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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — A former Waffle House waitress reportedly spiked her co-worker’s drink with methamphetamine Dec. 23.

Sonserea Dawn Evans, 43, of Cumming, was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and aggravated battery. She

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Man arrested for DUI after hitting ambulance FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A 31-year-old Cumming man was cited for a DUI Feb. 11 after he hit an ambulance on Buford Highway.

Christopher Moss’ white 1999 Ford Mustang reportedly failed MOSS to yield to a medical unit on Ga. 20 and in turn created a vehicle collision. Officers made contact with Moss and reportedly smelled the odor of an alcoholic beverage. He reportedly appeared sluggish, with glassy, watery and bloodshot eyes.

The ambulance driver said Moss was straddling the center line when he crossed the line and hit the ambulance. A search of the car found an open 40-ounce Budweiser in the front passenger seat.

was immediately terminated by Waffle House.

The reported crime occurred when Evans was working at the Waffle House on Ga. 53 in Dawsonville. A video reportedly shows her taking her co-worker’s drink to the bathroom while he was outside, returning it and him drinking it.

Officers with the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office were called to the restaurant at midnight due to the co-worker He was cited for DUI, failure to maintain lane and open container.

Employees fight outside of McDonald’s FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A fight between two McDonald’s employees on Feb. 12 resulted in the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office being called to the restaurant at 660 Atlanta Highway two days later.

On Feb. 12, one employee was working in the kitchen when some customers wanted their orders changed, angering this employee.

He started arguing with the manager and she told him to calm down and do his job.

He then became angrier and started yelling and cussing and was told to go home.

When he refused, the manager told her husband, also a manager there, to help her deal with the situation.

When the female manager was going to clock the employee out, he reportedly rushed toward her and put his hands on her shoulder and continued yelling and cussing. A former employee then stepped in and pulled the employee away.

The employee was fired on the spot.

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having a medical emergency. Capt. Tony Wooten said at one point the co-worker required a feeding tube and ventilator.

Evans’ motives remain unclear and she is not cooperating with the investigation, Wooten said.

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DUI arrests ►► Alexander Matthew Karp, 27, of

Suwanee, was arrested Feb. 6 on Atlanta Highway in Cumming for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Christopher Blake Newsome, 27, of Gwinnett County, was arrested Feb. 7 on Ronald Reagan Boulevard in Cumming for DUI, suspended license and driving on the wrong side of an undivided roadway. ►► Brock Jeffery Foreman, 36, of Horseshoe Creek Lake, Cumming, was arrested Feb. 7 on Ronald Reagan Boulevard in Cumming for DUI, failure to maintain lane and child endangerment. ►► Corban Samuel Edwards, 24, of English Oak Drive, Cumming, was arrested Jan. 31 on Ga. 400 in Cumming for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Timothy Jerry Wilkerson, 22, of Jackson, Georgia, was arrested Jan.

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What are the pros and cons of astigmatism correcting lens implant?

By Niraj Desai, M.D.

shaped corneas, a plain IOL isn’t ideal as it does not help corneal astigmatism. Toric IOLs, hence, can be utilized to neutralize one’s astigmatism (no matter how long you’ve had to live with it) and enable excellent vision, usually without the need for glasses. Here is what a Toric

This week we return to address an old foe - astigmatism!

Astigmatism can be corrected several ways. Spectacles, which have been available for millennia, have a wonderful track record in correcting this optical irregularity. Modern day spectacles have reached an unparalleled degree of clarity and style and perform admirably in the correction of not just astigmatism but near and far sightedness as well.

IOL looks like.

If you pay close attention, you will notice a line of small dots at the edges of the circular portion where the arms meet. We call the circular portion the optic and the arms the haptics. Those marks is where there is negative astigmatic power lies (read: where the magic of the lens is). Your surgeon uses those marks to align the lens during surgery matching where your astigmatism lies in an attempt to neutralize it. You are correct if you think it cannot be that simple - your surgeon actually spends much time studying and poring over maps and calculations to arrive at precise numbers used intraoperatively.

Modern day techniques take a departure from spectacles and frames and bring us into the world of lasers and wavefront guided optics. Beyond spectacles, astigmatism can be corrected via LASIK, PRK, Arcuate Keratotomies, Limbal Relaxing Incisions and Toric Intraocular Lenses. If you have braved all those complex words and want to learn more, read on!

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LASIK and PRK are cousin procedures that are performed with high performance and high precision lasers that re-shape the window the eye called the cornea. Simply put, an individual’s ‘refractive error’ or ‘eyeglass prescription’ is plugged into the laser and the laser does the rest. Along with astigmatism, nearsightedness and farsightedness are corrected as well allowing clarity without the need for spectacles. Of course, you have to ensure a patient has the right ocular qualities and characteristics (personality counts too!) before employing this technology.

Toric IOLs have been revolutionary in the battle against our old foe, astigmatism. They have allowed many who have been burdened with significant irregularity in their optical system to see in a way they have never seen before. Imagine that person who has worn glasses for since 1st grade well into their 60s is suddenly unburdened of the need for spectacles to see clearly. What many who have astigmatism do not realize is that after cataract surgery, sometimes the only reason they are in glasses is because of their astigmatism. In other words, nearsightedness and farsightedness are often corrected completely and for someone without astigmatism, clarity without spectacles is the norm.

Arcuate Keratotomies (AKs) and Limbal Relaxing Incisions (LRIs) are precision incisions that are made with a laser or by your friendly neighborhood eye surgeon’s hands with the aim of ‘relaxing’ the cornea. Why do you need to ‘relax’ the cornea? Well, as wonderful as the cornea is in providing you vision, it can be a bit misshapen at times (see image below and notice two focus points, instead of one) and AKs/LRIs can help achieve a more spherical shape to an, otherwise, oblong cornea.

There are limitations to this technology. However, I have listed them below with a succinct explanation.

If you are struggling with astigmatism or have questions about it, please contact Milan Eye Center today!

Lastly, we have Toric IOLs. These intraocular lenses, by definition, come into play when one is having cataract surgery. Cataract surgery, for the uninitiated, is a mostly painless, 10 minute outpatient procedure that serves to clear up vision by way of removal of the natural, human lens and replacement with an artificial, permanent intraocular lens. For those of us who have egg

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Niraj Desai, M.D. Cataract & Refractive Surgeon

- Toric Multifocal IOLs are not FDA approved. Simply put, multifocal IOLs are implants that allow patients the ability to see near and far without spectacles. If you have significant astigmatism AND want the ability to see near and far, you will need to call your travel agent and book a trip to see a European ophthalmologist. We are hopeful to have this technology on our shores in the next 1-2 years.

- Toric IOLs can rotate. If you understood that Toric IOLs have to be aligned on a particular axis, you realize that should a Toric IOL rotate after surgery, the accuracy of the astigmatism correction could suffer. This is not common, thankfully, and there are good solutions should this occur.

- Toric IOL calculations are complex and because of technology constraints, sometimes an accurate assessment of total astigmatism in the patient’s optical system cannot be made.

Hence, at times, enhancements with a laser are necessary to optimize outcomes after surgery.

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BOC approves second City settles public comment section sewer

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — After hearing many residents air concerns about not being able to get to Forsyth County Board of Commissioner meetings in time to share their opinions, the BOC approved Feb. 19 adding a second public comment section to the regular board meeting agenda.

The first public comment is at the beginning of the meeting and the second portion will be either after public hearings but before old business or, if no old business, then prior to new business or, if no new business, then prior to adjournment.

There will be a maximum of 20 speakers, 10 at the beginning comment section and 10 at the second section.

The amount of time offered would also be doubled.

If there is no one wishing to speak at the second portion, the meeting will go on to adjournment.

“The board has offered up the idea to have two different public comments,” said County Attorney Ken Jarrard. “The point being by the board was to allow individuals that perhaps cannot make

• The board approved the issuance of a conditional use permit on property currently zoned CR1 to allow for modular and proposed building additions for First Redeemer Church Inc., located at 2100 Peachtree Parkway.

• The board approved an amendment to the Forsyth County/ Taubman Development Agreement that has Forsyth County pay to Taubman the remaining half of the project right-of-way costs in a final installment payment on Dec. 4. it here by 5 to 5:30 p.m. to nonetheless have an opportunity for public comment later in the meeting.”

Public commenters in favor said the change would provide an opportunity for citizens to be more involved and informed on county business. The idea to move meetings back to a later time was also aired. However, the BOC decided to try out a second public comment section first.

Accident results in fatality CUMMING, Ga. — On Feb. 18 at 5:40 p.m., deputies with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motor vehicle crash on Castleberry Industrial Drive off Castleberry Road, inside the city of Cumming’s jurisdiction.

An investigation by the FCSO’s Crash Investigation Unit found John Cory Brown, a 27-year-old from Roswell, was traveling westbound on Castleberry Industrial Drive. A second vehicle was traveling east on Castleberry Industrial Drive.

The two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision. Brown was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The driver of the second vehicle received no injuries. The crash remains under investigation and no charges have been filed at this time.

