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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – This year’s Memorial Day, May 25, was the first one for Alpharetta’s new City Hall. It was also the first year that the city has held its own ceremonies to honor the day and the fallen soldiers for which it is dedicated.

On the lawn behind City Hall, several hundred people gathered on the morning of May 25. The Alpharetta City Band performed patriotic tunes to open and close the ceremo-nies.

Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle said the day was one for reflection as well as hon-oring those who died performing their duty.

“Their sacrifice... made this country great,” he said.

The event was hosted by the city and the Rotary Club of Alpharetta.

Pat Stansbury, executive director of the National Museum of Patriotism, said the day initially began after the Civil War as “Decora-tion Day,” a day for mothers and families of the fallen soldiers to honor their dead loved ones.

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1. The new Alpharetta City Hall was the site of the inaugural Memorial Day ceremony for Alpharetta. 2. Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle speaks about patriotism and the thanks deserved to those who serve and die for their country. 3. Color guards present colors.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Members of Bike Alpharetta joined Mayor Belle Isle and representatives from Department of Public Safety May 16 for the unveiling of new signage supporting cyclists.

To celebrate National Bike Month, city bike routes have been created for Alpharetta. Mayor David Belle Isle and members of Bike Alpharetta unveiled a new city bike routes signs at city hall. The new signs are located on south side of new Alpharetta City Hall on Haynes Bridge Road near the traffic circle.

These routes are recommended for easy connectivity to parks, schools and shopping, as well as beautiful roadways with wide shoulders or bike lanes for safer travel. They are marked on Share the Road signs with a designated route color and the number of miles to/from the new City Center, ranging from six to 16 miles. The Orange Route (12 miles) and Yellow Route (9 miles) provide connection to the Big Creek Greenway. A PDF map of all routes is available online at http://bikealpharetta.org.

—Jonathan Copsey

Alpharetta residents, police celebrate Bike to Work Month

City bicyclists show off their new sign at Alpharetta City Hall. From left are Jackie Tyson (Bike Alpharetta), Officer Amanda Clay (Public Safety), Ken Cooksey (Bike Alpharetta), Diane Seale (Bike Alpharetta), Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle, Michael Horwitz (Bike Alpharetta), Pam Morgan (Bike Alpharetta), Sandy Reedy (Bike Alpharetta), Jim Texter (Bike Alpharetta) and Jonathan Skupin (Bike Alpharetta).

DUI arrests ► Dane Bancroft Sutherland, 27, of

Morton’s Crossing, Johns Creek, was arrested May 5 on Windward Parkway in Milton for DUI, failure to maintain lane and speeding.

► Ryan W. Squires, 38, of Northcliff Trace, Roswell, was arrested May 6 on Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and following too closely.

► Kevin David Hume, 39, of Suwanee

was arrested May 6 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI and failure to main-tain lane.

► Adam Michael Richardson, 25, of Brookfield Club Drive, Roswell, was arrested May 4 on Arnold Mill Road in Milton for DUI, failure to maintain lane and no license.

► Jason M. Phipps, 43, of Arcaro Drive, Milton, was arrested May 9 on Arcaro Drive in Milton for DUI and child endangerment.

► Youjung Bae, 35, of North Twin Valley, Milton, was arrested May 9 on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI.

► John Gordon Wyland, 40, of Old Northpark Lane, Alpharetta, was arrested May 10 on Highway 9 Milton

for DUI.

Drug arrests ► Jonathan Paul Cunningham, 37,

of Smyrna was arrested May 8 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for possession of marijuana and failure to maintain lane.

► Jerry James Vichcales, 50, of Surrey Drive, Roswell, was arrested May 2 on Highway 9 in Milton for pos-session of marijuana, possession of drug-related items, hit and run, no passing zone, mirror violation and bald tires.

► Jeffrey A. Miller, 33, of Deerfield Point, Milton, was arrested May 5 on Webb Road in Milton for possession of marijuana and display of license plates.

DUIS & DRUGSAll crime reports published by Appen Media Group are compiled from public records. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor Appen Media Group implies any guilt by publishing these names. None of the persons listed has been convicted of the alleged crimes.

Fake ID lands woman in jailALPHARETTA, Ga. – A Michigan woman was arrested May 3 after allegedly being in possession of a half-dozen fake IDs.

Employees at the Apple Store in North Point Mall called police after a woman used an ID that appeared tampered with. When police checked it, they found it was fake.

The woman whose face and date of birth were on the card was allegedly Breiona Jaliza Edwards, 27, of Lathrup Village, Michigan. A search of her purse after arrest turned up several other cards, all with different names as well as credit cards with those same names.

Also found was $1,700 in cash.She was charged with forgery first

and second degree, as well as identity fraud.

Girls scare away intruder on porchMILTON, Ga. – Several young girls were

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able to catch a would-be burglar in the act May 16 as he tried to make his way into their home.

According to the family, they were at home in their apartment about 9 p.m. on Deer Creek Place when the family dog began barking at the rear porch. The children opened the back door and found a man climbing over the rail. When he saw the youngsters, he ran away.

He was described as hav-ing a thick beard, wearing a black hoodie and black pants. He may have had a weapon on him.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – An Atlanta woman is suspected in stealing a $6,500 diamond ring from a local jewelry store.

Store employees told police a woman identify-

ing herself as “Claudia Tee” entered the store in January and asked to get financing for a diamond ring worth $6,500.

She gave the store her personal information and gained the financing. She left with the ring. Later, April 29, the jewelry store’s home office told them the informa-tion she gave them was false.

Don’t goof offin front of policeALPHARETTA, Ga. – A 19-year-old Johns Creek man was arrested April 12 after allegedly showing off recklessly while driving in front of police.Officers re-ported seeing the young man at the State Bridge Road Publix parking lot. There were several teenagers in the parking lot near a Mustang car, and the suspect appar-ently decided to show off his own Volvo. He sped around the lot and, according to police, nearly hit several people. An officer watched this happen. A search of the young man’s car turned up marijuana and drug para-

phernalia.

Guns stolen from Freemanville homeMILTON, Ga. – Police report 10 weapons were reported stolen from a Freemanville Road home May 14 after someone broke in.

The victims said the home was broken into dur-ing the day.

A safe was opened and personal documents, such as birth certificates and Social Security cards, were stolen.

Among the 10 firearms taken were several shotguns and rifles. Jewelry was also reported missing.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Two would-be robbers are on the run after a botched attack April 29 in Alpharetta. About 8:30 p.m., a family was loading a vehicle at the entrance of the Marriott Hotel on Windward Parkway. They had just finished taking part in a jewelry show at the hotel. While loading the vehicle, another ve-hicle pulled up alongside, and two men got out. Video surveillance shows the men pepper spray the family and attempt to grab their belongings. But the family did not give up easily. The video shows two woman and a man fight their

assailants, grabbing back their belongings and beating one of the men, even ripping off his shirt and hoodie.The two suspects fled the area in their vehicle. They were gone when police arrived.

Alpharetta Public Safety Spokesman George Gordon said such an incident is rare in the city. “We do not recommend people to resist when it comes to property as a target,” said Gor-don. “However we are grateful no one was injured in this particular incident.”

Police are asking the public for help identifying the men. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the tip line at 678-297-6307.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. - A portion of Canton Street in downtown Alpharetta will close to all traffic on June 1, and remain closed until early August.

The impacted section runs from Mayfield Road to Church Street. The City of Alpharetta is warning motorists that heavy travel delays will result on Canton Street and State Route 9, especially during peak commuting periods. Commuters are strongly urged to identify and plan now to use alternative travel routes to avoid the downtown Alpharetta area.

In addition to the work on Canton Street, there will also be lane closures on Ga. 9 later this summer.

“In late July, or early August work will begin on the medians along State Route 9, which will require that one lane in each direction be closed,” said James Drinkard, assistant city manager of Alpharetta. “We are not yet certain as to those dates or if there will be any overlap, but we are trying to avoid it as much as possible. At the same time, everyone is trying to do all of this work while school is out and traffic volumes are lower.”

The closure is the result of construc-tion by the Fulton County Department of Water Services on the final segment of the Alpharetta Water Transmission Main.

The work involves the installation of pipes. The overall transmission main project consists of the installation of ap-proximately 7 miles of water pipes and ancillaries in the cities of Alpharetta and Johns Creek.

The project is designed to improve the water system supply and pressure in

North Fulton County and, specifically, to bring a major transmission line to feed the

northwestern portion of the county.—Cameron Osburn

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The highlighted portion of Canton Street will be closed to all traffic from June 1 through early August.

Portion of Canton Street to close for 2 months

By JONATHAN COPSEYjonathan@appenmediagroup.com

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The newest mixed-use development for North Fulton may come along Haynes Bridge Road and Ga. 400 in Alpharetta.

