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Above: Team members of the 2016 Class of Leadership Johns Creek display the signage they erected for the nature trail at the city’s Shakerag Park on Rogers Circle. From left are Jenna Murphy with Woodward Academy; Will Bolt with Catalyst Wealth Management; Nora Polanco of The Quin Group; James Toth of Solid Source Realty; and Cindy Baumgardner of Nordson Corp. Team members not shown are Mona Lippitt of Gwinnett Medical Cen-ter and Eric Taylor, assistant city manager with Johns Creek. Left: Although there is a 1.3-mile nature trail behind River Trail Middle School it is little known. With Leadership Johns Creek’s help, more people will learn of it and use it. Read more, Page 38.

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2 | June 9, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com PUBLIC SAFETY

DUI arrests ► Michael Harrison Mulling, 25, of Six

Branches Drive, Roswell, was arrested May 13 on Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell for DUI, failure to maintain lane and failure to yield to an emer-gency vehicle.

► Margaret Mary Chick, 50, of Westwood Way, Alpharetta, was arrested May 15 on Ga. 400 in Roswell for DUI, suspended license and speeding.

► Casey Alan Altrichter, 25, of Atlanta, was arrested May 20 on Atlanta Street in Roswell for DUI, sus-pended license and failure to obey traf-fic control devices.

► Dangelo Montez Perry, 28, of Executive Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested May 29 on Old Milton

Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and fail-ure to maintain lane.

► Kelly Reece Bennett, 47, of Crowchild Drive, Cumming, was arrested May 28 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, child endanger-ment, speeding, reckless driving, failure to change address on driver’s license and operating a vehicle without a revalidation decal.

► Barrett Harrington Wolfe, 27, of Atlanta, was arrested May 28 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, failure to maintain lane and possession of marijuana.

► Nathan L. Bowers, 52, of Somerset Lane, Alpharetta, was arrested May 28 on North Point Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

► Carlos Reynel-Guerrero, 22, of Atlanta Highway, Alpharetta, was arrested May 28 on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI, failure to maintain lane and driving in the emergency lane.

► Timothy Matthew Facemyer, 32, of Atlanta, was arrested May 26 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, speeding and failure to allow an emergency vehi-

cle to pass. ► Edward Bernard Smith II, 27, of

Atlanta, was arrested May 26 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, speeding, possession of marijuana and failure to change address on driver’s license.

► Raphael Bonilla-Ramos, 31, of Columbus, Ga. was arrested May 24 on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta for DUI and no license.

► Marnette Armbruse Lewis, 33, of Elmshorn Way, Alpharetta, was arrested May 23 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, failure to maintain lane and suspended license. 

Drug arrests ► Margaret Jean Auman, 29, of

Marietta, was arrested May 15 on Marietta Highway in Roswell for posses-sion of marijuana and tag light violation.

► Thomas Ryan Wittig, 30, of Marietta, was arrested May 28 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for possession of marijuana, possession of drug related items and defective equipment.

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Alleged embezzlerarrested 2 years laterALPHARETTA, Ga. — James Willard Smith, 31, was arrested May 26 for

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A few weeks later, the owner noticed that several checks for the business were not being deposited to her ac-

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By HATCHER [email protected] JOHNS CREEK. Ga. – Georgia has a heroin addiction epidemic and North Fulton is in the middle of it. So what does it mean when the state initiates a moratorium on the licensing of new private treatment centers for one year?

On the one hand, it seems wrong-handed to stop licensing addiction clin-ics when the rate of heroin addiction is rising quickly.

The Legislature’s bill, signed by Gov. Nathan Deal, puts a one-year morato-rium on accepting licensing applica-tions to open a new opioid treatment center.  The suspension is through June 30, 2017.

Meanwhile, the Legislature is con-vening a study committee to look at licensure requirements for such clinics and other related issues. The mora-

torium does not apply to applications currently under review.

While it may seem like the General Assembly wants to inventory the lifeboats after the state has hit an iceberg, it may not be as contrary as it first sounds.

These treatment centers are spring-ing up around Georgia. There are 67 currently licensed clinics that dispense methadone and Suboxone, two approved drugs used to treat heroin addicts.

The problem of course is that these are both addictive opioids themselves. So it is like treating a rattlesnake bite with anti-venom, which is itself snake venom.

The danger is that in dispens-ing these drugs which do inhibit the worst effects of heroin and OxyContin addiction, they are themselves highly addictive opioids.

Legislators want a year to study how best to regulate the state’s ad-diction clinics lest Georgia find itself in the same “pill mill” situation. That was where “pain clinics” shoveled out prescriptions for OxyContin, Percocet, hydrocodone and similar opioids by the bushel all over the state.

That is well and good, but the Gen-eral Assembly should be prepared to beef up the agency that now regulates the states’ clinics. It has an anemic staff of three to monitor those 67 exist-ing clinics.

One Johns Creek addiction clinic, DecisionPoint does not use opioid treat-ment at all. Mike Reis is the CEO and owner of DecisionPoint and he shrinks from fighting the fire of heroin and pain-killer addiction with the gasoline of Suboxone and methadone.

“We’re the only abstinence-based clinic in North Fulton. If (a clinic) treats addiction with opioids, it must use medically managed procedures,” Reis said. “Pills are not the silver bullet to cure addiction. It’s how most of us got started to begin with.”

Reis, who is himself a recovering addict, said 75 percent of all heroin addicts began their addiction using pain medication such as OxyContin or its clones.

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6 | June 9, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com SCHOOLSSchool Climate

School CCRPI Score Rating

Elementary

Abbotts Hill 90.9 3

Alpharetta 84.6 2

Amana Academy 80 2

Barnwell 89.3 3

Birmingham Falls 82.3 4

Cogburn Woods 89.4 2

Crabapple Crossing 92.4 4

Creek View 90.3 3

Dolvin 91.9 4

Findley Oaks 98.2 4

Fulton Sunshine Charter* 93.5 2

Hembree Springs 83.2 3

Hillside 63.2 2

Jackson 64.3 2

Lake Windward 96.3 3

Manning Oaks 80.1 4

Medlock Bridge 87.9 3

Mimosa 61.8 3

Mountain Park 80 2

New Prospect 87.2 4

Northwood 87.8 4

Ocee 95.6 3

River Eves 88.7 3

Roswell North 69.6 3

Shakerag 89.1 4

State Bridge Crossing 89.5 4

Summit Hill 90.6 2

Sweet Apple 99.7 4

Wilson Creek 97.2 4

Middle

Autrey Mill 91.6 5

Crabapple 84.7 4

Elkins Pointe 80.1 5

Haynes Bridge 81.2 4

Holcomb Bridge 79.2 4

Hopewell 86.8 4

Northwestern 81.4 3

River Trail 97.2 5

Taylor Road 81.1 4

Webb Bridge 97.2 5

High

Alpharetta 89.9 4

Cambridge 79.5 4

Centennial 73 4

Chattahoochee 86.6 4

Fulton Science Academy* 93.8 3

Independence 67.8 4

Johns Creek 91.1 4

Milton 73.4 4

Northview 92.4 3

Roswell 86.3 3

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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — For the sec-ond year in a row, the School Climate Ratings from the Georgia Department of Education has heads shaking over the findings which place some of the best schools in North Fulton among the lowest ranked schools for the “culture” of the school.

Ranked on a scale from 1 to 5 stars, with “5” being a school with an excel-lent school climate, only four schools in the Fulton County School System received a 5-star rating. All four were middle schools in North Fulton. That is a drop from last year, when seven Ful-ton County schools earned five stars.

In comparison, 35 schools, includ-ing eight in North Fulton, earned only one or two stars, indicating a climate below satisfactory.

According to GDOE officials, school climate refers to the “quality and char-acter of school life” based on a number of factors including discipline, safety and security, parent/student surveys, and attendance. This is the second year the ratings have been released and are used as information only for schools and parents.

“A sustainable, positive school climate fosters youth development and student learning, which are essen-tial elements for academic success,” said Matt Cardoza, spokesman for the GDOE.

But before parents hit the panic button over perceived safety or culture issues at their child’s schools, Fulton School officials said parents should consider the data, along with their own perceptions of the school.

The 2016 ratings are based on data collected as far back as 2014, and the relevance of old data poses challenges.

“Whenever you have lagging data it is sometimes hard to make changes or adjust [procedures],” noted Tim Duncan, director of accountability for the FCSS. “A lot of the data is old, well before the score comes out.”

He urged parents to assess the climate of their child’s school based on their own information.

Local schools rank low in ‘culture’

See CLIMATE, Page 44

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8 | June 9, 2016 | Johns Creek Herald | NorthFulton.com OPINION

So, I left for my Appalachian Trail Hike three months ago – March 6.  I am currently in Virginia about 740 miles from my starting point at Springer Mountain, Ga. 

That is a lot of walking for some-one who basically doesn’t care for

hiking – or camping for that matter. At least half – probably more – of those miles were uphill (a couple thousand feet of elevation gained at a time - of-ten). That’s carrying between 40 and 50 pounds on my back – tent, clothes, sleeping bag, food, water and more. 

Most rational people out here carry less than 30 pounds. I’m working on that. It is not as easy as one would imagine – dropping the weight of your pack. 

It has a lot to do with this hardwired mentality most of us have for redun-dancy and the “what-if’s” installed into almost all of us from birth by our mothers.

“What if there is an avalanche and your shoe lace is caught on a tree limb and the only way to free yourself is if you had your reading glasses on, a knife and a pair of tweezers…” you get the point. 

In reality it is very hard to forget these practical backups even when we know intellectually that most of them are absurd.

I am hiking by myself most of the time primarily because I am one of the slowest hikers on the Trail. (Note: See earlier reference to pack weight.)

Just me, and a 2-foot-wide “path” identified by white blazes painted on trees about every couple hundred yards – most of the time – along with a lot of trees, mountains and valleys. And there is either utter silence or howling wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour. 

The Trail starts at Springer Moun-tain in Georgia and is 2,200 miles long running through 14 states – Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hamp-shire, and Maine. It ends at Mount Katahdin, Maine.

They say to “hike your own hike” in most of the Trail literature. 

Let me translate that for you. That really means that it is almost

impossible to find two people who walk at the same pace, stop at the same

stopping places and take pictures of the same things. 

“Hike your own hike” means you are on your own most of the time so don’t count on walking with a partner even if you want to.

My trail name initially was “Three Weeks” – in reference to the approx-imate amount of time between my making the decision to do this hike and starting it – or (this is the more popu-lar one) the amount of projected time I would last on this adventure. 

So I passed three weeks and some-one gave me a more fun name that I decided to keep – “Alpaca.” 

The inspiration for that name came from a group of thru-hikers making fun of me and my pack load. 

So what is it like out there and tell me again why you are doing this, Ray? 

I don’t have a great answer for the latter part of the question but for the first part I would answer as follows: 

Deciding to walk the Appalachian Trail (all 2,200 miles Georgia to Maine) is not dissimilar to volunteering for solitary confinement with the following three exceptions: • That it is not confined; • That you must carry and provide for

your own meals and living necessi-ties instead of having them provided to you;

• That each day you must walk up a set of stairs of varying length but all much longer than multiple football fields and then back down, while carrying a heavy weight on your back. 

That is what it is like. It is a lot of very hard work and seldom are there any of these romantic “wander the country to be free” instances, although occasionally they do occur.

The “why” is where it starts getting interesting to me and I am still working on understanding it.

It has everything to do with meet-ing people and learning stuff you don’t know. It includes some effort to step outside of one’s comfort zone.

