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Scott Jackson was one of roughly 200 constituents at a redistricting hearing held at South Forsyth High School on June 29. Attendees voiced concerns about the redistricting process to state senators and representatives on the reapportionment committees. Read more, Page 6.

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Cumming man shot dead in encounter with deputies FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is investigating a June 24 officer-involved shooting that left a Forsyth County man dead at a Dahlonega Highway residence. According to GBI, Forsyth County deputies were dispatched to the home on a report of a domestic disturbance around 8:30 p.m. after a woman called for help. Officers arrived and were assessing the scene when they heard gunshots. Deputies approached the residence and spotted a man armed with a gun. The suspect was later identified as 40-year-old Yonatan Aguilera of Cumming. Investigators said they saw Aguilera fire at least one gunshot into the ground toward the female victim. One of the deputies shot Aguilera multiple times and killed him as he threatened the woman with the gun, according to Forsyth County Sheriff

Ron Freeman. No one else was injured. “Unfortunately that individual made that decision and forced our deputies to make the decision that they made,” Freeman told reporters the night of the shooting. The GBI will conduct the outside investigation and deliver its findings to the Bell Forsyth District Attorney for review.

Teen cited for battery after highway dispute FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A teen driver was arrested June 21, one month after he allegedly tossed a drink at another motorist during a road rage encounter on Buford Highway. The incident happened May 21 near the Gwinnett County line. Investigators said the 19-year-old from Grayson turned himself in to deputies at the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office on a charge of simple battery. The male victim told deputies a speeding truck swerved into his lane and cut him off to avoid rear ending a vehicle in the next lane. He confronted the truck’s driver when they reached the intersection of James Burgess Road. The victim told deputies the driver cussed him out, flipped him off and threw a drink at him.

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DRUG & DUI arrests Richard Samuel Davis, 47, of Winterfield Way, Milton, was arrested June 14 on Winterfield Way for DUI. Thomas Paul Dupre, 55, of Gravitt Road, Cumming, was arrested June 15 on Veterans Memorial Parkway for DUI and failure to yield to vehicles when entering road. Richard Trent Parker, 38, of South Hall Drive, Flowery Branch, was arrested June 15 on Ga. 369 for possession or purchase of controlled substance, possession of drugrelated objects, window, windshield or wiper violation and location/ illumination of taillights. Jimmie Lebarron Washington, 53, of Gullwing Court, Alpharetta, was arrested June 16 on McFarland Parkway for DUI, failure to maintain lane, impeding traffic flow, driving while license suspended or revoked and obstruction of law enforcement officers. Derrick Lamont Maynard, 45, of Pheasant Run Trace, Cumming, was arrested June 16 on Ga. 369 for DUI. Hollie Micaela Durcan, 27, of Memphis Street, Cumming, was arrested June 16 on Karr Road for DUI and failure to maintain lane. Duncan Bradley Broussard, 53, of Bald Ridge Marina Road, Cumming, was arrested June 16 on Oakland Street for DUI, operating vehicle without lights required by law and failure to maintain lane. Samuel John Morano, 50, of Rhonda Lane, Cumming, was arrested June 16 on Bald Ridge Marina Road for DUI and failure to maintain lane. Bryan Scott Halcomb, 33, of Orange Circle, Dawsonville, was arrested June 17 on Keith Bridge Road for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of heroin, driving motor See ARRESTS, Page 14

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Forsyth County proposes steady tax rate on property By JOE PARKER joe@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County is expected to keep its tax rate unchanged for next year, but with rising property values, many residents could still see an increase in property taxes. Last month, the county announced it expects its Maintenance and Operations millage rate — which funds most of the day-to-day operations of the county — to remain unchanged at 4.791 mills. The Fire Department millage rate and bond rate are also expected to remain unchanged, making for a total county property tax rate of 7.896 mills. Homeowners of a property with a fair market value of $400,000 would pay about $1,260 in property taxes to the county next year if the millage rate remains unchanged. The 2022 tax rate for Forsyth County Schools has not been announced, but it currently stands at 17.3 mills. If that rate remains unchanged for 2022, the same homeowner would owe $4,418 in county and school property taxes next year. Even at the same tax rate, many

