Forsyth Herald - September 29, 2022

Student health center opening at Cumming Elementary

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County Schools is partnering with Geor gia Highlands Medical Services to open a school-based health center at Cumming Elementary School.

The Forsyth County Board of Edu cation approved a memorandum of understanding with the facility at its Sept. 20 meeting. Georgia Highlands Medical Services is a private nonprofit community health center founded in 1979. It provides services to over 5,000 children, 90 percent of them low-income. In the past four years, it’s grown from one pediatric provider to four.

While an opening date has not been set, the school-based health center at Cumming Elementary School will pro vide on-site medical and mental health services for students and staff, especially to those who do not have a primary care physician, to promote health and aca demic success.

Sarah Taylor, Forsyth County Schools associate superintendent for

Forsyth County Schools is partnering with Georgia Highlands Medical Services to open a school-based health center at Cumming Elementary School.

student services, said Cumming Elemen tary School was chosen for the schoolbased health center because of its location and Title I status. The plan is for the school to collect parents’ consent for their student to use the clinic at the start of the year, and when they need to visit the clinic, they can be on the phone with them but won’t need to show up to the school in person.

“Having the school-based health center will allow both the students and

the staff to obtain immediate medical care so that they may return to school and work without delay once it’s safe to do so,” Taylor said. “The health center will have the ability to accept individual and family insurance, and if they’re uninsured, the health center will have a very reasonable sliding fee scale.”

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County OKs funds for vital upgrades to 2 fire stations

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Two fire stations built in Forsyth County more than 20 years ago are set to receive much needed upgrades in the coming years, thanks to a $13.8 million con struction contract recently approved by the Forsyth County Board of Com missioners.

At their Thursday, Sept. 22, work session, commissioners unanimously approved a contract with Kevin Price Construction to build the new For syth County Fire Station 9 and 15, for $13.9 million.

After the meeting, Forsyth County Fire Department Division Chief Ja son Shivers said the new stations will replace the old structures, using an updated design that will double the size of the stations and provide updated technology and amenities for personnel.

“The new stations have a clean, crisp design that nicely blends fire service tradition with modern archi tecture,” Shivers said. “The same firefighters will still be proudly serving their neighborhoods rapidly, efficiently, and in the caring manner of which is expected. However, the new firehouses will make for a significant improvement in firefighter comfort and health.”

The new stations will each include four “double deep apparatus stalls,” independent day and night living quarters, fully functional commercial

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vices Facilitator Heidi Avila said Emory University’s Department of Pediatrics has been advocating for these type of health centers for the past 10 years, working on grants through the Georgia Department of Educations to make them possible.

Avila said Georgia Highlands Medi cal Services has already received fund ing through the Health Resources and Services Administration and Georgia Primary Care Association as well as se cured a nurse practitioner and licensed clinical social worker for the clinic at Cumming Elementary School.

Currently, there are 54 school-based health centers in Georgia, with many more in the planning stages, Avila said. The Georgia School-Based Health Al liance works to promote and support school-based health centers across the state.

“This is not new, but I think we’re going to start seeing this a lot across our counties,” Avila said. “Across our coun try, there’s 2,500, so there’s definitely a growing [need] for this.”

The school-based health center at Cumming Elementary School will oper ate independently from the school but will work in partnership with the school

Sarah Taylor, Forsyth County Schools associate superintendent for Student Services, and

Services Facilitator Heidi Avila explain what the new schoolbased health center will look like at Cumming Elementary School after the school board approved a memorandum of understanding with Georgia Highlands Medical Services to open one at its Sept. 20 meeting.

nurses. It will also have a secure exterior entrance and exit to the building and will include two exam rooms and a lobby area.

“[Students and staff] can be offered

same-day sick visits, well-care appoint ments, completion of state required im munizations, sports physicals, comple tion of health forms that are required for student registration, and assistance with

care plans and preventative treatment to manage chronic health conditions,” Avila said. “Again, for students that may not have access to those services, our school community will certainly benefit from this partnership.”

Avila said the school can expect to have healthier students with the opening of the clinic, and in turn, see attendance rates rise. She added that the schoolbased health center will allow families to remain at work while providing them with more financial security.

“We know that healthier students learn better on a larger scale for our state,” Avila said. “This also helps reduce Medicaid costs and reduce emergency room visits.”

School Board Vice Chairwoman Kristin Morrissey said the initiative seems like a great way to build trust and get students and their families in the habit of seeing a doctor on a regu lar basis.

Forsyth County Schools Superin tendent Jeff Bearden said the district is working through “some facility issues” before it can open the schoolbased health center, but that it may end up being opened in stages. He said more information would be announced later.

The next Forsyth County Board of Education meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 6 pm.

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‘American Pickers’ to film in Georgia

ATLANTA — “American Pickers” is re turning to Georgia and plans to film epi sodes throughout the state in December.

“American Pickers” is a documen tary series on the History network that explores the world of antique “picking.” The show follows skilled pickers in the business, as they hunt for America’s most valuable antiques. They are always excited to find sizable, unique collections and learn the interesting stories behind them.

