Mike Holihan and Michelle Lacobelle stand in front of their “Little Guy Cat Rescue,” a flexible tunnel Lacobelle conceived as a means to provide felines a safe path down a tree. The tunnel can be arranged in a spiral configuration using zip ties and staples to secure it to a tree. Holihan helped write the patent application and is the second and last-named inventor of Lacobelle’s idea. Read story, Page 9.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — For decades, Coal Mountain in north Forsyth County has been a quiet, rural community, untouched by the changes that development has brought to the county’s southern end.
But change may be on the way thanks to a recent decision by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
At a meeting Dec. 15, commissioners unanimously approved final plans for the Coal Mountain Town Center project, letting national homebuilder Toll Brothers start work on a 140-acre multi-use development at the intersection of Ga. 9, Ga. 369 and Settingdown Road.
Plans for the project, which have been in development for more than five years, spurred Forsyth County to create a new zoning district, the Coal Mountain Town Center Overlay, attorney Christopher Light said.
Light told commissioners that with the new overlay, the Coal Mountain Town Center project will become a “gateway to North Forsyth” and guide development in the surrounding community with a common vision,
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested two Alpharetta men on drug charges, after a traffic stop in south Forsyth County.
Reports said the two men were pulled over after they were clocked traveling 63 miles per hour in a 45 zone on McFarland Parkway and Ronald Reagan Boulevard Dec. 12. But both men were asked to exit the vehicle after officers smelled marijuana coming from inside.
During a search of the vehicle, deputies located multiple firearms without serial numbers, two large bags containing marijuana, and other drug paraphernalia.
Both men were charged with possession of a schedule 1 substance with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. They were taken to the Forsyth County Jail.
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — An 18-year-old Gainesville woman was arrested Dec. 13 after a police chase that spanned two jurisdictions and reached speeds of more than 90 miles per hour.
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested the woman after she was pulled from her wrecked vehicle at the intersection of Jones Bridge Road near Douglas Road in Forsyth County.
Johns Creek Police incident reports said the chase began when officers spotted a westbound 2018
GMC Terrain exceeding the 45-mph speed limit on McGinnis Ferry Road at about 2 a.m.
Police said the vehicle was speeding at more than 98 mph, and both Johns Creek and Forsyth County officers attempted to stop the vehicle at multiple points along the chase.
The GMC’s driver allegedly ran through a red light and drove on the wrong side of the roadway during the chase, and eventually crashed into a tree near Jones Bridge Road, reports said.
The woman was taken to Northside Forsyth Hospital for evaluation, due to the seriousness of the wreck, and was later arrested on seven charges, including driving under the influence, felony fleeing and driving on the wrong side of the roadway.
Deputies transported the woman to the Forsyth County Jail without incident.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested a 46-year-old Cumming man on assault and battery charges for allegedly attacking and seriously injuring his wife multiple times over the past two years.
Police reports said the man was arrested after deputies and Cumming Police Officers were told that a woman had been attacked and choked by her husband on Dec. 9. The woman reported this was one of many incidents when she had been attacked by the man, including one incident in which her nose was broken.
Deputies were shown home security camera footage of the most recent incident and were able to corroborate the victim’s account from the footage.
The man was located by authorities Dec. 11 and charged with aggravated assault and battery. He was taken to the Forsyth County Jail, where he was being held without bond.
while honoring the history of Coal Mountain.
“This was the area I grew up in, and I’m extremely excited I played a small part in this proposal,” he said.
Toll Brothers has proposed building a “retail plaza” at Settingdown Road and Ga. 369 as part of the Town Center project, with 100,000 square feet of commercial retail and office space, a stage and space for performances, a centralized water feature, and 36.4 acres of greenspace spread throughout the site.
The development’s commercial space will also include a 15,000-square-foot brewery building, according to Toll Brothers Representative Adam Gurcio.
“It is a large project and a culmination of a lot of years of work,” Gurcio said.
The development will also have 780 residential units, split between multi-family apartments, “village-type” townhomes and single-family homes.
Residential and commercial portions will have to be built concurrently as part of the development’s conditions, he said, and 35,000 square feet of commercial space, including the brewery building, will have to be built before the residential phases.
Three people spoke in favor of the development during the meeting’s public hearing session, including two business owners and one resident. No one spoke in opposition.
“It’s an amazing project, in an area that could really use something like this, especially on the north side,” NoFo Brewery Co-Founder Joe Garcia said.
District 4 Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills said she believes the development will create something future generations can be proud of.
“I can’t believe we’re finally here at this point finally for a vote,” she said.
After hearing fierce public opposition and an hourlong discussion among themselves, commissioners voted to postpone a decision on plans for a
383,000-square-foot warehouse space in north Forsyth County.
Proposed by Georgia developer The Pacific Group, the project calls for three large industrial warehouse buildings, totaling 381,175 square feet, on 40 acres off Settingdown Road, just northeast of Ga. 400.
This project is one of several proposed developments made possible by a series of large investments in water and sewer infrastructure using funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, Mills said.
While the warehouse project was not scheduled for a public hearing, multiple residents voiced concerns about the proposal during the meeting’s public comment period.
