Milton Herald - November 17, 2022

Milton acts to preserve rural feel

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — To reduce the appearance of density, the Milton City Council unanimously voted Nov. 7 to increase the lot width requirement from 100 feet to 150 feet in agri culturally zoned (AG-1) districts.

While the lots will not increase in size, the revision will create more separation between homes, reducing the num ber of narrow lots to maintain the city’s rural character. To preserve the tree canopy, cul-de-sac lots in AG-1 zones will not be affected by the text amendment.

The code revision was part of a 2040 Comprehensive Plan short-term work program and was touted as a priority in Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee meetings, with input from the Milton Planning Commission.

Milton Planner II Michael Cardamon, staff liaison to the Board of Zoning Appeals, said the increase in lot width would make properties more buildable and lower the number of appeals for zoning variances, looking to maximize a build able area.

While there were no community members at the Com munity Zoning Information meeting in August, City Council woman Andrea Verhoff said her constituents had voiced concerns that the new required lot width would devalue their land.

Milton Community Development Director Bob Buscemi assuaged concerns saying the property value in Milton lies in maintaining the city’s rural look and feel.

“The more we keep Milton, Milton, the more prices are going to go through the roof,” Buscemi said.

During public comment for the agenda item, Scott Reece with Brumbelow-Reese & Associates in Milton said the 100foot lot-width requirement was inherited from an old Fulton County ordinance. Over his 40 years of work, he said he has observed drastic changes in the size and shape of houses and noted the smaller lot width was once a function of farms, for developments like 1,800-square-foot ranches and single-load ed garages or carports.

He said his business hasn’t produced 100-foot-wide lots in a few years because his clients don’t desire them.

In other action at the Monday night meeting, the City Council unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement that would allow Forsyth County to provide water services to a tri-county development, parts of it in Milton.

Milton City Attorney Ken Jarrard outlined a section of the agreement that prohibits sewer in Milton sections of the subdivision. He also highlighted that Forsyth County will have control over water rates within the subdivision but that it cannot charge Milton

Panel updates tally of city expenses in running election

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — Members of a panel studying the feasibility of whether Milton can conduct its own municipal elections are moving closer to a final cost tally.

The Milton Municipal Election Feasibility Committee gathered Nov. 11 to discuss the remaining costs as sociated with the city running its own election.

Formalized in April 2022, the com mittee has been asked to ascertain whether it makes sense for Milton to conduct its own municipal elections, rather than pay increasing costs to Fulton County for the service.

Milton paid the county $84,671 to run its 2021 municipal general elec tion and another $70,368 to conduct a runoff election in late November, according to the contract agreement.

The committee has become a vanguard for other cities that have ex pressed interest in wresting control of municipal elections from the county. That scenario became more likely after Fulton County, itself, recom mended cities conduct their own elec tion in 2023 due to a hike in costs. The recommendation was made at the Oct. 13 Fulton County Registration and Elections Board meeting.

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From left, Milton Planner II Michael Cardamon and Community Development Director Bob Buscemi answer questions from the City Council Nov. 7 regarding a text amendment that would increase lot width from 100 feet to 150 feet in agriculturally zoned districts.

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Discussing cost

Following the Milton committee’s Nov. 2 meeting, the only items left in question were cleaning costs for poll ing locations, cost of advertising for poll worker recruitment and costs associated with wages of a potential election super intendent assistant.

Cleaning costs have yet to be con firmed, but committee members expect it to be around $200 a day. For advertising, the committee used Appen Media prices to assume cost, which was estimated at $600 for four weekly advertisements.

According to calculations by Milton Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis, the cost associated with part-time wages for an elections assistant would be around $21,181.46 over 455 hours in a calendar year. The calculations were based on the average salary of North Fulton city clerks and percentages of time spent on election prep given by Peachtree Corners City Clerk Kym Chereck.

But committee member Lisa Cauley said she would need a breakdown of election-related tasks before approving the wage estimate.

The committee determined most other

election costs at its Nov. 2 meeting, name ly printing and absentee ballot boxes.

So far, the running total is around $48,500. But this does not include wages for either poll workers or an elec tion superintendent assistant — both expected to be high-ticket items.

Members have one meeting left sched uled for Dec. 1 before they must present a final report to the Milton City Council.

The presentation could take place at the Dec. 5 City Council regular meeting or at the Dec. 12 work session, Inglis said. But she said she plans to follow up with Milton City Attorney Ken Jar rard to confirm whether a resolution, to be voted on, is permitted at a work session.

County admits cost increase

Inglis said committee members previously discussed a Fulton Coun ty Registration and Elections Board meeting, in which Elections Prepa ration Manager Nadine Williams recommended that they encourage municipalities to run their own elec tions in 2023.

Williams also provided a cost comparison between 2019 and 2023 for voting machines, which showed a $126,000 increase, and compiled high-priced excerpts from the 2023 election budget.

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2023 election costs at the Fulton County Registration and Elections Board meeting Oct. 13. While reviewing the 2023 budget with the board, Williams recommended to board members that they encourage municipalities to conduct their own electionS.

tion, a 2019 resolution between Fulton County and its municipalities is being reviewed to propose a cost increase per voter. Because government offices were closed for Veterans Day, the cost could not be confirmed.

