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March 31, 2016 | Nor thFulton.com | An Appen Media Group Publ icat ion | 50¢ | Vo lume 11, No. 13
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CSO being reconsideredMilton Coalition weighs in
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St. Baldrick’sa cut above other fundraisersThe event honored Kierstin Dickson, whose father, John, gets into the spirit of the head-shaving event. Read more, Page 32
Hip, hop, hooray!Milton hosts Easter egg hunt
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State passes education billsRegarding teacher evaluations, weapons
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We’re still No. 1BT baseball still undefeated
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Leadership lessonsFormer UPS international president pens book
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A man was ar-rested March 18 for multiple charges of habitual violation, driving with a sus-pended license, and giving false name and date of birth after he was stopped at a safety checkpoint on the exit ramp of Windward Parkway and Ga. 400.
Alpharetta police were conducting a safety checkpoint on the exit ramp
when they came in contact with Kevin Watkins, 40, and asked to see his license. Watkins said he left his house in a rush and forgot his wallet, but provided police with the name Marcus Watkins.
A search for the name Marcus Watkins revealed an Alabama driver’s license that had expired in 2006.
Watkins said that this information was wrong and insisted he had a valid license.
Officers then scanned Watkins’ fin-gerprints. The results identified his real name as Kevin Watkins, not Marcus Watkins. Multiple license suspensions were linked to the name. Watkins had multiple suspensions for DUI and fail-ure to appear.
He was arrested for driving with a
suspended license and further charges were added, including habitual violator revocation and giving a false name and date of birth.
Tinted windows failto hide marijuana bustALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police arrested a man for possession of 33 grams of marijuana after stopping his vehicle because of the tinted front windows.
An Alpharetta officer patrolling on March 18 stopped a black Mercedes after noticing what he believed to be an illegal tint of the front windows. Win-
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A missing juve-nile was found March 18 as a passen-ger in a vehicle that had been stopped near Ga. 400.
The missing juvenile was arrested for marijuana possession and the ve-hicle’s driver was arrested for a sus-pended license.
Police stopped a vehicle near Ga. 400 for an improperly displayed tag. The temporary tag had been taped to
the back window, but was not readily visible due to the window tint.
When police asked the driver, James Artis, 28, for his license, they found a violation from July 2015 and a suspen-sion from Jan. 19, 2016. They placed Artis under arrest for driving with a suspended license.
As the police approached the ve-hicle, they smelled “the strong odor of marijuana” and saw the passenger fold-
ing a small bag of Cheetos. They asked the passenger, a teenager, if she knew of any drugs in the car. She said no.
After running the passenger’s in-formation through their system, police confirmed that she was a missing juve-nile from Sandy Springs.
The total amount of marijuana was less than one ounce.
The juvenile was arrested for mari-juana possession.
Missing teen’s pot found in Cheetos bag
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Mountain, was arrested March 11 on Park Bridge Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI, following too close and improper transfer of license plate.
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Kimball Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI, suspended license and illegal U-turn.
► Donald David, 54, of Tupelo, Mississippi, was arrested March 12 on Medlock Bridge Road in Johns Creek for DUI and open container.
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► Ray Neil Blackwell, 78, of Marietta, was arrested March 7 on Atlanta Street in Roswell for DUI and failure to main-tain lane.
► Samuel Curtis Harris Jr., 37, of Buford, was arrested March 9 on Marietta Highway in Roswell for DUI and possession of marijuana.
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NorthFulton.com | Milton Herald | March 31, 2016 | 3
Undoubtedly, many folks in their 40’s who were previously unburdened by funny contraptions fashioned from glass and steel (aka glasses!) have painfully realized the limitations of the human visual system with ageing. Their ability to see near, far and ev-erything in between begins to betray them and they awake one day wishing that their arms could grow just a few inches longer or, perhaps, that they could have a selfi e stick fashioned as a book holder permanently attached to their arms (or perhaps, not). Funny or not, it is a real issue that aff ects patients as they turn the midlife corner.
The human visual system as an inherent ability to focus on near objects by a mecha-
nism called ‘accommodation’. This begins to slow down in our 40’s and comes to a screeching halt around 60 years of age. For centuries then, your good eye doctor has been available to prescribe magnifying glasses so you may fi nish that novel at long last , sew those newborn blankets and beat those cross-word puzzles! That is all fi ne and well, but can you improve upon this concept of magnifying glasses when it is time for cataract surgery?
Yes, is the short answer. Though, beyond the scope of this article, there are a variety of options to help with the goal of unaided near or intermediate vision such as multifocal IOLs, monovision and blended vision. Let us focus on blended vision here.
When a cataract is removed, whether you are far-sighted, near sighted or just a perfect specimen of optical humanity, ie no need for distance glasses, you lose your ability to focus within a 2-3 foot range. This can be addressed, however, with some planning and thought. One of the well received and well tolerated options for patients opting for insurance covered single vi-sion implants at the time of cataract surgery is blended vision. Instead of defaulting both eyes for distance and, thereby, sacrifi cing all near and mid range focusing ability, the non-dominant eye is purposefully targeted to mid range vision. This allows a signifi cant increase in functional vision during day to day tasks such as cooking, grocery shopping, playing sports, seeing the instrument panel when driving, working at the computer etc. Glasses are still sometimes necessary for reading fi ne print, but tablets such as the iPad with font expansion at your fi ngertips have done away with even this exception for many patients. Even patients with signifi cant astigmatism can benefi t from blended vision if they have toric IOLs implanted.
By focusing the dominant eye, which some patients know as their ‘shooting eye’ or ‘aiming eye’, at distance, you cover the brain’s desire to have the domi-nant eye focus well at distance. The non-dominant eye then, is focused at a mid range target generally ~ 3 feet away or as desired by the patient. Alone, this eye then will not have the same sharpness as the dominant eye will at distance as it is focused on more near targets, but with both eyes, open the vision is seamless from midrange and beyond. It imparts a tremendous ability to a visual system that is, otherwise, dependent on bifocals or progressives to function.
Blended vision is not for everyone but has shown great success in a large group of patients in my practice. Some caveats to consider are the need for over the counter glasses to read small print, possible haloes at night when driving and time needed to adapt to this new vision for some patients.
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Education bills cross finish lineBills dealing with teacher evaluations, weapons, on Deal’s deskBy CANDY [email protected]
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — After 40 days in session, the Georgia General Assem-bly called “sine die” in the wee hours of March 24, with a flurry of action and inaction that sealed the fate on a num-ber of legislative issues.
The end date was one of the ear-liest recesses in recent memory; last year the session concluded on April 2. But the rush to start campaigning and fundraising for the May 24 primary election certainly sped up the process.
While the focus of the 2016 session seemed to center on religious freedom and more guns everywhere, education watchers found reasons to celebrate as the session ended.
Of most interest was Senate Bill 364, which lessened the impact of student achievement on teacher and administrator evaluation. Although the bill is lengthy, with pages of provisions, the bottom line is student scores on mandatory assessments (Georgia Mile-stones) will no longer make or break careers.
Previously the scores counted for half of a teacher’s assessment. The new bill drops that to 30 percent and only considers scores from students who have been in school for at least 90 percent of the school year.
The bill received near unanimous support from both sides of the aisle, and will go into effect upon Gov. Na-than Deal’s signature.
The governor has until May 3 to sign a bill into law, veto it, or do noth-ing and allow it to become law without his signature.
Both bills dealing with weapons on college campuses were sent to Deal, but the specter of a veto could be looming for one.
House Bill 859 allows guns in most areas of a college campus by licensed gun owners, and HB 792 allows electro-
shock weapons (Tasers and stun guns). Some see these as the first step toward weapons in K-12 schools, and Deal has expressed concerns with guns on cam-puses which have day care centers.
Following is a partial list of school-related bills that are awaiting Deal’s signature after passing both House and Senate.
HB 614 – Allows voluntary place-ment of video cameras in special educa-tion self-contained classrooms.
HB 659 – Requires school districts to post financial information on school and district websites, including bud-gets, expenditures, cost of materials, salaries, maintenance, etc.
HB 792 – Electroshock weapons can be carried/used by students or employees on public postsecondary campuses and in buildings with certain limitations. K-12 institutions are not included.
HB 801 — Gives extra credit toward HOPE scholarship to students taking tougher courses.
HB 825 – “Protecting Military Chil-dren Act.” Requires the child welfare agency receiving any reported event of
abuse by a military parent or guardian to also notify the Department of De-fense Family Advocacy Program.
HB 859 – Allows any license holder to carry a concealed weapon when in any building or property owned/leased by institutions of higher learning. Ex-ceptions are in any buildings or prop-erty used for athletic sporting events or student housing.
HB 895 – Requires principals and finance directors of charter schools to take finance training annually. Training must include payroll, purchasing, gov-ernment accounting, financial policies, internal controls and budgeting.
HB 959 – Changes provisions in the state’s education legislation (Title 20) by defining freedom of speech for board members; clarifies awarding of dual-credit diplomas; and exempts students with dual-credit course grades of A or B from taking end-of-course tests.
SB 275 – Prohibits any local gov-erning body, including local boards, from having any policy that prevents the members of that body from ex-ercising their right to free speech or from discussing freely the policies and actions of the body.
SB 309 – High schools that receive state funding cannot participate in an athletic association which bans reli-gious expression on the clothing of stu-dent athletes. Also bans state-funded schools from joining an athletic associ-ation which does not allow the school to play nonmember schools.
SB 355 – The Student Protection Act on opting out of assessments, tak-ing assessments with pencil and paper, and requiring the state school super-intendent and state board to develop guidelines for local districts by Sept. 1, 2016.
SB 357 – Prohibits a code of ethics or conduct from interfering with a school board member’s right to free speech.
Both bills dealing with weapons on college campuses were sent to Deal, but the specter of a veto could be looming for one.
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NORTH FULTON, Ga. – With the 2016 General Assembly adjourned, North Fulton officials are assessing the fallout from new legislation due to become law this summer.
One piece of legislation in particular could mean local residents will be vot-ing this fall on an additional sales tax to fund local transportation projects.
With little doubt, one of the area’s most contentious pieces of legisla-tion involved a funding mechanism to expand MARTA in Fulton and DeKalb counties.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta), proposed using half of a one-cent sales tax hike to fund rail service expansion along three lines, including north into Alpharetta. With matching federal money, Beach said the sales tax would raise close to $8 bil-lion. But opposition came quickly, led primarily by Sen. John Albers (R-Ros-well), Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle and Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker.
“What David (Belle Isle) and I had concerns over was the form of the tran-sit expansion – not transit expansion,” said Johns Creek’s Bodker. “We weren’t
against transit expansion, only heavy rail.”
Bodker said he did not believe it was cost efficient to spend $3 billion for a transit system that did very little, if anything, to alleviate congestion. Add to that, he said, Fulton County residents are already paying a one-cent sales tax for MARTA. The new tax would have meant taxpayers were spending 75 percent of their sales tax dollars for something used by 10 percent of the population.
Just when the bill was heading for derailment, a compromise bill was introduced that seemed to please all parties. The compromise, which passed both houses, allows the city of Atlanta to go forward with a potential transit expansion, at the same time allow-
ing Fulton County cities to concentrate on T-SPLOST roads and bridges.
The bill now says the cities – inde-pendent of Atlanta – can levy .75 in
sales tax for their own transportation projects.
Unlike the transportation bill passed in 2015, it allows a 60 percent majority for passage. The 2015 legisla-tion required unanimous consent from all the cities.
“The project list would be deter-mined by individual cities, and they would be combined into a master list for voters to decide on,” Bodker said.
Because the approval threshold has been lowered, this means that four cities – Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Roswell and Alpharetta – and unincor-porated Fulton County voters could pass the transportation sales tax for the whole county because their populations constitute more than 60 percent of total county population, excluding Atlanta.
Belle Isle said Monday that he likes the compromise legislation because it puts more control over transportation in local hands.
“I’m good with it as I understand it,” he said. “It allows Atlanta to do its thing and the cities to do their thing.”
Roswell Mayor Jere Wood said he had supported Beach’s original legis-lation with heavy emphasis on MARTA expansion, but he had good things to say about the compromise bill, espe-cially the provision allowing 60 percent affirmation of the proposed sales tax.
“Unanimous (approval) was a very tough road,” he said. “I expect we will get a 60 percent approval from the cities in Fulton, excluding Atlanta, and we’ll have a referendum in November to let the citizens decide to set aside 75 percent of a penny for transportation for the next five years. That was great to see that pass.”
But Wood was not happy with all the results from this year’s legislative session.
He had asked local legislators to support a bill requiring the Department of Revenue to share figures for sales tax collections within cities.
Transportation bill may spark November referendum
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ROSWELL, Ga. — North Fulton’s new-est charter school will open its door in August with a full house of staff and students – and a waiting list of stu-dents hoping for a seat.
Applications for the Fulton Acad-emy of Science and Technology charter school exceeded available capacity, re-quiring a Feb. 13 lottery to fill the 588 seats in grades kindergarten through sixth. The school will eventually grow to include seventh and eighth grades.
As of the end of March, nearly 140 students were placed on a waiting list, with need highest in grades two and three. School organizers say they were thrilled by the support from the com-munity.
“We are not surprised [with the applications] as there has been tre-mendous support [for FAST] from the community since inception,” said June Erickson, a governing board member for FAST.
She noted the recently completely elementary redistricting in Roswell may have led some parents to register for
the school as an option, in the event they were unhappy with the redistrict-ing changes.
“With that process finishing up we think the wait list will work itself out with some grade levels,” said Erick-son. “We would encourage those still interested but who have not registered to apply because spots will continue to open up before school starts in Au-gust.”
The school will be located in Ros-well on a 7-acre campus off Crabapple Road which most recently served as a church. The site and building plans for FAST were recently approved by the Georgia Department of Education, al-lowing renovations to begin. The school will open on Aug. 8 for the 2016-17 school year.
FAST reached another milestone with the hiring of Annette Higgins as the school’s first principal. Higgins has been an assistant principal at Mill Springs Academy in Roswell for the past three years, and heavily involved in that school’s STEM program.
Higgins may be a familiar face to some FAST students and parents, having served as the assistant princi-
pal at the Fulton Sunshine Academy in the 2010-11 school year. Although that school was shuttered by the Fulton County School System in 2014, a num-ber of former parents of the Sunshine Academy are involved in opening FAST.
Erickson is adamant that FAST is not the rebuilding of the Sunshine Academy; a high-performing school saddled with a rigid governance board that clashed with parents. The school eventually lost its charter in June 2014 because of mismanagement by the board, but a committed group of par-ents joined to open a new charter.
“In truth, FAST isn’t Sunshine 2.0. It is so much more than that,” said Erickson, who noted FAST is not track-ing how many students were former Sunshine students. “The ideas we are presenting about education resonate so much further than the past Sunshine community. We are the FAST commu-nity and our culture will be unique.”
The curriculum is also different, focusing on Singapore math, talent-ed-and-gifted as a daily rotation, coding and four hours a week in innovation class, none of which existed at Sun-shine, she noted. Erickson noted the school has received more than 350 applications for staff positions, and has filled about 75 percent of the available 40 positions, including that of the as-sistant principal.
“Our leadership team is incredibly capable and passionate about our mis-sion [and] we have been so fortunate to be finding teachers who are [equally] passionate,” she said.
