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Sept. 20 — Oct. 3, 2013 • vOl. 4 — NO. 19

Drop itBonser ethics complaints

deemed ‘frivolous’

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Home aloneMayor Davis says ‘all types of residences important’

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SharpshootersLocal ‘Annie Oakleys’ enjoy blasting targets

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House huntersTour of Homes features

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Ice, ice babyValyn Lekan, 2, left, gets an icy cool down from addison eckard, 8, while enjoying Food truck thursdays at Brook Run Park on Sept. 12. the two, along with other members of their families, sampled tasty treats from local food truck vendors and listened to live music. the weekly event continues through oct. 24. to read more about Food truck thursdays, turn to page 2. View additonal photos on page 38.

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The city redevelopment project known as Project Renaissance is picking up momentum, city officials say.

On Sept. 9, the city sold six lots to the private developer work-ing on the project, John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, so the developer could begin work on the first residences it will build in the 35-acre project, City Manager Warren Hutmacher told members of Dunwoody City Council.

Also, the city is considering an early purchase of 19 of the acres it has under contract in order save money on financing costs.

“The first two homes will start coming out of the ground in


Dunwoody residents soon may be able legally to keep more than three pets and to practice certain kinds of home occupations.

Removing the limit on pets and adding rules allowing some home businesses were among Dunwoody City Council’s most recent tweaks to the city’s rewrite of its zoning and development regula-tions. The rewrite, intended to make Dunwoody’s regulations reflect the desires of city residents, has been under way since early last year.

After debate Sept. 17 that touched on residents’ reactions to jobs such as teaching piano or giving swimming lessons, council members seemed to endorse an idea to divide home occupations into three

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tinue to gather at Brook Run Park in Dunwoody on Thursday nights through Oct. 24.

The Dunwoody Homeowners Asso-ciation is extending Food Truck Thurs-days. The DHA announced Sept. 11 that through Oct. 24, the weekly gath-erings would operate from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m..

“The Dunwoody community sup-ported the event from day one, and we had good crowds all summer long and only had rain during the event twice in 15 weeks!” the DHA board said in a press release. “Now the weath-er is cooling off and it is getting dark earlier. Lines have been shorter since school started back.”

The original plan for the popu-lar food truck-concert series, which started May 24, called for a test run through Aug. 15.

The events proved so successful the DHA decided to extend the series through the last Thursday before Hal-loween, DHA board member Bill Gross-man said. The DHA on Sept. 9 formally asked Dunwoody City Council to ex-tend its co-sponsorship of the program.

Volunteers to clean up Dunwoody on

Sept. 28 Serve Day, scheduled for Sept. 28,

is intended as a day to “shine up, clean up and spruce up our city,” volunteer John Maloney told members of Dun-woody City Council on Sept. 9. In past years, 700 to 800 volunteers have joined the effort, he said.

“This year we will need more vol-unteers than ever,” Maloney said. “We need to plant a large number of trees we received from Trees Atlanta. This undertaking, plus the normal tasks usually performed on Serve Day, will require a lot of bodies.”

Dunwoody city officials earlier in the summer hired Trees Atlanta to pro-vide, oversee the planting, and main-tain 300 trees in city parks. The trees will replace the 230 the city says were removed during construction of the city’s multi-use trail in Brook Run Park. Volunteers are to plant the trees during Serve Day.

Maloney said Serve Day volun-teers are to meet at the North Atlan-ta Church of Christ, 5676 Roberts Drive, at 8 a.m. on Sept. 28. Anyone interested in volunteering can regis-ter at www.nacofc.org/#/serve-day or email [email protected] or call 770-399-5222.

Vote for the DDIVoters in Dunwoody, Sandy Springs

and Brookhaven can cast ballots this election season for something other than just city council seats. They can vote for their favorite road, too.

While candidates campaign for mayor in Sandy Springs and council seats in Brookhaven, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs, the Perimeter Com-munity Improvement Districts is cam-paigning to convince local residents to back the Diverging Diamond Inter-change in the online race for the Peo-ple’s Choice Award in the America’s Transportation Awards.

The interchange – nicknamed “the DDI” by the PCIDs – is one of 10 fi-nalists for the award, the PCIDs said in a press release. The interchange was the first of its kind in Georgia.

The awards are sponsored by the American Association of State High-way and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the American Automo-bile Association (AAA) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the PCIDs said.

The People’s Choice Award is to be determined by popular vote. Vot-ing runs through Oct. 2. Individuals can vote up to 10 times a day for their favorite project. To vote, visit www.americastransportationawards.org and click on “vote now.”

Dunwoody open house planned on Ga. 400 toll

demolition projectThe State Road and Tollway Author-

ity (SRTA) plans to hold a public infor-mation session in Dunwoody to provide details on the ending of tolls on Ga. 400 and tollbooth demolition at the Ga. 400 Toll Plaza.

The meeting is scheduled for Oct. 24 from 4 until 7 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia, 4355 Ashford-Dun-woody Road. Another meeting is set for Sept. 24 from 4 until 7 p.m. at the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, 11605 Haynes Bridge Road, Alpharet-ta. Two additional meetings are planned in Cumming.

During the open house, residents can learn more about preliminary plans for the end of toll collections and the demolition of the toll booths on Ga. 400. There will be no formal presentations, but transportation rep-resentatives will be on hand to share information.

The Ga. 400 tolls are slated to end on Nov. 21, and demolition of the toll pla-za will begin in early 2014.

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Dunwoody’s ethics commission is recommending an ethics complaint against City Councilwoman Adrian Bonser be dropped.

The board on Sept. 12 unanimously accepted and forwarded to City Coun-cil a report by ethics Hearing Officer Dennis T. Still that found the complaint “does not have any credible evidence that there has been a violation of the Ethics Ordinances of the city of Dun-woody.”

Still also recommend that the res-ident who filed the complaint, Ste-phen Chipka, be pub-licly reprimanded by city officials “as a re-sult of his unfounded, frivolous, or politically motivated complaints against Councilwom-an Adrian Bonser.” He also recommended Chipka be required to pay “reasonable costs ... associated with the handling and process-ing of his ethics com-plaint against Council-woman Bonser.”

“It’s a vindication for me,” Bonser said after the hearing ended.

Chipka, in an email, said that it was up to City Council to decide. He also criticized Still, saying he “has chosen to shift his focus from the ethics complaint process.”

“[T]he new hearing officer chose to launch into a personal attack against me, the complainant ...,” Chipka wrote. “Obviously this hearing officer felt he was there as a ‘judge,’ to find fault with one of the parties, not to consider the ordinances of the city of Dunwoody in relation to Ms. Bonser’s behavior.

“Unfortunately, the Board of Ethics members present at the deliberation ses-sion on Sept. 12, 2013, obviously were confused about their role in the new ‘process’ developed by the City Council in April of this year. They voted to for-ward the Hearing Officer’s recommen-dation, intact, to the City Council.”

In his report, Still called the evidence and complaint presented by Chipka “frivolous, unjustified, derogatory, disre-

spectful and condescending, all of which results in unfounded and unsupported allegations of ethical misconduct.”

Still said the complaint “was brought merely to satisfy [Chipka’s] own per-sonal interest, and to be a nuisance to Councilmember Bonser.”

In a complaint filed May 21, Chip-ka accused Bonser of failing to investi-gate Chipka’s claims of corruption and cover-up in the city’s police department. He also accused Bonser “with abandon-ment of her obligations to serve her dis-trict constituents while pursuing other

personal interests, and accepting compensa-tion from the city of Dunwoody,” according to Still’s report.

Chipka’s complaints arose from his inter-action with police during a traffic inci-dent on Feb. 9, 2011. Still, in his report, says Chipka was arrested and charged with ag-gressive driving. In an email after the Sept. 12 hearing, Chipka de-nied he was arrested.

On April 21, 2011, Chipka pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of aggressive driving, Still reported.

“Mr. Chipka complained about the city attorney, and threatened to sue the city and its officials for his conviction for aggressive driving,” Still wrote. “Most all of the communications in regard to these circumstances were based on emails pri-marily from Mr. Chipka to everybody in sight: the mayor, the council, the police chief, and the city administrators. Most each and every email contained derog-atory, disrespectful, condescending and delusional statements totally unrelated to any substance of the allegations con-tained herein.

“There is evidence in the reply emails that each and every city official, includ-ing Councilmember Bonser, attempt-ed to investigate the complaints by Mr. Chipka, but the real problem was Mr. Chipka did not like the results of those investigations, and imputed some sort of impropriety because they did not agree with his opinions.”

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New sidewalk projects in the works


Charles Brake wanted to make sure his brick mailbox would be OK. Dunwoody city officials planned to build a sidewalk in front of his house and he wanted to make sure the construction wouldn’t require getting rid of his mailbox.

“I’ve got a big mailbox. I’m hoping they don’t tear it down,” he said as he found his home on a large aerial photograph of Mount Ver-non Way on which city of-ficials had marked the lo-cation of the planned sidewalk. “They said they don’t think they will.”

Brake was among sever-al dozen homeowners who attended a public meeting Sept. 12 to check out the city’s proposals for new sidewalks on Mount Vernon Way, Hens-ley Drive and Peachford Road.

The city plans to build the sidewalks in 2014, Public Works Director Michael Smith said. The city has budgeted about $350,000 for the projects.

Shirrae Fazio and Ann McLaughlin welcomed news that a sidewalk would soon be installed along Hensley Drive. Children regularly walk the street to get to Vanderlyn Elementary School, they said. “There’s quite a group of us that walk to school,” said Fazio, who lives on nearby Stratham Drive.

The two women said they had cir-culated petitions in the neighborhood asking to city to build sidewalks in the area so walking children wouldn’t have to share pavement with cars headed to

the school. “This will make things saf-er,” Fazio said. “We are very excited to see it come in.”

They reviewed an aerial photo dem-onstrating the proposed sidewalk’s loca-tion with a neighbor, Keith Kiefer, who lives on Hensley. He said he felt less en-thusiastic about the plan then they did, but he had no objections to the side-walk. “It doesn’t really matter to me,” he said. “It’ll be in front of my property. I’m not in strong favor of it, but I’m not opposed to it either.”

Once Brake found that his mailbox seemed safe from demolition, he wel-comed the sidewalks to Mount Vernon Way.

“I like the sidewalks. I sure do,” Brake said. “But I’ve had my brick mail-box about 40 years and I didn’t want to lose it.”

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Dunwoody city officials propose to spend about $24.74 million on city op-erations in 2014, up less than a percent-age point from the amount budgeted for this year.

The proposed budget Mayor Mike Davis and City Manager Mike Davis pre-sented to Dunwoody City Council calls for a 0.42 percent increase in general fund expenditures over the $23.9 in the city’s 2013 amended budget.

The 2014 budget plan predicts the city will collect $24.89 million in general fund revenue, up from $23.86 million in 2013. That includes an increase in prop-erty taxes collected to about $20 million,

up from $18.4 million in 2013. The dif-ference represents an increase in the value of taxable property in Dunwoody. City Council recently voted to keep the city’s tax millage at 2.74 mills.