It has something to do with im-mersing oneself into an environment that is more free from all the noise and distractions that we all face day in and day out.

That includes electronics, the media, politics, stop lights and people

honking at you, the artificial light and noise. 

It has everything to do with ab-sent all this static being better able to process your own life experiences, your own filters and biases, and your own self. 

That is walking the AT. I don’t think it necessarily “adds” anything to your life. You don’t understand the universe when you finish. You don’t have life-changing epiphanies generally speaking. 

Walking the Trail does not make problems back home go away or solve them. They are still there when you get back. But what I believe it does is give you a fighting chance to have a better idea of who you are and why you do and behave how you do because your time on the AT gives you a window to process your life experiences in a way that we seldom can.

 Virginia Woolf once said, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” 

While her idea has application on a number of different levels, one of them has to do with having the environment within which one is able to understand, learn, and be creative. It is free from distraction and circumstance. Hiking the AT is not too dissimilar to Woolf’s “room  of her own.”

Read Ray’s first column ‘All the light we cannot see’ on NorthFulton.com: http://bit.ly/25zF7fU

I am Alpaca, hiking my own hikeTALES FROM THE TRAIL:

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Here I am on Tinker Cliffs in Virgina during my hike.

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Saturday night with Garrison Keillor and the FoxGoing to see

Garrison Keillor live at the Fabulous Fox Theatre to record his “A Prairie Home Companion” was not a bucket-list expe-rience for me, but it comes pretty close.

I have been a fan of his National Public Radio show for a lot of years. I

came to love all of the quirky lovable characters that Keillor’s fertile mind created out of growing up on the Min-nesota prairie. It is great to be driving on a weekend trip with a lot of miles in front of you accompanied by Keillor’s mixture of humor, song and plain old Americana to chase away the blues or the boredom.

It hit me hard when I heard Garri-son Keillor was going to fold the tent on his fabulous National Public Radio Show “A Prairie Home Companion” after more than 40 years on the radio. It was like your best friend was moving to Toledo.

Keillor has been broadcasting for almost all of my adult life, but I didn’t

stumble onto his show until the 1980s. I was fascinated by the throwback to the old radio variety programs. Now I didn’t ever listen to radio programs that my brothers did. I was one of the first TV-only kids. But I grew up hearing about radio days first hand from my brothers.

A lot of the TV shows I watched in the 1950s were radio shows translated to TV: “Gunsmoke,” “Dragnet” and even “I Love Lucy” got their start in radio.

Keillor brought his own dimension to “Prairie Home,” where he gently sati-rized American culture with his warmth and humor. He reminded us that most of us did not grow up in big cities. We grew up where you knew not only the people on your street but the next street and the next street, too.

You grew up in a town not a subdi-vision. You sat on the front porch, not the deck in the backyard. So you saw everybody who drove by. You would wave because even if you didn’t recog-nize the car, whoever it was knew the same folks you did, and that was the same as being acquainted.

Keillor brings that small-town ambience back when he takes us to Lake Wobegone, Minnesota, the lens

from which he lampoons the American experience.

So when it was announced Keillor was in his final season, I was seized by the desire to see his show live one time. Fortunately, he was coming to the Fox in Atlanta to record one of the shows. The Fox is such a special space in Atlanta. You see an artist in concert at the Fox and you feel like you were listening in their living room. It’s that intimate.

The highlight of “Prairie Home” for me is the way Keillor will mix inven-tive sound effects guy Fred Newman. A highlight of the show is when Keillor

does a monologue describing a place or circumstance where he is spitting out staccato images and Newman is right there with him making with the sounds – and that’s real radio, man.

Add his co-stars Tim Russell and Sue Scott who master a host of char-acters in skits. Spoofing hard-boiled detectives along with Keillor’s “Guy Noir Private Eye,” is a hoot and a holler as is their “Lives of the Cowboys” in which Dusty and Lefty look at current events skewed by their western point of view. Other stock characters they and Keillor use, such as English majors and par-ents who still want to shape our lives in middle age, all remind us not to take life too seriously.

It’s a variety show that comes with truly American music – Cole Porter to Porter Waggoner. Gospel, bluegrass and the blues all find a home on his show. And Keillor finds the best of each genre to present.

So if you are a fan, no more is needed. If you are at all piqued, google the show online. But be warned. You are likely to become as addicted as I am. While Keillor will ride off into the sunset soon with Dusty and Lefty, his shows will be on the internet forever.

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By HATCHER [email protected]

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek has begun a $158,000 traffic plan to improve traffic flow from westbound State Bridge Road through the Medlock Bridge intersection. The project, which should move the westbound traffic more quickly, is scheduled to be done by mid-July, according to the city.

By lengthening State Bridge’s left-turn (Medlock southbound) and right-turn (Medlock northbound) stack-ing lanes, State Bridge’s westbound through-traffic going over Medlock should get through the intersection more quickly.

City Field Services Superintendent Alton Matthews said construction crews are extending the right-turn lane on State Bridge Road a quarter-mile by removing island barriers in the far right lane from Whole Foods store to Medlock Bridge Road. One of the barriers being removed, the striped island at Camden Way, diverts traffic right toward apartment complexes and Riverwalk Marketplace, which includes Whole Foods.

A concrete island farther west directs traffic into Medlock Corners, anchored by a Publix Super Market. The city pans also will remove part of a median and extend a left-turn lane from westbound State Bridge Road onto southbound Medlock Bridge Road.  Lengthening those State Bridge turn lanes will accommodate more vehicles.

That takes out turning vehicles which now back up into the through

lanes on State Bridge Road.Two similar projects are planned

that will lengthen the turn lane on Medlock Bridge Road at Hospital Park-way and the turn lane at Medlock and Medlock Crossing. Like the State Bridge project, these projects will lengthen the stacking on the left-turn lanes for traffic on Medlock.

“It is similar to what we did at Mc-Ginnis Ferry Road at Medlock and Old Alabama and Medlock. We extended the turn lanes for the same result,” said Johns Creek Public Works Director Tom Black.

The good news for the two projects on Medlock Road is there are federal dollars to pay for 80 percent of the projects.

“The storage in these turn lanes is just inadequate, and once the last car in the stack has its butt sticking out, and you effectively are reduced to one lane,” Black said.

The improvements done at Medlock and McGinnis roads had a surprising effect of easing traffic at lunchtime.

Restaurants north of the intersection reported much easier ingress and egress after the improvements, Black said.

The trick there was getting the Ga. Department of Transportation to partic-ipate in the project north of McGinnis because that is all Forsyth County – but it is where all the restaurants are also, he said.

“We have a tremendous amount of

circulation in and around those restau-rants, and this has effectively given us another lane. Getting that southbound lane fixed really helped.

“We have been getting a lot of congestion mitigation for a minimum amount of cost. That is what we’re trying to do. If the Mayor and Council and the voters decide to approve the TSPLOST, we’ll have a lot more money to correct some of these issues,” Black said.

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. – North Fulton County cities are in the final stages of finalizing their preliminary lists of transportation projects they’d like to have funded through a proposed sales tax that could go before voters this fall.

Most of the lists, which were drawn up from existing local wish lists for cities, remained pretty much the same as when they were first presented a month ago, despite invitations for public comment.

If approved by voters, the 0.75 percent sales tax would raise an estimated $500-$600 million in transportation dollars the county’s 14 cities – excluding Atlanta.

The revenue will be split for road projects over the five-year term of the tax. Special legislation allowed Atlanta to consider its own transportation sales tax, which would likely include some allocation for MARTA.

The project lists from the 14 cities now go for review by Fulton County which will collate the information and

draw up a proposed final list by June 15 for each of the cities to approve. The cities have until June 30 to agree on the final list.

Then, a combination of cities rep-resenting at least 60 percent of the county’s population outside of Atlanta, must approve placing the sales tax question on the November ballot.

City councils either passed or are putting the final tweaks to their proj-ects lists this week. There are, however, some questions about costs and the amounts each city would be obligated to chip in on joint projects.

Alpharetta, for example, has raised questions about paying an equal share of the costs with Johns Creek for widening McGinnis Ferry Road. That project is estimated to cost $36 million.

Under the proposed list, Alpharetta and Johns Creek would pay $5.5 million each, with Forsyth County and Georgia DOT paying the balance. Alpharetta offi-cials have said their city’s share should be less because little of the actual road-work will occur in Alpharetta.

At the same time, they acknowl-edged exact cost estimates aren’t avail-able for each project, so their share on that project could be negotiated.

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Each city’s TSPLOST list is divided into three tiers of projects. Tier I proj-ects are those that carry the highest priority and could be funded if only 85 percent of the expected sales tax reve-nues are collected. Tier II projects would be funded by the remaining 20 percent, and Tier III projects could be funded if collections exceed expectations. View all North Fulton cities online at NorthFulton.com.

Johns Creek Tier I Projects: $73 million

•Medlock Bridge capacity project from Chattahoochee River to McGin-nis Ferry; $10 million

• - State Bridge Road widening from Medlock Bridge to Chattahoo-chee River; $2 million

•Medlock at State Bridge improve-ments; $8 million

•Jones Bridge Road widening from Douglas Road to McGinnis Ferry; $7 million

•Jones Bridge Road widening from Waters Road to Buice Road and from Buice Road to State Bridge Road; $11 million

•McGinnis Ferry Road widening from Union Hill Road to Sargent Road: $5.5

million (Alpharetta, Forsyth County & GDOT: $34 million)

•Haynes Bridge Road widening: $5 million (with Alpharetta: $5 million)

•Old Alabama Road widening from Nes-bit Ferry to Old Alabama Connector; $1.5 million (Roswell: $1.5 million)

•Nesbit Ferry Corridor improvements; $3.5 million (Roswell: $3.5 million)

•Bell and Boles Road operational and safety improvements from Medlock Bridge to McGinnis Ferry and from Abbotts Bridge to Bell; $7 million

•Barnwell Road at Holcomb Bridge Road improvements; $2.5 million

•New location road in Tech Park; $2.5 million

TSPLOST timeline

June 15 – Fulton County prepares and sends back to the cities an aggregate list of county transportation projects to be funded by the .75 percent 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.

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16 | Johns Creek Herald | June 9, 2016 BETSY PLATTENBURG, Advanced Technology Development Center

By HATCHER [email protected]

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The fast pitch in tech jargon has nothing to do with baseball. Rather it is a 5-minute interview for start-ups to pitch their company to an angel that could be the fledgling’s big break.

And when the angel goes by the name Coca Cola, you know you’re play-ing in the big leagues.

But what’s in it for Coke and other angels playing in the fast-pitch league?

Executives sitting down to talk were:• Coca Cola Global Commercialization

Manager Tom North, • Industry & Investor Catalyst Betsy

Plattenburg of Advanced Technology Development Center, Georgia Tech’s startup technology incubator

• Sarah Tourville representing the Greater Alpharetta Technology Network and the 900 technology companies around North Fulton.

Coca-Cola and the Advanced Tech-nology Center have partnered three times now with the Greater Alpharetta Technology Network for fast-pitch ses-sions to tap into the rich ideas perco-lating among the 900-plus technology companies in greater Alpharetta.

“We are fortunate enough to have a premier sponsor like Coca Cola to come here in Alpharetta for our fast-pitch programs and to get exposure for some of the new technologies borne out the Alpharetta area,” said GATN’s Tourville.

Coke, ATDC and GATN recently

collaborated on their third fast-pitch exer-cise much to every-one’s satisfaction.

