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A bird’s-eye viewphil mosier

Scott Russel, with daughter Julia, 4, on

board, enjoy the music of “The Tams,” during a Concerts by the Springs performance at Heritage Green in Sandy Springs on May 12. The 17th annual concert series

opened its latest season to a capacity crowd. The next concert is

Sunday, June 2, and will feature Gwen Hughes

& The Retro Jazz Kats. More photos on page 2.

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As the city begins building its downtown along Roswell Road near I-285, the costs will likely mean fewer projects for other parts of the city.

Plans for building a downtown from scratch and an expected decline in tax collections will mean fewer sidwewalks and parks for city residents.

City Council members Chip Collins and Karen Meinzen McEnerny said during a May 7 budget hearing that some impor-tant projects won’t get done soon if the city’s current project list


A nonprofit that coordinated a recent arts event in Sandy Springs says the city plays favorites when issuing permits for events organized by members of City Council. Council members say they play by the rules and one of the council members called the allega-tions “hogwash.”

The Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces held its Artsapalooza event on April 20 and 21. The foundation applied for two permits to hold the event on Sandy Springs Circle. The city denied both be-cause of concerns the event would affect traffic flow and access to

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paddle passionLeft, dionna walker, with

daughter ava, 3, took part in the second annual “Stand up

for the Hooch Race & Festival” at Morgan Falls overlook park in

Sandy Springs on May 11. The two participated in the 3-mile event

riding a 12 1/2-foot board.

below, Reed Nelson, right, with other stand up paddlers, some

coming from as far away as Fort Lauderdale, competed in races of six or three miles on

the Chattahoochee River.

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Tams are topsabove, “The Tams’” lead singer

albert “Little Redd” Cottle, right, gets the audience going

during a Concerts by the Springs performance at Heritage Green

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City officials see trouble down the road in part of Revive285


Work to fix the “top end” of I-285 may still be years away, but City Coun-cil wants the project’s planners to know they’re not on board with some of the proposed solutions.

During its May 7 meeting, City Council rejected its own resolution that would have given state officials the OK to buy portions of Allen Park when the project starts moving. Council’s objec-tions weren’t about the park, however.

Council members objected to passing a resolution that did not explicitly state its objection to one option of the multi-option plan. That option, number 6-A, allows the state Department of Trans-portation to create an exit onto Sandy Springs Circle.

That would put an interstate exit in the middle of what will one day be the city’s redeveloped downtown. City Council said that plan is unacceptable.

“I don’t want this council to be on re-cord stating anything that will be a pos-itive thing for alternative 6-A,” Coun-cilman Gabriel Sterling said before the vote to reject the resolution.

Plans to improve I-285 have been put under one roof as “Revive285,” a joint project between the state Department of Transportation and the Georgia Region-al Transportation Authority. Revive285 has hired ARCADIS as the planning consultant and employees of the firm recently updated City Council on the

project. The planning process has been on-

going since 2006. The “top end” of I- 285 is the portion between the intersec-tions of I-75 and I-85, much of it in the city’s front yard. The city’s approval of the resolution is one step in the process of completing the environmental impact statement required for the project.

The city’s downtown revitaliza-tion effort is ahead of Revive285. San-dy Springs this year has begun spend-ing millions on what will be a decade’s worth of road and infrastructure im-provements. Option 6-A would cost $2.84 billion, and planners haven’t iden-tified a funding source.

ARCADIS Senior Transportation Planner Timothy Preece said the best case scenario would mean the I-285 im-provements could begin in the next five years. Preece said a more realistic time-line is 10 to 15 years.

City Manager John McDonough told council before the vote that the city should pass something to provide input on the project. “I think even if we deny this, we owe them some type of feed-back,” McDonough said.

“I think by denying this, we are go-ing on record we are opposed to this,” Councilman Tibby DeJulio said.

City staff members are reworking the resolution to reflect the council’s posi-tion.

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Special, special ladiesThe Sandy Springs Rotary Club honored its teachers of the year at the club’s meeting on May 6. From left, Lara Kim, Spalding drive

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elementary, 4th grade; Melissa borger, Lake Forest elementary, music; Kendra Hanson, Riverwood international Charter, 9th and 10th grades; Tamela Richardson, Sandy Springs Middle, 8th grade;

Mary Horn, Heards Ferry elementary, kindergarten special education; Karen Cushman, North Springs High, health and physical education.

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The long-time head of school at The Weber School will step down at the end of the 2013-14 year, the school an-nounced.

Simcha Pearl joined the Sandy Springs school in 1997, serving as its first high school principal. The school was then known as The New Atlan-ta Jewish Community High School. He became head of school in 2000, the school said in a May 8 press release.

“Dr. Pearl has focused on growing Weber’s enrollment, strengthening its academic and Judaics programs, over-seeing its move to a new and permanent campus, and stabilizing Weber’s finan-cial position,” the school said in its an-nouncement. “Under Dr. Pearl’s lead-ership, Weber has evolved from a small Jewish day school of 19 students to a re-spected, values-based, college preparato-ry school of approximately 240 students with 550 alumni.”

In the school’s press release, Weber said the decision to leave was difficult for him.

“The pure joy of seeing this school grow, of knowing so many wonderful

young people and seeing them stay connected to their Jewish values and become Jewish leaders, has been re-markable,” he said in the release. “But it’s time. … [Weber] is ready to move to the next stage in its life. And so am I.”

Board chairman Lori Kagan Schwarz and school co-founder Steve Berman will chair a search committee that will work with a national search firm to find Pearl’s successor, the school said.


A lawsuit over a his-toric cemetery soon will receive its first public hearing.

Fulton County Supe-rior Judge Kimberly Ad-ams will hear arguments in the case on May 29 at 1 p.m. The hearing will be to consider a motion for summary judgment filed by descendants of the Confederate veteran buried at the cemetery, Judge John Heard.

The hearing comes nearly a year after the owner of the Heard Family Cemetery sued the city of Sandy Springs for denying a permit to build a home on an un-developed portion of the property. Judge Heard dedicated the cemetery in 1900 for his heirs.

The issue of whether the unde-veloped portion contains unmarked graves is one of many surrounding this complex case. The owner, Chris-topher Mills, purchased the property from his in-laws after they bought it by paying off back taxes on the parcel. At the time, his in-laws, Henry and Wanda Cline, were part of a neighbor-

hood effort to save the historic ceme-tery from a company that purchased the tax deed.

The cemetery wound up on the de-linquent tax list by accident. Cemeter-ies are tax exempt in Georgia.

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stands. Other council members said changing the priority list would destroy a method meant to keep politics out of spending decisions.

City Council will vote on the Fis-cal Year 2014 budget in June. City staff members say there is $4.5 million avail-able for citywide capital projects, the smallest amount in six years.

The projects, sometimes called “pri-ority” projects, are a list of items that the council wants to spend money on through any given budget. They include things like road paving and traffic man-agement projects.

The task of dividing up a smaller amount of money is causing some council members to second-guess how the coun-cil sets its spending priorities.

Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Tib-by DeJulio, who is serving as may-or while Mayor Eva Galambos recov-ers from surgery, said council mem-bers must make a hard choice this year. He rejected Meinzen McEnerny’s sugges-tion that city staff take another look at the numbers to find more money.

“The only way we have to raise reve-nue that’s guaranteed right now is to cut expenses or raise tax-es, which we’re not going to do,” DeJu-lio said. “I think our staff has found what our staff is going to find.”

Meinzen McEnerny and Collins ar-gued that the city is putting too much taxpayer money in reserves. This year’s budget proposal sets aside reserves to-taling 31 percent of the city’s operat-ing expenses. In prior years, the city has budgeted 25 percent of its operating ex-penses for its reserves.

City staff members and other coun-cil members say they want to budget as conservatively as possible this year and have money to cover unexpected costs. Collins said the city already has enough in reserves to do that.

“Stuffing all of your money under the mattress is conservative, too, but it’s not necessarily the smart thing,” Collins said.

Meinzen McEnerny said the city projects large surpluses each year and should use it to benefit taxpayers.

“The surpluses in the past have got-ten to $12, $15, $20 million,” Meinzen McEnerny said. “At some point we need

to start giving some of this money back.” The biggest change in the FY 2014

budget is the cost of building the city’s downtown.

This year the city is budgeting $13.5 million for its city center project, a de-cade-long effort expected to cost up-wards of $100 million. City staff is also predicting a $3 million decline in tax collections.

Sandy Springs’ method for select-ing capital spending projects is unusu-al compared with other cities. City elec-tions are this November. If the current budget passes, council members will have to explain to voters why the city isn’t building their walking bridge or fix-

ing up the tennis cen-ter.

Their explanation will go something like this: Each year during budget time, city staff gives coun-cil members a list of projects and asks them to rank each one. City staff then budgets accordingly.

In prior years, the council had more money to spread around the project list. In Fiscal 2011, the city budget-ed $18 million. This year, Fiscal 2013, the city budgeted $12.6 million.

Meinzen McEnerny and Col-lins also asked if the city could spend less money on its down-town project. City Manager John Mc-Donough said the money will be need-ed to buy additional property and to pay

for a project manager. Collins suggested pulling money out

of the Abernathy Greenway Linear Park project in Fiscal 2014 so Lost Corner Preserve won’t be left off the list. Lack of funds could keep Lost Corner from opening this year, he said.

“They’re telling me we don’t have funding for the completion of the drive-way and parking lots,” Collins said.

Pulling money out of Abernathy would be another setback for that park, which is already months behind sched-ule.

Other city council members said moving the money around would be in-viting politics into the mix.

“Essentially that just blows up our pro-cess,” Councilman Gabriel Sterling said.

“I’m sorry, I don’t think we should deviate from a process we’ve done for seven years,” Councilwoman Dianne Fries said.

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businesses. The city granted the group a permit to hold the festival on Lake For-rest Drive.

The foundation appealed the denials for Sandy Springs Circle. City Council on May 7 rejected those appeals, find-ing the denials were proper. Council members also cited a report released by the city that alleges AFFPS Vice Presi-dent Randall Fox mistreated city staff.

