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Lizzie McNairy and her son Mac, 3, take a quick break from the action on the court during The Westminster Schools boys’ junior varsity basketball game against Mount Pisgah Christian School on

Jan. 18. Mount Pisgah won, 50-48. More photos on page 19.

BY COLLIN KELLEYTh e Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods got its

fi rst look Jan. 9 at the master plan for major renova-tions and upgrades to Atlanta Memorial Park, which encompasses the Bobby Jones Golf Course and Bitsy Grant Tennis Center, along Northside Drive.

Expected to take 10 years and cost from $10 to $15 million to complete, the most signifi cant part of the master plan is an overhaul of the golf course.

Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy Vice President Marty Elgison said the course hasn’t been updated in more than 80 years.

Elgison and Atlanta Memorial Park President Rox-anne Giles Smith presented two plans for the golf course – an update of the current 18-hole course or a more controversial nine-hole course with a driving range. Th ere would also be a new clubhouse.

“Th ere’s an emotional feeling that the course should stay 18 holes,” Elgison said, “but there is also demand for a driving range, since the closest one is more than 10 miles away. Both camps have been very vocal about the design of the course, but it’s evenly split on wheth-

BY COLLIN KELLEYTh e nonprofi t Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy

spearheading the renovations at the Bobby Jones Golf Course, Bitsy Grant Tennis Center and Atlanta Me-morial Park has only existed for little more than a year, but organizers say they have completed a large amount of work in that relatively short time.

“We’ve been going like gangbusters,” Roxanne Giles Smith, Atlanta Memorial Park president said. “It’s been a banner year.”

Th e AMPC pulled together the separate organi-zations for the tennis center, golf course and the six neighborhoods around the park into one unifi ed group to create a master plan for the 190-acres of park-land – which is crossed by both Peachtree and Tan-

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Atlanta Commissioner of Planning and Community James Shelby told the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods earlier this month that the city would is-sue a contract this summer to install 57 stations around the city with more than 500 bikes available for rent.

Advertising on the bikes will off -set the cost of the program, and track-ing devices will be installed so the bikes don’t go missing, Shelby said.

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about to get a big overhaul.Th e city’s Commissioner of Planning

and Community James Shelby told the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods at its Jan. 9 meeting that the city’s zoning laws have not been updated since 1985.

“Our ordinances are so old that we can’t accommodate developers, and it’s frustrating for them and our staff ,” Shel-by said. “We keep having to grant vari-ances for projects, and that is a sign that the zoning ordinances are broken.”

Th e task is so monumental that Shel-by couldn’t name a date for its comple-tion, but said initial work will begin this summer.

Th e city plans to hire experts to look at the current zonings, see how they compare to other cities of similar size, and try to adopt best practices for the various categories.

Shelby said once the forensic study is completed, another team will do the ac-tual rewrite of the ordinance laws.

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For the fi rst time in three years, Ol-iverMcMillan CEO Dene Oliver came to Atlanta to talk about the progress of his company’s behemoth redevelopment project known as Buckhead Atlanta.

At the Buckhead Business Associa-tion’s annual luncheon Jan. 16, Oliver told members of Buckhead’s business community that his California-based company plans to invest $10 million into the streets, sidewalks and landscap-ing around Buckhead Atlanta.

“Th e way we connect with people in an urban environment is on the streets and sidewalks,” Oliver said.

He said people-watching from a side-walk cafe or walking between shops un-der shady trees is part of the experience he envisions. Oliver said the company is in-vesting in trees 90 inches to 120 inches tall and in granite curbs to provide a nice out-door experience.

“Life on the streets and sidewalks is what will be so important here,” Oli-ver said.

He said the development will be built using quality materials, like stone in-stead of plaster, to give it the feel of an established area.

“It’s great design that doesn’t look like it’s all been done by the same person at the same time,” Oliver said. “We’re looking at bringing something to you that feels like it could have been there a while.”

Oliver said it was symbolic to see the cranes that have been looming over Peachtree Road for years begin working again in 2012.

“People have said, ‘you’ve been sort of quiet.’ We felt our actions were more important than our words,” Oliver said. “With the cranes being such a visual component, it was pretty hard to fake it. Th ere isn’t a lot to say until you make them move.”

OliverMcMillan acquired the prop-erty after the original development plan, then known as the Streets of Buckhead, stalled in 2009 due to the recession. Con-struction is now in full swing. When Ol-

iver visited the property Jan. 15, he said there were 825 people working.

When complete, Buckhead Atlan-ta will include 1.5 million square feet of shops, restaurants, offi ces and luxu-ry apartments on eight acres covering six city blocks near the intersection of Peachtree and East Paces Ferry roads.

Oliver said including the $350 million invested in the project before OliverMc-Millan acquired it, Buckhead Atlanta is expected to cost a total of $1 billion.

A few Buckhead Atlanta tenants have been announced, including several res-taurants and the headquarters for Atlan-ta-based undergarment maker Spanx. But Oliver said he prefers to keep the majority of the future tenants a surprise.

“We are bringing a lot of people that

are not already here in the [Atlanta] market,” Oliver said.

He explained some of the reasons be-hind renaming the project “Buckhead Atlanta,” a name he admitted was largely panned by the press. He said including Atlanta in the name was important for the European market, which isn’t neces-sarily familiar with the Buckhead area.

“Buckhead is the identity. Th e city is Atlanta,” Oliver said. “It was a far more inclusive name.”

He recognized the original develop-

er, Ben Carter Properties, whom he de-scribed as a victim of poor timing.

“[Buckhead Atlanta] would not have happened had there not been some great vision by the Buckhead community and Ben Carter Properties,” Oliver said. “Th e vision, the tenacity to assemble that property and come forward with a vision was courageous.”

Th e fi rst shops, restaurants and apart-ments are scheduled to open in July. Buckhead Atlanta is expected to be com-plete by the spring of 2015.

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Th e AMPC is looking at the entire park long term. While the fi nal master plan will cost millions to execute and take a decade to fully realize, the organization plans to stay involved in the maintenance and preservation of the park, just as the Piedmont Park Conservancy has done with Midtown’s green space.

Smith noted that the Piedmont Park Conservancy has been in existence for

more than 20 years and is still involved in the ongoing renovations. Th e AMPC will launch a capital campaign to start raising money for the renovations this month.

Th e city’s third largest green space will remain under the control of the At-lanta Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Aff airs, which ultimately has fi nal decision on all issues concern-ing its future.

Th e master plan must be approved by Commissioner George Dusenbury and then go onto the Atlanta City Coun-cil for fi nal approval and Mayor Kasim Reed’s signature.

Atlanta Memorial Park is the only re-gional park in the city that does not have a master plan, Smith said.

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of the Buckhead Business Association for 2014.

McGuire offi cially took over from outgoing president Brian Daughdrill Jan. 16 at the organization’s annual lun-cheon at the Atlanta History Center.

“I have watched Buckhead trans-form, and I’m confi dent 2014 will be a year to remember,” McGuire said.

Th e Buckhead Business Association also gave out the following awards: Bull-ish on Buckhead Award -- Garth Peters, executive vice president of the Buckhead Coalition; Buckhead Beautifi cation Award --Th e Veterans Park at the Atlan-ta History Center; Buckhead Business of the Year Award -- Bella Bag; Buckhead Entrepreneur of the Year Award -- Mims Bledsoe, Pie Shop.

