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HomeStretch Board Chairman Kurt Hilbert and HomeStretch Executive Director Rose Burton stand in the Millcreek common area amid the gazebo, playground and picnic area. Read more, Page 16.

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Facebook swindle costs woman $500

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — While attempting to pay for her groceries Oct. 27, a woman discovered her wallet had been taken from her purse.

The woman had visited the Publix on Haynes Bridge Road and noticed something was awry when she could not find her purse while checking out. She said she remembered someone following her and asked store employees to review the security footage.

When they did so, the footage showed a man grab the woman’s wallet from her purse and put it in his jacket.

He was described as six feet tall, between 25-25 years old, slim, short black hair and wearing a dark blue suit, white dress shirt, brown striped bowtie and dark sunglasses.

The wallet had $70 cash, 12 credit cards and the woman’s license.

She was told to put a hold on all of her cards.

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A 77-year-old woman recently lost $700 when someone who looked like her friend on Facebook convinced her to buy multiple iTunes gift cards.

The woman told police that she was contacted by her former acquaintance Oct. 27 on Facebook Messenger, when they told her about a group that received money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The acquaintance told the woman that they had received $200,000 from the group after paying $700 in taxes and fees.

The woman said she trusted the person because they had been friends on Facebook for several years and was directed to a Facebook profile for “Christ Geister.” Geister told the woman to buy five $100 iTunes gift cards and send photographs of their backs.

Once the woman realized it was a scam, the gift cards had been redeemed and most of the information from the profile had been deleted.

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Crest Village Lane, Roswell, was arrested Oct. 21 on Mansell Road, Roswell, for DUI and driving without a license. ►► Masood Aryan, 34, of Beverly Glen Village Lane, Norcross, was arrested Oct. 23 on Riviera Road, Roswell, for DUI and driving with no headlights. ►► John Roger Powers, 33, of River Rock Road, Woodstock, was arrested Oct. 7 on Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Ellis Hue Hobbs, 34, of Old Southwick Pass, Johns Creek, was arrested Oct. 8 on Elizabeth Way, Roswell, for DUI. ► ► David Stephen Wise, 30, of Bethelview Road, Cumming, was

arrested Oct. 8 on Ga. 400, Roswell, for DUI, possession of drug-related objects and reckless driving. ►► Nathan Clark, 49, of West Roosevelt Street, Goodyear, Arizona, was arrested Oct. 9 on Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, for DUI, making an illegal U-turn and failure to maintain lane. ►► Kenneth N Jernigan, 33, of Old Tree Trace, Roswell, was arrested Oct. 27 on Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek, for DUI and impeding traffic flow. ►► Cherry L Brown, 57, of Hartley Bridge Road, Macon, was arrested Oct. 27 on Holcomb Bridge Road, Johns Creek, for DUI ►► Kevin Francis White, 35, of Winford Place, Duluth, was arrested Oct. 28 on Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek, for DUI, failure to maintain lane and driving while unlicensed. ►► Kenneth G Sheldrick, 35, of Estuary Trail, Alpharetta, was arrested Nov. 1 on Morris Road, Milton, for DUI and having an open container. ►► Jessica L Onorato, 34, of Lake Windward Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested Oct. 27 on Ga. 400, Alpharetta, for DUI and failure to maintain lane. ►► Mcanthony Oh, 32, of Riverlanding Drive, Lawrenceville, was arrested Oct. 28 on Broadwell Road, Alpharetta, for DUI, possession of marijuana and having an open container. ►► April Leeper Kimble, 50, of Huntington Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested Oct. 29 on Westside Parkway, Alpharetta, for DUI and having a taillight out. ►► Prajal P Khivasara, 36, of Gardner Drive, Alpharetta, was arrested Oct. 30 on Parkview Lane, Alpharetta, for DUI, failure to maintain lane and speeding.

Drug arrests ►► Brice Ivery Morris, 27, of Woodward

Road, College Park, was arrested Oct. 16 on Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, for possession of marijuana and running a stop sign. ►► Akash Ravindra Gogate, 22, of Knightsbridge Way, Alpharetta, was arrested Oct. 20 on Riverside Road, Roswell, for possession of marijuana and driving with no headlights. ►► Darrel Wesley Kimbro, 38, of Radcliffe Boulevard, Decatur, was arrested Oct. 6 on Myrtle Street, Roswell, for possession of marijuana. ►► Peter Lee Douthard, 28, of South Langley Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, was arrested Oct. 7 on Woodstock Road, Roswell, for possession of marijuana, driving on a suspended license and having an expired tag. ►► William B Anthony, 29, of Golden Mountain Road, Sparta, Tennessee, was arrested Oct. 14 on Old Dogwood Road, Roswell, for possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug-related objects. ►► Jason Prince Robinson, 42, of Jett Road, Dawsonville, was arrested Oct. 25 on McGinnis Ferry Road, Johns Creek, for possession of methamphetamine, theft by receiving stolen property, fleeing police, obstruction of justice and driving on a suspended license. ►► Tiyon Alina Smith, 24, of Azelea Lane, Gainesville, was arrested Oct. 30 on North Point Parkway, Alpharetta, for possession of marijuana and running a red light. ►► Ebony Mikayla-Miller Natale, 22, of Spring Hill Parkway, Smyrna, was arrested Oct. 31 on Mansell Road, Alpharetta, for possession of marijuana.

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Treating Age Related Macular Degeneration (Part 2 of 2)

By Charlie Ficco, O.D Milan Eye Center AMD (age-related macular degeneration) is the most common cause of irreversible vision loss in the developed world. The most common type of AMD is non-exudative or “dry”. This type comprises more than 80% of patients diagnosed with AMD. The other 20% is called exudative or “wet” AMD. AMD develops because the eye is unable to remove waste products from the retinal cells. These waste products, otherwise known as, drusen, can be detected early in this disease without visual loss. They appear as small, round, yellow dots within and around the area of the macula. However, if dry AMD progresses to retinal atrophy and central retinal degeneration, loss of central vision is often observed. Generally, non-exudative AMD has a much slower (over decades), progressive visual loss relative to “wet” AMD which can occur over days or weeks.

Treatment and Management Once the diagnosis of dry AMD is established, your doctor will counsel you on dietary changes, no smoking or stop smoking, daily exercise, home monitoring of central vision with an Amsler grid, and possibly, oral vitamin supplements. If your doctor recommends vitamin supplements, it is important to use a supplement that follows the AREDS 2 formula recommendations. AREDS 2 stands for the Age Related Eye Disease Study 2. Depending on the stage and severity of the disease at diagnosis, your doctor may want you to follow up in 6 months if mild or 3 months if severe. It is very important for you to contact your doctor immediately if you have a change in vision or Amsler grid. If dry AMD transforms to wet AMD, visual prognosis depends on the speed that it is treated.

Wet AMD forms when new, abnormal blood vessels grow and cause fluid accumulation under and within the layers of the macula. As you can imagine, this leads to drastic changes in central vision including blurring and distortion. To help treat wet AMD, there are medications called anti-VEGF drugs. VEGF stands for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor.

Anti-VEGF treatment helps reduce the number of abnormal blood vessels in your retina. It also slows any leaking from these blood vessels. This medicine is delivered to your eye through a very slender needle. In most cases, with successful treatment, the medicine needs to be delivered every 4-6 weeks. Laser surgery may also be used to treat some types of wet AMD. Your eye surgeon shines a laser light beam on the abnormal blood vessels. This reduces the number of vessels and slows their leaking.

Your retina specialist will determine the best treatment option for you depending on the type and severity of the leaking blood vessels.

The Future New research in AMD is ongoing. In fact, it is one of the most researched disease processes in the U.S. New treatments, genetic testing, and new instrumentation are being developed and show great promise in the fight against AMD. Patients with visual changes secondary to AMD can live a relatively normal life. Sometimes visual aids are needed to make the most of your vision, ie magnifying tools, handheld computers, electronic items and more. A consultation with a vision rehabilitation specialist can teach you ways to use your side vision to help you perform your activities of daily living. If you have decreased vision and would like a consultation with a vision rehabilitation specialist, are looking for a support group, or are interested in low vision aids, contact your optometrist or ophthalmologist and they will help you get in contact with the right person. The goal to living with impaired vision is to learn new ways to be as independent as possible and always have hope because research is being done every day.

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By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Johns Creek City Council recently received an update on the city’s Comprehensive Plan to check what changes citizen feedback has made.

