Around Alpharetta/Milton/Windward

November is National Adoption Month. Adoption saves lives, gives hope, and provides love to everyone involved. On page 14 a heart-stirring article gives a poignant reminder of how much adoption has changed lives in our own area.

Speaking of families, while you were snapping photos of your children, we were too! You have some great looking kids; check them out on pages 42 — 46. Our schools continue to be the center of our communities.

On the cover this month is QCare, Inc. owner Chris Callas. Chris has taken a great carpet cleaning service and expanded it to clean all the areas that you don’t want to: windows, ceiling fans, chandeliers, gutters, concrete, stucco, and even your RV. See pages 16 and 17 for more information.

From an editorial view, we are all about celebrating community. From a marketing perspective, Around Town Alpharetta/Milton/Windward becomes an affordable way to reach, through direct mail, more than 17,500 homes and businesses within 3 — 5 miles of your business. With the family of community magazines that also include Roswell, Woodstock, and East Cobb, we are the most effective way to target one of the best demographics in the southeastern United States. The partnerships that we form with our advertisers, and the response of the community to their stories, must be why we retain over 80% of our advertisers in our publications from month to month.

Sometimes all we hear is negative. But when you take some time to look at the local families, schools, small businesses, and dedicated employees of our local government, you will see they all combine to form one of the best places to live in the world. . . Alpharetta, Milton, and Windward!