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The White Columns Homeowners Association is attempting to reach an agreement with the Milton City Council to install four new radar feedback signs to address the ongoing “speeding problem.” Residents say they’re not needed, because four signs were already recently installed.
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Officials delay vote to help neighborhood pay for traffic-calming By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — The Milton City Council voted May 2 to defer a potential agreement with the White Columns Homeowners Association to install four new radar feedback signs in their neighborhood. Following an hours-long discussion and pushback from several residents, the
City Council voted 5-2 to defer a decision on the measure. Councilwoman Juliette Johnson and Mayor Peyton Jamison cast the dissenting votes. Milton’s Traffic Calming program allows subdivisions to apply for city funding to share in the costs of installing traffic calming devices on local public streets. Using data collected by the city, White Columns Drive and Treyburn Manor View
inside the White Columns Country Club met the threshold in the city code, stating that 50 percent of vehicles must be exceeding the posted speed limit for such measures to be considered. Public Works Director Sara Leaders said that in the past decade, the city has reached similar agreements with eight
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ATLANTA — Police in North Fulton County may no longer be quite as quick to release offenders with citations after action May 4 by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. The board approved $517,000 in funding to reopen the Fulton County Jail in Alpharetta, which closed in early 2020. The vote was 6-1, with Chairman Rob Pitts casting the lone dissent. Pitts did not comment on the matter prior to commissioners calling the question. In addition to funding to pay for refurbishments to the facility, the approval calls for the county to develop an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Alpharetta regarding jail operations. Alpharetta sent a draft agreement to the county in March, though it has not been approved. Alpharetta, along with other North Fulton cities, have advocated for reopening the jail. Since its closure, North Fulton County law enforcement agencies have had to transport those arrested more than 25 miles south to Atlanta.
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Fraudster secures loan under another’s name MILTON, Ga. –– A Milton man notified police April 29 that someone had taken out a loan in his name from his bank. The victim said he had received a bill in the mail in January from Bank of America, stating he owed a payment on a $29,000 loan he had taken out for a business called Hunley Contractors. He contacted the bank to inform them he had not applied for and received the loan. After closing his account, the bank said the transaction had been made using his name, address and Social Security number. After the account was closed, the victim stated he received a call from a collections company stating he owed on the loan.
Police arrest one of two suspected of felony theft MILTON, Ga. –– Police arrested a 24-year-old Roswell woman for felony theft and drug possession April 29 after employees notified authorities of a shoplifting in progress. A store official told police they had observed a man and woman load up merchandize into a shopping cart, pass all points of sale and load the items into the trunk of a dark-colored Nissan in the parking lot. The witness said the male accomplice abandoned the car as police arrived, but the woman may have re-entered the store. While talking to the officer, the employee pointed out he woman as she was leaving the garden area of the store with a shopping cart full of items.
PUBLIC SAFETY After a brief struggle, police arrested Katherine Antenor and placed her into the back of a patrol car. Shortly after, Antenor complained of a medical condition and was rushed to the hospital. Police said that while searching Antenor’s personal belongings, they found her in possession of drug-related objects, including two needles with a brownish residue on them. Antenor was later transported to the Fulton County Jail, charged with felony theft by shoplifting, obstruction of a law enforcement officer and possession of drug-related objects. Police are tracking video surveillance to identify and apprehend the male suspect. The total value of the merchandise involved in the theft exceeded $2,300.
Man senses scam in online repair call MILTON, Ga. –– A Milton reported an attempted fraud May 4 when his computer screen froze, and he was directed to call a number representing Microsoft support. After dialing the number, he was connected to a women who first asked him for the name of the bank he held his accounts with. When the man provided the name of the bank, the woman then said she was directing his call to an official with the bank. The person who came on the line then told the victim that there had been an attempt to withdraw $14,000 from his accounts early that morning. The fake bank official then directed the victim to visit his bank and withdraw the funds in cash and place the money in a tin box. Sensing a scam, the victim hung up the phone, contacted his bank and ensured that all his accounts were frozen. He lost no money in the attempted fraud, but his computer remained inoperable. He told police he would attempt to provide a screen shot of the solicitation
CORRECTION In the May 12 Milton Herald, a photo cutline stated that Noah Smith will graduate from Kings Ridge and play golf at Belmont. Smith will play football at Johns Hopkins.
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Milton woman reports fraudulent checks MILTON, Ga. –– A Milton woman reported $4,914 worth of fraudulent checks. The victim told police, on May 4 her bank had contacted her to confirm if two separate checks were issued by her company. One check was made out to an address in Cleveland, Ohio, and the second was in South Baldwinsville, N.Y. Both checks were in the amount of $2,457. The victim told her bank neither checks were from her or her company.
