Milton Herald - December 8, 2022

Elections committee wraps up findings for presentation

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — The Milton commit tee, tasked with studying the fea sibility of the city running its own municipal elections, nailed down two remaining issues at its last meeting Dec. 1.

The Municipal Election Feasibility Committee could stand as a model for other north metro Atlanta cities fol lowing the election study. Considering Fulton County’s recent suggestion to cities to conduct their own municipal elections due to skyrocketing costs, self-sufficiency has become a more important objective.

Deputy City Manager and com mittee member Stacey Inglis did not release the overall cost estimate of a city-run election. But the cost is expected to be far lower than what Fulton County has once charged.

At the meeting, Milton City Man ager Steve Krokoff was there to help explain last-minute calculations that anticipate the necessary staff and/ or polling locations to accommodate voter turnout. Calculations were made based on the best- and worst-case scenarios, using historical data, and

Milton, Alpharetta take home pointers about Johns Creek drug abuse initiative

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The year-end meeting of One Johns Creek Coalition – a group committed to fighting drug abuse – was packed with around 30 stakeholders, including representa tives from Milton and Alpharetta who are looking to form their own wellness alliance.

The Nov. 30 meeting, hosted at Brady Ware in Alpharetta, was the second gathering of minds where all three cities talked about a com mon goal — reducing drug addiction among youth.

Milton Mayor Peyton Jamison, Milton Police Capt. Charles Barstow and Alpharetta EMS and police were there to key in on strategy. Johns Creek Mayor John Bradberry, Coun cilwoman Stacy Skinner and a rep resentative from Johns Creek police were there as well.

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Milton Mayor Peyton Jamison keys into information provided by Alyse Hensel, the program director of One Johns Creek Coalition.

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Paul Moore, Milton City Councilman and Municipal Election Feasibility Committee member, talks about the committee’s findings Dec. 1.

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Police: School shooting report at Cambridge High was a hoax

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — Police officials say news of an active shooter at Cambridge High School in Milton Nov. 30 has been deemed a hoax.

Milton Police officers responded to the school off Bethany Road and Ga. 9 on Wednesday after receiving a 911 call from an unknown source claiming to be a teacher, saying that shots had been fired.

“Milton Police contacted Cambridge High’s administration, which reported no incidents they were aware of, though they did put the school on a hard lock down,” police said in a statement.

While the school was in lockdown, police officers completed a sweep of the school and found no indication that shots had been fired, Milton Police Capt. Charles Barstow said.

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Woman reports theft of clothing, paycheck

MILTON, Ga. — A Milton woman walked into the police station Nov. 15 and re ported a theft. According to the woman, she noticed damage on a pair of her Dolce and Gabanna sunglasses and found them lying in a different place than usual. She asked her daughter if she had worn them, but she said she hadn’t. A few days later the woman noticed that

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He said similar threats have been reported at schools across Georgia, in cluding one threat made at a Savannah school earlier the same day.

items were missing from her trunk, including a Chanel purse, Nike shoes, LuLu Lemon clothing and her daughter’s paycheck.

Police created a report and informed the woman to contact them if anything else goes missing.

Driver cited at court without drivers license

MILTON, Ga. — Milton police arrested a Cumming man Nov. 16 after he report edly drove away from court without a driver’s license.

The Alpharetta/Milton Municipal Court Clerk’s office called authorities when they say a man was at the court counter without a drivers license, though they believed he drove to the building.

Milton Police, in conjunction with the Fulton County School System will continue investigating this event, he said.

Police say the court reminded him not to drive without an active license. According to the report, the clerk’s office saw the man then get in a car and drive away.

Milton police pulled the man over on Marrywood Drive. According to the re port, the officer smelled marijuana as he approached the vehicle. When asked for his license, the driver offered the officer the receipt he had just received while paying a failure to appear citation at the municipal court.

Reports state the officer found 9 grams of marijuana in a small bag in the car.

The driver was cited for marijuana less than 1 oz. and driving while license suspended. He was issued a court date and released at the scene. He was told that someone needed to pick up his vehicle.

New Milton committee to focus on boundaries for development growth

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — A seven-member commit tee, tasked with developing Milton’s Urban Growth Boundary map, gathered for its inaugural meeting Dec. 1.

Used by communities in 11 states, an urban growth boundary (UGB) is a tool used to contain high density develop ment — a strategy identified by the Milton Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) to manage growth and tackle devel opment pressures.

Milton reached an agreement with Fulton County in the early 2000s to limit sewer lines in the city’s rural areas, which has kept 90 percent of the city as low den sity. But a revisable UGB map is intended to provide a protective layer to the city’s sewer map, giving the city more control over the pace and extent of “urban” growth.

Milton Mayor Peyton Jamison said the UGB should mirror the sewer map.

Drawing the document will not initiate rezoning or change land use. But Jamison said the UGB map would add an additional step in the two-step process for rezon ing. Right now, rezoning requires a City Council-approved application for rezoning and separate decision on sewer extension.

The committee is composed of three stakeholder groups, representing the Mil ton Planning Commission, local business and building industries, and community leaders with connections to various parts of Milton. Members also come from different areas in Milton, including Deerfield/High way 9, Crabapple and Arnold Mill.

At the meeting, committee members named Laura Bentley, former Milton City Councilwoman and current member on the Board of Zoning Appeals, as the committee chair.

Other committee members are Planning Commission members Judy Burds and Kurt Nolte, Kimbrle Matherly from Deer field Master Association, Scott Reece from Bumbelow-Reese Associates, Adam Orkin from Orkin and Associates, and Jake Sher ril from Tier4 Advisors.

Milton Senior Planner Shubha Jangam led discussion on the group’s objectives, referring to the 2040 Comprehensive plan, adopted in October 2021. As part of the overall vision for the city, the plan out lines a short-term work program intended to “perform due diligence and planning” on UGBs backed by CPAC, the Planning Commission as well as the mayor and City

Council.