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“I think it’s such a good idea. Our generation is so technolo-gy oriented, and I think this is a great way to expose the young-er generation to fun with books.”

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–DeKalb Sanitation Department Associate Director Billy Malone on plans to distribute new 65-gallon bins to homes and switch to once-a-week pickups as part of a pilot program to cut garbage pickup costs.

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Th is issue marks the start of our eighth publishing year. Th e fi rst two Reporter editions, serving Sandy Springs and Buckhead, rolled off the press in January 2007. Today, our fi ve publications—now including Brookhaven, Dunwoody and Intown—cover some of metro Atlanta’s most diverse and dy-namic areas.

Th e past few years have been a time of dramatic change in the print media industry; pundits have been predicting the demise of newspapers for a while. But, fortunately, that hasn’t happened and our own growth path has bucked the trend. Th at’s because our publications reach residents who care deep-ly about their cities and want the “hyperlocal” information found only in community papers like ours. We know that you appreciate this attention. A recent study by the National Newspaper Association confi rmed this, with eight in 10 readers saying they rely on their community newspaper for local news and information, while two-thirds say they also look for advertising from local businesses.

From the beginning, our intent was to off er readers a credible and colorful source of local news with a singular mission—to provide fresh and engaging information about your communities. Th e bi-weekly Reporter Newspapers and the monthly Atlanta INtown, which we acquired last May, now have combined circulation of 100,000 copies. Each publication serves to inform residents about issues and actions aff ecting their homes, neighborhoods, schools, parks and business districts. Often these very local matters, which are the cornerstone of our mission, don’t make the headlines of a daily newspaper or fi t the sound bites of radio and television news. Nor do they pop up in a Google search—although they can usually be found at our websites, report-ernewspapers.net and atlantaintownpaper.com, which together drew more than a half million unique visitors last year.

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We always look for ways to enhance our content to better refl ect readers’ inter-ests. Th e addition last year of the monthly Perimeter Business section (see pages 7-11 in this issue) is one example. Also, starting in this issue, we are introducing restaurant reviews and related “news you can eat” (pages 16-17). Our food writer, Art Huckabee, is an elite-level Yelp reviewer and his articles already appear in Atlanta INtown. You’ll see other new features in the issues ahead, including a local columnist and real estate reports.

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Wine making is anyoneʼs business Buying New York Stock Exchange ʻreally changed our livesʼ

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Before Joe Keenan bought Beer & Wine Craft, he en-joyed making wine as a hobby.

Keenan recently took over the business, which has operated at various locations since 1969, and claims to be the Southeast’s oldest wine-making supply store. In January of 2013, Beer & Wine Craft settled into a shop off Sandy Springs Circle that smells of malted honey.

The business began its life near Piedmont Hospital. Keenan keeps photos that previous owners collected depicting a time when the store’s shelves were as likely to offer knickknacks as corks. Now the store also sells ingredients to make beer and cheese.

For Keenan, it doesn’t get much better. He keeps a side cabinet stocked with a special collection of wines he’s made himself. Now he takes his love of winemak-ing to a new level by offering customers a chance to come in to make and bottle their own wines. It’s a pro-cess that takes three visits over an eight-week period, Keenan said.

“Our main goal is for everybody to be successful,” he said.

Keenan first started making wine in college at Pur-due University in Indiana. He had a roommate from France whose father was a French industrialist. Togeth-er they made wine and consumed bottles that today he says could sell for hundreds of dollars.

“I’ve always loved it,” he said. During the course of his winemaking hobby, he be-

came friends with Rick and Peggy Adams, the previ-ous owners of the business, which they sold to him in October.

Now Keenan puts his love of the craft to work, and he spends time selling products to people with simi-

lar interests. He said some customers at the store have been shopping there since the 1970s. Their business has been cultivated over the decades as the store’s owner-ship changed hands.

Customer Scott Rockhill, a local salesman, stopped by one recent day to see what was on the shelves. He’s been shopping at Beer & Wine Craft for three months, since he first tried his hand at making wine. The ap-peal? “It’s fun and it tastes good,” Rockhill said.

During Rockhill’s visit, he and Keenan chatted about the different flavors produced by the different boxes of grape juice sitting on the shop’s shelves. Keenan said what sets his shop apart from many other retailers is the clientele. Customers come in and don’t mind wait-ing if there’s a line ahead of them.

“Nobody’s in a hurry,” Keenan said. “They come in here and they browse.”

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Jeff Sprecher says he could see right away the difference buying the iconic New York Stock Exchange made for his Sandy Springs-based company.

“It’s really changed our lives,” Sprech-er said of the acquisition of the New York ex-change last year. “We’re getting attention from all over the world.”

A college friend texted him to say, “Who knew you could actually buy that thing?”

New York’s historic stock exchange is only one of 16 exchanges owned by Intercontinen-talExchange, or ICE, which calls itself the lead-ing global network of exchanges and clearing houses.

And ICE is close to buying the Singapore exchange, which would make it the first west-ern company to own an Asian market, Sprech-er, ICE chairman and CEO, and his wife, ICE senior vice president Kelly Loeffler, told more than 200 people attending the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting on Jan. 16.

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its limited resources toward projects that provide the biggest return, both in mobility and in economic devel-opment. The I-285/Ga. 400 Inter-change tops this priority list.”

Another significant development was the advancement of the project through placement in the Atlanta metro area’s short-range Transpor-tation Improvement Plan.

Using a $2.8 million grant from the Georgia Department of Trans-portation (GDOT), the PCIDs and the cities of Brookhaven, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs took a big step toward improving traffic congestion in the Perimeter busi-

ness district through the Perimeter Traffic Operations Program.

During its first year in 2013, PTOP completed the synchroniza-tion of the majority of 99 traffic sig-nals along major, arterial corridors within and adjacent to the Perime-ter business district. Many people are traveling through several cities to reach their destinations, so we needed to coordinate the timing of traffic signals across those boundar-ies.

Travel time studies conducted before and after the PTOP improve-ments show that average vehicular delay (stopped time) has been re-duced 29 percent, and that drivers using the corridors during the morn-ing, noon and evening peak peri-ods will save 233,680 hours of travel time and 160,290 gallons of gaso-line – valued at nearly $4 million – each year because of improved traf-fic flow. The timing plans pay for themselves approximately every 3.9 workdays.

Another major goal achieved was establishment of a communications link between a central traffic control

center and 76 traffic signals with-in the PCIDs to allow active man-agement of traffic operations. This means that when traffic backs up, signal timing can be immediately adjusted to improve traffic flow.

In early 2013, the PCIDs start-ed a $4.86 million project to bring streetscape, intersection and road-way improvements to Lake Hearn Drive, Perimeter Summit Parkway and Parkside Place between Ash-ford Dunwoody Road and the Pe-rimeter Center Parkway Bridge across I-285. These improvements make the area safer and more ac-cessible for pedestrians, cyclists and cars, while promoting economic de-velopment on the south side of the Perimeter Market.

The PCIDs created and installed a distinctive landscaping design to showcase the innovative Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) at I-285 and Ashford Dunwoody Road – a major gateway to the city of Dun-woody and the Perimeter Market.