The Pickers are on a mission to recycle and rescue forgotten relics. They hope to give historically significant objects a new lease on life while learning a thing or two about America’s past along the way.

American Pickers has seen a lot of rusty gold over the years and is always looking to discover something their crew has never seen before.

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continue to take the pandemic seriously and will be following all guidelines and protocols for safe filming outlined by the state and the Centers for Disease Con trol and Prevention. But staff share their excitement to continue reaching collec tors in the area to discuss their years of picking and are eager to hear their memorable stories.

If you or someone you know has a large, private collection or accumulation of antiques that the Pickers can spend the better part of the day looking through, they would love to hear from you.

If interested, please send your name, phone number, location and descrip tion of the collection with photos to americanpickers@cineflix.com or leave a voicemail at 646-493-2184.

Lineup set for Wire & Wood festival

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A lineup of more than 50 national, regional and local performers are headed to Alpharetta for the free annual Wire & Wood Festival, coming to the city’s downtown Oct. 7 and 8.

The city is preparing for 34 per formances on six outdoor stages for the two-day festival, as well as 17 other musical showcases at businesses throughout downtown.

Performers include Pop and R&B Performer Samm Henshaw, inter national singer/songwriter Eric Hutchinson, Grammy-nominated artists The Secret Sisters, Americana artist Will Hoge, singer-songwriter

David Ryan Harris and many more artists.

“Wire & Wood attracts the best sing ers and songwriters each year to per form their original music, and this year’s lineup will not disappoint,” Alpharetta Director of Recreation, Parks & Cultural Services Morgan Rodgers said. “This festival has a special way of bringing our community together. The streets of downtown Alpharetta will be filled with the sounds of music, and you won’t want to miss it.”

For a full lineup of the festival and more information, visit wireandwoodal pharetta.com.

All-female baseball team wins area championship

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The 10U Georgia Peaches, an all-female travel baseball team based in Johns Creek, competed in the Cobb County Sunday Series tourna ment on Sept. 18 in Powder Springs. After finishing 2-0 in pool play, they went on to defeat the Smyrna Slammers Pros pects, 8-7, in the championship game.

This is the first known instance of an all-female baseball team entering and winning an otherwise all-boys travel baseball tournament in Georgia.

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Joslyn & The Sweet Compression plays at the 2021 Wire & Wood festival in Al pharetta. This year’s event will feature 34 performances on six outdoor stages.

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From left: Emma Winklmann, 9, Johns Creek; Remi Hammock, 9, Statham; Blythe Cammack, 9, Johns Creek; Jo Hancock, 9, Alpharetta; assistant coach Ian Winklmann, Johns Creek; Maggie Park, 8, Kennesaw; Riley Borod, 10, Johns Creek; Ellie Hancock, 8, Alpharetta; head coach J.P. Borod, Johns Creek; Gianna Harris, 10, Winder; Phoebe Appen, 7, Alpharetta; assistant coach Trent Hammock, Sta tham; Addie Greene, 10, Rome; and Evie Barton, 10, Dawsonville.

Mental health takes center stage in north Metro Atlanta

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

ATLANTA — September is nationally recognized as Suicide Prevention and Recovery Awareness Month. And, some cities in north metro Atlanta are reminding themselves of that.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness says September is a time to raise aware ness about suicide, a “stigmatized, often taboo, topic.” Suicide was the 12th leading cause of death in 2020, claiming the lives of almost 46,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven tion reporting database WISQARS.

Milton and Johns Creek city coun cils have made proclamations at recent meetings to raise awareness about mental health challenges. But, the cities’ initia tives to break down stigmas extend beyond September.

At the Sept. 7 Milton City Council meeting, Mayor Peyton Jamison declared September as Mental Wellness Month in the city. Since 2019, the City of Milton and the Alpharetta-based LRJ Foundation have partnered to provide educational program ming about mental health throughout the community.

Teressa Ruspi Stann, LRJ Foundation co-founder and executive director, began the nonprofit after losing her brother to

suicide in 2012.

While the foundation focuses on mental health in schools, Stann said that Milton’s efforts extend beyond the classroom.

“They like to wrap in the support of workplace wellness,” she said. “And I think that’s very important to connect to the community on all different levels.”

Mental wellness webinar

Stann introduced the Sept. 21 men tal wellness webinar for Milton residents, which focused on Milton first respond ers. Last year’s webinar focused on older residents.

Mayor Jamison made opening re marks.

“The reality is that many people from all different places, all different back grounds and in all different situations struggle daily,” Jamison said. “We in Mil ton are committed to doing what we can to raise public awareness, combat stigmas and to let people know that help is out there, and they’re not alone.”

The webinar featured other speak ers, including Milton firefighter Jamie Leavell,who spoke about the benefits of having a therapy guide dog at the sta tion. Katey, who has been registered as an emotional support animal, sat next to her fishing for treats.