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agreement Decides against IGA with county

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CUMMING, Ga. — After Forsyth County sent a proposed intergovernmental agreement to the Cumming City Council last month regarding sewer capacity purchases, the council unaniHEARD mously voted Feb. 16 to not go forward with that agreement but instead decide on a case-by-case basis.

Cumming Utilities Director Jon Heard told the council each sewer purchase between GRAVITT the city and county should be handled on a-case-by case basis, rather than under the blanket $19 per gallon rate the county proposed.

The council agreed with Heard when he said the county should be charged the same rates as any other customer, which ranges between $20 and $25 a gallon.

Heard said he was in discussion with Forsyth County Water and Sewer Director Tim Perkins.

“We’re working together,” Heard said. “He can purchase sewer from the city as long as our engineering group approves the line sizes are proper and we can handle the flow. He and I will work that out.”

Mayor H. Ford Gravitt said this would work out just like any other customer.

“Therefore we can bypass the attorneys and bring the information to [Heard] and work out on a caseby-case basis without having to have an IGA every time the county needs a sewer,” Gravitt said.

This will help save the city money with not having any attorney fees.

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SFHS student attending Forsyth names principals for Midway ES and Piney Grove MS Washington Youth Pam Pajerski, Jan Munroe tapped

By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. —Midway Elementary School and Piney Grove Middle School will be getting new principals beginning with the 201617 school year. The Forsyth County Board of Education announced this Feb. 11 during their work session.

Midway will have Jan Munroe as principal and Pam Pajerski will become the new principal of Piney Grove.

Munroe is a 20-year veteran of Forsyth County. She served as an elementary teacher at Matt, Sawnee and Vickery Creek.

Munroe has also served as an elementary assistant principal at Chestatee and Coal Mountain.

Currently she is the assistant principal at Midway.

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PAJERSKI

Pajerski began her teaching career in Newton County Schools in 1988. She served as a teacher, summer school principal and assistant principal as well as the elementary coordinator and director of professional learning in the school district.

Pajerski joined Forsyth County Schools in 2007. She has served as an assistant principal at Silver City Elementary and has been principal of Cumming Elementary since

2009.

This August, current Midway Principal Todd Smith will open Brandywine Elementary and current Piney Grove Principal Terri North will open DeSana Middle.

Summit on Environment FAIRFAX, Va. —Lauren Morel, a student at South Forsyth High School has been selected to represent a local high school as a National Youth Delegate to the 2016 Washington Youth Summit on the Environment at George Mason University.

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OPINION

Faith is for God, not transit “Better to walk alone than with a crowd in the wrong direction.”

–Diane Grant

Mass transit in Augusta, Arkansas – 1915.

Roswell, North Fulton need MARTA extension There is public debate in North Fulton as to whether to support a half-penny sales tax increase to help pay for extension of the MARTA rail line to Roswell and Alpharetta.

JERE WOOD Because the Roswell mayor taxpayers of Fulton County would be asked to pay for this, I believe they should be allowed to vote on this question. I, for one, am in favor of extending MARTA to Roswell. My reasons are as follows: My father grew up in Augusta, Arkansas, on the White River. Augusta was the county seat and a thriving riverboat town. When the railroad was built, it bypassed downtown Augusta at the request of the city. When the new highway was built, it also bypassed the town at the city’s request.

The last time I visited my father’s hometown, they had no traffic problems and the historic downtown was preserved, but on Main Street almost every storefront was boarded up. The only thing moving was a stray dog, and the chief of police came out in his bedroom slippers to see who the strangers were in his town.

When I was growing up, Roswell

was a sleepy little town, smaller than Augusta. The biggest employer was the textile mill founded by Roswell King.

My brother and I hunted quail where Blessed Trinity High School now stands.

There was no traffic and few jobs.

People questioned the need to build Ga. 400 and said it was a waste of the taxpayer’s money to build a four-lane road to nowhere.

Roswell has grown to be one of the largest cities and most desirable addresses in Georgia because of Ga. 400. Today Alpharetta is home to hundreds of good businesses that provide thousands of high-paying jobs because of Ga. 400.

If we want North Fulton County to continue to attract the best businesses, jobs and people, we need to invest in the best transportation system available. To move people we need cars, buses and trains.

Ga. 400 transformed Roswell. If not for Ga. 400, I would have had to move away from my hometown to find a good job, just as my father had to leave Augusta, Arkansas.

I want Roswell to be a great place not just for me to live, but also for our children and our grandchildren. I believe extending a rail line to Roswell will have the same beneficial long-term effect on my hometown as did construction of Ga. 400.

Recently, I was the lone dissenting vote on a panel of all 14 Fulton County mayors and the Fulton County Commission to support the current MARTA plan. The vote was cast to DAVID BELLE ISLE support SB 330, Alpharetta mayor which would open a path to increasing the Fulton County sales tax on all your purchases by a quarter of a penny for five years and half a penny for the 35 years thereafter. This is a measure that would raise $8 billion when added to yet-to-be-confirmed federal funds.

We all know that we have traffic challenges in metro Atlanta. It’s both good and bad. More traffic means the economy is healthy and people want to be here. But, of course, more traffic also means longer drives to home and work. So we need to fix it. But how?

This proposed tax increase highlights that Fulton County has access, if so willing, to billions of transportation dollars. But what is the most efficient way, the most cost-effective way, to fix the problem? Heavy rail?

Bus-rapid-transit? Light rail? Managed lanes? Additional lanes?

We don’t know. But that has not stopped the drumbeat to adopt heavy rail by faith, by far the most expensive of the methods known. It comes at a price tag of over $200 million per mile.

Yet, what we do know is that MARTA ridership has declined over the past 10 years. Fewer people are taking transit.

Further, MARTA has yet to register a ridership of over 3 percent of the commuting population. More to the

point, no independent study has been completed or attempted to determine or measure the traffic relief heavy rail, or any of its alternatives, might bring.

The Ga. 400 portion of the heavy rail alone is projected to be over $2 billion. It might be cheaper to doubledeck Ga. 400 at that price. I’m not suggesting we do but, certainly, such a method would have a far greater impact on relieving actual traffic congestion.

What about jobs? Won’t heavy rail bring jobs? Again, this seems to be an opinion backed by faith. I am not aware of any independent assessment of that claim, nor am I aware of any claim that other transit options would create fewer jobs than heavy rail.

Nonetheless, more jobs, even if made possible by heavy rail, would certainly bring some number of additional cars.

That is, unless 100 percent of all new transit-inspired jobholders exclusively limit their commutes to MARTA. As for Senate Bill 330, here’s what we need: (1) neutral ballot language without unproven claims of traffic relief and more jobs; (2) the flexibility to tax less than half a penny over the entire 40 years; (3) time to evaluate the proposal — no vote before 2017; and (4) the required consent of each affected city for determining the MARTA projects to be approved.

If we go down this path, we must call for a competent, professional independent study showing the reasonably expected traffic relief and economic benefit of more heavy rail. This study should compare that forecast with the alternatives, such as bus-rapidtransit, light rail, managed lanes and additional lanes. This way, if nothing else, we will one day know whether the heavy rail plan succeeded. More importantly, we can evaluate whether it’s the best path forward. Faith is for God, not transit.

Letter to the editor: Casinos in Georgia State legislators don’t often defer to citizens on major decisions, but the General Assembly is currently debating whether to let voters amend the state’s Constitution to permit destination resort casinos in Georgia. Without such an amendment, the casinos are blocked. Personally, I applaud the idea of letting us make the choice, especially since proceeds from casinos will bolster our children’s future through HOPE Scholarships.

What’s more, destination resort casinos will bring huge economic benefits

to every region of the state. Although everyone is cheering the boost to HOPE, let’s not forget the windfall in local and state tax revenues from increased tourism and conventions, already a major economic engine here.

Letting citizens choose more jobs, increased revenue for education and public services and the promise of business activity for decades to come should be the year’s easiest vote in the General Assembly.

Sincerely, Ben Peters, Cumming, Ga.

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NEWS

Community input sought on future of parks in Forsyth County County conducting parks & recreation comprehensive master plan FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County Parks & Recreation is conducting a Comprehensive Master Plan, a major planning process to set the blueprint for the future of the parks system in Forsyth County.

“The Parks & Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan process is all about looking at our current facilities and resources, assessing needs and wants for how our system should grow, and using input from the community to develop a road map for the future of our parks system,” said Director of Parks & Recreation Jim Pryor.

As part of the process, a series of public meetings will be held to receive input from citizens. The format of the meetings will be drop-in and everyone who attends will have the opportunity to offer feedback during the scheduled meeting time.

“The public meetings are a chance for every individual citizen to be part of the strategic input process,” Pryor said.

“All of the meetings are the same so you only need to attend one of them. They are being held at different dates, times and locations for convenience.”

(5100 Post Road, Cumming, GA, 30040) Parks & Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan Public Input Meeting • Wednesday, March 9 • 6 - 8 p.m.

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By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Janet Walden and her staff at Court Appointed Special Advocates believe every child needs a hero, but abused children need superheroes.

