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Pickleball takes center court Sport gathers steam at area rec facilities By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com NORTH METRO ATLANTA — Four and a-half years ago, Bob Gerndt picked up a pickleball paddle for the first time. He hasn’t put it down since. Gerndt, 76, plays five or six days a week and coordinates a roster of over 300 beginning-level pickleball players at Forsyth County’s Fowler Recreation Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Pickleball — a cross between tennis, badminton and ping pong — is the fastest growing sport in America, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. Almost 5 million people are playing across the country, nearly double the number five years ago. Metro Atlanta is deep into the pickleball craze. More often than not, there are more players than available space at the Fowler Center courts, so there’s some decent downtime between games. “We get so many people that we all spend a lot of time sitting on the bleachers, and we get to know each other,” Gerndt said. “And pretty soon we’re going out to lunch with each other and really getting to enjoy learning about each other.” Evan Hecht, an avid player from Johns Creek picked up the sport last fall. “If you’re interested in a great exer-

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Johns Creek redrafts code to limit spread of smoke shops By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com

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Pickleball players prepare to serve in a game at Fowler Park Recreation Center March 3. The players are members of a beginners league in the fastest growing sport in America. cise while having fun, pickleball is probably one of the easiest things you can do to get both,” Hecht said. The low threshold of entry is a major draw. Paddles and balls can be had for less than $100, and many local parks have them available for loan. Phenomenal growth Pickleball first made its way to the north metro area about six years ago. Forsyth County got its first pickleball-compliant courts around 2015 when it striped some courts at Fowler Park, Recreation Supervisor Zak Moore said.

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The sport takes up less space than a tennis or basketball court, so many areas have simply added the regulation court lines to existing courts. Gerndt’s Tuesday/Thursday pickleballers play in the basketball gyms at Fowler, with three pickleball courts occupying the same space as two basketball courts. But the group often ends up taking up both basketball gyms — a total of six pickleball courts, Gerndt said. Roswell began its dive into the sport around 2019 after converting a skate

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — City Council members unanimously approved a zoning ordinance Feb. 28 that will severely hinder the influx of new smoke shop businesses to the city. The measure passed roughly four hours before the city’s six-month moratorium on accepting and processing new smoke shop business tax certificates and building permit applications expired. Johns Creek has 10 smoke shops within its boundaries. Nine of them opened in the past seven years. Since the moratorium took effect in August, the city’s Community Development Department has been scrambling to come up with a more permanent method to limit growth of the businesses, Community Development Director Ben Song said. At the Feb. 28 meeting, council members unanimously approved the text amendment to the zoning code which limits new smoke shop businesses to one zoning district in the city and imposes distance requirements. The ordinance also includes a defini-

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ing lot, he stated he did not know how to use the equipment. During the call, police discovered an arrest warrant out of Fulton County for the store manager, and he was taken into custody. There were no witnesses or evidence to the car theft.

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. –– Police were dispatched to the BP gas station on Old Alabama Road Feb. 10 after a report of a vehicle theft. The store manager stated he went outside to warm up his vehicle, left it unoccupied, unlocked and running. When he went back outside, his vehicle was missing. The victim stated he did not observe any potential suspects, and while video surveillance was operating in the park-

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. –– Shoplifting was reported Feb. 9 at Grapes and Grains on Old Alabama Road. The reporting party advised two individuals, a male and female, removed bottles from the building and left in a four-door sedan with dealership tags. Another employee witnessed the male attempting to take a shopping cart with several bottles out of the store without paying for them. The female wandered the store and left empty-

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handed. As the male was putting the bottles in the car, the employee yelled for him to stop. Another employee walked outside and began confiscating the bottles from the suspect’s vehicle and placed it into the cart. The male got back in the vehicle and drove away. Inventory was taken of the recovered items and confirmed two half-gallon bottles of Hennessy Cognac, valued at $86, and one bottle of Casamigos Blanco Tequila, valued at $95, were taken from the location. Camera footage was taken of the incident and will be made available to law enforcement.