Millage rate primer To help fund their budgets, governments set a millage rates — or tax rate — on property. One mill brings in $1 in taxes for every $1,000 of a property’s taxable value. In Georgia, a property’s taxable value equals 40 percent of its appraised — or real — value. A home with a real value of $400,000, for example, would have a taxable value of $160,000. homeowners will likely pay slightly more in property taxes next year over their 2021 payment. Forsyth County saw an increase of 4.54 percent in the county’s overall tax digest, and with increased property values comes a hike in taxes owed. The county said about 2 percent of the increase to the tax digest stems from higher value assessments on existing properties. The remaining 2.5 percent is attributed to new construction during 2020. A homestead exemption on any properties would decrease the total

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amount owed. Residents can apply for a regular homestead exemption, which deducts $8,000 from the assessed value of a home when calculating taxes owed on the Maintenance and Operations and fire department portions of the millage rate. The school and state portion of the millage rate is reduced by $2,000 of assessed value. Some residents are eligible for other exemptions. Residents 65-years or older before January 1 can apply for a school tax homestead exemption, and those 62-years or older can apply for a separate school tax exemption based on income. Seniors may also be eligible for a “double homestead,” provided their total gross household income does not exceed $40,000. The county also makes available exemptions for disabled residents, disabled veterans and to non-married surviving spouses of members of the U.S. armed forced killed in war or conflict who receive spousal benefits from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs. Residents can apply for exemptions throughout the year, but they must apply by April 1 to receive the exemption for that tax year.

Residents will be given three opportunities to give their take on the millage rates in upcoming meetings. The county will host three open houses at the Forsyth County Administration Building this month. The first two will be July 8 at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., with a third meeting slated for July 22 at 6 p.m. The county expects to adopt the millage rate July 22 at 6:30 p.m. during the County Commission’s regularly scheduled meeting that night.

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Big Creek Greenway is officially a big deal Alpharetta completes final section of trail through Fulton County By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — It was one giant leap for Alpharetta June 29 when officials opened the city’s last leg of the Big Creek Greenway. After nearly six years of delays, the Greenway now runs uninterrupted from Roswell’s Big Creek Park north to the Fulton-Forsyth County line at Union Hill Park — a 10 mile paved and wooden path 12 feet wide. The last part, the 2.8 miles from Marconi Drive north, was the biggest challenge, pitting the city in countless negotiations for strips of parkland to bypass the Golf Club of Georgia, tunnel under Windward Parkway and angle north to Union Hill Park. It wasn’t cheap, about $10.9 million, but parks officials say the Greenway consistently ranks as the most popular amenity in Alpharetta. Speaking to a group of about two dozen people at the opening, Alpharetta Parks and Recreation Director Morgan Rodgers said he recalled thinking about this day more than 25 years ago while he was with the Roswell Parks Department. “I was in meetings where they talked about connectivity, and I remember the thought of how in the world are we ever going to connect with Forsyth County?” he said. “Here we are in 2021, and we’re living the dream.” Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin said the idea to complete the city’s portion of the

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Forsyth County Parks Director Jim Pryor, who was on hand to mark the opening of the latest leg of the Big Creek Greenway June 29, says Forsyth County stands ready to connect its portion of the trail to Alpharetta after work on McGinnis Ferry Road is completed.

trail was only an idea in 2015. Strong support from city staff, the City Council and outside groups like Bike Alpharetta helped push through a parks bond that contributed $7 million to the project. “They got it done on time, under budget, and now we can celebrate,” Gilvin said. Dennis Carman, president of Bike Alpharetta, said the Greenway offers more than a recreational resource to visitors. With ideal conditions for cyclists, he said, the trail serves as an CDAR Member SWIFT Code: GMCBUS3A

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Members of Bike Alpharetta align at the new Greenway trailhead at Union Hill Park during its official opening June 29. auxiliary corridor for those who wish to commute on two wheels. “It’s a multi-purpose pathway, not only [for] exercise and recreation, it can serve as a commuter connector route as well,” Carman said. The torch now passes to Forsyth County, where plans to extend the Greenway from its current terminus at Halcyon south to Alpharetta awaits construction to widen McGinnis Ferry Road, which separates the two jurisdictions. Jim Pryor, Forsyth County Parks and Recreation director, said he’s ready. “It’s our most popular facility in Forsyth County,” he said. “People love it.” Right now, the county’s hands are tied just about a mile shy of the goal line. “For a long time, we’ve been wanting to connect the Greenway, and it’s