That’s why CASA’s eighth annual 5K fundraiser, dubbed the Superhero Run, was held Feb. 20 at Fowler Park.

At CASA of Forsyth County, Walden said they recruit, train and empower everyday heroes who advocate for abused and neglected children in juvenile court dependency proceedings.

“These volunteers become the eyes and ears for the court, getting to know all the adults in a child’s life and making recommendations for what is in the best interest of the child to the juvenile court judge,” Walden said. “Our CASA volunteers are superheroes. They are ordinary people who do extraordinary things for some of the most vulnerable children in our community. They inspire me every day. And they are the inspiration for our superhero theme.”

A CASA is a trained community volunteer who is appointed by a judge to advocate for an abused or neglected child in juvenile court dependency pro-

ceedings. The volunteer works to have each child placed in a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible Many professionals in the child welfare system — including attorneys, Department of Family and Child Services case managers and judges — are often too overburdened to give thorough, detailed attention to each child who enters the child welfare system. A CASA volunteer has the time to focus solely on the child and his or her needs. Each CASA worker is only allowed to advocate on behalf of three cases at a time.

While Walden said she is “in awe of these volunteers we have and what they do for children and families,” the volunteers are not the only superheroes.

“We all have a chance every day to be a superhero for children in our lives by showing them love and giving them hope,” Walden said. “We hope to inspire all of our participants to get involved, to make an impact and, in doing so, help change this world for the better. It is our hope as folks have some fun, dress as superheroes and join in the fun of the day, they also become more aware of our program and the children we serve. And they will use their superpowers to build up a child in their life.”

Since 2011, Walden has been on

Forsyth County 911 dispatchers participated in the run in honor of Erin Jones, their supervisor, who was murdered last year. Jones was a Dawson County CASA volunteer. From left, Sab Alexander, Kathy Skibba, Casey Waters, Racheal Champion, Michelle Mitchell Duran and Jana Cody. board with CASA and has seen the run grow from under 100 participants raising $18,000 to over 550 partakers raising just shy of $45,000 last year.

These funds help train new volunteers.

The race is held as both a fundraising event and an awareness event, Walden said.

“Our community is considered one of the more affluent in the state and assumptions are made that that means children in our community are safe from harm,” Walden said. “Volunteers in our program advocated for 238 Forsyth County children in 2015 that were

found to be abused or neglected.”

While the CASA folks do not know how to prevent child abuse and neglect, Walden said what they do know is children who have at least one important adult in their lives are less likely to be abused.

“It is our hope that some superheroes will rise up to become CASA volunteers and join in our efforts to advocate for the needs and best interests of the children we serve,” Walden said. “It is our hope that others will take a moment to be that important person in the life of a child.”

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Mothers and daughters take learning beyond the classroom FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Two Forsyth County moms are using their creative energy to craft an environment for their middle and high school daughters to enrich their learning beyond the classroom through a club called N’ErG, which is pronounced “energy” and stands for navigate, enrich, responsibility and growth.

The club is targeting students who are learning in non-traditional school settings and so have more flexibility in their daily schedules to allow for outside enrichment opportunities, skill development, the arts and service.

“We have already learned so much since starting in January, including knitting and sewing,” said Cara Flower, 10th grader and founding member of N’ErG. “We are excited to use what we have learned to plan an event with friends to sew and donate special pillowcases for children’s hospitals.”

“I’m excited to use our musical talents to perform at various venues and senior citizens organizations in the area,” Hope Flower, 7th grader, said.

This month’s focus is on science.

To enrich the academic curriculum in a more engaging way, Cara and Hope Flower, Emma Dickson and Emma Bui-

Pictured from left are Cara Flower (15), Emma Buiani (13), Hope Flower (13), Valerie Livernois, Dr. Richard Livernois and Penni Buiani. ani had a real “eye-opening” experience thanks to the generosity of Woodhams Eye Clinic. The girls had the opportunity to observe three cataract eye surgeries. As the procedures were happening, Penni Buiani, RN, and Valerie Livernois, epidemiologist, explained

how the surgeries remove the cloudy lens that occurs as people age, and replace it with a new, manufactured lens.

Post-surgery, Dr. Richard Livernois led a lively discussion and answered questions.

Following the observations and

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Northside receives 5,000 newborn knitted red hats FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Heart disease isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when most people think about a newborn baby. But the most common birth defect across the country is congenital heart defect, affecting one in 100 newborns.

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Nearly 5,000 hats were donated.

knitting red hats for babies born at Northside Hospital.

On Feb. 10, volunteers from the American Heart Association’s “Little Hats, Big Hearts” project donated nearly 5,000 red hats to the Northside Hospital Auxiliary in Atlanta and Forsyth County.

“In 2015, Northside Hospital delivered more babies than any other community hospital in the nation,” said Carol Kratochvil, Northside Hospital volunteer services manager. “We screen all newborns for congenital heart defects before they go home. The hats will help us educate about the importance of these screenings.”

Jan Murphy, of Marietta, director of affiliate meeting management for the American Heart Association, led the “Little Hats, Big Hearts” project in Georgia. Murphy said her volunteers mailed her knitted and crocheted red hats from Alabama, Puerto Rico, Mississippi and the U.S. Virgin Islands after she made online requests, craft store flyers and word of mouth spread about the project.

“Each hat is completely unique and different,” Murphy said. “The reasons

From left, Judy Lewis, Northside Hospital Auxiliary special projects chair; Kimberly Goodloe, American Heart Association ambassador; Jan Murphy, American Heart Association director of affiliate meeting management and Carol Kratochvil, Northside Hospital volunteer services manager. people did it were very touching and there’s a lot of passion when it comes to newborns. We hope to keep this project growing.”

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Amy’s Place offers respite for caregivers, loved ones For those with dementia, Alzheimer’s

By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. – As the population ages, a large percentage of elderly parents are showing signs of memory-affecting diseases, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. While many residents in North Fulton move their loved ones into assisted living or memory care facilities, many families have to care for relatives themselves.

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Amy’s Place, a nonprofit helping families with loved ones with dementia. people in the community could use help, as well.

So the sisters started Amy’s Place.

Amy’s Place is not a day care, Van Ahn said. Caregivers and those with dementia or Alzheimer’s must stay together. Instead, it offers a way to socialize with others facing the same issues in a relaxed setting in a historic home in Roswell.

While such homes have existed in the United Kingdom and Europe for many years, Van Ahn said there are no permanent locations in the United States. She said Amy’s Place is the first in the nation.

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Especially for those residents who cannot afford long-term care or assisted living facilities, Amy’s Place offers an alternative. It is open to anyone with dementia or Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.

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Going green goes online Cane Creek offers online classes

By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — Farmers and wantto-be growers alike who are too busy sowing seeds to make it to one of Cane Creek’s organic growing classes in person will soon have the option to learn online.

Starting Feb. 27, the farm will offer multiple online classes on organic growing, a Cane Creek specialty.

“One of the obstacles that prevents people from taking the class is lack of time on Saturday or living at a distance from the farm,” said Cane Creek’s Lynn Pugh. “The online classes overcome those obstacles. Learning farm skills is difficult on the computer, so the field experience component is recommended for most people. But the online class allows those who cannot come to the farm to participate.”

Pugh had a dream for years to start her own farm. She wanted to live a more sustainable lifestyle, surrounded by a community of people interested in

Classes at Cane Creek are normally taught in person, but there will be online versions offered soon.

similar pursuits. During the 18 years she taught science in high school and college while she and her husband, Chuck, raised their family, she gardened on a small scale. Then, in 2001, as the children went off to their own productive lives, Pugh was able to begin applying her knowledge to transform their land into the farm it is today.

With a Bachelor of Science in biology and chemistry and a Master of Science in plant pathology, Pugh, who is also an education specialist in science curriculum, has the foundation to make informed decisions about the farm and to help others learn the scientific fundamentals of sustainable agriculture.

Pugh’s involvement with Georgia Organics, which began in 1986, led to the production of a marketing manual, then to developing a class curriculum on organic growing.

“So it was a natural step for me to begin teaching organic growing classes on the farm. Since 2007, I have been able to meet and teach some amazing students,” Pugh said. “I continue to consult with a number of these students as they develop their own farms.”

Community is at the heart of why the classes have been so successful and why they continue to be taught, she said.

Students get to know Pugh and their fellow students and, often, those relationships do not end with the last class. Some students become Community Supported Agriculture members, volunteers, fellow farmers and/ or friends. Two students who met in the organic growing class have even become partners in a farm business, Pugh said. The classes are helping to build a network of gardener/farmers who can share information and help others learn how to grow organically.

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BUSINESSBRIEFS nounced that Sara Ead, with the North Fulton office, has received the 2015 Rookie of The Year Award.

The award is presented to the new agent who achieves both the highest dollar volume and number of units sold. Ead moved to North Fulton in 2011 and joined the North Fulton office in 2014. To contact her or to learn more about Harry Norman, go to HarryNorman.com.

has awarded more than $350,000 in individual grants to more than 350 new teachers in communities across the state.

