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BY JOHN RUCHjohnruch@reporternewspapers.net

A heavy load of wooden building frames dangled from a crane over traffic on a Sandy Springs street April 29. Hoisting a load over an open street is a move the crane’s owner says should not happen, and various con-struction industry guidelines discourage it.

But in the patchwork world of localized construction codes, officials say, that lumber lift broke no legal rules in that specific spot, the One City Walk project’s side facing San-dy Springs Place. But the same lift might vi-olate city or state rules if it happened just a

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The five candidates vying for the Sandy Springs City Council District 3 seat staked out some key differences at a May 4 forum hosted by the Sandy Springs Reporter.

Candidates Chris Burnett, Brian Eufinger, Joe Houseman, Suzi Voyles and Larry Young also offered up a few big ideas, including a Hammond Drive tunnel and an apartment-construction moratorium.

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Alyssa Kosek, 12, and her father Jim, take on the balloon challenge during the 4th annual Community Assistance Center’s annual “Food ‘n Fun Festival” at North Springs Charter High School on May 7. The center uses the

event to raise awareness, funds and food to combat hunger and homelessness in the community.

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District 3 City Council candidates voice differences at forum

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Georgians head to the polls May 24 for lo-cal party primaries and non-partisan elec-tions. Sandy Springs has an election for City Council, and Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs all choose nom-inees for the state Legislature. Fulton and DeKalb have school sales-tax votes.

To see if you’re properly registered, where to vote or to view a sample ballot, check the My Voter Page on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website, mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP.

Learn more about local candidates by go-ing to the Voters Guide on page 12. Find the complete versions at ReporterNewspapers.net. Check our website on Election Night for the results in local races.

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MAKING ADIFFERENCEProgram assists Latino children

Hard work, persistence and resilience are more important than raw ability. What you decide to study is more important than where you go to school. Think about growth opportunities when you make your education choices.Gary A. Piligian Math and statistic teacher, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

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PATH400, Perimeter Center transit on Sandy Springs’ T-SPLOST wish listBY JOHN RUCHjohnruch@reporternewspapers.net

A PATH400 extension and a Perim-eter Center trail network doubling as a possible future monorail or trolley line are among projects Sandy Springs wants to fund with a transportation sales tax that could go before Fulton County voters Nov. 8.

The transportation special local op-tion sales tax, or T-SPLOST, process is moving quickly on a short deadline. The five-year sales tax increase of up to 0.75 percent must be attached to a specific project list submitted to the county by May 30. Officials unveiled the possible project list at the May 3 Sandy Springs City Council meeting.

“We have a whole host of already publicly vetted projects” to choose from for inclusion on the list, Assistant City Manager Bryant Poole told the council at its meeting.

If approved by voters, the T-SPLOST could raise a projected $500 million to $600 million over five years county-wide, with about $101 million of that go-ing to Sandy Springs based on its pop-ulation, county Chief Operating Officer Todd Long told the council. That does not include the city of Atlanta, which has a separate SPLOST ballot question aimed at funding MARTA expansion.

Poole said the city would like to de-vote large amounts of the T-SPLOST money to basic roadway maintenance ($5 million) and sidewalk installations ($15 million). But there are also some unique big-ticket items on the city’s list, including the $5 million missing link of the PATH400 multi-use trail between Buckhead and a section that will be built as part of the I-285/Ga. 400 recon-struction project.

Another item is a $5 million contri-

bution to building Perimeter Center’s “Last Mile Connectivity” path network that Sandy Springs is jointly planning with the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts and the cities of Brookhaven and Dunwoody. The basic concept is a network of bicycle and pedestrian paths to ease connections to local MARTA sta-tions, and the T-SPLOST funds would be used to pay for that part. The proj-ect also includes right of way for pair-ing the paths with some form of mass transit—maybe buses, maybe some-thing more futuristic, such as a mono-rail or gondola cars.

Sandy Springs City Manager John McDonough, in an interview at the council meeting, gave some new details of the “Last Mile Connectivity” plan—including that it could produce an al-ternative transit “pilot project” rela-tively soon.

The request for proposals for a path plan consultant has been issued the previous week, McDonough said, and Sandy Springs already plans to bud-get $500,000 in the next fiscal year to “jump-start” planning by purchasing available right of ways. Officials previ-ously said the study also would include a cost-benefit analysis of alternative mass-transit forms. But, McDonough said, there actually will be a second RFP issued in about six to 12 months for sales pitches from alternative tran-sit companies.

“This is the gondola, trolley, mono-rail [or other options]—what should this be?” McDonough said, adding that companies will be asked such ques-tions as, “What’s your technology? Is it proven?”

“We’ll see, is there a pilot project to be had?” McDonough said, explaining that an alternative transit test route up to a mile long might be possible.

• Johnson Ferry Road/Mount Vernon Highway roundabouts: $25 million. The plan to replace the existing X-shaped intersection with roundabouts is stalled by a dispute over the historic status of an auto repair shop that the city must demolish for the project. Pulling out of federal funding and its more complex appeals process could speed up a resolution to the historic issue, Poole said.

• Alonglistof“trafficoperationsimprovements”:$20million.Manyoftheprojectsarefairlyminoritemssuchasnewroadway lanesand trafficsignal timings.Onebigger-ticket item isarealignmentof theintersection of Roswell and Grogans Ferry roads.

• Mount Vernon Highway and Roberts Drive multi-use paths: $15 million. This would build the paths alreadyapprovedinthecity’sbikeandpedestrianplan.

T-SPLOST PROJECTS ON THE SANDY SPRINGS WISH LIST

TWO ADDITIONAL PROJECTS TO BE ADDED IF THERE IS T-SPLOST MONEY AVAILABLE

• Hammond Drive widening design and acquisition (not actual construction): $15 million. The controversial project’sconstructionwouldstillbemorethanfiveyearsaway,MayorRustyPaulnoted.

• Flex-use shoulder lanes on I-285 westbound: $1 million. Express and shuttle buses could use the highway’s shoulder as a travel lane from Raider Drive to Cobb County in a project intended to mitigate futureBravesstadiumtraffic.ThestateDepartmentofTransportationwouldneedtoapprovetheconcept.

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Resident says planned street buyout on Pill Hill isn’t a done dealBY JOHN RUCHjohnruch@reporterenewspapers.net

The buyout of an entire residential street for a large mixed-use project on Pill Hill is not a done deal, even though the plan is on a communi-ty meeting agen-da this month, according to a res-ident who said she has not agreed to sell her mansion there.

Developer Richmond Honan aims to redevel-op residential Cle-mentstone Drive in Sandy Springs into a mixed-use project front-ing on the Glen-ridge Connector. He seeks to pres-ent an early plan to the High Point Civic Association on May 18.

Joe Cannon of KW Commercial At-lanta Perimeter, the developer’s real estate broker, indicated in a previous interview and to civic association mem-ber Bill Gannon that all homeowners agreed to the buy-out and that a rezon-ing application for the “entire street” would be filed “in the near future.”

But Andjela Kessler said that she and at least two other Clementstone home-owners have not agreed to sell. Kes-sler said she was unaware the plan was moving forward or that it was being presented to the civic association.

