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Annual fundraiser assists Alpharetta Public Safety
Youth Day parade will center around ‘Sounds of Roswell’
By SHELBY ISRAEL shelby@appenmedia.com
ROSWELL, Ga. — Since Mayor Ford Rucker proclaimed the second Saturday in October as Roswell Youth Day in 1951, the tradition has only grown stronger within the community. The City of Roswell’s Annual Youth Day Celebration kicks off Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. in Roswell Area Park. The park will be used for a line-up before the start of the parade. “Sounds of Roswell” is this year’s theme. Roswell’s Youth Day is free and open to the public. The festivities will conclude at 2 p.m. after a celebration at City Hall. The Frances McGahee Parade will proceed from the park, head down Canton Street and will end at Roswell Street First Baptist Church on Mimosa Boulevard. The celebration will continue at City Hall after the parade concludes around 11 a.m. Some notable features at City Hall include Art Block, Fall Farm Days, Touch-A-Truck and Food Truck Alley. Roswell residents looking to make arts and crafts or have their face painted should make sure not to miss Art Block after the parade. Roswell’s youngest residents will also be able to pet farm animals from Smith Plantation, explore a range of vehicles from firetrucks to police cars and decorate pumpkins in the patch at City Hall. For sponsorship opportunities and general information, visit www. roswell365.com/youthday.
before dinnertime around 7 p.m., the highlight of the event where public safety ALPHARETTA, Ga. — City employees cooked fresh leaders, staff and community hibachi and flaming onion members gathered at volcanoes. Benihana Oct. 3 for the Former Alpharetta Public Alpharetta Public Safety Safety Director Gary George Foundation’s annual conceived the fundraiser, fundraiser. which has always been held In its 17th year, the at Benihana on Mansell Road. nonprofit’s silent auction at Retired Police Lt. Kirk the “Red and Blue Cook for Harth said the effort’s first You” raised some $48,970. beneficiary was an Alpharetta Proceeds from the fundraiser police lieutenant’s 4-year-old benefit Alpharetta Public daughter, who was diagnosed Safety Department programs with leukemia. and equipment, as well as “It’s a great interaction assisting employees and their with our community and the families who may be in need. Public Safety [Department], “… When I talk to other but it’s been a successful chiefs and other folks event for the foundation, as throughout the country, even far as raising funds for the throughout the state, I brag employees, for a long time,” on Alpharetta,” Alpharetta he said. Police Chief and Public Safety While “Red and Blue Cook Director John Robison said. for You” is the foundation’s “Because we are such a biggest yearly fundraising unique community in that effort, Police Capt. Jakai you do truly support our Braithwaite said it does public safety, and we don’t not reflect how much the take that for granted.” organization does for Guests mingled and See AUCTION, Page 7 enjoyed live music and drinks
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A public safety employee prepares fried rice for City Councilman Doug DeRito and guests Oct. 3 at the Alpharetta Public Safety Foundation’s annual “Red and Blue Cook for You” fundraiser at Benihana on Mansell Road. Every table at the restaurant was booked for the event.
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