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River Park Symposium held on the Chattahoochee The Chattahoochee Parks Conservancy held their second annual River Park Symposium April 25 at the Chattahoochee River Environmental Education Center at 8615 Barnwell Road. The National Park Service hosted the event as an opportunity to communicate its priority projects and needs to the larger community and inspire new partnerships. Read more, Page 4.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek woman shot by Johns Creek police officers Saturday morning has died.

At 7:13 a.m., April 28, Johns Creek Police responded to call that a “woman had threatened a family member with a knife,” the Georgia Bureau of Investiga-

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

Home burglarized while under construction ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A man reported April 13 that his home, which was under construction, was burglarized with over $4,500 worth of equipment and appliances stolen.

The man was alerted by a worker at the site at 7:30 a.m. that the garage door was open and the door leading into the house was ajar. The door did not have a deadbolt and there were no signs of forced entry.

The man arrived at the house two hours later and saw that several items were missing. The downstairs bathroom showerhead, handle and spout were gone.

The kitchen faucet was taken, and the granite countertop was shattered with a dirty rock, police said. Chunks of rock that weren’t part of the granite were scattered around. The garbage disposal was also missing.

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Police were approaching Winherst Lane, where the call originated, when they found the woman walking outside near the intersection of Abbotts Bridge and Sweet Creek roads.

She was later identified as 36-yearold Shukri Ali Said.

Police said Said did not drop the knife she was carrying despite “several attempts” to de-escalate the encounter.

Officers used a Taser and a “non-lethal projectile,” but Said did not drop the knife.

Eventually, two officers opened fire

and hit Said, the GBI said.

Said was transported to Emory Johns Creek Hospital by ambulance, less than three miles away, where she was pronounced dead. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office will perform an autopsy.

No officers were injured.

The GBI has opened an independent investigation into the officers involved in the shooting.

The officers involved in the shooting have been put on administrative leave until the investigation is complete, police said.

were also taken.

Police found footprints in the dust on the kitchen countertop island.

a simple phone call.

That afternoon, the woman received a phone call from a man who identified himself as “John Williams” from the New Jersey Public Defense Office.

The man told her that her grandson was in jail and that he needed $4,500 to be bonded out. He further instructed the woman to deposit the $4,500 into a Wells Fargo account.

The woman called her grandson, who confirmed that he was not in jail and not in New Jersey.

The woman said she wanted to report the incident to alert others to the scam.

Business reports fraud totaling about $45,000 JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A business owner reported April 17 that several fraudulent transactions, totaling close to $45,000 had appeared on his account.

The man, who runs a trucking firm from his house, said that on April 13, someone had changed the passwords on the business fuel account. Additionally, someone had attempted to pass $5,000 worth of checks to the account, but that transaction was unsuccessful.

Three days later, however, the suspect successfully passed several checks after first transferring funds from the operating account to the fuel account.

The business owner contacted the bank to advise them of the fraud.

Wary woman thwarts attempted phone scam ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A woman reported April 20 that someone had attempted to scam her out of $4,500, but she managed to thwart the rip-off with

Man suffers identify fraud through video game FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — After accidentally showing some personal information on a video game, a man suffered identity fraud and his finances were hacked.

The 34-year-old man said he was on a video game called RuneScape when he accidentally showed the login information to his account. Shortly after, he said someone started a “distributed denial of service” attack on him. The game has a banking system which has

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Chattahoochee Parks Conservancy holds annual park symposium

By ADAM DARBY adam@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Chattahoochee Parks Conservancy held their second annual River Park Symposium April 25 at the Chattahoochee River Environmental Education Center at 8615 Barnwell Road. The National Park Service hosted the event as an opportunity to communicate its priority projects and needs to the larger community and inspire new partnerships. The symposium was also a celebration of 40 years of park partnerships.

“A few years ago, the CPC board realized that there were few forums for [the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area] stakeholders to come together to hear a ‘state of the national park’ presentation, share success stories and network with other groups working to promote the park as a valuable regional asset,’’ said CPC Board President Sally Bethea. “The Georgia Water Coalition has provided small grants to support these events in order to highlight the value of a healthy river to the local economy and encourage collaboration.”

Roughly 60 residents attended the symposium. Representatives from various organizations, such as Friends of the River, Roswell Transportation and the Cumberland Community Improvement District, were given individual presentation time for their projects along with participation in panel discussions to further engage with residents.

A vivid history of the river’s conser-

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Chattahoochee Parks Conservancy Board President Sally Bethea addresses the crowd druing River Park Symposium April 25 at the Chattahoochee River Environmental Education Center.

vation was delivered in order to highlight the overall progress since initial foundation.

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area Superintendent Bill Cox led a discussion on the overall state of the river and future projects now in the planning stages. The overarching goal is to connect each of the park units in order to create a broader nature experience for the residents, he said.

“We need to look at the recreational opportunities holistically…to look at 100 miles of the river corridor, and that’s an effort I fully support,” said Cox. “Roswell is building a boardwalk

Due to positive feedback from the previous year, the Chattahoochee Parks Conservancy decided to make the symposium an annual event. that connects Azalea Park down to lower Roswell Road…my focus is to continue to work together to connect the assets we have on the Chattahoochee River because I really believe the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts. And I think we can move beyond being a backyard for folks…to becoming a destination.”

Because of the positive feedback from the previous year and the growing awareness of the park’s environmental impact, the CPC decided to continue the symposium this year and make it an annual event. The symposium will be used to highlight community river projects and encourage partnerships in

the river corridor among government agencies, businesses and nonprofit organizations.

“Our vision is for the CRNRA to become an iconic national park that is a recognized natural and cultural asset within the Atlanta region and beyond,” Bethea said. “In the next five years, CPC will help secure private and public investments in the park to significantly improve facilities and trails in at least two park units and enhance the National Water Trail with improved access, signage and camping opportunities.”

For more information about the river park and how you can be involved, visit www.chattahoocheeparks.org.

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BLACK BOX SPECIAL REPORT:

Local politics comes at increasingly

By JULIA GROCHOWSKI julia@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON, Ga. — While national and state elections traditionally draw higher voter turnout, local elections are gaining ground.

And with that added attention, candidates are pouring more money into local races.

“Campaigns are a lot more expensive now than they were just five or six years ago,” said Eamon Keegan, a political consultant and principal of New Prospect Strategies, a market research and consulting firm based in Georgia.

“It doesn’t matter if they’re national or local. But local campaigns in particular are a lot more expensive than they were 10 years ago – I’d say about 40 or 50 percent more.”

Keegan estimates that North Fulton candidates now on average spend about $18,000 to $28,000 in a race for mayor or city council.

Historically, national and state elections have seen more money in the game because of their broader scope.

The races that pit two parties against one another in particular, especially Democrats and Republicans, see some of the highest spikes in campaign contributions, Keegan said.

On the flip side, local races, especially for nonpartisan seats like mayor and city council, have seen much less in the way of campaign contributions, with some candidates even pledging to limit their accepted contributions.

“A lot of these races often times are sleepy races,” said Mark Rountree, president of Landmark Communications, Inc., a strategic planning, polling and political consulting firm based in Metro Atlanta. “You can win and not spend any money – it can happen and it does happen.

But these once sleepy cities and towns, some of which didn’t even exist that long ago, have really gotten quite large.”