“I find it offensive that anybody that applies for permits in our community believes it’s appropriate to be verbally abusive to staff on two separate occa-sions,” Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny said during the May 7 hear-ing. “ … I hope in the future profes-sionals such as this should act in a pro-fessional manner to our staff.”

Fox, who didn’t attend the May 7 hearing and claims he wasn’t notified of it, disputed the report and accused the city of giving another event – the Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge bicycle race – more leeway because City Council-woman Dianne Fries is one of its orga-nizers.

The Challenge course traditional-ly has been on Sandy Springs Circle and the event lasts one day. Two coun-cil members, Fries and Gabriel Sterling, serve on the nonprofit board for the Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge race. This year’s event took place May 5.

“I guess if I was a City Council member then I would have been ‘per-mitted for my event,’ much like Coun-cil Member Dianne Fries was,” Fox said in an email.

Fries called the allegation of prefer-ential treatment “hogwash.”

“If anything, I go over and above be-cause I think that it’s important that I follow our city guidelines,” Fries said.

Sterling also said the allegations are unfounded.

“We file all the exact same things. We have to go through exactly all the same hoops and ladders as anybody else does,” he said. “I like the work that the guys over there do and the event over there on Lake Forrest was a success, as I understand.”

In 2012, Artsapalooza took place on Johnson Ferry Road. AFFPS applied for an event permit at the same location on Johnson Ferry Road for 2013, but the city denied that application. AFFPS submitted four permit applications in all, including the one the city approved for Lake Forrest Drive.

The city’s report on the dispute shows that there have been ongoing discussions about the event since Octo-ber. The report claims Fox filed 59 open records requests since February and sent city staff 500 emails. The report accuses Fox of being “verbally abusive” to city staff when he visited City Hall. According to a letter dated April 4, the city informed Fox it would not respond to any additional records requests un-

til he paid $253.45 for records the city claims he didn’t pick up.

Fox disputed those numbers, say-ing he sent 60 emails and submitted 45 open records requests.

The problem with permitting events isn’t limited to Artsapalooza, Fox said. Fox said several events have left the city over its permitting practices.

City Spokeswoman Sharon Kraun said the city permitted 59 events in 2012 compared with 76 in 2011, 78 in 2010, and 54 in 2009. Kraun said there are a number of factors that affect event permitting, from the economy to the weather.

Fox said he intends to continue pressing the city on this issue, though it isn’t clear what options he has. In his letters to the city, Fox implied he was seeking an attorney.

“The difference between me and the other events: I’m willing to stand up to the city,” Fox said in his email.

Art Sandy Springs President Cheri Morris, who attended some of the meetings with Fox and the city, said the dispute stemmed from Artsapalooza’s permit applications conflicting with an event at Heritage Sandy Springs, locat-ed just off Sandy Springs Circle.

“My understanding it was a matter of timing that Heritage Sandy Springs already had booked something by the time Artsapalooza had requested a per-mit,” Morris said. “On the south end, in general, the tenants on the south side don’t want the roads closed. Lake For-rest, according to the Atlanta Founda-tion for Public Spaces, ended up being an unqualified success.”

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“I find it offensive that any-body that applies for per-mits in our community be-lieves it’s appropriate to be verbally abusive to staff on two separate occasions.”

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Respect the land around usTo the editor:

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we be-long, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Aldo Leopold

Back in the 1920s and 1930s, es-teemed conservationist and environ-mentalist Aldo Leopold was advocat-ing for a common-sense management of wildlife communities and the subse-quent relationship of man to the natu-ral world; his beliefs are as relevant to-day as they were before.

In the present, mass land develop-ment creeps beyond the cities’ limits and results in fragmented areas. When development occurs without measured consideration of infrastructure capaci-ties, transportation options and quali-ty of life considerations, damage is caused, result-ing in loss of character and use of the area.

JLB Partners and Core Property Development has a proposal known as The Gateway (referred to as SSG) in the works; the plan removes two aging apartment complexes near the intersections of Ro-swell Road, Wieuca Road and Windsor Parkway. In the proposal’s current re-vised version, the plan is to replace 436 units with 700 on its 21.3 acre site, to increase the building’s height from two stories to six stories, to create 1,484 parking spaces including two parking decks, and to have 90,000 square feet of commercial/retail and 30,000 square feet of of-fices.

Inherent to this pro-posal, traffic will signifi-cantly increase in the af-fected area. According to traffic studies, SSG will generate 8,900 to 10,700 daily vehicular trips on near-by streets. Roswell Road, Windsor Parkway and Wieuca Roads are already clogged. Studies indicate a 22.5 per-cent increase on Roswell Road at West Wieuca.

To make traffic matters worse, the plan results in the proposed realign-ment of Windsor Parkway at Roswell into a possible five-lane intersection at a cost of over $4.4 million, benefiting JLB’s apartment community entrance in order to have a traffic light. The price tag for Windsor Parkway would then have to be picked up by taxpay-er money.

Notwithstanding the increased traf-fic and probable property value dimin-ishment to single-family homes in the surrounding neighborhoods, a worse effect is the impact to the suburban

character of the area and the likelihood for future similar development.

City Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny has expressed opinions on the proposal saying that residents want a “balanced” development that will be a gateway from Atlanta into Sandy Springs. She said the current proposal doesn’t come close to achieving harmo-ny with the neighborhoods.

“It’s going to require millions of public sector improvements offsite to allow that kind of density,” she said. “It’s way over the top.”

At this very important juncture, we should be thinking about what kind of vision we would like to see for the Ro-swell Road corridor. Land-use plan-ning should make areas more benefi-cial, more attractive, less congested and more respectful of available land.

Leopold remains a voice for land use. Are we to heed Leopold’s com-ments regarding living in a community that we respect and love or are we to be driven by developers’ needs for land as a commodity. Sandy Springs has a sub-urban character. My preference is for a community of homes, apartments, re-tail and commercial uses that respect the character of the area in which we live. . . not a hodgepodge of overly dense developments.

Nancy Hamburger

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When the Community Assistance Center (CAC) opened its doors in 1987 to help neighbors in need, it had a 2x8-foot food closet serving two to 10 families per day. I am sure the need was much greater, but our ability to help was very limited. Since then, that closet has grown to 2,000-square-feet and serves 80 to 100 families per day.

Today, we are much closer to understanding the degree of hunger in our community, but our ca-pacity to serve still doesn’t meet the demand.

Hunger is primarily a result of poverty, and poverty is becoming more evident, even in prosperous American suburbs today. The 2008 economic slump added many households to the roster of the poor.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, one in six Americans struggle with hun-ger, and 16.7 million children younger than 18 in the United States live in households that are unable to consistently access enough nutritious food to develop properly.

Although food insecurity is harmful to any individual, it is particularly so to children, due to their increased vulnerability and its potential for long-term consequences.

According to Feed America, “Good nutrition, particularly in the first three years of life, is impor-tant in establishing a good foundation that has implications for a child’s future physical and mental health, academic achievement, and economic productivity. Unfortunately, food insecurity is an obsta-cle that threatens that critical foundation. Hunger prevents kids from reaching their full potential. It’s an epidemic that’s threat-ening America’s future.”

Households with limited resources utilize a variety of methods to help meet their food needs. Some participate in one or more of the federal food and nutritional assistance programs or obtain food from emergency food providers in their communities, such as CAC, to supplement the food they purchase.

Federal programs include: the Women Infant and Children’s (WIC) program; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program; and finally the National School Lunch Program, where free or reduced-price lunches are made available to low-income students.

In Sandy Springs, 55 percent of public school students qualify for the National School Lunch Program, and in the Dunwoody middle and high schools, 32 percent of students qualify. Clearly, poverty is more present in the two cities that CAC serves than one might realize.

How has this community responded to hunger in its midst? It has responded with compassion and generosity. CAC’s food pantry is stocked daily by donations from congregations, businesses, civic organizations and many generous neighbors, who make sharing their food a regular exercise.

The pantry is further supplied by Second Helpings, a nonprofit effort started by volunteers at Temple Sinai to collect fresh and prepared food from markets, restaurants, schools and caterers, and make it available to local food pantries. With the advent of Second Helpings, CAC was able to increase its food distribution from once a month to once a week, and the nutritious qual-ity of the food is a lot better.

Unfortunately, the current level of giving does not meet the daily needs for food for hungry neighbors. There is a need for more involvement from all, for additional food drives at the neighborhood level, from business and civic organizations, and a per-sonal commitment to sharing a portion of our food budget with those less fortunate and not able to provide for their families.

Never is the reality of food insecurity more pronounced than in the summer, when children who get free meals at school are home and parents struggle to provide enough food to feed them.

CAC started its summer lunch program two years ago to help alleviate this problem. Donors pack bags with five, easy-to-pre-pare lunches and snacks that older children can prepare themselves while parents work. Donations to this program at this time are most welcome.

And to help raise awareness of hunger in our community, CAC will have its first Hunger Awareness Walk at the Food ‘n Fun Festival on Sunday, May 19, at the Morgan Falls Athletic Complex in Sandy Springs. Neighbors are invited to donate food, par-ticipate in the walk and the Shopping Cart Parade, and spend an afternoon of fun and games with their children. For more in-formation please visit our website at www.ourcac.org.

Tamara Carrera is CEO/Executive Director of the Community Assistance Center.

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Nothing chaps me more than read-ing how our Sandy Springs elected of-ficials are going to “revive” downtown (Sandy Springs Reporter, May 3-16, “City Council to Planners: Leave San-dy Springs Circle alone.”)

It would more appropriate to say they intend to “create” a downtown where one never existed.

We need a downtown like Wyoming needs a Naval base. Sandy Springs is a bedroom community to Atlanta and we should embrace that fact. Without

Atlanta, Sandy Springs wouldn’t even be on the map. There is no here, here. When put in the context of internation-al travelers to world-class cities – New York, Paris, London, Istanbul – will a downtown Sandy Springs become a jet setter’s go-to destination?

I agree with an earlier writer who stated the purpose of our building a City Hall and government complex is to fulfill a Napoleonic desire by our

elected officials to pour their legacy in concrete. It will be their Arc de Triom-phe. But, for the taxpayer, it will con-gest traffic, be costly to build, costlier to maintain, and remove prime real estate from the tax rolls.

