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• Avalon on Ice: The iconic Rockefeller Center-inspired ice rink returns to Avalon on November 21 and will remain in The Plaza until January 17. General admission tickets, which include skates, are $18 for adults and $14 per child under nine. • Holiday Market at Avalon: The second annual Holiday
Market returns to The Boulevard on November 12, with local makers and merchants offering unique gifts for everyone. Visitors can explore the market through December 24. • Santa at Avalon: Ho-ho-ho! Santa’s flying back down to Avalon for another year of festive photo ops with all the good boys and girls of Alpharetta. Appointments are full, but walkups are welcome between November 22 and December 24. Santa will also host breakfasts on December 11 at Chick-fil-A and December 12 at Oak Steakhouse. Plus, guests staying at The Hotel at Avalon with their children can book a Santa tuck-in from November 19 through December 23. • Menorah Lighting at Avalon: Celebrate the first night of Chanukah with Avalon and Chabad of North Fulton during a traditional Menorah lighting ceremony on November 28 at 5 p.m. • Noon Year’s Eve: Ring in 2022 early with a family friendly, daytime celebration on December 31 featuring live entertainment, children’s activities, a balloon drop at noon and more. • Gameday Giveback: On December 4, spirited football enthusiasts are invited to don their team colors and enjoy tailgate games, special raffles, and themed food and beverage offerings during Avalon’s inaugural Gameday Giveback, a live viewing party for the SEC Championship benefiting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
In addition to Avalon’s holiday festivities, shoppers are encouraged to check out the collection of retailer pop-ups open now through December, including Cappai Designs, the Atlanta United and Falcons Team Store, Elk Head and Malvi Mallow. And don’t forget to grab the perfect set of Christmas pajamas from Hatley, a new women and children’s retailer at Avalon, where mommy and me sets are available. To learn more about Avalon’s events and pop-ups, visit experienceavalon.com/events.
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Johns Creek elects new mayor, City Council By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Nov. 2 election marks the greatest turnover in City Council leadership in Johns Creek’s 15year history. With no incumbents in any of the five races, the City of Johns Creek has officially gotten a shakeup. Here are your new City Council members: John Bradberry was elected mayor. Dilip Tunki was elected to the Post 1 seat. Stacy Skinner won the Post 2 seat. Bob Erramilli took the Post 3 seat, and Larry DiBiase was elected to the Post 5 seat. For the first time since 2006, Mike Bodker did not run for mayor of Johns Creek. Instead, former Post 2 City Councilman Brian Weaver and Post 3 City Councilman John Bradberry squared-off for the seat. Bradberry came away victorious, securing 60% of the vote. “I am extremely excited about getting to work to make the city better,” Bradberry said. “I wish I could get started tomorrow. Officially I won’t be able to until January but we’re gonna go ahead and get to work, building our team and getting our different platform priorities pushed forward.” Tunki won the Post 1 seat currently held by Mayor Pro Tem Lenny Zaprowski who did not seek reelection. Tunki secured 67% of the vote. “I need to thank the residents for having so much trust in us to take them rising to the next level,” Tunki said. “What we promised on the campaign trail, we
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Reptiles reunite at Autrey Mill as 3 juveniles face charges By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com
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Johns Creek mayor-elect John Bradberry smiles alongside supporter, Carole Madan at a Nov. 2 election night celebration at Tony’s Sports Grill. will come back and fulfill those.” The Post 2 seat, unlike the mayoral seat and Posts 1, 3 and 5, was decided in a special election. Weaver resigned from the post in July ahead of the qualifying period for the election. Skinner won the seat with 59% of the vote. She will be sworn in with the sitting City Council at their next meeting Nov. 15 and will serve out the unexpired term until Nov. 2023.