Man reports charges To his credit cards MILTON, Ga. –– A Milton man reported his credit card information, email and name was used by an unknown person April 24 to purchase two laptops. The victim said he received a notification from his bank that his credit card was being used to make the purchases, and he immediately contacted his bank to refute the charge. He told police he received an email from Best Buy confirming his purchase of two MacBook Pros with a link to cancel the purchase – a total of $4,300. The victim said the laptops were to be delivered to an Alpharetta address. The man is not certain whether the suspect got access to his personal information.
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Fulton County cities have released more than 5,000 suspects who would normally have been jailed over the last year and a-half. Labat said reopening the Alpharetta jail would be the first phase of a robust public safety plan for the county. The current reopening plan would have cities pay a daily rate for holding detainees in the jail. Labat said cities could also impose public safety fines. One example, he said, is the City of Guyton, which imposes a $9 fee on traffic citations which is split between the jail, police and the fire department. Labat said North Fulton County cities have agreed “in theory” to pay a processing fee of $50-$60 a day so the county can recoup operating costs. He said his office has already begun selecting staff for the Alpharetta jail, including some who previously worked there. The sheriff’s office is prepared to offer incentives for staff to move their workplace to Alpharetta, he said. During public comment on the measure, Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin told commissioners he supports reopening the jail and thanked them for taking up the issue. He said he was grateful to county staff the city has worked with to plan the reopening. “Fulton is an extraordinary county,” Gilvin said. “It stretches almost 90 miles, covering a lot of different geographic and demographic areas. There are different needs within the community, but we are one community.” County Commissioner Liz Hausmann, whose district includes part of North Fulton, said the goal is to have the jail reopen during the summer, tentatively by the end of June.
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Pro Rodeo finals kick off in Alpharetta By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Even as the heat of the day dissipated with the setting of the sun, excitement left moods anything but cool at the Wills Park Equestrian Center May 5. The National Cowboy and Pro Rodeo Association kicked off its three-day Rodeo Finals at the equestrian center Thursday evening, drawing in hundreds of spectators. The Pro Rodeo Association’s finals draw in some of the world’s top rodeo performers, men and women alike, each competing to be named the association’s world champion for the year. Dozens of contestants from across the country competed in classic competi-
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An announcer from the Pro Rodeo Association noted this weekend’s rodeo is a culmination of year-round work for the contestants, who have had to prove themselves in prior rodeos this season. Vendors at the event gave spectators the opportunity to refresh themselves with boiled peanuts, funnel cakes and other rodeo treats. Other vendors sold
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A federal judge has sentenced Kevin Douglas Creek, a business owner and former Marine, to 27 months in prison for his involvement in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. At the May 2 sentencing, Creek, 47, of Alpharetta, was also ordered to serve 12 months of supervised release and to pay $2,000 in restitution. FBI agents arrested Creek June 9, 2021, in Johns Creek. He is the owner of Nailed It Roofing and Restoration LLC and served in the Marine Corps from 1995-99, according to LinkedIn. The Department of Justice states Creek faced several federal felony charges including assault on a federal officer, physical violence on Capitol grounds, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. A criminal complaint filed in June states camera footage shows Creek striking a Metropolitan Police officer and a member of the U.S. Capitol Police. The document also refers to financial, phone, travel and social media records that place Creek at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The affidavit states that in a voluntary meeting May 21, 2021, Creek told the FBI he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but “did not remember assaulting any officer.” He also provided the FBI with a description of the clothes he was wearing on that day and the names of his traveling companions.
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Former Roswell teacher convicted of raping student By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — Robert Allen Vandel, accused of raping a 13-year-old student while teaching at Fulton Academy of Science and Technology in Roswell, pleaded guilty to five charges on May 6. The charges include rape, aggravated child molestation, false imprisonment and two counts of child molestation. Vandel, 64, of Canton, entered a non pros to three counts of sexual assault by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority. Had he been convicted of all offenses, Vandel faced a maximum sentence of life in prison plus 50 years. However, on May 6, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly Ellerbe sentenced Vandel to 10 years in prison, followed by life on probation and required him to register as a sex offender. Additionally, Vandel is to have no contact with the alleged victims named in the indictment or unsupervised contact with children under the age of 16. Ellerbe said she had some hesitation in granting Vandel’s guilty plea, but she did so to help “close this chapter” for the victims and protect them from having to testify. “These cases involving children who have been allegedly subjected to rape or all types of aggravated child molestation are extremely difficult on children …,” Ellerbe said. “It’s very difficult for attorneys with 40 years of training to come before a judge and make the case and it’s very hard on the children to kind of relive.” Before being sentenced, Fulton County prosecutor Lauren McAuley said that on Aug. 31, 2021, the mother of one of Vandel’s former students reported to Roswell police her daughter had been sexually assaulted by her science teacher at FAST.