The system we have now of rent-ing commercial space as needed is ide-al. Every 10 years, determine the most economically depressed area of the city and move the city offices there. It would pump tax money back into the com-munity, uplift improvised areas, and encourage landlords to maintain their property.

As for the former Target store, sell it to a developer.

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Billy Peebles gets excited when he talks about Abraham Lincoln.

Peebles’ eyes light as he warms to his subject. He speaks quickly, jumping from topic to topic, enthusiasm build-ing, as he recounts events from Lincoln’s life or discusses the 16th president’s writings.

“It’s just a great American story,” Pee-bles said one recent afternoon as he sat in his office at The Lovett School, where he has been headmaster for a decade.

“[Lincoln] becomes a respected law-yer. He’s sought out all over the Mid-west. But his great love is not the law. It’s politics. The guy is a workhorse. He wrote all of his own speeches. He does all his own research. He did all his own edits.”

And, of course, Lincoln changed

American history. He led the northern states to victory in the Civil War, a con-flict that – partly through his words – re-made the country and the way we think about it.

The war also changed Lincoln. The ways he changed are part of what inter-ests Peebles.

Peebles studies history. In his first years as a teacher, he said, he started reading Lincoln’s writings. The young historian grew fascinated with the dead president’s thoughts about God and re-ligion. “He had a very nuanced faith,” Peebles said.

On May 28, Peebles will present a public talk on Lincoln’s faith. His lec-ture, titled “Abraham Lincoln: How His Faith Shaped Policy,” is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at the Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, and is sponsored by the center and the Buck-head Heritage Society. Admission is free for members of either group, but tickets cost $15 for others.

This year has been sort of a “Year of Lincoln” in popular culture. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar portraying Lin-coln in a blockbuster movie. (“I thought it was great,” Peebles said of the mov-ie.) The Emancipation Proclamation

and the Get-tysburg Ad-dress, two of Lincoln’s best-known statements of public poli-cy, reach their 150th anni-versaries this year, helping renew inter-est in writings and speech-es by the self-taught frontier lawyer who became a focus of national debate over slavery.

“He was such an unusual character,” Peebles said. “He taught himself Euclid-

ean geometry! He taught him-self how to survey.”

And as Peebles sees it, Lin-coln thought hard and deep about religion. Faith was im-portant to him. “I think it helped to shape his character,” Peebles said. “I think it helped to shape some pretty signifi-cant policies.”

Growing up on the edge of the country, Lincoln “was steeped in the hard-shell, pre-destination, Baptist tradition,” Peebles said. “But he really re-belled against that. By the standards of his day, he was pretty eclectic.”

The war seems to have chal-lenged Lincoln’s faith, Peebles said. At times, Lincoln appears to have been a skeptic, Peebles

said, but, just weeks before the president’s assassination, he delivers his second inau-gural address, which contains more than a half-dozen direct references to God.

In times of both war and peace, many politicians come to believe that God is on their side. Lincoln “never fell victim to that kind of self-righteousness,” Pee-bles said.

Instead, he articulated a belief that the Civil War “was so horrific because God was holding the whole country ac-countable for slavery,” Peebles said. Even the winners would lose.

As he discussed Lincoln’s thoughts, Peebles turned to the bookshelves lin-ing a wall in his office at Lovett. They were filled with volumes on Lincoln and on the Civil War. He pulled down one book he had found particularly useful. The title: “Abraham Lincoln, from Skep-tic to Prophet.” “That’s a great descrip-tion, right there,” Peebles said.

In Lincoln’s writings, Peebles found a man “wrestling with himself” over religion and moral thinking as he tried to make sense of the horrors he saw all around him as the nation fought its Civil War.

“There’s a lot of self-reflection,” Pee-bles said. “That’s unusual for anybody, much less a president.”

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Penina Richards brought flowers. It just happened to be Mother’s Day, and she thought a few vases filled with lit-tle roses, colored pink or peach or red, would brighten these makeshift bedrooms and make them feel a bit more welcoming.

“These women coming in are moth-ers,” she said. “I’m delighted to be here for them on Mother’s Day.”

Richards and her daughter, 17-year-old Marley, planned to stay the night along with the four other families that were scheduled to arrive that after-noon. As they awaited their guests, the Richards – Penina, her husband, Bruce, and Marley – spent the warm Sun-day afternoon turn-ing a group of reli-gious classrooms at Temple Sinai in San-dy Springs into bed-rooms.

For the next week, four of those bed-rooms would provide temporary homes for four homeless fam-ilies. “This room is their room for the week,” Penina said as she moved in boxes holding one family’s belongings.

The Richards had volunteered to help set up the rooms and meet the families as members of Family Prom-ise of North Fulton/DeKalb, a new program organized by a dozen church-es and synagogues spread across San-dy Springs, Dunwoody, Buckhead, Ro-swell and Alpharetta.

Through the Family Promise pro-gram, member congregations provide places where up to four homeless fam-ilies can live for a week. The host con-

gregation supplies volunteers who sleep over, provide meals and otherwise sup-port the families dur-ing that week. The families move from facility to facility,

spending one week at one congrega-tion, then moving on to another.

“The tenets of our faith tell us to care for those who are marginalized in society,” said Rabbi Bradley Levenberg of Temple Sinai, who chairs the local Family Promise board. “This is a great opportunity for us to live our faith.”

The original Fam-ily Promise program started about 25 years ago in New Jer-sey, Levenberg said. The interfaith orga-nization now claims about 181 affiliat-ed networks in 41 states, with 150,000 volunteers working in more than 5,000 congregations, ac-cording to the Fam-ily Promise website.

Networks have been established in communities large and small. About a dozen now oper-ate in Georgia, said Bill Hardison, ex-ecutive director of Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb.

A representative of the nation-al group came to the north metro area about 18 months ago, Levenberg said, and started meeting with representa-

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Volunteers Hart Cobb, left, of Dunwoody United Methodist Church, and Bruce Richards of Temple Sinai, unload beds to be used by

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tives of religious groups to convince them a local network was needed. The local congregations agreed. The group hired Hardison in January and hosted its first family in February.

“Why do this? There’s a need for it,” Hardison said. “There are families out there.”

“The basic premise is to solve home-lessness one community at a time,” said Jenny Carter, director of finance at Dunwoody United Methodist Church, who volunteers with Family Promise.

Hardison works out of an office in the basement of St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody, where the pro-gram keeps a day room for the fami-lies. The room contains toys for young children, a waiting area, and a comput-er room adults can use to look for jobs. The church also provides showers and a washer and dryer the families can use.

One thing that separates Family Promise from other homeless programs is that the program provides tempo-rary housing for families, including fa-thers, mothers and children, represen-tatives said.

“It’s an amazing thing to keep fam-ilies together,” Penina Richards said as she rolled beds into classrooms that soon would become bedrooms.

The program also sets no age lim-it on the hosts, Levenberg said. That meant his daughter, Ilana, could stay over with him when he helped chaper-one the first Family Promise family to stay at Temple Sinai.

“It was wonderful to be able to bring my daughter to do this with me,” he said. “The conversations afterward have power to be truly impactful. When we were going to sleep that night, she said, ‘They don’t look like poor people.’ We got into a tremendous conversation about what poor people look like. It helped her to understand her precon-ceived notions of who homeless peo-ple are.”

When the families were at Dun-

woody United Methodist, Carter felt sort of like they were guests in her own home. In fact, she found herself help-ing one of the children prepare a book report that was due at school the fol-lowing morning.

“She got 100 on it,” Carter said. “She made sure to tell me the next night.”

These religious congregations are members of Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb:

alpharetta presbyterian ChurchDunwoody United Methodist Churchholy Innocents’ episcopal ChurchKingswood United Methodist ChurchMt. Vernon presbyterian ChurchNorthminster presbyterian Churchroswell presbyterian Churchroswell United Methodist Churchst. Dunstan’s episcopal Churchst. luke’s presbyterian Churchtemple beth tikvahtemple sinai

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Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Sandy Springs sched-ules an annual mission trip to Zambia. Eight to 12 members of the church, both high school students and adults, visit Zambia each year.

“My first time going was in the summer of 2011, with my wife,” Rev. Joe B. Martin IV said. “Our lives were changed by that trip more than anything since becoming parents, from seeing the poverty and seeing the community in Zambia where everyone seems to put everyone else first.”

Schools, Martin said, are a cherished part of life for Zambian children, one that not everyone has the privilege to take part in. One of the most surprising sights Martin recalls was “seeing chil-dren that sit beneath the windows of the school to hear what the teacher is saying.”

This year, the group will make the trip in mid-July for 2 1/2 weeks. They travel to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to volunteer to work in the schools.

“We visit the schools and play with kids,” said Barbara Hughes, a member of the church who has visited Zambia 15 times. “We usually spend two to three days with arts and crafts. When that’s all over, they know that someone cares about them.”

Every visit is different. Taking a trip to see far away “neigh-bors,” as Martin called the Zambians, benefits both the visitors and the visited. The importance of going on mission trips for the congregation, Martin said, is to build mutually-beneficial rela-tionships.

them than they get from us materially.”A couple of years ago, the church

brought computers to the children in Zambia. “Now our students are Skyp-ing with the students over there,” Hughes said. The group watched the first class of graduating Faith Works high school students, 43 in all, dance onto the stage to receive their diplo-mas.

Other churches also head to far-away places. Dunwoody United Meth-odist Church, for instance, has taken a trip to Brazil each summer since 2001.

Dick Murphy, head of internation-al missions, said church members have been working to build a summer camp for impoverished children in a village outside Rio de Janeiro. Murphy said the day camp is a way to “get them out of the hot city and into the mountains, where it’s cooler, to enjoy nature and get them away from the drugs and vio-lence of the favelas,” Murphy said, us-ing the Portugese term for slums.

Dunwoody United Methodist Church has worked with a small Meth-odist congregation in the village of Sa-cra Familia during their trips. “It’s a pretty rich history we have. We have gotten very close to a lot of the com-munity people of Sacra Familia,” Mur-phy said.

Murphy said the church is lucky to have been able to establish such a long-standing partnership in Brazil. “I think it takes a special situation to create that kind of longevity and connection,” he said.

