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A link exists between adults with type 2 diabetes and hearing loss. In diabetic people age 60 or older, high blood sugar causes tiny blood vessels in the inner ear to break, disrupting sound reception. Diabetes often results in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The link between CKD and hearing loss has been known for decades. The kidney and the Stria Vascularis of the cochlea share physiologic, ultrastructural and antigenic similarities and therefore, the link between diabetes and hearing loss may be indirect but does exist. It is recommended that diabetic patients have their hearing screened upon identification and then annually thereafter. The effects of untreated hearing loss include embarrassment, irritability, avoidance of or withdrawal

from social activities and personal relationships and impaired memory. Auditory deprivation means “use it or lose it”! Although we detect sounds with our ears, our brain makes sense of the sounds. Over time, the brain’s ability to understand speech is often affected by hearing loss. Once the ability to understand is lost, it can be difficult to regain. Wearing hearing instruments can assist the brain in maintaining the ability to understand speech. A peer reviewed study conducted by the National Council on Aging provides evidence of the benefits of hearing aids, including improved overall health, better interpersonal relationships and a reduction in frustration, anxiety and depression. To learn more or schedule a consultation call North Fulton ENT in Roswell 770-343-8675 or Cumming 770-886-5821 www.NorthFultonENT. com

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Sea Island, St. Simons and Black History Month While the objective of most travel is to entertain and relax, sometimes it’s important to take a look at some of our past that wasn’t quite so rosy. As part of Black History Month, I’d say that’s an auspicious conjunction to devote a few moments to look into the darker side of our history. With the weather outside being just this side of frightful, you can imagine how delightful it was two weekends ago to see daffodils in full bloom and stroll in the sunshine without a jacket on Sea Island and St. Simons Island.

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If your budget can’t quite stretch that far, bear in mind that this is low season. There are accommodations to work with almost every wallet with condo and home rentals, and even resorts with specials in the double digits. If your property doesn’t offer an indoor pool, a beach stroll is absolutely possible, with lots of public access. Have a grand old time – gobbling up seafood and shopping at the cute shops – but on your way home, pause a bit to check out the Tabby

Slave Cabins on Gascoigne Bluff. They are two of the best-preserved slave cabins in the entire country and merit a visit, however brief. This is an especially exciting time in the history of their preservation. They are painstakingly removing the Portland cement that had been applied in the 1990s in a well-intentioned (but misguided) attempt to maintain them. The Cassina Garden Club are the doting docents who own and care for the cabins, and are so passionate about them. They are willing to meet with any Appen Media readers (if their schedules permit) to open them up and show you around. If you don’t make prior arrangements, you can still walk around and peek in the windows. The Golden Isles can be viewed as representing not just the nadir of slavery, but also the zenith of their emancipation when they were given

Tabby Slave Cabins Where: 100 Arthur Moore Drive, St. Simons Island, Ga. 31522 Cost: No admission fee, but donations welcome Scheduled opening Sat. Feb. 21 Hours: 10a.m. – noon More info: visit cassinagardenclub.org/ cabins_history or call 912-230-9194 their own land to have and to hold. They formed close-knit communities that kept the language and ways of their homeland alive. Few remain today, as their land was just too valuable not to sell to the hordes of sunseeking vacationers.

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Roswell Rotary works to Roswell ‘Daughter’ tackle human trafficking donates Civil War book By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. – Human trafficking is alive and well in metro Atlanta. That is the message Dave McCleary gave to Roswell Rotary Feb. 12, as an update on the state of the group’s efforts to halt the trafficking trade. “A lot of the time, the community is not engaged,” he said. “Rotary can change the world. We’ve done it before. We eliminated polio and spread AIDS awareness. We can do anything.” McCleary said the girls involved in human trafficking are not just poor or from rough families. “She’s your neighbor and your daughter,” he said. “Any child can be at risk. We’ve seen it all happen.” When McCleary first got into the cause of stopping human trafficking, he met a girl who grew up in Roswell. She would babysit for Rotary members. Then she became mixed up with a man who turned out to be a pimp. She spent years on drugs and prostituting herself before she