McAuley said the juvenile had previously complained to the school about Vandel rubbing her shoulders and touching her breasts. Then, in March 2020, Vandel asked the student to come into his classroom during recess, locked the door where she couldn’t reach and raped her on a desk, McAuley said. As the student’s mental health declined, McAuley said, she disclosed the rape. Shortly thereafter, another 13-yearold former student of Vandel’s came forward, saying that he had also touched her inappropriately and smacked her buttocks with a ruler. “Surrounding these incidents of abuse was a pattern of grooming behavior and manipulations by the defendant where he manipulated his position of trust with these girls in order to advance his perverse desires to molest them,” McAuley said. “He would give them candy and ice cream outside of rewarding other students, he would treat them special, he would give them answers to pop quizzes and tests in advance of other students and generally created an opportunity for him to commit these acts,” she continued. McAuley said that when the Roswell Police Department investigated the incidents, Detective C. Dickerson found Vandel had a long-standing pattern of similar behavior while serving as a science teacher in middle school environments for the majority of his professional career. Reading from impact statements written by the two victims, their parents stated that they continue to deal with the aftermath of their experiences. “I want so bad for his face to be gone from my memory, but it’s always there, haunting me in my dreams,” one letter stated. “In real life, I can’t see a man with white hair without being sick to my stomach and wanting to run.”
Rotary Club to host annual charity car show JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Rotary Club of Johns Creek North Fulton will host its annual charity car show, Cars for Causes, June 4 at Newtown Park. Funds raised during the 11 a.m.3 p.m. event will go toward the Johns Creek Public Safety Foundation. Cars of all kinds will be featured at the family-friendly, free event.
The Johns Creek Fire Department will be grilling up food for visitors to enjoy as they peruse the vehicles, and a “popular choice” awards ceremony will cap off the day of festivities. For more information about Cars for Causes, visit rotaryjohnscreek.com. — Sydney Dangremond
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Roswell Rotary aids villages with water systems By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell Rotary Club is stepping in to help a population deprived of one of life’s basic necessities – water. While residents in wealthier nations may take it for granted, clean drinking water is hard to come by in some remote areas. For residents in some of the remote villages of Panama, it’s a daily reality. Drinking dirty water is a serious risk for illness, but sometimes, it can be the only option. In conjunction with Rotary International and other local club chapters, the Roswell Rotary has led an effort to raise nearly $250,000 to implement a safe water supply in six remote Panamanian villages. The effort began after Roswell Rotarian Langdon Hollingsworth spent two years living in the Darien Province of eastern Panama after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in engineering. During his stay, Hollingsworth worked on clean drinking water infrastructure projects with the U.S.-based nonprofit Solea Water. Hollingsworth said he tried internships in a variety of fields with Fortune 500 companies during his time at Georgia Tech, but he found his work with the organization Engineers Without Borders to be more fulfilling, driving him to pursue humanitarian work as a full-time career. He said living in Panama from 2018 to 2020 only reinforced his desire to pursue humanitarian work. He described the experience as rugged, often lacking clean water, showers, air conditioning or means to cook food other than an open fire. Despite the hardship, Hollingsworth said it was a “fantastic experience.” “It opened me up to a huge population of the world, how they live,” Hollingsworth said. “It’s easy to get complacent, comfortable in the United States because we just have so much. It’s easy to forget that we are very much the minority in terms of income per capita, quality of living and standard of living.” Hollingsworth decided he could turn his efforts into a larger project for the Rotary Club. The Alpharetta Rotary
Club helped connect Hollingsworth, and his father and fellow Rotarian Lee Hollingsworth, with the Rotary Club of Panama Nordeste, which had completed similar projects in the past. The Rotary project began in 2020, with the construction of water systems for two villages: Nazaret and Esperanza. The Roswell Rotary Club raised $15,000 for the first project, the Alpharetta club chipped in $5,000, and the Griffin club gave $4,000. With regional and national Rotary Club donation matching programs and grants, Rotarians raised a total of $65,000 for the two villages. After the concept was proven, Roswell Rotary applied for a second project with the Rotary Foundation. The project and a grant were approved in April and will provide $180,675 to construct water systems for four more Panamanian villages: Baja Puru, Boca de Tigre, Peña Bijagual and Pulida. Solea Water is partnering with Rotary for the project. Lee Hollingsworth said in total, the