The Johns Creek Comprehensive Plan, a EBERT blueprint for how the city should develop, is halfway through its two-year review due to be completed by the end of 2018.

Johns Creek Community Development Director Sharon Ebert said the plan is undergoing an exhaustive review by the Citizen Advisory Committee tasked with creating the update.

The state requires Johns Creek to have the updated Comprehensive Plan adopted by November 2018.

The first draft of the plan has been completed and has already received community feedback.

First of all, residents say the document is “long, complicated and hard to follow.”

Ebert said residents wanted the plan to be more explicit. They want to be able to tell “what does it mean for my neighborhood.”

Some had specific requests, such as reconfiguration or restrictions in some of the 12 city character area boundaries. Among those citizen requests are: Shakerag residents said they wanted their boundary to include both sides of Bell Road and be restricted to residential development of 1 unit per acre. The current plan calls for three units per acre.

Residents also requested any redevelopment of the Holcomb Bridge com-

mercial shopping center be changed from High Intensity-Mixed Use to be reduced to a lower intensity with a maximum of eight units per acre or three-story commercial.

Parsons Road also received comments to reduce residential density from the current three units per acre.

Residents also wanted to evaluate other options before widening it. It is on the TSPLOST list of projects to be widened to six lanes.

There were general comments requesting residential growth be reduced and prohibit any more apartment or townhome communities.

Comments asked for an update on the proposed city center in Technology Park on Medlock Bridge Road.

General comments were to keep residential density “low.”

“Just as a matter of record, the overall density of the city is 1.6 units per acre, which is considerably low,” Ebert said.

The Citizen Advisory Committee is reacting to the public comment and will take actions such as expanding the Shakerag Character Area to include both sides of Bell Road and lower the density to one unit per acre.

Parsons Road will lower density from three units per acre to two units per acre.

Holcomb Bridge commercial development will be reduced from 16 to eight units per acre and limit commercial buildings to three stories.

River Estates density will be lowered from two units per acre to one unit, and Johns Creek North goes from four units per acre to three units.

“After much discussion we decided to reduce the number of character areas from 12 to eight areas,” Ebert said. “Then, rather than have a comprehensive plan for the city, we could drill down into each one of these areas for a

Johns Creek Comprehensive Plan What is it?

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That would make the plan more citizen-useful so that they could look to see what is going on in their backyards, she said.

Many comments focused on too much growth. The city went through an intense amount of construction and expansion in the 1990s.

Between 1993 and 1999 the city doubled in population, Ebert said.

“The result of that is that 91 percent of the city is already built out,” Ebert said. “Most of [the city] will not change at all.”

While there are concerns about vacancies in the city’s strip centers, those comprise only 10 percent of the city.

While future plans for those areas may be needed, they should not present much potential change, she said.

Moving forward, the Comprehensive Plan will be revamped and be brought to the Citizens Advisory Committee for review in December.

In the first quarter 2018, the rewrite of the plan will be brought forward for review by the City Council and the public.

Final revisions should be done in April, so that in May it can be submitted to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for a 90-day review.

The plan will be returned for any final revisions or feedback in August and then be formally adopted.

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The The Georgia Piedmont Youth Orchestra performs at the state capitol.

Youth orchestra presents Nov. 18 concert with chorale JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Georgia Piedmont Youth Orchestra will present its next concert 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18 at Centennial High School auditorium.

The program will include Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture.

The concert will be under the baton of Rolando Salazar, assistant conductor and chorus master of the Atlanta Opera.

The Vivaldi will be sung by members of the Chattahoochee High School Chamber Choir under the direction of Jennie Famianski and the Atlanta Academy of Vocal Arts directed by Maria McDaniel Willathgamuwa.

Admission at the door will be $10 for adults. Students and children are free.

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Politics: Yes, Virginia, the medium is the message “Many people would be disposed to say that it was not the machine, but what one did with the machine, that was its meaning or message. In terms of the ways in which the machine altered our relations to one another and to ourselves, it mattered not in the least whether it turned out cornflakes or Cadillacs.”

–Marshal McLuhan on “The Medium Is the Message” Once upon a time, in a land now lost in time, there was a man named Marshal McLuhan who wrote a book (1964) called “Understanding Media” in which he evinced the (then) HATCHER HURD startling notion that Executive Editor hatcher@appenmediagroup.com the medium is the message.

What McLuhan was really saying is that for the study of communications it is the medium – not its purported message – that should be studied.

Know your medium because it is going to shape whatever message you receive.

And it is truer today given the media

outlets available. Just look at the plethora of media we have today – cable, email, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and the list continues to grow.

How we receive our messages changes the way we perceive it. Don’t believe me? Try to follow this.

One metaphor used to understand the concept is to look at the railroad as a medium. What a train carries is the message.

Then you can begin to understand its effect on society. The rails, the locomotive and the cars do not denote any “message” of what it carries. But it certainly affects the shape of what it carries. It affects to whom it is carried and how people deal with it when “the message” arrives.

And by adopting that mode, railroads have shaped our environment in startling ways. We see it in the way we organize and create cities, built factories, employed people and made heretofore less hospitable places habitable.

Before the train, transportation meant people on horseback or in wagons. Now hundreds could board a train.

This change in transportation changed the way we perceived ourselves, our world and what was possible in it. We changed our cities to accommodate stations and stockyards.

FDR spoke confidently and conversationally. He instilled confidence in the government.

It could be said FDR was the voice of government. It also could be said it got him re-elected three times.

McLuhan said so it is with the media.

Now we can understand why in the 1930s the sensation President Franklin Roosevelt made with his “fireside chats.”

For the first time the president, using radio broadcasts, talked directly to the people. There were no filters.

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It was a shared experience together – 90 percent of households had radios.

In the 11 years of his presidency, FDR made only around 30 chats, fewer than three a year. Yet they are still remembered for the effect they had.

People were living through the Great Depression. The bottom had dropped out of their world and they were scared.

Here was the president telling them in a personal and conversational way that things would get better and why.

FDR spoke confidently and conversationally. He instilled confidence in the government. It could be said FDR was the voice of government. It also could be said it got him re-elected three times.

Today we have presidential tweets.

He connects to each individual on a personal level. His message is as personal as it gets.

We have the internet and blogs.

We get emails directly to our personal addresses.

So what is the effect of these new media: emails, texts, tweets and a growing number of others?

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Judge grants Fulton Schools’ request for tax intervention Property tax revenue should soon be flowing to system

The tax crisis timeline • May - Property Tax Assessments sent out to Fulton property owners • May/June - Protests over spikes in residential value gain political momentum • June 21 - Fulton County Commission freezes property values at 2016 levels • June 25 - Fulton County Board of Education approves FY2018 budget • Oct. 13 - Fulton County submits final tax digest to the State Department of Revenue • Oct. 13 - State rejects Fulton’s tax digest; disagrees with legal basis used to calculate taxes • Oct. 31- Fulton Schools announces spending moratorium • Nov. 3 - Fulton judge grants temporary order to allow property tax bills to be issued • Nov. 15 – Mailing of tax bills expected to be complete • Jan. 18 – Due date for Fulton County

By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON, Ga. – Fulton County School officials are celebrating a decision to allow property tax bills to finally be issued, but belt-tightening and costs savings will continue through the end of the calendar year as the financial picture stabilizes.

On Nov. 3, Magistrate Court Judge Alan C. Harvey granted a Temporary Collection Order (TCO) authorizing Fulton County taxing authorities to issue tax bills to property owners.

Fulton County Schools, Atlanta Public Schools and Fulton County Government had joined together to seek legal action allowing them to collect property taxes which fund their operations.

The legal intervention was needed after the Georgia Department of Revenue rejected Fulton County’s tax digest in October, effectively halting the ability of the county, cities and school systems to receive tax revenue.

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Without the ruling, Fulton Schools faced the possibility of running out of money by mid-December, putting into jeopardy the ability to provide the second December paycheck to its employees.

Tax collections were already more than two months late, following an unprecedented series of events beginning last spring when tax assessments were first issued. Public outcry over hikes in home values led the Fulton County Commission to freeze assessments at the 2016 level, re-evaluate all tax bills, and the delay of issuing adjusted tax bills.

Fulton Schools has not received any local tax receipts since July 1, said a spokesperson, and has been forced to use its reserve funds of nearly $300 million to fund school operations. With $70 million in monthly payroll alone, and another $15 million in other expenses, that fund would be depleted by mid-December.

