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Mapping road projectsfor TSPLOST listAlpharetta still has concerns

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Beach will seekthird senate termFacing Barlow in May 24 primary

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Milton girls lacrossedethroned by WaltonSix-time defending state champs lose

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Newcomer Barlowseeks Senate seatMilton resident challenges Beach

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The city of Al-pharetta recently announced that its 911 center was re-accredited by the International Academy of Emergency Dispatch for an additional three-year period. The re-accreditation award was received by 911 Supervisor Shawna Pope on behalf of the city of Alpharetta at the recent IAED convention in Wash-ington, D.C. Alpharetta’s 911 center is both nationally and internationally ac-

credited as a Center of Excellence and is only one of 167 centers worldwide to obtain the designation.

Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle said, “I am so proud of our 911 opera-tors for their accomplishment. The at-tainment of the re-accreditation award by Alpharetta public safety’s 911 center is indicative of the quality of our public safety staff and their dedication to our community.”

“I have always believed the hardest job in public safety is that of a 911 operator,” said Alpharetta Public Safety Director Gary George. “These profes-sionals are the critical link between first responders and those in need. This award is a testament to how well our 911 operators are trained and how well they start the process of getting effec-tive and efficient public safety services to our Alpharetta community.”

Alpharetta 911 is awarded re-accreditation

DUI arrests ► Scott Alan Ackermon, 51, of Saxony

Lane, Johns Creek, was arrested May 5 on Northwinds Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

► Nancy Franke Beak, 51, of Greatwood Lane, Alpharetta, was arrested May 5 on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

► Heidi Anned Perez-Vidal, 36, of Woodstock, was arrested May 5 on Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

► Buba Touray, 51, of Greenmont Circle, Alpharetta, was arrested May 5 on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI, open container and failure to maintain lane.

► Arturo Arteaga, 26, of Kilmington Court, Alpharetta, was arrested May 6 on Webb Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

► Rakesh Girish Patel, 34, of Suwanee, was arrested May 1 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, speeding and failure to maintain lane.

► Sathanoor Rama Vishwanath, 32,

of Somerset, New Jersey, was arrested May 5 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, failure to maintain lane and fail-ure to signal when changing lanes. Juhan Ronji Slocumb, 44, of Lawrenceville, was arrested May 6 on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI, open container and improper U-turn.

► Andrew J. Robinson, 22, of Plantation Court, Johns Creek, was arrested May 4 on State Bridge Road in Johns Creek for DUI, reckless driving and failure to use signal.

► Stacie Ann Chapman, 39, of Norcross, was arrested May 4 on Medlock Bridge Road in Johns Creek for DUI and improper passing

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Two salons threatenedwith fake utility chargesNORTH FULTON, Ga. — Two busi-nesses, on separate days, were called by people claiming to represent Georgia Power and insisting that the businesses owed thousands of dollars.

One man reported fraud May 3 when he was contacted by a “Mr. Mo-rales,” who said he worked for Georgia

Power. The business owner was told the power to his nail salon company would be cut off if he did not pay $1,000 within two hours to offset the $10,000 in overdue fees. Morales said the man could avoid disruption of service if he purchased two $500 Apple iTunes gift cards for the company within two hours. That should have been the tipoff.

Afraid for his business, the man purchased the cards an hour after the call and contacted Morales to pay off the balance with them.

A worker at the nail salon later informed the man that iTunes gift cards can’t be used to pay off a company like Georgia Power. He tried calling back Morales, but the number was discon-

nected. The number he received from Morales did not match any official numbers for Georgia Power. A company representative confirmed that no one had contacted the man about an over-due balance.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – City officials took another look Monday at a list of proposed road projects that would be funded if Fulton County residents pass a .75-cent added sales tax.

The sales tax, if placed on the ballot by a majority of cities and approved by voters in November, is expected to gen-erate from $500-$600 million in trans-portation dollars over its five-year term. The money would be apportioned to the county’s 14 cities, excluding Atlanta, based on population. Alpharetta would expect to receive about $62.7 million as its share.

The list was prepared in conjunc-tion with design engineering firm Kimley-Horn, which has been hired to collect transportation wish lists from the cities and develop a final draft.

Monday’s list resembled the original slate of projects presented two weeks ago, with a couple of notable excep-tions.

One project that raised eyebrows on the City Council Monday was the proposed widening of a five-mile stretch of McGinnis Ferry Road from Union Hill Road to Sargent Road. The $36 million project would be primarily funded by Forsyth County, which passed its own transportation sales tax last year. Al-pharetta and Johns Creek would pitch in part of the cost.

But, whereas the original proposal had Alpharetta footing just $2.5 million of the bill, Monday’s list put the city’s figure at $5.5 million, with Johns Creek matching that same amount.

Mayor David Belle Isle questioned why the cost went up for Alpharetta when the majority of the improvements are taking place in Johns Creek.

He said he didn’t feel comfortable telegraphing a figure that matches

Johns Creek’s contribution. The mayor added that the model selected for sales tax distribution favors Johns Creek, which has close to 90,000 residents but not a lot of retail.

Councilman Jim Gilvin called the figure “excessive,” and Councilman Donald Mitchell said the McGinnis Ferry widening would primarily benefit

TSPLOST list still up for debate in AlpharettaTOP PROJECTSWhile exact costs have yet to be determined, and cost-sharing may still be negotiated, here is a look at the current draft list for Tier I projects for Alpharetta and the proposed contribution to the estimated costs:

• Haynes Bridge Road widening: $5 million (Johns Creek: $5 million)• McGinnis Ferry Road widening: $5.5 million (Johns Creek: $5.5

million; Forsyth County & GDOT: $25 million)• Windward Parkway widening: $15.5 million (Milton: $500,000)• Academy Street/Webb Bridge Road: Bike/pedestrian/operational

improvements: $13 million• Old Milton Parkway widening: $6 million• Morris Road operational improvements: $2.7 million• Bethany Road at Mayfield Road intersection: $1.28 million• Bethany Road at Mid-Broadwell Road intersection: $1.28 million• Kimball Bridge Road: Bike/pedestrian/operational improvements:

$6 million

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – District 21 State Sen. Brandon Beach, 55, will seek a third term in the May 24 primary. He is facing first-time candidate Aaron Barlow.

Beach, who serves as the president for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, said he has a proven record of public service while his oppo-nent has none.

“I’ve lived in North Fulton for 24 years, and I have been involved in pub-lic service for 20 of those years,” Beach said. “Meanwhile my opponent has not voted but one time in a Republican primary in the last 10 years.

“I’ve been working my tail off for this community and he can’t even get off the couch to vote.”

Beach said he is proud of his record as a senator, councilman and with the chamber.

He first got involved in public life as the chairman of the Alpharetta Bond Committee in the 1990s that raised the money to build Webb Bridge Park and the new police station. Next he served on the Alpharetta Planning Commis-

sion from 1996 to 2000. Then he ran and won election to the Alpharetta City Council.

“I served one term then was ap-pointed to the Georgia Regional Trans-portation Authority,” Beach said.

He did not run again for City Coun-cil because he felt taking the job as Chamber of Commerce president would be a conflict of interest because he was representing all of North Fulton.

Recognized for his grasp of trans-portation issues, he was then appointed a Georgia Department of Transpor-tation board commissioner for the district.

He ran and won election to the Georgia State Senate in 2013, filling the unexpired term of Sen. Chip Rogers and has since won re-election. Now he seeks his third term.

“I have paid my dues climbing up the ladder to show the people the lead-ership I can and have brought to the district. What has my opponent ever done? I would like to see him earn his spurs to serve in the Senate the way I did,” he said.

Along the way, Beach’s supporters point out that he has his fingerprints on a number of important projects in the community.

He was chosen to serve on the three-man committee to get what is to-day the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre built in North Fulton.

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State Sen. Brandon Beach, center, looks on as President Pro Tem David Shafer urges support for Beach at his campaign kickoff at Olde Blind Dog in Milton.

Beach seeks third District 21 Senate termSays record as workhorse should convince votersto support him

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MILTON, Ga. – Political newcomer Aaron Barlow, 41, a Milton resident, seeks to unseat incumbent state Sen. Brandon Beach in the May 24 Republi-can primary.

Barlow says he is retired after stints with Financial Services Equifax and a decade with Boston Consulting Group, working in business strategies and acquisitions.

He is married with a wife and two daughters, ages 10 and 7.

Now that he is retired, Barlow says he is deeply involved with yearup.org, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping 18- to 24-year-olds “break the bonds of poverty.”

“It’s a college boot camp for white-collar jobs. They go to camp for six months to learn marketable skills and then are in the workplace for six months, earning a paycheck while they learn to put those skills to use,” Barlow said. “It is life-changing for those young people.”

When they emerge from the pro-gram, they are qualified to find jobs paying $37,000 annually or more. For applicants there is no cost.

“This is a program that cuts across party aisles,” Barlow said.

Barlow, who has never run for office before, says he expects to win the GOP nomination because he sees himself as the “true conservative” in the race.

He calls Beach a “tax-and-spend” career politician. By virtue of working as the president of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, Barlow says Beach is also in fact a lobbyist for developers.

“That is a clear conflict of interest to his serving in the Senate,” Barlow said.

He points to Beach’s campaign war chest, which Barlow puts at $750,000. Meanwhile he says his campaign fund is only $200,000 of his own money.

Beach refutes that. He says that is an obvious inflation and that he has raised less than $200,000.

“I expect to start doing some fund-raising, but it is almost all my money right now. I got a late start getting into the race, only two months ago,” Barlow said.

He calls his opponent a tax-and-spend liberal who wants to bring MARTA to North Fulton.

Barlow also said, while Beach has sup-ported horse racing in Georgia, he never would.

He accused Beach of voting for the origi-nal TSPLOST that was defeated at the polls in 2011 and which would have brought MARTA to North Fulton and added billions in new sales-tax dollars.

The problem with that claim is Chip Rogers was the state senator for the district then. Beach was not yet in office. Asked what he would do about transportation for District 22 – which encompasses both North Fulton and Cherokee County – he said he would widen Ga. 400 and, in Cherokee, insti-tute a bus system or bus-rapid-transit system that would truly serve commu-nities.

“But that would mean adding more connectivity with north-south roads, so that people in Cherokee could get to work in Cherokee,” he said.

He noted 70 percent of Cherokee residents commute outside the county. He would like to change that.

The money to build these roads and fund a Cherokee bus system, he said, would come from savings that could be garnered from cutting government waste in the state budget.

Asked which departments he would slash, he replied, “All of them.”

“I have signed the no-new-tax pledge. All of it would come from forcing every state department to do with less. The state budget has grown $18 billion in a short period of time.”

While Barlow could not verify those numbers for this interview, he accuses the GOP-dominated General Assem-bly of sending more and more dollars to Atlanta and its lobbyists. He said he could fund transportation projects using the savings from budget cuts in other areas.

“I would actually prefer a consump-tion tax such as Florida and Tennessee use rather than the regressive income tax,” Barlow said.

He supports closing loopholes for illegal immigrants and not issuing them driving licenses.

Newcomer Barlow seeks District 21 Senate seatSays he’s the true conservative in the race

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As a local news reporter, I shouldn’t be fazed when encoun-tering other local journalists.

And yet I was a little star-struck last week when I had the chance to meet Jovita Moore, an anchor for Atlanta’s WSB-TV, at the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce’s Women Who Walk the Walk event.