“The quality of the pitches was extremely good,” said Tourville.

The third fast pitch conducted last month at Gwinnett Tech’s Al-pharetta campus had six companies who got 5 minutes to pitch what their technology can do and what its innovative applications can do for an existing market or in an en-tirely new field.

Coca Cola’s North said his company is in-terested in participat-ing in these technology pitches for one very good reason.

“It’s all about inno-vation. Even though we have 2 billion serv-ings a day, if we don’t innovate we’re going to get complacent and we’re going to lose our place as the industry leader. It’s that plain and simple,” North said.

“So Coca-Cola is always scouting for new technology – whether it’s hard-ware-based, software-based, it doesn’t matter. It can be a process, a financial model or delivery mechanism. It doesn’t matter. We’re interested.

“If it is semi-relevant and we think it might have legs, then we’re interested.”

In this instance, Coke liked the idea

from a Kroger internal account team that had an idea about how they could increase their customer value based around a loyalty program.

ATDC’s Plattenburg is always scour-ing the state for tech companies with the next great idea and the platform to make it happen.

“We are a statewide organization so we are always on the lookout for inter-esting technology startups. This was a great event for us because it uncovered some startups that we were not familiar with as well,” Plattenburg said.

She said it is a good partnership with GATN and Coke because it helps all three organizations build on the strengths that they have. ATDC’s role is to bring these new companies to the attention of the greater business com-munity.

“It also helps us discover new things and to bring companies we know to a broader audience,” said Plattenburg.

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Adding new products should create additional revenue streams without im-pacting the sales and growth objectives of other products. In a lot of cases, there are unforeseen consequences of adding new products.

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We all know that the more successful one becomes, the more in demand they are, and the harder they are to reach. Well, that’s North Fulton and Forsyth counties right now.

Metro Atlanta, because of its strong economy

and job growth, saw more than 90,000 people move here in 2015. Housing inventory was already tight last year and according to a Metrostudy report, there were fewer than 20,000 new con-struction starts last year. The concepts here are pretty simple. When you have more people moving here than you have houses and apartments added to the market, inventory is going to decline. And decline it did.

According to data from Zillow, every ZIP code except two in North Fulton and Forsyth counties saw inventories decline from the same time last year. Those two were ZIP codes 30028 and 30040 in Forsyth County. Both have a high number of active new construction listings right now with 207 in 30040 and 95 in 30028.

The Milton ZIP code of 30004 actually has 136 new construction listings right now, making it the ZIP code with the second-most, new con-struction listings. But it still saw a decline in inventory from last year by about 7percent. The ZIP code had just over 500 total listings, so the 136 new construction listings in Milton are a significant chunk.

The largest decrease in housing inventory was in Roswell’s 30076 and 30075 and Alpharetta’s 30009 ZIP codes. Inventory declined the most in Roswell’s 30076 ZIP code where available inventory fell by more than 30 percent from April of last year.

It makes sense that new construc-

tion is happening more in Forsyth because there is more developable land, and several large subdivisions are under construction. In Roswell, on the other hand, one would be hard-pressed to put a property sale together with enough land to handle a large, new subdivision. In that way, Roswell’s housing market has matured. To get significant new inventory, developers are wanting to increase the densities of their developments to either pack more units on smaller chunks of un-developed land, or redevelop existing built-out lots. And to redevelop those lots can sometimes require more initial capital investment which those devel-opers like to make up for by packing more units per acre.

The Alpharetta ZIP code of 30009 actually had the lowest number of houses listed on the market with 67. This area is west of GA 400 from Mansell up north past Old Milton Parkway. There are 21 new construc-tion listings there right now.

Frank Norton Jr., president of the Norton Agency, gave a speech a couple years ago titled “What Will You Do When Inventory Gets To ZERO?” He may have been exaggerating a bit – but since his speech, inventories have declined, and they don’t look like they are going up anytime too soon.

So, you, the average reader, are probably wondering that, aside from something to bring up at your next neighborhood party, what exactly does this have to do with you? Well, I’ll tell you: Tight inventories are driving home values up.

It wasn’t much surprise that according to Zillow, home values increased the most in those ZIP codes that saw the greatest decrease in housing inventory from last year. Alpharetta’s 30009 ZIP code saw a 7.61 percent increase in home values from the same time last year. And Roswell’s 30076 and 30075 ZIP codes saw a 7.35 percent and 6.32 percent

increase. (Milton’s 30004 ZIP code actually saw the largest jump in value with an almost 10 percent increase).

Values are being pushed up be-cause buyers are competing against each other for houses, and smart listing agents are listing their clients’ homes at the max amount they can appraise for. I can tell you that it pays to have an expert buyer’s agent on your side. In this competitive envi-ronment, it seems to be that the more experienced and aggressive agents are putting forth the offers that are getting the deals. When you are one of many vying for the attention of a seller today, you have to put together an offer that appeals to more than just the price, because everyone seems to be offering list-price these days.

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New construction bolsters declining inventoryValues are being pushed up because buyers are competing against each other for houses and smart listing agents are listing their clients’ homes at the max amount they can appraise for.

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Coke:has about 1,000 startups in its ecosys-tem, but there are clearly far more than that in the state of Georgia.

“So it is really interesting to do a program like fast pitch with GATN and with Coke where we can focus on consumer engagement because we discovered companies that we were not aware of. We may be able to help and make additional connections for them,” she said. Tourville said it gives these startups a tremendous boost as well to get in front of companies like Coke and to get their feedback.

“For them to have that conversation,

and then to speak to them informally afterwards, it’s a reach they never thought they would achieve,” Tourville said.

She described those after-pitch con-versations as “rich and dynamic.” Then the follow-up networking is important as well.

For Plattenburg, the fast-pitch program fits right in her wheelhouse. She runs a match-making program for ATDC called Industry Connect which tries to match up industry startups with large brands like Coke.

“It is hard to explain the value of the opportunity to have those conversations with a brand company like that,” she said. “There’s an awful lot of customer discovery and learning that goes on in conversations like that.

“To gain access to Coke representa-tives is a phenomenal opportunity. To tell your story and have the full focus be on you for even 5 minutes means a lot because the spotlight is totally on you,” she said.

Plattenburg said both companies will tell you these meetings are valuable for many different reasons.

North said it’s a two-way street. A company like Coca-Cola is getting access also.

“We also don’t have access to startup companies. So we struggle in that capacity,” he said. “So this is a great opportunity to connect with them directly and find out what kind of ca-pabilities they have. Is this something that is applicable to what we do or is it something tweakable?”

With the help of GATN and other member organizations, Atlanta is gain-ing a reputation for facilitating these kinds of booster meetings between startups and big brand companies, Plattenburg said.

“Atlanta is becoming known as a place with its Fortune 500 companies and with regional headquarters as well as place where startups can come and connect with customers very early in their existence,” she said.

Gwinnett Tech also lends itself as a good venue, situated in the OTP mecca for technology companies. It dovetails with Gwinnett Tech’s new entrepre-neurial track.

They all agreed this is a symbiotic relationship for all parties and should continue.

By KATHLEEN [email protected]

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A passion was ignited when Emily and D.J. Fuchs first sent their son, Bradley, to Little Sunshine’s Playhouse and Preschool two years ago while living in Missouri.

“We experienced first-hand the chal-lenges that go into finding a perfect preschool for your family when we were in search of childcare for our son,” Emily said. “There was no doubt in our mind, after touring many of the local options, that Little Sunshine’s Playhouse was our perfect fit.”

The couple developed a close relationship with the facility director in St. Louis. Then later they met the company founder Rochette Dahler and were given the opportunity to open a new location in Alpharetta at 12385 Morris Road. They are hoping to open by fall, depending on construction.

“As parents of a kiddo in the program, we knew the school was special,” D.J. said. “But it wasn’t until we had the opportunity to sit down with Rochette that we realized how inspirational this life decision would be. I know it sounds cliche, but from the top down each and every person in the organization is treated like a member of an extended family.”

The entire process was transparent, D.J. said, and the couple was given the opportunity to meet with other families similar to them that had made the decision to spread the LSP philosophy in other U.S. markets.

It did not take the pair long to realize that “this was going to be a perfect match.”

That was a little over a year ago, and since that time they have gone through a comprehensive search, focusing their efforts on finding a city that shared the same passion and optimism as Little Sunshine.

Emily said they know they found it in “Awesome Alpharetta.” But Emily also said the family wanted to choose a location where they could ultimately move to.

After visiting Atlanta, the couple knew this was the place for them.

“The charm and pride that the region displays are contagious,” D.J. said. “We’ve always been attracted to that. There were a couple other large metro areas we were evaluating, but after spending time in At-lanta, we were sold. The city has so much to offer and is really the capital of the South.”

The residential population of Alpharetta was a plus, as well as the “high concentration of families who were in need of our services.” The large number of businesses also played a huge part in deciding to pick this city.

Having experienced Little Sunshine from the parent’s perspective, Emily said her family’s business outlook is unique. The reasons the Fuchs ultimately

chose Little Sunshine for their son were many, but include the school’s proprietary curriculum, called Creatively Shine. It is a Reggio Emilia-influenced curriculum that focuses on the whole child concept of developing cognitive, social, emotional, physical and language skills.

Little Sunshine also has distinctive services that set the facility apart, including:• “Kiddie Cams”• “LuvNotes”• Red Carpet Service• Menu planning• Enrichment activities, including: dance, soccer,

Yoga, sign and foreign language

All of these are included in the tuition, D.J. said.“Another differentiator for our family was the envi-

ronment,” Emily said. “From the design of the facility to the teachers, with whom we developed extremely close relationships, the environment really felt like Bradley was going to his ‘home away from home’ every day.”

Now the Fuchs are hoping to ensure other families in Alpharetta have a similar experience.

“We couldn’t think of a more rewarding way to dedicate our lives than having a positive impact on the children that attend our school and the families we hope to touch,” D.J. said.

For information on Little Sunshine Playhouse, visit littlesunshine.com or call 770-545-6160.

Little Sunshine’s Playhouse to open in AlpharettaPreschool franchise first of its kind in Georgia

The classrooms will be centered around the unique curriculum.

Little Sunshine’s Playhouse’s motto is “A child’s work is play.”

Emily and D.J. Fuchs re-cently broke ground on their Alpharetta location.