Jangam provided an example of how a UBG can be a layer of protection. If the in tergovernmental agreement between Milton and Fulton County were to fall through, or if there was an environmental desire that would require sewer extension, the UGB would still be in place to prevent interfer ence.

Milton Community Development Director Bob Buscemi also spoke at the Wednesday night meeting, expounding on the purpose of the UGB in Milton as well as sharing on other projects. While the map is intended to keep density at a minimum, Buscemi mentioned it should also solidify and protect urban areas to bolster busi ness.

Burds echoed Buscemi’s remark as committee members took turns sharing their vision of the UGB map.

“We need to invest to keep our urban areas vibrant,” Burds said. “Because that will attract people to those urban areas and allow the rest to stay a little bit more rural.”

Nolte questioned the potential nega tive connotation of the term “urban growth boundary” and said he would also like to focus on making businesses in the city’s urban areas successful.

There will be two more meetings over the next six months, Jangam said. The next meeting, not yet scheduled, will be interactive. There, the committee will work with the city’s Future Land Use Plan and the sewer map to draw the UGB.

The last phase, following the conclu sion of all stakeholder meetings and map development, will be to adopt the map and incorporate it into the next comprehensive plan set for 2025.

Wellness:

Alyse Hensel, One Johns Creek Coalition program director, led a presen tation on the group’s accomplishments over the year, goals for 2023 and wel comed questions, initiating productive conversation among those who attended.

Other coalition members were there to offer comments in addition to staff from Pathways2Life, the coalition’s par ent nonprofit organization, and Beatrice King, Fulton County opioid public health analyst.

Pat on the back

One Johns Creek was formed in December 2020 through a grant from the City of Johns Creek, and it acquired a memorandum of understanding (MOU) a year later, allowing it to easily collabo rate with the city on initiatives.

In its short existence, the nascent program has seen a lot of success. More than 1,100 people signed the No Shame pledge, an effort that encour ages individuals to provide a shame-free environment by learning more about mental health challenges, stigma and the disease of addiction.

Johns Creek High School, with 270 student pledges, and Chattahoochee High School, with 693 student pledges, have been deemed No Shame Campuses.

The coalition has maintained an ac tive presence in Johns Creek, steering several community events, like parent webinars. Members have taken charge of two DEA Drug Take Back Days, disposing of more than 230 pounds of medicine. They distributed more than 1,500 drug disposal bags and installed a permanent drug disposal drop box at Johns Creek City Hall, which has col lected more than 100 pounds.

One Johns Creek has also hosted school training sessions, set up lunch wellness tables and disseminated 15 school drug prevention newsletters. The list goes on. By the end of the meeting, Hensel extended her arm over her shoul der for a pat on the back and asked the coalition to do the same.

Many hands

Because One Johns Creek Coalition has established a framework for navigat ing addiction prevention and interven tion, other cities won’t have to reinvent the wheel.

When Milton and Alpharetta joined for their first coalition meeting, which had a far lower attendance, Hensel spoke on how to get the ball rolling. She offered a five-step approach for imple menting a drug-free community coali tion, a process created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is used by 28 other drug-free alliances in Georgia.

SAMHSA requires that groups use the Strategic Prevention Framework, which calls for assessment, building capacity, planning, implementation and evaluation, to obtain the DrugFree Communities grant, funded by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The tailored presentation included statistics on both Milton and Alpharet ta residents, noting that use of alco hol, tobacco, prescription drugs and nicotine climbs from nearly 0 percent in sixth grade to anywhere from 8 to 25 percent in 12th graders.

The long-term plan is to have a One North Fulton Coalition, which Hensel called an audacious goal. Still, she said local problems require local solutions. Because Johns Creek has a different demographic than Milton and Al pharetta, the two-city coalition should be customized to its own population.

Hensel advised Milton and Al pharetta to seek a formal memoran dum of understanding. Hensel, along with another coalition member, wrote the grant proposal last year that Milton and Alpharetta could essentially plug and play.

“It’s super replicable,” she said.

The Wednesday morning meeting was Jamison’s first meeting with the coalition, there to learn. But, he said forming a coalition with Alpharetta would be a great complement to the work that the Milton Police Department already does.

Jamison said he hasn’t spoken with Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin, but expects that banding together will garner support. His next steps will be

to gather more information about the process of forming a coalition and sit down with the Milton City Council and city staff.

“It’s about community involvement and education,” Jamison said. “And I think that’s the most important thing.”

Local problems, local solutions

Localizing the approach calls for looking at 12 sectors within the com munity. To brainstorm, large pieces of paper were taped along the back wall of the meeting space, each titled with a sector — youth, parents, business, media, schools, youth serving organi zations, law enforcement, civic/volun teer organizations, religious/fraternal

organizations, health care profession als, state/local/tribal government and substance abuse organizations.

Hensel dove into a key issue the co alition faces — a data void. Last year, the Georgia Department of Education made the Georgia Student Health Sur vey, an assessment that all DFCs use, optional. Prior to COVID-19 pandemic, the survey was mandated. Only Johns Creek High School chose to opt-in and that was because the coalition had a relationship with the principal.

“We have no idea what our trends look like. We have no idea what our past 30-Day Use looks like. We have no idea what our perception of risk and harm looks like,” Hensel said. “We need to bond together and ask our schools to put it back.”

One goal for 2023 is to create a data team to help mitigate the lack. But if more cities were to strategically push for community wellness, and create their own coalition, a network of loud voices would take root and make an impact.

“Many hands make light work,” Hensel said.