The MetLife and Lincoln Property Com-pany filed plans May 18 to build a large, mixed-use project containing 751,500 square feet of office, 75,100 square feet of retail, 414 apartments, 25 condos and a 200-room hotel. It will go along Lakeview Parkway.

This would make it about the size of Avalon, juts one exit north, and larger than the Riverwalk development planned for Holcomb Bridge Road to the south. All

are along Ga. 400.The proposal was filed as a “Develop-

ment of Regional Impact” (DRI) with the Atlanta Regional Commission. Projects that are likely to have an impact beyond the host local government’s jurisdiction are subject to review as DRIs.

The expected completion is 2019. Alpharetta Community Development

Director Kathi Cook said the proposal will have public hearings beginning in July.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. - A budget proposal under review by the Alpharetta City Council would keep Alpharet-ta’s millage rate at its present 5.750 rate until the 2016 fiscal year.

While the overall millage rate would remain flat, the Maintenance and Operations component would see an increase. Alpharetta would move 0.05 mills from the Debt Service millage rate to the Maintenance and Operations millage rate to allow for capital invest-ment funding for infrastructure.

The budget includes several main capital and op-erating plans. First a total of $10.1 million is allotted for funding capital investment. $3.9 million of those

capital investment dollars target infrastructure. Proj-ects include storm water maintenance, milling and re-surfacing streets and maintaining traffic signalization equipment. Secondly the budget proposes funding operational costs for the new City Hall, it’s parking garage and the nearby park and town green.

Public hearings on the fiscal year 2016 budget and millage rate tax will be held in the Council Chambers at Alpharetta City Hall on the following dates: June 1 at 7:30 p.m., June 8 at 6:30 p.m. and June 15 at 7:30 p.m. The proposed budget can be viewed at: www.alpharetta.ga.us.

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Alpharetta: new budget keeps tax rate flatIf you goWhat: Public hearings on the Alpharetta 2016 budget and millage rate tax.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – A family on Kingshouse Com-mons in the Queensbury subdivision were held up by three men around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, May 16, with $50,000 in jewelry reported taken.

The same night, a Chartwell subdivision family reported a burglary of their home in which an as yet undisclosed amount of jewelry was reported stolen. Capt. Chris Byers, spokesman for the Johns Creek Police Department, said at this time there is no hard evidence linking the two crimes. But both crimes are under investigation and are in their early stages.

However, the homes are in the same area and both reported jewelry as the primary target.

In the home invasion, the residents reported they had been asleep on their deck when the three men approached them from their backyard. One intruder produced a handgun and held the family members at bay, while the other intruders searched the house.

No violence was done to any of the victims.“No one was pistol-whipped and no one was in-

jured,” Byers said.In addition to the jewelry stolen during the

Queensbury robbery, the family reported about $300 in cash was taken. Only jewelry was reported taken in the Chartwell burglary.

According to police, a rear window was broken that gave entry into the house. Apparently only the bedroom was searched and that was where the jew-elry was taken.

Rumors and emails flew over the weekend as peo-

ple reported conflicting accounts of what happened and where. One woman reported she had heard that the home invaders had beaten one of the residents, but apparently that did not happen.

There was a lot of confusion among area home-owner associations as to just where the crimes took place, with people reporting at least four subdivisions in the area as being “hit.” In addition to Queensbury and Chartwell, some reports erroneously put the crimes in the Mayfair and Anaheim communities. But these were not the case.

Since both Chartwell and Queensbury are near Newtown Park and Kingshouse Commons in the Queensbury subdivision backs up to a Newtown Park ball field, many are speculating the same perpetrators are involved and used the park as their base.

Again, Johns Creek Police have no evidence any of that, though the time and proximity are not lost on investigators.

Home invasion, burglary in Newtown areaPolice say no evidence linkingQueensbury, Chartwell crimes

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ROSWELL, Ga. – Roswell for many years has taken pride in its history and historic homes, but it only recently came to light that marketing that his-tory through tourism is a huge economic generator in the city. The results of an economic study by the independent source North Star Destination Strategies has shown that, conservatively, tourism is a $91.9 million industry in Ro-swell, supporting dozens of lo-cal businesses and hotels and earning tax revenue as well.

The study was commis-sioned by the Roswell Con-vention and Visitors Bureau, funded through the hotel-motel tax assessed on Roswell’s 11 hotels. RCVB Director Dotty Etris, who commissioned the study, said the results were thorough and instructive, giv-ing the RCVB feedback on how well it uses its advertising bud-get as well as where and how

to improve on the job the RCVB is do-ing.

What the study showed conclusively was that of the $91 mil-lion in tourism brought in, more than half – $55.5 million – is directly attributable to the RCVB’s marketing efforts.

“Those dollars are actual dollars spent by the tourists in the city. It does not factor in the jobs created, salaries and wages paid or taxes paid by tourism entities such as the 31 event facilities in the city,” Etris said.

North Star Destinations Vice President of Marketing Rupa DeLoach said she is an economist by training, and that the city is doing an excel-lent job marketing in a number of cities and finding the right demographics among those populations to whom Roswell’s attractions are quite appealing.

“Their return on invest-ment [ROI] of their advertising dollars is simply astounding,” DeLoach said.

For every $1 invested in advertising, the RCVB reaps $110.76 in tourist spending,

DeLoach said.The methodology tracks

non-resident tourists who responded to Internet advertis-ing, promotional pieces and print ads, who then contacted the RCVB for more information resulting in their visiting the city.

These visitors were, in re-searcher’s parlance, “engaged” by the RCVB and successfully encouraged to visit the city and physically come to the RCVB center on Roswell Square. Those folks represented an ROI of $21.58 for each $1 spent on advertising.

Lodging dollars spent, which is most important to the local hoteliers whose taxes fund the RCVB, see 15 percent

of the tourist dollars spent go to heads on their pillows. Food and beverage accounts for the largest share of tourist spend-ing – a whopping 30 percent or $27.3 million annually.

“Canton Street is a vibrant attraction for the city, and it is expanding all the time,” Etris said. “You can see the ‘spill-over’ as Atlanta Street (Ga. 9) is seeing more restaurants being built.”

Economic developers love

tourism dollars, saying they are “clean” income. That is, the spending does not use much in the way of city services in return. What is not counted is the ripple effect of tourist dollars that pass from the first transaction and are re-spent in the local economy in the form of wages paid, suppliers and ancillary vendors and sales tax and property taxes.

Roswell tourism brings in $91M annuallyDetailed report shows hugeimpact to city’s economy

$91.1M tourism dollars. Where does it all go?Roswell tourism dollars distributed in the local economy• Lodging – 15.8 %• Food/Beverage – 30 %• Retail – 10.8 %• Transportation – 13.5 %• Recreation – 8 %• Weddings, Events, Other – 21.9 %

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Bulloch Hall, one of three magnificently preserved historic ante-bellum homes in Roswell, is not only a popular tourist destina-tion but serves as an event facility for weddings, receptions and parties.

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PUBLIC NOTICEFiscal Year 2016 Budget

Notice is hereby given that public hearings shall be held before the Mayor and Council of the City of Alpharetta, Georgia on June 1, 2015 at 7:30 p.m., June 8, 2015 at 6:30 p.m., and June 15, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. regarding the adoption of the budget for fi scal year 2016 (July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016) and to set the millage rate. The public hearings will take place at City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, in City Council chambers.

The proposed budget is available on the City’s website, www.alpharetta.ga.us, as well as in the Department of Finance (City Hall, 2 Park Plaza) from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday through Thursday) and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Friday).

These public hearings are in accordance with O.C.G.A. 36-81-5. All citizens of Alpharetta are invited to attend and comment will be heard.

Robert J. Regus David Belle IsleCity Administrator Mayor

CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX DECREASE

The Mayor and Council of the City of Alpharetta has tentatively adopted a debt (“Bond”) millage rate which will require a decrease in property taxes for the Debt Service Fund by -4.70 percent. Please see Notice of Property Tax Increase for the M&O millage rate.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax decrease to be held at the City of Alpharetta, Council Chambers, City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, on the following dates and times:

June 1, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.June 8, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.

June 15, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

This tentative decrease will result in a Bond millage rate of 0.750 mills, a decrease of -0.037 mills. Without this tentative tax decrease, the Bond millage rate will be no more than 0.787 mills. The proposed tax decrease for a home with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately -$4.39 and the proposed tax decrease for non-homesteaded property with a fair market value of $900,000 is approximately -$13.32.