Charter schools are public, tuition-free schools which operate under a charter from the local board of edu-cation. The schools are granted some operational flexibility through the char-ter in exchange for higher academic performance.
FAST charter on track for AugustInterest exceeds available space at K-8 school in Roswell
We are not surprised [with the applications] as there has been tremendous support [for FAST] from the community since inception.” JUNE ERICKSONGoverning board member for FAST
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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — An improving economy is boosting revenues to the Fulton County School System, which is looking to use the additional funds to increase teacher and staff pay for fiscal year 2017.
Following a preliminary look at the forecasted budget for fiscal year 2017, the Fulton County Board of Education is considering a 5 percent raise for all teaching staff, and a 3 percent raise for all other district employees.
Special education teachers who are in high demand both locally and na-tionally could see an additional $3,000 supplement to their fiscal year 2017 salary.
“Giving our employees a pay raise and step increase is one of the tangible ways we’re able to show our apprecia-tion for what they do every day for stu-dents,” said Linda McCain, president of the school board.
The district, like most schools systems across the region and country, has seen an exodus of teachers over the past few years as competition for top teachers as well as other opportunities have heated up.
Revenues are expected to increase only about 1.5 percent over fiscal year 2016 for Fulton Schools, but the dis-trict is in good financial shape with a healthy reserve fund and stable budget developed through conservative spend-ing habits over the past several years, said budget officials.
During a March 8 work session of the school board, the board learned the Fulton School System was recently upgraded to a AAA credit rating by Moody’s – a feat accomplished by less than one-half of 1 percent of all school systems in the country.
Marvin Dereef, deputy financial officer for Fulton Schools, said this rating was based on “healthy and stable reserves and the experience of the man-agement team.”
In total, the general operating bud-get for the Fulton School System for
fiscal year 2017 is expected to be just over $952 million; up from $930 million in fiscal year 2016. About 62 percent of the budget comes from local tax revenue, with the state contributing the additional 38 percent. Aside from an allotment for the junior ROTC program, the federal portion of the operation budget is less than 1 percent.
The state contribution is higher than last year, due primarily to less withholding of money earned by Fulton Schools.
Since 2003, the state has withheld a portion of funds earned by districts through austerity reductions. Since 2003, that has equaled more than $391 million earned by Fulton but withheld through austerity cuts by the state. The “hole” created through the cuts has been filled through local tax revenue, said Dereef.
For fiscal year 2017, the austerity cuts are only $7 million, down from $20 million in fiscal year 2016.
“The positive side is in the past four years the austerity cuts have consis-tently decreased, so if you look at the trend, eventually one day they will get to zero,” said Dereef.
He noted revenue projections are preliminary, and will not be finalized until the tax digest is approved by the Fulton County tax commissioner.
The fiscal year 2017 budget is ex-pected to be tentatively approved May 19, with final adoption slated for June 7.
Teachers to get raise in FY17Rise in revenues to be returned to staff Giving our employees
a pay raise and step increase is one of the tangible ways we’re able to show our appreciation for what they do every day for students.” LINDA MCCAINPresident of the school board
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But wait. The first tank top on the clothing rack in the store is a small. So is the one behind it and the shirt behind that one is, too. In fact, every clothing piece in the entire store is a size small or, in their case, “one size fits all.”
Welcome to Brandy Melville, where every piece is made in a single size, one that they claim fits most.
Brandy Melville is one of the most popular brands among teenage girls, topping more established stores like H&M, American Eagle and Forever 21. Just as Abercrombie & Fitch only wanted the “cool kids” in high school to wear their clothing, Brandy Melville is only catering to a specific group of people.
But what went wrong with Ab-ercrombie was that the CEO of the company crossed the moral line when he addressed the issue when he said his goal was to interest the “Cool kids ... the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends.”
But Brandy Melville takes this one step further — unlike Abercrombie & Fitch that carries sizes extra-small to large, Brandy Melville only carries one size.
Melville isn’t interested in catering to women whose sizes or body shapes don’t fit their restrictive sizes.
This leads to the ultimate ques-tion: Does one size really fit all? (Or, as Brandy Melville says, does one size fit most?)
Women come in all shapes and sizes. Saying a piece of clothing is going to fit both a size 0 and a size 14 is ridiculous. Forcing this idea that one size fits all causes young girls to feel self-conscious and it isolates them for their size.
“It’s disheartening because I’ll see my best friend in a really cute crop top, but I can’t try the same one on because I’m a size larger than her,” says Maxine Akrofi.
She’s a 16-year-old high schooler who spends most of her time at the jew-elry station when her friends want to go to Brandy Melville.
“It makes me sad that I get ex-tremely excited when I can actually fit into something here,” another shopper
says, “That’s not how a girl should be thinking when she’s shopping.”
No, it’s not. So why shop there at all? Because wearing Brandy Melville is like being in with the popular group of girls that everybody wants to be friends with.
“All the girls are wearing it these days,” Akrofi says.
Brandy Melville is a type of store that emphasizes girls of other sizes are not welcome. It is sending the message that girls who can’t fit in their “one size fits all” are somehow not right. And they’re setting a standard for teenage girls to follow.
The insecurity that results from this is the problem.
Studies show that, by the age of 13, 53 percent of girls are unhappy with their bodies. By the age of 17, the num-ber increases to 78 percent.
From a young age, girls are con-fused as to what is considered a “normal” body type. And one naturally assumes that if a clothing brand is sup-posed to “fit all,” but does not, some-thing is wrong with a girl’s body, and not the brand.
Surprisingly, this brand is actually press shy. It doesn’t do any traditional advertising. Brandy Melville doesn’t advertise through commercials or print ads, but through social media. Its popularity is fed through its 65,000 fol-lowers on Twitter and 218,000 likes on Facebook. On Instagram, it has racked up over 2 million followers.
The Instagram lacks diversity and promotes one type of girl. This has popularized the “Brandy Girl” image. She’s 5 foot 9, tan, has long hair and legs that go on for miles. She’s also probably been to Coachella for the last four years.
Sixty-nine percent of girls in fifth through 12th grade admit social media photos influence their idea of the per-fect body.
Teenagers go to great lengths to meet these societal expectations. This leads to poor self-esteem and distorted perceptions of weight.
But many have already recognized the negative impacts Brandy Melville has on people and society. BuzzFeed had five different women, all different sizes and heights, try on the same arti-cles of clothing from Brandy Melville.
The video shows how on one girl, the top is too small to even get on and how, on another, the top drapes over her like a tent. Trisha Paytas, a You-Tube personality, even made a video explaining how a Brandy Melville employee allegedly refused to let her try on a shirt because she would “stretch it out.”
Brandy Melville might seem picture perfect and ideal for any teen, but the realities and effects of its implicit mes-saging are detrimental.
One-size clothing stores epitomize what’s wrong with our society, and since when is body shaming ever in style?
One size doesn’t fit all: What’s wrong with Brandy Melville?
ANNA CHARLOTTE PANGUEST COLMUNIST Junior at Alpharetta High School
Conservation subdivisions are again being considered in Milton. Not even four months have passed since the City Council voted unanimously to deny the Conservation Subdivision Ordinance due to overwhelming pub-lic opposition. You might recall that over 800 citizens signed a petition. The CSO’s demise was sealed when over 100 citizens packed City Council chambers to passionately express their opposition.
So why is the CSO back? Blame special interests and their City Council allies. Developers in par-ticular have been working overtime to change the rules. They have the time, money, knowledge, connections and paid attorneys to pursue their agenda. This time, developers are using rezoning and variances to achieve the CSO’s goals. This is a flagrant abuse of Milton’s laws.
So why are developers so passionate about “conservation” subdivisions? Well, as with so many
issues, one need only “follow the money.” The reality is that large buildable tracts in Milton are disappearing. In-creasingly, developers are eyeing unprofitable tracts and schemes for profitably developing these tracts. “Conser-vation” subdivisions are one strategy they have successfully used in other localities. With a “conservation” subdi-vision, a builder crams homes onto the most hospitable area of a tract. This increases revenues and lowers costs, thereby
making a “conservation” subdivision profitable. The remaining land —much of it unbuildable or uneco-nomic to develop — is claimed as “green space.” En-vironmentalism is cynically used as a public relations
ruse.If the rezoning and variances needed for a “conser-
vation” subdivision are approved, citizens can expect a raft of similar rezoning applications — a land and development rush in an already overheated housing market. The result will be higher land prices, traf-fic congestion, pollution, overcrowded schools and stressed infrastructure. It is a sad irony that “con-servation” subdivisions are actually the antithesis of conservation.
Once and for all, City Council needs to definitively reject “conservation” subdivisions. Nobody likes a rigged game. And citizens are tired of being jerked around on this issue. City Council is going to again consider this matter on April 25 at Council Cham-bers on Deerfield Parkway. It is critical that citizens attend this meeting to express their opposition to the special interests and their schemes to subvert Mil-ton’s zoning code to maximize their profits. Citizens, the time is now to show up, stand up and speak up for clean, competent and courageous government in Milton.
Tim BeckerMilton Coalition
LETTER TO EDITOR:
Conservation Subdivision Ordinance is back“Conservation” subdivisions are one strategy they have successfully used in other localities. With a “conservation” subdivision, a builder crams homes onto the most hospitable area of a tract. This increases revenues and lowers costs, thereby making a “conservation” subdivision profitable.
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NORTH FULTON, Ga. — ArtsBridge Foundation, the arts education out-reach arm of the Cobb Energy Perform-ing Arts Centre, announced March 4 the 96 actors and actresses who will perform in the Shuler Student Ensem-ble at the 2016 Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards – Shuler Hensley Awards. Additionally, the or-ganization revealed the 32 members of its 2016 Students Take A Role Council who will serve as production assis-tants for the April 21 awards show that celebrates excellence in high school musical theater.
The Shuler Student Ensemble fea-tures talented young men and women nominated by their high school direc-tors. The students represent public and private schools and will perform the Shuler Awards opening and finale numbers. They will be instructed by a professional team that includes a direc-tor, choreographer, music director, and Tony award-winner Shuler Hensley.
“It is a true honor to mentor and perform for the eighth year with this incredibly talented group of high school students,” said Marietta-native actor Shuler Hensley. “The awards show is filled with inspiring group and individ-ual performances. For many of these students, the moments that they have
on stage can change their lives. Past participants and their families have emphasized to me how important the Shuler Awards experience was to their development as future artists and arts supporters. Being part of this program from its inception has been, by far, the most rewarding honor of my career!”
High School students selected from North Fulton include:• Alpharetta: Olivia Palmer – Ensem-
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Coleman – Ensemble, Addison Webster and Kate Hohn – S.T.A.R. Council
• Chattahoochee: Heath Goldman and Rachel Da Silva – Ensemble, Marissa Borah – S.T.A.R. Council
• Johns Creek: Adam Puckett and Amanda Glatter – Ensemble, Da-nielle Bergman – S.T.A.R. Council
• King’s Ridge: Cole Arnold and Lucy Martin – Ensemble, Ari Marshall – S.T.A.R. Council
• Milton: Paige Underwood and Sara Underwood – Ensemble
• Northview: Claudia Moreno and Simon Assaf – Ensemble, Jillian Rois – S.T.A.R. Council
• Forsyth Central: Andy Turner and Jillian Fincher – Ensemble, Jarod Bandy – S.T.A.R. Council
• Lambert: Emily Crabtree and Maddi Romeo – Ensemble, Alden Kennedy – S.T.A.R. Council
• North Forsyth: Alexandria Bag-well and Caleb Barks – Ensemble, Amanda Day - S.T.A.R. Council
• South Forsyth: Daniel Holder and Susi Mishkin – Ensemble
• West Forsyth: Adrianne Crawford and Job Bos – EnsembleThe complete list of the Shuler En-
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Reporting to Vic Koelsch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Exide Technologies, Burke leads the Ex-ide Technologies Global Information Technology team, driving digitization of functional processes, customer integration and product offerings. He is responsible for global infrastruc-ture services including data centers, wide area networks, and the end user workplace environment and IT security. Burke will likewise help to drive growth at Exide by implementing an effective digital experience across all business and customer/consumer touch points in each of Exide’s business segments. Finally, Burke will work closely with the Company’s marketing teams around the world to develop disruptive, mar-ket-leading digital offers to accompany and add value to Exide’s stored energy solutions.
Burke has more than 20 years of ex-perience in developing and implement-ing long-term business and IT strate-gies on a global basis. He joins Exide Technologies from the Michelin Group, where he served from 2013 to 2016 as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for global infrastructure strategy and
services. Prior to Michelin, he served from 2009 to 2013 as Chief Technology Officer for LaFarge S.A., a $12 billion French industrial company specializ-ing in cement, construction aggregates and concrete. From 1999 to 2008, he served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the international pharmaceu-tical company Galderma S.A. Earlier in his career, he served as Regional Projects Director and Associate Direc-tor for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and as a Geophysical Engineer for Geophysical Services Inc. Burke holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Surrey, in the UK.
“Sean has deep experience in using information technology to transform business processes, having provided leadership in a range of IT applications in corporate, research and develop-ment, manufacturing and commercial environments. He brings to Exide a comprehensive global perspective on using IT as an enterprise enabler,” said Vic Koelsch, Exide’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “In making digitization a competitive advantage for The New Exide, Sean joins a highly motivated team of executives deeply committed to increasing our Company’s efficiency, agility and ability to deliver superior customer services and solu-tions.”
Mr. Burke is based at the Exide Technologies European Headquarters in Gennevilliers, France.
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MILTON, Ga. — Boy Scout Troop 347 has partnered with Crooked Creek to offer an opportunity for patriotic support by providing a large Ameri-can Flag to subscribers. They will be available on five different holidays throughout the year: Presidents Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Patriots Day and Veteran’s day.
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MILTON, Ga. — Two Milton men were honored by the Na-tional American Legion Head-quarters for their 60 years of active membership.
Virlyn Asherbranner and Ralph Martin were honored at the March 15 general mem-bership meet of Alpharetta American Legion Post 201 with framed commendations from the American Legion’s National Commander.
Asherbranner, A Korean War Veteran and retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant with 32 years of service was a past vice commander at the legion and served as chairman of the building committee for the current post facility when it was constructed in 1967. Also recognized for six decades of membership in the American Legion was Ralph Martin, another veteran of the Korean War. When in service, he was a member of the US Army. Among his American Legion leadership posts was that of past commander at the Wills Road facility.
According to current Post Com-mander Dennis Turner, “Mr. Asher-branner and Mr. Martin were among those early members of this organiza-tion who helped to lay the foundation for the outstanding organization we have for our community’s veterans today.”
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BALL GROUND, Ga. March 22, 2016 — Gibbs Gardens, less than an hour north of Atlanta, has been recog-nized as one of only five gardens in “The South’s Most Famous Gardens” category in Southern Living’s 50th anniversary edition, Best Southern Gardens.
In “Light Up the Land,” which highlights the Japanese maples, Steve Bender, writer/editor for Southern Living, captures the spirit and passion of Jim Gibbs, creator and designer of Gibbs Gardens.
Bender said, “Working tirelessly near Ball Ground, Georgia, he trans-formed 220 acres of wooded hills into Gibbs Gardens, a world class mar-riage of beautiful plants and design.”