“I have not signed to sell my proper-ty,” said Kessler, who lives at 970 Clem-entstone. “I have not talked to [the de-velopers] in a long time…I thought it was off. I thought they were no longer

interested.”Cannon declined to comment on the

project’s status in response to Kessler’s comments, though he indicated more information should be available in a

couple of weeks. Richmond Hon-an did not imme-diately return a phone call. Gan-non at the High Point Civic Asso-ciation said the plan remains on the group’s May 18 agenda.

Kessler said she bought the Clem-entstone house in 1980 and exten-sively renovated it to resemble a man-sion on the Adri-atic Sea owned by her grandfa-ther, who served as prime minister of the former Yu-goslavia during World War II. She brought in archi-

tects and masons from that area to give the house an authentic look, she said.

“So it’s a very historic house to me…I can’t really replace that,” she said, add-ing that she would like to leave it to her children. “It would be extremely pain-ful for me to leave there.”

Kessler said the developer more than a year ago made an offer for her proper-ty that she found “very much unaccept-able.” But among residents who have not agreed to sell, she said, there is con-cern of ending up with adjacent prop-erty redeveloped into commercial uses.

“The attitude is, if we are forced to go, we will sign,” Kessler said. “People are scared to be forced out of it, in a sense.”

JOHN RUCH

Andjela Kessler has not agreed to sell her mansion at 970 Clementstone

Drive, above, to developers.

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With Saturday School, Los Ninos Primero helps Latino children feel at home in Sandy SpringsBY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWIS

In one classroom, 3-year-old yoga students on blue mats shifted like pros into their “downward dog” and “warrior” positions. In another, 4-year-olds tapped beats on drums to practice counting.

Down the hall, other pre-schoolers created paper pyramids and squares to be tossed in a game. Each side of the figures revealed a direction such as “Count to 50” or “Do something nice for someone.”

This was Saturday School at Los Ninos Primero, now in its 16th year of serving Latino children in a year-round educational program at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Sandy Springs.

For the little ones, the morning was all about fun.

For their teachers, fun is a power tool for building a passion for learning, and for nipping in the bud the inhibi-tors to kindergarten readiness that can arise from language and cultural differ-ences and socioeconomic situations.

Every activity had a role in that mis-sion — even yoga, which they teach to prepare the children to deal with stress.

Executive Director Maritza Morelli, a child psychologist, is very sensitive to that need.

“The school and the church are very open and protective and embracing,” Morelli said, “but this is a very differ-ent environment than we see in some other ways.”

Veronica Toscano de Leger, direc-tor of the Georgia Liaison Office of the state government of Guanajuato in Mexico, said Los Ninos Primero is help-ing children who may have difficult home lives flourish with confidence in a loving, welcoming environment.

“That makes a difference in a child. It makes them start working harder to succeed,” she said. “You can see the pas-sion when they play an instrument, the passion when people care for them.”

A church bus picks the children up from across Sandy Springs, where 14 percent of the population is Hispanic or Latino. Ninety-nine percent of the program’s children were born in the U.S. and their first language is Spanish. Most of them are from low-income fam-ilies.

Steve Whisenant, CEO of Haven Campus Communities, was the found-ing chairman of Los Ninos Primero’s board of directors. He said the nonprof-it program was born out of Mount Ver-non’s research on the needs of the ar-ea’s growing Latino population. “We found out very quickly that to say it was underserved was an understate-

ment,” he said.Los Ninos Primero began as a two-

week summer program that served 17

children on the preschool campus of Mount Vernon Presbyterian School.

Today, 250 children participate in its free programs: the three-hour plus lunch Saturday School for 3- and 4-year-olds; a month-long summer pro-

A DifferenceMaking

PHOTOS BY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWIS

Volunteer Carmen Morales, 15, started with Los Ninos Primero as a 3-year-old

preschooler. The Riverwood International Charter School student plans a future in medicine, education or criminal justice.

Sophia Monje, 4, gives a goodbye hug to Maritza Morelli, executive director

of Los Ninos Primero, as she leaves the program’s Saturday School.

Los Ninos Primero art teacher Alison Calefati helps Emiliano Salas, 4, left, and

Edwin Esteva, 5, create an educational game.

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gram for ages 3 to 6; and weekday ex-tracurricular activities for ages 5 and up. Orchestra, soccer, karate and cho-rus are offered.

All of the program’s 15 teachers are certified and paid, except for a volun-teer retired teacher. They are assist-ed by dozens of volunteers, including many former Los Ninos Primero stu-dents.

“I think we’ve had about 1,000 chil-dren come through this program,” said Whisenant, who now serves on the pro-gram’s development committee. “I’ve been pleased with the ability to stay vi-able and to grow, and to have a lot of people who feel like we’ve done the right thing, for the right rea-sons.”

Summer pro-gram teacher Katrina Verde sees first-hand the difference Los Ninos Prim-ero makes in school prepared-ness. She is a kindergarten teacher at Sandy Springs’ Lake Forest Elementary School, a school where 94 percent of students are Hispanic and 59 percent of students receive language services.

“Programs like Los Ninos are pret-ty vital for these kids,” Verde said. “We want to bridge the academic gap so that nobody would notice a difference be-tween kids who come from Lake For-est and the kids who come from other schools in our cluster.”

Morelli was lead bilingual com-munity liaison for the Fulton County school system when she was asked to create and lead Los Ninos Primero.

The Venezuelan native was a perfect fit. “Being an immigrant myself, I un-derstand how difficult it is for the par-ents to understand the school’s expec-tations,” Morelli said.

Parent involvement is not only key here, it is required.

“I want parents to feel that that they have something valuable to offer, to help and to feel proud of their own cul-ture,” she said. “Building their self-con-fidence will help the children.”

Morelli said parents help with fun-draising, go on cultural field trips, and must attend at least 50 percent of the classes offered to them, such as school system expectations, their “rights as hu-man beings” and stress management.

“I’m planting hope in these par-ents that their children can go to col-lege, because they were born here and they have more opportunity,” Morel-li said. “They have to believe that. And they will learn, little by little, the steps they need to to make sure the kids are on track.”

Fifty percent of the program’s first 17 students are in college, and Carmen

Morales, 15, is headed that way. The Riv-erwood International Charter School student plans a future in medicine, ed-ucation or criminal justice.

She grew up with Los Ninos Prime-ro, starting in the program as a 3-year-old and staying connected through her family’s participation and her volun-teer work as the program’s assistant soccer coach.

“They gave me fond memories of my childhood and I want to give that back to them,” Carmen said.

She said the program is like a small community for its families.

Carmen’s parents came to the U.S. from Mexico 20 years ago. She rare-

ly sees her father, ex-cept on week-ends, because he works two jobs. Her mother works nights clean-ing three floors of an office build-ing.

“You learn about people who might have the same story as us,” Carmen said, “like the struggle of getting here and then wanting their children to have a bet-ter future than them. … I wish there were more people like Ms. Maritza.”