Most comments centered around whether Settingdown Road, a rural twolane connecting to major arteries heading north and east, would be suitable for the traffic a warehouse development could bring.
Several speakers, who are residents of the Hampton Golf Village neighborhood just northeast of the project site, said the development would pose major safety concern to families in the area who regularly cross Settingdown Road to visit the Hampton Park Library.
“Trucks going up and down Settingdown are going to be going way too fast,” said Randy Romero, a local resident.
Another resident, Brian Estes, called the development a “ticking time bomb,” due to the narrow and winding features of Settingdown Road.
Estes, a former logistics consultant, said he thinks the county could find much more viable locations for the development.
“Selection of this site makes absolutely no sense … There’s not a serious company that would select this site for a warehouse,” Estes said.
Mills, whose district covers the project area, said the county did extensive community meetings for this proposal and three similar projects and received no pushback.
Beyond that, she said the conditions allowing this project to be built were designed in partnership with the Homeowners Association at Hampton Golf Village.
Renderings of the Coal Mountain Town Center project show how the mixed-use development may play host to festivals, concerts and other community activities. The development, to be built on 140 acres at the intersection of Ga. 9, Ga. 369 and Settingdown Road, received the go-ahead from county commissioners Dec. 15.
“It’s in accordance with the [comprehensive plan], it’s in accordance with the planning commission, they voted five to zero for it,” she said. “I know it’s hard for people in Hampton to believe it, but Hampton means a lot to me, and I’ve been very concerned and always tried to help Hampton any way that I could.”
However, District 5 Commissioner Laura Semanson said she still harbors concerns about the project, specifically about how the county would keep large trucks from going north on Settingdown Road.
Semanson said without a police officer or another authority monitoring Settingdown Road, they wouldn’t be able to ensure that trucks wouldn’t cut through the roadway to head north and east.
“I don’t think anybody’s arguing with the attempt to try to mitigate that, my concern is just that it may do nothing,” she said. “It may very well do nothing, and we would be essentially powerless to do anything about it.”
Semanson also said she thinks the development could have benefited had it been proposed in an area that transitions residential to industrial.
“I would have a whole hell of a lot less heartburn with this, if it connected directly to (Ga.) 400,” she said. “We all know that our tax digest has to be fixed, we all know we need commercial, but it’s got to be in the right place.”
After the discussion, commissioners voted 3-1, with Semanson opposed, to postpone the item until Jan. 19.
CUMMING, Ga. — At a Cumming City Council Meeting Dec. 6, councilmembers and Cumming Police Chief David Marsh honored several officers for their outstanding work in 2022.
Cumming Police Officer Tyler Burns was named the Cumming Police Officer of the Year for his professionalism and dignified representation of the department in the community, Marsh told councilmembers and the gathered crowd at the meeting.
“Officer Burns is always professional and never hesitates to handle any call for service…Officer Burns comes to work every day willing to help his shift and to help the citizens of Cumming,” Marsh said. “I can rely on Officer Burns at any moment. I know any call for service he goes to will be handled professionally and be investigated thoroughly.”
Three other officers, Josh Bagwell, Jonathan Fitzpatrick and Coy Turner were also recognized as nominees for the award.
Marsh also presented the Life
Saving Award, and a promotion to the rank of captain, to Police Sgt. Sebastian Strano, who successfully revived a young female patient who overdosed in the parking lot of a local restaurant in May.
“Strano administered his dose of Narcan to the patient and applied sternum rubs until he detected a pulse and that she was again breathing,” Marsh said. “Strano remained on the ground with her, constantly reassuring her until EMS arrived. He then assisted her up and into the ambulance.”
Another officer, Sgt. Tony Hodgkins, was also honored for two instances in which he went above and beyond the call of duty to help local residents.
“During the first situation, he waded into a creek that had become flooded due to severe thunderstorms in order to help a citizen whose home had flooded in order to remove debris from the home,” Marsh said.
Hodgkins also used in-depth investigative work to track a boy who had been kidnapped by his father to Greenville Ala., where the father was arrested and the boy was safely returned home.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit Court seated two judges ahead of the new year, including the superior court’s longtime chief judge and a brand-new state court judge.
Superior Court Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Bagley was sworn in for his fifth term at a ceremony held at the Forsyth County Courthouse Monday, Dec. 19. Bagley was re-elected to serve a four-year term May 24.
Bagley, a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, has served
as a superior court judge for the BellForsyth Judicial Circuit since 2000 and became chief judge in 2003.
After taking the oath of office, Bagley delivered a “State of the Courts Address” covering capital improvements, future plans for the court, the Forsyth County Accountability Courts and the postpandemic status of the court system.
The court also seated State Court Judge James Dunn, a former Forsyth County Assistant District Attorney at a ceremony Dec. 16.
Dunn will fill the state court seat vacated by former judge Leslie C. Abernathy-Maddox, who did not seek re-election.
Dunn is a University of Georgia and Mercer University graduate and worked as a judicial clerk before serving as assistant district attorney.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Government announced Dec. 12 that Russell Brown has been named director of Forsyth County’s Department of Communications and External Affairs.
Brown has been with Forsyth County for five years in various positions, including communications coordinator, manager and assistant director. He’s recently served as interim director for the department since September.