But Inglis said the cost per vote would be more than doubled. The city was charged $2.96 per voter for the last election, Inglis said. The new cost will be more than $6 per voter.

“Can I just say the increase in the price of elections — that chart — was mind bog

gling?” Board Chair Cathy Woolard asked at the Oct. 13 board meeting.

Woolard said she gets comments all the time from people who do not like the county’s voting machines but clarified that the county is at the will of the state.

“The increase in cost to Fulton County taxpayers on some of these decisions is very, very high, and it doesn’t have anything to do with what we’re doing,” she said. “It is what we are mandated to do.”

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Members of Milton Municipal Election Feasibility Committee meet Nov. 10 to discuss remaining cost items for city-run elections. From left is Councilmember Paul Moore, Milton residents Lisa Cauley and Mark Amick, Councilmember Rick Mohrig, City Clerk Tammy Lowit and Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis.

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Milton City Arborist guides tour through Mark Law Arboretum

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — Around 30 people gath ered in front of the Mark Law Arboretum sign at Bell Memorial Park for an hourlong educational tree tour, the first of its kind in Milton.

The tour, led by City Arborist Sandra Dewitt, was an initiative rooted in Plant! Milton, a project to engage, educate and encourage Milton residents, community groups and businesses to plant trees.

“We do get lots of benefits from trees, such as oxygen and shade and energy efficiency and stormwater cleaning,” Dewitt said. “We want to try to maintain our tree canopy in Milton as well as grow it.”

Dewitt recently accepted the Georgia Tree Council’s Outstanding New Initiative Grant Award for the project. Milton was the lone recipient of the award and was one of only five municipal governments honored across several categories.

The half-mile tour of the arboretum, which circles the park, was filled with pit stops where Dewitt would describe the tree beside her, offer facts, show pictures of flowering buds only seen in warmer months and answer questions.

The arboretum opened in 2019

and was named after Mark Law, the city’s long-time arborist who helped Milton secure its first “Tree City USA” designation over a decade ago.

Dewitt began the tour with the white oak (Quercus alba), which can live to be 300-500 years old, and the survivor tree near the arboretum’s entrance. The survivor tree is from a 90-yearold American elm (Ulmus americana) that survived the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

While Dewitt only had time to showcase around 10 to 15 trees, there are 36 different species at the arboretum, according to the arboretum’s interactive map.

She ended the tour with one of her personal favorites planted by the baseball fields — the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), a deciduous tree native to the Southeast, which takes on a fiery hue in the fall.

More plans are in the works for Dewitt, like a seedling giveaway at Bring One for the Chipper, a statewide program that encourages Georgians to recycle their Christmas trees. Dewitt also plans for more workshops with the North Fulton Master Gardeners as well as another tree tour.

Milton City Arborist Sandra Dewitt describes the Cucumbertree Magnolia (Magno lia acuminata) during the tree tour Nov. 4. Around 30 people joined Dewitt through the Mark Law Arboretum at Bell Memorial Park as she offered facts about individu al tree species. The tour was part of Plant! Milton, a city initiative to maintain and expand the city’s tree canopy.

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By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Under the baton of Grant Gilman, members of the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra — playing strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion — afforded visitors the imagination to transform the sanctuary of Alpharetta First United Methodist Church into settings from elsewhere.

The Nov. 4 performance of “Wire and Pines” was the first collaboration between the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra and the Alpharetta City Band, forming a total of 75 musicians.

Most orchestral performances are built around a “big moment,” usually at the end, explained Grant, now in his second season with the orchestra. For the Friday night performance, the anchor was the epic “Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi. The piece is programmatic, Gilman said, meaning that there is a story intended to coincide with the music.

“‘Pines of Rome’ is, in its own way, very visceral,” he said. “It’s very clear what you’re supposed to be hearing at any particular moment.”

While useful and helpful, Gilman said the story doesn’t matter as much as the experience.

“If the ears are functioning properly,

then you will have an experience that is irreplaceable, whether you know the story or not,” he said.

From there, the performance is filled in with other components, usually a soloist, Gilman said. Philip Jeong, a 13-year-old cellist who has won numerous concerto competitions and international music competitions in the United States, accompanied the orchestra to play Cello Concerto No. 1 by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Other pieces were chosen to help form an overarching narrative, of “up” moments, like William Shuman’s “Newsreel, in 5 shots,” and darker reliefs, like “Valse Triste” by Jean Sibelius. But Gilman said it’s not just ups and downs. Rather, it’s how the pieces go together, a “tricky balance” and a “mix of possibilities,” he said

Visualizing sound

Kelly Meholic, the orchestra’s executive director and principal flutist, said planning for the event began in June. After six rehearsals, and work from 20 volunteers, the bravado of the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra — composed of mostly professional and some amateurs — dazzled the audience with Gilman’s curated and cohesive sequence of arrangements.