The school and the church are very open and protective and embracing.MARITZA MORELLI

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Gary Piligian teaches Ad-vanced Placement statistics, statistics and other math classes, including pre-calcu-lus and algebra 2, at Mount Vernon Pres-byterian School in Sandy Springs. He’s been a teach-er for four years. Before teaching, he was trained as an engineer and worked on Wall Street as a finan-cial investment banker. He’s also the school’s cross-country coach and runs marathons.

Q: What attracted you to teaching at first?

A: My path was dif-ferent than that of most teachers - I was an en-gineer by training who worked at a management consulting firm after getting my bachelor’s degree, and, af-

ter I went to graduate school for an MBA, worked in the institutional fixed-income business for 25 years - 11 years for Salo-mon Brothers (now part of Citigroup), and 14 years for Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. I’ve always been interested in education, as it played a huge role in my own career, and was at the stage of my life when I had the fi-nancial flexibility to teach.

Like many non-teacher parents, I was a critic of how kids are taught, and I decid-

ed that instead of simply being a critic, I should try and do something about it. Teaching, done right, is definitely more difficult than most critics think it is. I have tremendous re-spect for my colleagues at Mount Vernon Presbyteri-an School, and I’ve learned a great deal from them.

Q: Has the appeal changed?

A: I love working with the kids and with their par-ents, so from that perspec-

tive, the appeal hasn’t changed at all. I draw energy from seeing the students learn chal-lenging concepts, and from helping them connect the dots between the skills they learn in class and the opportunities that are open to them in the business world.

Q: What keeps you going year after year? A: Honestly, it’s the notes you get every

now and then from a student, a parent of a student, or a former student telling you about the personal impact that you’ve made on the student. That’s the key. I want our students to be successful and then to pay it back when they are in a position to do so.

I’m also fortunate that I work at Mount Vernon, where teachers have the flexibili-ty to experiment with new ideas and tech-nologies to keep things fresh. All teachers at Mount Vernon have learning outcomes that drive our instruction, but we have tre-mendous latitude in how to get our stu-dents to best achieve the learning out-comes. We can tailor our instruction and style to our special expertise. As an exam-ple, the school has let me create a two-se-mester elective for next year - introduction to personal finance, and introduction to investments. These are life-worthy topics, they are right up my power alley and I can involve our parent community as resourc-es. I’m excited to see how this class unfolds next year.

Q: What do you think makes a great teacher?A: I used to think subject matter exper-

tise was the end-all and be-all, and, obvi-ously, that is hugely important. In fact, it’s a given - it’s the price of admission to the ball game. But, after that, what really matters

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Q: What do you want to see in your stu-dents?

A: I want to see students who are ready to tackle difficult problems; I value resilien-cy and persistence. I try to put the growth mindset into all students - the idea that anyone can learn anything if they put the effort into it.

Q: How do you engage your students? A: The biggest thing students are look-

ing for is relevance. Our Head of School, Dr. Brett Jacobsen, suggested all of our staff read a book called “Future Wise” by David Perkins. The book emphasizes that educa-tors need to make sure the concepts they teach are “life worthy” to students - in oth-er words, is what we are teaching likely to matter to the lives that students are likely to live? That’s a great lens through which to build engagement: Is it relevant, and does it have real-world applicability? I always link what we learn in the classroom to what I actually applied in my role in the invest-ment business; students are clamoring for that type of relevance.

Q: Do you have a project or special pro-gram you use year after year?

A: No. I change up my projects from year to year. You have to keep it fresh - re-fine what you’ve done before that worked well to make it better, and don’t be afraid to jettison things you did in the past that just weren’t that effective.

Q: Is there a “trick” that works to get stu-dents involved?

A: Candy. All students will work for candy. Seriously, there’s no trick - students can tell if you are working hard on their be-half. They can sense that you care, and they

respond in kind. Now, if you can only tell me the key to keeping graduating seniors involved. That’s a tough one, because, quite understandably, they’re starting to put high school in the rear-view mirror as they look forward to college. I love teaching se-niors, because they are mature, they are thinking about their future, and they want to know what it’s like out there in the real world. But it does get challenging to keep them involved as you move toward Gradu-ation Day.

Also, I’m totally honest with my stu-dents. I tell them that I never had the occa-sion to use imaginary numbers in my work experience, but I used the concepts of com-pound growth almost daily. I build trust with my students, and don’t take that trust for granted. If you can expand your role from being a teacher to being a life coach, students appreciate it.

Q: What do you hope your students take away from your class?

A: Hard work, persistence and resil-ience are more important than raw abil-ity. What you decide to study is more im-portant than where you go to school. Think about growth opportunities when you make your education choices - if I were 18 years old today, I’d make sure I’d closely in-vestigate technology, energy, health care and data science.

Effort matters. Luck matters. Ethics matter. Skills matter. Some jobs pay more than others because of supply and de-mand; make sure you get the skills that will put you in high demand, and make sure you protect your reputation. You are the master of your own destiny.

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Question: What is the minimum post-high school education that you think is necessary today to get a good job? Do you think it is worth taking on debt to get more education?

Despite the cost, a college degree remains the key to a good job, according to the people who answered our most recent 1Q survey. Two-thirds of the 200 respondents in the cellphone-based survey consider a college degree the minimum post-high school education needed to find a comfortable spot in the workplace.

“Continuing education increases the chances of getting a better job and con-sequently, making more money,” a 36-year-old Atlanta woman said when asked whether it was worth going into debt to secure a college degree. “It is an investment that is likely to pay off.”

And during this graduation season, when local colleges and high schools award degrees and diplomas to hundreds of new graduates, others echoed her belief that the extra years of schooling were worth the cost. “In today’s world, it is worth the debt to receive higher education,” a 23-year-old Brookhaven woman with a high-school diploma said.

Not everyone saw it that way, however. About 23 percent of the respondents to the survey of adults across the communities served by Reporter Newspapers and At-lanta INtown thought high school graduates could do well with only two years of college education, a few college courses or no college at all. “As an executive for a 200-employee company,” a 41-year-old Buckhead man with a high-school education said, “I’ve found that some of the best people have no degree, but rather a great un-derstanding of the subject matter for a given position.”

Then again, about 10 percent thought college wasn’t enough. New graduates, they said, needed at least a master’s degree.

Others questioned the high cost of college, which often requires students or their families to go deeply into debt. “I have recently graduated with my bachelor’s de-gree,” a 23-year-old Atlanta woman commented. “I think it is crazy how much we have to spend and put ourselves in debt to find a job just to make it. It’s insane that there are no other options than to put ourselves in debt in order to get a job, because to get any decent job today you need at least a bachelor’s degree. I am all about the education, but not being punished financially for receiving it.”