This year, 17 people will be travel to Brazil from July 4 to July 15.

Murphy said the purpose of mission trips is both faith- and volunteer-based.

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obviously, your love of Christ with them,” Murphy said. “We don’t go as evangelism, we go as a construction group to offer help to those who don’t have it or need it.”

But he said the advantage of travel-ing to a different country is that vol-unteers are able to learn about differ-

ent cultures.“It also allows Americans to experi-

ence life in another country,” Murphy said. “It’s different than being a tourist, where you stay in nice places and see the highlights and move on. This is an enormous cultural exchange experience and it changes your life completely.”

Another church in Sandy Springs aims to make the lives of others better over the summer, but it doesn’t have to go as far to do it. North Springs United Methodist Church will travel to Nash-ville, Tenn., in July to take part in the Center for Student Missions program.

“We will learn about the city — the unique issues and problems peo-ple face, and what God is doing in the city,” Leah Gaughan, director of youth ministry at the church, said in an email.

The students then take part in activities specific to that city. “Helping others and giving back is what our calling from Je-sus is all about,” Gaughan said. “So we are committed to loving our neighbor in any way we can.”

This year the group will include seven young people and four adults who will collaborate with local ministries to serve the city.

“These ministry sites will be work-ing at a local, client choice food pantry, gardening on an urban farm and volun-teering at a homeless shelter and soup kitchen,” Gaughan said.

For a project even closer to home, Our Lady of the Assumption Catho-

lic Church in Brookhaven will take 25 middle-school students on a five-day excursion to various charities in the At-lanta area.

“We feel like at about that age group they are thinking a lot about them-selves,” Joy Baljet, a parent volunteer who leads the group, said. “We just wanted to show them that God has be-stowed all of these gifts for them, and they should share those.”

Throughout the week, the stu-dents will visit Se-nior Connections in Chamblee to pre-pare food for Meals on Wheels and The Elaine Clark Cen-ter for Exceptional Children, where they will participate in ac-tivities with disabled children.

The group will also go to the Shrine of the Immacu-late Conception in downtown At-

lanta to prepare and hand out about 500 lunches to the homeless, and visit Buckhead Christian Ministry to work in its food pantry.

In any place, the mission is the same — learn from giving.

“It’s win-win, both ways,” Hughes said.

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The new park will replace the green space that had been at the Slaton Drive and West Paces Ferry Road intersection

since 2000. That space, called Veterans Plaza, honored veterans of the Vietnam War. Veterans Park will honor men and women who served in World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and re-cent conflicts such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Larger than the original park, Veter-ans Park will include a walled contem-plative garden, a water feature, a seating area, and stations where visitors can use QR codes on mobile phones to hear oral histories of veterans.

“With the redesign of Veterans Park, we are trying to become more accessi-ble and relevant to nearby residents and visitors,” said Jackson McQuigg, vice president of properties for the History Center. In addition to being a new en-trance, McQuigg said History Center officials are encouraging people who live and work nearby to bring their lunch to the park on a regular basis and enjoy the new space.

“Access to Veterans Park will be free and it will have free wi-fi,” McQuigg emphasized. “People can even park in the History Center parking deck and walk to Veterans Park. The History Cen-ter parking,” he added with a chuckle, “is also free.”

“The new garden is in keeping with the History Center’s vision that gardens featuring native plants are as much a part of the state’s history as the manu-scripts, maps and photographs in its re-search center,” said center spokesperson Leigh Massey.

The center offers 22 acres with five featured gardens, woodlands and nature trails that showcase the state’s horticul-tural history.

The most popular of the gardens, the

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Gardens and trails showcasing the Atlanta region’s horticultural history are among the main attractions at the Atlanta History Center. The trails are designed for stroller and wheelchair use, though access may be limited in places.

Featured gardens and trailsConnor Brown Discovery Trail

This trail links the gardens, grounds and historic houses. It was designed for families, and introduces children to weather, trees, plants, landscape and animals that are com-mon to the Georgia region. Seven interactive discovery stations add to the learning ex-perience. Be sure to spend some time at the overlook.

The Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Quarry GardenThis 3-acre garden shelters one of Georgia’s most comprehensive collections of na-

tive plants (almost 600 species). A pond and bog garden in the center of the quarry pro-vides a habitat for unusual species, such as carnivorous plants and wild orchids, and a variety of birds and woodland creatures. If you’re lucky, perhaps the lady slipper orchids will be in bloom during your visit.

Smith Family Farm GardensA fenced vegetable garden, a plot devoted to corn and cotton, old-fashioned flowers,

a farm house, slave quarters and a swept-dirt yard will take visitors back in time to see what life was like in 1860s Georgia. The children won’t want to miss the sheep.

Cherry Sims Asian-American GardenAsian plants and their American counterparts co-mingle under towering trees in this

informal woodland setting. Many plants will be familiar to visitors because they often are the backbone of Atlanta-area gardens. The most familiar plants will be Japanese ma-ples and hydrangeas.

Swan House Gardens and GroundsThe 18th century-inspired landscape of this elegant and historic house features a pair

of cloverleaf pools, cascading fountains, a terraced lawn and roses tumbling over a stone retaining wall. Bring your camera; the Swan House Garden is one of the most photo-graphed sites in Atlanta.

Frank A. Smith Rhododendron GardenGardeners who have shaded landscapes will find inspiration in this garden. They will

see how an abundance of shade-loving rhododendrons, small flowering trees, eclectic ground covers and giant elephant ears can flourish in shady spots. An intimate pond and a dry stream offer added reasons to linger in this garden, especially on a warm day.

Swan Woods TrailVestiges of terraced cotton fields abandoned a century ago are still visible along this

trail through 10 acres of robust urban forest. Wildlife sightings will reward the watch-ful. Fern lovers will want to put Fern Circle on their don’t-miss list. It includes a collec-tion of fern species and wildflowers native to the Georgia Piedmont. Also situated on the Swan Woods Trail is the Garden for Peace, part of an international gardens network dedicated to promoting peace.

The Atlanta History Center130 West Paces Ferry Road404-814-4000www.atlantahistorycenter.comHours of Operation: MuseumMonday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sunday: Noon - 5:30 p.m. Gardens and grounds close at 5:15 p.m.Swan House and Smith Family House toursGuided tours are scheduled by onsite admissions staff at time of arrival. Space is limited. For groups of 10 or more, call 404-814-4062. All tour times subject to change without notice.Swan House Monday - Saturday: 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.Sunday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.Smith Family FarmMonday - Saturday: 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.Sunday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.Kenan Research Center Wednesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday - Tuesday: ClosedHolidays: The History Center and Kenan Research Center are closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The History Center is open from 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Columbus Day.

A stroller and wheelchair ac-cessible trail leads to the oth-er gardens: the quarry garden that features the state cham-pion Franklin Tree (the largest Franklinia altamaha in cultiva-tion in Georgia), long extinct in the wild; the lavish gardens of boxwoods and roses at the 1920s Swan House; the rho-dodendron garden featuring shade-loving plants that thrive in Atlanta; and the Asian-Amer-ican garden of Japanese maples that is remarkable in any season but bursts with color in the fall.

Even with all the beautiful, rare and endangered plants to see in the gardens, one of the delights in strolling through the towering urban forest and lis-tening to birds sing in the can-opy is what visitors don’t see and hear. It doesn’t take long to forget that Buckhead’s office towers, glitzy shopping, dining spots and traffic on Peachtree and Roswell roads are located only several blocks away.

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Franklin Pond MusicMonday, May 20, 7 p.m. – Come celebrate all the hard work of Franklin Pond Chamber Mu-sic’s “Fall Into Spring” coaches and students! Free and open to the public. Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-252-3479, email: [email protected] or go to: http://franklinpond.org for more details.

Jazz by the SpringsSunday, June 2, 7 p.m. – Gwen Hughes & The Ret-ro Jazz Kats heat up the stage at the upcoming Concerts by the Springs event. Free and open to the community. No pets. Picnic baskets, coolers and blankets are welcome; no outside tables. Addition-al food and beverages avail-able for purchase. No smok-ing. Heritage Green, on the Sandy Springs Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Blue-stone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org, call: 404-851-9111, ext. 4 or email: [email protected]. To learn more about the band, go to: www.ret-rojazzkats.com.

Vietnam Dedication Thursday, May 23, 11 a.m. – The Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association announces the 2013 dedication of its Vietnam Memorial, this year honoring the memory of Major John L. Carroll, U.S. Air Force, a native of Dunwoody and a 1958 graduate of Marist School. Major Carroll made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in November 1972, and the public is invited to attend the ceremony. Free. A reception follows. Marist School’s Hughes Spaulding Stadium, 3790 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For more information, contact Alan Gravel at 404-535-4342 or via email: [email protected]. www.avvba.org.

Let’s RecycleSaturday, June 1, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. – Keep Atlanta Beautiful sponsors the Buckhead Communi-ty Recycling Center for those inter-ested in recycling items. The Cen-

ter is open the first Saturday of each month, and accepts electronics, Styrofoam and latex paint, and also offers paper shredding services. There is a $10 charge for televisions. Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, 2715 Peachtree Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30305. For more information about the acceptable items, go to: www.keepatlantabeautiful.org.

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TAFEX FestivalSunday, May 26, 2-7 p.m. – TAFEX is the annual African Experience Festival, a cultural dis-play of live musical performances, fashion, African food, arts and crafts, games, kids’ area, and fun for the entire family. Free admission. Everyone is wel-come. Come out and learn about African traditions and heritage at this one-day event! Brook Run Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Register for your tickets at: www. tafexonline.com, and check on event updates and details. Call 877-436-3980 or email: [email protected] with questions.

Kids’ Fish!Saturday, May 25, 9-11 a.m. – Tom and Huck didn’t use fancy fishing gear on the Mississippi, nor will you on the Chattahoochee River! The park pro-vides “river cane” fishing poles with a cork bobber and a hook waiting to be baited. So swing that hook out into the water, relax and wait for the bites! Youngsters may catch catfish, bream or bass. Dress for the weath-er; wear comfortable clothes, shoes and favorite fish-ing hat. Don’t forget a snack, insect repellent, sun-screen, and a camera to record the moment. Drinking water and restrooms available. $3 daily pass; or $25 annual pass. Reservations required by calling 678-538-1200 or visiting: http://www.nps.gov. 1978 Is-land Ford Parkway, Sandy Springs, 30350.