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Alyse Hensel, program director of One Johns Creek Coalition, speaks at the group’s last meeting of the year Nov. 30. With the purpose to reduce addiction among youth, the coalition has hit major milestones in 2022. Representatives from Milton and Alpharetta were in the room, seeking guidance to form their own coalition.

Beatrice King, Fulton County opioid public health analyst, talks about her experience working with foster care and the drug addiction problem that develop among kids.

Committee:

the average of the two.

The committee’s previous decision on the amount of poll workers had been found to be insufficient based on the worst-case scenario, defined by highest voter turnout on Election Day.

Krokoff suggested the possibil ity of adding a third polling location. Wary of cost, committee member Lisa Cauley, one of two members repre senting Milton residents, jumped at the suggestion and said the committee had already cemented the number of polling locations.

“Looking at what other cities have done, and all the other cities that we’ve been seeking to, have been do ing one location,” Cauley said. “We went above.”

To avoid splitting hairs, Council man and committee member Paul Moore said the number of polling locations and/or poll workers can be determined once the City Council gives the OK.

“We can demonstrate to Council that there is a significant cost savings, whether it’s one, two, or three, or four, or five,” Moore said.

The second, and last decision point, examined the amount of money

that would be dedicated to an elec tion superintendent. Previously, Inglis calculated around $13,000 as a wage, based on hours and salary of another city’s election superintendent, who is also the city clerk.

The committee debated on the figure, MH 1208 Milton Elections (2) some agreeing that it was too high. Lower, arbitrary numbers were tossed around, but Krokoff said that the committee would need to be able to illustrate the math behind cost items. The committee ultimately concluded that overestimating cost wouldn’t be an issue, so much as underestimating.

To close out the meeting, commit tee members shared sentimental re marks about their diligence to explore the issue at-hand.

“This committee did a deep dive,” Councilman and committee member Rick Mohrig said. “We didn’t just come in and say ‘Oh, we think we can do it. Let’s do it.’ There really was a lot of work that went into getting to the point where we’re at, so I’m comfort able.”

The committee was expected to present its findings at the Dec. 5 City Council meeting, where councilmem bers would have the opportunity to give feedback. Inglis said the City Council is set to vote on the item Dec. 19.

By DELANEY TARR delaney@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 18th annual list of 10 ‘Places in Peril’ across the state, and the McConnell-Chadwick House in Milton made the list.

The roster is composed of 10 desti nations in Georgia that are threatened by demolition, development or sheer neglect. The trust’s purpose is to raise awareness and save the properties.

The Milton Historical Society nomi nated the McConnell-Chadwick House as a candidate for the list. The biggest threats to the house are its physical condition and its location along Arnold Mill Road, one of the busier highways in the city.

The house is one of three in Fulton County to make the list. The others are at 229 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta and the Old Campbell County Courthouse in Fairburn. Both have significant damage.

Ben Sutton, preservation director for the Georgia Trust for Historic Preserva tion, said raising awareness is key to saving these sites.

“We like to highlight the history of each site and explain why its relevant today.” Sutton said, “Not to simply save a site, but also to connect it to the pres ent day.”

Sutton said the McConnell-Chadwick house has historical and architectural

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Economic crisis doesn’t wait for the holidays

NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS

Charity assists needy near Perimeter

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — If there were ever a “Jack-of-all trades” charity in Metro Atlanta, it would almost certain ly be the Community Assistance Center off Roswell Road in Sandy Springs.

But far from being “a master of none,” the Community Assistance Cen ter has spent the last three decades building a dedicated network of com munity resources and partnerships to help people during their darkest days, no matter what they might need.

It all started in 1987 when five church congregations came together to form a simple food pantry for commu nity members who were having a hard time making ends meet. Just a small group of neighbors helping neighbors, the charity’s Communications Manager Laura Deupree said.

“These neighbors were just not able to put food on the table,” Deupree said. “So, these five congregations came to gether, took over the Boy Scout shack at Mount Vernon Presbyterian, and turned it into a food pantry.”

Since then, the organization’s ser vices and reach has grown dramatical ly, helping thousands of families with food, clothing, financial assistance and education each year. But what hasn’t changed, is the community-led mission that first launched the group.

While the organization only has 18 staff members, Deupree said they see 250 to 450 volunteers each month to

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LAURA DEUPREE, Community Assistance Center Communications Manager

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Community Assistance Center volunteers mark donations that will be distributed to Sandy Springs and Dunwoody through the group’s food pantries.

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help run a number of food pantries in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, the Community Assistance Center thrift store and offices for financial as sistance, adult education and career center.

“That spirit has completely stayed at the core of what CAC is,” she said. “It’s going from an all-volunteer organi zation to what we like to call a volun teer-led organization.”

No big crisis spurred the creation of the Community Assistance Center, but throughout the years the char ity has faced every sort of challenge imaginable, from recessions and the housing crisis of 2008 to the COVID-19 pandemic. In each time of crisis, the community stepped forward to make ensure the nonprofit could fulfill it’s mission in the community.

Right now, Deupree said the North Fulton community is facing an “insidi ous” threat from across-the-board in creases in the prices of rent, gas, food, which is pushing people to a breaking point.

Rent increases have had the great est impact, she said, because many of their most vulnerable clients are already living on the edge of what they

can afford. Any shift in that balance can be devastating.

“It’s never one thing that goes wrong that completely derails your life,” she said. “It is often a series of things that just keep piling up until you can’t sustain it financially any more.”

To combat that threat and put cli ents back on their feet and in a better position from when they started, Deu pree said they were able to launch a

Career Center last year.

Clients of the Com munity Assistance Center in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs are able to shop and make their own choic es about food at the group’s cli ent choice food pan tries.

at the Career Center already have a full-time job,” she said. “This year just has been really tough on people who normally do not need help.”

