polarized sunglasses. Symptoms can include redness, foreign body sensation, irritation, itching, and also blurred vision. Blurred vision usually occurs due to distortion of the cornea’s shape or rarely due to visual obstruction by the pterygium itself.
Mild symptoms can be treated easily with the use of lubricating drops or artifi cial tears. For redness associated with infl ammation, your doctor may prescribe a short course of topical steroids. If the symp-toms remain persistent or cause blurred vision, surgical intervention is indicated.
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4 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com NEWS
By HATCHER [email protected] JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The city of Johns Creek finalized the purchase of the 133-acre Cauley Creek property when Mayor Mike Bodker signed on the dot-ted line at the March 9 closing.
The City Council made the decision to purchase the land for recreation and parks during a Nov. 16 council meeting. Add to that the 20 acres of parkland added in Technology Park and Johns Creek now has more than doubled its parkland to 300 acres.
“On behalf of the City Council, I am pleased that we have closed on this deal to ensure that, as Johns Creek continues to grow, our residents have increased park and green space amenities,” Bodker said. “By acquiring this property, we are addressing our residents’ desire to add recreational opportunities for the Johns Creek com-munity.”
Under the terms of the closing, Cauley Creek operator Ron Green will continue to maintain the facility for a period of one year.
During that time, the city will pur-sue possible water reuse purposes.
“If we can find a willing partner in water reuse for irrigation, it would be a huge boon for the companies in Johns
Creek that need a reli-able irrigation source,” Bodker said. “Reuse water is still important in Johns Creek.”
The city has never been a fan of Fulton County’s decision to sever its relationship with Cauley Creek to supply reuse water to
the city’s major users including large church campuses and golf courses.
Instead, Fulton agreed to use pota-ble water for irrigation instead at the old price, which has brought down the ire of the Georgia Environmental Pro-tection Division. Selling potable water to throw on lawns and golf courses put the county in direct opposition to state water policy.
In effect, it created a pricing division where drinking-water customers pay a higher price for treated water that is used as irrigation.
Fulton County “solved” that problem by abrogating its contracts with Johns Creek irrigation customers.
“You have very large water users in Johns Creek who employ a lot of people in jobs we need in this city,” Bodker said. “We want to keep that option open for us. Personally, I would like to see us restart the reuse program and expand
it.”Bodker said he is approached all the
time by potential water reuse custom-ers who were not a part of the program before but want to be reuse water users.
Meanwhile the bulk of the property will be used for recreation and open space for the benefit of the community. The purchase fills the top recommen-dation from the Recreation and Parks Strategic Plan to acquire at least one 100-plus acre tract of land.
“And it is a beautiful piece of land with frontage on the Chattahoochee River and is directly next to 40 acres of National Parks Service land, the Rogers Bridge Trail,” he said.
That gives the city “tremendous opportunities” to have use of 200 acres along the Chattahoochee for trails and other uses.
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... Personally, I would like to see us restart the reuse program and expand it.”MIKE BODKERJohns Creek mayor
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By HATCHER [email protected]
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Johns Creek City Council March 14 gave the go-a-head for round two of the city’s neigh-borhood repaving plan, amping up the plan to resurface 26 subdivisions between April and late fall.
Originally planned for just 12 subdivisions to be paved, Public Works Director Tom Black was able to pro-pose expanding to 26 now that the City Council increased funding for the project from $1.5 million to $5 million in the fiscal year 2016 budget. Another $1.2 million was allocated for paving outside of neighborhoods.
City officials calculate this acceler-ated approach to neighborhood repav-ing is projected to reduce the five-year citywide timeline by a year, from 2019 to 2018.
“We’re making a big dent in the pav-
ing,” Black said. ”This is the fun time.”Asked if Public Works will have time
to finish the ambitious schedule, Black said the department will do what it takes.
“Last year was extremely wet. It put
our schedule on delays. We just put more crews to work to catch up. We will just add more crews if we get delays again,” Black said.
2nd round of paving scheduled$5M allocated for subdivision streets
See PAVING, Page 43
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8 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com OPINION
Amenities and cachet and shock – a good kind of shock – were my first impressions when I walked into Lennar’s new City Walk apartments on Frazier Street in Roswell. Within 30 seconds I knew I liked this place. I was also able to
confirm a hunch I have been nurturing and processing for quite a while might just be right, or at least headed in the right direction.
The hunch is that we all have floated downstream and have just started to go over the falls. The stream is the status quo – our history and values, our expectations, our cultural orientation, how we live and how we perceive life around us. The “falls” is “change” in the form of the arrival of this huge generational bubble that in-cludes millennials but also the genera-tions bookending them.
Much of this “change” is obvious and tangible to us all. It manifests itself in many different ways, such as how these young generations travel — Uber — where they stay – AirBnB — and other things such as their career choices, work ethic and leisure prior-ities. Millennials are getting married later, renting instead of buying homes and fewer are buying automobiles. And almost every aspect of this genera-tional/demographic bubble impacts us in some way.
However, it can be difficult to see these macro trends. Often our limited frame of reference obscures it. Seeing and understanding these fundamen-tal trends is sort of like floating down the stream and hearing the roar in the background before you realize that the roar is the waterfall in front of you.
Most of us don’t hear the roar and connect its meaning until we are half-way over the falls. Understanding the noise in the background in context is the challenge.
Let me give you a specific, tangible example of that roar in the background but not connecting the dots in real time.
The example is how we generally view “apartments.” In Alpharetta and Roswell/North Fulton, I think it is fair to say that apartments are viewed in a negative light. It doesn’t matter if the apartments happen to be senior housing, upscale luxury apartments or, in this case, an amazing boutique apartment complex such as the in
ultra-high-demand City Walk serving a wide age range of generally upscale urban professionals. It is opposed out of hand.
Opposition to apartments is really opposition to “density” – the number of housing units permitted per acre. Housing density/multifamily housing is a political hot potato and a topic few politicians want to broach.
But here is the lack of connecting the dots. Times have changed. Needs have changed. But perceptions to a large degree have not.
Multifamily housing now makes more sense, a lot more sense than ever before. In fact is rapidly becoming a critical economic and social necessity because of the changing and undeni-able demographic trends right there under our noses. It’s the waterfall in front of us.
Case study: Think of how you currently feel
about apartments. Now, let me describe Roswell’s City Walk and see if it fits your view.
City Walk is in downtown Roswell off Frazier Street. Lennar Homes – one of the largest track builders of single-family homes in America – built City Walk. It was their second multifamily development; the first one was The Oaks at Johns Creek.
Lennar purchased an old apart-ment complex in Roswell and gutted it. Originally there were 150 apart-ments. From that they created 320 new units – 60 percent one-bedroom and 40 percent two-bedroom. They started leasing about 10 months ago and are 95 percent occupied. The average rent is $1,700 a month and the average apartment size is 1,030 square feet. The one-bedrooms average 687 square feet, which, to me, was startling. I would never have thought such a rela-tively small space could be adequate or, popular. Yet it is. And I believe the pop-ularity of small spaces is a marker that suggests changing tastes and values. An increasing number of people, and not just millennials, do not want the encumbrances of large houses — large utility bills, large tax bills, large mainte-nance bills and lots of chores.
The units have big balconies, ex-pansive kitchens, roomy closets, high ceilings, and attitude.
I waited in the common area to interview City Walk manager Chris Lee, a veteran apartment community manager, novelist and former marine sniper. He is a student of the Google/Pixar style of organizational manage-
ment “teams” — open, collaborative, transparent and fraternal.
I was greeted by every person who passed by, including a young His-panic woman in her 20s, an upbeat and pleasant maintenance man and a middle-aged woman with a New York accent in a workout suit.
She was headed to the expansive and amazingly equipped gym inside the common area (open 24/7)
Art adorned the walls everywhere and, from where I was sitting, I had a great view of a rather large pool in the courtyard. It was obvious that a talented decorator had done exten-sive work. The area was fresh, secure, bright, current and spotless. I honestly felt like I had just entered the Ritz or at least a place where “friendly, professional and accommodating” ruled.
“Maintain a social environment and operate in a trans-parent way – sort of like a restaurant where you can see the kitchen and all the cooking going on” is how Chris described his role and that of his staff.
“Everyone on the team engages with ev-eryone else – the res-idents and the staff. People are comfort-able with each other here and interact,” he said.
I asked about the age breakdown of the residents: • 25-or-under – 17
percent; • 26 to 37 – 40
percent; • 38 to 45 – 16
percent; • And the remaining
27 percent is 46 or older.
I was surprised at the wide range of ages and also by the higher percentage than I expected of “older residents.”
“Many of my older residents do not want to live in senior/adult-oriented communities,” he said. “They want to be able to mix with younger residents and be in a more dynamic environment. They strive for engagement.”
This didn’t sound like the apart-ments I know.
I asked about the domestic status
of his residents and then about profes-sions. I was in for more surprises.
“Single, middle-age divorced adults are a large part of the mix of tenants,” he said.
Another significant segment, ac-cording to Chris, consisted of HEALTH & WELLNESSers who want to downsize and simplify.
I thought about the size of the apartments and questioned him on this.
“They are done. They raised their family and now they just want to have their own personal space and their own time. They don’t need a large apartment for that. They don’t need a lot of stuff. Besides, for those who decide they want to keep a lot of their baggage, we have
on-premises storage units,” he said.
I asked him about families with children and he said there were almost none, although they were certainly welcomed.
Values and needs change. Demand for different housing – housing that meets new needs and prefer-ences.
According to Lennar Southeast Division President Christopher Cassidy, “Over the last 50 years, families with children have driven the housing market. Today, less than 25 percent of homes are owned by families with children.”
Cities that do not recognize and adapt to these demographic changes do so at great economic risk. If you do not have the housing that the mar-ket wants and needs,
buyers will move to a market that does. You must connect the dots.
“We also see an increasing percent of our residents work from home. That is a significant percentage of our resi-dents,” Chris told me.
I thought of all the vacant land in North Fulton currently zoned for large, big box office buildings and, again, about the opposition to the type of housing that seems to be most in demand.
Not your father’s apartments
See APARTMENTS, Page 44
... Maybe we should rezone some of that land currently zoned for large office buildings for new multifamily/mixed-use housing complexes – maybe lofts and mini campuses that offer centrally located living spaces adjacent to office and retail – think Avalon – that is what the market is demanding...
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10 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com OPINION
Ignoring MARTA expansion a no-win policy
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Though the MARTA expansion bill failed to make Crossover Day last month, a recent Kennesaw State Uni-versity survey of North Fulton residents reports that roughly 60 percent of those respondents agree with expanding MARTA in some way.
Johns Creek Mayor Bodker has criticized MARTA for rushing a plan forward and for not fiscally managing existing tax revenue well (which are fair points).
However, he also said that he does “recognize that MARTA must ultimately play a major part of the solution to our congestion problems in Atlanta.”
That indicates that the Johns Creek City Council is actively work-ing to identify the weaknesses in the bill. These counter negotiations with MARTA might indicate that perhaps Johns Creek legislators are receptive to a transit implementation, if it is done responsibly.