More money doesn’t always win People tend to assume that candidates who raise the most money have a better chance of winning. And there is some truth to that, Keegan said.

In the 2017 municipal elections in North Fulton, for example, several candidates who won also raised the most money.

In Johns Creek, incumbent Stephanie Endres won Post 5 with 71 percent

of the vote and raised $10,000. Her opponent Chris Jackson raised $2,500. It was a closer race between non-incumbents John Bradberry and Vicki Horton for Post 3. Bradberry came out on top with 58 percent of the vote and raised $18,000. Horton raised over $16,000.

A similar story played out in Milton, where incumbent mayor Joe Lockwood took in $21,000 in contributions and won with 66 percent of the vote. His challenger, Laura Rencher, garnered nearly a quarter of that at $4,555. Post 1, incumbent Bill Lusk fell short at the polls against newcomer Laura Bentley, who won with 71 percent of the vote.

Her contributions added up to over $22,000 and were nearly 22 percent higher than Lusk’s.

Money, generally speaking, can be a major indicator of who is going to win, especially in larger elections like congressional races, Keegan said.

But as the recent faceoff between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District has shown, that isn’t always the case.

The special election made national headlines as the most expensive House election in U.S. history. Ossoff, a political newcomer, raised $8.3 million before the first round of voting and later raised an additional $15 million over a two-month period, according to reports by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Handel, by comparison, raised $4 million during the same two-month period.

Those numbers shocked many in the political world, and the focus on money might have contributed to Ossoff’s loss, Rountree said.

“By the end of the campaign, the main thing many knew about Jon Ossoff was that he raised a lot of money,” Rountree said. “He almost lost his message, because he overdid it with the money. And that can be true on local levels as well.

“When your main conversational point on a candidate is how much money they’ve raised, the candidate has made a mistake.”

This disparity between money raised and winning the campaign in the Handel vs. Ossoff race is a bit of an outlier, but money is even less of an indicator of who will win in local elections, Keegan said.

Last year, the City of Roswell held its biggest election in recent memory, with the mayor and four city council seats up for grabs.

After 20 years, a new mayor in Roswell 1997: Wood vs. Mabry

Mabry (Incumbent) 41.29% (3,710 votes)

Wood 58.51% (5,231 votes)

2017: Henry vs. Jenkins

Jenkins 45.14% 5,428

Henry 54.66% (6,596 votes)

Money raised: Money raised: Jere Wood $33,700

W.L. “Pug” Mabry $30,296

Lori Henry $20,570

Lee Jenkins $71,476 SOURCE: FULTONCOUNTYGA.GOV

The mayor’s seat, which hadn’t changed in almost 20 years, initially drew in the largest slate of candidates and some of the largest spending.

The race ended in a runoff between Lori Henry, who had previously sat on the city council years earlier, and Lee Jenkins, a politcal newcomer. Jenkins reported Nov. 1, 2017 that his total contributions had been over $71,000.

Henry, on the other hand, raised almost a third of that – just $21,000 in the same time span.

Looking purely at money raised, Jenkins would have been favored to win.

But it was Henry who won with 55 percent of the vote.

Just two years earlier, Marcelo Zapata unseated Roswell Councilman Rich Dippolito after pledging not exceed $2,500 in campaign contributions.

Dippolito, on the other hand, reported nearly $25,000 in contributions.

“When it comes to local races, money isn’t as much of an indicator,” Keegan said. “Those kinds of local

elections are more community based.

It’s more of a combination of who you know and if your stance on issues are on point for your area.

“Money is always important, but when it comes to local races, it’s not as important.”

Costs and fundraising Fundraising is one of the first jobs on most candidates’ ‘to-do’ lists when starting a campaign. In North Fulton, the fundraising game has seen a shift in recent years.

“We’re seeing more in the way of professional fundraisers getting involved in local campaigns,” Rountree said. “That wouldn’t have been common at all 20 years ago.”

And with those professional fundraisers come “significant” misconceptions for many people, including candidates.

“The people who are fundraisers, normally, are raising money that simply you would have raised on your own,”

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Rountree said. “What they do is they help the candidate get organized and maximize contributions. The fundraisers themselves don’t bring some group of donors to the table that the candidate wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. There’s no mysterious group of donors.”

For local elections, fundraising and winning tends to hinge on who you know more than anything else, Rountree said.

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to 95 percent of what a fundraiser can bring is based on the candidate’s existing contacts.

It’s friends, family and business contacts first, then “lots of cold calling,” Keegan said.

That campaign money is “heavily” spent on what Keegan identifies at two different types of costs: fixed and variable.

Fixed costs are for websites and consulting retainers. Variable costs include most kinds of advertising, including direct mail, signage, digital advertising, newspapers and phoning.

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Polling, unlike in national and state elections, is not common for local races.

“There’s a perception that local elections are done on shoe leather alone – that it’s just people walking around asking for votes,” Rountree said. “There is some truth to that. But it often surprises people just how much it costs to run.”

And while contentious issues or candidates can increase voter turnout and campaign expenses, population size also weighs heavily on a campaign’s cost.

In Alpharetta, for example, there were almost 37,000 registered voters

in last year’s municipal election, according to the Fulton County Election Office. Almost 4,000 actually cast a ballot in the municipal election. That is almost twice as many ballots cast than in the 2013 municipal election, when there were 31,000 registered voters in Alpharetta.

“These cities have ballooned,” Rountree said. “You’re talking about advertising to thousands of households. Mail costs the same whether you’re running for president, Congress, city council or dog catcher. It will cost what it costs to do direct mail. And that can be expensive.”

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Touch-a-Truck Newtown Park 10 a.m. - noon

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Summer Concert - Pirate Flag Newtown Park - Amphitheater 6 p.m.

Free Outdoor Fitness - Zumba Newtown Park - Amphitheater 10 a.m.

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Free Outdoor Fitness - Yoga Newtown Park - Amphitheater 10 a.m.

City Council Work Session 11445 Johns Creek Parkway 5 p.m.

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City Council Work Session 11445 Johns Creek Parkway 5 p.m.

City Council Meeting 11445 Johns Creek Parkway 7 p.m.

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City Council Meeting 11445 Johns Creek Parkway 8 p.m.

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Young Adults Bocce - Adaptive Rec. Newtown Park - Park Place 6:30 p.m.

12 Summer Kick-Off Picnic - Adaptive Rec. Newtown Park - Park Place 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Outdoor Fitness - Bar-less Barre 13 Free Newtown Park - Amphitheater 10 a.m.

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& Visitors Bureau 16 Convention 10700 Abbotts Bridge Rd, Suite 190 8:30 a.m.

Arts and Culture Board Meeting 10700 Abbotts Bridge Rd, Suite 190 6 p.m.

Public Art Board Meeting 10700 Abbotts Bridge Rd, Suite 190 7 p.m.

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S.T.O.P. Class 11445 Johns Creek Parkway 6:30 p.m.

Johns Creek City Hall 10700 Abbotts Bridge Road Suite 190

For a complete list of events, meetings, and classes please visit: www.johnscreekga.gov/calendar

Johns Creek freshman serves on State Superintendent Advisory Council JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Luke Michaelis, 14, recently completed his third year of service with the State Superintendent of Schools’ Student Advisory Council.