Facts about Gibbs GardensIn addition to 1000’s of Japanese
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Daffodil Gardens, blooming from March to mid-April, display 20 million blooms of over 100 varieties that cover 50 hillside acres under a canopy of flowering dogwoods and cherry blossoms.
Manor House Gardens, located
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Monet Waterlily Gardens feature 140 varieties of hardy and tropical waterlilies and a replica of the bridge in Claude Monet’s Garden at Giv-erny.
A 40-acre Japanese Garden, the largest in the nation, includes seven ponds, pagodas and hand-carved lanterns.
In addition, azaleas, ferns, rhodo-dendrons, roses, hydrangeas, crape myrtles, daylilies and wildflowers provide an ever-changing tableau of color, fragrance and texture.
Go to www.gibbsgardens.com/visit/whats-in-bloom to view the full bloom calendar.
Gibbs Gardens is open from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sun-day, from March to mid-June and Wednesday through Sunday from mid-June to mid-December. The entry gate closes at 4 p.m.
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► Matthew Stephen Bratton, 36, of Dunwoody, was arrested March 4 on Riverside Road in Roswell for posses-sion of marijuana and possession of scheduled I & II controlled substances.
► Kenneth Amari Milner, 22, of Newcastle Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested March 17 on Highway 9 in Milton for possession of marijuana, possession of drug-related items and brake-light violation.
► Thomas Farrell Atkinson, 24, of McDonough, Georgia, was arrested March 5 on Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell for possession of marijuana, failure to maintain lane and taillight violation.
► Comille James Begnaud, 26, of Atlanta, was arrested March 5 on Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell for possession of marijuana.
► Alyssa N. Tucker, 26, of Dacula, was arrested March 6 on Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell for possession of mar-ijuana.
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► Vincent Odell Hudson, 32, of Atlanta, was arrested March 8 on Oak Street in Roswell for possession of mar-ijuana and possession of a scheduled I & II controlled substances.
► Everett Maurice Burris, 21, of Buford was arrested March 9 on Marietta Highway in Roswell for pos-session of marijuana.
► Kareem A. Hardy, 30, of Addison Lane, Alpharetta, was arrested March 9 on High Creek Trace in Roswell for possession of marijuana, suspended license and tag-light required.
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Harry Norman, Realtors celebrates opening of Milton office MILTON, Ga. — Harry Norman, Realtors President and CEO Dan Parmer joined in celebrating the new Milton office as an important extension of the 85-year-old premier real estate firm. He thanked Jenni Bonura, Senior Vice President of the North Fulton office, and Todd Em-erson, Senior Vice President of the Atlanta Perimeter office, for coming aboard as Managing Brokers of the new Milton office.
According to Jenni Bonura, “Our new Milton office has been opened to serve this vibrant community and provide the caliber of service for which Harry Norman, Realtors has long been known for new home buy-ers as well as long-term residents of Milton.”
Todd Emerson added, “Milton and its beautiful landscape of fine homes and many new homes deserve the service of our finest agents.”
Among honored guests at the opening of the new Milton office were Steve Krokoff, Interim City of Milton Manager, Brandon Beach, CEO of the North Fulton Chamber of Com-merce and State Senator of District 21, and Joe Lockwood, Mayor of Milton.
Dan Parmer, President and CEO of Harry Norman, Realtors (second from right) with new Milton office princi-pals, from left, Todd Emerson, Kathy Vaughn, and Jenni Bonura opening the new Milton office for Harry Norman, Realtors.
Pictured from left, Tania MacLeod, Anne Chamberlin, Jenni Bonura Senior Vice President and Managing Broker of the North Fulton and the new Milton office, Mel Emerson, and Kimberly Moore open the new Milton office for Harry Norman, Realtors.
Cutting the official ribbon for Harry Norman, Realtors new Milton office are, from left, Steve Krokoff, Interim City of Milton Manager; Brandon Beach, CEO of the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce and State Senator of District 21; Kathy Vaughn, Associate Broker of the North Fulton and the new Milton office; Jenni Bonura, Senior Vice President and Managing Broker of the North Fulton and the new Milton office; Dan Parmer, President and CEO of Harry Norman, Realtors; Todd Emerson, Senior Vice President and Managing Broker of the Atlanta Perimeter and new Milton office; and Joe Lockwood, Mayor of Milton.
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MILTON, Ga. – Hearing another book on leadership is coming out could be akin to hearing Carter’s got more liver pills. But when the book has been writ-ten by such an experienced, no-non-
sense source as former UPS Interna-tional President Ron Wallace, heads turn and notice is taken.
Wallace makes two things clear in his slim but information-packed volume. Thing No. 1 is leadership is not rocket science. But it does take adherence to certain principles and accountability – accepting your share of accountability and demanding it of others.
Thing No. 2 is everything Wallace learned about leadership came from his time spent in the UPS corporate culture of “we not me.”
As a man who has conquered every hill he chose to climb, one has to ask why write this book on leadership, and why now.
As to the now, Wallace said he has been “pestered” for some time by friends both in corporate UPS and from outside. But the kicker came after speaking and giving talks at some of America’s top colleges and universities.
“I began to sense that these stu-dents were not getting what they needed in school. In my career, I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ve seen all kinds of cultures in the 150-plus countries I’ve visited,” he said.
“So I thought maybe I have some-thing different to say. And I can say it with my experience based on leadership
in the trenches.”So don’t expect a book full of theo-
ries and Venn diagrams. This book is based on his experiences in all sorts of situations. And what he learned, Wal-lace says anyone can learn.
“What Brown did for me was give me a Ph.D. in teamwork,” Wallace said. “UPS provides both a platform and a regiment for personal growth. Promo-tion turns into a sincere concern for others’ well-being.”
What has shaped Wallace and remains at the core of what he believes
about leadership comes in a straight line from Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. They were the teenagers in 1907 who started what would become United Par-cel Service with one bicycle and $100 they borrowed from a friend. This was when a stamp cost one cent.
Wallace began his UPS career in 1966 as a driver – it’s where all corpo-rate UPS leaders begin, on the bottom rung. One of the first rules mandated by Casey and Ryan was that everyone
In my career, I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ve seen all kinds of cultures in the 150-plus countries I’ve visited.
16 | Milton Herald | March 31, 2016 RON WALLACE, Author “Leadership Lessons From a UPS Driver”
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Author Ron Wallace with his book “Leadership Lessons From a UPS Driver.”
“LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM A UPS DRIVER”
Finding leadership in ‘the we’ not ‘me’Former UPS International president Ron Wallace reveals secrets of leading mostly by listening
The Ron Wallace file• Began UPS career as UPS driver
and rose to be president of UPS In-ternational, with operations in 220 countries, 60,000 employees. Also a member of the UPS corporate management committee overseeing day-to-day operations and 435,000 employees.
• Has served as chairman or co-chair-man of 33 boards of directors of highly successful companies around the world.
• In retirement, he was tapped by then-Gov. Sonny Purdue to chair the Governor’s Commission to form the city of Milton. Under his guidance, the city opened its doors ready for business and serving the residents of Milton from day one.
• He is the founder of The Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub in Atlanta, which in 2015 was named Irish Pub of the Year by the Irish Pubs Global Federation.
See LEADERSHIP, Page 19
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want and need. How are you facilitating this process in your small business?
Knowing what your customers want should be a main driver of what you provide and how you provide it. The phrase “build it and they will come” is not a tag line — it’s actually a recipe for ongoing success. There are many ways to facilitate this process.First and foremost is talking with your cus-tomers. This can be done formally by conducting focus groups or interview-ing customers; or done informally by simply talking with customers when they are transacting business with you. Capturing information about what your customers want is only half of the equation. Actually delivering what they want is the hard part.
Small businesses that possess this information and knowledge use it to de-velop products and services knowing that they already have a market of buyers. Subsequently, they have a much better success rate in attracting and retaining customers. Often, small-business owners spend their time on everything else other than getting to know their customers. Conversely, successful small businesses will cite that their knowledge about their customers is their most priceless asset for managing and growing their business. Knowing your customers should always be at the top of your to-do list if you own and run a small business.
Knowing your customers
DICK JONESFounder & President Jones Simply Sales
More homes were bought in the metro Atlanta area in February than in any other major metropolitan area in the country — and that is despite also having one of the lowest supplies of inventory.
According to data compiled by
Redfin, there were 6,389 homes sold in metro Atlanta in February. That was about 100 more than what was sold in Chicago, and about 600 more than in Dallas-Fort Worth. Other cities in the top 10 last month were Phoenix, Hous-ton, Washington D.C., Detroit-Warren, Los Angeles, Tampa and Boston. Of all cities in the top 10 last month, Atlanta had the second-lowest inventory as measured in months of supply.
To me, this is a good measure of just how competitive a market is. More houses were bought in Atlanta than anywhere else, yet Atlanta has one of the lowest supplies of houses. That means a lot of homebuyers are fighting over fewer houses.
Redfin estimated that in February, there were three months of supply on the market — meaning if no new houses were listed, the metro area would sell out of houses in three months. Of the top 10, only Dallas-Fort Worth had a lower supply at 2.4 months.
Having a low inventory means we are in a very lean market. Most experts consider four to six months of inventory healthy. If inventory is lower than that, then home values could rise too quickly. If it is much higher than that, then home prices could remain stagnant — or even drop like they did
in Little Rock, Arkansas. That city had 7.4 months of supply, and median sales prices dropped by 0.7 percent over the last year.
Inventories were below two months in Seattle, Oakland and Portland. And in all three of those cities, median sales prices rose over 10 percent in the last year. So if Atlanta is lean, then these cities are malnourished.
Median sales prices in metro At-lanta rose 5.6 percent from February of last year. That may not sound like a lot, but if you wanted to buy a house that was worth $400,000 last year, you’d have to pay $422,500 this year. It isn’t the 11.5 percent increase that Seattle saw last year, but it would add about $110 to your monthly mortgage payment.
The metro Atlanta economy is going well. It added more than 7,000 jobs last month. And you can be sure that many of those jobs were given to people who transferred to Atlanta from another city, thus increasing the number of homebuyers and helping to keep that inventory low. Homebuilders are trying to increase the capacity, but when our economy busted in 2008, most of the skilled labor left for other
industries (or left the country). Build-ers are competing against one an-other to secure workers to build their homes. As a result, it’s taking longer for them to build homes, and they are having to pay workers more, which is pushing up prices of those new homes.
This is a good problem for a city to have. Hudson Valley, New York, had 9.7 months of inventory and median sales prices dropped 3.8 percent from January to February of this year. We are a little spoiled in the metro area. The problems we complain about stem from heavy job creation and a low cost of living, which has created a strong desire for people to want to move here.
Geoff Smith is a mortgage banker with Assurance Financial focusing on residential home loans for refinances and home purchases.
Geoff [email protected]: NMLS#104587Business: NMLS#70876*The views and opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of Assurance Financial Group
Metro Atlanta housing market among hottest in the country
GEOFF SMITHAssurance Financial, [email protected]
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau was excited March 21 to unveil its Only in Alpharetta campaign which highlights unique restaurants, shops, attractions and events that are exclusively found in Alpharetta.
As the city’s official destination marketing organization, the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau works year round to market the city’s numer-ous tourism assets to potential visitors. The team discovered that many of the city’s events, attractions, restaurants and shops are exclusive to Alpharetta – so, the Only in Alpharetta campaign was born in order to highlight those businesses.
The bureau’s team researched the almost 100 locations that can only be found in Alpharetta and discovered unique tidbits about the business that they’d never known before.
The campaign includes a splash page on their site www.awesomeal-
pharetta.com, a social media and media outreach plan, inclusion in the bu-reau’s bi-weekly e-newsletter, and a 40
page brochure. Each business featured in the cam-
paign will also receive a special Only in Alpharetta decal that they can put up proudly at their business.
“The Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau is always striving to come up with bigger and better ways to market the city of Alpharetta to visi-tors,” said Janet Rodgers, president and CEO of the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau. “Our marketing team came up with this campaign after hearing that so many businesses pride themselves in being found only in Alpharetta. Especially with the research components, this campaign has been a work in progress for many months and we are excited to finally be able to unveil it.”
Restaurants on the list include Alpha Soda, which holds claim to being the oldest business in Alpharetta, and Colletta which won the “Best Meatball in 2015” by the Atlanta Meatball Festi-
val. The team also found that the city’s shops are run by many family teams such as the sister owners at Sis and Moons and the mother-daughter duo at Honey and Hazel.
For more information, visit www.awesomealpharetta.com.
BUSINESSBRIEFS REAL ESTATE:
Cumming Keller Williams adds agentCUMMING, Ga. — Alnisa Bryan, associate broker and real estate agent, has joined Keller Williams Community Partners of Cumming.
To contact Bryan, email her at [email protected] or call 678-341-7497.
ENERGY:
Centennial teacher receives Georgia Power grantROSWELL, Ga. – Geor-gia Power has selected 41 new public school teachers from across the state to each receive a $1,000 New Teacher Assistance Grant this year from the company. Cen-tennial High School’s Zachary Kroll was among the new teach-ers honored.
The company awards the grants each year to provide the state’s newest teachers with funds to purchase class-
room supplies and start their careers as pre-K, elementary, middle and high school teachers. Since launching the program in 2004, Georgia Power has awarded more than $350,000 in individual grants to more than 350 new teachers in communities across the state. Visit www.georgiapower.com/community for more info.
HEALTH CARE:
Cumming physician joins health care networkCUMMING, Ga. – The Georgia Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation and the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative have announced that Dr. Matthew Markey of Cumming is the first physician to join the Compass Practice Transformation Net-work Georgia, which is part of the national Trans-forming Clinical Practice Initiative.
The goal of this initiative is to help physicians and clinicians achieve large-scale health transfor-mation in primary and specialty care practice set-tings by improving quality care practices. More than 1,000 Georgia clinicians are expected to participate in the network collaborative to improve the patient experience, enhance the health of the population, and reduce the cost of health care.
PHARMACEUTICALS:
Eiswirth named president of Alimera Sciences Inc.ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alimera Sciences Inc., a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Al-
pharetta and specializing in the research, development and com-mercialization of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, has announced the promotion of Rich-ard S. Eiswirth Jr. to the position of president and chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1.
Eiswirth, 46, has served as CFO of the company since Octo-ber 2005 and as chief operating officer since August 2010. C. Daniel Myers, who is a founder of Alimera and currently serves as president and CEO, will remain the company’s CEO.
INSURANCE:
Maxum Specialty Insurance Group aquired by The HartfordALPHARETTA, Ga. – The Hartford has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Northern Home-lands Company, the holding company of Alpharet-ta-based Maxum Specialty Insurance Group, for $170 million in cash.
Maxum will maintain its brand and limited wholesale distribution model and will be managed as a separate unit within The Hartford’s Small Com-mercial business.
All Maxum employees will be offered continued employment at close and Maxum will remain head-quartered in Alpharetta.
The transaction, which will not have a material impact on The Hartford’s financial results, is ex-pected to close in the third quarter of 2016, subject to obtaining regulatory approvals and other custom-ary closing conditions.
BRYAN
EISWIRTH
Zachary Kroll, left, and Centennial High School Principal Kibbey Crumbley.