One example of the charity’s mis sion of allowing neighbors to help neighbors is its annual holiday pro gram, which pairs donors with children and families in need to provide person alized Christmas presents.

Like nearly everywhere else, Deu pree said they’ve seen a spike in the number of families that need help during the holidays. Out of 1,600 kids registered to receive presents, they’ve been able to pair up about 1,450.

“The need is just up, especially for things that are considered luxuries like holiday gifts, which is a little heart breaking to think about,” she said.

If you want to help with the Com munity Assistance Center’s Holiday Adopt-a-Family program, email adopta family@ourcac.org.

At the CAC Career Center, clients and anyone in the community who needs help, can find higher paying job opportunities, learn new marketable skills, and get resume and interview help. In the short time the career center has been open, the organiza tion has assisted more than 150 people either find a new job, or progress in their career.

“About 80 percent of the clients

But beyond the holidays, Deupree said they need help and donations year-round, especially during the sum mer and other major holidays when people go on vacation and things get lean.

“Economic crisis doesn’t wait for the holidays,” she said.

For details on how donate and learn more about volunteer opportunities with the Community Assistance Cen ter, visit www.ourcac.org.

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By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

MILTON, Ga. — The Milton eighth grade football team, part of the city’s growing feeder program, brought home another state league championship title Nov. 12.

With only five minutes left in the game, defensive coach Matt Battaglia said the team was down two scores against Carrollton. But Milton man aged to come out on top.

The 36-player team, led by head coach Sarath Degala, also won the state league in 2020. At the end of

their three-year run, across their sixth, seventh and eighth grade sea sons, players finished with a record of 31-1.

They have had three undefeated regular seasons, each with eight regu lar games.

Battaglia said they have the best record that any middle school team has ever had in Milton and possibly the best out of the Georgia Middle School Athletic Association.

“We have one of those classes that is — I don’t want to say is a ‘supernat ural’ class — but it’s definitely above average,” Battaglia said.

Milton 8th grade football wins state league title Unified Development Code portal open through Dec. 9

MILTON, Ga. — Milton residents have until Dec. 9 to share their views on the draft of Milton’s Unified Development Code, which is an effort to create a single, more concise, easier-to-under stand policy document on development in the city.

A unified development code (UDC) is a single regulatory document that guides and regulates all development in the city in terms of zoning regulations, land development, design regulations,

stormwater, tree canopy and landscap ing standards.

Rather than scouring through differ ent parts of the city code, the UDC gives citizens, contractors and others one document to find almost everything they need to know about rules and regula tions regarding development and land use.

Residents can access the portal to review the UDC draft at miltonudc.kon veio.com.

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Players on Milton’s eighth grade football team celebrate their state league champi onship win against Carrollton Nov. 12.

Volunteers clean sports fields used by Miracle League

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Members of the North Fulton Young Men’s Service League partnered with the North Metro Miracle League across two weekends in November to clean up the Miracle League Sports Complex in Alpharetta’s North Park on Cogburn Road.

The Young Men’s Service League is a national volunteer organization for mothers and their teenage sons. Dur ing the four-year program, members perform volunteer work focused on service, learning and leadership.

The North Fulton chapter has over 140 members. Every year, they hold the Young Men’s Service League Ulti mate Gift, a multi-day philanthropic event dedicated to a different partner each year.

The 2022 partner, North Metro Miracle League, promotes active life styles for children, youth and adults with disabilities. The organization runs an annual adapted softball season at two fields in North Park.

During the weekends of Nov. 5 and

Members of the Young Men’s Service League stand at the softball fields at North Park in Alpharetta during the Ultimate Gift volunteer service event. The group cleaned the fields and donated new equipment to athletes with disabilities.

Nov. 12, about 60 Young Men’s Service League members cleaned the two North Park softball fields and the surround

ing park grounds. They sorted through and discarded old equipment as well. The volunteers,

along with Atlanta-based sporting goods store Play it Again Sports, donat ed gently used gloves and bats.

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Cookerly Public Relations names Stewart new CEO

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Cookerly Public Relations, a Southeastern public relations and marketing agency with clients including McDonald’s, SunTrust and Mercedes-Benz, has announced Cory Stewart as the company’s chief executive officer. Stewart will join Cookerly’s president Stephen Brown in leading the firm.

“As I take on this new role, I’m highly cognizant that our reputation, carefully built on quality work, is the sum of many dedicated colleagues’ efforts,” Stewart said.

Stewart will take over the position from founder Carol Cookerly, who will step aside from some responsibilities and focus on the crisis and issues practice.

“While the firm bears my name, for more than a decade I have not directly impacted many of our clients,” Cookerly said.

The firm was founded more than 30 years ago, originally known for managing high-profile issues and crises. It became a full-service communications provider 25 years ago.

Stewart joined the company in 2005. He had previously served as the firm’s chief operating officer. He’s provided counsel and campaign executions for clients across a variety of sectors.

Prior to joining Cookerly, he worked in the banking industry as a regional marketing officer for BBVA bank in Birmingham, Alabama. He also serves as a board member of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, the Atlanta Ronald McDonald House and the Coastal Conservation Association Atlanta Chapter. Stewart previously served on the Chattahoochee Nature Center.

Sawnee Foundation approves $31,000 school lunch program

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Saw nee Electric Membership Foundation announced Nov. 16 that more than $31,000 in funding has been approved to assist 30 local school lunch pro grams in North Georgia.

The Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation School Lunch Program, started in 2019, will assist one school in Cherokee County, two schools in Fulton County and 27 schools in Forsyth County, funding hot school lunches for children without the means to purchase one.

“We are always excited to be able to help children in our area,” Blake House, vice president of Member

Services said. “The school lunch pro gram has proven to be successful and continues to build strong community relationships. With Giving Tuesday coming up on November 29, participa tion in Operation Round Up is a great way for our members to give back locally.”