projects would impact around 1,500 people, around half of them children. He said the Panama government has “gotten on board” with the project, which he said would be far more expensive for them to undertake themselves. The implemented water systems are solar-powered and gravity-fed. Solar-powered tanks placed atop hills pull water from underground wells, then allow the water to flow through pipes downhill to the villages. Lee Hollingsworth said the project is using local labor to construct the water systems, which he said gives local communities the benefit of knowing how to maintain them. A group of Roswell Rotarians visited some of the affected villages in March. Lee Hollingsworth said the trip helped members understand the people they are working to help and the conditions they live in. “It’s real people and real kids,” Lee Hollingsworth said. “There are no hospitals around, so if a kid gets sick, that’s going to be a real problem. They get sick all the time with dirty water. They use the water for bathing, for sewage, and the river just gets overwhelmed.” Lee Hollingsworth noted the dry season in Panama recently ended, so construction on the water systems in the remaining four villages will take longer. He estimated the
Panamanian villagers stand for a photo. The Roswell Rotary Club, in conjunction with Rotary International and other chapters, is working on a project to bring clean drinking water to a total of six remote villages. systems in the four villages would be complete around March of next year. He specifically thanked Sidney Disher and Robert Hagan of the Roswell Rotary, Olga Narvaez and Bob Koncerak of the Alpharetta Rotary and Alexei Oduber, Albert Wong and Jonathan Cerna of the Rotary Club of Panama Nordeste for their support with the project.
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Business group commits funds for area infrastructure upgrades ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta, Milton and Roswell are set to receive $200,000 each to use at their discretion for infrastructure improvements. The North Fulton Community Improvement District announced that on May 3 its board approved a total of $800,000 for the North Fulton cities and Fulton County as a local match for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill, passed by congress in the fall of 2021, sets aside $1 trillion for infrastructure improvements across the country. Nearly half of the funds will be allocated to federal highway, bridge and public transportation improvements, according to the North Fulton CID. It also gives local entities the opportunity to apply for grants to implement
infrastructure projects from roads and bridges to broadband. CID Chairman Kerry Armstrong said community improvement districts are “perfectly positioned” to help local communities access these funds. “We are helping our partners expedite important projects and creating an opportunity for our communities to bring these funds to North Fulton,” Armstrong said. In Alpharetta, Mayor Jim Gilvin said the city is “extremely grateful” for its partnership with the North Fulton CID. “We are excited for the opportunity to benefit from this important funding and feel we are better equipped to apply thanks to the action taken by the North Fulton CID,” Gilvin said. — Chamian Cruz
North Fulton Community Charities announces new board members ROSWELL, Ga. — North Fulton Community Charities’ Board of Directors has welcomed three new members and elected new officers for the 2023 fiscal year. Founded in 1983, NFCCis a 501(c)(3) nonprofit human services organization dedicated PASCUAL to helping ease hardship and foster financial stability for residents in Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Mountain Park and Roswell. NFCC offers services through five program areas: case management/emergency financial assistance, JORDAN food pantry and clothing assistance, seasonal assistance and education, including English as a Second Language, GED tutoring and financial and job coaching. The organization serves thousands of North Fulton residents each KREISS year at two facilities in
Roswell. The new board members are Pinnacle Financial Partners North Metro Atlanta Area Executive Scott Jordan, Roswell Presbyterian Church Mission Outreach Associate Pastor Dan Kreiss and Atlanta Regional Commission Senior Communications and Marketing Strategist Aixa Pascual. The NFCC Board of Directors elected General Counsel at LocumTenens.com Adwoa Awotwi as president, Choate Construction Chief Administrative Officer Mike Hampton as vice president, Carter Hill Advisors Senior Partner Ted Schwartz as treasurer and Edge Solutions LLC CEO and founder Julie Haley as secretary. NFCC Executive Director Holly M. York said she is looking forward to having them on the team. “Our Board of Directors has been instrumental in NFCC’s expansion, growth and impact in our community, and we are excited to welcome these three talented individuals to that team,” York said. “The new members bring diverse expertise and perspectives, and we are grateful for their commitment to advancing our mission to help ease hardship and foster financial stability in our community.” — Chamian Cruz
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More than 40 rising high school seniors from eight Cumming high schools will participate in American Legion’s Boys State and Girls State civics scholarships.