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ALIVE IN ROSWELLAlive in Roswell offers live bands, food trucks, kid games and more at two sprawling venues connected by a free trolley service. The event takes place Thursday, June 16, 5-9 p.m. at Historic Canton Street and Roswell Square. More information is available at aliveinroswell.com

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EVENTS:

DATE NIGHT ON THE RIVERWhat: Come relax at the Chattahoochee Nature Center on this adults-only, 2 ½-hour sunset evening paddle. Ages 21 and older.When: Ongoing 5-9 p.m. Where: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, RoswellCost: $30 general public, $25 membersMore info: Check availability and regis-ter at chattnaturecenter.org/families/canoe-programs

ATV SAFETY TRAININGWhat: As part of the national ATV Safety Week, the ATV Safety Institute will be offering a free training on their Alpharetta campus.When: starts Friday, June 10, 8:30 a.m.Where: Honda Rider Education Center, 1450 Morrison Parkway, AlpharettaMore info and enrollment: atvsafety.org, 800-887-2887

FREE MOCK ACTWhat: High School students can experi-ence a full-length, proctored mock test to prepare for the ACT. When: Friday, June 10, 10 a.m.-2:15 p.m.Where: Alpharetta Branch Library, 10 Park Plaza, AlpharettaMore info: register at applerouth.com/schools/116842

SUMMER SATURDAYS AT THE MUSEUMWhat: The Computer Museum will be open to the public on select days. One of the top vintage computer collections in the world, the exhibit includes the earliest computers and video games.When: June 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Where: Kings Market Center, 1425 Mar-ket Blvd. Suite 200, RoswellCost: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students, $5 for children ages 5-17More info: computermuseumofamerica.com

COLOR CAFEWhat: Take a break and color at the Roswell Visual Arts Center. Free col-oring materials and coloring books in a variety of styles and themes will be available. Refreshments will also be provided.When: Wednesday, June 15, 6-8 p.m.Where: Visual Arts Center, 10495 Woodstock Road, RoswellMore info: roswellgov.com

FORSYTH COUNTY WOMEN’S CLUB MONTHLY LUNCHEONWhat: The Forsyth County Women’s Club hosts monthly luncheons open to all women in Forsyth and surrounding counties. When: Thursday, June 16, 11:30 a.m.Where: Polo Golf and Country Club Ball-room, 6300 Polo Club Drive, CummingCost: $22More info: forsythcountywomensclub.net, register at [email protected]

WELLS FARGO: FINANCE 101 FOR TEENSWhat: Wells Fargo personal bankers will offer a free introduction to the basics of banking, saving and planning for a successful financial future. Ages 12-18 are welcome.When: Thursday, June 16Where: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Branch Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns CreekMore info: afpls.org, 770-360-8820

FARMERS MARKETS, FOOD TRUCKS:ALPHARETTA FOOD TRUCK ALLEYWhat: Alpharetta’s Food Truck Alley on Thursday evenings offers a variety of six to eight rotating area food trucks. When: Thursdays, 5-9 p.m., through Oct. 20.Where: Old Roswell Street in Alpharet-ta’s historic districtMore info: awesomealpharetta.com

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.-1 p.m., through Oct. 29. Where: Old Canton Street in downtown AlpharettaMore info: alpharetta.ga.us

ROSWELL FARMERS & ARTISANS MARKETWhat: 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: Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St., RoswellMore info: roswellfam.com

JOHNS CREEK FARMERS MARKETWhat: Held at the Newton 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 CreekMore info: JohnsCreekGA.gov

JOHNS CREEK FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS What: Johns Creek’s Food Truck Fri-days return to Technology Park, with different food trucks each Friday.When: Friday, June 10, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Where: Technology Park, 35 Technology Drive, Johns CreekMore info: johnscreekadvantage.org

MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER:MUSIC AUTHORITY’S ROCK CAMP CONCERTWhat: Local campers will show off their rock talent and knowledge from their week-long summer camp at a free con-cert open to the public.When: Friday, June 10, 7 p.m.Where: The Warehouse, 5095 Post Road, CummingMore info: musicauthorityinc.com

KEITH URBAN AT VERIZONWhat: Keith Urban with Brett Eldredge and special guest Maren Morris will perform.When: Saturday, June 11, 7:30 p.m.Where: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 2200 Encore Parkway, AlpharettaCost: tickets starting at $35More info: vzwamp.com

UNDER THE PINES AT MATILDA’SWhat: Swami Gone Bananas will per-form June 11 at Matilda’s Cottage as

part of the outdoor “Under the Pines” series.When: Saturday, June 11, 8:30 p.m.Where: Under the Pines at Matilda’s, 377 South Main St., AlpharettaCost: $15 online, $20 at the door; Kids under 16 are free when accompanied by parent.More info: matildascottage.com

148TH ANNUAL ALPHARETTA JUNE SINGINGWhat: One of the longest running traditions in Alpharetta, the June Sing will return to City Hall with the Sacred Harp singers. A potluck lunch will be included.When: Sunday, June 12, 12-3 p.m.Where: Alpharetta City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, AlpharettaMore info: Alpharetta.ga.us

ROSWELL’S SUMMER PUPPET SERIESWhat: Frisch Marionettes presents “Hansel and Gretel” as part of Roswell’s family-friendly Summer Puppet Series. Show times available at roswellgov.com.When: June 6-11 Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., RoswellCost: $5 per ticket, children under 2 get in freeMore info: 770-594-6232, roswellgov.com

LIBRARY EVENTS:NORTHEAST/SPRUILL OAKS BOOK SALEWhat: The Friends of the Northeast/Spruill Oaks library will host their quarterly book sale.When: June 10-12, times varyWhere: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Branch Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns CreekMore info: afpls.org

MILTON LIBRARY BARN BOOK SALEWhat: The Friends of the Milton Library will be hosting their book sale for the community.When: Saturday, June 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Where: Milton Branch Library, 855 Mayfield Road, AlpharettaMore info: afpls.org

AESOP’S FANTASTIC FABLES What: That Puppet Guy will present a family-friendly “tour-de-farce” for Aesop’s Fables created especially for rod puppets and hand puppets. Ages 4 and up.When: Tuesday, June 14, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Where: Milton Branch Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Alpharetta,More info: afpls.org

NorthFulton.com | Johns Creek Herald | June 9, 2016 | 21CALENDARALPHARETTA LIBRARY BOOK GROUPWhat: The group will be discussing “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee. When: Tuesday, June 14, 4:30-5:45 p.m.Where: Alpharetta Branch Library, 10 Park Plaza, AlpharettaMore info: afpls.org

SMALL, SMALL WORLDWhat: Funded by the city of Johns Creek, the library will host free pro-grams throughout June to teach chil-dren ages 2-4 about music, movement, art and literature around the world. Registration required.When: Wednesday, June 15, 10:30-11:15 a.m.Where: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Branch Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns CreekMore info: afpls.org

COLLEGE ADMISIONS SEMINAR: BERRY COLLEGEWhat: Berry College Admissions Coun-selor Charlotte Ellard will be available to talk about the admissions process and give tips on how to put together the best application.When: Thursday, June 16, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.Where: Roswell Branch Library, 115 Norcross St., RoswellMore info: afpls.org, register at 770-640-3075

WRECK THIS JOURNAL! ART JOURNALING FOR TEENSWhat: Teens will learn to expand their creativity by creating their own journal during this free 90-minute program presented by Out of the Box Arts Stu-dio.When: Thursday, June 16, 2-3:30 p.m.Where: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Branch Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns CreekMore info: afpls.org

PET ADOPTIONS:16TH ANNUAL MEGA PET ADOPTIONWhat: The Wills Park Equestrian Center will be hosting a pet adoption fair with food, fun, shopping, raffles and res-cues. Admission and parking is free.When: Sunday, June 12, 12 p.m.-5 p.m.Where: Wills Park Equestrian Center, 11925 Wills Road, AlpharettaMore info: animalrescuefair.org

SPCA ADOPT-A-CAT MONTHWhat: In celebration of Adopt-A-Cat month, the Georgia SPCA is discount-ing adoption fees for kittens, to $75, and cats, $50 for adults up to four years old and $25 for adults older than four.When: Month of JuneWhere: 1175 Highway 23 Suite 109, SuwaneeMore info: GeorgiaSPCA.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.Where: 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:UBUNTU FESTIVALWhat: The B.O.B. society is hosting a free, family-friendly summer festival with food, music, films, games and community to celebrate cultural explo-ration.When: Saturday, June 11, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.Where: Sights & Sounds Black Cultural Expo Museum, 20450 Lawrenceville Highway, DecaturMore Info: facebook.com/events/1732767516939150

RUN FOR MERCY 5KWhat: This Peachtree Qualifier event begins and ends at Perimeter Place shopping center. The race benefits Mercy Care, an organization that pro-vides health care services to the poor.When: Sunday, June 12, 8 a.m.Where: 100 Perimeter Center Place, AtlantaCost: starting at $30More info and registration: emory-healthcare.org/runformercy5k

DRAKE HOUSE & DRAKE CLOSET FASHION SHOWWhat: The Drake Closet will host the fourth annual Sandy Springs/Perimeter Center Chamber of Commerce fash-ion show and networking fundraiser to benefit the Drake House. Food and wine provided.When: Tuesday, June 14, 5:30-9:30 p.m.Where: UPS World Headquarters, 55 Glenlake Parkway NE, AtlantaCost: minimum donation of $25 for members, $30 for nonmembersMore info: thedrakehouse.org

There’s been a lot of interest lately in prospecting for gold in Geor-gia, and I’m glad to see that! Gold prospecting in an enjoyable activity for the entire fam-ily, and (as we’ve noted in previous editions of “Get

Outside Georgia”) the opportunities range from commercial panning sites to do-it-yourself adventure at remote backcountry sites. You may not get rich from the gold you find, but it’s certain that you’ll discover a wealth of fun!

In any case, as you dig into gold prospecting, one thing you will quickly discover is that Georgia gold min-ing has a colorful and storied past. Its stories are told in part through artifacts from all those years ago, and one of the most intriguing of all the Georgia Gold Rush artifacts has got to be a truly unique creation known as the Chestatee Diving Bell.

The diving bell was delivered to Dahlonega in 1875 as the key to an ambitious plan to recover gold from the bottom of the Chestatee River. For its time, the bell was a state-of-the-art example of technological innovation. You’ll cross the Chestatee as you drive from Ga. 400 to Dahlonega, and as you do so, you’ll cross over the river where the diving bell used to live.

The idea behind the diving bell was pretty straightforward. Visualize a sort of large, upside-down iron boat measuring 14 feet long, 6 feet wide and 8 feet high. When lowered to the bottom of the river, it would trap air inside, much like an upside-down coffee cup might trap air in a water-filled sink. That air would thus allow two miners, who entered through a vertical airlock, to work at the bottom of the river.

This particular diving bell was designed to be lowered to the river’s bottom from a steam-powered barge, the Chestatee. Miners entered the air-filled diving bell through a chimney-like airlock. There was room inside the diving bell for two miners to work at one time.

This diving bell went to work in the Chestatee in November of 1875, but it did not stay on the job for long. Flooding that winter damaged the diving bell and its tender barge, and

in the following October, both the div-ing bell and its boat sank under what has been called “suspicious circum-stances.” The underwater mining proj-ect was abandoned, and the Chestatee Diving Bell was soon forgotten.

But forgotten or not, it was still sitting out there in the Chestatee River. Even in the 1960s you could sometimes spot the top of its airlock sticking up above the surface of the river. Eventually, in 1983, it was re-covered from the riverbed.

There were plans to restore it, but they always seemed to fall through the cracks of time.

Finally, in 2010, the effort to preserve and display the Chestatee Diving Bell moved ahead to comple-tion. Today, this one-of-a-kind artifact is the centerpiece of an exception-ally well done permanent exhibit in downtown Dahlonega’s Hancock Park, on North Meaders Street and Warwick Street. It’s certainly one of the most unusual Gold Rush artifacts around. Check it out on your next visit to Georgia’s gold country!

Steve Hudson’s book “Prospecting for Georgia Gold” will introduce you to the excitement of prospecting for gold in the hills and streams of Georgia. Check it out in local outdoor shops, on Amazon or order online from www.chattahoocheemedia.com.

STEVE HUDSONGet Outside Georgia, Chattahoochee Media Group

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Has stress affected your smile? If so, you are not alone. Stress can be revealed in the eyes, the forehead, the nostrils, and the mouth. In your mouth, too much stress wears down the system, through clenching and grinding. Grinding is sliding the teeth from side to side, even-tually weakening them, causing decay and sensitivity. Clenching is biting together tightly, overtime, damaging the complex system of muscles, ligaments, disc, and bone. These are two ways the mouth reacts to the demands and threat of stress. Orthodontic treatment improves function and esthetics of your teeth, minimizing wear and tear. After treatment, a night guard retainer can

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Summer fun brings picnics, bar-beques, and impromptu volleyball and baseball games with friends. But sometimes a slight twist of an an-kle can cause a ligament tear, ankle sprain or other ankle injury that takes a toll on summer fun.