Explanation: The City has not received the 2015 tax digest from Fulton County and, as such, must assume growth in the tax digest to conservatively comply with this statutory notice. The budget currently being considered by the Alpharetta City Council would leave the millage rate at its current 5.750 mills level through the 2016 fi scal year. The City has maintained that rate since 2009 while providing additional tax relief to citizens by increasing Alpharetta’s homestead exemption to $40,000; the highest such exemption in Georgia.

While Alpharetta’s overall millage rate would remain fl at under the proposal, there would be some changes to the individual components as follows:

Millage Rate Current Proposed ChangeM&O 4.950 5.000 0.050Bond 0.800 0.750 -0.050Total 5.750 5.750 0.000

The City is shifting 0.05 mills from the Bond millage rate to the M&O millage rate to provide additional funding for capital investment in our infrastructure.

Robert J. Regus David Belle IsleCity Administrator Mayor

CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE

The Mayor and Council of the City of Alpharetta has tentatively adopted an operating (“M&O”) millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes for the General Fund by 2.87 percent. Please see Notice of Property Tax Decrease for the Bond millage rate.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the City of Alpharetta, Council Chambers, City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, on the following dates and times:

June 1, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.June 8, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.June 15, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

This tentative increase will result in an M&O millage rate of 5.000 mills, an increase of 0.140 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the M&O millage rate will be no more than 4.860 mills. The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $11.31 and the proposed tax increase for non-homesteaded property with a fair market value of $900,000 is approximately $50.40.

Explanation: The City has not received the 2015 tax digest from Fulton County and, as such, must assume growth in the tax digest to conservatively comply with this statutory notice. The budget currently being considered by the Alpharetta City Council would leave the millage rate at its current 5.750 mills level through the 2016 fi scal year. The City has maintained that rate since 2009 while providing additional tax relief to citizens by increasing Alpharetta’s homestead exemption to $40,000; the highest such exemption in Georgia.

While Alpharetta’s overall millage rate would remain fl at under the proposal, there would be some changes to the individual components as follows:

Millage Rate Current Proposed ChangeM&O 4.950 5.000 0.050Bond 0.800 0.750 -0.050Total 5.750 5.750 0.000

The City is shifting 0.05 mills from the Bond millage rate to the M&O millage rate to provide additional funding for capital investment in our infrastructure.

Robert J. Regus David Belle IsleCity Administrator Mayor

ROSWELL, Ga. – Starting July 1 a recent ordinance will allow for golf carts, a type of personal transportation vehicle, on public roads with a speed limit of 25 miles per hour or less within Roswell’s city limits.

To do this, drivers must register the vehicle with the city. Registration involves two steps. First an affidavit must be signed showing that the vehicle meets safety requirements. Examples of requirements include a braking system, tail lamps and hip restraints/seatbelts. Golf cart and Per-sonal Transportation Vehicle (PTV) drivers must also have a valid license. Secondly, a $15 registration fee, good for five years, is required

Maps showing Roswell streets where PTVs can legally be driven can be found at www.roswellgov.com/PTVs. PTVS can also be legally driven on some of Roswell’s multi-use paths. A final list of all permitted locations is being finalized, and will debut online soon.

—Hillary Hunnings

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We all know the men and women serving overseas in places like Iraq and Afghani-stan (yes, they’re still there) are true American heroes. But if you asked a lot them over there now and in years past who their hero is, they would say Steve Olesevich – Steve “O” to all the members of American Legion Post 201 in Alpharetta.

I ran into Steve “O”, he the former 1st Lt. Steve “O” in the early 1960s, making the rounds as he usually does put-ting together special packages for serving men and women overseas. This time, he was at Brookdale Senior Living – Chambrel in Roswell to pick up some packages for the troops that residents there had put together for him.

It is typical that he finds a kindred spirit like Brookdale Business Development Man-ager Diane Rhea.

“My dad was totally dis-abled vet in World War II,” Rhea said. “So I wanted to do something for our troops and mentioned it to Post 201. So naturally they sent Steve ‘O’ over to see me.”

Steve “O” is always mak-ing new friends as he prepares his weekly shipment of 16 packages overseas, just like clockwork. He has his network of military chaplains who tell him when and where a ship-ment would do the most good to some frontline G.I. Joes and

Jills.Off they go, filled with all

sorts of goodies from a list honed over the years. Steve “O” loves to put lots of candy in them.

“I like to give those guys lots of calories to keep them going,” he said.

So he stuffs them with Girl Scout cookies, Hershey bars as well as bestselling paperbacks, toiletries – sanitary napkins for the women.

“These folks that get these packages aren’t near any stores,” Steve “O” said.

He has a network of mili-tary chaplains with whom he

corresponds a lot. “The chaplains are the best.

They tell me where to ship them and I do, because they send them to the soldiers who need them most,” Steve “O” said.

He notes that the military’s Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) and the latest generation of the K-ration and C-ration pack 3,000 calories per meal – enough that one meal provides enough energy for a whole day of sol-diering.

But he puts more than food into his packages. For instance, he’ll put laundry detergent in them too because guys humping it in the field for weeks at the time can’t send uniforms out to the dry clean-ers. And he always uses these same size U.S. Postal Services box, 12 inches by 12 inches by 6 inches, because that is the exact size of a storage bin in a Humvee.

“They tell me they just cut out one side of a box, and

when they need a pick-me-up, they just reach up and grab something.” He said.

Steve “O” took over the duty in 2008 from Barbara Turner,

Post 201’s former Women’s Auxiliary Commander, but re-ally according to Steve “O”, she kept the post shipshape.

“I learned a lot from Bar-bara. I would come to her with a problem at the Post and she would turn around and say ‘handle it!’” he said.

When Barbara put you in charge, she meant the buck stopped with you, he said. Steve “O” has always been ac-tive in Post 201, including the post’s most visible event, the Old Soldiers Day Parade. But nothing gives him that good feeling inside as when he ships out another load overseas.

Since then, Steve “O” shipped around 5,000 packag-es to G.I.s. all over the world. So when will he quit? He’s 74, but he says he’ll never slow down.

“As long as they’re over there, I’ll be over here backing them,” he said.

HATCHER HURDExecutive Editorhatcher@ appenmediagroup.com

Post 201’s Steve ‘O’ a hero to heroes

HATCHER HURD/STAFF

At Brookdale Senior Living – Chambrel, Steve “O”, left, finds new friends to help him ship pack-ages to troops overseas. With Steve, from left, are Brookdale Business Development Manager Diane Rhea, Karen Gregory, World War II veteran John Timpe, Barbaraann Bongiovanni, Carol Anderson Wood and Reg Strickland.

And here is where those boxes wind up, as these soldiers show their delight in receiving them.

HATCHER HURD/STAFF

This Kandahar postcard from an Army Chaplain Keith Wright in 2013 is just one of hundreds that have filled up 13 ring binders each about 5 inches thick.

Steve “O” does his best to keep the troops smiling with his packages of hard-to-get items for troops in frontline areas away from the big PX’s.

Want to hear from Steve “O”?To get involved, drop Steve “O” a line or make a donation to his project at:American Legion Post 201201 Wills Road, Alpharetta, Ga. 30009

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I’ve been covering cities and munici-pal issues for years now, and I have seen trends come and go. The biggest trend by far is the attitude by residents that “change is bad.”

I mean this for a very specific type of person who lives in the cities of the northern suburbs. They tend to be new arrivals that have this nagging trait that the gates to the city should close behind them.

These are the people who show up to city meetings to decry the most recent development – housing or com-mercial – saying it will destroy the very nature of the community they moved into. It’s particularly bad where resi-dents see horse farms or dense woods replaced with row after row of houses.

Almost inevitably, the arguments of these people are shot down by the cit-ies. And here’s why – property rights.

There are strict limitations on what a government can do to restrict the use of a property. In general, if I own property in a residential district, I may not be allowed to put heavy commercial uses there, but I can put any number of homes that the zoning allows. If I bought or own land with an intended use, one that was clearly marked when I bought it, my right as a landowner is to make use of the land. The viewshed of my neighbors doesn’t factor into that decision. I really don’t owe anything to them. That’s just the fact of it.

As much as anyone else, I dislike when I see a peaceful horse farm, pas-ture or forest torn down to be replaced with the latest neighborhood, which I’m sure will only add to our traffic woes. But disliking it and being able to do anything about it are two separate things.

City councils know this. Council-members may not like the idea of horse farms disappearing any more than their neighbors, but they also know that denying that development could deny property owners their rights – and open the city up to a lawsuit.

If North Fulton had closed the gates to new development at any point over the past five years, we wouldn’t have Avalon, or a new downtown in Alpharetta. We wouldn’t have much in Crabapple. Perhaps the city fathers should have denied all new homes 20 years ago, keeping the area as fields and 3,000 people. There would be no North Point Mall or, really, much of anything.

That’s the point – where do you draw the line? In reality, you can’t.