“Wires and Pines,” a nearly two-hour performance, started with Shuman’s

Philip Jeong, a 13-year-old cellist, looks up to conductor Grant Gilman as he plays alongside the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra at its Nov. 4 performance, “Wires and Pines.” Held at the Alpharetta First United Methodist Church, the performance featured four compositions and was a first-time collaboration with the Alpharetta City Band.

inviting, upbeat, whimsical composition, where musicians pulled around 375 listeners through five informative scenes from an imagined newsreel. They were broken up with short breaks, signaling to listeners a new position in space,

congruent to what could be a news headline.

According to the program, written by piccoloist Missy Mahon, clips were of

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Fuel Coffee expands to Halcyon in Forsyth County

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Finding a coffee shop these days is almost too easy. Turn a corner or throw a stone and you’re bound to find a new pop-up shop or break a window at Starbucks.

But finding a truly local coffee house that makes every customer feel like a regular is something special.

For more than a year, Angela and Dave Thompson of Fuel Coffee in Alpharetta have been serving thousands of customers with that feeling as their main mission.

“We are your community coffee shop,” Dave Thompson said. “We just love being a part of the community. And we want you to have that feeling.”

The Thompsons started Fuel Coffee off North Main Street in Alpharetta in March 2021 and have expanded to open their own coffee roasting operation, and now a brand-new location at Halcyon, which opened just weeks ago.

Dave, a longtime veteran of the corporate restaurant world, and Angela, a former director of procurement, started their business during one of the worst times of the COVID-19 pandemic, when businesses were closing their doors and laying off workers to stay afloat.

As manager responsible for multiple restaurants in the Atlanta area, Dave said the breaking point came when he was forced to lay off nearly 300 people on a single day, closing some restaurants and saving others.

“I was renting refrigerated trucks,

taking them around from one restaurant to another,” he said. “Every single place we went to, coffee shops were thriving in the pandemic, where everyone else was struggling to figure

out how to survive.”

When the couple finally knew it was time for a change in October 2021, the idea of opening a coffee shop together came up and the rest was

history.

But they didn’t want to open just any coffee shop, Angela said, they wanted to open a coffee shop for

“Every single place we went to, coffee shops were thriving in the pandemic, where everyone else was struggling to figure out how to survive.”

DAVE THOMPSON, co-owner, Fuel Coffee

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Angela and Dave Thompson, owners of Fuel Coffee in Alpharetta and Cumming, stand outside their location on North Main Street in Alpharetta.

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people like them, people who asked questions and didn’t know everything about coffee. A community coffee shop, where anyone was welcome.

“When we were thinking of doing the coffee thing, we toured 1,000 coffee shops around Atlanta,” Angela said. “One thing that we found was missing is we felt out of place if you walked into certain coffee shops, and you didn’t know exactly what certain orders or drinks were.”

In just a few months from that decision, they opened their first location off North Main Steet in Alpharetta.

Beyond being coffee lovers, Angela and Dave Thompson had no experience in the coffee industry or roasting coffee beans, so they relied on help of other industry professionals and family to learn and become professionals in quick order.

Dave said he and his son-in-law, who now works as the company’s head roaster, worked side by side for months to learn the trade.

“He and I learned kind of shoulder to shoulder, so he’s roasting for us

right now,” he said.

The couple has also put their daughter and sons to work, making the operation a true family business. With the help of their family, they were able to launch the Halcyon location this October in the development’s Market Hall, which is a huge step for their business, Dave said.

With a foothold in Alpharetta and south Forsyth County, Dave said that he can see the coffee shops expanding into areas like Roswell, Johns Creek, Woodstock and Canton. With their roaster churning out beans by the barrelful, they might even try starting a bean subscription plan in certain areas.

“In a previous life, I did run 10 restaurants for a while, and I feel like I could get it to 10,” he said.

But no matter how many locations they start, Dave and Angela said they won’t lose sight of the community feeling that started their business in the first place.

“If we have, two locations, or 222 locations, I always want to make you want to feel that small-town feeling,” Dave Thompson said.

Visit Fuel Coffee in Alpharetta at 800 N Main St, Alpharetta, GA 30009, or at the Forsyth County location 6330 Halcyon Way, Alpharetta, GA 30005. Learn more at www.fuelatl.com.

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A Fuel coffee barista prepares drinks at the business’ new location in Forsyth County’s Halcyon Development on Nov. 3.

Alpharetta City Council rejects North Point pitch

Developer may return with revised proposal in another six months

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Alpharetta City Council has denied a developer’s plan to revitalize North Point Mall, citing concerns about how the project would unfold and questioning whether it would be enough to rescue the aging district.

Councilmembers voted down the plans by national developer Trademark Properties at a meeting Monday, Nov. 7 after five hours of discussion, presentations and public comment.

The City Council action ity council comes after years of uncertainty about the future of North Point Mall, and an intense PR campaign by Trademark Properties, who proposed big changes and an investment of about $550 million into the property over 10 years.

The redeveloped North Point Mall would have included 315,00 feet of new retail and restaurant space, a hotel, and nearly 1,000 rental and for-sale units on the 84-acre mall property. To make those additions work, Trademark would have demolished large sections of the existing mall space to construct an “outdoor walkable village” on half of the property.