Police arrest convicted sex offender Roswell man accused of trying to lure child By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — A registered sex offender from Florida is behind bars after Roswell police say he tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his car on Feb. 16. The suspect, William Marvin Howard, 71, was convicted of lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim 12 to 15 years old in 2019, according to Georgia’s sex offender registry. While he and the juvenile did not have a pre-existing relationship prior to the incident, Roswell Police spokesman Tim Lupo said they lived in the

same neighborhood of Warm Springs Circle in Roswell. Howard is now facing a single count of enticing a child for indecent purposes. Lupo said police began to investigate the incident after the girl’s mother researched HOWARD the sex offender registry, found Howard and called the Roswell Police Department to report witnessing Howard approach her daughter as she was getting off the school bus and offer to give her a ride home. As police continued to investigate the incident, Lupo said they found probable cause to arrest Howard. He was taken into custody just outside his

home on March 1 and is being held at the Fulton County Jail. Roswell Police Chief James Conroy praised the girl’s mother for her quick action. “The quick thinking and decisive action of this parent is a model for all of us and demonstrates well the necessary partnership between our community and the police in protecting our most vulnerable population – our children,” Conroy said. Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Roswell Police Department Detective Cheryl Dickerson at cdickerson@roswellgov.com, or 770-640-4453. Anonymous information can be provided through Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or online at StopCrimeATL.org.

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City Council approves tourism projects for 2022 By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — In a split vote Feb. 28, City Council members approved four projects for the Johns Creek Convention and Visitors Bureau to accomplish this year. As the tourism entity for the city, the CVB creates projects that will draw people to Johns Creek and encourage them to stay in the hotels that fund the CVB through the hotel/motel tax, Chairwoman Lynda Lee Smith said. Per the agreement between the city and the CVB, the City Council must approve tourism development projects by March 1. The projects must be completed by Sept. 30. Funds for the four projects, totaling just under $200,000, come from revenues generated through the city’s hotel/ motel tax. Based on direction from the City Council the CVB will allocate $50,000 toward public art created by repurposing steel from the former Rogers Bridge, $65,000 toward the purchase of an LED-lighted and programmable 60-foottall Christmas tree, $50,000 toward a conceptual master plan for property the city acquired along the Chattahoochee River at Cauley Creek Park and

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nearly $26,000 toward park wayfinding signage. The reality of executing the projects, however, is still not finalized. Execution of the tourism development projects falls on the CVB in the agreement, but Public Works Director Chris Haggard said he thinks work will likely not begin until a new agreement with the agency is finalized, likely in April or May. Haggard also said some of the proj-

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ects approved Monday may come under the purview of city staff and not the CVB. “I believe each will be handled a little differently,” Haggard said. “I gotta believe some of them will fall under already moving initiatives with the city, and some of them may be new initiatives and have to be figured out who is going to lead that charge.” The wayfinding signage in particular lies in a gray area. As described by

council members Monday night, the money allocated would go to add signage in Johns Creek parks to help visitors navigate the site. The nature of the item has led city staff and CVB members to suspect it might require collaboration with the Recreation and Parks Department. For months, City Council members have gone back and forth about the city’s relationship with the tourism bureau, even voting to sever the agreement entirely in November. That decision was later vetoed by former Mayor Mike Bodker, and the previous agreement remains. But the CVB’s Lee Smith said action on the four projects is not pending a new agreement. She also said the CVB plans pushback against two of the approved projects at their next scheduled meeting March 10. “I can assure you it’s going to be really hard for the hotels to explain to their owners how the wayfinding signage and the Christmas tree specifically are going to contribute to their success,” Lee Smith said. “And they’re the producers of the hotel/motel tax, and that’s why we exist. So, it’s unfortunate because there are other aspects that would have been an investment for future development

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Members of the North Fulton Community Improvement District, elected officials and other partners break ground on the $5 million Davis Drive Extension project in Alpharetta March 7. Once completed, the project will extend Davis Drive to the intersection of Westside Parkway and Sanctuary Parkway.

Alpharetta breaks ground on Davis Drive Extension By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The North Fulton Community Improvement District hosted a groundbreaking March 7 for the longawaited Davis Drive Extension project in Alpharetta. Davis Drive intersects Mansell Road just west of Ga. 400 and serves a series of restaurants and entertainment venues, including Pappadeux Seafood Kitchen, Miller’s Ale House, Sam’s Club, Main Event Entertainment and The Cooler. When completed, the $5 million project will extend Davis Drive to the intersection of Westside Parkway and Sanctuary Parkway and include bike lanes, landscaping and lighting. The extension is geared to improve connectivity to Mansell Road and Ga. 400 and enhance safety by preventing parking lot cut-throughs. Funding partners include the North Fulton CID, State Road and Tollway Authority, Rubenstein, the City of Alpharetta, Fulton County and Rock Mill 400. In

2018, the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank, which is administered by the State Road and Tollway Authority, awarded a $2 million grant to the North Fulton CID for the project. North Fulton CID Program Director Kristin Winzeler said construction is expected to take about nine months. The Davis Drive Extension project should be open to the public by the end of the year. Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin said North Fulton CID Executive Director and State Sen. Brandon Beach proposed the project about eight years ago. “There have been a lot of challenges, to say the least, in getting this project done, but at no point did Sen. Beach and the CID ever consider giving up,” Gilvin said. “The North Fulton CID has been a tremendous partner for the City of Alpharetta for as long as I’ve been here, and it’s been great to watch all the projects that we’ve been able to work together on and all the other partners that have joined in.”