Jovita spent the afternoon telling us about how she grew up in New York, went to college in

Vermont and pursued her dreams, all while leaving her comfort zone time after time. These experiences eventually led her to her current job, a position she probably wouldn’t have been offered had she never left the comforts of home.

Her words really struck me on a couple of levels. First, I can obviously relate as a journalist. And, personally, I sometimes struggle with the issue of leaving my own comfort zone.

As I listened to Jovita talk about working in places like New York, Tennessee, Arkansas and, finally, Georgia, I thought it took some major guts to be able to move around like that, and I admired her.

We spoke briefly after the event was over, and she told me to “prepare for your opportunity.” Mean-ing, if I wanted to achieve my goals in life, I had to be willing to break away from my comfort zone and really go after them.

That’s easy to say for someone who did exactly that and ended up successful, albeit with a few bumps along the way, but mostly achieving what she set out to do. But it sounds scary to someone who has always classified herself as a homebody.

Nevertheless, I thought about her words some more. I wondered if, one day, I might want to write for newspapers like The New York Times or Wash-ington Post? Or are those dreams too lofty?

No one knows what the future holds, but I suppose it’s possible to think I might one day be a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Or I could stay right here at Appen Media Group and continue covering the local news in my current job that I love so much.

In addition to work comfort zones, I’m like many young professionals who still have plenty of other life events to look forward to: living on their own, getting married, having children.

Thankfully, I’m at the very beginning of my career and still have the rest of my life to really go after what I want.

Jovita said it best when she was asked “What do you say when people ask after being offered a break, ‘Are they lucky or did they just deserve this oppor-tunity?’” She said people have to be prepared to get lucky. As in, yes, you might get lucky and receive that once-in-a-lifetime call with a job offer, but you have to set yourself up to even get that call in the first place and then be prepared to fulfill expecta-tions once you accept the challenge.

So I plan to prepare myself to answer that lucky call one day if it comes because, as the saying goes, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

Thanks, Jovita, for inspiring me to go beyond my comfort zone.

Comfort zone isn’t on road to success

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Sometimes, you get a political race that is based on the issues and personal experience. Then sometimes you get a race like Sen-ate District 21, which has seen a lot of mud thrown.

While I seldom weigh in on political contests, I was moved to do so for reasons that I hope will become readily apparent.

First, I don’t like sophomoric name-calling. Second, I like to judge a candidate by what he or

she has done, not by what they say they are going to do.

But any way you slice it, Brandon Beach stands out as the best person for this job.

First, Beach has done the job, and well, the last two terms. He isn’t the kind of politician in the Gen-eral Assembly who adds his name to a lot of bills and then says, “What a good boy am I,” as some do.

He is a worker bee. Economic development and job growth is important everywhere. It is important here. Beach is all about improving that score. His opponent does not even discuss economic growth unless pressed.

I have covered North Fulton for more than 20 years. Beach has been publicly involved just about all that time. I first met him when he was chairman of the Alpharetta bond committee that successfully got the bond passed for Webb Bridge Park and a police station.

Yes, that took tax money to accomplish, but then taxes aren’t all bad if they build the things you want. He served on the Alpharetta Planning Commission, a thankless job if there ever was one. But a good place to learn about local government.

From there he served as a city councilman for Alpharetta. That is a good, sound record of political involvement.

His opponent, Aaron Barlow, is a likeable fellow, young, articulate and smart. But his public resume is more than a little thin. He doesn’t have a record of public service so we just have to take him at his word that he is the rock-ribbed conservative that he says he is.

So let’s look at his word. Barlow tells us he is the real conservative in this race. But to try to brand Brandon Beach as a liberal is way over the top.

Compare Beach’s voting record and that of just about any other bona fide conservative in the Sen-ate and you won’t find much daylight. OK, so a little hyperbole in a campaign is to be expected.

But then I looked at the claim that Beach spon-sored the proposed great $8 billion tax increase a few years back. Actually, it was a special local option sales tax that was up for the people to vote up or down.

There is a big problem with that claim. Beach was not even a senator then. That was on his predecessor Chip Rogers’ watch.

I just don’t believe that was a mistake. That was just another lie that seems to pile up on Barlow’s doorstep.

Barlow says nothing about what he hopes to accomplish in office other than to slash taxes. And Georgia needs to slash its taxes, according to Barlow.

First understand more than half of the state bud-get goes to schools and education. I have two grand-sons about to enter high school. I don’t want those

dollars cut.If Mr. Barlow had done his homework, he would

know there was quite a bit cut out of the state educa-tion budgets of 2007, 2008 and 2009. Those educa-tion dollars had to be made up locally.

Transportation funding has been hard to find at state and federal levels. The state has some making up to do.

Barlow says we should cut the taxes because we have had growth the last couple of years. I think any reasonable reaction is to look at what you are cutting and why.

When I asked in which departments he would cut budgets, he said all of them. Realistically, that merely shows no understanding of the budget.

Mr. Barlow, who says he is retired at age 41, should do what other elected officials have done. He should pay some dues with the sweat equity that comes from being involved in the community.

Personally I have never met the man at a political function, fundraiser, ball game, council meeting or any other place. And I get to a lot of places. North Fulton is not that big.

When pressed about what he would do for trans-portation – he did acknowledge it was a problem – he said he wanted to improve roads, especially north-south routes, to improve connectivity.

This was directed at Cherokee, more than half the district, so l gave him that. He also wanted to add a bus-rapid transit system to help ease traffic conges-tion. He would widen Ga. 400, as well.

Gee, how come we never thought of that? Where would this money come from, I asked.

Oh, why it would come from all of those budgets that would be slashed.

Already, he has made the first mistake of the politician. Any savings accrued are not tax dollars re-turned, but money to be spent on preferred projects.

I just don’t buy what he is selling. In Texas, where I was born, they would say about a man like Barlow, “He’s all hat and no cattle.” It means he likes the trappings of the office but doesn’t do the work.

Do some work, Mr. Barlow. Do it here in this com-munity where we can watch you and judge the man behind the fine words.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – After a year of serving as the “stand in” for another school, the new elementary school on Ga. 9 in Roswell finally has an official name: Vickery Mill Elementary.

At its May 10 work session, the Ful-ton County School Board approved the name of the newest Roswell elementary

school, along with another new school opening in August in South Fulton. That site off Derrick Road and South Fulton Parkway will now be known as Wolf Creek Elementary.

Vickery Mill was the preferred name of the school’s naming committee, and pays tribute to the historic mill founded on Vickery Creek, the city’s original power source. The school board also considered Azalea Mill and Painted Rock as potential names for the new school.

With an official name all set, Princi-pal Adam Maroney will now work on se-

lecting other parts of the school identity before the 2016-17 school year begins.

“I am visiting each of the five ele-mentary schools feeding our new school to meet with students to get their input on the colors and mascot,” said Ma-roney. “After compiling their sugges-tions, all students attending our school will be able to vote and select the new mascot and colors.”

He hopes to have the mascot and colors chosen this month.

Maroney has spent the past few months assembling a “top-notch staff,” he noted, and working with the North Fulton PTA presidents to begin the school’s charter PTA.

The school building has been open for nearly a year now, and has been temporarily housing Esther Jackson Elementary this school year while that school is being rebuilt.

Vickery Mill will open in August and house up to 850 students in grades pre-K through fifth grade.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – With a new ordinance in place protecting established neigh-borhoods from high-density residential development, city leaders have turned their focus to other areas of the city.

Members of the City Council and the Roswell Planning Commission met last week to see whether Roswell’s uni-fied development code should include parameters on the size and number of living units allowed in areas currently zoned for high-density residential.

But the effort drew pushback from some members of each board and the mayor.

“I’m just trying to figure out what you’re trying to achieve,” said Mayor Jere Wood, adding that the city has long committed to building a “walkable community.”

“How do you create a walkable com-munity when you have people spread out all over?” he asked.

Wood said he fears the city is bent on eliminating choice.

“In some cases, density means qual-ity of life, and in other cases it doesn’t,” he said. “It’s a matter of choice.”

The mayor said he, himself, lives in

some of the lowest-density residential in Roswell. At the same time, he added, “I’ve seen some of the best housing in Roswell is the Old Bricks. It’s a wonder-ful quality of life and in a much higher density, 12 units per acre.”

Council members Mike Palermo and Marcelo Zapata, who have led the drive to restrict high-density housing, argued that homeowners have a right to know the values of their homes and their quality of life are protected.

One way to do that, they said, is to provide a clear picture of what possible development might occur near their homes.

Palermo said he thinks it is healthy to establish parameters for residential density, even if they extend to ex-tremes, so nearby property owners have some certainty what the future may hold. Setting a cap on density, he said, is a healthy conversation city leaders should have.

Zapata went further, saying that homeowners should not have to go to bed at night fearing the property next door might be overdeveloped. Nor, he added, should they have to go through the stress of negotiating with a devel-oper to keep a nearby project below a certain density.

But Planning Commissioner Sid-ney Dodd warned against mapping out a geography that could lead to the extinction of the city’s diversity. He said Roswell has an affluent but aging popu-lation, and city leaders should guard against shutting out younger gener-ations from replenishing the diverse demographic.

By pursuing a policy exclusively protective of driving up residential property values, Dodd said, younger generations and middle-class workers might get shut out.

Councilwoman Nancy Diamond agreed, arguing that no one knows what the effect of codifying rigid density guidelines will be 20 years down the road.

She said someone needs to study the long-term effects of the path the city seems to be pursuing. She said the city often draws criticism for hiring consultants, but experts are vital to paint a clear picture in order to make a reasoned decision.

Most agreed that the process should be discussed further before the city takes action. Whether the analysis will be performed by city staff or an outside consultant will be discussed at future meetings.

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ATLANTA — The federal government may be easing out of mandated testing requirements for local schools, but it is apparently getting into the bathroom business — and any other area where sex segregation is in place.

In an announcement last week that took many public K-12 schools by sur-prise, officials with the Obama adminis-tration directed local school systems to make restroom and locker room accom-modations for transgender students, regardless of their sex at birth.

The letter released May 13 clarified the federal government’s interpretation of Title IX mandates which prohibit “sex discrimination in educational programs and activities operated by re-cipients of federal financial assistance.” The letter was sent by officials with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Officials with the Fulton County School System noted they are in receipt

of the letter, but currently have no policy in place that deals directly with the transgender issue and access to restrooms and locker rooms.

“We are aware that the federal government has issued guidance to public schools on how to provide vari-ous supports to transgendered youth,” said Susan Hale, spokesperson for the FCSS. “[We] will comprehensively review all federal guidance and utilize it in our continued support for students in our schools.”

She noted, historically, each individ-ual school “manages as appropriate” for their student population without issue.

“To clarify, up until this point it has been a school-by-school decision as the situation calls for it,” said Hale. “But now that there is federal guidance, we will use this information to determine if additional supports are needed. Since this was [recently] released, our staff needs more time to review the informa-tion.”

Though most commonly referenced in college sports programs where men and women sports must be equitably provided, Title IX also covers K-12 schools under the direction of the U.S. Department of Education — essentially every public school in the country.

The letter stated the “guidance does

not add requirements to applicable law, but provides information and exam-ples to inform recipients about how the departments evaluate whether covered entities are complying with their legal obligations.”

The underlying threat in the letter, confirmed by government officials in subsequent media briefings, is that schools not fully complying with the law as it relates to transgender stu-dents risk losing federal funding.