This group of young volunteers discusses how decisions made at the state level affect students all over Georgia.

Michaelis previously served on the council for two years while a student at Autrey Mill Middle School in Johns Creek. He is now a freshman at Johns Creek High School and one of only four representatives from Fulton County.

State Superintendent Richard Woods meets with the advisory council throughout the year. Students act as liaisons between the Department of Education and the students of Georgia.

Members are selected by a committee of Georgia Department of Education representatives every year. More than 1,500 students applied last year, but only 142 students were selected - 75 from high school and the remainder from middle school.

Earlier in the school year, Michaelis met with Dr. Jimmy Zoll, former JCHS Principal, and Dr. Jeff Rose, Fulton County Superintendent, and discussed school and district strengths and chal-

State Superintendent Richard Woods stands with Luke Michaelis, a 14-yearold student at Johns Creek High School. lenges, student achievement, hidden poverty and accommodations for students with disabilities.

On April 17, Michaelis, State Superintendent Woods and the council members packed over 100,000 books as a service project at Action Ministries in Atlanta.

THE AMERICAN DREAM Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

J. Wayne Baughman, conductor Roger Wise, narrator Brent Davis, baritone Supported in part by:

Join us for a musical tour of the U.S.A., including Broadway hits, old American songs, jazz, and a salute to our heroes! Please bring nonperishable items for our food drive benefitting North Fulton Community Charities.

Tickets $32 Adults; $27 Seniors; $16 Students

Concert at Johns Creek United Methodist Church, 11180 Medlock Bridge Road in Johns Creek

(678) 748-5802 | www.JohnsCreekSymphony.org Funding for this program is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.

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Johns Ceek develops new Amazon Alexa ‘skill’

By ADAM DARBY adam@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. - The city has recently launched its own Amazon Alexa “skill” to the public.

The skill uses open data through the city’s DataHub to answer city-related questions using the popular virtual assistant. It contains compiled information from the city’s website and DataHub to provide users with important information regarding the city’s history and current events. This release marks Johns Creek as the first city in the world to use open data with Amazon Alexa.

“Nobody that we found is using their open data to drive answering questions…instead of going out and Googling the answer, it’s going to this pod of information that we have that you can download…” said Johns Creek Chief Data Officer Nick O’Day. Development for the skill has taken around six months, with further enhancements still being made.

Although major cities such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas have used open data to answer citywide questions, this is the first time the skill has been adapted for Alexa. There are about 200 different questions that can be asked

using the skill. The most prominent forms of information relate to questions concerning work orders, building permits, code compliance and zoning information along with government, police and fire data.

“We’ve been trying to pay attention to consumer technology that people are using…we’re trying not to reinvent the wheel and look for places where we can leverage things that people are already using,” said O’Day. “People, I think…are getting used to just asking questions and expecting an answer.

Five years ago, we were all comfortable with just Googling stuff, and now we’re getting to the point where typing out a question is kind of the old way of doing things. You just want to be able to ask something a question…and it just does it for you.”

In addition to data-related questions, Amazon Alexa users can download the City of Johns Creek skill and receive answers to questions about available jobs and the city’s event and meeting calendar. In order to receive answers specifically related to Johns Creek, users will preface their questions with the statement, “Alexa, ask the city of Johns Creek” before continuing.

For example, if a user tells the

Johns Creek uses open data through the city’s DataHub to answer city-related questions using the Amazon Alexa. device, “Alexa, ask the City of Johns Creek when the next City Council meeting is scheduled,” the virtual assistant will reply with the meeting date, time

and location.

Although the skill provides information and does not collect any, it is an additional tool among many that residents can use to access information regarding the city. There are over 70 different layers of data incorporated into the product; the city is continuing to provide it with more questions and answers. As the skill continues to garner users, analytics will pinpoint the most common forms of data users are asking about in order to focus future efforts on adding information and answers to those specific areas of interest.

“People are going to get more comfortable with having these devices in their home I think…as the technology matures and gets better, I think people will not be so freaked out about it,” O’Day stated. “Technology is becoming easier to use regardless of someone’s technical ability…I think, over time, people are going to expect to be able to do more and more through these things and that definitely extends to government. They’re going to be expecting their government to have a skill like people are going to expect their government to have a website. It’s just going to be one of those things where if they don’t have it, their city is going to be at a disadvantage.”

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By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta made the most of hosting its first playoff series in six years Friday night, sweeping their first-round matchup with Lanier.

The Raiders downed the Longhorns 13-1 in Game 1 and 4-2 in Game 2.

The privilege of hosting was not lost on the Raiders.

“The ability to play at home was a blessing,” said head coach Marc Lassiat. “This is my third year, and we’ve had the goal of making the playoffs every year. We missed out by one game and again on the last night of the regular season. To be able to play at home, at least one time, was exciting. It was a great atmosphere.”

That excitement was on display in the first game with the Raiders racking up 10 hits, including four doubles and a home run, to rout the Longhorns in the first game of the doubleheader. The game was called after the fifth inning due to the run rule.

The Raiders’ scoring was also aided by eight walks and multiple Lanier errors.

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Alpharetta’s Nadir Lewis slides safely into third in Game 1 of the Raiders’ series against Lanier.

Santiago Montiel went 2-3 in Game 1 with a double, and a two-run home

run. Designated hitter Noah Mendlinger was 2-2 with a double, three RBIs and

two walks. Matthew Wilson and Jack Barone each had two RBIs. While the Raiders’ bats built their lead, starting pitcher Sam Stratton retained it. Stratford threw a five-inning complete game, allowing one earned run on four hits with three strikeouts.

Lassiat said his coaching staff had challenged Stratton to pitch a complete game earlier this week.

That same goal was given to Charlie Goldstein, the Raiders’ starter in Game 2.

Though Goldstein fell short of a complete game, he had an impressive performance.

Goldstein allowed one earned run on four hits with twelve strikeouts in 5.2 innings. He was pulled after reaching the maximum pitch count under the GHSA’s rules.

Where Stratton had a large run cushion in Game 1, Goldstein showed clutch pitching while Lanier had runners in scoring position.

In the first inning, Goldstein walked the leadoff man who advanced to third on a balk and ground out. However, the Raiders went unscathed after Goldstein threw two strikeouts and forced a

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Alpharetta: Continued from Page 10 ground out. After giving up a home run in the third, Goldstein struck out three straight.

With two on and one out in the fifth, Goldstein had two strikeouts.

Chris Burgett took the mound in relief and got the final out of the sixth, stranding two Lanier runners.

Alpharetta entered the final frame with a 4-1 lead. Though they had just three hits in Game 2, the timeliness of those hits resulted in runs.

With two runners on in the top of the second, Barone earned his third RBI of the series with a ground out to second, scoring Matthew Wilson from third. Though a strikeout from Montiel appeared to end the half-inning, the third strike eluded Lanier’s catcher,

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The Raiders extended the lead in the third with a Mendlinger home run and a sacrifice bunt from Justin Kirby in the fifth frame.

Alpharetta stranded a runner in the seventh, setting up pitcher Anthony Gauthier to secure the win, but not before Lanier ratcheted up the tension.

Lanier loaded the bases with no outs on two Alpharetta errors and a single. Gauthier had a three-pitch strikeout, but the winning run was still at the plate for the Longhorns.