Other sections of the mall would have been left standing, but would have been revitalized and updated, Trademark CEO Terry Montesi said.

“If our plan is approved, it improves the quality of life in this community with a new walkable, mixed-use

neighborhood that’s different from Avalon,” Montesi said. “It funds important community infrastructure and is a catalyst for the growth of a future vibrant North Point district.”

Council voices concerns

But even after Montesi’s presentation, most councilmembers said they weren’t convinced and questioned if the plan was right for the future of Alpharetta and the North Point Parkway area.

“There’s nothing going in over there we need,” Councilman Dan Merkel said. “We’ve got plenty of hotels, we’ve got plenty of office space … apartments, we’ve got them and

they’re coming …. that leaves us with a dying mall, and you want to cut it in half and tell me about putting in 900 apartments like that’s a game changer to save the mall. I don’t see it.”

Merkel also questioned the narrative that North Point Mall is somehow on the precipice of collapse, pointing to home sales in the area surrounding the mall, business and restaurants relocating to the area, and potential growth spurred by the upcoming North Point Streetscape project.

“This has been going on for 18 months … and I’m sitting here looking at the same thing I was looking at 18 months ago,” he said. “This is the only project we’ve seen, but yet we’re being told this is the best project. We’ve never seen anything else.”

Other councilmembers took issue with the pushback they received on the number of rental units proposed for the project. The project was recommended for approval with 650 rental units by city staff, but Trademark representatives have insisted the development will not work without close to 900 rental units.

“I want to do what I can to encourage a project to come forward, that doesn’t end up being 900 apartments sitting outside of a closed mall and nothing else,” Councilman John Hipes said. “Trademark isn’t going to look in that crystal ball and tell you the mall’s gonna be there 10 years, because they can’t.”

Hipes also said he was disappointed that Trademark was unwilling to commit to building other proposed

phases of the project, like the office space and hotel, which could keep the project alive, even if the mall did lose one or several of it’s large chain stores and declined even faster.

“If the mall dies, I want to know that there’s a true mixed use outside the mall, that will carry the day,” Hipes said. “The only commitment I got out of Trademark is they want to build 875 apartments … and the reason is, in their crystal ball they know that’s a profitable cash flow business model for them and for the owners.”

Windfall investment praised

Not everyone on the council stood against the proposal. Councilmen Donald Mitchell and Brian Will stressed the economic impact a revitalized mall would have on the community, calling the potential $550 million investment by Trademark and mall owner New York Life, a windfall that the community shouldn’t pass up.

“Nine hundred jobs, $6.5 million dollars to Fulton County Schools, millions of dollars in tax revenues for the City of Alpharetta,” Will said, listing off his reasons for supporting the project.

Mitchell said much like this project, Avalon and the City Center had uncertainties and pieces which had to be worked out along the way, but each of those projects was successful and made Alpharetta the economic powerhouse it is today.

After thanking the crowd, which filled the council chambers, for spending their night supporting the project, Mitchell took the rest of the council to task for not seeing the “vision” of what the project could do for the North Point area.

“I’ve listened tonight to a council that has no vision,” he said. “If people can’t see that vision in November, you’ll get a chance to vote them out of office. Because if they can’t see the vision and how important that is for our city, don’t vote for’em in office again.”

After each of the council members and Mayor Jim Gilvin shared their thoughts on the project, the council voted on the project.

A motion to approve the project with multiple conditions and amendments failed 2-5, with Merkel and Will voting in favor and all others opposed. A second motion, to deny the application, without prejudice, then passed unanimously.

City officials said that because the application was denied without prejudice, Trademark Properties can return to the City Council with a new proposal in six months.

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State Sen. Brandon Beach shares his thoughts on the potential redevelopment of North Point Mall at an Alpharetta City Council meeting Nov. 7.

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Several people in the tour group carried a notebook and pen, jotting down information while Dewitt spoke. One was Milton resident Marlysa Raye-Jacobus, a North Fulton Master Gardener since 1997. She’s also a district director for the Georgia Master Gardeners Association and freelancer. Soon, she will analyze a landscape plan for the new Milton fire station on Thompson Road.

Raye-Jacobus said she plans to use information from the tour for a future field trip to the arboretum with other North Fulton Master Gardeners.

While recounting her beginnings as a young gardener, calling her grandmother her “gardening angel,” she described the importance of horticulture and giving back to the community.

“It’s just really important that people know their external world,” Raye-Jacobus said. “Our environment is so fragile at this point in time.”

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residents more than its own residents.

A woman touches and inspects the leaves of a tree during a Nov. 4 tree tour at the Mark Law Arboretum in Milton’s Bell Memorial Park.

To answer previous council questions regarding Fulton County’s review of the IGA, Jarrard said Forsyth County com missioners have not yet approved the agreement, but he anticipates there will be no objection.

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the suave elegance of a fashion show, the shape rhythms of a tribal dance, playful monkeys at the zoo, and finally the awe of a big parade complete with fancy floats and giant balloons.”

Schuman’s piece was positively toned, reminiscent of its 1940s time period when the American dream was a reigning ethos.