was able to break away. She now speaks out against the trade. McCleary has taken the cause to heart and now helps lead Rotary International’s efforts to stop human trafficking. “They aren’t somebody else’s problem, they are our problem,” he said. The average age of girls in the sex trade is 13, he said. Older “boyfriends” stalk and flatter the girls, befriending them before separating them from their families and friends. Ultimately the girl is enticed or forced into prostitution. Atlanta is a major hub of human trafficking. It is in the top 13 cities in the world for the slave trade, largely because it is a transit hub. But it also has a lot of money, especially on the north side of the city. The sex slaves go where the money is. Gov. Nathan Deal has created a task force to tackle the issue. The efforts are widespread. Some of it is simply raising

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awareness, such as educating hotel staffers on the warning signs of a trafficked person. The General Assembly is working on a bill to reduce trafficking in the state by 50 percent within five years and is looking at laws decriminalizing the trafficking victims. “This is only the beginning of the movement,” McCleary said. “We can combine to change the world.” To learn more about human trafficking and efforts to stop it, visit www.endHTnow. com.

CUMMING, Ga. — Roswell resident Paulette Snoby, a member of Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War (DUVCW) and author of the Civil War book “April’s Revolution,” recently donated a copy of her book and other Civil War non-fiction books to the Bell Research Library, located in the Historic Cumming School, 101 School St. Frank Clark and Clark Rye of the Bell Research Library showed Snoby the shelves containing 6,000 books and artifacts from the Civil War, World War I and World War II. The library focuses on local history and genealogy of the southeastern states from colonial times to the present. “Today, people are separated from their history,” said Clark. “We want everyone young and old to know and appreciate their roots.” Use of the research center is free as a public community service open to all, including DAR, Colonial Dames, UDC and DUVCW members looking for ancestral ties. The museum and library is dedicated to the South’s history and culture with the

Frank Clark and Clark Rye observed artifacts. collection and maintenance of original and reproduction artifacts and printed materials. The library is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and is sponsored by volunteers from the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp No. 1642.

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Fire department announces fire safety poster contest Third-grade students encouraged to participate FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Fire Department invites all local thirdgrade students to display their artistic talents while promoting fire safety by participating in the fifth annual Forsyth Coun-

outstanding entries and we are looking forward to the same again this year.” The contest is open to all third-grade students in Forsyth County public and private schools and home-schooled

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‘Toxic Charity’ author speaks on empowering communities By SHANNON WEAVER shannon@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Bob Lupton, author of “Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, and How to Reverse It,” wanted to share a message from the book with the audience at Roswell United Methodist Church – how to give help that really helps. At the Feb. 10 event hosted by North Fulton Community Charities, Lupton warned against charities that create dependency rather than longterm solutions. “Never do for others what they can do for themselves,” said Lupton, who is the founder of Focused Community Strategies Urban Ministries, which works with underserved neighborhoods in Atlanta. People who do charity work can insult and disempower the very people they are trying to help, Lupton said. “There is a reason why we don’t see the poor in our nation moving out of poverty,” Lupton said. “I think that it is largely because we have emphasized emergency assistance to folks who need learning-tofish kind of support.”

Bob Lupton Part of the solution requires changing how society sees the poor, he said. “Instead of seeing them as people in need, we’ve got to start seeing them as people with resources,” Lupton said. “No one is so poor in our community that they have nothing

to bring to the exchange.” Guests had the opportunity to comment and ask questions. A graduate student from Kennesaw State University asked what government involvement should look like. “My initial reaction is no, we don’t need more government involvement; we need more of the kind of involvement that’s on the ground, that’s personal. It has a much better chance of having longterm redemptive impact,” Lupton said. There were two areas Lupton said the government was responsible for: education and health care. “We’re the only industrialized modernized society that doesn’t provide health care for its citizens. I think that’s a human right,” he said. “Frankly, I don’t understand the argument that says, ‘let people fend for themselves for their own health care.’” Ollie Wagner, senior pastor of Alpharetta Presbyterian Church, asked Lupton his thoughts on raising the minimum wage. “I’m concerned minimum wage is too low for folks to make a living and be self-suf-