The next Longhorn batter sent a soft fly just over second. That drove in a run for Lanier, but the Raiders did manage a force out at second.

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As far as the day goes I think we got everything covered.

We had the hitting game [in Game 1] and we had to play some defense [in Game 2].”

MARC LASSIAT Alpharetta head coach 1, Lassiat said he was pleased with how the team met the challenge of the second game.

“I appreciate a tough game because

you are not going to continue in the playoffs just blowing out people and scoring a ton of runs,” he said. “You’re going to have to play close, you’re going to have to pitch and make plays. We did that. As far as the day goes I think we got everything covered. We had the hitting game [in Game 1] and we had to play some defense [in Game 2].”

The Raiders’ prospects of playing another home series in the second round is still to be decided. Alpharetta will take on the winner of the Alexander/Sequoyah series. Those teams split their Friday doubleheader. If Sequoyah wins Saturday’s decisive third game, the Raiders will be back at home next Thursday.

Until then, the Raiders will rest and be ready.

“They understand our practice plan and we’ll have them ready to go,” Lassiat said. “We’ll give them some time off the next two days and get back to it Monday.”

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Katie Reeves, Tom Pemble vie NORTH FULTON, Ga. – On May 22, Fulton County voters in District 2 will elect their representative to the Fulton County Board of Education. Incumbent Katie Reeves will face Tom Pemble for the opportunity to serve the district which encompasses the far northern part of Fulton County, including Milton and Alpharetta.

Katie Reeves Katie Reeves, 60, has served District 2 on the Fulton County Board of Education since 1999, serving as both the president and vice president of the board for one term, respectively, during her tenure. She is a REEVES recipient of the Pioneer Award from the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce (2014), the U.S. Dept. of the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service (2010) and was a member of Gov. Sonny Perdue’s Education Task Force, and State School Superintendent John Barge’s transition team.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Reeves is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.

She and her husband, Cliff, have three children who graduated from Fulton County high schools.

In your first run for office, you pledged to give a greater voice to residents in North Fulton. Why is this important?

When I ran for office, schools were overcrowded and capital dollars were being spent in other areas of the county. My children attended an elementary school built for 800 students, but which housed 1,800 students. As a parent, I followed the chain of command from the school to the School Board, but my concerns fell on deaf ears. Since being elected, I have made it a priority to listen to my community and address issues important to them — including extreme overcrowding. I continue to do that, but the work of representing parents and taxpayers is never done. It’s critical the seven members of the School Board always view the system through the lens of the parents and taxpayers.

What are the biggest issues facing the Fulton School System? How would you address these?

Safety. This has to be our number one priority, because failure is unacceptable. I am proud we are among the very few school districts in Georgia with a certified school police force. But the nature of the threats is constantly evolving, and we must remain committed to directing our resources to ensure student and staff safety. Fulton Schools has invested $15 million in safety and

security measures over the last 10 years, and an additional $19 million in enhanced security measures is planned over the next four years.

Testing. We must address the over testing of students to the extent we are able to under state and federal law. I advocate an approach that looks a lot more like when we all grew up, [implementing] benchmarks such as the ITBS, PSAT and SAT (or an ACT equivalent). A nationally normed test would provide parents the information to see how their child compares nationally — not just in Georgia.

I advocated and testified for passage of SB 362, allowing local school districts to replace Milestones with other tests. This is a big step in the right direction. In the meantime, I continue to push back against a focus on Milestones. For students, test prep (which often lasts for weeks) should not take up so much of their time; creating unnecessary stress and anxiety.

Continuous Achievement. In North Fulton, we have great schools and great students and we never want to return to the time when reaching state expectations was sufficient. Our Continuous Achievement model allows each child to progress at a pace that best suits them.

For some students that might be a grade level or two ahead. I am a strong advocate of policies which ensure our students have the opportunity to reach their full potential, and will continue to do so.

Do you support a millage rate increase to fund new initiatives such as reduced class sizes?

Over the last 10 years, our community — along with the rest of the country — weathered a deep economic downturn. Decisions were made to ensure students were not negatively impacted from an achievement perspective. It was definitely not a time to raise taxes on a community filled with people trying to keep their jobs, homes and businesses.

So additions to our budget must be viewed in short- and long-term impact.

It’s difficult to commit dollars without knowing how much will be there each year. And 70 percent of our taxpayers in Fulton County do not have children in school. So we must balance the needs of the schools with how much taxpayers are willing to support.

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for District 2 School Board seat Tom Pemble Tom Pemble, 65, is a member of the Milton High School Governance Council and is making his first run for elected office. A native of Miami, Fla., Pemble is a 40-year resident of Fulton County and was a science teacher in the PEMBLE district for nearly three decades. He is a graduate of Florida State University (Bachelor of Science) and Georgia State University (Masters and Education Specialist). His wife, Kathy, also taught science in the Fulton School System.

Why did you decide to seek the District 2 School Board seat?

During the last 10 years of my teaching career, I observed the continual movement of funds out of the classrooms and into non-instructional areas. Current 2018 budget revisions show $18 million less in instructional spending, and $42 million more in non-instructional spending. Obviously this trend is continuing. I am seeking this office to reverse this trend and to make funding schools and classrooms the first priority. With a budget of $1.2 billion there is plenty of money. We just need to change the priorities on how these dollars are spent.

What are the biggest issues facing the Fulton School System?

Overcrowded classrooms: Over the last 10 years, student enrollment increased by 11 percent, but instructional personnel (classroom teachers) decreased by 8 percent. Meanwhile, non-instructional personnel increased by 38 percent. These changes have led to the classroom overcrowding [and subsequently] the loss of many of our most experienced teachers. This problem is an issue of misguided priorities.

Many parents I have talked to tell me the large class size was a factor in sending their children to private school.

Security: Our society has changed dramatically over the past 20 years and so has the need for security in our schools. I believe that there should be an armed school resource officer in every school, including elementary.

Social and Emotional Support: The pressures on school children today are much different than 10 years ago.

Cell phones, social media and instant communication can cause significant stress for young people. Additionally, an increase in burdensome testing from kindergarten through high school adds additional stress to students and teach-

ers. Testing is used to sort or “track” children in the early grades and can be very stressful for all ages.

How do you plan to solve these issues?

Overcrowded classrooms: We need to shift the priority back to the classroom and increase instructional personnel rather than central office and support personnel. I would push to create board policy to set a maximum class size. This could be done gradually by decreasing class size a few students each year to achieve class sizes that allow for effective student-teacher interaction and instruction. In the interest of transparency, we need to have a category of “classroom teacher” which shows the number of teachers actually teaching classes of children all day, rather than working in a different capacity.

Security: We need to commit to an armed school resource officer in every school. Parents have been told that it is cost prohibitive to spend $4.2 million to put a resource officer in each elementary school. I believe if we can spend $35 million on furniture and equipment we can certainly find $4.2 million to help ensure the safety of school children. The current practice of installing door bells and purchasing additional automobiles is not enough.

Social and Emotional Support: Each school needs sufficient counseling staff to address the needs of the students.

Additionally, counseling staff needs to be relieved of burdensome paperwork so their time can be spent working with students. Reduction of excessive testing would also alleviate student stress.

What decisions do you believe should be made at the local level instead of the state?

I would like to see some of the standardized testing waived. As a charter system, Fulton County has been given a “blanket waiver” from Georgia laws.

