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ROSWELL, Ga. – A student at Blessed Trinity Catholic High School was recognized as a Point of Light Honoree Dec. 30.

Sixteen-year-old Luke Don-ovan was given the award for his work with local elementary schools, providing basic neces-sities for under-resourced students.

The award was established by former President George H.W. Bush for individuals pas-

sionate about serving others, and the Point of Light orga-nization is renowned as the world’s largest service-driven organization.

Shortly after becoming aware of the financial situa-tions of most of the students in local elementary schools, Donovan sought, at first, to start campaigns for better meal plans. However, through generosity from other organi-zations, many of the schools had already received aid in this matter. After further research, Donovan realized that many students often go without ad-equate clothing for the winter season. So he began a warm clothing drive. Many friends

and community members will-ingly donated.

Last year, Donovan collect-ed almost 250 clothing items for Mimosa Elementary School in Roswell. This included 120 coats. This year, Donovan has set his goals even higher as he continues to collect items for Mimosa Elementary and Roswell North Elementary. He has collected more than 750 items and is still in the process of collecting more.

“I think the most important thing to remember is that a person can volunteer wher-ever they are,” Donovan said. “People don’t realize how much work can be done in their own local communities.”

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. – All North Fulton cities have some of the lowest unemployment rates in the metropolitan area, according to numbers released by the Georgia De-partment of Labor for Novem-ber.

Alpharetta and Roswell both came in at 5.2 percent, with Johns Creek at 5.7 per-cent for November.

Alpharetta is down from 5.8 percent in October, and Roswell was 5.9 percent for the same time.

Johns Creek fell dra-matically from 6.5 percent in October to 5.7 percent in November.

There are no numbers available for Milton.

Atlanta’s numbers for No-vember were 9.1 percent.

Fulton County has an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent, down from a high of 9.7 percent in June 2012. Neighboring Forsyth County is at 5.3 in November, down from a high of 6.9 in June 2012.

The state of Georgia has a November unemployment rate of 7.3 percent. The na-tion has a rate of 6.6 percent.

Alpharetta Mayor Da-vid Belle Isle chalked the news up to his city’s strong economy.

“We’ve got a great employ-ment situation here,” said Belle Isle. “Technology is a

thriving area now. On top of that, Georgia is bouncing back. These two are making the area good. We were last to go into the recession and first to come out.”

The Labor Department claimed the overall decline was due to the number of jobs increasing, and the

Far below metro average

Student wins national awardCollects clothing for needy kids

Blessed Trinity Catholic High School student Luke Donovan started collecting clothing for needy school children. He was recognized as a Point of Light Honoree Dec. 30.

We were last to go into the recession and first to come out.”DaviD Belle isleAlpharetta mayor

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MILTON, Ga. – A Milton busi-ness was scammed out of nearly $8,000 in equipment.

The victim told police his company received an online order for a Blackmagic Cin-ema Camera worth $1,995. He shipped the camera Dec. 10 to a Los Angeles, Calif., address. The same recipient placed three further orders for similar cameras. All purchases were made using credit cards. A check through PayPal returned the cards were stolen.

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Couple caught with fake cardsALPHARETTA, Ga. – Two people were arrested Dec. 17 for buying debit cards using fake licenses.

Police reported seeing a vehicle on Mansell Road swerve out of its lane just after midnight. Pulling it over, the officer reported both the driver and the passenger were acting suspiciously and trying to hide

something in the car. A K-9 of-ficer reported drugs in the car.

A search turned up a bag-gie of marijuana in a purse reportedly belonging to the driver, Shantavia Angela Cam-morto, 25, of Byers Road, Johns Creek. The search also turned up 13 Green Dot gift cards along with a Connecti-cut driver’s license belonging to a Scott Joseph Roose. The license was reported forged. It belonging to a different person and yet had the photo of the passenger, Ahmound Renault Barber, 28, of Covington. An open bottle of beer was also found.

Cammorto was arrested for possession of marijuana and driving with an open container of alcohol. Barber was arrested for forgery and possession of a forged driver’s license.

Stop sign leads to drug arrestALPHARETTA, Ga. – Failing to stop at a stop sign Dec 16 landed an Atlanta man in jail on drug dealing charges.

Police reported Freddie Edward Wright, III, 41, of Atlanta, was driving on Main Street when he failed to stop at the stop sign neat Pine Grove Drive. He was pulled over and the officer reported smelling marijuana in the car. A K-9 was brought in and confirmed there were drugs in the car. In-side the glove box police found two plastic containers contain-

ing dozens of small baggies of marijuana. Another container was fond in the back seat. A back pack in the trunk held hundreds of empty baggies and a scale.

Wright was arrested for possession with intent to dis-tribute and failure to stop at a stop sign.

Those boots aren’t made for stealingMILTON, Ga. – A man was ar-rested Dec. 17 after allegedly trying to wear a pair of boots out of Walmart.

Employees told police they saw Robert Alexander Rum-ney, 32, of Galecrest Drive, Alpharetta, put on a pair of boots.

He placed the boots on his feet and then placed the boots he wore into the store inside the new boots’ box. He then selected a beer and paid for it, however did not pay for the boots.

Rumney was arrested for shoplifting.

$10K in fake checks usedMILTON, Ga. – A Birmingham Road company was the victim of financial fraud.

Employees told police that while doing an audit, they found several unauthorized transactions using checks in the amount of over $10,000.

Stores in Canton, Morrow, Covington, Smyrna, Cumming and Mississippi had items purchased.

The victims are unsure who the culprit is.

DUI leads to underage arrestsMILTON, Ga. – An alleged DUI driver, who nearly hit a police officer’s car, lead to a house party with underage drinking Dec. 17.

The officer reported he was on patrol on Bethany Bend nearing Bethany Church Road when a Jeep quickly turned onto Bethany Bend, nearly hit-ting the cruiser.

The Jeep was pulled over and the officer spoke with the driver, Taylor Andrew Stubbs, 20, of Southfield Place, Milton.

Stubbs said he was headed to help a friend who had broken down near Cambridge High School.

The officer reported smell-ing alcohol on Stubbs’ breath.

He said he had been over at a friend’s home on Laurel Oaks Lane and the Jeep was registered to the homeowner. Stubbs had his license sus-pended for failure to appear at court.

Stubbs allegedly admit-ted to drinking at his friend’s home along with several other peopleHe was arrested for failure to yield, failure to carry

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – A Stock-bridge man was arrested Dec. 19 and charged with molesting a young girl.

According to police, Elmer Moffitt, 47, of Stockbridge, was a childhood friend of the vic-tim’s mother. Originally from Illinois, Moffitt came to Georgia and stayed with the family in Alpharetta while he worked doing home repairs and re-modeling in 2011. He moved

out last year. This year, at Thanksgiving, the victim told her mother about the al-leged molesta-tion, which occurred several times.

The police were alerted of the allegations and began their investigation.

“The easiest thing was they knew his name,” said George Gordon, spokesman for the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. “A search turned up his photo on the Minnesota sheriff’s website.”

The online photo search revealed Moffitt was wanted out of Minnesota for failing to register as a sex offender.

The victim’s mother said she did not know Moffitt was a

sex offender. No one knew where Moffitt

was living, so Alpharetta police contacted the U.S. Marshal’s office for help. He was found in McDonough, Ga., Gordon said.

“He has a nationwide felony arrest against him. He failed to register there as sex offender,” Gordon said. Moffitt was ar-rested and charged with three counts of child molestation and being a fugitive of justice.

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Afterward, the officers went to the Laurel Oaks Lane home to check up on Stubbs’ claims there was a party there.

The homeowner came to the door and said she had been asleep.

When told there may be un-derage drinking in the home, she let police investigate. Inside, they found evidence of drinking in the basement and more in the son’s bedroom.