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Total Respondents (200) WHAT RESPONDENTS HAD TO SAY

“Only if that debt can quickly be paid off. The education needs to lead to a job in a field where there is need.”47-year-old Sandy Springs wom-an with a master’s degree

“No, work experience is more important.”61-year-old Sandy Springs man with a college degree

“No, not unless you are in a spe-cific field that requires it (aka doctor, lawyer, etc.).”31-year-old Sandy Springs wom-an with a bachelor’s degree

“Yes, but you need to be strategic and have a career in mind. A degree is only valuable if employers think it is.”31-year-old Brookhaven man with a master’s degree

“Only if it (debt) is flexi-ble and low interest!”51-year-old Buckhead man with a bachelor’s degree

“Depends on how much the job you expect to get will pay.”24-year-old Dunwoody wom-an with a master’s degree

“No. Success is based on effort, de-termination and focus, not finan-cial background. Plenty of rich kids who have access to a college ed-ucation make nothing of it.”40-year-old Atlanta wom-an with a master’s degree

“It’s an investment, but only to get a job that can pay it off.”27-year-old Atlanta man with a graduate degree

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I carried them to term, thirty-eight weeks. They were 6.5 lbs. and 6.7 lbs. and each measured 19.5 inches, a remarkable dual heft for a 5’1 me.

I carried them, hip on hip, side to side, front and back, for the first year. I carried them one at a time -- on a Boppy pillow in my lap and draped across my shoulder. I carried them tandem--strapped into stroll-ers and car seats, in a backpack, and in a front sling. I carried them through colicky days and feverish nights, through Chuck E. Cheese bouncy-ball pits and Chick-fil-A slides.

I shuttled them to school, karate les-sons, swim meets, soccer practice, base-ball games, campouts and Scout meetings. I hauled them to shoe shopping and suit fit-tings, and countless times to REI. I drove them to doctors’ offices and school dances, to birthday party days and movie meet-up nights.

I drove them to airports for departure to grandparent vacations and summer ad-ventures.

I carried them to college visits and spring breaks and school dance picture parties.

This month as I watch my twin boys carry their high school diplomas across the stage, I will continue to feel their weight in my arms.

They may not know it, they may not like it, but they are a part of me and I carry them with me as completely and naturally as I carry my own heart.

And after graduation, I will carry them still.

We all carry our children. They are there in our minds and our guts, our hopes and our fears. We carry them through sickness, disappointments and breakups. When they don’t make the team, when their friends move away, we feel the loss and we share in the sadness. We carry them through health, accomplishments and satisfaction.

When their team wins, when they made the cut, we feel the elation and we share in the thrill. And through all the ups and downs, we carry them…with love and prayer and wringing hands and gleeful hugs.

We teach them to stand and to walk and to be in-dependent; raising self-sufficient adults is, af-ter all, our ul-timate goal. (And yes, you can throw-in “happy,” “well-adjust-ed,” “contrib-uting member of society,” and any num-ber of enriching adjectives, but you get my point). Yet our children are irrevoca-bly connected to us through the bonds of parenthood, and it is within those parental bonds that we carry them.

We carry them with joy and pride and utter astonishment that these beings grew up before our very eyes and developed into strong and capable adults.

We will carry them still, through dorm move-in day and college football games, through interviews and job searches, through engagements and weddings and births, through new lives and new dreams and new families emerging.

It is the way of the world. Once we car-ry our tiny miracles as helpless infants, they become ours, and we carry them with us, forever.

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MIXED-USE PROJECT, NEW EAST-WEST ROAD PLANNED FOR PALISADES SITE

A major mixed-use project including 425 apartments and a new east-west connector road is planned to go up alongside the Palisades office park at 5901 Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. The project by Sandy Springs-based Pollack Shores Real Estate Group also includes 10,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, according to a press release. The existing office buildings would remain.

Pollack Shores has agreed to help pay for a new east-west connector road between Peachtree-Dunwoody in Sandy Springs and Perimeter Center Parkway in Dunwoody. That is part of longer roadway planned to improve east-west traffic movement through Perime-ter Center.

“We were really drawn to Palisades’ proximity to MARTA and its location near numer-ous job centers in the Perimeter market,” says Pollack Shores Managing Director Michael Blair in a press release.

The apartments would be “luxury” units ranging from one to three bedrooms. Some of the retail space would front on the new east-west connector. The project involves two new buildings with a common green space.

ASHTON WOODS HOUSING UNDERWAY AT GLENRIDGE HALL SITE

Ashton Woods’ massive and controversial housing development at the former Glen-ridge Hall site on Abernathy Road began work on May 7, according to a spokesperson. Now dubbed “Aria,” the Ashton Woods project has two main sections flanking Abernathy at Glenridge Drive.

The part starting now is a 47-acre housing redevelopment and a new public park at the former Glenridge Hall mansion. The other part, which may start late this year, is a 29-acre mix of condos, apartments, detached houses and retail space next to the future Mercedes-Benz USA headquarters. In addition, a third Ashton Woods redevelopment along Glenridge Drive, a 25-acre townhome project formerly known as Glenn West, is now being branded as part of the Aria project.

Overall, the project includes nearly 1,000 housing units.

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Northside Hospital hopes to add an 8-story tower and a 10-story parking ga-rage to its Pill Hill campus in plans now under state and city of Sandy Springs review.

Last December, Northside received state approval to build a 5-story tow-er—an addition to its main building at 1000 Johnson Ferry Road—to add 53 in-patient beds. That would boost the total bed count to 590.

This month, the hospital filed an up-dated tower plan that keeps the same number of beds, but adds three more stories containing other services to the building, according to spokesperson Katherine Watson. The application for a “Certificate of Need,” includes:

• Expansion and renovation ofthe hospital’s food services.

• Fouradditionalsharedoperat-ing room suites and expansion of surgi-cal support space.

• Renovation of existing spaceto house a conversion of existing medi-cal/surgical beds into critical care beds.

• 25physiciansleeprooms.• Refurbishment of the hospi-

tal’s Labor & Delivery area.• Renovation/conversion of ex-

isting space to house 29 additional 23-hour observation/extended recovery beds/bays.

• Renovation of space being va-cated in the existing hospital for other clinical and non-clinical uses.

If the tower gains state approval, construction could start this fall, Wat-son said.

The new garage with about 1,270 spaces would go on the site of an exist-ing surface parking lot off Peachtree-Dunwoody Road between the hospital’s day care and a medical office build-ing. The garage is intended as employee parking to free up spaces in the hospi-tal’s other garages, Watson said.

The hospital already received state approval for the garage in March, but needs city zoning approval to combine two parcels, Watson said. If that hap-pens, work could start in late summer and finish about October 2017, she said.

In the meantime, Watson said, the hospital already received city approv-al to create a temporary gravel parking lot on a vacant parcel it owns at the in-tersection of Meridian Mark Drive and the Glenridge Connector.

A community meeting about the plan,

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and a Buckhead lawyer meet in the Republi-can Primary on May 24 to determine who will take the seat in the House of Representatives representing District 52, which covers portions of Buckhead and Sandy Springs. Graham Mc-Donald of Sandy Springs and Deborah Sil-cox of Buckhead are vying to succeed veteran former Rep. Joe Wilkinson, who decided not to seek re-election. No Democrat has filed for the District 52 seat, so the winner of the Republican Primary will be able to claim the seat.

State Sen. Fran Millar of Dunwoody, who represents a portion of Sandy Springs, faces a challenge from financial advisor Paul Maner in the Republican Primary contest for the Dis-trict 40 Senate seat.

The Sandy Springs Reporter submitted ques-tions to the candidates. Here are selections from their responses, edited for space. To see their full answers, go to ReporterNewspapers.net.