ACVB announces ‘Only in Alpharetta’ campaign
The Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau is dedicated to showcasing Al-pharetta’s unique restaurants, shops, attractions and events through its new campaign Only in Alpharetta.
Our marketing team came up with this campaign after hearing that so many businesses pride themselves in being found only in Alpharetta.”JANET RODGERSPresident and CEO of the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau
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NEWBUSINESSSPOTLIGHT
Business: Bargain HuntAbout: Bargain Hunt, an “extreme value retail chain,” offers quality brand-name merchandise well below normal retail pricing on brand-name clothing for men, women and children, the latest electronics and HDTVs, a huge selection of home goods and domestics, toys and bikes, sporting goods and outdoor gear,
both indoor and outdoor furniture, and many more highly discounted items. Opened: March 11Address: 129 Merchants Square, Cumming Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-6 p.m.Phone: 770-888-2399 Website: www.bargainhunt.com.
Bargain Hunt opens in Cumming
Business: Elite Primary CareOwner: Dr. Peter WrobelAbout: Elite Primary Care in Cum-ming is Georgia’s new one-stop shop for a wide range of medical services. We treat minor illnesses and injuries for individuals of all ages, includ-
ing the common flu, minor cuts and scrapes, broken bones and more. Opened: February 2016Address: 1230 Bald Ridge Marina Road, CummingPhone: 470-695-7264 Website: www.elite-primarycare.com
Elite Primary Care opens in Cumming
is equal, and everyone addresses each other by using first names. It is done in part to instill the company has one goal: To deliver – with the best possible service and at the lowest possible rates.
Wallace got that lesson driven home when he first met Casey. Wallace was wrestling with a battery starter, trying to start a delivery car (they don’t call them trucks) when an old man walked up – Wallace recognized him as Casey – and offered to give him a hand getting the vehicle started.
Casey then struck up a conversa-tion with Wallace, asking what he liked about the job, what he thought might be any worthwhile changes. Above all, Casey let Wallace know he was a mem-ber of a team, and that his time and ideas were valuable to the company.
It was a meeting and a lesson Wal-lace has never forgotten.
As he made his way up the lad-der, his perceptions about leadership changed with the job, but each time it was to fine-tune the goal: deliver. And the unspoken corollary was that it would be done as a team.
As president of UPS International, Wallace met many world leaders, and he said he learned from nearly all of them – even if it was what not to do. But it was his lessons from Brown that served him best.
Each of the book’s chapters offers examples Wallace has drawn from his experiences that paint the path to becoming a better leader. Among the topics he details with vivid clarity are:
•Constructive dissatisfaction: No matter how successful you are, never be satisfied. Always be looking how to do it better. Your competition is.
•Promote teamwork, not super-stars: Success comes from everyone pulling together for the same goal. Collegial teamwork, not hierarchi-cal top-down management, gets the most from employees.
•Do what is necessary in extraor-dinary circumstances: That’s why UPS delivers packages by motor-boat in Vietnam and by dogsled in Alaska.
•Be a leader, not a boss: Boss is just a title. A leader takes charge and inspires others to do the right thing regardless of circumstances.
•Cultivating the X factor: One of the hardest parts of building a team is matching people and their skills to the right jobs. Every single person makes the company what it is – for good or ill.
•Knowing when to discard existing tactics and start fresh: Everyone needs a better mousetrap sooner or later. The trick is to recognize when that time has come and how best rethink what you are doing.
•Overcoming inertia/embracing new technology: Change is inev-itable, and demonstrating to the team how and why changes must be made is often hard to do. It is easy to fall in the trap of “playing it safe.”
In 144 pages, Wallace has written a handy, common-sense approach with proven solutions. It is written for CEOs, but managers of all shapes and sizes will find it invaluable.
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Leadership:
By KATHLEEN [email protected]
ATLANTA — Atlanta is one of the na-tion’s largest cities in terms of popula-tion, but now, according to Forbes, it is also one of the fastest-aging areas.
In February, Forbes released an article saying by 2050, the number of Americans over age 65 will be 81.7 million, which is almost double what it is currently. In addition, they will com-prise about 21 percent of the popula-tion, up from the current 15 percent.
Locally, Forbes said the senior population of 65 and older Atlanta inhabitants grew 20 percent between 2010 and 2014.
The surrounding metro cities may be feeling the pressure of making accommodations for their growing senior populations as well. To do this, independent senior living locations are being developed.
One of these is the Mansions at Alpharetta, 3675 Old Milton Parkway, set to open in fall 2016.
Kim Davis, one of the owners and partners for Mansions Senior Living, said they believe being a family owned and operated senior community
allows them to be more in touch with the needs of seniors.
“Many senior facilities are corpo-rate owned and operated, and with so many facilities to run it’s possible to lose touch with their seniors,” Davis said. “We are focused on just a few communities which can give us an op-portunity to get to know our residents much better.”
By developing, building and operating all of their communities, Davis said they save on expensive fees and costs that many other communities have to pay.
“These savings are passed on to our seniors,” Davis said. “Every day the Mansions team concentrates on keeping costs down and, by doing so, we can offer our seniors what we be-lieve is one of the best lifestyle values in Alpharetta.”
But the Mansions wouldn’t be able to provide all the great lifestyle values in Alpharetta if it wasn’t for the city itself.
“It’s a beautiful and growing city,” Davis said. “It has thousands of working adults who have parents and relatives who are ready to make a change in their lifestyle. This change lets them experience life in a true community where they can make new friends and make every day count.”
Pricing for one-bedroom suites starts at $2,695, with prices for two-bedroom suites beginning at $3,595.
Atlanta named fastest-aging city in AmericaSurrounding cities accommodate trend
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EVENTS:
SUSTAINABLE VEGETABLE GARDENINGWhat: Master Gardeners explain how to utilize environmentally sound sustain-able practices in your vegetable gardenWhen: Saturday, April 2, 10-11:30 a.m. Where: Whole Foods Educational Farm (former Harry’s Market) 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell More info: nfmg.net
CNC SPRING NATIVE PLANT SALEWhat: Attract butterflies, pollinators, birds and more to your garden by add-ing native plants with the help of the Chattahoochee Nature Center. Going native provides a wealth of benefits to your space, including privacy, beauty, blossoms, food and homes to our wide diversity of animals. Over 120 species of plants available, and horticulturists and knowledgeable volunteers on site. There will also be herbs and veggies for the edible garden and more. When: April 1, 2, 8 and 9Where: CNC, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellMore info: chattnaturecenter.org
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION What: Informative presentation about volunteering at the Habitat ReStore. When: Saturday, April 2, 10:30 a.m.Where: Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 11060 Alpharetta Highway, Roswell More info: habitat.org/restores
FORSYTH SENIOR EXPO What: Forsyth County Senior Services will host the 14th annual Forsyth Se-nior Expo. Free admission to the event with vendors from home care, senior living, legal services and more. Free health screenings, prizes and refresh-ments. When: Saturday, April 2, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Where: Forsyth Conference Center, Lanier Technical College, 3410 Ronald Reagan Blvd., CummingMore info: forsythco.com.
RACE TO CHANGE DESTINIES 5KWhat: Redeemed Christian Church of God King’s Court Chapel hosts a 5K run/walk to fund mission outreaches, free clinics, clothing drives, homeless shelters and more. Participants will receive a T-shirt and goodie bag. When: Saturday, April 2 8 a.m. Where: RCCG King’s Court Chapel, 9435 Willeo Road, Roswell Cost: $25 race feeMore info: runsignup.com
FORSYTH PARKS & RECREATION COMMUNITY YARD SALEWhat: More than 20 vendors will be selling an assortment of household items at the Forsyth County Parks and Recreation community yard sale.When: Saturday, April 2, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.Where: Central Park Recreation Center, 2300 Keith Bridge Road, Cumming More info: 770-281-2215.
VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL What: A public celebration of computer history and nostalgia featuring one-of-a-kind equipment exhibits, a rare opportunity to the view the Computer Museum of America’s Apple and PC Pop Ups, presentations by top computer designers and interactive entertainment for kids and adults alike, including vintage gaming systems. When: Saturday, April 2, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, April 3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Where: Kings Market Center, 1425 Mar-ket Blvd., Suite 200, RoswellMore info: computermuseumofamerica.com/upcoming-events/vintage-comput-er-festival
BACK TO YOUR ROOTS FARM FAIRWhat: Get back to your roots with Chattahoochee Nature Center as we celebrate Earth Day and get down in the dirt. Farm animals from Farmer Sue’s The Art Barn will be on hand. Bring a picnic.When: Sunday, April 3, noon-4 p.m.Where: CNC, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellMore info: chattnaturecenter.org
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MEETINGWhat: The DAR Patriots of Liberty Chapter will help attendees determine if they are descendants of Revolutionary patriots and how to begin the process of substantiating their lineage. When: Sunday, April 3, 2:15 p.m. Where: Alpharetta Library, 10 Park Plaza, AlpharettaMore info: [email protected]
JOHNS CREEK WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUPWhat: Open to all women in and around Johns Creek who are receiving or have received treatment for any type of cancer.When: Tuesday, April 5Where: Emory Johns Creek Hospital Education Center, 6325 Hospital Park-way, Johns CreekMore info: emoryjohnscreek.com
FORSYTH COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS PLANT SALE AND GARDEN EVENTWhat: Forsyth County Master Garden-ers host the 19th annual Plant Sale and Garden Event When: Friday, April 8, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, April 9, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.Where: The Barn, a covered venue on the Cumming Fairgrounds, 235 Castle-berry Road, CummingMore info: 770-887-2418, fcmg.share-point.com
SPRING BREAK RIVER CANOE TRIPWhat: Bring the family out on the Chat-tahoochee Nature Center’s first canoe trip of the year. Ages 6-adult. Advance registration required by April 6.When: Friday, April 8
Where: CNC, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellMore info: chattnaturecenter.org, 770-992-2055, extension 237, or [email protected]
MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER:ROSWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S THEATER NIGHT AT GETWhat: The Roswell Historical Society will host its annual theater night fund-raiser at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre. This year’s production is “Yesterday and Today!” The show takes the incred-ible music of the Beatles and person-alizes it with stories and perspectives of audience members. It’s a nostalgic musical celebration with laughter and tears and personal stories that connect the audience and the band in a way that no other show can. When: Tuesday, April 5, 5:30 p.m. Where: GET, 950 Forrest St., Roswell.More info: get.org. For Roswell Histori-cal Society tickets or more information, call 770-992-1665 or email [email protected]
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
PERSONAL FINANCE 101 FOR TEENS AND ADULTSWhat: Learn the basics of personal finance, for teens and adults. When: Saturday, April 2. 11 a.m.-noonWhere: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns Creek More info: 770-360-8820
AP PRACTICE TESTSWhat: Huntington Learning Center invites AP students to take a practice test to evaluate their skills. Practice test includes a complementary review session the following week at Hunting-ton to explain the results. Registration required.When: AP government, Saturday, April 2, 2 p.m.; AP statistics, Saturday, April 16. 2 p.m.Where: Milton Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Milton More info: 404-613-4402
40TH ANNIVERSARY ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL The 40th annual Atlanta Film Festival will present opening night and closing night gala screenings with talent appearances, as well as eight marquee screening events. The event is an Academy Award-qualifying festival and one of the region’s largest and longest-running preeminent celebrations of cinema in the Southeast. April 1-10 The opening night presentation will be at the Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30306. Visit AtlantaFilmFestival.com for more info.
Looking to get the word out about your event? Email us with photo and description of your event to [email protected].
NorthFulton.com | Milton Herald | March 31, 2016 | 21CALENDAR ForsythHerald.com | Forsyth Herald | March 31, 2016 | 19CALENDARGIVE PEAS A CHANCE BY KAISER PERMANENTEWhat: Special puppet show comes to the library in place of story time. Kick off spring break with this fun activity. All ages.When: Monday, April 4. 11 a.m.Where: Roswell Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: 770-640-3075
AP TEST PREP What: Special study sessions and prac-tice tests. C2 Education helps you prep for your education with practice tests. When: Mondays, starting April 4, 6-7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, starting April 9, 2-6 p.m.; Sunday, April 17, 2-6 p.m.Where: Roswell Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: 770-640-3075
SPRING BREAK FOR TEENS: BY TEENS FOR TEENS! IMPROV WORKSHOPWhat: Teens use improv theater games to boost confidence, develop public speaking and acting skills and learn to think on their feet, all while having fun.When: Tuesday, April 5, 2-4 p.m. Where: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns Creek More info: 770-360-8820
LITTLE GREEN THUMBSWhat: Introductory gardening program with gardening crafts. Learn about planting and weeding, and spend time outside. When: Tuesday, April 5; Wednesday, April 6; Thursday April 7, 2 p.m.Where: Roswell Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: 770-640-3075
FROGGING BY EARWhat: Do you have a cacophony of sound in your yard at dusk? What is causing the racket? Learn about our native frogs of Georgia and how to iden-tify them by sound.When: Tuesday, April 5, 6 p.m.Where: Milton Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Milton More info: 404-613-4402
THE BOOK WIDOWS TALK BOOKS, WOMEN AND MEN What: The Milton Library will host four local authors, Valerie Joan Connors, Susan Jimison, Connie McKee and Rona Simmons, who are published by Deeds Publishing, a Georgia-based publisher. They have banded together to promote reading, dubbing them-selves “The Book Widows,” and are sharing their views on how men and women read differently and how they might come together in a love of books When: Wednesday, April 6, 6:30 p.m. Where: Milton Library, 855 Mayfield Road, MiltonMore info: afpls.org
SPRING BREAK FOR TEENS: FINANCE 101 FOR TEENS PRESENTED BY WELLS FARGOWhat: Topics to be discussed include where money comes from, how banking works, how to use your money smartly and how to plan for the future. Ages 12-18. When: Wednesday, April 6, 2 p.m.When: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns Creek More info: 770-360-8820
FORENSIC SCIENCE WORKSHOPWhat: Learn to solve mysteries using forensic science including fingerprint, DNA and handwriting analysis with Discover Science Center. Registration required. Ages 6-11. Sponsored by Friends for Life Foundation. What: Wednesday, April 6, 3:30 p.m.Where: East Roswell Library, 2301 Hol-comb Bridge Road, Roswell More info: 404-613-4050
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
FULTON COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICESWhat: Pet adoptionsWhen: Every Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m., PetSmart, 6370 North Point Parkway, AlpharettaAdditional adoptions: Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday and Sun-day 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Fulton County Animal Services, 860 Marietta Blvd NW, AtlantaMore info: 404-613-4958
OF INTEREST ELSEWHERE:
‘KINKY BOOTS’ AT THE FOX THEATREWhat: Join Broadway in Atlanta as it welcomes “Kinky Boots” to the Fox Theatre for a week of musical excel-lence and Tony Award-winning perfor-mances.When: Through April 3, times varyWhere: The Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30308More info: foxtheatre.org
STEVE HUDSONGet Outside Georgia, Chattahoochee Media Group
This week-end offers a fine opportunity for a day of family fun outdoors – and a chance to learn about trout fishing in Georgia at the same time.
Saturday, April 2, marks the date of the annual North Georgia
Trout Online Spring Fling at the Bu-ford Trout Hatchery, just off Ga. 20 a few miles east of Ga. 400.