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Teen DriversWednesday, May 22, 6 p.m. – This free, two-hour class helps parents and their new (or soon to be) teen drivers ages 14-16, learn what they need to do during the 40 hours of supervised practice driv-ing time required by Georgia law. This program ad-dresses driver attitude, knowledge and behavior of both the parent and the new teen driver. Topics in-clude: motor vehicle crashes; understanding the li-censing process and driving laws; coaching a new teen driver. A parent must accompany each teen. Advance registration necessary. 7840 Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. For more information or a registration form, email: [email protected] or call 770-551-3291.

Floral DesignThursday, May 23, 2-3 p.m. – Learn basic flo-ral design and arrangements for the home and spe-cial occasions. Bring your own materials, i.e., flow-ers, containers, moss, floral foam, etc. The instructor will only have limited supplies. Free and open to the public. Appropriate for seniors, 55 and older. Dun-woody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, call 770-512-4640.

Carving a NicheThursday, May 23, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Wood-carver Jerry Johnson has been honing his craft for more than 11 years. He demonstrates his skill and discusses the art of wood carving in support of the exhibit “Wit in Wood: The Folk Art of Moses Rob-inson” now at the Heritage Sandy Springs Muse-um. Open to all. Free; donations encouraged. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, NE, Sandy Springs, 30328. For additional information, call 404-851-9111 x 2, email: [email protected] or go to: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

Military TimelineSaturday, May 25, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. – Spend a day in the company of veterans, and hear their sto-ries of wartime through personal accounts and mem-orabilia. Living history interpreters represent soldiers of previous wars by showing authentic dress, equip-ment and vehicles. Appropriate for all ages. Program is free for Atlanta History Center members; includ-ed general admission for non-members. 130 W. Pac-es Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-814-4000 or go to: www.atlantahistorycenter.com for additional information.

Martial ArtsTuesday, May 28, 5 p.m. – Martial arts in-structor Michael Issa discusses the history and bene-fits of martial arts. He also will give a demonstration and short lesson. Free and open to all. For adults, 18 and older. A screening of the martial arts film “Hero,” staring Jet Li, follows, from 6-7:45 p.m. Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dun-woody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more details, call 770-512-4640.

Stress ReductionWednesday, May 29, 1-2 p.m. – Nia blends the fun and funk of dance, the precision and power of yoga and martial arts, the focus of T’ai Chi, and the peace and calm of meditation to achieve over-all fitness and self-healing - for body, mind and soul. Invite your “inner dancer” to come out to play, and let every cell of your body feel the joy in Nia and in life. Free and open to Cancer Support Community members. RSVP required to 404-843-1880. 5775 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd., Bldg C, Suite 225, At-lanta, 30342. To become a member or to find out more, visit: www.cscatlanta.org.

Genetic TestingSunday, June 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. – What’s in your genes? The Marcus Jewish Community Center - Zaban Park offers genetic counseling and screen-ings for Jewish genetic diseases (JGDs). Free and open to the community. For more information con-tact Sandra Bass at 678-812-3798 or via email: [email protected]. 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dun-woody, 30338.

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Charity Fund 5KSaturday, May 25, 8-10 a.m. – The Chari-ty Benevolent Fund Health, Wellness, & Memorial 5K Run/Walk gets under way at Chastain Park. The event promotes health and wellness in our commu-nities, and salutes veterans for their service. $15; $20 on race day. Check-in at 7 a.m.; 5K Run/Walk starts at 8 a.m. Register at http://fundab.org. 4469 Stel-la Dr., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Email: [email protected] or call 478-986-4908 to find out more.

Relay for LifeFriday, May 31-June 1, 6 p.m.-6 a.m. – Join the American Cancer Society in creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays by participat-ing in the Relay For® Life of Vinings-Smyrna. Over-night community fundraising walk, where teams of people walk, camp out around a track. Food, games and activities. Live entertainment starts at 6 p.m. and runs until closing ceremony at 5:50 a.m., June 1. The Lovett School football field, 4075 Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30327. To register or learn more, visit: www.relayforlife.org.

Possum Trot 10KSaturday, June 1, 7 a.m. – The 35th annu-al Possum Trot 10K Race and 1 Mile Fun Run gets under way, benefiting the Chattahoochee Na-ture Center. The fast and flat course goes along the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, on a smooth, cer-tified path allowing runners to get in condition for the 2013 Peachtree Road Race as well as qualify. Register online at www.active.com, in person at Big Peach Running Company stores or mail to CNC: 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. $28 by May 30; onsite registration, $35 for 10K and $15 for Fun Run. Fun Run begins at 7 a.m. the 10K at 7:30 a.m. Registration limited to 1,500. Call 770-992-2055 x 226 for additional information.

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Soccer is all about teamworkBy EMMA MccABE

The reason I play soccer is – and always has been – the team aspect.

When you’re on a team with so many other girls who share the same passion as you, it’s easy to form inseparable bonds. Those bonds last even after you stop play-ing together.

Playing soccer has taught me lifelong skills that I can put to use on and off the field. You have to learn to work with others, to push yourself, and to always give it every-thing you’ve got. Soccer also helps to focus in the classroom, which has really paid off for me.

When you and your team suc-ceed, you are reminded why you work so hard and spend so much time playing. This year, my River-wood International Charter High School team was 10-0 in the re-gion, and region champions for the second time in school history. We faced adversity head-on and really learned to work together, especial-ly when it became essential at game time.

Another reason I am passion-ate about the sport is because it re-minds me to focus on where I want

to take my life. I always know that no matter what’s currently going on in my life, once I step on the field and feel the support of my team-mates, I can forget everything and focus solely on the game.

Sometimes during the season, when I feel it’s too hard to balance everything, I need to be reminded why I work so hard for the game. When I step on the field and play with passion and dedication, I feel so alive and confident in what I’m doing.

Probably of the best life lessons soccer has taught me is to do ev-erything with confidence because you’ll be more likely to succeed.

This season, we’ve been in-spired by a quote from soccer star Mia Hamm: “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back…Play for her. And the girl next to her.”

Emma McCabe is a student at Riverwood International Charter High School.

What sport inspires you the most?

Spring is at hand. Summer is close behind. And as the days grow longer and warmer, it’s time to head outside and engage in some healthy play.

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The games they pursue vary widely, from the traditional sport of soccer to the very untradition-al game of Quidditch, which it appears has moved from book-bound fantasy to scuff-kneed re-ality. We asked our young writers to explain why they gravitated to a particular sport.

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I decided to join the swim team for a new challenge. I wanted to try some-thing new and do my best to succeed.

This spark of in-terest came from watching profes-sional swimmers race for the gold med-al in the London Summer Olympics in 2012. I realized that I wanted to swim again, not just for fun but also with a team. I wanted that family feeling that I saw on the TV screen. So, I joined the swim team at my school in 11th grade.

I was nervous before every practice and I always wondered if joining the swim team was the right thing to do. I got my answer once I went to my first swim meet.

I felt the rush of swimming a 50-me-ter freestyle race and then a 4x100 free-style relay. Afterward, I felt great, like I had undertaken a challenge. I went to the meets and swam 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter freestyle as my events, improving my time little by little.

During a meet at the Cumming Ath-letic Center, I swam the 100-meter breast stroke, an event that I had nev-er participated in before. I was extreme-ly nervous and was not very comfortable with the stroke. But I still found myself

ready to swim and kept telling myself to at least try it and have fun with it.

My time at the end was not some-thing amazing. I ended up second to last in my heat, but I was happy with the fact that I pulled through and finished the race.

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The atmosphere of swim events was an adrenaline rush and to be a part of that rush was even better. I won the school award for “Most Improved Swimmer” after the season ended and also grew closer to my teammates.

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Quidditch: A real sport for the real world

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dream of mine for as long as I can remember. My older sister was a cheerleader. Upon accep-tance at Holy Innocents’ Episco-pal School, I knew that I want-ed to be one too. I did not realize how big of a role cheer-leading would play in my high school experience.

I tried out during the spring of eighth grade. Many were experienced in the sport, while others were just as new as I was. Tryout week was stressful and in-timidating. We learned a dance, cheer, and chant, all of which we practiced throughout the week. Then, on Friday, we were sent into the gym in groups of three to perform what we had learned for judges.

Each year, tryouts proved to be just as stressful as they had

been the previous year. But I grew to enjoy it more and more every year. My hard work paid off, and I was a member of the basketball squad throughout all of high school.

Cheerleaders have many jobs. First, we are treated the same as all other sports teams. We have practice every day of the week, two of which we work out with the school trainer. We travel to The University of Georgia for a three-day

summer camp. Our main goal is to cheer for

the players, and raise the spir-it level among the school com-munity. Throughout the season, we make signs to hang around the school, give out stickers, and cheer at carpool on game day mornings.

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home and away, Winterfest is the biggest event of the sea-son. The week consists of a hall-way-decorating contest between grades, as well as various dress-up days. There is a theme, which changes every year.

The captains and seniors of the squad create the Winterfest routine, which we perform dur-ing an all-school pep rally as well as during halftime of the Varsity Boys Basketball game.

The cheerleaders work on this routine for about two months. This performance de-fines our squad for the year. Not only does it reveal how physically challenging our stunts are, or how high we can jump, but it also shows our ability to work together and improve throughout the years.

I was voted captain of our Varsity Basketball Cheerlead-ing Squad this year. Being se-lected by my peers made me realize how much this sport meant to me. The friends and memories that I made as a re-sult of this sport will always be a part of who I am.

Stacy Bubes is a student at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School.

Cheerleading does more than just raise spirits

By BLAkE FLOuRnOyIf you’ve paid much attention to the

media world at any point between 1997 and 2011, chances are good that you know at least something about the Har-ry Potter series of novels by J.K. Row-ling, or the eight movie adaptations of the novels.

And if you know about Harry Potter, you probably know at least something about Quidditch, the premier sport of the wizarding world that the series takes place in, with all of its magic and flying brooms and golden snitch snatching.