“I’m feeling excited and humbled and very grateful,” Skinner said. “It is surreal, but I’m so excited. I’ve worked so hard.” Erramilli beat a three-candidate split to claim victory, securing 56% of the vote. “I love Johns Creek, that’s the reason why I live here,” Erramilli said. “I’m
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Community members were captivated by the bizarre and troubling theft of five beloved eastern box turtles from the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve in late September. All five turtles were returned unharmed Oct. 5, and charges from the Preserve were dropped against the kidnappers. A Forsyth County high school resource officer recognized the three male juveniles on surveillance footage from the preserve. He then contacted the Johns Creek Police Department, the department said in a statement. After the boys were questioned, officers found the turtles in the basements of two of the boys’ homes, Autrey Mill President Lara Maltby said. The turtles — named Tres, Who, What, Where and Why — were discovered alongside 16 other box turtles of unknown origin, Maltby said. “There were several of them that had come from completely different biomes,” Maltby said. “One of
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Woman says identity used to file unemployment claim JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A Johns Creek woman on Oct. 25 reported that someone stole her identity and used it to get fraudulent unemployment benefits. The victim told police she recently got notice of a wage audit from her job’s human resources department. The Georgia Department of Labor audit sought to find out if someone was using her personal information for an unemployment benefits claim. A letter from the Department of Labor that the victim showed police stated
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Charles Larry Walters, 53, of Stonefield Landing, Johns Creek, was arrested Oct. 29 on State Bridge Road for DUI. Stephen Olufemi Ojumu, 62, of Briarhurst Court, Lawrenceville, was arrested Oct. 31 on McGinnis Ferry Road for DUI.
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A lost dog was found injured along McGinnis Ferry Road early Oct. 20. Police said the pooch was spotted near the intersection of Kemp Road and had possibly been struck by a vehicle. A good Samaritan took the dog to a local vet for treatment. The dog was not wearing a collar. Police are now trying to return the animal to its owner.
Resident reports scam calling for utility payment JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police responded to a Lakefield Drive home Oct. 28 after a man said he was targeted by scammers pretending to be from Georgia Power.
The victim said someone called him the previous day saying they were from the power company. The caller told the man he was behind on his power bill and asked for his personal information. The victim told officers he gave the caller his Social Security number and home address. He later called Georgia Power himself and was told his account was current and the number he received the call from was fraudulent.
Reptiles: Continued from Page 1 them was native to the Florida-Georgia [state] line, one of them was native to coastal Georgia.” Six of the remaining turtles were dehydrated and sick when police found them, Maltby said, so they were relocated to the Chattahoochee Nature Preserve for rehabilitation. The others, Maltby said, were temporarily housed at Autrey Mill. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has since found homes for the turtles in preserves across the state including three of the sick turtles, said Nature Preserve Executive Director Lizen Hayes. And while Autrey Mill is not pressing charges against the juveniles, Maltby said the Department of Natural Resources will press charges “because the activities were against state law.” According to the Law Enforcement Division of the DNR, box turtles “may not be held as a pet regardless of its
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origin or morphology.” The Georgia Department of Natural Resources could not be reached for comment on the investigation. During the theft, the boys also damaged the turtles’ home at the Preserve, breaking the latch, hinges and wooden frame of their enclosure. The Preserve has since rebuilt the enclosure, which cost roughly $450 to complete, Hayes said. Costs were split
One of Autrey Mill Nature Preserve’s five eastern box turtles, Tres, cuddles up with Conservation Educator Jess Legato in the newly-repaired turtle enclosure Nov. 4.
between the parents of the three teens. Based on conversations with one of the boys’ parents, Hayes said she thinks he might have had good, albeit very misguided intentions. “[The parent] said his son thought that this enclosure wasn’t good enough or that [the turtles] weren’t in a good place, so they took them thinking that they were like rescuing them, but he was grossly misinformed,” Hayes said. Maltby said she is just glad to have the turtles back home safe. “It’s the best that we could hope for, that they came back to us in acceptable condition,” Maltby said. “Especially given that some of the others were sick, we were very glad that they didn’t appear to have contracted any of those issues.” One of the boys is scheduled to visit the Preserve for community service and will be supervised by Autrey Mill staff and a parent, Hayes said. “We are going to use this as an opportunity to educate them,” Hayes said. If you see a box turtle you believe to be in distress, Hayes recommends contacting the AWARE Wildlife Center by visiting awarewildlife.org or calling 678-418-1111.