NGTO (www.ngto.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to pro-motion and protection of trout fishing in North Georgia. This online com-munity works to protect and enhance trout fishing on several fronts. Its ac-tivities include a significant outreach program which supports a variety of educational and environmental stew-ardship programs as well as a fishing-focused online message board. The group has “a firm commitment to the future of trout fishing in Georgia” and “strives to increase public awareness of the sport of trout fishing.”
The Spring Fling is a family-friendly gathering of trout fishing enthusiasts held each year at the hatchery.
Whatever your interest in fishing or conservation, the NGTO Spring Fling is an event you’re sure to enjoy. This year’s Spring Fling features a variety of activities ranging from an on-the-water fishing workshop to an introductory fly-tying class. Expe-rienced fly casters enjoy the always popular casting games which allow participants to put their skills to the
test – and if you don’t yet know how to cast a fly rod, there will be plenty of folks on hand who will be glad to share their time and teach you how. There will also be plenty of fishing-re-lated demonstrations for you to see and enjoy.
Despite the “trout” in NGTO, it’s not just about trout. NGTOers enjoy talking about other types of fishing, too. In fact, this year’s Spring Fling program includes a seminar (starting at about 10 a.m.) on fishing for striped bass in rivers.
There will also be plenty of door prizes and auction items, including a special raffle for a boat. Proceeds go to help support the organization’s activities.
A barbecue lunch will be served. And, as another highlight, you and your family can enjoy a tour of the trout hatchery. The tour starts at the hatchery office at 1 p.m. No advance registration is required for the tour – just show up at the hatchery office at 1 p.m. Kids in particular will enjoy this tour, which includes an oppor-tunity to feed some of the hatchery trout.
You may also enjoy wetting a line in the site’s family fishing pond. Kids under 16 can fish for free, but any angler 16 or older will need to have a fishing license.
Can’t make the Spring Fling? You’ll be glad to know that there’s an NGTO Fall Fling, too, held each fall at the same location.
For details on the NGTO Spring Fling, visit the www.ngto.org message board. Look under the “Flings” tab for details and a complete schedule of events.
Hope to see you there!
Learn about trout fishing at the NGTO ‘Spring Fling’
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With Spring Break around the corner and summer closely follow-ing, there are a lot of fun options waiting for your child! For many children, this summer may be their first experience participating in a summer camp. This could be a re-ally exciting time or a very stressful time for your child, depending on their personality.
If your child is ordinarily very shy, it’s important to prepare them for a new social experience with other children. Great friendships can be made over summer camp but it’s important to give tips on how to transition.
1. Practice at Home – Give your child an example of situations they may find themselves in at summer camp. What kind of conversations will they have? Will they eat at a cafeteria with other kids? If you know where they’ll be going on field trips, visit the locations beforehand.
2. Talk with the Summer Camp Workers – The more they know about your child’s shyness or anx-iety, the more they will be able to help your child acclimate.
3. Validate their feelings – It’s important to listen to your child’s fears and acknowledge their anxiety while also encouraging them to make new friends and help them get excited about the camp experi-ence.
At Kids ‘R’ Kids we are excited about our epic Summer Camp Olympics Adventure! All of our campers, from 5 to 12 years old will enjoy a taste of culture, cus-toms, and cuisine from nations all across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas! If your child has never participated in summer camp – this is the year to do it! Our professional teachers and staff know how to make every child feel welcome and have a ton of FUN! Sign up today!
Summer fun, adventures and learning!
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Gone are the days of going to camp just to get away. Now, Operation Lead-ership provides the leadership educa-tion that top universities and profes-sional recruiters look for to improve their organizations. And Operation Leadership provides this education in the most fun developmental experience imaginable: the greatest summer camp on earth! Our one-of-a-kind leadership development program packs so much unique education and adventure into 12 days, we can’t list it all here. But this will do for starters:
• Daily leadership seminars and team building projects
• Leadership application ropes courses and team challenges
• Keynote presentations from heroic leaders
• Incredible musical concerts • The steepest and fastest zip-line
tour in the country• Whitewater kayakingOperation Leadership is truly a one-
of-a-kind summer event for teenagers.Located on the beautiful 1200-acre
Blue Ridge Assembly facility in Black Mountain, NC, Operation Leadership’s program is further enhanced by limit-less amounts of free-time fun. Again, there is too much to list, but here are some big ones:
Mountain biking• Hiking trails• Disc golf• Massive swimming pool• Multiple gymnasiums• Tennis and volleyball courts• Coffee, ice cream, and snack
shops• …this list goes on and on. Operation Leadership also
benefits from Blue Ridge Assembly’s commitment to high-quality, buffet style meals and exceptional lodging facilities. Your child will experience all of the fun of summer camp, and all of the benefits of advanced leadership ed-ucation, while being served by the most
professional and helpful facility staff available. Every adventure is expertly guided, every challenge professionally supervised, and every meal prepared with care. You can rest assured that the ultimate summer camp experience
need not sacrifice health or safety. Operation Leadership is cur-
rently accepting applications for only 62 boys and 62 girls, between the ages of 13 and 18. Apply today at www.oper-ationleadership.com
Enhance your college application and professional resume with Operation Leadership
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Day CampsArt
My Clayground Art Camps. 12050 Etris Rd. #E130, Roswell, GA 30075.
T-(770)-998-2983 E- [email protected] W- www.myclay-ground.com.
Your kids will love our fun-filled art camps where they will explore their creative side by working with a variety of different art mediums, including, clay sculpting, pottery painting, canvas painting, glass fusing and mosaics. We offer weekly Summer Art Camps plus Winter Break and Spring Break Art Camps. Camps are for ages 7 and up, Mon-day-Friday from 9am-12noon and cost $220pp. Sibling and Multiple Camp discounts available. SAVE by booking Summer Camp before March 31st and pay only $195 per week. BOOK EARLY- Camps fill up fast. Come Play at My Clayground!
CheerleadingRoswell High School Varsity
Cheerleading Hosts Cheer Mini-Camp August 1-4. They will receive Tee Shirts and learn cheers, chants and dances that the cheerleaders use to cheer on our Hornets as well as make spirit items and posters to support the team. The camp will be August 1st-4th for rising K-5. Cost is $125 per camper. It will be held at Roswell High School in the cafeteria from 9am-12:30pm daily Monday-Thursday and ending Friday night at Meet The HORNETS Night with the Varsity Cheerleaders to showcase all they have learned. To register, go to https://roswellhorn-etcheer.shutterfly.com/register
DanceFootNotes Dance & Acrobatics
StudioWeekly Summer Programs.Ages 3-5Twinkle Toes CampM-F 9:30-12:30June 27-July 1July 11-15 Tuition $149/week.Ages 6-18Tumble Tech & ConditioningBeg-Adv. LevelsJune 27-July 1July 11-15
Tuition $99/week.Ages 6-18Raise The BarreSummer Dance IntensiveBeg-Adv LevelsJuly 25-29Tuition $299.For more information or to regis-
ter, please visit www.footnotesdance.net or call 770-992-5026.
GeneralMagnolia Farm Offering boys and girls a summer
of joy, wonder & fun on the farm! Activities may include archery, art, board & field games, camp songs, creek stomping, devotionals, farm animal care, fort building, gardening, horseback riding, nature journal and study, puppetry, science, skits, & more! Campers must be at least five & entering grades K-5; LIT grades 6-8; CIT grades 11-12.
Spring Camp: 4/4 to 4/8; Sum-mer Camp: 6/6 to 7/29, (No camp 7/4.) Campers bring their lunch. 9 AM to 3:15 PM. Before/After Care 7:30 AM to 6 PM (fee.) Bus/van transportation to many locations. Register Online Today! www.camp-magnolia.com 770.337.4785. Also Birthdays & Lessons! Alpharetta
HorseWillow South Riding School,
Celebrating 16 years of excellence in riding! Johns Creek location with INDOOR ARENA. We offer all levels of instruction. Ages 5-12. 9am-1pm. Learn to ride in a fun, safe program with skilled instructors and experienced horses. For the true horse enthusiast! www.willowsouth.com. $375 includes camp shirt and horse show! Send email to [email protected]. Sign up early to reserve your spot! June 6-10, June 13-17, June 20—24, June 27-July 1, July 11-15, July 18 -22, July 25-29
MusicCome join us for our 9th annual
Vivace Middle School Band Camp. This camp is for 5th through 8th grade students, first year all the way to All-State caliber, who want to im-prove playing skills with a variety of activities including concert band, jazz band/improvisation, music com-position, and woodwind ensemble. Instructors are certified band direc-
tors and professional musicians who are some of the best in the area. New friendships will develop by participat-ing not only in instrumental music activities, but also during recreation and junk instrument painting. The last day of camp includes an ice cream party and final camp concert. Register: www.vivacecamps.com Jay Hutcher-son, Director [email protected], 678-278-9210
PreSchoolJoin our Kids ‘R’ Kids Summer
Games that provide a global view of Rio 2016™ Olympic Games, where campers will experience an interac-tive peek inside participating coun-tries’ cultures, customs, cuisine and more. Add to that our own unique twist on the games themselves, and campers will experience 10 fabulous weeks of FUN!
Our Summer begins in Ancient Greece where the games originated and continues to transport campers throughout the summer, all across the country with virtual stops all along Europe and Asia! From Beijing to Big Ben, we’ve got it all! Enroll today!
Find our convenient locations on www.kidsrkidsatlanta.com
RowingExcited to learn the Olympic
Sport of rowing? Join us for summer camp at the Atlanta Junior Rowing Association! Athletes 12 to 18, co-ed, welcome! No experience needed! Two week learn-to-row camps available May-August. Choose from morning or evening sessions. $175/session. Also, back this summer are 1-week sessions geared towards high school athletes. $125/session. All sessions held on the Chattahoochee River, 245 Azalea Drive, Roswell. Learn the fundamentals of rowing and a basic workout program with the largest youth rowing program in the area! All campers are grouped by age and skill level. To register or get more information, check us out at www.ajracrew.com or email us at [email protected]!
SoccerSoccer Camps at Emory
UniversityBoys CampsEagle Full Day Camps - June
13-17 and June 20-24 for boys ages 7-14, extended care available. Eagle Elite Residential/Commuter Camp - July 8-10 for boys ages 15-18
Info available at www.eagleboys-soccercamps .com or contact: Sonny Travis
Emory Men’s Head Soccer Coach, 404-727-0597. [email protected]
Day Camp each week $325 in-cludes lunch.
Girls CampsFull Day Camps for girls 7-14
years. June 6-10, $335 includes lunch/
July 5-8, $275 includes lunchExtended care available. Elite Residential camp July 15-17
for girls ages 14-18 years, $385Info available at www.suepat-
bergsoccercamp.com or contact: Sue Patberg, Emory Women’s Head Soc-cer Coach, 404-727-2839. [email protected]
Camps traditionally fill up so sign up early!
Speech And DebateEmory National Debate Insti-
tute: Learn the art of debate and public speaking. Multiple programs are available. For Middle-School students, June 6-10, 2016 at Pace Academy, Atlanta; http://www.paceacademy.org/Page/Programs/Summer-Programs/Specialty-Camps. June 13-17, 2016 at High Meadows School, Roswell; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XS7iG-0EN0YF5IwanUZar5msWcjGME76x-LPQD-uMmlM/viewform. For High School at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, June 5-18, 2016, Public Speaking and Social Justice (for students interested in communica-tion skills and advocating for social justice in noncompetitive forums). June 5-18, 2016, Policy Debate (for students interested in competing in high school policy debate).
June 19-29, 2016, Public Forum (for students interested in competing in high school public forum debate) http://www.emory.edu/BF/insti-tutes/High_School_ENDI/index.html.
TennisCome join the fun and get better
this summer at Nike Tennis Camps! With both overnight and day camp options for ages 5-17 and all ability levels, there is a camp for everyone. University of Georgia offers three weeks of overnight and day camp for girls ages 9-17 of all skill levels. Emory University offers four weeks of overnight and day camp (ages 5-17) and an additional College Tennis Training Camp, all weeks led by Head Men’s Coach, John Brown-ing. Players will improve their tennis skills, work hard, make new friends and have a lot of fun. Visit www.uss-portscamps.com/tennis for details
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Overnight CampsAdventure & Travel
Since 1984, Deer Hill Expeditions has run summer adventure camp programs that include backpacking, rock climbing, river-rafting and work-ing on community service projects with Native American families. Sum-mer expeditions are available for boys and girls ages 13 – 18 in the canyons, rivers and mountains of the American Southwest. Deer Hill Expeditions also offers a program for 15-17 year-olds in Costa Rica. Expeditions are 19 to 25 days long and combine elements of wilderness adventure and com-munity service. Read descriptions of our programs, see photos and watch videos, and apply online at www.deerhillexpeditions.com. You may also give us a call at 970-533-7492 to learn more about our programs.
Community ServiceOperation Leadership provides the
leadership education that top univer-sities and professional recruiters look for to improve their organizations. And Operation Leadership provides this education in the most fun de-velopmental experience imaginable:
the greatest summer camp on earth! Our one-of-a-kind leadership develop-ment program packs so much unique education and adventure into 12 days, we can’t list it all here. But this will do for starters: Daily leadership seminars and team building projects; Ropes courses and team challenges; Keynote presentations from heroic leaders; Incredible music concerts; The steepest and fastest zip-line tour in the country; Whitewater kayaking. June 6-18. Only 62 boys and 62 girls will be accepted. Apply Now: www.operationleadership.com
GeorgiaCamp Juliette Low (CJL) provides
girls with exciting, outdoor expe-riences that foster self-confidence, promote teamwork, and develop leadership skills. Through work and play, campers learn to enjoy and appreciate the outdoors, gain responsibility for self and for oth-ers, and make life-long friendships. CJL campers live in platform tents and enjoy activities that emphasize outdoor living skills and recreation. CJL was established by Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, but op-erates independently and is open to all girls. Located on Lookout Moun-tain in northwest Georgia, CJL is a residential summer camp for girls
ages 7-17, offering one and two-week sessions. Preparing Girls for Con-fident Living and Leadership Since 1922. www.CJL.org
Camp Woodmont on Lookout Mtn in NW GA is a traditional, overnight camp for boys & girls ages 6–14. Just 2 hours from Atlanta, Camp Woodmont features horseback riding, high-ropes, climbing, sports, dance, crafts, canoeing, archery & more!
Founded in 1981, Camp Woodmont is the perfect place to build lifelong friendships and everlasting memories.
Our deep-seeded traditions, close family atmosphere and caring counselors make campers feel se-cure, welcome & reassured! Coun-selors are college-age and live in the cabins with the campers. Our camp program is very well-suited to first-time campers. Come tour the camp at our Open House May 15, 2016 from 2-5 pm. 423-472-6070 or go to www.campwoodmont.com
Strong Rock Camp is a place our campers call “home” and everyone is family. A co-ed Christian camp in the northeast Georgia mountains offering 6-day mini and 13-day main sessions for grades 1-10. Our mature, talented, and service-oriented staff are the role models parents, and especially camp-ers, are looking for. Unconditional love
and acceptance help every camper belong. We build confident and inde-pendent kids through a wide range of activities, including horseback riding, archery, riflery, canoeing, climbing, swimming, outdoor living skills, super science, dance, drama, art and crafts, team sports, tumbling, fishing and rocketry. Located in Cleveland, Georgia, 1.5hrs from Atlanta and 20 min from 400. 706-348-1533. www.strongrockcamp.com.