In 2013, the Ashford Dunwoody DDI was one of 10 national finalists for “People’s Choice” and “Grand

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Prize” awards in an America’s Transportation Competition spon-sored by the American Association of State Highway and Transporta-tion Officials (AASHTO), AAA and the U.S. Chamber.

The PCIDs’ “Can You DDI?” edu-cation and marketing campaign re-ceived a prestigious Award of Ex-cellence from the Georgia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Metro Atlanta TV cover-age alone for the DDI bridge clos-ing and crossover of traffic reached an audience of 7.44 million with 117 separate stories from May 21 to June 5, 2012. The Associated Press

released the story statewide, and there was coverage in every major market of the state as well as nation-al coverage from Chicago to Spring-field, Mo., site of the first DDI in the U.S.

The PCIDs’ signature landscap-ing and branding of major entranc-es to the Perimeter market now also enhances the Hammond Half-Di-amond Interchange at Hammond Drive and Ga. 400. GDOT award-ed a grant to the PCIDs to provide the landscaping. The PCIDs also in-stalled more durable, highly visible, brick-print pedestrian crosswalks.

The PCIDs’ past 13 years of work

to transform Perimeter from a sub-urban, car-dependent to a livable, walkable community was recog-nized in a major study by George Washington University School of Business professor Chris Leinberg-er that was released last year by the ARC. Central Perimeter was named one of 27 regionally significant es-tablished Walkable Urban Places (WalkUPs) in metro Atlanta, and one of only four “platinum” areas in an economic success ranking of those WalkUPs.

Today, thanks to the work of the PCIDs, Perimeter is a prime exam-ple of how the creation of a walk-able, urban place is the most effec-tive economic development strategy that a CID, a city or a region can pursue.

Improvements this year will in-clude better access to the Dun-woody MARTA station through construction of the Hammond Drive mid-block crossing, which MARTA has identified as its top priority for pedestrian safety. With increasing workers in the vicinity, foot traffic is expected to soar.

The PCIDs will continue to ad-minister the PTOP program in the second of its three-year program to improve traffic congestion through

signal improvements, will begin design work on Lake Hearn Phase II streetscape, do intersection and roadway improvements on Lake Hearn Drive and Peachtree Dun-woody Road, and will develop a bi-cycle implementation strategy.

We will continue to advocate for I-285 and Ga. 400 improvements, expand and make improvements to the fiber optic network within the PCIDs, and develop a commuter trails shovel-ready design.

And, of course, the PCIDs will continue their long-standing pro-grams to maintain medians and di-rect traffic at busy rush hour inter-sections through the use of off-duty police officers.

Economic development in Cen-tral Perimeter, one of the dominant office districts and employment centers in metro Atlanta, is driven in large part by the area’s central lo-cation in the region and its access to interstates, international and re-gional airports, and multiple modes of transportation including three MARTA transit stations.

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� e Dunwoody Chamber of Com-merce welcomed da Via, an Italian Market Eating restaurant, to the Pe-rimeter Place Shopping Center, 4511 Olde Perimeter Way, Suite 800. Enjoy-ing the festivities are, from left, Wendy Gri� n, Beth Summers, Bill Mulcahy, Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis, Pau-la Owens, Mike Muldoon, Scott Tr-zaskus, da Via general manager, City Councilman Terry Nall, City Council-man Denny Shortal, Katie Bishop, Kim Trawick, Todd Smith and Sabrina McDonald.

Blast900, a workout facili-ty o� ering personalized exercise classes, recently opened at 5521 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, in Dunwoody Village. � e Dun-woody Chamber of Commerce, along with sta� , friends and fam-ily, joined in the ribbon cutting ceremony, with owner Missi Wolf, center, left, and Mayor Mike Davis, center, right, holding the scissors.

Chambers, local officials welcome new businesses

New businesses offer-ing everything from good eats to personalized work-outs to a close shave are starting up in the Perime-ter, one of the largest com-mercial areas in metro At-lanta. Here’s a sampling of recent

ribbon cuttings formal-ly marking the opening of new businesses in the area. Photos were provid-ed by the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and the Dun-

woody Chamber of Commerce.

Renee and Ross Christen, center, owners of Rooster Men’s Grooming Center located at 4969 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, cut the ribbon in front of the Roosters’ team, representatives from the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Cham-ber of Commerce, and Sandy Springs Councilwoman Dianne Fries, far left.

Stars & Strikes marked its grand opening in Sandy Springs with a rib-bon cutting. Sta� , friends and family gathered, including, Sandy Springs/Pe-rimeter Chamber of Commerce mem-ber Jim Walsh, Chamber member Patty Conway, City Councilman John Paul-son, Jack Canouse, City Councilman Ken Dishman, Carolyn Canouse, San-dy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, Elis Ca-nouse, Mary Albana, Chris Albana, Adam Clark, Chamber member Clare Stefan, City Councilman Gabriel Sterling, Kip Lowery, Chamber member Chris Ad-ams and Chamber member Carla Sweetwood. Stars & Strikes, located at 8767 Ro-swell Road, o� ers bowling, an arcade, laser tag and live entertainment.

Marlow’s Tavern recently opened in � e Prado Shopping Center, 5590 Roswell Road, Suite A-160, in Sandy Springs. Celebrating were, front row, left to right, Samantha Barton, Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Com-merce, City Councilman John Paulson, John Metz, executive chef and co-found-er, Alan Palmieri, market partner, Keith Grant, general manager, Susan Skolnick, director of development and major gifts at Special Olympics Georgia. Back row, from left, Tom Maha� ey, Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce president, and City Councilman Andy Bauman.



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it was featured in the movie “Trading Places.” “I think, in a way that’s more iconic,” he said.

Sprecher said ICE’s business has been made possible by new technol-ogy. “We own exchanges around the world. ... [They’re] run out of an office building in Sandy Springs because of the Internet. It’s a fascinating thing to take a legacy business like the New York Stock Exchange and put the In-ternet in it.”

He and Loeffler said businesses have been willing to embrace change and find ways to capitalize on it. “I love change,” Sprecher said. “It’s very interesting. We all hate change. We all want to go home and sleep in the same bed. As humans we hate change. But busi-nesses really thrive on change.”

Sprecher said the company’s roots go back to an Atlanta-based company he bought in 1997 for $1. “Today, it’s a $25 billion company,” he said.

After buying the company, called Continental Power Exchange, he called his new employees together and, thinking they would be pleased by the news, told them they could all relocate to Los Angeles. “It took about 10 minutes,” he said. “They all said, ‘None of us is going to Los An-geles.’”

ICE now employs about 400 in Sandy Springs of the 4,000 it em-

ploys around the world, said Loeffler, who also is co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, a WNBA professional basket-ball team. “We continue to hire,” she said. “We’re in growth mode, particu-larly in technology.”

Sprecher said he has discovered that metro Atlanta wasn’t the place he thought it was. “When I was living in LA, I thought this was a place with pickup trucks and old hound dogs,” he said. “The truth is this is an unbe-lievable diverse community.”

Sprecher said his company works to update its mar-kets through use of technology. The New York Stock Exchange, he said, opened in 1792. “You go there and there are artifacts and history that are very interest-ing,” he said.

“The challenge for us is, can we take this lightweight, Internet-based company, based in Sandy Springs, and marry it with something iconic? The address [of the New York Stock Exchange] is 11 Wall Street, which is why you know ‘Wall Street.’ How do you marry this brand with this light-weight company?”