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Ferdinand in October, the state DOR cited numerous concerns related to the decision to use a decades-old law to freeze assessments at last year’s levels.

Particularly troubling to the state was that Fulton County’s freeze only applied to residential properties, not commercial parcels.

Despite the state concerns, the judge ruled a need existed to provide funding to the entities which depend upon tax revenue. “[The judge’s order] is a win for Fulton County Schools as we now have confirmation that revenue will soon be on its way to fund our schools [and provide the resourced they need],” said Fulton School Superintendent Jeff Rose. “This ruling allows us to breathe a little easier, but there is still a long road ahead.”

The Fulton Tax Commissioner expects property tax bills to be mailed by Nov. 15, with county bills due by Jan. 18, 2017.

Fulton Schools’ financial viability depends on many of those bills being paid prior to the due date.

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Legion Post 201 hosts Veterans Day car, bike show ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The public is invited to the free car and motorcycle show 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at the American Legion Post 201, 201, Wills Road, Alpharetta.

Mazda of Roswell is the sponsor along with the City of Alpharetta and the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau.

To enter a car or motorcycle the fee is $20. There is space for 60 cars and 40 bikes. Cars and bikes judged separately.

All proceeds go to sponsor Post 201’s packages to overseas active duty military program, its Boys State and Girl’s State programs, American Legion Baseball and other Legion activities.

• Awards will be given for: • Commander’s Choice • People’s Choice • Ladies’ Choice.

The Legion clubhouse will be open to the public for refreshments.

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A district spokesperson noted only costs related to safety and security, compliance issues, fuel and utilities are not impacted. No decision has been made on lifting the spending freeze in January.

Rose stressed the financial crisis affecting Fulton Schools is occur ring through no fault of the school system or its school board, known for its conservative financial management.

“This situation is not through any fault of our own. Fulton County Schools has exercised appropriate spending and prudent budgeting,” said Rose. “The Fulton County Board of Commissioners put us in this situation when they voted to freeze property tax values at 2016 levels.”

He lauded the patience and support of system staff and the community, noting “nothing could have prepared any of us for what has occurred over the past several months.”

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Thomas Fellows is a young software salesman who has written a slim volume about helping yourself with a very old piece of advice.

Fellows’ book, “Forget Self-Help, Re-Examining the Golden Rule” follows the journey he made out of depression by concentrating on helping others. He found helping others helped him expel his own demons.

Fellows, 28, began writing the book when he was 20 and finished it two years later. But he discovered the simple truth of the Golden Rule is a powerful tool not only for him but for anyone who really adopts it as a life skill.

“It’s all about thinking of others before self,” Fellows said. “I grew up in Buckhead. And my dreams were Buckhead dreams to join the right club, to have a great house, a car.”

But he found that chasing the American dream did nothing to fill this void in his life.

Always an avid reader, he found not only the Bible but four of his favorite writers – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harper Lee, Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee – all wrote about aspects of the Golden Rule and the place it held in their lives.

Fellows incorporates the impressions these writers made on him – along with some Christian teachings also. But it does not take a purely Christian point of view.

He has given the book to non-Christians, and they were not offended in any way.

“They said it was religious but not preachy,” he said.

Chapter 1 is called “Crying for Someone Other Than Yourself.” On the face of it, crying for someone else seems contrary to human nature. But Fellows notes empathy is a natural emotion, but many people suppress it.

He says let empathy out. It has healing powers for one’s own soul.

It is a slim book, 113 pages in all.

Each of the nine chapters deals with an aspect of the Golden Rule. Chapter 9: Becoming Christ-like is especially tantalizing. In it, Fellows explains the element of sacrifice in helping others.

“You only love someone when you are willing to sacrifice for them. Without sacrifice there is no love,” he wrote.

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In our hearts we know Fellows is on to something. Have we ever known a giving soul who did not seem happy and content all the time?

Likewise, do we not find many of the people we see blessed with many earthly things seem to never be truly happy or satisfied?

“When we do for others, we provide more happiness for ourselves more effectively then when we try to focus only on ourselves,” he said.

Growing up, we have all heard the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” But how many of us make that a conscious part of our daily lives? Fellows asked.

“Nobody is perfect, but if you practice it every day, you cannot help but make yourself happy too,” he said.

Fellows was moved write the book as a way of sharing his simple epiphany.

It is available on Amazon and in some of the local Barnes and Noble stores for $12.35.

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By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. –HomeStretch, the Roswell-based nonprofit, knows why people say the organization gives them the ability to thrive.

It simply means this self-help program not only takes families out of financial freefall and homelessness, it gives them the social tools and skills they need to change their lives.

“What HomeStretch does is guide working yet homeless families with minor children in north Metro Atlanta to reach increased self-reliance and stability they might not otherwise achieve,” said HomeStretch Executive Director Rose Burton.

“It does this with a proven track record of providing what we call LifeSkills education, mentoring and temporary supportive housing. We call it tools for life.”

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Next, parents are introduced to their mentors, usually two volunteers who will lead them down a thorough and proven road to employment and financial stability.

It is a tough-love project that the mentors exact, but everything is done with a purpose.

“We provide them shelter and financial respite. But that does not mean these families are on holiday,” Burton said. “What it means is they will have a roof over their heads and all of the support we can bring to bear while they get out of debt – many are homeless because they have been evicted.”

One typical client is Peggy Hughes, a single mom raising a teenage boy when her mother died. They were evicted from her apartment. She had been working as a paraprofessional with DeKalb County Schools for 11 years.

“You only have to fall behind a little bit, and then you’re late with the rent and you are evicted,” Hughes said.

She was fortunate, a friend took them in. It was a temporary arrangement, but it was long enough for Hughes to learn about HomeStretch.

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ARC boasts successes, but emphasizes challenges Traffic/transit tops list of issues; cities’ redevelopment encouraged

By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com ATLANTA – The cream of the Atlanta region’s leadership met Nov. 3 at the Atlanta World Congress Center to celebrate recent successes and take a hard look at where the region needs to go.

Atlanta Regional Commission Chairman Kerry Armstrong welcomed some 1,300 business people, civic leaders and government leaders to the annual ARC State of the Region Breakfast to see where the region stands and listen to ideas to continue Atlanta progress.

They heard a lot about where the region is and where it needs to go. And they heard interesting ideas about how to be a more cohesive and viable economic region.

Armstrong noted the region has many assets at work. With the Georgia Department of Transportation committed to investing $11 billion, the area is working together to solve transportation obstacles that stand in the way of growth.

Armstrong said that includes looking at TSPLOST projects, autonomous and connected vehicles. The region continues to be good stewards of its water resources.

“Today we use 10 percent less water than we did in 2000 and we have 1 million more residents today,” he said.

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But there are challenges. A recent

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survey found 1 in 7 residents could not come up with the money for a sudden expense of $400. One in 5 does not have a dependable way to get to work.

Georgia Tech Professor Design Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of the Urban Design master’s program at Tech, spoke about the economic benefits that urban redevelopment brings to the entire community.

Dunham-Jones pointed to the Atlanta Beltline, which has not only sparked new economic and residential growth in the city, but with its “plethora of urban trails” has triggered regeneration in what had been an impoverished area.

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lanta as a new walkable economic and cultural asset.

“We’re thinking differently about under-invested areas. And now we are running toward OTP [Outside The Perimeter] looking at our aging malls and outdated office parks,” Dunham-Jones said. “We are looking at retrofitting our commercial areas and redevelopment that is more walkable and compact.”

She might well have been talking about Alpharetta’s ongoing reinvention of its downtown that is rising up in its City Center and spreading with its “inner-loop” walking trail to match its greenway.

Dunham-Jones called Avalon’s impact on Alpharetta “catalytic,” and indeed, Avalon received the ARC’s Award for Exceptional Merit for Catalytic Development.

Cobb County’s The Battery Atlanta and SunTrust Park, the new home of the Braves, also was recognized with an Award for Exceptional Merit for Catalytic Development Duluth’s Parsons Alley is a 40,000-square-foot city-inspired redevelopment begun in the early 2000s recapturing the 1848 character of Baptist Church downtown.

“It’s owned by the city, but its shops and restaurants are playing an important role in [Duluth’s] future growth,” she said.

Parsons Alley was given the ARC’s Development of Excellence Award.

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Kabbaj said biology can teach us about transportation. He said transportation must develop like an organism – or more accurately like a vascular system.

A living body is fueled by its vascular system, he said. Each body contains 6,000 miles of “track.” And unlike today’s transport, the blood cells never “travel empty.” It is always bringing something to a destination or taking it away.