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Former Bailey Johnson students reflect on school’s history By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Four former students of Alpharetta’s Bailey Johnson School spoke at a special program Feb. 27 on their educational experiences while also looking forward to the school’s upcoming redevelopment. The Bailey Johnson School opened in 1950 as the Alpharetta Colored School, serving Black students from 1st to 12th grade. Prior to its opening, Fulton County only offered free public education to Black students up to the 7th grade. The former students spoke at a panel hosted by four North Fulton historical societies at St. James United Methodist Church. Karyn Greer, CBS46 anchor and Johns Creek resident, moderated the panel. The Alpharetta Colored School was renamed the Bailey Johnson School in 1953. Its closure in 1967 marked the end of segregated public schools in North Fulton County, and its students went on to integrate into surrounding schools. Willie Mae Strickland Wells went to Milton for high school after the Bailey Johnson School closed. She said she managed to get along well with her white classmates, but that she noticed she was usually the only Black student in her class. Leon Beasley moved to a high school in Decatur. He said Bailey Johnson was so much smaller that he often got lost in school after he moved. He said he faced some issues with integration, being picked on or accused of things he didn’t do, but that things got better the longer he was there. Panelists noted the dedication that their teachers at Bailey Johnson had

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Former students, from left, Willie Mae Strickland Wells, Tommy Brown, Leon Beasley and Sandra Blake Taylor reminisce about their time attending Alpharetta’s Bailey Johnson School in the 1960s. shown them. Many of their teachers commuted daily to Alpharetta from Atlanta despite low pay. All four panelists said that if it were still the 1960s, they would want their children to attend the Bailey Johnson School. The school building and land it sits on are set to be renovated into a 160,000 square foot office complex. About a quarter of the office space will be an “adaptive reuse” of the school building. Alongside will be a new three-story, timber-frame building. The development is spearheaded by Kimball Bridge Venture Partners and Crescent Communities. The Bailey Johnson school was named after George Bailey, an Alpharetta blacksmith who donated land for the school, and Warren Johnson, a former slave and proponent of Black education. Representatives of Kimball Bridge Venture Partners said their idea was to call the office complex “Garren,” a combination of Bailey and Johnson’s first names. The developers say the complex will

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bring around 800 permanent new jobs into Alpharetta, and they are in talks with companies who may want to lease the space. Their preference, they said, is to lease the whole complex to one tenant. The panel of former Bailey Johnson students said they were glad the building would be adapted and not torn down, preserving the piece of history that defined their lives for a time. Developers noted that a sign commemorating the school would be installed on the complex grounds.

“It means a lot to me,” former student Tommy Brown said. “That’s the base, the root of my education. I’d love to see it stay there.” The event was co-hosted by the historical societies of Alpharetta, Johns Creek and Roswell. Historical society leaders noted in their presentations that they lacked some context on Black education in North Fulton in the mid20th century and asked any residents who may have historical documents or photos to contact their organizations.

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Prices soar at the pump METRO ATLANTA, Ga. — Getting around is getting noticeably more expensive. Gas prices have soared in Georgia and across the county over the past week, rising from an average of $3.50 per gallon at the end of February to $3.88 on March 6, according to AAA. Georgia still has slightly lower prices than the national average, which rose from $3.60 per gallon to $4.00 over the past week. The most expensive markets for gas in Georgia include Brunswick, Macon and Valdosta, each averaging more than $3.90 per gallon. The least expensive include Rome, Gainesville and Dalton, each hovering around $3.80, as of Monday. While drivers can’t control prices at the pump, AAA said drivers can optimize their fuel economy by keeping their vehicles maintained and combining errands to limit driving time. Slowing your roll can also help, as fuel economy diminishes above 50 mph. Crude oil prices are surging as Rus-

sia’s invasion of Ukraine brings uncertainty to the market. To counter rising prices, the International Energy Agency has coordinated the release of 60 million barrels of crude oil from its 31 member countries’ strategic reserves. About half of these barrels are expected to come from the U.S. The release’s impact on price has been small, however. Russia exports about 5 million barrels of crude oil per day, representing about 12% of global trade. Oil prices will likely continue to increase as more sanctions are imposed on Russia, according to AAA. — Jake Drukman

As of press time the cheapest available gas in Johns Creek is $3.80 per gallon at the Medlock Bridge Road Valero.