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Veterans Association to host grand opening of The Wall That Heals By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek Veterans Memorial Walk in Newtown Park is finally celebrating its largest addition during Veterans Day weekend. On Nov. 13, the Johns Creek Veterans Association will host the grand opening of The Wall That Heals, a halfscale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The wall features the names of more than 57,000 service men and women who lost their lives in the Vietnam War. Before being permanently installed at Newtown Park in 2020, the wall took a national tour, briefly stopping at Newtown in 2017. During its three-day stay in the city, more than 10,000 people visited the site, President of the JCVA Lt. Colonel Mike Mizell said. After the tour, the National Wall Foundation decided to retire the halfsize replica and allowed bids by cities to purchase it in 2018. Johns Creek beat out eight cities in the final bidding process, Mizell said. It cost $80,000 to win the bid and purchase the wall, but when adding up design, material and labor, the project totaled around $400,000. “This makes the park now recognized as the second largest veterans memorial park that’s privately funded outside of Washington D.C., in the nation,” Mizell said. For about a year after receiving the wall, it sat in storage while the JCVA and the City of Johns Creek decided how it should be displayed, Mizell said. Then, the process was stymied by
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The Johns Creek Veterans Association will host a grand opening for The Wall That Heals in Newtown Park on Nov. 13 at 11 a.m. the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain shortages in addition to typical rain delays. “We just finished it up enough that we could allow the public to come to it just before Memorial Day in 2020,” Mizell said. “We’ve been waiting this long to get a normal time and day where we can really give it the proper acknowledgement it needs.” Before the event begins at 11 a.m., attendees are encouraged to tour the five-acre memorial walk, located just inside Newtown Park and to the right. Vietnam War veterans Tommy Clack CDAR Member SWIFT Code: GMCBUS3A
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A passerby at Newtown Park admires The Wall That Heals Nov. 5. The Johns Creek Veterans Association will host a grand opening for the memorial on Nov. 13. “Taps” during the ceremony. Overhead, attendees will see a flyover by the U.S. Air Force. Additionally, Mizell said that Gov. Brian Kemp has requested a flyover by helicopters in the Georgia National Guard. Refreshments will also be provided. For more information about the Johns Creek Veterans Association or the event Saturday, Nov. 13, visit jcvets.org or contact Lt. Colonel Mike Mizell at LTCMizell@gmail.com.
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Newtown Park Amphitheater to re-open Roughly five months after the Mark Burkhalter Amphitheater at Newtown Park began to collapse, repairs are scheduled to be completed this week. All that remains are some “final punch-list and clean-up items,” Communications Director Bob Mullen said. In early June, several of the structure’s support beams began to crumple under the weight of the roof. Mayor Mike Bodker said the beams had been built improperly and were rotting from the inside. For several months, the area was locked off while a pair of cranes propped up the remaining structure. Repairs, which total nearly $77,000, began the last week of August and are expected to finish on schedule. — Sydney Dangremond
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Developer breaks ground on luxury homestead in Milton By TIFFANY MORGAN newsroom@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. –– Champaign in hand, blue skies above, Vision Development President Steven Smith toasted the launch Nov. 1 of a new European-style homestead site in Milton. “It’s good seeing dirt moved around,” Smith said to a crowd of builders and dignitaries gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony hosted by Berkshire Hathaway for Homestead at Milton. The development sits on 180 acres just south of Bell Memorial Park on Hopewell Road. It will include 36 custom, luxury homes on a former 18-hole golf course. Homes will start at $3 million with lots ranging from 3-10 acres. Milton City Councilman Paul Moore said the city has discussed the vision of large lot development for more than five years and is looking forward to seeing it come to fruition. “It’s the beginning of a vision that we’ve held for a long time about preservation of green space and this accomplishes both; it gives you a homestead with the natural beauty of a home lot,” Moore aid. The design vision for the homes will “set the tone for harmony in detail” while each home will be unique. Architect Stephen Fuller said to convert a pristine piece of land into custom home lots – of low density – is something he is looking forward to. Fuller has more than 30 years’ experience combining traditional classic facades with open floor plans. He is responsible for the creation of more than 20 master planned communities in the United States and other countries. “I couldn’t be more excited,” Fuller said. “Ultimately, it really is about the architecture, but in this case the property is so spectacular that each lot deserves the marriage of a really spectacular, custom, timeless house.”