The FCSS relies on federal fund-ingprimarily to support the free and reduced lunch program and services for special education, but receives very little — less than one percent — to sup-port its general operating budget which includes staff salaries and benefits, and direct pupil services.

While most of the attention is on the bathroom issue, the federal directive points out accommodations must also be made for transgender students in all “sex-segregated” facilities including locker rooms, shower facilities, housing and athletic teams, as well as single-sex classes under certain circumstances.

“When a school provides sex-seg-regated activities and facilities, trans-gender students must be allowed to participate in such activities and access such facilities consistent with their

gender identity,” noted the letter sent to school districts.

Federal government weighs in on gender identityDirective to school systems to provide transgender facilities

See GENDER, Page 13

A transgender primerThe U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice Department outlined gender terminology in the May 13 letter sent to school systems across the nation:Gender identity — refers to an individual’s internal sense of gender.Transgender — describes those individuals whose gender identity is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.Gender transition — the process in which transgender individuals begin to live and identify as the sex consistent with their gender identity. They may dress differently, adopt a new name and use pronouns consistent with their gender identity.

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It raises the issue of which teams transgender athletes, or any athletes for that matter, may join. This is a subject that has been hotly debated since Title IX was passed in 1972 and primarily determined at the local level.

But the goal in this most recent directive, said Justice Department officials, is “a school must not treat a transgender student differently from the way it treats other students of the same gender identity.”

Under the law, noted federal offi-cials, school systems are not allowed to request documents or other identi-fying proof of gender in providing any services.

“Because transgender students often are unable to obtain identifi-cation documents that reflect their gender identity, requiring students to produce such documents may violate Title IX when doing [limits or denies] equal access,” stated the letter sent to school districts.

To see the May 13 letter con-cerning transgender students visit https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/850986/download.

ROSWELL, Ga. - River Eves Elementary School in Roswell was the recipient of a $7,500 grant from Project Lead The Way (PLTW), in partnership with The Goizueta Foundation, to further the school’s STEM education programs.

The school’s current STEM curric-ulum focuses on developing critical thinking through the engineering de-sign process, said school officials.

That focus aligns with the PLTW module that will be implemented in the school’s STEM Lab beginning in the 2016-2017 school year.

“Project Lead The Way’s program is a perfect fit to enhance our STEM focus that develops students into problem-solvers,” said Principal Neil Pinnock. “Since River Eves began offering STEM activities a few years ago, we’ve seen students’ interest and confidence in math and science rise significantly.”

He noted the school is engaging students in the classroom today and preparing them for a career in high-de-mand STEM fields in future years.

As part of the grant, Ally Baker, STEM Lab teacher, will receive training from PLTW and access to its profes-sional learning community, mod-ule-specific instructional resources, and ongoing training resources.

River Eves became a STEM-certi-fied school last fall, becoming the first Fulton County School to achieve this designation.

Since then, the school has earned

numerous accolades, including two Reward School Titles for Highest-Per-forming Title I School.

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River Eves Elementary fourth-grade students Chloe Cheng (left) and Nicke Thomas proudly show their pulley project created at the STEM-certified school that was recently awarded a $7,500 grant from Project Lead The Way and The Goizueta Foundation to further its STEM curriculum.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – As economic condi-tions improve, particularly in north metro Atlanta, some businesses are finding it harder to field a workforce.

That’s especially true for jobs not requiring skilled labor, jobs like land-scaping, housekeeping, retail and restaurant workers.

Harry Nijenkamp, who has operated a painting business out of Roswell for more than 30 years, says he can’t find enough workers to meet demand.

“There’s too much work and not enough qualified people,” Nijenkamp said.

Anybody in the construction indus-try or many other industries will tell you, he said, that it is a myth that peo-ple from south of the border are taking jobs from Americans.

“That’s the biggest baloney I’ve ever heard,” he said.

Up until about 15 years ago, Ni-jenkamp said, all his employees were American.

“We had phone calls all the time from people looking for jobs,” he said. “Now, there are no phone calls, not one American person ever calls us looking

for work.”He said he visited Roswell High

School two years ago and spoke to the

counselor about how young people could learn the trade while making good money, then, after several years, open their own painting business.

“They can start off making good money, work their way up and make a lot of good money, more than most peo-ple do when they come out of college,” he said. “Not one person called.”

Nijenkamp said he and his crews work 14-hour days, six days a week. He said he pays well, but it’s hard finding people willing to show up on time and work hard.

The labor shortage forces him to turn down thousands of dollars’ worth of work nearly every day, he said.

Ultimately, Nijenkamp said he’d like to see the United States fix its immigra-tion problem and let those hungry for work take the jobs others don’t want.

He also alluded to the fact that his labor pool is stifled by a shortage of affordable housing in North Fulton. People willing to perform manual labor jobs find it hard to find housing, he said.

The absence of affordable housing brings further disparity between the haves and have-nots, according to Frank Norton Jr., CEO of the Gaines-ville-based Norton Agency.

Norton, who has tracked and re-ported economic trends in the housing market for the past 25 years, warned recently that appropriate housing to supply industry is a growing problem in Georgia.

“No one is going to drive from Co-lumbus, where they can buy a house for $134,000 and work in Atlanta,” he said at a recent economic conference at Georgia State University. “We’re project-ing that affordable housing – houses under $174,000 – will evaporate by the year 2020 in metro Atlanta. You only have a 2.2 months’ supply of houses under $175,000 today, so evaporation could very well be next year.”

Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Eco-nomic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University, said this is an age-old problem associated with success.

“When an area is successful, it becomes expensive for the basic, un-skilled workforce to afford to live there, and the businesses can’t pay the wages that would allow it,” he said. “So it always becomes an issue of how to get the workers.”

Dhawan said when he was in Cal-ifornia, in the late ’90s, Silicon Valley

Roswell businessman Harry Nijen-kamp says it is getting increasingly difficult to find good help to staff his painting business.

Prosperity comes at a cost to many in workforce

See WORKFORCE, Page 35

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Pick my Brain: Why healthcare and medical research go together

Today there are quite a few restric-tions placed on physicians in their practices. Insurance companies restrict options for treat-ment, often dictating protocols. Even the federal government creates restrictions on not being able to offer discounted

or free healthcare “if” the physician or practice accepts payment from Medic-aid or Medicare. I find it more reward-ing to be the physician I wanted to be by avoiding all of that chaos. How?

In 1998, I founded the Atlanta In-stitute of Medicine & Research (now the Institute for Advanced Medical Research), an organization that has grown to offer the residents of North Fulton, Cherokee, Forsyth and Cobb counties access to healthcare and medical research options across a breadth of clinical, personal and even family needs. Our approach has always been simple, using a medical model that addresses the Biological-Psy-chological-Social domains of the various neuropsychiatric diseases. While diagnos-tic evaluations and treatment or research planning follows the above mentioned models and domains, each patient has an opportunity to participate in our programs via several specialty teams and groups:• Institute for Advanced Medical Re-

search, the medical research arm of the Institute;

• Trek Medical Advanced Treatment Options, the substance abuse and dependence arm of the Institute;

• Brain Health & Wellness, the private practice arm of the Institute and;

• MilVetsHelp, the PTSD clinic for mil-itary veterans at the Institute.

As Medical Director at the Institute, I am proud to be a clinician involved in healthcare but also a researcher conducting medical studies with universities such as Duke, Harvard, Jefferson, and Medical College of Geor-gia along with various pharmaceutical companies. Medical research has a local impact because of the direct inter-vention in the local patient population followed by the positive changes due to alleviating symptoms on the family, workplace and social network. The data that is generated has an impact on healthcare and disease modification not only locally, but also nationally and internationally.

Clinical trials are not free of gov-ernment restrictions and regulations;

oversight comes from the sponsor of the trial (a university or pharmaceutical company), the Food and Drug Adminis-tration (FDA) and also from an indepen-dent ethical review committee overseeing the trial from a patient’s perspective. We focus on each and every patient as an individual, even as their information becomes clinical data reviewed globally to help regulatory authorities and clini-cians around the world.

Thousands of volunteers are needed to complete the clinical trials necessary to bring one new drug to market. On average, FDA approval of a treatment requires data from more than 4,000 study participants. The U.S. National In-stitutes of Health estimates that 80,000 clinical trials are conducted in the U.S. each year and according to Harris Inter-active, 83% of Americans say they are willing to participate in clinical trials, but still not enough actually do.

Why is medical research so im-portant? Medical studies can possibly identify new ways to treat disease, allow a participant in a clinical trial to access potentially new or innovative treat-ments and helps participants to play a more active role in their individual healthcare. Medical studies provide an opportunity for the individual as well as the potential of helping others and ben-efitting society from the data generated. The programs we run, the free after-study care that we offer, the knowledge that our programs benefit the individ-ual, the family, and the community as a microcosm as well as the knowledge that our programs benefit the global community of patients and clinicians makes for an exciting, interesting and gratifying clinical practice.

This brings us to the close of this se-ries of articles. We are planning a break for the summer and directing our atten-tion back to the work at hand. There are lots of new and unique programs coming and I encourage readers to contact the team at the Institute to learn more. Re-searching tomorrow’s treatments…today! That’s us. Have a great summer.

Angelo Sambunaris, M.D. is the Founder and Medical Director of the Insti-tute for Advanced Medical Research and clinical faculty member at Mercer Univer-sity’s School of Pharmacy. Dr. Sambu-naris directed clinical research for Bayer and Solvay Pharmaceuticals and has led more than 200 neuropharmacological studies.  A veteran of the U.S. Army, he served as Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service while complet-ing his fellowship at NIMH.  Learn more at www.IAMResearch.org

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The newest Fire-birds Wood Fired Grill, one of 39 up-scale casual dining establishments, has opened on Old Milton Parkway across from Avalon.

Spacious (6,600 square feet) with soft décor, the restaurant has an ear-nest if newly trained staff and a small but diverse menu that will satisfy a range of tastes.

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In many cases, small-business owners feel they need to micromanage their employees because it is the only way to ensure that they are doing their jobs correctly.

Micromanaging employees often in-cludes telling your employees what to do, how to do it and when to do it.

If you’ve been in the military, then this approach is well known. It’s called a military model and it works real well in that environ-ment.

Conversely, a military model in a small business most often is a “house of cards” for employees as it’s not a very fun environment to work in.

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Just this year the baby boomer gen-eration was surpassed by the millennial generation, which has a very low tolerance for this type of work environment.

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GEOFF SMITHAssurance Financial, gsmith@lendtheway.com

The Chattahoo-chee River is one of the most beau-tiful natural ame-nities in the metro Atlanta area, but stiff environmen-tal regulations on development along its shores have pushed many developers from taking advantage

of it. So what is a developer to do if the goal is to build a riverfront devel-opment? Why, build its own river, of course.

A Peachtree City-based developer calling itself ARW Group LLC has proposed a $700 million mixed-use development in Hall County that will run along its own man-made flowing river. According to the Gainesville Times, the project will include 265 single-family homes, 215 townhomes, 600 multifamily units, 242,000 square feet of retail space and 424,000 square feet of office space. Plans also call for a 200-room hotel, 20,000-square-foot convention center, 50,000-square-foot grocery store and 60,000-square-foot theater. This is a big project - especially for Hall County.

