Johns Creek Herald - March 7, 2024

‘Women of Color’ exhibit nurtures art photography

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Classrooms inside of Emory Johns Creek Hospital were bumping with music as the Johns Creek Art Center’s Artist Guild led a talk from artists displaying their work in its “Women of Color” exhibition on-site.

The Black History Month celebration, segueing into Women’s History Month, signaled the firsttime collaboration between the Artist Guild and Sistagraphy, a Decatur-based photography collec-

tive founded 30 years ago, exclusively composed of women of color.

The Artist Guild has showcased its work at the hospital for years. The group also has work hanging in Johns Creek City Hall and will have another exhibition at the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse in the summer.

The group, consisting of more than 30 members, serves the Arts Center by facilitating exhibitions on and off-site, assisting with special events, and acting as an ambassador.

Monika Mittal, president of the Johns Creek Arts Center’s Artist Guild, speaks about her artwork hanging in the “Women of Color” exhibition at Emory Johns Creek Hospital Feb. 28. The exhibition, located in two corridors at the hospital, was a joint effort with Decatur-based photography collective Sistagraphy.

High school students developing apparatus to make homes safer

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Arts Center celebrates major improvements to local headquarters

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Mixed-use development unveils expansion plans

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Photographs in the “Women of Color” exhibition hang in the hospital’s Center for Breast Care.

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DOJ busts Roswell lab owner for kickbacks

ROSWELL, Ga. — The Department of Justice announced Feb. 28 that Andrew “Drew” Maloney, a 57-year-old Roswell resident, pleaded guilty to criminal information charging him with conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks.

Maloney and the clinical laboratory he owned, Atlanta-based Capstone Diagnostics, have agreed to pay around $14.3 million to resolve allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute by paying volume-based commissions to independent contractor sales representatives to arrange for or recommend medically unnecessary urine drug tests and respiratory pathogen panels.

Maloney and Capstone have also agreed to cooperate with the Department

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Daycare bans parent claiming teacher abuse

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A Johns Creek man reported to police Feb. 20 that a daycare teacher picked up his son by the arm aggressively.

The man said his wife had been watching a live feed from the daycare when she saw the teacher lift her child in the air by his hand and kick a mattress out from under him. But, there were no visible marks on the son’s arm, and video footage did not support the claim, according to the incident report.

The teacher told police she did not grab the child aggressively and that the man came into the daycare threatening her with a gun. The surveillance footage shows the man talking with people at the daycare, but the interaction did not appear threatening, the report says.

of Justice’s investigations of other participants in the alleged schemes.

According to U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan, between August 2017 and December 2018, Capstone entered into an arrangement with a program operating as Do It 4 the Hood (D4H), which held itself out as providing after-school mentoring services to at-risk teenagers in Georgia. Once enrolled, participants were required to submit to frequent urine specimen collections for drug testing without regard to medical need or the history of the participant.

Maloney was aware that the participants needed the tests to participate in the program and that many of these participants were covered by Medicaid. Capstone,

The daycare’s director told police that the man was no longer allowed to come back on the property. Police issued the man a criminal trespass warning.

Woman loses $9,800 in bogus bond scam

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A 76-year-old Johns Creek woman reported to police Feb. 24 that someone posing as an attorney scammed her out of $9,800 in cash.

The woman told police the suspect called her claiming that her son, who lives in North Carolina, had been involved in an accident and taken to jail, and that the funds were needed for the bond.

The woman said the suspect told her an individual would arrive at her residence to collect the money, according to the incident report. After providing the suspect with her home address, the woman went to her bank to withdraw the money, which she later handed over to a woman in the driver’s seat of a vehicle at her home.

The woman said the suspects have attempted to call again but she did not pick

with Maloney’s knowledge and approval, paid the operators of D4H a percentage of Medicaid reimbursements for samples submitted by the program, in violation of federal law.

While the scheme was ongoing, Capstone submitted over $1 million in claims, causing Georgia Medicaid to pay out at least $400,000 in claims related to the fraudulent drug testing.