For more information about how the company is playing a role in the advancement of education and building the highly skilled workforce of tomorrow, visit www.georgiapower.com/community.

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Norman’s Landing aids children’s hospital CUMMING, Ga. — Bill Norman and Kim Vogel of Norman’s Landing and Walton Nelson of United Distributers present a check worth $1,651.29 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The money was raised during last quarter’s ping pong tournament at Norman’s Landing in Cumming.

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Traton Homes announces new communities in North Fulton NORTH FULTON, Ga. — Traton Homes announced two new communities will be coming soon in North Fulton. On Westside Parkway in Alpharetta, Traton will offer beautifully crafted townhomes priced from the $400,000s, while Lexington Preserve in Milton will offer luxury single-family homes on large home sites priced from the $700,000s.

For more information on either community, visit tratonhomes.com.

Century 21 agent Staines tops in nation CUMMING, Ga. – Century 21 Results Realty Services announced that Amanda Staines, sales affiliate with the Cumming office, was recently recognized as a top producer nationwide and awarded the Century 21 Diamond Masters Award.

Diamond level status is awarded to a Century 21 sales affiliate who has met a minimum sales production of $189,000 or 54 closed transaction sides within a calendar year. Staines also received the Century 21 Quality Service Pinnacle Producer Award.

Staines, who began her real estate career over 25 years ago, received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in marketing from Kennesaw State University.

Realtor named 2015 North Fulton Rookie of The Year ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Harry Norman Realtors an-

NORTH ATLANTA — Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices President and CEO Dan Forsman and guest speaker Tom Ferry, ranked by Swanepoel as the nation’s No. 1 real estate educator, electrified agents gathered at the Galleria Center for the firm’s 2016 kick-off event.

Ferry, a California-based expert whose newest book, “Life! By Design,” has become a best-seller, has conducted trainings for more than 260,000 sales people and personally coached some of the world’s top-producing agents.

After announcing Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is ranked No. 1 in homes sold six years in a row and is No. 1 in corporate telocation, Forsman explained how the company has grown in the last two years.

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Jackson Healthcare names president of LocumTenens.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Jackson Healthcare, a national staffing, search and technology enterprise, has appointed Chris Franklin as president of LocumTenens. com, a temporary physician and advanced practice staffing company.

Franklin joined LocumTenens.com in 2008 as vice president of the surgery division. He was promoted to senior vice president in 2011 before being promoted to executive vice president in 2013, giving him responsibility for multiple specialty-focused sales, recruiting and operating divisions, including national accounts, marketing, technology and accounting. Overall, he has more than 20 years of sales and management experience, including 18 years in healthcare and technology staffing.

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Georgia Power opens new EV charging island in Cumming CUMMING, Ga. — Georgia Power announced the opening of a new electric vehicle charging island in Cumming. This marks the beginning of the second phase of planned charging infrastructure developed by the company that will include more than 60 community charging islands for public use statewide by the end of 2016. The new EV charging island is located at Georgia Power’s new Cumming business office in the Cumming Market Village shopping center at 1648 Market Place Blvd.

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Roundtree Group promotes Ferri ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Rountree Group Integrated Communications has promoted Leighanne Ferri to account executive. Ferri previously served as an assistant account executive for the agency.

A graduate of Florida State University, Ferri received a bachelor’s degree in public relations with a FERRI minor in hospitality. Prior to joining Rountree Group, she served as an intern with Florida Healthy Kids, Everywhere, the American Heart Association and Emma Graham Designs.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – Georgia Power has selected 41 new public school teachers from across the state to each receive a $1,000 New Teacher Assistance Grant this year from the company. Centennial High School’s Zachary Kroll was among the new teachers honored.

The company awards the grants each year to provide the state’s newest teachers with funds to purchase classroom supplies and start their careers as pre-K, elementary, middle and high school teachers.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Aptean, a leading provider of industry-focused, mission critical enterprise software solutions, announced the acquisition of Computron Software LLC, a leading supplier of accounting and finance enterprise resource planning software to midmarket and multinational organizations. In addition, Aptean has acquired AssetPoint, a leading provider of computerized maintenance management software/enterprise asset management solutions.

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Top challenges for Markets push interest rates way down small businesses As a small-business owner, what are your top challenges? Every month I talk or meet with hundreds of small-business owners, and lately the list of their top challenges has been DICK JONES pretty consistent.

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Attracting and retaining customers is next on the list. Customers, particularly those who do repeat business, are the lifeblood of small business. The cost of acquiring new customers is far more expensive than retaining existing customers, so small-business owners are going out of their way to ensure they don’t lose current customers, and are always trying to attract new ones.

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At the top of the list is business growth. With a strong U.S. economy, small-business owners are citing growth as their top priority, and their access to working capital as being a critical success factor to enable this.

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Every year I put out a market forecast to all of my real estate partners. The forecast used to be an actual forecast.

Today it’s more of a history – and there is a good reason for that: I learned in 2014 that it’s very hard to predict the

future.

In January 2014, I joined practically every other economic expert in predicting that the economy would surge and mortgage interest rates would jump from an industry average for a 30-year, Fannie Mae loan of 4.4 percent to 5 percent by the end of the year. Well, it didn’t work out that way.

By the end of the year, the average was at 3.67 percent, according to Mortgage News Daily.

Looking back, a lot of things happened that year to set the stage for what we are dealing with today. Greece almost got kicked out of the European Union after defaulting on loan payments. ISIS started its spread across the Middle East. Israel and Palestine got into a short war. Russia invaded the Ukraine and took over Crimea.

Supply for oil increased while demand was starting to decrease and oil prices sunk. That’s a huge year!

Investors are a panicky bunch of customers. When they are not com-

fortable with their understanding of how the economy will act, they pull money from the stock market and put it into safer investments like bonds and mortgage-backed securities. Well, it just so happens that when bonds and mortgage-backed securities are bought in high volumes, mortgage interest rates go down. With everything that happened in 2014, investors were not at all comfortable with their understanding of how everything was going to play out. That’s what 2015 was for.

Last year seemed to be a kind of wait-and-see investment strategy. In 2014 the Standard & Poor’s 500 index moved about 136 points from January to December. Last year it moved 18 points.

Investors watched and were actually starting to feel pretty good by late summer. The Fed made strong statements that it would raise its shortterm interest rate, which it finally did by only .25 percent in December.

Then, all of a sudden, a stench started coming from China. Data began to surface that hinted to a slowing growth rate in China. Then the Chinese government tried to stop it, and demonstrated to everyone that it was powerless to do so. This did not make investors comfortable.

With the troubles in Europe, China and most of the countries that feed China with raw materials, the U.S. dollar got strong. This made our goods and services more expensive compared to our foreign competitors at a time

when the world was being frugal.

So investors are buying bonds and safe investments, and those same average interest rates for the past few weeks have been below 3.625 percent. If you have looked at your 401(k) lately, you probably know this. If you haven’t, don’t. I never thought I’d be saying this in 2016, but it could be a great time to refinance.

Last year I read a good analogy.

The U.S. economy is a big ship gliding through some rough global waters.

While the global economy seemed to be having trouble getting traction, we kept putting out good numbers. Until last January. The Fed was supposed to raise their rates again in March. I just read in the Wall Street Journal that a respected company put odds on them not raising rates before June at 83 percent, and not raising them at all this year at 50 percent.

Our big ship has been pushed off course a little. But who knows? The way things happen, we could be riding a wave in two months.

Geoff Smith is a mortgage banker with Assurance Financial focusing on residential home loans for refinances and home purchases. Geoff Smith gsmith@lendtheway.com; 770674-1433. Personal: NMLS#104587 Business: NMLS#70876 *The views and opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of Assurance Financial Group

Heritage Outfitters opens in Johns Creek Business name: Heritage Outfitters Owner: Bret Briggs Opened: After the first Heritage Outfitters opened in 2013 near Kennesaw State University; the Johns Creek location opened June 2015.

What: Briggs, who grew up in Dunwoody and lives in Sandy Springs, has great insight into the North Fulton market and trends.

Heritage Outfitters carries brands such as Southern Tide, Southern Marsh and Patagonia. In addition to being a specialty men’s clothing store, it also carries women’s and youth clothing.

Address: 9700 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite 160, Johns Creek, GA 30097

Emory Healthcare infusion services expand in Johns Creek

Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, noon-7 p.m.

Phone: 470-545-3923 Website: heritageoutfitter. com

Business name: Winship at Emory Johns Creek Hospital Infusion Center Opened: In 2012; expanded to a full-time facility in November 2015 What: The center provides referring physicians and their patients access to a full range of outpatient infusion and injection services, chiefly chemotherapy, injections, blood and blood product transfusions, IV medication treatments,

antibiotic therapy, phlebotomy, hydration and lab draws.