Graham McDonaldLawyer

Community: Sandy SpringsPast political expe-rience: Councilman for the city of San-dy Springs, District 3, from January 2014 through March 2016.Other experience in the community:

Leadership Sandy Springs; prior president and vice president, North Harbor Neighbor-hood Association; prior vice chairman, San-dy Springs Economic Development Advisory Committee.

Q: What do you see as the biggest problem facing the state?A: The biggest problem facing our state is un-necessary legislation, like this past year’s so-called “religious freedom” (“RFRA”) bill. We need to cut back on legislation attempting to serve as a solution to a problem created only by the legislation. If it had not been for the Governor’s veto, Georgia’s reputation as a welcoming and gracious state would have been damaged and the economic detriment to our state would have been immense. One only needs to look at what has occurred in North Carolina and Indiana, when similar legislation was enacted, to see what could have befallen on Georgia economically.

Deborah Donaldson SilcoxAttorney

Neighborhood: Northside WoodsPast political expe-rience: University of Georgia legislative intern; legislative intern for U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn; clerked for Georgia Attor-

ney General; have worked on numerous campaigns.

Other experience in the community: Re-appointed and made chair of the Gover-nor’s Commission for Service and Volun-teerism by Gov. Nathan Deal (2014-present); appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue to state of Georgia’s Commission for Volunteerism and Service (2011- 2014) as well as the De-partment of Human Resources Board (2009-2011).

Q: What do you see as the biggest problem facing the state? A: As our representative, I will work to en-sure we have long term economic devel-opment plans in place to bring jobs and growth here. My proposal to eliminate in-come taxes and replace them with a Fair-Tax plan would absolutely result in eco-nomic development from companies relocating out of high-tax states to Georgia and bringing growth, manufacturing, and high-tech jobs with them.

Republican PrimaryGeorgia Senate, District 40

, Paul ManerFinancial advisor

Neighborhood: Em-bry Hills Past political experi-ence: None. Other experience in the community: I have served as a mis-sionary on both for-eign and local mis-sions, as well as

working with the needy and indigent.

Q: What do you see as the biggest problem facing the state? A: Education, transportation and taxes.

Fran Millar (I)Marking Consultant/state Senator

Community: Dun-woodyPast political expe-rience: State Repre-sentative for 12 years; state Senator for six years; Chairman Sen-ate Higher Education Committee.Other experience in

the community: Member of Dunwoody United Methodist Church; Dunwoody Homeowners Association.Q: What do you see as the biggest problem facing the state?A: Educational achievement and regional transportation.

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The five candidates are running for a May 24 special election to fill the District 3 seat left vacant in March when Graham McDonald resigned to run for state representative.

Why they’re runningEach candidate had a different approach

to the council job.Eufinger, who founded the Sandy Springs

Zoning Coalition group on Facebook, pre-sented himself as a moderator and media-tor of debates on high-density developments. He said there’s “nothing wrong with growth, but [it should be] smart growth,” and said he would bring a “measure twice, cut once” ap-proach to development issues.

Burnett and Young both campaigned on long community experience and took shots at Eufinger, with Burnett saying he’s been a local banker longer than Eufinger has been alive. “Sandy Springs is a very large and com-plex city,” said Burnett. “It is not a job some-one with inexperience can do very well.”

Young looked back to his status as “one of the founders of the community,” while Bur-nett said he’s the only candidate serving on the advisory committee for the city’s “Next Ten” long-range planning process.

Young said he is “uniquely qualified” by his experience as an attorney, a former city judge and a former president of the Sandy Springs Council of Neighborhoods. He also touted his “independence” from the city ad-ministration and local developments.

Houseman, an airline pilot and lifelong lo-cal resident, positioned himself as a voice for the old-school, suburban, lower-density, tree-filled Sandy Springs. “Sandy Springs is in my DNA,” he repeatedly said.

Voyles described a more “tweaking” ap-proach to a city doing many things well. The current executive director of the Fulton County Republican Party, Voyles said she has a “national network of legislators” she can use for advice and help on issues.

How dense is too dense?The city has many dense, mixed-use proj-

ects and skyscrapers underway or under re-view. The candidates’ positions on denser de-velopment ranged from cautious support to opposition.

Young said the city’s own City Springs mixed-use downtown project is a good idea, and it needs dense redevelopment around it to be successful. “So [denser] redevelopment is appropriate in the right place.”

Burnett, however, said he’s concerned

about over-building of apartments and a pos-sible market crash. “I would support a dis-trict-wide moratorium right now on multi-family development,” he said.

“I do not promote future high-densi-ty growth,” said Houseman. “Right now, the growth and development is impacting nega-tively the citizens of Sandy Springs.”

Voyles expressed concern about tall build-ings fronting the streets, such as the One City Walk underway at Roswell Road and Ham-mond Drive. “I’m not so sure that’s the iden-tity I want for the community,” she said, de-scribing it as more Buckhead-like.

Eufinger called for “middle-ground so-lutions” and noted he has helped with com-munity advocacy that reduced the unit count on a number of large projects. However, he also said the city must still stick to its own planning.“The thing with the city’s current policy is, it seems pretty dense,” he said, re-peating a joke he said a resident told him. “I think rules are made to be followed…Why have rules if you’re going to approve 300 per-cent, 400 percent over the quota?”

Traffic and transitDistrict 3 covers much of western and cen-

tral Sandy Springs, including several major commuter routes. Traffic and transportation

improvements are major local issues.Burnett said he would call for a District 3

traffic study. He said he already has the “big, hairy, audacious goal” of building a new road between Johnson Ferry Road and Powers Fer-ry/Windy Hill roads in Cobb County to divert commuter traffic.

“The only long-term solution is transit,” Young said. “To just add more lanes and more pavement does not solve the problem.”

Voyles said she wants more car capacity

on I-75, but also called for a local tram ser-vice. Houseman agreed with trams, but also said, “Bike lanes are paramount to me,” not-ing how well they work in Europe.

Eufinger agreed with the need for a traffic study and noted he started a web-site called “Keep Moving Sandy Springs” that promotes commuting alternatives.

All were skeptical of a controversial pro-posal to widen the two-lane section of Ham-mond Drive.

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few miles away in Buckhead—or even just a few feet away on Roswell Road.

In the April 29 incident, workers had placed the load of wood in a travel lane of Sandy Springs Place without any special traffic control. As vehicles drove around the load, two workers connected it to the crane, which then lifted it over moving traffic and onto the job site. The crane is a rental from North Carolina-based Heede Southeast.

“I was like, ‘Holy…’ It’s not the best feel-ing,” said Heede General Manager Jason Kenna about seeing a photo of the lift. “Hoisting loads over occupied streets is not a common practice,” he added, say-ing workers usually will stop traffic “so no one’s under the load.”

Kenna said it appeared the crane oper-ator was working “in the blind,” meaning he could not see the load directly due to the angle and relied on “flaggers,” or ground workers, to direct him. Heede provides only the crane and the operator, not the flaggers, who are general contractor CW Construction’s responsibility, Kenna said.

“We’ll probably do a site visit and talk to the contractor to figure out what happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Kenna said.