been a lot of work, a lot of partnership,” Pryor said. “When McGinnis Ferry Road gets widened, we intend to do that.” Just last month, Forsyth County opened two segments of its Greenway a combined distance of 5 miles as far north as the Sawnee Mountain Preserve. Pryor said issues have developed over the years with the boardwalk portions of the trail, and the county is replacing a lot of the wooden sections that have rotted. But standing among the celebrants at Union Hill Park, Pryor had his eyes on the immediate north, the strip that will connect Forsyth County with Alpharetta. “They’ve done their part of the bargain, and when the work gets done [at McGinnis Ferry Road], we’ll have our side,” he said.

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Planners recommend approval for several new developments By JOE PARKER joe@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Several proposed new and updated developments around Forsyth County face final approval after the Planning Commission gave its nod of approval June 22. Planners recommended approval for residential and business developments mainly in the north and western portions of the county. The board voted to recommend approval of the following developments, which are expected to go before the County Commission for a final vote in the coming weeks: Mashburn Road Boat/RV storage yard — A request by Ian Brown to operate an open storage yard with a night watchman residence on the property was approved unanimously with conditions. Brown has requested to operate a storage yard for boats and RVs on the 3.3-acre property at 5440 and 5450 Mashburn Drive in addition to an existing boat repair facility already in place. The home on the property would become a night watchman residence. The board placed conditions on the property for fencing and trees to buffer a neighboring property, and it requires that RVs can only be parked in the rear of the site. Settingdown Circle apartment/ commercial complex — A request from WP South Acquisitions to rezone from multi-family residential and commercial business district to mixed use (master planned district) on 52 acres at 4715 and 4735 Settingdown Circle. The plan calls for 310 apartments and over 39,000-square feet of office space. County staff said the plan does not adhere to its comprehensive plan, but

it did support the rezoning because of the “quality of the development.” Planning commissioners agreed with the assessment. As proposed, the site would include a number of amenities, including walking paths, outdoor seating /grilling areas and a dog park. Several board members said the site plan was a “better product” versus what is currently allowable on the site. WP South previously submitted a sketch plat that included 253 townhomes on the property. A representative for the company said the sketch plat meets the county’s codes and would be permitted. One resident spoke against the rezoning, citing issues of trespassing, traffic and that the development does not meet some intentions of a master planned district. Steeplechase Lane industrial complex — The Planning Commission also recommended approval for a rezoning request for a 3.9-acre property near Steeplechase Lane and Steeplechase Boulevard from commercial business district to restricted industrial district. The site plan calls for a 16,800-square-foot office/warehouse building to house an Exovations office, a company specializing in exterior home remodeling. In other matters, the Planning Commission voted to delay its hearing of a rezoning request for a conservation subdivision south of A C Smith Road and northwest of Jewell Bennett Road. The request from Century Communities of Georgia calls for a rezoning from agricultural district to a single-family conservation subdivision on 88 acres to construct 112 residential lots at a density of 1.27 units per acre. The board expects to hear the request at its July 27 meeting.

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FORSYTH, Ga. — Dozens of residents packed the cafeteria at South Forsyth High School July 1 to share their thoughts with legislators on this year’s statewide redistricting process. Although the final district lines will be drawn largely based on data collected in the 2020 Census, other factors are taken into consideration, said State Sen. John F. Kennedy (R-Macon). “At the end of the day, we’ve got to make sure that every house seat covers about the same amount of population,” Kennedy said after the session. “And then beyond that, you got all the other requirements that we have to meet. What you heard was a smattering of folks touching on the issues that really are part of the requirements of what we consider through the process.” One of the other requirements redistricting must adhere to comes from the Georgia Constitution. It says that the districts must be geographically connected and not disjointed. Rahul Garabadu, voting rights attorney from the ACLU of Georgia was also present at the townhall. Representatives from the Georgia chapter have been present at each of the townhalls and will continue to represent at each of the remaining seven. “So there are a couple factors that we think must be considered regarding redistricting,” Garabadu said. “First and foremost, the principle of one person, one vote. In other words, the idea that individuals should have equal representation in voting.” The second factor, Garabadu said, is making sure maps comply with the Voting Rights Act. “We want to make sure that the maps that are drafted in 2021 give voters of color the same opportunities as White voters to elect their candidates of choice regardless of where they live in the state and regardless of who they vote for,” Garabadu said. Complete census data will not be available until fall, said State Rep. Bonnie Rich (R-Suwanee), who chairs the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee. “The Census Bureau has indicated that they will provide us with the data that we need by the end of September,” Rich said. Several attendees pressed legislators to keep their communities intact, including Theresa Shen of Suwanee. “I would hope that Forsyth becomes