“With the fire service, specifically in public safety in general, the stigma is where we run into the big issue,” Leavell said. “And with the dog, it doesn’t seem like you’re getting therapy. It’s just something that makes you feel a little bit better.”

She said Katey bridges a gap and

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Milton firefighter Jamie Leavell discusses her therapy guide dog, Katey, who sits beside her. Leavell was one of several speakers at the Sept. 21 mental wellness webinar hosted by Milton and the LRJ Foundation.

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until earlier this month that Judge Jane Barwick signed the order allowing him to proceed on his own behalf.

However, in the months leading up to the order and while Lake was still representing him, Coates asked to review several documents related to his case, such as docket entries and a case summary, and filed a witness subpoena and motion to suppress evidence col lected during the execution of a search warrant.

Coates alleges the search on Dec. 11, 2020, was illegal, because it was conducted on the same date that it was issued. During the search, police officers allegedly collected samples of Coates’ DNA, which eventually linked him to the scene of the murder.

From May to September, Lake also filed motions to dismiss nine other counts of the indictment, citing the statute of limitations, and filed a wit ness subpoena. She noted in her notice over competency concerns that shortly after his arrest, one of Coates’ former attorneys, Jennifer Banks-Browne, requested for the Department of Behav ioral Health and Development Disabili ties to evaluate his competency to stand trial. According to Lake, Coates was interviewed on Nov. 2, 2021, and a doc tor determined that he was competent to stand trial.

Before granting Coates’ request, Lake asked that Coates’ be reevaluated but was not able to get one arranged before his Sept. 14 hearing. No other informa tion related to the case has been filed since then.

Nearly a year after Coates’ arrest, the Roswell Police Department pre sented Master Police Officer Jennifer Bennett, Detective David Zigan, De tective Zack Kowalske and Lt. Jason Wescott of the Criminal Investigations Division with a Department Commen dation “for their relentless work on this case.”

“While an army of investigative part ners were involved over the years, these four took on a primary and unwavering role in seeking justice for Josh,” the Roswell Police Department wrote on Facebook. “With what their coworkers described as ‘relentless investigative optimism,’ they continued to work every lead until they brought closure to a family and a community.”

Harmon was reported missing on May 15, 1988. His body was later discovered in a wooded area near the Raintree Way apartments where he and Coates lived at the time. Accord ing to Roswell police, the tragic mur der sparked what would become one of the most prominent and tenacious criminal investigations in Roswell’s history.

But, while the investigation culmi nated last year with Coates’ arrest, he pleaded not guilty in February.

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For their work in pursuing the 1988 cold case murder of Joshua Harmon, Roswell Master Police Officer Jennifer Bennett, Det. David Zigan, Det. Zack Kowalske and Lt. Jason Wescott of the Criminal Investigations Division receive a Department Commendation in August.

Sweet tooth Chocolate drives chef’s journey

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

ATLANTA — Chef Ale Peek started her journey as a chocolatier five years ago, brandishing her assorted boxes of chocolate with “Art & Taste.” In the beginning, creating artisan chocolate was a way to represent the Acworthbased chef.

Peek’s boxes of assorted, brilliantly colored artisan chocolate contain unexpected flavor profiles, like chia lime, mango chamoy and Cafe Canela, a Mexican spiced coffee. Assortments are vegan and gluten-free, made with natural ingredients and without preser vatives. Peek said health is her number one focus.

“I love chocolate, and chocolate loves me,” she said.

Her father, who recently passed, also loved chocolate.

“My father was a very important piece in my life,” Peek said with tears in her eyes. “He was a chocoholic. We were chocoholics together.”

They shared many good moments, she said. Her father was the first one to tell her that cacao is from Mexico.

“Yeah, he loved chocolate,” Peek said, laughing.

Peek, who’s from Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, has an extensive background in the culinary arts, earning culinary degrees from Colegio Superior de Gas

tronomía in Mexico City and Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. In Paris, she honed her pastry skills, which is another of her specialties.

Peek found her love for cooking at an early age.

Her maternal great-grandparents owned a hotel where her great-grand mother cooked for guests. Peek said her great-grandmother had a natural talent, and she would eventually learn from her through her mother’s reci pes.

She also recalled spending holiday vacations on her grandfather’s ranch near Capula, a town known for its beau tiful, iconic clay Day of the Dead catri nas. While on the ranch, Peek formed a relationship with food, learning every thing about cows, the milk, the cheese, the cream, and produce like zucchinis, corn and Mexican cherries, which are called capulínes.

“When I was a little girl, I was always curious, always helping, always making a mess in the kitchen,” Peek said. “I was always trying to learn.”

She grew up and decided on a culinary career, despite her family’s wishes.

When she moved to the states, Peek worked as a pastry chef for Chef JOEL’s and as an instructor at Le Cordon

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LEADERSHIP NORTH FULTON ANNOUNCES CLASS of 2023

The Greater North Fulton Chamber is pleased to announce the members of the Leadership North Fulton Class of 2023 led by Chairs Lalitha Alladi, JMG Law Firm, and Jeff Wolfe, Mercer University. Learn more about the Chamber’s leadership programs at www.gnfcc.com and join us in congratulating the following leaders!