Officers reported drug activity as well, including “numerous plastic bottles” that had been converted into make-shift pipes.

Jesse Mason, 19, of Laurel Oaks Lane, was arrested for possession of marijuana, underage drinking and posses-sion of drug-related parapher-nalia.

Christian Bryant Holmes, 20, of Hopewell Road, Al-pharetta, was arrested for underage drinking.

Shoplifter flees, leaves son behind

CUMMING, Ga. — A man who was caught shoplifting ran away on foot when he was pulled over, but he left his son in the car to answer to the law, according to a Cumming Police incident report. On Dec. 14, the loss prevention officer of Kohl’s, 1615 Market Place Boulevard, told officers he watched on surveillance as a man shoplifted several items.

The prevention officer said the man with a black coat and hat had cut tags and electrical security tags with a pair of wire cutters.

He said the suspect had a “friend” with him in the store who was possibly the look out.

He said he followed the sus-pect outside and he got into a black Dodge Ram.

Officers were waiting in the parking and pulled over the truck. Officers said they told the suspect to stop, and he looked at the officer and took off running toward Market Place Boulevard.

Officers stayed with the truck, because there was an-other person inside.

The man inside the truck told officers his father was the one running.

He said he had no idea what his father was doing.

A Kohl’s employee found the “friend” who was outside on a sidewalk. Officers said he also knew nothing of the father’s criminal activity.

The father was found by the dumpsters behind Discount Tire, and he was taken to Northside Forsyth Hospital for medical issues.

Donald Sullivan, 43, was charged with theft by shoplift-ing, obstruction and posses-sion of tools used in a crime.

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MILTON, Ga. — Bell Memorial Park is kicking up dirt this summer, but when it settles, it’s go-ing to be a better community park.

“We want this to be the premier park of the city,” said Jim Cregge, the parks and recreation director for the city of Milton.

On Memorial Day, May 26, when the rec-reation season is finished, the park will close for about 12 months while significant improve-ments take place.

Cregge said the improvements will not only be aesthetic, but they will be a matter of safety.

“What you have is an unsafe situation where children are running across the park and park-ing lot as they are going from field to field, bath-room or concession stands,” Cregge said. “We’re going to do something different. The layout of the park will be different.”

What parkgoers can expect with the changes that begin in June, when the bulldozers take

Baseball league to play at surrounding communitiesBell Memorial to be renovated in summer 2014

See PARK, Page 22Jim Cregge, Milton’s parks and recreation director, explains the changes coming to Bell Memorial Park this summer.

Sen. Albers to host series of town hall meetingsATLANTA – Sen. John Albers (R-Roswell) will host a series of town hall meetings throughout the upcoming 2014 legisla-tive session to offer constituents periodic updates about the General As-sembly’s business at the State Capitol.

These informal meetings provide an opportunity for constituents to become ac-tively engaged in the legislative process and ensure proposed legislation reflects the will of the people.

Albers will also be ac-companied by several other members from the Legislature during the town hall meeting series.

The meetings will be held in the following locations from 11 a.m. to noon:

Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014What: Mountain Park/Wood-stock Town Hall Where: Mountain Park City Hall; 118 Lakeshore Drive Mountain Park, Ga. 30075        

Saturday, Feb. 1What: Roswell Town HallWhere: Roswell City Hall; 38 Hill Street Roswell, Ga. 30075

Saturday, Feb. 15What: Johns Creek Town Hall Where: Newtown Community

Center; 3150 Old Alabama Road Johns Creek, Ga. 30022

Saturday, March 1What: Alpharetta/Milton Town HallWhere: Alpharetta City Hall; 2 South Main Street Alpharetta, Ga. 30009

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ATLANTA —The U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency is taking final action to approve the state of Georgia’s request to redesignate the Atlanta area to attainment of the 1997 eight-hour ozone standard.

This action is based on air quality data from the three-year period of 2008, 2009 and 2010 that meets the standard.

“This is a great accomplish-ment for the Atlanta area, a product of strong collaboration among government, the busi-ness community, environmen-tal organizations and ordinary citizens,” said Stan Meiburg, acting EPA regional admin-istrator. “Together with our partners at the Georgia Envi-ronmental Protection Division, we look forward to continued progress in improving Atlanta’s air quality.”

The Atlanta area impacted

by this proposed action in-cludes the following 20 coun-ties: Forsyth, Fulton, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale, Spalding and Walton.

Ground-level ozone is created by emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, motor vehicle exhaust and chemical solvents.

Breathing ozone can trigger a variety of health problems including chest pain, coughing, throat irritation and conges-tion.

For more on the Atlanta-area proposed redesignation, visit docket number EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0986 at www.regulations.gov.

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ATLANTA — The state of Georgia will launch a new General Educational Develop-ment (GED) program in Janu-ary 2014.

The change that has been developed by the national GED Testing Service in Wash-ington, D.C., will align the

entire program with college and career readiness stan-dards and provide the level of academic rigor required by the increased demands of the job market.

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MILTON, Ga. – Local Girl Scout Troop 10479 from Crabapple Crossing Elementary recently organized a month-long toy drive and raises money for Dream Weavers of Georgia.

Fifth Grade Girl Scout Junior Troop 10479 partnered with Learning Express of Alpharetta to collect toys and donations for Dream Weavers of Georgia. Dream Weavers’ mission is to enrich the lives of foster children by creating opportunities and provid-ing resources that promote the educational, emotional and social well-being of foster children. By engaging foster children in community-based and extracurricular activities, academic pursuits and provid-ing a safe environment to heal with biological families, they are afforded the opportunity to maximize their potential. Dream Weavers is committed to seeing that foster children receive the “extras” in life that are often taken for granted.

Troop 10479 has a personal connection to Dream Weavers

as one of their leaders, Laurin Lausier, is a foster mother and volunteer for the organization.

This year, the girls decided to collect toys for Dream Weav-ers as their service project. They organized a month-long schedule with help from other Milton Services Units and Dream Weavers volunteers at Learning Express in Al-pharetta. During the toy drive, they collected seven bins of toys and $740.35 in donations which was presented to Dream Weavers at their December meeting. Troop 10479 would like to thank Learning Express and the community for their generosity.

Troop 10479 includes Ash-ley Abel, Raina Damodaran, Lainey English, Emma Farrell, Danielle Faulhaber, Raven Hammett, Libby Lausier, Mad-eline Parker and Susie-Jane Wilson and leaders Laurin Lausier and Jeannie Parker.

For more on Dream Weav-ers, visit them online at www.DreamWeaversofgeorgia.org.

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The girls of Girl Scout Troop 10479 collected money and toys to help Dream Weavers of Georgia and foster children.

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ROSWELL, Ga. – When the U11 Roswell Hornets baseball team heard about the food shortage at North Fulton Community Charities recently, they felt the need to help out their community. In one week, they collected more than 225 full bags of food for the food pantry, and were very appreciative of their friends and neighbors who donated so generously.

The team members include, from left on the bottom row, Aiden McSherry, Jack Wilcox, Jack Moore, Brady DeCan, Duncan Reavis, Mason Bicknell, coach Jamie Crump, coach Bob DeCan, Jack Crump, Noah Herron, Jake Kramer and coach Brad Bicknell. Not pictured: Aidan McConnell and Matt Turner.

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ROSWELL, Ga. — Six Georgia chapters of Dining for Women (DFW), including Roswell, Marietta, Tucker, Atlanta, Ath-ens and Augusta, met Sunday night, Dec. 8, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta.

About 70 women gath-ered to meet and honor Marsha Wallace, founder of the 10-year-old international organization.

Dining for Women is a global giving circle dedicated to helping women and girls in the developing world achieve their potential, gain equality in their countries and cultures and overcome economic limitations and social bias.

