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Troubled waterNorthridge Road bridge

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It really, really happened!

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During its Sept. 17 meeting, City Council took the next step in revitalizing its downtown.

According to city spokeswoman Sharon Kraun, City Council officially authorized the release of a request for qualifications in


City staff is reviewing policies aimed at protecting the city’s tree canopy at the request of outgoing City Councilwoman Kar-en Meinzen McEnerny.

McEnerny said the tree protection ordinance the city passed in See ciTy officially, page 8 See cuRReNT, page 8

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The Georgia Department of Trans-portation will begin replacing the Northridge Road bridge over Ga. 400 in October, a month before the state re-moves the tolls from Ga. 400.

Sandy Springs City Hall hosted GDOT officials on Sept. 10 as members of the public showed up to view the lat-est plans.

The bridge replacement and inter-change improvements will cost $9.3 million. The project will take more than two years to finish. Beginning in fall 2014, the bridge will be closed to pedes-trian traffic for one year, something that has MARTA officials concerned.

It’s unknown what impact remov-ing the Ga. 400 tolls will have on traffic along the road, but commuters will have to contend with construction of the bridge replacement that’s being funded with toll money, according to GDOT spokesman Mark McKinnon.

According to GDOT, in October crews will move all northbound and southbound traffic to the south side of the existing bridge during reconstruc-tion of the north side. The crews will expand the shoulder of the road for the additional traffic. The contractor, C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., will remove the north side of the current bridge in late October.

In Stage 2, beginning in fall 2014, all traffic will move to the newly-construct-ed north side of the bridge.

“During this stage, there will be no pedestrian access across the bridge over (Ga. 400),” a handout from the San-dy Springs meeting warns. “Parents and students of Dunwoody Springs and Da-vis Academy elementary schools should plan for alternate ways to get to the schools, including car pools.”

MARTA bus officials attended the meeting to discuss the plans with GDOT because many of the pedestrians catch the bus at nearby stops.

Charles and Sharlene Hamby attend-ed because they drive Ga. 400 to vis-it their daughter in Johns Creek. “We don’t think they’re doing anything for the exit southbound on 400,” Charles Hamby said, reviewing the plans.

The plans currently show GDOT in-tends to add new north and south exit lanes on Ga. 400, and new signage for the northbound exit ramp to Northridge Road. There will also be a new round-about intended as a safety improvement for Northridge and Somerset Court, the GDOT handout says. Crews also will construct a free flow exit lane from Ga. 400 northbound to Dunwoody Place.

The project’s projected end date is September 2015.

Sandy Springs government calendarThe Sandy Springs City Council usually meets the first and the third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at city Hall, which is located at 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500

for the most up to date meeting schedule, visit http://www.sandyspringsga.org/calendars/city-calendar

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It’ll be a swell luxury hotel, if it ever gets built.

The Grand Bohemian, a 275-room, four-star luxury hotel, has been on hold since before 2009. It’s supposed to be lo-cated on the east side of Peachtree-Dun-woody Road, north of Mount Vernon Highway and south of Abernathy Road in Sandy Springs.

The developers, Kessler Grand Bohe-mian Atlanta LLC, received a land dis-turbance permit and were approved for financial incentives from the city of San-dy Springs. What the developers lacked, however, was financing for the $100 million project.

Sandy Springs City Council has ap-proved six extensions of Kessler’s land disturbance permit for the hotel, most recently at its Sept. 3 meeting.

City officials and the developer’s at-torney, Joe Foltz, both sounded opti-mistic the project would eventually find backers.

“We have submitted letters from two of our lead construction lenders,” Foltz told City Council. “This is not a reflec-tion on Sandy Springs. What we’re see-ing is a coming back of the luxury seg-ment of construction lending.”

City Council has approved each ex-tension without complaint, and usually with some well-wishes.

“We had heard rumors that the Bo-hemian was going away,” Councilman Tibby DeJulio said before voting to ap-prove the recent extension. “I’m glad that’s not the case.”

City Councilman Gabriel Ster-ling said on Sept. 17 that while small-er projects have had an easier time find-ing banks willing to support them, the Grand Bohemian’s size has kept it on the drawing board. He said Sandy Springs and the Perimeter need a luxury hotel like the one Kessler wants to build.

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able, City Council looks likely to con-tinue giving Kessler an opportunity to deliver.

“The project itself is going to be a spectacular project for Sandy Springs and the Perimeter area,” Sterling said.