“The city has experienced modest but steady expansion and economic devel-opment in 2013,” the budget message says. “The same diversity in our revenue streams that made the city more resilient during the economic recession has been beneficial during the slow recovery peri-od. The city is on track to exceed the $23 million in revenues appropriated in the [fiscal year] 2013 budget primarily due to healthy franchise fees and permitting

fees.”The budget says the total of city ex-

penditures from all funds, including spe-cial-use funds such as the hotel-motel tax, will reach about $30 million.

The mayor and city manager’s bud-get message says the city plans to spend $5.9 million from the general fund bud-get on projects such as street resurfacing, sidewalks, intersections, parks and public safety equipment.

Some highlights of the proposed 2014 budget, according to the budget message and a memo presented at a recent council budget committee meeting:

--City Clerk’s budget drops by 36 per-cent next year because of the cost of run-ning city elections this year;

--City officials plan to spend $1.8 mil-

lion for street resurfacing and paving; about $1.75 million for construction and intersection improvement projects; and $230,000 on sidewalks;

--City officials plan to spend about $1 million to develop a 5-acre park on the 19-acre parcel the city is buying for the Renaissance redevelopment project; $65,000 for an emergency notification system at Brook Run Park; and $100,000 to replace the roof at the North DeKalb Cultural Center;

--City officials plan to spend $40,000 for a redesign of the city logo and brand;

The city has scheduled a public hear-ing and council discussion of the bud-get for Oct. 14. The council is to vote Oct. 28 on whether to adopt the bud-get.

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sTanDOUT sTUDenTpage 18

Battle linesDeKalb representatives want districts redrawn

COMMUNITY 3

Scouts honorBuckhead, Ugandan

troops make connection

COMMUNITY 19

Yellow cardConcern continues over

soccer club’s plans

COMMENTARY 6

Egg roleThese creations are

not for breakfast

AROUND TOWN 7

Movie magicArea draws fi lm,

television productions

COMMUNITY 8

His ‘house’Southside youth center

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE 10

JuLy 15 — JuLy 28, 2011 • VoL. 3 — no. 14

By JOe [email protected]

A non-profi t group has begun collecting donations to fi -nance a study of the feasibility of creating a city of Brookhaven.

Citizens for North DeKalb announced recently that it had begun collecting donations through its website and by check. Th e group hopes to raise enough money to pay for a state-man-dated study by the Carl Vinson Institute of Governmental Af-fairs at the University of Georgia to examine whether a proposal to create a new city in the area makes fi nancial sense.

“We want to learn all we can about the municipal options that are on the table,” Doug Dykhuizen, president of the group, told members of the Brookhaven Community Connection on

SEE GROUP, PAGE 5

By MaGGie leeProperty owners in parts of northern DeKalb County will

see their taxes rise substantially under a new tax millage adopted by the DeKalb County Commission.

At the same time, the commission presented a list of de-mands for spending oversight changes, including a reduction in the number of county employees.

Th e tax rate for residents in unincorporated areas of DeKalb will rise by 4.35 mills, from about $8 on $1,000 of taxable val-ue of a property to about $12.35. Th at means the taxes on a $200,000 house could rise by about $180, county offi cials said.

Th e tax hike for Dunwoody residents will be lower, rising 2 mills, meaning the taxes will rise from about $8 to nearly $10 on $1,000 of taxable property value. Th at’s because Dunwoody provides some of its own services, like police. Th at could mean

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Noah Rich, 5, listens to his father Mark, as he gets a bicycle lesson at Keswick Park July 9. Noah, who will attend

kindergarten at Murphey Candler Elementary School this fall, was so encouraged he learned to ride that afternoon. More photos on page 4 and online at reporternewspapers.net.

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Residents talk up a new park on Mountain Way

BY JOE [email protected]

When Gordon Certain fi rst moved to north Buckhead in 1975, he used to take walks along Mountain Way.

“It was just beautiful,” he said. “You couldn’t tell you were in the city.”

Th ings change, of course.Now, “all you’ve got to do is look up,” Certain said. “[You

see] the concrete cloud.”Th ese days, Mountain Way passes beneath those most ur-

ban of developments – Ga. 400 and MARTA trains. Th e wind-ing road, which connects North Wieuca and North Ivy roads, passes beneath the highway and the commuter train that runs through the area.

But Certain, who’s president of the North Buckhead Civic SEE NEIGHBORS, PAGE 3

Meister expresses con� dence in interim

school superintendentBY DAN WHISENHUNT

[email protected]

Nancy Meister introduced Interim Superintendent Er-roll Davis Jr. at a July 21 meeting at Garden Hills Elementary School and gave him her full endorsement.

“I believe he is the right man at the right time and here for the right reasons,” the District 4 Atlanta Board of Education member told the packed house.

Davis was drenched in sweat and had removed his jacket by the end of the night after taking more than an hour’s worth of questions from parents, students and teachers. Th e crowd fre-quently applauded his answers.

Davis takes over at a perilous moment for Atlanta Public Schools. Former Superintendent Beverly Hall left with a cloud of suspicion hanging over her head after a cheating scandal hit

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Let the good times roll

PHIL MOSIER

Nicole Soileaul, left, swings with Darin Cornell as they enthusiastically get into a dancing groove at the Atlanta

Cajun Zydeco Association CD party and potluck dinner at the Garden Hills Recreation Center in Buckhead July 24. More photos on page 16 and online at reporternewspapers.net.

Pension pinchAtlanta budgets

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Tom Bennett, left, with wildlife wonders and the North georgia Zoo & petting farm, gives Ben irastorza, 7, a rare chance to touch a skunk during a program for children and

parents at the dunwoody public Library on July 9. more photos on page 17 and online at reporternewspapers.net.

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Close encounter


Jenna Shulman knew exactly why she and the others were building paper rockets in a Dunwoody gym.

She’d been to Space Camp before, the one in Alabama, and they’d made and launched similar air-powered rockets there.

“We put air in them and they went up into the air,” said Jen-na, who’s 11.

But launching rockets wasn’t the main thing she and her brother Seth planned to do during their week at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta’s first Space Camp.

“We’re going to do a space mission,” Jenna said. “We’re

By Melissa [email protected]

Dunwoody City Council has postponed a final vote on the city’s parks bond proposal until its July 25 meeting.

City officials want a referendum, which will ask Dunwoody residents to vote on the issuance of $33 million in general ob-ligation bonds, to appear on the November ballot. The council will need to approve the referendum by the end of July in order for it to make it onto this year’s ballot.

Council members had several concerns about the bonds, which would be used to acquire land for city parks. It will equate to a 0.75 mill increase for taxpayers. One mill is equal to $1 for every $1,000 of the taxable value of a property.

In the future, a second $33 million bond issue will be put be-fore voters to develop park land, city officials have said.

City Councilman Denis Shortal wanted to know what inter-est rate the city could expect if voters approve the bonds, which the city would be responsible for paying back over a 30-year pe-

City Council puts off parks bond vote again

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Skid marksLocal paving project

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By MelIssa [email protected]

Buckhead and Sandy Springs voters are telling state lawmak-ers they want to live in election districts that will strengthen rep-resentation of their neighborhoods.

Legislators listened to residents at a public hearing June 30 in preparation for the upcoming special session of the Georgia General Assembly in which the state’s legislative and Congres-sional districts will be redrawn to reflect changes in population.

Many of the speakers expressed hope that “communities of interest” – areas which share common beliefs and lifestyles – would be kept intact during the process.

By dan [email protected]

The Sandy Springs City Council on July 12 approved in-centives to lure a business into the city that claims it will cre-ate 289 jobs, but some council members said they were wary about what the city’s long-term economic development poli-cy would be.

“We need to give this a tremendous amount of thought,” Mayor Eva Galambos said.

The unspecified project planned for the Powers Ferry area, code-named “Project Gamma” by City Manager John Mc-Donough, will receive around $190,000 in incentives from the city. City officials did not name the company.

The pay-off for the city will be 289 new jobs with an addi-tional 50 expected in the next five years, McDonough said. Mc-

sandy springs approves incentives for ‘project Gamma’

Reapportionment: Sandy Springs voters

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Taxes, $19,998,000

Licenses & Permits, $875,000

Intergovernmental Revenues, $-

Charges for Services, $408,000

Fines & Forfeitures, $1,510,000

Investment Income, $10,000

Contributions & Donations, $5,000

Miscellaneous Revenue, $119,000

Other Financing Sources,

$1,965,000

Proposed 2014

Taxes

Licenses & Permits

Intergovernmental Revenues

Charges for Services

Fines & Forfeitures

Investment Income

Contributions & Donations

Miscellaneous Revenue

Other Financing Sources

Revenues, 2014 Budget

total$24,890,000

Taxes, $18,394,000

Licenses & Permits, $872,000

Intergovernmental Revenues, $-

Charges for Services, $402,000

Fines & Forfeitures, $1,470,000

Investment Income, $5,000

Contributions & Donations, $5,000

Miscellaneous Revenue, $79,000

Other Financing Sources, $2,640,000

Amended 2013 Budget

Taxes

Licenses & Permits

Intergovernmental Revenues

Charges for Services

Fines & Forfeitures

Investment Income

Contributions & Donations

Miscellaneous Revenue

Other Financing Sources

Revenues, amended 2013 Budget

total$23,867,000

expenses, 2014 Budget

Source: City of Dunwoody

total$24,740,000

City Council, $217,712

City Manager, $345,846

City Clerk, $267,216

Finance & Administration,

$3,048,284

Information Technology,

$597,180

Marketing, $452,428

City Attorney, $395,000

Municipal Court,

$424,650

Police, $6,584,378

E-911, $368,096

Public Works, $4,743,399

Parks, $3,871,881

Community Development,

$2,446,762

Economic Development, $297,682

Contingency, $575,000

Amended 2013 Budget

City Council

City Manager

City Clerk

Finance & Administration

Information Technology

Marketing

City Attorney

Municipal Court

Police

E-911

Public Works

Parks

Community Development

Economic Development

Contingency

expenses, amended 2013 Budget

total$24,635,514

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Interim DeKalb School Superin-tendent Michael Thurmond told north DeKalb parents the troubled district is dealing with its problems.

“Today we are in a much stronger position than we have been in a very, very long time,” Thurmond said.

He said dis-trict finances have improved signif-icantly since last year.

“I am happy to report today that we have eliminat-ed the $14.7 mil-lion deficit we brought forward from 2012,” he told members of the Dunwoody Chamblee Parents Coalition during a morning meet-ing at Dunwoody High School on Sept. 11.

“We just closed out [Fiscal Year] 13 with a $9.5 million fund bal-ance. When I ar-rived in the dis-trict, the district was operating with less than $100,000 [in fund balance].”

But he said the district need-ed $60 million in reserves. “It’s go-ing to take three years to really re-store the budget,” he said. “We’re still $50 million away from where we ought to be.”

Thurmond, a former state labor commissioner who was named interim superintendent in February, also pre-dicted the DeKalb system’s accredita-tion would be restored fully by the end of the year.

SACS, a regional accreditation agency, placed DeKalb on accredita-tion probation last year, citing infight-ing among school board members. In March, Gov. Nathan Deal replaced six board members.

