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FEB. 8 — FEB. 21, 2013 • VOL. 4 — NO. 3Spending limitLegislature looking to

cap gifts from lobbyists

COMMUNITY 7

State of affairsDeKalb CEO Ellis talks

property taxes, annexation

COMMUNITY 6

Up in armsReaders sound off over gun control

COMMENTARY 8-9

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Bible versesClergy share favorite

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FAITH 12-13

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PHIL MOSIER

Yvonne Miller, center, plays the recorder during the prelude to the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan service at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody on Feb. 3, part of the church’s Scottish Heritage Sunday celebration. More photos on page 3.

BY JOE [email protected]

Dunwoody homeowners and busi-nesses must register their burglar alarms with the city and pay fi nes after two false alarms under a new ordinance adopted recently by City Council.

Th e proposal drew sharp criticism from some council members who ob-jected to a provision that police will not respond to an alarm if the owner is de-linquent in paying false alarm fi nes.

Dunwoody police have backed the plan in an eff ort to reduce the number of false alarms received by the city. Check-ing false alarms takes police time and re-sources, offi cials say.

“We have a lean police staff level,” City Councilman Terry Nall said before the council voted to adopt the ordinance

BY TOM ODERTh e temporary court order that halt-

ed construction of the controversial trail in Brook Run Park was lifted on Feb. 4, but it appears opponents of the city’s plan aren’t giving up.

Shortly after DeKalb County Superi-or Judge Tangela M. Barrie announced her decision to lift the order, former Dunwoody City Council member Dan-ny Ross presented city offi cials with a petition asking they return to the orig-

Trail � ght moves to new

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BY TOM ODERA coalition of citizens upset by what

they believe is abuse and neglect of Brook Run Park has organized a new group intended to protect and preserve the park’s natural environment.

Meeting at the home of Dunwoody Sustainability Commission member Bobbi Sedam on Jan. 26, Dunwoody residents formed Friends of Brook Run Park.

“Th e city has spent money on the children’s playground and the skate park, but other than that the whole park is a dump,” said John Fleckenstein, who has lived in Dunwoody for 37 years. “From the time when the county owned the park and until now under city own-ership, I don’t believe any government entity has cared about the park.”

Th e catalyst for forming the group is the city’s plan to build a multi-use con-crete trail through the park, which will result in the removal of 337 trees in Phase 1 of the two-phase construction.

But residents attending the Jan. 26 meeting voiced frustration with oth-er concerns about the condition of the park.

Th ey said those concerns are:• Asphalt and creosote timbers

have been dumped into a storm drain-age area that fl ows into West Nancy Creek.

• Th e park is being used as a city maintenance facility that has resulted in increased truck traffi c in the park.

• A 292-page tree study by Ar-borguard stating that signifi cant tree loss will occur in the dog park area due to problems with water erosion and com-

pacted soil. • Some bridges are dilapidated

and unsafe.• Some sidewalks are broken and

hazardous.• Th e theater building needs re-

pair.Nine of the 14 people attending the

Jan. 26 meeting joined the group, which they decided would be independent of several other citizen groups, including the Brook Run Conservancy and Save Dunwoody.

Th e newly formed Friends of Brook Run Park took several immediate ac-tions at the meeting to address their concerns.

Th e fi rst was to draft a petition to Mayor Mike Davis and City Council members requesting that the city return to its original plans for an 8-foot trail rather than the current plan for a trail 12-feet wide.

Jeff Coghill created a Friends of Brook Run Park Dunwoody Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/361039270670116/) after the meeting.

Th e residents at Sedam’s house also decided that Friends of Brook Run Park would have annual membership dues of $10 to cover nominal expens-es. Th e group elected offi cers to serve a three-month term. Th e offi cers are: Bobbi Sedam, president emeritus; Kevin Corcoran, president; Jay Pryor, treasur-er; John and Mary Sladky, secretary; Jeff and Carey Coghill, communications.

Membership is open. For more infor-mation: [email protected].

TOM ODER

Front row, Bobbi Sedam and Barbara Pryor, with, back row, left to right, Mary Sladky, Kevin Corcoran, Carey Coghill, Peggy Thompson,

John Fleckenstein, Jeff Coghill, Jay Pryor, John Sladky and Norb Leahy, formed Friends of Brook Run Park to address citizens’ concerns.

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was written by the newly formed Friends of Dunwoody Park, and has been circu-lating around the city and online at ht-www.change.org/petitions/brook-run-park. Based on ZIP codes placed beside names on the petition, people who signed it live in Dunwoody and near-by areas, including Brookhaven, Sandy Springs and Chamblee.

Barrie’s ruling clears the way for the city to build a 12-foot-wide, concrete

multi-use path through Brook Run. Th e city’s plans call for that path to be built in two phases. Construction plans for Phase 1 will require the removal of more than 330 trees.

Shortly after the judge ruled, city of-fi cials contacted the contractor for the trail, Lewallen Construction in Mariet-ta, and asked them to proceed with con-struction, city spokesman Bob Mullen said. “Th e judge’s ruling allows the city to move forward, and construction will begin as soon as the contractor can mo-bilize its crews,” Mullen said.

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Opponents are not giving up on derailing current plans for Brook Run Park, even though a judge ruled the city can move forward

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City Council on Jan. 28 named new members to several city boards. Th e council appointed Sam Verniero and Debbie Montgomery to three-year terms on the Community Council; Jim Gaddis and Robert Miller to four-year terms on the city Development Authori-ty; and reappointed Bill McCahan, Kris-tin Wescott and Gerri Penn to four-year terms on the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Counting birdsTh e Dunwoody Nature Center will

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Attorney Jenny Culler, who repre-sents 25 plaintiff s in the case against the city, said immediately after the ruling that she felt confi dent that the plaintiff s would continue with their legal action. If the legal action does continue, Culler said she has asked for a jury trial.

“We will have to work effi ciently with the lawsuit,” Barrie told both par-ties. Th e issue becomes timing, she said, and the city’s construction schedule. Th e city is facing a December deadline on the trail, due to a grant the city has re-ceived to build the path.

Barrie also put the city on notice that if it does begin building the trail it should be mindful of requests the plaintiff s have made. She specifi cally mentioned the in-stallation of a storm water storage system. She also pointed out that the city could be at risk if it begins construction and the plaintiff s win the lawsuit.

“Th e court wants this on a fast track, and the judge is leaving open the possibil-ity the plaintiff s will prevail,” Culler said.

Barrie said the burden of proof in the hearings on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 fell on the plaintiff s to show that building the 12-foot concrete trail would cause irrep-arable damage to the homes of the plain-tiff s, all of whom live in the Lakeview Oaks subdivision that abuts the western edge of Brook Run Park.

She said that even though they had done a hydrology study, they failed to meet the high legal burden of an in-junction because they did not do a fl ood analysis study that would show what damage might happen to the homes of the plaintiff s if the city builds the trail according to its current plans.

Th e plaintiff s say that it’s the city’s re-sponsibility to do the fl ood analysis.

Th e judge said the hearing also came down to a battle of hydrology experts. Every time the plaintiff s made an eff ec-tive argument, the city came back with an equally eff ective argument, she said.

In the end, she added, “it became a tilting scale.”

Th e plaintiff s’ arguments were not convincing, Barrie said. Th e city had voted to do the project, and therefore she said, she was denying the plaintiff s’ motion for an injunction to stop the trail in its tracks.