And a few perks come with own-ing a company such as the New York Stock Exchange. He’s rung the bell to start trading, he said. “I’ve got a spe-cial badge that has a little mark on it,” he said. “When I walk through, they don’t know who I am, but they know what that badge means.”

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Kelly Loeffl er, left, ICE senior vice president, with husband Jeff Sprecher, chairman and CEO, discuss their acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange at the Sandy Springs/Perimeter

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� ursday, Jan. 30- Saturday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m. – � e Westminster Players bring the hilarious tale of Benedick and Beatrice to the stage as they present Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in Kellett � eatre at Westminster. � is take on Much Ado uses Shakespeare’s language while placing the classic sto-ry in modern-day South Georgia. Admission is free. For more information, please email [email protected] or call 404-609-6344.

Galloway TheatreFriday, Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m. – � e Galloway � eatre Company presents “She Kills Monsters,” a comedy looking into the world of role-playing games, featuring students of the Galloway commu-nity. Play suitable for audiences over 13 years of age. Tickets, $10. Additional shows, Sat. and Sun., Feb. 1-2, 2 p.m. Black Box � eatre, in the Chaddick Center, 215 West Wieuca Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30342. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: www.gallowayschool.org.

Spotlight on ArtMonday, Feb. 3, 6-9 p.m. – � e Trinity School hosts an Artists Market, open to the public. Browse pieces by more than 350 artists in all genres, in-cluding contemporary, realism, impressionism, folk, sculpture, jewelry and more. Children’s and youth collection also available. “Meet the Artists” on Opening Night and also during Cocktails & Can-vases, Friday, Feb. 8, 6-9 p.m. Market hours: Tues-day-� ursday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission and park-ing. 4301 Northside Pkwy., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Go to: www.trinityatl.org or call 404-231-8100 for more information.

Harp MusicSunday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m. –� e Atlanta Harp Center En-semble presents the music of the Renaissance to modern times. � e ensemble will play Vival-di, Franck and some surprises. Suggested donation, $10. In the Sanctuary of Dunwoody United

Methodist Church, 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dun-woody, 30338. Call 770-394-0675 or visit: www.dunwoodyumc.org for additional details.

Abe LincolnSunday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. – Northwest Unitar-ian Universalist Congregation welcomes Abraham Lincoln actor, playwright and scholar, Dr. Gene Griessman, as he presents “� e Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln,” for a special President’s Day ap-pearance. Griessman appears in costume as the 16th President delivering the presentation. VIP reception, 6 p.m.; performance, 7 p.m. General admission tick-ets, $50; VIP, $75. Purchase tickets and learn more at: http://NWUUC-ABE.brownpapertickets.com. 1025 Mount Vernon Highway, NW, Sandy Springs, 30327. Email: [email protected] with questions.

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Tartan TrotSaturday, Feb. 1, 8:30 a.m. – St. Luke’s Pres-byterian Church holds its eighth annual 5K/10K Tartan Trot, bene� ting outreach e� orts close to home and around the world. Race features runners in kilts, bagpipes, and baked goods for the winners. 1-mile run goes o� at 8 a.m.; Tot Trot at 9:45 a.m. Both 5 and 10K are Peachtree Road Race quali� -ers. $35; $20 for 1-mile. Awards, t-shirts, hooded shirts for entrants. Leashed dogs and strollers wel-come. Rain or shine. Vehicle parking in Dunwoody Village; shuttle buses available. 1978 Mount Ver-non Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. To register or to learn more, go to: www.tartantrot.com.

Book Sale� ursday, Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. – � e Friends of the Chamblee Library hold a book sale! Browse hardbacks, in-cluding � ction, non-� c-tion and children’s books, going for $1-2. Proceeds enhance adult and chil-dren book collections, and support programs for both. Free admission. Sale continues Feb. 7-8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Monday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.,

which is Bag Day. Buy a plastic bag and � ll it for $3. Recycle your books and receive a 501(c)(3) receipt. 4115 Clairmont Rd., Chamblee, 30341. To � nd out more, call 770-936-1380.

Puppet ShowSaturday, Feb. 9, 2 p.m. – Piccadilly Puppets presents “Wish Tales,” three stories about wishing: “� e Knee High Man,” “� e Frog Prince” and “Lit-tle Orphan Animal.” All proceeds bene� t Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Recommended for ages 3-8. Tickets, $10. Reservations helpful, but not required. Go to: www.eventbrite.com and search “pup-pets.” Landmark Diner, 3652 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-636-0022 or visit: www.piccadilly-puppets.org with questions.

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Kirkin’ o’ the TartanSunday, Feb. 2, 11 a.m. – St. Luke’s Presbyte-rian Church welcomes the community to join them for their annual Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan service. Tradi-tional music, and a Blessing of the Tartan banners. Some of the congregation will be dressed in clan tar-tans, kilts and plaids. Reception follows the service. 1978 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-393-1424 for details.

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Photography Tuesday, Jan. 28, 7-8:30 p.m. – Join David Tulis, sea-soned Atlanta news and sports photogra-pher, and learn basic photographic com-position, lighting, lenses and techniques during this � ve-week course. Class ends with hands-on � eld day at the Dunwoody Nature Center on Feb. 22. DNC members, $125; non-members, $150. Adult program; best suited for those with a good camera. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-3322 or go to: www.dunwoodynature.org for details or to register.

Go to CollegeWednesday, Jan. 29, 3-3:45 p.m. – Marcus Hilliard, with GAcollege411, presents information on pursuing higher education and � nding � nancial aid. Free. For those age 18 years and older. Open to the � rst 25 participants. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-848-7140 to sign up or to � nd out more.

Bird Walk Saturday, Feb. 1, 8:30-10:30 a.m. – Join the Atlanta Audubon Society for a guided bird walk along the trails at Morgan Falls Overlook Park. Per-haps see open water duck species and eagles. Bin-oculars available to borrow. Free and open to the community. Children 16 and under must be accom-panied by adult. Appropriate for ages 6 and up. Pre-registration requested by calling 770-730-5600 or going to: www.sandyspringsga.gov/registration. 200 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350.

Write Your StorySaturday, Feb. 1, 2-4 p.m. – Learn how to write the stories of your life. Workshop present-ed by a certi� ed, guided autobiography instructor. Free and open to the public. For adult audiences. Registration required by emailing: [email protected] or calling 678-386-1651. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] with questions.

How Money WorksWednesday, Feb. 5, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Check out a free, � nancial education workshop that teach-es principles on how money works so you can con-trol your � nances. Learn simple strategies to help build savings, get out of debt, protect your income and defer taxes. Open to all. Registration required by calling Nicole Fitzgerald at 404-957-6809. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] for more details.

Cokie RobertsWednesday, Feb. 5, 7-9 p.m. – � e Davis Academy presents award-winning journalist and po-litical commentator Cokie Roberts for an evening of conversation and a book signing. Copies of her books along with her new and � rst children’s book, “Founding Mothers,” will be available for purchase. Free event, and open to the community. RSVP to [email protected]. Davis Academy Lower School, 8105 Roberts Dr., Sandy Springs, 30350. For more information contact Lori Zelony at 678-527-3293.