Thurmond reminded his Dun-woody audience that an interim report by the agency found the district had made significant progress in address-ing its problems. “I’m certain we will no longer be on probation at the end of the year,” he said.

Thurmond said he planned to start developing a long-range strategic plan for the school system. The sys-

tem’s population is growing, he said, and, facing an audience that included some calling for a separate Dunwoody school system, Thurmond argued that the best way to protect schools in par-ticular areas of the county was to make the entire system better.

“We are all in this together...,” he said. “A school district divided against itself will not be successful. I need your help to build this op-portunity. Build the bridge and we will all benefit from it as a com-munity.”

He said differ-ences in student achievement did not reflect racial differences, but economic ones. White students from rich fami-lies perform better than poor white students, he said, just as black stu-dents from rich families perform better than poor black students. “It’s not about race,” he said. “If you look at the differential..., the differential is al-most the same.

“The great question is not how well my chil-dren or your chil-

dren will do, but how well children from economically disadvantaged families will do,” he said. “And all ec-onomically-disadvantaged children are not low achievers.”

But if some schools are perceived as offering better educations than others, parents will find ways to enroll their children in those schools, he said.

“Our parents love their children,” Thurmond said. “Their capacities in terms of engagement and involvement [with the schools] may not be the same, but the love is the same.”

Asked how students manage to mi-grate from one part of the county to schools in another, Thurmond said parents are willing to make sacrifices for their children’s benefit.

“Parents will do whatever it takes to get their children to what they per-ceive as a quality education,” he said. “What we have to do is create quality schools throughout the district.”

“A school district divided against itself will not be successful. i need your

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Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May told Dunwoody residents that plans are in place to begin addressing many of the troubled county’s issues.

“I try to look at what we do through a business lens,” May said. “Getting up each and every day to see what we can do to fix our coun-ty once and for all.”

May was ap-pointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to fill the position tem-porarily after CEO Burrell Ellis was re-moved from office for allegedly ex-torting county ven-dors for campaign contributions.

As part of a se-ries of meetings with constituents around the county, May held a town hall meeting at Dunwoody United Methodist Church on Sept. 5.

He said DeKalb’s issues have been over-shadowing the great things the county does ev-ery day. “We are a great county. I tru-ly believe that. But we haven’t been op-erating great all the time,” May said.

May said his priority for the 2014 budget will be improving pub-lic safety. He said DeKalb County has had trouble keeping up with the high level of attrition in the Police, and Fire and Rescue departments.

“It’s been an unusually high year for people leaving those two departments,” May said.

Using the fire department as an ex-ample, May said there are currently three officers on each fire truck. Howev-er, the optimal staffing level is four fire-men.

There county has authorized 783 fire and rescue positions, and 676 have funding. However, only 600 are current-ly filled. “We have a 183-position gap,” May said.

May said he would like for the coun-ty to address the “back door issue” of public safety officers leaving, and begin aggressive hiring to replace them.

“I don’t want it to be said we don’t have the money to do it,” May said. “We’ve got to make some tough deci-sions to put the money in place to do

just that.”May also said it’s “an indictment” of

DeKalb County that they so often have to hire top officials from outside the county.

“We have to do better to devel-op leadership,” May said. “We want to

keep our leadership here, keep them happy … and give them the resources they need.”

Many of Dun-woody’s elect-ed officials attend-ed the gathering and commended May for his perfor-mance so far in his role as the county’s top administrator.

Former coun-cilman Danny Ross asked if May would consider giving Dunwoody the $7 million des-ignated for Brook Run Park from a bond referendum.

“We need that $7 million des-perately to make it what it can be,” Ross said. “If you would get us out of the court and re-lease that $7 mil-lion to Dunwoody so we can get the things done we need in Brook Run Park.”

May said he would like for the

city and county to have an open dia-logue about the issue.

“I’m definitely open to sit down and have a conversation to what that looks like,” May said. “Protracted litigation is something we’ve mastered staying in as long as we can.”

May said the county’s initial dealings with the new cities have been messy.

“Our fight has always been about money versus what’s best for the citizens of DeKalb County,” he said.

May also talked about his desire to do away with the CEO position entirely. “Our form of government was intended to be checks and balances 30 years ago. But it hasn’t rang true,” May said.

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mayor mike Davis: all types of residences are important Dunwoody resi-

dents regularly de-bate the role apart-ments play in their city.

Some argue apartments lead to overcrowding in some schools. Oth-ers say the ratio be-tween apartments and single-family homes is out of bal-ance. Recently, the city was accused in a federal court lawsuit of harassing own-ers of low-income apartments, and dis-criminating against low-income resi-dents by trying to thwart development of affordable, multi-family housing in the city. The city has denied the claims and asked the lawsuit be dimissed.

We asked Mayor Mike Davis a few questions about the city’s relationship to apartments and apartment develop-ment. Here are his answers.

Q. How many apartments now exist in Dunwoody? Do you

feel there are too many?

a. Based on the data from most recent U.S. Census as well as

the city’s 2010 Comprehensive Land

Use Plan, there are roughly 10,000 apartment units spread out over 51 multi-family residential com-plexes. I don’t feel we have a glut of apartments, but I feel the city needs to appropriately manage de-velopment and code compliance to ensure that the health, safety and well-being of all residents is being safeguarded by the city.

Q. You have said in pub-lic speeches that the

need to control or improve apartments was among the reasons the city of Dunwoody was formed. Do you feel the ratio of apartments to sin-gle-family homes in Dunwoody is out of balance? What is the city doing to rectify any problems with apartments?

a. I have stated that one of the reasons we became a city was

to help establish greater local control. And by local control, I mean local resi-dents, city staff and elected officials working together to best manage the growth, development and quality of life within the boundaries of the city.

Unfortunately, there is no perfect ra-tio or equation to define the appropriate amount of homes to apartments in a city of 46,000 residents. I believe the criti-

cal factors to consider when fostering appropriate community development guidelines and standards include the safety, health and well-being of existing and future residents, and the infrastruc-ture capabilities (water, roads, drain-age, schools/educational facilities, parks, public transportation, convenient access to jobs, leisure activities, educational fa-cilities, shopping, etc.) of an urban/sub-urban area that is 13.2 square miles.

The city is working with all apart-ment owners to ensure proper compli-ance with the established codes to safe-guard the health, safety and well-being of all residents.

Q. A recent federal lawsuit ac-cuses the city of using hous-

ing code enforcement to harass own-ers of old apartment complexes. What is the city doing to force compliance with its housing codes? What effect have any intensified enforcement mea-sures had?

a. Addressing the life safety and property maintenance issues

of the apartments, townhomes, and condominiums in our city is of critical importance, and greatly enhances the quality of life for all our citizens. On April 12, 2010, the mayor and city council implemented the Multi-Family Code Compliance Program based on the International Property Maintenance Code as well as other national and state standards, and addressed appropriate staffing levels in the Community Devel-opment Department to properly sup-port the program. The city of Dun-woody’s Multi-Family Code Compliance Program requires both interior and exte-rior inspections of multi-family residen-tial complexes.

When the program began, city staff witnessed first-hand a large number of code-required safety features that were either missing completely or not main-tained properly, which was likely due to lax oversight for these apartments, townhomes, and condominiums prior to the city’s incorporation.

All apartments and condominiums in the city are subject to the inspec-tion program, regardless of age of com-plex or form of ownership. The program has identified and resulted in the correc-tion of hundreds of immediate, life-safe-ty hazards to our residents.

For Dunwoody, the real success and effect of the code compliance program are not the numbers of violations ad-dressed, but the potential tragedies pre-vented through the proactive code com-pliance monitoring. When a property’s maintenance issues are not addressed, residents are put in harm’s way, and the health safety and well-being of the resi-dents suffers. In addition, property val-ues are lessened, which depresses occu-pancy rates, creating a downward spiral, and negatively impacting the potential for economic growth.

Q. Regarding the Perimeter Center portion of the city,

there’s a lot of talk about multi-use de-velopment and denser development, which presumably would include apartments. How do you allow Perim-eter to develop as a “live-work-play” community attracting younger resi-dents, and not allow development of more apartments?

a. We recognize the value of creating mixed-use, transit-

oriented development within walking distance of public transit stations. How-ever, we also have concerns about the impact of such development on the city’s infrastructure and schools. Prior to incorporation, DeKalb County zoning regulations permitted or “entitled” ap-proximately 4,500 additional apartment units for various properties across the Perimeter area in Dunwoody.

Through the creation of the city’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan, a vision for the Perimeter area was established by our community.

The vision was to create a “livable” re-gional center with first-class office, retail and high-end restaurants in a pedestri-an- and bicycle-oriented environment that serves as a regional example of high-quality design standards. In addition, the city of Dunwoody works in part-nership with the Perimeter Communi-ty Improvement Districts (PCIDs) to implement and complement the frame-work plan and projects identified in the Perimeter Center Livable Centers Initia-tive study (LCI).

Q. What do you see as the role of apartments in Dun-

woody’s future?

a. I believe all forms of residen-tial accommodations are im-

portant to the city. New housing will be considered appropriate if accompanied by a mechanism that determines if exist-ing or proposed recreation, open space, schools and other infrastructure can support new residents. As I mentioned, previously established zoning regula-tions from DeKalb County permitted or “entitled” approximately 4,500 addi-tional apartment units for various areas across Dunwoody. While the city pre-fers low-density single-family and multi-family owner-occupied housing, the city seeks to promote a “livable” regional center with a strong quality of life, fos-tered by active civic engagement across all demographic groups as outlined in the city’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

City planning and programming aims to make Dunwoody a “lifelong community”: that is, a place individuals can live throughout their lifetime, and which provides a full range of options for residents.

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the next two weeks,” Hutmacher said on Sept. 9. “Over the last two years, we have been spending money. Now money is coming back in.”

Hutmacher projected the city’s land costs for the project, including financ-ing, would total $11.7 million. Land sales by the city, including both sales to Wieland – which is to build 68 sin-gle-family homes – and future sales of property to be developed for commer-cial uses, should produce $7.64 million, he said. That means the city’s cost in the project would total about $4.1 million.

The city is building four parks on the land it will retain. Playground equip-ment has been installed and concrete work on foundations for other struc-tures in the parks is nearly done, Hut-macher said. The parks are expected to open in November. “The site’s going to go from looking like a desert to looking more like a park,” Hutmacher said.

At the same time, several unrelated development projects are being consid-ered in the area. “We’re certainly seeing huge signs that the investment the city is making and Wieland is making are hav-ing an effect in this area,” he said.

By taking 35 acres off the market, the city has improved the market for de-velopable real estate in the Georgetown area, city officials said.

“We’re very pleased at this point, but this is very early in the process,” Hutm-acher said. “We’re in the first inning of a long game.”

Several council members welcomed word the project was moving forward.

“I think this is very good news,” May-or Mike Davis said.

Councilman Terry Nall said the proj-ect gave the city a chance to spur devel-opment in the area and to add acreage to the city’s park system. He said it ap-peared the final cost to the city would total less than the amount the city had agreed to pay for the original 16-acre tract. Councilman Denny Shortal said

it was “critical” to develop single-fami-ly homes in the area.