Last year my mother, now a Johns Creek resident and homeowner, experi-enced a medical event where she could not drive for six months. Suddenly the errands and appointments in both of our homes were condensed.
It was a jolt to realize how discon-nected you are in Johns Creek without a car.
Here in family-oriented Johns Creek, many of us are sorting out how to drive kids between activities, travel-ing for work, maybe looking after aging parents and planning for college educa-tions and retirements.
It could make a significant impact if Johns Creek had enough transit options that alleviated so much driving with fewer automobile expenses. For many, a reliable transit system could mean we could stay in our homes lon-ger as we age because the area around us was already adapted for an older
population. To affect these outcomes, we need
a successful transit solution sooner rather than later.
It will be another year before the bill can be reintroduced for North Fulton, but the interim provides a good op-portunity for North Fulton citizens to organize and voice their priorities for a responsible and productive transit implementation.
MARTA Army (www.martaarmy.org) is not part of MARTA but is a civic or-ganization of ordinary citizens helping to improve ridership in their own neigh-borhoods by adopting an area bus stop.
It is a first step to show support for transit in our community and provides a venue for North Fulton to voice our priorities.
If you are interested in helping influence how transit it implemented in our community, please consider joining the MARTA Army to help com-municate what we need to keep Johns Creek one of the state’s most desirable cities.
–Michael Atkinson, Johns Creek
... For many, a reliable transit system could mean we could stay in our homes longer as we age because the area around us was already adapted for an older population.
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By HATCHER [email protected]
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Everyone knows 37 Main rocks the house every week-end, but residents who live directly be-hind the music club on Medlock Bridge Road say that, when their homes liter-ally start to rock, it’s too much.
The Johns Creek City Council has decided to hold a special called meet-ing at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, to invoke a new noise ordinance that council members say will give the city some teeth to deal with excessive noise and vibration neighbors experience from 37 Main acts.
Councilwoman Stephanie Endres said the longstanding noise issues have gone on for 22 months, and the neigh-bors deserve some relief.
“It came to a head this weekend. They continue to endure noise that is not acceptable and we have to do some-thing,” Endres said.
Councilman Lenny Zaprowski agreed. He said the problem has gone on too long and citizens deserve relief.
“[37 Main] is a good place. People have fun there. But it is a situation that can’t coexist with those homeowners who have been there long before they were,” Zaprowski said.
Over many months, the city has tried to work out arrangements with the property owner and the club operators to bring down the noise level and the vibration that emanates from the club.
The city had been trying to solve the problem through enforcement of
its nuisance ordinances, which the city says is normally more effective and wider ranging than a noise ordinance. But since noise and vibration are the main issue, the City Council will enact a noise ordinance that will force the club to control the sound or face cita-tions.
Mayor Mike Bodker said it may not solve the problem this weekend, but it will start the fines and court action to follow if the operators do not comply.
Fixes discussed with the building owner, estimated at $125,000, could solve the noise problem, but likely would have little or no effect on the vi-bration. Bodker said it could mean the club will just have to shut down.
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It also would, with the restoration of the Rogers Bridge over the river, give residents access to more recreation property in Duluth.
“That would be a wonderful oppor-tunity,” he said.
The purchase price, which includes the Cauley Creek Water Reclamation Plant, is $152,500 per acre for a total of a little more than $20.3 million. As part of a partnership with Trust for Public Land, announced in January 2016, the
Trust for Public Land contributed $1.5 million toward the purchase price.
The Cauley Creek property lies in the eastern part of the city next to the Rogers Bridge Trail and the proposed Rogers Bridge connection to Duluth.
The future park is accessible from Bell Road and has significant frontage along the Chattahoochee River. The property is bordered to the west by Cauley Creek and to the east by the Rogers Bridge Trail.
The final park site plan has yet to be determined. Later this year, the city will begin to develop plans on how to utilize the parks. The public will be included in the process to help determine the final park layout.
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[37 Main] is a good place. People have fun there. But it is a situation that can’t coexist with those homeowners who have been there long before they were.”LENNY ZAPROWSKIJohns Creek councilmember
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Johns Creek Police Department is seeking re-accred-itation from the Commission on Accred-itation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), the gold standard for law enforcement professionalism.
Part of the on-site evaluation by a CALEA assessment team includes a public information session Tuesday, March 22, at 6 p.m. at the courtroom of the Johns Creek Police/Municipal Court complex, 11445 Johns Creek Parkway, Johns Creek.
Members of the community and JCPD employees unable to make the March 22 meeting are invited to offer comments by phone at 678-474-1545 on Sunday, March 20, 2016 between 2 and 4 p.m.
Telephone comments, as well as appearances at the public information session, are limited to 10 minutes and must address the JCPD’s ability to comply with CALEA’s standards.
Standards are available at the Johns Creek Police/Municipal Court complex. For more information, call Cheri Akselsen at 678-474-1575.
Written comments about the Johns Creek Police Department’s ability to meet the standards for advanced ac-
creditation should be sent to: Commis-sion on Accreditation for Law Enforce-ment, Inc. (CALEA), 13575 Heathcote Blvd. Suite 320, Gainesville, Va. 20155; or be emailed to [email protected].
The assessors are: retired Chief Bradford Conner of the Bowling Green, Ohio, Police Department and Synthia Nugent of the Wilmette, Illinois Police Department.
Johns Creek Police Department was first accredited by CALEA in 2010, two years after the department was founded. The agency is undergoing Advanced Accreditation using the Gold Standard Assessment Model.
“Accreditation by CALEA is verifica-tion for the public that we are meeting the high expectations and profession-alism required of the law enforce-ment profession” said JCPD Chief Ed Densmore. “We look forward to hearing comments from the public as we go through the process.
CALEA’s accreditation program requires law enforcement agencies to comply with more than 480 applicable state-of-the art standards in four basic areas: policy and procedures, adminis-tration, operations and support services.
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By HATCHER [email protected] ROSWELL, Ga. – Thousands of people drive by the Johns Creek Environmental Campus, most of them clueless that it is where all of the Johns Creek Basin’s sewage is treated every day. Even fewer know it is also the home of Dr. Robert E. Fulton Environmental Education Center through which almost 18,000 Fulton County Schools students have learned about the importance of clean water to the environment.
The environmental campus sits on a 100-acre site on Holcomb Bridge Road, though the facility takes up less than 10 acres. Inside the facility are classrooms for the education center that attracts busloads of students ages 8 to 18 to learn about the relationships that go into creating a clean water system that returns water drawn from the Chatta-hoochee River cleaner than when it was withdrawn.
Handling the educational arm of the facility are the two program managers, Debra Ewing and Cheryl McClellan. It is their job to teach students how water is drawn from the river, circulates through the community to carry away its waste, then treated through state-of-the-art microfiltration and returned to the river
or used for irrigation.And the programs Ewing and McClel-
lan teach must be on a level to appeal to 60 elementary students one day and four dozen teenagers the next.
“What we do in simplest terms is teach the students how drinking water and waste water is withdrawn from the river, then cleaned and returned to the river at a higher quality than when it came out,” Ewing said. “We also tell the students how and why we must protect the river.”
The water that comes through the facility – it is built to handle 15 million gallons a day – needs plenty of tender loving care as it wends its way back to
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Johns Creek Environmental Campus education program managers Debra Ewing, left, and Cheryl McClellan stand in front of the monthly schedule of student tours. Scarcely a day is open.
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the Chattahoochee.“So we teach the children about
FROG. That stands for fats, rags, oils and grease. Those things should never go into the toilet because they can clog the system,” Ewing said.
Rags are those disposable wipes that the manufacturers like to say can be flushed down the toilet.
They can, but the problem is they don’t dissolve in the water the way toilet paper does.
The campus has water-filled beakers filled with samples of “disposable” rags that have sat for five years and are still in one piece. Meanwhile a similar beaker contains day-old toilet paper that shreds at the touch of a wand.
“It demonstrates how those rags, grease and all of the FROG items can eventually clog the system, while simple toilet paper does not. It is important the public respects this and keeps those items out of the toilet,” she said.
Students who come in get a hands-on experience at the plant. First an age-ap-propriate video introduces the campus and explains the science behind mi-cro-organisms and the membrane tech-nology that scrubs the water clean.
An Enviroscape model town traces the path of water from the river through the
community to treatment and back to the river again.
“The younger ones really like to see where the poop goes,” Ewing said.
There is a tour of the plant and then the students put on white lab coats and goggles to become a “lab tech for a day.”
“It’s all about gaining an understand-ing and an appreciation for the process involved in keeping water sources clean,” Ewing said.
McClain says they call it, “Making a splash with outreach.”
The payoff for the staff comes when they see understanding dawn on young faces.
“They realize they are part of the eco-system, too, and what they do can make a difference,” McClellan said.
A group of 60 third-graders from Mountain Park Elementary School came to visit the campus March 9. Katha Stew-art, Fulton Board of Education District 1 member, lives just down the street from the school and decided she would make the tour also.
“As a parent, a PTA member and now a school board member, I thought I should see it for myself. It is important students and adults understand the im-portance of having clean water,” Stewart said.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A “lifestyle-centered community” is now open in South Forsyth County.
FrontDoor Communities and The Providence Group recently released a phase called Traditions with 49 new homesites for potential buyers.
“Traditions attracts both empty nesters and families because of its lifestyle-centered community,” said Irene Hall, vice president of sales and marketing for FrontDoor Communities. “This simply means a community inter-laced with pocket parks throughout the neighborhood, fostering friendships and casual gatherings. All homes connect with community amenities and the Big Creek Greenway.”
Community features include a lakefront community clubhouse, fishing lake, junior Olympic pool/children’s splash park, tennis courts and fitness facility.
Future plans include a neighbor-hood marketplace with pedestrian ac-cess, giving this community an intimate neighborhood appeal. Traditions is also adjacent to Fowler Park and close to Ga. 400.
“Buyers yearn for a neighborhood that enhances their opportunity to connect with neighbors, engage with a variety of amenity options and architec-ture that is as unique as they are,” Hall said. “Traditions offers all of this.”
FrontDoor Communities will offer a total of 12 plans for homebuyers to choose from, including multiple new plans, one of which features one-level living. FrontDoor’s homes at Traditions are priced from the $400,000s through
$600,000s and include four and five bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, and 3,110 to more than 4,000 square feet. Features found in these homes include front porches, formal dining rooms, open living areas, gourmet kitchens and expansive owner’s suites.
The Providence Group offers more than 12 new ranch and two- or three-story home designs that fea-ture three to six bedrooms and up
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NORTH FULTON, Ga. — Some will say I’m writing about this topic just so I can talk about beer. And that’s only mostly true. It’s almost spring. Baseball opening day is just around the corner. And the business of beer is alive and well in the north
metro area. There are three breweries located in
North Fulton and Forsyth counties. Je-kyll Brewing in Alpharetta is perhaps the largest, with its bottled beer easily found in almost any grocery store around Atlanta, and in other cities throughout the Southeast. Gate City Brewing opened last year at the end of Canton Street in Roswell, and Cherry Street Brewing Co-operative operates in the Vickery Village development in Cumming.