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Buckhead residents are unhappy that a state review process for major develop-ments doesn’t include input from local res-idents.

At a Sept. 12 meeting of the Buckhead Council of Neighhorhoods, Laura Beall spoke about her work with the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, in-cluding a recent review of Sandy Springs’ “Gateway” project, a mixed-use develop-ment near Chastain Park designed to in-clude 630 apartments, offices and retail space.

Due to the size of the development, GRTA recommended realigning the inter-section of Windsor Parkway and Roswell Road, which is expected to cost $3.7 mil-lion. Sandy Springs plans to fund the road project through a combination of impact fees, money moved from other projects, and potentially some bond financing.

But Buckhead residents and politicians have complained that the development, which is planned at the border of Sandy Springs and the city of Atlanta, will dump more traffic onto Buckhead roads.

Atlanta City Councilwoman Yolanda Adrean, who represents Buckhead, asked Beall about regional developments, such as Gateway, that affect two communities. Because the project isn’t being built in At-lanta, the city doesn’t get any impact fees from developers.

“We get the bar bill, but we don’t get a drink,” Adrean said.

Beall suggested the best course of ac-tion would be for the two cities to work out an intergovernmental agreement for road improvements.

Beall explained that state law requires GRTA, established in 1999, to review all developments of regional impact, or DRIs.

The agency’s review process is all about the expenditure of state and federal trans-

portation funds, she said. GRTA does not judge the merits of the proposals; that’s up to local governments to decide, she said.

“When GRTA is reviewing DRIs, we are not reviewing to approve as a land use,” she said. “I’m sure a lot of your concerns are because of the land use and intensity of what’s proposed.”

Beall said when she reviews projects, she aims to assess and mitigate the impacts of a proposed development, reduce con-gestion levels and maximize transporta-tion investments.

“We’re trying to protect that public in-vestment,” Beall said.

Jim King, president of the council, said neighbors worry that the project will in-crease traffic on West Wieuca Road, which is already congested. He said because of youth sports at Chastain Park and eve-ning concerts at the Chastain Amphithe-ater, the area doesn’t have typical traffic patterns.

He said residents should be included early in GRTA’s review process.

“The policy flaw… seems to be that de-velopers hire their own consultants,” King said. “The folks closest to an area or prob-lem know it best.”

“I try not to do anything without weighing in with GDOT district offices, the Atlanta Regional Commission, and lo-cal governments,” Beall said.

But Adrean said communicating only through an employee of the city isn’t ef-fective.

“What we need is a mechanism to no-tify our local elected officials,” Adrean said.

She said elected officials and residents know the nuances of the streets in an area that engineering studies often don’t reveal.

“What you’re trained to do doesn’t al-ways work in an old city with narrow roads,” Adrean said.

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Leadership Sandy Springs are teaming up to host a forum for candidates seek-ing a seat on the Sandy Springs City Council.

The forum is set for Oct. 8 at North Springs High School. There will be a meet-and-greet at 6:30 p.m. and the fo-rum will start at 7 p.m.

Elections will be Nov. 5, and there will be some intriguing races on the bal-lot. District 6 Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny is stepping down, and there are five candidates vying to replace her. Mayor Eva Galambos and Councilman Chip Collins have also de-cided against running again.

“This is the perfect opportunity for Sandy Springs residents to meet the can-didates running for public office,” Caro-lyn Axt, executive director of Leadership Sandy Springs, said in a press release. “With the city’s election a little over a month after the forum, this occasion gives people the perfect time to hear the issues and make decisions that are right for them.”

“This forum showcases what is great about America’s election system. Can-didates get to voice their opinions and present the issues that are important to them, and the electorate gets to make informed decisions,” Sally FitzGerald of The League of Women Voters said in a press release.

People with questions can email them to [email protected].

Children’s Healthcare trying

to get arms around childhood obesity

Childhood obesity in Georgia is a big problem, Children’s Healthcare of At-lanta Director Tricia Hardy said. Hardy spoke to the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and highlight-ed Children’s Strong4Life program. The statewide initiative is an effort to com-bat childhood obesity and its harmful effects.

“One million kids in Georgia are overweight and obese,” Hardy said.

She said kids are showing up to doc-tor’s offices with adult health problems, like Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

“This generation is the first that is not expected to outlive their parents,” she said.

Childhood obesity is a topic of dis-cussion around the country. Schools have implemented new nutrition guide-lines and health assessments. She said physical fitness assessments in Georgia have shown disappointing results.