Members gather in each other’s homes once a month for a potluck dinner and the money that they would have spent eating in a restaurant

is donated to a vetted charity. The collective donations reach impoverished women and girls in third world countries at the grassroots level to foster good health, education and econom-ic self-sufficiency. More than 8,700 active members in more than 400 chapters have raised over $2.7 million and impacted the lives of hundreds of thou-sands of women and girls.

The December program donations from DFW will go to support Smiles on Wings (SOW) in Thailand. SOW pro-vides dental health care and focuses on enabling long-term health services by mentoring and educating young Karen refugee women in a remote Thai village. Young women study nursing, early child-hood education and other vocations that will benefit the people in their villages. After completing their degree, these young women are committed to returning to their families and

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In 2014, Roswell will see a new elementary school on Ga. 9, redevelop-ment of the Frazier Street apartments, new townhomes behind City Hall, detached houses west of Ga. 9, and a new office building on Canton Street. The Downtown Development Authority will present a Master Plan to redevelop commercial property south of Canton Street. The Council will adopt a new Zoning Code and Architectural Guide-lines, encouraging walkable develop-ments. This is happening in the oldest part of Roswell, following a street plan created by Roswell King in the 1830’s when Roswell was one square mile and the primary mode of transportation was walking.

Since 2009, over half of new con-struction in Metro Atlanta has been on less than 1 percent of the land area in communities identified as Regionally Significant Walkable Urban Communi-ties (WalkUps). According to the ARC, there are 27 WalkUps in Metro Atlanta. Canton Street and its surround-ing area is one. See the ARC Report, http://business.gwu.edu/walkup/atlanta2013/.

To be classified as a WalkUp, ser-vices and amenities must be within walking distance of residents. Walk-Ups usually don’t exceed 600 acres. Housing prices average 161 percent higher than elsewhere. Sales of homes in neighborhoods adjacent to WalkUps achieve price premiums between 40

percent-100 percent. Research shows most highly educated creative class workers, especially Millennials (born 1982-2004), want to work and live in WalkUps. There’s also a strong demand from empty nesters. The ARC re-port concluded Walk-Ups attract a highly educated workforce, improve economic performance and raise quality of life.

Even before the ARC report, Roswell was taking action it recommended. We are monitoring the econom-ic performance of Ro-swell’s WalkUp district. The Council passed the Groveway Zoning District, encouraging rede-velopment of a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood, and we are re-writing Roswell’s zoning code to remove im-

JEREWOODRoswell Mayor

Roswell seeks redevelopment, walkability in 2014 It’s hard to believe 2014 is here.

But I guess time flies when you’re working as hard as Milton is at build-ing the future of our great city.

The coming year is going to be huge for us, and today I want to tell you about some of the great things you can expect from this city. Bell Memorial Park Expansion:

Here we go folks! This spring the City of Milton will begin its first park expansion project to more than double the size of Bell Memorial Park.

During the roughly year-long project, crews will add two rectangular (football/lacrosse/soccer) fields and a

host of beautiful amenities to develop Bell Memorial into a true gem

for the City of Milton. We have a wealth of

information at the city’s Web site about exactly what’s going into the park, so I encourage you all to visit and take a look. City Hall:

Milton is moving forward with a City

Hall. We’re in the process

of investigating prime real estate in historic downtown

Crabapple, and on that land we’ll build a City Hall that respects

the history and architecture of the area.

While City Hall isn’t projected to open until 2017, this is an exciting step toward establishing not only Cra-

bapple as the city’s base of operations, but our place in the community as a whole.

Plus, it’s more fiscally responsible because we’ll own instead of rent – and the debt payments are nearly cancelled out by the end of lease payments. Addressing growth:

At City Hall we are well aware of the unprecedented growth Milton is seeing in our residential sector, and we are hard at work on policies and plans to address our residents’ concerns it’s changing the character of our town.

In 2014 you’ll see us take seri-ous steps toward protecting our rural character.

I can’t get too specific right now, but trust me when I tell you we’ve been weighing all our options. When we‘re able to go public with our package of solutions, you’ll see we’re serious about protecting what makes Milton so special.

Well, that’s all the space they’ll give me.

Milton looks ahead to 2014

JOE LOCkWOODMilton Mayor

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At the Corner Deli, I have standing appointments with some of our city de-partment heads. As I open the door, I get a nod from Mel and a hug from his wife Zelda, the owners, followed by a self-poured cup of coffee. The pots are in the back. As our meetings begin, I can’t help but notice an unspoken level of excitement. Sometimes, it’s the sub-ject of conversation from those hud-dled around the small tables. Other times, it’s simply implied. But, it feels good. People are excited. Something is different here in Alpharetta.

Earlier this year, we were named the sixth-fastest growing city in the country and we have consistently maintained the lowest unemployment rate in the state (5.2 percent as I write this). Last year, we were named the seventh-friendliest city in the coun-try, and before that, the No. 1 city to move to in the country. What is it that makes Alpharetta so special and ap-pealing?

Let me first say, it’s not us. It’s you. Alpharetta is Georgia’s hometown and the Technology City of the South be-cause you made it that way. Because of you, those who live here and employ here, Avalon (a $600 million private investment) is rocketing out of the ground; the new City Center project is starting to take shape; downtown is beginning to thrive; HP, McKesson, Ernst and Young Global IT and others are coming and expanding here, bring-ing new jobs to Alpharetta.

Much of this building excitement stems from the changes in downtown. Great downtowns are built on food and music. This year, you supported some new events built on that fact, and I could not be more thrilled. A great ex-ample is Food Truck Alley, a food and music event which brings thousands to downtown ev-ery Thursday night during the warmer months. You’ve made it the biggest and most successful food truck event in metro Atlanta. You also came out in droves for the Brew Moon Festival, Taste of Alpharetta, the Christmas Tree Light-ing and the newest addition, Wire and Wood, a songwriter’s festival. And, the

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LOOK AHEAD

DAviD BELLE iSLEAlpharetta Mayor

A new year, a new beginning—of course we have all heard that term again and again, but here in Johns Creek, 2014 takes on a very important meaning.

In the seven years since the City’s founding, we have done much that we all can be very proud of. Looking back, it seems at times amazing that so much was accomplished in such a relatively short period. I attribute much of our success to the commu-nity’s incredible support and patience

as we worked to get it all right. For 2014, I would like to put some ideas out there.

I think it is important to start the community discussion on impor-tant topics so that when Council sits down to take up a new topic we have the feedback from our citizens and

businesses about what they feel is best

for Johns Creek.My first order of

business will of course be to welcome your new Coun-

cilmembers, Cori Davenport and Lenny Zaprowski. I am very excited about their bringing a fresh perspec-tive and taking a new look at what we have done so far.

One place I will be looking to our

Council, citizens and businesses for feedback will be in setting up a systematic review process for all our ordinances so we are sure that we are keeping up with the changing needs of our community. I will be taking a spe-cial interest in making Johns Creek a more business-friendly community and will continue to look to both the Johns Creek and the North Fulton Chambers to find ways to help encourage more business growth. I look forward to hav-ing Johns Creek Advantage join that conversation as well.

While strengthening our business community I also want to be sure we look at using our ordinances to deal with the plague of illegal massage par-lors in Johns Creek. We must, and we will, shut them down.

I look forward to working hard to strengthen relationships with our neighboring municipalities. One of

2014: Time to strengthen Johns Creek's community ties

MikE BODkERJohns Creek Mayor

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ROSWELL, Ga. – Fellowship Christian School has selected Interim Athletic Director Bryan Lindner as its athletic director.

The Ball Ground resident has served FCS as interim athletic director since May 2013. Prior to being named in-terim athletic director, Lindner served as the Roswell school’s assistant athletic director for four years. He joined the school’s athletic department in 2008.