In addition to Maloney’s guilty plea, four others have pleaded guilty in connection with this fraudulent drug testing scheme including 45-year-old Duriel Gray of Cartersville, 32-year-old Bree’Anna Harris of Phoenix, Arizona, 36-year-old Glenn Pair of Stonecrest, and 48-year-old Rachel Sheats of Woodstock.

up, the report says. She had been told by her son that she was being scammed.

Police helped the woman set up extra patrol for her residence.

Driver found asleep at busy intersection

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police arrested a Stone Mountain man Feb. 20 after they found him passed out behind the wheel of his vehicle at Old Alabama and Medlock Bridge roads.

Police approached the vehicle and noticed both the driver and the passenger asleep and the car still in drive, the incident report says.

When the driver woke up, he told police he was tired from driving from Dawsonville to his home in Duluth after a long work shift in Buford.

Police reported smelling marijuana and noticed the driver had pinpoint pupils, the report says.

After the driver was cleared by ambulance, he was charged with driving under the influence, impeding the flow of traffic and driving without a license on his person. Police transported the driver to the North Fulton County Jail in Alpharetta.

Students invent device to remove harmful gas in homes

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. —By a show of hands, most guests at the Chattahoochee Inventeam’s presentation Feb. 27 use gas stoves, the source of methane and nitrogen dioxide.

An invention is underway to address that.

Not only do the constant leaks increase the risk of developing respiratory diseases, but Sophie Lin, the team’s administration student lead, said two decades of gas stove emissions equates to 20 million cars on the highway emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

“Virtually, no solution actually exists to address these interior leaks inside of our homes, and thus, with our problem defined, we stepped aside to find a solution,” Lin said.

Members of the Chattahoochee InvenTeam, aka the “GasBusters,” is composed of about a dozen mostly 11th graders. They were the only group in the Southeast this school year to receive a $7,500 grant through the Lemelson-MIT program — an annual research initiative out of the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology geared toward high schoolers to invent technological solutions to real-world problems.

The group is making progress since they “jumped on the train” a year ago, having drafted one invention concept

on physics homework, sourced materials and developed an innovative way to test the device. The prototype is currently being finalized.

But, beware of scammers, the Inventeam said those details are “top secret,” privy to the eyes and ears of the small crowd who attended their presentation in Chattahoochee High School’s media center.

For their presentation, the group broke down what it took to get the ball rolling, how they keep it going. The project is multifaceted, each student playing a specific role.

Some students work to get the word out as part of a communications team, others search for ways to finance the project, and some are more hands-on in building the device with technical skills or through sustainability research and practices to test it.

The project is unaffiliated with Chattahoochee High School, meaning students are carving out time outside of school and extracurriculars to do the work. Lin Lee, their sponsor and

AMBER PERRY/APPEN MEDIA Johns Creek City Councilman Dilip Tunki , center, stands with the Chattahoochee Inventeam after awarding certificates of recognition for their work.

Johns Creek Arts Center marks building upgrades

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce commemorated the newly completed renovation of the Johns Creek Arts Center on Abbotts Bridge Road Feb. 22.

The facelift included repairing and finishing concrete floors throughout the entire 5,000-squarefoot facility, and after nearly two decades, the interior walls were repaired and painted.

The renovation was entirely funded through a $96,000 grant from The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, which supports local non-profit organizations. The grant also funded a new press, allowing the Arts Center to offer printmaking classes.

Rich Lockhart, the Chamber’s vice president of community development, spoke at the ceremony’s reception. Friends of the arts center, members from the Chamber and board members of the Arts Center also were on hand.

“Without the tremendous support from The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, this renovation would not have been possible,” said Stephanie Donaldson, executive director of the Arts Center.

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Members of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce as well as board members and friends of the Johns Creek Arts Center participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 22 to commemorate renovations to the Arts Center’s 5,000-square-foot building on Abbotts Bridge Road.

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Theatre offers belonging, kinship to performers with special needs

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DUNWOODY, Ga. — When Kim Goodfriend founded Jerry’s Habima Theatre more than 30 years ago, it was an uphill battle getting others to believe in the project.

The theater, housed in the Marcus Jewish Community Center, stands as the only professional company in Georgia that features actors with special needs.