Snakes of GeorgiaSaturday, Feb. 8, 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Snakes are one of the most feared and misunderstood groups of animals, yet they provide signi� cant ben-e� ts to people. Join a reptile and amphibian ex-pert from the Georgia DNR and learn what makes snakes so special. Participants also meet some Geor-gian snakes. $10 per person. Space is limited; RSVP by calling 412-398-1101. Blue Heron Nature Pre-serve, 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342. To learn more, go to: www.bhnp.org.

Black HistorySaturday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. – “Strug-gles and Strides: � e Early Fight for Civil Rights,” a family program commemorating Black History Month, explores the African-American experience from the Great Migration to the Civil Rights Move-ment. Free for AHC members; included in the cost of general admission for non-members. 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. For more in-formation or to buy tickets, visit: www.atlantahisto-rycenter.com/Family or call 404-814-4000.

Turtle ToursSaturday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Her-itage Sandy Springs’ “Tur-tle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for chil-dren ages 2-5, continues. In this program, children learn about museum mascot San-dy’s “cool tools.” Free; dona-tions encouraged. No reser-

vations required. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, email: [email protected], call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

Daddy-Daughter Dance

Saturday, Feb. 8, 6-8 p.m. – � e � fth annual Daddy-Daughter Dance o� ers an evening of music, games, complimentary snacks and goodie bags for each girl. $35 for father/daughter; $10 for multiple daughters. $5 walk-in fee. Souvenir photo includ-ed. Business or semi-formal attire. Open to all girls in grades K-5 attending schools in Sandy Springs. Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School, 130 W. Spalding Dr., Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 770-730-5600 or email: [email protected] for details. Go to: https://apm.activecommunities.com/sandyspringsga to register.

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Atlanta Jewish Film Festival adds venues to accommodate fansBY COLLIN KELLEY

If you haven’t purchased tickets to the movies you want to see at this year’s Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, you might be out of luck.

More than 10,000 tickets were sold Jan. 5, the day they went on sale.

Festival executive director Kenny Blank encouraged � lm fans to keep checking the fes-tival’s website at AJFF.org for the release of more tick-ets and returns to sold-out � lms.

“If you check 24 to 48 hours before a screening, you might be able to snap one or two tickets up,” he said.

� e only way to get into some of the more popular � lms is to show up at the venue the day of the screening and add your name to a wait-ing list. Luckily, there are so many � lms on o� er that if you buy tickets now, you’ll get to see something interesting.

With 65 � lms from 20 countries, it also makes the AJFF, which runs Jan. 29 through Feb. 20, the biggest � lm festival in the city and the second largest Jew-ish � lm festival in the country. Nearly 32,000 attended screenings during last

year’s festival.“We have a very loyal and enthusi-

astic audience, and they stake out this event early on to make sure they get tick-ets,” Blank said. “We’re o� ering more screenings of the popular � lms and have secured larger auditoriums.”

To accommodate the crowds, the festival ex-panded to more venues around Atlanta, includ-ing the Cobb Energy Cen-tre, UA Tara Cinema, GTC Merchants Walk, Regal North Point, Lefont Sandy Springs, Westside Cultural Arts Center, Regal Atlantic Station and the Woodru� Arts Center.

Some of the most anticipate � lms in-clude 50 Children: � e Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, about a Philadelphia couple who saved children from the Nazi concentration camps; � e Baby, a doc-umentary about a woman recalling for-bidden memories of her past; Bethlehem, a cli� hanger about an Israeli intelligence agent and a con� icted Palestinian infor-mant; Hunting Elephants, a bank heist ca-per; the documentary Mel Brooks: Make A Noise about the comedian and direc-

tor; When Jews Were Funny, a documenta-ry about cultural identity: a 25th anniver-sary screening of Driving Miss Daisy with a panel of local actors and experts; and Omar, a nominee for this year’s Best For-eign Film Academy Award, about a young Palestinian baker living under Israeli occu-pation.

� e festivities kick o� Jan. 29 with an Opening Night Gala at the Cobb Ener-gy Centre, featuring a screening of the

Polish drama Run Boy Run.“Every year we strive to make the

festival better for our audience,” Blank said. “Festivalgoers will have more op-portunities to see the most sought-after � lms than ever before. We want every-one to experience these meaningful and entertaining � lms that might not ever play in Atlanta otherwise.”

For a complete list of � lms, venues and to purchase tickets, visit AJFF.org.

Jewish Film Festival factsWhat: Founded in 2000, the festival bills itself as the biggest fi lm event in metro Atlanta and the second largest Jewish fi lm festival in the country. Nearly 32,000 fi lm fans attended the festival’s showings in 2013. The 2014 festival presents 65 fi lms – 52 features and 13 shorts - from 20 countries. When: Jan. 29-Feb. 20 Where: Eight different venues scattered around metro Atlanta, including Lefont Sandy Springs theaters, UA Tara Cinemas, Regal North Point, Regal Atlantic Station and the Cobb Energy Centre, which is hosting the Opening Night Gala and showing of “Run Boy Run.” Tickets are available at theater box offi ces and online at www.AJFF.org.How much: Prices vary.Of special note: The festival plans a special panel discussion on two fi lms that tell similar stories, but from different sides of the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. One of the two, Omar, is the fi rst fi lm fully fi nanced and produced within the Palestinian fi lm industry, the festival says. The event, Bethlehem vs. Omar: Confl ict and Context, will take place Feb. 16 at Regal Atlantic Station.

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John Freeland, pastor at Skyland United Methodist Church in Brookhaven, tutors youngsters at Ashford Park Elementary in reading.

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“Zot” is not a word, John Freeland sadly informed Juan, a kindergartener at Ashford Park Elementary School, who had enthusiastically drawn the letter “Z” onto his white board.

But put an “H” in front of that “OT”? De� nitely a word, Freeland said.

Freeland, the pastor of Skyland Unit-ed Methodist Church in Brookhaven, is among a group of people from the church who volunteer once a week to help stu-dents at Ashford Park Elementary School with their reading skills.

“I try to � nd a creative way to work with them and help them learn new words,” Freeland said.

Ashford Park Principal LaShawn Mc-Millan said if a child cannot read by the third grade, it’s an indicator for poor fu-ture academic performance.

“Reading is critical. You have to be able to read to be able to do well in all the other subjects,” McMillan said.

So when Freeland asked what his church could do to support the school, McMillan came up with a plan to give students who are having trouble the one-on-one support their teachers don’t al-ways have time to provide.

“In a number of classes, we found we have a number of kids that really struggle with reading,” McMillan said.

� e volunteers help students in kin-dergarten through second grade who have been recommended by their teach-ers.

“It’s not just reading. It could be pre-reading, letter recognition, phonics, knowing the sounds of the letters, and getting them ready for reading,” McMil-lan said.

Freeland said the majority of the stu-dents he works with speak Spanish at home. He said their parents may not have the English skills necessary to help them with their reading.

“For them, if they have an older broth-er or sister, their English skills are much better,” Freeland said. “� ey go home and it’s a Spanish world.”

McMillan said the school would love to have more volunteers. She said anyone who is interested can contact the school to set up a plan.

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the school year, he’s been going to the school once a week. He tutors for about 30 minutes each visit.

“It’s one of the highlights of my week,” Freeland said. “It’s nice to go sit down with the kids who are always loving to-ward me, and happy to see me walk in

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BY ART HUCKABEEArt Huckabee is one of Yelp’s Elite re-

viewers and a pilot, gourmet cook and food lover. Starting with this issue, he will be regularly reviewing restaurants around At-lanta for Reporter Newspapers and Atlan-ta INtown.