“Forty-three percent of Georgia’s kids fall outside a healthy weight range,”

Hardy said. “Twenty percent of Georgia students can’t pass any of the five assess-ments; 16 percent can pass all five.”

By 2030, the obesity rate in Georgia could reach 53.6 percent, she said.

Hardy said the Strong4Life program is backed by doctors, nutritionists, exer-cise specialists and other professionals. She said the program’s four main focus areas are: communication and public awareness; community programs; clini-cal intervention; research and policy.

Hardy said policy changes can be dif-ficult. Many improvements can start in the home she said, noting the campaign is targeted at parents so they can learn to set a good example for their children.

“Kids with both parents overweight have an 80 percent chance of becoming overweight themselves,” Hardy said.

Meinzen McEnerny making no

endorsements in District 6 race

The race for the Sandy Springs Dis-trict 6 City Council seat is the most con-tested of all the city races on the Nov. 5 ballot, but the outgoing council mem-ber isn’t making any endorsements.

Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny recently told all five of the candidates that she has no plans to en-dorse a candidate to replace her. The candidates are: Andy Bauman, Patty Berkovitz, Jennifer Steele, John Stoj and Sonja Tonpea.

“I am officially undecided, neutral, open or whatever other phrase that rep-resents that I have not decided for whom I will be voting on Nov. 5,” McEnerny said in an email to the candidates.

City approves sales tax agreement

During a special called meeting on Sept. 13, Sandy Springs City Council approved an agreement that will help determine its share of Fulton County’s Local Option Sales tax.

City Attorney Wendell Willard told the council the city of College Park backed out of the previous agreement and had been replaced by the city of Fairburn. Willard explained that in or-der for the agreement to be valid, it must be approved by all the parties involved. Otherwise, the issue would be deter-mined by a judge, he said.

If the agreement takes effect, Sandy Springs’ share of the sales tax money will be 9.5 percent.

“It keeps our revenue steady, mean-ing that we’re still getting as much rev-enue and a little bit more than we cur-rently are receiving,” Willard said.

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City officially seeking ‘master developer’ for downtown plans

current trees ordinance not ‘cutting it’

hopes of attracting a talented developer to move the city’s plan forward.

City center plans will take nearly a decade to implement, and will cost up-ward of $100 million, according to city estimates.

When finished, the project will trans-form a 14-acre block north of I-285 into a mixed-use city center. The boundar-ies are Johnson Ferry Road to the north, Roswell Road to the east, Mount Ver-non Highway to the south, and Sandy Springs Circle to the west.

The master developer would be re-sponsible for project design, construc-tion, identifying the financing, and im-plementing “lifestyle” elements like concierge services.

City Council in August released a draft of the RFQ to gather input from developers. Based on that input, consist-ing of 11 comments from local compa-nies, the council made some tweaks to

its request. - The RFQ now says, “Profes-

sional Services of Master Developer to Partner with the City of Sandy Springs in the Development of City Center,” with “partner” replacing the word “as-sisting.”

- The council added language in the “Project Overview” section to in-clude the Fidelity National Bank property. Kraun said the bank’s owners are interest-ed in potential partnerships with the city.

- The RFQ now includes lan-guage giving the city flexibility to “ex-pand the scope” of public and private sector investment in the project.

Kraun said a pre-submittal confer-ence is planned for Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. at Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Road. She said all questions asked and answered during this conference will be posted on the city’s website.

RFQ responses are due Oct. 25, 2013, Kraun said.

coNTiNued fRom page 1

coNTiNued fRom page 12007 isn’t cutting it.

“I served on the council when we passed it,” McEnerny said. “We really thought we were protecting the trees in the buffers [between properties]. We’re going to get a stronger tree ordinance.”

The ambiguity of the city’s ordinance creates a lot of shadowy gray areas.

Some issues include:- Private owners can cut down

trees on their own property, but devel-opers need to get surveys and clear it with city inspectors. In some cases, pri-vate owners are cutting down trees and then selling cleared property to a devel-oper.

- Developers want more flexibil-ity to work or park equipment around trees on adjoining property to the prop-erty they are developing. Current rules set up buffer areas intended to protect roots of trees on neighboring properties.

Bill Harrison, a local architect, spoke to City Council on Sept. 3, along with several other residents who wanted the city to update and clarify its regulations.