“This really was like an idea and the kind of thing that you say ‘yes’ to when you’re young and foolish and 20-something,” Goodfriend said, who partners with the Blonder Family Department for Special Needs. “You just say ‘yes.’”

Goodfriend recalled one of the first shows, where someone with a group home accused her of exploiting the actors, then walked out, taking about half of the cast on the stage with them.

At that time, staff would coach actors backstage, reminding them of where to go, and with upgrades in technology, the theater began to use prompters as well as pulling in actors to anchor scenes and act as a guide. In the last two years, though, actors have mostly performed on their own.

“Our actors are carrying all the scenes and are doing just fine, and

when they go up a little bit, they rescue each other,” Goodfriend said.

The ability to adapt is key to the success of Habima.

“...It’s about what you can do, not what you can’t, and as cliché as that sounds, every voice, every soul has something to say,” she said. “When they come here as volunteers and they want to be in a show and be showcased, we’re going to figure out a way for that showcase to happen.”

Two actors in the cast for the upcoming “Into the Woods, Jr.” musical sat alongside Goodfriend, soon to get mic’d up and go through one of their last rehearsals, closing out three months of practice.

The production, led by a 35-member cast with special needs and one paid neurotypical actor, is a mix and match of classic fairytales, like “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Cinderella.”

Jonathan Roytenberg, in his first season with Habima, is playing a mysterious old man, and Amy Kahn, who has been involved since the theater’s founding, will act as Jack’s mother, a character angry over her son’s nearobsession with his pet cow.

Usually wearing a smile, Kahn said anger does not come naturally to her.

PHOTOS BY AMBER PERRY/APPEN MEDIA Actors with Jerry’s Habima Theatre rehearse for the upcoming production of “Into the Woods, Jr.,” a musical composed of various classic fairy tales opening March 7. The theater, housed in the Marcus Jewish Community Center, stands as the only professional company in Georgia that features actors with special needs.

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Campus 244 highlights growth and Phase Two rollout

DUNWOODY, Ga. — The developers of Campus 244 announced updates Feb. 26 on welcoming tenants and expanding into the second phase of the mixed-use development.

With leasing success during the first phase, developers The Georgetown Company and RocaPoint Partners are announcing Phase Two – The Stacks building – designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which will feature 300,000-square-feet of Class-AA office space, with an outdoor space on each of its six floors.

The 1.3 million-square-foot campus at Perimeter Center is adjacent to the Dunwoody MARTA station, State Farm’s Perimeter campus, I-285 and Ga. 400.

The location at 244 Perimeter Center Parkway is a 3-minute walk to the MARTA rail network and a 5-minute walk to Perimeter Mall.

This spring, the first phase of the office campus – the Palladium building – will welcome Insight Global, Beon and their employees. So far, the first four floors are fully leased, with 64,085 square feet of rentable office space available on the fifth floor.

Cushman & Wakefield’s Aileen Almassy, Will Porter, and Rob Kuppersmith spearhead office leasing efforts. Steve Yenser manages retail leasing, all on behalf of The Georgetown Company.

The first phase features the reimagining of the former Gold Kist office building into five stories of Class A space with 15-foot ceilings and a timber overbuild.

A 145-key hotel, Element by Westin, topped out in February 2024 and is expected to open this fall along with The

Spruce Social House, a new food-andbeverage concept, and Stäge Kitchen & Bar, a new-to-market restaurant.

The buildout of CT Cantina & Taqueria is underway, with an opening planned for this summer.

“We’re not even talking about the office of the future; we’re talking about the office that employees want today, and that’s a walkable environment with plenty of options to work, dine, stay, and have fun around the campus,” Georgetown Managing Principal Jonathan Schmerin said. “With the creative office space, hotel and accompanying dining options on-site, we’re bringing a new community gathering spot for the area to reenergize a previously overlooked pocket of the submarket.”

The Spruce Social House, located at the base of the Element Hotel, codeveloped by Vision Hospitality Group and Georgetown, will offer a selection of craft beers and non-alcoholic options, alongside a shareable menu of small plates, flatbreads, charcuterie and cheeseboards.