“We have options,” said Beverly Ar-mento, one of the original plaintiff s in the lawsuit. “Water is not the only issue.”

Other concerns about the trail cited by opponents of the city’s plan include:

-- In a survey leading up to the city’s master plan, 80 percent of the re-spondents asked for a walking trail, not a multi-use trail.

--Th e trail plan originally ap-proved by City Council was an 8-foot-wide trail.

--Th e original plan called for the trail to be 1.2 miles long and cost $132,000. With a $100,000 grant, the fi nal cost to the city was $32,000.

--Th e new plans call for a trail .7 miles long in Phase 1 that will cost $420,000.

--Th e city has not yet conduct-ed an impact study on Phase 2 of the project or set a completion date.

“Th e ideal outcome would be to go back to the original plan for a previous path that would require very little tree removal,” Ross said.

Th e original plan is also less costly to the city, he said.

“Our view is that we have 47,000 resi-dents we have to concern ourselves with,” Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis said. “We understand the view of the plaintiff s, but we need to make our park available to our entire cast of citizens -- the handicapped and moms with strollers.”

Th e city plans will actually reduce wa-ter going into the Lakeview Oaks sub-division where the plaintiff s live, Davis contended. “We’re actually doing them a favor,” he said.

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Just a few days after DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis publicly defended his sug-gested property tax hike this year, he re-vised his proposed budget to sharply re-duce the amount of the increase.

In his annual “State of the Coun-ty” message on Jan. 29, Ellis called for a 1.69-mill tax increase, which he said would translate into an increase of about $48.50 in taxes for the owner of a $200,000 house.

Th en, on Jan. 31, a county press re-lease said a surplus from last year al-lowed Ellis to amend his budget plan to reduce the proposed tax increase to .64 mills, or about $18.37 a month for the homeowner of a $200,000 house.

County offi cials were able to cut the amount of the increase after they found they had $8.7 million they could carry over from 2012 to 2013, the county said in a press release.

“Th is represents a reduction of over 1 mill in the recommended millage rate and appropriately balances the county’s fi nancial resources with our need to de-liver services,” Ellis said in the release.

DeKalb County Commissioner Jeff Rader said that even with the reduction in the tax increase, the commissioners plan to take a close look at Ellis’ budget to see how the CEO proposes to spend money.

“I certainly think it’s good to have more revenue,” Rader said, “but I do think there are areas of the budget that we need to scrutinize.”

In his “State of the County” speech, Ellis said his 2013 budget plan provides raises for the lowest-paid county work-ers, that the county should be able to ob-ject legally to new annexations of coun-ty territory, and that the county needs to take regional approaches to problems such as transportation.

He also outlined a series of “strug-gles” the county faces, but said they would move the county forward.

“We have our struggles, but our struggles make us stronger,” Ellis told about 400 political and business lead-ers attending the speech at the Th alia N. Carlos Hellenic Community Center on Clairmont Road.

Ellis did not address recent police searches of his home and offi ce. In a press conference after his speech, he said he had done nothing wrong and that the speech did not seem like the appropri-ate place to talk about the investigation.

Promoters of the event told him “this is not about Burrell Ellis, this is about DeKalb County,” he said. “I’m going to stay focused on the state of the county. Th at’s why we’re here.”

His speech, he said, was intended “to remind people that struggle and success go hand in hand.”

On the budget, Ellis said the county has to deal with a 25 percent decline in property values, including a 50 percent drop in areas of the county not within cities.

“After years of cost cutting, to the tune of over $100 million, we are now holding the line in most county depart-ments,” he said.

His budget does propose an increase of 25 police offi cers this year and a re-alignment of police precincts, he said.

Ellis said county offi cials have asked state legislators to change the law so county approval would be required for cities to annex areas that receive coun-ty services.

“We have now reached the ‘tipping point’ where continued annexation will hamper the ability of the county to adequately fund essential services,” he said.

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Lobbyists spend in effort to ‘woo’ lawmakers

Millar proposes non-partisan election for DeKalb CEO

State SenateDistrict 40Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody

2012: $1,241Biggest amount spent on legis-lator? $328 on Falcons tickets

Th e state Legislature is considering measures to curtail lobbyist spending, which has no cap on what lobbyists can spend wooing lawmakers. In the past, lobbyists have shelled out thou-sands for dinners, football tickets and other gifts to infl uence members of the state legislative delegation to support their issues.

Reporter Newspapers examined re-ports of what lobbyists spent on our lo-cal legislators. Below is a list compiled from the state’s Transparency and Cam-paign Finance Commission. In some cases the reports listed gifts legislators later returned and these are not factored into the overall total amount listed here. See the reports at http://ethics.ga.gov/

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BY MELISSA WEINMAN [email protected]

State Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody, has introduced a bill that would require that the DeKalb CEO be chosen in a non-partisan election.

Th e CEO, elected county-wide for a four-year term, is the top administrative offi cial in DeKalb.

Millar said he introduced the bill as a way to give Republicans a more pow-erful voice in a majority Democratic county. “Th is makes the Republicans in the county more relevant,” Millar said.

Millar said he also believes a non-par-tisan CEO would help “bring the coun-ty together.”

Candidates running to become DeKalb’s Chief Executive Offi cer now must fi le as Democrats or Republicans.

Making the election non-partisan would empower the heavily Republican northern end of the county.

“We don’t get to vote in the Demo-cratic primary,” Millar said.

Th e bill would apply to any coun-ty that utilizes a chief executive offi -cer/county commission form of gov-

ernment. DeKalb is the only county in Georgia that operates under this system.

Th e bill was introduced in the Sen-ate on Feb. 4.

Millar, the only Republican senator from DeKalb, said he hasn’t heard any opposition from his peers.

“I spoke with Sen. Ron Ramsey, chair of the DeKalb delegation for the Senate, and he thinks the idea has merit,” Mil-lar said.

“This makes the Republicans in

the county more relevant.”

– STATE SEN. FRAN MILLAR

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Readers join the debate over gun laws

To the editor:

Price R. Potter’s editorial regarding the 2nd amendment is a knee-jerk, emotional reaction similar to the criticism he used to deride Mr. Whisenhunt’s editorial. He uses name-call-ing (“squeamish progressives” and “weak-willed liberals”) and false logic to argue for gun rights.

By defi nition our freedoms and liberties (the root word of liberal) end when they aff ect another’s freedom. Where your right infringes upon another’s is where your privilege ceases to exist.

One’s right to feel safe by carrying a fi rearm is just as valid as one’s right to feel safe by living in a world free of fi re arms. One just happens to be written in the Constitution, a chosen selection of 18th century natural rights put forth by Enlight-enment thinkers and not a comprehensive list.

A right to bear arms in 1791 made sense, but in the 21st century its relevance ought to be debated since the context has changed.

Th e equivocation of the dangers of driving with the dangers of fi rearms is invalid as well. Cars are necessary parts of our existence and in no way could have been included in our Constitution be-cause they did not exist. I am confi dent that if an amendment was proposed that we had a right to drive cars that it would pass without issue. Th ere are dangers from cars, but without them our economy would collapse.

Cars are intended for transportation and have the secondary eff ect of accidents. Guns are created to shoot things. Th at is the primary purpose. Ladders are intended to raise people up. Be-cause someone dies on one does not make it equal to a gun, and the same for a car. Equating something intended to cause death with something intended to move people and goods is logically inaccurate at best and manipulative at worst.

Potter’s historical examples are also problematic - they

only focus on specifi c incidences of totalitarian regimes and government-led genocides.