North Fulton is not an island

JONATHANCOPSEYRevue & News Editorjonathan@ appenmediagroup.com

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The Flying Colors Butterfly Festival is coming to the Chatta-hoochee Nature Center June 6-7.

Butterfly Festival coming soon to CNCROSWELL, Ga.- The 16th an-nual Flying Colors Butterfly Festival will be held at the Chattahoochee Nature Center the weekend of June 6. There will be several events on both Saturday and Sunday includ-ing live butterfly releases, a butterfly encounter and a plant sale. Piccadilly Puppets will put on a show on Saturday, and Mr. Greg’s Musical Mad-ness will perform on Sunday. There will also be crafts, face painting, fairy houses and sidewalk art.

In addition to the events,

there will be several food trucks and vendors at the CNC both days.

The Flying Colors But-terfly Festival is a fundraising event to help benefit the CNC. Admission to the festival is $12 for the general public and $8 for CNC members.

For more information on the festival, a list of the food trucks and vendors as well as parking information, visit chattnaturecenter.org/special-events/festivals/butterfly-festival/

—Cameron Osburn

ROSWELL, Ga. – As part of the month-long Go Wild festival in June, the Roswell Visitors Center will host a Wildlife Art Exhibit featuring guest artist Larry K. Martin, who pursued a lifelong ambition of creating wildlife art following a career in tropical medicine. A former cu-rator of the Anniston Museum of Natural History, more than 400 of his paintings have been issued as print editions. His original paintings and prints can be found in major corpo-

rate and private collections including those of President George H.W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, Bob Hope, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lee Greenwood and Gener-als Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf. His works have hung in both Houses of the U.S. Congress, the National Wildlife Federation and the Audubon Naturalist Society.

 Heavily influenced by the wonders of the natural world, Martin has worked continually

in conservation and wildlife art in an effort to ensure that fu-ture generations will be able to enjoy the Earth’s natural trea-sures.  His fundraising have extended to Ducks Unlimited, the Audubon Society, The Na-ture Conservancy, Wildlife Res-cue Service, the Cahaba River Society and numerous causes to save threatened species.

Martin has more recently returned to the tropics to paint subjects in the rain forests of South America. He

has traveled in the mountains and Amazonian jungles of Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru and led photographic 15 safaris to Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa between 2001 and 2014. His plans are to continue to host annual group safaris to Africa, Central and South America. 

 There will be a Meet the Artist Reception at the Ro-

swell Visitors Center on June 16 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. to meet Martin and his Wren’s Nest Gallery partner Crystal Han-cock. 

The event is free and open to the public. 

For additional informa-tion on all of the events during Roswell’s Go Wild festival in June, visit www.visitroswellga.com. 

Larry K. Martin, guest of the Wildlife Art Exhibit at the Roswell Visitors Center.

Roswell to host Wildlife Art Exhibit with artist Larry K. Martin

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. – Charles Mills, Landon Foster and Brock Nielson, members of the Boy Scouts of American Troop 347 recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints, Milton Ward, charters the troop.

Charles Mills built an outdoor shed to hold all of the toys and bikes for the special needs preschoolers at Summit Hill Elementary School.

He attended Summit Hill, so when he was thinking about doing his Eagle project, Sum-mit Hill was first on his list as he wanted to do something to benefit the students there.

It was an all-day project, with about 40 or 50 people helping to construct an 8’ x 8’ x 8’ shed that stands in front of the school next to the chil-dren’s play area.

There was some divine intervention that day as well, with rain pelting down strenu-ously all day the day before, but it stopped raining about an hour before the project and held off until about an hour after it was completed.

Lowe’s gave Charles a

discount on materials, and the Summit Hill Foundation provided the funds to do the project.

Landon Foster’s Eagle Project benefitted Kelly Mill Elementary, a newly built school his younger two siblings attend. He organized the pro-duction of five seating benches placed at two play grounds as well as two five-foot long self-watering planter boxes filled with fall foliage for the schools green space.

Brock Nielson, a senior member of the varsity football program and state champion-ship wrestling team, recently beautified the campus at Cambridge High School by constructing the school’s first outdoor classroom to be used by teachers and students.

The outdoor classroom is set alongside the lake on campus and will more than likely be used for the very first time in the spring of 2015. The assignment was part of Brock’s Eagle Scout project, and he was responsible for designing, funding and constructing the project on his own.

—Jonathan Copsey

Three local Boy Scouts named Eagle Scouts

Three boys from Boy Scouts of American Troop 347 recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. From left, they are Landon Foster, Brock Nielson and Charles Mills.

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. – For eight years now, Diane Cooley and her family have collected hair for the needy. “It’s Just Hair” is a simple and effec-tive way for people to help the needy.

Cooley’s daughter, Jenna, was diagnosed with Alopecia Aureata, an auto-immune dis-ease in which the body attacks its own hair, leaving the body at times hairless.

This can be devastating for those with it, especially girls who may lose some or all of their hair.

So It’s Just Hair was formed. Those taking part donate 10 inches of their hair to Locks of Love, a nonprofit that makes wigs from the hair. It takes about six to eight 10-inch-long ponytails to make a wig.

This year, Cooley said more than 160 people signed up to take part, a record number.

“This year is our best ever,” she said. “It has snowballed every year.”

The event, held May 18 at Taylor Brooks Salon in Johns Creek, saw 14 stylists donating their time to lop off locks and still make the owner look great.

Twin Chattahoochee High

School seniors Nikita and An-kita Varman, of Johns Creek, both donated their hair.

“Our mom donated last year,” said Nikita, whose waist-length hair was now a shoul-der-length bob. “I’ve never had it so short, but I really like it.

“I never thought just donat-

ing hair can make such a dif-ference,” she said.

Ten-year-old Piper Hufford, of Johns Creek, said this was her third year donating.

“I know it’s for a good cause helping others,” she said. “It’s good to help other people.”

—Jonathan Copsey

Residents donate hair for good causeLocals lop locks

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Ten-year-old Piper Hufford said this is her third time donating hair at It’s Just Hair.

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Twin seniors at Chattahoochee High School, Nikita (left) and An-kita Varman, show off their ponytails to donate.

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Students at Webb Bridge Middle School were visited by mem-bers of local public safety departments to learn about programs and how to stay safe.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Webb Bridge Middle School hosted Operation Safekids on Thursday, April 30. Only a handful of schools each year take part in the program, which is educational and fun for the students.

The event is organized by The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA), the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit professional as-sociation exclusively representing federal law enforcement. Currently, this organization repre-sents over 25,000 active and retired Federal law enforcement officers and over 65 agencies.

With the help of FLEOA, Webb Bridge had several law enforcement agencies help teach the students about their programs and how they help provide a safe environment for all of us and our communities. Agencies attending included the Alpharetta Police Department SWAT and K9 units, Alpharetta Fire Department, Georgia State patrol, DEA, Federal Protective Services, Environmental Protection Agency, GBI, FBI, Se-cret Service and others. In total, over 18 agen-cies attend their Operation Safekids.   

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Memorial Day launched the summer season for Lake Lanier. April’s heavy rains have buoyed the business climate around the lake.

After a drier than average first quarter, the area received 7.79 inches of rainfall in April, almost twice the average and more than any April in 20 years.

That’s important to the hundreds of businesses and thousands of homeowners in south Forsyth and Hall coun-ties who depend on the lake for their livelihood.

“It’s an economic en-gine unto itself in the North Georgia region,” said Joanna Cloud, executive director of the Lake Lanier Association, a 3,000-member organization dedicated to maintaining the quality of life in and around the lake. “It has such far-reaching impact in terms of the draw of people who come here to recreate and reside.”

Lake Lanier is one of the most visited lakes within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers system, drawing some 7.5 mil-lion people a year. The highest months of visitation are from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

The wet early spring has put less strain on the state’s waterways and allowed the Corps to maintain Lake Lanier at optimum levels, according to Corps spokeswoman Lisa Parker.

Those lake levels can mean

the difference between pros-perity and strife to the sur-rounding population. Lanier makes up more than 5 percent of metro Atlanta’s $3.5 billion tourism economy.

A 2010 study commis-sioned by the 1071 Coalition found that visitation always declines when the lake level is unusually low. During the drought of 2008, when lake elevations averaged 1,055.8 feet (15.2 feet below full pool) during the entire boating sea-son, the number of visitors fell by 880,000 from the previous year.

But tourism is only part of the economic equation. The real estate market also relies heavily on a healthy Lake Lanier.

The population of the five counties surrounding the lake, about 1.29 million, grew by more than 40 percent between 2000 and 2010, twice as fast as the combined downstream counties south of Buford Dam. That population swell hasn’t diminished.