Alpharetta cracks down on rampant street racers By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police aren’t taking kindly to street racers within city limits. Alpharetta has had street racer problems in the past, but Department of Public Safety Officer Vinny Sarrantonio said the issue began to ramp up again early this year. That changed after police staged a large-scale operation Jan. 25 that resulted in nearly 70 traffic stops on alleged racers in the downtown area.

Officers from the department’s patrol division, traffic enforcement and community services worked together on the operation, which ran from 6 p.m. to midnight. In those six hours, the department initiated 69 traffic stops, issued 43 tickets and made four arrests. Sarrantonio noted the arrests were not made simply for street racing, but that police found one alleged racer had a warrant, and others were driving without insurance or a license. Sarrantonio said police issued warnings in some cases.

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Johns Creek Community Development Director Ben Song presents a zoning code ordinance to City Council members at a meeting Feb. 28. The ordinance, which passed unanimously, puts limitations on new smoke shops hoping to open in the city.

Ordinance: Continued from Page 1 smoke shops not previously included in the zoning code. Aside from one city staff recommendation related to the definition of cigar shops which is also included in the amendment, the item was identical to one approved by the Planning Commission at its Feb. 8 meeting. New smoke shop businesses in Johns Creek will now be limited to higherintensity C-2 commercial zoning districts. There are five tracts of land in the city designated C-2. Each, however, is currently occupied and has been approved for a different use. The amendment limits the proximity of smoke shops to community gathering sites. It stipulates no new smoke shops will be allowed within 200 yards of any church, temple, place of worship, daycare, school, college, university or government-owned facilities or properties. Smoke shops will also not be permitted within 500 yards of another smoke shop. During a public hearing on the ordi-

Extension: Continued from Page 4 Fulton County Commissioner Liz Hausmann said the county is working with the city to install the water and sewer lines for the project. The extension uses no funding from the Transportation

nance prior to the council’s passage, One Johns Creek Program Director and iHeart Johns Creek committee member Alyse Hensel praised the amendment. One Johns Creek is an initiative of Pathways2Life, a local organization whose goals are to improve community mental health and reduce substance abuse and misuse among youth. “As a city, we want to become a preeminent city of health and wellness… I totally support this ordinance and this zoning change for our city,” Hensel said. No one spoke against the ordinance during public comment at the meeting. The amendment approved Monday night eliminates a prior amendment to the city’s zoning code which limited sale of vape products to 25% of a business’ floor space. The prior amendment backfired. In a memo to council members, Song said the earlier ordinance encouraged businesses to branch out from just vape shops to vape and smoke shops. “Additionally,” the memo continues, “many of these businesses also include a lounge area in the store to further promote the use of vape products.” Monday’s amendment eliminated this stipulation. Song said because of the other

limitations the ordinance puts on existing smoke shop businesses, it’s better to eliminate the floor space stipulation. “I would advise that it’s best to just remove it and the reason why I say that is they are going to be under non-conforming grandfather status, so essentially what that means is they can never expand the footprint of their business,” Song said. Taking away the 25% rule also simplifies compliance and enforcement Song continued. Grandfathered businesses are not permanent. If the space is not used as a smoke shop for more than a year, subsequent businesses in the same space will be required to comply with the ordinance. None of the existing 10 smoke shops is located within the newly designated zoning district, so if the grandfather status of a business expires, a new smoke shop business attempting to move into the same location would need to go through the rezoning process. Should the ordinance sprout future loopholes, Song said, the City Council can make subsequent adjustments to the ordinance.

Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or TSPLOST. “I think that this is kind of an unknown secret that Fulton County is involved with a lot of these projects, because underneath just about every intersection and roadway there’s some sort of water line or sewer line or something in the infrastructure that we all take for granted and is extremely important,” Hausmann said.