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On the effects of being STUBBORN Brought to you by – Michelle Wilson, Wilson Legal, PC There’s something to be said for doing things that give you joy or doing things that you have been putting off that now pop up occasionWILSON ally to remind you that you haven’t done them. You know the things I am speaking of the things that fill you with dread. This time of year it might even be related to the family who will soon be in the same home with you and asking how you’re doing on ____ or if you’ve gotten ____ done. Maybe you’ve just been stubborn. You don’t want to do whatever the thing is because if you do something BAD will happen. You’ve decided it and you’ve said it to yourself often enough that now it’s true for you.
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How much do you know about Veterans Day? One way to honor those who’ve served in the armed forces is to learn about Veterans Days and the people it commemorates. Here’s a quick quiz to see if you know your stuff.
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On that most dreaded of diseases: uncombable hair syndrome Brought to you by – Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta This evening, I set to work planning to write an article that our local readers would find interesting and informative and began writing about a skin cancer case that I recently treated. But as the days are getting colder and COVID is still in the air, I thought, wouldn’t it be nice have something fun and pleasant for a change? Which leads me to…. Uncombable Hair Syndrome. Yes, uncombable hair syndrome is an actual disease. First off, my sincere apologies to anyone afflicted with this malady if I misunderstand any distress it may cause. My only exposure to this condition was to a single case in my residency, the details of which I hope will excuse me for any seeming lack of sympathy: A beautiful couple presented to clinic with the CUTEST child you ever seen. He was a delight, babbling and smiling and running amok trying to grab everything he shouldn’t have. At first glance, nothing appeared wrong. His arms were free of eczema. His moles looked normal. He didn’t even seem to have a lick of lip licker’s dermatitis. Why was he in a dermatology clinic? Exasperated, his mom lamented, “I can’t comb his hair – you don’t understand it WON’T comb.” She went on to explain. No matter the mousse, the hair spray, the shampoo or conditioner, his obstinate hair willfully sprung back into a tussled mishmash of hairs going in every direction. These hairs had a mind of their own. Their position was not random. Instead, a certain hair would always try to go backward. The next, always forward. Push one in a certain direction, and it would spring back to the position that it preferred. My attending physician exclaimed “your child has uncombable hair syndrome!” Uncombable hair syndrome is a wellcharacterized medical condition. One can easily find information on the genes involved by turning to Wikipedia, but I strongly urge the reader to go to Google Image instead and type in “uncombable hair syndrome” and enjoy photos of the dandelion capped rascals running around with uncombable hair Several types of hair disorders are sometimes lumped together with uncombable hair syndrome but the classic disease occurs because the hair follicles have a notch or a triangular shape, and so the hair grows out with a ridge or a groove resulting in a stiff hair that can only fall one way. The Latin name is pili trianguli et canaliculi, which, if you are a Latin scholar, perhaps means some-
thing. Children afflicted with this condition are typically towheaded with very light blonde to white hair. To be a syndrome, a disease must have two or more features that occur together as a disease “complex.” In this case, the two primary features are the uncombable hair of the child and the frustration of the mother. Scientists still debate whether the smirking laughter of the father playing on his phone in the background constitutes a third feature of this disease. This would make the syndrome a triad. Fortunately for our patient, his disease has an excellent prognosis. The hair of uncombable hair syndrome typically becomes uncombable early in childhood and normalizes in early adolescence, often at puberty. Our patient was otherwise completely healthy without any signs or markers of other dermatologic disease. Given that our patient is a boy, my attending’s advice was simple: “keep his hair buzzed until he’s about 13 or so.” “So you don’t have any treatment?!” said the mother. “Well, I thought the reassurance that it should normalize in 10-11 years and that you could buzz the hair in the meantime is a good treatment plan,” said my attending. The father laughed. The mother remained frustrated. The child’s hair remained uncombable. Please note that this syndrome should not be confused with the “wont comb his hair” syndrome as displayed by my son, age 2 (see photo). If you or someone you love suffers from uncombable hair syndrome, consider Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta. Dr. Brent Taylor is certified by the American Board of Dermatology, the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine and is a fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon and vein specialist. Kathryn Filipek, PA-C is a physician assistant with more than 15 years of dermatology experience and expertise in medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology.