Ashley Allen Roswell Inc

Lori Allen Wellstar Health System

John Asbell Georgia Power Company

Lenor Bromberg City of Roswell

Sarah Buckley Amana Academy

Mary Beth Byerly University of North Georgia

Fabiola Clermont Chattahoochee Nature Center

Kevin Drucker Home2 Suites by Hilton Roswell

Bob Erramilli City Council MemberJohns Creek

Christopher Gardner The Hilbert Law Firm, LLC

John Gilmore Truist Bank

Bill Godshall Frazier & Deeter, LLC

Maggie Goldman Buy & Sell Differently

Charles Hagins Atlanta Gas Light

Ben Huard GO Agency

Anita Jupin City of Milton

Nakia Mattis Fresenius Medical Care

Tangela McFarlane The Cottage School

Lance Morsell City of Alpharetta

Davis Myers Choate Construction Company

Rachel Newcomer Summit Counseling Center

Sophia Niemeyer Greater North Fulton Chamber

Alison Nooks Mercer University

Kyle Paske Briskin, Cross & Sanford, LLC

Ashton Pellicano Mauldin & Jenkins, LLC

Melissa Pinsky North Fulton Community Charities Sophia Pittman Gwinnett Technical College

Terry Vilayhong Truist Bank

Jacob Wasson Parrish Construction Group

I love chocolate, and chocolate loves me.

ALEX PEEK, Chef and chocoholic

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Chef Ale Peek hugs her two children at a 2020 Fernbank Museum foodology exposition. Peek was invited to talk about chocolate, its history and the process of making it. At the event, she showed visitors how to make truffles.

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After settling down, getting mar ried and having two children, she felt the urge to start creating again and chose chocolate, a touchstone to her father.

Over time, becoming a U.S. citizen and developing more relationships, Peek said her work evolved from a means of self-representation to incorporate the American market.

The business grew for Peek. In addi tion to her chocolatier work, she started catering for different companies. The food is wide-ranging, including Latin dishes like chiles en nogada (poblano peppers stuffed with ground beef and pecan-Jerez sauce) to Italian bruschetta. She also sells weekly meals, primarily for working mothers who don’t have time to cook, and hosts seasonal classes for kids, ages 5 to 12.

This past month, Peek introduced a new product, a vanilla paste sourced from a summer trip to Mexico.

“Vanilla is supposed to be from our land,” she said, amid remarks about Mexico’s history involving the Span ish.

While her artisan chocolates remain at the center, Peek said that teaching is

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Chef Ale Peek is held by her cousin on the right. Her father stands in the middle with a chef’s hat and apron. Peek said she always had food and family around her.

the most important feature in her array of offerings.

“Teaching is the best way to grow,”

she said. “My mom told me one day, ‘If you want to leave something in someone, try to teach.’”

The pandemic interrupted plans to open a business front. For now, Peek uses a commercial kitchen at her church, St. Clare in Acworth. But, Peek said that she’s been considering at least another office.

She’s currently working on a book of Mexican recipes. Her audience is twofold.

The book would be for people like her American friends, who have asked her to make dishes such as Adobo. But, it’s also for people from Mexico who cur rently live in the U.S. and want a taste of home.

An online store is in the works.

Dunwoody recently hosted a His panic Heritage Month celebration at the Dunwoody Cultural Arts Center, where Peek sold her Art & Taste choco lates alongside her homemade vanilla paste.

Peek said that at Latin festivals, like the one in Dunwoody, she’s noticed something from conversations with those who attend.

“I can see how people from other countries who have arrived here to stay in the United States — they are very, very thirsty,” she said. “They are thirsty for their roots.”

For more information, visit alechef. org. For consultation with Chef Ale, email chefaletoile@gmail.com or call (678) 906-0074.

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Report: Atlanta newspaper to end all but Sunday print editions

By MARIA SAPORTA and JOHN RUCH SaportaReport

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will discontinue its daily print edition and go to a week end print edition, but it will continue its digital news operation seven days a week, according to interviews with a half dozen people close to the newspa per.

The timeframe to implement the discontinuation of the daily print edition has not yet been decided, but it likely would happen sometime in 2023, most likely within a year from now.

Senior editors were told of the deci sion during a zoom meeting Sept. 1. The meeting was led by Kevin Riley, editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Shawn McIntosh, the newspaper’s man aging editor.

During the meeting, the editors were told there were no immediate plans to lay off newsroom employees, according to people familiar with the meeting.

All newsroom employees also have been sent an email inviting them to an “in-person” staff meeting on Sept. 8 at 11 a.m.

The invite to the staff meeting from Kevin Riley stated:

“It’s been a while since we’ve had an in-person newsroom staff meeting – but don’t worry, I promise there won’t be any shoes dropping at this meeting. Instead, I would like to get together and share exciting information as we plan for our future. The leadership team hopes you leave the meeting feeling as optimistic as we do about our path forward – a path that allows us to continue to produce our meaningful work for a long time to come.”