While tragic, he ignores all history prior to 20th centu-ry and all the peaceful, successful countries that currently have weapon bans. England, Japan, and most of Scandina-via represent current and historical examples of industrial-ized nations that are peace and freedom-loving while hav-ing signifi cantly lower rates of gun violence, incarceration, and non-accidental homicide.

Potter also ignores the economic barriers many of those oppressed peoples faced when attempting to purchase weapons given that nearly all were developing nations pri-or to their own Industrial Revolutions - guns were scarce and cost prohibitive for the agrarian common folk.

In addition, he seems to forget that in the event of pro-gressive-led violent overthrow of democracy, any weapon one is able to procure legally today (including assault ri-fl es) would not stand up against the modern weaponry of a 21st century United States military force or almost any nation state.

In all the examples Potter provided the governments had sophisticated weaponry to which a humble commoner’s mus-ket would stand no chance. When the Bill of Rights was rat-ifi ed, the diff erence in weapons between the British or U.S. military and a plebeian farmer was negligible.

Accusations of irrationality by Price Potter hit surprising-ly close to home given his unwillingness to examine the other side of the issue while declaring opposing arguments nothing more than the “whining of liberal wussies.” I am confi dent af-ter Price Potter’s paranoia subsides that he may be able to en-gage in civil discourse based on facts and logical argument.

Just because all of our news outlets refuse to be civil it does not mean that we cannot be.

Eric Heintz

To the editor:Price Potter’s extreme and bizarre arguments presented in

the last issue of this newspaper are a frustrating example of why meaningful controls on guns and gun ownership in this country are so hard to achieve in the face of obvious and over-whelming evidence that the costs of the status quo exceed any benefi ts derived by multiple fold.

Th e benefi ts cited by Mr. Price (defense of home and the unspecifi ed fear of some theoretical tyrannical government) are typical of the genre, and are somewhere between dubious and miniscule. Th e costs are huge and occur every single day

in terms of lives needlessly destroyed or snuff ed out by gun vi-olence, gun accidents, suicide and over-zealous self-defense.

Our elected representatives (Mr. Gingrey, Mr. Lindsey, and Mr. Hill in my particular case) have proven spineless and lacking in leadership on this issue as they pander for special interest votes and hope to avoid the ire of the NRA. Surely we can do better than this.

Indeed, according to Mr. Price, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it: more than 82 times each and every day from gun deaths alone.

Scott Satterwhite

To the editor:Th e recent letter by Mr. Potter, which addressed a prior

opinion article on gun control, was a good example of mak-ing a point by name-calling and attacking the intelligence and emotional balance of someone with whom we disagree.

Mr. Potter presumes to know what is in Mr. Whisenhunt’s mind and emotions. He calls him “scared, a squeamish pro-gressive, weak-willed liberal, of selective and highly irrational emotion who should cry himself to sleep every night worry-ing his pretty little head..., one for whom lawful gun owner-ship is cause for hysteria, hand-wringing and bed wetting, ill-informed, people like this, with a need to feel good.”

All this is name-calling and inappropriate, but an increas-ingly common strategy. Belittling your opponent to make yourself look better is the approach. Never mind that your opponent may have good reasons for his opinion. Respect for a person’s right to verbalize his opinion is not important.

Actually, Mr. Potter’s argument about fi rearms is accu-rate. Cars cause thousands of times more fatalities each year

than fi rearms. Citizens do have a constitutional right to own fi rearms and to use them for our own protection. Increasing numbers of us citizens are exercising our right to own fi rearms and know how to use them. We understand that criminals will obtain and use fi rearms, no matter what the law is. Criminals already show disregard for the law by the very act of shooting someone, which is illegal. Outlawing guns will not change the behavior of evil people, and our government could not possi-bly remove every fi rearm from the face of the earth.

Mr. Potter would have made a much better case by just stat-ing the facts and skipping the name-calling.

Respectfully, Faye Sklar

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Editor’s note: Few subjects have produced the level of response from our readers created by the debate over guns. In the Jan. 11-Jan. 24 issue of Reporter Newspapers, Associate Editor Dan Whisenhunt o� ered his opinion. In our Jan. 25-Feb. 7 issue, reader Price R. Pot-ter responded in a letter to the editor. His letter produced a � urry of replies, including these.

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To the editor: I wanted to express my disappoint-

ment in your running the screed written by Price R. Potter concerning gun con-trol. Rather than his responding ratio-nally to an earlier commentary by Dan Whisenhunt, it was purely an ad homi-nem attack on Mr. Whisenhunt. Un-fortunately, this sort of response is all too common within the gun control de-bate.

Admittedly, I am biased in favor of more control of the type of guns that people can buy and our deplorably in-

adequate means of stopping those who should not have guns from accessing them. Th is bias comes from my pro-fessional experience. I provide consul-tation to major (Fortune 100) compa-nies when they have a concern about an employee -- or ex-employee -- becom-ing violent. And unfortunately, I have attended funerals of people who were killed following what otherwise would have been an insignifi cant quarrel.

I would hope that other commen-taries you choose to print are more rea-soned, measured and thoughtful.

Carol H. Beavers

To the editor:

Mr Potter’s call for logic rather than emotion is neither logical nor unemo-tional. Quite the contrary. What could be more illogical than comparing cars to guns? Do we have other uses for cars than killing things?

But the greatest contradiction is the totally emotional, irrational argument that we need guns to protect us from government. Talk about fearful bed wet-ting devoid of reason!

If this were the case, Mr. Potter needs RPGs, tanks, drones and F-16s, not to mention 50-100,000 like-minded com-rades. Dispensing with all of the fear mongering and name-calling, there are only a few facts (facts meaning items that are actually true, supported by ev-idence rather than ideas that have been repeated so many times that many peo-

ple think they are true) related to this subject.

Countries with the closest cultural, language and religious ties to the U.S. include Canada, Australia and the UK. Th eir gun death rates compared to the U.S. are 1/5, 1/10 and 1/40 respective-ly. Why? Go look at their guns laws and nobody would ever call any of these people bed wetters.

Isn’t it interesting that those scream-ing the loudest about freedom and liber-ties are the fi rst to promote government control of women’s bodies, corporate subsidies and bogus obstacles to voting.

If the gun dispute were a formal, in-terscholastic debate with rules requiring evidence, logic and unemotional dis-course, the gun lobby would lose that debate hands down.

R. Bays

To the editor:

I was somewhat taken aback by the commentary “Cars cause more harm than fi rearms do” in your Jan. 25-Feb. 7 Letters to the Editor section. Th is com-mentary was in response to an earlier ar-ticle written by Dan Whisenhunt.

I had to review the article that Mr. Whisenhunt wrote, in order to try and determine what iset off his detractor.

Th ere was nothing particularly pro-vocative in the article by Mr. Whisen-hunt; in fact his closing comment was, “If we don’t begin having a construc-tive discussion about this, that day may come sooner than any of us would like.”

In response to the call for “construc-tive criticism,” the commentator last week attacked Mr. Whisenhunt on a personal level. “Squeamish progressives and weak-willed liberals,” “his pretty lit-tle head,” “hysteria, hand-wringing and bed wetting” were some of the unfor-tunate comments directed toward Mr. Whisenhunt.