Hall County sits just north of Gwinnett County along I-85 and along the eastern shores of Lake Lanier. With a past that earned it the nickname the Poultry Capital of the World, Hall has seen more and more residential growth on its southern borders as development climbs north through Gwinnett County. Hall also has Gainesville, which is off the beaten path, but is an incredibly charming and cosmopolitan little city. It hosts several college campuses including Brenau, University of North

Georgia and Lanier Technical College. The students help fuel the businesses that surround the rather large town square, which sits about a mile from Lake Lanier and the Lake Lanier Row-ing Club, which hosted those types of events for the 1996 Olympics.

Hall County is also home to the locally famous winery and resort Chateau Elan, and Braselton, which became well known when actress Kim Basinger owned most of it for a brief time. This is all to say that while Hall has done quite well considering its distance from metro Atlanta, the ARW project would be a massive addition to its landscape.

Developers are saying they are modeling the River Walk project after the San Antonio River Walk and the Oklahoma City Bricktown. They wanted to do a water-based develop-ment and looked at locations along the Chattahoochee, but ultimately found there were too many regulatory hurdles to overcome, saying “environ-mental regulations prohibit the kind of development [ARW Principal Jorge Duran] wanted to do, which is dense, mixed-use projects that would show-case the water.”

I can only imagine what state reg-

ulatory authorities are going through in trying to think about how to review this project. The language is pretty straight forward with what a devel-oper can and cannot do near a state waterway, but is it when the devel-oper creates its own waterway? It may be, but it will be an interesting story for at least me to follow.

The project would be on 508 acres just northwest of Chateau Elan off Ga. 211. It would also include a “corporate and technology park” as well as 30 acres of green space. At $700 million, the project would be a huge investment for Hall County and is a sign that at least some folks are willing to bet big that businesses and residents would support such a proj-ect so far outside of the perimeter.

Geoff Smith is a mortgage banker with Assurance Financial focusing on residential home loans for refinances and home purchases. Geoff Smith, gsmith@lendtheway.com770-674-1433; Personal: NMLS#104587; Business: NMLS#70876

*The views and opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re-flect the views of Assurance Financial Group

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CUMMING, Ga. — Anyone looking to buy a new Toyota will soon have to go no farther than Forsyth County.

Ground was broken May 11 at 1875 Buford Highway for the new location of Beaver Toyota.

Partners Mike Beaver and Matt Calavan were offered the opportunity to open a new Toyota store in Cum-ming from Southeast Toyota. This new family-owned, state-of-the-art 130,000-square-foot facility is expected to open in the spring of 2017, which will mark the first new Toyota deal-ership built in the Southeast in more than five years.

In addition to the full-service center, there will be an outdoor area where customers can hang out or events can take place.

“We are so excited about that,”

Beaver said. “There will be two fire pits, big-screen TVs and a big bar.”

The Beaver and Calavan families are committed to the local communi-ties and, to prove that, they donated $100,000 to Forsyth County Schools for the Education Foundation before they even broke ground.

“We have been loving and support-ing teachers and schools for a very long time and we will continue to promote and advocate them,” Katie Calavan said. “Not only do we feel a sense of re-sponsibility, but our hearts pour out to

the community and we are proud to be able to provide assistance to them.”

As the group is comprised of many family members, they say they take

that aspect to work with them.“We treat everyone like family,”

Beaver said. “We have great teams that truly love what they do.”

Toyota breaks ground on new Cumming locationDonates $100Kto Forsyth County Education Foundation

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Members of the Beaver Toyota team with local officials break ground on the new location.

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The sign shows a mock-up of what the new store will look like.

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Kale Me Crazy opens in Roswell Business: Comprehensive Internal MedicineWhat: Comprehensive Internal Med-icine and Dr. Jacqueline Pearson, MDVIP, aim to help patients achieve optimal health through preventative care, ongoing medical issues, or during illnesses or injuries. They have built a reputation for excellence in medical care through many years of service

and attention to patient needs.Opened: The Alpharetta location of Comprehensive Internal Medicine opened March 31. Address: 3180 North Point Parkway, Suite 303, Alpharetta, GA 30005Phone: 678- 205-9004, MDVIP 678-205-9006 Website: www.cimedicine.com, www.mdvip.com/jacquelinepearsonmd

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TOUCH-A-TRUCK AT NEWTOWN PARKThe Johns Creek Public Works Department will present the annual touch-a-truck event featuring construction equipment and activities for the entire family Saturday, May 21, from 10 a.m. till noon. Front-end loaders, backhoes, firetrucks and other heavy equipment will be at Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek. For more information, visit johnscreekga.gov/RecreationandParks/Special-Events/Touch-A-Truck

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EASTERN STAR PANCAKE BREAKFASTWhat: An all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, served hot off the griddle, along with sausages, coffee, juice and all the trimmings, will help support charitable projects of the Order of the Eastern Star. When: Saturday, May 21, 8-11 a.m.Where: Alpharetta Masonic Lodge, 194 Milton Ave., AlpharettaCost: $6More info: navybear1963@gmail.com, 404-276-4646

HAMZAH ISLAMIC CENTER OPEN HOUSEWhat: People of all faiths and beliefs are invited to learn more about Islam. Food and refreshments will be served.When: Saturday, May 21, 3-5 p.m.Where: Hamzah Islamic Center, 665 Tidwell Road, AlpharettaMore info: facebook.com/events/1083502678387266/

ROSWELL, MILTON BULKY TRASH AMNESTY DAY What: Roswell and Milton residents can dispose of large items for no charge on Bulky Trash Amnesty Day.When: Saturday, May 21, 8 a.m.-noonWhere: Roswell Public Works Division, 1810 Hembree Road, Roswell. Proof of Roswell or Milton residency required. (Utility bills preferred. Roswell residents with the window decal do not need any other form of identification.) More info: www.roswellgov.com

JOHNS CREEK’S FINEST 5K RUNWhat: The Johns Creek Police Depart-ment will host its second annual Johns Creek’s Finest 5K to benefit Special Olympics Georgia.When: Saturday, May 21, 8 a.m.; regis-tration begins at 7 a.m. near River Trail Middle SchoolWhere: Shakerag Park, 10945 Rogers

Circle, Johns CreekCost: $30 per participant; sponsorships $250More info: www.johnscreeksfinest5k.com

‘AIRCRAFT CARRIERS’ BOOK SIGNINGWhat: Michael E. Haskew, author of “Aircraft Carriers,” will be speaking and signing books.When: Saturday, May 21, 1-2:30 p.m.Where: Bookmiser, 4651 Sandy Plains Road, RoswellMore info: 770-993-1555

DATE NIGHT ON THE RIVERWhat: Come relax at Chattahoochee Nature Center on this adults-only, 2 ½-hour sunset evening paddle. Ages 21 and older.When: Friday, May 21, 6-9 p.m.Cost: $30 general public, $25 members; advance registration required by May 25 at 770-992-2055 x237 or schedul-ing@chattnaturecenter.orgWhere: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellMore info: chattnaturecenter.org/fami-ly-activities/canoe-programs/

ROSWELL DRINKING WATER FESTIVAL, NEW WATER PLANT CELEBRATIONWhat: The city of Roswell will celebrate the grand opening of its new water treatment plant with a free community festival.When: Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Where: Roswell Water Plant, 100 Dobbs Drive, RoswellMore info: roswellgov.com

ROSWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S HOMECOMING CELEBRATIONWhat: The Roswell Historical Society will host an old-fashioned homecoming celebration for descendants of those “resting” at Old Roswell Cemetery. Families are encouraged to bring picnic

lunches as well as chairs or blankets.When: Sunday, May 22, noon-3 p.m.Where: Roswell Cemetery, Alpharetta and Woodstock streets, RoswellMore info: roswellhistoricalsociety.org

PCRF SECOND ANNUAL CHILI COOK-OFFWhat: Plan on a day of fun at the park while tasting some amazing chili and pies, or bring your favorite recipe and possibly win a prize. Hosted by the non-political, nonprofit Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.When: Sunday, May 22, 2-5 p.m.Where: Settles Bridge Park, 380 John-son Road, SuwaneeCost: $15 adults, $5 kids; 10-and-under free.More info: RSVP by May 19 at pcrfat-lanta@gmail.com or by calling 770-355-5854 or 678-733-5493

RUMC JOB NETWORKINGWhat: Roswell United Methodist Church Job Networking will include 10 afternoon workshops.When: Monday, May 23, 12:30 p.m.Where: RUMC, 814 Mimosa Blvd., Ros-wellMore info: rumc.com/job-network-ing-learn

LUNCH WITH AUTHOR MARY ALICE MONROE What: Bookmiser will host a lunch with New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, author of “A Low-country Wedding.”When: Thursday, May 26, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.Where: Lucia’s Italian Restaurant, 4705 Woodstock Road, Roswell More info: 770-993-1555

TAI CHI DEMO CLASSWhat: A tai chi demo class will focus on improving muscle tone, balance and fall prevention.When: Thursday, May 26, 9:45-10:40 a.m.Where: Forsyth Parks and Recreation at Old Atlanta, 810 Nichols Road, Suwa-neeMore info: 770-205-4646

HERITAGE DAYS IN MAY: CIVIL WARWhat: “Troublesome Times: The Civil War in Roswell,” includes informational panels and display cases with items from the city of Roswell’s archives.When: Through May 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., RoswellMore info: roswellgov.com

FARMERS MARKETS, FOOD TRUCKS:ALPHARETTA FARMERS MARKETWhat: The Alpharetta Farmers Mar-ket features fruits, vegetables, natural meats, fresh flowers and herbs, and a

variety of home goods. When: Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., through Oct. 29. Where: Old Canton Street in downtown Alpharetta.More info: alpharetta.ga.us

JOHNS CREEK FARMERS MARKETWhat: Held at the Newtown Park Am-phitheater, each market features more than 25 local farmers and vendors with organic and/or sustainable foods and produce. When: Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon, through Sept. 13.Where: 3150 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek.More info: JohnsCreekGA.gov

ROSWELL FARMERS & ARTISANS MARKET What: The Roswell Farmers & Artisans Market offers fresh, local farm, ranch and artisan foods direct from produc-ers, and much more. When: Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon. Where: City Hall, 38 Hill St., RoswellMore info: roswellfam.com

FOOD TRUCKS N’ FORSYTH COUNTYWhen: Monday, May 23, 5-8 p.m. Where: Forsyth Conference Center at Lanier Technical College, 3410 Ronald Reagan Blvd., CummingMore info: web.cummingforsythcham-ber.org

ALPHARETTA FOOD TRUCK ALLEYWhat: Alpharetta’s Food Truck Alley on Thursday evenings offers a variety of six to eight rotating area food trucks along Old Roswell Street in the Historic District. When: Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.Where: Old Roswell Street in the Al-pharetta’s historic districtMore info: awesomealpharetta.com

MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER:AUTREY MILL UNPLUGGED CONCERTWhat: Kathy Reed, local singer/song-writer and teller of wonderful stories, will present “Tears, Trains, and Twang: The Roots of American Country Music.” When: Saturday, May 21, 7 p.m.Where: Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center, 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns CreekMore info: www.autreymill.org

SAWNEE ASSOCIATION OF THE ARTS MAY MEETINGWhat: Artist/painter/instructor Ross Horrocks will present a program fea-turing examples of his varied subjects, media and approaches to painting.  When:  Monday, May 23, 6 p.m.Where:  United Way of Forsyth County Office, 240 Elm Street, CummingMore Info: SawneeArt.org

NorthFulton.com | Alpharetta-Roswell Herald | May 19, 2016 | 21CALENDAR ForsythHerald.com | Forsyth Herald | May 19, 2016 | 21CALENDARROSWELL’S CLAY COLLECTIVE SPRING SHOW AND SALE What: “Works in Clay,” the spring show and sale for Roswell’s Clay Collective, features handmade ceramic artworks created by the organization’s 40-plus members.When: Through Wednesday, May 25Where: Art Center West, 1355 Wood-stock Road, RoswellMore info: roswellclaycollective.com.