Grant Stackhouse, CW’s executive vice president of construction, said that the tightness of the site requires lifts from the street at times, but that the company does not want loads passing over traffic. “That isn’t our policy. We want to do our best to not fly things over [the street],” he said.

Stackhouse said the site supervisor in-formed him that traffic had been blocked during the April 29 lift, but acknowledged he had not directly witnessed it. Stack-house said the supervisor has been in-structed to emphasize the need for traffic control during crane lifts.

While the crane and contracting com-panies are taking action, the city of San-dy Springs probably would not, because no specific rules cover the situation, said city spokesperson Sharon Kraun.

“Our current code does not cover

‘means and methods’ as it relates to cranes and construction within the city,” Kraun said, adding that the state code the city bor-rowed from doesn’t, either. “However, our building inspectors are able to take action if they witness activity that they believe is unsafe or presents a life safety issue.”

One City Walk is also bordered by Ro-swell Road, a state route where crane op-erations have different rules. “If GDOT was overseeing this work…we would not have any vehicles moving under our crane, pe-riod,” said state Department of Transporta-tion spokesperson Annalysce Baker.

On state routes, even moving the crane’s arm over the street requires a “right of way encroachment” permit, said Baker. And hoisting a load over the road would re-quire a traffic control plan involving stop-ping vehicles “until the load went from Point A to Point B. Nothing should be un-der that load.”

The city of Atlanta has similar permit requirements, a spokesperson said.

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Sandy Springs city officials are pro-posing the first city budget over $100 million since the 2008 economic crash, a sign of slow but steady recovery, offi-cials said at a May 3 City Hall meeting.

The $103.6 million budget for fiscal year 2017, which begins July 1, proposes funding for new parks, sidewalks, po-lice cars and a general manager for the forthcoming performing arts center at

the City Springs project, among many other items.

A final draft of the budget goes to City Council at its May 17 meeting, followed by public hearings on June 7 and 21.

The budget projects revenues being up 5.75 percent to $90.7 million, and general fund expenditures up more than 3.4 percent to $103.6 million. The budget also includes carrying over the city’s fiscal 2016 “undesignated fund” balance of $12.9 million.

→ All of the firms contracted to provide the city’s outsourced public services are boosting employee pay for a total cost of $16.3 million. City Manager John Mc-Donough said that’s due to retention and hiring issues, with building inspector and traffic engineer positions remaining difficult to fill.

→ $416,000 in operating expenses to set up the City Springs performing arts center, expected to open in 2018. That includes an estimated $140,000 per year salary for a general manager. McDonough said the city is negotiating a contract with the theater management company Spectra, a Comcast affiliate, and expects to bring the deal to the City Council in June.

→ $3.9 million for several capital proj-ects approved by Mayor Rusty Paul and council members via balloting. In order of priority, they include: traffic signal system improvements; various intersec-tion improvements; new sidewalks; bi-cycle/pedestrian plan design and imple-mentation; and construction for the new

Crooked Creek and Windsor Parkway parks (which received a tie vote and will split funding).

→ $3.2 million for more “protective buys” of residential property on Hammond Drive, where the city is considering a road widening. The city recently spent more than $1.2 million to buy three Hammond properties as placeholders for the potential project.

→ $500,000 for Lake Forrest Dam repairs. State-order repairs to the earthen dam under Lake Forrest Drive on the Atlan-ta/Sandy Springs border are slow-mov-ing and still have no specific plan. Mc-Donough said the city, which splits the dam costs with Atlanta, is setting aside the $500,000 out of guesswork. But it definitely won’t be enough to complete final repairs, whatever they turn out to be, probably years from now. “This could be a five-plus-million-dollar expendi-ture,” McDonough said.

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A SEUSSOME TWOSOMESaturday, May 21, 11 a.m. Using the poetry of Dr. Seuss’s classic stories, “Gertrude McFuzz,” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” this children’s program is an easy to understand introduc-tion to opera. Tickets, $10 per person. Q&A with performers follows show. Conant Per-forming Arts Center, Oglethorpe University, 4484 Peachtree Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For further details and tickets, go to: ccityopera.org. Call 404-364-8555 with questions.

LEARN SOMETHING!HERBS & TONICSSaturday, May 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Learn “sim-ple” medicine-making skills using native and nonnative plants found at Blue Heron Na-ture Preserve! This class covers plant identi-fication, and the medicinal and edible value of plants. Hike the woods, learn proper har-vesting skills and discuss plant safety. Make a “pre recipe” tonic to take home. Light snacks and beverages provided. $30 per person; $15 for children under 12. 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlan-ta, 30342. Call 404-345-1008 for information. Register: bhnp.org or email: amyz@bhnp.org.

SPRING FLORASaturday, May 21, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Bring your canoe or kayak and join National Park Service Naturalist Jerry Hightower for a three-mile float on the Chattahoochee River, exploring plants, geology and wildlife. You will encounter three, mild class 1.5 rapids suitable for beginners. Meet at the Powers Island entrance at 10 a.m. to un-load equipment. Wear warm, quick-drying clothes and good river shoes. No flip-flops! Bring lunch and water for a picnic. Reservations re-quired by calling 678-538-1200. $3 park pass or current annual pass or America the Beautiful Pass required. 5450 Interstate North Parkway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Find out more: nps.gov.

SCREENAGERSSunday, May 22, 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. The Marcus Jewish Com-munity Center of At-

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INTRO TO MEDITATIONWednesday, May 25, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Learn what meditation is and what its benefits are. Free and open to the public. Suitable for adults, elders, college and high school au-diences. For more information, contact the Buckhead Branch Library at 404-814-3500 or email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us. 269 Buck-head Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305.

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Saturday, May 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Atlanta His-tory Center honors U.S. veterans of generations past as well as those of today during the fami-ly program, Military Timeline. Meet veterans sharing personal stories of wartime and mem-orabilia. Travel the military timeline from the Revolutionary War to current conflicts. Enjoy self-guided tours of Veterans Park using smart-phones to access recordings of veterans’ stories. Free for members; included in general admission for non-members. For details or tickets, visit: at-lantahistorycenter.com or call 404-814-4000. 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305.

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Thursday, May 19, 6-8 p.m. Reception for the 17th annual international juried exhi-bition, featuring 100 submitted paintings from the Southeastern Pastel Society. Show runs through June 26. $5 for adults; free for OUMA members; children un-der 12, free. Free parking. Low-ry Hall, Third Floor, Oglethorpe Museum of Art, 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-364-8555 or go to: museum.oglethorpe.edu.

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Saturday, May 21, 8 p.m. Known for their smooth harmonies and Motown-era influences, this young band, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trou-ble, makes audiences want to stay on the dance floor. Free beginners dance lesson 7-8 p.m. $18; $5, students; $14, active military. No partner re-quired. All ages welcome. Cajun food for sale. Dorothy Benson Center, 6500 Vernon Woods Dr., Sandy Springs, 30328. For further details, go to: aczadance.org or call 877-338-2420. ATLANTA CONCERT BANDSunday, May 22, 4 p.m. The Atlanta Concert Band continues its 2015-2016 season with a free performance of “Take the High Road: A Musical Tribute to the Fallen” at The Galloway School. No tickets required. In the Chaddick Perform-ing Arts Center, 215 West Wieuca Rd., NW, At-lanta, 30342. For more information, call 404-358-1966 or visit www.atlantaconcertband.