This means it can ignore most state guidelines. So the question should be which of these rules and guidelines should NOT have been waived. I believe FCS should adhere to class size limitations and only hire certified teachers.

Do you believe Fulton Schools lives up to its motto of “every child first”?

Having been a classroom teacher in Fulton County for 28 years I can say from the teachers’ perspective the children DO come first. This is evidenced by the amount of personal time and personal finances teachers commit to their students. The increase in class size, however, has stretched to

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By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — For President and CEO of WellStar Healthcare System, Candice L. Saunders, it is vital to live every day with purpose and intent.

Speaking at the 10th Women Who Walk the Walk luncheon April 24 at the Golf Club of Georgia, Saunders described how she finds purpose in her work and in her daily life.

“Every one of us gets our center from our purpose,” Saunders said. “No matter what challenge, opportunity or the ebb and flow of life, if you have your purpose well-defined and established, you will be resilient to whatever life throws at you.”

Saunders started her healthcare career, which she said is her purpose, as a critical care nurse and joined WellStar as president of Kennestone Hospital in 2007. She was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer for WellStar Health System in 2013, and assumed the role of president and CEO in 2015.

“Now, as the CEO of a large health system, I’ve never lost that urge as to why I got into healthcare,” she said. “I work for the doctors, nurses and team members. That’s what gets me up every day. I feel very blessed to have found my purpose in healthcare and being able to serve people. We take care of people in their most fragile times in their lives.”

While she said she enjoys her current role, she never thought she’d do anything other than being a nurse.

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Before the mostly female crowd, Saunders pointed out that less than one-fifth of companies have 25 percent or more female board of directors.

“This was from a couple years ago, but as I did some research, it still exists today,” Saunders said. “We’ve made progress, but there is still much to do.

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The down and dirty on Alpharetta’s tech history Today Alpharetta is known far and wide for its posh commercial districts, its stately gated communities and its thriving tech industry. But 38 years ago, the business climate there GEOFF SMITH was a very different Assurance Financial, deal. gsmith@lendtheway.com I would know, because my father helped start the first tech company in Alpharetta – at least the first that we know of, in 1979. They broke ground on 10 acres off Hembree Road and built a printed circuit manufacturing company called Proto Systems. In case you don’t know, printed circuit boards are those green boards you see inside of your remote controls at home. They were originally developed to take the place of a nest of wires, and back in 1979, were considered hightech hardware.

The company secured contracts with what was then Scientific-Atlanta and other contractors, including many in the defense industry. They became known for being able to build product quickly – sometimes overnight. But

they were known for another thing: they were the shop surrounded by a pig-farm.

Clients always left his plant with stories for their co-workers, especially if the wind was blowing just right. They made circuits for some of the most high-tech machines on the market.

Their product went to NASA and were installed on one of the Space Shuttles, and to Raytheon to go in early forms of the Patriot Missile.

Being the first tech company wasn’t easy. The workforce back then wasn’t really prepared to supply skilled workers. But being the creative and energetic soul that he is, dad didn’t worry about that. He always said that he looked for good people, not decorated people.

Back then, one of the largest industries north of the river was chicken farming. If you wanted to build a chicken-processing plant, you would have no problem finding skilled labor. But if you wanted to build circuit boards, you had to make do. So Proto Systems hired people away from processing chickens and taught them how to build circuit boards for NASA and Raytheon. During one interview, he asked someone what her job title was at the chicken plant: “I

cut out the bad parts,” was her answer.

Needless to say, word spread quickly throughout the chicken plants and they never had much trouble finding applicants for new jobs.

I was young, but I remember them as really fun times out there. Being out in the country, and being 38 years ago, on Fridays many of the employees would hang around the plant after work. That lasted up until they had a really good time one evening, and someone tried to show everyone how they could jump their Trans-Am over a ditch and into the pig farm. They had to reign in the after-hour activities after that.

For a couple of years they were North Fulton’s largest employer, until North Fulton Regional Hospital and the Roswell Kimberly Clarke campuses were built.

Over time, Alpharetta grew up all around the plant. After the fiber-optic cables were planted all over the city, class A offices and high-tech data centers sprouted up along Old Milton Parkway and Windward Parkway. Today, the old Proto Systems buildings sit across from what is now the Alpharetta Public Works Department and the Roswell Department of Transportation – both of which sit on what used to be

the pig-farm.

The area around the old plant is really the last remaining industrial area of Alpharetta. It’s not quite as glorious as the new Microsoft office rising up over the pristine avenues of Avalon.

But it did earn the company a place in Alpharetta’s new Alpharetta & Old Milton County History Museum. The museum opened last week and sits on the first floor of the new City Hall. It goes way back to the early 1800s and has real artifacts and items that take you from the time the Native Americans roamed its hills, right up to when the tech boom started – which apparently was in 1979 when my father, Gary Smith, helped break ground on 10 acres across from a pig farm.

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My sister is such a wonderful mom. She loves her two young kids, Alexis and Peyton, more than anything in life, and is devoted to taking care of their needs, usually above her own, and making them feel safe and loved. She is tireless and energetic in managing school, dance lessons, golf practice, baseball, swimming, birthday parties and family time at home. I’m so proud of the woman she has become and all she does as a mom. ~Melissa Ewing

Doretta Colon is my Mom. She is amazing. She is both a professional and personal teacher. She is 84 years young and is constantly on the move. I can hardly keep up with her. She is still teaching and guiding me through this wonderful world we are all so blessed to live in. I am so very blessed to have her in my life everyday, even though keeping up with her is killing me! I love you Mom. Thanks for giving me life and teaching me how to live it well! ~Rebecca Silvey

My favorite mom is my wife of 50 years, mother of three children and grandmother to 10 grandchildren. She loves kids and does everything within her power to help them to develop into kind, generous and faithful individuals. ~Timothy Neet

My Mom, Carolyn King-Woodruff, is the cornerstone of our small family. I can honestly say she’s my best friend and my daughter’s favorite Grandma. We love her more than words can say. ~April Shepperson

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OUTDOOR FITNESS: NACHO ORDINARY 5K DRINKING WATER FESTIVAL

The City of Roswell’s Water Utility Division will give citizens an opportunity to explore the process for safe drinking water at its annual Drinking Water Festival on Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. This free event will be held at the Roswell Water Treatment Plant at 100 Dobbs Drive, Roswell. Tour the water plant while enjoying a free cookout, children’s activities and giveaways. For more information, visit roswellgov.com.

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EVENTS: CANDIDATE DEBATE FORUM

What: Hear from all of the mayoral and city council candidates for Alpharetta.

When: Friday, May 4, 6-8 p.m.

Where: Alpharetta High School, 3595 Webb Bridge Road, Alpharetta More info: alpharetta.ga.us

DOCUMENT SHREDDING EVENT

What: Shred sensitive documents and recycle cooking fats, oils and grease.

Fluorescent bulbs and gently-used clothes are also accepted.

When: Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Panera Bread, 11715 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek More info: knfb.org

CHEMICAL MONITORING WORKSHOP

What: Participants will learn about chemical sampling techniques, while also learning and sharing their views on watershed issues. Certification will be given after completion.

When: Saturday, May 5, 12:30-4 p.m.