It may sound silly, but the sport is not confined to the pag-es of fantasy books. Quidditch is a real sport that you can play and it is played worldwide. Magic doesn’t have as great a hand in the game’s procedures as much as imagination and a drive to have fun do, but the game exists, and I, like quite a few others, play it.

Believe it or not, the sport is more se-rious than you would think.

Real-world play began in 2005, when

a group at Middlebury College in Ver-mont adapted the first draft of rules from the book. The game’s rules are, and have always been, pretty simple. For starters, each player must always have a broom between his or her legs.

The “Golden Snitch” – a flying ball in the movies – is played by a per-son. Seekers have to “snatch” the Snitch by playing what is es-sentially the world’s most manic game of tag.

The game was a hit, and within weeks the rules were spreading across col-lege campuses. Ever since, the sport has

blossomed into an international sensa-tion, to the point that there is an Inter-national Quidditch Association (IQA) that handles the distribution of rules, organizes various national leagues (yes, there are international Quidditch World Cups), and admits new teams.

Teams can be formed at the high school and college levels, though there have been a few unofficial middle-school

teams.If you were to

ask me why I love playing Quid-ditch, I’d have to say that I love the insanity of the whole affair. The game isn’t made to be serious. It’s made to be fun for all involved and to promote friendship be-tween teams.

At my first or-ganized game, my team and I took a break between games to teach the elementa-ry school kids in the audience how to play. And that was shortly after befriending our opponents from the last round!

It’s a sight to see, Quidditch. Being on the field with friends, seeing your Seeker zigzag through a nearby forest to try and catch a weaselly Snitch, gives me a feeling of satisfaction I can’t easily de-scribe.

Which is exactly why I love Quid-ditch – it only makes sense while you’re on the field playing it.

Blake Flournoy is a student at River-wood International Charter High School.

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By MELissA WEinMAn [email protected]

The Weber School’s Moot Beit Din team has once again proved its scholar-ly prowess, using its knowledge of an-cient Jewish law to win a national rab-binic mock trial competition.

Weber beat 22 other teams from the United States and Canada to win this year’s national Moot Beit Din, held in Philadelphia April 18-21.

But the Weber School is no strang-er to victory. The school’s team has been the national champion four times over the past five years.

The five-member team from We-ber acts as a Moot Beit Din, or rabbin-ic court, and uses Jewish law, known as the Talmud, to come up with a solution to a dilemma.

Though the answers come from an-cient texts, the dilemmas deal with is-sues of modern relevance, such as bio-ethics, terrorism and Jewish-Christian relations, said Marc Levinthal, a teacher at Weber and the advisor for the Moot Beit Din.

“We’re always concerned about bring-ing present-day relevance to the Tal-mud, which is 2,000 years old,” Levin-thal said. “This is the epitome.”

This year’s case involved the question

of whether a Jew could participate in a Catholic wedding. The team was given three months to develop a written opin-ion.

Based upon their research, the stu-dents argued that the traditional law would allow for the individual to attend the wedding as an onlooker, but not as a bridesmaid.

“You’re given no sources, just the case. We had to find our own sources,” said Daniel Gordon, a member of the team. “We wrote a 10-page argument, which took hours and hours.”

The students put in a lot of work, re-searching, citing their sources, and ulti-mately writing their opinion.

“We had a lot of after school meet-ings during first semester, Sunday meet-ings, lunch meetings,” said team mem-ber Daniela Friedman. “We went to our teacher’s house over winter break.”

The research can be challenging, but the students said it encourages them to think critically to put together a strong argument.

“A lot of times you find commentar-ies that oppose one another, so you have to decide how to value each one,” said Adina Karpugh. “I think a lot of us were

really surprised with our conclu-sion. I didn’t think we’d end up where we did.”

Levinthal said the thing that makes the Moot Beit Din compe-titions so chal-lenging is the ma-terial that the students have to sift through, which often is in a medi-eval Hebrew that can be difficult to translate. And Levinthal said the Talmud is not as well-organized as secular codes of law.

“The difference being that lawyers practice in one juris-diction, the codes of law are organized and indexed very well over a short pe-riod of time,” he said. “When you’re re-searching Jewish law, you’re researching voluminous texts over 2,000 years, of-ten without any indexing, codification.”

And the students have to make deci-sions for themselves, he said.

“It often is not out there in black and white. They often have to see contradic-tions between rabbis. They have to anal-ogize,” Levinthal said.

Though it’s a lot of extra work, the students on the team enjoy the chal-lenge.

“It’s a serious commitment if you want to be part of it. But you end up loving it,” Gordon said.

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members of the Weber School’s Moot Beit Din team, which captured a national championship

for the fourth time in five years.

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If Abigail Van Horn asks if she shall “compare thee to a summer’s day,” it is not because of a yearning for the end of the school year. Instead, it is because she means business.

At the end of April, Abigail placed as a semi-finalist in the 30th season of the English-Speaking Union Nation-al Shakespeare Competition after per-forming Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and a monologue from “Much Ado About Nothing.” She performed on the Vivian Beaumont stage at Lincoln Center.

“Who gets to say that they performed on a Broadway stage when they were 18?” Abigail said of her experience.

Abigail earned her chance to com-pete at the national level after becom-ing the first-ever Lovett student to win the Atlanta branch competition, which was judged by professional actors and actresses. She beat 28 other competitors, including the second place finisher, fel-low Lovett student Bryony Berry.

During her all-expenses-paid trip to New York City, Abigail got to see a mod-ern rendition of “Julius Caesar,” sit in on a course at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and meet the near-ly 60 other competitors from across the country and Mexico.

Why does she study Shakespeare? “I like how complicated his characters are,” Abigail said. “We learned in school and in theater that a character really isn’t be-lievable unless they are incredibly com-plex and insane, and I think he does a really good job of making characters like that.”

Abigail also felt that the pieces she competed with were well-fitted to her

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and confidence which translate beauti-fully in the characters she creates on the stage,” said her coach for the competi-tion, Eric Brannen.

Leading up to the nationals, Abi-gail practiced daily with Brannen, who joined her in New York.

“Everybody was brilliant at what they did, and it was just really nice to be sur-rounded by that talent,” said Abigail of the competition.

While the scope of her recent perfor-mance was new, she is no stranger to the stage, and has participated in many of Lovett’s school productions, from “The Sound of Music” to “My Fair Lady,” and has acted in a few commercials.

The only drawback to Abigail’s trip was that she had to miss her regional golf tournament. Abigail is the Lovett girls’ golf team captain and has been on the varsity team throughout her four years of high school.

In addition to golf and acting, Abi-gail is a cheerleader and enjoys singing. While her favorite subjects are Advanced Placement music theory, and astronomy and astrophysics, her passion still lies in acting.

“I think that anytime you have a chance to perform, you should take it, because it really helps you grow as a per-son,” said Abigail.

What’s Next:

Abigail plans to attend Pepperdine University in the fall. She hopes to con-tinue acting and is interested in studying psychology or fashion design.

This article was reported and written by Mollie Simon, a student at Chamblee Charter High School.

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� Eukyung Yang � Senior, Riverwood Interna-

tional Charter High School

When Eukyung Yang, who also goes by Jennifer, was 10 years old, she moved from Korea to Florida. She didn’t know a single word of English.

She turned to math. “When you don’t know English,

numbers are the only things that make sense. It really is a universal lan-guage,” Eukyung said.

Eukyung grew very comfortable with math throughout her school-ing. When she moved from Florida to metro Atlanta and enrolled in Riv-erwood International Charter High, she expected to find a math club she could join upon arrival.

To her surprise, Riverwood had no math club.

So Eukyung took it upon herself to start one. It’s still going strong. And the club recently chose new officers, so it can continue after Eukyung graduates and moves on to college.

Eukyung speculates that the Interna-tional Baccalaureate Program focus at Riverwood explained the lack of a math club.

Yet that same liberal-arts focus also contributed to her increased apprecia-tion for the study of foreign languages in high school. As she mastered English, she also started to study French.

“Although I started learning the lan-guage because it’s a requirement, it’s be-come a passion,” Eukyung said. “French has opened a lot of doors for me. I love that when you can communicate with a native, you immediately establish a sense of friendship and belonging.”

Eukyung has also been active in com-munity service work during her time in high school.

For the past two years, she has been volunteering regularly at the Chastain Horse Park. Volunteers facilitate the therapeutic program, known as Equine Assisted Therapy, in which children with disabilities, the elderly, and people re-covering from injuries ride horses with the help of volunteers like Eukyung.

“I had never been in close contact with horses before, so it was a challeng-ing, new experience,” said Eukyung.

She has grown to love working with people there.

“My biggest motivation is the chil-dren,” Eukyung said. “It’s just so much fun to be around them and it gives a great feeling that you’ve helped someone that day. It gives another aspect to life.”

Academics are a priority for Eu-kyung. Riverwood has been academical-ly challenging for her, she said, but she is graduating as one of the Top Ten stu-dents in the Class of 2013.

“At first, when they announced the Top Ten and my name was called, I didn’t believe it,” she said. “But as time went on, it began to sink in and I just became happier and happier.”

It made all of the hard work worth it in the end.

“High school is very demanding, and it requires a lot from me,” Eukyung said. “But since all of my friends go through it together, it’s really helped form close friendships.”

What’s Next:

Eukyung still is deciding where she will attend college next year. She hopes to continue to study French and thinks a semester abroad is a must. She also hopes to continue to help at the Horse Park and venture into other community service opportunities while she’s in col-lege.

Elizabeth Wilkes, a student at North Springs Charter High, reported and wrote this article.