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Forsyth County Commissioner Laura Semanson addresses members of reapportionment committees at June 29 redistricting townhall. one Forsyth, and hoping we’ll have more fair state representation in Forsyth,” Shen said. Others, like Suwanee resident Anita Tucker, said those calls were partisan in nature. “I hadn’t planned on speaking, but when I heard people in my county saying ‘community, community, preserve my community,’ that is code for all the White Republican conservatives in the county,” Tucker said. Others simply wanted to be heard, saying they want some say in who represents their district because it will impact the treatment citizens receive. “I call my representative sometimes and they don’t call you back, other ones will,” Suwanee resident Todd Harrison said. “A lot of times they don’t want to hear from you if you don’t vote for them. And I think that’s sad because you should be able to work with anyone in office. You should be able to work with whoever your constituents are.” Disagreements aside, many residents and representatives said they were pleased to see so many community members involved in the democratic process. “There’s so many people in there that maybe are not really familiar with redistricting, and now people are getting educated, they’re getting informed,” Cumming resident Carter Barrett said. “And they’re from all walks of life … It’s very encouraging to see that kind of participation and so many people just trying to figure out how the process works. And that’s what needs to happen. We need to have a much bigger tent with more people involved in the process.” Anthony Parlogean contributed to this report.

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The tournament brings in thousands of new visitors annually, and we work with event planners to ensure our local businesses are showcased MICHELLE DANIELS, VP of Business Development for the Forsyth Chamber

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — More than 100 girls fastpitch softball teams from 14 states are heading to Forsyth County and Alpharetta for four days of tournament play at The Triple Crown Southeast Nationals July 15–18. The tournament will be held at multiple sports facilities including Alpharetta’s North Park and Fowler Park and Forsyth County’s Coal Mountain Park, Sharon Springs Park and Central Park. Fastpitch club travel teams from throughout the country with top nationally ranked girls 14U, 16U and 18U squads will compete for the Southeast Nationals title over the four-day event. The players, coaches and fans – including 80 umpires – will be a welcome sight to the area’s hospitality industry which has suffered doubledigit losses in occupancy rates over the past year. Things have recovered from levels during the height of the pandemic, when hotel occupancy rates were at 10 percent, said Michelle Daniels, vice president of Business Development for the Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce. “Over the last six months, the Forsyth County hotels have bounced back tremendously, thanks to the incredible Forsyth County Parks & Recreation team who were able to create safety measures to allow sports tournaments to resume,” Daniels said. Lake Lanier also helped, continuing to draw visitors looking to get outdoors in a safe environment, she said. The Southeast Nationals is a showcase event. “The tournament brings in thousands of new visitors annually, and we work with event planners to ensure our local businesses are showcased,” Daniels said. The chamber partners with local hotels, restaurant and retail operators to coordinate visitor itinerary options,

Triple Crown Alpharetta hotel pick-up totals: 2017 Triple Crown SE Nationals: 525 total room nights 2018 Triple Crown SE Nationals and TC/USA Nationals: 1,700 total room nights 2019 Triple Crown SE Nationals and TC/USA Nationals: 1,500 total room nights 2020 Triple Crown SE Nationals: 650 total room nights 2021 Triple Crown SE Nationals anticipated total room nights: 750 (estimate) including local adventures to explore while off the field, she said. “By doing this, visitors are spending time and money at Forsyth County businesses which supports the local industry and boosts tax revenue,” Daniels said. Alpharetta, with 29 hotels, is likely to get a big boost from the tournament. The occupancy rate has been on the incline since January when the rate was just over 40 percent. The rate has climbed to 56 percent currently. Janet Rodgers, president and CEO of the Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureau, said her organization measures economic impact by the number of Alpharetta hotel rooms that are occupied by an event. Historically, the CVB uses $216 ($80 hotel room, $50 gas and $86 meals) per day as a consistent formula to calculate economic impact. Rodgers called it a conservative and consistent formula the bureau has used for years. This year’s event is expected to rack up 750 room nights and pump close to $195,000 into the local economy, Rodgers said. “Given that Alpharetta’s travel landscape is currently over 90 percent leisure and individual travelers, having group sporting events stay in the destination is a substantial occupancy and revenue booster for our hotels,” she said.