“The largest issue I have with it is it essentially leaves out 80 percent of the population,” Harrison said. “It doesn’t apply to homeowners the way it applies to builders and developers. It’s the equivalent of passing speeding laws and only applying it to trucks.”

McEnerny said that it’s a good time to look at the existing laws now that construction activity is picking up again. She said the slow economy could be a reason why the city’s overall tree canopy increased from 52 percent

canopy cover in 2008 to 59 percent canopy cover in 2010. Sandy Springs has also been named a Tree City USA for the last four years, a distinction awarded by the national Arbor Day Foundation.

McEnerny said she’s hopeful city staff can come up with revisions that will prevent further cutting of trees in the city.

“The council has asked staff to re-view the tree ordinance,” she said. “ … I’m looking forward to something com-ing out the other end that will be a more balanced ordinance than the one we have now.”

According to city spokeswoman Sharon Kraun, City Council during its Sept. 17 meeting approved a list of projects that will be paid for with the city’s tree fund, money paid by devel-opers who receive tree removal permits from the city. McEnerny was the lone “no” vote on the project list, saying she was concerned some of the money was being used for other types of landscap-ing and not on planting trees. Accord-ing to a meeting summary provided by the city, Councilman Gabriel Ster-ling said that in some cases the council wanted to add more green space but planting trees wasn’t possible due to site conditions.

The full project list approved by the council in order of priority: Abernathy/Roswell Road island, $20,000; City Center street trees, $35,000; Springs Crossing landscape, $15,000; Mount Vernon and Glenridge island, $25,000; Glenridge Drive south of Abernathy, $21,983.

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By coLLin KeLLeyWill Georgia’s next new city be Briar-

cliff or Lakeside?Around 200 residents of the proposed

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, DeKalb Farmers Market, North DeKalb Mall, 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 County, which the organizations have accused of being unresponsive and inconsider-ate of their communities’ needs. Venet said the city of Briarcliff would create its own police force, planning and zon-ing department, parks and recreation department and “pothole department” for road maintenance. Fire, water, sew-er, trash collection and schools would all remain with DeKalb County.

Venet said he didn’t believe the change would require a tax increase. “We’re ba-sically unbundling some services from DeKalb County, so the tax dollars that would go to them would come to the city instead.”

A number of residents from Dru-id Hills were upset their neighborhood was part of the proposed city. Dru-id Hills resident David Armstrong said the community’s civic association do-nated $10,000 to the Briarcliff initia-tive without asking all the residents. “There’s a significant part of Druid Hills that doesn’t want any part of this,” Arm-strong said.

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.

“Out of those 10, nine of them are Democrats and one is a Republican,” Venet said. “That Republican is Sen. Fran Millar, and he is a vocal support-er of Lakeside.”

Millar said in May that the only cityhood proposal that would “go any-where” was Lakeside. If the Legislature signs off on any plan, voters in the pro-posed city would still have to vote on whether to incorporate.

For more information on the city-hood initiatives, visit briarcliff.org or lakesidecityalliance.org.

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Editor’s note: Fulton County’s Registration and Elections board was widely criticized for voting problems during the 2012 elec-tion. Reporter Newspapers asked the county’s new elections direc-tor why residents should expect things to be better in 2013.

Elections are a conglomerate of moving parts. You have voters, poll workers, county elections staff, county depart-ments, municipalities, candidates, boards that oversee reg-istration, and elections offices and elected officials trying to work in sync. With people at the center of the spokes, as im-perfect as we are, it’s a wonder successful elections happen.

In addition to bureaucracy and people involved in an elec-tion, statutory requirements govern the process.

Having worked in three different counties in two states on the government side of elections, and 37 counties spanning eight states with two election system vendors, I have seen my share of smooth elections.

When I was the elections administrator for Williamson Coun-ty, Tex., for more than six years, I oversaw 31 successful elections. I know what it takes to administer a successful election.

A successful or smooth election is different from a perfect election. I am unaware of anyone that has seen a perfect elec-tion. Election offices can have internal miscommunications; poll workers can misinterpret instructions; a piece of electron-ic equipment can malfunction; or, a myriad of other miscues can occur.

How you manage issues that arise during an election is what separates counties that succeed from those that under-perform.

Fulton County has the charge of administering elections for many municipalities. Concerns have been raised as to wheth-er the Department of Registration and Elections can run a smooth election for the political jurisdictions of the county.