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Elementary schoolsHeards FerryCCRPI score: 95.8Achievement Points 67.6Progress Points 10Achievement Gap Points 15Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 1.7Exceeding the Bar Points 1.5

High PointCCRPI score: 85Achievement Points 59.7Progress Points 10.3Achievement Gap Points 11.3Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 3.2Exceeding the Bar Points .5

Ison SpringsCCRPI score: 81.6Achievement Points 54.8Progress Points 9.6Achievement Gap Points 11.3Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 4.9Exceeding the Bar Points 1

Lake ForestCCRPI score: 80Achievement Points 52.7Progress Points 8.5Achievement Gap Points 10.5Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 7.3Exceeding the Bar Points 1

Spalding Drive CharterCCRPI score: 80.3Achievement Points 58.4Progress Points 9.2Achievement Gap Points 10.5Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 1.7Exceeding the Bar Points .5

WoodlandCCRPI score: 84Achievement Points 57Progress Points 9.6Achievement Gap Points 10.5Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 5.9Exceeding the Bar Points 1

Middle schoolsRidgeview CharterCCRPI school: 78.3Achievement Points 58Progress Points 8.9Achievement Gap Points 10.5Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points .4Exceeding the Bar Points .5

Sandy Springs CharterCCRPI school: 76.9Achievement Points 51Progress Points 9.2Achievement Gap Points 12Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 2.5Exceeding the Bar Points .5

High schoolsNorth Springs CharterCCRPI score: 76.2Achievement Points 51Progress Points 9.6Achievement Gap Points 13.1Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 2.5Exceeding the Bar Points 0

Riverwood International CharterCCRPI score: 75.8Achievement Points 54.5Progress Points 9.7Achievement Gap Points 10.3Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points 1.3Exceeding the Bar Points 0

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� e Georgia Department of Educa-tion has released new report cards on schools that will give parents a di� erent view of student achievement.

Schools will no longer be scored on the system established by the federal No Child Left Behind Act that measured student achievement based on Adequate Yearly Progress. Georgia has obtained a waiver from NCLB. � e new system is known as the College and Career Ready Performance Index, or CCRPI.

Under AYP, schools either made progress or they didn’t. � at was deter-mined by measuring student achieve-ment within di� erent subgroups of stu-dents, like English as second language students or special education students.

AYP also focused on English and math scores.

CCRPI measures all students collec-tively across all subject areas.

� e CCRPI score is calculated by adding the scores below it. Achievement is the base score, worth up to 70 points. Schools can receive up to 15 points for Progress and 15 points for reducing the Achievement Gap between student scores and the state average. Challenge points are like bonus points for schools with a large number of students who are impoverished. Challenge points are de-termined by adding the Performance Points with the Exceeding the Bar Point. Schools can earn up to 10 challenge points.

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Police BlotterThe following incidents and arrests are some but not all of the reports fi led with SSPD over the listed pe-

riod, dated through May 10.

The following information was provided by the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY 900 block of Crestline Parkway 30342 –

On April 20, a guest of the Extended Stay Ho-tel reported that around 9 p.m. he was tak-ing the trash out when he was approached by a young man who demanded his wallet and iPhone. The man gave him his wallet but tossed the phone. The suspect wanted the phone and was looking for it on the ground. The victim then ran from the location and the suspect fl ed.

BURGLARY 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On

April 22, the resident said that someone forced entry to the front door of his apart-ment and took his Xbox 360, Wii game sys-tem, two watches and clothing. Also taken were 42” and 32” TVs, one iPod and an iPad tablet.

400 block of Summer Drive 30342 – On April 22, someone pried open the front door to the victim’s apartment and took an Xbox, PS3, and Wii game system as well as a Black-berry phone.

600 block of Je� erson Drive 30350 – On April 22, an apartment storage area was bro-ken into.

6000 block of Weatherly Drive 30328 – On April 23, someone forced entry to the vic-tim’s home through a kitchen window. Noth-ing appears to have been taken.

6000 block of Mount Vernon Oaks Drive 30328 – On April 24, someone entered the resident’s garage and went inside both vehi-cles. Only loose change was taken.

700 block of Dalrymple Road 30328 – On April 26, the victim’s apartment door was kicked in. Whoever did that came face-to-face with the owner’s big dog. The dog ap-parently scared the suspect away. Nothing was taken.

6600 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 4, a business was burglarized when some-one tore a hole in the wall. Multiple packag-es of hair were taken.

900 block of Pitts Road 30350 – On May 4, the victim said between April 20 and May 4, someone entered his home and took several jewelry items. The victim said a possible sus-pect is a family acquaintance who is current-ly on bond for ID theft.

8300 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 6, sometime between 9:30 on the previ-ous day and 10:30 on the report date, some-one forced the victim’s door open and took a MacBook Pro, TV, luggage and a DVD player.

7600 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 6, sometime between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m., someone forced the victim’s door to her apartment open and took two laptops.

1000 block of Spalding Court 30328 – On May 7, a man said that around 9:30 a.m. he

awoke and heard a noise outside. He looked through the window and saw a man with a crowbar who was attempting to force entry into the apartment. The man fl ed when he saw the resident.

8600 block of Roberts Drive 30350 – On May 7, a woman reported that following an out-of-town trip, she came home and found that her back sliding door had been broken, and someone had entered and taken a 42-inch TV and DVD player.

4700 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 8, a maintenance employee did some re-placement work on an apartment refrigera-tor. When he left, he set the alarm. A half-hour later, the alarm activated. Thinking that he made a mistake, he went to the apart-ment. When he arrived he saw a man crawl-ing out of the bedroom window. The man saw the maintenance man and fl ed.

100 block of Spalding Trail 30350 – On May 9, someone forced a back bedroom win-dow and entered the residence. Missing are 37-inch and 50-inch televisions, a DVD player, Bose sound system, and a PlayStation. Also missing is a microwave and Callaway golf clubs.

4800 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 9, someone pried the victim’s front door open sometime between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. The victim is missing a 32-inch TV, shoes, a radio and her passport.

THEFT Benton Woods Drive – Members of a fam-

ily said that during an estate sale, someone went into a bedroom and took a class ring and wallet.

1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On April 22, a woman reported that while she was shopping at the HomeGoods store, someone took her wallet from her purse. Her credit cards were later used to buy goods worth $4,000 at a discount store, $1,745 and $1,000 at a department store, and $13 at a clothing store.

Perimeter Center – A woman reported that while she was at a charity store on April 22, her wallet was taken from her purse in the shopping cart. Her credit cards were taken when she was in the dressing room trying on clothing. A card was later used at a discount store for $4,000 and a drug store for $1,000.

4800 block of Merlandale Drive 30342 – On April 23, a landscaping employee said that someone stole an edger, weedeater, two gas blowers, two pruners and a gas pole trimmer from his trailer while he was working in the customer’s yard.

400 block of Monterrey Parkway 30350 – On April 23, a man reported that a guy named “Spider” was hanging out with him at his apartment. Spider asked the victim to use his

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phone and stepped outside because of what he said was bad reception. The next minute, Spider was gone.

� 100 block of Stone Mill Trail 30328 – On April 23, a woman reported that someone took her iPhone 4 from the subdivision pool between 12 p.m. and 9 a.m. The tracker showed the phone to be in the 2900 block of Country Squire Drive in DeKalb County.

� 4900 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On April 26, around 8:30 p.m., a man went into a grocery store and stole $241 worth of Coro-na beer. The store also reported an attempt-ed shoplifting by two women on the same date, earlier in the day. The two took $457 in items, mostly dental items such as electric toothbrushes and Oral-B refills. They were discovered. They dumped the items and left.

� 1000 block of Johnson Ferry Road 30342 – On April 27, a man reported that his wife’s rings were stolen from a hospital pre op room while she was in surgery.

� 1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On April 27, a woman reported that her daughter left her iPhone in the bathroom at a fast-food restaurant. The $600 phone was gone when they returned to get it.a fast-food restaurant

� Cherry Bluff Drive -- A resident report-ed that sometime between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. someone removed two pieces of jewelry from her bedroom night stand. She said contrac-tors were in the home at that time and could be suspects.

�Old Vermont Place -- On May 6, a resi-

dent reported that her diamond engagement ring was stolen. She believes that it was sto-len by employees of a plumbing company doing work in that area at that time.

� 400 block of Morgan Falls 30350 – On May 6, someone entered a construction area and took several tools. The tools included two backpack blowers, concrete saws, generator, pole saw, chain saws and several other items. The tools were in a container, but the lock was sawed or cut off to gain access.

� 7300 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 6, a man said he placed his iPhone on the counter to pay for his gas. A man and woman were standing behind him. The victim noticed that his phone was gone. He suspects that the man and woman behind him took it. He was unable to track it.

� 6600 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On May 6, a woman reported that she left her cellphone on the classroom ta-ble and someone took it. Another student was overheard saying he was going to take the phone.

� 8800 block of Roswell Road -- On May 7, an HR employee reported that a laptop was stolen. The victim said she stepped away for five minutes and someone took the laptop and possibly exited through a nearby side door.

� 100 block of Marsh Glen Court 30350 – On May 7, the resident said someone took

several jewelry items from the home while she was out of town. Someone also used her credit card numbers to make purchases total-ing just over $1,000.

�Hewlett Road 30350 -- A resident said someone removed the mail from his mailbox sometime between 11 p.m. and the follow-ing morning about 8 a.m.

� I-285 west of Northside Drive 30342 – On May 8, a man reported that his motorcy-cle broke down and he left it on the shoul-der around 5:30 p.m. He returned just after

9 p.m. and it was gone. The bike is a 2001 Honda CBR600, red and black.

� 8600 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 8,

a woman reported that her iPhone was sto-len about 3 a.m. at her workplace at a sports bar. Video showed that another employee may have taken it. She’s seen picking up an item which the victim thinks is the phone and walking away.

� 800 block of Powderhorn Road 30342 – On May 8, a bike was reported missing from a carport.

� 500 block of Forestdale Drive 30342 – On May 9, the victim reported that her 2000 Toy-ota 4-Runner was taken overnight.

ThefT fRom Vehicles � Articles were stolen from vehicles on the

following dates:

� 1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On April 21, an iPad was stolen

� 6300 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On April 21, a handgun was taken

� 8800 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On April 23, a computer, canvas bag and docu-ments

� 1000 block of Abernathy Road 30328 – On April 23, a canoe rack

� 100 block of North Springs Court 30328 – On April 26, a backpack and camping equip-ment

� 4900 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On April 26, a laptop and briefcase

� 5600 block of Glenridge Drive 30342 – On April 27, a catalytic converter was sawed off the car

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive 30328 – On April 29, a laptop bag, small radio, pa-perwork

� 6000 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On April 29, a purse, iPhone, cellphone, iPad, wallet, extra keys to the car were taken

� 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342, May 4

� 5500 block of Glenridge Drive 30342, May 4



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FRAUD 5000 block of Errol Place 30328 – On April

20, a man’s credit card number was used to order $549 of items online. The shipping ad-dress was Guilford Forest Road in south At-lanta.