Address: Emory Johns Creek Hospital, 1st Floor, Suite 107, Physicians Plaza, 6335 Hospital Parkway, Johns Creek, GA 30097 Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Phone: 404-778-7777 Website: www.emoryhealthcare.org/cancer/ infusion-services.html

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JOHNS CREEK SYMPHONY PRESENTS SIDE BY SIDE

The JCSO welcomes the Georgia Piedmont Youth Orchestra and their conductor Rolando Salazar as they share the stage with the JCSO professionals for the first part of the concert evening. Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Theater at Johns Creek High School, 5575 State Bridge Road, Johns Creek .

Visit johnscreeksymphony.org for more info Looking to get the word out about your event? Email us with photo and description of your event to calendar@ appenmediagroup.com.

EVENTS: ALPHARETTA RESTAURANT WEEK

What: With 10 participating restaurants, there is something to please everyone’s inner foodie during Alpharetta Restaurant Week. Most menu prices are $15 for lunch and $25 for dinner.

When: Feb. 21-27 More info: awesomealpharetta.com/ what-to-do/alpharetta-restaurant-week

MILTON MAYOR’S RUN PRESENTS JOG FOR A CAUSE

What: As part of the 7th annual Milton Mayor’s Run, the city of Milton will bring the 13th annual Jog for a Cause to the community to fight childhood cancer.

When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Where: Freedom Park at Deerfield Parkway at Webb Road More info: cityofmiltonga.us

CUPCAKE ROAD RACE TO SUPPORT JESSE’S HOUSE

What: The 4th annual Cupcake Road Race 15k/5k and Baby Cake, benefitting the 2016 Leadership Forsyth class project. This year’s class is providing a much-needed recreation room remodel and sports court at Jesse’s House for girls.

When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7:30 a.m.

Where: Totally Running, 405 Peachtree Parkway, Cumming More info: RunSignup.com King’s Ridge Christian School 3rd Annual 5K Ridge Run What: Join King’s Ridge Christian School for their 3rd Annual Ridge Run 5K and 1 Mile.

When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 6 a.m.

Where: King’s Ridge Christian School, 2765 Bethany Bend, Alpharetta More info: kingsridgecs.org

2016 FAMILY & BUSINESS EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PREPAREDNESS SEMINAR

What: Natural and manmade disasters, civil unrest, terrorism and war have

been breaking out all over the world.

Come join us as we teach you back-tobasics skills, knowledge and encouragement When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Alpharetta City Hall Event Center, 2 Park Place, Alpharetta More info: AmericanHeritageSocietyofGeorgia.com

What: Northside Hospital’s Cancer Institute is offering a community screening to determine men’s risk for developing prostate cancer. Registration required.

When: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 6 p.m.

Where: Northside/Alpharetta Medical Campus, 3400 Old Milton Parkway, Building C, Suite 100/110, Alpharetta More info: Call 404-531-4444 to schedule an appointment.

BULLOCH HALL QUILT SHOW

What: The Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild will present their 34th Great American Cover-Up Quilt Show at historic Bulloch Hall, featuring around 200 quilts made by local artists and displayed throughout the antebellum home.

When: When: Friday, March 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Continues through March 13.

Where: Bullock Hall, 180 Bulloch Ave., Roswell More info: bhqg.org

FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN TO SHOW “WOODLAWN”

What: Fellowship Christian School will host a free showing of the movie, “Woodlawn.” Blake Burgess, who portrayed fullback Mike Allyson, will attend. The true story focuses on a high school football team that brought the message of Jesus to the newly desegregated Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1973.

When: Sunday, Feb. 28, 6 p.m.

Where: FCS Paladin Gym, 10965 Woodstock Road, Roswell More info: fellowshipchristianschool.org

RUMCK SEMIANNUAL CHILDREN’S CONSIGNMENT SALE

What: The Roswell United Methodist Church Preschool and Kindergarten will host its semiannual children’s consignment sale in the church fellowship hall. There will be three overflowing rooms with more than 200 consignors.

Many of the items are 50 percent off on Saturday.

When: Wednesday, March 2, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Also March 5, 8 a.m.-noon.

Where: Roswell United Methodist Church, 814 Mimosa Blvd., Roswell More info: rumc.com/rumck

15TH ANNUAL ROSWELL ROOTS FESTIVAL

What: One of the largest and most comprehensive celebrations of black history and culture in the Southeast, the festival will feature a variety of events.

When: Activities through Feb. 29 Where: Various locations throughout Roswell More info: roswellroots.com

ISLAM, SHARI’A AND THE SECULAR STATE

What: Professor Abdullahi Ahmed AnNa’im will be giving a talk titled “Islam, Shari’a and the Secular State.”

When: Friday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.

Where: Istanbul Cultural Center, 591 North Main St, Alpharetta More info: eventbrite.com/e/american-muslims-in-the-21st-century-tickets-19517593648

CHOPIN SOCIETY OF ATLANTA PIANO RECITAL

What: Music by Gulnara Fatykhova, Elodie Vignon Nikolai Saratovsky.

When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m.

Where: Johns Creek United Methodist Church, 11180 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek More info: chopinatlanta.org

3RD ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT: PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGAMABOBS

What: The opening reception for “People, Places and Thingamabobs,” the 3rd annual Roswell Fine Arts Alliance juried invitational show.

When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7-9 p.m.

Where: Roswell Fine Arts Alliance, 9100 Fouts Road, Roswell More info: rfaa.org

AN EVENING AT THE PIANO WITH DAVID NEVUE

GIBBS GARDENS OPENS WITH ACRES OF DAFFODILS

What: Gibbs Gardens opens for the 2016 season. Through mid-April, view the largest display of daffodils in the country. More than 50 acres of daffodils — 20+ million blossoms — create a panorama of sunbeam-yellow blossoms.

When: Special events throughout March Where: Gibbs Gardens, 1987 Gibbs Drive, Ball Ground More info: gibbsgardens.com

MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER: CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS ADULT WORKSHOP

What: In “Working in a Material World,” learn how to use, and where to find, the most current materials being used by puppetry professionals. Get an insider’s look at patterning, hand stitching, draping, working with foam, selecting fabrics, and using glues safety and effectively.

When: Feb. 23-Feb. 25, 7-9 p.m.

Where: Center for Puppetry Arts, 1404 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30309 More info: puppet.org

What: Join pianist/composer David Nevue for an evening of piano music in an intimate concert setting. Nevue will be playing fan favorites from his 15 albums, plus featuring music from his newest album, “Winding Down.”

When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m.

Where: PianoWorks piano gallery, 2805 Buford Highway, Duluth More info: www.davidnevue.com.

THE KINGDOM HEIRS IN CONCERT

What: Come enjoy one of Southern gospel music’s top male quartets, and their new look.

When: Sunday, Feb. 28; meal at 5 p.m., concert at 6:30 p.m.

Where: Hopewell Baptist Church, 15730 Hopewell Road, Milton More info: 678-315-1931 or 770-8452228

“PETER AND THE STARCATCHER” IN ROSWELL

What: In this Georgia Ensemble Theatre prequel to “Peter Pan,” you will be hooked from the moment you let your imagination take flight. A dozen actors play more than 100 unforgettable characters in this swashbuckling adventure.

Fun for the whole family.

When: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Continues through March 13; times vary.

Where: GET, Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell More info: Get.org

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AUTHOR DEBORAH WILES WRITING WORKSHOP: EXPLORING THE HERO’S JOURNEY — A PLOT WORKSHOP

“ADAM’S EVE” BY ACT1THEATER

What: What would you do if you opened your closet door and out popped a woman who claimed to be your soul mate? When it happens to Adam, he assumes Eve is part of a prank being pulled on him by his best friend, Mark.

An uplifting comedy, “Adam’s Eve” will touch both your heart and your funny bone.

When: Friday, March 4, 8 p.m. Shows continue through March 20, Fridays/ Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Where: Alpharetta Presbyterian Church Theater, 180 Academy St., Alpharetta More info: act1theater.com

ROSWELL VISITORS CENTER FEATURES ARTISTS’ WORKS

What: Works by two of North Fulton’s highly regarded artists, Joan Hilliard and Barry Etris, will be on exhibit, with originals available for purchase as well as a selection of prints.

Spruill Arts Student & Instructor When: Through February Where: Roswell Visitors Center, 617 Atlanta St., Roswell More info: visitroswellga.com

JAMES DAVIS: RESIDENT ARTIST EXHIBIT

What: This exhibition is a collection of objects and drawings providing a visual representation of the artist’s life.

When: Through March 4 Where: Art Center West Gallery, inside Leita Thompson Park, 1355 Woodstock Road, Roswell More info: roswellgov.com

LIBRARY EVENTS: For a complete list of North Fulton events, go to afpls.org/events For a complete list of Forsyth events, go to forsythpl.org/eventCalendar/ eventCalendar.aspx

IMMIGRATION INFORMATION DESK

What: Edly Vliet of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is available to answer any questions concerning immigration and naturalization. Handouts provided. All ages.

When: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 4-6 p.m.

Where: Ocee Library, 5090 Abbotts Bridge Road, Johns Creek More info: 770-360-8897

What: Award-winning author presents a workshop for writers ages 12-adults.