HERITAGE DAYS IN MAY: PHOTOSWhat: 13th Annual Roswell Heri-tage Juried Photo Exhibit presents a pictorial look at Roswell as captured through the lens of Roswell Photo-graphic Society photographers. When: Through May 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., RoswellMore info: roswellgov.com

‘MY FAIR LADY’ AT CUMMING PLAYHOUSEWhat: The Cumming Playhouse will present the Tony Award-winning musi-cal, “My Fair Lady.”When: Through May 22, times varyWhere: Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St., CummingMore info: playhousecumming.com

LIBRARY EVENTS:ALPHARETTA BOOK-TO-ACTION GROUPWhat: This book group is more than a simple book club; Each month’s books highlight a need in the commu-nity and offer a way for participants to help. In honor of Memorial Day, May’s books will focus the needs of military dogs with “War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love” by Re-becca Frankel and, for children, “Dogs On Duty: Soldiers’ Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond” by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent. When: Saturday, May 21, 1 p.m. Where: Alpharetta Library, 10 Park Plaza, AlpharettaMore info: 404-613-6735

FINAL EXAM STUDY CENTERWhat: High schoolers are able to use the study room for solitary or group studying for their final exams. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Ages 13-18.When: Monday- Wednesday, May 23-25Where: Ocee Library, 5090 Abbotts Bridge Road, Johns Creek More info: 770-360-8897

MYSTERY READERS’ BOOK CLUBWhat: The assigned book is “Bangkok Tattoo” by John Burdett.When: Tuesday, May 24, 6:30 p.m. Where: Roswell Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: 770-640-3075

ALPHARETTA LIBRARY SF BOOK GROUPWhat: The book discussed will be “Gor-menghast” by Mervyn Peake.  When: Thursday, May 26, 6 p.m.Where: Alpharetta Library, 10 Park Plaza, Alpharetta More info: 404-613-6735

PET ADOPTIONS:‘PICK A MAY FLOWER’ FOR $20 What: All dogs over 25 pounds and all cats may be adopted from LifeLine’s shelters for $20. The adoption includes the pet’s spay/neuter, microchip and vaccines, a $250 value at no cost. When: Throughout MayWhere: DeKalb County Animal Ser-vices, Fulton County Animal Services, LifeLine’s Dog House & Kitty Motel and LifeLine’s Cat Adoption Center  More info: dekalbanimalservices.com, fultonanimalservices.com or lifelinean-imal.org

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 Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Fulton County Ani-mal Services, 860 Marietta Blvd. NW, AtlantaMore info: 404-613-4958

OF INTEREST ELSEWHERE:BEER, BOURBON AND BBQ FESTIVALWhat: Admission prices includes a sampling glass for all-you-care-to-taste beer and bourbon. When: Saturday, May 21, noon-6 p.m.Where: Atlantic Station, 1380 Atlantic Drive NW, AtlantaMore info: beerandbourbon.com

RED TOP MOUNTAIN MAKERS FESTIVALWhat: Experience the first makers festival in a Georgia State Park. Makers present will include jewelers, wood-workers, a telescope maker, soapstone carver, print maker, bat box builder, cider maker and many more. When: Saturday, May 21, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.Where: Red Top Mountain State Park, 50 Lodge Road SW, AcworthMore info: gastateparks.org/Info/236657

The saga of Atlanta’s Chattahoochee gator

You may have heard about it on the news: Atlan-ta’s legendary Chattahoochee River alligator has been captured and relocated from the Cochran Shoals Unit of the Chatta-hoochee River Na-tional Recreation

Area to more gator-friendly territory in southern Georgia.

Wait a minute. Did we say “alliga-tor” and “Chattahoochee” in the same sentence?

Indeed we did. What’s that? Gators in the wet-

lands around Atlanta’s Chattahoochee River? As it turns out, there was at least one that called Atlanta’s river-side wetlands “home” – at least until it was captured and relocated early last week.

Alligators don’t naturally live this far north, so how did this one end up in Atlanta’s Chattahoochee? It was probably a pet that was released when it got too big to keep.

This Chattahoochee gator had ap-parently been there for quite a while. Occasional sightings have been re-ported for eight or 10 years. Sightings gradually became more common in recent years as hikers on the Cochran Shoals Fitness Loop Trail caught occasional glimpses of this elusive creature.

According to the National Park Service, which administers CRNRA, alligators “tend to exhibit a natural fear of humans and do not pose a threat unless provoked.” In other words, sightings were rare and those who spotted the gator were encour-aged to leave it alone.

But earlier this year, in March, several sightings of the Cochran Shoals gator (which had by that time attained a length estimated to be in the 7- to 8-foot range) led to tempo-rary closings of part of the Cochran Shoals Fitness Loop Trail. That mul-tiuse trail, located off Interstate North Parkway just upriver from I-285, is popular with hikers, joggers and bicyclists, and the temporary closure was for the benefit of park users and alligator alike.

Following those most recent sightings, wildlife personnel set out to capture and relocate the Cochran Shoals gator. Early last week, on May

10, their efforts were successful. The gator was captured without harm and then relocated to more natural alli-gator habitat somewhere in southern Georgia.

How big was the gator? She (it was indeed a female) had a length of 6 feet 8 inches, but around 10 inches of her tail was found to be missing when she was captured. With her tail intact, the alligator would have had a length close to 8 feet, consistent with her estimated age.

Might there be other alligators in remote corners of the Cochran Shoals area? You hear occasional reports of sightings of a second and smaller alligator, though these could not be confirmed.

But the wetlands areas near the Cochran Shoals Fitness Loop Trail offer great opportunities for view-ing other wildlife, and this is a great time of year to experience them. Take your binoculars next time you visit this area. There’s no telling what you might see!

Steve Hud- son’s book, “Hiking the Hooch,” will help you discover the great trails of the Chattahoo-chee River Na-tional Recreation Area, including the trails of the Cochran Shoals Unit. Check it out in local outdoor shops or on Amazon, or order online from www.chattahoocheemedia.com.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – The 19th Roswell Memorial Day celebration, Monday, May 30, courtesy of the Rotary Club of Roswell and the City of Roswell, will take place as usual at 10:30 a.m. on the City Hall lawn in front of the Vietnam War Memorial.This year’s guest speaker will be retired Maj. Gen. Ronald L. Johnson who is today managing director of the Tennenbaum Institute of Enterprise Transforma-tion as well as a Georgia Tech professor of industrial and systems engineering.

Johnson has served 32 years in the military that included serving as director of the U.S. Army Instal-lation Management Agency, responsible for managing all 181 army installations worldwide.

Among his many pursuits, Johnson serves on the board of directors for Leave No Veteran Behind.

Laying the wreath at Memorial Day will be Ros-well Resident Grant McGarry, a former Army Ranger and author of “A Night in Pech Valley,” his personal account of a vicious firefight in Afghanistan. At the conclusion of the scripted service, the tradition has been to have an “open mike” session in which veter-ans, their families and friends step forward to offer their personal message for remembrance.

It is usually the most moving part of the service.

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The Rotary Club of Roswell Memorial Day committee is preparing for the 19th Memorial Day celebration May 30 on the Roswell City Hall lawn in front of the Vietnam War Memorial. From left are Rotary committee members Ralph Rowland, David Reddick, Mike McRay, Walt Woliver, committee chairman David Young, Lou Tabickman and Ron Cowan.

Roswell Rotary to host 19th Memorial Day observance”Major Gen. Ronald L. Johnson guest speaker

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Historic Downtown Alpharetta

Memorial Day WeekendSaturday, May 28

Sunday, May 29Monday, May 30

Whimsical and Colorful Artisan Booths Creative Kidz Zone Street Eats Live Entertainment

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What to Know Before You GoJoin us for the annual, three-day event where 90 regional and national arti-sans showcase their whimsical and colorful artwork. The popular Streetfest features live music, hands-on children’s activities and tasty Street eats in the Food Court.

Alpharetta Arts StreetfestSaturday, May 28 Sunday, May 29

Monday, May 30

Memorial Day Weekend – That’s Three, Art-Filled Days

Location

Join us on the streets of Historic Downtown Alpharetta at Milton Avenue and Main Street. Enter 2 North Main StreetAlpharetta Georgia 30009 in your GPS.

Pets

Alpharetta Arts Streetfest is a pet-friendly show. All pets must have their owners on a leash.

ATMs ATMs are located at Wells Fargo Bank, 21 North Main Street

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Admission is free!

Date & Time

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Parking

City Hall Parking Deck(2 Park Plaza)

Milton Center (Independence High School, 86 School Drive)

Downtown Parking Lots (on Roswell and Old Roswell Streets)

Saturday, May 28 10 am – 6 pmSunday, May 29 10 am – 6 pmMonday, May 30 10 am – 5pm

Clay

Fiber

Folk Art

Glass

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Paintings

Photo-graphy

JewelryGreta AnthonyMichelle DoolittleJulie JonesTommy McClureEva McCrayStephanie Pierson-HutsonRegina Wolff

Bailey JackAnita LindsleyJohn Lundy

Brenda BiberdorfLeAnn ChristianDebra MagerAndrea VictoricaJennie Viers

Carrie BowieTheresa ChineaTerry CommanderCarolyn CordellShannon DanielLisa DavisNicole Griffi nJennifer HahnHeidi HensleyChandler KennedyYvonne MillerCindy MurphyRebecca SalcedoSherry SmithConnie StarkeyJean & Rick SummersJill WoodStacey Wright

Lily BilslandMaureen BooneKathy BrennanSpirit BushPatricia DiBonaConnie FarishLeslie FawcettAmy GresensLinda IngleLynn JohnsonJudy MartinJoan MuhlfelderBerlin RandallKathryn RiechertKatie SasserAlison WomackChristina Loeb

Tarik BerbeyAmy HinesMargarita WarnerRhonda Waters

Chris BarentzLaurel BrowningPami Ciliax-GuthrieChris GlennonJessica HoltJack LeGrangeManami LingerfeltDawn NewbernKatie PhillipsRobert RodenbergerKaren SniderKenny Thomas

Brian BealsScott & Donna GlandorfJessica MasseyScott MattisonMeg MitchellArlene MolnarJenny MooreDeborah SeetonMichael Amos

Jerry DeedsRobert JonesAlan MartinStan Susky

Welcomes the Following Artists:Alpharetta Arts Streetfest 2016 Saturday, May 28

Sunday, May 29

Monday, May 30

Mixed Media

Tosi AlarconCat GoodrumHeather McDurmonLisa MitchellLolly Sesco

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What to Know Before You GoJoin us for the annual, three-day event where 90 regional and national arti-sans showcase their whimsical and colorful artwork. The popular Streetfest features live music, hands-on children’s activities and tasty Street eats in the Food Court.