It seems like every city looking to create its own distinct sense of place also has a brewery. And why not? It’s a fan-tastic way for a city to get its brand out there. Folks can visit restaurants and drink locally made beers with names that occasionally refer to places in that city. For example, one of my favorite beers is Jekyll’s Big Creek Kolsch. It’s named after Alpharetta’s Big Creek, which hosts one of the city’s most popular amenities, the Big Creek Greenway. So it’s cool to be able to have that in Alpharetta. But it’s also cool that folks in Nashville are also drinking a beer named after a creek in Alpharetta.
Beer, and particularly craft beer, is becoming such a big business that the state House is actually looking at ways the state can help increase profitability for the industry in Georgia. This is a big deal for a state that until only a few years ago didn’t allow alcohol sales on Sunday. Alcohol is a sensitive issue for lawmakers in the more rural parts of Georgia.
Craft beer is booming in metro At-lanta, though. Just last week architect Eric Kronberg, along with the property owner, pitched a 23-acre beer garden along a soon-to-be-opened section of the Atlanta BeltLine. I had a short back-and-forth with him, and his vision is to have several breweries on the property with seating for beer tastings. The property in southwest Atlanta is in an area city leaders and the Atlanta BeltLine officials have been trying to revive over the last several years. Kronberg sees beer as a way to help do that.
In case you have not noticed it, growler shops are popping up in most downtown areas, too. A growler is a glass bottle that consumers can have filled to take home. The growler stores have a collector-type feel where consumers come in and can taste several brews before choosing one to purchase.
A shop in downtown Woodstock has taken the growler concept a step fur-ther by combining it with another cool trend: food trucks. Zach Yurchuck, who operates the Barrel and Barley, took over another location in the old section of downtown Woodstock and opened the Truck and Tap.
It’s a nifty concept where, inside, you have a long bar and a room with long, wooden tables. Out back, he rents space to a different food truck every night. So a customer could go out, get food from the food truck, then come inside, order a beer and sit down to eat. As a business model it makes a lot of sense. It’s kind of a restaurant, but without the hassle of having to run a kitchen. And he’s making his money on what most restaurants say is their bread and butter — the alcohol.
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ATLANTA — While housing has risen from the ashes of record foreclosures, the ability of first-time homebuyers to enter the market is dwindling, accord-ing to two key observers of the Georgia housing sector.
John Hunt, senior analyst at ViaSearch and Smart Numbers, and Frank Norton Jr., CEO and chairman of Norton Holdings, said affordable hous-ing is not meeting demands brought on by job and population growth in Geor-gia. The disparity is especially evident along the state’s major market centers.
Speaking at the February Economic Forecasting Center Conference at Georgia State University, Hunt outlined a “new normal,” in which housing mar-kets fluctuate in price and availability.
One example he cited was in South Forsyth County, in the Lambert High School area. In 2013, he said, builders were constructing homes on distressed lots, with 253 closings at an average price of $348,000.
“In one year, the price jumped almost $100,000, and we sold more homes,” he said.
The market in the suburbs, Hunt said, is driven mostly by school dis-tricts, and housing prices can be directly tied to SAT scores.
“There’s an absolute correlation be-tween home price and test score,” Hunt said. “We know that intuitively.”
Three years ago, a person could find a nice home in a good school district in Cobb and Gwinnett for un-der $300,000, Hunt said. And as the cheap, distressed lots dried up, prices increased, but incomes did not.
In Cobb, people can choose to move south, where the SAT scores are lower and houses are less expensive, or, he said, they can move across the county
line to North Paulding High School, which is what many are doing.
“What it is, basically, is A-plus Paulding is competing head-to-head with C and D Cobb,” Hunt said.
The same is true in Gwinnett, he said. A-plus Hall is vying with areas of Gwinnett where SAT scores are below the county average.
“Cobb and Gwinnett have some of the best school districts in the state
and some of the worst in the same county,” he said. “As your SAT score goes up, so does your home price. So, it makes it pretty easy to decide where you need to be building.”
At the same conference, Norton pointed out that Georgia has seen tremendous job growth in recent years, but incomes have not kept up with housing costs.
There is equal amount of industrial and office and business growth out-side Atlanta as inside the Perimeter, he said. It may not be the same numbers, but the individual locations are spread across the state.
There is tremendous growth in the Columbus area, driven by the Kia plant and its suppliers. Growth is also evident in Savannah, where activity at the ports is increasing. Other major growth areas include Augusta, with its health care industry and new National Security Agency cryptologic facility at Fort Gordon, and along I-85 north of Atlanta.
“Affordability is not just an At-lanta problem, it’s a Georgia problem,” Norton said. “What we are having is a tremendous amount of industrial growth in certain corridors. And, those corridors have certain characteristics.”
The Dalton area, where the carpet industry is rebounding, is primarily manufacturing, while the I-85 corridor has become light assembly, transporta-tion and logistics, he said. Valdosta is becoming a haven for retirement, with growing needs for assisted living and health care.
“Each one of these is dependent on
housing, and each one of these has a shortage of housing,” Norton said. “If metro Atlanta today has roughly a 5.5 months’ supply of housing, the entire state of Georgia has a 7.5 month’s supply.”
The same characteristics of lack of housing growth, lack of new con-struction that is prevalent in Atlanta is happening in all these communities, Norton said. This condition has led to a spike in home prices.
“House construction costs have in-creased 40 percent since 2007,” he said.
Norton gave the example of the I-85 corridor, where transportation, logistics and light assembly prevail.
“We need to build workforce hous-ing,” he said. “Because we have a lack of workforce housing, communities like Hall County become the bedroom community where there is housing, and (employees) are driving over to this corridor, 20-30 miles.”
Not only is there a lack of appropri-ate housing, Norton added, but there is an anti-apartment mood in these marketplaces.
“No one is going to drive from Co-lumbus, where they can buy a house for $134,000 and work in Atlanta,” he said. “We’re projecting that affordable housing – houses under $174,000 – will evapo-rate by the year 2020 in metro Atlanta. You only have a 2.2 months’ supply of houses under $175,000 today, so evapo-ration could very well be next year.”
Recent data from Georgia Power shows 12.2 million square feet of avail-able industrial space in the upper I-85 corridor (Jackson, Madison, Banks, Hart and Franklin counties). In the Dalton area north of Cartersville, the number is 5.9 million square feet, and there is 4.4 million square feet of avail-able industrial space in the ports area near Savannah.
“That translates into employment,” Norton said. “So the 12.2 million could translate into between 4,000 and 10,000 new employees locating in that (I-85) corridor. Where are they going to live?”
Affordability along that corridor is still around $145,000, but there is no construction engine to support the in-dustrial footprint that exists, he said.
“My concern is our industrial is out-pacing the ability to house the indus-trial workers,” Norton said.
The solution would be to have a market that is building both the indus-trial space and building a housing in-frastructure to support workers moving into those areas, Norton said.
“But we don’t have that opportunity without a housing component tied to it,” he said.
Affordable housing fast becoming matter of distanceGeorgia average single-familydetached sale price2011 $162,2202012 $154,6622013 $203,0902014 $223,3002015 $247,000
Note: Average statewide prices are heavily affected by the metro Atlanta region.
Source: The Norton Agency
Average price of homes sold in 2015Albany $122,500Atlanta $236,250Athens $145,000Augusta $148,000Columbus $114,400Dalton $108,000Macon $125,500Rome $109,787Savannah $178,500Valdosta $119,000
Source: The Norton Agency
Cobb and Gwinnett have some of the best school districts in the state and some of the worst in the same county, ... As your SAT score goes up, so does your home price. So, it makes it pretty easy to decide where you need to be building.”JOHN HUNTSenior analyst at ViaSearch and Smart Numbers
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BANKING: Coldwell Banker announces new branch managerALPHARETTA, Ga. — Mary McPherson, manager of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Alpharetta office for over 15 years, announced March 7 her plans to retire. Under McPherson’s management, the Alpharetta office was recognized as the No. 1 branch in the Atlanta metro area for the past four consecutive years and was also named a President’s Council office for nine years. Kathy Weeks has been named the new branch manager of the Alpharetta office. Weeks will lead approximately 95 independent sales associates and brings nearly 20 years of experience in real estate.Weeks can be contacted by phone at 770-642-0399 or by email at [email protected].
HEALTH CARE: Emory Johns Creek Hospital kudos for medication reconciliation improvementsJOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Emory Johns Creek Hospital
recently earned a second-place award for its work in medication reconciliation, to prevent adverse drug events from occurring.
EJCH accepted the Georgia Hospital Association award at the Georgia Partnership for Health and Accountability Quality and Patient Safety Awards on Jan. 6. The 2015-16 recognition was in the category of hospitals with 100 to 299 beds.
This year, EJCH projects the medication recon-ciliation program will allow them to prevent over 1,000 adverse drug events in the inpatient setting.
Morrow Family Medicine announces expansion to MiltonMILTON, Ga. —Morrow Family Medicine doctor’s office is expanding from Forsyth into nearby Mil-ton. Since opening in Cumming in 1998 under the direction of Dr. James R. Morrow, Morrow Fam-ily Medicine has added staff to handle a growing patient load. The expansion into Milton, in fact, is in response to an increasing number of patients coming to the clinic.
“Our patients are the reason we are here today and the reason we are expanding,” Morrow said. “We treat people like family when they come to us and they have responded in kind. Because of their consistent support, we are able to grow to reach and help even more people.”
The office received the 2015 Best of Forsyth Award for family medicine, selected by the Cumming community.
Dr. Cheryl McGowan and Dr. Patrick Kindregan will be joining the office within the next few months. McGowan, who recently completed a residency at Wake Forest, will work in the Milton office. Kin-dregan will work in the Cumming office. He is currently chief resident at Family Medicine Resi-dency in Rome. For more information about Morrow Family Medicine, visit www.morrowfammed.com.
PT 360 office opens in Johns CreekJOHNS CREEK, Ga. – David Mesnick, PT, OCS, cMDT, has opened PT 360, a physical therapy clinic, in Johns Creek as well as another location in Sandy Springs.
PT 360 is a “concierge level” physical therapy center. The practice establishes a supportive re-lationship with patients that, in conjunction with their treatment approach, is designed to produce “extraordinary” outcomes. The clinics offer each pa-tient individualized programs to effectively address orthopedic and sports medicine problems.
“We at PT 360 look forward to serving the north Atlanta and Johns Creek areas,” Mesnick said. “This is an exciting venture where we will coordinate care with Atlanta’s finest sports medicine and orthopedic physicians to deliver concierge level physical ther-apy to our patients.”
To learn more about PT 360 or schedule an ap-pointment, visit www.pt360atl.com or call 770-225-8860.
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ROSWELL, Ga. – Who knew hanging around the water cooler is actually healthier for employees?