CID Chairman Kerry Armstrong said she is happy to see the project get underway after years of hard work and perseverance by a host of people. “This project is the result of our partners coming together to invest in infrastructure improvements that benefit the North Fulton community by increasing connectivity and mobility,” Armstrong said.

and those were disregarded for whatever reasons.” She said it was frustrating. “It kind of feels like city staff just says, ‘Well here’s what we need, and we want the CVB to pay for it,’ but that’s not why we exist,” Lee Smith said. Only one of the four projects approved Monday night — the public art from Rogers Bridge — was initially presented by the CVB in its list of proposed projects in October. “It makes it really difficult when we submit in October, and then they didn’t approve until six months later,” Lee Smith said. “Now they’ve eaten up six months of our execution time and that is where a lot of our conflict comes from.” The CVB has one staff person and a volunteer board to make sure all projects are executed, she said. On March 4 the chairwoman messaged the City Council asking members to attend the CVB’s meeting March 10 to hear board member’s discussion on the approved project list. She asked them to provide “a full overview of the strategic alignment of each investment with the mission of the JCCVB to market to destination overnight visitors” to the CVB board of directors. But shifting the projects after they have been approved is a gray area. “We could [change the project list] if the council was so inclined, but this is the problem: we’re the recommender,” Lee Smith said. During the Monday night meeting council members went back and forth on the project list. Councilman Larry DiBiase proposed swapping the Christmas tree and the wayfinding signage for a gazebo at Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery and a projection screen for outside of City Hall. The motion was supported by Councilwoman Stacy Skinner but was ultimately defeated. Council members instead supported the list of four projects that had received consensus during a work session earlier the same evening. “No matter what the final product is, I think the worst decision we can make is to not make a decision,” Mayor John Bradberry said. “A lot of work has been done by the council and arriving at a decision and pulling the trigger is very important.” Council members DiBiase and Skinner cast dissents in the final vote. Johns Creek Convention and Visitors Bureau meetings are open to the public. The meeting scheduled for March 10 will be held at 8:30 a.m. at the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Summerour House.

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Stretching practice Temporary lights at the Newtown Park lacrosse field light up a Jr. Gladiators team practice March 2. The Johns Creek City Council launched a 30-day pilot program to light the field following a Feb. 7 work session. The temporary lights were

installed at the field Feb. 12, and the test run ends March 12, according to Johns Creek Communications Director Bob Mullen. The trial was spurred by a recommendation from City Councilwoman Stacy Skinner.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF JOHNS CREEK RFP 22-094FN FINANCIAL AUDIT SERVICES The City of Johns Creek is requesting proposals from qualified Georgia licensed Offerors for Financial Audit Services. Proposals will be received electronically via the City’s bid platform, BidNet, with required hard copies delivered to City Hall no later than 2:00PM on Monday April 4, 2022. A recommended attendance Pre-bid meeting will take place on Friday April 15, 2022 at 10:00AM via a Zoom on-line teleconference. Registration instructions for the Pre-bid can be found in the RFP bid packet. Questions are accepted and answered online only via BidNet. Deadline for questions is March 22, 2022 5:00 PM, electronically through BidNet. Quotes, bids, and RFP’s are electronically managed through the Georgia Purchasing Group by BidNet, our online bidding/vendor registration system, on the City website: https://www.johnscreekga.gov/Residents/Purchasing. To access the RFP bid packet you must register with BidNet. Go to the City website above and click the link “register and view quote/bid/RFP opportunities”. All offerors must comply with all general and special requirements of the RFP information and instructions. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Neil Trust at the City of Johns Creek Procurement Division at purchasing@johnscreekga.gov or (678) 512-3233. The City of Johns Creek reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to wave technicalities and informalities, and to make award in the best interest of the City of Johns Creek.

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Pickleball: Continued from Page 1 park on Grimes Bridge Road into four outdoor courts. “From there, we saw them being utilized constantly,” Athletic Supervisor Whit Carlisle said. “We would start getting more and more calls regarding pickleball and more interest from the community.” So, they started to expand the city’s recreation offerings. In fall 2021, Carlisle said, Roswell launched beginner lessons in pickleball, “and those filled up almost instantly, so we doubled the amount of offerings very quickly based on the demand, and those filled up almost immediately too.” In the winter, Roswell launched a competitive pickleball league which Carlisle said has also been a great success. He said the city plans to add additional pickleball courts by lining tennis courts at its Lake Charles facility and tennis courts at Grimes Bridge, adjacent to the existing four courts. Carlisle also said the upcoming master plan is “definitely going to include another facility with pickleball-specific courts.” In 2019, the same year as Roswell, Johns Creek re-painted two of its six