Alpharetta Arts StreetfestSaturday, May 28 Sunday, May 29

Monday, May 30

Memorial Day Weekend – That’s Three, Art-Filled Days

Location

Join us on the streets of Historic Downtown Alpharetta at Milton Avenue and Main Street. Enter 2 North Main StreetAlpharetta Georgia 30009 in your GPS.

Pets

Alpharetta Arts Streetfest is a pet-friendly show. All pets must have their owners on a leash.

ATMs ATMs are located at Wells Fargo Bank, 21 North Main Street

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Milton Center (Independence High School, 86 School Drive)

Downtown Parking Lots (on Roswell and Old Roswell Streets)

Saturday, May 28 10 am – 6 pmSunday, May 29 10 am – 6 pmMonday, May 30 10 am – 5pm

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JewelryGreta AnthonyMichelle DoolittleJulie JonesTommy McClureEva McCrayStephanie Pierson-HutsonRegina Wolff

Bailey JackAnita LindsleyJohn Lundy

Brenda BiberdorfLeAnn ChristianDebra MagerAndrea VictoricaJennie Viers

Carrie BowieTheresa ChineaTerry CommanderCarolyn CordellShannon DanielLisa DavisNicole Griffi nJennifer HahnHeidi HensleyChandler KennedyYvonne MillerCindy MurphyRebecca SalcedoSherry SmithConnie StarkeyJean & Rick SummersJill WoodStacey Wright

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Chris BarentzLaurel BrowningPami Ciliax-GuthrieChris GlennonJessica HoltJack LeGrangeManami LingerfeltDawn NewbernKatie PhillipsRobert RodenbergerKaren SniderKenny Thomas

Brian BealsScott & Donna GlandorfJessica MasseyScott MattisonMeg MitchellArlene MolnarJenny MooreDeborah SeetonMichael Amos

Jerry DeedsRobert JonesAlan MartinStan Susky

Welcomes the Following Artists:Alpharetta Arts Streetfest 2016 Saturday, May 28

Sunday, May 29

Monday, May 30

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. - For a trio of local art-ists, the Alpharetta Arts Streetfest in May will mark their debut at the annual event, which draws artists from across the country. Now in its 12th year, the Streetfest will host nearly 100 artists in the outdoor gallery May 28-30, representing a wide variety of medi-ums including photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, glass, wood, metal and paper art.

Tosi Alarcon – Vintage By Tosi

For as long as she can remem-ber, Tosi Alarcon has loved fashion, design and the process of creating beautiful things. Today, her company, Vintage by Tosi, handcrafts unique, one of-a-kind handbags and fashion accessories for customers seeking something beyond the usual.

A native of Colombia, South America, Alarcon moved to the United States at 14 and eventually enrolled at the Art Institute of Atlanta to pursue her passion in design.

“I have always loved fabrics and design, [so] I attended the Art Institute in Atlanta to further my interest in fashion … moving it from a hobby to hopefully a career,” said Alarcon, who now lives in Cumming.

After college, she headed to Florence, Italy, to expand her fashion horizon, then returned to Colombia to pursue a career as a fashion designer for some of Medellin’s top clothing companies.

With family still in Georgia, Alarcon and her husband and two young children returned to Atlanta, where her career in fashion took a back seat to family life and running the family business, A&A Land-scape.

“[But] as I was raising my own kiddos, my joy from creating, sewing and designing never left my thoughts,” said Alarcon, who dipped her toe back into the design world by helping a friend make window treatments.

“What others see as a waste and throw away, I see as unique combinations of recycled fabrics coming together for new handbags, belts and scarves,” said Alarcon of what would be the inspiration for Vintage by Tori. “By recycling fabric sample books and other scrap material, I create unique pieces of art each time I get behind the sewing machine.

She said her pieces are all distinct and made with largely discontinued fabrics, ma-

terials and samples. That means her clients will never walk down the street and see their handbags or accessories on anyone else, she noted with a laugh.

She is looking forward to being a part of the Alpharetta Arts Streetfest this month and meeting customers who are now buying her products at area boutiques.

Jenny Moore – Flighty Bird House Lady

Distraught by the death of her mother six years ago, Jenny Moore looked for some-thing to heal her heart and found it in the simplicity of a birdhouse.

“After Mother passed away, I was so depressed … so I bought a birdhouse and decided I could make them my-self,” said Moore. “I have always been creative like my mom, and I love tools and my workshop.”

Her first attempt produced a more than adequate home for birds, but Moore decided it needed something more to make it even more special.

“I made the first one and it looked so bor-ing,” Moore said with a laugh. A paraprofes-sional at Lake Windward Elementary School in Alpharetta, Moore said she then “started cutting designs out of metal to decorate the outside.”

Her dad suggested using a metal roof to make the birdhouse last longer, and Moore found tiny half-inch nails to securely attach the roof to the house.

Moore brought the finished birdhouse to school where a teacher immediately asked her to make two for her. And her business, Flighty Birdhouse Lady, was essentially born in that moment.

“When my friend said she would pay me to make her the birdhouses I thought I hit the jackpot,” said Moore, who considered her birdhouses just a hobby to fill her time.

But the quirky, folk art feel to her bird-houses soon had a growing fan base among her friends and family. She was encouraged by friends to display her birdhouses in craft shows, and was pleasantly surprised that she made money in her first show in 2010.

Over the years, her birdhouses have evolved somewhat, while staying true to her original designs.

She found that exterior paint and exterior glue added to the durability of the all-cedar houses, which are fully functional and ready to be nested in – for any size “family.” The homes are as small as one room, or can be up to eight rooms.

For an added bonus, Moore recently

started using an acrylic cover on the “clean out hole” so that owners can look inside (“it’s wonderful to see babies grow up,” she said).

For now, Moore says she enjoys her “hobby” building birdhouses, and will quit when it feels like a job, or she decides to move on to another creative outlet. “I usually can’t wait to get home to build,” said Moore. “The more pieces I have to cut, the more fun it is for me.”

Debra Mager — Cinderella Mosaics

Just a few years ago, Alpharetta’s Debra Mager was simply a collector of art, content to acquire the whimsi-cal pieces of mosaic art she loved. But en-couragement from her husband to take a class in mosaics revealed not only an affinity for the artwork, but a true talent for the design.

“I started this as a hobby, never intending to be an artist, let alone to actually sell my work. It was hardly a blip on the radar [when I began],” said Mager, of her early introduc-tion to mosaics design.

But today, Mager is a sought-after mosaic artist whose business, Cinderella Mosaics, allows her to tap into the glittery, free-form side of art that she enjoys.

“Mosaic allows for a broad range of creative expression,” she explains. “It can be expressed in glass, broken china, bits and pieces of any [kind]. Because I am not skilled as a painter or illustrator or in the traditional fine arts, I find mosaic art very forgiving.”

About a year after her initial class, a friend put one of her signature mosaic “glass slippers” into her booth at an art show. The item quickly sold.

Her husband came up with the name, Cinderella Mosaics, reflecting her love affair with shoes – both real and in mosaic form.

“It’s the perfect name for my obsession,” Mager said with a laugh, admitting to being a shoe fanatic in her younger days. “I just got hooked on making them early on [and] every shoe I make is unique and beautiful, fantas-tical and fun.”

Cinderella Mosaics competes for her time with her full-time job, but Mager says she often slips into her studio in the wee hours of the morning to complete projects.

“I wish I could be a full-time artist but it’s not in the cards as of yet. It will be exactly what I will do when I retire from the restau-rant marketing business,” she said.

For now, her plate is full with art shows and conducting workshops and classes for aspiring artists.

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The Memorial Day Tribute will fea-ture a performance by Alpharetta City Band followed by a program including keynote speaker, U.S. Navy Capt. Alec Fraser, who is a veteran, Rotarian and past-president of the Atlanta Rotary Club and noted speaker.

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Beach:As a GDOT board member he was

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He did it by convincing the other GDOT board members to sweep their district budgets for any unspent funds to help Alpharetta and the North Fulton Community Improve-ment District finish the mirror north-south arterial on the west side of Ga. 400.

Beach said he takes particular dis-pleasure when Barlow accuses him of supporting an $8 billion plan to bring MARTA to North Fulton. It was a huge multicounty TSPLOST. The problem with Barlow’s accusation is Beach was not the senator. It was Sen. Chip Reed who helped write the bill – and later repudiated it.

“I wasn’t even in office, yet he tells this outrageous lie. All he does is at-tack me with lies, he doesn’t have one thing on his record he can point to as having done,” Beach said.

Former House Speaker Pro Tem Mark Burkhalter said there are mem-bers of the legislature who always keep their heads down and always check to see which way the wind

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a safe seat and never get any oppo-sition,” he said. “Then you have the people who want to look at public pol-icy issues for what they can accom-plish. You find out who you can trust – would trust with your children.”

As one of the architects of Geor-gia’s modern Republican Party, Burk-halter said you learn who you can count on.

“They are measured by what they do. That’s a Brandon Beach. If you never get any opposition, it’s proba-bly because you never did anything to get noticed,” Burkhalter said. ”The people who use their time in office to get things done are the ones I like. Brandon gets things done.”

Asked what he thinks about Barlow’s charge that Beach is not a true conservative but a true liberal, Burkhalter just smiled.

“Desperate people say desperate things. I think that is all that needs to be said.”

Asked if he thought there is a con-flict of interest with Beach lobbying as chamber president for economic growth, Burkhalter dismissed it.

“It’s hardly a conflict. You should seek out people who want to improve the economy of their region,” he said. “If he’s lobbying for jobs and growth, then I say full speed ahead.”

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Mark Burkhalter was a Republican long before being a GOP member was cool. Many say he is one of the driving forces that turned Georgia from blue to red.

Certainly, Burkhalter was a huge shaper of Johns Creek, the community he grew up in. He was instrumental in giving residents the opportunity to vote for cityhood. He was the mentor to dozens of politically active people today, and they wanted to thank him for being that force of change in Johns Creek, North Fulton and beyond.

You could say he was a one-man

incubator of leadership. He could spot the potential for leadership in people, then tap into that potential. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recognized something in that intern in his Wash-ington, D.C., office and gave him a paid position on his staff.

The Johns Creek Herald showed some prescience it didn’t deserve when it chose Burkhalter for its Aug. 22, 1997, inaugural cover story. Of course, he was a newsmaker even then. The photo featured a youngish (37) busi-nessman standing in front of the War-saw Elementary School that he saved from the bulldozer.

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Former House Speaker Pro Tem Mark Burkhalter has been honored with a portion of Medlock Bridge Road named in his honor. But his lasting legacy can be found among the active leaders whom he encouraged to get into politics. They showed up to honor him. From left are Johns Creek Councilman Lenny Zaprowski, Fulton County School Board President Linda McCain, Johns Creek Councilman Steve Broadbent, Fulton School Board member Katie Reeves, Speaker of the House Pro Tem Jan Jones, Burkhalter, state Sen. Brandon Beach, Fulton County Commissioner Liz Hausmann, Johns Creek Councilwoman Cori Davenport and state Rep. Chuck Martin.

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“There was no way they could afford to live in that area, no matter what you paid them,” Dhawan said. “So that’s usually the byproduct of success.”

When people live in a certain area, and they don’t want high density, then they shouldn’t have high density, he

said. But the side effect, he added, is maintaining a workforce for basic, day-to-day jobs.

In these situations, prevalent in some areas of California, businesses must spend more to get workers to jobs..