Sponsored by Friends of the Northeast/ Spruill Oaks Library and the Southern Breeze Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

When: Saturday, Feb. 27. 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Where: Northeast/Spruill Oaks Library, 9560 Spruill Road, Johns Creek More info: 770-360-8820

CUMMING LIBRARY TWEEN MYSTERY AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS What: If you like a good mystery, Hollywood needs your help solving the case and figuring out “whodunit.” Wear your Oscar night best or just come as you are and join us for sleuthing fun and activities. Ages 10 and up. Please register to attend.

When: Sunday, Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

Where: Cumming Library, 585 Dahlonega Road, Cumming More info: forsythpl.org.

OUT OF THE BOX ART STUDIO: CELEBRATE FOLK ARTIST CLEMENTINE HUNTER

What: Create art using canvas with acrylics and 3-D papers. Ages 6-11.

Sponsored by Friends for Life Foundation.

When: Monday, Feb. 29, 3:30 p.m.

Where: East Roswell Library, 2301 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell More info: 404-613-4050

ADVANCED NOTE TAKING

What: Huntington Learning Center teaches how to move your note taking to the next level. Middle and high school students and families.

When: Wednesday, March 2, 6 p.m.

Milton Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Milton More info: 404-613-4402

PET ADOPTIONS: FORSYTH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER What: 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 County More info: 678-965-7185

FULTON COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES

What: Pet adoptions When: Every Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m., PetSmart, 6370 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta Additional adoptions: Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Fulton County Animal Services, 860 Marietta Blvd NW, Atlanta More info: 404-613-4958

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Rainy day? Enjoy the outdoors inside!

Bummer! I’d planned to spend the afternoon in the out-of-doors, but the weather’s turned cold and nasty. It looks like I’m stuck inside.

What’s an outdoors type to do?

STEVE HUDSON One great posGet Outside Georgia, Chattahoochee Media Group sibility is to take advantage of technology and look in on the outdoors without leaving the comforts of home.

Georgia offers some great opportunities to do just that, as you’ll see if you check out these live-streaming wildlife cams around the state.

Berry College Eagle Cam: Ever wondered how bald eagles live? Find out with the Berry College eagle cam.

The Berry College eagles were first spotted in March 2012 and have been nesting there ever since. The pair produced two eaglets in early 2013, one in early 2014, and two more in 2015.

How’s it look for 2016? Good! The nest is now home to two new eaglets, currently identified as B6 (which hatched on Valentine’s Day) and B7 (which hatched one day later, on Feb. 15), and, thanks to the eagle cam, you can watch them grow up. Access the video by visiting berry.edu/eaglecam/.

It’s also available through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources at georgiawildlife.com/berryeaglecam, and the eagles even have their own Facebook page at facebook.com/berrycollegeeagles.

The Berry College eagle cam has become a national sensation. According to the college, millions of people view the nest cam each day. The cameras have microphones that provide a soundtrack to accompany your observations – and thanks to infrared capabilities, you can even watch the eagles at night.

An owl cam, too: Here’s another Georgia bird cam you might enjoy checking out – The Landings bird cam on Skidaway Island near Savannah.

This one lets you check out a pair of great horned owls nesting in an abandoned eagle’s nest in a dead pine tree.

There are currently two eggs in the nest, one laid Jan. 23 and one laid Jan. 26. Incubation takes between 30 and 37 days, so expect the first egg to hatch before Feb. 29. The second should hatch between Feb. 25 and March 3. Who knows? You might get to see one of the eggs hatch!

At this site, as with the Berry College site, infrared provides images even at night.

To check out the owls, visit landingsbirdcam.com or georgiawildlife. com/landingsbirdcam. This one has its own Facebook page, too, which you can check out at facebook.com/LandingsBirdCam. Fish too! If you’d rather take a virtual swim than climb virtual trees, you’ll be interested in the fish cam at the Go Fish Education Center in Perry, Georgia.

The fish cam lets you peer into a 15-foot deep, 60-foot-by-80-foot aquarium at Go Fish. This aquarium, the largest at the center, replicates the kind of habitat you’d find in the Georgia Piedmont.

What will you see on the video feed? Among the fish you might spot are several varieties of bass and crappie, bluegill, gar, common carp and the silver horse sucker. The biggest include a 12-pound female largemouth bass and a blue catfish weighing about 40 pounds. You might also glimpse an alligator snapping turtle.

Check out the fish cam at georgiawildlife.com/gofishcam.

But be forewarned: You’ll love these wildlife cams! Let me warn you, however, that they are addictive.

For instance, I should have had this column finished two hours ago.

But for the last little while I’ve been watching one of the bald eagles feeding the eaglets … after checking out the owls to see how the eggs are doing … and after spending more time than I want to admit watching fish swim around in middle Georgia.

I hope you’ll check them out.

Steve Hudson has written numerous books on fishing, hiking, the outdoors and more. Check them out at www.chattahoocheemedia.com.

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The workshop is intended for teens in grades six and up and will help them begin exploring the benefits of owning their own businesses.

The workshop will be especially helpful to teens that want to try something different from a traditional summer job when the school year ends.

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Pinecrest senior Logan Horizon Christian Academy Stafford signs with MIT varsity basketball wins division CUMMING, Ga. — Pinecrest Academy senior athlete, Logan Stafford, signed a national letter of intent to play football for Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 3, at a signing event held at the private Catholic school in Cumming.

Prior to Pinecrest’s signing event, Stafford was invited to the multi-county National Signing Day Frenzy in Sandy Springs.

CUMMING, Ga. — The Horizon Christian Academy boys varsity high school basketball team won the GICAA 20152016 Division 1-A North Region basketball tournament on Feb. 13 with a win over Cherokee Christian. The team

went on to win the Feb. 20 quarterfinal game and will play in the GICAA Division 1-A High School Varsity Boys Basketball Final Four on Feb. 25 at Georgia Southwestern State University. They are now 20-0 on the season.

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St. Francis dominates in first round Both boys and girls win by 50-plus points

By JOE PARKER news@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Neither the St. Francis boys or girls teams left any doubt that they are favorites to win the state basketball championships, which would be a repeat for both teams. The boys and girls teams opened the Class A state playoffs with huge wins in backto-back games last Saturday.

The boys, the No. 2 seed in the state playoffs, manhandled Savannah Christian and put up huge offensive numbers, advancing to the second round with a 95-43 victory.

Later that night, it was the girls’ turn to dominate.

The Lady Knights, the No. 1 seeded and No. 3 team in the state, blew out First Presbyterian Day 80-23.

The boys, who are seeking to threepeat as Class A champions, were led in scoring by All-American Kobi Simmons, who scored 25 and added eight rebounds, a block and a steal.

Anthony Showell added 21 points, four rebounds and two steals, and Chance Anderson scored 12 with 10 rebounds. Every member of the Knights’ 17-man roster put up numbers in a statistical category in the win.

Simmons scored the opening 7 points for the Knights, but midway through the first, the score remained close at 13-7. St. Francis then began an 8-0 run and never looked back.

The Knights’ offensive production remained high throughout the game as their defense forced nine steals and forced the Raiders to shoot outside while dominating in rebounding.

The Knights continued to build their lead, which included two highlight reel dunks from Simmons, to outscore

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Kobi Simmons finishes off a highlight reel windmill dunk. Simmons led the Knights in scoring with 25 points in their 95-43 win over Savannah Christian.

Savannah Christian 28-11 in the third, cruising to an eventual 95-43 win.

St. Francis will take on St. AnnePacelli in the second round this Friday at 8:15 p.m. at Kennesaw State University.

For the No. 1 seeded girls, who are seeking their third state championship in four years, the same story can be told.

Midway through the first, the Lady Knights led No. 16-seed First Presbyte-

rian Day by 5 when Head Coach Aisha Kennedy called a timeout.

After the game, she said “I wanted them to play fast. We sometimes have a slow start and so we wanted to focus on playing fast through four quarters.”

After the timeout, St. Francis picked up their tempo, as well as their scoring, and finished the first quarter on a 13-0 run.

Holding their foot hard on the gas pedal, the Lady Knights outscored FPD 41-11 over the next quarters, with subs clinching the 80-23 win in the fourth.

Sophomore Jala Jordan scored 30 for the Lady Knights, adding 12 rebounds, four steals and two blocks.

Maya Dodson compiled 16 points, nine rebounds and three steals and Nichel Tampa had 10 points with five steals.

The Lady Knights’ defense forced a remarkable 22 steals in the win, which made Kennedy proud.

“Our focus at practice all week was defense. Defense wins championships, so the better our defense is, the better we are as a team,” said Kennedy.

For the second consecutive year, the Lady Knights will face Mount Paran Christian in the second round with tipoff set for Thursday at 3 p.m. at KSU. The Lady Knights beat Mount Paran last year 62-48.

Kennedy said though her team is young, she believes they have the experience to make another state championship appearance.

“We are a young team but we do have a lot of playoff experience and I think that will help us get to Macon [for the state championship game],” she said.