According to the program, Schuman intended to engage youth with the composition, which was clearly heard in its vivid, amusing music, cartoonish and wonderfully attention deficit.

Solo from a young cellist Jeong, who Gilman described as “very young in age but very old in spirit,” walked onto the stage for a stab at Saint-Saëns. “Cello Concerto No. 1” was broken into three sections, the last especially demanding of the cellist, the program said. But Jeong played effortlessly.

The young musician sat at the front of the stage, without Gilman’s direction in his sights. But now and then, Gilman would turn his head as if doting on Jeong, who wore a silky, flowing, longsleeved black shirt and played his part by memory. No music stand, no music to read. Jeong’s eyes were closed most of the time, as if carried away to another place.

Without faltering, he played the voice of reason in the performance, with musicians — many who were three times his age — surrounding him, conceding.

While the orchestra accompanied, Jeong remained at the center and ended his performance with a haunting solo, everyone watching silently with appreciation.

Jeong received two standing ovations, before and after his solo. Barbaraann Bongiovanni, the orchestra’s education director, later presented him with a certificate and cash award.

Building to the finale

After the intermission, the orchestra performed “Valse Triste,” a sorehearted, poignant work that had a soft, delicate, muffled start. The original program notes, which described the basis of the composition, envisions a son who watches his ailing mother awaken from sleep to dance with “shadowy guests,” eventually ending with a knock at the door — death standing at the threshold.

To round out the performance, creating a lasting impression, musicians played “Pines of Rome.” Respighi’s composition, which has four movements fading into one another, is a wildly expressive piece — encompassing both solemnity and abrasive tendencies, sometimes wielding disruptive percussion.

Members from the Alpharetta City Band, and some freelance musicians like Milton Police Chief Rich Austin, who were planted in different areas around the sanctuary, stepped in during final moments with brass. They band sounded off, devising a surround-sound, with what could be a vision of the “triumphant return of the Roman army along the famed Appian Way.”

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Grant Gilman directs the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra Nov. 4 at Alpharetta First United Methodist Church. Founded in 2014, the nonprofit seeks to build the city’s musical community through performance and education. The ensemble consists of

The organization also offers Chamber Outreach Ensemble Concerts in schools and senior homes to those who cannot attend regular performances.

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When am I going to act on some of the things that I know would improve my life?

I know that as we age, it is important to remain engaged and social as not doing this is linked to heightened risk of dementia and the like.

Women in general, I think, tend to do this almost by default. But with men, I think we tend to become more solitary, more introverted as we age. My wife is in two book clubs, several faith-based activitiesincluding a centering prayer group - and is actively engaged in studying various subjects and authors including Richard Rohr. She recently had a reunion with her best friends from college; they meet every couple years and absolutely enjoy that time. One of her friends is in a bridge club, plays competitive field hockey, stud ies Richard Rohr, is in several book clubs, and, as a therapist, sees over 60 clients every week. I don’t see how they do it.

What about me? Ok, so I read a lot — alone — usually in a comfortable chair at home. I still have an interest in tennis but now, that translates into me going and hitting against a backboard at Wills Park tennis courts — alone. But that’s how I learned tennis as a high schooler, and at one point I played at a fairly high level. I get asked to play with other folks these days. But I hate “playing” tennis with anyone unless I am able to play at a high

a person active in this world

level, which I cannot do right now. I would rather not play. Maybe a thousand more hours at the backboard would get me to where I could enjoy “playing” again.

I swim off and on, usually at 5 a.m. at the Y — alone. Well, with maybe a half dozen other early morning swimmers. For years there was a woman who swam in the lane next to me — for years — and we would chat sometimes at one end of the pool. But we never learned each other’s names. We knew about each other’s fami lies and such, just not each other’s name. How odd.

So, swim, tennis, work and family. That’s mostly it.

My daughter asked me this week if I could use my truck and pick up a futon for her. She recently relocated back to Georgia and is busy furnishing her house. She is good at spotting bargains out there and never pays retail for anything. About a month ago she sent me to buy a thou sand dollar brand new, still-in-the-plastic king-sized mattress from Overstock for $200. I couldn’t believe it.

The futon this week was in Johns Creek. Someone was moving and trying to get rid of the stuff they were not planning to take with them. I am sure my daugh ter saw the ad on Craigslist. My warning radar always goes off when Craigslist is involved in any transaction. There are so many scammers out there. It doesn’t seem to bother my daughter in the least.

So, I pulled up to the house and was looking for the phone number on my phone to call to let them to let them know I was there. I looked up and right next to my window was a middle-aged man just

standing there. I got out, and we intro duced ourselves. He was an entomologist (study of insects) from India and his wife, a computer programmer originally from Singapore. They had been living in the states for, I am thinking, the last 25 years or so and were moving back to India to take care of ageing parents. He took early retirement. I suspect he had his doctorate and was teaching as well as practicing in the field. She was not crazy about moving back to India; it was stressing her out.