SOULHOUNDSaturday, May 28, 7-9 p.m. The Dunwoody Nature Center’s Concerts in the Park series welcomes Soulhound, who play groove-ori-ented R&B, as well as soul and greasy funk of the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Grab a chair, blan-

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Dining OutMegan Volpert Megan Volpert lives in Decatur, teaches in Ro-swell and writes books about popular culture.

In the April edition of Atlanta Maga-zine, Corby Kummer gave four stars to Sta-plehouse—the first four-star rating giv-en by that magazine since 2010. Within the same 24 hours as that incredible re-view, news also broke that Staplehouse is a James Beard Finalist for Best New Restau-rant.

After I ate there, I immediately posted on social media: “Don’t wait for my review, ATLiens, get tickets to eat at Staplehouse now, before they’re the hardest table to get in this city. I’m not a sentimental person, so when I say you won’t regret it…” and then posted a photo of the slogan painted over their kitchen. It’s a quotation from Ryan Hidinger that reads, “Anything long last-ing or worthwhile takes time and complete surrender.”

Everyone knows the late Hidinger’s story by now. In short, he was a talented chef with plans to open a restau-rant, but instead he died af-ter the industry raised quite a lot of money to aggressive-ly but unsuccessfully treat his gallblad-der cancer. What remains is the small but fiercely determined clan of his wife, Jen; his sister, Kara; and Kara’s husband, Chef Ryan Smith. What remains is The Giving Kitch-en, a means of raising charitable funds for members of the industry who are in need of help with expensive medical bills. All of the after-tax profits from Staplehouse go to The Giving Kitchen.

So to begin with, this is an easy way to give back to the chefs and servers who liter-ally put food on your table. And it is incred-ible food. I have had the pleasure of experi-encing the majority of fine dining offerings in Atlanta, and without hyperbole of any kind, I want to state unequivocally that I have never been so impressed with a meal in our fair city as I was with the one at Sta-plehouse. Kummer said it’s a meal worth a plane ticket and I agree.

There are many dishes worthy of anal-ysis, but little point in detailing them be-cause you should not order them. Staple-house offers an a la carte menu, but you

should get the tickets. Don’t argue with me about the merits of tick-eting; trust Smith to de-liver you an amazing feast that is twice as large as you ex-pect. The tick-ets are for a five-course menu, but there were four surprise courses threaded between those and one

of them had four completely different bites on it. It’s dy-namite bang for your buck. Trust in Smith, whose tastes, techniques and plating will all prove themselves to you as worthy of the ridiculous

amount of praise already bestowed upon them.

This brings me to my only point of dis-agreement with Kummer’s review. He says that the food “is of a seriousness that sug-gests, perhaps even demands, white table-cloths and a hint of formality.” Noooo! I would say instead, “welcome to Atlanta, where the very best chefs have no need of white tablecloths.”

Fine dining establishments in New York or Los Angeles are free to serve you expen-sively boring four-star food, resting as-sured that you can sweep your disillusion-ment under their white tablecloths. That is not how we do it in the South. Not only is Staplehouse free of white tablecloths, it doesn’t even require servers to wear stan-dardized uniforms and it also features – gasp! – an open kitchen floor plan. We are unfussy and we have soul, and we should not make concessions or apologize for it.

One other thing: we like to drink in the South. The long line of glowing Staple-house reviews often neglects to mention its

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23, employees at a discount store report-ed that someone accessed a back door to a storage area and stole $500 in cig-arettes. The manager said this has hap-pened in the past and thinks it is the same person as before.

� 8300 block of Roswell Road – On April 24, an officer responded to an alarm at a gas station-food mart and found that the front door had been pried open. In the parking lot was an abandoned van, en-gine running. It probably had been sto-len and was the burglar’s vehicle. Detec-tives took over the investigation.

� 1000 block of Brentwood Way – On April 26, a 40-year-old woman reported that she left her apartment around 10 a.m. and returned around 4 p.m. Before she returned home she said she heard voices in her head saying, “We have your stuff.” She then returned to find her lap-top, perfume, angel oil and two keys missing. There were no signs of forced entry. She told the officers that she was currently hearing “static” in her ears. She added that she has a current case pending against her neighbors and sus-pects them of the burglary.

� 600 block of Chestnut Oak Ct. – On April 27, a resident said she returned home and found the door to the carport open and a speaker that belonged in the living room was on the kitchen coun-ter. Several cabinet doors were open and items moved around. Several items were missing. The victim said a couple of con-tractors had been in the home on the previous day.

� 5100 block of Spring Creek Lane – On April 27, a resident said when he arrived home, his door was ajar. Inside, he dis-covered several electronic items miss-ing.

� 2000 block of Huntingdon Chase – On April 28, a woman reported someone en-tered her home and took coffee.

� 500 block of Forest Hills Drive – On April 28, a back patio door was pried open and the home entered. A Samsung TV was taken from the back pa-

tio and a Visio sound bar from a living room. Sev-eral other items were also miss-ing.

T H E F T S � A woman re-

ported that she went through the drive-through at fast-food restau-rant on Roswell Road, paying for the food with a $100 bill. She said the employee took the bill that she said was legit and must have swapped it for a counterfeit $100 bill. The employee then told the manag-er the diner paid with a counterfeit bill and the bill was confiscated. The diner believes the employee swapped it out and pocketed the bill.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – On April 22, a 29-year-old man reported his bicycle was stolen from the park-ing deck of his residence. The bike was locked.

� 8400 block of Roswell Road – On April 22, a 73-year-old woman told police her son recently purchased some purple bed sheets for her and at some point, she be-lieves a caretaker stole them.

� 300 block of Hammond Drive – On April 22, a 73-year-old woman said some-one took $150 cash from her wallet that was on the bed at a hotel.

� 4600 block of Stella Drive – On April 23, air conditioning units were stolen from a home under renovation or con-struction.

� 8600 block of Roswell Road – On April 24, a 52-year-old woman said she was eating lunch at a restaurant and at one point left her table—and her pock-etbook—unattended. She returned and found her purse and its contents gone.

� 8300 block of Roswell Road – On April 26, at about 1 p.m., officers met with a woman at a grocery store who told them her cellphone was stolen. The phone was tracked to Roberts Drive. The wom-an contacted her provider and suspend-ed service.

� 5100 block of Lake Forrest Drive – On April 26, two Lennox air conditioning units were stolen from a construction site.

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The City of Sandy Springs has prepared its draft 2016 Annual Action Plan required for participation in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD)

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The Annual Action Plan describes how the City intends to use its 2016 CDBG allocation to achieve the broad

goals described in the City’s 2013-2017 Consolidated Plan.

The City of Sandy Springs anticipates receiving approximately $592,429 in 2016 CDBG funds and proposes to use these funds to continue the multi-year sidewalk

improvements program in designated low- and moderate-income target areas on the east and west sides of Roswell Road to improve access to commercial areas, public

transit, parks, and health services for residents.