More than 40 Cumming students to participate in Boys, Girls State
CUMMING, Ga. — More than 40 rising high school seniors from eight Cumming high schools will participate in American Legion’s 2022 Boys State and Girls State civics scholarships. The students, representing both public and private high schools, will undertake the week-long classes the week of June 12. The programs immerse students in an environment that allows them to experience the functions and philosophy of American government from local, state and national perspectives. The group consists of 22 boys and 21 girls giving Forsyth County’s American Le-
gion Post 307 the record for most students sponsored in the state. The post fundraises to cover the costs and works with students and their parents to maximize the experience. The Boys State program will take place at Gordon State College in Barnesville, and the Girls State program will be at Valdosta State University. Post 307 will also hold its annual community barbecue in partnership with Beaver Toyota and Socks Love BBQ on Armed Forces Day, May 21. Tickets are $10. — Jake Drukman
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It takes a more than desire to write like Mark Twain Everyone should have one or more hobbies. Mine are gardening and music. I once liked to watch baseball games on TV before billboards started popping up behind home plate PAT FOX with every windup – Managing Editor pat@appenmedia.com it gives new meaning to the term “pitch.” Another hobby is keeping a list of great writing. When I read something that shows a real talent – a turn of phrase, a clever literary device – I make note of it. It’s my own list, and no one has to agree with it. I am not on the list. I could tell you that the most glamorous literary paragraph written over the past century is on Page 82 of “Babbitt,” by Sinclair Lewis, or that Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” is the most impactful book written over the same period. The saddest lament – among the many great ones written – comes from Mingo war chief James Logan, whose en-
tire family was killed in the 1774 Yellow Creek Massacre, and mourned, “There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.” While few among us could match this level of virtuosity, it still saddens me that few people try. Websites and even newspapers are awash in sloppy writing. The noted poetry critic John Ciardi once opined that everyone is a poet. Your thoughts, your inspirations are as profound as anyone’s. The difference between the average clod like me and, say, Lord Byron is that the bard had the skill to translate his thoughts onto paper. That takes work, Ciardi said… “more than the excitation of one’s own ignorance.” What I’m talking about here are writers who, bless their hearts, are serious about making a point without sharpening their pencils. I can spell reasonably well. And, I have a better-than-average understanding of grammar and punctuation. That’s a low bar for a writer. Unless you’re Virginia Wolf or William Faulkner, most sentences should have a subject and a predicate. Nothing fancy, just a noun and a verb.
“Jesus wept.” See? Easy. I don’t want to single anyone out for special treatment here, but I find today’s online sportswriters the most profligate with the written word and most corrupt at journalism in general. I’ve been privileged to have worked in the same newsroom with some of the best sports writers in the country – Furman Bisher, Jack Wilkinson, Steve Hummer, to name a few. Their writing had power and prose. It always looked easy, but I know it wasn’t. My complaint is more with those behind sports news websites. Here are some observations about this new crop of sportswriters cluttering these sites: • Every sports story must include the word “arguably.” • Most sports websites do not report sports. They report what a sports figure says about something, usually some trash talk. Most times, the story has been stolen from a post-game interview conducted by a legitimate sports reporter. • Some sites employ the “double steal,” the practice of republishing
remarks from Twitter about remarks stolen from the post-game interview. • Most online sports writers love cliches like “trashes,” “destroys” and “gets schooled.” More astounding still is the number of online sports sites that enlist a team of high school interns to comb social media sites to rehash what has already been reported by legitimate news services. Back in the old days, we used to call this plagiarism. It was looked down upon. Years ago, I worked for a small daily newspaper in the Midwest. We had some 10 reporters and four photographers. The paper didn’t make a lot of money, so our work was important to us. We were proud of covering local and regional news for our subscribers. Every day, the news director of a local radio station spent his noon broadcast reading our stories verbatim over the airwaves. We asked him repeatedly to stop doing it, maybe preserve the crease in his pants and go do his own reporting. He seldom did. He was lazy. It seems to be catching.
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The fight over widening Ashford-Dunwoody Road The announcement that Ashford Dunwoody Road would be widened came in 1980, nine years after the opening of Perimeter Mall. The community of Dunwoody opposed the widening, predicting it would lead to comVALERIE mercial development BIGGERSTAFF in its residential areas. The Dunwoody Homeowner’s Association started a petition and worked to stop the widening of Ashford Dunwoody Road and of Mount Vernon Road. Protestors gathered along the side of the road with signs. Attorney Bill Hurst filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the DHA asking for a court ordered injunction to halt the four-lane construction.
