Former state James Mills of Gainesville took his oath Monday and joined the five-member state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Mills, a Republican, replaced Gale Buckner who was named commissioner of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Initially, Mills was going to move to Pardons and Paroles after the end of the year, but the schedule was moved ahead when Buckner left the board to run DJJ. The DJJ commissioner's job became vacant when Amy Howell left to be general counsel at the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. RHONDA COOK
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The Atlanta Falcons, Publix and the Atlanta Community Food Bank hosted the annual FalCan Food Drive School Challenge all last month and collected 57,750 pounds of canned goods and non-perishable items from about 50 participating schools. Collecting the most pounds were: Chapman Intermediate School, Woodstock (10,045 lbs.); Berkmar Middle School, Lilburn (3,660 lbs.); International Academy of Smyrna (2,744 lbs.) All of the schools received Falcons tickets and other prizes. NANCY BADERTSCHER
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A tractor-trailer truck loaded with food and other essentials is expected to pull into a parking lot on North Peachtree Road Tuesday morning so the items can be distributed to Georgia military families in need.
The Atlanta Falcons Rookie Club has volunteered to hand out 25-pound boxes of food, 10-pound boxes of essentials and boxes of Avon products, enough for a week, to families that were identified by Feed the Children and Operation Homefront Georgia.
The distribution will be at 11 a.m. at Brook Run Park. RHONDA COOK
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