The study further revealed that Lake Lanier provides a “premium” of $5.3 to $6.4 billion in additional value to nearly 15,500 lakefront homes, generating an additional $52 to $68 million in county and school property tax revenues annually.

That doesn’t include taxes paid on the more than 26,000 boats owned by residents of the five lake counties.

“Look at the growth of Forsyth County over the last 10-15 years, and the lake has been a big part of that,” Cloud

said. “The impact of that is far more than just somebody buy-ing gas and sodas at the local marina. It affects all the local businesses and all the local property values.”

When the lake level dropped to 50-year lows in 2008, the fallout was massive.

Economists with the Bleak-ly Advisory Group estimated the drought brought about an estimated $4.7 million reduction in earnings among commercial marinas and a $35 million drop in purchases of new and used boats in the five lake counties. Sales of lake-

front properties were down 54 percent.

“Even though that was sev-eral years ago, that still reso-nates tremendously with the local community,” Cloud said. “I think now everybody’s so doggone happy that we’re not dealing with low water levels.”

Lanier: Life blood to north metro economy

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Get new business or go out of businessAre you always looking

for ways to secure new busi-ness? Do your plans include strategies and tactics to open up new markets and attract more customers? While repeat business from current custom-ers is important, getting new business is critical to staying in business long-term.

Warren Buffet, a well-known business magnate and savvy investor, once said that “any business that is not bringing in new business is going out of business.” This is especially true with small busi-nesses that often rest on their laurels and are comfortable with their current client base.

As a small business owner,

it is an important component of your overall strategy to identify, prioritize and select the best ways to attract new business. This could include entering different markets, of-fering new products or services or diversifying your portfolio of offerings to appeal to more buyers.

According to a Bloomberg

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Editor’s note: This is part of a series of excerpts from Frank Norton Jr.’s “Norton Native Intelligence Report for 2015.”

We’ve spoken recently about the affluent class, how America now has more millionaires and billionaires than ever.

It’s wrong to lump the 1 percent into a monolithic group of greedy, tax avoiding, selfish capitalists. They are different from what you may think.

Most of the 1.4 million taxpayers that make up the top 1 percent gained their wealth through their own ef-forts, rather than by inheri-tance. This group consists of a large number of doctors, lawyers, engineers and small-time entrepreneurs, many of whom are working hard to create jobs.

It’s true that today’s wealthy are richer than in the past, and their share of the nation’s income has grown.

In the late 1970s and ear-ly 1980s, the 1 percent club earned about one-tenth of the nation’s income. By 2008, it was 23.5 percent, the second highest in history after 1929. Cost of admission to the 1 percent club varies from year to year, but when measured by annual income, it typically ranges from $800,000 to $1.4 million.

Net worth estimates are less reliable and seldom used as a benchmark but by one calculation, a household needs $8.4 million to qualify.

This is also a volatile group by one estimate. The millionaire club had shrunk by 85 percent by the time F.D.R. started pressuring them. The membership rolls of the 1 percent club are always in flux. According to the Federal Reserve, between 1996 and 2005, some 57 per-cent of the 1 percent fell out of the club.

The millionaire’s club is not the only group post-ing gains in numbers in the United States. Other seg-ments of the market have grown, notably the Hispanic consumer market and gov-ernment entities.

Hispanic – The Hispanic consumer market in the United States is larger than the entire economies of all but 13 countries in the world, according to the annual UGA

Selig Center Multicultural Economic Study. In 2012, they estimated it to be a $1.2 trillion market.

Government – Across the country, there are 38,266 special purpose districts, or government units distinct from cities, counties and schools, each with its own ability to raise money. Since Ronald Reagan declared in his 1981 inaugural address that government “is not the solution to our problem – government is the problem,” their numbers have jumped 32 percent

Wealthy class often different than portrayed

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ATLANTA – Georgia’s job numbers improved in 2014, but those jobs aren’t produc-ing the consumer purchasing power they once did, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Eco-nomic Forecasting Center at

Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robin-son College of Business.

In his quarterly eco-nomic forecast released this month, Dha-wan said there are signs high-paying jobs will lift local economies down the road.

“Georgia’s gain of 145,000 jobs in calendar year 2014 is impressive,” Dhawan said. “However, those 145,000 jobs being created aren’t giving the economy nearly as big of a bang for its buck as it did back in the 1990s when slightly fewer jobs, but with greater purchasing power, were cre-ated.”

Local corporate firms have made announcements that will enhance future purchasing power, he said, including 900 jobs at Kaiser Permanente and Comcast’s addition of 1,000 jobs at their new facility going in near the new Braves sta-dium. He said he also expects strong results from the infor-mation and technology sector due to a string of recent job announcements from Amazon Web Services, PureCars, Mo-

binteg, Cisco, Amtrak, South-ern Company and Applied Systems.

“This is good news to the future purchasing power potential because these jobs, after all, are high-paying,” Dhawan said. On the local front, Dhawan also noted:

Georgia’s job creation slowed to 1.8 percent for the first quarter of 2015. Expect a job growth rate of 2.9 percent in 2015, which moderates to 2.3 percent in 2016 and 2.2 percent in 2017.

Nominal personal income will increase 4.7 percent in 2015, and then 5.2 percent in 2016 and 5.8 percent in 2017.

Strong employment growth continued in Atlanta, grow-ing by 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2015. Expect a job growth rate of 3.4 percent in 2015, a strong 2.7 percent in 2016 and 2.6 percent in 2017.

Atlanta’s housing permits increased 3.5 percent over the first quarter of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014. For 2015, permitting activity will increase 6.4 percent.

Permit activity will grow 11.5 percent in 2016 as multi-family permits return to posi-tive growth and 6.1 percent in 2017.

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Andrew Matthieson named to 'Top Advisor Under 40' listATLANTA — Andrew Matthieson, of Ashford Advi-sors, has been named a “Top Advisor Under 40” by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors-Atlanta Chapter (NAIFA-Atlanta).

This award is given to advisors based on busi-ness production, business revenue, experience and community involvement. 

“My goal for my clients is to bring clarity and confidence to their financial lives through finan-cial organization, education and implementation of strategies that align with their goals and values,” Matthieson said. “My role in my clients’ lives is to act as the comprehensive financial coach for them, giving advice based on their complete financial pic-ture, not just investing or insurance.”

In the industry since 2013, Matthieson is in-volved with his community and volunteers his time as a coach for the Johns Creek Junior Gladiators youth football team and a board member of the North Fulton Alliance of Young Professionals.

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New hires namedat landscape firm

ROSWELL, Ga. – Ed Castro Land-scape has named Dave Lofstrom as the new director of mainte-nance, with a specific focus toward improved communication, execu-tion and strengthening long-term relationships with clients.

Jaime Latorre has been named commercial project manager. Latorre has several years of experi-ence working with general contrac-tors in project management roles.

He has been involved with public works with agencies such as the Georgia Department of Trans-portation along with several counties and munici-palities in the state.

IFG names DeCoutoto head property unitALPHARETTA, Ga. – IFG Companies has named Sophia J. DeCouto vice president and head of the primary property unit within its Brokerage Property Division. DeCouto has experience in property underwriting spanning primary property, shared and layered property and national accounts property.

Prior to joining IFG, DeCouto was vice president – property with Axis Insurance Company.

Before that, she served in increasingly senior property underwriting positions over almost a de-cade with Allied World Assurance Company.

She began her career in insurance as a broker-age assistant with Freisenbruch-Meyer Insurance Services Limited in Bermuda.

DeCouto holds a bachelor of business adminis-tration degree from Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Chamber program features dressing for success

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Ron Cohen, of R. Charles, Ltd., a provider of finely custom tailored men’s clothing, will be speaking on dressing for success at the June 9 Lunch and Learn, sponsored by the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce. Cohen has been dressing some of Atlanta’s top professionals for the past 15 years. He has worked with CNN, Fox, professional athletes and some of the top attorneys in the area. He will discuss how dress affects you, how it affects others, and he will offer some tips on how to improve the way you dress for business and pleasure as well as creating a personal image.

The program is at 1 p.m. at 11130 State Bridge Road, Suite B-106. Fee for members is $10, non-members $20.

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McAlister’s signs 3 development agreementsALPHARETTA, Ga.— McAlister’s Deli has signed three development agreements with new and exist-ing franchisees to open restaurants in Southern Georgia and North, Central and Southwest Florida.

Existing franchisee DMAC 81 based in Summer-ville, S.C., plans to open several new restaurants between southern Georgia and North Florida. McAli-ster’s also signed development agreements with two new franchise groups to open restaurants on the west coast of Florida between Naples and Sarasota, as well as in Orlando.