“We are excited to name Bryan as our next athletic director,” FCS Head of School Kathy Teston said. “He is a Godly man of faith who pas-

sionately supports our athletic programs. Bryan is a true lead-er who represents our school well, and is also a great mentor to our coaching staff, student-athletes and their families.”

Lindner is an accredited athletic director through the National Federation of State High School Associations and is a certified master athletic administrator through the Na-tional Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. Lindner is among only 30 Georgians and 500 adminis-trators nationwide to hold the title of certified master athletic administrator.

“I am both humbled and extremely proud to represent Fellowship Christian School,” Lindner said. “I am grateful for this opportunity, and love this school, administration, faculty, staff and students. It is my mission to help this great institution develop its athletic programs, and help young men and women grow in their faith.”

During his career at Fellow-ship, Lindner has directed the day-to-day operations of ath-letics for the Roswell school, which includes 840 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grades. As assistant and interim athletic director, Linder has guided the department’s budget, policies and proce-dures and developed a school-wide athletic chaplaincy pro-

gram that includes team Bible studies and coaches’ small groups. He has been a head coach of four varsity sports at FCS during his career, and currently serves as the school’s athletic chaplain.

Lindner established the middle and high school Fel-lowship of Christian Athletics Huddle at FCS, and developed the Junior Paladin program, which reached inner city youth with athletics and Bible studies. He also created the school’s small group/disciple-ship strategy for graduating students as they transition into college. During his career at FCS, Lindner has also taught ninth-grade Bible.

Lindner, 39, earned a mas-ter’s degree in Christian educa-tion with a concentration in leadership and administration from Omega Bible Institute and Seminary in Monroe, La., in May 2003. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in Christian ministry from Andersonville Theological Seminary in An-dersonville, Ga., in December 2001.

Lindner, his wife, Anna Lee, and their children, Brandon, Cole and Abi, reside in Ball Ground.

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MILTON, Ga. — The Milton Boy Scout District, which covers the cities of Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek and Milton, announced its newest Eagle Scouts, who passed their Board of Review on Dec. 4. All five of these Scouts are from Troop 317, which is sponsored by Perimeter Church.

Leland Grass’s project was

the design and construction of an enclosed octagon wooden structure for the purpose of playing the game Ga-ga at Camp All-America at Perimeter Church. He also constructed a metal instruction board listing the rules to play Ga-ga.

Preston Krah’s project was the design and construction of an 8-foot-tall pergola with a

swing for Camp All-America at Perimeter Church.

Nathaniel Davis’s project was the design and construc-tion of a three-sided wooden shelter for a herd of horses at Save the Horses Rescue Center.

Joshua Gautier’s project was the design of a collection of food items for the North

Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry. Although his goal was 1,000 food items, he surpassed it and collected 1,100 food items.

Lane Mitchell’s project was the demolition, redesign and construction of a nature trail for Camp All-America at Perim-eter Church.

—McKenzie Cunningham

From left are Leland Grass, Preston Krah, Nathaniel Davis, Joshua Gautier and Lane Mitchell, who passed their Eagle Scout Board of Review.

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five content areas, will com-bine language arts writing and reading, and will now have four content areas: reasoning through language arts, mathe-matical reasoning, science and social studies.

The cost to take the full, four-part test will remain at $160, but the price for an individual test in 2014 will increase from $32 to $40.

All partially completed tests and scores will expire at the end of the year, meaning those students who do not act now will have to completely start over again in 2014 with the new GED test in order to re-ceive their high school equiva-lency credential.

For more information, call the Technical College System of Georgia’s Office of Adult Education at 1-800-946-9433 or visit tcsg.edu.

—McKenzie Cunningham

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Diabetes? There’s an app for that. Blood pressure moni-toring? There’s an app for that. Electro-cardiograph? Yes, there’s even an app for that.

With the increase of technology, the use of technology in medicine is increasing as well. Doctors around the country are embracing the technologi-cal world of applications, or apps for short, and using them for the greater good. There are thousands of apps that smartphone users can download and use for their own benefit, whether good or bad.

Dr. Jacob Varghese of Kaiser Perma-nente is a local doctor for Family Medi-cine in Forsyth County who is cautious when recommending apps to patients.

“There are medical apps that I use that I wouldn’t want a patient using, mainly because sometimes patients get a little bit of information and they can misconstrue it the wrong way,” said Varghese. “There are apps like blood pressure apps and monitoring sugar, where they can monitor and keep track of things, which I like. There’s fitness ones that I like where I can tell pa-tients to use where they can enter their weight and keep track of things.”

Varghese sticks to recommend-ing general health apps just to make patients’ lives easier, and tries to stray away from apps that tell patients how to live.

“There are apps like Epocrates where I’d worry if a patient used it, because they’d come back and say ‘oh I read this online that it could mean this,’” said Varghese. “Then it goes down rabbit trails, which may not be applicable to them, but they don’t real-ize that involves a different level.”

Epocrates is mainly for doctors to use to figure out how much of a dosage to give patients, or choose which pre-scription would be best for them.

“There are apps that I use to help me with clinical diagnosis and medical information, pharmacology, those kinds of things that help make my diagnosis and assessment of patients easier,” said Varghese. “It’s nice to not have to worry about keeping everything straight when the tools can help us make better deci-sions.”

Deciding which apps to recommend to patients takes Varghese a lot of time to decide.

“The ones I recommend are ones I’ve heard from other doctors or patients who’ve used it and I’ve seen it firsthand how it looks like,” said Varghese. “I’m always weary to the apps that are out there. You have to vet it to some extent

that it is a useful one.”Varghese said the apps are useful

for helping patients remember to write down their blood pressure or sugar intake if they need to because they usually have their cellphone on them, but not a piece of paper.

“If they’re on a medication reminder program, it beeps at the prescribed times for them to help them remember to take their medication,” said Var-ghese. “That helps them comply with their regiment and makes their overall health better for them.”

Making patients healthy is Var-ghese’s main goal, and he said he can understand why apps are becoming so popular.

“My hope is down the road, technol-ogy will be even better and there’ll be better products out there for patients to use,” said Varghese. “Anything that a patient can improve taking medication and improve their health is a useful tool.”

Non-technologically savvy patients may find it difficult, confusing or hard to use apps. Varghese said he works with his patients and can usually tell if apps will work if they say they don’t use email.

“If we still have to use some of the ‘older’ methods, like writing down their blood pressure,” said Varghese, “ulti-mately it’s work with the patient that’s most relevant for them.”

Technology creeps into the medical world, one app at a time

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4 real estate New Year’s resolutions to consider

Now that the holiday season is over, it’s back to work for small business owners. Are you prepared to get off to a fast start in the New Year?

Have you established all of your goals and objectives?

Getting off to a fast start is very im-portant for most small business own-ers to reach their annual objectives.

So how do you start fast in the New Year?

Hopefully you’ve spent the past few months putting together your plans for next year.

If not, now is the time to do that! An overall plan should outline your

annual objectives and strategies for achieving them, and also allows you to define what needs to get done now and what can be done later.

Getting off to fast start is all about what can be done now! In other words, what are your goals for Janu-ary?

Do you need to contact all of your existing customers? Is it more impor-tant to schedule meetings with new prospects? Is the time right to an-

nounce new products or services you are offering?

Everyone, including you, should have very specific objectives for the first month of the year. And for every objective, there should be a list of tasks and activities to make them hap-pen.

The beginning of a new year isn’t about planning, it’s about executing. It’s about getting things done and gain-ing momentum that will build through the first quarter and set the tone for annual success.

Getting off to a fast start in the New Year is key to having a great year for your small business.

DiCkJONESFounder & PresidentJones Simply Sales

Getting off to a faststart in the New Year

As you ‘re reading this column, we are transitioning into the New Year, that time each year when we all say to ourselves that we’ll exercise more, lose weight, maybe read more.

It’s right before we grab a beer, a bag of chips and sit down on the couch to watch a movie, right?