In a brief telephone interview on

Sept. 1, Riley did not confirm the deci sion. When asked if the AJC had decided to discontinue the print edition six days a week and only have a Sunday print edition within the next year, Riley answered: “No such decision has been made.”

Friday morning, Riley was asked to clarify whether his quote referred to the decision to go all-digital except for a weekend paper or whether it referred to timing of when it would be implemented. As of the time of publication of this story, Riley had not responded to the text. This story will be updated if and when he does respond.

However, in the telephone interview, Riley essentially confirmed the likeli hood the print product was on its way out, with the possible exception of a weekend paper.

“I can tell you that everyone knows

that the future of our business is digi tal,” Riley said.

In a host of background conversa tions with people close to the AJC, the decision to discontinue the daily delivery and printing of the newspaper did not come as a surprise.

Newsroom employees have been witnessing the shift to a “digital-first policy.” The AJC sold its printing press and contracted with another newspaper company to print its paper, but that meant daily deadlines were pushed to 4 to 6 p.m., which meant the morning newspaper did not include any breaking news from the night before, including sports scores. Readers began to rely on the digital news product to get the latest news.

The decline in daily print subscrip tion and sales has been in play for the last couple of decades.

In an AJC story in 2009, the news paper announced a steep drop in its daily and Sunday circulation because of a decision to reduce its distribution area from 74 counties to 20 counties. At the time, the Sunday circulation was 405,549, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. And daily circulation had dropped to 214,303. Those num bers meant that the AJC “fell out of the top 25 newspapers for daily circula tion.”

The circulation of the print news paper has continued to decline. A June 2022 story in the PressGazette showed that the AJC was not among the top 25 newspapers in the coun try. The 25th largest paper was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, with an average print circulation of 47,832. That would mean the AJC’s print circulation had dropped to even below that number.

Still, the AJC has continued to be the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in

CID elects new officers, board members

ATLANTA —The North Fulton Commu nity Improvement District announced the election of new officers during its regularly scheduled board meeting on Sept. 6.

Newly elected officers include:

Chairman Tim Perry, managing partner of North American Properties Atlanta; Vice Chairman Leslie DayHarrell, executive vice president of Jackson Healthcare; and Treasurer Al Nash, Parallax Advisory Group LLC.

Former Chairman Kerry Armstrong, managing director at Pope & Land Enterprises, and former Vice Chairman

Moses Brown were recognized for their distinguished service to the Community Improvement District.

In addition to new officers, Bernie Tokarz, principal with Cloverhurst LLC, was sworn in as a new CID board member. Tokarz was appointed by the City of Milton after John Bell stepped down last month.

Tokarz has been heavily involved in transportation throughout his career. He currently serves as vice chair of the Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority and on the Board of Direc tors for the Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation.

“The North Fulton CID Board of Directors is a group of business profes sionals volunteering their time and efforts to make our community a better place to live, work and do business. Their leadership has allowed our orga nization to deliver significant and need ed infrastructure improvements and we look forward to our future success providing more important projects,” NFCID Executive Director Brandon Beach said.

To learn more about the North Ful ton CID, visit www.NorthFultonCID.com or call (678) 397-0570.

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the Southeast.

The AJC’s advertising website claims the paper has 1.2 million print readers, without explaining how that number — which is many times higher than the amount of papers printed — is calculat ed or audited. The same website reports the AJC has 9.2 million digital readers. An AJC spokesperson did not respond to questions about the current circulation numbers.

The AJC is owned by Cox Enterpris es, a privately-owned company based in Dunwoody. The AJC was bought by the Cox family more than 70 years ago, originally as two separate publications before a 2001 merger.

In 2010, the AJC moved from Downtown Atlanta to Dunwoody as a cost-savings move. Cox has made major changes in its media portfolio in recent years. In 2018, it considered merging the AJC and WSB TV and radio opera tions. But in 2019, it made a big change in course by selling WSB and several other national broadcasting outlets, while keeping the AJC and several Ohio newspapers.

On Aug. 8, Cox Enterprises an nounced that it had an agreement to buy Axios, the national news website, for $525 million. According to people close to the AJC, Cox’s decision to acquire Axios was not related to the decision to discontinue the daily print product of the AJC.

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breaks the ice for people who want to reach out for help but who don’t feel like they can.

Police Chief Rich Austin spoke about the free mental health support officers receive as well as the training that helps them handle on-the-job situations that involve people in mental distress. He also mentioned the Police Department’s goal of implementing a co-responder team that would allow a licensed mental health pro fessional to assist with crisis calls.

Advocate and educator Chantal Webb, whose organization, In It Together, works with children with special needs and men tal illness, talked about ways parents can help their children during times of stress.

Around 4.4 million children between the ages of 13 to 17 are diagnosed with anxiety, Webb said. That number reflects those who have been diagnosed, so the number is probably much higher, she said.