“With these three groups, we have the oppor-tunity to bring McAlister’s to untouched markets in Florida like Sarasota, Naples and Orlando, as well as expanding into southern Georgia,” said Jeff Sturgis, McAlister’s Vice President of Franchise De-velopment. “We couldn’t be happier to continue our development in the south with three stellar franchi-see groups.”

Business: Wilbur and Rudy’s Farmtable Market Opened: May 2015Owners: Ryan and Beth BowersoxAddress: 850 Hickory Flat Road, MiltonWhat: Organic coffee shop and cafe, farmers market with organic produce, retail grocery, antiques, gifts and more.Hours: Coffee café – 5:30 a.m. to 7:30

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Business: Atlanta Veterinary Special-ists Opened: March 2015Owner: Dr. Mary P. Schick, DVM, DACVDAddress: 7350 McGinnis Ferry Road, Johns CreekWhat: AVS provides advanced emer-gency and specialty care. We provide after-hours emergency care, from 4 p.m. to 9 a.m. every day and 24 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday. Our hospital is equipped with an advanced

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“The Saver’s Credit is a fantastic tax credit because it pays you to save for retire-ment. It offers eligible workers an added incentive to save for retirement on top of the benefits of tax-deferred sav-ings when they contribute to a 401(k), 403(b) or IRA,” says Catherine Collinson, president of nonprofit Transamerica Cen-ter for Retirement Studies®.Here’s how it works:1. Check Your Eligibility

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Just because you get older, doesn’t mean the partying stops. For the members of the Golden Age Club, luncheons, parties, plays and sports pack their sched-ules.

May is Older Americans Month, dedicated to acknowl-edging the contributions of past and current older per-

sons, in particular those who defended our country. The month is celebrated through ceremonies, events, fairs and other such activities.

In Alpharetta, Older Ameri-cans Month was cause for a party in North Park’s Adult Activity Center May 19, with dozens of members of the Golden Age Club gathering.

Lewis Lay, president of the Golden Age Club, said the group is for residents ages 50 and over. There are about 275 members in the club.

“Lots of people who come here are not even from the

South or local. They followed their kids or their grandkids,” Lay said. “We are an outlet for people to get together and have luncheons and fun.”

For their monthly lun-cheons, members gather to share stories and socialize. Each meeting has a different caterer. For May, they had Pollo Tropical supply food with Nothing Bundt Cakes donating several large cakes for dessert.

Members also run the con-cession stand at the city pool to raise funds for the group.

During their May 19 event, they were treated to a perfor-mance of “Under the Shade Tree.” Performers came from the club’s own drama club, facilitated by Toby Smallwood, art director for the Alpharetta Recreation and Parks Depart-ment.

Tom Eiswertch, a member,

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“I was looking for some-thing to get out and be around people. It’s a great group of people,” he said.

The Golden Age Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month.

For more information, visit www.alpharetta.ga.us/recre-ation or call 678-297-6140.

Residents celebrate ‘Older Americans Month’Living it up in their golden age

Members of the Golden Age Club meet at the Adult Recreation Center at North Park. From left, they are Linda Shull, Barbara Kellerman, Brenda Hyames, Connie Thompson, Barbara Merkel, Allan Nowacky and June Miller.

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ROSWELL, Ga – On June 6 Ro-swell’s Public Works/Environ-mental Department will host a Household Hazardous Waste Collection event from 9 a.m. to noon at 1810 Hembree Road. Acceptable items for residents to bring include non-latex oil-based paint, fluorescent bulbs and household cleaners. The event is closed to commercial businesses and items cannot be dropped off beforehand. Valdosta-based CARE Environ-mental Corporation, a house-hold hazardous waste transfer, storage and processing service, will handle and dispose of the items.

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Roswell to host hazardous waste collection June 6

ROSWELL, Ga. – May is Asthma Awareness month and the Fulton County Department of Health will host an asthma awareness information meeting May 28 at Roswell City Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Asthma is one of the most common lifelong chronic dis-eases. One in 14 Americans lives with asthma, a disease affecting the lungs, causing repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing.

Although asthma cannot be cured, it is possible to man-age it.

On May 28, a panel discus-sion and workshop sessions will provide an opportunity to not only share perspectives but act on some of the most chal-lenging issues continuing to surround asthma and iden-tify areas that would be best

addressed through a unified, cooperative and a collaborative effort.

The Roswell event is free and open to the public, al-though those interested are en-couraged to RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HTMZCZD.

—Jonathan Copsey

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ROSWELL, Ga. - Roswell has launched a Planning and Zoning Public Notices Interactive Map on the city’s website.

The interactive digital map will allow citizens to view public hearing notice signs and view the information related to the public notice for properties.

“We know it’s difficult to read all the information contained on one of these signs while you’re driving through town,” said Brad Townsend, Roswell’s Planning and Zoning Director. “Our goal with this project was to create a place

online where someone could ac-cess all that information simply and quickly.”

The presence of a public notice sign on a piece of property means the owner is currently applying for permission to develop the property in a way that requires a change in zoning, use or variance to develop-ment standards. Public notices are also issued for any demolition of a historic structure in the Historic District. 

To use the map, visit www.roswellgov.com/PZPublicNotices.

—Joe Parker

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Roswell residents can use this map to keep up with current road projects. To find it, go online at www.roswellgov.com/ConeZone

ROSWELL, Ga. - Residents and visitors now have a way to keep track of cur-rent and future road projects going on in Roswell. The city of Roswell’s Department

of Transportation (RDOT) has created an interactive online map to help citizens learn more about transportation projects in the city.

“We wanted a way to deliver information about transporta-tion projects in the city in a more visual and user-friendly way,” said Courtney Frisch, engineering coordinator for RDOT. “The interactive map seemed like the perfect tool to help our residents and visitors learn more.”

The map displays current mid-range and long-range projects that are identified in the most recent transportation master plan. A link to a project factsheet is available for each project.

To use the map, visit www.roswellgov.com/ConeZone

—Cameron Osburn

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Chatta-hoochee Parks Conservancy Summer Lecture Series at the Chattahoochee Environmental Education Center at 8615 Barnwell Road kicks off Sat-urday, May 30, 8 to 10 p.m. with an exploration of the Chattahoochee as

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ROSWELL, Ga. – As many as 420 paddlers will paddle for first place in the 13th Annual Back to the Chattahoochee River Race and Festival. On June 13, racers in kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddle boards – of varying ages and skill levels – will vie for prizes and bragging rights along an eight-mile course.

Competitors will cross the finish line at Riverside Park in Roswell, the site of a free festival that attracts thousands annually. The event is hosted by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (CRK) in partnership with the National Park Service and the city of Roswell.

The race launches at 9 a.m. from Garrard Landing on Holcomb Bridge Road, and the festival kicks off at 10 a.m. with MCs from the local radio station 97.1 The River. Festi-val-goers can enjoy community vendors, including environ-mental exhibitors and outfit-ters, throughout Riverside Park. REI’s outdoor climbing wall will return to the festival along with other children’s activities.

The festival will also fea-ture live music from three bands, including headliners Big Daddy Love, Front Porch Session Players, as well as Roswell-based Music Matters “Rock U” band. Music begins at 10:30 a.m., and continues throughout the day until the end of the festival at 3 p.m. Advanced registration is avail-able through June 9, for a fee of $50 for solo boats and $70 for tandem boats.

The event is organized to celebrate the Chattahoochee River, and foster a sense of community around the river that serves more than 4 million people and 70 percent of metro Atlanta.

For more information on the festival, visit www.chatta-hoochee.org/back-to-the-chat-tahoochee-river-race-festival/

—Cameron Osburn

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The keynote speaker was Lt. Nick Snider, founder of the National Museum of Patrio-tism, based in Atlanta.

“We never stop serving our country,” Snider said. “The men and women who have died gave all their tomorrows so you can have your todays.

“It’s a great day to be an American,” he said.

In neighboring Roswell, Memorial Day is always a mix-ture of celebration and somber reflection at Roswell City Hall’s Faces of War Memorial. This was the 18th year for Roswell’s Memorial Day services, which

was co-hosted by the Rotary Club of Roswell with Dave Young as chair-man and the city of Roswell.

For the last 16 years, Roswell resident and radio personal-ity Moby has acted as master of ceremonies. As always, the Atlanta Wind Symphony and the Chattahoochee Celtic Pipes and Drums added music to the event.

The Piedmont chapter of the Sons of the American Revo-lution presented the colors and Christina Olds, daughter of the late Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, gave a moving tribute of her father, a World War II ace who

also flew in combat in Korea and Vietnam.

But the most moving moment came when former Marine Lt. George Nelson, who served as the director of fundraising for Roswell’s Faces of War Memorial, was honored. He was second in command Sept. 29, 1964, of the 240-man Marine detachment to land in Da Nang on a classified mis-sion that was the first combat troops sent to Vietnam.