Th is is a prime example of what is wrong in 2013 America. Instead of hav-

ing a dialogue with a healthy give and take of ideas and solutions, we have in-stead sunk to the lowest common de-nominator. We excoriate our politicians for being implacable and taking absolute stances instead of reaching a consensus, but the reality is that our representatives truly refl ect what we as a society have become. If someone states an opinion contrary to our own, they must be im-beciles and subjected to incivility.

I do not blame the author, he is clearly an intelligent man with a pas-sion for his position. I have nothing but disdain for your newspaper for printing an attack piece rather than a thoughtful commentary. Was that commentary the best one submitted to your newspaper? I suspect it was chosen to stir the pot and create more controversy.

You are part of the problem and contribute to the “reality show” hos-tile mentality that is slowly choking us all and leading to the dumbing down of America.

Shame on you.Chris Arapoglou

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Th ey started out simply as bedtime stories. Maxine Rock would spin her yarns before tucking in her two grand-daughters for the night.

“When the girls were growing up, we always spent of a lot of time togeth-er,” the Buckhead writer said. “I ran out of things to read, so I started making things up.”

Soon the girls were joining in. Ju-lia Schiff er, who’s 9 now, and Rachel Schiff er, who’s 12, began to add their own contributions to their grandmoth-er’s stories. Th e three of them created their own fantasy world.

“I was the idea maker,” Julia said one recent afternoon as she and her sister sat on a couch in their Buckhead home with their grandmother to talk about the book. “I added a few ideas. At one point, there are poems. I did the poetry.”

Rachel came up with ideas for illus-trations.

“My daughter thought it would be a great thing to write these down for the kids,” said Rock, who’s already published books such as “Totally Fun Th ings To Do With Your Cat,” “Total-ly Fun Th ings To Do With Your Dog” and “Th e Marriage Map.” Rock thought others might fi nd their made-up bed-time stories appealing, too, after she re-alized her daughter and son-in-law occa-sionally were listening in at the bedroom door during story time.

In January, Rock, Julia and Rachel published their stories in a book titled “Adventures in Faun Forest.” Th eir book was released with a party at an Alpharet-ta printing house that prints books to order. About 70 to 75 people attend-ed, Rock said. Th e gathering attracted friends, neighbors and students from Th e Galloway School, which Julia and

Rachel at-tend, she said.

Fauns, it seems, make up a big part of the stories in their book. “Why fauns?” Rock asked. “We want-ed characters who were hy-brids because everything in the faun forest were hybrids.”

In other words, to hear the three au-thors tell it, they’ve invented a world where every animal is a bit mixed-up. “We made things up out of animals that already exist or were imaginative,” Julia said.

“Imaginative?” Rachel asked.“Imaginative,” Julia said.Well, imaginative or imaginary, their

animals sound like few others. Th eir stories are populated with panthapuss-es (part panther, part octopus), furtles (part fox, part turtle) and zee-zees (part zebra, part chimpanzee).

“I can make up a story on my own, but it was easier when I was working with my sister and my grandmother,” Julia said. “It felt like a big accomplish-ment.”

“It is a big accomplishment,” said Rock, who says “Adventures in Faun Forest” is her 10th book altogether.

So, how many for the granddaugh-ters?

“Well, do you include books pub-lished in class?” Julia asked.

No.“Th en one,” she said.

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The Buckhead Girls Choir, which focuses on international music, hopes to expand from Valentine Grams to singing for other holidays.

By MelISSa WeINMaN [email protected]

If the usual fl owers and chocolates feel a bit trite this year, the young song-stresses of the Buckhead Girls Choir are off ering something diff erent you can give to your valentine.

In what they call a “Valentine Gram,” a group of singers from the choir will serenade your sweetie with a medley of three love songs, then present him or her with a rose and a personal note.

Megan Hodge, the founder and con-ductor of the Buckhead Girls Choir, said this is the third year they have off ered the Valentine Grams, which raise money for the nonprofi t organization.

Hodge said between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., parent volunteers drive the girls to homes, offi ces, and other locations to deliver their Valentine Grams.

“Last year a lot of people got them for their grandmas or for their teachers. We went to a lot of schools and retirement homes. It was fun,” Hodge said.

She said the girls, who are between the ages of 5 and 17, enjoy it and dress for the holiday with plenty of hearts and glitter.

“Th ey had a blast last year. Th ey’ve been bugging me to do other holidays,” Hodge said. “We may add a Mother’s Day version because they love it.”

Each Valentine Gram costs $60. Th e money will go toward a scholarship fund, which helps pay the cost of tu-ition for girls with fi nancial diffi culties. Th e funds will also cover the cost of uni-forms and choir trips, Hodge said.

Last year, the Buckhead Girls Choir sang at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., and this year, they are scheduled to perform at Disney World in Orlando in April.

Hodge said she started the choir four years ago as a way to provide more op-tions for girls who are interested in sing-ing. Girls audition for the choir, which is divided into several groups based on age and skill level.

Most choirs are associated with churches, Hodge said. But the Buck-head Girls Choir off ers a non-religious choir experience for girls in the area. Hodge said the approximately 50 girls in the choir represent 19 schools, most-ly from the private and public schools in Buckhead.

“Th ey didn’t really like the church music all the time. It gave them an op-tion to sing something diff erent,” Hodge said.

Th e choir has a focus on internation-al music. Th is year, the choir is singing

in 21 diff erent languages, Hodge said.“We just choose a variety of mu-

sic. We’re very eclectic with our taste,” Hodge said. “Th ere’s an emphasis on learning pronunciation in diff erent lan-guages and the diff erent styles that go along with each culture.”

Hodge said she is hoping for another successful year of Valentine Grams – but she’s also expecting plenty of procrasti-

nators will wait until just before Feb. 14.“Th e week before Valentine’s Day

last year, we only had 19 scheduled. We ended up with 71. It was a little bit cra-zy, but it was a good fundraiser,” Hodge said. “I’m hoping people will be more on top of it this year.”

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‘Love stories’ date as far back as the Bible

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Th e Bible is fi lled with stories of pas-sion. Some of its stories portray bravery and treachery; others depict loyalty and love.

In honor of Valentine’s Day – a day for romance that takes its name from a saint reputed to have been imprisoned for marrying lovers whose unions were

outlawed – we asked several local reli-gious leaders to name their favorite love stories from scripture.

Th eir favorites varied. But whether they turned to the Old Testament or the New Testament, they found stories ex-pressing romantic love.

Here are the ones they chose.

Rev. Jim Duff y of Our Lady of the As-sumption Catho-lic Church chose the story found in Genesis of Jacob and Rachel. Th e

story reveals true love in sacrifi ce, he said, and demonstrates Jacob’s faith.

Here’s Jacob and Rachel’s story: Ja-cob fell for Rachel and agreed to work seven years for her father in return for her hand in marriage. But when the bride was presented to Jacob, she was veiled. Jacob did not realize that Ra-chel’s older sister, Leah, had been sub-stituted for Rachel and he fell for the trick, marrying Leah.

When Jacob confronted Rachel’s father, he said it was proper that the older sister should marry fi rst. Jacob agreed to work for Rachel’s father for another seven years in order to earn Rachel’s hand in marriage. Th e sec-ond time proved the charm. He mar-ried the sister he was after.

Rabbi Dr. Ana-lia Bortz of Congre-gation Or Hadash turned to the story of Isaac and Rebec-ca, found in the book of Genesis. She list-ed several reasons for

choosing the story, including that it was the fi rst time in the Bible the word “love” was used to describe a man’s aff ec-tion for a woman.