“One of the important things we want to do is teach them coping mechanisms,” she said. “So, the message isn’t that we’re not going to have stress in our lives, be cause we do, but how do we cope with it?”

Counselor and author Veronica White Fernandes, who’s been with the LRJ Foundation for nine years, was the last to speak. Fernandes described ways to keep a balance among areas of personal wellness: emotional, occupational, intellectual, envi ronmental, spiritual, physical and social.

Throughout her presentation, she answered the question, “How do we cope?” by describing ways to manage emotions, improve communication skills, maintain relationships and boundaries. She also focused on mindfulness.

“Sometimes mindfulness can sound like a contradiction because it feels like we’re in our mind, when actually we’re doing our best to be more still than in our thoughts,” Fernandes said.

‘No Shame’ campaign

In Johns Creek, City Councilman Chris Coughlin led a No Shame proclamation to promote Mental Health and Suicide Aware ness and Recovery Month at the Sept. 12 council meeting. Councilwoman Stacy Skinner followed up with a reading of the No Shame pledge.

Mayor John Bradberry offered addi tional context by speaking about Patriot Day Commemoration, a 9/11 event the city hosted, and he highlighted how the event’s speaker focused on how 9/11 heightened mental health challenges.

Citing statistics among first responders and military, Bradberry said law enforce ment officers and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty. He also said that military suicide rates are four times higher than deaths that occurred during military operations since 9/11.

“I mean, think about those very sober ing statistics,” Bradberry said.

Johns Creek partnered with One Johns Creek Coalition to participate in the SAFE Project’s No Shame campaign, which encourages individuals to take a pledge to provide a shame-free environment by learning more about mental health chal lenges, stigma and the disease of addiction.

This is the first year Johns Creek is participating in the campaign.

Pursuing strategies

One Johns Creek Coalition, which sits under the 501(c)(3) Pathways2Life, only just established itself in December 2020, after receiving a grant from the city. The coalition then acquired an MOU agreement with the city in December 2021.

The coalition pulls together represen tatives from all sectors of Johns Creek to accomplish seven strategies of community change, including things like modifying policies and laws and reducing barriers, said Kendal McMichael, youth coordinator for the coalition and prevention specialist at Pathways2Life.

Organizations can become a coalition partner and sign up for a 30-minute pre sentation from the coalition on shame and stigma. The nonprofit also offers a presen tation on trauma.

“Trauma impacts the ability to relate, and it impacts shame and stigma,” said Alyse Hensel, the coalition’s program director. Hensel also does marketing and

operations for Pathways2Life.

Most of the coalition’s initiatives are school-driven because they’re studentfocused, she said.

McMichael went to Centennial High School in Johns Creek and shared her per sonal struggles as a teenager.

“I couldn’t even put terms to what I was dealing with because there was no av enue for me to talk to anybody about what I was dealing with,” she said.

McMichael said she wants to create a community where it’s normal to talk about mental health.

The No Shame pledge is set for the month of September. But, Hensel and Mc Michael are working on another wave from October to December.

They also suggest that people continue posting throughout the year, several times a month, to embrace “no shame” as part of organizations’ inter

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A hero lived among us, Part 2

OPINION

When things happen that shouldn’t happen

BOB MEYERS

In a previous col umn we saw that Charles Mansell’s story is one of bravery and sacri fice. As a member of the celebrated Merrill’s Marauders, against overwhelm ing odds he fought the Japanese in the steaming jungles of Burma during World War II. The New York Times said at the time “no other American force anywhere has marched as far, fought as continuously or has had to display such endurance, as General Merrill’s swift-moving, hard-hitting foot sol diers.”

In part 2 of his story, we will see that Charles was a very successful farmer after he returned to civilian life.

Soon after returning to the United States in 1944 and shortly before leaving the Army, Charles married Montez Haley (1918–2005) a neighbor and childhood friend. Once out of the Army he returned to his life on the land. He attended a two-year agri cultural program for veterans at the University of Georgia. He purchased a 100-acre farm on Union Hill Road in Alpharetta where he grew award winning corn and other produce and raised livestock. He also purchased 20 acres from his father’s farm on Cross ville Road in Roswell, initially grow ing vegetables and later devoting it to greenhouse tomatoes and vegetable plants. Together with his son Dean and his son-in-law Rubin Smith he started Mansell’s Produce, a business on Highway 9 near Lebanon Church (now gone) specializing in produce and garden supplies. The store was in op eration from circa 1969 to 1978 when Charles retired.

Charles and Montez raised one boy, Dean, and one girl, Connie, during their 52-year marriage. The shrapnel in his shoulder and chest caused problems for Charles as time wore on. The pieces of metal were finally removed with several surgeries in the 1970s. As he got older, he relied on a cane, the result of wartime bullet wounds to a leg and lingering ef

PHOTOS BY MANSELL FAMILY/PROVIDED Soon after his return from the war, Charles and his new bride Montez Haley had this portrait taken soon after their marriage.

fects of the damage done to his shoulder and chest.