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What they don’t say and do is hurting us all If the job of the police is to prevent crime, protect us, and maintain order, and they do none of the above, what happens? If the job of the teacher is to teach and educate, and they don’t, do they get to keep their RAY APPEN job? If the job of the Publisher Emeritus sports coach is to ray@appenmedia.com win, and they don’t, how long do they get to keep their job? If the cook or the waitress at your favorite restaurant doesn’t show up, does their boss just ignore it? So, what exactly is the job of our elected officials –– say Georgia legislators, for example? Is it to not lose the next election, no matter what? Is it to always be reelected? What if that is all they ever care about or do? Is that “doing their job” to you? Should they keep their job? Is their job to protect us, like law enforcement? “Of course it is,” you say. How about our Democracy? Is it their job to protect our system –– like “rule of law” or those ol’ “checks and balances?” “Now you’re getting tricky,” you are thinking. Sure sounds like a trick ques-
tion. What do we expect of them? I mean, really expect. Have you thought about that lately? Do you expect your legislator to speak up when something is going wrong or something is being voted on that is not in your best interest? Is that a fair question? Well, what do you think? I am kind of old school. I still expect someone’s word to be their bond and a handshake is better than something in writing. Now, I don’t actually recall my dad teaching me very much about stuff like that, but mother read to us all the time –– from the Bible, from literature and so much more. Most of what she read to us had lessons, life lessons as central to the plots. Don’t lie (“The Boy who Cried Wolf”), Don’t steal (“Jack and the Beanstalk”), honor others (the story about the horse that lost its shoe and the battle was lost), and more. Those lessons from 60 years ago stick with me, and I have passed them on to my children. They have taken those lessons to heart; they live their lives by them. They make me proud each day. My questions to them are: “Didn’t our elected officials’ moms read to them too?
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Weren’t they taught about honor, integrity, and respect? Didn’t their daddy’s take a belt to some of them when he caught them lying or being disrespectful?” If the answer is “yes,” then one has to ask the follow up question: “Why don’t these values show up in how they act as elected representatives?” Stop, before you get too flustered, let me explain. I once asked a good friend who is a legislator why he voted to permit guns in churches and if he really thought that was a good idea. “Of course not,” he said, with admirable honesty, “but because of my district, if I had voted against that bill, they would have thrown me out next election,” he replied. Of note, not one of his colleagues voted against that one either. Or how about this one. A former office holder - once told his niece that he was running for office because the incumbent had been in office for so long and that he - my friend - believed in term limits. Well, years later, when his niece asked him why he was fighting to stay in office (just like his predecessor), he asked her if she remembered that book “Lord of the Rings” and what having that ring in someone’s possession did to them.
Not all elected officials only make decisions that are politically expedient, but I think it is fair to say that most of them do. And the thing about that is when they are faced with something that is just not right –– and often very bad not right –– instead of speaking up they just hide, hide under the cloak of absence. Absent saying or doing something that is politically not expedient, they cannot be held accountable for their acts or their views if they just keep their mouth shut. And the crazy thing about that is that the majority behave that way and actually believe that if they just don’t say anything, no one will notice what they have not said or done. That is their play book. But I suggest that does not make them nearly as invisible as they think. Their silence, more often than not, is a roar that can be heard for miles around –– this silence of not speaking up, of not standing up, this silence of sticking their heads in the sand and hiding and hoping that no one notices until the issue goes away and is forgotten. Sorry, we notice. I remember that saying, “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
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State revives trout hatchery with modern equipment Here’s some great news for Georgia’s trout fishing community! Long-anticipated renovations have been completed at the Burton Trout Hatchery, located in Rabun County on Moccasin Creek next STEVE HUDSON to Lake Burton, and Get Outside Georgia, aa4bw@comcast.net the hatchery is open once again. This hatchery, located approximately 20 miles north of Clarkesville on Ga. 197, is one of three state-operated hatcheries which supply trout to Georgia’s public waters. It was constructed in the late 1930s and renovated in the late 1970s. In recent years, it has produced about 300,000 trout (rainbows and browns) annually, accounting for roughly a third of the trout stocked in Georgia’s streams, making it an important contributor to the state’s overall trout fishing program. But time takes a toll on everything, including trout hatcheries, and it had become clear that this one needed some work. Its concrete raceways were deteriorating. Its offices were old and, in the words of Georgia DNR, “dilapidated.” It needed better storage space for equipment as well as climate-controlled storage for trout food. The hatchery also needed a better way to deal with drought. In the past,