Where: Autrey Mill Nature Center, 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns Creek More info: autreymill.org

SUNDAY SOCIAL

What: All ages welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult.

Drop-ins welcome.

When: Sunday, May 6, 1 p.m.

Where: Autrey Mill Nature Center, 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns Creek Cost: free for Autrey Mill members, $5 for non-members More info: autreymill.org

BETTER TOGETHER

What: Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at in the heart of downtown Milton. Each meeting features a community speaker.

When: Tuesday, May 8, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Where: Community Place at Milton City Hall, 2006 Heritage Walk, Milton More info: cityofmiltonga.us

AGING WELL WORKSHOP

What: The workshop will cover finances, assisted living, downsizing, moving, veteran’s benefits and more.

For seniors and adult children.

When: Tuesday, May 8, 3-5 p.m.

Where: The Memory Center, 12050 Findley Road, Johns Creek More info: facebook.com/ events/1625812964199171/

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN ALPHARETTA

What: Learn about the latest public projects, like the Alpha Loop, and what private developers are building around town. The Director of Community Development will be available.

When: Wednesday, May 9, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Alpharetta City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta www.alpharetta.ga.us

ATLANTA BIRD FEST

What: The event will feature exclusive, bird-centered field trips, workshops and speakers for both casual and experienced nature and bird observers.

When: April 14-May 20 Where: Multiple locations throughout the metro Atlanta area More info: atlantaaudubon.org/atlantabird-fest

GARDEN TOUR MONDAYS

What: Enjoy a free 30-minute tour of the gardens and historic plants on the grounds of Barrington Hall.

When: Every Monday, through Sept.

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Where: Barrington Hall, 535 Barrington Drive, Roswell More info: roswellgov.com

What: The proceeds of this event will be donated to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The 3.1 mile cross-country course is flat and open to all ages.

When: Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Mill Springs Academy, 13660 New Providence Road, Alpharetta Cos: $30 for adults, $20 for ages 6-10; family rates available More info: runsignup.com/race/ga/ Alpharetta/NachoOrdinary5k

ROSWELL FARMERS & ARTISANS MARKET

What: Don’t miss the opening day of the Roswell Farmers & Artisans Market. Mix and mingle with friends, shop for fresh items and enjoy talking to the vendors.

When: Saturday, April 14, 8 a.m. – noon Where: Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St., Roswell More info: roswellfam.com

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What: Join the North American Native Fish Association for a creek hike, while learning about native fish and fish collecting techniques.

When: Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Where: Autrey Mill Nature Center, 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns Creek Cost: free for Autrey Mill members, $5 for non-members More info: autreymill.org What: All participants must bring their own Yoga mats. Participants younger than 16 years old must be accompanied by an adult.

When: Sunday, May 6, 10 a.m.

Where: Mark Burkhalter Amphitheater at Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek More info: johnscreekga.gov What: The Fulton Golden Games has helped mature adults stay physically active, socially engaged, and competitive, thus improving their quality of life.

When: Opening Ceremony Wednesday, April 25, 8 a.m-5 p.m.; events through May 25 Where: Bell Memorial Park, 15245 Bell Park Road, Milton More info: cityofmiltonga.us

FARMERS MARKETS, FOOD TRUCKS: ALPHARETTA FOOD TRUCK ALLEY

What: Rotating food trucks and music each week. Six to eight food trucks from the Atlanta area will come out to help kick off the weekend early.

When: Thursdays, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., through Oct. 11 Where: Old Roswell Street in Alpharetta’s historic district More info: awesomealpharetta.com

ALPHARETTA FARMERS MARKET

What: The Alpharetta Farmers Market features fruits, vegetables, natural meats, fresh flowers and herbs, and a variety of home goods.

When: Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Old Canton Street in downtown Alpharetta More info: alpharetta.ga.us

What: Hear Pirate Flag Band, a Kenny Chesney cover band. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Blankets and lawn chairs are welcome. The concerts are free.

When: Friday, May 4, 6 p.m.

Where: Mark Burkhalter Amphitheater, 3150 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek More info: johnscreekga.gov

What: The Roswell Performing Arts will present their “Once Upon A Time” spring recitals.

When: Friday, May 4, 7-8:30 p.m.

Additional shows May 5 Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell More info: roswellgov.com

What: Leah Calvert, joined by her trio of talented musicians, is a singersongwriter and in-demand Atlantaarea fiddler and vocalist. The free concert will have food and drink for purchase.

When: Saturday, May 6, 7-9 p.m.

Where: Riverside Park, 575 Riverside Road, Roswell More info: roswellgov.com

“CIRQUE TANTARA”

What: Milton High School will present “Cirque Tantara,” a performance loosely based on the seven stages of man as scribed by William Shakespeare in “As You Like It.” When: May 3-5 and 10-12, 7 p.m.

Where: Milton High School, 13025 Birmingham Highway, Milton More info: miltontheatrecompany.com

SPOTLIGHT ART: ROSWELL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

What: The society, with over 400 members, will participate in the annual Heritage Days, celebrating everyday life experiences in Roswell.

When: April 2-May 31, all day Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell More info: roswellphotosociety.org

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Simplicity: Try using simple shutters for a pure, uncluttered effect to allow other beautiful features on the outside of your home to shine. It is in line with minimalism, where you incorporate clean, refreshing looks, while adding a nice touch to your decor.

To follow this trend, use shutters with sharp lines, minimal details and neutral colors Lighten up: Color plays a big role in the overall appearance of your home, and while exterior shutters are typically dark colored, we’ve seen an uptick in lighter colored shutters. This works especially well when trying to modernize the look of an older building. Light colored walls, combined with shutters in a slightly darker hue seems to be the norm. Whites and greys works very well and is a trend that will be with us for a while.

Stick with the basics: Exterior shutters should never overpower the look of your house and not all homes lend itself to the exotic. There’s nothing wrong with some traditional Raised Panel style shutters

or even Louvered shutters to give a traditional, formal house a neat and tidy look.

Add flair and personality: Another subtle way of giving you home a one-of-a-kind appearance is to add custom cutouts to your shutters.

Let your home’s personality shine with just about any shape you can imagine, from stars and crescent moons to palm trees and hearts. Go bold and traditional with a full cutout, or subtle and interesting with only a small relief cut on the outside corner. This obviously only works on paneled or Board and Batten style shutters.

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The examples are endless, but here are a few: • Healthcare – an orthopedic surgeon printing an exact replica of the patient’s knee nearly assuring the perfect fit and less recovery time, IBM Watson, via AI, making a diagnosis of a rare bone cancer because it had “consumed” years of medical journals to “learn” what humans can’t and providing mobility to the elderly and home-bound patients via AV, liberating a whole segment of our population.

• Education – empowering teachers to teach and removing the administrative burden by leveraging AI success coaches to handle the mundane and unlock the educator’s passion to change children’s lives. Providing real-time, 3-D modeling to high school robotics teams and higher education engineering students.

As a community and state, it is an imperative that we embrace AI, 3-D and AV. The intersection of these burgeoning technologies and industries like transportation, education, healthcare

and of course manufacturing sets up Georgia’s new “north star”. We must rally private enterprise, education and government toward creating a workforce with the right skills, a business ecosystem with limited JONES regulation and cash liquidity and R&D bolstered through deep partnerships between our higher education institutions and businesses of all sizes.