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Why do some tumors track along nerves? Brought to you by: Dr. Brent Taylor, Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta At a recent conference, an outstanding lecture by Dr. Scott Lester of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, provided insight into the question of why tumors exhibit “perineural invasion” – the behavior of tumors wrapping around and travelling along nerves. The answer is another example of how nature and biology never cease to surprise. In medical school, one of my favorite professors loved to say, “50% of what you are going to learn during these four years will ultimately be proved wrong.” As I sat in my hard wooden chair taking notes on apparently error-ridden knowledge, I hoped that the 50% that was misinformation was at least not the half that mattered. As it turns out, one of the pieces of misinformation apparently concerned perineural invasion. In medical school, I was taught that some tumors track along nerves because nerves are convenient highways to other parts of the body. This was the “path of least resistance idea.” Professors also posited that some of the vessels and lymphatics running along with the nerve are an additional reason for tumor growth along nerves – essentially the idea that tumors spreading along nerves is really just tumors spreading along the surrounding lymphatics and blood vessels – “business as usual.” Several recent studies presented by Dr. Lester have provided data that sheds new light on this subject: In one experiment, scientists placed a nerve next to but well apart from a tumor growing in a petri dish. The tumor extended a strand of cells in the direction of the nerve and grew toward the nerve. This challenges the idea that perineural tumor growth in patients is simply cancer extension along nerves already touching a tumor. Then, the scientists tested proteins found in the nerve and found that the entire nerve did not have to be present in the dish to attract tumor growth. When scientists put a small amount of a nerve protein called GDNF (glial derived neurotrophic factor)

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in the dish, the tumor grew towards the GDNF. Apparently, proteins in the nerve attract tumor growth. So nerves are not just highways: some tumors seek out nerves by growing towards proteins that nerves produce. In another experiment, scientists placed pancreatic cancer cells next to the sciatic nerve inside of a live rat. Predictably, the cancer grew and invaded the sciatic nerve. The muscles relying on the sciatic nerve were unable to function which caused partial paralysis. However, when the scientists delivered radiation to the rat’s sciatic nerve BEFORE implanting the pancreatic cancer, the tumor grew but paralysis did not occur upon tumor implantation against the nerve. Nerves that had received radiation produced less GDNF.

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The grandkids were here last weekend, and it’s safe to say that a good time was had by all! There was a little too much rain for us to do much fishing, but we did get in a bit of rock collecting (more on that next STEVE HUDSON week). Get Outside Georgia, And we enjoyed aa4bw@comcast.net looking for birds. You may recall that our back deck has become a favorite dining room for all sorts of birds. My wife and I have had a great time watching the feeder and the bird bath. We’ve picked up a number of bird ID books. We have binoculars for watching the ones that stay a little farther away. We’ve even got a little USB camera that focuses on the main feeder, giving us some high-tech views of some of our feathered friends. We’re learning to identify them (fun in itself!), and we have even taken one more step and put up a couple of hummingbird feeders. We talked about the hummingbird feeders in a recent column. The two feeders hang right outside our den window. Near them are several containers planted

with hummer-friendly plants, too. For a while, we were not getting any hummingbirds at all. Then, just about a week ago, that changed. First, we would see one every couple of days. Then one every day. Then two…then four…and then, just yesterday, we counted eight separate visits. They’re coming more frequently, and they’re staying at the feeders or the flowers for longer at a time. Apparently, the word is out (“Free food at the Hudson place!), and that’s been really exciting. The grandkids and I had fun watching the feeders and looking for the occasional hummingbirds, and (like kids everywhere) they quickly became fascinated with all the avian comings and goings. It’s really neat to see kids become interested in something in the natural world, isn’t it! They also had a blast practicing casting with their new fishing rods. Yes, being the dutiful Granddaddy that I am, I made sure that there were two shiny new Zebco spinning outfits waiting when they arrived. Because of the afore-mentioned rain, our fishing time was limited to one 45-minute excursion. I must be a good teacher, too, because the grandson hooked a nice bass. It’s always fun to enjoy the out-of-