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Legislature tackles education bills Opportunity districts, AP History on radar By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmediagroup.com ATLANTA – In a legislative session consumed mainly with transportation initiatives in Georgia, a few education issues are making headlines under the Gold Dome. Hot topics include a plan for state control of low performing schools and spirited debate surrounding revisions to the Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) curriculum. Last week, Gov. Nathan Deal made good on his pledge to create an Opportunity School District (OSD) in Georgia composed of the lowest performing schools in the state. The idea models the Louisiana Recovery District, which has been in place since 2003 and now includes the majority of schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Sen. Butch Miller (RGainesville), Deal’s floor leader, introduced legislation last week for the OSD, which requires not only bipartisan legislative support but a constitutional amendment approved

by voters. Miller indicated the goal this session is to develop the enabling legislation, which outlines how the district will be governed and operated, and to place the amendment on the ballot in 2016. Under the OSD, the state will temporarily step in to help chronically underperforming schools – those schools that score below 60 on the College and Career Performance Index (CCRPI), for three consecutive years. The CCRPI is an annual state measure of a school’s effectiveness based on a number of variables. The schools would remain in the OSD for at least five years, but no longer than 10 years before returning to the local school district. In Fulton County, seven schools, all in South Fulton, would qualify to become part of the Opportunity School District based on their sub-60 scores on the CCRPI for the last three years. Details of who would govern the district, how local control would be maintained and how the district would be funded are still being formulated, but education leaders welcome any support for struggling schools. “I applaud that the governor is looking at bold, innovative ways to help struggling schools,” said Robert Avossa,

Review: Continued from Page 1 Olens again for his help in determining the next step. In his second letter, Miles said he hopes “this letter will help to clarify this matter and, once clarified, you will reconsider your decision to withhold your Miles opinion.” An investigatory panel that was to decide in January whether Councilman Sexton should be impeached instead advised the City Council to punt the issue to Olens. The potential impeachment arose after Olens Sexton was accused of releasing personal financial and health insurance information of Cumming city employees on Facebook, including Mayor H. Ford Gravitt’s girlfriend, Angela Mullinax. Sexton has denied this. Miles said Jan. 20 the panel is concerned with two legal issues. Before they were to take any further action in the impeachment process, Miles said the panel requested an opinion from the attorney general of Georgia or a declaratory judgment action in Supreme

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Court. At issue is the question of whether Section 51 of the city charter dealing with the city’s impeachment process is fair, providing appropriate due process for Sexton; and whether the release of the employees’ information violated state and federal privacy laws in OCGA Section 50-18-72(A), Subsection 20 through 21 or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HIPPA. But on Feb. 4, Olens responded saying it’s inappropriate for his office to weigh in on the local matter. Regarding the city’s impeachment process, Olens said it’s “a matter of only local concern that requires familiarity not only with local laws, but with specific facts to which this office is not privy.” Miles responded to this by saying he “respectfully disagrees that this is a matter of only local concern, for it is quite common for local governments to adopt Roberts Rules of Order by reference when their local ordinances do not provide for every situation.” Olens went on to say, in his original response, given the nature of the question and the likelihood of litigation, “It would be inappropriate for my office to weigh in on this matter at this time.” For the second matter regarding potential privacy law violations, Olens said, “It is clear that any attempt to answer the questions posed would necessitate a specific factual review of the circumstances surrounding the type of information collected and maintained

There’s no silver bullet answer, so my hope is that it will start a conversation in our legislature that brings new ideas to light and refocuses the discussion on how we can work together to improve public education for all children.”