This department has had six directors since 2007, including me. During that time, municipal elections have run smoothly. In addition, in 2009-2010, during the tenure of one director, the Registration and Elections department conducted smooth elections across the board.

In spite of several challenges that are looming with regard to the state of Georgia’s new voter registration system, Elec-tioNet, I emphatically believe that we are going to run a suc-cessful election.

In July, Fulton County migrated from the old statewide

voter registration system, Legacy, to ElectioNet. Post-migration has been a major challenge for us. We are, however, moving closer to en-suring that the data for our voters is correct.

The issues we have with Electio-Net are far from unique to us. From what I have discovered, other metro counties and most counties across the state are having issues.

Even Kennesaw State Univer-sity, the institution that builds the ballots and programs the elections for counties, is frustrated by Elec-tioNet. They need our data to build our ballots. Whether the data is sound, they are going to build our ballot.

Last week we finished entering reapportionment changes and exceptions in our voter registration database. Now, our Geographic Information Systems department is underway au-diting that data. Once we receive the results of the GIS audit, we will send the results to each municipality in order for each jurisdiction to reconcile the data.

I am confident that these audits and the reconciliation pro-cess will result in sound data.

We are changing the way we are training poll workers, too. Poll workers are so important to the success of our elections. They are the face of our department. We have the responsibil-ity to train them professionally, to respect their efforts, and to provide them with the tools to succeed.

My staff shares commonalties with the counties to which I referred above, those where I have witnessed smooth elections. They are dedicated, hard-working, smart-working, proactive, and able to adapt and react to changing circumstances.

When you combine our efforts to reconcile our voter reg-istration data, our commitment to deliver quality training to poll workers, and the quality and character of my staff, I am confident that we are going to run a smooth, successful mu-nicipal general election.

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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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PCOS awarenessSaturday, Sept. 28, 2-5 p.m. – September is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome awareness month. Join specialists for a free PCOS symposium about the latest options from diagnosis to treatment, in-cluding: nutrition, medication and exercise. Includes panel discussion/Q&A. Registration required; space is limited. Go to: www.pcoschallenge.org/pcos-am2013 to register and to learn more about the speakers. The Cathedral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305.

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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

Thompson, Madame Tiphaine

Chauvel and Jacob Wolf go over a

lesson in French at the Atlanta International

School’s early Learning

Center in Sandy springs. Two years

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“full-immersion” preschool program

for 3 and 4 year olds, with all

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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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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.”

Joseph Martin

Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

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“i’ve been taking French for five to six years now. … I really want to go to Paris and be able to speak to the people. The French language is so artful.”

Elizabeth Lamar Riverwood International Charter High School

“Throughout middle school and high school, i have taken German. While it was required in previous grades, I have chosen to continue taking it, as i feel it helps in understanding english. i hope the studying German will open opportunities in college for traveling abroad and comprehending other cultures.”

Mollie Simon Chamblee Charter High School

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Where will your child go and how will he get there? The Society of Mary founded Marist School more than 100 years ago to provide an education quite unlike any other. Our faculty and curriculum inspire excellence in all of our students. Beyond the classroom, we offer a comprehensive array of extra-curricular activities to pique students’ interests and uncover their hidden talents. Through it all, we instill a sense of personal responsibility, foster spiritual growth, and teach the joy of serving others. Learn more about what Marist has to offer. Please visit marist.com or call Jim Byrne, director of admissions and financial aid, at 770-936-2214. Help your student prepare for his or her future—no matter where it leads.

“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.”

Charlotte Spaeth, Riverwood International Charter High School

“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. ”

Kunal Goel, Chamblee Charter High School

“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.”

Lilly Schreiner North Springs Charter High School

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“I have studied Hebrew for three years to connect with my Jewish roots, and I am currently in my fifth year of Spanish. I believe it is important for me to learn Spanish because it is one of the most spoken languages worldwide, and in the future, being bilingual will be very beneficial in my career. As the world becomes more closely connected, it is important to be able to communicate with people whose first language is not English. ”

Lauren Rein, The Weber School

“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.”

Aggie Fricke, Lovett School

“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.”

Felipa Schmidt Atlanta International School

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Lower School (Pre-First - 5th)Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013 | 10:30 a.m. – Noon

Middle School (6th - 8th)Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 | 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 | 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

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“I’ve been taking Spanish since 1st grade, so I stuck with it. I want to study abroad in college, so if I know another language, like Spanish, that really expands my options.”