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target seniors, along with the warning signs of each scam and information on how you or your loved one can avoid becoming a victim. From Con-tractor Fraud to IRS Phone Scams, this information will be published in a multi-part series so Don’t miss them! You can also see our Senior Scam Alert Guide on our website at http://www.SynergyHomeCare.com/NorthAt-lanta .

Contractor FraudHow It WorksA handyman shows up at your

home unsolicited and offers to do repairs at a very reasonable rate. No contracts are signed, and no refer-ences are checked. The so- called handyman asks you for money up-front to pay for supplies. He begins the work but then disappears with the money, leaving the job unfinished and you with more household problems than before.

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Milton Medical Group was founded by Dr. Savitha Shama to provide com-passionate and quality health care to adolescents, adults, and seniors in the North Metro Atlanta area.

Dr. Shama has been providing superior medical care in North Atlanta Metro Area for the past 15+ years. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is on staff at Emory Johns Creek Hospital.

Dr. Shama’s philosophy in prac-ticing medicine is a comprehensive approach towards patient care. Her training and experience in Internal Medicine is both broad and deep equip-ping her to treat patients with several different illnesses that may be present at the same time.

She strives to bring a sense of well-being to patients through disease prevention and promotion of health as well as effective treatment of many acute and chronic medical problems. Dr. Shama is known as a compassion-ate physician who builds trust with her patients by providing sound medical guidance and coordination of patient care.

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She actively participates in various community healthcare activities and initiatives providing care for the under-privileged.

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Stocking your dental first-aid kit for your next vacationBy Dr. Ushma Patel and Dr. Brittany Corbett

Before you go on your next vacation or short out of town break consider a dental first aid kit. We’ve all come to expect bumps, bruises and cuts when we’re out and about, especially when kids are part of the deal. Consequently, many people tote along bandages, ice packs and antiseptics. Some even carry bee sting kits and accidental poisoning remedies.

But what happens if your crown or filling falls out?

Or if your child knocks out a perma-nent tooth or breaks her braces?

And what would you do if you got a toothache out in the middle of no-where?

Dr. Richard Price, spokesman for the American Dental Association, rec-ommends packing along a small dental first-aid kit, which should include:• Clove oil, a natural pain reliever• Tweezers• A dental mirror (ask your dentist

where to get one)• Small cotton pellets kept in a

zipper-style bag (again, ask your dentist where to get these)

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stores• Your dentist’s phone number• Your insurance information• Instructions (below) for temporary

dental first aid

If you lose a filling - Pain and clean-liness are the issues here. If you aren’t in any pain, simply keep the area clean and free of food debris and bacteria to prevent extra pain and to avoid addi-tional cavities and see your dentist as soon as you can. If it hurts, take clean tweezers and grab one of the cotton pellets.

Dip it in a little bit of clove oil and place it in the tooth. Don’t just dab it; put the whole cotton pellet in the tooth and leave it there. This should min-imize the pain until you can get to a dentist. Caution: NEVER put an aspirin on your tooth or gum. Aspirin is an acid and can burn the tissue.

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you can.If wire on braces breaks - There are

a few things you can do to minimize the discomfort of orthodontic wire protrud-ing from your teeth. Ideally, cover the sharp end with a small piece of dental wax; If you don’t have any wax, you can use a little chunk of pre-chewed sugarless gum. It’s not pretty, but it does the job.

If you knock out a tooth or break off a large piece of your tooth – if it’s a baby tooth, don’t worry about it. However, if it’s a permanent tooth, you should keep the tooth in the mouth, between the cheek and gum, to keep it moist. But if that’s not possible, sub-merge the tooth in a glass of milk.

And no matter where you hold the tooth, get to a dentist as quickly as possible.

It’s likely the tooth can be saved If you get to the dentist within 30 min-utes of losing the tooth.

If a tooth becomes dislodged or loose - Get to a dentist immediately. Many dentists will make room in their schedule to tend to dental emergencies.

Parents and Teachers take advantage of the summer school break; call us at Center for Ad-vanced Dentistry at 770-623-8750 now to make your appointments for you and your children (yes we do see children of all ages) when it is most convenient for you. Spots will fill up quickly so don’t procrastinate. Enjoy your break and time off, before you know it, you will be back to school.

If a tooth becomes dislodged or loose - Get to a dentist immediately. Many dentists will make room in their schedule to tend to dental emergencies.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – The 38th annual Possum Trot 10K June 18 is a flat course along the banks of the Chat-tahoochee River. Registration is lim-ited to 1,500 participants so register early to ensure your spot.

Enjoy food, music and great vendors at the Chattahoochee Na-ture Center’s Ben Brady Lakeside Pavilion.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Join Johns Creek Art Center instructors for an “Introduc-tion to Watercolors” workshop Saturday, June 4, at the Northeast/Spruill Oaks Library, from 10:30 a.m.-12 noon.

Instruction is for adults and teens 15 and older. It is sponsored by The Friends of the Northeast/Spruill Oaks Library. Supplies are provided and the class is free and open to the public, but it is limited to 15, so registration is required. Call 770-360-8820 or email [email protected].

Participants will learn the basics of watercolors. If you like what you experi-ence, you may like to take some more in-depth classes with the Johns Creek Art Center to enhance your skills.

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Possum Trot Cost and Registration:Individual 10K - $30 pre-registration, $40 day of raceIndividual 1 mile Fun Run - $15 pre-registration, $20 day of raceTeam/Family Discount - Receive a $3 discount per participant with a minimum of 4 team membersTo register: go to www.chattnaturecenter.org/PT10KOnline at Active.comIn any Big Peach Running Co. storesMail - Chattahoochee Nature Center P.O. Box 769769, Roswell, Ga. 30076

Local student wins Air Force scholarshipJOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Recent Northview High School graduate, Ross Kruger, has re-ceived an Air Force Reserve Officers’ Train-ing Corps scholarship to attend Kennesaw State University this fall. Scholarships are awarded on a merit system in area such as academic achievement, extra-curricular ac-tivities, physical fitness, leadership abilities and personal interviews.

The scholarship entitlements include tu-ition and fees, an annual allowance of $600 for textbooks and a monthly stipend for up to 10 months of each school year.

Upon graduation from KSU and completion of the ROTC program, Kru-ger will receive a bachelor’s degree and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force.  All ROTC students incur a military service obligation of four years, 10 years for pilots, which is fulfilled by serving on active duty.

Ross Kruger, who graduated from Northview High School spring 2016, has been selected for a scholarship presented by the Air Force Reserve.

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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. – On the day before officially taking the helm as the new superintendent for the Fulton County School System, Jeff Rose was already making key connections in the community that may serve him well in his tenure.

Pointing out he’d only been a Geor-gia resident for “15 hours,” Rose’s first order of duty on May 31 was as the featured speaker at the Eggs and En-terprise breakfast for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce.

There, he laid out a plan that em-phasized the need for the school system to work closely with the business community to prepare students for life beyond high school.

“Education has shifted beyond the walls of the classroom,” said Rose. “The importance of community engagement leads to open doors [for students].”

He said the relationship between schools and the community goes be-yond the financial support role that is

traditionally in place. While that will always be important, the community can also play a significant role in ex-posing students to the business climate that awaits them after graduation.

“We are preparing students for their future, not our past,” said Rose, adding that the world is changing much quicker than even the best schools can adapt to.

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Jeff Rose was sworn in June 1 as the newest superin-tendent for the Fulton County School System. Rose was most recently the superintendent of the Beaverton (Ore.) School District, where he served for five years.

He holds a doctorate in educational leadership and a master’s degree in teacher education from Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and a bachelor’s degree in educa-tion from California State University, Long Beach. Rose and his wife, Lisa, have a 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son who will attend Fulton schools this fall.

He replaces interim superintendent Ken Zeff who has led the system since former superintendent Robert Avossa stepped down last May.

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“Today, they are getting about 5 per-cent by 12th grade,” Rose said. “It’s both daunting and compelling and schools are constantly having to adapt and adjust.”

He said even schools with the best teachers, administrators and staff need the support of the community to give students what they need.

“To be collectively great we need all entities to lean in and give their time and resources,” said Rose. “[Including]

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Guitarist Tim Sparks performing at Autrey Mill JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Guitarist Tim Sparks will perform at Autrey Mill Na-ture Center on June 18.

Once a month, the Warsaw Church within Heritage Village is transformed into a listening venue available in Johns Creek area, bringing high quality musicians to perform. These events support the arts and Autrey Mill Nature Center.

Tim Sparks is an award-winning guitarist whose blend of musical styles has won him extensive praise from all corners of the music world.

“He’s really one of the best musi-cians I know,” Guitarist Leo Kottke said.

From the early traditional country blues and gospel music Sparks learned in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the jazz, bebop, classical and world music from his career across the U.S. and Europe. He won the National Finger-picking Championship in 1993 with his arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s “Nut-

cracker Suite.” Equally at home with country, blues, jazz or world music, Sparks’ ability has earned him an inter-national reputation as one of the most innovative guitarists working today.

Based on audience feedback, pa-trons no longer need to check in with a ticket at the Summerour House before the concert. Tickets will be checked at the door to the Warsaw Church. The concert begins at 8 p.m. The Summer-our House will be open at 7 p.m., for patrons who would like to take a tour of the Victorian farmhouse. Refreshments will be available for a small donation.

In addition to compensating per-formers, the proceeds from ticket sales contribute to the daily operations of Autrey Mill Nature Preserve. Tickets are $23, $18 for members of Autrey Mill. Seats are limited, so purchase tickets early by visiting autreymill.org/performances.htm and find informa-tion on Tim Sparks and his music, visit timsparks.com.

Guitarist Tim Sparks plays everything from jazz to classical.

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Summer concert series kicks off with ‘Rupert’s Orchestra’JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek Recreation and Parks Depart-ment opens its 2016 Amphitheater summer concert series Friday, June 24, featuring “Rupert’s Orchestra,” a local Georgia band that performs everything from current Top 40 hits to Motown and Classic Rock to Swing.

The next musical act will be “Moth-ers Finest” Friday, July 22. Mother’s Finest has been described as a pioneer-ing American funk rock band who’s music is a blend of funky rhythms, heavy rock guitars and expressive soul/R&B-style vocals. Their lively mu-sic and engaging performance is sure to entertain attendees of all ages.

Finally, “The Shadowboxers” close out the concert season Sept. 24. The group is an American pop band formed in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Shadowboxers’ musical ap-proach comes out of a shared reverence for the sacred texts of rock and soul, from the Beatles and Simon & Gar-funkel to Stevie Wonder and D’Angelo. According to NashvilleScene.com they have the Tennessee town buzzing, thanks to their champions including “The Indigo Girls, Reba McEntire, Chris Stapleton and Memphis-bred buddy Justin Timberlake.”  

Food trucks will be returning to the venue in 2016 and beer and wine will also be available for purchase. For the June concert, the food truck Cattywam-pus and King of Pops for a sweet treats will be on site. For those looking for a little more room, you can purchase round tables, for up to ten people, can

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The concerts are free. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the two-hour concert starts at 7 p.m. The Amphitheater is located at Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Rd. in Johns Creek.