Charles was an outstanding farmer and won numerous awards. He was the first farmer in Roswell and Alpharetta to use irrigation from lakes on each of his farms. Through crossbreeding he developed a variety of tomato called the Mansell Tomato, a red, medium-size to mato with few seeds. Some members of the Mansell family still grow the variety with seeds carefully preserved over the years. Charles had a good partnership with his wife Montez. They worked to gether in the fields because farming was for them a way of life not just a way to make a living.

Local newspapers frequently wrote about him. A long article in the Atlanta Constitution in September 1944 titled “‘Marauder’ On Way Home To Roswell” highlighted his return to civilian life. A feature in the Atlanta Constitution Sunday Magazine Section in July 1966 claimed that Charles’ 20-acre farm in Roswell “produces more good eating than most 200-acre farms.” A Febru ary 1959 article in the same newspaper reported that Charles won the Ful ton County Corn Club contest with a yield of 153 bushels per acre while the average was 111 bushels. The famous columnist Celestine Sibley was a friend and wrote several columns about Charles in the 1970s. One of the nicest tributes appeared in a July 1947 article stating “Charles Mansell never gets tired behind that mule. He just thinks

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I have been expecting it now for a couple years and the only surprise has been that they didn’t do it sooner. If they had asked me 15 years ago, I could have told them. And now, I am sure that because they waited so long, that this step is not the last one; it is only yet one more pass toward the ultimate “close” in my estimation.

According to reports from news website SaportaReport, the AJC plans to cease daily publication sometime in 2023. My bet is that will happen sometime in the first half of the year. According to the reports, there will still be a “weekend” edition - presumedly once a week. Of note, although numer ous sources indicate there is a move to cease daily publication in the near future, there has been no official defini tive confirmation as of today – Sept. 8, 2022.

According to SaportaReport, this exit from daily publication would not be from a position of strength. Ac cording to reporters Maria Saporta and John Ruch, the current iteration of the AJC is no longer in the top 25 newspapers, circulation-wise. They note that the current number 25 paper in the country is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with a print circula tion of 47,832. As recently as 2009, the Sunday print circulation of the AJC was 405,549.

I am reminded of a line in a T.S. Elliot poem: “ends not with a bang but a whim per” – sort of like how I fear our democ racy at times seems to be trending.

“Stunned” is the only word I have, even though I have known for years it would probably happen. Gut-punched. If this is true, we all lose.

“Everyone knows that the future of our business is digital,” AJC Editor Kevin Riley is quoted as saying, and he is also quoted as saying that the AJC will continue reporting “the news” seven days a week online. Really Kevin? To me, that is akin to saying that “someday cancer will be cured.” Yes, it is probably a given that the future of “news” will be digital. However, there may be a small fly in the ointment. That statement makes an as sumption that there is a future for “news,” that the business model of using news to make money will remain a viable business model at scale. Maybe it will. Or not.

The COX family, through Cox En

terprises, is betting $525,000,000 on that business model remaining viable – actually a lot more when the staffing of their news operation is factored in. I remember when I worked for The Miami Herald, they went “all in” over 40 years ago with an early version of the internet called Viewtron which failed miserably. Cox Enterprises paid all those millions for a company that produces digital newsletters – Axios. Hmm.

Let’s see, a printed newspaper with a brand still trusted and respected by a large portion of the public, versus digital newsletters and a website. Not sure I would want to make that bet.

Yes, there is the New York Times with 9.17 million paid subscribers, of which only 761,000 are print subscriptions and the rest are digital. And they continue to grow. Their digital paid subscriptions increased 180,000 in the second quarter of 2022. On face, that would support Mr. Riley’s confidence in digital. But, again, we are talking about the New York Times, a brand that was already at scale nationally and which has consistently made the right decisions at the right time. I am not sure how duplicable their business model is.

In a world that seems trending digital, digital, digital, it feels like a moot point to consider that there could be room for a not-digital future. You know however, we now can make every form of music electronically on a keyboard, and yet, now after cen turies we still have real violins, real pianos, real drums played by people performed in front of audiences of real people in person. The same is true with other forms of art. Books are still printed. People still write. People still actually read.

Digital fragments and destroys as much as it unifies and creates. It does not nurture. Plus, without scarcity, there can be no value. “Digital” – espe cially digital content – by nature is al most limitless. So where is the value?

People need interaction with other people, and digital so far has not proven to be an adequate substitute. In fact, it is often insanely toxic.

“Meta” may be the biggest financial blunder in the history of the world. Or, it could rival Amazon as the best. What will sustain humanity I fear is not something digital; it is something more personal.

But digital is a mighty strong current to swim against.

I remain hopeful and continue to see a half full glass. Maybe local printed newspapers have a place in that world. I think they do.

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about those 1,000 miles he walked across Burma, and that makes plowing easy.”