on our nation’s history” while presenting a “radicalized revisionist” view of American history. The resolution is sponsored by Sen. William Ligon, who last year unsuccessfully fought the battle to eliminate the Common Core Curriculum Standards in Georgia. While it has the support of State School Superintendent Richard Woods, it likely will go nowhere since taking AP courses is optional for students and is nationally directed. The College Board, which administers the AP program as well as the SAT, said the revised curriculum is in use across the country and has broad support of educators, as well as support from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Council for Social Studies and the National Council for History Education. If the College Board does not acquiesce to Georgia’s demands, the resolution says state funding to support APUSH will be withdrawn. Approximately 14,000 students take the APUSH exams each year. The House and Senate are scheduled to meet in a joint hearing this week to discuss S.R. 80.

Timeline of events • Dec. 16, 2014: Councilmen hold City Council meeting, discuss insurance policies. Later on that night, city employees’ health insurance document is leaked on social media. • Dec. 23, 2014: Council holds special called meeting regarding leaked document and possible impeachment of Councilman Rupert Sexton. Votes to create investigatory panel. • Jan. 13: Investigatory panel interviews Mayor H. Ford Gravitt, Councilman Lewis Ledbetter, Councilman Ralph Perry and Human Resources Director Phil Higgins.

by the city, the reason for doing so, the specific information that was released and the circumstances surrounding that release.” Miles responded by asking Olens to read the original request and if necessary, he will attempt to provide any additional specific information. Another issue Olens had with giving a response was the issue of the federal investigation currently taking place. “To my knowledge, there is no federal investigation as to whether the

• Jan. 20: Protest held over Angela Mullinax getting health insurance through the city, prior to special called meeting in which investigatory panel brings findings to council. Panel decides to ask Georgia’s attorney general for legal opinion. • Feb. 4: AG responds, saying he is unable to provide the requested review. • Feb. 10: Higgins appears before grand jury in response to subpoenas for information about Mullinax, Miles and Gravitt. • Feb. 11: Miles returns a letter back to the AG asking for a review on same initial issues. disclosure of information by a member of the city of Cumming City Council violated the Georgia Open Records Act,” Miles wrote. “I cannot imagine why any federal investigation would concern itself with issues related to the state statutes related to record production.” Miles asked Olens to “reconsider his decision to withhold guidance from the state’s law department on these issues which, doubtless, have far reaching impact for their application of state law to local government institutions.”

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Northeast Georgia Medical Center rated 1st in Ga.; 2nd in nation GAINESVILLE, Ga. – Northeast Georgia Medical Center has been ranked Georgia’s No. 1 hospital for the second consecutive year, and the second in the nation, according to a recent study by CareChex, an independent health care quality rating service. The CareChex study includes virtually all general, acute, non-federal U.S. hospitals and measures them across several categories including quality of medical care, outcomes of care and patient satisfaction. The 2015 study rated NGMC second in the nation for overall hospital care. “To be named one of the top three hospitals in the nation, between other

industry icons like Mayo Clinic’s flagship campus in Rochester, Minnesota and University of Michigan Health System is quite an honor,” said Carol Burrell, president and chief executive officer of Northeast Georgia Health System. “Our clinical staff, support staff, providers, board members, volunteers and leaders bring a passion for excellence to the table each day – striving to be better tomorrow than we are today – and it shows.” The CareChex study rated NGMC first in Georgia for overall hospital care, overall medical care and overall surgical care – thus earning the distinction of Georgia’s No. 1 hospital.

“Being rated first across so many different specialties speaks volumes about how our entire medical staff works together to improve the health of our community in all we do,” said Dr. Priscilla Strom, chief of NGMC’s medical staff and a general surgeon with the Longstreet Clinic PC. “The awards are just a byproduct of a team effort that saves and improves lives, one person at a time.” Hospitals do not apply to be part of the CareChex study, and they cannot opt out of being rated. To learn more about services offered through NGMC and Northeast Georgia Health System, visit www.nghs.com or call 770-219-3840.