Sawnee EMC officials said through Operation Round UP, members con tribute an average of $6 per year, but donations have allowed the founda tion to donate $3.8 million back to the community since 2003.

For more information about the Sawnee Electric Membership Founda tion, visit sawnee.com/oru.

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Do You Take My Insurance?

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As the new year approaches and many are looking at what insurance coverage to select, you may be wonder ing if you should add dental benefits to your plan and which company to choose. Every person begins the search for a new dental healthcare provider for various reasons. Perhaps you moved to a new area or even your dentist moved, or maybe you had a bad experience and no longer trusted your dentist or felt valued as a patient. Whatever the reason for the search, once someone begins looking for a new dental healthcare provider, they will find a wide selection of practices. But not every practice is the same. This will help shed some light on some key differences in “insurance-driven” dental practices versus fee-for-services dental practices.

An Insurance-Driven practice is a dental practice that is “in-network” with many different dental insurance com panies. While there are many kinds of Insurance-Driven companies, there is one central pilar upon which they are all built on: their contract with the insur ance company dictates what procedures will be covered (ex. you want a white fill ing, but your insurance will only pay for a silver filling) and how much they will get reimbursed (or paid) for those proce dures. Many insurance companies have not increased the amount they will pay towards a procedure in years, regardless of inflation of the economy. To make up for these lowered reimbursements from insurance companies, Insurance-Driven practices often are forced to see a higher

volume of patients. This usually comes at the expense of the patient, whether it be their time, comfort, or relationship with their dental provider. The highvolume demand for these practices un fortunately affects the quality of dental work received by patients.

A Fee-for-service practice differs from an Insurance-Driven practice in that it is often either in-network with select few insurance companies or no insurance companies. This allows the dental prac tice to set their own fees, which means those providers have the luxury of build ing a relationship with their patients and the time to perform well-done proce dures that a patient needs, not dictated by a third party.

How does this affect YOU? Bottom Line: Whoever sets the fees will ulti mately contribute the quality of care and amount of time allotted for each patient.

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Early symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease

Brought to you by - Dr. Jack Shen Jr., movement disorders neurologist at Wellstar Health System

First described in 1817 as the “shak ing palsy,” Parkinson’s disease (PD) is now recognized as the second most common neurodegenerative condition. Researchers estimate that about 10 million people worldwide are living with the disease. Americans comprise ap proximately 1 million of these individuals, with 60,000 more in the United States antici pated to receive the diagnosis each year. These harrowing numbers are expected to in crease over the current decade. Moreover, with the subsequent greater need for specialized PD care to address these popula tions, only 54 neurologists per year successfully “match” into a U.S. movement disorders training program to become PD experts, based on training data spanning the past five years.

of the body

2. Shuffling gait — shorter, some times dragging steps while walking; may be accompanied by the reduced swinging of an arm or a stooped, slumping posture

3. Rigidity — stiffness of muscles (with or without tremor) causing discom fort, difficulty arising from the seated position and sometimes reduced range of motion

4. Micrographia — handwriting that has become smaller or trails off by the end of a writ ten sentence

5. Hypomimia — re duced facial expressions, less frequent blinking resulting in a “masked” or “poker” face

6. Anosmia — the com plete inability to smell

7. Hypophonia — a softer or less loud voice

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Because people living with PD experi ence the disease in unique ways, it may be difficult for them, their loved ones and even physicians to come to the diagnosis. People with PD, despite their distinct underlying neurobiologies, may manifest certain early symptoms. Below is a nonexhaustive list of common symptoms that may occur intermittently, progres sively, persistently, in isolation or in

Tremor at rest — involuntary shaking movements of a limb when muscles are relaxed, usually on one side

At Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center, neurologists, physical therapists, occupa tional therapists and speech language pathologists offer a team-based approach in evaluating and caring for people liv ing with PD. Helping these individuals arrive to their diagnosis sooner leads to better symptom control and, ultimately, a greater quality of life as they navigate their journey with PD.

Dr. Jack Shen Jr. is a board-certified, fellowship-trained movement disorders neurologist at Wellstar North Fulton Medi cal Center. To make an appointment with Dr. Shen at his office on the campus of Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center, call (770) 663-4649.

3 ways to help boost your immune system this winter

As winter approaches, so do the op portunities for illness. Seasonal illness is common for many people as our immune systems are put to the test against cold weather, low sunlight, etc. The common viruses that keep us from enjoying the slopes on bright winter days thrive in cold weather, plus increased time in en closed spaces increases the chances of transmission.

Now is the time to give your body a boost so it can protect itself against viral infections. Give your body immune-strengthening vitamins it needs to combat the common cold or flu – like vitamin C, zinc and glutathi one – in the form of IV therapy. But how do these vitamins boot your immune system?

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Glutathione is the mother of all an tioxidants that helps prevent certain molecules from damaging cells. By stimulating cellular processes instead, glutathione helps your body combat symptoms quickly and enhances your immune system’s capabilities.

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Unhitch the itch!

A revolution has been taking place in dermatology in recent years.

Previously incurable diseases are be ing cured.

Previously uncontrollable diseases are being controlled.

Previously itchy conditions are now being…de-itched. Un-itched? Un hitched? Scratched?

No, definitely not scratched. You should cure a disease, but you should not scratch an itch. It feels so gratifying in the moment but scratching just leads to more itching later and usually to more suffering, scratching, itching and before you know it, your skin either has chronically itchy spots, bumps, nodules, thickened areas or worse: areas that are now painful and itchy.

You see, fixing itching is so new that there isn’t even a good word for it yet. But de-itchifying the itchy is exactly what some of the newest, latest and greatest medications are doing.

One of the most recent ex amples of this exciting forward march of medical progress is the use of Dupixent to treat eczema and prurigo nodularis.