“We should learn from the biotics of veins and arteries,” he said.

Kabbaj used a video that showed a transit system that never stops, but flows.

“Our blood never stops. We should emulate that,” he said.

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Supply and demand says buy a $900,000 home Motivating If you are looking for a new home under the $400,000 price range, I know how competitive it is.

But after some serious research, I have found a solution for you: go buy GEOFF SMITH a $900,000 house.

Assurance Financial, gsmith@lendtheway.com If only it were that easy!

I just finished reading through Smart Real Estate Data’s third quarter newsletter and I’m stunned again by the lack of inventory available to most homebuyers. Our homebuilders can’t seem to catch up to the demand that is out there.

Inventory is measured in “months of supply.” The numbers reflect the months it would take for homebuyers to buy up all the currently listed homes if no new houses came onto the market. Experts consider a healthy housing economy to have 6.5 months of supply. Why is it unhealthy for there to be more or less? Supply and demand.

If you have less months of supply, then the demand is stronger than the supply and home prices rise quickly as buyers compete for the relatively low number of houses on the market.

If you have more than 6.5 months of supply, then it’s a buyer’s market and values can drop as sellers compete for the relatively few buyers.

In the below-$300,000 market, there are fewer than 2.5 months of supply. That is one of the lowest months of inventory in the history of people keeping track of these numbers. In the $300,000 to $400,000-range, it only rises to just above 2.5 months. The $500,000 to $600,000-range is where the market finally starts getting healthy with about 6 months of inventory. Above that and it quickly gets unhealthy

... Builders are having to pay more to comply with an increased number of regulations that most residents want, and pay more for increased impact fees which help fund capital improvements to fire, police and other municipal departments... again with inventories above 7.5 months.

By the way, that $900,000 to $1M-range I mentioned at the beginning of this article has well over 10 months of inventory. It is a good time to get a deal in that range.

Based on the laws of supply and demand, prices on sub-$400,000 homes are rising and prices on the $600,000 homes are lowering. Maybe someday everything will be priced around $500,000!

Obviously that won’t happen. But the laws of supply and demand are making the lower priced homes even more expensive, eventually creating even less inventory for a market already starved for inventory. Capitalism usually has a way of evening these kinds of things out. But building houses in the sub $300,000-range is a hard thing to do these days.

Land has gotten more expensive in the metro area. Builders are having to pay more to comply with an increased number of regulations that most residents want, and pay more for increased impact fees which help

fund capital improvements to fire, police and other municipal departments. There is a labor shortage in the construction industry, so builders are having to pay more to lure subcontractors away from other builders. And with unemployment so low in general, we are not seeing employees from other industries jumping over to meet the demand.

The average price of a new home was $334,977 for the third quarter.

With the increased costs, the builders are having to build more expensive homes to keep their margins. But if you look at the more expensive homes – there is a relative glut. The demand is for the lower-priced homes.

In the coming years, it’s very possible that we could see more effort from both the private industry and the public, to find creative ways to build more, lower-priced homes.

Some cities and counties are seeing this as an ‘affordable housing’ crisis where many of the people who work in their police, fire and retail service sectors are not able to live close to where they work. I’ve heard some folks try to blame the developers. But developers are pretty simple creatures. If the project will make their business money, they’ll probably build it. If it will lose their company money, they probably won’t. They know the demand is there, it is just hard to make the numbers work.

Geoff Smith is a mortgage banker with Assurance Financial focusing on residential home loans for refinances and home purchases.

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Motivating your emDICK JONES ployees to work hard, Founder & President Jones Simply Sales work smart and achieve results will help you to grow your small business.

The dictionary defines the word motivating as “providing someone with a motive for doing something; or, stimulating someone’s interest in or enthusiasm for doing something.” So what are you doing to get your employee’s interest and enthusiasm in helping you grow your business?

You might start with something simple, such as recognizing employees who are doing a great job. Recognition of top performers, especially if it includes monetary rewards, is a top way to motivate everyone. Providing on the spot “public praise” to someone who has done something well is also very effective in motivating others who would enjoy getting the same praise.

Get to know each and every one of your employees and find out what keeps them going. Then tailor your motivational activities individually to each and every person. Some may just want one-on-one time with you; while others may prefer special treatment, like a day off for all of their great work.

Money certainly matters, but you’d be surprised how motivated employees will get even without monetary rewards.

Perks matter almost as much as dollar bills. Take some time each day to motivate your employees. You may be quite surprised at the reaction you get, and more importantly, the business results that follow.

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MILTON LITERARY FESTIVAL

The Milton Literary Group will host the second annual Milton Literary Festival in downtown Crabapple.

Featuring over 45 authors, the event will be packed with panels, author chats, and workshops as well as opportunities to meet and mingle with your favorite authors or find new ones.

The festival will be held Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit miltonliteraryfestival.com.

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VETERANS DAY: CUMMING

What: American Legion Post 9143 in conjunction with VFW Post 9143, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1030, and the Forsyth County Patriot’s Alliance – will welcome the community to the annual Veterans Day Ceremony.

When: Friday, Nov. 10, 11 a.m.

Where: Cumming Veterans War Memorial, 301 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Cumming

MEDLOCK BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

What: Medlock Bridge Elementary School will host their inaugural Veterans Day celebration, performances, color guard and guest speakers. Brunch will be served.

When: Friday, Nov. 10, 9-10:30 a.m.

Where: Medlock Bridge Elementary School, 10215 Medlock Bridge Parkway, Johns Creek

VETERANS DAY BREAKFAST

What: Enjoy a complimentary breakfast with local veterans and a presentation

by A.J. Tata, a retired brigadier general and national bestselling author.

When: Saturday, Nov. 11, 8-9:30 a.m.

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

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When: Saturday, Nov. 11, 10-11:30 a.m.

Where: Ed Isakson/Alpharetta Family YMCA, 3655 Preston Ridge Road, Alpharetta More info: alpharetta.ga.us

TITAN TIDINGS CHRISTMAS GIFT SHOW What: Shop for holiday gifts from over 110 vendors. A bake sale keeps your shopping energy up and running.

When: Saturday, Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Blessed Trinity Catholic High School, 11320 Woodstock Road, Roswell More info: btcatholic.org/TitanTidings

CHRISTMAS ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL IN CUMMING

What: Featuring a wide variety of artisans and craftsmen with handcrafted merchandise, the Sawnee Artists’ Association festival includes photos with Santa and kid-friendly activities. Food trucks and kettle corn will be available outside.

When: Saturday, Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Lanier Technical College, 3410 Ronald Regan Blvd., Cumming More info: sawneeart.org

DISTRICT 5 MONTHLY COMMUNITY MEETING

What: American Legion Post 201 will host their Veterans Day ceremony along with a car and bike show.

When: Saturday, Nov. 11, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: American Legion Post 201, 201 Wills Road, Alpharetta More info: 770-475-9023

What: Each Board Member holds monthly community meetings to keep residents informed about issues and to give citizens the opportunity to comment on Board Agenda items.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 9:30 a.m.

Where: Shakerag Elementary School, 10855 Rogers Circle, Johns Creek More info: johnscreekga.gov

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What: Fledging birdwatchers will learn how to identify common birds by sight and sound before heading outside to

What: Small business owners and employees are invited to this information session on W2 vs. 1099 forms, payroll reporting, year-end and more.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 14, noon Where: TrueNorth Real Estate Professionals, 11130 State Bridge Road B 106, Johns Creek Cost: $10 More info: johnscreekchamber.com

THE GUNS OF FORT WALKER, GRANT PARK

What: Barrington Hall will host a series of lectures on the Civil War and Roswell. This is part of a series of Wednesday evening lectures.

When: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7-9 p.m.

Where: Barrington Hall, 535 Barrington Drive, Roswell Cost: $5 suggested donation More info: roswellgov.com

MUSIC, ARTS & THEATER: “MORNINGSIDE”

What: This shrewd new comedy takes place during a sunny spring afternoon in the Morningside neighborhood of Atlanta, where different generations are thrown together to battle it out.

Imagine: a baby shower, nine women with secrets, and a case of champagne.

When: Through Nov. 12, times vary Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center 950 Forrest St., Roswell Cost: Tickets start at $29 More info and tickets: get.com

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF”

What: “Fiddler on the Roof” is a musical set in Imperial Russia in 1905, following Tevye and his attempt to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family’s lives.