TennesseeGreat Smoky Mountains Institute
at Tremont offers nature, backpacking, science adventure and family camps inside Great Smoky Mountains Na-tional Park. Imagine splashing around in an icy-cold mountain stream, climbing ridges to an unbelievable view, or choosing from a variety of activities to discover nature through hands-on explorations, day hikes and crafts. Options for beginning campers as well as outdoor enthusiasts - ages 5 to 95. Tremont Institute creates space for discovery, personal development and opportunities to unplug and explore. Call (865) 448-6709 or visit www.gsmit.org/GA.html. Located on the Tennes-see side of the national park. Find us on Facebook @GSMITremont to see pictures and videos of the adventure that awaits!
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Camps are Mon. – Fri. 10 am – 4 pm for ages 5 –17, boys & girls.
Contact us for moreinformation & to reserve your spot today!
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Camp Shane, the longest running weight loss and fitness camp for kids and teens, is located at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs - North-east Georgia, an hour and a half drive from Atlanta.
Set on a quiet and safe 200 acre campus, it features air-conditioned facilities, collegiate size pool and Aquatic Center, 4000 SqFt. Fitness Center with state of the art well-ness equipment, fabulous new dormitories and professional grade sports facilities.
Parents have entrusted Camp Shane since 1968. By providing fun and educational activities about healthy living choices, Camp Shane empowers children with the knowledge they need to completely re-shape their lives. Weight loss ranges between 15-50 pounds. Through an easy, effective nutrition program which focuses on every day foods and portion
control, campers can expect to not only lose weight and learn how to keep it off, but also have fun, meet new friends and gain the confidence they deserve.
‘Every child is treated as part of our family,’ says David Ettenberg, Owner of Camp Shane. ‘It gives us much joy to make a difference in the lives of these children.’
Shane weight loss campfor kids & teens in Georgia Hoops N Sand (HNS) is a youth
training program owned and operated by Samuel Hines, a former professional basketball player. Samuel’s passion for children influenced him to start HNS, formerly known as Up With Kids Sports (UWKS). Coach Hines’ programs are designed to provide instruction in fundamental basketball and volleyball skills and educate, elevate, and em-power our youth through after school enrichment programs, clinics/camps, and group or private coaching.
HNS evaluates a player’s skill set and utilizes appropriate tools to improve the player’s knowledge of the game and skills, developing confidence, self-esteem, hand-eye coordination, physical conditioning, and much more.
Hoops N Sand has now opened its’ own state-of-the-art training facility in Cumming, Georgia. The 8,800 square-foot facility houses a full-size basketball court, a half-size basketball court, a full-size volleyball hard court, and a sand volleyball court.
In addition, Hoops N Sand is a unique and fun entertainment facility for both kids and adults! Space can be reserved for parties, field trips, corpo-rate meetings, team building exercises, or other gatherings. HNS can also be
rented for school/feeder team practices, clubs, or organizations. Find out more by visiting us at 1710 Redi Road, Suite 100, Cumming, GA or www.hoopsn-sand.com.
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Sunsational Summer
Have your camper join the fun and be part ofsomething special: an amazing summer fi lled withgreat learning opportunities and fun! Campers’ imaginations will be sparked by the caring counselors, weekly themes, fi eld trips, water activities and surprises!
MAY 31-AUGUST 5 4 YEAR OLDS - 13 YEAR OLDS
Have your camper join the fun and be part of something special: an amazing summer fi lled with great learning opportunities and fun! Campers’ imaginations will be sparked by the caring counselors, engaging themes, fi eld trips, water play, STEM activities, and surprises!
Have your camper join us at Mc-Ginnis Woods this summer for our Sunsational Summer Camp 2016! An amazing summer filled with fun themes, caring counselors, engaging activities, art, music, interesting weekly field trips and guest speakers, water play and lots of smiles has been designed for campers ages 4-13. Camp begins May 31 and
runs weekly themed sessions ending August 5. Campers may attend individ-ual weeks or the entire summer. Camp hours are from 9am-5pm daily at a cost of $225.00 weekly. Before and/or after camp care is available at an additional fee.
We will visit exciting destination including Zoo Atlanta, INK, Stars and
Strikes, and the Consolidated Gold Mines and enjoy daily activities includ-ing water slides, nature walks, STEM activities and group games in our full court, air conditioned gym. Our Spe-cialty and Academic Camps offer a va-riety of educational classes to sharpen your camper’s skills and mind. Camp-ers wanting to learn to cook, swim,
learn a sport, or act can do just that at McGinnis Woods!
Have your camper join in on the fun and plan to attend our Sunsational Summer Camp. For additional informa-tion or to register, please contact us at www.mcginniswoods.org or call 770-664-7764. We look forward to seeing you this summer!
McGinnis Woods’ sunsational summer camp 2016
Are you looking for a fun and exciting atmosphere for your child this summer? How about a great learning experience with top-notch coaches and teach-ers? If so, look no further than the 2016 King’s Ridge Christian School Summer Sports Camps.
Located on the school’s beautiful 70-acre campus in Alpharetta, this year’s eleven camps will provide attendees with new skills, new friends and life-changing experiences. King’s Ridge Christian School’s fundamental principle of knowing your child has been integrated into the summer camp format allowing campers to receive personal attention from the school’s exceptional varsity coaches and staff, gaining knowledge to serve as a foun-dation for their personal and athletic development.
Last summer, 225 students in grades 1 through 8 participated in football, basketball, cheer and other sport offerings, raising their level of performance while also having fun. In
addition to the sports named above, camps will be offered in baseball, soft-ball, volleyball, soccer and weight lift-ing/speed and agility. Camps are three to five days in length depending on the sport, and range in price from $125 to $250 per session.
To register, visit www.kingsridgecs.org and click on the Summer Camps link where you will also find outstand-ing offerings in Fine Arts. But hurry! Space is limited. King’s Ridge Chris-tian School is located at 2765 Bethany Bend, Alpharetta, GA 30004.
Summer sports and fine arts camps at King’s Ridge Christian School
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MILTON, Ga. — Alex Benson, the man-aging partner of Born to Compete, pre-sented resident student Jack Rhodes with The Most Outstanding Youth Football Career Award for the state of Georgia at the annual B2C Football Awards Gala on Feb 14.
B2C is well known around the nation as “The Best Source for Youth Sports.” The organization, created by Benson in 2008 and now partnering with Atlanta’s NBC affiliate 11 Alive, assesses youth sports performance in all boys and girls sports through middle school and recognizes the country’s most outstanding young talent, all year long.
“From among the many outstand-ing football athletes in this class of 2020, we feel Jack Rhodes is most deserving of this award, when you consider his entire youth career,” said Benson. “Jack is a versatile athlete, and demonstrated he could compete at most all speed / skill positions for his Milton team, which was undefeated in three straight regular seasons, sixth through eighth grades. Congratula-tions, Jack!”
Even in elementary school, Jack
has led his teams to 6 straight undefeated regular seasons in a row, starting in the third grade. Since that year, his teams have lost only 2 games in which Jack played. Over his entire 8 years of football, Jack’s teams have won three Alpharetta City titles, two Georgia State titles, finished state runner-up once and never finished worse than third place in the state playoffs. The seventh grade Milton Eagles were the GMSAA State Champions in 2014.
Jack will complete middle school at Northwestern this spring and enter Milton High School in the Fall 2016. He is a five sport athlete, also competing in baseball, basketball, track and swim-ming.
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MILTON, Ga. — With the lacrosse season now underway, the Milton Lady Eagles are seeking an unprecedented 11th state championship in the past 12 years. Since the Georgia High School Association began recognizing state championships in lacrosse in 2005, Milton has won the state title at the highest classification every year with the exception of 2009.
With a state championship this year, the dynasty of Milton girls la-crosse will be the second best in GHSA history in all sports. Only Westminster’s girls cross country would have a better percentage of state championships in a 12-year span as they won 19 state championships between 1984-2004.
So what makes Milton girls lacrosse so good?
According to Head Coach Tim Godby, it is dedication, hard work, a desire to compete, athleticism, talent, involvement from the community, the coaching staff and a desire for girls to be a part of the program.
And basketball. Godby, who grew up in Kentucky,
played basketball his entire life, in-cluding as a student athlete at Berea College. Thirteen years ago, while he was teaching at Northwestern Mid-dle School, Godby was asked by staff at Milton if he would be interested in coaching the girls lacrosse team.
“[Milton] was looking for a girls lacrosse coach and they weren’t able to find anybody,” said Godby. “They asked me because I was teaching at the mid-dle school and I said, ‘Why not?’
“I knew it would be a good chance to
get involved in the community and they were desperate to find a coach. I started coaching and I began to realize how it was similar to basketball. The coaches and parents who knew the game were able to help me transition and we were able to divide up our roles.”
Godby said he quickly saw the paral-lels between basketball and lacrosse.
“Defen-sively, it’s very similar in play-ing the ball. Offensively, you can set picks, post up, get around picks and there’s the full-court press. Fast breaks are the same. You run with motion and ball move-ment and you can play man-to-man or zone defense.”
With Godby quickly transitioning to the sport, it didn’t take long for Milton to begin their dynasty. Just a year after his first season at the helm, Milton won the inaugural girls lacrosse GHSA state championship in 2005. At the time, there was only a single classifi-cation in the sport. As its popularity has grown, so too have the number of schools competing. There are now two classifications, and Milton has won at the highest classification every year except 2009, when they were defeated
by Chattahoochee High School girls lacrosse.
Even after so many state titles, Godby says the focus of the team is still to improve each season and to continue their dynasty as their current campaign is now underway.
This season has started in typical fashion for the Lady Eagles as they are currently 6-1 overall after returning from last weekend’s tournament in Vero Beach, Florida.
During the trip, the Lady Eagles beat Vero Beach, the top-ranked team in Florida, 7-5. Milton’s only loss of the season also came at the tournament where they were beaten by McDonogh (Maryland), the No. 1-ranked team in the country that has won over 135 con-
secutive games. At the local level, Milton defeated
Walton 14-9 on March 10 in a rematch of last year’s state championship game.
On the defeat of Walton, Godby said, “Walton basically has their whole team back from last season. We had nine new starters. I thought we would be good going in but we needed to see our-selves challenged. So I was very pleased that we got the win.”
In games against Georgia teams, Milton has outscored their opponents 88-17, and Godby believes his team can continue their success as they look to improve as the season progresses. He also believes that his team is capable of winning another state title this year, which would be their 11th in 12 years.
Milton girls LAX: The continuing dynastyMilton seeking 11th state title in 12 years
PHOTO BY SANDI HUTCHINSON
PHOTO BY SANDI HUTCHINSONPHOTO BY SANDI HUTCHINSON
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Blotter:dow samples tested the tint at twice the legal limit.
The police found that Erik Shelton, 47, had a suspended license for failure to appear in court. Shelton was placed under arrest for the suspension.
While waiting for a tow truck, the officer noticed a strong smell from mul-tiple air fresheners and an abundance of cologne.
As people often use strong odors to attempt to cover up illegal substances, the officer had his K-9 partner perform a search of the vehicle.
The dog alerted that there was something suspicious about the back seat, where police found a black pipe and two plastic baggies, all containing marijuana. The total amount weighed in at 33 grams.
Shelton was also charged with pos-session of marijuana greater than an ounce and given a citation for window tint violation.
Stolen motorcycle found serving warrant
MILTON, Ga. — Police found a stolen motorcycle when they arrived March 22 at a local man’s house to serve war-rants for his failure to appear in court.
Both Milton and Alpharetta po-lice arrived at Delim Wells’ residence to serve Wells with warrants in the respective cities’ courts. Upon arrival, officers noticed two vehicles sitting in the driveway.
Police were unable to contact any-one inside the home, but they were alerted that one vehicle, the parked motorcycle, had been stolen.
Clayton County police had reported the bike stolen almost two years ago. Police impounded the motorcycle.
The homeowner informed the police that Wells had said the motorcycle was his and had texted her that he would be picking up the bike later in the week.
The motorcycle was impounded and held for Clayton County police.
Once informed that the motorcycle was stolen, the homeowner replied, “It
does not surprise me at all.”Milton police issued an additional warrant for Wells for felony theft.
Valuables worth $1,360 left in taxiMILTON, Ga. — A woman reported $1,360 worth of items missing March 22 after forgetting her bag in a taxicab.
The Texas woman arrived at the air-port and took a taxi to a Milton hotel. She realized she had forgotten her valu-ables after checking in at the hotel.
Among the items listed by the woman as missing were a designer bag, iPad, iPhone and necklace.
The bag had also contained several packets of paperwork with sensitive information. The total value of the pos-sessions were $1,360.
The woman reported that she had attempted calling and emailing the company multiple times but was un-able to reach anyone before contacting the Milton police.
Police were also unable to reach any personnel with the company.
Police advised her to continue call-
ing the company, while police attempt to speak with local personnel.
Security breach leadsto identity fraudJOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A local man reported March 19 that someone was impersonating him and racking up charges on a cell phone account opened under his name.
Police met with the man after he received a bill March 9 from a telecom-munications company with which he did not have an account.
The bill showed he owed over $720. He pointed out that the bill listed his previous address and contained three numbers that were not his own.
The man attempted to contact the company, but was told the fraud de-partment was closed and that he would have to call back.
The man was informed of a breach of his personal data some time in 2015 and was told that the stolen informa-tion included his name, phone number, address and social security number.
Milton hosts community Easter egg huntMILTON, Ga. — Participants grabbed their Easter baskets and had a day of fun Saturday, March 26 at the Milton Community Easter Egg Hunt.
This family event included egg hunts for all ages. Games, face paint-ing, music and a visit from the Easter Bunny were also a part of the festiv-ities. “We’re excited to bring a good, old fashioned egg hunt to Milton,” said
Courtney Spriggs, community outreach coordinator for the City of Milton. “We couldn’t have found better partners in our faith-based, business and recre-ation communities to help bring this event to our residents.”
Food trucks were also at the park, and the Milton Police and Fire Depart-ments were on hand to display their vehicles and equipment.
A large crowd attended the event.The Easter Bunny waves to a child.
Inflatables entertained the crowd after the egg hunt.
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MILTON, Ga. — Milton High School Track and Field produced three School Records at the State’s Most Prestigious Meet.
A top-10 all-time performance and three school distance relay records lead Milton to many outstanding perfor-mances at the 16th Annual Coaches Invitational at Lakewood Stadium in Atlanta.
GIRLSThis two-day meet, starting March
18 saw the Lady Eagles run to the second fastest performance in school history in the 4x1600m Relay (8th-21:57.56). Running in the fastest 4x1600m in state history, both South Forsyth (1st-20:37.54) and Northview (2nd-20:49.09) broke the record (21:01.45-Collins Hill, 1996). Seniors Riley Burr and Charlotte Matt, along with junior Brooke Aumer and soph-omore Emily Bowers comprised the team. Coming back on Saturday, Milton set a new school record in the 4x800m Relay (3rd-9:40.14) breaking the old record, set just last week, by close to 15 seconds. The team of Burr, Aumer, Matt and sophomore Annie Gallagher
challenged for the lead and settled for a hard-fought 3rd place (South Forsyth, 1st-9:37.01, Grayson, 2nd-9:39.53). Also competing was senior Victoria Wagner in the 1600m. Wagner’s 5:29.84 was the tenth fastest performance in school history.