Dupixent is a medicine that works by blocking a pathway in our body that involves interleukin 4 (IL-4) and immunoglobulin E. These proteins are involved in conditions that itch such as eczema and many allergic reactions. By blocking the IL-4 pathway, Dupixent stops these proteins from activating cells such as eosinophils that are responsible for inflammation and itching in many cases. Many dermatologists were not surprised that a medication like Dupix ent would help eczema. But the exciting news is that Dupixent appears to be effective in many other itchy conditions. It recently gained approval for treating “prurigo nodularis” – a condition charac terized by itchy bumps or nodules that previously would often persist for years with little hope of resolving.

Even more remarkable, a clini

cal trial is underway because Dupixent has shown potential for causing keloids to improve. Keloids are scars that grow with time and often are larger than the size of the wound that caused the scar. Keloids are often itchy and painful.

A new treatment for prurigo nodularis and possibly keloids may not seem like a medical breakthrough, but there is such a deficit of other effective treatments for these conditions that this is actually very exciting news.

What’s the catch? Don’t we need IL-4 and immunoglobulin E? Is it safe to block them from working? Don’t most pathways in our body exist for a reason? These are reasonable questions to ask before going on a new medication – espe cially one that someone might be on for years.

The fascinating background to why modern Americans suffer from many skin diseases is that our ances tors likely developed weaponized im mune responses against parasites that used to be a problem and are now rarely encountered in the United States. Many medications that treat psoriasis block a protein called TNF-alpha that is important in fighting off tuberculosis. Medications such as Dupixent that block IL-4 likely impair our ability to fight off certain types of parasitic worms such as hookworm. Remember from above that IL-4 activates eosinophils. Well, eosino phils are a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting off “helminth” or parasitic worm infections. Likewise, many believe that keloid scars developed as an ability to wall off parasites with scar tissue.

The package insert for Dupixent mentions that this medicine may inter fere with our body’s ability to fight off these parasitic worms. If you regularly come in contact with parasitic worms, Dupixent might not be right for you!

If you avoid parasitic worms and suffer from atopic dermatitis or prurigo nodules and are interested in learning about treatment options including Du pixent, contact Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta.

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Brought to you by - Brent Taylor, MD, Premiere Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…

“Just like the ones I used to know.” I love the sound of Bing Crosby singing White Christmas. I am really getting excited for the holiday season this year. I look forward to all of it. The lights, the decorations, the cookies, the food, the drinks, the special times with those you love. I could go on and on.

During the holidays, everyone is happy and smiling and thankful. An important part of that is a healthy, white smile. The Atlanta Center for Dental Health can help you get a healthy white smile for the holidays. Let’s talk about the best ways to get your smile as white as it can be.

The first step is making sure that your teeth are clean. And I do mean professionally cleaned. Over time, your teeth build up surface stains and tartar. This needs to be removed with the special instruments that your dental hygienist uses. Afterwards, your gums will be healthier, and you won’t have anything in the way of getting your teeth white. You can’t whiten tartar and stains. You must remove them. You can’t get the white teeth you want with

this stuff in the way.

There are three ways to whiten your teeth: Whitening strips, Whitening trays, and Professional Whitening. Whiten ing strips are the quickest, easiest way to whiten your teeth. These are plas tic strips with whitening gel on them. After cleaning your teeth, you place the whitening strips on your front teeth and adapt it as well as possible to your teeth. Whitening trays are custom trays for placing the whitening gel precisely on your teeth. Your dentist can make these for you and provide you with strong, prescription strength whiten gel for you to whiten your teeth with a series of home treatments. The best and fastest way to whiten your teeth is Professional Whitening at a dental office. In about an hour, your dentist can place a protective barrier on your gums and place powerful

whitening gel on your teeth to get your teeth super white. People love this op tion because your teeth are as white as they can get in about an hour and you do not have to do multiple treatments at home.

Everyone has a biologic limit to how white they can get their teeth with these whitening procedures. Porcelain veneers and cosmetic bonding can get your smile even whiter and more perfect. Modern dentistry gives you so many options to improve your smile with the advances in materials and technology. Tooth Whitening removes years of stain and discoloration. Cosmetic recontouring is a simple process of re-shaping your teeth to make them look more attractive, healthier, and straighter. Clear, nearly Invisible Aligners can straighten your teeth quickly and easily without metal

braces. Cosmetic Bonding repairs chips and cracks to make your teeth appear normal, natural, and vibrant again. Por celain Veneers is like adding new enamel to your teeth to make them whiter, straighter, and change the shape to the perfect length and proportions.

“May your days be merry and bright. And may all your Christmases be white.”

Dr. Bradley Hepler and Dr. Jeffrey Priluck and the experienced team at the Atlanta Center for Dental Health provide all the modern advances that contemporary aesthetic dentistry offers. You will realize immediate results with non-invasive and often inexpensive procedures to enhance your smile. If you would like a complementary consulta tion to discover your smile restoring options, please call the Atlanta Center for Dental Health at 770-992-2236. Dr. Bradley Hepler and Dr. Jeffrey Priluck have spent many hours dedicated to per fecting and updating the latest and best techniques in dentistry. It is with this breadth of knowledge that they provide each patient with the perfect solution to their situation, their life, and their goals. It is our pleasure to serve this commu nity and help as many people as possible live their best life.

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‘Tis The Season Understanding Seasonal Depression

By Darrick Brown, Mental Health Awareness Program Coordinator at Summit Counseling Center

Each year, about five percent of Ameri cans experience seasonal depression. Also referred to as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), seasonal depression can cause those affected to experience feel ings of sadness, low energy, or just not feeling like their regular selves as days become shorter in the winter months, often subsiding in spring when days become longer and warmer.