She also gave a personal reason for choosing the story of Rebecca and Isaac. Her parents were named Esther Rebecca and Isaac, she said, “and they have been married for 52 years.” Bortz called her parents’ marriage “a wonderful partner-ship.”

Also, her father’s mother, she said, was named Sarah, the same as Isaac’s mother in the Biblical stories. “So it’s all running in the family,” she said. “Th at, and the fact that the woman was ex-tremely independent, like my mother is, and like they taught me to be.”

Here’s Rebecca and Isaac’s story: Abra-ham was looking for a wife for his son, Isaac, and sent a servant looking for a suitable prospect. Th e servant stood next to a well in Abraham’s home country and

prayed that a maiden would off er him a drink and also off er to water his camels. Rebecca immediately appeared and off ered to do just that.

Rebecca agreed to accompany the ser-vant’s party to Abraham’s home. As they approached, Rebecca saw Isaac in the fi elds preparing to pray. When she heard that the man she saw was to be her husband, she covered herself with a veil. Isaac took her into his late mother’s tent and mar-ried her and, the Bible says, “he loved her.”

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Dr. Charles Qualls, asso-ciate pastor at Second-Ponce de Leon Bap-tist Church, turned to the

story of Joseph and Mary, the parents of Jesus.

“You kind of piece their sto-ry together by looking at the four Gospel accounts,” said Qualls, who serves as Second-Ponce’s associate pastor for pas-toral care, and counsels married couples and divorcees.

What he finds in the sto-ry of Joseph and Mary is trust. Although there is little written about Jesus’ father in the Bi-ble, Qualls says there’s enough to realize he was “a pretty deter-mined, pretty decent guy.”

“The more convenient and the safer thing for him to do would have been to break off the engagement because she was pregnant. But we know that they went on to have a pretty complete family,” Qualls said. “You see mentions of the siblings of Jesus. Jesus was brought up in the carpentry trade, according to tradition. He would have learned that at his fa-ther’s side. You’ve got this clear picture of a family life that grows up due to sheer determination and trust.”

Joseph and Mary’s story: Joseph and Mary were betrothed when they traveled to Bethlehem to be counted in the Roman census. While there, Mary gave birth to Jesus. An angel told Joseph that Jesus was in danger from King Herod. The family fled to Egypt. They returned after Herod’s death and settled in Nazareth.

Rev. Will Zant, pastor of the North Springs United Methodist Church, first thought of words from the New Testa-ment, in the Book of John. He often

quotes these words in weddings, he said. “It’s just a beautiful testament about the word ‘love,’” he said. “We love one another because God’s es-sence is love. That’s a reminder to me … that our lives should be the same.”

He also singled out the story of Ruth from the Old Testament. “It’s a story about how a woman who lost her husband remains faithful to her

mother-in-law,” he said. “Her devo-tion eventually helps her find another husband. I just love that story.”

Here’s Ruth’s story: Ruth’s husband died. When her widowed mother-in-law decided to return to her homeland, Ruth went with her. “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge” Ruth said. “Thy people shall be my peo-ple, and thy God my God.”

Once there, Ruth set to work in the fields, where she met Boaz. Boaz agreed to marry her, but another man had first claim on her. After the other man relin-quished his right to marry Ruth, Boaz and Ruth were able to marry.

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Th ings started small. Saba Silver-man, who had volunteered to help or-ganize social activities for children with developmental disabilities, thought the group should see a play. “I wanted them to have every experience they could,” she said.

Her committee – called the “Very Special People committee,” or “VSP committee” -- organized social out-ings to see traveling Broadway musicals playing at the Fox Th eatre or the Atlan-ta Civic Center, she said. “Th e kids just loved it,” she said.

Th ey were hooked. Eventually, they decided to try to stage a play of their own. “It was just, ‘let’s try it and see what happens,’” Silverman recalled.

And so, 20 years ago, the theater

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Over the past two decades it has per-formed shows such as “Guys and Dolls,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “A Funny Th ing Hap-pened on the Way to the Forum” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” In 2007, the company received a Suzi Bass Award, which celebrates excellence in metro At-lanta professional theater, for its contri-bution to local theater.

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is named for. (“Habima” is Hebrew for “the stage.”)

Th eir fi rst show was Shakespearean, sort of. Th e group staged a 15-minute version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Sil-verman remembers that it sold out. She also remembers that when she saw that fi rst show, she knew the theater company would be around a while.

“I knew we were here to stay just because of what it did for the actors,” she said.

Th ose actors, she said, “blossomed.” She could see them changing with each show. People who had been shy or with-drawn suddenly opened up to people around them. “Th ey went from coming in not able to say a word and their heads down to, all of a sudden, confi dent,” she said.

Even in the fi rst play, the diff erence was easy to spot, she said. Sud-denly, these actors were studying and declaiming Shakespearean dialogue. “Th at’s what absolute-ly fl oored us,” Silverman said. “Here, these kids had trouble speaking reg-ular English and here they were learning paragraphs and songs in ‘English English.’ And they were fabulous.

“Th at fi rst night, we were crying through our eyes and smiling with our mouths. We saw children with disabilities as not having any disabilities. Th ey had abilities and they performed

like they were on Broadway.”Mark Benator acted in that fi rst

play. He’s had a role in each perfor-mance since, he said. “I’ve had a lot of great roles over the years,” he said. Th e Dunwoody 52-year-old reels off part af-ter part he’s played: the rascally Kenick-

ie in “Grease”; the butcher in “Fiddler on the Roof”; a gambler in “Guys and Dolls.” He’s play-ing Coach Calhoun in “Grease: Th e School Ver-sion,”

“Twenty years ago, I never thought I’d be in-volved in anything like this,” he said.

He’s so proud of the theater group that he reg-ularly helps raise money for it, he said. “It’s great. Th e people there are real-ly nice. You meet a lot of diff erent people,” he said.

And the actors have gotten to know one an-other. “You see a lot of old friends,” he said. “Our cast is usually 40 to 45 people.”

At her home in Sandy Springs, Silverman keeps a special memento made to honor her work with Jer-ry’s Habima Th eatre. It was made for her by par-ticipants in the arts pro-gram at the MJCCA. It’s a suitcase decorated with photos and playbills from many of the company’s performances.

“Th is is what I’m so proud of,” she said, point-ing to a row of photos of actors. “Look at the smiles

on these kids.”

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Choral MusicSunday, Feb. 17, 4:30-6:30 p.m. – Th e Heritage Winter Classic concert series welcomes “Kaleidoscope,” former-ly the Michael O’Neal Chamber Singers, a 30-voice ensemble performing choral selec-tions ranging from Gregorian chant, 20th cen-tury compositions, opera, a capella vocal jazz, and African-American spirituals. Free and open to the community. Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Blue-stone Rd., NE, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call the venue at 404-851-9111 or go to: www.mosingers.com to learn about the group.

Creating ValentinesTuesday, Feb. 12, 2:30-5 p.m. – Craft mate-rials provided for children, parents and caregivers to make creative valentines for someone special. Free. In the story time room. Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. For information call 404-303-6130.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 3:30-5 p.m. – Learn fun facts about what makes a bird a bird, iden-tify common birds seen in your own backyard, and make unique bird cards for Mom and Dad, or that someone special, for Valentine’s Day. You’ll also decorate Valentine’s cookies to take home! Ap-propriate for ages 4-8. $10. Blue Heron Nature Preserve, 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342. Call 404-345-1008 or check out: http://bhnp.org to fi nd out more.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 4:30-5 p.m. – Join oth-ers at the Brookhaven Library in making a valen-tine gift! Free and open to the public. Open to the fi rst 10 participants. For ages 5-12. 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-848-7140 to sign up or for information.