The DHA was successful in stopping the widening of Mount Vernon Road, except for the section from Ashford Dunwoody Road to the Fulton/DeKalb County line. They were also able to keep the speed limit from increasing from 35 miles per hour to 45 miles per hour. (“The Queen of Dunwoody: Remembering Community Visionary Joyce Amacher,” by Lynne Barfield Byrd) Although the plan to widen Ashford Dunwoody Road was not stopped, DHA President Terry Huetter felt the efforts of the community to stop the project did have a positive effect, saying “It probably wouldn’t have ended up being a parkway otherwise.” (Atlanta Constitution, April 23, 1981, “Homeowners cringe as Ashford-Dunwoody expands”) Once the battle to stop the four-lane expansion of Ashford Dunwoody Road was lost, the Dunwoody Garden Club campaign to beautify the median began. The club decided to make the best of the
situation, led by club President Joyce Amacher. (Dunwoody Crier, March 25, 1982, “Ashford Dunwoody median landscaping begun last week”) After several conversations with Tom Moreland, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, Joyce Amacher and Lynne Byrd were able to convince him to use funds intended for a concrete median toward landscaping. After conversations with DeKalb County officials, members knew they would need to produce a design, find financing and maintain the design. The estimated cost was $60,000. Garden Club members went to developers and tenants in the Perimeter area, local civic organizations, local businesses and elected officials. All property owners on Ashford Dunwoody Road between I-285 and Mt. Vernon Road were asked to participate. County Commissioner Jean Williams assisted Amacher in obtaining $10,000
from the developers of the Ravinia-Hines Development. A donation of $10,000 was also secured from Lane Properties. State Rep. Bruce Widener was able to secure $16,000 from the state. Taylor and Mathis paid for the landscape plan, which was completed by Hickory Hill Landscaping. The original landscaping plan called for a variety of maple and oak trees, along with Bradford pears, a variety of shrubbery and 18,000 pieces of ground cover. The median is maintained today by the Perimeter Community Improvement District. A DOT official predicted in 1981 that traffic would increase 60 to 70 percent over the next 20 years. I would not begin to guess how much it has increased as of 2022. You can email Valerie at pasttensega@gmail.com or visit her website at pasttensega.com.
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The first, best step in making America great again I always thought the idea was puzzling. America is still great. I don’t recall that we ever ceased to be great. I remember reading something a while ago that really does speak to this. It said RAY APPEN that if we decided to Publisher Emeritus allow anyone in the ray@appenmediagroup.com world to immigrate to this country who wanted to, half the world would move in next week. And they would. Anyone know another country that would compare? One of the things that makes this country great, possibly more than anything else, is our values – individual rights, freedom, equal opportunity, honor, integrity, honesty, and especially the rule of law. These values are at the core of who we are today, and, most importantly, they will determine our future. As important as these values and ideals are, there is one thing that is and historically has been even more important – our willingness to defend them. Time and again, we have been willing to defend them, to fight for them on battlefields from Normandy to the jungles of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, and on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in front of a quarter million people Aug. 28, 1963. When our core values have been threatened, we have stepped up and protected them at all costs. None of these values come cheap. They are not free. We have defended them for over 200 years with our blood, our lives, our honor. Today, however, we seem to have
lost our way. We’re still great, but we have stumbled. Our country has been torn apart. We have forgotten who we are. We seem to have abandoned most of our values. Why? I can’t write about “why” now, here, because there are so many reasons we have collectively stumbled. But, I will point a broad-brush finger at three, and they are all related and generally get back to money: unlimited PAC money (Citizens United) pouring into our political “system;” unregulated social media and internet spreading toxic and frequently false information on a massive scale; and the geometrically increasing concentration of wealth in this country – basically turning control of the country to a bunch of billionaires, most of whom don’t know any better than you or I about what is right, wrong, or good or bad, but whose opinions and desires now are weighted a thousand times more than my opinion or yours. So how do we fix it? One step you can take now. I believe 1,000 percent we fix it by each of us individually consistently taking tiny steps in the direction of restoring and reprioritizing our core values. That is, we all have a choice to be part of the solution or part of the problem. And we’re lucky to still have this choice. Much of the rest of the world does not. Fixing our country is all about values. Our actions need to support the values we believe in. Voting is one of our tools that allow us to communicate – and demand – which values our electors must prioritize. Here is why and how: Brad Raffensperger. Please consider that voting for the next Georgia Secretary of State is not a Democrat, Republican or Libertar-