Sometimes it is the simplicity of a small change in habit that results in a healthier lifestyle. This is what well-ness specialist and account manager Marla Mohr found when she issued a water-drinking challenge in 2015 to employees of Alpharetta-based BIS Benefits Inc.
That program helped win the top spot in the small company category of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Healthiest Employers Awards.
“We encourage all the employees to get up and stretch, drink water and eat healthy as well as walk around the building at least once a day,” Mohr said. “The company also provides healthy snacks including water and fresh fruit. The company encourages flu shots, dental and vision exams, yearly medical exams, eating healthy and learning more about how to stay healthy.
“Not only do all these challenges and changes get us healthy, but it is
good for morale as we work together to achieve healthy goals.
“Making a wellness program fun and creative is a necessity, as is offer-ing incentives. Even if it is something small such as a $5 gift card, you need it to get attention,” Mohr said. “You can have your employees donate a dollar a week to participate in a challenge, and whoever wins that challenge wins all the contributed money.”
The wellness program has had an impact.
“You will hear discussions in our office about how much better our employees feel and we have had less absenteeism and sickness, as well.” Mohr said.
BIS client service specialist Mary West said the program has given her motivation and structure to achieve her goals of good health and an active lifestyle. “Our quarterly wellness chal-lenges provide opportunities to develop a healthy lifestyle in a fun, encouraging way. Also, because we are involved in the program year-round, the changes I have made have become a part of
my daily life without even a second thought.”
Jerry Orlans, BIS benefits consul-tant, said, “At BIS, we bring a variety of outside resources to help our clients, including wellness programs.”
Ray Bachman, BIS founder and
president, said establishing healthy living among the company’s clients is what BIS is all about.
“As the old saying goes, ‘You must import to export.’ We promote wellness to our clients by challenging ourselves to do the same,” Bachman said.
BIS Benefits named Atlanta’s healthiest small employerBusiness Chronicle tabs Roswell companyFor putting healthy choices in workplace
Accepting BIS Benefits’ Healthiest Employer Award from the Atlanta Business Chronicle are, from left, Betsy Orrin, Marla Mohr and Ray Bachman.
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THE IRISH BROTHERS AT AUTREY MILL The Irish Brothers will perform for the Autrey Mill Unplugged concert series. Saturday, March 19, 7 p.m. Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center, 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns Creek. Visit autreymill.org for more info.
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CELEBRATE EASTER AT SAVE THE HORSES What: Come out to the Save the Horses farm to celebrate Easter and horses with an Easter egg hunt, hay rides, pony rides and more. When: Saturday, March 19, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.Where: Save the Horses Farm, 1768 Newt Green Road, CummingMore info: savethehorses.org
UNION HILL EASTER EGG HUNTWhat: Egg hunts, inflatables, free pictures with the Easter Bunny, prizes and more.When: Saturday, March 19, 2-4 p.m.When: Union Hill Church, 4250 McGin-nis Ferry Road, AlpharettaMore info: unionhillalpharetta.com
AMERICAN LEGION EASTER EGG HUNTWhat: American Legion Post 201 Auxil-iary Unit 201’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt for ages 1-10.When: Saturday March 19, noonWhere: 201 Wills Road, AlpharettaMore info: legion201.org
MAUNDY THURSDAY BIBLICAL MEALWhat: Dr. James Fleming returns to Birmingham United Methodist Church to present a biblical meal, a visual of Jesus’ last night with his disciples. When: Thursday, March 24, 6:45 p.m.Where: Birmingham United Methodist Church, 15770 Birmingham Highway, MiltonCost: $15More info: Birminghamumc.org
EVENTS:JOHNS CREEK RESTAURANT WEEKWhat: The first Johns Creek Restaurant Week will feature special offers at 22 participating restaurants. When: March 14-20Where: Throughout Johns CreekMore info: Download the Restaurant Week app at johnscreekadvantage.org
VEGETABLE GARDENING – THE BASICSWhat: A class for those new to grow-ing vegetables or anyone wanting to increase their garden’s bounty, con-ducted by the UGA Extension in Fulton County and the North Fulton Master Gardeners. When: In Roswell, Tuesday, March 15, 7- 8:30 pm. In Alpharetta, Wednesday, March 16, 7-8:30 pm.Where: Roswell classes: Bill Johnson Community Activity Building in Roswell Area Park, 10495 Woodstock Road. Al-pharetta classes: Alpharetta City Hall, 2 Park Plaza.More info: www.roswellgov.com; for Alpharetta, call 678-297-6200.
LUCK OF AVALONWhat: The second annual Luck of Av-alon will be an evening of Irish music, dancing and green beer. When: Wednesday, March 17, 4 p.m.Where: Avalon, 2200 Avalon Blvd., AlpharettaMore info: experienceavalon.com
HIGHLAND MANOR SPRING MARKETWhat: Shop for handcrafted jewelry, art and other gifts with local artisans and vendors.When: Friday, March 18, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Highland Manor Club House, 15890 Milton Point, Milton Cost: FreeMore info: facebook.com/events/1655892754661788
MILTON INDOOR DRUMLINE & WINTER GUARD EXHIBITIONWhat: The Milton High School Exhibi-tion, featuring the 2016 Indoor Drum-line, Varsity Winter Guard and Cadet Winter Guard, along with a special performance by Atlanta Quest Indepen-dent Indoor Drumline.When: Friday, March 18, 7 p.m.Where: Milton High School Gymna-sium, 13025 Birmingham Highway, MiltonCost: $7 adults, $5 Students; includes all performances and a dessert barMore Info: miltonband.org
PUTTING ON THE GLITZ FUNDRAISERWhat: Sawnee Woman’s Club will host their 31st annual fundraiser, Putting on the Glitz.When: Saturday, March 19, 7-11 p.m.Where: Three Chimneys Farm Club-house, 3625 Three Chimneys Lane, CummingMore info: sawneewomansclub.orgRoswell Kiwanis Spring K Classic What: Sixth annual Spring K Classic 5K and 10K run, benefitting the club’s college scholarship program for local high school seniors.When: Saturday, March 19, 7:45 a.m. Where: Sweet Apple Elementary School, 12025 Etris Road, RoswellMore info: roswellkiwanis.org
BATMAN VS SUPERMAN DAYWhat: Batman vs Superman Day cele-brates the upcoming release of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” When: Saturday, March 19, 7 p.m. trivia eventWhere: Barnes & Noble Alpharetta, 7660 North Point Parkway, AlpharettaMore info: 770-993-8340
‘THE MESSENGER’ SCREENINGWhat: Atlanta Audubon is partnering with Chattahoochee Nature Center to screen the songbird documentary, “The Messenger.”When: Saturday, March 19, 5:30 p.m.Where: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellMore info: chattnaturecenter.org/adults/ongoing-programs/
DOC HOLLIDAY EXPERT AT BARRINGTON HALLWhat: Award-winning Georgia author Victoria Wilcox will present “Doc Holli-day: Man, Myth & Movies” at Barring-ton Hall. When: Saturday, March 19, 10 a.m.Where: Barrington Hall, 535 Barrington Drive, RoswellCost: $5, brunch and talk More info: 770-640-3855 or email [email protected]
FORSYTH’S GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUPWhat: Help Keep Forsyth County Beau-tiful remove litter from the community’s roadways as part of the Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup.When: Saturday, March 19, 9 a.m.Where: Central Park Recreation Cen-ter, 2300 Keith Bridge Road, CummingMore info: Preregister by March 17 at keepforsythcountybeautiful.org
WATER DROP DASH 5K AND FESTIVALWhat: The 4th annual Water Drop Dash 5K encourages metro Atlanta residents to conserve water. When: Saturday, March 19, 8 a.m. Where: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell More info: chattnaturecenter.org
RELAY FOR LIFE CAR SHOWWhat: Forsyth County School Food and Nutrition Services’ annual Relay for Life Car Show to benefit the American Cancer Society.When: Saturday, March 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.Where: Forsyth County Board of Education Building, 1120 Dahlonega Highway, CummingMore info: southeastwheelsevents.com/
WILL TO WIN 5K/1KWhat: This Peachtree qualifier will benefit the Will Abernathy Fund to cure childhood cancer.When: Saturday, March 19, 7-10 a.m. Where: Fowler Park on the Greenway, 410 Carolene Way, CummingMore info: active.com
MILTON FOOTBALL KICKOFF CELEBRATIONWhat: Milton football kickoff event for ris-ing 6th- 12th-grade football players, JV and varsity cheerleaders and families.When: Sunday, March 20, 6 p.m.Where: Milton High School Gymna-sium, 13025 Birmingham Highway, MiltonMore info: miltoneaglesfootball.com
HIGH HEELS & HIGH TIMESWhat: High Heels High Times will raise funds for the Junior League of Gwin-nett and North Fulton Counties’ charity programs. When: Sunday, March 20, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Where: Alpharetta Marriott, 5750 Wind-ward Parkway, AlpharettaCost: $50.More info: jlgnf.org
THE MAGIC OF STARS IN STARLABWhat: See nature like you’ve never seen it before inside the Chattahoochee Na-ture Center’s inflatable planetarium. When: When: Sunday, March 20, 1-2 p.m. Where: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellMore info: chattnaturecenter.org
MILTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE TAX TALKWhat: Milton Business Alliance’s annual tax talk with tips for business owners.When: Tuesday, March 22, 6-8 p.m.Where: Providence Bank 4955 Wind-ward Parkway, AlpharettaMore info: miltonbusinessalliance.com
NORMAN’S LANDING PING PONG TOURNAMENT What: Norman’s Landing will host its annual Spring Charity Ping Pong Tour-nament to benefit Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.When: March 22-23, 7 p.m.Where: Norman’s Landing, 365 Peach-tree Parkway, CummingEntry fee: $25More info: normanslanding.com
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There’s great news for Georgia’s anglers. The white bass are here again!
Georgia’s white bass runs, like rob-ins in the yard and new leaves on trees, really are that pro-verbial harbinger of spring. My dad always said that,
here in northern Georgia, these bass show up in rivers and creeks about the time the dogwoods bloom. Warming water cues these fish to move up from lakes to spawn in feeder streams, and when that happens the numbers of fish in the rivers can be truly astounding. Fish of a half pound to 2 or 3 pounds are the norm, though larger ones are occasionally encountered, too.
The white bass run is all about water temperature. The key is a water temp in the mid 50s, and thanks to warmer-than-usual temperatures, white bass are already on the move and are already being reported by anglers across the state.
Their arrival is more than enough to put a smile on any angler’s face.
Where can you fish for these scrappy fighters? Start by looking for them in the rivers and streams that feed large lakes. In this neck of the woods, look for good white bass fishing in the rivers and streams feeding Lake Allatoona (Etowah and Little River) and Lanier (the Chestatee and the Chattahoochee). Also check out the Coosa River (and, of course, the Oostanaula and Etowah, which join to form the Coosa), which feeds Alabama’s Lake Weiss – some con-sider the Coosa run to be one of the best you’ll ever find. They’re in many, many other river systems across the state, too. It really is a tremendous opportunity for anglers of all ages.