The beverage-focused venue will feature a four-sided indoor and outdoor bar.

RocaPoint Principal Phil Mays said the addition of another office building brings energy to the next phase of the mixed-use development.

“Campus 244 is a testament to the demand still out there for high-quality, well-located office space that energizes employees,” Mays said. “We’ve taken the existing building with an interesting history and beautiful, natural-light-filled floorplates that allow for collaboration and created a home for innovative companies to continue to do what they do best.”

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A rendering of Campus 244 shows the planned buildout of Phase One and Two of the mixed-use development at 244 Perimeter Center Parkway in Dunwoody. Developers Georgetown Company and RocaPoint Partners announced Phase Two Feb. 26 which includes a six-story building, The Stacks, to complement the completed, five-story Palladium building.

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A blueprint of Campus 244’s 12-acre campus shows the soon-to-be-completed Phase One of the mixed-use development, with a hotel, parking area, greenspace, retail and restaurants, and five-story office building. Campus 244 developers announced Phase Two Feb. 26, which includes a six-story building with 300,000 square feet of office space.

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the school’s media specialist, did the recruitment — this is her second go-around leading a team that made it to the final round of applications.

After each smaller team explained their part in the project, the audience asked questions and provided suggestions, mostly on how to close funding gaps. The young entrepreneurs described the difficulty in finding funds outside of the grant, which has restrictions, but they said they are determined to present the project on a national scale.

In June, the team will fly out to MIT for the presentation during Lemelson-MIT’s EurekaFest and afterward, work on obtaining a patent.

• David Xibille - Sustainability team

• Paola Leal - Financial lead

• Sophia Knudsen - Financial team

• Moukthika Rajala - Communications lead

• Kennedy Bailey - Communications team

• Kristen Lee - Communications team

The event Feb. 27 was more-or-less a rehearsal.

Johns Creek City Councilman/ Mayor Pro Tem Dilip Tunki attended, carrying certificates of recognition for each of the 11 students. He also described the oncoming makerspace at Cauley Creek Park which will have a robotics platform. He said the city will likely seek a request for proposal in the summer, once engineering and construction documents are completed.

“I’m really proud of the team and the project you did, the innovation,” Tunki said. “One of eight schools in the U.S. is a really great accomplishment.”

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A walk in the woods en route to lifelong memories

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My daughter Amelia is usually very creative in coming up with birthday and Christmas presents. Instead of going out and just spending money, often she creates her presents. Those, almost without fail, are treasured.

For Christmas last year, she knocked one out of the ballpark; I got a hike. This was not just any hike. It was a hike with her for two days and a night up to the hike-in/hike-out Len Foote Hike Inn at Amicalola Falls State Park.

For those of you who are not familiar with Len Foote – and I was not – it is literally a shining diamond in the rough less than an hour north of Alpharetta. From where we parked at the welcome center, we hiked along a path, a moderate 4.9 miles through mountain laurel thickets and stands of oak, pine, sweet gum, and ash. We crossed small creeks; bathed in the silence of the forest; and talked and talked – about everything and nothing.

Amelia stopped frequently to admire

native flora – bright green patches of moss, mushrooms, lichen, St. John’s wort, and medicinal understory plants like yellow root and witch hazel. She is studying soil ecology as well as native flora these days, so the walk was like traveling through a living classroom/ museum for both of us. We stayed in a continual state of excitement and wonder as we hiked slowly toward the Len Foote.

It seemed like we couldn’t go more than 50 paces without stopping to admire something – usually green, growing along our path – or something else – usually some shade of brown, in a state of decomposition – that is, in the process of becoming soil again. Fallen trees in differing states of decay covered the forest floor – rich loamfilled musty cavities now that once had been vital hardwood trees – giant vertical aqueducts transporting gallons of water by the hour up through branches and out to leaves which, in-turn, converted light into sugars, carbon and oxygen while at the same time – below – filled the soil with literally miles of earth-nourishing, carbon-sequestering mycorrhizal fungal networks (basically root systems) which form the “circulatory system of the entire planet.”