Other Class A games: King’s Ridge Christian 55Whitefield Academy 56 (boys) The season for King’s Ridge ended with a bitter loss to Whitefield Academy. King’s Ridge led by 1 with 15

St. Francis’ Jala Jordan led the Lady Knights in scoring with 30 points in their 80-23 blowout win in the first round of the Class A state playoffs. seconds remaining before Whitefield reclaimed the lead with two free throws.

With the game on the line, the Tigers’ Ellis Merriweather was fouled with 1.7 seconds remaining but missed both free throws, allowing Whitefield to scrape by with the 1-point victory.

Fellowship Christian 36Calvary Day 56 (girls) For the second consecutive season, the FCS girls were knocked out in the first round of the state playoffs with a 20-point loss to Calvary Day.

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West dominates Newton, advances to Elite Eight West’s defense shuts down Lady Rams

By JOE PARKER news@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — Where the West Forsyth Lady Wolverines are concerned, it is easy to focus on their offense. They have averaged 53 points per game this season. Senior Jenna Staiti has scored more than 30 points in three consecutive games. What’s more, last Friday, their offense put up 70 points against a Newton defense that had previously allowed an average of 46 points per game.

As the old adage goes, “Defense wins championships,” and if West hopes to capture a state title, they will need the kind of defensive play they had against Newton last Friday in the second round of the Georgia High School Association state playoffs.

“Our defense was the story of the game,” said West Head Coach David May, following DAVID MAY West’s 70-33 win over West Head Coach Newton to advance to their first-ever Elite Eight berth. “[Newton] was averaging 63 points a game and they shoot a ton of free throws. Our girls did a really good job

in the first half of staying disciplined and not committing silly fouls,” May said. “We also did a great job rebounding against a team that rebounds really well. I was more proud of, more than anything, how we stepped up and played defensively.”

West allowed just 17 points through three quarters, giving up just 4 points in the third.

West’s offensive play was also stellar with the senior duo of Staiti and Jane Ortlip scoring a combined 49 points.

Staiti finished the game with 34 points, 19 rebounds and five steals in less than three quarters. She had already compiled a double-double before halftime.

Ortlip scored 15 for the Wolverines, adding two rebounds and a steal.

Staiti, Ortlip and the entire West offensive got out to a fast start.

Staiti and Ortlip hit 3-pointers to open the game before West opened up a 23-8 lead after a fast-paced first quarter.

West’s offense did not let up, evading Newton’s press and working the ball well around the perimeter.

Meanwhile, West’s defense began to completely shut down Newton’s offense, forcing outside shots and coming down with nearly all defen-

[Newton] was averaging 63 points a game and they shoot a ton of free throws. Our girls did a really good job in the first half of staying disciplined and not committing silly fouls.”

sive rebounds in the first half.

West did not let up after halftime, when they led 40-13, and eventually extended their lead to 60-17 before Staiti and other starters were subbed out.

All 13 players on the West roster would earn minutes on the floor in what was West’s final home game of the season as tournament play moves to the University of West Georgia this week.

After the win, May said, “The girls played really, really well. They were focused and the seniors were on a mission. They wanted to go out for their last home game and make some memories and I don’t think they can have a better memory than [this] game. They advance to the Elite Eight in front of a great crowd, a great student section and it was great to see them step it up a few notches mentally and physically.”

West will face Cherokee this Friday at 3 p.m. at UWG.

Other Class 6A games: Campbell 70-Lambert 65 (boys) Region 6-AAAAAA champions Lambert fell to Campbell in the second round, ending their season. In a back-and-forth contest, Lambert found themselves down for most of the fourth quarter and were unable to limit Campbell’s scoring even without standout performances from Andrew Melms and Connor Mannion.

Jenna Staiti (23) had 34 points, 19 rebounds and five blocks in West’s win over Newton.

Milton 56-Tift County 54 (boys) Milton advanced to the Elite Eight with a thrilling win over a talented Tift County team. The Eagles were down by 12 at halftime but were able to gradually decrease Tift County’s lead. With

just seconds remaining, Milton’s Justin Brown hit a buzzer beating 3-pointer to earn Milton the 56-54 win in dramatic fashion. Milton will face Campbell this Friday in the Elite Eight.

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Baseball season now in full swing Many teams with a new look for the 2016 campaign

By JOE PARKER news@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON, Ga. — With the beginning of the 2016 baseball season underway, many local teams have undergone drastic changes from last year, including Blessed Trinity and King’s Ridge, both of which will be seeking their third consecutive state championships this year. For Roswell and all five Forysth County teams, the 2016 season will be their last in Class 6A as they join the newly formed Class 7A next season.

Lambert, the two-time defending Region 6-AAAAAA champions, will be without Seth Beer, who graduated early and will be playing for Clemson this season. Beer had a perfect 1.000 percentage fielding from the outfield last season and led the Longhorns in hits, RBIs and home runs. Beer was also 3-1 with a 1.80 ERA on the mound.

Along with Beer, other players lost to graduation last season include Brad Leathers, J.D. Dutka and Will Dunavant, all of whom compiled .400-plus hitting.

However, the Longhorns return catcher Kyle McCann, pitchers Turner Scrubs and Cole Varner, and fielder Josh McAllister.

Johns Creek, which finished fourth in the region after capturing the region

title in 2013 and finishing second in 2014, will look to bounce back from their first sub-.500 season since joining Region 6-AAAAAA, where they had an 11-13 overall record last year and missed out on the state playoffs for the first time in three years.

The Gladiators will return Marcus White, the region’s Defensive Player of the Year last season. Jonathon Moran and Jace Mercer will also return for the Gladiators. Moran batted .357 with 11 RBIs last season as Mercer hit .340 and had a 3-2 record with a 2.39 ERA pitching.

Also in Region 6-AAAAAA, West Forsyth will look to continue their successes of last season, when they were named co-region champions with Lambert, but they will have to do so with an abundance of rising players.

West graduated 12 seniors in 2015, leaving gaps in pitching, second and third base, as well as in their outfield.

In Region 5-AAAAAA, Milton will be seeking their seventh consecutive trip to the state playoffs. The Eagles won the state championship in 2013 and were state runner-up in 2014.

The Eagles are coming off a 19-8 overall record last season, when they finished third in the region, snapping their five-year winning streak of region championships.

Milton will face a challenge in region

play once again this year as they face defending state runner-up Wheeler and talented teams from Pope, Etowah and Roswell.

Forsyth Central will be defending their Region 7-AAAAA title this season and will do so with much of the core of last season’s team.

The Bulldogs return shortstop Taylor Bauman, center fielder Parker Biedere and pitcher Parker Morrison.

Graduation did mean losses for the Bulldogs on the mound, with seniors Reed Clark and Logan Howard gone.

Sophomore Ethan Hankins returns, as does Morrison, who amassed a 7-2 record last season.

In Class 3A, Blessed Trinity has assembled quite an impressive resume since their inception in 2001.

The Titans have won six region championships, three state championships and have made the state playoffs for 13 consecutive seasons.

The Titans will enter the 2016 campaign as the two-time defending state champions.

A major reason for the Titans’ success last season, when they boasted a 33-2 overall record, was their pitching.

Brad Spinner was 11-1 pitching for the Titans in 12 appearances, compiling a 0.64 ERA. Though the Titans will be without Spinner, who graduated last year, they return a strong trio of right-

Blessed Trinity will be seeking their third consecutive state championship this season.

Johns Creek’s Marcus White returns for the Gladiators this year after winning the Region 6-AAAAAA Defensive Player of the Year honors last season. handed pitchers in seniors Hayden Lehman and Jackson Svete along with junior Cole McNamee.

Lehman, Svete and McNamee were a combined 21-0 last season. Lehman had 59 strikeouts and gave up just nine earned runs in 50 innings last season. Svete gave up just 13 hits in 32 2/3 innings and McNamee did not allow a single earned run after facing 65 batters. The trio, along with Spinner, compiled the lowest ERA in the state at 1.04 for the entire season.

The Titans also graduated catcher Cody Roberts, who was named the Class 3A Defensive Player of the Year in 2014 and 2015, and shortstop Jack Dunn.

While BT looks to three-peat in Class 3A, King’s Ridge will be looking to do the same in Class A. King’s Ridge had a record of 57-9 the past two seasons on their way to two consecutive region and state titles.

However, the Tigers lost five key players to graduation last season, including three starting pitchers and the first four hitters in their lineup.

With the main pitching core of the past two seasons gone, expect to see more of seniors Kyle Brnovich and John Byrnes. Brnovich was 2-0 with a 2.86 ERA in 14 appearances last season while Byrnes was 2-0 with a 0.37 ERA in 11 appearances.

Junior catcher Lawson Hill returns for the Tigers after leading the team in hits, RBIs, at-bats and hitting percentage last year.

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One of country’s first super groups coming to Playhouse The Skillet Lickers present “Country Music Down Yonder” Feb. 26-28 CUMMING, Ga. – Many people may not be aware, but the roots of country music run deep in North Georgia. In fact, a group that many in the music world acknowledge as one of country’s first “super groups” hailed from right here in the North Georgia Mountains.