But Councilwoman Adrian Bons-er questioned Hutmacher’s financial re-port, asking whether it included the costs of the lawyers who worked on the transactions. “These numbers are not ac-curate if [the report] doesn’t include le-gal fees we’ve paid,” she said.

She also questioned whether the de-velopment, when finished, would bring the neighborhood the sort of develop-ment residents wanted.

“I have not heard a lot of cheerlead-ing from the residents in the George-town area,” she said. “They’re not happy with more residents. They want ameni-ties. I believe you’re strangling the area. I’m disappointed, and I’m sure you’re going to hear about this from constitu-ents.”

The city proposed the redevelopment project in the Georgetown community in March of 2012. The city purchased the 35 acres in Project Renaissance in two parcels, a 16-acre tract, and a 19-acre tract the city is buying through a multi-year purchase.

Hutmacher proposed Sept. 9 that the city buy the last portion of the 19-acre tract before the end of September in or-der to save about $60,000 in interest costs. The city had proposed closing on the 5.6-acre portion next August. “I’m recommending speeding up the clos-ing,” he said. “I think it makes a lot of sense.”

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Financial summary for Project Renaissance

Land purchase costsPurchase of 35 acres $10,700,000Financing 400,000Demolition 600,000Total land costs $11,700,000

Sale of propertySales to John Wieland Homes $ 6,370,000Future sale of commercial site 1,265,000Total property sales $ 7,635,000

Net cost of land acquisition $ 4,065,000Source: city of Dunwoody

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DeKalb County is in dire straits.First, there was the SACS decision

to place our school system on proba-tion. Next, we had the removal of the school board, saving our children from inept governance. That was fol-lowed by the indictment of CEO Burrell Ellis. Then, he was ousted.

Most recently, a special grand jury report showed us a disturbing pattern of corruption that spans Burrell Ellis, Vernon Jones and members of their administrations.

Sadly, the hits seem to keep on coming.

Gov. Nathan Deal made the final decisions on removal of the school board and Ellis. He did not choose the unfortunate circumstances that required these decisions to be made, but he navigated them masterfully. Our county is better for it.

Governor Deal installed Commis-sioner Lee May as interim CEO. May wasted no time becoming the first of the five individuals who have served as CEO to call for the abolition of the position. Our county is better for that, too.

Out of the 159 counties in Geor-gia, DeKalb is the only one with a hy-brid CEO-commission form of gov-ernment. To say that our county’s form of government is dysfunction-al would be an understatement. The CEO holds most of the cards. The commissioners hold very few.

Yet citizens expect their commis-sioners, each of whom represents at least 138,000 people, to get things done. In reality, it’s the CEO who can make things happen with ease. Apparently, our prior two CEOs have seen fit to apply this vast power in fur-therance of their own self-interest.

Even if the County Commission votes to award a contract to a ven-dor, the CEO can simply choose not to sign the contract. That sort of pre-rogative goes to the heart of the crim-inal charges against Burrell Ellis.

The alternative is a commission-manager form of government. The county commission would hire a pro-fessional county manager who is re-sponsible and must be responsive to the commission as a whole. Every other metro Atlanta county has this form of government. There is no po-litical CEO and the hubris this posi-tion has engendered.

The power to change DeKalb’s form of government belongs to the Gener-al Assembly. In my nine years in the House of Representatives, I’ve been a consistent advocate for scrapping the CEO form of government. There are others who agree, but we don’t com-prise a majority of the members of the House and Senate from DeKalb County. That has been the impedi-ment.

Until now, that is. It should be clear to all DeKalb legislators that a

majority of our constit-uents, from Dunwoody to Lithonia and Dru-id Hills to Stone Moun-tain, want this change to happen. The short-comings of Burrell Ellis have placed an exclamation point on the need for change. And for the first time, we have a CEO asking us to make the change.

There is always the option to make this change through sweeping statewide legislation that abolishes DeKalb’s unique form of government. The substantive change is neces-sary, but I hope such a tactical move – which would be initiated by north DeKalb legislators – can be avoided.

The handwriting is on the wall. Let’s hope other DeKalb legislators can see it. I certainly do.

District 80 State Rep. Mike Jacobs represents Brookhaven and portions of Chamblee and Sandy Springs. He can be reached at 404-530-7377 or [email protected].

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They named their club after An-nie Oakley, that famous 19th and ear-ly 20th century woman-with-a-gun. In casual conversation, these shotgun-car-rying metro Atlanta sportswomen refer to themselves simply as “the Annies.”

Members of the Annie Oakley Shoot-ers gather the first Monday of nearly ev-ery month to shoulder shotguns and blast clay targets that fly like game birds.

“In golf and tennis, nothing blows up,” said Debbie Avery of Sandy Springs. “In this sport, things blow up. It’s in-stant gratification.”

The Annies grew out of a charity shooting tournament for women, said Mary Huntz, one of the originators and self-described “mother hen” of the group. “We decided, ‘why let all these guys have all the fun?’” This year, their Annie Oakley shooting tournament reaches its 10th year. Over that period, the club has raised $365,000 for chari-ty, she said.

The group’s mission is to encourage women to learn the sport of shooting. New shooters must take lessons. “Most of our women never held a shotgun be-fore,” Huntz said. “I like to say we are peashooters and sharpshooters.”

The club has about 150 women on its email list. They live in communities spread from Cobb County to Monroe. Some months, 60 or more women join the shoots on “Annie Mondays.” On this season’s opening day in September,

about 40 women took part in a shoot at the club’s home, a private hunting and shooting club near Social Circle.

They shouldered 12-gauge or 20-gauge shotguns or packed them into golf carts or hand-pulled carts that look surprisingly like strollers. Then they headed into the woods to shoot glow-in-the-dark orange or green clay targets that fluttered from the trees or darted from the bushes or flew into the sky.

Dentist Laura Braswell, who prac-tices in Buckhead, joined the group six or seven years ago. She had done some shooting in college, she said, but had laid aside her shotgun. She decided to take it up again to have an outdoor sport to share with her son. He’s in high school now and they still go shooting to-

gether.Now she

shoots regu-larly with the Annies. “I’m just happy to get out in the woods,” she said

She likes being with the other women. “You meet differ-ent people. You have fun. There’s a little bit of networking, but mostly it’s just social,” Braswell said.

Christy Roberts learned to shoot growing up in Texas, where she’d hunt deer. She’s been shooting with the An-nies for about five years. “It’s obviously fun to be with a different group of ladies than the usual,” she said.

They shoot “sporting clays,” which means no two shots are exactly the same. They work a course of 15 stations, mov-ing from one to the next like golfers on a course. Targets fly in several different di-rections and offer combinations of high and low flights. They mimic the various flight patterns of different birds and, in one case, the cross-the-ground scurry of a fleeing rabbit, shooters said.

“It’s a lot like golf to me. To me, it’s easier than golf. Golfing is a little more

frustrating,” said Jo-hanna Tate of Dun-woody. “[Shooting] is something my hus-band and I can do to-gether.”

On opening day, Avery, her friend Car-ol Beerman of San-dy Springs, Braswell and I set off as a four-some. We were ac-companied by in-structor Cheng Ma, a 68-year-old com-petitive shooter and hunting guide who grew up hunting in

California and now teaches clients how to properly wield a shotgun.

Avery brought her dog, a German shepherd puppy. “I want to make sure she’s good with gunfire,” she joked.

Avery’s husband introduced her to shooting. Now they hunt together, even going so far as Argentina to find birds to hunt. Other Annies also have traveled in pursuit of a good shoot. Tate, for in-stance, says she’s hunted in Scotland.

Avery introduced her friend Beerman to the sport. She took right to it and she says she was amazed at how many wom-en are active shooters. “I’ve just kind of fallen in love with it,” Beerman said. The attraction? “I like the challenge of it,” she said. “And maybe it’s the pow-er of the gun.”

These ‘Annies’ get their guns, head into the woods to shoot

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Mastering another language gives students ‘an edge in life’By MELissA WEinMAn

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Just a few weeks into the school year, Ashford Park El-ementary School Principal LaShawn McMillan said she watches in wonder as her kindergarten students count and sing songs in German.

“I’m just amazed at what the children have been able to do already,” McMillan said.

This year, the Brookhaven elementary school began a “dual-immersion” language program in which kinder-garten students spend half of their school day learning in German.

Ashford Park is one of six elementary schools that re-ceived state funding this year to implement dual-immer-sion programs, with a goal of helping students become fluent in a foreign language by the fifth grade.

Students typically don’t walk into their first foreign

language class until middle or high school. But educators are beginning to prioritize learning a second language much earlier in life.

Kevin Glass, headmaster at Atlanta International School in Buckhead, said research has found that young children are much better equipped to learn a new lan-guage than adults.

“Every human baby is born with … the ability to sound every language on God’s earth,” Glass said. “If you don’t stimulate those young brains, you’re not going to get as much neuroplasticity, you’re not going to get those synaptic connections.”

Glass said schools have been “notoriously slow” to ap-ply this knowledge.

“Adults often find it really, really difficult to learn an-

other language because their ears have been tuned to only the sound of their mother tongue,” Glass said. “Re-tun-ing those ears becomes more difficult the older we get be-cause we lose neuroplasticity.”

Glass said Atlanta International School has offered a dual-immersion curriculum in German, French and Spanish for 28 years. Once the students leave elemen-tary school, they may continue their language studies through middle and high school with the International Baccalaureate program, Glass said.

Two years ago, Glass said, the Atlanta International School began offering a “full-immersion” preschool pro-gram for 3 year olds and 4 year olds. In that program, all preschool activities are taught in French, Spanish or German.

The program has been a “phenomenal success” be-cause the young children are able to learn so quickly,

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More schools push early language learningFrom left, Nicholas

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es, soaking it all in,” Glass said. “They’re rapidly able to function in that language.”

The Georgia Department of Education gave seed money to six schools to help establish dual-immersion language pro-grams for the 2013-2014 school year, said Gregory Barfield, pro-gram specialist for international affairs. The Georgia General As-sembly reserved the funding for the dual-immersion programs as part of the Georgia Workforce Initiative.

“[State Superintendent] Dr. [John] Barge has said what he would like to happen is the ‘20 by 20’ -- at least 20 dual im-mersion programs in Geor-gia by the year 2020,” Barfield said.

The dual-immersion pro-grams are not mandatory, so parents can choose whether or not they would like for their children to participate. Barfield said. This year, the schools start-ed with two dual-immersion classes at the kindergarten level, and will contin-ue the program each year until it is avail-

able through the fifth grade. Each school selects which language it would like to offer, Barfield said.

McMillan said the German language was a natural fit for Ashford Park.

“Our middle school, Chamblee Mid-dle School, and Chamblee High School have nationally recognized programs for German, and our children will feed into those schools,” McMillan said.

There are also a lot of German busi-nesses located near the school, she said. “Germany has invested a lot in this com-munity,” McMillan said.

McMillan said German officials have pledged resources and materials for the

program, and Germany’s Minister of Education is scheduled to visit Ashford Park in late September.

McMillan said she was excited about bringing the dual-immersion program to Ashford Park to give students some-thing unique.

“As the principal, I felt like it would be a great opportunity for my students to get a global perspective. And the op-portunity to be bilingual is a wonder-ful opportunity for my kids, and it gives them an edge in life,” McMillan said. “What we’re seeing more and more is it’s so important for kids to know another language.”