doors with kids. And that brings us to… A correction: I remember when my own kids were little, we spent a lot of time walking around in the yard and down by the pond looking at things. A favorite thing to look for was always feathers. We’d spot one, and one of the kids would announce its presence. “Look, Daddy! A feather!” Thanks to the pond by the house, many of those feathers once belonged to Canada geese. Those geese loved the pond, and it was pretty common to see shed feathers (especially during molting season, which is this time of year) laying on the ground. But that brings us to an “uh-oh.” Once, I’d have been tempted to pick up that feather. In fact, I talked about picking up feathers in a recent column. Kids (of all ages) seem drawn to them. But it turns out that you can’t do that. You can’t pick up feathers from most wild birds, including migratory birds such as geese. So says the law. Say what? Yes, it is true. I checked with the Department of Natural Resources, asking specifically about the goose feathers, and they confirmed it. No collecting goose

feathers. In fact, no collecting of almost any feathers in the wild. I’m paraphrasing here, but the law says that it’s not okay to collect feathers. Need some goose feathers for a craft project? They’re available for sale in lots of craft and hobby shops. Yes, you can use feathers you buy at the craft store. But no, you can’t pick up goose feathers from the park or the yard, even if they’re just lying there in the wet grass. Those are from wild birds, and the wild birds (and their parts) are protected. What do you tell your kids who want to take a feather home? They probably aren’t interested in the details of the statutes and treaties protecting various bird species. That’s too much info and more than most young ones are interested in. Instead, tell your kids that dropped feathers are part of the natural world. Other creatures may use them (maybe to build a nest or something?), so let’s leave them in place where they are. Then go home and make some lemonade and grab the binoculars and go birdwatching in a nearby park or even in your yard. Kids have a way of seeing right to the heart of things, and I’m betting they’ll be fine with that.

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We wove our way slowly in and out of the late afternoon crowd on our way to get in line for the concert. It was humid and not so comfortable, but at least the heat was beginning to recede. I was acutely aware of my lack of sunglasses, the ones I had not been able to locate prior to leaving

the house. All around us, folks were in shorts, golf shirts, tee shirts, sandals, Braves hats, halter tops — some “appropriate” and some not so much — jeans, pirate bandanas, scatterings of various band shirts and sunglasses (everyone except me). Everyone chatted, mingled, peoplewatched, and generally behaved wonderfully, waiting. Yes, waiting. Waiting, like adults should wait, adults with their heads screwed on properly, respectfully and civilly. That sounds kinda similar to another (historical - 1969) concert/ festival from another lifetime, no? Except that at that festival, there wouldn’t have been a single cell phone — in contrast to today where those phones appear invisibly

bound with unbreakable cables to almost every ear or hand in sight. Those phones bug me. What was it that Nobel Prize winner (in 1975 for Economics) Herbert Simon said? “What information (i.e. use of cell phone today) consumes is rather obvious; it consumes the attention of its recipients.” That is, it detaches, separates/isolates from the immediate, the here and now, the essence of things —humanity — and only replaces it with a shallow substitute, a wholly unsatisfying one at that. We miss so much that we can never recover because of the distraction of those phones. Anyway, after we got inside the gate and got situated in our seats, my old friend, “crowd-generated anxiety,” paid me a visit. “Hiya, long time. Wasup? Kinda crowded isn’t it. Not many exits are there?” “Go away. Go far away, I don’t have the time to pay attention to you right now. Get!“ I replied. Added to that was the other penny in everyone’s shoes, that awkwardness that I sense half that the world is beginning to experience — that transition of going from a world of pandemic-generated chaos, isolation, disruption and fear, back to the more familiar world of non-pandemic dysfunction.