I have four real estate resolutions to consider this year and they’re easy to do:

1.If you’re selling, remove the wall paper and then paint. Sellers like to avoid doing this because it’s a pain, tending to think that painting is some-thing easy a buyer can look past. But buyers think the same way, so take this simple fix off the table.

2.Buyers should get qualified and locked in on a mortgage rate. The Fed is tapering, slowing their purchases of mortgage backed securities and treasuries.

This won’t result in an immediate jump in interest rates, but it most as-suredly means rates will be rising this year.

3.Sellers should be surgical with

their pricing. Inventory and competi-tion will start early, the goal when going on the market is to get the next offer made.

4.Buyers, there will be a lot of new construction out there this spring. It’s easy to get mesmerized by the “shiny and new.”

New construction may be the right choice, but don’t overlook resales that might need updates.

You can get a lot for less. In the end, you could wind up with a better lot and more space for the same price after those updates.

ROBERTSTRADERLocal RealtorKeller Williams Realty

REAL ESTATE »

New chapter, celebrationfor real estate, businessATLANTA — More than 900 guests attended the celebratory tea at the High Museum of Art, as an historic chapter in Atlanta business and real estate unfolded on Monday, Dec. 9 during the inaugura-tion of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Georgia Properties. Georgia’s No. 1 ranked residential firm, Prudential Georgia Realty, was officially converted to the new company. More than 900 corporate leaders, agents, local dignitaries and special guests attended the conversion celebration, where the program formally confirmed what Chief Executive Officer and President Dan Forsman called, “the entrusting of the world’s most respected corporate name, Berkshire Hathaway, to Prudential Georgia Realty and the selection of our firm to carry the standard of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Georgia Properties.”

Forsman, who has led Prudential Georgia Realty to its status as one of the 17 top-performing real estate companies nationwide for the past 10 years, was joined by Earl Lee, the CEO of HomeServices Affiliates, who traveled from Irvine, Calif., for the event.

“Dan and his company have built a stellar repu-tation by delivering the highest value and exception-al service to clients,” Lee said. “We are proud they are now part of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and we look forward to their continued growth and success.” For more, visit www.bhhsGeorgia.com.

HEALTH »

Renew Laser holdsribbon cuttingJOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Renew Laser and Cosmetics is now open at 11720 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite 170. Owner Allison Hillyer said services include laser hair removal, photofacials, peels, microderm-abrasion, Botox and Juvederm. Call 770-212-2242, visit www.renewlc.com or email allison@renewlc.com.

COMMUNICATIONS » Rountree Group winssix industry awardsALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta-based Rountree Group Integrated Communications was recognized with six awards from the Georgia chapter of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and Atlanta

chapter of International Association Business Com-municators (IABC). Rountree Group won certificates of excellence from PRSA in the Integrated Commu-nications: Business to Business category and the External Video Programs category. The company also won a Silver Flame Award from IABC in the Au-diovisual category, two Bronze Flame Awards in the Media Relations category and a third Bronze Flame Award in the Marketing Communications category.

For more information, visit www.rountreegroup.com or call 770-645-4545.

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Mobility Scootershas new homeALPHARETTA, Ga. — Mobility Scooters and More has a new location, 11940 Alpharetta Highway, Suite 104 in Alpharetta, south of Wills Road.

The business specializes in sales, service and rental of home medical equipment, including lift recliner chairs, stair lifts, wheelchairs and scooters. Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Call 770-710-0221 or visit www.mobilitymore.com for more informa-tion.

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"RUN fOR COVER" 5K RUNThe Milton Boys Lacrosse 6th Annual "Run for Cover" 5K Run benefitting North Fulton Community Charities and Milton High School Boys Lacrosse. All participants are requested to bring an article of winter clothing or non-perishable food item for NFCC. 11 a.m. Jan. 11. 13025 Birmingham Highway, Milton. Please call 404-538-1395 or visit miltonlax.com

CENTENNIAL PARK ICE RINKDowntown Atlanta’s only outdoor ice skating rink at Centennial Olympic Park is an annual holiday tradition. Hours vary. Through Jan. 20. 265 Park Ave. West Northwest, Atlanta. Please call 404-222-7275 or visit centennialpark.com.

ART IN BLOOM AT THE HIGHThe High Museum of Art presents Art In Bloom 2014, a three-day showcase of floral designs interpreting highlights in the museum's permanent collection. Museum hours. Jan 10 – 12. 1280 Peachtree St. Northeast, Atlanta. Please call 404-733-4400 or visit high.org.

MONSTER JAMFeld Motor Sports presents Monster Jam at the Georgia Dome. Monster Jam is the world’s most popular truck tour. 2 – 9 p.m. Jan. 11. 1 Georgia Dome Drive Northwest, Atlanta. Please call 404-223-9200 or visit monsterjam.com.

JAZZ GUITARIST JACQUES LESURE AT THE VELVET NOTEMr. Lesure has performed with many great musical luminaries such as Kenny Burrell, Oscar Brown Jr., Jimmy Smith and many others. Lesure will be playing from his latest release: When She Smiles. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Jan. 3. 4075 Old Milton Parkway, Alpharetta. Please call 855-583-5838 or visit thevelvetnote.com.

Submit your event to northfulton.com or email with photo to calendar@ northfulton.com. For a more complete list of local events including support groups, volunteer opportunities and business meetings visit the calendar on northfulton.com.

LOCAL LIVE MUSIC » PASTRIES AND PERfORMANCEThe Healing Sounds Program of Northside Hospital-Forsyth will be holding their fundraiser "Pastries and Performance." Come by for a bite of sweet treats and sweet sounds. Entertainment provided will include local guitarist Chuck Beckman, harpist Lorretta Marks, the Main Street Strings, and others. 2 – 4 p.m. Jan. 11. 1200 Northside Forsyth Drive, Cumming. Please call 770-844-3587.

THEATER »STAN THE LOVESICK SNOWMANOpposites attract in this charming tale of unrequited love. Stan’s adorable story begins after a chance encounter with a dog that has been sent outside in the wintry cold. The dog tells the snowman about a warm stove inside the house, and with a “crack-crackle” in his heart, Stan falls in love with the wood-burning beauty. The unlikely romance, doomed from the start, is only the beginning in this hilarious and heartwarming tale as Stan later discovers that a young snowwoman is swooning over him as well. Show times vary. Jan. 2. – Feb. 2. 1404 Spring St. Northwest, Atlanta. Please call 404-873-3391 or visit puppet.org.

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THE BIG PSYCHIC fAIRThe Big Psychic Fair brings a variety of psychics, vendors, and practitioners to Roswell. Come and see

what the new year has in store for you. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, Noon – 6 p.m. Sunday. Jan. 4 – 5. Harmony Place Spiritual Center, 1035 Green St., Roswell. Please visit aquarius-atlanta.com.

MARY Of NAZARETH: THE MOVIEAt the AMC Theatre at The Collection at Forsyth there will be showing of the movie, Mary of Nazareth, an epic new motion picture on the life of Mary, mother of Christ, from her childhood through the Resurrection of Jesus. This full-length feature film about the life of Our Lady, shot in English in high definition, was filmed in Europe and stars actress Alissa Jung as Mary. This movie is brought to you by St. Brendan’s Catholic Church and The Collection at Forsyth. 2 – 5 p.m. Jan. 5. 410 Peachtree Parkway, Cumming. Please call 770-205-7969 ext. 41 or visit maryfilm.com.

NATURE’S HEALERS: MEDICINAL PLANTS AND AROMATHERAPYJoin Chattahoochee Nature Center’s Horticulturalist Lisa Cole for this introduction into the amazing world of healing plants. This beginners’ class focuses on herbs and oils used since antiquity to treat a variety of ailments, with an emphasis on women’s needs and particular energizing blends that help to chase the winter blues away. Class includes a hands-on presentation and crafting of floral water and teas for participants to take home. 10 a.m. Jan. 11. 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell. Please call 770-992-2055 or visit chattnaturecenter.org.