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Lt. Nick Snider, the keynote speaker of Al-pharetta’s Memorial Day ceremony, claims to have one of the largest collections of military collectibles and medals.

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George Nelson, right, is escorted for recognition at Roswell Memorial Day services. Lt. Nelson was second in command of the first combat unit sent into Vietnam to prepare the way for U.S. troops.

At 93, this lady in red, white and blue re-galia may have been the oldest attendee.Many made it a family affair to attend Roswell Memorial Day services.

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. – The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named nearly 40 graduating seniors from North Fulton high schools as winners in the 2015 National Merit and National Achievement scholar-ship programs.

Along with the distinction of being named a National Merit scholar, winners also receive scholarships to use at the college or university of their choice. Scholarships are provided by the National Merit Corporation or by corporations and are either renewable for four years of study or granted

as one-time award.Two area seniors were

also winners in the National Achievement Scholarship Program, which is open to African-American high school students.

National Merit scholars were identified through ex-ceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholar-ship Qualifying Test. In addi-tion to having a record of high academic performance, they were endorsed by their school leadership and earned high SAT scores.

— Candy Waylock  

Nearly 40 area students named National Merit/Achievement scholarship winners

National Merit scholars fromarea high schoolsSponsored scholarshipsAlpharetta – Nicole Izmaylov, Alexandria Nickens Cambridge – Sabrina Long Centennial – Maxwell Roberts, Kaliq Wang Chattahoochee – Heeseung Choi, Manasa Kadiyala, Johns Creek – Krishna Sambhu, Ha Yun YoonMilton – Kevin Berry, Sean Flanagan Northview – Tarun Daniel, Tony Gong, Justin Lee, Kyung Min Shin, Liheng Song, Natasha Venugopal, Michael Wang, Albert Zhang Corporate sponsored scholarshipsAlpharetta – Hope Hong, Rajiv Reddy, Amy WangChattahoochee - Christine Feng, Nikita Varman, Stephanie Wyman Johns Creek – Kelsey Li Northview – Victor L. Chen, Daniel Jiang, Oxford Wang, Charles Xiao, Amy YangRoswell – Robert McKenzie, Ramya Prabhakar National Achievement sponsored scholarships Northview – Kellyn Archambeau, Jermaine Bryant

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ATLANTA – An aggressive an-nexation of incorporated prop-erty from South Fulton into the city of Atlanta may at first glance have little impact on North Fulton. But the impact on the Fulton School System, if the annexation goes through, could have lasting results on how property ownership and attendance zones are deter-mined.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has been actively pushing the annexation of a parcel of South Fulton for several months. Although he failed in his bid for legislation this past ses-sion to enable it, it could still go through with 60 percent approval of registered voters. A

petition drive to gather signa-tures has a July 1 deadline.

Still undecided is where nearly 1,800 students current-ly attending two Fulton schools within the annexation parcel will attend school in the fall. That issue has prompted the Fulton County Board of Educa-tion to issue two resolutions requesting the annexation be on hold until the courts rule on the school boundaries.

The city of Atlanta filed a lawsuit to resolve whether the City Council can decide to keep the annexed area within the Fulton County School System. Under Georgia law, residents of the annexation area and any annexed school property will transition over to the Atlanta Public School System.

Officials with the Fulton County School System (FCSS) have indicated they will fight any transfer of properties paid for by Fulton County taxpayers to Atlanta Public Schools. More than $50 million in school sys-tem assets are in the annexa-tion area, and school leaders will not willingly hand over those assets. The two schools are Randolph Elementary and Sandtown Middle.

“Our [goal] is not lose any of our facilities,” said Linda Bryant, a Fulton board mem-ber who represents the im-pacted area.

Board President Linda McCain said the board has no opinion on the annexation itself; however the issue of where students attend schools must be decided prior to ac-tion.

“People need to know the Board of Education is not tak-

ing a position on the annexa-tion; people have the right to choose,” said McCain. “But at this point, students, parents, everyone is concerned over where they will be going to school next year.”

The Fulton County Board of Education passed its second resolution on the annexation at its May meeting requesting all decisions be held off until the courts have ruled on the Atlan-ta lawsuit. A prior resolution in February outlines the board’s objection “to the transfer of its property to the city of Atlanta and/or the Atlanta Indepen-dent School System” under annexation and a promise to take “further action as may be necessary.”

On their side, the Atlanta Public School System has indicated it would be chal-lenging to absorb the 1,800 Fulton students into existing

city schools. A scenario could arise that the students remain in Fulton Schools, yet property tax dollars flow to Atlanta Pub-lic Schools.

While Reed declined to comment on the fate of the students, or the annexation plans, he has made repeated public statements that stu-dents could continue to go to Fulton Schools.

However that has not been coordinated with the FCSS, and would likely not be sup-ported by the board.

Further complicating the issue is not all students zoned to Randolph Elementary and Sandtown Middle would be part of the annexation parcel. Therefore, if the schools trans-ferred to Atlanta, those Fulton students would have to be sent to other Fulton Schools, potentially overcrowding those schools.

South Fulton annexation: Fulton Schools property in questionLaw mandates assets be turnedover to Atlanta Public Schools

CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The following items will be heard at a public hearing held by the Planning Commission on Thursday, June 4, 2015 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. A workshop will also be held by the Planning Commission at 6:30p.m. Items forwarded by the Planning Commission will be considered by the City Council on Monday, June 22, 2015 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza Alpharetta, Georgia.

a. CU-15-06 Encounter Church/Regal Cinemas/AvalonConsideration of a conditional use to permit a Church/Synagogue on property located at 3950 1st Street on the south side of Westside Parkway. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lot 803 and 854, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

b. MP-15-03/Z-15-04/CU-15-03/V-15-06/CLUP-15-06 Arrowhead Real Estate/Brookside Pod AConsideration of a request to rezone approximately 4 acres from OI to C-1 in order to develop two 33,000 sf retail buildings. A request to change the Comprehensive Land Use Plan from “Corporate Campus Offi ce” to “Commercial” is also requested. A request to change the Master Plan Amendment in order to allow retail as a primary use within Brookside Pod A is also requested and a variance to the front setback. The property is located on the south side of Old Milton Parkway next to Five Seasons Brewing. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lots 43, 44 and 49, 1st District, 1st Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

c. PH-15-06 UDC Changes- Citizen Part BConsideration of amendments to the Unifi ed Development Code in order to require minimum notifi cation requirements. d. V-15-09 Smith/625 Sims Blvd (City Council Only)Consideration of a variance for the minimum lot size, a variance to minimum setbacks, a variance for the maximum lot coverage, a variance for the maximum impervious area, and a variance for minimum fi ve foot landscape strip is requested. The property is located on the south side of Hembree Road. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lot 650, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

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

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CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The following items will be heard at a public hearing held by the Planning Commission on Thursday, June 4, 2015 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. A workshop will also be held by the Planning Commission at 6:30p.m.

Items forwarded by the Planning Commission will be considered by the City Council on Monday, June 15, 2015 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza Alpharetta, Georgia.

a. PH-15-10 Avalon/Medical Offi ceConsideration of a site plan approval to permit a medical offi ce building on Old Milton Parkway in Avalon. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lot 802, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

b. MP-15-04/V-15-08 Windward Mill/Windward Pod 66.Consideration of a request to amend the Windward Master Plan within Pod 66 to permit for-sale attached and detached residential, offi ce, retail and hotel use. A request for a variance to minimize the parking and stream buffer variance is also requested. The property is legally described as being in Land Lots 1188 and 1189, 2nd District, 1st and 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

c. Z-14-15/V-14-32 Academy Street Tract (City Council Only)Consideration of a request to rezone approximately 10.43 acres from R-12 to R-8 A/D as well as site plan approval. Variances to the R-8 A/D zoning lot size and setbacks are requested. The property is located at 76 Academy Street, 94 Academy Street, 140 Academy Street and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1268/1267 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

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

Brownwood equestrians take 7th at nationalsALPHARETTA, Ga. -- The Brownwood Farm Middle School International Equestrian Associa-tion (IEA) equestrian team took home seventh place at the national competition.

Coached by Roger Brown and Brittany Denton, the team was undefeated all season, and won their Zone Championships in Perry, Georgia last month. Nationals took place in

April in West Palm Beach, Florida and they competed against the top 21 teams in the coun-try. Brownwood Farm has been a staple of the Milton Equestrian community for more than 30 years. The team is unaffiliated with any school, with the riders attending many different schools in the region.

—Jonathan Copsey

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Hornets repeat as state champsROSWELL, Ga. - The Roswell Hornets boys la-crosse team won their second consecutive state championship May 16 with a 12-9 win over Pope in the state championship game.