So, I don’t know as much about India as I should, historically or socially. It’s a bit embarrassing to me. My knowledge of the country is more or less limited to hav ing read “Freedom at Midnight,” a defini tive long nonfiction novel about Indian independence from Great Britain as well as the incredibly bloody partition with Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. I know that India as well Pakistan are two of the 14 countries with nuclear weapons. I know that India is the world’s largest de mocracy, and that Pakistan has unofficial U.S. Airforce bases, is run by a military government, and is an Islamic country. Of note, two of our delivery folks at the newspaper were from India, and one of my favorite authors is Indian — Jhumpa Lahiri. Her “Interpreter of Maladies” is an amazing first book of short stories that I highly recommend. The rest of my knowledge of India is taken from watching the movie “Slum Dog Millionaire,” and the current book I am reading, which takes place in the slums of Mumbai — a city of over 20,000,000 — called “Behind the Beautiful Forever’s” by Katherine Boo. The book has won tons of awards and so far,

seems like a fabulous read.

So, when I heard that Anil and his wife were moving back to India, it surprised me, I have to admit. “Why” I thought. Even to take care of ageing parents, it just seemed, well, counter intuitive to my frame of reference.

It took us about 15 minutes to load up my daughter’s futon as well as a coffee table Anil offered for free. Then we started talking about India — the government, the economy, where in India he was moving back to and more. We talked about his education; it was essentially free, and we talked about world events including COVID and some of the books I had read relating to the topics. We talked at least a half hour about insects and commercial agriculture on the industrial scale and how — he pointed out — difficult it was to produce it without the heavy use of pesti cides and herbicides.

We talked about books. He gave me one — “Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century.” I promised to send him a copy of “The Overstory” once he was sure of his new address in Southern India. I expect we will stay in touch, and I look forward to that.

I think we talked for well over an hour, maybe almost two. His wife came to the door, and without saying anything, com municated it was time for me to leave so they could get back to packing. They leave for India soon. We said our goodbyes, and as I drove off, I asked myself again, “Why I don’t get out more often, why I don’t make the effort?”

OPINION

Let’s fix some things in college football

targeting, so great is the risk of head injury. Bands can enhance the college football experience, but they should be reminded of their place. The show is on the turf, not the sidelines.

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I’ve loved college football since the days of Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes and Pepper Rodgers. It offers something few sports can lay claim to – the ability to suspend cynicism and believe that coaches are honorable, players love their school, and college sports programs are honest.

Even so, there are some alarming trends creeping into the game.

Offensive holding

College football affords fans the freedom to love and hate without guilt. I love Georgia. I hate Oklahoma.

Up until last year, I loved Clemson. For some reason, the school’s marching band – between plays – began holding the final note of “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” by Hector Berlioz. So annoying was that prolonged discord, it gave me a headache, and I no longer watch Clemson games.

This year, Oklahoma’s band began doing the same thing, holding the fourthto-last note of its school fight song (stolen from Yale’s “Boola Boola” decades ago), which gives me yet another reason to hate them.

The NCAA has a rule stating that a team can be penalized if their band interferes with the signal-calling of an opposing team. It’s a dead ball foul. This note-holding business could qualify as

While we’re on the subject, can we stop with the obnoxious commercials repeated over and over during games?

I don’t want to single out any one culprit, but I hold particular contempt for the abject silliness of the T-Mobile commercial in which a mob of wide-eyed maniacs run toward the camera in slow motion to get their hands on a new iPhone.

While the image is muddle-headed enough, the fact they are running to the strains of Carl Orff’s mildewed “Carmina Burana,” is more than I can stomach.

In fact, let’s retire “Carmina Burana” from all airwaves – a work so derivative that a critic once described it as “music that a gland would write.”

Again, I don’t want to pick on T-Mobile, a telecom giant that has twice successfully sued other companies for using magenta, a color it claims to own. So, nothing personal, T-Mobile. Really.

Style points

Penn State has only recently dug its way out from the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal that tarnished a once-proud program. That’s good, because I’ve always loved the minimalist approach the school takes to its threads.

The Nittany Lions wear navy and white. Simple. No emblem on the helmets. No

names on jerseys. The team has all the appearance of a work crew setting out to demolish a building.

That’s in stark contrast to the trickedout, revolving-door wardrobe at the University of Oregon.

By virtue of having Nike co-founder Phil Knight as an alum, the Ducks now have more than 327 different uniform combinations with every color imaginable (except magenta), according to bleacherreport.com. This is a team more suited to Bravo TV than ESPN.

Dazzling and garish, the Ducks’ uniforms always scream for attention, begging fans to focus on fashion instead of…say, the scoreboard, which might read: Georgia 49, Oregon 3.

While I’d love to isolate on Oregon, this emphasis on style over substance can be traced back to Iowa coach Hayden Frye. When he came to the school in 1979, Frye changed the Hawkeyes’ uniforms from the traditional, black-and-gold slice of butter on a coal pile to an exact replica of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, another team I hate.

Frye reasoned that dressing his perennially mediocre team to resemble the most dominant football franchise of the 1970s would turn them into winners.

Since suiting up as faux Steelers, the Hawkeyes have gone 325-203, a winning percentage of .624. They’ve played in 32 bowl games (Who hasn’t?), with a record of 15-16-1.