With each step Amelia and I took, we were both literally and figuratively at “ground zero” for the entire planet. We were certainly, as we hiked on, “not in Kansas” – or Alpharetta – anymore – and we knew it and savored every minute.

We did not hurry. It took us almost four hours to arrive at Len Foote. Had we not stopped so often – and we both were glad that we did – I am sure that the hike would have been closer to a little over two hours.

Len Foote, named after a politically savvy Georgia ecologist, was a breathtaking surprise – very reasonably priced, small, super clean, organized, impeccably maintained, and run by welcoming knowledgeable staff who obviously appreciated us, as well as those rotting trees, the mycorrhizal fungal networks, and the “story” of the forest and its role in our lives.

Physically the inn is four or five connected wooden buildings – the lobby, the bedrooms (very small/sleeps 2 – bunks), the kitchen / dining hall, the bath and shower area, and the game and reading areas. All told, I think there may have been close to 40 folks staying at the Inn when we were there, probably close to capacity. Our stay included dinner and breakfast.

The food, served family style in the dining room, far exceeded expectations. Staff offered bag lunches for those who wanted to hike out with food!

The guests at Len Foote were one of the highlights; they were a big part of what made our visit special. Perhaps half – maybe more – of our fellow hikers was a dad or a mom accompanied by a son or daughter. Everyone enjoyed the meals together. We conversed. We laughed. We compared notes. I didn’t see a single cell phone used in the dining room, and in general, cell phones were rarely seen.

We sat at one of the smaller tables for dinner – large enough for six. There was Amelia and me, a dad with his (my guess) 9-year-old son from Marietta, and a dad with his (my guess) 12-yearold daughter from Duluth. There were a lot of dads there. I suppose it was another part of why we enjoyed our stay as much as we did – being around groups of people – especially a parent and a kid – whose obvious intention was to spend meaningful quality time with each other, something I would have to call both nurturing and, in a way, healing.

A remarkable house born of two centuries

The 1832 Georgia land lottery offered Cherokee lands in North Fulton and elsewhere to Georgia citizens. Two kinds of lottery drawings were held that year, one for 160-acre land lots and one for 40-acre gold lots. Gold lots were where it was thought gold might exist.

Gold lot 678, in today’s city of Milton, was drawn by William Flanders of Emanuel County. The state granted the property to him on May 10, 1839. Flanders probably flipped the property by selling it to another person whose name is not known because some of the early deed books are missing. The next known record of the lot was in a Milton County property tax digest of 1868. It showed that lot 678, along with lot 619, also 40 acres, was processed by Madison Jameson, administrator of the estate of Ambrose Phillips, deceased. The Phillips family owned the property from sometime before 1860 until 1932.

We know this thanks to the efforts of Austin Stephens, a researcher of historic properties who was engaged in 2015 by the owners of the property, Robert and Joan Rushton, to research its history.

The Rushton family purchased the property in December 1990 and extensively renovated the house and its outbuildings and yard. They kept detailed records of their renovations.

The original house was built prior to 1860 in the hall and parlor style which was popular in Colonial and postColonial periods. Hall and parlor houses were simple side-gabled structures, two rooms wide and one room deep with two front doors opening into the hall and parlor from a front porch. The house had oak log joists supporting the floor with some of the original bark remaining today. Wall and ceiling boards were planed by hand with boards of random width, some as wide as 23 inches.

One of the highlights of the house is a rare dining room ceiling painted in the 1850s by an itinerant German painter. He used two colors and smudged the ceiling with smoke from a candle or lantern to create the impression of marble. The technique was developed in the 1830s by German Moravian school teachers to teach geometry. Two- or three-dimensional Moravian stars with anywhere from six to more than 100 points were used by teachers.

Moravians sometimes painted stars or other designs on ceilings. The Thomas Byrd House in Milton, now serving as

SCHULZ FAMILY/PROVIDED

Cindy and Troy Schulz purchased the farmhouse in 2020 and have continued to enhance the home and property. Here, they are shown in front of an arbor in the front yard. They live there with their daughters, Sadie and Savannah, several dogs and two donkeys.

the Milton Senior Center, has a beautiful Moravian star painted on one ceiling.