BOYSDay one of this meet saw the Eagles
break into the state history books. Seniors Jack Bluth and Matt McGorrey, junior Michael McCarthy and sopho-more Sam Bowers lowered the school record by 21.47 seconds running the 6th-fastest time ever in Georgia High School history in the 4x1600m Relay. Milton (2nd-17:49.28) led until 700 me-ters to go when Marietta (1st-17:43.75) passed the Eagles and hung on for the meet victory and the third fastest time in state history. The Eagles also held off Marist (3rd-17:51.60) which was the tenth fastest time in state his-tory. The second day of the meet saw Milton defend their 4x800m Relay title and break another school record. The Eagles (1st-7:57.25) broke the old mark by 3.46 seconds leading the entire way of the contest. Bluth, McGorrey,
McCarthy and senior John Fravel were never headed as they bested Marist again (2nd-8:07.70). The 3200m saw sophomores Michael Malkowski (4th-10:03.48) and Ryan Beitzell (7th-
10:12.46) setting big personal bests. In the 1600m, personal bests for sopho-more Sam Bowers (17th-4:29.10) & se-nior Jacques Du Plessis (24th-4:32.66) led the way for Milton.
Eagles make history at coaches invitational
Pictured from left is the Relay Boys Team members Jack Bluth, Sam Bowers, Matt McGorrey and Michael McCarthy.
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Transportation:
“Currently, the revenue department will not share with cities how much sales tax is collected within their juris-diction,” Wood said. “The only city they share that with is the city of Atlanta. We had hoped they would change the law to share that information with the cities. We felt that wouldn’t cost anything – or very little – and it was transparency in government. That did not move at all.”
Wood listed three reasons for releas-ing the figures to cities. First, under the current law, if someone overpays sales tax and the city has received the money for it, then the city has to return their overpayment with 12 percent interest.
“So then, if we ask who overpaid and what were the circumstances, the state cannot share it with us,” Wood said. “This has happened. If we’re going to be liable to refund an overpayment, shouldn’t you tell us who overpaid and when they overpaid and how much they overpaid? We’re totally at the mercy of the state to keep track of that.”
Second, if somebody is not willing to share how much money they’ve collected, then there’s no certainty the state is keeping accurate figures in how much each jurisdiction is owed, he
said.“When someone says, ‘Trust me,
this is how much you’re owed,’ and they won’t share with you the numbers … there’s reason for skepticism,” Wood said.
Finally, Wood said, it is helpful for a city to keep track of what’s going on in its borders, to know whether sales tax revenues are going up or going down, what’s happening with businesses.
“It’s transparency, and apparently our Legislature doesn’t believe in trans-parency in government,” Wood said. But the Roswell mayor wasn’t finished.
He said he was also disappointed legislators did not pass a law allowing Roswell to make a charter amendment permitting the mayor and council to set a term limit of three terms. For the council, it was a new proposal. As far as the mayor is concerned it would have revised the current situation which is in litigation.
“We had hoped the legislature would clear up what the law is without having to litigate that,” Wood said. “But the legislature was not able to reach an agreement.”
Fulton County Commissioner Liz Hausmann, who represents much of the northern part of the county, said that aside from the transportation bill, she saw other legislation that directly affects her district.
Local transportationOne bill will allow for decreased
environmental red tape associated with locally funded transportation projects costing less than $100 million. Some facets of the project – such as historical sites or cultural amenities – would still require thorough environmental review, she said.
“Frankly, there’s an effort through-out the country to try to do (road) proj-ects without accepting federal money because it takes so long to go through that process,” Hausmann said. “If you don’t take federal money, you can speed up that project by years.”Fireworks
Revisions in the fireworks bill from 2015 will allow local jurisdictions to im-pose noise ordinances on pyrotechnics.Education
House Bill 801 provides extra credit for students who take science, tech-nology, engineering and math courses while they are in college.
“These (STEM) courses are more rigorous, and a lot of kids are hesitant to take some of these classes because they don’t want to lose their HOPE scholarships,” Hausmann said. “The jobs of the future are in technology and science, and if we want to have a qual-ified workforce, we’ve got to get these kids educated in those fields.”Narcotics laws
House Bill 900 deals with keeping records of narcotics and opiate pre-scriptions, “I think that’s a good effort to get some control there … especially in light of issues we’re facing not only here in Fulton, but in the state, with heroine deaths. I think that’s a good effort to get some control there,” Haus-mann said.New city
Legislation allowing unincorporated South Fulton to become a city passed.
“If that goes forward, Fulton County would be 100 percent municipalized,” Hausmann said. “Over the years, there’s been some thought that the county’s general fund has been paying for things in the unincorporated area that it shouldn’t. That’s been a contro-versial topic. I’m not actually inclined to agree that’s a huge problem, but I’m going to say there might not be some of that.”
The legislation changes the land-scape of Fulton County, she said.
“I think folks have been in a state of flux, lots of efforts to annex some of it, just a lot of uncertainty,” she said. “Now they’ll get to weigh in on that. I know there’s a big section of that community that wants to stay in Fulton County Schools and not be in city of Atlanta schools. I think it’d be good for the county as a whole to have that settled.”
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By HATCHER [email protected]
MILTON, Ga. – What has lots of smil-ing faces and lots of hair all over the ground and fights childhood cancer? Why, a St. Baldrick’s Foundation head-shaving and fundraiser like the one March 20 at the Olde Blind Dog in Milton.
Organized by Milton and Alpharetta firefighters, EMTs and police officers, this St. Baldrick’s event has a special meaning at the Olde Blind Dog because it honors one of the pub’s own – Kier-stin Dickson. She died just three days shy of her 21st birthday. Her first job had been as a server at Olde Blind Dog.
“Kierstin was the most optimis-tic, positive person you could hope to meet,” said her dad, John Dickson. “She always had a smile on her face. She made everyone she met her friend.”
Dickson remembered his daughter was a big Harry Potter fan as well as a dedicated student. Kierstin took every AP and honors class she could, and was also athletic, playing soccer from the age of 4. She went off to the Uni-versity of West Georgia to play soccer in college. In the blink of an eye, she called up to say she didn’t feel well and was coming home.
It was a stage 4 cancer. She fought it for two years.
“When she died, we had been plan-ning to have her 21st birthday at Olde Blind Dog. From the first time we came here, we just fell in love with the place. When Kierstin came to us and said she wanted to get a job, we told her to ask here. They’re good people,” Dickson said.
“So instead of her birthday, we had a good Irish wake instead. Hundreds of people turned out for it. It was a heck of a party. And it was a fitting memo-rial for her with so many of her friends here. This place was family for her.”
And so they came back for a second St. Baldrick’s event in Kierstin’s mem-ory.
Firefighter Bruce Hartman, one of the event organizers, said they had al-ready raised $15,000 by the day of the event and expected to double that on Sunday. Since it was also St. Patrick’s Day weekend, it was an even more fes-tive occasion.
Hartman had dyed his hair green, not that it was going to last long. His was one of the first heads shaved.
“This is my seventh year. So I’ve been ‘knighted’ into St. Baldrick’s. It is just a great cause,” he said.
Hartman said he usually keeps his hair fairly short, but he has been letting it grow just for this event.
Dickson pronounced the event “awe-
some.”“Seeing so many people here [easily
more than 200], it reminds me how many lives Kierstin touched,” he said. “So today is important. We don’t want anyone else to lose their kids.”
St. Baldrick�s head-shaving events
began as a challenge between business-men and have grown from one event in 2000 to over 1,300 events in 2013, raising critical funds for childhood cancer research. Events take place in pubs, restaurants, schools, churches, parks, malls, military bases, firehouses and any other place you can imagine.
St. Baldrick’s a cut above other fundraisersSt. Baldrick’s Foundation
The foundation got its start when a group of businessmen decided to challenge each other to raise money for childhood cancer research by soliciting subscriptions for shaving their heads. St. Baldrick is, of course, fictional but does contain the word “bald.”
So why shave their heads? Many cancer treatments can cause a patient’s hair to fall out. So, in addition to their disease, they must suffer the torment of “being different.” Shaving heads is a way for supporters to show in a personal way their solidarity with all young cancer victims who are fighting the disease.
Worldwide, there are 750,000 juveniles diagnosed annually with cancer – including more than a dozen cancers specific to youngsters. Yet of all the money raised for cancer research, less than 4 percent is devoted to pediatric cancer research by the National Cancer Institute.In the last 30 years, only three new drugs have been approved specifically for children with cancer.
St. Baldrick’s Foundation grants go to change lives of pediatric cancer victims in three areas:
Without a single new discovery, 30 percent more teenagers with cancer could be cured simply by giving them pediatric – not adult – cancer treatments.
Some 95 percent of childhood cancer survivors will have chronic health problems by age 45 due to treatments they received as juveniles. Of those, 80 percent will have life-threatening conditions.
Supportive care and symptom management along with family coping skills help the whole family deal with the child’s cancer.For information, go to www.stbaldricks.org
HATCHER HURD/HERALD
It wasn’t just the guys stepping up for a shave.
HATCHER HURD/HERALD
Milton firefighter Daniel Clausen gives up his hair – such as it is – for the cause.
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HATCHER HURD/HERALD
Firefighter/EMT Bruce Hartman has a healthy head of hair – dyed green for St. Paddy’s Day – before and after; well, it was for a good cause.
HATCHER HURD/HERALD
Three-year-old Jax Henderson gets some reassurance from his dad, Tim, who is also manager of Olde Blind Dog.
HATCHER HURD/HERALD
Volunteer barbers from the Georgia Beauty School line up to shave the head of Milton firefighter Mark Haskins.
HATCHER HURD/HERALD
The shirt tells the story.
HATCHER HURD/HERALD
Alpharetta firefighter Tank Geer is not losing much except a St. Paddy’s Day mohawk.
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City of MiltonNotice of Meeting
Mayor and City Council
Meeting: Mayor and City Council April 25, 2016, 7:00pm, Public Hearing
Location: City of Milton City Hall 13000 Deerfi eld Parkway, Bldg 100 Council Chambers Milton, Georgia 30004-6119 678-242-2500
Consideration of primary variances:
• V16-003, The Reserve at Providence, Providence Road, The Providence Group of Georgia Custom Homes, LLC
o To reduce the front setback from 60 feet to 20 feet, on lots 1-10,18-23,30 and 34-36. (Section 64-416,b)
o To increase the allowed height from 28 feet to 33 feet, on lots 5-9,19,20,34&35 (Section 64.1141.c.1)
By JOE PARKER [email protected]
ROSWELL, Ga. — The Blessed Trinity Titans have continued their dominance of the past two years, compiling a 14-0 record to start their 2016 season and winning a total of 45 straight games dating back to last season. The Titans’ winning streak is currently the sec-ond-longest-running streak in the na-tion. The Titans are ranked 18th in the nation according to MaxPreps.com and fourth in the nation in the USA Today computer rankings.
The two-time defending Class 3A state champions have started their sea-son with an average margin of victory of 10 runs per game.
Much of their success can be at-tributed to the Titans’ pitching. Last season, the Titans’ entire pitching staff had an ERA of just 1.00, the lowest mark in the entire state. That pitching dominance has continued halfway into the 2016 campaign as the Titans have allowed just eight runs in 14 games, a combined ERA of just 0.45.
Senior John Michael Bertrand, who has five wins for the Titans, has allowed just 10 hits in 23.1 innings pitched and two earned runs. He has struck out 20 of 85 batters faced and has not committed a walk. Fellow se-nior Hayden Lehman has two wins in
four appearances for BT with 0.40 ERA and 19 strikeouts.
Junior Connor Durham has allowed
just four hits in 12.2 innings and Pey-ton Glavine, son of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Glavine, has pitched 10.1 innings for the Titans, striking out 18
of the 40 batters he has faced. While their pitching has kept runs
to a minimum, BT’s batters have had no trouble scoring. The Titans are aver-aging 10 runs per game.
Freshman CJ Abrams is hitting .500 in 30 at-bats for the Titans, leading the team with 17 runs scored. David Dunn is batting .378 with 11 RBIs and leads the team in triples with three. Garret Dupuis is hitting .419 and leads the team with 15 RBIs. Seniors Jake Bogo-sian and Colin Dore have combined for 13 doubles.
In their 13 wins, the Titans have beaten some other top teams in Geor-gia. They defeated Lambert, last year’s Region 6-AAAAAA champions, 4-0 on March 3, as well as Allatoona in 10 innings to open the season.
The Titans are currently 8-0 in Region 4-AAA, and they will be seeking their fifth consecutive region title.
After three region games this week, the Titans will travel to Louisiana to play three games, including a game against Teurlings Catholic, the 11th-ranked team in the nation according to MaxPreps.
Nationally ranked BT baseball still undefeatedHave won 45 straight games
City of MiltonNotice of Meeting
Board of Zoning Appeals
Meeting: Board of Zoning Appeals April 19, 2016 7:00 P.M.
Location: City of Milton City Hall 13000 Deerfi eld Parkway, Bldg 100 Council Chambers Milton, Georgia 30004-6119 678-242-2500
Consideration of primary variances:
a. V16-004, 235 Buckland Run, Geoffrey JonesRequest(s):• To allow an accessory structure to encroach into the side
setback (Section 64-416,i)
b. V16-005, 13345 Providence Road, Alan & Diane Van Heest• To allow a structure to encroach into the 75 foot impervious
setback• To allow an existing accessory structure to encroach into the 75
foot impervious setback (Section 20-426,1,2)
c. V16-006, 1745 Dinsmore Road, Kevin and Elaina SmithRequests(s): • To allow an existing accessory structure to encroach into the
rear setback (Section 64,416,d,i)
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Conor Davis at bat for Blessed Trinity.
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John Michael Bertrand has pitched well for the Titans collecting five wins while allowing just 10 hits in 23.1 innings pitched.