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Voting is one of our tools that allow us to communicate and demand - which values our electors must prioritize.” ian issue. It is a “value” issue, and our values in this instance should be independent of party. In the last election and against overwhelming pressure from his own president and his own party, and with almost no support from his peers, Raffensperger defended truth and the facts. He stood his ground for you, for me, for every American. He defended the rule of law and the veracity of our election system that ain’t broken – because it was the right thing to do. We all know – at least in private – that there was no significant election fraud. The unlimited money spent and the scores of investigations would have found it if it existed. It didn’t. Each and every one of us know that. Brad Raffensperger had everything politically and personally to gain by caving into the pressure and prostituting our law, but he didn’t. He stood his ground, something that almost no other fellow elected official had the guts or spine to do. They are cowards. Raffensperger is an American hero. He is the type of guy that in combat, you want covering your back. Right now, every voter in Georgia has a huge, very specific opportunity to slap down the clowns – those who have abandoned the values we hold sacred
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– and fire a broadside warning to them by reelecting Mr. Raffensperger. If we don’t support him, what message would that send to the elite entrenched, self-serving politicians in office who don’t honor the same values that we honor? Keep doing what you do? Keep trashing our Democracy? Don’t do the right thing if there is any risk to your own status or personal agenda? Keep hiding behind your wall of silence, and don’t stand up for what is right? We need more – many more – elected officials with the integrity, backbone and honor like Raffensperger. This election is our chance to communicate to all parties that we will be taking control back and the deadwood will no longer be tolerated. This is our time; seize it for all our sake. Thank you Brad Raffensperger for doing the right thing – for us all.
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Opinion pieces were among best The side-by-side opinion pieces by Hans Appen and Steve Hudson published May 5 are two of the finest you have ever published. They both deal in different ways with fairness, compassion and empathy — attributes our world needs now more than ever. Thanks, and kudos to both gentlemen for their courage and insight in sharing these gems. Evan McElroy Roswell
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Earl Mansell: A man of his time By BOB MEYERS Earl Mansell (1910-2002) was no ordinary farmer. Sure, he raised cotton, corn and a lot of other crops. He had cows, chickens, hogs and some mules like most folks around here, but he also had an astute business mind and was a tough negotiator when the need arose. He and his wife Lillian Shirley Mansell (1911-2002) were a perfect team. Earl tended to the crops, fruit trees, animals, equipment and did business deals. Lillian also worked in the fields, was an accomplished cook and could put just about any crop from the summer bounty into a Mason jar. They were a power-couple in their time. Earl was born and raised in a Victorian farmhouse built in 1910 by his father Robert Henry Mansell for his wife Maude Dorris Mansell and their five children on his 700-acre farm on Highway 9 (then Highway 19). Circa 1948, Robert and Maude divided the land among their children, and Earl and Lillian moved into the house on Mansell Road. The farm eventually totaled 180 acres plus additional acreage Earl rented from local farmers Claude Ingram, Turner Perkins and Jason Mathews. Years later, in 1981, the main portion of the farm on Mansell Road was sold to furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, while Earl retained his other property on Highway 9. The farmhouse was moved to Wills Park where the Mansell House serves as the headquarters of the Alpharetta and Old Milton County Historical Society and as a special event facility. Today, the old farm property is home to a Hennessy Porsche dealership. The Mansell name is on numerous roads, developments, and buildings today thanks to Earl’s negotiating skills and the high respect people had for him. Earl attended a one-room multi-grade school near the Greenlawn Cemetery in Roswell but did not finish highschool because he had too many responsibilities on the family farm. According to son Barry, Earl was a successful farmer with a gift for mathematics, but his real talent was property. “He had a better idea than anyone else who might want a piece of property and what he could do with it.” According to Barry, Earl was one of the first property owners in the area to price his property on Highway 9 by the front foot, not its acreage. He was one of the first in North Fulton to use a 1031 exchange of property to defer taxes. (The Internal Revenue Code, Section 1031, allows “like-kind” real property exchange for tax deferral purposes). Earl bought and sold numerous properties in his lifetime. Lillian was born to James Wright Shirley and Dora Strickland Shirley and was raised on a farm with nine siblings where Lake Windward in Alpharetta is today. She was described as strong, upright and tender. She did not hesitate to disagree with Earl who had strong views about what was wrong with the world. Lillian attended A&M High School in Monroe, the closest to home. She went on to obtain a degree in education from Young Harris College and began teaching at Warsaw School in Johns Creek, then at a school in Webb, Georgia, and finally at Northwestern Elementary School in Crabapple. She rented a room in the Queen Ann style house in downtown Crabapple that today houses Indigo Home and Design. She stopped teaching in 1935 when she and Earl were married because married women at that time were not
Earl Mansell rides his tractor on his farm on Mansell Road in a 1978 photo. Earl farmed on the 180 acres he owned plus acreage he rented from three neighbors.