Considered just as devastating as clinical depression, seasonal depression can be accented with more issues when accompanied by traumatic events - not only is one depressed, but memories of events or experiences of current events add additional weight to the season.

Additionally, when the days are shorter and darker, the production of melatonin increases. Melatonin can af fect an individual’s “biological clock,” re sulting in unusual sleep/wake rhythms. In addition to the typical signs of major depression, symptoms typically more common in seasonal depression include:

• Oversleeping

• Overeating, particularly craving

carbohydrates or sugar • Weight gain

• Social withdrawal (feeling like “hi bernating”)

Seasonable Affective Disorder is treatable, with success found in the fol lowing treatments:

• Light therapy (exposure to artificial sunlight to make up for the loss during darker winter months)

• Antidepressant medications

• Talk therapy

I would add that being in commu nity, having a support system, devel oping systems of accountability, hav ing healthy coping skills, and making healthy lifestyle choices work yearround to assist anyone working to con front and combat depression regularly.

Seasonal depression is a recognized mental illness that can impact those af fected by it emotionally, spiritually, and physically. If you are struggling with signs of seasonal depression, Summit Counseling is here to help. We have a team of trained and experienced thera pists available to walk alongside you this season. Visit our website to view our services, meet our therapists, and schedule an appointment for yourself or a loved one at www.summitcounseling. org!

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Around and around we continue to go

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Today, you can’t gather a head of steam without coming across one. They’re everywhere.

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I have one in my driveway.

Governments love roundabouts because they save on the cost of traffic signals which can run anywhere between $80,000 to half a million dollars. That doesn’t include the expense of signal maintenance and diverting police to run traffic control when a light malfunctions.

For a roundabout, all you need is someone who can draw a circle, perform some engineering, a bit of land, and bam!

Traffic experts praise roundabouts for safety.

A 2020 report from the Georgia Department of Transportation reported that where roundabouts have replaced traditional intersections, accidents of all types declined 35 percent, while accidents resulting in injuries fell 60 percent.

Outside the safety and cost benefits, roundabouts also provide a donut hole, a sort of island refuge filled with pretty flow ers, trees or other interesting things you can enjoy as you drive by.

Down in Sandersville, Ga., you can ac tually see a freight train running through the middle of the roundabout, and you can orbit a bronzed horse on the Mayfield Road roundabout in Milton.

A groggy introduction

My first encounter with roundabouts came some 30 years ago. Following an overnight flight overseas, in which I enjoyed no sleep, I rented a car at the Shannon, Ireland, airport. The car had a steering wheel on the right and a four-onthe-floor gear shift on the left.

I am right-handed.

After a quick run-through in the park ing lot, I pulled out onto the freeway and settled in. Then, in less than a few miles, there it was – like that monster wave in “The Perfect Storm” – a two-lane round about. I had no idea what it was. Nothing I could do but dive headfirst into it.

I went around and around and around before figuring out how to extricate myself. I pulled into a gas station to collect my wits and surveil the anomaly.

After a while, I figured it out and con tinued my journey.

The first roundabout in North Fulton County opened in Roswell in 2012, and it

created a furor. I was there at the ribbon cutting, and it’s an interesting story.

Roswell Transportation Director Steve Acenbrak introduced the project as a way of relieving the ghastly rush-hour grid lock at Grimes Bridge Road and Norcross Street, which up till then had been a fourway stop.

Acenbrak told me later he faced a storm of criticism from residents opposed to the contraption, and I have no doubt there were some on the City Council who felt the same. A petition with 100 names was presented to the City Council oppos ing the project.

It’s important to note, though, how the city went about completing the project.

Listening to residents

One of the most strident opponents was 104-year-old Mattie Smith, who had lived on the southwest corner of the intersection for 30 years. Smith’s son, Gary, who lived in Cumming, took up his mother’s fight, arguing the project would lower nearby property values and lower his mother’s quality of life.

After weeks of negotiations, the city decided to buy the home for $180,000 and let the elderly Smith rent for as long as she liked. It also offered to extend a berm along the corner and install a privacy fence.

Throughout the negotiations, Acenbrak told me he and the city were committed to avoiding imposing eminent domain to obtain use of the Smith property through litigation.

Two weeks into construction, Mattie Smith died.

Another resident with property at stake was Barney Burroughs, who told me at the time that he worried construction would damage several historic willow oaks on his lot and impede access to his driveway.

The matter was settled when the city agreed to pay $55,000 to move his drive way and modify the house to reorient the garage. It also hired an arborist to prepare the trees for the construction.

Not long after traffic began flowing through the roundabout, public sentiment changed, and Acenbrak became known on the street as “The Roundabout Man.”

“I’ve never gotten a thank-you note be fore,” he told me at the time. “People stop me in the grocery store and tell me how much they like it.”

Maybe that’s because of how Roswell treated its residents.

The city originally budgeted $1.4 mil lion for the project, but it came in at about $771,000, counting a $200,000 water line relocation paid for through grant money.

Sometimes, paying extra for some good will can be a bargain.

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Why social media is (still) not your friend

How many of us, when we were grow ing up, did stupid stuff even though people who cared about us tried to warn us? I know I did a lot of stupid stuff – more than I care to remember – and it took a long time to learn my lessons enough to stop being stupid – but that is another story.

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How many of us who took music les sons when we were kids quit, and now we wish we had listened to our parents and kept taking lessons? I know that would be me. I wish I had listened to my parents and stayed the course.

For the record though, I am only 68 and there is still time to learn to play really well – and I intend to – but that is another story.

I remember stories about growing up that relate to these things.