We have seen how the Internet can be the great equalizer. Uber versus taxis, Facebook versus traditional publishing and on and on. Imagine a manufacturing process comprised primarily of three phases – dream it, design it and print it. An entrepreneur could have a customized product on the company web site within days, not weeks or months. Each customer getting it in the color they choose along with their monogram.

Compare that to today. Today’s manufacturing processes are laborious, inefficient and typically do not create a positive return on investment for quarters and in many cases years.

Let’s not pick on manufacturing, this can be said about nearly every industry of today. The core processes existing in the USA are rooted in post-World War II thinking. That mantra drove a massive economic expansion in the 50’s and early 60’s, but like the abacus and corded phones we need to be willing to walk away from what is comfortable.

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Traditional Interior Design is timeless and usually elegant with great attention to detail. It never goes out of style. People who prefer traditional usually prefer more regal environment.

Most traditional furniture is in a larger scale size. Everything makes a statement. Traditional finishes tend to be darker.

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Traditional Design usually appeals to people who love symmetry. Decorating with pairs is a must. To make Traditional a little more updated please feel to use more neutral fabrics and lighter finishes and use accessories in groups of threes and fives.

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‘KENVY’ is the new metric for home design The complete guide to maximum KENVY points You’re driving home from a gathering, like a neighborhood barbeque or cocktail party, and you and your spouse are in awe of the host’s home.

It’s gorgeous. Not just one element of the home; it’s everything. You’re at a loss for words, so your default description is “it’s just so well put together”. Then there’s an awkward pause followed by “I wish our house could be like theirs”.

You’ve just experienced KENVY. KENVY is a multi-dimensional word that’s partially art and partially science. Remodeling Expo Center, a North Atlanta Remodeling company, coined the term “KENVY” to help homeowners make their homes more functional, more valuable, more current, and as a consequence, quite possibly, the envy of the neighborhood. KENVY is somewhat of a whimsical term but actually a sequential methodical process to achieve truly breathtaking home remodels.

KENVY is a term derived from the compaction of the words “Kitchen and Envy”, says John Hogan, the owner of Remodeling Expo Center, a design-build remodeling company in Roswell. “And it’s not just about kitchens but the kitchen is no longer a separate room; it’s the central hub of the 1rst floor and it dictates the design direction of the home. So achieving KENVY starts in the kitchen but flows though the whole 1rst floor.”

Remodeling Expo Center has a Design Studio within the company which has formulated over 100 KENVY Points to make homes truly spectacular. Some are costly but most really aren’t, and they generally apply to homes valued from $300k to $1.2+ million. Here are some basic KENVY Points that apply to all homes large or small.

KENVY #1 – Connectivity to the kitchen; not just through doorways but wider cased openings, or remove wall(s). The 2018 kitchen needs to be a walkable social center.

KENVY #2 – Remove the microwave from above the cooktop and install at least a 36”, 5 burner cooktop.

KENVY #3 – Long uninterrupted stretches of quartz or granite countertop. Pair the refrigerator and double ovens together and move them off the cooking wall.

KENVY #4 – BIG single level island with seating, probably located where you removed walls.

KENVY #5 – A few glass door accent wall cabinets or perhaps stacked cabinets all the way to the ceiling.

KENVY #6 Square off the room.

Remove 45 degree angled walls, islands and peninsulas, as well as any soffits above the cabinets.

KENVY #7 – Move the cooktop off the island and place it on a wall. Complement it with a beautiful hood and a gorgeous accent tile in the backsplash.

KENVY #8 – Integrate a walnut wood counter into the large quartz island. Eating on a warm surface feels better than stone.

KENVY #9 Add a small service sink away from the main sink, essential for prep and clean-up after entertaining.

KENVY#10 Choose to finish out your cabinets with decorative elements that make them look like furniture pieces and not just cabinet boxes, such as side panels, furniture legs, light rail, cove molding, glass doors with muntin’s, and stagger the cabinets to break up uniformity.

KENVY is at the intersection of style, function, social interaction, space planning and design.

There are over 100 KENVY Points that can be employed throughout the home to make a home just like the one you admired at the last cocktail party.

To learn more about KENVY and how it can be applied to your home contact the Remodeling Expo Center, RemodelingExpo.com, 404 910-3969, 48 King Street in Roswell, GA

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Reeves: Continued from Page 12 Our budget is about $1 billion annually, with about 85 percent dedicated to employee compensation.

To reduce class size by one student in each class would cost $10 million annually. To reduce class size by three, we would need a full mill increase (from 18.56 to 19.56), since one mill brings in $30 million.

But we certainly are focused on this

issue. Last year the board added an additional elementary teacher to each school, and allowed the school to determine where that teacher is best needed.

As we look at how to best spend additional funds, I think it makes more sense to first address class sizes through a targeted approach, such as in 4th grade, middle school math classes, high school science labs, etc.

Our budget also absorbs the rapidly rising cost of employee insurance, and funding the teacher retirement system.

Last year it cost an additional $20 million to maintain the same health

CITY OF ALPHARETTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The following item will be considered by the City Council on Monday, May 21, 2018 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. PH-18-01/E-18-01 Liberty Hall Consideration of a request to change previous conditions of zoning and an exception to allow off-site parking. Termination of a previous agreement with the City to provide public offsite parking is also requested. The property is located at 33 South Main Street and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1269, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

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

CITY OF ALPHARETTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The following item will be heard at a public hearing held by the Planning Commission on Thursday, May 10, 2018 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Items forwarded by the Planning Commission will be considered by the City Council on Monday, May 21, 2018 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. CLUP-18-02/MP-18-03/Z-18-03/V-18-03 KB400/1699 Land Company Consideration of a request to rezone approximately 12.4 acres from O-I (Office-Institutional) to R-8A/D (Dwelling, ‘For-Sale’, Attached/Detached Residential) to allow for the construction of 62 ‘For-Sale’ single-family detached homes in a gated community. An amendment is requested to the KB400 Master Plan Pod A to add ‘Dwelling, ‘For-Sale’, Detached’ to the list of permitted uses. A Comprehensive Land Use Plan amendment is requested to change the designation of the property from ‘Corporate Office’ to ‘High Density Residential’. Variances are requested to reduce minimum lot widths and building setbacks. The property is located at the southwest corner of Kimball Bridge Road and North Point Parkway and is legally described as being located in Land Lots 807, 808, 849 & 850, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

coverage and fully fund our portion of TRS (the state sends us a bill each year). This year those two items alone are expected to cost an additional $30 million — with no additional coverage or benefits.

Do you support a schools tax exemption for senior citizens?

I know there is an increasing call for an additional senior exemption (we already have a senior exemption tied to income). Recently, the School Board asked Georgia State economists to look into the impact of a 65+ senior exemp-

tion.

They projected it would cost $44 million dollars the first year, and rise thereafter.

We continue to dedicate funds to further examining how and when we can justify a senior exemption. Many of the commercial developments pay significantly reduced taxes through abatements and exemptions, but these will be gradually phased out. As that happens, the district will be in a better position to execute an exemption without negatively impacting our young families.

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Needham Graham, 91, of Milton, passed away April 18, 2018.

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Roy Frank Holz, 66, of Cumming, passed away April 19, 2018. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

John MacLaren, 93, of Alpharetta, passed away April 19, 2018.