The 2016 Amphitheater summer concert series in Johns Creek will include four different shows.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Families can enjoy some qual-ity time with each other this summer by relaxing un-der the stars and watching kid-friendly movies during Johns Creek’s Movies at Newtown Park June 11, July 9 and Aug.13.

The Pixar 3D computer-animated film “Inside Out” will kick off the series. “Inside Out” is about a girl named Riley Anderson who moves from Minnesota to San Francisco. Her five primary emotions – Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger – are characters in her mind’s headquarters who influence her actions through a main console. Their efforts to maintain her emotional state go awry with insightful and comical results.

Movies at Newtown Park is free and incudes pre-show entertainment such as an inflatable moonwalk, face-painting, children’s activities, give-aways, music, food and drinks. A food truck, Urban Taali, will be available as well. Pre-show activities begin at 7 p.m.

The movies start at dusk and are shown on a large inflatable screen. Families are encouraged to bring blankets and relax as they watch the movie. No alco-hol or pets please.

The movie titles will be announced a week prior to each event. Movies are rated G or PG. The 2016 Mov-ies at Newtown Park series is sponsored by Northside Hospital. Newtown Park is located at 3150 Old Ala-bama Rd. For more information, call 678-512-3200 or visit  www.johnscreekga.gov.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Henry Smith, son of Jim and Martha Smith of Alpharetta, has accepted his appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point Class of 2020. He received a nomi-nation from U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R- 6th. Smith will graduate from Chattahoochee High School in May.

Tens of thousands of students com-pete each year to be one of the approxi-mately 1,200 freshmen admitted to the Academy. Requirements for appointment include a rigorous application process as well as a congressional nomination.

Candidates must have top-percentile SAT and ACT scores, be top-tier in class rank and have proven leadership roles in athletics and extracurricular activities.

Also considered are academic hon-ors for extraordinary performance, exhaustive writing assignments and an interview by a congressionally-appointed team.

After acceptance, each appointee goes through a rigorous background check and receives clearance.

Smith will report to West Point for the first time on June 27, 2016.

CHS student accepts appointment to West Point

Henry Smith, a student from Chattahoochee High School, accepts his appointment to West Point.

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Register for Ocee Park youth fall baseballJOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek’s Ocee Park Athletic Association is now registering young players for its fall baseball leagues and travel ball teams.

Everyone, from seasoned veterans to first-time players, is welcome.

Under a new agreement with Al-pharetta, commonly called “Parks With-out Borders”, children from both cities can participate in each other’s youth baseball programs without paying non--resident fees.

Registration runs through July 31. Practices begin Aug. 15, with the first games scheduled for Sept. 7. The sea-son ends Oct. 29. Register early as the leagues fill up quickly.

T-ball fees for Johns Creek and Alpharetta residents are $120 and $180 for non-residents. All of the other baseball leagues have fees of $145 for Alpharetta and Johns Creek residents. Non-residents must pay $217.50.

For information about the leagues offered at Ocee Park, visit oceepark.com.

NORTH FULTON, Ga. — The North-ern Ridge Boy Scout District, which includes Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek and Milton, has announced this month’s newest Eagle Scouts. The Scouts who passed their Eagle Board of Reviews, held at Alpharetta Presbyterian Church May 26, are as follows:

Jacob Anderson, from Troop 734, sponsored by the Webb Bridge Ward of Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. His project was the design and construction of an orienteering course for the Sawnee Mountain Na-ture Preserve.

Grayson Guzowski, from Troop 734, sponsored by the Webb Bridge Ward of Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. His project was the design and construction of a bridge for the Cross Country Trail located at Alpharetta High School.

Noah Terrell, from Troop 69, sponsored by Alpharetta First United Methodist Church. His project was the design and construction of 14 trail markers for the Cross Country Couse at Alpharetta High School.

Henry Casnocha, from Troop 2000, sponsored by Johns Creek Presbyterian Church. His project was

the restoration of the kitchen cabinets, building shelving units for the kitchen

and placing flooring in the attic of the Church of our Savior.

May Eagle Scouts for the Northern Ridge District

From left are the newest Eagle Scouts for the Northern Ridge District: from left Jacob Anderson, Grayson Guzowski, Noah Terrell and Henry Casnocha.

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 MILTON – They came, they saw — they lit up. That’s the way it’s done at Cutters Ci-gar Emporium’s fourth annual Southern Cigar Festival.

Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Russ Sutton invited cigar lovers from all over to come for some southern hospital-ity and to enjoy the opportunity to learn more about cigars from some 25 indus-try experts – the purveyors of fine cigars themselves.

Sutton, Cutters owner, said he enjoys putting on the cigar extravaganza.

“I like to bring the big smoke expe-rience to Atlanta. I always do it the first weekend in June. We will have more than 2,000 people come through,” Sutton said.

This year the festival was right on the Cutters Cigar Emporium premises on Windward Parkway.

“We like to see the people come up and enjoy the experience and enjoy the company of each other,” he said.

That would be people such as Agra Templet. He came from Baton Rouge, La., to attend the festival

“I’ve been trying to get to my friends in Atlanta to come to a big cigar festival. Now that I’m retired, I can,” Templet said.

Kevin “The Colonel” Jenkins is the “ambassador” for Cutters and the festi-val. He said it is simply “a celebration of cigars.”

“There are not strangers here, just

friends who haven’t met yet,” said Jen-kins. “That’s been the slogan for Cutters since it opened.”

The three-day event draws hundreds of visitors each day, including women.

“Women do enjoy cigars. And at Cutters we have always been respectful of that fact and do everything we can to make them feel welcome and at home here,” Jenkins said.

That includes several “ladies nights” at Cutters where women are encouraged to try new cigars and can ask questions.

Asked why the festival has been so successful, Jenkins said it is a mix of ex-perience in seeing to it the visitors enjoy it, the vendors are taken care of and, of course, Alpharetta is a tourist-friendly town.

“There are more than 25 hotels that are no more than 10 minutes from our doorstep,” said The Colonel. “And cigar smokers are always looking for a place to go where they can enjoy their cigars. They know they enjoy it at Cutters.

“And whether you come in blue jeans or a Brooks Brothers suit, they all share the same love of a good cigar,” he said. “It’s not a networking club, but people do sit down and talk. It has a club atmo-sphere.”

Then too, Alpharetta is a business town, and cigars are a bond among busi-ness people. So ultimately their custom-ers will talk about business too.

“We just give them killer service and a great ambience,” The Colonel said.

4th annual Southern Cigar Festival lights up WindwardCutters Cigar Emporium offers aficionados chance to sample, socialize and enjoy

From left are Davidoff Cigars’ Steve Dickinson, Cutters owner Russ Sutton and Johan Zwaan, also of Davidoff’s, enjoying the Southern Cigar Festival at Cutters.

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‘Island Jim’ brings color, entrepreneurial spirit to festivalBy HATCHER [email protected] MILTON, Ga. – Perhaps no one embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of the cigar in-dustry better than “Island Jim” Robinson, proprietor, distributor and chief promoter of his own cigar company: Leaf by Oscar.

Island Jim said Leaf by Oscar has caught on among cigar aficionados for its unique taste and freshness.

It’s a boutique cigar in which the cigars come wrapped not in cellophane but in a tobacco leaf. Even the cigar band is made out of tobacco. But it is not just a gimmick.

“It is a Honduran cigar that comes in four blends, but it comes wrapped in a tobacco leaf to ensure its freshness. Even the band is tobacco paper,” said Island Jim. “It keeps the cigar fresh so that when you open it, the cigar inside is shiny.”

That shows the natural oils of the cigar have not dried out. What it shows is that the cigar is more than a come-on. It has real flavor from its four blends: Connecti-cut, a milder cigar; Sumatra, a medium full blend; Corojo, a mild-medium blend; and the Maduro, a robust full blend.

“It’s ugly to look at when you see it. But when you peel away the tobacco leaf you see it’s a fine cigar. It keeps the tobacco fresh the way nature intended,” Island Jim said.

“I know it looks like a gimmick, but you have to able to back it up with the prod-uct. That’s what keeps customers coming back. It has really caught on. It was so popular in my shop in Pittsburgh, I began wholesaling them 2 years ago. Now I am in 1,500 cigar stores,” Island Jim said.

He has a partner in the Honduran cigar factory – the cigars are blended by Oscar Valladares especially for Island Jim – and he has several Honduran acres where the tobacco is grown.

“This is a fine stick and a great conver-sation piece when you bring one out with friends,” he said.

The one problem he has is with the federal government which is bringing cigar imports under the authority of the Food and Drug Administration. The licensing required by the FDA will drive out small distributors like him, he said.

“They will kill the small guy,” said Island Jim.

He has filed a lawsuit, but if it fails, the “little guys” will be gone, he said.

4th annual Southern Cigar Festival lights up Windward

“Island Jim” Robinson makes Leaf by Oscar cigars. The Honduran cigar he produces has really caught on, and he wholesales the unique cigar to some 1,500 U.S. cigar stores.

PHOTOS BY HATCHER HURD/HERALD

Enjoying their cigars at the Southern Cigar Festival are from left Stan Jackson, Ted Myers and Julian Sanders.

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Leadership JC team spotlights little-used trail

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To develop, energize and activate community leaders in Johns Creek by providing insight into and interaction with city, business and government executives to effect positive change.

– Leadership Johns Creek Mission Statement

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Team 20-20 Vision of the Leadership Johns Creek Class of 2016 celebrated the completion of their civic project with a picnic.

Appropriately enough, they chose Shakerag Park’s 1.3-mile loop nature trail to have the picnic lunch last Fri-day because that was what all the fuss was about.

The trail is almost directly behind River Trail Middle School, although the entrance is through the park entrance.

“It makes a nice loop and borders the national park [the National Park Service’s Chattahoochee Recreation Area]. It has a beautiful vista view. More people would use it if they knew it was there,” said LJC Team 20-20 Vision member Will Bolt.

The team adopted the trail as their civic project and to boost awareness about this gem-under-a-basket. They raised $4,000 to place signage both at the beginning of the trail and along the way to mark the path.

“The trail has never been defined. The beauty back there is really spectac-ular. But you could bring your kids to a Shakerag football game and never know

it’s there,” said Bolt.It has a lot to offer as well for the

naturalist who is interested in the variety of wildlife in the area, said team member James Toth. “The path crosses wetlands. There’s this low bridge and you walk right over it.

“You get to see how the elevation changes and changes the habitat. But the only people who know it’s there are the folks who play soccer and lacrosse.”

There is also a nature classroom built by the Boy Scouts and it now has a trail marker as well.

Leadership Johns Creek’s goal is to develop the leadership talent within the Johns Creek community.

It does this through a structured series of learning experiences. The pro-

gram includes:• An evening orientation, • One two-day retreat, • Seven one day sessions, • A class project and a graduation.  • Meetings and activities are distrib-

uted over a ten-month period begin-ning in august.

Class members also get a look at how business, government, community quality of life, volunteer service and local history are all part of the same social fabric that make up the city.

Leadership graduates are groomed to be the future leaders of Johns Creek in civic and business organizations and for community action and improve-ment. A vital component of the program is

community service. The graduating classes to date have made substantial contributions to the community.

Some of the projects have included: • The Newtown Park Community

Garden, • the Educational Pond at Autrey Mill

Nature Preserve, • Historical Markers, • A Video History of Johns Creek, • A certified Natural Wildlife Habitat

along the upgraded Johns Creek Greenway near JCHS,

• and the “Billy Badge Program” to in-troduce Public Safety to elementary school children.