No matter which river system you explore, you’ll find that the white bass tend to congregate below shoals, near the mouth of creeks, near large brush piles, close to sandbars, or near any other obstruction that breaks the flow
of the stream. Such areas can hold large numbers of fish at the peak of the runs, so don’t be surprised to find them crowded with anglers at times.
As the runs begin, you may only catch one or two in a day … and then four or five … and then 10 or 20 or — well, at some point you just stop counting and fish!
What will you need to fish for white bass? Spinning enthusiasts will do well with small (2- to 3-inch) white-colored minnow imitations. In-line spinners will do the job; so will simple white jig heads outfitted with a curly tail grub. If you’re fly fishing, try bright and flashy streamers such as the Rolex or the Hudson streamer. A white Bream Buster tied on a size 6 or 8 hook will work, too. You want fairly heavy flies so they’ll get down into the lower half of the water column.
Whether spin fishing or fly fishing, a little red or chartreuse on the lure never hurts when white bass are the quarry. And the technique is straight-forward and simple, requiring nothing more elaborate than a steady and moderate retrieve.
White bass are great fish to go af-ter with your kids; all that young an-glers will need to have a great chance at success is a basic spinning rod and some grub tail jigs or spinners. In many areas, including the Little River at Olde Rope Mill Park, it’s possible to fish from shore – just the thing to set the stage for a young angler’s first white bass adventure and some mem-ories that will last a lifetime.
The white bass action will continue on into April before the fish return to the depths of the lakes. But while it’s on, it offers a great opportunity for some unforgettable fishing.
Be sure to say hello if you see me on the river. For the next few weeks, odds are I’ll be out there somewhere every chance I get. And holler if you hook a big one. I’ll come running and take your picture!
Steve Hudson has written numer-ous books on travel and outdoor recre-ation, Visit www.chattahoocheemedia.com for more info.
STEVE HUDSONGet Outside Georgia, Chattahoochee Media Group
White bass mean unforgettable fishing fun!
AUTHOR SIGNING: ‘LAWYER GAMES’ What: Dep Kirkland, the chief deputy district attorney in the “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” murder case, will discuss the true story behind the case.When: Thursday, March 24, 7 p.m.Where: Barnes & Noble Alpharetta, 7660 North Point Parkway, AlpharettaMore info: 770-993-8340
MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER:STUDIO WEST PRESENTS DISNEY’S ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’What: Featuring a live orchestra, West Forsyth High School’s Studio West Productions will present the Disney musical, “The Little Mermaid.”When: Through Sunday, March 20, 7:30 nightly with a 3 p.m. matinee March 20Where: West Forsyth High School Audi-torium, 4155 Drew Road, CummingMore info: studiowestproductions.org Alpharetta High School’s ‘Legally Blonde, The Musical’What: Alpharetta High School’s theater and music department will present, “Legally Blonde, The Musical.”When: March 17-20, times varyWhere: Alpharetta High School, 3565 Webb Bridge Road, AlpharettaMore info: alphatheatre.com
‘YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN’ BY MILTON THEATRE COMPANYWhat: Milton High School’s award-win-ning theater program will present “Young Frankenstein.”When: March 17-19 and March 25-26 at 7 p.m. Where: Milton High School, 13025 Birmingham Highway, MiltonMore info: miltontheatrecompany.com
ACTING TROUPE OF LAMBERT’S ‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’What: Come back to the Jazz Age with this musical, “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”When: March 17-19, times varyWhere: Lambert High School Audito-rium, 805 Nichols Road, SuwaneeMore info: atldrama.com/shows-and-tickets/
‘SNOW WHITE’ BY ATLANTA DANCE THEATREWhat: Atlanta Dance Theatre presents Winthrop Corey’s “Snow White,” a fresh take on the classic fairy tale. When: Friday, March 18, 7:30 p.m. March 19, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., RoswellMore info: atlantadancetheatre.org
RUMC’S ‘STEEL MAGNOLIAS’ What: Acting UP, a drama ministry of Roswell United Methodist Church, will present “Steel Magnolias.”When: Friday, March 18, 6:30 p.m.
dinner theater. Shows also March 19 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Where: RUMC, 814 Mimosa Blvd., RoswellMore info: rumcActingUp.webs.com
ROWDY FUN COMES TO PLAYHOUSE What: Frank Morrow and his Hanks Williams Jr. tribute band, All My Rowdy Friends, will perform two shows.When: March 19, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.Where: The Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St., CummingMore info: playhousecumming.com
VIBRANT PAINTING WITH COLORED PENCIL WORKSHOPWhat: Discover the potential of both non-watercolor and water-soluble col-ored pencils. When: March 19-20, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. both days. Where: Johns Creek Arts Center, 10700 State Bridge Road, Johns Creek More info: johnscreekarts.org
SEDGWICK GALLERY SPRING ART SHOWWhat: Three artists new to Sedgwick Gallery — Kimberly Bisger, Art Mc-Naughton and Phyllis Sullivan — will be welcomed with a reception and show.When: Saturday, March 19, 7-10 p.m.Where: Sedgwick Gallery, 61 Roswell St., AlpharettaMore info: sedgwickgallery.com RUMC’s ‘The Tale of the Three Trees’ What: The Roswell United Methodist Church Worship Arts on Wednesdays Elementary Choirs will perform “The Tale of the Three Trees.”When: Thursday, March 24, 7 p.m.Where: RUMC, 814 Mimosa Blvd., Roswell More info: rumc.com/Easter
LIBRARY EVENTS:For a complete list of North Fulton events, go to afpls.org/eventsFor a complete list of Forsyth events, go to forsythpl.org/event-Calendar/eventCalendar.aspx
LIBRARY EASTER EGG HUNTWhat: A family-friendly Easter Egg Hunt inside the library. When: Saturday, March 19. 2 p.m.Where: Roswell Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: 770-640-3075
PET ADOPTIONS:FORSYTH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERWhat: Pet adoptions When: Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: The Forsyth County Animal Shelter, 4065 County Way, Forsyth CountyMore info: 678-965-7185
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Sports and mental health: What you should knowBy Paolo del Vecchio, MSW
(NAPSI)—For many participants, team sports are more than just a game. In fact, a growing body of research sup-ports the idea that physical exercise is associated with decreasing the risk of depression and reducing its symptoms.
Participating in athletics has many benefits, such as building fitness, teamwork and self-confidence. Further, participating in sports or fitness activ-ities with others aligns with two of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) major dimensions of recovery—health and community.
However, athletics can also involve risk. Throughout the seasons of pro-fessional, collegiate, high school and amateur athletics, fans keep their fin-gers crossed that players will make it through the season without an injury.
One issue receiving a great deal of attention is the connection between concussions and depression. Numer-ous athletes with histories of con-cussion have spoken out about their depression, and this problem is not limited to professional athletes, who get paid millions of dollars to put their health on the line. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention (CDC), young athletes—both male and female—suffer concussions in many different sports. One study examining data from over 30,000 ado-lescents found that concussions were associated with a 3.3-fold increase in the risk of depression.
Athletes are also at risk of prescrip-tion drug misuse, which can lead to addiction and misuse of other drugs. A recent Sports Illustrated special report introduced readers to several young athletes who had initially used prescription pain medications, then became dependent and moved on to using heroin. The article chronicled the life of one young man, a three-sport star in high school, who eventu-ally died from a drug overdose.
Fortunately, help is available. At the high school and college level, SAMHSA supports programs like the Safe Schools/ Healthy Students and Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention initiatives. Athletics programs offer their own support, but too often, ath-letes are unwilling to ask for help until it is too late.
By sharing their stories, athletes are helping to raise awareness that it is okay to seek help. Professional foot-
ball star Brandon Marshall is an exam-ple of an athlete who has the cour-age to speak out publicly about his experiences with mental illness, and his foundation funds early intervention programs to help identify at-risk youth and build resilience. In 2012, SAMHSA presented Marshall, along with several other athletes, with Voice Awards for their efforts.
In addition, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) offers a helpful publication, “Mind, Body and Sport: Understanding and Support-ing Student-Athlete Mental Wellness,” which includes the stories of athletes and coaches who have personally struggled with mental and substance use problems. The publication encour-ages coaches, athletic trainers, and teammates to be aware of problems and offer support.
However, many people don’t know what to look for or how to help. That’s why SAMHSA supports initiatives like The Campaign to Change Direction, which educates people about five signs of distress: withdrawal, agitation, hopelessness, decline in personal care, and change in personality. Knowing the signs means we can watch out for ourselves and for the people around us, be it our family, our friends or our teammates.
Working together is important, not just on the field or court, but in the game of life.
To learn more about the links between athletics and mental health, visit http://blog.samhsa.gov/2015/09/09/sports-and-mental-health/#.VgrfgvlVhBc.
Paolo del Vecchio is the Director, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Throughout the seasons of professional, collegiate, high school and amateur athletics, fans keep their fingers crossed that players will make it through the season without an injury.
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Alpharetta High Orchestra achieves highest marksALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Georgia Music Educators Association recently released its scores for its District V Large Group Performance Evaluation. The Al-pharetta High School Sinfonia and Symphony Strings both received the highest possible rating of superior with both Chamber and Philharmonia closely follow-ing, with an excellent rating. Immediately following the LGPE performance, all AHS musicians partici-pated in a music sight-reading evaluation, receiving
the highest rating of superior. The LGPE program is an evaluation process for
musical performance and sight-reading abilities for orchestras and their teachers. The LGPE affords valu-able opportunity and motivation for student learning during an extended period of time prior to the event as part of regularly scheduled school work. The judges are recognized authorities in the field of music education and provide a written and/or oral critique.
The success of the LGPE performance was pre-ceded in January by the AHS Symphony Orchestra invitation-only performance at the GMEA in-service conference in Athens, where selected orchestras and bands from the entire state performed for the leading music educators in Georgia. The AHS orchestra will also be performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 25. The AHS orchestras are directed by Sheldon Fisher.
The Alpharetta High School Symphony Orchestra wins the highest possible rating of superior from the Georgia Music Educators Association.
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‘Sew many quilts, sew little time’
By KATHLEEN [email protected]
ROSWELL, Ga. — Quilters and fans of quilts alike nearly unraveled at the sight of 200-plus quilts at the 35th annual Bulloch Hall Quilt Show.
The show, hosted by the Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild March 4-13, was unique, according to one of the co-chairs, Sharyl Hess Dawes.
“A lot of quilt shows are like con-tests,” Dawes said. “People go in to be judged on their skill and they get a review sheet back telling you did this wrong, or improve that. We’re the oppo-site. We encouraged everyone to enter. We even have a children’s show. Ours is more educational and taking it to the next generation.”
History was on full display in the show, from quilts started in the 1800s to the show’s setting in historic Bulloch Hall.
“The venue attracts people,” Dawes said. “It’s a more historic setting. It’s a twofer in that you get to see the house and the quilts.”