400 block of Huntcli� Village Court 30350 – On April 22, a man reported that while he was in the Fulton County Jail, his credit card number was used.

8700 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On April 23, an employee of Family Dollar said a man came in with a badly counterfeited $50 bill and tried to buy items. He aborted the attempt and left in a car occupied by a woman.

4700 block of Merlendale Drive 30342 – On April 24, some-one used the victim’s name and So-cial Security number in an attempt to open credit. Addresses given by the thief were the 2100 block of Peachtree Road in At-lanta and the 3500 block of Robins Landing Way in Decatur.

Old Creek Trail 30328 – On April 25, a woman reported that someone stole a full trash can on April 4. The owners didn’t report the theft. She later found out that her per-sonal information was used to set up a check-ing account online as well as an ATM card and credit cards. It appears that all of the ac-counts were later frozen and canceled.

2000 block of Dunwoody Club 30350 – On April 27, a man went into the yogurt store, and according to the clerk, confused her with the payment of the $3.63 item by using a $100 bill and asking for certain de-nominations and breaking those into smaller bills. At the end of the day, the register came up short and the employee believes the sus-pect was responsible. He had a tattoo on his arm in the shape of a cross.

8000 block of Santa Fe Parkway 30350 – On May 5, a man reported that someone hacked into his account and ran up charges on his credit card. The charges were made in Cartersville, Ga., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., and Franklin and Brentwood, Tenn.

Another bank account was accessed by someone who called the bank and said he was the victim and wanted to change the address on the credit card to an address in Miami. Someone also tried unsuccessfully to raise the limit on the victim’s credit card from a hardware store.

5300 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 8, a man reported that his Bank of Amer-ica account had unauthorized activity on it. Someone withdrew just under $3,000 from the account.

1st block of Concourse Parkway 30328 – On May 8, a woman reported that someone conducted nine unauthorized bank transac-tions in her company’s Bank of America ac-count. She said just over $4,000 was with-drawn and a credit card was made in the

name of “Dennis Williams.”

5500 block of New Northside Drive 30342 – On May 9, around noon, a man went into a bank branch and wanted to cash a personal check for $8,550. He did not have an account at the bank so he was asked for two forms of ID. He gave a California ID that was fake, and a bank debit card, which is not ID. He provid-ed the thumb print. The teller told him he needed to verify some things and called the bank on the check. He asked the suspect his date of birth. The man said “For security rea-sons, I won’t reveal that” which is translated to “I’m a crook and you should be going along with this.” The teller explained that this is a procedure that needs to be completed if he wanted a check for over $8,000 cashed. The

man then walked out.

A witness said a man matching the description got into a car near the adjacent restaurant and headed west on I-285. It ap-pears the account on the check that he tried to cash had been set up out of state, and other monies from victims had been deposited into that account, and

subsequent withdrawals had been made.

8100 block of Colquitt Road 30350 – On May 9, a woman reported that someone used her identity to open two Ve-rizon phone and two AT&T phone accounts. Someone also tried to deposit over $2,000 into her bank account, but the bank reversed the transactions.

ASSAULT 5000 block of Spalding Drive – Cops spoke

to a woman who said she rents a basement apartment from the owner, who came to the apartment to look at a water leak. The rent-er’s dog was there and the owner told the renter to control the dog or she would shoot it. The renter said the owner pushed her down. She was later checked by EMS person-nel although she had no signs of injury. No gun was ever displayed during the argument.

200 block of Northwood Drive 30342 – On April 21, the victim said a group of guys came to his apartment wanting beer. He said he didn’t have any, so one of them said he’d cut him with his pocket knife. The victim then ran and the suspect with the knife chased him in vain. He thinks the suspect’s name is Alfredo.

6300 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On May 4, cops were called to a ho-tel and spoke to a 63-year-old man who said another man who has been living with him for a month became angry at him, and during the argument the suspect hit him in the eye and then pulled his nipple ring out.

700 block of Hammond Drive 30328 – On May 5, offi cers responded to a domes-tic call and spoke to a man who said he and his girlfriend were arguing, and he told her they couldn’t live together anymore so she slapped him across the face 10 times. She also damaged some of the apartment’s inte-rior.

6000 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 6, a woman said that about 3 a.m. she was assaulted, along with her friends, by fi ve men who had just been kicked out of the Ta-boo 2 Club. She said she was punched and her

8700 block of Roswell Road – On April 23, an employee

of Family Dollar said a man came

4700 block of Merlendale – On April 24, some-

one used the victim’s name and So-cial Security number in an attempt to open credit. Addresses given by the thief

man then walked out.

matching the description got into

subsequent withdrawals had been made.

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cellphone was thrown to the ground. The fi ve suspects then left in a teal-colored Chrys-ler 300. Another patron said he was assault-ed and his cellphone, debit card and wallet were taken. He described the same group as the woman.

ARRESTS 5300 block of Roswell Road – A woman

called the police and told them her son was wanted on a Sandy Springs Police probation-violation warrant. The offi cers found the man and took him into custody.

Ga. 400 30328 – On April 2,1 an offi cer found a car on the side of Ga. 400. The driv-er inside was passed out and unresponsive to the offi cer. The offi cer smelled, and then found, marijuana on the man, as well as cash that was in his hand. He was fi nally awak-ened and after it was determined that he was OK, he was arrested.

9400 block of Roberts Drive 30350 – On April 22, an apart-ment complex employee reported that two men were putting menus to a local restaurant on apartment doors. One of the men urinated in the breezeway against the apartment wall. They got into a white Prius and left. The responding offi cer spotted the car and stopped it. The complainant gave a detailed description of the man whom he identifi ed. The sus-pect had a small bag of marijuana and a glass pipe on him so he was cuffed, put in the police car, and taken to jail.

6300 block of Powers Ferry Road – Cops drove up on a man who was asleep in his car. The man had been asleep in the car be-cause, as he explained to the offi cers, he was at the Mardi Gras Club and wanted his blood alcohol to go down before he drove. Unfortu-nately, the man fell asleep with a glass pipe that had burnt marijuana, which was next to the console, where there was a baggie with a small amount of marijuana. He was charged with disorderly conduct but released on a ci-tation.

6400 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On April 26, Home Depot employ-ees caught and detained a woman who took eight, high-dollar light bulbs, placed them in her purse and then attempted to leave. The value of the bulbs was $175.80. She was re-leased on a copy of charges.

8700 block of Roswell Road – A woman was arrested at a grocery store on April 26. She shoplifted two packs of Ora-Jel pain re-liever, valued at $15. She was given a copy of charges and released.

Also at the same store, a man was arrest-ed on April 26 after he stole two packs of ri-beye steaks, a pack of chicken wings, tilapia, cookie dough, and a bottle of olive oil. He put the items in a book bag. � e total val-ue of the items was $87. He was arrested and taken to jail.

8300 block of Roswell Road – Another shoplifting was called in on April 27. The call-er said a Ford pickup had just left after the person in it stole beer from the store. The re-sponding offi cer passed a truck matching the description. The truck was driving 15 miles over the speed limit. The offi cer stopped the truck. The truck had two other occupants other than the driver, and beer on the fl oor-board. The victim identifi ed the passenger in the truck as the man who took the beer. Some of the beer had been consumed. The

rest of the beer was recovered and the sus-pect, who became loud and verbally abusive due to his intoxication, was taken to jail.

1000 block of Spring Creek Drive 30350 – On May 5, cops answered a domestic vio-lence call that began when the male victim became angry that his girlfriend was speak-ing to another man. The argument continued to the residence and at one point the wom-an attacked the man, scratching his face with her fi ngernails. He had signs of lacerations. She said he tried to choke her. At the con-clusion of the call, the woman was arrested for battery.

I-285 at Roswell Road 30328 – On May 7, an offi cer made traffi c stop on a car that had improper registration. In talking to the oc-cupants, he discovered that one that was on

probation for aggravated assault, aggra-vated battery, and armed robbery in

Fulton County. The offi cer also lo-cated a semi-auto pistol in the car, which is a violation of the felony probation. The man was also cur-rently wanted in College Park for

an aggravated assault. He was ar-rested.

6300 block of Peachtree Dun-woody Road 30328 – On May 8, the

loss-prevention staff called the cops on a woman they detained whom they saw take several items with-out paying for them. The wom-an had taken food and clothing totaling just over $81. She was charged and released pending her

court date.

5900 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 8, an offi cer observed a man walking down the road with a large number of items under his arm. This particular area has seen thefts from cars recently. The offi cer turned his car around to return to the man and speak with him. He reported that the man saw him and then quickly walked into a restaurant parking lot, and then quickly across Roswell Road to the area near a restaurant. The man was now running. The offi cer chased the man over a couple of Dumpsters and then fi nal-ly corralled him. The man said he was run-ning because he was scared. A number of items were recovered including gold charms and watches, as well as unopened retail items like an iPod charger, cellphones, head-phones, deodorant and other items. The man also was wanted in Cobb County for proba-tion violations for drugs and possessing tools for the commission of a crime. (Screwdriv-ers, hammers, crowbars, nail pullers and oth-er like items are considered “tools to com-mit crimes,” such burglary or forced entry.) He also had several pills on him identifi ed as available only by prescription. He was arrest-ed for many things including shoplifting, ob-struction, loitering and prowling, possession of prescription drugs not in an original con-tainer, and an outstanding warrant.

OTHER THINGS 6500 block of Vernon Woods Drive – A

woman called the police from and said she was locked inside the gated parking lot of the Benson Center. The chain was later cut by Fire Department personnel and she was free at last.

8400 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On April 27, two employees at a fast-food res-taurant reported that around 11:30 a.m., a drive-through customer got mad over the price of the food and threw a water bottle at the employee. The bottle hit her in the shoulder. The woman then drove off in her grey Mercedes.

breezeway against the apartment wall. They got into a white Prius and left.

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