Preston Tippet led the Hornets in scoring with five goals. Niko Gekas scored two goals and Garrett Blake, Andrew Thomas, Joey Tomassi,

Eric Yakaitis and Tanner Schneider also scored for the Hornets. Goalkeeper Alex Lynch saved 61 percent of shots faced.

Roswell finished the season with a 20-2 record, averaging over 14 goals per game and outscoring their opponents 324-160.

—Joe Parker

The Roswell Hornets boys lacrosse team won their second consecutive state championship May 16.

AHS’ Danielle Bordes signs with Connecticut swim teamALPHARETTA, Ga. – Alpharetta High School’s swimmer Danielle Bordes has signed to swim with the University of Connecticut.

Danielle Bordes is a fourth year letter award winner for swimming at Alpharetta High School. Danielle began swimming for the Windward Lake Club summer league team. From there she joined the Dynamo club team to further pursue her passion for the swimming. Today, she is a swimmer in the Dynamo Senior 1 program. Dur-ing her tenure at Alpharetta High School, she

was a vital part of all AHS relays and holds nu-merous school records, including the 200-meter freestyle team record.

Pictured are, Bordes (front center) signs with University of Connecticut surrounded by her mother Florence Bordes, left, sister Natalie Bordes, right; Back row, from left, Head Coach Michelle Austin, AHS Athletic Director Mike Scheifflee, Head Coach Lisa Marshall and father George Bordes.

—Malik Jones

AHS’s Malua Young to play for Colorado School of MinesALPHARETTA, Ga. – Alpharetta High School’s Malua Young AHS has signed with Colorado School of the Mines and plans on majoring Engineering to play football.

During his time at Alpharetta High School the defensive tackle was involved with FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America).

NORTH FULTON – This year the 13th annual Golf Chal-lenge will be Saturday, June 13, at the Trophy Club of At-lanta in Alpharetta. The pur-pose of the Golf Challenge is to continue scholarship sup-port and recognize graduat-ing seniors for outstanding academic and leadership accomplishments.

The 100 Black Men of North Metro Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides opportunities to support the health and wellness programs of our communities; academic en-richment for our schools and scholarships to deserving students.

Its signature program is called “Men of Tomorrow” which supports the nonprof-it’s vision of mentoring 11- to 18-year-old African Ameri-can males.

The 100 Black Men sincerely believe “What They See is What They Will Be.” That is the mantra that is repeated throughout the 100 Black Men chapters across America.

The North Metro Chap-

ter is especially proud of its high school graduation rate of 100 percent and a college entrance rate of 98 percent with the remaining 2 percent entering military service or enrolling in a technical/trade program.

Members are dedicated professional men who donate their time, talent and energy to improving the lives of the mentees enrolled in the Men of Tomorrow program.

The organization is re-questing community support to help make this year’s Golf Challenge as successful as it has been in past years.

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Christopher Bartlett, 28, of Cumming, passed away May 12, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

Frances Bryant, of Woodstock, passed away May 13, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Dorothy Dannunzio, of Alpharetta, passed away May 13, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Frances M. DeJesso, 91, of Cumming, passed away May 20, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

Mary Lynn Hayes Dukes, of Roswell, passed away May 18, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Miles Duley, of Alpharetta, passed away May 14, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Hans Rainer Hoernle, 84, of Alpharetta, passed away May 18, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

Lendon Ivey, 86, of Cumming, passed away May 17, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Helen James, of Milton, passed away May 15, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Svetlana Lichman, 80, of Alpharetta, passed away May 19, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

Larry James Parker, 76, of Cumming, passed away May 17, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Edward Sandall, of Alpharetta, passed away May 13, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Carolyn Davis Slaight, of Alpharetta, passed away May 13, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Delta Austin Smith, 97, of Forsyth County, passed away May 16, 2015. Arrangements by McDonald and Son Funeral Home.

Willene Smithwick, of Alpharetta, passed away May 15, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Robert E. Treadaway, of Roswell, passed away, May 18, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

DEATH NOTICES

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The King’s Ridge Tigers repeated as state Class A private school baseball champions last week, with their 2015 title coming in de-cidedly different fashion than their 2014 triumph.

Last year, the Tigers demol-ished each of their four playoff opponents, sweeping all four series and outscoring the op-position 84-18 in eight post-season games.

This year, King’s Ridge twice needed three games to win a series and scored a one-run victory in three of the four, including the championship series against Hebron Chris-tian last week, which was not decided until the ninth inning of Game 3.

Behind the pitching and hitting of senior Austin Higgin-botham, King’s Ridge defeated Hebron 6-5 in nine innings at Alpharetta’s Legion Field in the final game of the best-of-three series. The Tigers won the opener 2-0 on a three-hit shut-out by Higginbotham before dropping the second game 7-5.

King’s Ridge finished with a 29-5 record after going 28-4 last year. The Tigers went 8-2 in the playoffs. They had a scare in the second round when they needed 10 innings in the second game to outlast Eagle’s Landing Christian 11-10 at ELCA, after the Chargers won the first game.

“This feels incredible,” King’s Ridge coach Dallas McPherson said after the vic-

tory. “I can’t get over it how much they fought to stay in the game. What a group of kids.”

Hebron took the lead with a run in the top of the first in the decisive third game before the Tigers went on top with three runs in the fourth with the help of two costly errors by the Lions.

King’s Ridge starter Con-nor Burns allowed only one hit over the first four innings, but a walk, an infield single and a run-scoring double by the Lions resulted in McPherson making a pitching change in the fifth with the Tigers still ahead 3-2.

Reliever Kyle Brnovich struck out the first batter he faced, but after hitting the next batter to load the bases, yielded consecutive singles that produced three runs and gave Hebron a 5-3 lead. Brnovich got the third out with two runners on base, and worked out of jams in the sixth and seventh to keep the Tigers within striking distance.

King’s Ridge scored once in the fifth on an RBI-double by Brandt Stallings, who sent the game to extra innings with a sacrifice fly in the seventh. Lead-off hitter Tarez Miller, who reached base on each of his first four at-bats, scored both runs, drawing a one-out walk in the fifth and lining a double to open the seventh. The speedy senior shortstop was safe by the narrowest of margins to tie the game, slid-ing headfirst into home plate ahead of a strong throw from

the Hebron right fielder. Higginbotham advanced

him on bunts both times, beat-ing out the one in the seventh for a single. After the Tigers tied the game, Higginbotham took the mound, three days af-ter tossing a three-hit shutout in the opener.

“I was a little tired, but it’s the state championship,” Higginbotham said. “I was go-ing out there either way. You couldn’t stop me. “

The senior lefthander said he figured he had “two innings max, 25 or 30 pitches.” He worked two perfect innings, retiring all six batters he faced. He needed no more than 20 pitches to complete his task.

After leaving two men on base in the eighth, the Tigers pushed across the winning run in the ninth, with Higginbo-tham starting the rally with a one-out double, his third hit of the game. The Lions inten-tionally walked Stallings, and Adam Moore loaded the bases with a line drive single.

Sophomore catcher Lawson Hill then lifted a deep fly ball to right to easily score pinch-runner Penny Hart, a Georgia State football signee who had been sidelined of late with a hip injury.

The Tigers collected 11 hits in the game, two of them by Burns, who singled in a run and later scored on a wild pitch to give King’s Ridge the lead.

Brnovich doubled and scored in the inning on a throwing error by the Hebron catcher trying to get Burns at the plate.

Higginbotham allowed hits to two of the first three batters

he faced in the opening game, but struck out the next two hitters and did not allow a hit after a one-out double in the second. He no-hit the Lions over his final 7 2/3 innings in the series and walked just one batter in nine innings, striking out eight.

King’s Ridge graduates five of its top players, including the first four hitters in the batting order and its top three starting pitchers.

Miller, Higginbotham, Stall-ings and Moore held down the top four spots in the lineup, with Moore the main starter at third base and the hard-hitting Stallings starting in both left

and center. Higginbotham, Moore and Burns were the three primary starting pitch-ers, with Burns starting in center field when he wasn’t on the mound.

Brnovich, who played in the outfield and was also a key pitcher, heads the list of juniors who started this season along with first baseman-third baseman Cullen Monette and outfielder Will Janofsky.

Hill was the key player for the Tigers among the sopho-more class, with John Byrnes making some key appearances out of the bullpen in the play-offs and Tanner Wakefield see-ing plenty of action at second.

Tigers repeat as state champs in baseballHigginbotham stars in third game victory

AL LEVINE/SPECIAL

Lefty Austin Higginbotham pitched King’s Ridge to a three-hit victory over Hebron Christian, 2-0, in the opening game of the Class A Private state baseball championship playoff, striking out seven and walking one.

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