Quilters were encouraged to attach stories to their quilts, which is how spectators knew they were viewing a few quilts started by family members and recently finished by relatives who quilt.
Visitors voted on a Viewer’s Choice Award quilt, and the BHQG chose a
Guild Choice Award winner, too. This year’s Guild Choice winner was titled “Star Crazy” by Dianne Cannestra.
“I hand pieced six pointed stars from the ‘Fussy Friday’ star kit from Te-mecula Quilting Co.” Cannestra wrote in the show’s program. “I almost went crazy hand piecing so many stars, thus the quilt name.”
Various special exhibits were set up throughout the show, including one by author Dianne Knotts, a children’s segment and a challenge quilt portion. Quilters were given a button and a piece of fabric, called a fat quarter, and had to make quilts out of what they were given.
This type of quilting, plus certain fabrics with designs like typeface, will show what period of time the quilts were made in, according to Dawes.
“You can judge the age of a quilt by the fabric. When we make quilts for our kids they think it’s an old-fashioned thing, so we try to make them more modern,” Dawes said. “This is the first year with a children’s section, so we are
trying to teach and encourage the next generation.”
For information on the BHQG, visit bhqg.org.
Quilt show delights at Bulloch Hall
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Quilt show co-chair Sharyl Hess Dawes shows off the Guild Choice Award-winning quilt.
This quilt, started in 1884, was only recently finished.
Some quilters got crafty, like with this quilt that has “scratches” from the cat.
32 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com SCHOOLS
By CANDY [email protected]
NORTH FULTON, Ga. – Eight high schools in North Fulton were among the 272 public high schools in Georgia named to the 2015 Georgia Department of Education 2015 AP Honor Schools list. The list recognizes schools whose stu-dents perform exceptionally well in the rigorous advanced placement courses.
Honor schools are named in six categories based on the results of 2015 AP courses and ex-ams, with AP Merit Schools the most prestigious cate-gory. Schools in this category have at least 20 percent of their student pop-ulation taking AP exams, with at least half of all exams earning scores of 3 or higher.
All eight tradi-tional high schools in North Fulton were among the select group of 61 schools in the state – out of 449 total public high schools – named AP Merit Schools. The schools include Alpharetta, Cambridge, Cen-tennial, Chattahoochee, Johns Creek, Northview, Milton and Roswell high schools.
These eight high schools were also named AP STEM Schools, AP STEM
Achievement Schools, and AP Hu-manities Schools; all based on partic-ipation and exam scores. The STEM categories recognize high schools with achievement in AP science, technology, engineering or mathematics courses. Humanities Schools include AP courses in English/language arts, social sci-ence, fine arts and world language.
“AP classes give our students the opportunity to work at an accelerated, college-level pace while also stretching their knowledge outside of the tradi-tional high school curriculum,” said Kenneth Zeff, interim superintendent for Fulton County Schools.
He noted the number of students participating in AP courses in Fulton County has in-creased by 44 per-cent over the past five years.
“We’re excited to see the gains our schools have made. Our students passed more than 12,220 AP exams last year, which is 3,200 more exams than five years ago,” said Zeff.
The GDOE began recognizing AP Honor Schools in 2008, adding STEM recognition in 2011
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We’re excited to see the gains our schools have made. Our students passed more than 12,220 AP exams last year, which is 3,200 more exams than five years ago.” KENNETH ZEFFInterim superintendent for Fulton County Schools
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By HATCHER [email protected] JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – It was a some-what informal gathering last week that brought three of the four honchos who led the fundraising and construction of the Johns Creek Veterans Memorial Walk to the latest addition to the 4-acre park.
Though the fourth honoree, Jim Williamson, has moved, Gerry Lewis, Wayne Kidd and Robby Newton were lured to the park under false colors to make sure they would show.
“We were worried they might not come if they knew it was for them,” said City Councilwoman Cori Davenport. “But these four guys have given their lives over the last two years to make this memorial happen. And we wanted to do something just for them.
“These guys really deserved some special kind of commendation.”
An anonymous donor had a memo-rial plaque made with the four names on it to be placed at the fountain, which is the memorial’s most recent addition.
Anyone who hadn’t seen the 4-acre plot on the southwest corner of New-town Park in the last few years would not recognize it today.
It has a brick plaza entrance with the flags of the five services, the city, the state and the United States flying. Ten black granite monuments serve as testament to the Americans who have served the country in wars and police actions since 1914.
They also include memorials for women in service, Purple Heart recipi-ents and prisoners of wars.
A concrete path meanders through the memorial, edged with memorial brick pavers. In addition to the granite monoliths, there is a contemplative ga-zebo built by the St. Benedict Catholic Church’s Knights of Columbus.
The memorial has drawn attention and support from far and wide. Former University of Georgia football coach and athletic director Vince Dooley and wife, Barbara, donated one of the granite benches. The Korean government paid for the Korean War Memorial plaza in remembrance of American sacrifice for their country.
Then 12-year-old Girl Scout Sabrina Yvellez set out to raise $13,000 herself to pay for the women in service plaza.
But it was the determined lead-ership of Kidd, Lewis, Newton and Williamson that made sure the fledgling Johns Creek Veterans Association, not much more than a year old, did not falter in their ambitious project.
Many organizations, businesses and just plain citizens caught the “fever” and, in a little more than two years, made it possible to open the Memorial Walk.
It would be premature to say it is finished. They are a persnickety bunch and tend to tinker with it. The first wave of memorial brick pavers did not pass muster and the JCVA has re-placed them with better ones at its own expense.
Then the guys upgraded the land-scaping around the memorial. Most recently they added a 35-foot foun-
tain. In all, the JCVA has raised nearly $500,000 in private donations.
“We want this to be a contemplative place, where people can remember the sacrifices of a lot of people,” Kidd has said.
That the JCVA has accomplished, and then some.
Mayor Mike Bodker said their spirit and that of the JCVA organization is indicative of Johns Creek’s “Be the Ex-ception” spirit.
“They didn’t go hat-in-hand asking the city to do something for the vet-erans. All they asked was for 4 acres of underused space in Newtown Park. Then they rolled up their sleeves and did the rest. They did not ask for one penny from the city,” Bodker said.
What the JCVA has created is a leg-acy each member can be proud of.
Johns Creek Veterans Association leaders honored for leadership in Newtown memorial
Veterans Walk committee honored for efforts
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A memorial plaque placed at the Johns Creek Veterans Memorial Walk in Newtown Park will memorialize the four-man Johns Creek Veterans Association committee that headed up the fundraising and construction efforts to build the monu-ment to U.S. military forces. From left are JCA honoree Air Force Sgt. Gerry Lewis, Army Capt. Wayne Kidd, Councilwoman Cori Davenport, Air Force Senior Airman Robby Newton and Mayor Mike Bodker. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jim William-son has moved to Florida.
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The inscription at the Memorial Walk fountain is dedicated to the Memorial Walkway committee, whose persever-ance, drive and leadership saw the construction through over two years.
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ROSWELL, Ga. — Blessed Trinity didn’t have to do much and still won by 20
runs in a game against Therrell last Friday in Roswell that was ended in the third inning by the mercy rule. With the win, BT remains undefeated at 8-0 and improves to 2-0 in Region 4-AAA.
Therrell committed four errors, all of which led to runs scored, and juniors Patrick McNamara and Peyton Glavine struck out eight of the nine batters they faced in the win. The game ended after the top of the third inning. The GHSA bylaws state, “A game will end anytime that a team is 15 or more runs behind and has completed three or more turns at bat.”
McNamara got the start for the Titans and struck out the side to open the game.
Therrell’s Braden Smith got the start for the Panthers, but would only pitch a third of an inning.
After BT’s David Dunn popped out, Therrell’s Smith walked three and hit two of the next five batters. In the process, two passed balls allowed BT runners to advance and score five runs
before they had even recorded their first hit of the game.
Therrell made a pitching change, yanking Smith for Ronaldo Shepard, but the results weren’t any better. Colin Dore was hit by Shephard’s first pitch.
With two outs, the Titans were able to score nine more runs though Ther-rell had plenty of chances to get out of the inning.
A ground ball to their first baseman would bounce off his glove, scoring one. With two runners on base, CJ Abrams hit an inside-the-park home run, fol-lowed by three straight extra-base hits to extend the Titans’ lead to 14-0 after just the first inning.
BT’s McNamara struck out two more batters in the top of the second, giving him five strikeouts for six batters faced. McNamara has allowed just one hit in seven innings on the mound so far this season.
BT would extend their lead to 20-0 in the bottom of the second with six hits.
Glavine took over pitching duties in the top of the third and made quick work of Therrell’s side, striking out the side on 11 pitches.
Steele Chambers and Jake Lundk-ovsky had four RBIs for the Titans, with Garrett Dupuis adding three. None of the Titans batted under .500.
BT will face eight straight region opponents over the next week and a half as they seek their fifth consecutive region title.
McNamara, Glavine strike out 8 in 3 innings
Weekend scoreboardBaseball•North Cobb Christian 0,
St. Francis 2•Fellowship Christian 2,
Mount Paran 4•Christian Heritage 1,
King’s Ridge 7•Pinecrest Academy 7,
Mount Zion 8•Therell 0, Blessed Trinity 20•Walker 5, Mount Pisgah 8•North Forsyth 2, Johns Creek 4•West Forsyth 11, Centennial 0•South Forsyth 0, Alpharetta 7•Chattahoochee 3, Northview 11•Cambridge 16, Riverwood 4 Boys soccer•Decatur X Blessed Trinity X•Cambridge 8, River Ridge 0•West Forsyth 1, Cherokee 0Girls soccer•Decatur 0, Blessed Trinity 0•Milton 1, Walton 2•Alpharetta 0, Lambert 6•Johns Creek 3, North Forsyth 0•Boys Lacrosse•South Forsyth 12, Collins Hill 11•Alpharetta 10, Northview 8•Buford 14, Pinecrest Academy 7•Lambert, 12 Johns Creek 11•North Forsyth 4,
Chattahoochee 16•Walton 10, Milton 9Girls lacrosse•Centennial 19, Mann 11•Norcross 1, Centennial 24
BT’s CJ Abrams hit an inside-the-park home run and was 2-2 with 4 RBIs in BT’s 20-0 win over Therrell.
PHOTOS BY JOE PARKER
The Titan’s Peyton Glavine struck out three batters in just 11 pitches in the third inning. Patrick McNamara and Glavine struck out eight of nine batters faced.
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King’s Ridge downs Mt. Pisgah in region matchup
By JOE [email protected]
ALPHARETTA, Ga- In a matchup of two of the top teams in Region 6-A, King’s Ridge defeated Mt. Pisgah 5-3 last Thursday at Legion Field. King’s Ridge (8-1, 5-0), the two-time defending Class A state champions, received 5 RBIs from junior Trey Parker, and starter Frasor Ellard struck out seven for the Tigers. With the loss, Mt. Pisgah fell to 3-2 in region play.