The study also rated NGMC • Georgia’s No. 1 Surgery Hospital • Georgia’s No. 1 Heart Hospital • Georgia’s No. 1 Orthopedic Surgery Hospital • Georgia’s No. 1 Vascular Surgery Hospital • Georgia’s No. 1 Women’s Hospital • Georgia’s No. 1 Neurological Hospital • Georgia’s No. 1 Pulmonary Hospital

JC Business Association increases scholarship offerings Deadline for applications March 6 JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Seniors at Chattahoochee, Johns Creek, Lambert and North-

view high schools have a few more days to apply for the Johns Creek Business As-

sociation 2015 Scholarship Awards. This year, the JCBA has increased funding so that each school will have a dedicated $1,500 scholarship awarded to the top student applicant. Students have until March 6 to submit their paperwork. “The Business Association has always appreciated the role that our schools play in the economic development of our region. Our students are

some of our best ambassadors, and we are proud that this year we are able to expand the scholarship program to give back to their families,” said Denise Wagner, JCBA president. Member businesses have been funding the program since 2009 and over that time have awarded 19 scholarships. Applications are available at www.johnscreekba.com and need to be received by March 6 in order to be considered for 2015. This is the first year that a student from each of the high schools will receive funding. The JC Business Association is launching a major regional membership drive for

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the nation, bisected by Atlanta Public Schools. As such, Avossa said it is largely three separate systems – South Fulton, which is largely AfricanAmerican and poor; Sandy Springs, which is very diverse both racially and economically; and North Fulton, which is largely white and affluent. Overall, the county’s graduation rate is up about 8 percent since Avossa took the helm in 2011. Avossa said he hopes to have the system reach 90 percent graduation rate within the next few years. “For the first time since we started tracking graduation rates, we have passed Cobb and Gwinnett [counties],” Avossa said. Fulton County is now a “charter school system,” which exempts the system from much of the bureaucratic red tape typically held to school systems. The exemption makes the school system similar to a charter school. He said the system has

2015 in the hopes of encouraging businesses in the South Forsyth and Centennial High School corridors to join the networking group and establish opportunities at those schools. Established in 1997, the Johns Creek Business Association is a nonprofit organization of businesses in and around the city of Johns Creek. It assists businesses, new and established, to connect to the local economy. Its signature event is the monthly networking meeting the third Tuesday of each month. For information and meeting location go to johnscreekba.com. made large strides in that regard. Students who do not speak English as their primary language have a graduation rate up 17 percent in recent years, bringing it up to nearly half of the student population. A larger portion of the school system’s population is taking the SAT test. About 85 percent of the county’s seniors take the test. Nationally, only 45 percent of seniors take it. “We have one of the highest participatory rates in Georgia,” Avossa said. More kids are taking AP courses and dual enrollment, both of which give college credit while still in high school. Digital, or virtual, learning is also seeing success, he said. When asked about the controversial Common Core educational standards, Avossa said the important thing is to stop changing the education requirements every few years. “Our teachers are exhausted,” he said. “We need to ask politicians to stay away for a while” and see what works. In part because of the constant changing of requirements, he said Fulton has lost a large number of teachers.

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Forsyth battles winter weather By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — While many were preparing to go back to work and school after Presidents Day, residents in Forsyth County and surrounding areas had to prepare for an oncoming of winter weather instead. The storm started Monday, Feb. 16, said Robin Regan, public information officer for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. The weather forecast continued to change and by Monday night, many were without power and trees were taken down throughout the county. Regan said there were more than 345 road obstructions – many being trees in the roadway – and over 90 wire down calls, in addition to the tree only calls. Six of those fallen trees resulted in tree fires, usually the result of trees falling on wires. The Forsyth County Fire Department responded to calls of transformers catching fire throughout the county and got them under control. There were 14 motor vehicle crashes with eight resulting in an injury and one with someone being trapped. Three residences had moderate to significant storm damage, Regan said. The sheriff’s communications office received around 600 duplicate calls Monday night, but that doesn’t include all other calls including alarms and non-storm related calls, Regan said. There were a total of 1,206 calls received. Public safety officers weren’t immune to the bad weather, either. At least two patrol cars were hit by falling limbs, but no one was injured. Sheriff Duane Piper said his deputies did an outstanding job keeping the community safe and at the same time making sure to keep roads