Th ursday, Feb. 14, 3-5 p.m. – Children in grades K-5 can drop in any time after school with their parents and/or caregiver to make a Valentine craft. For ages 4-12. Free and open to the public. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: [email protected] or call 404-814-3500 for details.

Black History MonthSaturday, Feb. 16, 2:30 p.m. – Ms. Leah pres-ents a fun, seasonal story time and related activities to celebrate Black History Month. Free and open to the public. Sign-up required and starts Feb. 1. Space is limited. For ages 3-7. Come by, call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] to register. Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – Preschoolers ages 3-5 will enjoy special stories for Black History Month. Part of the story time series. Free and open to the community. Buckhead Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: [email protected] or call 404-814-3500 for further information.

Fabric CollageTh ursday, Feb. 21, 4:30 p.m. – Fabric artist Zelda Grant drops by to teach kids the art of fab-ric collage, featuring many patterns and styles from Africa as well as animal prints. In conjunction with Black History Month. Free and open to the pub-lic. Appropriate for ages 7-11. Sign-up required and starts Feb. 1. Space is limited. Come by, call 404-303-6130 or email: shannon.duff [email protected] to register. Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Black History CraftSaturday, Feb. 23, 12-4 p.m. – Children ages 4-12 can drop in to make a unique Black History Month craft as a parent and child activity. Free and open to all. Buckhead Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: [email protected] or call 404-814-3500 to learn more.

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Scouts honorBuckhead, Ugandan

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Yellow cardConcern continues over

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Egg roleThese creations are

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

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

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

SEE GROUP, PAGE 5

By MaGGie leeProperty owners in parts of northern DeKalb County will

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Residents talk up a new park on Mountain Way


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pension pinchAtlanta budgets

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Southern eatsLocal author praises purloo, moonshine

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Stage frightVeteran comic opens new club

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

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

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Close encounter


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

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

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

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

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

By Melissa [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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Scouts honorBuckhead, Ugandan

troops make connection

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Skid marksLocal paving project

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All earsFulton schools leader

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not for breakfast

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Aidan berry, 5, above, closely inspects his chalk-covered

fingers after making sidewalk creations at the Sandy Springs

farmers market on July 2.

Left, Hannah Rose Much, 5, and right, Alex berry, 5, twin brother of Aidan,

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

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

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

By dan [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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Owl Love Friday, Feb. 15, 6:30-9 p.m. – Join others at the Dunwoody Nature Center for “Owl Always Love You,” an adult only, Valentine-themed evening. Learn about owls’ mating rituals, breeding and nest-ing habits, and other topics. Event includes light ap-petizers, wine, beer and other beverages. Members, $20; non-members, $25. Space is limited. Advance registration required by going to: www.dunwoody-nature.org. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-3322 to learn more.

Defensive DrivingTuesday, Feb. 19, 4-7 p.m. – A two-day AARP defensive driving class geared for adults and teens ages 15 and up. Participants must attend both classes. An AARP workbook, $12 for members, and $14 for non-members, is required. Class continues on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 4-7 p.m. Registration necessary by calling 404-851-6157. Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Email: [email protected] for more information.

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Wednesday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m. – Oglethorpe University hosts Paedia Mixon and Safi a Jama from the Refugee Resettlement & Immigration Servic-es of Atlanta, for a discussion on refugee camps in the horn of Africa and the challenges refugees face in Georgia. Free for OUMA members or with a Pe-trel Pass; general admission, $5. 4484 Peachtree Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For details, go to: www.muse-um.oglethorpe.edu or call 404-364-8555.

Andee’s Army 5KSaturday, Feb. 23, 9 a.m. – Th e second annual Andee’s Army 5K/Fun Run gets un-der way. Th e event hon-ors 16-year-old Andee Poulos, and supports children receiving treatment for non-traumatic brain injuries and their families. Rolling hills course. $15 for 18 years and under; $25 for adults. Participants receive t-shirts, good-ie bags. Awards for top-three fi nishers. Holy Inno-cents’ Episcopal School, 805 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328. To register go to: www.andeesarmy.com or call 404-221-1000 for details.

Theatrical ReadingTh ursday, Feb. 21, 6:30-8 p.m. – Dr. Daniel Black will read from “A Lesson Before Dying.” A dis-cussion follows. Free and open to the public. Suggest-ed audiences: adult, college, high and middle school. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: [email protected] or call 404-814-3500 to fi nd out more. Additional reading, presented by GSU’s Seth Hagen, at the San-dy Springs Library on Saturday, Feb. 23, 4-5:30 p.m. 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 with questions.

Star GazingFriday, Feb. 22, 7:30-10 p.m. – Check out the stars over Morgan Falls Overlook Park! Bring binoculars or your own telescope, and join the At-lanta Astronomy Club in looking at the moon, vis-ible planets and other objects. Try a variety of tele-scopes, or talk to amateur astronomers about the night sky. Free and open to all ages. Pre-registration requested. 200 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. For more information and to sign up, vis-it: www.sandyspringsga.gov or call 770-730-5600.

Winter HikeSaturday, Feb. 23, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. – See rug-ged topography of the Palisades area with leaves off the trees. Travel along rock cliff s, through mature, oak-hickory forest, ravine forest and fl oodplain for-est. Wear comfortable hiking shoes and layer your clothes. Bring lunch and bottled water. Reservations required; call 678-538-1200 to make reservations. $3 daily park pass. Chattahoochee River National Rec-reation Area, Palisades unit, 1425 Indian Trail, San-dy Springs, 30327. To learn more, visit: www.nps.gov.

Civil RightsSaturday, Feb. 23, 11 a.m-4 p.m. – Th e At-lanta History Center presents “Struggles and Strides: Th e Early Fight for Civil Rights.” Guests explore the African American experience from the Great Migra-tion to the Civil Rights movement. Free for mem-bers; included general admission for non-members. 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-814-4000 or go to: www.atlantahistorycenter.com for more details.

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Good BooksMonday, Feb. 11, 11 a.m. – Th e Friends of Sandy Springs Library Book Store host a store-wide, half price sale. A wide variety of books to choose from, and in all conditions. Shelves re-stocked daily. Invite a friend and come shop for good reading materials! Store is located in back of browse room. Free admission and open to the community. Sale began Saturday, Feb. 9, and con-tinues through Sunday, Feb. 17. Open daily at 11 a.m., except Sunday, 2 p.m. Closing times: Mon-day, Wednesday, Th ursday, 5 p.m.; Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, 3 p.m.; 4 p.m. on Sunday. 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-255-6796 to learn more.

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STAR students and teachers shine brightlyBy Joe earle

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A new constellation of STAR stu-dents and STAR teachers shines among local high schools.

Each year, the Professional Asso-ciation of Georgia Educators Foun-dation, or PAGE Foundation, hon-ors high-achieving students at Georgia high schools through the Student Teach Achievement Recognition program, or STAR program.

To be nominated as a STAR, a stu-

dent must have the highest SAT score in the school as recorded on one test date through November of his or her senior year. A student also must be in the top 10 percent or among the top 10 students, based on grade point average, in his or her class, according to PAGE.

Once a school’s STAR student is chosen, he or she, in turn, names a STAR teacher. The students choose the teachers from among educators who

have been instrumental in the students’ academic development.