When: Through Nov. 5, times vary Where: Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St., Cumming Cost: Tickets start at $27.50 More info and tickets: playhousecumming.com

SPOTLIGHT ARTIST: BUTTERPUP & FRIENDS

What: Miles Davis is an artist, illustrator, and creator raised in the United States Air Force. In 2012, a random puppy with butterfly wings made its way into Miles’s imagination.

When: Through Dec. 29, all day Where: Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell More info: roswellgov.com

NUTRITION AND CANCER PREVENTION

What: Join in a discussion to learn tips about how to harness the power of nutrition and prevent cancer.

When: Sunday, Nov. 12, 3-4:30 p.m.

Where: Roswell Branch Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: newhealthahead.com

AUTHOR VISITS

What: Join local authors as they read and discuss their latest books. Rena Arzumanova, author of two short story books, will read a few stories and Ellen Kofman will present and read from her latest collection of poetry.

When: Sunday, Nov. 12 from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Where: Milton Branch Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Alpharetta More info: milton.branch@ fultoncountyga.gov or 404-613-4402

BILINGUAL STORYTIME

What: Terra Trofort, founder and director of Lingual Kids, will visit the Roswell Library the second Tuesday of every month to share stories, culture, music and more.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Where: Roswell Branch Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: roswell.branch@ fultoncountyga.gov or 770-640-3075

OH DEER! PLANTS DEER DON’T USUALLY EAT

What: North Fulton Master Gardeners will offer a gardening class and workshop covering how to garden with deer around. Registration is required.

When: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Where: East Roswell Branch Library, 2301 Holcomb Bridge Road., Roswell More info: librarycomments@ fultoncountyga.gov

FRIENDS OF ROSWELL BOOK SALE

LIBRARY EVENTS:

What: The Friends of Roswell Library sale of gently used books, DVDs, CDs and more will be held throughout the weekend. Proceeds from the sale benefit the Roswell Library and its programs.

When: Nov. 16-18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Roswell Branch Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell More info: roswell.branch@ fultoncountyga.gov or 770-640-3075

ESSAY CONTEST

BOOKS WITH PUPS

What: Join for a writing competition among students in grades 3-12. Winner gets $30 Pizza Hut gift card. The winner will be announced Nov. 17.

When: Deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 14 Where: East Roswell Branch Library, 2301 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell More info: eastroswell.branch@ fultoncountyga.gov or 404-613-4050

What: Therapy dogs Surcee and Reagan are back. Read to a friendly therapy dog with one of CAREing Paw’s volunteers.

When: Thursday, Nov. 16, 4-5 p.m.

Where: Milton Branch Library, 855 Mayfield Road, Alpharetta More info: liane.wagner@ fultoncountyga.gov

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A dermatologist can help determine if a growth requires a biopsy. In general, a biopsy is a procedure intended to sample (not eliminate) a growth. A biopsied specimen is submitted to a pathologist who will determine if the growth is clearly benign, malignant, or somewhere in between.

For atypical moles, pathologists typically grade how abnormal the mole is by grading them – mild, moderate or severe. This sounds simple, but there exists tremendous variation in how dermatologists manage moles that are assigned these grades. Some dermatologists watch almost all abnormal moles. Some dermatologists recommend cutting out (excising) almost all abnormal moles. Who is right, and why is there variation?

Historically, some dermatologists believed that all atypical moles were precancerous. Such moles were (and often still are) called “dysplastic” nevi, although some dermatologists favor labeling them Clark’s nevi to avoid confusion over malignant potential.

The term “dysplastic” connotes a tendency towards becoming a cancer.

However, research now supports that many so-called dysplastic nevi will never amount to anything and are not “pre-cancers.” There is a pattern of growth that some healthy moles can take that can make them look a bit disorderly, but for many moles “dysplastic” is a misnomer.

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There are exceptions to the above rules: For some moderately atypical nevi, a pathologist may issue a recommendation that might read, “re-excision is recommended to ensure complete removal of this lesion.” This is pathologists’ way of signaling that the pathologist is still uncomfortable enough with the microscopic appearance that the mole should be removed. Alternatively, the mole might be graded as moderate atypia, but the dermatologist may have noted that clinically the mole looked severely atypical. Clinical impressions matter, and a mole that is moderately abnormal under the microscope but severely abnormal to the naked eye would also likely warrant complete removal.

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What are stretch marks and how can they be treated?

Striae, more commonly known as stretch marks, is the result of weakening of elastic tissues located just underneath the outer layer of skin because they are expanding at a faster rate than the skin. They appear as linear streaks on the skin that has been overstretched and begin as flat red lines, but over time they appear as slightly depressed white streaks. They tend to occur near the armpits, on the thighs, abdomen, chest, and buttocks.

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By Dr. Ushma Patel, D.M.D and Dr. Brittany Corbett, D.D.S Center For Advanced Dentistry Millions of Americans avoid the dentist. Some had traumatic experiences as children. Others suffered pain as adults. No matter the reason, far too many of these individuals simply stopped seeking routine dental care because they were frightened. Now’s the time to move forward into a healthier future. Modern dentistry offers many new tools and options that make necessary treatments not only tolerable but even comfortable.

Now there’s a new way for the dentally challenged to get their needed treatment without having to go through all the fear and anxiety. And, what’s more, they likely won’t even remember going to the dentist.

It’s called “Sedation Dentistry” and is available right now at our dental office. Not all dentists are qualified or licensed to use this option. Approximately 1 in 8 dentists in Georgia is licensed to do Sedation.

“The way it works is quite simple,” says Dr. Ushma Patel. “One hour before the appointment the patient simply takes a pill that we have dispensed to them. By the time they arrive, they are very relaxed.”

The patient is then escorted to the dental chair. They gradually progress to a deeper level of sedation but are still able to respond to their environment and to questions from the doctor. Dr. Patel explains, “The patient will feel no pain and in fact will have little or no memory of the experience after it’s all over.”

The patient’s vital signs are constantly monitored throughout the treatment. “When they awaken a friend drives them home and in an hour or so they are pretty much back to normal,” says Dr. Patel. “The best part is that

they have no bad memories, and they don’t experience any pain or anxiety.”

The patient isn’t “knocked out” or in total sedation like they would be for a surgery.

The level of sedation isn’t that deep, but just deep enough so that they feel nothing but are still conscious.

Is Sedation Dentistry only for fearful patients? Dr. Patel says no. “Some people, while they are not at all afraid of dental treatment, are highly resistant

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(3) Chattahoochee vs.

(2) Winder-Barrow All-time series: First meeting Chattahoochee (7-3, 6-2) • Points per game: 30 • Allowed per game: 29.4 • All-time playoff record: 16-12 • 2016 playoffs: Failed to reach playoffs Winder-Barrow (8-2, 2-3) • Points per game: 30.4 • Allowed per game: 22.7 • All-time playoff record: 3-14

• 2016 playoffs: Lost to Dalton (42-7) in the first round Friday’s playoff tilt between Chattahoochee and Winder-Barrow features two teams hungry for postseason success. Hooch is making its first playoff appearance since 2012 while the Bulldogs are seeking their first playoff win in 24 years.

Chattahoochee’s offense will look to a young starting quarterback to lead the charge. Jack Corrigan was lost to a leg break in the Cougars’ win over Pope Oct. 20, opening the position for sophomore Damon Stewart.

Stewart has compiled just under 200 yards passing in his two starts and has shown to be elusive in the pocket.

Chattahoochee’s run game is powered

by Max Webb who has over 1,200 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns this year.

Andrew Thomas is one of Hooch’s top receivers and is also effective on the ground in Hooch’s jet sweep.

Chattahoochee’s defense will face a balanced Bulldogs’ offense averaging nearly 400 yards per game. Quarterback Brock Landis is near the 2,000yard mark for the season and is the

team’s second-leading rusher. He has compiled 22 touchdowns this season.

The matchup will feature two defenses giving up over 28 points per game in their last three contests.

(1) Alpharetta vs.

(4) Gainesville

All-time series: Alpharetta 2-0 Alpharetta (9-1, 8-0) • Points per game: 31.8 • Allowed per game: 13.4 • All-time playoff record: 2-6 • 2016 playoffs: Lost to Alexander (20-13) in the first round Gainesville (4-6, 3-2) • Points per game: 17.5 • Allowed per game: 25.3 • All-time playoff record: 71-50 • 2016 playoffs: Lost to Harrison (4524) in the first round Alpharetta and Gainesville meet for

the second time this season, but there’s a lot more at stake this time.