For more information on the Leader-ship JC program email info(at)leaderh-shipjohnscreek.com.

Volunteers raise $4K for trail signs

Enjoying the Shakerag Park nature trail are Malcus Richards and his daughter Maya.

PHOTOS BY HATCHER HURD/HERALD

After the official opening of the trail, Leadership Johns Creek members, friends and family celebrate with a picnic.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Georgia Express soccer teams have recently been enjoy-ing one success after another.

Riding stellar defense and timely scoring, the Georgia Express U12 boys team took top honors in the Georgia

Express Festival. The team played in the highly competitive U12 Boys Genoa 11v11 division, and defeated teams from Piedmont, Alliance SC and Chero-kee Impact in the finals.

The Georgia Express U9 girls

likewise ended the soccer season with a bang by taking home Champions medals.

The tight-knit team swept through the tournament, outscoring their oppo-nents 28-5 over four games. The finals

matched Georgia Express with Alliance SC, both teams entering the game with perfect 3-0 records. Georgia Express finished the game off early with stellar passing, solid defense and clinical fin-ishing to take home the title.

Georgia Express soccer teams win bigThe Georgia Express U9 girls soccer team top off their season by dominating the year-end tournament.

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By JOE [email protected]

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Daniel Byman, a rising 7th grader at River Trail Mid-dle School in Johns Creek, hopes to one day play professional soccer. His dream took a leap forward when he was selected for the Atlanta United FC development program out of a pool of 150 of the top youth soccer players in the Southeast two weeks ago.

Atlanta United FC, an expansion franchise of Major League Soccer (MLS), will begin play in 2017 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In an effort to develop home-grown talent, Atlanta United has begun an elite development program to develop and train the possi-ble future stars of the team.

Byman, a right-back, was selected to join the 20-player roster for the de-velopment program’s U-13 team.

Daniel’s dream to play professional soccer would continue his family’s long line of professional athletes. Daniel’s

father, originally from Stockholm, Swe-den, played professional tennis in the 1990s in Europe. Daniel’s grandfather was an elite sprinter and soccer player and his great-grandfather played for the Finnish National team in soccer and hockey.

The pedigree of professional athletes from within Daniel’s family has helped develop Daniel into a top-notch athlete, according to his father, who works with Daniel on speed, agility, nutrition and mentally prepares him for the grind of being a professional athlete.

Michael Byman says his son is driven, disciplined, outgoing, active and determined to realize his dream of playing professional soccer.

“He has the drive and a winning mindset which I have not seen in many 12 year olds,” said Michael.

Daniel’s determination and talent has shown since he began playing soc-cer at the age of 4. Daniel has played with the Norcross Soccer Academy, United Futbol Academy, and two years ago, he was selected for the Olympic Development Program with U.S. Soccer.

On being selected for Atlanta United FC’s development program, Michael said his son is thrilled.

“He is very excited to get an oppor-

tunity like this. He’s excited to work hard. This is as high as you can go in youth soccer in Georgia, so he is very excited to take his play to the next level,” he said. “This is the biggest ac-complishment for Daniel so far, and he sees it as a great challenge and oppor-tunity to develop and grow as a player and person. And if all goes well, his dream to play for Atlanta United FC as a professional will come true.”

Daniel will begin his development in August at Atlanta United’s new training facility in Marietta, where the profes-sional team will also train. The United FC development program will compete in the U.S. Soccer Development Acad-emy program.

JC youth selected for Atlanta United FC development programDaniel Byman one of just 22 players selected for U-13 team

Daniel Byman was selected to the At-lanta United FC development program.

He has the drive and a winning mindset which I have not seen in many 12 year olds.”MICHAEL BYMANDaniel’s father

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count. She contacted her insurance company to see a copy of some of the checks that had been cleared, and she said that recognized Smith’s signature on a few of them with her forged signa-ture.

Alpharetta police had enough proba-ble cause to put out a warrant for theft. Smith was taken into custody May 28 after being arrested by Forsyth County police when they recognized him as a wanted man.

Armed robber runsoff with $400 cashJOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek were called to a phone store on Med-lock Bridge Road May 24 for an armed robbery in progress.

A man had approached the counter, pulled out a black handgun to threaten employees and demanded money from the registers. They complied with the demands, but one of the employees had some trouble opening one of the regis-ter drawers. The suspect then became impatient and pressed the gun directly to the employee’s leg.

Once the man obtained all the cash, $400, he ordered everyone to the back room and fled before police arrived. One witness saw him get into a black Honda Accord.

The suspect was described as an older white male with a scar on his lower lip.

Woman loses $4Kin precious jewelryMILTON, Ga. — A woman reported May 25 over $4,000 worth of jewelry missing from her home.

The woman told Milton police that she had fired a maid a month earlier

when she noticed that several of her belongings were missing after the maid finished cleaning. These items included decorative pillows and a collectable sil-ver spoon, together totaling $450.

The woman said she had not re-ported these instances to the police in order to avoid hostility, but instead fired the maid.

A month later, the woman realized that $4,000 worth of gold jewelry and pearls were missing from her bedroom. The last time she had seen the items, the woman said, was just before the maid was fired.

Ohio woman battlesidentity fraud in Ga.JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — An Ohio woman reported a case of fraud when she received a call from the Johns Creek Municipal Court May 23 about a traffic citation she said she never received.

The court told her that her license would be suspended for failing to han-dle a ticket given to her in Georgia. The woman said she has never set foot in the state, much less Johns Creek.

She said that the driver who re-ceived the citation is her cousin, who lives in Georgia but recently visited Ohio. After her cousin’s visit, the woman noticed that her driver’s license was missing. The car listed in the cita-tion, a white Chevy Cruze, matches her cousin’s car.

Both women, according to police, have similar heights, weights and ap-pearances on their driver licenses.

The cousin, when confronted, denied getting a ticket or using false information, but said that she would pay the ticket.

2 suspects, 2 phones,lead to a $2K hitMILTON, Ga. — A man reported fraud June 1 when he found two unauthorized phone purchases on his bank account.

Someone had used his personal information to purchase an iPhone 6SP, valued at $1,000, with a prepaid card. They did not use any identification dur-ing the transaction.

Store employees identified two sus-pects that they had assisted during the purchase. They both appeared to be in their early 20s.

The suspects later returned to purchase another $1,000 phone, same model, with a prepaid card.

The bank has been notified about the fraud and investigation is ongoing.

Phone fraud threatfails to rattle manROSWELL, Ga. — A man reported a fraudulent phone call May 13 when someone claiming to represent Georgia Power threatened to cut off the power to his house for charges he did not owe.

The victim received the call from a man who identified himself as “Nicolas Pimentel” from the customer service de-partment at Georgia Power. He spoke in Spanish and told the victim that he had an overdue balance of $400. Pimentel said that the power to the man’s house and two rental properties would be cut off if he did not pay immediately.

The man was suspicious of the caller since he did not own any rental properties. He also knew he was cur-rent with his payments. He did not give the scammer any of his information and hung up instead.

Georgia Power confirmed that the call was bogus. Georgia Power does not collect payments over the phone.

Speeder booked forendangering childALPHARETTA, Ga. — A man was ar-rested April 29 on multiple charges of speeding, child endangerment and DUI.

Alpharetta police were patrolling just north of Windward Parkway on Ga. 400 late evening, when an officer saw

a tan Ford Taurus speed past. Their radar verified that the driver was going 100 mph in a 65 mph zone.

While police pursued the car, it made multiple “jerky lane changes” before finally pulling over.

The driver, Shane Elzey, 27, told police he was speeding to get his son to Chucky Cheese.

The child was sitting in the front without any safety seat. The boy told police that he had been telling his father to slow down, but Elzey hadn’t listened.

Police determined that Elzey was intoxicated and took him to the Al-pharetta Fulton County Jail. He was charged for DUI, along with child en-dangerment, speeding, reckless driving, child safety seat violation and disor-derly conduct.

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By JOE PARKER [email protected]

ATLANTA- After an impressive baseball career at Mt. Pisgah, Patriots’ graduate Adrian Celata is garnering much suc-cess and many accolades competing for Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven.

Celata, who plays catcher for Oglethorpe’s Stormy Petrels baseball team, was named a first team All-Amer-ican by D3baseball.com and second team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)

last week, his first nominations as an All-American and All-Region player. Celata also became the first base-ball player from Oglethorpe to earn All-American status.

Prior to being named an All-Ameri-can, Celata was also named All-Region in the Southern Athletic Association and Oglethorpe University’s Male Stormy Petrel of the Year.

This season Celata compiled a .409 average with 46 RBIs and 14 home runs. Celata’s 14 home runs and 133 total bases placed him fifth in the nation

in their respective categories. Celata also had a fielding percentage of .952.

Celata, a sophomore, originally signed to play with Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn., before transfer-ring to Oglethorpe last year. A Duluth native, Celata also played for the East Cobb Astros and Team Georgia during his tenure at Mt. Pisgah, in which he was named All-Region twice and re-ceived Pisgah’s Offensive Player Award.

Oglethorpe University, which com-petes in the Southern Athletic Associ-ation (SAA), compiled a 20-23 overall

record and went 9-12 in the SAA this season.

In a release by Oglethorpe, Celata said, “Thank you to all my teammates, coaches and professors at OU. It was a fun season and I couldn’t have accomplished this feat without them. Our team has tremendous talent, as well as a great team culture, and I am very blessed to be a part of it.”

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North Fulton/Forsyth Best of the Year: Games

By JOE [email protected]

NORTH FULTON/FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga.- Blowouts, upsets, come-from-be-hind victories, heartbreaking losses, championship-clinching wins and season-ending losses — the 2015-16 season saw it all. In continuing Appen Media Group’s Best of the Year, we will highlight the best games of the past year in local sports, listed in no partic-ular order.

Dec. 4 - Roswell 26, Grayson 23 (Football)

It looked rather bleak for the 13-0 Hornets. With under a minute remain-ing, Roswell found itself down 26-23 to Grayson with the winner earning a spot in the Class 6A state championship game. Needing a quick score to keep their undefeated season alive, Roswell QB Quintarius Neely threw a 35-yard bomb that found A.J. Smith at the goal line to give Roswell the lead with just 10 seconds remaining. The Hornets would end up winning the game, keeping their undefeated season alive and securing a trip to the state championship.

April 14,15 - King’s Ridge 5, Mt. Pisgah 3 (Baseball)

Baseball region rivals King’s Ridge and Mt. Pisgah met in early April with huge implications on the line. King’s Ridge looked poised to three-peat as Class A state champions and Pisgah was riding a 10-game winning streak and looking to spoil the party. It took two days and 15 innings to finally find a winner in the war of attrition game that the Tigers’ eventually sealed with two runs in the 15th inning.

April 26 - Alpharetta 4, Mill Creek 3 (Boys soccer)

In an upset and remarkable come-back, Alpharetta kept its season alive with a 4-3 win over Region 7-AAAAAA champs Mill Creek in the first round of the state soccer playoffs. Down 3-0 with just 13 minutes remaining, Alpharetta caught a huge surge of momentum and scored three goals in the dying minutes with the season on the line. In PKs, the Raiders completed the stunning comeback.

Dec. 4 – Calhoun 7, Blessed Trinity 12 (Football)

Fourth-and-goal with just a few

seconds remaining — given that sce-nario, it’s no wonder BT’s victory over Calhoun ended up on our list of Games of the Year. Calhoun, who entered the game on a 28-game winning streak, put together an almost seven minute drive in the fourth quarter of the state semifinals game while trailing 12-7. With 10 seconds remaining, it was all down to fourth-and-goal. BT’s defense brought pressure and forced Calhoun’s quarterback to fall four yards short of the goal line and secured its first ever appearance in the football state cham-pionship game.