Moving through the queues to get into the concert, people seemed at ease. No one seemed to be in a hurry — for once. Being in a hurry, I think, is some sort of a disease. It is maybe one of the worst aspects of living in our lovely amazing North Fulton so many of us call home. Especially beguiling are those in such a big hurry that they ride bumpers, honk, weave in and out of traffic and generally make public fools of themselves. Me, me, me, me. And, of course, the majority have no reason to be in a hurry. Most of the time, they are just impatient, myopic and can’t help it. We made it past security and then, Yuenglings in hand, we managed to get to our seats without spilling or overly disrupting the folks already in place. Giant fans were blowing air down from above. The night looked inviting; we were going to enjoy this first night out since the pandemic. That was my thought. And the bands, more than a couple times kept saying how ecstatic they were to be back out in front of a live audience. It’s been a long, long road home I kept thinking. I felt awkward though, and my ol’ buddy anxiety continued to poke me in the ribs. How was this going to go? Then I started inventorying the crowd. That’s when the guy with his wife in the seats

next to us, the one that arrived late and then insisted that we were possibly in their seats — until he realized we weren’t — leaned over and asked me if I noticed how “old” everybody was. “You believe this? Who goes to concerts with nothing but senior citizens? Did they let out all the assisted livings at once?” I just grinned and shook my head, but if the truth be told, I was thinking the same thing, including about him (even though he was at least 10 years younger than me)! I wanted to leave before the encore to beat the traffic, but Christina vetoed that. “I want to hear “Sail Away,” she said. “OK,” I shouted back, thinking that I can probably make it just a little longer. It was nice, darn nice to “get back out,” I thought later; it definitely has been a long time coming. But gosh, that crowd was so old, and Styx surely must all be grandparents now. Glad I’m not like that. I don’t even recall what music we listened to in the car as we drove home that night. Didn’t matter though, because we got out — with people without masks — and drank a brew, chatted and had a time that resembled normalcy. “Come sail away, again,” I thought. Couldn’t get that tune out of my head — even at my age!

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This housing market is murder Arrests: The ridiculousness of the current housing market has been on seemingly everyone’s lips lately, and as a person who is in the process of trying to buy a new home, it’s been on my lips, but JOE PARKER mostly in the form Editor of expletives. joe@appenmedia.com That’s because trying to buy a home right now is a more daunting task than Abraham being charged with breaking out the ol’ hatchet and do some seriously intensive “manscaping.” After months into the home selling/buying process, self-circumcision seems like a walk in the park. So, for those who are about to take the plunge into buying a home in this nuclear-hot market, I’ve listed some tips I hope will help you secure your next house. Granted, I haven’t actually had any luck in the process, but I’ve picked up some valuable advice along the way. Based on what I’ve seen, these are the things you must do if you stand any chance of actually having a seller accept your offer: Put in an offer before the “for

sale” sign is even in the yard — It doesn’t matter if the house in question is a half-constructed shed on 200-square feet of land that floods every time the weather gets a tad humid and is listed for $400,000, it’s going to be under contract before you can even schedule a showing. That’s why it’s best just to go around to any house that tickles your fancy and ask the owner if they are willing to sell. If they’ve even considered putting it on the market, you’re too late. Only look at homes at least $100,000 under your max budget — You may have been pre-approved for a significant amount of money, but ensure that you are only viewing homes (you likely won’t get the chance to see them before they are sold, anyway) that are significantly under that max budget. That’s because in order to even be remotely competitive, you have to throw another $100,000 down above asking. If you think this is an exaggeration, you are clearly not currently attempting to buy a home. Be prepared to worship at the feet of sellers — Some people aspire to be dignitaries, bosses or major celebrities, but if you want to feel like the world is truly at your feet, just sell your home right now.

Buyers are prepared to throw out any incentive, including our firstborns, to secure a new home in this market. No closing costs, no appraisal, no contingencies, no closing until the owner’s 6-year-old has graduated college, an agreement to completely furnish the seller’s next home, etc., it’s all on the table. Be aggressive — I’m not advocating you actually break into the home you want to purchase and hold a family member hostage until the seller accepts your offer, but you’ll need to do just about everything short of that to get the house. Another method, again, not one I necessarily advocate, is talking loudly to your agent about your land surveying business and how you are worried about the prevalence of sinkholes in the area during a packed open house on a home you fancy. Then point out some unevenness in the subfloor, even if it doesn’t actually exist, like your land surveying company. I hope these tips will help you secure that next home amid the ridiculousness that is the current housing market. And for those who aren’t in the fray, do you have somewhere my family can stay?

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