The Raiders took down Gainesville 29-7 on Aug. 26 and the two teams will meet in the playoffs for the first time next Friday.

Alpharetta will look to continue its winning streak, now at nine games entering the matchup. The Raiders’ defense, led by a host of experienced seniors, has been crucial to Alpharetta’s success.

The Raiders haven’t given up more than two touchdowns since their 34-31 win over Centennial Sept. 8.

When the two teams met earlier this season, the Red Elephants were held to 177 yards of total offense. Tre’ Lutell threw for 76 yards on 13 completions and Montavious Tabor led the team in rushing with 61 yards.

Alpharetta’s offense is led by quarterback Matthew Downing and running back Nolan Edmonds. Downing has over 1,700 yards passing this season and has running ability.

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After missing much of the first half of the season due to injury, Edmonds has come on strong since his return.

He has over 800 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns this season.

The Raiders will be seeking their first playoff win since they won their last region title in 2014.

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All-time series: First meeting Centennial (8-2, 7-1) • Points per game: 41 • Allowed per game: 25 • All-time playoff record: 2-5 • 2016 playoffs: Lost to Northgate (20-16) in the first round Lanier (6-4, 3-2) • Points per game: 21.3 • Allowed per game: 20.9

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Centennial is back in the playoffs in head coach Michael Perry’s debut season. With that goal accomplished, the Knights look to earn their first playoff win in 15 years.

Behind a high-powered offense and a stingy defense, the Knights will look to drop Lanier in the first meeting between the programs.

Quarterback Max Brosmer heads into the game as one the most prolific quarterbacks in the state in Class 6A. Brosmer has compiled 2,991 yards passing and 27 total touchdowns. He averaged 319 yards per game passing in the regular season.

The Knights’ receiving core is led by standout Blane Mason who has over 1,100 yards and 11 touchdowns this year. Cal Dickie has 919 yards receiving and six touchdowns.

Dickie also adds to the Knights’ rushing attack. Emeka Nwanze has just under 1,100 yards this season with five 100-yard plus performances.

Centennial has surrendered just 41 points in their last four games and has not allowed more than 28 points in seven straight contests.

The Knights will ride a seven-game win streak into the first round against the balanced Longhorns.

Lanier averages 145 yards passing and 149 yards rushing per game this season. Their defense has allowed under three scores in two of their last three games.

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Milton enters the game hoping to ride on the momentum of big plays that powered their last two wins.

Quarterback Jordan Yates has had a standout junior season, throwing for over 1,800 yards and rushing for nearly 800. He scored five total touchdowns in Milton’s regular season finale.

Running back Solomon Vanhorse has compiled over 1,000 yards and eight touchdowns this season behind a sizeable and experienced offensive line.

They will face a Collins Hill defense averaging 20 points allowed per game against the talented offenses of Region 6-AAAAAAA. Collins Hill will likely look to its running game against Milton. Collins Hill averaged 251 yards rushing per game this season, led by senior Evan Anderson who has 1,111 yards and 14 touchdowns this year.

Milton’s defense will look to limit Collins Hill’s opportunities. Collins Hill is 6-0 when scoring 24 or more points this season.

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By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — After a two-year drought, Alpharetta has reclaimed its title of region champions.

The Raiders compiled an 8-0 season in Region 7-AAAAAA, capped off by a lopsided, 41-14 win over Chattahoochee Friday night. It is their third title in six years.

The game was a must-win for the Raiders as a loss would have meant Centennial would take the region crown. But that wasn’t something on the mind of quarterback Matthew Downing.

“People have been talking about scenarios and what was going to happen if we lose,” Downing said. “We didn’t think about that. All we had was one job and that was to go 1-0 in a region game.”

Downing completed just five passes in the game, but those five completions included 177 yards and three touchdowns.

All of Alpharetta’s six touchdowns would come on plays of 20 yards or more. Nolan Edmonds racked up 160 yards rushing and three touchdowns

on just eight carries. His two latter rushing scores came from 63 and 45 yards out.

“Those big plays over the top are big momentum shifters, and we were able to get those tonight,” Downing said.

Meanwhile, Alpharetta’s defense held Chattahoochee to just 165 total yards. It was the sixth straight game the Raiders held their opponent to 14 points or less.

And it was a performance from both sides of the ball that allowed the Raiders to once again claim region supremacy.

“It’s been three years since an Alpharetta team can say they were region champs,” said head coach Jacob Nichols. “To be able to do that is an awesome feeling.”

Nichols said his team’s nine straight wins can be partly attributed to the Raiders’ four losses of one score last year.

“I think for our young guys, that trained to understand how to handle adversity, how to come back and keep plugging away,” he said. “They’ve adopted that mentality and its worked for us nine weeks in a row. Hopefully that will continue.”

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“The frustrating part of this game is we know what level we can play at and we just didn’t play there tonight,” said Hooch head coach Vince Strine.

He is still proud of his team’s accomplishments in the regular season, stating he is amazed at how far the program has come in five years. But the loss to Alpharetta showed the Cougars must improve heading into that first round game.

“We’ve got to get a lot better in a short amount of time,” he said. “We want to make a run in the playoffs and in the playoffs you play teams like Alpharetta.”

Hooch’s playoff appearance will be its first in six seasons, but they aren’t happy just to earn that berth.

“We’re not happy just to be in the playoffs, we want to win,” Strine said.

“There’s two types of teams in the playoffs—those are just happy to be there and make quick exits, and those that are in it to win it. We want to be one of those teams that want to win. “

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Football season ends for multiple local teams Week 12 (Nov. 3) football recap

By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com Dunwoody 13, Johns Creek 10 Johns Creek’s season ended Friday night with a close loss to Dunwoody.

The Gladiators finished 3-7 overall in Matt Helmerich’s debut season.

Johns Creek cut Dunwoody’s lead to 6-3 early in the fourth quarter with a 42-yard field goal from Luke Venco.

The Gladiators added a touchdown from quarterback Sean Cooney to Matt Casey later in the quarter. However, a Wildcats’ touchdown also in the fourth secured the Dunwoody win.

Johns Creek finished fifth in the region standings.

Pope 47, Northview 22 Northview’s season ended Friday night with the Titans’ fourth loss in five games.

Quarterback Colton McDaniel threw for over 240 yards, including a 25-yard touchdown pass to William Caylor to cut Pope’s lead to one score late in the second quarter.

However, Northview was unable to

find the end zone in the second half while Pope scored 19 unanswered points to earn the No. 4 seed from Region 7-AAAAAA. This season was the first under head coach James Thomson. Northview has won just five games in the past two years.

With just 14 seconds left, Cendoya found Williams for an 83-yard touchdown pass to seal the thrilling win.

Mount Pisgah entered the game 8th in the power ratings. If that position holds up, the Patriots would have a bye in the first round of the state playoffs.

Mount Pisgah 49, Trion 42 For the second straight year, Mount Pisgah faced off with Trion in region play-in games. And for the second straight year, it was a high-scoring affair.

But unlike last year’s 59-37 loss, the Patriots held on in a night full of momentum shifts to close out the regular season at 8-2 overall.

Mount Pisgah trailed 28-21 at the half, but a 70-yard rush from Kai Williams tied the game early in the third.

Just a few minutes later, Jacob Cendoya found Trey Murphy on a 62-yard pass to put the Patriots in the lead. An interception and 25-yard rushing score extended the gap to 42-28.

However, Trion scored two straight touchdowns and tied the game with just under six minutes remaining.

The Patriots recovered two fumbles in the final five minutes, eventually setting up the game-winning score.

Christian Heritage 30, King’s Ridge 27 King’s Ridge season ended Friday night with a close loss in the Region 6-A play-in games.

The Tigers opened a 14-3 lead in the second quarter, but the Lions charged back to take the lead and eventually win in the second half.

King’s Ridge finished the season with a 2-8 overall record and went 1-6 in region play. The Tigers were outscored 320-163 during Jimmy Chupp’s second season at the helm.

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Oglethorpe County 36, Pinecrest Academy 34 A trying year for Pinecrest came to a bitter end Friday night as the Paladins fell just short of their first on-field victory of the year.

A defensive play proved to be the difference in the offensive shootout.

With the game tied at 34-34 in the

fourth quarter, Pinecrest gave up a safety to give the Patriots the lead.

Pinecrest lined up for a long field goal in the dying seconds, but it was blocked.

The Paladins compiled a 1-9 record in Terence Mathis’ first season. Their sole win came via a forfeit by South Forsyth due to playing an ineligible player.