During the past 55 years, the STAR student program has honored more than 23,500 high school seniors, PAGE says.

Once chosen at the school level, STAR students compete for top spot within their school systems. System winners then compete in the 12 regions of the state. The regional winners ad-vance to face off for the title of Geor-gia STAR student. Last year, 10 of the 21 regional winners in the state com-

petition scored a perfect 2400 on their SATs, PAGE said in a press release at the time.

“Each STAR student has his or her unique story to tell, and an essential part of that story is the exemplary teach-er who inspired and guided them to ex-traordinary academic success,” PAGE Foundation President Tom Wommack said in a press release announcing last year’s state winner.

Here are the 2013 STAR students and teachers from high schools in Re-porter Newspapers communities.

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Marist School

Mark Craddock STAR teacher

John Stathis STAR student

Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

Tom Rounds STAR teacher

Mac MuseSTAR student

North Atlanta High

Danielle Costarides STAR teacher

Kathryn Morris STAR student

Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School

Clay Kelsh STAR teacher

Creighton Aldridge STAR student

Holy Spirit Preparatory School

Mark Johnson STAR teacher

Alex Perez STAR student

Lovett School

Susan Wingate STAR teacher

Alston White STAR student

North Springs Charter High

Eric Smith STAR teacher

Emily Kelly STAR student

John Pearson STAR teacher

Zach Steinfeld STAR student

Riverwood International Charter

Arielle Pool STAR teacher

Charly Jo Olson STAR student

Pace Academy

St. Pius X Catholic High

Gene Brisbane STAR teacher

Stephen Landry STAR student

The Weber School

Sam Bradford STAR teacher

Benjamin Stolovitz STAR student

Chris Harrow STAR teacher

Lilly Chin STAR student

The Westminster Schools

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Khari Howard Senior, Brandon Hall

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Khari Howard’s schedule can be described simply. School. Practice. Homework. Repeat.

“You know you have prac-tice after school every day, it’s a routine,” Khari said. “Every-thing has to do with time man-agement.”

But time management pays off .

Th e 17-year-old senior is in her fi rst year at Brandon Hall, but she already is a star student-athlete at the Sandy Springs school. She was the Most Valu-able Player on the Panthers’ vol-leyball team and is the second leading scorer for the girls’ bas-ketball team.

Khari had not played volley-ball before she arrived at Bran-don Hall. She took up the game after she was urged to give it a try by her friends and the team’s coach, Melinda Payne.

“She is an athlete and quickly learned the game,” Payne said. “I wish she was not a senior, because we are going to miss her positive infl uence on the vol-leyball court.”

Th en, for the winter season, Howard picked up basketball for the fi rst time since she was a high school freshman.

“I started playing basketball in ele-mentary school, played through middle school, then stopped playing in ninth grade to focus on school,” she said.

She had learned there is a necessary balance between academics and athlet-ics in order to succeed as a student ath-lete. And for Khari, school always comes fi rst.

“My schoolwork is what is going to get me a good job,” she said.

Playing sports in college is a possibili-ty, but she is not seriously considering it.

In her spare time, Howard enjoys hanging out with her friends, and she also volunteers as a tennis coach.

A year-round athlete, she plans on playing tennis at Brandon Hall in the spring.

What’s Next:

Khari hopes to attend college away from home and study biology.

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Student Profi le: Tarrek Shaban Senior, North Springs Charter

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In the math/science magnet program at North Springs Charter High School, Tarrek Shaban explores his passion for both technology and the humanities.

Asked about what diff erentiates him from other teens his age, Tarrek replied “my love for the moment of discovery.”

He knows that moment well. “Once I hit another one of those moments of discovery, all the work and sleeplessness has been worth it,” he said.

Last year, inspired by a Technolo-gy Entertainment Design video, Tarrek stayed up night after night working on a project to compete in the state tech-nology fair.

“I fi nished a prototype around Th anksgiving and it was one of the most exciting things I had ever done,” he said. “I brought it into school and saw my peers’ reaction and I was instantly refu-eled to keep on pushing until I had my fi nal project.”

Tarrek created an aff ordable, touch screen computer that off ered unlimited touch points, yet also had the ability to function as a normal computer. At 35 inches, the screen could be built for less than $400. His hard work paid off when he placed fi rst at the Fulton County tech fair and then at the state fair.

Tarrek also is very active in the com-munity and serves in many school lead-ership roles.

He’s captain of the North Springs Ac-

ademic Bowl team, is an offi cer of the Student Court of Aff airs, president-elect of Health Occupations Students of America, student chair of the school’s Media Technology Committee, co-cap-tain of Science Olympiad, and found-ing president and co-captain of Future Problem Solvers International.

He is the captain and president of the school’s robotics team and a founding member of Model United Nations. In Model U.N., his team was one of 108 to win an outstanding delegation award, and Tarrek received an individual award as a distinguished delegate.

In mock trial competition, he was named an outstanding attorney.

“Th e list goes on,” said Judy Rose-man, sponsor of the Mock Trail team and chair of the school’s Language Arts department. “He is a real leader and con-tributor in every area – winning awards in everything he does. I know he’ll con-tinue to be a standout and successful in everything he does in the future.”

Th is year, Tarrek won a grant from the Sandy Springs Education Force so the North Springs robotic team could

work with younger students from near-by Woodland Elementary School to learn about robots.

“What I like best about Tarrek is how refreshingly genuine he is, how capable he is and how unselfi sh he is with his time and his abilities,” North Springs Public Relation Liaison Carol Ciepluch said.

Tarrek’s work experience includes a job at Publix, an externship at Northside Hospital and an internship with Illumi-

nate 360, which is a web/graphic design company.

What’s Next:

Tarrek hopes to study political and computer science at Th e University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Emory University or Washington University in St. Louis.

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Tarrek Shaben, right, holds a lamp to mimic the sun, in an effort to harness energy for David Walston’s solar powered car.

Woodland Elementary fourth graders worked with the North Springs Charter High School’s robotics team to build the vehicles.

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at its Jan. 28 meeting. “We need to keep offi -cers on the streets to re-spond to 911 calls. Th is ordinance allows us to do that.”

Th e new law, ap-proved by the council with a 5-2 vote, requires businesses to pay a $25 fee when they register their alarms. Homeown-ers must register, but are not charged a fee, city of-fi cials said. When alarm owners register their sys-tems, they must pro-vide the city with their names and address, and the names and phone numbers of two people who can respond to the premises within 30 minutes of an alarm.

Alarm owners will be fi ned after three false alarms within a year. “Th ree or more false alarms within a permit year is excessive, constitutes a public nui-sance and shall be unlawful,” the ordi-nance says.

Th e ordinance sets out a schedule of fi nes, starting at $50 for the third false alarm and scaled up to $500 for the 10th and subsequent alarms.

City Councilman Denis Shortal and City Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch vot-ed against the ordinance. Th ey said they objected to the “no-response” provisions of the new law, which take eff ect if an alarm owner is delinquent for 60 days or more in paying a false-alarm fi ne.

Th at provision says police will re-spond to an alarm at a location with fi nes unpaid for more than 60 days when there is a “verifi able” crime being committed there. Th e provisions do not apply in the case of fi re, hold-up or pan-ic alarms, the ordinance says. And offi -cials still will respond to 911 calls, city offi cials said.

“When you’re talking about alarms, I think there’s one case, that’s one case too many,” Shortal said. “I just don’t think a non-response clause fi ts in with the character of Dunwoody, Ga.”