“Russell has been a strong, consistent servant of not only the communications department but the County as a whole for several years,” former County Manager Kevin Tanner said in a release. “Russell has been the ‘face’ of Forsyth for several years, and I am looking forward to seeing him take this department to new heights.”
Brown has nearly 15 years of experience in communications, and previously served as a talk show host and reporter for WDUN News Talk Radio and as a news anchor for the CBT Automotive News Network.
Brown is a graduate of Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Multimedia Communication.
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Forsyth County announced Dec. 12 that Russell Brown has been named director of the county’s Department of Communications, after several months serving as the department’s interim director.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The ribbon has officially been cut on Forsyth County’s new Juvenile Court Building.
The 70,000 square foot court building was built off Lanier 400 Parkway in Forsyth County to replace the previous court building, which has remained in operation for many years, Forsyth County officials said.
“Juvenile court facilities are unique in that special accommodations must be made for juveniles and their families that are not required at the main courthouse,” Forsyth County Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Bagley said. “As such, it is preferable to have a separate courthouse for Juvenile Court and even though we have had a separate building for many years, the previous courthouse had significant deficiencies in access, efficiency, security, overcrowding, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its physical structure.”
Now fully completed, the new juvenile court building includes three levels of courtrooms, conference rooms, administrative offices and room for expansion.
“The facility is designed to incorporate natural elements and lighting designed to provide a calming effect,” officials said in a release.
FORSYTH COUNTY/ PROVIDED Officials cut the ribbon on Forsyth County’s new Juvenile Court Building on Lanier 400 Parkway at an event held Dec. 8.
Officials broke ground on the project in 2020, with construction provided by Carroll-Daniel Construction and a total project cost of $19.9 million.
“Juvenile Court is committed to the care, safety and guidance of children; to respectful and just treatment of all involved; to the personal development and accountability of children and their families; to public safety and to restoration of victims and communities,” officials said.
ROSWELL, Ga. — North Fulton
Community Charities welcomed Sandy Holiday as the new Executive Director of the nonprofit organization at the end of November. Two weeks later, Holiday says the work has been a whirlwind.
Holiday takes over the role from Mary Good, who served as Interim Executive Director from June to
November. Holiday comes to NFCC from Atlanta Children’s Shelter, where she served as the Executive Director for 13 years.
As director, Sandy will lead the nonprofit organization in its goal to aid individuals and families in need. NFCC serves over 8,500 residents every year in Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Mountain Park and Roswell.
The organization has multiple programs to assist residents, including care management and financial assistance, food pantry, education, clothing assistance and seasonal aid.
During her first week, Holiday worked with the organization’s Giving Tuesday initiative. Volunteers assembled hundreds of senior baskets
and received donations for a future Toyland event.
“I must say the highlight for me has been meeting the individuals and families that we impact,” Holiday said.
Prior to Holiday’s role with Atlanta Children’s Shelter, she worked as the State Operations Director with the State Office of Child Support. She has a doctorate from Emory Law.
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Christmas is approaching fast, which means that local roads and highways will soon be packed with people traveling to see friends or family, enjoying the holiday season.
But to make sure that everyone really does enjoy the holidays, and everyone gets home safely, the Roswell Fire Department and Safe Kids North Fulton have released a set of holiday travel tips and recommendations.
“For many families, the holiday season usually means traveling to visit friends or relatives, so we want every family to know the simple things they can do to stay safe in and around cars,” Roswell Fire and Life Safety Educator
Chad Miller said. “Road injuries are the leading cause of preventable deaths and injuries to children in the United States. Meanwhile, correctly used child safety seats can reduce the risk of death by as much as 71 percent; however, half of the car seats are installed incorrectly.”
Safe Kids North Fulton recommends the following holiday travel tips:
• Everybody needs their own restraint. Make it a rule: Everyone buckled—every ride, every time—whether it’s the long trip to visit family or around the block to the mall.
• If you are flying, take your car seat with you and use it on the plane. It will be a benefit to have it with you at
your destination and when you travel to and from the airport. Let car rental companies know in advance if you need to rent a car seat or booster seat.
• Watch out for small kids and distracted drivers in parking lots that are busier than usual during the holidays.
• Remind your inexperienced teen driver to be extra alert during the holidays when people are more distracted, and the weather can be tricky.
• Avoid distractions while driving. No text message or playlist is worth the risk of taking your eyes off the road. Set your GPS to voice-activated so you can concentrate on driving without having to look at your phone.
• Plan to use a designated driver or car service to make sure you get home safely if you drink alcohol.
• Keep car exhaust pipes clear of packed snow to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Secure loose objects. Put hot foods, large gifts, and anything that could fly around in a crash in the trunk.
• Prepare for weather emergencies by packing extra blankets, food, and diapers. Keep your phone charged and make sure someone at your destination knows the route you are planning to take.
To learn more holiday safety tips, visit: www.safekids.org/holidays.
CUMMING, Ga. — Little Guy, an orange Tabby cat, was stuck in a tree for seven days before being rescued.