Storm stats • 400 road obstructions (trees in the roadway) • 100 wire down calls (in addition to the tree only calls) • 14 motor vehicle crashes (8 injury, including 1 entrapped) • 6 tree fires • 3 residences with storm damage • 1,206 total calls received by communications officers • 814 dispatched calls from the communications center; sheriff’s office responded to 695 • 600 duplicate calls received by communications officers, not counting calls including alarms and non-storm related calls clear of trees and downed wires. “Under those weather conditions, it was extraordinary team work and communication that provided the foundation for a smooth event,” Piper said. “The county 911 center and our employees in the emergency operations center coordinated all activities with professionalism and precision to clear up as many road hazards as possible.” Coordination with utility companies and their citizens was second to none, Piper said. “I heard many examples today of citizens teaming up to work with our deputies to chainsaw, tow, push and pull trees and branches off of roadways across the county,” he said. “All of this was done without complaints and with the intent to insure normalcy for our citizens as soon as possible.” School was out already Feb. 16 for Presidents’ Day, but it was called off Feb. 17 through

Fallen trees and icy conditions blocked most of Hubert Martin Road. 19 due to the dangerous winter weather. “Feb. 18 was not an online/ itslearning day because we have two inclement weather days built into the 2014-15 school calendar, March 16 and April 3,” said Jennifer Caracciolo, director of public information and communications for Forsyth County Schools. “Feb. 19 was an online/itslearning day. We understand that many families are without power, so please note that students have five days after they return to school complete their work.” More information on the online learning for school closings plan is located at www. forsyth.k12.ga.us/onlineplan, Caracciolo said. Many residents went without power during the storm and the days following, with over 35,000 without power at the height of the storm, according to Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation.

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Ice covered birdhouses, trees and took down power lines all over Forsyth County.

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A tree fell on a car on Wanda Woods Road off Buford Dam Road Feb. 17.

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Lanier Tech Foundation 5K to be held Feb. 28 OAKWOOD, Ga. — The second annual Lanier Tech Foundation 5K presented by King’s Hawaiian will be held at the college’s Oakwood campus Feb. 28, beginning with a 1 mile fun run at 9:30 a.m. and the 5K following at 10 a.m. Registration for the event is currently going on at www.active.com, or through the college website at www.laniertech.edu. The race is part of the 2015 Black Bag Race Series. Packet pickup and race day registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. All proceeds from this race will go toward the Lanier Technical College Foundation General Scholarship Fund. Registration for the race is $25 and includes a goody bag and race T-shirt. Runners may also register by bringing cash or a check made out to Lanier Tech Foundation to the Lanier Tech Foundation Office, 2990 Landrum Education Parkway, Building 100, Room 101F. Sponsors for the race include the Atlanta

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Lambert invited to national baseball tournament FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – The Lambert High School baseball team has been invited to attend USA Baseball’s National High School Invitational from March 25 to 28 in Cary, North Carolina. The Longhorns will be one of 16 teams to compete at the single-elimination tournament.

This spring, Lambert baseball will be looking to repeat their success from last season in which the team went 36-2 overall and 14-0 in region 6-AAAAAA play. The Longhorns will enter this season ranked as the top team in the nation, according to MaxPreps preseason

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Northside Hospital announces 2015 smoking cessation classes FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Northside Hospital will hold several smoking cessation programs in 2015 at its NorthsideForsyth and Atlanta campuses, beginning next month. Smoking is the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S., and the American Cancer Society says no cigarette is without risk. Smoking even as little as five days out of the month can lead to more shortness of breath and coughing. Smoking just one to four cigarettes a day can increase the risk of dying from heart disease and all causes, like cancer.