The lesson: There is a middle ground between originality and theft. It’s the same in any profession. Forge your own brand, elevate it by succeeding, and stick to it.

If you enjoy trout fishing in Georgia, you should be a happy camper right about now. Why? Because as of Nov. 1, Georgia’s Delayed Harvest trout fishing season has begun!

Delayed Harvest, or “DH” as it’s often called, is a special program under which portions of certain Georgia streams are managed under special regulations. DH waters are too warm for trout during the summer, but through the winter months their waters cool enough to provide good trout habitat. Georgia’s five DH fisheries (Amicalola Creek from Steele Bridge downstream to GA 53, the Chattooga River from Reed Creek down to GA 28, the Chattahoochee

in Atlanta from Sope Creek to US 41, Smith Creek downstream of Unicoi Lake in Unicoi State Park, and the Toccoa River from 450 feet above the Sandy Bottom Canoe Access downstream to a point 0.4 miles above Shallowford Bridge) are managed under artificials-only, catchand-release regulations from Nov. 1 through May 14. The idea is to provide some great wintertime trout fishing, and a focused stocking program helps ensure that there will be good catch rates and thus lots of smiles on lots of anglers’ faces.

This year there are plenty of stockable trout available, too, and so all five of those waters (including the Chattahoochee section) will be stocked.

“We are excited to resume Delayed Harvest stockings on the Chattahoochee River below Morgan Falls Dam this year, thanks to excellent trout production in our state hatchers, and the low, fishable flows we are seeing in the river currently,”

says Georgia Trout Stocking Coordinator John Lee Thomson. “With the Lake Burton Fish Hatchery renovation complete and trout inventories returned to historic levels, the Chattahoochee DH should provide a great trout fishing opportunity near Metro Atlanta.”

One neat things about the Delayed Harvest season is that it gives trout anglers an opportunity to be involved in Georgia’s trout stocking program in a hands-on kind of way. For example, members of several Trout Unlimited chapters have already lent a hand by helping Department of Natural Resources personnel to stock trout into the state’s various DH waters.

Want to try your hand at stocking some trout yourself? There will be opportunities for that coming up too. For example, one day during Thanksgiving

week, the hatchery truck will roll into the parking area at the Whitewater Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, where it will be met by a cadre of volunteers (maybe even you!) who will help stock trout into that portion of the “Hooch DH.” All you need to help out is a 5-gallon plastic bucket and some waders (or clothes you don’t mind getting wet).

When will this happen? The exact date has not been nailed down as of this writing, but watch websites such as North Georgia Trout Online (ngto.org) or various Georgia Trout Unlimited chapter websites for details on the exact date and time. I’ll do my best to let you know here, too, as soon as I find out.

These volunteer-assisted stocking events are an enormous amount of fun, and I remember one in particular. I was there with bucket in hand and my muchloved but by now somewhat bedraggled fishing hat perched atop my increasingly hairless head. It’s an old hat, and it really is looking kind of battered these days, but I like it and it fits and it helps keep me warm.

The assembled volunteers made quick work of stocking several thousand trout – and once the stocking was done the

fishing commenced. Yes, it’s okay to fish on stocking day, even right after the fish have been put in. In fact, I encourage it. It can make you feel like God’s gift to fly fishing, and sometimes we all need a little bit of that sort of thing.

Anyway, I’d rigged up my rod with the idea of catching a few before heading back to the house. But mostly I was just wandering around enjoying the moment – and that’s when I noticed a dad with his two young daughters. The kids, who were probably about 6 and 8, had been helping stock fish, and they’d worked hard.

Hmmm, I thought. Here’s a chance to have some fun.

I approached the dad, introduced myself, and asked if he would mind if I hooked a fish on my flyrod and then let one of the kids bring it in.

“Can we, daddy?” the oldest asked excitedly – and the dad said sure!

We were standing in shallow water just a few yards from a spot where lots of newly-stocked trout were holding in the current, so it took just a moment to fool a fish into taking the fly. Once I hooked it, I made great ceremony of putting the rod in the hands of one of the kids. I showed her how to bring in the fish, then netted it and held it for photos and happy congratulations all around.

Then…

“Can I do it again?” she asked. Her dad nodded yes. I flipped the fly out into the flow again and in less than a minute

had another trout on the line. She landed that one too. More pictures, more high fives.

Then…

“Can I do it again?”

This went on for about a half dozen fish. But Younger Sister was watching.

She looked at me and said, “Mister, that’s a funny hat.” Ahh, flattery will get you everywhere! But that was only preamble. The real question came next:

“Can I catch one too?”

“How about it?” I asked the dad, and he said “Sure!” – and so I hooked another trout and this time handed the rod to Younger Sister. She too did a great job, encouraged more or less constantly by Older Sister, who by now of course was an experienced veteran. It was great!

Younger Sister landed four or five, and then it was Older Sister’s turn again.

And that’s what we did for more than an hour. I’d hook a trout and give the rod to one of the kids, who would then bring in the fish. It was enormous fun, and we kept at it for quite a while until the kids got cold and we finally called it an afternoon.

Later, another fly fisher mentioned that he’d seen me helping the kids catch all those fish.