PINECREST ACADEMY OPEN HOUSEPinecrest Academy, a PreK–12, college-preparatory Catholic School invites the community to an open house. Guests will receive informational packets, hear a brief talk, and then have the opportunity to tour the 68-acre campus with student ambassadors or via self-guided tours.  Refreshments will be served. 1 – 3 p.m. Jan. 12. 955 Peachtree Parkway, Cumming. Please call 770-888-4477, x245 or visit pinecrestacademy.org.

“WRITE YOUR NOVEL NOW” AUTHOR SEMINARThe Forsyth County Public Library will host an exclusive seminar for writers featuring author David Darracott. This two-hour seminar will focus on the process or planning, launching, and completing a novel. Darracott will motivate and equip participants to embark on the difficult journey of writing a novel and will share his personal experiences of the process. Registration is required to attend this seminar, which is limited to 25 participants. 2 p.m. Jan. 11. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. Please visit forsythpl.org.

2014 PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE ATLANTA BOAT SHOWGeorgia’s biggest boating event, the 2014 Progressive Insurance Atlanta Boat Show offers a haven to discover the boating lifestyle and prepare for summer on the water. Visitors to the show can shop deals on hundreds of the latest boats, from luxury yachts to fishing vessels and family

cruisers, plus the newest gear and gadgets. The show also offers nautical fun for all ages, including daily boating, fishing clinics and the Swampmaster Gator Show. Jan. 9 – 10 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., Jan. 11 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., Jan. 12 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 285 Andrew Young International Blvd Northwest, Atlanta. Please call 954-441-3227 or visit atlantaboatshow.com.

2014 REPTICON ATLANTA REPTILE AND EXOTIC ANIMAL SHOWThe Repticon Reptile and Exotic Animal Show brings thousands of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, spiders, and small exotic animals to the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. The event features seminars where guests will have the opportunity to interact with some of the animals. Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Jan 11 – 12. 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville. Please call 770-963-6522 or visit repticon.com.

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RELAY fOR LIfE ALPHARETTA KICK OffLearn all about Relay For Life of Alpharetta, how you can get involved and the impact you can make in the fight against cancer. There will be a short presentation, activities and light refreshments. 6 – 7 p.m. Jan. 9. State Bank and Trust, 2380 Old Milton Parkway, Alpharetta. Please visit relayforlife.org.

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Milton will improve and expand the fields at Bell Memorial Park after the regular baseball season next year. The park will be closed for 12 months.

over, include a completely renovated landscape, instead of just baseball. Two multi-purpose rectangular fields will be built to accommodate foot-ball, lacrosse and soccer.

The park will grow in size to 32 acres from the current 18 acres.

“I would have loved to have more land to build more fields, but we are doing the best with what we’ve got,” he said.

Additions will include a

large pavilion that will house concession stands, bathrooms and a breezeway to hide from rain. In addition, the park will have two new playgrounds and walking trails, with about a half-mile accessible to wheel-chairs and strollers.

“The only thing we have right now at Bell Park is baseball,” Cregge said. “We are trying to make the park something more than a place where your kid goes to play baseball. We want to make it a park more useful to the com-munity.” The only other sport offered through the city is lacrosse. Boys’ lacrosse is held

at Hopewell Middle School and the girls’ lacrosse is held at Northwestern Middle School. When Bell Park is completed, football will likely be offered.

The baseball program at Bell Memorial started 27 years ago, but the community’s needs have evolved and now it’s the park’s turn.

“Those rectangular fields, that’s the growth,” Cregge said. “Baseball is not growing as fast as soccer and lacrosse.”

The new park will accom-modate players throughout the season.

“We are going to have more useful fields,” Cregge said.

NO IMPACT TO THE BELL MEMORIAL PROGRAM

The baseball season will continue for the summer and fall of 2014 and spring of 2015.

What families need to know, Cregge said, is that even through the changes, there will be no impact to the programs offered at the park.

“Baseball will continue this season and beyond,”Cregge said. “The program will be unaffected.”

Cregge said through agree-ments being worked out with Forsyth County, Fulton School District and city of Alpharetta, the players will have a bit of a

drive to surrounding communi-ties in order to keep playing.

“They will be leasing us some space,” Cregge said. “Ev-erything is moving forward in that regard.”

Cregge, who started volun-teering in the city 19 years ago with a program that teaches children to become umpires, said he had this vision for the Bell Memorial for a long time, and it’s exciting to see the plan coming to fruition.

Still in the works is an entrance design that is going to be “spectacular.”

“’Spectacular’ is still being designed,” Cregge said.

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By MIKE BLUMnews@northfulton.com

NORTH FULTON, Ga. – The 2013 high school football sea-son in North Fulton was more oriented toward offense than defense, with most of the of-fense conducted in the air.

Five North Fulton quar-terbacks finished the season with more than 2,000 yards passing, with a sixth going over 1,900 yards through the air. Five players surpassed 900 receiving yards, with a sixth coming up just shy of that total.

Only two North Fulton backs rushed for more than 1,000 yards, with both need-ing three playoff games to get to 1,100 yards. The only other player to come close to 1,000 was Mount Pisgah quarterback Aaron Winchester, who also had three playoff games to add to his totals.

Winchester edged out Northview’s D.J. Pearson to earn first team quarterback on the 2013 all-North Fulton team, accounting for 3,254 yards of offense and 34 touch-downs in leading the Patriots to the Class A private school semifinals.

Pearson was second in the state in Class AAAAA pass-ing yards with 2,531 and tossed 19 touchdown passes. Like Winchester, Pearson is a junior.

Brian Moore (Cambridge), Taz Wilson (Chattahoochee) and Austin King (Alpharetta) all passed for more than 2,000 yards and earned honorable mention status at quarterback along with Hunter Bryant (Fel-lowship Christian), who had over 1,900 passing yards and tied King for third in the area in touchdown passes (17).

Milton Shelton (1,130 yards) and Chad Manthey (1,100), both of Blessed Trin-ity, were the area’s leading rushers, with Winchester third at 982 yards. Shelton, a sopho-more, was a first team selec-tion at running back along with Chattahoochee’s Chase Nelson, who gained 744 yards rushing, giving him 2,900 yards in his career as a four-year starter for the Cougars.

Making first team as an athlete was Johns Creek’s Chase Solomon, who moved

from running back to quarter-back midway through the sea-son after multiple injuries to the Gladiators’ quarterbacks. Solomon rushed for 717 yards and 10 touchdowns to raise his career totals to over 3,000 yards rushing and well over 4,000 yards total offense.

Milton’s Chad Toliver was fourth in rushing with 781 yards, and made the first team as a kick returner with 847 return yards and three touch-downs. Making second team at running back was Northview’s Nathan Philips, who rushed for 778 yards and added another 340 as a receiver.

Northview’s Matt Biondich, a 5-foot-7, 155-pound receiver, is the North Fulton Offensive Player of the Year, catching 75 passes for 1,225 yards and 13 touchdowns, with his yardage total second in the state among all players.

Other first team receiv-ers are Centennial’s Christian Robinson (64-966-7), Chat-tahoochee’s Colin Lisa (51-992-9) and Alpharetta’s Daniel Clements (47-751-6), with Rob-inson and Clements repeating their first team selections from 2012.

Also putting up big num-bers were second team selec-tions Nathan Waller of St. Francis (41-1,001-12), Penny Hart of King’s Ridge (44-974-8), Andre Harton of Alpharetta (37-898-10) and Avery Ward of Chattahoochee (37-778-5). Centennial’s Caden Herring had over 1,300 yards rush-ing and receiving and was a second team selection as an athlete.