It is the only other example of this technique in the area. The Rushton ceiling has a geometric design rather than a star.

The Rushtons purchased the house from the family of farmer Claude W. and Etta Tatum who had bought the house in 1944. Claude was noted for his peach orchard. The property was originally 80 acres, but pieces have been sold over the years so that today it occupies 3 acres.

Soon after moving in the Rushtons sought a building permit to begin rehabilitation of the house. They were told that the house was too close to the road, so they moved it back and put in a basement. They did extensive work on the house in 1991 and 1992, including extending the kitchen and a porch. They had plans to add bedrooms and bathrooms – then fate stepped in.

The Champions View golf course was under construction near the property. A Sears Roebuck manufactured kit home was in the way of the golf course. The Rushton’s acquired the house, moved it to their property and joined their two houses together. Renovations of the new house continued throughout 1993, including installation of reclaimed antique heart pine flooring. Several outbuildings, including a barn built in the late 1800s, needed work. Beginning circa 2000 new structures were added including a garage and garden house modeled after antique farm buildings.

In June 2020 Cindy and Troy Schulz purchased the house. Originally from

RUSHTON FAMILY/PROVIDED

The oldest part of this house was built before 1860 by Ambrose Phillips, a Confederate soldier whose family owned the it until 1932. It was built in the hall and parlor style popular in the Colonial and post-Colonial periods. These were simple, side-gabled houses, two rooms wide and one room deep. This photo shows the house in 1923. Obviously, it had been modified over the years.

The barn dates back to the early 1900s. It is in the style of English gable roof barns popular at that time. They were easily built by farmers on stacks of field stones. Hay was tossed, or “bucked” up, to the second level from a wagon for storage. At some point, side sheds were added to the structure.

Wisconsin and more recently from Canton where they lived for 13 years, the Schulz’s wanted to live on a “hobby farm” with animals. They also wanted to be nearer to Troy’s work as facilities manager at Kings Ridge School where he was also coach of girls’ basketball for many years. Cindy does clinical research supporting pharmaceutical companies.

Cindy says “I have been drawn to historic homes since I was a little girl visiting my cousin every summer. She lived on historic properties with barns and animals.”

To make the point, the Schulzes have recently adopted two donkeys from Jack of Trades Donkey Rescue in Alpharetta.

Jackie Mannaert, the owner, says

‘We rescue, rehab and rehome donkeys.” Over the past 3½ years, Jackie has rescued about 130 donkeys from unfortunate situations.

The Schulzes have been busy sprucing up their yard to prepare for their daughter Sadie’s wedding in May under the large black walnut tree next to the house. Their other daughter, Savannah, will be maid of honor.

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. Bob welcomes suggestions for future columns about local history.

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Monika Mittal, president of the Artist Guild, introduced several artists to describe their work as well as herself, whose acrylic paintings are often symbolic whether it be of a feather for freedom or droplets, alluding to a lesson she learned from her mother.

“I learned from my mom that every drop makes the bucket full,” Mittal said.

Sistagraphy Executive Director Furery Terriy Reid spoke of the stories behind her photographs. One titled “Stand for Justice” shows a group of people holding onto a white cross during a commemoration ceremony for the Chattahoochee Brick Company. Written on the cross were the names of those who worked there.

According to the Georgia Trust of Historic Preservation, the site is known for its extensive use of convict leasing where hundreds of African American inmates were forced to work in harsh conditions, a system some call “slavery by another name.”

Reid said the descendants of the laborers recently acquired the land after the City of Atlanta attempted to develop it.

“They were trying to take it and put housing and all that kind of stuff over these people, so the descendants said, ‘No, not my folks,’” she said, evoking some cheers from the audience.

Guild member Sarika Jaswani, who displayed a fiber art piece in the exhibition, described her passion behind art making and the creative process, which she chalks up to one word — “transcendence.”

“My art is an honor to the present moment,” said Jaswani, also a published poet. “My art is a love affair with everything in the moment. My art is the key to freedom from everything in the next moment, or the moment that has passed. My art is that one moment of purity brought by distillation of all the thoughts. My art is the culmination of many such brief moments into prolonged sense of calm.”