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tennis courts at Newtown Park and replaced them with four pickleball courts. Plans for Cauley Creek Park, which is still mainly undeveloped, include an additional five pickleball courts, Public Works Director Chris Haggard said. Hecht, a millennial, plays with his friends at the Newtown Park courts and occasionally treks to Alpharetta’s courts at Webb Bridge after work and on weekends, “whenever the weather is nice,” he said. The competition and the social component are part of what keeps him coming back, he said. “There’s really not a reason to not take a chance on it,” Hecht said. A generational draw Most pickleball players in metro Atlanta are baby boomers. In Roswell, most are 50 years and up, Carlisle said. Gerndt’s players in Forsyth County are mostly in their 50s to 70s, and about half are former tennis players. Coming from the same generation, Gerndt said a lot of his players carry the same first name. On his 302-person roster, there are nine Bills, seven Bobs and six Dianes. In a mass email to the players last October, Gerndt explained the Diane situation and attached a photo of the ladies as a visual aid.

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The Fowler Park Recreation Center in Forsyth County is home to a dedicated group of pickleball athletes. Bob Gerndt’s Tuesday/Thursday league is made up of 302 beginner-level pickleball players from the Forsyth County area. “We have five ‘Diane’ gals playing in our group who attend so often we are having to call them out as, Diane 1, or Diane 2, etcetera,” he wrote. “No problem, but there has been some competition for who gets top honors. For now, pending future challenges, they are from left to right Dianne 1 (Hart), Diane 2 (Fotner), Dianne 3 (Gagnon), and Diane 4 (Marlin).” The players have their names written on blue tape on their paddles, which are used to help build the constantly shifting four-player teams that take to the courts. Gerndt makes an effort to learn about all of his players. He said one started calling him “the pickleball pastor,” because he knows each of his

“flock” and checks up on them. Because his roster is so large, his emails always include a request that any players no longer interested in participating should let him know. “And I get back about 10 emails saying, ‘Bob, as soon as I get my shoulder surgery,’ or ‘when my left knee starts working,’ and ‘when my mother gets better,’” Gerndt chuckled. “They have all kinds of reasons, but they plan to come back. They miss their pickleball, and it’s nice to have somebody I think that cares about them and we as a group, when somebody gets sick, we care about them.” For more information on how to get involved with pickleball near you, visit the Forsyth County, Roswell or Johns Creek websites.

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Director of Open Arms Special Needs Ministry Alpharetta Presbyterian Church has an opportunity for a compassionate and energetic individual who enjoys working with special needs children, youth, and adults to direct our Open Arms ministry. Responsibilities • Lead the Promise Class (where our special needs community congregates) during Sunday morning services in worship through music, Bible lessons, crafts, and other activities. • Supervise, work with, and coordinate volunteers and staff. • Direct quarterly respite events at the church. • Work alongside the Open Arms committee and Associate Pastor to identify opportunities to sustain and grow this ministry. Hours vary but average six per week, with 3–4 hours every Sunday morning. Compensation is up to $18/hour plus 3 Sundays (weeks) of paid vacation per year. Requirements • Annual Background Check and Child Safety Training • Current American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) CPR training/certification for infants, children, and adults (or complete within 3 months of hire) • Proof of vaccination against COVID-19, since you will be working with a vulnerable population. • Degree in Special Education and experience managing staff preferred. • Age 21 years or older. Interested? Send us a letter telling us why, along with your resume: jobs@alpharettapres.com To learn more about Alpharetta Presbyterian Church, please visit us in person or at https://alpharettapres.com/.

Newspaper Delivery Routes Open We have several delivery routes open in the Alpharetta-Roswell / North Fulton area. The work is once a week and requires the following: Reliable transportation, very clean driving record (we do a record check), and professional work ethic. We prefer the ideal person to have experience delivering newspapers but that is not an absolute requirement. The delivery route is to every home in the subdivision - and is NOT subscriber based. The route can be done on your schedule - within our specific 2-3 day window - depending on which paper you deliver. We pay for all your gas, provide bags, and pay you as an independent contractor on a per home delivered basis. Call our office at 770-442-3278 to request an application. The typical route pays approximately $140 plus gas per week and takes about 4-5 hours to deliver.

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CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE

CELEBRATING OUR TOP PRODUCERS

Representing the top of BerkshireHathaway HomeServices Associates Globally

THE BUTLER SWAYNE TEAM 770-241-9165 CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE DIAMOND

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