The first one took place when I was in college at FSU in the ’70s and ’80s and managing a private student dorm (Cash Hall). At the time, I was still half an idiot, but I was starting to figure

some things out. Most of the dorm management thing meant trying to set in some way bumpers/safety nets around the kids living in the dorm so they didn’t get drunk and hurt them selves or others. Those “bumpers” included rules (which almost never worked very well), visibility (walking the halls constantly and monitoring who came in and out of the dorm), occa sionally reaching out to the police, and sometimes, talk – conversations and simply listening to the kids.

Doing that job was sort of like step ping into a “live” time machine looking backward because I was watching firsthand the very same behavior in the kids that I did only a few years prior. Time makes one so clairvoyant.

I remember taking one kid aside – Derick – and sitting him down and giving him my crystal ball heads-up talk. I told him he was a smart kid and that he had a lot going for him. I also shared that he was not on a good path at the moment – drinking party ing, not studying and the like, and that that he was probably going to flunk out and have to go home and that his parents would stop being willing to pay his tuition, room and board, and he probably would have to work his butt

off to recover and get a second chance to come back to school. I told him that school was a whole lot easier and more fun than having to climb that “recovery mountain,” and maybe it would be in his best interest to chill out, moderate the partying some, study a bit more and avoid all that hardship heading his way. That is, “figure it out and behave. “

Six or seven years later I ran into him again on campus. He came up to me and shared that everything that I had warned him about happened and that he wished he had listened to me. He also thanked me for trying. He had come around and was in a good place, but it cost him a lot.

Ha, looking back, managing that dorm actually was my training in be coming a parent, but of course I didn’t know that at the time!

The other story was similar but instead of involving Derick, it involved me in my freshman year in that same dorm. I was on the same path as Der ick had been, but probably worse. My suitemate who was maybe five years older than I was, one night left a scrap of paper on my desk. It was a quote from a song that was popular at the time: “Stop, hey, what’s that sound?

Everybody look what’s goin’ down… Stop now.” Of course, I ignored the note, and at the end of my freshman year flunked out and worse. But that’s another story.

I did save that scrap of paper though for decades and ultimately passed it forward.

So, I had you labor through all this for a reason. Recently the teen age daughter of a good friend made a national sports team. It was her dream. Before practice started, the decision was reversed, and she was told she would not be able to play on the team. Why? She had posted some stupid stuff on social media about herself and someone sent a screen shot of some of her posts to the coach. She was heart broken; she had worked so hard to make that team.

Mother used to tell my sisters and me that “nothing good happens after midnight.” She was, as usual, right. If she were still alive today, she would probably slightly alter her little lesson to the following: “Nothing good comes from posting stuff on social media –nothing.” I would probably modify that to say that “actually, nothing good –

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Request: Use Permit for “Assembly Hall/Indoor Auditorium” (Sec. 64-1846) not to exceed 150 attendees within 4,000 square feet on the third floor of the building.

Public Hearings/Meeting: Community Zoning Information Meeting (CZIM)

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For P.I. No. 0016582

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The Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) is placing project information for review and feedback into an internet platform to allow citizens to review and comment on the proposed project. We appreciate your participation in this process.

Georgia DOT has posted information at https://www.dot.ga.gov/GDOT/Pages/ PublicOutreach.aspx related to the proposed bridge replacement at City Street (CS) 34/Freemanville Road at Cooper Sandy Creek.

This project proposes to replace the existing bridge (GDOT Bridge ID# 121-51230) carrying CS 34/Freemanville Road bridge over Cooper Sandy Creek, 1.75 miles north of the City of Alpharetta limits. The existing bridge consists of two 9-foot lanes. The proposed bridge would widen the lanes to two 12-foot lanes. The bridge would be replaced on existing alignment and would require a 4.3-mile offsite detour during construction.

The purpose of this internet posting is to replace an in-person meeting, while allowing the public to review the proposed project, provide feedback, or write in with questions.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Information: To request materials in accessible formats for people with disabilities contact the District Planning and Programing Liaison Joshua Higgins at johiggins@dot.ga.gov, or (770) 216-3896.

Comments will be accepted concerning this project until January 27, 2023. Written statements may be submitted to:

Mr. Eric Duff

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Georgia Department of Transportation 600 West Peachtree Street, NW – 16th Floor Atlanta, Georgia 30308

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“There’s a real story to tell and it’s a very unique building architecturally,” Milton Historical Society President Jeff Dufresne said.

The trust said the house has poten tial to teach the full history of the area, including McConnell’s role in the forced removal of native Cherokee people and development of the area.

The house is also noted for its

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nothing – comes from posting on social media or even having a social media account.”

I recall a scene from the movie “Ab sence of Malice” when the DA (played by Wilford Brimley) is reading everyone the riot act at the end of the movie and is talking to Paul Newman.

“I want to ask you if you set all this up, but you’re not going to tell me. I’ll tell you something, you’re a smart fel low. Don’t get too smart.”

Listen to your elders. They aren’t nearly as stupid as you think they are. And nine times out of ten, listening to them will save you a lot of heartache, disappointment and frustration from having to learn the hard way.

As I did with Derick, I offer you my crystal ball advice. I want to hopefully and sincerely ask anyone in school

The Milton Historical Society has been communicating with the owner of the property, Larry Chadwick, for years. As Milton has grown, so has the society’s sense of urgency around the site.

anywhere to at least consider that you don’t really “need” social media; it’s a trap that you don’t need.

Once your posts are out there, they never go away. Your posts are forever, like an ugly tattoo on your face or something.

College admission people, coaches, potential employers, would-be boy friends or girlfriends, fake friends, people competing with you and others can and often will use one or some of your posts in some way to hurt you. Who needs that? Honestly, you don’t need – really “need” – social media in any form. You are better than that, a lot better.

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr. Seuss.

You are enough, way more than enough. You don’t need social media to validate who you are. Let it go. Just be you – in person – face-to-face. Life is hard enough as it is. Don’t make it harder.

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