The Johns Creek Arts Center’s Artist Guild is seeking new members from diverse backgrounds.

Email Executive Director Stephanie Donaldson at sdonaldson@johnscreekarts.org or visit the Arts Center’s website at www.johnscreekarts.org.

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Guests peruse the “Women of Color” exhibition at Emory Johns Creek Hospital Feb. 28, a joint effort of the Johns Creek Art Center’s Artist Guild in collaboration with Sistagraphy, a Decatur-based photography collective.

What services does the Fulton County Extension Office offer?

NORLETHIA HARRIS

Have you ever looked at a plant in your yard and wondered why some branches and leaves seem to be dying?

Have you noticed that your Bermuda grass lawn isn’t growing as well as you want it to?

Has your water started smelling or tasting unusual? These are all questions that the extension office is here to help answer! We offer different services to determine the causes of these issues.

Soil testing

All plants (like people) have nutrient requirements, and these needs must be met for successful growth. We may notice that plant growth has remained static for an extended period of time, or that a plant that was green and full is now brown and patchy. These plants are trying to tell us that they need something to continue to grow, and it’s up to us to figure out what they need.

Our most popular service that we offer is soil testing. These tests are personalized for what’s being grown (lawns, vegetables, ornamental plants, trees, etc.) and look at their required nutrients and compare that to what’s present in the soil. The tests look at the pH of the soil, as well as the macronutrients that are present. Macronutrients are those that are required in larger amounts such as: nitrogen(N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn) and manganese (Mn). If any of these nutrients are low or high, the test also gives fertilization and liming recommendations to bring them to the appropriate levels.

The best time to get your soil tested is about 8-10 weeks before you start a new landscaping project. This gives you time to get your results back and apply the recommendations, so your soil is sufficiently prepared for the new plantings. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you can’t test the soil for your established plants, lawn and trees, especially if something isn’t growing well. Once you get your soil tested and you follow the recommendations given, you shouldn’t need to get it tested again for 1-2 more years. If you’re growing a vegetable garden, we do recommend more frequent testing. Vegetable plants need a lot of nutrients to produce, and therefore may need more supplementation from season to season.

About the Author

This week’s “Garden Buzz” guest columnist is Norlethia Harris, the Agriculture & Natural Resources educator in Fulton County Extension. Norlethia loves animals (both large and small) and after graduating with a degree in animal sciences, she discovered a love for gardening after starting her own vegetable garden. In addition to helping coordinate the Fulton County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer Program, Norlethia answers client questions about gardening, delivers educational programming to Fulton County residents and provides additional support to the two Agricultural & Natural Resources agents.

Plant disease testing

When you ask us why your plant or lawn is struggling, the first two questions we may ask are: When was the last time your soil was tested? and What is the current growing environment for the plant and has anything in that environment changed recently? Sometimes the nutrients are at the appropriate levels, and the plant is in its ideal environment, but it is still showing signs of struggling. Plants and grasses can get diseases from the environment and insects, and it’s important to identify the proper cause before determining a control strategy. We try to identify the disease in the office, but sometimes we send a plant sample to the lab for additional testing. The results that you get back are similar to the soil testing results. They identify the disease or problem and give recommendations to combat the problem. If you have any questions on how to submit a plant sample, please do not hesitate to contact the Fulton County Extension Office.

Water testing

We not only offer services centered around landscaping, but water as well. Municipal water is heavily regulated and must meet standards that have been put in place by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As a result, water is tested regularly to ensure that it meets those standards. The most common cause of problems that residents may see are caused by issues that occur after the water has entered the home. This may be due to corrosion of the plumbing in the house, or even materials used in the plumbing lines. You may notice that your water is suddenly tasting weird, your fixtures have buildup, or there is discoloration in your sink, tub

or toilets. Testing your water lets you know if you need to install filtration systems or softeners in your water system.

Private well water is neither monitored nor regulated by any governmental agency, therefore homeowners are responsible for any testing to make sure that it is safe for consumption. It is recommended that you get your well water tested on a regular basis to make sure that it is being properly contained and contaminants aren’t being introduced from an outside source. Additional testing is recommended if there are any significant environmental changes around your wellhead such as flooding, significant construction nearby, the installation of a new treatment system, as well as many other reasons. For more information on water testing recommendations, please check out the resources we have provided.