On July 1, a “biblical thunderstorm” was underway with rain, lighting and wind that caused the branches to violently sway. It took Normer Adams, the 70-something-year-old operator of Cat Man Do Rescue, around five hours to retrieve Little Guy from the end of what looked like a vein-width’s limb 50-60 feet high with a pole.
The tree stands to the right of Michelle Lacobelle’s front porch, one house down, atop a ridge that overlooks her subdivision.
“I did tell God — I said, ‘If you take him, take me,” Lacobelle recalled, who at one point was hoisted up 30 feet herself.
Lacobelle said she lost 10 pounds in that week from stress.
“I would see little eyes and hear him meow every night,” she said.
But the taxing event sparked an idea for Lacobelle, a senior principal systems engineer in the defense and aerospace industry, leading her to produce a now-patented, cat rescue tunnel and apparatus, which she calls “Little Guy Cat Rescue.”
With the help of Mike Holihan, a longtime friend, former co-worker and serial inventor, Lacobelle received patent approval for the device Nov. 24. Both names are on the application, but Lacobelle is the first-named inventor.
Lacobelle and Holihan provided a demo of the invention Dec. 9. Similar to a cat tunnel that can be found at any pet store, Lacobelle’s creation is a long, plastic mesh tube about 10 inches in diameter with a coiled wire inside. The tunnel is flexible, lightweight and collapsible.
The cat tunnel itself can’t be patented, Lacobelle said, because someone let the tunnel claim go abandoned. Patent ideas can go somewhere like a boneyard composed of “prior art,” Holihan said.
“You still have to fight that even though it’s been let go and no one claims it anymore,” Holihan said.
Every foot or so, Holihan cut a hole in the tunnel to allow for a zip tie, intended to be hammered to a tree using a staple — the patented method of installation to be fine-tuned in the manufacturing process. Zip ties aren’t necessary, Lacobelle said, but they allow a space for the staple to be used and secured to the tree.
Patent holders can have a “continuation pattern,” Holihan said, which allows a patent to be continuously modified. If a new application is filed within a year from the first, additions can
be made, he said.
“There’s other things that we’ve talked about that can be done with electronics,” Holihan said. “There are different things.”
One iteration of the tunnel, the “S-shaped configuration,” was already installed, nearly vertical but with kinks, running up one side of a tree by a horse pasture in a neighbor’s backyard. For demonstration, Lacobelle and Holihan created the second and last design, a “spiral configuration.”
Using a ladder, Holihan slowly wrapped and nailed the tunnel around the tree with Lacobelle assisting.
Holihan went up about 20 feet to attach the tunnel. But Lacobelle said if a cat were up higher, any tree climber could install the tunnel, walk away and let the cat come down. Lacobelle’s patent submission notes that multiple tunnels can be adjoined to fashion any length.
“A tree climber is not really a cat rescuer, and they’ll charge you like $500 to rescue a cat with no guarantees,” Lacobelle said.
Before Adams showed up in July, Lacobelle tried calling the Forsyth County Fire Department. But the department said they couldn’t do anything — it was too risky. Forsyth County Division Chief Jason Shivers said the fire department gets these kinds of calls about once a month.
Half of the time, there’s not much they can do, Shivers said, so they usually suggest a local tree climber.
Lacobelle called the tree climber, but he couldn’t get Little Guy down after several attempts.
However, he did suggest that Lacobelle try using netting, which led her to think of many ways to deliver Little Guy from his predicament, like constructing a hammock and a 35-foot catwalk. But none of her efforts worked.
“The cat just wasn’t coming down,” Lacobelle said. “It was like a suicide mission.”
Afterward, a neighbor helped Lacobelle find Adams, who had appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” The day after Adams succeeded in his mission, Lacobelle began the process of what would become Little Guy Cat Rescue, writing the application alongside Holihan.
At the Dec. 9 demonstration, Lacobelle offered cinnamon coffee and a Danish. She flipped through the official patent approval, submitted Aug. 2 — only three weeks after Little Guy was rescued.
“It’s just a matter of time before they publish it fully on the website,” Lacobelle said.
Some of Lacobelle’s cats were lounging about in her bedroom upstairs and
were hard for her to catch. But Little Guy had a calmer demeanor. Given the moniker “Bruce Lee” for his agility, Little Guy missed the birth of his litter while suspended. Most of his kittens, who Little Guy frequently cuddles, still reside with Lacobelle and have “Little” as their first name.
Lacobelle showed off a dedicated room for her cat, which had litter boxes, tunnels and a pink doll house.
“Of all the things I brought from California. I brought this,” said Lacobelle, who moved from Los Angeles a year and a half ago. “My daughter said, ‘You don’t need a playhouse.’ I said, ‘I do when I have kittens again.’”
Opposite the upstairs common space, Lacobelle’s vision board included plans
for her invention as well as an easy, rich retirement.
“I want a million dollars,” Lacobelle said. “I want callbacks, interest, licensing, Petco…”
Lacobelle has been having conversations with Petco to market the product.
Now that her patent is approved, Lacobelle is a member of The Breakfast Club — a group of Holihan’s inventor colleagues from California, including Dave Crouch. Crouch, who has 50 patents and a PhD in physics, moved out east and met up with Lacobelle and Holihan for breakfast in northern Georgia.