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Nicholas Thompson, left, and Antonella Pervanas enjoy preschool lessons taught exclusively in French at the Atlanta international School. AiS says the program has been a “phenomenal success.”

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“While I don’t now study a language in school, i am studying Japanese on my own after five years of studying it in school. i think the ability to read and speak another language broadens opportunities, as well as understanding. Cultural context can be tricky, and having a language other than english is one early step to that.”

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“i study French, because my family has an interesting history with the country and the language. Two generations ago, my grandfather and his family hosted a foreign exchange student from France, and ever since our families have kept in touch. Last summer i had the amazing experience to visit France on my own,

and i stayed with this same French family.understanding French and being in France, one can be exposed to so much culture. As an added bonus, it is true what they say; learning one foreign language makes it immeasurably simpler to learn another language. After not having a Spanish class since elementary school, as a high school senior i clearly understand many basic sentences in Spanish with little to no guidance. it is as if there have been many doors opened up to me, and i can follow many into my future. Learning a language is an amazing experience that i would encourage anyone who can to pursue.”

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“I take French 3. I went to Paris this summer and it really helped me understand what was going on and respect their culture more.”

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“I chose to continue studying German because I had invested so much time into it, and I wanted to master it. I think on a resume, putting “bilingual” is a big plus, but also just through the process it has taken to learn a language, I have learned so much more about myself. Whether the language itself will be useful is hard for me to predict, but learning the language and learning about a new culture has really opened my eyes and made it worth it. ”

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“They offered a seminar last year as a French 1 student. We had a speaker come in who was fluent in French and how it effects his career. … I’m really excited to learn French.”

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“My language of study in school is Mandarin Chinese. I chose to study Chinese because I have always been interested in Chinese culture and the language itself. Mandarin is such a unique language, and I’ve always known that I wanted to explore more into Chinese culture, ever since I went to China for the first time when I was 6 years old. In my opinion, Chinese is such a valuable language to learn because of China’s recent rise in world stature. We have so many more opportunities to interact with China now, and we will have even more in the future. So, I think learning Chinese is becoming one of the most useful languages to know.”

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“I do study a foreign language – two actually, German and Spanish. German I was born with (I lived in Germany for seven years) and my school allowed me to continue German from primary to high school. I picked up Spanish in the eighth grade as a choice; I was allowed to either continue Latin or pick Spanish or French. I believe that foreign languages are important because they can help people communicate and immerse themselves in new cultures.”

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“I study Spanish. Not only does learning a language widen my cultural understanding, but it also opens new doors through which I can communicate with fascinating people. A second language also gives me a competitive edge when finding a job. I especially think that Spanish will become essential in the workplace.”

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“I study Spanish. I have been studying the language for the past seven years. I chose Spanish because it is a common language spoken in the United States and in the world. In the future, I am very interested in international journalism, and because so many countries in the world are Spanish-speaking, I believe that it could enhance my personal relationships.”

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“I study Spanish because I think it is a beautiful language and I love listening to people speak it. I believe the ability to speak another language connects people to each other, and makes the world a smaller place. It also creates opportunities that might not have been available before.”

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“I take Latin. I chose Latin because I thought it was similar to Greek, because I already speak Greek fluently. I thought it would help me with reading and understanding words.”

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“I study Spanish because I want to be able to communicate in the business world and on the streets. As America -- and Atlanta specifically -- becomes more bilingual, it will be crucial for everyone to speak the same languages. Also, the Hispanic culture is fascinating to learn about and expose myself to, and I can’t wait to travel and study in Spain and South America!”

Margaret Langford, Atlanta Girls’ School

“I originally picked Latin as my foreign language class in fifth grade because I thought it would help my vocabulary, and I thought I would have the most fun. I also thought it was relatively unique and original.I didn’t know it then, but this was probably the most important and best decision I made while in Lower School. Seven years later, I realize that taking Latin has had a major effect on my life, taking me all the way to the Georgia Governors Honors Program in the summer of 2012, four Junior Classical League conventions and a national convention. It has also given me many of my best friends and relationships.

I plan to take Latin in college because of the incredible effect it has had on my life, and I truly enjoy everything about the subject and culture. Taking the language has definitely improved my vocabulary and made me a more articulate person. I know that for many people taking a foreign language is just another class in high school, but for me, my decision changed my life.”

Jaclyn Lund, Pace Academy

“I study French, because its unique in that it’s not very common in America, but it’s available in a lot of other countries. I think it will help me in a possible job later on, and in meeting new people and being able to communicate.”

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Open HOuse: Nov 14 at 10amtours offered every Wed at 10am

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Junior entrepreneurs win national competition

By Dan [email protected]

Junior Achievement of Atlan-ta, which is headquartered in Sandy Springs, teaches high school students the fundamentals of running businesses.

This year, students in that club showed their mastery of the subject in a national competition.

This past summer, teenagers from the Atlanta area won the National Ju-nior Achievement Company of the Year Competition for starting up a business that sells customizable coasters.

The appropriately-named Custom Coasters was founded by 15 teens from area high schools. Students from North Springs Charter High School, The We-ber School, Riverwood International Charter School, The Galloway School, W.D Mohammed Schools and Pace Academy each had representatives in the winning company.

Leonard Shutzberg, a volunteer advi-sor for Junior Achievement and CEO of Americo Manufacturing Co., said there was something special about this year’s team.

“They were all sophomores, up against juniors and seniors,” Shutzberg

said. “They knew they had a great com-pany.”

Shutzberg’s daughter, Alison Shutz-berg, was a Custom Coasters executive who was on the team that represented Atlanta in the Junior Achievement com-petition. She is now a junior at North Springs High School. Other representa-tives were: Bilal Gutu, now a junior at North Springs High School; Jan Ber-land, now a junior at Riverwood High School; Matthew Kurzweil, now a ju-nior at The Weber School; Jenna Kahn, now a junior at The Weber School.

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus is a supporter of Atlanta’s Junior Achievement program and a member of the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame. Shutzberg said he was in the program in high school.

“The experience that these kids get is they start off as naïve ninth graders and when they leave, they are confident,” Shutzberg said. “They learn about pre-sentation, about management and lead-ership, and how to overcome obstacles. These are real-life scenarios. These are not make believe.”

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What would it be like to be an American Hebrew Academy student? Join us for a weekend to find out!

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Shutzberg said in the Junior Achieve-ment program, students learn about running a business from beginning to end. They also pick up other skills along the way like budgeting and making pre-sentations.

“They’re put in a room with 15 to 20 kids they don’t know, and then they have to form a company and come up with a name,” he said. “They decide on a product or service they want to sell. They spend four months running the company. Then after that, they liquidate the company. They write a report and pay a dividend.”

Custom Coasters is a website that sells coasters with custom designs and logos.

“A customer would prepay $15 and submit via the website a digital im-age,” Shutzberg said. “They would have nine produced, but only eight were in the set. They would keep one as a sam-ple they would show. They figured out they didn’t need to raise a lot of capi-tal because they didn’t need to raise a lot of money. They sold $6,000 worth of coasters in four months.”

It was a good deal for investors, too, he said. A $5 investment returned a div-idend of $86.

Members of this year’s team said the experience taught them skills that can apply to other areas of life outside of a corporate board room.

“I learned to overcome my fear of stage fright, and in the process learned to be a better leader and better public speaker,” Gutu said.

Others said they appreciated learning the challenges – and rewards – of run-ning a business.

“The thing I liked most about the whole Junior Achievement Experience was learning what it takes to create and run a successful business,” Kahn said. “Coming in to Junior Achievement as a complete beginner, I had absolutely no idea how much effort, risk, and work it took to make a business. When I fin-ished this year, I looked back and real-ized how much I had learned, and I en-joyed each part of it.”

For Alison Shutzberg, the joy came from the growth and personal develop-ment of her teammates.

“The most enjoyable part of this experience was seeing my team-mates grow and improve immense-ly throughout the year,” Alison Shutz-berg said. “I am so incredibly proud of how far they have come, and I know we are all thrilled that all of our hard work has finally paid off.”

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From left, Jenna Kahn, Jan Berland, Matthew Kurzweil, Alison Shutzberg and Bilal Gutu at the National Competition.

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Fall school festivals

promise fun and food

School carnivals are back. Now that the new school year is under way, PTA parents and school volunteers are dust-ing off bean-bag toss games and blowing up inflatable bouncy houses to prepare for their annual schoolyard fundraisers. If you feel the fall call of the cake walk, here are schools in Reporter Newspapers communities that plan fundraising fests this autum.

Ashford Park Elementary Fall Festival

When: Nov. 2, 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.Where: 2968 Cravenridge Drive,

BrookhavenOfferings: Rock wall, spider jump,

inflatables, fall festival games, dunk tank featuring some school faculty mem-bers and local community leaders, food trucks and craft vendors.

Cost: Admission is free. Rides and games range from $1 to $5.

Atlanta International School WorldFest

When: Oct. 20, 12:30 p.m. until 4 p.m. Rain or shine.

Where: 2890 N. Fulton Drive, NE, Buckhead

Offerings: Visit six continents in one day at WorldFest, a community-wide event that celebrates the cultures and diversity of AIS. Attractions and events include global cuisine at the Taste of Nations, international per-formances, games and rides, and crafts from around the world. Proceeds sup-port the Parent Organization Fund.

Cost: Free admission. Concessions and some activities will incur an addi-tional cost.

For more information: Go to www.aischool.org or call 404-841-3840.

Davis Academy Holiday Bazaar

When: Nov. 17, 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

Where: 8105 Roberts Drive, Sandy Springs

Offerings: Lcal vendors, gifts, home goods, jewelry, raffles.

Cost: Free admission.For more information: vanessaf-

[email protected] or [email protected].

Dunwoody Springs Elementary Back To School Bash

When: Sept. 21, 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.Where: 8100 Roberts Drive, Sandy

Springs

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• Please call 404-873-6985 or email [email protected] to reserve your time.

Thursday, October 17 8:45 a.m. or 10:00 a.m.

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Cost: $2 (cake walk entries cost $1 extra)

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E. Rivers Elementary Fall Festival

When: Oct. 5, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Address: 4360 Powers Ferry Road,

BuckheadOfferings: Games, activities, events.Cost: $25 for unlimited rides.

The Galloway School Fall Fun Fest

When: Oct. 5, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rain or shine.

Where: 215 W. Wieuca Road, NW, Buckhead

Offerings: Moonwalks, mazes, games, marshmallow guns, face paint-ing, fake casts, tattoos, photo booth, food truck and bake sale. Proceeds benefit school’s annual Giving Cam-paign.

Cost: Free admission. Tickets/wrist-band purchase required to enjoy the rides, crafts and other activities. Conces-sions for sale.

For more information: Contact Jen-ny Gruel at [email protected] or 404-583-5140.

Garden Hills Elementary Fourth Fall Carnival

When: Nov. 2, 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.Where: 285 Sheridan Drive, Buck-

headOfferings: 80-foot obstacle course,

bungee run, 80-foot slide, games and activities.