With the ad-dition of my food writing into the Reporter News-papers and subse-quently, additional parts of the Atlanta metro area, it only seemed appropri-ate to make a visit to one such area for this month’s restau-rant review.

We chose Town Brookhaven, a mixed-use develop-ment in the vibrant and lively city of Brookhaven. � is work, play, shop and of course, eat, development has well over a dozen res-taurants to chose from. We set our sights on restaurateur Tom Catherall’s latest cre-ation, Smash Kitchen and Bar.

We visited at lunchtime during the week. � e restaurant is decorated nice-ly in dark colors with most of the seat-ing comprised of booths. It feels more like a dinner and drinks place, especial-ly with the wall-mounted deer heads star-ing down at you.

Our server quickly approached, in-formed us of the daily specials and touted the muddled drink o� erings. Smash de-rives its name from several items on the menu, and these muddled or smashed drinks are one such item. With names like Blackburn, Capital City, Ogletho-rpe and Lynwood, they contain ingredi-ents like blackberry bourbon with mud-dled blackberries or vodka, or ginger beer and muddled pears and honeydew.

� ey were enticing, but as it was lunch and all of us were headed back to work afterward, we declined. Smash also o� ers other craft cocktails and a decent beer and wine list.

For appetizers, we ordered the pret-zel sticks and the wild mushroom � at-bread. � e pretzel sticks came upright in a butcher paper cone accompanied by grainy mustard and a Newcastle Ale cheese sauce; both accentuated the salty, warm pretzels and were quite good. � e � atbread was large, and looked delicious with the dough spending just the right amount of time in the wood-� red oven. However, the toppings of Fontina cheese, roasted peppers, baby arugula and tru� e oil made it soggy and a disappointment, given its high marks for appearance.

� e three in our party ordered the half rack of baby back ribs, the steak burger

and the kale salad with a side of grilled salmon.

� e ribs were good. � ey were fall-o� -the-bone tender and covered in a house-made, fairly-standard barbecue sauce. � e mound of thin-cut shoestring pota-toes that accompanied the ribs could eas-

ily have fed three or four diners. � ey were crispy and hot. � e South-ern slaw contained rough chopped cabbage and strips of green and red peppers; it was more of a garnish and tasted as such.

� e steak burg-er -- ordered plain, with ched-dar cheese -- was cooked to order and tasted of good quality beef. � e bun, however, was a bread behemoth, and totally over-

powered that all-important bun-to-meat ratio. Adding to the mix was a huge por-tion of � nely shredded, un-melted ched-dar cheese that was perched on the bun top. It looked as though the cook had opened a bag of Kraft and dumped it, in its entirety, onto the bun. � e burg-er also came with the mountain of shoe-string fries.

� e kale salad contained an Asian peanut dressing, mint, cilantro and � ai chilies. It was a nice combination on the front of the tongue but quickly got bit-ter on the back, begging for a little more sweetness. � e accompanying salmon was unadorned and ordinary, yet cooked properly and a nice portion.

We decide against dessert but they have several interesting o� erings includ-ing chocolate pecan pie and red velvet cheesecake.

Our server was very attentive through-out the meal, bringing multiple re� lls of tea and water.

From the looks of the well-stocked bar and lots of outdoor seating, Smash is probably a lively place on warm-weath-er weekends and after work when Town Brookhaven residents return from their workdays. Our lunchtime visit never saw more than three or four tables of diners during our hour and half stay.

Smash’s dinner menu is almost iden-tical to the lunch menu, with the addi-tion of steaks and chops, and the usual increase in prices from the $12 to $17 range to the $17 to $24 range.

Smash is located at 804 Town Bou-levard, Suite 1010, in Town Brookhav-en, and can be found at www.h2sr.com/smash.

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Chef Ford Fry’s newest restaurant, St. Cecilia (stceciliaatl.com) has opened in the former Blue-pointe space inside � e Pinnacle Building, 3455 Peachtree Road. � e European menu features � sh and pasta. Fry said he and executive chef Bri-an Horn worked together to create a menu that travels the southern European coastline, explor-ing pasta and roasted � sh served in the historic seaside towns and villages.

Rumor has it that a new Zaxby’s is coming to Sandy Springs. Tomorrow’s News Today reports that the chicken chain is working to secure two parcels at 6545 and 6555 Roswell Road for the new location.

Buckhead Atlanta has signed 10 restaurants for the mixed-use development, ac-cording to a report from the Atlanta Business Chronicle. � e restaurants include Le Bilboquet, a French bistro; American F+B, a bar and grill concept; a to-be-named pizza restaurant from Texas-based Consilient Hospitality; Lugo Ca� e, an Italian cafe; Corso Co� ee, an Italian-style co� ee bar; Doraku Sushi, a Japanese sushi and steak eatery; Georgetown Cupcake, a bakery; Gypsy Kitchen, a Spanish fusion concept; � e Southern Gentleman, a gastropub; and Shake Shack, a burger, hot dog and fro-zen custard concept.

A second outpost of Lucky’s Burger & Brew is expected to open during the � rst quarter at Town Brookhaven. � e original is in Roswell.

A Buckhead Village mainstay since 1993, � e Cheesecake Factory (thecheese-cakefactory.com) has announced it will move to Lenox Square during the � rst quar-ter of 2014. � e current location on Peachtree Road will remain open until the new location opens.

Bell Street Burritos (bellstreetburritos.com) has shuttered its Irwin Street Mar-ket location in the Old Fourth Ward after just a little more than a year in business. However, a new location of the burrito joint has opened in South Buckhead at 1816 Peachtree Road.

Beverly Hills-based Sprinkles Cupcakes (sprinkles.com) is now open at Lenox Square in Buckhead. � e new outpost includes an ice cream shop and the famed Cupcake ATM, which is constantly restocked with fresh treats available with a swipe of your charge card.

Chef Christophe Le Metayer, formerly

with the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, has found-ed Christophe’s To Go (christophestogo.com), which sells prepared gourmet meals that only need to be re-heated and served. � ere are locations in Brookhaven (4060 Peachtree Road, Suite F), Sandy Springs (6309 Roswell Road, Suite 1E) and John’s Creek (9775 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite P). � ere are more than 30 daily options to choose from, including salads, soups, sandwiches, � sh and meat.

Roots Juices (rootspressedjuices.com) is now open at the Around Lenox Shopping Center in Buckhead in Suite 202-A.

Red Pepper Taqueria (eatredpepper.com) is now open at 3135 Piedmont Road in Buckhead.

King + Duke (kinganddukeatl.com) was named one of Esquire magazine’s Best New Restaurants of 2013. “We are thrilled to have one of our restaurants recognized for the second straight year by Esquire magazine,” said Chef Ford Fry, whose � e Op-timist made last year’s list. Esquire food and travel correspondent John Mariani de-scribed King + Duke as a “can’t-miss spot.”

� e distinctive, circular former location of Trust Company Bank and the now shuttered Piebar and Ixtlan on Monroe Drive will soon become a restaurant and lounge called Cirque. Built in 1962, the new concept is from the owner of � e Dai-quiri Factory on West Peachtree Street in Midtown.

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School, senior

For Mary Catherine � omson, learn-ing extends far beyond the walls of the school she has attended since sixth grade.