Roswell, Cambridge and Mount Pisgah had several players each who shared the receiving duties, with eight players from the three teams earning honorable mention status at either receiver or run-ning back.

Blessed Trinity and North-view both had two first team picks in the offensive line, with BT’s Zach Mitchler the area’s

top two-way player at center and middle linebacker. Milton’s Nick Wilson is the lone junior among the group.

Chattahoochee’s Adam Abdellaoui is the first team

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Five North Fulton quarterbacks finished the season with more than 2,000 yards passing, with a sixth going over 1,900 yards through the air.

CITY OF ALPHARETTANOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The following items will be heard at a public hearing held by the Planning Commission on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 South Main Street, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Items forwarded by the Planning Commission will be considered by the City Council on Monday, January 27, 2014 commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 South Main Street, Alpharetta, Georgia.

a. MP-13-01/CLUP-13-05/Z-13-03 Preston Ridge/Greenstone Properties (City Council Only)Consideration of a request to change the Preston Ridge Master Plan by adding “for-sale” residential use (attached and detached)to Pod G. A request to rezone from O-I to CUP is requested as well as a change to the Future Land Use Plan from “Corporate Campus Offi ce” to “High Density Residential”. The property is located at the northwest corner of Webb Bridge and Morris Road adjacent to Georgia 400. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lots 1259, 1262, 1263, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.b. MP-13-02/CLUP-13-09/V-13-22 Windward Pod 66Consideration of a request to amend the Windward Masterplan in order to permit single family “for-sale” residential. A request to change the Future Land Use Plan from “Corporate Campus Offi ce” to “Medium Density Residential” is also requested and a variance from the required 50’ undisturbed buffer required between commercial/offi ce uses and residential property. The property is located between Edison Drive and Webb Bridge Road and legally described as being located in Land Lots 1113, 1180, 1176, 1243, 1179, 1242 2nd District, 1st Section, Fulton County, Georgia.c. V-14-03 Dania DriveConsideration of a variance request to remove the City’s required 75’ non-impervious buffer and 50’ undisturbed buffer in order to construct a home at 240 Dania Drive. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1177, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.d. Z-13-13/CLUP-13-14/V-13-17 Peachtree Residential TownhomesConsideration of a request to rezone approximately 2.97 acres from R15 to R8A in order to develop 24 townhomes. A change to the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to allow “High Density Residential” is also requested as well as a stream buffer variance. The property is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1270, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.e. Z-14-01 Wills at Rucker (R4-D Zoning Designation)City initiated rezoning of approximately 8 acres at the corner of Wills and Rucker Road from R8-D to R4-D as agreed upon by a previous condition of zoning. The property is located in Land Lots 599, 646, 1st District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.f. V-13-21 Peachtree Residential Consideration of a variance to reduce the minimum building setback from 20’ to 10’ for a townhome building located within Victoria Square. The property is located on Orchid Lane within Land Lot 1270, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.g. PH-14-01 Unifi ed Development CodeConsideration of amendments to the Unifi ed Development Code in order to change the number of times a change to the code is heard by the Planning Commission in order to require one public hearing instead of two.

Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fi fty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the offi ce of the City Clerk, 2 South Main Street.

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NOTICE OF LOCATION AND DESIGN APPROVAL

FULTON COUNTYP.I. # 0010241

Notice is hereby given in compliance with Georgia Code 22-2-109 and 32-3-5 that the Georgia Department of Transportation has approved the Location and Design of these projects.

The date of location approval is November 14, 2013.

The purpose of this project is to widen Encore Parkway from Westside Parkway to North Point Parkway. The new widening section will include two 12 ft travel lanes with 2 offset foot buffer, two 6 ft bike lanes, and a raised median that will vary from 8 ft to 30 ft and include left turn lanes. The proposed shoulders from Westside Parkway to North Point Parkway will be widened to 18 ft and will include a 6 ft buffer planter strip and an 8 ft sidewalk. In addition to Encore Parkway improvements, an 8-ft sidewalk will be constructed along the East side of North Point Parkway and shared lanes or sharrows will be used on North Point Parkway to connect the new Encore Parkway sidewalks and bike lanes to the existing Big Creek Greenway trail and parking area. The existing Encore Parkway bridge over SR 400 will be replaced and ungraded to accommodate future SR 400 widening. The project will provide signal upgrades and signal timing and will also include installing streetscape features such as street trees and landscaping, street and pedestrian lighting, and street furniture on both the roadway and bridge sections.

Both projects are 100% in Fulton County in Land Lots 653, 687, 688 & 702.

Drawings or maps or plats of the proposed project, as approved, are on fi le and are available for public inspection at the Georgia Department of Transportation:

Sebastian Nesbitt District 7 / Area 2 Engineer Georgia Department of Transportation 1269 Kennestone Cir Marietta, Georgia 30066 snesbitt@dot.ga.gov (770) 528-3238

Any interested party may obtain a copy of the drawings or maps or plats or portions thereof by paying a nominal fee and requesting in writing to: Pete Sewczwicz, P.E. Director of Engineering and Public Works 1790 Hembree Road Alpharetta, Georgia 30009 psewczwicz@alpharetta.ga.us (678) 297-6200

Any written request or communication in reference to this project or notice SHOULD include the Project and P.I. Numbers as noted at the top of this notice.

numbers of unemployment insurance claims were down.

Metro Atlanta employers added 14,300 jobs in November, increasing the number of jobs to 2,447,600, up by 0.6 percent from 2,433,300 in October. Most of the new jobs were added in trade, transportation and warehousing, 8,600; government, 2,000; lei-sure and hospitality, 1,800; education and health care, 1,200; and information services and construction, 800 each.

Over the year, jobs were up by 59,200, or 2.5 percent, from 2,388,400 in November 2012.

The metro Athens area had the lowest area jobless rate at 5.1 percent, while the Heart of Georgia-Altamaha region had the highest at 10 percent.

No numbers are seasonally adjusted.

Continued from Page 23Team: 2013 All-North fulton Team

fIRST TEAM OffENSE QB – Aaron Winchester, Mount Pisgah, senior RB – Milton Shelton, BT, sophomore RB – Chase Nelson, Chattahoochee, senior ATH – Chase Solomon, Johns Creek, senior WR – Matty Biondich, Northview, junior WR – Colin Lisa, Chattahoochee, senior WR – Christian Robinson, Centennial, senior WR – Daniel Clements, Alpharetta, senior OL – Nick Wilson, Milton, junior OL – Matt Clover, Northview, senior OL – Hank Clayman, Northview, senior OL – Austin Werkheiser, BT, senior OL – Zach Mitchler, BT, senior

fIRST TEAM DEfENSE DL – Andrew Butcher, Alpharetta, junior DL – Davonte Hill, Roswell, senior DL – Shingi Chigwere, Mount Pisgah, junior DL – Nick Williams, Chattahoochee, senior LB – Bryce Grauss, Alpharetta, senior LB – Pat Jasinski, BT, junior LB – Alex Estes, Centennial, senior LB – Quarte Sapp, Milton, junior DB – Josh Selembo, Roswell, senior DB – Jacob Delk, Mount Pisgah, senior DB – Chase Stratton, Alpharetta, senior DB – Jay Youngblood, Alpharetta, senior

SPECIAL TEAMS P – Matt Moskowitz, Milton, senior PK – Adam Abdellaoui, Chattahoochee, senior RET – Chad Tolliver, Milton, senior

SECOND TEAM OffENSE QB – D.J. Pearson, Northview, junior RB – Chad Manthey, BT, senior RB – Nathan Phillips, Northview, junior ATH – Caden Herring, Centennial, sophomore WR – Nathan Waller, St. Francis, junior WR – Penny Hart, King’s Ridge, junior WR – Andre Harton, Alpharetta, senior WR – Avery Ward, Chattahoochee senior OL – Josh Auer, Roswell, senior OL – Ernest Dye, Milton, junior OL – Chris Conway, Centennial, senior OL – Nick Krauter, Centennial, senior OL – Clay Hostetter, FCS, senior