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Personal
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SatelliteTV/Electronics
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Travel
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Cemetery
R o s w e l l - G r e e n l a w n . Garden of Prayer overlooking lake with fountain. 4 plots. [email protected] for more info and photos
Furniture
DINING SET, white wicker. 48” glass-top table, 4 cushioned chairs $350. 770-993-5842
OUTDOOR FURNITURE7 piece; rectangular table with 6 chairs. Brand new $900/obo. 770-490-4177
DINING SET, cherry: Table, China cabinet, server, chairs. $700/obo. 770-568-1344
FRENCH BEDROOM SET: Twin beds, headboard, footboard, dresser, side table $700. 678-277-9970
Furniture
SOFA: Ethan Allen dark pine, matching coffee table. $350. 770-993-0835
Garden/Lawn
DRIFTWOOD: For decorating and/or projects. $350/all! Text for pix: 678-468-8687
Household
R E F R I G E R A T O R , Samsung, 24.1cf. Water and ice dispenser. $950/obo. 770-490-4177ORIENTAL RUGS, matching patterns. 3.6x5.6 and 2.6x8 runner. Never used! $300. 770-418-1929
Medical Equipment
HOSPITAL BED: Electronic controls with deluxe mattress. Bought new, used less than 2 weeks. $750. Originally $2000. 404-735-7250
Musical Instruments
CELLO, 7/8 Doetsch, Pernambuco bow, Hiscox hard sided case $2400. 770-753-0787
PIANO, Baby Grand: Elegant case, matching bench; warm, rich tone. Sacrifice $1650 obo. 678-445-3654
Office/Business Equip/Supplies
Cherry conference room table (8’x4’), 6 chairs. $500; Executive cherry desk $300; 3 side chairs, cherry frame, dark green fabric $150; 2 reception fabric chairs $80 Mint! 770-992-7875
Cherry conference room table (8’x4’), 6 chairs. $500; Executive cherry desk $300; 3 side chairs, cherry frame, dark green fabric $150; 2 reception fabric chairs $80 Mint! 770-992-7875
Recreation
POOL TABLE, 4x8, 4 chairs, cues, rack, 2 more tables. $2000/OBO. 404-934-7307
GOLF MEMORABILIA: Club Logo; balls and towels, etc. $295. 404-583-2078
Pool Table, 8’. Balls, racks, cue stand, sticks. Slate base, Dark cherry, leather ball pockets. $850.770-617-5943
Nordic Track Walk Fit 5000: Non-electric, no batteries. $100. 770-993-0835
Bowflex Treadclimber TC5000. Very lightly used; great condition! $350. 678-386-1588
GOLF CLUBS: Ladies’ complete set, Lynx irons, graphite woods, ball retriever, wood covers, new bag $325. 770-740-9757
Wanted to Buy
Vintage Barbie, Midge, Francie, Skipper dolls, clothing and accessories. (Local). Cell 214-883-8215
Real Estate
Acreage/Lots
3575 Bonneville Drive, Cumming .23 acres in Shady Shores $29,900 Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
Acreage/Lots
1.98 acre Residential Lot off of E. Cherokee Dr./Murphy Dr. (secluded drive) in Cherokee County. Wooded with mature hardwoods, sloped lot. All utilities at road. $42,000 Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
0.47 acre Residential Lot off of River Club Drive, backs up to Yellow River in Gwinnett County $30,000. Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
CUMMINGPerfect homesite lot for sale 2 clear level acres, Hawkins Drive. Private dead-end street surrounded by nice homes. Michele Williams 770-722-1303, office 770-667-0800, www.NegrelliRealtyGA.com
Apartment for Rent - Furnished
ALPHARETTABasement. Outside entrance. 1BDRM/1BA. Large den and kitchen combination. No pets. Non-smoker. 2 references. 770-475-1788
Commercial Space for Sale
2376 Bethelview Road, 1.07 acre commercial in CBD zoning across from Kroger at Bethelview Rd & GA Hwy 20 intersection. Owner Agent, asking $549,000. Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
Home for Sale
344 Rainey Dr, Dawsonville. Charming 3BR/3BA craftman home best of both worlds close to Lake Lanier and Mountains. Wooded lot on cul-de-sac. Well cared for home with heated tub, expansive deck, hardwood floors and finished basement. $192,900 Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
European elegance at its finest! No expense spared! Featuring hardwood floors, extensive trim package, 10’/vaulted ceilings, large windows & transoms, spacious bedrooms, office/library, 2 story formal living rm, large dining rm, gourmet kitchen w. huge island, 2 stone fireplaces. The finished basement offers a full kitchen, dining area, laundry rm, master suite, extra rm (possible 7th bdrm. or home gym), home theater w/ equipment conveniently accessible by elevator. Stone patio & fire pit overlooking a picturesque creek. Entertainer delight! Will not disappoint! $725,000 Kelly Gillian 770-654-0447
Beautiful 2 story home situated on a corner lot in downtown Dawsonville. One of the largest homes in the neighborhood. Fenced in back yard perfect for grilling with plenty of room for pets and/or children to play. Large formal dining room and an eat in kitchen with open view to the family room. Minutes to Ga 400 and shopping/dining. Light and bright, will not disappoint. $199,900 Kelly Gillian Keller Williams Realty Community Partners 770-654-0447
Home for Sale
3129 Castaway Lane, Chamblee. 4BR/2.5BA plus office and partial basement on a great lot. Hardwood floors, granite counters, updated bathrooms. Charming 4-sided brick home, easy access to 285/85. No HOA. $299,000 Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
Investment Property/
Residential
Personal Care Home in Roswell with 100% occupancy is seeking new Corporate Ownership. $499,000. Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
Personal Care Home in Alpharetta with 100% occupancy seeking new Corporate Ownership. $699,000.Call Christy Scally, Keller Williams 678-341-7400 office, 404-660-2919 cell, www.AgentScally.com
Office Space for Rent
Main Street Commons Offi ce Condo Park, Heart Of Downtown Alpharetta. Single Story Offi ce Condo 1104 SF, 3 Offi ces, Reception Area, Conference & Break Rooms, Storage Closet, very nice fi nishes. $1385/month. 1020 Powers Place. [email protected]
Office Space for Sale
ROSWELLMinutes from Holcomb Bridge, Mansell Road, 400. 852 square feet. Receptionist area, 3 offices, kitchen, bathroom, $80,000. 678-205-1330
Waterfront in GA
LAKE NOTTELEY 1-acre lakefront wooded lot, just 90 miles north of Atlanta in upscale mountain-top community with pool, clubhouse, stables and many more amenities. Motivated seller $189,000. 770-845-5709
Personal Services
Eldercare
Excellent Home Care Services at great value! 14 years experience. L i c e n s e d / i n s u r e d /background checks done. CNA, medication reminders, housekeeping, errands, cooking/transportation. 678-431-6233
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BACKWATER LANDING – LAKE KEOWEE, SCWaterfront Cottages, Gated – Prices from $140’s to $395,000
This showcase model now available fully furnished for $395,000Lodge, fitness center, pool, beach, boardwalk, boat slips and more.
888-663-1133 www.backwaterlanding.comOffice Hours: Mon-Fri 1-5, Sat & Sun 11-5
and always available by appointment
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Cleaning Services
Need a housecleaning? Call Norma Martinez for free estimate! References. 404-468-7667. “I get all your dust to earn your trust!”
Concrete/Asphalt
We fix UGLY driveways and patios.
$50 OFF any concrete job over $250
$250 OFF any job over $3500
New or Repair: Driveways, patios, sidewalks, walls. Res ident ia l o r Commercial. Call for FREE estimate. The Best Concrete Company-Ask for Dave McKemey. 678-648-2010.Professional, competitive, many local references.
Deck
DECKS, pergolas, and fences. Clean and seal... 30 years experience. Call for FREE estimate 404-556-0493 or 770-569-7772 Arbor Woodworks LLC.
Driveway
We fix UGLY driveways.$50 OFF any concrete job
over $250$250 OFF any job over
$3500New or Repair: Driveways, patios, sidewalks, walls. Res ident ia l o r Commercial. Call for FREE estimate. The Best Concrete Company-Ask for Dave McKemey. 678-914-2576.Professional, competitive, many local references.
Farm/Garden Services
Bushhog, bobcat work,clearing/cleanups,light grading, plowing,garden tilling, pinestraw/mulch, pasture renovation/ finish mowing. Insured, experienced. 770-363-5092, [email protected]
Flooring
PHILLIPS FLOORING Hardwood, laminate, carpet & tile installation and repairs. We do tile floors, showers, tub surrounds and kitchen back-splashes. Re-grouting is also available. Call 678-887-1868 for free estimate.
Gutters
AARON’S ALL-TYPE GUTTERS Repaired and Installed. Covers, siding, soffit, facia. www.aarons-gutters.com. Senior citizen discount! 770-934-2766
Handyman
ALL CARPENTRY & REPAIRS: Roof Leaks, Wood Rot Repair, Siding, Deck Repairs and Refinishing, Painting, Doors/Windows. Excellent References. 404-895-0260
Haulers
Bush Hogging, Clearing, Grading, Hauling etc. Many local references. Call Ralph Rucker at 678-898-7237
Home Improvement
Finegan Home Improvements LLC: License #RBQA004932. Remodeling, handyman. 31 years experience. Basements finished, decks, screen porches, doors, drywall, painting, flooring, custom kitchens, bathrooms. All insurance. Credit cards accepted. Paul Finegan 404-353-5611
Bush Hogging, Clearing, Grading, Hauling etc. Many local references. Call Ralph Rucker at 678-898-7237
Landscaping
Combined 50 yrs. Experience Residential/Commercial landscaping solutions. Stone, Sod & Pine Straw Decorative Stones, Pavers & Flagstone. Courtyard Design, Landscape lighting and more. Pick-up & Delivery GRASS SOURCE 678-880-3950
404Cuttree. One of the most experienced and reliable tree companies in North Atlanta. Perfect reviews and reliable, professional, and honest service. Free quotes. Fully insured. 770Tree.com 678-506-0006
Landscaping
RETAINING WALLS, irrigation, sod installation, plants, mulch, fertilization, tree removal, pine-straw installation and monthly
lawn maintenance. Carreno Landscaping
404-312-5082
Landscaping
Landscape Design, Hardscape Design and Installation. 35 Years’ Experience; Retaining Walls, Flag Stone and BrickP aver Patios, Landscape Lighting, Drainage Issues, Pavilions. Outdoor kitchens, irrigation systems installation and repairs. FREE CONSULTATIONS! www.thebodigroup.com. 678-788-5656
Roots Horticulture; a full service landscape company capable of seeing any landscape job through from concept to completion. We place our focus on quality craftsmanship and honest customer service. 404-557-9147
Yellow Ribbon Tree. Near perfect reviews and award-winning service. Hands on owner. Free estimates and insured. 770Tree.com 770-744-2200 and ask for Gary.
Lawn Care
Bush Hogging, Clearing, Grading, Hauling etc. Many local references. Call Ralph Rucker at 678-898-7237
LEAVE THE MOWING TO US”A”! Weekly/Bi-weeklyFather/Son team Weed&Feed, Mosquito Programswww.GaGreenWorks.com 678-727-6850 Call or Text
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Employment Opportunities
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Health & Fitness
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Miscellaneous
ADVERTISE to 10 Million Homes across the USA! Place your ad in over 140 community newspapers, with circulation totaling over 10 million homes. Contact Independent Free Papers of America IFPA at [email protected] or visit our website cadnetads.com for more information
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!!OLD GUITARS WANTED!! Gibson,Martin,Fender,Gretsch. 1930-1980. Top Dollar paid!! Call Toll Free 1-866-433-8277
Miscellaneous for Sale
KILL BED BUGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT. Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com
Wanted to Buy
Wants to purchase minerals and other oil and gas interests. Send details to P.O. Box 13557 Denver, Co. 80201
Wanted to Buy
CASH PAID- up to $25/Box for unexpired, sealed DIABETIC TEST STRIPS. 1-DAYPAYMENT. 1-800-371-1136
Painters
Advantage Painting
Interior/ExteriorDecks Sealed & Stained
Carpentry Repairs
770-255-8575
Proudly use Benjamin Moore
& Sherwin Williams paintsPrompt Professional Service
Free Estimate, Insured
No Up Front Money
Pinestraw
PINESTRAW, mulch d e l i v e r y / i n s t a l l a t i o n available. Firewood $110/$200, plus delivery. Licensed, insured. Angels of Earth Pinestraw and Mulch. 770-831-3612.
Remodeling
A leader in the construction and remodeling industry, specializing in High End Remodeling; Additions, Basements, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Complete Renovations, Porches; professional, courteous, on-time and within budget. [email protected] 678-341-9744 www.raymacremodeling.com
Tree Services
Yellow Ribbon Tree. Near perfect reviews and award-winning service. Hands on owner. Free estimates and insured. 770Tree.com 770-744-2200 and ask for Gary.
404Cuttree. One of the most experienced and reliable tree companies in North Atlanta. Perfect reviews and reliable, professional, and honest service. Free quotes. Fully insured. 770Tree.com 678-506-0006
Yellow Ribbon Tree Experts: 24 hour emergency service. Licensed, insured. Workers Comp, insurance claims. 25+ years experience. Family business. Free estimates. We Love Challenges! Yellow Ribbon Tree Experts, 770-512-8733. www.yellowribbontree.com
JJ Tree Cutting Services. Complete Tree Removal. Call us for a Free Quote, 678-467-1325 or 770-630-6672. Licensed and [email protected]
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Handyman
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Kitchen & Bath Remodeling
Plumbing, Electrical and Drywall
Repair and InstallationComplete home
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Call Mike 404-647-1406
RELIABLE HOME REPAIRS:20 years experience. References. Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, wood rot repair, siding, painting, pressure washing. Free estimates! 770-605-0340
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BRADSHAW FARMS504 Avery Creek Point, Woodstock, GA 30188Golf Course Home! Immaculate in Bradshaw Farms, a desirable Swim/Tennis Subdivision. Total remodel with new paint, appliances, fl ooring and fi xtures. Master on main with tray, built-in closet and luxurious master bath. Upstairs are three spacious bedrooms and bath. Main level formal living room, offi ce, eat in kitchen and family room with fi replace. Finished ter-race has huge bonus room, kitchen, bath, bedroom and deck access. Oversized outdoor decks. $400,000
Golf Course
Lot
POLO CLUB 6705 Polo Dr, Cumming, GA 30040Stunning executive entertaining home in Polo Golf & Country Club, a 72 par golf course in the top metropoli-tan Atlanta growth sector of Forsyth County, GA. Superb Vickery schools, and private education available as well More info at PoloDrive.info. $750,000.
Golf Course
Lot
TRIPLE CROWN14105 Triple Crown Drive, Milton, GA 30004Stately executive home in the Milton swim/ten-nis neighborhood of Triple Crown! Spacious rooms loaded with architectural features and a bright, open fl oor plan. Upgraded kitchen with Wolf/Sub-Zero appliances. Vaulted keeping room with stacked stone fi replace. Spa-inspired master suite has fi replace, sitting area, luxurious bath and huge walk-in closet. Level, fenced and private back yard. $910,000
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LAKE OCONEE188 W River Bend Dr, Eatonton, GA Spend the day on the lake! This lake front home with dock on Lake Oconee is perfect for a week or week-end getaway. This picturesque 3 bedrooms, 3 bath home has no HOA fees. Beautiful lake views, master on main, stainless appliances and very open fl oor plan. Perfect as a 2nd home or primary residence for the lake lifestyle. Oversized deck, paved walkway to your private dock. $385,000
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575 HICKORY FLAT RD.
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Perfect for horse farm or small subdivision. Captivating 15.61 Acres in Milton! Very private Southern Living ranch with 8 stall barn with tack room and wash rack. Three sides, wrap around porch. Double front doors lead to wide center hall fl anked by pocket doors to living and dining. With master on main, this 3 bed/2.5 bath home has tons of natural light provided by fl oor to ceiling, double pane windows, doors and skylight. Center kitchen opens to family and breakfast room. $1,598,000
Perfect for horse farm or small subdivision with 15.61 acres next door. Level 5 Acre lot in Milton, GA near Birmingham Hwy/Birmingham Rd crossing. Unique opportunity to own or develop a horse farm or assemblage with neighboring 15.61 acres also for sale. $445,500