Cost: Wrist bands are $25 per per-son.*

*not included: concessions, arts-n-crafts, and cupcake walk. Individual tickets are 4 for $1.

High Point Elementary Fall Festival

When: Sept. 28, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Where: 520 Greenland Road, Sandy

SpringsOfferings: Rock wall, spider bungee

jumps, bouncy house, carnival games, face painting, arts and crafts.

Cost: None listed.

Kingsley Charter School Fall Festival

When: Oct. 13, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.Where: 2051 Brendon Drive, Dun-

woodyOfferings: Food court, pumpkin

sale, games, face painting, dunk tank. Cost: Tickets for games and con-

cessions; three for $1 on festival day.For more information: www.kings-

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Morris Brandon Elementary Jamboree

When: Oct. 20, 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.Where: 2741 Howell Mill Road,

BuckheadOfferings: Games, arts and crafts,

inflatables, food trucks and a new Haunted Hall.

Cost: Wristbands are $30 each, payable by cash, check or credit card. Tickets will also be available for sale.

Pace Academy’s 50th Annual Pace Fall Fair

When: Oct. 19, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Where: 966 W. Paces Ferry Road, Buckhead. Shuttles will provide trans-portation from the Church of the Apostles, 3585 Northside Parkway.

Offerings: Inflatables, laser tag, bungee jumps, carnival games, refresh-ments from local vendors such as King of Pops.

Cost: Free

Sarah Smith Elementary

Annual Fall Festival When: Oct. 26, 10 a.m. until 2

p.m.Where: Primary Campus, 370 Old

Ivy Road, NE, BuckheadOfferings: Obstacle course, inflata-

bles, crafts, face painting, toddler play zone, carnival games.

Cost: $8 admission; some special events charge an additional fee, such as $7 for the bungee jump and $2 for the Haunted Hallway.

Spalding Drive Charter Elementary Fall FunFestWhen: Oct. 18, 5:00 p.m. until

8:00 pmWhere: 130 West Spalding Drive,

Sandy SpringsOfferings: Balloon twisting, face

painting, fall craft contest, Toddler Fun Zone, cake walk, baseball toss, goldfish bowl, other carnival games, popcorn, candy.

Cost: $10 for unlimited game play, individual tickets 10 for $5, cake walk $1. Food and drinks priced separately.

Sandy Springs United Methodist Preschool & Kindergarten 50th

CelebrationWhen: Sept. 20, 11 a.m. worship;

lunch and family fun (reservations re-quired) 12 p.m. until 2 p.m.

Where: 86 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs (for worship); the Activity Center, 85 Mount Vernon Highway for lunch and family fun.

Offerings: Barbecue lunch, boun-cy houses, tours of the facilities, and treats.

Cost: Free, however, reservations are required via [email protected]. You must have an association (former or current) with the school.

Springmont School’s 19th annual Montessori Mile and Third Annual Middle School Festival

When: Oct. 12, 8:30 a.m. Where: 5750 Long Island Drive,

Sandy SpringsOfferings: 1-mile race, Dip-

er Derby, chalk art contest, games, tattoos, face painting, food truck, bake sale and chili cook-off. Rain or shine.

Cost: Race fee, $15 by Sept. 30; $25 day of event. Register at: www.springmont.com/MM-Registration. Free admission to Middle School festi-val. No fee to participate in chili cook-off.

For more information: Contact Andrea Restifo at 404-252-3910 or [email protected].

Local school festivals offer up fun and food this fall

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Sandy Springs United Methodist Preschool and Kindergarten

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eat your beetsAbove, from left, Caryline porter, dean Kahn, Jaiden Swamy, Joshua Griffith, Sam Gipson, Miller Meeks, phoebe Finch, Francesca Jepson

and Liam Adams, students at Montgomery elementary School in Brookhaven, play in the dirt during the school’s Garden day of Service. Left, Whole Foods volunteer Jess

Loud ensures the new garden boxes are ready for plants.

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Sing it loud!

the dunwoody Singers, from dunwoody elementary School, were selected to perform the National Anthem at a recent Atlanta Braves

game. the choral group, made up of 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students, only had a few weeks to prepare and rehearse for the big stage.

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Which Test: SAT or ACT? As founder of Applerouth Tutoring, I often help parents think through the difficult task of college admissions. Parents know the ACT is an alternative to the SAT, but often do not know how they can help their student choose between the two tests.

Students tend to feel more comfortable with one test format over the other. Over the past twelve years, I’ve seen time and time again how that extra comfort can translate into a significantly higher score to send to colleges. It’s important to make as informed a decision as possible about your student’s test preparation.

Making an Informed DecisionStudents become familiar with the SAT format when they take the PSAT in 10th grade, but not all students take the ACT equivalent, the PLAN. Parents often ask me how they can use just a PSAT score to make this important decision.

If your student’s PSAT results are close to his/her SAT goal, focus on SAT prep. By the end of junior year, if your student has not seen meaningful gains on the SAT, I recommend that you schedule a mock ACT to determine if that test is a better fit.

If your student struggles with the PSAT, I always recommend you schedule a mock ACT as early as the beginning of junior year. If his/her ACT score is in a significantly higher percentile than the PSAT score, I recommend that you focus on ACT prep right from the beginning. It is a great idea for students to invest 3 hours and take a real or mock ACT. There is zero risk!

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Oglethorpe opens school year with brand new student center


Even early in the morning, Ogletho-rpe University’s new Turner Lynch Cam-pus Center is already showing signs of life: students sitting at tables and work-ing on their laptops, eating breakfast in the dining hall, sipping coffee under the yellow patio umbrellas at the Starbucks coffee shop.

“I call this our living room,” Ogletho-rpe President Lawrence Schall said.

On Aug. 9, Oglethorpe Universi-ty opened the doors to its $16 million,

50,000-square-foot campus center. Schall said the new facility replaces a

poorly designed, 1960s-era campus cen-ter that wasn’t serving the student body well.

“It just wasn’t a place anybody want-ed to come,” Schall said. “It was old and tired … people came in to eat and they left.”

As a result, there wasn’t really a good central location for students to gather on campus. But Schall said just a few weeks

photos by melissa weinman

The Turner Lynch Campus Center opened Aug. 9 at Oglethorpe University. President Lawrence Schall says

the center serves as a gathering spot on campus.

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St. Martin’s is a school of intentional design. Our curriculum, opportunities and facilities encourage our students to uncover the unexpected. Through discovery, they expand their individual skills, talents and interests.

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into the school year, the new cam-pus center is already bringing more ener-gy to Oglethorpe.

“It’s both a re-sult of and symbol-ic of the growth and change at the uni-versity,” Schall said.

The stone exteri-or blends with the Brookhaven uni-versity’s signature Gothic architec-ture, but the inside of the facility is a sleek, modern space for dining, meet-ing and studying. It includes a campus book store, dining hall, coffee shop, and a new program called the Atlanta Laboratory for Learning – or A Lab for short.

The A Lab focuses on the “experien-tial” side of education – study abroad programs, internships, service projects and undergraduate research opportuni-ties. “The A Lab is just starting, and I think it’s going to span a lot of interest-ing ideas and programs,” Schall said.

Oglethorpe isn’t done yet with its building program, Schall said.

University officials have plans to in-crease the student body from about 1,100 to 1,500 students, incrementally adding 30-40 students per year. Along with plans for growth, Schall said the university is looking to add more stu-dent housing and a new academic building to the 100-acre campus by the year 2020.

“There’s plenty of demand for a place like Oglethorpe,” Schall said. “But we’ll still be a small, residential college.”

Left, a fire pit provides an outdoor recreational area for students. Right, the campus center features a dining hall on the top floor and lounge on the bottom floor.Oglethorpe has plans to continue growing its student body over the next few years, so more new buildings could be on the horizon.

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Holy Innocents’ announces new head of school

Paul A. Bar-ton is scheduled to take over next summer as the new Head of Holy Inno-cents’ Episco-pal School, the Sandy Springs school an-nounced.

Barton has headed schools for 14 years, most recently at the Avery Coonley School near Chicago, Holy Innocents’ said in a Sept. 16 announcement. Barton will begin work at Holy Innocents’ on July 1, 2014. He succeeds Head Gene Bratek, who took the post in 2011.

During his career, Barton has worked as a teacher, coach, dean, senior ad-ministrator and admissions officer, and worked at both public and pri-vate schools, including faith-based and nonsectarian schools, boarding and day schools, Holy Innocents’ said.

North Springs turns 50

North Springs Charter High in San-dy Springs is inviting alumni to return and neighbors to visit on Oct. 25 to mark the school’s 50th anniversary.

The school will mark its anniversary with special events the week of its home-coming celebration, which it is calling “A Blast From The Past.” The school will start the celebration with a parade – the first such parade in nearly a decade – featuring the North Springs marching band, cheerleaders and student floats, the school said in a press release. The Spartans football team hosts Cambridge

High in the homecoming game. On Oct. 22, starting at 6 p.m., the

North Springs Chorus -- joined by students from Sandy Springs Middle School and Woodland, Ison Springs and Dunwoody Springs elementary schools -- will present an outdoor concert at Morgan Falls Overlook Park. On Oct. 24, North Springs will celebrate “Inter-national Night” at the school.

For more information: www.north-springshigh.com or the Friends of North Springs Foundation at www.friendsof-northsprings.com/index.html.

Pace students compete to solve

transportation problems

Students from Pace Academy are tak-ing on metro Atlanta’s transportation problems. The Buckhead school’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative has joined the Atlanta mayor’s office and the Global Studies Center to create a program called the Pace Academy Social Entrepreneur-ship Challenge.

Student teams will be paired with men-tors to try to solve the city transportation issues “through entrepreneurship and in-novation,” the school said. Students will present their ideas to a panel of judges next April. The winning team will receive $10,000 seed money to help launch the team’s enterprise, Pace said.

“We want to encourage students to think outside the box, take risks and consider the social impact of their ac-tions,” Pace Head of School Fred As-saf said. “Our goal is to build creative thinkers and leaders who want to make the world a better place.”

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AAUW Book FairMonday, Sept. 23, 5:30-9 p.m. – The 54th annual American Association of University Women (AAUW) book fair includes more than 75,000 gen-tly-used books in over 50 categories at bargain pric-es. Visitors can find Southern authors, mysteries, sci-ence fiction, reference, business, history, politics, biography, romance, foreign language, cookbooks, arts, travel, military and children’s books. Audio tapes, cassettes, CDs and DVDs also available. Opening night admission, $10; all other times, free. The pub-lic is welcome. Sale continues through Sept. 29, mall hours. Cash and checks only. Perimeter Mall, in the Dillard’s Court, 4400 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., At-lanta, 30346. Call 404-261-7646 or go to: http://bookfairaauw.org to learn more.

Book SaleThursday, Sept. 26, 1-4 p.m. – The Friends of the Dunwoody Library hold their book sale. Browse thousands of titles and take home some good books! Magazines, CDs, DVDs and much more at great prices. Members only from 1-4 p.m. All are welcome 4-8 p.m. No admission fee. Sale continues Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27-28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, from 10 a.m.-8 p.m., is “Bag Day.” Buy a bag for $6 and fill it up! Proceeds benefit the Dun-woody library. 5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Email: [email protected] with questions.

