Elections 2014
Meet your candidates ►►PAGES 8–11
Northview back on track
Titans end losing streak with win over Cougars ►►PAGE 22
Gladiators advance
Santa visits Roswell
Reach volleyball Final Four ►►PAGES 12
Stops for photos, BBQ ►►PAGE 13
October 30, 2014 | northfulton.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 18, No. 43
Attendance zones draft due Nov. 5 School maps online before meeting By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@northfulton.com
Art, family fun in Johns Creek J. Weeks takes his son J. Weeks Jr. for a stroll through the booths at the Johns Creek Arts Festival. See more, Page 26. RAY APPEN/STAFF
Fire guts Johns Creek home Family escapes after smoke detector warning By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – A fire gutted a house on Waters Bend Way in Johns Creek, but the family was awakened by smoke detectors and es-
caped unharmed. Shortly after midnight, Oct. 22, Johns Creek Fire Department received the call for a structure fire and arrived on the scene to find the home fully engaged in flames. “There was heavy smoke and fire on the left side of the building near the garage and it got up into the second floor and into the attic,” said Fire Chief Jeff Hogan. The chief said he could
not say where the fire started because the investigation was not completed yet, but it appeared to have started in the garage or the basement. “We had a good bit of fire in the basement also,” Hogan said. Talking to the homeowner that night, the man told the chief he thought he had smelled smoke a couple of
See FIRE, Page 6
NORTH FULTON, Ga. – The first draft of revised attendance zone maps for North Fulton schools should be available for review by noon on Nov. 5; several hours prior to the second redistricting meeting. The draft maps were developed based on feedback from the first round of redistricting meetings held Oct. 8 at Centennial High School. The second meeting will start at 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 at Alpharetta High School. Yngrid Huff, chief planner for the Fulton County School System, said she anticipates the draft maps will be available mid-morning on Nov. 5 on the school system website, www. fultonschools.org. For people unable to attend the meeting, online comments will be accepted through Sunday of that week. Huff’s team will review all comments gathered during the second round and make additional revisions as needed prior to the final redistricting meeting on Dec. 10 at Centennial High at 7 p.m. Historically, the maps presented during the third meeting are close to the version sent to the Fulton School Board for final approval, although minor tweaks and revisions may still be forthcoming. Huff said attendance at the first meeting was in line with expectations, noting there were 435 participants at the meeting who generated about 681
The current redistricting is primarily to draw attendance zones for the new elementary school in west Roswell opening in August... comments. The online forum collected another 479 comments, which were all considered as the draft maps were being developed. The current redistricting is primarily to draw attendance zones for the new elementary school in west Roswell opening in August, and additions at three area middle schools. The new elementary lines will go into effect in 2016, with the new middle school lines taking effect August 2015. In addition to filling the new school and additions, planners will look at balancing enrollment numbers in some
See ZONES, Page 4