Grant Knoechel Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School

“I take Latin. I’m really interested in Italian culture. I’ve been looking into study abroad programs and some of the requirements are learning Latin and Italian.”

Dionna Green North Springs Charter High School

“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.”

Cailin Kellum, Riverwood International Charter High School

“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.”

Ane Wanliss Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School

“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.”

Phoebe Jones Riverwood International Charter High School

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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.”

George Gavalas Mt. Vernon Presbyterian School

“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.”

John Rhodes, The Westminster Schools

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

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Junior entrepreneurs win national competition


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!

Reserve your space today. Student housing is limited. Experience classes, a campus tour, Shabbat and what it is like to be a part of the Academy community.

Special programs for prospective students and parents will take place throughout the weekend.

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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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Join Us for our Early Learning Program“See Us in Action” Day

• Visit during regular school day, meet with current parents to see campus and observe the three-and-four-year-old classes in action

• 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.

The Children’s School is a progressive, independent elementary school that welcomes families of all races, faiths and cultures.

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Saturday, December 1410:00am - 1:30pm

Offerings: Games, inflatables, cake walk, screening of “Madagascar 3: Eu-rope’s Most Wanted”

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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Family Open HouseSaturday, January 25, 2014

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leycharter.org/fall-festival.

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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Limited openings available

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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!

When students find out early which test is a better fit, they can avoid a lot of unnecessary stress and frustration down the road.

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Oglethorpe opens school year with brand new student center

By Melissa [email protected]

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

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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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“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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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

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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.

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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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A home in Sandy Springs and homes in Dunwoody and the Histor-ic Brookhaven neighborhood are sched-uled to open to the public during fund-raising 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 scheduled for Oct. 24.

“All proceeds from the tour will help provide temporary housing and support services to families of ill and injured children treated at local hospitals,” 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 above 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.

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Two of Sandy Springs’ top public safe-ty officials announced they are moving on to new jobs in other cities.

Public Safety Director Terry Sult, who was recently promoted to that job from police chief, decided he wanted to be a chief again. On Oct. 7 he will take over as police chief of Hampton, Va. The city also announced that Fire Marshal Jeff T. Scarbrough is resigning to take a job as fire chief with the Athens-Clarke Coun-ty department.

Both announcements came on Sept. 12. City spokeswoman Sharon Kraun-said the timing is a coincidence.

“Both men are taking on positions presenting greater personal growth in larger agencies,” Kraun said. “It shows the caliber of men and women we have who work in our public safety depart-ments. Their expertise is respected and sought out.”

The bosses of both men praised their service to the city.

“I am proud of Jeff,” Fire Chief Jack McElfish said in an email. “We strive in the department to help our people grow. Jeff is a tremendous asset. While I hate to see him go, I am very excited for him to take on this new opportunity. It is a tre-mendous accomplishment and testament to his hard work and dedication.”

“Terry has done an outstanding job as our former chief of police as well as serv-ing as our public safety director,” City Manager John McDonough said.

Earlier this year, the city promoted Sult to director of public safety and re-placed him as police chief with Kenneth DeSimone.

Sult joined the city in 2008, leaving his post as police chief in Gastonia, N.C. He came to Sandy Springs during a tu-multuous time for the young police de-partment after the former chief resigned amid an investigation into officers ac-cepting gifts from citizens. Sult institut-ed a staff overhaul, reorganizing the de-partment to make it more accessible and community-focused.

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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

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

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Color forceBlackburn Park in Brookhaven hosted its second Food Truck event on Sept. 11, which also included a 9/11 remembrance ceremony. Right, the colors are presented by the JROTC from Cross Keys High School.

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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.

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

riod, dated through Sept. 13.

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

BURGLARy � 6900 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On

Sept. 8, someone entered the apartment dur-ing the middle of the night while the victim was working and took a 50-inch TV, shoes, handbags, jewelry and other items.

� 8500 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Sept. 9, someone attempted to force entry into a dry cleaning business but was unsuc-cessful. There were other businesses in the area hit that night including the Beef Grill, aladdin’s mediterranean Grill & Deli, and Subway.

� 7000 block of Hunters Trace 30328 – On Sept. 10, the resident reported that just af-ter midnight, her dog began barking and re-mained barking even though she tried to set-tle him down. She found that the door to the home was cracked open and a gate, normal-ly closed for the dog’s sake, was open. She then noticed that her purse was missing from a counter inside the home.