“Didn’t you mind not landing them yourself?” he asked me. “Didn’t you miss getting to fish yourself?”

Well, no, I didn’t miss it. I didn’t miss it at all. It was a hoot helping those two

catch those trout, much more fun than it would have been to catch them myself. Besides, I got a great story out of it.

But they got a lot more. Those two kids had more fun than the law allows – out-of-doors, standing in a river, discovering must how much fun fishing for trout can be – even if your mentor is the dude in the funny hat!

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David Cox: Writing tomorrow’s history today

We are used to thinking of history as past events, accomplishments of individuals who have gone to their heavenly rewards, structures of unique styles or places where important events occurred.

But what about tomorrow’s history? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could see it today?

Well, we can because tomorrow’s history is being written as we speak. We just need to look for it. Today we will look at two beautiful barns and the man who built them in North Fulton County that are sure to be viewed as historic by future generations.

The Scottsdale Farms main building in the Birmingham community and the barn until recently called the Yellow House Barn, now the 7th Hand Barn, in Alpharetta were built by David Cox, a talented builder who retired about a year ago following a career of 51 years. He erected an estimated 100 barns, a similar number of houses and innumerable renovations during his career, all within a 50-mile radius in North Fulton and Cherokee County.

Both barns are very large structures built for different purposes. Scottsdale Farms was made to be a retail garden and home decor center with a sales floor and a café and bistro housed in a towering central hall of exposed beams. Thanks to the commitment of owner Luca Gianturco, Scottsdale Farms is a timber framed building with mortise and tenon joinery (more about that later), while 7th Hand Barn was built as an equine facility. With a luxurious upstairs living area, it was a precursor to today’s popular special event or party barns.

When David Cox was 10 or 12, he worked with his grandfather Troy Cox, a carpenter and farmer where the Blue Valley development in Cherokee County is today. David also worked with George Garner “my other grandpa” who was a part-time carpenter and farmer on Taylor Road in Milton.

As a teenager in the 1960s and ’70s David broadened his carpentry skills working summers for “Doc” Allen Myers, a homebuilder who moved to Alpharetta from Florida in 1962. He built many of the houses on Dania Drive in Alpharetta, among others in North Fulton County, and according to his daughter Sharon Myers Mauldin, he was the first builder of subdivisions in Alpharetta.

Doc was a small, quiet man who liked to laugh, says David.

“He was very talented, good as gold. Most of his tools were ancient. When I met him, he was building whatever people wanted, a house, outhouse or shed. As he got older, he did trim work.”

He eventually started working for David.

Timber framing is a method of creating structures using very heavy timbers joined together with mortise and tenon joints where the end of one piece of wood, the tenon, is inserted into a hole, the mortise, cut in the other piece, usually at a right angle. Once the pieces are connected, a hole is drilled through the two parts and a peg is driven through the hole to firmly and permanently join the pieces of wood. No nails or bolts are used. A diagonal brace is often added where horizontal and vertical beams meet for additional stability.

David Cox was one of the first to build a mortise and tenon barn in Georgia. Because of the complexities involved, Luca hired Jerry Hopkins, a local structural engineer, to assure conformity of the building’s systems to Fulton County codes.

Luca says: “I am a fanatic about history. I wanted Scottsdale Farms to be a unique tribute to the artisan builders who paved the way centuries ago.”

About a year ago, local businessman Mac Plummer and his wife Megan purchased the Yellow House Barn, a premier equestrian facility which they recently renamed 7th Hand Farm, a Biblical reference to the Hand of God. The barn is notched post and beam construction, a method that creates strong joints between vertical posts and cross beams. A post is notched at its end or wherever a beam joins it. The beam rests in the notch and is bolted to the post. The method is less complicated to build than mortise and tenon, but very strong

The Scottsdale Farms barn is built in the manner of European barns of the middle ages and is a rarity in Georgia. Eastern white pine was the wood of choice for the project because it is softer and lighter than hard woods and warps less. Suitable specimens of the wood were found in Maine, milled and shipped by truck to Georgia. Some of the vertical posts are 40 feet long by 14 inches square.

nonetheless.

The elegant barn has 38 12x12-foot stalls in two wings, 8 wash racks and an attached giant indoor riding arena. Mac and Megan are updating and making improvements in the barn and in several other buildings on the 30-acre property including a historic 19th century house. The barn incorporates many special features including beautiful interior stone archways separating the two wings and a double fence line surrounding the property so riders can safely navigate their horses around periphery.

It is a busy place owned and managed by a committed couple. It will be interesting to see what innovations they have in store for the operation.

Bob is director emeritus of the Milton Historical Society and a Member of the City of Alpharet ta Historic Preservation Commission. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.You can email Bob at bobmey@bellsouth.net. To learn more about the Milton Historical Society, go to miltonhistoricalsociety-georgia.org.Commis sion. He lives in Alpharetta.

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The landmark Scottsdale Farms garden center is a timber framed structure built of eastern white pine using mortise and tenon joints to create an exceptionally strong building. Evidence of mortise and tenon dates back 7000 years. The barn is about 60 feet high to the top of the cupola.

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