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Earl Mansell in his cornfield on Mansell Road in the late 1940s.
allowed to teach. Earl and Lillian had four sons, Bob, a retired professor of soil physics at the University of Florida; Barry, a retired executive with Bell South; Mark, owner of Mansell Home and Garden Center for 18 years, now deceased; and Denny, a special needs person, now deceased. The family was very active in the Lebanon Baptist Church in Roswell which dates back to 1836. The main cash crop throughout the years was cotton which Earl raised on 20 acres through good times and bad. Not even the boll weevil stopped him. He reaped two or two and a-half bales per acre from the 1930s to the early 1960s, stopping only when he could not hire people
Earl and Lillian Mansell portrait. Date unknown. to pick the crop. He hired five or six high school boys to cut, bale and store hay every summer, and he had one tenant farmer family throughout his farming career. Earl paid his tenants fairly, but they, like everyone else on the farm worked hard six days a week, with time off only on Sunday mornings to go to church. The Mansells represented the right way to live: honesty, hard work and respect for one’s neighbors. You can email Bob at bobmey@bellsouth.net. To learn more about the Milton Historical Society, go to miltonhistoricalsociety-georgia.org.
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Devices: Continued from Page 1 $6,853 for them to install four additional signs. The homeowners association would have then covered the remainder of the costs and upgrades. During public comment, only two residents said they were in favor of the additional radar feedback signs and 12 spoke against, citing a lack of neighborhood input. Because White Columns has a mandatory homeowners association, it is not required to get 2/3 approval from residents to make changes. Resident Karin Kemper said there has never been a community vote on traffic calming solutions in White Columns. She added that in December 2021, the homeowners association allegedly sent a letter to the city requesting a meeting with residents to hear their concerns and potential solutions, but by then they had already purchased four radar signs without neighborhood consensus. “[Roddy Motes of the Public Works Department] mentioned that White Columns streets only accommodated three radar signs, but since the HOA had already purchased four, this 12-foot-high unnecessary radar sign with a solar panel on top wound up in a default location in front of our house,” Kemper said. “Again, the community was not made aware of the location of this extra sign until installation began.” Still, White Columns Homeowners As-
sociation President Tony Palazzo insisted the signs were needed to address the ongoing “speeding problem.” “Speeding is sort of addressed within the community, but nothing ever really seems to happen, and so what we decided as an association and as a board was safety of children, safety of residents, addressing an issue that seems to be getting worse,” Palazzo said. “… We wanted to take steps to address it.” Moore said he didn’t feel comfortable with the city getting involved and possibly overturning a homeowners association decision. “I think this is a significant mistake,” Moore said. But, Jamison pushed back. “I personally might not agree with what the HOA did, but I fully respect their charter and what they’re charged to deal with,” Jamison said. The City Council will revisit the matter in 90 days. In the meantime, the city is required to conduct a speed study, install additional stop signs at two intersections, collect information on speed-related warnings and citations issued by Milton police and strongly encourage the homeowners association to conduct a survey gauging neighbors’ support for the radar feedback signs. In other business at the May 2 meeting, Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis said Milton has received half of its $14.7 million American Rescue Plan Act allotment and should receive the balance by the end of the summer. The law states the city has to indicate how it plans to use the funds by the end of 2024 and has until
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The Milton City Council is set to revisit a proposed agreement with the White Columns Homeowners Association to install four new radar feedback signs in their neighborhood. 2026 to spend it. Inglis said the city is considering spending $10 million on a new active park with potential athletic fields, courts, structure and other facilities, as well as another $776,730 to offset the costs related to public health and the negative impacts tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. She said the city also plans to spend approximately $560,000 for “premium pay” for eligible front-line workers, which would exclusively apply to currently active city employees. Lastly, Inglis said, the city plans to spend $2.4 million on water and sewer infrastructure, with about threequarters going toward hydrology improvements at the former Milton Country Club. During the meeting, Communications
Director Greg Botelho asked the City Council to weigh in on a new name for the facility. The clubhouse and a new trail at the former Milton Country Club were unveiled during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 23. Out of 211 suggestions received from the public, Botelho said the five finalists are: Milton Acres: Parks and Rec, Milton Central Park and Preserve, Milton City Park and Preserve, Milton Meadows and Milton Valley Park. To vote on a name, residents can visit surveymonkey.com/r/FMCCnaming. The winning name is expected be announced in mid-May. The next City Council meeting is slated for May 16 at 6 p.m.
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