That group, which was originally begun in the 1920s by fiddle player Gid Tanner of Dacula, went on to become one of Columbia Records’ biggest successes of the day.

The Skillet Lickers may also be one of the longest existing bands in the history of any musical genre. More than 90 years after its beginnings, The Skillet Lickers is still going strong with several third- and fourth-generation members.

Russ Tanner, Gid Tanner’s great grandson, along with his father, Phil Tanner, and four other members, are keeping the band’s legacy alive.

“It’s a great honor for all of us to be able to pay tribute to our families’ previous generations through our music,” said Russ Tanner. “We think it is important to keep this style of music alive for future generations while honoring all of our history.”

The Skillet Lickers’ legacy has been captured in a stage production called “Country Music Down Yonder,” which will be performed on the Cumming Playhouse stage at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 and 27, and 3 p.m. Feb. 28.

Russ Tanner developed the show in 2014 as a way to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first record created by his great grandfather and blind guitar-

If you go What: The Skillet Lickers present “Country Music Down Yonder” When: 8 p.m. Feb. 26 and 27; 3 p.m. Feb. 28 Where: The Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St, Cumming Tickets: $20. They can be purchased online at www. playhousecumming.com or by calling (770) 781-9178

Members of The Skillet Lickers, from left, Phil Tanner, Russ Tanner, Joel Aderhold and Brian Stephens perform in “Country Music Down Yonder.” The show will be presented at the Cumming Playhouse Feb. 26-28. ist Riley Puckett in 1924.

Told from the perspective of Frank Walker, the Columbia Records A&R (Artists and Repertoire) man who discovered Tanner and Puckett after coming to North Georgia to find new talent, the show tracks the history of The Skillet Lickers and the group’s influence on later country artists such as Bob Wills, Roy Acuff, Merle Travis and

Hank Williams.

While there is a lot of history packed into the show, audiences will mostly enjoy the toe-tapping music.

“About three-quarters or more of the 90 minutes is music,” Tanner said, “with the historical story interwoven throughout. We do a lot of the songs that the original Skillet Lickers did, moving all the way up to more modern

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In celebration of the Leap Year weekend performance, the group will also be adding a “Leap Year Love” twist to the show, focusing on love songs of the 1930s.

Tanner said he and the other Skillet Lickers are looking forward to returning to the Cumming Playhouse (audiences may remember the group from this past October, when they provided the instrumentals for “Smoke on the Mountain”).

“We love being able to share all of our music and history with folks, and we’re especially pleased to be able to do so for Cumming Playhouse audiences,” he said. “The Skillet Lickers were founded right around the same year as the Cumming Schoolhouse was built, so we feel there is a special connection between us and local audiences.”

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Pets of the week: Maxine, Webster, Nina, Flower, Clarice, Ember and Chaz FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Maxine is an outgoing and friendly kitty looking for love. Maxine was pulled from a kill shelter, and has happily settled in here in the Humane Society of Forsyth County’s cat room. She knows she’s been lucky to find lots of love here, but she wonders if she can be lucky again and find a happy home. Fill out an application online at forsythpets.org.

Webster is a sweet and shy guy waiting for a special person to find him. Relocated from a kill shelter, Webster is so happy to be here in the cat room. He’s heard about forever homes, and hopes he’s lucky enough to find one soon. He’s got a lot of love to give to a lucky home.

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DEATH NOTICES Morris Cecil “Cowboy” Chadwick, age 78, of Cumming, passed away Monday, February 15, 2016. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

John E. O’Connell, age 95, of Cumming, passed away Friday, February 12, 2016.

Arrangements by McDonald Family Funeral Homes.

Cathy Fitzpatrick, of Cumming, passed away Saturday, February 13, 2016.

Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Ralph Parks of Atlanta, passed away February 15, 2016. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Barbara Jean Freeman, age 75, of Cumming, passed away February 12, 2016. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home & Cremation Services.

BYARS

FUNERAL HOME & Cremation Services

William Michael Jones, age 75, of Cumming, passed away February 11, 2016. Arrangements by McDonald Family Funeral Homes.

Mae Landi of Roswell, passed away February 11, 2016. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Clyde Poovey of Milton, passed away February 13, 2016. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Mary Elizabeth “Mary Beth” Scott, 8 months, of Cumming, passed away February 8, 2016.

Arrangements by McDonald Family Funeral Homes.

Marty Charles Senft, age 89, of Cumming, passed away February 16, 2016. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home & Cremation Services.

Charles Turco, age 77, of Cumming, passed away February 11, 2016.

Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home & Cremation Services.

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Lyda Strock of Ellijay, passed away February 11, 2016. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

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Albert E. Wilson, age 61, of Marietta, passed away February 14, 2016.

Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home & Cremation Services.

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Nancy Lawson Thomas, age 56, of Dahlonega, passed away Tuesday, February 9, 2016.

Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory.

Randall Thurmond of Woodstock, passed away February 11, 2016.

Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

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Arrests: Continued from Page 2 30 on Ga. 400 in Cumming for DUI, open container and failure to maintain lane. ►► Eduardo Novoa-Gutierrez, 26, of Glenwood Place, Cumming, was arrested Jan. 30 on Glenwood Place in Cumming for DUI, failure to maintain lane, no license, possession of cocaine and possession of drug-related items. ►► Nora Angelica Cabreva, 24, of Wake Robin Way, Cumming, was arrested Jan. 30 on Hutchinson Road in Cumming for DUI, possession of marijuana and too fast for conditions. ►► John Wayne Nittinger, 45, of Dahlonega, was arrested Jan. 30 on Ga. 400 in Cumming for DUI, failure to

maintain lane and following too close. ►► Louis Kyle Heard, 32, of Neisler Road, Cumming, was arrested Jan. 31 on Neisler Road in Cumming for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Junius Mark Kinsey, 49, of Morris Road, Milton, was arrested Jan. 31 on Ga. 400 in Cumming for possession of methamphetamines, possession of marijuana, failure to maintain lane, no headlights and suspended registration. ►► Philip Scott Nichols, 42, of Falls Landing Drive, Cumming, was arrested Feb. 8 on Ga. 141 in Cumming for DUI, speeding and failure to maintain lane. ►► Paul E. Annison, 56, of Chattahoochee Road, Cumming, was arrested Feb. 6 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for DUI, open container and failure to obey a traffic-control device. ►► Chelsea Laural Gullia, 28, of Truehedge Trace, Roswell, was arrested

Feb. 5 on North Point Parkway in Alpharetta for DUI and impeding traffic.

Drug arrests ►► Supreet Singh, 27, of Buford, was

arrested Feb. 8 on Lakeland Plaza in Cumming for possession of marijuana and possession of a scheduled IV controlled substance. ►► Randy Allen Parker, 40, of Suwanee, was arrested Feb. 7 on Nichols Road in Cumming for possession of methamphetamines and wanted person. ►► Anthony Aaron Reynolds, 38, of Duluth, was arrested Jan. 30 on Ga. 20 in Cumming for possession of marijuana, suspended license and tag-light required. ►► Patricia A. West, 45, of Old Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, was arrested Jan. 27 on Old Holcomb Bridge Road

in Roswell for possession of marijuana. ►► Derrick O’Mare Thompson, 23, of Preston Oaks Drive, Johns Creek, was arrested Jan. 28 on Old Dogwood Road in Roswell for possession of marijuana and noise violation. ►► Christopher Channing Grant, 23, of Old Ferry Way, Roswell, was arrested Jan. 29 on Laurel Circle in Roswell for possession of marijuana. ►► Samuel W. Carter, 23, of Smyrna, was arrested Feb. 6 on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta for possession of marijuana. ►► Timothy Deantae Gober, 29, of Austell, was arrested Feb. 4 on North Point Parkway in Alpharetta for possession of marijuana and forgery. ►► Alejandra Delacruz, 25, of Lawrenceville, was arrested Feb. 2 on Ga. 400 in Alpharetta for possession of marijuana, possession of drug-related items, wanted person, expired tag and suspended license.

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MAIN CLASSIFIEDS continued from page 37 Business Services Tax Service Tax preparation done right. Preparation rates are affordable, service is top-notch!

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Call 770-772-0060 for estimates; personal/ business returns

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Moving Sale CUMMING

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Animals/ Pet Care

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Bargains

Garden/Lawn

Transportation

Antiques

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Cars

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Musical Instruments PIANO, Baby Grand: Elegant case, matching bench; warm, rich tone. Sacrifice $1650 obo. 678-445-3654 CELLO, 7/8 Doetsch, Pernambuco bow, Hiscox hard sided case $2400. 770-753-0787

Office/Business Equip/Supplies Cherry conference room table (8’x4’), 6 chairs. $500; Executive cherry desk $300; 3 side chairs, cherry frame, dark green fabric $150; 2 reception fabric chairs $80 Mint! 770-9927875

Recreation Nordic Track Walk Fit 5000: Non-electric, no batteries. $100. 770993-0835 POOL TABLE, 4x8, 4 chairs, cues, rack, 2 more tables. $2000.

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