“... One of the many blessings from rescuing Little Guy, who I love so much,” Lacobelle said.
By DELANEY TARR delaney@appenmedia.com
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — When Dawn Clements was 23 years old and pregnant with her first child, she herniated five discs in her back. It’s a pain Clements remembers vividly decades later, and it’s what inspired her to invent the Fit Buddy.
The Fit Buddy looks unassuming. It’s curved, with a pointed edge on one side. Despite its simplicity, the fitness tool has over 20 applications for muscle tension, recovery, mobility and flexibility.
The packaging shows a few of the uses, like standing on the curved wood to stretch calf muscles or putting the point of the tool into the palm of the hand. Clements uses the Fit Buddy every day to massage her body.
After Clements herniated the discs in her back, she spent years looking for a solution. Surgery at the time was too high risk, and she got dismissed from physical therapy for not making progress. Clements then started looking at alternatives to traditional medicine.
It was years before Clements really improved. She credits her chiropractor, swimming and massage as helping her improve. Yet at 46 and 47, Clements reherniated her back.
“I went to see this chiropractor, and he said, ‘You need to take a rock or as a stick that has a rounded end, and you need to just press it into you,” Clements said.
She also started going to Korean yoga, where she used a wooden tool in class to stretch out her muscles.
“I just thought it would be so cool if it was well designed because I would use it
in classes, and I just loved it,” Clements said. “I thought I could design one that’s better, with a point to get into that area myself.”
Once she had the idea, Clements dove into meetings with chiropractors, physical therapists, personal trainers and doctors to figure out the best design and use for
the tool. She wanted it to be as functional as possible
“It was going in finding more ways to use it, finding what they liked and didn’t like,” Clements said.
She would create prototypes with Styrofoam and shape it using a hot knife, going through numerous iterations of the
tool before she settled on her favorite. She created the first official model in 2016 with a woodworker.
The result was lightweight wooden tool called the Fit Buddy, an easy to transport companion for any moment.
“I’m an extrovert, and I love to talk to people...I love to learn.”
DAWN CLEMENTS, Fit Buddy Inventor
Creating the product was one thing, with multiple roadblocks and three different manufacturers. Clements had to learn how to manage production, quality control and the work of a new business.
Selling the product was a new challenge entirely.
Clements sold one of her first Fit Buddies to a friend on her tennis team, Alyson Rogers. They’ve been playing tennis together for close to 15 years, and Rogers went to the yoga classes where Clements got her inspiration.
“I mean it’s pretty amazing, honestly,” Rogers said. “I was proud of her and kind of admired her tenacity.”
Clements started taking her product anywhere she could, targeting people she knew dealt with pain and muscle tension.
“Before COVID-19, I would go into gyms and studios and I would have a banner and a mat,” Clements said. “I would also go to Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines and corporate events.”
Clements said flight attendants were a major focus when she designed the product. She knew they dealt with stiff and sore muscles and wanted to ensure the Fit Buddy could fit easily in a carryon.
She also wanted it to be accessible in
exercise spaces. Clements eventually got her product into a gym used by players from the National Football League and the National Basketball Association. Soon enough, they started using her products. Before the onset of COVID-19, Clements taught classes where she would demonstrate how to use the tool.
“It’s pretty awesome watching her get out there and telling people about it,”
Rogers said.
Clements said even in casual interactions, she can tell when someone is an athlete or deals with chronic pain. She’ll strike up conversation to introduce the Fit Buddy to them.
“If people are professional athletes, a lot of it is in the way they carry their body and make eye contact,” Clements said.
With one athlete, after a brief
conversation, he showed her even more ways to use the tool — something Clements said is a frequent occurrence.
“I’m an extrovert, and I love to talk to people,” Clements said. “I love to learn.”
Clements patented the design for the Fit Buddy in 2019, but she still works on the product.
“She’s still tweaking it along the way,” Rogers said.
Clements said she’s open to learning about new uses for the Fit Buddy. She’s also had to learn a lot about running a business. With a degree in communications, a lot of her education happened as she began her business, or with a women entrepreneur program she joined.
Now, decades after her herniated discs and years from the idea for the Fit Buddy, Clements said she has at least 1,000 Fit Buddies in circulation. It’s a number she only hopes will grow over time.
“I would love to get it into the gyms where the Atlanta Falcons or Hawks or working out,” Clements said, “to actually do a workshop with the athletes.”
Sitting in her office, Fit Buddy in hand, Clements reflected on what’s motivated her through the years of work.
“My father always said I was resourceful and tenacious,” Clements said. “I think that’s benefitted me because it’s ingrained in my mind that I’m resourceful and tenacious, and you have to be in business.”
Even more remarkable, a clinical trial is underway because Dupixent has shown potential for causing keloids to improve.
A revolution has been taking place in dermatology in recent years.
Previously incurable diseases are being cured.
Previously uncontrollable diseases are being controlled.
Previously itchy conditions are now being…de-itched. Un-itched? Unhitched? Scratched?
No, definitely not scratched. You should cure a disease, but you should not scratch an itch. It feels so gratifying in the moment but scratching just leads to more itching later and usually to more suffering, scratching, itching and before you know it, your skin either has chronically itchy spots, bumps, nodules, thickened areas or worse: areas that are now painful and itchy.