SECOND TEAM DEfENSE DL – Josh Kania, Cambridge, junior DL – Connor Owens, Northview, junior DL – Nick Anderson, Milton, senior LB – Carter McManes, BT, senior LB – Turner fortin, Johns Creek, junior LB – Josh Weisberg, Chattahoochee, junior LB – Devan Johnson, Northview, senior LB – Nicky Piccapietra, Mount Pisgah, junior DB – Shakur Jackson, Roswell, junior DB – Zeke Gormley, Northview, senior DB – Kyle Evans, BT, senior DB – Malik Stephens, Chattahoochee, senior

SPECIAL TEAMS P – Ian Berryman, FCS, senior PK – Marc Nolan, BT, senior RET – J.D. White, Cambridge, sophomore

HONORABLE MENTION (Alpharetta) Austin King, QB; Rustin Suter, WR; Zach Mikos, OL; Chris Wagner, OL; Jalen Johnson, LB; DeAndre Watkins, DB; Thomas Waller, PK; (Milton) Treyvon Paulk, RB; Micco Brisker, RB; Zack Spiezio, WR; Charlie Fault, LB; Lucas Nedza, DB; Jordan Parisian, DB; Jordan Genovese, PK; (Roswell) Mechane Slade, RB; Hunter Coleman, WR; Colin McCaulley, WR; Cole Ramaekers, OL; Cameron Whiteman, OL; Trey Lamar, LB; Sam Van Ede, LB; (Chattahoochee) Taz Wilson, QB; Montel Austin, KR; Zach Kladis, OL; Trey Hillman, LB; (Centen-nial) Matthew Harries, QB; Jake Dahm, DL; Patrick Risse, LB; Stefan Young, DB; Devin O’Neill, PK; (Johns Creek) Kyle Vardell, WR; Devon Howard, DL; (North-view) Connor Segraves, TE; Max Ovrick, DL; Austin Antwine, LB (Cambridge) Brian Moore, QB; John Hurst, WR; Hunter Smith, WR/P; Branch Morley, OL; Trey Wolfe, LB; (Mount Pisgah) Browning Dunn, RB; Oz Dixon, WR/DB; Ben Miller, WR; Tommy Pease, TE; Justin Cowart, OL; Jimmy Campbell, OL; Blake Smith, DL; John O’Connor, LB; J.R. Cendoya, LB; Ian Ainsworth, DB; Patrick Messinger, DB; (Fellowship Christian) Hunter Bryant, QB; Alex Edmonds, WR; Dalton Depew, WR/DB; Taylor Cookston, RB/DB; James Wilson, LB/FB (King’s Ridge) Cliff Far-row, OL; Chris Bryant, OL; Sam Jarrard, LB; (St. Francis) Joey Roche, QB; Jonah Huff, FB; Beau Sundy, DL; Sam Franke, LB.

kicker, connecting on 13 of 14 field goals and 17 of 18 PATs. Blessed Trinity’s Marc Nolan (11-15 FGs with a long of 52 yards) is second team.

Milton’s Matt Moskowitz edged out Ian Berry-man of Fellowship Christian in a close competi-tion for first team punter.

Alpharetta linebacker Bryce Grauss is the Defensive Player of the Year, and one of two play-ers repeating as first team selection on defense. Blessed Trinity junior linebacker Pat Jasinski also is a repeat selection. Jasinski also contrib-uted as a tight end for the Titans, catching 13 passes for 265 yards and five touchdowns.

Grauss, Mount Pisgah lineman Shingi Chig-were, Jasinski and Milton linebacker Quarte Sapp are all juniors, and will draw plenty of attention from college recruiters over the next year.

Among the second team selections are line-backers Devan Johnson of Northview and Carter McManes of Blessed Trinity, who also served as their team’s short yardage running backs and scored 10 touchdowns each.

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But, I want to make sure that each and every one of you to know that Milton’s City Hall is your city hall. This staff is your staff. We’re here to serve you. Don’t ever hesitate to contact us or a staff member to find the information you need.

Here’s looking to a great 2014!

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Joseph Fontana, Jr., 50, of Marietta, passed away December 17, 2013. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

Michael Joseph Guidry, 62, of Woodstock, passed away December 23, 2013. Arrangements by Byars Funeral Home.

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DEATH NOTICES

pediments to walkable com-munities.

Opponents fear higher density necessary to create a walkable neighborhood will spill over into single family suburban neighborhoods, that traffic congestion will increase, and Roswell’s infrastructure cannot support them. They misunderstand the nature of Walkups.

Walkable neighborhoods generate less traffic. People who live there choose to walk most places. These communi-ties require less investment in infrastructure because they’re more compact.

For any living system to survive, it must adapt to changing conditions. Roswell is adapting, not by changing its values or its single family neighborhoods, but by rede-veloping and replacing empty

strip centers and aging apart-ment complexes with walkable mixed-use neighborhoods.

Canton Street and the sur-rounding area haven’t reached full potential.

Blighted areas need rede-velopment. Other cities are spending millions to develop walkable downtowns to com-pete with us, but they’re play-ing catch-up. As long as we continue to adapt, Roswell will remain the envy of the Metro area and the best place to live in Georgia. 2014 is going to be a great year for Roswell.

best part is it’s working. This year, Hop Alley and Salt Fac-tory have opened as a result of this activity, adding to our emerging downtown restaurant scene. 2014 will see even more openings. Also, the pipe farms along Canton Street are finally gearing up for residential con-struction amidst a growing interest in living downtown.

Additionally, Alpharetta continues to emerge as the Technology City of the South. As the economic engine of North Fulton, you have 600 technology companies located within your borders. That’s one

technology company for every 100 residents. And these com-panies are significant. Where Georgia leads nationally in the field of technology, 35 percent of those companies are located in Alpharetta. On Alpharetta’s borders are 300 additional technology companies, making Alpharetta the epicenter of the highest concentration of tech-nology companies (900 in all) anywhere in the Southeast.

There is so much more to tell, but for now, know that Alpharetta’s present and fu-ture are extremely bright. It is my hometown, and if it’s not yours, I hope you’ll make it yours this 2014. Thank you for your continued trust. Maybe I’ll see you at the Corner Deli.

my highest priorities will be working with our council and the City of Roswell in getting a much-needed safety im-provement in place at Nesbitt Ferry and Brumbelow Roads. I would like also to see us sit down with all our neigh-bors and continue to develop reasonable solutions to ease shared travel corridor traffic and safety concerns.

We have heard much this year from citizens and busi-nesses who would like to stay better informed on the work-ings of our City Council. I know that with all our busy schedules, it can be difficult to attend a meeting in person, however in this day and age that should never preclude anyone’s right to know what is happening at our meet-ings. In response to numer-ous requests, I would like to have a dialogue with my fellow Councilmembers about moving forward with video streaming

and archiving of City meetings. It is also my hope that in

2014, the stalled conversa-tion on a city center can begin to move forward once again. I do not believe that our city should be required to build the city center, but I do believe that we can “paint the pic-ture.” By bringing to life the greater community’s vision, we can encourage those who are genuinely anxious to invest in Johns Creek to join the discussion, so that together we can encourage the growth of a vibrant, attractive city center project that will become a true destination for locals and visi-tors alike.

All this and more will be on the docket for 2014 and as always, I am dependent on our citizens and businesses to provide important feedback on every issue. I ask that you stay involved and please don’t hesitate to reach me anytime at Mike.Bodker@johnscreekga.gov. Meanwhile, on behalf of everyone at City Hall, I am delighted to wish you a blessed and prosperous New Year.

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