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Robert Dominick Oliverio, 82, of Cumming, passed away April 20, 2018.

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The following item will be heard at a public hearing held by the City Council on Monday, June 4, 2018 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. V-18-05 Target North Point/Sign Variance Consideration of a variance request to allow two (2) wall signs on the same building elevation. The property is located at 6000 North Point Parkway and is legally described as being located in Land Lots 755 & 756, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia. b. V-18-04 11450 Maxwell Road/Setback Variance Consideration of a variance request to reduce a side building setback for an accessory building on a property in the LI (Light Industrial) zoning district. The property is located at 11450 Maxwell Road and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 691, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

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

Pemble: Continued from Page 13 the breaking point. I believe the loss of instructional personnel and redirection of resources away from the classroom shows the School Board has lost sight of this motto.

If students really do come first, the classroom should be the last place cuts are felt.

Do you support a millage rate increase to fund new initiatives?

I firmly believe there is adequate funding to achieve [needed] program initiatives.

The board states that 48.1 percent

Blotter: Continued from Page 2 a PIN like a credit card. He said while the attack was occurring, the person called him twice and cussed at him.

On the second try, the caller apparently acted like he was with Google and wanted to verify the information on the man’s account.

The victim said he believes the calls were to verify it was his account because the person on the phone sounded suspicious so he didn’t provide any information.

While the man was working the next day, he started getting calls again. He answered once when the caller said he would give him “one chance to cooperate and give him his PIN” in the game.

The man couldn’t regain access to his game account or email until a couple of days later. But the next day he received an alert from his credit card company about unusual activity.

He discovered several attempts and charges from his PayPal account. He didn’t know how the person gained access because he didn’t receive any alerts of attempts to gain access and the password wasn’t changed.

The pending charges totaled more than $1,700.

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of employees are “teachers.” If these “teachers” are in fact in the “classroom,” our average class size would be about 14. We already have the personnel, we just need to utilize them in the classroom.

Do you support a schools tax exemption for senior citizens?

I do support the senior exemption, but my first priority will always be the students. I am open to exploring how Fulton County may be able accomplish

this exemption. Several surrounding counties have done this successfully, so I would like to sit down with their leaders to learn how they managed it. Also, I would like to know how this exemption would affect our local fair share.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA FOR SR 400 RAMP AT WINDWARD PARKWAY PHASE 2 Project: P.I. 0010768 ITB 18-003 The City of Alpharetta is accepting bids for SR 400 RAMP AT WINDWARD PARKWAY PHASE 2 including, but not limited to, furnishing of all materials, labor, and equipment to convert a portion of the flex lane at SR400/US19 into an auxiliary lane in addition to adding a 14’ wide shoulder. The SR400/US19 northbound off ramp to Windward Parkway will be widened to provide three left turn lanes with shoulders. On Windward Parkway, westbound, an additional lane will be constructed to provide three 11-foot travel lanes with a 4-foot bicycle lane from the SR 400 northbound off ramp to Westside/Deerfield Parkway. In addition, a second left turn lane from westbound Windward to Westside Parkway will be added. Traffic signal work will be required at the intersections of Windward Parkway and SR400/US19 as well as Westside/Deerfield. The project length along Windward Parkway is 0.63 miles. The contractor shall complete all work by 540 calendar days from Notice to Proceed.

All construction shall conform to the State of Georgia Standard Specifications for the Construction of Transportation Systems, 2013 Edition, GDOT Supplemental Specifications Book, 2016 Edition and all applicable Special Provisions apply to this project. Only contractors that have been pre-qualified with the Georgia Department of Transportation to perform this class of work shall be allowed to submit bids. Please submit your Georgia Department of Transportation qualification specification letter with the package. The Disadvantage Business Enterprise (DBE) goal for this project is 15%. The Bidder qualifications are as follows: • Bidders submitting bids over $2,000,000 shall be prequalified with the GDOT. • Bidders submitting bids $2,000,000 or less shall be prequalified or registered subcontractors with the GDOT The City of Alpharetta in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 78 Stat. 252, 42 USC 2000d—42 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, part 21, Nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, or national origin in consideration for an award.

A bid bond in the amount of 5% of contract price required for all Public Works Projects A performance bond of 100% of the contract price and Payment bond of 110% will be required for this project.

The Project Manual will be available online Thursday, May 3, 2018, at our bid posting website, https://www. ebidexchange.com/alpharetta. Interested parties are required to log in to review the ITB documents. Georgia Standard Specifications for the Construction of Transportation Systems, 2013 Edition, are available from the Georgia Department of Transportation website, http://www.dot.ga.gov/doingbusiness/thesource/Pages/home.aspx.

A Pre-Bid Conference – Optional Attendance, will be held Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 9:00 AM at City of Alpharetta, City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009. Participation in the conference is optional. However, it is advisable that all interested parties participate.

The bid opening will be held on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM at the City of Alpharetta, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, GA 30009.

For information, please contact Debora Westbrook at the City of Alpharetta Finance Department at 678-297-6052 or via email at purchasing@alpharetta.ga.us.

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Wanted to Buy RECORDS: LP’s. Pay cash, Rock & Roll.

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Cemetery GREENLAWN ROSWELL Beautiful, sought-after location next to lake with fountain. Adjacent to marble/stone bench.

Shady, wooded hill above lake. Natural space for quiet meditation. For one casket or multiple urns. Please visit “Virtual Tour” feature, Greenlawn Cemetery website; choose “THE LAKE Location”.

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Real Estate Office Space for Rent OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE IN DOWNTOWN ALPHARETTA Office(s) for lease on North Main Street near downtown Alpharetta.

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Instruction Classes MATHEMATICS: Many students advanced to Ivy league. 20 years advanced experience, especially SAT. KAIST Mathematics B.S. Purdue Mathematics M.S. Your home $35/hour.

404-933-7094. pauljkim1 @yahoo.com ADULT COMPUTER CLASSES . $15-$45/ class. Windows, Excel, e-bay, photo editing, Microsoft Word, internet, e-mail etc. Roswell Adult Recreation Center 770-641-3950. http:// www.roswellalc.org/ rscalendar.htm

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Let Us Connect You Alpharetta-Roswell Herald Delivers to 28,000 households every Thursday Zip Codes: 30005, 30009, 30022, 30075, 30076. Alpharetta & Roswell’s primary news source. Est. 1983.

Alpharetta’s paper of record.

Johns Creek Herald Delivers to 20,000 households every Thursday Zip Codes: 30022, 30097. Johns Creek’s primary news source. Est. 1997. Johns Creek’s paper of record.

Northside Woman 18,000 copies distributed monthly to subdivisions and business in North Fulton and South Forsyth with home delivery to 40+ of the most exclusive gated and estate communities in North Atlanta.

Forsyth Herald Delivers to 17,000 households every Thursday Zip Codes: 30040, 30041.

Forsyth County’s largest circulation newspaper. Est. 1998

Milton Herald Delivers to 10,000 households every Thursday Zip Code: 30004. Community news for and about the City of Milton. Est. 2006.

Milton’s paper of record.

Answer Books 40,000 copies distributed quarterly to local real estate agents, doctors, chambers of commerce, visitor’s bureaus as well as personal homes. Each quarter has a different focus including education, relocation, medical and seniors

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