You see, fixing itching is so new that there isn’t even a good word for it yet. But de-itchifying the itchy is exactly what some of the newest, latest and greatest medications are doing.
One of the most recent examples of this exciting forward march of medical progress is the use of Dupixent to treat eczema and prurigo nodularis.
Dupixent is a medicine that works by blocking a pathway in our body that involves interleukin 4 (IL-4) and immunoglobulin E. These proteins are involved in conditions that itch such as eczema and many allergic reactions. By blocking the IL-4 pathway, Dupixent stops these proteins from activating cells such as eosinophils that are responsible for inflammation and itching in many cases. Many dermatologists were not surprised that a medication like Dupixent would help eczema. But the exciting news is that Dupixent appears to be effective in many other itchy conditions. It recently gained approval for treating “prurigo nodularis” – a condition characterized by itchy bumps or nodules that previously would often persist for years with little hope of resolving.
Keloids are scars that grow with time and often are larger than the size of the wound that caused the scar. Keloids are often itchy and painful.
A new treatment for prurigo nodularis and possibly keloids may not seem like a medical breakthrough, but there is such a deficit of other effective treatments for these conditions that this is actually very exciting news.
What’s the catch? Don’t we need IL-4 and immunoglobulin E? Is it safe to block them from working? Don’t most pathways in our body exist for a reason? These are reasonable questions to ask before going on a new medication – especially one that someone might be on for years.
The fascinating background to why modern Americans suffer from many skin diseases is that our ancestors likely developed weaponized immune responses against parasites that used to be a problem and are now rarely encountered in the United States. Many medications that treat psoriasis block a protein called TNF-alpha that is important in fighting off tuberculosis. Medications such as Dupixent that block IL-4 likely impair our ability to fight off certain types of parasitic worms such as hookworm. Remember from above that IL-4 activates eosinophils. Well, eosinophils are a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting off “helminth” or parasitic worm infections. Likewise, many believe that keloid scars developed as an ability to wall off parasites with scar tissue.
The package insert for Dupixent mentions that this medicine may interfere with our body’s ability to fight off these parasitic worms. If you regularly come in contact with parasitic worms, Dupixent might not be right for you!
If you avoid parasitic worms and suffer from atopic dermatitis or prurigo nodules and are interested in learning about treatment options including Dupixent, contact Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta.
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Written by Bailey Little, Licensed Associate Professional Counselor at Summit Counseling Center
We all have different pictures that come to mind when we hear the word “mindfulness.” Some of us may think of sitting cross-legged deep in meditation, while others of us may think of sitting outside near a flowing stream. Some of us may have little or no experience with mindfulness at all. Let’s break down exactly what mindfulness is and look at some ways to incorporate this useful practice into the stressful and exciting first days of 2023.
Mindfulness can be defined as “paying attention on purpose.” In our busy, hectic lives, we often find ourselves going through the motions, moving from one thing to the next without truly being present. Mindfulness is a way of practicing being present in each moment by taking back control of our attention from the multitude of distractions in our daily lives. This mindset shift takes practice and may feel frustrating or boring at first, but mindfulness has been proven to have many benefits to our physical and mental health.
If being more present in everyday moments with friends and family isn’t benefit enough, check out these other benefits of mindfulness:
• Reduces stress and anxiety
• Improves focus
• Reduces symptoms of depression
• Improves sleep and energy levels
• Increases overall well-being Maybe you’re not the type to
sit for extended periods of time in meditation (if you want to give it a try, I recommend starting with a guided meditation mobile app like “Stop, Breathe, Think” or “Calm”). Luckily, there are many ways to incorporate mindfulness into your daily life, including some that you may be already doing! Here are a few simple ways to practice mindfulness during this busy season:
• Complete a puzzle. Here’s the key to making it mindful: turn off the background music or tv show and give the puzzle your full attention.
• Go for a walk, alone or with a friend, and point out things you see along the way.
• Listen to music and reflect on the meaning of the lyrics or the emotions it evokes.
• Sit outside with your eyes closed for 2 minutes and identify as many sounds as you can.
• And finally, single-tasking. Yes, we live in a world that praises and seems to require multi-tasking, but slowing things down and giving all your attention to one thing at a time is a great, effortless way to incorporate mindfulness in all your daily activities!
This is a great time of year to practice slowing down, being present, and paying attention on purpose. Therapists at The Summit Counseling Center incorporate many tools, such as mindfulness, in their practice to help those in need. To learn more about our services and find a therapist, visit our website at summitcounseling.org. Here’s to a mindful 2023!
or contacting us for help. We can easily get a new ID card ordered for you.
With the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period behind us, you have already chosen to either stay on your current plan and allow it to auto-renew, or you are about to embark on a new chosen plan. Either way, we want to offer up a few recommendations before the 2023 plan year arrives!
Every November or early December, you should receive a new plan ID card. It is important that you have the most up-to-date ID card for the upcoming year. Why, you ask?