For questions regarding any of our testing services, please contact our North Fulton Office at 404-613-7670 or by email at northfulton.extension@uga.edu. To drop off samples, please visit our office at the North Fulton Service Center (7741 Roswell Road, Ste 248, Atlanta, GA, 30350). You can also reach us at 404-613-4920 to schedule a time to drop off samples at our South Office (1757 E. Washington Road, East Point, GA 30344).

Happy gardening!

North Fulton Master Gardeners, Inc. is a Georgia nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose purpose is to educate its members and the public in the areas of horticulture and ecology in order to promote and foster community enrichment. Master Gardener Volunteers are trained and certified by The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension. Learn more at nfmg.net. Previous Garden Buzz columns are featured at https:// appenmedia.com/opinion/columnists/ garden_buzz/.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to Johns Creek for showing inclusiveness

Thanks to the community and all the volunteers.

Thanks to the mayor, John Bradberry.

Thanks to assistant to the mayor, Pam Sutton.

Thanks to the City Council.

Thanks for an inclusive year of celebrations of Juneteenth and MLK Day.

Let’s do it again.

John Suttles

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After dinner, most folks retreated to the game room for reading, board games, puzzles, or a pass with one of the acoustic guitars provided. Some sat out on the porch in rocking chairs. Others wandered down to the lookout over the valley while others attended a lecture by a park ranger about the national parks – slide show included!

The next morning, Amelia and I hiked back to my truck – all smiles. That feeling lasted a long time; the memories will last longer.

Thank you, Amelia, for such a wonderful present. Thank you, Len Foote staff, for who you are and what you do. Readers, thank you for reading and supporting our newspapers; your support truly makes a critical difference to us and helps us stay in the game for you. Please consider joining The Appen Press Club if you have not already joined.

Slow down. Take a hike – maybe with your spouse, maybe with your son or daughter. Len Foote is a great goal.

Don’t be in a hurry.

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“When you're in it, it changes you and you learn to be someone else,” Kahn said. “We have a great director. That really helped.”

Mary Nye Bennett, director for “Into the Woods, Jr.,” is assisted by stage managers Amy Schwartz and Bekah Medford, who led a warm-up of vocal and movement exercises. A total of 17 have helped produce the musical.

Kahn, who has an intellectual disability, described how working with Habima has built her self-esteem.

“You’re accepted, and no one looks at you,” Kahn said. “I have a disability, and no one treats me any different. It is hard work — when I get really frustrated, it is sometimes hard for me, but I have worked through some things.”

“Yes, you have,” Goodfriend chimed in.

Agreeing with Kahn, Roytenberg, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, raised the importance of the camaraderie found at Habima.

“It’s inevitable that you’re going to be able to bond with people,” he said.

DEATH NOTICES

William Arrington, 67, of Alpharetta, passed away on February 19, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Georgene Beelitz, 78, of Alpharetta, passed away on February 20, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Bonnie Cagle, 80, of Milton, passed away on February 18, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

During these turbulent times, we would like to highlight the continued courage and commitment of everyone who works in the health care, law enforcement, childcare, food service and utility sectors. We are extremely grateful.

Pauline Kephart, 96, of Roswell, passed away on February 22, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Richard Korteling, 87, of Roswell, passed away on February 11, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Jacqueline Lyons, 96, of Roswell, passed away on February 9, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Thi Si Nguyen, 92, of Alpharetta, passed away on February 19,2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Antonio Ricci, 90, of Roswell, passed away on February 24, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Rebecca Stiles, 82, of Alpharetta, passed away on February 7, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Dennis Turner, 77, of Alpharetta, passed away on February 21, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

George Venti, 89, of Alpharetta, passed away on February 24, 2024. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

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Kim Goodfriend, center, is the founding artistic director of Jerry’s Habima Theatre. Amy Kahn, left, and Jonathan Roytenberg, right, have roles in the upcoming production “Into the Woods, Jr.” which runs from March 7 to March 17.

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