“Right now, Google is doing that, running in buses and ferries from San Francisco to bring in people to the Google headquarters,” Dhawan said. “They’re not going to sit around and say the city needs to provide us transporta-tion and buses. They’ve got the money, they’re running it. The small business-man, individually, cannot do that.”

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Last Thursday evening the place to be in North Fulton had to be at Taste of Alpharetta.

A little rain did nothing to scare the people away. Indeed, the crowds scared the rain away. Nothing was going to dampen what just may have been the best Taste yet.

The food from 60-plus restaurants filled the streets with the most delecta-ble aromas. The music was great, with the AJ Ghent band pounding out funk and rhythm and blues, and country rock from Old Salt Union.

In the delta defined by Old Roswell Street, Old Alpharetta Street and Milton Avenue, the Taste has taken on an intimacy despite the thousands who throng the food tents.

And if you want to see old friends you haven’t seen in years, you can’t beat the Taste. Everybody shows up.

Alpharetta Special Events Coor-dinator Kim Dodson said some early rain did slow the crowds initially. Food ticket receipts were down about 25 per-cent to 30 percent over previous years.

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She estimates the crowd at well over 30,000. Since the event is five hours long, visitors tend to come in waves throughout the evening. Once the sun came out from behind the clouds, peo-ple filled the streets.

Taste of Alpharetta has become an annual tradition for festivalgoers, fam-ilies and food connoisseurs who come to dine in historic downtown Alpharetta

at over 60 restaurants in one fun night. Crowds sampled delicious appetizers, entrees and desserts from the top chefs in town.

There were culinary demonstrations, activities for all ages and entertainment to please every palate.

Admission was free, with food tickets available for 50 cents each. Restaurants participating in the Taste of Alpharetta do not accept cash (tick-ets only) and typically charge $1-3 in tickets per food sample.

The music stage had harmonic rock, folk and R&B bands. A separate culinary competition stage paired top area chefs against one another, and fun zones added to the festivities.

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MACON, Ga. — Milton boys soccer used penalty kicks to earn their berth in last Friday’s Class 6A state championship game at Mercer University, but it would be penalty kicks that ultimately cost them the state title.

Milton beat Brookwood on penalty kicks last Tuesday to advance to the state championship game, but the Eagles would fall 4-1 in penalty kicks to Parkview in the championship game.

Milton goalkeeper Ethan Suda, who made three saves in the shootout against Brookwood, was beaten by all four of Parkview’s shots. Meanwhile An-dre Rayol was the only Eagle to convert.

Suda made five saves in regulation and overtime, and though Milton put seven shots on goal in the game, they were unable to score.

The first half saw Parkview control possession early, but Milton’s defense limited good scoring chances. After the game settled, Milton began to even the

possessions, but Parkview was still able to put shots on. Suda was forced to make two saves in the final three minutes of the first half.

Both teams settled into a rhythm in the beginning of the second half until Milton had two scoring opportunities with 25 minutes remaining. Senior Jun Zaragosa put a free kick on goal that was saved by the fingertips of Park-view’s goalkeeper, who sent the shot over the net. On the ensuing corner, the ball careened around a few players in front of the net before it looked like Austin Deck would have an open shot on goal, but the positive-looking chance was thwarted when a Parkview de-fender cleared the ball away at the last moment.

Deck would make a pivotal defen-sive play with 11 minutes remaining when a Parkview corner led to a soft header past Suda. Deck gathered the ball in with his chest on the far post and was able to save the potential goal before clearing the ball out of danger.

After regulation, the scoreless game moved into overtime, and with just six seconds left in the first overtime, Milton had perhaps their best shot of the game. From 20 yards out on the left side of the net, Zaragosa put a hard, bending shot on net that was directed for the top left corner. However, Park-view’s goalkeeper played the ball well and denied Milton a possible champion-ship-winning goal.

In the second overtime, Parkview nearly found the net with two minutes remaining when a shot bended past Suda and rolled just left of the post, but the game remained scoreless and went to PKs.

Parkview shot first, converting on a kick to the left side of the net when Suda moved to his right. Rayol con-verted for Milton to keep the PKs 1-1, but it would be the final conversion for the Eagles. Parkview converted on their next three attempts, all to the left side of the net, and Zaragosa and Suda’s shots were both saved, earning Park-view the state championship.

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ATLANTA – The Blessed Trinity Lady Titans soccer team fell 4-0 to Westmin-ster at the Class 3A state championship game last Thursday at Mercer Univer-sity. Making their 12th state cham-pionship appearance in 13 years, the Lady Titans could not get over the state championship hump once again this season, finishing as runner-up for the fifth consecutive year.

The Lady Titans’ 4-0 loss was their third of the year to familiar foes West-minster after they played twice in the regular season. Westminster beat BT 3-0 for the state title last year.

The Titans looked to open the game by playing defensively and limit West-minster’s scoring chances by loading players into the defensive zone. How-ever, the strategy did not keep the Wildcats’ offense in check.

Westminster scored just four min-utes into the game when BT failed to clear the ball inside the box on multiple occasions, heading the ball toward their own net where a Westminster player was able to split defenders and score.

Soon after, Westminster added another goal to lead 2-0 in just the seventh minute of the first half. BT goalkeeper Olivia Francis dove to try and gather in a Westminster cross in space, but was unable to gather in the ball, leading a Westminster forward to pounce on the opportunity and bury the goal. With their defensively minded strategy not panning out, BT began to open up their play, which limited Westminster’s offensive chances and provided them with scoring chances of their own.

However, Westminster would open the second half with another goal and added another midway through the half to take a commanding 4-0 lead. Mean-while, the Lady Titans offense struggled to create scoring opportunities against the stingy Wildcat defense. The Titans had scored 18 goals in their four playoff games leading to the state champion-ship game. BT’s appearance in the state championship will be their last in Class 3A as the team moves to Class 4A next season. The Titans will graduate seven seniors from this year’s team.

Blessed Trinity last won the state title in 2011.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Georgia Bomb-ers, partnered with the Alpharetta Youth Baseball Association, won their second travel baseball tour-nament of their spring season this Mother’s Day, May 8.  They cap-tured the Triple Crown Sports Spring Fling title with a landslide 5-0 for the weekend.  This was the second tournament final in as many weeks for the 10u Bombers, as they had lost the previous week in the finals of the Grand Slam Lake Lanier Classic. 

The Bombers other Championship this spring was The Grand Slam Battle at the Branch.

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Three of the strongest lacrosse programs in the state — the Lambert boys team and the Milton and Blessed Trinity girls teams — all competed in state championship games last Saturday.

The Lambert boys captured their third state title while the Lady Titans of Blessed Trinity won their first state title. The Milton girls team, the six-time defend-ing state champions, were upset by Walton.

Prior to Saturday’s loss to Walton, the Milton girls team had won a state championship in 10 of the 11 years the sport has been part of the Georgia High School Association, and had won six straight state championships. However, the Lady Eagles were beaten by Walton 9-8 on Saturday in the Class 6A girls championship game. The matchup was a re-match of last year’s state title game.

The Walton defense limited the Eagles’ shots while their offense scored more goals than Milton had given up to any in-state opponent this season.

After going down 1-0 early, Walton responded by taking the lead and stretching it to a two-goal lead at halftime. In the second half, Walton’s lead extended to

three goals, 8-5, before Milton scored two unanswered goals to cut the lead to 8-7.

Walton scored again with just under five minutes remaining in the game and began to shift their focus to stonewalling the Milton offense.

Milton was able to score with two minutes remain-ing, but Walton would possess the ball in the dying minutes, playing keep away, and eventually running out the clock to deny Milton the chance for a seventh straight title.

For the Lambert boys, their perfect season ended with their 6-3 win over Lassiter for the title. The Long-horns finished the season at 21-0 and captured their third state championship, and first since moving to Class 6A, with the win.

A goal from Hayden Barnes gave Lambert a 1-0 lead just 46 seconds into the game, a lead that they would not lose for the remainder of the game. Matt O’Rourk scored three goals for the Longhorns and Hunter Clem and Conrad McEvoy added a goal each for the Longhorns, which beat Lassiter 6-3 for the state title.

Ben Stump had 10 saves for the Longhorns in the win.

The Lady Titans of Blessed Trinity faced two-time defending state champions Kell in the A-5A state championship game on Saturday, and were able to use a momentous comeback to upset the Longhorns.

The Lady Titans found themselves down 13-8 with 12 minutes remaining, but as they began to score, the momentum shifted to BT.

The Lady Titans scored seven unanswered goals in the final 12 minutes to take the 15-13 win, capturing their first state championship in the process.

It was the first appearance for the Blessed Trinity girls in the state championship game.

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The Lambert boys lacrosse team won the third state title in the school’s history.

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A similar case occurred May 6 in Milton when a salon worker was called twice by a woman claiming to represent Georgia Power. She told the worker that the salon was behind on their electri-cal bills and owed the company thou-sands of dollars. He refused to pay any money, since the salon uses another utility company, and was suspicious of the caller.

There are no suspects at this time.

Woman exits store with $1.2K in clothesALPHARETTA, Ga. — A woman was arrested May 2 for allegedly shoplifting $1,200 worth of clothes and handbags.

A local retail store alerted police to a shoplifting incident after a loss preven-tion officer took a woman into custody.

The woman, Haritha Veluvolu, 24, was seen entering the fitting rooms multiple times. The loss prevention officer saw that she was carrying fewer pieces of merchandise out than in. No items were left in the stalls, either.

Veluvolu was stopped by the loss prevention officer when she attempted to leave the store without paying for any merchandise. The missing items allegedly were found in the shopping bags Veluvolu was carrying, including 20 pieces of clothing and three hand-bags, a total value of $1,200.

Veluvolu was arrested by Alpharetta Police for theft by shoplifting.

Construction workers report materials missing MILTON, Ga. — Two separate con-struction companies recently reported missing materials from their sites.

One site manager contacted Milton police May 4 when he found an $1,800 vent hood missing from the home construction site. It had last been seen May 3, still in its original packaging, secured inside the home. The doors, re-cently installed, had been locked before the workers left.

A second report came a day later from a nearby lot, when construction workers noted May 5 that $2,500 worth of shingles was missing. They had been left in front of the site after their deliv-ery May 4 and were last seen late that evening when the last worker left.

When the workers returned the next morning, 105 bundles of shingles were

missing. The man who reported the incident believes that the person who took the shingles must have had a large truck due to the sheer amount and weight of the missing items. There was no sign of forced entry or surveillance footage to review for either case.

Misspelled signatureexposes fake checkMILTON, Ga. — A woman called police May 2 when she received information that someone had attempted to cash a fraudulent $3,500 check on her account. A checking service in Law-renceville called the woman to ask about a $3,500 check that was given to them earlier that day. An employee became suspicious of the check after noting that the woman’s signature was misspelled. The woman confirmed that she did not write any such check.

The check was payable to a Christie Grefkowicz. The victim’s phone num-ber at the top of the check was crossed out and replaced with an unknown one. When the woman called the new number, it went to a voicemail message where an unknown woman, likely Gref-kowicz, claimed the victim’s identity.

A Google search of Christie Grefko-wicz uncovered several arrest records. The booking photos of Grefkowicz matched the images caught by the security camera when she attempted to cash the fake check.

After further research, the woman realized that Grefkowicz worked for a cleaning service she had contracted several months ago.