Feb. 2 - Lambert 70, Johns Creek 62 (Boys basketball)

In the de-facto Region 6-AAAAAA championship game, undefeated Lam-bert survived a valiant late comeback by Johns Creek to secure the region title.

Lambert led by as much as 15, but late heroics by Johns Creek put the Gladiators down by just one point with 90 seconds remaining in front of an ecstatic Gladiators’ crowd. However, with their backs against the wall the Longhorns recovered and silenced the crowd, shooting 11-12 from the free-throw line and securing the region title.

Feb. 12 - Chattahoochee 31, Northview 34 (Girls basketball)

The Region 6-AAAAAA semifinals

saw an unlikely matchup in Hooch and Northview, as well as a thrilling finish. Northview led by three when Hooch tied the score at 31-31 with just 13 sec-onds left. Northview’s Melissa Muench, scoring her only points of the game, hit a three with just seconds remaining to secure the win for the Lady Titans and a berth in the region championship game.

Oct. 31 - Westminster 2, Blessed Trinity 3 (Volleyball)

For the second straight year, West-minster and Blessed Trinity met for the Class 3A volleyball state championship, with the region rivals competing in five thrilling sets.

After losing the first set, BT over-came a 23-22 Westminster lead to take the second set. After winning the third set, BT looked poised to repeat as state champions until a controversial back-row attack call against the Titans cost them the fourth set. In the state cham-pionship deciding fifth set, BT opened up a 9-5 lead. Westminster then gained momentum and cut the lead to just three before BT responded with a run of its own to capture the state champion-ship 15-12 in the fifth set.

Sept. 11 - Johns Creek 42, Alpharetta 39 (Football)

Johns Creek entered its game against Alpharetta having won just a

single game in two years. Meanwhile, Alpharetta had won 23 straight region games and were the two-time defend-ing Region 6-AAAAAA champs. But the stats mean nothing in the end, and Johns Creek proved that by knock-ing off the Raiders 42-39. Alpharetta, looking to avoid the upset, scored in the final minute but it was unable to secure the ensuing onside kick, allow-ing Johns Creek to stun the Alpharetta crowd.

Nov. 11 - Blessed Trinity 13, Cedar Grove 13 (Football)

In a torrential rain and a field that had turned to muck and covered the jerseys of both BT and Cedar Grove, it was difficult for fans in the stands to know just who they were cheering for. And in the end, neither fan base would be celebrating a win as the game ended in a 13-13 tie.

BT and Cedar Grove were playing for the Region 4-AAA title, and the Titans tied the game at 13 with just under three minutes remaining. Cedar Grove managed an impressive drive, and with just 15 seconds left, it looked sure that Cedar Grove would score and win the game from the six-yard line. That’s when a penalty actually came in favor of the Titans.

BT was called for encroachment, and after the referees walked off the penalty, the clock began to run. Cedar Grove, caught off-guard by the clock beginning to tick, scrambled to the line and fumbled the snap. BT recovered the fumble and forced overtime, where the foul weather stopped the game and resulted in a tie.

Dec. 11 - Westminster 38, Blessed Trinity 31 (OT) (Football)

Blessed Trinity football had a knack for thrilling games this season, but in this instance, the Titans found them-selves on the losing end. In its first-ever state championship appearance in foot-ball, BT led Westminster by 14 points with under seven minutes remaining in the game.

Westminster scored with 6:25 remaining and the Wildcats’ ensuing onside kick bounced off a BT player and was recovered by the Wildcats at the BT 21-yard line. Westminster tied the game and forced overtime where Westminster gained the lead, 38-31. On its ensuing offensive possession, BT’s Milton Shelton rushed toward the end-zone and reached the ball out in an attempt to cross the plane. In doing, so, Shelton fumbled. Westminster secured the fumble and the state championship in a dramatic comeback on the biggest stage of the season.

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The Northview Lady Titans earned a bert in the region championship game with a win over the Chattahoochee Cougars on Feb. 12.

Highlighting some of the best games of the 2015-16 season

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By JOE [email protected]

ATLANTA- Basketball teams from North Fulton and Forsyth County who make the state championship games will have a much shorter bus ride in the upcom-ing season. The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) announced late May that the state basketball finals will be played at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech for the upcoming 2016-17 season.

Though not confirmed as the rea-soning behind the transition, the move was likely induced by the controversy surrounding the placement of the goals at this season’s tournament, which were not regulation.

GHSA regula-tions state that goals are to be placed 15 feet from the free-throw line.

However, in this season’s state tour-nament, the goals were positioned 16 feet from the free-throw line, adding an extra foot to each free throw and shot taken.

Both basket-ball teams from St. Francis competed in the Centreplex in the finals in March, and though they were playing against more talented defenses than in the regular season, their shoot-ing stats certainly point to a possible problem with the goals not being regu-lation.

The Lady Knights, who beat Greenforest for the Class A girls state championship, had their shooting percentage and free throw percentage drop by 6 percent in each category in the state champion-ship game.

The boys’ team shot just 30 percent for the state championship game, down from 48 percent in prior games. Their

free throw percentage also dropped 10 percent.

The GHSA has confirmed they were made aware of the erroneous goal placement during the tournament but chose not to move the goals because it would have halted play.

GHSA Director Gary Phillips issued an apology after the state champion-ship and said that although the games

were not played on regulation goals, the results of those championships would stand.

Other fans and media also took to social media to bring to light other problems with the Centreplex. Those problems included gaps in the playing surface, poor light-ing and audio and team buses being charged for parking.

On May 26, the GHSA announced the upcoming sea-son’s state champi-onship games will be split between UGA’s Stegeman Coliseum and Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion Mar. 8-9 next year.

In a statement from the GHSA, Phillips said, “The University of Geor-gia and Georgia Tech have two of the premier bas-ketball complexes in the state. The primary goal of

the GHSA is to promote the best interests of Georgia’s high school student-athletes, and we are thrilled at the experience these venues will offer to the teams, their schools, and their fans.”

GHSA moves basketball state championships to GT, UGAMove made amid issues at Macon Centreplex

The University of Georgia and Georgia Tech have two of the premier basketball complexes in the state. The primary goal of the GHSA is to promote the best interests of Georgia’s high school student-athletes, and we are thrilled at the experience these venues will offer to the teams, their schools, and their fans.”GARY PHILLIPSGHSA Director

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Johns Creek’s Concorde Fire U11 Boys team ended their final game of the season May 22 in Championship fashion.  

They came out on top at the Atlanta Peach Classic Tournament by outscor-ing their opponents 20-1 in four games and bought the championship plaque home to Johns Creek.

The team, coached by Mike Cediel, showed an amazing display of sports-manship and grace. This is a bittersweet for the team as they will be splitting up by birth year. It is being mandated by US Youth Soccer for the new season come Fall 2016. Players born in 2005 will move to U12 Academy and those born in 2004 will move to U13 Classic. 

Concorde Fire U11 Boys take Peach Classic

Front row kneeling from left are Griffin Johnson, Noah Leslie, Peter Mun, Nate Perez, Carson Brown and Walker LeCompte.  Standing from right are Michael Silva, Paul Yim, Sutter Woods, Alejandro Medina, Mario Cantu, Andrew Ve-lasco and coach Mike Cediel.

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“First and foremost, the school’s climate is how you feel when you walk into the school,” said Duncan. “Is it clean and orderly? Is it welcoming? Does your children feel supported there and is there communication between the school and the parent?”

In developing the ratings, GDOE uses a 22-page calculation guide that factors in the surveys, discipline and attendance issues. For the surveys,

students take the Georgia Student Health Survey, and parents are sent surveys from the school. The state requires 75 percent of students and a minimum of 15 parents to fill out the surveys.

When questioned why some schools with just a handful of discipline issues and high academic achievement were often rated lower than schools with hundreds of discipline issues and low performance, the answer was nebulous.

“A sustainable, positive school climate supports people feeling socially, emotionally and physically safe.  In a positive school climate, people are

engaged and respected,” said Cardoza. “ If a child does not feel safe, secure, connected and engaged then learning is less likely to take place.”

The disconnect between climate rat-ings and high performance were in play at a number of schools in North Fulton, primarily at the elementary level.

Among the top performing schools in North Fulton earning two stars (below satisfactory), were Summit Hill, Mountain Park and Alpharetta elementary schools; all of which also earned an 80-plus score on the state’s accountability measure, the CCRPI.

Among middle schools, only North-western earned below a 4-star, with a rating of three stars. Last year, the school earned a 5-star climate rating.

Moving forward, Duncan said Ful-ton Schools will look closely at the data and determine if any actions need to be taken to improve the climate ratings.

“I think we’ve got to unpack the data since there are lots of measures, and it is generally complicated for people to understand,” Duncan noted. “I’m interested in parents having quick, easy access to the information and to do something with it to make an impact [in schools].”

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Treatment:“The state wants to get a handle on

how opioid clinics are run before they are licensed,” Reis said. “Methadone and Suboxone are highly addictive and the withdrawal is worse than heroin.”

Clinics that do not medically man-age their patients have ruined thou-sands of lives. Yet thousands of people are alive today because of well-run pro-grams using methadone and Suboxone.

“So it is important that those who do use opioids to treat addiction do so properly,” he said.

Remco Brommet is the executive director of The Hub Family Resource Center, a Johns Creek nonprofit organi-zation that helps families find the right

resources for the entire spectrum of so-cial services including drug addiction, mental health, incarceration and family dysfunction.

Brommet agrees that the key to any methadone-type clinic is proper clinical supervision of the patient and the dos-ages administered.

“The risk is to become dependent on the drug without sufficient wraparound programs to treat more than just the addiction,” Brommet said. “There are worlds of associated problems such as anxiety, psychological issues and trau-matic experiences.

“From Xanax to OxyContin, 80 per-cent of addiction begins with self-med-ication. If all you do is medicate with painkillers, you are only creating another dependency.”

Vivatrol acts as an inhibitor that blocks the pleasure sensors from

receiving signals. It can take away the physical craving for opioids in a month. But without working on the underlying psychological problems associated with addiction, the addict will relapse.

“For many, it is not the high of the opioid the patient is seeking. It is desensitizing oneself to mask emo-tional pain,” Brommet said. “You’re just changing the bandage without treating the wound.”

If done right, methadone and its clones are part of a multifaceted pro-gram to wean addicts off drugs.

“I can see the need for the regula-tion of treatment centers because of the overall tendency of the medical commu-nity to overmedicate,” Brommet said. “A moratorium [on new clinics] is OK if it’s just a pause to develop a continuum of care. That is what’s needed most.”

Fulton County District Attorney

Paul Howard said we are facing a her-oin crisis and it is only getting worse. In 2010 there were 4 opioid-related over-dose deaths. In 2014 there were 77. And 18 percent of opioid deaths occur in North Fulton.

It is a mostly white, middle-class addiction in Fulton County.

Ninety percent of heroin users begin abusing the drug between the ages of 18 to 25.

But that is not where they start.  Many drug users in North Fulton turn to heroin after first becoming addicted to painkillers. Howard said 83 percent of those painkillers come from family or friends and most of that is from family medicine cabinets.

Once the painkillers run out, heroin is a substitute.

“Heroin is easier to get, it’s cheaper and it’s more potent,” Howard said.

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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) 257-2281SELL

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