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After a 28-4 season, the program’s first region title and a trip to the Final Four, the expectations are higher than ever for the Titans.

But last year’s 57-39 loss to Harrison in the state semifinal game was motivation enough to exceed expectations this year.

“I definitely feel our Final Four loss really has pushed us this year,” said senior guard Megan Cistulli. “It was a big disappointment for us, but we have higher expectations this year.”

Junior forward Maya Richards said coming so close to the state title has fueled the team in the offseason.

It’s a team junior forward Ashlee Austin described as different from last year. But the Titans are still loaded.

Austin led the team in points and rebounds last season as a sophomore.

Richards averaged 10.3 points, 7.1 rebounds and two blocks per game.

They are joined by Cistulli, an accurate outside shooter and point guard Asjah Innis, who is coming off an impressive freshman season.

The Titans will be without standout Shannon Titus, a force on both sides of the ball, and role-player Erika Hama, who both graduated.

“It’s not one person that is going to help replace that production, it’s going to be everyone,” head coach Chris Yarbrough said.

In starting four underclassmen most of last year, the Titans are also more seasoned.

“I’ve said for so long that we were young, but now we have a lot more experience,” Yarbrough said.

The Titans are also banking that their challenging regular season schedule will prepare them for another deep playoff run.

But Yarbrough has stressed that his team cannot identify itself solely by wins or titles this year.

“We have to control what we can control and the results might be there for us,” he said.

Centennial Lining Centennial’s gym are banners designating each sport’s region and state championships. The girls basketball banner is blank.

Head coach John Domville said the goal for this season is to put numbers up there.

“That’s something we need to talk

about and not run from,” he said.

Centennial’s youthful squad struggled to a 4-12 region record last season, but Domville’s roster returns healthy and more experienced.

“We had a lot of freshman we relied on last year,” he said. “Everyone that’s back has varsity experience which is a huge deal.”

It’s also year three under Domville’s system which will be advantageous for his upperclassmen who are now acclimated to his schemes.

Seniors Shekinah Guthrie, a Florida Gulf Coast commit, London Carr and Jannah Moede will provide leadership for the team.

“It starts with [those] three and trickles down,” Domville said.

Guthrie led the Knights in points, rebounds and steals last season.

Moede missed all but three games due to a torn ACL, but sitting on the sidelines gave her a new perspective.

“She was already a cerebral player, so for her to have that year off is a very scary thing for everyone else,” Domville said.

Along with their senior core, the Knights return Divine Guthrie on post, last year’s assist leader in Ariel Nathan and shooter Summer Lemcoe.

It is that core that the Knights will rely on to put numbers on the gym’s banner.

“In our region we are the underdogs,” Moede said. “I’m ready to get out there and get back to state.”

Chattahoochee A year after the program’s winningest season, Chattahoochee will have a new look with a new batch of players and a new head coach.

Coach Randy Clemons comes on for Haaris Quirashy who led Hooch to a 22-7 record and quarterfinals berth in the state playoffs.

Lost to graduation are a number of key players that made that run possible, including Alayna Ford and Siena and Marissa Gore.

That leaves a young team to acclimate itself to Clemons’ schemes, which include a motion offense and man-toman defense.

“We’ve got a young hungry group,” Clemons said. “We have a lot of younger girls realizing how they are going to build their legacy. There’s a lot of optimism around that.”

Clemons said his team will face bigger and more experienced teams, so a focus in the offseason has been preparing to be mentally and physically tough.

But the main goal is for his youthful team to improve each day.

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girls basketball preview “We’re going to see a lot of improvements through the season with this team,” Clemons said. “I think it’s good that they were able to see that success of last season and that’s the kind of goal we’re aiming for this season.”

Even with an inexperienced team, Clemons said he expects his team to be in the running for a playoff berth.

“I definitely think we can compete in the region,” he said. “I think that fourth spot is up for grabs from a lot of teams and we’re going to push and hopefully be in the fight for that [spot].”

Johns Creek Johns Creek has two goals this year — make the state playoffs and play for each other.

Those were the same goals as the 2016-17 season when the Gladiators went 12-4 in region play. However, their playoff bid came up short when they were eliminated from the region tournament by eventual champions Pope in the first round.

But the Gladiators expect their team-mindset will bring them their program’s first playoff berth.

“Anytime you go into a competition and you know the person next to you has your back, it fires you up a little bit more,” said head coach Kirk Call.

Call said the team mindset brought about the success of last season, and he has challenged his returning players to implement a close-knit roster for

their newer players.

“We’re going to work twice as hard to [reach our goals] this year,” he said.

Johns Creek lost four key seniors from last year’s squad to graduation, including Region Player of the Year Sydney Tanguilig. With those losses, Call is

turning to three upperclassmen to lead the Gladiators.

Senior forwards Ashley Alexander and Markeilla Lancaster return for their final year.

Call said Lancaster brings athleticism and is stout defensively. Alexander brings a physical presence.

“She dominates inside,” Call said.

“Her physical attitude and presence on the court really opens up everything we try to do.”

Junior point guard Jillian Davis also returns. “[Davis] really developed as the (last) year went on and got a lot stronger on the ball,” Call said. Davis shot 36 percent from outside the arc last year and Call said she will be relied on for her shooting and ball handling.

The Gladiators will have a tough road to the state playoffs in Region 7-AAAAAA, facing some of the top teams in the state.

“It’s going to be a challenge for us right off the bat,” he said. “We’re going to have to be prepared and focused.

Hopefully if we can battle with them.

That can prepare us for our goal of making that state playoffs.”

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Cross country state champions crowned

By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com CARROLTON, Ga. — State champions were crowned last Friday and Saturday at the 2017 GHSA cross-country state championships in Carrolton. North Fulton programs claimed three state titles.

Class 6A boys Cambridge earned its first Class 6A title by beating out favorites Pope on Saturday.

The boys team placed all five of its runners in the top 27 to beat out the Greyhounds by 29 points.

The Bears were led by Jack Filan who placed sixth, up from his 24th place finish last season. Chris Anderson placed 8th, and Anders Law finished 12th. Carson Ertwine and Jack Donovan each finished in the top 30 to secure the state title.

Coming off a 13th place finish last season, Alpharetta broke into the top 10 by placing seventh in team scores.

The Raiders were led by Robert Chappell who finished fourth overall.

Northview placed 12th in team scores by placing four runners in the top-65.

Class 6A girls After winning their first region title this season, the Cambridge girls earned their first state title on Saturday, besting Creekview by nine points for the championship.

Cambridge placed all five of its scoring runners in the top 20, led by Delaney Goodell in her debut season with the team. Goodell was followed

by Lily Elson, Troyce Grant and Chloe Phelps who placed 10-12.

Johns Creek fell three positions from last season, but still finished in the top-five.

The Gladiators’ Allison Rothrock placed ninth overall to lead Johns Creek who placed its five scoring runners in the top 44 of the 216-competitor field.

Alpharetta trailed Johns Creek by 34 points, placing sixth overall in team scores. The Raiders’ Margaret Brehm improved her finish from 2016 by 25 positions to lead Alpharetta with a 23rd-place finish.

Class 4A boys Blessed Trinity missed out on a podium finish by a single point, placing fourth overall in team scores.

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He was followed by Matthew Lubert in 12th and Leo Pryor in 30th.

North Oconee’s fifth runner placed 0.15 seconds ahead of 59th place, which was just enough to lock BT out of third.

Class 4A girls The BT girls team earned a second-straight podium finish since moving up to Class 4A with a third overall finish in team scores.

The Titans were led by Emma Rose Bagwell for the second straight year.

Bagwell placed 16th overall, followed by Hannah Miniutii, Delaney Sheehan and Ariel Ellis, who placed 19-21.

BT placed 45 points behind Oconee County which won the individual title and placed all five runners in the top 30.

Class A-Private girls Fellowship Christian placed 8th in team scores, led by four finishers in the top-36.

Caroline Keim placed 12th, followed

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After placing 16th in last year’s state championship, Mount Pisgah improved to 12th this season.

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HomeStretch: Continued from Page 16 in Roswell, with 22 on Millbrook Circle off Norcross Street.

Once aboard, she was immersed in the HomeStretch method. Its real focus is to put parents into the workforce or on a career track, Burton said.

“One of the great things about HomeStretch is our clients get to meet other clients in the program and hear where they started from and where they are today,” Burton said.