Doctor copay dollar amounts (Primary Care and Specialist) are listed on your Insurance ID card, if you have a Medicare Advantage Plan. For many 2023 Medicare Advantage plans, these flat-dollar copays have lowered. I’ve seen too often where Medicare Advantage clients hold onto their previous year’s ID cards and end up paying too much when showing older ID cards to the front desk at a doctor’s office.
Save more money by having the most up-to-date ID card!
If you need help getting a new ID card for your plan, I recommend either calling your insurance carrier
Every January, I receive at least a few phone calls asking, “Why are my brand-name prescription drugs so expensive?!”
Whether you are on a Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Plan or Medicare Advantage Plan, many insurance companies will require you to pay up to the first $505 (for 2023) of your brand-name drug cost. This is your annual deductible on prescriptions.
Remember, this is usually only for higher-cost prescription drugs (brandname medicines) and is a one-time per year dollar amount. It accounts for all your brand-name medicines and is not a per-prescription deductible.
The information above gives you a few things to think about, but you may have questions when your Medicare plan starts fresh in 2023. We are here to help!
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In the last Past Tense, I shared some of the story of Charlie and Myrtice Blackburn as told in the 1978 Dunwoody Crier article, “A Life Shared and Times Remembered.” Every year they celebrated Christmas and their wedding anniversary because they married Dec. 24, 1922.
husband Manget Davis lived in this same house.
Myrtice Loyd was part of a family that also went by the name Lord. Genealogy records found on ancestry.com show that the family is documented as Lord in census and other records. However, the gravestones of Myrtice’ parents bear the name Loyd.
VALERIE BIGGERSTAFFTheir marriage took place at the Dunwoody Methodist Church parsonage, the home of the church minister. The parsonage sat where Dunwoody United Methodist Church is today. The church building was on the other side of Mount Vernon Road. There were only two churches in Dunwoody, the Methodist and Baptist, both small wood buildings.
Myrtice Loyd was born in 1899 and Charlie was born in 1904. He lived most of his life in Dunwoody but lived in Atlanta a few years as a child. Charlie recalled the train trip his family would take to visit his grandparents Calhoun and Mary Jane Copeland Spruill for Christmas.
Charlie Blackburn’s family rode the Air-Line Belle from Atlanta to Chamblee. From there they boarded the engine known as Buck, which was part of the Roswell Railroad. The route of the Roswell Railroad was from Chamblee through Dunwoody and on to the Roswell Depot, just south of the Chattahoochee River.
Grandfather Spruill would meet the family at the Dunwoody Depot. It was usually night when they arrived, and Spruill would carry a lantern to guide everyone to the family home on Chamblee Dunwoody Road, just south of Mount Vernon Road. In later years, Dunwoody School principal Elizabeth Davis and her
Charlie and Myrtice Blackburn both shared that their Christmas morning presents consisted of an apple or orange and a small toy. Some years there might be a peppermint stick. Only the children received presents. The couple also recalled that there was a Christmas tree at the church in those days, but no one had a tree in their home. The one at the church was cut on Christmas Eve and decorated before church that night.
A big dinner was served on Christmas Day, with ham, chicken, homemade cakes and pies. Everything was cooked on a wood-burning stove. Charlie explained how dinner was served at noon, elaborating, “Some high-falootin people call supper dinner, but that’s not right.”
Charlie died in 1984 and Myrtice in 1987. They are both buried in the historic New Hope Cemetery along Chamblee Dunwoody Road just north of Dunwoody Village Parkway.
The next Past Tense will feature more history of the Air-Line Belle and Nancy Hanks engines and their importance for traveling during the holidays, both for visiting family and for shopping in Atlanta. If you have memories of these trains, please share them by email.
Award-winning author Valerie Biggerstaff is a longtime columnist for Appen Media. She lives in Sandy Springs. You can email Valerie at pasttensega@ gmail.com or visit her website at pasttensega.com.
In honor of the holiday season this week’s column will explore the transition of one man from combat pilot to successful Christmas tree farmer.
Born in San Jose, California, Gordon Hunter attended UCLA on a Naval ROTC scholarship. After graduation in 1964 he was sent to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, where two years later he earned his wings. He soon found himself in the middle of the Vietnam War aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin. There he piloted an A4 Skyhawk, a nimble delta-wing single pilot attack bomber. Skyhawks logged more missions in Vietnam than any other naval aircraft, and 195 carrier based Skyhawks were shot down during the war with their hero pilots either killed or taken captive.
BOB MEYERS Columnist bobmey@bellsouth.netGordon served three deployments in Vietnam, flying nearly 300 combat missions. Gordon said during one of his deployments they lost nearly one-third of their pilots, including the future U.S. Senator John McCain who spent five years in a North Vietnamese prison.
The day he was shot down started off like any other daily bombing run with a breakfast of bacon and eggs to be followed by a 90-minute mission over Hanoi. A formation of 20 A-4 bombers from Hunter’s squadron, VA163, known as the “Saints,” supported by two fighter planes squadrons of F-8 Crusader aircraft made the run. Pilots knew that the target area was well defended by missiles and 50 and 57mm heavy machine guns, any one of which could bring down a plane.
“You could usually avoid the surface-to-air missiles if you could see them, but sadly, many did not,” Gordon said.