But Mayor Mike Davis said the pro-vision simply meant that an alarm own-er who did not pay fi nes for false alarms simply would “lower himself to the lev-el of his neighbor who doesn’t have an alarm. We’ll still respond to 911.”

Fines and fees established with Dunwoody’s new false alarm ordinance

Alarm permit fee (commercial users only): $25Failure to register: $100Violation of ordinance provisions: $100

False alarm feesThird through fi fth false alarm: $50Sixth false alarm: $100Seventh false alarm: $150Eighth false alarm: $250Ninth false alarm: $350Tenth and subsequent false alarms: $500

Source: City of Dunwoody

JOE EARLE

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From police reports dated through Jan. 31.

The following information was pulled from Dunwoody’s Police-to-Citizen Portal Event Search website

and is presumed to be accurate.

BURGLARY 5100 block of Vernon Ridge Drive – A bur-

glary to a residence, without using forced en-try, was reported on Jan. 21.

2500 block of Andover Drive – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on Jan. 21.

2300 block of Waterton Court – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on Jan. 23.

2400 block of Redcli� Way – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was report-ed on Jan. 25.

6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on Jan. 26.

2300 block of Waterton Court – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on Jan. 27.

4700 block of Eidson Road – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was report-ed on Jan. 28.

5400 block of Red� eld Circle – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on Jan. 30.

1000 block of Red� eld Lane – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on Jan. 30.

2900 block of Winter Rose Court – A bur-glary to a residence, without using forced en-try, was reported on Jan. 31.

ROBBERY 6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-

vard – A robbery in the street using a gun was reported on Jan. 21.

AUTO THEFT 900 block of Ashwood Parkway – Theft of

an auto was reported on Jan. 23.

1900 block of Mount Vernon Road – Theft of an auto was reported on Jan. 23.

1100 block of Perimeter Walk – Theft of a vehicle was reported on Jan. 27.

4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – Theft of an auto was reported on Jan. 29.

4400 block of Tilly Mill Road – Theft of an auto was reported on Jan. 30.

THEFT/LARCENY 100 block of Perimeter Center Parkway –

Larceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on Jan. 17.

4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplift-ing was reported on Jan. 17.

1st block of Perimeter Center Place – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 17.

2300 block of Leisure Lake Drive – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 18.


2300 block of Leisure Lake Drive – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on

Jan. 18.


2200 block of Peeler Road – Larceny of a bicycle was reported on Jan. 18.

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting was reported on Jan. 18.

100 block of Perimeter Center West – Shoplifting was reported on Jan. 18.

1800 block of Vermack Court – Larceny of articles from a vehi-cle was reported on Jan. 19.

4300 block of Bethesda Trail – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-

ed on Jan. 19.

1700 block of Kings Down Circle – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on Jan. 19.

1500 block of Kings Down Circle – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on Jan. 19.

4900 block of Buckline Crossing – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 19.

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4600 block of Buckline Crossing – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 19.

4600 block of N. Springs Court – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 19.

4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – A larceny was reported on Jan. 19.

1200 block of Hammond Drive – Shoplift-ing was reported on Jan. 20.

6900 block of Peachtree In-dustrial Boulevard – A larceny was reported on Jan. 20.

285 EB Expressway/ Cham-blee Dunwoody Road – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 21.

5300 block of N. Peachtree Road – A larceny was reported on Jan. 22.

200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on Jan. 22.

200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on Jan. 22.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place – Shoplifting was reported on Jan. 22.

4700 block of N. Peachtree Road – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 22.


4000 block of Dunwoody Park – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 23.


4800 block of Tilly Mill Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 23.

5000 block of Old Branch Court – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 24.

4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Sudden snatching was reported on Jan. 24.

1200 block of Ashford Crossing – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 25.



2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Theft by receiving stolen property was reported on Jan. 27.

4400 block of Tilly Mill Road – A larceny, parts from a vehicle, was reported on Jan. 27.

4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny from a building was reported on Jan. 27.

4700 block of N. Peachtree Road – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on

Jan. 27.

100 block of Perimeter Center West – Shoplifting was reported on Jan. 27.

4600 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on Jan. 28.


100 block of Perimeter Center West – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported

on Jan. 28.

4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on Jan. 28.

4500 block of Olde Pe-rimeter Way – A larceny from a building was reported on Jan. 29.


5100 block of Tilly Mill Road – Larceny of articles from

a vehicle was reported on Jan. 29.

2200 block of Ashford Gables Drive – A larceny, parts from a vehicle, was reported on Jan. 30.

12000 block of Ashford Gables Drive – A larceny, parts from a vehicle, was reported on Jan. 30.

900 block of Potomac Road – A larceny, parts from a vehicle, was reported on Jan. 30.





5300 block of Red� eld Drive – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 30.



4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny was reported on Jan. 30.

1800 block of Potomac Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on Jan. 30.



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4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny was reported on Jan. 31.

4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – A larceny was reported on Jan. 31.

ASSAULT 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Sim-

ple assault/battery was reported on Jan. 17.

4800 block of Vermack Road – Simple as-sault/battery was reported on Jan. 18.

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Simple assault was reported on Jan. 19.

2300 block of Sandell Drive/Seaton Way – Family battery/simple battery was report-ed on Jan. 22.

2500 block of Peachford Road – Simple as-sault was reported on Jan. 23.

1000 block of Crown Pointe Parkway – Simple assault was reported on Jan. 23.

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Simple assault/battery was reported on Jan. 26.

2900 block of Sumac Drive – Family bat-tery/simple battery was reported on Jan. 29.

1600 block of Old Spring House Lane – Simple assault/battery was reported on Jan. 29.

1900 block of Chartridge Court – Family battery/simple battery was reported on Jan. 30.

6700 block of Peachtree Indus-trial Boulevard – Simple assault/battery was reported on Jan. 31.

FRAUD 2800 block of Fontainebleau

Drive – Fraud was reported on Jan. 17.

1000 block of Ashwood Park-way – Credit card fraud was report-ed on Jan. 18.

4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Fraud through impersonation was reported on Jan. 18.

1st block of Mount Vernon Circle – Swin-dle was reported on Jan. 19.

100 block of Perimeter Center West – Check forgery was reported on Jan. 19.

200 block of Ashford Center – Fraud was reported on Jan. 22.

2900 block of Winterhaven Court – Fraud through impersonation was reported on Jan. 22.

1st block of Perimeter Center East – A worthless check was

reported on Jan. 23.

4400 block of Chamblee Dun-woody Road – Credit card fraud was reported on Jan. 28.

300 block of Perimeter Center North – Fraud through imper-sonation was reported on Jan. 30.

4700 block of Cambridge Drive – Fraud through impersonation was reported

on Jan. 30.

1100 block of Coronation Drive – Credit card fraud was reported on Jan. 31.

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Credit card fraud was reported on Jan. 31.

OTHER 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Ha-

rassing communications was reported on Jan. 19.

2100 block of Peachford Road – A civil dis-pute was reported on Jan. 22.

4600 block of N. Shallowford Road – Ha-rassing communications was reported on Jan. 23.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place – So-licitation prohibitions was reported on Jan. 25.

100 block of Perimeter Lofts – Disorderly conduct was reported on Jan 25.

100 block of Perimeter Center West – Dis-orderly under the infl uence was reported on Jan 27.

4900 block of Winters Chapel Road - An animal complaint was reported on Jan. 31.

4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Disorderly under the infl uence was reported on Jan 31.

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