� Near that loca-tion at about 3:45 a.m., a patrol offi-cer spotted a white SUV parked on the side of Hunt-ers Branch Lane. He checked the tag and it showed it was stolen from Roswell, Ga. The SUV matched an ear-lier lookout of a white car in the area of Wil-liamson Drive and Cherry Tree Lane. The of-ficers, knowing of the burglary in the 7000 block of Hunters Trace, staked it out for al-most an hour before checking it and towing it in. Several items in the car indicated the occupants were up to no good. Several latent prints were lifted. The SUV, a 2006 Nissan Murano, was impounded.

� 7200 block of Hunters Branch Drive 30328 – On Sept. 10, sometime between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., someone went into the vic-tim’s home and took a wallet, purse and cell-phone on a table near the front door. The re-port said the home’s back door was unlocked.

� 7000 block of Hunters Branch Drive 30328 – On Sept. 10, the resident said that someone came into their garage and then their vehicles sometime between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. missing are three cans of beer. prints were lifted and a cigar believed left by the thief was recovered, with DNa.

� 500 block of Hounds Ridge 30350 – On Sept. 10, the resident reported that someone cut the screen door to the rear porch door area. The house was locked up and the resi-dent said no one was able to get in.

� 7100 block of Twin Branch Court 30328 – On Sept. 10, the resident said someone en-tered her garage and took a lime-green K2 echo bike. The report said the garage door was left open during the night.

� 7800 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On

Sept. 11, a store employee said that some-time between midnight and 8 a.m. someone entered the business. There was no power to the store and the burglar alarm box had been torn off the wall. a downstairs room had been kicked in and a footprint was visible.

� 8800 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Sept. 1, the manager reported that someone broke into the restaurant during the early morning hours. The burglar entered through a fire exit door by using a pry bar. Nothing was taken at the time of the report. it ap-pears the burglar looked for cash in the reg-isters, which are left open with no money inside. he also forced a padlock to a beer cel-lar, but nothing appeared to have been tak-en.

THEFT � 500 block of Northridge Road 30350 – On

Sept. 7, a man reported that he allowed a fe-male friend to spend the night at his apartment. The next day, the victim took a shower. When he finished, he noticed his friend gone. also gone was the man’s

laptop valued at $1,500. he said he allowed her to stay because she had no place to go.

� 1st block of Cedar Run 30350 – On Sept. 7, a 29-year-old woman reported that her former roommate stole $500 in clothing from her.

� 5700 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On Sept. 8, a woman reported that someone stole her 1995 Chevrolet Tahoe sometime during the night.

� 6300 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On Sept. 8, a 51-year-old woman re-ported that her cellphone was stolen while she shopped at a discount store. The track-er showed her phone to be in Fayette County.

� 6000 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On Sept. 9, a woman reported that she went to a club sometime between 2 a.m. and 3:45 a.m. When she arrived at the club, she sat her clutch down and later realized that it was gone. inside her clutch was a phone that is now missing.

� 1100 block of Lake Hearn Drive 30342 – On Sept. 10, a former employee of a doctor’s office was let go. The doctor found that she had been stealing money that totals about $1,600.

� 5900 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On Sept. 10, a 26-year-old woman reported that around noon, she was sitting at a table, out-side, in front of Whole Foods. a man walked up and snatched her purse, and then ran to a nearby car that was waiting for him. The car left south on roswell road.

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THEFT FROM VEHiCLES � Articles were stolen from vehicles on the

following dates:

� 8000 block of Spring Creek Lane 30350, Sept. 7

� 900 block of Johnson Ferry Road 30342, Sept. 9

FRAUD � An 81-year-old woman reported – that she

received a check in the mail from the pub-lisher’s Clearing house and a letter saying she finished third in the contest. The check was a “preliminary” check for $4,655 which she deposited in the bank. The report isn’t clear if she contacted the point person on the let-ter or vice-versa, but he told her to withdraw $4,500 and send it back to them, and they would then forward her the winnings. She re-turned to the bank and was told the check was fraudulent. according to the re-port, she never sent any money back. The name of the contact person was a “mr. Walker.”

� 8000 block of Ridgemont Drive 30328 – On Sept. 10, a woman reported that she re-ceived an email from Bank of america requesting that she up-date her online bank account in-formation. She clicked on the link. later, she found that several unau-thorized transactions were record-ed on her account. She said she lost about$15,000 in funds due to online fraud-ulent withdrawals.