Blotter: Continued from Page 2 then went to talk with the couple. The woman reportedly said her husband had been drinking and that they were cleaning up when he slipped and hit his head on the kitchen counter. The wife said she wanted to take her husband to the hospital but that he didn’t think it was necessary. She reported she was going to get the car ready when her husband followed her outside, put his arms around her and told her there was no reason to go the hospital. When they noticed they were being taped, the couple said they went back into their apartment. The officer reported he did not notice anything unhealthy or unsafe for the children or any other tenants, and the couple was in good spirits. Both their infant daughter and 5-year-old son were asleep. No marks or injuries, other than the bump on the husband’s head, were apparent. Both were laughing during the investigation and said they were embarrassed. They said they would make sure to keep the noise down.

Customer angry over coffee CUMMING, Ga. — A manager of Krystal, 560 Atlanta Road, called the Cumming Police Department Feb. 7 after a customer was arguing with her and demanding the district

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manager’s phone number. The manager told the officer the customer came in the previous week as the store was opening and ordered coffee. She said she gave him a discount on the coffee since he was the first customer, but that he reportedly became irate and didn’t want a discount. She said the man paid the 50 cents he was charged and then returned yelling and demanding a refund because the coffee was cold. She said she offered to give him the coffee for free and he left. The man returned to the restaurant Feb. 7 and reportedly began yelling at all the employees before leaving again. Officers found the man walking toward Ga. 400 and told him not to go back to the Krystal or he would be arrested for criminal trespass. The man said he understood, but became agitated that the manager could charge him with criminal trespass when he was just an unsatisfied customer. He left the scene without any further incident.

The officers reportedly found the 18-year-old in the parking lot leaning against his mother’s car. They searched a bag the man had and reportedly found drug-related objects and marijuana. After handcuffing the man, deputies said the mother

handed them two credit cards she found in her car. When asked about the cards, the man allegedly admitted he took them off a desk at a local business. Video was obtained of the man trying to use the cards at a gas station, but the cards were declined.

He was charged with burglary second degree non-force non-residence, financial fraud, possession and use of drugrelated objects, possession of marijuana under one 1 ounce, disrupting a public school and possession of a schedule II controlled substance.

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Son threatens mom at school FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — On Feb. 6, Forsyth County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call at Forsyth Central High School about a teacher feeling threatened. The teacher told the deputies her son was upset because she wouldn’t give him the car keys and said he would be coming to the school to take them.

DEATH NOTICES John Braun, 80, of Milton, passed away February 17, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Wanda Buffington, 92, of Cumming, passed away February 11, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Fay B. Gazaway, 85, of Gainesville, passed away February 14, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Ismael Zamora Peralta, 59, of Cumming, passed away February 17, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Robert Hillegas, 67, of Roswell, passed away February 13, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Jessie Clyde Swanson, 85, of Cumming, passed away February 11, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Erna Patricia Clendinning, 87, of Cumming, passed away February 12, 2015. Arrangements by McDonald and Son Funeral Home.

Susan Elaine Maciolek, 73 of Cumming, passed away February 10, 2015. Arrangements by McDonald and Son Funeral Home.

Conrad Lee Culver, 86, of Cumming, passed away February 16, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

Joe Martin, 69, of Cumming, passed away February 12, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Donna Fish, 67, of Cumming, passed away February 15, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home. John Emory Franklin, Jr., 73, of Cumming, passed away February 15, 2015. Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home.

Beverly Joan Link Moore, 77, of Buford, passed away February 13, 2015. Arrangements by McDonald and Son Funeral Home.

Ruth Turk, 82, of Roswell, passed away February 17, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Angela Varner, 29, of Roswell, passed away February 17, 2015. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Henry Yatsko, 92, of Cumming, passed away February 16, 2015. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

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