HomeStretch Board Chairman Kurt Hilbert said HomeStretch works.

“We see to it that they get the mentoring and counseling they need to learn how to budget and manage their money – many had never been shown that,” Hilbert said. “And our mentors and counselors are tough.”

Hughes said she can attest to that.

She had always continued to work, but then she was able to get better jobs, finally she landed a job at Georgia Tech.

Now she makes more money than she ever had, plus benefits.

She and Khalik, now 19, (he is a welder) share an apartment. Her dream to buy a home is now within reach, Hughes said.

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she said, was to teach her to budget and save.

“I would fight them on that. I earn my money, it’s mine. But they would not budge,” Hughes said.

Ultimately, what Hughes got was her “own space.”

“I was in a devastating situation with a son and no place to go,” she said. “But if you work hard enough and smart enough – there are no quick solutions – you can do things you never thought you could,” she said.

Hilbert, a Roswell attorney, said HomeStretch has taught him plenty also.

“Teaching people LifeSkills, how to budget – how to get what you want out of life, really – that is what we do here,” Hilbert said.

His goal is to create permanent office space to house the LifeSkills courses and expand the programs to more families.

“You shouldn’t wait until people hit rock-bottom before giving them the tools to stand on their own,” he said.

“There are too many homeless children in this state.”

Next year HomeStretch will celebrate its 25th year in Roswell. Hilbert and Burton agree this is a program that could help families all across north metro Atlanta.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA FOR FIRE AND POLICE PERSONNEL UNIFORMS AND DUTY GEAR RFP 18-104 The City of Alpharetta is requesting proposal responses from Offerors experienced in working with a municipality and Public Safety personnel for the provisioning of uniforms and duty gear items for Fire, Police, Rescue, E-911, and various other specialty, reserve, and volunteer personnel. Uniform and Duty Gear items include, but are not limited to, pants, shirts, outerwear, equipment, etc.

The Request for Proposal document will be available online Thursday, November 9, 2017, at our bid posting website, https://www.ebidexchange.com/alpharetta. Interested parties are required to log in to review the RFP documents and submit any specific bid related questions.

Proposals will be due on Thursday, November 30, 2017, at 10:00 AM at Alpharetta City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009.

For information, please contact Debora Westbrook with the City of Alpharetta Procurement Team at purchasing@alpharetta.ga.us or 678-297-6052.

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Politically, we tend to follow those who express the same worldview we ourselves share. They reinforce what we believe and bring us new information that also reinforces what we think.

Who watches MSNBC and Fox and Friends?

News organizations today built an organization that jibes with the worldview of its target audience.

Thus we tend to reinforce preconceived or pre-existing ideas and take comfort in their reinforcement through these and similar sources.

The rails for mass media were greased first with the print explosion that allowed messengers to reach a mass audience of readers in a day.

Stalin learned fake news could destabilize a country.

The Nazis used “The Big Lie.” Just keep repeating the lie – the bigger the lie the better. People will begin to

believe what they keep hearing – especially if it feeds their fears or prejudices.

Today, the internet and smartphones bring messages to us at the speed of light putting information at our fingertips.

But it does not end there.

Now we have the power to be dispensers of information. We are the messenger. It is our vision that we can dispense.

The internet has reduced the cost of dispensing media to within the reach of any purse.

The emails we pass along to our private email trees come from where?

What source? Is it the truth? And whose truth? Where is truth in this world of information?

Today, we live in a new age of communication that provides us a tremendous platform to reach out to others with information. With that ability come tremendous responsibilities for both the sender and receiver.

All the advice I can really offer when shopping in the free market of ideas is caveat emptor – let the buyer beware.

CITY OF ALPHARETTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Items will be considered by the City Council on Monday, December 4, 2017 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. V-17-21 55 and 61 Roswell Street Parking Variance (Council Only) Consideration of a variance request to reduce parking requirements and to increase the building height in order to construct a 56,000 square foot mixeduse building. The properties are located at 55 and 61 Roswell Street and are legally described as being located in Land Lot 1269, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia. b. PH-17-36 Perling/South Main & Devore (Council Only) Consideration of a request to change previous conditions of zoning to reduce the density, change residential product and site plan modifications. The property is located at 13 South Main Street and is legally described as being located in Land Lots 693, 694, 695 & 696, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia. c. PH-17-34 360 Tech Village (Council Only) Consideration of a request to change previous conditions of zoning to increase the size of a food hall, reduce the number of ‘For-Sale’ stacked flats, reduce the percentage of ‘For-Sale’ product and to modify concurrency requirements.

The property is located at the southwest corner of Haynes Bridge Road and Lakeview Parkway and is legally described as being located in Land Lots 744, 745, 752 & 753, 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.

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• You may have problems tasting food.

• You may experience delayed wound healing.

• You may be susceptible to infections inside of your mouth.

• For children with diabetes, teeth may erupt at an age earlier than is typical.

Why People with Diabetes Are More Prone to Gum Disease All people have more tiny bacteria living in their mouth now than there are people on this planet. If they make their home in your gums, you can end up with periodontal disease. This chronic, inflammatory disease can destroy your gums, all the tissues holding your teeth and even your bones.

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control increases the risk for gum problems. In fact, people with diabetes are at a higher risk for gum problems because of poor blood sugar control.

As with all infections, serious gum disease may cause blood sugar to rise.

This makes diabetes harder to control because you are more susceptible to infections and are less able to fight the bacteria invading the gums.

How Your Dentist Can Help You Fight Diabetes Regular dental visits are important.

Research suggests that treating gum disease can help improve blood sugar control in patients living with diabetes, decreasing the progression of the disease. Practicing good oral hygiene and having professional deep cleanings done by your dentist can help to lower your HbA1c. (This is a lab test that shows your average level of blood sugar over the previous three months.

It indicates how well you are controlling your diabetes.)

Your Diabetes Dental Health Action Plan Teamwork involving self-care and professional care from your dentist will be beneficial in keeping your healthy

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smile as well as potentially slowing progression of diabetes. Here are five oral health-related things you can do to for optimal wellness: • Control your blood sugar levels. Use your diabetes-related medications as directed, changing to a healthy diet and even exercising more can help. Good blood sugar control will also help your body fight any bacterial or fungal infections in your mouth and help relieve dry mouth caused by diabetes.

• Avoid smoking • Make sure to brush 2 times a day with a soft brush and floss daily to clean between the teeth.

• See your dentist twice a year for checkups Dr. David Remaley was recently voted “BEST DENTIST OF NORTH ATLANTA” and can help you maintain that healthy smile for a lifetime. Dr. Remaley has been treating patients like family for over 30 years in the North Atlanta area.

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA PUBLIC NOTICE PH-17-AB-27 PLACECity Hall Two Park Plaza Council Chambers November 16, 2017 3:00 P.M. PURPOSE Consumption on Premises Liquor, Beer & Wine Sunday Sales APPLICANT Chuy’s Opco, Inc. d/b/a Chuy’s 2560 Old Milton Parkway, Ste. 120 Alpharetta, GA. 30009 Owner Chuy’s Opco, Inc. Registered Agent Michael Sard

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Maintenance Technician Balfour Beatty Communities, a leader in the residential housing industry is seeking seasoned professionals to join our team at Nesbit Palisades in Alpharetta, GA. Responsible for performing general maintenance and repair of buildings and equipment.

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maint. tasks for all assigned work requests efficiently and in a quality manner. Candidates will perform plumbing, electrical, roofing repair, ceramic tile, sheet vinyl and locksmith work.

Req’s: HVAC certification, High School diploma, a valid driver's license & safe driving record is a must along with excellent customer service & strong communication skills.

Balfour Beatty Communities offers a competitive compensation & benefits package.

To apply, visit: www.balfourbeattycommunities.com/careers Job ID 2118

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North Fulton Community Charities, located in Roswell Georgia is seeking a part time receptionist / administrative assistant.

Qualified candidates must be bi-lingual Spanish, have excellent customer service skills, and have computer experience working with MS Word and Excel. The hours are 9:00am-2:00pm, Monday – Friday. Send resume to Info@nfcchelp.org .

North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC), located in Roswell, GA has an immediate FULL TIME position available in our Education Center. The bilingual administrative support position will be in daily contact with new and established customers, clients, and students.

Candidates should have a history of excellent customer care and administrative support skills. Bilingual in Spanish. NFCC is an equal opportunity employer.

We e-verify. Please send your resume including experience, qualifications, and references to info@ nfcchelp.org .

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