As required by 24 CFR Part 91.105(b)(2), the draft 2016 Annual Action Plan will be available for a 30-day public comment period beginning June 8, 2016 through July

8, 2016. A copy of the plan is available for those interested in reviewing it under the “Community Development Block Grant Program” heading at the top of the City’s CDBG webpagehttp://www.sandyspringsga.gov/City-Departments/

Community-Development/Community-Development-Block-Grant. Hard copies of the document can also be reviewed at the following locations:

Sandy Springs City HallCommunity Development Department

Morgan Falls Office Park7840 Roswell Road, Building 500

Sandy Springs, GA 30350

Sandy Springs Regional Library395 Mt. Vernon Hwy., NESandy Springs, GA 30350

Dorothy C. Benson Senior Multipurpose Complex6500 Vernon Woods DriveSandy Springs, GA 30328

Those who may wish to provide comments on the 2016 Annual Action Plan may email the CDBG Program mailbox at cdbgprogram@sandyspringsga.gov or send written correspondence to the Sandy Springs Com-munity Development Department at the address above until July 8, 2016. Final adoption of the 2016 Annual Action Plan is scheduled for the July 19, 2016 Mayor and City Council regular meeting. All meetings start at 6:00 p.m., are open to the public and held at the Sandy Springs City Hall, 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500, Sandy Springs, GA, 30350. Citizens in need of translation services or materials in alternative formats should

call 770-730-5600 seven calendar days prior to the regularly scheduled meeting.

Local police departments training public on active shooter eventsBY DYANA BAGBYdyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

A crowd of nearly 100 people gath-ered recently in the Fellowship Hall of Dunwoody United Meth-odist Church to hear Lt. Mike Carlson teach a Ci-vilian Reaction to an Active Shooter Event (C.R.A.S.E.) class.

In addition to Dun-woody, police depart-ments in Sandy Springs, Brookhaven and Atlan-ta also have offered such classes, all free and open to the public, as news of “active shooters” con-tinue to make nation-al headlines. An active shooter as defined by the FBI is “an individual ac-tively engaged in kill-ing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.”

The Sandy Springs Police Department has offered three C.R.A.S.E. seminars to the public so far this year, and also 11 private classes, said Sgt. Forrest Bohannon. “We have a lot of private requests. We do lockdown drills at schools. Schools have different policies than what we teach with C.R.A.S.E. Some of the principles are the same, but some are not because of the younger children,” Bohannon said. “Some of the classes we have done are for medical offices, busi-ness offices, private school parents, citi-zen police academy.”

Carlson told the Dunwoody crowd that there have been 160 “active shooter incidents” in the U.S. from 2000 through

2013. to 16.4 incidents per year. There were 486 people killed in these incidents and 557 wounded. Seventy percent of the incidents occurred in either a business/commerce or school environment. Sixty

percent of the incidents ended before police ar-rived.

Columbine High School, Sandy Hook El-ementary School, last year’s San Bernandi-no attack – these are all well-known active shoot-er events, Carlson said.

Carlson said most people have a “normal-cy bias” and don’t believe they could be involved in a shooting.. It takes po-lice an average of three minutes to respond to a shooting. The best way to save lives is to teach civilians how to respond themselves, he said.

People are urged to “avoid, deny, defend,” he said.

Avoid: Make sure you have “situation-al awareness” when walking into a room. Know where all the exits are and consid-er secondary exits, such as windows.

Deny: If in a school or office build-ing, close the door to your office or room and use a belt or other strap to lock up the handle so the shooter cannot enter. Also, barricade the room shut by push-ing desks and other furniture in front of the door.

Defend: If all else fails, be ready at the doorway to surprise the shooter by po-sitioning yourself to attack and take the gun away. “Remember, you are not help-less. What you do matters.,” he said.

DYANA BAGBY

Lt. Mike Carlson of the Dunwoody Police Department addresses a crowd attending a

recent Civilian Reaction to Active Shooter Event at Dunwoody United Methodist Church.

Reynoldstown Senior ResidencesPUBLIC NOTICE OF THE OPENING DATE OF THE SITE-BASED WAITING LIST

May 9th, 2016 - Ongoing

Reynoldstown Senior Residences is accepting applications for apartment units receiving rental assistance on its1 and 2 bedroom apartments. Eligible residents will pay no more than 30% of their adjusted monthly income for rent and utilities, subject to minimum rent and other requirements. Age Requirements: 62 or olderCommunity: Reynoldstown Senior Residences, 695 Field Street SE, Atlanta, GA 30316Phone: 404.975.4291Application period: Open Date: 5/9/16 Close Date: Ongoing

Application SubmissionApplications are now being accepted at the following location:

Lang Carson Community Center, 100 Flat Shoals Avenue Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30316

Application forms will be available to fill out on-line at http://www.mercyhousing.org/georgia/reynoldstown-senior-residences

Annual Household Income:In order to be eligible, the applicant household’s Annual Household Income cannot exceed the following amounts for households that include the indicated number of members:

Number of household members 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Maximum Annual Household Income $28,680 $32,760 $36,840 $40,920 $44,220 $ $ $

Priority Categories:Eligible applicants will be ranked on the site-based waiting list according to the recorded date and time their fully completed application forms were received and accepted by management.

All applicants must pass a credit and criminal background check prior to being considered for the site-based waiting list. Please note that an applicant desiring to lease an assisted apartment must comply with all applicable eligibility criteria, including but not limited to the criteria set forth in the application. All information provided by the applicant will be verified from all applicable sourc-es including, but not limited to employers, providers, and federal, state and local government agencies. Applicants who have misrepresented any information during the application process may be removed from the site-based waiting list or, if housed, subject to lease termination. In addition, applicants who have previously participated in any assisted housing program and were terminated for cause may not be eligible. Applicants who are determined ineligible will be offered the opportunity to participate in an informal meeting with management to dispute the ineligibility decision.

Requests for Reasonable Accommodations during the pre-application process will be taken by telephone on an ongo-ing basis between the hours of 8:30 and 5:30 at the numbers above or TTY/Relay 711.

PROJECT-BASED VOUCHER WAITLIST OPENING

The Housing Authority of Fulton County, Georgia (HAFC) will open its Project-Based Voucher (PBV) waitlist specifically for Sterling Place Apartments located at 144 Allen Road, Sandy Springs, Georgia. The waitlist will open June 1, 2016 at 12:01am and will remain open until such time as a minimum of 500 names are on the list. All applicants must be 62 years or older, and must meet the criteria of “low-income” in accordance with the requirements of Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Regulations and the HAFC. An applicant’s income cannot exceed 60% of

Area Median Income (“AMI”). Currently, 60% of the Area Median Income is:

1 person $28,6802 person $32,760

Interested, eligible persons should call HAFC at 404-588-4950 to provide their name, address and telephone number (if applicable) to request an application. An application can also be placed at the HAFC Main Office at 4273 Wendell Drive, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30336 beginning June 1, 2016 between the hours of Monday through Thursday, 9am to 4pm, or Friday, 9am to noon Eastern Standard Time.

3 person $36,8404 person $40,920

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