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periods of severe drought meant that the hatchery’s fish had to be moved to some other facility or, in extreme cases, stocked before they were ready to go into the wild. The recent renovations at the hatchery gave the facility the proverbial new lease on life. “We are so excited to get this renovated facility open so we can get back to the business of raising quality trout to better serve the angling public,” noted John Lee Thomson, Georgia DNR’s trout program coordinator. Early in the design process, Thomson and other Georgia fisheries personnel visited five hatcheries in Wyoming to learn how that state was able to raise trout under relatively dry conditions. “They raise a lot of trout production,” he says, “but they don’t have a lot of water.” One key, the team learned, was the use of round trout rearing tanks instead of the more familiar linear raceways. The circular tanks use significantly less water than do more traditional linear raceways, greatly reducing the impact of drought, and an added plus is that water leaving the tanks is cleaner and can be used in other parts of the hatchery. The renovated Burton hatchery is making good use of this round-tank approach to rearing trout. The site now includes eight 16-foot-diameter trout rearing tanks which are housed in a new trout production building. Almost all of the water flowing from the new round tanks is cleaned and reused in downstream raceways to further enhance the hatchery’s ability to deal with drought conditions. A state-of-the-art oxygen injection system is now in operation too. This system ensures that there is plenty of oxygen in the water, further enhancing the site’s trout-rearing capabilities. Together, Thomson said, those improvements “allow us to raise a lot more fish with a lot less water.” The new facility also features a climate-controlled feed storage building and a new dam and water intake structure on Moccasin Creek, the source of the water which flows into the hatchery. Other improvements include a new office building, a new warehouse, and a new on-site residence, plus new paving in the parking area and a new boat ramp. The Burton Trout Hatchery is approximately 20 miles north of Clarkesville on Ga.197. For information on visiting the hatchery, call the Georgia DNR’s Wildlife Resources Division Region 2 office at 770-535-5498.
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Continued from Page 16 Shouldn’t they “do the right thing” even if it means that it may damage their chances of reelection? Is being reelected what you expect from your representative even when his or her actions or lack of actions are not in your best interest or “our collective best interest?” Why aren’t they willing to “do the right thing” and live with the consequence? Why is that ring of power so compelling that they are willing to sell their souls most of the time instead of doing the right thing? I guess I am old school though, and my values are old fashioned. But I just can’t believe deep in my heart that many of our elected officials are old school too, but they just haven’t summoned the courage to act old school and do the right thing … because doing that is the right thing to do. Here is a new tool you can use to monitor our elected officials, particularly our Georgia legislators. It is new from ProPublica and they tag this app with “See what your representatives in Congress say and do.” Go to Projects. propublica.org to get started or just copy and paste this into your browser: https://projects.propublica.org/repSolution resent/states/GA S C A P H O T E E X T R A U O T I S F I N E T E S R S L O A M I D R I S E O T T U T E S E N E N S
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Continued from Page 1 happy that I get a chance to serve the people of Johns Creek. … We are really looking forward to having a constructive relationship with everybody involved with government and to move the city forward.” DiBiase won the Post 5 seat currently held by Stephanie Endres who did not seek reelection. He earned 63% of the vote. “I feel extremely excited about the future of Johns Creek,” DiBiase said. “I think with the new council, there is so much that we will bring to the city and the residents. … Honestly we just can’t
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IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE C H R I S T M A S AT AVA L O N I N A L P H A R E T TA ! Beginning on November 21st with The Lighting of Avalon, The Boulevard will be activated as North Fulton’s home for the holidays through January 17th with ice-skating, Santa visits, a Chanukah celebration and more. The community is invited to experience the festive lineup of activations, including:
The Lighting of Avalon November 21st | 1PM to 8PM Get into the holiday spirit during the annual tree lighting ceremony, presented by Northside Hospital. Enjoy family friendly activities, ice-skating performances, a Santa appearance, live music from local DJs, and a special performance by Equinox Orchestra. The event will be held from 1 to 8 p.m. and is complimentary for the public to attend.
Delight in the skating experience at Avalon during this holiday season!
Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list featuring handcrafted goods from local vendors.
Celebrate this holiday season with Santa at Avalon for photos, holiday magic and memories to last a lifetime.
Celebrate the first night of Chanukah with Avalon and Chabad of North Fulton during a traditional Menorah lighting ceremony
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