The Tigers’ Frasor Ellard started on the mound and opened the game with three strikeouts in the first inning.
The Tigers’ bats were also hot out of the gate, with King’s Ridge scoring three runs in the bottom of the first. After Carter Buchanan walked, Michael Wein singled and a base hit bunt from Lawson Hill loaded the bases for Trey Parker. Parker sent a liner down the first base line which rolled to the right-field corner, earning Parker a triple and three RBIs.
After their quick start, however, the Tigers’ would strand four runners over the next four innings against Mt. Pisgah’s starter Ryan Bostic. Bostic allowed five runs on eight hits with four strikeouts in five innings.
In the bottom of the fifth, Trey Parker got another extra-base hit with a double down the left field line. Hill and Kyle Brnovich scored, extending the Tigers’ lead to 5-0. John Byrnes then singled, giving King’s Ridge runners at the corners with two outs.
With a chance to continue building their lead, Will Janofsky lined a shot up the middle, hitting Mt. Pisgah’s Bostic hard in the stomach. Bostic was able to gather the loose ball and make the throw to first in time to end the inning
and prevent more Tigers’ scoring, and then grab a much-needed ice pack.
In the top of the sixth, Mt. Pisgah would find the scoreboard on two errors from King’s Ridge.
On an attempted double-play, Tigers’ short stop Kyle Brnovich threw over Wein at second base, with the ball rolling all the way to the right field fence, allowing Pisgah’s Jacob Cendoya to score and Jacob Green to advance to third.
Green would score three pitches
later on a wild pitch from Ellard, cut-ting the Tigers’ lead to 5-2.
In the bottom of the sixth, Jacob Cendoya would take over pitching duties for the Patriots’ and would get two strikeouts advance the game to the top of the seventh and Mt. Pisgah’s last chance for a comeback.
With a save opportunity, the Tigers’ Will Janofsky took over for Ellard in the top of the seventh.
Janofsky struck out Mt. Pisgah’s Alden Pascucci to open the inning,
but then gave up a triple to Garrett Brasher. Trevor Grapenthin was then hit by a Janofski pitch to give Pisgah runners on the corner with just one out.
A sacrifice fly from Spencer Shields would score Brasher, but Jojo Oda-chowski would ground out to Michael Wein to end the game.
With the win, King’s Ridge tied Mt. Paran at the top of the Region 6-A standings at 5-0 in region play. Mt. Pisgah, at 3-2, is in fifth.
Tigers off to 5-0 start in region play
PHOTOS BY JOE PARKER
King’s Ridge remained unbeaten in region play with a 5-3 victory over Mt. Pisgah last Thursday.
Lawson Hill reaches third on a stand-up steal.
38 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com COMMUNITY
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An Alpharetta couple will soon be sailing off into the sunset on a cruise they won by reading their newspaper.
Each week from Jan. 20 to Feb. 25 , the papers of Appen Media Group – the Alpharetta-Roswell Herald, Milton Her-ald, Johns Creek Herald and Forsyth Herald – featured the Expedia Cruise-ShipCenter’s logo hidden somewhere on the printed pages. Readers had to find the logo and enter to win on northful-ton.com by describing exactly where the logo was found that week.
On March 7, a winner was randomly chosen from over 1,000 entries. The grand prize winners, Jeff and Elise Bag-gett, received $2,000 to be applied to-ward the cruise vacation of their choice, courtesy of Expedia CruiseShipCenters in Alpharetta.
Elise said she and her husband saw the ad in the newspaper before the con-test began and, once the competition started, she entered every week. While
she didn’t really think she would win, she held out hope and kept entering.
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The most important part of this experience, Bonfanti said, is the way it underscores the change in the role travel agents now play.
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NorthFulton.com | Johns Creek Herald | March 17, 2016 | 39SCHOOLS
By CANDY [email protected]
NORTH FULTON, Ga. — Enrollment forecasts for North Fulton schools project a continuing decline of stu-dents over the next five years, revers-ing an enrollment boom that began in the mid-1990s but cooled off in recent years.
During a presentation to the Fulton School Board on March 8, school plan-ning staff attributed the slowdown to lower birth rates and available housing focused mainly at the high end of the market.
Overall, Fulton Schools is expected to add just under 600 students next year, for a total of 96,276 students in the 2016-17 school year. That growth will come mainly in South Fulton, with North Fulton and Sandy Springs seeing declines.
“North Fulton reached 49,584 stu-dents [this year] which is the second year in recent history that [the region’s] total growth has declined,” said Yngrid Huff, director of planning for Fulton Schools.
This year, elementary students declined by more than 680 students from the previous year, as incoming kindergarten classes are significantly smaller than the fifth-grade classes they replace.
“Looking at individual grade levels, growth is still occurring in the area. However, the incoming 2015 kindergar-ten class remains nearly 1,200 stu-dents smaller than the eighth-, ninth-, 10th- and 11th-grade classes on aver-age,” said Huff.
She also presented a chart which shows a sharp decline in births begin-ning in 2009, which correlates with smaller kindergarten classes five years later.
That trend is expected to continue both locally and statewide.
But positive growth is being seen in middle and high schools, with most of the high schools in North Fulton at or above capacity.
This trend could indicate a strong housing market favored by families with older children, as opposed to young families seeking starter homes.
“It is extremely expensive [in North
16-17 Proj. 15-16 Actual
Elemnatary Schools
Abbotts Hill 679 688
Alpharetta 546 565
Amana Charter 514 515
Barnwell 816 767
Birmingham Falls 720 727
Cogburn Woods 850 920
Crabapple Crossing 769 800
Creek View 812 973
Dolvin 815 857
Esther Jackson 614 570
Findley Oaks 657 656
Hembree Springs 683 841
Hillside 508 647
Lake Windward 698 712
Manning Oaks 830 858
Medlock Bridge 707 700
Mimosa 831 1018
Mountain Park 831 844
New Prospect 579 471
Northwood 740 774
Ocee 757 769
River Eves 604 795
Roswell North 895 1036
Shakerag 746 787
State Bridge Crossing Elem 801 817
Summit Hill 735 724
Sweet Apple 805 726
Wilson Creek 787 803
FAST Charter (new) 143 NA
Hwy.9 School/Roswell (new) 631 NA
NF ES Total 21,103 21,360
Fulton ES Total 44,663 44,564
16-17 Proj. 15-16 Actual
Middle Schools
Amana Charter 250 234
Autrey Mill 1473 1413
Crabapple 988 965
Elkins Pointe 1085 1119
Haynes Bridge 789 840
Holcomb Bridge 769 792
Hopewell 1445 1433
Northwestern 1403 1272
River Trail 1153 1143
Taylor Road 1331 1335
Webb Bridge 1249 1273
NF MS Total 11,935 11,819
System MS Total 21,893 21,420
High Schools
Alpharetta 2061 2031
Cambridge 1977 1988
Centennial 2021 1949
Chattahoochee 1913 1954
Independence 203 197
Johns Creek 2071 2072
Milton 2320 2175
Northview 1821 1903
Roswell 2212 2122
NF HS Total 16,599 16,391
System HS Total 29,721 29,710
North Fulton Total 49,637 49,570
System Total 96,277 95,694
Projected North Fulton Enrollment for 2016-17 School Year
*INCLUDES PRE-K ENROLLMENT
Growth slows in North Fulton schoolsLow birth rates, high home prices are factors
Fulton],” said Huff. “So [many people] are moving to surrounding counties where there are more affordable op-tions.”
She noted this is one reason Fulton’s overall enrollment growth is outpaced by fast-growing systems like Gwinnett with more affordable housing options.
Huff said the housing market is showing a strong recovery in North Fulton, with the school system track-ing more than 3,300 homes in various stages of construction.
Enrollment forecasts are used for planning and budgeting purposes, noted Huff, and tweaked each year for a five-year outlook.
“Short-range estimates identify needed resources such as staffing, text-books, buses, groceries and classroom needs,” she said. “Long-range estimates guide the timeline for capital construc-tion projects. “
Alpharetta board member Katie Reeves challenged the assertion that North Fulton will see a declining en-rollment in the coming five years. She said empty nesters who flocked to the region in the 1990s and early 2000s are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for prices to rebound, before selling their homes.
“If I [presented] these numbers to my [community] I would be laughed out of [the room],” said Reeves. “I know you have to work in facts, but we would be foolish not to prepare for what is an eventuality in my district.”
Short-range estimates identify needed resources such as staffing, textbooks, buses, groceries and classroom needs.”YNGRID HUFFDirector of planning for Fulton Schools
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Four days before the March 1 Super Tues-day primaries, Chattahoochee High School students capped off a week of cross-curricular lessons on the 2016 presidential campaign by holding their own well-researched, fully developed and multifaceted primary.
As part of the school’s strategic de-velopment plan, Principal Tim Corrigan and Kathy Smith, Chattahoochee’s pro-fessional learning facilitator, planned the initiative to energize and engage students while encouraging teachers to explore strategies for more effective instruction.
In turn, the week of Feb. 22 was filled with propaganda, polls and les-sons galore on all things governmen-tal. Teachers of all subjects delivered lessons that focused on some element of the current presidential race. Math classes analyzed and interpreted polling results; science classes explored and evaluated candidates’ positions on envi-ronmental issues; English classes ana-lyzed rhetorical strategies in campaign ads; graphics classes produced political propaganda posters; and AP computer science classes developed a website to host the poll and display results.
“Use of cross-curricular instruction is part of our school’s strategic plan, and the enthusiasm of the teachers for how to plan for a lesson based on a common theme was extraordinary,”
said Smith, Chattahoochee’s Teacher of the Year in 2013. “Our graphics classes studied political propaganda; our Latin teacher had a lesson plan where stu-dents looked at five political campaigns from the Roman Republic that make our current campaigns seem downright polite; science classes discussed topics debated in the election, like clean en-ergy.”
Students cast their votes on the school’s election website during social studies classes Friday, Feb. 26. To make sure every possible vote was tal-lied, Smith said social studies teachers even posted a QR code to the voting site on their doors.
Since students voted four days be-
fore the primaries, “We had the results and considered sharing them on the announcements on Super Tuesday,” Smith continued. But, since Chat-tahoochee is also a Fulton County polling location, it was determined “that wouldn’t be appropriate.”
Now, however, the Hooch student vote can be revealed: Rubio and Sand-ers were the big winners.
On the Republican side, Rubio received 27 percent of the vote, Trump 22.5 percent and 28.3 percent were undecided.
For the Democrats, Sanders was the choice for 62 percent of voters, with Clinton earning 16.6 percent and 21.4 percent undecided.
Chattahoochee students study campaign, cast votes
Chattahoochee AP computer science students Bryce Cross, Malaak Hawarneh and Nitharjan Kanthasamy work on the website used for the event, including the voting.
Northview JV academic bowl team Fulton champsJOHNS CREEK, Ga. – the Northview junior varsity Academic Team won Feb. 11 the Fulton County Academic Bowl held at the Teaching Museum North in Roswell.