During his entire tour of duty his plane was hit only once by machine gun ground fire when a bullet lodged in the plane’s instrument panel.
After his Vietnam service, Gordon was assigned to be a Naval flight instructor at Lemoore Naval Air Station in California. One day he received a call from Delta Airlines. They needed pilots. Gordon accepted their offer and spent the next 30 years as a Delta pilot.
Gordon and his wife Brooke
lived in Stone Mountain which was convenient to the Atlanta airport. Having been a competitive sailor all his life, while in Stone Mountain Gordon operated a part-time sailboat business. He also served in a Naval Reserve squadron based at Naval Air Station Atlanta (now closed) which was co-based with Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta.
In 1983, Gordon and Brooke bought a piece of property and moved to Milton where they considered various ways of using the property. After reading an article about Christmas tree farming, Gordon did research and concluded that growing trees would be a good family business and a way to generate income to pay for their four daughters’ college expenses. He and Brooke planted some 200-300 Virginia Pine trees and nurtured them during their 4-5 year growing cycle and opened for business the day after Thanksgiving in 1990.
They bought an additional 100 Frazier fir trees, known for their fragrance, from North Carolina, trucking them to Georgia themselves. After experimenting with Virginia pine trees for several years, they switched to the naturally shaped and sturdy
Leyland cypress trees. The current mix is about 200-300 Leyland cypress trees grown on the property and about 1,000 Frazier firs every year. The business is open to the public from Thanksgiving to mid-December. For the Hunters, Christmas trees bring hope and light into the world and symbolize giving service to others, such as military service.
“The evergreen tree symbolizes eternal life and the spirit of Christ,” Gordon said.
Brooke’s background is also unusual for a Christmas tree farmer. She attended Brigham Young University for a year, spent a year of study abroad in Vienna, Austria, and then attended UCLA where she earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Modern Dance, the first degree of its kind in America. She taught dance at Fresno State University in California and Spellman College in Atlanta. She did choreography in local schools in north Georgia, and of course, she trimmed many trees. The business is now run by their daughters while Gordon and Brooke divide their time between
Georgia and Florida.
The tradition of modern Christmas trees is often traced back to 16th-century Germany, although evergreens were used in pre-Christian times at the winter solstice to remind people of the coming spring. The winter solstice, the first day of winter, is also the shortest day of the year. This year, it falls on Wednesday, Dec. 21, when the North Pole is tilted furthest from the sun. On that date we will have eight hours and 46 minutes of daylight.
Christmas trees were generally restricted to Europe until the use of decorated trees by Queen Victoria and her German born husband Prince Albert was popularized in the American press in the mid-1850s. We can thank the Victorian era for several important Christmas traditions such as Christmas cards and the decorated Christmas tree.
Bob is director emeritus of the Milton Historical Society and a Member of the City of Alpharetta Historic Preservation Commission. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.
I was fortunate enough to visit Normandy in 2014 but the closest I got to Brittany was having a tour guide on my cycling trip whose family owned a farm there. It’s long been my practice to find and read works of fiction—especially mysteries—set in the locales I plan to visit, and that’s how I stumbled across this author years ago. I’ve read the earlier books in the series and was tickled to find the most recent one at the library.
home and immediately logged onto the library website to reserve this one—Book six. I prefer to read a series in order when I can.
“The King Arthur Case” by JeanLuc Bannalec
OMG. As a King Arthur addict and Bannalec fan, how could I go wrong with this book? Arthurian legend and a murder mystery all in one made this an entertaining page-turner for me.
Visit yet another locale in Brittany when Commissaire Dupin and his team take a field trip to the Forest of Broceliande, the setting for “the legend of all legends,” that of King Arthur as told by Chretien de Troyes. When Dupin discovers the body of a scholar on their first stop, the field trip quickly turns to the business of finding the murderer, and just as quickly, the body count grows.
filled with twists and turns, good food, and good wine. Read it for the intrigue and the fairy tale legend and come away hungry! I also came away with the urge to visit Brittany--as I always do when I read this series.
If you’re intrigued, I suggest you start with Book one—“Death in Brittany.” I recall being fascinated by the descriptions of the shoreline and the famous painters who visited the locale in the days of old. I love learning things when I read fiction, and in these books, I always do.
“The
When I stumbled across Book seven in the series, I brought it
This one was a delight. Who knew there were so many very different locales in Brittany? The author splits his time between Germany and France and someone else translates his books into English. Every book is like a virtual vacation. In this one, Commissaire Dupin is taking a forced vacation with his girlfriend and is trying mightily to relax. Of course, his boredom is relieved by a murder and several lesser mysteries in the picturesque village on the Granite Coast. Read it for the descriptions of the pink granite. Read it for the murder mystery. Read it for the evolving relationships. You won’t be disappointed.
Woven throughout the modernday mystery are tales of the Knights of the Round Table. As are all Bannalec’s mysteries, this one is
Award-winning author Kathy Manos Penn is a Sandy Springs resident. Find her cozy mysteries locally at The Enchanted Forest in Dunwoody and Bookmiser in East Cobb or on Amazon. Contact her at inkpenn119@gmail.com, and follow her on Facebook, www.facebook.com/ KathyManosPennAuthor/.
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