Rice and side orderof cracked phoneALPHARETTA, Ga. — A woman was arrested May 8 after breaking a restau-rant employee’s phone during a verbal dispute. Two women visited a local restaurant where they got into a dis-pute over whether an extra order of rice had been requested. The restaurant employee insisted the women should pay for the extra food.

While the women disputed the transaction, saying they had “terrible service,” the owner began taking pic-tures of them with his phone.

The owner told police that he started taking pictures because the women were saying “very ugly things,” and he felt threatened by them.

One of the women grabbed the phone and slammed it into the ground. She then picked up the cracked phone, deleted the pictures and walked out of the restaurant with the other woman. The iPhone 6 Plus is valued at $820.

Alpharetta police stopped the women several stores away, who said they had been harassed by the restau-

rant staff. The phone was recovered and the woman was arrested for criminal trespass, as the damage to the phone did not exceed $500 to repair.

Teeth whitening stripsdarken 2 men’s recordsJOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A local retail store’s loss prevention officer reported $2,200 worth of teeth whitening strips allegedly stolen May 1 by two men.

The loss prevention officer alerted Johns Creek police to the incident May 2 after he reviewed the previous day’s security footage. The footage showed two men stopping by the hygiene aisle. One of the men appeared to act as a lookout while the other allegedly con-cealed multiple boxes of teeth whiten-ing strips, totaling $2,200 in value, in a shopping bag.

They avoided all points of sale and left the store. The entire incident only lasted five minutes.

An investigator identified the men as Rodney Richards, 51, and Roder-ick Jefferson, 51, who have both been suspected in multiple shoplifting cases across Atlanta.

They both have multiple out-standing warrants for theft in several jurisdictions. Their whereabouts are unknown.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A woman was swindled May 2 out of $2,700 after fill-ing out a secret shopper job application online.

The woman had been job hunting, when she found a secret shopper job posted online in April. She filled out the application and was soon contacted by someone giving the name “Kathleen Hiles” on behalf of the company. Hiles told the woman that she had a secret shopper job for her for a bank.

The woman received mailed instruc-tions from Iowa about the job as well as a $2,900 check, which she was told to deposit.

A few days later, on April 15, Hiles started texting the woman to “hurry up with the shopping job” even though the instructions told her to wait until the check cleared her account. The woman withdrew $2,700 in cash from her account and deposited the money into an account provided by Hiles via text message.

The woman was contacted by her bank April 28 and told that the $2,900 check provided by Hiles was returned with insufficient funds, of course. At-tempts to contact Hiles through texts, calls and emails have failed.

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For information, please contact Debora Westbrook at the City of Alpharetta Finance Department via email at purchasing@alpharetta.ga.us or at 678-297-6052.

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He bought the old landmark school and preserved it by converting it into an

office building. Like the good Republi-can he was, he made the proposition pay for itself.

Now it has come to pass that many of those he inspired to become active in their community and run for public office came back May 11 to that old schoolhouse to honor Burkhalter and

say thanks in a special way.That portion of Medlock Bridge Road

(Ga. 141) from the Chattahoochee River north to Abbotts Bridge Road is now officially christened Mark Burkhalter Highway. Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston led a delegation to the old Warsaw School to make the formal proclamation before family and friends

State Sen. Brandon Beach was master of ceremonies at the afternoon event. Beach said Burkhalter was a leader in the “paradigm shift for metro Atlanta” in that he supported the cre-ation of Sandy Springs, Johns Creek and Milton. In turn, that led to a host of cities taking their own destinies in their own hands and incorporating.

“He presented the case for cities to have local control and with such con-viction, it could not be denied,” Beach said.

Speaker Richardson noted how Burkhalter was one of the leaders who spoke to hundreds of groups all over the state, urging them to find a new path to political ends by joining the Republican Party. The effort ended with the election of a Republican governor, a Republican lieutenant governor and a Republican speaker of the House.

Burkhalter himself was elected speaker pro tem of the House, an office that came with considerable power in its own right.

Also speaking were former Speaker Glenn Richardson and Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones.

Jones said she didn’t know what a state representative was in 2001. But

she had the idea of getting funding for an environmental classroom, and so she made her pitch to Burkhalter.

“Mark was one who listened to me. I didn’t get the funding, so we wound up selling a lot of cookie dough,” Jones said. “Then I found out after redis-tricting, we weren’t in Mark’s district anymore.”

But a relationship was born, and she had a mentor as she became a state representative. They later collab-orated to get cityhood for Johns Creek and Milton.

Perhaps Burkhalter’s oldest friend there was state Rep. Chuck Martin. They went to high school together and then college. Would Martin have become an Alpharetta city councilman and then the city’s mayor had he not met Burkhalter?

We’ll never know, but yet here is another leader who rubbed shoulders with him in early times.

“We would talk about what we wanted to do. And Mark would say he wanted a place like where he was from. I remember sitting up in the Milton grandstands just talking,” Martin said.

From such dreams can spring ac-tions. Many that day said it was Burk-halter’s encouragement that gave them the spark to enter politics. Granted, these are all can-do and will-do person-alities to begin with, but often a push in the right direction at the right time is needed.

Burkhalter was the kind of person who was looking for people to give that nudge. A visibly moved Burkhalter rose to speak.

“It’s funny how life comes around,” he said. “I was one of seven students who graduated from [Warsaw Elemen-tary] and went to Milton. I was the first kid on the bus and the last one off.”

He would ride his bike on Ga. 141 and not see a car. He didn’t grow up in a small town, it was smaller than that. And it wasn’t even a town yet. But he would change that.

While so many people know Burk-halter the politician, there was also Burkhalter the businessman. He dou-ble majored at the University of Georgia in global studies/political science and German/Slavic languages. Then he became a real estate broker.

As his political career took off, so did his business career. When he was presented with the opportunity – his dream job, really – to work for Dentons, a worldwide law office in 53 countries and the world’s largest law firm, he chose for his family, he took the job.

He said he is working currently on a four-year project in Gibraltar. He helps companies work their way through international red tape.

“A door opened for me. I’m glad I served, but I’m glad to be where I am. It allows me to fulfill my dreams,” Burk-halter said.

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CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The following item will be heard at a public hearing held by the City Council on Monday, June 6, 2016 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

a. PH-16-10 East Village (City Council Only)Consideration of a request for a change to a Council Condition with regard to the architecture, style and materials required for a mixed use development located at the northwest corner of Old Milton Parkway and Westside Parkway. This property is legally described as being located in Land Lots 749-802, 1st District, 2nd Section.

Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fi fty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the offi ce of the City Clerk, 2 Park Plaza.

CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The following item will be presented at a Public Workshop on Thursday, June 2, 2016 commencing at 5:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room, Alpharetta City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Immediately Following, this item will be heard at a public hearing held by the Planning Commission on Thursday, June 2, 2016 commencing at 6:30p.m.

Items forwarded by the Planning Commission will be considered by the City Council on Monday, June 20, 2016 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

a. PH-15-25 Update to the Comprehensive Land Use PlanConsideration of updates to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan.

Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fi fty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the offi ce of the City Clerk, 2 Park Plaza.

CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The following item will be considered by the City Council on Monday, June 20, 2016 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

a. V-16-14 Environs LLC Climate Controlled Storage (City Council Only)Consideration of a variance to reduce the front setback from 65’ to 50’ as well as variance to reduce required parking from 103 to 8 parking spaces. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lots 590, 591, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fi fty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the offi ce of the City Clerk, 2 South Main Street.

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Johns Creek and Forsyth County.The project list for each city is di-

vided into three tiers. Alpharetta has nine projects, total-

ing $56.2 million, making up its Tier I list. Five projects, from adaptive traffic signals to sidewalks to resurfacing, make up the Tier II list with a price tag of $6.4 million.

Tier III projects, primarily bicycle and pedestrian improvements along major roadways, would only be funded if the city collects more in sales tax than it anticipates.

Belle Isle said he wanted to be clear that the city is not promoting the transportation sales tax, but if voters approve the tax and Alpharetta has not submitted a list of projects, the city will be left out of the process.

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TSPLOST TIMELINEMay 30 – Fulton County cities, with the exception of Atlanta, must submit project lists to Fulton County, which is coordinating the effort.

June 15 – Fulton County prepares and sends back to the cities an aggregate list of county transportation projects to be funded by the .75-cent sales tax during its five-year run.

June 30 – Cities return to Fulton County a final list of projects approved by each of the city councils. The county then submits the project list to the election superintendent for placement on the Nov. 8 ballot. northfulton.comShare your opinions

But, whereas the original proposal had Alpharetta footing just $2.5 million of the bill, Monday’s list put the city’s figure at $5.5 million, with Johns Creek matching that same amount.

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Legal Services

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT KENOSHA COUNTY

Branch 1

BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION100 North Tryon StreetCharlotte, NC 28202,

Petitioner, Case No. 16-CV-508vs. Code: 30405 Other Real Estate

LACONDRA G. HALL6904 102nd AvenueKenosha, WI 53142,

NAKEISHA S. COTTON6904 102nd AvenueKenosha, WI 53142,

NETBANK, FSB7909 Parklane Road, Suite 150Columbia, SC 29223,

Respondents.

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF WISCONSINTo: NetBank, fsb Royal Centre Three, Suite 100 11475 Great Oaks Way Alpharetta, GA 30022

You are hereby notifi ed that the petitioner named above has fi led a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within forty (40) days after May 19, 2016, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Verifi ed Petition for Discharge of Mortgage (the “Verifi ed Petition”). The demand must be sent or delivered to the Court, whose address is 912 56th Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140, and to Stroud, Willink & Howard, LLC, petitioner’s attorneys, whose address is 25 West Main Street, Suite 300, Madison, Wisconsin 53703. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Verifi ed Petition within forty (40) days, the Court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Verifi ed Petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Verifi ed Petition. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated this 16th day of May, 2016.STROUD, WILLINK & HOWARD, LLC

By: Norman D. Farnam State Bar No. 1034732 25 West Main Street, Suite 300 P.O. Box 2236 Madison, WI 53701-2236 (608) 257-2281

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Cleaning Services

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Handyman

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Home Improvement

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Landscaping

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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

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Landscaping

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Pinestraw

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SERVICE DIRECTORY Reader Advisory: The National Trade Association we belong to has purchased thefollowing classifieds. Determining the value of their service or product is advised by this publication. In order to avoid misunderstandings, some advertisers do not offer employment but rather supply the readers with manuals, directories and other materials

designed to help their clients establish mail order selling and other businesses at home. Under NO circumstance should you send any money in advance or give the client your checking, license identification or credit card numbers. Also beware of ads that claim to guarantee loans regardless of credit and note that if a credit repair company does business only over the phone it’s illegal to request any money before delivering its service.All funds are based in U.S. dollars. 800 numbers may or may not reach Canada.

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Wants to purchase minerals and other oil and gas interests. Send details to P.O. Box 13557 Denver, Co. 80201

Painters

Advantage Painting

Interior/ExteriorDecks Sealed & Stained

Carpentry Repairs

770-255-8575

Proudly use Benjamin Moore

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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. sales@raymacremodeling.com 678-341-9744 www.raymacremodeling.com

Tree Services

RAS Cutting ServicesComplete tree removal. Ralph 678-898-7237

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

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AC/Heating Handyman

• 24/7 Service• Service / Installation • Aff ordable Rates• Residential and Commercial

Air Conditioning

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