Charles Nephew Don Nix worked on Charles’ vegetable farm when Don was a student at Roswell High School. He recalls that from 1963 to 1970 Charles grew vegetables for all A&P stores in North Atlanta. Charles hired several nephews as well as other Roswell and Alpharetta teens. “He wanted to have influence on their outlook on life. His family was very religious, and he wanted to encourage that,” says Don.

Charles spoke very little about the war, Don recalls. “Occasionally he would say something. He would get teary eyed and would have to regain his composure.”

In 1962 Warner Brothers made a movie “Merrill’s Marauders” starring Jeff Chandler as Brig. Gen.Frank Merrill. The film is available on Amazon where it has received positive ratings.

The Marauders are generally con sidered the precursors to the elite U.S. Army Rangers.

Heroes inspire us with their cour age and accomplishments. They give us hope for the future. We owe them a debt

Charles Mansell sits by an irrigation system on his farm on Crossville Road in the early 1960s. He was the first farmer to use irrigation from lakes on his properties in North Fulton.

that can seldom be repaid. Thank you, Charles.

Bob is director emeritus of the Milton Historical Society. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.

Charles Mansell and his family are shown on their farm on Union Hill Road in 1956. From left, front row, are children Connie and Dean; back row, Montez and Charles.

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kitchens and exercise gyms, he said.

Fire Station 9, according to Shivers, is the oldest county fire station. It was built by volunteers on Browns Bridge Road in north Forsyth County in 1989, he said.

Fire Station 15 was built on Buford Highway in 1999, at the beginning of what Shivers called the Forsyth County Fire Department’s “career era.”

“Both facilities have long outlived their useful life and, simply, the depart ment has outgrown them,” he said.

The county hasn’t announced when construction will kick off, but Forsyth County’s Assistant Director of Communi cations Russell Brown said they expect to hold groundbreakings for the projects in late October or early November.

During the construction process, residents in the area of Fire Station 9 and 15 should not expect any disruptions in service. Shivers said the new facilities are being built nearby the old fire houses, but not on the existing locations.

“All new properties were purchased for the new facilities so the current fire houses will remain in service for those respective communities until the new houses are ready for occupancy, at which time the old firehouses will be closed,” he said.

Brown said the project will be funded

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Richard Higgins, 91, of Alpharetta, passed away September 12, 2022.

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Joseph McPartland, 18, of Roswell, passed away September 12, 2022.

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Kevin Chojnacki, 61, of Alpharetta, passed away September 13, 2022.

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The contract was approved 5-0.

Bennet Park renovations

Also at Thursday’s work session, commissioners heard from Parks Director Jim Pryor that proposed renovations at Bennett Park have been cleared to move forward.

“Back in 1978, a group of citizens came to the commissioners and wanted to build the first park in Forsyth County, in that, they applied for a Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Grant … and they were awarded $10,000 for the grant,” Pryor said. “Bennett Park, the first park in Forsyth County was built with $20,000.”

By accepting that grant nearly 50 years ago, Forsyth County agreed to make the land a park in perpetuity, granting the federal government control over all addi tions and upgrades at the park.

Pryor said that master plans for renovations at Bennett Park, located off Burruss Mill Road in northeast Forsyth County, have received state and federal approval, and they have been given the go-ahead to start work on construction of the park’s new community center project.

“I’ve been working for two years to make this happen,” he said. “This was built primarily for outdoor facilities, and so they have a real problem when you want to add indoor facilities to it and that’s one of the struggles I’ve been hav

ing with Bennett Park.”

The county will construct a 3,800 square foot community building at the 40-acre park property, he said.

County seeks recycling grant

Commissioners also approved an application to apply for $100,000 from Georgia’s Recycling, Waste Reduction and Diversion Grant, to help fund a new county recycling initiative.

“Funding from this grant will be used to purchase a plastic compac tor and bins to clean up the county’s plastic stream at the three recycling centers,” Forsyth County Grant Admin istrator Angelia Johnson said at the work session.

Johnson said the plastic compactors will be retrofitted to only accept, items 12 inches or smaller at local recycling centers, to prevent recycling loads from being contaminated, and all three centers will receive new “doghouse” recycling bins for plastic collection.

“Despite lots of education and sig nage, items such as the ridable batterypowered Barbie car, vinyl siding, and a plethora of plastic items that are consid ered to be “contaminates” still make their way into the plastic compactor,” she said. “The three recycling centers are also in the process of implementing the Hefty Energy Bag program at all three centers so customers will have an option other than trash for these types of contami nates.”

Donna Williams, 70, of Alpharetta, passed away September 15, 2022.

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Nicolas Quintana, 31, of Roswell, passed away September 15, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Raffaela Cavalli, 97, of Alpharetta, passed away September 19, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Christina Jones, 75, of Roswell, passed away September 19, 2022.

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David Shafer, 77, of Roswell, passed away September 19, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Margaret Bayersdorfer, 82, of Roswell, passed away September 19, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Elizabeth Dinsmore, 91, of Milton, passed away September 20, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Michael Brown, 71, of Roswell, passed away September 20, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

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