As a sophomore, she spent 10 days in Briey, France, as part of a foreign ex-change program.

“I really enjoyed getting to know my exchange student’s family. She had a sin-gle mother and a sister, and we just spent a lot of time sitting around their kitch-en table talking about our di� erent cul-tures,” said Mary Catherine.

From eating home-cooked escargot to enjoying daily fresh breads, Mary Catherine had the chance to experience the language which she has studied since kindergarten. � is year, she received a 2013 Outstanding Senior in French award from the American Association of Teachers of French, which honors students for their commitment to the language, and for having high academ-ic achievement. Mary Catherine was one of only nine students in Georgia to receive the 2013 honor.

“I have de� nitely developed a passion and love for French, so it was nice to be recognized for that,” said Mary Cathe-rine.

Her passion is apparent to those around her.

“From the beginning, I saw her ea-gerness and her incredible intelligence. She is a very discerning lady and can read between the lines in literature,” said her current Advanced Placement French teacher Gerard Gatoux. “She is extreme-ly professional and is a perfectionist in the classroom.”

In addition to French, Mary Cathe-rine is also passionate about English and literature, and attended the four-week Governor’s Honors Program in Valdosta, Ga., this past summer as a communica-tion arts major and theater minor. At the program, she enjoyed taking part in dis-cussion-oriented classes and exploring in-teresting topics, from stand-up comedy to modern feminism.

Before her junior year, she was selected to play for the highly competitive Geor-gia national lacrosse team at the nation-al tournament in Long Island, New York.

“I have de� nitely gained lessons in commitment, hard work and dedication from lacrosse,” said Mary Catherine, who has played lacrosse at Holy Innocents’ since eighth grade. “I am really close with my lacrosse team, and the support they give me both on and o� the � eld has been very valuable in my time in high school.”

During the school year and summer, Mary Catherine is involved in helping

other, younger students to achieve suc-cess through Horizons Atlanta. � e or-ganization hosts free, six-week summer programs and monthly Saturday school days to help underprivileged children maintain and advance academic prog-ress. Mary Catherine is currently one of two youth board members for the orga-nization, and acts as a link between the group, Holy Innocents’ and the commu-nity to help organize student volunteers for the program.

“� ese kids are so precocious and en-ergetic, and really enjoy being there. I usually � nd myself laughing almost the entire time just because of how much en-ergy they have, and how ready they are to learn and to be there,” said Mary Cath-erine. “Being able to provide support to them academically and as a role model is something I have really come to enjoy.”

As a sophomore, Mary Catherine also helped in her community as part of the inaugural Youth Leadership San-dy Springs class. � e year-long program takes a group of 30 sophomores and ju-niors for one school day each month to travel around the community and talk to di� erent professionals, from city planners to policemen.

At the end of the program, the par-ticipants work on a cumulative project. In Mary Catherine’s year, this project in-volved making voice recordings of chil-drens’ book reading, and donating the recordings and books to Lake Forest Ele-mentary School, where many students do not speak English at home.

What’s Next: Mary Catherine has been accepted to

the University of Georgia, but has not yet decided on a college. She hopes to possi-bly minor in French and continue with lacrosse. She is also interested in continu-ing her interest in science by studying bi-ology. “I think she will be one of those students that will always amaze you and will become whatever she wants to be -- whether that is an engineer or doctor or lawyer or diplomat,” Gatoux said.

� is article was prepared by Mollie Simon, a student at Chamblee Charter High School.

Corrections� e enrollment of � e Weber School was misstated in the Jan. 10-Jan. 23 editions

of Reporter Newspapers. � e enrollment is 226.An article about Robert Port’s cycling trips in Israel that appeared in the Jan. 10-

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through Jan. 11.

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cinct of the Atlanta Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate.

ASSAULT 1700 block of Springer Street, NW – An ag-

gravated assault was reported on Dec. 30. A man approached a man and a woman inside a blue Infi niti that was in the middle of the road, and asked why they were there. When the victim reached toward his back pocket to get his phone to call police, the man inside the vehicle thought the victim was getting a gun, so he pulled his own gun, pointed it at the victim and said, “If you’re pulling out a gun at me, I have one myself,” and drove off.

3300 block of Peachtree Road, NE – An ag-gravated assault was reported on Jan. 1. The victims and the suspect were in a verbal dis-pute inside an elevator. The dispute became physical. The victims suffered various in-juries. One victim was transport-ed to the hospital with a broken nose.

1000 block of Hu� Road, NW – An aggravated assault was reported on Jan. 10. The suspect struck the victim in the face with an iron. The victim was transported to the hospital.

1900 block of Peachtree Road, NW – An aggravated assault was reported on Jan. 10. A man returned to the location intoxicated, and began creating a disturbance. When he was being escorted off the prop-erty by security, he grabbed a “wet fl oor” sign and attempted to strike the offi cer. He was taken into custody.

ROBBERY 1300 block of Northside Drive, NW – A

pedestrian robbery was reported on Jan. 4. A man was walking home when he was con-fronted by two men. He was struck in the face with a metal pole. The suspects took various properties from him and fl ed on foot.

1st block of Pharr Road, NW – A robbery at a residence was reported on Jan. 2. A man was inside an apartment with two other men when his friend knocked on the door. When he opened the door, another man came through the door, pushed his friend to the ground, and held a silver handgun to him. Two oth-er men came in, demanded drugs and money, and took the victims’ cellphones and laptops.

3000 block of Peachtree Road, NW – A pe-destrian robbery was reported on Jan. 6. A woman walked from the ATM to her vehicle with money she had just withdrawn. A man was parked next to her vehicle, waiting. The suspect approached her and demanded mon-ey, and said he had a gun. She gave him the money and went inside the bank for help.

2700 block of Defoors Ferry Road, NW – A pedestrian robbery was reported on Jan. 9. While the victim was parking a vehicle at the apartment complex, the suspect’s vehi-cle pulled alongside the victim. The suspect

jumped out of his vehicle and pulled a gun on the victim. The victim ran and later contact-ed 911. The suspect stole the victim’s vehi-cle and left.

BURGLARY 3400 block of Riverly Road, NW – A resi-

dential burglary was reported on Dec. 29. A couple was sitting in their living room when they heard someone kicking in the front door. The suspect ran into the bedroom, and then ran out. The husband dialed 911, retrieved his gun, followed the suspect outside, and fi red six rounds. The suspect fell on the ground, jumped up, and left. Jewelry was taken. The victim’s ring, earrings, key chain and receipts were found lying alongside the road.

900 block of Nawench Drive, NW – A res-idential burglary was reported on Dec. 30.

The rear glass door was broken by a pair of wood- handled tree trimmers taken

from the tool shed next to the rear door.

1st block of Peachtree Hills Avenue, NE – A residential burglary was reported on Dec. 30. A woman was in the kitchen when

she heard the metal burglar bars be-ing cut. She ran and hid in a closet

and heard someone trying to pry open the front door. The noise suddenly

stopped, and she saw offi cers through the window. The suspects were lo-

cated in the parking lot; one was walking in the parking lot and one came from behind a parked vehi-cle. A backpack with rubber gloves was found on the fl oor outside the door. An offi cer found a jean jacket

covering a screwdriver and a pair of pliers in the area from which the oth-

er suspect came.