The team included ninthg graders Jessica Lao, Alejandro Lim, Akaash Para, and Ayush Nene, 10th grader Anirudh Thatavarty.
Team sponsor Raymond Brown coached the team. Alpharetta High School and Chattahoochee High School won second and third places, respectively.
As Fulton county cham-pions, Northview’s JV team earns the opportunity to compete in WSB TV’s “High Q” 201-2017 season.
The Northview academic bowl team of Jessica Lao, Alejandro Lim, Akaash Para, Ayush Nene and Anirudh Thatavarty display their trophy as coach Raymond Brown declares them No.1.
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42 | March 17, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com COMMUNITYGREATER NORTH FULTON CHAMBER:
Business Expo great day for commerce
By HATCHER [email protected]
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Do you like good food, the chance to network with cus-tomers who live in your wheelhouse and hear the latest business news? Then you should have been at the an-nual Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce’s Business Expo March 11 at the Alpharetta Marriott.
With a “Star Wars” theme of “Let the Force be with You,” more than 100 exhibitors were selling their wares, and yes, some were also buying.
“The expo is just about our most popular event. You meet all kinds of local businesses and the leads that are found there are like gold,” said GNFCC President Brandon Beach. “It’s a sellout every year because the business that gets done is just fantastic.”
Some businesspeople say they come because they cannot afford to miss it.
“Hey, if you’re not here, you don’t know what you might have missed. And if folks notice you’re not here, they go, ‘Hmmm, what’s wrong with them, they’re not here.’ So, yeah, I want to be here, and I make sure everybody knows I’m here,” said one booth respondent who did not want to be identified.
Seminars offer top tips on new ideas and, for some, it’s a chance to see what the competition is pushing.
“It is a fun, friendly event. People
like to talk about what they do, so everyone is in a good mood. And it’s a break from the usual routine,” Beach said. “It’s a real event and people look forward to it.”
Steve Neese with Appen Media
Group said the expo is a great opportu-nity to get outside the box.
“You meet a lot of new people, get exposed to a lot of new businesses. Of course it’s a great opportunity to sell also, but often it is getting contacts who can
steer you to places you haven’t thought of. I wouldn’t miss it,” Neese said.
If you didn’t make the scene this year, then count on making it next year. Beach says plans are already in the works.
Dozens of businesses network, show off their wares for one great day
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With a theme of “Let the Force Be with You,” of course you should bring your lightsaber. Steve Neese, center, of Appen Media Group is the center of attention.
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Naturally the Greater North Fulton Chamber members put their best faces forward with Helen Bausano, from left, Deborah Lanham and Tosha Marks.
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First on Black’s list is contacting the homeowner associations to let them know when they are scheduled for repaving.
“We’ll get everybody on the same page and let them know what’s com-ing,” Black told the City Council.
Repaving badly worn streets the city inherited from Fulton County has been a stated priority since the city was
founded 10 years ago. But the city did not begin the neighborhood program in earnest until last year. The city had concentrated on its collector roads and arteries up until then.
“Quality streets are a basic neces-sity that a community rightly expects,” said Mayor Mike Bodker. “”To improve our curb appeal, the City Council made the decision to increase the pace of our repaving plan, which helps to promote higher property values as well as our economic vitality.”
The priority for neighborhood re-paving is determined by an assessment
known as the pavement quality index. The PQI was developed by the Army Corps of Engineers to measure crack-ing, potholes, rutting, weathering and other factors.
Low PQI scores reflect the poorer conditions of the road. The lower the PQI for a subdivision, the higher its
priority for repaving. For information regarding the 2016
subdivision repaving list and associated map, see the city webpage at swww.johnscreekga.gov/Residents/Pub-lic-Works/Neighborhood-Repaving.
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CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA
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RFP #16-108
The City of Alpharetta is soliciting proposals from qualifi ed, construction management fi rms that are able to provide complete preconstruction and construction services for the Public Safety Expansion. These services are intended to ensure the City receives a high-quality Public Safety Expansion on time and within budget. The location of the project is 2565 Old Milton Parkway within the City of Alpharetta, GA 30009.
The Request for Proposals document, including project scope and Offeror requirements, will be available online Thursday, March 17, 2016, at the City’s bid posting website, https://www.ebidexchange.com/alpharetta.
Proposals are due Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM at the City of Alpharetta Finance Department, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009.
For information, please contact Debora Westbrook at the City of Alpharetta Finance Department at 678-297-6052 or via email at [email protected].
CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The following item will be heard at a public hearing held by the City Council on Monday, March 28, 2016 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.
a. PH-16-03 Norcross Street Right of Way Abandonment (City Council Only)Consideration of abandonment of a portion of the Norcross Street Right of Way. The portion of Norcross Street is located within Land Lot 1269, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia
Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fi fty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the offi ce of the City Clerk, 2 Park Plaza.
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The employment fields of residents did not surprise me. Teachers, people in the financial and medical health sectors, white-collar professionals, and technology employees seemed spread relatively evenly.
Chris did note that, of all the sec-tors, the biggest might be those em-ployed in technology. It was also by far the fastest growing.
I thought about Gwinnett Tech’s new campus on Old Milton Parkway and smiled. We’re on it – except for the housing part, I mused.
We have the money, the land and the economic situation to leverage this opportunity successfully – if we get our act together and if we have the will to change.
We need to be decisive. We need to be bold. Maybe we should rezone some of that land currently zoned for large office buildings for new multifamily/mixed-use housing complexes – maybe lofts and mini-campuses that offer centrally located living spaces adjacent to office and retail – think Avalon – that is what the market is demanding. The private sector will act, but we need to provide the zoning and incentives to encourage and support them.
I believe however that most current projections – including the recent City of Alpharetta Rental Housing Study - probably significantly underestimate future rental / multi-family housing needs because projections are based on historical trends.
They do not account for the rapid rate of changing taste and needs of the millennials and the generations to follow.
We must be more forward thinking and perhaps not solely rely on history and historical filters and perceptions.
I read in the Atlanta Business Chronicle that a redevelopment of two empty office buildings on 38 acres in Peachtree Corners that targets millen-nials and seeks to create a live-work-play urban “campus” is before that city council right now.
The project would have the two office buildings demolished and include construction of a mixed-use campus with 295 one- and two-bedroom units geared to millennials. Features include bocce ball courts, fishing and other activities on the lake.
According to Diana Wheeler, the current Peachtree Corners community development director (and also the for-mer community development director of Alpharetta).
She was responsible for much of the successful growth and development in Alpharetta during the ‘90s and 2000s,
we are starting to see a retrofitting of suburbia.
Maybe we should embrace multi-family housing and recognize it as the opportunity that it can be – and the necessity that it is.
Maybe we need to have vision and attitude and understand that “density” is simply what makes sense today and what is required for our children and our grandchildren.
Maybe we should step out of the box and try to actually get ahead of these demographic trends and housing needs instead of playing catch up to other markets that are already ahead of the curve.
The long-term importance and impact of heavy rail and fundamental improvement in our transportation in-frastructure cannot be underestimated. They are critically important and part and parcel to staying competitive as a city and region. Austin, Charlotte, Dallas and many other cities – most with heavy rail - are not waiting on us to get up to speed. Solving our trans-portation issues with more buses is a non-starter. It’s not viable if we want to remain competitive and a desirable destination for the primary workforce of the future - millennials and the follow-ing generations.
We need to support heavy rail and investing in transportation infrastruc-ture as aggressively as possible.
This is not the time to play politics with issues this important or to be penny-wise and pound-foolish with our children’s future.
So, getting back to apartments and density, if you are one of those folks who automatically oppose “density” in housing, including apartments or con-dos, do yourself a favor. Drive over to City Walk off Frazier Street in Roswell (off Ga. 9, near Roswell City Hall – 300 Forrest Walk / RoswellCityWalk.com) and take a quick tour.
Talk to the people there. Walk around. Maybe stroll a few blocks to Canton Street in Roswell and have lunch. You could do the same thing at Avalon. Imagine for just a moment you or some of your children are living there. Then ask yourself if you still feel that this awful multifamily thing is really such a bad deal.
Remember, the “density” issue is not really so much about you or your sensi-bilities today as much as it is about that of your children and grandchildren.
You already have what you want. It’s their turn now. Our goal should be to build and provide housing that our kids and their kids are going to need. If we don’t build it here, many of them will live elsewhere – in other towns and cities that have connected the dots by supporting heavy rail and adapting to the changing housing needs of the future work force.
We are at a crossroads to the future and we can have it all – or begin to lose it.
Connect the dots.
For the sake of transparency, Publisher Ray Appen owns a lot in downtown Alpharetta which could increase in value should additional density be assigned to the property at some point.
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Broadbent to honor Johns Creek’s Vietnam vetsJOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Johns Creek Mayor Pro Tem Steve Broadbent will lay a wreath Tuesday, March 29, at the Johns Creek Veterans Memorial Walk in Newtown Park and present a Certifi-cate of Honor to Johns Creek’s Vietnam veterans as part of National Vietnam Veterans Day.
Broadbent, a Navy veteran, will de-liver brief remarks at Davenport plaza, and then be joined by a member of the Johns Creek Veterans Association to lay a wreath at the Vietnam War Memo-rial. He also will present John’s Creek
Vietnam veterans with a Certificate of Honor.
Man Bui, now of Johns Creek, managed with his family to get on board one of the last helicopters evac-uating refugees from the American embassy on April 30, 1975. Bui has been in America
for almost 40 years and now has a son who graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a son who
enrolled there as well.The Johns Creek Veterans Associ-
ation will honor Vietnam veterans by ringing a Navy ship’s bell for those who served in Southeast Asia.
After the ceremony, coffee and light snacks will be available at Park Place.
Celebrating Vietnam Veterans Day March 29
Vietnam Veterans DayWho: Johns Creek Veterans AssociationWhat: Vietnam Veterans DayWhere: Johns Creek Veterans Walk, Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Rd.When: 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 29
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Art Contest
For many years, we at ‘cue have served up the best barbecue and homemade sides to share with our community. Y’all have
graciously shown up at our door for great meals, quality time with your families/friends/co-workers and, above all, we have shared PEACE, something that often escapes us in our daily lives and something the world could use A LOT MORE OF!
We would like to share our belief that we, as individuals, can help CAUSE PEACE, and what better way to have fun and relay a message than through Art?!
You’ll notice that ‘cue is in the middle of CAUSE PEACE (literally) and we think it’s more than a coincidence!
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So, get our your sketch pads, pencils, brushes and computers to help us come up with a LOGO for CAUSE PEACE for t-shirts, menus and art for our walls.What are the causes of peace? How can we help create it?
Put your thoughts into ART that will inspire others to think of ways to CAUSE PEACE.
Go to cuebarbecue.com/causepeace/ for detailsThe Winner will receive a $300 house account at the ‘cue in Milton!!
Plus, your art displayed on T-shirts and various other ways. Bragging rights, the envy of your peers, our personal thanks, who
knows, you might even get a free t-shirt…
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