Hacker’s Ball Friday, Sept. 27, 4-11 p.m. – The Hacker’s Ball is a charity golf tournament benefitting the Wound-ed Warrior Project. Come to golf or mingle...every-one’s invited! Tee off is 4 p.m. Rain or shine. Event includes golf, drinks, whole hog bar-b-que, live mu-sic, silent auction, exotic car display and Harley Da-vidson corral. $150 for golf and party; $75 for par-ty only. Chastain Park’s North Fulton Golf Course, 216 W. Wieuca Rd., Atlanta, 30342. Call 678-776-0628 or go to: http://hackersball.eventbrite.com for event details.

Sandy Springs Sprint Saturday, Sept. 28, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Woodland Elementary School holds its first-ever Sandy Springs Sprint, a 5K Family Run/Walk fun-draiser. Adults, $20; child, $10. No charge or reg-istration for children 3 years and under. Rain or shine. No pets, bikes or scooters. Strollers allowed. Kids’ Fun Run begins at 9 a.m. Proceeds benefit the school. Park at North Springs High School, 7447 Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. For further in-formation and to register, go to: www.sandyspringss-print.com/Home_Page.php.

CV ClassicSaturday, Oct. 5, 8 a.m. – Peachtree Charter Middle School hosts its 4th annual CV Classic 5K run and 1-mile Fun Run. The event starts and ends at the new PCMS track. Rain or shine. Celebrate the new track! Ribbon cutting at 7:50 a.m. $25 by Sept. 27 for individuals to run/walk. Parking available at Peachtree and Chesnut Elementary schools. Register at: www.peachtreechartermiddleschool.org.

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Saturday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. – The an-nual festival which benefits DREAM Dachshund Rescue. Free admission. All are welcome to enjoy. Festivities include howling contest, costume contests and doxie races. Also features an artist’s market, raf-fles, face kissing contest, hot dog lunches and beer for sale. $5 fee per contest participation. Brook Run Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Road, Dunwoody, 30338. For additional details and the schedule, visit: www.dreamrescue.org.

Vintage AffairSaturday, Oct. 5, 6-11 p.m. – The Vintage Affair is Sandy Springs’ Commu-nity Action Center’s larg-est annual fundraiser. The 11th annual Vintage Af-fair features live and silent auctions, musical enter-tainment, food samplings from local restaurants and food establishments and wine tastings. Tickets, $110 per individual; $200 per couple. Dressy cocktail at-tire. Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, 805 Mount Vernon Highway, NW, Sandy Springs, 30327. Go to: www.vintageaffair.org for additional information or to buy tickets.

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River CleanupSaturday, Sept. 28, 8:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. – All are welcome to help clean up the Chatta-hoochee River at Morgan Falls. The 11th annual event is hosted by the Sandy Springs Conservan-cy and GA Power. Families and volunteer groups welcome; children must be accompanied by par-ent or guardian. Bring your kayak/ canoe or re-serve one (canoes and safety equipment available on a first-come, first-served basis). T-shirt and lunch provided for all registered participants. GA Power Hydroplant, 380 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. For information and to sign up, visit: www.sandyspringsconservancy.org.

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Swamp Funk QuartetSaturday, Oct. 5, 7-9 p.m. – The Dunwoody Nature Center’s concerts in the park series is back! Bring a chair, blanket and picnic dinner, and cool off while enjoying a night of music in the center’s newly- restored meadow. Swamp Funk Quartet “inhabits the space where funk, soul, blues and reggae overlap.” Free for DNC members; $5 for non-member adults, $3 for students. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-3322 or go to: www.dunwoodynature.org for details. Visit: www.reverbnation.com/swamp-funkquartet to learn more about the band.

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Homes in the Historic Brookhaven neighborhood, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs will open to the public during fundraising tours in October.

The Dunwoody Home Tour, the ma-jor annual fundraiser for the Dunwoody Woman’s Club, features five homes, in-cluding one this year that happens to be in Sandy Springs. The tour – the 41st put together by the Woman’s Club, is scheduled for Oct. 2.

The Dunwoody tour is expected to draw up to 1,000 people, Sharon Doyle, publicity chairwoman for the Wom-an’s Club, said in an interview. Mon-ey raised through the tour is used to fi-nance local programs. “It goes right back into the community,” Doyle said.

The Historic Brookhaven Candle-light Tour, a fundraiser for Atlanta Ron-ald McDonald House Charities, fea-tures four homes located in the Historic Brookhaven neighborhood in Buckhead and Brookhaven. That tour is sched-uled for Oct. 24. “All proceeds from the tour will help provide temporary hous-ing and support services to families of ill and injured children treated at local hos-pitals,” tour committee member Donna Davidson said in a press release.

The Dunwoody tour features remod-eled homes and offers a chance to see how some residents have remade their “typical Dunwoody house,” a Geor-gian-style home sometimes described as a “five over four with a door” because it

features five second-floor windows and four first-floor windows with a central door.

“It’s a nice variety of examples of what can be done with the standard Dunwoody home,” Doyle said.

The tour will include homes that have been renovated to give them a new look, including one redone in a New Orleans style, complete with wrought-iron balconies, and another remade into a Craftsman-style home, Doyle said.

“I marvel at what people have accom-plished in terms of their older homes,” Doyle said.

Seeing houses41st annual Dunwoody Home TourDate: Oct. 2 Time: 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Cost: $25 in advance, $30 on day of tour For more information: www.dunwoodywomansclub.org Historic Brookhaven Candlelight Tour of HomesDate: Oct. 24 Time: 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Cost: $40 in advance, $50 on day of tour For more information: www.armhc.org/tourtickets

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By Collin KelleyWill Georgia’s next new city be Briar-

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city of Briarcliff came out for an update and informational meeting on Sept. 12 at Clairmont Hills Baptist Church. Questions taken after the update from Allen Venet, president of the City of Bri-arcliff Initiative, showed there are con-cerns about taxes, schools and services. Some residents want to opt completely out of the cityhood plan.

Venet said that the Briarcliff plan had met its first goal of raising enough money – $30,000 – to have a feasibility study completed by the Carl Vinson In-stitute of Government at the University of Georgia. The study is required by the state before the Legislature will take up the issue of cityhood.

The city of Briarcliff would have an estimated population of nearly 94,000 people. The cone-shaped city would be-gin where I-85 and I-285 meet, and use those expressways as its northwest and eastside boundaries, respectively. The west boundary runs in a zig-zag along Moreland Avenue before dipping down to include the Fernbank area. Briarcliff’s proposed southern city limit skims the northern boundaries of the cities of De-catur and Avondale Estates.

Some of the familiar landmarks that would be included in the new city are: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Toco Hills Shopping Center, Emory Universi-ty, the Centers for Disease Control cam-pus, Druid Hills High School, Lakeside High School, Northlake Mall and the Mercer University campus.

The proposed city of Lakeside would encompass many of the same areas pro-posed for Briarcliff, but would extend out to include portions of Tucker. It would take in roughly 62,000 residents. Meanwhile, Tucker is exploring its own cityhood plan. The Lakeside City Alli-ance will hold another public meeting on Oct. 14 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Briar-cliff United Methodist Church.

One thing that all the cityhood movements have in common is a desire to wrest control from DeKalb Coun-ty, which the organizations have ac-cused of being unresponsive and incon-siderate of their communities’ needs. Venet said the state Legislature would be the deciding factor on any of the city-hood movements. He noted that Briar-cliff would be represented by three dif-ferent state senators and seven different state representatives.

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Taking a momentThe Dunwoody Charter Commission opened its Sept. 11 meeting with

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At left, Commission Chairman Max Lehmann, left, and Rev. Terry Davis, right, minister of

Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Sandy Springs,

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youngsters, Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos, and other local

dignitaries for a 9/11 ceremony at their school. Front row,

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They’ve doubled the num-ber of teams this year, which means, of course, the winner can claim double the bragging rights.

Last year, DeKalb fire-fighters beat Dunwoody po-lice 12-10 to claim victory in Dunwoody’s first “Guns and Hoses” charity softball game. This year, teams from the San-dy Springs Police Department and the Marietta Fire Depart-ment are planning on joining in, said Dunwoody police Sgt. Andrew Fondas, an organizer of the tournament.

“We hoped to open it for more agencies, hopefully to raise a lit-tle more money,” said Fondas, who plays infield. “It makes this more in-teresting now that we’ve got a few more folks playing.”

Fondas will brag on his team a bit: “I think we’re going to have a good shot at being that top spot.”

But he’s not quite ready to start trash-talking his opponents. “I’ve heard Mari-etta Fire are pretty good,” he said.

Last year’s “Guns and Hoses” soft-ball game raised about $1,200, Fondas said. Money raised through the game was donated to the Special Olympics of Georgia and the Georgia Firefight-ers Burn Foundation. Proceeds from this year’s game are to be directed to the same charities.

This year, the coed, slow-pitch soft-ball teams are scheduled to meet Oct.

5 in games at Dunwoody Park, 5309 Roberts Road in Dunwoody. Games start at 9 a.m., with the firefighters playing firefighters and police playing police in the first round.

There is no admission charge, Fon-das said. The event raises money by charging team fees, selling conces-sions, and having a raffle, which in-cludes sports memorabilia, gift cer-tificates donated by local stores and a flat-screen TV. “It’s basically just to have a bunch of fun and raise a little money for the charities,” Fondas said.

And, of course, to determine whether it’s firefighters or police officers who will walk a little taller for the next year.

“It makes it more exciting for ev-erybody that there’s more teams play-ing,” Fondas said. “It think it makes for better bragging rights.”

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Council ‘compromises’ on home business laws


DeKalb County Fire Chief Edward O’Brien is retiring after 28 years with the department.

O’Brien has strong ties to DeKalb County. He graduated from Redan High School and began his career in fire-fighting with DeKalb in 1986.

“I came in as a Firefighter One, and hit every rank in the department and worked my way all the way up,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said he gave the county notice of his planned retirement six months ago. His last day with the fire de-partment will be Oct. 9. O’Brien said DeKalb of-ficials have already be-gun a search for his re-placement. The goal is to have a new fire chief in place before he retires, O’Brien said.

O’Brien said it’s somewhat unusual for firefighters to lead the same department in which they started their careers.

“It doesn’t happen a lot, I don’t think, but I think it’s good and healthy for the organization to see that it can happen,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien’s brother, William O’Brien, retired as DeKalb’s police chief in 2012. For several years, the two brothers led DeKalb County’s public safety depart-ments. “That was really interesting, both brothers in the same county running different departments,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said he comes from a long

line of public servants. Several relatives are firefighters or policemen, includ-ing his younger brother, who is the fire chief in Newton County. “It was in our blood, you could say, for public service,” O’Brien said.

After becoming chief, O’Brien didn’t just settle into a desk job. He said he has loved being part of a busy fire depart-

ment.“I get out there and

still run calls with them,” O’Brien said. “I’m going to miss the action and the interaction with the employees.”

But O’Brien said he’s looking forward to the slower pace retirement will bring.

“It’s the best deci-sion for my family and myself,” O’Brien said. “The county has been real good to us. But my number’s up and it’s time to go.”

Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May has recently called for public safety enhancements in the county, such as hiring more personnel and purchas-ing new fire engines.

“I think a lot of positive things are happening,” O’Brien said. “For me as a chief, if you’re leaving, you want to leave on good terms, and I think I am. There’s lot of positive things going on and the timing is just right. I think it’s all worked out for a reason. I think the good Lord has a plan, and things are happening, and you just got to follow it.”

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areas – those with no employees or cus-tomer contact; education jobs that are conducted inside a home; and jobs with customer contact and employees or that involve lessons taught outside.

Home jobs in the third category, city officials said, would not be permitted un-less issued a Special Land Use Plan, which requires notice to the neighbors and al-lows public discussion of the permit.

“For me, it’s an excellent compro-mise,” Councilman Terry Nall said.

Not everyone was convinced. Councilman Denny Shortal argued

Dunwoody citizens want residential areas to stay residential.

“You’re opening up a box I don’t think you want to open,” Shortal said. “I think folks want assurance when they buy a home in a residential area that they are

going to stay in a residential area. ... If we don’t protect the residential areas of this city, we might as well close up shop and walk out the door.”

Council members also seemed to agree to remove from the city’s zoning laws a rule that limits to three the num-ber of pets in a Dunwoody home. That rule was picked up unchanged from the city’s existing zoning regulations, consul-tant Kirk Bishop, executive vice president of Duncan Associates of Chicago, told the council members.

“I’m uncomfortable telling people how many animals they can own,” Coun-cilwoman Lynn Deutsch said.

“I think we all agree that if you’ve got a house with a gazillion cats, you’re got a problem,” Nall said. “I think we strike if from this particular version we give thought to how to address the nuisance factor.”

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ROBBERy � 2400 block of Jett Ferry Road – a robbery

of a restaurant using a gun was reported on Sept. 3. The suspect(s) stole $220 in cash.

BURGLARy � 5000 block of Tilly Mill Road – a burglary

to a residence, using forced entry, reported electronic equipment, jewelry and a brief-case stolen on aug. 30; a burglary to a res-idence, without using forced entry, reported jewelry stolen on Sept. 11.

� 3500 block of Dunwoody Club Drive – a burglary to a residence, using forced entry, reported electronic equipment and tools sto-len on Sept. 4.

� 6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – a burglary to a residence, using forced entry, reported a TV, camera, jewelry, $3,000 in kitchen knives and an electronic stove top burner stolen on Sept. 7.

� 1000 block of Crown Pointe Parkway – a burglary to a non-residence, without using forced entry, resulted in the theft of cloth-ing and a cellphone, and was reported on Sept. 7.

� 5400 block of Chamblee Dun-woody Road – a bur-glary to a non-resi-dence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of 50 cartons of cigarettes, worth $2,100, and was reported on Sept. 9.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – a burglary to a non-residence, without using forced entry, resulted in the theft of iD and cash, and was reported on Sept. 11.

AUTO THEFT � 1400 block of Mount Vernon Road – Theft

of an auto was reported on aug. 31.

� 200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – Theft of an auto was reported on Sept. 11.

THEFT/LARCENy � 2700 block of Fontainebleau Drive – Theft

of a purse was reported on aug. 30.

� 1600 block of Old Spring House Lane – a larceny of landscaping equipment from a ve-hicle was reported on aug. 30.

� 200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – a larceny of glasses, a textbook, two gift cards and other items from a vehicle was report-ed on aug. 30.

� 4500 block of Old Perimeter Way – a lar-ceny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on aug. 31.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West – a lar-ceny of a laptop from a vehicle was reported on aug. 31; a larceny of a laptop from a vehi-cle was reported on Sept. 10.

� 6700 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – a larceny of $340 in cash was report-ed on Sept. 3; larceny of a wallet, cash and a passport from a residence was reported on Sept. 7.

� 5300 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – Theft of a vehicle’s registration sticker was reported on Sept. 3.

� 4500 block of Pineridge Circle – a larce-ny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on Sept. 4.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting of shoes was reported on Sept. 5; shoplifting of jeans was reported on Sept. 5; larceny of a cellphone from a restaurant was reported on Sept. 5; shoplifting of jeans was reported on Sept. 6; shoplifting of sun-glasses was reported on Sept. 6; shoplifting of clothing was reported on Sept. 7; shoplift-ing of $600 sunglasses was reported on Sept. 7; shoplifting of jeans was reported on Sept. 11; shoplifting of clothing was reported on Sept. 12.

� 4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – a larceny of parts from a vehi-cle was reported on Sept. 6.

� 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting of earphones and speakers was reported on Sept. 8.

� 300 block of Perimeter Center North – a larceny of a laptop from a building was re-ported on Sept. 8.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place – Shoplifting was reported on Sept. 8; shoplift-ing of socks was reported on Sept. 9; shop-lifting of headphones, scissors and fingernail clippers was reported on Sept. 10.

� 4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting was reported on Sept. 9; shoplift-ing was reported on Sept. 10.

� 3300 block of Ashford Gables Drive – Theft of three dogs, worth $4,500, was re-ported on Sept. 9.

� 5500 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – Theft of a kicking bag from a karate busi-ness was reported on Sept. 9.

� 5000 block of Winding Branch Drive – en-tering an auto was reported on Sept. 10.

� 4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Theft of a laptop from a restaurant was re-ported on Sept. 10.

� 4900 block Four Oaks Court – a larceny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on Sept. 10.

� 5000 block of Tilly Mill Road – a larce-

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� 1500 block of Womack Road – a larceny of luggage, a handbag, two pairs of sunglass-es and other items from a vehicle was report-ed on Sept. 11.

� 4700 block of N. Peachtree Road – a lar-ceny of a purse from a vehicle was report-ed on Sept. 11.

� 5000 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – a larceny of a purse, passport, sunglasses, cellphone, and a laptop from a vehicle was reported on Sept. 11.

� 5400 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – a larceny of a wallet and cash from a vehi-cle was reported on Sept. 11.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – Shoplift-ing of baby clothes was reported on Sept. 11.

ASSAULT � 4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway –

Simple assault was reported on Sept 1.

� 4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – assault through intimidation was reported on Sept. 1.

� 2100 block of Peachford Road – Simple as-sault/battery was reported on Sept. 2.

� 1800 block of Cotillion Drive – Simple as-sault/battery was reported on Sept. 2.

� 4900 block of Winters Chapel Road – Sim-ple assault/battery was reported on Sept. 3.

� 5500 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – Simple assault/battery was reported on Sept. 7.

� 6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Bou-levard – Simple assault/battery was report-ed on Sept. 7.

� 4800 block of Adams Walk – assault through intimidation was reported on Sept. 7.

� 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Sim-ple assault/battery was reported on Sept. 11; assault through intimidation was reported on Sept. 11.

FRAUD � 4400 block of Binghamton Court – Credit

card fraud was reported on Sept. 6.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Fraud was reported on Sept. 6.

� 4600 block of N. Peachtree Road – Fraud was reported on Sept. 7.

� 4400 block of Village Oaks Ridge – Fraud through impersonation was reported on Sept. 8.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Credit card fraud was reported on Sept. 9.

� 5200 block of Redfield Court – Fraud was reported on Sept. 10.

OTHER � 4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road –

Criminal trespass was reported on aug. 30; disorderly conduct under the influence was reported on Sept. 5.

� 4000 block of Dunwoody Park – Disorder-ly conduct under the influence was report-ed on aug. 31.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – a peeping Tom was reported on aug. 31; a civ-il dispute was reported on Sept. 3; disorderly conduct was reported on Sept. 3.

� 2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Crim-inal trespass was reported on Sept. 2.

� 6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – Disorderly under the influence was re-ported on Sept. 2.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Crimi-nal trespass was reported on Sept. 3.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center West –a loi-tering violation was reported on Sept. 4.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center Place – a civ-il dispute was reported on Sept. 6; a civil dis-pute was reported on Sept. 7.

� 4400 block of Sudbury Road – Disorderly under the influence was reported on Sept. 6.

� 600 block of Ashford Parkway – a civil dis-pute was reported on Sept. 9.

� 5300 block of Trowbridge Drive – Criminal trespass was reported on Sept. 9.

� 300 block of Perimeter Center North – Dis-orderly conduct was reported on Sept. 10.

� 4800 block of Lakeside Drive/Peeler Road –public indecency/indecent exposure was re-ported on Sept. 12.

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No need to cook!Above, left, Jerry Lekan, left, and daughter Valyn, 2, center, along with Ron Eckard, and one of his daughters, Addison, 8, back, visited Brook Run Park in Dunwoody to check out the Food Truck Thursday event on Sept. 12.

Above, right, the event features a variety of food options each week, as well as live music.

Reporter Classifieds To place a Classified or Service Directory ad call Deborah at 404-917-2200 x 110.

InstallatIon Offering all types of windows, All types of siding – Factory-trained installation. Family-owned, family-priced. Angie’s List (A rated), BBB (A+ rating). 33 Years in Business. Quinn Windows & Siding. 770-939-5634.

CleanIng servICesHouse Cleaning Services Available – Home or Office. Detailed oriented. Free estimates. Call Ellie Wingers or Walter at 404-903-2913.

I love to clean houses Spic and Span! – Call for the best prices in town!! 678-333-3898.

offICe spaCe for leaseMidtown West Class A office space – Available for sub-lease – 1,000 – 8,000 square feet. Please call Bob McNeil 404-892-2931

BusIness opportunItyHair Salon Station Available in Buckhead – Share space or rent station $460 monthly. Call 404-237-2814.

Housemate WantedSandy Springs – Homeowner is looking for a Professional Female Housemate. Call 404-275-9378.

Care gIverCNA / Care Giver – CPR seeking live out, 6 days/week, 15 years experience. Dependable, trustworthy, loving/caring person. Call Delores 770-369-0832.

Care Giver with 15 years of experience – providing comfort, care and companionship for the elderly. Medical needs, errands, cooking or whatever you need to be done. References available upon request. Call Bridget 404-456-4972.

for saleLinton Furniture Shop – Buy, Sell, Trade. Cell/Text 770-882-5132.

Driveways & Walkways – Replaced or repaired. Masonry, grading, foundations repaired, waterproofing and retaining walls. Call Joe Sullivan 770-616-0576.

Furniture Care – Onsite repairs & touchups. Cell/Text 770-882-5132. Linton’s Furniture Shop

Matthew’s Handy Services – Small jobs and chores is my specialty, flexible scheduling, carpentry, drywall, painting, plumbing and cleaning. Call 404-547-2079

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Child Care $400/wk/child Homeowner in Sandy Springs

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Help WantedP/T Office Assistant – Must have very strong computer skills, with proficiency in MS Excel/Word; experience with sales support software (such as Act or Salesforce) a plus. 10-15 hrs per week. Call 404-917-2200, ext. 111.

Legal/Administrative Assistant – Sandy Springs law firm looking for administrative assistant. Firm specializes in litigation and transactional work. Job duties include general administrative functions. College degree or paralegal certificate required. At least two years experience in an administrative role required; work in a law firm preferred. No smokers. Hourly: 40 hrs per week; $14-$18 per hr depending on experience. Group Health Plan available. Fax resume to 678-999-3242.

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