200 block of 26th Street, NW – A residen-tial burglary was reported on Dec. 31. The front door was damaged and pried by a crow-bar, but not opened. The caller said a man knocked on her door and asked for someone who did not live there. She said she told the man no one by that name lived there and closed her door. Later she heard noise com-ing from down the hallway and noticed dam-age to another unit.

100 block of Lakeshore Drive, NE – A com-mercial burglary was reported on Jan. 2. A man reported that the apartment complex had been burglarized, and 50 personal checks totaling $45,000 were stolen.

1800 block of Queen Street, NW – A res-idential burglary was reported on Jan. 3. A man said he discovered the glass window to his door broken and the door opened. He said that upon entering his home, he saw that four laptops, a digital camera, $100 in U.S. coins, $120 worth of postage stamps and a computer bag were removed.

1st block of Paces West Drive, NW – A res-idential burglary was reported on Jan. 10. An unidentifi ed man was seen in the victim’s home and $30,000 worth of jewelry was sto-len. The victim’s housekeeper was in the

1900 block of Peachtree Road, NW – An aggravated assault was reported

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2200 block of Dunseath Avenue, NW – A residential burglary was reported on Jan. 10. The front living room window was left un-locked. Several pieces of jewelry were taken from a bowl inside the bathroom. An iPhone 4S and several coins were taken from a spare bedroom. Two laptop computers were re-moved from a closet, but were not taken. A dog was inside the residence at the time of the theft.

2100 block of Cheshire Bridge Road, NE – A residential burglary was reported on Jan. 10. A man said a 50” fl at screen TV, Wii gam-ing system, 10 DVDs, 47” fl at screen TV, Play-Station, iPod and laptop were stolen from his residence.

LARCENY 200 block of 26th Street, NW – A larceny

was reported on Dec. 29. A friend came over, then left. The homeowner found out that $10,000 and a debit card was missing when she woke up.

3000 block of Roswell Road, NW – A lar-ceny at a specialty store was reported on Dec. 31. Two well- dressed women entered the location; one woman distracted the em-ployee by asking to see a mirror on the wall in the rear of the building. The victim allowed the woman to go to the rear of the store while the other woman distracted the vic-tim by asking a lot of questions. The woman that went to the rear took the victim’s wal-let from her purse, which was on the fl oor un-der her desk and visible from the door way.

The victim’s bank card was used at a Buck-head store and her Visa card was used online. The store employee remembered two wom-en who attempted unsuccessfully to use nine cards at the location.

2400 block of Lowe Street, NW – A larce-ny was reported on Jan. 3. A woman said her cellphone was taken by her sister’s moth-er -in-law. She said the suspect gave her a ride home, but stopped at her house fi rst. That’s when the phone went missing. The victim said when she called her phone, the suspect answered and hung up immediately.

2300 block of Peachtree Road, NE – A larceny was re-ported on Jan. 3. A woman said that another woman came into the store and stole a pink wallet belonging to her. The victim said she left her wallet in the bathroom and the other woman went in, took it, and put it in her pants. When an of-fi cer came on the scene he took the wallet from her pants. She was arrested and trans-ported to Fulton County Jail, and charged with theft by taking.

1900 block of Piedmont Circle, NE – A lar-ceny at a hotel was reported on Jan. 3. The victim was drinking alcohol in a motel room with a roommate and a woman. The victim took some pills and fell asleep. The victim woke up and found a suitcase, phone and wallet missing.

3300 block of Lenox Road, NE – A larce-ny was reported on Jan. 4. A woman placed

her purse on a table in the area designated for employees to change, put her jacket over it, and went to work. She noticed $356 was miss-ing from her wallet when she arrived home.

3200 block of Lenox Road, NE – A larceny was reported on Jan. 6. Someone stole three jackets out of a dryer at the location.

1700 block of Peachtree Street, NW – A larceny was reported on

Jan. 8. A man reported that a past employee was taking money from the company account via ACH transactions. The woman would pay bills over the phone with a credit card, and the card was linked to the company’s ac-count. She made about seven transactions to the account.

1st block of W. Paces Ferry Road, NW – A larceny was

reported on Jan. 11. The victim left a handbag on the arm of a chair. The

victim returned to the chair and noticed the handbag was missing. The victim later re-covered the handbag in the bathroom, but noticed various property was stolen. Security advised of possible video footage.

LARCENY FROM AUTO 400 block of Lindbergh Drive, NE – A

larceny from auto was reported on Jan. 2. The vehicle’s doors were left unlocked. A $1,100 postal money order and sunglasses were taken.

1900 block of Howell Mill Road, NW – A larceny from an auto was reported on Jan. 3. The rear left window was broken. A bag containing a laptop was taken from the back seat. The victim recovered his bag and laptop in the adjacent parking lot.

1900 block of Peachtree Road, NW – Lar-ceny from an auto was reported on Jan. 6. Two vehicles were broken into. Damage was found on the driver’s side door lock. The fol-lowing property was stolen: duty belt, hand-cuffs, extra magazines, Taser cartridge and ballistic vest. No fi ngerprints.

AUTO THEFT 1800 block of Hollywood Road, NW – An

auto theft was reported on Jan. 4. A man suf-fered minor injuries while he was standing on the tailgate of his vehicle when two men en-tered the vehicle and drove off. A black cof-fee maker and keys were inside the vehicle at the time of the theft.

2000 block of Bolton Road, NW – An auto theft was reported on Jan. 7. Someone stole a man’s vehicle after he left the keys in it while he unloaded items.

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er it should become nine [holes] or re-main 18.”

If the nine-hole course is chosen, it would be only one of a handful of “re-versible courses” in the country, Elgi-son said. Golfers would play the fi rst nine holes, then would turn around and play the course in reverse. Th e innova-tive design would allow for a diff erent experience playing in each direction, he said. Elgison said demand for the driv-ing range would also generate funding for the golf course.

At the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center, a below-grade parking deck would be in-stalled, which would be invisible from Northside Drive. Th e two-level space would have room for 400 cars and its rooftop would provide room for six ad-ditional tennis courts. Th e entrance to the park would also be moved closer to the tennis center and a traffi c light in-stalled for safer access.

On the opposite side of Northside Drive. where the playgrounds and pas-sive green space is located, there’s also a plan to add more greenery, move play areas out of the fl oodplain and install new walking trails.

Smith said the Georgia Department of Transportation had announced ac-celerated plans to replace and raise the

bridge over Peachtree Creek in the next three years.

Smith said the conservancy had asked to be allowed to comment on the design and materials to be used for the bridge with the GDOT. She said the conservancy would not insert itself


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The Bobby Jones Golf Course has not been updated in more than 80 years, says the Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy, with

renovations now planned. Debate is under way if the course should remain 18 holes or be redesigned into a 9-hole course.

into how the new bridge will aff ect ac-cess to Woodward Way and Sagamore Drive.

Smith said the nonprofi t Atlanta Me-morial Park Conservancy would be go-ing after state, federal and other mu-nicipal dollars to help implement the

renovations, as well as seeking donations from individuals and foundations. She said a capital fundraising campaign will kick off this month.

For more about the conservancy, visit atlmemorialpark.org.

“There’s an emotional feeling that the course should stay 18 holes.

But there is also demand for a

driving range, since the closest one is more than

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– MARTY ELGISON

VICE PRESIDENT, ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSER-

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