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Student videos teach Road to Safety Goal to teach others safe driving By SHANNON WEAVER shannon@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Road to Safety, a teen safe driving program from the community organization Protect Milton, held its sixth annual video contest and awards ceremony Feb. 5 at Alpharetta High School. The program invites students to create videos with a safe driving message, which were played at the event. Teams from Alpharetta, Cambridge, Centennial, Johns Creek and Milton high schools participated in the event. Many highlighted the risks of texting and driving. “There is no future if you don’t look forward,” read one tagline from an AHS team. The winner of the contest was a video titled, “Practice What You Preach,” produced by Caroline Cassidy and Mary Grace Kurdtz of JCHS. The video shows a mother distractedly driving under the influence after advising her daughter to drive safe. “In a lot of real life expe-
riences, people are condescending and will say one thing but they tend to do the same,” Cassidy said. “If we put it in a parent’s perspective, we thought it’d be a good idea The event showed to flip it pictures in rememaround.” brance of teenagThe ers who had died prize was in car accidents. a $1,000 check for Cassidy and Kurdtz and a grant for their school. Devon Merlette, Jake Duggar, Sydney Erickson and Brianna Reynolds of AHS received second for “One Mississippi.” Johns Creek student Josh Cohen received third for “The Ripple Effect.” “One Mississippi” shows someone with their eyes closed behind the wheel, counting the seconds to illustrate how quickly a car accident can happen. “The most difficult shot to
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Jake Tyler, Helena Melberg, Joy Best, Dylan Cauley and Taylor Chester are members of Music Matters Rock U’s band The Struggle. get was the crash,” Erickson said. “What we did was we had the cars parked next to each other and we reversed really quickly in the parking lot. You play the tape backwards, and it looks like they crashed.” The top three winners receive scholarships as well as free defensive driving courses
from Johns Creek Driving School. Cassidy also received an invitation to an internship with the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. “I’m so excited,” Cassidy said. “I’m glad my point could get across, and hopefully it made people think.”
Lt. James Simpson of the Alpharetta Police Department’s traffic unit, applauded the students’ efforts. “You have to keep yourself safe.” Simpson said. “Every accident can be prevented.” For more about the Road to Safety program, visit them online at www.road2safety.com.
Milton continues Ga. 372 plans Lockwood Thurman Kunz Lusk Hewitt Longoria Mohrig PASSED FAILED
Milton City Council Recap February 2, 2013 Consideration of 14250 Birmingham Highway by Lauren Dillon to operate an artist studio within an existing building and to request a concurrent variance to allow outside storage.
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Consideration of 13895 Hopewell Road by Jeff Runner to modify conditions to include a 40-foot by 60-foot pavilion on Y Y Y Y Y * Y the site and to increase the number of guests from 150 to 250.
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Plans to shift route in Crabapple By SHANNON WEAVER shannon@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — As part of the city’s plans to improve intersections on Ga. 372/ Birmingham Highway, the City Council approved at their Feb.
2 meeting two right of way acquisitions, one at Mayfield Road and one at Crabapple Chase Drive. These acquisitions are part of a plan to reroute Ga. 372 from turning at Birmingham Highway and Crabapple Road to bypassing at Crabapple Chase Drive and
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McFarlin Lane. “The current intersection at Birmingham and Crabapple is very limited in turn lanes or road capacity, so we looked at where those movements are happening,” said Sara Leaders, Milton transportation engineer. “We’re going to be putting turn lanes on three of the four
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