ARRESTS � 500 block of Hammond Drive 30328 –

On Sept. 7, responding to a loud noise com-plaint, the officer discovered that the man had an outstanding warrant for probation vi-olations. he was arrested.

�On Sep. 7 – one man was arrested on an outstanding warrant. he was in custody in ro-swell and was transferred to Sandy Springs.

� 1st block of Cedar Run 30350 – On Sept. 7, cops arrested a woman following a domes-tic dispute. Two women were fighting over belongings one would be taking with her. The officers refereed the argument for an hour while waiting on a ride to take one of the

women to another location. When the ride came, one of the women took a bag and tried to hit the other with it. She was arrested.

� 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On Sept. 7, officers were called concerning a man randomly yelling and screaming racist remarks to customers who were going to go into a grocery store, but then turned away. Store employees came outside to check out the disturbance, and the man moved on to-ward a discount store, where officers found him. he again shouted loud, racist remarks to the officers in the presence of customers in the store. he was arrested on disorderly conduct charges.

� 4800 block of Treelodge Parkway -– On Sept. 10, just after midnight, cops were called to a domestic fight. They found both parties in the parking lot. The man told the officers that he and his girlfriend of four months, who is nine weeks pregnant, were arguing. The argument started when he went to the store to get her some cigarettes and,

for him, a bottle of vodka. When he came back, she started drinking the vodka,

which initiated the argument. Dur-ing that time she hit him in the up-per body with her fists. She also bit him. The woman said she did take the vodka and had been drinking it, but he had hit her in the face. The officer asked her to show him. She began to strike herself extremely hard in the face with her own fist. An inde-

pendent witness more or less gave the same story as the man. The

woman, who was intoxicated, was ar-rested for domestic violence.

� 5500 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On Sept. 11, officers met with loss prevention employees of Staples. Also in the office was an employee whom the staff found had been tapping the till, meaning stealing from the company. The suspect did as follows: When a customer paid for an item, he would make a duplicate receipt and then refund him-self the cash from the register. he made 81 transactions totaling $1,789 between july 1 and Sept.11. he was arrested. at the time of the arrest, the suspect said he did only 30 of the 81 transactions and that he was be-ing framed.

� 8700 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Sept. 11, grocery store loss prevention em-ployees observed a man remove toothbrush-es from their packages and conceal them in his clothing. he was later arrested.

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Petitioner: City of Sandy Springs

Request: Adoption of the Annual Capital Improvements Element (CIE)

Public Hearings: Mayor and City Council October 15, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.

Location: Sandy Springs City Hall Morgan Falls Office Park 7840 Roswell Road Building 500 Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350 770-730-5600

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� A man was arrested – after police were called by a woman who said her ex-boyfriend drove to her residence although he was un-der a temporary protection order not to go there. The ex was in his car when officers ar-rived. They noted that he was intoxicated and had problems keeping his balance. The GCIC computer confirmed that the protective order was in place and, as a result, he was ar-rested and charged with aggravated stalking.

OTHER STUFF � 6900 block of Roswell Road – a 32-year-

old man called police on Sept. 8 and reported that his ex-girlfriend had stolen his car. The officers checked the tag number which came out registered to the girlfriend. he told the officer that they had an “understanding.” A stolen car report was not taken.

� 8800 block of North River Parkway 30350 – On Sept. 9, two persons died as a result of a structure fire at an apartment. Neigh-bors woke just after midnight and reported smoke. When officers arrived, they forced entry into an apartment and located a male

victim who was not responsive and had what appeared to be burns. later, a female vic-tim was found upstairs. Both were later pro-nounced dead. Cause of the fire appeared centered on the kitchen, but the investiga-tion is continuing.

� Ga. 400 at the MARTA ramp 30328 – On Sept. 9, a motorist reported he and others were in a Toyota minivan when a female oc-cupant began yelling and demanding that the van pull over. When they did, she ran into the wooded area adjacent to Ga. 400. accord-ing to the witness, she then tried to run out into traffic. She was physically restrained at which time she bit two of her passengers. She was later taken to Northside hospital by am-bulance.

� A man reported – that he and his fiancé broke off their wedding several months ago. Since that time, she remarried and now her new husband is sending threatening emails to him. The suspect converses through Face-book, threatening to do bodily harm. accord-ing to the victim, the ex-fiancé doesn’t know about it. No information about the ex-fiancé was provided.

Chief bows out after 28 years fighting DeKalb fires

By Melissa [email protected]

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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